Jean-Philippe Goude is a French composer and keyboardist, born in Paris in 1952.

Early years
 1969: first compositions
 1975: composition and recording of the soundtrack for Frankenstein, a play by Philippe Adrien at Théâtre de la Roquette (Paris)
 1975: publication of the disc Jeunes Années (Saravah)
 1976 to 1979: Participation in the group Weidorje - keyboards and composition
 1979: publication of the disc Drônes
 1979: artistic direction, realization and arrangements for Dick Annegarn.
 1979 to 1983: participation in the group Odeurs- compositions, arrangements, artistic direction
 1979 to 1985: artistic direction, realization, arrangements and orchestration on the albums by Renaud:
Marche à l'ombre
Le retour de Gérard Lambert
Morgane de toi
Mistral gagnant
Putain de camion

1986
 Stopped activities in the domain of songs
 Two orientations:
Resumption of work on composition
Activities in soundtrack work for films

Creations and publications
 Salve Regina for contralto, violin, cello and piano
World premiere April 1992, at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris) within the framework of the festival Musicora. Interpreted by Gérard Lesne (contralto),  Johannes Leertouwer (violin), Bruno Cocset (cello) and Marie-Pierre Brun (piano)
 1992: publication of the CD  De Anima
 1994: publication of the CD Ainsi de Nous
 1994: creation of the ensemble Jean-Philippe Goude
 1996: publication of the CD La Divine Nature des Choses.
 2001: publication of the CD  Rock de Chambre

Music for films
“Au crépuscule des temps” (Sarah Lévy),
“Nos enfants chéris” (Benoît Cohen),
“Les gardiens de la mer” (Christiane Le Hérissey),
“Une affaire de goût” (Bernard Rapp),
“Le créateur” (Albert Dupontel),
“Marie Lester” TV series / France 3,
"Une semaine au salon” (Dominique Baron),
“Tiré à part” (Bernard Rapp),
“Sortez des rangs” (Jean-Denis Robert),
“Comme par hasard” (Maurice Dugowson),
“Puzzle” (Maurice Dugowson),
“Chantons en chœur” (Maurice Dugowson),
“Elle voit des nains partout” (Jean-Claude Sussfeld),
“Circulez y'a rien à voir” (Patrice Leconte),
“Viens chez moi j'habite chez une copine” (Patrice Leconte), etc.

Music for commercials
SFR, Bridélice, Maille, Société générale, Chanel n°5, France inter, Télérama, Gayelord Hauser, Arvie, Tefal, Lacoste, Valda, Michelin, Rivoire & carret, Modes & travaux, Suprême des ducs, Parc Astérix, Prince de Lu, Gitane, Moët & Chandon, UNICEF, Motta, Arthur martin, Alcatel, Flunch, Seat, Citrœn, Saint-Mamet, Calgon, Burov, Lancôme, Esso, Diligo, Louis de Porteere, La Poste, Cetelem, Legal, Peugeot, Keranove, Crédit Mutuel, Sojasun, Pim’s, Péchiney, Cadbury, Lesieur/Isio 4, Haslerky, Stringers, Mr Propre, Aigle, Seb, Revian, Yoplait, Herta, St-Agur, Pal, Femmes, Paysan Breton, Interflora, Picnic Break, Nutella, Renault, Télé Loisirs, Philtre d’Or, Les 3 Suisses, Crédit Lyonnais, Champion, Candia, GMF, Sephora, Yves Saint-Laurent, etc. His work called "Market Diktat Song" was very appreciated by brazilian people through the commercial television of Fiat Touro (2016-2017). He became well known in Brazil after this job.

Music for television
The book of books, France Europe Express, Compléments d’enquête, Un siècle d’écrivains, Caractères, Tranche de cake, 1992 Summer Olympics, 1994 Winter Olympics, Taxi, Permission de minuit, A la folie..., Quand je serais grand..., My télé is rich, Giga, Tranche de l'art, Objectif Tintin, Décryptages, Planète chaude, Short, Debout les p'tits bouts,  Jeux d’encre, La preuve par trois, la 5e rencontre, 7 d’or, Coté 5e, Ciné Week-End, Régions.Com, Une fois/mois, etc.

Theme music for television
Antenne 2, FR3, La 5 (2 habillages), RFO, CFI, Canal J (2 habillages), RTL TV, TV10, C'était hier, Bravo, Canal humour, Kontakt TV, FA, TV Club, Satfin, Canal A, Radio NOVA, La 5e, etc.

Awards
 1989: Gold Award of the B.D.A. of Los Angeles for the soundtrack of Frédéric Mitterrand's Late Pass.
 1991: Prize of the Society of authors, composers and editors of music in 1st Festival of Biarritz, for original music in the film EDF-Industries
 1997: **** (four stars)  in The World of Music for the CD La Divine Nature des Choses
 2003: Prize for the soundtrack in 1st Festival Cinématographique de Saint-Malo, for the soundtrack for the film Nos enfants chéris

External links
 Official website of Jean-Philippe Goude
 Hopi Mesa website

1952 births
French composers
French male composers
Living people
Musicians from Paris


Brian Drebber (July 27, 1950 – August 23, 2018) was an American sports commentator who was employed by the television network Speed before his death in August 2018.

Career
Drebber was born in Guam, Mariana Islands. Since 1978, he was a play-by-play, analyst, reporter, writer, and producer, covering eight Olympic, Pan American and Goodwill Games as well as world championships in 25 different sports including, aerobics, drag boat racing, curling, cycling, and Nordic events, for TNT, ESPN, ABC, CBS, and PBS.

He last broadcast AMA Superbike Championship, ARCA RE/MAX Series Racing, USAR Hooters Pro Cup, and Bike Week for Speed.

Drebber got his start as a broadcaster and sports reporter by providing commentary over the public address system at the Trexlertown Velodrome in the mid-1970s. As a rider there, his nickname was "Dribbles".  It was soon discovered that he was a far better announcer than rider and his announcing style quickly became very popular at Trexlertown, because he knew the sport and the riders very well and had a keen sense of humor.

Death
Drebber died on August 23, 2018, in Canton, Georgia, en route to the airport, when his motorcycle struck a deer. He was 68. He was engaged to fiancée Mara Yetter and had a daughter Robin Drebber and Granddaughter Kylie von Drebber as well as sister Donna.

References

1950 births
2018 deaths
American reporters and correspondents
American sports announcers
Curling broadcasters
Guamanian journalists
Motorsport announcers
Olympic Games broadcasters
Motorcycle road incident deaths
Road incident deaths in Georgia (U.S. state)


The Scutellum is part of the structure of a barley and rice seed—the modified seed leaf.

The scutellum (from the Latin scutella meaning "small shield") can also refer to the equivalence of a thin cotyledon in monocots (especially members of the grass family). It is very thin with high surface area, and serves to absorb nutrients from the endosperm during germination.

The scutellum is believed to contain an as yet unidentified protein transporter that facilitates starch movement from the endosperm to the embryo.

References

Plant morphology


The 1992 Croatian Football Cup was the first season of Croatia's modern football knockout competition. The teams in Bold won.

Brackets

Quarter-finals

The quarter-final legs were held on 24 March and 21 April 1992. Croatia Đakovo were given a bye to the semi-finals.

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Semi-finals

3–3 on aggregate. HAŠK Građanski won 3–1 in penalty shootout.

Inker Zaprešić won 7–1 on aggregate.

Final

First leg

Second leg

Inker Zaprešić won 2–1 on aggregate.

See also
1992 Croatian First Football League

External links
Official website
1992 Croatian Football Cup at rsssf.org
1992 Cup final at rsssf.org

Croatian Football Cup seasons
Croatian Cup, 1992
Croatian Cup
1991–92 in Croatian football


Krishnarjuna is a 2008 Indian fantasy comedy film produced by M.Mohan Babu on his Sri Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures banner and directed by P. Vasu. Starring Nagarjuna Akkineni, Manchu Vishnu and Mamta Mohandas. The music composed by M. M. Keeravani. In the film, when Baba, an astrologer claims that Satya's first husband will be killed, her brother Pedababu plans to get her married to the ill-treated orphan Arjun. However, Lord Krishna comes to Arjun's assistance and rescue.

The film was a box office failure.

Plot
A mentally unstable pregnant woman runs inside a temple and closes the door. She gives birth to a boy at the feet of Lord Krishna's idol and breathes her last. The doors of the temple are closed, as people believe that the birth of such a woman's child in 'Gharbhagudi' is a bad omen. The boy, named Arjun (Manchu Vishnu), grows up under the guardianship of his grandmother (Manorama). He goes to work as a bodyguard to Satya (Mamta Mohandas), the sister of landlord Pedababu (Nassar). Arjun and his grandmother live in the outhouse of Pedababu's bungalow. Arjun is ill-treated by everyone. When an astrologer says that Satya's first husband will be killed and she will live happily with her second husband, Pedababu plans to get Satya married to Arjun first. Then, he conspires to kill him and get Satya married to a rich man. However, Lord Krishna (Nagarjuna Akkineni) comes to Arjun's assistance. Arjun gains some powers from his companionship with the Lord and overcomes the evils that threaten his peace and family life. He also succeeds in reopening the doors of the temple. Arjun then dies by jumping off a tall building because of his faith in Lord Krishna who revives him a minute after his death. The film ends on a happy note.

Cast

Music

The music was composed by M. M. Keeravani. Music was released on 24 Frames Music Company.

Release
In 2016, the producers dubbed and released the film into the Tamil language as Rowdy Maappillai and dubbed into Hindi language as "Rowdy Krishna" by Wide Angel Media(WAM).

References

External links

2008 films
Indian fantasy films
Films directed by P. Vasu
Films scored by M. M. Keeravani
2000s Telugu-language films
Indian pregnancy films
Films shot in Dubai
Indian films with live action and animation
2008 fantasy films


Dr. Daniel Faraday is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jeremy Davies. Faraday is introduced in the Season 4 premiere as a physicist from the Queen's College, University of Oxford. He suffers from short-term memory loss, possibly due to his experiments with radioactivity. He is part of the team aboard the  freighter Kahana that is offshore the island. Throughout his time on the series, Faraday plays an important role by sharing his knowledge of time travel. After time traveling to 1977, Faraday is shot and killed by Eloise Hawking (Alice Evans) who is unaware that he is her son.

Jeremy Davies was cast in the role because of the "tremendous intelligence that seems to emanate from him" and was one of the writer-producers' favorite character actors. Davies was critically praised for his performance and critics were generally disappointed by the character's death in season five. UGO.com named him one of the best TV nerds.

Arc

Background
Daniel was born to Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan)  and Charles Widmore (Alan Dale), both of whom were Others. Eloise raised Daniel on her own, hiding the identity of his father from him and pushing him to develop a scientific mind, much to the detriment of his social life and casual pursuits. After graduating from the University of Oxford with his girlfriend Theresa Spencer, Daniel was offered a £1.5 million grant by industrialist Charles Widmore. In the 1990s, Daniel started working as a physicist at The Queen's College, Oxford, with controversial experiments including sending a subject's consciousness through time. His initial tests on lab rats resulted in their deaths, which led to the abandonment of his studies. During his tenure, Daniel encountered Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick), who was suffering from temporal displacement trapping him between 1996 and 2004. Daniel helped to ground Desmond's consciousness by telling him to find a constant in both time frames, which Desmond decided was to be Penny (Sonya Walger). This encounter had a profound effect on Daniel, reaffirming the legitimacy of his time-displacement theories and prompted him to resume his abandoned experiments. Daniel eventually performed similar experiments on Theresa, but she ended up suffering from temporal displacement as Desmond had and eventually fell into a coma, with temporary periods of lucidity.

The funds for her continuing care were provided by Charles Widmore. As a result of Theresa's fate, Oxford fired Daniel and quietly removed all references to him ever having been at the university. At some point, Daniel also performed an experiment upon himself, resulting in long-term memory damage. While in Essex, Massachusetts, Daniel saw a news report covering the discovery of the apparent wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 in the depths of the Sunda Trench. Widmore approached Daniel and after informing him that the Sunda Trench wreckage was a hoax, urged him to go to the island, which he said would heal him of his plight. At first, Daniel was reluctant, but Eloise convinced him to go. Daniel is then recruited into a covert team alongside Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader), Miles Straume (Ken Leung) and Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey), which is organized by Matthew Abaddon (Lance Reddick) and led by Naomi Dorrit (Marsha Thomason). Their mission was to travel to the island, find Ben Linus (Michael Emerson), the then current leader of the Others, and disable the Dharma Initiative station called the Tempest, which contained poisonous gases.

Season 4
Faraday first arrives on the island by parachuting out of a helicopter on December 23, 2004. After setting foot on the island, Faraday's memory problem slowly diminishes. He then encounters the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, who are believed to be dead by the world at large. On the island, Faraday starts conducting an experiment regarding the island's unique passage of time. After reuniting with Charlotte, Faraday sneaks off with her to the Tempest Dharma Initiative station, where they neutralize a potential source of poison gas. Later, the corpse of the freighter's doctor washes ashore. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) confronts Faraday and he is forced to confess that the freighter upon which they arrived was not sent to the island to rescue the survivors. Around this time, Daniel realizes the Secondary Protocol, detailing the whereabouts of Ben Linus, has been activated by Widmore, necessitating their immediate departure from the island. Faraday begins to ferry survivors to the freighter, but Charlotte and Miles choose to remain on the island. Daniel and five survivors are caught midway between the Kahana and the island when the Kahana blows up and the island is "moved" by Ben Linus.

Season 5
When Ben causes the island to vanish, Charlotte, Faraday and the remaining survivors begin to travel through time. After the survivors are sent to the past, Faraday lures Desmond out of the Swan Dharma Initiative station, telling him to find Daniel's mother once Desmond is off the island.  Upon jumping further to the past, Faraday and the group are captured by the Others in 1954. The Others mistake them for military personnel and Faraday is forced to disable a hydrogen bomb labelled "Jughead". During this time period, he confesses his love for Charlotte. After telling the Others that they must bury the bomb, the survivors experience another time jump. The time jumps cause Charlotte to experience nosebleeds, headaches, and double vision, and she eventually collapses. As she dies, Charlotte tells Faraday she remembers living on the island as a child, and recognizes him as the man who told her not to return once she left the island. After John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) stops the time jumps, the remaining survivors are stranded in 1974. Faraday and his group move into the Barracks and under false pretenses, join the DHARMA Initiative. Despite the option to board the DHARMA submarine and "go back to the real world", the survivors from 2004 stay on the island together in the hope that they can somehow return to the time that they knew and Faraday becomes a scientist for DHARMA. Faraday then leaves the island and joins the DHARMA headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

In 1977, Daniel arrives back on the island and sets out to stop the construction of the Swan Station before drilling hits the electromagnetic "energy pocket", which ultimately results in the crash of Flight 815. Faraday plans to detonate the hydrogen bomb "Jughead" and destroy the unstable electromagnetic energy so no one would have to be pushing a button to save the world and Flight 815 would not crash. Before putting his plan into action, Daniel visits a young Charlotte, telling her never to return to the island once she leaves. Daniel then travels to the Others' camp with Jack and Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) to obtain the bomb. He breaks into their camp and threatens to shoot Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell). However, he is shot by his mother, Eloise Hawking. Before Daniel dies, he tells Eloise he is her son and she sent him to the island despite knowing he would die.

Afterlife
In the afterlife, in which Oceanic Flight 815 does not crash on the Island, Faraday has a different background. Daniel was allowed to pursue his passion for music, and never trained in physics. After overhearing Eloise trying to persuade Desmond to stop pursuing Penelope (Sonya Walger), Faraday approaches Desmond and shares his theory of the timeline being altered. He tells Desmond that he recently saw a red-haired woman he strongly felt he already knew and loved. Daniel states after the encounter, he made a series of notes in his journal which a mathematician has identified as advanced quantum mechanics, a topic he knows nothing about. Daniel shows his notes, and hypothesises that the world as he and Desmond are experiencing is not their correct path. Faraday then tells him Penelope is his half-sister and where Desmond can find her. Later, Faraday meets Charlotte at his benefit concert, but they do not yet realize they are in the afterlife. Daniel then takes the stage with DriveShaft to play as Charlotte watches from the crowd. It is later implied that both Eloise and Desmond are both aware that they are living in the afterlife. Eloise convinces Desmond to let Faraday live out the rest of his afterlife, since Faraday was never allowed to live the life he wanted in his past, and Eloise was never allowed to spend time with her son.

Development

After Naomi Dorrit (Marsha Thomason) landed on the island in season three, the producers began to plan who else would be on the boat she came from. They wanted these new characters to be interested in finding the island for their own personal reasons. During the casting of the "freighter folk"—the nickname that Lost's producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse use to refer to Daniel, Charlotte, Miles and Frank—fake names, occupations and scenes were temporarily assigned, to limit the leak of spoilers. In the initial casting call, Daniel was referred as "brilliant mathematician" "Russell".

Jeremy Davies was cast as Daniel because he was one of the writer-producers' favorite character actors, and they think that his "transformative quality [and] the tremendous intelligence that seems to emanate from him … seemed perfect for [the part]." The producers constructed the role around Davies based on his performances in Rescue Dawn and Solaris. When Davies met costume designer Roland Sanchez, he was wearing a thin black tie.  Sanchez merged this "cool, edgy look" with his idea for the character's clothes: a "nerdy" loosely woven dress shirt from J.Crew. Davies reportedly took a "crash course" on physics to understand the character better. Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse called Daniel Faraday "an obvious shout-out to Michael Faraday, scientist and physicist". Faraday was originally planned to be a recurring role.

Reception
Producers Lindelof and Cuse were worried about how the new characters would be received by fans, after the unhappy reaction to new characters Nikki (Kiele Sanchez) and Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro), introduced in season three. However, following their introduction in "Confirmed Dead", the four characters were well received, with Paige Albiniak of the New York Post citing them as a reason behind the show's improved ratings.
IGN's Chris Carabott described Daniel, as well as the other new characters from the freighter, as "great" and "exciting". James Poniewozik of Time liked the introduction of the new characters from the freighter because "Each got just one flashback and a little time on the island, and yet by the end of the episode, [he] felt [he] had a true handle on what they were like as individuals".  Oscar Dahl of BuddyTV called it the "perfect introduction". Michael Ausiello of TV Guide also liked their introduction, and praised the actors' performances. Jeff Jensen from Entertainment Weekly liked that the "fascinating" new characters brought "mind-blowing new possibilities, and exciting new theory fodder".

Many critics praised Davies' performance and appearance. Tom Iacuzio of The Daytona Beach News-Journal deemed Jeremy Davies's performance deserving of a Primetime Emmy Award. Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger claimed Davies's performance to be "outstanding" .  Jay Glatfelter of The Huffington Post said that Daniel "more and more becoming one of [his] favorite characters". Chris Carabott wrote that Davies presents Faraday's awkward mannerisms well. In a later review, Carabott commented, "I've become a huge fan of Davies over the course of the last couple of years thanks to his performance on this show." Rachel Dovey of Paste said "The Variable" revealed "a whole different" side of Daniel: "We've oscillated before about the true nature of the physicist, whether it's good or evil [...] We decided he's mostly a decent guy, barring the whole experimenting-on-his-girlfriend-then-running-away-when-her-brain-turned-to-mush thing. In the past, he's just seemed lost and confused, and, since he has those big, earnest puppy eyes, we decided to forgive him. But the episode showed us the dynamic at the heart of Daniel's stuttering vulnerability. Like all broken superheroes and Freudian beings, the man has mommy issues. This week we dove inside the dynamic between Daniel and his mother growing up." Also, Adam Sweeney believed Davies's acting was the "high point" of the episode.
A reviewer for TVoholic claimed he would have "loved any sort of explanation as to why [Daniel] changed his mind about changing the past or how he thought this could work. There must have been something that made Daniel think this was possible, but he was in such a rush that he never took care to explain."

Critics expressed shock regarding Daniel's death. David Oliver of CHUD.com felt "bummed" to see Daniel go. Dan Compora of Airlock Alpha also said the shooting of Daniel at the end was “stunning.” Jon Lachonis of TVOvermind claimed that as an internal character piece, "The Variable" was "not so much a great ending for Daniel.

Jeremy Davies submitted the episode "The Constant" on his behalf for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

References

Fictional characters from Massachusetts
Fictional inventors
Fictional theoretical physicists
Lost (2004 TV series) characters
Fictional musicians
Television characters introduced in 2008
Fictional University of Oxford people
Time travelers
Male characters in television


Scutellum may refer to:

Scutellum (insect anatomy), a term used in the anatomy of arthropods
Scutellum (botany), a term used in the morphology of grasses
Scutellum (trilobite), a genus of trilobites

See also
 Scutella (genus), a prehistoric echinoid genus


Kalamiaris palm forest or Panayouda palm forest (Kalamiaris is the northern area of Panayouda settlement) is a semi-natural small palm forest on the east coast of Lesbos island.

The original twenty-four Canary Island Date Palms (Phoenix canariensis) were planted by the English diplomat Atkinson who brought them from Egypt in the late 19th century. Later when those palms were starting to produce seeds, new palms born around, so that today we can speak for a small but dense palm forest, which at 80% of its palm population is natural and totally (artificial and natural way vegetation) has about 150-155 phoenix canariensis palm trees.
The forest continues to propagate new seed palms yet, but it has not been protected by the local authority. These seed palms are food for some local vegetarian animals or being stolen, so the forest spreads out very slowly.

Text resources
 A small reference at the Greek net site
 A small reference for the palm forest surrounding protection at the Greek net site
Translated from the article at Greek Wikipedia.

Forests of Greece
Lesbos
Palmetum


The .600 Nitro Express Zeliska revolver is an Austrian single-action revolver produced by Pfeifer Waffen. Except for the Giant 1859 28mm Remington revolver, the Zeliska may be the largest handgun in the world, weighing in at  and having a length of . The cylinder alone weighs . The Zeliska is one of the most powerful handguns in the world, producing a muzzle energy of 4,592 foot pounds (revolvers chambered in the .500 Bushwhacker generate a somewhat higher level of power, however). The weight of the handgun helps control the recoil, making controlled shooting possible. The capacity of a Zeliska is five .600 Nitro Express or .458 Win Mag rounds. The Zeliska fires a 900 grain (58.32 g) .600 Nitro Express slug at 1,516 ft/s (462 m/s, 1,663.2 km/h). The cost of a Zeliska revolver is $17,316. Each .600 Nitro Express round costs $40, making this gun very expensive to fire.

Loading is accomplished through a loading gate located on the right of the cylinder, similar to the Colt Single Action Army, upon which the Zeliska largely is based.

Added features to the gun include gold-plated hammer, cylinder pivot, action and the gold-filled inscription on the gun indicating the company's address.

References

External links
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Revolvers


Cyber Storm may refer to:

Computing and military
 Cyber Storm, an annual cyber security competition at Louisiana Tech University
 Cyber Storm Exercise, a 2006 American military exercise
 CyberStorm PPC, a PowerPC based upgrade card PowerUP for the Amiga

Arts and entertainment
 Cyberstorm (novel), a 2013 book published by Matthew Mather
 MissionForce: CyberStorm, a 1996 video game
 CyberStorm 2: Corporate Wars a 1998 sequel


Kwangwoon University station (formerly Seongbuk station) is a train station on Seoul Subway Line 1, Gyeongchun Line and Gyeongwon Line in Seoul, South Korea operated by Korail. Together with Incheon station and Suwon station, this station was one of the three termini of Line 1 when it opened in 1974. Seongbuk Depot, one of the five depots of Line 1, is located nearby.

Renaming
Seongbuk station was renamed  to Kwangwoon University station on February 25, 2013. It was formerly subnamed Kwangwoon University.

References

Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations
Metro stations in Nowon District
Railway stations opened in 1939
Seoul Subway Line 1
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1930s


The Day Mars Invaded Earth (a.k.a. Spaceraid 63) is an independently made 1963 black-and-white CinemaScope science fiction film, produced and directed by Maury Dexter, that stars Kent Taylor, Marie Windsor, and William Mims. The film was released by Twentieth Century Fox. Dexter later said the film's title came from Associated Producers' Robert L. Lippert and was meant to evoke memories of Fox's 1951 classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.

The film's storyline is a cross between George Pal's The War of the Worlds (1953), and Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Martian energy beings duplicate a scientist and his family as a first step toward their invasion of Earth to stop humanity's space programs.

The Day Mars Invaded Earth was released as the bottom half of a double feature with the Elvis Presley film Kissin' Cousins.

Plot
NASA successfully lands a robotic surveyor on Mars. The rover begins to explore, but after just a few minutes it is completely destroyed by what appears to be a high energy surge. At exactly the same instant back at mission control, Dr. Dave Fielding (Kent Taylor), in charge of the project, suddenly feels oddly disconnected and not himself; he shakes it off and then goes to face the crowd of expectant reporters. Right after he leaves, his exact body double is sitting at his desk.

Dave then leaves for a vacation and flies to California to be with his family; they are now staying in the guest house of a lavish mansion belonging to his wife's family. His children, 10 year-old Rocky (Gregg Shank) and teen Judi (Betty Beall), are very happy to see him, but it is very clear that his marriage to Claire (Marie Windsor) is in trouble because of the time he must spend away from his family. At first, the tensions between Dave and Claire make it less obvious that they are seeing their body doubles walking around the estate. Eventually, though, as things turn strange, the whole family suspects something is wrong and pulls together. They soon discover they are trapped, unable to leave the isolated estate due to a malfunctioning main gate.

Dave then encounters his body double in the mansion's main house. The duplicate Dave informs him that Mars is inhabited and that all Martians are beings without any physical bodies, an energy-like intelligence. They traveled to Earth via the Martian probe's high-gain, two-way radio transmitter, destroying the robotic rover in the process. Now on Earth, the Martians plan to replace key humans with duplicates to quash any further Earth missions to Mars. Since Dave's wife and children would likely recognize a duplicate, they had to be replaced, too. Family friend Web (William Mims) comes by later and finally gets the main gate open, but on his way back, the Martian-Dave reduces Web to ash.

Later, "Dave and his family" appear to get into a car and leave the estate, with a Martian-Web duplicate behind the wheel. As they drive past the estate's empty swimming pool, five distinct body shapes of piled ash can be seen on the concrete bottom. The pool's water jets then turn on, slowly washing the ashes away.

Cast
 Kent Taylor as Dr. David Fielding
 Marie Windsor as Claire Fielding
 William Mims as Dr. Web Spencer
 Betty Beall as Judi Fielding
 Lowell Brown as Frank Hazard
 Gregg Shank as Rocky Fielding
 Henrietta Moore as Mrs. Moore
 Troy Melton as Police Officer
 George Riley as Cab Driver

Production
The Day Mars Invaded Earth was shot at the historic Greystone Mansion. It was the second script ever written by Harry Spalding.

Director Dexter said that Robert L. Lippert insisted that Marie Windsor be cast in the film.

Reception
The Day Mars Invaded Earth was reviewed in The New York Times: "This pallid, pint-sized exercise starts out with a scientist and his little family vacationing on a huge California estate after he has supervised a rocket landing on Mars. At least, we're told he has. Then the family begins seeing spots and double images, to spook music. This took 40 minutes, before one viewer came back to earth, retreating. The picture also traditionally wastes one of Hollywood's low-budget queens, the gifted Marie Windsor".

Maury Dexter called it "a nice little film".

Home video
The Day Mars Invaded Earth was released on DVD March 19, 2015 by Fox Cinema Archives. Originally shot and released in CinemaScope (2:35:1), the DVD's transfer was instead made from a letterboxed 4:3 master, rather than from a high-definition or standard definition 16:9 widescreen master.

See also
 List of American films of 1963

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Weaver, Tom. I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews with 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-Fi Films and Television. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2014. .

External links

1963 films
1960s English-language films
1960s science fiction films
20th Century Fox films
CinemaScope films
Alien invasions in films
American science fiction films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Maury Dexter
Films scored by Richard LaSalle
Mars in film
1960s American films
English-language science fiction films


Atrina is a cosmopolitan genus of bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Pinnidae.

A typical species is A. fragilis, found in British waters. A. rigida (Lightfoot, 1786) is found on the southeast coast of North America and in the West Indies. The type species is A. nigra (Dillwyn, 1817, originally P. nigra).

Atrina is considered to represent the more primitive form within the Pinnidae; however, both genera Pinna and Atrina are very ancient. The genus Atrina is represented within the fossil record from the Triassic period to the Quaternary period (age range: 242.0 to 0.0 million years ago). These fossils have been found all over the world.

Description
Molluscs within this genus are characterized by elongated, wedge-shaped shells, distinguished from the genus Pinna by the lack of any grooves in the nacreous lining of the shell, and by the central positioning of the adductor scar.

As with other pen shells (Pinnidae) they commonly stand point-first in the sea bottom in which they live, anchored by net of byssus threads.

Species
Species within the genus Atrina include:

 Atrina affinis  Sowerby, 1821†
 Atrina argentea  Conrad, 1848†
 Atrina assimilis (Reeve, 1858)
 Atrina chautardi (Nicklès, 1953)
 Atrina chinensis (Deshayes, 1841)
 Atrina cumingii (Reeve, 1858)
 Atrina exusta (Gmelin, 1791)
 Atrina fragilis (Pennant, 1777) — fan mussel
 Atrina harrisii  Dall, 1898†
 Atrina hystrix (Hanley, 1858)
 Atrina inflata (Dillwyn, 1817)
 Atrina jacksoniana  Dall, 1898†
 Atrina japonica (Reeve, 1858)
 Atrina kinoshitai Habe, 1953
 Atrina lischkeana (Clessin, 1891)
 Atrina magellanica  Ihering, 1907†
 Atrina marquesana P. W. Schultz & M. Huber, 2013
 Atrina maura (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
 Atrina nigra (Dillwyn, 1817)
 Atrina oldroydii Dall, 1901
 Atrina pectinata (Linnaeus, 1767)
 Atrina penna (Reeve, 1858)
 Atrina pini P. W. Schultz & M. Huber, 2013
 Atrina piscatoria  Glenn, 1904†
 Atrina recta Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
 Atrina rigida (Lightfoot, 1786) — stiff pen shell
 Atrina rosenkrantzi Schnetler & M. S. Nielsen, 2018 †
 Atrina seminuda (Lamarck, 1819) — half-naked pen shell
 Atrina serra (Reeve, 1858)
 Atrina serrata (Sowerby, 1825) — saw-toothed pen shell
 Atrina squamifera (Sowerby, 1835)
 Atrina stephensi  Hanna, 1926†
 Atrina strangei (Reeve, 1858)
 Atrina talarensis  Olsson, 1928†
 Atrina tasmanica (Tenison Woods, 1876)
 Atrina teramachii Habe, 1953
 Atrina texta Hertlein, Hanna & A. M. Strong, 1943
 Atrina tuberculosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
 Atrina vexillum (Born, 1778) — flag pen shell
 Atrina zelandica (Gray in Yate, 1835) — the horse mussel

References

External links
idscaro.net — images

Pinnidae
Bivalve genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray


iPrimus is an Australian telecommunications company and wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus Communications.

iPrimus primarily focuses on fixed, mobile, and broadband services. Primus Telecom was the first telecommunications carrier to receive a licence when full deregulation and competition was introduced in Australia in 1997 and has network facilities across Australia. Primus operates its own fibre network in the five major capital cities; Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

History

Market entry (1997–1999)
Primus originally entered the Australian telecommunications market in 1996 by acquiring Australia's fourth largest telecommunications service provider, Axicorp. Primus Telecom was one of the first carriers to be granted a telecommunications licence in 1997. Prior to this Australia's telecommunications industry was operated as a duopoly between the former Australian Government owned Telecom Australia, later rebranded Telstra and Optus, before the market was opened to full competition in July 1997.

1998 saw Primus expand their operations further in Australia with the acquisition of Eclipse Telecommunications Pty. Ltd. and Hotkey Internet Services Pty Limited.

In 1999 Primus' parent company Primus Telecommunications Inc. purchased the retail operations of Telegroup Inc., a long-distance telephone company based in Fairfield, Iowa, who was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This acquisition included the Australian subsidiary of Telegroup which allowed Primus to improve their capabilities in the Australian market.

1999 was also the year Primus Australia's U.S. parent company launched the iPrimus brand to spearhead the organisations strategy of aggressively gaining retail market share by offering 'one-stop' shopping for bundled voice, data, Internet and cellular services.

Primus' growth (2000–2003)
During the period from 2000–2003 Primus achieved some significant growth. They were one of many telco providers to benefit from the collapse of One.Tel by actively pursuing those customers left in a lurch. They used this inertia to grow their customer base to approximately 750,000 retail customers including over 400,000 Internet customers by 2003.

Industry consolidation (2004–2008)
In February 2004, AOL|7 was purchased by Primus Telecom. This acquisition added approximately 90,000 customers to Primus' existing residential iPrimus customer base.

Primus' acquisition would coincide with much industry consolidation as competitor Telstra purchased a 50% stake in mobile provider Hutchison 3G for A$450 million, Kaz Group for A$333 million and Damovo for A$64 million. Meanwhile, competitor Optus purchased Uecomm for A$227 million, a 50.8% stake in Alphawest and A$50 million for remaining 74% of Virgin Mobile Australia .

In early 2007 Primus sold PlanetDomain to NetRegistry for over A$8 million.

In late 2008, Primus acquired Imagineering Data Centre, a Melbourne-based hosting and colocation provider.

Acquisition of iPrimus (2012–present)
On 16 April 2012, it was announced that Primus Telecom would be purchased by M2 Group in preparation for the National Broadband Network.
Primus Telecom was acquired by M2 on 1 June 2012 for $192 million.

In 2012 iPrimus in conjunction with Hungry Jack's launched a free Wi-Fi service in 348 stores, as part of a $6 million contract with Hungry Jacks parent company, Competitive Foods Australia.

Residential products

Broadband
iPrimus is one of Australia's largest telecommunications carriers and offers high-speed broadband through ADSL and ADSL2+, as well as NakedDSL and 3G mobile broadband. Primus's DSLAM network is one of the largest in Australia, with more than 66 exchanges.

Fixed line and mobile
The iPrimus mobile network is a virtual network operator and uses the Optus network, with 2G and 3G capabilities. Primus Telecom also offers a range of home phone and VoIP services.

Other services
iPrimus also offers add-on services including anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, dial-up Internet connection, WebFilter proxy, global roaming and wireless hotspot access. FetchTV is available to iPrimus broadband customers.

Business Products

Internet & Data
iPrimus offers business services including ADSL, ADSL2+, SHDSL, FTTH, Mobile Broadband, and a variety of internet services including Private IP Networks, Domain Names & Web Hosting, Cloud Computing, Virtual Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Co-Location and Managed Services. Mobility Services by Primus Telecom have recently included Blackberry solutions and dedicated Mobile business plans.

Voice

Primus Telecom services include PSTN, ISDN, SIP Trunks, Hosted IP Phone Systems, Inbound 1300/1800, Intelligent network. Primus Accella operates as the Business Voice service for Primus Telecom and is a business grade hosted communications solution.

Awards

Internet censorship
Primus is a participant in the controversial Internet censorship trials.

See also
 M2 Group
 Broadband Internet Access (Australia)

References

Companies based in Melbourne
Internet service providers of Australia
Mobile phone companies of Australia
Telecommunications companies of Australia
VoIP companies


Greatest Hits is the second greatest hits album by New Kids on the Block, and their seventh altogether. It was originally released on February 16, 1999, with hits from previous albums. On August 12, 2008, a new edition of Greatest Hits was released. This was the fourth hits album from the band featuring a new track list (18 in total).

Track listing (1999 Edition)

New Kids on the Block: Greatest Hits (2008 Edition)
"Step by Step" - 4:29
"You Got It (The Right Stuff)" - 4:13
"I'll Be Loving You (Forever)" - 4:28
"Cover Girl" - 4:10
"Didn't I (Blow Your Mind)" - 4:22
"Please Don't Go Girl" - 4:13
"Tonight" - 3:29
"Valentine Girl" - 4:02
"Let's Try It Again" - 3:53
"Hangin' Tough" - 3:54
"If You Go Away" - 4:03
"Baby, I Believe in You" - 4:33
"Games" (The Kids Get Hard Mix) - 5:24
"My Favorite Girl" - 5:30
"The Right Combination" (Seiko with Wahlberg) - 4:28
"Angel of Love" (Ana with Knight) - 4:21
"Stay the Same" (McIntyre) - 3:49
"2008 New Kids on the Block Mega Mix" - 5:01

Walmart Collector's Fan Pack
Walmart sold a limited edition "Fan Pack" containing the 2008 re-release of the Greatest Hits album above with the Greatest Hits: The Videos DVD.

Greatest Hits: The Videos DVD
Program Start
"Step by Step"
"You Got It (The Right Stuff)"
"I'll Be Loving You (Forever)"
"Cover Girl"
"Didn't I (Blow Your Mind)" (Live)
"Please Don't Go Girl"
"Tonight"
"This One's for the Children"
"Valentine Girl" (Live)
"Hangin' Tough"
"Baby, I Believe in You" (Live)
"Call It What You Want"
"If You Go Away"
"No More Games" (Live)
"Tonight" (Live)
"Step by Step" (Live)
End Credits

Chart positions

References

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10238873

New Kids on the Block albums
1999 compilation albums
2008 compilation albums
2008 video albums
Music video compilation albums


Big Time is a 1929 American pre-Code film starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke as a show business couple who break up over his infidelity. This was Clarke's film debut. Director Kenneth Hawks was Howard Hawks' brother.

Cast
Lee Tracy as Eddie Burns
Mae Clarke as Lily Clark
Daphne Pollard as Sybil
Josephine Dunn as Gloria
Stepin Fetchit as Eli

Director John Ford had a cameo as himself.

See also
 List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References

External links

1929 drama films
American black-and-white films
Films about entertainers
Fox Film films
1920s English-language films
1920s American films


Carlo Besozzi (1738 – 22 March 1791) was an Italian oboist composer and member of an extensive family of oboists from the eighteenth-century Naples. Nephew of Gaetano Besozzi, he was employed in the orchestra of the Elector of Dresden and travelled extensively throughout Europe with his father, playing in London, Paris, Stuttgart and Salzburg, where he received good notices from Leopold Mozart.

Biography
Besozzi was born in Naples, or in Dresden as reported by another source, as the son of oboist and composer Antonio Besozzi, who was undoubtedly his teacher. From 1754 Carlo Besozzi joined his father as oboist in the Dresden Kapelle, in the service of the Electress of Saxony Maria Antonia Walpurgis. However, the Dresden opera house was destroyed by the Prussians in the Seven Years' War (1756–63), breaking up the remarkable group of musicians assembled by Elector Frederick Augustus II. He performed in Paris in December of that year and escaped to London in early 1757. He then traveled extensively through Germany, France and Italy, acquiring by that time not only almost unparalleled skill on the oboe, but also even greater reputation than his father, and spent 1758–9 playing under Niccolò Jommelli in Stuttgart. His father was back on the Dresden payroll by 1764, and Carlo stayed with the court until the year of his death.

In September 1772, when Charles Burney visited Dresden, praised his extremely delicate flavor, beautiful tone and intonation. He accurately described the technique employed by Besozzi to play his instrument. In September 1774 Carlo took a leave from his duties at the Saxon capital and went to Turin, where he visited his parents and may have waited out the rest of the war there. He was in Salzburg in May 1778, where he was deemed positively by Leopold Mozart. In 1792 he left Dresden and went back to Italy, disappearing from the public

Musical works
Besozzi composed several concertos and sonatas, mostly for the oboe. His concerts were clearly written to be played by himself, and were designed to show his skill. The final movements of these compositions denote a predominantly serious mood with a clear influence from Sturm und Drang. With his father and Johann Christian Fischer, Besozzi may have been a collaborator of the instrument-makers Grenser and Grundmann, who produced the prototypical European Classical hautboy (oboe) in Dresden around this time.

Concertos for oboe, including 6 in C major, 5 in G major, 3 in F major, 3 in B major, 2 in D major, 1 in E major and 1 in G minor.
Concerto in C major for 2 oboes
24 sonatas for 2 oboes, horns and basso continuo
Sonata for 2 oboes
Sonata for oboe and basso continuo
Divertimento for 2 flutes and cello

Notes

References

External links
Carlo Besozzi page on Hoasm.org

1738 births
1791 deaths
18th-century composers
18th-century Italian male musicians
18th-century Italian composers
Italian classical composers
Italian male composers
Italian classical oboists
Italian Roman Catholics
Male oboists
Composers from Naples


Manchu Vishnu Vardhan Babu (born 23 November 1982) is an Indian actor and producer known for his works in Telugu cinema and television. Manchu had a brief stint as a child artist with the 1985 film Ragile Gundelu. Years later, he starred in the 2003 Telugu action film Vishnu, for which he won the Filmfare Best Male Debut.
He is the co-owner of the film production house 24 Frames Factory and is an educationalist through Sree Vidyanikethan Educational Trust, founded by his father and veteran Telugu actor Mohan Babu. He is a founder and chairman of New York Academy, a school in Hyderabad for which his wife, Viranica, is the director and his father Mohan Babu, is the chair person. He is also the chairman of Spring Board Academy and Spring Board International Preschools which has more than 75 branches spread across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Vishnu Manchu is the pro-chancellor for the prestigious Mohan Babu University in Tirupati established in 2022 by his legendary father Dr. M. Mohan Babu.

In 2007, he starred in the comedy film Dhee, which became a hit, and Manchu established his career in Telugu cinema. Manchu is one of the sponsors of the Celebrity Cricket League Telugu Warriors. Vishnu had been recently elected as the president of Movie Artists Association.

Early life
Manchu Vishnu Vardhan Babu was born in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India (present-day Chennai) to actor Mohan Babu and mother, late Vidya Devi. He grew up with his brother Manoj and sister Lakshmi.

After completing schooling from the Padmaseshadri Bala Bhavan School, Manchu went on to take an engineering degree from Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, majoring in Computer Sciences and Information Technology. During that time, he represented the Bhaskar JNTU cricket team, and also captained the university basketball team.

Career

1985; 2003–2006: Early work
Manchu made his acting debut as a child artist in his father Mohan Babu's 1985 film Ragile Gundelu.

He landed his first lead role in the film Vishnu (2003) directed by Shaji Kailas, for which he won the Filmfare Best Male Debut. He played a guy who wants to win his childhood love with his own merits against many hurdles. The following year, he was seen in the film Suryam (2004) in which he played a guy who aims to fulfill the last wish of his mother. Manchu made a cameo appearance as a dancer in Political Rowdy (2005), a romantic action drama.

He next appeared in the action-drama Astram (2006), as an IPS officer who has been appointed to finish off the ultras. Soon after, Manchu was cast in Game (2006), as Vijay Raj, sharing screen space with his celebrity father Mohan Babu and yesteryear heroine Shobana.

He finally got his critical breakthrough with the movie Dhee, alongside Genelia D'Souza. Released in 2007, Dhee became his first commercially successful film. It was remade in Tamil as Mirattal, in Bengali as Khokababu and in Oriya as Tu mo girlfriend. Manchu plunged into the limelight with this role.

2008–present: Career fluctuations
He then appeared in the 2008 film Krishnarjuna, the 2009 film Saleem and the 2011 film Vastadu Naa Raju. In 2012, comedy film Dhenikaina Ready got him critical success; the film grossed 200 million at the box office. He then appeared in Doosukeltha, directed by Veeru Potla, he starred opposite Lavanya Tripathi, the film grossed 126.3 million on its first week at the box office. He then appeared along with his father, in the critically acclaimed crime film Rowdy, written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film minted a worldwide share of  at the end of the second week of its run, and was declared a box office hit.

Manchu starred in G. Nageswara Reddy's Denikaina Ready, which became a hit and succeeded in changing his image. The next year, he had an opportunity to exhibit his versatility as an actor in the titular role of Veeru Potla's rom-com, Doosukeltha. The movie not only established Manchu as an actor, but also grossed more than 15 crore at the box office. His next project fared much better, when he played the Gambler Gopi in the ensemble comedy Pandavulu Pandavulu Tummeda (2014), which featured an ensemble cast of Manchu Manoj, Mohan Babu, Raveena Tandon, Hansika Motwani, Pranitha Subhash, and Varun Sandesh.

Manchu then played the role Krishna in Rowdy (2014) alongside his father Mohan Babu. Showing his range as an actor, Manchu later portrayed DCP Goutham in the commercially unsuccessful but critically adored film Anukshanam (2014), helmed by Ram Gopal Varma. He continued as a dramatic actor in the 2014 Erra Bus, produced and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao. He then appeared in the action thriller Dynamite, directed by Deva Katta. Though they made an interesting movie along the way, they paid for it at the box office. Manchu further proved his comedic talents with the romantic comedy entertainer Eedo Rakam Aado Rakam (2015), in which he co-starred with Raj Tarun. The same year, he completed filming for Saradaa but the film remains unreleased. In 2017, he starred in Luckunnodu, which performed poorly at the box office. By the end of 2017, he had already appeared in 20 films.

His film in 2018 include the crime drama Gayatri, in which Shriya Saran and his father Mohan Babu play other important characters and the comedy film Achari America Yatra; and the political thriller Voter 2019. His next film, Mosagallu (2021), is a crossover film directed by American filmmaker Jeffrey Gee Chin based on the world's biggest IT Scam, filmed in India and USA. It features Kajal Aggarwal, Suniel Shetty, Navdeep, Naveen Chandra and Ruhi Singh apart from Manchu. It was released in March 2021 and collected a gross of 38 crores in the long run and stands as a average runner at box office.

In October 2021, he contested and won the elections of Movie Artists Association (MAA) as its president against Prakash Raj. Vishnu made the announcement about his next project titled 'Ginna' is being produced by Ava Entertainment and 24 Frames Factory which was initially planned to release in August but later released in October 2022 due to production delays.The film which was made on a budget of 20-25 crores managed to collect only 9.05 crores at the box office as a average runner.

Vishnu announced his dream poject Kannappa on 18 August 2023, with the pooja cermoney at Srikalahasti temple in Andhra Pradesh. Where has Vishnu and his father Mohan Babu to co-produce the Kannappa film with an impressive 100 crore budget and shooting will begin from September 2023.

Personal life
In 2009, Manchu married Viranica Reddy, niece of the Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the then chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. In 2011, they had twin daughters. In January 2018, they had a son and in August 2019, they had a daughter.

While filming the light-hearted comedy Achari America Yatra (2018), Manchu had a near-fatal experience on the set. The actor, who was shooting in Malaysia, suffered serious injuries when he hit his opponent with a helmet during a bike stunt scene and lost balance of his vehicle forcing him to hit the ground hard.

Filmography

As producer
Siva Shankar (2003; presenter)
Current Theega (2014)
 Singam 123 (2015; also writer)
 Mama Manchu Alludu Kanchu (2015)
Chadarangam (2020; Zee5 web series)
 Son Of India (2022)

Other work

Television
Manchu made his foray into television by directing the 100th episode of Zee Telugu's series Happy Days. The episode achieved the highest TRP ratings among the 700 episodes of the series. Happy Days is also produced by 24 Frames Factory. He has also directed Lakshmi Talk Show or Premathoo Mee Lakshmi.

Producer
Manchu heads the 24 Frames Factory production house which in 2014 produced Pandavulu Pandavulu Tummeda, a comedy film with an ensemble cast. He also heads ThinkSmart, which handles post-production including graphics and other elements for cinema. Atanokkade, from ThinkSmart, won the best video effects award.

Educationist

Manchu is the director of Spring Board International Preschools. When he joined with the Sree Vidyanikethan Educational Trust set up by his father, it was already a well-established educational institution. He took charge of this institution and built them into model institutions offering value-based education to the students. He expanded and diversified it into Spring Board Academy, and became founder and chairman at the New York Academy.

Manchu runs the Sree Vidyanikethan Educational Trust, founded by his father. The trust runs the Sree Vidyanikethan International School, Sree Vidyanikethan Degree College, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, Sree Vidyanikethan College of Pharmacy, Sree Vidyanikethan College of Nursing, the Sree Vidyanikethan Institute of Management and the Sree Vidyanikethan College for Post Graduation Studies.

Apart from an actor of repute, Vishnu Manchu is the pro-chancellor of the most reputed Mohan Babu University at Tirupati, founded in 2022 by his legendary father Dr. M. Mohan Babu.

Army Green
Manchu started a social unit called Army Green for promoting environmental awareness. It adopted small settlements in the vicinity of the Sree Vidyanikethan Institutions.

Vishnu Manchu Art Foundation
Manchu set up an art foundation in Tirupati, the Vishnu Manchu Art Foundation (VMAF). Known as an institution established for the benefit and use of contemporary and gifted artists, the foundation provides a much-needed space free from any financial and commercial constraints. The main aim of the VMAF is to provide help to aspiring and talented artists to evolve the reach of their creativity. VMAF conducts a series of Make Art, Show Art and Beyond Art programmes each year.

As an art educational institution, Vishnu Manchu Art Foundation regularly hosts lectures and discussions on issues relating to the contemporary arts and artists. VMAF is a venue for art lovers and the artistic community to engage in spirited conversations with art critics and renowned academics who showcase their work at the foundation. VMAF is known for its traditional works and injection of new creative ideas and expressions.

References

External links

Living people
1982 births
Filmfare Awards South winners
Male actors in Telugu cinema
21st-century Indian male actors
People from Chittoor district
Male actors from Andhra Pradesh
People from Rayalaseema
Telugu male actors
Telugu film producers
Indian film producers
Indian television directors


The Yamaha XT350 is a dual-sport motorcycle produced between 1985 and 2000 by Yamaha Motor Corp.

Features and capabilities
This is a 350cc four stroke enduro (motorcycle) with long travel suspension. It is street legal because it has mirrors, indicators, a horn, a headlight, a tail light and a licence plate holder.

External links
Motorcycle.com review
Total Motorcycle Website review including lifecycle details

References
XT 350
Dual-sport motorcycles
Motorcycles introduced in 1985


Tex Mignog (1969-2002) is a punk musician. He became known as Texorcist, which is also the punk rock band he led. Mignog is the founder and Chief Subversion Officer of the Collusion Syndicate hacker group.

As the spokesperson for the Collusion Syndicate, Mignog openly appeared at computer security events such as H.O.P.E. and DefCon and was quoted by the media on computer-related security and political/cultural issues. Examples included KVUE News, the Austin American-Statesman and The Washington Post.

Mignog was one of the most frequent contributors to the Collusion E-zine.

Career

Tex Mignog co-founded Collusion Syndicate and contributed to its projects, including AnonyMailer, irQconflict, Virtual sit-ins, and Electric Dog.

Band
The punk rock band TexorcisT (1993-1997) was led by Mignog.

References

External links

 Collusion Syndicate

American bloggers
1969 births
2002 deaths


Jeroom Snelders (born 22 april 1977) is a Belgian Cartoonist and Standup comedian, who is frequently published in the magazine Humo.  He studied Graphic design at St. Lucas in Ghent, where one of his teachers was Ever Meulen. He has published his work in the collections Rudy (2002) and Het Hol van de Reet (2003). His work is characterized by absurd humor and surreal situations.

He won the Belgium Press Cartoon 2002 and is engaged to Belgian athlete Élodie Ouédraogo.

External links
 Jeroom's website
 Lambiek Comiclopedia

Living people
1977 births
Belgian cartoonists
Belgian comics artists
Belgian illustrators
Belgian parodists
Belgian satirists
Flemish television writers
Male television writers
Belgian surrealist artists
Album-cover and concert-poster artists


Jiksan Station is a station on the Gyeongbu Line in the city of Cheonan in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. It is served by trains on Seoul Subway Line 1.

References

External links

 Station information from Korail

Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations
Metro stations in Cheonan
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1905


Linda Shearman is a British former competitive ice dancer. With partner Michael Phillips, she became the 1963 European champion and 1963 World silver medalist.

Results
(with Michael Phillips)

References

External links
 Skatabase: 1960s Worlds Results
 Skatabase: 1960s Europeans Results

British female ice dancers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists


Falquet (or Folquet) de Romans (fl. 1215–1233) was the most famous troubadour attached to the court of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, where he garnered a high reputation despite the fact that his career began as a jongleur. His surviving work consists of fourteen or fifteen pieces: seven sirventes (two religious and two canso sirventes as well as one Crusade song), three tensos (each two coblas long), two or three cansos on courtly love, a salut d'amor (or epistola) of 254 lines, and a religious alba. His poetry is, in general, clear and elegant, and he was apparently very religious.

Falquet was originally from Romans d'Isèra, a birthplace shared by the trobairitz Bieiris de Romans. According to his vida he was "at ease in the courts and of pleasant conversation. . . well-honoured among high society."

Career in Italy and Provence
Falquet spent much of his career in Italy. Sometime before December 1220, he wrote the homesick Una chanso sirventes from Montferrat and addressed it to his lady across the Alps. He confessed to being unable to cease thinking pus parti de Vianes ("the greater part about Viennois"). Besides the court of Montferrat, there are allusions in Peire de la Mula which may place Falquet at the court of Ottone del Carretto as well. It was probably there, between 1220 and 1226, that he wrote his sirventes urging the emperor to "rescue" the Holy Land.

Falquet was in communication with the trouvère Hugues IV de Berzé (N'Ugo de Bersie) who wrote a poem to Falquet (calling him Fouquet or Fouquez) asking him to join him on an imminent Crusade outra mar (overseas). Hugues's poem was sent with the jongleur Bernart (or Bernarz) d'Argentau. It is rife with information about the poets. According to Hugues, neither he nor Falquet were young at the time. Indeed, he was dead by August 1220, which provides an ante quem date for the poem. Hugues also states that Falquet had once been a jongleur, a detail also furnished by Falquet's vida. Though the poetic exchange had been dated to 1201 or November 1220–September 1221, the former date is too early and the latter invalidated by Hugues's death. Recently, dates of 1215, 1216, 1217, and 1219 have been proffered. Hugue's poem, written in Old French, is preserved in the chansonniers with an Occitan razo.

Falquet was back in Provence in 1226–1228, when he wrote a tenso, En chantan volh quem digatz, with Blacatz. This is the only tenso he composed outside of Italy, where he composed with Nicoletto da Torino (Nicolet, gran malenansa) and the Count of Biandrate (Pois vezem qu'el tond e pela). In 1228 Falquet was back in Italy, where he composed a song mentioning the departure of Frederick II on the Sixth Crusade.

Poetry
Connexion to chivalric romance
Falquet was very learned and well-read. References to contemporary literature (primarily chivalric romance) abound in his poetry. In his Ma bella domna, per vos dei esser gais he references Floire et Blancheflor (the former whom he calls Flori), the Roman d'Andrieu de Fransa, and the Raoul de Cambrai. On two other occasions he was given to referencing Floire et Blancheflor and in his 254-line letter he refers to the Roman de Renart and Tristans and Ysout. Elsewhere he refers to the latter as Tristanz and Ysolt.

Religion
In total, Falquet composed three religious songs, two sirventes, and one famous alba. This last, Vers Dieu, el vostre nom e de Sancta Maria, was addressed to God and the Virgin Mary. It ends on the high note of a sunrise (alba):

Politics
Of Falquet's political views very little would be known if he had not left behind a sirventes written against the rich and powerful which contains a prescription for socio-political reform:

Besides this one clear statement, Falquet composed other sirventes joglarescs (attacks/insult on jongleurs, often in the manner of jongleurs) in order, so his vida puts it, "to praise the good and to blame the bad."

Crusades
In the early 1220s Falquet had urged the emperor his patron to go on Crusade and in 1228 he mentioned his departure. In between he wrote Quan lo dous temps ven e vai la freidors, one of the most powerful Crusade songs ever written. The central theme of the work is the tumult of Europe engulphed in a conflict between the Papacy and the Emperor and the Albigensian Crusade.

References
Bibliography

Bertoni, Giulio. I Trovatori d'Italia: Biografie, testi, tradizioni, note. Rome: Società Multigrafica Editrice Somu, 1967 [1915].
Gaunt, Simon, and Kay, Sarah. "Appendix I: Major Troubadours" (pp. 279–291). The Troubadours: An Introduction. Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay, edd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. .
Puckett, Jaye. "Reconmenciez novele estoire: The Troubadours and the Rhetoric of the Later Crusades." MLN, Vol. 116, No. 4, French Issue. (Sep., 2001), pp. 844–889.
Riquer, Martín de. Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos. 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.
The Vidas of the Troubadours. Margarita Egan, trans. New York: Garland, 1984. .

External links
Lyric allusions to the crusades and the Holy Land

Notes

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People from Drôme


Dr. Patrick N. Keating was a theoretical physicist who contributed to several fields of solid-state physics, including semiconductors, semi-insulators and the basic properties of solid materials, and to other fields including optics, liquid crystals, acoustic holography, and signal processing. He was best known for the Keating Model of interatomic forces in tetrahedrally-coordinated solids (P. N. Keating, Effect of Invariance Requirements On The Elastic Strain Energy of Crystals, With Application to the Diamond Structure, Phys. Rev. 145, 637 (1966), which was determined to be one of the 50 highest-impact papers over a century of Physical Review publications ).

Dr. Keating was born in England and educated as a physicist there (University of Nottingham) and in the United States (University of Michigan, 1969). He served as Director and General Manager of both the Advanced Technology Center and the Microelectronics Center of Allied-Signal Corporation (now part of Honeywell Inc.), and lived in Maryland, Florida, and Delaware with his wife of 30 years, Julie Scott Keating. He had two married daughters, Clare and Fiona. Keating was an enthusiastic tennis player, golfer, sailor, and aviator, and held an FAA pilot's license. He died in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, on 21 January 2019.

In addition to his contributions to the science of Physics, Dr. Keating's research interests included Climate Science, and a research paper in that field was published in the International Journal of Climatology.

References

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Living people
Theoretical physicists
University of Michigan alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)


Leask (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Leask No. 464 and Census Division No. 16. This village is  southwest of Prince Albert. It is the administrative centre of the Mistawasis First Nation band government and the Rural Municipality of Leask No. 464.

History
Leask incorporated as a village on September 3, 1912.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Leask had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Leask recorded a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

See also

 List of communities in Saskatchewan
 Villages of Saskatchewan

References

Villages in Saskatchewan
Leask No. 464, Saskatchewan
Division No. 16, Saskatchewan


FFX may stand for:
 Final Fantasy X, a role-playing video game developed by Square
 Fairfax County, Virginia
 Fairfax, Virginia
 Fairfax Connector, a public bus service in Fairfax County, Virginia
 Mozilla Firefox, a web browser
 Future Frigate eXperimental, a South Korean government plan


Anderson Denyro Cueto Sánchez (born 29 May 1989) is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a winger.

Club career
Cueto began his career in youth ranks of Sporting Cristal. Then in July 2008 he left Cristal and joined Polish club Lech Poznań. After a two years in Poznań, Cueto returned to Sporting Cristal in July 2010.
With Cristal he made 11 appearances and scored one goal for the remaining second half of the 2010 season.
On January 11, 2011 Anderson left Cristal and signed a 3-year contract with Club Juan Aurich. On January 29, 2013 Cueto signed for Peruvian giant Alianza Lima.

Honours
Lech Poznań
Ekstraklasa: 2009–10
Polish Cup: 2008–09

Juan Aurich
 Torneo Descentralizado: 2011

References

External links

 peru.com

1989 births
Living people
Footballers from Lima
Peruvian men's footballers
Peruvian expatriate men's footballers
Sporting Cristal footballers
Lech Poznań players
Juan Aurich footballers
Club Alianza Lima footballers
Cusco FC footballers
Sport Victoria players
Sport Boys footballers
Club Deportivo Los Chankas players
Ekstraklasa players
Peruvian Primera División players
Peruvian Segunda División players
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Men's association football wingers


Recurrent branch may refer to:
 Recurrent branch of the median nerve
 Recurrent branch of the radial
 Recurrent nerves of Luschka


Caranx lugubris, the black jack,  black trevally, black kingfish, coal fish or black ulua, is a species of large ocean fish in the jack family Carangidae. The species has a circumtropical distribution, found in oceanic, offshore waters of the tropical zones of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The species is particularly prevalent around offshore islands such as the Caribbean islands in the Atlantic, Hawaii and French Polynesia in the Pacific and the Seychelles and Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Black jack are rare in shallow waters, preferring deep reefs, ledges and seamounts in clear waters. The species is easily distinguished by its black to grey fins and jet black scutes, with the head having a steep profile near the snout. The largest recorded length is 1 m and weight of 17.9 kg. The black jack lives either individually or in small schools, and is known to school with other species. It is a predatory fish, taking a variety of fish, crustaceans and molluscs as prey. Sexual maturity is reached at 34.6 cm in females and 38.2 cm in males, with spawning taking place between February and September in the Caribbean. The early life history of the species is very poorly understood. Black jack are of high importance to many island fisheries, but are rarely encountered in most continental fisheries. The species has a reputation as a gamefish, and is variably considered a terrible or excellent food fish, although several cases of ciguatera poisoning have been attributed to the species. The species was initially named Caranx ascensionis by Georges Cuvier, however several issues with the use of this name have seen Felipe Poey's name Caranx lugubris become the valid scientific name.

Taxonomy and naming
The black jack is classified within the genus Caranx, one of a number of groups known as the jacks or trevallies. Caranx itself is part of the larger jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae, which in turn is part of the order Carangiformes.

The taxonomic history of the black jack is quite complex, with the species first referred to in error as Scomber adscensionis (Osbeck, 1771), which was also used to describe what is now known as Pseudocaranx dentex. Georges Cuvier resurrected this name when he described the species as Caranx ascensionis in 1833. This was the first naming pertaining to the fish, and would normally have priority over any names assigned later. However, the species as it is currently known, was first scientifically described in 1860 by the Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey in his two volume work Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba, or "Natural History of the Island of Cuba". He assigned the species to the jack genera Caranx, and gave the Latin specific epithet of lugubris, meaning "mournful", or "pertaining to mourning". Although the description was based on a fish from Cuba, no holotype is known for the species. Poey initially described his species as different from Cuvier's C. ascensionis, however he later placed both C. lugubris and another species he had named, C. frontalis, in synonymy with C. ascensionis. In later work, Poey again listed these three names as synonyms, but treated C. lugubris as valid, noting that Cuvier's name had also been used for Pseudocaranx dentex. Most later taxonomic revisions supported Poey's judgement, with the name C. ascensionis often considered a junior secondary homonym. William Smith-Vaniz and John Randall put forth a proposal to the ICZN in 1994 to formally instate C. lugubris as the species name, which was accepted in 1996.

The species common names all refer to the black hue displayed by the fish, with the name 'black jack' most commonly used. Other names include 'black trevally', 'black kingfish', 'coal fish' and 'black ulua' in Hawaii.

Distribution and habitat
The black jack has a circumtropical distribution, meaning their range extends around the Earth's equatorial oceans, thereby inhabiting the tropical and subtropical regions of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. In the Indian Ocean, they are found from Natal, South Africa in the west to northern Australia in the east. They are patchily distributed along the east African and Asian coastline in the Indian Ocean, being absent from both the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, as well as several countries bordering the ocean. The species is widely known from many Indian Ocean islands including the Seychelles, Réunion, Mauritius and Cargados Carajos In the Pacific Ocean, the black jack is known from parts of the Indonesian-Australian archipelago north to Japan, and through many of the Pacific Islands such as Hawaii, New Caledonia and Tonga. The species range in the eastern Pacific has been ranges from Mexico and the Revillagigedo Islands in the north to Costa Rica in the south. In the western Atlantic Ocean, black jack have been found from North Carolina in the U.S. south to Rio de Janeiro, with the species most common in the Caribbean and the northern Gulf of Mexico. In the eastern Atlantic, the species has been reported from the Azores, Madeira St. Paul's Rocks, Ascension Island, and the Gulf of Guinea.

The black jack is a benthopelagic species rarely found in shallow inshore waters, preferring deep, clear offshore waters of depths from 12 to 354 m. The species is most common in insular oceanic habitats and around offshore islands, rarely found close to the continents. The black jack inhabits deep reefs and reef drop offs, also being common around oceanic seamounts. It has been recorded from lagoons in the Solomon Islands.

Description
The black jack is a large fish, and is confidently known to grow to a length of 1 m and a weight of 17.9 kg, although is more common at lengths under 70 cm. At least one source asserts a fish of 2.21 m has been reported, which if true would make the black jack the second largest species of carangid behind the yellowtail amberjack (2.5 m). The black jack has a similar overall body shape to the other members of Caranx, having an oblong, compressed form, with the dorsal profile more convex than the ventral profile. This convexity is most pronounced at the head, which slopes steeply downwards, giving the head profile a very angular appearance. The profile between the snout and the nape is concave, with this indent centered near the nostrils. The mouth is fairly large compared to other members of its genus and the maxilla extends to under the centre of the fish's eye. The upper jaw contains a series of strong outer canines with an inner band of smaller teeth, while the lower jaw contains a single row of widely spaced conical teeth. The dorsal fin of the black jack is in two sections; the first has 8 spines and the second 1 spine and 20 to 22 soft rays. The anal fin has 2 anteriorly detached spines and 16 to 19 soft rays. The lobes of both the dorsal and anal fins are elongated. The pelvic fins contain 1 spine and 21 soft rays, while the pectoral fins are falcate and longer than the head. The lateral line has a pronounced and moderately long anterior arch, with the curved section intersecting the straight section below the lobe of the second dorsal fin. The curved section of the lateral line contains around 50 scales while the straight section 26 to 32 strong scutes. The caudal peduncle also has paired bilateral keels. The chest is completely covered in scales, which like the rest of the body are small and cycloid in nature. The species has 23 to 30 gill rakers in total and there are 24 vertebrae present.

The body of the black jack is a uniform olive to brown, grey and even black colour along the back that lightens to a grey-blue near the underside of the fish. The black jack's fins are grey to black, and the scutes are black. The upper limit of the operculum often has a small dark spot present, usually smaller than the pupil.

Biology and ecology

The black jack lives both in solitude and in schools of up to 30 individuals. Like several other jacks, black jack are able to coordinate these aggregations over coral reefs based on the release of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) from the reef. DMSP is a naturally occurring chemical produced by marine algae and to a lesser extent corals and their symbiotic zooxanthellae. In the Atlantic the species has also been video-recorded schooling with the almaco jack, Seriola rivoliana, and the greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili. The diet of the species has been reported on two occasions; once from Easter Island in the south Pacific, where the diet consisted mainly of fish and crustaceans including stomatopods and isopods; and from Brazil, where a variety of fish, crustaceans and molluscs were taken. There is also some suggestion that in Brazil the species may be competing for food with the red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, with both having almost identical diets. The black jack is also known to follow spinner dolphins to feed off their excrements. The life history of the species has been determined in part from the waters of Jamaica. Here the Male:Female sex ratios have been reported as 1:0.55, indicating males are nearly twice as common than females. The black jack reaches sexual maturity at 34.6 cm in females and 38.2 cm in males. The timing of spawning is poorly known, with occurrences recorded in February, April, May and July to September. The reproductive behaviour and early life history of the species is entirely unknown. Analysis of black jack catches suggest the average length of the fish is 50 cm for males and 48 cm for females.

Relationship to humans
The black jack is of moderate to high importance to commercial fisheries throughout its range, often being the most abundant large carangid in offshore island catches. The species is taken by both various nets and traps as well as by hook and line. Black jack are usually marketed as fresh, whole fish, but they are also sold salted or dried. The species rarity in most areas means it is not a major target for anglers, however some offshore locations such as the Bahamas the black jack is an important gamefish. The species appeal as a food fish varies between location, with some regions considering it the best table fish available. Despite this, numerous ciguatera poisoning cases have been attributed to the black jack, with laboratory tests confirming the presence of the toxin in the species flesh. The IGFA all tackle world record for the species stands at  caught off the Hurricane Bank, Mexico in 2013.

References

External links
 Black jack (Caranx lugubris) at FishBase
 Black jack (Caranx lugubris) at Australian Museum Online
 Black jack (Caranx lugubris) at OzAnimals
 Black jack (Caranx lugubris) at Hawaii's Fishes

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Fish of the Atlantic Ocean
Fish described in 1860


Robert Lane Gibbs (born March 29, 1971) is an American communication professional who served as executive vice president and global chief communications officer of McDonald's from 2015 to 2019 and as the 27th White House Press Secretary from 2009 to 2011.

As executive vice president, Gibbs was in charge of public relations at McDonald's. Before McDonald's, Gibbs was an American political advisor and commentator, who served as White House Press Secretary during the first term of the Obama administration. Gibbs had worked with Obama since 2004 and previously served as the communications director for then-Senator Obama and his campaign during the 2008 presidential election. He later served as a senior campaign adviser for Obama's campaign during the 2012 presidential election.

Prior to becoming a member of the Obama team he was press secretary for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and was a part of several Senate campaigns, having served as communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and for four individual Senate campaigns, including those of Obama in 2004 and Fritz Hollings in 1998. Gibbs was also the press secretary of Representative Bob Etheridge. Gibbs was announced as the press secretary for President Obama on November 22, 2008, and officially assumed the role on January 20, 2009, giving his first official briefing on January 22.

Early life
Gibbs was born in Auburn, Alabama. His parents, Nancy Jean (née Lane) and Robert Coleman Gibbs, worked in the Auburn University library system and involved their son in politics at an early age. Nancy Gibbs would take Robert, then known as "Bobby," to local League of Women Voters meetings rather than hire a babysitter, and involved him in "voter re-identification" work at the county courthouse.

Education

Gibbs attended Auburn City Schools and Auburn High School. At Auburn High, Gibbs played saxophone in the Auburn High School Band, was a goalkeeper on the Tigers' soccer team, and participated in the school's debate squad. Gibbs graduated from Auburn High in 1989, in the same class as novelist Ace Atkins and LEGO artist Eric Harshbarger.

Gibbs attended North Carolina State University, serving as goalkeeper for the North Carolina State Wolfpack soccer team from 1990 to 1992. Gibbs graduated from North Carolina State cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science in 1993.

While a student at North Carolina State in 1991, Gibbs became an intern for Alabama's 3rd congressional district Congressman Glen Browder. Gibbs quickly rose through the ranks of Browder's staff, rising to become the representative's executive assistant in Washington, D.C. Gibbs returned to Alabama in 1996 to work on Browder's unsuccessful Senate campaign that year.

Career

Congressional Press Secretary, 1997
In 1997, Gibbs was press secretary for Congressman Bob Etheridge of North Carolina and, in 1998, was spokesman for Senator Fritz Hollings' successful re-election campaign. He worked in the campaigns of two other senators, and served as communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, before taking the position of press secretary of John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.

2004 U.S. Presidential election
Early in the 2004 presidential campaign, Gibbs was the press secretary of Democratic candidate John Kerry. On November 11, 2003, Gibbs resigned from Kerry's campaign after the candidate abruptly fired his campaign manager, Jim Jordan. Gibbs was replaced by Stephanie Cutter, a former spokeswoman for Ted Kennedy. After leaving the Kerry campaign, Gibbs became spokesman for a 527 political group formed to stop the presidential campaign of Howard Dean. For his involvement in this group, Gibbs was criticized during the Obama presidential campaign by some left leaning bloggers.

Advisor to Senator Barack Obama, 2004
Gibbs joined Barack Obama's 2004 U.S. Senate campaign as communications director in mid-April 2004 and remained with the senator through the first two years of Obama's term. Gibbs is credited with guiding Obama through those first years and molding his rise on the national scene. According to The New York Times, Gibbs advised Obama on politics, strategy and messaging, and spent more time with Obama than any other advisor.

2008 U.S. Presidential election
The appointment of Gibbs by Obama to the post of Communications Chief was met with mild controversy by some critics in the Democratic National Committee, who cited Gibbs' role in the aggressive campaign tactics used to block the nomination of Howard Dean in the 2004 race. Obama, however, referred to Gibbs as his "one-person Southern focus group" and welcomed him as part of his close-knit team that included strategist David Axelrod, campaign director David Plouffe, and research director Devorah Adler. In his communications role, Gibbs became known as "the enforcer" because of his aggressive rapid-response methods for countering disinformation tactics from opponents. Gibbs assumed responsibility for "shaping the campaign message, responding to the 24/7 news cycle, schmoozing with the press and fighting back when he disagree[d] with its reporting." As the chief intermediary between the Obama campaign and the press, Gibbs sought to counter the Republican National Committee's opposition research tactics against Obama in early 2007.

Gibbs adopted a policy of rapid response to claims by conservative news outlets that questioned Obama's religious upbringing. In response to the "Obama is a Muslim" meme suggested by these claims, Gibbs disseminated information to other news networks that Obama is not nor has ever been Muslim. At the time, Gibbs said, "These malicious, irresponsible charges are precisely the kind of politics the American people have grown tired of."

After comments by George W. Bush to the Israeli Knesset questioning Obama's foreign policy platform's focus on international diplomacy, Gibbs responded, calling Bush's comments "astonishing" and "an unprecedented attack on foreign soil." Gibbs argued that Bush's policy amounted to "cowboy diplomacy" that had been discounted by Bush's own Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, and quoted with Gates' own words: "We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage ... and then sit down and talk...if there is going to be a discussion, then they need something, too. We can't go to a discussion and be completely the demander, with them not feeling that they need anything from us."

He was widely blamed by news media executives for "holding hostage" reporters, while Obama and Hillary Clinton met for the first time after a heavily contested Democratic primary season. He countered back, "It wasn't an attempt to deceive in any way ... It was just private meetings."

White House Press Secretary, 2008

On 22 November 2008, it was announced by the Obama transition team that Gibbs would be the White House Press Secretary for the Obama administration. He assumed the role of press secretary on 20 January 2009, and gave his first official briefing on January 22, 2009.

In an interview with The Hill, Gibbs derided the "professional left" and "liberals," who "wouldn't be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president." He said that people who compare Obama's policies to George W. Bush's "ought to be drug tested."

Gibbs stirred controversy when he stated that the drone killing of 16-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki was justified, and that the boy "should [have] had a more responsible father."

On 5 January 2011, Gibbs announced that he would leave the White House to become an outside adviser to the Administration. He formally left the position on February 11, 2011.

Post-government career, 2013–present
On February 12, 2013, it was announced that Gibbs had been hired as a contributor for cable news channel MSNBC. His first appearance was on the same night prior to the 2013 State of the Union Address. In June 2012, Gibbs was appointed to the board of directors of Yelp. In June 2013, it was announced that Gibbs and Ben LaBolt co-founded a strategic communications practice called The Incite Agency, where he was a partner until 2015. He left Incite in 2015 to become chief communications officer for McDonald's Corporation, an office he held until his departure from the company in October 2019. In March 2020, he became senior counsel at Bully Pulpit Interactive, which had acquired The Incite Agency in 2016.

In August 2020, Gibbs became a third co-host of the U.S. political podcast "Hacks On Tap", joining David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

Personal life
Gibbs is married to Mary Catherine Gibbs, an attorney, and lives in Alexandria, Virginia with their son, Ethan. His parents live in Apex, North Carolina, where his mother Nancy is acquisitions director for Duke University Libraries.

References

Further reading

External links

White House Briefing Room

 The Many Faces of Robert Gibbs  – slideshow by Life magazine

Profile at SourceWatch
Monica Langley, "Meet Obama's Media 'Enforcer'", Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2008.

1971 births
Alabama Democrats
American political consultants
Auburn High School (Alabama) alumni
Living people
McDonald's people
Obama administration personnel
North Carolina State University alumni
People from Auburn, Alabama
White House Press Secretaries


Alexander John Ligertwood (Lĭ-jərt-wood)  (born 18 December 1946) is a Scottish singer, guitarist and drummer.

Early life, family and education

Ligertwood was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

Career
He is best known as the lead vocalist of Santana, with five different stints from 1979 to 1994, which included the US Festival in 1982. He is credited on songs by Santana such as "All I Ever Wanted", "You Know That I Love You", "Winning" and "Hold On". He also performed with the Senate, the Jeff Beck Group  and Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. He  appeared with Go Ahead side project started by members of Grateful Dead, John Cipollina and friends, the Average White Band and David Sancious.

Ligertwood sang lead vocals on the song "Crank It Up" by the Dregs, (previously known as Dixie Dregs), from the album Industry Standard (1982), as well as contributing the lead vocal on the song "Double Bad" from Jeff Lorber's album In the Heat of the Night (1984).

In 1972, he was a member of the ephemerous Troc band with drummer André Ceccarelli, bassist Jannick Top, pianist Henri Giordano and guitarist Jacky Giraudo.

From 1986 to 1988, Ligertwood was a member of Go Ahead with Bill Kreutzmann and Brent Mydland.

During 2000, he toured with World Classic Rockers. He sang on a cover of the Scorpions song "Is There Anybody There", which appears on drummer Herman Rarebell's solo album Acoustic Fever (2013). In 2014, Ligertwood's vocals were featured on tracks by El Chicano. In the same year, he toured in Japan and Europe with Brian Auger and the Oblivion Express.

In 2014, Ligertwood was invited by producer Gerry Gallagher to record with Latin rock band El Chicano, as well as Alphonse Mouzon, David Paich, Brian Auger, Ray Parker Jr., Lenny Castro, Siedah Garrett, Walfredo Reyes Jr., Vikki Carr, Pete Escovedo, Peter Michael Escovedo, Jessy J, Marcos J. Reyes, Salvador Santana and Spencer Davis. His vocals are featured on the songs "Make Love", "The Viper" and "Outbound" from a Gallagher studio collaboration.

Ligertwood has also performed with the Magic of Santana, a German tribute  band whose guests have included other former Santana members.

References

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1946 births
Living people
Musicians from Glasgow
Scottish rock singers
20th-century Scottish male singers
Scottish rock guitarists
Scottish drummers
Santana (band) members
Average White Band members
Go Ahead (band) members
The Jeff Beck Group members
People from Chipping Barnet
World Classic Rockers members


Jemulpo Station is a railway station of Seoul Subway Line 1 operated by Korail in Incheon, South Korea.

History
 1957: Station was firstly introduced under the name of Sungui station (숭의역)
 July 1959: Changed name to Jemulpo.
 In 2007, the plan to rebuild the station was announced.

Vicinity

Exit 1: Sunin High School
Exit 2: Sung'ui Elementary School

The Jemulpo Campus of the University of Incheon is nearby.

The JEI University is nearby.

References

Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations
Metro stations in Incheon
Railway stations opened in 1957
Michuhol District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1950s


Leoville (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Spiritwood No. 496 and Census Division No. 16. The village is located along Highway 24 (named the worst road in Saskatchewan by the CAA in 2014).  Highway 946 begins in the village and proceeds north. Leoville is home to the administrative centre of the Pelican Lake First Nation band government.

History
Leoville incorporated as a village on June 26, 1944.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Leoville had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Leoville recorded a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

See also
 List of communities in Saskatchewan
 Villages of Saskatchewan
 Leoville Airport

References

Villages in Saskatchewan
Spiritwood No. 496, Saskatchewan
Division No. 16, Saskatchewan
Pelican Lake First Nation


Wei Chengqing (韋承慶; 640?–706?), courtesy name Yanxiu (延休), formally Viscount Wen of Fuyang (扶陽溫子), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, serving as a chancellor during Wu Zetian's reign.

Background
Wei Chengqing might have been born in 640, during the reign of Emperor Gaozong. His father Wei Siqian was a mid-level official at the time (and would eventually serve as chancellor from 685 to 687, during the first reign of Emperor Gaozong's son Emperor Ruizong). He had at least one younger half-brother, Wei Chengqing, born of Lady Wang, a later wife of Wei Siqian. It was said that Lady Wang was very strict in her discipline of Wei Chengqing because he was not born of her, and whenever she punished Wei Chengqing, Wei Sili would ask to be punished in Wei Chengqing's stead – and when she refused, he would have the household servants punish him in the same manner Lady Wang was punishing Wei Chengqing. Lady Wang saw this and realized that she needed to give Wei Chengqing better treatment. When others heard of this, they compared the Wei brothers to the Jin Dynasty (266–420) officials Wang Xiang and Wang Lan (王覽) – half-brothers in a situation similar to the Wei brothers.

After Wei Chengqing passed the imperial examination, he became the military advisor to Emperor Gaozong's son Li Xian the Prince of Yong, but was in charge of drafting important documents on Li Xian's staff, and it was said that he wrote in a beautiful style. After Li Xian became crown prince in 675, he continued to serve on Li Xian's staff. In 679, when Emperor Gaozong transferred some of the imperial authority to Li Xian, it was said that Li Xian began to favor luxuries and pleasures, and Wei submitted a petition urging him to curb behavior – a petition that Li Xian appreciated and thanked him for. Wei, also believing that people's anxieties largely came from their own creation, wrote an ode entitled the Ode of Ling Tower (靈臺賦), to both satirize the people's lack of inner peace and to show what his own intentions were. After Li Xian was removed as crown prince in 680 (after offending his mother, Emperor Gaozong's powerful empress Empress Wu (later known as Wu Zetian)), Wei was sent out of the capital to serve as the magistrate of Wucheng County (烏程, in modern Huzhou, Zhejiang), and it was said that he much improved the culture of the county.

During Wu Zetian's reign
During the Changshou era (692-694), by which time Empress Wu had established her own Zhou dynasty as its "emperor," interrupting Tang, Wei Chengqing served as Fengge Sheren (鳳閣舍人), a mid-level official at the legislative bureau of government (鳳閣, Fengge), and was further given the responsibility to select officials at the ministry of civil service affairs (天官部, Tianguan Bu). It was said that he wrote important documents quickly and proficiently, but at times offended powerful people, and therefore was sent out of the palace to serve as the prefect of Xin Prefecture (忻州, roughly modern Xinzhou, Shanxi), but was soon recalled to serve in the same capacities as before. Sometime before 699, he was removed on account of illness—and Wu Zetian had his brother Wei Sili succeed him. Wei Chengqing himself was made a member of the staff of Li Xian the Crown Prince (note different character than the first crown prince he served). He later successively served as the prefect of Yu Prefecture (豫州, roughly modern Zhumadian, Henan), and then Guo Prefecture (虢州, part of modern Sanmenxia, Henan). He was eventually recalled to serve as deputy minister of civil service affairs (天官侍郎, Tianguan Shilang), and was also responsible for editing the imperial history. It was said that people praised him for fairness during the three terms that he served in being responsible for selecting officials.

In 704, Wei Chengqing was made Fengge Shilang (鳳閣侍郎), the deputy head of the legislative bureau, and he was also given the designation Tong Fengge Luantai Pingzhangshi (同鳳閣鸞臺平章事), making him a chancellor de facto. As Wu Zetian did not wish to have two members of the same clan serving as chancellors simultaneously, Wei Sili, who was then chancellor as well, was made the principal of the imperial university. Meanwhile, there had been accusations against Wu Zetian's lover Zhang Changzong that he had permitted the fortuneteller Li Hongtai (李弘泰) to foretell that he had the appearance of an emperor, and Wu Zetian had Wei Chengqing, Cui Shenqing (崔神慶), and Song Jing investigate. Wei and Cui, after investigation, concluded that Li Hongtai should be prosecuted, but Zhang should not, as he had reported what Li Hongtai said to Wu Zetian. Song insisted on investigating, but to no avail, as Wu Zetian protected Zhang.

During Emperor Zhongzong's second reign
In spring 705, when a coup led by Zhang Jianzhi, Cui Xuanwei, Jing Hui, Huan Yanfan, and Yuan Shuji overthrew Wu Zetian and restored Li Xian, a former emperor, to the throne (as Emperor Zhongzong), her lovers Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi (Zhang Changzong's brother) were killed. On the same day, Wei Chengqing, along with fellow chancellor Fang Rong and Cui Shenqing), were accused of being associates of Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong and arrested. However, at that time, an imperial edict announcing a general pardon had to be drafted, and despite the fact that Wei was under arrest, the other officials still believed that no one could write it as well as he could, and so he was put in charge of drafting it. His style was said to be so beautiful despite the dangers that surrounded him that all who read the edict praised it. After half a month, Wei was demoted to be the sheriff of Gaoyao County (高要, in modern Zhaoqing, Guangdong). After about a year, he was promoted to be the prefect of Chen Prefecture (辰州, roughly modern Huaihua, Hunan), but even before he reported to Chen Prefecture, was recalled to serve as honorary Mishu Shaojian (秘書少監, deputy head of the archival bureau, although in this case without actual authority) and again made an imperial historian. He was also created the Viscount of Fuyang. Emperor Zhongzong had him draft a memorial text for Wu Zetian, and once he completed it, praised him for its beauty, giving him the honorific title Yinqing Guanglu Daifu (銀青光祿大夫). He was soon commissioned to be Huangmen Shilang (黃門侍郎), the deputy head of the examination bureau (門下省, Menxia Sheng), but died of illness before he could take office. Emperor Zhongzong mourned him greatly and recalled Wei Sili, then serving as a prefectural prefect, to succeed him.

Notes and references

 Old Book of Tang, vol. 88.
 New Book of Tang, vol. 116.
 Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 202, 206, 207, 208.

Chancellors under Wu Zetian
Chancellors under Emperor Zhongzong of Tang
Tang dynasty historians
8th-century Chinese historians
640 births
706 deaths
Wei clan of Jingzhao