Wintzenheim (; ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Its inhabitants are called Wintzenheimois.

Geography
Wintzenheim is a town of 7,933 inhabitants (2020) to the west of Colmar.

Colmar is a town which receives very little rain because it benefits from a microclimate (called the micro-climat des ) due to the effect of a vortex propagated by the Munster valley with winds from the south-west to west. Situated only  from Colmar, Wintzenheim benefits from this micro-climate.

History
Until the French Revolution, Wintzenheim was a dependency of the Lords of Hohlandsbourg. It was administered by the Ribeaupierre family and later by the Counts of Lupfen and, in the 16th century, by Lazarus von Schwendi (also known as Lazare de Schwendi). Louvois rewarded general Joseph de Montclar with this fief in 1680.

Population

Twin town
  Möhnesee in Germany

Sites and monuments
 Château du Hohlandsbourg
 Château du Pflixbourg
 La Chapelle Herzog : the sculptures of this neo-gothic chapel are listed as monuments historiques by the French Ministry of Culture.

People
 Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019), illustrator best known for his erotic and political illustrations as well as children's books, stayed in Wintzenheim during his childhood. A community hall today bears his name.

Gallery

See also
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

External links

 Official website of the Mairie
 Site dedicated to Wintzenheim and its history

Communes of Haut-Rhin


Niedermorschwihr () is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Notable people
Christine Ferber, pastry chef and chocolatier

See also
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

Communes of Haut-Rhin


Kientzheim (; ; Alsatian: Kientza) is a former commune in the Haut-Rhin department in north-eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Kaysersberg Vignoble.

Population

Education
Previously the local elementary school was École élémentaire publique école primaire publique.

The Lycée Seijo, a Japanese boarding school, operated in Kientzheim from 1986 to 2005. The European Centre for Japanese Studies in Alsace (, CEEJA,  Aruzasu Ōshū Nihongaku Kenkyūsho) opened at the site of the former school.

See also

 Communes of the Haut-Rhin département

References

External links

 Historical commune of Kientzheim

Former communes of Haut-Rhin


Sigolsheim (; Alsatian: Sìjelse) is a former commune in the Haut-Rhin department in north-eastern France.

On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Kaysersberg Vignoble.

Children previously attended school in the École élémentaire publique intercommunale which had preschool (maternelle) and elementary.

Population

See also
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

External links

 Historical commune of Sigolsheim

Former communes of Haut-Rhin


Kenneth Gustafsson (born 15 September 1983) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a defender. After playing for IFK Hindås in his youth, Gustafsson came to GAIS in Gothenburg in 2002 and would remain in the club until his retirement after the season of 2015. The first season resulted in 8 appearances for GAIS, and the next season resulted in 12 appearances in the league and appearances in both of the qualifying games for Superettan.

During a game against AIK in May 2006, Gustafsson suffered a bone marrow infection and had to be hospitalized for two and a half weeks. The rest of the season 2006 were spent with rehabilitation, but the next season Gustafsson returned and made 29 appearances.

During his football career, Gustafsson studied at Chalmers where he got a bachelor's degree in "Industriell ekonomi" and returned to Chalmers after his retirement to earn a master's degree in supply chains management. After his retirement Gustafsson also started working for GAIS as a trainer for the club's youth players.

References

External links
 (archive 1, archive 2)
GAIS profile

1983 births
Living people
Superettan players
GAIS players
Swedish men's footballers
Men's association football defenders


Bennwihr (; ) is a commune in Grand Est, in northeastern France.

History
Bennwihr figures in a report from the year 777 by Charlemagne's missi dominici. They refer to the village as Beno Villare (Beno's domain), and mention the quality of its wines.

The village was leveled in December 1944 during fighting leading up to the battle known as the Colmar Pocket.

See also
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

Communes of Haut-Rhin


Mittelwihr (; ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

See also
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin département

References

Communes of Haut-Rhin


Beblenheim (; ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

See also
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

Communes of Haut-Rhin


Zellenberg is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Population

See also
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

Communes of Haut-Rhin


Hunawihr (; ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

The village is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de France ("The most beautiful villages of France") association.

See also
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin département

References

Communes of Haut-Rhin
Plus Beaux Villages de France


Rodern () is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

See also
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

Communes of Haut-Rhin


Mincom Pty Ltd was a software and services company that provides business software to industries including mining, public infrastructure, defence, oil and gas in more than 40 countries across North America, South America, Australia, South East Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Mincom Inc. operates in North America and is a subsidiary of Mincom Pty Ltd. Mincom employs 1250 people in 24 offices across six continents.

Mincom was owned by Francisco Partners, a global private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses. On 9 May 2011 the ABB Group acquired Mincom to expand their enterprise software business, Ventyx.

The company's name was originally devised as a contraction of the term "mining computing", as the company's initial products were aimed at the mining industry.

Mincom's headquarters were located in Brisbane, Queensland as well as with offices presence in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Western Australia. North American operations are located in the United States (Denver, Colorado, San Francisco, California and Austin, Texas) and in Canada (Ottawa, Ontario). Latin American offices are in Santiago, Chile.

MineMarket
MineMarket is a software application produced by Mincom Limited for the mining industry.

The application is claimed to provide a whole-of-enterprise view of the supply chain, from ore extraction to product delivery, including external processes such as delivery arrangements. The MineMarket solution provides coverage of the logistics and sales processes for mining and mineral related organisations.

It is designed to run on the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. The current major release of MineMarket is version 4.

Mincom Critical Inventory Optimization
MCIO is a software application purchased by Mincom Limited from Bruce McNaught and Associates Pty Ltd.

The application is claimed to offer the ability for any company holding a large inventory to substantially reduce the inventory value while improving the service level on critical stick items.

Originally known as SIAM, MCIO integrates with Mincom's main Ellipse Asset management platform. It is designed to run on the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. The current major release of MCIO is version 4.3 which is a fully multilingual version of the product.

Awards
Mincom was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame in 2017.

See also
 ABB
 Enterprise asset management

References

External Links

 Mincom digital story and oral history: Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame 2016, State Library of Queensland

Software companies established in 1979
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Business services companies established in 1979
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Johan Friberg Da Cruz (born 4 June 1986) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career
Da Cruz was born in Göteborg. He played professionally for GAIS in the Allsvenskan.

Personal life
His older brother Bobbie is also a former footballer.

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
Footballers from Gothenburg
Swedish men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
GAIS players
BK Häcken players
Ljungskile SK players
Västra Frölunda IF players
Superettan players
Ettan Fotboll players
Division 2 (Swedish football) players
Swedish people of Cape Verdean descent
Swedish expatriate men's footballers
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark


WIRB (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Level Plains, Alabama, United States, a suburb of Dothan, Alabama. The station is owned by Fabiola Lev and Arik Lev, G.P.

Co-Licensee Fabiola Lev is the former wife of Arik Lev, with the divorce finalized in May 2019.. According to the license transfer application, Fabiola is 80% owner of the general partnership that purchased the license for $5,000

As of July 2019, the FCC has not been informed of any change in the ownership structure. Arik Lev stated on the application that he is a citizen of Israel. Non-citizen ownership of American radio licenses is limited to 20%, so he was in compliance with section 310(B) of the FCC rules.

While the FCC approved the license transfer in December 2018, the actual transfer was not completed until June 20, 2019.

Programming
Digital 1490 WIRB broadcasts a classic soul/R&B, talk and sports format.

History
This station received its original license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 11, 2006.

Unrelated licenses
This WIRB is unrelated to the WIRB formerly licensed to Enterprise that broadcast at 600 kHz from 1948 to 1988. That station changed its call letters to WLHQ on May 11, 1988, before going off the air for good. It was deleted from the FCC database on May 13, 1992.

This radio station is also unrelated to the television station in Melbourne, Florida, that used the WIRB callsign from May 1, 1992, until February 13, 1998, when it became WOPX.

In October 2020 WIRB changed their format to classic soul/R&B, talk and sports, branded as "Digital 1490".

References

External links
digital1490.com - Official Website

IRB
Radio stations established in 2006
Dale County, Alabama


Jason Andre Karnuth (born May 15, 1976) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher most recently with the Milwaukee Brewers organization.

In 2007, Karnuth was the accidental victim of an attack by Roman Colón. During Colón's rehab assignment in Triple-A Toledo, Colón was involved in an altercation with fellow pitcher Jordan Tata. During the course of the fight, Colón attempted to punch Tata and instead landed a punch to the face of Karnuth, the Mud Hens closer who was trying to intercede and break up the fight. The resulting injury caused Karnuth to be admitted to the hospital and undergo plastic surgery to his face. According to his wife, who filed an assault report against Colón on her husband's behalf, Karnuth required a titanium plate to be screwed into his head. Karnuth missed most of the 2007 season as a result of the injuries. The Tigers suspended Colón for 7 days after the incident. On January 15, 2008, Colon pleaded no contest to an assault charge and was sentenced to 200 hours of community service.

He retired on February 29, 2008.

References

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St. Louis Cardinals players
Detroit Tigers players
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Prince William Cannons players
Arkansas Travelers players
Memphis Redbirds players
New Haven Ravens players
West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx players
Iowa Cubs players
Erie SeaWolves players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Sacramento River Cats players
Illinois State Redbirds baseball players


Avanguardia Giovanile Fascista (A.G.F.) was a fascist student youth organization established in the 1920s by the National Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini.

References

Student wings of political parties in Italy
Italian Fascism
Student organizations established in 1921
Organizations disestablished in 1926
1921 establishments in Italy
1926 disestablishments in Italy
Youth wings of fascist parties


Axel Wibrån (born 9 September 1985) is a Swedish football goalkeeper. He came to GAIS in 2007 from Örgryte IS.

External links

1985 births
Living people
GAIS players
Örgryte IS players
Lindome GIF players
Utsiktens BK players
Swedish men's footballers
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Central Wyoming College (CWC or CW) is a public community college in Riverton, Wyoming. In addition to its main campus, the college provides online classes and has outreach centers in Jackson, Lander, Dubois, and the Wind River Indian Reservation.

Central Wyoming College is best known for its associate degree nursing program. Additionally, it owns Wyoming's only public television network, Wyoming PBS, as well as a student-operated FM radio station, KCWC-FM.

History

Founding
CWC was founded in 1966 by a county-wide vote, though community leaders originally conceived the idea of a community college in the county in 1950. The college took a long time to solidify because of a disagreement over its two proposed locations, Lander and Riverton. District boundary conflicts further postponed college planning until 1960. The Wyoming Community College Commission in 1964 informed the planning groups in Fremont County that the location dispute would have to be resolved before the proposed college would receive its serious consideration.

A June 1965 poll showed Fremont County residents favored a college by a 5-1 majority, and a 3-2 majority favored Riverton as the site. However, Lander supporters were persistent and returned once more to the commission, proposing the college be located in the county seat. The college commission heeded the results of the survey, though, and gave its approval to the Riverton proposal.

1960s
In December 1966, the college board selected the former Mund/Dobler farm on the west edge of Riverton as the site for the college campus because of its highway frontage, mountain views, and fertile topsoil. Before campus buildings were constructed, the first classes were held in the basement of a downtown bank. The first buildings on the new college campus - a library, science/classroom facility, and utility building - opened on September 23, 1968. At the time, the college had 26 faculty and 230 students. The college's newly formed Foundation dedicated a portion of the campus property to a technical park with a philosophy the community would attract industry to Riverton oriented toward education.

With the first full-time students enrolled, CWC officials appealed to the people of Riverton for suitable housing. A local contractor built an off-campus girls' dormitory with room for 14 students in 1968.

A year after the college was established, the University of Wyoming leased its Sinks Canyon experimental farm to CWC, which the college formally acquired four years later. The university had been donated the land in 1892, and used it for agricultural experiments until 1943. The  property, located  south of Lander, is now known as the Central Wyoming College Sinks Canyon Center, and is used for both recreational and educational purposes.

1970s
Central Wyoming College continued to construct campus facilities in the 1970s. The college was truly able to recruit from beyond its commuter area when a Residence Hall was constructed in 1973. An apartment complex, later named the East Apartments, was constructed in 1978 and inhabited by students with families as well as single students. In 1979, the West Apartments were built. Also in the 1970s, the campus grew with the construction of a student activities building in 1973 and a vocational-technical building in 1978.

The college's programs and services expanded with the campus and the community's needs as well. Programs such as construction trades, diesel mechanics, drafting, and electronics came about as the community flourished with during a boom in the minerals industry. With the times, and changes in the college service area's economy, those programs went away and others - such as nursing, broadcasting, equine studies and computer networking - were established. Being a comprehensive community college, CWC offered non-credit community services courses and adult basic skills classes as well.

The Rustler replaced the Shaman as the college mascot in 1975, after concerns were voiced by members of the local American Indian population.

1980s
Activity awards for visual and performing art students were also added because CWC had established itself as the cultural center of the region with the construction of the Robert A. Peck Arts Center in 1983. Also in 1983, KCWC-TV went on the air for the first time, marking the beginning of what is now Wyoming PBS. Before then, students enrolled in broadcasting or journalism operated the station on the Riverton cable system using channel 4.CWC was instrumental in bringing educational television to the area even back then in the early days using Riverton cable and having a fully operational studio. Much of its programming however was in black and white in the late '60s and early '70s. Plans for the college FM station began at this decade as well.  Longtime faculty member JoAnne McFarland was appointed college president in 1989.

1990s
In the early 1990s, the college was faced with a huge decline in local tax revenue and a new problematic state funding formula. The institution was forced to take severe cuts in its budget. In the early years, CWC had intercollegiate athletics, and even won regional titles in basketball, volleyball and tennis. However, budget woes in the early 1990s forced the college to eliminate round ball sports. CWC converted the scholarships offered to athletes into academic scholarships. At the same time, the college was serving a severely economically depressed population, and these dismal factors were reflected in the college's student body, which was primarily low-income, educationally disadvantaged, and older than average. The combination of limited resources, changing technology, traditional curricula, and a diverse, rural and disadvantaged student population with a high attrition rate presented the college's administration with enormous challenges.

The college staff became aggressive in pursuing outside resources, and stepped up grant writing activities to help get the college back on track. As a result, Central Wyoming College secured millions of dollars in grants to assure the college was responsive to the educational needs of its community. CWC is the only Wyoming community college with a federally supported Student Support Services Program, which supplies tutorial support, counseling and transfer advisement free of charge to students. In 1996, CWC secured a $1.75 million Title III grant, which has had a major positive impact on the college in terms of curriculum development, computer-aided instruction and student retention. In 1997, the college was awarded a $10 million grant to implement distance education technology to improve access to education for rural and isolated schools, and to provide teacher training in the use of high tech multimedia and curriculum development.

Much of the campus was remodeled in 1994. During this period Main Hall was constructed, becoming the campus's flagship building. Also, the current food court was built onto the 1973 student activities center.

2000s
In 2006, Central Wyoming College re-initiated an intercollegiate volleyball program that was followed by men's and women's basketball programs in 2008. CWC's rodeo team competes in the Central Rocky Mountain Region and consistently places highly at the College National Finals Rodeo.

The college's aggressive technology plan not only focuses on technology in education, but also includes agreements with private entities, boosting cooperation and sharing of resources. Through agreements with Microsoft and Cisco Systems, an innovative degree program in Computer Networking Technologies was developed.

The new millennium has marked significant increases in student enrollment for Central Wyoming College, in addition to new construction on campus. A new student residence hall was constructed in 2002, and the college's Intertribal Education and Community Center opened in the fall of 2010. A new health and science center was completed in 2013.

JoAnne McFarland retired from her position as college president in 2014 and was replaced by Dr. Cristobal Valdez. Valdez left the college in July 2016. During that same year, which marked the institution's fiftieth anniversary, the administration wing of CWC's Main Hall was remodeled. This was to create space for the college's new Rustler Central area, which brought together various departments, including advising, records, and financial aid, for easier student access. In 2020, Central Wyoming College, in partnership with the University of Wyoming, began offering two undergraduate courses in Business wherein students could earn their Bachelor of Science Degree either online or on campus at Central Wyoming College.

Facilities

Campus
Central Wyoming College's  campus is located on the west side of Riverton, Wyoming, along US Highway 26. It has six major buildings, with four residential structures located on the campus's northern edge.

 Intertribal Education and Community Center
 JoAnne Youtz McFarland Health & Science Center
 Lowell A. Morfeld Student Center
 Main Hall (library, classroom wing, administration wing)
 Professional-Technical Center
 Robert A. Peck Arts Center
Student housing
 East Apartments
 Mote Hall
 Residence Hall
 West Apartments

Outreach and additional facilities
The college's Equine Center, where its equine studies program is based, in located about a mile east of the main campus in Riverton.

Central Wyoming College maintains a classroom building in Lander (the county seat), a community located  from Riverton. The current Lander structure was built in 2015, replacing an older downtown facility that the college had used for decades.  south of Lander is Central Wyoming College's  Sinks Canyon Center, which has classroom and housing facilities used primarily by the college's outdoor education students.

The college also maintains outreach centers in Jackson, Dubois, and Fort Washakie.

Television and radio

KCWC-TV

Wyoming PBS operates as a division of Central Wyoming College, with office and studio space located on-campus. As part of their degree program, students majoring in television broadcasting assist in the creation of programs for the station. KCWC-TV first went on the air went on the air in 1983. Before then, the college and a small studio on-campus operating on the cable system of Riverton on channel 4. In the 70's most of the programming was in black and white. CWC had its own modulator so it could control when it was on or off the air with the cable system. At the time, the college was awarded the largest single federal grant to operate the PBS station, and with the studios located on the CWC campus, it opened the doors for an instructional laboratory for the college's broadcasting program. As part of its association with the college, Wyoming PBS broadcast telecourses for the college for many years, even before they were popular in the education community.

KCWC-FM

KCWC-FM (88.1 FM "Rustler Radio") is Central Wyoming College's student-run radio station, playing mainly Top 40 music. It first went on the air in 1968 with a ten-watt transmitter, which was replaced with a 1000-watt model in 1976. The station played Jazz/Adult Alternative music until for many years before switching to its current format in 2009.

Rustler Television
Rustler Television is a cable station with content created by Central Wyoming College's TV and Film students. It broadcasts on cable channel 189 in Riverton and Lander.

Academics
Central Wyoming College offers approximately forty programs, including Western American Studies; Outdoor Education; Fire Science; International Studies; and Environment, Health and Safety; which make use of the college's historic and geographic location. However, the college is probably best known for its two-year nursing program. In addition to undergraduate degrees, Central Wyoming College also offers various certifications, e.g. automotive technology, GIS, and welding. Central Wyoming College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and its nursing program is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Education in Nursing.

The college has a focus on career-technical (applied) programs specifically for students looking to immediately enter the job market, although it also has numerous academic transfer programs for students planning to continue on for bachelor and advanced degrees. Central Wyoming College has articulation agreements with schools that include the University of Wyoming (which maintains an on-campus outreach center), NOLS, Chadron State College, and the North Dakota University System. Additionally, Central Wyoming College offers non-credit professional, personal development, and community-oriented courses.

CWC has a Board of Cooperative Higher Educational Services (BOCHES) that enables prepared high school students to earn college credit through a dual and concurrent enrollment program. Also, the college has been awarded federal Gear Up, Upward Bound and Educational Talent Search grants, ensuring pre-college age students in CWC's service area have more opportunities for higher education.

Notable alumni
 Liz Bangerter – Montana State Representative, District 80
 Jack Bradford – actor and theatre director
 Hayden Dalton (born 1996) - basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 Patrick Goggles – former Wyoming State Representative, District 33
 Martin T. Rucker – former Missouri State Representative, District 29

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Bionic Commando Rearmed is an enhanced remake of the 1988 Nintendo Entertainment System version of Bionic Commando.  It was developed by Grin and published by Capcom for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade, and was released in August 2008. The BlackBerry version was developed and published by Beeline Interactive and released on April 23, 2009. The remake serves as a prelude to the 2009 video game Bionic Commando.

Rearmed follows Nathan "Rad" Spencer, a commando with a bionic left arm that can extend and be used as a weapon, or to swing from various objects.  Spencer is sent to destroy a weapon known as the Albatross project under construction by the Badds.  The game was developed using Grin's Diesel engine and features in-game art by Shinkiro.  Music for the game was composed by Simon Viklund and consists largely of remixed versions of the original music.  The soundtrack was released on May 27, 2008 by Sumthing Else Music Works.

Rearmed was well-received by critics, who praised the updated gameplay, graphics and faithfulness to the original, with some calling it one of the best downloadable games available on the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. A sequel, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, was released in February 2011.

Synopsis

Bionic Commando Rearmed borrows its plot largely from the NES version of the game. In keeping with the North American release of that version, the references to the Nazi party found in the original Japanese title are not featured in Rearmed. However, as is the case in the original, the final boss of the game resembles Adolf Hitler, and is referred to as "The Leader".

Rearmed centers around two warring factions: the Federation and the Empire. It begins with the Imperial forces discovering classified documents regarding the development of a secret weapon known as the Albatross project, originally started by an organization known as the Badds, but never completed. Killt, Generalissimo of the Empire's forces, decides to complete the project himself. When the Federation learns of the Empire's plot, they send in their national hero, Super Joe to infiltrate the Empire. During his mission, Joe is captured by Imperial forces. The Federation sends in a second operative named Nathan Spencer to rescue Super Joe and assist him in completing his mission.

Spencer traverses several areas, eliminating many Imperial leaders along his way.  As he progresses, he finds new technology and travels deeper behind enemy lines.  The plot culminates as Super Joe is rescued from the bionic Imperial soldier Gottfried Groeder, and both Spencer and Joe set out to destroy the Albatross project.  During the mission, Spencer encounters "The Leader", the resurrected head of the Imperial forces.  Spencer defeats The Leader, and together with Super Joe destroys the Albatross.  The game ends with both heroes hanging onto a helicopter, flying off as the Albatross explodes.

Gameplay
In Bionic Commando Rearmed, the player controls Nathan Spencer, a soldier who has been given a bionic arm.  The arm is equipped with several features including a grappling hook which can be used to reach distant objects. The player uses Spencer's bionic arm to swing across gaps or climb to higher ledges. Often, the player must make a series of grappling actions in a row to successfully traverse hazards such as a wide gap or an electrified floor.

Spencer earns a variety of weaponry and items by defeating level bosses. Some items and weapons must be acquired before certain areas can be entered: for example, the player must locate flares that can then be used to illuminate dark areas. Levels are presented to the player as an overworld-style tactical map showing friendly and enemy areas. The player controls a helicopter to move between areas, and can then select to infiltrate that area on foot. While in the overworld view, enemy convoys will also move between areas. If the player's helicopter encounters a convoy, the player must fight through it on foot and destroy the enemy anti-air truck before the helicopter can proceed.  Such levels are presented from a  perspective.

While Bionic Commando Rearmed remains mostly true to its NES counterpart, a number of gameplay enhancements were made.  A health bar replaces the game's original health system of a limited health pool which grows after collecting bullets from defeated foes.  Players collect health items from enemies to restore health, as opposed to the original system which involved earning more hit points. Defeating enemies with full health now awards players extra points, encouraging players to avoid being hit in order to obtain high scores. Players can extend Spencer's bionic arm to grab oil barrels and throw them at enemies, or use them as temporary shields. Weapons can now be changed instantly during gameplay, as opposed to being limited to one weapon per mission.  Boss battles have also been redesigned. Each battle now makes unique use of Spencer's weaponry and bionic arm.  In one example, the player must latch the arm to a screw on the boss character's vehicle, then pull back to expose a weak point in the armor.  Additionally, the final boss battle has been extended to a complete level as opposed to the ending sequence of one. Hacking into enemy communications now involves navigating a three-dimensional puzzle as opposed to simply choosing to hack.  New to the remake are Challenge rooms which involve using the bionic arm to traverse a course as quickly as possible.  Force feedback has been implemented when using the bionic arm, firing weapons, and other events.

Multiplayer
Rearmeds campaign can be played locally with another player. Although the overall gameplay is identical, enemy AI adapts difficulty to accommodate the extra player. Character lives are shared between players, meaning that each player life lost hurts both players.  Once all extra lives are depleted and a player dies, the AI reverts to its single player configuration for the remaining player until that player completes the level or an extra life is found. Additionally the cooperative campaign is saved separately from the solo campaign, meaning that weapons, equipment, and powerups do not carry over from one campaign into the other. During play, the game's camera will zoom in and out to accommodate both players, and will split the screen dynamically should the camera not be able to zoom any further. Competitive multiplayer modes have also been added, and can be played locally.  Game modes include the standard versus and last man standing modes, and Don't Touch the Floor, in which characters attempt to knock other players to a hazard at the bottom of the level for points.

Development and marketing
Bionic Commando Rearmed developer Grin made it a priority to preserve as much of the original gameplay and visual stylings as possible.  Screenshots were taken as a reference, with designers keeping the same color schemes when creating the 3D worlds. Programmers had to reverse engineer the original gameplay to accurately reproduce it. They had to "measure how fast the arm goes out, how fast you swing back and forth, how fast you run across the ground, at what speed you fall down and everything," said Simon Viklund, Creative Director for the game.  The level editor was integrated in the engine, which allowed developers to view creations in real time. Lead Gameplay Programmer Håkan Rasmussen expanded on this concept, stating "Since BCR is built on the same engine as the next-gen BC we can also reuse the editor [which] lowers the time before we can start using levels."

Developers found that adjusting the original gameplay to a 3D engine required dismissal of conventional physics. For example, the player cannot walk past a barrel placed in their way, however they are able to swing through the object. "The swing mechanic [is] based on the original [and so is] totally physically incorrect," noted Gameplay Programmer Bertil Hörberg.  Hörberg stated that the character always swings at the same speed and releases at the same angle regardless of player input.  Weapons were also redesigned, with each weapon being rebalanced. "In the original [players get] the rocket launcher and [use it] for the rest of the game" stated Viklund.  All of the weapons were redesigned to be useful in some form, and can now all be taken into combat, whereas previously only one weapon could be selected per area.  Boss characters received not only a visual redesign, but the fights were redesigned as well to make use of Spencer's bionic abilities and weaponry.  Viklund noted players "need to use the arm to beat the boss".

Challenge rooms were born of a desire to enhance the game's neutral zones. "The neutral zones in the original game weren't that interesting, so I starting thinking we could add an obstacle course in each one", Viklund said. "The bionic arm is such an unconventional mechanic that we really wanted to explore everything that it could offer", added Level Designer Viktor Viklund. Viktor Viklund cited inspiration from several NES games, including Solomon's Key, Wrecking Crew, and Ice Climber, adding that the concept was "very basic, very short stages." The game's soundtrack consists of remix versions of the original NES tracks, arranged by Simon Viklund.  He described the arrangements as "the same melodies and harmonies but with a more modern sound."

In redesigning the game's protagonist, Nathan Spencer, Grin cited the characters Iceman from the movie Top Gun and Marty McFly from the Back to the Future series as visual influences in the update. For the character Super Joe, designers looked to the cowboys of the American Old West, citing actor Sam Elliott as an additional source of inspiration.  3D artists noticed early in development that due to the far distance of the camera, certain details in textures would not be noticeable. "We had to think 'less detail and more color [and] bigger shapes,'" stated 3D Artists Wendy Young and Peter Stråhle. All of the 2D character art was designed by Shinkiro, an illustrator and conceptual artist, famous for his work with the Art of Fighting and The King of Fighters series.

Bionic Commando Rearmed - The Soundtrack is the soundtrack of video game music from Bionic Commando Rearmed. It was released on May 27, 2008 by Sumthing Else Music Works. The music was composed by Simon Viklund, who later provided the arranged soundtrack for Final Fight: Double Impact. The music is largely remixed from the original game. Viklund took the original tracks written by Junko Tamiya and rearranged them in Buzz, a freeware virtual studio program. A Japanese trailer for the game was revealed at San Diego Comic-con 2008, done in the style of an anime opening with a theme song sung by Ichirou Mizuki, titled "Go Go Bionic".

On February 19, 2008 the official Bionic Commando website ran a poll asking gamers to decide between two possible prices for Rearmed —ten or fifteen dollars. Producer Ben Judd stated, "Personally, since the goal is to make this game for the fans and to get the world to see what makes Bionic Commando so special, I want to sell it for about US$10." However, more senior Capcom employees believed that the game had enough features and polish to sell well enough at US15 to warrant that price. Final pricing was settled on US10 for the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network versions, and US15 for the Windows version. The PlayStation 3 version supports Remote Play on PlayStation Portable and trophies.

Sales
Rearmed sold over 130,000 copies across all three platforms during the first week of its release. As of year-end 2010, Bionic Commando Rearmed has sold over 113,000 copies on Xbox Live alone. That number rose to over 119,000 at year-end 2011.

Reception

Bionic Commando Rearmed received "generally favorable reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

In an October 2011 ranking, IGN listed Bionic Commando Rearmed fourth in their top twenty-five Xbox Live Arcade titles of all time. Overall impressions of the game gleaned comments of praise. IGN's Hilary Goldstein called Rearmed "the best downloadable game to date on XBLA and PSN", and Cam Shea ranked it second on his top 10 list of Xbox Live Arcade games. Jeff Gerstmann of Giant Bomb called it "terrific in almost every way" and the reviewer from GameTrailers stated it was "one of those games that feels organic to play." Reviewers praised the title's ability to remain true to the NES version but provide enhancements to update the title.

The game's graphics received high marks from reviews. Goldstein described as "gorgeous" and added that Rearmed is "one of the prettiest downloadable games ever made." Gerstmann also lauded the visuals and praised the color palette, backgrounds and lighting.  He further noted the game's ability to remain loyal to the original visual presentation. "[It] makes enough visual references to the old game to trigger that feeling of nostalgia, but it never uses the old stuff as a crutch," stated Gerstmann.  Similar praise was given in respect to the game's soundtrack, with 1UP.coms Jeremy Parish calling it "exceptional" and "a mix good enough to enjoy outside the context of the game". Stephen Woodward of GameZone also gave praise for the remixed music in the Xbox 360 version. He called it "simultaneously retro and hip."

Reviewers were split on opinions of the game's AI, with IGN's Goldstein describing it as "the best seen in a side-scrolling game", but Tom McShea of GameSpot saying the enemies were "simply too limited to pose much of a threat". Multiple reviewers were disappointed in the game controls, citing the lack of updating to analog features and remaining too true to the original. Rearmeds multiplayer received generally high acclaim, with McShea calling it "an unexpected treat". Both the game's cooperative and competitive modes were lauded; however, some critics cited a lack of online functionality. Parish also praised the game's challenge maps and in-game database, stating "Rearmed is a game that could easily sell for full retail price and seem like a good deal."

Sequel

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 was revealed at Capcom's Captivate 2010 event. It was developed by Fatshark and released on the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network and the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade on February 1, 2011 and February 2, 2011, respectively. The game adds new weapons and abilities, including the optional ability to jump, a maneuver absent in previous 2D titles. The sequel's plot revolves around a dictator named General Sabio and a missing commander from Spencer's organization, Colonel Brubaker. Spencer and a team of four other bionics are sent to locate Brubaker and his platoon and help them complete their mission of disarming Sabio's missiles. Rearmed 2 was not as well received as the original game. The PlayStation 3 version of the game was criticized for its DRM requirement to be signed into the PlayStation Network in order to play the game.

References

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The 1994 National Hockey League All-Star Game was held in Madison Square Garden in New York City, home of the New York Rangers, on January 22, 1994.

It was the 45th All-Star Game held in NHL history and the first to be rebranded under the year the game was held rather than the edition title.

Super Skills Competition
The Western Conference would win the Skills Competition for the second straight season.  In the individual events Al Iafrate won the Hardest Shot event for the second straight season, while both John Vanbiesbrouck and Patrick Roy would share the Goaltenders Competition victory. In addition, the Puck Control Relay event would be introduced as part of the individual competition with its first winner being Russ Courtnall.

Individual Event winners
 Puck Control Relay – Russ Courtnall (Dallas Stars)
 Fastest Skater – Sergei Fedorov (Detroit Red Wings) – 13.525 seconds
 Accuracy Shooting - Brendan Shanahan (St. Louis Blues) – 4 hits, 5 shots
 Hardest Shot – Al Iafrate (Washington Capitals) – 102.7 mph
 Goaltenders Competition – John Vanbiesbrouck (Florida Panthers)/Patrick Roy (Montreal Canadiens) – 4 GA, 16 shots

The game
A capacity crowd saw Ottawa Senators' rookie Alexei Yashin score with 3:42 left in the third period, to give the Eastern Conference a 9–8 victory. The Western Conference were leading 8–6 in the third period, until Quebec Nordiques' centre Joe Sakic scored his first All-Star Game goal to cut the lead to 8–7. Florida Panthers' centre Bob Kudelski then scored with 6:01 left to tie the game at 8–8, before Yashin would score the eventual game-winner. New York Rangers' goaltender Mike Richter was named All-Star MVP after he saved 19 of 21 shots in the second period, including three saves on breakaways by sniper Pavel Bure. Kudelski was added onto the Eastern Conference lineup due to injuries to Mario Lemieux, who along with Ed Belfour were the highest-profile players among the several players on the rosters who were unable to play due to injury. (Curtis Joseph was the only injured player who played in this game.)

Other first time All-Stars in New York included all three Western Conference goaltenders—the Toronto Maple Leafs' Felix Potvin (who started in place of Ed Belfour), the San Jose Sharks' Arturs Irbe and the Blues' Curtis Joseph (the game's losing goaltender, who gave up the winning goal in the third period). This was the most recent All-Star Game in which the head coaches were also the head coaches of the defending conference champions (Barry Melrose was the Western Conference's head coach and Jacques Demers was the Eastern Conference's head coach).

Uniforms
The 1994 All-Star Game saw the most radical departure from All-Star uniform design since the star-laden 1982 All-Star Game uniforms. The NHL retired the use of its league colors of black and orange, and had the uniforms designed based on the new Eastern and Western Conference logos. Both uniforms featured a giant star-based pattern across the entirety of the uniform, utilizing a dye-sublimation process that had been piloted in the National Basketball Association. The Eastern team's jersey featured a teal star pattern over a white base, while the Western team wore purple over a black base. Silver trim (along with the reverse of the base color) separated the star pattern from the base. The respective conference logos appeared on the front, replacing the NHL shield.

The NHL All-Star shield, an orange version of the NHL logo with five black sticks forming the outline of a white star, had been worn on the left shoulder of the uniform since 1983. The patch was retired for this game, replaced with a patch featuring each player's individual team logo.

This uniform design would continue to be used through the 1997 All-Star Game, with one minor change - the names and sleeve numbers on the Eastern jerseys would be changed from black to white. These uniforms would also provide the inspiration for the Dallas Stars to redesign their uniforms later in the decade, introducing their green version as a third jersey in 1997 and adding a white version in 1999.

Summary

Referee: Bill McCreary
Linesmen: Gord Broseker, Pat Dapuzzo
Television: NBC, CBC

Rosters

National Anthem
The American national anthem was sung by Taylor Dayne.

Notes

See also
1993–94 NHL season

All-Star Game
National Hockey League All-Star Game
1990s in Manhattan
National Hockey League All-Star Game
Madison Square Garden
National Hockey League All-Star Games
Sports in Manhattan
Ice hockey competitions in New York City


Christos Christoforidis (; born 31 December 1981) is a Swedish former professional footballer of Greek descent, who played as a forward.

Club career
Christoforidis started his football career at the local IF Sylvia in 2000 and played with them for two seasons. In 2002 he was transferred to Assyriska FF, where he played for three seasons. In July 2004 he was injured and underwent surgery on his adductors and missed the rest of the Swedish championship which ended in October. In January 2005 and after eight months of absence from competitive action he moved to Greece to be tested by the then coach of AEK Athens, Fernando Santos. He left a good impression resulting in him signing a 1+3 year contract with the club.

With AEK, he played in one league match as a starter against Kerkyra and one cup match coming on as a substitute against Panathinaikos. His many months of abstinence resulted Christoforidis not being able to adapt to the team and thus in the summer of the same year left the club. The following two seasons he played at Apollon Kalamarias and Messiniakos, before returning to Sweden in 2007 to play for GAIS.

In 2008 he was loaned  to Syrianska FC, before joining them with a permanent transfer in 2009. In 2010 he joined FK Linköping for a season before moving to Assyriska IF where he played until 2016 when he ended his football career.

References

External links

 (archive)

1981 births
Living people
IF Sylvia players
Assyriska FF players
AEK Athens F.C. players
Apollon Pontou F.C. players
Messiniakos players
GAIS players
Syrianska FC players
Super League Greece players
Swedish men's footballers
Swedish people of Greek descent
Footballers from Norrköping
Men's association football forwards


Liliana Rezende de Castro (born 29 June 1979) is an Ecuadorian-born Brazilian actress.

Life
Castro was born in Quito, the capital of Ecuador where her father was a diplomat. Her family also lived in Italy and Venezuela, before relocating to Brazil. She began acting at ten years old, and graduated in theatre. Her first professional acting role came in 1999 in the play As Fúrias. Currently, she is also a teaching assistant at Socratica, a non-profit teaching organisation.

Filmography
 2008: Pseudociese – Teresa
 2007: Podecrer! – Silvinha
 2006: O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias – Irene
 2006: Una Vida Sin Sorpresas – Marina

TV work
 2017: PSI – Maria Clara (HBO)
 2014: Só Garotas – Olivia (Multishow)
 2012: Fora de Controle – Virgínia	(Rede Record)
 2010:	Ribeirão do Tempo – Filomena Miranda Durrel (Rede Record)
 2008: Os Mutantes - Caminhos do Coração – Janete (Rede Record)
 2007: Mandrake – Marcinha (HBO)
 2007: Caminhos do Coração – Janete Mendes Martinelli (Rede Record)
 2005: Alma Gêmea – Luna (Rede Globo)
 2004: Da Cor do Pecado – Olívia (Rede Globo)
 2002: Sabor da Paixão – Laiza (Rede Globo)
 2002: Ilha Rá-Tim-Bum – Polca (TV Cultura)
 1999: Força de um Desejo – Ana (cameo) (Rede Globo)

Theatre work
 2007: Por Uma Vida Um Pouco Menos Ordinária – Natália
 2006: Não Existem Níveis Seguros Para Consumo Destas Substâncias – Beatriz
 2006: Toda Nudez Será Castigada – Geni
 2005: Tudo É Permitido – Nina
 2003: Casca de Nóz – Pberbit
 2000: Sob o Sol Em Meu Leito Após a Água – Alícia
 1999/2005: Alice Através do Espelho – Alice
 1999: As Fúrias – Altea

References

External links
Liliana De Castro at the Internet Movie Database

1979 births
Brazilian expatriates in the United States
Brazilian film actresses
Brazilian people of Argentine descent
Brazilian telenovela actresses
Living people
People from Quito
Brazilian stage actresses


The Serie B 1952–53 was the twenty-first tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.

Teams
Cagliari had been promoted from Serie C, while Lucchese, Padova and Legnano had been relegated from Serie A.

Events
Relegations were reduced to two teams.

Final classification

Results

Promotion tie-breaker
Played in Florence on July 28

Legnano promoted to Serie A.

See also
 Bruno Ruzza

References and sources
Almanacco Illustrato del Calcio - La Storia 1898-2004, Panini Edizioni, Modena, September 2005

Serie B seasons
2
Italy


Father Rufino Niccacci, O.F.M. (1911–1976) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest, born in Deruta, who shielded persecuted Jews during the Holocaust.

World War II
In September 1943, Niccacci was the Father Guardian of the Franciscan Monastery of San Damiano in Assisi.  At the direction of Bishop Giuseppe Placido Nicolini and Aldo Brunacci, secretary to the bishop and chairman of the Committee to Aid Refugees, Fr. Niccacci provided Jews with false identities and gave them sanctuary in monasteries and convents.

After the war, Niccacci established a small settlement for destitute Christian and Jewish families in Montenero, outside of Assisi, and served as a parish priest in his home town of Deruta, Umbria.

Legacy
In April 1974, Yad Vashem in Israel named him as one of the Righteous among Nations.

On April 11, 1983, President Ronald Reagan, in remarks to the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, said:
The picturesque town of Assisi, Italy, sheltered and protected 300 Jews. Father Rufino Niccacci organized the effort, hiding people in his monastery and in the homes of parishioners. A slip of the tongue by a single informant could have condemned the entire village to the camps, yet they did not yield.

Niccacci's home town of Deruta has named a street Via Padre Rufino Niccacci in his honor.

Niccacci was a subject and the narrator of The Assisi Underground, a book written in 1978 by Alexander Ramati about Assisi's efforts to save Jewish refugees.  In 1985, the book was made into a movie of the same title.  More recently, the story of the Assisi underground is the subject of an Italian novel, La società delle mandorle: Come Assisi salvò i suoi ebrei (2007) by Mirti Paolo.

References

Further reading
 Samuel Oliner, Do Unto Others: Extraordinary Acts of Ordinary People, 2003, Westview Press, , at pp. 238–39.
Susan Zuccotti, The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival, 1996, University of Nebraska Press, , at pp. 214–15.

See also
 List of individuals and groups assisting Jews during the Holocaust

Italian Friars Minor
1911 births
1977 deaths
Italian Righteous Among the Nations
Catholic Righteous Among the Nations
Italian people of World War II
People from Deruta
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests


WWWH (1230 AM) was a 1,000-watt radio station licensed to serve the community of Haleyville, Alabama, United States. The station, established in 1949 as "WJBB", was owned by AMS Radio, LLC.

Programming
WWWH originally broadcast a news/talk radio format to the Winston, Marion and Franklin County, Alabama area. Weekday "NewsTalk 1230" programming included "3WH Mornings" with a mix of news and information, business news from the MarketWatch radio network, plus talk shows hosted by Dennis Miller, Michael Smerconish, and Jim Bohannon. The station flipped from full-service Southern Gospel to news/talk on January 1, 2012.

History
This station was assigned call sign "WJBB" in 1949 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and began operating with just 250 watts of power. From 1951 though November 2011, the station was owned by the Slatton family. John Lewis Slatton was the president of The Haleyville Broadcasting Company, Inc., and general manager of WJBB (1230 AM) and its sister station WJBB-FM (92.7) until his death in 2008. In 1986, Slatton was named ABA Broadcaster of the Year by the Alabama Broadcasters Association for his work with WJBB-AM/FM. Slatton's son, Terry Slatton, managed the station in later years.

In October 2011, The Haleyville Broadcasting Company, Inc., reached an agreement to transfer the broadcast licenses for WJBB and WJBB-FM to AMS Radio, LLC, for a combined price of $90,000. The new company was owned by Timothy and Emily A. Smyder of Marietta, Georgia. The FCC approved the deal on November 29, 2011, and formal consummation of the transaction took place the next day. The new owners had the stations' call signs changed to WWWH and WWWH-FM, respectively, on December 7, 2011.

Through December 31, 2011, this station aired a full service "Good News Radio" format branded as "The Light". This included Southern Gospel music, live and local disc jockeys, plus local news, farm reports, community bulletins, political coverage, and other northwest Alabama happenings and events. The station aired Haleyville High School varsity football plus varsity boys and girls basketball live. The station was an affiliate of the University of Alabama college sports network.

On February 1, 2015, WWWH went silent. On July 27, 2015, WWWH turned in its license to the FCC; the FCC cancelled the license and deleted the WWWH call sign on August 4, 2015.

References

External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWWWH (Facility ID: 25850)
FCC History Cards for WWWH (covering 1948-1980 as WJBB)

WWH
Radio stations established in 1949
1949 establishments in Alabama
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Alabama
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Le Poisson doré (The Golden Fish) (ru: Золотая рыбка; a.k.a. Zolotaia Ribka) is a "fantastic ballet" in 4 acts/6 scenes with prologue and epilogue. The choreography was by Arthur Saint-Léon, and the music by Ludwig Minkus.

History
Chief ballet-master of the St. Petersburg Imperial troupe Arthur Saint-Léon created in 1864 ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse, which was a huge success. It was the first ballet on the Russian theme and the choreographer decided to continue to develop this theme.

The scenario of this ballet was derived from Alexander Pushkin's 1835 poem The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish.
Saint-Léon wrote the libretto and made great changes: Pushkin’s heroes had not names – choreographer named them Galia and Taras; the characters of Pushkin lived on the shore of the sea - choreographer settled them in the Ukrainian village near the river Dnepr; in the Pushkin tale there were only two characters and the Golden Fish – choreographer gave them neighbours, etc.

The ballet was first presented (only Act I) by the Hermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg on November 20/December 2 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1866. Praskovya Lebedeva performed the lead role Galia.

As chief choreographer of the Imperial ballet, Arthur Saint-Léon traveled from time to time to France and staged ballets at the Paris Opera. In 1866, he prepared for Paris the ballet La source. He invited Guglielmina Salvioni to dance the role of Naïla. The first production opened at the Théâtre Impérial de l´Opéra in Paris on 12 November 1866. Guglielmina Salvioni was such a success that the Paris theater critics praised her. Arthur Saint-Léon decided to continue working with her and invited her to Russia. She left for Russia in 1867. At this time Arthur Saint-Léon finished the ballet Le Poisson doré. Praskovya Lebedeva retired and Guglielmina Salvioni replaced her in the title role.

The complete work was then presented by the Imperial Ballet on October 8–20, 1867 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal dancers at the première were Guglielmina Salvioni (as Galia) and Timofei Stukolkin (as Taras). In other roles: Clavdya Kantzyreva as the Golden Fish, Lev Ivanov as Petro, Nikolay Troitskiy as Jester, Pavel Gerdt as Fisherman.

Social life in Russia
In these years, Russia's democratic movement grew. Representatives of the aristocracy occupied all the main important posts, but already a new class of Raznochintsy had arisen and were clamoring for the arts. Choreographer Saint-Léon's ballet Le Poisson doré glorified imperial power, which is understandable, since his work with the Imperial troupe was how he earned his living.

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin ridiculed this ballet in his article: "I love ballet for its constancy. New governments are created; new people appear in the picture; new facts are being born; the whole structure of life is changing; science and arts are watching these events with anxious attention, as they supplement and sometimes alter their very content - only ballet hears nothing and knows nothing <...> But never before was the one-dimensional thinking of ballet and its conservative beginnings so brightly expressed, as in the ballet "Le Poisson Doré", staged last year at the Bolshoi theater of St Petersburg".

After Guglielmina Salvioni
After Guglielmina Salvioni the Russian dancers played the role of Galia: Alexandra Kemmerer, Ekaterina Vazem, Vera Liadova (the first wife of Lev Ivanov), but success with the audience not used them and ballet Le Poisson doré was dropped from the repertoire several months later.

A new version
In 1903 A. A. Gorsky made a new version of the ballet at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. He wrote a new libretto, deleted the names, complemented the music of Ludwig Minkus by music of other composers: Alexander Serov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Léo Delibes, Johannes Brahms. Ballet of the 3 acts became 4.

Performers: Nikolay Domashov as Old Man, Sofia Fedorova as Old Woman, Enrichetta Grimaldi as the Golden Fish. A small role of butterfly was performed by the 11-year-old future prominent choreographer Kasyan Goleizovsky.

Ballet in this version was several years. There was not more productions.

References

Ballets based on works by Alexander Pushkin
Ballets based on fairy tales
Ballets by Arthur Saint-Léon
Ballets by Ludwig Minkus
1866 ballet premieres
Ballets premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg


Nothing but a Good Time! Unauthorized is a documentary film centered around U.S. hard rock/glam metal band Poison that was released in 2003 following the distribution of the band's studio album Hollyweird. Taking its title from the 1988 Poison single "Nothin' But a Good Time", it features interviews with related musicians such as Bret Michaels and C.C. DeVille

Despite the subject material covered, the movie includes neither live performances from the band nor any musical pieces from their studio releases. It was developed without the creative control of Poison members.

Alternate versions
Rock Legends is the import version, the same DVD with a different cover and title.

In 2006 the DVD was re-released under the title Stand on the Road with a new cover (a Crack a Smile album photo, despite no material from Crack a Smile featuring on the video), and Poison music videos were included this time.

In 2009 the DVD was re-released yet again under a new cover and title: Poison: Rock Power.

Track listing
 Every Rose Has Its Thorn
 Unskinny Bop
 I Won't Forget You
 Stand
 Your Mama Don't Dance
 Ride the Wind - start + end credits

Band members
 Bret Michaels - lead vocals
 Bobby Dall - bass guitar
 Rikki Rockett - drums
 C.C. DeVille - lead guitar
 Richie Kotzen - lead guitar (Video 4)

References

External links
Poison - Official Website

2003 video albums
Poison (American band) video albums


LeShundra "DeDee" Nathan (born April 20, 1968, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a retired heptathlete from the United States, who won the gold medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. She is a two-time U.S. champion (2000 and 2001) and the 1999 World Indoor pentathlon gold medalist. She attended high school at South Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana and later on graduated from Indiana University.

She was the winner of the 1999 Hypo-Meeting, but placed only twelfth the following year.

International competitions

Personal bests
200 metres - 24.11
800 metres - 2:16.01
100 metres hurdles - 13.10
High jump - 1.81
Long jump - 6.59
Shot put - 16.06
Javelin throw - 50.08
Heptathlon - 6577

External links

 USATF Profile

1968 births
Living people
American heptathletes
Sportspeople from Fort Wayne, Indiana
Track and field athletes from Birmingham, Alabama
Track and field athletes from Indiana
African-American female track and field athletes
Olympic track and field athletes for the United States
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 Pan American Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States
Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games
Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
20th-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people


Bráulio Mantovani (born July 1963 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian screenwriter and author.

Graduating in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, he began his career writing professionally for theatre groups in 1987. Before becoming a writer, Mantovani was an amateur actor working in plays. A training he later said was crucial in helping writing characters. In the early 1990s, he moved to New York City where he worked as camera operator and assistant director for Zbigniew Rybczyński.

Back in Brazil, he wrote the script for the short film Palace II, directed by Fernando Meirelles in 2001. On the next year, the partnership extended to City of God, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

He also wrote the play "Menecma" and the book "Perácio - Relato Psicótico".

Awards and Recognitions
2003 Academy Awards — Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for City of God
2011 São Paulo Prize for Literature — Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year - Debut Author category for Perácio - Relato Psicótico

Filmography
Tropa de Elite 2 (2010)
Última Parada 174 (2008)
Linha de Passe (2008)
Tropa de Elite (2007)
O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (2006)
Nanoilusão (2005)
Cidade dos Homens (2003) (TV series)
Cidade de Deus (2002)
Palace II (2002)

References

External links

1963 births
Living people
Brazilian screenwriters


Pineapple Man is a fictional independent comic book superhero created by Sam Campos and published under the SoloGraphics imprint, formed both by himself and his (now ex) wife Genesis. The character made his debut appearance in a two-part story arc titled Pineapple Man #0: The Hunt in 1994.

Pineapple Man's secret identity is that of Isamu Pohoa, a young Hawaiian man who turned to a life of crime after graduating from high school. After falling out of favor with the crime lord Kawafuchi, Sam is shot and left for dead atop an ancient heiau dedicated to Kukailimoku, the Hawaiian god of war. Instead of dying however, Isamu metamorphosed into the frightful form of Kukailimoku, having both superhuman strength and agility. Learning to control his new-found powers, he reluctantly decides to use them for good, and dons the alter ego of Pineapple Man due to his pineapple-like appearance. The series ran four successful issues, locally outselling Batman and X-Men comics. Currently the comic is on hiatus, with no word of continuation.

Publication history

While attending Kahuku High School, Sam Campos was caught reading comics in his art class. His teacher gave him an ultimatum: create his own comic book character over the following weekend or fail the class. The end result was Pineapple Man, a character that drew upon the rich local mythology and celebrated Campos's own Hawaiian culture.

Several years later, Campos and his then wife Genesis attended a comic convention where they met Richard Dominguez, an independent creator and publisher. After having an in-depth discussion on Dominguez's own creation, El Gato Negro, the couple were inspired to create their own independent comic book. They established the SoloGraphics imprint, and working as a husband-and-wife team, revived Campos's Pineapple Man character in the two-part story arc The Hunt published in 1994.

Four successful self-titled issues appeared shortly after, including a special Christmas issue. At the peak of its run, Pineapple Man locally outsold both Batman and X-Men comics, and was distributed internationally. A fifth issue was to be published online in a web comic format but nothing has since materialized. The comic is currently on hiatus with no official word of continuation.

Campos has been called "the nexus for local [Hawaiian] comic book lovers for decades" and is the founder of the Hawaiian Comic Book Alliance.

See also
Professional Amigos of Comic Art Society

References

External links
Pineapple Man E-cards

Comics characters introduced in 1994
American comics titles


World of Black and Silver is Crystal Eyes' first album released in 1999 by Crazy Life Music. Released again in 2005 under Crystal Eyes' new label, Heavy Fidelity.

Track listing
"Interstellar War" - 4:59
"Gods of the World" - 3:55
"Winds of the Free" - 4:49
"The Power Behind the Throne" - 6:18
"The Dragon's Lair" - 4:59
"Eyes of the Forest Gloom" - 7:11
"Rage on the Sea" - 7:01
"Victims of the Frozen Hate" - 5:30
"Extreme Paranoia" - 3:31
"Glory Ride" - 5:06
"World of Black and Silver" - 5:24

Credits
 Mikael Dahl - Vocals and Guitar
 Jonathan Nyberg - Guitar
 Claes Wikander - Bass Guitar
 Kujtim Gashi - Drums

Production, recording, mixing, and mastering by Crystal Eyes and Detlef Mohrmann.

1999 albums
Crystal Eyes albums


The following is a list of compositions by the Czech composer, Otto Albert Tichy.

Chorus

Cantatas and Mass settings
Kyrie and Gloria (20) for mixed choir a capella
Nativité (43)
Narozeni Páně (Lord's born) - Christmas cantata for soli, choir, organ and orchestra
Missa in honorem Sancti Aloisii (44) for four-voice mixed choir a capella
Missa en l‘ honeur de St. Louis de Gonzague (46) for four-voice mixed choir a capella issued in Geneva
Missa in honorem Sancti Amedei (48) for four-voice male choir a capella
Cantate pour premiere messe (55) soli, mixed choir, organ
Saint Vitus (111) soli, mixed choir, organ (probably motet)
Kyrie (117) for four-voice mixed choir a capella
Missa festival in honorem Sti Alberti Magni (140) for four-voice mixed choir a capella
Missa in honorem Sti Adalberti (152) for four-voice mixed choir a capella
Missa pastoralis in honorem Jesu Infantis in Praga (166) for four-voice mixed choir and organ
Missa pastoralis in honorem Jesu Infantis in Praga (166b) orchestral version (partiture and voices)
Dětská vánoční mše (Children Christmas Mass)(171b)
festive mass for the honour and praise Jesus Christ the King
Missa brevis (201) for four-voice mixed choir a capella (separate voices)
Jezu Kriste příteli – svatý Jene Křtiteli (204) (Jesus Christ the friend - Saint John the Baptist) for four-voice mixed choir and organ
Missa de quadragessime (Mše in C) (222) for three to four voice mixed choir a capella
Missa without Credo
Missa in honorem Beatae Mariae Virginae in coelum Assumptae (225) in the archive of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague

Songs – Czech mass ordinarium (259)
festival liturgie in Czech
Gloria in excelsis Deo (289)
Christmas cantata, pastoral mass for soli, choir, organ and orchestra on the words of F. Rejl
To the Czech country (314), cantata with two melodramas
Smíšené sbory, Chant de jeunesse catolique for mixed choir with piano
Svatý Václave (Saint Wencslas)(28) for tenor, bass, choir and piano (organ) adaptation of chant from the 13th century

1922
Ave Maria (33b)

fis moll

for four-voices mixed choir a capella

Tu es Petrus (35)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Sub tuum praesidium (36)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Tantum ergo a Postula a me (52)

dva čtyřhlasé smíšené sbory s doprovodem varhan

A Notre-Dame du Chene (54)

chvalozpěv pro sóla, smíšený sbor a varhany

De profundis (56)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Tu es Petrus (61)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Jubilate Deo (64)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

vyšla v Praporci roku 1950

Petit Antoine est mort (65)

píseň pro sóla, sbor a klavír

Tu es Petrus (66)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

O quam suavis (66)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

L‘hymne a Céphas (67)

pro dvě sóla a čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Pange lingua (68)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Perfice gressus meos (72)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

L‘Orayson a Nostre Dame (82)

Modlitba k Panně Marii

pro sóla, smíšený sbor a varhany

La Nuit: Rondeau (90)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Ave Maria (93)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Ave Maria (93)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

La paix soit avec vous (94)

Pokoj buď s Vámi

pro sóla, smíšený sbor a varhany

Tantum ergo sacramentum (96)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Tantum ergo sacramentum (96)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Sacerdos et Pontifex (98)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor

Benedicite gentes (107)

pro tenor sólo, sbor a varhany

Gloria et honore (112)

Offertorium in festo Sti Venceslai

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Salut – IV. Tantum ergo (113)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Tui sunt coeli (114)

moteto na Hod Boží vánoční pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Vy pastýřové stávéte (115)

hanácká koleda – úprava pro sedmihlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Tři Králové (116)

podle staré francouzské koledy pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor

Ave, anima piisima! (121)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

1936

Zdrávas, Hvězdo mořská (109)

pro sbor unisono a varhany

Přivedeny budou (128)

moteto pro tři ženské hlasy a capella

1939

K blahoslavené Zdislavě (125)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Beatus vir (129)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Confirma hoc, Deus (130)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a žesťový kvintet

Radostně již z duše celé... (133b)

úprava vánoční mešní písně pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor, malý orchestr a varhany

Ecce sacerdos magnus (137)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Sicut in holocaustis (138)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Ecce sacerdos magnus (141)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Vesel se nebes Královno (147)

antifona pro dobu velikonoční pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

1940/41

Povzdech k sv. Vojtěchu (154)

sborová píseň pro ženský sbor ze „Tří dvouhlasých sborů“

1944

Male choirs
Joyeux Noël (70)

harmonizace písně ze 16. stol. úprava pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor

Noëls anciens (70b)

Tři starodávné koledy

pro mužský sbor

vydala Schola Cantorum Paříž

Berceuse (76)

Ukolébavka

pro sóla, sbor a harmonium

Sortie de messe (86)

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Ave Maria (87)

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Deux „Tantum ergo“ (88)

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Lamento (89)

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Deux motifs moraves (91)

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

La haut l‘astre a relui a Moi je reste vieux garcon (92)

Tam nahoře zazářila hvězda a Já zůstávám starým chlapcem

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Ave Maria (99)

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Da Pacem Domine (101)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Hi sunt ante thronum Dei (102)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

O quam suavis (104)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Všecka jsi krásná, ó, Maria (110)

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Tantum ergo (122)

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Haec dies, quam fecit Dominus (173)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Laudete dominum (175b)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

5× Tantum ergo (214)

Tříkrálové Tantum ergo – pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella Tantum ergo k Panně Marii Andělské – pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella Tantum dorické (Lento) – pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella Tantum ergo (Moderato) – pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella Tantum ergo (Lento) – pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Svatováclavský chorál a fuga (246)

pro mužský a dětský sbor a varhany

Spi, mé Dítě zlaté (291)

úprava pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella ukolébavka z Vánoční kantáty slova F. Rejl

Tvé oči (309)

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella slova F. Rejl

Maria, veď nás (311)

pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Female, children and unisono choirs
Pod ochranu Tvou se utíkáme (108)

pro sbor unisono a varhany

1946

Confirma hoc, Deus (148)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Confirma hoc, Deus (148)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Prosba k sv. Vojtěchu (155)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella ze druhého sborníku mužských sborů

Chorál ženců (156)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella na slova P. Kleta

Improperium a Píseň k sv. Josefu (160)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Šest vánočních písní (171)

pět písní pro sólo a varhany, šestá píseň pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Tui sunt caeli (198)

Offertorium ad III. Missam in Nativitate Domini

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a varhany

Panis angelicus (203)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

5× Tantum ergo (214)

Tříkrálové Tantum ergo – pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella Tantum ergo k Panně Marii Andělské – pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella Tantum dorické (Lento) – pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella Tantum ergo (Moderato) – pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella Tantum ergo (Lento) – pro čtyřhlasý mužský sbor a capella

Dextera Domini fecit virtutem (215)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

I. a II. Tantum ergo (217)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Ad te Domine, levavi (227)

Offertorium I. neděle adventní

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Continuo hoc Deus (228)

Offertorium na Boží Hod svatodušní

moteto pro smíšený sbor, žesťový kvintet a varhany

Benedixisti Domine, Terrem tuam (229)

Offertorium na III. adventní neděli

pro smíšený sbor a varhany

Deus, tu convertus (230)

Offertorium na II. adventní neděli

moteto pro smíšený sbor a varhany

Dominabitur a mari in C dur (231a)

Graduale in festo DNJCh Regis

pro smíšený sbor

Dominabitur a mari in fis moll (231b)

Graduale in festo DNJCh Regis

pro smíšený sbor

Exaltate eum (232)

Offertorium pro Missa pro eligendo S. Pontifice

moteto pro smíšený sbor

Lauda anima (233)

Dominica post Pascha

pro smíšený sbor

Non duplices sermonem (234)

pro smíšený sbor a varhany

Precatus est Moyzes (235)

Offertorium XII. neděle post Fent.

pro smíšený sbor a varhany

Sbory k Božímu tělu (236)

Ego sum panis vivus Caro mea O quam suavis O sacrum convivium

pro smíšený sbor

Terra tremuit (237)

pro smíšený sbor

Hospodine, pomiluj ny (238a)

pro smíšený sbor

Zdrávas královno (238b)

pro smíšený sbor

Svatý Václave (238c)

pro smíšený sbor

Tui sunt caeli (239)

F dur

pro smíšený sbor

Ad festum nostri Celsissimi Domini Archiepiscopi Joseph Beran (242)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Angelis suis mandavit dete (274)

moteto pro smíšený sbor a capella

Non participentur sancta (278)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Invokace (280)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Čtyři chvály Krista (294)

pro sóla, smíšený sbor a varhany slova F. Rejl

Tys věčný Král a Bůh náš (296)

pro sóla, smíšený sbor a varhany slova F. Rejl

Pozdravy rodné zemi (303)

I. Pod Zvičinou – sólo zpěv a klavír II. Domov – sólo zpěv a klavír III. Balada o jabloňovém květu – sóla, smíšený sbor a klavír

1947

Decet huius cunctis horis (161)

pro sbor unisono a varhany

Tři vánoční písně (324)

pro ženský dvouhlas

vyšlo v Praporci roku 1949

Entre le boef et l‘ane gris

ženský sbor

1972

Deus firmavit orbem terrae (304)

moteto pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Trois chansones tchécoslovaques (307)

harmonizace pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Trois chansones de soldates tchécoslovaques (308)

harmonizace pro smíšený sbor a capella

Regarde-nous d‘en-haut, Notre Mere (317)

pro čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Shlédni na nás, Matko naše (317)

čtyřhlasý smíšený sbor a capella

Večerní modlitba (326)

pro čtyřhlasý sbor

Tichy, Otto Albert


WJDB (630 AM) was an American radio station licensed to serve Thomasville, Alabama.  The station, the only AM station licensed to Thomasville, was owned by Griffin Broadcasting Corporation. Griffin Broadcasting also owns Thomasville's WJDB-FM.

It aired an adult hits music format.

History
The station was assigned the "WJDB" call sign by the Federal Communications Commission.

In November 1990, licensee WJDB Radio, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to Griffin Broadcasting Corporation.  The deal was approved by the FCC on January 4, 1991, and the transaction was consummated on January 31, 1991.

This station was reported silent in December 2011. (Taken from Alabama Broadcast Media Page) On May 17, 2017, the FCC informed WJDB that, as the station had been silent since at least March 5, 2016, it was in the process of cancelling the station's license; the license was canceled on June 29, 2017.

References

External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWJDB (Facility ID: 25379)
 (covering 1955-1979)

JDB
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Mass media in Clarke County, Alabama
Radio stations established in 1956
1956 establishments in Alabama
Radio stations disestablished in 2016
2016 disestablishments in Alabama
JDB


Otto Albert Tichý (14 August 1890 – 21 October 1973) was a Czech composer, teacher and organist.

Early life and education
Otto Albert Tichý was born in Martínkov, Moravia, in a Catholic family of a provincial teacher. He studied different instruments and played the organ from an early age. He began composing as a boy. He became a devoted student of Vítězslav Novák at the Prague Conservatory. However, he interrupted his study to work nine years at the most spiritual publisher of this time, Josef Florian, solely for room and board. In 1919 he resumed his study as a pupil of French composer and teacher Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum. Tichý initially studied organ, Gregorian chant and composition, then contrapuntalism and concord. At Schola Cantorum he got the opportunity to experience music from the 16th to the 18th centuries in vocal polyphony.

Career
After he successfully finished his study, he lived as a private music teacher and organist. He spent six years in France and after his marriage moved to Lausanne with his family, where he worked as organist in cathedral Notre Dame and as professor of music at Dominican gymnasium. In 1936 he returned to Czechoslovakia. After ten years he became choirmaster and organist at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague and worked as a teacher at Prague Conservatory. He taught choir, Gregorian chant, improvisation, organ accompaniment, conducting, Latin and French. During the Communist period, Tichý remained at Prague Conservatory as a teacher thanks to then Conservatory director Václav Holzknecht and to Tichý's knowledge and skills, especially in languages and music for twenty long years. He left Prague Conservatory at age 75. He also resigned as the organist at St. Vitus. Until the end of his life he wrote music and translated books.

Otto Albert Tichý died at 83, close to his organ-loft.

Few of the composer's works are performed regularly today. His best known pieces are the Missa festival in honorem Sti Alberti Magni, Missa pastoralis in honorem Jesu Infantis in Praga or A Notre-Dame du Chene, and Tantum ergo sacramentum, and Ave Maria, and some other vocal compositions and very nice compositions for small chamber brass or string ensembles.

Tichý's works include orchestral music, chamber music, piano music and songs.

Works
List of compositions by Otto Albert Tichý

External links

References

1890 births
1973 deaths
20th-century classical composers
Czech classical composers
Czech male classical composers
People from Třebíč District
Pupils of Vincent d'Indy
Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni
20th-century Czech male musicians
Prague Conservatory alumni


Gerry Shishin Wick is a Soto Zen roshi, author, oceanographer and abbot of Great Mountain Zen Center in Berthoud, Colorado, which he founded in 1996. He is one of the twelve Dharma Successors of the late Taizan Maezumi, receiving Dharma transmission and a Denkai (precept transmission) from him in 1990. Prior to it, for 24 years he underwent Zen training with Maezumi, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and Sochu Suzuki Roshi. He remained the president of White Plum Asanga, a Zen school in the Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi lineage, from 2007 to 2014.

He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and has held a variety of jobs in the scientific community as well as an adjunct teaching position at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.  He also administered the Zen Center of Los Angeles and the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values from 1978 to 1986. In 2006, Wick received inka from Bernard Glassman. He was acknowledged as a roshi in 2000 at White Plum Asanga, where he remained the president from 2007 to 2014, when he retired as an elder.

See also
Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

Bibliography

Wick, Gerry Shishin. Salt Power: Is Neptune's Ole Salt a Tiger in the Tank?

Notes

References

External links

 Audio Interview Series on Buddhist Geeks

Zen Buddhism writers
Soto Zen Buddhists
White Plum Asanga
Rōshi
American Zen Buddhists
Living people
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Berthoud, Colorado


Poison Video Hits is the seventh music DVD from the glam metal band Poison released in 2005, it follows the release of The Best of Ballads & Blues: Greatest hits 2 album, and it consists of six Poison video hits.

Track listing
 Cry Tough
 I Want Action
 Nothin' but a Good Time
 Fallen Angel
 Every Rose Has Its Thorn
 Unskinny Bop

Band members
 Bret Michaels - lead vocals
 C.C. DeVille - lead guitar
 Bobby Dall - bass
 Rikki Rockett - drums

External links
Official website

2005 video albums
Music video compilation albums
Poison (American band) video albums
2005 compilation albums


Sud - Muntenia (South - Muntenia) is a development region in Romania. As other development regions, it does not have any administrative powers, its main function being to co-ordinate regional development projects and manage funds from the European Union. It is located entirely in the historic region of Muntenia, with its Development Agency HQ in Călărași.

Counties
The Sud region is made up of the following counties:
Argeș
Călărași
Dâmbovița
Giurgiu
Ialomița
Prahova
Teleorman

See also
Development regions of Romania
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

References

Development regions of Romania


Pop'n Music Mickey Tunes is a musical video game published by Konami for several platforms in 2000. The game is a Mickey Mouse and Disney-themed installment of Konami's Pop'n Music franchise. The game was released for arcades in 2000, and then ported to the PlayStation (as Pop'n Music Disney Tunes) and the Game Boy Color (as Pop'n Music GB Disney Tunes) in November 2000.

Gameplay
Disney Tunes plays identically to other titles in the Pop'n Music series, with the player having to tap on the bundled-controller in synchronization with the music and gain a high-enough meter to pass to the next song. The Game Boy Color version runs on the same game engine as Pop'n Music GB. The game's fourteen songs, excluding D.D.D.!, are all Japanese covers of existing Disney songs.

References

2000 video games
Arcade video games
Dance video games
Disney video games
Game Boy Color games
Japan-exclusive video games
Konami arcade games
Konami games
PlayStation (console) games
Mickey Mouse video games
Donald Duck video games
Goofy (Disney) video games
Video games developed in Japan


Deeside is a book which was published in 1911 describing the geography and history of Deeside in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

It is a wide-ranging book which describes the geography of the Dee Valley from the source of the River Dee in the Cairngorms to its mouth at Aberdeen as well as its history.

Table of contents
 Chapter 1 – Introductory
 Chapter 2 – The Sources – The Aberdeenshire Highlands
 Chapter 3 – Braemar – The Jacobites
 Chapter 4 – Invercauld To Balmoral
 Chapter 5 – Balmoral – The Royal Residence
 Chapter 6 – Crathie Church – Abergeldie Castle
 Chapter 7 – Lochnagar – Glenmuick
 Chapter 8 – Ballater
 Chapter 9 – Aboyne And Glentanar
 Chapter 10 – Aboyne To Banchory
 Chapter 11 – Banchory – Crathes Castle
 Chapter 12 – Lower Deeside - Drum Castle

1911 non-fiction books
Books about Scotland


Allemant may refer to the following places in France:

Allemant, Aisne, a commune in the department of Aisne
Allemant, Marne, a commune in the department of Marne


Radio Recorders, Inc.  was an American recording studio located in Los Angeles, California. During the 1940s and 1950s, Radio Recorders was one of the largest independent recording studios in the world. Notable musicians recorded at Radio Recorders include Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Sam Cooke, Jimmie Rodgers, Louis Armstrong, Mario Lanza, Patti Page, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Frankie Yankovic, Frank Zappa, Paul Frees and The Carpenters among others. In its prime, the studio was considered the best recording facility in Los Angeles, with two large studios and some smaller ones, as well as disc mastering facilities.

History

Radio Recorders
Originally founded in 1933 at 932 N. Western Avenue, Radio Recorders established itself at 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard by 1949. During the Forties and Fifties, Radio Recorders was responsible for recording transcriptions of countless radio shows, both network and local, for delayed broadcast in the Western states. Since this was prior to magnetic tape recording, the recordings were made on and played back from lacquer-coated aluminum discs. Studio C was Radio Recorders nerve center with at least six recording lathes and turntables and an "on-the-air" playback turntable protected by a railing so that it would not be bumped while it was replaying a program on-air. The recording lathes were shock-mounted in sand to prevent rumble from the streetcars on Santa Monica Boulevard.  Studio C could handle several programs at once, 24 hours a day, and often with a single engineer on duty. Telephone lines ran to all the important stations and the networks.

Most of the major labels used Radio Recorders well into the 1960s. RCA Victor, Columbia, Capitol, and Decca utilized Radio Recorders prior to building their own West Coast facilities, and remained the choice of many independent labels and both popular and classical artists, from Stravinsky to Elvis.

Radio Recorders was also where most commercial jingles were recorded, and their dominance of this market segment strengthened in 1959 when their affiliate, MP-TV Services, acquired the rights to the sound effect, jingle and commercial aid libraries of Standard Radio Transcription, Inc..

In 1960, Radio Recorders merged with Universal Recorders, located at 6757 Hollywood Blvd. and built a new studio at 1441 North McCadden Place, which they called their Sunset-Highland Division. Radio-Universal Recorders was the largest recording studio in the United States.

Radio Recorders Annex
In 1946, Radio Recorders remodeled a former RCA Victor warehouse located at 1032 North Sycamore Avenue into a large studio capable of handling approximately fifty musicians.  This studio was known as Radio Recorders Annex, or, within the industry, just "The Annex," after a legendary studio that Victor had built in the warehouse back in the 1930s.

In 1962 H.B. Barnum and Bill Aken chose The Annex to record their big band version of "Goody, Goody" for Governor Goodwin J. (Goodie) Knight's re-election campaign. The same year, Bill Aken recorded the classic "Theme For Shock Theater" with engineer Phil Yeend.

In 1965, Radio Recorders' engineer, Thorne Nogar, purchased The Annex and started his own independent Annex Studios,  which attracted a distinguished clientele as a full-service studio, including mastering.  For many years, Lawrence Welk pre-recorded the music for his popular television show, becoming the most important client; in addition, in the 1960s and 1970s Annex mastered for such labels as Uni Records, GNP Crescendo Records, Dot Records, and Ranwood Records, as well as cutting early pressings of Barbra Streisand's hit single "The Way We Were."

In January 1986, Record Plant opened at the Annex location.

Studio 56

In the late 1980s the studio was reopened by Paul Schwartz as Studio 56. At that time, artists such as Guns & Roses, Sugar Ray, Toni Braxton, Brandy, No Doubt and others recorded there. The documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown was also partially filmed there.  Kenneth Crouch, Keith Crouch and Leon Sylvers were all house producers there at that time.

In 2002, the studio gained two new partners, Pride Hutchison and Michael Dumas who brought the studio back to life under the original Radio Recorders name, and in 2004, the city of Los Angeles installed a street sign describing the historical significance of the site.

From 2002 to 2008 the studio welcomed many great projects and clients including Natalie Cole, Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Lil' Jon, Xzibit, Annie Lennox and many more.

The facility closed in 2008. Today the sign describing the historical significance of Radio Recorders still remains on the corner of Santa Monica and Orange.

References

1933 establishments in California
2008 disestablishments in California
Recording studios in California
Music of Los Angeles
Albums recorded at Radio Recorders


Barlaam of Chikoy ( - Varlaam Chikoysky, secular name Vasily Fedotovich Nadezhin, Василий Федотович Надежин; born 1774, village Meresevo, Lukyanovsky uezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — died January 23, 1846, Urluk volost), was a Russian Orthodox Church hermit and celibate priest famous for his missionary activities in Transbaikal, the founder of John the Precursor's secluded monastery in the Chikoy Mounts. He is venerated as a local saint.

Born in the Maresevo village of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate in a peasant family. Married at the insistence of parents. The marriage was childless and Vasily in 1811 went on a pilgrimage to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. As a passportless was arrested for vagrancy and exiled to Siberia. He began to wander, in 1814 he reached Irkutsk, and in 1820 he came to the slopes of the Chikokon Range and built a monastic cell near Urluk, becoming a hermit. Soon other people joined him and the brethren of the future Chikoy Monastery formed.

In 1828, Vasily accepted monastic tonsure with the name Varlaam (in honor of the Monk Barlaam of Kiev) and in 1830 was ordained a hieromonk. In 1839, Varlaam was elevated to the rank of hegumen of the John the Baptist Monastery he founded. Under him, monastery churches were built, and missionary work among the local population began. In 1845, he was awarded the Most Holy Synod by a gold pectoral cross.

He died in 1846, was buried on the south side of the altar of the chapel in honor of the icon of "All Who Mourn, Joy" of the John the Baptist Church of the monastery he founded. Soon after his death, miracles were attributed to him and at the end of the 19th century he was glorified as a locally revered saint. The life of the Monk Varlaam was written by St. Meletius (Yakimov).

References

Sources
 The Encyclopedia of Zabaykalie

18th-century Christian saints
History of Siberia
Russian Empire saints
1774 births
1846 deaths
Russian Orthodox monks
Monks from the Russian Empire


The American Mime Theatre is not a pantomime company nor is it a dance company. It is the Performing Company and School of American Mime, an acting medium expressing itself through movement. The American Mime Theatre performs its own original plays culled from its repertory with new works continuously in development.
It was founded in 1952 by Paul J. Curtis (August 29, 1927– April 28, 2012).  Some of the notable performers in the company's past include Anita Morris  and Daniel Richter. After a period of inactivity, it relaunched in 2023 with Arthur Yorinks as artistic director and Lynn M. Stirrup as executive director.

Reviews
In 1984, the New York Times wrote: "As one of the few who toiled in the vineyards over the decades when mime was considered chiefly a European import, Mr. Curtis deserves credit where credit is due.  The program that the American Mime Theater is offering... demonstrated an independent view of mime that owes little to conventions associated with the form ... it allows for a free-form approach that roams between the realistic and the stylized."

References

External links
 Official website

Mime
Drama schools in the United States
Performing groups established in 1952
Educational institutions established in 1952
1952 establishments in New York City


The Poll Dorset, a short-wool, meat-producing sheep, was developed in Australia between 1937 and 1954 with the aim of breeding a true Dorset type sheep without horns. The poll gene was introduced into Dorset Horn flocks from two other polled breeds and following a strict back-mating programme achieved close to 100% of Dorset Horn blood. Its main distinguishing features are its hornless appearance, long, lean square body set on short legs, pink skin and 'spongy' short-stapled wool. The Poll Dorset produces a fleece of white, dense downs type wool of 30 microns fibre diameter and it has a white wool-free face. The breed was developed at a property called Valmore in Whitemore, Tasmania, a noted centre for pedigree livestock stud farms. The Poll Dorset resulted from the introduction of Corriedale and Ryeland blood into the Dorset Horn.

Poll Dorset rams are the most commonly used sire for the production of prime lambs in Australia. Ewes are noted for their high fertility, mothering and milking ability. The characteristics of the breed such as rapid growth rate, superior fleshing and muscular development make them ideally suited for the meat trade. Lambs sired by Poll Dorsets can satisfy the lightweight Middle Eastern market, the local market or the export market to the US at 20 to 25 kg or heavier. Poll Dorset carcases have excelled in Australian carcase competitions having very good eye muscle and a good lean meat to fat ratio. Poll Dorset genes have also been a major contributor to the developing White Suffolk breed and almost all other prime lamb composite breeds in Australia.

Export sales have been made to Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America.

In 1992 a group of Poll Dorset breeders established Meat Elite Australia to share genetics and to progeny-test elite young sires to identify animals that will benefit the Australian sheep-meat industry. The Poll Dorset breed, though less elite in terms of thermotolerance  and in high-altitude sustainability  when compared to other breeds, has been consistently researched for improvement in hopes of mass breeding to aid in the sheep-meat and farming industry.

The Australian Poll Dorset is not to be confused with the Polled Dorset that was developed at North Carolina State University in the early 1950s.

Citations

References
"The Land Stock Types"

External links
 http://www.polldorset.org.au/
 http://www.meatelite.com.au/Main.asp?_=Meat%20Elite%20Australia%20-%20Poll%20Dorsets%20Leading%20the%20Way

Sheep breeds originating in Australia
Sheep breeds