Ceremonies of the 19th Golden Melody Awards () were held in Taipei, Taiwan in 2008. Nominees were announced on May 22, 2008, and the award winners in 12 traditional music categories (of 47 nominees) and 23 popular music categories (of 124 nominees) were selected by a panel of 33 judges after four rounds of jury meetings. Initially, there were 10,632 submissions from 185 companies in the music industry, making it the largest submission pool in the Awards' history.

Winners for artistic and traditional music categories were announced on June 21, 2008, at Taipei County Hall in a ceremony separate from that for popular music categories. It was the second consecutive year that the ceremony for this category group was held separately, and it did not attract as much media attention as the ceremony for the popular music categories. By contrast, artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and Canada attended the awards ceremony for popular music categories, which was held at the Taipei Arena on July 5, 2008. Actress sisters Barbie and Dee Shu, former news anchor Patty Hou, and actress Matilda Tao hosted this event, whose list of award presenters included Canadian recording artist Daniel Powter and Japanese drama stars Akito Kiriyama, Junta Nakama, and Yuya Takaki. Both events were broadcast on the satellite cable Azio Television channel on June 28 and July 5, respectively.

Malaysian singer Gary Chaw and Singaporean singer-songwriter Tanya Chua were named Best Mandarin Male and Female Singers in the popular music category, respectively. Chua won the Best Mandarin Female Singer award for the second time; she last won the award in the 17th Golden Melody Awards. Chua's record seven nominations for her album Goodbye & Hello are the most received by a female artist. Taiwanese musician and singer Jay Chou, who received a record-breaking eight nominations for his album On the Run and film Secret, was not able to attend the event due to his tour in China. Chou's primary lyricist Vincent Fang was present to receive the award of Best Lyricist for the song "Blue and White Porcelain" (). Pop rock band Sodagreen received its second consecutive award as Best Band for its album Incomparable Beauty.

Nominees and winners
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Popular music categories

Best song
 Blue and White Porcelain (青花瓷) – On the Run (我很忙) – Jay Chou Against the Light (逆光) – Against the Light (逆光) – Stefanie Sun
 A Moment (一眼瞬間) – Star – A-mei (and Jam Hsiao)
 Darwin (達爾文) – Goodbye & Hello – Tanya Chua
 Incomparable Beauty (無與倫比的美麗) – Incomparable Beauty (無與倫比的美麗) – Sodagreen
 Love Song – Wonderland (未來) – Khalil Fong

Best Mandarin album
 L!VE IS...KAREN MOK (拉活...莫文蔚) – Karen Mok Against the Light (逆光) – Stefanie Sun
 Goodbye & Hello – Tanya Chua
 Incomparable Beauty (無與倫比的美麗) – Sodagreen
 On the Run (我很忙) – Jay Chou
 Star – A-mei

Best Taiwanese album
 Love Songs (真情歌) – Ricky Hsiao Close to Home (厝邊) – Cheng Chiu-hsuan (鄭秋玄)
 Love of Life III—Companionship (人間有愛3—歡喜作伴) television soundtrack
 Kou! It's Coming Out!!! (拷!!出來了!!) – Kou Chou Ching (拷秋勤)
 Toilet Paper (衛生紙) – New Formosa Band

Best Hakka album
 2007 Banana – Ayu Huang (黃連煜) An Old Tree, New Branches (老樹新枝) – Liu Jung-chang (劉榮昌)
 Hair Bun Flower (髻鬃花) – Cheng Chao-fang (鄭朝方)
 In Love with Old Mountain Railway (戀戀舊山線) – Chiu Hsing-yi (邱幸儀) and Chiu Li-ling (邱俐綾)

Best aboriginal album
 Ipay Buyci (依拜維吉) – Ipay Buyci (依拜維吉) Auba! The Most Beautiful Tribe (鰲芭!最美的部落)
 Chalaw Passiwali (查勞．巴西瓦里) – Chalaw Passiwali (查勞．巴西瓦里)
 My Name Is Bai Lang – Bai Lang (蔣進興)
 Nasi (生命) – Sauniaw (少妮瑤)
Ipay Buyci is a self-titled album in the Atayal language.

Best composer
 Jay Chou – Blue and White Porcelain (青花瓷), sung by Jay Chou Gary Chaw – Blink of an Eye (一眼瞬間), sung by A-mei and Jam Hsiao
 Tanya Chua – Blank Space (空白格), sung by Tanya Chua
 Ricky Hsiao – Love the Song (愛這首歌), sung by Ricky Hsiao
 Lin Chi–yu (林倛玉) – Lucky to Have Your Love (慶幸有你愛我), sung by Joi Chua
 Wu Ching-feng (吳青峰) – Incomparable Beauty (無與倫比的美麗), sung by Sodagreen

Best lyricist
 Vincent Fang – Blue and White Porcelain (青花瓷), sung by Jay Chou Deserts Chang – After All (畢竟), sung by Deserts Chang
 Chyi Chin and Chang Chen-yue – Love Sickness (思念是一種病), sung by Chang Chen-yue (and Tanya Chua)
 Hsiao Han (小寒) – Darwin (達爾文), sung by Tanya Chua
 Liao Ying-ju (廖瑩如) – Against the Light (逆光), sung by Stefanie Sun
 Yeh Kuo-chu (葉國居) – Hair Bun Flower (髻鬃花)

Best arrangement
 Hsiao An (小安) – Agent J (特務J), for Jolin Tsai Chen Chien-chi (陳建騏) – j'Adore (崇拜), for Fish Leong
 Chung Hsing-min (鍾興民) – Blue and White Porcelain (青花瓷), for Jay Chou
 Huang Chung-yueh (黃中岳) – Darwin (達爾文), for Tanya Chua
 Martin Tang – Against the Light (逆光), for Stefanie Sun
 Tu Hui-yuan (涂惠源) – Wake-up Song (起床歌), for Gary Chaw
 Wu Ching-feng (吳青峰), Shih Chun-wei (史俊威), Hsieh Hsing-i (謝馨儀), Liu Chia-kai (劉家凱), He Ching-yang (何景揚), Kung Yu-chi (龔鈺祺), Lin Wei-tse (林暐哲) – Incomparable Beauty (無與倫比的美麗), for Sodagreen

Best album producer
 Tanya Chua – Goodbye & Hello, released by Tanya Chua Terry Chan – L!VE IS... (拉活...), released by Karen Mok
 Gary Chaw and Tu Hui-yuan (涂惠源) – Super Sunshine, released by Gary Chaw
 Ayu Huang (黃連煜) – 2007 Banana, released by Ayu Huang (黃連煜)
 Tsao Teng-chang (曹登昌) – Ipay Buyci (依拜維吉), released by Ipay Buyci (依拜維吉)

Best single producer
 Adia (阿弟仔) – Agent J (特務J), released by Jolin Tsai Chen Chien-liang (陳建良) – Fool (傻瓜), released by Landy Wen
 Chung Cheng-hu (鍾成虎) – Pussy, released by Cheer Chen
 Ma Yun-fen (馬韻芬) – Blink of an Eye (一眼瞬間), released by A-mei (and Jam Hsiao)
 Tank – Anti-Terrorism Squad (反恐小組), released by Tank

Best mandarin male singer
 Gary Chaw – Super Sunshine
 Eason Chan – Admit It (認了吧)
 Khalil Fong – Wonderland (未來)
 Shin (信) – I Am I (我就是我)
 Tank – Keep Fighting (延長比賽)
 Yang Pei-An (楊培安) – Pei-an Yang's Album No. 2 (楊培安II)

Best taiwanese male singer
 Ricky Hsiao – Love Songs (真情歌)
 Michael Shih – Be Together Tonight (今夜我陪你)
 Wang Shih-hsien – Man of Iron (堅強)

Best mandarin female singer
 Tanya Chua – Goodbye & Hello
 A-mei – Star
 Joi Chua – Joi Blessed (慶幸擁有)
 Fish Leong – j'Adore (崇拜)
 Karen Mok – L!VE IS... (拉活...)
 Stefanie Sun – Against the Light (逆光)

Best taiwanese female singer
 Chan Ya-wen – Life Highway (人生公路)
 Chen Si-an (陳思安) – Appreciation (體會)
 Liu I-chun (劉依純) – Lonesome Moon (孤單的月娘)
 Showlen Maya – Homesickness (望鄉思情)
 Sun Shu-may – Chance to Love You (愛你的機會)

Best hakka singer
 Ayu Huang (黃連煜) – 2007 Banana
 Sinco Chiu (邱幸儀) and Aileen Chiu (邱俐綾) – In Love With Old Mountain Railway (戀戀舊山線)
 Lin Tzu-chun (林姿君) – Hakka Girl (客家妹)
 Liu Jung-chang (劉榮昌) – An Old Tree, New Branchesso justu (老樹新枝)

Best aboriginal singer
 Ipay Buyci (依拜維吉) – Ipay Buyci (依拜維吉)
 Amoy (林照玉) – Beautiful Voice of Aboriginal Music (原聲中之美聲)
 Bai Lang (蔣進興) – My Name Is Bai Lang Chalaw Passiwali (查勞．巴西瓦里) – Chalaw Passiwali (查勞．巴西瓦里)
 Sauniaw (少妮瑤．久分勒分) – Nasi (生命)
Ipay Buyci, the winner of this category, is a member of the ethnic Atayal people.

Best band
 Sodagreen – Incomparable Beauty (無與倫比的美麗) Cherry Boom – Goody Goody (乖乖)
 Kou Chou Ching (拷秋勤) – Kou! It's Coming Out!!! (拷!!出來了!!)
 Mavis Fan and 100%樂團 – 2007 Breakthrough Album (范曉萱+100%樂團 / 2007突破影音專輯)
 Mrs. This (這位太太) – Who (是誰)
 Won Fu (旺福樂團) – Youth Dance (青春舞曲)

Best singing group
 Da Mouth – Da Mouth (大嘴巴) Nan Quan Mama – Treasure Map (藏寶圖)
 Soler – x2

Best newcomer
 Debbie Hsiao (蕭賀碩) – Shuo's Map Album (碩一碩的流浪地圖) Lo Si-rong (羅思容) – Everyday (每日)
 Connie Lu (呂莘) – Moment of Love (心動的時刻)
 WOW – The Big Hits (頭號人物)
 Chris Wu (吳听徹) – Stay Up (徹夜未眠)
 Olivia Yan (閻韋伶) – Silly Child (傻孩子)

Best instrumental album
 Fantasia of Tuscany (托斯卡尼我想起你) – Lee Cin-yun (李欣芸) Mr Bebu (Mr比布) – Chipin & Kaiya (启彬与凯雅)
 Secret (不能說的秘密) – Jay Chou
 Sizhukong (絲竹空) – Peng Yu-wen (彭郁雯)

Best instrumental album producer
 Jay Chou – Secret (不能說的秘密) Denise Juan (阮丹青) – Sunshine Costa (陽光海岸)
 Lee Cin-yun (李欣芸) – Fantasia of Tuscany (托斯卡尼我想起你)
 Peng Yu-wen (彭郁雯) – Sizhukong (絲竹空)

Best instrumental composer
 Jay Chou and Terdsak Janpan – Secret (不能說的秘密) Chang Shih-he (章世和) – The Expedition soundtrack (霹靂開疆紀原聲帶)
 Lee Cin-yun (李欣芸) – Fantasia of Tuscany (托斯卡尼我想起你)
 Denise Juan (阮丹青) – Sunshine Costa (陽光海岸)

Best music video director
 Chou Ke-tai (周格泰) – j'Adore (崇拜), sung by Fish Leong Chen Hung-yi (陳宏一) – Learned (學會), sung by Ivana Wong
 Chu Hsueh-yi (區雪儀) – Why, sung by Mavis Fan and 100%樂團
 Chung Wei-chuan (鍾偉權) – This is Me (我就是這樣的), sung by Paul Wong
 Hsu Yun-hsuan (徐筠軒) – Left Side (左邊), sung by Sodagreen

Lifetime contribution award
 Chen Chih-yuan (陳志遠)Artistic and traditional music categories
Best traditional music album
 Sepiuma's Songs (Sepiuma, 唱情歌) Cheng Rom-shing Music Album (鄭榮興音樂專輯)
 Quest for the Garden Saunter and the Interrupted Dream (尋找遊園驚夢)
 The Ultimate of Peking Opera: Wei Haimin Performance Mei Lanfang School (芳華現—魏海敏梅派經典唱段選輯)
 Tu Ju-sung Bamboo Flute Solo Album (杜如松笛聲吹向雲水間—笛簫獨奏專輯)

Best classical music album
 Capriccio Pine Breeze: Hsieh Wan-chen's Oboe Album (越界嬉遊—謝宛臻oboe跨界演奏專輯) Chun-Chieh Yen Debut Album
 In Love with You (暗戀男聲)
 Ouyang Ling-yi's J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Violoncello Solo (歐陽伶宜演譯巴赫無伴奏大提琴組曲全集)

Best children's music album
 Traditional Children's Music of Tsou Tribe (鄒族傳統童謠) Learning Hakka (學客話)
 Shine Like a Star (發光如星)

Best religious music album
 Apocalypse (Vol. 1): The Future That Amazes (啟示錄前卷—令人驚嘆的未來世界專輯) Dharma Flower (花香飄來時) Yangjin Lamu (央金拉姆)
 Realizing the Self in Resonance (以音聲求)
 Song of Praises III: Liu Chih-ming's Sacred Music (禮頌III—劉志明聖樂作品集)
 The Lord Is My Shepherd (耶和華是我牧者)

Best crossover music album
 Wolf Totem (狼圖騰) Capriccio Pine Breeze: Hsieh Wan-chen's Oboe Album (越界嬉遊—謝宛臻oboe跨界演奏專輯)
 Soundtrack for Ciao Ci-chao (曹七巧)

Best songwriter
 He Xuntien (何訓田) – Images in Sound (聲音圖案) – Mili Pattern (秘厘圖) Hsu Ya-min (許雅民) – Apocalypse (Vol. 1): The Future That Amazes (啟示錄前卷—令人驚嘆的未來世界專輯) – Apocalypse (Vol. 1): The Future That Amazes (啟示錄前卷—令人驚嘆的未來世界專輯)
 Huang Yan-chung (黃燕忠) – Harvest Festival of Music (音樂豐年祭) – Harvest Festival (豐年祭)

Best lyricist
 Cheng Chou-yu (鄭愁予) – Travel in Dream (旅夢) – A Plate of Poetry (一碟兒詩話) Chen Wei-pin (陳維斌) – Rainbow of Black and White (斷層的台語歌曲—黑白的彩虹) – Tung Blossom Waltz (桐花圓舞曲)

Best composer
 Yiu-Kwong Chung (鍾耀光) – Aboriginal Rhythm (原住民新韻) – Kao Yi-sheng's Song (高一生歌曲) Chen Yi-hui (陳怡慧) – Ciao Ci-chao (曹七巧) soundtrack – Spring Time (春暖時分)

Best producer
 Wang Chih-ping (王志萍) – Quest for the Garden Saunter and the Interrupted Dream (尋找遊園驚夢) Huang Jia-lung (黃家隆) – Ouyang Ling-yi's J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Violoncello Solo (歐陽伶宜演譯巴赫無伴奏大提琴組曲全集)
 Liu Liang-yen (劉亮延) – Ciao Ci-chao (曹七巧) soundtrack
 Wang Min-hung (王閔弘) – In Love With You (暗戀男聲)

Best traditional music interpretation
 Wei Hai-min – The Ultimate of Peking Opera: Wei Haimin Performance Mei Lanfang School (芳華現—魏海敏梅派經典唱段選輯) Cheng Rom-shing (鄭榮興) – Cheng Rom-shing music album
 Kung Ai-ping (孔愛萍) – Quest for the Garden Saunter and the Interrupted Dream (尋找遊園驚夢)
 Sepiuma Group (和平部落歌團) – Sepiuma's Songs (Sepiuma, 唱情歌)
 Tu Ju-sung (杜如松) – Tu Ju-sung Bamboo Flute Solo Album (杜如松笛聲吹向雲水間—笛簫獨奏專輯)

Best vocalist
 Taipei Male Choir (拉縴人男聲合唱團) – In Love With You (暗戀男聲) Formosa Singers (福爾摩沙合唱團) – Formosa Singers and Gary Graden (驚豔人聲—福爾摩沙合唱團 and Gary Graden)
 Jeannie Voce (蔣啟真) – Summertime (夏日情懷)
 Taipei Artist Choir (台北藝術家合唱團) – Because of Love (因為愛)
 Wang Xinxin (王心心) – Realizing the Self in Resonance (以音聲求)

Best music performer
 Yen Chun-chieh (嚴俊傑) – Chun-Chieh Yen Debut Album Magic Clarinet Quartet (魔笛單簧管四重奏) – The Dancing Clarinet (魔笛之舞)
 Ouyang Ling-yi (歐陽伶宜) – Ouyang Ling-yi's J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Violoncello Solo (歐陽伶宜演譯巴赫無伴奏大提琴組曲全集)

Jury special mention
 Lin Yu-chih (林煜智)Lifetime contribution award
 Chu Ting-shun (朱丁順)'Presenters and performers
Presenters
Presenters for the popular music categories at the ceremony:
 Taiwan singer Rainie Yang, along with Japanese drama stars Akito Kiriyama, Junta Nakama, and Yuya Takaki, presented the awards for Best Composer and Best Singing Group.
 Singers Jia-jia (紀家瑩) and Samingad (紀曉君), both members of the ethnic Puyuma people, presented the awards for Best Aboriginal Singer and Best Aboriginal Album.
 Entertainer Kang Kang and singer Frankie Kao presented the awards for Best Arrangement and Best Song.
 Television host Hsiao Chung (小鐘), along with Hakka singers and past winners Liu Shao-hsi (劉劭希) and Hsieh Yü-wei (謝宇威), presented the awards for Best Hakka Singer and Best Hakka Album.
 One Million Star top 10 finalist Aska Yang and musician Kay Huang (黃韻玲) presented the awards for Best Music Video Director and Best Newcomer.
 P'eng Ch'ia-ch'ia (澎恰恰), entertainer Pai Bing-bing, and Hsü Hsiao-shun (許效舜) presented the awards for Best Taiwanese Male Singer and Best Taiwanese Female Singer.
 "Queen of Taiwanese music" Jody Chiang and lyricist Vincent Fang presented the award for Best Taiwanese Album.
 Musicians Ni Fang-lai (倪方來) and Ma Yü-fen (馬毓芬) presented awards for the instrumental music categories of Best Album Producer, Best Composer, and Best Album.
 Record producer Huang Kuo-lun (黃國倫) and Taiwan's "Queen of Pub" Tiger Huang (黃小琥) presented the awards for Best Single Producer and Best Album Producer.
 Taiwan musicians Lo Ta-yu and Chang Chen-yue presented the awards for Best Lyricist and Best Band.
 Aboriginal Taiwanese pop singer A-mei and Cantopop singer Eason Chan presented the award for Best Mandarin Male Singer.
 Taiwan pop singer Jolin Tsai and Canadian recording artist Daniel Powter presented the award for Best Mandarin Female Singer.
 Hong Kong singer and actor Wakin Chau and Taiwan record producer Jonathan Lee presented the award for Best Mandarin Album.
 Vanessa Shih, a minister at the Government Information Office, presented the Lifetime Contribution Award.

Performers
There were six performance segments during the ceremony:
 "AMit Fever": A-mei
 "Super High Line": Samingad (紀曉君) and Jia-jia (紀家瑩)
 "Music and the City": Daniel Powter
 "Love GOKUSEN Medley": Akito Kiriyama, Junta Nakama, and Yuya Takaki
 "Music in Heaven": Aska Yang and Yoga Lin
 "Now and Forever''": Wakin Chau, Jonathan Lee, and Lo Ta-yu

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Daniel Tarantola was born in Ajaccio (Corsica), France, in 1942. Having obtained his medical degree from Paris University, Daniel began an international health career in 1971 in the context of emergency humanitarian medical missions to Biafra (Nigeria), and Peru. He was engaged in a movement with Bernard Kouchner which resulted in the foundation of Médecins Sans Frontières, of which he was the first physician working in the field (1973, Burkina Faso). Early in his career, Daniel worked over almost two decades with the World Health Organization on large scale international health programmes, including the eradication of smallpox from Bangladesh (1974–1978), childhood disease control programmes (1979–1984), the Expanded Programme on Immunization, the Control of Diarrhoeal Diseases Programme, the Acute Respiratory Infections Programme and as a senior member of the team who designed and started the launching of the WHO Global programme on HIV/AIDS (1987–1990).

Having left WHO in 1991, Daniel was over a period of eight years a lecturer in the Department of Population and International Health of the Harvard School of Public Health and a Senior Associate of the Harvard-based François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. With Jonathan Mann, with whom he was closely associated over a period of twelve years, he co-authored and co-edited a number of publications including two volumes of AIDS in the World, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. While Mann is the person most associated with the movement that seeks to integrate public health and human rights by conceptualizing them as interdependent, it is fair to say that in a less public manner Tarantola played (and continues to play) an equally key role in working to establish 'health and human rights' as integral to the on-the-ground work of IGOs, states, and NGOs.

From 1998–2004, Daniel rejoined the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva as a Senior Policy Adviser to the Director General with a specific focus on health and human rights, HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases, and family health. Additionally during the latter part of this period, Daniel occupied the function of Director of the WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals.

In 2005, upon retiring from the WHO, Daniel took up a professorship at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, leading a cross-Faculty research initiative on Health and Human Rights involving the Faculties of Medicine, Law and Arts and Social Sciences. In 2010, Daniel relocated to his own country, France.  His current work aims at exploring the interface and synergies between health, development and human rights as they relate, among other topics, to: HIV, Hepatitis C, poverty and human development, climate change, indigenous populations, migration, refugees and post-disaster impact mitigation. He continues to be very active in the field of immunization for which he chairs a number of programme evaluations and strategic planning.

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John Joseph Morris (12 June 1936 – 8 February 2013) was an Australian politician. Born in Wallsend, New South Wales, he was a founder of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union before becoming its NSW Secretary and President and eventually the National President. In 1976 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Labor member. He left the Council in 1984 to contest the Australian Senate for New South Wales, in which he was successful. He remained in the Senate until he retired in 1990.

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Charles "Chuck" Arnett (February 15, 1928, in Bogalusa, Louisiana – March 2, 1988, in San Francisco, California) was an American artist and dancer. His best-known work is the Tool Box mural (1962).

History
Arnett grew up in Bogalusa and New Orleans, the latter of which he would later always claim as his hometown. He danced in the local ballet successfully for several seasons before moving in 1951 to New York City to better pursue the career he wanted to make for himself in the world of professional dance. Arriving with letters of introduction and names of people to contact from his time as a dancer in New Orleans, he quickly settled into the life of those in Manhattan who referred to themselves as "theatrical gypsies." In the next few years, his time was divided between the best dance classes he could get enrolled into, practice, auditioning for parts, and rehearsing and then performing on the stage. He then performed for some time with the National Ballet of Canada; the time he spent with the National Ballet was the only full-time, permanent employment he would ever hold in his life.

After the National Ballet and dancing in Las Vegas casinos, Arnett later moved to San Francisco where he worked at a bar called the Tool Box. South of Market in San Francisco had become the hub of the leather subculture in the gay community in 1961 when the Tool Box opened its doors as the first leather bar in the neighborhood. It opened in 1961 at 339 4th St and closed in 1971. It was a gay bar frequented by gay motorcycle clubs. It was made famous by the June 1964 Paul Welch Life article entitled "Homosexuality In America," the first time a national publication reported on gay issues. Life photographer was referred to the Tool Box by Hal Call, who had long worked to dispel the myth that all homosexual men were effeminate. The article opened with a two-page spread of the mural of life-size leathermen in the bar, which had been painted by Arnett in 1962. The article described San Francisco as "The Gay Capital of America" and inspired many gay leathermen to move there.

One busy night Rudolf Nureyev came into the Tool Box with several men obviously from the opera house where he was performing. He was seated at the bar and with many people watching, removed the coat he had on, revealing a leather jacket, to applause. Arnett brought his drink, a cognac, in the best glass the house could provide, and when he finished it and left, Arnett took the glass.

Arnett also created a psychedelic black light mural for the bar The Stud.

Arnett died on March 2, 1988, from AIDS.

The San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley consists of four works of art along Ringold Alley honoring leather culture; it opened in 2017. One of the works of art is a black granite stone etched with a narrative by Gayle Rubin and a reproduction of Arnett's Tool Box mural. Another of the works of art is bronze bootprints along the curb which honor 28 people (including Arnett) who were an important part of the leather communities of San Francisco.

Further reading
 "Artist Chuck Arnett: His Life/Our Times," by Jack Fritscher, from Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice, edited by Mark Thompson (Boston: Alyson Publications, 1991).

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Pickett is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.  Its elevation is 676 feet (206 m).

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Portland is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.  Its elevation is 722 feet (220 m).

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Unincorporated communities in Adair County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky


Die toten Augen (The Dead Eyes) is an opera (called a  or 'stage poem' by the composer) with a prologue and one act by Eugen d'Albert to a libretto in German by Hanns Heinz Ewers and  (Achille Georges d'Ailly-Vaucheret) after Henry's own 1897 play Les yeux morts.

Performance history
Die toten Augen was first performed on 5 March 1916 at the Hofoper in Dresden conducted by Fritz Reiner. During the opening run of seven performances (March–May 1916), the role of Aurelius Galba was sung on two occasions, and that of Der Hirt on four occasions, by Richard Tauber.

Roles

Synopsis
Set in biblical times, Die toten Augen is a tragic drama involving a Roman envoy called Arcesius, his beautiful but blind wife Myrtocle and Aurelius Galba, a handsome Roman captain.

A review by Michael Oliver in Gramophone enlarges upon this:
The plot, set in Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday, concerns the beautiful Myrtocle, blind since birth, who longs for sight mainly so that she may see her deeply loved husband Arcesius, whom she believes to be as handsome as Apollo. She is given her sight by Christ who (his single, off-stage line) predicts that before the sun sets she will curse him. A man as handsome as Apollo indeed appears, and Myrtocle falls into his arms: it is Galba, her husband's friend, who has loved her for years. Arcesius kills him and Myrtocle, realising his love and his suffering, blinds herself again by staring at the sun. The action is framed by a Prologue and Epilogue in which a Shepherd goes in search of a lost lamb and, in the Epilogue, finds it.

Recordings
1997: Dagmar Schellenberger, , Hartmut Welker, Olaf Bär; Dresden Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic Choir, conductor: Ralf Weikert; March 1997, CPO - B000042OED (CD)
There is another recording, deriving from a 1951 Stuttgart radio production, on Cantus Classics CACD 5.00231 F. It is conducted by Walter Born, and the main singers are Marianne Schech, Wolfgang Windgassen, Franz Fehringer and Hetty Plümacher.

References

Further reading
Forbes, Elizabeth (1992), "Toten Augen, Die" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)

External links
 Work details, Boosey & Hawkes

Operas by Eugen d'Albert
1916 operas
Operas set in the 1st century
Operas set in the Levant
German-language operas
Operas
One-act operas
Operas based on plays


Purdy is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.  Its elevation is 1017 feet (310 m).

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Unincorporated communities in Adair County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky


Stranger in Town may refer to:

Film and television
Stranger in Town (1931 film), directed by Erle C. Kenton
A Stranger in Town (1943 film), directed by Roy Rowland
Stranger in Town (1957 film), British crime film directed by George Pollock
A Stranger in Town (1967 film), American title of the Tony Anthony spaghetti western Un dollaro tra i denti
"Stranger in Town" (In the Heat of the Night), episode of the American TV series In the Heat of the Night

Music
Stranger in Town (album), 1978 album by Bob Seger
"A Stranger in Town", Mort Greene/Leigh Harline song sung by Burl Ives in the 1948 film Station West
"Stranger in Town", 1961 song by Mel Tormé on his album My Kind of Music
""Stranger in Town" (Del Shannon song), 1965 single by Del Shannon
"Stranger in Town" (Toto song), a song on the 1984 album Isolation
"Stranger in Town", song on the 1991 Pat Metheny Group album We Live Here

See also
Stranger in This Town, 1991 album by Richie Sambora


Sparksville is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.  Its elevation is 1102 feet (336 m).  Its post office, which is no longer in operation, was named for Charles Weed Sparks, who is said to have established it on August 11, 1884; Sparks was later to establish and give his middle name to the nearby hamlet of Weed.

References

Unincorporated communities in Adair County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky


The following is a list of films shown at the Butt-Numb-A-Thon film festival formerly held each December in Austin, Texas, and hosted by Ain't It Cool News founder Harry Knowles.

Feature films are listed in bold.  Trailers are listed in italics.  All other items are annotated as appropriate.

Butt-Numb-A-Thon 1 (1999)
 Plan 9 from Outer Space
 Magnolia
 Song of the South
 Fritz the Cat
 Fade to Black
 Phantom of the Paradise
 Calling All Girls
 Giant Gila Monster
 Pitch Black, followed by special appearance by actor Vin Diesel.
 Vampyres (Daughters of Dracula)
 Tron
 Six String Samurai

Butt-Numb-A-Thon 2 (2000)
 Destination Mars
 The Hobbit
 The Gift
 The Sea Wolf
 Wonder Bar
 Snatch, followed by special appearance by actor Ade.
 Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
 Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
 RoboCop
 Shogun Assassin
 Santa Claus' Story
 Ed Gein, followed by special appearance by actor Steve Railsback.

Butt-Numb-A-Thon 3 (2001)
 Fiend Without a Face
 The Majestic, preceded by pre-taped introduction from Director Frank Darabont.
 Rock All Night
 King Kong
 Vanilla Sky
 Cabin in the Sky
 Stunt Rock - this trailer is a BNAT classic and is always shown, typically early in the evening.
 Kid 'in Africa (short)
 Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, followed by a special appearance by Producer Jacky Lee Morgan.
 Terror of Tiny Town, followed by a special appearance by actor Clarence Swenson.
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, preceded by a wacky pre-taped introduction from Director Peter Jackson and WETA Workshop guru Richard Taylor.

Butt-Numb-A-Thon 4 (2002)
 The Mask of Fu Manchu
 Chicago
 Machine-Gun Kelly
 Odds Against Tomorrow
 Crippled Avengers
 Night Warning, followed by a special appearance by actor Bo Svenson.
 May
 Dust and Blood (short film)
 House of 1000 Corpses
 Tiptoes, a special "Director's Cut" that was introduced as representing the true vision of Director Matthew Bright.
 Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (partial screening)
 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Butt-Numb-A-Thon 5 (2003)
 Haunted Gold
 Adventures of Captain Marvel (partial screening of first episode)
 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King followed by Q&A with Director Peter Jackson, Writer Frances Walsh and Writer Philippa Boyens.
 The General with musical accompaniment from Guy Forsyth
 Oldboy
 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
 Nid de guepes
 Blind (short film)
 Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
 Haute Tension
 Teenage Mother
 The Rotten Fruit
 Undead
 The Passion of the Christ followed by Q&A with Director Mel Gibson.

Butt-Numb-A-Thon 6 (2004)
Dec. 11-12, 2004
 Putney Swope
 Willie McBean and his Magic Machine
 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events followed by Q&A with actress Emily Browning and actor Liam Aiken.
 Madagascar (unfinished clips)
 The Black Swan
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy slide show/Q&A with Producer Robbie Stamp.
 Blonde Venus
 Legend of the Sacred Stone
 Miss Sadie Thompson
 War of the Worlds with video introduction from Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise.
 The Phantom of the Opera
 Welcome Home, Brother Charles
 The Ring 2
 The Mutations and Q&A with Director Robert Weinbach.
 Toys are Not for Children
 Layer Cake and Q&A with actor Tamar Hussain.
 2001 Maniacs (clip) with introduction from Director Eli Roth.
 Casshern
 Ong-Bak
 Time Piece (short)
 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (behind the scenes clips)
 Kung Fu Hustle

The 7th Voyage of Butt-Numb-A-Thon (2005)
Dec. 10-11, 2005
 Apocalypto
 The Most Dangerous Game
 The Pit and the Pendulum by Ray Harryhausen
 King Kong
 Footlight Parade
 Sick Girl
 Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
 The Professionals
 District B13
 2gether 4ever at Bloody-Disgusting.com, at Ain't It Cool News
 Cigarette Burns
 Hostel (unfinished clip) presented by Eli Roth.
 The Descent
 Stunt Rock
 Drum
 X-Men: The Last Stand
 Mission: Impossible III
 Der Fuehrer's Face
 V for Vendetta

OctoButt-Numb-A-Thon (2006)
Dec. 9-10, 2006
 Pan's Labyrinth - this film was not part of the core BNAT line-up, but it was open to BNAT attendees the night before.
 Chirpy (short)
 Stunt Rock
 Raw Force
 Teenage Tramp
 The Telephone Book
 Black Snake Moan and Q&A with Director Craig Brewer.
 Dreamgirls and Q&A with Director Bill Condon.
 Panorama Blue
 Female Animal
 Baby Love
 Girls Are For Loving
 Underage
 Once Upon a Girl
 Inherit the Wind
 Rocky
 Rocky II
 Rocky III
 Rocky IV
 Rocky V
 Rocky Balboa with introduction by Sylvester Stallone.
  Fanboys preview.
 The Mafu Cage
 The Buttercup Chain
 PEPE
 Mantango
 Knocked Up
 Teen Wolf (snippet) - started as a joke; not shown in full.
 Black Book
 The Informer
 The Challenge of the Lady Ninja
 The Legend of Hillbilly John
 It Came Without Warning
 Cannibal Girls
 Curse
 Raw Force
 Smokin' Aces
 300 and Q&A with Director Zack Snyder.
 Children of Men - this film was not part of the core BNAT line-up, but it was open to BNAT attendees the night after BNAT.

Half-Ass-A-Thon (2007)
June 24–25, 2007
 Africa: Texas Style
 Drum
 Three the Hard Way
 Stunt Rock
 Wonder Bar
 Tarzan and the Brown Prince aka Tarzán y el arco iris
 Gymkata
 Death Ride aka Crash!
 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
 Gambit
 (PSA) Clint Eastwood describes crack cocaine and warns the audience to avoid it.
 Stardust with introduction by Director Matthew Vaughn.
 Battle Beneath the Earth
 (advertisement) Starmaster for the Atari 2600
 The Magic Voyage of Sinbad aka Sadko
 (advertisement) Two Bic(c) lighters talk about refreshments that are available in the lobby.
 Topkapi
 Future Kill
 The Toy Box
 White Comanche aka Comanche Blanco
 Who?
 The Terrornauts
 Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
 Impulse
 Seven Blows of the Dragon aka Shui Hu Zhuan

Big Trouble at Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9 (2007)
Dec. 8-9, 2007; Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz, Austin, Texas
 Hobo with a Shotgun
 Popcorn
 Pinocchio's Birthday Party at IMDb
 Happy Birthday to Me at IMDb
 The Party Animal at IMDb
 Stunt Rock
 The Great McGinty at IMDb
 The 'Burbs at IMDb
 Bachelor Party
 Amin: The Rise and Fall
 Charlie Wilson's War*  trailer
 A Bomb for a Dictator at IMDb
 Have Your Kids Immunized Today (Will Rogers Institute PSA)
 Mr. No Legs
 Pickup on South Street at IMDb
 The Secret of Magic Island at IMDb
 Big Trouble in Little China
 Thundercops
 Mongol  trailer
 The Exterminator at IMDb
 Vintage In-Theater Pizza Advert
 Sorceress at IMDb
 The Abominable Dr. Phibes trailer
 Voyage of the Rock Aliens at IMDb
 Get Crazy at IMDb
 Freckles at IMDb
 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street* trailer
 Blind Fury at IMDb
  Stop or My Mom Will Shoot
 Lonely Are the Brave at IMDb
 Man Beast at IMDb
 W.
 Three in the Cellar at IMDb
 The Evictors at IMDb
 The Poughkeepsie Tapes* (director/writer John Erick Dowdle, wife/star Stacy Chbosky, and writer Drew Dowdle attended but were unable to speak as scheduled due to studio demands)
  Teen Lust at IMDb
 "The City on the Edge of Forever" episode of Star Trek, broadcast in HD.
 Call Me Bwana at IMDb
 J.D.'s Revenge at IMDb
 Golden Needles at IMDb
 Black Samurai
 Addio Zio Tom | Farewell Uncle Tom at IMDb
 Halloween III: Season of the Witch at IMDb
 Nightmares
 Trick or Treat at IMDb
 Trick 'r Treat* with Q&A with director/writer Michael Dougherty. trailer

EXCLUSIVE CLIPS
 "Rambo" with on-screen text intro from Sylvester Stallone.
 "WALL-E" with intros and Q&A with producers.
 "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"
 "Fanboys" - Lucas Ranch interrogation filmed four days before BNAT

The Ten Commandments of Butt-Numb-A-Thon (2008)
Dec. 13-14, 2008; Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Austin, Texas

 Invasion U.S.A
 The Slumber Party Massacre
 Pinocchio's Birthday Party at IMDb
 Stunt Rock
 Teen Wolf first few minutes, ending with film burning. Guest appearance by Teen Wolf in yellow Beavers basketball uniform.
 Viva Villa!
 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
 Atari 2600 commercial
 Case Study: Amphetamines
 La Joie de Vivre
 Coraline exclusive clips in 3-D
 Dr. Pepper commercial
 The Terrornauts
 Sahara
 Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
 MegaForce
 The Villain
 Valkyrie with video intro by Director Bryan Singer.
 Up first 45 minutes, featuring unfinished portions and Q&A with co-directors Pete Docter and Bob Peterson.
 Metropolis with rare 1984 Giorgio Moroder soundtrack featuring popular 80s artists.
 Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D, with exclusive clips featuring unfinished portions and Q&A with filmmaker.
 Dimensionscope 3-D presentation
 Black Angels at IMdB
 Maximum Overdrive
 My Bloody Valentine
 The Devil Within Her at IMdB
 Metal Storm
 My Bloody Valentine in 3D, with introduction and Q&A by director Patrick Lussier and co-stars Jaime King and Megan Boone.
 I Love You, Man with video intro by Paul Rudd and Jason Segel
 Beastmaster 2
 C.H.O.M.P.S. at IMdB
 The Secret of Magic Island
 White Dog
 Push exclusive clips
 Know1ng exclusive clip
 Observe and Report exclusive clips with video intro by Seth Rogen.
 Terminator Salvation exclusive clips with guest appearance by Director McG.
 Watchmen first 22 minutes of film, with guest appearance by actor Jackie Earle Haley.
 Voodoo Woman
 Jim Henson's Time Piece
 Latino Encounter
 Amin
 Frosted Pop-Tarts commercial
 Mission Thunderbolt at IMdB
 Che

BNAT 1138 (2009)
December 12–13, 2009: Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Austin, Texas

The name derives from the film THX 1138, as this was the 11th edition of Butt-Numb-A-Thon and the celebration of Knowles' 38th birthday.

 99 & 44/100% Dead at IMDB
 Death Machines
 The Uncanny
 Stunt Rock
 Teen Wolf - Opening credits and first scene, with the projector burning through the actual film stock per BNAT tradition. This time, Alamo Drafthouse owner Tim League announced that a new remastered digital version had been found, and a man (Scott Weinberg, managing editor of Cinematical) wearing a Dolby T-shirt—who claimed to be from Dolby and called himself Thomas Dolby—promised to write the Drafthouse a check for $15,000 if the film failed to play correctly. Of course, it did not, and the screen quickly filled with static.
 Faust (with live organ accompaniment by Graham Reynolds)
 The Rape Killer at IMDB
 Ricky Schroeder PSA about dealing with abusive situations, dubbed in Spanish
 The Lovely Bones
 That's Dancing
 Nudes on Tiger Reef at IMDB
 The Fastest Guitar Alive
 Girl Crazy
 Attack of the 50-Foot Woman
 Candy Candido - "One Meatball" (music video)
 The Red Shoes
 Beer-chugging contest between teams consisting of a BNAT attendee, Broken Lizard and Tim League, and members of the Ain't It Cool News staff (including Mr. Beaks, Massawyrm, Merrick, Capone and Harry).
 They Call Her One Eye
 Sudden Death
 Shutter Island
 James Tont Operazione U.N.O.
 Maniac Cop 2
 Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
 Le Magnifique
 Micmacs à tire-larigot
 The Ski Bum at IMDB
 Hot Dog: The Movie
 Frozen with introduction by Director Adam Green.
 Bug
 Mission Thunderbolt
 Centipede Horror at IMDB
 The Honeymoon Killers at IMDB
 Mr. No Legs at IMDB
 Lunch Wagon
 The Candy Snatchers
 Clip of Asian men dressed as sumo wrestlers being attacked by aroused dogs.
 AICN - True-ish Hollywood Story featuring taped greetings, memories and sarcastic comments for Harry's birthday from Jon Favreau, Danny McBride, Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, J. J. Abrams and Michael Bay. Produced by Paramount Pictures.
 Iron Man 2 (world premiere of trailer with video introduction by director Jon Favreau)
 Fearless Frank at IMDB
 Animal Protector at IMDB
 Captain Invicible
 Kick-Ass followed by Q&A with Director Matthew Vaughn and star Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
 I Come in Peace
 Dr. Pepper Post-Cola Wars commercial
 Avatar

Butt-Numb-A-Thon: The Dirty Dozenth (2010)
Dec. 11-12, 2010; Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Austin, Texas

 True Grit
 Le Samouraï
 On The Town
 Cowboys & Aliens (approximately 40 mins) with in-person intros by Director Jon Favreau, and Producers Ron Howard and Bob Orci.
 Rango Eight-minute exclusive clip with video intro by Director Gore Verbinski.
 Santa Fe Trail
 The Fighter
 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
 Chimes at Midnight
 Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
 The Green Hornet
  Hobo With a Shotgun
 Drive Angry with in-person intro by Director Patrick Lussier.
 Tron: Legacy (BNAT attendees were bussed to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum IMAX theater to see the film in IMAX 3D)

Butt-Numb-A-Thon: ThirTEEN WOLF, aka BNAT13WOLF (2011)
Dec. 10-11, 2011; Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Austin, Texas

The name derives from the long-standing tradition of playing the 1985 movie Teen Wolf at BNAT, only to have the film burn or be destroyed before any significant portion is screened. Tim League, founder and CEO of the Alamo Drafthouse told Jeff Mahler (a longtime BNAT attendee whose love for Teen Wolf inspired its unsuccessful inclusion in the festival each year) that the film would be screened at BNAT13WOLF, but that due to scheduling demands the pristine 35mm print film  they had found had to be cut into "literally thousands of pieces" and edited into the program whenever time was available.  Clips that highlighted the entirety of Teen Wolf were then inserted into the sequences of themed trailers that preceded all of the feature films. The actual clips were in extremely small segments of less than two seconds each.  Most often they were only a few frames in length - a hilarious image from the movie popping up and disappearing in a flash.

 Video message from Eric Vespe, Peter Jackson, Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen and other cast and crew members of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
 Stunt Rock
 Mini Teen Wolf clip
 Teen Wolf Too
 An American Werewolf in London
 Hugo
 Le Voyage dans la lune (aka A Trip to the Moon) (with live organ accompaniment by Graham Reynolds.)
 Mini Teen Wolf clip
 Nightflyers
 The Apple
 Mini Teen Wolf clip
 The War Between the Planets (aka Il pianeta errante)
 Just Imagine
 The Killer Elite
 Mini Teen Wolf clip
 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
 Mini Teen Wolf clip
 Top Secret
 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, preceded by video introduction by Director Tomas Alfredson and star Gary Oldman.
 35 Movies in Two Minutes
 The Cheap Detective
 Less Than Zero
 Mini Teen Wolf clip
 Young Sherlock Holmes
 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, preceded by video intro by director Guy Ritchie.
 The TRON Holiday Special
 The Hand
 The Devil's Hand
 Mini Teen Wolf clip
 The Beast with Five Fingers
 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3 times) [Originally intended to be shown first, delayed due to technical issues]
 The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
 Popeye
 G.I. JOE: Retaliation
 The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
 The Devil Inside [Red-band trailer with attendees given shot glasses filled with alcohol and a candy cane]
 Redzilla
 Von Richthofen and Brown
 Spirited Away
 Porco Rosso
 To the Devil a Daughter
 The Dungeon Master
 The Evil Dead
 The Cabin in the Woods
 clips from UHF
 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance behind-the-scenes clip
 Race with the Devil
 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance followed by Q&A with co-Director Brian Taylor.
 Wolf
 Mini Teen Wolf clip
 The Company of Wolves
 Mini Teen Wolf clip
 Wolfen
 Butt Drugs
 The Grey, followed by a Q&A with Producer Jules Daly.
  Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (BNAT attendees were bussed to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum IMAX theater to see the film in IMAX 70mm)

Butt-Numb-A-Thon 14: The Lucky Number (2012)
Dec. 8-9 2012; Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Austin, Texas

Ain't It Cool with Harry Knowles sizzle reel
Teen Wolf (except the final scene and credits, as the film melted twice)
Star Trek Into Darkness (theatrical trailer preview)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 48 fps RealD 3D, with in-person intro by director/writer/producer Peter Jackson, writer/producer Fran Walsh and writer/co-producer Philippa Boyens, and followed by Q&A with Peter Jackson
G.I. Joe: Retaliation with video intro by Dwayne Johnson, aka "The Rock"
Video clip of Eleanor Powell at 1981 AFI tribute for Fred Astaire
Broadway Melody of 1940
All Hands on Deck
Kingdom in the Clouds
Munchies
The Gang's All Here
The Wishing Machine
Women in Cell Block 7 with Spanish subtitles
Mama followed by Q&A with Producer Guillermo del Toro, Director Andres Muschietti and Writer Barbara Muschietti.
Pacific Rim (trailer premiere), followed by Q&A with Director Guillermo del Toro.
World War Z rough cut opening footage with video intro by Brad Pitt
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
What's Up, Doc?
Libeled Lady
Video birthday message to Harry from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Fateful Findings
Evil Dead clip
Judex
Jerrico the Wonder Clown
Carnival of Blood
Nightmare Alley
Tougher Than Leather
Dead Heat
Amazon Women on the Moon
White Heat
The Heat red band trailer and 2 scenes with in-person intro by director Paul Feig, followed by Q&A with Paul Feig.
The Blood of Heroes
They Call Her One Eye
Rollerball
Streets of Fire
The Warriors
Southern Comfort
Stunt Rock
Pain & Gain trailer, with video intro by Director Michael Bay.
Bullet to the Head

Butt-Numb-A-Thon 15 (2013)
Dec. 7-8 2013; Alamo Drafthouse Ritz Austin, Texas

The Wolf of Wall Street (A small live marching band took the front of the stage & confetti was released during the end credits)
Harlequin
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Shown in 70mm format)
Cheatin'
Popeye
The Dragon Lives Again
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Digging Up The Marrow (Director Adam Green showed an unfinished version of his upcoming film.)
The Haunted Palace
The Fruit Is Swelling
The Wind Rises

Butt-Numb-A-Thon: 16 BNAT Candles (2014)
Dec. 13-14 2014; Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Austin, Texas

Hooper
Kingsman: The Secret Service, delivered by Samuel L. Jackson with a Q&A prior to the start
The King and The Mockingbird
Inherent Vice
The Interview, delivered by Seth Rogen with a fireworks intro and a Q&A after
1941
Captain Courageous
Million Dollar Mermaid
Santiago Violenta
A Christmas Horror Story
Son of Kong
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Butt-Numb-A-Thon Episode 17: The Ass Awaits! (2015)
Dec. 12-13 2015; Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Austin, Texas

Held in the Holly Blain Memorial Theater

Gunga Din
Southern Comfort
Syncopation
Eddie the Eagle
The Tale of the Fox
Anomalisa
Phantasm
The Angry Red Planet
Ninja Busters
Logan's Run
The Revenant

Butt-Numb-A-Thon 18 Psycho (2016)
Dec. 10-11 2016; Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Austin, Texas

Held in the Holly Blain Memorial Theater

Silence
Deluge
Fences
Long Live the King
Kong: Skull Island (2 scenes)
A Cure for Wellness (with introduction by actor Dane DeHaan and Director Gore Verbinski)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (clips)
Brigadoon
"Pimpernel" Smith
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Zachariah
Logan (first 40 minutes followed by Q&A with Director James Mangold)
Hard Boiled

References

Butt-Numb-A-Thon


Toria is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.  Its elevation is 1040 feet (317 m).

References

Unincorporated communities in Adair County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky


The Armada were a three-piece rock band based in Cork, Ireland fronted by Jeff Martin, formerly of The Tea Party. The band was formed when Jeff Martin and Wayne Sheehy met in an Irish pub. The two hit it off immediately and soon started making music together.

The name of the band refers to the Spanish Armada:"We were like, what is this?" [Jeff Martin] said. "It's massive, but what do we make of this?"
That's when Sheehy commented, "It's kind of like the Spanish Armada . . . attacking you from all fronts."

On 27 September 2008, Gareth Forsyth was announced as the band's touring bassist/keyboardist through the band's MySpace. Their debut album, The Armada, was released through the Kingdom Records website on 4 November 2008.

By 2009, after Sheehy moved to Perth to join Martin and prepare for a tour, Jay Cortez was the band's bass player, playing his first show in the band on 1 July 2009. Sheehy announced on Facebook in September 2010 that he left the band after its first tour, but stayed involved due to the release of the Live at WOMadelaide 2010 DVD. In 2010 Martin formed Jeff Martin 777, with Cortez and Malcolm Clark on drums, and The Armada effectively ended.

Members
Jeff Martin – vocals, guitar
Wayne Sheehy – drums
Jay Cortez – bass

Discography
 The Armada (2008)
 Live at WOMadelaide 2010 (2010)

References

External links
Official website
The Armada MySpace
Jeff Martin Official Website
Kingdom Records

Irish rock music groups
Musical groups from Cork (city)


Weed is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.  Its elevation is 1043 feet (318 m).

The Weed post office, which is no longer in operation, was established on October 15, 1901, by Charles Weed Sparks, Sr., who gave it his middle name.  Sparks had earlier run the post office at nearby Sparksville, which was also named for him.

References

Unincorporated communities in Adair County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky


"Elementary School Musical" is the thirteenth episode of the twelfth season of the animated series South Park, and the 180th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 12, 2008. In the episode, a new boy at school helps set off an impromptu-singing-and-dancing craze that the boys vow to never go along with, dragging them down into the dregs of unpopularity.

The episode was written and directed by series co-founder Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA L in the United States. The episode is a parody of the High School Musical film series.

Plot
Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick realize that, apart from them, everyone at school has bought into the newest fad, the High School Musical film series. The four boys repeatedly witness the rest of South Park Elementary collectively break into song, in the spirit of the musical films. Unaware of what High School Musical is, the boys watch one of the films, but dislike it, and vow never to become a part of this fad. Cartman decides to commit suicide by inducing carbon monoxide poisoning while sleeping under his mother's car (with the engine turned on) but it fails since hybrid cars do not "do the trick anymore".

Stan fears that Wendy Testaburger is becoming close with a popular third-grader named Bridon Gueermo (a parody of Zac Efron's character Troy in High School Musical voiced by Trey Parker), because they tend to share lead roles in the musical routines. Stan talks to Bridon in hopes of directing him away from Wendy, and finds out Bridon would prefer to play basketball instead of singing. It is revealed that Bridon only sings and dances because his theater-crazed, flamboyant metrosexual father (also voiced by Parker) forces him to do it. Stan pressures him to try out with the basketball team anyway. Although Mr. Gueermo is shown to be abusive to his family (though only capable of light, effeminate slaps) Bridon eventually stands up for himself (punching his father in the face), and joins the team.

Meanwhile, unhappy at becoming an outcast in school, Stan decides to join the trend and studies the High School Musical series intensively, despite having vowed against it. He convinces Kyle, Cartman and Kenny that the world has changed, and they cannot go against the tide anymore. The next day at school, the four boys perform a song along with an equally elaborate dance routine about the importance of following one's dreams. However, upon learning that Bridon has joined the basketball team, everyone else is uninterested and leaves during the boys' performance to watch Bridon play basketball instead. The four kids learn that the rest of the school just liked Bridon for his looks and charisma and not the fad itself.

Production

"Elementary School Musical" was one of dozens of South Park episodes developed the Thursday before broadcast during a writer's meeting. High School Musical 3: Senior Year had opened in theaters several weeks before and was a national hot topic; the team had previously mentioned the series as a target for satire. The initial idea the episode was based on was that everyone in South Park is singing High School Musical-style numbers, except for the four main boys. Series co-creator Trey Parker joked during the meeting that his objective for the next week would be to write a full-blown musical. The writers returned to the idea not long afterward, and the episode was put into production.

Parker and Stone watched the High School Musical movies during the development of the show. The previous episode of the series, "About Last Night...", had required the duo to view the Ocean's Eleven series in preparation, which they later remarked was an easier, more enjoyable task. Upon the realization that the songs in the High School Musical series appear disconnected from the plot, Parker found it easier to write fodder songs in one week. Stone commented that the episode's story structure is unique in that characters are set up to make a decision, but the audience does not see that decision being made, and the story rather cuts to the aftermath of the decision. This is particularly evident in the episode's final moments, in which the audience never sees the boys preparing their musical number, but are surprised with it at the end. Parker and Stone noted that this structure was further explored in the next episode of the season, "The Ungroundable".

Stone noted that the children depicted in South Park are fourth graders, the target audience for the Disney films. He spoke in the episode's DVD commentary on how kids at that age tend to watch television in which characters are older and often adolescents. Parker and Stone both admitted their favorite part of the episode were scenes in which Bridon Gueermo's father commands the lead, as they found his character, with his slapping abuse, very amusing.

Cultural references
The episode is a satire of the High School Musical series; when the boys watch the film in an attempt to understand the phenomenon, a song from the original film "Stick to the Status Quo," is heard. When asked where the boys have been to be unaware of the High School Musical craze, Craig responds "Peru"; this is a reference to episodes from earlier in season, "Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2: The Startling," in which the boys travel to the country of Peru.

During Bridon's basketball game, his father is swayed by the "jock jam" music played over the loud speakers, which includes the music of Queen and Gary Glitter. When Stan is pressured to sing a song in the episode, he turns to the only songs he knows: the standards "Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah", "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" and "Happy Birthday".

At the end of the show, Kenny is seen wearing a Rolling Stones shirt.

Reception
Travis Fickett of IGN commented that the episode "doesn't make as much of the idea as it could" and rated the episode at 7.5 out of 10. 411mania's DC Perry rated it at 7.4 out of 10 compared it favorably to other episodes of the season, but wrote that "[b]eing one of the best episodes of this season isn't really an accomplishment ... It just feels like they're running out of ideas." Sean O'Neal of The A.V. Club gave the episode a 'B+' rating, describing it as a "silly-smart episode that nevertheless ranks as one of the standouts from what's proven to be a very hit-or-miss season".

Home release
"Elementary School Musical", along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park'''s twelfth season, were released on a three-disc DVD set and two-disc Blu-ray set in the United States on March 10, 2009. The sets included brief audio commentaries by Parker and Stone for each episode, a collection of deleted scenes, and two special mini-features, The Making of 'Major Boobage and Six Days to South Park''.

References

External links
 "Elementary School Musical" Full episode at South Park Studios

South Park (season 12) episodes
High School Musical (franchise)
Musical television episodes
Television episodes about child abuse
Television episodes about domestic violence

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This is a list of roads designated A16. Roads entries are sorted in the countries alphabetical order.

 Grand Junction Road, in South Australia connecting Port Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills
 A16 motorway (Belgium), a road connecting Mons and Tournai
 A16 motorway (France), a road connecting Abbeville and Dunkirk

 A16 motorway (Italy), a road connecting Naples and Canosa
 A16 highway (Lithuania), a road connecting Vilnius, Prienai and Marijampolė
 A16 road (Malaysia), a road connecting Kampung Labu Kubong and Kampung Changkat Petai
 A16 motorway (Netherlands), a road connecting the interchange Terbregseplein near Rotterdam and the Belgian border near Breda
 A-16 motorway (Spain), a road connecting Barcelona and El Vendrell
 A 16 road (Sri Lanka), a road connecting Beragala and Hali ela
 A16 motorway (Switzerland), a road connecting Boncourt at the French border and Biel/Bienne
 A16 road (United Kingdom) may refer to:
 A16 road (England), a road connecting Grimsby and Peterborough
 A16 road (Isle of Man), a road connecting Bride and Point of Ayre road
 A16 road (United States of America) may refer to:
 A16 road (California), a road connecting the SR 36 and the SR 273 in Redding

See also
 List of highways numbered 16


Prasad Studios & Prasad Film Labs are motion picture post-production studios headquartered in Chennai, India, founded by Prasad Group in 1956. The production house has produced over 150 movies in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi.

This group is one of the largest chain of post production facilities in India with a total of 12 delivery units located in all the major film production centers of India such as Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata and has an overseas presence in Singapore, Dubai and United States.

It has also won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Processing Lab 9 times over the last 3 decades.

History
Headed by Ramesh Prasad, son of late L.V. Prasad and Sai Prasad, grandson of late L.V. Prasad.  The group owns one of the major equipment and film facilities in India for feature film and advertising post production. Prasad Group works in feature films, film and video restoration and advertising commercial production.

Prasad Group
Prasad Productions Pvt Ltd
Prasad Art Pictures
Prasad Film Labs
Prasad EFX -  Largest digital restoration facilities in the world
Prasad Video Digital
L. V. Prasad Film and TV Academy
Prasads Multiplex / Mall, Prasads IMAX
Prasad Panavision
Prasad Corp USA.
Prasad Digital Intermediate
DCE Dubai
DCE Singapore
DFT - Digital Film Technology GmbH - manufacturers of the Scanity real time motion picture film scanner.
L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy

Locations
India:
 Chennai, Tamilnadu (Headquarter)
 Mumbai, Maharastra
 Hyderabad, Telangana
 Bangalore, Karnataka
 Trivandrum, Kerala
 Bhubaneswar, Odisha
 Kolkata, West Bengal
 New Delhi (sales office)

United States:
 Hollywood, California (sales office)
 Burbank, California(sales office)

Germany:
 Darmstadt

Japan:
 Tokyo

UK:
 London

Productions
Arasu Vidumurai (2014)

See also
L. V. Prasad Eye Institute

References

External links
Official website - Prasad Group
Imdb

Indian film studios
Film production companies based in Hyderabad, India
Recording studios in India
Entertainment companies established in 1965
Indian companies established in 1965
1965 establishments in Andhra Pradesh


SB-612,111 is an opioid receptor ligand which is a potent and selective antagonist for the nociceptin receptor (ORL-1), several times more potent than the older drug J-113,397. It does not have analgesic effects in its own right, but prevents the development of hyperalgesia, and also shows antidepressant effects in animal studies.

See also
 JTC-801
 J-113,397
 LY-2940094

References

4-Phenylpiperidines
Opioids
Chloroarenes
Secondary alcohols
Nociceptin receptor antagonists


The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta (FAVA) is a Canadian non-profit, charitable film organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, which provides training, equipment, studio spaces and networking opportunities for emerging and established filmmakers. Established by independent artists in 1982, FAVA represents one of the oldest artist-run co-ops in Canada and reached its 40th anniversary milestone in 2022. Since 2019, the society has operated out of the City of Edmonton's Orange Hub, where they now offer access to multiple large-scale studio spaces, a recording suite, editing suites, and a dark room. FAVA's successful model is now copied by other non-profit cooperatives; having grown from 16 initial members to today's more than 300. Early years of meager supplies and limited resources helped to nurture a communal sense of sharing and a pooling of equipment that extended even to the National Film Board of Canada who shared office space and an infamous "late-night key" (that provided access to a bounty of top-line equipment) with FAVA in the Ortona Armoury (their previous location). Today, young and emerging artists have access to equipment, expert advice, and an established network of linked-in artists and policy advisers, that enable them to engage in creative and experimental projects that would be nearly impossible to attain on their own.

The organization's events include the annual FAVA Fest, a film festival devoted exclusively to films made within the Edmonton region, and the Gotta Minute Film Festival, a one-minute, silent film festival that screens in public spaces, mainly PATTISON screens on the Edmonton LRT and Calgary C-Train. FAVA Fest is a qualifying festival for the Canadian Screen Awards.

In the early 2010s, FAVA began developing a web app then known as "Filmreel", which use was to consolidate multiple forms of software and tools the organization was using to manage inventory, members, education, statistics, and rental bookings. The app changed its name to AMS Network, which is now used by many similar organizations across Canada.

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Heart Talk (, ) is a 2008 Khmer horror film, a second film produced by Khmer Mekong Films after the successful of 2007's romantic comedy Staying Single When and a television series, the Taste of Life. It is directed by UK director Bill Broomfield and Cambodian young director, Tom Som and written by British novelist and screenwriter with much personal experience of Cambodia, Matt Baylis, but translated into Khmer script by Kiri Roat.

Plot
A pacy contemporary thriller about three attractive female presenters at a chic but troubled Phnom Penh radio station. Two of them, Chantha and Kim, disappear as the story progresses, possibly murdered. However, the third, Maly, receives threats and feels her life is constantly in danger and before it's too late to save her life, she must reveal the murderous who truly near her every minute and she can't explain what kind of criminal, supernatural or reality?

Shooting and Release
The film spend only around a month to shooting which started on Saturday 7 June 2008 and wrapped on Sunday 6 July.
Heart Talk is a fully funded 100-minute film and will be available (with English subtitles) for release in October 2008.

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Sir Brian William Vickers  (born 13 December 1937) is a British academic, now Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich. He is known for his work on the history of rhetoric, Shakespeare, John Ford, and Francis Bacon. He joined the English department at University College London as a visiting professor in 2012.

Life
He was born in Cardiff, educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, London and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1962 with a Double First in English, winning both the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Scholarship and the Harness Shakespeare Essay Prize. He was awarded his doctorate from Cambridge in 1967, and was a fellow of Downing College from 1966 to 1971 during which time he directed studies in English. In 1972 he became professor ordinarius at ETH Zurich.

He has been a fellow of the British Academy since 1998 (Corresponding, Ordinary Fellow from 2003) and a senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London since 2004.  He was knighted for services to literary scholarship in the New Year Honours of 2008.  He is the general editor of an old-spelling edition of the Complete Works of John Ford, published by Oxford University Press.

Works
 (ed.) The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie (1967)
 Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose (1968)
 The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose (1968)
 The World of Jonathan Swift: essays for the tercentenary (1968)
 (ed.) Essential articles for the study of Francis Bacon (1968)
 (ed.) Seventeenth-century Prose: an anthology (1969)
 Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry (1970)
 Towards Greek Tragedy: drama, myth, society (1973)
 (ed.) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage (six volumes, 1974–81)
 Francis Bacon (1978)
 Frances Yates and the Writing of History (1979)
 Shakespeare's Hypocrites (1979)
 Rhetorical and Anti-rhetorical Tropes : on writing the history of elocution (1981)
 (ed.) Shakespeare: Coriolanus (1981)
 (ed.) Rhetoric Revalued: papers from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (1982)
 Epideictic and Epic in the Renaissance (1983)
 Epideictic rhetoric in Galileo's "Dialogo" (1983)
 (ed.) Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance (1984)
 Rhetoric and the Pursuit of Truth: language change in the 17th and 18th centuries (1985)
 Public and Private Life in the Seventeenth Century: the Mackenzie-Evelyn debate (1986)
 English Science, Bacon to Newton (1987)
 In Defence of Rhetoric (1988)
 Returning to Shakespeare (1989)

 Arbeit, Musse, Meditation : Studies in the Vita activa and Vita contemplativa (1991)
 Appropriating Shakespeare: contemporary critical quarrels (1993)
 (ed.) The history of the reign of King Henry VII and selected works by Francis Bacon (1998)
 (ed.) The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon (1999)
 (ed.) English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1999)
 Shakespeare, Co-author: a historical study of the five collaborative plays (2002)
 (ed.) Francis Bacon, The Major Works: [including New Atlantis and the Essays] (2002)
 Counterfeiting Shakespeare: evidence, authorship, and John Ford's Funerall elegye (2002)
 (ed. with William Baker) The Merchant of Venice (2005)
 Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford (2007)
 The One King Lear (2016)

See also
Otium

References

External links
Official Website
Official page at ETH Zurich
Official page at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study
Bibliography (PDF)

1937 births
Living people
British literary theorists
Francis Bacon scholars
Knights Bachelor
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge
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The National Administrative Department of Solidarity Economy (, DanSocial) was a Colombian Executive Administrative Department in charge of directing and coordinating government policy to promote, plan, protect, strengthen, and develop the organizations of social economy in order to improve the quality of life of the Colombian people.

References

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Government agencies established in 1998
Government agencies disestablished in 2011
Administrative departments of Colombia


"Made Me Hard" a song by Australian band, The Whitlams. Released in May 2001 as the third and final single from their fourth album, Love This City. It peaked at number 75 in Australia. A music video for the song was filmed in Thailand.

Track listing
"Made Me Hard" – 3:33
"Gough" (JJJ Live at the Wireless, Nov. 1999) – 3:22
"Charlie No.3" (JJJ Live at the Wireless, Nov. 1999) – 4:14
"Blow Up the Pokies" (MCM Cold Live at the chapel, May 2000) – 3:28

Charts

References

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2001 singles
2001 songs


Edme Hippolyte Marié-Davy (28 April 1820 – 26 July 1893) was a French chemist and inventor during the 19th century. He was born in Clamecy, Nièvre.

In 1854, he invented the first naval periscope, consisting in a vertical tube with two small mirrors fixed at each end at 45°. He also invented a mercury bisulfate battery that bears his name, "the Marie-Davy".

In 1854, Marié-Davy invented an electromagnetic motor. Based on it, he proposed a submarine with an electrically driven propeller. McClintock and Watson once planned to use the device on the Hunley. The engine was said to have the power of "a one-horse steam engine".

In the 1860s, he was Deputy Director of the Paris Observatory, in charge of meteorology. He devoted himself to the study of local thunderstorms, following the destructive storm of 14 November 1854, in the Crimean War.

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1893 deaths
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Ryszard Marian Schnepf (born September 22, 1951) is a Polish politician and diplomat.

Early life
Schnepf was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1951, to Polish mother Alicja Szczepaniak-Schnepf (born 1930), recognized as Righteous Among The Nations, and father, colonel Maksymilian Schnepf (1920–2003), who, until 1968, was head of the communist military office (Studium Wojskowe) at the University of Warsaw.

Ryszard Schnepf graduated from history at the University of Warsaw. He defended doctoral thesis there.

Career
Since 1978 he has been working as a lecturer at the University of Warsaw. In the early 1990s Schnepf joined the diplomatic service. Between 1991 and 1996 he served as Ambassador to Uruguay and Paraguay and between 2001 and 2005 to Costa Rica. From 2007 to late 2008 he served as the under-secretary of state of Poland, as part of the Foreign Ministry. From 2008 to 2012 he was ambassador to Spain.

On 14 January 2013, Ryszard Schnepf presented his credentials to U.S. President Barack Obama in a formal ceremony at the Oval Office, marking his official recognition as Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the United States. He served as Poland's Ambassador until July 31, 2016. He was succeeded as Ambassador by Piotr Wilczek.

Honours

 Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (Spain, 2012)
 Grand Cross of the National Order of Juan Mora Fernández (Costa Rica, 2004)

References

1951 births
Living people
Diplomats from Warsaw
Politicians from Warsaw
Polish people of Jewish descent
Ambassadors of Poland to Uruguay
Ambassadors of Poland to Paraguay
Ambassadors of Poland to Costa Rica
Ambassadors of Poland to Spain
Ambassadors of Poland to the United States
Ambassadors of Poland to the Bahamas
Academic staff of the University of Warsaw
University of Warsaw alumni


The November 2008 San Francisco general elections were held on November 4, 2008 in San Francisco, California. The elections included seven seats to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, one seat to the San Francisco County Superior Court, and twenty-two San Francisco ballot measures.

Board of Supervisors

Superior Court

Propositions

Note: "City" refers to the San Francisco municipal government.

Proposition A

Proposition A would authorize the City to issue $887.4 million in bonds to rebuild and improve San Francisco General Hospital. This proposition required a two-thirds majority to pass.

Proposition B

Proposition B would establish an Affordable Housing Fund to acquire new affordable housing, funded by setting aside a portion of property taxes.

Proposition C

Proposition C would prohibit City employees from serving on most Charter-created boards and commissions.

Proposition D

Proposition D would allocate funds from new hotel and payroll expense tax revenues toward developing Pier 70, on the Central Waterfront, if a financial and land use plan is approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Proposition E

Proposition E would change the number of signatures needed to recall city officials from a fixed 10% of registered voters to a scale of from 10% to 15% based on population.

Proposition F

Proposition F would shift City elections of some citywide offices from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years after November 2011.

Proposition G

Proposition G would "allow City employees to purchase retirement system credit for unpaid parental leave taken before July 1, 2003, as long as the purchase price covers all city costs."

Proposition H

Proposition H would establish public power in San Francisco, allowing the City to purchase public utilities, establishing deadlines on alternative energy use, allowing the City Public Utilities Commission to set rates, and allowing the Board of Supervisors to issue public utility bonds without voter approval.

Proposition I

Proposition I would create the Office of Independent Ratepayer Advocate to recommend public utility rates to the City Public Utilities Commission.

Proposition J

Proposition J would create a Historic Preservation Commission and allow it to make decisions regarding historic preservation in the City.

Proposition K

Proposition K would decriminalize prostitution, enforce laws against crimes on sex workers, and disclose all investigations and prosecutions of violent crimes against sex workers.

Proposition L

Proposition L would ensure first-year funding, furnish leased space, and define the scope and operations of the Community Justice Center.

Proposition M

Proposition M would prohibit landlords from engaging in specific acts of tenant harassment and allow such enforcement by court orders, rent reduction, monetary awards, and criminal penalties.

Proposition N

Proposition N would increase the transfer tax on properties worth $5 million or up to 1.5% and reduce the tax on residences that install solar energy systems or make seismic upgrades.

Proposition O

Proposition O would replace the Emergency Response Fee with a functionally equivalent Access Line Tax and revise the Telephone Users Tax.

Proposition P

Proposition P would change the size and composition of the San Francisco Transportation Authority Board from the entire Board of Supervisors to one consisting of the Mayor, the President of the Board of Supervisors, an elected City official selected by the Mayor, an elected City official selected by the President of the Board of Supervisors, and the Treasurer, and encourage the Authority to obtain expert financial review of its budgets and adopt City ethics and public records laws.

Proposition Q

Proposition Q would include more partnerships and businesses to be subject under the payroll expense tax and expand the tax exemption to businesses that have annual payroll expenses of $250,000 or less.

Proposition R

Proposition R would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

Proposition S

Proposition S would make it City policy that voters will not approve new set-asides of City revenue that do not identify a new funding source, limit annual increases, and expire in ten years.

Proposition T

Proposition T would mandate the City to maintain funding for and provide enough free and low-cost substance abuse treatment services to meet demand.

Proposition U

Proposition U would make it City policy that representatives and senators in the United States Congress vote against further funding for deploying troops to Iraq, except for funds to withdraw such troops.

Proposition V

Proposition V would make it City policy to urge the San Francisco Board of Education to reverse its elimination of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC).

External links
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Benjamin Johnson Lang (December 28, 1837April 3 or 4, 1909) was an American conductor, pianist, organist, teacher and composer. He introduced a large amount of music to American audiences, including the world premiere of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, which he conducted in Boston in 1875.

Biography
Benjamin Johnson Lang was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of a piano maker, music teacher and organist.  By the age of 12 he was showing sufficient promise as a pianist to play Chopin's Ballade No. 3 in A flat. He began organ lessons at 12, and by 18 he was the organist of the largest instrument in Boston, the First Baptist Church on Somerset Street. He excelled in improvisation. In 1852, he took over his father’s organ teaching business. In 1855 he went to Europe to study in Berlin and elsewhere.  He studied mainly under Alfred Jaëll, but also had some instruction from Franz Liszt.  He had a lasting friendship with both Liszt and his daughter Cosima. He made his first public appearance as a pianist 1858, in Boston, where he spent the remainder of his life. That year he played the piano in the first Boston performance of Beethoven's Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3, with the Mendelssohn Quintette Club. From 1860 to 1870, Lang built a piano and organ teaching career of great success; he was considered a very thorough teacher and his pupils included William F. Apthorp, Arthur Foote, Ethelbert Nevin, Carrie Burpee Shaw, and his own children, Margaret and Malcolm. His debut as a conductor was on May 3, 1862, when he gave Boston's first performance with orchestra of Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht, which he presented twice in the same concert.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk was so impressed with Lang's piano playing that he hired him as a collaborator for a series of twenty concerts in which compositions for two pianos were featured.

On January 1, 1863, along with Carl Zerrahn, he conducted the jubilee concert in honour of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.  The concert was attended by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who read one of his poems.  From then on he appeared in public more often as a conductor than as a pianist.  He was the founding conductor the Apollo Club, a men's singing society, from 1871 to 1901. He was also the conductor of Caecilia, a mixed voice choir, and of the Handel and Haydn Society from 1895 to 97.

Lang visited Richard Wagner (who was now married to Liszt's daughter Cosima) at Tribschen and Bayreuth in 1871 and offered his assistance in publicizing the Bayreuth Festival in America. In 1876 he and his wife were honored guests at the first performance of the Ring Cycle in Bayreuth. He later introduced many of Wagner’s works to America.

He is perhaps best remembered now for being the conductor of the world premiere of the original version of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Hans von Bülow (Cosima's former husband) as soloist, on October 25, 1875.  Bülow had initially engaged a different conductor, but quarrelled with him, and Lang was brought in at short notice.  George Whitefield Chadwick, who attended the performance, recalled in a memoir years later: "They had not rehearsed much and the trombones got in wrong in the ‘tutti’ in the middle of the first movement, whereupon Bülow sang out in a perfectly audible voice, The brass may go to hell".  Lang himself appeared as soloist in a performance of the concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on February 20, 1885.

Other first performances he conducted were:
 On the William Shakespeare tercentennial, April 23, 1864, Lang conducted the first Boston performance of Mendelssohn's complete music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, and, soon after, the first complete Boston performance of Haydn's The Seasons.
 The first U.S. performance of Brahms's German Requiem, with the Caecilia Society (December 3, 1888
 The first U.S. performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (1900)
 With the Apollo Club he gave the first Boston performances of (among others) Brahms' Rinaldo, Grieg's Discovery, Mendelssohn's Sons of Art, Antigone, and Oedipus, and several premieres by the Boston composers Chadwick, Foote (Farewell of Hiawatha), Thayer, and Whiting (March of the Monks of Bangor, Free Lances, and Henry of Navarre)
 the first Boston performance of Niels Gade's Crusaders (January 11, 1877).

With his experience and credentials, it surprised many that Lang was not named conductor of the newly formed Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). However, Lang appeared as a pianist in twelve concerts during the first years of the orchestra. On December 9, 1876 he was the soloist in the first U.S. performance of Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor with Leopold Damrosch conducting. With the Harvard Musical Association, he played "all the great concertos, many of them for the first time in Boston".

In 1888 Lang became organist of King's Chapel, and remained there until his death in 1909. It was Lang who in 1888 encouraged Edward MacDowell to resettle in Boston, then the centre of concert life in America.  The Lang home entertained prominent guests such as Antonín Dvořák and Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

In 1891, at great personal expense he brought the entire New York Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra to Boston to present the first performance in Boston of Wagner's Parsifal, conducted by Anton Seidl, who had assisted Wagner in the first complete performance of the Ring in 1876 and who in 1889 he led the first complete Ring in America.

His compositions included symphonies, overtures, an oratorio David, chamber pieces, piano pieces and songs.  Most of these were performed, however the only published work was by Chadwick who used a "melodic motive" of Lang's in the first of his "Drei Walzer fur das Pianoforte."  He destroyed all his other manuscripts. In 1903, Yale University conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts.

His last appearance as a conductor was on February 12, 1909, when he conducted the BSO and a chorus for a commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.  He presented Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang ("Hymn of Praise"), which he had also conducted at the Emancipation Jubilee concert in 1862.  He died only a few weeks later, on April 3 or 4, in Boston. His estate was valued at over $600,000, an enormous amount for that time.  His bequests included a silver box containing Liszt's hair, which he left to his daughter Margaret.

Family life
In 1861 he married Frances Morse Burrage (1839–1934). Although she never became a professional, she was well regarded as a singer. Their three children inherited their musical aptitudes: Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972), a composer; Rosamond (1878–1971), a pianist; and Malcolm (1881–1972), a pianist and organist.

Many of Margaret's works were presented at concerts under her father's baton.  Her Dramatic Overture, Op. 12, was the first work by a woman played by a major American symphony orchestra (BSO, 1893, Arthur Nikisch).

Notes

Sources
 Louis Charles Elson, The History of American Music
 Richard Aldrich, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed,. 1954 (Eric Blom, ed.)

1837 births
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Male classical pianists
American male pianists
American conductors (music)
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American male organists
American male composers
American composers
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19th-century organists


Homecoming Scotland 2009 was a series of events designed to attract people of Scottish ancestry to visit Scotland. The campaign, organised by EventScotland and VisitScotland on behalf of the Scottish Government, and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, claimed that "for every single Scot in their native land, there are thought to be at least five more overseas who can claim Scottish ancestry."

2009 was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, the national poet. In addition to Burns-related events, the other four themes of the Homecoming were Scotland's culture and heritage, great Scottish minds and innovations, and golf and whisky.

Calendar of events
On 16 June 2008 Scotland's First Minister,  Alex Salmond MSP MP, officially launched Homecoming Scotland 2009 at Edinburgh Castle. The Homecoming started on 25 January 2009 (Burns night) and ran until 30 November 2009 (St Andrews Day).

On 24 July 2009 a Clan Convention, composed of the clan chiefs, clan commanders and leading clan representatives of Scottish clans, met to discuss the "Role of the Clan in the 21st century". The Clan Convention took place within the Scottish Parliament.

The centrepiece event of the year was The Gathering 2009, on 25 and 26 July, centred on Holyrood Park in Edinburgh. The clan gathering included highland games over the two days, a parade up the Royal Mile and a 'clan pageant' on the castle esplanade.
Prince Charles, the Duke of Rothesay, is to be Patron of The Gathering 2009.

There was a long list of homecoming events, including several well-established events, e.g. (in date order):
Celtic Connections
Burns Night
Aye Write!
Glasgow International Comedy Festival
Edinburgh International Science Festival
Heineken Cup Final
Edinburgh Sevens
Return to the Ridings
Royal Highland Show
Edinburgh International Film Festival
World Fly Fishing Championships
Open Championship, Turnberry
Inverness Highland Games
Wickerman Festival
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival
Johnnie Walker Championship, Gleneagles
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh Military Tattoo
World Pipe Band Championships
Cowal Gathering
Doors Open Days
Wigtown Book Festival
Loch Ness Marathon
Royal National Mòd
Scots Trad Music Awards

Scottish Cup Sponsorship

In October 2008, it was announced that the Scottish Cup would be re-branded as The Homecoming Scottish Cup for the 2008/09 competition. Glasgow-based businessman Willie Haughey signed a two-year sponsorship deal for the cup, handing the branding rights over to the Scottish Government. A new name was applied to the 2009/10 competition.

See also
2009 in Scotland
Golf in Scotland
Scottish clan
Scottish people
Tourism in Scotland
The Gathering Ireland 2013

References

External links
 links to press coverage of The Gathering and Homecoming

 The Gathering 2009, Edinburgh
 Homecoming Ayrshire
 Robert Burns- Bard of the Scottish Enlightenment, play at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
    Fyvie Homecoming Festival,  28-30 August 2009 Fyvie, Aberdeenshire

2009 in Scotland
Reunions
 Homecoming
Scottish diaspora
Scottish Government
Robert Burns
Tourism campaigns
Tourism in Scotland


is a former Japanese football player. He is the current first-team coach J2 League club of Thespakusatsu Gunma.  His brother is Yoshiyuki Kobayashi.

Club statistics

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Komazawa University alumni
Association football people from Saitama Prefecture
Japanese actors
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Kashiwa Reysol players
Oita Trinita players
Montedio Yamagata players
Thespakusatsu Gunma players
Men's association football defenders


Clouston Park is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located 0.5 – 2.5 km east-northeast from the city centre. It was predominantly developed in the 1970s and 1980s. While the suburb is predominantly flat, there are a few larger homes situated on the lower slopes of the Eastern Hutt Valley Hills that offer wide views of the Upper Hutt Valley.

Clouston Park can be accessed from SH2 by exiting at either Totara Park Road or Mangaroa Hill Road. It is bordered by Ebdentown to the west (Henry Street onwards), Totara Park to the north (by crossing SH2 at Totara Park Road) and Maoribank to the northeast (by crossing Mangaroa Hill Road).

Clouston Park has two small shopping centres, situated on Clouston Park Road and Fergusson Drive. There is also a light industrial area located on Montgomery Crescent and Mountbatten Grove.

Parks
There are three public parks in Clouston Park:

- Doris Nicholson Park; Located off of Fergusson Drive and McHattie Lane.

- Benge Park; Primarily located at the end of Rosina Street (has access points from three other streets), it contains a small playground.

- Maoribank Park; Accessed from Clouston Park Road, this larger park has a sports field used by many schools and local sports teams on weekends, as well as hosting the        Rimutaka Rugby Football Club.

Public Transport
Clouston Park is serviced by the Emerald Hill - Petone and Te Marua commuter bus routes (#110 and #112), operated by Metlink.

Demographics
Clouston Park statistical area covers . It had an estimated population of  as of  with a population density of  people per km2.

Clouston Park had a population of 2,289 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 213 people (10.3%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 207 people (9.9%) since the 2006 census. There were 864 households, comprising 1,158 males and 1,134 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.02 males per female. The median age was 37.1 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 450 people (19.7%) aged under 15 years, 483 (21.1%) aged 15 to 29, 969 (42.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 390 (17.0%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 80.6% European/Pākehā, 18.5% Māori, 9.4% Pasifika, 6.6% Asian, and 1.7% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 19.3, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 48.5% had no religion, 38.5% were Christian, 1.2% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.9% were Hindu, 0.7% were Muslim, 0.5% were Buddhist and 2.1% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 276 (15.0%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 375 (20.4%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $32,800, compared with $31,800 nationally. 300 people (16.3%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 960 (52.2%) people were employed full-time, 216 (11.7%) were part-time, and 78 (4.2%) were unemployed.

References

Suburbs of Upper Hutt
Populated places on Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River


The A16 is a relatively short Belgian motorway connecting Mons and Tournai. But it is an important European-Motorway between Belgium, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

References

Motorways in Belgium


is a former Japanese footballer. He last played for Ehime F.C.

Honors and awards

Oita Trinita
 J. League Cup (1) - 2008

Career statistics
Updated to 2 February 2018.

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Hannan University alumni
Association football people from Aichi Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Oita Trinita players
Omiya Ardija players
FC Gifu players
Ehime FC players
Men's association football defenders
People from Okazaki, Aichi


is a former Japanese football player.

Playing career
Nishiyama was born in Kashiwa on February 22, 1975. After dropped out from high school, he moved to Brazil and joined Criciúma in 1992. In 1993, he returned to Japan and joined Fujita Industries (later Bellmare Hiratsuka). He debuted in 1994 and played many matches as offensive midfielder and forward. The club won the champions 1994 Emperor's Cup and 1995 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. However his opportunity to play decreased in 1999. In 2000, he moved to J2 League club Montedio Yamagata. He played as regular player in 2 seasons. In 2002, he moved to J2 club Oita Trinita. In 2002, he played as regular player and the club won the champions and was promoted to J1 League from 2003. From 2003, although he lost regular position, he played many matches as substitutes. In 2008, the club won the champions J.League Cup first major title in club history. However his opportunity to play decreased in 2009 and the club was relegated to J2 end of 2009 season. He retired end of 2009 season.

Club statistics

Honors and awards

Team
 Emperor's Cup Winner - 1994
 J.League Cup Winner - 2008
 Asian Cup Winners' Cup Winner - 1995

References

External links

Profile at Oita Trinita

1975 births
Living people
People from Kashiwa
Association football people from Chiba Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Japan Football League (1992–1998) players
Shonan Bellmare players
Montedio Yamagata players
Oita Trinita players
Men's association football midfielders


This is a list of roads designated A17 or A-17. Entries are sorted in alphabetical order by country.

 O'Shea Road in Melbourne, Victoria.
 Portrush Road in Adelaide, South Australia
 A17 motorway (Belgium), a road connecting Bruges and Tournai
 A 17 motorway (Germany), a road connecting Dresden and the Czech border

 A17 highway (Lithuania), a road connecting Panevėžio and aplinkkelis
 A17 road (Malaysia), a road in Perak connecting Parit and Bota Kanan
 A17 motorway (Netherlands), a road connecting the A16 motorway and the A58 motorway near Roosendaal

 A 17 road (Sri Lanka), a road connecting Galle and Madampe
 A17 road (United Kingdom) may refer to :
 A17 road (England), a road connecting Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and King's Lynn, Norfolk
 A17 road (Isle of Man), a road connecting Bride and the Andreas road
 A17 road (United States of America) may refer to :
 A17 road (California), a road connecting the I-5 and the SR 44

See also
 List of highways numbered 17


Mark Cooksey (born 18 January 1966 in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England) is a British video game musician, best known for his work on the Commodore 64, most notably composing the music for the platform game Ghosts'n Goblins.  He was employed by the UK video game developer and publisher Elite Systems.

Since the demise of the Commodore 64, Mark has produced music for the Game Boy (including the Color and the Advance), the PC, the SNES and the PlayStation. His Game Boy Color work includes the music and sound effects for the 2001 Commander Keen game.

References

1966 births
Living people
Commodore 64 music
Video game composers
People from Skegness


is a 1931 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Daisuke Itō. It is the only completely preserved silent film directed by Ito and related the life of a legendary thief, Jirokichi the Rat, in an exquisite original story and through the revolutionary use of dynamic intertitles. The trio composed  of director Ito, top-class cinematographer Karasawa and lead actor Denjirō Ōkōchi won great popularity for their masterful work.

External links
Oatsurae Jirokichi goshi  on Internet Movie Database

1931 films
Nikkatsu films
Japanese silent films
Films directed by Daisuke Itō (film director)
Japanese black-and-white films
Japanese action films
Japanese drama films
1930s action films
1931 drama films
Silent drama films


This is a list of all captains of the Geelong Football Club, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League.

VFA (1879–1896)

VFL/AFL (1897–present)

AFL Women's

References

Geelong
captains


Kingsley Heights is a suburb of the city of Upper Hutt, located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. The suburb stands on a hill east of and overlooking the city centre, but has also started expanding into an adjacent valley.

All of the street names in the suburb have a British royalty theme. One example is King Charles Drive, the only road leading into the suburb, which is named after Charles II of England.

Kingsley Heights was proposed as a major subdivision project in the 1970's with Stage 1 beginning after the State Housing Corporation decided against using the land it owned in the area. Construction started in 1975 by First New Zealand RDC Limited and NZ Roadmakers, which consisted of 77 house lots. A delay was caused by the collapse of NZ Roadmakers however in 1976 The Leader, a local newspaper, announced construction had resumed. Around 1978 the first stage of road and utilities construction was complete and the first houses started to be built in the early 1980s.

The later stages of the project were delayed due to the economic downturn in the mid-late 1980s and the subsequent reduction in new home construction. The closure of the General Motors plant had a negative effect on employment in the city and so King Charles Drive ended at 19 and 26. Roading construction on the next stage of Kingsley Heights resumed many years later during 2001/2002 but it wasn't until 2005 that houses were built on Aragon, Boleyn and Beaufort. Craigs Flat, now known as Riverstone Terraces, which was also State Housing Corporation land but never used, had been promoted by various developers since the early 1990s as another major housing project in the city which also saw continued delays and reduced the urgency for the further expansion of Kingsley Heights.

King Charles Drive now ends at 41/58 with provision for the next stage of construction to continue in the future.

This suburb houses drinking-water storage tanks for Upper Hutt.

Demographics
Kingsley Heights is included in the Upper Hutt Central statistical area.

References

Suburbs of Upper Hutt


is a former Japanese football player.

Playing career
Suzuki was born Saitama City and joined local side Urawa Reds as a trainee from school. He turned professional in 1996, but was released in 1997 without making his first team debut for Reds, signing for Regional Leagues side Yokogawa Electric.

Suzuki moved to J2 League side Albirex Niigata in January 1999. He made his debut for the club in a 1–0 victory over Montedio Yamagata, scoring the winner in the 98th minute. He played as regular player in 3 seasons. In 2002, he moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga (later Kyoto Sanga FC) on loan. He played as left midfielder in all matches in 2 seasons. The club also won the champions 2002 Emperor's Cup first major title in the club history. In 2004, he returned to newly was promoted to J1 League club, Albirex Niigata. He became a fan's favourite during his seven seasons at the club, playing a total of 222 games and scoring 53 goals.

In July 2007, he moved to Oita Trinita. He became a regular player as left side midfielder. In 2008, the club won the champions J.League Cup first major title in club history. However he could not play at Final for suspension. In 2009, although he played as regular player, his opportunity to play decreased in late 2009 and the club was relegated to J2.

In 2010, he moved to Kyoto Sanga FC for the first time in 7 years. However he could hardly play in the match. The club was also relegated to J2 from 2011. In 2012, he moved to Tokyo Verdy. However he could not play at all in the match and he moved to Giravanz Kitakyushu in August.

In February 2013, Suzuki signed for the Albirex Niigata Singapore of Singapore League. He made his Singapore debut in a game against Home United the following month. Suzuki retired from playing professionally at the end of the season.

Coaching career
Suzuki took the position as the academy coach of Kyoto Sanga FC.

Club statistics

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
Association football people from Saitama Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Urawa Red Diamonds players
Albirex Niigata players
Kyoto Sanga FC players
Oita Trinita players
Tokyo Verdy players
Giravanz Kitakyushu players
Japanese expatriate men's footballers
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Singapore
Expatriate men's footballers in Singapore
Men's association football midfielders


Thomas Lau Luen-hung (born 1953) is a Hong Kong business magnate of Teochew descent. He is the chairman and CEO of Lifestyle International Holdings which operates one of Hong Kong's largest department stores, Sogo Hong Kong. He is a member of the Twelfth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Shanghai Committee and sits on the board of directors for Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Personal life
He is the younger brother of billionaire Joseph Lau, the 4th richest man in Hong Kong; and is nicknamed "Younger Lau" () to distinguish from Joseph, nicknamed "Elder Lau" (), whose name is pronounced the same in Cantonese.

His children, Lau Kam Sen and Lau Kam Shim, are executive directors of Lifestyle International Holdings.

References

1953 births
Living people
Hong Kong billionaires
Hong Kong financial businesspeople
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021
University of Toronto alumni
University of Windsor alumni