Ending Themes (On the Two Deaths of Pain of Salvation) is a live album and documentary by Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation. It was released on January 26, 2009, with a DVD version released on March 3, 2009. The DVD release has a double disc feature. The first disc has an 80-minute documentary of the band's 2005 world tour directed by Per Hillblom and the second disc has the full concert video from the Paradiso show recorded on March 2, 2007. A limited edition version will also be released that will include a double audio CD version of the Amsterdam concert. The CD version was released independently of the DVDs as well.

The DVD is named in recognition of the two line-up changes in the previous few years. At the end of the 2005 world tour (The First Death Of) Kristoffer Gildenlöw left the band because he was not able to attend rehearsals since he lived in a different country to the rest of the band. He was temporarily replaced by Simon Andersson. The second change, at the end of the 2007 world tour (The Second Death Of), was when Johan Langell left the band to concentrate on family commitments. He was replaced by Léo Margarit, who has remained a member of the band since.

Track listing
All music by Daniel Gildenlöw, except "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen.

DVD1 - The First Death Of

SixWorlds/EightDays (80-minute documentary of 2005 world tour by Per Hillblom)

DVD2 - The Second Death Of

Touching You Harder: Live from Amsterdam
 "Scarsick"
 "America"
 "Nightmist"
 "! (Foreword)"
 "Handful of Nothing"
 "New Year's Eve"
 "Ashes"
 "Undertow"
 "Brickworks 1 (Parts II-IV)"
 "Chain Sling"
 "Diffidentia"
 "Flame to the Moth"
 "Disco Queen"
 "Hallelujah"
 "Cribcaged"
 "Used"

CD1
 "Scarsick" - 7:09
 "America" - 5:55
 "Nightmist" - 7:48
 "! (Foreword)" 6:47
 "Handful of Nothing" 7:43
 "New Year's Eve" - 5:48
 "Ashes" - 5:25
 "Undertow" - 5:11

CD2
 "Brickworks 1 (Parts II-IV)" - 6:25
 "Chain Sling" - 3:59
 "Diffidentia" - 7:36
 "Flame to the Moth" - 6:04
 "Disco Queen" - 8:15
 "Hallelujah" - 9:04
 "Cribcaged" - 6:24
 "Used" - 5:43

Personnel
Pain of Salvation live from Amsterdam 2007
Daniel Gildenlöw – lead vocals, guitars
Johan Hallgren – guitars, harmony vocals
Fredrik Hermansson – keyboards, backing vocals
Simon Andersson – bass guitar, backing vocals
Johan Langell – drums, backing vocals

Additional members present in 2005 documentary
Kristoffer Gildenlöw – bass guitar, vocals

External links
Official website

Pain of Salvation albums
2009 live albums
Live video albums
2009 video albums
Inside Out Music live albums
Inside Out Music video albums


Jon Skolmen (1 November 1940 – 28 March 2019) was a Norwegian actor and comedian who appeared in several Norwegian and Swedish films. He gained special recognition for his role as Ole Bramserud in Sällskapsresan (1980) opposite Lasse Åberg.

Career
Between 1963 and 1981, Skolmen was employed by the Norwegian state broadcasting company, NRK, where he most notably co-wrote and appeared in the show The Nor-Way to Broadcasting alongside Trond Kirkvaag. The show won the Golden Rose of Montreux and the Chaplin Award at the Montreux Television Festival in 1976.

He also appeared on British children's television. In 1971, he presented Play School for the BBC, though for only one week. He was also a regular presenter on the programme's Norwegian version, Lekestue.  In 1981, he appeared in a one-off special co-produced by the BBC and NRK called Jon, Brian, Kirsti and Jon in which he appeared with his compatriot Kirsti Sparboe, and the British performers Brian Cant (with whom Skolmen co-wrote the script) and Jonathan Cohen.

Skolmen found a large audience in neighbouring Sweden. He co-starred in the five Sällskapsresan films as the character Ole Bramserud, the Norwegian sidekick of main character Stig Helmer-Olsson who was played by Swedish actor Lasse Åberg. In the 1980s, he also co-starred in the Swedish sketch comedy show , which was broadcast on SVT.

In 2007, Skolmen again collaborated with his former partner Trond Kirkvaag, when he starred in the sitcom Luftens helter, which was created shortly before Kirkvaag's death the same year.

Skolmen received the Komiprisen honorary prize for lifetime achievement in 2009.

Personal life and death
Skolmen was the father of actors Christian and Tine Skolmen, brother of director Eli Skolmen Ryg and uncle of actors Anne Ryg and Hege Schøyen. He acted alongside Schøyen in the 1991 Swedish comedy film Den ofrivillige golfaren.

He died on 28 March 2019 at the age of 78.

Filmography
1980: Sällskapsresan as Ole Bramserud
1981: Sølvmunn as Father
1984: Men Olsenbanden var ikke død! as Vaktmesteren på Munchmuseet
1985: ...But the Olsen Gang Wasn't Dead
1985: Sällskapsresan 2 – Snowroller as Ole
1986: Plastposen as Reinert
1988: Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by as Butcher
1988: S.O.S. – En segelsällskapsresa as Ole
1991: Den ofrivillige golfaren as Ole Bramserud
1993: Minns Ni? (archive footage)
1993: Hodet over vannet as Policeman
1999: Hälsoresan – En smal film av stor vikt as Ole Bramserud
2007: 5 løgner as Ole Gunnar
2009: Göta kanal 3 – Kanalkungens hemlighet as Norrman
2011: Umeå4ever as Far
2011: The Stig-Helmer Story as Ole Bramserud

References

External links

1940 births
2019 deaths
Norwegian male film actors
Norwegian male comedians
NRK people
Leonard Statuette winners
Norwegian male television actors


Anticlea derivata, the streamer, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found in Europe, North Africa and across the Palearctic up to the Altai Mountains.It prefers to live on sunny slopes, hedge rows, bushy places as well as in gardens and parks.

Its wingspan is 30–34 mm and its most common colours are light brown and light grey, tints of pink are also present. A narrow, dark lateral band is located near the base of the forewings. The basal region is limited by a slightly curved, blackish transverse band. A large dark triangle costal patch which becomes a jagged line gets thinner towards the inner edge and is a unique pattern. The hindwings are brown grey and show a faint cross line.

The long caterpillar is green, inclining to yellowish between the segments; a purplish, or reddish-brown, stripe along the back is broken up into diamond-shaped spots on the middle segments. Sometimes the spots are reduced only to the areas behind the head and to the segment bearing the rearmost pair of legs.

The moth flies from March to May depending on the location.

The larvae feed on species of rose.

References

External links

Lepiforum
The streamer at UKMoths
Lepidoptera of Belgium
De Vlinderstichting

Larentiini
Moths of Europe
Moths of Africa
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1775
Taxa named by Michael Denis
Taxa named by Ignaz Schiffermüller


Robin Wikman (born 21 January 1986) is a Finnish-Swedish former footballer who last played for FC Stockholm Internazionale. He holds both Finnish and Swedish citizenship.

Career
He has previously played four seasons in Landskrona BoIS; one season by BK Häcken, Hammarby IF and Nacka FF.

International
He was a member of the Finnish U-21 national football team during the u21 2009 campaign.

Notes

External links

Living people
1986 births
Finnish men's footballers
Finland men's under-21 international footballers
Landskrona BoIS players
BK Häcken players
Hammarby Fotboll players
Allsvenskan players
Finnish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
Boo FK players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Helsinki


The Madison, Wisconsin, metropolitan area, also known as Greater Madison, is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Madison, Wisconsin. Madison is the state capital of Wisconsin and is Wisconsin's second largest city (after Milwaukee), and the metropolitan area is also the state's second largest (after the Milwaukee metropolitan area) which the Madison MSA borders to its east.

The Madison, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, is the area consisting of Columbia, Dane, Green, and Iowa counties in Wisconsin, anchored by the city of Madison. As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 680,796. The latest Census estimate as of July 1, 2019 puts the population at 664,865, making it the 89th largest in the United States.

The Madison–Janesville–Beloit Combined Statistical Area (CSA) consists of the four counties in the Madison MSA as well as Rock County (Janesville–Beloit metropolitan area) and Sauk County (Baraboo micropolitan area). The CSA population as of the 2020 census was 910,246. The CSA's 2019 population estimate was 892,661, making it the 63rd largest in the United States.

Definitions
The Madison–Janesville–Beloit Combined Statistical Area (CSA) is made up of six counties. The statistical area includes two metropolitan areas and one micropolitan area.

 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)
 Madison (Columbia, Dane, Green, and Iowa counties)
 Janesville–Beloit (Rock County)
 Micropolitan Statistical Areas (μSAs)
 Baraboo (Sauk County)

The CSA totals are the totals of all the counties listed above, regardless of whether they were included in the Combined Statistical Area at the time.

Communities
The following are the incorporated communities of the Madison–Janesville–Beloit Combined Statistical Area. Populations listed are 2019 estimates, except for cities over 10,000 are from the 2020 census.

Communities marked with an asterisk (*) are part of the Janesville–Beloit metropolitan statistical area (Rock County). Communities marked with a cross (†) are part of the Baraboo micropolitan statistical area (Sauk County). The remainder are part of the Madison metropolitan statistical area.

Cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants
 Madison (269,840)
 Janesville* (65,615)

Cities with 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants

 Baraboo† (12,165)
 Beloit* (36,657)
 Fitchburg (29,609)
 Middleton (21,287)
 Monroe (10,661)
 Portage (10,581)
 Stoughton (13,173)
 Sun Prairie (35,967)
 Verona (14,030)

Cities with less than 10,000 inhabitants

 Brodhead (3,247)
 Columbus (5,120)
 Dodgeville (4,695)
 Edgerton* (5,631)
 Evansville* (5,440)
 Lodi (3,092)
 Milton* (5,627)
 Mineral Point (2,465)
 Monona (8,175)
 Reedsburg† (9,521)
 Wisconsin Dells† (partial) (2,992 total)

Villages with more than 10,000 inhabitants

 DeForest (10,691)
 Oregon (10,571)
 Waunakee (14,052)

Villages with less than 10,000 inhabitants

 Albany (993)
 Arena (827)
 Arlington (820)
 Avoca (623)
 Barneveld (1,251)
 Belleville (2,463)
 Black Earth (1,419)
 Blanchardville (partial) (791 total)
 Blue Mounds (986)
 Brooklyn (1,465)
 Browntown (276)
 Cambria (748)
 Cambridge (partial) (1,535 total)
 Cazenovia† (partial) (310 total)
 Clinton* (2,140)
 Cobb (449)
 Cottage Grove (7,143)
 Cross Plains (4,286)
 Dane (1,135)
 Deerfield (2,532)
 Doylestown (297)
 Fall River (1,741)
 Footville* (831)
 Friesland (345)
 Highland (826)
 Hollandale (275)
 Ironton† (252)
 La Valle† (361)
 Lake Delton† (2,987)
 Lime Ridge† (163)
 Livingston (partial) (634 total)
 Loganville† (298)
 Maple Bluff (1,311)
 Marshall (3,984)
 Mazomanie (1,696)
 Merrimac† (440)
 McFarland (9,031)
 Monticello (1,202)
 Montfort (partial) (688 total)
 Mount Horeb (7,534)
 New Glarus (2,151)
 North Freedom† (697)
 Orfordville* (1,498)
 Pardeeville (2,063)
 Plain† (766)
 Poynette (2,510)
 Prairie du Sac† (4,431)
 Randolph (partial) (1,747 total)
 Rewey (282)
 Ridgeway (630)
 Rio (1,039)
 Rock Springs† (360)
 Rockdale (216)
 Sauk City† (3,485)
 Shorewood Hills (2,169)
 Spring Green† (1,641)
 West Baraboo† (1,424)
 Windsor (7,644)
 Wyocena (725)

Census-designated places
 Bluffview†
 Hanover*
 Juda
 Lake Wisconsin

Towns

Columbia County

 Arlington
 Caledonia
 Columbus
 Courtland
 Dekorra
 Fort Winnebago
 Fountain Prairie
 Hampden
 Leeds
 Lewiston
 Lodi
 Lowville
 Marcellon
 Newport
 Otsego
 Pacific
 Randolph
 Scott
 Springvale
 West Point
 Wyocena

Dane County

 Albion
 Berry
 Black Earth
 Blooming Grove
 Blue Mounds
 Bristol
 Burke
 Christiana
 Cottage Grove
 Cross Plains
 Dane
 Deerfield
 Dunkirk
 Dunn
 Fitchburg
 Madison
 Mazomanie
 Medina
 Middleton
 Montrose
 Oregon
 Perry
 Pleasant Springs
 Primrose
 Roxbury
 Rutland
 Springdale
 Springfield
 Sun Prairie
 Vermont
 Verona
 Vienna
 Westport
 York

Green County

Adams
Albany
Brooklyn
Cadiz
Clarno
Decatur
Exeter
Jefferson
Jordan
Monroe
Mount Pleasant
New Glarus
Spring Grove
Sylvester
Washington
York

Iowa County

 Arena
 Brigham
 Clyde
 Dodgeville
 Eden
 Highland
 Linden
 Mifflin
 Mineral Point
 Moscow
 Pulaski
 Ridgeway
 Waldwick
 Wyoming

Rock County

Avon
Beloit
Bradford
Center
Clinton
Fulton
Harmony
Janesville
Johnstown
La Prairie
Lima
Magnolia
Milton
Newark
Plymouth
Porter
Rock
Spring Valley
Turtle
Union

Sauk County

Baraboo
Bear Creek
Dellona
Delton
Excelsior
Fairfield
Franklin
Freedom
Greenfield
Honey Creek
Ironton
La Valle
Merrimac
Prairie du Sac
Reedsburg
Spring Green
Sumpter
Troy
Washington
Westfield
Winfield
Woodland

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 501,774 people, 202,687 households, and 121,171 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 90.26% White, 3.50% African American, 0.32% Native American, 2.99% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.27% from other races, and 1.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.05% of the population.

The median income for a household in the MSA was $45,602, and the median income for a family was $55,159. Males had a median income of $35,250 versus $26,322 for females. The per capita income for the MSA was $21,832.

See also
 Wisconsin census statistical areas

References

External links
 Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce

Geography of Dane County, Wisconsin
Geography of Columbia County, Wisconsin
Geography of Iowa County, Wisconsin
Geography of Green County, Wisconsin
Geography of Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Metropolitan areas of Wisconsin
Geography of Rock County, Wisconsin
Geography of Sauk County, Wisconsin


The Gilles are the primary group of participants in the Carnival of Binche.

Gilles may also refer to:
Gilles (given name), a French language masculine given name
 Gilles (novel), a 1939 novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
 Gilles, Eure-et-Loir, a town in France
 Gilles, French variant form of Giles (surname)
 Gilles (stock character), French stock character of farce and commedia dell'arte
 Gilles (2005 film), a Belgian drama film directed by Jan Verheyen and Pieter Van Hees
 Gilles (2008 film), a Canadian short drama film directed by Constant Mentzas

See also
 Giles (disambiguation)


The La Porte County News-Dispatch is a daily newspaper of Michigan City, Indiana, US. It is LaPorte County's only daily newspaper, and is the result of the merger of the News-Dispatch of Michigan City and the La Porte Herald-Argus of La Porte on August 4, 2020.

The News-Dispatch was established in 1938 through the merger of the Michigan City News and the Michigan City Evening Dispatch.

References

External links

Defunct newspapers published in Indiana

Michigan City, Indiana


Bagarchhap  is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 534 people living in 116 individual households.

On 10 November 1995 most of Bagarchap (around 80%) was destroyed by a landslide, which killed 11 villagers and 9 trekkers. Many villagers relocated to Danaque to the west and Bagarchhap is now much smaller than it was prior to the landslide.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal
Landslides in Nepal
Landslides in 1995


Adrian Popa (born 24 July 1988) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga II club Concordia Chiajna.

Club career

Early years
Popa was one of the most proficient players of the Politehnica Timișoara reserve team, and was loaned to CS Buftea and Gloria Buzău.

Universitatea Cluj
In July 2009, Popa signed a contract with Universitatea Cluj. Although he showed impressive skills and helped the team get promoted to the first division, he left the club after one year.

Concordia Chiajna
In 2010, Popa joined Concordia Chiajna. He contributed to the club's promotion to the first division and was kept for the following season.

FCSB
On 15 August 2012, Popa signed a five-year contract with FCSB for an undisclosed transfer fee. One week later, he scored his first goal for the club in a 2–0 away win over FK Ekranas in the Europa League play-off round's first leg.

He played over 200 games during his spell with the capital-based club.

Reading
On 27 January 2017, it was announced that Popa agreed to transfer to English team Reading after reaching the final six months of his contract with FCSB. The transfer was made official three days later, with Popa signing with Reading until the summer of 2020.

His first goal came on 17 March 2017, scoring Reading's second in injury time in a 2–0 win over Sheffield Wednesday at the Hillsborough Stadium.

Loan to Al-Taawon
On 29 January 2018, Reading confirmed that Popa had joined Saudi Arabian side Al-Taawon on loan until the end of the 2017–18 season.

Loan to Ludogorets Razgrad
On 20 December 2018, Reading announced that Popa had moved to Ludogorets Razgrad on loan for the rest of the 2018–19 season.

Voluntari
On 16 October 2020, Popa signed a one-year contract with FC Voluntari.

Steaua București
On 22 September 2021, Popa signed a two-year contract with his childhood team, Steaua București.

International career
Popa made his debut for the Romania senior team in October 2012, in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Netherlands.

Career statistics

Club

International

Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Popa goal.

Honours
Steaua București
Liga I: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
Cupa României: 2014–15, 2019–20
Cupa Ligii: 2014–15, 2015–16
Supercupa României: 2013

Ludogorets Razgrad
First Professional Football League: 2018–19

References

External links

1988 births
Footballers from Bucharest
Living people
Romanian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Liga I players
Liga II players
FC Politehnica Timișoara players
LPS HD Clinceni players
FC Gloria Buzău players
FC Universitatea Cluj players
CS Concordia Chiajna players
FC Steaua București players
FC Voluntari players
CSA Steaua București footballers
English Football League players
Reading F.C. players
Romania men's international footballers
UEFA Euro 2016 players
Romanian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in England
Al Taawoun FC players
Saudi Pro League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
PFC Ludogorets Razgrad players
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria


Bhraka, Nepal  is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 306 people living in 83 individual households.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


Rybka (which means "little fish" in many Slavic languages) may refer to:
Rybka, a chess computer program
Rybka Lututowska, a village in Poland
Rybka Sokolska, a village in Poland
Rybka (film), a 2007 Russian animated film
Rybka (surname)

See also


Dharapani is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 2001 Nepal census it had a population of 1012 people living in 232 individual households.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


Not Quite Art is an Australian TV series that documents the many media of present-day art and culture in Australia. Two series of the series have been produced and aired on ABC1, both with 3 episodes each, the second series also aired on ABC2. The series is created and hosted by Marcus Westbury.

Episodes
Two series of Not Quite Art have been produced. Series 1 aired in October 2007 and featured 3 episodes, these were aired on Tuesdays at 10pm. A second series was subsequently produced and aired in October 2008, also featuring 3 episodes, these were also aired on Tuesdays at 10pm.

Series 1 (2007)

Series 2 (2008)

Critical response
Not Quite Art has been accepted to favourable reviews and critical acclaim. An article in The Age Newspaper explained; "Not Quite Art is the freshest, most illuminating, thoughtful and funny locally made arts program in years."

References

External resources
The Age, Green Guide, Article, October 2008.
Official Website

Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming


Phu, Nepal  is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 176 people living in 36 individual households.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


Ghyaru  is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 71 people living in 33 individual households.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


The Battle of Beaugency may refer to one of two battles:
Battle of Beaugency (1429), battle of the Hundred Years' War
Battle of Beaugency (1870), battle of the Franco-Prussian War


Khangsar  is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 257 people in 58 individual households.

Khangsar village is located in north central Nepal 3756 meters above sea level. There are more than 300 inhabitants.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


Me Kommeni Tin Anasa (Greek: Με Κομμένη Την Ανάσα; English: Breathless) is the first compilation album by popular Greek singer-songwriter Sakis Rouvas, released on 5 October 1999 by Universal Music Greece. It features 16 of his biggest hit singles as well as a bonus CD single with four remixes and an English track called "Oh Girl". The album received a platinum certification.

Track listing
CD 1
"Yia Sena"
"Ase Me Na Fygo"
"Tora Arhizoun Ta Dyskola"
"Afiste Tin"
"Mi M'agapiseis"
"Aima, Dakrya & Idrotas"
"Xana"
"Ela Mou"
"Kane Me"
"Tha S'ekdikitho"
"Min Andistekese"
"Me Kommeni Tin Anasa"
"Gyrna"
"Yia Fantasou"
"Par'ta"
"Yia Sena"
CD 2
"Afiste Tin" (Extended Mix 12")
"Tora Arhizoun Ta Dyskola" (Latin Dance Mix 7")
"Pou ke Pote (7" Remix)
"Xana" (Reggae Mix)
"Oh Girl"

External links
Sakis Rouvas' official website
IFPI Greece official website with Greek charts

Albums produced by Nikos Karvelas
Albums produced by Nikos Terzis
Greek-language albums
Sakis Rouvas compilation albums
1999 remix albums
1999 greatest hits albums
Universal Music Greece remix albums
Universal Music Greece compilation albums
Mercury Records compilation albums
Mercury Records remix albums


Nar () is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. In the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 362 people, living in 86 individual households.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


Allophyes oxyacanthae, the green-brindled crescent, is a moth of the family Noctuidae, found in Europe. The species was described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

Technical description and variation

M. oxyacanthae L. (31 g). Forewing reddish grey, varied with fuscous; the nervures and inner margin lined with green scales; a strong black streak from base below cell; lines finely black, the inner sharply angled outwards at the end of the basal streak, the outer marked with a bright white crescent on submedian fold; stigmata all large, pale pinky brown, outlined with black; a diffuse black shade to termen below vein 2; submarginal line faintly paler, the area before it generally paler; hindwing luteous whitish in male, grey in female. The form found in Syria, benedictina Stgr. (31 g) [now full species Allophyes benedictina (Staudinger, [1892]) ]has the forewings dark grey brown; the hindwings paler; but those of the female are darker grey; — another form, occurring in Pontus, Palestine and Ussuriland, asiatica Stgr.[ now full species Allophyes asiatica (Staudinger, [1892]) has the fore-wings pale grey; capucina Mill. (31 g h) is a form restricted, apparently, to the British Isles, rich deep brown with darker shading in the male, darker duller brown in the female, with the lines and markings distinct, the hindwings of the male often rufous-tinged; in this the green scaling is altogether absent; — corsica Spul. [now full species Allophyes corsica (Spuler, 1905)] from the Island of Corsica is said to be paler, of a more vivid yellowish red colour; — pallida Tutt, from Ireland and Berkshire, has pale reddish grey forewings, with only a slight amount of green along inner and outer margins. Larva dull slaty grey or brownish grey, covered with irregular-shaped black marks; on each side of segment 4, which is slightly raised, an oblique dark streak; tubercles pale on dark spots; spiracles fine, white, with black rings. The wingspan is 35–45 mm.

Biology
The moth flies from September to November, depending on the location and feeds at ivy-blossom, overripe fruit  and comes to sugar. It will drop quickly to the ground when disturbed and remain inert in the leaf litter; it also comes to light.

Ovum
Laid in small batches or singly on tree trunks and overwinters in this stage.</ref>

Larva
The eggs hatch in March and the larva feed, at first, in the opening leaf-buds. They feed on hawthorn (Crataegus species), blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), birch (Betula speces) and various fruit bearing trees such as wild cherry (Prunus avium). By May or June it is fully fed and rests for several weeks in a large underground cocoon, before pupating.

Gallery

References

External links

 "09682 Allophyes oxyacanthae (Linnaeus, 1758) - Weißdorneule". Lepiforum e. V. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
"Meidoornuil Allophyes oxyacanthae". De Vlinderstichting. Retrieved 2 August 2023.

Cuculliinae
Moths described in 1758
Moths of Europe
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus


Ngawal (Nawal) is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 274. Ngawal VDC is one of the Seven Village Development Committee in Upper Manang. One of the main attraction of this village is a centuries-old cave of Guru Rinpoche that is on the hills overlooking Ngawal village. The local people believes the cave leads to Mustang. And a monastery in Tibetan Nyingma pa sect which is called Portoche Monastery.
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References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


Pisang  is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 307  people living in 105 individual households.  The village is located in the Marshyangdi River valley, directly south of Pisang Peak, north of Annapurna II, and west of Paungda Danda.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


Tachi Bagarchhap  is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 544.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


The 2007–08 Lebanese FA Cup was the 36th edition of the national football cup competition of Lebanon. It started with the first round on 20 October 2007, and ended on 3 July 2008 with the final. The cup winners were guaranteed a place in the 2009 AFC Cup.

Pre-qualifying stage

First round

Intermediate Round

Final round

Qualifying stage

Semifinal round

Final round

Proper Rounds

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semi-finals

Final

External links
 Goalzz.com
 RSSSF

Lebanese FA Cup seasons
Cup


Tanki Manang  is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 377 people living in 110 individual households.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


Thoche  is a village development committee in Manang District in the Gandaki Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 382 people living in 102 individual households.

References

Populated places in Manang District, Nepal


Alamdevi  is a village development committee in Syangja District in the Gandaki Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 3844 people living in 908 individual households. Alamdevi Temple appeared on the national stamps in 2019.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Syangja District

Populated places in Syangja District


Big 106.2 or Big FM was a radio station in Auckland, New Zealand, that was launched on 1 November 2008 at 9AM, broadcasting on 106.2FM. The original station was started by radio veterans Larry Summerville and Bernie Brown and was owned and operated by Big Radio Limited. The original station played Adult Contemporary music. In April 2010 there were reports that Big FM had been sold to Thane and Richard Kirby for an undisclosed sum. Thane Kirby is the founder of Auckland radio stations, George FM, UpFM, and Base FM and the now defunct TV station ALT TV. On 1 May 2010 the current format was supposedly dropped and a spoiler format known as Big Time FM was launched. Most of the announcers disappeared from the station around this time as well. The station was planning to launch its new format in June 2010.

Big FM was one of the few stations in New Zealand not owned or operated by New Zealand's two largest radio companies RadioWorks or The Radio Network, thanks to the limited commercial licence Big FM broadcast on neither company could purchase the station when it came up for sale.

On 23 June 2010 the station unexpectedly went off the air. No press release was issued as to why the station went off the air and the main indicator that Big FM was no longer operating from a comment left from a Big FM staff member on their Facebook page saying "arghh ** Gurgle gurlge .....gasp - - - splutter..... sssssssss". The Big FM website was up for a time after it went off-air with no news as to what had been happening, and clicking on the web stream on the page brought up an error.

There were several complaints on Big FM's Facebook page from listeners unhappy at the changes made. The Facebook page was removed in mid-September 2010, while the Big FM website was taken down in early November 2010. 5Tunz Communications Ltd bought 106.2 FM

In March 2011 the 106.2FM frequency began transmissions by Hindi radio station Humm FM. Humm FM was later purchased by Mediaworks, and was moved to 104.2FM in late 2021. As a result, 106.2 became the new frequency for The Rock, which had moved from 90.2FM to make way for their new talkback station Today FM, which launched in March 2022. Today FM was shut down in March 2023 leading The Rock to move back to 90.2 FM, and Channel X took over the 106.2FM frequency in May 2023.

Announcers
Big FM's original lineup was as follows.
 Breakfast 5.30am - 10am: Brent Harbour (who went on to work in radio in Dubai before returning to Mediaworks) & Lance Dunne (who went on to be breakfast host on Rodney's More FM - formerly Times FM)
 Daytime 10am - 2pm: Suzy Cato
 Drive 2pm - 7pm: Tony Ujdur
 Nights 7pm - 12am: Nick Robinson

During the period between 1 May and 23 June when the station went off the air there were no announcers on the air.

References

Radio stations in Auckland
Radio stations established in 2008
Radio stations disestablished in 2010
Defunct radio stations in New Zealand


Engin Baytar (born 11 July 1983) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a winger for İstanbul Siirtgücüspor.

Engin Baytar was born and raised in Germany to Turkish parents. He first joined FC Gütersloh before transferring to Arminia Bielefeld in 2000. Engin Baytar spent four years with the club's reserve team before moving to Turkey-based club Maltepespor in 2004. He spent two at the club before moving to Gençlerbirliği, who loaned him out to Eskişehirspor for the second half of the 2008–2009 season. Engin Baytar wears the number 50 on his jersey because he is from the Central Anatolian Province of Nevsehir in Turkey. His father is from Trabzon and mother is from Nevsehir.

Trabzonspor

He was transferred to Trabzonspor at the beginning of the 2009–10 season and won the 2009–10 Turkish Cup, scoring in the Final against Rivals Fenerbahçe in a 3–1 win, where he became the Man of the Match as well as winning the 2010 Turkish Super Cup.

Galatasaray

On 17 August 2011, Engin Baytar joined Galatasaray for 2 years for a fee of €1.1 million. He made his first assist at the match against Bursaspor to Johan Elmander on 26 November. He scored his first goal with Galatasaray against Sivasspor. He was however also shown a red card in the same match. He returned to the club after a loan-spell for the new season, but did not make the 18-man league squad.

Career statistics
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Club

Honours
Trabzonspor
Türkiye Kupası (1): 2009–10
Süper Kupa (1): 2010

Galatasaray
Süper Lig (2): 2011–12, 2012–13
Süper Kupa (1): 2012

Individual
 2009–10 Turkish Cup Final – Man of the Match

References

External links

1983 births
Living people
Turkish men's footballers
Turkey men's international footballers
German sportspeople of Turkish descent
Süper Lig players
Arminia Bielefeld players
Trabzonspor footballers
Eskişehirspor footballers
Gençlerbirliği S.K. footballers
Galatasaray S.K. footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Çaykur Rizespor footballers
People from Gütersloh
Footballers from Detmold (region)


was a Japanese artist who specialized in kappazuri stencil prints. He was for many years a member of the mingei folk craft movement, and was close with Yanagi Sōetsu, founder of the movement, and Serizawa Keisuke, among others, producing stencil-dyed textiles and other textiles arts before turning to prints later in his career.

Yoshitoshi is said to have influenced several major 20th century print artists, including Shikō Munakata and Hiromitsu Takahashi.

His colorful works generally depict scenes from the kabuki theatre, or subjects related to folk traditions and festivals. Art collector Ren Brown writes that Yoshitoshi's "figures are most often rendered with a simplicity that manages to denote great energy and movement. ... Mori is known for using earthy colors in his work, and for often positioning his figures in a somewhat contorted and dynamic mass."

Life and career
Yoshitoshi was born in Tokyo in 1898. He studied art at the Kawabata School of Fine Arts, and worked primarily in textile arts for many years. It was during this time that he met and worked with Serizawa Keisuke and Yanagi Sōetsu, studying stencil-dyeing techniques and becoming involved in the mingei movement.

It was not until the 1950s that Yoshitoshi began creating works on paper, quickly becoming known as one of the key artists of the sōsaku hanga movement. He was criticized by Yanagi Sōetsu in a major debate in 1962, who accused Yoshitoshi of abandoning the mingei movement, after which he distanced himself from the movement even more so, and began to focus more exclusively on kappazuri stencil prints.

Yoshitoshi exhibited his works in numerous one-man shows in Japan in the 1960s, and took part in thirty international exhibitions between 1957 and 1977. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Maryland University in 1984, and was formally honored by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. He died on May 29, 1992, immediately following the end of what would be his final one-man gallery show, held at the Wako Gallery Tokyo.

Collections
His work is held in several museums worldwide, including the British Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

References
 Michener, James A., The Modern Japanese Print: An Appreciation, Tuttle Publishing, Rutland, Vermont, 1968, pp. 23-26

Footnotes

1898 births
1992 deaths
Japanese printmakers
Sosaku hanga artists
20th-century Japanese artists
20th-century printmakers
Artists from Tokyo


Countess Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Countess of Yarmouth, born Amalie von Wendt (1 April 1704 – 19 or 20 October 1765) was the principal mistress of King George II from the mid-1730s until his death in 1760. Born into a prominent family in the Electorate of Hanover, and married into another, in 1740 she became a naturalised subject of Great Britain and was granted a peerage for life, with the title of "Countess of Yarmouth", becoming the last royal mistress to be so honoured. She remained in England until the death in 1760 of King George II, who is believed to have fathered her second son, Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn. She returned to Hanover for the rest of her life, surviving the king for nearly five years.

Biography
She was born Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wendt on 1 April 1704, the daughter of Hanoverian General Johann Franz Dietrich von Wendt (1675-1748) and his wife, Friderike Charlotte von dem Bussche-Ippenburg (1684-1762). Her aunt was Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal. She entered into the House of Wallmoden in 1727 with her marriage to Count Gottlieb Adam von Wallmoden-Gimborn (1704-1752), son of Count Ludwig Achaz von Wallmoden-Gimborn (d. 1730) and his wife, Anna Elisabeth von Heimburg (1697-1738). Together, they had one son, Count Franz Ernst von Wallmoden (1728-1776). She was described in 1738 in a letter to Charles, Viscount Townshend as being a brunette with "fine black eyes", "very well shaped, not tall, nor low; has no fine features, but very agreeable in the main."

George II was first attracted to the Countess Wallmoden in 1735, during a visit to Hanover, where she lived with her husband. In 1736, she bore a son, called Johann Ludwig Graf von Wallmoden-Gimborn, said to be the unacknowledged illegitimate child of the king. By 1738, George II's visits to Hanover to see his mistress were so  numerous as to invite satire by Samuel Johnson in the poem "London". The king ended the necessity of those visits after the death of his wife Caroline of Ansbach in November 1737, sending for the Countess Wallmoden to join him in England, but it did not put an end to Johnson's disapproval. In 1739, Johnson wrote scathingly of the king's relationship with Wallmoden, "his tortured sons shall die before his face / While he lies melting in a lewd embrace".

In 1739, Amalie von Wallmoden divorced her husband. In 1740, she was naturalised and given the non-heritable title of Countess of Yarmouth, the last royal mistress to be so honoured. She was officially designated Amalie Sophie von Wallmoden to obscure the question of her marital status. Robert Walpole indicated that her primary focus was on pleasing the king, although she was also said to be interested in the bestowing of peerages, reputedly playing a part in the creation of a Barony for Stephen Fox-Strangways in 1741 and in the newly created title of Viscount Folkestone for Jacob des Bouverie in 1747.

After the death of the king on 25 October 1760, Amalie von Wallmoden returned to Hanover. She died on 19 or 20 October 1765 from breast cancer, aged 61.

Notes

Attribution

1704 births
1765 deaths
People from Hanover
Mistresses of George II of Great Britain
Life peeresses created by George II
British countesses
Deaths from cancer in Germany
Deaths from breast cancer
Earls of Yarmouth


Alexandre Minkowski (5 December 1915 – 7 May 2004) was a French paediatrician, and arguably the French physician who most influenced neonatology in the 20th century. He was born and died in Paris.

He was the son of the eminent medical philosopher, Eugene Minkowski and the psychiatrist, Françoise Minkowska. They were Polish Jewish doctors who became naturalised French citizens after World War I and settled in France. They kept up their links with their ancestral Poland.

His son is the orchestral conductor Marc Minkowski.

External links
Perinatal Profiles: Alexandre Minkowski, founder of "Biology of the Neonate"
Alexandre Minkowski est mort - Article de J.-Y. Nau

1915 births
2004 deaths
Physicians from Paris
French people of Polish-Jewish descent
Ecology Generation politicians
French pediatricians


The Battle of Beaugency was a battle of the Franco-Prussian War contested between the army group of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, and the French Armée de la Loire, won by the Prussians. It lasted from 8 to 10 December 1870 and occurred on the left bank of the river Loire to the northwest of the town of Beaugency.  Due to the large area over which it was fought, it is also known as the Battle of Beaugency-Cravant or the Battle of Villorceau-Josnes.

Context

Sharing the Army of the Loire at Orléans
The Army of the Loire had been split subsequent to the retreat of General Aurelle after the Battle of Loigny.  French political leader Gambetta 'retired' Aurelle and appointed two generals to lead the now split armies.  General Antoine Chanzy commanded the two corps north of the Loire (XVI and XVII) while General Bourbaki commanded south of the river (XV, XVIII and XX corps).

Beaugency until 8 December
From his headquarters at Chateau de Talcy Chazny grouped three divisions in defensive positions at Beaugency to make a stand with the Loire river on his right flank and his left in the forest of Marchenoir. Continual rain and snow coupled with flagging morale and disorganization he could do little else.

Course
During the 8th and 9th fierce fighting occurred between the Germans and French. Both sides fought for the key positions of the walled villages of Cravant and Beumont. The French had superiority of numbers (~60,000) and effective artillery fire forced the Germans (Mecklenburg) to break contact. Cold, exhaustion and deprivations plagued the Germans as well as the French during this time.

Moltke ordered Mecklenburg reinforced by Prince Freiderich Karl to destroy the French forces under Chanzy. Chanzy's only hope was assistance from Bourbaki's 150,000 troops south of the Loire. Bourbaki attempted to order his dispirited troops into action, but they refused his order.  After visiting Bourbaki Gambetta stated that it "was the saddest sight he had ever seen," the army was "in veritable dissolution."

10 December
Chazny had to break contact and retreat from the Loire toward Le Mans once German reinforcements arrived.

Notes

Sources
 Compton's Home Library: Battles of the World
 Friedrich Engels: On the War, The Pall Mall Gazette Nr. 1824 of 17 December 1870
Amtspresse Preußen

External links
 Orléans, in: Meyers Konversationslexikon, Vol 12. p 444 f
 Beaugency, in Meyers Konversationslexikon, Vol 2 p 574
 http://www.preussenweb.de Preußen-Seite
 http://www.loire1870.fr/

Battle of Beaugency
Conflicts in 1870
Battles of the Franco-Prussian War
Battles involving Prussia
Beaugency 1870
History of Loiret
December 1870 events


First round selections

The following are the first round picks in the 1973 Major League Baseball draft.

* Did not sign

Other notable Selections

* Did not sign

Background
Five dominant players of the late 1970s and 1980s were selected in the June regular phase. Infielder Robin Yount (Milwaukee) and outfielder Dave Winfield (San Diego) were first-rounders, while outfielder Fred Lynn (Boston) was selected in the second round, infielder Eddie Murray (Baltimore) was selected in the third round and starting pitcher Mike Flanagan (Baltimore) was picked in the seventh round.

Winfield stepped off the University of Minnesota campus—where he lettered in three sports—and into the Padres' outfield. He was one of three players from this draft to go directly into the bigs. Highly touted David Clyde was chosen by Texas as the nation's number one pick. He jumped from high school to the majors and won his first game as a Ranger shortly thereafter. But the hard-throwing left-hander developed arm problems and had a short-lived career. Besides Clyde and Winfield, Arizona State's Eddie Bane (Minnesota, 11th overall) went directly to the majors. Other selections of interest included, Jack Clark (San Francisco), who was drafted as a pitcher, and Lee Mazzilli (New York Mets). In the January secondary phase, Dick Ruthven (Philadelphia), Jim Sundberg (Texas) and Donnie Moore (Chicago Cubs), who was drafted as an outfielder, were chosen.

Notes

External links
Complete draft list from The Baseball Cube database

References

Draft
Major League Baseball draft


Mount Kalatungan, also known as Catatungan, is a volcanic mountain located in the province of Bukidnon in the southern Philippines. It is a stratovolcano with no known historical eruptions and classified by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) as a potentially active volcano.

It is the fifth highest mountain in the country with an elevation of  asl. It is one of the several high elevation peaks in the Kalatungan Mountain Range in Bukidnon on the island of Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines.

See also
 Mount Kitanglad
 List of mountains in the Philippines
 List of Southeast Asian mountains
 List of active volcanoes in the Philippines
 List of potentially active volcanoes in the Philippines
 List of inactive volcanoes in the Philippines

References

External links

     Mount Kalatungan - Mounta Wiji Traverse

Mountains of the Philippines
Stratovolcanoes of the Philippines
Volcanoes of Mindanao
Landforms of Bukidnon
Potentially active volcanoes of the Philippines


Priyankar Mukherjee (born 29 March 1985) is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who plays for Bengal. He was born in Uttarpara.

Mukherjee played a single game for the Bengali Under-16s team, during the 2000–01 season, though he didn't make another cricketing appearance for over two years, for the Under-19s. His best performance in the 2003-04 Cooch Behar trophy came in his penultimate game, in which he bowled 5–17 in the first innings of the match and 4–58 in the second.

He carried on this form with the bat into the start of the 2003-04 Under-19s limited overs competition, though he faltered slightly towards the end of the competition. In 2005–06, Mukherjee played for the Under-22s team, making some crucial innings in his occasional switches to the lower order - including a partnership of 177 with captain Manoj Tiwary - himself scoring 101 not out - against Tripura.

Mukherjee made his List A debut in the one-day Ranji Trophy competition in 2007. His first-class debut came the following season, against Andhra - and despite taking a wicket with the ball, he scored a pair with the bat.

External links
Priyankar Mukherjee at CricketArchive

1985 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Bengal cricketers
East Zone cricketers


Rakesh Krishnan (born 23 July 1983) is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who has played for Bengal. He was born in Calcutta.

Krishnan made his debut cricketing appearances for the Bengal Under-16s team, batting in and around the opening order. He played five games for the team in the Vijay Merchant Trophy competition of 1998–99, in which Bengal reached the semi-final of the competition, before being eliminated from the competition following a draw against Punjab.

Krishnan made a single first-class appearance for the team, in the Ranji Trophy competition of 2004–05, against Delhi in December 2004. Batting in the upper-middle order, he scored 13 runs in the first innings of the match, and 34 runs in the second.

Krishnan has been playing first-division cricket for the major cricket clubs in Bengal. Currently, he's playing for Mohan Bagan club.
Recently he smashed 101(40) not out in the local club one day competition

External links
Rakesh Krishnan at CricketArchive

1983 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Bengal cricketers


James Lemmo (born in New York City, New York) is an American photographer, cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter.

Biography
Prior to dedicating his professional life to photography, Lemmo also worked in film. His genres included thrillers, comedy, action, drama and crime.

Lemmo currently works in advertising photography, commercial photography, all product photography.

Filmography

References

External links

Living people
1949 births
American male screenwriters
American cinematographers
American photographers
Screenwriters from New York City
Film directors from New York City


Françoise Minkowska-Brokman (22 January 1882 – 15 September 1950) was a French Jewish psychiatrist, born in Poland.

She was married to the psychiatrist Eugene Minkowski.  Their son was the pediatrician Alexandre Minkowski. Their daughter Jeannine Pilliard-Minkowski wrote a memoir of her parents' life and work.

With her husband, she fled to Zurich at the outbreak of World War I, where they trained as psychiatrists at the Burghölzli Institute directed by Eugen Bleuler.

She was associated with the work of Hermann Rorschach, another of Bleuler's pupils.

She studied the life of Vincent Van Gogh,  and argued that the artist's illness was not schizophrenia, but epilepsy.

She established the Centre Françoise Minkowska, a psychiatric institute for refugees and migrants.

References

External links
Association Françoise & Eugène Minkowski
Francoise Minkowski
Françoise Minkowska-Brokman

French psychiatrists
19th-century Polish Jews
1882 births
1950 deaths
French women psychiatrists
Polish emigrants to France


Hugh Morgan (1875 – after 1907) [other source shows birth year of 1876] was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward for several clubs in both Scotland and England.

Born in Lanarkshire, Morgan started his career with Harthill Thistle, but moved to Airdrieonians in August 1896 before transferring to Sunderland four months later. He joined Bolton Wanderers in February 1899 for £200, then Newton Heath in December 1900.

Morgan then joined Manchester City, and made 12 league appearances for them and three in the FA Cup in the 1901–02 season. Morgan made his City debut on 7 September 1901 against Sunderland, with his home debut againstSmall Heath following the next week. He played in 10 of City's first 13 games of the season, and scored his only goal against Nottingham Forest on 30 November 1901. Morgan's final City appearance was on 22 February 1902 against Grimsby Town.

He signed for Accrington Stanley in the summer of 1903, before joining Blackpool in May 1904. He made his debut for the club in the opening game of the 1904–05 campaign – a goalless draw at Leicester Fosse on 3 September. He went on to make a quarter-century of league appearances for the Seasiders, scoring four goals in the process (including one in a defeat at his former club, Manchester United, on 24 April 1905, in his final game). He also scored Blackpool's only goal in their FA Cup campaign that season, a First Round defeat at Bristol City on 14 January.

He returned to Scotland after leaving Blackpool, playing two final seasons with Hamilton Academical from 1905 to 1907. He averaged a goal every other game, scoring 12 times in 24 appearances in all competitions.

References

External links
Profile at StretfordEnd.co.uk

1870s births
Footballers from North Lanarkshire
Scottish men's footballers
Airdrieonians F.C. (1878) players
Sunderland A.F.C. players
Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
Manchester City F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891) players
Blackpool F.C. players
Hamilton Academical F.C. players
Year of death missing
Men's association football forwards
Scottish Junior Football Association players
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players


The Brandon Learning Centre is the first school in Hong Kong to offer public speaking classes based around English Speaking Board assessments. The English Speaking Board was founded in 1954 and the qualifications are regulated by the UK Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation

The school was founded in 2006,  by Jessica Ogilvy-Stuart, PhD, and Andrew Cathcart, M.A., M.Ed, with the aim of developing confidence in spoken English and preparing students for overseas studies. The initial opening was supported by InvestHK and the school is regulated by the Education Bureau. A second centre opened in Jordan, Kowloon in 2011 and Brandon operates a joint venture programme in China.

The curriculum expanded to include preparation for entry to British, Australian, Canadian and U.S. schools and in 2007 the school began offering both Common Entrance examinations run by the Independent Schools Examination Board including the ISEB pre-test, and Winchester College Entrance examinations. Of the 300+ students enrolled at any one time, between 25 - 35% leave Hong Kong to attend overseas schools including Eton College, Winchester College, Radley College, Cheltenham Ladies' College, Wycombe Abbey, Westminster School, Tonbridge School, Oundle School, Downe House School, Summerfields, Pilgrims and Cothill.

Students compete in a number of external speech competitions including the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival. The school also holds biannual shows at the Hong Kong Club which benefit Helping Hand, a charity caring for the elderly and Operation Santa Claus which supports a number of Hong Kong charities

Teachers are recruited from the United Kingdom. Students are from varied of backgrounds and range in age from 4 - 13. The school also provides lessons in speech and drama to local schools including Queen's College, Hong Kong, La Salle College, Diocesan Boys' Primary Division Independent Schools Foundation Academy and the Victoria and Shanghai Academy Victoria Educational Organisation.

References

External links
小小奧巴馬 演說好淡定
ESB Public Speaking Programme (in Chinese)

Schools in Hong Kong


Casey McKee (born 1976, Mesa, Arizona) is an American artist.

McKee's work has appeared in many exhibitions such as the Village People at Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany, "Human Conditions"  at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, Arizona, and "UN/FAIR TRADE - Die Kunst der Gerechtigkeit" at the Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria. In 2011 his work was featured in the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia.  He is represented by Galerie Greulich in Frankfurt, Germany.

McKee's process is a combination of photography and painting. He first creates the photograph and then prints it onto the surface (e.g. canvas, wood panel, handmade paper, etc.), using a photographic emulsion. McKee spends the majority of time working with oil paint to bring out the desired expression in his works.

McKee's work is included in the permanent collection of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art – SmoCA, Scottsdale, Arizona, The Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix, Arizona, The Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona, the Phynque Phamily Phoundation museum Minneapolis, Minnesota, the SØR Rusche Oelde/Berlin Collection in Berlin, Germany, The National Arts Club in New York, New York and the Ömer Koç Collection, Istanbul, Turkey.

References

External links

Casey McKee interview with Empty Kingdom
Casey McKee at Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt
https://artfacts.net/artist/casey-mckee/82967

1976 births
Living people
20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
20th-century American male artists


In a pre-recorded episode of The Russell Brand Show broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 18 October 2008, comedian Russell Brand and presenter Jonathan Ross made prank calls to actor Andrew Sachs that courted controversy in the United Kingdom. Brand and Ross called Sachs to interview him on air; when he did not answer, they left lewd messages on his answering machine, including comments about Brand's relationship with Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie.

The incident received little attention initially, but an article in The Mail on Sunday of 26 October 2008 led to widespread criticism of Brand, Ross and the editorial decisions of the BBC. The event became known as Sachsgate or Manuelgate (a reference to Sachs' Fawlty Towers character Manuel). Brand and Ross were criticised by a number of MPs, including Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and the BBC received a record number of complaints. The BBC suspended Ross while it and Ofcom launched investigations. Both Brand and Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas resigned from the BBC. On 30 October, the BBC suspended Ross without pay for twelve weeks. The BBC was fined £150,000 by Ofcom.

Background
From April 2006 through to October 2008, Russell Brand presented the weekly BBC radio show The Russell Brand Show, with co-host Matt Morgan. Brand was also joined by a variety of celebrity guests, including Noel Gallagher, Noel Fielding, Jonah Hill and Morrissey.

On 11 October 2008, David Baddiel co-hosted Brand's show. Baddiel recalled having met Georgina Baillie at Brand's home and being told that her grandfather was actor Andrew Sachs. According to Baddiel, Baillie said: "Don't tell him I was here!"

Prank calls
On Thursday 16 October 2008, Sachs, who portrayed Manuel in the 1970s BBC television sitcom Fawlty Towers, was scheduled to be a phone-in guest on Brand's evening radio show. The show was pre-recorded due to Brand's work commitments. Brand had briefly been in a relationship with Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie.

After being unable to reach Sachs on his home telephone, Brand and his co-host of the week, fellow Radio 2 DJ Jonathan Ross, left Sachs four voice messages on his answering machine. In the first message, Brand joked about Fawlty Towers and the fact that both he and Sachs had appeared in The Bill, but was interrupted by Ross shouting out "he fucked your granddaughter". The rest of the message and the following three messages were all characterised by Brand and Ross attempting to apologise for Ross' outburst, but each quickly descended into farce; for example, Brand sang to Sachs: "It was consensual and she wasn't menstrual", and Ross asked to marry him. Brand later said that listening to the calls was like hearing "two idiots dancing towards a canyon".

Complaints
On 25 October, Brand presented his last edition of his radio show with co-host Simon Amstell, which they performed live. Shortly before going on air, Brand was informed that The Mail on Sunday would be running a story about the phone calls. During the show, Brand apologised to Sachs, but also devoted much of the show to deriding the Daily Mail for its support of Nazism in the lead-up to World War II. In his apology to Sachs, Brand said: "What's worse – leaving a swearword on Andrew Sachs' answerphone or tacitly supporting Adolf Hitler when he took charge of the Third Reich?"

Sachs later stated he had not given permission for the messages to be broadcast. The BBC originally stated that they were "not aware of any complaint by Mr Sachs", but later confirmed a complaint had been received, and apologised. Brand issued an apology for making the calls but stated it was "funny" during his last radio show, before the Mail had printed the story. Ofcom, the telecommunications regulator, announced its own investigation. On 28 October, the BBC said that it had received 4,700 complaints, after the calls became international news. Later the same day, this number had passed 10,000. The same afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the incident "clearly inappropriate and unacceptable". The following day the number of complaints was said to have surpassed 18,000.

This incident resulted in the third-highest number of complaints to the BBC, behind only the airing of Jerry Springer: The Opera and rolling coverage of Prince Philip memorial programmes in April 2021. The incident escalated into a media and political storm that, in much of the British media, eclipsed news of the global financial crisis, the US Presidential election, and fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In reaction to the telephone calls, Baillie said that her relationship with Brand had been brief and she now felt "betrayed" that he had revealed it to her grandfather. Baillie called for both Brand and Ross to be sacked by the BBC and stated that she and her family would be considering whether to make a formal complaint to the police. Sachs stated that he had no intention of making a complaint to the police or taking the matter further.

Aftermath

Actions taken by Ross, Brand, and the BBC
On 29 October, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson announced that Russell Brand and
Jonathan Ross were suspended pending the outcome of an investigation by Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music. The suspension meant that, for the week, Ross would not be appearing on his regular Friday Night with Jonathan Ross television show, Film 2008 with Jonathan Ross, or his Saturday morning Radio 2 show. Similarly Brand would not be hosting his regular Saturday night Radio 2 show or appearing as a guest captain on an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks due to be aired on 30 October; the episode had been taped before his resignation, and aired on BBC Two on 19 January 2011, more than two years after the incident. Thompson called the events a "gross lapse of taste by the performers and the production team" (who chose to broadcast the pre-recorded show) that angered licence-payers. Thompson offered a personal and unreserved apology to Sachs and his family. In an interview, Sachs revealed that he had received and accepted written apologies from Brand and Ross. Brand resigned from the BBC later in the day.

On the evening of 30 October it was announced that Controller of Radio 2 Lesley Douglas had tendered her resignation, which had been accepted. Her resignation letter did not address the question of whether she had approved the pre-recorded show for transmission. That day, Ross was suspended without pay from all BBC shows for a period of twelve weeks.

The BBC issued an apology on 8 November, stating that the calls were "grossly offensive" and a "serious breach of editorial standards". The corporation apologised specifically to Sachs and Baillie, and also to licence fee payers. The evening before this formal apology, David Barber, head of Specialist Music and Compliance at Radio 2, also resigned. Like Douglas, he had been aware of the contents of the show, and had sanctioned the segment's broadcast.

Reactions from politicians and the media
Fifteen MPs signed a motion in the House of Commons, tabled by Labour MP Andrew MacKinlay and Conservative MP Nigel Evans, calling for Brand and Ross to no longer be funded by the licence fee (which funds the BBC). The chairman of the House of Commons select committee on culture, media and sport, John Whittingdale, stated that an investigation by the BBC was needed, but stopped short of calling for Ross and Brand to be sacked. The chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Communication, Lord Fowler, in a letter to The Times stated that there were "fundamental flaws" in the way that the BBC was regulated and governed, and that there was "confusion all round" because two parallel bodies, the BBC Trust and Ofcom, were investigating the incident, and it was "both unclear which of them the public should complain to and which of them had precedence over the other".

Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, speaking on the Radio 4 Today Programme on 30 October, also refused to say whether he thought Ross should be sacked, asserting that politicians should remain at "arm's length" from such decisions. In a speech at the London School of Economics the previous day he had criticised the decision by the BBC to broadcast the programme, which had been recorded two days prior to its transmission, saying that "[t]he BBC was quite wrong to take the decision to broadcast the offensive phone calls". He also demurred about calling for the resignations of anyone in BBC management, saying that "[i]t is wrong, in principle, for politicians to be calling for heads of individual broadcasting to be removed", and criticised the BBC for not releasing the name of the person who had given approval for the show to be broadcast.

Hunt was speaking to the LSE about socially responsible broadcasting and stated "I do think the BBC is a socially responsible broadcaster, I just think we need to hear that."  He argued that broadcasters were "not being ambitious enough", and outlined his party's plans, should it be elected to government at the next general election, to relax regulation for those broadcasters who agreed to provide only "socially responsible" output. In addition to citing the prank calls as a "perfect example" of where such a "responsibility deal" could have operated, he also pointed to Channel 4 as an example, stating that it was "not good enough" for it to produce "worthy" programmes such as Dispatches documenting alcohol abuse in the US, whilst at the same time it was broadcasting programmes such as Hollyoaks where such abuse took up, according to his estimates, 18% of screen time. The culture spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, Don Foster, criticised this idea, stating that it "threatened the very foundational principles of freedom and independence" of British media, arguing that such government interference in television programming would be "a very sad day for British broadcasting", and pointing out that regulatory mechanisms already exist to deal with issues such as this.

On 29 October, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries called for the BBC to terminate the contracts of both Ross and Brand. In the Commons David Hanson criticised the comments for being inappropriate and not "in keeping with broadcasting". The conservative journalist Charles Moore announced he would not pay his television licence after the BBC's failure to sack Ross, a decision which eventually led to Moore's being fined in May 2010.

Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw, writing in his local newspaper the Lancashire Telegraph on 30 October, became the first Cabinet Minister to call for the pair to be sacked, arguing that if both presenters had worked in commercial radio "they'd have been given their P45 before you could say 'Jack Robinson'."

On the same day, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, Theresa May, called for a Commons debate on the BBC's handling of the affair.

Reaction against censures and suspensions
In the days following the suspensions, a number of celebrities, particularly from television and radio, came out in support of Brand and Ross. Many felt that, whilst the incident was unacceptable, it was not deserving of the strong criticism it received, especially when there were other issues troubling the United Kingdom.

Rod McKenzie, the editor of BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, observed on the BBC Editors' weblog (see Further reading) that audience reactions to Brand's and Ross' remarks had been polarised, noting that whilst his colleagues at Radio 4, Radio 5 Live, BBC television, and the World Service, had been saying one thing, the younger audiences of Radio 1 had been reacting quite differently, and were broadly supportive of Ross and Brand. Some were amazed at the comments of the Prime Minister, with one person observing that "[t]he financial markets are wrecked and all he can do is talk about a petty joke." Others stated that people should "calm down", "get a grip", and that the subject had been "blown out of all proportion". McKenzie also characterised the reaction from the news media as containing "anger: some genuine, some of it synthetic. Some of it comes from the BBC's usual critics." He stated that for the people who worked in the media "profile and salary-envy and schadenfreude may play a part in all this. But how many heard the original transmission and how many are responding to the newspapers' quotes or others' arguments?"

Tim Shaw, a DJ for Absolute Radio, also supported Ross and Brand, appearing on BBC News wearing a T-shirt that read "I back Brand." The television presenter Paul O'Grady stated that the comedians' behaviour was "well out of order". However, he also suggested that the Prime Minister should "get on with more important matters" than complaining about "media gossip". Carol McGiffin, a presenter on ITV's daytime programme Loose Women similarly supported the pair, criticising those who complained and stating that she "could not wait" to download the official podcast which included the incident.

Noel Gallagher of the group Oasis, a friend of Brand's, complained that the press had "dictated the tone" of the controversy, and thought it "typical of the English in general" when "10,000 people get outraged, but only days after it has happened". Gallagher said he had spoken to Brand, who told Gallagher he was "going to fall on his sword".

A petition on the GoPetition web site, calling for the BBC "to turn blame on the 'Andrew Sachs' incident away from Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, and instead onto whoever green lighted the show" had garnered 336 signatures by 29 October. At the same time, a similar group on Facebook had over 1,000 members.  By 30 October, the petition had risen to 4,000 signatures and the Facebook group to 15,609 members. By 2 November, the Facebook group had over 30,000 members, which had risen to over 43,000 members by 5 November.

On 30 October, fans of Ross and Brand protested outside the offices of the BBC. On 31 October, fans prepared to hold a protest outside the offices of the Daily Mail and of the BBC.

Comedian Jimmy Carr also expressed his support for Ross, saying the issue had been "blown out of proportion", and blamed the media themselves for escalating it further, stating that Ross was a "national treasure".

Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford played down the apparent outrage aimed at Brand. In an interview he said "I don't think this will cause any problems for Russell Brand. He's known to be controversial and, if anything, it will make him more popular amongst his fans, who will have thought this was hilarious...They won't see anything wrong in what he did. It is a big PR success for him...He will have no problem with his career."

TV critic and columnist Charlie Brooker stated on his show, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, his worry that the controversy would lead to a "chilling effect" on comedy, and that the BBC and others would "self-censor too much" in future. He went on to say that the attitude displayed by the complainants and the BBC's backing down would have, in earlier times, precluded the production of much of what was at the time edgy comedy and "made culture poorer for it" (citing Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Day Today and The Young Ones amongst others as shows that would have not been commissioned owing to their controversial content). While criticising those who had complained without seeing the programme and attacking newspapers that attempted to stir up further controversy (in particular the Daily Mail), he did not appear to defend Brand and Ross in particular, stating that the possibility of people being offended by some misjudged humour is "the price you pay for freedom of speech." In a further column in The Guardian, he reiterated this point as well as saying that "people who retrospectively complain to Ofcom about material they've only read about second-hand are, in essence, a bunch of sanctimonious cry-babies indulging in a wretched form of masturbation."

Reaction from Georgina Baillie

Interviews
Reacting to the suspensions of Brand and Ross on 29 October, Baillie remarked: "I'm thrilled because justice has been done ... It's despicable. Calling me that in public, not only does it damage my relationship with my granddad, but it could permanently damage my life as well".

A week later, on 5 November 2008, UK television channel Five broadcast an hour-length documentary on the incident, titled Russell & Ross: What the F*** Was All That About? featuring an exclusive interview with Baillie. Baillie stated in the interview that "I think it's way out of proportion what's happened and I don't hate either of them – I don't at all", going on to say "I think they're really talented comedians and I think a world without Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand would be a very sad, dull place." She concluded by saying that Brand needed to learn about respecting women, while Ross should just think before he speaks, "I don't have any harder feeling than that." Baillie also made clear that she would not object to the reinstatement of both Brand and Ross.

On 14 May 2009, Baillie was a guest on the BBC politics and current affairs programme This Week. She was questioned by host Andrew Neil and regular guests Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott about the Brand row within discussion of the general subject of the present day worth and genuineness of public figures saying sorry, in the wake of public apologies from members of parliament (MPs) and Prime Minister Gordon Brown following the events of the MP's expenses row. Asked by Neil if receiving an apology from Brand and Ross had mattered to her, she said yes, as she had been "publicly offended and humiliated", and her grandfather "had been humiliated too". When asked by Abbott if all the publicity surrounding the Brand row had helped her career, she responded "not necessarily ... one would think so, but not really." Neil further asked if the apology she received had helped, she replied yes, stating "definitely" to the follow-up comment from Neil of "better to get it than not get it?" When asked finally on the row by Neil if she thought the apologies from Brand and Ross were genuine, she replied that she thought Ross' was, but the fact that Brand had joked about the row on his later tour "negated" his apology.

In 2023, Baillie said that following the October 2008 incident, her grandfather didn't speak to her for eight years (Sachs died in November 2016) and that the incident exacerbated her problems with drink and drugs. Baillie also revealed that Brand had apologised to her over ten years after the event, and paid for her rehab: "I was struggling with addiction for about 10–15 years and I was finding it very hard to get clean and sober. So one of my mutual friends between me and Russell called him up and said, ‘Georgie needs some help’, and so he sent me to rehab. And so I was physically separated from my drug of choice and I got some therapy and I think that had a big part to play in my recovery journey. He looked me in the eyes and he made his amends to me … he acknowledged it was a private relationship and it shouldn’t have been made public. At the time he had two daughters and it really made him grow and change and I felt it was genuine and I felt he was sorry."

Songwriting
In 2010, Baillie teamed up with singer Adam Ant (whose drummer Hayley Leggs had been a member, alongside Baillie, of burlesque troupe The Satanic Sluts) to compose the song "Gun in Your Pocket", about the incident, which he intended to release as the lead single for his ninth album Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter (with a rerecording of early 1980s outtake Who's A Goofy Bunny Then? as the B-side in tribute to the recently deceased Malcolm McLaren). The project was put on hold when Ant (who has a history of bipolar disorder and was widely suspected around this time to have been undergoing a fresh manic episode) was once again sectioned on 18 May 2010. However, he soon resumed his comeback, and Gun in Your Pocket was finally released in October 2012 as the B-side to Cool Zombie, the eventual first single from the album (which finally emerged in January 2013).

Baillie and Ant composed a second track about the Ross-Brand affair, Rubber Medusa, a song focussed mainly on Brand and written from Baillie's perspective.  Baillie's band, the Poussez Posse, performed this second song regularly in live support slots for Ant's UK, mainland European and Australian tours during 2011–2012.  Commenting on the two songs in an interview by John Robb, Baillie noted "The first one that Adam and I wrote was about an ex of mine- guess who! Which is not on the album, which is called Gun in Your Pocket ...(Subsequently) the first one Adam and I wrote together was Rubber Medusa, which was about Russell, Adam came up with the title which is a quote from the Jubilee film, [Brand] does look like a rubber Medusa so I see why he said it."

Support for Lesley Douglas
A number of radio personalities employed by the BBC came out in support of Lesley Douglas, following her resignation. Douglas was aware of the contents of the programme but had not heard them before they were broadcast. She sanctioned its broadcast with a single word email of "Yes" sent from her BlackBerry phone. Amongst her supporters were Chris Evans and Terry Wogan, both of whom worked for Radio 2 at the time, and Dame Liz Forgan, who called her one of the "outstanding broadcasters of her generation", and said that the BBC had "lost its wits". Mark Thompson said that because of her knowledge of the broadcast, she "had to shoulder some of the responsibility".

Subsequent appearances by Brand and Ross
Ross had been scheduled to host the 2008 British Comedy Awards for ITV during the period of his suspension from the BBC; however, on 31 October he stepped down.

On 31 October, Brand left the country, saying that he had work to do in the United States, including television programmes and film collaborations with Judd Apatow and Helen Mirren. The second series of Brand's Channel 4 television show Russell Brand's Ponderland aired as normal on the previous evening, attracting one million viewers, the show's largest ever audience. A further 180,000 watched the show on the timeshift channel Channel 4 +1. The first series of Ponderland, aired in October 2007, had been watched by 840,000 viewers, including those watching Channel 4 +1. The channel reported that it had received 164 complaints from the public, many of these criticising the decision to broadcast the programme, rather than a reflection on the content, and the majority before the programme was transmitted; the show also attracted 212 emails and phone-calls of praise from fans and as such was the most praised programme screened on Channel 4 for that month.

Brand continued to be on the front cover of PETA's "Vegetarian Starter Kit" booklet, despite protests to the organisation. PETA's director, Robbie LeBlanc, said that Brand, who had previously won PETA's "Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity" contest twice, would remain on the cover "because Mr Sachs, who is also a PETA supporter, has accepted Mr Brand's apology, and that's good enough for us."

Brand went on to win the British Comedy Award for Best Live Standup Performer. In his acceptance speech, Brand dedicated his award to Ross.

After being taken off the air due to Ross' suspension, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross returned to BBC One on 23 January 2009, featuring guests Tom Cruise, Lee Evans and Stephen Fry. The show was watched by 5.1 million viewers, an increase from the 3.74 million of the last show before going off air. Ross' return attracted 25 complaints and three messages of support to the BBC.

In 2009, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross was nominated for a BAFTA. According to The Times, Ross was nominated soon after he was banned. Melody Sachs complained about Ross being nominated so soon after the controversy in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, saying: "I am amazed that Ross should get rewarded with a mouth like his. Nobody is saying he hasn't got talent, but what he did was so disgusting. Of course, he is not worth the money, but he is good at his job. However, I don't think he should be rewarded so soon after what happened. It is like people are saying, 'Let's forget all about it and see what we can give him.' It is wrong and bad timing to give or even put up this guy for recognition when he has done such a terrible thing. It was unforgivable, really. I'm not angry, I just don't believe it."

Sachs himself said that the nomination was "a bit of a surprise", and that "One would question the reasons when it comes so quickly after what happened. I wonder how much it has to do with trying to comfort him. I don't know. That is how it happens. That is showbusiness."

BBC Trust ruling
On 21 November 2008, the BBC's watchdog BBC Trust said that the phone calls were a "deplorable intrusion with no editorial justification". The Trust found that the existing BBC guidelines should have been sufficient to have prevented the incident, and that the "very offensive" programme should "never have been recorded". It found the failures lay in mistakes made by BBC editorial and compliance management. The Trust gave its backing to the BBC's response to the incident and Ross' suspension. The BBC stated the incident was a "very, very serious failure in a radio programme where editorial judgement was exercised that seriously let the BBC down".

The Trust also criticised Brand's "so-called apology" of 25 October, and the staff of Chris Moyles' Radio 1 show for also breaching BBC guidelines for comments by Brand in an interview on the morning of 21 October, at a time when children were likely to be listening. The Trust recommended tighter controls for programmes such as Brand's, made by companies owned by their performers. Long-term effects of the controversy included the establishment of a register of "high-risk" programmes.

References

Further reading

External links
Ofcom ruling on the incident

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Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.

Xavier Malisse and Olivier Rochus won the title, defeating Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry 7–6(7–5), 6–4 in the final.

Seeds

  Gastón Etlis /  Martín Rodríguez (second round)
  Wayne Arthurs /  Paul Hanley (second round)
  Xavier Malisse /  Olivier Rochus (champions)
  Simon Aspelin /  Todd Perry (final)

Draw

External links
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Doubles


"Tell Me It's Not Over" is the first single released from the 2009 album, All the Plans by the English alternative rock band, Starsailor.  Its release date was announced on 18 October 2008 on their official website  and later via YouTube by the lead singer James Walsh and Ben Byrne in their official Channel. It peaked # 73 in the UK Single Charts  and #5 in the Belgium Charts making Tell Me It's Not Over their most successful single in Belgium.

The art cover for "Tell Me It's Not Over" was released on Starsailor's official website on 16 January 2009. The single was re-scheduled the same day.
Initially decided by the band to name their new single "Lights Out" or "Tell Me It's Not Over", it was performed for the first time at the music in my head festival in Paard van Troje, Den Haag, Netherlands in June 2007  and it was recorded between that year and March 2008.

Lyrically, "Tell Me It's Not Over" refers to a relationship near the end because of the adultery of his partner. The song almost makes reference to the possibility of forgiveness after an infidelity for the sake of the couple.

Critical reception

Prior to the release of All The Plans, "Tell Me It's Not Over" has been well received by music critics. Daily Music Guide describes the song as "one departure from the old favourites, the superb 'Tell Me It's Not Over', a forthcoming release from the eagerly anticipated new album"  and praised that "despite not breaking any new ground for the band, will no doubt appease their stock of devoted fans eagerly awaiting the albums release".  Monique Oliver from Absolute Radio stated that 'Tell Me It's Not Over' "goes down well". Rich McLaughlin from The Alternate Side compares Starsailor's single with Joseph Arthur's "In the Sun".

On 23 February 2009 Limelife named "Tell Me It's Not Over" as the song of the day.  Liz from Limelife wrote that: "the sadness, melancholy and mope are on full display here - and Starsailor works them to maximum indie rock effect".  She else added that: "the much-repeated refrain, "tell me it's not over," may stir up memories of crying on the bathroom floor, but isn't that what all good emo rock is supposed to do?".

Music video

On 18 December 2008 it was published on Starsailor's Myspace a video from behind the scenes when the band were making the video directed by Dan Sully who has previously worked with Elbow.  It was else announce that date that, "there will be an exclusive previewing of the video in its finished state shortly". The video was shot in North London.

On 9 January 2009 it was premiered in The Sun the full video.

The music video for "Tell Me It's Not Over" starts with James Walsh and his partner in a parking where she left him.  Both of them (the girl presumably in the couple's home) look in a thoughtful way and seems to be doubting about the decision they have taken. Scenes of the band playing the song and the lights in different buildings being switched off and on harmonically with the song (which could be related to the first lines of the single chorus "now the lights out i discover...") are interpolated in the video.  At the end of the video Walsh finally decided to enter the car.

The video features a White Mercedes-Benz W123 Estate.

On 19 January 2009 it was posted on MTV's official Myspace, and premiered in  Myspace Chart on MTV Two, UK. It debuted on MTV chart one week later at number five on 26 January, making the best debut of that week on the channel.

Cover versions
On 19 January 2009, when lead singer James Walsh was interviewed by Geoff Lloyd, he admitted that he had recorded a version of the lead single, "Tell Me It's Not Over" featuring Brandon Flowers from The Killers.  The song was remixed by Flowers and Stuart Price and has since been leaked onto the internet.

According to the site administrator of the Starsailor Official Message Board, Boo, Brandon Flowers did in fact record, informally with James, vocals on a version of the song. This was actually meant to be a special secret surprise they had hoped to bring the fans at some time in the future. But at this stage, the recording was just a friendly collaboration between the two of them and does not yet have any official approval from Brandon or The Killers' management.

She also added that "James was put rather on the spot by Geoff Lloyd asking the question directly in that manner, as it was something we were hoping to keep under wraps for now - but James being a nice boy who was taught not to tell lies, then gave an honest answer".

Nevertheless, the song featuring Brandon Flowers has been played by Swindon 105.5 fm by JEB and XFM Radio.

Format details

CD
 "Tell Me It's Not Over"
 "In Their World"

Digital Download
 "Tell Me It's Not Over"
 "Tell Me It's Not Over" (Stuart Price Radio Mix)
 "Tell Me It's Not Over" (Thin White Duke Club Mix)

7" heavyweight Vinyl
 "Tell Me It's Not Over"
 "All The Plans" (feat. Ronnie Wood)

Promo Single (CDS)
 "Tell Me It's Not Over"
 "Tell Me It's Not Over" (Instrumental)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2009 singles
Starsailor (band) songs
Virgin Records singles
Songs written by James Walsh (musician)
Songs written by James Stelfox
Songs written by Barry Westhead
2009 songs
Songs written by Ben Byrne


Hardy's skink (Oligosoma hardyi) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Poor Knights Islands of New Zealand.

Etymology
The specific name, hardyi, is in honor of Kiwi
herpetologist Graham S. Hardy.

Geographic range
In the Poor Knights Islands, O. hardyi occurs on Tawhiti Rahi Island, Aorangi Island, Aorangaia Island, Archway Island, and two rock stacks (Stack “B,” Stack “C”).

Taxonomy
O. hardyi closely resembles the copper skink, Cyclodina aenea, and was considered to be a member of this species until recently when it was described as a new species using morphological, allozyme and DNA methods (Chapple et al. 2008). More recently, the genus Cyclodina was merged with the genus Oligosoma (Chapple et al. 2009), resulting in a new combination for this species, Oligosoma hardyi.

Habitat and behaviour
O. hardyi is most commonly found in areas where there is ground cover near flax and scrub habitat.  It is crepuscular, seeking refuge during the day under stones or thick vegetation.

Description
O. hardyi can be distinguished from all other Oligosoma species, including the other members of the O. aeneum species complex, by having suboculars three and four separated by the fifth supralabial under the eye. In addition, the midbody scale count is greater than that of the slight skink (Oligosoma levidensum) from the Te Paki region.

References

Further reading
Chapple DG, Patterson GB, Bell TP, Daugherty CH (2008). "Taxonomic Revision of the Copper Skink (Cyclodina aenea, Squamata, Scincidea) Species Complex with descriptions of two new species".  Journal of Herpetology 42 (3): 437 – 452. (Cyclodina hardyi, new species).
Chapple DG, Ritchie PA, Daugherty CH (2009). "Origin, diversification, and systematics of the New Zealand skink fauna (Reptilia: Scincidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (2): 470-487. (Oligosoma hardyi, new combination).

Endemic reptiles of New Zealand
Oligosoma
Reptiles described in 2008
Taxa named by David G. Chapple
Taxa named by Geoff B. Patterson
Taxa named by Trent Bell
Taxa named by Charles H. Daugherty


Grochów is a suburb of Warsaw.

Grochów may also refer to:
Grochów, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
Grochów, Sokołów County in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Grochów, Lubusz Voivodeship (west Poland)
Grochów, West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland)