Jonas Lars Persson (born 15 December 1983 in Malmö, Sweden) is an Olympic swimmer from Sweden. He swam for his homeland at the 2008 Olympics.

Biography
Persson was born 15 December 1983 in Slottstaden in Malmö, to Lars and Ingegerd Persson.

In 2002, Jonas Persson won his first individual title in the Swedish Swimming Championships, on 200 m freestyle, after having won a silver in the Swedish Short Course Swimming Championships earlier the same year.

Persson swam and attended school at the USA's University of Arizona for two years (2004–06), and more recently was at the University of Tennessee (2006–09), where he majored in Marketing and International Business.

At the 2008 European Championships, he swam the anchor leg of Sweden's winning 4×100 m freestyle relay; also on the relay were Marcus Piehl, Stefan Nystrand and Petter Stymne.

Persson also participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics for Sweden in the 100 m freestyle, 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and the 4×100 medley relay. He finished 13th in the 100 m freestyle and 5th in the 4×100 freestyle relay, alongside Petter Stymne, Lars Frölander and Stefan Nystrand. The medley relay team consisting of Simon Sjödin, Jonas Andersson, Frölander and Persson finished 11th in the prelims.

Persson has been a key member of the Swedish 4 × 100 m freestyle relay teams during the late 2000s, but missed the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome because of an injured shoulder.

Persson was the assistant coach for the University of Utah Swimming & Diving Team until May 2016.

Persson coached at the University of Toledo from 2016-2019 and is now the assistant coach at the University of Utah

Persson was named head coach for the University of Utah Swimming and Dive Team in May 2022

References

External links

Swedish male freestyle swimmers
1983 births
Living people
Arizona Wildcats men's swimmers
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for Sweden
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Malmö KK swimmers
Tennessee Volunteers men's swimmers
Utah Utes swimming coaches
Toledo Rockets swimming coaches
Sportspeople from Malmö
20th-century Swedish people
21st-century Swedish people


Hemicube can mean:
Hemicube (computer graphics), a concept in 3D computer graphics rendering
Hemicube (geometry), an abstract regular polytope
Demihypercube, an n-dimensional uniform polytope, also known as the n-hemicube


Tom and Jerry & Tex Avery Too! Volume 1: The 1950s is a 2006 soundtrack album containing Scott Bradley's film scores from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Tom and Jerry, Droopy and Tex Avery theatrical cartoon shorts. These cartoons' soundtracks were selected as the first release because they had the best sound quality. A second volume was digitally released in 2010.

Track listing

References

2006 soundtrack albums
Film soundtracks
Tom and Jerry


The 2009 InterLiga was the 6th edition of the tournament that determined the last two Mexican spots in the 2009 Copa Libertadores.

Venues

Qualification
The eight qualified teams were the eight best-positioned teams in the 2008 Apertura general table who did not qualify for the 2009 Copa Libertadores (San Luis) directly and did not qualify for the 2008–09 CONCACAF Champions League from the previous season (Atlante, UNAM, Cruz Azul, and Santos Laguna).

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Finals

Goalscorers
As of 12 January 2009.

4 goals
  Carlos Ochoa (Guadalajara)
  Edgar Benítez (Pachuca)

2 goals
  Jorge Achucarro (Atlas)
  Bruno Marioni (Atlas)
  Sergio Santana (Toluca)
  Gonzalo Vargas (Atlas)

1 goal
  Sergio Ávila (Guadalajara)
  Jean Beausejour (América)
  Ariel Bogado (UANL)
  Edy Brambila (Pachuca)
  Salvador Cabañas (América)
  Andrés Chitiva (América)
  Robert de Pinho (América)
  Hugo Droguett (Morelia)

1 goal (cont.)
  Marco Fabian (Guadalajara)
  Christian Giménez (Pachuca)
  Diego Jiménez (UAG)
  Lucas Lobos (UANL)
  Victor Mañón (Pachuca)
  Guillermo Marino (UANL)
  Alberto Medina (Guadalajara)
  Andres Mendoza (Morelia)
  Ramón Morales (Guadalajara)
  Raúl Nava (Toluca)
  Edgar Pacheco (Atlas)
  Marco Pérez (Pachuca)
  Sergio Ponce (Guadalajara)
  Fernando Salazar (Morelia)
  Wilson Tiago (Morelia)
  Enrique Vera (América)

See also
2009 Copa Libertadores
Primera División de México

References

External links
Official site

Inter
2009 domestic association football cups
2009


Semisulcospira kurodai is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae. Prior to 2009, this species was classified in the family Pleuroceridae.

Distribution
This species occurs in Japan.

Description
The maximum width of the shell of Semisulcospira kurodai is  and  in height in the laboratory. The maximum weight of the animal is  in the laboratory.

The width of the shell is  in the first year,  in the second year,  in the third year and  in the fourth year in the laboratory.

The diploid chromosome number of Semisulcospira kurodai is 2n=35 and 2n=36 (both chromosome numbers were observed).

Ecology

Habitat
Semisulcospira kurodai lives in rivers and in ponds.

Life cycle
The female has 17 to 72 embryos in its brood pouch. One female can give life to 62 to 79 newborn snails in the laboratory.

The average size of the shell of a newborn snail varies according to the locality from  in width and from  in height of the shell.

Semisulcospira kurodai can live up to four years in the laboratory.

References

Further reading
  Goto T. (1994). "岐阜県のクロダカワニナ [Semisulcospira kurodai Kajiyama & Habe in Gifu Prefecture]". ちりぼたん The Chiribotan 24(3-4): 100-101. CiNii
 Oniwa K. & Kimura M. (1986). "Genetic variability and relationships in six snail species of the genus Semisulcospira". The Japanese journal of genetics 61(5): 503-514. CiNii.
  Takami A. (1995). "31. クロダカワニナの産仔数, 新生貝の大きさと成長(平成 6 年度大会(豊橋)研究発表要旨) [31. Number, size and growth of newborns in Semisulcospira kurodai under the laboratory conditions (Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting in Toyohashi City)]". Venus 54(1): 96. CiNii
  Takami A. (1991). "カワニナ属 3 種の産仔頻度, 産仔数と新生貝の大きさ [The Birth Frequency, Number and Size of Newborns in the Three Species of the Genus Semisulcospira (Prosobranchia: Pleuroceridae)]". Venus 50(3): 218-232. CiNii.

External links

Semisulcospiridae


The Spirit of Mickey is a 1998 American animated direct-to-video anthology film, produced and released by Walt Disney Home Video on July 14, 1998. It features clips from The Mickey Mouse Club, The Wonderful World of Disney, and A Goofy Movie, in the introductory scene, and some of the namesake character's shorts, including The Band Concert, Lend a Paw, Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip and Steamboat Willie.

Summary
The framing devices are centered on Mickey Mouse and his friends hosting an event at which they present some of Mickey's greatest cartoons to an audience of orphans, using archival footage from The Mickey Mouse Club, Disney's Wonderful World of Color, A Goofy Movie, and various Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck shorts. None of the shorts were shown with their original title cards, instead, the titles were shown on the corner of the screen, disappearing after a few seconds, with an exception for the final short, Steamboat Willie.

Overview

Cartoons

Sources:

Voice cast
 Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse
Walt Disney and Jimmy MacDonald as Mickey Mouse (via archival audio, uncredited)
 Bill Farmer as Goofy and Pluto
 Pinto Colvig as Goofy, Pluto, additional voices (via archival audio, uncredited)
 Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
Clarence Nash as Donald Duck, additional voices (via archival audio, uncredited)
 Corey Burton as Ludwig Von Drake
 Diane Michelle as Daisy Duck
 Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse
Marcellite Garner as Minnie Mouse, additional voices (via archival audio, uncredited)
 Jeannie Elias as Max
Sources:

Production
The compilation was produced in celebration of the 70th anniversary of Mickey Mouse. Stan Deneroff, then Director of Programming and Product Development for Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment selected older cartoons from the Disney archives which would then be presented together with new interstitial segments of rotoscoped Disney characters setting up and introducing each short. While Mickey was not the primary focus in all the cartoons, with some of the included shorts including Mickey as part of an ensemble or a supporting capacity, Deneroff felt it was important to show Mickey in various positions throughout his run including in relation to his co-stars.

References

External links

1998 direct-to-video films
1998 films
Mickey Mouse films
Short film compilations
Disney direct-to-video animated films
1990s American animated films
1990s English-language films
Collage film


Mark Marderosian (born 1955) is a prolific cartoonist, animator and children's book illustrator, a comic book artist and noted toy designer.

Biography

Early life and career
Born in Cambridge, Marderosian grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. He started drawing when he was seven years old, inspired after his parents took him to see  Pinocchio. After high school, Marderosian worked for advertising agencies and an art supply company, where he prepared paste-ups and mechanicals for catalogs. During this time, he also drew cartoons and comic strips, and freelanced for various magazines. In 1979, Marderosian enrolled at Massachusetts College of Art, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in illustration.

Mark Marderosian created the Delta Tenn comic books for  Paul Howley's Entertainment Publishing in 1987–88. He also worked with Howley on the design of a set of Classic Toys Trading Cards around the same time.

Disney Years
After an early-career rejection, Marderosian "finally [got] his foot in the Disney door in 1990," working on merchandise related to Jessica Rabbit. Over the course of his career, Marderosian has gone on to illustrate several dozen movie and television tie-in books for Disney, as well as for Golden Books. He has also provided illustrations for other licensed merchandise such as character figurines, story books, and coloring books. Among the many characters he has drawn are Mickey Mouse, Mulan, The Little Mermaid, Hello Kitty, and Jimmy Neutron. He is most commonly recognized for his work on merchandise and books featuring the Disney Princesses. "Because of the constant reprinting, especially in coloring books, somewhere there’s someone looking at something I drew every single day," said Marderosian.

Editorial Cartoons
Marderosian began working as the editorial cartoonist for the Newton TAB in 2006. "There aren’t as many editorial cartoonists in this country as there used to be and I’m happy to be able to practice my art and offer my opinions in this manner every week," he said.

Television
In 2007, Marderosian designed and successfully marketed his own collection of children's stuffed animals called "Angels from the Attic.” Each toy set included a related story book.

In 2010, Marderosian and designer/animator Robert Palmer Jr. created a television program called "Drawing With Mark." Their children’s media company, Big City Publishing, offered to provide the program free of charge to Public-access television cable TV stations. The show has been called "a simple, old-fashioned TV show... that teaches kids how to draw." His "Angels from the Attic" characters appear on the show in animated form. Within five months after airing the first episode, the program was accepted by 105 Public-access television channels that serve about 150 cities and towns across 25 states. "The show’s overall theme is about helping kids unlock their creativity, especially in these days of brutal budget cuts on so many institutions, which are struggling to present creativity and art in various forms," Marderosian said.

In 2013, the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences nominated "Drawing with Mark" for a Regional Emmy award in the Children’s/Youth category.

References

External links

Mark Marderosian's Official Site
Mark Marderosian's Company Site
Angels from the Attic Official Site

1955 births
American illustrators
American comics artists
American animators
Massachusetts College of Art and Design alumni
Living people
Toy designers


Elimia virginica, common names the Piedmont elimia or Virginia river snail, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pleuroceridae.

Distribution

Indigenous distribution
Elimia virginica is native to the United States east of the continental divide. The species occurs in large Atlantic coast rivers in eastern North America, from Massachusetts to Virginia. The northeastern limit of the native range of the species is the lower Connecticut River.

The distribution of this species is shrinking in the native Connecticut River, and it is considered rare in Connecticut. Its conservation status in the Connecticut River Watershed is W1 ("a rare species, with 20 or fewer known occurrences in the watershed states").

The conservation status of Elimia virginica according to NatureServe, is as follows:
 United States of America – secure.
 Massachusetts – presumed extirpated.
 Connecticut – critically imperiled.
 New York – vulnerable.
 New Jersey – unranked.
 Pennsylvania – secure.
 Virginia – apparently secure.
 North Carolina – unrankable.

Nonindigenous distribution
The nonindigenous distribution of Elimia virginica includes another area in the United States: it migrated from the Atlantic drainage through the Erie Canal to the Lake Ontario drainage.

The first record of this species in the Great Lakes drainage dates from around 1856–1860, when it was found in the Erie Canal near Mohawk, New York State. Populations later increased throughout the canal in the late 19th century, and reached Buffalo, at the mouth of Lake Erie. In the 1960s, this species was recorded from Oneida Lake in New York State.

This species is considered established in the Lake Ontario drainage. However, this species, although introduced to the Lake Ontario drainage, has been largely out-competed by another introduced snail, this one from the Palaearctic ecozone, Bithynia tentaculata. Thus Elimia virginica is now virtually absent from the Oswego drainage, and is possibly very reduced in abundance in other localities where it was introduced, due to such interspecific competition.

There are currently no known impacts caused by introduction of this species to other water bodies.

Shell description

Elimia virginica belongs to the family Pleuroceridae, a group of snails that have thick, elongated shells. The operculum in this species is proteinaceous, corneous, and paucispiral and is withdrawn when the snail is active.

The shells are dextral and have a very high and narrow spire, with little space in the suture (the incisions between the whorls). This species has two distinct shell morphologies, one smooth and one lirate (i.e. finely lined or grooved).

Specimens of this species often vary in coloration: in general, Elimia virginica is yellow to chestnut in hue, but it sometimes has 2 darker brown spiral bands. Juveniles (snails with an aperture height of no more than 7 mm) display the banding more frequently than adults.

The shells of specimens of Elimia virginica from New York State and the Connecticut River range from 27 to 33 mm high, with an aperture height of 9–12 mm.

Anatomy
It is easy to distinguish the female of this species in whole animals, because of the presence of the external genital sinus.

In 2008. four nucleotide sequences and one protein sequence of Elimia virginica were determined.

Ecology

Habitat
Elimia virginica is found in freshwater rivers and streams with cobble bottoms and boulders. (Pleurocerids are usually found in lotic erosional environments, in riffles or shoals with rock or sand substrate, and especially frequently on rocks in slower areas of medium size reaches.) Elimia virginica usually inhabits slow to medium velocity rivers and streams with firm and clean gravel, cobble and rock substrate. Pleurocerids in general are sensitive to abiotic stresses, and Elimia virginica is not tolerant to siltation.

In Connecticut, Elimia virginica is at the edge of its range, and is most likely limited to hard water habitats only. During collections made in the Connecticut River, the snail was found to inhabit regions with water temperatures up to 27.5 °C, dissolved oxygen between 7 and 14 ppm, CaCO3 concentration from 42 to 160 ppm, pH from 7.6 to 9.0 and CO2 concentration from 0–10 ppm. However, at some of these sites, population abundance was very low and/or decreasing, especially in conditions of high water temperature and alkalinity.

Life cycle
Elimia virginica is dioecious. It lays its eggs from spring to summer, in particular in June and July.

This species, unlike softer shelled physid snails, grows very slowly, and has the lowest intrinsic rate of increase (this means that populations grow very slowly), along with Leptoxis carinata, in this environment.

Individuals of this species are often sexually mature within one year; and can live 5 years.

Feeding habits
Elimia virginica is grazer of epilithic periphyton.

Parasites
Trematodes are often parasitic in reproductive organs of this species. Parasites of Elimia virginica include trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.

Other interspecific relationships
In the Connecticut River, the shell of Elimia virginica is often used as substrate by epizootic algae and the entoproct Urnatella gracilis.

A short study in the Potomac River, Virginia, found that the snail has a very strong shell that is adapted to withstand predation by such predators as crayfish and ducks. However, there is an evolutionary trade-off between predator defense and rapid growth and reproduction amongst snail populations found in this river.

There is recent evidence for hybridisation (the process of creating intermediate forms called hybrids during interspecific breeding) and introgression between Elimia virginica and Elimia livescens amongst populations brought into contact due to the opening of the Erie Canal. These two species were formerly completely geographically isolated during glaciation by the Alleghenian Divide: the former was only found in Atlantic Slope drainages, while the latter was only found in Interior Basin drainages. Hybridization and introgression of this kind can put the genetic integrity of a species at severe risk, especially when the population is already small.

References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference

Further reading

 Photo of  a live Elimia virginica
 Tomba A. M. 2008. Environmental variation and distribution patterns of freshwater snails (Family Pleuroceridae) and their trematode parasites in the rappahannock watershed. The Nabs 56th Annual Meeting (25–28 May 2008).

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Elimia livescens, common name the liver elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.

Shell description
The height of the shell of this species can be as large as 20 mm.

Distribution
Elimia livescens is native to the United States. It occurs in the Saint Lawrence River drainage from Great Lake to Lake Champlain; in tributaries of the Ohio River east of the Scioto River in Ohio; and in the Wabash River, west to the Illinois River.

The nonindigenous distribution of Elimia livescens includes the lower Hudson River drainage. It migrated to the Hudson River via the Erie Canal. The impact of this introduction is unknown.

Ecology

Habitat
This snail is found in freshwater rivers and streams, on rock shoals and gravel bars.

Life cycle
The sexes are separate. Eggs are usually laid in the spring. The snails often reach sexual maturity in a year, and can live for 5 years.

Parasites
Parasites of Elimia livescens include trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.

References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference

Further reading

livescens


The 1942–43 Serie C was the eighth edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system.

Legend

Girone A

Girone B

Girone C

Girone D

Girone E

Girone F

Girone G

Girone H

Girone I

Girone L

Girone M

Girone N

Final rounds

Girone A

Girone B

After the war
At the end of this season the championship was suspended due to World War II. After the war, the devastation left by the battles on the Gothic Line made travels from one side of the Apennines to the other very difficult. The championship was restarted in 1945 with a transitory season where northern and southern sides took part in nearly separated competitions. For these reasons, the championship composition was deeply changed.

Northern sides
All the sides that took part in the Final rounds were arbitrary promoted to 1945–46 Serie B-C with the exception of Varese that asked to take part to the regional leagues because its home stadium was destroyed by bombardment.
Other 22 sides were promoted by the FIGC considering final placing, financial situation, previous sport merits, geographical representation, and, last but not least, if they had suffered wrongs made by the Fascist regime.
Girone A: Treviso
Girone B: Ferrara (later renamed back SPAL), Mantova, Suzzara and Trento
Girone C: Como, Crema, Seregno and the reborn Pro Sesto, that later absorbed the clubs Falck Sesto San Giovanni and Giovani Calciatori Sestesi.
Girone D: Gallaratese, Legnano, Vigevano and Vogherese
Girone E: Casale, Cuneo and Pro Vercelli
Girone F: Manlio Cavagnaro Sestri (later renamed back Sestrese) and Dopolavoro/Ausonia Spezia
Girone G: Panigale, Piacenza and Reggiana
Girone H: Cesena
Istrian sides had to leave the league after annexation of the region by Yugoslavia. The teams from Rijeka/Fiume, Pula/Pola, and later Izola/Isola d'Istria were integrated in an Istrian tournament in 1945 and in the Yugoslav pyramid in 1946.
All the relegations obtained on the pitch were cancelled, let alone cases of financial difficulties or dissolution.

Southern sides
Salernitana, promoted to Serie B at the end of the season, was admitted directly to 1945–46 Serie A-B.
All the other teams were admitted to 1945–46 Serie C's Southern league, let alone sides with financial difficulties.
In 1946, for equity, even the survived Southern finalists of this championship were admitted to Serie B.

Serie C seasons
3
Italy


In South Africa, a Premier is the head of government of one of South Africa's nine provinces. The Premier of a province plays for that province a role similar to that played by the President for the country as a whole.

Election
Elections for the nine provincial legislatures are held every five years, simultaneously with the election of the National Assembly; the last such election occurred on 8 May 2019. At the first meeting of the provincial legislature after an election, the members choose the Premier from amongst themselves. The legislature can force the Premier to resign by a motion of no confidence. If the Premiership becomes vacant (for whatever reason) the legislature must choose a new Premier to serve out the period until the next election.

Role
In terms of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, the executive authority of a province is vested in the Premier. The Premier appoints an Executive Council made up of five to ten members of the provincial legislature; they are known as Members of the Executive Council (MECs). The MECs are effectively ministers and the Executive Council a cabinet at the provincial level. The Premier has the power to hire and fire MECs at their own discretion. The Western Cape is the only province where MECs are known as Provincial Ministers and the Executive Council is known as the Provincial Cabinet, in terms of Section 42 of the Constitution of the Western Cape, 1997.

The Premier and the Executive Council are responsible for implementing provincial legislation, along with any national legislation assigned to the provinces. They set provincial policy and manage the departments of the provincial government; their actions are subject to the national constitution and the provincial constitution (if there is one).

In order for an act of the provincial legislature to become law, the Premier must sign it. If the Premier believes that the act is unconstitutional, it can be referred back to the legislature for reconsideration. If the Premier and the legislature cannot agree, the act must be referred to the Constitutional Court for a final decision.

The Premier is also ex officio a member of the National Council of Provinces, the upper house of Parliament, as one of the special delegates from his or her province.

List of current premiers

Timeline

See also
 Premier
 Politics of South Africa
 Provinces of South Africa

References

External links
 List of Premiers by province
 Photo gallery of Premiers

Lists of provinces of South Africa
Provincial governments of South Africa


They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy is the twenty-fourth solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on September 2, 1974, by MCA Records.

Critical reception

In the September 14 issue, Billboard published a review that said, "When Loretta sings, people listen, and they'll listen to all of these, even though several of the songs have been done before. She has two of her big singles on it and a great deal of new material, out of which will come more singles. The remarkable lady just keeps doing superb songs, and Owen Bradley plays his part." The review also noted "Out of Consideration," "Don't Leave Me Where You Found Me," and "Nothin'" as the best cuts on the album, and a note to record dealers saying that there is "some nostalgia on the back cover, along with great liner notes."

Cashbox also published a review in their September 14 issue which said, "Loretta's bright sparkling vocals have made her one of the most successful females on the country music scene. A sense of boundless happiness is inherent in all her songs, even if they are of the ballad lament type. The lady sings with a refined sense of interpretation that ranks her among the very best of the female country performers. The title track was recently a chart topper. Fine renditions of such country classics as "Behind Closed Doors (Charlie Rich song) ", "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)", "We've Already Tasted Love", "I've Never Been This Far Before", and "I Love". Loretta Lynn is certainly one of the omnipresent reigning queens of country music."

Commercial performance
The album peaked at No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot Country LP's chart.

The first single, "They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy", was released in April 1974 and peaked at No. 4 on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The album's second single, "Trouble in Paradise", was released in August 1974 and peaked at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, Lynn's eleventh No. 1 single.

Recording
Recording sessions for the album began on March 4 and 5, 1974, at Bradley's Barn in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Three additional sessions followed on June 18, 19 and June 20. Three songs on the album were from previous recording sessions. "They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy" was recorded on April 25, 1972, during a session for 1972's Here I Am Again. "Ain't Love a Good Thing" and "Nothin'" were recorded during sessions for 1973's Love Is the Foundation, on March 27 and 28, 1973, respectively.

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from the album liner notes and MCA recording session records.
Willie Ackerman – drums
Harold Bradley – bass guitar
Owen Bradley – producer
Pete Drake – steel guitar
Ray Edenton – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Bud Gray – photography
Lloyd Green – steel guitar
Buddy Harman – drums
Darrell Johnson – mastering
The Jordanaires – background vocals
Jerry Kennedy – guitar, dobro
Billy Linneman – bass
Loretta Lynn – lead vocals
Grady Martin – guitar
Charlie McCoy – harmonica, vibes
Bob Moore – bass
Hargus Robbins – piano
Hal Rugg – steel guitar
George Vecsey – liner notes
Pete Wade – guitar
Jim Williamson – engineer

Charts
Album

Singles

References

1974 albums
Loretta Lynn albums
Albums produced by Owen Bradley
Decca Records albums


The Tyria () is a river in the western part of the Ioannina regional unit in Epirus, Greece. It is a left tributary of the Thyamis. The source of the river Tyria is near the village Platania, on the western slope of the Tomaros mountain. It flows into a generally northwestern direction. It flows into the Thyamis, near Vrosina.

The Tyria flows along the following villages, from source to mouth: Koumaria, Seniko, Chinka, Granitsa and Polydoro.

References

Rivers of Greece
Landforms of Ioannina (regional unit)
Rivers of Epirus (region)
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Huddersfield Town's 1942–43 campaign saw Town continuing to play in the Wartime League. They finished 5th in the 1st NRL Competition, 6th in the War Cup qualifiers and 8th in the 2nd NRL Competition.

Results

1st NRL Competition

2nd NRL Competition
The first 9 matches of this competition took part in the War Cup qualifiers. The last 7 matches, with the exception of the match against Manchester City, took place in the Combined Counties Cup.

1942-43
English football clubs 1942–43 season


Ohel Children's Home and Family Services (; lit. "tent") is a large not-for-profit Jewish social service agency, primarily located in New York City, that provides counseling, crisis intervention, and other services to children and families who are going through or suffering from abuse, domestic violence, marital problems, mental health issues, or neglect. NYC's Child Welfare Administration works with Ohel when serious situations arise.

, Ohel has over 1200 employees, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, case managers, and mental health workers. The agency consists of divisions used to support individuals with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and other psychiatric and psychological difficulties. Trained and certified Ohel foster parents provide safe, loving homes to Jewish children.

The organization is larger than others with similar missions in the NYC area, such as Mekimi and Harmony Services.

Expansion
Ohel consolidated some of their services into a new facility, known as Ohel Jaffa Family Campus, a process that was underway by 2010.

At the end of 2014, in announcing a $2 million funding grant for additional expansion,
NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito began with "For over 45 years, OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services has ..." and noted that it will "increase accessibility and delivery of services."

Notes

References

External links
Ohel Children's Home & Family Services

Social care in the United States
Organizations based in New York City


A hemi-octahedron is an abstract regular polyhedron, containing half the faces of a regular octahedron.

It has 4 triangular faces, 6 edges, and 3 vertices. Its dual polyhedron is the hemicube.

It can be realized as a projective polyhedron (a tessellation of the real projective plane by 4 triangles), which can be visualized by constructing the projective plane as a hemisphere where opposite points along the boundary are connected and dividing the hemisphere into four equal parts.  It can be seen as a square pyramid without its base.

It can be represented symmetrically as a hexagonal or square Schlegel diagram:

It has an unexpected property that there are two distinct edges between every pair of vertices – any two vertices define a digon.

See also
Hemi-dodecahedron
Hemi-icosahedron

References

External links
 The hemioctahedron

Projective polyhedra


Dragan Radović (Cyrillic: Драган Радовић; born 29 September 1976) is a Montenegrin retired professional footballer who played as a striker.

Playing career
Radović began his career in the Second League of FR Yugoslavia in 1998 where he had stints with Iskra Danilovgrad, and Rudar Pljevlja. In 2001, he signed  with FK Obilić in the First League of FR Yugoslavia. After a season in the top flight he returned to the second league to play with Trudbenik, FK Mogren, and Zora Spuž. In 2005, he signed with FK Mornar. Following Montenegro regaining independence in 2006, he signed with the Serbian White Eagles of the Canadian Soccer League thus becoming Montenegro's first international football transfer.

He made his debut for the Serbian White Eagles on August 11, 2006 against Toronto Supra Portuguese, where he recorded a goal in a 2-1 victory. In his debut season he assisted in clinching the International Division title and in reaching the CSL Championship final against Italia Shooters. In the 2008 season he finished as the club's top goalscorer with twelve goals. He assisted in securing the championship title against Trois-Rivières Attak, where Serbia won the match after a 2-1 victory in a penalty shootout.

After one season in his first club Iskra Danilovgrad he retired from competitive football in 2011. He is commonly referred to by his nickname Ruso.

Honours

Serbian White Eagles
 CSL Championship: 2008
 Canadian Soccer League International Division: 2006, 2007, 2009

References

1976 births
Living people
People from Danilovgrad
Men's association football forwards
Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers
Montenegrin men's footballers
FK Iskra Danilovgrad players
FK Rudar Pljevlja players
FK Obilić players
FK Mogren players
FK Zora players
FK Mornar players
Serbian White Eagles FC players
Second League of Serbia and Montenegro players
First League of Serbia and Montenegro players
Canadian Soccer League (1998–present) players
Montenegrin Second League players
Montenegrin expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Canada


Brest Business School, also called ESC Bretagne Brest, France, is a French business School in the city of Brest in western France.

Founded in 1962, Brest BS provides business and management courses to 900 students. Currently, the school offers seven different programmes both in French and in English. The school is supported by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Brest. In January 2013, the school merged with three others to found France Business School. After the end of France Business School, as of January 2015, ESC Bretagne Brest regained its independence, thus also changing its name to Brest Business School.

Accreditations and associations
 Member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles
 A school authorised to deliver master's degrees
 Member of the management chapter of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles
 Member of the Fondation Nationale pour l’Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises (FNEGE)
 Member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)
 Member of the EISB (Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business)
 Member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International)
 Member of Produit en Bretagne (Produced in Brittany)
 Member of Campus responsables

Notable alumni
 Graziella Melchior, French politician
 Laury Thilleman, French journalist, model, TV Host, actress

References

External links
 Official website

Business schools in France
Education in Brest, France
Educational institutions established in 1962
1962 establishments in France


Admiral Abdul Aziz Mirza  (; born 1943) was a Pakistan Navy officer who served as the Chief of Naval Staff from 1999 until retiring in 2002, amid taking over the command of the Navy after the revolt and resignation Admiral Fasih Bokhari over the appointment of Chairman joint chiefs.

After retiring from the Navy, he briefly tenured as the Pakistan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2001 to 2005 and later becoming the CEO of The Centaurus in Islamabad. During his military service in the Navy, Admiral Mirza is given credit for commissioning the country's first ingeniously and locally built long-range submarine, the Agosta 90B submarine in 1999.

Biography

Early life and naval career

Abdul Aziz Mirza was born in small town, Dhamali Kallar Syedan, in Rawalpindi, Punjab, British India, in 1943. He was born into an influential military family, and his father briefly enlisted in the British Indian Army, retiring as chief warrant officer (CWO) in the Frontier Force Regiment of the Pakistan Army.

After his graduation from local high school, he went to attend the Military College Jhelum and secured his graduation before joining the Pakistan Navy in 1961.

After graduation, Mirza applied for the Pakistan Military Academy and was selected with Pervez Musharraf and PQ Mehdi for the interview by the commandants in 1961. After passing the physical, he was studied at the Pakistan Military Academy with Pervez Musharraf who remained his life-long friend and Ali Kuli Khan.

He was later sent to attend the Naval Academy in Turkey where he was trained for his basic training and gained military commission as Sub-Lieutenant in the Naval Operations Branch in the Navy in 1964.

He was trained as a surface warfare officer and took participation in second war with India in 1965 against the Indian Navy as a gunnery specialist. In the war of 1965 he served in PNS Dhaka. In 1969–71, Lt. Mirza served in the Submarine Command before reporting at the Naval Base Iqbal where he underwent in training as a military diver and war specialist in the Navy SEALs Teams of the  Special Services Group of the Navy, later serving in the Eastern Pakistan where he participating in counter-insurgency operations before being assigned at the Submarine Command.

After the war, he began engage with his studies and went to join the French War College where he graduated with a Master's degree in War studies. In 1980s, he served on the faculty at the  Naval War College in Karachi and taught English at the Naval Academy, also in Karachi.

Staff and Command appointments

Throughout his career in Navy, Mirza commanded two submarines– the Daphné and Agosta 70. Mirza also commanded the  guided missile destroyer and a fleet of tankers as an officer in the Navy. In 1990, he was posted at the Navy NHQ as a Naval Secretary, and held officer commanding assignments, first serving as the Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) of the 25th Destroyer Squadron as Commodore in 1993. In 1994, he was promoted as Rear-Admiral and made Additional Secretary at the Ministry of Defence, working on various defence and procurement programmes. In 1994, he led series of complicated and lengthy negotiations, together with Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, with France over the technology transfer of Agosta 90B class long-range submarines.

It was during this time, he became closer to many politicians and bureaucrats while working on the procurement deals in 1994–97. In 1997, he was appointed as DCNS (Operations) and elevated as Vice Chief of Naval Staff with a rank of Vice-Admiral.

Kargil war and Naval chief

In 1999, India and Pakistan engaged in military confrontation in Kargil sector, due a misadventure led by then-Chief of army staff General Pervez Musharraf. He did not endorsed the secret infiltration to support General Pervez Musharraf but rather remaining quiet in favor of army chief. Allegations have been levelled against him of misguiding the naval chief Admiral Fasih Bokhari on the matters of Kargil war in favor of army chief, and his revolt against the decision of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over the appointment of Chairman joint chiefs.

In 1999, he held a press conference together with Mushahid Hussain Syed, then-Information Minister, and ultimately warned India of escalating the tensions in the region.

On 6 October 1999, he was promoted as four-star rank admiral and appointed Chief of Naval Staff after Admiral Bokharhi prematurely resigned from his commission in protest as the latter was denied the Chairmanship of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Admiral Mirza remained supportive of martial law in 1999, and was said to be closer to Chairman joint chiefs and chief of army staff General Pervez Musharraf. Two weeks later, he was inducted as a senior member in the National Security Council along with Chief of air staff Air Chief Marshal PQ Mehdi. On 4 November 1999, Admiral Mirza released a report of his assets, with General Musharraf also releasing his tax returns papers. In 2000, Admiral Mirza notably announced of seeling the Agosta-90B Subamrines to Royal Saudi Navy and Royal Malaysian Navy but the agreement to sell the submarines were never materialized as Pakistan imposed an export restrictions.

In 2001, he questioned President Musharraf's decision policy towards the terrorism and military rotation in Western Pakistan, but he was reportedly warned by President Musharraf on his difference of opinion. He reportedly warned of expansion of Indian Navy and noted that the Indian Navy’s budget had increased 6,900% since 1971.

He led the Pakistan Navy during the military standoff between India and Pakistan in 2001–02 and boldly stated that Pakistan Navy will hold its own against the Indian Navy. As the naval chief, he is credit of overseeing the development and nationwide construction of the  Agosta-90B Khalid-class submarines in various capacities as Pakistan built its first indigenous submarine in 2002.

Diplomatic and corporate career

Admiral Mirza retired from the Navy as its naval chief on 4 October 2002, and handed over the command to Admiral Shahid Karimullah at the ceremony held in Navy NHQ.

On 8 October 2002, President Musharraf announced to appointed Admiral Mirza for a diplomatic post and appointed him as Pakistan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. In 2005, he oversaw the process of paperworks in order to release the passport of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family to travel from Jeddah to London.

In 2004, Ambassador Mirza was honored and decorated with the Legion of Honour with an order of Chevalier by the French government; the honor was bestowed to him in Saudi Arabia by the French Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Bernard Polleti. The honor was given in recognition of outstanding contributions to a Pakistani-French joint submarine building program while the ambassador was chief of naval staff of the Pakistan Navy. As an ambassador, Mirza worked towards strengthening the relationship between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as he focused towards trade agreements and defence cooperation between two countries.

On 26 January 2006, Mirza left the diplomat post and returned to Pakistan as he was replaced by Admiral Shahid Karimullah who took over the diplomatic assignment from him in Riyadh. After his retirement from the diplomatic post, Mirza jointed the corporate sector of the country when he was appointed business adviser to the PakGulf Construction in 2007.

On 14 January 2010, Admiral Mirza gives credence to the recent French investigative report that talked of almost $49 million kickbacks in the Agosta-submarine deal allegedly received by former President Asif Ali Zardari, former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral (deposed) Mansurul Haq and some of the Naval officers, disclosing that the then Benazir government had urged the Pakistan Navy to go for the French subs.

Currently, Mirza is CEO of The Centaurus in Islamabad, overseeing and managing the construction project of a contemporary modern, luxurious master-planned community that integrates residential amenities with a world class shopping mall, a 5-star hotel, corporate and entertainment facilities.

Awards and decorations

Foreign Decorations

References

External links
Admiral Shahid Karimullah takes over as Navy chief

Living people
1943 births
Ambassadors of Pakistan to Saudi Arabia
Chiefs of Naval Staff (Pakistan)
École Navale alumni
National Defence University, Pakistan alumni
Naval Academy (Turkey) alumni
Pakistani military personnel of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Pakistani prisoners of war
Academic staff of Pakistan Naval War College
Pakistani real estate businesspeople
Pakistani hoteliers
Pakistani business executives
Pakistan Navy admirals
Pakistani chief executives
People from Kallar Syedan Tehsil
People of the Kargil War
Punjabi people
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
Recipients of Sitara-e-Jurat
Recipients of Sitara-i-Imtiaz
Recipients of Hilal-i-Imtiaz
Recipients of Nishan-e-Imtiaz
Special Service Group (Navy) personnel


The 1949–50 Greek Football Cup was the eighth edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens on 28 May 1950. The match was contested by AEK Athens and Aris, with AEK Athens winning by 4–0.

Calendar

Qualification round

First round

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* Victoria withdrew at the 33rd minute. That remained as the final score.

** Dorieus qualified for the next phase, where he would face a team from Central Greece, but resigned due to inability to cover the travel expenses of the Athenian team.

*** Aris Patras withdrew at the 70th minute. That remained as the final score.

****AEK Pyrgos withdrew at the 54th minute while the score was 1–1. Awarded to Lefkos Asteras Amaliadas.

Second round

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* Iraklis Kallithea withdrew after the second draw.

Third round

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* Prasina Poulia withdrew at the 70th minute.

Fourth round

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|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Crete Football Clubs Association

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|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Thessaly Football Clubs Association

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* Suspended due to incidents. Both teams were zeroed.

** Filippoi Kavala won 3–2 but were zeroed due to illeagal usage of a football player.

Fifth round

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* Pallesviakos qualified for the next phase, where he would face a team from Central Greece, but resigned due to inability to cover the travel expenses of the Athenian team.

** Suspended due to rainfall.

*** Suspended at the 43rd minute due to the withdrawal of Iraklis Heraklion.

Sixth round

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|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Patras/Western Greece Football Clubs Association

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|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Thessaly Football Clubs Association

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Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over a single match. If the match ends up as a draw, extra time will be played and if the match remains a draw a replay match is set at the home of the guest team which the extra time rule stands as well. That procedure will be repeated until a winner occurs. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:
The round of 16 is contested by the eight top teams of each association and the eight clubs that passed the qualification round.There are no seedings, and teams from the same group can be drawn against each other.

Bracket

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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* AEK Athens won by draw.

Semi-finals

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Final

The 8th Greek Cup Final was played at the Leoforos Alexandras Stadium.

References

External links
Greek Cup 1949-50 at RSSSF

Greek Football Cup seasons
Greek Cup
1949–50 in Greek football


In 2009, the Campeonato Brasileiro Série D, the fourth division of the Brazilian Football, is currently being contested for first time in history. The competition has 40 clubs, four of which will eventually qualify to the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C to be contested in 2010.

Competition format
The 40 teams are divided in ten groups of 4, playing within them in a double round-robin format. The two best ranked in each group at the end of 6 rounds will qualify to the Second Stage, which will be played in home-and-away system. Winners advance to Third Stage along with the three losers with best record in previous stages. The quarterfinal winners will be promoted to the Série C 2010. As there is no Série E, technically there will be no relegation. However, teams who were not promoted will have to re-qualify for Série D 2010 through their respective state leagues.

Participating teams
Sorted by state, ordered by CBF State Ranking as of December 2007 . Each state federation has its own criteria to indicate a club to this tournament.

1 The second best team Bangu withdrew.
2 The 2008 Copa Rio would go to Copa do Brasil 2009 and the 2nd placed to Campeonato Brasileiro Série D 2009. The champion Nova Iguaçu withdrew. The 2nd placed Americano went to Copa do Brasil 2009 and the 3rd Madureira was able to Campeonato Brasileiro Série D 2009.
3 The second best team Veranópolis, 3rd Santa Cruz, and 4th Ulbra all withdrew.
4 The first best team Rio Branco de Andradas and 2nd EC Democrata both withdrew.
5 The second best team Porto withdrew.
6 The first best team Itumbiara, 3rd Santa Helena and 4th Trindade all withdrew.
7 The first best team ASSU, 2nd Potyguar Seridoense, 3rd Santa Cruz, 4th Baraúnas and 5th Potiguar all withdrew.
8 The first best team Corinthians Alagoano, 2nd Coruripe, 3rd Murici, 4th Igaci, 5th Ipanema and 6th CSE all withdrew.
9 The first best team Sousa withdrew.
10 The first best team Juventus, 2nd Atlético Acreano, 3rd Vasco da Gama and 4th Náuas all withdrew and no other team was able to represent Acre state.
11 The first best team Vilhena withdrew.

Results

First stage

Group 1

1 Match won by WO.

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Group 10

Second stage

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Third stage

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Teams in the left column play second match at home.

Three of the five 3rd stage losers qualify due to their overall record:

Bracket

* plays second leg at home.
(p) won on penalty shootout.
(a) won by away goals rule.

Quarterfinals

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Teams in the left column play second match at home.

Semifinals

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Teams in the left column play second match at home.

Finals

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Teams in the left column play second match at home.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série D seasons
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Beyond Colossal is Dozer's fifth studio album. It was recorded at Studios 301, Stockholm and Rockhouse Studios, Borlänge. The record was mixed at Tri-Lamb Studios by their former drummer Karl Daniel Lidén. Beyond Colossal was released on Small Stone Records.

Track listing
All tracks by Dozer

 "The Flood" - 3:51
 "Exoskeleton, Pt. II" - 6:34
 "Empire's End" - 3:55
 "The Ventriloquist" - 4:56
 "Grand Inquisitor" - 4:12
 "Message Through the Horses" - 3:01
 "The Throne" - 3:25
 "Fire for Crows" - 3:58
 "Two Coins for Eyes" - 6:51
 "Bound for Greatness" - 3:29

Personnel
 Fredrik Nordin - vocals, guitar
 Tommi Holappa - lead guitar
 Johan Rockner - bass
 Olle Mårthans - drums

Guests
 Additional vocals on "Empire's End" and "Two coins for eyes" by Neil Fallon.
 Hammond Organ on "Bound for Greatness" by Jocke.

Artist
Artwork and album design done by Nathan Lavertue.

References

Dozer albums
2008 albums


Néotù was a contemporary furniture gallery founded in 1984 in Paris.

Gérard Dalmon (b. 1945), a computer consultant at Cap Gemini, and Pierre Staudenmeyer (1952—2007), a marketing consultant, established the Galerie Néotù in 1984 in Paris, France, on the rue de Verneuil, then in 1985 on the rue du Renard. Galerie Néotù sold contemporary furniture and other items by primarily French designers, artists, and architects. The items were produced in limited editions, some unique. The gallery assisted with production and was instrumental in establishing some of the young, essentially unknown French designers of the 1980s and 1990s, who have since become members of the current who's who of French and international design.

The enterprise pursued an approach to design, which was in the trend of the time, and focused on designers whose work was known as art furniture. Dalmon and Staudenmeyer's effort can be favorably compared to others active from the mid-1980s, such as  Rick Kaufman's Art et Industrie gallery and Michael Steinberg's Furniture of the Twentieth Century gallery, both in New York City.

In 1990, a branch was established in New York City, and, in 1992, the Galerie Néotù began representing VIA (the French furniture association) in the U.S.

Néotù closed in 2001.

Designers
Galerie Néotù has shown and sometimes manufactured works by furniture designers, architects, and artists.

 Ron Arad
 Emmanuel Babled

 Vincent Bécheau & Marie-Laure Bourgeois
 Eric Benqué
 Christian Biecher
 Constantin Boym
 Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
 Andrea Branzi
 Peter Bremers
 Eugène Brunelle
 Stephen Burks
 David Capogna
 Emmanuelle Colboc
 Denis Colomb
 Christophe Côme
 Didier Cornille
 Matali Crasset
 Designers Anonymes
 Tom Dixon (industrial designer)
 André Dubreuil

 Epinard Bleu: Frédéric Druot, Jean-Luc Goulesque, Patrick Jean, Luis Filipe Pais de Figueiredo, Jacques Robert, Jean-Charles Zebo
 Shao Fan
 Dan Friedman (graphic designer)
 Olivier Gagnère
 Izzika Gaon
 Adrien Gardère
 Élisabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti
 Jean-Paul Gaultier
 Kistian Gavoille
 Christian Ghion
 Natanel Gluska
 Lyn Godley & Lloyd Schwan
 Zaha Hadid
 Massimo Iosa Ghini
 Sue Golden
 Augustin Granet
 Michael Graves
 Kevin Gray
 Eric Jourdan
 David Kawecki
 Atsushi Kitagawara
 Dominique Labauvie
 Dominique Lachevsky
 Jo Laubner
 Anne Liberati & Joris Heetman
 Mary Little
 Paul Ludick
 Alain & Thierry Manoha
 Paul Mathieu & Michael Ray
 Jean-François Maurige
 Franco Meneguzzo
 Migeon & Migéon
 Jasper Morrison
 Patrick Naggar
 Philippe Nogen
 Jiří Pelcl
 Gaetano Pesce
 Maurice de Pestre
 Claude Picasso

 Olivier Peyricot
 Ravage: Arnold van Geuns & Clémens Rameckers
 Thomas Rodriguez
 Pucci De Rossi
 Saint-Maur
 Bryce Sanders
 William Sawaya
 Eric Schmitt
 Borek Sipek
 Philippe Soffioti
 Ettore Sottsass
 Studio Sessanta5
 Lewis Stein
 Martin Szekely
 Ali Tayar
 Jérome Thermopyles
 Olivier Thomé
 Totem: Jacques Bonnot, Frederick du Chayla, Claire Olives
 Olivier Védrine
 Nanda Vigo
 John Webb
 Michael Young
 Marco Zanuso Jr.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions at Galerie Néotù, Paris
 1985 March - "Collection PI - Martin Szekely
 1985 April June - "Onze Lampes" - Emmanuelle Colboc, Sylvain Dubuisson, Gérard Dalmon, Olivier Gagnère, Elizabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti, Kevin Gray, Philippe Nogen, Pucci de Rossi, Martin Szekely, Jérome Thermopyles, Olivier Thomé - Catalogue "Onze Lampes" - Publisher Galerie Neotu
 1985 November December - "La Conversation" - Chairs by François Bauchet, Bécheau-Bourgeois, Gérard Dalmon, Epinard bleu, Olivier Gagnère, Elizabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti, Augustin Granet, Mary Little, Pucci de Rossi, Martin Szekely
 1986 September November - "English Eccentrics" - Ron Arad, André Dubreuil, Tom Dixon, Sue Golden, Jasper Morrisson, John Webb
 1987 September October - "Ceramics from 1955 to 1959" - Franco Meneguzzo
 1992 April May - "April in Paris" - Constantin Boym, David Capogna, Lyn Godley & Lloyd Schwan, Douglas Fitch, Paul Ludick, Ali Tayar
 1992 October November - "Colour Comedies ceramics" - Garouste & bonetti, Michael Graves, Zaha Hadid, Atsushi Kitagawara, Jo Laubner, Ettore Sottsass - made by the Waechtersbacher Keramik Workshop
 1992 November December - "Les fleurs du mal" - William Sawaya
 1999 November December - "Inside Out" - Christian Ghion
 2000 January February - "BYOB: Bring Your Own Book" - Eric Benqué, Christian Biecher, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Matali Crasset, Christian Ghion, Christophe Pillet
 2000 June July - "GeoBio" - Elizabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti

Exhibitions at Neotu Gallery, New York
 1990 September October - "Opening Exhibition" - Elisabeth Garouste & Matia Bonetti
 1991 January February - "A Warriors Collection" - Ravage: Arnold van Geuns & Clemens Rameckers
 1991 June July - "Green Pieces" - Dan Friedman
 1991 September November - "Initials and other pieces" - Martin Szekely
 1992 September November - "Mobile Furniture Collection" - Jean-Paul Gaultier
 1992 November January - "Colour Comedies ceramics" - Elisabeth Garouste & Matia Bonetti, Michael Graves, Zaha Hadid, Atsushi Kitagawara, Jo Laubner, Ettore Sottsass - produites par Waechtersbacher Keramik Workshop
 1993 March April - "A new furniture collection" - Elisabeth Garouste & Matia Bonetti
 1993 April May - "Drawings, Objects & Furniture" - Sylvain Dubuisson
 1993 May June - "A new furniture collection" - Lyn Godley & Lloyd Schawn

Bibliography
Brochures
 1985 - "Onze Lampes" - Publisher Galerie Néotù - Paris - 1985 See the brochure

References

 1986 - "Le style des années 80" - Sophie Anargyros - Publisher Rivages/Style - Paris - 1986 -
 1987 - "The New Furniture: Trends + Traditions" - Peter Dormer - Publisher Thames and Hudson - New York - 1987 -
 1987 - "International Design Yearbook 3" - Philippe Starck - Publisher Abbeville Press - New York - 1987 -
 1998 - "Design aujourd'hui" - Christine Colin - Publisher Flammarion - Paris - 1988 -
 1988 - "MDF des créateurs pour un matériau : Exposition, Jouy-en-Josas, 24 avril-22 mai 1988" - Publisher Fondation Cartier - Paris - 1988 -
 1988 - "Berlin: les avant-gardes du mobilier : 6 Septembre-3 Octobre 1988, Galerie des Breves du CCI, Centre G. Pompidou, Galerie VIA, Galerie Néotù, Paris" - Angela Schönberger, Centre de création industrielle - Publisher Centre Pompidou - Paris - 1988
 1990 - "Union des Arts Français" - New Art Fair '90 in Chicago - Publisher UAF - Paris/New York - 1990
 1990 - "New Italian Design" - Nally Bellati - Publisher Rizzoli - New York - 1990 -
 1991 - "Chicago International New Art Form" - Catalogue - Publisher Lakeside Group Inc. - Chicago - 1991
 1992 - "International Design Yearbook 7''' - Andrée Putman - Publisher Abbeville Press - New York - 1992 -
 1992 - "Sylvain Dubuisson" - Publisher AFAA - Paris - 1992 -
 1992 - "Colour Comedies" - Publisher Nieswand Verlag - Kiel - 1992 -
 1992 - "La France à l'Exposition universelle, Séville 1992: facettes d'une nation" - Régis Debray - Publisher Flammarion - Paris - 1992 -
 1993 - "International Design Yearbook 8 - Bořek Šípek - Publisher Abbeville Press - New York - 1993 -
 1994 - "International Design Yearbook 9' - Ron Arad - Publisher Abbeville Press - New York - 1994 -
 1994 - "The Design Encyclopedia" - Mel Byars - Publisher John Wiley & Sons - New York - 1994 -
 1995 - "Martin Szekely meublier-designer" - Brigitte Fitoussi, Didier Krzenowski, Pierre Staudenmeyer, Christian Schlatter - Publisher Hazan - Paris - 1995 -
 1995 - "Les années 80" - Anne Bony - Publisher Les Editions du Regard - Paris - 1995 -
 1996 - "International Design Yearbook 11' - Alexandro Mendini - Publisher Abbeville Press - New York - 1996 -
 1998 - "Le Mobilier Francais: 1960-1998" - Yvonne Brunhammer & Marie-Laure Perrin - Publisher Charles Massin - Paris - 1998 -
 1999 - "Inside Out" - Catalogue published for the exhibition of Christian Ghion at Neotu Gallery - Paris
 2004 - "The Design Encyclopedia" - Mel Byars - Publisher Laurence King Publishing & The Museum of Modern Art - London & New York - 2004 -
 2007 - "Pierre Staudenmeyer et la Galerie Néotù" - AZIMUTS#29 - Constance Rubini - Publisher AZIMUTS, Cité du Design - Saint-Etienne - 2007 -

Magazines
 1984 - City Magazine International #3 - Société de Presse et d'Éditions - Genève - 1984
 1993 - "Design Museum Map" - Axis #47 World Design Journal - Tokyo - 1993
 2000 - "Salon du Meuble de Paris/Off event''" - Axis #34 Design with a name - Tokyo - 2000

External links
 Neotu Gallery
 Pompidou Center - Paris - Exhibition: "Carrefour de la création - Un éditeur de design : la galerie Neotu"
 Musee des Arts Decoratifs - Paris - Collections
 MUDE "Museu do Design e da Moda" - Lisbon
 Fond National d'Art Contemporain - Paris - Collections
 Fond National d'Art Contemporain - Paris - Exhibition: "Design en stock"
 Encyclopedia Universalis

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French furniture designers
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David Ramsay Lunn (17 July 1930 – 19 July 2021) was a British Anglican bishop. From 1980 to 1997, he was Bishop of Sheffield in the Church of England.

Lunn was born on Tyneside and educated at the Kings School, Tynemouth, where he was head boy in 1947.

An Anglo-Catholic, he was opposed to the ordination of women, seeing it as an issue that needed examination at an ecumenical level. During his episcopacy, he oversaw an increase in lay ministry within the diocese, but also increased the number of clergy and improved the diocese's financial position. The period also saw the creation of the Nine O'Clock Service within one of the diocese's churches. Initially this seemed to be a successful attempt to broaden the appeal of the church, but in the end the project collapsed and required strong leadership from Lunn to heal the resulting wounds. Following the Hillsborough Disaster, he implemented the clergy disaster plan to improve the church's response to such disasters in future.

In 1997 Lunn was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree by Sheffield University. After retirement, during which he settled at Wetwang, he became an assistant bishop in the Diocese of York in 1991.

Works
Lunn wrote a multi-volume history of the area covered by the diocese including Rivers, Rectors and Abbots and Kings, Canals and Coal.

A keen gardener, he also wrote the booklet Roses Wild: A little book by the Bishop of Sheffield concerning the roses in his garden at Bishopscroft.

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William McGlaughlin (born October 3, 1943) is an American composer, conductor, music educator, and Peabody Award-winning classical music radio host. He is the host and music director of the public radio programs Exploring Music and Saint Paul Sunday.

A nationally noted radio commentator since 1981, Bill McGlaughlin is known for his cheerful, open, and down-to-earth personality on classical music radio. Beyond his career as a broadcaster and music educator, McGlaughlin has also spent a decade as a professional orchestral musician, over three decades as a conductor, and a decade as a successful composer. He views the more recent, radio broadcast aspect of his musical career as outreach — as a way to keep classical music from becoming an increasingly marginalized art form, with ever-smaller and older audiences.

Early life

McGlaughlin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and his unusual accent stems from his Philadelphia childhood and the influence of his Scottish-American grandfather, with whom he lived during his early childhood and late teens. Bill absorbed the music of opera at a very young age, as his draftsman father listened while in his at-home workshop. When Bill was 6, his father gave him a harmonica, and together they enjoyed playing their favorite opera melodies by ear. His father also had many instrumental classical albums, which Bill enjoyed listening to in his own bedroom. Bill's mother, a high-school English teacher, was also a music lover.

At the age of 14, McGlaughlin received his first piano lesson, quite by accident — his younger brother had been taking a series of pre-paid piano lessons but abruptly quit, so Bill was given the remainder. By his second lesson, he knew he wanted to be a professional musician, and began practicing eight hours a day.

Musical career

Performing

In high school, McGlaughlin took up the trombone, which he further studied in college, obtaining his Bachelor of Music degree from Philadelphia's Temple University in 1967.

Upon graduation in 1967 he became Assistant Principal Trombonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, a position he held through 1968. From 1969 to 1975 he was Co-Principal Trombonist of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

In addition, during these years in Pennsylvania, McGlaughlin performed in groups such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Players, which he founded in 1973, the Penn Contemporary Players, and the Philadelphia Composers Forum. He also performed as trombonist during many of his 1975–1982 years with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Conducting

Orchestral performance sparked McGlaughlin's interest in conducting — an interest which was encouraged by Pittsburgh Symphony's William Steinberg. In 1969 he completed a Master of Music degree in conducting at Temple University, studying under Robert Page; and in addition he received private instruction and tutelage from William R. Smith, Associate Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Max Rudolf.  McGlaughlin also became assistant conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra during his period with the Pittsburgh Symphony.

During his years as a trombonist after his master's degree, he brought a full orchestral score to rehearsals, taking careful notes on how good and poor conductors handled difficult passages. In 1973, he asked Georg Solti whether he should pursue a conducting career; Solti encouraged him, but insisted he needed an orchestra to practice with. McGlaughlin formed three orchestras in Pittsburgh that year — an orchestra of college students, the Pittsburgh Camerata, and the Upper Partials Chamber Players. His practice paid off: In 1975, he was awarded the Exxon-Arts Conducting Endowment, and an assistant conductorship at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

This led to a series of conducting positions:

 1975–1982: Assistant Conductor (through 1978) and then Associate Conductor of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
 1981–1985: Music Director of the Eugene Symphony
 1982–1987: Music Director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra
 1986–1988: Music Director of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
 1986–1998: Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony

During his 12-year tenure with the Kansas City Symphony, McGlaughlin greatly expanded the orchestra's repertoire, commissioned many new works, recorded albums, made two nationwide television broadcasts, including a Christmas special with the King's Singers, greatly strengthened the orchestra's reputation, and brought it to a state of "unparalleled artistic and financial success." In addition, he received five ASCAP Adventurous Programming Awards for his continued performing of contemporary music, and for aiding Kansas City Symphony audiences in understanding the composers' intentions in these works.

McGlaughlin has also continuously had numerous guest conducting engagements, from a great variety of orchestras around the U.S.

Composing

McGlaughlin was early on a champion of living composers and new music, dating back to his Pennsylvania days and his involvement with groups such as the Penn Contemporary Players and the Philadelphia Composers Forum. McGlaughlin himself founded the Pittsburgh Camerata (1973), which focused on contemporary music, and he was a steady proponent of living composers' works in Kansas City as well. Eventually, this championing became a desire to compose on his own.

In 1998, he left his conducting position and moved to New York City to concentrate on composing. Prompted by the death of a friend who was a Kansas City pianist and composer, McGlaughlin's first major work was Three Dreams and a Question: Choral Songs on e.e. cummings — which he debuted with the Kansas City Symphony on April 28, 1998, to an enthusiastic audience and press. Some of the other 20 works he created in his first decade of composing, most of them commissioned, include: Aaron's Horizons (a tribute to colleague Aaron Copland); Echoes, for horn trio; Angelus, a 9/11 remembrance; Three Pieces for Wind Trio; Bagatelles, for saxophone quartet; The Heart's Light: An Essay for Orchestra; Three by Six, for chamber ensemble; and The Bells of St. Ferdinand, for orchestra.

For a millennial celebration, he was chosen from a field of 350 composers to write a major new work for Continental Harmony, a nationwide cultural initiative commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Composers Forum. The composition, Walt Whitman's Dream, premiered in July 2000, and celebrated the new millennium with a combined chorus of nearly 800 singers from around the world, accompanied by orchestra.

On December 15, 2005, the national two-hour daily NPR classical music radio program Performance Today announced that out of all of the music aired that week, McGlaughlin's new composition Remembering Icarus garnered the most, and the most heartfelt, listener response. The piece has been re-broadcast on radio three times.

Discussing his own music, McGlaughlin describes his compositional style as more intuitive than intellectual, and says that he does not shun tonality: "I think when composers turn completely away from tonality, they lose a big part of storytelling." Some of his work incorporates or references elements of jazz — for instance Bela's Bounce, an homage to Béla Bartók and Charlie Parker.

Radio career

Saint Paul Sunday

In the late 1970s, during his conducting stint in Saint Paul, Minnesota, McGlaughlin often spoke to the audience before a performance, informally explaining the program and what to listen for. Garrison Keillor heard him, and invited him to fill in occasionally as host of his daily morning radio show on Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). MPR producer Tom Voegeli came up with the idea for a new show: Saint Paul Sunday Morning, with McGlaughlin as host. MPR had just received a public radio communications satellite uplink, as well as seed money to develop a few pilot shows for national distribution. Voegeli wanted a program which would present world-class musicians, in an informal live setting in MPR's new state-of-the-art studio, to a national audience. Voegeli also wanted McGlaughlin to sound like himself — a musician — rather than like a broadcaster, and to share his own intimate, animated enthusiasm with listeners.

The show, retitled Saint Paul Sunday, debuted locally in 1980, and went national via syndication in 1981. The weekly one-hour show, which aired through 2012, featured live in-studio performances by and interviews with the world's top classical musicians, both soloists and ensembles. It was America's most widely listened to weekly classical music program produced by public radio, and aired on approximately 200 stations nationwide. The show, with McGlaughlin as host and music director since its inception, was awarded the Peabody Award in 1995.

McGlaughlin's enthusiasm for the show and the music was evident: "If I had been able to imagine Saint Paul Sunday as a kid," he says, "I think I’d have been in ecstasy at the idea of having the whole wide world of music to run around in, and best of everything, to be able to bring friends along."

Exploring Music

In 2002, Steve Robinson, Vice President of WFMT Radio Network, approached McGlaughlin to host a daily radio show, which would showcase and explicate great works of classical music.
Robinson notes, "As far as I'm concerned, no one can top Bill in the way he conveys his passion for music on the radio." The show, Exploring Music, debuted nationally in 2003, and has proved very popular with audiences of all ages and levels of expertise. The program, which explores a single classical music theme each week in one-hour daily episodes, has been praised for the enthusiasm and relatability with which it brings classical music appreciation to a large audience, and as of 2008 has over 500,000 listeners.

Exploring Music garnered McGlaughlin, as its host and music director, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Fine Arts Radio International in 2004, "because he has taken up the music education baton implicitly passed to him by the late Karl Haas, whose Adventures in Good Music has metamorphized into Exploring Music, with an ear tuned to the evolving trends of the 21st-century classical audience." Fine Arts Radio International concluded by saying, "Exploring Music, with its weekly thematic concept, provides the classical radio listener with both in-depth education and compelling radio listening, a balance that is rarely achieved." In 2011, the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio presented him with the AMPPR Lifetime Achievement Award, citing "McGlaughlin's incredibly knowledgeable but always inviting and warm presence with which he guides listeners to discover the heart, soul and humor of the music he plays."

Additional media appearances

McGlaughlin has been the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio series Center Stage from Wolf Trap since its inception in 1999. He is also the host, since 2007, of the newly relaunched nationally syndicated radio series Concerts from the Library of Congress.

In addition to these and to Saint Paul Sunday and Exploring Music, since 1986 he has also hosted, and occasionally conducted, a number of radio and television programs on NPR, PRI, PBS, and the BBC, and on local NPR affiliates. He also lectures at and hosts live concerts and concert series and other musical events around the country.

Drawing upon his expertise as a conductor and his abilities as a music commentator, McGlaughlin contributed one of the ten chapters in the 2008 book, Leonard Bernstein: American Original. Editor Barbara Haws describes McGlaughlin's chapter, "On the Podium: Intellect and Energy," in her introduction to the book:

Bernstein's passion on the podium is perhaps the most indelible image he has left us.  By evaluating Bernstein's marked conducting scores in the Philharmonic Archives and analyzing his televised performances, conductor, composer, and radio personality Bill McGlaughlin brings together the ephemeral with the workaday to understand better Bernstein's hold over the popular imagination and his remarkable rapport with musicians.  Melding the flamboyant public display with the private meticulousness seen in the scores provides new insights, and confirms long-held assumptions about what Bernstein was hoping to achieve.

Awards and honors
1975–1978: Exxon-Arts Conducting Endowment, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
1984, 1988, 1993, 1997, 1998: ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming (Kansas City Symphony)
1990 Deems Taylor Award (ASCAP) for Saint Paul Sunday
1990 Honorary Doctorate, Westminster College
1995 Peabody Award for Saint Paul Sunday
1997 Honorary Doctorate, Rockhurst University
2004 Fine Arts Radio International Lifetime Achievement Award
2007 Boyer Tribute Award, Temple University
2008 Dushkin Award, Music Institute of Chicago, for Exploring Music
2011 Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio, Lifetime Achievement Award

Personal life
McGlaughlin lives in New York City with his longtime partner, five-time Grammy-nominated jazz singer Karrin Allyson. The couple met in the early 1990s in Kansas City. He has co-produced and assisted on most of Allyson's CDs, and also often accompanies her on the road when she is touring. He continues to compose, and continues to do guest conducting, concert hosting and lecturing,  and other classical-music outreach around the country. He has two grown children from a former marriage.

Sources
Phillips, Lisa. "Classical Music's Hotai Buddha: Bill McGlaughlin." In: Public Radio: Behind the Voices. Vanguard Press, 2006. pp. 313–320.
Bio – American International Artists
Bio – Subito Music
Bio – Saint Paul Sunday

References

External links
Bill McGlaughlin – Official Site
Biography
Official bio on Exploring Music site

Interviews
1993 interview – Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors Magazine
 in the Star Tribune
2008 Interview in the Houston Chronicle
Compositions
Audio interview and performance of McGlaughlin's Remembering Icarus on Performance Today, December 2005
 performed in 2003 by the TMEA Symphony Orchestra
1-minute audio sample of McGlaughlin's Walt Whitman's Dream
Theme to Exploring Music
Writing
Leonard Bernstein: American Original (HarperCollins, 2008). Chapter by Bill McGlaughlin, pp. 157–172
Igor Stravinsky (Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast Intermission Feature)
The Life, Times, and Music of Claude Debussy (Met Intermission Feature)
Arvo Pärt and the New Simplicity (for Saint Paul Sunday)
Beethoven's Journey Still Captivates (for Saint Paul Sunday)
Anton Reicha – The Father of the Wind Quintet (for Saint Paul Sunday)

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After.Life is a 2009 American psychological horror-thriller film directed by Agnieszka Wójtowicz-Vosloo from her original screenplay. It stars Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Long.

Plot
Eliot Deacon owns a funeral home and talks softly to the corpses he prepares for burial. Middle school teacher Anna Taylor attends the funeral of her piano teacher where she meets Eliot. That night Anna argues with her boyfriend Paul at a restaurant. She drives off in a state of distress, and has a traffic accident. She awakens on an embalming table in the funeral home to find the funeral director, Eliot, cutting off her clothes and telling her she has died. He tells Anna he has a gift and that he can hear the dead. Eliot has a collection of photographs of corpses whom he has helped "make the transition". Eliot injects Anna regularly with a fictional drug called hydronium bromide to "relax the muscles and keep rigor mortis from setting in."

Paul asks to see Anna's body but Eliot does not allow it on the grounds he is not family. Anna unsuccessfully attempts to escape several times. Eliot tells her she must let go of life as she had not really been living anyway. Eventually, Anna escapes and finds a room with a phone where she reaches Paul, who hangs up thinking it's a prank. Anna comes to believe she has actually died when Eliot lets her see her corpse-like self in a mirror. One of Anna's students sees her and alerts Paul, who begins to suspect she is still alive.

Anna's student Jack visits the funeral home and Eliot tells him that they share a gift, the same as Jesus, who raised Lazarus, and he offers to teach the boy more. The boy accepts and is later seen burying a living chick in a box.

During the final preparation for the funeral, Anna asks to see herself one last time. Eliot holds up a small mirror, and while she stares at herself she notices her breath condensing on the glass and accuses Eliot of having lied to her about her being dead. Eliot injects her one last time and she slips into unconsciousness. At the funeral, Paul places the engagement ring he intended to give her the night of the crash on her finger.

After the funeral, Paul drinks heavily and behaves aggressively with Eliot, who seems to taunt him and encourage him to see for himself that Anna is really dead, telling him there is not much time. Meanwhile, Anna is shown awakening to the sound of earth being shoveled onto her casket. She cries out and desperately scratches the satin lining of the lid. Driving under the influence of alcohol, Paul rushes to the cemetery. They are shown embracing and Anna tells Paul she has always loved him. Paul asks what the odd sound is that he hears, and Anna explains it is the sound of Eliot's gloves and scissors on the table as he prepares Paul's body. A moment later, he finds himself in the funeral home prep room with Eliot standing over him preparing his body as he did Anna's. Eliot tells him that he never made it to the cemetery due to a car accident which killed him. Paul protests that he is alive until the moment Eliot inserts an embalming trocar deep into his torso.

Cast
 Christina Ricci as Anna Taylor
 Liam Neeson as Eliot Deacon
 Justin Long as Paul Coleman
 Josh Charles as Tom Peterson
 Celia Weston as Beatrice Taylor
 Chandler Canterbury as Jack
 Rosemary Murphy as Mrs. Whitehall
 Shuler Hensley as Vincent Miller
 Malachy McCourt as Father Graham
 Alice Drummond as Mrs. Hutton

Casting
Wójtowicz-Vosloo envisioned Naomi Watts to play female lead but for unknown reasons casting the actress did not happen. Conversely, Liam Neeson reportedly accepted the part right after reading the script.

Production
After.Life completed filming in New York at the end of December 2008 with Bill Perkins and Celine Rattray as producers. Galt Niederhoffer and Pam Hirsch are executive producing for Plum Pictures with Edwin Marshall and James Swisher executive producing for Harbor Light. Scenes were filmed in Lynbrook, New York in early December 2008.

Release
After.Life premiered at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles on November 7, 2009. Anchor Bay Entertainment, a division of Overture Films, has acquired theatrical rights for the U.S. and the U.K. The film received an R-rating for the multiple nude scenes with Christina Ricci and was released on 9 April 2010 in a limited release. Anchor Bay released the DVD and Blu-ray on 3 August 2010.

Critical reception
After.Life was not well received by critics. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 25% of 56 critics have given the film a positive review, holding an average score of 4.5/10. According to the website, the film's critical consensus is, "It has an interesting premise and admirable ambitions, but After.Life fails to deliver enough twists or thrills to sustain its creepy atmosphere." Review aggregate Metacritic has given the film a weighted score of 36/100 based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". DreadCentral rated the film 2.5/5 stars and called it "a competent but disappointing thriller." Bloody Disgusting rated it 3/5 stars and described it as "a plodding reflection on mortality disguised as a psychological thriller". In a negative review for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote that "the few good ideas are inevitably thwarted by the filmmaking". James Berardinelli rated the film 3/4. Berardinelli wrote that the film "has flaws aplenty" but it is arresting and unsettling.

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The Lady of the Shroud is a novel by Bram Stoker, published by William Heinemann in 1909.

The book is an epistolary novel, narrated in the first person via letters and diary extracts from various characters, but mainly Rupert. The initial sections, leading up to the reading of the uncle's will, told by other characters, suggest that Rupert is the black sheep of the family, and the conditions of having to live in the castle in the Blue Mountains for a year before he can permanently inherit the unexpectedly large million-pound estate suggest the uncle is somehow testing the heir.

Plot summary

Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate worth more than one million pounds, on condition that he live for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains on the Dalmatian coast. There Rupert tries to win the trust of the conservative mountaineer population by using his fortune to buy them modern arms (from a South American country that has unexpectedly found itself at peace) for their fight against Turkish invasion (the story was written shortly before the Balkan Wars).

One wet night, he is visited in his room in the castle by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud, seeking warmth. He lets her dry herself before his fire, and she flees before morning. She visits several more times, all at night, and they hardly speak, but he falls in love with her, despite thinking she is a vampire. He visits the local church and finds her in a glass-topped stone coffin in the crypt. Despite misgivings he declares his love, be she living or undead, and she arranges the marriage in an Orthodox ceremony conducted by candlelight in the church one night, although he still does not know her name, and she says she must still live alone in the crypt for the present.

Soon afterwards, she is kidnapped by a forward party of Turkish troops, and he learns that she, Teuta, is not undead, but the living daughter of the local Voivode, who is currently returning from a visit to America. She had fallen into a trance, and was declared dead, but then revived, and the local leaders and clergy spread a story of vampirism which was more acceptable than the truth to the uneducated locals, after the (mistaken) news of her death. Living up to this story, she had spent her days in the coffin in the crypt, but during heavy rain when the crypt flooded, came out seeking warmth in the castle in which she had grown up, and knew all the secret entrances, and hence her meetings with Rupert behind locked gates.

Rupert leads a relief force which kills her kidnappers and rescues her. But news immediately arrives that the Voivode has just returned to the country only to be kidnapped by Turks himself. They race back to the coast, and Rupert unloads an aeroplane with a near-silent engine from the munitions ship which has also just arrived, along with sets of bullet-proof clothes. The kidnapped Voivode is tracked to a nearby castle ruin, and Rupert pilots the plane onto the castle wall as if it were a balloon or dirigible, and lowers Teuta by rope to her father. He dons a set of the bullet proof clothes which Teuta and Rupert are also wearing, and Rupert hauls both up to the aircraft which he silently flies off. The castle is then attacked by local troops and the Turks defeated.

Teuta subsequently reveals her marriage to Rupert to her father, who welcomes him into the family and the country.

Characters

Rupert Sent (St.) Leger, the hero and main narrator
Teuta Vissarion, the 'Lady of the Shroud', feigning to be undead to keep her people's minds calm.
Aunt Janet (MacKelpie), Rupert's Scottish aunt, with second-sight, who moves to the Balkans to be with him.
Peter Vissarion, Teuta's father and Voivode of the Blue Mountains.
Ernest Melton. A relative of Rupert's, a minor character and narrator of the first section of the novel, leading up to the reading of the dead uncle's will in which Rupert inherits instead.

References

External links

 Full text and PDF editions at Bram Stoker Online

1909 British novels
1909 fantasy novels
British novellas
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Novels by Bram Stoker
Novels set in Montenegro


The Huge Hefner Chronicles is the third studio album by American producer/MC Diamond D. Released on October 14, 2008, this album is different from his previous works in the way that it features a wide range of different producers rather than Diamond crafting the beats himself like on previous releases. Diamond says the inspiration to do make an album with other producers came from the late producer/MC J Dilla who made a similar album, Pay Jay, for MCA Records that got scrapped.

Track listing

Album singles

2008 albums
Diamond D albums
Babygrande Records albums
Albums produced by DJ Scratch
Albums produced by Diamond D
Albums produced by Illmind
Albums produced by Nottz