The Parish Church of Urtijëi located in the town of Urtijëi in Val Gardena in South Tyrol, Italy is dedicated to  the Epiphany and to Saint Ulrich.

It was built in the years 1792–1796 in the Neoclassical style with some Baroque elements by the tyrolean master Joseph Abenthung and the interior domes painted by the Tyrolean brothers Franz Xaver and Josef Kirchebner.
The structure of the church has the form of Latin cross with a central nave and two lateral chapels dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to Our Lady of the Rosary.

Artworks
The church contains a great number of sculptures, mostly in wood, carved by artists from Val Gardena, including Vigil Dorigo, Luis Kostner, Josef Moroder-Lusenberg, Anton Pitscheider and Franz Ruggaldier.  In the corners of the presbytery there are  four plaster statues, created by Johann Dominik Mahlknecht (German Wikipedia) for this church but never cast in bronze, representing the four Evangelists.

The stained glass windows are a matching set, each one containing a roundel with the head of one of the Twelve Apostles.

Artists represented in the church include (all links leading to German Wikipedia):
 Ferdinand Demetz
 Jakob Crepaz
 Franz Xaver Kirchebner
 Johann Dominik Mahlknecht
 Josef Mersa
 Ludwig Moroder
 Rudolf Moroder
 Johann Baptist Moroder

Gallery

Artworks

References
 Margareth Runggaldier Mahlknecht, Karl Mahlknecht. St. Ulrich in Gröden – Kirchen und Kirchengeschichte. Eine Text- und Bilddokumentation. Athesia Verlag Brixen 1992 (German)

Other projects

 Artwork in the Parish church of Urtijëi
 Dome frescos by Franz Xaver Kirchebner
 Evangelists by J.D. Mahlknecht

Churches in South Tyrol
Woodcarving
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1796
1796 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Neoclassical church buildings in Italy


Major-General William Robert Feilding, Viscount Feilding (15 June 1760 – 8 August 1799) was a British Army officer and politician. He was the eldest son of Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh, but died a year before his father, leaving a son, William Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh.

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Uranie was a frigate of the French Navy launched in 1788. She took part in a frigate action in 1793, capturing HMS Thames, and was renamed Tartu in honour of her captain, Jean-François Tartu, who was killed in the action. The Royal Navy captured her in 1797.  She served as HMS Uranie until the Royal Navy sold her in 1807.

French service
At the action of 24 October 1793, under Jean-François Tartu, she engaged , which she reduced to a hulk before disengaging. Tartu was killed; he was hailed as a hero, and Uranie was renamed Tartu in his honour.

British service
On 5 January 1797, she was captured by , and subsequently brought into British service as HMS Uranie.

On 28 July 1800, Uranie captured the French privateer schooner Revanche, which was armed with fourteen 6-pounder guns and had a crew of 80 men. Revanche was 19 days out of Vigo and had already captured and sent in the English brig Marcus, a Portuguese ship, and a Spanish brig that had been a prize to .  shared in the capture.

On 1 September 1804 Bess, Grantham, master, foundered at sea. Uranie saved the crew and a small part of the cargo.

In 1807, she detected , but failed to engage. Complaints by her crew led to the court martial of the captain for "failure to do his utmost to bring the enemy's frigate to action".

Citations

References
 HMS Uranie, Naval database
 Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de Tartu

External links

Age of Sail frigates of France
1788 ships
Frigates of the French Navy


Albert Perkins Prowse (December 24, 1858 – June 20, 1925) was a merchant and political figure in Prince Edward Island, Canada. He represented 4th Kings in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1899 to 1900, from 1904 to 1919 and from 1923 to 1925 as a Conservative member. He served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1918 to 1919.

He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the son of Samuel Prowse and Eliza Willis. Prowse was educated at the Wesleyan Academy and then entered his father's business. His brother William joined the business some time later. Prowse exported dried fish, canned lobsters and farm produce. In 1881, he married Williamina A. Kirkland. Prowse ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1897 but defeated Donald Alexander MacKinnon in an 1899 by-election held after MacKinnon was named attorney general. Prowse died in office in 1925.

References
 MacKinnon, DA & Warburton, AB Past and Present of Prince Edward Island ... (1906) pp. 430–1

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The Xinghai Conservatory of Music, also known as the Xinghai Conservatory, is a music conservatory in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China. It has two campuses: one in the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center in Panyu District, another at No. 48, Xianlie Donglu (Xianlie Rd. E. ), Tianhe District. The conservatory was established in 1932 by the composer Ma Sicong as the Guangzhou Conservatory of Music.

Both the Xinghai Conservatory of Music and the Xinghai Concert Hall are named after the noted composer Xian Xinghai (), who died on October 30, 1945, at the age of 40.

School history
 In October 1957, Guangzhou Music School was founded.
 1958 It was renamed Guangzhou Music College.
 In 1965, it merged with Guangdong Dance School to form Guangdong Art Academy.
 In 1969, it merged with Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts to form Guangdong People's Academy of Art.
 In 1978, it was separated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and renamed Guangzhou Music College.
 In June 1981, it was upgraded to Guangzhou Conservatory of Music.
 In December 1985, in memory of Guangdong musician Xian Xinghai, it was renamed Xinghai Conservatory of Music.
 In September 2023, Wang Xiuming, Party secretary of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, accepted disciplinary review and supervision investigation

underling

Teaching unit
  Department of music
 Department of composition
 Steel lyre system
 Orchestra department
 Department of traditional Chinese music
 Department of vocal opera
 Department of ethnic vocal Music
 Department of Arts Management
 Musical instrument engineering department
 School of Modern Music and Drama
 College of popular music
 College of music education
 Dance academy
 Institute of Marxism
 Institute of international Education
 College of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
 Music foundation department
 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
 Graduate department
 Affiliated music secondary school
 College of Continuing Education, Social Music Education and Training Center

Teaching and auxiliary unit
 Library
 Network information center
 Art practice center
 Development Planning Research Center
 Teaching Quality Monitoring and Evaluation Center
 Teaching supervision room
 Journal editorial department
 Academy of music
 Music Museum, Lingnan Music Culture Research Center
 odeum

As is

campus
 University Town Campus (New campus) : No. 398, Huanxi Road, Guangzhou University, Panyu District,Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, covering an area of 189993 square meters.
 Shahe Campus (Old campus) : Xianlie East Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou

Cooperative unit
 Xinghai Concert Hall
 Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra
 Guangdong Song and Dance Theatre
 Guangdong Performance Industry Association
 Guangdong TV station
 Shadow of Beads
 Guangdong Music Troupe
 Guangdong Chinese Orchestra
 Pearl River Piano Group Co., LTD

Famous alumni

Performing arts industry
 Maizi Jie[]: Chinese mainland singer.
 Bibi Zhou:Chinese mainland female singer, songwriter and actress.The year 2005 Super Girl (TV series)National runner-up.
 Zheng Yuan[]: Chinese mainland pop singer-songwriter.
Huanzi[]: Chinese mainland male singer, musician, actor, entrepreneur.
 Liu Xijun: China's new generation of powerful female singers, 2009 Happy girls ranked 5th in the country.
 Yin Zheng (actor): Chinese mainland actor and singer.
 Liao Junjia: Chinese female singer and actress.
 Master Dongshan: Guangzhou local famous singer.
 Wang Ziming: Chinese mainland singer and actor.
 Uladoun: Chinese mainland pop singer and music producer.
 He Baicheng: a member of the creative band Pickup Club.
 Li Tao: Member of the creative band Pickup Club.
 Wu Jiacheng: Member of X Nine.
 Peng Chuyue: Member of X Nine.
 Yimin Zhao: Member of GNZ48.
 Wang Qifei: Guangdong Radio and Television Pearl River Channel host and contract artist.
 Xian Jiali: Host and performer of Guangdong Radio and Television's Pearl River Channel.
 Rao Wei: Chinese mainland singer, actor and host, 2013 Happy Boy ranked 7th in China.
 Circle 9: Chinese mainland female singer, songwriter, film actress, 2016 Super Girl National champion.
 Xu Shiyin: Chinese mainland singer-songwriter, member of SING girl group, famous for "The Boy in White".
 Ma Li: Chinese mainland singer and actor.
 Liu Zhe: Chinese mainland pop singer.
 Yu Zibei, a pop singer from the Chinese mainland, took part in the second season of The New Song of China in July 2017.
 Ma Sihui: a Chinese new generation singer who participated in the Creation Camp 2020 as a trainee under Emperor Entertainment, and is now a singer under Emperor Entertainment.
 Tian Hongjie: a new generation singer in China, the lead singer of the champion BAND "SUPER BAND of Tomorrow's Children" in the fourth season of 2020.
 Song Yaxuan (Junior high school) : Chinese new generation singer, a member of TNT Youth Group.
 Jiang Chen: Real name Jiang Yuchen, former Golden Eagle cartoon TV host (small flying beans), actor
 Hui Yuxuan: Member of GNZ48.
 Chen Yongye: Champion of the Italian percussion competition.

Media industry
 Wu Hao: Guangdong Radio and Television children's channel program host, music creator.
 Luo Weixu (Lobster Brother) : Guangdong Radio and Television Jiajia cartoon TV host, music creator.
 Xu Jin: Guangdong Radio and Television economic science and education channel program host.
 Zuo Lingzi: Former Guangdong Radio and Television children's channel host and program director.
 Li Jiatong (sister Peaches) : Host of Jiajia Cartoon TV Station, Guangdong Radio and Television.
 Song Jiaqi: Guangdong Radio and Television Pearl River Channel host and singer.
 Wu Concealer: Guangdong Radio and Television Station Guangdong Satellite TV channel host.
 Wu Yuyuan (Apple Sister) : Former host of Jiajia Cartoon TV on Guangdong Radio and Television, now co-founder of BABO BAPO.
 Wang Xin: Guangdong Radio and Television economic science and education channel host and program director.
 Ye Longfeng (Dolphin brother) : Host of Jiajia Cartoon TV Station of Guangdong Radio and Television

See also
Beijing Midi School of Music
Central Conservatory of Music

External links
Xinghai Conservatory of Music official site

Universities and colleges in Guangzhou
Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center
Music schools in China
Educational institutions established in 1932
Arts organizations established in 1932
1932 establishments in China


In finance, a range accrual is a type of derivative product very popular among structured note investors. It is estimated that more than US$160 billion of Range Accrual indexed on interest rates only have been sold to investors between 2004 and 2007. It is one of the most popular non-vanilla financial derivatives.  In essence the investor in a range accrual is "betting" that the reference "index" - usually interest rates or currency exchange rates - will stay within a predefined range.

Payoff description

A general expression for the payoff of a range accrual is:

 index(i) is the value of the index at the ith observation date
 N is the total number of observations within a period
 P is the payout when the index is in the range

If the observation frequency is daily, the payoff could be more easily written as

where

 n is the number of days a specified index is within a given range
 N is the total number of days of the observation period
 P is the payout for any given day where the index is in the range

The index could be an interest rate (e.g. USD 3 months Libor), or a FX rate (e.g. EUR/USD) or a commodity (e.g. oil price) or any other observable financial index.
The observation period can be different from daily (e.g. weekly, monthly, etc.), though a daily observation is the most encountered.

The receiver of the range accrual coupons is selling binary options. The value of these options is used to enhance the coupon paid.

Example

Let's take an example of a 5 years range accrual note linked to USD 3 months Libor, with range set as [1.00%; 6.00%] and a conditional coupon of 5.00%. Let's assume the note to start on January 1, 2009 and the first coupon payment to happen on July 1, 2009.

An investor who buys USD 100m of this note will have the following cash flows:

 First coupon — Between January 1 and July 1, 2009, if USD 3m Libor fixes between

1.00% and 6.00% for 130 days, then the rate applied for the first semester will be:

5.00% × 130/181 = 3.5912% (there are 181 days in total between January 1, 2009 and July 1, 2009).
The coupon paid on July 1, 2009 would be: US$100m × 3.5912% × 0.5 = $1,795,600 (assuming 0.5 for the day-count fraction between January 1, 2009 and July 1, 2009)

 Second coupon - Between July 1, 2009 and January 1, 2010, if USD 3m Libor fixes between 1.00% and 6.00% for 155 days, then the rate applied for the second semester will be:
5.00% × 155/184= 4.2120%.
The coupon paid on January 1, 2010 would be: US$100m × 4.2120% × 0.5 = $2,106,000 (assuming 0.5 for the day-count fraction between July 1, 2009 and January 1, 2010).

 For the 8 following coupons, the same methodology applies. The highest rate investor will get is 5.00% and the lowest 0.00%.

Different types of range accruals

The payout (P in our notation), for each day the index is in the range, could be either a fix or variable rate.

Valuation and risks

A range accrual can be seen as a strip of binary options, with a decreasing lag between fixing date and payment date. For this reason, it is important the valuation model is well calibrated to the volatility term structure of the underlying, at least at the strikes implied by the range.

If furthermore the range accrual is callable, then the valuation model also needs to take into account the dynamic between the swaption and the underlying.

Accrual swaps that monitor permanence of interest rates into a range and pay a related interest rate times the permanence factor also depend on correlation across different adjacent forward rates. For the details see for example Brigo and Mercurio (2001).

References

Investment
Mathematical finance
Options (finance)


Brightside Group is an insurance broking and financial services business in the UK.  The company was incorporated in 2006, is based in Bristol with offices in Southampton, and Torquay.

History
Brightside is registered in the UK and is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). In June 2008 a reverse takeover took place between Aust Holdings Limited and Brightside Group Plc.  Brightside Group Plc acquired Group Direct and its associated companies, changing its principal business activity from financial rehabilitation solutions to insurance broking.  In the same deal Brightside Group acquired Injury QED which provides solicitors with medical reports for personal injury claims.  The Brightside acquisition included a strategic investment from Aviva-owned insurer Norwich Union and Swedish based Stena Investments. For the six months ending June 2010 revenue grew 24% from £21.4 million in 2009 to £26.6m. In December 2009, the Group raised £20m in additional capital to expand online offerings and the development of its medical reporting business, Injury QED, and in June 2010 the Group acquired the eCar and eBike brands to substantially increase distribution and represented an additional 307,000 policies.

Problems with ex CEO
Arron Banks co-founded Brightside Group in 2005, and was appointed CEO in June 2011, at which time the company was listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The board accepted the resignation from Arron Banks, effective 20 June 2012. Following Banks departure a bitter dispute followed including legal action from Southern Rock Insurance Company, which is owned by Banks.

AnaCap takeover
In 2014 the company was de-listed from the AIM Stockexchange and purchased by AnaCap Financial Partners LLC at £1.27 per share.
In 2015 the company underwent a rebrand, becoming known simply as brightside.

Company Results
On 28 September 2010, Brightside Group released its Preliminary Results for the first six months of 2010 (unaudited):
Profit from continuing operations increased by 33% to £4m in the first six months of 2010 (same period in 2009 £3m)
Revenue increased by 24% to £26.6m in the first six months of 2010 (same period in 2009 £21.4m)
EBITDA before exceptional items and share option charges increased by 11% to £4.97m in the first six months of 2010 (same period in 2009 £4.48m)
Earnings per share on profit from continuing operations increased by 3% to 0.65p in the first six months of 2010 (same period in 2009 0.63p)
In 2014 the company made a £43.7 million loss.

Associated companies
Brightside Group incorporates:
 Commercial Vehicle Direct
 Brightside Insurance
 One Insurance Solution
 Logical Choice
 ProSport Insurance Services

The Group's key insurance areas are van, taxi, business, home, car, motorhome, minibus, caravan, property, tradesman and corporate.

References

External links
Brightside Group website
Financial Times Website, Business Profile

Financial services companies established in 2005
Insurance companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Bristol


Sykehouse railway station was a station on the Hull and Barnsley and Great Central Joint Railway between Thorpe-in-Balne and Snaith and Pollington. It was built with the line which opened on 1 May 1916, but the station never opened to passengers. Like most stations on this line, it was situated on the edge of Sykehouse some distance from the village centre, in the hamlet of Topham, just south of where the railway crossed the River Went. Despite never opening to passengers, the station had the necessary facilities, and the two flanking platforms remained in situ until 1960.

The station was controlled by a signal box situated by the level crossing at the end of the platform, which lasted until the final closure of the line.

References

Barnett, A. L., "Railways of the South Yorkshire Coalfield from 1880". Railway Correspondence and Travel Society.

Disused railway stations in Doncaster
Unbuilt railway stations in the United Kingdom


Anatole Auguste Boieldieu (1824 – 29 May 1886 in Chevilly-Larue) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
He was a member of the Société entomologique de France. His collection is conserved by the Association des Etudiants Paris
Boieldieu wrote many short and some longer scientific papers in which he described new taxa. Two important papers are
Quelques Coléoptères nouveaux des Iles d'Eubée et Baléares. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (4) 5:5-12.(1865) ...
1859. Descriptions des espèces. nouvelles des Coléoptères. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 7: 475–582. (1859).

References
Bourgeois, J. 1886 [Boieldieu, A. A.] Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. (6), Bull. LXXXIX
Constantin, R. 1992 Memorial des Coléopteristes Français. Bull. liaison Assoc. Col. reg. parisienne, Paris (Suppl. 14): 1-92.

1824 births
1886 deaths
French entomologists


Electrica Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Timișoara, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Electrica Timișoara and Ripensia Timișoara. The stadium holds 5,000 people and is located in the Fabric district. In the past it was also the home ground of Politehnica II Timișoara.

In the past, Stadionul UMT, which was placed just a few meters away, was named also as Stadionul Electrica, fact that created some confusion over time.

References

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Sport in Timișoara
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The Elephant King is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by Seth Grossman.

Story
It is about a depressed teenager who wants to write a story about an anthropologist in Thailand. The anthropologist character is inspired by his older brother who has some debt issues. Meanwhile the teenagers mother wants him to be happy and does things such as set up a date for him.
Eventually the teenager goes to Thailand to try to return his older brother back to the United States of America. He falls in love with a Thai girl and thereby wants to stay in Thailand as well.

Reception
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 18% based on reviews from 11 critics with an average rating of 4.2/10.

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4th (County Fermanagh) Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment (4 UDR) was formed in 1970 as part of the seven original battalions specified in The Ulster Defence Regiment Act 1969, which received Royal Assent on 18 December 1969 and was brought into force on 1 January 1970. It was amalgamated with the 6th Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment in 1992 to form the 4th/6th Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment.

History
Along with the other six original battalions, 4 UDR commenced operational duties on 1 April 1970.

The first training Major (TISO) was Major KW Battison of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Part of his job was to find accommodation for the various companies of the new battalion and, where possible, accommodation was sought in army bases. While the old Ulster Special Constabulary platoon huts were vacant and available, to have used those would have highlighted the continuity in personnel between the B Specials and the UDR. This reached 87% in the 4th Battalion, the highest of all UDR battalions.

The battalion was initially based in the ladies' restroom of the Territorial Army centre in Enniskillen but was moved to Grosvenor Barracks, Coleshill, Enniskillen, where a new "hardened" barracks was eventually built, partially underground, to withstand mortar attack. The modified barracks was opened by Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (who had long-standing family and military connections with the area) in 1991.

Most patrols from Grosvenor Barracks went out by helicopter or boat. Because of the danger of ambush, vehicles were only used in the urban area around Enniskillen. County Fermanagh is surrounded on three sides by the Republic of Ireland. Boat patrols were common as the county contains Lough Erne.

Uniform, armament & equipment

See: Ulster Defence Regiment Uniform, armament & equipment

Greenfinches

Intimidation
Protestant and Catholic soldiers were both intimidated out of the regiment. Following the introduction of internment however more Catholic soldiers found themselves the subject of intimidation from within their own community. In Enniskillen one member of the conrate guard was Catholic.  Some of his neighbours came to his home in the early hours of the morning and beat him as well as scrubbing his face with a hard brush.  He was a frail man but was beaten black and blue and his face badly damaged by the brush.  He resigned from the battalion the next day.

Casualties
On 1 March 1971, 43-year-old Thomas Fletcher (A Company) was abducted from his home at Frevagh near Garrison, County Fermanagh and killed a short distance away with 22 shots being fired into him, witnessed by his wife. Within five days of this, other soldiers of the 4th Battalion who lived in the Garrison area and had been threatened by the IRA, abandoned their homes and farms near the border.
On 3 September 1971, Private Frank Veitch, aged 23, (B Company) a farmer, was on duty outside Kinawley police station.  He was killed by five shots fired from a passing car.  He was the first soldier from the 4th Battalion to be killed and the second from the regiment to be killed in action.
Private Tommy. R. Bullock Age 53 (C. Company), 21 September 1972. He and his wife were shot at home as they watched TV by the IRA. Mrs. Bullock was shot dead at the front porch, The gunmen stepped over her body and went inside to kill her husband.

Notable personnel
:Category:Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers
:Category:Ulster Defence Regiment officers

See also

List of battalions and locations of the Ulster Defence Regiment

References

Bibliography
David McKittrick,  Lost Lives, Mainstream, 2004,
John Potter, A Testimony to Courage – the Regimental History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969–1992, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2001,
The Ulster Defence Regiment: An Instrument of Peace?, Chris Ryder 1991

Battalions of the Ulster Defence Regiment
Military history of County Fermanagh
1970 establishments in the United Kingdom
1992 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Military units and formations established in 1970
Military units and formations disestablished in 1992


Elaine Paige is the second solo album from Elaine Paige, released in 1981. The album charted at no. 56 in May 1982  and was re-issued on CD in 1995 by Warner Music.
The recording was produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Powell. Paige had met Rice when she was cast as Eva Perón in the original stage production of his musical Evita in 1978. He also wrote lyrics for a number of the tracks on the album. Rice's former writing partner Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the arrangement of the track "The Second Time", for which Rice had set words to Francis Lai's theme to the film Bilitis.

The track "Secrets" was originally written for the Barbra Streisand album Guilty, but didn't make it on to the final record.

Soon after completing recording of the album, Paige stepped into the role of Grizabella in the musical Cats very soon before its opening night after Judi Dench, who was to have played the role, damaged her Achilles tendon during rehearsals.

Track listing
 "If You Don't Want My Love" - 3:35 (Phil Spector, John Prine)
 "Far Side of the Bay" - 3:30 (Dave Townsend)
 "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" - 3:10 (Don Everly)
 "Secrets" - 3:45 (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb)
 "I Want to Marry You" - 3:40 (Florrie Palmer)
 "The Second Time (Theme from Bilitis)" - 4:06 (Francis Lai, Tim Rice)
 "The Last One to Leave" - 2:46 (Florrie Palmer, Tim Rice)
 "Hot as Sun" - 3:15 (Paul McCartney, Tim Rice)
 "Falling Down to Earth" - 4:07 (Mike Batt, Tim Rice)
 "How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns" - 2:26 (Paul Simon)
 "Miss My Love Today" - 3:45 (Gilbert O'Sullivan)

Personnel
Elaine Paige - vocals
Ian Bairnson - bass, guitar
Mike Moran - keyboards
Chris Rainbow - backing vocals
Stuart Elliott - drums
Andrew Powell - arranger
John Kelly - engineer

Certifications and sales

References

1981 albums
Elaine Paige albums
Warner Music Group albums
Albums produced by Tim Rice
Albums produced by Andrew Powell


5th (County Londonderry) Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment (5 UDR) was formed in 1970 as part of the seven original battalions specified in The Ulster Defence Regiment Act 1969, which received Royal Assent on 18 December 1969 and was brought into force on 1 January 1970. It was, along with the rest of the regiment, amalgamated with the Royal Irish Rangers in 1992 to form the Royal Irish Regiment.

Recruitment
Recruitment for 5 UDR was initially slow. The battalion began its duties on 1 April 1970 with only 200 men to patrol Derry city and a further 300 to cover the rest of the county as opposed to the Ulster Special Constabulary (which the UDR replaced) figures for the previous day of 600 and 1,200 respectively. Catholic recruitment was on a par with Protestant figures however and the two city companies of 5 UDR were 50/50 in makeup, with John Hume known to have signed at least one application and told the recruit to "go out and find all the decent Catholic people he could to enlist".

Sir Robin Chichester-Clark complained asked in the Parliament of the United Kingdom why one of his constituents was turned down for the force as he was a churchwarden and a local government official. The reply by Roy Hattersley stated that the vetting team had been instructed to err on the side of caution and that two clergymen had also been refused because the new force was to be "isolated from political and sectarian influence".

Intimidation
Protestant and Catholic soldiers were both intimidated out of the regiment. Following the introduction of internment however more Catholic soldiers found themselves the subject of intimidation from within their own community. One captain in 5 UDR, who had been a member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and had taken part in the Derry march, was intimidated out of the regiment, out of his job and out of Derry.

The OC of the Waterside Company commented that it was "very, very soul destroying" to lose good men this way, especially when they so obviously enjoyed being soldiers in the regiment.

History
With the other six original battalions, 5 UDR commenced operational duties on 1 April 1970. Battalion Headquarters was established at the former anti-submarine warfare school but was later moved to more suitable accommodation in Shackleton Barracks, Ballykelly, County Londonderry which they shared at various times with the Royal Air Force, the Army Air Corps and various units of the British Army.

The battalion had the largest Tactical Area of Responsibility in the regiment which covered parts of two counties (Londonderry and Antrim) as well as three police divisions 1,600 square miles in total.

The first commanding officer of 5 UDR was Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Bulstrode Lloyd Davidson JP, MID who had seen action in World War II as an officer with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He had been Deputy Lord Lieutenant, High Sheriff for County Londonderry and later, Commandant of the City of Derry Ulster Special Constabulary between 1968 and 1970.

Following his retirement after his agreed one year of service he was replaced by the battalion's first regular commanding officer, Lt Col John Lys.

The second in command (2 i/c) of the battalion upon formation was Major George Lapsley, the son of a police inspector, graduate of Magee College, World War II veteran of the Royal Navy (Far Eastern campaign), and officer of the Territorial Army. He was responsible for recruitment in the early stages. The job of 2 i/c was usually given to the senior part-time officer of the battalion until 1991 when the post was changed to one for a regular officer.

The first Training Major (TISO) was Major LSTH Pelham-Burn of the Coldstream Guards. Part of his job was to organise accommodation for all the companies of the new battalion. Where possible accommodation was sought in army bases and although the old Ulster Special Constabulary platoon huts were vacant and available, to have used those was politically undesirable.

Companies
The battalion eventually had seven rifle companies which were based at: Ebrington Barracks, Derry (A, West Bank, Coy and B, Waterside Coy), C Coy in Claudy, D Coy in Shackleton Barracks, Ballykelly, E Coy at Laurel House, Coleraine, F Coy in Magherafelt. and G Coy in Maghera.

G Coy was originally the B Coy of 1 UDR based in Ballymoney. It came under the command of 5 UDR in 1983. A further change in 1992 saw E and G Coys merge to form D Company.

E Company
Raised in 1971 the first Officer Commanding E Company (E Coy) was Major George Lapsley who transferred in from battalion headquarters.

The company was broken down into four platoons. The majority of soldiers in 21 Platoon came from Portrush, Portstewart (the Ports) and the Windyhall area of Coleraine. 22 Platoon's soldiers lived on the east side of the River Bann. 23 Platoon's men and women came from the west side of the Bann, known as "The Heights" whilst 24 Platoon recruited from Garvagh and surrounding areas. The resulting platoon structure had soldiers from each area regular patrolling territory they were familiar with and where they knew most people from the locality. This was a hallmark of the early UDR part-timers: that they were able to tell when something was amiss in the areas they knew when out on patrol.

Company headquarters was established in the former USC Drill Hall in Macosquin. After discussion with a local property owner "Laurel Hill House", built in 1843, was purchased by the Army Property Services Department for £24,000 but required work in excess of £100,000 to make it fit for purpose. The house had been military accommodation in the past when it was requisitioned for the United States Army in World War II. It was also reputed to be haunted.

By the time E Company took possession of the house and outbuilding they had been converted into a barracks which contained all the facilities expected to be found in UDR company and battalion locations, including a guardroom, armoury, Motor Transport (MT) section, 25 metre indoor rifle range (for .22 Long Rifle .22 calibre only), Officer's Mess, Warrant Officers and Sergeant's Mess, Junior Ranks Bar, snooker room, stores, lecture rooms, offices, operations room, sangars and a pipe range. A pipe range consists of a 30-metre section of concrete pipe of 1 metre diameter, set onto the ground and covered substantially with earth. It was used in military bases in Northern Ireland for rifle practice when surrounding buildings made it unsafe to establish an open shooting range.

A helicopter pad was also established in the grounds of the house and a drill hall built close by. The drill hall also doubled as a room for large functions.

The house and 4.5 acres of grounds were placed on the market again in 2012 and sold at auction for an undisclosed sum although the guide price was listed at £190,000.

Uniform, armament and equipment
Initially, arms had to be drawn from the North Irish Horse barracks in Ballymoney, which by that time had become B Coy 1 UDR (see also Ulster Defence Regiment#Uniform, armament and equipment).

Greenfinches

Music
5 UDR had a number of champion pipers and drummers who, apart from local performances, represented the regiment at the Horse Guards Parade, the Festival of Remembrance in the Royal Albert Hall, London, the Colchester Tattoo, the Queen's Birthday Celebrations in York, an International Air Show at Aldergove and on a tour of the British Army of the Rhine.

In the World Pipe Band Championships of 1978, the pipes and drums of 5 UDR won the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association championship against 126 other entrants. In the World Pipe Band Championships of 1979, competing against 260 other bands, they won both the "Piping and Marching" and "Discipline" trophies, improving on their 1978 placings of second and first respectively in those categories.

The album 5 UDR Pipes & Drums "Irish & Scottish Pipe Music", which includes recordings of the regimental and battalion's marches as well as other popular tunes, was the only recording publicly released by regimental musicians.

Casualties
28 soldiers from 5 UDR died whilst on active duty during the Troubles and a further 12 were assassinated after leaving the regiment.

The first to die was Captain Marcus McCausland, a Catholic. McCausland had previously served with the Irish Guards. His family owned a large estate outside Limavady. He had served as high sheriff for the county and was also a member of Limavady urban district council. The Official Irish Republican Army abducted him and interrogated him for four hours before shooting him and dumping his body in the snow.

The hooded body of Sergeant David C. Deacon, 38 (HQ Company), was found on 3 March 1973 near Derry. His hands were tied behind his back, and he had been tortured. Deacon had previous service in the Royal Navy, was married with four children and was off duty at the time of his abduction and death. Eight years after his death, his wife and four other UDR and RUC widows formed The Widow's Mite to tell the world their side of the story and to counter IRA propaganda.  She had her gold wedding melted down and recast as the ancient "mite" bearing the symbol of a lighted candle.

Memorials
A number of memorials exist to the fallen of the 5th Battalion.  The main memorial to the UDR was erected in Lisburn, unveiled on 12 June 2011 by Viscount Brookeborough, one of the trustees of the UDR Memorial Trust.
The memorial is "a 19-foot 'heroic scale' bronze sculpture" featuring "bronze figures of a male UDR soldier and a female 'Greenfinch' on operational duty...set upon an equally impressive Mourne granite plinth.".

See also
Ulster Defence Regiment
List of battalions and locations of the Ulster Defence Regiment

Bibliography
Gamble, Ronnie. My Service Life, 1939–1979: William (Bill) Balmer, 2009, Causeway Museum Service,
McKitterick, David.  Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, 2004,
Potter, John Furniss. A Testimony to Courage – the Regimental History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969–1992, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2001,
Ryder, Chris. The Ulster Defence Regiment: An Instrument of Peace?, 1991

References

1970 establishments in the United Kingdom
1992 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Battalions of the Ulster Defence Regiment
Military history of County Londonderry
Military units and formations established in 1970
Military units and formations disestablished in 1992


The first Tăriceanu cabinet was the cabinet of the government of Romania led by former PNL leader Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu between 29 December 2004 and 5 April 2007. It succeeded the Năstase cabinet and was succeeded by the second Tăriceanu cabinet.

It was a coalition government which was formed by the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Democratic Party (PD), the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), and the Romanian Humanist Party/Conservative Party (PUR/PC).

Additionally, it also consisted of three Ministers of State (one for each party of the coalition, except for the National Liberal Party, which held the position of Prime Minister), 15 Ministers, and 6 Ministers Delegate.

In early December 2006, the Conservative Party withdrew from the coalition.
 As a result, the Conservative Party's Minister Delegate post was dissolved and the other Conservative Party's posts were re-shuffled between the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Democratic Party (PD).

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The 6th (County Tyrone) Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment (6 UDR) was formed in 1970 as part of the seven original battalions specified in The Ulster Defence Regiment Act 1969, which received Royal Assent on 18 December 1969 and was brought into force on 1 January 1970. It was, along with the rest of the regiment, amalgamated with the Royal Irish Rangers in 1992 to form the Royal Irish Regiment.

History

Along with the other six original battalions, 6 UDR commenced operational duties on 1 April 1970. Around 75% (1,187) of the Tyrone members of the disbanded Ulster Special Constabulary (USC) applied to join 6 UDR, of which 419 were accepted. As a result, the battalion started life as the only battalion more or less up to strength and remained so during its history.

The first training major (TISO) was Major GB Hill, MBE, King's Own Borderers, who was based in the Education Building at Lisanelly Barracks, Omagh. Part of his job was to find accommodation for the various companies of the new battalion.  Where possible accommodation was sought in British Army bases. The old USC platoon huts were vacant and available, but to have used those would have highlighted the continuity between the USC and the UDR.

For a time an old caravan in the centre of Dungannon served as the local UDR post. Ten rifles and 200 rounds of ammunition were stored there.

Companies

C Company and The Deanery
The Deanery was an 18th-century mansion in Clogher, County Tyrone. It had been the home of Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver's Travels and was one of fifteen old large houses taken over by the Ministry of Defence to house the UDR. After persuading the old lady who lived there to move to less spartan accommodation, £150,000 was spent on the property to turn it into a base for C Company. The house has now been demolished.

Loss of Catholics
Catholics soon began to leave the regiment in large numbers in response to the British Army's treatment of Catholic civilians, particularly after the implementation of the one-sided Operation Demetrius.

Intimidation
Protestant and Catholic soldiers were both intimidated out of the regiment. However, following the introduction of internment, more Catholic soldiers than Protestant found themselves the subject of pressure from within their own community, often amounting to intimidation and violence. In Clady, a soldier who had been in the regiment for only three weeks had his front door daubed with the words "Get out of the UDR or be shot – IRA".  Two weeks later as he, his wife and their five children were asleep, a shotgun was fired at their home, shattering several windows.

Casualties

During the general mobilisation for Operation Demetrius a patrol from the battalion came under fire from the Provisional IRA near Clady, County Tyrone.  Private Winston Donnell, age 22, one of four brothers serving in the regiment, was killed outright.  He was the first UDR soldier to be killed.

Sgt Kenneth Smyth Age 28, (B. Company), a former B Special, was killed on 10 December 1971 along with ex Pte Daniel McCormick (a Catholic), who had recently resigned from the Regiment. Sgt Smyth had survived a previous attempt to kill him.

Private William Bogle, age 27, (B Company) was killed as he sat in his car with his wife and children on 5 December 1972. His killer was believed to be a former member of the same company, known for his strong republican views, who resigned from the UDR after just one year, and who moved to the Republic of Ireland after the shooting and never came back.

Private Eva Martin, age 28 (C Company), was fatally wounded by rocket fragments on 3 May 1974 during a PIRA attack on 6 UDR's outlying base at the Deanery, Clogher. She was not only the first Greenfinch to be killed in action but the first female member of the security forces to die in the Troubles. Her husband, Lieutenant Martin was on duty with her when she was killed.

On 13 July 1983, Ronald Alexander (19), John Roxborough (19), Oswald Neely (20) and Thomas Harron (25), all members of D Company, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their mobile patrol on Ballymacilroy Hill, near Ballygawley.

Notable personnel
:Category:Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers
:Category:Ulster Defence Regiment officers

Colours
 November 1991 – 6 UDR was presented with colours at St Lucia Barracks, Omagh, by The Duke of Abercorn.

See also
Ulster Defence Regiment
List of battalions and locations of the Ulster Defence Regiment

Bibliography

A Testimony to Courage – the Regimental History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969–1992, John Potter, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2001,
The Ulster Defence Regiment: An Instrument of Peace?, Chris Ryder 1991

References

Military history of County Tyrone
Battalions of the Ulster Defence Regiment
1970 establishments in the United Kingdom
1992 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Military units and formations established in 1970
Military units and formations disestablished in 1992


Anatole Lewitsky (22 August 1903 – 23 February 1942) was a French anthropologist and member of the French Resistance in World War II. He was head of the European-Asiatic department at the Musée de l'Homme, and a world authority on Siberian shamanism.

He founded, with Boris Vildé and Yvonne Oddon the resistance group Groupe du musée de l'Homme. He was betrayed, tried and sentenced to death. He was killed by firing squad, together with Léon-Maurice Nordmann, Georges Ithier, Jules Andrieu, René Sénéchal, Pierre Walter and Boris Vildé, on 23 February 1942 at Fort Mont-Valérien. They are buried in the cemetery at Ivry-sur-Seine.

References

Humbert, Agnès (tr. Barbara Mellor), Résistance: Memoirs of Occupied France, London, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008  (American title: Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War, Bloomsbury, USA, 2008)

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UM Timișoara was a Romanian professional football club from Timișoara, Romania, founded in 1960 and dissolved in 2008.

History
The football team of Uzinele Mecanice Timișoara was founded in 1960, playing in the first years of its existence in the Ronaț neighborhood on the field that would later become the Stadionul Gheorghe Rășcanu.

The club managed to promoted in Divizia C at the end of the 1966–67 season, when it won the Banat Regional Championship and the play-off for promotion against Aurul Brad, the winner of the Hunedoara Regional Championship. In the 1970s, the team went to play on the Stadionul UMT, known at that time as Stadionul Electrica.

The club did not obtain great performances during its existence, but succeeded to play one season of Romanian top football, in the 2001–02 Divizia A.

At the end of the 2007–08 Liga III, UMT were relegated to the Timiș County League (Liga IV), but didn't start in this competition because they were dissolved.

Honours
Liga II:
Winners (1): 2000–01

Liga III:
Winners (4): 1969–70, 1990–91, 1996–97, 1998–99
Runners-up (3): 1972–73, 1983–84, 2005–06

Banat Regional Championship:
Winners (1): 1966–67

Notable former managers

 Gheorghe Chimiuc
 Cristian Contescu
 Ciprian Aioanei
 Aurel Șunda

 Costică Rădulescu
 Orlando Trandu
 Ion Dumitru

 Costică Toma
 Gheorghe Staicu
 Remus Steop

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7th (City of Belfast) Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment (7 UDR) was formed in 1970 as part of the 7 original battalions specified in The Ulster Defence Regiment Act 1969, which received Royal Assent on 18 December 1969 and was brought into force on 1 January 1970. It was amalgamated with the 10th Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment in 1984 to form the 7th/10th (City of Belfast) Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment.

History
Along with the other 6 original battalions, 7 UDR commenced operational duties on 1 April 1970.

The first training major (TISO - training intelligence and security officer) was Major RW Wilson, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who took up his appointment at Palace Barracks just outside Belfast. Part of his job was to find accommodation for the various companies of the new battalion.  Where possible accommodation was sought in army bases although the old Ulster Special Constabulary platoon huts were vacant and available.  To have used those would have attracted criticism from those who were already claiming that the UDR was the B Specials under a new name.

Recruitment
The appointment of Non-commissioned officers (NCOs) was carried out in a variety of ways.  In most cases, men were selected who had previously held non-commissioned rank in any of the armed forces or the USC.   The filling of senior NCO posts in this manner did have a drawback in that many men of comparatively young ages who had considerable years of service before retirement or promotion created a "promotion block"

Intimidation
Protestant and Catholic soldiers were both intimidated out of the regiment. Following the introduction of internment however more Catholic soldiers found themselves the subject of intimidation from within their own community.

Uniform, armament & equipment
See: Ulster Defence Regiment Uniform, armament & equipment

Greenfinches

Casualties
The first soldier from the battalion to be killed was Private Sean Russell, aged 30 (D Company) who was killed as he sat at home with his wife and five children in the predominantly Catholic New Barnsley estate in Belfast.  Private Russell was also the first Catholic UDR soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA. Following his death 40 Catholics resigned from the regiment.

Notable personnel
:Category:Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers
:Category:Ulster Defence Regiment officers

See also
Ulster Defence Regiment
List of battalions and locations of the Ulster Defence Regiment

Bibliography
Potter, John Furniss. A Testimony to Courage – the Regimental History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969–1992, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2001,
Ryder, Chris. The Ulster Defence Regiment: An Instrument of Peace?, 1991

References

Military history of County Antrim
Military history of County Down
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1970 establishments in the United Kingdom
1984 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
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John Henry Palin (1870 – 22 May 1934) was a British trades unionist and Labour Party politician.

By the early twentieth century, he was active in the trade union movement in Bradford, Yorkshire. He was a member of the executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) in 1901 and 1902, and in 1905 he was the Bradford branch secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Tramway and Vehicle Workers In 1910 he was the President of the Bradford Trades and Labour Council. He was also an Independent Labour Party member of Bradford City Council.

In 1912 he was approved as a Labour Party candidate for the next general election, although he was not allocated to any constituency. In 1911 the ASRS nominated him to contest Bradford East. However, the anticipated general election was delayed until 1918 due to the First World War.

At the 1918 general election he unsuccessfully contested Bradford North. He finally succeeded in being elected to the Commons at the 1924 general election, when he was returned as Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne West. He held the seat in 1929, but was defeated when there was a large swing against Labour in 1931.

He was Lord Mayor of Bradford in 1924 - 1925.

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Ghost World is a 2001 black comedy film directed by Terry Zwigoff and starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas and Steve Buscemi. Based on the 1993–97 comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, with a screenplay co-written by Clowes and Zwigoff, the story focuses on the lives of Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Johansson), two teenage outsiders in an unnamed American city. They face a rift in their relationship as Enid takes interest in an older man named Seymour (Buscemi), and becomes determined to help his romantic life.

The film debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2001. It had little box office impact, but was critically acclaimed. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and has become a cult film.

Plot
Best friends Enid and Rebecca face the summer after their high school graduation, with no plans for their future, other than to find jobs and live together. The girls are cynical social outcasts, but Rebecca is more popular with boys than Enid. Enid's diploma is withheld on the condition that she attend a remedial art class. Even though she is a talented artist, her art teacher, Roberta, believes that art must be socially meaningful and dismisses Enid's sketches as nothing more than "light entertainment".

The girls see a personal ad in which a lonely, middle-aged man named Seymour asks a woman he met recently to contact him. Enid makes a prank phone call to Seymour, pretending to be the woman and inviting him to meet her at a diner. The two girls and their friend, Josh, secretly watch Seymour at the diner and make fun of him. Enid soon begins to feel sympathy for Seymour, and they follow him to his apartment building. Later they find him selling vintage records in a garage sale. Enid buys an old blues album from him, and they become friends. She decides to try to find women for him to date.

Enid has meanwhile been attending her remedial art class, and she persuades Seymour to lend her an old poster depicting a grotesquely caricatured black man, which was once used as a promotional tool by Coon Chicken Inn, the fried chicken franchise now known as Cook's Chicken, where Seymour works in corporate. Enid presents the poster in class as a social comment about racism, and Roberta is so impressed with the concept that she offers Enid a scholarship to an art college.

Seymour receives a phone call from Dana, the intended recipient of his personal ad. Enid encourages him to pursue a relationship with Dana, but she becomes unexpectedly jealous when he does so.

Enid's and Rebecca's lives start to diverge. While Enid has been spending time with Seymour, Rebecca starts working at a coffee shop. Enid gets a job at a movie theater, so she can afford to rent an apartment with Rebecca, but her cynical attitude and reluctance to upsell concessions get her fired on her first day. The girls argue, and Rebecca abandons the idea of living with Enid.

When Enid's poster is displayed in an art show, school officials find it so offensive they force Roberta to give her a failing grade and revoke the scholarship. Enid turns to Seymour for solace, resulting in a drunken one-night stand. Seymour breaks up with Dana and is called to account at work when the Coon Chicken poster is publicized in a local newspaper. He unsuccessfully tries to contact Enid, only for Rebecca to tell him about Enid's prank phone call, describing the way they mocked him at the diner. Seymour is upset and goes to the convenience store where Josh works. Another customer ends up in a violent confrontation with Seymour, resulting in his being injured and hospitalized. Enid visits him in the hospital to apologize.

After everything that has occurred, Enid gives in to her childhood fantasy of running away from home and disappearing. She has seen an old man, Norman, continually waiting at an out-of-service bus stop for a bus that will never come. Finally, as Enid watches from across the street, Norman boards an out-of-service bus. The next day, while Seymour discusses the summer's events with his therapist, Enid returns to the bus stop and boards the out-of-service bus when it arrives.

A post-credits scene shows an alternate version of Seymour's scene in the convenience store, in which he wins the fight and is not injured.

Cast

Production and technique
The film was directed by Terry Zwigoff with cinematography by Affonso Beato. Zwigoff and Ghost World comic creator Daniel Clowes wrote the screenplay together. Years later, Clowes admitted that writing the screenplay came with a significant learning curve. He recalled, "I started by trying to transcribe the comic into Final Draft. I figured that’s how you do an adaptation. Then I tried throwing everything away and writing an entirely new story that was very different from the book. And I synthesized those two things into a final screenplay. The actual film itself is very different from the script we wrote. We ended up jettisoning the last twenty pages and rethought the whole thing as we were filming. It was really held together by hair and spit."

Zwigoff and Clowes presented Beato with the task of making a comic book look to the movie. They asked for a fresh technique: earlier examples of the form such as X-Men and Dick Tracy were dismissed as literal-minded and "insulting" to the art form. According to Clowes, cameraman Beato "really took it to heart," carefully studying the style and color of the original comics. The final cut is just slightly oversaturated, purposefully redolent of "the way the modern world looks where everything is trying to get your attention at once".

Zwigoff also added his individual vision to the adaptation, particularly in his capture and editing of languid, lingering shots, a technique derived from his experience as a documentarian. Another notable touch is his minimal use of extras in the film, making the city and its streets intentionally empty – Clowes notes approvingly, "It captures this weird feeling of alienation in the endless modern consumer culture."

Themes

Ending and suicide theory
In a 2002 interview, Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff were asked if the ending of the film adaptation was a metaphor for suicide. Daniel replied, "Yeah, it could be. It's hard to figure out why people have that response. The first time I heard that I said, 'What? You're out of your mind. What are you talking about?' But I've heard that hundreds of times". Zwigoff expanded on his views in a 2021 interview, saying: "Many interpreted it to mean Enid died by suicide [...] I personally thought of the ending as more positive: that she’s moving on with her life, that she had faith in herself".

Birch, on the other hand, stated: "Honestly, it’s a sad film, to me... I have a very dark view of where that story is leading, unfortunately".

Soundtrack

Music in the film includes "Jaan Pehechan Ho" by Mohammed Rafi, a dance number choreographed by Herman Benjamin from the 1965 Bollywood musical Gumnaam which Enid watches and dances to early in the film, and "Devil Got My Woman" by Skip James (1931), as well as "Pickin' Cotton Blues" by the bar band, Blueshammer.

There are songs by other artists mentioned in the film, including Lionel Belasco, which are reflective of the character Seymour, and of director Terry Zwigoff. Zwigoff is a collector of 78 RPM records, as portrayed by Seymour. Other tracks are by Vince Giordano, a musician who specializes in meticulous recreations of songs from old 78 RPM records.

Referenced in the film is R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders, a band that Zwigoff played in. Enid asks Seymour about the band's second album, Chasin' Rainbows, and Seymour replies, "Nah, that one's not so great."

Missing from the soundtrack album are "What Do I Get?" by Buzzcocks, which can be heard when Enid dresses up like a punk, and the song "A Smile and a Ribbon" by Patience and Prudence.

Release
Ghost World premiered on June 16, 2001, at the Seattle International Film Festival, to lower than average recognition by audiences, but admiration from critics. It was also screened at several film festivals worldwide including the Fantasia Festival in Montreal.

Following the film's theatrical exhibition in the United States, Ghost World was released on VHS and DVD format via MGM Home Entertainment in early 2002. Additional features include deleted and alternative scenes, "Making of Ghost World" featurette, Gumnaam music video "Jaan Pehechaan Ho", and the original theatrical trailer. The film was released on Blu-ray on May 30, 2017, by The Criterion Collection, with a 4K transfer, interviews with the performers, and audio commentary.

Box office
With a limited commercial theatrical run in the United States, Ghost World'''s commercial success was minimal. The film was released on July 20, 2001, in five theaters grossing $98,791 on its opening weekend; it slowly expanded to more theaters, reaching a maximum of 128 by the end of the year. It went on to make $6.2 million in North America and $2.5 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $8.7 million, just above its $7 million budget.

Reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 164 reviews, with an average score of 7.80/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "With acerbic wit, Terry Zwigoff fashions Daniel Clowes' graphic novel into an intelligent, comedic trip through deadpan teen angst." On Metacritic, the film received a score of 90 based on 31 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars and wrote:  In his review for The New York Times, A. O. Scott praised Thora Birch's performance as Enid:  In his Chicago Reader review, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote:  However, Andrew Sarris of The New York Observer disliked the character of Enid:  Kevin Thomas, in his review for the Los Angeles Times, praised Steve Buscemi's portrayal of Seymour:  Time magazine's Andrew D. Arnold wrote:

Michael Dean of The Comics Journal addressed the concerns of comics fans head-on: Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A−" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "Ghost World is a movie for anyone who ever felt imprisoned by life, but crazy about it anyway." In her review for the LA Weekly, Manohla Dargis wrote, "If Zwigoff doesn't always make his movie move (he's overly faithful to the concept of the cartoon panel), he has a gift for connecting us to people who aren't obviously likable, then making us see the urgency of that connection." In Sight & Sound, Leslie Felperin wrote, "Cannily, the main performers deliver most of their lines in slack monotones, all the better to set off the script's wit and balance the glistering cluster of varyingly deranged lesser characters." In his review for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw wrote, "It is an engaging account of the raw pain of adolescence: the fear of being trapped in a grown-up future and choosing the wrong grown-up identity, and of course the pain of love, which we all learn to anaesthetise with jobs and mundane worries." Several critics referred to the film as an art film.Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich, and, Matthew P. McAllister, "Introduction," and, Martin Flanagan, "Teen Trajectories in Spider-Man and Ghost World." In Henry Giroux, "The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned Generation." In

Accolades

LegacyGhost World topped MSN Movies' list of the "Top 10 Comic Book Movies", it was ranked number 3 out of 94 in Rotten Tomatoes' "Comix Worst to Best" countdown (where #1 was the best and #94 the worst), ranked 5th "Best" on IGN's "Best & Worst Comic-Book Movies", and Empire'' magazine ranked the film 19th in their "The 20 Greatest Comic Book Movies" list. It is considered a cult film. It was added to the Criterion Collection in 2017.

See also
 List of films based on comics

References

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 Ghost World: Séance in Wowsville – an essay by Howard Hampton at The Criterion Collection

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The Năstase Cabinet was a cabinet of ministers led by Adrian Năstase that governed Romania from 28 December 2000 to 29 December 2004 during the third term of President Ion Iliescu. It was a minority cabinet formed by the winner of the 2000 parliamentary elections, PDSR, which included also members of other parties, non-parliamentary parties (PSDR, PUR). It was supported by a legislative coalition which included PNL (only for three months) and UDMR.

Members
Coalition members: , , and

Prime Minister:
Adrian Năstase

Ministers of State:
Alexandru Athanasiu
Ioan Rus
Marian Săniuță
Dan Ioan Popescu
Ioan Talpeș

Ministers:
Rodica Stănoiu/Cristian Diaconescu (Justice)
Ioan Mircea Pașcu (Defense)
Mihai Tănăsescu (Finance)
Răzvan Theodorescu (Culture)
Miron Mitrea (Public Works and Transport)
Ilie Sârbu/Petre Daea (Agriculture)
Daniela Bartoș/Mircea Beuran/Ionel Blănculescu/Ovidiu Brânzan (Health)
Mircea Geoană (Foreign Affairs)
Dan Ioan Popescu (Economy and Commerce)
Marian Sârbu/Elena Dumitru/Dan Mircea Popescu (Labor)
Dan Nica/Silvia Adriana Țicău (Communications)
Aurel-Constantin Ilie/Petru Lificiu/Ilie Sârbu/Speranța Ianculescu (Environment)
Șerban Mihăilescu/Eugen Bejinariu (Coordinating the General Secretariat of the Government)
Ioan Rus/Marian Săniuță (Interior)
Ecaterina Andronescu/Alexandru Athanasiu (Education)
Hildegard Puwak/Vasile Pușcaș/Alexandru Fărcaș (European Integration)
Vasile Dâncu (Public Information)
Octav Cozmâncă (Public Administration)
Acsinte Gaspar (Relation with Parliament)
Silvia Ciornei (Small and Medium Enterprises)
Georgiu Gingăraș (Youth and Sport)
Dan-Matei Agathon (Tourism)

Minister-Delegates:
Gabriel Oprea/Gheorghe Emacu (Public Administration)
Eugen Dijmărescu/Vasile Radu (Commerce)
Acsinte Gaspar/Șerban Nicolae (Relation with Parliament)
Vasile Pușcaș (Chief Negotiator with the EU)
Ovidiu Muşetescu (Authority for Privatization)
Ionel Blănculescu (Coordinating Control Bodies)
Marian Sârbu/Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz (Relation with Social Partners)
Șerban Valeca (Research Activity)

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KLIA East @ Labu, (or KLIA-East or KLIA 2), was a proposed budget carrier international airport. It would have been the third civilian airport serving Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding Greater Klang Valley area in Malaysia, after Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (Subang Airport).

The airport was to be located at Labu, Negeri Sembilan, which is 8.6 kilometres away from KLIA. It was proposed by AirAsia, a Malaysian low-cost airline, to replace its use of the low-cost carrier terminal (LCCT) at KLIA. The airport at Labu was intended to serve AirAsia only, and the other airlines serving Kuala Lumpur, including full-service carriers, low-cost carriers as well as cargo airlines would continue to utilize KLIA.

By road, the airport is 50 km from downtown Kuala Lumpur, compared to the distance of 78 km for KLIA. The construction of the new airport, on a 2,800ha area at the state's central corridor in Labu, would have been financed by the private sector. The two parties involved in this project were AirAsia Holdings Group and Sime Darby who own the land. Construction was planned to start in mid-2009 and the new airport was anticipated to be ready by 2011.

However, after a meeting with the Cabinet Ministers of Malaysia, which includes the Deputy Prime Minister, the government instructed the airport operator of KLIA, Malaysia Airports Holding Berhad, to build a new low-cost carrier terminal at KLIA itself with close consultation with AirAsia. AirAsia will submit its wish list and specifications to the operator for discussion. The new terminal, klia2, started operations on 2 May 2014, with AirAsia moving to klia2 a week later on 9 May.

Currently, the former project site is a proposed site for a Royal Malaysian Air Force base.

Background

Prior to the proposed airport, AirAsia is operating from the LCC terminal of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The terminal was initially built with a design capacity of up to 10 million passengers a year which further extension to 15 million passengers a year. It was built on a fast-track basis starting in June 2005 and opened six months later. The site was actually meant for a cargo facility with aprons for aircraft already built.

Demand for AirAsia has caused a surge in the usage of LCC terminal which resulted in almost 9.5 million passengers in 2007. AirAsia was looking for room to expand its operations and decided to use a purpose-built low-cost carrier airport at a site near the current airport. It was reported in December 2008 that Sime Darby, the land owner for the new airport and AirAsia has given a green light for the building of the new airport in Labu, Negeri Sembilan. It was reported that the cost of building the airport will be totally privately funded by both AirAsia and Sime Darby.

The proposal and the speed of the cabinet giving it a green light has attracted many critics, including the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammed. Arguments against the airport include duplication of facilities with the new airport and KLIA, questioning the issues on the airport will be privately funded, as some facilities such as access road may need to be borne by the government and also proximity between the two airports.

Finally, the criticism has made the cabinet reconsider the issue, with the Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak asking AirAsia to present their case to him and other cabinet ministers and the airport operator Malaysia Airports. After the presentation, the cabinet decided that the proposal is off and asked AirAsia to work with the airport operator to build a new LCC Terminal inside KLIA.

Although there were talks that the decision on the airport has not been finalized yet, Deputy Prime Minister clarify that the project would not commence as Sime Darby lacks funds to initiate infrastructure. He also confirmed that the new LCC terminal will be built within the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Connectivity
The KLIA East @ Labu will be connected with KLIA Main Terminal by:-
 A proposed 7 km branch road to link KLIA East @ Labu to KLIA and the North–South Expressway.
 A proposed 7 km ERL link from KLIA to KLIA East.
 A bus hub at KLIA East.

A 3 km KTM Komuter railway line also has been proposed from the railway station in Labu to KLIA East.

All the costs for building the airport, road and rail links will be privately financed.

Funding
The funding for the building of the airport is reported to be based on private finance initiative (PFI). Funds are expected to be provided by Sime Darby and AirAsia. However, critics question the validity of the claim as some aspects of the airport operations such as Customs, Immigration and Quarantine facilities may need to be borne by the government. The same argument also goes for other infrastructure such as building new KTM or ERL tracks to the airport.

Controversies

Arguments for building the airport
AirAsia has launched a cyber-campaign to promote the building and use of the airport. The company's chief executive officer, Tony Fernandes has dubbed the airport as the Rakyat's Terminal (People's Terminal).

On its website, AirAsia has listed several justifications for its need to build a new airport for its own purpose. Among them are:-
 Passenger capacity - Although the current LCC Terminal in KLIA is currently undergoing construction to enable the terminal to handle 15 million passengers a year, AirAsia expects that the terminal will only hold the passenger growth for only one year. The company anticipates handling 25 million passengers through the terminal in 2013 which a shortfall of over 10 million passengers. There were also concerns that MAHB may not be able to build the new LCC Terminal in KLIA on time to accommodate the expanding fleet of AirAsia aircraft. In addition, there have been complaints the present LCCT is "a little more than a shed", and concerns the new LCCT may not be that much better standard.
 Runway capacity - AirAsia claims that KLIA LCC terminal does not have the capacity to cope with peak-hour aircraft movements. They are expecting to have 159 Airbus A320 and 25 widebody Airbus A330 by 2013.
 Connectivity - AirAsia claims that there is poor connectivity on the terminal
 Airport facility - AirAsia claims that waiting time for taxiway has increased due to huge airport layout. They also claimed that the number of gates needed for their operations in the future are insufficient.
 Autonomy - AirAsia purports it would not have any say in the new facilities in KLIA and that Malaysia Airports Berhad, the operators of KLIA, intends to build. The airline fears that landing and other charges could rise. It thus announced a plan to build its own airport which it claims will be built on time and to keep expenses low. There has been frustration by AirAsia in the poor performance of the KLIA operators.

AirAsia has also listed its justification for choosing the site for the airport. Among them are:-
 Location - The new location is cost-efficient, has good connectivity to highways and railway lines, and readily available land. The land is owned by Sime Darby. AirAsia also claimed that the land proposed by the airport operator, Malaysia Airports is unsuitable due to Express Rail Link height and power issues. The land also has poor soil quality making it more expensive and time intensive to develop. AirAsia claims that the distance between both airport runways exceeds the international standard of 2 km.
 Access - AirAsia claims that the new terminal has seamless connectivity via road and rail.
 Passenger Capacity - According to AirAsia, phase 1 of the airport will be able to handle 30 million passengers a year, and phase 2 will be able to handle 50 million per year.

AirAsia on its website claims that building a second terminal building opposite the current one, as envisioned in the KLIA master plan was not possible due to Express Rail Link powers cable height issues.

According to a local business newspaper, AirAsia enjoys incentives such as a waiver of all aeronautical charges except the Passenger Service Charge, which is borne by the passenger and expires in 2007. The incentive was given as a part of convincing AirAsia to move from Subang Airport to Kuala Lumpur International Airport. However, the incentives cover not only KLIA but all airports where AirAsia operated. The incentives cover waivers on landing, parking, aerobridge and check-in counter-charges. It is expected that AirAsia wants its own airport to help better manage airport costs.

Argument against building the airport
 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) mentioned that having a single (international) airport is the preferred way to make Kuala Lumpur an aviation hub of choice. It also indicated that by having two (international) airports would mean duplication of services such as fire and rescue, air traffic control, immigration and customs, which in turn would raise the cost of air travel. Finally, the association cited potential problems in managing air traffic as the site of the new airport at Labu is too close to KLIA.
 Aseambankers have expressed concern that the proposed new airport could also split Kuala Lumpur as a destination into separate airports, especially when passenger movements currently only total 25 million per annum, which is not huge relatively by world city standards.
 The Minority Shareholders Watchdog Group (MSWG) has questioned the need for two LCC terminals within 10 km of each other. The group queried whether any cost-benefit analysis had been done on the project, both in financial and non-financial terms. The move of building the second LCC terminal is expected to "cannibalized" the operator of the main airport as AirAsia commands significant traffic on KLIA.
 This concern has been supported by members of the public who also questioned whether there is really a justification for a third airport for KL and whether it would be for or against the "national interest". Like the MSWG, there is a general concern that the new airport may at least seriously affect the future of KLIA as Malaysia's main gateway to the world. KLIA, it has been argued, is still underutilised for an international airport, and having yet another new international airport serving Kuala Lumpur would significantly dilute the traffic at KLIA.  Like IATA, air safety was another concern voiced by other parties as the two airports, KLIA and KLIA-East@Labu are so close and yet they have two separate control towers (although the safety record of AirAsia to date is good).
 There is also anxiety that the public, not the private sector, would end up having to foot the expensive bill to build and manage the highway and rail links from KLIA-East@Labu airport to Kuala Lumpur and its vicinity.  If that is so, some members of the public felt this would be a waste of taxpayer's resources simply for the benefit of the private entity. However, AirAsia has said in the KLIA East website that "The government via its letter from the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) to Sime Darby has also made it abundantly clear that all infrastructure costs for this project would be borne by the project developer". As for management costs of customs and control tower, etc., AirAsia indicated they need to discuss this further and it could be similar to Senai airport, which is also private.
 In "The Malaysian Insider" news site, the majority of comments from its readers were not in favor of the airport at Labu, and were not convinced by the case put forward by the airline (AirAsia) for the new airport.  Even on AirAsia's own KLIA-East microsite which is supposedly biased to strongly promote the airport project, the blog messages for the airport were split with a significant number of bloggers arguing against building the airport.
 This issue has apparently split political circles as well as Malaysian society. Even the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, who is credited with masterminding the construction of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport waded in against the idea of the new airport at Labu. In his web blog site, he explained that the KLIA Masterplan has been designed to cater for future growth, up to 125 million passengers annually thus it has the expansion capacity to cater for all the future needs of AirAsia.
 Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia, the investment arm of the national government, has opposed the Sime Darby and AirAsia plans. However, critics believe that the agency is not an objective party as it is a major shareholder in Malaysia Airlines and Malaysia Airports Berhad

Malaysia Airports Berhad, the airport operator has issued a series of press statements refuting AirAsia claims on airport charges while explaining delays on the construction of a permanent LCC terminal. The airport operator mentioned that:-
 AirAsia has been growing out of the Main Terminal Building in Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The operator constructed a separate facility to enable AirAsia to achieve operational efficiency and ultimately, allow the airline to grow.
 The current LCC terminal was constructed based on AirAsia's requirements and also with a passenger growth projection of 10 million passengers annually by 2012. The terminal was also designed to cater mainly to narrow-body aircraft such as the Airbus A320 operated by AirAsia.
 Aeronautical charges are not set by the airport operator but by the government of Malaysia. According to the operator, the charges are already one of the lowest in the region and the landing fees have not been increased for 27 years.
 The operator has given a waiver for all aeronautical charges excluding Passenger Service Charge to AirAsia from 2002 to 2007 as an incentive to facilitate AirAsia's move from Subang Airport to KLIA. AirAsia requested an extension of the incentive benefits, but the operator will give out a different incentive after the approval of the airport operator restructuring exercise.

On the National Airport Master Plan study, the operator in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Finance, conducted a study on the direction of future development of airports and aviation infrastructure in Malaysia.

The issue is complicated by parties (on both sides) who allegedly appear to be interested only in their own benefits. What is more, some of the interested parties are companies partly or wholly owned by the government or have links with the government. It seems less and less clear where politics come in, where decision is based on pure business, and which decision is truly in the "national interest". There has also been confusion on decisions from the Cabinet. Although it has approved the project earlier, the latest report from a local free newspaper is the Deputy Prime Minister has now said "We are studying the matter from all angles to see if the project should go ahead or if we can make some different arrangements.".

According to Singapore-based Straits Times economists and bankers have said of the debacle, "The wrangling (between the various parties) also highlights the (Malaysian) government's inability to rein in poor-performing public enterprises and pursue policies to maximise the use of resources." It also indicated "how the dominance of state-controlled agencies often stifles entrepreneurship (in Malaysia)". Analysts are calling for the Malaysian administration to referee the case (see External Links below). Air Asia is currently the largest and the most successful budget airline in the whole of Southeast Asia, pioneered by Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes. He privately bought Air Asia, then an ailing government-linked airline and turned it around as a no-frills budget airline until it was profitable and publicly listed but the public also pointed out that Air Asia receive a lot of benefits like tax waiver incentives, landing rights being fast-tracked and also being given lucrative routes that previously serviced by the government-linked Malaysia Airlines.

References

External links
 KLIA2 - New LCC Terminal
 KLIA-East microsite
 Bernama Report, Jan 9th, 2009
 The Malaysian Insider, Jan 8th, 2009
 Campaign against KLIA East @ Labu
 'Tony Fernandes claims “no tax payers" money will be used' for KLIA East project, Wee Choo Keong, Jan 14th, 2009
 Straits Times report "AirAsia Airport in Limbo", Jan 20th, 2009
 KL International Airport's new Low Cost Carrier Terminal

Proposed airports
Proposed transport infrastructure in Malaysia


Johann Melchior Ernst Sachs (28 February 1843 – 18 May 1917) was a German romantic composer, who also held teaching and performing posts.

He studied first at Altdorf Seminary; taught in elementary schools from 1861 to 1863, and later entered the Munich College of Music and remained there from 1863 to 1865, before becoming a pupil there under Joseph Rheinberger, from 1867 to 1869, when it re-opened as the Royal Bavarian Music School, under the overall direction of Hans von Bülow.

Sachs conducted the Liederkranz Society from 1868 to 1872, and in 1871 was appointed a teacher of harmony at the Royal Music School. From 1869 until 1873 he conducted a male choral society at Munich, and he was the founder and conductor of the Tonkunstlerverein.

As a music theorist he held original opinions on many points. Most of his numerous compositions remain unpublished, but his work includes symphonies; symphonic poems; an opera, Palestrina, which was performed at Ratisbon in 1886; a ballad, Das Thal des Espingo, for chorus and orchestra; a "Pater Noster"; and one work of gigantic dimensions, Kains Schuld und ihre Sühne (Cain, His Sin and Atonement). This production was intended to fill seven evenings. He also composed many songs, and much piano music.

Selected works
8 Mädchenlieder (text: Paul Heyse) for soprano and piano, Op. 6
3 Stimmungsbilder, for piano, Op. 11
 Waldbächleins Thalfahrt, etude for piano, Op. 12
2 Gesänge, Op. 14
Palestrina, opera
Kains Schuld und ihre Sühne (Cain, His Sin and Atonement)
Bethanien (text: Luise Hitz), cantata a for female soloist, chorus, piano and string orchestra

References

External links

Bayerisches Musiker Lexikon Online biography (in German)

List of works at OPACplus

German Romantic composers
German opera composers
Male opera composers
1843 births
1917 deaths
University of Music and Performing Arts Munich alumni
German male classical composers
19th-century German musicians
20th-century German male musicians
19th-century German male musicians


The Isărescu Cabinet was the 114th cabinet of Romania, incumbent between 22 December 1999 and 28 December 2000. It was led by Mugur Isărescu. t was a coalition cabinet formed between the winner of the elections, CDR (Convenția Democrată Română, the Romanian Democratic Convention, which included PNȚCD, PNL, PER), USD (Uniunea Social Democrată, the Social Democratic Union, which included PD and PSDR), and UDMR.

Members
Coalition members: , , , , and

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The 7th/10th (City of Belfast) Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment was formed in 1984 as a result of an amalgamation between the 7th Battalion Ulster Defence Regiment and the 10th Battalion Ulster Defence Regiment.  The resultant 7/10 UDR was subsumed into the Royal Irish Rangers in 1992 as part of the amalgamation which formed the Royal Irish Regiment.

Uniform, armament & equipment
See: Ulster Defence Regiment Uniform, armament & equipment

Greenfinches

Music
In 1990 and 1991 the pipes and drums of 7/10 UDR came second in the European piping championships.

The Stephens Enquiry
In 1989, twenty-eight UDR soldiers were arrested as part of Stevens Inquiry into alleged collusion with loyalist paramilitaries. Twenty-six belonged to the same company of 7/10 UDR. Six were later awarded damages. One was charged with activities linked to loyalist paramilitaries. The Stephens team caused "intense anger" as three hundred police had been used to surround the homes of suspects. This had identified them as UDR soldiers to their neighbours, potentially putting their lives at risk. Eleven moved house as a result and the homes of eighteen others were provided with "additional security measures" at a cost of £25,000.

IRA infiltration?
At the start of June 1987, three attacks were made against soldiers of the same company of the battalion,  including Private John Tracey who was shot dead as he started a new job on apartments off the Lisburn Road, Belfast.  The Belfast Newsletter reported that 7/10 UDR had been infiltrated by the IRA.  The commanding officer accepted that someone must have informed on him but denied that the IRA had been able to penetrate the battalion calling the allegation a "wild rumour".Yet to this day no one has been held accountable for his murder that left his wife and six children without a father or a husband.

Notable personnel
 :Category:Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers
 :Category:Ulster Defence Regiment officers

See also
Ulster Defence Regiment
List of battalions and locations of the Ulster Defence Regiment

Bibliography
 A Testimony to Courage – the Regimental History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969 – 1992, John Potter, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2001,
 The Ulster Defence Regiment: An Instrument of Peace?, Chris Ryder 1991
  Lost Lives, David McKittrick, Mainstream, 2004,

References

Battalions of the Ulster Defence Regiment
Military history of County Antrim
Military history of County Down
1984 establishments in the United Kingdom
1992 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Military units and formations established in 1984
Military units and formations disestablished in 1992


The Vasile Cabinet was the 113th cabinet of Romania, which was formed 17 April 1998 and dissolved 22 December 1999, with Radu Vasile as head of government. It was a coalition cabinet formed between the winner of the elections, CDR (Convenția Democrată Română, the Romanian Democratic Convention, which included PNȚ-CD, PNL, PER), USD (Uniunea Social Democrată, the Social Democratic Union, which included PD and PSDR), and UDMR.

Members
Coalition members: , , , , , and

Prime Minister:
Radu Vasile/Alexandru Athanasiu (ad  interim)

Ministers of State:
Victor Babiuc
Valeriu Stoica

Ministers:
Valeriu Stoica (Justice)
Victor Babiuc (Defense)
Daniel Dăianu/Decebal Traian Remeș (Finance)
Ion Caramitru (Culture)
Nicolae Noica (Public Works)
Dinu Gavrilescu/Ioan Avram Mureșan (Agriculture)
Francisc Baranyi/Gábor Hajdú (Health)
Andrei Pleșu (Foreign Affairs)
Radu Berceanu (Industry and Commerce)
Alexandru Athanasiu (Labor)
Sorin Pantiș (Communications)
Romică Tomescu (Environment)
Traian Băsescu (Transport)
Gavril Dejeu/Constantin Dudu Ionescu (Interior)
Andrei Marga (Education)
Ioan Avram Mureşan/Victor Babiuc (Reform)
Horia Ene/Valeriu Stoica (Research and Technology)
Crin Antonescu (Youth and Sport)
Alexandru Sassu (Relation with Parliament)
Sorin Frunzăverde (Tourism)

Minister-Delegates:
Alexandru Herlea (European Integration)
György Tokay/Péter Eckstein-Kovács (National Minorities)

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The 8th (County Tyrone) Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment was formed on 1 December 1971 using companies, based in the east of the county, of the 6th Battalion Ulster Defence Regiment.   It was, along with the rest of the regiment, subsumed into the Royal Irish Rangers in 1992 to form the Royal Irish Regiment.

History

Battalion HQ was based at Killymeal House, Dungannon, which was also home for the Commanding Officer and his family.  The operations room was located in the stables.  5 companies were dispersed between Killymeal House and the rest of the battalion area.

The first commanding officer was Lieutenant Colonel John Blackwell of the Royal Tank Regiment.

On 7 November 1974, a gunman hijacked a van with its driver.  A  bomb was placed in the van and the driver ordered to take it to the local UDR base, which was J Company, 8 UDR.  This was known in the terminology of the time as a proxy bomb.  The base was prepared for such an attack, as were most bases.  When the van arrived at their base, a sergeant from J Company grabbed his SMG and forced the van driver to put his vehicle into what was known as a "Critpit" (named after its originator, Colonel I.R. Critchley, (Black Watch), deputy commander of 3 Infantry Brigade. The Critpit was a deep pit, large enough to hold a lorry, and lined with sandbags.  The bomb exploded less than an hour later but the only damage done was a few shattered windows in the base and surrounding area.

Uniform, armament & equipment

Casualties
The first soldier from the new battalion was killed on 7 December 1971.  Lance Corporal Dennis Wilson, aged 31 J Company) had taken to his bed at home with a cold.  At 10:30 pm, three armed men forced entry to his farmhouse near Caledon, County Tyrone, 300 yards from the border with the Republic of Ireland.  One of them held his family at gunpoint in a downstairs room whilst the other two went upstairs and killed him.

Notable personnel
 :Category:Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers
 :Category:Ulster Defence Regiment officers

See also
Ulster Defence Regiment
List of battalions and locations of the Ulster Defence Regiment

Bibliography

 A Testimony to Courage – the Regimental History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969 – 1992, John Potter, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2001,
 The Ulster Defence Regiment: An Instrument of Peace?, Chris Ryder 1991

References

Military history of County Tyrone
Battalions of the Ulster Defence Regiment
1971 establishments in the United Kingdom
1992 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Military units and formations established in 1971
Military units and formations disestablished in 1992


The 10th (City of Belfast) Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment was formed in 1972 from elements of the 7th Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment creating a second battalion in Belfast.  It was again amalgamated with 7 UDR in 1984 to form the 7th/10th Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment.

Uniform, armament & equipment
 See: Ulster Defence Regiment Uniform, armament & equipment

Greenfinches

Notable personnel
 :Category:Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers
 :Category:Ulster Defence Regiment officers

Gerry Adams wounded
When Gerry Adams (the Sinn Féin president) was wounded in an assassination attempt by three members of the UFF it was an off duty full-time Non-commissioned officer of 10 UDR who gave chase to their car and arrested them, assisted by an off duty policeman. This is not noted in Adams' Sinn Féin biography and the BBC still insists the assailants were arrested by "plain clothes policemen". The UDR NCO received the Queen's Gallantry Medal for arresting the gunmen. In the long term however the soldier was intimidated out of his home and the UDR as a direct result of these arrests.

Investigations
A 1977 Army investigation involving D Company, 10 UDR, based at Girdwood Barracks in Belfast revealed that about 70 of the company's soldiers were suspected of links to the UVF, but evidence was only found against two, who were dismissed on security grounds.  30 soldiers from D Company were suspected of fraudulently diverting £47,000 to the UVF; and that UVF members socialized at Girdwood Barracks junior ranks mess. This investigation was halted after a senior UDR officer claimed it was harming morale.

See also
Ulster Defence Regiment
List of battalions and locations of the Ulster Defence Regiment

Bibliography

 A Testimony to Courage – the Regimental History of the Ulster Defence Regiment 1969 – 1992, John Potter, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2001,
 The Ulster Defence Regiment: An Instrument of Peace?, Chris Ryder 1991
  Lost Lives, David McKittrick, Mainstream, 2004,

References

Military history of County Antrim
Military history of County Down
Military units and formations established in 1972
Military units and formations disestablished in 1992
Battalions of the Ulster Defence Regiment
1972 establishments in the United Kingdom
1984 disestablishments in the United Kingdom


The Ciorbea Cabinet was the 112th cabinet of Romania, formed 12 December 1996 and dissolved 30 March 1998, with Victor Ciorbea as head of government. It was a coalition cabinet formed between the winner of the elections, CDR (Convenția Democrată Română, the Romanian Democratic Convention, which included PNȚCD, PNL, PER), USD (Uniunea Social Democrată, the Social Democratic Union, which included PD and PSDR), and UDMR.

Members

Prime Minister:
Victor Ciorbea (PNT-CD)

Ministers of State:
Mircea Ciumara (PNT-CD)
Ulm Spineanu (PNT-CD)
Gavril Dejeu (PNT-CD)
Adrian Severin (PD)
Victor Babiuc (PD)
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (PNL)
Valeriu Stoica (PNL)
Alexandru Athanasiu (PSDR)

Ministers:
Valeriu Stoica (PNL) (Justice)
Victor Babiuc (PD) Constantin Dudu Ionescu (PNT-CD) (Defense)
Mircea Ciumara (PNT-CD)/Daniel Dăianu (Independent minister) (Finance)
Ion Caramitru (PNT-CD) (Culture)
Nicolae Noica  (PNT-CD) (Public Works)
Dinu Gavrilescu  (PNT-CD) (Agriculture)
Ștefan Iosif Drăgulescu (PNT-CD)/Ion Victor Bruckner (Independent Minister) (Health)
Adrian Severin (PD)/Andrei Pleșu (Independent Minister) (Foreign Affairs)
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (PNL)/ Mircea Ciumara (Industry and Commerce)
Alexandru Athanasiu (PSDR) (Labor)
Sorin Pantiș (PNL) (Communications)
Ioan Oltean (PD)/Sorin Frunzăverde (PD)/Romică Tomescu (PNT-CD) (Environment)
Traian Băsescu (PD)/Anton Ionescu(PNL) (Transport)
Gavril Dejeu (PNT-CD) (Interior)
Virgil Petrescu (PNT-CD)/Andrei Marga (Independent Minister) (Education)
Ulm Spineanu(PNT-CD)/Ilie Șerbănescu(Independent Minister)(Reform)
Bujor Bogdan Teodoriu (Independent Minister) /Horia Ene(Independent Minister) (Research and Technology)
Mihai-Sorin Stănescu (PNL)/Crin Antonescu(PNL) (Youth and Sport)
Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz (PD)/Ioan Mureșan(PNT-CD) (Relation with Parliament)
Ákos Birtalan (UDMR) (Tourism)

Minister-Delegates:
Alexandru Herlea (PNT-CD) (European Integration)
Remus Opriș (PNT-CD) (Local Administration)
Valentin Ionescu (PNL) (Privatization)
Radu Boroianu (PNL) /Sorin-Mircea Bottez (PNL) (Public Information)
György Tokay (UDMR) (National Minorities)

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The  Athletic Nautical Club of Glyfada , or "ANOG" (Greek: Αθλητικός Ναυτικός Όμιλος Γλυφάδας, "ΑΝΟΓ") was founded by 20 local sportsmen in 1946 and is located in Glyfada, Athens.

The first name of the club was Athletic Club of Glyfada (AOG), (Αθλητικός Όμιλος Γλυφάδας) and the departments was basketball, volleyball, swimming, track and field and last water Polo. In 1956 was founded the club Nautical Athletic Club of Glyfada (NAOG), (Ναυτικός Αθλητικός Όμιλος Γλυφάδας). In 1967 AOG and NAOG merged and the club took the name Athletic Nautical Club of Glyfada (ANOG).

Departments
Swimming, Men's water polo, Women's water polo, Sailing, Tennis. The basketball department of ANOG merged with Esperides BC in 2003.

Titles
Women's water polo:
2 European championships: 2000, 2003
8 Greek championships: 1989, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008
Men's water polo:
 4 Greek championships: 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990
 3 Greek cups: 1986, 1987, 1989
Women's basketball:
 2 Greek cups: 2002, 2003

European Honours

External links
Official website
Όταν η Γλυφάδα άνοιξε τον δρόμο www.sport24.gr

Water polo clubs in Greece
Multi-sport clubs in Athens
Basketball teams in Athens
Glyfada