Silvery are a London-based 4-piece indie rock band, signed to Blow Up Records (the label of the Britpop night club Blow Up).

History
Early shows comprised theatrical affairs, featuring bubble machines, Victorian uniforms, sword fights and flowers, The band gained a cult following and attracted reviews in NME as well as invitations to play at venues including KOKO in Camden, and O2 Wireless festival in Hyde Park, London. In the Summer of 2007 the band was picked up by Blow Up Records.

Their debut release was a double A-side single "Horrors" / "Orders", the accompanying video appeared on MTV2 and in Topshop branches around the UK. Their next single "Devil in the Detail" and the album Thunderer & Excelsior were released on the same day in August 2008, launched at an in-store performance as part of the Rough Trade East record shop 1st Year anniversary. "Devil in the Detail" won a BBC 6 Music roundtable vote against The Streets and Katy Perry, and the station selected the album as Album of the Day on the 12th of August 2009. Positive reviews appeared in publications such as The Word, Q, Artrocker and Clash, who included a track on a covermount CD with their September 2008 issue. Steve Lamacq championed the band, stating that they should have been nominated for that year's Mercury Music Prize.

Following the release of the album, Silvery played a series of one-off shows, most notably British Sea Power's Sing Ye From The Hillside festival at the Tan Hill Inn, Yorkshire. The third single "Action Force" was made Lamacq's Single of the Week on his BBC 6 Music show and featured on Chris Evans' BBC Radio 2 Drivetime Juke Box Jury on 21 October 2008.

The band ended 2008 with a one off Christmas single, a cover of "You Give A Little Love" (by Paul Williams from the musical Bugsy Malone) voted Steve Lamacq's Rebel Playlist winner on his BBC 6 Music show and healthy showings of Thunderer & Excelsior in the Artrocker and Organ Top albums of 2008 lists.

The Nishikado EP was released in May 2009 (featuring a new mix of a track already picked up by several album reviews as the stand out) which peaked at number 11 on the Dutch Free40 chart.

In July 2010, the band emerged with a live BBC 6 Music radio session to promote their second album Railway Architecture, a track from which appeared on that month's Artrocker magazine 'The Sounds of the Summer' covermount CD'. The band contributed an exclusive cover version of a song by Cardiacs to a tribute album for Cardiacs mainman Tim Smith who had suffered a stroke in 2008. "Spell with a Shell" featured alongside tracks by XTC, Ultrasound, The Magic Numbers, and Oceansize. Eighth single "Two Halves of the Same Boy" released on Valentine's Day 2011 was playlisted on BBC 6 Music for five weeks at the start of the year as the band made a return to London's Koko venue for Club NME.

After a download only Christmas single "Christmas Is Easy" / "Christ on a Bike" in December 2012, the band released their third album Etiquette as a free download via their website in August 2013.

Influences
While most reviews suggest a mix of Blur, Sparks and Kaiser Chiefs, Silvery themselves have often cited a wider range of interests. An interview on BBC Radio 1 on 4 August 2008 suggested that musically, the cult British band Cardiacs are an influence, as are Swindon's XTC, the more glam rock moments of Queen and David Bowie, as much as the Victorian science fiction of H.G. Wells, and magazines such as Fortean Times and a childhood obsession with obsolete diesel locomotives.

Discography

Albums
Thunderer And Excelsior (2008)
Railway Architecture (2010)
Etiquette (2013)
London Metal (2022)
The Returning (2022)

Singles/EPs
 "Horrors" / "Orders" (2008)
 "Devil In The Detail" (2008)
 "Action Force" (2008)
 "You Give A Little Love" (2008)
 "The Nishikado EP" (2009)
 "The Naked And The Dead" (2010)
 "A Deconstruction Of Roles" (2010)
 "Two Halves Of The Same Boy" (2010)
 "Christmas Is Easy" / "Christ on a Bike" (2012)

References

British indie rock groups


Lisbeth Berg-Hansen (born 14 March 1963) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party.

She chaired the Norwegian Seafood Federation from 2002 to 2005, and was Vice President of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise from 2004 to 2008. In politics, she was a political advisor in the Ministry of Fisheries from 1992 to 1996, and State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister from 2000 to 2001. Between 20 October 2009 and 16 October 2013, she was appointed Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs.

She is the deputy chair of the board of the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, and a member of the board of Aker Seafoods, Fosen Trafikklag, Investinor (formerly known as Statens Investeringsselskap), SOS-barnebyer and Bodø University College.

She lives in Bindal.

Conflict of interest
Berg-Hansen owns an 8% stake in SinkabergHansen AS, one of Norway's salmon farms, through Jmj Invest AS.

NMF, a Norwegian environmental group, filed charges against Berg-Hansen in 2009 claiming that her own economic interests prompted her to violate the regulations she’s supposed to enforce.

In November 2013 a France 2 documentary accused Berg-Hansen of corruption in relaxing the legal levels of toxins allowed in fish in Norway while at leading health advisory committees and related research institutes, specifically the allowing of the pesticide chemical Ethoxyquin whose effects are relatively less researched and the minister having quashed funding for researchers who were about the report the dangerous effects of the pesticide including its ability to cross the blood brain barrier. Kurt Oddekalv, Norwegian environmental activist called her corrupt & rotten, similar to the Mafia, in the documentary.

References

External links

1963 births
Living people
Norwegian state secretaries
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
20th-century Norwegian businesswomen
20th-century Norwegian businesspeople
Norwegian women state secretaries
Nordland politicians
21st-century Norwegian businesswomen
21st-century Norwegian businesspeople
21st-century Norwegian politicians
21st-century Norwegian women politicians
Government ministers of Norway
Women government ministers of Norway
People from Bindal


Navaneetam (pronounced navanītam, meaning the eternal new one) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 40th Melakarta rāgam (parent scale) in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is called  in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.
Navaneetham is a Sanskrit word meaning fresh butter. 'Nava' meaning fresh (new) and 'neetham' meaning butter.

Structure and Lakshana

It is the 4th rāgam in the 7th chakra Rishi. The mnemonic name is Rishi-Bhu. The mnemonic phrase is sa ra ga mi pa dhi ni. Its  structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
:
:
(this scale uses the notes shuddha rishabham, shuddha gandharam, prati madhyamam, chatushruti dhaivatam, kaisiki nishadam)

As it is a melakarta rāgam, by definition it is a sampūrṇa rāgam (has all seven notes in ascending and descending scale). It is the prati madhyamam equivalent of Vanaspati, which is the 4th melakarta rāgam.

Janya rāgams
Navanītam does not yet have a janya rāgam (derived scale) associated with it. See List of janya rāgams for full list of janya scales.

Compositions
A few compositions set to Navaneetam scale are:

Umāpati pāhi by Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna in Telugu
Lēmidelpa peddavāru by Thyagaraja in Telugu
Sami ide nalla samayam by Koteeswara Iyer
Himātmajē Santatam Pāhimām by Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna in Sanskrit

Related rāgams
This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāgam.

Navaneetam's notes when shifted using Graha bhedam, yields no other melakarta rāgam, like all 6 rāgams in the Rishi chakra (Salagam, Jalarnavam, Jhalavarali, Pavani and Raghupriya being the other 5). Only these rāgams have a gap of 3 notes anywhere in their scale, between G1 to M2. Such a gap does not occur in any other melakarta by definition. Graha bhedam is the step taken in keeping the relative note frequencies same, while shifting the shadjam to the next note in the rāgam.

Notes

References

Melakarta ragas


The Regional Bond Dealers Association (RBDA) is the predominant U.S. trade association focused on representing regional and middle-market securities firms active in the fixed income markets.  The RBDA is headquartered in Washington, DC, USA.

Formation

The RBDA was formed in March 2008 by 14 firms.  The RBDA's stated mission is to "work to advocate public policies and market practices aimed at improving the market environment" and to "provide a forum for its members to discuss and debate issues of common interest."

Leadership and Members

The RBDA is led by a 15-member board of directors.  As of October 2008, board members include:

Mark Medford (Chair), Vining Sparks
Kenneth Williams (Vice Chair), Stone & Youngberg LLC
Silas Matthies (Treasurer-Secretary), Wells Fargo Brokerage Services LLC
Miles Benickes, M.L. Stern & Co.
Jeff Chapman, Fifth Third Securities
Jay Hiniker, Cronin & Co., Inc.
Dan Leland, Southwest Securities
Michael Marz, First Southwest Company
Mike Newhouse, Seattle-Northwest Securities Corp.
Demetri Patikas, Duncan - Williams, Inc.
Alan Polsky, Dougherty & Company LLC
Marc Porter, G.X. Clarke & Co.
Tom Ricketts, Incapital LLC
Don Winton, Crews & Associates, Inc.

Executive staff of the RBDA includes Chief Executive Officer Mike Nicholas.

In addition to firms represented on the board of directors, membership in the RBDA includes Coastal Securities, Inc., Comerica Securities, D.A. Davidson and Co., FTN Financial, Oppenheimer & Co. and Raymond James & Associates.  Associate members include Broadridge Financial, MarketAxess and TheMuniCenter.

References

External links
RBDA Web site

Securities (finance)
Bond market
Finance industry associations
Trade associations based in the United States


Ingrid van Biezen (born 1969) is Professor of Comparative Politics at Leiden University, and the editor of the political science journal Acta Politica.

Her research interests include comparative European politics, political parties and party systems in Europe, democratisation, Southern Europe, and post-communist politics.

Education
Ingrid van Biezen studied for her masters and her PhD at Leiden University.

Career
From 2000 to 2009 she was based in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.

She is currently directing a large comparative research project (Re-conceptualizing democracy) on political parties and democracy through a focus on party law. The project is funded by the European Research Council.

Bibliography

Books

Journal articles

Notes

External links
Homepage at Leiden University

1969 births
Living people
Dutch political scientists
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Leiden University alumni
Academic staff of Leiden University
Scientists from Leiden
Women political scientists


Ferne House is a country house in the parish of Donhead St Andrew in Wiltshire, England, owned by Viscount Rothermere.

There has been a settlement on the site since 1225 AD. The current house, known as Ferne Park and the third to occupy the site, was designed by the 2005 Driehaus Prize winner Quinlan Terry in 2001.  The estate grounds straddle Donhead St Andrew and Berwick St John parishes.

Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts were found in the vicinity of the house during 1988 archaeological fieldwork.

First house
The first Ferne House was the manor house of the de Ferne family: Philip de Ferne is recorded as living there in 1225. From the Ferne family, in 1450 it passed to the Brockway family, and in 1561 to William Grove of Shaftesbury.  By 1809 the house had become so dilapidated that it was demolished.

The 18th-century gatepiers to the park remain; they are Grade II listed structures.

Second house
The second Ferne House was built by Thomas Grove, "on an enlarged scale in the year 1811 on the site of the old structure … in an elevated situation, commanding a pleasing view of the surrounding country". The house is mentioned in surviving diaries of his daughters Charlotte and Harriet; an 1850 photograph of it is reproduced in The Grove Diaries.

This house was remodelled some time after 1850 and assumed a square ground-plan. In 1902 the house passed out of the ownership of the Grove family when it was sold to A. H. Charlesworth, who further enlarged it the following year.

The house was bought in 1914 by Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton, who also bought nearby Ashcombe House around the same time. During World War II the house was used as an animal sanctuary by his wife Nina, co-founder in 1906 of the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society with Lizzy Lind af Hageby. She used the sanctuary to enable well-off London families to evacuate their pets to safety. The house remained in the Hamilton family's possession until the estate was bequeathed by the Duchess to the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, for the purpose of maintaining the sanctuary. Nikolaus Pevsner briefly described the house in his 1963 edition of Wiltshire in The Buildings of England series (incorrectly listed in the parish of Berwick St John).

A clause in the Duchess's will stated that it should remain as an animal sanctuary in perpetuity, but the restrictions she laid down were so stringent, according to The Observer, that the house was unsaleable, and as a result it was demolished in 1965. The animal sanctuary moved to Chard, Somerset, where it still operates; in 1985 the Animal Defence Trust still owned the property, including the still-standing stable block and lodges.

In 1991, the Ferne Estate was sold at auction for £1,040,000.  The buyer was Francis Dineley, whose father had made money from arms manufacturing.

Third house
Sometime after 1991 the estate – described as "run down" – was bought by the 4th Viscount Rothermere and his wife.

In 2001 the third and present Ferne House (known as Ferne Park) was built to the design of the architect Quinlan Terry, in Palladian style and at a reported cost of £40m. The north front is a simplified copy of Came House, Dorset. The house won the award for Best Modern Classical House from the Georgian Group in 2003, and in 2013 two cuboid wings were added, providing a dining room and library.

A summerhouse in the grounds, called the New Pavilion and also designed by Terry, won the 2008 Georgian Group award for a New Building in the Classical Tradition.

See also
 Grove baronets
 Ferne Animal Sanctuary

References

Further reading
Hawkins, Desmond, 1995, The Grove Diaries: The Rise and Fall of an English Family, 1809-1925 University of Delaware Press
Hoare, Sir Richard Colt, 1829, The Modern History of South Wiltshire Volume 4, part 1: the Hundred of Dunworth, by James Everard, Baron Arundell and Sir R.C. Hoare. London: J.B. Nichols and Son, 55–56.
Watkin, David, 2006, Radical Classicism: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry Rizzoli, p 206–217, .

External links
Image of second house on the Lost Heritage website, archived in 2008
Images of the third house – Quinlan Terry Architects

Georgian architecture in Wiltshire
Grade II listed buildings in Wiltshire
Country houses in Wiltshire
Grade II listed houses
Buildings by Quinlan Terry
Houses completed in 2001
New Classical architecture


Maja e Rragamit is a mountain in the Accursed Mountains range in Albania. Reaching 2,472m elevation, it is located 2 km east of Maja Jezercë, the highest point of the range and the Dinaric Alps.

References

Mountains of Albania
Two-thousanders of Albania
Accursed Mountains


Vtape  is a Canadian artist-run centre located in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's largest distributor of video art, and the world's largest distributor of Indigenous and First People's film and video.  The organization is run as a not for profit and is known for video art distribution, media preservation, exhibition programming, and training programs. Vtape's collection features more than 1000 artists and consists of conceptual art videos, video art installation, performance-based works, and social issue documentaries. All artists distributed by Vtape maintain full ownership of their work, and the organization does not require exclusive distribution rights. This model is seen in other Canadian video art distribution organizations Video In Video Out and Videopool.

History
Vtape was established in 1980 by artists Lisa Steele, Susan Britton, Rodney Werden, Clive Robertson, Colin Campbell and Kim Tomczak with the mission to improve the distribution and dissemination of video art and to compensate artists fairly for their work. It was incorporated as a not-for-profit in 1983. Vtape provided organizational assistance for independent art exhibitions throughout the 1980s and 1990s during conditions of intensive censorship of artists' film and video works by the Government of Ontario.

Aboriginal collection
Vtape began a dedicated collection of video works by Aboriginal artists in 1994, after being approached by Zachary Longboy. It is the only specialized collection within the organization, and the only collection at Vtape that will accept works on film and works by first-time artists. Longboy helped develop the collection as Vtape's Aboriginal outreach coordinator, and was succeeded by Cynthia Lickers-Sage. As outreach coordinator, Lickers-Sage broadened the collection's reach through the establishment of the imagineNative Film Festival in 1998. The foundation of the Aboriginal Digital Access Project in 2012 broadened access to this special collection by allowing curators from around the world to preview video and film works online, rather than at the archive in person.

Notes

References and further reading
 Gale, Peggy, Lisa Steele, George Elliott, Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, John Greyson, Marie-Hélène Cousineau et al. Video Re/View: The (Best) Source for Critical Writings on Canadian Artists' Video. (1996).
 Ghaznavi, Corinna. "Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak." Canadian Art 17.4 (2000): 68.
 Koostachin, Jules. "Remembering Inninimowin: The Language of the Human Beings." Canadian Journal of Law & Society/La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société 27, no. 1 (2012): 75–80.

External links
 Official website

Film collectives
Arts organizations established in 1980
Arts centres in Canada
Film archives in Canada
Video art


Raghupriya (meaning The one dear to Raghu) is a ragam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 42nd melakarta rāgam (parent scale) in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is called Ravikriya in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.

Structure and Lakshana

It is the 6th rāgam in the 7th chakra Rishi. The mnemonic name is Rishi-Sha. The mnemonic phrase is sa ra ga mi pa dhu nu. Its  structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
:
:
(the notes shuddha rishabham, shuddha gandharam, prati madhyamam, shatsruthi dhaivatham, kakali nishadham are used in this scale)

As it is a melakarta rāgam, by definition it is a sampoorna rāgam (has all seven notes in ascending and descending scale). It is the prati madhyamam equivalent of Tanaroopi, which is the 6th melakarta scale.

Janya rāgams
Raghupriya has a few minor janya rāgams (derived scales) associated with it. See List of janya Rāgams for full list of scales associated with Raghupriya.

Compositions
A few compositions set to the scale Raghupriya are:

Khalitaka vamsa by Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna
Himagiri kumari by Muthuswami Dikshitar
Sadananda by Koteeswara Iyer

Related rāgams
This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāgam.

Raghupriya's notes when shifted using Graha bhedam, yields no other melakarta rāgam, like all 6 rāgams in the Rishi chakra (Salagam, Jalarnavam, Jhalavarali, Navaneetam and Pavani being the other 5). Only these rāgams have a gap of 3 notes anywhere in their scale, between G1 to M2. Such a gap does not occur in any other melakarta by definition. Graha bhedam is the step taken in keeping the relative note frequencies same, while shifting the shadjam to the next note in the rāgam.

Notes

References

Melakarta ragas


John Greenwood (10 March 1851 – 31 August 1935) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Surrey. He was born in Epsom and died in Lewes.

Greenwood made three first-class appearances during June 1874, the first notable action of his career being to catch Gloucestershire's WG Grace. He played two further first-class matches, making a top score of 8 runs.

Greenwood retained an upper-order position for the final two matches of his career, despite making a top score of just 8 runs in five innings.

External links
John Greenwood at Cricket Archive

1851 births
1935 deaths
English cricketers
Surrey cricketers


The Grand Olympics () is a 1961 Italian documentary film, directed by Romolo Marcellini, made in 1961. It was nominated as Best Documentary Feature at 34th Academy Awards in 1961.

Plot
142 minutes of the film speak of events and athletes that have characterized the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. From the absolute protagonist Wilma Rudolph, called the black gazelle, to Livio Berruti, the first Italian to win a gold medal in a sprint race, to the deeds of Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who won the marathon racing barefoot.

Other Official Films of the Olympic Games
Olympia (1938), directed by Leni Riefenstahl about Berlin 1936
Tokyo Olympiad (1965), directed by Kon Ichikawa about Tokyo 1964

16 Days of Glory (1986), directed by Bud Greenspan about Los Angeles 1984

References

External links

 La grande Olimpiade. prima parte at European Film Gateway
 La grande Olimpiade. seconda parte at European Film Gateway

Italian documentary films
Documentary films about the Olympics
1960s Italian-language films
1961 films
1961 documentary films
1960s sports films
Films about the 1960 Summer Olympics
Films directed by Romolo Marcellini
1960s Italian films


Long Island Aquarium (formerly Atlantis Marine World) is an aquarium that opened in 2000 on Long Island in Riverhead, New York, United States.

One of its biggest attractions is a  coral reef display tank, which is one of the largest all-living coral displays in the Western Hemisphere.

History
Construction on the aquarium began in 1999, and it opened on June 15, 2000. The Town of Riverhead bought the land in 1995 with the hopes the Okeanos Foundation of Hampton Bays, New York would operate it as part of a rehabilitation project of the Peconic waterfront. However, Okeanos was unable to raise funds. Space has been given in the aquarium to the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.

The aquarium's original cost of $15 million was provided by developers James J. Bissett and Joseph M. Petrocelli.

On July 1, 2011, it changed its name to Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center after undergoing a $24 million expansion including a brand-new Exhibition Center, a  Sea Star Grand Ballroom (which joined its successful catering component, Atlantis Banquets & Events), as well as construction of a 100-room waterfront Hyatt Place Hotel. The aquarium also owns and operates a 120-slip marina called Treasure Cove Resort Marina. The aquarium was featured in the 5th season of The Apprentice.

Exhibits

Indoor exhibits include Amazon Rainforest, American Alligators, Archer Fish, Best Buddies (clownfish & anemone), Birds, Bugs and Butterflies Exhibit, Coral Reef, Cuttlefish, Discus Fish, Electric Eel, Flounder Find, Form & Function, Giant Pacific Octopus, Jellyfish, Local Rocky Shores, Lost City of Atlantis Shark Exhibit, Marmosets, Megalodon Display, Moray Eels, Ocean Creatures of the World/Crab Villa (Japanese spider crab), Piranha, Poseidon's Treasure Room, Puffer Fish, Ray Bay, Sand Shark Lagoon, Schooling Fish (common Pacific silver moonfish), Seahorses, Shipwreck/Artificial Reef (Lion Fish), Tidal Marsh, an interactive touch tank and Turtle Bay (Australian snake-necked turtle, red-eared sliders and east African black mud turtles) .

Outdoor exhibits include Ancient Reptile Ruins (green tree python and mangrove monitor), Creatures of the Night (Brazilian prehensile-tailed porcupine and Pallas's long tailed bats), Gator Invasion, Koi Pond, Interactive Salt Marsh, Lost Temple of Atlantis (Japanese snow monkeys), Otter Falls (North American river otters), Penguin Pavilion (African penguin), Ray Bay, Sea Lion Coliseum, Seals and Critter Corner.

Interactive displays include Interactive Salt Marsh, Arcade, Ray Bay, Sea Lion Kiss, Submarine Simulator, hands on touch tank, and an Interactive Creature Feature

References

Riverhead (town), New York
Aquaria in New York (state)
Tourist attractions in Suffolk County, New York
2000 establishments in New York (state)


The Bloody Hands of the Law () is a 1973 Italian crime film directed by Mario Gariazzo and starring Klaus Kinski.

Cast
 Philippe Leroy – Commissario Gianni De Carmine
 Tony Norton – D'Amico
 Silvia Monti – Linda De Carmine
 Klaus Kinski – Vito Quattroni
 Fausto Tozzi – Nicolò Patrovita
 Pia Giancaro – Lilly Antonelli
 Cyril Cusack – The Judge
 Guido Alberti – Prof. Palmieri
 Lincoln Tate – Joe Gambino
 Marino Masé – Giuseppe di Leo
 Luciano Rossi
 Sergio Fantoni – Musante
 Rosario Borelli – Salvatore Perrone
 Tom Felleghy
 Valentino Macchi
 Lorenzo Fineschi
 Denise O'Hara – Elsa Lutzer
 Lorenzo Magnolia
 Stelio Candelli

References

External links

1973 films
Italian crime films
1970s Italian-language films
1973 crime films
Films directed by Mario Gariazzo
Films scored by Stelvio Cipriani
Poliziotteschi films
1970s Italian films


Jan Fridthjof Bernt (born 6 July 1943) is a Norwegian professor of law and former rector (1996-1998) at the University of Bergen.

He graduated with the cand.jur. degree from the University of Oslo in 1968, with the Master of Comparative Law from the University of Michigan in 1971 and took the dr.juris degree at the University of Bergen in 1979. In 1980, he was appointed as professor of law at the University of Bergen. He was elected as rector of the university from 1996 to 1998.

He is the chairman of the Chr. Michelsen Institute and the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund, and a board member of Transparency International, Norway.

He is a former  of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and has been proclaimed Knight of the Order of St. Olav (2000) and Grand Knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon.

References

1943 births
Living people
Norwegian jurists
University of Oslo alumni
University of Michigan Law School alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bergen
Rectors of the University of Bergen
Grand Knights of the Order of the Falcon
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters


Bloodsucking Cinema is a 2007 documentary film about vampire films and it has horror directors talking about the genre. It is an Anchor Bay Entertainment film and it aired on Starz' Fear Fest.

References

External links
Video Business

2007 television films
2007 films
American documentary television films
Canadian horror television films
Documentary films about films
Canadian vampire films
Documentary films about horror
2000s English-language films
2000s Canadian films


The 3rd Flying Training Squadron is part of the 71st Operations Group under the 71st Flying Training Wing. It operates the T-1A Jayhawk aircraft conducting advanced phase tanker/transport flight training.

The 3rd FTS is the third-oldest squadron in the Air Force, with over 95 years of service to the nation, its origins date to the organization of the 3rd Aero Squadron on 1 November 1916 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.  Deployed to the Philippines after World War I, during the 1941-1942 Battle of the Philippines, it was wiped out, with some of its personnel being forced by the Japanese to endure the Bataan Death March. It was not re-activated until 1973.

Mission
To qualify warriors with the skills and attitude necessary to become the world's best combat airlift and tanker pilots.

History

Origins
The 3rd Flying Training Squadron dates to the organization of the 3rd Aero Squadron on 1 November 1916 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Most of the officers and men of the Squadron were transferred from the Aviation School at Rockwell Field, San Diego, California, where, at the time, all Army aviators were trained.  There, it replaced the 1st Aero Squadron, whose members were sent to Columbus Airfield, New Mexico as part of the Punitive expedition against Pancho Villa. There, the squadron may have operated some Curtiss JN-3s and possibly some Curtiss N-8s, preparing them to be sent south to Columbus.

In December 1916, Congress authorized the lease of a 700-acre tract of land seven miles south of San Antonio, Texas for a new airfield to accommodate the rapidly expanding Aviation Section of the Signal Corps.  By March 1917, men from the 3rd Aero Squadron were hard at work clearing the cotton plants from the land and laying foundations for hangars and mess halls at what would become Kelly Field. On 5 April 1917, one day before the United States entered World War I, four Curtiss JN-4 "Jennies" landed at the new field.

On 29 August 1917 the 3rd Aero Squadron left Kelly Field for Fort Sill, Oklahoma with 12 Curtiss R4 airplanes under the command of a Captain Weir to establish a new training airfield. The squadron was assigned to Henry Post Field (named after 2nd Lt. Henry B. Post who was killed in a plane crash in California in 1914).  It was re-designated as Squadron A, Henry Post Field, Oklahoma. on 22 July 1918.  At Post Field, the 3rd was most likely an observer training unit in support of the United States Army Field Artillery School.  In September 1917, the 4th Aero Squadron was transferred to Post Field from Fort Sam Houston, as a second training squadron.  The 3rd was ordered to transfer 135 men to the 4th to bring the squadron up to its authorized strength.  The 3rd was redesignated as "Squadron A", with the 4th being redesignated as "Squadron B" in July 1918.  Both squadrons were demobilized at the end of World War I on 2 January 1919.

Philippines Duty
The unit was re-formed as a new unit, designated as the 3rd Aero Squadron, on 13 May 1919 at Mitchel Field, New York.  Many of the men were experienced mechanics and officers who had served either in France or at training units in the United States during World War I.  After being organized, the squadron was transferred by train to San Francisco, California, where it boarded a ship bound for Manila, in the Philippine Islands, arriving on 18 August.  The squadron was assigned to the Philippine Department, and was stationed initially at Camp Stotsenburg on Luzon.   Some Dayton-Wright DH-4s, which were used as trainers during the war in the United States, arrived later in 1919 and were assigned to the squadron.

On 10 March 1920, along with the 2d Aero Squadron, which had arrived in December 1919, the squadrons were organized into the 1st Group (Observation).  On 14 March 1921, the squadron was re-designated as the 3rd Squadron (Pursuit), its mission was to provide coastal aerial defense as part of the 4th Composite Group, a re-designation of the 1st Group. In 1924, the squadron was formally consolidated with its World War I predecessor organization, giving it a history dating to 1 November 1916.

Exercises and maneuvers with Army ground forces and Naval forces were a regular and important part of its mission.  In the Philippines, the squadron received a wide variety of second-line hand-me-down aircraft transferred from units in the United States during the austere years of Air Corps procurement during the 1920s and 1930s

As a result of the rising tensions with the Japanese Empire in 1940, the defenses of the Philippines were judged to be abysmal, and a reinforcement effort was made to defend the islands against any Japanese aggression.   The 3rd had received P-26 Peashooters in 1937, the latest in the line of second-line aircraft.  These obsolete aircraft were replaced in early 1941 with impressed export versions of the Seversky P-35 being designated EP-106 by the company that were manufactured for the Swedish Air Force.   On 24 October 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order requisitioning all the undelivered EP-106 aircraft and impressing them into the USAAC. These were designated P-35A by the Army, and 40 planes were sent to the Philippines during 1941 to bolster the islands' defenses. The P-35As were replaced by Curtiss P-40 Warhawks in late 1941. On 1 September 1941, the squadron was moved to the new Iba Airfield, in an effort to disperse the fighter strength of the 4th Composite Group.   On 1 November, it was assigned to the new 24th Pursuit Group in a reorganization of the Far East Air Force assets in the Philippines.

World War II

The first word of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was received by commercial radio between 0300 and 0330 hours local on 8 December 1941 in the Philippines. Within 30 minutes radar at Iba Field, Luzon plotted a formation of airplanes 75-miles (120-km) offshore, heading for Corregidor Island. P-40's from the squadron were sent out to intercept but made no contact. By 1130 hours, the fighters sent into the air earlier landed for refueling, and
radar disclosed another flight of Japanese aircraft 70-miles (112-km) West of Lingayen Gulf, headed south. Fighters from the 3rd made another fruitless search over the South China Sea. The P-40's sent on patrol over the South China Sea returned to Iba with fuel running low at the beginning of a Japanese attack on the airfield. The P-40's failed to prevent the bombing but did manage to prevent the Japanese Zeros from a low-level strafe of the airfield and its ground support facilities. Zero low-level strafing had proved extremely destructive at Clark Field earlier that day. The RADAR facilities at Iba, however, were destroyed in the attack.

The P-40s that survived the initial Japanese attack were able to meet the Zeros on near equal terms, but the P-40 lacked the maneuverability of the lighter Japanese plane.  On 9 December, the 3rd Pursuit Squadron was ordered to move to Nichols Field, to provide air defense of the Manila area.  Bad weather delayed additional attacks until 10 December However, without any early warning Radar, the squadron received only a few minutes notice of a second major Japanese air attack focused on Nichols Field and the Naval facilities at Cavite.  The remaining pilots prepared to meet the enemy formations. However, the standing patrols being flown had left those planes in the air low on fuel. The planes on alert took off to attempt interception however before they could reach the altitude of the attacking Japanese bombers, they were swarmed on by Zeros. Combats broke out across the sky and although outnumbered nearly three to one, the 3rd Pursuit pilots did well, downing more Japanese aircraft than they lost. However, as they ran out of fuel, they had to break off and land wherever they could find a field. By the end of the day, the strength of the entire 24th Pursuit Group consisted of twenty-two P-40s and eight P-35s.

With no supplies or replacements available from the United States, ground crews, with little or no spares for repairing aircraft, used parts which were cannibalized from wrecks. Essentials, such as oil, was reused, with used oil being strained though makeshift filters, and tailwheel tires were stuffed with rags to keep them usable. The aircraft which were flying and engaging the Japanese seemed to have more bullethole patches on the fuselage than original skin.  On 12 December, Nichols Field was abandoned and the squadron operated from at temporary fields in northern Bataan, and later withdrawn on 8 January to "Bataan Field", located several miles from the southern tip of the peninsula.

Bataan field consisted of a dirt runway, hacked out of the jungle by Army engineers in early 1941 and lengthened after the FEAF was ordered into Bataan. However, it was well camouflaged. It was attacked and strafed daily by the Japanese, however no aircraft were lost on the ground as a result of the attacks. Bataan Field was kept in operation for several months during the Battle of Bataan. The remaining pilots continued operations with the few planes that were left, cannibalizing aircraft wreckage to keep a few planes airborne in the early months of 1942.  Many squadron members, unneeded to support the limited number of airplanes fought as infantry.

With the surrender of the United States Army on Bataan, Philippines on 8 April 1942, the remainder of the 24th Pursuit Group withdrew to Mindanao Island and began operating from Del Monte Airfield with whatever aircraft were remaining.  Those remaining on Luzon that surrendered to the Japanese were subjected to the Bataan Death March.

The last of the group's aircraft were captured or destroyed by enemy forces on or about 1 May 1942. With the collapse of organized United States resistance in the Philippines on 8 May 1942, a few surviving members of the 3rd Pursuit Squadron managed to escape from Mindanao to Australia where they were integrated into existing units.

The unit was never remanned or equipped during the war. It was carried as an active unit until 2 April 1946.

Southeast Asia

As a result of the successes of the A-7D Corsair II-equipped 354th Tactical Fighter Wing (Deployed) at Korat Royal Thai AFB, Thailand in the closing days of the Vietnam War, Headquarters, Pacific Air Forces requested the activation of a permanent A-7D squadron in Thailand.  The Air Force, in turn, re-activated the 3rd as the 3rd Tactical Fighter Squadron at Korat on 15 March 1973, and the 354th transferred a squadron of its A-7Ds to the squadron, along with volunteer airmen who joined the host 388th Tactical Fighter Wing.

3rd TFS aircraft engaged in combat operations over Cambodia and Laos during the spring and summer of 1973, supporting friendly western governments in those nations against Communist aggression.  A Congressional resolution mandated the end of United States combat over Indochina, effective 15 August 1973, and the 3rd TFS flew its last combat mission that date over Cambodia.

With the end of active combat in Indochina, in March 1974, the 354th transferred several more aircraft to the 3rd TFS prior to its return to Myrtle Beach AFB. Squadron aircraft practiced bombing and intercept missions in western Thailand. A large exercise was held on the first Monday of every month, involving all USAF units in Thailand. "Commando Scrimmage" covered skills such as dog fighting, aerial refueling, airborne command posts and forward air controllers. These exercises were taken very seriously. The A-7D aircraft were pitted against the F-4 Phantom II aircraft in dissimilar air combat exercises. These missions were flown as a deterrent to the Communists in Vietnam as a signal that if the Paris Peace Accords were broken, the United States would use its airpower to enforce its provisions. The wars in Cambodia and Laos, however continued, and in the spring of 1975, Communist regimes took power in both of those nations.

3rd TFS A-7Ds along with other Thailand-based USAF aircraft provided air cover and escort during Operation Eagle Pull, the evacuation of Americans from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Operation Frequent Wind the evacuation of Americans and selected Vietnamese from Saigon, South Vietnam.  On 14–15 May 1975, aircraft assigned to Korat (3rd TFS A-7D, 34th TFS F-4E, 428th TFS F-111A and 16th SOS AC-130) provided air cover in what is considered the last battle of the Vietnam war, the recovery of the SS Mayaguez after it was hijacked by the Cambodian Khmer Rouge communists.

3rd Tactical Fighter Wing

The USAF presence at Korat RTAFB ended in 1975, and on 15 December, the 3rd TFS was transferred to Clark Air Base, Philippines, replacing the 68th Tactical Fighter Squadron, which had been inactivated earlier.  It was the first time the squadron had been assigned to the Philippines since the surrender of American forces on the islands in April 1942.

Upon its arrival at Clark, the A-7Ds were flown back to the United States to be transferred to the National Guard Bureau where they were reassigned to several Air National Guard squadrons.  The 3rd was re-equipped with F-4E Phantom IIs that were transferred from other Thailand-based squadrons which were headed back to the United States.  Throughout the late 1970s and the 1980s, the squadron deployed throughout the Pacific on exercises and supported the training requirements of other units.

Cope Thunder
The Mount Pinatubo eruption forced the 3rd TFW's hasty relocation to Elmendorf AFB, Alaska on 19 December 1991. The F-4Es of the 3rd TFS, however were retired and the squadron was transferred to Eielson AFB, Alaska without personnel or equipment, where it became part of the 343rd Wing.  It was re-designated as the 3rd Fighter Training Squadron, and its mission became the administration of the COPE THUNDER arctic training program.  It was equipped with UH-1N Huey helicopters for range support.  It was inactivated on 20 August 1993 when the 354th Fighter Wing was moved to Eielson from the inactivated Myrtle Beach AFB, the personnel and equipment of the 3rd being re-designated as the 353rd Fighter Training Squadron. Ironically, it was the 363rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, deployed to Korat RTAFB, that transferred its A-7D Corsair IIs to the re-activated 3rd Tactical Fighter Squadron in March 1973 after decades of inactivation.

Air Education and Training Command

The 3rd Flying Training Squadron was reactivated on 1 April 1994 at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.  It was equipped with the Slingsby T-3A Firefly with a mission to conduct AETC's Enhanced Flight Screening Program.  On 2 April 2001, it was transferred to Moody Air Force Base, Georgia where it became a T-6 Texan II primary flying training squadron as part of the 479th Flying Training Group.   As a result of BRAC 2005, the 479th was inactivated on 21 July 2007. Its aircraft and equipment were redistributed to other AETC units.

The 3rd moved to Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma later in April 2007 and was redesignated the 3rd Fighter Training Squadron to provide Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals training to fighter graduate students.  The 3rd lost its IFF mission when the Air Force concentrated the training at three other bases in September 2011.

In September 2012, the 32d Flying Training Squadron was inactivated, and its T-1 Jayhawk training mission and personnel were taken over by the newly reactivated 3rd FTS at Vance in order to preserve the latter's heritage.

Lineage
 Organized as the 3rd Aero Squadron on 1 November 1916
 Redesignated as: Squadron A, Post Field on 22 July 1918
 Demobilized on 2 January 1919
 Reconstituted on 8 April 1924 and consolidated with 3rd Pursuit Squadron

 Organized as the 3rd Aero Squadron on 13 May 1919
 Redesignated 3rd Squadron (Pursuit) on 14 March 1921
 Redesignated 3rd Pursuit Squadron on 25 January 1923
 Consolidated on 8 April 1924 with Squadron A, Post Field, Oklahoma
 Redesignated 3rd Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) on 6 December 1939
 Inactivated on 2 April 1946
 Redesignated 3rd Tactical Fighter Squadron on 12 March 1973
 Activated on 15 March 1973
 Redesignated 3rd Fighter Training Squadron on 19 December 1991
 Inactivated on 20 August 1993
 Redesignated 3rd Flying Training Squadron on 14 February 1994
 Activated on 1 April 1994
 Inactivated on 7 April 2000
 Activated on 2 April 2001
 Redesignated 3rd Fighter Training Squadron on 8 May 2007
 Inactivated c. September 2011
 Redesignated 3rd Flying Training Squadron on 14 September 2012

Assignments
 Post Headquarters, Fort Sam Houston, 1 November 1916
 Post Headquarters, Kelly Field, May 1917
 Post Headquarters, Fort Sill, 30 August 1917
 Post Headquarters, Post Field, November 1917-2 January 1919
 Eastern Department, 13 May 1919
 Attached to Post Headquarters, Mitchel Field
 Philippine Department, 18 August 1919
 1st Observation (later, 4th Observation, 4th Composite) Group, 10 March 1920
 24th Pursuit Group, 1 October 1941 – 2 April 1946
 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, 15 March 1973
 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing (later 3rd Wing), 15 December 1975
 Attached to Thirteenth Air Force, 15–16 December 1975
 343rd Wing, 19 Dec 1991
 343rd Operations Group, 1 February 1992 – 20 August 1993
 12th Operations Group, 1 April 1994 – 7 April 2000
 479th Flying Training Group, 2 April 2001
 71st Operations Group, 26 April 2007 – c. 30 September 2011, c. 14 September 2012–present

Stations

 Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1 November 1916
 South San Antonio, Texas, May 1917
 Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 30 August 1917
 Post Field, Oklahoma, November 1917 - 2 January 1919
 Mitchel Field, New York, 13 May 1919
 Hazelhurst Field, New York, 29 May 1919 – 28 June 1919
 Manila, Luzon, Philippines, 18 August 1919
 Camp Stotsenburg, Luzon, Philippines, 2 December 1919
 Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines, 15 October 1920
 Nichols Field, Luzon, Philippines, 16 June 1938
 Iba Airfield, Luzon, Philippines, c. 1 September 1941
 Nichols Field, Luzon, Philippines, 9 December 1941

 Ternate NAS, Luzon, Philippines, c. 12 December 1941
 Operated from Del Carmen Airfield, Luzon, Philippines, 12-c. 25 December 1941
 Bataan Airfield, Luzon, Philippines, c. 25 December 1941 – April 1942
 Operated from Del Monte Airfield, Mindanao, Philippines, c. 8 April–May 1942
 Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, 15 March 1973
 Clark Air Base, Philippines, 15 December 1975 – 19 December 1991
 Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, 19 December 1991 – 20 August 1993
 Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, 1 April 1994 – 7 April 2000
 Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, 2 April 2001
 Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 26 April July 2007 – c. 30 September 2011, c. 14 September 2012–present

Aircraft

R-4 (1917–1919)
JN-4 Jenny (1917–1919)
JN-6 Jenny (1917–1919)
DH-4 (1919–1931)
MB-3 (1923–1926)
PW-9 (1926–1931)
P-12 (1930–1937)
O-2 (1931–1937)
O-19 (1931–1937)

P-26 Peashooter (1937–1941)
P-35 Guardsman (1941)
P-40 Warhawk (1941–1942)
A-7 Corsair II (1973–1975)
F-4 Phantom II (1975–1991)
UH-1 Iroquois (1991–1993)
T-3 Firefly (1994–2000)
T-6 Texan II (2001–2007)
T-38 Talon (2007–2011)
T-1A Jayhawk (2012–present)

See also

 List of American Aero Squadrons

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

 Edmonds, Walter D. They Fought With What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941–1942 (1951, 1982)
 Glasser, Jeffrey D. The Secret Vietnam War: The United States Air Force in Thailand, 1961-1975. McFarland & Company, 1998. .

 Kroll, Harry David, Kelly field in the great world war (1919)
 Logan, Don. The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing: At Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 1997. .

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Military units and formations established in 1916


Milk Cow Blues is the 48th studio album from American country singer Willie Nelson, released on September 19, 2000, on the Island Records label. It features many famous blues artists, including B. B. King and Dr. John.

Track listing

Personnel
Willie Nelson - guitar
Derek O'Brien - guitar
Jimmie Vaughan - guitar
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - guitar
Riley Osbourn - B-3 organ, piano
George Rains - drums
Mickey Raphael - harmonica
John Blondell - bass guitar

Chart performance

References

External links
Willie Nelson's Official Website

2000 albums
Willie Nelson albums
Island Records albums


Gavin Cowan (born 18 January 1987) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s. He played at representative level for Scotland at the 2008 Rugby League World Cup, and at club level for Wests Tigers (reserve grade), as a  or .

Background
Gavin Cowan was born in Australia, he has Scottish ancestors, and eligible to play for Scotland due to the grandparent rule.

Playing career
Cowan is a Scotland international player. He was named in the Scotland squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. At the time, he was contracted to the Wests Tigers in Australia.

References

External links
(archived by web.archive.org) RLWC08 profile
(archived by web.archive.org) Scotland profile

1987 births
Australian people of Scottish descent
Living people
Rugby league centres
Rugby league fullbacks
Rugby league wingers
Scotland national rugby league team players


Deep Depression ARB 02 was a weak and unsually costly tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage and loss of life in Yemen in October 2008. The sixth tropical cyclone and third deep depression of the 2008 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, ARB 02 formed on October 19 off the west coast of India from the same broader system that spawned a tropical storm in the southern Indian Ocean at the same time. Moving generally westward, the depression failed to intensify much, reaching maximum sustained winds of only . It was no longer classifiable as a tropical depression by October 23, and later that day, its remnants made landfall near Ash Shihr in eastern Yemen.

The storm sent a plume of moisture throughout the Arabian Peninsula, contributing to dust storms as far north as Iraq. However, the effects were most severe in Yemen, becoming the second-worst natural disaster in the country after deadly floods in 1996. The storm dropped heavy rainfall in a normally arid region, reaching around , which caused flash flooding in valleys after waterways were unable to contain the approximately 2 billion km3 (528 billion gallons) of water that fell. Poor drainage practices and an invasive species of weed contributed to the floods, which damaged or destroyed 6,505 houses, leaving about 25,000 people homeless. The floods killed 180 people and severely disrupted the livelihoods of about 700,000 residents of Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah governorates, mostly farmers whose fields were washed away. Some of the buildings at the Shibam UNESCO World Heritage Site collapsed due to the floods. Overall damage was estimated at US$874.8 million, although residual losses from damaged infrastructure were estimated to cost an additional US$726.9 million. The overall economic impact of the storm was therefore estimated at US$1.638 billion, equating to roughly 6% of the country's gross domestic product.

After the scale of the damage became clear, the government of Yemen requested for assistance from the international community. The hardest hit areas had poor infrastructure, which caused difficulties in communications as relief goods were distributed. Nations in the region, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, sent money and supplies to help rebuild the damaged infrastructure and houses. Agencies under the United Nations provided food and logistical support. Relief efforts continued to make progress until 2011 due to a political uprising in Yemen.

Meteorological history

On October 11, an active phase of the Madden–Julian oscillation, in conjunction with an equatorial wind burst, produced twin areas of convection in the central Indian Ocean on both sides of the equator. The system in the southern hemisphere would become Tropical Storm Asma in the south-west Indian Ocean, and the system in the northern hemisphere would ultimately strike Yemen. The northern hemisphere system originated in the Bay of Bengal, and moved westward for much of its duration, steered by a ridge to the north along 15º N. On October 16, a low-pressure area developed over southern India near Kanyakumari. With low wind shear and warm waters of , the system slowly organized. On October 19, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) classified the low as a depression about 725 km (450 mi) southeast of the Yemeni island of Socotra. By that time, the convection had organized more, although it was displaced slightly from the center due to stronger wind shear.

The convection persisted along the western periphery of an elongated center, organizing enough for the American-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) to issue warnings on the depression on October 20, designating it Tropical Cyclone 03A. With marginally favorable conditions, the depression intensified slightly, and the IMD upgraded it to a  deep depression on October 21, the same peak as the JTWC. That day, the system moved over Socotra as it reached an area of cooler water temperatures. Land interaction and dry air weakened the convection around the system as it approached the Gulf of Aden. The IMD downgraded the cyclone to depression status on October 22. On the next day, the JTWC discontinued advisories, and the IMD downgraded the system further to a remnant low to the northeast of Cape Guardafui, Somalia. The JTWC continued tracking the system as it moved northwestward, and the circulation made landfall near Ash Shihr in southeastern Yemen late on October 23, losing its identity shortly thereafter.

Impact

Moving ashore southeastern Yemen, the storm dropped heavy rainfall in the typically arid region, reaching  in some areas, and possibly as high as , over a 20,000  km2 (7,700 mi2) area. This equated to about 2 billion m3 (528 billion gallons) of water, more than twice the capacity of most waterways. The thunderstorms and rainfall occurred over a 30‑hour period, severely disrupting life in eastern Yemen. The precipitation coalesced into valleys, resulting in flash flooding that swelled water levels to . Hundreds of residents became trapped in their homes, while businesses and schools were shut down. The storm sent a plume of moisture that spread into Saudi Arabia, reaching  in Najran, and was drawn northward into Iraq by a trough over Syria, triggering dust storms.

A representative of UNICEF estimated that the magnitude of the flooding was the worst in 600 years, attributing the scope to climate change. The areas effected – primarily Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah governorates – are usually dry and unsuited for such flooding. This resulted in the second worst natural disaster on record in Yemen, following deadly floods in 1996. Overall, the floods killed around 180 people in Yemen, with many corpses carried away by the deluge. Illegal alterations in canal and drainage systems caused the floods to impact many houses and buildings, and the governor of Hadhramaut credited the invasive Prosopis juliflora weed as exasperating floods after blocking waterways. Throughout the country, the floods destroyed 2,826 houses and damaged another 3,679, leaving about 25,000 people homeless; many of these houses were made of mud, washed away by the floodwaters. The displaced utilized temporary shelters in mosques and schools, or stayed with family and friends. Damage to housing, hospitals, and education was estimated at $200 million. The UNESCO World Heritage Site at Shibam – dating back to the 3rd century and housing tall mud buildings from the 17th century – was surrounded by floodwaters, causing some of the dwellings to collapse. Businesses and other infrastructure projects were also destroyed.

Infrastructure damage was estimated at $113 million (2008 USD), most of which related to damaged roads, after thoroughfares were washed away. At the Sayun Airport, floods damaged runways and other facilities. 359 dams were damaged, alongside 65 reservoirs. Widespread irrigation systems were also damaged, including  of pipelines, 1,241 wells, and 1,229 water pumps. Electricity and telephone lines were disrupted in the region. The floods damaged 170 schools, as well as many health facilities. Along the coast, the storm damaged many fishing boats and equipment. In Al Mahrah Governorate, the storm washed a cargo ship ashore, although the 17 person crew was rescued.

Agriculture impacts were significant, estimated at $550 million, which affected 75% of the farmers in Hadhramaut. Soil erosion from the floods damaged  of farmlands, as well as  of uncultivated lands. This mostly affected cereals, vegetables, and forage crops. Floods killed about 58,500 livestock and wrecked 309,103 beehives. The storm also knocked down 547,185 palm trees, 16,587 citrus trees, and another 161,449 fruit trees. Despite the heavy agriculture damage, the floods did not disrupt the national food supply.

The effects of the flooding disrupted the livelihoods of about 700,000 residents; most of the storm's damage affected people's jobs, including farming, industry, and commerce, totaling $557.3 million in damages. About 76% of the overall effects of the flooding were the result of disruption of people's jobs. Overall damage was estimated at $874.8 million, although residual losses from damaged infrastructure were estimated to cost an additional $726.9 million. The overall economic impact of the storm was therefore estimated at $1.638 billion, equating to roughly 6% of the country's gross domestic product. Damage was heaviest in Hadhramaut Governorate, accounting for 67.5% of the material damages, and occurred mostly along the coast; 16 of the 19 districts in the governorate reported damage. Also in Hadramaut, there were 57 people injured due to the storm. The government sent search and rescue teams into the flooded areas to help stranded residents, although strong winds in the region disrupted these efforts in the immediate aftermath. In Seiyun, six soldiers died while attempting to rescue trapped residents. Lightning strikes killed six people.

Aftermath

On October 27, the Yemen government requested assistance from the international community, unable to provide disaster assessments or cope with the rebuilding. The storm affected areas of Yemen that already had poor infrastructure and lack of food, and were generally under a state of political unrest, which made recovery difficult. In some areas, relief distribution was duplicated due to lack of coordination while some areas did not receive help. Yemen's Deputy Prime Minister for Internal Affairs coordinated the relief efforts, in conjunction with the governors of the most affected areas. The government focused on streamlining disaster activities and toward future mitigation. However, there was no coordinated disaster plan as of September 2009, and the scale of the disaster proved too great for ministries to handle. The Ministry of Public Works helped reopen roads, which allowed for the transport of relief goods, and the damaged Sayun Airport was repaired to withstand future floods. By December 2008, most roads, power systems, hospitals, and communication services were restored. The government also enacted the Fund for Hadramout and Al-Mahara Reconstruction, which failed to promptly distribute aid assistance.

In addition to requesting international aid, the Yemen government declared Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah governorates as disaster areas, after then-president Ali Abdullah Saleh surveyed the affected areas. The president also utilized the nation's military to assist storm victims, and sent aircraft with tents, food, and medicine to the worst hit areas. To raise money for the disaster recovery, the Yemeni government cut one day of salary for all workers, equating to $4.25 million, and the government provided another $100 million from its annual budget. Local charities and residents collectively raised $8.5 million. Yemen's Red Cross provided meals and water to about 21,000 people. The agency also provided school kits for 4,500 students whose facilities were damaged. Ultimately, the Red Cross assisted over 70,000 storm victims through health programs, and also helped residents cope with stress, hygiene promotion, and other ongoing vulnerabilities to their livelihoods.

Various agencies under the United Nations assisted in the recovery; the World Health Organization provided medical kits to the worst hit areas, capable of helping 10,000 residents each for three months. The United Nations Development Programme helped house displaced storm victims, and many of the mud-built houses were repaired with the same construction materials as before. The World Bank led the assessment efforts, estimating the cost of recovery at $1.046 billion, mostly toward rebuilding houses, regrowing crops, and restoring social services. The World Bank also provided $41 million toward the Yemen Flood Protection and Emergency Reconstruction, which rebuilt vital infrastructure and ensured they were flood-proof. The World Food Programme assisted 43,000 people with food and other emergency supplies. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference declared the situation a "national catastrophe" and started a drive to collect funds for the relief of flood victims. At an international donor conference, various individuals and countries pledged $301 million to help with the reconstruction in the country. Arab nations in the region also donated cash and supplies to Yemen; Saudi Arabia pledged $100 million in assistance. The United Arab Emirates Red Crescent assisted in the reconstruction work, sending $27.3 million to rebuild 1,000 houses; 750 of these were completed by December 2009. The Arab Fund sent $135 million, including $35 million for road reconstruction. The Japanese government provided funding toward building shelter for 700 displaced Al-Akhdam people, designed to be away from the flood plain. Access to clean drinking water and proper shelter for the displaced helped mitigate the spread of disease. For many families, the effects of the disaster lasted several years due to insufficient assistance or disrupted jobs. By 2010, about 40% of the overall recovery cost was met by international donations, although funding was halted after political uprising in 2011.

Over the long term, residents lost significant amounts of income in the storm-affected areas, particularly farms in the year after the storm. Higher food prices also resulted in less income for other residents. The area's economy largely recovered to pre-flood levels by 2010.

See also

List of Arabian Peninsula tropical cyclones
1996 Oman cyclone – deadly tropical storm that became the costliest disaster on record in Yemen
2002 Oman cyclone – another storm that struck the Arabian Peninsula originating alongside a storm in the southern hemisphere
Cyclone Keila – slow-moving storm in 2011 that caused flooding in Oman and Yemen
Cyclone Chapala – Another powerful storm that made landfall in Yemen in 2015
Cyclone Megh – A storm that impacted Yemen soon after Cyclone Chapala

References

Floods
Yemen floods
Yemen Cyclone, 2008
Natural disasters in Yemen
Deep depressions
Tropical cyclones in Yemen
2008 Yemen cyclone


Valentine Simpson (15 August 1849 — 2 November 1915) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of John Henry Simpson, he was born at Newington in August 1859. A club cricketer for Reigate Priory Cricket Club, he later made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Kent at Southampton in 1885. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 7 runs in Hampshire's first innings by Alec Hearne, while in their second innings he was dismissed by Jimmy Wootton. Outside of cricket, Simpson was a pastoral farmer. He farmed a herd of roughly sixty Jersey and Guernsey cattle, which he sold in February 1883, alongside Albany Farm near Fareham. He was a member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, having been elected in 1873. He was also associated as a club cricketer with Fareham Cricket Club, where he was described as "Fareham's Jessop" and was described by the Hampshire Post and Southsea Observer as being a "forcing bat, with an eye like a hawk, and hardly ever known to miss a catch". Simpson died at Fareham in November 1915.

References

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1915 deaths
People from Newington, London
English cricketers
Hampshire cricketers
19th-century English farmers


Torkjell Berulfsen (born 20 January 1943) is a Norwegian television personality.

He is the son of the linguist Bjarne Berulfsen. He took his education at the University of Oslo, graduating in the English language. He worked at the University College London from 1967 to 1968, and was later an editor of a Norwegian-English dictionary. He started working for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1971, and has presented many television and radio shows. He won Gullruten awards in 2002 and 2007.

References

1943 births
Living people
Norwegian television presenters
NRK people
Norwegian philologists
University of Oslo alumni
People associated with University College London


Netreba was a village in Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939), in Sarny county, gmina Kisorycze, Poland, destroyed by the UPA in July 1943. Many of its residents converted to Roman Catholicism before the onset of the Nazi German and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, which contributed to the 1943 murderous raid by the Ukrainian death squads. The few surviving Netreba refugees built dugouts in the forest where they saved themselves.

The solitary church still standing at the end of the war, was dismantled soon after by the Soviet authorities and the materials used in the construction of pig-stalls in nearby kolhozs (government-run farms).

At present, Netreba is an open field in Rivne Oblast of Ukraine.

 Geographical coordinates: 51° 6' 0" North, 27° 20' 0" East

References

 Baruch Shehori (Schwartzblat) (Haifa),  "The Soviets Occupy Our Town" Translated by Ala Gamulka
 Netreba at Maplandia.com
 Netreba – Ukraine at IndexMundi.com

Villages in Sarny Raion


Death Smiles on a Murderer (; English title sequence: Death Smiles at Murder) is a 1973 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato and starring Ewa Aulin, Klaus Kinski and Luciano Rossi.

Plot

1906. In a crypt-like room, hunchbacked Franz von Holstein mourns over the body of Greta, his young sister and only love. A first flashback shows him sexually assaulting her, after which she expresses her wish to leave this cursed place with him, to live and to be among people. In a second flashback, she teases him into chasing her when she stumbles upon Doctor Herbert von Ravensbrück; they get romantically involved while Franz watches from hiding.

1909. Walter von Ravensbrück (Herbert's son) and his wife Eva are being served tea by butler Simeon when a carriage driving by at high speed is overturned and the coachman fatally impaled. Inside the coach is Greta, unconscious. Inspector Dannick wants to question her, but Walter convinces him otherwise.
Instead, Doctor Sturges is called to check on her. He hears no heartbeat and discovers her gold medallion carrying the inscription "Greta 1906" as well as mysterious symbols, which he recognizes, perturbed.

Getrud, the Ravensbrücks' servant, having recognized Greta, is haunted in her room by Franz von Holstein, who repeatedly vanishes and reappears and cuts her neck open with a scalpel - a wound that bleeds but disappears.

Sturges discovers a scar on Greta's neck on the same spot. He inserts a needle into her right eyeball, causing neither damage nor pain and confirming that Greta is undead. For the coachman's death certificate, he opens the coffin to discover the corpse's rapid decomposition - an indication that he was undead at the time of the crash. Sturges keeps both facts secret.

Gertrud packs her things, leaves, and is chased by Franz's apparition along a path at whose end she is approached by an unseen assailant, who - despite her assertion that she has not told anyone and is leaving for good - murders her.

Meanwhile, Doctor Sturges is working in his underground laboratory. The medallion's symbols contain a formula for the creation of life. Just as Sturges succeeds in bringing one of his corpses to life, he is strangled by an unseen assailant, who also kills the corpse and the doctor's deaf lab assistant.

Walter and Eva both gradually fall in love with Greta. Spying on a love meeting between Walter and Greta, Eva's jealousy escalates. In Walter's absence, she lures Greta into the villa's cellar, where she declares her hate and walls her up alive. She lies to Walter about an unexpected departure of Greta's. Dannick investigates Greta's disappearance, remaining clueless.

A month later, a masquerade ball is held at the villa. In a party game, Eva has to guess the identities of the masked guests. A woman in red whose name she cannot guess puts aside her creepily deformed mask, revealing herself as Greta and vanishing. In disbelief, Eva checks for the body, when the dark cat jumps through the wall opening at her face and runs up the stairs, where Greta appears, smiling. Eva follows her, and Greta's face suddenly turns into that of a rotten corpse. She chases Eva up into the attic, from where she falls to her death, screaming.

Herbert, Walter's father, returns for Eva's funeral. During the ceremony, he catches a glimpse of Greta standing in the distance, which causes him to have a flashback to 1906: Greta dies in childbirth and Franz points his finger at him in accusation.

After Eva's funeral, Herbert stays behind to visit Greta's grave. Greta comes up from behind and reminds him of their baby's prenatal death. When she asks for a kiss, her face again suddenly turns rotten. Herbert, terrified, attempts to escape. He seeks refuge inside a crypt. When the door suddenly shuts tight, Eva's freshly laid corpse slowly gets up and walks towards him.

Walter lies in his bed, falling asleep. The dark cat enters his room, and Walter suddenly notices Greta sitting near his bedside. As she crawls into bed and starts kissing him, her face turns rotten.

In the family granary, Greta lures Simeon out of his hiding place, acknowledging that he did not betray her identity and promising him anything he could wish for: money, or better even, love. She then kills him. As the police are covering up Simeon's body, Walter's body is discovered clutching Greta's medallion.

Inspector Dannick visits Professor Kempte about the medallion's symbols, who explains that the Incans believed they contained a formula which could bring their king back to life. Franz von Holstein, a brilliant former student of his, had worked on deciphering it, but had given up after his sister's death. Kempte gives Dannick Franz's address.

In a final flashback to 1906 and to the room in which the film started, now brightly lit, Franz walks up to Greta, who is dressed in white and holding a bouquet of white flowers. He tells her triumphantly that he brought her back to life and that she is his now, puts the medallion inscribed with the year of her "new creation" around her neck and promises her they will leave and start a new life together. As "proof of love", Greta throws the white flowers at his face. They turn into the dark cat in mid-air, which kills him. Greta, whose dress has magically turned red, giggles and leaves with a smile. Dannick, now entering this room in 1909, discovers Franz's corpse.

At the cemetery, Dannick looks at Greta's photograph on her empty grave, wondering whether he will ever solve the mystery about this woman who he has never even seen. When he returns home, the figure he previously addressed as his wife and which hitherto has been sitting with her back to the viewer turns around. It is an aged Greta smiling at Dannick, who reacts to seeing her, perhaps recognizing her face as Greta's.

Cast
Source:
 Ewa Aulin as Greta von Holstein
 Klaus Kinski as Dr. Sturges
 Angela Bo as Eva von Ravensbrück
 Sergio Doria as Walter von Ravensbrück
 Attilio Dottesio as Inspector Dannick
 Marco Mariani as Simeon, the butler
 Luciano Rossi as Franz, Greta's Brother
 Giacomo Rossi-Stuart as Dr. Herbert von Ravensbrück, Walter's Father
 Fernando Cerulli as Professor Kempte (as Franco Cerulli)

Credited, but not in the picture:
  Carla Mancini

Uncredited:
 Evelyn Melcherich as Gertrud, the Maid
 Pietro Torrisi as Dr. Sturges' Assistant
 Tony Askin as Reanimated Corpse
 Giorgio Dolfin as Maier
 Oscar Sciamanna as Party Guest

Production
Death Smiles on a Murderer was produced by Franco Gaudenzi, whom D'Amato had met through production manager Oscar Santaniello. Their first collaboration led to D'Amato directing Un Bounty Killer a Trinità, one of the several films directed by D'Amato with someone else taking credit. This was the first film D'Amato directed himself in which he used his real name in the credits: Aristide Massaccesi. He said in an interview, he signed his own name to the film because "I felt encouraged by the budget....and by the presence of two important actors like Ewa Aulin and Klaus Kinski, who were appearing at the time in several Italian films.....Kinski, in spite of everything, is an excellent professional actor."

The film credits the script to D'Amato, Romano Scandariato and Claudio Bernabei; the latter was said to just be a typist by Scandariato. The story is credited to D'Amato, which Scandariato said was "more or less one page." Scandariato stated the film was originally written with more suspense and as more of a giallo, but this was changed out of necessity. D'Amato later claimed he wrote the screenplay entirely on his own, saying in an interview "I'm afraid it's a very imperfect film.....but this is due to the fact that I wrote the script on my own. When you don't work with someone else....it's much harder to come up with a good product.....and I really was inexperienced as far as screenwriting goes" The script takes several elements from works of Gothic fiction. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla similarly contains a carriage accident that introduces the female character to the household, and there is also a cat connection in that, similarly to Carmilla in Laura's nightmares, Greta either shapeshifts into or controls a cat. In Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Black Cat, a woman is walled in alive and a cat is found inside upon reopening, just like Greta is walled in by Eva and a cat emerges when Eva tears down the wall to check. In another one of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, The Masque of the Red Death, the Red Death enters Prospero's masquerade ball in a blood-spattered robe and a mask resembling that of the corpses that died from the plague, Greta enters the masked ball of the von Ravensbrücks clad in red and wearing a corpse-like mask.

The film was given a low budget of 150 million Italian lire. Death Smiles on a Murderer was shot between November and December 1972 with a working title of 7 strani cadaveri (). Some scenes were not in the script and were improvised on set. These include a scene in which Luciano Rossi is attacked by a cat, which D'Amato achieved by throwing the cat against Rossi's face.

Release
Death Smiles on a Murderer was released in Italy on 11 July 1973. Film historian Roberto Curti referred to this box office as "scarce business" noting its unimportant distributor Florida Cinematografica. In Italy, the film grossed a total of 70,990,000 Italian lire. It was released in the United States as Death Smiles on a Murderer and Death Smiles at Murder.

A blu-ray of the film was released on 21 May 2018 by Arrow Video in a "2k restoration from the original camera negative", containing English and Italian audio, a commentary track by film historian Tim Lucas and the original English and Italian trailers.

Reception
In Matthew Edwards' book on Klaus Kinski published in 2016, the film, called "trippy, but fascinating", is compared to Jess Franco's Venus in Furs in that its "existential, haunting and dreamlike qualities do nothing to detract from the enjoyment of what takes place on screen".

References

Footnotes

Sources

External links

Death Smiles on a Murderer at Variety Distribution

1973 films
1973 horror films
Italian horror films
Films directed by Joe D'Amato
Gothic horror films
Films set in 1909
Films set in 1906
Films scored by Berto Pisano
Giallo films
1970s ghost films
Italian ghost films
Italian serial killer films
1970s Italian-language films
1970s Italian films
Italian slasher films
1970s slasher films


Immigrants (Hungarian title: Immigrants - Jóska menni Amerika) is a 2008 adult animated comedy film directed by Gábor Csupó. It is also known as L.A. Dolce Vita or Immigrants: L.A. Dolce Vita. It is the fifth and (to date) final feature-length film from the studio Klasky Csupo, and the first and only feature-length animated movie that was directed by Csupo.

The characters and story line in this film were the basis for a new animated series for Spike TV, which was scheduled to debut in August 2004. However, despite scheduling a two-hour marathon for the series premiere and ordering an additional six episodes, the series never aired due to the decline of animation programming on Spike TV. It was later compiled into a film and released on October 30, 2008, in Hungary. The film was also going to be released by Paramount Pictures, but they declined the offer after parent company Viacom's contract with Klasky Csupo expired in 2007.

In America, the film was released on Region 1 DVD in 2009 by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.

Plot
Jóska, a Hungarian immigrant in Los Angeles, shares an apartment with Vladislav, a Russian immigrant. In their quest for the "American Dream", they encounter all kinds of troubles, wild adventures and comical situations. The pair are routinely saved by their big hearts and loyalty to each other in this unlikely tale of friendship in a foreign country.

Characters
 Vladislav is a Russian immigrant who has a teenage daughter, Anya. He desperately seeks to land a job to support his daughter and Jóska, he occasionally lets out a jolly-like laugh whenever he's happy.
 Jóska is a Hungarian immigrant and is a roommate of Vladislav. Unlike his friend, he is somewhat familiar with US culture, he occasionally whistles a happy tune.
 Anya is Vladislav's daughter who tries to fit in as a normal teenager such as getting a tattoo.
 Flaco is Vladislav and Jóska's Hispanic friend who lives with his wife.
 Nazam is the Pakistani immigrant father of four daughters (who all wear hijabs in public) and his only son who works as a celebrity bus driver for tourists.
 Rashid is a Pakistani teenager who lives with his father Nazam, he is also a brother to four sisters and friend of Anya and Min.
 Chea is Min's father who owns a Chinese restaurant where everything costs one-dollar.
 Min is Chea's Chinese daughter, and Anya's friend, who works in her father's restaurant.
 Splits is a black African neighbor of Jóska and Vladislav. He routinely informs anyone who will listen that he had sex with a thousand women.
 Greta Night is the old landlady of the foreign occupants. She is attracted to Vladislav and occasionally offers to marry him to extend his stay in America (while also offering to "jumpstart his sex life"). She also threatens to call immigration whenever her residents do anything of which she disapproves.

Voice cast

Hungarian Original Version

Cast
 Ferenc Hujber as Joska
 Győző Szabó as Vlad
 Szonja Oroszlán as Anya
 Titanilla Bogdányi as Min Chea
 Gábor Reviczky as Splits Jackson
 Imre Józsa as Mr. Chea
 Zolee Ganxsta as Flaco
 József Kerekes as Nazam Kazmi
 Levente Molnár as Rashid Kazmi
 Judit Hernádi as Greta Knight

Supporting cast
 Sándor Fábry as Businessman
 Zsóka Kapocs as Christina Aguilera
 Ferenc Rákóczi as Hentes (Butcher)
 Aranka Halász as Madame Loo
 István Szellő as TV Reporter
 András Both as Doorman
 István Kovács as Doorman Trainer
 Péter Kálloy-Molnár as Glutco Manager
 Jozsef Lang as Sam
 Iván Kamarás as Bar Owner

English Dubbed Version

Cast
 Hank Azaria as Joska
 Eric McCormack as Vlad
 Milana Vayntrub as Anya
 Lauren Tom as Min Chea
 Carl Lumbly as Splits Jackson
 Freddy Rodriguez as Flaco
 Ahmed Ahmed as Nazam Kazmi
 Vik Sahay as Rashid Kazmi
 Patti Deutsch as Greta Knight

Supporting cast
 Quinton Flynn as TV Reporter, Hermaphrodite, Glutco Manager, Businessman
 Karen Maruyama as Madame Loo
 Laraine Newman as Lady #2, Nurse
 Christina Pickles as Harriet
 Freddy Rodriguez as Crutches Guy
 Tom Kenny as Craig, Courier
 Dan Castellaneta as Bar Owner
 Ed O'Ross as Officer Kaufman
 Natalija Nogulich as Angry Tenant
 Takayo Fischer as Japanese Woman
 Ahmed Ahmed as Monk
 Jack Angel as Longshoreman
 Scott Menville as Diseased Guy, Frat Boy
 Vik Sahay as Band Leader, Cheesy Guy
 Will Shin as Gangbanger
 Erv Immerman as Mr. Witte
 Lynne Maclean as Mrs. Richie
 Mick Murray as Charlie
 Dave Walsh as Mouqard
 Stacey Ferguson as Christina Aguilera, Skinny Woman
 Bret Csupo as Woman 1-2
 Jen Alexander as Gloureus Woman
 Nick Dickinson as Tattoo Guy
 Jeremy Ratchford as Tattoo Artist
 Marc Jordan as Detective
 Tema Bonita as Exotic Lady
 Mark DeCarlo as Butcher
 James Harmon as Mr. Lowham
 Diane Michelle as Ms. Lowham, Binkie Lady
 Jeff Bennett as Health Inspector
 Michael J. Gough as Counter Clerk
 Andre Ware as Customer, Bus Rider #2
 Rodney Saulsberry as Paramedic
 Lauren Tom as Lady #1
 Marabina Jaimes as Lady #3
 Jim Ward as Doctor, Bus Rider #3
 Hope Levy as Bus Rider #1
 Courtenay Taylor as Sexy Nurse
 Candi Milo as Waitress, Teen Girl #1
 Gregg Berger as Sam
 Rino Romano as Yoga Teacher
 Kimberly Brooks as Teen Girl #2
 Kevin Michael Richardson as Doorman
 Mikey Kelley as DJ
 Dee Bradley Baker as Steve The Pig
 Dorie Burton as Ms. Binkie, Redless Club
 Vaikette Hoffman as Blind Club
 Tasia Valenza as Coffee Cashier
 Cristina Pucelli as Valley Girl
 Rene Auberjonois as Doorman Trainer
 Hank Azaria as Sylvester
 Frank Welker as Indian General
 Lambardo Boyar as Dishwasher, Alto
 Jesse Corti as Bass

References

External links

Official site

2008 films
2008 animated films
2000s American animated films
American adult animated films
American animated comedy films
2000s English-language films
Films directed by Gábor Csupó
Hungarian animated films
2000s Hungarian-language films
Klasky Csupo animated films
Animated films set in Los Angeles


Jackson A. Todd (born November 20, 1951) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He represented the United States at the 1971 Pan American Games, where he won a silver medal.

College career
Todd was originally drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the eleventh round of the 1970 Major League Baseball draft out of Will Rogers High School, but did not sign with the team. Instead, he opted to play college baseball at the University of Oklahoma. During his time as a member of the Oklahoma Sooners baseball team of the now defunct Big Eight Conference, he was named to the All-Conference second team as a freshman (), and the All-Conference first team his sophomore and junior years. In  & , Todd was also a third team All-American. Todd pitched thirteen complete games during the 1973 season, a university record which still stands today. During the 1972 College World Series, Todd pitched fourteen innings in two games without allowing an earned run. After three seasons at Oklahoma, Todd was selected in the second round of the 1973 Major League Baseball draft by the New York Mets, and decided to forgo a senior season at Oklahoma.

New York Mets
After two seasons in the Mets' farm system, Todd was diagnosed with cancer. The tumor and lymph nodes were removed from his lower stomach, followed by chemotherapy, which caused him to lose his hair, and his weight dropped from 195 lbs. to 168. Against all odds, Todd recovered in time to join the double A Jackson Mets midway through the  season, and went 3–4 with a 3.17 earned run average.

In , Todd played for the Tidewater Tides of the International League and pitched in 26 games, going 13–9 with a 2.91 ERA. He played part of the  season in Tidewater, and made his major league debut on May 5, 1977 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, pitching an inning of relief for Tom Seaver and allowing one hit and no runs. He earned his first win in his first start on May 19 against the San Francisco Giants. With two outs in the eighth inning, Todd lost a shutout (it would have been his only career shutout). He also collected his only career hit in seventeen career at bats against Ed Halicki. For the season, he went 3–6 with a 4.77 ERA in nineteen appearances, ten starts.

Toronto Blue Jays
During Spring training , Todd was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for minor league infielder Ed Cuervo. He spent the season playing for his home town minor league team, Oklahoma City 89ers, where he went 3–4 with a 4.61 ERA. He was released by the Phillies at the start of the  season, and signed on with the Toronto Blue Jays shortly afterward.

Todd spent the first half of the 1979 season with the Syracuse Chiefs, where he went 9–4 with a 3.34 ERA. An injury to starting pitcher Jim Clancy opened a door for Todd to receive a call to the majors in August. Despite getting hit hard by the Kansas City Royals in his first appearance, he made his only start of the season five days later in the first game of a doubleheader with the Chicago White Sox. He allowed five earned runs in seven plus innings to take the loss. From there, Todd was relegated to "mop up duty," making ten more appearances, all in losses.

Todd's  season mirrored his 1979 season in that he began the season in Syracuse, and joined the Blue Jays in August, but the similarities end there. He was immediately inserted into the starting rotation. He ended up with a no decision in both of his first two starts, despite handing the game over to the bullpen with a lead in both cases. In his third start, he earned a complete game victory over the Minnesota Twins. For the season, he made twelve starts, and went 5–2 with a career best 3.96 ERA. Despite this moderate success, he was demoted to Syracuse, where he spent the  season.

Career stats

Todd played for the Houston Astros' Pacific Coast League affiliate, the Tucson Toros in . After taking the  season off, he split the  season between the Chicago White Sox's and Baltimore Orioles' farm system, but did not see any more major league action. Shortly afterwards, Todd had started his coaching career, as pitching coach with the triple A Denver Zephyrs. In , he moved over to the Texas Rangers organization. After a year with the Class A Gastonia Rangers, he went up to the double A Tulsa Drillers in . After also spending time with the Milwaukee Brewers and San Diego Padres organizations, Todd went back to the University of Oklahoma in  as their pitching coach.

References

External links

Jackson Todd at Ultimate Mets Database

1951 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Baseball players at the 1971 Pan American Games
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Charlotte O's players
Jackson Mets players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Memphis Blues players
New York Mets players
Oklahoma City 89ers players
Oklahoma Sooners baseball players
Orlando Juice players
Pan American Games medalists in baseball
Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
Baseball players from Tulsa, Oklahoma
St. Lucie Legends players
Syracuse Chiefs players
Tidewater Tides players
Toronto Blue Jays players
Tucson Toros players
Victoria Toros players
Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games
Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks players
Will Rogers High School alumni


In medicine, infusion therapy deals with all aspects of fluid and medication infusion, via intravenous or subcutaneous application. A special infusion pump can be used for this purpose.

A fenestrated catheter is frequently inserted into the localized area to be treated.

There are a range of delivery methods for infusion of drugs via catheter:
Electronic Pump: Drugs are often pre-mixed from vials and stored in infusion bags to be delivered by electronic pump.
Elastomeric pump
Pre-Filled Infusion Therapy: with this latest technology, a unit dose can be metered to the location from a pre-filled container.

Infusion therapy has a range of medical applications including sedation, anesthesia, post-operative analgesic pain management, chemotherapy, and treatment of infectious diseases

Advantages of infusion therapy over other non-site-specific delivery methodologies are primarily efficacy through precision of medication delivery.

New standards for infusible pharmaceuticals have been achieved in recent years with the advent of pre-filled, ready-to-use, dose-specific products. Advanced aseptic presentation, with hermetically sealed containers, allows predictable sterility, ease of use, improved control, and lower total costs. Essentially, systematizing the delivery mechanism and standardizing the delivery container.

Treatments
Infusion therapy involves the administration of medication through a needle or catheter. Typically, "infusion therapy" means that a drug is administered intravenously or subcutaneously. The term may pertain where drugs are provided through other non-oral routes of administration, such as intramuscular injection and epidural administration (into the membranes surrounding the spinal cord).

Until the 1980s, patients receiving infusion therapy often had to remain in an inpatient setting for the duration of their therapy. New technologies and heightened emphasis on cost containment in health care, as well as developments in the clinical administration of the therapy, led to strategies to administer infusion therapy in alternate settings (at clinics and at home) in an effort to reduce hospital readmissions.

See also

 Intravenous therapy

References

Routes of administration


Daniel Mitchley (born 7 October 1989) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Skelmersdale United.

Career

From youth team to first team at Blackpool
Born in Liverpool, Mitchley played at Skelmersdale United until he was 15 years old. He then spent one season with the Oldham Athletic Centre of Excellence, followed by a short spell with Wigan Athletic's Centre of Excellence, before joining Blackpool, where he became a regular starter for the youth team in the Football League Youth Alliance, North West Conference.

By December 2007 Mitchley had scored 25 goals in just twelve matches for Blackpool's youth and reserve teams, and despite only just having turned eighteen, Blackpool manager Simon Grayson stated that he was "not frightened of throwing him into the action if I need to." Mitchley had been training with the first-team squad and had already travelled with them when he was included in the squad that went to Scunthorpe United. Grayson also confirmed that Mitchley would be training with the first team over the Christmas period and that he was close to a first team call up. By February 2008, Mitchley had scored 35 goals for the youth and reserve team in the 2007–08 season. However, he then suffered a broken foot, which kept him out of action for the rest of the season.

On 4 March 2008 Mitchley was offered his first professional contract, together with youth-team captain, Ashton Bayliss. On 6 May he won two awards at the club's annual presentation night: the Blackpool Supporters Association Young Player of the Year, and the Chris Muir Memorial Trophy for Young Player.

He made his return from injury on 15 October 2008 in a reserve-team match at Burnley. He was then included in the Blackpool squad for the first time in the Championship home match against Derby County on 21 October 2008, but was an unused substitute as the Seasiders won 3–2. Four days later, he made his professional debut when he came on as a late second-half substitute in the 89th minute for Gary Taylor-Fletcher at Bloomfield Road in a 2–2 draw with Crystal Palace.

Mitchley started the 2009–10 season with Blackpool and was twice an unused substitute. Firstly in the Seasiders 2–1 League Cup victory over Crewe Alexandra at Gresty Road on 11 August 2009. Then again on 15 August in a 1–1 draw with Cardiff City at Bloomfield Road. Mitchley spent most spells of 2009 and 2010 on loan at various lower league clubs. He was released by Blackpool in June 2010.

Loan moves whilst at Blackpool
On 27 March 2009, Mitchley signed for Conference North side Southport on loan for the rest of the 2008–09 season. He made his debut as a substitute the following day in the Sandgrounders 3–2 win over Stafford Rangers at Haig Avenue. He made a total of seven league appearances for Southport.

On 18 August 2009 he was loaned out to Northern Premier League side Burscough, along with fellow Blackpool player Mark Halstead. He made his debut on 22 August in a 0–4 home defeat to King's Lynn at Victoria Park. After two more substitute appearances, Mitchley made his full debut on 15 September in a 0–1 home loss to Stocksbridge Park Steels.

On 25 March 2010, Mitchley joined Conference National side Wrexham on a one-month loan deal. He made his debut two days later in a 3–0 win over Histon at the Racecourse Ground.

Non-league
On 27 October 2010, Burscough announced that they have captured the signing of Mitchley. He had a trial with Mansfield Town prior to him re-joining Burscough. He began his second stint at Burscough with a 3–2 defeat against FC Halifax Town.

Mitchley signed for Mansfield Town in November 2010 and scored on his debut against Forest Green Rovers, however was on the losing side, going down 2–1. He was originally released by Mansfield in May 2011, with still a year left on his contract, however he returned in the pre-season. Mansfield boss Paul Cox stated that Mitchley did not feature in his plans for 2011–12.

He joined Nuneaton Town on loan, and after scoring twice on his debut in the FA Cup, he failed to score again in 18 league appearances. He signed for Altrincham in the summer of 2012. Having struggled to break into the first team at Altrincham with only a handful of first team appearances, he went out on a 1-month loan spell to Marine. After returning to Altrincham, he had a second loan spell, this time at Kendal Town, where he scored on his debut.

Leaving Marine after four seasons, Mitchley moved to Radcliffe FC in the summer 2019. On 20 December 2019, he was loaned out to Witton Albion for one month. The deal was later extended for one mont further and he returned to Radcliffe on 20 February 2020.

In August 2020, he re-signed for Skelmersdale United of the North West Counties Football League, having spent five years away from the club.

Career statistics

Honours
Blackpool
Football League Championship play-off winner (1): 2009–10
Mansfield Town
FA Trophy runner up (1): 2011
Challenge Cup winner 1): 2015-16

References

External links

Danny Mitchley profile at blackpoolfc.co.uk

Living people
1989 births
English men's footballers
Altrincham F.C. players
Blackpool F.C. players
English Football League players
Southport F.C. players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
Mansfield Town F.C. players
Footballers from Liverpool
Burscough F.C. players
Nuneaton Borough F.C. players
Marine A.F.C. players
Skelmersdale United F.C. players
Kendal Town F.C. players
Radcliffe F.C. players
Witton Albion F.C. players
Men's association football forwards


Nina Bjerkedal (born 24 April 1953) is a Norwegian civil servant.

She graduated as siv.øk. from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1975, worked for a short period as research assistant under Finn Kydland before starting a career in the Ministry of Finance. She is currently deputy under-secretary of State in the Ministry of Finance, being in charge of the Government Pension Fund – Global.

References

1953 births
Living people
Norwegian civil servants
Norwegian School of Economics alumni
20th-century Norwegian economists
21st-century Norwegian economists