"Finding My Way Back Home" is a song written by Chris Stapleton and Craig Wiseman, and recorded American country music artist Lee Ann Womack. It was released as single in August 2006 and was produced by Byron Gallimore. The song would later becoming a charting country single. Despite the single's release, the song did not appear on an official album and Womack would later leave her record label.

Background and content
Lee Ann Womack had several years of country music success in the 2000s with songs like "I Hope You Dance" and "Mendocino County Line." "Finding My Way Back Home" was Womack's first recording with Mercury Records Nashville. She was moved to the label imprint after many years of recording for MCA Records Nashville. According to a statement released by UMG Nashville, Womack was moved to Mercury so that the company could "even out the label rosters." "Finding My Way Back Home" was written by Chris Stapleton and Craig Wiseman. It was produced by Byron Gallimore.

Release and reception
"Finding My Way Back Home" was released as a single via Mercury Records Nashville on August 15, 2006. Upon its release, the song has over one million "audience impressions," according to Billboard. This audience reception prompted the single to debut at number 46 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, her highest-debuting single up to that point.

It spent a total of 14 weeks on the country songs chart and reached number 37 in October 2006. According to another article from Billboard, Womack was expected to release a new album through Mercury Records with the song included. However, the album's release was "tentative" was put on hold until early 2007. In 2007, Womack was moved back to MCA Records Nashville and the although the album was recorded, it was not released.

"Finding My Way Back Home" received mixed reviews from critics. David Cantwell of No Depression called the song's production to evoke an "island groove" that was also "pedal steel guitar-based." Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe called it a "stopgap single."

Track listings
CD single
 "Finding My Way Back Home" (album version) – 3:39
 "Finding My Way Back Home" (radio edit) – 3:33

Digital single
 "Finding My Way Back Home" – 3:43

Charts

References

2006 singles
2006 songs
Lee Ann Womack songs
Mercury Records singles
Song recordings produced by Byron Gallimore
Songs written by Chris Stapleton
Songs written by Craig Wiseman


The Bicha of Balazote is an Iberian sculpture that was found in the borough of Balazote in Albacete province (Castile-La Mancha), Spain. Carlos Fuentes has called it the "Beast of Balazote."   The sculpture has been dated to the 6th century BCE, and has been in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain in Madrid, since 1910.

The Bicha was found at the site of Majuelos not far from the city center. Recent excavations in the Balazote plain revealed a tomb and burial mound where this piece may have originated. Nearby, important mosaics from a Roman villa were also discovered.

Carved of two limestone blocks in the second half of the 6th century BCE, the statue is 93 cm long and 73 cm high. It is a chimeric synthesis of man and a bull. The body is in repose and shows good knowledge of the traits of that animal, with the forelegs bent under the chest and hind legs tucked under the belly. The tail is curved on the left thigh and ends in a tuft of hair. The head is that of a horned, bearded man with bull's ears. Details of the sculpture are similar to archaic Greek hieratic sculpture in that the hair and beard are rendered by straight grooves.

The piece is not carved in entirely in the round; one corner appears to be ashlar and designed to adhere to some place, like the lions of the Mausoleum of Pozo Moro. It may have belonged to a tomb or temple. There is some possibility that it represents a god of fertility, as did the man-headed bull statues used by the Greeks to represent river gods which made the fields fertile. According to A. García and Bellido, the Bicha represents the Greek river god Achelous whose image on Sicilian coins it resembles. "This sculpture is a daughter of the Greeks, and if you will, granddaughter of the Phoenicians and great-granddaughter of Mesopotamia," A. García and Bellido observed in 1931.

See also
Balazote
Oretani

References

 Almagro Gorbea (1982) "Pozo Moro and the Phoenician Influence in the Orientalizing Period of the Iberian Peninsula".
 Benoit, F., (1962) La Biche d'Albacete, Cernunnos substrate and the indigenous. Seminar on history and archeology of Albacete.
 Blazquez, J.M. (1974) Animalist Figures Turdetanas, CSIC.
 Chapa Brunet, Teresa (1981)  El Toro Androcefalo de Balazote: Nueva Puesta a Punto de su Problematica, Al-Basit: Revista de estudios albacetenses, ISSN 0212-8632, No. 10, 1981, pp. 145–158
Heuzey, Léon Alexandre. "Le taureau chaldéen à tête humaine et ses dérivés", Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: Monuments et Mémoires Piot 6
Paris, Pierre. Essai sur l'art et l'industri de l'Espasgne primitif, vol. I 1903: plate 4, reproduced in the survey of "Pre-Roman Antiquities of Spain", American Journal of Archaeology 11.2 (April - June 1907:187); Paris noted that Léon Heuzey remarked on similarities of technique in Achaemenid Persian and Babylonian sculpture.

Limestone statues
Iberian art
Collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
Sculptures in Madrid
Archaeological discoveries in Spain
Sculptures of bovines


Nadakkal is a small village, 2 km from  Kalluvathukkal in Kollam, Kerala, India. It is near National Highway 47.

References

Villages in Kollam district


The Foundation is the first major-label studio album by American country music band Zac Brown Band. It was released on November 18, 2008. Originally slated for release on the Home Grown label and Big Picture Records, the album is distributed by Atlantic Nashville in association with those two labels. The financing for the album was provided by Atlanta, GA entrepreneur Braden Copeland through his investment company Braden Copeland Ventures, LLC. On December 2, 2009, the album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Album. and also earned the band the Grammy Award for Best New Artist on January 31. The album also has been nominated for the 2010 Academy of Country Music Awards "Album of the Year" award. As of September 2015, the album has sold 3.4 million copies in the US. It is the only album to feature Joel Williams, who left the band prior to its release.

Content
The album includes five singles, starting with "Chicken Fried," which the band had previously recorded on its 2005 self-released album Home Grown. One year later, The Lost Trailers released this song as a single on BNA Records, but the label withdrew the single after Brown changed his mind about licensing the song. The Zac Brown Band's rendition became a Number One country hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in December 2008.

Four further singles were released from the album – "Whatever It Is," "Toes," "Highway 20 Ride" and "Free" – the latter three of which were also Number One hits. Additionally, "Different Kind of Fine" also entered the chart as an album cut from unsolicited airplay, where it reached number 55.

Track listing

Personnel
 Zac Brown – acoustic guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
 Jimmy De Martini – fiddle, background vocals
 Greenwood Hart – keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ, accordion
 John Driskell Hopkins – bass guitar, background vocals, second lead vocals on "It's Not OK"
 Brent Mason – electric guitar
 Marcus Petruska – drums, percussion, background vocals
 Gary Prim – keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ
 Joel Williams – electric guitar

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

References

2008 albums
Zac Brown Band albums
Atlantic Records albums
Albums produced by Keith Stegall
Bigger Picture Music Group albums


Quiet War may refer to:

 Laotian Civil War, the proxy war in the Kingdom of Laos between 1953 and 1975
 The Quiet War, a science fiction novel written by Paul McAuley
"The Quiet War" (song), a song by The Used from the 2017 album The Canyon

See also
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, 1997 debut album from Wu-Tang affiliate Killarmy


Te’e Masaniai Jr. is an American Samoan politician and United States military retiree, Vietnam War veteran and Purple Heart recipient.

Masaniai was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa in the 2008 gubernatorial election, as the running mate of gubernatorial candidate Tuika Tuika. The ticket received just 0.51 per cent of the popular vote.

Early life
Masaniai served in the United States Army 1966-1968 and the United States Marines Corps 1968–1972. He served in Vietnam in the Vietnam War in 1966-1967 and 1969–1970.

See also
2008 American Samoa gubernatorial election

References

External links
 Samoa News political advertisement for Tukia for Governor, Nonpartisan candidates

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American Samoan politicians
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
United States Marine Corps personnel of the Vietnam War
United States Army soldiers
United States Marines


Elections in Vermont are authorized under Chapter II of the Vermont State Constitution, articles 43–49, which establishes elections for the state level officers, cabinet, and legislature. Articles 50–53 establish the election of county-level officers.

Elections are regulated under state statute, Title 17. The office of the Vermont Secretary of State has an Elections Division that oversees the execution of elections under state law.

According to a ranking by the Electoral Integrity Project in 2018,  Vermont ranked first among U.S. states in terms of electoral integrity. It scored 83 out of 100, its highest score being in the electoral procedures and results section (93) and lowest in the voter registration section (70).

In a 2020 study, Vermont was ranked as the 9th easiest state for citizens to vote in.

Administration

The U.S. state of Vermont holds its state general elections on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November (better known as Election Day) in even-numbered years. As a result of this, general elections in Vermont systematically coincide with the biennial Elections in the United States.

Vermont has 150 seats in its House of Representatives, and 30 seats in its Senate.

An apparent election loser, behind by 2% or less of the total votes cast, may request a recount.

Immediately after an election, the poll officers in each town or city tally the ballots and municipal clerks report totals to the Vermont Secretary of State and the respective county clerk. County clerks would be involved in official recounts under the jurisdiction of the Superior Court.

Individuals may hold two or more sub-county-level offices concurrently should they win election to such. Countywide, legislature and higher officeholders may hold no more than one concurrent municipal-level office.

Election cycle
During November general elections in Vermont, elections are held for the positions of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general, auditor of accounts, state senator, state representative, state's attorney, assistant judge, probate judge, sheriff, high bailiff and justice of the peace, as well as occasional ballot questions and referendums. Officials elected to these offices are elected for a term of two or four years.

Parties internally reorganize every two years by holding state, county, and town committee elections during odd-numbered off-years.

State level
Vermont's governor, lieutenant governor, and other statewide executive officials are elected at-large. Two or three state senators are elected per county . One or two state representatives are elected per district.

County level

Countywide officials, including state's attorneys, judges, and sheriffs, are elected at-large per county every four years, and 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, or 15 county-level justices are elected per town, determined by population, or 15 per city.

Municipal level
Mayors, deputy or assistant mayors, city councilors, ward clerks, and inspectors of elections are elected on 2- or 3-year cycles by city, of which Vermont has 8. For towns and villages, municipal-level officials, including town clerks, town managers, moderators, selectboard members, town auditors, listers, grand jurors, constables, bailiffs, and trustees, are elected separately during town meetings on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March.

Criteria for election

Vermont's Constitution requires that a gubernatorial or other statewide candidate achieve a majority of the popular vote (i.e. more than 50%) in order to be elected. If a candidate does not receive a majority of the vote, the General Assembly (state legislature) chooses from the three candidates who received the most votes. This has happened twenty times in Vermont history. Twice in the 18th century, fourteen times in the 19th century, three times in the 20th century, and once in the 21st century.

Primaries
Both the Vermont secretary of state and the chairperson of the state committee of each major party certifies primary elections under Vermont Statutes, Title 17, Chapter 51, article 2592.

Currently^, the Democratic, Progressive, Liberty Union, and Republican parties are qualified to hold primary elections in the state.

History

Voting patterns
Electorally, Republicans predominated for most of the state's history until the 1960s, even when the rest of the country was voting Democratic. Democrats started to become competitive in the 1970s, and have predominated at the polls since the 1990s. As a result, Vermont has sometimes voted contrarian in national elections. In 1832, Vermont was the only state voting for a presidential candidate from the Anti-Masonic Party. It was only one of two states to vote for William Howard Taft in 1912, and Vermont and Maine were the only states to vote against Franklin D. Roosevelt in all four of his successful presidential campaigns.

In 1955, voters elected Consuelo N. Bailey to be lieutenant governor, the first woman to be elected to that position in the country. Prior to 1915, Vermont held its general election in September. Because it was one of the earliest elections in the nation, it was carefully followed. National politicians campaigned in the state in the summer to influence the turnout, including Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. While the vote was assured for the Republican party at that time, the size of victory was thought by some, before polls, to predict how the national elections might go.

Republicans dominated Vermont elections from the party's founding in 1854 until the mid-1970s. From 1856 to 1988, Vermont voted Republican in every presidential election with only one exception in 1964. Vermont consecutively had Republican governors for over a century until Democrat Phillip Hoff was elected in 1962. Prior to the 1960s, rural interests dominated the legislature.
As in the early 1960s, many progressive Vermont Republicans and newcomers from New York state helped bolster the state's small Democratic Party. However, since 1962, no successive governor has been from the same party as their predecessor.

By 1970, the population of those aged between 18 and 34 increased by half, owing to in-migration. Many of those were hippies or had a more liberal outlook than existing residents. The state grew from 444,732 in 1970 to 511,456 in 1980, the largest increase since the Civil War. 59% of this growth was from out of state.

In 1980, Vermont gave independent candidate John B. Anderson 15% of its vote, thereby tipping the state to Republican Ronald Reagan.

Since 1992, Vermont had supported a Democrat for president in every election, and by double-digit margins all but once (in 2000). Republicans have not seriously contested the state since then, and Vermont is now reckoned as part of the "Blue Wall." Vermont gave John Kerry his fourth-largest margin of victory in 2004, behind the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. He won the state's popular vote by 20 percentage points over incumbent George W. Bush, taking 58.9% of the vote. Essex County in the state's northeastern section was the only county to vote for Bush. Vermont still remains the only state that President Bush has not visited. On the other hand, Republican governor Douglas won all counties but Windham in the 2006 election. Vermonters have been ticket-splitters. Underlining how Republican Vermont once was, Donald Trump and George W. Bush are the only Republicans to win the White House without carrying Vermont. The 2020 election, was the first time the state was the most Democratic in the nation.

Recent Elections
Vermont's 2006 state general election was held on November 7, 2006. The state's last state primary election was held on September 12, 2006.

In 2008, the Democrats, in charge of the House, appointed Richard Westman, a Republican, to chair the Transportation Committee. When he resigned in 2009 to accept a post elsewhere, the leadership appointed another Republican, Patrick M. Brennan to that chair.

In 2008, an Associated Press poll found that Vermonters self-described themselves as "liberal" (32%) more often than any other state in the union, behind only the District of Columbia. In 2009, the state had a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+13, tying with Hawaii to be the most Democratic state in the country, exceeded only by the District of Columbia.

In January 2010 nine Vermonters announced they were planning to run for several state offices: governor, lieutenant governor and seven seats in the state Senate on a Vermont secession platform. The candidates did not organize a formal political party organization but are running as individuals under the "Vermont Independence Party" label.

Political parties in Vermont

Political party affiliation was not a factor in Vermont politics from 1778 to 1797. Starting in 1798, leading politicians were members of the Democratic-Republican Party until about 1830. Thereafter, Anti-Masonic Party, National Republican Party, and Whig Party politicians held sway until 1855.

Starting in 1854, the state voted solidly Republican until 1962. Starting in 1963, the governor's office alternated between the Democratic and Republican parties with each election. In 1987, the Democratic Party captured both chambers of the legislature. Since 1987, Vermont House and Senate have each been Democratic for all but two of the eleven terms between then and 2013. For many years, Vermont was a stronghold of the Republican Party.

In the late 1980s, the Progressive Party was formed, and began electing candidates to local and statewide offices. Some candidates ran for office with the nomination of both the Progressive and Democratic Parties, although this was sometimes avoided for fear of the Progressives getting simply absorbed into the larger Democratic Party. With the exception of the more conservative and rural Northeast Kingdom, Rutland County, and Bennington County, the Progressive and Democratic Parties have become the two dominant political forces, with the Republican Party being relegated to third ever since its loss in popularity in the state since the 1980s onward. The success of the party led to it becoming the most successful third party in any US state, and secured Vermont as a multi-party political environment.

Other contemporary parties operating in Vermont include the Liberty Union Party (1970), Libertarian Party (1972), and Green Mountain Party (2015).

Political parties
Vermont law requires political parties to reorganize in every odd-numbered year by electing members at town caucuses and then sending representatives to county committees, which send representatives to the state committee meeting. Statute exempts minor parties from holding county meetings. The Vermont Secretary of State maintains a list of designated major and minor parties.

Major political parties in Vermont
Democratic
Progressive
Republican

Minor political parties in Vermont
Liberty Union
Libertarian
Green Mountain Party

The Vermont Progressive Party is a progressive, liberal, populist, left-wing political party that currently holds 6 seats in the Vermont legislature^. Since 1990, it has run candidates for numerous state and local elections. Progressives Peter Clavelle and Bob Kiss were mayors of the largest city, Burlington from 1989–1993, 1995–2006, and 2006–2012, respectively. It formed as a coalition closely associated with then Burlington mayor Bernie Sanders in the late 1980s and has had official recognition as a major political party by the state government since 1999.

As of 2013, the Vermont Libertarian Party had two elected municipal officials.

In 2010 the Liberty Union Party, a long-time Vermont democratic socialist party, fielded nine candidates in statewide elections.

Federal officials
Vermont is one of only three states represented by a member of the United States Congress who does not currently associate with a political party: Senator Bernie Sanders describes himself as a socialist and progressive, but caucuses with the Democrats in the selection of the Senate leadership. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Sanders often votes with the Democratic Party, but maintains his status as an independent in Congress. He is the only member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in the Senate and was its first chair from 1991 to 1999. He is heavily supported during campaigns in his home state by the Progressive Party and the Democratic Party, though Sanders declines both parties' official nomination.

Peter Welch is the state's Democratic senator since 2023.

Becca Balint has represented Vermont in the House since 2023, replacing Peter Welch.

See also

Government of Vermont
Politics of Vermont
Voter's oath
Elections in the United States
Political party strength in Vermont

Gubernatorial elections by year:
Vermont gubernatorial election, 2000
Vermont gubernatorial election, 2004
Vermont gubernatorial election, 2006
Vermont gubernatorial election, 2008
Vermont gubernatorial election, 2010
Vermont gubernatorial election, 2012
Vermont gubernatorial election, 2016
US House of Representatives elections by year:
United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, 2000
United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, 2006
United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, 2008
United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, 2010
United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, 2012
United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, 2014
United States House of Representatives election in Vermont, 2016
US Senate elections by year:
United States Senate election in Vermont, 2004
United States Senate election in Vermont, 2006
United States Senate election in Vermont, 2010
United States Senate election in Vermont, 2012
United States Senate election in Vermont, 2016
Other Vermont elections by year:
Vermont elections, 2006
Vermont elections, 2008
Vermont elections, 2010
Vermont elections, 2012
Vermont elections, 2014
Vermont elections, 2016
 United States presidential elections in Vermont
Presidential elections by year:
United States presidential election in Vermont, 2000
United States presidential election in Vermont, 2004
United States presidential election in Vermont, 2008
United States presidential election in Vermont, 2012
United States presidential election in Vermont, 2016

References

Notes

External reference
Elections Division at the Vermont Secretary of State official website
Vermont Election Information and Resources

  (State affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters)

Government of Vermont
Political events in Vermont


Drillham is a rural town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Drillham had a population of 126 people.

Geography
The town is on the Darling Downs and on the Warrego Highway,   north west of the state capital, Brisbane.

History
The town was established in 1878 to service the railway and was home to a camp for workers building the bridge over nearby Drillham Creek. Drillham Post Office opened by June 1910 (a receiving office had been open from 1895). The town and the creek were originally known as 'Delerium' due to the typhoid fever that struck this camp.

Drillham Provisional School opened on 28 Aug 1899, becoming Drillham State School on 1 January 1909.

At the  Drillham and the surrounding area had a population of 217.

In the  Drillham had a population of 126 people.

1893 Drillham Creek tragedy
Four children from the same family died on 15 January 1893 when they were all accidentally drowned in Drillham Creek. Matilda Roehrig (aged 14), Isabella Roehrig (aged 12), Charles Roehrig (aged 11) and Jane Roehrig (aged 8) were the children of railway lengthsman Charles Roehrig and his wife Matilda.  The news of the children's deaths was widely reported in newspapers around Australia. The site where the children's bodies were buried is located alongside the creek beside the Warrego Highway and is marked with a small monument with a commemorative plaque which was unveiled by the Miles and District Historical Society on 23 July 1966.

Economy
Drillham is a centre for the production of livestock and grains.

Education
Drillham State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 13 Jardine Street (). In 2016, the school had an enrolment of 29 students with 3 teachers (2 equivalent full-time) and 4 non-teaching staff (2 equivalent full-time). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 33 students with 4 teachers (3 full-time equivalent) and 5 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent).

There is no secondary school in Drillham. The nearest secondary school is Miles State High School in neighbouring Miles to the east.

References

External links

Towns in Queensland
Populated places established in 1878
Towns in the Darling Downs
1878 establishments in Australia
Western Downs Region
Localities in Queensland


Marquis Lì of Cai (蔡厲侯) (died 863 BC), ancestral name Ji (姬), given name unknown, was the fifth ruler of the State of Cai.  He was the only known son of Marquis Gōng of Cai. He was succeeded by his son.

References
Shiji
Chinese Wikipedia

9th-century BC Chinese monarchs
Zhou dynasty nobility
Cai (state)
863 BC deaths
Year of birth unknown


Bonnie Doon is a former railway station in Bonnie Doon, Victoria, Australia. The tracks have been removed, but some structures remain at the site of the former station.

References

External links
Victorian Railway Stations - Bonnie Doon

Railway stations in Australia opened in 1891
Railway stations closed in 1978
Disused railway stations in Victoria (state)
Mansfield railway line
Railway stations in Australia closed in the 20th century


Egypt–Germany relations are the foreign relations between Egypt and Germany. The diplomatic relations between Egypt and Germany began in December 1957.

History

Egypt severed diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany on 4 September 1939, one day after the British declaration of war on Germany. German nationals in Egypt were interned and their property and businesses put in the care of a "Public Custodian for Enemy Assets". In April 1941, King Farouk sent a secret note to the German leader, Adolf Hitler, "looking forward to seeing German troops victorious in Egypt as soon as possible and as liberators from the intolerably brutal English yoke". In his reply, Hitler expressed a desire for the "independence of Egypt". On 26 February 1945, towards the end of World War II, Egypt formally declared war on Germany.

In December, 1953, the diplomatic relations between Egypt and Germany started the first technical cooperation projects including the projects of professional habilitation, laying studies of the crude iron and other metallic prospections.

Diplomatic missions
Egypt has an embassy in Berlin, as well as consulates in Frankfurt and Hamburg. Germany has an embassy in Cairo and a consulate in Alexandria.

Economic relations
Egypt ranked third among the Arab countries trading with Germany. The German exports to Egypt totalled 2.1 billion euro in 2007. Whilst exports to Germany totalled 804 million euro.
The German investments in Egypt are concentrated in the fields of small and medium-scale industries, information technology, car assembling, energy and land reclamation. In July 2005, Egypt and Germany signed an agreement on encouraging and protecting investments.

Tourism
Egypt is one of the most important destinations for German tourists. In 2007, German visitors to Egypt numbered over one million (1,086,000), making Germans the second-largest group of tourists after the Russians.  The Egyptian Government reports continuing growth of German tourists and estimates the possibility of reaching high levels of German tourists' inflow to hit 1.2 million.

German airline Lufthansa is one of the oldest foreign airlines to operate flights from Europe to Egypt. The airline has said "These flights are serving businessmen and tourists, thus making Lufthansa a key tool boosting the bilateral economic ties between Egypt and Germany". In addition, the airline now has code-share arrangements with EgyptAir boosting travel between the nations.

Cultural
In 1873, the Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule (German evangelic school) was established in Cairo.

The Egyptian–German cultural agreement, signed in 1959, is the major framework which organizes Egyptian–German cultural relations. Egypt and Germany also signed two agreements in 1979 and 1981 on scientific and cultural cooperation between the two countries.

Egyptian–German cultural cooperation is characterized in the following:

 Goethe institute, which successfully plays a leading role in promoting the German cultural activities in Egypt.
 The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), which offers many scholarships to Egyptian professors to study in Germany.
 Mubarak-Kohl project for technical and vocational education.
 The German University in Cairo, which was opened on October 5, 2003.

See also

 Foreign relations of Egypt
 Foreign relations of Germany

Literature
 Mahmoud Kassim: Die diplomatischen Beziehungen Deutschlands zu Ägypten, 1919–1936. LIT Verlag, Münster 2000.

References

External links

Germany
Bilateral relations of Germany


Marquis Gōng of Cai (Cài Gōnghóu 蔡宮侯) (?–?), born as Ji ? (姬?), was the fourth ruler of the State of Cai. He was the only known son of Earl Huang of Cai (蔡伯荒) and close kin of King of Zhou. He was the first in the family to hold the title of the Marquis of Cai (Cai Guohou 蔡国侯) which would be in use until the end of the State of Cai in 447 BC.  He was succeeded by his son.

References
 Shiji

Zhou dynasty nobility
Cai (state)
10th-century BC Chinese monarchs


L'Intransigeant was a French newspaper founded in July 1880 by Henri Rochefort. Initially representing the left-wing opposition, it moved towards the right during the Boulanger affair (Rochefort supported Boulanger) and became a major right-wing newspaper by the 1920s. The newspaper was vehemently anti-Dreyfusard, reflecting Rochefort's positions. In 1906 under the direction of Léon Bailby it reaches a circulation of 400,000 copies. It ceased publication after the French surrender in 1940. After the war it was briefly republished in 1947 under the name L'Intransigeant-Journal de Paris, before merging with Paris-Presse.

References

External links
 Issues of L'intransigeant from 1880 to 1940 viewable on line in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF

1880 establishments in France
1940 disestablishments in France
Newspapers established in 1880
Publications disestablished in 1940
Defunct newspapers published in France


Rajghat may refer to:
Raj Ghat and associated memorials - memorial to Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi
Rajghat, Gorakhpur (U.P.), where Ram Prasad Bismil was cremated in 1927
Rajghat Dam
Rajghat, Kanchanpur, Nepal
Rajghat, Janakpur, Nepal
Rajghat, Kosi, Nepal
 For the 1805 Anglo-Maratha treaty signed at Rajghat see Yashwantrao Holkar


Hungry Tiger Press is an American specialty publisher of books, compact discs, comic books and graphic novels, focused on the works of L. Frank Baum, other authors of Oz books, and related Americana. Hungry Tiger has also published rare, early, long-neglected dramatic and musical adaptations of the Oz works, featuring music by Louis F. Gottschalk, Paul Tietjens, and other composers of the early twentieth century.

Co-founded by David Maxine and Eric Shanower in 1994, the Press is run by Maxine from its Portland headquarters. It has issued first editions and revival editions of a number of works in its genre, including:

 Edward Einhorn's Paradox in Oz (1999) and The Living House of Oz (2005)
 Eloise Jarvis McGraw's The Rundelstone of Oz (2001)
 Jack Snow's Spectral Snow: The Dark Fantasies of Jack Snow (2002)
 Eric Shanower's The Salt Sorcerer of Oz and Other Stories (2002)
 L. Frank Baum's Daughters of Destiny; or, the Girl in the Harem (2005)
 Baum's The Visitors from Oz (2005).
 The Pawprint Adventures, reprinting Baum's pseudonymous young adult novels.

Many of these editions feature Shanower's illustrations. Hungry Tiger also published the annual Oz-story Magazine from 1995 to 2000.

The Press's name and iconography derive from the Hungry Tiger, the character that Baum introduced in his third Oz book, Ozma of Oz. (The introductory section of Oz-story was titled "Fat Babies for Dinner," a reference to the Hungry Tiger's never-satisfied appetite for that diet.)

References

External links
Hungry Tiger Press

Book publishing companies based in California
Publishing companies established in 1994
Companies based in San Diego
1994 establishments in California


Hammersmith Is Out is a 1972 American comedy-drama film based on the legend of Faust. It is directed by Peter Ustinov, who stars in the film alongside Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Beau Bridges.

Plot
Billy Breedlove is an orderly at a Texas psychiatric hospital.  He simultaneously falls under the spell of two people: a blonde waitress at a local diner named Jimmie Jean Jackson and an allegedly sociopathic hospital patient named Hammersmith, who is restrained in a straitjacket within a locked cell.

Hammersmith promises Billy a new life with fame and fortune if he is released from his incarceration. Billy agrees to free Hammersmith, provided that Jimmie Jean can accompany their escape. The three make their way into adventures where Hammersmith murders people and steals property as the means for elevating Billy's social and financial status. Billy becomes the owner of a topless bar, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, an oil tycoon, the financier of political campaigns and a roving ambassador-at-large for the United States.

Over time, Billy comes to loathe Jimmie Jean. However, Hammersmith takes an interest in her and grants her wish that she should become a mother.  Hammersmith arranges for Billy to become disabled in a water skiing accident, and then convinces him to commit suicide. The head of the psychiatric hospital locates Hammersmith and has him returned to his incarceration – where he begins to promise fame and fortune to another orderly.

Cast
 Elizabeth Taylor as Jimmie Jean Jackson
 Richard Burton as Hammersmith
 Peter Ustinov as Doctor
 Beau Bridges as Billy Breedlove
 Leon Ames as Gen. Sam Pembroke
 Leon Askin as Dr. Krodt
 Anthony Holland as Oldham
 George Raft as Guido Scartucci
 John Schuck as Henry Joe

Production
Hammersmith Is Out was the first film financed by John Crean, the founder of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. a producer of recreational vehicles, travel trailers (including fold-down tent trailers) and manufactured housing. Crean told an interviewer that he ventured into the motion picture industry in search of excitement. "Boredom with business led me into movies", he said. "Believe me, there's nothing boring about motion pictures."

On June 27, 1970, Richard Burton wrote in his diary about the script:
It is very wild and formless but  just the kind of thing that I would like to do at the moment. Particularly as it has  a splendid part for E too, and a film for both of us is what we've been looking for a long time. Ustinov is to direct so that should be alright....  It should be wildly funny and fun to do, especially with somebody as congenial as Ustinov and as brilliant, and might be a big commercial success to boot and spur.
The casting of Burton and Taylor was announced in January 1971.

Elizabeth Taylor wanted Robert Redford to play the other male lead, but he turned down the role. Burton watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and wrote in his diary that he felt Redford was "disappointingly ordinary and Newman is much more impressive. It is just as well that he has turned down Hammersmith as he has a quality of dullness and I can see quite easily why he has taken so long to become a star. I think he would have ruined our film simply because he seems so sluggish and certainly doesn't suggest for a second the kind of demonic idiot-ness that Billy Breedlove must have." The following night they watched The Landlord to see Beau Bridges, another candidate for the role. Burton said the actor was "nice and sloppy a la Dustin Hoffman but taller and just as plain. He won't do for our film – he's too young and too undynamic."

In February 1971, Beau Bridges joined the cast.

Ustinov called it "a variation of the Faust legend" where "the story offers a convenient structure for social comment. There are, I'm afraid, people, corporations, that 'kill', so often and so regularly that they transcend the possibility of either suspicion or penalty."

The principal photography was done in May and June 1971. Ustinov admitted before filming he was worried Bridges "might be a bit immature and a little light for the part. But we needn't have worried."

Although the film takes place in the United States, Hammersmith Is Out was shot in Mexico. (The Burtons had a villa near Puerto Vallarta.)  Director Peter Ustinov had previously worked with Burton and Taylor as their co-star in the 1967 drama The Comedians. In directing Burton, Ustinov instructed the actor to convey Hammersmith's sociopathic power by never blinking.

George Raft had a small role.

Release
Hammersmith Is Out opened to positive reviews. Roger Ebert, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, called it "one of the year's best comedies" and "one of the year's best satires." Vincent Canby, reviewing the film for The New York Times, stated the film "is both too elaborate and not quite witty enough to be especially convincing as contemporary morality comedy. However, just when the patience is at the point of exhaustion, when one might leave the theater with a clear conscience, the film comes to fitful life."

Hammersmith Is Out was not commercially successful. The film was released on VHS video in the 1980, but to date it has not been released on DVD.

Awards
 22nd Berlin International Film Festival
 Silver Bear for Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor (won)
 Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution (won)
 Golden Bear (nominated)

See also
 List of American films of 1972

Notes

References

External links

 Review of film at Film Threat
 Review of film at Variety
 Review of film by Roger Ebert

1972 films
1972 comedy-drama films
1970s American films
1970s English-language films
American comedy-drama films
Cinerama Releasing Corporation films
Films directed by Peter Ustinov
Films scored by Dominic Frontiere
Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution


Media Chinese International Limited is a Chinese language media platform targeting Chinese readers in major Chinese communities worldwide headquartered in Hong Kong. Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Hiew King is the chairman. It was formed by the merger of Ming Pao Enterprise (Hong Kong), Sin Chew Media Corporation (Malaysia) and Nanyang Press Holdings (Malaysia) in April 2008. It is the first entity dually listed on the mainboards of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the Bursa Malaysia. Media Chinese's product portfolio comprises 5 daily newspapers in 13 editions and 3 free newspapers with a total daily circulation of about 1 million copies, as well as about 30 magazines. The Group has also expanded its business into digital media. Media Chinese is the proprietor of Life Magazines, the largest Chinese language magazine publisher in Malaysia, and is the major shareholder of One Media Group Limited (listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited; stock code: 426).

Its head office is in the Ming Pao Industrial Centre () in Chai Wan.

Key milestones
1923 - Nanyang Siang Pau was launched in Malaysia
1929 - Sin Chew Daily was launched in Malaysia
1946 - China Press was launched in Malaysia
1959 - Ming Pao Daily News launched in Hong Kong
1968 - Ming Pao Weekly was launched in Hong Kong
1987 - Guang Ming Daily was launched in Malaysia
1988 - Sin Chew Media Corporation taken over by Tiong Hiew King
1989 - Nanyang Press Holdings was listed on the mainboard of Bursa Malaysia
1991 - Ming Pao Enterprise Corporation was listed on the mainboard of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
1993 - Ming Pao Daily News expanded to Vancouver and Toronto
1995 - Ming Pao Enterprise Corporation was taken over by Tiong Hiew King
1997 - Ming Pao Daily News expanded to New York
2000 - Yahoo! took equity stake in mingpao.com
2004 - Ming Pao Daily News expanded to San Francisco
2004 - One Media Group is formed to publish and operate its lifestyle magazines in the Greater China region
2004 - Sin Chew Media Corporation was listed on the mainboard of Bursa Malaysia
2005 - Ming Pao Enterprise Corporation spun off One Media Group; which was successfully listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
2007 - Ming Pao Enterprise Corporation entered into a merger agreement with Sin Chew Media and Nanyang Press Holdings
2008 - Ming Pao Enterprise Corporation completed the merger with Sin Chew Media Corporation and Nanyang Press Holdings to create Media Chinese International
2008 - Media Chinese International was dual listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and Bursa Malaysia
2009 - Ming Pao Daily News New York Edition merged with its free daily to become Ming Pao (NY) Free Daily
2009 - Ming Pao Daily News San Francisco Edition ceased its publication
2009 - Media Chinese established a partnership with IATOPIA.COM in e-publication technologies and content management system
2009 - Media Chinese tapped China's mobile reading market through an investment in ByRead
2015 - LogOn ecommerce marketplace launched in Malaysia.

Vision and business direction

The major corporate value of Media Chinese is "Global Affairs．Chinese Perspective", which is to present a comprehensive yet objective in Chinese perspective on global issues to the Chinese communities around the world. As one of the key global Chinese-language media operators, a four-pronged strategy has been set to achieve the objective of "from local to global" and "from print to multimedia". Firstly, Media Chinese will continue to capture the organic growth in the home markets by further developing and improving the existing products. Secondly, the Group will continue to implement and integrate local operations especially in Malaysia, and to better exploit synergistic benefits by unlocking growth potentials of the existing content assets. Thirdly, the Group will embark on the full capabilities in bringing foreign contents into China and exporting established home-grown contents to other Chinese speaking communities. And fourthly, the Group will actively develop and expand the multimedia content deliveries via non-print channels.

Key publications
Media Chinese has 5 well-established Chinese language newspapers.

Ming Pao (Chinese: 明報)
Launched on 20 May 1959, Ming Pao Daily News reports and analyzes economic, political and social events in the world. Editions are available in Hong Kong, Toronto, Vancouver, New York City and San Francisco. Ming Pao Daily News is one of the most influential and credible newspapers in Hong Kong.

Sin Chew Daily (Chinese: 星洲日報)
Launched on 15 January 1929, Sin Chew Daily ranks the first in terms of circulation and readership in Peninsular Malaysia. It is also the largest Chinese language newspaper in Southeast Asia in terms of circulation.

China Press (Chinese: 中國報)
Launched on 1 February 1946. On 19 May 1990, China Press launched evening paper and it holds the largest market share in evening paper market.

Guang Ming Daily (Chinese: 光明日報)
Launched on 18 December 1987, Guang Ming Daily is a leading Chinese language newspaper in the Northern region of Peninsula Malaysia. In 1994, its circulation network expanded to the whole Malaysia and it ranks the third in terms of circulation and readership in Peninsula Malaysia.

Nanyang Siang Pau (Chinese: 南洋商報)
Launched on 6 September 1923, Nanyang Siang Pau is the one of the oldest Chinese daily in Malaysia. It is also one of the largest Chinese dailies which ranks the fourth in terms of circulation and readership in Peninsular Malaysia.

Other publications
Media Chinese has over 30 magazine titles comprising categories of entertainment and lifestyle, technology, children and automotive.

 Hong Kong publications
Yazhou Zhoukan (Chinese: 亞洲周刊) - published weekly, and is the world's only Chinese language international affairs magazine

Ming Pao Weekly (Chinese: 明報周刊) - published weekly, and is a premium lifestyles and entertainment magazines in Hong Kong

TopGear (HK edition) (Chinese: 極速誌) - magazine mixture of entertainment and car-buying information

 Mainland China publications

Popular Science (Chinese: 科技新時代) - it leads the field of science and technology publish in Mainland China

TopGear (China edition) (Chinese: 汽車測試報告) - showcase for the finest and enthralling automobiles

 Malaysian publications
Bintang Sin Chew (Chinese: 小星星周刊) - is a national full-color children's weekly in Malaysia

Sinaran Sin Chew (Chinese: 星星周刊) - published weekly, is a student publication recommended by the Ministry of Education

Cahaya Sin Chew (Chinese: 學海周刊) - it conducts campaign to encourage secondary school students to take Chinese exams

There are another 21 magazine titles published under the Life Magazines, which is a member of the Nanyang Press Group. They include Feminine (Chinese: 風采), New Tide (Chinese: 新潮), Oriental Cuisine (Chinese: 美味風采), New Icon for Him (Chinese: 時尚男人), Long Life (Chinese: 大家健康), etc.

Other businesses
Ming Pao Publications - specializes in politics, economy, history and literature publications and book series

Ming Man Publications - channel to publish the works of aspiring and talented authors

Charming Holidays & Delta Tour - travel agency in Hong Kong and with business spans across North America

Kin Ming Printing - based in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China

Websites
Media Chinese's product has various online portals across key cities in North America, Southeast Asia and Greater China.
 mingpao.com
 sinchew.com.my
 nanyang.com
 logon.my Online Shopping

See also
 Newspapers of Hong Kong
 Media in Hong Kong

References

External links
 Media Chinese
 Ming Pao
 China Press
 Yazhou Zhoukan
 Sin Chew Daily
 LogOn Online Shopping Malaysia
 Guang Ming Daily
 Nanyang Siang Pau
 Ming Pao Weekly
 TopGear
 Popular Science
 Charming Holidays

Mass media companies established in 2008
2008 establishments in Hong Kong
Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Newspaper companies of Hong Kong
Newspaper companies of Malaysia
Companies listed on Bursa Malaysia
Companies based in Petaling Jaya


Christian H. "Chris" Oberth (died July 16, 2012) was a video game programmer who began writing games for the Apple II in the late 1970s. He also developed handheld electronic games for Milton Bradley, arcade video games for Stern Electronics and other companies, and ported games to home computers and consoles.

Though not a hit in arcades, Oberth's 1982 Anteater, developed for Stern, was an influential concept, cloned multiple times for home computers, including Oil's Well from Sierra On-Line and Diamond Mine. The following year he wrote his own home version as Ardy the Aardvark (Datamost, 1983). He also wrote the twin-stick shooter Rescue (1982)  and maze game Armored Car (1981) for Stern.

Oberth's first commercial games, Phasor Zap (1978) and 3-D Docking Mission (1978) for the Apple II, were published by Programma International, a company which also published games from future arcade game designers Bob Flanagan and Gary Shannon as well as rejecting the first effort from Mark Turmell. His next thirteen Apple II games, in addition to Phasor Zap and 3-D Docking Mission, were published by The Elektrik Keyboard, a musical instrument and computer store in Chicago where Oberth was head of the computer department.

Games

References

Video game programmers
2012 deaths


Kamrul Islam Rabbi (born 10 December 1991) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who has played for Barisal Division from the 2008–09 season. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.

Domestic career
Rabbi made his first-class debut in October 2008 against Sylhet Division. He did not bat in the match, and bowled sixteen overs, taking figures of 3/33. He played for Barisal Burners in the Bangladesh Premier League.

His best first-class bowling figures are 5 for 65 for Barisal Division against Chittagong Division in 2012–13.

In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the Rajshahi Kings team, following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League. He was the leading wicket-taker for Gazi Group Cricketers in the 2018–19 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League tournament, with 17 dismissals in 11 matches. In November 2019, he was selected to play for the Rajshahi Royals in the 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League.

On 8 December 2020, in the 2020–21 Bangabandhu T20 Cup, Rabbi took a hat-trick, bowling for Fortune Barishal against Minister Group Rajshahi.

International career
In November 2015, he was named in the One Day International squad for Bangladesh's series against Zimbabwe.

On 20 October 2016, he made his Test debut against England. In August 2018, he was one of twelve debutants to be selected for a 31-man preliminary squad for Bangladesh ahead of the 2018 Asia Cup. In November 2021, he was named in Bangladesh's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Pakistan

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Bangladeshi cricketers
Bangladesh Test cricketers
Bangladesh East Zone cricketers
Bangladesh South Zone cricketers
Barisal Division cricketers
Comilla Victorians cricketers
Cricket Coaching School cricketers
Victoria Sporting Club cricketers
Rajshahi Royals cricketers
Gazi Group cricketers
People from Patuakhali district


Johnson&Jonson is the debut studio album from American hip hop duo, Johnson&Jonson (Blu and Mainframe). It was released on September 23, 2008 by Tres Records.

Background
The album was originally named Powders & Oils and had 21 tracks instead of 16. The Powders & Oils mix is expected to be officially released sometime in the future, as well as "Kinda' Busty" 12", "Mama Told Me"/"Hold On John" 12", and "The Only Way/"Half A Knot" 12".

Track listing

References

2008 debut albums
Hip hop albums by American artists


Hogging can mean:

 Hogging (sexual practice)
 Hogging and sagging, the stress a ship is put under when it passes over the crest of a wave
 Hogging (UK English), the cutting of a horse's mane so that it is very short, also called "roaching"

See also
 Hog (disambiguation)


HM Prison Featherstone is a Category C men's prison, located in the village of Featherstone (near Wolverhampton), in Staffordshire, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.

History
Featherstone Prison was constructed on property previously owned by the Ministry of Defence.

In the early 1980 inmates of the prison were found to be making forgeries of the work of Bernard Leach.

Brinsford Prison was opened on the same site, adjacent to Featherstone in 1991.

In a 2001 study by the Prison Reform Trust, Featherstone Prison was revealed to have the highest number of drug-using prisoners in the UK. 34% of all inmates in the jail admitted to taking drugs. A year later it was revealed that inmates were brewing their own beer using Marmite, with fruit and vegetables also being used to make alcoholic drinks. However the governor of the day Mike Pasco stated that, while not condoning the practice, he found it preferable to the inmates smuggling hard drugs into the prison.

In 2004, a report by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons stated that the drug problems at Featherstone had  been "turned around", and that the prison "was largely calm and efficient with little bullying". However the report also warned that improvements had not been made without a cost, as the new emphasis on security "pervaded the life" of the prison, creating an "over-controlled" environment.

In 2006 another report by the Chief Inspector criticised Featherstone Prison for its overcrowding and poor environment, "with poorly-managed strip searches and too many prisoners being locked in cells during the day."

In 2007 a government study found that Featherstone Prison had the highest percentage of inmates in the UK testing positive for opiates such as heroin. During the study, prisoners were randomly tested throughout the UK over a three-month period, and 16.7% of the inmates tested at Featherstone had been taking opiates.

The prison today
An adult Category C Closed Training prison, Featherstone Prison has single and double cells. The prison offers education, workshops, Physical Education, Enhanced Thinking Skills programmes, Welfare to Work programmes, a Job Club, community projects and a Listeners Scheme to its prisoners, who are required to work as directed by the Labour Board.

There is a Visitors Centre outside the prison which has toilets, refreshments and children's play area.

Notable former inmates
 Lee Hughes, former West Bromwich Albion striker.

References

External links
 Ministry of Justice pages on Featherstone
 HMP Featherstone - HM Inspectorate of Prisons Reports

Featherstone
Prisons in Staffordshire
Buildings and structures in Wolverhampton
Featherstone


Rottweiler is a 2004 science fiction horror film directed by Brian Yuzna and starring William Miller, Irene Montalà, Paulina Gálvez, and Paul Naschy.

Plot
In the near future (2018), a prisoner named Dante (William Miller) escapes from jail after having been arrested for illegally entering Spain. Forced to kill a prison guard, he is hunted down by the prison's dog, a monstrous Rottweiler police dog that sadistic prison warden Kufard (Paul Naschy) had revived and cybernetically enhanced after a fatal injury. Believing his Spanish girlfriend Ula (Irene Montala) was sent to work as a prostitute in Puerto Angel as punishment, Dante looks for her, but is exhausted by the chase and wounded by the Rottweiler. As a result, he starts having hallucinations and being haunted by the repressed memories of his and Ula's arrest.

While on the run, Dante comes across a small farm owned by a young woman named Alyah who trains a shotgun on him while being accompanied by a little girl. Holding Dante up at gunpoint she coerces him into her house. There, she asks for his identity to which he says his name is Dante. Alyah then ushers him into her bedroom where she strips him naked and asks if he escaped from the prison to which Dante confirms. When she further asks why is he in Kufard's prison, Dante explains that he was on a boat from Rabat but had no papers that would have allowed him to travel from it legally. He tells her that he is not going to hurt her, that he never hurt anybody and that he just needs help while Alyah pulls a knife out of the drawer after setting the shotgun down. Alyah then cleans a wound on the back of Dante's leg.

Now held at knifepoint, Dante goes on to explain that he has to get to Puerto Angel as he needs to find someone. Alyah tells Dante that when her husband comes home it will be bad for him but that she can help him and that she knows someone who can take care of him. Alyah pushes Dante onto the bed and removes her headscarf and unfastens her dress. She says to him that since he is here without papers he does not have much of a future. Alyan pulls off her dress explaining to Dante that if you're pretty people hide you forever from your work. She then climbs on top of him while telling him that you belong to everyone who can pay and that it changes you as you might even like it. Alyah then kisses Dante and they start to make love. When Dante protests saying that he needs her to help him she says that she does not like men and could kill him no problem. She further explains that in Puerto Angel she "was a puta" under the employ of Kufard and that she was stoned most of the time, which is what led her to dislike men. Alyah then says that her daughter, the little girl who was with her, came into her life and she named her Esperanza (after the Spanish word for "hope") as she is her hope.

Esperanza, having seen the Rottweiler, runs to tell Alyah but is told to get out. As Alyah continues to make love to Dante she tells him that one of her regular clients, Santiago, was a priest who had a weakness for her. After sleeping together they never touched each other again and so instead they prayed. While this has been going on Esperanza has seen the Rottweiler kill the farm's dogs. She goes to tell Alyah again but her warnings are once again dismissed. Alyah informs Dante that she always stays on the farm for Esperanza so she will have a place to stay and will not be like her. Esperanza locks the door to keep the Rottweiler from entering then calls for Alyah. Alyah runs into the living room and blasts the Rottweiler with shotgun. However this fails to kill it and it manages to destroy the shotgun when Dante tries to shoot it. The Rottweiler chases the trio through the house and despite Dante's efforts to distract the dog it chases down and kills Alyah when she locks Esperanza in a food storage cellar in the yard.

Dante takes the terrified girl out of the cellar but then the Rottweiler comes after them. However Dante manages to trap it in the cellar but the dog manages to escape. The two then sneak aboard the semi trailer of a truck but the dog pursues them, eventually landing on top of it. The noise attracts the attention of one of the drivers and she is killed when she goes to inspect it. Realizing the danger Esperanza is in as long as he is with her Dante flees the semi trailer with the Rottweiler in tow and the scared but safe Esperanza is found by the other driver. As he reaches Puerto Angel and cannot find her at the brothel, he finally remembers that Ula got killed when Kufard let his dog loose on her, which led Dante to beat the dog to near death with a pipe, who was then turned into a cyborg. Dante brutally kills Kufard after a fierce struggle as the Rottweiler catches up with him, and they fight to the death among the burning remains of Kufard's crashed helicopter. The morning after, firemen find the skeletons of Dante, Ula and the Rottweiler on the beach.

Cast
 William Miller as Dante
 Irene Montalà as Ula
 Paulina Gálvez as Alyah
 Cornell John as Dongoro
 Lluís Homar as Guard Borg
 Paul Naschy as Warden Kufard
 Ivana Baquero as Esperanza

Critical reception
Allmovie called the film "a killer cyborg dog flick that's filled with more sleeping pills than chilling thrills" and "an obvious misstep for Yuzna, whose past successes are fastly fading in time. Do yourself a favor and leave this dog bone of a mess alone – you'll be happy that you did."

References

External links

2004 films
2004 horror films
2004 independent films
2000s English-language films
2000s science fiction horror films
English-language Spanish films
Films about dogs
Films directed by Brian Yuzna
Films shot in Barcelona
Natural horror films
Robot films
Spanish science fiction horror films
Spanish independent films
Spanish splatter films


Oxford International College (OIC) is an independent college based in central Oxford, United Kingdom for girls and boys from 14 to 18 years. The school teaches GCSE and A-Level courses to prepare students for entry into British universities. Many of the school's pupils are from China.

In 2023, it was the number 2 ranking UK boarding school according to the UK A Levels League Table, with 90.1% of students scoring A*/A for their A Levels examination.

References

External links
Oxford International College official website

International schools in England
Private schools in Oxfordshire
Nord Anglia Education


Philipp Tschauner (born 3 November 1985) is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. During his career, he has played for 1. FC Nürnberg, 1860 Munich, FC St. Pauli, Hannover 96, FC Ingolstadt and RB Leipzig. Tschauner has played internationally for Germany nine times at under-20 and once at the under-21 level.

Career

Youth and early in professional football in Nuremberg
After a year in the F-youth of TSV Wendelstein, Tschauner began his career in 1995 with the first 1. FC Nürnberg, where he went through all youth teams. Having already partially helped in the 2003–04 season in goal for the second team of the FCN, he was the third goalkeeper in 2004–05 for the pros and goalkeeper of Bayern League team 1. FC Nuremberg. On 22 October 2005 Tschauner's first game in the Bundesliga was against Arminia Bielefeld.

1860 Munich

In the summer of 2006 he moved to 1860 Munich, where he signed a three-year contract. During the 2006–07 season he served as the Regionalliga Süd U23 Lions goalkeeper, and made five appearances in the second division team of 1860 Munich, where he twice replaced Michael Hofmann, who had been injured.

In preparing for the 2007–08 season, coach Marco Kurz stated Tschauner would be primary goalkeeper before Hofmann. On match day however, Tschauner suffered a partial tear of the cruciate ligament in his left knee, so Hofmann replaced him. After being in goal for the Sechzger, Tschauner played in the role of the substitute goalkeeper for several months. On 27 February 2008, Hofmann was injured in the Cup derby against FC Bayern, with Tschauner then making a comeback. Afterward, he became the first choice for goalkeeper in the league. In March 2008, his contract was extended until 2011.

Tschauner also went into the following season (2008–09) as goalkeeper. But when Uwe Wolf replaced Kurz as coach in February 2009, Tschauner was forced to resign to a secondary role while Hofmann became goalkeeper again. However, Hofmann was again injured after the 30. Gameday, so at the end of the season Tschauner was goalkeeper again.

In the summer of 2009, the 1860 Munich took on Gábor Király and immediately declared him as goalkeeper. Tschauner was again assigned as replacement goalkeeper. During the 2009–10 season he played several times for the second team; he only played on the professional team on the final day. In the following season he sat out for 33 games and only played in the last home game. In total Tschauner sat out for 49 league and cup appearances, and was part of five 1860 games and 40 games for 1860 II.

FC St. Pauli
For the 2011–12 season Tschauner joined FC St. Pauli, where he signed a contract until 2013. There, he became an instant goalkeeper and took part in all 19 league games until in the last game before the winter break—a 2–0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt—he sustained an acromioclavicular injury, which made him unfit to play for several weeks.

On 1 April 2013, during the 27th round of the Bundesliga 2, Tschauner scored in the 90th minute of the 2–2 final against SC Paderborn 07 with a header after a corner kick from midfielder Dennis Daube.

Hannover 96
On 14 May 2015, Tschauner signed a contract with the Bundesliga club Hannover 96.

On 2 January 2019, it was announced that he would join FC Ingolstadt on loan until the end of 2018–19 season.

RB Leipzig
On 30 July 2019, Tschauner joined RB Leipzig on a two-year contract. He retired from playing at the end of the 2021–22 season, after making a symbolic 3-minute appearance in a 4–0 victory against FC Augsburg on 8 May 2022 which became his first and last competitive RB Leipzig game.

International career
Tschauner played ten times for the youth teams of the DFB. In 2004, he was on reserve for the U-19 European Championship. He later played in the U-20 team a total of nine times, and was also part of the German squad at the 2005 World Junior Championships. Tschauner also played as part of the U21 team on 15 August 2006 against the Netherlands.

Career statistics

Honours
RB Leipzig
 DFB-Pokal: 2021–22

References

External links

German men's footballers
1985 births
Living people
1. FC Nürnberg players
TSV 1860 Munich II players
TSV 1860 Munich players
FC St. Pauli players
Hannover 96 players
FC Ingolstadt 04 players
RB Leipzig players
Men's association football goalkeepers
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Regionalliga players
Germany men's under-21 international footballers
Germany men's youth international footballers
People from Schwabach
Footballers from Middle Franconia
West German men's footballers


The nation of Barbados has been a supporter of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).  Barbados was one of the four founding members in 1973 which then along with Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago moved to establish the organization then known as the Caribbean Community and Common Market. This new organization became a successor to the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) of which Barbados was also a member.

Within the CARICOM quasi-cabinet, the Barbadian head of government's responsibility is as the lead Head of Government for the Caribbean Single Market & Economy (CSME) in CARICOM.  The former prime minister of Barbados Owen Arthur strongly lobbied the CARICOM heads to push the organization beyond the goal of a mere Common market and instead transform it into a Caribbean one-Single Market and Economy.

Several organizations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) organization are physically based in Barbados including:

Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA)
Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)
Caribbean Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ)

Barbados also maintains a Cabinet level position to the Caribbean Community.

For its own purposes, the CARICOM organization classifies its members as either More Developed Countries or Less developed countries. Barbados is classified as fitting into the More Developed Country (MDC) range. As such, Barbados is a large stakeholder in the CARICOM Regional Development Fund for other CARICOM member states to borrow.

National accreditation to CARICOM
The seat of Barbadian non-resident accreditation to the other countries of CARICOM is from Bridgetown, and is the same for all members. No members of CARICOM currently maintain resident accreditation to Bridgetown, Barbados. The accreditation to Barbados is the following:

 - from St. John's, Antigua
 - from Nassau, New Providence
 - vacant
 - vacant
 - vacant
 - from Georgetown, Guyana
 - from Kingston, Jamaica
 - from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
 (U.K. overseas territory. Foreign relations is responsibility of the U.K. government.)
 - vacant
 - vacant
 - vacant
 - from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
 - from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Immigration
In recognition of the CARICOM (Free Movement) Skilled Persons Act which came into effect in July 1997 in some of the CARICOM countries such as Barbados and which has been adopted in other CARICOM countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago it is possible that CARICOM nationals who hold the "A Certificate of Recognition of Caribbean Community Skilled Person" will be allowed to work in Barbados under normal working conditions.

References

Foreign relations of Barbados
Caribbean Community


Morris Knight (formerly known as Morrisson) is an American singer, songwriter, producer and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the lead singer, bassist, and principle songwriter of Dawn of Eros, a solo indie rock project he created in 2011. In the 1990s, he produced several demos in various musical genres including alternative hip-hop and trip-hop/neo soul. By the 2000s, he started producing more dance-oriented music. His earliest official releases were underground deep, soulful house tracks for various dance music producers including Bill Williams, Vincent Kwok, DJ MFR, BlackSonix, and Julius Papp.

In 2006, under the name Morrisson, he released a high-energy, disco-house track called "Love of My Life", which reached #15 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Dance Airplay in February 2006. It was featured as the club scene music in NBC's The New Normal season 1, episode 2, "Sofa's Choice". He frequently performed live in California as well as having performed in such places as Playa del Carmen, Mexico; Seoul, South Korea; Singapore, Thailand; and Shanghai.

However, by the beginning of 2011, Morris saw his musical endeavors beginning to move away from electronic dance music and toward a completely different genre of music. Having re-discovered his passion for playing bass guitar, his new music is now early 80's influenced indie rock/post-punk revival. A limited run of 250 copies of a 7" single was pressed up for the first two songs, "Rolling and Bouncing" and "Way They Are." The runout groove on "This Side" reads: "Initium sic finis," which loosely translates to "Thus, the beginning or the end." Morris also produced an official music video for "Rolling And Bouncing." His self-produced full-length debut rock album, was completed in Summer 2015. It was released under the name Dawn Of Eros and features a cover of The Smiths' single "Hand In Glove."

Between 2015 and 2019, he performed and recorded as the bassist for various San Francisco Bay Area-based rock bands including Uncle, Swamp Child and Redtrade.

In 2019 Morris Knight released the self-produced single "Thank You." The accompanying music video tells the story of a childhood friend lending him the first bass guitar he ever played. The video also features his interest in vintage VW's.

RADIO/TELEVISION CAREER

Morris Knight also maintains a full-time broadcast radio career that started in June 1990 at KWOD 106.5 in Sacramento, California. In 1992, he landed his first full-time on-air position at 97.7/98.3 KWIN in Stockton, California. In August 1997, Morris accepted the midday on-air personality position at 98.1 Kiss-FM in San Francisco, eventually moving to afternoon drive until April 2016. In June 2016 he continued his drive-time position at iHeart 80's at 103.7 (KOSF), San Francisco until January 2020. During that time, Morris appeared in numerous TV commercials and on-camera work in the San Francisco Bay Area, most notably hosting 80's-themed KOFY-TV Dance Party. He currently does afternoon drive for San Francisco's 96.5 KOIT and weekends on San Jose's 98.5 KUFX.

References

 Billboard Hot Dance Airplay (February 4, 2006) pg. 49
 www.tillatemagazine.com (July 2011) pg. 62

Musicians from California
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Roc Noir (French for "black rock") may refer to:

Grand Roc Noir, mountain in Switzerland
a triangular rock formation jutting from the east ridge of Annapurna Massif


St. Anne's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located in Church Circle, Annapolis. The first church in Annapolis, it was founded in 1692 to serve as the parish church for the newly created Middle Neck Parish, one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland. It remains in use by the Parish of St. Anne, part of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.

History

First church, colonial era: 1704-1775

St. Anne's was founded in 1692 after the passing of the Establishment Act. The Act allowed for the construction of the State House, King William's School, and St. Anne's, though due to the limited work force and insufficient funds, all of the projects were finished much later than expected. In 1694 the capital of Maryland was moved to Annapolis and the royal governor, Francis Nicholson, laid out a street plan centered on two circles, the larger for the State House and the smaller for the church, where St. Anne's is situated to this day.

Work started out slowly. The General Assembly did not allocate funds until 1695 and 1696. In 1699 specified that the dimensions of the church were to be  and  with a porch and a tower that would hang a bell. The contractor, Edward Dorsey, was fired however, and fined 333 pounds for failure to work on the building. The building was not completed until some time after 1700, though in use by 1704, with some changes made to the structure in later years. It served Chapel River until 1715, when the Province of Maryland was returned to Lord Baltimore. A bell, which would call parishioners to services until it was destroyed by fire in 1858, was donated to St. Anne's by Queen Anne.

In 1758, Benedict Swingate Calvert (c.1730-1788), the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland, was married to his cousin, Elizabeth Calvert, in St Anne's Church, by the Reverend John Gordon. Elizabeth was the daughter of Maryland Governor Captain Charles Calvert Butler. The parish also became the focus of a dual patronage scandal in 1776-68, under its 17th rector, Bennet Allen and Governor Horatio Sharpe. Allen also acquired the living at St. James Herring Bay and attempted to hire it out, contrary to Maryland law and the vestry's instructions. Allen ultimately gave up St. Anne's (but not St. James) upon securing the most lucrative parish in the Colony, All Saints Church in Frederick, Maryland, although that vestry locked him out shortly after his arrival and forced him to flee to Philadelphia and hire a curate, before returning to England during the American Revolutionary War.

Nearly half of St. Anne's rectors, 21, served in the pre-Revolutionary period; many evidently left for better pay at other parishes in the region. Additionally, St. Anne's was often referred to by writers of the time as a "barn" rather than a "proper place of worship." Many locals asked the government for a new church in 1775. Their wish was granted, and in late 1775, the church was razed.

Second church: 1792-1858

After the original church was razed, the local government made plans to build a new church which was to be designed by Joseph Horatio Anderson, who was the architect of the State House. Unfortunately, construction had to be cancelled since it was planned at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. The bricks and timber that were to be used to build to new church were sent to the Severn River to build a fort, and most of the work force went off to fight. During the War, St. Anne's parishioners worshiped at St. William's School, but as that began to become inadequate, a building was built on West Street as a temporary place for worship.

After the War officially ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the newly founded United States went into economic depression due to severe war debts and dislocation of accustomed trading patterns. This cause a further delay on the new church building's construction. Finally, in 1792, the new St. Anne's church was finished. It was much larger and more structurally secure than its predecessor. It was consecrated in 1792 by Bishop of Maryland Thomas John Claggett, the first Bishop of Maryland and a curate in the old church.

On February 14, 1858, a furnace fire practically destroyed the interior of the building. Most of the original documents from the old church burned, and a new church building was requested.

Third church: 1858-present

The third and present church was built in 1858. It was designed in a Romanesque Revival style and incorporated a portion of the old tower. Most of the church was built in that year, apart from the steeple which was finished in 1866 due to the Civil War. At the request of the city, a town clock was housed in the tower, and continues to be maintained by the city.

Burials in the churchyard
Nicholas Greenberry
Thomas Lynch

References

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Christianity in Annapolis, Maryland
Episcopal church buildings in Maryland
Religious buildings and structures in Annapolis, Maryland
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Churches completed in 1858


The Technological University of Panama, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP) in Spanish, is the second largest university in Panama. It comprises six schools and has seven regional campuses nationwide. The main campus is a  piece of land in Panama City, the country's capital.

History

The Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP) is the highest hierarchy public institution, regarding higher education in Panama. It was formerly the Engineering School of the University of Panama, which in 1975 became the Polytechnic Institute and, due to the need of a new model of university, became the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, by means of Law 18 of August 13, 1981.

On October 9, 1984 the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá was definitively organized by means of Law 17. Law 57 of July 26, 1996 modifies and adds to Law 17 of 1984.

UTP started with six bachelor's degrees and 15 technical careers. Currently it offers 43 advanced careers, 28 bachelor's degrees and 21 technical careers.

Its current academic offer is the best evidence of institutional growth. There are 131 careers at different levels, as follows: 2 Doctorate studies, 40 master's degrees, 26 postgraduate courses, 1 Professor Career, 4 Specializations, 8 Diplomas, 14 Bachelor's degrees in Engineering, 14 Bachelor's degrees, 8 Bachelor's degrees in Technology and 14 Technical careers. Regarding demand, it has increased from 5,735 students on 1981 to 18,000 on 2011.

It has a Faculty of professors, 30% of them teaching full-time and an administrative crew of 1,200 people.

Organization
 President/Rector
 Academic Vice-Rector
 Administrative Vice-Rector
 Research, Postgraduate Affairs and Extension Vice-Rector
 Registrar's Office
 University Planning
 Government Organisms
 General University Council
 Academic Council
 Research, Postgraduate Affairs and Extension Council
 Administrative Council

Schools

 Civil Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Industrial Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Computer Systems Engineering
 Science and Technology

Branches

 Panama City
 Metropolitan Campus “Dr. Víctor Levi Sasso”
 Howard
 Tocumen
 Azuero Regional Center
 Bocas del Toro Regional Center
 Cocle Regional Center
 Colon Regional Center
 Chiriqui Regional Center
 Western Panama Regional Center
 Veraguas Regional Center

Research centres

 Engineering Experimental Center (CEI)
 Project Center
 Agricultural Production and Research Center (CEPIA)
 Hydraulic and Hydrotechnical Research Center (CIHH)[
 Research, Development and Innovation in Information and Communications Technology Center

Communications

 Radar Newsletter, publication for the students
 Boletín Dirección de Relaciones Internacionales
 UTP in motion newsletter
 El Tecnológico magazine
 PRISMA Tecnológico magazine
 I+D Tecnológico magazine
 Tecnología Hoy magazine

Cultural affairs

 Book and Magazine Launch
 Cultural Magazine MAGA
 Literature Week
 "Rogelio Sinán" Central American Prize
 "José María Sánchez" Short Story National Prize
 MAGA Short Story Prize
 “Pablo Neruda” National Poetry Prize
 Creative Writing Diploma

Services

 Bookstore and Distribution Center
 Library
 Engineering Career Certification
 Others

Universities in Panama
Buildings and structures in Panama City
Education in Panama City


Undeniable is a 2008 album by The Chipmunks.  Its release was connected to the version of the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise from the 2007 film Alvin and the Chipmunks, but contains no music from the film. It was released on November 4, 2008, as the follow-up to the Alvin and the Chipmunks: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

The album features remakes to some of their old hits as well as some new covers, such as the theme song to the 1980s television series of the same name.

Track listing
"We're The Chipmunks" (DeeTown Remix)* (Janice Karman, Chris Caswell, Jason Honingford, Ali Dee Theodore)
"Shake Your Groove Thing" feat. Drew Seeley (Peaches & Herb) (Dino Fekaris, Freddie Perren)
"Livin' on a Prayer" (Bon Jovi) (Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child)
"Three Little Birds" (Bob Marley) (Bob Marley)
"Thank You"* (Ali Dee Theodore, Sarai Howard, Zach Danziger, Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Jason Bonham, Luis Resto)
"All the Small Things" (Blink-182) (Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge, Travis Barker)
"Acceptance"* (Ali Dee Theodore, Sarai Howard, Zach Danziger, Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Chris Classic)
"Don't Stop Believin'" (Journey) (Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry, Neal Schon)
"Ho Ho Ho"* (Janice Karman)
"Rock and Roll" (Led Zeppelin) (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham)
"Home" (Daughtry) (Chris Daughtry)
"Undeniable"* (Ali Dee Theodore, Sarai Howard, Zach Danziger, Ross Bagdasarian Jr.)
"We're The Chipmunks"* (Janice Karman, Chris Caswell)
"Time Warp" (The Rocky Horror Show) (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley)

* - denotes original Chipmunk song

Personnel
Vinny Alfieri - guitar, member of attributed artist
Ali "Dee" Theodore - audio production, executive producer
Justin Long - primary artist (as Alvin Seville)
Matthew Gray Gubler - primary artist (as Simon Seville)
Jesse McCartney - primary artist (as Theodore Seville)
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. - audio production, cover design, dialogue, executive producer, producer
Chris Classic - primary artist (as DJ)
Alana Da Fonseca - composer, engineer, member of attributed artist, mixing, recorder, vocals (background)
Zach Danziger - drums, member of attributed artist
Christopher Davis - member of attributed artist, rap
Dee Town - audio production, member of attributed artist, vocals
Dino Fekaris - composer
Chris Gehringer - mastering
Jason Gleed - guitar, bass, keyboards, member of attributed artist
Mark Hoppus - composer
Rebecca Jones - member of attributed artist, primary artist, vocals (background)
Janice Karman - audio production, dialogue, executive producer, producer
Joey Katsaros - bass, keyboards, member of attributed artist
Dan "D Unit" Levine - package design
Bob Marley - composer
John McCurry - guitar, bass, member of attributed artist
Port O'Brien - composer
Richie Sambora - composer
Drew Seeley - guest artist, primary artist
John VanNest - engineer, recorder
Dave Wallace - drum, guitar, bass

Reception
Undeniable peaked at No. 78 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

References

External links
Official Alvin and the Chipmunks Music Myspace

2008 albums
Alvin and the Chipmunks albums
Razor & Tie albums


NZ Performance Car is a monthly automobile magazine and website, and is the biggest selling automotive and men's lifestyle magazine in New Zealand.

As Parkside Media's second title, it has eclipsed the success of NZ Classic Car. NZ Performance Car has evolved with the times, promoting the import drag racing scene, building the drifting scene and supporting modified car events such as Auto Salon and dB Drag Racing.

Issue 1 of the magazine was bundled free with NZ Classic Car issue 66 (June 1996), and featured a Series 4 Mazda RX-7 on the cover.

Change in focus
The magazine's focus has evolved from initially covering all high performance cars, including Australian V8s, to Japanese import cars, and more recently import car culture and associated activities (BMX, FMX, interviews with local and international musicians, etc.).

Early issues featured cars such as Holden Toranas alongside Mitsubishi Galant VR4s.

Typical cars featured in NZ Performance Car
Nissan Skyline GT-R
Nissan Silvia
Nissan Pulsar GTI-R
Nissan 300ZX
Nissan 350Z
Nissan Laurel
Subaru WRX
Subaru Legacy
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution
Honda Integra
Honda Civic
Honda S2000
Toyota Celica
Toyota Supra
Toyota Levin AE86
Toyota Altezza
Mazda RX-7
Mazda 323
Mitsubishi Galant VR4
Toyota Hilux
Mazda GTX

Magazine contents

Modified car features
The extent that a car is required to be modified has steadily increased since the first issues. While 300 hp was considered to be a huge amount of power when the magazine started, 300 kW may not even secure a spot as a feature car, unless the rest of the car is outstanding or unusual.

This is not to say that NZ Performance Car solely focuses on power, but power figures are part of a more holistic approach considered when modifying a car.

New car features
Less common are new car road tests. Recent examples have included the Mazda RX-8, Mini Cooper John Cooper Works (JCW), and BMW 135i.

Cover girls
Female nudity in association with the magazine has polarised readers. The magazine took an online poll at the end of 2008, the results of which found that more than 80% of readers wanted to keep the cover girl.

Cars were originally graded using a Jane-o-meter (a picture of Jane with a ranking from one to ten). This method was scrapped after car owners became reluctant to have their cars featured in case it received a low mark.

Poster
Two posters (a double-sided A2) have been included in most issues of the magazine since issue 80.

Event coverage
Drag racing, drifting, rallying, Super Lap, Japanese Super GT, hillclimbing, touring cars, auto salon, auto shows and club events are covered, as long as the racing includes Japanese cars.

Driver and celebrity interviews
Local and international drivers have been interviewed such as Ken Block, Rhys Millen, Mike Whiddett, Sébastien Loeb, Linkin Park/Fort Minor and Nathalie Kelly (from Fast n Furious Tokyo Drift),

Regular sections
Readers' letters, a technical question and answer section, equipment information, CD/DVD/game reviews, and a lifestyle section with clothing and related culture.

Chop shop
A monthly Photoshop competition is run. An image of a standard car is modified in Photoshop to adopt a certain theme or style, such as hakosuka, rally, etc. In issue 144 readers were invited to Photoshop a Chevrolet Volt into a Pro Import drag racing vehicle.

Growth
Readership peaked at 336,000 in 2007. To address the fall in readership since then NZ Performance Car was relaunched with perfect binding, a new logo, and a broader focus on the import car culture in issue 132, December 2007

Notable contributors
Karl Burnett, Ewen Gilmour

Special issues

Drop! (previous Street Style)
Drop! features hardcore modified show cars, auto salon features, and SPL competitions (dB drag racing). The emphasis on Japanese imports is less. Previous featured cars have included a Jaguar, a Buick, a Nash Metropolitan, and several types of minitruck.

Drift Factor
Drift Factor is a drifting special with driver interviews, in-depth profiles on drifting and the cars, and how-tos on starting in drifting.

Raceline (previously Race Style)
Dedicated to circuit racing, rallying, hillclimbing, drifting and drag racing.

Yearbook
The Yearbook is a round up of the scene and also contains many of the similar features to the magazine.

Posterbook
A posterbook has been produced yearly since 2005 with 12 A2 posters of cars and/or cover models

Spine art
For 2008 collecting all the issues created an NZ Performance Car logo when stacked together. This was to highlight the transition to perfect binding.

Website
NZ Performance Car relaunched its website in July 2007 with a web 2.0 site featuring video, blogs, forums, news, articles, cover girls, event coverage and more.

Users can register to the site, start a blog, upload their own media, and generally interact with the site.

Daily news articles are available weekdays which are additional to magazine content. Full magazine articles are available from previous issues, often including additional photos and information (including videos) that could not be fitted into the magazine.

Some writers run blogs on the website, such as Peter Kelly's Pedeyworld, and a forum is run as a subsite to encourage user interaction.

Users can purchase books and DVDs related to the magazine's content, as well as back issues and subscriptions in the online shop.

Social networking sites
A Facebook fan page, Bebo page (for NZ Drift Series), and YouTube channel exist.

Games
NZ Performance Car has produced several online games:

Drift Legends
Drift Legends is a drifting game which features New Zealand tracks as well as custom tracks. Players can submit their score to a score board

Super Lap Legends
Super Lap Legends was released to coincide with Super Lap. It features New Zealand racetracks in a time trial format

Midnight Sting
Midnight Sting is a shoot 'em up whereby players protect their ride from damage in a dark alley.

Britney’s Rehab Run
Britney's Rehab Run is a shoot 'em up which sees the player attempt to get Britney Spears to rehab past scores of paparazzi.

Mobile
A free opt-in text club which has more than 23,000 members is utilised to disseminate special offers from sponsors, and promote the magazine, games and events.

NZ Performance Car is also one of the largest suppliers of mobile content (ringtones, screen wallpapers and the like) via Vodafone's network.

NZ Performance Car TV
NZ Performance Car TV is a free-to-air television program in its eighth series. It has had airtime on TV ONE, TV2, Prime and Sky Sports, often simultaneously which is unique in its genre. Each series consists of 13 episodes. Two series are usually screened per year.

First airing in 2004 the series has evolved to match the changing tastes of the import car scene. Series 8 had a large focus on drifting.

Events

NZ Drift Series
The NZ Drift Series is a drifting motorsport series run on New Zealand tracks. It made its debut in 2007 with a professionally run, five-round championship series.

Super Lap
Parkside Media organised the first Super Lap event at Taupo Motorsport Park in April 2007. Scott Kreyl in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII took the overall win. At the second event at Pukekohe in March 2008 Kreyl successfully defended his title.

The third Super Lap returned to Taupo Motorsport Park in 2008 where Kreyl suffered mechanical problems and failed to place.

New Zealand Bikini Model Search
Toured throughout in New Zealand in 2007, the NZ Bikini Model Search culminated in a grand final in Auckland.

Import All-Stars
Every summer, NZ Performance Car organises the biggest import drag racing event of the year at Fram Autolite Dragway, Meremere, Import All-Stars. Guest competitors are invited from Australia to race against New Zealand's quickest imports.

Drag Masters
Drag Masters, run in 2005, was a V8 vs. import drag racing event held at Fram Autolite Dragway, Meremere.

Performance Car of the Year
Performance Car of the Year is a competition with 12 performance cars where users text their vote.

Awards
Cam Leggett, designer since issue 68 has won two awards for Designer of the Year at the MPA Awards in the Special Interest Category in 2007 and 2008.

Controversy
NZ Performance Car magazine has typically been criticised by groups not in favour of import car culture, or those concerned about 'boy racer' activity.

In June 2008, editorial assistant Peter Kelly organised a meeting in Hamilton to scout for feature cars. News quickly spread via text and over 1000 people descended on The Base. Despite attempts by NZ Performance Car to warn the police, messages went unanswered.

References

External links
NZ Performance Car
Parkside Media
Drift Legends

1996 establishments in New Zealand
Automobile magazines
Automotive industry in New Zealand
Automotive websites
Magazines established in 1996
Magazines published in New Zealand
Mass media in Auckland
Monthly magazines published in New Zealand
New Zealand entertainment websites


Mahmoud "Hamudi" Salman ( ; born 26 July 1979) is an Arab-Israeli professional association football (soccer) player who is currently contracted to Israeli club Hapoel Jerusalem.

Background
Salman has two brothers, Amer and Mussa, both of whom also became professional footballers with Hapoel Jerusalem.

Playing career
Midway through the Liga Leumit season of 2008/09, Salman made national news when he deserted the club and stated his intention to continue playing football for Jebel al-Mukaber of the Palestinian West Bank Premier League.

Honours
 With Hapoel Jerusalem:
 Liga Artzit: 2007/08

Footnotes

1979 births
Living people
Arab citizens of Israel
Arab-Israeli footballers
Israeli men's footballers
Palestinian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Hapoel Jerusalem F.C. players