The Last Thakur is a 2008 Bengali-language British Western film directed by Sadik Ahmed, who co-wrote the screenplay with Heather Taylor, and starring Ahmed Rubel, Tariq Anam Khan and Tanveer Hassan. The film is about a lone gun-man who enters a town to take revenge on the person who raped his mother during the Bangladesh Liberation War. In the course of revenge he is used by the internal clash of two rival leaders of the town.

Plot
Set in the aftermath of an election in rural Bangladesh in a small, remote town of Doulathpur, a riverside shanty town in the marshlands of interior, rural Bangladesh, which is dominated by two men with a long-lasting feud who contend for power.

One is the long-established Thakur, the only Hindu in the area, and an aging, old-fashioned, crippled, manic, eccentric landlord (Tariq Anam), whose influence is waning, owns most of the property in a largely Muslim village and has ruthlessly repossessed debt-ridden land to build his lasting monument a Hindu temple commemorating his family – and has isolated himself from the local, largely Muslim community in the process as most them view this as idolatrous. Thakur is the last in his line, and his days are numbered. This, in turn provokes a suspicious and intense rivalry with his rival, a populist, seductive, corrupt, ruthless Muslim politician and village boss known as the Chairman (Ahmed Rubel). Chairman likes everyone to call him 'father' – except the actual sons that his philandering has left scattered about town. After a possibly rigged local election, he appears to run everything, and purports to represent and defend his people. Chairman is determined to use the opportunity presented by Thakur's decline to move in on his territory himself and is plotting to kill Thakur, spurred on by his Lady Macbeth-like wife, and by guilt over his own secrets.

Kala (Tanveer Hassan), a young, mysterious ex-soldier and self-proclaimed atheist armed with a rifle and a frayed birth certificate, arrives in a small town on Independence Day with a personal quest to find his father, reclaim his birthright, and seek the truth about his mother's rape and murder, and take revenge on the rapist. He is distressed, hungry and arrives without any money.

The rivalry and power struggle between Chairman and Thakur is further exacerbated by Kala's arrival and his mere presence triggers confrontation. Kala discovers a bitter enmity between Thakur and Chairman. Kala and his gun becomes the coveted asset to both the Chairman and Thakur, he attracts the attention of two rival leaders and finds himself approached by both men to take their side. In a heated atmosphere, Kala is the only person in the village with a gun and his rifle allows him to bargain with both men and offers himself as a gun-for-hire to the highest bidder, while pursuing his own quest for knowledge and vengeance. He is employed as Thakur's bodyguard and negotiates the protection of the Thakur in return for cash for which he buys food. However, Chairman secretly approaches him to work as a double agent, as he attempts to overthrow the Thakur and wrest control of the populace. As he sells his services to both sides, he becomes a vital commodity in this small-scale war and gets closer to gaining information to uncover the truth about his past.

In the course of 12 hours — dawn to dusk — a focused Kala plays off both sides prior to a final outbreak of violence. Will he find out who raped his mother? Was it the charismatic Chairman, proclaimed defender of the people, or was it Thakur, the Hindu landlord busy gobbling up local land on unpaid loans?

Cast
Ahmed Rubel as Chairman
Tariq Anam Khan as Thakur
Tanveer Hassan as Kala
Anisur Rahman Milon as Tarun
Jayanto Chattopadyahay as Mustafa
Tanju Miah as Waris
Gazi Rakayet as Syfur Rahman
Hindol Roy as Hillal
Ishak Dewan as Joglu
Abdul Hannan as Lulu
Sri Anil Chandra Dash as Ferdous
Deepak Suman as Rohmot
Reetu Abdus Sattar as Chairman's Wife
Lucy Tripti Gomes as Shobna
Shaju Mahadi as Head Labourer
Shushoma Sarkar as Monwara

Production
The Last Thakur is Sadik Ahmed's debut feature film and the first co-production between British distributor Artificial Eye and the UK's National Film and Television School. This new cooperative venture lets NFTS current students and recent graduates create fully funded feature films. It was executive produced by Philip Knatchbull, Nik Powell and Daniel Chamier. The producer was Tamsin Lyons. The crew was made up primarily of NFTS students.

The film is set in present-day Daulatpur, an isolated corner of Bangladesh. The Thakur's home in the film was a semi-derelict mansion of a Maharajah, which had around 400 people squatting in it as the filmed. Some became extras, while the film crew were able to help. They installed toilets and bathrooms to be left behind in return for allowing them to film inside.

The film was shot over 24 days in December 2007, on high definition cameras, a first for Bangladesh. The original set, purpose built, is the largest open air set ever built in Bangladesh.

The cast features some of Bangladesh's best known actors, among them Tariq Anam, Rubel Amin and Tanveer Hussan.

Release
The Last Thakur had its world premiere premiered to a sold out screening at the London Film Festival on 25 October 2008 to a sold-out audience at the National Film Theatre.

The film held a special screening at the Curzon Renoir Cinema in Russell Square on 21 June 2009. The film began its UK theatrical release at the Genesis Cinema, Mile End and at the Ciné Lumière, South Kensington on 26 June 2009. It has since been screened or selected at Dubai International Film Festival, Solothurn Filmtage Celebration of Swiss Film, Munich International Film Festival, Durban International Film Festival and Granada Film Festival.

The DVD of the film was released on 5 October 2009. The DVD extras include a short documentary.

Reception
The Daily Star called The Last Thakur "an intense contemporary Western." Derek Malcolm of London Evening Standard described the film as "taut, well shot and confidently acted." Dan Carrier of Camden New Journal called it "a stylish and beautifully produced film." Redhotcurry.com thought it "features breath-taking locations from an unseen and unknown part of the world." Ethic Now called it "an intense contemporary Bengali 'Western' set in a remote village in the marshlands of Bangladesh."

Anton Bitel of Little White Lies said, "This bleak message is offset by wonderful widescreen cinematography and a soundtrack that perfectly blends influences both eastern and western." Jennie Kermode of Eye for Film said, "All in all, it's a well balanced effort which maintains the proper sense of ironic distance without losing sight of its characters' humanity, even when they lose sight of that of others."

Matthew Turner of View London thought it is "a watchable drama, but the painfully slow pacing detracts from its tried-and-tested plot." Sukhdev Sandu of The Daily Telegraph said, "Its digital photography could be improved and its pacing needs to be more dynamic, but this is a promising calling card." Derek Elley of Variety thought the "pic maintains a gently simmering atmosphere but starts to feel stretched after the first few reels." Philip Kemp of Total Film felt it "expends a bit too much time on talk, with all the action shoehorned into the last few minutes. But it doesn't lack for atmosphere or vivid performances."

Film4 felt "The plot is relatively simple but the execution is baffling... The film ends up looking pretty silly, which is a shame because in many ways it's a worthwhile production." Anthony Quinn of The Independent felt it was "long on smouldering looks and short on narrative bite, makes it difficult to know, and harder to care." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian thought "The film itself is a disappointment; the action is weirdly inert and monotonous, and the acting is opaque." Tony McKibbin of The List rated it two stars as "a clumsily realised tale of Oedipal tensions... There are mythic overtones in Ahmed's film, but an almost complete absence of sub-text. In both formal and dramatic terms Ahmed offers the heavy-handed... The film may indicate a timeless quality in its story, but the form of its telling indicates a very contemporary patronage of the audience's intelligence."

Themes and analysis
The Last Thakur tells the story of an intense political rivalry between Thakur and the Chairman, laying bare the intrigues of a village riven by political divides. The story tackles taboos subjects such as communal conflict, the genocide and war rapes of 1971, amongst the backdrop of a busy marketplace reminiscent of the ghost towns of the Wild West.

The film is narrated from a child's point of view, the young orphan Waris (played by Tanju Miah, the real life subject of Sadik's previous eponymous short film Tanju Miah), who earns a living serving in a tea hut.

The story is a 'Spaghetti Eastern', about a stranger in a small town who plays two groups against each other. It has been said to be familiar to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django, the Coen Brothers' Miller's Crossing or even Walter Hill's Last Man Standing. The bare bones of this scenario can also be discerned in The Last Thakur, set in a rural backwater of contemporary Bangladesh, but Ahmed is less interested in cowboy movie pastiche than in an intense drama of misunderstandings, madness and murder.

Awards

References

External links

The Last Thakur on Artificial Eye

2008 films
2000s action drama films
2008 Western (genre) films
Bengali-language Bangladeshi films
British Bangladeshi films
British action drama films
British Western (genre) films
British independent films
Bangladeshi action films
Bangladeshi drama films
Bangladeshi Western (genre) films
British films about revenge
Films set in Bangladesh
Films shot in Khulna
Films directed by Sadik Ahmed
2008 directorial debut films
2000s Bengali-language films
2008 drama films
Contemporary Western films
2000s British films


Sumuru is a supervillainess protagonist of the 1946 radio series Shadow of Sumuru (1946), and subsequent novels by Sax Rohmer.

Sumuru may also refer to:
 Šumuru, one of the eight great clans of Manchu nobility
 Sumuru (2003 film), a 2003 sci-fi film
 The Akkadian name for Sumur, a Phoenician city in the Levant

See also


The list of University of Central Oklahoma alumni includes notable alumni, non-matriculating students, and former faculty of the University of Central Oklahoma.

Notable alumni

Arts and entertainment
 Scott Booker, manager for The Flaming Lips; Executive Director of ACM@UCO
 Jeremy Castle, singer songwriter
 T. C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo, 1946–1978), painter and printmaker
 Stan Case, CNN Radio and Headline News anchor
 Dave Garrett, former New Orleans Saints and Dallas Cowboys radio broadcaster
 Bill Glass Jr. (Cherokee Nation), ceramic artist and sculptor
 Milena Govich, actress, TV series Law & Order
 All four members of the multi-platinum rock group Hinder
 Lauren Nelson, Miss America 2007
 Betty Lou Shipley, Poet Laureate of Oklahoma, 1997–98
 W. K. Stratton, author
 Emoly West, Miss Oklahoma 2010
 Jamie McGuire, author

Athletics
 Joe Aska, former NFL player
 Hap Barnard, former NFL player (1938–1938)
 Bob Briggs, former NFL player (1965–1965)
 Clifford Chatman, former NFL player (1982–1982)
 Ken Corley, former BBA/NBA basketball player
 Jermelle Cudjo, football player, St. Louis Rams
 Tim Elliott, mixed martial artist, currently with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, wrestled at Central Oklahoma
 A. J. Haglund, former NFL player
 Jared Hess, All-American wrestler, retired professional MMA fighter
 Muhammed Lawal, NCAA Division II National Champion (2002), current MMA fighter, formerly for Strikeforce and now Bellator Fighting Championship
 J. W. Lockett, former NFL player (1961–1964) and CFL player (1965–1966)
 Eddie Robinson, former NBA player
 John Sterling, former NFL player
 Hurley Tarver, former NFL player
 Keith Traylor, former NFL player
 Derek Ware, former NFL player (1992–1996)
 Paul Wight, pro wrestler
 Robin Freeman, PGA Tour and Champions Tour golfer

Business
 Bijan Allipour, Iranian business executive; CEO of NISOC
 Chad Richison, founder, president and CEO Chief Executive Officer of Paycom
 Randall L. Stephenson, (CEO) Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of AT&T

Science and technology
 Dr. Dwight E. Adams, former Director of the FBI Laboratory; member of the FBI’s research team that developed the DNA techniques first used in 1988; recipient of 2003 Presidential Rank Award as Distinguished Executive, the highest award given in the Federal Government; Director of the University of Central Oklahoma Forensic Science Institute
 Milt Heflin, first Chief Flight Director; former General Director, NASA, Johnson Space Center

Politics and government

 Michael D. Brown, former FEMA director
 Donna Campbell, member of the Texas Senate; emergency room physician in New Braunfels, Texas; received bachelor's degree in nursing, c. 1976
Mary Fallin, former Governor of Oklahoma
 Danny Morgan, Oklahoma State Representative and leader of the Oklahoma House Democratic Caucus
 Kevin Ward, Oklahoma Secretary of Safety and Security and Oklahoma Commissioner of Public Safety

Notable faculty
 James Bidlack, Professor of Biology, President of Metabolism Foundation; Vice President and Chief Science Officer of Genome Registry

References

University of Central Oklahoma people

People


Ivan Prpić (12 March 1887 – 10 January 1967, Zagreb) was a Croatian infantry general of the Croatian Home Guard and its chief of staff from 1942 to 1943. He received the Military Order of the Iron Trefoil in 1942.

In August 1943 there was an assassination attempt on Prpić. Some sources allege that it was organized by Ivo Herenčić, and partly motivated by personal rivalry.

In 1944 Prpić retired and moved with his family to the Slovak Republic, and later to Prague in the reestablished Czechoslovakia. He was arrested by the British there in August 1945 and taken back to Yugoslavia. After questioning in Belgrade and Zagreb he was released in October.

Prpić was one of few generals of the Independent State of Croatia not to be sentenced by the communist regime in Yugoslavia, and was interred at Mirogoj cemetery.

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Mérignac Centre tram stop  is a tram stop on line A of the Tramway de Bordeaux, and served as terminus of that line between 21 June 2007, when the line was extended from Saint-Augustin, until 24 January 2015, when the line was extended to Le Haillan-Rostand.. The stop is located on Avenue du Maréchal Leclerc in the commune of Mérignac and is operated by the TBC.

For most of the day on Mondays to Fridays, trams run at least every five minutes in both directions through the stop. Services run less frequently in the early morning, late evenings, weekends and public holidays.

Interchanges
 TBM bus network:

 Trans Gironde network:

Close by
 Collège Jules Ferry
 Police
 Gendarmerie
 Médiathèque
 Mérignac Ciné

References

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Tram stops in Mérignac
Railway stations in France opened in 2007


James Findlay Stephen (23 August 1922 – 5 November 2012) was a Scottish footballer who played as a defender. At club level, he played in the Football League for Bradford (Park Avenue) and Portsmouth. He also played in two full international matches for Scotland.

Stephen signed for Bradford when he left school in 1938, and turned professional the following year. During the Second World War he made guest appearances for clubs including Halifax Town, Middlesbrough and Huddersfield Town. He left Bradford for Portsmouth in 1949, although National Service in the RAF meant he was restricted to a solitary appearance in the Portsmouth team that won the 1949–50 League title. He finished his career in non-league football with Yeovil Town before becoming a player-coach at Bridgwater Town, Newport in the Isle of Wight, and Waterlooville

Having represented Scotland in five wartime internationals against England, Stephen made his full international debut as captain in the first competitive match Scotland played after the war, a 3–1 defeat to Wales on 19 October 1946 in the British Home Championship. His second and last cap came a year later, also against Wales.

See also
List of Scotland national football team captains
List of Scotland wartime international footballers

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1922 births
2012 deaths
People from Kincardine and Mearns
Scottish men's footballers
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Men's association football defenders
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Portsmouth F.C. players
Yeovil Town F.C. players
Halifax Town A.F.C. wartime guest players
Middlesbrough F.C. wartime guest players
Huddersfield Town A.F.C. wartime guest players
English Football League players
Footballers from Aberdeenshire


Morriston Town  Football Club is an amateur association football team based in Morriston, Swansea, Wales. The club plays in the Ardal Leagues South West, which is tier three of the Welsh football pyramid.

Brief History
The club was formed in the 1940s as Midland Athletic and played in the Swansea & District League prior to joining the Welsh Football League in 1951.

During their time in the Welsh League Morriston Town achieved only limited success, rising to the Welsh Premier Division in the early 1990s.   However, by the 2007–08 season, the club was again languishing in the lower echelons of the Welsh League, and after finishing bottom and suffering relegation from the third division, Morriston Town left the Welsh League after more than 50 years.

As of 2020–21, Morriston Town compete in the newly formed West Wales Premier League tier 4 of Welsh football.

Morriston Town's home ground, The Dingle Field, was purchased from a local farmer during the time that the club first joined the Welsh Football League. One of the founder members helping to buy the field was a Mr. George Payne who lived in front of the fields.  Located in the northern area of Morriston, The Dingle plays host to the club's three senior teams, and various youth sides.

In 1962 a memorable match at the Dingle attracted a capacity crowd in excess of 2,000 for a league game to witness Roy Paul's final game as a player when Morriston Town played Garw Athletic.

Morriston Town have shared local rivalries with fellow Swansea League clubs Morriston Olympic FC and CRC Rangers. In 2019 both rival clubs merged to form CRC Olympic.

Honours (post-1951)

Welsh Football League Division 1 (level two)
Champions: 1990–91
Runners-up: 1991–92
Welsh Football League Division 2 West (level two)
Runners-up: 1951–52
Welsh Football League Division 1 (level three)
Third place (promoted): 1987–88
Welsh Football League Division 2 (level three)
Third place (promoted): 1969–70, 1976–77
Welsh Football League Division 3 (level four)
Third place (promoted): 1997–98
West Wales Senior Cup
Runners-up: 1994–95
West Wales Premier League Cup
Winners: 2022–23

References

External links
Website: http://www.clubwebsite.co.uk/morristontown/233653/Home

Association football clubs established in the 1940s
Football clubs in Swansea
Welsh Football League clubs
Swansea Senior League clubs
West Wales Premier League clubs
Ardal Leagues clubs


Åge Rønning (4 October 1925 – 31 January 1991) was a Norwegian writer and journalist.

Biography
Åge Rønning was born in Oslo, Norway. His parents were Normann Rønning (1888–1974) and Astrid Therese Nielsen (1895–1978). He graduated in 1944 at Vahl School. He had a career in journalism working for  Verdens Gang 1945–47, Norsk Telegrambyrå 1947–54 and Morgenbladet until 1964. His debut novel Fotfeste for elskere was published in 1954. His writings often reflected his Roman Catholic faith and focused on related religious issues. From 1968 to 1969, Rønning was a deputy and from 1978 board member of the Norwegian Authors' Union. He was affected by multiple sclerosis starting in 1967 and was from 1980 depending on a wheelchair.

Awards
1959-  Gyldendal's Endowment (Gyldendals legat)  jointly with Alf Larsen
1979 - Riksmål Society Literature Prize (Riksmålsforbundets litteraturpris)
1982 - Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (Kritikerprisen) for the novel Kolbes reise
1989 - Dobloug Prize (Doblougprisen) from the Swedish Academy jointly  with Eldrid Lunden

Selected works
Fotfeste for elskere   (1954)
Kvinnene   (1957)
Narrens krets   (1960)
De ukjentes marked   (1966)
Alle klovner    (1971)
Komedien om slottsherrene   (1974)
Fortsettelse i Hamburg   (1987)
Arvingen kommer torsdag   (1981)
Kolbes reise (1982)

References

1925 births
1991 deaths
Writers from Oslo
Norwegian male poets
Norwegian male novelists
20th-century Norwegian poets
20th-century Norwegian novelists
20th-century Norwegian male writers
Dobloug Prize winners
Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature winners
20th-century Norwegian journalists


Hans F. Dersch (born December 25, 1967) is an American former competition swimmer and breaststroke specialist who represented the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.  There he won the gold medal in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay, after having swum in the preliminary heats for the winning U.S. team.  Dersch was a two-time gold medalist at the 1991 Pan American Games.

See also
 List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
 List of University of Texas at Austin alumni

References

 Profile

1967 births
Living people
American male breaststroke swimmers
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Sportspeople from Alexandria, Virginia
Swimmers at the 1991 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Texas Longhorns men's swimmers
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games
Swimmers from Virginia


The Silk Centre was an area of business property, composed of buildings and lofts, which opened in Manhattan, in 1924. It was adjacent to a car-barn site, numerous clothing firms,  and advertising agents located within a block or two of this corner. Harper & Brothers was also situated on East 33rd Street.

The Silk Centre was located in Midtown Manhattan between two great railroad terminals and close by the hotel district of New York City. The region radiating from 34th Street to Madison Avenue was well suited to the growth of the wholesale silk trades. In addition to its proximity to the railroad terminals, the silk hub benefited from a closeness to the elevated and surface lines of the subway and eighty-one clubs located within a few blocks of Madison Avenue and 34th Street. The significance of Madison Avenue as an impetus to the expansion of the silk trade was enhanced with its widening, by five feet on each side, extending from 23rd Street to 41st Street. This provided  of additional roadway.

History of growth, 1914 - 1931

One of the buildings at the Silk Centre was a twelve-story edifice located at 33 - 43 East 33rd Street. It was valued at $1,000,000 and was entirely
rented for $145,000. The structure fronted East 33rd Street for  and had a depth of . It tenants were mostly engaged in the silk
trade. The site for the building was purchased in 1913 from Dr. John B. Walker, who ran a private hospital there. It was sold to the George Backer Construction Company which completed the edifice in 1914.

In the fall of 1924 Cheney Brothers and Belding Brothers announced plans to relocate to the southeast and southwest corners of Madison Avenue. They awaited the completion of two buildings designed to their specifications. Their relocation designated  the Madison
Avenue area as a new axis of the silk industry. Schoolhouse & Company moved to the ground floor of a new building at the northwest corner of
Madison Avenue and 39th Street. L.O. Thompson & Co. opened their headquarters on the second floor of an edifice on 244 Madison Avenue, at the southwest corner of Madison Avenue and 38th Street. L.D. Tompkins leased the second floor of the Cameron Building at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 34th Street. South of 34th Street on Madison Avenue was a region where a number of prominent silk houses
found new locations and signed extended leases. One of these was the R & H Simon Company which moved from 4th Avenue
and 20th Street  to 159 Madison Avenue. Another was Menke Kaufmann & Co., which removed from lower 5th Avenue to East 33rd Street. The Golding Fabric Corporation was exceptional, having just moved to a spacious new location at 417 Fifth Avenue, in November 1924.

In early 1925 excavation began on land once occupied by the August Belmont home, at the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 34th Street. A seventeen-story building was being planned for the site, to be occupied by a syndicate headed by Robert M. Catts. Cheney Brothers were
to have offices on the first three stories of the structure. Silk manufacturer, Belding Brothers, purchased a plot of land measuring ninety feet on the southwest corner, directly opposite. The company was soon to occupy a sixteen or seventeen story edifice on the site.

The Heminway Silk Company signed a twenty-year lease to occupy the store, basement, second,  and third floors of a fourteen-story building at
the northwest corner of Madison Avenue and 37th Street. The total rental was $1,000,000. Heminway Silk Company, which had a capitalization
of $3,500,000, was founded in Watertown, Connecticut in 1848. The firm opened a New York City office in 1872.

The Duplan Silk Corporation moved into three floors of the Continental Building, a forty two story office structure completed by Louis Adler in early 1931. The edifice was located at the southeast corner of 41st Street and Broadway. The lease totaled above $1,000,000
and included the second, third, and mezzanine floors of the banking concourse of the building. The three floors encompassed more than . The second floor was reached via a broad marble staircase leading from the main lobby fronting on Broadway. Previously
the Duplan Silk Corporation was located on the east side of New York City for a dozen years. Earlier the firm was situated successively at Broome Street and Greene Street and Union Square. The business was a leader in the silk industry and one of its most recognized names.

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Buildings and structures in Manhattan
1924 establishments in New York City
Cultural history of New York City
Midtown Manhattan


Glen Campbell's Greatest Hits was the first official Capitol compilation album by Glen Campbell and was released in 1971. The Best of Glen Campbell followed in 1976, covering his later hits in addition to five on this compilation.

Track listing
Side 1:

 "Gentle on My Mind" (John Hartford) - 2:56
 "I Wanna Live" (John D. Loudermilk) - 2:42
 "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:08
 "Try A Little Kindness" (B. Austin, C. Sapaugh) - 2:23
 "Honey Come Back" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:00

Side 2:

 "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:43
 "Galveston" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:40
 "Where's The Playground Susie" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:00
 "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" (Chris Gantry) - 2:45
 "Burning Bridges" (Walter Scott) - 2:28

Production
Producers - Al De Lory
Arranged and conducted by Al De Lory
"Burning Bridges" arranged and conducted by Leon Russell

Charts
Album - Billboard (United States)

1971 greatest hits albums
Glen Campbell compilation albums
Capitol Records compilation albums
Albums arranged by Leon Russell
Albums conducted by Leon Russell


Tha Cum Up is the second studio album by American rapper Sylk-E. Fyne. It was released on July 11, 2000, via Rufftown Records. The ten track record featured guest appearances from Nicole Renée, JT Money, Bizzy Bone, Phantom Smoove, Chill, and Snoop Dogg.

After her successful debut, Raw Sylk, expectations were high but Tha Cum Up was a critical and commercial failure, however, the single "Ya Style", featuring Snoop Dogg and Bizzy Bone, made it to #17 on the Hot Rap Singles.

Track listing

Personnel
Calvin Broadus - featured artist (track 9)
La'Mar Lorraine Johnson - main artist
Bryon Anthony McCane II - featured artist (track 9)
Nicole Renée - featured artist (track 8)
Bruce Swedien - producer
Rene Swedien - producer
Jeff Thompkins - featured artist (track 7)
Jonathan West - featured artist (track 6)
Chill - featured artist (track 2)
Phantom Smoove - featured artist (track 4)

References

2000 albums
Sylk-E. Fyne albums


Time to Say Hello: The Autobiography () is a 2008 autobiography by Katherine Jenkins. It was published in hardback in January 2008 by Orion Books.

It was released on paperback on 5 February 2009.

The book's title comes from the song, "Time to Say Goodbye".

References

2008 non-fiction books
Music autobiographies
Books by Katherine Jenkins


Reginald Swinfen (4 May 1915 – October 1996) was an English footballer who played as a forward or full back in the Football League for Queens Park Rangers either side of the Second World War.

Life and career
Swinfen was born in Battersea, London, in 1915. He worked as a postman, and by 1933 was playing football for the Civil Service club. From there he joined Queens Park Rangers (QPR) of the Third Division South, initially as an amateur centre forward with considerable pace. He turned professional in March 1936, and made his first-team debut the following September, playing at inside right in a 2–1 win at home to Clapton Orient. He first scored during his fifth of seven appearances that season; playing at centre forward, he contributed a hat-trick in a 7–0 defeat of Newport County Swinfen played three first-team matches in 1937–38, all at right half, before making 18 appearances at right back in the first half of the 1938–39 season.

During the war, Swinfen served in the Royal Air Force and in the British Army of the Rhine. When available, he played wartime football for QPR. He made his final appearance in the Football League playing at left back in a 2–0 defeat at home to Bristol Rovers.

In June 1947, Swinfen became Yeovil Town's record signing, for a fee reported as "in the region of £500"; the Western Morning News described him as "well-known as an amateur sprinter." He was the club's top scorer in the 1947–48 season, with 18 goals in Southern League competition, and moved in to another Southern League club, Tonbridge, in January 1949. He remained a Tonbridge player until at least 1951, and went on to play for other non-league clubs including Crawley Town.

Swinfen died in Crawley in October 1996 at the age of 81.

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1915 births
1996 deaths
Footballers from Battersea
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Men's association football fullbacks
Civil Service F.C. players
Queens Park Rangers F.C. players
Yeovil Town F.C. players
Tonbridge Angels F.C. players
Crawley Town F.C. players
English Football League players
Southern Football League players
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
British Army personnel of World War II


The Gazette is a newspaper based in Galax, Virginia. The newspaper is owned by Landmark Community Newspapers.

References

Galax, Virginia
Newspapers published in Virginia


Biloxi Blues is a 1988 American military comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Neil Simon, and starring Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken.

Simon adapted his semi-autobiographical 1984 play of the same title, the second chapter in what is known as the Eugene trilogy, the first being Brighton Beach Memoirs and the third being Broadway Bound.

Plot
During World War II, Jewish teenager Eugene Jerome of Brooklyn is drafted into the United States Army. Jerome sets three goals—lose his virginity, survive the war, and become a writer. He is sent to basic training at Keesler Field near Biloxi, Mississippi. Jerome keeps a journal to record his impressions of his fellow draftees. The new privates are trained by Sergeant Toomey, a wounded veteran with a steel plate in his head. Toomey imposes arbitrary rules and metes out harsh punishments.

A recruit named Epstein refuses to accept Toomey's authority. Toomey imposes increasingly harsh punishments in an effort to break him, but Epstein refuses to compromise. While the other privates try to avoid Toomey's ire, they admire Epstein's determination. Toomey also eventually comes to respect Epstein's refusal to submit. One evening, Jerome proposes that each man share his fantasy of how he would spend his final days if he had only a week to live. They each pay five dollars, and Jerome agrees to judge the stories and pick a winner. Jerome chooses Epstein's fantasy of making Toomey do 200 push-ups. The men argue about Jerome's selection and Wykowski makes Anti-Semitic remarks, which leads to a confrontation between him and Epstein. Toomey ends it, but Jerome feels badly for not defending Epstein.

When the soldiers are about to go on a two-day leave, Wykowski reports that his money has been stolen. Toomey demands that the thief step forward and Epstein places money on Wykowski's footlocker. Toomey then reveals that he took Wykowski's money to teach Wykowski a lesson about securing his valuables. Epstein is confined to the barracks for having falsely confessed and tells Jerome that he did it because he was sure to be punished anyway, since Toomey wants to break him. Jerome accomplishes one goal when he has sex with Rowena, a prostitute. The platoon arrives back at the barracks before Jerome, where they discover his journal, take turns reading it aloud, and learn Jerome's private thoughts about them. When Jerome arrives, he realizes the journal is missing and Wykowski resumes reading from it. Epstein discovers that Jerome believes Epstein is gay.

Toomey enters the barracks in the middle of the night and reports that two soldiers were caught having sex in the latrine, but one escaped. Toomey wants the guilty party to step forward. When no one does, he suspends everyone's privileges and weekend leave. The soldiers believe the man who got away was Epstein, giving Jerome a lesson in the power of the written word. The next morning, Toomey reports that the man who escaped was Hennesey, whom everyone likes, and no one suspected was gay. The platoon later learns that Hennesey was sentenced to three months confinement, followed by a dishonorable discharge.

Jerome meets Daisy Hannigan, a beautiful, smart Catholic girl from Gulfport. He leaves camp whenever he can so they can see each other, and he confesses his love right before leaving Keesler Field for his first duty assignment. Jerome admits to the audience that the chances of seeing Daisy again after the war are slim, but that knowing he has a girl waiting back home motivates him to survive the war.

Near the end of the platoon's training, Toomey gets drunk because he has an upcoming appointment at a veterans hospital and believes he will be discharged for disability. Preferring prison to being discharged, he calls for Jerome, whom he holds at gunpoint in a final effort to compel him to follow orders by making Jerome turn him in for his misdeeds. Jerome calls in the rest of the platoon to serve as witnesses. Toomey is aware of the story contest Epstein won and accepts Epstein's offer not to press charges in exchange for Toomey completing 200 push-ups.

As his fellow privates sleep on a train while en route to their next duty stations, Jerome informs the audience of the destiny of each. He concludes by telling the audience that he accomplished his second goal of surviving the war and his third goal of becoming an author, although his path to success was different than what he expected.

Cast
 Matthew Broderick as Private Eugene Morris Jerome
 Christopher Walken as Technical Sergeant Merwin J. Toomey
 Markus Flanagan as Private Roy W. Selridge
 Matt Mulhern as Private Joseph T. Wykowski
 Corey Parker as Private Arnold B. Epstein
 Casey Siemaszko as Private Donald J. Carney
 Michael Dolan as Private James J. Hennesey
 Penelope Ann Miller as Daisy Hannigan
 Park Overall as Rowena
Reprising their stage roles in the movie were Broderick, Miller, Mulhern, and Overall.

Soundtrack
Period songs heard on the soundtrack include:
 "How High the Moon" by Morgan Lewis and Nancy Hamilton
 "Blue Moon" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
 "Marie" by Irving Berlin
 "Solitude" by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, and Edgar DeLange
 "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon
 "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)" by Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias, and Lew Brown
 "Goodbye Dear, I'll Be Back in a Year" by Mack Kay
 "Memories of You" performed by Benny Goodman

Reception

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 75% based on reviews from 28 critics, with an average rating of 6.5/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 61% based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "a very classy movie, directed and toned up by Mike Nichols so there's not an ounce of fat in it. Mr. Nichols keeps the comedy small, precise and spare. Further, the humor is never flattened by the complex logistics of movie making, nor inflated to justify them". Rita Kempley of The Washington Post thought the film was "an endearing adaptation" and "overall Nichols, Simon and especially Broderick find fresh threads in the old fatigues" despite some "fallow spells and sugary interludes".

Variety called it "an agreeable but hardly inspired film" and added: "Even with high-powered talents Mike Nichols and Matthew Broderick aboard, [the] World War II barracks comedy provokes just mild laughs and smiles rather than the guffaws Simon's work often elicits in the theater".

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film "pale, shallow, unconvincing and predictable" and added, "nothing in this movie seems fresh, well-observed, deeply felt or even much thought about ... It's just a series of setups and camera moves and limp dialogue and stock characters who are dragged on to do their business".

Box office
The film opened on 1,239 screens in the US and earned $7,093,325 on its opening weekend, ranking No. 1 at the box office. It eventually grossed $43,184,798 in the US and $8,500,000 in other markets for a total worldwide box office of $51,684,798.

References

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1980s American films
1980s English-language films
1988 films
1988 comedy-drama films
1988 LGBT-related films
American comedy-drama films
American films based on plays
Films about Jews and Judaism
Films about the United States Army
Films about virginity
Films based on works by Neil Simon
Films directed by Mike Nichols
Films produced by Ray Stark
Films scored by Georges Delerue
Films set in the 1940s
Films set in Mississippi
Films set on the home front during World War II
Films shot in Arkansas
Films shot in Kansas
Films with screenplays by Neil Simon
Military humor in film
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GWI (Great Works Internet) is a privately held telecommunications company providing internet and phone services for residential and business customers in Maine.  The company was established in 1994 and is headquartered in Biddeford, Maine.

History
Originally known as Biddeford Internet Corporation, the company was set up to serve the Greater Biddeford, Maine area as a local Internet Service Provider. Within one year, the Corporation had expanded to serve 70 percent of the Maine population with dial-up service. In 1996, the Biddeford Internet Corporation partnered with Casco Cable and New England Cable Vision and became one of the first ISP's in the United States to provide technical support to the cable industry. The Corporation also offered wholesale Domain Name System (DNS), domain name hosting, and technical support direct to its cable customers.

In 1997, Biddeford Internet Corporation completed statewide network access in Maine and changed its name to Great Works Internet, in honor of the Great Works River - a  river in Southwestern Maine. The name was later shortened to GWI.

In 2002, GWI introduced GWI Broadband, an ADSL based High Speed Internet service, rolling the service out to 50 communities in Maine and New Hampshire within one year.

In 2003 and 2004, Inc. Magazine recognized GWI as one of the country’s 500 fastest growing companies. GWI was again recognized by Inc.com in 2010 and 2011 as one of the 5000 fastest growing private companies in the USA.

The company added residential phone service in 2005 and commercial phone service in 2007.

In 2011, GWI CEO Fletcher Kittredge was named large company Business Leader of the Year by MaineBiz, a business news magazine.

References

External links
 Official website

Telecommunications companies established in 1994
Companies based in Maine
Internet service providers of the United States
1994 establishments in Maine


Cotalpa ashleyae is a beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.

References

Rutelinae


Michael Degiorgio (born 15 November 1962) is a Maltese former professional footballer.

Degiorgio played as a midfielder until the end of his career, when he switched to a central defender.

Degiorgio started his career with Hamrun Spartans and then also played for Naxxar Lions, Lija Athletic and Marsaxlokk. Degiorgio is now managing Fgura.

Early life
Degiorgio was born on 15 November 1962 in Pietà. A product of amateur club Ħamrun Liberty, he started his playing career in the MAFA League.

Ħamrun Spartans
Degiorgio was soon promoted to the Ħamrun Spartans . On 13 October 1979 he substituted Tonio Pace in a league game against Żebbuġ Rangers F.C.

On 10 November 1979 Degiorgio played his first full league game in a 0–0 draw against Floriana. Between 1982 and 1993, the Spartans, with Degiorgia won four championships, six FA Trophy winners' medals, and 20 major trophies.

Degiorgio played for the Spartans against Ballymena United, of Ireland. Ħamrun won both legs 1-0 and 2–1 to reach the second round of the Cup Winners' Cup. In the Champions Cup against Dundee United, he played in all 18 matches in Europe, 10 in the Champions Cup and eight in the Cup Winners' Cup.

In 1989–90, he was named MFA player of the year.

National team
On 4 April 1981 Degiorgio earn his first international cap in a national team game against East Germany . Malta lost 1-2 but Degiorgio's performance earned him a regular place in the National XI.

By his own admission, Degiorgio's best international match was in 1985 against Portugal.  The national team lost 3–2, but  Degiorgio scored one goal.

Later career
In 1993 Ħamrun transferred Degiorgio to the  Naxxar Lions.  He then help his new club gain promotion to the Premier Division in Malta. In 1996–97, he returned briefly to Ħamrun but the next year went back to Naxxar for two seasons.

In 1999 to 2000, Degiorgio joined Lija Athletic in the First Division and the next season he went to Marsaxlokk. In 2001–02, Degiorgio returned to Ħamrun. However, a successful protest against his eligibility forced him to stop after playing only one game in the Premier League. The next season he played six matches as a substitute before deciding to retire.

Legacy
Degiorgio was also the first player to be included in the newly established professional scheme for national team players. It was a singular honour for the young midfielder, which continued to enhance his reputation as one of the best Maltese footballers of the modern era.

In a career spanning 23 years, Degiorgio rarely missed a game. Injuries hardly affected him. It was only towards the end of his career that he started to miss matches.

By the end of his career, Degiorgio had played 77 times for Malta.

Career statistics

International goals

References

External links
 Michael Degiorgio at MaltaFootball.com

Living people
1962 births
Maltese men's footballers
Malta men's international footballers
Ħamrun Spartans F.C. players
Lija Athletic F.C. players
Marsaxlokk F.C. players
Maltese football managers
Marsaxlokk F.C. managers
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders


Richard Phillip Colella, Jr. (born December 14, 1951) is an American former breaststroke swimmer who represented the United States at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972.

Colella's sister Lynn was also an Olympic swimmer. In 1971 Richard and Lynn won the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Man of the Year award.

Colella finished fourth in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.  At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, he finished third and received the bronze medal in the 200-meter breaststroke, his signature event.

Colella and his wife Terry have raised four children, Elise, Mariel, Brian and Angie.  For the past seven years, the Colellas have dedicated themselves to raising money for research to find a cure for facioscapulohumeral disease (FSHD), a common form of muscular dystrophy that affects their son Brian. They formed FSH Friends, an organization that they run out of their home.  They work to raise money and put on an annual auction gala that takes place in the end of January. They've also co-sponsored local workshops, bringing researchers together from around the world, to help move the research forward.

See also
 List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
 List of University of Washington people
 List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)

References

1951 births
Living people
American male breaststroke swimmers
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in swimming
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Swimmers from Seattle
Swimmers at the 1971 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1975 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Washington Huskies men's swimmers
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Universiade medalists in swimming
FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States
Universiade silver medalists for the United States
Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games


Kerry A. Benninghoff is an American politician and coroner serving as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 171st district. Elected in November 1996, he assumed office on January 7, 1997.

Early life and education
Benninghoff was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He graduated from State College Area High School and attended Pennsylvania State University from 1980 to 1981. He is also a graduate of the Certified Coroners Training Program of the Pennsylvania State Police Academy.

Career
While working as an orderly at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, Pennsylvania, Benninghoff was appointed as deputy coroner of Centre County, Pennsylvania in 1985. In 1991, when Coroner Robert Neff retired, Benninghoff was elected to the office. He was re-elected in 1995.

In 1996, when Representative Ruth Rudy retired, Benninghoff declared his candidacy to succeed her. He defeated Democrat Keith Bierly in the general election that year and has been re-elected to each succeeding session of the House.

In 2018, after being re-elected to the House, Benninghoff was elected by members of the Republican Caucus to serve as House majority whip.

On June 22, 2020, Bennighoff was elected House majority leader. As majority leader, Benninghoff is the second highest-ranking Republican in the chamber behind Speaker Bryan Cutler.

Benninghoff is against legalizing adult-use cannabis in Pennsylvania. He has described it as a gateway drug and cites the opioid epidemic as a concern.

Personal life
Benninghoff lives in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He has five children.

References

External links
Representative Kerry Benninghoff's official web site

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21st-century American politicians
American coroners
Living people
People from Centre County, Pennsylvania
Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Year of birth missing (living people)
State College Area High School alumni


Ernie Jenkins (20 September 1880 – 18 July 1958) was a Welsh international dual-code international rugby player. He played club rugby union predominantly for Newport, and later switched codes by joining rugby league team Rochdale Hornets. While playing for Newport, Jenkins faced the three major Southern Hemisphere teams, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

International career
Jenkins made his début for Wales against Scotland at the Cardiff Arms Park on 5 February 1910 as part of the Five Nations Championship. It was a one-sided affair with Wales scoring 4 tries without reply, including one from fellow new cap Billy Spiller. Jenkins was reselected for the next match in the tournament, this time against Ireland. Wales won again, this time scoring five tries, the highest number scored by Wales in Ireland. With two wins out of two games, Jenkins should have been part of future Welsh teams, but turned professional in September 1910, joining rugby league team Rochdale Hornets, making him ineligible to play union in future.

His first game for the Hornets took place on 17 September 1910, and on 10 December he was selected for his first rugby league international when he was chosen to represent Wales against England at Coventry. He played a total of four league international between 1910 and 1912, three against England and a single encounter against Australia at Ebbw Vale.

County Cup Final appearances
Ernie Jenkins played as a forward, i.e. number 13, in Rochdale Hornets' 12–5 victory over Oldham in the 1911–12 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1911–12 season at Wheater's Field, Broughton, Salford on Saturday 2 December 1911, in front of a crowd of 20,000.

International games played
Wales (rugby union)
  1910
  1910

Wales (rugby league)
  1910, 1911, 1912
  1911

Bibliography

References

1880 births
1958 deaths
Dual-code rugby internationals
Newport RFC players
Rugby league players from Cwmbran
Rochdale Hornets players
Rugby union flankers
Rugby union players from Cwmbran
Wales international rugby union players
Wales national rugby league team players
Welsh rugby league players
Welsh rugby union players


Carl Johan Fredrik Engelstad (11 November 1915 – 1 October 1996) was a Norwegian writer, playwright, journalist, translator and theatre director.

Personal life
Engelstad was born in Hadsel as the son of jurist Sigurd Engelstad (1878–1916) and younger brother of archivist Sigurd Engelstad.

He married Vibeke Engelstad, a physician. Their son Fredrik became a professor of sociology, and married professor Irene Johnson.

Career
Carl Fredrik Engelstad was hired as a theatre critic in Morgenbladet in 1945. He stayed here until 1960, the last two years as cultural editor. He was theatre director for Nationaltheatret from 1960 to 1961, and from 1965 he worked in Aftenposten. He was known for writing from a Christian viewpoint.

From 1946 to 1949 he also edited the periodical Spektrum. He debuted as a writer in 1949, with two plays. His novels included Gjester i mørket (1958), Størst blant dem (1977) and De levendes land (1986). For the two latter novels, Engelstad was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. He also wrote books about Francis of Assisi, Ronald Fangen, Ludvig Holberg and Johan Herman Wessel, among others.

Awards
Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 1977, 1986
Riksmål Society Literature Prize 1986

References

1915 births
1996 deaths
Norwegian essayists
Norwegian theatre directors
Norwegian theatre critics
20th-century Norwegian translators
20th-century Norwegian novelists
20th-century Norwegian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century essayists
Norwegian male dramatists and playwrights
Norwegian male novelists
20th-century Norwegian journalists
People from Hadsel


Real Time is a 2008 comedy-drama film directed by Randall Cole, which premiered on 18 January 2008 at the Slamdance Film Festival. True to its title, the film's story unfolds in real time.

Plot
In Hamilton, Ontario, compulsive gambler Andy (Jay Baruchel) owes money to the wrong people; he blames his misfortune on "bad luck" and being "cursed". After failing to catch a cab to get to a horse racetrack, Andy is approached by a car driven by Reuban (Randy Quaid), an Australian contract killer; he orders Andy to enter the vehicle. Andy reluctantly complies and notices that the car's back seat holds a crate, inside which is Andy's cat, Cleo. When Andy attempts to leave with Cleo, Reuban locks the car doors. Andy protests, but Reuban repeatedly beats him over the head with his handgun until Andy stops talking. Reuban informs Andy that he owes his debtees C$68,000, and they are angry that Andy has been bragging about not paying up; they want him dead. Reuban gives Andy one hour to "make peace".

After insisting that he be allowed to exit the vehicle to urinate, Andy attempts to escape, but slips on a patch of ice and is wrangled back into the car by Reuban. Andy then asks Reuban to take them to the corner of a prostitute (Lucy Filippone) whom he claims looks like Rosie Perez. Upon arriving, the two find that she looks nothing like Andy remembered, so they instead go to visit Andy's grandmother (Jayne Eastwood). On the way, they stop at Jollop's Chicken, a fast food restaurant that Andy worked at in high school. While ordering food for his grandma, Andy banters with the English language-challenged cashier (Ella Chan) and berates his former boss, the store manager (Jeff Pustil).

Upon arriving at his grandma's house, Andy breaks down and apologizes to his bewildered, but compassionate grandma for breaking her heart with bad behavior. Andy uses the pretense of visiting with one of her cats to retreat upstairs, where he jumps out of a window in another escape attempt. Injuring his leg in the fall, Andy limps away from the house. Reuban catches up with Andy and shoots him in the leg. They return to the car as Andy's grandma watches from her front window.

On the road again, Reuban gives Andy an unmarked pill for his pain. Minutes remain until the deadline, so Reuban takes Andy to a lightly-forested clearing overlooking Hamilton. Andy begs for his life; Reuban is unmoved. After forcing Andy to turn away and drop to his knees, Reuban aims his gun at the back of Andy's head. Reuban tells Andy that his bad luck isn't luck at all, but the result of being stupid. He goes on to define bad luck as learning that a perceived ulcer is actually a tumor, then pulls the trigger.

Andy opens his eyes to find that Reuban has committed suicide. Examining the body, Andy finds an envelope marked with his name. He retreats to the driver's seat of Reuban's car and opens the envelope. Inside is a cheque also in his name for $68,000, on the back of which is written "You're a lucky son of a bitch, Andy!". Andy stares into the distance.

Cast
 Jay Baruchel as Andy Hayes
 Randy Quaid as Reuban
 Jayne Eastwood as Grandma
 Lucy Filippone as Prostitute
 Jeff Pustil as Donny
 Ellan Chan as Kwan
 Jeff Teravainen as Radio DJ

Soundtrack listing
"Since Birth" - Triznian
"One of Us Is Dead" - The Earlies
"The Cigarette" - Jake Wilkinson
"What Time Is It" - The Jive Five
"Goodbye Farewell" - Abraham's Children
"One Fine Morning" - Lighthouse
"Sweet City Woman" - The Stampeders
"Fly at Night" - Chilliwack (band)
"Two for the Show" - Trooper
"Gymnopédies #1" - Composed by Erik Satie and performed by Mary Kenodi
"Without You" - Harry Nilsson
"Scared" - The Tragically Hip

Festivals
 Slamdance Film Festival
 Shanghai International Film Festival
 Toronto International Film Festival
 Atlantic Film Festival
 Mill Valley Film Festival
 Turin Film Festival
 Kingston Canadian Film Festival
 Mississauga Independent Film Festival

Accolades

Involvement in Quaid Conspiracy
Randy Quaid, flanked by wife Evi, formally accepted his Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award on February 23, 2011, over two years after the win was announced in January 2009. Of receiving the award, Quaid was quoted as saying "Having worked in Canada continuously over the years from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz to Brokeback Mountain to Real Time, it was a natural choice for us to come here for some R&R and to finally accept an award I had been given for Real Time."

The Quaids had been living in Canada since October 2010, presumably having fled the U.S. to avoid various recent legal issues. In their defense, the Quaids claimed that they were being targeted by the "Hollywood Star Whackers", a group of assassins that supposedly killed celebrities such as David Carradine and Heath Ledger.

References

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2008 comedy-drama films
English-language Canadian films
Canadian comedy-drama films
American comedy-drama films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
2000s Canadian films
Films directed by Randall Cole


Shyam Ramsay (17 May 1952 – 18 September 2019) was a Bollywood film director. He was one of the seven Ramsay Brothers who were active in Indian cinema throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. Shyam Ramsay was considered the main artist and head of this group. They produced a number of horror movies such as Darwaza (1978), Purana Mandir (1984), and Veerana (1988).

Their popularity waned towards the end of the 1980s, as Ramsay started diverting his creative energy and focus on television programming which was in demand because of the multiple private channels such as Zee TV, Star Plus etc. that were launched in the early nineties in India. He started India's first horror TV series for Zee TV – Zee Horror Show. It was a huge hit and its popularity is proved by the various communities created in its memory on social networking communities like Facebook & Orkut by its fans.

After Zee Horror Show, he made a few episodes of Saturday Suspense, X Zone and Nagin for Zee TV. In 2008, he along with his daughter, Saasha Ramsay, directed a supernatural series based on the concept of wishful female serpent for Sahara One, called Neeli Aankhen.

Shyam Ramsay came back to feature films from the year 2000 when he started the production of Dhund: The Fog which was released on 21 February 2003. Then he made Ghutan in 2007 and a comedy horror film, Bachao in 2010. His latest release Neighbours released in January 2014.

Films directed

 Gentayangan (2018)
 Koi Hai (2017)
 Neighbours (2014 Indian Film)
 Bachaao - Inside Bhoot Hai... (2010)
 Ghutan (2007)
 Dhund: The Fog (2003)
 Talashi (2000)
 Nagin (1999) (TV series)
 Anhonee (1998) (TV series)
 The Zee Horror Show (1993–97) (TV series)
 Mahakaal (1993)
 Police Mathu Dada (1991)
 Inspector Dhanush (1991)
 Ajooba Kudrat Ka (1991)
 Bandh Darwaza (1990)
 Purani Haveli (1989)
 Veerana (1988)
 Tahkhana (1986)
 Telephone (1985)
 Saamri (1985)
 Purana Mandir (1984)
 Ghungroo Ki Awaaz (1981)
 Hotel (1981)
 Sannata (1981)
 Dahshat (1981)
 Saboot (1980)
 Guest House (1980 film) (1980)
 Aur Kaun? (1979)
 Darwaza (1978)
 Andhera (1975)
 Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche (1972)
 Nakuli Shaan (1971)

Films edited

 Veerana (1988)
 Khel Mohabbat Ka (1986) (as Shyam)
 Telephone (1985)
 Purana Mandir (1984)
 Ghungroo Ki Awaaz (1981)
 Dahshat (1981) (co-editor)
 Saboot (19 deep in the world is a great80) (co-editor)
 Guest House (1980) (co-editor)

Films written

 Inspector Dhanush (1991) (story) (as Tulsi-Shyam)
 Bandh Darwaza (1990) (screenplay)
 Veerana (1988) (screenplay)
 Buddha Mil Gaya (1971) (story) (as Shyam)

Films produced

 Ghutan (2007) (producer)
 Bandh Darwaza (1990)
 Veerana (1988)
 Saamri 3D (1986) (producer)

References

External links

Film directors from Mumbai
1952 births
2019 deaths
20th-century Indian film directors
21st-century Indian film directors
Hindi-language film directors


Pointe was a quarterly, international ballet magazine. The magazine covered ballet company debuts and competition results as well as practical and trade content for dancers. The company maintains its brand and content online, while published content has been incorporated into Dance Magazine.

First published in 2000, Pointe focused on an audience of aspiring and professional dancers. Its editors included Virginia Johnson, artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Amy Brandt, Raymond Mingst, Madeline Schrock, Cadence Neenan, and Lydia Murray.

Macfadden Performing Arts Media acquired Pointe and its parent company, Lifestyle Media, Inc in 2006. The magazine was subsequently sold to Frederic M. Seegal, an investment banker with Peter J. Solomon Company, in 2016. Pointe ceased physical publication as of the Fall 2020 issue.

References

External links

 "Pointe: The international Magazine of Ballet." Folio
 Danza Ballet Article Featuring Pointe
 End of Physical Publication

Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Dance magazines
Magazines established in 2000
Magazines published in New York City


not to be confused with the Mercury Islands of New Zealand
Mercury Island is a small rocky island off The Diamond Coast, Namibia. Despite its small size it is recognised by BirdLife International and other global conservation groups as an Important Bird Area (IBA) for its significant coastal seabird breeding.

Situation
Mercury Island is situated 800 metres offshore in Spencer Bay, 110 kilometres north of Lüderitz. The island is only 750 metres long (North-South) and about 270 metres wide, reaching a height of 38 metres above sea level. Steep, rocky, without vegetation, covered in a thick layer of bird guano, and riddled with a number of caves (one of which completely bisects the island), Mercury Island's name comes from the shaking that reverberates through the island during westerly wave action. Its nearest neighbour and like bird habitat is Ichaboe Island, about 65 kilometres to the south. Ichaboe and Mercury are the two most important island seabird breeding sites along the Namibian coast. Today the island has a permanent population in the form of a two-person bird research station. The station sits on the remains of a bird guano mining dock on the northeast side of the island.

Mercury Island's three hectares are home to 16000 penguins, 1200 gannets, and 5000 cormorants, which range tens of kilometres out to sea, and return to the island to breed.

Importance to wildlife

BirdLife International considers Mercury Island as an Important Bird Area (IBA). Indeed the four Namibian islands of Mercury, Ichaboe, Halifax and Possession are critical for the breeding of a number of rare or endangered species of birds including the Cape gannets Morus capensis, the endangered African penguin Spheniscus demersus, and the crowned cormorants Microcarbo coronatus.
Approximately 80% of the global population of the endangered bank cormorant Phalacrocorax neglectus breeds on Mercury and Ichaboe Islands. Migrating whales such as humpback whales and recovering southern right whales also visit the island during wintering seasons.

There is a dwelling on Mercury Island, which is frequented by scientists and conservationists monitoring wildlife in the area.

History
An American sealing captain, Captain Benjamin Morrell, in 1832 wrote in his (ghost-written) memoirs, A Narrative of Four Voyages, that the guano deposits on Ichaboe Island were 25 feet deep. He averred that a $30,000 investment would produce in two years a profit of "from ten to fifteen hundred per cent."

Liverpool businessman Andrew Livingston investigated the claim, with the result that a guano rush developed. Exploitation began in 1841, and between 1843 and 1845 some 450 boats lay off Ichaboe as their crews retrieved over 300,000 tons of guano. The rush extended to Mercury and other Namibian islands. The guano extraction destroyed the habitat that had drawn breeding seabirds which had created the deposits.

Captain Owen Owens and 19 crew members from SS Point Pleasant Park landed on Mercury on 2 March 1945 after a German submarine had sunk their vessel on 23 February. The fishing vessel Boy Russell rescued them, taking them to Luderitz, South West Africa.

See also
Penguin Islands

Citations and references
Citations

References

External links
 Mercury Island description by Animal Demography Unit of the University of Cape Town: Mercury Island, Namibia

Lüderitz
Geography of ǁKaras Region
Islands of Namibia
Nature conservation in Namibia


Deborah "Debbie" Rodriguez is an American writer, hairdresser, and humanitarian. She is noted for creating safe spaces that provide women with a way out of domestic violence and chaotic circumstances.

Biography
In 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering aid after the fall of the Taliban. There, she helped found a beauty school that trained 200 women in the art of hairdressing, many of whom went on to run their own salons, giving them the opportunity to start their own business and provide for their families. She later opened a coffee shop in Kabul.

Rodriguez wrote two bestselling books based on her experiences in Afghanistan, The Kabul Beauty School and The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, as well as Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. At one point, Kabul Beauty School was slated to become a movie, with Sandra Bullock playing the lead.

As of 2014, Rodriguez lives in Mazatlán, Mexico, where she is the owner of Tippy Toes Salon and Marrakesh Spa, and where she established Project Mariposa, providing funding for young women to attend beauty school, with the goal of helping them become independent and self-supporting. Margarita Wednesdays (The House on Carnaval Street), a book detailing her journey to remake her life after being forced to leave Afghanistan, was released in June 2014. Her other books include the novels The Zanzibar Wife, and The Moroccan Daughter

As of 2021, Rodriguez has been working to help 130 Afghans, including former staff and beauty school students, leave Afghanistan. As the president of the non-profit Oasis Rescue, she is raising money to support efforts for Afghans who are seeking to leave the country, as well as those who have left and find themselves in need.

Some controversy followed the publishing of Kabul Beauty School. Other women who were also involved at the founding of the Kabul Beauty School say the book is filled with inaccuracies and inconsistencies, that events did not unfold the way Rodriguez depicts them. Though it was acknowledged that some personal, place and organization names were changed in the book, and some chronological details adjusted. Some of the women who worked at the beauty school said that, because of the publication of the book and the details it revealed about them, their lives had been put in danger. Some also claimed that Rodriguez had not made good on promises for financial support and other help. However, Rodriguez claims that she was careful to protect the identities of the women mentioned in the book, and that they were all enthusiastic about telling their stories knowing that was the case.

In 2002, Rodriguez married an Afghan, Samer (Sam) Mohammad Abdul Khan, who worked for Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. At the time he had a wife in Saudi Arabia, who became pregnant with his eighth child while he was married to Rodriguez. The marriage with Rodriguez was reported as a happy one as late as April 2007, but soon after, she had to flee Afghanistan.

Publications

Non-fiction
 Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil (1 January 2007, Hodder: )
 Margarita Wednesdays: Making a New Life by the Mexican Sea (10 June 2014, Gallery Books: ) (published as The House on Carnaval Street in some countries)

Fiction
 The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul (19 November 2012, Sphere: )
 Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul (28 March 2016, Sphere: )
The Zanzibar Wife (2018, Sphere: )
 Island on the Edge of the World (5 November 2019, Sphere: )
 The Moroccan Daughter (2 February 2021, Bantam: )

See also

 Abdul Rashid Dostum
 Greg Mortenson
 Sarah Chayes
 Ministry of Women's Affairs (Afghanistan)
 Women in Afghanistan

References

External links

American expatriates in Afghanistan
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American humanitarians
21st-century American memoirists
American women memoirists
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women writers
American expatriates in Mexico
American women novelists
American philanthropists
American fiction writers


"Rain" is a song by American rock band Breaking Benjamin. It was released in June 2005 as the third single from their second album, We Are Not Alone.

The 2005 single version of "Rain" is found only on newer pressings of We Are Not Alone. This version is a full-band version of "Rain" (as opposed to the original version in which the only instrument used is an acoustic guitar). The song was performed on Sessions@AOL along with "So Cold" and "Sooner or Later".

Track listing

Personnel
Album version
Produced and mixed by David Bendeth
Engineering and digital editing by Dan Korneff
Assisted by John Bender
Recorded and mixed at Mirror Image (Studio D)

2005 version
Produced by David Bendeth
Engineering by Dan Korneff
Digital editing by John Bender
Recorded at Paragon Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Mixed by Michael Brauer at Quad Studios, New York City
Assisted by Keith Gary and Will Hensley

Charts

References

2005 singles
Breaking Benjamin songs
Hollywood Records singles
Songs written by Billy Corgan
Songs written by Benjamin Burnley
2004 songs
American alternative rock songs


Mark Webster Chatfield (August 11, 1953 – December 23, 1998) was an American breaststroke swimmer and breaststroke specialist.

Chatfield won the gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke at the 1971 Pan American Games.  He represented the United States as a 19-year-old at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.  He advanced to the event final of the men's 100-meter breaststroke, finishing fourth with a time of 1:06.1.

He was the 1973 U.S. national champion in the 100-yard breaststroke (57.36).  He attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he swam for the USC Trojans swimming and diving team from 1972 to 1975.  As a college swimmer, he was recognized as an All-American in 1972 (100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke), 1973 (100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke, 400-yard medley relay), 1974 (100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke, 400-yard medley relay), and 1975 (100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard individual medley, 400-yard medley relay).

An accomplished Baroque and period musician, vocalist and composer, he played cello and was a countertenor.

Chatfield came out of retirement in 1994 to participate in the Gay Games. He recounted how "he could never disclose his sexuality for fear of losing his spot on the team."

Chatfield died of lymphoma on December 23, 1998; he was 45 years old.

See also
 List of University of Southern California people

References

External links
 L.A. Times Obituary
 List of USC All-American swimmers

1953 births
1998 deaths
American male breaststroke swimmers
American LGBT sportspeople
Olympic swimmers for the United States
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Sportspeople from Bakersfield, California
Swimmers at the 1971 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
USC Trojans men's swimmers
Gay sportsmen
LGBT swimmers
LGBT people from California
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Universiade medalists in swimming
FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States
Universiade bronze medalists for the United States
Medalists at the 1973 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games
20th-century American LGBT people


Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, played Melchett in the Blackadder television series, and was the host of celebrity comedy trivia show QI. He has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and three autobiographies, Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles, and More Fool Me: A Memoir.

Written works

Films and screenplays

Musicals

Books

Plays

Published television scripts

Performances

Film

Documentaries

Television

Theatre

Radio shows
 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase: Murray Bost Henson, BBC Radio 4
 Saturday Night Fry (1988, BBC Radio 4, six episodes)
 A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1994, BBC Radio Four, two half-hour programmes compiled from selected previously-seen sketches from the TV series)
 Absolute Power, BBC Radio Four
 Occasional guest panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, BBC Radio Four
 Regular guest panellist on Just a Minute, BBC Radio Four
 Has a regular slot, The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music on Classic FM
 Played the lead, David Lander, on Radio 4 series Delve Special
 A series of "wireless essays", supposedly by his alter ego, the elderly Cambridge philology professor Donald Trefusis, were featured in the BBC Radio 4 programme Loose Ends, hosted by Ned Sherrin
 Fry contributed regular parodies of BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat to the same station's arts programme Studio B15
 Afternoon Play: I Love Stephen Fry (2008, BBC Radio Four)
 Fry's English Delight (10 series, 2008–2019, BBC Radio Four)
 Stephen Fry on the Phone (2011, BBC Radio Four, five episodes)
 Warhorse of Letters, with Daniel Rigby (2011, BBC Radio Four, 12 episodes across 3 series)

Audiobooks
 Moab Is My Washpot (1997)
 Paperweight Volume 1 (1998)
 Harry Potter series, UK versions (1999–2007)
 The Hippopotamus (2000)
 Montmorency (2004)
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
 Higher Ground Project (2005)
 The Ode Less Travelled (2006)
 Paperweight Volume 2 (2007)
 The Best of Paddington on CD: Complete & Unabridged (2008)
 Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Anton Chekhov's Short Stories (Unabridged) (2008)
 Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Oscar Wilde's Short Stories (Unabridged) (2008)
 The Dongle of Donald Trefusis (Podcasts, 2009)
 The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography (2010)
 The Enormous Crocodile (2013)
 Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection (2017)
 Paddington and the Christmas Surprise (2020)
 Paddington and the Grand Tour (2022)
 Paddington in the Garden (2022)
 Paddington: The Original Story of the bear from Peru (2022)
 Paddington at the Palace (2022)
 Paddington at the Circus (2022)

Audio dramas
 The Hound of the Baskervilles (2021) as Dr. Watson

Video games
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2003)
 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
 Fable (2004) – Narrator
 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
 Fable II (2008) – Reaver
 LittleBigPlanet (2008) – Narrator
 LittleBigPlanet (2009) – Narrator
 Fable III (2010) – Reaver
 LittleBigPlanet 2 (2011) – Narrator
 LittleBigPlanet PS Vita (2012) - Narrator
 LittleBigPlanet Karting (2012) - Narrator
 PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (2012) – Narrator (from LittleBigPlanet)
 LittleBigPlanet 3 (2014) – Narrator
 Destiny 2: Warmind (2018) – Concierge AI

Miscellaneous
 Fry has a guest appearance in a webcast of Doctor Who called Death Comes to Time, as Time Lord, the Minister of Chance.
 He does the voice of the telephone in the Direct Line adverts alongside Paul Merton, who voices the mouse.
 Fry introduced the television show Wildlife SOS.
 He provided voiceovers for Argos' Christmas adverts in 2007.
 He is the character in the Twinings Earl Grey tea adverts on British TV.
 He performs the voice of "Jeeves" for Voco Clocks' Clocks That Talk.
 He performs on the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 2007 album, Pour l'Amour des Chiens.
 Fry appeared in a video entitled Freedom Fry — "Happy birthday to GNU", celebrating the GNU's 25th birthday.
 He provided his voice for the outro of YouTube videos by Charlie McDonnell, used since 2009.
 He recites "50 Words for Snow" off Kate Bush's 2011 album of the same name.
 Fry is also the narrator on the show Pocoyo for seasons 1–2. His first Pocoyo episode he narrated was the pilot episode "Umbrella, Umbrella" and his final Pocoyo episode he narrated was the season 2 finale "Remember When".
 Fry provided narration for the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts reunion special.

Directorial filmography
 Bright Young Things (director, 2003)

References

External links

Bibliographies by writer
Bibliographies of British writers
Arts-related lists
Stephen Fry
Writing-related lists


G String Divas is an American documentary series that aired on HBO. The show was filmed in 2000, and follows the lives of strippers working in a Bristol, Pennsylvania gentlemen's club.

Overview
The show has thirteen episodes and there were nine featured women: Miss Bunny, Jordan, Ginger, Cashmere, Joey, Chrissy, Silver, Summer and Angel.  The premiere episode delivered a 7.7 share, or 3.4 million viewers.  The show was produced and directed by Patti Kaplan, who also produced HBO's Real Sex series.  The club featured on it, Divas International Club, was attached to a hotel, and was converted to a banquet facility shortly after filming ended.

In one episode, the dancer Summer refers to a homicide case in which an obsessed customer killed his wife.  The killer, Craig Rabinowitz, had become obsessed with her when she was dancing at another Pennsylvania strip club.  The case was later profiled on an episode of Forensic Files, called "Summer Obsession", in which Miss Bunny, another of the performers from the HBO show, was interviewed.

References

External links
 "G String Divas" at HBO.com

HBO original programming
2000 American television series debuts
2000 American television series endings
2000s American documentary television series
Erotic dance
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Documentary films about sexuality
English-language television shows


Klaus Peter Brehmer (12 September 1938 in Berlin, Germany – 16 December 1997 in Hamburg, Germany), was a German painter, graphic artist and filmmaker. From 1971 to 1997 he was professor at the  Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.

Most of his works can be considered as political art or the visualization of political trends.

Biography

Brehmer was born 1938 in Berlin After school he graduated from 1957 to 1959 as a process engraver and as early as 1959 he first made etchings. The training was followed from 1959 to 1961 by the study of graphics at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld, now  in  the class of, a disciple of .

Beginning in 1961, he  started using  photographic films, radiograms, and block prints, and  further studied  graphics at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he worked until 1963 with Coester.

After a year's residence in Paris at the studio of  Stanley William Hayter, he  returned to Berlin, and dedicated  himself to  various types of graphic design. In this time his folded graphics, stamps series, colors and scales, different demographics and film works were produced.

In 1971 he became professor at the  Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and in 1987 and 1988, he was a guest lecturer at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.

Works

In the earliest works using photomechanical reproduction techniques (block prints, screen printing and offset printing), soon "real" objects such as architectural, technical and organic elements were added to  the abstract motifs.

Influenced by the emerging new definitions of art and direction as the pop art around 1960,  but also by the political rebellion of the younger generation of the 60s, Brehmer defined a new form of language, which, in opposition to abstract art of the 50s, served realistic motifs. Thus arose around 1963 so-called trivial graphics, as the cliché pressure (a high-technology, also known as "Rasterätzung" or Autotypie) were exported. Brehmer used "everyday" motifs from advertising and the mass media, like naked women, cars or spacemen. he finally overcome with the construction of boxes and the limited dimensionality of printmaking. In the mid-60s he took advantage of a new motif: the stamp, which can be defined as authoritative body with cultural definition of power. Sometimes he combined these individual graphics to album pages or stamp-bags.

With his work since the mid-60s Brehmer was, along with Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter and Wolf Vostell, an important representative of the capitalist realism style.  Today, the capitalist realism works are often attributed to the European Pop Art, with a particular political remark. At the same time Brehmer tried to democratize the art and to infiltrate the structures of the commercial exploitation of art with incorrectly declared unlimited editions, proofs or special editions.
In the'70s, a new group of works - the so-called "diagrammatic work" in which colors, maps and statistics have been processed had been created. The political character came out even stronger. Brehmer dealt with the interpretation and significance of color as a symbol (Farbengeografien, Ideale Landschaft, Farbmuster) and created oversized charts and maps to Fascism (Hitler's Rede, 1973), the communist threat (Lokalisierung von Rotwerten, 1972), environmental damage ( Skyline, 1972) and war (Lokalisierung Rot/Rosa, 1972 My Lai).

The best-known work of this group is a rigged German Flag (Korrektur der Nationalfarben, 1972), wherein the three colours black - red - gold valued in different sizes are defined by the distribution of wealth in West Germany. This flag was  hoisted in front of the documenta 5.
From the late'70s Brehmer - in addition to the continued production of graphics and drawings -  he began to paint. The motives are collected from scientific journals thermography, sonogram, etc..

Besides the graphics, panel paintings and drawings Brehmer produced films (such as "walking" 16 mm, 20 min., B / w, sound, Kleistfilm, 16 mm, 9 min., Color, sound, several documentaries on performances by J. Beuys, Moorman C., A. Kaprow, A. Koepcke, P. Polke and others) and compositions based on graphical templates (Seele und Gefühl eines Arbeiters, 1978; Composition No. 3 (In Form eines Spitzkleeblattes), 1983, etc.)

The visualization of social developments and political trends can be seen as the “common” thread in his art.

Solo exhibitions

 1964 Graphisches Kabinett der Freien Galerie, Berlin
 1965 Klaus Peter Brehmer: Trivialgrafik, Galerie René Block, Berlin (K)
 1971 KP Brehmer. Produktion 1962–1971, Kunstverein Hamburg (K) / Galerie Baecker, Bochum
 1972 Galerie Bama, Paris (Frankreich) / Galerie René Block, Berlin
 1975 Bilder einer Ausstellung, René Block Gallery, New York (USA)
 1976 KP Brehmer. Gesamte Druckgrafik, Museum Wiesbaden (K)
 1977 Time, College of Art, Philadelphia (USA)
 1985 KP Brehmer. Wie mich die Schlange sieht. Wie ich die Schlange sehe, DAAD-Galerie, Berlin (K), Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken; Büro Orange, München (K)
 1989 KP Brehmer. 30 Jahre Arbeit in Kunst. Trivialgrafik, Aufsteller, Schachteln, 1959–1970, Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg (mit Stephan von Huene)
 1993 KP Brehmer, Schamanismus, Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg (mit Bogomir Ecker)
 1994 KP Brehmer - Briefmarken 1966–1972, Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt am Main (K)
 1995 KP Brehmer, DG HYP-Ausstellungsforum, Hamburg (K)
 1998 KP Brehmer - Alle Künstler lügen, Fridericianum, Kassel (K)
 2000 KP Brehmer – Das Gefühl zwischen den Fingerkuppen, Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt am Main
 2004 KP Brehmer - Nationale Werte, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen
 Ständige Ausstellung seit 1998 im Sockelgeschoß der Hamburger Kunsthalle
 2009 KP Brehmer - Milliken Gallery, Stockholm (Schweden)
 2011 KP Brehmer - A TEST EXTENDING BEYOND THE ACTION Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo Sevilla (Spanien)
 2013 KP Brehmer und die Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
 2014 KP Brehmer Real Capital – Production Raven Row, London.
 2015 KP Brehmer Scheinbar abstrakte Kunst Vorsetzen, Hamburg
 2019 KP Brehmer - Kunst≠PropagandaGemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague
 Neues Museum Nürnberg (2018/19); Hamburger Kunsthalle (2019); und ARTER, Istanbul Turkey(2020)
 2023 KP Brehmer - Welt im Kopf [World in Mind] curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff, Petzel Gallery and Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York (USA)

Group exhibitions
„KP Brehmer hatte es gar nicht so sehr auf Einzelausstellungen angelegt. Ihm erschienen Gruppenausstellungen wegen des künstlerischen Austausches interessanter“. (Zitat Monika Brehmer)

 1964 Neodada, Pop Decollage, Kapitalistischer Realismus, Galerie René Block, Berlin
 1966 Kritische Grafik. Brehmer - Staeck - Vostell, Graficky kabinety, Brno (Tschechoslowakei)
 1967 Hommage à Lidice, Galerie René Block, Berlin; Spala Galerie, Prag (Tschechoslowakei) / New multiple art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (Großbritannien)
 1971 Metamorphose des Dinges. Kunst und Antikunst 1910–1970, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
 1972 documenta 5. Befragung der Realität. Bildwelten heute, Kassel
 1973 Kunst im politischen Kampf. Aufforderung - Anspruch - Wirklichkeit, Kunstverein Hannover
 1974 Art in Society. Society into Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (Großbritannien)
 1975 Druckgrafik der Gegenwart, Nationalgalerie, Berlin / Boites, ARC 2, Musée d´Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (Frankreich)
 1976 Künstler drucken, Leipzig (DDR) / Working Party, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (Großbritannien)
 1977 documenta 6 in Kassel / 13° E. Eleven Artists working in Berlin, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (Großbritannien)
 1978 Eremit? Forscher? Sozialarbeiter? Das veränderte Selbstverständnis von Künstlern, Kunstverein und Kunsthaus, Hamburg / Kunst von 1960 bis heute, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin / Realisten, Kunsthalle Rostock (DDR); Moskau (Russland)
 1979 Für Augen und Ohren. Von der Spieluhr zum akustischen Environment, Akademie der Künste, Berlin / Écouter par les yeux, ARC, Musée d´Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (Frankreich) /   Cartes de la terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris (Frankreich)
 1984 Zugehend auf eine Biennale des Friedens. Hamburger Wochen für Bildende Kunst 1985, Kunsthaus und Kunstverein, Hamburg
 1985 Vorsatz 1, Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg
 1987 1961 Berlin art 1987, Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)
 1988 China & The West Calligraphy & Painting Harmony, Art Gallery, Hangzhou (VR China)
 1989 Broken Music. Artists´ Recordworks, DAAD-Galerie, Berlin; Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (Niederlande); Magasin, Grenoble (Schweiz)
 1990 The Readymade Boomerang / 8th Biennale of Sydney (Australien)
 1991 Fluxus & Concept-art. Sammlung Beck, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen / Umwandlungen, National Gallery of Korea, Seoul (Südkorea) / Mit dem Kopf durch die Wand. Sammlung Block, Statens Museum for Kunst, Kopenhagen; Kunsthalle, Nürnberg
 1992 KP Brehmer, K.H. Hödicke, Konrad Lueg, Wolf Vostell, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus, Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt am Main (K)
 1993 Mediale Hamburg
 1997 PRO LIDICE - 52 Künstler aus Deutschland, Tschechisches Museum für Bildende Künste, Prag (Tschechien)
 1999 Pop Impressions. Europe/USA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA) / EuroPop. A Dialogue with the US, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Kopenhagen (Dänemark)/ Chronos und Kairos. Die Zeit in der zeitgenössische Kunst, Fridericianum Kassel
 2000 Das XX. Jahrhundert. Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland. Nationalgalerie Berlin / Hamburger Bahnhof (K)
 2002 Shopping. 100 Jahre Kunst und Konsum. Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main, Tate Gallery Liverpool (Großbritannien)
 2003 Berlin-Moskau. 1950–2000, Berliner Festspiele / Martin-Gropiusbau Berlin
 2004 Moskau-Berlin 1950–2000. Staatliches Historisches Museum, Moskau (Russland) / Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968-75. Miró Foundation, Barcelona (Spanien); Porto (Portugal) / Two and One.Printmaking in Germany 1945–1990, Kunsthalle zu Kiel / Krieg Medien Kunst. Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen
 2006 Art Salon Belgrade - ART, LIFE & CONFUSION, Belgrad (Serbien) / Eye on europe. Prints, books & multiples 1960 to know, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA) / Far West. Vier Künstler zwischen Deutschland und China, Kunsthaus Hamburg, verschiedene Stationen in China (2007) Shanghai u.a.
 2007 FAR WEST, Mingyan Artcenter, Shanghai (VR China)
 2008 Europop, Kunsthaus Zürich (Schweiz)
 2008 True Romance. Allegorien von der Renaissance bis heute, Kunsthalle Wien,(Österreich) Villa Stuck, München, Kunsthalle zu Kiel / Europop Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Zürich / German Angst, Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein / Art Basel, Galerie Milliken
 2009 Flagge zeigen? Die Deutschen und ihre Nationalsymbole, Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Quartett - Vier Biennalen im Spiegel grafischer Blätter, Tanas, Berlin / Werke aus der Sammlung Block, Neues Museum in Nürnberg / Bilder einer Ausstellung, Edition Block Berlin / Bilderschlachten - 2000 Jahre Nachrichten aus dem Krieg, Museum Industriekultur / The Armory Show 2009, New York, Milliken Gallery / 1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Time as Matter. MACBA Collection. New acquisitions, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona / Red Thread - Ein Prolog zur 11. Internationalen Istanbul Biennale Tanas Berlin / 11. Biennale Istanbul / Kunst und Kalter Krieg – Deutsche Positionen 1945–1989, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin
 2010 Vom Ursprung der Welten, Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V. FRISE / Kapitalistischer Realismus. Grafik aus der Sammlung Block, Die Feininger Galerie Quedlinburg
 2011 modell/stadt/muster/stadt, Centre d'art passerelle Brest (Frankreich)/ travaille(r) la réalité ! Centre d'art passerelle Brest (Frankreich) / GRAFIK DES KAPITALISTISCHEN REALISMUS, Edition Block Berlin / All I Can See is the Management, Gasworks (London/Grossbritannien)/ 6th MOMENTUM Bienal, Norwegen / Museum of Affects. In the framework of L'InternationaleMuseum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Slowenien / Belvedere – Warum ist Landschaft schön? Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen
 2012 Doppelte Ökonomien - Vom Lesen eines Fotoarchivs aus der DDR (1967–1990), Halle14 – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei / Hungry City. Landwirtschaft in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin / Erhöhte Temperatur. Kunst und Klima, Salzburger Kunstverein (Österreich) / Abstraktion und Alltag, Galerie Nord - Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin / Capitalist Realism, Early prints of KP Brehmer, Karl Horst Hödicke, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Wolf Vostell, Kunsthal 44 Møen / Pi – π Verwandlungen des Kreises, Landdrotei Pinneberg
 2013 55th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Venedig (Italien)Biennale di Venezia
 2014 Playtime, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München / GERMAN POP Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (Main)
 2015 Office Space Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (USA)/ Adventures of the Black Square Whitechapel, London(GB)

Bibliography (selection)
 Réné Block: Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus. 2 volumes. Berlin 1971/1974.
 KP Brehmer: Wie mich die Schlange sieht... Exhibition Catalog, Daad-Galerie, Berlin 1985.
 Hubertus Butin: KP Brehmer, Briefmarken 1966–1972. Exhibition Catalog. Galerie Bernd Slutzky, 1994, ISBN 3-9802923-1-2.
 KP Brehmer: Alle Künstler lügen. Exhibition Catalog. Fridericianum, Kassel 1998.
 Björn Egging: Von Pop zu Politik. Studien zur Entwicklung der politisch engagierten Kunst KP Brehmers 2004. Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek der freien und Hansestadt Hamburg. Digitalisat
 Kapitalistischer Realismus. Grafik aus der Sammlung Block. Exhibition Catalog. Kerber Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86678-413-0.
 S. D. Sauerbier: Welt aus Zeichen – Kodierung des Trivialen. [Über das Werk von KP Brehmer.] = Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst. Edition 46, Heft 9, Munich 1999, .
 KP Brehmer: Real Capital-Production. Exhibition Catalog. edited by Doreen Mende und Raven Row. KoenigBooks, 2016, ISBN 978-3-96098-065-0 (englisch)
 KP Brehmer: Kunst≠Propaganda. Exhibition Catalog. KoenigBooks 2018, ISBN 978-3-96098-459-7 (deutsch), ISBN 978-3-96098-460-3 (englisch), türkisch
 Sichtagitation Briefmarke - KP Brehmer – Aby Warburg. Michael Glasmeier, Texte Verlag / Campo Bd. 1 (deutsch) ISBN 978-3-86485-234-3.
 KP Brehmer: Song of Growth. edited by Elisa R. Linn, Lennart Wolff. Designed by Anne Stock. Haciendabooks, 2020, ISBN 978-3-907211-03-8. (englisch)

References

 Réné Block: Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus. Berlin 1971/1974, 2 vol.
 KP Brehmer: Wie mich die Schlange sieht... Exhibition catalogue, Daad-Galerie, Berlin 1985
 Hubertus Butin: KP Brehmer, Briefmarken 1966-1972 Exhibition catalogue, Galerie Bernd Slutzky 1994.
 KP Brehmer: Alle Künstler lügen. Exhibition catalogue, Fridericianum Kassel 1998
 Björn Egging: Von Pop zu Politik. Studien zur Entwicklung der politisch engagierten Kunst KP Brehmers 2004. Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek der freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
 KP Brehmer: Real Capital-Production. Ausstellungskatalog. Ed. von Doreen Mende und Raven Row. KoenigBooks 2016,  (Englisch)
 KP Brehmer: Kunst≠Propaganda. Ausstellungskatalog. KoenigBooks 2018,  (Deutsch),  (Englisch)
 KP Brehmer: Song of Growth. Ausstellungskatalog. Ed. von Elisa R. Linn und Lennart Wolff. Hacienda Books 2020,  (Englisch)

External links
 Literatur of and about KP Brehmer in the catalogue of German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)
 [(biography and bibliography IFA database) http://kuenstlerdatenbank.ifa.de/datenblatt.php3?ID=264&NAME=brehmer&ACTION=kuenstler&SUB_ACTION=1%7C8 ]
 KP Brehmer Sammlung und Nachlass (KP Brehmer Collection and Estate)

1938 births
1997 deaths
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German male painters
Political artists


The Idaho Centennial Trail (ICT) is a 995.6 mile (1602.26 km) scenic trail through the state of Idaho. It passes through various ecosystems, including high desert canyon lands in Southern Idaho to wet mountain forests in Northern Idaho. The Idaho Centennial Trail was designated as an official state trail in 1990, Idaho's centennial year.

History
A trail connecting the Northern and Southern borders of Idaho was first envisioned in the 1980s.  Roger Williams and Syd Tate initially conceptualized this trail in 1986. Williams and Tate made a challenging three-month-long, twelve hundred mile journey over the entire length of Idaho during which the official route was drafted.

The ICT was designated as the official state trail during Idaho's Centennial year in 1990 by the Lasting Legacy Committee of the Idaho Centennial Commission. Since then, the number of hikers completing the trail has remained low.

Route

The Idaho Centennial Trail (ICT) route is along existing trails and primitive roads. Hikers typically start at the southern trailhead near Murphy Hot Springs on the Idaho-Nevada border in early June when snow levels are starting to recede and travel northward through high desert with the goal of entering higher country before the heat of summer sets in. To complete the trail within this timeframe, the end of the trail at the Idaho-British Columbia border must then be reached before the snows of late September/early October.

The ICT is located in the Sawtooth Wilderness, the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness for more than . Within these areas, the trail borders Middle Fork of the Salmon River and the Selway River. These rivers are both designated as National Wild and Scenic Rivers, a designation due largely to Frank Church, for whom one of Idaho's Wilderness areas is named.

North of the Selway-Bitterroot, the trail moves along the Idaho-Montana border on the backbone of the Bitterroot Mountains for more than  on high ridges. Dozens of high mountain lakes along this portion of the route are frequented by anglers and sightseers.

Terrain
The trail features many climbs and descents. The Centennial Trail begins at  near Murphy Hot Springs, descends to  at the Snake River near Glenns Ferry, and then runs up and down through the mountains of Central Idaho between . The trail's low point ( above sea level) is along the Selway River near the Moose Creek Guard Station, after which it climbs again to altitudes of  in the Cabinet Mountains and Selkirk Mountains towards the northern boundary.

Controlling Agencies
The Idaho State Centennial Trail is a cooperative effort. The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation provides overall trail coordination. The Bureau of Land Management manages the southern section of the trail, while the U.S. Forest Service manages the middle and northern sections of the trail. Private and other public land agencies allow trail users to cross their property for continuity.

References

External links

 Idaho Centennial Trail interactive online map
 Idaho Centennial Trail Trail description and information from the State of Idaho Parks and Recreation
 Official Trail Maps A digital representation of the ICT

Hiking trails in Idaho
Long-distance trails in the United States