Miss Amelia Van Buren or Portrait of Amelia C. Van Buren is a  painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), now in The Phillips Collection. It depicts Amelia Van Buren ( – 1942), an artist who studied with Eakins, and was called "one of his most gifted pupils." The painting is considered one of Eakins's finest works.

Background
Van Buren studied with Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1884 and 1885. In 1886 Eakins described her as "a lady of perhaps thirty years or more, and from Detroit[.] She came to the Academy some years ago to study figure painting by which art she hoped to support herself, her parents I believe being dead. I early recognized her as a very capable person. She had a temperament sensitive to color and form, was grave, earnest, thoughtful, and industrious. She soon surpassed her fellows, and I marked her as one I ought to help in every way...."

Eakins's helpfulness included unusual methods: he once disrobed privately for Van Buren in order to demonstrate an anatomical point, an action that he characterized as purely professional. Nevertheless, the story was one of numerous controversial incidents used by Eakins's political adversaries to prompt his dismissal from the Pennsylvania Academy.

After she had ceased studying with Eakins, Van Buren frequently stayed as a guest in his Mount Vernon Street home, and likely posed for the painting during one of her visits to Philadelphia. Although the painting is dated c. 1891,  it is also possible that the portrait could have been painted during a long stay with Eakins and his wife from December 6, 1888 to August 12, 1889. Another friend and student of Eakins's, Charles Bregler, later wrote "I recall with pleasure looking on for several hours one afternoon while he (Eakins) was painting in this room that beautiful portrait of Miss Van Buren....No conversation took place, his attention being entirely concentrated on the painting."

Van Buren eventually left painting to devote herself to photography. There exist several photographs of her that have been attributed to Eakins or his circle. She established a Boston marriage with fellow Eakins student Eva Watson.

Composition

Van Buren's seated figure creates a pyramidal composition, activated by the movement of her head, arms, and torso. Her body is illuminated and given sculptural form by a strong shaft of light coming from the left. Her face is thin and serious, her graying hair pulled back, as she supports her head with her left hand, her right hand counterpoised in her lap, holding a fan. For Eakins's biographer John Wilmerding, the contrast between the arms is noteworthy: one arm is solid and "architectural...suggestive of an unspoken potential for great vitality", and "the anchor of the portrait" that belies the otherwise reflective countenance; the other hand is shadowed and limp. She sits in a Jacobean-revival chair, a prop that Eakins often used for his studio portraits. It is selectively detailed, so as to support without distracting from Van Buren's figure. Van Buren's dress contains complex passages, composed in part of broad, brilliant pink forms, and of creased light-colored fabric with floral patterns.

Her body twists "like an overused spring", culminating in the focal point of her head, its anatomical structure exactingly rendered, the broad forehead suggesting the sitter's intellectual presence. She exhibits what one reviewer had already referred to as "an Eakinsish expression", characteristic of his ability to portray "mere thinking without the aid of gesture or attitude." In a letter from his youth, Eakins explained his interest in the: "higher class[,] the thinking people and feeling ones who always want to see everything [and] to know more".

Van Buren was often unwell, and was diagnosed as having neurasthenia; in 1886 she wrote to Eakins's wife Susan: "I have at last discovered that the trouble with me is in my head it is exhausted by worry or something or other..." The portrait seems to indicate as much. Touching on the picture's melancholy, John Updike referred to the painting when he wrote "Discomfort and a grieving inwardness distinguish the best of his (Eakins's) many portraits." The sense of weariness has been interpreted also as a projection of Eakins's personality, especially in the wake of his professional difficulties. As a psychological study, it has been noted that such a profound rendering of a former student is unusual, and that the painting may be seen as a sort of self-portrait.

Reception

Miss Amelia Van Buren was only the second portrait of a woman from outside his family that Eakins showed publicly; at neither the Philadelphia prelude to the World's Columbian Exposition nor subsequently in Chicago did it receive much mention in the press. More recent praise has been unqualified. William Innes Homer has called it "superb', and written that "Such a painting can hold its own against the best work of any of Eakins's contemporaries, no matter what their country of origin." For John Canaday, it was "the finest of all American portraits."

Provenance
The painting came into Van Buren's possession, possibly as a gift from the artist, by 1893. In 1927 the Phillips Memorial Gallery purchased it from Van Buren.

See also
 List of works by Thomas Eakins

Notes

References
 Canaday, John: Thomas Eakins; "Familiar truths in clear and beautiful language", Horizon. Volume VI, Number 4, Autumn 1964.
 Homer, William Innes: Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art. Abbeville Press, 1992.
 Sewell, Darrel; et al. Thomas Eakins. Yale University Press, 2001.
 Updike, John: "The Ache in Eakins", Still Looking: Essays on American Art. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
 Wilmerding, John. Thomas Eakins. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

External links

 Miss Amelia Van Buren, The Phillips Collection

Van Buren
1891 paintings
Van Buren
Paintings in Washington, D.C.


IATP is an acronym that may refer to:

 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, see iatp.org
 International Airlines Technical Pool, see Turkish Technic
 Internet Access and Training Program
 Interactive Agent Transfer Protocol; see List of IP protocol numbers (Hex: 0x75, protocol: #117)


Lloyd Kirkham Garrison (November 19, 1897 – October 2, 1991) was an American lawyer. He was Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, but also served as chairman of the "first" National Labor Relations Board, chairman of the National War Labor Board, and chair of the New York City Board of Education. He was active in a number of social causes, was a highly successful attorney on Wall Street, and for a short time was a special assistant to the United States Attorney General.

Early life and education
Garrison was born on November 19, 1897, in New York City to Lloyd McKim and Alice (Kirkham) Garrison. His great-grandfather was William Lloyd Garrison, the famous American abolitionist, and his grandfather was Wendell Phillips Garrison, who once was literary editor of The Nation (a left-wing magazine of politics and opinion). His father died of typhoid when Garrison was a child, and he was largely raised by his grandfather, Wendell. His grandfather, who knew many Civil War-era abolitionists (Frederick Douglass was a frequent guest in the Garrison home in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Wendell Garrison knew him personally), regaled young Lloyd with many stories about the great struggles for civil rights and liberties of the 19th century. He graduated from St. Paul's School, a college-preparatory boarding school in New Hampshire. He attended Harvard College, but quit school in 1917 to enlist in the United States Navy after the U.S. entered World War I. He returned to Harvard in 1919, and in 1922 he graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Harvard and a law degree from Harvard Law School.

He married Ellen Jay, a Boston socialite and direct descendant of Founding Father and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, on June 22, 1921. The couple had three children: Clarinda, Ellen, and Lloyd.

Early career and federal service
He moved to New York City in 1922, and was recruited by Elihu Root himself to join the prominent firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland. He joined the National Urban League in 1924, after two African American men asked him to be treasurer of the nascent organization. He immediately agreed, and later said that it was this organization which made him aware of the true extent of racial discrimination in the United States. In 1926 he opened his own practice. He investigated "ambulance chasing" and bankruptcy fraud among the city's lawyers on behalf of the New York City Bar Association, and his work became so well known that in 1930 President Herbert Hoover appointed him special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General (where he served on a federal commission investigating bankruptcy fraud nationwide).

Garrison was named Acting Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1929, and Dean in 1932. As dean, Garrison led efforts to significantly revamp the curriculum, implementing a functionalist approach to the study of law, restructuring the first year to emphasize the origins and development of the American legal system, and creating a number of short courses in current law topics so that students would be prepared for the legal issues they encountered immediately upon graduation. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt abolished the National Labor Board in June 1934 and replaced it with the "first" National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), he appointed Garrison as the Board's first chairman. Although he served on the Board for only four months, Garrison led the Board in deciding Houde Engineering Corp., 1 NLRB 87 (1934), a landmark ruling in American labor law that required employers to bargain exclusively with the representatives elected by a majority of employees. Garrison, however, agreed to serve as the chair only to get the board up and running, and he resigned on October 2, 1934, to resume his position at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He served as president of the Association of American Law Schools for the 1936-1937 term. Roosevelt turned to Garrison again when he established a national mediation board in an (unsuccessful) attempt to quell the Little Steel Strike of 1937. Roosevelt later considered Garrison for the Supreme Court of the United States after Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter resigned on June 2, 1937. Garrison received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1938.

Garrison took a leave of absence again from Wisconsin to serve on the National War Labor Board (NWLB) during World War II. The NWLB was established on January 12, 1942, by President Roosevelt to oversee war-related labor relations for the duration of the war and ensure that war-related production was not disrupted by labor disputes. Initially, Garrison was the War Labor Board's executive director and chief counsel. He was promoted to alternative public member in January 1944. A month later, he was elevated yet again to full public member. In the NWLB's final year of existence, he was its chairman.

Later career
Garrison did not return to the University of Wisconsin after the war.  Instead, he joined the New York City law firm of Weiss & Wharton (now renamed, after the addition of several partners, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison). Although he primarily practiced corporate law for the rest of his life, Garrison continued to represent high-profile clients in a variety of cases.  In 1945, the United States Supreme Court appointed Garrison as a special master in Georgia v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 324 U.S. 439 (1945), and his hearings and report formed the basis for the Court's decision two years later in Georgia v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 331 US 788 (1947). In the late 1940s, Garrison served as legal counsel to the Field Foundation (created by his friend Marshall Field III from funds he inherited from his father, who founded the Marshall Field's department store) In 1948, Garrison served as a member of the board of directors of a pilot project established by the Foundation to build non-discriminatory low-income housing in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. In 1953, as a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's National Legal Committee, Garrison advised Langston Hughes when Hughes was subpoenaed by Senator Joseph McCarthy to appear before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to testify about communist influences on his writings. That same year, he hired Pauli Murray, one of the first female African American lawyers in the country, as an associate at his firm. With John W. Davis, he represented Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer before a panel of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954. Oppenheimer had met Garrison in April 1953 when Garrison had joined the board of directors of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Garrison brought Davis in as Oppenheimer's co-counsel. Their defense of Oppenheimer was unsuccessful, however, and Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked. Along with Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Garrison also represented playwright Arthur Miller before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956 and in Miller's fight against his contempt of Congress conviction in 1957. In the 1950s, Garrison was also a supporter of the Highlander Research and Education Center, a liberal leadership training school and cultural center.

Garrison also remained active in areas outside the law after the 1945. From 1947 to 1952 he served as President of the National Urban League. He was a close friend of Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, and strongly supported Stevenson's campaigns for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956. From 1958 to 1961, Garrison worked closely with Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Finletter, and Herbert H. Lehman to break the power of Tammany Hall-backed politician Carmine DeSapio in New York City politics. The efforts of Garrison and the other finally broke Tammany Hall's grip on the city for good: Ed Koch defeated De Sapio by 41 votes in 1963 and by 164 votes in a rematch in 1964, and De Sapio's political career ended. Garrison was a long-time member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and served on its board of directors from the late 1930s until at least 1965. Over the years, he was also a member of the board of trustees for Harvard University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Howard University. While serving on the Howard board, he helped write a report which significantly restructured the school's administrative procedures. He was also a long-time member of the Council of Foreign Relations and the New York City Bar Association.

New York City public school service
From 1961 to 1967, Garrison served on the New York City Board of Education, and was its president from 1965 to 1967. In 1961, the New York State Legislature enacted legislation dissolving the existing New York City Public Schools school board and establishing a new, nine-member "reform" Board of Education. On September 18, 1961, New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. appointed Garrison to be a member of the new board. The Board of Education elected Garrison its president and chair on July 21, 1965.

The 67-year-old Garrison was president of the Board of Education during a time of significant change for New York City public schools.  In 1961, teachers in the city schools had struck and won the right to form a labor union, and subsequently they elected the United Federation of Teachers to be its collective bargaining representative.  Major corruption scandals had also rocked the school system, and for the first time the schools revealed that the quality of education in the system had slipped badly at the same time that white flight had taken most high-performing middle-class students out of the system while large numbers of educationally disadvantaged minority and immigrant children entered it.

Due to his age and declining health, Garrison retired from the Board of Education in the summer of 1967. The city's new Mayor, John Lindsay, appointed Garrison to a Mayor's Advisory Panel on the Decentralization of the New York City Schools. The Advisory Panel recommended extensive devolution of control over the city's public schools to locally elected neighborhood school boards. One locally controlled board in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighborhood began violating the union's contract in order to bring in a new teaching staff. This led to three strikes which engulfed the entire city school system. The devolution experiment ended after the strikes. The result was not unsurprising. Garrison had chaired a highly structured public hearing on devolution in 1966. After a local African American woman attempted to speak (even though she was not on the witness list), Garrison ruled her out of order—causing the hearing to dissolve into a near-riot which required police (and for Garrison and the other Board members to scurry out a back door for their own safety).

Environmental law case
Also in the mid-1960s, Garrison was also involved in a landmark court case on environmental law. In May 1963, the Consolidated Edison energy company proposed constructing a hydroelectric power generating station on top of Storm King Mountain, a famous Hudson River valley landmark. The Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference formed to oppose the project. In March 1965, the Federal Power Commission, which had licensing authority over all hydroelectric projects in the United States, granted approval for the project to proceed. The Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference asked the agency to reconsider, based on the significant environmental impact and harm to scenic vistas the project would create, but the agency refused.

The Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference hired Garrison as its attorney, and he quickly filed suit in a federal court of appeals to stop the project. The court of appeals blocked the project on December 29, 1965, but the energy company appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, allowing the injunction against the power plant to stand. The decision in Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, 354 F.2d 608 (1965), cert. den'd., 384 US 941 (1966), is a landmark case in American environmental law, because it established for the first time that citizens do not need to show economic harm from a project but have standing to sue merely if the project creates environmental and aesthetic harms.

Death
Garrison remained active in his law firm until the end of his life.  He died at his home in Manhattan in New York City of a heart failure on October 2, 1991. He was survived by his wife and three children.

The New York City Bar Association established the Lloyd K. Garrison Student Leadership Program after his death. The program awards internships to about 15 students from alternative New York City high schools each year.

In popular culture
In the 2023 film Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, Garrison was portrayed by actor Macon Blair.

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External links
"Garrison, Lloyd K. (Lloyd Kirkham), Papers 1893-1990." Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University

1897 births
1991 deaths
Lawyers from Manhattan
Harvard Law School alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Public education in New York City
School board members in New York (state)
20th-century American politicians
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Trail of the Mounties, also known as Law of the Mounties, is a 1947 American western film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Russell Hayden, Jennifer Holt, and Emmett Lynn.

Premise
A Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman is seeking to thwart a gang of fur thieves led by his twin brother Johnny.

Cast
 Russell Hayden as Sandy/ Johnny Sanderson
 Jennifer Holt as Kathie McBain
 Emmett Lynn as Gumdrop
 Terry Frost as Nick
 Harry Cording as Hawkins
 Charles Bedell as Maurice
 Zon Murray as Jacques

References

External links

Trail of the Mounties at TCMDB

1947 films
1947 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
American black-and-white films
Films scored by Albert Glasser
Films set in Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police in fiction
Lippert Pictures films
Films directed by Howard Bretherton
1940s English-language films
1940s American films


33 Variations is a play by Moisés Kaufman, inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. It débuted on Broadway on March 9, 2009, starring Jane Fonda. Originally written in 2007, its world première was held at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.

Plot
The play simultaneously examines the creative process behind Beethoven's Diabelli Variations and the journey of a musicologist, Katherine Brandt, to discover the meaning behind why Beethoven was compelled to write thirty-three distinct variations on a simple theme by a minor music publisher. The progression of her Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and her relationship with her daughter are also themes of the story, as is Beethoven's growing deafness.

The action takes place both in Beethoven's time and the present, switching back and forth between the two. However, at certain key points, characters from both time periods appear on stage to deliver lines simultaneously, emphasizing the parallels between the exploits of both sets of characters.

Production history
The original production was directed by the playwright, Moisés Kaufman, with piano by Diane Walsh.

33 Variations premièred at Arena Stage in September 2007, with Mary Beth Peil as Katherine, Laura Odeh as her daughter Clara, and Graeme Malcolm as Beethoven.

A West Coast production ran in April 2008 at La Jolla Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Theatre, with Jayne Atkinson as Katherine, Zach Grenier as Beethoven, and Odeh returning as Clara.

The play premièred on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in a limited engagement, on March 9, 2009, with Jane Fonda as Katherine, in her first appearance on Broadway in forty-six years. Grenier returned as Beethoven. Sets by Derek McLane; costumes by Janice Pytel; lighting by David Lander; sound by André J. Pluess; projection design by Jeff Sugg; choreography by Daniel Pelzig.  It closed May 21, 2009.

33 Variations had regional premieres at Carolina Actors Studio Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 23, 2012, at the Capital Repertory Theater in Albany, New York on September 10, 2010, and at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati on September 2, 2009.

In March 2019, the play was staged for a limited engagement at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. The production featured Ellen Burstyn as Katherine, Lisa McCune as Clara, William McInnes as Beethoven, Francis Greenslade as Diabelli, Helen Morse as Gertrude, André de Vanny as Schindler, and Toby Truslove as Mike

Awards and nominations
2009 Tony Awards:
Best Play (nominated)
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, Jane Fonda (nominated)
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play, Zach Grenier (nominated)
Best Scenic Design of a Play, Derek McLane (WINNER)
Best Lighting Design of a Play, David Lander (nominated)

It won the 2007 Edgerton New American Play Award  and the 2008 Harold and Mimi Steinberg American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.

References

External links
33 Variations's listing at the Internet Broadway Database

2007 plays
Plays by Moisés Kaufman
Broadway plays
Cultural depictions of Ludwig van Beethoven
Plays based on real people
Plays based on music


Sustainable gardening includes the more specific sustainable landscapes, sustainable landscape design, sustainable landscaping, sustainable landscape architecture, resulting in sustainable sites. It comprises a disparate group of horticultural interests that can share the aims and objectives associated with the international post-1980s sustainable development and sustainability programs developed to address that humans are now using natural biophysical resources faster than they can be replenished by nature.

Included within this are those home gardeners, and members of the landscape and nursery industries, and municipal authorities, that integrate environmental, social, and economic factors to create a more sustainable future. Benefits of sustainable gardening also include improved access to fresh foods and biodiversity in cities.

Sustainable Sites Initiative
The Sustainable Sites Initiative is a commercial accreditation body in USA which certifies landscapers and sites using guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, for which their registered trademark can be earned after a fee. It was founded in 2005. Using the United Nations Brundtland Report’s definition of sustainable development as a model, it defines sustainability as:

 ...design, construction, operations and maintenance practices that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs by attempting to:

...protect, restore and enhance the ability of landscapes to provide ecosystem services that benefit humans and other organisms.

There is no uniform national standard for a sustainable landscaping project in the USA. Sites are rated according to their impact on ecosystem services: The following ecosystem services have been identified:

 Local climate regulation
 Air and water cleansing
 Water supply and regulation
 Erosion and sediment control
 Hazard mitigation
 Pollination
 Habitat functions
 Waste decomposition and treatment
 Global climate regulation
 Human health and well-being benefits
 Food and renewable non-food products
 Cultural benefits

INPUTS
Fossil fuels
Embodied energy and water
Compost
Mulch
Ecology & biodiversity
Fertilizer
Hard landscape materials
Equipment
Products

OUTPUTS
 Energy & water
 Food
 Green waste
 Ecology & biodiversity
 Chemicals
 Old hard landscape materials
 Old equipment
 Old products

PROCESSES

Principles
Enhancement of ecosystem services is encouraged throughout the life of any site by providing clear design, construction and management criteria. Sustainability requires that environmental, social and economic demands are integrated. Guidelines supplement existing green building guidelines and include metrics (benchmarks, audits, criteria, indexes etc.) that give some measure of sustainability (a rating system) by clarifying what is sustainable or not sustainable or, more likely, what is more or less sustainable.

Impacts of a site can be assessed and measured over any spatio-temporal scale. Impacts of a site may be direct by having direct measurable impacts on biodiversity and ecology at the site itself, or indirect when impacts occur away from the site.

Site principles

The following are some site principles for sustainable gardening:
 do no harm
 use the precautionary principle
 design with nature and culture
 use a decision-making hierarchy of preservation, conservation, and regeneration
 provide regenerative systems as intergenerational equity
 support a living process
 use a system thinking approach
 use a collaborative and ethical approach
 maintain integrity in leadership and research
 foster environmental stewardship

Measuring site sustainability

One major feature distinguishing sustainable gardens, landscapes and sites from other similar enterprises is the quantification of site sustainability by establishing performance benchmarks. Because sustainability is such a broad concept the environmental impacts of sites can be categorised in numerous ways depending on the purpose for which the figures are required. The process can include minimising negative environmental impacts and maximising positive impacts. As currently applied the environment is usually given priority over social and economic factors which may be added in or regarded as an inevitable and integral part of the management process. A home gardener is likely to use simpler metrics than a professional landscaper.

Three methods for measuring site sustainability include BREEAM developed by the BRE organisation in the UK, Leed, developed in America and the Oxford 360 degree sustainability Index used in Oxford Park and developed by the Oxford Sustainable Group in Scandinavia.

See also

 Carbon cycle re-balancing
 Climate-friendly gardening
 Context theory
 Foodscaping
 Green roof
 Landscape planning
 Manure tea
 Public Open Space (POS)
 Roof garden
 Sustainable architecture
 Sustainable design
 Sustainable landscaping
 Sustainable landscape architecture
 Sustainable planting
 Sustainable urban drainage systems
 Urban agriculture
 Urban forestry
 Xeriscaping

References

External links
 Information on designing a sustainable urban landscape
 Sustainable Environmental Design and Landscape Stewardship

Horticultural techniques
Sustainable design
Landscape architecture
Types of garden


Cactus (Bengali: ক্যাকটাস) is an Indian Bengali rock band from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Since inception they have recorded five full-length studio albums and have performed over 2500 concerts across India & abroad.

History
In the early nineties, the average Bengali youth was restless with the farcical social – political system, the apprehensions
of globalization and a sense of alienation. In 1990, the music scene in Bengal was a complete contrast to the present one.

Moreover, the average Bengali was not used to the idea of Bangla rock. A very small percentage of the mass would listen to rock music which was essentially in the English language. There was also a severe lack of identification with the local music culture which was only doing English rock music. This led to a sense of dissatisfaction, leaving the youth disoriented and confused.

The band name "CACTUS" was derived "from the fact that the music scene was then devoid of life as in a desert".

Cactus was formed in 1992. The band has named Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and many others as their inspiration. Cactus is one of the first professional Bangla rock bands.

The professional debut of the band occurred on 6 March 1993 at Aban Mahal (CLT), Kolkata. Cactus have had several line-up changes.

Early years and self-titled debut album (1992–1999)
The self-titled debut album, released in 1999 from HMV, became a rage with a touch of blues and psychedelic rock. With numbers like Brishti, oooh Ma! and Icchamati this album portrayed psychedelia in Bengali music for the first time. Halud pakhi, on the other hand created a long lasting sensation in the contemporary Bengali music scene with its nostalgic feel being perfectly accompanied by Shudhu Tumi Ele Na and Amra Bhishon Eka complementing the overall mood of the album. They tasted some success when their first self-titled album was released in 1999 by HMV.

Line up – Sidhartha Sankar "Sidhu" Ray [vocals], Sibaji "Baji" Paul [drums], Sanjay [guitar], Kanishka (Pinky) Sarkar [keyboard],Shubayan Ganguly [bass], Rajesh Lahiri [vocal]

Films: Nil Nirjane (2001–2002)
In 2002, Cactus composed and performed the score for the Bengali movie Nil Nirjane. The song "Mon" from the soundtrack became extremely popular and is still a crowd favourite. A Hindi version of the song was used as the intro song for Love Story, a TV series in SAB TV.

Line up – Sidhartha Sankar "Sidhu" Ray [vocals], Sibaji "Baji" Paul [drums], Sanjay Bhattacharya [guitar], Kanishka (Pinky) Sarkar [keyboard], Shubayan Ganguly [bass], Abhijit Barman (Pota) [vocal]

Rajar Raja (2002–2004)

The band released its second album titled Rajar Raja in 2004. The band with this album moved ahead and incorporated new sounds. Different genres of music were experimented within the album. "Buddho Heshechhen"  and "Lash Kata Ghore" being examples of classic rock, flirting with folk rock in "Bodhu re", while "Rajar Raja"  portrays influences from funk rock. Though this album had new sounds, the nostalgic quotient was very much there with songs like "Udaaner Gaan" , "Krishti" , "Ude Jete Chay" and "Kamalar  Swami" representing blues and the psychedelic facet of the band sound.

Line up – Sidhartha Sankar "Sidhu" Ray [vocals], Sibaji "Baji" Paul [drums], Sanjay Bhattacharya [guitar], Kanishka (Pinky) Sarkar [keyboard], Sandip Roy [bass], Abhijit Barman (Pota) [vocal].

Tuchho (2004–2008)
The band released its third album, Tuccho, in 2008. The band with this album moved ahead and has incorporated new sounds. Different genres of music were being experimented with in the album. Traces of hard rock was clearly visible. They were then featured in the Rock Street Journal's February 2009 issue. Tuccho contained the hits "Bhalo Theko" and "Rater Pari".

Line up – Sidhartha Sankar "Sidhu" Ray [vocals], Sibaji "Baji" Paul [drums], Allan Ao [guitar], Sudipto Banerjee [keyboard],Sandip Roy [bass], Sayak Bandyopadhay [vocals]

Blah Blah Blah (2013)
Blah Blah Blah was their fourth album. It was considered an experimental album. Asha Audio produced the album and it was published on 3 October 2013. The album contained remastered versions of "Nil Nirjane", "Noah" and "Mon" in addition to new tracks.

Line up – Sidhartha Sankar "Sidhu" Ray [vocals], Sibaji "Baji" Paul [drums], Ritaprabha "Ratul" Ray [guitar], Sudipto Banerjee [keyboard], Sandip Roy [bass], Dibyendu Mukherjee [vocal]

Tobuo Thik Acche (2017-2019)
In 2017, Abhijit Barman (Pota) left the band due to differences in opinion. By then the band had already started working on their next album Tobuo Thik Acche. They had to rework some of the tracks. The four songs were released one by one from 2017 to 2019.

line up- Siddhartha Sankar "Sidhu" Ray [vocals], Sibaji "Baji" Paul [drums], Ritaprabha "Ratul" Ray [guitar], Sudipto "Buti" Banerjee [keyboard], Mainak "Bumpy" Nag Chowdhury, Dibyendu Mukherjee [vocal]

Cactuss (2021–present)
In 2021, Abhijit Barman (Pota) rejoined Cactus. Sibaji "Baji" Paul, one of the oldest members of the band left and is being replaced by Arnab Dasgupta. Due to legal issues with Baji, the name of the band has been changed to "Cactuss".

 as said by Sidhu.
Besides Sidhu and Pota, the new line-up will also feature Prasanto on the bass, Arnab Dasgupta on the drums and Sayantan on the keyboard, and Samrat and Boidurjyo on the guitars.

Singers Sidhu and Pota joined hands yet again as part of Bangla band Cactuss and released their first song in August, 2021. The composition, titled Chhi Chhi Chhi, a socio-political song, was released on Cactus's birthday recently. It was a gala evening for the band members. The music video of Chhi Chhi Chhi has been directed by GR Ratna. It was the first single released after Cactuss was reformed.

The band organised a World Aids Day concert called Plug n Play at the Madhusudan Mancha with OFFER (Organisation for Friends, Energies and Resources), an NGO which works with HIV positive children. It was an event featuring several local bands before a finale that saw Chandrabindoo, Lakkhichhara and Cactuss performing together after 18 years.

Musical style and influences
The self-titled album and the two later albums combine soft rock, blues and psychedelic rock. But their album Tuchho which was known to be the best selling album produced by them had the traces of hard rock although two songs Bhalo Theko and Shabdhane Raasta Perio were more like soft rock. With their latest album Tobuo Thik Acche they have shifted to rock n' roll genre with up-tempo songs.

Band members

Current members
 Siddhartha Sankar Sidhu Ray – vocal, from inception
 Abhijit "Pata" Barman - vocal
 Boidurjyo Chowdhury – guitar
 Samrat Banerjee – guitar
 Sayantan Chatterjee – keyboard
 Sudipto "Buti" Banerjee - keyboard
 Prasanto Mahato – bass
 Arnab "Tabla" Dasgupta – drums

Former members
 Mainak "Bumpy" Nag Chowdhury – bass
 Sanjay – guitar
 Kanishka (Pinky) – keyboard
 Shubayan – bass
 Rajesh – vocals
 Sayak – vocals
 Allan – guitar
 Sandip Roy – bass
 Shibaji "Baji" paul - drums
 Dibyendu (Dibs) - vocal
 Ritaprabha (Ratul) - guitar
 Saqi - vocal
 Abhirup Biswas - Guitar
 Subhajit Bhowmick - Bass

Discography

Cactus (1999) (Saregama India Limited)
Tracks
 "Shudhu Tumi Ele Na" (শুধু তুমি এলে না)
 "Amra Bhishon Eka" (আমরা ভীষণ একা)
 "Halogen" (হ্যালোজেন)
 "Tumio Bojho Amio Bujhi" (তুমিও বোঝো আমিও বুঝি)
 "Icchamoti" (ইছামতী)
 "Brishti Oooh Ma" (বৃষ্টি উঃ মা)
 "Bhoy" (ভয়)
 "Chai Shudhu Tomay" (চাই শুধু তোমায়)
 "Holud Pakhi" (হলুদ পাখি)

Nil Nirjane (2002) (Sunnyo Media Pvt. Ltd)
Tracks
 "Nil Nirjane" (নীল নির্জনে)
 "Noah" (নোয়া)
 "Telephone" (টেলিফোন)
 "Mon" (মন)
 "Dukho Medley (1st)" (দুঃখ মেডলি)
 "Medley (2nd)" (মেডলি)
 "Nil Nirjane – Music Track" (নীল নির্জনে – সংগীত)
 "Dialogue – Cactus and Raima" (সংলাপ – ক্যাকটাস ও রাইমা)

Rajar Raja (2004) (Asha Audio Company)
Tracks
 "Buddho Heshechhen" (বুদ্ধ হেসেছেন)
 "Udaaner Gaan" (উড়ানের গান)
 "Bodhu Re" (বধু রে)
 "Ude Jete Chay" (উড়ে যেতে চায়)
 "Lash Kata Ghore" (লাশ কাটা ঘরে)
 "Krishti" (কৃষ্টি)
 "Kamalar Swami" (কমলার স্বামী)
 "Rajar Raja" (রাজার রাজা)

Tuccho (2008) (Asha Audio Company)
Tracks
 "Bhalo Theko" (ভালো থেকো)
 "Kobi Dao – Kobita Hobo" (কবি দাও)
 "Moshiha" (মসীহা)
 "Phire Chawa" (ফিরে চাওয়া)
 "Pokhiraaj" (পক্ষীরাজ)
 "Raater Pori" (রাতের পরী)
 "Tuccho Ami" (তুচ্ছ আমি)
 "Shabdhane Raasta Perio" (সাবধানে রাস্তা পেরিয়ো)

Blah Blah Blah (2013) (Asha Audio Company)
Tracks
 "Blah Blah Blah"
 "Dulchhe"
 "Boro Deri"
 "Mon"
 "Status Update"
 "Noah"
 "Shohoj"
 "Nil Nirjone"

Tobuo Thik Acche (2017-2019) ( Asha Audio Company)
Tracks
 "Tobuo Thik Acche"
 "Jawler Dhaarey"
 "Nagorik Botaam"
 "Amra Ajo Naroke"

References

External links
Official Website
Official Myspace Profile
Official YouTube account

Bengali music
Indian rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1992
Culture of Kolkata
Musical groups reestablished in 2021
Bengali musical groups
Musical groups disestablished in 2019


The Special Operations Command Korea or SOCKOR, the United States (U.S.) Theater Special Operations Command (TSOC) in the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a Sub-Unified Command assigned under the Combatant Command (COCOM) of United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), who delegated Operational Command (OPCON) of SOCKOR to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) Commander, who further delegated OPCON of SOCKOR to the United States Forces Korea (USFK) Commander.

SOCKOR focuses on readiness and the ability to fight in defense of the Korean peninsula and the U.S.-ROK Alliance.  This is accomplished through several means, ranging from individual and unit readiness and training to continuous updates and validation of operational plans, and participation in Joint Chiefs of Staff and other exercises.

Mission

During armistice, crisis, and conflict, SOCKOR serves as the headquarters for command and control of all U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) assets in Korea, develops supporting plans, and works together with the Republic of Korea Special Warfare Command (ROK SWC) and United Nations (U.N.) SOF in support of the Commander, United Nations Command (UNC)/ Combined Forces Command (CFC)/ United States Forces Korea (USFK) in order to deter aggression and promote stability in the region. On order, SOCKOR combines with ROK SWC to form the Combined Unconventional Warfare Task Force (CUWTF) and the Commander, SOCKOR also becomes the United Nations Command Special Operations Component (UNCSOC) Commanding General to conduct special operations in support of the Commander, UNC/CFC/USFK efforts to defeat external threats and restore stability.

History
Prior to 1988, management of Special Operations Forces in Korea fell to United States Forces Korea (USFK) Joint Operations (J3), Special Operations Division-Korea (SOD-K). The concept of a permanent TSOC in Korea began to take shape in 1983, growing on 1 October 1988 to the creation of a special operations element within the USFK J3. Colonel James Estep, the first Commander, also served as Chief, J3 SOD-K and Deputy Commander, Combined Operations (C-3,) SOD-K. This dual-hatted command continued until July 1995. Colonel Skip Booth separated this special operations element from USFK J3 SOD, establishing it as an independently functioning command. The name of this element changed to SOCKOR to begin to align with the other TSOCS, and the staff began transforming SOCKOR into a separate sub-unified command under the operational control of the Commander, United States Forces Korea (COMUSFK). In 2000, SOCKOR was recognized as a fully  operational TSOC and the billet for the commander of SOCKOR was elevated to Brigadier General, mirroring the other TSOCs. SOCKOR has been commanded by a General Officer since 2000.

Since inception, SOCKOR has been the only TSOC in which U.S. and host nation SOF are institutionally organized for combined operations. SOCKOR and ROK SWC regularly train in their combined roles, while SOCKOR’s Special Forces Detachment-39 works as the full-time liaison between ROK SF and U.S. SOF.

In armistice, the CG of SOCKOR is responsible for the planning, training, and execution of all U.S. SOF activities in Korea. The SOCKOR CG also serves as the senior advisor to COMUSFK regarding all U.S. SOF issues. If the armistice fails, SOCKOR and ROK SWC will combine to establish the Combined Unconventional Warfare Task Force under the Combined Forces Command. SOCKOR is then also designated as the United Nations Command Special Operations Component under the United Nations Command, with the SOCKOR Commanding General serving as the UNCSOC Commanding General.

Headquarters

SOCKOR is located at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.

List of commanders

 12 Brig Gen Richard Haddad, October 2008 to October 2010
13: Neil H. Tolley, October 2010- October 2012
14: Eric P. Wendt, October 2012 to April 2014
15: BG E. John Deedrick, April 2014 to April 2016
16: Maj Gen Tony D. Bauernfeind, April 2016 to June 2019
17: BG Otto K. Liller, July 2019 to June 2021
18: Maj Gen Michael E. Martin, June 2021 to June 2023
19: Brig Gen Derek N. Lipson, June 2023 to present

Unit decorations
The unit awards depicted below are for Headquarters, Special Operations Command Korea. Award for unit decorations do not apply to any subordinate organizations, commands or any other activities unless the orders specifically address them.

See also
 Ronald S. Mangum – former SOCKOR commander

References

External links

 Official site
 Official photos
 SOCKOR at GlobalSecurity.org
  Shoulder Sleeve Insignia and Distinctive Unit Insignia

United States military in South Korea
+Korea


Rafael Luis Araneda Maturana  (born September 18, 1969, in Santiago) is a popular Chilean TV presenter, best known for his participation in the show Rojo Fama Contrafama as the host. Also he was the host of Estrellas en el Hielo, Sin Prejuicios, Rojo VIP, Noche de Juegos, El Baile en TVN (Chilean version of Strictly Come Dancing by the BBC). Rafael Araneda is married to the hostess Marcela Vacarezza Etcheverry and they have three children.

Araneda started his career in La Red being the host of Revolviéndola (1997). Is one of the biggest collaborators of the Teletón and is one of the best friends of Mario Kreutzberger "Don Francisco". Recently was the host of Todos a Coro with Karen Doggenweiler and Pelotón III.Currently works in Pelotón IV'''.

He hosted La Academia Mexico Season 6, 7, 8 & 9. , Araneda works in the United States on a Univision television show named Enamorandonos USA''.

References

External links

1969 births
Chilean television presenters
Living people
Chilean people of Basque descent
People from Santiago
Chilean expatriates in Mexico
Chilean television personalities


The discography of The Vandals, a punk rock band formed in Huntington Beach, California, in 1980, consists of ten studio albums, one EP, two live albums, two compilation albums, one remix album, four reissued albums, three videos, four singles, and seven music videos.

The Vandals formed in 1980 with an initial lineup of singer Steven Ronald "Stevo" Jensen, guitarist Jan Nils Ackermann, bassist Steve "Human" Pfauter, and drummer Joe Escalante. Their debut EP Peace thru Vandalism was released in 1982 on Epitaph Records. Pfauter left the band in 1984 and Brent Turner played on their debut album When in Rome Do as the Vandals, released on National Trust Records in 1984. By the time of their second album Slippery When Ill (1989) on Restless Records Robbi Allen was playing bass and Jensen had been replaced by Dave Quackenbush. The album was country and western-influenced in a style the band called "cowpunk". More lineup changes ensued leaving Esclante and Quackenbush as the only remaining members, with Escalante now on bass guitar. A legal conflict ensued between Escalante and several of the ex-members, partially concerning Time Bomb Recordings' release of the compilation album Peace thru Vandalism / When in Rome Do as the Vandals. Escalante emerged with legal rights to The Vandals name and catalog.

A new incarnation of the Vandals coalesced with the addition of guitarist Warren Fitzgerald and drummer Josh Freese. This lineup would remain consistent for the rest of the band's career, with occasional substitutes filling in for Freese. In 1990 they released Fear of a Punk Planet through Triple X Records and filmed their first music video, for the song "Pizza Tran". In 1994 they released the live album and video Sweatin' to the Oldies. In 1995 the band signed to Nitro Records, who would put out four of their next five albums. Live Fast, Diarrhea was released in 1995, followed by The Quickening in 1996. Also in 1996 Escalante and Fitzgerald founded Kung Fu Records, releasing a Vandals split single with Assorted Jelly Beans and the Christmas album Oi to the World!, and re-releasing Sweatin' to the Oldies in 1997. Nitro released Hitler Bad, Vandals Good in 1998, and Kung Fu released most of Slippery When Ill in 1999 as The Vandals Play Really Bad Original Country Tunes. 2000 saw a trio of releases, with Kung Fu putting out an anniversary edition of Fear of a Punk Planet and re-releasing Oi to the World! while Nitro released the new album Look What I Almost Stepped In...

With their Nitro contract fulfilled The Vandals moved to Kung Fu, releasing Internet Dating Superstuds in 2002 and the live album and DVD Live at the House of Blues in 2003. The Shingo Japanese Remix Album was released in 2005, made up of remixes of Vandals songs by Japanese DJ Shingo Asari. The band's most recent release is the compilation BBC Sessions and Other Polished Turds, a digital-only release through iTunes and Kung Fu in 2008.

Studio albums

I When in Rome Do as the Vandals was reissued on CD by Time Bomb Recordings in 1989 as part of the compilation album Peace thru Vandalism / When in Rome Do as the Vandals.

II Most of the material from Slippery When Ill was re-released by Kung Fu Records in 1999 on The Vandals Play Really Bad Original Country Tunes.

III A tenth-anniversary edition of Fear of a Punk Planet was released by Kung Fu Records in 2000.

IV Oi to the World! was re-released by Kung Fu Records in 2000.

Live albums

I Sweatin' to the Oldies was released as both a live album and VHS video. A Special Edition re-release of the album was put out by Kung Fu Records in 1997, and a DVD version of the video was released in 2002.

II Live at the House of Blues is a CD/DVD combination package released as Episode 9 of Kung Fu Films' The Show Must Go Off! series.

Compilation albums

I Peace thru Vandalism / When in Rome Do as the Vandals combines the EP Peace thru Vandalism and the album When in Rome Do as the Vandals.

II BBC Sessions and Other Polished Turds was released only as a digital download through iTunes and Kung Fu Records.

Extended plays

I Peace thru Vandalism was reissued on CD by Time Bomb Recordings in 1989 as part of the compilation album Peace thru Vandalism / When in Rome Do as the Vandals.

Singles

Video albums

I A DVD version of Sweatin' to the Oldies was released by Kung Fu Records in 2002.

II Live at the House of Blues is a DVD/CD combination package released as Episode 9 of Kung Fu Films' The Show Must Go Off! series.

Remix albums

Reissues

I The Vandals Play Really Bad Original Country Tunes is essentially a re-release of Slippery When Ill, with 8 of that album's 10 songs plus 2 new ones.

Music videos

Other appearances
The following Vandals songs were released on compilation albums, film soundtracks, and other releases. Some songs were later re-released on the BBC Sessions and Other Polished Turds compilation album, as noted below. This is not an exhaustive list: songs that were first released on the band's albums, EPs, or singles are not included.

I No soundtrack album was issued for the film.

III The Vandals tracks only appeared on limited 2 LP release with bonus 7-inch and Japanese CD release. These Vandals tracks were later released on the Longfellow split 7-inch

II Denotes songs that were re-released on BBC Sessions and Other Polished Turds.

References

General references

Notes

External links

Discography
Punk rock group discographies
Discographies of American artists


St Catherine's College, a Catholic secondary school for girls, operates in the Wellington suburb of Kilbirnie in New Zealand. The Sisters of Mercy founded St Catherine's in 1919 initially as a primary school before becoming a secondary school in 1950.

On 30 March 1983, St Catherine's College became an integrated school under the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act of 1975. The Board of Trustees was first elected in 1989 and is responsible for the governance of the College. In recent years a new multi-functional hall, called "Mercy Hall", has been opened as well as a Food Technology Centre, a Music Suite, and a new Design Arts Centre. The college also has a new administration area, a chapel, and specialist and multi functional teaching areas which were completed in September 2016.

References

Sources

 Ernest Richard Simmons, Brief history of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, Catholic Publications Centre, Auckland, 1978.
 Michael King, God's farthest outpost : a history of Catholics in New Zealand, Viking, Auckland 1997.
 Mary de Porres Flannigan R.S.M., Mercy comes to Wellington : a history of St. Mary’s College, St. Mary's College Board of Trustees, Wellington, 2000.
 Michael O'Meeghan S.M., Steadfast in hope : the story of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington 1850-2000, Dunmore press, Palmerston North, 2003.

Educational institutions established in 1950
Girls' schools in New Zealand
Catholic secondary schools in the Wellington Region
Schools in Wellington City
1950 establishments in New Zealand
Sisters of Mercy schools


Julie Agoos (born 1956, in Boston) is an American poet.

Life
Julie Agoos is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Above the Land (Yale University Press, 1987) and Calendar Year (The Sheep Meadow Press, 1996).

She received a BA from Harvard University, and an MA from The Writing Seminars of Johns Hopkins University. She was the 1989 poet in residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH.

Agoos taught for eight years as a lecturer in the creative writing program at Princeton University. She also taught in the English department and MFA program in poetry at Brooklyn College since 1994. She teaches courses that cover various subjects including Victorian Poetry, modern British & Irish Poetry, as well as special courses designed as tutorial courses in reading and writing.

Her area of expertise is in the dramatic and narrative modes of poetry, and in lyric strategies for the long poem. Agoos is also interested in exploring, in book form, the ways in which poems overlap and infiltrate each other to create a sustained form beyond the forms of individual lyrics.

She lives in Nyack, New York.

Awards and achievements
 Robert Frost Place Residency Fellowship. 1989
 Tow Professorship Award, Brooklyn College. 2008
 Creative Achievement Award, Brooklyn College. 2006
 Towson State University Prize for Literature. 1988
 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. 1987
 Briggs Literary Fellowship for one year of travel to Florence, Italy. Department of English, Harvard University. 1979
 Grolier Poetry Prize, Grolier Book Shop, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Awards and Honors) 1979
 Lloyd McKim Garrison Poetry Prize, Department of English, Harvard University. 1979

Bibliography

Collections

List of poems

References

External links
 Language and Space in Julie Agoos Poetics

1956 births
Living people
American women poets
Harvard University alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
The New Yorker people
Princeton University faculty
Brooklyn College faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women writers


District Council elections were held in Shepway in 2007.

Results

By ward
'* denotes sitting Councillor.  Elected Councillors marked (E)

Elham Valley Division

Carol Crees had been elected as a Lib Dem in 2003 but defected to People First in 2004.  She sought re-election in Folkestone East ward.

Folkestone North East Division

Cllr Alan North had gained the seat for the Conservatives at a by-election in 2004.
Janet Andrews had been elected as a Lib Dem in 2003 but defected to People First in 2004.
Carol Crees has been elected as a Lib Dem in Elham and Stelling Minnis ward in 2003 but defected to People First in 2004.
Cllr Tony Dunning now sits as a Conservative.

Cllrs Paul Marsh and Brian Copping were both elected as Lib Dems in 2003 and defected to People First in 2004.

Folkestone South Division

Kim Culshaw had been elected as a Lib Dem in 2003 but defected to People First in 2004.
Cllrs Emily Sanger and Sue Wallace now sit as Conservatives.

Richard Green had been elected as a Lib Dem in 2003, before defecting to People First and then Greens 4 Shepway in 2004 and then standing down from the council.  He stood for election in Folkestone Park on the People First platform.
Cllr Philip Martin had gained the seat for the Conservatives in the ensuing by-election.

Folkestone West Division

Trevor Buss and Linda Cufley had been elected as a Lib Dem in 2003 but defected to People First in 2004.
Cllr Peter Gane now sits as a Conservative.

Tony Baker had been elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2003, but defected to Independent in 2004 and did not seek re-election.
Gary George had been elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2003, but defected to People First in 2004 and did not seek re-election.

Joy MacMillan had been elected as a Conservative but resigned the whip in 2006 and sought re-election as an Independent

Hythe Division

Wendy Harris had been elected as a Liberal Democrat but defected to the Green Party in 2004.  She did not seek re-election.

Romney Marsh Division

Terry Preston and Shirley Maile had defected from Lib Dem to People First in 2004.

References

2007 English local elections
2007
2000s in Kent


The Provence Donkey, , is a breed of domestic donkey from Provence, in south-eastern France. It is now distributed through much of central and south-east France, with the highest concentration in Provence and the Rhône-Alpes region. For hundreds of years the Provence donkey was used by transhumant shepherds of the area as a pack animal in the seasonal movement of flocks of sheep between their summer pastures on the high Alps of Haute-Provence and the Dauphiné and their winter grounds in Basse-Provence.

History

The earliest records of the use of donkeys by shepherds in Provence are from the fifteenth century. During the seasonal transhumance between the low ground where the sheep over-wintered and the high alpine pastures where they spent the summer months, donkeys were used as pack animals. They carried, on specially adapted pack-saddles, the equipment and supplies needed by the shepherds along the journey. The area of origin of the breed appears to coincide exactly with the area, consisting of Provence and parts of Savoie and the Ardèche, where transhumant sheep-farming was traditional.

Following the mechanisation of transport in the twentieth century, first by rail and then by road, the breed declined at an alarming rate. At the end of the 19th century, a census in the départements of Provence recorded 13,000 head; in 1956 the number had fallen to around 2000, and by 1993 no more than 330 could be identified.

A breeders' association, the Association de l'Âne de Provence, was formed in December 1992, and worked with the Haras National, the national stud, of Uzès, in Languedoc-Roussillon, to achieve recognition of the breed. A stud-book was opened in December 1995, and in November 2002 the Provence donkey received the official recognition of the Ministère de l'agriculture, de l'alimentation, de la pêche et des affaires rurales, the French ministry of agriculture. The current population is estimated at 1500.

Description

At three years old, Provençal jacks stand  at the withers, and jennies .

The coat is dove grey, varying from pale to dark, with pinkish lights. The muzzle and surround of the eyes are pale; the forehead and ears usually have a russet tint. There is a well-marked darker dorsal stripe and shoulder-stripe; zebra-striping of the legs may be present. The limbs are solid and the hooves relatively large.

Use

Provençal donkeys are still used in transhumance by some shepherds. The Provence Donkey is suitable as a pack animal, for light driving and for riding. Its character and sure-footedness even on broken ground make it suitable for trekking.  It may be used in vegetation management, for brush clearance to reduce fire risk.

References

Donkey breeds originating in France
Donkey breeds
Provence


The 2007 Montreal Alouettes finished third place in the East Division in 2007. Jim Popp decided to remain as head coach rather than hire a replacement for Don Matthews, who unexpectedly resigned the previous season. The results were unexpected as the Alouettes endured their first losing season since rejoining the league in 1996. They appeared in the East Semi-Final, losing to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and putting an end to a disappointing season.

Offseason

CFL draft

Preseason

 Games played with white uniforms.

Regular season

Season Standings

Season Schedule

 Games played with colour uniforms.
 Games played with white uniforms.
 Games played with alternate uniforms.

Roster

Playoffs

Schedule

 Games played with white uniforms.

East Semi-Final
Date and time: Saturday, November 11, 1:00 PM Eastern Standard TimeVenue: Canad Inns Stadium, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Awards

2007 CFL All-Star Selections
 OG – Scott Flory, 2007 CFL All-Star
 P – Damon Duval, 2007 CFL All-Star

2007 CFL Eastern All-Star Selections
 WR – Ben Cahoon, 2007 CFL Eastern All-Star
 OG – Scott Flory, 2007 CFL Eastern All-Star
 P – Damon Duval, 2007 CFL Eastern All-Star
 DB – Randee Drew, 2007 CFL Eastern All-Star

2007 Intergold CFLPA All-Star Selections
 OG – Scott Flory, 2007 Intergold CFLPA All-Star
 P – Damon Duval, 2007Intergold CFLPA All-Star

References

Montreal Alouettes
Montreal Alouettes seasons


The 4th season of National Cheerleading Championships was the biggest season for NCC so far.  It started with the league's very first regionals for Southern Luzon region, followed by Northern Luzon region, Visayas-Mindanao region, and finally with the National Capital Region.

The season also witnessed the most number of participants in history of the competition for both divisions - high school and college.

National finals
The first true nationals was held at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig.  Teams qualified from the Regionals come to Manila to compete.

High School division
High School division national finals was held at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig last March 14, 2009. Teams from Southern Luzon, Northern Luzon, and National Capital Region competed for the national finals. Pasig Catholic College's PCC Crusaders was declared the National Champion for 2009.

College Division
College division national finals was held at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig last March 15, 2009. Teams from Southern Luzon, Northern Luzon, Visayas-Mindanao region, and National Capital Region competed for the national finals. University of Perpetual Help System Dalta's UPHSD Perpsquad was declared the National Champion for 2009.

Regional Qualifiers

South Luzon
Held at St. Michael's College in Laguna, on September 7, 2008

High school

Legend:

College

Legend:

North Luzon

High school

Legend:

College

Legend:

Visayas-Mindanao

College

Legend:

Metro Manila
Held at Ynares Sports Arena, Pasig on February 28, 2009

High school

Legend:

College

Legend:

Notes

National Cheerleading Championship
Sports in the Philippines
2009 in Philippine sport


Eugene Wright (1923–2020) was an American jazz bassist.

Eugene Wright may also refer to:

 Eugene Allen Wright (1913–2002), United States federal judge
 Gene Wright (baseball) (1878–1930), American baseball player

See also
Frederick Eugene Wright (1877–1953), American optician and geophysicist


"The Coon" is the second episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 183rd episode of the series, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 18, 2009. In the episode, Cartman poses as a comic book superhero vigilante named "The Coon", who grows increasingly jealous of the popularity and success of a rival superhero named "Mysterion".

The episode was written and directed by series co-founder Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA L in the United States. It was originally conceived as an episode about the economic recession, but those elements were later adapted into the future episode, "Margaritaville". "The Coon" generated a great deal of speculation about the true identity of Mysterion. Parker and Stone originally said there was no specific answer to the question. However, his identity is finally revealed in the fourteenth season episode "Mysterion Rises".

The episode parodied several dark-toned comic book films that had been recently released at the time, including The Spirit, Watchmen and The Dark Knight. It received generally positive reviews and, according to Nielsen Media Research, was seen by 3.27 million households the week it aired. Comedian Bruce Vilanch, who is mocked in the episode, sent a thank you card to Parker and Stone after the episode aired. "The Coon" was released on DVD and Blu-ray along with the rest of the thirteenth season on March 16, 2010. "The Coon" was also released on DVD in The Little Box of Butters on September 28, 2010. "The Coon" was re-released once more on DVD and Blu-ray as a "bonus episode" with the complete fourteenth season.

Episodes
This episode would eventually lead to the season fourteen three part arc revolving around Coon and Friends.

There was also another episode in season twenty-one.

Plot
Donning a disguise modeled after a raccoon, Cartman becomes a vigilante dubbed "The Coon", who attempts to wipe out crime in South Park. Though Cartman tries to raise awareness about The Coon through word of mouth, nobody pays much attention to the Coon's efforts. When he reports "crimes" (such as mistaking a man innocently trying to kiss his date for a rapist) to the police department, he is threatened with jail time and snubbed off. During class, Cartman tries to hype up an appearance from the Coon, saying he will be on the roof of a Walgreens later that evening. Cartman (as the Coon) shows up to the spot to find another child superhero named "Mysterion", who is far more successful in garnering appreciation as a crime stopping icon from the police and South Park citizens who want to know just "Who is Mysterion?" Cartman is angered by his lack of popularity and the attention Mysterion is receiving.

Coon decides to rid the town of Mysterion, enlisting the help of Professor Chaos (Butters) and his sidekick General Disarray (Dougie). Unlike the Coon, Professor Chaos and General Disarray have become as familiar to the residents of South Park as Mysterion. Butters also wants to know the identity of Mysterion but can only narrow the list of suspects to the boys from Mr. Garrison's 4th grade class whose shapes do not differ greatly from that of others. In contrast, he has nearly pinned down Coon's identity to a few fat celebrities, and Cartman. In a scheme to uncover Mysterion's identity, the Coon convinces Professor Chaos to threaten the destruction of a hospital unless Mysterion reveals his identity. After the Coon plants the TNT and leaves to buy detonators, Mysterion unexpectedly arrives. He points out that this is not Professor Chaos' usual style, and fights Professor Chaos and General Disarray on top of the building. A crowd forms below and cheers on Mysterion as the police take no action, believing that their bullets are no match for Professor Chaos' aluminum foil armor. Dramatically, the Coon appears to fight on the side of Mysterion, with the hopes that he too will be hailed as a hero. At that point, Professor Chaos and General Disarray run off in defeat. After their victory, the Coon convinces Mysterion to unmask himself by claiming such threats to public safety will continue until Mysterion's secret is revealed.

Despite the threat of imprisonment, Mysterion unmasks himself, showing the television viewers only the portion of his face that looks similar to almost all of Mr. Garrison's 4th grade class. The crowd, however, is shocked to learn Mysterion's identity and, much to the regret of all except Coon, who says that he knew who Mysterion was, even calling him out on it at one point (though this helps the audience little as Cartman claimed that practically everyone in his class was Mysterion at times), Mysterion is hauled to prison. With Professor Chaos, General Disarray and Mysterion defeated, Cartman now perceives that he is the superhero in South Park and that every town should have a Coon like him.

Production

"The Coon" was written and directed by series co-founder Trey Parker. It first aired on March 18, 2009 in the United States on Comedy Central. Like most South Park episodes, "The Coon" was first conceived by Parker and fellow co-founder Matt Stone within a week of the episode's broadcast date. Kenny, Kyle and Stan were originally planned to be made superheroes as well as Cartman, and for the episode to revolve around a group of superheroes in the style of Watchmen, a graphic-novel-based film that had been released earlier that month. They started working on sketches of the other superhero costumes, but Cartman and his alter-ego, the Coon, were finished first. From the start, Parker and Stone wrote Cartman as caring more about his superhero image than fighting crime, but as they worked further on the episode, it began to take up more and more of the story until they decided to make Cartman the only superhero of the four boys.

Parker and Stone long planned to create an episode about the economic recession, and originally planned for Cartman to dress as a superhero named "The Coon" and fight the economy. This is why the opening scene of "The Coon" involves Cartman discussing the poor economic state of the nation and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama. Eventually, Cartman would discover the recession stemmed from the sale of Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville blenders, and he would have to battle singer Jimmy Buffett and investor Warren Buffett, who would be portrayed as Jimmy's brother. Eventually, the idea was scrapped, and "The Coon" turned into an episode revolving entirely around a comic book film parody. Elements of the economic recession and the Margaritaville blenders were eventually incorporated into future episode "Margaritaville".

The identity of Mysterion is never revealed in "The Coon". After the episode aired, the question "Who is Mysterion?" became a frequently asked question at the FAQ for the official South Park website, South Park Studios. The answer posted at that site was that "there is no answer", and that only Trey Parker and Matt Stone actually know. Parker said it was one of the most common questions he was asked about the show, along with the identity of Cartman's father, which was resolved in the fourteenth season episode "201". Parker and Stone originally said there was no actual answer to Mysterion's identity, as they never chose a specific character to be him. In the original ending of the episode, after Mysterion is arrested, Kyle is shown to be in prison and it is believed he is the superhero. However, the real Mysterion visits him, and Kyle explains he pretended to be Mysterion so the real superhero could remain free and continue fighting crime. As a thank you, Mysterion revealed his identity by showing his face, but like in the actual episode, the viewer cannot determine who he is because all the children look alike without hats. The ending was ultimately cut because Parker and Stone decided it took too much time for a simple throwaway gag and to show that Kyle was not Mysterion. The clip is available as a deleted scene in the thirteenth season DVD and Blu-ray sets. The superhero characters from "The Coon" returned in the fourteenth season episodes "Coon 2: Hindsight", "Mysterion Rises" and "Coon vs. Coon and Friends", in which Mysterion is revealed.

Keo Thongkham and Kevin Dalton, who serve as South Park storyboard artists, drew the detailed image of Mysterion that appeared in a news broadcast within the episode. Within a week of the episode's original broadcast, the online retailer Zazzle and South Park Studios, the official South Park website, released T-shirts and hooded sweatshirts based on the episode, including one with an image of Cartman as the Coon, and one of Mysterion with the words, "Who is Mysterion?"

Cultural references

"The Coon" is primarily a parody of dark-toned comic book films. The Dark Knight (2008), The Spirit (2008) and Watchmen (2009) are the most commonly referred to films, but others such as Spider-Man 3 (2007) are also frequently referenced. Matt Stone said the episode started as a parody specifically of Watchmen, but then elements of other comic book films were added as the writing progressed. The music used in "The Coon" is inspired by the style of film scores by James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, both of whom collaborated on the scores for Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight. To promote the Coon, Cartman uses a similar tagline as was used to promote Darkman, printing shirts asking "Who is The Coon?" The Coon and Mysterion use deep and ominous voices similar to that used by Christian Bale in the Batman films and Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach in Watchmen. Stone said he found Bale's voice particularly annoying in The Dark Knight, and found it amusing that so many comic book movies had heroes whose voices were so low, it sounded like they were "whispering, like you've been up all night smoking".

Cartman and Mysterion both refer to themselves as "the symbol this town needs", a line from The Dark Knight, and Cartman encourages Butters to film a video threatening to blow up a hospital, the same as the Joker from a scene in that film. The opening shot of "The Coon" is also inspired by a sequence from Watchmen: both feature a close-up of a city sidewalk and zoom out to someone looking down from the top of a tall skyscraper. A poster of the Coon shown at Cartman's Coonicon 2009 is inspired by the front cover of The Dark Knight Returns, the Batman graphic novel by Frank Miller. Other common comic book film traits parodied in "The Coon" include costumes that do little to actually conceal secret identities, trophies adorning superhero secret lairs, and sudden disappearing exits and entrances.

Cartman's Coonicon 2009 convention is held at the Airport Hilton, the same place where he holds his "ginger pride" event in the episode "Ginger Kids" and the AIDS benefit in the episode "Tonsil Trouble". Butters dresses up as Professor Chaos, and Dougie dresses as General Disarray, both of which are the supervillain alter egos they first take on in the sixth season episode "Professor Chaos". Based on the physique of the Coon, Butters considers heavyset gay entertainers Bruce Vilanch and Harvey Fierstein as suspects for his secret identity. Vilanch sent a card to Parker and Stone after "The Coon" aired, thanking them for referring to him in the episode. Cartman plans to purchase detonators for his TNT from Ace Hardware, a real-life Illinois-based hardware company chain. Cartman refers to the economic recession as one of the primary factors that has led to an increase in crime. News footage of a group of South Park residents talking about Mysterion which focuses on a man with gold teeth and a blue baseball cap was inspired by the Crichton Leprechaun sighting YouTube video.

Reception
In its original American broadcast, "The Coon" was watched by 3.27 million overall households, according to the Nielsen Media Research. The episode received a 1.8 rating/5 share among adults aged between 18 and 49, making it the most watched cable entertainment program in that age group for the week of March 16 to 22.

The episode received generally positive reviews. Carlos Delgado of iF magazine said, "The mockery of comic book based movies is perfectly done...Though not quite as funny as last week’s 'The Ring', 'The Coon' is right up there as a classic episode, ... A beacon of hope in the sometimes drab world of television," while at the same time, he believed the episode title, "The Coon" (being a well-known ethnic slur against black people) was a jab intended for Barack Obama, the first African American U.S. President.

Percy Olsen, television editor for Student Life, said "The Coon" was an improvement over "The Ring" because it was less heavy-handed in its morals. Olsen also said it raised the question, "What ever happened to the goofy superhero movies? From Batman to the Hulk, it seems like every comic book hero movie has been given a splotch of mud and some dim lighting before being sent out the door." Genevieve Koski of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+ grade, although she did not like the "non-reveal" ending. She also said the target material for "The Coon" is too easy, but she said the episode was "really likable" and she particularly liked Cartman's growing frustration when his superhero persona is ignored. Travis Fickett of IGN also said he did not like the ending and, although he liked Butters' part in the episode and the riffing on comic book stereotypes, Fickett felt the episode lacked any "brilliant moments" and "ultimately runs out of steam with the super-hero riff". Mitchell Geller of The Tufts Daily said the episode would be more enjoyable to people familiar with the comic book film franchise it was spoofing than it would be for those who are not, although he said Cartman "never ceases to be funny". Comic book writer and creator of Watchmen, Alan Moore, was reported to have appreciated the episode.

Home release
"The Coon", along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park'''s thirteenth season, were released on a three-disc DVD set and two-disc Blu-ray set in the United States on March 16, 2010. The sets included brief audio commentaries by Parker and Stone for each episode, a collection of deleted scenes, and a special mini-feature, Inside Xbox: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of South Park Studios, which discussed the process behind animating the show with Inside Xbox host Major Nelson.

"The Coon" was also released as a special "bonus episode", on the season fourteen DVD on April 26, 2011, as well as the two-disc DVD collection A Little Box of Butters''.

References

External links

 "The Coon" Full episode at South Park Studios

Child superheroes
Fictional vigilantes
Parody superheroes
South Park (season 13) episodes
Parodies of Batman


Jorge Antonio Zabaleta Briceño  (born April 18, 1970 in Santiago) is a Chilean actor. He is the son of the musician Antonio Zabaleta and the nephew of Miguel Zabaleta, both members of the duo Red Juniors.

Jorge worked in Canal 13 until 2008, when he joined TVN working in Hijos del Monte.

Filmography
Television

External links

1970 births
Living people
Male actors from Santiago
Chilean people of Basque descent
Chilean male film actors
Chilean male telenovela actors
Chilean male television actors
Chilean television presenters
Chilean television personalities


Vladimir Nikolayev (born 1973) is a Russian politician accused of membership in the Russian Mafia. He was a member of former Russian president Vladimir Putin's governing party United Russia; the mayor of Vladivostok; and the owner of seafood, meat, and timber-processing companies. Nikolayev reached his position as mayor when his opponent for the position "tripped" on a grenade left outside his office, killing him.

The city court of Vladivostok removed Nikolayev from his post as the city's mayor in March 2007. Immediately after the decision was made, Nikolayev gave a press conference, in which he called the case against him a "sheer falsification" and "someone’s paid order". In a press statement, the prosecutor's office of Russian federal subject Primorsky Krai announced, "Vladimir Nikolayev called the criminal case initiated against him by prosecutors as a paid and ordered deal and his speech was broadcast by all local and many federal news agencies. In this respect Primorye’s prosecutor’s office asks the General prosecutor’s office to make a legal assessment of Nikolayev’s remarks concerning the case against him."

Originally, Primorsky Krai launched a criminal investigation against Nikolayev and charged him with embezzlement. It also appealed to the city court, requesting that Nikolayev's duties as city mayor be halted while the investigation was ongoing. Soon after, the city court temporarily dismissed Nikolayev from his office, stating, "Nikolayev should not have the power to influence his subordinates during an investigation carried out against him."

In 2012, he was acquitted.

References

1973 births
Living people
Politicians from Vladivostok
Mayors of places in Russia


FK Sloga may refer to:
FK Sloga Bar, Montenegrin football club
FK Sloga Bajina Bašta, Serbian football club
NK Sloga Bosanska Otoka, Bosnia and Herzegovina football club
FK Sloga Despotovac, Serbian football club
FK Sloga Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina football club
FK Sloga Jugomagnat, Macedonian football club, playing in Skopje
FK Sloga Kraljevo, Serbian football club
FK Sloga 1976 Lažani, Macedonian football club
FK Sloga Leskovac, Serbian football club
NK Sloga Nova Gradiška, Croatian football club
FK Sloga Petrovac na Mlavi, Serbian football club
FK Sloga Požega, Serbian football club
FK Sloga Radnički Erdevik, Serbian football club
FK Sloga Simin Han, Bosnia and Herzegovina football club
FK Sloga Sjenica, Serbian football club
FK Sloga Temerin, Serbian football club
FK Sloga 1934 Vinica, Macedonian football club


Encyclopedia is a television series created by the HBO Network and the for-profit branch of the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) (now known as Sesame Workshop), Distinguished Productions, Inc. (DPI) (which has since been folded into Sesame Workshop). The series premiered on the HBO network in 1988.

Each episode covered a letter or series of letters in the alphabet, with short skits of sketch comedy devoted to up to twelve corresponding encyclopedia topics. Several topics were related through song. Three of the six writers of the show had also been writers for NBC's Saturday Night Live: Patricia Marx, Brian McConnachie, and Mitchell Kriegman.

The series featured the band BETTY, who performed both the opening and closing themes as well as individual songs for selected topics.

Topics
The series covered the following topics:

Awards
Daytime Emmy Awards:

Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design: Calista Hendrickson
Outstanding Achievement in Makeup: Paul Gebbia

Merchandising

Video
All episodes were released on VHS in the late 1990s. They are no longer available commercially, but often appear on eBay.

External links
The New York Times: CTW Romps Onto Cable With 'Encyclopedia' by Alison Leigh Cowan

HBO original programming
American children's education television series
1988 American television series debuts
1989 American television series endings
1980s American children's television series
English-language television shows
HBO Shows (series) WITHOUT Episode info, list, or Article
Television series by Sesame Workshop


Zoë Poledouris (born August 25, 1973) also known as Zoë Roché since her marriage, is an American actress, musician, and film composer. She is the daughter of the film composer Basil Poledouris.

Filmography

External links

References

1973 births
American women composers
American film score composers
American people of Greek descent
Women film score composers
Living people
21st-century American women musicians


Alorcus was a Spaniard who flourished around the 3rd century BC and who served in Hannibal's army, known only from a mention in Livy, followed by other Roman sources.  He was a friend of the Saguntines, and went into Saguntum, when the city was reduced to the last extremity, to endeavor to persuade the inhabitants to accept Hannibal's terms.

References

3rd-century BC people
Celtic warriors


Cesare Adolfo Bocci (born 13 September 1957) is an Italian actor.  Born in Camerino, he has acted in films and on stage, but is best known for his performance as Mimi Augello to Luca Zingaretti's Salvo Montalbano in the television series Il Commissario Montalbano.

He attended acting school in his home town of Camporotondo di Fiastrone, where he was a founding member of Compagnia della Rancia of Tolentino which produced theatre plays.

Moving to Rome, he has had continued success across theatre, cinema and television. He made his cinema debut in 1990, in Silvio Soldini's L'aria serena dell'ovest. After success in Il Commissario Montalbano, he played the role of the doctor Antonio Strains in the first two seasons of Elisa di Rivombrosa. In 2007 he starred in the TV mini series Io e Mamma, and in 2008 played Sergio Danieli in Terapia d'urgenza.

In the theatre, during 2006 and 2007 he played the role of Oscar in the Italian version of Sweet Charity, alongside Lorella Cuccarini. In 2008 in Camerino he played in the re-enactment of Corsa ala spada e Palio as the Duke Da Varano. In 2011/2 he starred in Massimo Romeo Piparo's adaptation of the famous Broadway musical adaptation of the French play La Cage Aux Folles.

In 2012, he debuted as a television presenter on Rai 3 show Il giallo e il nero. In October 2013, he was lead presenter of Miss Italia together with Massimo Ghini and Francesca Chillemi.

Filmography

Film

Television

External links

1957 births
Living people
Italian male television actors
Italian male stage actors
People from the Province of Macerata
Italian male film actors
20th-century Italian male actors
21st-century Italian male actors
Reality show winners


4, 3, 2, 1 or 4321 may refer to:

Film
 4.3.2.1., 2010 film by Noel Clarke
 ...4 ..3 ..2 ..1 ...Morte, a 1967 Italian science fiction film

Music
 "4, 3, 2, 1" (k-os song), song by k-os
 "4, 3, 2, 1" (LL Cool J song), song by LL Cool J
 "4-3-2-1", song by Raffi Boghosyan

Other uses
 4 3 2 1 (novel), 2017 novel by Paul Auster
 4–3–2–1, a common formation in association football

See also
1234 (disambiguation)
"5-4-3-2-1", a 1963 single by Manfred Mann
 54321, a 2016 Tamil thriller film
Countdown, a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur


Shannon is an American crime drama series that aired in syndication from October 16, 1961 to June 12, 1962. The series stars George Nader as the title Joe Shannon, an insurance investigator for the Transport Bonding and Surety Company. Regis Toomey portrays Shannon's boss Bill Cochran.

Guest stars

Chris Alcaide as Jack O'Hare in "Duke of the Valley"
King Calder
Francis De Sales as Ray Petri in "Cold Trail"
Robert Duvall as Joey Nolan in "The Big Fish"
Raymond Guth
DeForest Kelley as Carlyle in "The Pickup"
Ann McCrea as Phyllis Gray in "Never Help a Lady" (1962)
Joseph Mell
Lee Meriwether episode unknown
Gilman Rankin

Production notes
Jerry Briskin produced the series for Screen Gems. Gene Roddenberry wrote two of the teleplays.

Episodes

References

External links

 Shannon 1961-62 at CVTA

1961 American television series debuts
1961 American television series endings
1960s American crime drama television series
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Television series by Screen Gems


Pamela Bianca Ramos Manalo (born November 28, 1987) is a Filipina actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the Binibining Pilipinas Universe 2009 winner, and represented the Philippines at Miss Universe 2009, but she was unplaced.

In October 2010, she was cast in the ABS-CBN television series Juanita Banana on a title role until the show ended in February 2011. In February 2012, she became the first Asian woman to become an endorser of L'Oreal Matrix.

Family and personal life
Manalo has two American and Filipino bloodlines. She is the sister of Miss World 2002 - Top 10 Finalist Katherine Anne Manalo and Miss Globe 2016 - 3rd Runner-Up Nichole Marie Manalo, and is the niece of Miss International 1968 - Top 15 Semi-Finalist Nini Ramos.

Prior to joining the Binibining Pilipinas pageant, Manalo worked as a flight attendant for the domestic operations of Philippine Airlines. She graduated at Assumption College San Lorenzo with a degree in Advertising.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links
 Miss Universe profile  - from the official Miss Universe website
 Bianca Manalo: Making the World a Better Place - from the official Binibining Pilipinas website

 Sparkle profile

1987 births
Living people
Binibining Pilipinas winners
Miss Universe 2009 contestants
Filipino film actresses
21st-century Filipino actresses
Filipino television actresses
Actors from Parañaque
Actresses from Metro Manila
Filipino people of American descent
Star Magic
ABS-CBN personalities
GMA Network personalities


The Space Launch Complex 46 (SLC-46), previously Launch Complex 46 (LC-46), is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station operated under license by Space Florida previously used for Athena rocket launches. It has been used by Astra, which will continue the use with Rocket 4 and maybe 5 and will be used by ABL Space Systems for the near-term use by RS1.

History

Construction and Trident Operations
This complex was built as part of the U.S. Navy's Trident II submarine-launch missile development effort. Construction was underway by early February 1984, with the first Trident II launch LC-46 occurring on 15 January 1987. A total of 19 Trident IIs were launched from the site between 15 January 1987 and 27 January 1989. After this, all subsequent Trident II testing took place at sea, and the site was deactivated.

During the construction of then-called LC-46, the nearby sounding rocket complex LC-43 was demolished. Its operations were transferred to LC-47.

Space Florida
In 1997, Space Florida began operations at the site, and was opened for commercial space operations. Lockheed Martin launched an Athena II and an Athena I from the pad in 1998 and 1999 respectively. The Athena II, launched January 7, 1998, carried the Lunar Prospector spacecraft which orbited the Moon. On January 27, 1999, the Athena I lifted off with Taiwan's first satellite, ROCSAT-1, carrying experimental communications, ocean imagery, and ionospheric studies instruments.

In March 2010, the USAF 45th Space Wing issued Real Property Licenses to Space Florida for Launch Complexes 36 and 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. On July 1, 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration approved a Launch Site Operator's License for commercial launches at Launch Complex 46.

On September 24, 2010, the Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space Coast was awarded a $500,000 Defense Infrastructure Grant from the State of Florida to be used for critical communications upgrades at SLC-46. In early 2014, Space Florida contracted with Alliant Techsystems (ATK) to begin phase three of the communications infrastructure refurbishment, with completion expected to take one year.

In July 2015, the U.S. Air Force and Orbital ATK announced a Minotaur IV launched from SLC-46 would be used for the ORS-5 mission in 2017. ORS-5 was successfully launched on August 26, 2017.

Ascent Abort-2

On July 2, 2019, NASA launched a repurposed Peacekeeper missile from SLC-46, carrying the Orion spacecraft for the Ascent Abort-2 mission. The mission's goal was to demonstrate and qualify the Orion Launch Abort System (LAS) that will allow the astronaut crew to safely escape in the event of an emergency during launch pad operations, through the ascent phase of the Orion vehicle.

Astra
On December 6, 2021, Astra announced plans to launch its small orbital rockets from SLC-46 as soon as February 2022. The company was planning for a launch cadence of once a month for two years.

On 10 February 2022, the first Astra launch from SLC-46 resulted in failure. After two previous scrubbed launch attempts in the preceding days, the launch of the rocket occurred nominally. However, first stage separation failed, leading to the second stage to spin out of control, and the rocket and payload were lost.

On 12 June 2022, the second Astra launch from SLC-46 also resulted in failure. Astra's Rocket 3.3 vehicle (serial number LV0010) carrying two TROPICS CubeSats for NASA failed to reach orbit and the satellites were lost.

See also
 List of Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island launch sites

References

External links
 History of Launch Complex 46

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Launch complexes of the United States Space Force
Rocket launch sites in the United States
1987 establishments in Florida