Million Dolla Broke Niggaz: The DVS Mindz Exxxperience 1994-2000 was the first official full-length release from the Topeka, Kansas rap group DVS Mindz. “"We got million dollar dreams, but we ain't got no money,” Kutaculus, the group’s DJ, explained of the title. The CD has been long out of print, and physical copies are hard to find online, but the entire album is available for streaming.

1994-2000

Million Dolla Broke Niggaz was an anthology that contained tracks recorded during DVS Mindz' first six years. The CD contained some of the group's most popular songs as well as tracks that were rarely, if ever, performed live. The disc contained 15 tracks and was released on May 9, 2000. A limited-edition of 100 discs featuring different cover artwork, a slightly different track listing, and autographs by each member of DVS Mindz, was issued just prior to the official release.

Million Dolla Broke Niggaz compiled tracks from different eras of the group’s career, and the disc features seven producers (S.G., Tom Woosley, D.O.P.E., Dr. Who, Mr. Wolf, Boogieman and Rock). Several tracks are either solo ventures or feature special guests. Three tracks are listed as “Public Service Announcements,” featuring short raps from D.L., Killa The Hun, and Srtr8jakket. D.O.P.E. was unable to complete the recording of his public service announcement in time, and was therefore not included on the disc.

A changing sound

Four of the group’s most frequently performed live tracks were featured on the disc: “Madness,” “Tired of Talking,” (both produced by D.O.P.E.), "Bust Something," and "Niggaz (1137)" (both helmed by the production duo Boogieman and Rock). Two versions of “Tired of Talking” were recorded, the latter version of which was the more popular, at least with the group. DVS Mindz rarely performed the original version live, and the newer take was used as the soundtrack for the band's first music video. Puzzlingly, Million Dolla Broke Niggaz includes the original version of "Tired of Talking" rather than the newer one. It was rumored that the change was made due to failed negotiations to secure the production rights to the newer version of the song. “Bust Something,” a popular live cut, featured Kansas City rappers the Zou. The two newest tracks on the disc, “Bust Something” and “Niggaz (1137)” represented the group’s growing inclination towards hardcore, gangsta rap, a move embraced by newer fans, but one questioned by some longtime fans. “Our sound has changed,” Killa The Hun explained. “We've matured lyrically a lot. DVS Mindz has gone through some rebuilding, but now that we've got everything in order, we're like the stunt men of rap.... We come in and take the bumps and bruises and go on about the business."

Solo tracks and collaborations
In addition to the public service announcements, the group members contributed to the release in various ways. “Murdarous Verses” is a solo track featuring Killa the Hun, with D.L. contributing backup vocals. “Me Against Myself and I Prevail” features three of Str8jakkett’s personalities, all rapping in a schizophrenic bouillabaisse. D.O.P.E. produced two notable cuts, “Madness” and the original version of “Tired of Talking.”

The album also featured rarely performed numbers such as "DVS Mindbender," “Unsigned Hype” and “Misrepresenters” three of the oldest tracks on the release.“Seven” is a seven-minute track with a chorus that doesn't show up until the last 30 seconds. The track features seven MCs, with DVS Mindz collaborating with a young trio called Qui-Lo, consisting of Jus an M.C. (who would later become Joe Good, an associate of Mac Lethal), Masta Chi (who would later become Titanium Frame), and Sket (who would later become Godemis and help found the Kansas City rap act Ces Cru). “These cats were like 17, 18 years old and they were on stage rocking 600 or 700 people at the Grenada,” Str8jakkett recalled in an interview. Qui-Lo was signed to DVS Mindz' independent label, No Coast Records, and recorded its debut album, which went unreleased after the trio disbanded.

Critical response
The disc received nearly universal praise from the local music press. The Pitch called it "sonic timeline of the Topeka rap outfit’s storied history." Music journalist JJ Hensley commended the "stellar DVS debut, which featured 'Tired of Talking' and 'Niggaz (1137),' two of the best hip-hop singles ever to come out of this area." Journalist Geoff Harkness opined in a June 1, 2000 review for the Lawrence Journal-World that "the DVS debut serves as a bell-ringing wake-up call to area rap groups: The game just got raised to a whole new level." Journalist Andrew Miller dubbed the album "essential." The Pitch named "Million Dolla Broke Niggaz" one of its best albums of 2000: "Eschewing Kansas City’s hardcore sound might have been easy for DVS Mindz to do, given that the crew hails from Topeka, but its collection of raw, tough-talking, and introspective songs on Million Dollar Broke Niggaz showed KC listeners that rap could be about more than simply getting fucked up." In 2014, blogger Mike Jones wrote that "Million Dolla Broke Niggaz" is "still a Top City classic."

Track listing
"Public Service Announcement: D.L." – 0:40
"Madness" – 4:45
"DVS Mindbender” – 5.19
"Seven" (feat. Qui Lo) – 7:10
"Public Service Announcement: Killa The Hun” – 1:03
"Murdarous Verses” – 4:22
"Misrepresenters” – 6:13
"Tired of Talking" – 6:24
"Inferred Connection” (Feat. Bronz and Paw Paww) – 7:33
"Public Service Announcement: Str8jakkett” – 1:46
"Me Against Myself and I Prevail" – 5:38
"Unsigned Hype" – 5:09
"Bust Something (radio edit)" – 5:29
"Niggaz (1137)" – 6:00
"Yellow Brick Road" (Feat Pontiak) – 6:13

Personnel
Str8jakkett - vocals
Killa The Hun - vocals
D.O.P.E. - vocals
D.L. - vocals
Kutaculous - DJ
Godemis (Qui Lo)- vocals
Titanium Frame (Qui Lo)- vocals
Joe Good (Qui Lo)- vocals
Bronz - vocals
Paww Paww - vocals
Pontiak - vocals

References

External links
 "Niggaz (1137)" by DVS Mindz
 Stream Million Dolla Broke Niggaz

2000 albums
Hip hop albums by American artists


V. M. Sudheeran (born 26 May 1948) is an Indian politician, who was a former President of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), former Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, Health Minister of Kerala, and a prominent political leader in Kerala. He was a member of the 6th, 11th, 12th and 13th Lok Sabha representing Alappuzha each time and a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 1980 to 1996 representing Manalur.

Political career

Sudheeran started his political career through the Kerala Students Union (KSU), which he served as President from 1971 to 1973. He was elected President of the State Youth Congress in 1975 and continued in the position till 1977. He was elected to the 6th Lok Sabha in 1977 from Alapuzha. In 1980, he contested the Niyamasabha elections from Manalur and won. He remained the MLA from the constituency until 1996.

He served as the Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1987. In 1995, he was appointed Health Minister under Chief Minister A. K. Antony. In 1996, he sought election to the 11th Lok Sabha from Alappuzha and won again. He was re-elected from the same constituency again in 1998 and 1999. In 1999 he defeated the renowned Malayalam film Actor Murali with a considerable majority.

In 2004 he lost to K. S. Manoj of the CPI(M). In 2009, he refused to contest the elections despite persuasions from party leadership and various social circles, stating that younger politicians need to be given opportunities. He is a true Gandhian.

On 10 February 2014, he was selected KPCC President by the High Command of the Indian National Congress. He resigned from the post on 10 March 2017, owing to health reasons although it is widely speculated that his resignation is part of a massive organizational revamp of the KPCC.

Positions held

1971-73                       President, Kerala Students’ Union
1975-77                       President, Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress
1977-78                       General Secretary, Indian Youth Congress
1977                          Elected to 6th Lok Sabha
1980-82                       Member, Kerala Legislative Assembly INC(U) E. K. Nayanar ministry
1982-86	               Re-Elected  Kerala Legislative Assembly INC(A)
1985-March 1987               Speaker, Kerala Legislative Assembly (K.Karunakaran Ministry)
1990-91                       Vice-President, P.C.C., Kerala
April 1995-  May 1996         Minister of Health, Kerala (A.K.Antony Ministry)
1996                          Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1996-97                       Member, Committee on Railways
1998                          Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
1998-99                       Member, Committee of Privileges, Committee on Human Resource Development and Convenor of its Sub-Committee-II on Medical Education, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways
1999                          Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (4th term)
1999-2000                     Member, Committee on Human Resource Development
2000-2001                     Member, Committee on Ethics
2014-2017                     KPCC President.

Personal life
He was born to  Vylopally Sankaran Mama  and Girija  at a small village named Padiyam in Anthikad on 26 May 1948. He is graduated from St. Thomas College, Thrissur. His wife is Latha Sudheeran. He has a son Sarin Sudheeran and a daughter.

References

External links

Malayali politicians
People from Thrissur district
Living people
Speakers of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala
St. Thomas College, Thrissur alumni
India MPs 1977–1979
India MPs 1996–1997
India MPs 1998–1999
India MPs 1999–2004
Lok Sabha members from Kerala
Kerala MLAs 1980–1982
Kerala MLAs 1982–1987
Kerala MLAs 1987–1991
Indian National Congress (U) politicians
1948 births


The European potter wasp or European tube wasp (Ancistrocerus gazella) is a species of potter wasp. As an imago (adult), the female collects as many as 20 caterpillars for each nest, which consists of a single cell. Her larval offspring then feed on these inside the nest, which is sealed with mud arranged by her. As adults, they eat nectar and aphid honeydew. Males cannot sting, and the sting of a female is not painful. They can be found on windows, foraging for nectar on flowers, or searching out small cracks or holes in which to nest.

Distribution and habitat
This wasp is native to Europe, its range including Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Austria, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria. In the British Isles it occurs in England, as far north as Stockton-on-Tees, in Wales and at scattered locations in Ireland. It also occurs in Morocco. It is found in a variety of habitats where there is suitable sandy and clay soil, such as river banks, coastal areas, parkland, open woodland and urban areas.
The species became established in Auckland, New Zealand in 1987, and is now found even in Otago (near the country's southern extremity).

Ecology
In late spring, the wasps emerge from their over-wintering sites and feed on nectar and pollen from such plants as sea-holly, bramble, hogweed and thistles. After mating, the females search for suitable nest sites; these are usually cavities in plants such as hollow stems, pith cavities of dead twigs or the disused tunnels made by wood-boring insects. Inside these tubes, the cells are arranged linearly, with a clay partition between them. The female lays an egg in the first cell and then stocks it with several paralysed caterpillars, before sealing it with a clay plug. Further cells are made in a similar manner. Each wasp egg hatches in a few days and the larva takes ten or twelve days to consume its supply of caterpillars. After a short rest, or an extended period of diapause, depending on the time of year, the larva spins a cocoon and the adult emerges about a fortnight later. It moistens the clay plug to soften it before emerging into the open.

References

Further reading
  1989: Ancistrocerus gazella (Vespoidea: Eumenidae); a first record for New Zealand. New Zealand entomologist, 12: 63–65. PDF

Potter wasps
Hymenoptera of Europe
Hymenoptera of New Zealand
Insects described in 1798
Taxa named by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer


Paul Rose (born 1951) is a British television presenter who mainly works for the BBC. He is an accomplished diver, mountaineer and explorer whose skills and interests led to his role as a documentary presenter.

Rose was vice-president of the Royal Geographical Society from 1999 to 2002 and made frequent expeditions to Antarctica, supporting scientists engaged in research, and for eight 6-month seasons was base commander of Rothera Research Station.

In 2006, Rose presented the 5-part BBC Four documentary series Voyages of Discovery.

In 2008 he co-presented the 8-part BBC Two documentary series Oceans.

In 2011 he co-presented the 4-part BBC Two documentary series Britain's Secret Seas.

Since the mid 2010s, Paul Rose has been involved with a number of walking documentaries made as part of the BBC's commitment to regional programming. In 2016, his 5-part programme Coastal Path series showed Rose on the 630 mile South West Coast Path, with the series originally broadcast as a regional BBC One show for people in the south west and Channel Islands. Coastal Path would go on to be repeated nationally for viewers on BBC Two in the following  years and would end up as a BBC Four programme, last broadcast on 27 July 2021.

In 2017 Rose presented a 2-part BBC One documentary on the Yorkshire Wolds Way, a walk of around 80 miles from the Humber to Filey, on the North Yorkshire coast. During the programme, Rose explored the wildlife and geographical features of the landscape he encountered. In the second part of the documentary he took a dramatic glider flight from the Wolds Gliding Club, Pocklington, over part of the Wolds Way.

In 2018 he presented the four-part BBC One series The Lakes with Paul Rose, about the English Lake District.

References

External links

 British Antarctic Survey

Living people
British mountain climbers
British television presenters
British underwater divers
Explorers of Antarctica
Recipients of the Polar Medal
1951 births
Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Founder's Medal


Jo Wyatt is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Tweak in The Octonauts and Little Miss Helpful, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss Scary and Little Miss Sunshine in The Mr. Men Show, as well as Daisy Kribotnik in Love Soup, Natella in Bromwell High, and Mimi in Guess with Jess. She is also known for providing voices in many video games, such as Ciri in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, additional voices in Perfect Dark Zero and Dragon Quest VIII as well as narrating To Leo with Love.

Early life
Wyatt was one of the original Minipops. Her father, Martin Wyatt, was the producer. She made a single "Stupid Cupid" in 1982, and reached #1 in France. In 1984, she replaced Patsy Kensit as a new Luna in the second series of the UK science fiction show Luna.

At the age of 13, Wyatt helped to write the words to the theme song of the children's television series Wide Awake Club  for the breakfast television network TV-am with a colleague of her father named Colin Frechter doing the music.

Whilst still a singer, Wyatt has also sung several songs on the vinyl record featuring the Care Bears The Care Bears to the Rescue in 1984 and the first nine songs of the long running children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends in the early 1990s with Tom and Laura Penta, Louise Roberts and Victoria Ferrer when the series was having sing along songs of its own for the very first time (only seven of them were turned into music videos whilst an early version of Gone Fishing was sung the series' former composer Junior Campbell which can be seen on the US VHS Rusty to the Rescue & Other Stories). Several years later, Wyatt went onto sing several more Thomas songs during the classic era however different children were used for each series.

In 1988, as a teenager, Wyatt wrote and provided the vocals to the theme song to the BBC children's animated series Barney with Frechter also writing the words and composing the music and some members of the Minipops doing additional vocals. In 1989, Wyatt sung a version of Downtown in the compilation Canzoni da Amare-International

Voice acting
Wyatt is known for her voice role in Angelina Ballerina and as Lyra in all the His Dark Materials audio books. She has also read the role of Alice for the audio book of Alice in Wonderland.

She voiced Gracie, one of Angelina's friends, in Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. In Dragon Age II, she is the voice of the game's protagonist Hawke, if the player chooses to play as a female.

In The Octonauts, she voices the engineer, Tweak Bunny. She also voiced the character of Scratch in the US dub of Bob the Builder, during the final episodes of the show's classic era.

She also provided the voices of Jennifer in the video game Rule of Rose, the Female Imperial Agent in the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, Alicia in Ni no Kuni, Meyneth in Xenoblade Chronicles, and Ciri in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links

 Jo Wyatt at Naxos Audiobooks

Living people
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
English child actresses
English film actresses
English television actresses
English video game actresses
English voice actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)


This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, presented in chronological order.

(1) West End Grounds
Home of: Milwaukee West Ends – independent (1876) – League Alliance (1877)
Location: Wells Avenue, near city limits

(2) Milwaukee Base-Ball Grounds
Home of: Milwaukee Brewers or Grays – National League (1878)
Location: West Clybourn Street (south); North 10th Street (east); North 11th Street (west); Clermont Street Teed into Clybourn from the south
Currently: Underneath the Marquette Interchange of the freeway system

(3) Wright Street Grounds
Home of:
Milwaukee Brewers a.k.a. "Cream City" – Northwestern League (1884) – joined Union Association (1884 part) – Western League (1885) – Northwestern League (1886–1887)
Neutral site for Chicago White Stockings – NL – vs. Buffalo and vs. Providence, one game apiece in Sept 1885.
Location: West Clarke, North 11th, North 12th, West Wright streets
Currently: Residential homes

(4) Athletic Park
Home of:
Milwaukee Creams or Brewers – Western League (1888–1894)
Milwaukee Brewers – American Association (1891 last half)
Location: same as Borchert Field (see below)

(5) Lloyd Street Grounds
Home of:
Milwaukee Brewers – Western League (1895–1900) became American League (1901) (club moved to St. Louis 1902)
Milwaukee Creams – Western League (1902–1903)
Location: West Lloyd Street (south, home plate); houses and businesses, and West North Avenue (north, center field); North 16th Street (east, right field/first base); houses and North 18th Street (west, left field/third base)
Currently: Residential homes

(6) Borchert Field (previously Athletic Park and Brewer Field)
Home of:
Milwaukee Brewers – American Association (1902–1952)
Milwaukee Bears – Negro National League (1923)
Kosciuszko Reds – Wisconsin State League (1928–1930)
Milwaukee Red Sox – Wisconsin State League (1931–1932, 1936)
Milwaukee Chicks – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1944)
Location: North 7th Street (first base, east); North 8th Street (third base, west); Chambers Street (home plate, south); Burleigh Street (north, center field)
Currently: I-43

(7) Milwaukee County Stadium
Home of:
Milwaukee Braves – National League (1953–1965)
Chicago White Sox – American League (some games during 1968–1969)
Milwaukee Brewers – American League (1970–1997); moved to National League (1998–2000)
Location: 201 S. 46th St – Southwest of the intersection of Interstate 94 (I-94), U.S. Highway 41 (US 41), and Wisconsin Highway 341 (WIS 341).
Currently: Structure razed in 2001, infield remains as Little League Baseball park Helfaer Field

(8) American Family Field (originally Miller Park)
Home of: Milwaukee Brewers – National League (2001–present)
Location: 1 Brewers way – Next to County Stadium site – Southwest of the intersection of I-94, and Brewers Boulevard (WIS 175).

See also
Lists of baseball parks
Parks of Milwaukee

Sources
Peter Filichia, Professional Baseball Franchises, Facts on File, 1993.
Phil Lowry, Green Cathedrals,  several editions.
Michael Benson, Ballparks of North America, McFarland, 1989.
Brian A. Podoll, The Minor League Milwaukee Brewers, McFarland, 2003.
Baseball Memories, by Marc Okkonen, Sterling Publishing, 1992.

Baseball venues in Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Baseball
Baseball parks


Oakwood Park Grammar School is a boys grammar school with academy status located in Maidstone, United Kingdom, the school is co-educational in the sixth form (years 12 and 13). The school takes boys at the age of 11 and over by examination (11-plus) and boys and girls at 16+ on their GCSE results. The current headteacher is Kevin Moody. The school is popularly known by its initials OPGS, Oakwood or Oakwood Park

History
OPGS was founded in 1918 as the Co-educational Junior Technical School for Boys and the Junior Commercial School for Girls. The school was based at two sites in Maidstone town centre: Faith Street and Tonbridge Road. The school admitted pupils at the age of 11 and 13. The school was also known as the Maidstone Technical School.

By the 1950s the school had outgrown these two sites and a new site was found at Oakwood Park, further along on the Tonbridge Road. The school moved into its new premises between September 1958 and September 1959. The new premises were officially opened in September 1959 with a service of dedication performed by the then Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Francis Fisher. It was then known as the Maidstone Technical School for Boys. In 1963 it became the Maidstone Technical High School for Boys.

The introduction of comprehensive education in the 1970s lead to the Thameside Scheme being introduced in the Maidstone area. September 1971 saw the last admission aged 11. There were no new admissions in the next two academic years. From September 1974 pupils were admitted at the age of 13. At the same time the school was renamed Maidstone School for Boys. Under the Thameside Scheme technical schools had in effect become grammar schools but were not allowed to call themselves as such. Now the school had to compete with Maidstone Grammar School for pupils.

In 1983 the use of the "grammar school" title was relaxed and on 10 October 1983 Maidstone School for Boys became Oakwood Park Grammar School. In the 1980s the school started admitting girls into the sixth form.

Enrolment declined in the late 1980s and Kent County Council, the local education authority, considered merging OPGS with Invicta Grammar School, a girls grammar school located in east Maidstone. A vigorous campaign by parents, staff and governors prevented the merger. On 1 April 1992 OPGS became one of the first schools in the area to achieve grant maintained status, giving it independence from KCC. Enrolment increased thereafter and in September 1993 grammar schools across the area started admitting pupils at the age of 11 (year 7).

After the scrapping of grant maintained status in the late 1990s, OPGS became a community school, reverting to KCC control. The school became a mathematics and computing specialist college in 2003. The school then became a foundation school, giving it some independence from Kent County Council. On 1 May 2011 the school officially became an academy, meaning that Kent County Council no longer have any responsibility for the school apart from co-ordinating admissions.

Extracurricular activities
OPGS's extracurricular activities are extensive and varied. The school has sports teams in football, rugby, cricket, basketball, rowing and athletics which compete at local, county and national levels. There are regular inter-form competitions and an annual sports day. The school has numerous music groups including an orchestra and the Coconut Grove steel band. The school has a purpose-built drama studio which is home to the drama club. Other school clubs include debating, chess and robotics. The school is a participant in the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme and has numerous overseas trips. Oakwood focus on these aspects greatly and it is very unusual for a grammar school to emphasise the importance of extracurricular work. This is also done though volunteering day which is held each year and in which all students volunteer for one school day to gain experience and to give back to the community.

Houses
OPGS used to have houses named after local villages – Allington, Brenchley, Chillington, Detling, Egerton and Farleigh. This house system was abandoned in the 1980s.

The house system was re-introduced in 2009 due to the school's growing size and to accompany the school's 50-year anniversary. The school's five houses are:
 Broughton (named after Andrew Broughton, former Mayor of Maidstone and signatory of Charles I of England's death warrant)
 Fisher (named after Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, who led the dedication service at the official opening of the school's Oakwood Park site)
 Hazlitt (named after William Hazlitt, a famous English essayist, playwright and social commentator who was from Maidstone)
 Sadler (named after David Sadler, a former OPGS student who went on to play 272 games for Manchester United football club following the devastating Munich air disaster, and 4 games for England)
 Wilberforce (named after William Wilberforce, the famous British politician who successfully stood against slavery, who has family in East Farleigh)

Headmasters
 2006–present: Kevin W. Moody
 1992–2006: Mike J. Newbould
 1985–1992: A. G. Sandford
 1966–1985: John A. Skinner
 1956–1966: R. H. Voice
 1933–1955: H. Collins
 1918–1933: James Quick

Alumni
OPGS has helped nurture students through various career paths.
 James Hall – artistic gymnast
 Jon Harley – footballer formerly of Chelsea and several other clubs
 David Sadler – footballer who played for Manchester United and England
 Dominic Sherwood – actor, known for his roles in Shadowhunters and Vampire Academy
 Laurie Vincent – musician, known for playing guitar, bass, and vocals in the band Slaves
 Marc Morris – historian
 Mark Sargeant – Michelin-starred chef
 Richard Sambrook - journalist and academic

Notes and references

https://books.google.fi/books/about/Maidstone_Technical_High_School_for_Boys.html?id=7jndPAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

External links
 Oakwood Park Grammar School website
 Oakwood Park Grammar School alumni network

Grammar schools in Kent
Boys' schools in Kent
Schools in Maidstone
Educational institutions established in 1918
1918 establishments in England
Academies in Kent


The Tokyo Music Festival was an international music contest that ran from 1972 to 1992. It was organized by the Tokyo Music Festival Association.  The first edition of the Tokyo Music Festival took place on 13 May 1972 with 12 participating countries.

Grand Prix Winners
1972: Izumi Yukimura (), with "Watashi wa Nakanai"
1973: Mickey Newbury (), with "Heaven Help the Child"
1974: René Simard (), with "Midori-iro no Yane"
1975: Maureen McGovern (), with "Even Better Than I Know Myself"
1976: Natalie Cole (), with "I'm Glad There Is You"
1977: Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. (), with "The Two of Us"
1978: Al Green (), with "Belle"
1979: Rita Coolidge (), with "Don't Cry Out Loud"
1980: Dionne Warwick (), with "Feeling Old Feelings"
1981: The Nolans (), with "Sexy Music"
1982: John O'Banion (), with "I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love"
1983: Lionel Richie (), with "You Are"; Joe Cocker () and Jennifer Warnes (), with "Up Where We Belong"
1984: Laura Branigan (), with "The Lucky One"
1985: Kool & the Gang (), with "Cherish"
1986: Miami Sound Machine (), with "Conga"
1987: No Grand Prix awarded
1988: No Grand Prix awarded
1989: Ofra Haza (), with "Im Nin'alu"
1990: Wilson Phillips (), with "Hold On"
1991: Cancelled
1992: Smokey Mountain (), with "Paraiso"

See also
List of historic rock festivals

Music festivals in Japan
Recurring events disestablished in 1991
Festivals in Tokyo
1972 establishments in Japan
Pop music festivals
Music festivals established in 1972
Rock festivals in Japan


Ljubica Gabrić-Calvesi (17 October 1914 – 16 December 2015), known as Gabre Gabric, was a Dalmatian Italian track and field athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Her best discus throw was 43.35 m (1939).

Biography
Ljubica Gabrić was born in Imotski, Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary). She was wife of Sandro Calvesi, an Italian athletic coach (hurdles), and mother-in-law of Eddy Ottoz (grandmother of Laurent Ottoz and Patrick Ottoz).

While many sources give a birth year of 1914 and she competed in masters-level tournaments with this year of birth, Gabrić claimed in an interview that she was born in 1917 and that 1914 was a transcription error: however, this admission is in contradiction with additional sources, including her arrival in the United States at age 9 in 1923, documented by Ellis Island records and the fact that Olympic documents dating to the 1936 and 1948 Olympics establish a birthdate of 17 October 1914, probably originating from her own answers at the time.

In 1936, she finished tenth in the Olympic discus throw event. Twelve years later she finished 17th in the discus throw competition at the 1948 Olympics. In the 1938 European Championships in Athletics she finished sixth in the discus throw contest and in the 1950 European Championships in Athletics she finished seventh in the discus throw event. Records from the European Championships use the 1917 birthdate, reporting her as a 20 year old and 32 year old respectively.

In 2010, she was still competing in Veterans Athletic Championships and, following the 2011 death of Alfred Proksch, was the last known track and field competitor from the 1936 Olympic Games to still be competing.  At the 2010 European Veterans Athletics Championships in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, she set the current W95 World Records in the Shot Put and the Discus.

Gabrić died on 16 December 2015, aged 101.

Masters world records
Gabric held four world records in masters W95 category (athletes who have completed the ninety-fifth year of age), records regularly recognized by the International Governing Body, World Masters Athletics. This is because for the World Masters Athletics and FIDAL (Italian athletics federation), recognize the birthdate of 1914.

Achievements

Senior

Masters

See also
List of world records in masters athletics
Ottoz family

References

External links

1914 births
2015 deaths
Italian female discus throwers
Italian centenarians
Italian people of Croatian descent
Olympic athletes for Italy
Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Italian masters athletes
World record holders in masters athletics
Sportspeople from Imotski
Yugoslav emigrants to the United States
Women centenarians
Dalmatian Italians


The Yellowface II budgerigar mutation is one of approximately 30 mutations affecting the colour of budgerigars.  In combination with the Blue, Opaline and Clearwing mutations, the single factor Yellowface II mutation produces the variety called Rainbow.

Appearance
The single factor (SF) Yellowface II Skyblue variety is like a normal Light Green but has a very bright body colour midway between blue and green — a shade often called sea-green or turquoise.  The body feathers of the SF Yellowface II Cobalt are bottle-green and in the SF Yellowface II Mauve they are a mixture of mauve and olive.

The double factor (DF) Yellowface II Skyblue variety is very similar to the Yellowface I Skyblue, but the yellow pigmentation is brighter, and tends to leak into the body feathers to a greater extent.

Historical notes
Although not recognised as such at the time, it is possible that the first Yellowface II birds to be reported in the UK were bred by Jack Long of Gorleston-on-Sea in 1935.
A contemporary report
of his breeding says, "Mrs Lait mated a dark green cock to a greywing mauve hen, and in their third nest was a pale greywing mauve hen with a distinct (light lemon yellow) mask and bib, with the under tail feathers yellow and with yellow on the wings in the places where the normal blue bird is white.  This hen ... was mated with a cobalt/white cock and they have produced five youngsters, all having yellow masks like their mother.  Mr Long's birds were bred from a dark green of a somewhat olive shade mated to a rather unusually coloured hen, which appears to be a green but has a turquoise suffusion on the breast, etc.  The first nest produced 3 cobalt birds with yellow masks, etc, like Mrs Lait's birds described above, and one green-blue bird like the mother.  The second nest produced exactly the same result."

The description of the birds suggests that Mr Long's birds were a DF Yellowface II Cobalt cock and a SF Yellowface II Cobalt hen, but the breeding of Cobalts with yellow masks places this in doubt.

Genetics
The genetics of the several Yellowface mutations and their relation to the Blue mutation are not yet fully and definitively understood.

Much confusion and misunderstanding have arisen because the popular names given to these mutations are misleading.  These mutations do not generate a yellow face, as the names might suggest.  Rather the action of all these mutations is to reduce the yellow pigmentation, either entirely or to some degree, with respect to the wild-type Light Green.  Had these mutations been named 'Yellow-less' rather than 'Blue' or 'Yellowface' their action might have been more easily understood from the outset.  But the traditional names are engrained and are retained here.

The prevailing view is that the Yellowface II mutation, together with the Yellowface I and Blue mutations, are members of an allelic series situated at the Blue locus.  Although some breeders still dissent from this view it is the one followed here.

On its own, the Yellowface II is a simple autosomal recessive with respect to the wild-type.  Visibly, its action appears to be similar to that of the Blue mutation.  The heterozygote or Light Green/yellowface II with one Yellowface II allele and one wild-type allele is visibly indistinguishable from a Light Green, and the homozygote with two Yellowface II alleles is like a Skyblue with a variable green suffusion on the breast.

The SF Yellowface II Skyblue variety, described in Appearance above, is a composite of the Blue and Yellowface II mutations, having one allele of each.

The loci of the Dark budgerigar mutation and the Blue allelic series are situated on the same autosome, so the Dark mutation is linked to the Blue allelic series (see genetic linkage).  The cross-over value (COV) or recombination frequency between the Dark and Blue loci is commonly stated to be about 14%, but some experiments have found much smaller values (see Genetics in the Dark budgerigar mutation).

References

External links
 World Budgerigar Organisation (WBO)
 WBO Colour Guide

Budgerigar colour mutations


Penny Vital (born July 20, 1977), better known as Penny Drake, is an American independent film actress and model. Her modelling career since 2008 has included work for Herra Couture, Flora Zeta and Ed Hardy. In June 2009 she appeared as the video game character Bayonetta at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles.

Penny's movie appearances since 2005 include parts in Sin City and The 40 Year Old Virgin. She also stars in Zombie Strippers alongside Jenna Jameson and Robert Englund, and in Necrosis played with Michael Berryman and George Stults.

In 2006–2008 she played co-anchor Mary Clark in the Bikini News Web-based satirical video series.

Personal life
Drake's father is a Southern Baptist pastor.

Filmography
 The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
 Sin City (2005)
 Monarch of the Moon (2005)
 The Slaughter (2006)
 You're So Dead (2007)
 The Cook (2008)
 Zombie Strippers! (2008)
 Necrosis (2009)
 Dreamkiller (2010)

Television
 2008: "Star Chicks"

References

External links

 Zombie Good Life (artistic)
 Penny Vital (deprecated )

1977 births
American film actresses
Actresses from San Antonio
Living people
Female models from Texas
21st-century American women


Keith Wickham is a British voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is known for providing the voices of various characters in the children's television series 64 Zoo Lane and in the British children's series Thomas and Friends.

Career
Wickham voiced Changed Daily in The Secret Show, Mr. Small, and Mr. Tall in The Mr. Men Show (UK version), Corneil in Watch My Chops, Mr. Mouseling and most of the male voices in Angelina Ballerina, Nelson the Elephant, Reginald the Lion, Victor the Crocodile and the others in 64 Zoo Lane, Frank the Koala, Archie the Crocodile and Sammy the Shopkeeper in The Koala Brothers and Ol' Graham the Galleon, H.P. the Speedboat, Ken Toyn the Shipwright and Bryan the Ferry in Toot the Tiny Tugboat.

He voiced Polluto in Tommy Zoom, the first in-house BBC animation production, The Professor, Pipsquawk, Trevor and Mr. Crumble in Frankenstein's Cat and in 2009, participated on voice in Disney Channel's Jungle Junction, for then Playhouse Disney and Spider Eye Productions.

Other cartoons include: Vampires, Pirates & Aliens, Tails and The Thousand Tasks, The Way Things Work, and The Octonauts in which he plays both Professor Inkling and biologist Shellington. He has appeared in about 20 CD-ROM games including Fable and Fable II, and voiced TV commercials. He appeared on stage as Kenneth Williams in Round the Horne Revisited.

He is also recognised for voicing Steff and Sariac from Pitt and Kantrop.

Other work
Wickham worked as an actor and writer on the radio series Bits from Last Week's Radio recorded by Ear Drum productions for BBC Radio 1, as well as voicing Jack of Blades in the 2004 video game Fable.

He can also be heard in the podcast The Offcuts Drawer as part of the cast.

In addition, he has done acting work for the company iHASCO, and demonstrates through some of their interactive training, on issues such as asbestos awareness Bullying & Harassment training, Equality & Diversity, Health & Safety in the workplace, Food Allergy Awareness  amongst others.

Thomas & Friends – CGI version
Since 2009, Wickham has co-worked on the CGI version of the children's television series Thomas & Friends. Wickham co-provides the voices of various characters of the series: Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Whiff, Dash and Harold in the UK, and Harvey, Glynn, Skarloey, Sir Handel, Bert, Stafford, Salty, Den, Norman, Bertie, Captain, Sir Topham Hatt, Dowager Hatt in both the UK/US, and various other characters.

In 2020, Wickham reprised his roles as Gordon and Sir Topham Hatt in Rainbow Sun Productions' 20th anniversary celebration reading of Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

Radio restoration
Wickham has been involved in restoration of archive BBC Radio comedy shows. He traced missing episodes of the series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which were repeated on BBC Radio 7, and restored episodes for broadcast.

Voice roles

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links
 Official website

 http://www.cbeebies.com

Living people
20th-century English comedians
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English comedians
21st-century English male actors
Audiobook narrators
English male comedians
English male film actors
English male television actors
English male voice actors
Male actors from Hertfordshire
Actors from St Albans
Year of birth missing (living people)
Comedians from Hertfordshire


The Skyline Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for colts and geldings aged two years old, at set weights, over a distance of 1,200 metres. It is held annually at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in late February or early March.

The winner of this race receives automatic entry to the Golden Slipper Stakes and the race is considered an important prep test due to the same distance as the Golden Slipper Stakes.

History

The race is named in honour of Skyline, winner of the 1958 Golden Slipper Stakes and 1958 AJC Australian Derby.

The following thoroughbreds have completed the Skyline – Golden Slipper double:
Sir Dapper (1983), Star Watch (1988), Guineas (1997), Prowl (1998) and Dance Hero (2004)

Venue
 Before 1995 - Canterbury Park Racecourse
 1996–1999 - Rosehill Gardens Racecourse
 2000–2005 - Canterbury Park Racecourse
 2006–2010 - Randwick Racecourse
 2011 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
 2012 - Randwick Racecourse
 2013 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
 2014 - Randwick Racecourse
 2015 - Warwick Farm Racecourse
 2016 onwards - Randwick Racecourse

Grade

 1979 - Principal Race
 1980–1986 - Listed Race
 1987–2012 - Group 3
 2013 onwards -  Group 2

Winners

 2023 - Corniche
 2022 - Promitto
 2021 - O'President
 2020 - Mamaragan
 2019 - Microphone
 2018 - Santos
 2017 - Diamond Tathagata
 2016 - Good Standing
 2015 - Exosphere
 2014 - Valentia
 2013 - All The Talk
 2012 - Ashokan
 2011 - Uate
 2010 - Hinchinbrook
 2009 - Manhattan Rain
 2008 - All American
 2007 - Murtajill
 2006 - Casino Prince
 2005 - Snitzel
 2004 - Dance Hero
 2003 - Kusi
 2002 - Choisir
 2001 - Viscount
 2000 - Kootoomootoo
 1999 - Shogun Lodge
 1998 - Prowl
 1997 - Guineas
 1996 - Excel Pilot
 1995 - Strategic
 1994 - Dr. Zackary
 1993 - Allez Glen
 1992 - Kenfair
 1991 - Big Dreams
 1990 - Our Horizon
 1989 - Show County
 1988 - Star Watch
 1987 - Proven Valour
 1986 - Pre Catelan
 1985 - Timothy
 1984 - Hula Drum
 1983 - Sir Dapper
 1982 - Hot Opera
 1981 - Domino
 1980 - Cosmic Delight
 1979 - Top Hat Joe

See also
 List of Australian Group races
 Group races

External links
First three placegetters Skyline Stakes (ATC)

References

Horse races in Australia


Slovakia has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1993. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.

The Slovak submission is decided annually by the Slovak Film and Television Academy (Slovenská filmová a televízna akadémia). , twenty-four Slovak films have been submitted for consideration, none of which have been nominated for an Oscar. Seven of these have been directed by Martin Šulík.

Until 1993, the Slovak Republic was a constituent republic within Czechoslovakia, and Czech and Slovaks routinely collaborated on national productions. The Shop on Main Street, which won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1966 for Czechoslovakia, was a Slovak-language production. It was also the first Czechoslovak film ever to be nominated for an Oscar. The Assistant (1982) and The Millennial Bee (1983) were also Slovak films submitted by Czechoslovakia for the Oscars.

Submissions
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by the Slovak Republic for review by the Academy for the award by the year of the submission and the respective Academy Award ceremony.

Most films were at least partially in Slovak, although All My Loved Ones was primarily in Czech and Return of the Storks and King of Thieves had much of their dialogue in German.

In 2008 the producers of Bathory protested the decision of the Slovak Academy not to consider their film, the most expensive in Slovak history, for an Oscar nomination. The Slovak Academy said the multi-national production, which was filmed in Slovak- and English-language versions, did not qualify as a majority-Slovak production, in part because none of the lead cast came from Slovakia. The Academy instead chose documentary Blind Loves from a shortlist of four films.

See also
List of Czechoslovak submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
Cinema of Slovakia

Notes

References

External links
The Official Academy Awards Database
The Motion Picture Credits Database
IMDb Academy Awards Page

Slovakia
Academy Award


John Romer may refer to:

John Lambertus Romer (1680–1754), British military engineer
John Romer (Egyptologist) (born 1941), British historian
John Romer (politician), 19th century Governor of Bombay


is a Japanese yuri manga series written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. It was serialized between November 2004 and July 2013 in Ohta Publishing's manga magazine Manga Erotics F, with its chapters collected in eight tankōbon volumes. The story focuses on Fumi Manjōme, a lesbian high school girl, and her close childhood friend Akira Okudaira, who tries to keep her friends happy through difficult times.

An 11-episode anime television series produced by J.C.Staff and directed by Ken'ichi Kasai aired between July and September 2009 on Fuji TV. An Internet radio show to promote the anime was produced between June and October 2009 on HiBiKi Radio Station hosted by Ai Takabe and Yūko Gibu, who voiced Fumi and Akira in the anime, respectively. The manga was licensed in North America by Viz Media. The anime was licensed by Right Stuf Inc.

Plot
At the start of Sweet Blue Flowers, Akira Okudaira, who is an entering high school student into Fujigaya Girls Academy, becomes reacquainted with her childhood friend Fumi Manjōme whom she has not seen for ten years. Fumi is attending Matsuoka Girl's High School where she quickly becomes friends with a handsome third-year student named Yasuko Sugimoto. Akira joins her school's drama club with her friend and classmate Kyōko Ikumi, who is in love with Yasuko, though Yasuko turns her down. Akira meets Kyōko's fiancé (in name only) Kō Sawanoi. Yasuko and Fumi become a couple, and Fumi comes out to Akira who is at first unsure on how to act, but still tries to support Fumi's new relationship.

Akira's drama club does an adaptation of Wuthering Heights for a drama festival; Fumi helps out with her friends Yōko Honatsugi, Misako Yasuda, and Miwa Motegi. Yasuko breaks up with Fumi, who learns that Yasuko's older sister Kazusa is marrying a teacher at Fujigaya named Masanori Kagami whom Yasuko had fallen in love with. Time passes after the wedding, and Yasuko decides to study abroad in London after graduating. Miwa and Akira's older brother Shinobu start going out, and Fumi tells Akira that she was her first love, much to Akira's embarrassment.

When Akira and her friends enter their second year of high school, an energetic first-year student named Haruka Ōno joins the Fujigaya drama club. Akira and Kyōko are split into different classrooms, and Akira meets a tall girl in her new class named Ryōko Ueda. The high school division of Fujigaya does the play Rokumeikan with Akira, Kyōko and Ryōko playing lead roles, though Ryōko only agrees to act because Akira also agrees to act alongside her. Fumi and Haruka become friends, and Haruka confides in Fumi that she suspects her older sister Orie may like women. Not knowing how to respond, Fumi seeks advice from Akira, but ends up confessing her love for her instead. Kyōko does not want Kō to break off the engagement, but he ends up finally breaking up with her. The play goes well and everyone praises the actress' performances. Over summer vacation, Akira suggests to Fumi that they go out together after thinking deeply about it.

Characters

Main characters

Fumi is a first-year student at Matsuoka Girl's High School, and is a tall, shy girl prone to crying. Fumi comes back to the town she grew up in and she meets, without realizing it, her childhood friend Akira Okudaira. When they were much younger, Akira had been Fumi's bodyguard, keeping her out of harm and consoling her when she cried. Fumi is a lesbian and had her first romantic relationship with her older female cousin Chizu Hanashiro, with whom she had sex. Soon after Fumi moves back to Kamakura, she finds out Chizu will soon marry a man she has never met. Not long after meeting Yasuko Sugimoto in the literature club, Fumi develops a crush on Yasuko, who later asks her out.

Akira, nicknamed "Ah" by some of her friends, is an innocent and cheerful girl in her first-year at Fujigaya Girls Academy. She was Fumi's best friend in elementary school and rekindles that relationship upon meeting her again 10 years later. She acts as a main source of advice for Fumi. Akira joins the drama club because her friend Kyōko Ikumi is a member of it. She often talks about food and gives advice, and dislikes scary stories or things that test her courage. Unexpectedly and unintentionally, Akira usually spills secrets about her friends to other people when they ask her questions about them. Her intentions are pure, and only discusses them to help her friends out. However, this sometimes causes problems for them instead.

Fujigaya students

Kyōko is a reckless girl who has eyes only for Yasuko. She is in the same class as Akira and is a member of the drama club. She has been dubbed as Princess for her charm, and is also skilled in sewing, art, tennis and acting. Many students look up to Kyōko in the same way Kyōko looks up to Yasuko. Kyōko is engaged (in name only) to Kō Sawanoi, a college student. This engagement was pushed for by Kyōko's mother while Kyōko and Kō were still young, and not all of Kō's relatives are happy about it.

Ayako is a third-year student when Akira joins Fujigaya. She is a member of the drama club and plays Catherine opposite Yasuko's Heathcliffe in the Drama Festival production of Wuthering Heights. After graduation, she goes to study abroad in England.

Kaori is a senior and the president of the drama club in Akira's first year. She regularly scolds the club's absent advisor, Masanori Kagami, for not showing a deeper interest in the club.

Haruka is a girl who joins Fujigaya as a student one year below Akira and becomes a new member of the drama club. She has an endearing personality that makes it easy for her to become friendly with anyone, though she is prone to making silly mistakes. Many students, especially Kyōko, remark on how similar Haruka is to how Akira was when she first came to Fujigaya. Haruka has an older sister, Orie, who is in a romantic relationship with Hinako Yamashina, a science teacher at Fujigaya. Haruka's family owns an old hot springs inn.

Ryōko is a tall girl who sits beside Akira in class in their second year. She has a gentle, quiet personality and enjoys reading; she's a library aide at Fujigaya. Her acting talents are noticed while she's reading aloud (to herself) Deer Cry Pavilion, a play that the Drama Club intends to put on that year. She ends up playing one of the leads. She says Akira is so small and cute that she wants to put Akira in her pocket.

Matsuoka students

Yasuko is a popular third-year senior at Matsuoka Girl's High School. She is a cool upperclassman and the captain of the basketball team, though Fumi mistakes her for being in the literature club when they first meet. After visiting Fujigaya Girls Academy and rejecting Kyōko's confession, she asks out Fumi, who accepts. Yasuko developed romantic feelings for a teacher, Masanori Kagami, when she was attending Fujigaya. After his rejection, she switched schools and changed focus from drama to basketball. Yasuko has three older sisters who all attended Fujigaya: Shinako, Kazusa, and Kuri.

Pon is a member of Fumi's first-year class and the first person to approach her. With her middle school friends Mogii and Yassan, she wants to form a drama club at Matsuoka. She tries to get Fumi to join, but Fumi isn't interested. Pon has a bright, frank personality and wears her hair in a shoulder-length bob cut. She is a bit on the clumsy side and has a hard time competing against Kyōko in tennis. She later turns out to be a talented script writer, which impresses Fumi.

Mogii is a member of the Matsuoka Drama Club with her friends Pon and Yassan. She has a gentle personality and wears her hair in a shoulder-length wavy style. She is the only one of her friends to be put into a separate class in their second year. Miwa becomes interested in Akira's brother Shinobu and the two start dating around the end of her first year of high school. Akira finds this awkward, but she and Mogii remain friends.

Yassan is president of the 3-person drama club at Matsuoka. She has thick eyebrows and boyish-short, frizzy hair. She likes to test people's courage or scaring them by either participating in a game of "test of courage" or telling ghost stories. Despite this, she gets emotional very easily when it comes to things she cares about, like her friends or the drama club.

Kaori is a classmate and friend of Yasuko. She's in the literature club with Fumi. Kaori and Yasuko's friendship is the reason Yasuko hangs out in the Literature Club room, and therefore the reason Yasuko and Fumi met.

Other characters
Okudaira family
: Akira's older brother, who attends college. He is constantly worried about his sister, and often takes her places in his car, though Akira often gets very annoyed at how protective her brother is towards her. When she was younger, he would sneak into her futon at night; now he tries to follow her around when he thinks she might be meeting with guys. He suspects Kō of being interested in Akira. Later, Shinobu starts dating Mogii and relaxes a little about Akira.
: Akira and Shinobu's mother, who tends to get easily excited. She often yells at Shinobu for his inappropriate behavior regarding Akira, but she also worries about Akira, just like Shinobu does. (She's just less protective about it.) Her sister describes Sakiko as the black sheep of the family. Sakiko was friends with Yoshie years ago, and regularly visits with her now that Fumi's family has moved back.
: Akira and Shinobu's father. He doesn't appear much, but he seems to have a personality similar to Shinobu's. He's a salaryman working for an IT company.
: Keiko is Akira and Shinobu's aunt, as well as Sakiko's sister. She currently lives in the outskirts of Yokohama, but she graduated from Fujigaya. Keiko and Sakiko don't always get along because of snobbish comments Keiko makes, while Akira is afraid of Keiko's forceful personality. When Shinobu introduces Mogii to her, Keiko overwhelms Mogii so much that she basically hides behind Shinobu.
Manjōme family
: Fumi's mother. She is good friends with Sakiko Okudaira.
: Fumi's father. He works at a bank. His job transfers him back to Kamakura, which brings Fumi and Akira back together.
: Fumi's cousin who lived near Fumi's family while she was going to college. She and Fumi were very close as children and developed a more physically intimate relationship once they were older. Fumi is in love with Chizu, but Chizu chooses to marry instead, breaking Fumi's heart. Chizu's first child looks a lot like Fumi did as a baby.
: Fumi's strict grandmother, who used to treat Akira like her own granddaughter (that is, strictly). She died two years before Fumi's family moved back to Kamakura. When Fumi is feeling bad about herself, she sometimes hears her own negative thoughts as if her grandmother were saying them.
Sugimoto family
: Yasuko's mother. She often pretends to be scandalized by her daughters' antics, but then says the most scandalous things herself. Despite this, she shows a caring side to Fumi when she visits.
: The oldest Sugimoto sister, who likes to joke and tease Yasuko. She attended Fujigaya at the same time as Hinako; Orie had a crush on Shinako in school before Hinako confessed. Shinako was quite popular in school and often had younger students admiring her and wanting to date her. She dated a female student named Kaoruko, who broke up with her, but it seems they got back together several times. Shinako regularly had many girlfriends and says she loved all of them.
: Kazusa is an artist. She has a kind personality and appears very feminine, except when she paints. For a short time, she worked as an art teacher at Fujigaya after graduating from there. While teaching, she met her future husband Masanori Kagami, also a teacher. She knows two of her sisters loved her husband when they were younger, but this doesn't appear to bother her. She also teaches Kyōko private art lessons and suspects Kyōko's feelings for Yasuko.
: Kuri is similar to Yasuko in that she was very popular when attending Fujigaya. Also like Yasuko, she too fell in love with Masanori Kagami, but she never told him her feelings. She wields a blunt personality and smokes. While at Fujigaya, her best friend Komako had a crush on her, though Kuri may not know this.
: Kazusa's husband, he teaches at Fujigaya, where they met. He nominally advises the Drama Club, but he almost never shows up, which the club members, especially Kaori, remark on often. He was the one who named Yasuko "Mistress of the Library"; Yasuko left Fujigaya after confessing her feelings to him and being turned down. He withheld this information from Kyōko when she asked if he knew why Yasuko had left. After his marriage to Kazusa, both Kuri and Yasuko seem to accept that he is beyond their reach.
: Sugimoto family cook and helper. She is soft-hearted and allows the younger Fumi to take tea to Yasuko after the sisters fight with each other.
: Sugimoto family driver. He insists on driving Yasuko around when he can.
Ikumi family
: Kyōko's mother. Kyōko hated her for a long time because of Kayoko's illness and how other people treated their family as a result. However, as Kyōko grew up, she came to realize that this wasn't her mother's problem. Kayoko is still disliked by many members of the Sawanoi family and is gossiped about by them, as Akira discovered by accident.
: Kyōko's fiancé, in name only. He is a college student from a wealthy family. They have known each other since childhood and Kō has a great concern for Kyōko, but he knows that she is in love with someone else.
: Kō's aunt, who welcomes Kyōko's friends to their family vacation home. She is kind to Fumi and Akira when they get sick, and she tries to stand up for Kyōko when other family members complain about her mother.
Ōno family
: Haruka's older sister. Orie also attended Fujigaya, where she fell in love with her best friend Hinako. Haruka finds a love letter in Orie's room and realizes that Orie is probably a lesbian. This worries her at first, but Haruka has always been close to Hinako as well, so she accepts the relationship.
: A science teacher at Fujigaya, and the homeroom teacher of Akira's second year class. She also attended Fujigaya, where she and Orie fell in love. Hinako often finds herself giving students advice; for example, Fumi comes to her when she's worried about her relationship with Akira. She also rescues the drama club when Haruka leaves several of the costumes at home right before the festival. Since Orie and Hinako have known each other since high school, Haruka refers to her as Hina.
Haruka's mother: Haruka and Orie's mother is invested in her children's lives, but she also knows when to let go. She has given up on Orie getting married. Haruka seems to have inherited some of her mother's personality, including her loud and friendly nature. However, her mother is more respectful of other people's privacy than Haruka tends to be.

Production

Manga
When Takako Shimura was writing her manga Dōnika Naru Hibi, she became interested in a story between girls, leading her to create Sweet Blue Flowers. While she felt that the story focus should be on girls for yuri works, Shimura also wanted to introduce some males since she thought it would add an interesting aspect to the series. Shimura felt it difficult to balance the need for some males, but also not wanting to add too many. When depicting the characters, she did not want to write about them going through puberty. When starting to write Sweet Blue Flowers, Shimura noticed that, in her opinion, she felt like a person depicting sexual perversion for writing about yuri relationships.

Before starting to write Sweet Blue Flowers, Shimura went with her editor to Kamakura, Kanagawa with the main objective of visiting the Kamakura Museum of Literature. Shimura took many pictures during their trip, and thought Kamakura felt like a great place to set the story. With a guide book of Kamakura in hand, Shimura thought of various locations that would later appear in Sweet Blue Flowers, such as the café that the characters frequent. Many of the pictures taken turned out unusable, though there were some she used as references for the setting, such as modeling the exterior of Fujigaya after the Kamakura Museum of Literature. Shimura also used the Komaba Park estate in Meguro, Tokyo for the interior of Fujigaya, such as with the staircase featured in chapter eleven. A large Japanese-style house on the same property as the Kamakura Museum of Literature was used as a model for the Sugimoto residence. The Enoshima Electric Railway is also featured in the series.

Anime
In 2005, anime producer Yūji Matsukura of J.C.Staff was meeting at Ohta Publishing for an unrelated anime project and told the editor-in-chief of Manga Erotics F, "U-mura", that he liked the Sweet Blue Flowers manga and would like to produce it into an anime in the future. Shortly after the first manga volume was released in December 2005, Matsukura went to a Media Factory producer, who also agreed to collaborating on a Sweet Blue Flowers anime. Matsukura went on to say that J.C.Staff is not the type of company to usually go out and make suggestions for anime projects and it was only because he liked Sweet Blue Flowers and later met U-mura by chance that an anime eventually became possible. Matsukura was in charge of choosing much of the staff. Ken'ichi Kasai was chosen as the director, because of his intuitiveness to make good-feeling anime according to Matsukura. For the series composition, Matsukura thought it would appear unexpected to pick Fumihiko Takayama, though he was asked to participate, because he likes shōjo manga. Takayama, who has experience as an animation director, would often make suggestions during the production of the animation, enough for Matsukura to joke that Takayama should have been staffed as the director instead, though Takayama flatly refused. Neither Kasai nor Takayama initially knew of the manga, but were approached by Matsukura, because he thought they would enjoy working on the project. This was the same case for the character designer and chief animation director Masayuki Onji.

Takayama initially suggested not to produce an anime, because of the difficulty in maintaining the feeling of the original work, and wanted to let someone else deal with it. Further difficulty was cited in Sweet Blue Flowers not being a plot driven story, but rather character driven. After accepting and beginning work on the scenario, Takayama happened to read a poem titled  by Bin Ueda which had the phrase , and remarked that this was like the world was telling him he should write the scenario. At first, Kasai thought the entire work was going to be about yuri, but felt that an important point of the story was that Yasuko Sugimoto initially likes her teacher Masanori Kagami, rather than it being a complete yuri story if Yasuko had liked a female teacher. When writing the scenario for the first episode, Takayama found the length to be insufficient, and even after handing it over to Kasai, the episode was still about two minutes short. The missing material was filled in with various scenes of Fumi and Akira when they were younger, and Akira going to school. Where and how to end the anime was also an issue when writing the scenario, and it took a long time to decide.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Takako Shimura, Sweet Blue Flowers started in Ohta Publishing's manga magazine Manga Erotics F in November 2004. It finished on July 6, 2013. Eight tankōbon volumes were released between December 15, 2005, and September 12, 2013.

The manga has been licensed for release in French by Asuka under the title Fleurs Bleues. The series was released digitally in English on JManga, but after JManga closed down, Digital Manga Publishing took over the English-language publication rights. The series was later re-licensed in 2016 by Viz Media, who will publish the series in omnibus editions. In Spain, it was titled Flores azules by Milky Way. It allegedly sold poorly, prompting the editors to reply, "Our warehouse is full of flowers" when asked in the 2018 Barcelona Manga Convention about the possibility of licensing other yuri titles.

Internet radio show
An Internet radio show to promote the anime series called  was broadcast between June 26 and October 30, 2009 on HiBiKi Radio Station in nineteen episodes, and aired between July 3 and November 6, 2009 on Media Factory Net Radio. The show, which aired every Friday, was hosted by Ai Takabe and Yūko Gibu, who voiced Fumi and Akira in the anime, respectively. Chiemi Ishimatsu, the voice of Yasuko, also joined the show for three broadcasts in late August 2009. A CD containing a couple of parts from some episodes as well as newly recorded material was released on December 22, 2009.

Anime

An 11-episode anime television series adaptation was produced by the animation studio J.C.Staff and directed by Ken'ichi Kasai. The anime aired between July 2 and September 10, 2009, on Fuji TV as the third series in Fuji TV's Noise timeslot. It was also streamed online on Crunchyroll. The anime has been licensed by The Right Stuf International and was released on subtitled DVD under their Lucky Penny label on March 5, 2013.

The series has two pieces of theme music; one opening theme and one ending theme. The opening theme is  by Kukikodan, and the ending theme is  by Ceui. The single for "Aoi Hana" was released on July 22, 2009, followed by the single for "Centifolia" on August 5, 2009. The anime's original soundtrack was released on August 26, 2009 by Lantis. Fuji TV producer Kōji Yamamoto revealed that a second season is not planned due to low DVD sales of the anime.

Reception
Erica Friedman, the president of Yuricon and ALC Publishing, reviewed the Sweet Blue Flowers anime and manga, praising Takako Shimura's original cover and interior art from the manga, and how that art style is "captured in the anime through crisp, realistic art." The story is also lauded for "far surpassing most Yuri in general" by its strength in a "character-driven" story, which is described as being both "aesthetically appealing" and "simple". Friedman cites that Sweet Blue Flowers could easily be compared to a Jane Austen story, and feels that the story is not "a melodrama or a parody, like Strawberry Panic!." Friedman later called Sweet Blue Flowers the best yuri anime of 2009, where she wrote how the series was one of the "most realistic portrayals of a young woman in love with another woman ever seen in an anime." Friedman also praised the faithful adaptation from manga to anime, including parts that she felt were done better animated.

Sweet Blue Flowers was featured as Anime News Network's Import of the Month in May 2007 where it was described as "the best of its genre" that "makes stuff like MariMite and Strawberry Panic! look like trashy dime-store romance by comparison." Takako Shimura's art was seen as "economical" with "clean layouts, sparse backgrounds, and everything that needs to be said contained within a single facial expression." However, the plot points are described as so calm that they are easy to gloss over. The relationships presented are seen as complex and the reviewer felt it was difficult to remember all the particulars in the story. G.B. Smith of Mania described the anime as presenting the story in a "sincere and open way...without any gimmicks," as opposed to other yuri-themed series that are "either heavily comedic in nature, or have disguised the relationship in one way or another." The replay value of the anime was questioned, because of situations that "lack a certain amount of compelling drama that makes for a truly memorable experience." The Sweet Blue Flowers anime was selected as a recommended work by the awards jury of the thirteenth Japan Media Arts Festival in 2009. Additionally, Beatrice Viri of CBR praised the manga for exploring LGBTQ themes, and called it "a sweet romance that many will enjoy."

References

External links
Anime official website

2000s Japanese LGBT-related television series
2000s LGBT literature
2004 manga
Coming-of-age anime and manga
Digital Manga Publishing titles
Fuji TV original programming
J.C.Staff
Japanese LGBT-related animated television series
Noise (TV programming block)
Ohta Publishing manga
Romance anime and manga
School life in anime and manga
Viz Media manga
Yuri (genre) anime and manga


Wilfrid William Loxton (20 January 1909 – 2 November 1992), known as Bill Loxton, was a British Royal Air Force pilot during the Battle of Britain.

Loxton was born in Gretton, Gloucestershire, the son of Ernest Robert Loxton and Mary Ann Loxton (née Minett). After training as a carpenter, he joined the RAF on 30 April 1930.

Following several promotions, he became Squadron Leader of No 25 Blenheim Squadron (Feriens Tego – Striking I defend). No 25 Squadron was formed at RAF Montrose, on 25 September 1915, as a Fighter/Bomber Squadron equipped with F.E.2bs. The Squadron became a nightfighter unit in 1938; it was re-equipped with Blenheim IFs that year, and also acquired Blenheim Vs equipped with A1 radar. In September 1940 Bristol Beaufighters became available to the Squadron; these were operational on 10 October 1940. The Squadron took part in the Battle of Britain and its pilots joined the ranks of 'the few'.

As a member of 'the few' Loxton is commemorated by name on the Battle of Britain Memorial which was unveiled by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall on 18 September 2005.

He remained in the RAF until retirement, attaining the rank of Wing Commander. He married Binkie Pattullo on 6 August 1938 and had two sons, Peter and David, who became a well known producer in America. Peter married Heather Loxton; daughter of Archie Forbes.

Loxton is buried, next to his son Peter, in Bere Regis churchyard, Dorset.

External links

References

Royal Air Force pilots of World War II
Royal Air Force officers
The Few
1909 births
1992 deaths
Royal Air Force airmen
Military personnel from Gloucestershire


The Dapeng dialect () is a Chinese dialect, a variant of Cantonese with a strong Hakka influence that was originally only spoken on the Dapeng Peninsula of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The Chinese diaspora has spread the dialect to places with large populations whose ancestral roots are originally from Dapeng, Shenzhen, Guangdong. Today, their descendants live in Hong Kong; the Randstad region of the Netherlands; Portsmouth, United Kingdom; and New York City, United States.

The dialect is a form of Junhua, created as a lingua franca by soldiers at the Dapeng Fortress, who spoke various forms of Cantonese and Hakka. Despite strong influence from Hakka, some, including Lau Chun-Fat, have classified it as a Guan–Bao dialect.

References

Hakka Chinese
Yue Chinese
Shenzhen
Dapeng New District
Military life
Languages attested from the 2nd millennium
Languages of Guangdong


The Kindergarten Stakes, is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Australian Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged two years old, at set weights, over a distance of 1100 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in the autumn during the ATC Championships series.

History

The race was inaugurated in 1987.

It was held annually in March prior to the Golden Slipper Stakes but in 2012 was moved to April as part of the Australian Derby Day race card at Randwick.

The following thoroughbreds have captured the Kindergarten Stakes – Golden Slipper double: Star Watch (1988), Bint Marscay (1993), Guineas (1997), Belle Du Jour (2000) and Forensics (2007)

Grade
1989–1997 - Listed Race
1998 onwards  - Group 3

Venue
 1987–1994 - Warwick Farm
 1995 - Randwick
 1996–2000 - Warwick Farm
 2001 - Randwick
 2002–2007 - Warwick Farm
 2008–2009 - Randwick
 2010 - Warwick Farm
 2011 onwards - Randwick

Venue
 Prior to 2017 - Kindergarten Stakes
 2017 - Widden 150th Anniversary Stakes

Winners

 2023 - Libertad
 2022 - Semillion
 2021 - Paulele
 2020 - Doubtland
 2019 - Bivouac
 2018 - Paquirri
 2017 - Property
 2016 - El Divino / Astern
 2015 - Furnaces
 2014 - Hallowed Crown
 2013 - Safeguard
 2012 - Dance On Stars
 2011 - Anise
 2010 - Solar Charged
 2009 - Wanted
 2008 - Mr Profumo
 2007 - Forensics
 2006 - Plagiarize
 2005 - Flying Pegasus
 2004 - Crimson Reign
 2003 - Niello
 2002 - Snowland
 2001 - Royal Courtship
 2000 - Belle Du Jour
 1999 - Easy Rocking
 1998 - Peat Bog
 1997 - Guineas
 1996 - Armidale
 1995 - Furacao
 1994 - Dr. Zackary
 1993 - Bint Marscay
 1992 - Slight Chance
 1991 - Vionnet
 1990 - Bold Tie
 1989 - Show County
 1988 - Star Watch
 1987 - Christmas Tree

Notes:
  Dead heat
  Date of race rescheduled due to postponement of the Easter Saturday meeting because of the heavy track conditions. The meeting was moved to Easter Monday, 6 April 2015.

See also
 List of Australian Group races
 Group races

External links
Kindergarten Stakes (ATC)

References

Horse races in Australia


George Clayes (1831 – March 3, 1888) was an American-born farmer, merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Missisquoi in the House of Commons of Canada from 1887 to 1888 as a Liberal member.

He was born in New Hampshire, the son of the Reverend Dana Clayes, and came to Bedford, Canada East with his uncle in 1846. In 1850, he went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he entered business as a merchant. He then went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he served as a member of the territorial legislature. In 1866, Clayes returned to Bedford. He married his cousin Sophia Clayes in 1855. Clayes was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the House of Commons in 1878 and 1882. He died in office at the age of 57.

References

The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1887 AJ Gemmill

1831 births
1888 deaths
Anglophone Quebec people
American emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec
Members of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature
Candidates in the 1878 Canadian federal election
Candidates in the 1882 Canadian federal election
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
19th-century American politicians
People from Montérégie


Many materials have been used to make garments throughout history. Grasses, furs and much more complex and exotic materials have been used. Cultures like the Arctic Circle, make their wardrobes out of prepared and decorated furs and skins.[1] Different cultures have added cloth to leather and skins as a way to replace real leather. A wide range of fibers, including natural, cellulose, and synthetic fibers, can be used to weave or knit cloth.

Humans have shown extreme inventiveness in devising clothing solutions to environmental hazards and the distinction between clothing and other protective equipment is not always clear-cut; examples include space suit, air conditioned clothing, armor, diving suit, swimsuit, bee-keeper's protective clothing, motorcycle leathers, high-visibility clothing, and protective clothing in general.

Clothing
Cloth is especially used to make clothing. It is a fabric created through both the spinning and weaving process through which raw cotton is turned into thread via the spinning process and then that thread is woven into the cloth fabric via the weaving process. There are many different types of cloths with different names and uses. The main differences between the types of cloths are distinguished by its fiber art (woven, knitted, felted, and how those techniques were implemented), what fiber it is made from, and its weight. Based on the cloth’s weight, the properties of the fabric (thin or thick, rigid, etc.) can also be distinguished, allowing the differences among different cloths to be more easily detected. Different types of cloth may be used for different types of clothing. For example, a piece of clothing for cold weathers should be made with durable materials on the outside and soft materials on the inside. Clothing for the summer should be made with breathable materials where the wearer can feel cool and comfortable in it.

Examples of clothing materials
Common natural clothing materials are :

 Linen
 Cashmere
 Cotton
 Cellulosic fibres/viscose
 Wool
 Hemp
 Fabric made of cotton, flax, wool, ramie, silk
 Denim
 Leather
 Down for down-filled parkas
 Fur

Other materials are made from synthetic fibers, primarily from petrochemicals, which are not generally biodegradable. Common synthetic materials include:
 Nylon was first produced in 1935. Nylon is a thermoplastic silky material. It became famous when used in women's stockings ("nylons") in 1940. It was intended to be a synthetic replacement for silk and substituted for it in many different products after silk became scarce during World War II.
 Polyesters include naturally occurring chemicals and synthetics. Natural polyesters and a few synthetic ones are biodegradable, but most synthetic polyesters are not. Polyesters may change shape after the application of heat and are combustible at high temperatures. They tend to shrink away from flames and self-extinguish upon ignition. Polyester fibers have high tenacity and E-modulus as well as low water absorption and minimal shrinkage in comparison with other industrial fibers.
 Spandex (elastane) is known for its exceptional elasticity. It is stronger and more durable than rubber, its major non-synthetic competitor. It was invented in 1959 by Charles Lewis French Jr. and Taylor.

Some less common clothing materials are:
 Acetate
 Cupro
 Flannel
 Lyocell
 PVC-Polyvinyl chloride
 Rayon
 Recycled or Recovered Cotton
 Recycled PET
 Recycled bob
 Tyvek
 Vinylon
 Other Natural Fibers, including bamboo, jute and hemp.

See also
 Clothing terminology

References

External links

 International Textile and Apparel Association, scholarly publications
 German Hosiery Museum (English language)
 Molecular Evolution of Pediculus humanus and the Origin of Clothing by Ralf Kittler, Manfred Kayser and Mark Stoneking (.PDF file)

Clothing


The Landen Formation (abbreviation: LA) is a lithostratigraphic unit (a set of rock strata) in the subsurface of the Netherlands. This formation shares its name with the Belgian Landen Group, but the Belgian unit is thinner and has different definitions. The Landen Formation consists of shallow marine and lagoonal sediments (mostly clay, sandy clay and marl) from the late Paleocene to early Eocene (between 58 and 54 million years old). Dutch stratigraphers see the Landen Formation as part of the Lower North Sea Group.

Lithology
The Landen Formation can be maximally 150 meters in thickness. It is subdivided into five only regionally recognized members:
The Swalmen Member, lagoonal clay, sometimes with small lignite layers;
The Reusel Member, green sandy clay, loam and sand;
The Liessel Member, mica, pyrite and glauconite bearing clay, containing plant fossils;
The Orp Member, greenish grey sand;
The Gelinden Member, calcareous clay.
Some of the sandy layers can have been made into sandstone by diagenetic processes. The whole formation is interpreted as one megacycle: the lower parts (Swalmen and Orp) represent a marine transgression, while the upper parts (Reusel and Liessel) represent a regression.

Stratigraphy
The Dutch Landen Formation is not totally equal with the Belgian Landen Group. In Belgium, the Orp and Gelinden Members are seen as one separate formation, the Heers Formation. The Dutch Landen Formation correlates with the Belgian Heers Formation, Hannut Formation, Tienen Formation and parts of the Opglabbeek Formation.

The Landen Formation lies normally on top of a nonconformity with the Dutch Chalk Group, which is usually represented by the early Paleocene Houthem Formation. In most places the early Eocene Dongen Formation is found on top of the Landen Formation.

References
 (eds.); 1993: Stratigraphic nomenclature of the Netherlands, revision and update by RGD and NOGEPA, Mededelingen Rijks Geologische Dienst 50, pp. 1–39

External links
 ; 2003: Formatie van Landen, TNO website ()

Geologic formations of the Netherlands
Eocene Series of Europe
Paleocene Series of Europe
Paleogene Netherlands


Sir John Stephen Willison, FRSC (November 9, 1856 – May 27, 1927) was a Canadian newspaperman, author, and businessman.

Born near Hills Green, Huron County, Canada West, the son of Stephen Willison, a blacksmith, and Jane Abram, Willison left school at the age of 15. After working as an assistant teacher and a clerk, he started working in journalism with the London Advertiser in 1881 and then with the Globe in 1883. In 1886, he reported from the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa, Ontario. While in Ottawa he became friends with future Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier.

In 1890, Willison was appointed editor of the Globe. In 1900, he was elected president of the Canadian Press Association and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1903, his book Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal party: a political history was published.

In 1902, he left the Globe and went to work at The Toronto Evening News. In 1908, he was appointed the Canadian correspondent of the British newspaper The Times. In 1919, his memoir Reminiscences, political and personal was published.

In 1913, he was made a Knight Bachelor.

He died in Toronto in 1927.

Further reading
 Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party; a political history, Volume 1 at Archive.org
 Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party : a political history, Volume 2 at Archive.org
 The new Canada : a survey of the conditions and problems of the Dominion at Archive.org
 Reminiscences, political and personal at Archive.org

References

External links

1856 births
1927 deaths
Canadian journalists
Canadian Knights Bachelor
20th-century Canadian memoirists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
People from Huron County, Ontario
The Times people
Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)
19th-century Canadian journalists
20th-century Canadian journalists


Maoricolpus roseus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turritellidae.

A subspecies of this species has been described: Maoricolpus roseus manukauensis Powell, 1931. But it is now considered a synonym.

Description
The length of the shell attains 41.8 mm.

Distribution
This species found only in New Zealand.

References

 Marwick, J. (1931). The Tertiary Mollusca of the Gisborne District. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 13:1-177. 18: pls.
 Probst, T. A. & Crawford, C. M. (2008) Population characteristics and planktonic larval stage of the New Zealand screwshell Maoricolpus roseus. Journal of Molluscan Studies 74(2):191-197
 Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
 Grove, S. 2011. The Seashells of Tasmania: A Comprehensive Guide. Taroona, Australia: Taroona Publications. [vi], 81

External links

 Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard J.P. (1832-1835). Voyage de découvertes de l'"Astrolabe" exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.
 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
 Suter H. (1908). Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of New Zealand, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 8: 22-42, pls 2-3
 Kiener, L.C. (1838). Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Vol. 10. Famille des Turbinacées. Genre Turritelle (Turritella, Lam.), pp. 1-46, pl. 1-14 [pp. 1-46 (1844), pl. 1-3, 5, 7-14 (1843), 4, 6 (1844)]; Scalaire (Scalaria, Lam.), pp. 1–22, pl. 1-7 [all (1838)]; Cadran (Solarium,Lam.), pp. 1–12, pl. 1-4 [all (1838)]; Roulette (Rotella, Lam.), pp. 1–10, pl. 1-3 [all (1838)]; Dauphinule (Dephinula, Lam.), pp. 1–12, pl. 1-4 [pp. 1–10 (1838), 11-12 (1842); pl. 1 (1837), 2-4 (1838]; Phasianelle (Phasianella, Lam.), pp. 1–11, pl. 1-5 [pp. 1–11 (1850); pl. 1-3, 5 (1847), 4 (1848)]; Famille des Plicacées de Lamarck, et des Trochoides de Cuvier. Genre Tornatelle (Tornatella, Lamarck), pp. 3–6, pl. 1 [all (1834)]; Genre Pyramidelle (Pyramidella), Lamarck, pp. 1–8, pl. 1-2 [all (1835)]; [Famille des Myacées.] Genre Thracie (Thracia, Leach), pp. 1–7, pl. 1-2
  Molnar, J. L.; Gamboa, R. L.; Revenga, C.; Spalding, M. D. (2008). Assessing the global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 6(9): 485-492
  Reeve, L. A. (1849). Monograph of the genus Turritella. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 5, pl. 1-11 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London

Turritellidae
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1834
Endemic molluscs of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand


Soyuz TMA-02M was a space mission that transported three members of the Expedition 28 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-02M was the 110th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft (first launched 1967) and the second flight of the improved Soyuz-TMA-M series (first launched 7 October 2010). The Soyuz remained docked to the space station for the Expedition 28 increment to serve as a potential emergency escape vehicle.

The Soyuz spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, 7 June 2011 at 20:12 UTC (8 June 2011, 02:12  local time). Originally expected to dock with the International Space Station around 05:22 pm EDT on Thursday, 9 June 2011, the Soyuz docked with the ISS at 5:18 pm EDT, four minutes ahead of schedule. The spacecraft carried to the ISS a three-person crew (Sergey Volkov, Russia; Michael E. Fossum, U.S.; Satoshi Furukawa, Japan). The crew landed in Kazakhstan at 02:26 UTC on 22 November 2011.

Crew

Backup crew

Mission patch
The former chief of Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov, approved the Soyuz TMA-02M patch on 11 March 2011. A drawing of a rocket ship by an 8-year-old artist Katya Ikramova from Krasnoyarsk, Russia offered the inspiration for the Soyuz TMA-02M mission patch.

Pre-launch processing

On 21 April 2011, a train from RSC-Energia arrived at the Turatam railway station to deliver Soyuz TMA-02M. After a customs clearance, the spacecraft was transported to the integration and test facility at Baikonur for further pre-launch processing. The pre-launch processing continued at Baikonur following the delivery. The Soyuz spacecraft underwent testing in the acoustic chamber in early May. The purpose of the test was to verify the Kurs system responsible for rendezvous and docking. After the test, the Soyuz was prepared for leak checks in the vacuum chamber. Final testing including pneumatic tests of the Soyuz-FG rocket continued from 16 to 27 May.

During a meeting held on 23 May to discuss the flight readiness, the Roscosmos Board approved Soyuz TMA-02M launch on 8 June 2011.

On 27 May, the spacecraft was delivered to the filling station at Site 31 for further tanking of the Soyuz propulsion system by propellant components and pressurized gases. The tanking operations continued to the next day. Post tanking operations will continue between 29 May and 3 June. The integration with the launching FG rocket is planned for 4 June. The launch campaign at pad 1 will commence on 5 June and will continue until the launch date of 8 June.

Crew training

The Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center hosted two-day exam sessions for the Soyuz TMA-02M prime and backup crews on 12–13 May 2011. On 12 May, the prime crew passed their integrated training in the ISS simulator while their backups were examined in the Soyuz mockup. The ISS integrated test aims to simulate a working day at the Space Station with instructors introducing few contingencies. On the next day the crews swapped and took the exams.

Soyuz TMA-02M crews arrived at Baikonur on 25 May 2011. After departing from the Chkalovsky airport in Moscow, the plane with the prime crew first landed in Krainy airport at 1 pm local time. Their backups landed 20 minutes later in the next plane. On 26 May 2011, the prime and backup crews began their first training session at Baikonur's Site 254. The prime crew verified cargo accommodation in the Soyuz descent capsule, donned their Sokol space suits; performed leak checks; and tested the helmet communication system. They also trained with the laser range meter, navigator and other systems. The backup crew of Kononenko, Pettit and Kuipers, with the exception of wearing Sokol suits also trained with the Soyuz systems.

Spacecraft

Soyuz TMA-02M is the second mission using the upgraded Soyuz-TMA-M spacecraft, which has a modernised flight control system and reduced mass. TMA-02M is the second and last flight development test. The third flight (Soyuz TMA-03M) will be a qualification test and will conclude the flight testing programme. The spacecraft was designed and manufactured by RKK Energia, the largest company of the Russian space industry.

Mission highlights
Soyuz TMA-02М was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday, 7 June 2011 at 21:12 UTC (8 June 2011, 2:12 am local Baikonur time). The spacecraft docked with the International Space Station 5:18 pm on Thursday, 9 June 2011, linking with the Rassvet module of the ISS. The Soyuz transported a three-person international crew to the International Space Station (Sergey Volkov, Russia – mission commander; Michael E. Fossum, U.S.; Satoshi Furukawa, Japan), who remained there until mid-November 2011.

On board the ISS the Soyuz crew joined the Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko and Aleksandr Samokutyayev and the NASA astronaut Ron Garan, their fellow crew members of Expedition 28.

Return to Earth

References

Crewed Soyuz missions
Spacecraft launched in 2011
Spacecraft which reentered in 2011
Spacecraft launched by Soyuz-FG rockets


Ti lascio una canzone (English: Leavin' you a song) was an Italian music talent show for aspiring singers aged 7 to 15, all of whom were required to cover the most beloved songs in the history of Italian pop music.

The songs covered in the program, which represent the true stars of the show, are “golden oldies”. They are symbolically “left” for us, in what amounts to a musical heritage, to be interpreted by the singers of tomorrow, in order to ensure that the melodies and lyrics which have provided the background music to past generations are not lost. The songs are covered by young singing talents, who interpret the best-loved songs of Italian pop music during each broadcast.

Italian and international singing guests become part of “story” of the evening’s broadcast, enlarging the musical panorama covered by that particular episode.
The guests stars perform without taking part in the competition, singing their greatest hits and engaging in duets with the younger singers.

The show assembles a large group of children (e.g. 35 boys and girls aged 7 to 15 for the autumn 2010 season). The young singers are selected from among the leading students of today’s most prestigious music schools. They are assigned songs as solos, duets, and trios; they sing some songs all together as an ensemble. They may also perform with the show's guests. A 30-piece orchestra backs the performances.

The show is officially listed as part of "RAI Junior", but the audience includes not only young people but also their parents and grandparents who enjoy hearing these songs.
“TLUC” serves as a perfect link in the “musical chain” that connects the great sings of yesteryear with the magnificent voices of the performers of tomorrow.

Further enriching the program  are anecdotes and little know facts on the songs covered in the competition, revealed by established singers, composers, actors and celebrities from the world of entertainment, with the additional contribution of commentary and filmed pieces from the period.

Broadcast history
The first season was broadcast live from the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo by RAI 1 in five episodes during April and early May 2008.  The performers ranged in age from 10–16 years old. Guests included Liza Minnelli, Paul Anka, and Dionne Warwick, as well as numerous Italian singing stars.  Winning performance: ensemble singing "Il mio canto libero" by Lucio Battisti.

The second season was broadcast live from the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo in nine episodes in April and May 2009, the performers ranging in age from 8 to 16 years old. This was the season when producer Roberto Cenci put 14- to 15-year-old boys Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone, and Ignazio Boschetto together for the first time. This trio would later become IL VOLO, now popular tenor/baritone operatic-pop singers worldwide. Winning performance:

April: Gianluca Ginoble (of Il Volo) singing "Il mare calmo della sera" by Andrea Bocelli.

May: Ensemble singing "I migliori anni della nostra vita" by Renato Zero.

The third season was broadcast live from the RAI Auditorium in Naples, in nine weekly episodes beginning on 27 March 2010. The performers ranged in age from 7 to 16 years old. Winning performance: ensemble singing "Girotondo intorno al mondo" by Sergio Endrigo.

The fourth season began broadcasting live from the RAI Auditorium in Naples on 10 September 2010 and is projected to have 11 episodes, with the last one to be "La Festa". Performers ranged from 7 to 15 years old.

In July 2015, it was announced that season 8 would be the last.

The program
The format was created by Roberto Cenci (director). Host: Antonella Clerici. Producers/writers are: Paolo Cucco, Giancarlo De Andreis, Fabrizio Berlincioni, Carlo Pistarino, Cecilia Tanturri, Simone De Rosa, Francesco Valitutti, Beppe Bosin. Photographic director: Ivan Pierri. The orchestra was conducted by Leonardo De Amicis.

The mechanism of the competition

The competition is structured as follows: the home audience votes for their favourite song.
The young singers are not competing with each other, but simply performing the songs in the competition. There are no eliminations. The young people who perform the songs are part of the show's regular cast.

A winning performance is selected for each week's broadcast. The winners from the different weeks go up against each in a grand finale held during the last broadcast. The winner for the whole season is selected from among these finalists.
There is also a Quality Jury that assigns a critics' award to one of the songs competing in each weekly broadcast.

The voting system

There are two voting systems, involving:
 the home audience
 the critics' prize.
The members of the home audience can vote their favourite cover songs as many times as they want. The song that receives the most votes wins that week’s broadcast and moves on to the final.
The critics’ prize, on the other hand, is awarded by the members of the Quality Jury to the song they most admitted, based, first and foremost, on the way in which the young singer interpreted it. Both awards are presented to the performer (or the performers) of the cast who sang the song.

The quality jury and the critics' award

The jury consists of four guests from the different “worlds” of the arts and the entertainment industry. They can be reporters, singers who began their careers at a very young age, actors (who are also parents) and professionals in the field of music (a composer of songs, a musician, a music critic). Their assigned task is to vote for the best cover, based their judgment on the quality of the performance as well. They are also asked to give opinions on the young talents who perform during the evening. The critics’ award is given to one of the songs during each of the broadcasts.

International versions

See also
 Federica Falzon
 Gaia Cauchi
 Il Volo
 Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015
 Lidushik
 Vincenzo Cantiello

References

External links
 Official site for the show

2008 Italian television series debuts
2015 Italian television series endings
Italian popular music
Italian music television series
RAI original programming