The Cappello Alpino is the most distinctive feature of the Italian Army's Alpini troops' uniform. The Alpini are light Infantry troops, specializing in mountain combat. Initially, the Cappello was only issued to the Alpini, but soon the Cappello was adopted by the Alpini Corps' support units like Artillery, signals, and engineers. Today the Cappello is issued to members of 15 Army regiments, 3 battalions and various high commands. Thanks to the black raven feather, which is carried on each Alpini soldier's Cappello, the Alpinis are known as Le Penne Nere ("The Black Feathers") in Italy. A nickname the Alpini quickly adopted for themselves.

History
On 7 June 1883, the "Fiamme Verdi" (green flames) collar patches were introduced thus making the Alpini officially a specialty within the Italian infantry corps. At the same time, the issuing of the Cappello Alpino began. At first, the hat was a round black felt hat, nicknamed bombetta (bowler hat), but with the introduction of the new green-grey uniform in 1910 the hat was changed to the distinctive grey felt hat that is still retained today. The Cappello Alpino is made of grey felt a quarter of an inch thick. In the front, the rim is flattened to protect the face from rain and snow. On the left and right sides, four small metal-encrusted holes allow for an exchange of air. Around the lower half of the round top section, a green-grey leather band and for officers a golden braid encompasses the Cappello. Inside the Cappello has a two-inch black leather band where Cappello and head meet.

Each Cappello carries symbols which identify the wearer's rank, unit and specialization:

 the feather, symbolizing the Alpini Corps
 the fregio, a coat of arms indicating the regiment
 the nappina, a coloured tuft denoting the battalion (later the specialization too)
 the rank insignia for non-commissioned and commissioned officers

Description

The feather
Each soldier is issued with a black raven feather, which he will carry at all times on the Cappello Alpino. When in combat the feather will be placed on the left side of the helmet. Officers above the rank of captain originally wore a white eagle feather, which has been replaced in later years by a white goose feather. Non-commissioned officers and officers up to the rank of captain continue to carry a black eagle feather. The feather is approximately 10-12 inches long and is carried with a slight backward and inbound inclination on the left side of the Cappello.

The Fregio
The fregio is a coat of arms indicating the wearer's regiment. It is black for soldiers, and golden for officers; both variants are sewn to the front of the Cappello. Today, soldiers serving on a permanent basis are issued the golden variant of the fregio too. Each fregio carries an eagle with spread wings on top and below symbols, which indicate the wearer's regiments specialization (i.e. artillery regiment, logistics regiment,...) and at the centre of the fregio a half-inch circle with the regiment's number.

The symbols indicating a regiment's specialization are:

 Alpini: eagle with spread wings, two blowing horns, crossed rifles
 Mountain Artillery: eagle with spread wings, two blowing horns, crossed cannons
 Engineers: eagle with spread wings, two blowing horns, crossed axes
 Sappers: eagle with spread wings, two blowing horns, a gladius short sword, a burning grenade, crossed axes
 Signals: eagle with spread wings, two blowing horns, round antenna, crossed axes and flashes of lightning
 Materials and Transport: eagle with spread wings above a spur gear with spread wings
 Medical officers: eagle with spread wings above a five-pointed star with the red cross symbol and crossed staff of Asclepius
 Medical troops: eagle with spread wings above a five-pointed star with the red cross symbol
 Alpini Generals: a stylized silver eagle with spread wings, holding a silver laurel wreath, with a central red shield inscribed with the silver letters "RI" (for Repubblica Italiana), all together on a ribbon of red cloth.

The Nappina

Description

The nappina is a small piece of wood, on which a tuft of coloured wool threads is sewn. The piece of wood contains a little hole, in which the feather is sheathed. Also, a thin bent wire juts out from the wood to allow the nappina to be latched onto the left side of the Cappello Alpino. The nappina were first issued to distinguish between the battalions in an Alpini regiment:

  I battalion
  II battalion
  III battalion
  IV battalion and battalions not assigned to a regiment

The colours are the same as found on the Italian flag of the Kingdom of Italy. Soldiers of the Mountain Artillery units were issued a green tuft with a black patch in the middle onto which the number of their battery was written in yellow. Officers below the rank of general and non-commissioned officers wear a golden-coloured metal wrap and generals a silver-coloured metal wrap instead of the nappina. Later further nappinas were issued in various colours and forms.

Alpini
For an overview of the nappinas of all Alpini battalions see the main article about the Alpini.

Today the following units continue to carry the nappina:

  Morbegno Battalion (5th Alpini Regiment), ''Feltre Battalion (7th Alpini Regiment)
  Tolmezzo Battalion (8th Alpini Regiment), Vicenza Battalion (9th Alpini Regiment), Aosta Battalion (Alpini Formation Centre)
  Saluzzo Battalion (2nd Alpini Regiment), Bassano Battalion (6th Alpini Regiment)
  Susa Battalion (3rd Alpini Regiment), L'Aquila'' Battalion (9th Alpini Regiment)

Other Alpini units
The Alpini, not assigned to one of the traditional Alpini battalions, carry either a blue nappina or a blue nappina with a black roundel on which the type of superior unit is inscribed.

Artillery
The Mountain Artillery units of the Alpine troops carry a green nappina with a black or yellow roundel on which the number of the battery or the type of superior unit is inscribed. The units in service, which carry an Artillery nappina, are the:
 1st Mountain Artillery Regiment
 2nd Mountain Artillery Regiment
 3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment

Engineers and Signals
The Engineer and Signal units of the Alpine troops carry an amaranth nappina; units that supported the 4th Alpine Army Corps directly had "CA" in white inscribed on the nappina.

Logistic Services
Military logistics units (Transport, Medical, Veterinary, Administrative, Commissariat and Maintenance units) carry a violet nappina; units that supported the 4th Alpine Army Corps directly had "CA" in white inscribed on the nappina.

No longer in use

Rank insignia
Officers carry the grade displaying their rank on the left side of the Cappello Alpino. Instead of the nappina, the feather is held in place by a silver or golden-coloured metal wrap. Non-commissioned officers and officers up to the rank of captain carry a brown eagle feather and officers starting with the rank of major carry a white goose feather, instead of the standard black raven feather.

References

Military equipment of Italy

Military hats

it:Alpini#Il cappello


Stephen Lobb (c. 1647 – 1699) was an English nonconformist minister and controversialist. He was prominent in the 1680s as a court representative of the Independents to James II, and in the 1690s in polemics between the Presbyterian and Independent groups of nonconformists. His church in Fetter Lane, London is supposed to be the successor to the congregation of Thomas Goodwin; he was the successor to Thankful Owen as pastor, and preached in tandem with Thomas Goodwin the younger.

Life
He was the son of Richard Lobb of Liskeard, Mill Park, Warleggan, and Tremethick, St Neot, Cornwall, MP for Mitchell. In 1681 he settled in London as pastor of an independent congregation, first in Swallow Lane, and moving in 1685 to Fetter Lane. He was accused of being concerned in the Rye House plot, and with another minister named Casteers was arrested in Essex and committed to prison in August 1683.

After James II had issued his declaration for liberty of conscience (4 April 1687), Lobb was one of the ministers selected by the independents to present an address of thanks to him. He became somewhat isolated because of his stance towards James; his frequent attendance at court, for which he was sometimes called the 'Jacobite Independent,' led the church party to accuse him of promoting a repeal of the Test Act.

When on 23 September 1688 Grocers' Hall was opened by the lord mayor, Lobb preached the sermon. After serving as a "preacher to a congregation of dissenting protestants at his house in Hampstead", the precursor to what later became Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, in 1694 he was chosen to fill one of the vacancies, occasioned by the exclusion of Daniel Williams, among the lecturers at the Pinners' Hall. He died on 3 June 1699.

Controversial writings
In conjunction with John Humfrey, Lobb wrote in 1680 an Answer ... by some Nonconformists to a sermon preached by Edward Stillingfleet on the ”mischief of separation”. Stillingfleet replied the same year in The Charge of Schism Renewed. Lobb and Humfrey thereupon retorted with a Reply to the Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet.

Lobb took a prominent part in the controversy between the Presbyterian and Independent denominations occasioned by the republication of Tobias Crisp's Works with Additions in 1690. To counteract what he considered to be Crisp's erroneous doctrine, Daniel Williams published in 1695 A Defence of Gospel Truth. Lobb joined issue with Williams in A Peceable Enquiry into the nature of the present controversie among our United Brethren about Justification, (1693). Williams having briefly replied, Lobb published A Vindication of the Doctor, and myself (1695). Lobb next wrote A Report of the present state of the differences in Doctrinals between some Dissenting Ministers in London (1697). This was answered during the same year by Vincent Alsop in A Faithful Rebuke to a False Report. Lobb rejoined with a Defence of his Report and Remarks on Alsop's Rebuke which was in turn castigated by Williams in The Answer to the Report, &c. (1698). At length Lobb sent forth An Appeal to Dr. Stillingfleet and Dr. Edwards concerning Christ's Satisfaction (1698), in which he insinuated that Williams and Richard Baxter favoured Socinianism. Stillingfleet in a reply said that the dispute in his opinion was idle and profitless. Lobb, however, still pursued the controversy in A further Defence of his Appeal, and it was closed by Williams in a pamphlet called An End to Discord. An anonymous disciple of Baxter dealt with Lobb's accusation in A Plea for the late Mr. Baxter, 1699.

Family
By the daughter of Theophilus Polwhele, nonconformist minister at Tiverton, Devonshire, he had three sons, Stephen (d. 1720), who conformed and became chaplain of Penzance Chapel, Cornwall, and vicar of Milton Abbot; Theophilus Lobb, a physician; and Samuel (d. 1760), who also conformed and obtained the rectory of Farleigh Hungerford, Wiltshire. Mrs. Lobb died in 1691.

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Attribution

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1699 deaths
English Congregationalist ministers
People of the Rye House Plot


Sheldon Lavell Canley (born April 19, 1968) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played professionally for the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Jets.

Early life
Canley was born in Santa Barbara, California and grew up in Lompoc, California, where he graduated from Lompoc High School. He attended Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California where he earned an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts. He then attended San José State University. At the end of his NCAA career in 1991, Canley was selected to play in both the East West Shrine Game and the Blue–Gray Football Classic all-star games.

College statistics

Professional career
Projected to be drafted higher, Canley was chosen by the San Francisco 49ers in the seventh round of the 1991 NFL Draft after severely injuring his hamstring muscle during the SJSU pro day. After spending his first season on injured reserve, Canley was eventually released, in part due to stiff competition in a 49ers offensive backfield that included former first-round pick Dexter Carter, Tom Rathman, and 1992 Pro-Bowler Ricky Watters (a fellow 1991 49ers draftee who coincidentally also sat out his entire rookie season due to injury).

Canley was signed off of waivers from the 49ers by the New York Jets. He would play in his only NFL regular season game with the Jets, rushing four times for nine yards in a 20-0 loss to the New Orleans Saints on 26 December 1992.

Canley was part of the 1994 Baltimore Stallions of the Canadian Football League, which eventually lost the Grey Cup game to the BC Lions, 23-20. Playing behind starter Mike Pringle, during the regular season Canley rushed 31 times for 143 yards and one touchdown, as well as caught six passes for 37 yards. He also made 13 tackles, mostly on special teams.

In 1995, Canley signed with the Denver Broncos of the NFL but was released after the pre-season. Again, strong competition from fellow running backs played a large part in his release; this time his teammates included 1995 Pro-Bowler Glyn Milburn and then-unknown rookie Terrell Davis.

References

External links
Pro-Football reference
databaseFootball.com
FOXSports.com
Baltimore Stallions

1968 births
Living people
American football running backs
Sportspeople from Santa Barbara, California
Players of American football from Santa Barbara County, California
New York Jets players
San Francisco 49ers players
San Jose State Spartans football players
Baltimore Stallions players
Allan Hancock Bulldogs football players
Lompoc High School alumni


Let's Turkey Trot is a popular song with writing credits to Gerry Goffin and Jack Keller and/or Carole King.  It was released by Little Eva as her third single for the Dimension label. The Little Eva's recording debuted on the charts on February 2, 1963, and peaked at #20 on the Hot 100. It was her third top 40 record.

The record features girl group The Cookies on background vocals, with the Cookies' lead Earl-Jean McCrea getting some solo lines. The song's title is a reference to the turkey trot dance step, a step that was only briefly popular fifty years before the song was released; the song is played at a tempo much slower than the one used for the dance in its heyday. The B-side of the original single is a Goffin-King song called "Down Home" that is also found on the 1962 Llllloco-Motion LP.

In the film Easy Rider, Little Eva's "Let's Turkey Trot" is playing on the jukebox when the protagonists enter the café. The song was ambient sound and not a chosen song; it was omitted from the soundtrack album.

Cash Box said that it "should start the kids off on another dance craze-as the tag implies" and it was a "sparkling choral and instrumental showcase on a lid that can go all the way."

The song was covered by Jan & Dean on their 1963 album, Jan & Dean take Linda Surfin.

The Dollyrots covered the song on their EP A Dollyrots Christmas.

References

1963 songs
Songs written by Jack Keller (songwriter)
Jan and Dean songs
Songs with lyrics by Gerry Goffin
1963 singles
Little Eva songs


"The Incident" is the season finale of the fifth season of ABC's Lost, consisting of its 16th and 17th episodes. Both parts of "The Incident", the show's 102nd and 103rd episodes overall, aired on May 13, 2009, on ABC in the United States. The episode was written by executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Jack Bender.

Jack Shephard's (Matthew Fox) plan to change the future is met with resistance from others, while John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) assigns Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson) a difficult task. This episode features the first appearance of the mysterious leader of the Others, Jacob, after being mentioned several times throughout the series. Jacob is portrayed by Mark Pellegrino, and appears in the flashbacks of various Oceanic Flight 815 survivors and mysterious Ajira Flight 316 survivor Ilana (Zuleikha Robinson).

The episode was watched by 9.428 million viewers, and was well received by critics and audiences. It was also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in 2009.

Plot

Flashbacks
The episode opens with Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) weaving a tapestry inside a temple-like room. While eating a fish near the large four-toed statue of Taweret, he is visited by a man in a black shirt (Titus Welliver). The man comments on a sailing ship on the horizon, suggesting that Jacob has brought it to the island, and states he will eventually find a "loophole" so he can kill Jacob.

In flashbacks, various characters encounter Jacob. As a little girl, Kate is visited by Jacob when she is caught shoplifting a lunchbox. He pays for it to placate the shopkeeper. At age eight, Sawyer is visited shortly after his parents' funeral. He has begun writing his letter to the con man "Tom Sawyer", but his pen is out of ink. Jacob gives him a replacement. Sayid is visited at the same time that his wife Nadia (Andrea Gabriel) is killed. While recovering in a Russian hospital, Ilana is visited by Jacob and he asks for her help.
After being pushed out of an eighth-story window by his father, Locke apparently dies. Jacob arrives and touches him on the shoulder, and Locke reawakens. Sun and Jin are visited by Jacob at their wedding and he tells them that their love is special. After performing his first solo surgery on a young girl (a story he recounts in "Pilot, Part 1"), Jack tries to buy a chocolate bar from a vending machine, and argues with his father (John Terry) for interrupting him during the surgery. Jacob buys the same chocolate bar and gives Jack one. Hurley is visited after he is released from prison, between "The Little Prince" and "316". Jacob tells him that he may be blessed, and that his ability to see dead people could be a gift. He tells Hurley about Flight 316, and leaves a guitar case for Hurley. Jacob makes physical contact with each of the characters in their respective scene, except Ilana.

In a flashback not featuring Jacob, Juliet's parents tell her that they are getting divorced, claiming they were not meant to be together.

1977
Following the events of the previous episode, "Follow the Leader", Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) are on a submarine leaving the island. Kate convinces Juliet and Sawyer to stop Jack from detonating a hydrogen bomb on the island. They force the captain (William Makozak) to surface, instructing the captain to continue on course away from the island. They arrive on the island, where they are greeted by Vincent the dog, who has been in the care of Rose Henderson (L. Scott Caldwell) and Bernard Nadler (Sam Anderson) for the past three years. Rose explains that she and Bernard are now retired and live a quiet life near the beach, avoiding detection by the Dharma Initiative. Rose points them to the Dharma barracks and they leave.

At the same time, Jack (Matthew Fox) and Sayid (Naveen Andrews) dismantle the hydrogen bomb in the tunnels under the Dharma Initiative's barracks, in order to remove its core. Richard (Nestor Carbonell) and a younger Eloise (Alice Evans) assist Jack and Sayid in entering the barracks via the basement of one of the houses. Richard knocks out Eloise to prevent her traveling with them because she is pregnant. Sayid dons a Dharma jumpsuit; they almost escape when Roger Linus (Jon Gries) recognizes him and shoots him. Jack and Sayid escape in a van driven by Hurley (Jorge Garcia), along with Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Miles (Ken Leung). Hurley drives to the construction site of the Swan station, while Jack treats Sayid's wounds; however, they are stopped by Juliet, Sawyer and Kate.

Jack and Sawyer discuss the situation away from the other survivors, with Sawyer expressing his opinion that they shouldn't try to change the past. Jack claims it is his destiny to change the past and that John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) has always been right about the island. Jack and Sawyer get into a fist fight, which is broken up by Juliet, who now agrees with Jack. She tells Sawyer that although they love each other, they are not meant to be together (echoing her parents).

Meanwhile, Dr. Pierre Chang (François Chau) continues drilling into the energy source beneath the construction site of the Swan station on the orders of Stuart Radzinsky (Eric Lange).

With everyone now in agreement, Jack enters the construction site at the same time security officer Phil (Patrick Fischler) arrives with a team of armed men. A massive gunfight ensues, wherein the survivors gain the upper hand, allowing Jack to drop the bomb into the pit at the same time the drill hits the energy source. The nuke fails to go off, and the pocket is breached, attracting every metal object in the area. In the ensuing chaos, Dr. Chang's arm is crushed, Phil is stabbed by a rebar,
and Juliet is dragged into the chasm. Sawyer attempts to pull her up in vain, and Juliet professes her love for him before falling. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Juliet survived the fall. She finds the undetonated nuke and hits it with a rock until it goes off; the screen cuts to white as the episode ends.

2007
Locke, Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson), Sun (Yunjin Kim) and the Others travel to the remains of the Taweret statue, where Jacob resides. Locke assigns Ben the task of killing Jacob, and provides motivation by reminding Ben of all the bad things that have happened to him. Ben admits he has never seen Jacob; all communication with Jacob was through notes brought by Richard, including the lists of people to be taken from the Oceanic 815 survivors.

At the same time, a group of survivors from Ajira Flight 316, including Ilana (Zuleikha Robinson) and Bram (Brad William Henke) travel towards Jacob's cabin, with Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey) and a giant metal crate from the cargo of the plane. They find the cabin deserted, and set it on fire after realizing someone else has been using it. They then travel to the statue.

Their group arrives shortly after Ben and Locke enter a chamber in the base of the statue's remains. Ilana asks Richard the question, "what lies in the shadow of the statue", and Richard replies, "Ille qui nos omnes servabit" (Latin for "He who will save us all.") Ilana reveals the contents of the crate: John Locke's dead body.

Inside the chamber, Jacob immediately recognizes Locke as the Man in Black from the opening flashback, who has been masquerading as a resurrected Locke. Ben stabs Jacob, whose final words are a warning: "They're coming." The Man in Black kicks Jacob's body into the fire.

Production
Throughout the previous seasons, the final scene of each season had a secret code name. This was to prevent spoilers from leaking out. Another factor to prevent the leak of spoilers was that only the writers, director, and actors involved with the scene were allowed access to the script. During a May podcast, executive producers/writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse invited fans to choose the code name for the finale of season five. After numerous suggestions, the two decided upon their favorite thirteen. These thirteen were then allowed to be voted on by fans as the name. The resulting name was "The Fork in the Outlet".

This episode breaks the tradition of ending with the "LOST" title screen, with the words in white and a black background. Instead, "LOST" is in black, and the background is white.

The Swan construction site was built in the same place the Hatch was shown in seasons 1 and 2, in He'eia. Due to being in a state park area, the producers had to get permits and work with geologists to excavate and build the set, as well as restoring the location to how it was before. The base of the statue where Jacob lives was a live-action set, but the stone foot was built with computer-generated imagery.

Reception
The finale has been well received by audiences and critics alike. In a review for IGN, Chris Carabot praised the finale, calling it "heart-wrenching", and praised the performances, especially Michael Emerson and newcomer Mark Pellegrino, calling him "yet another example of some of the brilliant casting choices we've seen on this show." He went on to give the episode an overall score of 9.8, saying that he was "excited to see how this cliffhanger plays out in the final chapter of the series." Alan Sepinwall of the Star-Ledger reviewed the episode positively, but complained about the episode being "another explosive chapter" of the love triangle. Sepinwall also called it "so exciting, so mythology-intensive, so loaded with great performances and great character notes, so all-around kick-ass, that I feel more than satisfied." Jeff Jensen of PopWatch said that the opening scene with Jacob and his nemesis was enough to make the episode legendary.

Jay Glatfelter of The Huffington Post felt that the season finale was more of the first act of the show's final act, and thought that many of the themes were left unresolved.

Varietys Cynthia Littleton was pleased when Rose and Bernard returned in the episode, having been absent for most of the season. She speculated that they are the Adam and Eve skeletons found by the survivors early in season one, which Jeff Jensen from Entertainment Weekly also suspected. (This was not correct). James Poniewozik of Time also liked their appearance in "The Incident". Chris Carabott of IGN "love[d]" this scene as the characters were no longer watching the island mysteries, but had become part of them. He said "Their outlook is refreshing" and hoped they would feature more often in season six. Alan Sepinwall from The Star-Ledger called it "one of the best, most moving scenes of the finale". Noel Murray from The A.V. Club thought the scene was useful in both practical and thematic senses, as it allowed the characters to leave the show, but also it caused him to question whether opting out was "the voice of reason, or the voice of evil". The Huffington Post's Jay Glatfelter incorrectly thought their decision not to participate "all but solidified them as the 'Adam and Eve' from the caves". "Words [could not] describe" how pleased Maureen Ryan from the Chicago Tribune was with Rose and Bernard's scene, and she agreed with Rose's sentiment "It's always something with you people".

At the 2011 Young Artist Awards, Savannah Lathem received a nomination for Best Performance in a TV Series under the category "Guest Starring Young Actress".

References

External links

"The Incident (Part 1)" at ABC

"The Incident (Part 2)" at ABC

Lost (season 5) episodes
2009 American television episodes
Television episodes directed by Jack Bender
Television episodes written by Damon Lindelof


Punathil Kunjabdulla (3 April 1940 – 27 October 2017) was an Indian writer from Kerala. A medical doctor by profession, Kunjabdulla was a practitioner of the avant-garde in Malayalam literature. His work includes more than 45 books, including 7 novels, 15 short story collections, memoirs, an autobiography and travelogues. His work Smarakasilakal (Memorial Stones) won the Central and State Akademi Awards.

Early and personal life
Kunjabdulla was born in 1940 in Karakkad near Onchiyam in Vatakara, Malabar District (present-day Kozhikode district, Kerala) as the son of C. K. Mammu and Saina, Kunjabdulla. He completed his primary education from Karakkad Mappila Lower Primary School and high school from Govt. Fisheries Technical School, Madappally. He joined Government Brennen College, Thalassery and completed his pre-degree and a bachelor's degree in science. He wanted to continue his studies at Brennen College and to do his masters in Malayalam. He was dissuaded by the late critic M. N. Vijayan, who was a teacher at the college's Department of Malayalam. "You don't have to do an MA to be a writer; all you need to know are the letters," his teacher advised him. He heeded the advice and went to the Aligarh Muslim University to study MBBS. He was a registered medical practitioner and served in government sector from 1970 to 1973 and at Vatakara from 1974 to 1976. He married Haleema and had three children. Kunjabdulla was living alone in a flat in Calicut during his last years.

Despite coming from a conservative Muslim background, Kunjabdulla was known for his wanton and unconventional life-style. He literally chose to celebrate life. Sethu once said: "His calibre to depict commoners was astonishing. With this magic, he could have written great works. However, he chose to celebrate life and did not care to write great works unlike many of his contemporaries. His lifestyle can be cited as the reason for this hindrance." Though he was born in a Muslim family, he never wanted to lead a religious life. He always described himself as a Hindu by culture, despite being born a Muslim. He liked alcohol and pork and never hesitated to admit it publicly.

In the 2001 Kerala assembly elections, Punathil unsuccessfully contested for Bharatiya Janata Party from Beypore constituency. He was pitted against industrialist-turned-politician V. K. C. Mammed Koya of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and veteran politician M C Mayin Haji of the Indian Union Muslim League. He finished third, securing 10,934 votes. Kunjabdulla's decision to contest on BJP ticket was a surprise for many. He later said in an interview: "They were the first to offer me a ticket. If the Congress or the CPM had offered me a ticket first, I would have accepted it. It is my commitment to the people and not any kind of affinity towards any particular party, that inspires me."

Suffering from various ailments during his final years, he died at Baby Memorial Hospital in Calicut on 27 October 2017, aged 77. At the time of death, Punathil was working on an uncompleted novel titled Ya Ayyuhannas. The novel, centred around religion and spirituality, was announced almost a year before and was to be serialised in Madhyamam Weekly.

Literary career
He sent his first short story Bhagyakuri (1958) to Mathrubhumi Illustrated Weekly while he was still at school, hoping to get published in the children's section. However its associate editor M. T. Vasudevan Nair chose to publish it in the general category. Kunjabdulla has called MT his only guru, both in life and writing.

Smarakasilakal (Memorial Stones), published in 1977, is set in a region near Vatakara where he grew up. The novel tells the story of Khan Bahadur Pookkoya Thangal, the head of a feudal family, and the patriarchal structure at work within the family.

Through the novel Marunnu (Medicine), which narrates the story on the life of MBBS students and of a medical college, Kunjabdulla introduced to Malayalam literature the world of hospitals and doctors. Paralokam also picked up on themes of death, another novel richly informed by his own life experiences as a doctor. He was a prolific writer of short stories as well. His story Kshethravilakkukal (Temple Lights) was chosen by M. Krishnan Nair in a collection of best short stories in the language. Kunjabdulla co-authored the novel Navagrahangulude Thadavara with Sethu. They discussed it together, wrote separately and then edited it together. According to Sethu, it was a work with a difference, though born ahead of the times.

The writer in Kunjabdulla had a great affinity towards Karakkad village in Vatakara where he was born. Many of his stories were reflections of his village and the characters like Vandikkaran Kunjhan, Bappu Kanaran, Moosa Musaliyar and Sankarakurup were real life people in his village. The years he spent at Aligarh also left deep impressions on Kunjabdulla. He was known as Aligadhinte Kathakaran as he introduced Aligarh in Malayalam literature. As an MBBS student, he spent 9 years in Aligarh Muslim University (1962-1970) and during his stay at Room No. 31 at VM Hal of AMU, he would write short stories on Aligarh and publish them in Malayalam journals. His experiences in the Uttar Pradesh city helped him write some of his most widely read short stories. Aligadhile Tadavukaran (The Prisoner in Aligarh), Marunnu (Medicine), Aligadh Kathakal (Aligarh Stories) are some of the famous books on Aligarh that he wrote. Cycle Savairi (Cycle Riding), Jeevachavangal (Living Cadavers) MoulanaInam Khureshi, Kathi (Knife), Velichaththinte Maranam (Death of Light) and Smasanathilekku Nayikkunna Njan (Leading by me Towards the Graveyard) are some of the most known short stories on his Aligarh days.

Like Pookunjeebi in Smarakasilakal many of his female characters were strong personalities. Instead of depicting women in moodily love, he celebrated lust, passion of love and beauty through his women characters. The women characters in Kure Sthreekal, Pranaya Kathakal and Ente Kamukimarum Mattu Kathakalum represented life as it is and the underlying tone was lust.

Awards
Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award (Malayalam) (1980) – for Smarakasilakal
Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel (1978) – for Smarakasilakal
Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Story (1980) – for Malamukalile Abdulla
 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Travelogue (2001) – for Volgayil Manju Peyyumbol
Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship (2010)
Muttathu Varkey Award (1999)
Mathrubhumi Literary Award (2013)
Vishwadeepam Award – for Marunnu

Selected works

Novels
Smarakasilakal (DC Books, 1977)
Marunnu  (DC Books)
Paralokam  (DC Books)
Punathilinte Novellakal  (DC Books)
Kanyavanangal  (DC Books)
Navagrahangulude Thadavara (with Sethu) (DC Books)
Agnikinavukal (DC Books)
Ammaye Kaanan (Children's novel, Mathrubhumi Books)
 Kannadi Veedukal (Trichur Current Books,2001)

Short stories
 Aligarh Kathakal (Mathrubhumi Books, 2012)
Ente Priyapetta Kathakal (DC Books)
 Kshethravilakkukal (Mathrubhumi Books)
Kure Sthreekal (Mathrubhumi Books)
Malamukalile Abdulla (Mathrubhumi Books, 1974)
Marichupoya Ente Appanammamarkku (Poorna Publications, 1997)
Neelaniramulla Thottam
 Pranaya Kathakal (Mathrubhumi Books)
Punathilinte 101 Kathakal
Ente Kamukimarum Mattu Kathakalum
Kathi (Mathrubhumi Books)

Others
 Atmaviswasam Valiya Marunnu (memoirs & essays, Mathrubhumi Books)
 Kaippunyam Athava Chila Adukkalakkaryangal (cookery, Mathrubhumi Books)
 Nashtajaathakam (autobiography, DC Books)
 Puthiya Marunnum Pazhaya Manthravum (memoirs, Mathrubhumi Books)
 Randaam Chemmeen (memoirs, Manorama Books, 2012)
 Volgayil Manju Peyyumbol (travelogue, Mathrubhumi Books)

References

Further reading

1940 births
2017 deaths
Indian male novelists
Malayalam-language writers
Malayali people
Malayalam novelists
Writers from Kozhikode
People from Kozhikode district
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Malayalam
Recipients of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
20th-century Indian medical doctors
Indian male short story writers
20th-century Indian short story writers
20th-century Indian novelists
Novelists from Kerala
20th-century Indian male writers


Overdose (2 April 2005 in Nottinghamshire, Great Britain – 1 July 2015 in Germany) was a Hungarian Thoroughbred racehorse. During his career he was victorious in sixteen of his nineteen races.

Breeding
Overdose was English-bred and was sold at Tattersalls December Yearling Sales in November 2006 for just 2,000 guineas (£2,100). His sire was a miler called Starborough and he was out of Our Poppet (IRE) by Warning. He was a half-brother of three winners.

His owner, Zoltán Mikóczy purchased Overdose only by chance and has been quoted as saying "I just put my hand up for fun, I like excitement of the horse auctions. I thought no horse can go this cheap and surely somebody else would bid. He's short and I'd say kind of ugly, so of course nobody wanted him."

Racing career
Overdose had an unbeaten series of 14 races. In these races he won with a total of 116,5 lengths, which means 8,3 lengths per race in average.

He ran a new track record at his home track (Kincsem Park, Budapest, Hungary), for his first ever race (in which he was victorious with 18 lengths).

In 2008 he was named Wunderpferd (wonderhorse) in Germany, for winning German sprint races – including the Group 2 Goldene Peitsche – in such a dominant style.

He won a Group I race at Longchamp, but the race was declared void due to a non-opening gate. His time was only 0,1 second behind the track record of Habibti. He did not participate in the re-run at the end of the day, since his unbeaten record was at risk. Only a month later Overdose won a Group III race in Rome, with a dominating 10 lengths.

In the 2008 world thoroughbred rankings Overdose was among the top sprinters (4th at Timeform with a rating of 126, and 6th at IFHA with 120), despite he did not win a Group I race (at least not officially).

In 2009 Christophe Soumillon volunteered to ride the horse.  After his year opening race at Kincsem Park, Budapest, Overdose was called the Budapest Bullet in Britain, and appeared on the cover of the New York Times, which named him the "Hungarian Seabiscuit".

In mid-2009 one of his hooves became inflamed, which resulted in laminitis. This put the horse's whole career in danger. His recovery lasted for 15 months. Overdose returned in July 2010, with two victories in Bratislava and Budapest, growing his unbeaten record to 14 races.

Overdose lost his unbeaten record in his 15th race under disputed circumstances. In Germany, Baden-Baden, the starter waited eight minutes to get him into the startbox. During this time his rider Christophe Soumillon fell from his saddle thrice. This "procedure" resulted in a hopeless race for him. Although he led to 1000 meters, Overdose lost too much power when entering the startbox, therefore he was unable to keep the pace in the last furlong, and finished only seventh. Professionals says that the German starter was under great pressure, since Overdose's comeback was in the centre of the communication of the racetrack's actual festival (the Große Woche), and the stands were full, since everybody was keen to see Overdose. After this race the horse has suffered another, but minor injury, which resulted in the miss of the remaining of the season.

In 2011 he started the season in Berlin, Germany, with a dominating victory, and ran a new track record. This was the season-opening raceday of the track, and there was a full house. After this great result Overdose was the favourite of all British bookmakers for both of his forthcoming races in the United Kingdom; the Temple Stakes and the King's Stand Stakes.

On the day of his long waited first race in Britain, Overdose appeared on the cover of four newspapers. Second time on Racing Post's cover that week (the first occasion has been his arrival to Britain). He was in the centre of the television broadcast as well. Unfortunately Overdose's travel took three days from Hungary to Britain, and the five days he spent in Britain before the race was not enough to regenerate. Maybe this was the reason why Overdose only placed seventh by four lengths behind the winner in the Group II Temple Stakes. But the team knew, there is more in him, therefore they have stayed in Britain, to prepare him for the Royal Ascot. After the Haydock race Overdose was able to regenerate during the remaining three weeks to his Royal Ascot race. He was not a favourite anymore. He started in the Group I King's Stand Stakes on the lead, and ran head to head with the Hong Kong superstar Sweet Sanette in the forthcoming furlongs. In the end Overdose finished fourth, only a length away from the winner, and a neck away from Sweet Sanette. The remaining horses were more than two lengths away from the winning four. After the race the officials of the Ascot Racecourse said that they had never seen a horse performing in such a high level after suffering laminitis.

Another minor injury resulted in the horse's missing of almost all races of the autumn season, and Overdose was able to race again in November only; the second time in Rome, and for the first time with Frankie Dettori. This time Overdose won with only a half length, but he was spared, Dettori did not ask for more from him.

In February 2012, Overdose suffered a serious injury at Meydan Racecourse, in the very beginning of the 2012 Dubai Racing Carnival.

Jockeys
 2007. Martin Srnec, Zdenko Smida, Piotr Krowicki
 2008. Piotr Krowicki, Andreas Suborics
 2009. Christophe Soumillon
 2010. Gary Hind, Christophe Soumillon
 2011. Andreas Suborics, Frankie Dettori

Race record

Overdose suffered a serious injury at Meydan Racecourse, just before the beginning of the 2012 Dubai Racing Carnival. After that he was retired from racing and was available at Bábolna-Dióspuszta Stud in Hungary in 2014 first, then in 2015 at Vollblutgestüt Lindenhof in Germany.

(Note, that G1, G2 and G3 means internationally recognized Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 races, while Gr1, Gr2 and Gr3 means Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3 races, recognized in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria.)

See also
List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses
List of racehorses

References

Pedigree

External links

 Overdose pedigree on pedigreequery.com
 Official homepage in Hungarian

2005 racehorse births
2015 racehorse deaths
Sport in Hungary
Racehorses trained in Hungary
Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom
Thoroughbred family 7-a


Mualim (معلم) is an Arabic word for teacher. It can refer to:

 Al-Mualim, a character in the Ubisoft videogame Assassin's Creed
 Al-Muʽallim, a compilation album by Sami Yusuf
 Mualim (District), the eleventh district in Perak, Malaysia
 Mualim Island, a small island in  group of Duke of York Islands in the Bismark Archipelago, Papua New Guinea


Diembéring (also called Diembering, Diembéreng, Djiwat, Guimbering, Diébéring, Diebering, or Djembering) is a village in Senegal in the rural community of the same name. It is located in Cabrousse, Oussouye, Ziguinchor, Casamance, approximately 10 km north of Cap Skirring and 60 km from Ziguinchor.

It is home to the Diembéring dialect of the Kwatay language.

History
Initially, Diembéring was a fishing village. It is still so today, however tourism has opened up other possibilities.

Administration
Diembéring is the capital of the rural district (communauté rurale) of the same name. Within the district are the other villages of :

Geography
The nearest localities are Koudioundou, Nikine, Bouyouye, Cachouane, Boucotte Wolof, and Mossor.

Physical geography
Diembéring was built on sand dunes, among palms and towering trees of the Malvaceae family (likely Ceiba pentandra, one of many species widely called, ambiguously, 'kapok trees').

Population
Diembéring is one of the few places where people speak Kuwaataay, a dialect of Jola.

Economy
The beaches of this coastal village are popular with tourists. There is a mosque in the area, as well as a church where a Jola mass is sung each Sunday. A maternity hospital is run by a Spanish order of nuns.

Notes

Bibliography

References

External links

Maps, weather and airports for Diembéring

Populated places in Ziguinchor Region
Oussouye Department


Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 24 December 1953) is a German composer.

Life
After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano and music theory. Upon graduating from the conservatory, he studied composition (under Hans Ulrich Engelmann), piano ( under Klaus Billing), and conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. After attending the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1974 and the premiere of his First String Quartet, he was awarded several scholarships, among others from the Mozart Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation. In 1976, Bose dropped out of school in Frankfurt and settled in Munich as a freelance artist. The following works like Morphogenesis (1976), Das Diplom (1976), Die Nacht aus Blei (1981), 63: Dream Palace (1990), among others, he received numerous grants and awards:

 German Academy Rome Villa Massimo (1980/1985)
 German Critics Prize (1981)
 Schneider-Schott Music Prize, Mainz (1988)
 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (1994)
 Prize of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation for the recognition of Bose's educational merits (1998)

He received commissions from renowned orchestras and opera houses including Idyllen (1982/83) for the Berlin Philharmonic.
In the 1980s, Bose became a member of the jury of the "Summer Music Festival Hitzacker" as well as a lecturer at the "Young Composers' Meeting" in Weikersheim. After a visiting professorship for composition at the Salzburg Mozarteum he succeeded Wilhelm Killmayer as professor of composition at the University of Music and Theater in Munich in 1992 (until 2007). Now he is teaching again at University of Music and Theater in Munich since 2012.

As a teacher, he has decisively influenced the work of, among others, Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau and Klaus Schedl.

Hans-Jürgen von Bose moved in 2011 from Berlin to Zorneding near Munich.

Work
Hans-Jürgen von Bose's early works are characterized by the juxtaposition and interlocking of structural and public sound elements. Surmounting serial methods of composition and advocating a subjective semantics designated as the "New Simplicity" starting with the Darmstadt Summer Courses in 1978 (this was also true for other composers such as Wolfgang Rihm and Detlev Müller-Siemens), the connotations of this term could not cover the structure and complex treatment of time of their compositions. In its consensus against serial constructive thinking, the trend known in the 1970s by the catchphrase "New Subjectivity", gave significant impulses for a new concept of material by turning away from an objective understanding of them.

The label "New Simplicity" was misapplied to Bose's works starting with the String Trio of 1978, though it does point to the presence of an important, though intimate and concealed semantic dimension in his works which can be directly experienced. Beginning in 1989 with the opera 63: Dream Palace, Bose has enriched the process of temporal layering and serial organization characteristic of his music, in a spirit of reflective postmodernism, by borrowing stylistic elements from the past and present.

He wrote the libretto for 63: Dream Palace himself after the novella by James Purdy. It was premiered at the second Munich Biennale in 1990. The heterogeneity of post-modernism is processed through the different reflected styles.  A highlight of this period is the opera Slaughterhouse V (1996), whose libretto is based on the novel Slaughterhouse 5, or the children's crusade, by Kurt Vonnegut.

Bridge-building between modernism and post-modernism appears as a significant aspect of Bose's work.

Slaughterhouse V

Post-structuralism
The French philosophy and its theory of "Death of the Author" (Roland Barthes) make this its influence significantly, as the "personal style" of Bose as a "hopefully soon to be overcome relic of the 19th Century".

Significant for Bose's creativity in general, and Slaughterhouse 5 in particular, is the treatment of temporal complexity. The linear understanding of time is replaced by simultaneity, zeitspastischen analogous to the understanding of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Bose also permits the findings from the chaos theory, neurobiology and astrophysics polymorphic in his understanding of time are introduced, through the music out into the structuring of the libretto were implemented.  Sergei Eisenstein established form of the film will be cut here – even composition – used so that different levels of "fast and hard against geschnitten" can be used in compositional layering and continued interweaving. The composer speaks in this context of a "time-palimpsest".

The opera was created as a work commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera and opened in 1996 the Munich Opera Festival (directed by Eike Gramss :de:Eike Gramss).

Compositions

Vocal music
Three Songs for tenor and chamber orchestra (1977)
Symphonic Fragment (Hölderlin) (1979/80)
Guarda el canto (Miguel Angel Bustos) – Four fragments in three movements for soprano and string quartet (1981)
Sappho Songs for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra (1983)
Sonnet XLII for baritone and string quartet (Shakespeare, 1985)
Five nursery rhymes – from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" for alto and five instruments (1985)
... Spoken in the Wind – spiritual music for solo soprano, two spokesmen (1985)
Omega – Five Poems of Federico García Lorca for mezzo-soprano and piano (1986)
Todesfuge – mixed choir with baritone solo and organ (1989)
Love after Love – (D. Walcott) for soprano and orchestra (1990/91)
The Trip to the Mountains – Franz Kafka, for counter-tenor and piano (2005)
Kafka Cycle for countertenor and cello, dedicated to Aribert Reimann on his 70th birthday (2006)
Lamento and Dithyrambus (I. Bachmann) for counter tenor, keyboard, piano and tubular bells, dedicated to Hans-Werner Henze on his 80th birthday (2006)
 Bernhard Cycle – three songs to poems by Thomas Bernhard, for soprano and piano (2006)
Invocation Cycle for countertenor and organ (2008)

Stage works
Blood (Ramon del Valle-Inclan) – opera in 1 act (1974)
The Night of Lead – kinetic action in six pictures by Hans Henny Jahnn (1981)
Chimera – music scene by Federico García Lorca (1986)
The Sorrows of Young Werther – lyric scene in two parts and an interlude (1987/88)
Werther scenes – ballet in two parts and an interlude (1988)
63: Dream Palace – opera based on novel by James Purdy (1989)
Medea Fragment – music by Hans Henny Jahnn (1993)
Slaughterhouse V – opera, libretto by the composer after Kurt Vonnegut (1995)
K-project 12/14 – musical theater after Kafka's The Metamorphosis (2002)

Instrumental music
Morphogenisis for large orchestra (1975)
Travesty in a Sad Landscape – variations for chamber orchestra (1978)
Music for a House Full Time for large chamber orchestra (1978)
Idylls – for the centenary of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra (1982/83)
Symbolum for organ and orchestra (1985)
1 Maze for large orchestra. (1987)
Concertino per il HWH for chamber orchestra (1991)
Maze II for piano (1992)

Chamber music
String Quartet No. 1 (1973)
String Quartet No. 2 (1976–1977)
String Trio (1978)
... vom Wege abkommen for viola solo (1981–1982)
String Quartet No. 3 (1986–1987)
Three Epitaphs for brass sextet (1987)
Music for Cello Solo– (2002)
Music for K for violin, cello and piano (2002)
String Trio (2006), commissioned by the Bavarian State Opera to 80. Geburtstag by Hans-Werner Henze

Piano music
Three – small piano pieces (1982)
Labyrinth II (1987)
Origami, 2 episodes for piano 4-hands (1991)

Publications
Search for a new ideal of beauty. In: E. Thomas, holiday courses '78. (= Darmstadt contributions to New Music 17)
"Mit der Zeit springt gegen die Langeweile. Schlachthaus 5: Ein Plädoyer für die moderne Oper". In "Theater ist ein Traumort": Opern des 20. Jahrhunderts von Janáček bis Widmann, edited by Hanspeter Krellmann and Jürgen Schläder, 350–54. Berlin: Henschel, 2005. .

References and footnotes

Further reading
 Hauser, Florian. 2005. " Hans-Jürgen von Bose—Augenblicke, oder, Zeit ist relativ: Einige Gedanken über Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim". In "Theater ist ein Traumort": Opern des 20. Jahrhunderts von Janáček bis Widmann, edited by Hanspeter Krellmann and Jürgen Schläder, 355–58. Berlin: Henschel. .
 Mauser, Siegfried. 2002. "Hans-Jürgen von Bose". Komponisten der Gegenwart: Loseblatt-Lexikon—Nachlieferung. XXIV, edited by Hanns-Werner Heister and Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer. Munich: Edition text+kritik. .
 Reimann, Aribert. 1979. "Junge Avantgarde. Sieben junge Komponisten geben Auskunft uber ihren Standort". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 140, no. 1:5–24.
 Schibli, Sigfrid. 1988. "'...die sinnliche Qualität von Musik hinüberretten': Der Komponist Hans-Jürgen von Bose und seine neuesten Werke". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 149, nos. 7–8:30–39.

External links

 MIZ-entry
 brief biography (Schott)
 Short Biography and worklist (Ricordi)
 brief biography (copy-us) works and how to download
 discussion with Hans-Jürgen von Bose and Siegfried Mauser (among others) in the Bavarian Broadcasting
 "New Subjectivity" in the 70s: from Bose, Trojahn, Rihm
 description of the Kafka Project 12/14

1953 births
Living people
Composers from Munich
Leipzig University alumni
German opera composers
Male opera composers
20th-century classical composers
Hoch Conservatory alumni
21st-century classical composers
Postmodern composers
German male classical composers
20th-century German composers
Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize winners
21st-century German composers
20th-century German male musicians
21st-century German male musicians


Tradescantia ohiensis, commonly known as bluejacket or Ohio spiderwort, is an herbaceous plant species in the genus Tradescantia native to eastern and central North America.  It is the most common and widely distributed species of Tradescantia in the United States, where it can be found from Maine in the northeast, west to Minnesota, and south to Texas and Florida. It also has a very small distribution in Canada in extreme southern Ontario near Windsor.

Distinguishing features of the species include glaucous leaves and stems, leaves forming an acute angle with the stems, sepals with hairs lacking glands which are confined to the apex if present at all, and a relatively tall habit (up to about 115 cm). Typical habitats for the plant include roadsides, along railroads, and in fields and thickets. Less typically it can occur in woods, and sometimes along streams. As with many species in the genus, it often forms hybrids with related species where they co-occur. More specifically, at least nine different species are thought to be capable of forming hybrids with T. ohiensis.

Ohio spiderwort has edible flowers and shoots. Flowers and stems can be eaten raw, while the leaves can be cooked. Leaves of the plant are mucilaginous and can be used to soothe insect bites in a similar way to aloe vera.

References

ohiensis
Flora of Eastern Canada
Plants described in 1814
Flora of the Northeastern United States
Flora of the North-Central United States
Flora of the South-Central United States
Flora of the Southeastern United States
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque


"Leave!" is a song by English recording artist V V Brown from her debut studio album Travelling Like the Light. It was released on March 2, 2009 as the album's second single and was accompanied by a music video. This single, like her debut single "Crying Blood" failed to reach the charts.

Critical reception
Digital Spy gave the song 4 out of 5 stars; they said this about the song "The song itself, which mixes girl group pop with Ronson-esque beats and a hint of new wave, is just as direct as her message, but a whole lot easier to swallow. Thank heavens she chose to sweeten the pill!". The review was mostly positive. It was also the first song by VV Brown to be reviewed on digitalspy because for some reason "Crying Blood" wasn't put onto their data base when it was released.

Femalefirst.co.uk also gave the song 4 out of 5 stars. They started the review by comparing her to other successful voices saying "VV Brown is the newest singer to try and make some cash out of a panda that sounds like Amy Winehouse / Duffy / Adele and all credit to her, she does it well. Fair enough, it might not be the most original sound of all time". They ended the review positively by saying "Her funky doo-wap-de-doo-wap sound brings something back to the music industry that seemed to have disappeared many years ago as the like of bubble gum pop came onto the scene. Her no-frills attitude, mixed with the perfect blend of 50’s pop and (at the very end) almost MC-ing sound make VV Brown one to watch in 2009".

Music video
The video starts with Brown standing in front of a box and then the camera circles the box. Then things start to appear inside the box like a pile of clothes, wine glasses, Brown inside a room, a painting, Brown's chin and mouth, a picture of Brown with a man, Brown's head, a telephone, Brown on a bed with a keyboard, a man on a phone, her hands ripping a picture, a vase with a plant inside, a vase with a dead plant inside, a disco ball and a TV. The outside of the box is brown cardboard, but the inside of the box differs each time from pink, blue, red or green. The video was uploaded onto YouTube in January (the first version of the video is not available in the UK). On 6 February 2009 behind-the-scenes footage of the video shoot was released onto YouTube.

Track listing
These are the track listings for the single and EP:

Single:
"Leave!"

EP (1)
"Leave!" (Radio Edit)
"Leave!" (Little Boots Mix)
"Leave!" (Style of Eye Vocal Mix)
"Leave!" (Style of Eye Mix)
"Leave!" (Drumsound & Simon Bassline Dub Mix)
"Leave!" (Drumsound & Simon Bassline Vocal Mix)

EP (2)
"Leave!"
This Charming Man
VV Brown reads an extract from Marian Keyes best selling novel "This Charming Man"

Live performances
Campsite Sessions (Travelling Like The Light/Leave!)
BBC's Sound/Switch (Leave!/interview)
The Album Chart Show

References

2009 singles
V V Brown songs
Songs written by V V Brown
2009 songs
Island Records singles


New Malaysian Essays is an annual Malaysian non-fiction book series by Matahari Books. It showcases previously unpublished essays on a variety of styles, from polemic to ode to memoir. Each book is mainly in English but will contain at least one essay in Malay.

Vol 1

Vol 1 ()  was launched in February 2008 in Kuala Lumpur. edited by Amir Muhammad and featured six writers. They are, in order of appearance in the book:
 Brian Yap's The Trouble with Malaysia, an election-era critique.
 Aminuddin Mahmud's Branding -Mamak Style, business tips from popular eateries.
 Burhan Baki's Yes We Must Move On: Theoretical Notes on Various Things Malaysian, a post-structuralist reading of local icons and conduct.
 Saharil Hasrin Sanin's Teroris Bahasa (in Malay)  about the evolution and political neglect of language.
 Amir Muhammad's Unwelcome Words, a mini-dictionary of words not found in the official lexicon.
 Sonia Randhawa's A Manifesto for Independence: Fifty Years to Merdeka?, a prescription for the future that is inspired by anarchism.
The cover features a detail from a painting by Ahmad Fuad Osman.
A book trailer was posted on YouTube in conjunction with the launch, with the sound of firecrackers inspired by the launch-date's proximity to Chinese New Year.
It was listed as one of the 10 bestsellers for local English non-fiction for 2008 in Malaysia.

Vol 2

Vol 2 () features ten writers and was edited by Amir Muhammad.

 Shanon Shah's The Khutbah Diaries, about political Islam
 Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi's The Architecture of Putrajaya, about the administrative capital
 Ridhwan Saidi's Hari-Hari Terakhir Seorang Flâneur (in Malay), partly a manifesto about urban spaces
 Danny Lim's Aku, Hang & Demo, a pictorial record of street demonstrations
 Amir Muhammad's Of Jackfruit and Kings, about the monarchy
 Ann Lee's The Theme Park of Pulau Jerejak, about leprosy
 Amir Sharipuddin's Blue, Black & White: How I Survived National Service, a journal
 Yusuf Martin's Colourful Language, a critique of American influence in culture
 Andrew Ng's A Cultural History of Pontianak Films, a survey of this horror film subgenre
 Jac sm Kee's Boundary Monsters in a Time of Magic, a feminist reading of ghosts and new technology.

The cover features a detail from a digital artwork by Yee I-Lann. The launch date of 4 July 2009 was a jokey reference to the essay by Yusuf Martin.

Vol 3

Vol 3 () features five writers and was edited by Yin Shao Loong. In a departure from the norm, it was released purely as a free e-book on 16 September 2010

Notes

Malaysian books
Matahari Books books
Malaysian non-fiction books


David Brophy (born 24 March 1972) is an Irish conductor.

Biography
David Brophy was born in Dublin. He studied in Ireland – gaining a Bachelor of Music (Performance) degree from Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Institute of Technology College of Music in 1995 – as well as in England and Holland. During 1997–2001 he took private conducting lessons with Gerhard Markson. He has conducted the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, the Dublin Orchestral Players, and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, before being appointed Principal Conductor of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (RTÉCO). His career, while primarily based in Ireland, has brought him to many parts of Europe, Africa, America and Canada. While conducting the RTÉ NSO, he performed in front of over 80,000 people at the opening ceremony of The Special Olympics World Games in 2003. The event, televised worldwide, included performances with U2 and the largest Riverdance troupe ever assembled. Radio broadcasts have been carried on RTÉ, BBC, CBC Television (Canada) and EBU to listeners across Europe, while his recordings have been released on Silva Screen and Tara Records labels. His TV appearances include The National Concert Hall's 25th anniversary gala concert entitled Ireland's Finest. As Principal Conductor of the RTÉCO Brophy conducted the orchestra in front of Queen Elizabeth II at The Convention Centre Dublin on her state visit to Ireland in May 2011.

Brophy has directed premieres of works by leading contemporary Irish composers including Frank Corcoran, Raymond Deane, Benjamin Dwyer, David Fennessy, and Ian Wilson. he also gave the first Irish performances of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians and the Irish premiere of André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire.

Brophy gave the World Premier of double Grammy-winning Argentinian Composer Claudia Montero's piano concerto "Concierto en Blanco y Negro" at the Galway International Arts Festival and the National Concert Hall, Dublin in July 2017.

Film credits include Shaun Davey's score for The Abduction Club. He also presented a reality TV show on RTÉ One entitled "Instrumental", charting the attempts of celebrities to learn to play musical instruments.

See also
 RTÉ Performing Groups

References

1972 births
Living people
RTÉ Performing Groups
21st-century Irish conductors (music)
People educated at St Aidan's C.B.S.
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Musicians from County Dublin


Breslauer SC was a German association football club from the city of Breslau, Lower Silesia (today Wroclaw, Poland). The club enjoyed its greatest successes in the late 1920s.

History
The team was established in 1908 and soon became part of the top flight regional Südostdeutscher Fußballverband (SOFV, en:Southeast German Football Association). SC first came to note when they finished second in 1925 and moved on to the national playoffs. They beat VfB Leipzig 2–1 in a round of 16 match before going out in the quarter-finals 1–4 to eventual German champions 1. FC Nürnberg.

Breslau claimed its first Südostdeutsche championship in 1926 by defeating Viktoria Forst 3–1 in the league final. The club advanced to the national quarter-finals where they were once more put out by the side that would claim the national crown when they were beaten 0–4 by SpVgg Fürth. A second Südostdeutsche championship two seasons later in 1928 was followed by an early exit from national level play after a 2–3 round of 16 loss to VfB Königsberg.

SC enjoyed its best run on the national stage in 1929. They avenged themselves on Königsberg (1–2) before beating Bayern Munich 4–3 to move on to a semi-final confrontation with SpVgg Fürth. For a third time the Breslauer side was put out of contention for the German title by the club that would eventually emerge as national champions when they lost to Fürth by a score of 1–6.

Breslau continued to field competitive sides into the early 1930s but made only one more national level appearance in 1932 that had the side go out early to Holstein Kiel (1–4). In 1933, the club merged with Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde to form Breslauer SpVg 02 which went on to play in the newly established first division Gauliga Schlesien through to the end of the 1943–44 season.

Honours
 South Eastern German champions: 1926, 1928

Notes

References
 Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables

Defunct football clubs in Germany
Association football clubs established in 1908
Association football clubs disestablished in 1933
Defunct football clubs in former German territories
Football clubs in Wrocław
History of Wrocław
1908 establishments in Germany
1933 disestablishments in Germany


The following is a list of dock applications.

Application launchers
dock applications


Ista may refer to:
 Ernest Ista (1877–unknown), Belgian sports shooter, competitor at the 1908 Summer Olympics
 Kevyn Ista (born 1984), Belgian road bicycle racer
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 International School of Traditional Aikido an Aikido organisation founded in France.
 International Seed Testing Association, an international non-profit seed testing organization


Tung Chung West () is the proposed MTR terminus station of the , west of Tung Chung, Lantau Island, New Territories, Hong Kong, which would follow on from Tung Chung station. When Yat Tung Estate (Trad. Chinese: 逸東邨) in Tung Chung West was constructed, the MTR Corporation and the Hong Kong SAR Government reserved a site to build the station. It will replace  as the westernmost railway station in Hong Kong when it opens in 2029.

The station is planned to be located to the west of Yat Tung Estate.

History
On 18 February 2009, the government replied to the Legislative Council that a decision or timetable for the construction of Tung Chung West Station was not available for the time being.

In 2013, Tung Chung West Extension was mentioned in the review and update of the Railway Development Strategy 2000, after the government launched the "Tung Chung New Town Extension Study" in 2012 to further expand and develop Tung Chung New Town. The updated strategy, released in September 2014 as the Railway Development Strategy 2014 (RDS-2014), confirms that planning is indeed underway to build the Tung Chung West extension, and that the projected cost is $6 billion. An "implementation window" of 2020 to 2024 was noted.

The New Lantao Bus company, which currently operates a circular bus route between Yat Tung Estate and Tung Chung station, petitioned the Legislative Council against construction of the new station.

The construction of the station was approved and gazetted on the 10th of January, 2023, with construction beginning in 2023 and finishing in 2029.

Design
The station will be underground, with two ventilation facilities built next to it. Two exits will also be built for the residents of Yat Tung Estate.

See also
 Tung Chung East station

References

Tung Chung
Proposed railway stations in Hong Kong
MTR stations in the New Territories