I Wanna Be with You (album)

I Wanna Be with You is the second studio album from pop singer Mandy Moore. It was released in May 2000 through Epic Records, six months after her debut album, So Real.

I Wanna Be with You contains five new songs, as well as six songs from So Real, two of which appear in remixed form, "So Real" and "Candy" (the former also appears here in its original album version). The album also includes a remix of the title track and only single I Wanna Be with You. The album version of the song was a moderate commercial success, peaking at number twenty-one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and was certified gold, Moore's highest peak to date. Epic re-released the single "Walk Me Home" - which had originally appeared on So Real - but it again failed to make an impact on the charts. The album has sold over 805,000 copies in the United States.

I Wanna Be with You was the international version of Moore's debut album So Real (which was only released in a few countries). This international version includes every new track included on the U.S. release and in some territories features all tracks from So Real rather than only a select few.

Background
Because Moore's debut album So Real was only released in the United States, Epic Records decided to market her to an international audience with a different version including newly recorded material and remixes of several of the previous album's tracks. In April 2000, it was announced that Moore's second studio album would be titled I Wanna Be with You.  I Wanna Be with You maintains the same genres of the last album: teen pop, dance-pop and bubblegum pop. Marketed as a new studio album rather than a reissue or compilation in the U.S., the artwork includes a "Special Edition" subtitle on versions released in the U.S.

Composition

The album contained four new songs along with remixes of "So Real" and "I Wanna Be with You." Of the six songs from her previous album So Real, one is a remix replacing the song. The opening track, "I Wanna Be with You," is a string-heavy pop song with slight R&B influenced beats. The song is written in the key of E major and is set in the time signature of common time. It is moderately paced with a tempo of 76 beats per minute. The song also follows the sequence of Emaj7–A–E7–Amaj7 as its chord progression. Moore's vocals in the song spans from the note of A3 to D5. The version used in the film Center Stage has more poppy beats. "Everything My Heart Desires" is a dance-pop song, the song was written by K. Dahlgaard, M. Jay and J. Pederson. "Want You Back" is a romantic teen pop song that draws influences from bubblegum pop, with a length of three minutes and eighteen seconds. The song is composed in the key of B major and is set in time signature of common time with a moderately slow tempo of 96 beats per minute. "The Way to My Heart" was produced by Peter Mansson. The song is a teen pop and dance-pop song that lasts for three minutes with thirty-nine seconds, is composed in the key of D major and is set in time signature of common time, with a moderately slow tempo of 88 beats per minute. "So Real" (Wade Robson remix), is a remix version of "So Real" was also the third single released from the record overall, the second in Australia. In its lyrics, Moore sings that what she feels about a guy is "so, so real". The song was written by Tony Battaglia, Shaun Fisher and produced by The Wasabees. "Lock Me in Your Heart" is a mid-tempo track where Moore asks her boy to "lock me in your heart and throw away the key".

"Walk Me Home" is a ballad in which Mandy daydreams about her lover and she asks him if he "would walk with [her] home." The song was compared with some Janet Jackson's ballads. The next song, "I Like It," co-written by Backstreet Boys member Howie Dorough, is related to when one likes everything a person does and it feels right. "Candy" talks about her feelings, saying that she misses and craves her love "like candy". The melody and tune of the song has a marked resemblance to the 1996 song "Do You Know (What It Takes)", which was written and composed by Max Martin and Denniz Pop and recorded, written and released by Swedish pop star Robyn. Actor John Goodman also appears on the track, playing the chimes. "Your Face" is a teen pop ballad that lasts for three minutes and seventeen seconds. The song is composed in the key of E major and is set in the time signature of common time with a tempo of 76 beats per minute.

Critical reception

Reviews among music critics were generally mixed. A favorable review would point out that only the best were taken from the previous album; if there were five good songs, that's what would've been rescued from the previous album; instead we get six. Also, there is no 'filler'; all the new songs mostly keep up with or surpass those select songs, like doubling the number of songs selected from two albums. This way, we don't have to put up with an album like the previous album; it's been replaced by one twice as good.  Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic stated, "So, the album that you planned to be a teen pop blockbuster to rival BMG's massive success with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera flops with nary a trace. What do you do? Well, if you're 550/Epic, faced with the flailing Mandy Moore debut, you shuffle the order of the songs, remix a couple of tracks, and shoot a new, sexy glamour shot of your underage diva so she looks shockingly like Britney. A crass marketing move, to be sure, but hey, tough times call for drastic measures like that. The thing is, the revamped, puzzlingly titled I Wanna Be with You [Special Edition] (thereby giving the impression that this is an extended EP release or that there's a "regular" edition of I Wanna Be with You, which there's not) works a lot better than its predecessor. Why? Because it's trashier, flashier, gaudier, and altogether more disposable: all essential ingredients for a good teen pop album, since it should be something that is of the moment, not designed for the ages. I Wanna Be with You is definitely, almost defiantly of the moment, and while there's more than its fair share of filler (let's face it, there was a reason why the album needed to be reworked), that filler glitters here where it was simply dull on the predecessor. And, most of all, it's pretty fun, whether it's on ballads or dance numbers. Moore still isn't as good as Britney or Christina, since she just doesn't have a comparable persona or material, but with this she vaults above Jessica Simpson and maybe, just maybe, captures the bronze for female teen pop divas in 2000 (Hoku being disqualified because she is pitched at a younger crowd)."

Commercial performance
I Wanna Be with You debuted at number twenty-one on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling over 60,000 copies in the first week. It was eventually certified gold in the U.S. for shipments of 500,000 copies.

Many versions of this album were produced, although there are two general track listings listed below. The Australian, Japanese, and Asian versions all differ from the standard version, with 16, 17, and 18 tracks respectively.

In Asia, it almost peaked on the Asia Hitlist due to its massive radio airplay. However, sales began to subside when fellow contemporaries Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera released singles at the same time. Regardless, the album became certified 2× Platinum in the Philippines, where Moore also had later success.

The album reached number forty-nine in Japan, selling 15,760 copies. In New Zealand it became her first album to chart, peaking at number six.

Singles
"I Wanna Be with You" was the first and only single released from the album. It spent 16 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, and reached #24 in its ninth week on the chart. The single was more successful in Australia, spending over 25 weeks in the top 100 and reaching number 11 on the ARIA charts. It also hit number 21 in the UK, becoming her second and last single to chart there, as well as her second top forty single. The song's video was directed by Nigel Dick. It gained significant airplay on MTV and the song also features on the soundtrack to the film Center Stage. The video shows a 16-year-old Mandy in a dance studio singing to her love interest, who was played by Sascha Radetsky from the movie.

Other singles
"Candy" was released as Moore's debut single on August 17, 1999. The song received generally favorable critical reviews, most of whom praised its composition. It performed only moderately well on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking just outside the top 40, at #41. It entered the chart on #88 and reached its peak in its eighth week on the chart. Despite this, the song is the most successful single ever recorded by Moore, at least internationally. It received more success abroad, peaking at #6 in the UK and #2 in Australia. The music video, which was directed by Chris Robinson, had a cameo by the girl group PYT and also featured a young Scarlett Johansson briefly.

"Walk Me Home" was released on December 6, 1999 as the second single in the US, but the song failed to chart when it was first released. In 2000, the song was re-released to promote I Wanna Be with You, but it failed to chart on the main chart again, despite peaking at #38 on Billboard Pop 100 chart. "So Real" was released on June 13, 2000 as the final single. The song was released only in selected markets such as Australia, New Zealand, France and Japan as the second single from the album. The song was less successful as her debut single, but peaked within the top 30 in Australia and top 100 in France. It was also recorded in French under the name "C'est si facile".

Track listing

Personnel
Credits for I Wanna Be with You adapted from AllMusic.

 Mandy Moore – primary artist
 Tiffany Arbuckle – composer, vocals (background)
 Alan Armitage – assistant engineer
 Chris Athens – mastering
 Eric Bickel – assistant engineer
 Chris Braide – guitar
 Tony Battaglia – composer
 Dakari – guest artist
 Shaun Fisher – composer
 Jive – guest artist
 Billy Lawrence – guest artist
 T. Moran – composer
 David Rice – composer
 Mark Stevens – composer
 Alice Butts – design
 Tom Coyne – mastering
 Rich D – composer
 Richard Dodd – cello
 Fraser T. Smith – guitar
 Terry Glenny – violin
 Eric Gorfain – string arrangements, violin
 Kenny Greenberg – guitar (electric)
 David Guerrero – assistant engineer
 Bobby Guy – producer
 Roland Hartwell – violin
 José Juan Sánchez – assistant
 Shaun Shankel – digital editing, editing, production coordination
 Dan Shea – keyboards, producer, programming
 Roger Sommers – engineer, mixing

 Manelich Sotolong – assistant engineer
 Soul Solution – producer
 Mark Stevens – composer
 Tom Tally – viola
 K Thomas – composer
 Keith Thomas – arranger, bass, drum programming, guitar (acoustic), producer, programming, pynthesizer, synthesizer programming
 Nick Trevisick – producer, programming
 Marcy Vaj – violin
 Bill Whittington – engineer, mixing
 Robb Williams – engineer
 John Yoakum – flute, oboe
 Dan Muckala – programming
 David Palmer – drums
 Marvin Peart – A&R
 Shelly Peiken – composer
 Julian Peploe – art direction
 David Rice – composer
 Denise Rich – composer
 Wade Robson – producer, remix producer
 Corey Rooney – keyboards, mixing, producer, programming
 Ken Ross – executive producer
 Jose Sanchez – programming

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Ferdinand Oswald

Ferdinand Oswald (born 5 October 1990) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for WSG Wattens.

Career

Oswald joined Bayern Munich in 2004, and was promoted to the reserve team five years later. He made his debut in a 3. Liga match against Werder Bremen II in November 2009. His third appearance for the team was as an outfield player – for the second game of the 2010–11 season, Bayern II had a player shortage, and Oswald was one of only two players on the substitutes bench. The other sub, Thomas Kurz had already come on when striker Saër Sène suffered an injury, so Oswald came on and played the remainder of the game in midfield. The match, against Wacker Burghausen, ended in a 1–1 draw. He was released by Bayern at the end of the 2010–11 season and signed for Austrian side WSG Wattens. A year later he returned to Germany to sign for FC Schalke 04 II. Oswald returned to WSG Wattens in 2014.

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Blake Stein

William Blake Stein (born August 3, 1973) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals from -.

On June 2, 1994, he was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 6th round of the 1994 amateur draft. On July 31, , he was traded by the Cardinals with Eric Ludwick and T. J. Mathews to the Oakland Athletics for Mark McGwire. On July 31, , he was traded by the Athletics with Jeff D'Amico and Brad Rigby to the Kansas City Royals for Kevin Appier. On June 17, , Stein fanned eight straight Brewers for the Royals, and 11 in five 2/3 innings, but Milwaukee defeated Kansas City, 5-2. Only Nolan Ryan (twice), Ron Davis, and Roger Clemens had struck out eight in a row in the American League. Tigers pitcher Doug Fister would break this record on September 27, , striking out nine Royals, but receiving a no-decision in a 5-4 Detroit victory.

When starting for the Athletics against the Cleveland Indians on 31 August 1998, Stein was unable to get out any of the first eight Indian batters out - the inning started walk-hit batsman-walk-single-single-walk-single-single, giving the Indians a 6-0 lead. Stein was pulled from the game by manager Art Howe, and became the first starting pitcher in Major League history to fail to get out any of the first eight batters of the game.

After retiring from baseball, Stein attended Spring Hill College and graduated in 2005. He is now Assistant Principal for Discipline and Attendance at McGill-Toolen Catholic High School.

See also
 List of Major League Baseball single-inning strikeout leaders

References

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Dragon Ball Z Complete Song Collection 4: Promise of Eternity

is the final instalment of a four volume three disc Dragon Ball Z Complete Song Collection CD soundtrack set from the anime Dragon Ball Z. It was released by Columbia Records on April 23, 2003 in Japan only.

Album Information
This set spans hits 16-18½ of the Hit Song Collection series and includes vocal tracks from the soundtracks to the PlayStation video games and the bonus tracks up till now were only available on the 8mm CD singles of the closing theme to DBZ movies 10-13, plus three Dragon Ball Z related songs from Akira Toriyama: The World making this volume quite sought after by many collectors.

Track listing

Disc One
 WE GOTTA POWER
 Hey you, crasher
 Jumpin’Jump!!
 時よ止まれ~MY NAME IS FATHER~Toki Yo Tomare~MY NAME IS FATHER~/Stop, Time!: My Name is Father
 僕は魔法使いBoku wa Mahôtsukai/I’m a Magician
 FIGHT OH FIGHTING ROAD
 ケ・セラKe Sera/Que Será (What Will Be)
 あとはSilence...Ato wa Silence.../Afterward, There’s Silence...
 力を超えてChikara o Koete/Surpass Your Power
 ジャンジャカMy WayJanjaka My Way/Bring it On My Way
 THIS IS LIFE!
 Good-Bye Mr. Loneliness~光の彼方へ~Good-Bye Mr. Loneliness~Hikari no Kanata e~/Goodbye, Mr. Loneliness: to the Other Side of the Light
 魔人ブウに捧げるバラッドMajin Buu ni Sasageru BaraddoA Ballad Dedicated to Majin Boo
 世紀末万歳!Seiki-Matsu Banzai!/Hooray For the End of the Century!
 HIPPY HOPPY SHAKE!!
 OSSAN’S DILEMMA
 さらば涙よSaraba Namida Yo/Goodbye, Tears!

Disc Two
 昨日の夢,今日の光-サイレントナイト・モーニングムーン-Kinô no Yume, Kyô no Hikari—Sairento Naito - Môningu Mūn--/Yesterday’s Dreams, Today’s Light: Silent Night, Morning Moon
 100億のフレンズ100-Oku no Furenzu10,000,000,000 Friends
 魔人ブウの悲劇Majin Buu no HigekiTragedy of Majin Boo
 メモリーズ-奴のいない夜-Memorīzu—Yatsu no Inai Yoru--/Memories: An Evening Without Him
 perfum N゜18~魔性の香り~perfum No 18 ~Mashô no Kaori~/Perfume No. 18: Diabolical Fragrance
 瞳の中の地球Hitomi no Naka no Chikyū/An Earth Within Your Eyes
 Growin’Up いつかまた逢える日まで...Growin’ Up Itsuka Mata Aeru Hi Made/Growin’ Up: Until the Day We Can Meet Again
 僕達は天使だったBoku-tachi wa Tenshi Datta/We Use to be Angels
 プラス・アルファ(+α)Purasu Arufa (+α)/Plus Alpha
 ここにおいでよKoko ni Oide YoCome On Over Here!
 自然の合図Shizen no AizuSigns of Nature
 まるごとMarugotoThe Whole World
 BATTLE SPECTACLE MEDLEY

Disc Three
 奇蹟のビッグ・ファイトKiseki no Biggu Faito/Big Fight of Miracals
 ドラゴンボールの伝説Doragonbōru no Densetsu/Dragon Ball of Legend
 ドラゴンパワー∞(むげんだい)Doragon Pawā ∞ (Mugendai)/Dragon Power ∞ (Infinity)
 小さな戦士(悟天とトランクスのテーマ)Chīsa na Senshi (Goten to Torankusu no Tēma)/The Young Warriors (Theme of Goten and Trunks)
 最強のフュージョンSaikyô no Fyūjon/Mightiest of Fusion
 愛はバラードのように(ベジータのテーマ)Ai wa Barādo no Yô ni (Bejīta no Tēma)/Love is Like a Ballad (Theme of Vegeta)
 俺がやらなきゃ誰がやるOre ga Yaranakya Dare ga Yaru/If I Don’t Do It, Who Will?
 勇者の笛(タピオンのテーマ)Yūsha no Fue (Tapion no Tēma)/Ocarina of The Brave Man (Theme of Tapion)
 永遠の約束(デュエット・ヴァージョン)Eien no Yakusoku (Dyuetto Vājon)/Promise of Eternity: (Duet Version) 光のWILLPOWER(ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)Hikari no WILL POWER(Vōkaru Vājon)/Light of Willpower (Vocal Version) 涙みたいな雨が降るNamida-Mitai na Ame ga Furu/The Rain That's Falling Looks Like Tears 灼熱のファイティング(ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)Endingu Tēma~Shakunetsu no Faitingu(Vōkaru Vājon)Ending Theme: Red-Hot Fighting (Vocal Version) まひるの闇(ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)Mahiru no Yami(Vōkaru Vājon)/Darkness of Midday (Vocal Version) SIGN~兆~(ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)SIGN ~Chô~(Vōkaru Vājon)/Sign: An Omen (Vocal Version) FIRE OF BLACK~黒い炎~(ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)FIRE OF BLACK~Kuroi Honō~(Vōkaru Vājon)/Fire of Black: Black Flame (Vocal Version) NEVER ENDING, NEVER GIVE UP(ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)NEVER ENDING, NEVER GIVE UP (Vōkaru Vājon)/NEVER ENDING, NEVER GIVE UP (Vocal Version) 君の空へKimi no Sora e/To Your SkyMedley Content
2. BATTLE SPECTACLE MEDLEY:
 MIND POWER-気-
 MIND POWER...Ki.../Mind Power...Energy... WARNING OF DANGER-警告-
 WARNING OF DANGER...Keikoku.../Warning of Danger...Warning... 挑戦状
 Chôsenjô/Challenge 運命の日-魂VS魂-
 Unmei no Hi ~Tamashii VS Tamashii~/Day of Destiny: Spirit vs. Spirit''

Song Credits

Disc One
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Tom
 Mariko Takase
 Goji Tsuno
 Rei
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Tom
 Mariko Takase
 Rei
 Sachi Hanaoka
 Mikio Katsumata
 Mikio Katsumata
 Tom
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Mayumi Tanaka as Kuririn
 Mikio Katsumata
 Hironobu Kageyama

Disc Two
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Masako Iwanaga
 Shin’ichi Ishihara
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Kuko
 Kuko
 Hironobu Kageyama & Team DBZ
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Hironobu Kageyama & Ammy
 Shin’ichi Ishihara
 Kuko
 Hironobu Kageyama & Ammy
 Hironobu Kageyama, Yuka, & Shin’ichi Ishihara

Disc Three
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Shin Oya
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Shin Oya
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Shin Oya
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Shin Oya
 Hironobu Kageyama & Kuko
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Kuko
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Shin’ichi Ishihara
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Shin’ichi Ishihara
 Hironobu Kageyama
 Hironobu Kageyama, Shin’ichi Ishihara, Kuko & Friends

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Adrian Bălan

Adrian Bălan (born 14 March 1990) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for FC Hermannstadt.

Club career

In February 2014, Bălan moved to second league club Voluntari, and eventually helped them gain promotion to the first league. In the 2015–16 season, Bălan made his Liga I debut while playing for them.

On 27 June 2019, Bălan moved to Liga I club Politehnica Iași, after agreeing to sign a one year contract with them.

On 15 January 2020, Bălan signed a contract with Romanian club Hermannstadt.

Honours

Team
Voluntari
Romanian Cup: 2016–17
Romanian Supercup: 2017

References

External links

 Adrian Bălan at Statisticsfootball.com

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Sam Ewing

Samuel James Ewing (born 9 April 1949) is a former baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays. He batted left and threw right.

Career
Ewing attended the University of Tennessee, where he was an All-American. Ewing had a collegiate batting average of .412, hitting a high of .464 in his junior year. In 1970, Ewing was chosen to represent the US in the World Amateur games in Columbia. The USA was beaten in extra games by Cuba. Ewing played left field in most games and was one on 7 players on that team playing in the major leagues. Ewing was drafted in the first round by the Montreal Expos (1969) and Chicago White Sox.

In Ewing's first major league game, he was struck out four straight times by Nolan Ryan, who struck out 17 with the California Angels.  He played for the Chicago White Sox in 1973 and 1976, and was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1976 Major League Baseball expansion draft.  For the Jays in 1977 he hit .287 in 97 games as an outfielder, DH and first baseman.

Throughout his major league career, Ewing was used primarily against right-handed pitchers, gaining only 20 at bats in his entire ML career against southpaws.  He hit left-handed pitchers with a .300 career average—and a 2-run homer in his only plate appearance against a lefty in the 1978 season.

Ewing was used almost exclusively as a pinch hitter in 1978, with only seven starts as a DH and two as a right fielder.  His final American League game was on October 1, 1978. Afterward he went to play in for the Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan, where he batted .287.

Returning from Japan, Ewing joined his former AAA team and, after the firing of his manager, he accepted the managing job offered by longtime owner Ray Johnstone. The following year he managed the Appleton Foxes (Midwest League) to a fourth-place finish. He was released by management the following year.

His educational background includes graduating from John Overton Comprehensive High School in 1966, a bachelor's degree from University of Tennessee. He got his master's degree in Exercise Physiology and worked on his doctorate in Sports Psychology and physiology at Michigan State University.

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Lychee Mini Fruity Gels

Lychee Mini Fruity Gels are a type of sweet or candy made with konjac, a gummy binding agent made from the tubers of the konnyaku root.  The product is made by AP Frozen Foods Ltd, Thailand.

Deaths and injury
Lychee Mini Fruity Gels have been implicated in a number of deaths and choking injuries in the US and Pacific Rim countries.  While choking on candy and other foodstuffs is not uncommon, the gel nature means that these candies totally block the airway and the konnyaku gel is "ten times stronger" than gelatin.  Research shows that "hard, round foods with high elasticity or lubricity properties, or both, pose a significant level of risk," especially to children under three years old.  The candies can resist attempts to dislodge with the Heimlich manoeuvre.

Legal status
Lychee Mini Fruit Gels have been banned due to choking hazards in the US (by the FDA) and the European Union.

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Didier Ernst

Didier Ernst (born 15 September 1971) is a former Belgian football player who played as a defender.

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Ali Nejad

Oliver "Ali" Nejad (born February 25, 1978) is an Iranian-American television personality, who has hosted several shows including "Road Trip" on ESPNU, and has served as a fill-in host for "UNite," also on ESPNU. In May 2014 Ali began working at HLN and hosted the network's programs The Daily Share .  He also executive produced and hosted his own award nominated show  The Social Life.

Though he has worked on-air since age 17 on a variety of projects, he is also known for his work as a poker commentator. Nejad served as the off-screen announcer on NBC's Poker After Dark and the color commentator on NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship. He has also served as a correspondent for ESPN.com's World Series of Poker coverage, commentator for ESPN's Pro-Am Poker Equalizer series, co-commentator with Chad Brown on the Ultimate Poker Challenge series, and alongside Daniel Negreanu on the PCA 2009 series.  In 2014 Ali hosted Alpha 8 for WPT.

Nejad has made 3 appearances as a player on commentators week on Poker After Dark. In his first appearance, he finished 6th after Gabe Kaplan flopped a set of 10's to his set of 4's. In the 2nd, he finished 2nd to winner Mark Gregorich; and in the 3rd appearance he finished 5th, again being knocked out by Kaplan. He is a former "friend of Full Tilt Poker" and former co-host of the Poker Road Radio podcast on pokerroad.com.

Biography
During  high school in Albany, CA through to college at UC Berkeley, Nejad hosted and reported for "First Cut," a local NBC affiliate show in the San Francisco bay area, where he began his television career. Having been a recreational poker player for years, Nejad dropped out of Berkeley in 1998 to pursue playing poker full-time. He worked as a dealer and prop player before eventually becoming a successful high limit cash game player. After 4 years playing poker, he returned to television in 2002, hosting an MTV pilot about video games that despite not get picked up for a full season, marked his return to TV.

In 2003, aboard the PartyPoker Million cruise, he met Mori Eskandani, then the Tournament Director of FSN's Poker Superstars, and future producer of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship and Poker After Dark.  Eskandani hired Nejad as the Master of Ceremonies for the Poker Superstars event in 2004, which marked the beginning of a long working relationship in televised poker.

On the February 7, 2008 episode of Poker Road Radio, Joe Sebok announced that Ali would be the new host of the Poker Road Radio podcast. His tenure began on February 26, 2008 at the WPT Commerce event, and ended right before the start of the 2009 WSOP.

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I Can't Give Everything Away

"I Can't Give Everything Away" is a song by English musician David Bowie. It is the seventh and final track on his twenty-fifth studio album, Blackstar (2016), and was released  posthumously as the album's third and final single on 6 April 2016. The track was written by David Bowie and was produced by both he and Tony Visconti.

Prior to issue as a posthumous single, "I Can't Give Everything Away" peaked at number 45 on the Swiss Hitparade chart; number 141 on the UK Singles Chart; and number 142 on the French Singles Chart.

The song contains a similar harmonica part to that of "A New Career in a New Town", an instrumental from Bowie's 1977 album Low.

Critical reception
"I Can't Give Everything Away" received positive reviews from critics. Sam Richards of NME called the song "a serene, lilting number", while Ben Skipper of the IB Times labelled it as a "beautiful and moving farewell". Neil McCormick of The Telegraph called the song an "epic closing track", commenting that "Bowie sounds like he is grappling with his own mystery: 'Seeing more and feeling less / Saying no but meaning yes / This is all I ever meant / That's the message that I sent.'"

The American online magazine Pitchfork listed "I Can't Give Everything Away" at number 23 on their ranking of the 100 best songs to be released in 2016.

Music video
On 6 April 2016 an animated lyric video was released, created by Jonathan Barnbrook, who also designed the album's artwork. He explained his motives behind the video as follows:

“This is really a very simple little video that I wanted to be ultimately positive,” Barnbrook says. “We start off in the black and white world of Blackstar, but in the final chorus we move to brilliant colour, I saw it as a celebration of David, to say that despite the adversity we face, the difficult things that happen such as David’s passing, that human beings are naturally positive, they look forward and can take the good from the past and use it as something to help with the present. We are a naturally optimistic species and we celebrate the good that we are given.”

"I Can't Give Everything Away" impacted radio worldwide and was playlisted at BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music, Absolute and Radio X in the UK.

Farewell Mix
A reworked version of the song, known as "I Can't Give Everything Away (Farewell Mix)", was performed by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, with whom Bowie had collaborated and toured on occasions, during their I Can't Seem To Wake Up tour. Singer Trent Reznor stated he made the remix as a healing factor to cope with Bowie's death. Reznor had anonymously uploaded a studio version of the remix to SoundCloud several months before performing it live. The studio version features only Bowie's vocals, while performing the song live Reznor sings along with Bowie's vocals.

Charts

References

External links

 David Bowie official website

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Anadara kagoshimensis

Anadara kagoshimensis is an ark clam in the family Arcidae. It can be found in shallow water in temperate parts of the west Pacific Ocean and is cultivated in China, Japan, and Korea for human consumption. It is known as maohan in China and mogai in Japan.

Description
Anadara subcrenata has a white or cream coloured, thick, oval shell and superficially resembles a cockle. The left valve is slightly more concave than the right one, and there are 31 to 35 deeply indented ribs. The thin brown periostracum layer that covers the shell flakes off in strands. When harvested for human consumption, the length of Anadara subcrenata is usually in the range .

Distribution and habitat
Anadara subcrenata is found around the coasts of Japan and South Korea, buried in soft sediments in the subtidal zone. It favours mud or muddy sand. Some authorities maintain that the larvae, known as spats, need some hard materials such as stones and shells on which to attach themselves by their byssal threads. Other authorities  claim that the larvae do not need hard substrates on which to settle. Anadara subcrenata is tolerant of low salinities and favours waters in the range 29–32 ppt. While the larvae are planktonic, they have a preference for even lower salinities of between 24.6 and 30 ppt and tend to congregate in estuarine waters with this degree of salinity. The clam thrives in waters varying in temperature between 5 °C and 28 °C. It also tolerates the low dissolved oxygen levels of tidal waters sweeping in over mud flats. It may be aided in this by the haemoglobin and erythrocytes found in its blood.

Biology
Anadara subcrenata becomes mature at a length of about . Individual clams are either male or female and spawning takes place between June and September. Fertilisation is external and the larvae form part of the zooplankton, drifting with the currents.

Anadara species do not have long siphons but normally lie in the sediment with their posterior end level with the surface or in a slight depression in the mud. The feeding habits of Anadara subcrenata have not been researched but are likely to be similar to those of the closely related Anadara granosa. That clam is thought to filter particles out of the water with its gills but also to feed on detritus and microorganisms in the sediment. This ability to live and feed in muddy substrates enables members of the genus Anadara to exploit a niche habitat that other bivalves tend to avoid. Predators that feed on Anadara subcrenata include the mallard, (Anas platyrhynchos), the tufted duck (Aythya fuligula), blue crabs (Portunus pelagicus), predatory snails and the common octopus. The newly settled larvae are preyed upon by the Japanese sea bass (Lateolabrax japonicus), eels and other fish as well as starfish, drills and blue crabs.

Aquaculture
Anadara subcrenata is a fast-growing species, attaining a length of about  in one year and  in two. It is cultured in shallow areas of water in South Korea  and in Japan. The main spat collection centre in Japan is a very shallow lagoon with a muddy bottom, Nakanoume, in Shimane Prefecture. Specially designed, long collecting devices are made of wire and palm fibre and the spat settles on these over an attachment period of 3 to 4 days. The collectors, each of which may have nearly 100,000 spats settled on it, are transported to nursery beds where they are laid on bamboo poles. Here the spats continue to grow, relatively free from seabed predators. The large number of spats that fall off during transport are seeded on the substrate at the rate of 15,000 to 30,000 per square metre. Predation and other causes of mortality reduce these to 5,500 to 6,000 per square metre in 6 months. When the juveniles have grown to about  long they are moved to beds reserved for adults, from whence they are harvested a year later.

Consumption
The clam, known as maohan () in Chinese, is considered a delicacy in China, especially the Shanghai region, where it is commonly eaten nearly raw after being boiled for a very short time. In 1988, an outbreak of hepatitis A in Shanghai was associated with the consumption of inadequately cooked Anadara subcrenata. 290,000 people were affected and there were 9 deaths. The Shanghai municipal government banned the sale of the clams after the outbreak.

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Jennifer Eliogu

Jennifer Eliogu  (born April 30 1976) is a Nigerian actress and singer mainly notable for being an actress.  In 2016, Eliogu received the Special Recognition Award at the City People Entertainment Awards for her contributions to the Nigerian movie industry. Eliogu, In 2014 for her role in empowering women, was presented the Award For Excellence at the African Women Leadership Conference which took place in the  United Ststes of America.

Early life and education
Eliogu is from  Idemili in Anambra State, a southeastern  geographical area of Nigeria but was raised in Lagos state, which is southwest Nigeria. Eliogu obtained a diploma from the University of Jos and obtained her B.Sc. degree from Lagos State University.

Career
Eliogu in 1997 officially debuted into the Nigerian movie industry with the movie titled House On Fire. Eliogu briefly exited the Nigerian movie industry and delved into music professionally in 2012 and released her first music project titled Ifunanya which was nominated for an award in that same year for Best R&B Video at the Nigeria Music Video Awards (NMVA).

Awards and nominations

Acting Career
Eliogu was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the City People Entertainment Awards In 2016.

Music career
Eliogu’s music project titled Ifunanya was nominated for Best R&B Video at the Nigeria Music Video Awards (NMVA)

Personal life
Eliogu is married and has two children.

Selected filmography
A Little White Lie (2017)
A Time To Heal  (2017)
Plane Crash  (2008)
Sisters Love  (2008)
Risky Affair (2004)
Faces Of Beauty (2004)
Love And Pride (2004)
Moment Of Confession (2004)
My Blood (2004)
Schemers : Bad Babes (2004)

References

External links

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1984–85 FC Barcelona season

The 1984–85 season was the 86th season for FC Barcelona.

Squad

La Liga

League table

Results

External links

webdelcule.com

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Haste Hill

Haste Hill is a hill near Haslemere, Surrey in England which was probably the original settlement of the town of Haslemere. It was used as the site of a semaphore station in the nineteenth century.

Haste Hill is south-east of the present town of Haslemere and consists of  of mixed woodland with a pond and has a viewpoint looking  over the Weald to the northeast.  In the 14th century, Haste Hill, also called  East Hill,  was the main settlement at Haslemere  and there may have been a church as there were references on the site to "Churchliten field" and the "Old church-yard" of Haslemere.

An Admiralty Telegraph Station was built on Haste Hill in 1821 on part of some enclosures called Jackman's Fields.  The building was of a bungalow style with the semaphore above the operating room and it was part of the semaphore line from London to Portsmouth from 1822 to 1847.  The Admiralty sold the site in 1849 after the line closed, and the building underwent various additions and alterations. It is now the Whitwell Hatch Hotel.

The admiralty returned to the site during World War II when by the end of May 1941, the Royal Naval Signals School set up its production department at Whitwell Hatch Hotel. The site was commissioned as part of  HMS Mercury on 25 August 1941.

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Kristiania Hockeyklub

Kristiania Hockeyklub, usually called just Hockeyklubben ("The Hockey Club"), was founded in 1903 and was the first bandy club in Norway. It was based in Oslo, which at the time was called Kristiania.

The club dominated Norwegian bandy during the first years the sport was played in the country. Hockeyklubben was playing the final of the Norwegian Championship in the first two years a national championship was played in bandy, in 1912 and 1913, however losing to IF Ready on both occasions, the second time on a walkover. The club was discontinued in 1915.

Sources
 K. Vilh. Amundsen, Yngvar Bryn og Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen (1922). Idrætsboken, Bind III Skiløpning, skøiteløpning, ishockey. Kristiania: H. Aschehoug & Co.
 Andersen, Peder Chr. (1927). Norges Fotballforbund gjennem 25 år. Oslo.

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Oak Hill (Calvert City, Kentucky)

Oak Hill, built in 1853, is an historic home located at 26 Aspen Street in Calvert City, Kentucky. It was built by Potilla Calvert, the founder of Calvert City and the man for whom the city was named. On December 31, 1974, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The present appearance of the house was created in 1949 when any Victorian era features were removed or hidden.  A two-story four-column portico with a second floor iron balcony and a Georgian style door frame were then added.

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The Art Ensemble of Rake/The Tell-Tale Moog

The Art Ensemble of Rake/The Tell-Tale Moog is the second studio album by Rake., released in 1995 by VHF Records.

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from The Art Ensemble of Rake/The Tell-Tale Moog liner notes.
Rake.
Jim Ayre – electric guitar, vocals
Bill Kellum – bass guitar
Carl Moller – drums, saxophone

Release history

References

External links
 The Art Ensemble of Rake/The Tell-Tale Moog at Discogs (list of releases)

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Meadowside

Meadowside was a football ground in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was the home ground of Partick Thistle from 1897 until 1908.

History
Partick Thistle moved to Meadowside from Inchview Park (Whiteinch) in 1897, the year they were first promoted to Scottish Football League Division One. The ground was slowly developed and eventually included of a 750-seat grandstand on the northern side of the pitch and a running track around it. On 16 December 1899 the ground was used by Rangers for a home match against St Mirren as their new Ibrox Stadium was not ready.

The ground's probable record attendance of 16,000 was set for a Scottish Cup first round replay against Hibernian on 4 February 1905, with Thistle winning 4–2. Another crowd of 16,000 attended a Glasgow Cup first round match against Celtic on 8 September 1906. The highest league attendance at Meadowside was 11,000 for a 4–1 loss to Rangers on 3 January 1905.

In 1908 the Clyde Navigation Trust, which owned the land, opted to expand the neighbouring shipyard onto the site and Thistle were forced to move out (the Meadowside Granary was soon constructed there, and in the 21st century this was redeveloped again as the Glasgow Harbour apartment complex). Their final league match at the ground was played on 30 April 1908, a 1–1 draw with Hibernian. However, their new Firhill Park ground was not ready and Thistle spent the 1908–09 season and the first few matches of the 1909–10 season playing at other grounds, including Celtic Park, Hampden Park and Ibrox in Glasgow, Rugby Park in Kilmarnock, Shawfield in Rutherglen, Pittodrie in Aberdeen, Clune Park in Port Glasgow, Easter Road in Edinburgh and Cappielow in Greenock. The first match at Firhill was played on 18 September 1909.

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Mark Hill

Mark or Marc Hill may refer to:

 Marc Hill (born 1952), American Major League Baseball catcher
 Marc Lamont Hill (born 1978), American academic, journalist, author, activist and television personality
 Mark Hill (antiques expert) (born 1975), British antiques expert
 Mark Hill (cricketer) (born 1964), Australian cricketer
 Mark Hill (English footballer) (born 1961), English football player (Maidstone United)
 Mark Hill (musician) (born 1972), British recording artist, songwriter and record producer
 Mark Hill (Scottish footballer) (born 1998), Scottish football player (St Mirren)
 Mark Langdon Hill (1772–1842), United States Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine
Mark D. Hill, computer scientist

See also
 Lord Marcus Hill (Marcus Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys, 17981863), British politician
 Hill (surname)


Saint-Didier-sous-Aubenas

Saint-Didier-sous-Aubenas  is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Ardèche department

References
INSEE

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1960–61 Austrian Hockey League season

The 1960–61 Austrian Hockey League season was the 31st season of the Austrian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Austria. Six teams participated in the league, and EV Innsbruck won the championship.

Regular season

External links
Austrian Ice Hockey Association

Auser
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Kevin Kauber

Kevin Kauber (born 23 March 1995) is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Paide Linnameeskond.

Club career
In 2018 he joined Welsh Premier League club The New Saints and left the club in August 2018 to play first-team football in Finland.

International career
Kauber started his international youth career in 2010. He was called up to the senior national team squad for a friendly against Andorra on 1 June 2016, but didn't make an appearance.

Honours

Club
Jelgava
Latvian Cup: 2015–16 1st place
Latvian Higher League: 2016 2nd place

Levadia
Meistriliiga: 2016 2nd place

References

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Kirkhill railway station

Kirkhill railway station is a railway station serving the Kirkhill area of the town of Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is located on the Newton Line.

History

The station was originally opened as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway on 1 August 1904. Kirkhill station was the final station to be opened on the line before it was absorbed into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. From 1948 until 1997, services were operated by the nationalised British Railways who electrified the route in 1962.

The station was provided with a Swiss Chalet style building on the tunnel above the east of the station, which was demolished in the late 1990s.

Services

From 1974
Following the electrification of the West Coast Main Line the basic service was:
 Monday to Saturday
two terminating trains per hour from  via
two trains per hour between  and Newton via Queen's Park
 Sundays
two trains per hour between  and Newton via Queen's Park
 Additional peak hour services were provided to  via both sides of the Hamilton Circle.

From 1979
Following the opening of the Argyle Line in November 1979, services on the Cathcart Circle were reorganised. The basic service was:
 Monday to Saturday
two trains per hour between  and Newton via
two trains per hour between  and Newton via Queen's Park
 Sundays
two trains per hour between  and Newton via Queen's Park

From 2005
 Monday to Sunday
one train per hour between  and Newton via
one train per hour between  and Newton via Queen's Park

References

Notes

Sources

External links

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Clorinda, Formosa

Clorinda is a city in the province of Formosa, Argentina. It is the head town of the Pilcomayo Department, and has 47,240 inhabitants as per the . It is located 115 km north-northeast from the provincial capital Formosa, at the easternmost tip of the province, 4 km from the Paraguayan border, on the right bank of the Pilcomayo River, 10 km before its confluence with the Paraguay River. Opposite Clorinda lies the Paraguayan capital Asunción. The two cities are linked by the San Ignacio de Loyola International Bridge. Clorinda also marks the junction between National Route 11 and National Route 86.

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Local Ad

"Local Ad" is the ninth episode of the fourth season of the American comedy television series The Office, and the show's sixty-second episode overall. The episode was written by B. J. Novak, who also acts in the show as Ryan Howard, and directed by Jason Reitman.  It originally aired in the United States on October 25, 2007 on NBC.

After a video team is brought to the office to create a commercial for the company, Michael decides that the employees of the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin can create a better commercial. While the majority of the staff work on the commercial, Dwight, still depressed from his break-up with Angela, instead chooses to play a computer game.

Plot
When Michael Scott (Steve Carell) learns that the Scranton branch's participation in a Dunder Mifflin television commercial is limited to five seconds of the staff waving at the camera, he dismisses the advertising consultants sent to the branch, and convinces the company's corporate headquarters to consider an alternative version that he will produce himself.

Michael asks Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) to design an animated logo, and she works all night on it. Phyllis Vance's (Phyllis Smith) mission to enlist visiting author Sue Grafton to appear in the ad is unsuccessful. Headed by Darryl Philbin (Craig Robinson), a group of employees write and perform a jingle for the commercial, which Michael ultimately rejects. Andy Bernard (Ed Helms), meanwhile, struggles throughout the day to recall the product name from an advertising jingle that contains the lyrics "Gimme a break. Gimme a break. Break me off a piece of that..."

Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) has largely removed himself to the online virtual world of Second Life. Dwight has created an avatar named Dwight Shelford, also a paper salesman, patterned after his once-perfect real life. He now uses Second Life as an escape from his real-life troubles, even going as far as creating a virtual Second Life, called Second Second Life. Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), on the other hand, has created an avatar named Jim Samtanko, a guitar-playing Philadelphia sportswriter, and enters Second Life in order to spy on Dwight.

Dwight has also reluctantly become Andy's confidante regarding his relationship with Angela Martin (Angela Kinsey), Dwight's former girlfriend. Dwight's spirits are lifted when he learns that, during a makeout session with Andy, Angela cried, "Oh, D!". Though, Andy is oblivious to the fact that Angela was referring to Dwight.

After the corporate headquarters rejects Michael's ad, the office employees gather at Poor Richard's Pub to watch the professionally filmed commercial, which Michael refers to as "the world premiere of corporate crapfest." After the commercial, Jim plays Michael's version of the ad on the bar's television set. Over the theme from Chariots of Fire, as Michael narrates "trite catchphrases", a sheet of paper is depicted making a journey around the world, carrying a variety of messages meaningful to the recipients; as Pam's animated whirling sheets of paper coalesce into the company logo to end the ad, the employees as well as the other patrons of the bar show their approval.

The episode ends with Andy doing an interview, still trying to recall the product name from the jingle. On the basis that it has to rhyme, he incorrectly concludes that it promotes Fancy Feast cat food.

Production
"Local Ad" was the seventh episode of the series written by B. J. Novak, who also acts in the show as Ryan Howard, and the first episode of the series directed by Jason Reitman, who directed the films Juno and Thank You for Smoking. When speaking about his directorial experience with The Office, Reitman stated that "Anyhow, the whole experience was awesome. They’re all geniuses over there. I didn’t have to contribute much at the end of the day because they’re all so on their game."  He also stated that "Weird moment of production design surprise – There's a three ring binder on Creed's desk with the logo from the Academy of Tobacco Studies that we created for [Thank You For] Smoking. I have no idea how it got there and neither does he."  B.J. Novak's brother Jesse, a musician, contributed in writing the song that some of the characters sing in the episode.

The Second Life scenes in "Local Ad" were produced by Clear Ink of Berkeley, CA, using existing locations within Second Life as well as virtual sets created for the episode. In a study made by IAG Research, the appearance of Second Life in "Local Ad" was rated eighth in the top ten most effective product placements of 2007. The Office was the only non-reality show to make the list, and Second Life was the only product on the list that did not pay for its placement. In a deleted scene, Toby has an idea for the ad: film it in slow-motion so that it will stand out when the viewer uses his TiVo or other DVR to speed past it. The staff loves the idea, but Michael hates it and won't consider it, even though Toby reveals he formerly worked in advertising for three years.

Reception
"Local Ad" received a 5.2 Nielsen rating and an 8% Share. The episode was watched by an estimate audience of 8.98 million viewers and achieved a 4.7/11 in the key adults 18–49 demographic.  This means that 4.1 percent of all people aged 18–49 viewed the episode, and eleven percent of all people watching television at the time viewed the episode.

"Local Ad" received generally favorable reviews from critics.  Travis Fickett of IGN gave the episode a favorable review, saying "This episode is a prime example of how The Office is able to do broad comedy while at the same time treating its characters as real people."  Fickett went on to praise the acting of Rainn Wilson as a depressed Dwight, as well as the story's twist.  Fickett stated that "A great twist here is that we think we're watching Michael pilot a sinking ship as usual, but in fact – the ad is quite good. There's some clever stuff in there, albeit some of it not exactly professional in its production, but Michael doesn't do such a bad job."  Like Fickett, Christine Fenno of Entertainment Weekly gave the episode a favorable review.  Fenno said that "The premise of this episode, 'Local Ad' — the Scranton staffers shoot a commercial — was strong, and allowed almost every ensemble member to shine."  Fenno also praised the acting work of Ed Helms as Andy, as well as Steve Carell as Michael.  Oscar Dahl, a Senior Writer for BuddyTV, praised the episode, but also felt that the episode's thirty-minute length created a stark contrast to the previous four episodes' hour-long run, saying "tonight's episode felt short.  Really short."

For his work on this episode, B. J. Novak was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay – Episodic Comedy, but ultimately failed to win, losing to another episode of The Office, "The Job."

References

External links
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Land reform in North Vietnam

Land reform in North Vietnam (Vietnamese: Cải cách ruộng đất tại miền Bắc Việt Nam) can be understood as an agrarian reform in northern Vietnam throughout different periods, but in many cases it only refers to the one within the regime of Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in the 1950s. The reform was one of the most important economic and political programs launched by the Viet Minh government during the years 1953-1956.

Background
The project of land reform in North Vietnam was a product of the interplay of complex internal and external factors. On 9 March 1945, several years after occupation in Indochina, Japan instigated a military coup, overthrew the French administration in Indochina and established a puppet indigenous government headed by Tran Trong Kim. However, five months later, Japan unconditionally surrendered. Taking the political vacuum, Viet Minh seized power by launching a nationwide revolution, and founded the DRV in Hanoi in September 2.

Soon after that, Vietnam saw an influx of foreign power. The Kuomintang Chinese armies accepted the surrender of Japan in Vietnam North of the 16th parallel, with the British in the south. Both of them negotiated and facilitated the French return. After negotiations between the Viet Minh and the French broke down, the war between them started from late 1946 until 1954; this is called the First Indochina war (1946-1954).

In the whole of the 1940s, the Viet Minh fought solely against the French army. In terms of military capability, the Viet Minh was in a position of clear-cut disadvantage; this did not change until the establishment and involvement of the People's Republic of China

During this period of time, the DRV government was dominated by the Viet Minh who were popular among the indigenous political force; its domestic policy was to unite all possible forces for a resistance war. It also embraced peasants, workers, students and some merchants and intellectuals. On 11 November 1945, the ICP declared its dissolution, aiming at downplaying the role of communist ideology by dissolving and forcing the ICP underground in order to garner more support from the masses.

In October 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established the People's Republic of China by winning its political rivalry with the KMT, which had a major impact on the political landscape of the region in general and Vietnam in particular.

From the CCP's perspective, the Chinese revolutionary model was intended to be exported to the Asian countries, Vietnam included. Moreover, the increasing influence in its southern periphery was also for national defense and security. From the perspective of the DRV, communist China was a good ally who shared the same ideology and similar approaches to complete communist revolution. They were glad to conduct a binary revolution at the same time: externally anti-colonialism and internally anti-feudalism. Thus Ho Chi Minh pled proactively for Chinese aid After establishing formal diplomatic relations with the PRC in early 1950, Luo Guibo became the first Chinese ambassador to the DRV, and Chinese aid also flooded into the DRV, the most significant of which was the Chinese advisory group, which was later sent to North Vietnam in the same year.

Basically, Chinese advisory groups had a double mission. The most important one was to provide advice on military affairs. After winning victories in a series of military campaigns with considerable help from August 1950 onward, the DRV not only gradually turned around the war situation but also expanded its controlled areas. This conducive environment facilitated the DRV to carry out its land reform plan.

As a government dominated by the communists, land reform was an integral part of its revolution. After its first trial failed in the 1930s, Vietnamese communists never had a real chance to carry it out, even during a long time after the foundation of the DRV. For the sake of war, communist slogans were even diminished. Instead, they needed support from landowners and landlords. However, Chinese assistance outweighed domestic support from feudal classes and communism was re-emphasized. The Indochinese party was divided along national lines and the Vietnamese Worker's party (VWP) was officially formed in early 1951. Simultaneously, land reform was put on its agenda. More comprehensive and stricter land policies were formulated, and class struggle was emphasized as inseparable from the military struggle for the first time.

On the other hand, the French and American-sponsored Quoc Gia Viet Nam (the State of Vietnam) emerged and was recognized by western powers. Particularly after the Bao Dai interval, the DRV faced a competent rival regime which contested its monopolistic representation of the Vietnamese people. In this situation, Truong Chinh in his report to the party Congress in 1951 pointed out that as soon as the Bao Dai regime was set up, the landlord class aligned itself with the State of Vietnam.

Excepting international and domestic political factors, as Bernard B. Fall pointed out, land reform was also necessary for economic reasons. 90 percent of the population lived by agriculture, but the problem was the enormous population pressure put upon the relatively small fertile areas. In the Red River delta, 9 million people were crowded into an area of 5790 square miles. The majority of population under the DRV were peasants but did not have land to till, which was an unjust situation.

After the end of WWII in Indochina, people suffered a lot from famine and lack of sufficient food due to continuous conflict. Improving their welfare would consolidate the Viet Minh's regime by garnering more support. Collective ownership as a palliative to landlessness has been a century-old practice throughout Vietnam and as for individuals, they were deprived of rice fields and had to turn to support from communal land.

In Vietnam, there is a saying called “Phép Vua Thua Lệ Làng”, literally meaning that the emperor is secondary to village customs and implicitly indicating that national rule at the village level was giving way to autonomous rule by village itself. This was also true for the DRV government; their influence st the grass roots level was relatively weak. Land reform served as a good way to cement its power at the grass roots level.

Implementation
Land reform in North Vietnam was a grand project. At the beginning, it was a relatively mild campaign; later on, it was radicalized and caused serious effects. When the top leaders notices the side effects, they tried to rectify the caused errors.

Pre-1953 communist land policy in DRV

Social revolution is part of revolution led by the Communist Party. However, for a long time, the regime failed to grasp the essential tasks of Vietnamese national democratic revolution and placed too much emphasis on unity with landlords in the interest of national resistance, and did not pay much attention to the peasant and land issues. What they did was to adopt a middle way: landlords agreed to decrease the land rent and the peasants still needed to pay rent but with a lower rate. The land rent reduction was formulated in July 1949.

Also, all pre-1953 policy had failed in breaking through the landlord's economic and political power and in serving the interests of the peasants. According to VWP's mouthpiece Nhan Dan, even landlords were allowed to join the party, which somehow dominated the party chapters in many areas.
DRV gradually abandoned its former policy toward landlords and peasants. From 14 to 23 November 1953, VWP organized a national conference, in this meeting, anti-feudalism was put much emphasis on. The most important change was that a new approach was adopted, which was mass mobilization for class struggle.

Land reform constituted two successive campaigns: land rent reduction campaign (1953-1954) and land reform campaign proper (1954-1956). The first campaign included eights waves and the second had five waves. According to Hoang Van Chi who was a former member of DRV and fled to South Vietnam in the mid-1950s, these two campaigns had but one purpose, namely the liquidation of the landowning class and the subsequent establishment of a proletarian dictatorship in the countryside. The only notable difference between them was the degree of violence and the nature of the wealth confiscated.

Land Rent Reduction Campaign

After being trained by Chinese, through the local party-cell, Vietnamese cadres were sent to the village and lived with a few landless peasants. They practiced the “Three Together System”, namely, worked together, ate together and lived together. By doing so for two to three months, they had amassed much information of the peasants and that village, and also arouse awareness of social class by posing questions to the peasants like why they were poor.

After this survey by professionally trained cadres, the reduction campaign officially began, and there were six successive stages. The first stage was to classify population during which peasants were categorized according to their possession, this was followed by classification of landlords. Theoretically speaking, there were three classes of landlords: traitorous; ordinary; resistance and “democratic personalities”. Those landlords, if found not comply with rent reduction decree, would be arrested. In this case, they had to pay back the excess land rent within time limit, this is the third stage of extortion of money and valuables. The fourth stage is crime revelation, the peasants were made to attend a special course and taught how to publicly reveal crimes of landlords, and they would have a role of denouncing crimes in the front of a number of people in the fifth stage, but the problem was that they denounced for appearing faithful and obedient to the party, so they may denounce as much as they can rather than considered the reality.

On 12 April 1953, a special people's tribunal court, composed of peasants who knew nothing about law, was formed according to decree 150/SL. Sentences varied from the death penalty to years’ hard labor, for this point, the most well-known case was Nguyen Thi Nam, a patriotic landlord who joined the resistance war against the French but was sentenced to death.

The label of landlord is dangerous. According to Hoang's memoir, as soon as a man was defined as landlord, he and his family were isolated from their fellow human beings and nobody was permitted to talk to them or even have any contact with them. This policy of isolation even caused a number of deaths.

Land Reform Campaign Proper

In the year of 1953, a series of decrees and laws on land reform were released. VWP central committee assessed the possibility of moving on to the last phase of land revolution: redistribution of agricultural land, which was followed by the most crucial land reform law publicized on 19 December 1953, which can be regarded as the platform for land reform. Very soon after the law was passed in national congress, the experimental wave of land reform took place between December 1953 and March 1954 in Thai Nguyen province. This experiment was fruitful according to the official, and a Central Land Reform Committee was established on 15 March 1954 which was headed by Pham Van Dong.

Land reform then expanded to larger areas by five waves (see the table below).

Compared to the prior campaign, land reform campaign proper was carried out more violently and in larger areas especially after the Geneva Conference because the VWP leaders realized that the Geneva Agreement was impossible to be implemented; and feared that Diem's “March North” may start a fire at its backyard. Five times the number of landlords than the first campaign was fixed by the party, thus it provoked increased internal conflict. According to Hoang, the DRV authorities never stated the number of dispossessed landlords in any of their official publications. Expropriation was occasional during the first campaign but it was universally practiced during the second. As soon as the confiscation ceremony was over, an exhibition of the confiscated personal belongings of the landlord was organized, and in doing so, class awareness was intentionally provoked by illustrating the sharp contrast in living standards between peasants and landlords. However, this is not the end, the next big question was the apportionment of land and other properties. Normal practice should distribute them among peasants, however, it lacked accurate information.

Chinese Involvement
Due to the traditionally close connection between China and Vietnam in general, and the enormous tie between Chinese and Vietnamese communists since 1949 in particular, right from the early 1950s onward, communist China's influence over DRV increased dramatically. There were three kinds of Chinese advisory groups in North Vietnam providing assistance in the aspect of military, politics and logistics. Chinese military advisory group was headed firstly by Wei Guoqing (July 1950- May 1951) providing directly consultation to the top commander of DRV. Chinese political advisory group was headed by Luo Guibo. Land reform was part of political issue, and Luo played a big role in it. Under political advisory group, a financial team was established in early 1951 to help North Vietnam formulate regulations on how to collect tax and rice.

Since 1953, for facilitating mass mobilization and rent reduction campaign, more than 100 North Vietnamese cadres was sent to China to participate training class. Later on in spring 1953, a particular institution exclusively in charge of helping DRV to conduct land reform was called the Land Reform and Party Consolidation Section which was headed by Zhang Dequn. According to his memoir, more land reform specialists of Chinese cadres was responsible for training. Similar to Chinese experience, social organizations such as peasant, youth, and women's league were established. Cadres were trained to practice Vietnamese version of Chinese “three together system” (三共, san gong) while peasants were mobilized and encouraged to “pour out grievances suffering from landlords and French collaborators” (诉苦, su ku).

For the case of North Vietnam, some soldier was also affected due to their family background, and among the army, there were some degree of dissatisfaction. Considering this and from Chinese experience, Chinese advisors proposed to carry out a land reform education campaign among DRV's army. On February 1953, Luo Guibo sent a report to the Chinese leadership proposing a political consolidation campaign (整军, zheng jun) in order to make them aware of class distinction.
On December 1953, the third National Congress passed land reform law which put forward route of land reform: step by step wipe out feudal system by relying on poor peasants, uniting middle and rich peasants.

The Chinese pattern of land reform in DRV was successful in meeting the need of the poor peasants for land and thus increased the prestige of the new Communist authorities. However, it also produced significant negative consequences for the party due to that Mao's pattern of land reform emphasized the excessive class struggle and repression. This was an important reason for the later Vietnamese criticism of the Chinese model.

Repression
Executions and imprisonment of persons classified as "landlords" or enemies of the state were contemplated from the beginning of the land reform program. A Politburo document dated 4 May 1953 said that executions were "fixed in principle at the ratio of one per one thousand people of the total population." That ratio would indicate that communist Vietnam contemplated the execution of about 15,000 "reactionaries and evil landlords" in carrying out the program. On July 9, 1953, the first landlord executed was the woman , who had in fact been an active supporter of the Vietnamese Communist resistance.

The scale of the ensuing repression has proved difficult and controversial to quantify, with estimates of the number of executions ranging from 800 to 200,000. Testimony from North Vietnamese witnesses suggested a ratio of one execution for every 160 village residents, which extrapolated nationwide would indicate nearly 100,000 executions. Because the campaign was concentrated mainly in the Red River Delta area, a lower estimate of 50,000 executions became widely accepted by scholars at the time. A Saigon communique put the figure at 32,000 executions (12,000 party members and 20,000 others), based on the testimony of an ex-party member involved in the campaign. However, declassified documents from the Vietnamese and Hungarian archives indicate that the number of executions was much lower than reported at the time, although likely greater than 13,500. Economist Vo Nhan Tri reported uncovering a document in the central party archives which put the number of wrongful executions at 15,000. From discussions with party cadres, Vo Nhan Tri concluded that the overall number of deaths was considerably higher than this figure. According to the Vietnam Institute for Economics, 172,008 individuals were designated as landlords and rich peasants, of whom 71.66% were mistakenly categorized. Although it is impossible to know how many of them were executed, this suggests that the scale of errors committed "was undeniably dramatic."

"Rectification of errors"

As soon as the reform was completed by 1956 and the so-called peasants’ authority well-established in the villages, the party quite unexpectedly admitted to having made many serious mistakes during the reform when the “masses” had been “given a free hand”. VWP developed a campaign called "Rectification of Errors" from January 1957 till mid-1957. This campaign was divided into three phases. The first phase was a crash operation to survey the damage done and release from prison incorrectly classified peasants and falsely accused cadres. The second phase, more deliberate and the real heart of the campaign, was divided into two steps. Step I was the re-classification of peasants, and step II was the restitution of property erroneously expropriated or else making suitable compensation. The third phase of the mistakes correction was to be a review, inventory and concentrated re-indoctrination of local personnel.

Significance
As one of the most important events of DRV in the 1950s, as well as the first radical political campaigns of Vietnamese communists as an exclusive power-holder, this program has produced much controversial effect on North Vietnamese society, the regime itself, as well as relations between peasants and the DRV regime.

The reform also reached very considerable ends in terms of economic and social transformation. Economically speaking, collective ownership prevailed and the rural population was more or less equal. From the perspective of social transformation, it radically changed the traditional pattern of village: formerly, the landlords played a leading role in the village affairs but now they were eliminated and replaced by peasants. However, partly due to the land reform and other radical campaigns, nearly one million North Vietnamese moved to the South.

Because of the use of violence and excessive emphasis over class struggle, land reform in the 1950s caused much negative impact. For this reason, it is still a sensitive topic even today. It also constitutes a considerable part of oversea Vietnamese political dissents criticizing today's communist party of Vietnam and its dependence on China.

The aims of the reform were military, economic, political and social, the most important of which, until the decisive victory at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, was the military objective. Ho Chi Minh once listed in 1956 achievements of land reform, nearly ten million peasants had received land; tens of thousands of new cadres had been trained in the countryside. The organization of the Party, the administration and peasants’ associations in the communes have been readjusted.

The Viet Minh regime gained its control over the grass village and its ability to influence and mobilize the mass was consolidated. Land reform is an agrarian project but also a political campaign. Through mass mobilization and classification, anti-revolutionary and reactionary enemies were suppressed economically and politically.

This had a nearly profound impact for wars in the latter years. One, this paved the way for the socialist construction in the North, which could provide southern communists with logistical support. Two, the reform can be regarded as a preparatory step for a large-scale war. The regime opened the door to enlightenment by completely altering the existing patterns of production; but also provided the masses with an ideology which would modify their attitude to work even before the economic conditions were fundamentally changed.

See also
 Land reform in South Vietnam
 Mass killings under communist regimes

References

Further reading

Bernard B. Fall, The Two Vietnams: A Political and Military Analysis (London: Pall Mall Press, 2nd rev. ed., 1967)
The History of the Vietnamese Economy (2005), Vol. 2, edited by Dang Phong of the Institute of Economy, Vietnamese Institute of Social Sciences.
Gittinger, J. Price, "Communist Land Policy in Viet Nam", Far Eastern Survey'', Vol. 29, No. 8, 1957, p. 118

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