Mara Thompson

Marie-Josephine Mara Thompson (born 4 October 1961) is a Saint Lucian-born Barbadian politician, educator and widow of the sixth Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson, who died in office on 23 October 2010. Thompson won the special by-election to succeed her husband in the Saint John constituency on Thursday, 20 January 2011, holding the seat for the Democratic Labour Party.

Biography

Personal life
Thompson was born Marie-Josephine Mara Giraudy in Saint Lucia on 4 October 1961 to Monica and Henry Giraudy. Her father, Henry Giraudy Q.C., was a prominent Saint Lucian lawyer and politician, who was nicknamed "The Chairman" due to his high position within the United Workers Party (UWP). Henry Giraudy served as the President of the Senate of St. Lucia at one point.

Thompson attended school at St Joseph’s Convent in Castries, Saint Lucia. She was a student at  the University of Western Ontario from 1979 to 1983, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in physical education. She then enrolled at Howard University in Washington D.C. from 1986 to 1988, and obtained a Master of Science in physical education. Thompson also hold a certificate in paralegal education from Barbados Community College, which she attended from 2005 to 2007.

Mara and her husband, the late David Thompson, had three daughters - Misha, Oya and Osa-Marie. Thompson and her family reside in Mapps, St. Philip.

Career
Mara Thompson taught physical education at schools throughout the Caribbean and the United States between 1986 and 2005. She served on the faculties of the Owl School in Washington D.C.; the Immaculate Conception High and Prep Schools located in Kingston, Jamaica; Castries Comprehensive Secondary School in Saint Lucia; the Christ Church Foundation School and the Combermere School, both in Barbados. She worked as a paralegal at her husband's law firm, Thompson & Associates, after receiving her paralegal certificate in 2007.

2011 election
David Thompson, the Chairman of the Democratic Labour Party, became the Prime Minister of Barbados on 16 January 2008, after winning the 2008 Barbadian general election, succeeding Owen Arthur. He died in office of pancreatic cancer on 23 October 2010, at the family's home in Mapps, St Philip.

In early January 2011, Mara Thompson confirmed her intent to contest the special election called to fill the seat of her late husband in the Saint John constituency. David Thompson had held since the Saint John seat from 1987 to 2010, succeeding the late Prime Minister Errol Barrow, who also died in office. The Saint John is considered to be a stronghold for Thompson's Democratic Labour Party (DLP). Thompson's candidacy won the official endorsement of the DLP at a meeting held on 2 January 2011. Thompson won 60 of the DLP's 69 votes, defeating several potential DLP candidates, who included Leroy McClean, Anthony Walrond, Vere Brathwaite, David Gittens and Peter David. Thompson made her first political speech as a candidate on 6 January 2011, in the village of Gall Hill, Christ Church parish.

Her opponent in the election was businessman Hudson Griffith of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP). Owen Arthur, the former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition and Barbados Labour Party attempted to make Thompson's Saint Lucian origins an issue in the election. Arthur was criticized for the move by Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, Saint Lucian Prime Minister Stephenson King and Vincentian Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves.

Mara Thompson won the special by-election on 20 January 2011, by a landslide. She defeated her opponent, Hudson Griffith, by a large margin of 4,613 votes to Griffith's 553 votes in the election. Thompson won all 23 of the election ballot boxes in the Saint John constituency. She performed better than David Thompson did in the 2008 general election, when he secured approximately 4,300 votes in the constituency.

References

External links
Profile of The Hon. Mara Thompson, Parliament of Barbados

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Joseph Roduit

Joseph Roduit (December 17, 1939 – December 17, 2015) was a Roman Catholic priest and abbot.

Roduit was ordained a priest for the Swiss Congregation of Canon Regulars of Saint Maurice of Agaune on September 4, 1965. From 1999 until 2015, Rodult served as abbot of the Saint-Maurice d'Agaune, Switzerland. Roduit retired on March 18, 2015.

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CFAM

CFAM (950 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a community-oriented full service format of classical music, talk radio with a community focus, agricultural and financial reports and religious programming. Licensed to Altona, Manitoba, it serves the Pembina Valley region of the province.

CFAM shares its location with sister stations CKMW and CJEL-FM.

History
It first began broadcasting in 1957 at 1290 kHz before moving to its current dial position in 1968.

The station is currently owned by Golden West Broadcasting.

2007 marked CFAM radio's 50th anniversary.

External links
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Tropic of Capricorn

The Tropic of Capricorn (or the Southern Tropic) is the circle of latitude that contains the subsolar point on the December (or southern) solstice. It is thus the southernmost latitude where the Sun can be directly overhead. Its northern equivalent is the Tropic of Cancer.

The Tropic of Capricorn is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of Earth. Its latitude is currently  south of the Equator, but it is very gradually moving northward, currently at the rate of 0.47 arcseconds, or 15 metres, per year.

Less than 3% of the world's population lives south of it, as well as about 30% of the population of the Southern Hemisphere.

Name
When this line of latitude was named in the last centuries BC, the Sun was in the constellation Capricornus at the December solstice. This is the date each year when the Sun reaches zenith at this latitude, the southernmost latitude it reaches for the year. (Due to the precession of the equinoxes the Sun currently appears in Sagittarius at this solstice.) The word "tropic" comes from the Greek τροπή (trǒpē), meaning to turn or change direction, as the Sun appears to cease its southerly course when it reaches this latitude and begin moving back to the north.

Geography and environment
The Tropic of Capricorn is the dividing line between the Southern Temperate Zone to the south and the tropics to the north. The Northern Hemisphere equivalent of the Tropic of Capricorn is the Tropic of Cancer.

The Tropic of Capricorn's position is not fixed, but constantly changes because of a slight wobble in the Earth's longitudinal alignment relative to its orbit around the Sun. Earth's axial tilt varies over a 41,000 year period from 22.1 to 24.5 degrees and currently resides at about 23.4 degrees. This wobble means that the Tropic of Capricorn is currently drifting northward at a rate of almost half an arcsecond (0.468″) of latitude, or 15 metres, per year (it was at exactly 23° 27′S in 1917 and will be at 23° 26'S in 2045). See under circles of latitude for information.

There are approximately 13 hours, 35 minutes of daylight during the summer solstice. During the winter solstice, there are 10 hours, 41 minutes of daylight.

Africa
In most of this belt of southern Africa, a minimum of seasonal rainfall is reliable and farming is possible, though yields struggle to compete with for example the Mississippi basin, even against like-to-like soil fertilisers.  Rivers have been successfully dammed particularly flowing from relief precipitation areas (high emininences) and those from the edge of the Great Rift Valley, such as the Zambezi, well within the Tropics.  This, with alluvial or enriched soil, enables substantial yield grain farming in areas with good soil.  Across this large region pasture farming is widespread, where intensive, brief and rotational it helps to fertilise and stabilise the soil, preventing run-off and desertification.  This approach is traditional to many tribes and promoted by government advisors such as Allan Savory, a Zimbabwean-born biologist, farmer, game rancher, politician and international consultant and co-founder of the Savory Institute. According to the United Nations University Our World dissemination he is credited with developing “holistic management” in the 1960s and has led anti-desertification efforts in Africa for decades using a counterintuitive approach to most developed economies of increasing the number of livestock on grasslands rather than fencing them off for conservation.  Such practices in this area have seen success and won generous awards; he gave the keynote speech at UNCCD's Land Day in 2018, and later that year a TED (conference) address, widely re-broadcast.

Australia

In Australia, areas around the Tropic have some of the world's most variable rainfall. In the east advanced plants such as flowering shrubs and eucalyptus and in most bioregions grasses have adapted to cope with means such as deep roots and little transpiration. Wetter areas, seasonally watered, are widely pasture farmed. As to animals, birds and marsupials are well-adapted.  Naturally difficult arable agriculture specialises in dry fruits, nuts and modest water consumption produce. Other types are possible given reliable irrigation sources and, ideally, water-retentive enriched or alluvial soils, especially wheat; shallow irrigation sources very widely dry up in and after drought years.  The multi-ridge Great Dividing Range brings relief precipitation enough to make hundreds of kilometres either side cultivable, and its rivers are widely dammed to store necessary water; this benefits the settled areas of New South Wales and Queensland.

Behind the end of the green hills, away from the Pacific, which is subject to warm, negative phases of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (colloquially this is an "El Niño year/season") is a white, red and yellow landscape of 2,800 to 3,300 kilometres of rain shadow heading west in turn feature normally arid cattlelands of the Channel Country, the white Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park, the mainly red Mamungari Conservation Park, then the Gibson Desert, after others the dry landscape settlement of Kalbarri on the west coast and its rest, northward.  The Channel Country features an arid landscape with a series of ancient flood plains from rivers which only flow intermittently. The principal rivers are Georgina River, Cooper Creek and the Diamantina River. When there is sufficient rainfall in their catchment area these rivers flow into Lake Eyre, South Australia. In most years the flood waters are absorbed into the earth or evaporate, however. One of the most significant rainfall events occurred in 2010 when a monsoonal low from ex-Cyclone Olga created a period of exceptional rainfall.

El Niño adverse phases cause a shift in atmospheric circulation; rainfall becomes reduced over Indonesia and Australia, rainfall and tropical cyclone formation increases over the tropical Pacific. The low-level surface trade winds, which normally blow from east to west along the equator, either weaken or start blowing from the other direction.

South America
In South America, whilst in the continental cratons soils are almost as old as in Australia and Southern Africa, the presence of the geologically young and evolving Andes means that this region is on the western side of the subtropical anticyclones and thus receives warm and humid air from the Atlantic Ocean. As a result, areas in Brazil adjacent to the Tropic are impressively productive agricultural regions, producing large quantities of crops such as sugarcane, and the natural rainforest vegetation has been almost entirely cleared, except for a few remaining patches of Atlantic Forest. Further south in Argentina, the temperate grasslands of the Pampas region is equally influential in wheat, soybeans, maize, and beef, making the country one of the largest worldwide agricultural exporters, similar to the role played by the Prairies region in Canada.

West of the Andes which creates a rain shadow air is further cooled and dried by the cold Humboldt Current which makes it very arid, creating the Atacama Desert, one of the driest in the world, so that no glaciers exist between Volcán Sajama at 18˚30'S and Cerro Tres Cruces at 27˚S. Vegetation here is almost non-existent, though on the eastern slopes of the Andes rainfall is adequate for rainfed agriculture.

Around the world
Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the Tropic of Capricorn passes through 10 countries:

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Places located along the Tropic of Capricorn
The following cities and landmarks are either located near the Tropic of Capricorn, or the tropic passes through them.

  Argentina
 Andes Mountains
 The Chaco
 San Salvador de Jujuy

 Australia
 Paraburdoo, Western Australia
 Newman, Western Australia
 Lake Disappointment, Western Australia
 Gibson Desert, Western Australia
 Ikuntji (Haast's Bluff), Northern Territory
 Alice Springs, Northern Territory
 Amaroo, Queensland
 Longreach, Queensland
 Great Dividing Range, Queensland
 Emerald, Queensland
 Gracemere, Queensland
 Rockhampton, Queensland
 Cape Capricorn, Queensland

  Botswana
 Kalahari Desert
 Khutse Game Reserve
 Kule
 Mahalapye

  Brazil
 Amambai
 Itaquaquecetuba
 Mogi das Cruzes
 Maringá
 Sorocaba
 Santana de Parnaíba
 São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport
 São Paulo (Tremembé), the largest city south of the equator
 Guarulhos
 Taguaí
 Ubatuba

 Chile
 Atacama Desert
 Andes Mountains
 Antofagasta

  Madagascar
 Toliara

  Mozambique
 Inhambane city
 Morrumbene
 Massinga

  Namibia
 Walvis Bay
 Swakopmund
 Namib Desert

  Paraguay
 Concepción

  South Africa
 Kruger National Park
 Polokwane
 Capricorn District Municipality

List of countries entirely south of the Tropic of Capricorn
As most of earth's land is in the Northern Hemisphere only four countries are wholly south of the Tropic of Capricorn (which contrasts with 74, about one third of the current total, wholly north of the Tropic of Cancer):
 Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
 Lesotho
 New Zealand
 Uruguay

Length
Length of the Tropic on 11 June 2015, at 23°26′14″S is .

Note

References

External links

 Temporal Epoch Calculations
 Useful constants" See: Obliquity of the ecliptic
 Montana State University: Milankovitch Cycles & Glaciation

See also

 Circle of latitude
 Arctic Circle
 Tropic of Cancer
 Equator
 23rd parallel south
 24th parallel south
 Antarctic Circle
 Axial tilt
 Milankovitch cycles
 Capricornus

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Aveleda (Bragança)

Aveleda is a former freguesia ("civil parish") in the municipality of Bragança, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Aveleda e Rio de Onor. The population in 2011 was 196, in an area of 62.20 km². It is situated close to the northern border with Spain.

History
The parish of Aveleda derives its name from the village, whose toponymy has a number of significances. For one, there is the Roman interpretation, derived from the Roman Avé Leda, which means beautiful place, while others assume that the name was derived from Veleda, a venerated Visigothic or Suebic priest of the 4th century. Another interpretation suggests that the name was derived from ave feliz.

What is certain, is that this name only appeared during the 1250 Inquirições of Afonso III. This is because the area around Aveleda was under the protection of Spanish monasteries of Moreirola and San Martin de Castanheda. It was there that the celebrated Abbott of Baçal was parish priest (between 1896 and 1910), always travelling by foot and complying a dossier of his thoughts in Memórias Arqueológico: Históricas do Distrito de Bragança, a twelve-tome work detailing the municipal history. In this case, he referred specifically to the village of Varge (on the southern perimeter of Aveleda), which was derived from varzena or varcena, a medieval term to designate artificial or natural low wetlands. The wells in this area are also referred to by the local peoples as varja or varjas, literally fish traps.

The Matriz Church, on a slight elevation, dates back to the 18th century.

The bridge that crosses the Pepim River in Aveleda, constructed on stone, was completed in 1952.

Geography
Aveleda is located along the Portuguese-Spanish border within the Parque Natural de Montesinho (Montesinho Natural Park), three kilometres northeast of the municipal seat of Bragança.

It is characterized by hills and river-valleys, along a plateau with an average of 500 metres altitude. It is crossed by two water courses that flow from north to south: the Ribeira das Igrejas, which crosses the village of Varge, and the Ribeira de Pepim, which intersects the village of Aveleda. Both ravines spring from the Serra de Pedralba, crossing from Spain, and flow as tributaries of the Sabor River.

Architecture
There are several vestiges of historical architecture and rural constructions in this parish, that include: the two main historical springs/wells (Fonte da Pinela and Fonte d'Aldeia), which were subterranean channels of potable water; watermills and ancient blacksmith's forge. The following were classified by IGESPAR as national monuments or architecturally significant heritage:

Civic
 Fountain of Pinela ()

Religious
 Church of São Cipriano (), built in the 17th century, the parochial church of Aveleda was directed by the abbey Meixedo, before falling under the administration of Miranda;
 Church of São Miguel (), a relatively small parish, the church of Varge had little more than 40 parishioners at the time of its institution, during the 17th century;
 Chapel of São Sebastião (), constructed during the 18th century, the chapel has been a site for pilgrims, first for São Julião, but later Santo Padre (celebrated on 20 January), during the winter seasons. A register of azulejo is located above the main portal.

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Donna Smellie

Donna Smellie (born 2 September 1964) is a Canadian athlete. She competed in the women's heptathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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Ben Weekes

Ben Weekes (born 20 September 1984) is an Australian wheelchair tennis player. He competed for Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, his fourth Games.

Personal
Weekes was born on 20 September 1984 in Strathfield, New South Wales. He has an identical twin brother, and two other brothers. He is an incomplete paraplegic as a result of a blood clot forming in his spine when he was thirteen years old. He is a composer and pianist, having received formal training in this area. His music has been recorded and he has played at the BarMe Cabaret Bar, Angel Place and the Sydney Opera House.

Other sports he participates in are swimming and basketball.

Tennis
Weekes is a wheelchair tennis player. When playing, he follows the same rules as his able-bodied counterparts except the ball is allowed to bounce twice. He became interested in the sport after watching David Hall play it at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and would go on to practice regularly with Hall, until Hall retired from the sport in 2006. He has been coached by Kathy Fahim.

Weekes first represented Australia in 2002. That year, he competed in the Junior World Cup where he finished second. At the 2004 World Cup, his team finished second. He competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens. He won his first round match, and was knocked out in the second round.

Weekes competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, playing doubles with Michael Dobbie. Going into the 2008 Games, he practised twice a day on court, six times a week. In 2008, Weekes played some doubles matches with Adam Kellerman.

At the 2011 South African Open, he made the finals. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he made the second round of the men's singles and he teamed with Adam Kellerman in the men's doubles. They lost in the first round. In the doubles event, he is due to be partnered by Adam Kellerman.

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Weekes lost to Stefan Olsson (SWE) 0-2 (0-6, 3-6) in the round of 32 in the Men's Singles and with Adam Kellerman lost in the round of 16 in the Men's Doubles.

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Appalachian gentian

Appalachian gentian may refer to:
 Gentiana austromontana, with blue to purple flowers
 Gentiana decora, with white to blue flowers

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Back to Back (1996 film)

Back to Back, also known as American Yakuza 2, and Back to Back: American Yakuza 2, is a 1996 American action film. It is directed by Roger Nygard and written by Nygard and Scott Nimerfro (who is credited under the name, Lloyd Keith). The film was produced by W.K. Border, Thomas Calabrese, Takashige Ichise, Aki Komine, Michael Leahy, and Joel Soisson. It stars  Michael Rooker, Ryo Ishibashi, and Danielle Harris. It is a sequel to the 1993 film, American Yakuza.

Plot
An explosive situation erupts when a mob war thrusts a yakuza, an ex-cop, and his adolescent daughter into a deadly, no-win situation. Booted in disgrace from the L.A. police force Bob Malone suffers a seemingly endless unlucky streak. Matters don't improve when a robbery led by a crazed criminal transpires at the bank where Malone is filling out foreclosure papers. Witnessing the crime, something inside Malone snaps and he single-handedly wipes out most of the robber gang. Unfortunately, the ringleader escapes and Malone ends up jailed by his corrupt former colleague Lt. Tony Dussecq. At the same time, two Japanese yakuza arrive in L.A. to deliver a special message to L.A.'s most prominent Mafia don. The yakuza are in a restaurant when the bank robber (wearing a vest covered with explosives) bursts in and threatens to blow the place up. One of the Japanese, Koji, intervenes in an explosive sequence. He too ends up at the police station just as Malone's feisty teen daughter Chelsea arrives with bail money. The yakuza suddenly escapes, taking Chelsea and Malone with him as hostages. Now pursued by the crooked coppers and the mob, the unlikely threesome have no choice but to team up to survive.

Cast
Michael Rooker as Bob Malone
Ryo Ishibashi as Koji
Danielle Harris as Chelsea Malone
John Laughlin as Lt. Tony Dussecq
Koh Takasugi as Hideo
Bobcat Goldthwait as Psycho
Vincent Schiavelli as Leonardo
Stephen Furst as Jimmy
Tim Thomerson as Thomas
Fred Willard as a Loan Officer
Frank D'Amico as Delorenzo
Leland Orser as the Wheelchair Guy
Jake Johannsen as Officer Jones
Yasushi 'Bert' Kojima as Joe Snapper
Michael Ray Miller as a Deviant
John P. McGarr as a Goon

Release
The film premiered at the Oldenburg International Film Festival on August 29, 1996. It was first shown in the United States on the premium cable television network, HBO on October 25, 1996.

Home media
It was released on VHS on July 14, 1998 through BMG video label. It was also released on DVD through Fox Lorber on July 5, 2000. It was released on DVD by Medusa on October 7, 2002 under the title, American Yakuza 2. On July 28, 2003 Prism Leisure released the film on DVD also under the title, American Yakuza 2.

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Maudheim medal

The Maudheim medal (Maudheimmedaljen) was instituted by King Haakon VII of Norway on 14 November 1951 in honor of the members of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1949–1952, awarded to the participants of the expedition.  This expedition was the first to Antarctica involving an international team of scientists. During the expedition, a base known as Maudheim was established on the Quar Ice Shelf along the coast of Queen Maud Land in February 1950. The medal itself is the same as the King's Medal of Merit in Silver with the addition of a silver buckle on the ribbon with the inscription "MAUDHEIM 1949-1952".

Recipients

Norwegian citizens
John Schjelderup Giæver
Nils Roer
Nils Jørgen Schumacher
Egil Gunnar Rogstad
Peter Jul Melleby
Bjarne Lorentzen

Swedish citizens
Stig Valter Schytt
Gösta Hjalmar Liljequist
Stig Eugen Hallgren
Paul Ove Wilson
Bertil Ekström (Post Mortem)

British citizens
Gordon de Quetteville Robin
Charles Winthrop Molesworth Swithinbank
Alan Williams Reece
Ernest Frederik Roots
John Ellis Jelbart (Post Mortem)
Leslie Arthur Quar (Post Mortem)

See also
 Orders, decorations, and medals of Norway

References

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Matthew Brown (baseball)

Matthew Thomas Brown (born December 25th, 1984 in Birmingham, England) is a Ex Professional footballer. Brown now a coach at Chelsea FC and Portsmouth FC Academy played in Germany, Belgium and Semi professional in the UK.

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Psycho+Logical-Records

Psycho+Logical-Records is an independent record label based in New York City. Founded in 1999 by rapper and producer Necro, its first release was Necro's debut I Need Drugs. It went on to release notable albums by hip hop artists such as the debut solo albums of Ill Bill, Sabac Red, & Goretex of Non Phixion, as well as Mr. Hyde. Releases are distributed on CD & digitally through formats such as iTunes, and several albums and singles have been released on 12" vinyl as well. Among the label's current artists are Necro and Mr Hyde, and the label as of 2014 has released 42 albums.

History

1999-01: Founding, first releases
Psycho+Logical-Records is a record label owned by rapper Necro, and operating in New York City, New York. Psycho+Logical-Records started off in November 1999 as a means through which Necro could release his debut album, I Need Drugs, in 2000. The label was named after the concept that it is logical for acts to be psychotic. Before selling the album online, he would sell hard-copies to fans at shows and on the streets. According to Necro, at one point in 1999 he had around 100 international fans selling the CDs he'd personally pressed, writing that "they would sell it for $13, and give me $8 a CD, and keep $5 a CD." He states he was first inspired to sell records this way by reading interviews with Master P.

I Need Drugs officially was released in stores in 2000, and afterwards Necro signed a deal for both the Psycho+Logical imprint and the album with Landspeed Distribution. The original $125,000 contract was downsized after Landspeed claimed they were low on funds, and the album received less promotion than originally planned. To help compensate, Necro writes that he gave "1,000's of I Need Drugs sampler cassettes" to fans for free, often mailing them as a promotion.

I Need Drugs was followed by his 2000 album Instrumentals Vol. 1, and the following year he released the compilation album The Early Years: Rare Demos '91–'94 by his collaborator and brother Ill Bill. The Early Years: Rare Demos '91–'94 is the first rarities released under Psycho+Logical-Records. Featured guests on the compilation include Non Phixion and Circle of Tyrants member Goretex. These tracks where recorded between 1991 and 1994. Necro went on to release several more albums in 2001, including Gory Days with Select-O-Hits as a distributor. The label has a long history of releasing instrumental albums to accompany major studio releases, such as Gory Days Instrumentals in 2003.

2003-09: Increased output
The first wave of albums released on Necro's label were entirely produced by Necro himself. This includes the debut solo albums of Non Phixion members Ill Bill, Sabac Red and Goretex after he already produced 7 songs for Non Phixion's debut album The Future Is Now in 2002 and Non Phixion's The Green CD in 2004, and two albums for label member Mr Hyde. "What's Wrong with Bill?" is Ill Bill's debut studio album, released on March 2, 2004 by Psycho+Logical. The album spawned one single, "The Anatomy of a School Shooting", and a music video for "Chasing the Dragon". Necro produced the entire album. The label has also previously worked with groups such as Non Phixion (Goretex, ill Bill, Sabac Red), with whom Necro formed the supergroup Secret Society and released an album on the label.

Circle of Tyrants was an underground hip hop group signed to the label consisting of Necro, Ill BIll, Mr Hyde and Goretex. The group only released one album, named "The Circle of Tyrants" which was released in 2005. Necro produced all tracks on this album. Goretex released several albums on Psycho-Logical but left after being kicked out of Non Phixion. After the group disbanded, other members went on to release solo projects, several on Psycho-Logical as well.

Q-Unique was associated with the label for a time, as was the rapper Nems, who was originally going to release Prezident's Day on the label, but eventually released it under Creative Juices as Necro was having difficulties with E1 Music at the time.

2010-14: Recent years
Recent albums include The Murder Murder Kill Kill EP by Necro, released in August 2-12 and featuring the appearance of Kool G Rap. Necro had a collaboration on the label with The Godfathers and Kool G Rap in 2013. As of 2014 the major artists associated with the label include Mr. Hyde and Necro.

Distribution
The label has a history of using several distributors, first with Landspeed Distribution for the first year, and then E1 Music and Fontana Distribution. In 2012 the label became associated with the distribution INgrooves. As of 2014 the entire Psycho+Logical-Records catalog is available on iTunes listed under Necro, as well as 300 other national and international digital outlets. CD and vinyl prints of several releases can be obtained via stores.

Artists
Current
 Necro
 Mr Hyde

Past
 Circle Of Tyrants
 Goretex
Ill Bill
 Nems
 Q-Unique
 Riviera Regime
 Sabac Red
 Sean Strange
 Secret Society (Non Phixion and Necro)

Discography

Albums

12" singles

Further reading
Discographies
Psycho+Logical-Records at Allmusic
Psycho+Logical-Records at Discogs

See also
 List of record labels

References

External links
NecroProduct.com
Psycho+Logical-Records on Facebook

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Wesleyan Methodist Church (United States)

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was a Methodist denomination in the United States organized on May 13, 1841. It was composed of ministers and laypeople who withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church because of disagreements regarding slavery, church government, and the doctrine of holiness according to the Discipline of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection (1841), although later editions of the Discipline cite only the first two reasons. The first secessions in 1841 took place in Michigan although the new church group was formalized in Utica, New York. In November 1842, Orange Scott, La Roy Sunderland and J. Horton seceded from the M. E. Church for reasons given in their publication of the True Wesleyan. The following month Luther Lee and Lucius C. Matlack followed. The first general conference was held in Utica, NY, in October 1844.

The Wesleyan Methodist Church merged with the Pilgrim Holiness Church in 1968, and became known as The Wesleyan Church. Several conferences in both merging denominations refused to be a part of the merged church over differences about modesty and worldliness (some of the conferences did not permit their members to have television sets, and required the women to have uncut hair). One of the largest conferences which refused to join the merger was the Allegheny Conference with over 100 churches. It became the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection of Churches, and most of the churches are still known as Wesleyan Methodist. Other Wesleyan Methodists who dissented with the merger organized into the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches and the Bible Methodist Connection of Tennessee.

See also
List of Methodist denominations
Wesleyan Methodist Church (Allegheny Conference)
Bible Methodist Connection of Churches
Primitive Methodist Church
United Christian Wesleyan Methodist Diocese of South Florida

References

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Category:Holiness denominations
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Frans Jeppsson Wall

Frans Jeppsson Wall (born 19December 1998), better known as Frans, is a Swedish singer-songwriter. He won Melodifestivalen 2016 and represented the host nation, Sweden, in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, with the song "If I Were Sorry" finishing in fifth place.

Life and career

2006–2015: Early career

Frans was born in Ystad, Sweden. He is best known for his football anthems with the band Elias, including the 2006 hit "Who's da Man", dedicated to Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović. The song, credited to Elias and featuring vocals by Frans, stayed at the top of Sverigetopplistan, the official Swedish Singles Chart, for 13 weeks.

For Christmas 2006, he scored a minor hit with his song "Kul med Jul", which entered the Swedish Top10 reaching#6. Another sports-related chart-topper by Frans was the 2008 song "Fotbollsfest", a song launched in support of the Sweden national football team.

2016–present: Melodifestivalen and Eurovision Song Contest 2016
After years of absence from the charts, Frans returned with his participation in Melodifestivalen 2016 in a bid to represent Sweden the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "If I Were Sorry", co-written by Oscar Fogelström, Michael Saxell, Fredrik Andersson and Frans. He performed it in Gävle during the fourth and last semi-final leg of the competition on 27February 2016, thereby securing a place in the final-10 competition on 12March 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Immediately after his performance, the single was released. It became very popular and went straight to number1 of Sverigetopplistan during the first week following its release. It also charted on the Spotify Viral charts in Switzerland, Taiwan, Iceland, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, Spain, Norway, France, Denmark, Turkey and Germany. He won the Melodifestivalen 2016 final on 12March 2016 with 156points, and represented Sweden in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. At the age of 17, Frans became the youngest winner of Melodifestivalen in 33years, and the second youngest ever after Carola Häggkvist, who was16 when she won in 1983.

In the final of the contest Frans song placed fifth after the jury and televoting.

Personal life

Frans's father Mark was born in Nigeria to a Nigerian mother and a British father. At the age of eight, Mark moved to London, United Kingdom. Frans' mother is Swedish. He was thus raised speaking both English and Swedish. During most of his life, Frans has been a part-time resident in London and he also studied music there for an entire year when he was15 at The Norwood School. He has a younger brother named Casper and a twin sister, named Filippa.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

References

Notes

Sources

External links

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Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1917–1920

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly as elected at the 15 November 1917 election and subsequent by-elections up to the election of 6 August 1920:

 Elmslie died 11 May 1918; replaced by Joseph Hannan in June 1918; Hannan resigned in October 1919 to (unsuccessfully) contest the Federal seat of Fawkner; replaced by Arthur Wallace in November 1919.
 John Hall was replaced by John Pennington in February 1918 after Pennington was declared elected by the Elections and Qualification Committee.
 Stewart resigned in October 1919; replaced by Francis Old in November 1919.

Sources
 Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria.

Category:Members of the Parliament of Victoria by term
Category:20th-century Australian politicians


Jag vill ha en egen måne

"Jag vill ha en egen måne" (English: I want my own moon) is a song written by Swedish lyricist Kenneth Gärdestad and singer-songwriter Ted Gärdestad. Ted Gärdestad recorded the song, and released it as a single (Polar POS 1155) in April 1972. The song became his breakthrough, charting at Svensktoppen, where it stayed for 14 weeks between 11 June and 10 September 1972, topping the charts. All ABBA members appeared in the studio during the recording; Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agneta Fältskog appear as background singers.

The song has also been recorded by Thorleifs on the 1978 album Kurragömma and Wahlströms låten on 2010 album Vårt älskade 80-tal.

A rock-version was performed by the Gamblers at Dansbandskampen 2009.

References

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Redlynch, Wiltshire

Redlynch is a village and civil parish about  southeast of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls immediately west and southwest of Redlynch; the village of Lover,  southeast of Redlynch; and the hamlet of Bohemia, south of Lover. Much of the parish lies within the boundaries of the New Forest National Park.

The River Blackwater rises near Lover and flows east through the parish towards Landford and Hampshire, where it joins the Test.

History
The earliest settlement was at Pensworth, north of Grove Copse and northwest of the present Redlynch, in the 12th or 13th centuries. This village had declined by the 15th century and in the 20th century the name survived only as Upper Pensworth Farm.

In the 18th century settlement was along roads and the edges of commons. Settlement increased in the 19th century, at Redlynch and at Warminster Green (called Lover since 1876) where the church and school were built.

Redlynch was home to the clockmaker Peter Bower (1715/21 – 1795) who resided close to the site now known as Bowers Hill.

Religious sites
Redlynch parish church of Saint Mary at Lover is a yellow brick building dating from 1837. Originally part of Downton parish, a separate ecclesiastical district was created for the church in 1841. The vicarage was the childhood home of Bernard Walke who served as an Anglican priest in three Cornish parishes.

The Church of St Birinus at Morgan's Vale was built as a chapel of ease to Downton in 1894–96. It is a red brick Gothic Revival building with stone dressings and Perpendicular Gothic style windows. It was designed by the Gothic Revival architect C. E. Ponting of Marlborough in the style of his architectural contemporary W. D. Caroe. The benefices of the two churches were combined in 1968; as of 2016 the incumbent resides at Downton.

Woodfalls Methodist Church was built in 1874 by the Primitive Methodists and joined the Salisbury Methodist Circuit in the 1940s.

Notable buildings
Newhouse, east of Redlynch on the road towards Whiteparish, was built c. 1619. The house and estate were bought in 1633 by Giles Eyre (father of Sir Giles Eyre, member of Parliament and judge) and continue to be held by his descendants. The house is constructed from English bonded brick with limestone dressings and has a distinctive Y-shaped plan; it was designated as Grade I listed in 1960. There is an early 18th-century granary and two stable blocks, from 1750 and the late 19th.

Governance
The civil parish elects a parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which performs most significant local government functions.

Redlynch was formerly part of the parish of Downton. It became a separate civil parish in 1896, then was extended in 1934 to include the former parish of Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls (which had separated from Downton in 1923), and Nomansland. A community governance review effective 1 April 2017 transferred the eastern portion of Redlynch parish to Landford. The area transferred includes the settlements of Nomansland and Hamptworth.

The parish is part of Redlynch and Landford electoral ward which stretches east from Redlynch to Landford. The total population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 4,719.

Amenities
Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls CE Primary School serves Morgan's Vale, Woodfalls, Lover and Redlynch; it was built as a National School in 1869, next to St Birinus' church.

Redlynch Village Hall is near the church at Lover. Built in 1922 as the church hall, it was modernised in the early 21st century. The parish has two pubs: the Kings Head at Redlynch and the Wodfalls Inn at Woodfalls.

References

Sources

External links

Redlynch Parish Council
Redlynch ONLINE

Category:Villages in Wiltshire
Category:Civil parishes in Wiltshire


First Days

First Days may refer to:
 Alternate title of First Love, TV series
 "First Days" (Modern Family), episode of Modern Family
 "First Days" (song), a song by Deno Driz


Moraea vuvuzela

Moraea vuvuzela is a plant named after the noisy trumpet, vuvuzela. Moraea is a genus of plants in the family Iridaceae.

References

vuvuzela


Phthalylsulfathiazole

Phthalylsulfathiazole belongs to the group of drugs called sulfonamides. The drug is a broad-spectrum antimicrobial that can treat different types of infections including intestinal. The mechanism of action depends on competitive antagonism with para-aminobenzoic acid and inhibition of dihydropteroate synthetase activity, which in turn leads to impaired synthesis of dihydrofolic acid and as a result its active metabolite necessary for the synthesis of purine and pyrimidine.

The drug is indicated in the treatment of dysentery, colitis, gastroenteritis and intestinal surgery. It is not absorbed into the blood stream from the gut. Adverse effects may include allergic reactions, vitamin B insufficiency, agranulocytosis and aplastic anemia.

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Category:Sulfonamide antibiotics


Jubilee International Church

Jubilee International Church was established in 1992 with just 7 members in Clapham, London SW4. They then purchased and modernised a former 1935 Baptist church building and moved in 2006 to the Chinbrook and the former Chinbrook Meadows areas of Grove Park. The church was part of the Assemblies of God in Great Britain, a leading Pentecostal denomination worldwide. The church had a number of branches in the UK and in several nations worldwide.

History of the building

When the Grove Park Estate was first built in the 1920s, Lewisham Council determined that it should also include a church. Mr Frederick E Pinkess who had been running a successful ‘mobile’ Sunday school in the community decided to apply for permission to get a church built. He could clearly see that the area had potential for a thriving parish. With the help of the Shaftesbury Society, which was affiliated to the Baptist Church, Mr Pinkess raised enough money to build a church which was completed in May 1935. It was a non-denominational place of worship called Grove Park Mission and served as a mercy ministry to the poor. In the 1930s and 1940s, the church had a very popular and effective outreach programme in the community especially amongst the children, which led to a thriving Sunday school. Outreaches included opening-air singing and playing hymns along the local residential streets while carrying around the heavy church organ for music. There were regular open air outreaches every Sunday afternoon and evening for many years.

In 1947, the work was connected with the Free Church movement which was of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Then from 1961, Pastor Gordon Thomson who was connected to Honor Oak Christian Fellowship became the long-term pastor of the congregation now called The Christian Fellowship. A local branch of Operation Mobilisation was also instrumental in helping with this work.

In 1987, Book Aid began to lease space in the building from The Christian Fellowship, and then in August 2005 the building was sold to Jubilee International Church who had migrated from the Clapham area. Pastor Thomson expressed the fact that they were thankful to see the church building in the hands of a new thriving congregation. He and his wife both died within a month of each other in 2007.

Opposition

The new church came into the media spotlight in the summer of 2006 following serious controversy with local residents in Grove Park and heated dialogues with the local council, London Borough of Lewisham regarding planning consent. Following a favourable decision by the council regarding planning usage, this issue eventually culminated in racist arson attacks against the church and continuing minor attacks and opposition for almost two years. The proverbial dust settled after about 18 months.

References

External links
 JIC website
 Assemblies of God in Great Britain
 Anger at Council's U-turn on church. News Shopper. 20 June 2006
 Church prayer answered. News Shopper. 18 July 2006
 Church damaged in racist arson attack. This is Local London. 16 August 2006
 Church damaged in racist arson attack. Wandsworth Guardian. 16 August 2006

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Category:Pentecostal churches in London


Nemesio Pozuelo

Nemesio Nemesyevich Pozuelo (; born   July 7, 1940, Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet football player, forward. Master of Sports of the USSR (1963).

Biography
Son of Spanish refugees. His father was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain, his mother died of cancer when Pozuelo was 7 years old.

He has been identified in an orphanage in Ivanovo, where he started playing football.

Since 1960 - the main player FC Torpedo Moscow (whose pupil school football is). In the second half of the season 1964 moved to the  Spartak, started in 1965,  Zenit, but was disqualified for life as a frequent violator of the sport mode.

In 1996, he returned to Spain, to the city of Velilla de San Antonio. He worked as a coach of children's school.

References

External links
 НЕМЕСИО ПОСУЭЛО — РАНО УГАСШАЯ «ЗВЕЗДА»

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Category:Soviet Top League players
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Al ʽAbbasi

Al `abbasi is a village in western central Yemen. It is located in the San‘a’ Governorate.

External links
Towns and villages in the San‘a’ Governorate

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Limo (woreda)

Limo (also spelled Lemo) is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. The relationship of the name of this woreda to that of the medieval kingdom in the Gibe region is unclear. A part of the Hadiya Zone, Limo is bordered on the south by the Kembata Tembaro Zone, on the southwest by Duna and Soro, on the west by Gomibora, on the northwest by Misha, on the northeast by Ana Lemo, and on the southeast by Shashogo. Towns in Lemo include Belesa and Lisana. The town of Hosaena is surrounded by Limo. Parts of Limo woreda were separated to create Ana Lemo, Hosaena, Mirab Azernet Berbere and Misraq Azernet Berbere woredas.

Limo has 67 kilometers of all-weather roads and 56 kilometers of dry-weather roads, for an average road density of 123 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers.

During the 2000 general elections, when voters at the polling station in Nabor kebele protested Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front cadres, kebele officials and even National Election Board of Ethiopia officials coercing voters to vote for the ruling party over the Hadiya National Democratic Organization, "the officials and cadres became nervous and the police were ordered to shoot into the crowd of protesting voters. People panicked and ran away, but left on the ground were two dead women and several injured."

Demographics
Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 118,594, of whom 58,666 are men and 59,928 women; 2,049 or 1.73% of its population are urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants were Protestants, with 74.07% of the population reporting that belief, 12.37% were Muslim, 7.2% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 6.14% were Catholic.

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 287,430 of whom 143,587 were males and 143,843 were females; 8,743 or 3.04% of its population were urban dwellers. The five largest ethnic groups reported in Konteb were the Hadiya (62.13%), the Silte (30.3%), the Amhara (3.05%), the Kambaata (2.67%), and the Sebat Bet Gurage (0.45%); all other ethnic groups made up 3.4% of the population. Hadiya is spoken as a first language by 57.81%, 31.35% Silte, 6.63% spoke Amharic and 3.36% spoke Kambaata; the remaining 0.85% spoke all other primary languages reported. 58.52% of the population said they were Muslim, 22.09% embraced Protestants, 18.36% were Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 0.45% Catholic. Concerning education,30.97% of the population were considered literate, which is less than the Zone average of 33.01%. Concerning sanitary conditions, 68.48% of the urban houses and 21.33% of all houses had access to safe drinking water at the time of the census; 48.52% of the urban and 5.71% of all houses had toilet facilities.

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Finalmente

Finalmente is a song written by Ricky Gianco, Dante Pieretti and Gianni Sanjust, and recorded by Wilma Goich in 1968. Britt Lindeborg wrote lyrics in Swedish as Tycker om dig, and the song was recorded by Sylvia Vrethammar, releasing it as a B-side for the 1969 single Lärling på våran gård (Son of a Preacher Man). With these lyrics the song was also recorded by Swedish band the Drifters on 2008 album. Tycker om dig: Svängiga låtar från förr.

Magnus Uggla performed the song during Så mycket bättre 2012, and also recorded the song live for the album Magnus den store.

References

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Johanna von Koczian

Johanna von Koczian, née von Kóczián-Miskolczy (born 30 October 1933) is a German actress. She grew up in Salzburg, Austria, where actor Gustaf Gründgens offered her a role at the Salzburg Festival. She later portrayed Anne Frank at the Schiller theater in Berlin, but her breakthrough in cinema was her role in the 1957 remake of Victor and Victoria. She has appeared in 60 films and television shows since 1955. She starred in the film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, which was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.

She is the daughter of a German soldier, Gustav Freiherr von Koczian-Miskolczy (1877, Brünn1958, Oberndorf, and his wife Lydia Alexandra. After a brief marriage with film director Dietrich Haugk which ended in divorce in 1961, Johanna von Koczian was married to music producer Wolf Kabitzky, who died in July 2004. She is the mother of German actress Alexandra von Koczian.

Selected filmography
 Victor and Victoria (1957)
 Aren't We Wonderful? (1958)
 People in the Net (1959)
 For the First Time (1959)
  (1959)
  (1960)
 Stage Fright (1960)
 Agatha, Stop That Murdering! (1960)
 The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961)
 Our House in Cameroon (1961)
 Street of Temptation (1962)
 Who Wants to Sleep? (1965)
 Derrick - Season 2, Episode 08: "Pfandhaus" (1975)
 Derrick - Season 3, Episode 05: "Schock" (1976)

References

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Fortress of Mainz

The Fortress of Mainz was a fortressed garrison town between 1620 and 1918. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, under the term of the 1815 Peace of Paris, the control of Mainz passed to the German Confederation and became part of a chain of strategic fortresses which protected the Confederation. With the dissolution of the Confederation and the Austro-Prussian War, control of the fortress first passed to Prussia, and, after the 1871 Unification of Germany, to the German Empire.

1839
In 1839 an article on Mainz in The Penny Cyclopædia stated that Mainz was one of the strongest fortresses in Europe, and a chief bulwark of Germany against France. At the Congress of Vienna, Mainz was assigned to the Louis, Grand-Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, but it was decided that, as a fortress, it should belong to the German Confederation, with a garrison of Austrian, Prussian, and Hessian troops. This garrison in time of peace consisted of 6,000 men. The military governor, who retained his post five years, was alternately an Austrian and a Prussian general. A criticism of the fortress was that it was too large, as it required for its defence a garrison of 30,000 men.

The fortress of Mainz was connected, by a bridge over the Rhine, with the strongly fortified village of Kastel. The extent of the works, which were much enlarged by the French while the city was in their possession, including the work called the Weisenauer Schanze or Fort Weisenau, but exclusive of Kastel and of the small redoubt, was two and a half leagues. Among the principal works were the citadel, with the Eichelstein, and that called the Hauptstein, an extremely strong work projecting beyond all the rest, on an eminence called the Linsenberg. Kastel, which at that time was united with Mainz as an outwork, had very extensive fortifications, which consisted of four strong forts besides the strongly fortified island of Petersau, including which latter the works were of greater extent than even those of Mainz itself. The inner works consisted of 14 principal and 13 smaller bastions. On the land side there were four great gates with double drawbridges, and toward the river several more gates. The Rhine runs from south to north, and the Main from east to west. About a mile above the junction of the two rivers was the village of Kostheim on the Main, and a little farther up a bridge of boats, defended by a strong tête-de-pont.

1864
Karl Baedeker writing in 1864 stated that Mainz was amongst the strongest fortresses of the German Confederation. It was surrounded by a threefold line of fortifications: first ring, the chief rampart consisting of 14 bastions comprising the citadel; second ring, a line of advanced forts, connected by glacis; third ring, by still more advanced entrenchments, erected partly by the Prussian, partly by the Austrian engineers, of which the principal were the Weisenauer Lager, the Hartenberg, and the Binger Thurm. On the north side of the town stood a vast Military Hospital, facing the Schlossplatz. In time of peace the garrison consisted of 3,000 Prussian, and a similar number of Austrian troops; in time of war the number of soldiers could be trebled.

Structures and buildings
According to Lehnhardts map of Mainz ~ 1844  many bastions are to be found:

References

Attribution

External links

www.festung-mainz.de

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Category:Buildings and structures in Mainz
Category:Fortresses in Germany


Brian Hansen

Brian Hansen may refer to:

Brian Hansen (American football) (born 1960), former American football punter in the National Football League
Brian Hansen (curler) (born 1972), Danish curler, 2002 Winter Olympics participant
Brian Hansen (speed skater) (born 1990), American speed skater


Barbara Ayrton-Gould

Barbara Bodichon Ayrton-Gould (née Ayrton; June 1886 – 14 October 1950) was a Labour politician and suffragist in the United Kingdom.

Background and family life
Ayrton-Gould was born in Kensington, London, the daughter of prominent electrical engineers and inventors Hertha Marks Ayrton and William Edward Ayrton. She was educated at Notting Hill High School, and studied chemistry and physics  at University College, London. She married the writer Gerald Gould (1885–1936); the artist Michael Ayrton (1921–1975) was their son. Until 1930, Gould worked as publicity manager of the Daily Herald.

Suffrage work

In 1906, she became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union and gave up her science research  to be a full-time organizer for them by 1909. She wrote the pro-suffrage pamphlet The Democratic Plea for the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement.

In March 1912, Ayrton-Gould participated in smashing store windows in the West End of London for suffrage, for which she served time in prison. On her release, in 1913, she went to France, disguised as a schoolgirl, so she would not be arrested again.

In 1914, Ayrton-Gould left the Women's Social and Political Union due to frustration with the autocratic tendencies of their leaders, as well as Christabel Pankhurst's continuing absence. On 6 February 1914, she, her husband, and Evelyn Sharp founded the United Suffragists, notable for accepting both male and female members. The United Suffragists ended their campaign when 1918's Representation of the People Act gave women limited suffrage in the United Kingdom.

Political office
Ayrton-Gould became a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party in 1929, and served as vice-Chair in 1938 and Chair of the Labour Party from 1939 to 1940. As from 1922, she made four unsuccessful attempts to get elected as MP. During the general election of 1929 she missed victory in Northwich by only four votes. The fifth time, Gould was elected Member of Parliament for newly created Hendon North constituency in Labour's landslide victory of 1945. The forerunner constituency, Hendon, had since 1935 grown considerably in population (and to some extent number of homes) and was split in two; it had been solidly won by Conservative candidates since 1910, however the north division fell to Gould's campaign, a feat not to be repeated until 1997 by a Labour candidate. In Parliament, the two main issues of Gould's concern were food supplies and child poverty. Thus, she succeeded in introducing a resolution which called for a government enquiry into child neglect.  She also was a Justice of the Peace in Marylebone.

Ayrton-Gould held the seat until losing the next general election (in 1950), when it was gained by Ian Orr-Ewing (Con). She withdrew as prospective candidate for the constituency in September because of ill health. A month later Gould died, eight months after leaving the House of Commons.

References

Bibliography

External links

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Barbara
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Now TV (Hong Kong)

Now TV (also stylised as now TV) is a pay-TV service provider in Hong Kong operated by PCCW Media Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of PCCW. Launched on 26 September 2003, its TV signal is transmitted with IPTV technology through HKT's fixed broadband network.

It provides 197 TV channels including 176 channels branded under now TV (32 channels in HD), 21 channels from TVB Network Vision (1 channel in HD), and over 30 video on demand categories.

Now TV is the largest pay-TV operator in Hong Kong in terms of number of subscribers, number of channels, number of HD channels and quantity of VOD contents. The word "Now" is abbreviated from "Network Of the World".

History and establishment
Launched in March 1998, PCCW's services included a wide range of information and entertainment, such as news, video-on-demand (VOD), music videos, home-shopping, home-banking and educational content. iTV had some 67,000 subscribers at the end of 2000.

Due to the liberalization of the pay-TV market by the HKSAR government in early July 2000, the then existing duopolists, iTV and i-Cable, were confronted with ferocious competition. With fewer subscribers and hence the decline in the revenue generated from iTV, the interactive television operation was terminated in the final quarter of 2002. Now Broadband pay-TV service was launched in September 2003 with 23 channels under the same umbrella company PCCW; iTV is thus commonly viewed as the predecessor of Now TV.

In December 2005, Now TV introduced a technology with connection speed up to 18 megabits per second (Mbit/s). At least 75% of the service area will be offered a service running up to 8Mbit/s. In addition, Video-On-Demand services were launched in January 2006.

Now TV subscribers have access to 136 channels.

Chronology
March 1998 Hong Kong Telecom commercially launched iTV
July 2000 Liberalisation of the pay-TV market
Last quarter of 2002 Termination of iTV
August 2003 Now TV was unveiled
September 2003 Now TV was officially launched

Charging schemes
Since each household has to install a special decoder to view the channels, there is an extra deposit and installation for the decoder. However, these charges are waived for Netvigator broadband subscribers. With the decoder, households are able to watch approximately 20 free channels.

For the subscription channels, Now uses the pricing model of pay-per-channel basis. There are bundle offers in existence, for given bouquet of channels, but these are less comprehensive than those offered by rivals.

Now TV offers a business package (in which there are fewer channels for subscription than household customers) for businesses at a higher price than household subscribers.

Since 1 September 2007, Now TV no longer offers STAR Sports or ESPN as stand-alone packages, preferring instead to bundle them into a single multi-sport package. This has caused some distress amongst many viewers who view this move as a breach of their commitment contract's that stipulates that upon expiry of channel contracts, contracts are automatically renewed.

Channel highlights
In the beginning, Now TV only operated 23 channels, most of which were in English. In response to competition, it has expanded its repertoire of new channels, adding programming such as the Disney Channel and ESPN. By June 2005, the number of channels grew to more than 70, with an increased number of Cantonese channels.

In 2006, Now TV outbid i-Cable for the rights to broadcast English Premier League football in Hong Kong, starting with the 2007-08 season.
It is also the broadcaster of LaLiga, the Spanish football competition

Now TV currently has the most channels of any pay TV provider in Hong Kong. At present, it offers 21 free channels and 103 pay channels, including 15 audio channels. The total number of channels exceeds 130.

Languages of channels provided
The majority of its programming is in English, Cantonese or Putonghua, though some programming in Hindi (Star Bharat), and French (TV5MONDE),  is available.

Business performance and development
Now TV service was launched with 23 channels in September 2003 but was soon expanded to exceed 30 with the addition of sports-related channels and BBC World and the Animax channel, as well as the Cantonese-language Star Chinese Movies and Xing Kong channels. Within four months of launch, Now TV had attracted more than 200,000 customers by end-2003.

Although Now TV mainly targets high-income viewers, its subscriber numbers have grown sharply. As well as home viewership, the service has been extended to hotel rooms, offices, sports bars and hotels.

According to a report in Ming Pao Finance on 5 October 2005, the number of subscribers to Now TV exceeded 450,000. Per annual reports issued by PCCW, at the end of December 2005 the number of paying subscribers to Now TV stood at 549,000 (approximately 61% were paid subscribers, with 31% being free subscribers). These figures compare with totals of 361,000 at end-December 2004 and 269,000 at end-June 2004. Despite the growth in subscribers, Now TV was operating at a loss in 2005. By August 2006, Now TV had in excess of 654,000 subscribers.

Although NOW TV can claim consistent growth in subscriber numbers, quality of service remains 'average' at best.  Many viewers report 'jerky' TV reception, slow refresh times when changing channels, and picture freezing extending over several minutes at multiple instances during single programming.

Strategy
In early July 2000, the HKSAR government awarded five new pay-TV licences. The new entrants were all relatively seasoned broadcasting companies including Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting, Hong Kong DTV Company, a British broadcaster Elmsdsale, Hong Kong Network TV and Pacific Digital Media HK. The considerable opening of the market sparked intense competition for programming and viewer share, which can be seen by the extensive use of advertising.

To avoid direct competition with the two local digital terrestrial channels - Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and ViuTV - Now TV has sought to build up and secure its local pay-TV position by signing long-term contracts with a variety of channels from around the world.

Exclusivity
On November 15, 2006, Now TV made a knock-out bid, of an estimated HK$1.56 billion, to secure the license to exclusively broadcast football matches of the Barclays Premier League matches in Hong Kong for three seasons commencing from the 2007/2008 season. Two years previously, i-Cable had paid an estimated HK$700 million for a three-year contract.
Now TV announced in January 2006 that a three-year deal was signed with ESPN STAR for the rights to live matches of the UEFA Champions League during the 2006-2009 seasons.
In December 2006 secured the exclusive rights to broadcast the Euro 2008 football championship by agreeing to pay HK$400 million.
Playboy TV will become exclusive to Now TV from December 1, 2006.

Pricing
i-Cable has been forced to adopt an alternative pricing model for its subscribers. It allows subscribers to pick and choose their own channels, similar to the pay-by-channel of Now. Moreover, from Asia Media in October 2005, Now TV claimed that they will not follow i-Cable to minimize monthly charges since they have added new channels and improved the delivery standard, in order to maintain competitiveness. In December 2006, it announced it was instead planning on raising subscription rates after having secured exclusive rights in the ESPN, Premier League, and Euro 2008.

Awards

At the 2004 Convention of CASBAA (Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia), Now TV was awarded "The Chairman's Award". CASBAA, representing 120 corporations serving more than 3 billion viewers, acknowledged Now TV for its "innovative and proactive marketing of a secure and advanced pay-TV platform and for growing its interactive capability, resulting in a stellar subscriber take-up" on 31 October 2004.

Plans
The company had planned to roll out high-definition television (HDTV), which offers up to four times the picture resolution of standard-definition television, in late 2007. But on 19 July 2007, it unveiled plans to begin HDTV broadcasts ahead of schedule. Included on the first slate of HDTV programming are 90 Premier League football matches. Subscribers will be required upgrade to a new set-top box with a one-off charge of HK$530, pay an additional HK$38/month for set-top box rental, and an additional HK$68/month over and above the existing charge for the "Mega Sports Pack". The new service will require a Netvigator broadband connection of at least 11Mbit/s.
They also plan 4 a Korean Television channel.

See also
IPTV
HK Television Entertainment
ViuTV
ViuTVsix

References

External links

Category:Television stations in Hong Kong
Category:Internet television
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1998


Brygidki

Brygidki () is prison in the building of a former Bridgettine nunnery in Lviv, Ukraine.

History
It was founded in 1614 at the behest of Anna Fastkowska and Anna Poradowska for girls from noble families. After the Partition of Poland the Austrian administration decided to secularise the convent. In 1784 the Brygidki building was turned into a prison, where death sentences would be carried out on a regular basis until the 1980s.

Taken over by the Soviet Union after Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, the prison was one of three sites of mass murder of political prisoners by NKVD in Ukraine in June 1941 as the Soviets were retreating before the Nazi German invasion. Approximately 7,000 prisoners - primarily Poles and Ukrainians - died in Lviv in that event.

Amongst those who perished on June 30, 1941, was Fr. Zynoviy Kovalyk, whom the NKVD arrested in December for the sermon he gave on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8). While they shot the rest of the prisoners, they decided to treat Fr. Kovalyk like his Lord by crucifying him in front of his fellow prisoners. When German troops had conquered Lviv, many people hastened to the prison in the hope of finding their relatives. According to witnesses, the most terrible sight was that of seeing the priest nailed to the prison wall. Even worse, someone had slit his belly open and placed a dead human fetus inside of it.

In Nazi occupation times, mass murders of Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian civilians occurred in Brygidki.

The prison courtyard still contains a Baroque chapel from the former convent. There are plans to shut down the infamous prison or to move it out of the city.

Notable prisoners
 Omelian Pleshkewycz (1919)
 Naftali Botwin (1925) - executed by Polish authorities.
 Kazimierz Bartel (1941) - murdered by Nazi German authorities.

Category:Buildings and structures in Lviv
Category:Prisons in Ukraine
Category:World War II sites in the Soviet Union
Category:NKVD special camps
Category:Prisons in the Soviet Union
Category:Nunneries


2012–13 División de Honor de Waterpolo

The 2012–13 season of the División de Honor de Waterpolo is the 90th season of top-tier water polo in Spain since its inception in 1925.

The season comprises regular season and championship playoff. Regular season started on October 2012 and will finish on April 13, 2013. Top eight team at standings play championship playoff.

Championship playoff will begin a week later with semifinals, playing the final around late May.

Atlètic-Barceloneta was the defending champions and will remain so for next season (2013–14) after defeating Sabadell 3–1 in the Championship Final.

Teams

Regular season standings

Source:

Championship playoffs

Quarter-finals

1st leg

2nd leg

Atlètic-Barceloneta won series 2–0 and advanced to Semifinals.

Real Canoe-Isostar won series 2–0 and advanced to Semifinals.

Sabadell won series 2–0 and advanced to Semifinals.

3rd leg

Mediterrani won series 2–1 and advanced to Semifinals.

Semifinals

1st leg

2nd leg

Atlètic-Barceloneta won series 2–0 and advanced to Final.

Sabadell won series 2–0 and advanced to Final.

Final

1st leg

2nd leg

3rd leg

4th leg

Atlètic-Barceloneta won Championship final series 3–1.

Individual awards
 Championship MVP:  Felipe Perrone, CN Atlètic-Barceloneta
 Best Goalkeeper:  Iñaki Aguilar, CN Sabadell
 Top goalscorer:  Joel Esteller, CN Barcelona

Relegation playoff
Playoff to be played in two legs. First leg to be played on 4 May and 2nd leg on 11 May. The overall winner will play in División de Honor 2013–14 and the loser one in Primera Nacional.

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1st leg

2nd leg

Helios won series 2–0 and remained in División de Honor.

Top goal scorers

(regular season only)

See also
 2012–13 División de Honor Femenina de Waterpolo

References

External links
 Real Federación Española de Natación
 Competition format
 Relegation playoff rules

Category:División de Honor de Waterpolo
Category:Seasons in Spanish water polo competitions
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Category:2012 in water polo
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Old City Hall Cenotaph, Toronto

The Old City Hall Cenotaph is a cenotaph located at the front steps of Old City Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Originally built after World War I to commemorate Torontonians who lost their lives in services for Canada, the memorial also commemorates those who died in World War II and the Korean War. It was modelled on The Cenotaph at Whitehall in London, England, constructed using granite cut from the Canadian Shield, and unveiled on November 11, 1925. The City of Toronto lists the artists as "Ferguson/Pomphrey",  which were an architectural firm located at 282 St. Clements Ave. in north Toronto. Their design was selected from among 50 designed submitted after City Council's request to replace a temporary wooden structure that had been used each Remembrance Day since 1919. The two Toronto architects received a fee of $2500 for the work; this was 10% of the cost of the $25 000 project. The work was completed in budget and on time. There was some controversy before the monument was unveiled; "the only wording on the Cenotaph would be a simple four word statement “TO ALL WHO SERVED.” Then someone realized that this monument was in fact a cenotaph, a structure that by the very definition of that word (from the Greek kenotaphion - kenos, empty + taphos, tomb) signified an “empty tomb.” " As a memorial to those who had died and are buried elsewhere, it was felt that TO ALL WHO SERVED was inappropriate in such a case. After much discussion, the original inscription was removed and replaced with the current TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD.

The memorial features a stone laid by Field Marshall Haig on July 24, 1925.

The site is one of several locations used for Remembrance Day commemorations in Toronto.

References

External links
Shaping Toronto: The Old City Hall Cenotaph

Category:Canadian military memorials and cemeteries
Category:World War I memorials in Canada
Category:World War II memorials in Canada
Category:Cenotaphs in Canada
Category:Monuments and memorials in Toronto
Category:Government buildings completed in 1925


Syrnola violacea

Syrnola violacea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

Description
The shell is smooth and violaceous. Its length measures 11 mm. The teleoconch contains ten whorls. These are quite plain except for the line of the revolving plica showing through each whorl transversely, just below the sutures. The aperture is somewhat oblique. The outer lip is plain. The columella is one-plaited.

Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Loyalty Islands.

References

External links
 OBIS: Syrnola violacea

Category:Pyramidellidae
Category:Gastropods described in 1896


Rang Mahal

Rang Mahal hotel
a collection of Kushan era archaeological cultural sites of India
 Rang Mahal, Sri Ganganagar, a village in Suratgarh tehsil of Ganganagar district in Rajasthan state of India
 Rang Mahal (Red Fort) or Palace of Colour, located in the Red Fort at Delhi in India
 Rangmahal, a village in North Guwahati, Kamrup rural district of Assam state in India


Kenta Mukuhara

is a Japanese football player currently playing for Fagiano Okayama in the J2 League.

Career statistics

Club
Updated to end of 2018 season.

1Includes Emperor's Cup.

2Includes J. League Cup.

3Includes AFC Champions League.

4Includes Suruga Bank Championship and Japanese Super Cup.

Honours

Club
  F.C. Tokyo
J. League Division 2 (1) : 2011
Emperor's Cup (1) : 2011
J. League Cup (1) : 2009
Suruga Bank Championship (1) : 2010

References

External links

Profile at Cerezo Osaka

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Category:Association football people from Tokyo
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Category:J1 League players
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Category:J3 League players
Category:FC Tokyo players
Category:Cerezo Osaka players
Category:Cerezo Osaka U-23 players
category:Sanfrecce Hiroshima players
Category:Fagiano Okayama players
Category:Association football defenders


The Princess Diaries, Volume VII: Party Princess

The Princess Diaries, Volume VII: Party Princess, released in the United Kingdom as The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven, is a young adult book in the Princess Diaries series.  Written by Meg Cabot, it was released in 2006 by Harper Collins Publishers and is the seventh novel in the series.

Plot Summary
When Mia Thermopolis bankrupts the student government buying high-tech recycling bins, she needs to raise $5000 soon, so that she can pay for the seniors' commencement ceremony. All her friends (including, her long-time boyfriend and so-called love of her life Michael Moscovitz) mention selling candles, but Mia absolutely refuses, so Grandmere comes up with a solution: a musical, Braid! written and directed by Grandmere, starring Mia and her friends, portraying the achievements of Mia's famous Genovian ancestor, Rosagunde. Mia is thrilled, yet quite worried to be cast as the lead. She attempts to drop out, but Grandmere threatens to tell the seniors that Mia had bankrupted the student government (making them angry that she had not saved money for the commencement ceremony). 'Braid!' also results in a new-found friendship, between Mia and 'The Guy Who Hates It When They Put Corn In The Chili', aka J.P. - Mia's on-stage love interest, who turns out to be an aspiring screenwriter.

Another drama in her life enters the story when Michael mentions his parents are going away for the weekend and he plans on having a party. Mia starts to worry she isn't enough of a party girl. She even (as a last resort, of course) asks her archenemy, Lana Weinberger, how to act like a "Party Girl". Mia does what Lana says and it all ends in tragedy. After she drinks and 'sexy dances' with J.P., her relationship with Michael seems to be on rocky ground, especially as Michael's parents are splitting up and he is being an absent boyfriend. Her friendship with J.P. seems to be going the same way thanks to Lilly's new literary magazine, 'Fat Louie's Pink Butthole', which includes 'No More Corn!' a story Mia wrote (before meeting him) about J.P. killing himself. However, Principal Gupta immediately bans the magazine and confiscates all the copies, as Lilly has submitted five explicit stories to it, meaning that J.P. never sees Mia's story.

Mia's friendship with Lily also hits a rough patch after Mia kisses J.P. (on the cheek) as a sign of gratitude for being a supportive friend and Lily (who clearly has a crush on J.P.) stops speaking to Mia.

The play is performed at the Aide de Ferme, a benefit for Genovian olive oil farmers that Grandmere puts on. Everyone who is anyone attends, but, before the last scene, Mia is worried about her on-stage kiss with J.P. But then Michael shows up in J.P.'s costume and gives her a perfect kiss and they talk about their problems, and, once again, their relationship appears to be strong. Grandmere also raises enough money to help the Genovian farmers and Mia, solving her problems.

References

Category:2006 American novels
Category:American young adult novels
Category:The Princess Diaries novels
Category:HarperCollins books


Živko Nikolić

Živko Nikolić (Serbian Cyrillic: Живко Николић) (20 November 1941 – 17 August 2001) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin film director.

Biography
Živko Nikolić was born in Ozrinići, Nikšić municipality, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, in 1941. He graduated the Art School in Herceg Novi where he was trained as a painter of ceramics which contributed to his specific perception of the film. He died on 17 August 2001 in Belgrade. His 1984 film Unseen Wonder was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.

Filmography
Sebi za života (1968) documentary short
Blaženi mirotvorci (1968) documentary short
Trag (1971) documentary short
Čačanski neimari (1971) documentary short
Ždrijelo (1972) documentary short
Polaznik (1973) documentary short
Bauk (1974) documentary short
Aerodrom Rijeka (1974) documentary short
Marko Perov (1975) documentary short
Prozor (1976) documentary short
Beštije (1977) ... aka Beasts
Oglav (1977)
Ine (1978)
Jovana Lukina (1979)
Krvava svadba na Brzavi (1980) (TV)
Ane (1980)
Graditelj (1980)
Biljeg (1981)
Smrt gospodina Goluže (1982) ... aka Smrť pána Golužu
Čudo neviđeno (1984) ... aka Unseen Wonder
Lepota poroka (1986) ... aka The Beauty of Vice
U ime naroda (1987) ... aka In the Name of the People
To ka' uvati ne pušta (1988) (TV)
"Đekna još nije umrla, a ka' će ne znamo" (1988) TV Series
Iskušavanje đavola (1989)
Ukleti brod (1990) ... aka Cursed Ship
"Oriđinali" (1995) (mini) TV Series
Uspavanka " (1995)
In Search of the Miraculous (1998)

References

External links

Category:1941 births
Category:2001 deaths
Category:People from Nikšić
Category:Montenegrin film directors


FM104 PhoneShow

The FM104 PhoneShow was a late night phone-in programme on the Dublin radio station FM104 hosted by Keith Ward. It aired Monday to Thursday evenings from 21:00 to 01:00 and from 22:00 to 00:00 on Friday nights. Live images from the studio were simulcast on local cable TV station City Channel, until the TV station closed in September

Get It Off Your Chest
A typical programme begins with a 90-minute segment called Get It Off Your Chest, a less serious show in which callers are invited to call the station to discuss whatever they want. This section includes phone, text-in competitions and callers to the show randomly winning small prizes.

Main Issues
Listeners are invited to submit topics by email and telephone for discussion on the programme between 22:30 and 00:30 nightly. These topics usually relate to issues affecting Dubliners, current affairs and listeners' personal problems.

Chris Barry
Chris Barry, who originally started the FM104 Phoneshow in 1990, took over the show on 30 September 2013 after Adrian Kennedy and co-presenter/producer Jeremy Dixon left the station.

Phone Show Extra
Phone Show Extra is broadcast between 00:30 and 01:00. It consists of previously broadcast material from the show over the years.

Breaking News
FM104 was the first Irish broadcaster to break the news of the death of Michael Jackson. The news was broken during the FM104 PhoneShow. Local celebrities including Westlife singer Nicky Byrne expressed their sadness on the phone show. They also had an interview with a Los-Angeles based journalist followed by a half-hour of Michael Jackson's music.

Adrian & Jeremy
Adrian Kennedy began hosting the show in 1997, he was later joined by Jeremy Dixon. In September 2013 it was announced that Adrian & Jeremy were to leave FM104 to take up a new position presenting a daytime show on 98FM in 2014.  The two stated "16 years is long enough for anybody to work nights" as their reason for leaving.

Keith Ward and John Berrill
Keith Ward of 98FM and John Berrill of Spin 1038 took over the show in January 2017 under the same show name. As well as broadcasting online, the show now focuses on new streams such as Facebook Live where they preview topics coming up.

Keith Ward departed the station in 2019, who was later replaced by Cormac Moore for a short stint. It was then announced that The Phoneshow would rebrand.

See also
 FM104
 The Strawberry Alarm Clock

External links
 FM104 PhoneShow Page
 FM104

References

Category:Irish talk radio shows


Croatia–NATO relations

The accession of Croatia to NATO took place in 2009. Croatia entered into NATO's Partnership for Peace in 2000, which began the process of accession into the alliance. The country received an invitation to join at the 2008 Bucharest summit and became a full member on April 1, 2009.

History

Croatia's first relations with NATO were established in 1953. That year Yugoslavia entered into the Balkan Pact, a loose military alliance with Greece and Turkey, then both recent NATO members.

Croatia had considered holding a referendum on NATO membership. On March 23, 2007, the Croatian president Stjepan Mesić, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and President of parliament Vladimir Šeks declared that the Croatian constitution does not require a referendum on this issue. In 2006 the Croatian government was planning to start a media campaign to promote the benefits of membership. In February 2008 a project named Bolje pakt nego rat was formed by Transparency International Croatia and iDEMO, and financed by the United States embassy in Croatia, in order to promote the NATO membership through public discussions about its benefits.

A May 2007 poll commissioned by the government showed that NATO membership was backed by 52% of the population, and 25% was against. On January 4, 2008, Croatian Prime minister Ivo Sanader reached a coalition agreement with partners from HSS and HSLS to form a new government. According to a provision of the said agreement Croatia's entry into NATO would not be decided on a referendum. Less than 20 days before entering NATO, Prime Minister Sanader stated: "I will forget that some people had requested a referendum. Had we started that adventure, we wouldn't have accomplished this."

Croatia has been a member of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan since December 12, 2002. In 2003 Croatia joined the Adriatic Charter along with other NATO aspirants. In November, 2006 the State Committee for the Membership of Croatia in NATO was established, with Croatian president Stjepan Mesić serving as committee president, and speaker Vladimir Šeks and prime minister Ivo Sanader serving as its vice-presidents. In June, 2007 the Croatian Parliament and the NATO parliamentary Assembly held a three-day conference in Dubrovnik entitled "Southeast Europe: Unfinished business", to discuss security and political issues in the region. The Noble Midas 07 NATO exercise held in Croatia in October, 2007 was the first time in the alliance's history that it held a military exercise in a non-member country. Croatia hosted an unofficial meeting of defense ministers on NATO's role in southeastern Europe in March, 2009.

On January 1, 2008 Croatia abandoned military conscription and finished its transition to a fully professional army. The Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia expects that it will join the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) in 2009. With Croatia's accession to the alliance, it has become more likely that the country will leave the Non-Aligned Movement. The Croatian minister of foreign affairs Gordan Jandroković was invited to the movement's 15th Conference, held in Iran in July, 2008. Instead of a high-level delegate, the Croatian ambassador to Iran, Esad Prohić, served as Croatian representative.

Negotiation progress

See also
 Foreign relations of Croatia
 Accession of Croatia to the European Union
 Accession of Albania to NATO

References

External links
Croatian mission to NATO

Category:NATO relations
Category:Foreign relations of Croatia
Category:Croatia and NATO
Category:Modern history of Croatia