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[edit] Bascom Mouton
Bascom Mouton-Noted Acadian Musician.
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Many fiddlers and Acadian musicians have highlighted his work over the years. Tributes and songs have been recorded and referenced to his music. He was featured at the International Rice Festival in Crowley, LA in music and on a poster depicting legendary fiddlers of Acadian Music. A small portion of his earlier work was recorded by CODOFIL. The original audio tape was recorded in the home of the Mouton family on a rice farm in Morse, Louisiana. His wife Euzide Mouton performed with him and many other legends of Acadian music. They spoke Acadian French. The rice farm was located on a gully in a rural area near Morse, Louisiana. The Acadian philosophy of the Mouton family was that you could add a little bit to the gumbo and there was always room for someone hungry, regardless of their race, religion, or background. Many did that and were treated to music by the family. He was friends with Lionel Leleux, another famous Acadian Musician. Lionel Leleux performed his music. The web site http://louisdl.louislibraries.org has the song "Two Step a Bascom Mouton" and Waltz de Bascom Mouton (La Malheureuse) as remembered by Lionel Leleux. Theh waltz, VALSE À DEUX TEMPS is attributed to Bascom Mouton on the web site http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/ Varise Connor learned the tune from Bascom Mouton at a party. There is an audio tape about Varise Connor, Eric Benoit, Michael Boucet visiting Bascom Mouton. Mouton family direct descendants live in Crowley, Lousiana and in Acadiana Parish. His daughter Ruby Marie Mouton Miles has preserved his guitar, fiddle and photographs.
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http://louisdl.louislibraries.org, http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/, Interview with Ruby Marie Mouton Miles, daughter of Bascom Miles. CODOFIL, Conseil pour le developpment du Francais en Louisiane, Council for the development of French in Louisia Lafayette, LA, founded 1968.
Pmiles 00:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] David T. Kenney
The inventor Kenney’s nine patents, granted between 1903 and 1913, applicable to both machine-driven and manual vacuum cleaners, dominated the vacuum cleaner industry in the United States until the 1920s. Born in 1866, he was apprenticed at age 15 to a plumber and gained patents for flush toilets in the1890s, when he had his own plumbing business in Plainfield, New Jersey. His first vacuum cleaner installation was in the building of Henry Clay Frick in Pittsburgh in 1902. Its stationary 4,000-lb. steam engine powered pipes and hoses reaching into all parts of the building. The Vacuum Cleaner Company, the holder of Kenney’s patents, had headquarters in New York City. With the wealth derived from his patents, Kenney became a benefactor of Catholic institutions and was named a Papal Chamberlain in 1906. He was a prominent citizen of Plainfield, NJ, and served on various boards in that state. His last invention, patented in 1920, was for a heating system designed to improve the distribution of heat from a wood-burning fireplace. He committed suicide in 1922 after losing his wife and a sister.
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Hoover Historical Center, 1875 East Maple Street, North Canton, OH 44720-3331 Lifshey, Earl. The Housewares Story: A History of the American Housewares Industry. Chicago: National Housewares Manufacturers Association, 1973 New York Times, 12/8/42 (Thomas Ewing obituary) Plainfield (NJ) Courier-News, 6/5/22 (Kenney obituary) Smiley, F.T. History of Plainfield and North Plainfield. Plainfield, NJ: The Plainfield Courier-News, 1901 Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. New York: Pantheon,1982. p. 79
70.21.194.167 01:28, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Grandma Heilwig
Grandma Heilwig is a major character in a 2006 Verizon television advertisement. She is intended to represent an unapproachable, unfamiliar, and possibly unpleasant juxtaposition to the usual grandmother expected by the grandson, also in the television spot. During the sketch, the grandson enters a living room where his parent is decorating a seasonal tree. Surprised by the stout, foreign lady before him, he questions his parent regarding the location of his better known grandmother. His father explains that Grandma Heilwig is there instead, referencing their telephone service which is not Verizon. In the end, it seems that Grandma Heilwig is there because the presumably better grandmother cannot be reached without a great expense on Verizon's competitor's service plans.
Throughout the advertisement, with each reference to Grandma Heilwig, who the father calls Helwig following English pronunciation rules, the grandmother in question repeats her name in a foreign accent using a German pronunciation, approximately HYLE-VIK.
Grandma Heilwig has become an instant commercial success along the lines of such notables as the Budweiser frogs, the Geico gecko, the Taco Bell dog, Duke (the Bush's Baked Beans hound), and the previous Verizon recurring advertisement character, the "Can you hear me now?" guy.
There are now print advertisements featuring the irascible grandma.
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1. The Washington Post Express November 18, 2006. "What's On" section. 2. City Paper (Washington, D.C.) November 17 - 23, 2006.
67.101.243.74 03:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] VIPCO
Vipco was one of the first independent video labels to start up in the UK. In the primitive early video days, there was a dearth of quality films to release so independent companies had to rely on sensationalist exploitation films with lurid advertising to capture the punters. VIPCO became famous as much for it's adverts as the films it released.
The Video Instant Picture Company (VIPCO) was started by Mike Lee and soon specialised in the kind of gory horror films that symbolised video's early years. Famous titles included THE BOGEY MAN, ZOMBIE FLESHEATERS, DRILLER KILLER and THE SLAYER. They also distributed more mainstream fair like CIRCLE OF TWO and BREAKER BREAKER (an early Chuck Norris film) but none of these 'conventional' films brought as much attention as the above mentioned horror titles. Maybe they brought the wrong kind of attention because although VIPCO'S horror titles were hugely successful the company became one of the bogeymen of the 'Video Nasties' scare.
'Video Today' magazine ran the breaking story in their September 1982 issue that obcenity charges were being brought against a number of video companies over extremely violent videos. ASTRA VIDEO (I Spit on Your Grave/Snuff), WORLD OF VIDEO 2000 (Nightmares In A Damaged Brain), GO VIDEO (SS Experiment Camp/Cannibal Holocaust) VIDEO PROGRAMME DISTRIBUTORS/REPLAY VIDEO (The Last House On The Left/Cannibal Ferox/Cannibal Apocalypse)and VIPCO (Zombie Flesheaters/Driller Killer/Death Trap) were among the first prosecutions. VIPCO's lurid posters for Driller Killer were partly to blame for the legal attention as it showed a man being drilled through the head with a Black and Decker. They weren't the only company to use such shocking images to sell their videos in rental libraries round Britain but they were one of the most remembered.
The final tally of banned videos (known as the DPP 39) included Zombie Flesheaters, The Bogeyman, The Slayer,Death Trap and Driller Killer but VIPCO had ceased trading by then and the company would remain dormant for the rest of the 1980's.
Unbelievably VIPCO would live twice. In the early 1990's Mike Lee started trading again and three of the first titles he offered were The Bogeyman, The Slayer and Zombie Flesheaters. These three infamous titles had now been passed as suitable for 18 certificates (with cuts) by the BBFC and VIPCO made much of their previously banned status. Since then, VIPCO has gone from strength to strength, specialising in cult and horror titles (including many of the former video nasties). They can be found on: http://www.horrorvideo.com
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http://www.pre-cert.co.uk http://www.horrorvideo.com
[edit] Goldmann, Lucien (1913-1970)
Lucien Goldmann was a leading propnent of socialist humanism in post-World War II French intelletual life. Born in Bucharest, he grew up in Botosani, a Moldavian town in the northeastern part of Romania. At first he was a member of Hashomer Hatsair (the Young Guard), a left-wing Zionist youth movement. He became a committed Marxist, studied briefly with the Austrian Marxist Max Adler at the University of Vienna and then at the University of Bucharest Law School. In Bucharest, he was active in communist youth circles but came into conflict with them because of his opposition to Stalinism. Goldmann studied in Paris in the 1930s but with the Nazi onslaught he fled to Toulouse and then to Switzerland, where he spent the war years doing research with the eminent psychologist Jean Piaget and writing a doctorate for the University of Zurich on "Man, Community and the World in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant." It became his first book. He returned to France after the war where he emerged as a a leading philosopher and sociologist of culture with books like "The Human Sciences and Philosophy" (1952) and especially "The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the Theater of Racine." In "The Hidden God" he tried to show how great cultural creation is the product of "transindividual subjects." More simply, he argued that the works of the philosopher Pascal and the playwright Racine were not just individual products, but articulated the "tragic world view" of a social stratum (the legal nobility of 17th century France) in crisis. Goldman's theories sought to synthesize the ideas of Hungarian Marxist Georg Lukacs with those of Piaget. The aspirations of socialist humanists, Goldmann argued, were a "wager" akin to that made by French philosopher Pascal in the existence of God. "Risk, possibility of failure, hope of success, and the synthesis of the three in a faith which is a wager are the essential constituent elements of the human condition," wrote Goldmann. He called his method "genetic structuralism" and "dialectical humanist". He opposed the increasing intellectual dominance of structuralism and post-modernism in the 1960s and was a strong critic of Michel Foucault as well as of Louis Althusser's structuralist Marxism. But their popularity largely eclipsed his work after his death. Goldmann's later books included "Recherches dialectiques" (Dialectical Quests" (1959), "Towards a Sociology of the Novel" (1964), "Cultural Creation in Modern Society." His posthumous works included "Lukacs and Heidegger"(1973) and Epistemologie et philosophie politique: Pour une theorie du liberte" (1978). In the 1950s and 1960s Goldmann warned that Marxism had become too dogmatic and rigid, and he became an advocate of a "liberal socialism." Rather than centralized planned economies, he advocated "workers's self-magangement" within a decentralized "market socialist economy."
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69.22.240.21 05:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Verticity - The next generation in outsourcing
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[edit] Missbehave Magazine
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| First Issue | 2006 |
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Missbehave Magazine is a quarterly fashion magazine. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the magazine was founded in 2006 by the publishers of Mass Appeal Magazine.
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Missbehave Magazine is a quarterly fashion magazine. Based in Brooklyn, New York, the magazine was founded in 2006 by the publishers of Mass Appeal Magazine.
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[edit] Gayton McKenzie
Gayton McKenzie is a South African motivational speaker who came to public attention in 2002 when he and a small group of inmates smuggled secret video cameras into Grootvlei Prison in the Free State province.
The motivation for this was McKenzie's shock at witnessing the nine-hour rape of a fourteen year old white boy. McKenzie, who grew up during Apartheid, and was classified racially as a "coloured", had entered prison as a racist. This event, one of innumerable rapes that he witnessed during his more than seven years in jail, changed his view. Corrupt wardens, who had sold the boy to a rapist gang, told McKenzie that there was "not enough proof" to do anything about the rape. This was in spite of the boy's physical appearance.
McKenzie, who, until then had been a committed criminal, having entered jail for, among other crimes, bank robbery, and who was one of the prison's most senior gang members, turned his back on crime. The secret video footage showed numerous acts of warden corruption, including buying prison food, supplying drugs and liquor, smuggling a loaded pistol into jail and, finally, selling a juvenile for the purpose of sex to another prisoner, who was also part of the video team. When the footage hit national television, and was also screened on Oprah and elsewhere in Europe, McKenzie's team became knows as the "Grootvlei Four". They were subsequently victimised in prison, with several attempts made on their lives. Three of the four men (other video makers' identities had been successfully kept secret) were finally released from prison after obtaining remissions of sentence for their exposure work. McKenzie went on to marry Nicolett Joubert. She was an advocate he met while still in jail when she was sent by the South African Presidency as a member of the Jali Commission tasked with investigating corruption in South African prisons.
After his release he went on a national campaign to combat ever-higher levels of crime in South Africa. His talks to school children were sponsored by a security company, and he is still serving as an advocate against crime. Thus far, he has reached 1.6 million South African school children of all ages. He was also voted the country's top corporate speaker for the last three years.
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www.gaytonmckenzie.com
http://www.chubb.co.za/utcfs/Templates/Pages/Template-54/0,8063,pageId%3D1268%26siteId%3D402,00.html
The Choice, The Gayton McKenzie Story. X-Concepts Publishing. 2006. South Africa.
196.207.32.38 07:44, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] MUFTI-E-AZAM-E-HIND MAULANA MUSTAPHA RAZA KHAN
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164.100.151.36 08:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Dr Alka Pande
Dr Alka Pande, currently Consultant Arts Advisor and Curator, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, has been responsible for curating some of Delhi's most unusual and perceptive shows in recent times. Dr Pande is also Visiting Faculty for Aesthetics at the College of Art as well as Reader, Department of Fine Arts, Punjab University, Chandigarh, with a range of academic papers and lectures on diverse aspects of the arts to her credit. She has authored several books on art and art history, and has a special interest in ancient Indian erotic literature and art as well as gender and sexuality. She currently also offers art advisory services to corporates and individuals on art procurement and investment.
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61.247.234.61 11:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Method Study
Method study is the systemeatic recording and critical examination of existing and proposed ways of doing work, as a means of developing and applying easier and more effective methods and reducing costs.
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British Standards Institution (BS 3138) 196.1.111.169 13:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Musical Jolly Chimp
[[4]] This is a vintage battery operated multi-action toy, Model # 7061. It was originally made in Japan by Daishin in the early 1960's, and is stamped with the company's logo "CK" on the battery lid. It takes two "D" cell batteries and when turned on, he plays the cymbals. Tap his head he glares, shows his teeth and chatters. Constructed mostly of metal, he does have plastic ears, hands and feet. He sits approximately 11 inches tall and is fitted with a yellow vest and red and white striped pants. There have been several versions since. Now made in China, the latest version is called "Charley Chimp" and performs in a similar manner as the original.
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http://www.aboyd.com/prodinfo.asp?number=ABC%2040-1006
Planetred 14:48, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hydroelasticity
Hydroelasticity is a branch of science which is concerned with the motion of deformable bodies through liquids. The theory of Hydroelasticity has been adapted from Aeroelasticity, to describe the effect of structural response of the body on the fluid around it.
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R.E.D.Bishop and W.G.Price;"Hydroelasticity of ships"; Cambridge University Press, 1979, ISBN 0 521 22328 8 216.227.252.254 15:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft
The "Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft" (Goethe-Medal for Art and Science) was a German award. It consists of a silver, non-wearable medal (62mm, after about 1938 69.5mm in diameter) which was authorized by Reichspresident Paul von Hindenburg to commemorate the centenary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's death on March 22, 1932. This medal should not be confused with the "Goethe-Medaille in Gold" (Goethe-Medal in Gold) of the Weimar Goethe Society (51 awards from 1910 to 2005), the "Goethepreis der Stadt Frankfurt" (Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt) which since 1927 has been awarded first annually, then triennially (41 awards from 1927 to 2005 - no medal), the "Goethe-Plakette der Stadt Frankfurt" (Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt), or the "Goethe-Medaille" (Goethe-Medal) of the Goethe-Institut, which from 1955 to 2006 has been awarded to 312 personalities from 57 countries. With more than 600 recipients, the "Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft" is the most widely distributed award named after Goethe.
UNDER HINDENBURG - 1932-1934
Originally meant to honor persons who had performed some service in connection with the 1932 Goethe Memorial Service at Weimar, the "Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft" was since April 1932 in Hindenburg's name given to Goethe-scholars, artists, scientists, government officials and politicians. Between March 18, 1932 and June 19, 1934 almost 200 persons were honored, 159 of these before January 30, 1933. Among the first 55 recipients of the Medal were Chancellor Brüning, and the Nobel Prize winners Gerhart Hauptmann and Thomas Mann. Starting in April 1932 there followed Max Planck and the current or future Nobel Prize bearers Nikolas Murray Butler, André Gide, Knut Hamsun, Verner von Heidenstam, Gugliemo Marconi, Albert Schweitzer, Fritz Haber and Richard Willstätter. Other recipients were Benito Musolini, José Ortega y Gasset, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Klemperer, Carl Goerdeler, Paul Ernst, Hans Grimm and E.G. Kolbenheyer. About one quarter of the honorees of the "Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft" before July 1934 were non-Germans. Women were rarely considered; only Ricarda Huch, Agnes Miegel, Ina Seidel, Feodora, Grand Duchess of Saxon-Weimar, Enrica von Handel-Mazetti and the Turkish writer Seniha Bedri were apparently thought to be worthy of the Medal. In Hindenburg´s name this medal was last awarded under the date of June 19, 1934.
UNDER HITLER - 1935-1944
Beginning in 1935, Adolf Hitler, in his position as German Head of State, took over the awarding of the "Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft". At the time of writing, the names of about 270 of the estimated 400 recipients of the Medal between 1935 and 1944 are known to the present author. Among them are the Nobel Prize winners Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Johannes Stark and Heinrich Wieland as well as five women: Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Agnes Bluhm, Isolde Kurz, and Lulu von Strauß und Torney. Under Hitler the Medal was generally awarded only on high birthdays or other important anniversaries. Many of the recipients were followers of National Socialism. Jewish candidates were no longer considered (until January 1933 at least eleven Germans of Jewish origin had been honored by Hindenburg with the Medal, although Albert Einstein was ignored). The last "Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft" was awarded in November 1944.
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Kurt-G. Klietmann, Staatlich-Zivile Auszeichnungen. Weimarer Republik und Drittes Reich. Stuttgart, 1990; Bundesarchiv Berlin (R55); Internet (Springerlink); search under "Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft"
64.230.22.207 17:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] One contribution I can make it a better world for a girl child.
[edit] Sonia Friedman
Sonia Friedman is a successful producer of theatrical shows most notably in London's West End. She began her career as an Assistant producer at the National Theatre in 1989 staying there until 1993. In 2002, she formed Sonia Friedman Productions. Productions she has produced include Shopping and Fucking (1996); A Day In The Death of Joe Egg (2001); Up For Grabs (2002); Sexual Perversity In Chicago (2003); Guantánamo (2004); and As You Like It (2005).
During 2006, she was on the panel of judges for the BBC Television show The Play's The Thing[5]
[[External Links]]
About Sonia Friedman on The Play's The Thing Website:
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/T/the_play/show3.html#judges
Sonia Friedman Productions
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[edit] Bromsgrove Rugby Football Club
[edit] From small beginnings...
Following a meeting at the Corn Exchange on the 28th September 1872 the club was formed. the first real game though was played on the 22nd November 1873 against Kidderminster on the Recreation Ground in front of a large crowd. Kick Off was at 3:00pm and despite strenuous efforts by both sides, time was called at 4:50pm neither side having scored a goal. Early records have been lost but it seems that in the early days the foundations were laid due to a close association with Bromsgrove School, an association which has continued to the present day.
There were great problems running a rugby team in a small market town like Bromsgrove in the latter part of of the last century and without motor cars, away match travel must have presented a challenge. Nevertheless, the local paper, The Messenger, reported that in 1888 "The Wasps," as the original club was named,"won considerable fame for the town of Bromsgrove in the Football world" In its early history the Club was suspended for two periods due to lack of support and during the 1890's players were drawn from as far afield as Worcester, Droitwich, Malvern and Birmingham.
Games were originally played on the Recreation Ground, but in 1889 the club moved to a pitch on the Kidderminster Road. From 1893 until 1914 it played either on the 'Rec' or the Cricket ground in New Road, The arrangement varying from season to season. From 1919 intil 1939 the club rented a ground of its own adjoining the cricket ground in New Road and returning there on re-forming in 1946 after World War 2. In 1955 the club at last moved to it's present ground at Finstall Park, albeit with only one pitch. The ground was purchased with the aid of a loan from the RFU and a great deal of the levelling and drainage was carried out by club members. Over the years the headquarters have varied greatly and meetings have been held at various hostelries and private houses including the Corn market, the Institute building in New Road, the Golden Cross Hotel, Perry Hall (then a private residence), the Dragoon Hotel at Aston Fields (Now the Ladybird), The Cross at Finstall, The Roebuck Pub ( now demolished) and at Long last in 1957 the club moved into its own clubhouse at Finstall Park.Since then the club has extended to enjoy four pitches, a training area and the clubhouse much extended. More recently, and in order to guarentee the future, we have gained registration as a Friendly Society.
Whilst the club has never achieved national honours, it has provided rugby for thousands of players over the years and continues to do so, fielding 5 teams each Saturday, plus the Crusaders, our renowned veterans team, Colts, Under 17s and Mini & Junior teams from the ages of 8 to 16 on Sundays. We have enjoyed Success in the North Midlands Cup, (winners 1982, semi finalists 1998)The Worcester Floodlit Cup (winners 1998 Runners up 1999) and the 2nd Team Cup organised by our pals, Kidderminster. Over the years we have also been proud to see players from Bromsgrove represent England Colts, The most recent being David Hunt (1999), England under 21's, the North Midlands and Worcestershire & Herefordshire County. Many players have progressed via the M&J's to the 1st XV and gone on to National sides with our best wishes.It reflects the changes in the game to read a report from The Messenger (Our local weekly Paper) dated 14th March 1891 for the first round of the Midland Cup. "Bromsgrove were drawn to play Leicester at Belgrave Road and played in front of a crowd of over 6000 spectators! They went down by 4 goals, 2 tries and six minors to nothing" How would we fayre if the match was played today?
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From the History page on Bromsgrove's web site at http://www.bromsgroverfc.co.uk
84.92.148.124 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Red Road (Glasgow)
The Red Road estate in Barmulloch, Glasgow consists of eight high rise tower blocks. Six of these high flats are 31 storeys high and the other two are 27 storeys high. In 1969, when the first residents arrived in their new homes, the Red Road was the tallest housing estate in Europe(although it did not contain the tallest residential flats in Glasgow. Bluevale Street and Whitevale Street in Parkhead hold that title) and contains over 1200 flats. The flats are currently marked for demolition.
Conception and Construction
At the time of their conception in the early 1960s, they were built to re-house Glaswegians living in the inner-city slums such as Gorbals and Townhead while also attempting to appeal to middle-class people wishing to sample "the high life".
Although the construction of tower blocks throughout the city was widespread, the construction of the Red Road was controversial not only because of its height and density, but it involved the first high-rises in Europe to be made using a steel frame rather than the common-place, brutalist concrete frame. The flats were also given a corrugated steel exterior as the architects were far sighted enough to know that as the decades past, fashions would change. Therefore, to ensure their creation would remain stylish, this steel shell could be easily removed and replaced by different colours or materials to match whatever was in vogue at the time. This showed that the Red Road was planned to remain part of the Glasgow skyline beyond the foreseeable future.
Problems
However, the flats were poorly designed and residents had to cope with the typical grievances of living in a tower block. Elevators were frequently out of use, virtually making the residents on the higher levels house-bound, especially the elderly. Dampness in the flats brought with it a series of problems such as mould and also was detrimental to the respiritory system, leading to some cases of residents developing asthma. A criticism of the location of Barmulloch was that it was too far the city centre to be desirable to the middle-classes that the Glasgow Housing Association(GHA) were hoping to attract. This meant that some tenants lived there not because they wanted to, but because they had to. This became more and more widespread in the Red Road as the flats decayed. The high concentration of poverty led to crime levels soaring and the flats reputation as a dangerous place to live rising. The lack of amenities such as shopping and leisure also contributed to unrest among tenants as they became disillusioned with their homes. Isolation was also an issue. Uprooted from their former communities around the city centre, separated from their families and friends and with few pubs and chances to socialise with their neighbours, many tenants became unhappy, some even to the point of mental illness.
Decline The GHA recieved complaints about the Red Road from unhappy residents as early as 1972. By 1975, vandalism and poor living conditions were becoming serious problems and only 7 years into the Red Road's life, some flats were becoming uninhabitable. In 1980, two of the blocks were deemed uninhabitable for living in as the estate prematurely fell into disrepair. The GHA made renovations to the flats in the 80s however much of this work was undone following a series of disruptive residents and the infectious decline the estate was in.
End In 2005, the GHA announced that the "village in the sky" was to be demolished along with many more of Glasgow's high rise homes. 153/183/213 Petershill Drive (one of the 27 storey squat blocks) is expected to be the first to be razed to the ground in 2009 and the rest is expected to join it by 2015. Glasgow's skyline will likely never be the same again. However, a sizable number still live in the flats (including asylum seekers) and the GHA will break up what has developed into a strong community, after a hostile start, once more.
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http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5036381.html hiddenglasgow.com/forums http://www.gha.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s4_1&newsid=447 futureglasgow.co.uk
Adam5190 18:51, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Götz von Berlichingen (Goethe)
Götz von Berlichingen is the title of a 1773 play by German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is based upon the memoirs of the historical person Götz. The play can be dated to an 1771 Urgötz (original or primitive Götz) manuscript written in Frankfurt am Main. The 1773 version was first performed in Berlin on April 4th, 1774. A third edition for the Weimar theater dates from 1804 and takes approximately five hours to perform.
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_von_Berlichingen_(Goethe)
70.89.93.26 20:24, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Olympus C-2100 UZ Camera
The Olympus C-2100 UZ was a revolutionary digital camera at its time, closely paired with it's brother the E-100 RS. Both of these cameras are nearly identical, except that the RS has lower resolution but can shoot an amazing 15 frames per second. Even six years later, this is still the fastest camera produced.
Both of these cameras are note worthy because they're the only compact digital cameras ever produced by a company other than Canon, using a Canon lens. ( Both cameras have a 10x zoom, ranging from 38 to 380 mm eq. ) In fact, these were the first compact digital cameras to offer image stabilization by several years. "IS" has become popular and is now built into many cameras.
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www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympusc2100uz/ www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_archived_product_details.asp?id=641
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[edit] Kansas City Barbeque Society
Introduction
The Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) has over 6,000 members world-wide and is the world’s largest organization of barbecue and grilling enthusiasts. KCBS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to "promoting barbeque and having fun while doing so."
KCBS sanctions more than two hundred barbecue contests across the U.S. each year and offers assistance to civic and charitable organizations with producing these events. The KCBS has developed a set of rules and regulations that govern all official KCBS competitions.
KCBS offers educational programs, consultation services, and civic organization presentations to help promote barbecue across the United States and beyond. The mission of the Kansas City Barbeque Society is to celebrate, teach, preserve, and promote barbecue as a culinary technique, sport and art form.
Competition Results
KCBS ranks teams overall performance in KCBS events on a yearly basis. Teams achieve high rankings by earning a 1st through 5th place ranking in the following categories:
- Overall
- Chicken
- Ribs
- Pork
- Brisket
Only the top five performances by a team are counted in the "Team of the Year" rankings.
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- Official Kansas City Barbeque Society website
- About.com article about competition BBQ
- KCBS sactioning requirements
- 2006 KCBS BBQ contest rules
198.160.96.7 21:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Peace Arch Entertainment
Peace Arch Entertainment is a growing film, television and home video distribution, acquisition and production company. The company has produced and distributed films with Lions Gate Films, Showtime Networks, BBC Television, Sci-Fi Channel, and many more.
The company trades under the stock title {PAE} and is currently trading around the one dollar mark. The company is young and currently holds an aggresive release plan for 2007 and 2008 with titles in the film, television and home video markets.
Recently the company produced two highly acclaimed films which have been accepted into the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. Delirious, which recently won three top awards at The San Sebastian Film Festival, is a dark comedy satirizing Hollywood while Chapter 27 details the last days of Mark David Chapman.
Peace Arch Films, the film subsidiary of PAE, recently launched Archetype Films which is a genre division specializing in horror, action, and thriller releases mainly targeted for DVD, video and television releases.
In December of 2006 PAE entered a multi-billion dollar deal with CSC Global Technologies for digital distribution of film, television and other content.
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(1) http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=MW&Date=20061201&ID=6242379&Symbol=US:PAE 'Delirious' and 'Chapter 27' set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
(2) http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=MW&Date=20061205&ID=6249791&Symbol=US:PAE "Strategic internet distribution deal between Peace Arch Entertainment and CSC Global Technologies"
130.58.224.192 22:09, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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66.36.135.193 22:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] International Electron Devices Meeting
The International Electron Devices Meeting is an annual conference held alternatively in San Francisco, CA and Washington, D.C. Established in 1954, IEDM is the world's main forum on advancement in semiconductor and electronic devices. IEDM is the flagship conference of the Electron Devices Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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http://www.his.com/~iedm/ http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/eds/oct01/IEDM.htm
71.162.106.72 23:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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