Hebden Bridge railway station

Hebden Bridge railway station serves the town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, England. The station is on the Calder Valley Line, operated by Northern since April 2016 from York and Leeds towards Manchester Victoria and Preston. The station is  west of Halifax and  west of Leeds.

History

The Manchester and Leeds Railway, authorised in 1836 for a line from Manchester to , was opened in stages; the second section, between Normanton and Hebden Bridge, opened on 5 October 1840. Trains arrived at Hebden Bridge from Normanton and passengers would then continue to  by road. The section between Hebden Bridge and Summit Tunnel opened on 31 December 1840, allowing trains to reach ; after Summit Tunnel opened on 1 March 1841, trains continued to Littleborough and Manchester. An 1841 timetable shows five Manchester to Leeds trains per day calling at Hebden Bridge (two on Sundays), all but one of which called at all stations; a similar service ran in the opposite direction. Trains began operating to Halifax and Bradford in 1852, and could run through to Leeds via this route from 1854.

The current buildings date from 1893, construction having started in 1891. By this point there was a goods yard alongside the station. This closed in 1966 and the site is now the station car park. In 1997 the station was renovated, and signage in the original Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway style was installed.

Facilities
The station has a staffed ticket office, waiting rooms, toilets and a cafe. Platform 2, towards Leeds, is accessible to those with disabilities but platform 1 is not; the lifts serving the subway were closed in the 1980s and funding for their re-instatement has not been made available via the Department for Transport's Access for All scheme. Information screens were installed in 2012 as part of a programme to provide screens at 18 stations on the Calder Valley Line and elsewhere in West Yorkshire. Previously, passengers had to rely on automated public-address system announcements.

Services

The station is the only station on the Calder Valley Line where every service calls. On Monday to Saturday during daytime there are four trains per hour to Leeds - one via  and  and the other three via Bradford Interchange (one serving all stations to Bradford and two calling at Halifax only). Of the latter, one runs through to . In the late evening, the service drops to half-hourly, all via Bradford.

Westbound there are three trains per hour to Manchester Victoria (hourly evenings and Sundays), and an hourly service to  via  and  (direct weekday services there were temporarily stopped in November 2017 but have resumed from the May 2019 timetable change).  One of the Manchester trains is a limited-stop service, calling at Todmorden and Rochdale only, whilst the service via Dewsbury continues to .  The other Manchester service now extends through to  and .

From November 2013 to late March 2014 the line to Burnley was closed for major repair work on Holme Tunnel. A replacement bus service ran, and trains from York terminated/started at Hebden Bridge.

Future improvements

The station will see a variety of improvements to facilities and train services from March 2017 onwards, as part of an investment package for the Calder Valley line as a whole. New lifts have been installed to make both platforms fully accessible (commissioned in March 2019), whilst track and signalling upgrades have helped reduce journey times in both directions and allow more trains to run to/from Bradford.  This has resulted in the closure of the listed signal box here in October 2018, with control passing over to the Rail Operating Centre at .  New rolling stock and timetable improvements will follow, with regular through trains to Liverpool Lime Street,  and  by late 2019 (the latter service began at the May 2019 timetable change). The remaining improvements have since been indefinitely postponed because of capacity problems in central Manchester, though new  rolling stock (in the form of Class 195 Civity DMUs) has started to appear on some routes.


Arthur Chen

Arthur Chen (born 9 April 2000), also known by his Chinese name Chen Feiyu (), is a Chinese-American actor. He is known for his role in the 2018 fantasy epic Ever Night.

Early life and education
Arthur Chen was born in United States on 9 April 2000. He is the second son of director Chen Kaige and actress Chen Hong.

He studied at Beijing Jingshan School and Tabor Academy. In 2019, he was admitted into Beijing Film Academy.

Career
Chen first appeared in the 2010 film Sacrifice directed by Chen Kaige, portraying a young King.

In 2017, Chen made his official acting debut in the youth drama film Secret Fruit as the male lead. He released his first single "The Secret Words" as the promotional song for the film.

In 2018, Chen starred in the historical fantasy drama Ever Night. The drama received positive reviews, and Chen was awarded the Super IP New Actor at the China Literature Award Ceremony and the Best Actor in the historical drama category at the Huading Awards.

In 2019, Chen starred in the youth campus romance film My Best Summer. He won the Best Newcomer awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival and Macau International Film Festival for his performance.
Forbes China listed Chen under their 30 Under 30 Asia 2019 list which consisted of 30 influential people under 30 years old who have had a substantial effect in their fields.

In 2020, Chen is set to star in the film Flowers Bloom in the Ashes  directed by Chen Kaige; and fantasy wuxia drama Legend of Awakening. The same year Chen was cast in the xianxia drama Immortality alongside Luo Yunxi, based on the novel The Husky and His White Cat Shizun.

Filmography

Film

Television series

Discography

Awards and nominations


Srebrne Lake

Srebrne Lake is a lake in the location of a former flooded pit, used for recreation purposes. The lake has an area of 12 ha and has a maximum depth of 17 metres. The lake is located 2 km from Turawskie Lake, in a forest which is close to the settlement of Marszałki.

Although the size of the Turawskie Lake is much larger, the Srebrne lake is more favourable by the tourists due to its location and numerous recreational facilities, the lake has high quality water levels and is famous for its emerald colour which can be seen in its other name Szmaragdowe. The lake is surrounded by Pinophyta type of forest.


Louisvale

Louisvale is a town in ZF Mgcawu District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It has been described as a "small, impoverished town" by the Mail & Guardian, and it briefly became notorious for the baby Tshepang case, regarding the rape of a nine-month-old baby in 2001.

The Louisvale Pirates football team hails from this town.


Ivan Stanković (footballer, born 1983)

Ivan Stanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Станковић; born 1 March 1983) is a Serbian footballer.

Playing career
Stanković began his career in 2001 with FK Teleoptik in the Second League of FR Yugoslavia. In 2003, he played in the Serbian League with FK Proleter Zrenjanin. The following season he played in the First League of FR Yugoslavia with Partizan Belgrade FC. He signed with rivals FK Obilić for the 2005 season. After his stint in the top flight he played in the Serbian First League with FK BASK, and FK Mladost Apatin.

In 2008, he went abroad to play in the Macedonian Second Football League with KF Shkëndija. Following his time in Macedonia he signed with ŠK Futura Humenné. After a year abroad he returned to Serbia to play with FK Slavija Kragujevac, FK Bežanija, and FK Radnički Obrenovac. In 2012, he went overseas to play in the Canadian Soccer League with the Serbian White Eagles FC.


Posthuma (surname)

Posthuma is a Dutch surname that may refer to
Carst Posthuma (1868–1939), Dutch cricket player
Danielle Posthuma (born 1972), Dutch neuroscientist
Folkert Posthuma (1874–1943), Dutch politician
Jan Posthuma (born 1963), Dutch volleyball player
Joost Posthuma (born 1981), Dutch road bicycle racer


Jack Rife

Jack Rife (born April 10, 1943) is an American politician in the state of Iowa.

Rife was born in Muscatine, Iowa. He attended Muscatine Community College and Iowa State University and is a farmer. A Republican, he served in the Iowa State Senate from 1983 to 2001 (29th district from 1983 to 1993 and 20th district from 1993 to 2001).


Fangame

Fangames are video games made by fans based on one or more established video games. Many fangames attempt to clone or remake the original game's design, gameplay and characters, but it is equally common for fans to develop a unique game using another only as a template. Though the quality of fangames has always been variable, recent advances in computer technology and in available tools, e.g. through open source software, have made creating high-quality games easier. Fangames can be seen as User generated content, as part of the retrogaming phenomena and as expression of the remix culture.

Fangame development
Fangames are either developed as standalone games with their own engines, or as modifications to existing games that "piggyback" on the other's engines. Each approach has different advantages, as standalone games are generally accessible to larger audiences but may often be more difficult or time-consuming to develop.

Standalone games
Fangames are often developed using pre-existing tools and game engines. The Unity engine and Adobe Flash allow fans to develop standalone games, as do other programs such as GameMaker, Construct (game engine), RPG Maker, or any of the Clickteam products (such as The Games Factory and Multimedia Fusion 2).

Fangame developers often select and use free and open source game engines (such as OGRE, Crystal Space, DarkPlaces and Spring) to help fans create games without the cost of licensing a commercial alternative. These engines may be altered and redesigned within the terms of their open source license and often cost significantly less than commercial options, but do not always allow developers to easily create high-end visual effects without additional effort.

It is also possible for fans to develop original game engines from scratch using a programming language such as C++, although doing so takes much more time and technical ability than modifying an existing game; an example is the Spring Engine which started as fan-made Total Annihilation game.

Modifications to existing games
Fangames are sometimes developed as a modification to an existing game, using features and software provided by many game engines. Mods usually are not allowed to modify the original story and game graphics, but rather extend the current content that was provided by the original developer. Modding an existing game is often cheaper than developing a fangame from scratch.

Because of the complexity of developing an entirely new game, fangames are often made using pre-existing tools that either came with the original game, or are readily available elsewhere. Certain games, such as Unreal Tournament 2004 and Neverwinter Nights, come with map-editing and scripting tools to allow fans to develop mods using the engine provided with the original game. Games such as Doom are old enough (end-of-life) that their source code has been released, allowing radical changes to take place; more examples in the List of commercial video games with available source code.

Another form of modding comes from editing the ROM images of older games, such as SNES games. Programs such as Lunar Magic enable a user to modify the existing data in the ROM image and change levels, character graphics, or any other aspect the program allows. While normally played on emulators, these newly edited ROM images could theoretically be used in conjunction with a flash drive to actually create carts for the older system, allowing the modified ROM images to run on the original hardware. A notable recent example of such a fangame is The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds which was hailed by reviewers as a remarkable unofficial sequel to A Link to the Past. Other notable examples include Legend of Zelda: Curse from the Outskirts, Blaster Master: Pimp Your Ride, and Super Mario World - The Second Reality Project 2.

Famous fan mods (for example, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, and Pirates, Vikings and Knights II) may even be adopted by the game developer (in all the mentioned cases, Valve) and made into an official addition to the existing game (Half-Life).

Development challenges
Despite the good intentions and dedication of fan-game-makers, development of many fangames ended in abandonment. Notwithstanding the legal issues faced by these fans-turned-developers (see Legal issues), numerous development challenges are faced by individuals when attempting to develop any sort of game from start to finish. These failures are often related to the lack of development experience, time, resources, money, interest, skillsets, and other factors. It is unclear what proportion of fangames attempted are never successfully created and released.

Excluding mods (which are technically not true fangames), the vast majority of fangames that have been successfully completed and published are adventure games. This likely reflects the longer history of this genre related to other genres and the availability of many free third-party tools or engines to make these games. Most importantly, there must exist an unwavering passion by a core group of fans which extends over years to overcome any obstacle encountered during the project's development. This sacrifice is best described by Britney Brimhall of AGD Interactive, regarding their 2001 released a remake of King's Quest I, "I think a lot of people don’t realize when they initiate a game project just how much sacrifice it will require. Whereas most people enjoy writing a story or making a piece of artwork, most would not enjoy writing hundreds of pages of dialogue or drawing over one hundred pictures when they could be socializing with friends or playing video games."

Legal issues

Challenges
Because fangames are developed with a relatively low budget, a fangame is rarely available on a console system; licensing fees are too prohibitive. However, unlicensed fangames have occasionally made it onto consoles with a significant homebrew scene, such as the Atari 2600, the NES, SNES, the Game Boy line, Sony's PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable, and many others.

Suppression and cease and desist
Some companies shut down fangames as copyright infringements. Original copyright holders can order a cease and desist upon fangame projects, as by definition fangames are unauthorized uses of copyrighted property. Many fangames go as far as taking music and graphics directly from the original games.

A notable case in late 2005 involved Vivendi Universal shutting down a King's Quest fan project, King's Quest IX: Every Cloak Has a Silver Lining. It was to be an unofficial sequel granting closure to the series, which had its last release in 1998. After a letter-writing campaign and fan protests, Vivendi reversed its decision and gave permission for the game to be made. As part of the negotiations, the developers were required to remove "King's Quest" from the title. Conversely, fan protests for the shutting down of Chrono Resurrection (a remake demo of Chrono Trigger) in 2004 have yielded no result on Square Enix's action to block the project.

Nintendo is notorious for its strict protection of its intellectual property (IP) and has shut down many notable fangames, including a HD remake of Super Mario 64, AM2R, and No Mario's Sky. Nintendo has also taken down various Pokémon fan games such as "Pokenet" and "Pokémon Uranium".

On a similar note, a Spyro the Dragon fangame, Spyro: Myths Awaken, was shut down by Activision (the current owners of the Spyro IP) in September 2018 and later became Zera: Myths Awaken with all Activision-owned content being replaced by original content.

Endorsement and turning a blind eye
Other times, companies have endorsed fangames. For example, Capcom has featured Peter Sjöstrand's Mega Man 2.5D fangame in their community site more than once. However, Capcom Senior Vice President Christian Svennson has stated that, while they legally can't sanction fangames, they won't proactively go after them either. More recently, Capcom took Seo Zong Hui's Street Fighter X Mega Man and funded it, promoting it from a simple fangame, to an officially licensed freeware Mega Man game.

In 2008, Christian Whitehead created his own game engine, known as the Retro Engine, for use in the Sonic the Hedgehog fangame Retro Sonic. Whitehead developed a proof-of-concept prototype of Sonic the Hedgehog CD running on the Retro Engine and pitched it to Sega. Sega gave their approval, and a full remake running on Whitehead's engine was released two years later. Whitehead later worked with fellow fan-programmer Simon Thomley to develop mobile remakes of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and ultimately directed an all-new Sonic the Hedgehog title, Sonic Mania, with a development team made up of individuals noted for their work in the Sonic the Hedgehog fan community.

Skywind is a fan remastering of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002) in the game engine of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The original game developers, Bethesda Softworks, have given project volunteers their approval. The remastering team involves over 70 volunteers in artist, composer, designer, developer, and voice acting roles. In November 2014, the team reported to have finished half of the remaster's environment, over 10,000 new dialogue lines, and three hours of series-inspired soundtrack.

In April 2017, Mig Perez and Jeffrey Montoya released Castlevania: The Lecarde Chronicles 2. The game features all new assets and a new soundtrack, as well as new voice acting from actors who appeared in the official Castlevania series, such as Douglas Rye played Dracula in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness and Robert Belgrade who played Alucard in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Konami allowed the game to be released with the contingency that the game remains non-profit.


Gib Hill

Gib Hill is a large burial mound in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England. It is thought to be a Neolithic oval barrow with an Early Bronze Age round barrow superimposed at one end. It is located some 300 metres south-west of Arbor Low henge.

Excavations
Three exploratory excavations were conducted in the 19th century: the first by the owner, Mr Thornhill in 1812, a second by William Bateman and S. Mitchell in 1824, and a third by Thomas Bateman in 1848. The 1848 excavations uncovered a cist of early Bronze Age date, containing a cremation and food vessel. The complex structure of the barrow suggests that it consists of a Neolithic oval barrow with an Early Bronze Age round barrow superimposed at one end. This configuration can be seen clearly by looking up at the barrow from the north.

Siting
Gib Hill is part of a complex of prehistoric monuments with Arbor Low. The Neolithic barrow at Gib Hill was probably the first element in the complex.

Notes

External links
Visitor information (English Heritage)


Mantalos

Mantalos () is a Greek surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Dionysios Mantalos (born 1952), Greek Orthodox bishop
Petros Mantalos (born 1991), Greek footballer


Moe Koffman

Morris "Moe" Koffman, OC (28 December 1928 – 28 March 2001) was a Canadian jazz saxophonist and flautist, as well as composer and arranger. During a career spanning from the 1950s to the 2000s, Koffman was one of Canada's most prolific musicians, working variously in clubs and sessions and releasing 30 albums. With his 1957 record Cool and Hot Sax on the New York-based Jubilee label, Koffman became one of the first Canadian jazz musicians to record a full-length album. Koffman was also a long-time member of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass.

Early life and education

Koffman was born in Toronto to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents operated a variety store. At the age of nine he began his musical studies in his native city,  studying violin. He studied with Gordon Delamont, and later attended the Toronto Conservatory of Music, now the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto, where he was a student of Samuel Dolin.

Career
Koffman dropped out of school when he found work performing in dance bands. In 1950, he moved to the United States, where he played with big bands including those of Sonny Dunham and Jimmy Dorsey. In 1955, he returned to Toronto where he formed a quartet and later a quintet. He recorded Swinging Shepherd Blues in 1957 which helped establish his reputation as a flautist. "Swinging Shepherd Blues" was a hit in the United States, reaching #23 on the Billboard pop chart.

Koffman was inspired by Rahsaan Roland Kirk to play multiple instruments at once; and had a modified set of straps to hold a tenor and an alto saxophone so that he could put forward incredible chords and improvise at the same time. One of the more famous session musicians in Toronto, he appeared in countless commercials, background music, and film and TV soundtracks. Most work on bass flute in Canadian soundtracks from 1950 to 1990 in Toronto sessions was done by Koffman on this rare instrument. Koffman was also an exponent of circular breathing techniques for his large volumes of sound, and joined fellow Canadian Maynard Ferguson and new age multi-instrumentalist musician Ron Allen in this talent.

During the 1970s, Koffman recorded several albums with arrangements of works by classical composers including Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi. The albums were released by GRT Canada and later by Universal. He also was a guest performer with a number of symphony orchestras across Canada.

He performed with Dizzy Gillespie and Peter Appleyard during the 1980s, as well as continuing to front the Moe Koffman Quintet. He often performed with Rob McConnell's Boss Brass. From 1956 to 1990, Koffman booked performers for George's Spaghetti House in Toronto, where he performed weekly. His compositions "Curried Soul" and "Koff Drops" have been used as the opening and closing themes respectively for the CBC radio show As It Happens since 1972.

He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1993 and inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1997.

Koffman was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000, and died of cancer in Orangeville, Ontario in 2001 at the age of 72. In 2002, Moe Koffman was a MasterWorks honouree by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada.

Some of Koffman's music for Duke Street Records was unreleased at the time of his death. Music for the Night was released and re-issued in 2007, and Devil's Brew was re-issued in 2009.

Discography

Singles:
 "Pixies Three"
 "Swinging Shepherd Blues"

LPs:
Cool And Hot Sax (1957) (Jubilee)
The Shepherd Swings Again (1958) (Jubilee)
Moe Koffman The Swinging Shepherd Plays For Teens (1962) (Ascot)
Tales Of Koffman (1962) (UA)
The Moe Koffman Quartet (1963) (CTA)
Moe Koffman (1967) (Universal)
1967 (1967) (Just A Memory)
Moe Koffman Quartet (1967) (CBC/RCI)
Moe Koffman Goes Electric (1967) (Jubilee)
Turned On Moe Koffman (1968) (Jubilee)
Moe's Curried Soul with Doug Riley & Lenny Breau (1969) (Revolver)
Moe Koffman Plays Bach (1971) (GRT)
The Four Seasons (1972) (GRT)
Master Session (1974) (GRT)
Solar Explorations (1974) (GRT)
Swinging Shepherd (1975) (Universal)
Live at George's (1975) (GRT)
Jungle Man (1976) (GRT)
Museum Pieces (1977) (Janus)
Things Are Looking Up (1978) (GRT)
Back To Bach (1979) (Anthem)
Project (1980) (Universal)
Moe-Mentum (1986) (Universal)
One Moe Time (1986) (Duke)
Oop.Pop.A.Da featuring Dizzy Gillespie (1989) (Universal)
Moe Koffman Quintet Plays (1990) (Duke Street Records)
Music for the Night arranged by Doug Riley (1991) (Universal)
Collection (1993) (Universal)
Devil's Brew (1996) (Universal)

'With the Ron Collier Orchestra featuring Duke EllingtonNorth of the Border in Canada'' (Decca, 1967 [1969])


The First Word Is the Hardest

"The First Word Is the Hardest" is a single by Four Day Hombre. It was originally released through Crystal Songs in 2003; the tracks in this version were recorded by the band at their own studio. It is available on CD only (catalogue number hall008cd).

It was rereleased with a different track listing through Alamo Music in 2006; the tracks in this version were recorded during the sessions for the album Experiments in Living. This release is available on CD (catalogue number ALM CDS002), 7" vinyl (catalogue number ALM V002), and through iTunes.

Track listing

Original release
"The First Word Is the Hardest"
"Resolve"
"Too Cool to Shop"

Rerelease

CD
"The First Word Is the Hardest"
"Leave the Light On"

7"
"The First Word Is the Hardest"
"Day By Day"

Both "Leave the Light On" and "Day By Day" are available through iTunes. The CD also contains the video for "The First Word Is the Hardest".


Sevilla FC in European football

Sevilla FC or simply known as Sevilla, is a professional football club based in Seville, Spain. The club first participated in a European competition in 1957 with the European Cup and have competed in twenty nine European competitions with them taking out five Europa League/UEFA Cup titles.

Overall record

Statistics in UEFA competitions
The debut of Sevilla in European competitions took place in the 1957–58 season as a participant in that season's European Cup. Despite finishing runner-up in the league to Real Madrid, Sevilla represented Spain in the competition as Real had already qualified by winning the European Cup the season before.

Accurate as of 27 February 2020

M = Matches; W = Won; D = Drawn; L = Lost; GS = Goals scored; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference

Results

UEFA Champions League / European Cup

UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League

UEFA Super Cup

European Cup Winners' Cup

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (Non-UEFA Competition)


Larini

Larini is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Andrea Larini (born 1968), Italian racing driver
Fabrizio Larini (born 1953), Italian sporting director
Nicola Larini (born 1964), Italian racing driver


St. Margarets, New Brunswick

St. Margarets is a settlement in Northumberland County, New Brunswick near the intersection of Route 11 and Route 440.

History

Notable people


My World (Sick Puppies song)

"My World" is a song released by Australian rock band Sick Puppies 2007 album Dressed Up as Life. It was released as a single on October 23, 2007.

Music video
The music video for the song features the band performing, as well as singer/guitarist Shimon Moore giving money to two homeless men, and in return being physically abused by them (a symbol of Moore trying to do good yet getting hurt in return). It also shows bassist Emma Anzai drawing plastic surgery incision marks on herself. It was filmed in the original basement used to film the movie Fight Club.

Charts


Farah Ghuznavi

Farah Ghuznavi is a Bangladeshi writer, development worker, journalist and translator.

She studied at the London School of Economics. Ghuznavi has worked for the Grameen Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, Christian Aid UK and other non-governmental organizations. She is a regular contributor to The Star weekend magazine.

Her story "Judgement Day" was highly commended at the 2010 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Her story "Getting There" placed second in the short story competition of the Oxford Gender Equality Festival. Her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and literary magazines published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Bangladesh. She was editor for the Lifelines anthology published in India. A collection of her stories Fragments of Riversong was published in 2013.

Ghuznavi writes her stories in English.


Rosan Bosch

Rosan Bosch (born 1969) is the founder and creative director of Rosan Bosch Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. Internationally renowned for the design of the Swedish Vittra school at Telefonplan, Bosch has designed learning environments for Sheikh Zayed Private Academy in Abu Dhabi, the IB school Western Academy of Beijing in China and Liceo Europa in Spain.

Biography
Rosan Bosch studied at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht, Holland from 1987-1992 with courses from the Facultat de Belles Art at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. For nearly a decade she worked as a contemporary artist before founding the design studio Bosch & Fjord in 2001 and her current design practice Rosan Bosch Studio in 2010, based in Copenhagen.

Design of learning environments
Rosan Bosch’s work is characterized by an untraditional approach to the design of schools. Based on six principles, the learning spaces support different ways of learning, working and communicating in an open and shared school space. The sculptural design installations help to direct the interaction and concentration of the students for teamwork, presentations, individual work, creative hands-on tasks or informal learning in the student community.

The approach is giving priority to the students’ learning needs when planning the physical spaces of schools. By mixing art, design thinking, architecture and play, the learning environments stimulate innovative thinking and student-centered learning, supporting the pedagogical efforts.

The design of the Swedish Vittra schools is internationally known as an alternative to conventional school spaces. Instead of classrooms, large toy-like furnishings act as spatial divisions that support flexibility in learning and creative student activities.

Public speaker and advisor
Promoting educational change through the designs of schools, Bosch is a public speaker and visiting lecturer at educational forums such as UNESCO forum on education in Mexico, Harvard Graduate School of Education, TEDxIndianapolis and Aprendemos Juntos by El Pais. As advisor to the Ministry of Education in Argentina, her studio has developed guidelines for redesigns of the 22,000 secondary schools as part of a national school reform

Other design work
Bosch has also created design solutions for libraries, hospitals, workspaces and exhibitions. Among clients are LEGO PMD, the children hospital BørneRiget at Rigshospitalet, VELUX and The Childrens Library in Billund.

Selected projects

 BS KA school Zottegem, Belgium (to be completed)
 St. Andrew's Scots School, Argentina (2019)
Western Academy of Beijing, China (2019)
 Buddinge School, Denmark (2019)
 Glasir – Tórshavn College, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (2018)
 VELUX Collection, Østbirk, Denmark (2018)
 Liceo Europa, Zaragoza, Spain (2016)
 The Children’s library in Billund, Billund, Denmark (2016)
 Cultural Island, Middelfart, Denmark (2016)
 VILLUM Window Collection, Søborg, Denmark (2015)
 Sheikh Zayed Private Academy, Abu Dhabi (2015)
 Vittra Södermalm School, Stockholm, Sverige (2012)
 Bornholms Efterskole, Rønne, Denmark (2013)
 Vittra Telefonplan School, Stockholm, Sverige (2011)
 LEGO PMD, Billund, Denmark (2010)


Franz Schick

Franz Schick (born 22 June 1960) is a retired German football forward. Schick, while only making a very limited impact on professional football, playing four times for VfL Bochum in the Fußball-Bundesliga, had his greatest success with third division side TSV Ampfing, where he became the top scorer of the Fußball-Bayernliga on five occasions.

Biography
Schick, while playing for the TSV Ampfing in the third-division Fußball-Bayernliga, became the league's most successful goal scorer. He took out the honours of the league's top scorer on five occasions, 1980-81 (30), 1981–82 (29), 1984–85 (34), 1985–86 (34) and 1987–88 (29), all while with Ampfing. All up, he scored 217 goals in the league. Ampfing had gained promotion to the Bayernliga in 1979 and was relegated again in 1989, never to return.

He left Ampfing during the 1982-83 season to join TSV 1860 Munich; but was not quite as successful at his new club, scoring only 20 goals that season, and he returned to his old club during the following season. Schick spend a short stint with Fußball-Bundesliga side VfL Bochum in the 1986-87 season but made only four appearances for th club and promptly returned to Ampfing.

In 1980-81, 1985-86 and 1987–88, Schick was the best goalscorer in all of the German Amateur-Oberligas.

After his player career, Schick turned to coaching, coaching amateur sides SV Nußdorf and SC Baldham, before joining Bayernliga side Falke Markt Schwaben in January 2003.

Honours
 Bayernliga top scorer
 Winner: 1980-81, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1987–88

Career statistics


Steven Le Coquen

Steven Le Coquen is a Grand Prix motorcycle racer from France. He competes in the Endurance World Cup aboard a Yamaha YZF-R1.

Career statistics

By season

Races by year


Twelve Mile Creek (Ontario)

Twelve Mile Creek is a waterway located on the Niagara Peninsula in the Regional Municipality of Niagara in Southern Ontario, Canada.  Its headwaters are located in the town of Pelham, encompassing some of the most unspoiled and natural areas of Niagara area.  The creek's lower reaches flow through urban areas of Thorold and St. Catharines, and have been heavily altered by human activity for almost two centuries.

Watershed description

Twelve Mile Creek is  named because its outlet to Lake Ontario is located approximately  from the Niagara River.  It drains a watershed of approximately .  This may be grouped into six sub-watersheds;

 Upper Twelve Mile Creek
 Lake Gibson System
 Richardson Creek
 Francis Creek
 Dicks Creek
 Lower Twelve Mile Creek

Of these, only the Upper Twelve Mile Creek can truly be considered to retain any significant degree of its natural state.  This sub-watershed branches out into dozens of small streams and drains flowing through Short Hills Provincial Park and St. John's Conservation Area, as well as various natural, agricultural and lightly developed areas.  The area containing the headwaters is known as the Fonthill Kame Delta Complex and was formed from debris left behind by glaciers as they retreated approximately 12000 years ago.  This area has the highest elevation, and contains the only identified cold water streams identified in the Niagara region.  The area provides habitat for many bird species, including Acadian flycatcher, hooded warbler, Louisiana waterthrush and  Kentucky warbler.

Lake Gibson is not a natural feature, but rather an artificially created reservoir.  Township maps from the later half of the 19th century show a meandering stream flowing through this area (Beaverdams Creek) and plunging over the Niagara Escarpment at Decew Falls.  This is the site of Morningstar Mill (still in existence today) which used this stream for power.  This stream was subsequently dammed to provide a reservoir for hydroelectric generation at the Decew Falls Generation Station.  The landscape was further altered with various channels and canals to improve flow to the generating station, and with the creation of additional reservoirs.  Lake Gibson receives almost all of its water supply from Lake Erie via the Welland Canal.  This reservoir also serves as the domestic water supply for the City of St Catharines

Richardson Creek flows through mostly agricultural, but rapidly urbanizing land in the western part of St. Catharines.  It is about 10.5 km in length.  It combines with Francis Creek  and empties into the Twelve Mile Creek at Martindale Pond, very close to its outlet.  These two sub-watersheds therefore do not contribute to water flow on the great majority of the Twelve Mile Creek.

The Dicks Creek sub-watershed originates near the escarpment in a residential area, but afterwards flows into industrial and commercial areas.  It flows through the abandoned second Welland Canal, passing through the stone locks which once carried ships, before entering a tunnel.  It emerges from the tunnel and joins with the main branch of the Twelve Mile Creek immediately beside Highway 406, and not far from the downtown buildings of St. Catharines.

The lower portion of Twelve Mile Creek, while historically navigable as part of the second Welland Canal, is now a fast flowing river with rapids and a wide, swift water course.  Almost all of the water in this portion of the creek (98 to 99%) is from the Welland Canal by way of the Decew Falls generating stations.  The creek empties into Martindale Pond - a small artificial lake near the shores of Lake Ontario created to permit navigation on the first Welland Canal.  This body of water also served as the route for the second and third canals and remains of locks from the second and third canals are still visible.  Martindale Pond is now the site of the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta course.  The water flows over a weir into Port Dalhousie harbour, and finally out into Lake Ontario between two long piers.

The early Welland Canal

In the period following the War of 1812, assorted mills made use of water power from various creeks which flowed over Niagara Escarpment.  Among these was a sawmill and a grist mill on Twelve Mile Creek owned by William Hamilton Merritt.  Merritt's mills were plagued by low water conditions, especially in late summer - exactly when the grain harvest needed to be ground.  He conceived of an idea to divert water from the Welland River to augment the water supply.  The idea of a navigable canal across the Niagara Peninsula had come up in the past and it did not take long before Merritt's idea was expanded to include such a navigable waterway.  In spite of initial plans, the water source for the canal was initially the Grand River via the Feeder Canal, as opposed to the Welland River.  The modern canal receives it water directly from Lake Erie.  Twelve Mile Creek was not necessarily the best route for the canal, but it was the location of Merritt's mills, so economic motivation became a factor.  Ultimately, the first two Welland Canals were routed via Twelve Mile Creek.  The third bypassed most of the creek, but continued to use its outlet to Lake Ontario.

Early maps show that the creek meandered greatly in its lower reaches. These meanders were flooded by means of a dam at Port Dalhousie, Ontario to create Martindale Pond.  Further upstream, the first canal generally followed the bends in the creek, but most were straightened for the second canal resulting in the lower creek now being almost straight.

Hydroelectric development

Just as water once powered mills directly, it continues to power industrial and domestic uses through generation of electricity.  On a significantly smaller scale than the nearby Niagara Falls generating stations, the two DeCew Falls stations take their water supply from the Lake Gibson system, which is in turn fed mainly from Lake Erie via the Welland Canal.  The DeCew Falls 1 station was originally put into service in 1898 and produces 23MW of power.  The DeCew Falls 2 station has been in service since 1943 (unit 1) and 1948 (unit 2) and produces 144MW of power.  Water from these plants is discharged into the  lower Twelve Mile Creek.

Current state of the creek

Large segments of Twelve Mile Creek are available for public access.  Walking and cycling trails line most of the lower creek.  Short Hills Provincial Park and St. John's Conservation Area provide both conservation and public access to the creek's upper reaches.  Parks and trails are present in several areas around Lake Gibson and the Bruce Trail crosses the upper portion of the watershed.  Historic sites such as Morningstar Mill and remnants of the early Welland Canals are preserved and accessible.

The creek, however, is facing challenges from increasing urbanization and from agricultural, industrial and domestic pollution.  The lower reaches are not in anything resembling a natural state, having been straightened, dredged and fed massively increased water flows.  Dicks Creek flows through old stone locks and, in some areas, in tunnels. Other tributaries flow through flood control channels.  Similarly, The Lake Gibson system bears little resemblance to Beaverdams Creek which once flowed through this area.

Twelve Mile Creek is a study in contrasts - in some areas, one of the most natural, and in other areas, one of the most altered watersheds in Niagara.


Scientology cross

The Scientology cross is one of the principal symbols of Scientology. It is most often used to represent the Church of Scientology.

The cross closely resembles the Christian cross, but differs from it with the addition of four diagonal rays between the conventional horizontal and vertical arms. The eight points of the cross represent the eight dynamics in Scientology:

 The Self
 Creativity, sex, and procreation (family)
 Group, society, community
 Species survival (humankind)
 Life forms in general
 Matter, Energy, Space & Time (physical universe)
 Spirit (self or others as a spiritual being)
 Infinity or Supreme being

According to the Ability magazine, a sand casting presenting a cross was dug up by L. Ron Hubbard in the mid-1950s, the model of which "came from a very ancient Spanish mission in Arizona". This cross came to be the new minister insignia besides the formal ceremonial medallion
and ribbon. He also occasionally referred to it as the "sunburst cross". Scholars speculate the Scientology cross may have been inspired by Aleister Crowley's use of the Rose Cross.

The practice of prominently displaying the cross in Scientology centers was instituted in 1969 following hostile press coverage in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, when Scientology's status as a legitimate religion was being questioned. In response, Hubbard ordered that, "Any staff who are trained at any level as auditors (but not in AOs) are to be  clothed in the traditioned ministerial black suit, black vest white collar silver cross for  ordinary org wear."


Jim Witter

Jim Witter (born November 2, 1964) is a Canadian award winning country music and Christian music singer/songwriter. Ten of Witter's songs reached the top 10 on Canadian country radio.

Biography

Jim Witter grew up playing music. In 1982, he performed four songs on the "Music for Safe Water" compilation by 1280 CHAM radio.  As a teenager, while still in high school, Jim honed his musical talents by playing evenings at a piano bar and restaurant called Snuggles, in Hamilton Ont.  In 1990, one of Witter's demos caught the attention of a Sony Music Canada executive. Within three years, Witter was signed to FRE Records. His debut album, Jim Witter, was released in 1993. The first single, "Everything and More," entered the National Country Chart at No. 40, at the time a first for a debut Canadian single. Every single released from the album reached the top 10 on the Canadian country singles chart, including "Distant Drum," "Stolen Moments," "Sweet Sweet Poison" and "Chevy Coupe." Witter received a 1994 Juno nomination for Best New Solo Artist, an award that covered all genres of music, as well as a nomination for Best Country Male Vocalist.

Witter signed a songwriting deal with Curb Records in 1999. That resulted in a record deal and the release of his second album, All My Life, in both Canada and the United States. He continued his string of hits in Canada with songs like "All My Life," "Jumpin' Right In," "Tough As A Pickup Truck," "One Beat at a Time" and "One Hundred Years." Unfortunately, none of his singles reached Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart in the U.S.

When it came time to go back into the studio, Witter was encouraged by Mike Curb to record a Christian record. The result was his third album, 2003's Forgiveness. The album received a nomination at the 2004 GMA Dove Awards for Album of the Year.

Witter is currently performing in The Piano Men, a tribute to the music of the 1970s, performing the songs of Billy Joel and Elton John.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Music videos

Awards and recognition
Canadian Country Music Awards
 1994 Video of the Year: "Stolen Moments"
 1995 Vocal Collaboration Of The Year
 1996 Vocal Collaboration Of The Year

GMA Dove Awards
 2004 nominee, Inspirational Album of the Year: Forgiveness

Juno Awards
 1994 nominee, Country Male Vocalist of the Year
 1994 nominee, Best New Solo Artist
 1995 nominee, Country Male Vocalist of the Year
 2000 nominee, Best Country Male Artist
 2004 nominee, Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year: Forgiveness


George Kruse

George Thomas Kruse (2 February 1880 – 30 March 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy.


Anthony Dafaa

Anthony Dafaa (born 26 June 1988) is a Kenyan footballer who currently plays for IFK Mariehamn in the Veikkausliiga.

Clement has previously played for Bandari F.C. in the Kenyan Premier League and for several clubs in Swedish lower divisions. He capped once for Kenya national team in 2009.

Career statistics

Club

International

Statistics accurate as of match played 14 March 2009


Keiko Miyajima

Keiko Miyajima (; born September 24, 1965) is a Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

In 1984 she was a member of the Japanese team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament.


Fu (character)

The character Fú (, Unicode U+798F) meaning "fortune" or "good luck" is represented both as a Chinese ideograph, but also at times pictorially, in one of its homophonous forms. It is often found on a figurine of the male god of the same name, one of the trio of "star gods" Fú, Lù, Shòu.

Mounted Fú are a widespread Chinese tradition associated with Chinese New Year and can be seen on the entrances of many Chinese homes worldwide.  The characters are generally printed on a square piece of paper or stitched in fabric. The practice is universal among Chinese people regardless of socioeconomic status, and dates to at least the Song Dynasty (AD 960 – 1279).

When displayed as a Chinese ideograph, Fú is often displayed upside-down on diagonal red squares. The reasoning is based on a wordplay: in nearly all varieties of Chinese: the words for "upside-down" (, Pinyin: dào) and "to arrive" (, Pinyin: dào) are homophonous. Therefore, the phrase an "upside-down Fú" sounds nearly identical to the phrase "Good luck arrives". Pasting the character upside-down on a door or doorpost thus translates into a wish for prosperity to descend upon a dwelling.

Another story states that posting the character upside-down originates with the family of a 19th-century prince of the Qing Dynasty. The story states that on one Chinese New Year's Eve (or Chuxi, ), the prince's servants played a practical joke by pasting fu characters throughout his royal dwelling. One illiterate servant inadvertently placed the characters upside-down. The prince was said to have been furious upon seeing the characters, but a quick-thinking servant humbly calmed the prince by saying that the occurrence must have been a sign of prosperity "arriving" upon his household by using the above wordplay.

Bats () are the most ubiquitous of all Chinese symbols with the same symbolic meaning as the ideograph "fortune" (). A less common representation is bran (), not only because "depictions of grain have been used throughout Chinese history to represent fecundity" but also in combination with other grains with related homophonous word-plays (for example, lì which can mean either "grain"  or "profit" ).

Usage of the character Fú () in various forms of calligraphy and seal characters as papercuts or posters represents the desire that one's good luck will be expansive and come in many forms. Chinese textiles and ceramics often found transcribe this felicitous message by portraying random numbers of bats in flight, sometimes can be more than a hundred.

Since 2017, the version 10 of the Unicode Standard features a rounded version of the character in the "Enclosed Ideographic Supplement" block, at code point U+1F260 (ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR FU).

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Pustków, Podkarpackie Voivodeship

Pustków  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dębica, within Dębica County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately  north-east of Dębica and  west of the regional capital Rzeszów. The settlement is nearly synonymous with the adjacent Pustków Osiedle housing estate built in the 1930s for employees of the mining explosives factory of the Central Industrial Region. The total area of Pustków – the largest village in Gmina Dębica – is  with 2,925 residents (2003); while the area of Pustków Osiedle – the smallest one – is  with comparable number of 2,727 residents in an urban setting.

World War II
Pustków, as well as Pustków Osiedle were the location of the Nazi German troop-training facility called HL-Heidelager for the Ukrainian 14th Waffen SS Division "Galician", as well as other collaborationists military formations including Estonian. Their training, included also killing operations inside the camps and Jewish ghettos in the vicinity of Pustków and in the town itself, most notably, at the Pustków and Szebnie concentration camp nearby.

Heidelager

Locals who lived in the vicinity were evicted already in mid-1940. The HL-Heidelager Military Training Base known in German as the SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager (de) eventually, was set up  of Dębica not far from Blizna using slave labor from the neighboring concentration camp located beneath Królowa Góra mountain, which held 7,000 Jews, 5,000 Soviet POWs, and 3,000 Poles (most of them annihilated before July 1944). The training range was in use since the fall of 1941 under the command of SS Oberführer Werner von Schele. The title Heidelager was adjusted from the original SS TruppenÜbungsPlatz "Ostpolen" on August 25, 1943. The last commandant of the training base was SS Oberführer Bernhardt Voss until the summer of 1944.

The facility resembled a small city with its own narrow gauge railroad, some 3,600 men of different nationalities, cinemas, dining halls, dozens of villas, a newsletter, even a camp brothel staffed by female prisoners from the slave-labor camp nearby, and the hunting parties for the high-ranking officers. This is where the Galizien Division came into existence. The range was visited by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on September 28, 1943, and abandoned in the summer of 1944 ahead of the Soviet advance.


Ningishzida

Ningishzida (sum: dnin-g̃iš-zid-da) is a Mesopotamian deity of vegetation and the underworld.  Thorkild Jacobsen translates Ningishzida as Sumerian for "lord of the good tree".

Mythology

In Sumerian mythology, he appears in Adapa's myth as one of the two guardians of Anu's celestial palace, alongside Dumuzi. He was sometimes depicted as a serpent with a human head.

Lagash had a temple dedicated to Ningishzida, and Gudea, patesi of Lagash in the 21st century BC (short chronology), was one of his devotees. In the Louvre, there is a famous green steatite vase carved for King Gudea of Lagash, dedicated by its inscription: "To the god Ningiszida, his god Gudea, Ensi (governor) of Lagash, for the prolongation of his life, has dedicated this".

Ningishzida is sometimes the son of Ninazu and Ningiridda, even though the myth Ningishzida's journey to the netherworld suggests he is the son of Ereshkigal. Following an inscription found at Lagash, he was the son of Anu, the heavens.

His wife is Azimua and also Geshtinanna, while his sister is Amashilama. In some texts Ningishzida is said to be female, which means "Nin" would then refer to Lady, which is mostly how the word is used by the Sumerians. He or she was one of the ancestors of Gilgamesh.

The Adapa myth mentions Ningishzida.

The death of vegetation is associated with the travel to the underworld of Ningishzida.

In popular culture

The god appears in the Simon Necronomicon under the spelling "Ninnghizhidda".
In Marilyn Manson's 1998 autobiography The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, Manson encountered a suburban Occultist who pays tribute to Ningishzida.
On Nile's Black Seeds of Vengeance album in the song 'Defiling The Gates Of Ishtar' there is an invocation to Ninnghizzhidda: 'Baad Angarru Ninnghizzhidda'


Tyrelessly

Tyrelessly is an environment sustainability company headquartered in New Delhi, India. Tyrelessly provides an environmentally compliant 'End-of-Life' tyre collection and disposal service, providing security, protection and peace of mind for those who feel responsible towards the environment. Tyrelessly is India's first 'Tyres-to-Trees' company which encourages motorists to forgo their used tyres for responsible recycling.

Tyrelessly has an online platform and conscious vehicle owners can follow a few simple steps to have their vehicle's 'End-of-Life' tyres disposed of safely. The company takes care of tyre collection through the online platform and users are notified after the disposal. Tyrelessly collects all kinds of tyres;  End-of-Life bicycle tyres to End-of-Life SUV or truck tyres. As of July 2016, Tyrelessly's service is available across the National Capital Region.

Background
Tyrelessly was founded in 2015 by one of India's youngest CEOs, Anubhav Wadhwa. When Wadhwa was coming back from a regular class, he saw a dozen tires piled by the side of a road and that led him to research about the ways to safely dispose of Tyres. Disappointed to see no solutions were in place, Wadhwa started working on Tyrelessly with an objective to create positive impact on the way that people think about their end of life tyres and the damage they may have done in their lifetime.

Recognition

Tyrelessly's efforts to safely dispose of tyres has been extensively covered by newspapers ranging from The Times of India, The Hindu, Dainik Bhaskar, Hindustan Times and Business Standard. Tyrelessly was also one of the six innovations presented by the Marico Innovation Foundation and The Better India in an exclusive video series, India Innovates.


Mujhe Beta Chahiye

Mujhe Beta Chahiye ( I want a son) is a 2019 Pakistani family drama television series, produced by Sadia Jabbar under their banner Sadia Jabbar Productions. The drama airs weekly episode on A-Plus TV every Tuesday. It stars Sabreen Hisbani and Shahood Alvi while Aiza Awan played the antagonist.

Plot
The story focuses on social issues associated with pressure for a wife to produce male offspring.

Cast
Sabreen Hisbani
Shahood Alvi
Aiza Awan
Shagufta Ejaz
Talat Shah
Hina Imran
Sajid Shah


Hamataliwa unca

Hamataliwa unca is a species of lynx spider in the family Oxyopidae. It is found in the United States.


Anachrophobia

Anachrophobia is a BBC Books original novel written by Jonathan Morris and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.

Plot

Whilst travelling in time, the TARDIS suddenly shakes violently. The Eighth Doctor shuts it down, concluding that it is tearing itself apart attempting to escape a force that is forcing it to land. As the Doctor, Anji and Fitz emerge onto a wasteland, they are captured by soldiers. They learn that they have landed on a planet that is host to a war between two factions of humans: the Plutocratic empire and rebels known as Defaulters. Both sides have weapons that can slow the flow of time, or speed it up in small areas, but because of this, both sides have reached a stalemate.

The soldiers take the Doctor to an officer called Lane. She assumes that the Doctor is the time expert the Plutocrats were sending, and the Doctor decides to agree. Lane takes them to a military outpost called Station 40. When they arrive, one of the soldiers, a man called Bishop, who had his arm aged by a time storm, is placed in a decelerated time capsule until his fate is decided.

The commander of the base, Commander Bragg, reveals that one of his scientists, Dr Patterson, has developed a time capsule, which they plan to use to stop the war from ever happening. Two men, Ash and Norton, get inside the machine and go back in time, but the machine spins out of control. The Doctor brings the machine back to the present, and Ash and Norton are placed in quarantine and develop disorientation, anachrophobia, memory loss and physical trauma.

The Doctor finds a breach in the machine's walls, meaning that the machine's interior was exposed to the time vortex. Meanwhile, Norton's condition is getting worse: time is moving more slowly around him and he cannot recognise his own face as his past is slowly being erased. The Doctor decides to travel in the time capsule and Fitz demands to go with him, but Bragg learns that the Doctor is not the time expert and stops Anji from carrying on with controlling the capsule. Meanwhile, inside the capsule, time slows down and something begins banging on the door.

Lane goes to check Ash and Norton, but they attack her and in her rush to leave she tears her time proof suit. Time then jumps back one minute, and lane contacts Bragg, giving Anji the chance to overpower him and return The Doctor and Fitz to the present. However another staff member, Shaw, overpowers Anji and locks the Doctor and his companions away. Time begins to flow more slowly over Lane and time jumps back a minute, confirming that Ash and Norton infected lane, who has now infected Bragg.

A man called Mistletoe arrives at the station, claiming to be an auditor sent to review the experiments. Shaw releases the Doctor, Fitz and Anji and brings them to the lab as Mistletoe moves Bishop to the quarantine ward. Bishop becomes infected and Ash, Norton and Bishop face's all turn into clock faces. The Doctor uses gas to knock out the infected and after examining them, reveals that they are turning into clocks.

Elsewhere, Patterson sees Bragg's face turn into a clock, but when he reaches the Doctor to warn him, his face turns into a clock, and he finds that he can travel throughout his own lifetime. The Doctor warns him not to, as he fears that the infected are offered the chance to change their personal timelines, but if they do, they have their history erased and become empty vessels for the clock creatures to take over. After hearing this, Patterson commits suicide.

Fitz and Shaw go looking for the others, but as they do, a Defaulter bombing causes safety doors to lower. Shaw takes Fitz down to the lower levels, leaving The Doctor and Anji trapped with Bragg. The Doctor opens the door and seals it again, but Bragg rewinds time to get through.

The Doctor and Anji seal themselves in the control room with Mistletoe, but it is too late for the clock creatures to rewind time. Fitz and Shaw are attacked by Lane, but due to her time reversal abilities, he cannot shoot her. Lane releases Ash, Bishop and Norton from the quarantine ward as Doctor, Anji and Mistletoe flee to the medical bay. the Doctor exams battle reports and finds them full of strange tactics. Mistletoe then admits that the war is being prolonged to increase profit for the empire.

The Doctor then decides to use mustard gas on the creatures as it takes an hour to take effect and the clocks will not be able to rewind time far enough to save themselves. Fitz and Shaw retrieve Mustard gas from the stores and release it. Anji cannot find the Doctor, until Fitz brings him back into the medical bay, having found him outside with no gas mask on. The infected people slowly die, but Mistletoe remembers that Bishop was taken to Station One, the main headquarters of the Plutocrats, to study his infection. The station has a population of 60,000, all of whom will be infected.

The survivors sent out in a van in pursuit of Dr. Hammond, only to find his van ambushed by Defaulters, but the whole area has been frozen in time due to Bishop's capsule being smashed. Dr. Hammond reveals himself to be a robot while Shaw reveals that he is a Defaulter agent. As Shaw prepares to shoot everyone, an accelerated time bomb brings time back to normal, and a Defaulter soldier shoots Shaw and injures Bishop. Hammond's power supply explodes, which kills the Defaulter. Bishop uses his powers to rewind time, kill the defaulter and flee from Hammond. however, his face turns into a clock. Plutocratic soldiers mistakenly rescue Bishop, but as the Doctor pursues them, they go through a small patch of decelerated time with broken shielding and arrive at station One months later.

They find that all of station One has been converted, but they are allowed to pass through unharmed. At the central audit bureau, they meet the Actuaries, robot accountants who have been running both sides of the war for profit. However, they cannot remember why they are making money or who for, as they have not received any contact from the Empire for one hundred years. They funded the time travel experiments to try to find their purpose. However Bishop enters and infects the Doctor.

As the clocks try to tempt him, he remembers that as the clocks exist outside of normal time, they depend on the hole in time that the capsule tore. The Doctor travels along his own timeline to the point where he sealed the airlock before the mustard gas was released. He runs to the lab and fills the time capsule with chrononium, the material used to make the time weapons, then he sets up a clockwork timer. After exposing himself to the gas, he returns to the present, without having changed history. The capsule then launches, sealing the hole. the clocks are killed, and the Doctor passes out.

Mistletoe reveals himself as Sabbath (he is not named in the text, but it is clearly him from the description) to Fitz and Anji. Sabbath explains that the clocks were not invading the universe but fleeing Sabbath's allies in the time vortex, and that both the clocks and the Doctor were manipulated into coming here, in the hope that the Doctor would destroy them. Sabbath then leaves, and Fitz and Anji carry the Doctor to the TARDIS.

Continuity
The front cover is based on René Magritte's famous self-portrait, The Son of Man. In the original, an apple obscures the face.
According to fellow series author Jon Blum, Morris has said that the clock-faced men in the story are meant to be Faction Paradox, although this is not made explicit in the text.
The Wraiths in the novel The Slow Empire were also said to be fleeing Sabbath's allies. Who his allies are is revealed in the novel Sometime Never...
Mistletoe's arrival was one of the glimpses of the future from Father Time, making Father Time Sabbath's (unnamed) first appearance in the novels.
Romana was drawn with a clock as her face in the serial City of Death.


Qingyunpu District

Qingyunpu District (), is one of 6 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, China. It covers over  and as of 2004 had a population of . It is the location of Nanchang Qingyunpu Airport.

Administrative divisions
It is divided into 5 areas:
Sanjiadian (三家店)
Hongdu (洪都)
Jingshan (京山)
Xujiafang (徐家坊)
Daishan (岱山)

and 1 town:
Qingyunpu (青云谱镇)

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Thunder Ridge Wilderness

The Thunder Ridge Wilderness is a  area located near Natural Bridge, Virginia, which is protected by the Eastern Wilderness Act of Congress to maintain its present, natural condition. As part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, it helps to preserve a variety of natural life forms and contributes to a diversity of plant and animal gene pools. Over half of the ecosystems in the United States exist within designated wilderness.

Dominated by Thunder Ridge with steep slopes towering above Arnold Valley, the interior is incredibly rugged, remote and rarely visited. The top of the ridge contains flowers blooming late into summer, long past blooms in the hot valley below. Trillium, may apple, pink lady slipper, Indian cucumber root and columbine flourish in the shade of black cherry trees, northern red oak and hickories.

The area is part of the Glenwood Cluster.

Location and access
Thunder Ridge Wilderness is located in the Jefferson National Forest several miles from Natural Bridge Station, Virginia. It is just south of the James River Face Wilderness, bounded on the northeast by Forest Service Road 35, on the south by the Blue Ridge Parkway and on the northwest by a line approximately parallel to the parkway and offset by about a mile.

There are three trails into the wilderness:
 The Appalachian Trail travels in and out of the wilderness as it crosses the Blue Ridge Parkway giving several trailheads for access to the wilderness.
 Hunting Creek Trail enters the wilderness before meeting the Appalachian Trail.  Trailhead on FS 45 at Hunting Creek
 Glenwood Horse Trail, 2.1 mile, 1000 foot elevation change, trailhead on FS 35

There are several overlooks of the wilderness from parking areas along the Blue Ridge Parkway:
  A view over the wilderness can be reached from the Thunder Ridge Parking area, Blue Ridge Parkway milepost 74.7. A short trail from the parking lot leads to an overlook with views to the west over Arnold Valley.
 The Apple Orchard Mountain Overlook at milepost 76.5 is the highest  parkway elevation in Virginia with views of the wilderness and the valley below

Natural history
With very different environments, the area sustains a great variety of trees found in a diversity of habitats.  Coves support tulip poplar, oak and hemlock, some very large; the crest of Apple Orchard Mountain has a mix of hardwoods such as red and white oak as well as common persimmon, red spruce and hemlock; and the harsh environment of the dry western slopes support pitch pine, Virginia pine and chestnut oak.

The moist forests provide good habitat for salamanders. The world’s greatest diversity of salamanders is found in the southeastern United States.  More than 55 species are located in Virginia, with over 15 in the Thunder Ridge wilderness or adjacent public and private lands.

Topography
The area is dominated by Thunder Ridge with steep slopes on the northern side, and elevations ranging from 1320 feet in the lowlands of the northwest to 4200 feet on Apple Orchard Mountain.

The peaks are part of the Pedlar Formation, composed of igneous granite and metamorphic gneiss with a mineral content which weathers to give a soil supporting a lush growth of plants. The area has the tallest trees and the finest groups of laurel and rhododendron in the region.

Cultural history
Just south of the wilderness area on Apple Orchard Mountain, Apple Orchard Camp offered overnight accommodations in the early 1900s.  In 1924 the camp became Camp Kewanzee, a summer camp for boys and girls.  During the Cold War a nearby area was developed as a radar-based tracking station, and in the 1960s a large computer complex was built to process data for transmission to Fort Lee, Virginia. The military base was closed in 1975 leaving a single radar dome and other facilities. The dome, a prominent feature on the tallest mountain along the parkway in Virginia, can be seen from a long distance.

In 1928 during a violent storm, a balloon, participating in an international balloon race, crashed in the night onto Thunder Hill.  Major injuries were sustained, especially during the climb down the mountain.

Nearby Wildlands
Nearby wilderness areas and wildlands recognized as one of Virginia's "Mountain Treasures" by the Wilderness Society are:
James River Face Wilderness
James River Face Wilderness Addition
White Oak Ridge-Terrapin Mountain
North Creek (conservation area)
Wilson Mountain
Cove Mountain


Southwold Lifeboat Station

Southwold Lifeboat Station is an RNLI operated lifeboat station located in the town of Southwold in the English county of Suffolk.

The station operates an  lifeboat called Annie Tranmer which has an operational range of . The Atlantic 85 is the third generation Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) in the B-class series. The lifeboat has a manually operated self-righting mechanism and can be beached in an emergency without sustaining damage to engines or steering gear. She is easy refloat and is ideal for rescues close to shore and on the sandbanks which are along the coast at Southwold.

The lifeboat is operated by a crew of around 18 volunteers. Charity abseil events at Southwold lighthouse raised over £20,000 for the lifeboat in both 2009 and 2011.

History
A lifeboat was first stationed in the town in 1841 with the first motorised boat being put into service in 1926. The station's lifeboat, Mary Scott, took part in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. She was towed to Dunkirk by the paddle steamer Emperor of India together with two other small boats. Between them they took 160 men to their mother ship, then made a journey with 50 men to another transport vessel. She was abandoned on the beach, recovered and returned to service with the RNLI at Southwold.

An inshore lifeboat station equipped with a D class lifeboat was established in 1963. This was replaced by a B class Atlantic 21 lifeboat, Sole Bay, in 1973. Medal Services 1972 Bronze Medal Patrick Pile. 1972 Bronze Medal Martin Helmer. 1981 Bronze Medal Helmsman Roger Trigg.

Description
The current boathouse was built in 1993 near the entrance to Southwold Harbour at the mouth of the River Blyth. A winch and davit are used to launch the boat. These were repositioned in 2012 following essential repair work carried out to the harbour wall.

The station covers an area of around . Neighbouring lifeboat stations are located in Lowestoft and Aldeburgh along the North Sea coast.

Fleet

All Weather lifeboats

No. 1 station

No. 2 station

Inshore Lifeboats

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B-class


Adventurers Club

The Adventurers Club was a themed nightclub in Pleasure Island at the Walt Disney World Resort.  It was styled after a private club for world travelers and explorers and was set in 1937.  The walls of the club were covered with artifacts and photographs from various explorations.  The Adventurers Club featured animatronics, puppets, and a cast of adventurers who performed in shows and improvisational comedy while mingling with the club's patrons.  Shows and conversation were often laced with innuendo, and the patrons might have been welcomed as guests, given fictitious names and "recognized" as fellow adventurers, or simply referred to as "drunks".

History
The Adventurers Club opened with the rest of Pleasure Island on May 1, 1989, as part of a fictional legend about the island's previous owner, Merriweather Adam Pleasure, and back-story describing each of the buildings' former uses. Disney's Imagineers, led by Head Writer, Show Producer and Show Director, Roger Cox and designer Joe Rohde (who later designed Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park), conceived and created the club.

The Adventurers Club's unlikely hero, Emil Bleehall, is based on a semi-autobiographical character Cox created. He is a little guy from Ohio who gains respect and admiration with his awkward but uniquely crowd-pleasing talents. Cox felt it paralleled his own story at Disney.  A docudramatic version of Cox’s journey at Disney by Sandra Tsing Loh, called, "It Happened in Glendale" from her Book Depth Takes a Holiday was performed on an episode of the radio show This American Life titled "Something for Nothing."

Until December 31, 2005, every night in Pleasure Island was celebrated as New Year's Eve. The club's show schedule was set to create a break near midnight to allow people to go outside to see the fireworks and to accommodate the noisy explosions that resulted. One of the launch points for the nightly fireworks was the Adventurers Club's rooftop.

On June 27, 2008 Disney announced the Adventurers Club (along with all other clubs on Pleasure Island) would be closing permanently on September 27, 2008. An online petition to save the club was created at SaveTheAdventurersClub.info by members of the Disney fan community in hopes that Disney would consider moving the club or keeping it open as part of the new Pleasure Island format. Over 2,750 signatures were collected in the first 72 hours. There were also letter-writing campaigns to company executives, web sites, and blog postings. In February 2009, Disney announced that Adventurers Club and the dance clubs Motion and Soundstage would reopen for private party rentals at least through September, 2009.

On September 26, 2009, it was confirmed that props from the Club would be sent to Hong Kong Disneyland.  The props were worked into the Mystic Manor attraction, which opened in 2013. A few props which were created by cast members for use in the shows have been sold at auction by the performers who owned them. There are rumors that several "artifacts" from the former Club made their way to Trader Sam's in the Disneyland Hotel.  A stuffed peacock named "Scooter" and several other item have a new home high on the walls at D Street in Disney Springs, Florida. Some items have been internally offered for sale to cast members.

The last public performance was held September 27, 2008 to overflowing crowds. The last semi-public event held at the Club occurred on September 25, 2009.  It was a convention party for The ConGaloosh Society, Inc, a Florida nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of interactive improvisational theatre.  The ConGaloosh Society continues to hold events that bring together fans of the Adventurers Club with cast members in new settings.

The Adventurers Club's cast reunited for one last performance and "membership renewal" at the Disney D23 Destination D event on Sunday, November 23, 2014, at around 8:30PM in the Disney's Contemporary Resort Fantasia conference building and rooms.

The Adventurers Club cast reunited again for the Countdown to Midnight event at Disney's Yacht and Beach Club Resort on December 31, 2015, inducting new members for the first time in seven years.

On April 29, 2019, some of the Cast of the Adventurers Club reunited to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Pleasure Island, and new members were inducted into the Club at a special event on the beach at Disney's Beach Club Resort.

Inspiration
The Adventurers Club was designed and created by Walt Disney Imagineering in the late 1980s. Walt Disney Imagineering is the design and development arm of The Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation and construction of Disney theme parks worldwide. Chris Carradine, the Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering, played a significant role in the creation of the club.

The origins of the club were recently described by Craig McNair Wilson, who worked with the dramatic team for the club. According to Wilson, "it came out of our collective, shared love of the world of the pith helmet and all that circled around it. It was the place we always wanted to go, but it didn't exist."

Wilson said the idea originated from a Sunday afternoon theme party, given by Disney employee Joe Rohde. The theme of the party was "The Last Days of the Raj." Every year for years, the employees would dress up in theme costume to recreate the days of British colonialism.

According to Wilson, the Los Angeles show Tamara was also a "major influence on the team." Tamara was a live theatrical, multiroom play, which allowed 150 audience members to follow ten actors through an Italian Villa set in the late 1930s. It took place in an old Elks hall in Los Angeles.  Wilson and Disney Imagineering Vice President Chris Carradine saw the show "three or four times together and a few times more with others."

According to Wilson, there was also "more than a pinch of Rick’s Cafe," from the film Casablanca.

There are several organizations that may have served as insiration for the attraction. The Explorers Club was founded in New York in 1904. There is also an actual "Adventurers' Club" which had chapters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Honolulu. The Adventurers' Club of Los Angeles,  which was incorporated in 1922, has been in continuous operation since its founding.

Additionally, another organization, called the Ends of the Earth Club, was created in 1903. Its members included Mark Twain, General John Pershing, Admiral Robert Peary, Gutzon Borglum (the sculptor of Mt. Rushmore) and more than 100 other prominent businessmen and academics located, primarily, in the northeastern United States. However, there is no evidence that the Disney team was aware of the existence of any of these clubs.

The physical layout of the club was designed by Chris Carradine, who is an architect by training. The building was made intentionally large, so that the club could be expanded with additional exhibits.

Characters

Resident adventurers
 Hathaway Browne – Aviator, and the club's resident innuendo-making ladies' man.
 Otis T. Wren – Club Treasurer and ichthyologist.
 Fletcher Hodges – Absent-minded Club Curator, he is said to have "mounted every object in the club."
 Pamelia Perkins – Club President.
 Samantha Sterling – Explorer and cabaret singer.
 Emil Bleehall – Contender for the Balderdash Cup.  Hails from Sandusky, Ohio.  The character used to be portrayed as a plaid sport coat-wearing country bumpkin, but is now depicted as a "Junior Adventurer" in a costume that is a pastiche of a Boy Scout uniform. During the final performances, both characters appeared in the show (as Emil Sr. and Emil Jr.).
 Graves – Club Butler.
 The Maid – There were many maids who work in the Adventurers Club and participate in its activities. The only character that changes identity depending on which actor is playing her.
 Madame Zarkov – A mysterious gypsy who makes rare appearances at the Club.  This character usually replaces that of Samantha Sterling for an evening. Both Samantha Sterling and Madame Zarkov appeared in the final performances at the club.

Different actors portrayed the adventurers on different nights, and most actors played more than one part.

The maid is the only character in the club to have a unique identity when played by a different actress (by way of contrast, "Graves" is always known as "Graves" no matter which actor is playing him).  Past and present maids include "Anelle", "Yvette", "Sugar Snap", "Beullah Belle", "Ginger Vitus", "Sunny Knight", "Kiki McGee", "Gabby Normal", "Tish Myash", "Dusty Cabinets", "Tallulah Buttertart", "LaRue", "Molly McClean", and more.

Other characters
 Colonel Critchlow Sunchbench – Club Gleemeister.  The colonel is a cabal-controlled puppet working from behind the scenes. He is usually "on duty" (sitting dormant), but he wakes up to lead the new inductees in the club song, and occasionally to converse with guests in the Main Salon.
 Babylonia – A giant stone face on the wall in the Main Salon, the goddess of women and all things fertile, who sometimes speaks.
 The Yakoose – A mounted animal head that occasionally moves and speaks, either to guests or to Babylonia.
 Arnie and Claude – A pair of talking masks in the Mask Room.
 Beezle – A genie whose head appears in the Treasure Room.
 Fingers Zambezi – A haunted organ that provides the music for the Library shows (with animatronic motions that usually have little to do with the music, and timbres that morph from theatre organ to practically any other keyboard instrument, according to the needs of the show).
 Emil Bleehall, Sr. – Emil Bleehall's father.  Only appeared on the club's closing weeks.
 Sutter Bestwick – Another normally unseen character who is supposed to be a competitor for the 1937 Balderdash Cup. He, too, is unable to attend due to Otis' exploits. Sutter is also a past winner of the Balderdash Cup for 1930. His only appearance was on the club's closing weekend.
 Chilton Thompson – Although mentioned in the Balderdash Cup and the Radio Broadcast, he is never seen. He is supposed to be the sound effects man for the Radio Broadcast. He is also a past competitor for the Balderdash Cup, but, due to Otis Wren's doing, is unable to attend for 1937.
 Sheila Griffin – An unseen character who is supposed to be playing the role of Gretta in New Year's Eve episode of "Tales of the Adventurers Club", but for some unknown reason, does not show up to the Radio Broadcast
 Marcel – A man in an ape suit.  Appeared during the early days of the club's existence, and in the Hoopla of the club's closing night, during which he invited the permanent members of the Adventurers Club to accompany him on a year-long safari.
 Plaid Monkey – This was a character invented by the performers in later years. He was sometimes joked about, but very rarely made appearances. The character was a quick combination of the Marcel monkey mask and plaid jacket props that were no longer in regular use.
 Nash – In the early years all bartenders were simply called Nash, no matter who was actually working that job at the time.
Club Auctioneer – From time to time, guests were called play the role of an auctioneer selling the services of the house maid. This guest became an infrequent visitor with around 30 estimated appearances in the late years of operation.
 Dave the Soundman – The name of the Tech of the day, no matter what the Tech's name actually is.

Rooms
 The Zebra Mezzanine – The top floor of the club. The club entrance leads into the mezzanine, which forms a circular balcony around the Main Salon.  The walls feature many artifacts, and a framed parchment of the Club Creed. Primarily Graves' domain, the adventurers spend limited time here except for certain rituals (e.g. an exorcism or the Rhythm Ritual).  This area featured a rarely used extra bar near the staircase into the Main Salon that was only used during particularly busy nights.
 The Main Salon – The central room of the club.  The Main Salon houses the nightclub's primary bar, and also has a small stage from which the adventurers often speak or lead shows such as the New Member Induction Ceremony.  The centerpiece of the Main Salon is a larger-than-life statue that some say is titled "Zeus Goes Fishing", but alternatively referred to as "God with Rod".  It is a replica of the famous Artemision Bronze.  The walls of this room are filled with even more artifacts than on the Mezzanine, and many have placards giving their history and importance to the fictional former owner of the island, Merriweather Pleasure.
 The Mask Room – A small room off the Main Salon that features several shows throughout the night. The walls are covered with masks from around the world, many of which move and laugh. Two large Bacchanalian-inspired masks at the front of the room, Arnie and Claude, also talk and move their eyes.
 The Treasure Room – Another small room off the Main Salon, the Treasure Room contains additional artifacts gathered by the club, and also hosts several shows throughout the night which feature the genie-head-in-a-lantern special effect.
 The Library –  This room is the largest in the club and hosts the larger (and mostly scripted) shows, many of which are musical in nature.  This room also includes an additional bar, and is the home of Fingers Zambezi.

Shows
The Adventurers Club offered many shows throughout the night. The main shows were hosted in the library, which seated over 100 people, while smaller shows occurred in the Mask Room and Treasure Room, seating about 40 people each.  The times were not always fixed, but there were plaques next to each room to show the schedule for that particular evening. The shows mostly follow a script and order of songs and jokes, but performers would sometimes make running jokes about guests' behavior, dress, or place of origin. Some guests would be invited to participate. Shows include:
 Welcome Party (Library). Samantha Sterling and Fletcher Hodges throw a welcome party to get the open house off to a good start.
 Radio Broadcast (Library). Otis and Pamelia lead a version of their weekly old-timey radio broadcast "Tales of the Adventurers Club", in which half of the cast is missing and must be replaced by audience members.  The broadcast is a serial radio show, similar to "The Shadow" or "Little Orphan Annie".
 The Balderdash Cup Competition (Library). The Adventurer of the Year wins the Balderdash Cup. The Balderdash Cup ceremony always ended with Emil Bleehall winning, as judged by crowd applause. However, on the club's final night, the crowd decided to applaud and cheer for Otis T. Wren, allowing him to win the cup for the fourth time.
 The RadioThon (Library). The club uses its radio broadcasting ability to attempt to raise $2,000 and save the club from losing its lease, finding some trouble along the way. A kind of variety show. On the last night, the show failed to raise the $2,000 needed.
 The New Member Induction Ceremony (Main Salon). Every night in the Adventurers Club is the night of their membership drive.  The ceremony is performed 3 times throughout the night, hosted by different characters each time.
 The Club Salute – This is where new adventurers learn the true meaning of the club's greeting, "Kungaloosh!", and the secret salute to accompany it.
 The Club Creed – A recitation of the Official Creed.
 The Club Song – The Colonel is awakened to teach the crowd the club's anthem, though he usually misunderstands which song is expected of him at first.
 Samantha's Cabaret (Library) – Features Samantha Sterling performing musical numbers.
 The Maid's Sing-Along (Library). The Maid leads the audience in song.
 The Rhythm Ritual – A show centered in the Main Salon that leads into the Hoopla. The Ritual usually features all the adventurers looking down from the balconies of the mezzanine as they take turns performing humorous solos on percussive instruments. The ritual usually builds to a crescendo as they come downstairs into the Main Salon, all playing their instruments together.  Then the Colonel responds to the sound by coming off duty and shouting out rhythmic but often nonsensical phrases for the patrons to repeat, finalizing in the announcement of the Hoopla.
 The Hoopla – The Adventurers Club evening finale.  At the end of the Rhythm Ritual, the Library doors open and the guests are seated.  The Hoopla is hosted by Samantha Sterling, and always begins with a sing-along of "The Happy Wanderer".  There are usually two or three other numbers performed by other adventurers, then the show is always concluded with Samantha leading everyone in "When the Saints Go Marching In", with each remaining adventurer creating a verse. The actors either invent a new verse on the spur of the moment or reuse one they've previously found to be effective.

Some shows were performed in the club's earlier years but later canceled. These include the beer tasting session (where guests would vote on the beer of the evening), "Fingers Plays Requests" (where guests would try to stump the organist's knowledge of tunes), Madam Zarkov's show, and more.

Holidays
While every day is the Open House and the performers have free rein to alter the script to fit the evening, the club does do some specialty shows for the Halloween and Christmas seasons in place of one or more of the Library events.
 Halloween Jubilee – Pamelia presents her Halloween Spooktacular!  Otis discovers Halloween Carols, and the gang battles an evil spirit they accidentally conjure when Emil points out the club charter requires a seance in the Halloween show.  The Characters all wear costumes for this show – Pamelia the witch, Cowboy Otis, Vampire Hathaway, and Space Explorer Emil.  Other characters will occasionally wear Halloween costumes for the season as well, including Pharaoh Fletcher Hodges, Leopard Samantha and Native American Graves.
 Holiday Broadcast – Pamelia tries to bring some Christmas spirit to the club, resulting in a seriously irritated Otis who abandons the show.  Memorable moments include Hathaway singing "Home for the Holidays", the Maid performing "Santa Baby", Pamelia's song, "Pretty Little Dolly", and Emil and Pamelia telling the tale of "Dominick the Christmas Donkey."  Otis returns to the show, making Pamelia's job easier because, after all, it is Christmas.
 Christmas Eve Reading – On Christmas Eve just before midnight, the characters would take turns reading passages from "Twas the Night Before Christmas". This was adopted because the club would close early due to the holiday, and there was no performance of the Rhythm Ritual or Hoopla that evening.
 Specialty Hooplas Themed Hooplas are not unusual in the least, with performers choosing to sing festive songs based on the Holiday seasons (Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween, or otherwise).

Club traditions
During the Club's run, several unique traditions emerged.  Some date back to the opening day of the club, others were added over the years.
 Kungaloosh – "Kungaloosh" is the Club's official greeting and its official beverage.
 Club Salute – The official means of recognition between members of the Adventurers Club.  It is a three-step process.  First, place the heel of your right hand just above your navel and wiggle it like a swimming fish.  Then, raise that hand to your mouth and take a drink from an imaginary glass of the properly chilled adult beverage of your choice.  Finally, raise your hand above your head and declare "Kungaloosh!"
 Hoopla – The Bon-Voyage Hoopla was traditionally the final Library show of the night.  Whenever one of the members of the Club were to mention the word "Hoopla" it was traditional to shout "Hoopla!" back at him or her.
 All-Purpose Theme Song – The Adventurers Club All-Purpose Theme Song was sung at all major club functions, including all New-Member Induction Ceremonies and during the Club's radio broadcasts.

Marching along we're adventurers
Singing the song of adventurers
Up or down
North, south, east, or west,
An Adventurer's life is best.
KUNGALOOSH!!
 The Club CreedWe climb the highest mountains,
just to get a better view.

We plumb the deepest oceans,
cause we're daring through and through.

We cross the scorching deserts,
martini in our hands.

We ski the polar ice caps,
in tuxedo looking grand.

We are reckless, brave, and loyal,
and valiant to the end.

If you come in here a stranger,
you will exit as a friend.

~Merriweather Adam Pleasure
Club Founder 1927
 The Club Motto – "Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you, but always dress for the hunt!"

Another tradition was when a regular performer left the cast, a custom-designed artifact with obscure references to that person was placed on display to memorialize them; many of these were kept in a locked cabinet in the Treasure Room.

Costumes
Throughout the years the costumes of the main characters changed several times. Emil Bleehall originally wore a plaid jacket and resembled a traveling salesman. This was later changed to a green "Junior Adventurer" outfit, reminiscent of a Boy Scout uniform. Hathaway Browne wore a Green Jacket, which was later supplanted by a leather aviator coat.  As a result of the many layers of the newer costume, his character was often the object of jokes during the hot Florida summers. Fletcher Hodges went through one of the more strange transitions, switching from a professor lab coat to a "ponga" skirt with boxer shorts, then back to pants again.  Pamelia Perkins originally wore a purple dress, then graduated to a blue dress with a prominent "Club President" sash.  She continued to wear the sash through the rest of her costumes, including a bright dress reminiscent of a peacock (complete with a stuffed peacock hat) and her final costume, which was a red and blue kimono.

The later costumes were more outrageous than the earlier ones to make the characters stand out, and sometimes at the desires of new show directors. The cast would sometimes also add personal touches of their own, with some wearing different hats or carrying props.

Musical numbers
Songs performed in the library shows include several written by comedians Heywood Banks (such as "The Cat Got Dead") and Tom Lehrer ("The Masochism Tango"). Others come from a wide variety of sources: Broadway, children's songs, pop and jazz, comedy.

Several of the longest running songs were originals written by the performers themselves ("Drop Your Drawers", "Adventure Keeps Calling My Name").

Merchandise
 The club pin, most frequently given to a guest who participated in a show or ceremony, changed several times throughout the years. Size and materials have ranged from large plastic, to small metal, to the final pin being made of a stiff rubber to prevent conflict with the popular pin trading practice in the parks. There were also 2 special pins, one of them a jumbo pin, containing Disney animated characters dressed as Adventurers Club characters, and created and designed by the Disney Design Group team.
 At various times souvenir cups have been sold in the shape of a ceramic tiki glass, a canteen, a monkey head, a human skull, a Yakoose head, a coconut carved to look like a monkey(a "Monkey Nut"), and more. There were also tiny plastic mugs (from the beer tasting show), shot glasses, and a set of 5 plastic glasses distributed in the final month of operation.
 Clothing items included T-shirts, sweat shirts, denim jackets, hats, and more.
 Other items made available through the years include a club creed scroll, cast photo, watch, pin buttons, and Pleasure Island themed merchandise which included the Adventurers Club logo.
 Some objects provided by the performers during shows or improvisational segments, such as a pack of matches, napkin, and postal letters were always sought after collectables.
 There is a Disney Vinylmation 3 inch figure of Colonel Sunchbench. This small collectible is part of the Park 4 series. There is also  a 3D pin of the same figure.
 There have been a number of Adventurers Club themed metal pins made available as part of Disney Pin Trading

Connection to the Jungle Cruise
There are several cross references between the Adventurers Club and the Magic Kingdom Jungle Cruise attraction, both themed to the same era of time.  Some of the artifacts in the club are attributed to scenes on the Jungle Cruise.  The fastpass machines at the Jungle Cruise are designed to resemble travel trunks.  Two of these have nametags on the top, one with Emil's address, and one with Pamelia's. Recently the tags have gone missing, either from vandalism or a deliberate redesign of the machines. In addition, several "artifacts" throughout the queue are labeled as belonging to a private collection from the Adventurers Club, including its physical address.  The Skipper Canteen, a restaurant in the Magic Kingdom, is supposedly run by the Jungle Navigation Co LTD (the company behind the Jungle Cruise) and has a cake on the menu called Kungaloosh.

Connection to the S.E.A.
The Society of Explorers and Adventurers, or SEA for short, is an organization that Walt Disney Imagineering has been steadily incorporating into attractions around the world. When the Adventurers Club closed, props would be saved and repurposed in other places and occasionally, narrative connections between the Adventurers Club and SEA would be made in some of these locations, with the Adventurers Club being established as being a successor or a branch established decades after most SEA attractions.

At Hong Kong Disneyland's Mystic Point, the Explorers Club Restaurant's collection of artifacts includes several pieces from the Mask Room. Lord Henry Mystic, the lead SEA member of the land, notes in journal excerpts on the wall that noticing the way these masks moved made him nervous enough to move them out of the main museum in the house. With the land being set in 1908, this makes this the first chronological home for them.

At the Magic Kingdom's Skipper Canteen Restaurant, inspired by the Jungle Cruise, a display case of SEA club fezes near the restaurant's SEA meeting room dining area features the SEA membership fez of Merryweather Pleasure. Additionally, one of the menu items is named for Pamelia Perkins, the Perkins Thai Noodles.

At the Aulani resort kids club, Aunty's Beach House, a portrait that once hung in the Adventurer's Club and a letter from Pamelia Perkins identifies and retcons the figures depicted as being of a predecessor to the Adventurer's Club known as the "Pillagers Brigade" with a younger Harrison Hightower III of Tokyo Disney Sea's Tower of Terror among them, years before he joined SEA and eventually found the Shiriki Utundu Idol.

In the media
 Starlog magazine mentions the closing of the Adventurers Club in its "Bad Decision of the Month" section.
 In the game World of Warcraft there is a craftable drink named the Kungaloosh that is made with Papayas, Oranges, and Bananas.
 In the sandbox video game Garry's Mod, a user by the name of "brerben" recreated the near entirety of the Adventurer's Club, complete with animatronics and hidden books to simulate the club as best as possible. The map has since been re-uploaded to the game's Steam Workshop page as well.
 One of the Tales of the Wasteland tie-in comics to Epic Mickey features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's take on the Adventurer's Club, dubbed the Misadventurer's Club, the story focusing around on their version of the Balderdash Cup Competition. Peter David, who wrote the comic, proposed to his wife at the Adventurer's Club.
 The TV show South Park had a spoof of the Adventurers Club