Romancing SaGa

is a role-playing video game originally developed and published by Square as the fourth game of their SaGa series. The game was designed by Akitoshi Kawazu who had served as head developer for the previous SaGa titles, with fellow series veteran Kenji Ito providing the game's soundtrack. Set in the fictional world of Mardias, Romancing SaGa allows players to assume the role of one of eight main characters who must journey across the world to prevent the resurrection of an evil god named Saruin who was sealed away a millennium previous.

Initially made available in January 1992 for the Super Famicom, the game was later ported to the WonderSwan Color handheld system in December 2002, with both releases being exclusive to Japanese players. An enhanced remake of the title for the PlayStation 2 called  was released in April 2005 in Japan, and in English for the first time in North America the following October simply under the title Romancing SaGa.  In 2009, the original Super Famicom version was ported to mobile phones in Japan.

The Super Famicom version has been released on the Wii, Wii U and New 3DS Virtual Consoles in Japan. The PlayStation 2 version was released as a PS2 Classic for PlayStation 3 in Japan.

The original Super Famicom version sold over a million copies worldwide and was voted by readers of Japanese Famitsu magazine as the 53rd greatest game of all time in a 2006 poll.  Conversely, the PlayStation 2 remake received largely mixed to average reviews in North America due to the game's high difficulty, steep learning curve, and questionable character designs.

Gameplay

Romancing SaGa is a traditional role-playing video game set in a fantasy world where players must navigate their characters through towns, dungeons, and other environments while taking part in the game's story by interacting with non-player characters.  At the start of the game, the player is given the option of assuming the role of one of eight main characters, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and starting points throughout the game's world. In addition, the player must select the profession of the character's parents from a list of eight choices each, which go towards determining their strengths. As a staple of the SaGa series, both gameplay and story are largely open-ended, giving the player the ability to play through scenarios in a number of different orders, with some areas and portions of the narrative only becoming available once they have spoken to specific characters or performed certain tasks.  By completing story objectives and meeting new characters, the player is brought closer to the game's end, leading to the final confrontation where they must use all of their acquired skills to succeed.

While traveling through dangerous environments, the player's party can do battle with enemy monsters which roam around the screen and will enter combat when touched.  Using a turn-based approach to combat, battle scenes are played out by having the player input commands for each individual party member at the start of each round, with the selected actions taking place in accordance with a character's "speed" statistic.  A player may choose to attack an enemy, use a special weapon skill, cast a magic spell, defend themselves, or flee from battle entirely.  Parties can consist of up to five characters that the player will recruit automatically as part of the story, or after they have completed certain story scenarios. As characters take part in more battle, they will randomly learn new weapon skills by attacking normally, as well as randomly gain increased statistics at the end of every few battles, thereby becoming stronger.  All characters may become equipped with up to two different kinds of weapons, as well as become outfitted in protective gear that increases their defense against attacks.

PlayStation 2 version
While the core gameplay of the PlayStation 2 version of Romancing SaGa remains the same as the original, the game is now presented using full three-dimensional graphics instead of two dimensional environments and character sprites.  The eight original characters return, they may now assume the role of 38 different classes themselves, which give access to differing statistics and special abilities.  In addition, the current weapons held by a character now determine which of their randomly increased stats will have a greater chance of increasing after battle.  Combat has been expanded to include a new "Spell Synthesis" system, where specific magics can be fused together to create a modified version of a spell with greater power, or even create a new spell altogether.  Additional story scenarios and areas have been added for the remake, including a new script and expanded narrative with new content. Characters were re-designed as well, this time by Yusuke Naora (who had previously worked on Unlimited SaGa) instead of Tomomi Kobayashi who was responsible for the character design of the original Super Famicom game.

Plot

Romancing SaGa is set in the fictional world of Mardias, which was created by the God Marda. Long ago, war raged between three wicked gods, Death, Saruin, and Schirach, and the lord of all gods, Elore. At the end of that long conflict, Death and Schirach were stripped of their powers, and Saruin was imprisoned through the might of the ten Fatestones and the hero Mirsa's ultimate sacrifice. A millennium had passed, and the Fatestones were scattered throughout Mardias. All this time the powers of evil festered, bent on releasing Saruin from his prison.

Characters
All eight main characters grew up in different places, have different backgrounds, and are journeying for different reasons. While playing one of these characters, the player might run into some of the other seven as they adventure across Mardias and learn more about their stories. Beside the eight main characters, there are a number of recruitable characters, ranging from anonymous soldiers to major players in the game's plot and sub-plots. Such characters are mostly found in pubs, although a few can join the player during specific quests.
The eight characters include:

 , an 18-year-old frontier guard, son of Lord Rudolf of Rosalia, master of Isthmus Keep. He is voiced by Yuu Urata in Japanese and Yuri Lowenthal in English.
  is a 16-year-old herbologist, member of the Taralian tribe, and a carefree tomboy. She is voiced by Yumiko Kobayashi in Japanese and Carrie Savage in English.
  is a 24-year-old accomplished swordsman who travels the world for love of treasure. He is voiced by Isshin Chiba in Japanese and Josh Phillips in English.
  is a 22-year-old ranger that was raised by the witch Eule. She lives in Mazewood, and has a strong connection to Melvir royalty. She is voiced by Yuko Minaguchi in Japanese and Karen Strassman in English.
  is a 20-year-old thief from South Estamir, voiced by Hiroyuki Yoshino in Japanese and Ted Sroka in English.
  is a 28-year-old proud warrior that lives in the icy region of Valhalland. She is voiced by Mika Doi in Japanese and Megan Hollingshead in English.
  is a 30-year-old pirate with a rivalry with the pirate known only as the Butcher. He is voiced by Unshou Ishizuka in Japanese and Gerald C. Rivers in English.
 , a 26-year-old beautiful dancer, part of a traveling troupe. She is voiced by Emi Shinohara in Japanese.

Development

WonderSwan Color port
In September 2000, Square announced it had begun development on an enhanced version of Romancing SaGa for the Bandai WonderSwan Color handheld system. According to the company, some of the original Super Famicom version's planned material was unable to be added during its original release due to memory restrictions, and that the new hardware would allow for a more "complete" version of the game. The newly added material includes an additional story scenario, as well as a side-quest that allows the player to gather all ten "Destiny Stone" items where previously only a few were accessible.  While gameplay and audio are identical to the original release, the game's graphics were enhanced to accommodate the system's larger color palette. The game was later released in Japan on December 20, 2001.

PlayStation 2 version

In a September 2004 issue of Japanese magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump, it was announced that Square, now Square Enix, would produce a full remake of Romancing SaGa for the PlayStation 2 that would take full advantage of the system and bring the game into the new console generation. During a panel at the 2004 Tokyo Game Show, Kawazu described the purpose of the remake as "a functional compilation of the whole SaGa series" that would combine elements from previous SaGa titles into one definitive game, including the "Sketch Motion" art style of Unlimited Saga and the ability to learn to skills in mid-battle first introduced in Romancing SaGa 2. The game, titled Romancing SaGa -Ministrel Song- in Japan, features new, fully three-dimensional graphics, additional story elements, and a completely arranged soundtrack by original composer Kenji Ito, now joined by Tsuyoshi Sekito and Kenichiro Fukui. Square Enix hired singer-songwriter Masayoshi Yamazaki to perform the game's theme song "Minuet", which was also released as a single in April 2005 in Japan by Universal Music.  Voice acting is an additional new feature to the PlayStation 2 version, with spoken dialogue occurring during battles or certain story sequences. As a pre-order bonus for customers who reserved the game in Japan, Romancing SaGa was included with a compilation soundtrack featuring battle themes from previous SaGa titles called Kenji Ito × SaGa Battle Music Collection +.

During the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, Square Enix announced that the game would be released in English for the first time under its original title as part of the company's effort to promote more dynamic content from their major franchises.  A playable demo was made available at the same event featuring an early version of the English release, as well as the company solidifying the title's release the following October. The North American version features English voice work in place of the original Japanese, though the actors were officially uncredited.

Reception

Super Famicom version
The Super Famicom version of Romancing SaGa was a commercial success in Japan, selling over 1.3 million copies worldwide since its release in 1992, as of 2004. Famitsu magazine's panel of four reviewers gave it an overall score of 31 out of 40. In March 2006, readers of Famitsu voted it the 53rd best video game of all time as part of the magazine's "All Time Top 100" poll.

PlayStation 2 version
The PlayStation 2 remake sold in excess of 450,000 copies during 2005 in Japan, and was the top-selling game in that country between the weeks of May 2 and May 26, 2005. The game sold enough copies to qualify for Sony's Ultimate Hits label, and was re-released in May  2006 at a budget price. Minstrel's Song was well received in Japan. It was given a score of 32 out of 40 by Famitsu Weekly magazine. Dengeki PlayStation awarded the game an average score of 87.5 out of 100, based on four review scores, one of which was 95 out of 100 while the other three were 85 out of 100.

Romancing SaGas English release was met with a mild response from critics, who gave the game a mostly mixed reception. The game maintains a 63% average score from aggregate review website GameRankings, and an average of 58 out of 100 from Metacritic. Among the more average English reviews, Game Informer reviewer panned the game's "outdated" and "abominable" graphics and shallow gameplay, calling it "barely even a game" and the "saddest Cinderella story of the year ... [I] haven't felt this sorry for a game in a long time." GamePro echoed their sentiment, calling the graphics only "moderately pretty" but praising the game's overall art style. The magazine would ultimately declare it "a convoluted and cumbersome RPG that can barely sustain the weight of its bloated and poorly developed story."  IGN felt that the game would be enjoyable for fans of the series who were used to the games' open-ended direction and "countless hours of gameplay", but other players may lose interest due to lack of a unifying story or character development.  GameSpot additionally felt that there was "no persistent story to keep you playing" coupled with "odd character designs" and a "convoluted battle system" that may alienate players who were not used to it. Despite problems with the title's gameplay and presentation, the website would find the game's music to be "excellent" and "the best part of Romancing SaGa."  1UP.com felt that the game would lack appeal to a casual role-playing gamer, but would "please those gamers who want a very long game" and favored exploration and freedom over a tightly-defined story.

Among the more positive English reviews, RPGFan praised the game's open-ended gameplay, recommending it to players who are either "sick of Final Fantasy and its many clones" or are "willing to try something new, interesting, and well-executed," concluding the review by giving "Romancing SaGa a well-deserved 87%, and I will stand by this score even as other reviewers bash this game and throw it to the curb." RPGamer also praised the open-ended gameplay, but noted that it "will not appeal to everyone," noting that gamers "who are able to look past the series' history and give the game a chance may be rewarded with a uniquely engrossing adventure with a style all its own and replay value that is unlimited." Among print publications, Hyper PlayStation magazine gave the game a score of 8.5 out of 10 and JIVE Magazine gave it 3.5 out of 5.

Merchandise
An Ultimania guide was published in Japan for the PlayStation 2 version of the game. It includes A Bard's Tale, a 31-page novella written by Benny Matsuyama.


Forum for International Trade Training

The Forum for International Trade Training (FITT) is "a not-for-profit organization that offers international business training, resources and professional certification to individuals and businesses."

FITT offers the FITTskills international trade training program, a series of 6 courses for global business professionals that can be taken either online or in a classroom setting through educational partners. FITTskills students receive the FITT Certificate in International Trade after completing three of the courses, and the FITT Diploma in International Trade after completing all six courses.

The organization also offers the Certified International Trade Professional designation, also trademarked as the FITT International Business Professional designation in the U.S. and Europe. It is often referred to as the CITP|FIBP designation. In French, it is referred to as the Professionnel accrédité en commerce international (PACI|FPAI) designation.

FITT's strategic partners are Export Development Canada (EDC), Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and the World Trade Centers Association.

History
In the late 1980s, Dieter Hollweck,  began the planning towards a new organization. FITT was then incorporated in 1992 as part of Canada’s sector council initiative.

FITT first launched its FITTskills training program in 1993, which is now in its sixth edition, with the seventh edition being launched in early 2017. In 1996, it also launched the Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) process to allow business professionals to use their previous work and educational experience to earn FITTskills credits. FITTskills courses were first offered online in 1999, which continues today.

In 2001, FITT began to accredit academic institutions and organizations already offering international business courses to offer FITTskills courses. There are currently over 43 educational partners in Canada, China, Colombia, Malaysia, Romania and the UK, offering FITTskills courses in a classroom setting.

FITT's CITP designation was first offered in 1998, and the competency requirements were revised in 2006 and again in 2016. Since 2009, it has also been trademarked as the FIBP designation in the U.S. and Europe.

FITT has also awarded honorary CITP|FIBP designations to several notable figures in international trade, including former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister John Manley, Canadian Chamber of Commerce CEO Perrin Beatty, Governor of the Bank of Canada Stephen Poloz, and former Canadian Minister of International Trade Stockwell Day.


Gregory Russell

Gregory Russell (born 10 July 1951) is a Canadian volleyball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics.


South Cardiff FC

South Cardiff Football Club is a semi-professional soccer club based in Cardiff South a suburb of Newcastle, Australia. The club was established in 1964 and currently competes in the Northern NSW State League Division 1. They are known as "The Gunners" after the nickname of London club Arsenal. The club in its current form celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014 although there is historical records of South Cardiff Football Club back to the 1930s at least. South Cardiff were the first team to score in the Round of 32 national knockout competition the FFA CUP. In 2015, South Cardiff were relegated to the Northern NSW State League Division 1 for the 2016 season. The club's stated mission is to qualify for re-admission to the NNSW National Premier Leagues (NPL).

Ground
The club plays its home matches at the Ulinga Complex which is located at Cross Street Cardiff South. The Complex has four fields, two training and match, all with floodlights for night games and training.

Coaching staff
 Head Coach & 1st Grade Coach: Darrel McAllister
  Reserves Coach:  TBA
  18s Coach:  TBA
  Youth Football Director:  Aidan Paintner
  16s Coach:  Michael Body
  15s Coach:  Gavin Wilson
  14s Coach:  Luke Gibbons
13s Coach: Aidan Paintner
U10 SAP Coach: Paul Ivey
U9 SAP Coach: Paul Ivey

Club officials
 President: Martin Spiers
 Vice-President: Rachel Whatley
 Treasurer: Maxine Charlier
 Secretary: Sherri Allen
 Gear Steward: Geoff Allen

Competition Timeline

Honours
State League Grand Final Runners Up': 2005, 2011

Solo Cup: 2011

U14 Premiers: 2019

U14 Grand Final Winners: 2019

Gallagher Shield: 2019

External links
Club website


Yvonne Mai (actress)

Yvonne Mai (born in Hamburg, Germany) is a German actress.

Early career
Mai developed an interest in modelling and theater in early stages of her life. As a teenager she began modelling and stage work in Germany. In her late teens she was scouted for the German TV series ‘Die Schulermittler’ as a lead.

Career
Mai is currently signed to International Artists Management (IAM) in London, UK. She has worked on commercial campaigns with brands such as John Frieda, Neutrogena, Peloton, Ikea and more. Additionally, she worked on film projects such as her most known work as a lead in The Last Faust directed by Philipp Humm and starring Steven Berkhoff, Blackbird directed by Michael Flatley, Spy City directed by Miguel Alexandre and short films The Drop and Reflections.


John Edwards (academic)

John Edwards (also Edwardes) M.D. (fl. 1638) was an English academic, headmaster and physician. He was noted as a Royalist supporter in the University of Oxford.

Life
Edwards was born 27 February 1600, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. In 1617 he was elected to a probationary fellowship at St John's College, Oxford. The former President of the college, William Laud, in 1632 recommended Edwards for the head-mastership of Merchant Taylors' School. He resigned this post at the close of 1634, and returned to Oxford.

There Edwards served the office of proctor in the following year. In 1638 he was appointed Sedleian reader of natural philosophy, and proceeded to the degrees of M.B. and M.D. He appears to have resided in college during the troubled times that followed. In 1642, when the First English Civil War broke out, he was, with others, appointed by Convocation to provide accommodation for the troopers sent to Oxford, and procure arms to defend the university.

In 1647 Edwards was summoned, as a delinquent, to appear before the committee of Lords and Commons for regulating the affairs of the university. His answers were considered unsatisfactory, he was placed by the parliamentary visitors in 1648 for a time in custody of the provost marshal for "manifold misdemeanours". His fellowship was taken from him, and he was superseded in the office of Sedleian reader by Joshua Crosse of Magdalen College. He was, however, paid for the readership until Michaelmas 1649. He is assumed to have worked subsequently in Oxford as a physician, and to have died in the later 1650s.

Notes

Attribution


Rachel Parish

Rachel Parish (born 21 May 1981) is an English international sportswoman who won a shooting gold medal and silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Before going to university, she went to Wellington College in Berkshire. Already holding a degree in Biochemistry and Genetics from The University of Nottingham from 2002, Parish then read Medicine at Southampton University, graduating as a doctor in 2007. Parish is also a keen fencer, and has captained both the Nottingham and Southampton university fencing teams.

Selected for the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne in 2006, she shot in the double trap pairs competition in partnership with Charlotte Kerwood and together they took the gold medal. Rachel also won a silver medal in the double trap individuals.

She also claimed double trap team silver and individual bronze at the 2017 ISSF Grand Prix in Moscow, which was held alongside (but not part of) that year's World Shotgun Championships.


Duet (video game)

Duet is a 2013 action game by Australian game developer Kumobius for iOS and Android. Players control two coloured orbs, guiding them to avoid incoming obstacles. Its Android version was first released as a part of Humble Mobile Bundle 6.

Gameplay
The player rotates a circular track with two coloured orbs, guiding the balls to avoid incoming obstacles. The level is reset once an orb crashes into an obstacle. It's required to keep both orbs intact to pass a level. The names of the levels are from the Kübler-Ross model.

Reception
The game has gathered mixed to positive reviews from critics. As of August 2014, Metacritic lists a score of 79 for the game, a rating of "Generally favorable reviews". Duet is also listed a score of 80.00% on GameRankings. Critics praise Duet for its controls and design, yet noting its notorious difficulty.


Ted Kotcheff

William Theodore Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director and producer, known primarily for his work on British and American television productions such as Armchair Theatre and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has also directed numerous successful films including the Australian  Wake in Fright (1971), action films such as the original Rambo movie First Blood (1982) and Uncommon Valor (1983), and comedies like Weekend at Bernie's (1989), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), and North Dallas Forty (1979). He is sometimes credited as William T. Kotcheff, and resides in Beverly Hills, California. Given his ancestry, Kotcheff has Bulgarian citizenship.

Early life
Kotcheff's given name is Velichko Todor Kostadin () Kotcheff, although he was registered in official documents as William Theodore Kotcheff. He was born in Toronto to a family of Bulgarian immigrants, who changed their last name from Tsochev () to Kotcheff for convenience. His father was born in Plovdiv, while his mother was of Macedonian Bulgarian background, from Vambel, today in Greece, but grew up in Varna, Bulgaria.

Career

Canadian television
After graduating in English Literature from University College, University of Toronto, Kotcheff began his television career at the age of twenty-four when he joined the staff of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with television still very much in its infancy in the country. Kotcheff was the youngest director on the staff of the CBC, where he worked for two years on shows such as General Motors Theatre, Encounter, First Performance and On Camera.

British television
In 1958, he left Canada to live and work in the United Kingdom. He was inspired by his compatriot Sydney Newman, who had been the Director of Drama at the CBC and had moved to the U.K. to take up a similar position at ABC Television, one of the franchise holders of the ITV network who also produced much of the nationally networked programming for the channel.

At ABC, Newman as producer of the popular Armchair Theatre anthology drama programme, employed Kotcheff as a director of this series between 1958 and 1960. Kotcheff was responsible for directing some of the best-remembered installments in the Armchair Theatre anthology series from 1958 to 1964.

During Underground, transmitted live on 30 November 1958, Kotcheff was required to cope with one of the actors suddenly dying while between two of his scenes.

More successfully, Kotcheff also directed the following year's No Trams to Lime Street by Welsh playwright Alun Owen.

He also did Hour of Mystery, I'll Have You to Remember (1961) by Clive Exton, and episodes of BBC Sunday-Night Play, ITV Television Playhouse, Espionage, First Night, ABC Stage 67, Drama 61-67 and ITV Playhouse.

Theatre
Kotcheff also worked in the theatre.

British feature films
Kotcheff made his first feature film with Tiara Tahiti (1962).

He went on to direct other features during the decade, including Life at the Top (1965) and Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969).

He also directed The Human Voice (1967) for British television, starring Ingrid Bergman from a story by Jean Cocteau and TV remakes of The Desperate Hours (1967) and Of Mice and Men (1968). He directed a concert for TV, At the Drop of Another Hat.

Kotcheff directed the Australian film Wake in Fright (USA: Outback, 1971; re-released with its original title, 2012). It won much critical acclaim in Europe, and was Australia's entry at the Cannes Film Festival. (In 2009, Wake in Fright was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray disc in a fully restored version.) Kotcheff returned to television, directing the Play for Today production Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971) for the BBC, which won him a British Academy Television Award for Best Director. In 2000, the play was voted one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century in a poll of industry professionals conducted by the British Film Institute.

He did Rx for the Defense (1972) for TV and the film Billy Two Hats (1974) in Israel.

Return to Canada
He returned home to Canada, where he directed an adaptation of his friend and one-time housemate Mordecai Richler's novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival making it the first Canadian film to win an international award.

He wrote and directed The Trial of Sinyavsky and Daniel (1975) for Canadian television and was a production consultant on Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977).

Hollywood
He relocated to Hollywood. He directed Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) which was a big hit. He followed it with the comedy Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) then wrote and directed North Dallas Forty (1979) which was critically acclaimed.

Kotcheff did a Canadian film about cults, Split Image (1982), then had his biggest success to date with the Sylvester Stallone movie First Blood (1982), the first in the Rambo series. He did another Vietnam-themed action movie Uncommon Valor (1983) then returned to Canada to make Joshua Then and Now (1985), from the novel by Mordecai Richler.

Kotcheff did Switching Channels (1988) and Winter People (1989), then had a big hit with Weekend at Bernie's (1989).

Television
In the 1990s, Kotcheff returned to directing for TV, working on various American series such as Red Shoe Diaries, and Buddy Faro, plus Casualty in the UK.

He did the occasional feature film such as Folks! (1992) and The Shooter (1995). He did TV movies like What Are Families for? (1993), Love on the Run (1994), Family of Cops (1995), A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996), Borrowed Hearts (1997), Cry Rape (1999). He joined the staff of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where he acts as Executive Producer and director.

Personal life
Kotcheff lives in Beverly Hills with his wife Laifun and two children Alexandra and Thomas. He has three children from a previous marriage to the actress Sylvia Kay: Aaron, Katrina and Joshua.

In May and June 2013, he was invited to the Film Forum in New York City for a re-release of his film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, restored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.

In February 2016, Kotcheff applied for Bulgarian citizenship via the Bulgarian consulate in Los Angeles, and was granted this during a visit to Bulgaria in March. Given his Macedonian heritage, Kotcheff served on the Board of Directors of the Macedonian Arts Council. Per Kotcheff himself, there is not a difference between Macedonian and Bulgarian.

Filmography
Director (Film)
Tiara Tahiti (1962)
Life at the Top (1965)
Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
Wake in Fright (1971)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Billy Two Hats (1974)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Split Image (1982)
First Blood (1982)
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Joshua Then and Now (1985)
Switching Channels (1988)
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Winter People (1989)
Folks! (1992)
The Shooter (1995)
Borrowed Hearts (1997)

Director (Television)
On Camera (1956)—as W.T. Kotcheff
Hour of Mystery (1957)
Underground (1958)
No Trams to Lime Street (1959)
After the Funeral (1960)
Lena, O My Lena (1960)
I'll Have You Remember (1961)
BBC Sunday-Night Play (1962-1963)
ITV Television Playhouse (1963)
Espionage (1963)
Land of My Dreams (1964)
First Night (1963-1964)
Drama 64 (1964)
Armchair Theatre (1958-1964)
The Human Voice (1967)
The Desperate Hours (1967)
Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971)
What Are Families for? (1993)
Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick (1993)
Love on the Run (1994)
A Family of Cops (1995)
Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass (1995)
A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996)
Buddy Faro (1998)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly (1999)

Accolades


Empire Maker

Empire Maker (foaled April 27, 2000 in Kentucky, died January 18, 2020) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the Belmont Stakes in 2003, and as the grandsire of 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah.

Background
Owned and bred by  Prince Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms, Empire Maker was sired by champion Unbridled, winner of the 1990 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic. Empire Maker's dam, Toussaud, was the daughter of British champion and Classic Race winner El Gran Senor, who in turn was a son of the great Northern Dancer. Toussaud was a multiple stakes winner in England and a Blue Hen broodmare who would produce five Grade I winners (including Chester House) from five different stallions.

Racing career

2002: two-year-old season
At age two, Empire Maker made two starts, winning his maiden debut in October 2002 at Belmont Park then taking third in the Remsen Stakes, some 5½ lengths back of the winner Toccet. As a three-year-old, he would make six starts, winning three and finishing second three times.

2003: three-year-old season
In February 2003, Empire Maker began his three-year-old season with a second-place finish in the Sham Stakes at Santa Anita Park in California. For his next start, trainer Bobby Frankel put blinkers on the colt in an effort to make him concentrate and he responded with a nine and three quarter length win in the Grade I Florida Derby. He followed this up with another important win in the Grade I Wood Memorial Stakes. These two performances resulted in Empire Maker being made the solid betting favorite in the 2003 Kentucky Derby.

Under his regular rider, the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey, Jerry Bailey, Empire Maker ran second in the Kentucky Derby to Funny Cide whom he had beaten by a half-length in the Wood Memorial. Trainer Bobby Frankel believed that if he did not go light on Empire Maker's training before the derby because of his feet issues, then Empire Maker would have won the Derby. His handlers then chose to rest the colt and did not run him in the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, which has become a common racing tactic when a horse does not win the first leg.  Funny Cide won the Preakness Stakes by more than nine lengths and headed to New York's Belmont Park favored to become the first Triple Crown champion in twenty-five years.

Heavy rains left the racetrack at Belmont Park officially rated as sloppy for the 2003 Belmont Stakes. In an attempt to control the pace, Funny Cide's handlers changed his racing tactics and he took the lead early. Empire Maker was running a length back to the outside when at the mile mark, jockey Jerry Bailey made his move.  The fresh Empire Maker won the race with Ten Most Wanted a strong second and Funny Cide finishing third, more than five lengths back.

In what would be Empire Maker's final race, as a 3-10 favorite he ran second by a neck in the Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Stud career
Empire Maker was retired to stand at stud beginning in 2004 at his owner's Juddmonte Farms in Lexington, Kentucky. His American-bred offspring include Bodemeister and Royal Delta. Through Pioneerof the Nile, he is the grand-sire of American Pharoah, 2015 U.S. Triple Crown winner. Through Bodemeister he is the grandsire of 2017 Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming.

In November 2010 Empire Maker was sold to the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association and stood at the Shizunai Stallion Station. In September 2015, it was announced that Empire Maker would be returning to the U.S. to stand at Gainesway Farm starting in 2016. Gainesway announced in October that Empire Maker's 2016 stud fee would be $100,000. In 2019 it was $85,000.

Notable progeny

Empire Maker sired 12 individual Grade 1 winners:

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Law practice optimization

Law Practice Optimization, or Legal Practice Optimization, or simply LPO as it is also known, represents the practice carried out by Law Practice Optimizers of improving the efficiency and client/attorney relationships within a law firm and improves the client intake of the firm.

LPO typically consists of three distinct stages, which are performed throughout an LPO campaign.

 Basic business analysis.
 The implementation of and training of LPO compliant software
 LPO marketing.

Prior to the advent of LPO, these three stages would have required the employment of three specialized entities, resulting in both a lengthy and expensive process.  A law firm would start by hiring a business analyst, who may or may not have been familiar with the legal industry.  Secondly, a law firm would need to investigate numerous software packages that are specialized for the legal industry. A package would have been chosen after much research, which may or may not have been conducted thoroughly. Ideally, the chosen software package would meet the needs of the firm, instead of only the person(s) who researched the software. Thirdly, the firm would then employ a law firm marketing company, and perhaps a website design company, to create the firm's internet presence; and, initiate an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) campaign to increase the firm's appearance in search results presented to the queries of those seeking legal services.

An LPO consulting company specializes in all three stages. Specialization increases the chances of a successful project. Specialization within one third-party service provider also lowers costs as compared to hiring three service providers. A greater chance of success combined with lower costs improves the likelihood of increased revenue through additional clients, improved efficiency, higher customer retention; and, an overall better return on investment.

Many law firms seek to decrease their reliance on paper documents or to establish a paperless office, out of consciousness for the environment, to increase efficiency and decrease operating expenses.

Business analysis

In order for a Law Firm to be optimized, an analyst would be hired to review that firm's overall presence. This would include everything from the physical appearance and layout of the office, to the everyday work-flow being performed by the staff.

Initially the analyst would study the first impression a client received when entering the office.  The analyst might ask questions such as, is the ambiance of the reception welcoming and comforting? Is the furniture appropriate? Is the reception desk organized? Are the telephone calls being handled properly? Is the client being serviced with professionalism and confidentiality?

After this initial review the analyst would spend time reviewing the firm's work, and then make suggestions to minimize unnecessary work and remove what is known as the double or triple entry system. An example of a double entry system is commonly found when one person is performing work on a file and then logging or billing his/her time on to a billing sheet. This billing sheet is then presented to another co-worker who then bills for work performed by another. In this example two workers were required where only one would have sufficed. A hired analyst would find each double entry, and make recommendations to find solutions to achieve a more efficient work-flow. In many instances these solutions will be resolved with the use of LPO software.

Software implementation

Depending on the needs of the law firm, including factors such as the types of cases they handle and the size of the firm, an LPO company will typically recommend a legal practice management software package, and provide installation and training of the software.  LPO software usually consists of case management, matter-specific modules, document management, time & billing functionality and provides the user the quickest methods of communicating case details with clients to ensure clients are kept informed of the status of their case whilst any of its details are immediately available to paralegals and attorneys working on it.

Marketing

LPO marketing may comprise both the development and the marketing of Internet presence for the law firm.  If the law firm has yet to possess its own website, then the LPO company will take care of the purchasing of a domain name,  the creation of a suitable website and finally the internet marketing of the website through various channels, including social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter.
Vertical channels are also investigated, including online lawyer directories. The law firm can expect to receive documented strategies and training from the LPO company so that the law firm's web site can maximize its online exposure and ultimately be found by potential clients looking for its services.

Implementing a law firm digital marketing strategy can take several months, and it is difficult to define when traffic will improve as a result of the strategy. It may take many months after implementation for SEO to generate significant improvements in traffic.

The future of Law Practice Optimization
Many law firms, large and small have seen the transition from solely paper based practices to dependence on technology to the point of in-house IT departments becoming integral components of their businesses. Similarly it may not be uncommon to see full-time LPO consultants and departments sharing equally important roles in tomorrows law firms.

With the increased efficiency of the law firm and the lowered costs to the firms clients, LPO promises to be the most cost-effective method for law firms to survive any economic downturn.

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Orthacridinae

The Orthacridinae are a sub-family of grasshoppers (Orthoptera : Caelifera) in the family Pyrgomorphidae.  Species are found in: Central America, Africa, Asia, Australia and certain Pacific Islands.  The type genus is Orthacris and the taxon proposed by Bolívar in 1905.

Tribes and genera
The Orthoptera Species File lists the following:

Tribes A-M
 Tribe Brunniellini Kevan, 1963 - Philippines
 Genus Brunniella Bolívar, 1905
 Tribe Chapmanacridini Kevan & Akbar, 1964 - W. Africa
 Genus Chapmanacris Dirsh, 1959
 Tribe Fijipyrgini Kevan, 1966 - Fiji
 Genus Fijipyrgus Kevan, 1966
 Tribe Geloiini Bolívar, 1905 - Madagascar
 Genus Geloius Saussure, 1899
 Genus Pseudogeloius Dirsh, 1963
 Tribe Gymnohippini Kevan & Akbar, 1964 - Madagascar
 Genus Gymnohippus Bruner, 1910
 Genus Pyrgohippus Dirsh, 1963
 Genus Uhagonia Bolívar, 1905
 Tribe Ichthiacridini Kevan, Singh & Akbar, 1964 - Mexico
 Genus Calamacris Rehn, 1904
 Genus Ichthiacris Bolívar, 1905
 Genus Sphenacris Bolívar, 1884
 Tribe Ichthyotettigini Kevan, Singh & Akbar, 1964 - Mexico
 Genus Ichthyotettix Rehn, 1901
 Genus Piscacris Kevan, Singh & Akbar, 1964
 Genus Pyrgotettix Kevan, Singh & Akbar, 1964
 Genus Sphenotettix Kevan & Akbar, 1964
 Tribe Malagasphenini Kevan & Akbar, 1964 - Madagascar
 Genus Malagasphena Kevan, Akbar & Singh, 1964
 Tribe Mitricephalini Kevan & Akbar, 1964 - Malesia
 Genus Mitricephala Bolívar, 1898
 Genus Mitricephaloides Kevan, 1963

Nereniini
Auth. Kevan, 1964; distribution: Vietnam, PNG.
 genus group Kapaoria [temporary name]
 Buergersius Ramme, 1930
 Fusiacris Willemse, 1955
 Kapaoria Bolívar, 1898
 Tarbaleopsis Ramme, 1930
 genus group Paratarbaleus [temporary name]
 Modernacris Willemse, 1931
 Noonacris Kevan, 1966
 Paratarbaleus Ramme, 1941
 incertae sedis
 Megra Campion, 1923
 Megradina Storozhenko, 2004 - monotypic:
 Megradina festiva Storozhenko, 2004
 Nerenia Bolívar, 1905 - monotypic:
 Nerenia francoisi Bolívar, 1905

Orthacridini
Auth. Bolívar, 1905; distribution: E. Africa, Madagascar, India, Indo-China.

 genus group Orthacris [temporary name]
 Burmorthacris Kevan, Singh & Akbar, 1964
 Kuantania Miller, 1935
 Neorthacris Kevan & Singh, 1964
 Orthacris Bolívar, 1884
 Rakwana (insect) Henry, 1933
 subtribe Caprorhinina Kevan & Akbar, 1964
 Ambositracris Dirsh, 1963
 Caprorhinus Saussure, 1899
 Dyscolorhinus Saussure, 1899
 Pseudosphena Kevan & Akbar, 1964
 Vittisphena Kevan, 1956
 incertae sedis
 Acropyrgus Descamps & Wintrebert, 1966 - monotypic:
  Acropyrgus cadeti Descamps & Wintrebert, 1966

Tribes P-Z
 Tribe Popoviini Kevan & Akbar, 1964 - E. Africa to India
 Genus Colemania Bolívar, 1910
 Genus Nilgiracris Kevan, 1964
 Genus Parorthacris Dirsh, 1958
 Genus Popovia Uvarov, 1952
 Genus Ramakrishnaia Bolívar, 1917
 Tribe Psednurini Burr, 1904 - Australia
 Genus Propsednura Rehn, 1953
 Genus Psedna Key, 1972
 Genus Psednura Burr, 1904
 Tribe Sagittacridini Descamps & Wintrebert, 1966 - Madagascar
 Genus Acanthopyrgus Descamps & Wintrebert, 1966
 Genus Sagittacris Dirsh, 1963
 Tribe Verduliini Kevan & Akbar, 1964 - Philippines to PNG
 Genus Verdulia Bolívar, 1905
 Genus Meubelia Willemse, 1932
 Genus Philippyrgus Kevan, 1974
 Genus Spinacris Willemse, 1933


Living Reviews in Relativity

Living Reviews in Relativity is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal publishing reviews on relativity in the areas of physics and astrophysics. It was founded by Bernard Schutz and published at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics from 1998-2015. After it was sold by Max Planck Society in June 2015, it is now published by the academic publisher Springer Science+Business Media.

The articles in Living Reviews provide critical reviews of the current state of research in the fields they cover. Articles also offer annotated insights into the key literature and describe other available resources. Living Reviews is unique in maintaining a suite of high-quality reviews, which are kept up-to-date by the authors through regularly adding the latest developments and research findings. This is the meaning of the word "living" in the journal's title.


Bernard McMahon

Bernard McMahon or M'Mahon (Ireland ca 1775 — Philadelphia, 18 September 1816) was an Irish-American horticulturist settled in Philadelphia, who served as one of the stewards of the plant collections from the Lewis and Clark expedition and was the author of The American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States (1806 and following years). He circulated the first extensive gardener's seed list in the United States, which he attached as an appendix to his Calendar.

McMahon's most enduring contribution was his Calendar, the most comprehensive gardening book published in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. It finished in its eleventh edition in 1857. It was modeled on a traditional English formula, of month-by-month instructions on planting, pruning, and soil preparation for the "Kitchen Garden, Fruit Garden, Orchard, Vineyard, Nursery, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden, Green House, Hot house and Forcing Frames". In some particulars, McMahon followed his English models so closely that J. C. Loudon suggested in 1826 that the derivative character of the Calendar was such that "We cannot gather from the work any thing as to the extent of American practice in these particulars." Ann Leighton notes the absence of Indian corn among the "Seeds of Esculent Vegetables" in 1806, though he lists old-fashioned favorites like coriander, corn-salad, orach, rampion, rocambole and skirret.

McMahon emigrated in 1796. By 1800 he was in Philadelphia, working for William Duane and the newspaper the Aurora.  He entered the nursery and seed business by 1802-1803, when he issued his broadsheet Catalogue of Garden Grass, Herb, Flower, Tree & Shrub-Seeds, Flower Roots, &c which comprised 720 species and varieties of seed. This was the first published seed list in the United States. In 1804 he published another catalogue, of thirty pages, mostly devoted to native American seeds.

Through the Calendar McMahon was Thomas Jefferson's gardening mentor; a steady stream of correspondence passed between them. Jefferson selected him in 1806 as one of two nurserymen to receive and grow the seeds and roots collected by Lewis and Clark. In 1807, when it came time to find a draftsman to illustrate the published journals of Lewis and Clark, it was M'Mahon who recommended the German-born botanist Frederick Pursh, who found himself with the botanical materials when the natural history publication did not materialize, and took them with him to London, where he published 130 plants from the Lewis and Clark expedition in Flora Americae Septentrionalis, 1813.

Jefferson received from McMahon seeds for Monticello.

In 1808 McMahon purchased twenty acres on the Germantown Road, in Penn Township, Philadelphia for a nursery and botanic garden that would enable him to expand his business. He named it “Upsal Botanic Garden” in commemoration of Linnaeus' connection with Uppsala University. It was located at the north edge of the then urban part of the city. Part of the M’Mahon garden is currently occupied by Fotterall Square, a small park in Philadelphia.

In 1818 botanist Thomas Nuttall complimented McMahon's role in bestowing the genus name Mahonia on a group of West Coast broadleaf-evergreen shrubs still popular in American gardens. McMahon, growing the seedlings that were protected from commerce as Federal property, had the mortification to see published in British journals, and to see Mahonia nervosa itself introduced by Prince Nurseries, Flushing, Long Island, at twenty dollars a plant.

At his death the nursery business was left to his wife, Ann McMahon (d. 1818), and their son, Thomas P. M'Mahon, who continued to revise and republish  The American Gardener's Calendar.

Notes

Further reading
Joseph Ewan. "Bernard M’Mahon (c. 1775–1816), pioneer Philadelphia nurseryman, and his American Gardener’s Calendar" Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 3 (1960:363–380).
Joel Munsell. The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. (New York) 1858.


Charles Babalola

Charles Babalola (born 1990/1991) is a British actor.

Babalola was educated at St Bonaventure's school in London. He went on to study drama at Havering College, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Upon leaving LAMDA, he was awarded the Alan Bates Award for graduating actors.

In 2016, he appeared in the film The Legend of Tarzan and in 2018 in Helen Edmundson's film Mary Magdalene as Andrew, one of Jesus's 12 disciples.

In 2018, Babalola finished a five-month run at London's Royal National Theatre production of Network, opposite Bryan Cranston.
The same year, he was named one of InStyle & EE's rising stars of 2018.

Personal life
Babalola lives in London.

Filmography
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Mary Magdalene (2018)
Gretel & Hansel (2020)

Selected television
 Bancroft as Detective Sergeant Andy Bevan (series regular)
 Broadchurch as Chas/Chaz the Cook
 Lucky Man
 Black Mirror
 Death in Paradise
 Thirteen as Jesse (series regular)
 Endeavour
 The Coroner

Selected theatre
 Network as Harry Hunter, Royal National Theatre, 2017–18


Portland Energy Conservation

PECI is a private, non-profit American company based in Portland, Oregon with additional offices in Santa Ana, California and San Francisco, California. PECI designs and manages energy efficiency programs for utility providers, government organizations, and other clients. Some of the organizations PECI has worked with include the U.S. Department of Energy, Avista, Wal-mart, Southern California Edison, the Community Energy Project, Energy Trust of Oregon, Pacific Gas & Electric and the San Diego Natural History Museum.

As energy consumption rises, governments and utility companies are looking for ways to meet demand without creating energy-generating infrastructure. Meanwhile, many businesses are looking to reduce overhead costs by lowering their energy consumption. PECI designs tactics that encourage commercial businesses and residential consumers to adopt energy-efficient technology and behaviors, and manages the programmatic framework to implement these tactics on an appropriate scale.

On September 16, 2014, PECI announced that its current assets and contracts had been acquired by CLEAResult, a for-profit company that designs, markets and implements energy programs for utilities, businesses and residential energy customers. Ownership of the PECI name and brand remains with the PECI board of directors.

History

Originally called Portland Energy Conservation, Inc., PECI was created by the city of Portland in 1979 as a public agency tasked with carrying out private sector aspects of the Portland Energy Conservation Policy. In 1984, PECI was spun off from city government into a private, non-profit company with 12 employees.

In 1990, PECI managed the Energy Edge program for the Administration. The intent of Energy Edge was to learn how energy-efficient lighting, refrigeration, and HVAC measures performed in commercial buildings. In addition to being PECI’s first commercial energy efficiency program, Energy Edge was a landmark event in the creation of building commissioning processes. PECI’s first energy efficiency program for residential consumers was the ENERGY STAR CFL program, which was launched in 1995 and operated throughout the Pacific Northwest.

By 2002, PECI was focusing on program designs that could be more easily replicated for different markets. A program called EnergySmart Grocer provides no-cost energy audits to supermarkets, convenience stores, and restaurants. Based on the results of the audit, the business can elect to install energy efficient refrigeration, lighting, HVAC, and food service equipment. The cost of the installation is offset by financial incentives from the utility company, allowing businesses to see the benefits of energy- and cost-saving technology while minimizing the cost of the upfront investment. Since 2006, EnergySmart Grocer programs have saved 227 million kWh of electricity in the Pacific Northwest.

Another replicable PECI program, AirCare Plus, was also created in 2002. The program trains HVAC contractors to offer no-cost diagnostic tune-ups to utility customers’ HVAC systems. Increasing the efficiency of HVAC equipment saves energy from what is typically a home or commercial building’s largest energy consumer. It also increases equipment life and reduces the building’s environmental impact. AirCare Plus programs have been launched across the Pacific Northwest and California, saving more than 91 million kWh of electricity.

PECI opened two California offices in 2010, in Santa Ana and San Francisco. The same year, PECI won an $18.8 million contract from the California Energy Commission, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to run a program called EnergySmart Jobs. The program was similar to EnergySmart Grocer, except that energy audits were performed by PECI-trained members of the California Conservation Corp, a work development program for men and women between the ages of 18 and 25. EnergySmart Jobs operated in California from 2010 to 2012 and saved more than 62 million kWh of electricity and created 265 job years, the U.S. government’s official metric to measure jobs created by ARRA funds.

In 2011, PECI moved its headquarters to a LEED Platinum Platinum building in downtown Portland. PECI added many energy-efficient features to the core building, including insulated low-e glass windows, a high-efficiency HVAC system, daylight dimming mechanisms and energy-efficient data center systems.

Corporate Social Responsibility

According to PECI's 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Report, PECI's Portland office consumed 527,489 kWh of electricity and created 10.3 tons of waste in 2013, equal to about 91 pounds per employee and 0.36 pounds per employee per day. According to the EPA, in 2010, the average American generated 4.43 pounds of waste per day. 39 percent of PECI's total waste was recycled (2010 U.S. recycling rate: 34.1%) and 36 percent was composted. PECI employees traveled 2.4 million miles for commuting and business travel in 2013. About 55 percent of commuting miles were travelled via bicycle and public transit, with the remainder traveled by carpool or single-occupancy vehicle.

PECI participated in volunteer, charitable, and educational activities with the Community Energy Project, Clark Center for Men, Friends of Trees, and the Northwest Earth Institute in 2013.

Energy Savings

The effectiveness of energy efficiency programs is typically measured by energy savings, in the form of electricity, gas, and water consumption that was avoided as a result of program efforts. In 2012, PECI programs saved 328 million kWh of electricity, 3.6 million Therms of gas and 3.36 million gallons of water.

According to an energy savings equivalency calculator from the Environmental Protection Agency, these energy savings equal:

 The annual greenhouse gas emissions produced by 51,963 cars
 The monthly CO2 emissions of 2.79 million households
 The CO2 emissions from consuming 1,073 railroad cars of coal
 The CO2 emissions from consuming 21,891 tanker trucks of gasoline

Awards

2013 Governor's Sustainability Award from Oregon Sustainability Board

2013 Best Green Companies to Work for in Oregon (35th)

2013 Sustainability at Work Gold Certification

2012 Portland Afoot Top 25 Best Employers for Low-Car Commuters

2012 Best Green Companies to Work for in Oregon (26th)

2012 Energy Star Partner of the Year – Utah Home Performance Program

2012 Energy Star Sustained Excellence - Questar Thermwise Builder Program

2011 Best Non-Profits to Work For in Oregon

2011 100 Best Green Companies to Work for in Oregon (22nd)

2011 City of Portland Climate Champion

2010 AESP Program Design and Implementation Award – Energy Trust of Oregon New Homes Program

2010 100 Best Green Companies to Work for in Oregon (15th)

2010 Energy Star Partner of the Year – Questar Gas

2010 Energy Star Sustained Excellence – Rocky Mountain Power

2010 Pacific Gas & Electric Integration Awards – AirCare Plus

2010 San Diego Gas & Electric Energy Champion

2009 Energy Star Partner of the Year – Rocky Mountain Power

2009 Energy Star Partner of the Year – Questar Gas

2009 100 Best Green Companies to Work for in Oregon (37th)


Gopal Rajwani

Gopal Rajwani (died 25 January 2000)
was a criminal-politician with the Shiv Sena party, from Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra (a suburb of Mumbai).  Formerly associated with the ganglord Dawood Ibrahim, he joined the Shiv Sena in 1996. He was killed as he was appearing in a court case at Ulhasnagar in January 2000.

Life
Rajwani began his life selling papadums in Ulhasnagar. At one point, he met gangster Govind Vachani and rose rapidly in the crime world.  He later joined the criminal-politician Pappu Kalani and was arrested in 1982-83 for
the murder of the editor A V Narayan of Blitz magazine.
The case could not be sustained, however; no witnesses would come forward to testify and he was acquitted.

In 1985, he fell out with Kalani over division of extortion money. Meanwhile, Pappu Kalani had become politically powerful with the Indian National Congress party - he was to be elected from Ulhasnagar the following
year.
That April, Rajwani was arrested in an extortion case, apparently at Kalani's bidding. As Rajwani was being escorted to the Vithalwadi police station in a rickshaw, Kalani arranged for his men to attack him with bombs and guns. Rajwani survived the attack, but was seriously injured and was admitted to the JJ Hospital. Here, he met Haji Mastan, a notorious smuggler and senior don of that time. Haji Mastan took Rajwani under his wings and arranged for him to go to Dubai.

In Dubai, he met Dawood Ibrahim and began helping him buy real estate in Mumbai. Among the properties he negotiated was a flat in Lokhandwala Complex, which was to be the scene of a famous shootout where the "encounter" specialist (Policeman known for killing off gangsters)
Aftaab Ahmed Khan gunned down six of Dawood's aides including Maya Dolas.  Much of the fourteen-hour encounter was televised live and made
Khan a celebrity.

In April 1989, the Kalani family leader, Pappu's uncle Dudhichand Kalani, was murdered, allegedly by Gopal Rajwani's gang, at the
instance of Gop Behrani.  This led to reprisal killings - as many as 22 murders in five
months.  It was said during this period that
"there would be a killing in Ulhasnagar every Tuesday."
It was during this period that Pappu Kalani emerged as the leader of his own
organized crime gang.

In 1992, Pappu Kalani was arrested for the murder of Rajwani henchman Maruthi Jadhav (and subsequently charged in seven other murders).
Pappu was in jail for nine years, and in this period,
Rajwani then returned to Ulhasnagar.  He joined the Shiv Sena in
1995, and emerged as a top leader of the party in Ulhasnagar.

On 24 January 2000, around 11 AM, he was getting off from his car to attend
court at the First Class
Magistrate's court in Ulhasnagar, when he was attacked by four gunmen, and
died of injuries in the head, chest, neck and
back.

It is widely believed that Pappu Kalani,
recently elected MLA from Ulhasnagar, although in jail at the time, had masterminded his murder.


Boynton Beach Club

Boynton Beach Club is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Susan Seidelman, produced by her and her mother Florence. Based on experiences of Florence and her widowed friend David Cramer at an adult enclave in Boynton Beach (a city in Palm Beach County, Florida), the film was scripted by Susan Seidelman and Coral Gables, Florida writer Shelly Gitlow.

Plot
Marilyn (Brenda Vaccaro) is a woman unexpectedly plunged into grief when her otherwise healthy husband is killed by Anita Stern (Renée Taylor), who was talking on her cell phone while backing her car out of a driveway. Marilyn is introduced to the Boynton Beach Bereavement Club by Lois (Dyan Cannon), a talkative and flirtatious decorator who also serves as the club's unofficial social director.

Meanwhile, Harry (Joseph Bologna) tutors the newly widowed Jack (Len Cariou) in the related skills of cooking and courtship, while Jack comes to terms with secret wishes he never knew his late wife had. Harry considers himself a ladies' man, but his confidence is temporarily shaken when an Internet "dream date" turns out to be a prostitute (Janice Hamilton). Jack eventually gives in to the interest from Sandy (Sally Kellerman), with whom he re-discovers his sexuality and capacity to love, but they have to overcome Sally's discomfort with being divorced and not widowed. Lois herself begins dating Donald (Michael Nouri), who fears his real profession as an exterminator may turn off Lois who thinks he's a real estate developer, while she fears letting him know her real age. After Marilyn faces Anita down over her loss, the other issues come to a head at the club's New Year's Eve party, modeled after the sock hops they all enjoyed in their youths.

Cast
 Joseph Bologna — Harry
 Dyan Cannon — Lois
 Len Cariou — Jack
 Sally Kellerman — Sandy
 Michael Nouri — Donald
 Renée Taylor — Anita Stern
 Brenda Vaccaro — Marilyn

Release
Shot in 2005, Boynton Beach Club premiered in the Hamptons International Film Festival in East Hampton, New York. It was then released to theaters in South Florida on March 17, 2006 and wider on August 4, playing in six states: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Missouri, Arizona and California.

The film's working title was The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club.


Gita Patel

Gita Patel is a Member of Legislative assembly from Sabarmati constituency in Gujarat for its 12th legislative assembly


New Georgia (political party)

The New Georgia (, is a political party in Georgia founded by Giorgi Vashadze, who and whose supporters left UNM after party conflict, party declared itself as a Liberal. Party took part in 2016 Georgian parliamentary election in a bloc State for a People, lead by Paata Burchuladze, with 3.45% of votes, it could not overcome barrier to enter the Parliament.

During the 2017 Tbilisi mayoral elections, the parties candidate was its own leader Giorgi Vashadze, who came sixth obtaining 1.95 percent of the vote

During 2018 presidential elections' campaign New Georgia joined the largest opposition coalition Strength is in Unity.


1962 South Australian state election

State elections were held in South Australia on 3 March 1962. All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League led by Premier of South Australia Thomas Playford IV defeated the Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Frank Walsh.

Background
The Playford government, in power since 1938, went into the 1962 elections in a precarious position.  At the time the writs were issued, South Australia was dogged by a massive recession.  This led observers to think that Labor would finally have a chance at power.  Longtime opposition leader Mick O'Halloran had died suddenly in 1960, and Labor was led into the election by former deputy leader Frank Walsh.

The Labor opposition won in excess of 54 percent of the statewide two-party vote, however the LCL retained government with the assistance of the Playmander − an electoral malapportionment in which there were two country seats for every one seat in Adelaide. This system resulted in Labor being denied government in 1944, 1953 and 1968 despite winning clear statewide two-party majorities.

While O'Halloran had despaired of ever becoming Premier, Walsh made a concerted effort to end the LCL's three-decade grip on government. Knowing that the Playmander made a statewide campaign fruitless, Walsh instead decided to target marginal LCL seats.  In the election, Labor scored 54.3 percent of the two-party vote to only 45.7 percent for the LCL, a 4.6 percent swing to Labor. In most other states, this would have made Walsh premier with a landslide majority. However, due to the Playmander, the election resulted in a hung parliament. Labor won 19 seats, one seat short of a majority, while the LCL won 18 seats, two seats short of a majority. Even with this to consider, speculation was rampant on election night that Playford's long tenure was finally over.

Labor took the seats of Chaffey and Unley off the LCL (and later Glenelg and Barossa at the 1965 election). The LCL won only four metropolitan seats – Burnside, Glenelg, Mitcham and Torrens.

However, Playford refused to concede, instead saying he would wait to see how the chamber lined up once the legislature reassembled. Both crossbench independent MPs, Tom Stott and Percy Quirke, held the balance of power. They announced confidence and supply support for an LCL minority government with a bare one-seat parliamentary majority. Stott became Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly following the election, while Quirke joined the LCL and entered the ministry in 1963. Walsh lobbied Governor Edric Bastyan not to reappoint Playford, to no avail.

The furore over the 1962 election illustrated how distorted the Playmander had become. By this time some two-thirds of the state's population resided in and around Adelaide, but they only elected one-third of the members of the legislature. In many cases, a rural vote was worth at least double a vote in Adelaide. In one of the more extreme cases, the rural seat of Frome had 4,500 formal votes in 1968, while at the same election the metropolitan seat of Enfield had 42,000 formal votes.

Results

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 The primary vote figures were from contested seats, while the state-wide two-party-preferred vote figures were estimated from all seats.

Post-election pendulum


MoD Lyneham

Ministry of Defence Lyneham, otherwise known as MOD Lyneham is a Ministry of Defence site located  northeast of Chippenham, Wiltshire and  southwest of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The site houses the Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering. Also here is Prince Philip Barracks, housing the regimental headquarters of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME), 8 Training Battalion REME and the REME Museum.

Previously, the site was RAF Lyneham which was the home of all Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF) until they were relocated to RAF Brize Norton. The RAF station closed in 31 December 2012.

History

RAF Lyneham

RAF Lyneham was built in 1939, necessitating the demolition of Lyneham Court manor house, the buildings of Cranley Farm and the village's tennis courts.  The airfield itself was initially a grass landing area although the RAF always planned to lay hard runways. Hangars and other buildings were dispersed around the site to avoid creating one large target for an aerial enemy.

The station was opened on 18 May 1940 as No. 33 Maintenance Unit (33MU), with no ceremony and few personnel. During the war the station's squadrons operated regular transport schedules to Gibraltar

With the increase in air transport operations in the RAF, as opposed to ferrying, Transport Command was formed in March 1943. Lyneham, in No. 46 Group RAF, was its main airfield in the south, and as well as sending its own aircraft overseas, acted as the clearance airfield for planning, diplomatic clearance, customs and briefing purposes for transport aeroplanes from other stations flying abroad.  It also provided facilities for aircraft being ferried overseas.

Lyneham's position as the primary tactical transport base for the RAF was emphasised in February 1971 when No. 30 Squadron RAF (30 Sqn) and No. 47 Squadron RAF (47 Sqn) were transferred from RAF Fairford, followed in September by No. 48 Squadron RAF (48 Sqn) from RAF Changi in Singapore.  This gave a total of five tactical Hercules squadrons at Lyneham, as well as the VIP transport Comet squadron, and in 1976, the station became the largest operational airfield in the RAF with the arrival from Cyprus of Hercules-equipped No. 70 Squadron RAF (LXX Sqn), bringing to seven the station's total of resident aircraft squadrons.

RAF Lyneham received the first of 25 brand-new Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules on 23 November 1999, to be operated by XXIV Sqn and 30 Sqn.  The newer J model aircraft worked side by side with twenty-nine refurbished C-130K Hercules flown by 47 Sqn. LXX Sqn stood-down on 8 September 2010, but reformed in 2014, at Brize Norton, as the first Airbus A400M Atlas squadron, to be followed by 47 Sqn.

Closure of RAF station
The decision to close RAF Lyneham was made in 2009, and it was scheduled for closure by 2012 with all functions and aircraft relocated to RAF Brize Norton. It was planned that the base would remain open until the last of the C-130K fleet is retired and the 24 new generation C-130Js would move to Brize Norton to join the transport and aerial refuelling fleets there.

It was announced in July 2011 by the then-Secretary of State for Defence, Dr Liam Fox, that Lyneham would become the new site of the Defence Technical Training Change Programme centre. This coincides with the closure of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) technical training establishments at Arborfield Garrison and Bordon Garrison, both of which moved to Lyneham by the end of 2015.

With the transfer of military units and personnel to Brize Norton complete, around 1,000 members of military and civilian staff remained on site, gradually reducing in numbers until RAF Lyneham closed entirely, on 31 December 2012. All military flying operations from RAF Lyneham ceased on 30 September 2011, at which point the station's air traffic control unit closed. Following the cessation of flights, the RAF Lyneham Flying Club moved to Cotswold Airport.

A stone memorial commemorating the RAF's use of the station for over 70 years was unveiled on 1 June 2012. All remaining RAF Lyneham personnel left the station by December 2012.

Transfer to defence training role

2011 plans
As part of the Defence Technical Training Change Programme, part of the wider Defence Training Review, the MOD announced on 18 July 2011 that the Defence College of Technical Training (DCTT) would relocate to Lyneham. Plans called for the relocation of various British Army, Royal Navy and RAF training facilities to Lyneham, with the aim of modernising technical training and achieving efficiencies. Initially it was planned that the following training functions would relocate to Lyneham.

 Electronic and Mechanical Engineering – training for vehicle mechanics and marine engineers, recovery mechanics, armourers, metalsmiths, control equipment technicians and technical support specialists. As a result of the move to Lyneham, the army's Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) technical training establishments at Arborfield Garrison in Berkshire and Bordon Garrison in Hampshire, would both close. No. 4 School of Technical Training based at RAF St. Athan in Vale of Glamorgan and the Defence School of Marine Engineering at HMS Sultan, Gosport in Hampshire would also relocate.
 Aeronautical Engineering – training for avionics and aircraft technicians. Delivery of training would relocate from Arborfield Garrison, No. 1 School of Technical Training and the Aeronautical Engineering & Management Training School at RAF Cosford in Shropshire and the Royal Naval Air Engineering & Survival Equipment School at HMS Sultan.
 Communications and Information Systems – field based tactical training and classroom/workshop based technical training, relocating from the Royal School of Signals at Blandford Camp in Dorset and No. 1 Radio School at RAF Cosford.

A planning application for the redevelopment of MOD Lyneham was submitted by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to Wiltshire Council in May 2013 Planning permission was granted in October 2013 for the re-development of the station including the demolition of several existing structures and the construction of new and refurbished buildings to accommodate single living accommodation, dining, mess and welfare facilities, workshops, teaching accommodation and classrooms, offices, stores, medical and dental centre, church, museum, physical and recreational training centre, the creation of outdoor training areas including ground works and ground level alterations, the erection of masts, towers and radars, a forward operating base training facility, obstacle course, assault course, firing range, sports pitches, new roads, footpaths, parking, hard and soft landscaping, lighting, balancing ponds, and access alterations including a new roundabout and ancillary works.

The demolition of some unsafe and redundant buildings commenced in early 2013. The re-development was planned to be undertaken in a series of phases, construction beginning in 2014 and completing in December 2015, with the first units arriving and the start of training taking place in 2016. Further units would arrive in subsequent years with the programme being complete in 2019. The contract for the first phase was valued at between £180m and £230m.

In December 2013, a £121m contract for the first phase of work was awarded to Hercules, a 50:50 joint-venture between Kier Group and Balfour Beatty. Construction work commenced in February 2014. Babcock's Defence and Security Division were awarded a contract in August 2014 to supply and support REME training at Lyneham, with a full operating capability programmed for February 2016.

2015 re-evaluation
Michael Fallon, Secretary of State for Defence, announced in September 2015 that the relocation of the RAF and Royal Navy training elements to Lyneham would no longer take place. A re-evaluation of the programme determined that the consolidation onto a single site was no longer the best option. The first phase, the relocation of the REME schools from Aborfield and Bordon would still proceed.

REME training at Arborfield and Bordon transferred to Lyneham in September 2015, and was due to begin at Lyneham by November of that year. The School of Army Aeronautical Engineering (SAAE), which moved from Aborfield, started training in October 2015.

The new regimental headquarters of the REME was officially opened on 11 March 2016 by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and given the name The Prince Philip Barracks.

Role and operations

Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Lyneham is home to the Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering (DSEME), part of the Defence College of Technical Training (DCTT) within No. 22 Group RAF. The school trains current and future Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) technicians.

REME Museum
The REME Museum, previously based in Arborfield, Berkshire, moved into the former Officers' Mess in 2015. The move provided an opportunity to refresh the displays and layout as well as provide new facilities such as a café, archives and a reading/conference room. There are dedicated education facilities to cater for groups of all ages and interests. The new museum opened to the public in June 2017.

Based units
The following notable units are based at MOD Lyneham.

Royal Air Force

 Headquarters Defence College of Technical Training (DCTT) – under No. 22 Group

British Army

 Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering (DSEME)
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
 8 Training Battalion
REME Arms School
School of Army Aeronautical Engineering (SAAE)

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME)

 Regimental Headquarters Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
 REME Museum

Civilian

 Babcock Defence Support Group

Future
From 2019, 5 Battalion REME will transfer from Bulford and Tidworth to Lyneham.