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Mike Norris (baseball)

Michael Kelvin Norris (born March 19, 1955) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics from 1975 to 1983 and in 1990. Norris is a two-time Gold Glove Award winner and he was an MLB All-Star in 1981.

Career
Norris attended Balboa High School in San Francisco and was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the first round (24th overall) In January 1973. He made his major league debut in 1975. He struggled mightily during his first five major league seasons, recording a 4.67 ERA and a 12–25 record.

Norris had a breakout season in 1980, going 22–9 with 24 complete games, a 2.53 earned run average and an AL-low .209 batting average against, while also earning his first Gold Glove Award. However, he was not awarded the American League Cy Young Award; Steve Stone of the Baltimore Orioles, who had a record of 25–7, was given the honor. Norris pitched more innings, gave up fewer hits, walks, home runs, and runs, and had a much lower ERA than Stone, but at the time, wins were a primary focus of voters. Norris placed 15th in the MVP voting.

In 1981, Norris posted a modest 12–9 record, earning his second Gold Glove Award and also earning an All-Star berth. Norris spun a complete-game shutout in the first round of the playoffs against the Kansas City Royals and pitched well in the AL Championship Series against the New York Yankees despite getting hit with a loss there.

However, Norris never even approached his 1981 form again. A number of baseball historians and statisticians have blamed this on manager Billy Martin overworking him and the other members of the 1981 staff. In 2006, baseball writer Rob Neyer estimated that Norris threw 131 pitches per complete game in 1981–a heavy workload for a young pitcher even then. He was sent to the minors during the 1983 season. After spending parts of the next five years in the minors, he made a brief comeback as a relief pitcher in 1990, posting an ERA of 3.00 in 27 innings. He is the only player to win at least one game with Oakland in three different decades, as well as the only player with at least a 10-year career to spend his entire career with the Athletics during their tenure in Oakland.

Later life
In 1999 he was diagnosed with cervical myelopathy, and he had surgery in January 2000 at the California Pacific Medical Center. After recovering, Norris took up golf as a hobby. In 2007, he appeared with Dave Stewart, Mudcat Grant, and Vida Blue in a pre-game ceremony before a regular season game between the Texas Rangers and the Oakland Athletics.

Norris was well known for his distinctive green fielding glove.

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Pat Ingoldsby

Pat Ingoldsby (born 25 August 1942 in Malahide, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish poet and TV presenter. He has hosted children's TV shows, written plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories and been a newspaper columnist. Since the mid-1990s, he has withdrawn from the mass media and is most widely known for his collections of poetry, and his selling of them on the streets of Dublin (usually on Westmoreland Street or College Green).

Work
In the 1980s, Pat hosted RTÉ children's TV shows named Pat's Hat, Pat's Chat, and Pat's Pals. His plays include Bats or Booze or Both (Dublin, Project Arts Centre, 1977); Hisself (Dublin, Peacock Theatre, 1978); Rhymin' Simon (Peacock Theatre, 1978); When Am I Getting' Me Clothes (Peacock Theatre, 1978); Yeukface the Yeuk and the Spotty Grousler (Peacock, 1982); and The Full Shilling (Dublin, Gaeity Theatre, 1986). In the early 1990s, he had a column in the Evening Press (a now-defunct national Irish newspaper). These columns were later collected in The Peculiar Sensation of Being Irish. Ingoldsby is a fluent Irish speaker and includes a few poems written in Irish in each book of poetry. He lives in Clontarf, in Dublin, Ireland. Since sometime in the mid-1990s, he has withdrawn from TV, radio and theatre, instead devoting his efforts to poetry. Pat is still part of Ireland's arts scene, sometimes opening Art exhibitions, introducing then-new musicians such as David Gray or launching other people's books. He self-publishes through Willow Publications, which he set up and named after one of his pet cats (who later died). Some of his books since 1998 have carried a note that they are protected by the "Bratislava Accord 1993, section 2 cre/009 manifest-minsk", the terms of which allegedly protect his book's content from being included in:
 * school textbooks
 * examinations
 * elocution classes
 * anything with the word "Arts" in it.

In March 2022, the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) hosted a video installation to mark the release of Ingoldsby's latest anthology, In Dublin They Really Tell You Things — Pat Ingoldsby, Selected Poems 1986 — 2021.

Influences
Most of Pat's poems are about his personal experiences, observations of life in Dublin, or mildly surreal humorous possibilities. Topics of personal experiences vary from the death of his father, or the electroconvulsive therapy he received (c. 1988), to his appreciation of the natural world or his pets (mostly cats, but also some fish). Observations of Dublin are mostly humorous conversations overheard on the bus, or the characters he sees and talks to while selling his books on the streets. Some observations are not so cheerful as he also sees the drunks and the homeless of Dublin city, and the some aspects of modernisation which he isn't pleased with. His most distinctive style of poetry is his humorist style. A recurring character, Wesley Quench, appears in roles such as the driver of a Flying See-Saw Brigade. Another poem, "Vagina in the Vatican," depicts a vagina sneaking into the Vatican unstopped because no one knew what it was – except for a few who couldn't let slip that they did. He also occasionally produces stories for children. These are a childish version of his mildly surreal style. During the rapid increase in the use of mobile telephones, he offered a "Mobile Phone Euthanasia" services on the streets of Dublin, where he would destroy phones for annoyed owners. His cousin Maeve Ingoldsby is a playwright. Pat retired from selling his books on the streets of Dublin in 2015.

Poetry

 * You've Just Finished Reading This Title
 * Rhyme Doesn't With Reason
 * Up The Leg of Your Jacket
 * Welcome to My Head (Please Remove Your Boots) (1986)
 * Salty Water (1988)
 *  Scandal Sisters (1990)
 *  How Was It For You Doctor? (1994)
 * Poems So Fresh And So New ...Yahoo! (1995)
 * If You Don't Tell Anybody I Won't (1996)
 * See Liz She Spins (1997)
 * Half A Hug (1998)
 * Beautiful Cracked Eyes (1999)
 * The Blue E-Tee Wet! (2000)
 * Do Lámh I Mo Bhrístí (2001)
 * The Frenchwoman and the Sky (2003)
 * Once Upon A 'hide (2004)
 * I'm Out Here (2005)
 * Can I Get in the Bath? (2007)
 * Once Upon A Wicked Eye (2008)
 * I Thought You Died Years Ago (2009)
 * Hitting Cows with a Banjo (2011)
 * Pawmarks on My Poems (2013)
 * Mise MacGiolla (2017)
 * In Dublin They Really Tell You Things (Selected poems, 2022, published by Museum of Literature Ireland, MoLI)

For adults

 * Hisself (Play, Peacock Theatre, Dublin)
 * When am I Gettin' Me Clothes (Play, Peacock Theatre, Dublin) (Later adapted for radio play on RTÉ Radio 1)
 * The Dark Days of Denny Lacey (radio play, RTÉ Radio 1)
 * She Came Up From the Sea (radio play, RTÉ Radio 1)
 * Fire Is Far Enough (radio play, RTÉ Radio 1)
 * Liffey Ever Is (radio play, RTÉ Radio 1)
 * The Peculiar Sensation of Being Irish (short stories) (1995) ISBN 1-873548-31-1
 * Laugh Without Prejudice (short stories) (1996) ISBN 1-873548-37-0
 * My Own Voice (Audio CD of Pat reading some poems)
 * Let Me into Your Ear (Audio CD of Pat reading more of his poems)

For children

 * Zaney Tales (short stories book)
 * Rhymin' Simon (Play)
 * Yeukface the Yeuk and the Spotty Grousler (Play)
 * Tell Me A Story Pat (Audio Tape)

Ingoldsby also wrote some episodes of Wanderly Wagon

Filmography

 * The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby, a 2022 documentary by film director Seamus Murphy on the life and works of Pat Ingoldsby (produced by Broadstone Films, Dublin).

Weak links
Since Pat withdrew from the media spotlight before the blossoming of the Internet, it can be hard to find information about him and his work. The following links contains small bits of information.

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Torbay, Western Australia

Torbay is a small town and a bay in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 20 km west of Albany. Torbay is within the City of Albany local government area. The Torbay townsite was gazetted in 1910.

The Torbay area is on the eastern fringe of the karri forest region, and with some notable blocks of remnant tall forest. Large granite outcrops are also common. Beaches on the bay tend towards fine white sand. Where streams occur, they are clear but stained dark brown in colour from high-tannin-content vegetation.

Children in the area usually attend schools in Albany, travelling there by school bus. There is also a local independent school, the Woodbury Boston Primary School.

History
The town is named after Tor Bay, a bay on the coast to the south originally named by Captain Matthew Flinders in 1801 after Tor Bay in Devon, the home port of Admiral Richard Howe's Channel Fleet, for whom Flinders had served as a midshipman from 1793 to 1794. Admiral Howe's nickname was "Lord Torbay". Flinders identified a number of local features with Lord Howe-related names, including Torbay (the bay), Torbay Inlet, Torbay Head and West Cape Howe (originally named Cape Howe by George Vancouver), to avoid confusion with James Cook’s  Cape Howe in New South Wales. Pre-settlement explorers of the Torbay area included: Matthew Flinders, Robert Brown, Ferdinand Bauer and William Westall (Dec. 1801); Thomas Wilson (Dec. 1829); Roe and Stirling (Nov. 1835); and Charles Codrington Forsyth of HMS Pelorus (1838).

Shipbuilding
In November 1835, Roe and Stirling explored the Tor Bay area, scoping the area for shipbuilding. From the late 1830s to the 1860s an industry building vessels of up to 150 tons was established at Port Harding (Migo Island), using timber from the Guarinup Hills, half a mile behind the beach.

Whaling
A shore whaling station was established on the beach at Tor Bay behind Migo Island in 1844. Whales were taken during the periods 1844-1846 and 1861-1864.

Forestry
In 1886 railway contractors C & E Millar established sawmills at Bornholm to supply timber for the construction of the Great Southern Railway (Beverley to Albany railway). Timber was initially shipped out by lighter, schooner and the small steamer Active from Port Harding (Migo Island) to Albany, and later by tramline to Elleker. In 1889 the Torbay Estate, of 22,000 acres, was granted to Millars in consideration of extending the railway from Elleker to Torbay and establishing working sawmills there. The two Bornholm mills were shifted to Torbay and enlarged. A prosperous timber settlement was in evidence at Torbay for about six years. The estate concession extended from Wilgie Hill, at the Albany end of Torbay, to Youngs, the timber being hauled by tramline from 20 miles beyond Torbay as far as Hay River, before the mills were finally moved. By 1895 most of the suitable timber at Torbay had been felled. The railway was again extended to Denmark in 1896. In 1898 Millars Karri and Jarrah Forests Limited offered the Torbay Estate back to the government provided they could retain ownership of the strip of land occupied by the Elleker-Torbay railway, which under their contract was to revert to the government after 14 years. The land was subdivided and sold for agricultural purposes in 1900.

WAGR rail service
Millars' Elleker-Torbay-Denmark railway line closed on 31 May 1905. During negotiations over the sale of the railway line the State leased the line and WAGR rail services began on 3 May 1907. In 1908 Millars sold the railway to the state government. Line extension works beyond Denmark were started in 1926 and on 11 June 1929 the first passenger service ran to Nornalup. The Nornalup-Denmark-Torbay-Elleker rail service was permanently shut down on 30 September 1957 and the rails were lifted in 1963.

Modern industry
Local industries include dairy farming, beef cattle, plantation forestry, specialist horticulture, arts and crafts and tourism, along with rural businesses that service farmers (mechanics, lime supply, machinery and labour hire etc.). A seasonal commercial fishing industry occurs within the bay based on catches of herring and Australian salmon during the February–April period. Torbay has been a traditional potato growing area for over a century, particularly for seed potato production. While some pumpkins are grown and the area is suitable for cauliflower production, potatoes are the major horticultural crop. The area currently produces about 50% of Western Australia’s requirements for seed potato production.

Tor Bay
Tor Bay, which includes Port Harding (named in 1838 by master's mate Charles Forsyth after Captain Francis Harding of HMS Pelorus) and Port Hughes (named in 1831 by Roe after Private Thomas Hughes of the 63rd Regiment) as well as Torbay Inlet, lie between Torbay Head and Stony Island. Torbay Head is the most southerly point on the mainland of Western Australia and the most western point of the Great Australian Bight. Islands within Tor Bay include Migo Island, named after the Swan River native Migo, Richard Island, named after Admiral Richard Howe, both by Roe in 1835; and Shelter Island.

Popular beaches on the bay include Perkins Beach, Muttonbird Beach and Cosy Corner, all accessible by car. Cosy Corner Beach is the most well-known, and is a popular family beach with picnic and camping facilities. Children's swimming lessons are held there in the summer. There are other beaches that are accessible only by four-wheel drive vehicle. The Bibbulmun Track passes around the edge of the bay, coming down long steps from the steep hills above Cosy Corner and following the beach around the curve of the bay and across the mouth of Torbay Inlet along Muttonbird Beach to near Shelter Island.

Mars
A 6.33 km diameter impact crater on the planet Mars was in 1988 named after Torbay.

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Asian Saga

The Asian Saga is a series of six novels written by James Clavell between 1962 and 1993. The novels all centre on Europeans in Asia, and together explore the impact on East and West of the meeting of these two distinct civilizations.

Overview
The name Asian Saga was first applied to the series after Shōgun had been published. The purpose of the Asian Saga was, according to Clavell—descendant of a family long in service to the British Empire, and who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War—to tell "the story of the Anglo-Saxon in Asia".

Ordered by publication date:

 * 1) King Rat (1962)
 * 2) Tai-Pan (1966)
 * 3) Shōgun (1975)
 * 4) Noble House (1981)
 * 5) Whirlwind (1986)
 * 6) Gai-Jin (1993)

Ordered by internal chronology:

 * 1) Shōgun: set in feudal Japan, 1600. 1152 pages.
 * 2) Tai-Pan: set in Hong Kong, 1841. 727 pages.
 * 3) Gai-Jin: set in Japan, 1862. 1126 pages.
 * 4) King Rat: set in a Japanese POW camp, Singapore, 1945. 400 pages.
 * 5) Noble House: set in Hong Kong, 1963. 1171 pages.
 * 6) Whirlwind: set in Iran, 1979. 1147 pages (Abridged with some rewritten parts as Escape, 598 pages)

Four of the six books—Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, Noble House, and Whirlwind—follow the dealings of the great trading company Struan's, the Noble House of Asia (based on Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited), its founder Dirk Struan, and his various descendants. Gai-Jin provides the major link between the Shōgun and Struan's storylines.

Some of the characters make appearances in multiple books, and many characters from one book are referred to in later books. For example, two characters from King Rat (Robin Grey and Peter Marlowe) reappear in Noble House, and Robert Armstrong is a major character in both Noble House and Whirlwind. As a tie-in, Linc Bartlett's (Noble House) namesake ancestor appears in Clavell's film Walk Like a Dragon (1960).

There are dozens of characters throughout the series, with very complex family relationships and a great deal of history that is hinted at but never described in detail. For instance, Peter Marlowe is almost certainly a descendant of Lt. John Marlowe, the captain who married Malcolm Struan and Angelique Richaud against the wishes of Tess Struan, as Clavell refers often to Peter Marlowe's family's long history of naval service. Clavell peppers the entire Asian Saga with these genealogical Easter eggs.

After publishing Whirlwind, Clavell wrote a shorter version of the story which focused on two characters from the book. Titled Escape: The Love Story from Whirlwind, the book is generally not considered an official part of the Asian Saga; nonetheless, some reviewers said it helped flesh out several aspects of the original novel.

In 1980, Clavell stated that, beyond Noble House, future entries in the series would include Nippon, set in 1970s Japan, and China, set in the present and future. When he died in 1994 after the publication of Gai-Jin, it was reported that he had been planning several more entries in the Asian Saga series.

List of tai-pans of Struan's

 * 1st tai-pan: Dirk Struan, 1828–1841
 * 2nd tai-pan: Culum Struan, 1841–1862
 * 3rd tai-pan: Sir Lochlin Struan, 1862–1873??
 * 4th tai-pan: Dirk Dunross, 1873–1894
 * 5th tai-pan: Sir Lochlin Struan, 1894–1908 (see notes)
 * 6th tai-pan: Ross Lechie Struan, 1908–1915
 * 7th tai-pan: Sir Ross Struan, 1915–19?? (see notes)
 * 8th tai-pan: Colin Dunross, 19??–1949
 * 9th tai-pan: Alastair Struan, 1949–1960
 * 10th tai-pan: Ian Dunross, 1960–1970
 * 11th tai-pan: David MacStruan, 1970–1975 (see notes)
 * 12th tai-pan: Linbar Struan, 1975–19?
 * 5th tai-pan (in name only): Kelly O'Gorman, 1894–1915 (see notes)

The half coins of Jin-qua
In 1841, when Struan's was on the brink of collapse, Dirk Struan received a loan of silver from the merchant Jin-qua in exchange for a series of favors. Among these were four bronze coins, split in half, four halves given to Dirk Struan, the other four halves kept by Jin-qua. Anyone who brought a half coin to the tai-pan of the Noble House would be granted whatever he asked, whether legal or illegal. All future tai-pans must swear to keep this bargain, before learning the details, if they were to become tai-pan. This served as repayment to the loan of silver.

Of the four coins, one was kept by Jin-qua, passed down through his family. One given to the warlord Wu Fang Choi. One given to Gordon Chen, and passed down through his family, and one given out in secret.

The first coin was brought to Dirk Struan in 1841 by Wu Fang Choi.

The second coin was brought in 1894 by Chiang Wu-tah. He asked that the Noble House give aid and sanctuary to Sun Yat-sen and to assist him to overthrow the Manchu dynasty. This is recounted in Noble House, chapter 60. In the movie however, the second coin is stated to have been returned to Hag Struan in 1911.

The story of the third coin is a major plot line in Noble House. The coin is owned by Struan's trusted compradore Phillip Chen, handed down to him from his grandfather Gordon Chen. However, his son John Chen learns the secret of the coin, steals it, and bargains it and its secret away to American businessman Lincoln Bartlett. Before Bartlett takes possession of the coin, John Chen is kidnapped and murdered. When Phillip Chen enlists his underworld cousin Four Finger Wu to help locate John, Wu discovers the coin in the possession of one of the kidnappers, and takes it for his own, knowing its secret. When Wu dies, his son Profitable Choy takes over the coin and begs the favours from Ian Dunross.

The fate of the fourth coin is not addressed in the saga. However, it is speculated in Noble House that it was given to May-may (Dirk Struan's mistress) and passed down to their descendant Sir Shih-teh "Shitee" T'Chung.

Adaptations
As of 2024, four installments of the Asian Saga have been adapted for film or television:
 * King Rat (1965), starring George Segal, was nominated for two Academy Awards for Art Direction and Black and White Cinematography.
 * Shōgun (1980), was adapted by NBC as a television miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, and Yoko Shimada; the production was one of the highest rated programs of its kind ever broadcast.
 * The nine-hour miniseries was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards, winning three including Best Limited Series. It also won three Golden Globe Awards.
 * A two-hour version received a theatrical release in 1981.
 * Tai-Pan (1986), released as a theatrical film starring Bryan Brown and Joan Chen, was a critical and box office failure.
 * Noble House (1988) was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Pierce Brosnan and was a ratings success. It updated the timeframe of the novel from the 1960s to the 1980s and took many liberties with key points of the novel (for example, Ian Dunross became a bachelor who had a romance with Casey Tcholok).
 * Shōgun (2024): The channel FX has released a series on its Hulu platform.

Although there were press reports in the mid-1990s that a miniseries adaptation of Gai-Jin was planned, no production eventuated.

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Talk:Sphere (book)

In the book Sphere by Michael Crichton, the sphere is filled with a substance that is called the "foam" and is made up of billions of tiny points of light. A voice speaks to whomever enters the Sphere, explaining the nature of the Power that the Sphere grants the person.

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RLV

RLV9 can refer to:

 * Reusable launch vehicle, the general concept of Reusable launch vehicles (to space)
 * Reusable Launch Vehicle program (NASA), a cancelled NASA program that included the X33 experimental craft
 * RLV-TD, India's Reusable Launch Vehicle - Technology Demonstrator project
 * Relevium Technologies Inc, Stock Symbol: RLV
 * Restrained Life Viewer for Second Life
 * Defence of the Reich, the World War II German Reichsluftverteidigung (RLV) defensive aerial campaign
 * RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, Kerala, India

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Guidelines for National Unification

The Guidelines for National Unification, or the National Unification Guidelines (NUG), were written by the National Unification Council, an advisory body of the Republic of China government, regarding Chinese unification. The National Unification Guidelines were adopted by the Executive Yuan Council on February 23, 1991. The guidelines have a three-step process for the gradual unification of mainland China and Taiwan.

Contents
The National Unification Guidelines endorses the One China policy before any other statements: "Both the mainland and Taiwan are parts of Chinese territory. Helping to bring about national unification should be the common responsibility of all Chinese people." However, the document emphasized that unification must "first respect the rights and interests of the people in the Taiwan area, and protect their security and welfare". A more radical earlier draft emphasized the "will", rather than the "rights", of the people in Taiwan, but this wording was changed at the insistence of ROC premier Hau Pei-tsun. The guidelines envisioned three stages that must be reached before planning unification:

 * 1) Both sides would not "deny each other's existence" in the international community and would renounce the use of force or threats. The mainland should carry out political reforms.
 * 2) The two sides would set up official communication channels "on equal footing" and help each other participate in international organizations. In return, Taiwan will help develop the mainland's economy and open up the Three Links of communication technology.
 * 3) The two sides will establish an organization to plan the unification of a "democratic, free, and equitably prosperous China"

The NUG's demands that the PRC renounce the use of force, grant ROC political equality to itself, and let the ROC participate in international organizations, while offering little from Taiwan in return, sharply contradicted the unification proposals from mainland China. Additionally, the requirement for a "free, democratic" China to even consider unification precluded negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party currently in power on the mainland. In practice, the unrealistic goals for unification set by the NUG furthered the goals of Taiwanization of the ROC and the One Country on Each Side political culture in Taiwan. Nonetheless, in diplomatic terms the affirmation of the One China principle on the Taiwan side made the 1992 Consensus and the Wang-Koo Talks possible.

Abrogation
As part of the Four Noes and One Without pledge, President Chen Shui-bian had promised not to formally abolish the National Unification Guidelines or the National Unification Council despite his party's supportive stance on Taiwan independence. In his Chinese New Year address on January 29, 2006, President Chen Shui-bian proposed abolishing the National Unification Guidelines and the National Unification Council. On February 27, 2006, Chen formally announced that the guideline would "cease to apply" and the council would "cease to function". The United States initially warned Chen not to abolish either the council or the guidelines, but later refused to condemn him because it believed the absence of the term "abolish" was not a breach of the status quo. However, Chen was widely condemned by the People's Republic of China, which warned that Chen "would bring disaster to Taiwan society." The Pan-Blue Coalition also condemned the move as unnecessarily provocative, arguing that Chen needed to focus on economic issues in the face of a growing unemployment and suicide rate, and some legislators started a petition to have Chen impeached. Chen defended his action as a response to the military threat from mainland China. Without the legal constraints of the NUG, Chen's successor, President Ma Ying-jeou, has been able to usher in an era of unprecedented exchanges between mainland China and Taiwan since 2008.

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Colt Anaconda

The Colt Anaconda is a large frame double-action revolver featuring a full length under-barrel ejection-rod lug and six round cylinder, designed and produced by the Colt's Manufacturing Company in 1990. Chambered for the powerful .44 Magnum and .45 Colt centerfire ammunition cartridges, the Anaconda marked the Hartford, Connecticut firm's first foray into the popular large-bore Magnum pistol market.

Development
Built on a new and heavier ‘MM' frame, the Anaconda was brought out to compete with .44 Magnum contemporaries such as the Smith & Wesson Model 29, the Sturm, Ruger & Co. Redhawk and Blackhawk, and the Dan Wesson Firearms Model 44. Considering that many of these models had been marketed and sold for fully 35 years upon its introduction, the Anaconda was a very late entry into the large-bore handgun market. Unlike most other pistols introduced in the 1980s and 1990s, the Anaconda was never offered with a carbon steel blued finish, but was available only in stainless steel. When originally introduced, Anacondas were plagued with poor accuracy, but changes to the barrels quickly corrected the problems to the point that Colt billed its new pistol as among the most accurate .44 Magnum revolvers in production. Anaconda revolvers were primarily marketed for sport enthusiast shooters and hunters, as they are too large for law enforcement general duty use or concealed-carry, although made-to-order limited production versions of the gun continued to be available from the Colt custom gun shop until approximately 2003. In 2021, Colt resumed production of the Anaconda, using a new design with a stronger frame and an oversized Python action.

Features
Originally chambered for the .44 Magnum cartridge, in 1993 the Anaconda began to be offered in .45 Colt as well. Its fit and finish resembled an upsized King Cobra married to a ventilated-rib barrel reminiscent of the Python's. Initially marketed with a satin brushed stainless finish, a highly polished mirror-like option known as "Ultimate Stainless" was catalogued for a time through the Colt Custom Shop. Anacondas came equipped with four, six, or eight inch barrels, neoprene synthetic rubber finger-grooved combat-style grips with nickel colored 'Rampant Colt' medallions, large target type hammers and triggers, as well as open iron sights with a red insert front and fully adjustable white outline rear. Some models were factory drilled and tapped for telescopic sight mounting, while others shipped with recoil reducing Magna-Ported barrels. The trigger actions on these guns are rated as very high-quality, and the heavy-duty solid construction and weight tends to absorb recoil, making the Anaconda relatively easy to shoot with heavy loads.

Kodiak
Introduced in 1993, the Kodiak was similar to the Anaconda in that it was constructed entirely of stainless steel, but offered the additional features of a recoil-reducing factory magna-ported barrel and unfluted cylinder.

There were 2000 Kodiaks made as a special run of Anacondas, breaking away from their long history of naming revolvers after snakes. A special run of 1000 King Cobras was made about the same time, having the same Magna-Ported barrel and unfluted cylinder and were called the Grizzly. There was an uncatalogued 5 in barrel version of the Anaconda, with reportedly less than 150 made. These 5 in versions command very high prices when they are encountered. Additionally, Colt made an extremely low number of 4 in barrel Anacondas chambered in .45 Colt. This ultra-rare variation commands a premium price when encountered as well.

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Shooting Star

Shooting star refers to a meteor.

Shooting star may also refer to:

Film

 * Shooting Star (2015 film), a 2015 Bulgarian short film
 * Shooting Star (2020 film), a 2020 Canadian short film
 * Shooting Stars (1927 film), a 1927 British drama film
 * Shooting Stars (1950 film), a 1950 film
 * Shooting Stars (1952 film), a 1952 West German drama film
 * Shooting Stars (1983 film), a 1983 television film, starring Billy Dee Williams
 * Shooting Stars (1997 film) (), a 1997 French comedy produced by Richard Sadler
 * Shooting Stars (2023 film), a 2023 Peacock original film

Television series

 * Shooting Stars, a 2022 South Korean television show
 * Shooting Stars (British TV series), a British comedy television show
 * Shooting Stars (Singaporean TV series), a 2005 Singaporean TV drama
 * Shooting Star (animated series), a 2020 television series by 41 Entertainment

Episodes

 * "Shooting Stars" (CSI), a 2005 sixth-season episode of CSI
 * "Shooting Star" (Glee), a 2013 episode of the television show Glee

Plays and other entertainment uses

 * Shooting Star, a play by Steven Dietz
 * Shooting Stars, a play by Molly Newman
 * Star Trek: Phaser Strike (called Shooting Star in Germany, Italy and UK), a 1979 video game for the Microvision
 * Shooting Stars Award, annually presented to 10 young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival
 * The Shooting Star, the name of Racer X's car in Mach GoGoGo media

Literature

 * Shooting Stars, a 2016 novel by Brian Falkner
 * Shooting Star, a 1958 novel by Robert Bloch
 * Shooting Star (Temple novel), by Australian Peter Temple
 * The Shooting Star, a 1942 Tintin adventure
 * Shooting Star (comics), a character from Marvel Comics

Music

 * Shooting Star (band), a rock band from Kansas City, Missouri

Albums

 * Shooting Star (Elkie Brooks album), 1978
 * Shooting Star (Shooting Star album), 1980
 * Shooting Stars (album), a 1979 album by Dollar
 * Shooting Star (EP), a 2012 EP by Owl City, and the title song
 * SHOOTING STAR (XG album), 2023

Songs

 * "Baby Can I Hold You/Shooting Star", by Boyzone
 * "Shooting Star" (Air Traffic song), 2007
 * "Shooting Star" (Bad Company song), 1975
 * "Shooting Stars" (Bag Raiders song), 2010
 * "Shooting Star" (Bang! song), 1997, later covered by Flip & Fill
 * "Shooting Star" (David Rush song), 2009
 * "Shooting Star" (Deepest Blue song), 2004
 * "Shooting Star" (Disney song), from Disney's Hercules
 * "Shooting Stars" (Dragon song), 1977
 * "Shooting Star" (Bob Dylan song), 1989
 * "Shooting Star" (Elton John song), 1978
 * "Shooting Star" (Tara McDonald song), 2013
 * "Shooting Star" (Modern Talking song), 2006
 * "Shooting Star" (Poison song), 2002
 * "Shooting Star" (Owl City song), 2012
 * "Shooting Star" by The Mamas & the Papas, from the 1971 album People Like Us
 * "Shooting Star", by Lou Reed, from the 1978 album Street Hassle
 * "Shooting Star", by Cross Gene
 * "Shooting Star" by Harry Chapin, from the 1974 album Verities & Balderdash
 * "Shooting Star" by Dollar, from the album Shooting Stars
 * "Shooting Star" by the Australian band Expatriate, from the 2007 album In the Midst of This
 * "Shooting Star" by Riyu Kosaka, from the 2003 album BeForU
 * "Shooting Star" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, from the 1966 film Thunderbirds Are Go
 * "Shooting Star" by Órla Fallon, from the 2009 album Distant Shore
 * "Shooting Star" by Elliott Smith, from the 2004 album From a Basement on the Hill
 * "Shooting Stars" by Amy Diamond, from the 2005 album This Is Me Now
 * "Shooting Star" by everset, Kamen Rider Meteor's theme on the series Kamen Rider Fourze
 * "The Shooting Star" by Gojira, from the 2016 album Magma
 * "Shooting Star" by VIXX from the 2016 album Kratos
 * "Shooting Star" by Gene Clark from the 1973 album Roadmaster
 * "Shooting Star" by Muna
 * "SHOOTING STAR" by XG

Science and mathematics

 * Hypervelocity star, a type of star that moves at unusually high velocities across the galaxy
 * Primula sect. Dodecatheon, a group of herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Primula
 * Primula pauciflora, also known as pretty shooting star, few-flowered shooting star, dark throat shooting star and prairie shooting star

Sport

 * Shooting Stars F.C., a Nigerian football club
 * NBA All-Star Weekend Shooting Stars Competition, a basketball competition
 * A professional wrestling aerial technique

Transportation

 * P-80 Shooting Star, a United States Army Air Forces jet fighter
 * T-33 Shooting Star, an American-built jet trainer
 * Shooting Star (clipper), an extreme clipper ship built in 1851
 * Another 1851 extreme clipper, USS Ino, which served in the Civil War. It was renamed Shooting Star in 1867.
 * A BR 'Britannia' class steam locomotive
 * A GWR Star Class, steam locomotive
 * A logo displayed on many Hokutosei locomotives, including:
 * JNR Class DD51, a diesel-hydraulic locomotive type operated in Japan since 1962
 * JR Freight Class EF510, a multi-voltage AC/DC electric locomotive type operated in Japan since 2002

Other uses

 * Shooting Star (spacecraft), an expendable cargo module for the Dream Chaser spacecraft
 * Shooting Star (drone), quadcopter drone by Intel
 * Tecumseh (1768–1813), whose Shawnee name has been translated as Shooting Star
 * Shooting Star Casino, in Minnesota
 * Bay 101 Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour tournament
 * Shooting star (candlestick pattern), in finance
 * Shooting Star Tommy Gun, a carnival amusement game
 * Shooting Star, Ace's aircraft from the arcade games TwinBee Yahho! and Sexy Parodius

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Barwon River (New South Wales)

Barwon River, a perennial river that is part of the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the north-west slopes and Orana regions of New South Wales, Australia.

The name "barwon" is derived from the Australian Aboriginal words of barwum or bawon, meaning great, wide, awful river of muddy water; and also baawan, a Ngiyambaa name for both the Barwon and Darling rivers. The history, culture and livelihoods of the local Aboriginal people are closely intertwined with the Barwon River and its associated tributaries and downstream flows.

Course
The river is formed through the confluence of the Macintyre River and Weir River (part of the Border Rivers system), north of Mungindi, in the Southern Downs region of Queensland. The Barwon River generally flows south and west, joined by 36 tributaries, including major inflows from the Boomi, Moonie, Gwydir, Mehi, Namoi, Macquarie, Bokhara and Bogan rivers. During major flooding, overflow from the Narran Lakes and the Narran River also flows into the Barwon. The confluence of the Barwon and Culgoa rivers, between Brewarrina and Bourke, marks the start of the Darling River.

From its head to the point where it reaches the 29th parallel south near the town of Mungindi, the course of the Barwon is the border between Queensland and New South Wales.

Towns on the Barwon River, from its source towards its mouth include Mungindi, Collarenebri, Walgett, and Brewarrina.

The catchment and water flows of the Barwon River are generally administered by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority and together with the Darling River, the catchment covers about 13% of the Murray-Darling Basin.

In December 2018, amidst drought, the Barwon River at Walgett ceased flowing, reduced to a series of stagnant pools.

Aboriginal history
Aboriginal people from six language groups originally occupied the area of the Barwon River wetlands. These were the Ngemba, the Baranbinja, the Murrawarri, the Yuwaalaraay, the Weilwan, and the Kamilaroi peoples. The Aboriginal people generally used the wetlands for hunting, fishing, and gathering uses, and for cultural association.

Aboriginal people built a complex series of fish traps on the Barwon River at Brewarrina. These traps are a large, well-preserved example of this type of prehistoric site. The traps were built of rocks placed in the river bed to form a large number of V-shaped or diamond-shaped channels. The Brewarrina fish traps have now been listed on the Australian National Heritage List owing to the rarity of these works. They are of importance to modern Aboriginal people and are still in use. There are rocky rapids above and below Collarenebri as well as weirs and other structures for irrigation which impede normal navigation of the river.

European history
In 1846, Roderick Mitchell, Commissioner of Crown Lands and the son of explorer, Sir Thomas Mitchell, proved that the Barwon and MacIntyre Rivers were the same river under different names.

Regular steamer services ran from Walgett to Bourke from 1880 to 1912. During the floods of 1879 and 1886 the steamers were able to travel into Collarenebri and as far as Mungindi in 1890.

The Brewarrina Lift Bridge, which was built in 1888 over the Barwon River on the Kamilaroi Highway, has also been assessed as being of state significance. The Boonanga bridge completed in 1928 to cross the Barwon River near Boomi, is an early example of Allan timber truss road bridges. This bridge has been recorded with the NSW State Agency Heritage Register.

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It Came from Beneath the Sea

It Came from Beneath the Sea is a 1955 American science fiction monster horror film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Sam Katzman and Charles Schneer, directed by Robert Gordon, that stars Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, and Donald Curtis. The screenplay by George Worthing Yates was designed to showcase the stop motion animation special effects of Ray Harryhausen.

A monstrous giant octopus rampages along the west coast of North America after becoming too radioactive from nuclear testing in the South Pacific for it to be able to hunt its natural prey in the Mindanao Deep.

It Came from Beneath the Sea was released as the top half of a double feature with Creature with the Atom Brain.

Plot
A nuclear submarine on its shakedown cruise in the Pacific Ocean, captained by Commander Pete Mathews, comes into contact with a massive sonar return. Unable to outrun and outmaneuver the object, the boat is disabled, but frees itself and returns to Pearl Harbor. Tissue from a huge sea creature is discovered jammed in the submarine's dive planes. A team of marine biologists, Professor Lesley Joyce and John Carter of Harvard University, is called in; they identify the tissue as being a small part of a gigantic octopus. The military authorities are unconvinced, but are finally persuaded after receiving reports of missing swimmers and ships at sea being pulled under by a large sea creature. Both scientists conclude that the animal is from the Mindanao Deep, having been forced from its natural habitat by hydrogen bomb testing in the area, which has made the giant octopus radioactive, driving off its natural food supply.

The scientists suggest the disappearances of a Japanese fishing fleet and a Siberian seal boat may be the work of the foraging giant. Both Mathews and the Navy representatives express doubt and demand further proof. Later, as Mathews assists Joyce and Carter, a report comes in of an attack on a Canadian freighter; several men escaped in a life raft. The survivors are questioned by psychiatrists, but when the first sailor's description of a creature with giant tentacles is doubted, the other sailors refuse to testify. Joyce is able to convince the first sailor to repeat his story. The U.S. government officials halt all sea traffic in the North Pacific without revealing the reason. Carter flies out to sea to trace a missing ship, while Mathews and Joyce follow up on a report of five missing people off the coast of Oregon.

The local sheriff, Bill Nash, takes Mathews and Joyce to the attack site, where they find a giant suction cup imprint in the beach sand. (At this point, the two have become romantically involved.) They request that Carter join them. Nash is later attacked along the beach by the giant octopus; the two nearby scientists barely escape. Together, they hastily arrange for all Pacific coast waters to be mined before departing for the navy's base in San Francisco. An electrified safety net is strung under water across the entrance to San Francisco Bay, protecting the electrified Golden Gate Bridge. Carter takes a helicopter along the shoreline and baits the sea with dead sharks in an effort to lure the creature inland. Joyce demonstrates to reporters a special jet-propelled atomic torpedo, which they hope to fire at the giant, while driving it back to the open sea before detonating the weapon. Later that day, the creature demolishes the underwater net, irritated by the electrical voltage, and heads toward San Francisco. The navy orders the Golden Gate Bridge abandoned; Carter learns that the electric circuit was left on, so he races to the bridge to shut it off. The giant creature, however, catches sight of the bridge and attacks, the electrical voltage irritating it even more. Mathews is able to rescue Carter before a bridge section is pulled down by a giant tentacle.

The residents of San Francisco panic and begin a mass exodus. The navy struggles to evacuate the Embarcadero and the Ferry Building, which is battered by the creature's giant tentacles. When more people are killed, the Defense Department authorizes Mathews to take out the submarine and fire the torpedo; Carter joins Mathews aboard while Joyce remains at the base.

Flamethrowers drive the giant tentacles back into the sea. When Mathews fires the jet torpedo into the giant creature, it grabs the submarine. Using an aqualung, Mathews swims up to the massive body and places explosive charges before being knocked out by the shockwaves from their premature explosion. Carter then swims out and shoots at one of its eyes, forcing the giant octopus to release the submarine; he then pulls Mathews to safety. Back at the base, as the creature turns toward the open sea, the torpedo is detonated, completely destroying the giant cephalopod. The trio later celebrate the victory at a restaurant, where Mathews makes an impromptu proposal, and Joyce accepts.

Cast
• Kenneth Tobey as Commander Pete Mathews

• Faith Domergue as Professor Lesley Joyce

• Donald Curtis as Dr. John Carter

• Ian Keith as Admiral Burns

• Dean Maddox Jr. as Admiral Norman

• Chuck Griffiths as Lieutenant Griff

• Richard W. Peterson as Captain Stacy

• Harry Lauter as Deputy Bill Nash

• Tol Avery as Navy Intern

• William Bryant as Helicopter Pilot

• Del Courtney as Naval Asst. Sec. Robert David Chase

• Roy Engel as Control Room Officer Ordering Drop Nets

• Eddie Fisher as McLeod

• Duke Fishman as Merchant Seaman

• Herschel Graham as Restaurant Patron

• Sam Hayes as Radio Newscaster

• Jules Irving as King

• S. John Launer as Naval Doctor With Stethoscope

• Jack Littlefield as Aston

• Mike Morelli as Crew Member

• Sol Murgi as Pilot

• Monty O'Grady as Restaurant Patron

• Rudy Puteska as Seaman Hall

• William Woodson as Opening Narrator

Development
The film was made by producer Charles Schneer under the supervision of Sam Katzman who had a B picture unit at Columbia. Schneer said the idea for the film was inspired by the first explosion of the hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands, saying he felt if some creature came out of the deep "and then destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge, that would be a hell of a film."

The title was inspired by Universal's science fiction hit It Came from Outer Space. Schneer had been impressed by the effects for The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and hired Ray Harryhausen. "I don't think I would have made that type of picture if I hadn't been able to get Ray to do the FX," Schneer said later.

Shooting
Much of the filming was done at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, including scenes aboard a submarine, and several naval personnel were given supporting roles.

To keep shooting costs low, director Robert Gordon shot inside an actual submarine, both above and under water, using handheld cameras. For a scene that takes place on a stretch of Pacific coastline, Gordon and his crew dumped several truckloads of sand onto a sound stage at Columbia, which they backed with a rear projection screen. During their scene together, Kenneth Tobey found himself sinking through the sand to the point of appearing shorter than Faith Domergue on camera, forcing him to dig himself out of the hole between every take. A more extensive love scene had been written for the characters but was literally torn out of the shooting script by Sam Katzman, to keep principal photography from going over schedule.

When animator Ray Harryhausen's special effects were budgeted, studio head Sam Katzman allowed Harryhausen only enough money for animating six of the octopus' eight tentacles; two were eliminated on the final shooting miniature. Harryhausen jokingly named his giant octopus "the sixtopus". For the scenes where a single tentacle is seen moving on screen, Harryhausen used a large model tentacle instead of employing the complete stop-motion animation model. Some of the later Golden Gate bridge scenes employ a shooting miniature of a bridge support; these were composited in post-production over live footage of the real support (this is the section that the "sixtopus" is seen clinging to in the bridge scene).

Schneer was refused permission to shoot on the actual Golden Gate Bridge, so he put the camera on the back of a bakery truck and drove it back-and-forth over the bridge several times to get the needed footage.

Reception
It Came from Beneath the Sea was teamed on a theatrical release double bill with Columbia's Creature with the Atom Brain.

The film's success led to Harryhausen collaborating again with Schneer for Earth vs. the Flying Saucers the following year.

Critical
Time Out called it a "minor entry in the '50s cycle of radiation-paranoia sci-fi pics"; and Moria noted, "Most of the film is told in a stolid, flat style that seems more like an Army training documentary than a dramatic film. The problem is that one has to plod through three-quarters of the film to get to the monster sequences...Certainly, when the climactic scenes of wholesale destruction do arrive they are great"; whereas Allmovie wrote that the film "utilized elements of the documentary, with a narration that makes the first half of the movie seem almost like a newsreel, which gives the action a greater immediacy. And...This is all presented in a cool, clipped realistic manner, with a strong but convincingly stated macho tone...It all served to make the first quarter hour of the film almost irresistibly suspenseful, and gave Harryhausen one of the best lead-ins that one could ask for, for his effects"; Leonard Maltin also praised the film's "Breathtaking special effects"; and the Radio Times, while acknowledging it as a "classic monster flick", also called the film "Predictable tosh, but good 1950s fun".

Legacy
The four-issue comic book miniseries It Came from Beneath the Sea... Again (2007), released by TidalWave Productions as part of their Ray Harryhausen Signature Series, continued the story. A preview of the first issue was included on the 50th Anniversary DVD release of the film.

A clip from the film was used in the second episode of the TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, which also features a giant man-eating octopus.

In Godzilla (1998), the scene of the cephalopod attacking the Golden Gate Bridge is shown on a television.

In The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), a theatrical release poster for It Came from Beneath the Sea can be seen in Katie Mitchell's bedroom.

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New Deal (disambiguation)

The New Deal was Franklin D. Roosevelt's legislative agenda for rescuing the United States from the Great Depression.

New Deal may also refer to:

 * New Deal (United Kingdom), a program of United Kingdom government policies focused on unemployment
 * New Deal (British political party), a political party in the United Kingdom
 * New Deal (French political party), a political party in France
 * New Deal for Country Passengers, an Australian passenger rail reform program
 * New Deal, Tennessee, a census designated place
 * New Deal, Texas, a small town near Lubbock
 * New Deal coalition, a collection of political interest groups
 * New Deal for Communities, a United Kingdom government program focused on urban renewal
 * The New Deal, a promotion in United Kingdom pub chain Wetherspoons premiered in January 2009
 * The New Deal (band)
 * The New Deal (album)
 * NewDeal, a software company
 * "The New Deal" (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * "The New Deal" (Ready or Not), an episode of Ready or Not
 * The Green New Deal, a proposed United States legislative package to address climate-change and environmental sustainability
 * A Green New Deal, a report released in the United Kingdom in 2008 that outlines a series of policy proposals to tackle global warming, financial crisis, and peak oil

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Georges Franju

Georges Franju (12 April 1912 – 5 November 1987) was a French filmmaker. He was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine.

Early life
Before working in French cinema, Franju held several different jobs. These included working for an insurance company and a noodle factory. He served briefly in the military in Algeria and was discharged in 1932. Upon his return, he studied to become a set designer and later created backdrops for music halls including Casino de Paris and the Folies Bergère.

In the mid-thirties, Franju and Henri Langlois met through Franju's twin brother Jacques Franju. As well as creating the 16 mm short film Le Métro, Langlois and Franju also started a short-lived film magazine and created a film club called Le Cercle du Cinema with 500 francs he borrowed from Langlois' parents. The club showed silent films from their own collections followed by an informal debate about them amongst members. From Le Cercle du Cinema, Franju and Langlois founded the Cinématheque Française in 1936. Franju ceased to be closely related with the Cinématheque Française as early as 1938, and only became associated with it strongly again in the 1980s when he was appointed as the honorary artistic director of the Cinématheque. In 1937, Franju and Langlois co-founded another less successful film journal titled Cinematographe which had only two issues. In early 1940, Franju and Dominique Johansen co-founded another organization to promote cinema called Circuit Cinématographique des Arts et des Sciences which closed on 31 May 1940.

Film career
In 1949, Franju began work on a series of nine documentary films. The Nazi occupation of Paris and the industrialism following World War II influenced Franju's early works. His first documentary, The Blood of Beasts (French: Le Sang des Bêtes) was a graphic film of a day inside a Paris slaughterhouse. The second documentary, commissioned by the government in 1950, was Passing By the Lorraine (French: En Passant par la Lorraine). The film was commissioned as a celebration of the modernization of the French industry, but Franju's film showed his view of the ugliness spewing forth from monstrous factories. Franju's third film commissioned by the French government, Hôtel des Invalides (1951), was a look at life inside a veterans' hospital. The film was commissioned as a tribute to the hospital and the War Museum, but Franju turned it into a film against the glorification of militarism. Franju later said that Hôtel des Invalides was his favorite of his three "slaughter" films.

With Head Against the Wall (French: La tête contre les murs) in 1958, Franju turned toward fiction feature films. His second feature was the horror film Eyes Without a Face (French: Les Yeux sans Visage) about a surgeon who tries to repair his daughter's ruined face by grafting on to it the faces of beautiful women. His 1963 film Judex was a tribute to the silent film serials Judex and Fantomas. In Franju's later years his film work became less frequent. Franju occasionally directed for television and in the late seventies he retired from filmmaking to preside over the Cinématheque Française. Georges Franju died on 5 November 1987.

Film style
In her study of French cinema since the French new wave, Claire Clouzot described Franju's film style as "a poignant fantastic realism inherited from surrealism and Jean Painlevé science cinema, and influenced by the expressionism of Lang and Murnau". Franju's focus was on the visual aspect of filmmaking, which he claimed marked a director as an auteur. Franju claimed to "not have the story writing gift" and was focused on what he described as the "putting into form" of the film.

Franju used elements of surrealism and shock horror within his films in order to "awaken" his audience. Franju had a long history of friendship with well-known surrealists including André Breton, and the influence of this movement is extremely evident in his works. Franju uses these elements to link horror, history, and an ironic commentary on modernity's ideal of progress. Franju is quoted as having said "It's the bad combination, it's the wrong synthesis, constantly being made by the eye as it looks around, that stops us from seeing everything as strange." Throughout his documentary Le Sang des bêtes, for example, Franju reminds the audience just how strange everyday life can be. The opening sequence of the film presents the modern age as a "dream land" in which there is a need for some sort of awakening; Franju's awakening comes through historical knowledge. Surrealist depictions of strange mannequins on the city's edge are reminiscent of the bodies of the men wounded in war. Walter Benjamin argued that surrealism must "disturb capitalist culture's mythic assumptions of a rationalized evolving history" which is done by provoking a simultaneous interpretation of the past and the present. This, as Benjamin argues, relies on the recognition of horror within everyday life. Franju does this in many ways throughout Le Sang des bêtes. For example, "La Mer" plays during a sequence in the slaughterhouse, comparing the lyrics to aspects of the slaughter, forcing the audience to interpret the love song in new and horrific ways. A similar contradiction can be seen in the film during scenes in which voiceover narration is used. The use of voiceover in the film works to undermine the form of a more typical documentary film. By alternating male and female narrators, the clinical, typically masculine authority of the documentary film is undermined. During the scene in which the instruments of slaughter are examined, the contradiction between the clinical account of the use of the instruments and the visceral horror of the instruments themselves points out the horrors that are ignored by modern society.

The same is true of Franju's most famous film, Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face), which also uses aspects of the scientific documentary film to accentuate horror. Les Yeux sans visage proved so horrific that audience members in Edinburgh fainted during screenings. During the most graphic grafting scene in the film a large importance is placed on surgical lamps, the scalpel being used, gloves, masks, and operating tables. Once again, the contradiction between the methodical, scientific approach to this horrific situation and the situation itself serves to accentuate the horror. Les Yeux sans visage also uses surrealist elements to address aspects of post-war life. During one scene, loud, disrupting noises of an airplane and church bells are heard while Dr. Genessier and Louise bury a failed facial graft candidate. This scene serves to portray the loss of faith in medicine (represented by the body created by another of Dr. Genessier's many failed attempts to complete this surgery), the progress of technology (represented by the airplane), and the comfort of religion (represented by the church bells). This surrealist combination forces a new view of modernity and thus a reevaluation of the past.

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Dave Stewart (Eurythmics)

David Allan Stewart (born 9 September 1952) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox. Sometimes credited as David A. Stewart, he won Best British Producer at the 1986, 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards. Stewart (along with Lennox) was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020 and the duo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. Outside of Eurythmics, Stewart has written and produced songs for artists such as Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Mick Jagger and Tom Petty.

Early life
Stewart was born in 1952 in Sunderland, England, son of John ("Jack") and Sadie Stewart. Distantly related both to the Dukes of Northumberland and to pirates, Stewart was from a middle-class, "well-off family", with accountant parents; he "always wanted to play with the working-class kids, but they'd always call [him] 'richie' and whack [him] on the head with cricket bats and things." His father was a "keen harmonica player" with a "dedication to music of all types", having "invested in the latest hi-tech stereo system and wired it up to every room in the house." He attended Barnes Infants and Junior School and Bede Grammar School for Boys. Whilst still in his teens, he secured a record deal as part of folk-rock band Longdancer. Despite being signed to Elton John's record label, The Rocket Record Company, they did not achieve commercial success. He also collaborated with Brian Harrison to produce an EP on the Sunderland Multicord label (label number MULT-SH-1, producer Ken McKenzie), recording two songs ("Girl" and "Green She Said") from a school musical production written by teacher Dick Bradshaw, one traditional number ("A Blacksmith Courted Me") and a song written by Dave and Brian ("Deep December"). After leaving Wearside, Stewart spent several years living in squats in London. In late 1976, he was introduced to Annie Lennox by Paul Jacobs. Soon, Stewart and Lennox became romantically involved. By 1977, the pair had teamed up with Sunderland musician Peet Coombes, releasing a single on Logo Records as the Catch. The band then developed into the Tourists, who enjoyed modest success, including a hit in 1979 with a cover of the Dusty Springfield hit "I Only Want to Be with You".

Eurythmics
The Tourists split up in 1980, as did Stewart and Lennox, though the pair continued to work together. They formed a new musical project named Eurythmics. After a string of hit singles and albums, the duo split in 1990, but reunited in 1999 for the album Peace and another world tour. Lennox and Stewart worked together again in 2005, recording two new tracks for the greatest hits package Ultimate Collection, released to coincide with Eurythmics' 25th anniversary.

Post-Eurythmics
When Eurythmics dissolved in 1990, Stewart moved to France and immediately released a self-titled album with his new band, The Spiritual Cowboys, which reached No. 38 on the UK album charts. The song "Party Town" was featured in the 1990 film Flatliners. A second album, Honest, followed in 1991. Both records went Gold in France, where Stewart concentrated his efforts. In 1992, Stewart collaborated with singer Terry Hall (formerly of The Specials, The Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield) on the project Vegas. The duo released one self-titled album but this was commercially unsuccessful, though one of the singles from the album ("Possessed") made the UK Top 40.

In 1993, Stewart appeared in an Apple Inc. advertisement for the Power Macintosh in which he riffed on the word "power". He also had a small cameo as a computer hacker in the 1995 film Hackers.

In 1994, Stewart released a solo album, Greetings from the Gutter. The album was not a commercial success, though Stewart scored a minor UK hit with the single "Heart Of Stone" which reached number 36. He then released another album, Sly-Fi, first on the internet.

In 1995, Stewart appeared in an advert for BT in which he sang the track 'Secrets' which was made specifically for BT to be used in the advert.

In November 2002, Stewart worked with former South African president Nelson Mandela. Stewart came up with the idea of turning Mandela's prison number into a telephone number then wrote and recorded songs with Paul McCartney, Bono and Edge and various others that you could only hear if you dialled this number and whilst listening you were donating. He then began organising the 46664 campaign and series of concerts in the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

In 2007, Stewart announced on his MySpace page that he would be playing live concerts showcasing his entire career. According to the announcement, he was to be accompanied by various guest musicians as well as a 30-piece orchestra. Additionally, Stewart has stated that for the first time in many years, he has been writing new songs on his guitar, although he had no plans at that time for a new solo album.

On the project, The Dave Stewart Songbook, he wrote a large coffee table-size book full of stories and photographs and also re-recorded 21 hit songs which have been co-written or co-produced by him during the past decades and were originally released by artists such as No Doubt, Shakespears Sister, Bryan Ferry, Celine Dion, Bob Geldof, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jon Bon Jovi and Eurythmics. Also included is the song "American Prayer" written by Stewart with Bono of U2, for which Dave Stewart shot a video clip in support of the campaign of US presidential candidate Barack Obama, featuring various film and music stars, which premiered on YouTube on 23 August 2008. Stewart also released a new solo track, Let's Do It Again, in 2008. In July 2010, Stewart recorded his first solo album of new material since 1998's Sly-Fi. Entitled The Blackbird Diaries, it was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, and includes duets with Stevie Nicks, Martina McBride, Colbie Caillat and The Secret Sisters. Stewart has made a film of the making of the album and also filmed a live concert in Nashville at The Belcourt Theatre on 9 December 2010.

In May 2011 it was announced that Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones had formed a new supergroup called SuperHeavy which includes Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damian Marley and A. R. Rahman.

In May 2012 it was announced that Stewart would be playing four UK shows in September 2012 to support the release of his new album The Ringmaster General.

In 2013, Stewart released the album Lucky Numbers, which was recorded on a boat in the South Pacific for 12 days.

In October 2017 Stewart appeared on a German TV programme marking the 40th year of the stage career of the German singer Nena with whom he performed their jointly written track, "Be My Rebel".

Writer and producer
Stewart produced or co-produced all of Eurythmics' albums and, once the band became established, he also became a producer of other artists. In 1985, as well as producing Eurythmics' hit album Be Yourself Tonight, Stewart co-produced the album Southern Accents for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as well as co-writing several songs for the album including the hit "Don't Come Around Here No More". The same year, Stewart also produced the debut solo album by Feargal Sharkey, which included the UK number one hit "A Good Heart". Due to these accomplishments, Stewart won "Best Producer" at the 1986 BRIT Awards in London.

Stewart would go on to write and produce for a variety of other artists throughout the years. In 1986, he collaborated with Bob Geldof on tracks for his debut solo album Deep in the Heart of Nowhere. Working together, the duo named themselves "The Brothers of Doom". Also in 1986, he co-produced the album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine by Daryl Hall. The same year, he co-wrote and produced the song "Is This Love?" by Alison Moyet, a UK number 3.

Stewart also co-wrote and co-produced several tracks for Mick Jagger's 1987 album Primitive Cool.

In 1989, Stewart produced the debut album by Russian singer-songwriter Boris Grebenshchikov, Radio Silence.

In 1992, along with Marcella Detroit, he co-wrote the Shakespears Sister hit single "Stay" with his then-wife, Siobhan Fahey (with Stewart credited under the pseudonym "Jean Guiot") as well as several other tracks for their second album Hormonally Yours. In this year Fahey also provided vocals on "Walk into the Wind" for Stewart's group Vegas with Terry Hall, Olle Romö and Emmanuel 'Manu' Guiot.

In 1993, Stewart co-wrote two tracks for German punk rock-singer Nina Hagen which were published on her sixth solo studio album Revolution Ballroom. He can also be heard on keyboards and contributed background vocals.

In 1996, Stewart produced the debut album by Alisha's Attic, Alisha Rules the World, and wrote a few tracks on the third Shakespears Sister album #3 (actually a solo album by Siobhan Fahey, which Fahey ended up releasing in 2004).

In 1997, Stewart co-produced the album Destination Anywhere for Jon Bon Jovi, and also co-wrote two tracks. The same year, he produced and co-wrote the album Come Alive with the actress and singer Rhona Mitra, who was in character as Lara Croft for the recording, because she was the official model for the character at that time. In 1999, Stewart and Mitra collaborated on a second Lara Croft album, titled Female Icon.

Stewart collaborated with Bryan Ferry on his 2002 album Frantic, co-writing several tracks and co-producing one of them.

He also co-wrote "Friend or Foe" for the Russian pop duo t.A.T.u., which is on their 2005 album Dangerous and Moving.

In 2008, Stewart was brought in by Ringo Starr to produce his album Liverpool 8, after Starr dismissed the album's original producer, Mark Hudson. Hudson's work on some tracks earned both Stewart and Hudson credits as co-producers (along with Starr himself).

In 2010, Stewart announced on his Twitter account he was co-writing and producing the new studio album by Stevie Nicks. The album, entitled In Your Dreams, was co-produced by Glen Ballard and released in May 2011.

In 2010, Stewart co-wrote and co-produced two songs with writer and composer Mark Warford 'Lover Earth' and 'Time, Faith, Love' for the charity-focused dramatised audio production, 'A Voyage For Soldier Miles'.

On 24 February 2011, Stewart tweeted that he had just produced a new album by Joss Stone, stating that they also wrote 10 songs together.

On 10 October 2011, Stewart released a new song called "Leap of faith" in collaboration with Greek singer Anna Vissi. The official clip of the song was released in Anna's fan club YouTube channel. Two days later, the Stewart produced Fire EP for artist Orianthi was released as an iTunes download.

He has worked occasionally with American ska-punk band No Doubt, co-writing "Underneath It All" for their 2001 release Rock Steady and "Sparkle" for their 2012 release Push and Shove.

In 2013, he worked with singer Lauren Harris on the pop rock project Kingdom of I. The track Crying at the Disco was released as a free download on Soundcloud later that year.

Stewart co-wrote and produced New Zealand singer Jon Stevens' album called Starlight, which was released in March 2017 and features a blues and soul influenced rock / powerpop sound. Parallel to that, Stewart co-wrote and produced Australian singer Vanessa Amorosi's studio album, which features "soul gospel" music. The album, Memphis Love, was released in November 2023 on Stewart's independent label, Bay Street Records.

Film, television and soundtrack work
Stewart co-wrote, with Mick Jagger and Daryl Hall, the theme song for the 1986 comedy film Ruthless People. He took a greater involvement in the film industry in 1989 by writing and producing the soundtrack Lily Was Here for the Dutch film De Kassière (English title Lily Was Here). The single, also called "Lily Was Here" and featuring saxophone player Candy Dulfer, topped the Dutch charts for five weeks. The single also reached the UK Top 10 and peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1990.

Though he had previously directed music videos, he made his feature film directorial debut in 2000 with Honest, a black comedy set in Swinging London in the late 1960s featuring three members of the British girl group All Saints.

Stewart also performed the song "Everybody, All Over The World (Join The Celebration)" for the 2004 film Around the World in 80 Days.

Stewart, in conjunction with his brother John J. Stewart of Oil Factory Productions, and in collaboration with music critic and author Robert Palmer and documentary filmmaker Robert Mugge made a documentary dealing with Delta Blues music. Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads, released in 1991, was filmed in Memphis, Tennessee and various north Mississippi counties. Palmer narrated.

Stewart was the main interviewer for the HBO series Off the Record, which is a show that highlights songwriting and features prominent musicians. The pilot aired on HBO on 24 November 2006 and featured Bono and The Edge from U2.

He collaborated with Mick Jagger to record songs which appear on the soundtrack to the movie Alfie, released in 2004. The soundtrack includes the critically acclaimed song "Old Habits Die Hard", which won a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture.

In 2010 the song Love Lives, originally from the 2009 EP Let's Do It Again, is included in the soundtrack of the movie Repo Men.

In 2012, together with Rosemary Reed, Stewart was the executive co-producer of Living The Life series on Sky Arts. He also recorded an exclusive soundtrack for the new episodes.

Stewart is the co-creator and executive producer of the 2012 ABC sitcom Malibu Country starring Reba McEntire.

Stewart created and executive produces the NBC unscripted series Songland, which gives new songwriters a chance to have their original compositions recorded by an established artist, with a single released immediately following each episode. The panel of judges on Songland include Ryan Tedder, Ester Dean and Shane McAnally. The series premiered in the summer of 2019 and averaged 5.1 million viewers per episode, the most for a new unscripted series that summer. NBC announced that the series had been renewed for a second season in September 2019.

Musical theatre
Stewart wrote the musical Barbarella, based on the 1968 film, which premiered in Vienna on 11 March 2004. Stewart later wrote music and lyrics (with Glen Ballard) for Ghost the Musical, which premiered at the Manchester Opera House in March 2011, ahead of a transfer to the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End in June the same year; the show subsequently opened on Broadway in 2012.

In 2021 Stewart teamed up with Joss Stone to write and produce a new stage production of The Time Traveller's Wife, based on the Audrey Niffenegger novel of the same name. The show received its premiere in September 2022 at the Storyhouse in Chester, before transferring to London's west end, where it began previews at the Apollo Theatre in October 2023.

Record label
Though most of Stewart's own music (specifically with Eurythmics) was released via the RCA/BMG label, he also formed his own record label in the 1980s called Anxious Records. The label has included a roster of artists such as Terry Hall, Londonbeat, Chris Braide and Curve vocalist Toni Halliday.

Platinum Weird
In 2006, Stewart resurrected Platinum Weird, a band he purportedly formed in the early 1970s in London with singer Erin Grace, but which was in reality created in 2004. According to the fictional account, Erin was moody and mysterious, and disappeared shortly before the band's eponymous album was due to be released in 1974. Platinum Weird features noted songwriter Kara DioGuardi on vocals and the band has re-recorded some of the fictional original band's songs and some new ones as well for an upcoming album. The album was produced by John Shanks.

In July 2006, VH1 premiered a mockumentary entitled Rock Legends – Platinum Weird, an examination of the band's unusual story, complete with cameo appearances from such rock legends as Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox, Ringo Starr and Elton John, all reminiscing about the former band's short-lived heyday and their impressions of the mysterious Erin Grace. The album was further promoted by a series of bogus World Wide Web fan sites, some of which are registered by the New Media Department of Interscope Records and hosted on the same server as interscope.com,  and related false documents for the "lost" group.

Web3 Music
In 2021 Stewart a co-founded SongBits, a web3 music platform that redefines fan-artist engagement, helping introduce a unique approach to music interaction. SongBits offers an immersive digital experience, akin to a modern fan club, allowing fans to connect closely with their favorite artists as well as purchasing a share in the artists streaming revenues. The platform also emphasizes artists' control over their work, ensuring they retain a substantial share of streaming revenues and rights. This venture reflects his commitment to fostering deeper connections between artists and fans and supporting both emerging and established talents in the digital music industry.

Personal life
Stewart was married from 1972 to 1977 to Pamela Wilkinson.

He was in a relationship with Annie Lennox for three years in the late 1970s, before they formed the Eurythmics.

Stewart married former Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey (who later formed Shakespears Sister) in 1987. The couple have two children (Sam and Django). They divorced in 1996.

On 4 August 2001, Stewart married Dutch photographer Anoushka Fisz, with whom he has two daughters, Kaya and Indya. In 2004, Stewart and Fisz moved to Hollywood so Stewart could concentrate on his soundtrack work. They renewed their marriage vows in 2013.

He is a Sunderland A.F.C. supporter and still watches their games. As a child, his ambition was to play for the club.

He accompanied his daughter, Kaya, during her audition for the 21st season of American Idol,  which aired on March 26, 2023.

Awards and recognition
In 2000, Stewart received the O2 Silver Clef Award. He was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005, and won the Music Producers Guild Outstanding Contribution to UK Music Award in 2015. Eurythmics were nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. Eurythmics were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.

Grammy Awards

 * style="text-align:center;" |1983||style="text-align:left;" |Eurythmics|| Best New Artist|| Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" |1984||style="text-align:left;" |Sweet Dreams (Video album) || Grammy Award for Best Music Video Long Form|| Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 1985||style="text-align:left;| "Would I Lie to You?" || Best Rock Performance by Group or Duo with Vocal ||Nominated
 * style="text-align:left;|"Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"|| Best R&B Performance by a Group or Duo with Vocal || Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" |1986 ||style="text-align:left;" |"Missionary Man"|| Best Rock Performance by a Group or Duo with Vocal|| Won
 * style="text-align:center;" |1989 ||style="text-align:left;" | "Savage" || Grammy Award for Best Music Video Long Form||Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" |1990||style="text-align:left;" | "We Too Are One" ||Grammy Award for Best Music Video Long Form||Nominated
 * }
 * style="text-align:center;" |1986 ||style="text-align:left;" |"Missionary Man"|| Best Rock Performance by a Group or Duo with Vocal|| Won
 * style="text-align:center;" |1989 ||style="text-align:left;" | "Savage" || Grammy Award for Best Music Video Long Form||Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" |1990||style="text-align:left;" | "We Too Are One" ||Grammy Award for Best Music Video Long Form||Nominated
 * }
 * style="text-align:center;" |1990||style="text-align:left;" | "We Too Are One" ||Grammy Award for Best Music Video Long Form||Nominated
 * }
 * }

Brit Awards

 * style="text-align:center;" |1984||style="text-align:left;" | Eurythmics||Best British Group||Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3" |1986||style="text-align:left;" | Eurythmics||Best British Group||Nominated
 * style="text-align:left;" |Be Yourself Tonight (Eurythmics)||Best British Album||Nominated
 * style="text-align:left;" | Stewart ||British Producer of the Year||Won
 * style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" |1987||style="text-align:left;" | Eurythmics||Best British Group||Nominated
 * style="text-align:left;" | Stewart ||British Producer of the Year||Won
 * style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4" |1990||style="text-align:left;" | Eurythmics||Best British Group||Nominated
 * style="text-align:left;" |We Too Are One (Eurythmics)||Best British Album||Nominated
 * style="text-align:left;" | Stewart ||British Producer of the Year||Won
 * style="text-align:left;" | "Don't Ask Me Why" (Eurythmics)||Best British Video||Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" |1992||style="text-align:left;" | Stewart||Producer of the Year||Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" |1999||style="text-align:left;" | Eurythmics||Outstanding Contribution to Music||Won
 * }
 * style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4" |1990||style="text-align:left;" | Eurythmics||Best British Group||Nominated
 * style="text-align:left;" |We Too Are One (Eurythmics)||Best British Album||Nominated
 * style="text-align:left;" | Stewart ||British Producer of the Year||Won
 * style="text-align:left;" | "Don't Ask Me Why" (Eurythmics)||Best British Video||Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" |1992||style="text-align:left;" | Stewart||Producer of the Year||Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" |1999||style="text-align:left;" | Eurythmics||Outstanding Contribution to Music||Won
 * }
 * style="text-align:center;" |1992||style="text-align:left;" | Stewart||Producer of the Year||Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" |1999||style="text-align:left;" | Eurythmics||Outstanding Contribution to Music||Won
 * }
 * style="text-align:center;" |1999||style="text-align:left;" | Eurythmics||Outstanding Contribution to Music||Won
 * }

Ivor Novello Awards
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 * style="text-align:center;" |1984||style="text-align:left;" |Lennox and Stewart||Songwriters of the Year||Won
 * style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" |1987||style="text-align:left;" |"It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)" (Eurythmics)||Best Contemporary Song|| Won
 * style="text-align:left;" |Lennox and Stewart||Songwriters of the Year||Won
 * style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" |1987||style="text-align:left;" |"It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)" (Eurythmics)||Best Contemporary Song|| Won
 * style="text-align:left;" |Lennox and Stewart||Songwriters of the Year||Won
 * style="text-align:left;" |Lennox and Stewart||Songwriters of the Year||Won
 * }

Film, publishing and soundtrack awards

 * style="text-align:center;" |2003||style="text-align:left;" |"Underneath It All"||BMI London Awards, Song of the Year||Won
 * style="text-align:center;" |2004||style="text-align:left;"| "Old Habits Die Hard" from Alfie Stewart with Mick Jagger|| Best Song, Las Vegas Film Critics Award||Won
 * style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3" |2005||style="text-align:left;" | "Old Habits Die Hard" from Alfie Stewart with Mick Jagger||Best Song, Critics Choice Awards||Won
 * style="text-align:left;" | "Old Habits Die Hard" from Alfie Stewart with Mick Jagger||Golden Globe Award for Best Song||Won
 * style="text-align:left;" | "Old Habits Die Hard" from Alfie Stewart with Mick Jagger|| World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film ||Won
 * }
 * style="text-align:left;" | "Old Habits Die Hard" from Alfie Stewart with Mick Jagger||Golden Globe Award for Best Song||Won
 * style="text-align:left;" | "Old Habits Die Hard" from Alfie Stewart with Mick Jagger|| World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film ||Won
 * }
 * style="text-align:left;" | "Old Habits Die Hard" from Alfie Stewart with Mick Jagger|| World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film ||Won
 * }
 * }

MTV Video Music Awards

 * style="text-align:center;" |1984||style="text-align:left;" |"Sweet Dreams"||Best New Artist||Won
 * style="text-align:center;" |1985||style="text-align:left;" | "Would I Lie to You?||Five nominations, including Best Group||Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;" |1987||style="text-align:left;" | "Missionary Man" ||Five nominations, including Best Group||Nominated
 * style="text-align:center;"rowspan="2" |1988||style="text-align:left;" |"You Have Placed A Chill in My Heart"|| Best Direction||Nominated
 * style="text-align:left;" |"I Need A Man" || Best Group || Nominated
 * }
 * style="text-align:center;"rowspan="2" |1988||style="text-align:left;" |"You Have Placed A Chill in My Heart"|| Best Direction||Nominated
 * style="text-align:left;" |"I Need A Man" || Best Group || Nominated
 * }
 * style="text-align:left;" |"I Need A Man" || Best Group || Nominated
 * }

Collaborations
With Anastacia
 * Anastacia (Epic Records, 2004)
 * It's a Man's World (BMG, 2012)

With Jimmy Cliff
 * Fantastic Plastic People (Artist Network, 2002)

With Billy Ray Cyrus
 * Back to Tennessee (Lyric Street, 2009)

With Bob Dylan
 * Knocked Out Loaded (Columbia Records, 1986)

With Aretha Franklin
 * Who's Zoomin' Who? (Arista Records, 1985)

With Bryan Ferry
 * Frantic (Virgin Records, 2002)
 * Olympia (Virgin Records, 2010)

With Nina Hagen
 * Revolution Ballroom (Mercury Records, 1993)

With Daryl Hall
 * Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine (RCA Records, 1986)

With Hall & Oates
 * Change of Season (Arista Records, 1990)
 * Marigold Sky (Push Records, 1997)

With Geri Halliwell
 * Scream If You Wanna Go Faster (EMI, 2001)

With Mick Jagger
 * Primitive Cool (Columbia Records, 1987)

With Jon Bon Jovi
 * Destination Anywhere (Mercury Records, 1997)

With Martina McBride
 * Eleven (Republic Nashville, 2011)

With Stevie Nicks
 * In Your Dreams (Reprise Records, 2011)
 * 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault (Reprise Records, 2014)

With Sinéad O'Connor
 * Faith and Courage (Atlantic Records, 2000)

With Orianthi Panagaris
 * Heaven in This Hell (Robo Records, 2013)

With Katy Perry
 * One of the Boys (Capitol Records, 2008)

With Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
 * Southern Accents (MCA Records, 1985)

With Carina Round
 * Slow Motion Addict (Interscope Records, 2007)

With Feargal Sharkey
 * Feargal Sharkey (A&M Records, 1985)

With Carly Simon
 * Letters Never Sent (Arista Records, 1994)

With Ringo Starr
 * Liverpool 8 (Capitol Records, 2008)
 * Y Not (Universal Music Enterprises, 2010)
 * Ringo 2012 (Universal Music Enterprises, 2012)
 * Postcards from Paradise (Universal Music Enterprises, 2015)
 * Give More Love (Universal Music Enterprises, 2017)
 * What's My Name (Universal Music Enterprises, 2019)

With Joss Stone
 * LP1 (Surfdog Records, 2011)
 * Never Forget My Love (Bay Street, 2022)

With Shania Twain
 * Queen of Me (Republic Records, 2023)

With The Wilsons
 * The Wilsons (Polygram Records, 1997)

With Robin Zander
 * Robin Zander (Interscope Records, 1993)

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Dave Stewart (musician, born 1950)

David Lloyd Stewart (born 30 December 1950) is an English keyboardist and composer known for his work with the progressive rock bands Uriel, Egg, Khan, Hatfield and the North, National Health, and Bruford. Stewart is the author of two books on music theory and wrote a music column for Keyboard magazine (USA) for thirteen years. He has also composed music for TV, film and radio, much of it for Victor Lewis-Smith's ARTV production company. He has worked with singer Barbara Gaskin since 1981.

History
Stewart was born in Waterloo, London. Having joined local covers band The Southsiders while still at school, Stewart's musical career began in earnest at the age of seventeen when he played organ in Uriel with Mont Campbell (bass, vocals), Steve Hillage (guitar, vocals) and Clive Brooks (drums). After a residency on the Isle of Wight in the summer of 1968, Hillage left the group to go to university. Uriel continued as a trio, later changed their name to Egg and subsequently recorded two albums for Decca. In 1969 Hillage briefly rejoined his former bandmates to record a one-off psychedelic album under the pseudonym Arzachel. In 1972 Stewart guested on Hillage's new band Khan's first album.

After the break-up of Egg in 1973, Stewart joined Hatfield and the North, described by author Jonathan Coe as "probably the best-loved of the so-called 'Canterbury' bands". (Coe's novel The Rotters' Club takes its title from the band's second album.) Hatfield broke up in 1975 and, after guesting with the Steve Hillage-led Gong on a few French gigs, Stewart founded National Health with fellow keyboardist Alan Gowen and ex-Hatfield guitarist Phil Miller. Finding a permanent drummer proved difficult; Bill Bruford played with the group for a few months and was eventually replaced by Pip Pyle, thereby reuniting three of the former Hatfield musicians. Stewart subsequently guested on Bill Bruford's debut solo album, Feels Good to Me (1977), before joining his band Bruford.

Having recorded three albums and played two successful US tours, the Bruford group was discontinued in 1980. Stewart immediately formed Rapid Eye Movement with his friends Pip Pyle (drums), Rick Biddulph (who had been a roadie and sound engineer for Hatfield and National Health) on bass and Jakko Jakszyk (guitar & vocals). The UK REM (not to be confused with the contemporaneous American band of the same name) was conceived primarily as a live band and never recorded an album, although poor-quality tapes of live concerts in France survive. Jakko recalls the band as being "a lot rougher than National Health, very structured but performed in a very anarchic way".

In 1981 Stewart changed musical direction and began experimenting with pop arrangements and songwriting. His first solo release, a heavy electronic reworking of Jimmy Ruffin's Motown soul classic "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted", featuring guest vocals by The Zombies' founder and vocalist Colin Blunstone, reached No. 13 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 34 in Australia. For a follow-up, Stewart recruited friend and former Hatfield backing vocalist Barbara Gaskin to record a version of the 1960s teen lament "It's My Party". Released in the autumn of 1981, the single reached No. 1 in Britain and Germany and topped the UK charts for four weeks. It also peaked at No.4 in Australia. Stewart and Gaskin have worked together ever since and have released seven albums. The duo occasionally play live gigs augmented by either Andy Reynolds (1990-2009) or Beren Matthews (2018 onwards) on guitar, and have performed in Tokyo (September 2001) and London (August 2018) as a quartet with Gavin Harrison on drums.

The keyboardist's side projects include reforming National Health in 1981 to produce a memorial album for keyboardist Alan Gowen, producing the hit single "Hole in My Shoe" and Neil's Heavy Concept Album for comedian Nigel Planer (well known for his hippie character in The Young Ones), and producing the first album by Bill Bruford's electro-jazz outfit Earthworks.

Stewart has also composed TV music – in the mid-1980s he wrote the new title theme to the revamped BBC music show The Old Grey Whistle Test and later wrote, produced, and performed much of the soundtrack to the TV drama series Lost Belongings, set in Northern Ireland. Since the 1990s, he has written music for TV programmes made by British production company Associated Rediffusion; these include the BBC series Inside Victor Lewis-Smith (1995), Ads Infinitum (BBC Two, 1999), and the 2003 documentary on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Alchemists of Sound. In recent years, he has written string and choir arrangements for a number of acts, including Anathema, Porcupine Tree, and Steven Wilson (See "Arranger" below).

Books

 * Introducing the Dots: Reading & Writing Music for Rock Musicians (1980, later revised and reissued as The Musician's Guide To Reading & Writing Music)
 * The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music (1st Edition, 1993, Backbeat Books, ISBN 0879302739)
 * The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music (2nd Edition, 1999, Miller Freeman Books, ISBN 0879305703)
 * Inside the Music: Guide to Composition (1999, Miller Freeman Books, ISBN 0879305711)
 * Copious Notes (Co-written with Antony Vinall & Mont Campbell) (2007, Egg Archive, memoir and recollection)

Band albums 1969–1980

 * Arzachel :
 * 1969 : Arzachel

 * Egg :
 * 1970 : Egg
 * 1971 : The Polite Force
 * 1974 : The Civil Surface

 * Khan :
 * 1972 : Space Shanty

 * Hatfield and the North :
 * 1974 : Hatfield and the North (Virgin)
 * 1975 : The Rotters' Club (Virgin)
 * 1980 : Afters (Virgin compilation, 1980)

 * National Health :
 * 1978 : National Health
 * 1978 : Of Queues and Cures
 * 1982 : D.S. Al Coda (Memorial album to Alan Gowen)

 * Bill Bruford :
 * 1978 : Feels Good to Me

 * Bruford :
 * 1979 : One of a Kind
 * 1980 : Gradually Going Tornado
 * 1980 : The Bruford Tapes (live album)
 * 2006 : Rock Goes To College (Broadcast 1979, DVD released 2006)

Band Archive CDs

 * National Health: Missing Pieces (1996)
 * Hatfield and the North: Hatwise Choice: Archive Recordings 1973—1975, Volume 1 (2005)
 * Hatfield and the North: Hattitude: Archive Recordings 1973—1975, Volume 2 (2006)
 * Uriel: Arzachel Collectors Edition (2007)
 * Egg: The Metronomical Society (2007)

Solo single

 * "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted", (Broken Records, 1981) (Colin Blunstone guest vocalist)

Singles / EPs with Barbara Gaskin

 * "It's My Party" (Broken, 1981)
 * "Johnny Rocco" (Broken, 1982)
 * "Siamese Cat Song" (Broken, 1983)
 * "Busy Doing Nothing" (Broken, 1983)
 * "Leipzig" (Broken, 1983)
 * "I'm in a Different World" (Broken, 1984)
 * "The Locomotion" (Broken, 1986)
 * "Walking the Dog" (Line (Germany) 1992)
 * Hour Moon (EP) (Broken, 2009)

Albums with Barbara Gaskin

 * Up from the Dark (compilation), Rykodisc (USA) RCD 10011 (1986)
 * Broken Records - The Singles, MIDI Records (Japan) (1987)
 * As Far as Dreams Can Go, MIDI Records (Japan) (1988)
 * The Big Idea, Rykodisc RCD 20172 / MIDI Records (1989)
 * Spin, Rykodisc RCD 20213 / MIDI Records (1991)
 * Green and Blue, Broken Records BRCDLP-05 (March 2009)
 * The TLG Collection, Broken Records BRCDLP-06 (October 2009)
 * Broken Records – The Singles (Special Edition), Broken Records BRCDLP-01 (November 2010)
 * As Far as Dreams Can Go (Special Edition), Broken Records BRCDLP-02 (November 2010)
 * The Big Idea (Special Edition), Broken Records BRCDLP-03 (December 2011)
 * Spin (Special Edition), Broken Records BRCDLP-04 (December 2011)
 * Star Clocks, Broken Records BRCDLP-07 (September 2018)

As producer

 * "How Beautiful You Are" (Peter Blegvad)
 * "Dangerous Dreams" (Jakko Jakszyk 7" single)
 * "Are My Ears on Wrong" (Jakko Jakszyk album track)
 * Neil's Heavy Concept Album, East West 4509-94852-2 (1984)
 * Earthworks (Bill Bruford, 1987)

As arranger

 * Fear of a Blank Planet, Porcupine Tree 2006 (strings*)
 * Schoolyard Ghosts, No-Man 2008 (strings*)
 * Insurgentes, Steven Wilson 2008 (strings*)
 * We're Here Because We're Here, Anathema 2010 (strings*)
 * Kompendium, Rob Reed (Magenta) 2011 (released 2012) (strings*)
 * Grace for Drowning, Steven Wilson 2011 (strings* & choir)
 * Falling Deeper, Anathema 2011 (strings*)
 * Storm Corrosion, Storm Corrosion 2012 (strings*)
 * Weather Systems, Anathema 2012 (strings*)
 * The Raven That Refused to Sing, Steven Wilson 2013 (strings*)
 * Universal (live film + album), Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Anathema 2013 (strings**)
 * Pale Communion, Opeth 2014 (strings*)
 * Distant Satellites, Anathema 2014 (strings*)
 * Hand. Cannot. Erase., Steven Wilson 2015 (strings* & choir)
 * To the Bone, Steven Wilson 2017 (strings* & choir)
 * In Cauda Venenum, Opeth 2019 (strings*)

(* Strings performed by the London Session Orchestra, produced by Dave Stewart.)

(** Strings performed by the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra.)

Other appearances

 * Fish Rising, Steve Hillage, 1975
 * Hopper Tunity Box, Hugh Hopper, 1977
 * Cutting Both Ways, Phil Miller, 1987
 * Surveillance, Walkie Talkies, 1980
 * Split Seconds, Phil Miller, 1989
 * Seven Year Itch, Pip Pyle, 1998
 * Robert Wyatt & Friends in Concert, 2005 (concert recorded in 1974)
 * The Bruised Romantic Glee Club, Jakko Jakszyk, 2006
 * Conspiracy Theories, Phil Miller, 2006
 * Cheating the Polygraph, Gavin Harrison, 2015
 * Too, Dizrythmia, 2016

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I'm not on here anymore. Gave up due to the hostility and newly totalitarian nature of the bureaucracy (i.e. the people who actually edit and enforce policies, as opposed to constructively creating an encyclopedia).

There was a time when Wikipedia was a democratic project where anyone can contribute. It's clear these days that Wikipedia is primarily a closed country club where contributions are still officially welcomed from outsiders but unofficially swatted away. I hope someday it will be reformed.

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Barwon River

Barwon River may refer to:
 * Barwon River (New South Wales), Australia
 * Barwon River (Victoria), Australia

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Theognostus of Kiev

Theognostus (Феогност, Feognost; died 11 March 1353) was a bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople who served as Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'.

Life
Theognostus was born in Constantinople and later in his life became Peter's successor as Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus'. He chose Moscow as his primary seat after he had lived for several years in Volodymyr in Volynia.

It was his lot to reconcile Novgorod with the Grand Duchy of Moscow in times of their mutual animosity. Theognostus managed to save all of the Russian churches' valuables and gave up all his personal property after he had refused to collect tribute from the churches in favor of the Golden Horde. He was tortured by the Tatars for such audacity. It was the Khan who finally gave up and confirmed the existing privileges of the Russian Orthodox Church. After a fire swept through Moscow, Theognostus started to restore the churches.

In 1353, feeling that his days were numbered, Theognostus recommended Alexius (Bishop of Vladimir) his successor. Theognostus was buried in the Cathedral of the Dormition in Moscow. He was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in the 19th century.

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