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Marissa Nadler

Marissa Nadler (born April 5, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter. Active since 2000, she is currently signed to Sacred Bones Records and Bella Union, and released her ninth full-length studio album, The Path of the Clouds, in October 2021. Her music has been characterized as blending "traditional folk, Gothic Americana, and dreamy pop into an original musical framework". Her music "is rooted in old-school country and folk but brings in elements of experimental and black metal". Sometimes the term "dream folk" has been invoked to describe her work.

Singing in a mezzo-soprano, Nadler has received acclaim for her vocals. Her voice was described by Pitchfork as one "you would follow straight into Hades", and also "textured and angelic, with just a hint of pain captured within her iridescent falsetto". The Boston Globe said, "She has a voice that, in mythological times, could have lured men to their deaths at sea, an intoxicating soprano drenched in gauzy reverb that hits bell-clear heights, lingers, and tapers off like rings of smoke".

Early life
Marissa Nadler was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Needham, Massachusetts. She was raised Jewish. As a teenager, she taught herself to play guitar in a style similar to fingerpicking, playing a steady bass pattern with the thumb and filling out syncopated rhythms with the index finger. It was described as having an "unorthodox, dusky sound". Also while in her teens, she began to write songs as a hobby. She studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in illustration in 2003, and a master's degree in art education a year later. During her studies, she began to perform at open mic events around Providence. While exploring artistic techniques such as illustration, painting, bookbinding, wood carving and encaustic painting, she also honed her songwriting craft. She subsequently recorded an album titled Autumn Rose (2002) as well as the four-track EP Somber Ghost Recordings (2003), neither of which have ever been released. Nadler also contributed to the Pearl Before Swine tribute album For the Dead in Space - Volumes II & III in 2003.

2004–2010: First releases
Nadler released her first official album, Ballads of Living and Dying, on Eclipse Records in January 2004. The follow-up The Saga of Mayflower May was released in July 2005. Both records were distributed in the United States by Eclipse, and by the UK label Beautiful Happiness in Europe.

Nadler went on some of her first tours with acts such as the late American primitive guitarist Jack Rose and the drone metal band Earth.

Nadler released her third studio album, Songs III: Bird on the Water, on Peacefrog Records in Europe on March 12, 2007. The album was recorded and produced by Greg Weeks of the band Espers in Philadelphia and was subsequently released in the US and Canada on August 12, 2007, by Kemado Records. It was nominated for two PLUG Independent Music Awards in 2008: "Best Female Artist of the Year" and "Best Americana Record of the Year". Nadler also won "Outstanding Singer-Songwriter of the Year" at the 2008 Boston Music Awards, with three nominations altogether.

Her fourth full-length album, Little Hells, produced by Chris Coady, was released on March 3, 2009 and received praise from many critics. including 4-star reviews from magazines such as Mojo, Rolling Stone in France and Germany, Uncut, and Q. It received an 8.3 from Pitchfork. The album departed from the earlier folk-based template with the introduction of electronic elements. In early 2010, Nadler contributed vocals on Portal of Sorrow, the final album by black metal project Xasthur.

2011–2012: Marissa Nadler and The Sister
On June 14, 2011, an eponymous record was released worldwide on Nadler's own label, Box of Cedar Records. The song "Baby, I Will Leave You in the Morning" was released as a free download on March 8, followed by a subsequent music video. The album was positively received by Pitchfork, which gave it 8.1 out of 10, and it was called "a stellar collection of sullen melodies and lovelorn anecdotes akin to those of Joni Mitchell".

On May 29, 2012, she released The Sister, a short eight-song "companion" album to Marissa Nadler. The album was dubbed by Paste as an "impressive concoction of stark minimalism".

In November 2012, Nadler collaborated with Angel Olsen on two cover songs that were shared on Nadler's SoundCloud page: the Richard and Linda Thompson song "My Dreams Have Withered and Died" and the Mickey Newbury song "Frisco Depot".

2013–2014: Sacred Bones Records and July
In 2013, she signed to Brooklyn-based Sacred Bones Records. Her album July was released by the label on February 4, 2014 and on February 10 by Bella Union in the UK. It was recorded at Seattle's Avast Studios, and produced by collaborator Randall Dunn. The first single from the album, "Dead City Emily", was released in November 2013 and positively received by Stereogum as an "ethereal spine-tingler" and by BrooklynVegan as "a track as haunting and delicate as any of her best tracks to date". July debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard Folk Albums chart and No. 14 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers albums chart.

July received positive feedback from music critics. At Metacritic, it received "universal acclaim" with a score of 83 out of 100. A majority of music publications gave July 4 out of 5 stars, among them NME, Drowned in Sound, Blurt and PopMatters, In a positive review, PopMatters called the album a "triumph" and "one of 2014's best albums so far", while Spin called it a "masterfully composed release". Vice Media's Noisey website discussed the atmosphere of the album, writing that "the darkly lit July is a moody trip through heat spells and night drives... Nadler's quiet songwriting and ethereal sound give July a sound that's, at times, almost sinister". Steven Rosen of Blurt wrote that Nadler managed to achieve an "almost-hallucinatory effect out of her singing, often multi-tracking the voice to create a ghostly pillowing effect".

In July 2014, Nadler collaborated with Father John Misty, releasing a split 7-inch on Bella Union. Father John Misty covered Nadler's "Drive", while Nadler covered "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings".

2015–2016: Strangers
The album Strangers, recorded with producer Dunn in 2015, was released on May 20, 2016, on Sacred Bones and Bella Union. A limited edition version with original artwork included a pre-release cassette of Bury Your Name. The album release was accompanied by an extensive tour of North America and Europe. In late 2016, Nadler joined Ghost for the US tour.

Strangers holds a score of 76 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews". The album was listed on several lists of 2016's best albums to date, including Spin, Newsweek, Uncut and The Quietus. Spin also listed "Janie in Love" as one of the best songs of 2016 so far.

During this period, Nadler directed and animated music videos for Strangers tracks "Janie in Love" and "All the Colors of the Dark", as well as "Blood and Tears", a Danzig cover she had self-released as a digital-only single for Halloween 2015. In late September 2016, a video for the Strangers song "Dissolve", featuring both animation and live performance, was released on Pitchfork.tv.

2017–2018: Leave the Light On: Bedroom Recordings and For My Crimes
After touring Europe and North America promoting Strangers, Nadler guested on the Lawrence Rothman album The Book of Law (2017), and on Ojalá (2017), the debut album by Lost Horizons, a duo consisting of Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) and Richie Thomas (Dif Juz, the Jesus and Mary Chain). On September 15, 2017, Sacred Bones released Nadler's first compilation album, Leave the Light On: Bedroom Recordings, a collection of home recordings and demos dating back to 2014. She also self-released two covers albums on Bandcamp for free download.

Nadler's eighth studio album, For My Crimes, was released by Sacred Bones on September 28, 2018. Rolling Stone wrote that, in contrast to the 2014 break-up album July, For My Crimes, "seems to touch instead on the daily realities of making a relationship work, the epilogue to a happily-ever-after love story when real life kicks in". It was her first album cover to feature her fine art, an untitled painting. The album included guest vocals by Olsen, Sharon Van Etten and Kristin Kontrol. The album's first video, "Blue Vapor", was directed by Thomas McMahan, who "utilizes various experimental and mixed media animation techniques, merging the mood and imagery of the song with hallucinatory visuals..." Nadler's wardrobe in the video for "Blue Vapor" was created and put together by New York-based costume designer and stylist Jenni Hensler, who also styled Nadler's Pitchfork.tv performance clip for the song "Dissolve." For My Crimes was relatively well-received by critics and fans.

2019-2020: "Poison" / "If We Make It Through The Summer" and Droneflower
On February 21, 2019, Nadler released a collaborative track with John Cale called "Poison". On the same day she shared another song called "If We Make It Through The Summer". Her collaborative album with Stephen Brodsky, Droneflower was released on April 26, 2019. The album received positive reviews, earning a 8/10 score from Soundblab, 8/10 from PopMatters, 7/10 from Atwood Magazine, 7/10 from Earbuddy, 3.5/5 from The Thin Air and a 4.5/5 from Cryptic Rock. The music website Everythingisnoise remarked, "this mind meld between Nadler and Brodsky is unexpectedly brilliant." and SLUG Magazine called the collaboration a "cosmic collision" in a favorable review. Droneflower was performed at three East Coast shows in June 2019, together with the release of a claymation video of "For the Sun." On December 6, 2019, Nadler and Brodsky released two cover songs on Bandcamp that were not included on the Droneflower album: "In the air tonight" by Phil Collins and "More than words" by Extreme. Nadler's figurative and sonic work again converged at the Grauzone Festival in The Hague in February 2020 with a stage performance and simultaneous exhibition of self-portrait paintings. In addition, 2020 saw the publication two limited-edition books of photography, a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Old Friends/Bookends" and two albums of previously unreleased songs and demo versions, Unearthed  and Covers 3. 3 July 2020 saw the release of the EP moons which has a meditative, ambient atmosphere.

2021: Instead of Dreaming and The Path of the Clouds
In February 2021, she released the single "Sleepwalk & Lonely People", and in May 2021 the compilation album Instead of Dreaming. Nadler released her ninth solo album, The Path of the Clouds on October 29, 2021. Like others, the album found its origins in the Covid-19 pandemic: "Gripped by wanderlust while suddenly housebound at the start of the pandemic in 2020, Nadler escaped into writing, and came back with a stunning set of songs about metamorphosis, love, mysticism, and murder." A review from the magazine UNCUT notes that, "[e]scape is a central theme of the album, and several songs recall historical cases of mysterious disappearances, but infused with personal experience, blurring the line between fact and fiction." This self-produced album contains the most sonically elaborate work of her discography. Various guests make an appearance on The Path of the Clouds including harpist Mary Lattimore and former Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde. Emma Ruth Rundle contributes a guitar solo to "Turned into Air" and Amber Webber of Black Mountain provides backing vocals on "Elegy". Milky Burgess played various instruments throughout the album.

The Path of the Clouds has received critical acclaim. NME gave the album a positive review, writing, "This is a departure for Nadler in a number of ways, with more sophisticated production, unusual storytelling, and a firm look ahead to her future as an artist (more piano, more power vocally)." Pitchfork awarded the album a score of 7.5, comparing the album favourably to the true crime genre that inspired it: "The thrills of The Path of the Clouds are far richer than most true crime fiction, but like the best examples of the genre, it leaves you breathless." The album received four stars from  8/10 from UNCUT, MusicOMH, Rock n Reel, MOJO, and Record Collector. Other reviewers were even more positive, with All Music Guide (4 ½ stars) praising the "epic, aching songs, which refuse to keep tragedy at arm's length" and Sputnikmusic (superb: 4.5) noting that it "sounds so lush, sweeping, and powerful that all the subtle, intricate melodies are merely the cherry on top." In its five-star "essential" review, Contact Music called the album "exquisitely crafted and utterly beguiling" and recommended that, "The Path of the Clouds … should be listened to, uninterrupted, in its entirety."

Personal life
Nadler currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She has been open about past struggles with anxiety, depression, and stage fright.

Self-released albums

 * Four-Track Recordings, Outtakes (2005)
 * Ivy and the Clovers (2007)
 * Little Hells: Acoustic Demos (2010)
 * Various Covers Over the Years (2010)
 * Covers Volume II (2011)
 * S/T Demos (2012)
 * Covers (2017)
 * Covers 2 (2018)
 * Unearthed (2020)
 * Covers 3 (2020)
 * moons (2020)

Compilation albums

 * Leave the Light On: Bedroom Recordings (2017, Sacred Bones Records)

EPs

 * The Sister (2012, Box of Cedar Records)
 * Before July: Demos and Unreleased Songs (2014, Box of Cedar Records)
 * Bury Your Name (2016, Sacred Bones Records/Bella Union)
 * The Wrath of the Clouds (2022, Sacred Bones Records)

Singles

 * "Diamond Heart"/"Leather Made Shoes" 7-inch (2006, My Kung Fu)
 * "Diamond Heart"/"Dying Breed" 7-inch (2007, Peacefrog Records)
 * "River of Dirt" CD (2009, Kemado Records)
 * "Dead City Emily" digital-only (2013, Sacred Bones Records)
 * "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings"/"Drive" 7-inch (2014, Bella Union) (split single with Father John Misty)
 * "Solitude" (Black Sabbath cover ) digital-only (2015, self-released)
 * "Blood and Tears" (Danzig cover ) digital-only (2015, self-released)
 * "Janie in Love" digital-only (2016, Sacred Bones Records)
 * "All the Colors of the Dark" digital-only (2016, Sacred Bones Records)
 * "Poison"/"If We Make It Through the Summer" (2019, KRO Records) (with John Cale)

Guest appearances

 * Xasthur - Portal of Sorrow (2010, Hydra Head Records)
 * Sailors with Wax Wings - "Strange That I Should Have Grown So Suddenly Blind" on Sailors with Wax Wings (2010, Angel Oven Records)
 * Cloud Seeding - "Unquestioning" on Ink Jar (2011, Bleek Records)
 * Carter Tanton - "Fake Pretend" on Free Clouds (2011, Western Vinyl)
 * Hallelujah the Hills - No One Knows What Happens Next (2012, Discrete Pageantry Records)
 * Case Studies - "Villain" on This Is Another Life (2013, Sacred Bones Records)
 * Emily Jane White - "Dandelion Daze" and "Faster than the Devil" on Blood / Lines (2013, Talitres Records)
 * Carter Tanton - "Jettison the Valley" on Jettison the Valley (2016, Western Vinyl)
 * Ben Watt - "New Year of Grace" on Fever Dream (2016, Unmade Road)
 * Lushlife + CSLSX - "Integration Loop" on Ritualize (2016, Western Vinyl)
 * Okkervil River - Away (2016, ATO Records)
 * Lost Horizons - "Winter's Approaching" and "I Saw the Days Go By" on Ojalá (2017, Bella Union)
 * Lawrence Rothman - "Ain't Afraid Of Dying" on The Book of Law (2017, Downtown Records/Interscope Records)
 * Mercury Rev - "Refractions" on Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited (2019, Partisan Records)
 * Slow Dials - "To Be Back Home" (2021, Bandcamp release)
 * Lost Horizons - "Marie" on In Quiet Moments (2021, Bella Union)
 * Kronos Quartet and Ghost Train Orchestra "High on a Rocky Ledge" on Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (2023, Cantaloupe Music)

Compilation appearances
The following is an incomplete list of compilation albums that include tracks by Nadler.
 * "Ballad to an Amber Lady" (Pearls Before Swine cover) on For the Dead in Space – Volumes II & III (2003, Secret Eye Records)
 * "Ms John Lee" on New Skin for the Old Ceremony: The Polyamory Nine Year Anniversary Compilation (2005, Polyamory)
 * "Your Dreary Days Are Dead" on Talitres Is 5 (2006, Talitres Records)
 * "Judgement Day" on Not Alone (2006, Durtro/Jnana Records)
 * "Clowne Towne" (Xiu Xiu cover) on Remixed & Covered (2007, 5 Rue Christine)
 * "No Surprises" (Radiohead cover) on Reprises Inrocks (2008, Les Inrockuptibles)
 * "Lonesome" on Brainwaves 2008 (2008, Brainwashed Recordings)
 * "The Kiss" (Judee Sill cover) on Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill (2009, American Dust)
 * "All My Trials" on Beautiful Star: The Songs of Odetta (2009, Wears the Trousers Records)
 * "Famous Blue Raincoat" (Leonard Cohen cover) on Cohen Revisited (A Tribute to Leonard Cohen) (2009, Les Inrockuptibles)
 * "Daisy, Where Did You Go?" on Yuletide (2010, Disco Naïveté)
 * "Dead Birds in Arkansas" on Music & Migration II (2011, Second Language)
 * "The Killing Moon" (Echo and the Bunnymen cover) on Free Music Impulse (2011, Hybryda)
 * "You've Got It All Wrong" on For Tom Carter (2013, Deserted Village)
 * "Half as Much" on  You Be My Heart  (2013, Devon Reed)
 * "It's Easier Now" (Jason Molina cover) on Through The Static and Distance: The Songs of Jason Molina (2015, Burst & Bloom)
 * "The Kindness of Strangers" on Todo Muere Volume 4 (2016, Sacred Bones)
 * "So Long And Far Away" (Karen Dalton cover) on Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton (2016, Tompkins Square)
 * "Solitude" (Black Sabbath cover) on Todo Muere Volume 5 (2016, Sacred Bones)
 * "Carnival" on One Hundred Thousand Voices (2016, Active Minds, Inc.)
 * "Absolutely Sweet Marie" (Bob Dylan cover) on Blonde on Blonde Revisited (2016, Mojo)
 * "Rosemary" on Our First 100 Days (2017, Our First 100 Days)
 * "Cold Wind Blowin'" ( David Lynch cover) on Todo Muere SBXV (2022, Sacred Bones)
 * "What Remains" on The Spine of Night OST (2022, Yuggoth Records)
 * "Quicksilver Daydreams of Maria," "Sad Cinderella" and "None but the Rain" on Songs of Townes Van Zandt Vol III (2022, Neurot Recordings)
 * "Fell on Black Days" ( Soundgarden cover) on Superunknown (Redux) (2023, Magnetic Eye Records)

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George Armstrong (footballer)

George "Geordie" Armstrong (9 August 1944 – 1 November 2000) was an English football player and coach, who was mostly associated with Arsenal. A winger, Armstrong made his Arsenal debut in 1962 at the age of 17 and went on to make 621 appearances – which was then an all-time club record – before he left Highbury in 1977. He spent a season each with Leicester City and Stockport County, and then took up coaching, both domestically and abroad. After a year as Kuwait national team manager, Armstrong returned to Arsenal as reserve-team coach in 1990, a post which he held for the remaining ten years of his life.

Playing career
Armstrong was born in Kipling Avenue, Hebburn, County Durham. After leaving school he took up an apprenticeship as an electrician, at Hawthorne Leslie and played works football with his older brothers. He had an unsuccessful trial with Grimsby Town, and was on the books of Newcastle United as an amateur. The Newcastle United coaching staff fell out with Armstrong following a mix up which resulted in Armstrong missing one game, consequentially as a result of the fall out, the stubborn Newcastle staff would rarely pick him. He signed for Arsenal early in the 1961–62 season.

Armstrong arrived at Highbury as an inside forward but was soon switched to the wing. He made his senior debut while still only 17, against Blackpool on 24 February 1962 in a match that Arsenal won 1–0. Although he started out as understudy to Johnny MacLeod and Alan Skirton, by the 1963–64 season he had become a regular in the side, and in 1964–65 he missed only two matches.

Over time Armstrong became one of Arsenal's most consistent players, who was noted for the quality and accuracy of his crossing and corner kicks, as well as for his tireless running along the wing. He primarily played on the left, but was also effective on the right. Signed by George Swindin but maturing under Billy Wright's management, he was one of several players from the Wright era such as Jon Sammels and Peter Storey who became an integral part of successor Bertie Mee's Arsenal side.

After losing two successive League Cup finals, in 1967–68 and 1968–69, Armstrong was instrumental in the Gunners winning the 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, and was voted Arsenal's Player of the Year for 1970. He played in every match the following season as Arsenal completed the League and FA Cup double, and according to the club's website, "it was estimated that [he] had a hand in more than half of the goals scored in the Double season". These included Ray Kennedy's winning header in the last match of the season, against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane, that won Arsenal the League title.

Armstrong remained with the club through the 1970s, as Arsenal failed to win any further trophies after their Double win; he played at least thirty matches in each season he was at the club during that decade. However, after falling out with Mee's successor, Terry Neill, he moved to Leicester City in September 1977 for £15,000. He played only 14 League matches in his single season with the Foxes, and finished his career in England with Stockport County. In 1980-81 he was the player-manager for Mjølner, Norway, playing his last match against Bodø/Glimt on 5 July 1981.

Having spent fifteen full seasons at Arsenal, most of them as an ever-present, Armstrong set an all-time club record for appearances – 621 competitive first-team appearances, which included exactly 500 in the league; his record has since been overtaken only by David O'Leary and Tony Adams. He also scored 68 goals for Arsenal. His profile on the club's website suggests he was "one of the most accomplished players never to have won a full cap" for England, despite being capped at youth level and five times for the under-23 team; this was attributed to England manager Alf Ramsey's policy of not using wingers.

Coaching career
After retiring as a player, Armstrong moved into coaching, and worked for clubs including Fulham, Aston Villa, Middlesbrough and Queens Park Rangers. He managed Enderby Town and Norwegian club FK Mjølner, and managed the Kuwaiti national team between 1988 and 1989. In 1990, before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, he returned to England, where he rejoined Arsenal as reserve team coach, a post which he retained for the rest of his life, despite the club's many managerial upheavals. During his time coaching at Arsenal Armstrong was responsible for bringing many young players through the ranks, including Steve Morrow, Ray Parlour and Paul Dickov.

Death
On 31 October 2000, Armstrong collapsed after a brain haemorrhage while taking a training session. He died in Hemel Hempstead Hospital during the early hours of the following morning. He was survived by his wife, Marjorie, and their two children, Jill and Tom. A pitch at Arsenal's London Colney training ground has been named in his memory.

In 2022 it was announced that his medals and awards, given to him throughout his career, would be sold at auction in April, 2022. Memorabilia items were also auctioned in 2022.

Honours
Arsenal
 * Football League First Division: 1970–71
 * FA Cup: 1970–71; runner-up: 1971–72
 * Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1969–70
 * Football League Cup runner-up: 1967–68, 1968–69

Individual
 * Arsenal Player of the Season: 1970

title: George Armstrong (footballer)


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Nasty Suicide

Nasty Suicide (born Jan-Markus Stenfors on 27 February 1963) is a Finnish musician. He is most famous for being one of the founding members of Hanoi Rocks, the group's rhythm guitarist between 1979 and 1985. Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band that combined elements of punk, glam rock, rock and roll, and blues. Before his tenure in Hanoi Rocks, Suicide played guitar in a Finnish punk band called Briard in the late 1970s. Suicide replaced Andy McCoy in Briard after McCoy joined Pelle Miljoona Oy.

After the breakup of Hanoi Rocks in 1985, he and his former bandmate Andy McCoy recorded an acoustic album under the name The Suicide Twins which was released in 1986 and was titled Silver Missiles and Nightingales. At the same time McCoy and Suicide started The Cherry Bombz, which included Timo Caltio on bass (later replaced by Dave Tregunna), Terry Chimes on drums and singer Anita Chellemah. The Cherry Bombz released two EPs: The Cherry Bombz (1985) and House Of Ecstasy (1986) as well as a live album, Coming Down Slow (1986).

In 1988 Suicide made a short appearance in Guns N' Roses' music video for "Paradise City".Nasty Suicide also appears on Michael Monroe's second solo album Not Fakin' It, released in 1989, as a co-writer and guitarist. Nasty went on to form his own band Cheap and Nasty, which was active from 1990 to 1994. They released two albums, Beautiful Disaster (1991) and Cool Talk Injection (1994).

Suicide was also a member of Monroe's band Demolition 23 in the early nineties, in which he replaced original guitarist Jay Hening. After the breakup of Demolition 23, Suicide recorded an album under his given name, titled Vinegar Blood, in 1996; it was released in Finland only.

Suicide retired from the rock scene in the mid-1990s and moved back to Finland (which was the reason why Demolition 23 broke up), where he finally finished his studies in high school. After graduating from high school, he educated himself as a pharmacist and currently works in a drug company in Finland. Suicide made a few guest appearances with the reformed Hanoi Rocks in the 2000s.

In 2010, Suicide also played a show with Michael Monroe in August 2010 at Ankkarock Festival, replacing Steve Conte who had to cancel due to family reasons. Since then, he has made some guest appearances with Monroe's band.

In 2022 Nasty returned back to music and formed the 7-piece Stenfors band. They played their debut invite-only show in the spring at On the Rocks in Helsinki and released their debut album  'Family Album' in June.

title: Nasty Suicide


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The Long Game

"The Long Game" is the seventh episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who that was first broadcast on 7 May 2005 on BBC One. It was written by executive producer Russell T Davies and directed by Brian Grant.

In the episode, the alien time traveller the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), having been joined by near-future genius Adam Mitchell (Bruno Langley), land on Satellite 5 in the year 200,000. Satellite 5 is a space station that broadcasts news across the entire human empire. However, the Doctor notices that the station is suspicious: there are no aliens, and those who are promoted to Floor 500 seem to disappear. The Doctor and Rose discover that the Editor (Simon Pegg) and an alien are controlling the rest of humanity by way of the press. Meanwhile, Adam makes a mistake that forces the Doctor and Rose to take him home.

The concept of "The Long Game" was originally submitted by Davies to the Doctor Who script office in the 1980s. Davies had also been interested in doing a storyline about a failed companion. In addition, critics have pointed out that the story is a satire on the media. Production for the episode took place in Newport in November and December 2004 and in Coryton, Cardiff in December. "The Long Game" was watched by 8.01 million viewers in the UK and received generally mixed reviews from critics.

Plot
The Ninth Doctor, Rose, and Adam arrive on Satellite 5, a space station orbiting Earth in the year 200,000. The Doctor gets Adam and Rose some credits to buy food while he looks around the station. The Doctor meets a woman named Cathica, a reporter who tells him that the station is a giant broadcast tower transmitting news across Earth. Cathica leads them to a room where she sits down in a chair located in the centre of a round table. The reporters are connected to the computer via a special port installed directly into the brain. The Doctor believes there is a malevolent purpose to the station that is holding back human development. He learns from Cathica that a select few are invited to Floor 500, which is believed to be the highest promotion that can be earned on the station.

The Doctor, with Rose, hacks into the computer systems of the station and is detected by the Editor. The Editor allows the Doctor and Rose to travel to Floor 500, with Cathica following soon after. On Floor 500 the Doctor and Rose find the Editor directing control over the station through a number of dead humans. On the ceiling resides the Editor-in-Chief, the Jagrafess, to whom the Editor answers. The Doctor learns that the Jagrafess controls the lives of the people on the planet below by manipulating the news.

Meanwhile, Adam discovers that he can gain access to information about Earth's future. He has an information port installed in his brain and uses Rose's phone to call his answering machine at home and transfer data to it. The port also allows the Jagrafess into Adam's mind. The Jagrafess learns about the Doctor and makes plans to kill him. The Doctor, aware of Cathica's presence outside the room, loudly comments on how altering the environmental systems will likely kill the Jagrafess. Cathica reverses the cooling system, causing Floor 500 to overheat, killing the Jagrafess and the Editor. As the humans on board the station and on Earth come to wake from the stupor they have been in, the Doctor congratulates Cathica and gives her hope for the future. The Doctor discovers Adam's duplicity and takes him to his home on Earth. The Doctor destroys Adam's answering machine and tells Adam he is no longer welcome in the TARDIS. The Doctor leaves with Rose, just as Adam's mother arrives at home; she accidentally activates his port.

Production
In the book The Shooting Scripts, Russell T Davies claims that he had originally set out to write this episode from Adam's perspective, watching the adventure unfolding from his point of view (exactly as Rose did in "Rose") and seeing both the Doctor and Rose as enigmatic, frightening characters. He even gave this outline a working title: "Adam". Another working title for this story was "The Companion Who Couldn't". According to Davies, the concept of "The Long Game" was originally written in the early 1980s and submitted to the Doctor Who production office. Whether it was ever read by the production team of the time is unclear, as Davies received a rejection from the BBC Script Unit, who advised him to write more realistic television about "a man and his mortgage" instead. Davies reworked the story for the new series.

In the DVD commentary for this episode, director Brian Grant and actor Bruno Langley refer to an additional motivation for Adam's actions. Apparently, in earlier drafts of the script, Adam's father suffered from a disease that was incurable in his time (2012) and he hoped to learn about a cure which had been discovered between that year and 200,000. In the shooting script, the condition is arthritis. No trace of this motivation remains in the finished programme, although Grant discusses it as if it were still present. Langley and Grant also reveal that the "frozen vomit" that Adam spits out in one scene was in fact a "kiwi and orange ice cube".

Simon Pegg had grown up with Doctor Who and considered it a "great honour" to guest star. He was pleased at being cast as a bad guy. Pegg had previously played Don Chaney in the Eighth Doctor audio play Invaders from Mars. When the Editor announces the Jagrafess's name to the Doctor and Rose, he pronounces it as "The Mighty Jagrafress of the Holy Hadrajassic Maxaraddenfoe." Pegg has stated during interviews that he found this an extremely difficult line to say. Voice artist Nicholas Briggs had recorded voice work for the Jagrafess, but his contribution was not used because it sounded too similar to the Nestene Consciousness (which Briggs had voiced in "Rose"). "The Long Game" was produced singularly in the series' fourth production block. Filming in the studio took place at the Unit Q2 warehouse in Newport from 30 November to 3 December, on 7 December, and from 10 to 15 December 2004. The spike room set (used for Floors 139 and 500), the control room set, and the suburban house set were recorded at the former BT building in Coryton, Cardiff on 6, 8, and 9 December. The house set was later rebuilt for recording in the Newport warehouse on 15 December. The Jagrafress was entirely made of computer-generated imagery animated by The Mill. It was given a shark-like design, with the intention that it would "snap out" like a shark. The initial design was also described as a "lump of meat on the ceiling".

Broadcast and reception
"The Long Game" was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 7 May 2005. Overnight ratings showed that the episode had been watched by 7.51 million viewers live, a 38.9% audience share. It received a final rating of 8.01 million viewers in the UK, the sixth highest-rated broadcast on BBC One for the week. The episode received an Audience Appreciation Index score of 81. "The Long Game" was released on DVD in Region 2 alongside the following episodes "Father's Day", "The Empty Child", and "The Doctor Dances" on 1 August 2005. It was then re-released as part of the first series boxset on 21 November 2005.

The episode received generally mixed reviews. SFX described it as an "okay" episode that was reminiscent of the earlier episode "The End of the World." Despite praising Pegg, the theme of "media control," and the Jagrafess, they criticised it for "[failing] to capture the imagination" because there was "no real palpable sense of threat" and that human culture looked identical to modern day. Rupert Smith of The Guardian wrote, "Anything that satirises the profession of journalism is all right with me, but this did it with style." Arnold T Blumburg of Now Playing gave "The Long Game" a grade of B−, describing it as "entertaining" and a welcome throwback to the classic series. However, he questioned the developing tradition of the Doctor not being the hero of the episode and noted that there were some dangling threads. Reviewing the episode in 2013, Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times was more positive, writing that it "acts brilliantly as a satire of the media." He also praised the guest cast and characters and Adam's departure. In 2011, Den of Geek's Mark Harrison wrote that "In retrospect, 'The Long Game' is an underrated and perfectly enjoyable mid-series episode," praising Adam's departure.

Reviewing "The Long Game" for The A.V. Club in 2013, Alasdair Wilkins gave it a grade of "B−". He found it "inessential" and commented that it was not very clear on the motives of the Editor and Jagrafess, but Pegg's performance was almost enough to make up for it. Overall he felt that the story "presents a few too many simple ideas, with the cumulative effect that this is a story that feels slight at best, underdeveloped at worst. The episode is hardly a failure, but it could have been so much more." In Who Is the Doctor, a guide to the revived series, Graeme Burk described the episode as "entertaining, if unspectacular." He called Pegg the best guest star so far, and stated that Langley did a "superb job" at conveying Adam, but he felt that the episode did not have much else beside the failed companion storyline. Burk criticised the satire for not being subtle enough and borrowing from other stories such as Nineteen Eighty-Four. He also remarked that it was a shame Adam's motives were cut, as well as development between Rose and Adam. Burk's coauthor Robert Smith? [sic] [the "?" is part of his pen name] was more positive, opining that a satire did not have to be subtle to be effective, and that viewers could still relate it to the news media today. He also praised the way "The Long Game" showed the Ninth Doctor as an "inspirational figure." The two also questioned the decision to leave Adam in the 21st century with future technology.

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Regional Parks Botanic Garden

The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a 10-acre (4 hectare) botanical garden located in Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills, east of Berkeley, California, in the United States. It showcases California native plants, and is open to the public. The garden was founded on January 1, 1940.

Specimens
Notable specimens include nearly all the state's conifers and oaks, a very good collection of wild lilacs (Ceanothus species), perhaps the most complete collection of California manzanitas anywhere, expanding collections of Californian native bunchgrasses and aquatics, and representatives of some 300 rare and endangered vascular taxa of California. The garden is organized into sections, each representing a distinctive natural area in California:

 * Southern California
 * Shasta-Klamath
 * Valley-Foothill
 * Santa Lucia
 * Channel Islands
 * Sierran
 * Redwood
 * Sea Bluff
 * Pacific Rain Forest
 * Franciscan

with subsections:

 * Antioch Dunes
 * Coastal Dunes
 * Pond

Collected plants include:

 * silktassels
 * manzanitas
 * osoberry
 * currants
 * barberries
 * Dutchman's pipe
 * fuchsia-flowered gooseberry
 * milkmaids
 * western leatherwood
 * scoliopus
 * redbud
 * California poppy
 * trilliums
 * shooting stars
 * wallflowers
 * fritillarias
 * fawn lilies
 * rock cress
 * pussy willows
 * California rose-bay or rhododendron
 * woolly blue curls
 * ninebark
 * mountain spiraea
 * summer holly
 * ceanothus
 * Chinese houses
 * irises
 * styrax
 * blazing star
 * monkeyflowers
 * fremontias
 * carpenteria
 * tidy tips
 * bush poppies
 * brodiaeas
 * mariposa tulips
 * cacti
 * clarkias
 * mock orange
 * western azalea
 * matilija poppy
 * fireweed
 * ocean spray
 * sweet shrub
 * columbines
 * penstemons
 * scarlet mimulus
 * buckwheats
 * evening primroses
 * gums
 * larkspur
 * lupines
 * California fuchsias
 * tarweeds
 * hibiscus
 * helianthus
 * snowberries
 * madrone
 * cottonwoods
 * deciduous oaks
 * dogwoods
 * hawthorn
 * willows
 * vine maple

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Talk:Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton

Factual Dispute
Maybe not so much a factual dispute, but an apparent contradiction between two articles. This article asserts that Henry Boyle was the first and last Baron Carleton. However, if you go to Baron Carleton, you get redirected to Earl of Shannon, which asserts that "Baron Carleton" is a subsidiary title of the EoS. Perhaps the title was revived and given to the Shannons? If so, this needs to be cleared up. It also implies that Baron Carleton should not be a redirect page. ---Isaac R 23:00, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, this should be clarified. I'll do it at some point. john k 23:11, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. Geniuk.org.uk names Richard Boyle as the 2nd baron Carleton. He is also the 2nd Earl of Shannon. This is referenced in other sources.

 * Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon, is not the same person as this guy. He's presumably a nephew or some such, and the title was recreated for him. john k 12:47, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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Nicholas Mosley

Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale, (25 June 1923 – 28 February 2017), was a British peer, novelist and biographer, including that of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists.

Life
Mosley was born in London in 1923. He was the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, a British politician, and his first wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, a daughter of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (a Viceroy of India and at the time of Mosley's birth Foreign Secretary). In 1932 his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, founded the British Union of Fascists and became an open supporter of Benito Mussolini. The following year, when he was only nine, Mosley's mother, Lady Cynthia, died, and in 1936 Diana Mitford, one of the Mitford sisters, who was already his father's lover, became his stepmother.

As a young boy, Mosley began to stammer, and he attended weekly sessions with the speech therapist Lionel Logue to help him manage it. He later said that his father claimed never really to have noticed this stammer, but still, he may, as a result of it, have been less aggressive when speaking to him than towards other people. Mosley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1940, his father was interned because of his campaigning against the war with Germany. The younger Mosley was soon commissioned into the Rifle Brigade and saw active service in Italy, winning the Military Cross in 1945.

Following the war he studied philosophy at Oxford for a short time before marrying, taking to farming in north Wales before ultimately concentrating on his writing, primarily as a novelist but also producing several biographies.

In 1966, Mosley succeeded his aunt Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale, his mother's elder sister, as Baron Ravensdale, thus gaining a seat in the House of Lords; he did not use the title. On the death of his father, on 3 December 1980, he also succeeded to the Mosley baronetcy of Ancoats. In 1983, two years after his father's death, Mosley published Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933–1980 in which he proved to be a harsh critic of his father. He called into question his father's motives and understanding of politics. The book contributed to the Channel 4 television programme Mosley (1998), based on Oswald Mosley's life. At the end of the serial, Nicholas is portrayed meeting his father in prison to ask him about his national allegiance.

He was a half-brother of Max Mosley, former President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

Mosley died on 28 February 2017 and is buried in the western side of Highgate Cemetery.

Personal life
Mosley married twice and was the father of five children. On 14 November 1947, he married firstly Rosemary Laura Salmond (divorced 1974, died 1991), daughter of Sir John Maitland Salmond and the Honourable Monica Margaret Grenfell, and they had four children:
 * Hon. Shaun Nicholas Mosley (5 August 1949 – 10 December 2009), married Theresa Clifford, and had six children, including Daniel Nicholas Mosley, 4th Baron Ravensdale.
 * Hon. Ivo Adam Rex Mosley (14 April 1951 – 31 January 2024), married Xanthe Jennifer Grenville Oppenheimer, daughter of Sir Michael Oppenheimer, 3rd Baronet, and had four children.
 * Hon. Robert Mosley (born 24 December 1955), married Victoria McBain, and had three children.
 * Hon. Clare Mosley (born 11 November 1959), unmarried.

In 1974, after a divorce, he married secondly Verity Elizabeth Raymond, daughter of John Raymond, and had one son:
 * Hon. Marius Mosley (born 28 May 1976).

Novels

 * Spaces of the Dark (1951)
 * The Rainbearers (1955)
 * Corruption (1957)
 * Meeting Place (1962)
 * Accident (1965; filmed in 1966 by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Harold Pinter)
 * Assassins (1966)
 * Impossible Object (1968; shortlisted for the first Booker Prize in 1969 and filmed in 1973 by John Frankenheimer as Story of a Love Story)
 * Natalie Natalia (1971)
 * Catastrophe Practice (1979) (Part One of the Catastrophe Practice Series)
 * Imago Bird (1980) (Part Two of the Catastrophe Practice Series)
 * Serpent (1981) (Part Three of the Catastrophe Practice Series)
 * Judith (1986) (Part Four of the Catastrophe Practice Series)
 * Hopeful Monsters (1990) (Part Five of the Catastrophe Practice Series) – which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
 * Children of Darkness and Light (1995)
 * The Hesperides Tree (2001)
 * Inventing God (2003)
 * Look at the Dark (2005)
 * God's Hazard (2009)
 * A Garden of Trees (2012)
 * Metamorphosis (2014)
 * Tunnel of Babel (2016)
 * Rainbow People (2018)

Non-fiction

 * African Switchback (1958)
 * The Life of Raymond Raynes (1961)
 * The Assassination of Trotsky (1972; filmed by Joseph Losey)
 * Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888–1915 (1976; republished by Persephone Books in 1999)
 * Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896–1933 (1982) vol. 1
 * Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933–1980 (1983) vol. 2
 * Experience and Religion: A Lay Essay in Theology (1965; first published in 1965 by Hodder & Stoughton)
 * The Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades (2004)

Other

 * Efforts at Truth (1994) autobiography
 * Time at War (2006) memoir
 * Paradoxes of Peace, or the Presence of Infinity (2009)

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Talk:Peter Mandelson

Close Relationship With Murdoch Whilst Head of New Labour's Media and Communications
Was Mr. Mandelson involved in intercepting voicemails and email messages during his time as New Labours Press Baron? Can anyone recall the names of the journalists he arranged to have sacked shortly after they filed negative copy about him? 212.139.107.102 (talk) 18:54, 26 July 2011 (UTC)twl212.139.107.102 (talk) 18:54, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Mushy peas
So what's all this about this dude mistaking mushy peas for guacamole, and why is it not in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yugyug (talk • contribs) 19:03, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Great Story but I think this was put about by Neil Kinnock as a bit of a joke. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.234.2 (talk) 10:49, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Digital Economy Bill
As the Digital Economy Bill is about to destroy our ability to post an honest Wiki page, why are you bothering to Edit it anymore?

The bill gives the government power to demand the blocking of any website Under clause 11, which can be to (a) limit the speed or other capacity of the service provided to a subscriber; (b) prevent a subscriber from using the service to gain access to particular material, or limit such use; (c) suspend the service provided to a subscriber; or (d) limits the service provided to a subscriber in another way.

This means they can effectively order your internet service provider to block access to certain websites and/or limit your internet speed

You think its' about stopping illegal internet downloads? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.69.57.214 (talk) 01:09, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I'll start to worry when someone explains VPNs to the politicians... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.37.17 (talk) 02:27, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

The Dark Lord
With regards this nickname, I reference a Guardian blog on the election which shows a picture of a newspaper which the man himself has signed as 'the Dark Lord'. I'd take it that this is pretty irrefutable evidence for it's inclusion.[]
 * We have Mandy in the article, which is perhaps his best known nickname, perhaps if someone had reliable citations and some content to add with it and could show the notability of the nickname there could be a case for inclusion, but no way not ever in the lede like you just inserted it. He has had so many nicknames, the comeback kid, the prince of darkness and so on that we could have a long list of them. Mostly they are just partisan political posturing and press attempts to sell their chip wrappers. Off2riorob (talk) 15:12, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Missed this before I put it in the lede. If you read the references I cited , Mandelson is widely referred to in the press now as the Dark Lord. Indeed, he signed a newspaper as The Dark Lord earlier today while campaigning, which is what two of the references refer to. This is pretty strong grounds for inclusion. As to it's position in the article, there is nothing uncommon about a person of public interest having their nickname(s) in the opening paragraph.
 * As I said, never ever in the lede. Yes I have looked at the references, all a bit, Mandelson jokingly signed as the dark lord when asked to by a passenger on a train, doesn't make the nickname any more notable than the one that preceded it, which has been around a long time and is also not in the article, the prince of darkness, it is all a bit valueless, but lets wait and see what other editors think. What is the rational that has been presented behind this upgraded nickname? Off2riorob (talk) 15:31, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

It seems to me it is okay to put it in the article seeing as it is referenced, but it needs to be deftly handled. Perhaps something like, "Due to his reputation as a 'wily political operator in the shadows of Westminster', Mandelson is sometimes referred to in the press as the Prince of Darkness or the Dark Lord. He has maintained a sense of humour about the nicknames, having said after joining the House of Lords, 'I used to be the prince of darkness. But being a peer of the realm I suppose I am the dark lord.' The reference for the quote also supports being a 'wily political operator' as the reason for the nickname. In any event, the nickname should no more be in the lead than Mandy is. The end of the first paragraph of the "Member of Parliament" section might make the most sense. -Rrius (talk) 15:45, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Margaret Thatcher was widely known by the public as “Maggie”. Her article does not mention that nickname (although some of the referenced article titles do). I would suggest the use of the Dark Lord as a nickname is used by an extremely small minority, typically those in politics or the political media. It may therefore be invalid per WP:UNDUE. Leaky  Caldron  15:53, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Personally I don't think it should be included at all. If there is support to include multiple press given nicknames, then far down (very far) with the other nickname, I think in the old days before the article was cleaned up and improved there was even a nickname section. I would also point out that an IP in this range has been repeatedly attempting to add this dark lord to the lede for months now. Off2riorob (talk) 15:58, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The nickname is already mentioned in the "Media relations" section in relation to his being a spin doctor, so the additional mention is wholly unnecessary. I think it has existed for a while without detracting from the article, so perhaps we should leave it there? In any event, Rob is right that it should absolutely not be in the lead. -Rrius (talk) 16:23, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, there it is, it sits pretty well there. I don't think it needs to be updated as it would perhaps move into undue weight territory. Off2riorob (talk) 16:37, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Prince of Darkness mandy is mentioned here but not Dark Lord. Off2riorob (talk) 16:50, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Heres the News of the World attempting to give him two jags mandelson according to them "Angry government drivers have given Lord Mandelson the nickname after he fixed it so he has use of a pair of the flash motors". 25/10/2009 Off2riorob (talk) 16:57, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Lord Rumba of Rio, was popular for a while. Off2riorob (talk) 17:23, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Andy Hamilton told a good story about meeting Peter Mandelson. Mandelson was telling him how all this "Lord of Darkness" stuff was rubbish, when Mandelson's phone rang. He answered it, listened for a while, and then (and you'll have imagine Hamilton's impression of Mandelson here) said "This.. must be.. suppressed." and hung up. David (talk) 18:29, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Article focus
The Dark Lord debate has brought into focus what has bothered me about this article for some time. Mandelson is known as an expert in the art of politics who was a key player in Blair's political successes and in holding back the coups against Brown. Instead of discussing that, the article spends quite a lot of words on the Deripaska, Mandelson's EU pension, and the copyright-law allegations. Reading this article, one would come away with this basic story: Mandelson was involved in some lefty causes as a young man, that was intermittently involved in Labour politics until the mid-1980s, and that he ran the 1987 and 1997 general election campaigns. Mandelson held various cabinet posts, but kept getting himself into ethics troubles. He then went to the EU Commission, bringing his penchant for ethical lapses with him, and squabbled with Pres. Sarkozy. Then, for no apparent reason, Mandelson returned to Cabinet, being given a life peerage, and where he was heavily involved in Cabinet business, became more popular with the Labour rank-and-file than the Deputy Leader of the party, and accumulated portfolios and status as time went on. Along the way, he managed to continued his habit of sparking controversies over his ethics.

That just does not seem like a fair summary of his life, yet I think it is a fair summary of the article. -Rrius (talk) 16:40, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * There are issues with the article but it is hard to get an acceptable balance, LC improved it mostly to what we have now. Perhps after the election we could work on a rewrite as there could well be a few major changes. Off2riorob (talk) 17:00, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not so much a matter of balance as it is that an entire part of what he is has to this point been left out of the article. Striking a balance will be difficult because talking about his political contributions invites all sorts of normative judgements about those contributions. It is still a thing worth doing, however. Since much of what Mandelson did during the Blair years (including siding with Blair over Brown for the leadership and the effects that had on his relationship with the latter) happened before 2001, it's not clear what effect the election will have on that. Also, an explanation of why Mandelson was invited back to the Cabinet in 2008 and how he helped stave off plots to defenestrate Brown during the last year and a half won't likely change much after the election. I could work up the 2008-to-present aspects, but I would need some serious help with the Blair-years info. -Rrius (talk) 17:54, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't support what would be a lot of changes at this time, please wait a week until after the election. The article is getting close to 3000 views a day, rising from around 1000 a day and the rise in page views is a likely affect of the imminent election, for this reason I don't support major work on the article until after the election. I also think all of that how he helped to defend brown from plots and stuff could be given a lot of weight, this could be said of all the ministers or most of them and is a normal part of their job. Off2riorob (talk) 18:27, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Even if others support your view, we should still discuss the situation. Waiting until 7 May to edit the article does not mean waiting until that date to start discussing changes. It was never my intention to elbow in and make huge changes to the article without consensus, as should be evident from the very fact that I brought this up on the talk page rather than just adding information and from the fact that I said I don't think I'm equipped to do it on my own. In any event, there is no reason why we must wait until the election to talk about the contours of any additions or even to begin gathering sources and drafting language to be added later, let alone discussing in the first instance the advisability of what I propose. -Rrius (talk) 18:36, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you are trying to say about his involvement in killing plots, but reliable sources verify that he was integral in seeing off plots, and some even detailed his role in killing the June 2009 plot. I'm also not sure what you think I want to do here, but I'm not talking about turning this into an article about his political machinations. Rather, I think his involvement in early New Labour politics should involve more than a list of Cabinet offices he held and the tidbit about the Dome. His return to Cabinet should reflect the essentially universal understanding that brining him back was meant to mollify Blairites and take advantage of Mandelson's political skills to secure Brown's leadership. It would make sense, in that context, to mention that he is in fact widely credited with helping put down revolts since his return. In the end, we're probably talking about a few hundred words for each period, not earth-shattering changes. -Rrius (talk) 18:48, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * You see, we are in disagreement already, what is this killing plots issue? Do you want to add a lot of stuff about that? Look as I said, why not wait a week? Are you wanting to add that Brown has been kept in power by mandelson? I think you should need to be a bit careful asserting too much weight to that claim. It is also a bit opinionated, as I said all cabinet ministers are in that business. After the last attempted coup "Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, also issued a muted statement of support" here "Lord Mandelson shrugs off reports of rift with Gordon Brown"  Off2riorob (talk) 18:54, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * As to plot killing, you said, "I also think all of that how he helped to defend brown from plots and stuff could be given a lot of weight, this could be said of all the ministers or most of them and is a normal part of their job." I have no idea what that means. The best interpretation I can come up with is that you somehow think I want to dedicate a whole section to this, which is now what you are directly asking about. I don't know how you could read the last two sentences of my last contribution and have that question. Of course I don't. I think it is worth mentioning that he is widely regarded as having helped put down plots since he joined the Cabinet. I have no idea where you get the idea that I want the article to say that Mandelson kept Brown in power. That is a ridiculous overstatement, and I'm confused as to why you would attribute POV pushing to me when I made clear from the very start of this that my goal is to add to it a critical part of who he is: a deft political operator. Nowhere in any of what I've said have I given any indication that I think Mandelson single-handedly saved Brown. As to whether all Cabinet minsiters are in the job of saving the PM, that is plainly wrong. When Mandelson was on the phone trying to strangle a coup in his crib, he was on the phone with Cabinet ministers like David Miliband, whose resignation, call for Brown to resign, or silence would have been key to ending Brown's premiership. What's more, this is not "a bit opinionated"—it is well documented in the press, and in any event, it would be a cinch to provide scads of sources for "Since rejoining Cabinet in 2008, Mandelson is widely credited with helping stave off challenges to Brown's leadership." If there are sufficient sources to say he was lukewarm when the most recent one happened, that's fine, but it doesn't undo what happened before. Finally, why do you think it is necessary to hold off a discussion until after the election? I can see an argument for not making changes until then (I don't agree that readers should get a skewed portrait until then), but I cannot find a reason not to discuss and prepare. -Rrius (talk) 19:41, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Reasons for resignations
I added to the opening "due to actions of his which were subject to intense media criticism" re his 2 cabinet resignations. What must not happen is this doesnt get mentioned in the opening. Its called whitewashing and is in clear violation of our NPOV policy. Thanks, ♫ SqueakBox talk contribs 15:13, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

 * I agree totally with this addition, it clarifies and makes clear that both resignations were surrounded with controversy and in some respects scandalous. More importantly however it lays blame where due in an unbiased manner which is very much in fitting with wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.219.65.73 (talk) 21:13, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

How scandalous is his relations to Rupert Murdoch and the telephone hacking transcripts which most probably pass through his PR desk? Its up for valid discussion, is it not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.122.39.254 (talk) 00:19, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Whitewashing Sleaze Allegations
Why has this page repeatedly failed to give full depth to the reasons this man was forced to resign from UK Government so often, and failed to even mention his recent involvement in a failed libel action against the Daily Mail in connection with totally compromising his role as EU Commissioner by accepting hospitality from Russian billionaire? In their absence, the entire article looks suspiciously like it is being edited by someone who is in his employ.80.42.236.65 (talk) 02:30, 11 February 2012 (UTC)twl80.42.236.65 (talk) 02:30, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * First of all, tone it down. If you want to discuss problems you see with the article, please do so without assuming that the article was written by conspiracy of people seeking to promote Mandelson. As to the substance, it seems to me that the article provides sufficient weight to his resignations. As for the libel action, he was a side player at best. In an article that mentioned Mandelson and the Russian oligarch, Rothschild was called a puppet master. He sued; he lost. Mandelson's part in that story is incidental. Mandelson's relationship with Deripaska itself is already dealt with in a long paragraph under "European commissioner"; if anything, that story is given undue weight. -Rrius (talk) 03:11, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Alexander Butler
The article claims that "Mandelson was able to secure close friendships within the Labour Party because of uncle Alexander Butler, who had worked alongside many important Labour politicians during the 1960s". I can find no reference to an Alexander Butler in Paul Routledge's biography of Mandelson, nor through searching on Google (except two remarks that seem to be based on a reading of this article). Can anyone provide a citation? Routledge is fairly clear that it was Mandelson's father who had close friendships with Labour people in the 60s (and Mandelson himself visited 10 Downing Street as a boy).--86.178.142.209 (talk) 19:50, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Is there any evidence that such a person as Alexander Butler existed in this relation to Peter Mandelson? I feel inclined to delete, unless the statement is reposted with a citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hyuey (talk • contribs) 23:17, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

International Monetary Fund
I was interested to see that it was China that approached Baron Mandelson to lead the International Monetary Fund. Could anyone please explain the connection? Thank you.91.194.221.231 (talk) 15:51, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

His political evolution
This article has a lot on how he used to be a Communist or something close to it. The question this lead me to, as a reader, is how did he turn into a New Labourite? For a Communist, that's nearly as much of an about-face as if he were to endorse Margaret Thatcher, at least if you take typical left wing rhetoric at face value. But there's little in here on how he evolved politically. It's almost as if his radical background is included merely for the sake of "opposition research". 117.199.189.97 (talk) 14:34, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

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Date of election to Lambeth Borough Council
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Post Office Horizon scandal
I've just searched the article and this talk page for Anything about Mandelson's involvement in this very important (and current) topic. As far as I can see, his and Tony Blair's involvement in Post Office Horizon and Fujitsu UK has been neglected ! I am not confident in editing the main article, but I am sure it should be included. Keith T. 09:39, 14 January 2024 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kit344 (talk • contribs)

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The National Emergency Services Memorial is a memorial located on the northern shore of Lake Burley Griffin at the southern end of Anzac Parade in Canberra, the national capital of Australia. It was dedicated in July 2004.

The overall memorial was designed by Aspect Melbourne Pty Ltd. The frieze bas relief was created by artist Charles Anderson. The outdoor sculpture was created by artist Darryl Cowie.

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Lally School of Management

The Lally School of Management was founded in 1963 as part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Its current mission statement is "To bridge management and technology to create sophisticated global business leaders who are prepared to guide their organizations in the conversion of pioneering ideas and analytical insights into innovative products, processes, and businesses."

The school is housed in the historic Pittsburgh Building on 110 8th Street on RPI's campus in Troy, New York.

History
The Lally school, founded in 1963, is relatively new to RPI, which was founded in 1824. The Lally school was originally solely a management program for engineers. It was originally housed in the Jonsson Engineering Center and Lally Management Center, before finally being moved to the larger Pittsburgh Building. The management school was named after Rensselaer trustee Kenneth T. Lally and his wife, Thelma P. Lally. Kenneth T. Lally has been an important member of the Rensselaer community since 1970. The Lallys wanted the school to be known throughout the world as the "best of the breed". Lally, an entrepreneur who saved the historic W.& L.E Gurley Company (now Gurley Precision Instruments), knew the challenge of managing a technological venture. To help the management school gain national prominence, the Lallys gave $15 million, which was, up until 2001, the largest single gift in Rensselaer's history. To honor the benefactors and to more properly reflect the school's unique focus, the school became the Kenneth T. and Thelma P. Lally School of Management and Technology.

The Pittsburgh Building was completed in 1912 and originally contained the administrative offices of the institute, the library, and the Geological and Mineralogical Museum. "It was presented by the members of the Pittsburgh Alumni Association, and has cost furnished about $150,000."

Leadership

 * Liad Wagman, Dean
 * Chris McDermott, Associate Dean for Research
 * Brian Clark, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
 * M. Hakan Hekimoglu, Ph.D. Program Director
 * Gaurav Jain, M.S. Programs Director
 * Kevin Fletcher, Undergraduate Program Director

Academics
The Lally school offers the following programs:

 * Full-time Residential
 * Executive MBA
 * Ph.D. Program
 * Undergraduate Management Degree
 * Graduate Management Degrees
 * Specialized Corporate Programs

As part of an experiential learning environment, students work on the patent portfolio from Rensselaer’s Office of Commercialization in the Incubator as part of their strategy class. They take on real-world problems and research for local companies; and work with faculty on radical innovation projects for large, established firms.

Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship
The Paul J. ’69 and Kathleen M. Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship (SCTE) helps foster new generations of budding and successful entrepreneurs through outreach programs, education and support systems.

Centered in Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management & Technology, the Severino Center lies at the core of Lally’s commitment to Entrepreneurship, providing a broad-based platform for entrepreneurs to make the transition from concept to company.

The mission of the SCTE is to expose every Rensselaer student to the practices and principles of entrepreneurship and to extend Rensselaer’s leadership and national prominence in technological entrepreneurship. The center implements this mission by:

Providing and supporting opportunities to learn fundamental principles of entrepreneurship and study historical cases of successful entrepreneurs; Providing opportunities to listen to, interact with, and work with experienced entrepreneurs; Helping students with ideas for new innovations to find resources for commercializing their ideas, and helping students who are seeking businesses opportunities to find and initiate them; Guiding, mentoring and coaching student-based start-up businesses; Connecting students who are starting businesses to resources and networks within and beyond the Rensselaer community.

The mission also states that the Center will focus on technological entrepreneurship, meaning that attention and resources are primarily, though not solely, directed at entrepreneurial principles, experiences and new business initiatives specifically driven by novel or advanced technology.

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