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Green National Convention

The Green National Convention is the presidential nominating convention of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS). Though the Green National Committee (GNC) meets annually in a "national meeting", the convention is convened by the GNC once every four years in order to nominate an official candidate in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, and to officially adopt the party platform and rules for the election cycle.

The convention signals the end of the primary season for Greens, and the start of campaigning for the general election of that year; as such, prominent Greens in state and local races are also spotlighted in order to give them the publicity that the convention affords. In contrast to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, the convention is not merely a formality which endorses the will of the electorate in the primaries, but the final determinant for the nomination. This is because ballot access laws in many states prohibit the Green Party from holding a state-sponsored primary election—only five states were able to meet the requirements in 2004—and others prevent voters from actually registering into the party, thus making it difficult to credential Greens.

History
The leadership of the first nationwide Green organization in the United States, The Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA), were generally opposed to an entry into electoral politics. Thus, the G/GPUSA's national meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1995 ended with a resolution not to nominate a candidate for the 1996 election. This resolution was countered by a group of Greens interested in a run by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who met in Los Angeles in 1996 to nominate Nader for president and Winona LaDuke for vice president. Although possibly lacking official sanction, this was the first nominating convention of the Green Party in the United States, and the only one with which the G/GPUSA, if only certain members, was at all involved.

Following the general election in 1996, several state Green Parties formed the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP). As such, they met in Denver, Colorado, in 2000 to once again nominate Nader and LaDuke.

In 2001, the ASGP formally adopted the name Green Party of the United States, and was recognized by the Federal Election Commission as the official National Committee of the Green Party. The first convention under that name, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 2004, was not without controversy. Nader decided to forgo the Green nomination in favor of asking for an "endorsement" of his independent candidacy; the Greens instead nominated David Cobb for president on the second ballot from among a number of candidates, many of whom were "favorite sons", running as placeholders for Nader. Pat LaMarche was named the vice presidential candidate.

List of Green conventions
The following is a list of United States Green Party presidential nominating conventions.

1 The 1996 meeting was not an official meeting of The Greens/Green Party USA, which had officially voted to nominate no candidate in Albuquerque in 1995.

2 Convened by the Association of State Green Parties, later to be renamed the Green Party of the United States.

Other national meetings
In addition to the presidential nominating convention, there is a national meeting in all other years for the party. During the era of the Association of State Green Parties, separate annual meetings were held in the same year of presidential conventions. Since 2004, the presidential convention has consolidated annual meetings during presidential election years.

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User talk:Driedroz

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Quackenbush

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Chris Quackenbush
Seems to be a hoax. Fawcett5 22:56, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity/nonsense. --Etacar11 23:44, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and quit smoking that stuff! --Doc (?) 00:54, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, yet another hoax that's not fooling anyone.   [  +t,  +c  ] 08:03, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 10:11, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete makes no sense.
 * Unsigned vote by User:43.244.33.89
 * Delete vanity, ridiculous. but funny. |royblumy
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katie Rose

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Katie Rose
Non-notable, vanity. - Mailer Diablo 22:55, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. And there's also an author with the same name.  And a porn star. --Etacar11 23:42, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as it is now. I added some links to the porn star (and a pic) but I'm still dubious about her notability ("katie rose" + porn gets 66,300 Google hits, but thousands of those are redirects to a single "Free Porn Fiesta" site). Yes, I just called them redirects. Wikipediholism has set in. -- BD2412 talk 00:23, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)
 * The article as it stands is just about a porn star. By the way, I moved the title from "Katie rose" to "Katie Rose"...there's also a singer, Katy Rose, who had a brief hit in early 2004, to which this title could potentially redirect. Everyking 05:38, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Not sure if it's really a good idea to take down the original content while the VfD is still going... and also not sure that the porn star is notable (see above comment). No change in vote. -- BD2412 talk 02:51, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
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Huntingdon College

Huntingdon College is a private Methodist college in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1854 as a women's college.

History
Huntingdon College was chartered on February 2, 1854, as Tuskegee Female College by the Alabama State Legislature and Governor John A. Winston. The first president was Andrew Adgate Lipscomb. Dr. Lipscomb laid the foundation of the college as a teaching college rather than a research institution.

In 1872 the name was changed to Alabama Conference Female College, as the college came under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As the college and the South struggled to rebuild following the Civil War, college leaders believed they needed to relocate the institution to a more populous city, and they chose the state's capital, Montgomery.

In 1908, they purchased a 58 acre parcel of land on what was then the outskirts of town; it is now part of the Old Cloverdale neighborhood of Montgomery. The campus landscaping was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., who had also planned the Biltmore Estate and Central Park. The college moved all of its furniture, lab chemicals, and records into Hamner Hall in Montgomery on August 24, 1909. The building burned to the ground that night, destroying the records of the college's first 50 years and all of its furnishings. The students and President William Martin moved to Sullins College in Virginia for that school year, and construction continued on the college's first building, John Jefferson Flowers Memorial Hall. In 1910, the school was renamed as the Woman's College of Alabama. Completed that same year and designed by Harvard architect H. Langford Warren, Flowers Hall was designed to emulate the collegiate Gothic architecture of Oxford and Cambridge universities in England, and of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It set the tone that was followed for the architectural style of the campus.

The college admitted its first male students in the aftermath of World War I, graduating the first male student in 1934. Realizing that the name Woman's College of Alabama no longer fit its student body, the college was renamed in 1935 as Huntingdon College, in honor of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, a notable supporter of John Wesley and of Methodism.

In the early 21st century, Huntingdon offers more than 50 undergraduate programs of study and 18 NCAA-III intercollegiate athletic teams that participate in the USA South Athletic Conference. Between 2002 and 2012, enrollment increased by 53% in the traditional day program and 88% overall (594 to 1118). The Chronicle of Higher Education listed Huntingdon in 2014 among the "Fastest Growing Colleges in America."

Campus
Huntingdon's campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Huntingdon College Campus Historic District. The district contains thirteen contributing buildings, built in the Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival styles, and one site. The district was placed on the NRHP on February 24, 2000. The college expanded across Fairview Avenue, adding the Cloverdale Campus in 2001.

Athletics
Huntingdon College teams participate as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. The Hawks are members of the Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS), formed in July 2022 by an amicable split of the USA South Athletic Conference. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis and wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, beach volleyball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. Huntingdon is the only four-year college in the state of Alabama to offer collegiate wrestling. With the CCS not sponsoring football, women's golf, or lacrosse for either sex, Huntingdon remains in the USA South for those sports.

The "Red Lady"
Huntingdon College is the home of the "Red Lady." She is alleged to be the ghost of a female student from the early twentieth century who took her life inside her room in Pratt Hall.

Notable alumni
Notable Huntingdon alumni include:
 * Leura Canary (1978), former U.S. Attorney
 * Kristi Dubose (1986), U.S. District Court Judge
 * Joe Durant (1987), professional golfer
 * Leila Herbert, author
 * Elizabeth Hight (1977), career US Navy, Rear admiral
 * Harper Lee (1944-1945), Novelist
 * Bob Zellner (1957-1961), Civil Rights activist
 * Jeff Sessions (1969), attorney and politician, U.S. Senator and U.S. Attorney General
 * Maria Howard Weeden, painter and poet
 * Kathryn Tucker Windham (1939), writer

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User talk:DissidentSA

Love stems as a result of an almost undescribable attraction between 2 different "species" (the X and Y "amoebae" having the first account of sex ever :) who have throughout evolution as a result of this attraction between their subsequent offspring grown stronger because of this "love" and subsequent anti-emotion "hate". With evolution surely this "love" has grown and evolved creating a supply and demand of individuals that have satisfied the need to, provide with hunting skills, defend with fighting skills, dazzle with ingenuity (forgive the lack of female skills, I plead guilty to admitting that no man can fully grasp a perfect pair of X-chromosomes)? As fate would have it (no big secret), evolution favored "intelligent" and "sexy" (I shudder at the though of a sexy velociraptor :) individuals.

Henceforth, could intelligence in the human race not be related to the differences in sexes? Also, this could mean that hypothetically, races on, for example other planets, could have evolved from the hypothetical "M" and "J" (and possibly even "K") chromosome, where the difference in chromosome pairs wouldn't have survived long enough to evolve, if they didn't have the same "attraction"? And the beauty of it is that this attraction would be, in all probability, totally different from the range of emotions we generalize as "love" and henceforth, have evolved an "intelligence" totally incomprehensible?

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Operation Tennessee Waltz

Operation Tennessee Waltz was a sting operation set up by federal and state law enforcement agents, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). The operation led to the arrest of seven Tennessee state lawmakers and two men identified as "bagmen" in the indictment on the morning of May 26, 2005, on bribery charges. The FBI and TBI followed these arrests with an additional arrest of two county commissioners, one from Hamilton County, and the other a member of the prominent Hooks family of Memphis. Investigators also arrested a former county administrator.

Execution
The FBI set up E-Cycle, a bogus company based in Atlanta and claiming to recycle electronics by sending the electronics to third world countries.

The FBI sting operation ran from 2003 to 2007 in which eleven state and local officials were arrested for in relation to an FBI sting operation, using a fake company claiming to recycle electronics called E-Cycle Management. The company was used to offer bribes for favorable legislation.

 * 1) John Ford (D) State Senator from Memphis in the 29th District, took an $800,000 bribe, and was sentenced to 66 months in prison.
 * 2) Roscoe Dixon (D) State Senator from Memphis in the 33rd District, was found guilty of taking a $9,500 bribe, and was sentenced to 63 months in jail.
 * 3) J. Chris Newton (R) State Representative from Bradley County which is in the 22nd District, was found guilty of taking a $1,500 bribe and conspiracy. He was sentenced to one year and one day in jail, two years probation and community service.
 * 4) Kathryn I. Bowers (D) State Senator, replaced Roscoe Dixon in the 33rd District when he left office on charges of bribery. Bowers was also found guilty of taking a $5,750 bribe, and was sentenced to 16 months in jail.
 * 5) Ward Crutchfield (D) State Senator from District 10, pled guilty to bribery, and was sentenced to six months of home confinement, two years probation, and fined.

Local politicians who were arrested include:
 * 1) William Cotton, Hamilton County Commissioner, extortion, sentenced to 3 years.
 * 2) Charles Love, Hamilton County School Board member, the bagman, extortion, 12 months.
 * 3) Michael Hooks, Sr., Shelby County Commissioner, pled guilty to taking $24K in bribes and was sentenced to 26 months in prison.
 * 4) Michael Hooks, Jr., Memphis School Board member, conspired to take $3K for bogus consulting work. He resigned and was sentenced to 30 days in prison.
 * 5) Calvin Williams (R), Shelby County Administrator, convicted of extortion and bribery, sentenced to 33 months.

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Farhad Darya

Farhad Darya (Pashto/Dari: ; born 22 September 1962) is an Afghan singer, composer, music producer, and philanthropist. Active since the 1980s, Darya has been one of the most renowned and influential Afghan pop musicians of the modern era, contributing to establishing new wave in Afghanistan and blending urban and rural styles. Darya's career has spanned multiple genres - including semi-classical ghazal, pop, folk, and rock - as well as both his native languages Dari Persian and Pashto as well as Uzbek, Hindi and English.

Outside his music career, Darya is a philanthropist and campaigner for human rights, having served as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) National Goodwill Ambassador for Afghanistan, and is involved in numerous charitable organizations, such as Music Village and others.

Early years and education
Farhad Darya was born Farhad Nashir in Kabul, Afghanistan, to a Nasher branch of the Khilji Pashtun tribe. His family originated from Kunduz Province. He is the grandson of Sher Khan Nashir.

After moving back from Kunduz to Kabul he spent his senior year at Habibia High School and later enrolled at Kabul Polytechnic University, during which time he started his band. Being threatened to forcibly join the PDPA, he later transferred to Kabul University to study Persian literature. During this time, he wrote music for other artists under the pseudonym Abr (Cloud), and started playing Afghan and Indian classical music. Several times he left university to serve conscription in the Afghan Armed Forces. By 1988 he started teaching classical music at the University while also pursuing research in the field of music.

Goroh-e-Baran and early solo work
Darya debuted on Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) as the leader of Goroh-e-Baran (meaning "Rain Band") with Asad Badie, Wahid Saberi, Mokhtar Majid and Jawad Rahi, with a fresh genre of folk-pop. It became one of the best known bands in the 1980s, producing hit songs such as "Aay-e-Mann,” “Roz-e-Bazar,” and “Dokhtar-e-Sardaar”. After Goroh-e-Baran disbanded, he started a solo career and claims to have introduced multitrack recording in the country in 1986.

Throughout his career, Darya produced music that broke with the traditional structure of composition, orchestration, and vocal characterization. His music contains elements of Western pop with classical ones from Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent.

Many of his songs dealt with the Soviet–Afghan War and the resulting misfortunes of the war-torn nation, but also of love. Popular titles included "Freshta Jan" and "Mehrabaani". Dozens of his songs were censored due to being critical of the communist government; this censorship was lifted under Mohammad Najibullah. As with other artists, his songs were recorded at the Kabul RTA studios but number of his songs were recorded at Radio Prague in Czechoslovakia, including a popular song "Do Kaftar" (meaning Two Doves).

Albums in exile
In 1990, Darya left Afghanistan, travelling through Prague and Paris before settling in Hamburg, Germany. He started recording new content in Paris and Hamburg for his first album while in exile, Begum Jaan, released in 1992, featuring more experimental work. It included one hit song, "Kabul Jaan", meaning Beloved Kabul. The song was apparently played by the Mujahideen rebels after they entered Kabul and, nine years later, the first song played by Radio Afghanistan after the Taliban regime collapsed.

His next studio album in 1995, called Afghanistan, became a major hit, featuring diverse acclaimed tracks of different traditional Afghan styles. Its hit song was the track "Golom Golom". After this album, Darya and his wife Sultana moved to Virginia in the United States, where he continued his career, recording his next album Shakar released in 1997. This was another hit album and had a larger number of upbeat dance tracks.

Darya created the soundtrack of an Afghan American film In Foreign Land, recorded and released in California in 1999. It included a hit song, "Khosham Meeayad".

Salaam Afghanistan and later work
Following his return to Afghanistan after thirteen years, he worked on his next album called Salaam Afghanistan (meaning Hello Afghanistan, describing his homecoming), which became a major hit in the country and the first such hit in the post-Taliban era. Thousands of CD copies were sold of the album and especially the lead track "Salaam Afghanistan" became wildly popular. It was accompanied by a video album shot entirely in Afghanistan released in 2004.

On May 14 2004, Darya held a large concert at Kabul's Ghazi Stadium. Up to 45,000 enthusiastic people attended the concert, far above the number of tickets provided, in the first such major event after the Taliban regime when music was banned. The concert was listed as one of 50 Great Moments in World Music by the British magazine Songlines in 2008. Darya described the event as "It was like a national independence day."

Darya then collaborated with German rock musician Peter Maffay with a new project for the benefit of children. This resulted in his first rock song - and the first Afghan mainstream rock song - named "Salamaalek", sung in both Dari and English, representing a greeting to the world that is both political and peaceful. The song appeared on Maffay's album Begegnungen – Eine Allianz für Kinder released by Sony BMG on September 29, 2006. The album peaked at number 9 in the official German charts and the song Salamaalek was also popular in Afghanistan. Darya and the ensemble of other artists in the project performed at a Ein Herz für Kinder programme broadcast on ZDF where 9 million euros were raised for helping children in need.

In August 2007, Darya completed his new album HA! and it was later released in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Different from his previous work, HA! is considered "world pop" and was made with a fusion of Eastern and Western music. It included a music video for the hit song Dohle Bezan (Nazdeek Shodan) (meaning Talk To Me/Closer) - a rock song with a fusion of Indian dhol - premiering on national television in February 2008, which called for national unity. He worked on the video for eight months and traveled to different parts of Afghanistan for it; BBC Persian described the video as "a collection of scenes and symbolic movements that show the collective desire of the Afghan people for the beginning of a peaceful and common life". Regarding the unsusual genre of rock in Afghan music, Darya said in an interview: "Rock music is protest music, and in order to be able to convey this message louder to the world, this style of music, which is almost unknown in Afghanistan, is considered the best way."

Darya's next album, Yaahoo, was released in August 2008, calling it a "peace album" and distributing the CD for free in Afghanistan. It was created as part of a program supported by the German Development Service for promoting peace through music. The album was recorded at a studio near Munich and produced by Goar B.

Recent work
In 2009 he released new songs Atan, De Kor Deewaloona, and Sarzamine Man. Darya launched the Life Is Beautiful (Pashto: Zhawand Khkolai Dai) tour in 2010 traveling to different parts of the country to perform in the name of peace. This included a women-only concert in Mazar-i-Sharif on World Peace Day with 15,000 in attendance, and even a concert in the war-torn Helmand Province in November 2010 where he safely sang to a crowd of 5,000 at the sports stadium in Lashkargah. British forces hailed the concert, which was handled by the Afghan National Police. In 2011 he released a music video of the tour's title song Zhwand Khkolai Dai (ژوند خوکلی دی), and later released Dewhaaye Mast (دیوهای مست).Darya performed at the 7th Annual ATN Awards held in Delhi in 2013 alongside Qais Ulfat, Valy Hedjazi, Latif Nangarhari, Jawid Sharif, Aryana Sayeed and Naghma.

Darya's song Oo Ghaita (Pashto: او غایتا, meaning "those days") was released with a music video in February 2014, with Darya being both the composer and lyricist. Rather than describing hope and future peace, the song is about nostalgia of the past, in particular pre-war Afghanistan. A well-known song, it received some criticism about the language and meaning, though Darya denied that it had to do with politics, describing it as a "personal story".

In 2019, there was a stir on Afghan social media about Darya quitting the music industry following a cryptic comment he made during a performance on Afghan Star. He clarified in an interview with SBS Dari in Australia that it was about issues he had in his life at the time and how it "transformed" him. He released new songs in 2020: "Corona" and "Dashte Noqra". In defiance to the Taliban's restrictions on music and artistry, he launched the Music Never Dies protest concert tour in 2022 and also debuted a new song, "Dar Molkake Ma".

Philanthropy and campaigning
Following his return to Afghanistan in 2003, Darya started a non-profit organization to improve the welfare of children. He later launched a project for street children named Kochah. In 2006 his initiatives led to him earning considerable praise from high figures in Afghanistan, including a Human Rights Award. Darya became UNDP National Goodwill Ambassador of Afghanistan in 2008. He used music to "carry the message of peace", and said in an interview:

"There is always a window from music to an individual's soul. That's why it has the strongest power, in my opinion. You don't need to use any force on people's minds to make them convinced ... it [music] goes directly to people's hearts."

He launched a blood donation campaign for the Afghan national security forces in 2014, 'Karzar Qatra Qatra ba Darya’, at Daoud Khan Military Hospital. Darya and his wife along with other artists campaigned for the #WhereIsMyName campaign to allow women to use their public names freely; it successfully led to a change in law signed by president Ashraf Ghani in 2020.

In 2020, Darya unsuccessfully wrote an open letter opposing the demolition of Kabul's historic Cinema Park, which went ahead on the order of the First VP Amrullah Saleh. In 2022, he appealed to the president of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon to reconsider hosting homeless Afghan refugees.

Darya and 14 female painters launched a visual arts campaign in 2023 in support of women in Afghanistan.

Recognition
A household name among many Afghans, Darya has been praised for promoting cultural tolerance and peace in the country. He has also received recognition in the Western media during the 2000s and 2010s amid the International Security Assistance Force presence and the War in the country. UNAMA described him as "Afghanistan's most popular singer" in 2009 and NPR "biggest musical star" the same year. Darya is also known in the other Persian speaking countries, Iran and Tajikistan, and in parts of Pakistan and Central Asia.

Some Western media had nicknamed him Afghan Elvis because of his fame; Darya himself said it was "sweet" but that it was a Western invention and not something he is called in Afghanistan. The Afghan Elvis nickname is generally given to the 1970s star Ahmad Zahir.

Awards

 * 1990: Afghanistan: Singer of the Year by Youth Magazine/Radio Afghanistan
 * 1996: United States: Star Of The Contemporary Music Of Afghanistan by Afghan Radio (California)
 * 2006: Afghanistan: Human Rights Award by Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
 * 2010: Germany: Best Male Artist of 2009, Annual ATN Awards
 * 2011: Netherlands: Best Male Artist of 2010, Annual ATN Awards
 * 2011: Afghanistan: Person of the Year (2010) by Radio Azadi
 * 2013: India: Legend in Music by Annual ATN Awards

Discography

 * Studio albums (Afghanistan-only releases)

 * Studio albums (international releases)

 * Video-only releases

 * Derivative appearances
 * Begegnungen – Eine Allianz für Kinder (2006)
 * Listen To The Banned (2010)
 * The Rough Guide To The Music Of Afghanistan (2010)

Filmography
Darya produced additional scoring and lyrics for Through Her Eyes a film by Mithaq Kazimi in 2007.

Darya produced background music for the film In Foreign Land (1998).

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Patriarch Eustathius

Patriarch Eustathius may refer to:

 * Eustathius of Antioch, Patriarch in 324–337 or 360
 * Patriarch Eustatius of Alexandria, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria in 813–817
 * Eustathius of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1019–1025

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East Coast Conference

The East Coast Conference (ECC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located primarily in the state of New York, with a single member located in the District of Columbia.

History
The East Coast Conference was founded in 1989 as the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC). Its charter members included Adelphi University (1989–2009), Concordia College (1989–2009), C. W. Post College (1989–2019), Dowling College (1989–2016), Mercy College (1989–present), Mercy College (1989–present), New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) (1989–2020), Pace University (1989–1997), Queens College (1989–present) and Southampton College of Long Island University (1989–2005).

Other members that joined were: University of Bridgeport (2000–2022), University of New Haven (2002–2008), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) (1997–2000), Philadelphia University (1991–2005), College of Saint Rose (1991–2000), St. Thomas Aquinas College (2000–present), University of the District of Columbia (2011–present), Roberts Wesleyan College (2012–present), Daemen University (2013–present), D'Youville University (2020–present) and College of Staten Island (2020–present).

The ECC has become a lacrosse powerhouse, seeing six ECC teams win the Division II Men's Lacrosse championship over the past 10 years. In addition, at least 1 ECC team has competed in 13 the last 14 championship games. Recent ECC champions include Adelphi (1998, 1999, 2001), C.W. Post (1996, 2006 Tri-Champion), Dowling College (2006 Tri-Champion), NYIT (1997, 2003, 2005, 2008), and Mercyhurst College (2006 Tri-Champion, 2007)

Two changes to the conference membership were announced in the fall of 2018. First, it was announced on October 3, 2018 that Long Island University would unite its two athletic programs—the Division II LIU Post program and Division I program at LIU Brooklyn—into a single Division I program under the overall university name effective in 2019–20. Second, it was announced on December 7, 2018 that beginning with the 2020 season (2019–20 school year), Frostburg State University will join the conference as an associate member in men's lacrosse, contingent on being accepted into Division II by the NCAA.

The next change in conference membership was announced in March 2019, when the College of Staten Island (CSI), preparing to begin a transition from NCAA Division III, was accepted as a member effective with the 2020–21 school year. The following August, Tusculum University was announced as a bowling affiliate, effective in 2019–20. In March 2020, then-current Division III member D'Youville College ("University" since 2022) was announced as a future member effective in 2020–21, contingent on NCAA approval of that school's transition to D-II; the NCAA's acceptance was officially announced on July 10, 2020.

In December 2021, the University of Bridgeport published its acceptance into the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference as its new member for the 2022–23 school year.

Chronological timeline

 * 1989 - The East Coast Conference (ECC) was founded as the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC). Its charter members included Adelphi University, Concordia College of New York, Dowling College, the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University (LIU Post), Mercy College, Molloy College, the New York Institute of Technology (New York Tech or NYIT), Pace University, Queens College and Southampton College of Long Island University, effective beginning the 1989-90 academic year.
 * 1991 - The Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science (now Thomas Jefferson University) and the College of Saint Rose joined the NYCAC, effective in the 1991-92 academic year.
 * 1997 - Pace left the NYCAC to join the Northeast-10 Conference (NE-10), effective after the 1996-97 academic year.
 * 1997 - The New Jersey Institute of Technology (New Jersey Tech or NJIT) joined the NYCAC, effective in the 1997-98 academic year.
 * 2000 - Two institutions left the NYCAC to join their respective new home primary conferences: New Jersey Tech (NJIT) to join the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) and Saint Rose to join the NE-10, both effective after the 1999-2000 academic year.
 * 2000 - The University of Bridgeport and St. Thomas Aquinas College joined the NYCAC, effective in the 2000-01 academic year.
 * 2002 - The University of New Haven joined the NYCAC, effective in the 2002-03 academic year.
 * 2005 - Two institutions left the NYCAC to join their respective new home primary conferences: Philadelphia to join the CACC, and LIU–Southampton to discontinue its athletic program and close the school, both effective after the 2004-05 academic year.
 * 2005 - Mercyhurst University joined the NYCAC as an affiliate member for men's lacrosse, effective in the 2006 spring season (2005-06 academic year).
 * 2006 - The NYCAC has been renamed as the East Coast Conference (ECC), effective in the 2006-07 academic year.
 * 2006 – Dominican College of New York, known since 2022 as Dominican University New York, joined the ECC as an affiliate member for men's lacrosse, effective in the 2007 spring season (2006-07 academic year).
 * 2008 - Adelphi left the ECC to join the NE-10, effective after the 2007-08 academic year.
 * 2009 - Two institutions left the ECC to join their respective new home primary conferences: Adelphi to join the NE-10, and Concordia (N.Y.) to join the CACC, both effective after the 2008-09 academic year.
 * 2009 - Four institutions joined the ECC as affiliate members: Chestnut Hill College and Wheeling Jesuit University for only men's lacrosse, Lake Erie College and Seton Hill University for men's and women's lacrosse, all effective in the 2010 spring season (2009-10 academic year).
 * 2011 - The University of the District of Columbia joined the ECC, effective in the 2011-12 academic year.
 * 2012 - Three institutions left the ECC as affiliate members: Lake Erie and Seton Hill for men's and women's lacrosse for men's lacrosse, and Mercyhurst and Wheeling Jesuit for only men's lacrosse, all effective after the 2012 spring season (2011-12 academic year).
 * 2012 - Roberts Wesleyan College joined the ECC, effective in the 2012-13 academic year.
 * 2012 - Georgian Court University joined the ECC as an affiliate member for men's & women's indoor track & field, effective in the 2007 spring season (2006-07 academic year).
 * 2013 - Daemen College ("University" since 2022) joined the ECC, effective in the 2013-14 academic year.
 * 2015 - Felician University, Franklin Pierce University and Kutztown University of Pennsylvania joined the ECC as affiliate members for bowling (with Adelphi re-joining for that sport), effective in the 2016 spring season (2015-16 academic year).
 * 2016
 * Dowling left the ECC to announce that the school would close, effective after the 2015-16 academic year.
 * Three institutions joined the ECC as affiliate members: Holy Family University for men's and women's indoor track & field, and Lincoln Memorial University and Salem University for bowling, all effective in the 2017 spring season (2016-17 academic year).
 * 2017
 * Three institutions left the ECC as affiliate members: Chestnut Hill and Dominican (N.Y.) for men's lacrosse, and Salem for bowling, all effective after the 2017 spring season (2016-17 academic year).
 * Wilmington University of Delaware joined the ECC as an affiliate member for bowling (with Chestnut Hill rejoining for that sport), effective in the 2018 spring season (2017-18 academic year).
 * 2018
 * Franklin Pierce left the ECC as an affiliate member for bowling, effective after the 2018 spring season (2017-18 academic year).
 * Bloomfield College and Caldwell University joined the ECC as affiliate members for bowling, effective in the 2019 spring season (2018-19 academic year).
 * 2019
 * Long Island University, the parent of LIU Post, announced that it would merge the Post athletic program with the D-I athletic program of its Brooklyn campus after the 2018–19 academic year, creating a D-I program that now competes as the LIU Sharks.
 * Three institutions joined the ECC as affiliate members: Frostburg State University for men's lacrosse, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania for baseball and women's soccer, and Tusculum University for bowling, all effective in the 2020 spring season (2019-20 academic year).
 * 2020
 * New York Tech (NYIT) left the ECC to announce that the school would suspend its athletic programs until further notice (at least two years), effective after the 2019-20 academic year.
 * D'Youville College ("University" since 2022) and the College of Staten Island joined the ECC, effective in the 2020-21 academic year.
 * 2021 – Lincoln Memorial and Tusculum left the ECC as affiliate members for bowling, effective after the 2021 spring season (2020-21 academic year).
 * 2022
 * Bridgeport announced that it would leave the ECC to join the CACC, effective after the 2021-22 academic year.
 * Division I member Bryant University and Saint Anselm College joined as affiliate members in bowling, effective with the 2022-23 academic year.
 * Bloomfield College, Caldwell University, Chestnut Hill College, Felician University, and Wilmington University of Delaware left the ECC as affiliate members for bowling when their full-time conference home of the CACC launched a bowling league in the 2022–23 season.
 * 2023 – The ECC announced it would sponsor men's volleyball in the 2024 season (2023–24 school year) with four schools, three of which started men's volleyball programs in that season. Full members Roberts Wesleyan and St. Thomas Aquinas were joined by associates American International College and Dominican (NY). Alliance University was originally announced as a fifth sponsoring member, but the university announced it would permanently close on July 1 before they had played a single game. Of these schools, only American International played men's volleyball in the 2023 season.
 * 2024
 * Lincoln (PA) left the ECC as an affiliate member in baseball and women's soccer, effective after the 2023-24 academic year.
 * Mercyhurst left the ECC as an affiliate member for bowling, effective after the 2023-24 academic year.

Current members
The ECC currently has nine full members, all but three are private schools.

Affiliate members
The ECC currently has 8 affiliate members, most of which are private schools.

 * Notes:

Former members
The ECC had ten former full members, all but one were private schools:

 * Notes:

Former affiliate members
The ECC has 16 former affiliate members, all but one of which are private schools.

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Sports
The East Coast Conference sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition in the following sports:

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Bridlington Priory

Priory Church of St Mary, Bridlington,, commonly known as Bridlington Priory Church is a parish church in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in the Diocese of York. It is on the site of an Augustinian priory founded in 1113 which was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 1951 it was designated a Grade I Listed Building.

Foundation
Bridlington Priory was founded around 1113 by Walter de Gant, for Augustinian Canons Regular, one of the earliest Augustinian houses in England, with an adjoining convent. Its foundation was confirmed in charters by King Henry I of England The site had formerly been a Saxon church and nunnery. When complete, the building was over 400 ft and 75 ft, with a transept which was 150 ft. The first prior is thought to have been called Guicheman or Wickeman.

Early history
The priory was favoured by kings and their nobles and soon owned land across Yorkshire. The Canons from the priory established Newburgh Priory in 1145. King Stephen granted that the priory should have the right to have the property of felons and fugitives within the town and proceeds from the harbour, and later King John gave the priory the right to hold a yearly fair in the town in 1200. During the conflict between Stephen and Matilda, William le Gros, Earl of Albemarle (a Manor in Holderness which is now ‘lost’) advanced on the priory and expelled the canons in his campaign against Gilbert de Gant of Hunmanby. He fortified the priory and later gave the priory six parcels of land, one at Boynton and the rest in Holderness. Henry IV appropriated the rectory of Scarborough to the priory which was later confirmed by Henry V, Henry VI and Edward IV. A royal licence was also granted by Richard II in 1388 to crenellate the priory with fortifications but although history tells there were four gates, 3 of those gates were in the main priory land, Kirk Gate, West Gate, Nun Gate and these were used as daily entrances in and out of the building enclosure itself. Only the Bayle Gate was a fortified entrance standing at the borders and the Priory itself was in fact never walled. The priory also had a large library, which was listed by John Leland shortly before the dissolution.

Dissolution of the Monasteries
The priory was dissolved in 1538 by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The priory was very wealthy at the time of the dissolution and its yearly income was estimated to be £547 6s. 11½d; it owned land stretching from Blubberhouses in the north, and Askham Richard, down to the Spurn Point.

The condition of the priory at the dissolution can be gathered from the report of Richard Pollard, a surveyor of Henry VIII. The Church was more than 390 feet in length, surrounded by the Chapter House, Treasury, Cloister, Prior's Hall, Infirmary. The quire of the mediaeval church contained woodwork by the celebrated William Brownflete (or Bromflete) who had made the stalls in Beverley Minster, Manchester Cathedral and Ripon Cathedral, and a number of churches under the patronage of Lady Margaret Beaufort, including Gresford and Mold churches, and the chapel of St John's College, Cambridge. All the priory buildings were destroyed except the nave, which became the parish church, and the gatehouse, which is now the Bayle Museum. Some of the stones from the old priory were used in the construction of the piers at Bridlington. The last Prior, William Wode, was executed at Tyburn for his part in the Pilgrimage of Grace.

Restoration
For three centuries after the dissolution, the nave continued to be used as the parish church and only a third of the building was actually used by the congregation. From 1846 the parish began to raise funds to restore the church and it was partially re-roofed; the west window was opened out and filled with stained glass; the interior was white-washed; and the east window also was filled with stained glass. This work was carried out by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin, but their work was not to the satisfaction of the church authorities. Around 1874 the church employed Sir George Gilbert Scott to completely refurbish the church as it is today. The total cost of the restoration was about £27,000.

Organ
The organ was built in 1889 by the Belgian organ builder Charles Anneessens. Various adjustments were made in the 20th century, before it was restored and enlarged between 2004 and 2006 by Nicholson. It has been recorded a number of times and is played by Daniel Moult in the film and recording Virtuoso! Music for Organ.

Organists

 * George Fox
 * William Turner 1857 – ???? (formerly organist at Pocklington)
 * J.W. Wilson
 * J E W Lord 1889–1894 (afterwards organist of St Mary's Church, Harrogate)
 * Arthur Edgar Perry
 * Arthur Charles Edwards 1896–1901
 * George Pattman 1901–1904 (later organist of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow)
 * Bernard Johnson 1904–1909 (afterwards organist of Albert Hall, Nottingham)
 * Arthur Percy Stephenson ca. 1912
 * Sydney Weale 1914 – 1920
 * Arthur Robinson 1919–1947
 * Eric John Fairclough 1947–1950
 * Mervyn John Byers 1952–1957 (afterwards organist of St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney)
 * Raymond Sunderland 1957–1977
 * Geoffrey Pearce 1984–1987 (afterwards organist at Selby Abbey)
 * Michael Smith 1987–2019
 * Paul Dewhurst 2020-

Organ Scholars
 * Charlie Leeson 2012 – 2017
 * Christopher Too 2012 – 2013
 * Jake Leach 2017–2019

People connected to the Priory

 * St John of Bridlington, English saint
 * Peter Langtoft, who wrote a history of England in Anglo-Norman verse
 * Robert of Bridlington, fourth prior and theologian
 * Sir George Ripley, 15th-century English alchemist
 * Ginger Lacey, Battle of Britain fighter ace (memorial plaque in the Priory)

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Perfect Strangers (1945 film)

Perfect Strangers (United States title: Vacation from Marriage), is a 1945 British drama film made by London Films. It stars Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr as a married couple whose relationship is shaken by their service in the Second World War. The supporting cast includes Glynis Johns, Ann Todd and Roland Culver. It was produced and directed by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Clemence Dane and Anthony Pelissier based on a story by Clemence Dane. Dane won the Academy Award for Best Story. The music score was by Clifton Parker and the cinematography by Georges Périnal.

Plot
Robert and Cathy Wilson are a timid married couple in 1940 London. He is a bookkeeper, she a bored housewife. However, their tedious lives are changed by the war. He enlists in the Royal Navy, and she joins the Women's Royal Naval Service. During the three years the couple are apart (their shore leaves never coincide), they are transformed, each becoming much more self-confident.

Dizzy Clayton, Cathy's assertive new friend, helps her break out of her shell. She begins going out with Dizzy's cousin, naval architect Richard, who falls in love with her. However, she remains unenthusiastically faithful to her husband.

Meanwhile, Robert becomes tougher on sea duty, and in time, he becomes a petty officer. His hands are badly burned when his ship is sunk, but he stoically rows in the lifeboat for five days without complaint. He recuperates in a hospital, tended by Elena, a beautiful nurse. On the last night of his stay, he asks her out to dinner. He is attracted to her, but she informs him that she lost her beloved husband only six months earlier, kisses him, and leaves.

Robert and Cathy both receive 10-day leaves, but each dreads being reunited with the dowdy spouse each remembers and being forced back into the dreary life they shared.

Cathy cannot bring herself to return to her flat, where Robert is waiting. Instead, she phones Robert, asking him to talk with her on more neutral ground and blurting that she wants to leave him. He is furious. They meet on the street in the pitch dark of the blackout. To her surprise, Robert readily agrees to a divorce, telling her that he was going to ask her for one. They go to the neighbourhood pub to discuss the divorce, and for the first time in three years, they see the transformation in the other.

Throughout the film, they have been talking to their new friends about their life together, and now they revisit those issues and talk honestly to each other about the past. They find that if they are "perfect strangers" now. For Cathy, the hated view from their flat, all walls and smoking chimneys, is a symbol of their lives before the war. They dance with each other for the first time, and they clearly are attracted.

Dizzy and Robert's friend Scotty meet them in the pub. Both are stunned. Dizzy thinks Cathy is crazy. Scotty calls Cathy a pin-up, but the compliment goes wrong when he shares Robert's unflattering descriptions of the 'old' Cathy. She is insulted and furious. It hardens her heart, and she leaves as the pub closes.

Outside, waiting in vain for a taxi in the bombed-out intersection, the argument continues—they even fight over where the shops were formerly located. In the end, Scotty goes to his billet, leaving Robert on the street. The girls go to the flat, where Cathy wistfully tells Dizzy about how she and Robert met.

Robert returns to retrieve his gear and finds Cathy sitting in the corner of the windowseat. The sky is bright with early morning light, and beyond the shattered houses, the vista toward the river is broken only by a church steeple. The high walls and smoking chimneys are gone. Robert opens the window, letting in the sounds of the city. A clock strikes 5. He turns to look at Cathy, saying “Well, you've certainly got the view you always wanted.”

“Miles and miles of it,” she replies. “But oh Robert, the desolation.”

“Poor old London,” he says, looking out the window. “Well, we'll just have to build it up again. That's all.”

“It will take years and years,” Cathy says, her eyes on him.

He reaches out to put his hand on hers, and then turns toward her, saying “Well, what does that matter? We're young.” Cathy lifts her head to meet him, and they embrace passionately.

Cast

 * Robert Donat as Robert Wilson
 * Deborah Kerr as Cathy Wilson
 * Glynis Johns as Dizzy Clayton
 * Ann Todd as Elena
 * Roland Culver as Richard
 * Elliott Mason as Mrs. Hemmings

Cast notes
 * Deborah Kerr made her MGM debut in this film. MGM had purchased half of her contract after her performance in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, in which she played three roles.  MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer is supposed to have said "That girl's a star" upon seeing her performance in Perfect Strangers, and she was soon an established MGM property.
 * This was Robert Donat's last film for MGM.
 * Roger Moore made his uncredited film debut in Perfect Strangers.

Production
Perfect Strangers was meant to be the first of a number of British-made co-productions between Alexander Korda and M-G-M. Other proposed projects included Lottie Dundass with Vivien Leigh from a story by Edith Bagnold, a biopic of Robert Louis Stevenson starring Robert Donat, a version of War and Peace directed by Orson Welles and starring Korda's wife, Merle Oberon, and an untitled Carol Reed project. Perfect Strangers was meant to star Donat and Oberon but by December 1943 Oberon had been replaced by Deborah Kerr as Oberon was still in the U.S. Wesley Ruggles was to come from Hollywood to direct.

By March 1944, the film was about to start filming at Denham Studios. Korda announced he would now make only one to three films per year, compared to the 12 to 16 he had previously intended to make.

Shooting did not begin until May. The delay had come about for several reasons: the script was constantly rewritten to account for changes in the war, Ruggles fell ill with the flu shortly after he arrived in England, and Donat was involved in a play. Then Donat fell ill and Ruggles left the project after an argument with Korda. It was the first feature Korda had directed since Rembrandt. As they set to work, Korda called the film an "allegory of England"; Donat said: "It's a lyrical comedy – we hope."

The film did some location shooting in Scotland, but was shot primarily in London.

No subsequent films came from the agreement, because Korda bristled at being bossed around by MGM's head of production, Louis B. Mayer.

Box office
Perfect Strangers was a commercial success in both the UK and the US, where it was re-titled Vacation from Marriage. It was one of the bigger hits at the British box office in 1945, ranked 22nd according to Kinematograph Weekly.

Critical
In the New York Times, Bosley Crowther wrote the script was an intelligent treatment of "the simple and leisurely story" and the leading actors "excellent as the principals, who find that love, like devastated London, can be rebuilt". He wrote that Korda's direction "tells an oft-told tale but tells it easily and well".

Awards and honors
Clemence Dane won an Academy Award for Best Original Motion Picture Story for Perfect Strangers.

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John Billington

John Billington (also spelled as Billinton; c. 1580 – September 30, 1630) was an Englishman who travelled to the New World on the Mayflower and was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. He was also the first citizen of the Plymouth Colony to be convicted of murder and executed.

In England
Nothing is known about John Billington's life in England. His son Francis was named in a 1612 lease of property in Cowbit, Lincolnshire and either John or Eleanor, or both, were associated with this area. Around Cowbit and Spalding, in Lincolnshire, Francis Longland named young Francis Billington, son of John Billington, an heir.

Mayflower voyage

John Billington, his wife Elinor, and their two sons, John and Francis, departed on the Mayflower from Plymouth, Devon, England on September 6/16, 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30–40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out, the ship was being buffeted by strong westerly gales, causing the ship's timbers to be badly shaken with caulking failing to keep out sea water, and with passengers, even in their berths, lying wet and ill. This, combined with a lack of proper rations and unsanitary conditions for several months, contributed to what would eventually be fatal for many, especially the majority of women. On the way, there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger, but the worst was yet to come after arriving at their destination when, in the space of several months, almost half the passengers perished in the cold, harsh New England winter.

On November 9/19, 1620, after about three months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. After several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on November 11/21. Billington signed the Mayflower Compact that day.

Life in Plymouth colony
The Billington family appeared a number of times in the accounts of early Plymouth Colony and were reported to be the colony's troublemakers. Francis made squibs and fired a musket in the Mayflower while the ship was anchored off Cape Cod. Francis went exploring soon after their arrival and discovered the body of water now known as Billington Sea.

In March 1621 John Senior challenged Myles Standish's orders for "contempt of the Captain's lawful command with several speeches" and was punished for it. He would do this many times more.

In May 1621 John Billington (the younger) became lost in some woods for several days, eventually being returned home by some natives from Nauset on Cape Cod.

In 1624 John Billington was implicated in the Oldham-Lyford scandal (a revolt against the rule of the Plymouth church), but insisted he was innocent and was never officially punished.

In 1625 Governor Bradford wrote a letter to Robert Cushman saying "Billington still rails against you…he is a knave, and so will live and die."

In 1636, wife Elinor (Eleanor) was sentenced to sit in the stocks and be whipped for slandering John Doane.

Family
John Billington married Elinor (Unknown) in England. They had two sons. After John's death, Elinor married Gregory Armstrong in September 1638. Elinor died after March 2, 1642/3. Gregory Armstrong died in Plymouth on November 5, 1650.

It is possible that Elinor was born Elinor Longland, sister of Francis Longland, as the Billington's son Francis was included in a three-life lease with Francis Longland and a nephew of Francis Longland for land in the manor of Spalding in Lincolnshire, implying that Francis Billington was also a nephew of Longland's. However, despite extensive research, no other evidence has been found.

Children of John and Elinor Billington:
 * John, born about 1604. He died in Plymouth between May 22, 1627, and his father's death in 1630.
 * Francis, born about 1606. He married Christian (Penn) Eaton in Plymouth in July 1634 and had nine children. A survey in 1650 indicated that Francis Billington was then in New England. He died in Middleboro on December 3, 1684.

Death of John Billington
In September 1630 John Billington was tried by a jury and hanged for the murder of John Newcomen, whom he saw as an enemy. This was the first such execution in Plymouth colony. Bradford states he was approximately forty years of age. His burial location is unknown. Nathaniel Mourton, colony secretary from 1645 to 1685, indicated that Billington saw Newcomen robbing his traps.

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Samuel Burch

Samuel Edward Burch (August 1, 1889 – March 4, 1974) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1949 to 1958.

The son of L. R. Burch and Jane Ann McRae, Burch was born in Carberry and educated at Brucefield School in Manitoba. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1949 election in the constituency of Norfolk—Beautiful Plains, defeating his Progressive Conservative opponent by 633 votes. He was re-elected by a greater margin in the 1953 provincial election. Burch served as a backbench supporter of Douglas Campbell's government during his time in the legislature.

He was married twice: first to Agnes Mabel Mann in 1912 and then to Lavina Jane Campbell in 1934.

The Liberal-Progressives were defeated in the 1958 election, and Burch was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Marcel Boulic in the redistributed constituency of Cypress.

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Wikipedia:Peer review/University of Wales, Lampeter/archive2

University of Wales, Lampeter
The oldest university college in Wales, and the smallest public university in Europe. This is a resubmitted request, since I have made a large number of changes since the last request and have, I hope, responded to previous criticisms. I am still in the process of finding out dates for the listed academics. Might it be better to remove them until I have the appropriate dates? What else can I add or improve? Your input would be really welcome. See Archive1 for previous request Twrist 23:08, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I notice you mention the university "rates highly" in theology and such, and I wonder where that information came from. It might be helpful to include some kind of comparitive reference between this university and others. (I don't know if one's available or not- I was thinking something like an article comparing and ranking various universities like what Maclean's magazine does here in Canada.) Just a thought. --Scimitar 20:14, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Patriarch Eutychius

Patriarch Eutychius may refer to:

 * Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople (512–582), Patriarch of Constantinople and saint
 * Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria (877–940), Greek Patriarch of Alexandria and historian

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International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation

The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF) was a global union federation. In 2005 it had 217 member organizations in 110 countries, representing a combined membership of over 10 million workers.

History
The ITGLWF was founded in 1970 as a result of the merger of the International Textile and Garment Workers' Federation and the International Shoe and Leather Workers' Federation. These organizations were preceded by much older ones: the International Glove Workers' Union was founded in 1892, the International Secretariat of Shoemakers in 1893, and the International Secretariat of Leather Workers in 1896. The International Federation of Textile Workers' Associations originated in 1894 and the International Tailors' Secretariat in 1896.

The organization held a congress every four years, consisting of delegates from the member organisations. The congress established the broad lines of the ITGLWF's policies and actions.

The organisation's headquarters was located in Brussels, Belgium. There were four regional organisations within the ITGLWF: FITTVCC/ORI, the Americas' regional organisation, based in Venezuela; ITGLWF/ERO, the European regional organisation, based in Belgium; TWARO, the Asian regional organisation, based in Japan; and ARCC, the African Regional Consultative Council, based in South Africa.

The ITGLWF worked closely with the International Trade Union Confederation and the other global union federations.

In 2007, the International Federation Textile-Clothing, a former affiliate of the World Confederation of Labour, merged into the ITGLWF. In June 2012 affiliates of ITGLWF joined the new global federation IndustriALL Global Union.

Affiliates
In 1979, the following unions were affiliated to the federation:

General Secretaries

 * 1970: Jack Greenhalgh
 * 1971: Charles Ford
 * 1988: Neil Kearney
 * 2009: Patrick Itschert
 * 2011: Klaus Priegnitz

Presidents

 * 1970: John Newton
 * 1972: Karl Buschmann
 * 1980: Harold Gibson
 * 1984: Karl-Erik Persson
 * 1988: Berthold Keller
 * 1992: David Lambert
 * 1996: Peter Booth
 * 2004: Manfred Schallmeyer
 * 2009: Hisanobu Shimada


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Cover of the Journey album Journey's Greatest Hits (1988).

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Stemple

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep (no consensus). Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Adam Stemple

 * Delete Vanity, not notable Revolución 23:03, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, minor author, local musician, neither quite making it up to the level of overall importance, influence of achievement I'd consider necessary. If anyone can show good sales for any of his books (e.g appearance on any of the NY Times Best-Seller lists) then I'll reconsider. Average Earthman 13:24, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep--published author, incl. writing a collection of stories with the clearly notable Jane Yolen and published in a (admittedly minor) "Best of the Year" edition. Meelar (talk) 13:52, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep with expansion. Co-wrote 9 songs with Steven Brust on Songs from the Gypsy, a Boiled in Lead enhanced CD. Boiled in Lead albums are available nationwide; my opinion that "local musician" understates the case. Singer of Souls Tor Books 2005 ISBN 0765311704 is his first novel (although he has written two others with Jane Yolen). --WCFrancis 16:09, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The CD above had the distinction of having the full text of Brust's novel The Gypsy, on which the songs were based.
 * Further info from Boiled in Lead web site: "The group and the individual musicians have won over 18 Minnesota Music Awards, and toured throughout the US and in Europe. (See WikiProject Music/Notability and Music Guidelines.) the band Boiled in Lead has been around over 20 years. Perhaps what is needed is an entry for Boiled in Lead with redirect from Adam Stemple entry, he thought out loud. The previous group Stemple was in was Cats Laughing, which also included notable fantasy/sf authors Steven Brust and Emma Bull. His current group is the Tim Malloys. All 3 groups have common musical roots of celtic and rock styles. -- WCFrancis 20:41, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 10:11, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Cleanfeed

Cleanfeed may refer to:

Technology

 * Cleanfeed (Usenet spam filter), a Usenet spam filter
 * Cleanfeed (content blocking system), an Internet blocking system in the United Kingdom and Canada
 * Clean feed, or mix-minus a sound reproduction technique
 * Clean feed (TV), a television video signal without keys
 * Clean feed, a backhaul feed in TV and radio broadcasting

Other

 * Clean Feed Records, a Portuguese record label

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Aldo Ciccolini

Aldo Ciccolini (15 August 1925 – 1 February 2015) was an Italian pianist who became a naturalized French citizen in 1971.

Biography
Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples. His father, whose family bore the title of Marquis in the city of Macerata, worked as a typographer. Aldo Ciccolini took his first lessons with Maria Vigliarolo d'Ovidio, and entered Naples Conservatory in 1934 at the age of 9, with special permission of the director, Francesco Cilea. There he studied piano with Paolo Denza, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, and harmony and counterpoint with Achille Longo.

He began his performing career playing at the Teatro San Carlo at the age of 16. However, by 1946 he was forced to play in bars to support his family. In 1949, he won, ex-aequo (tied) with Ventsislav Yankov, the Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris (among the other prizewinners were Paul Badura-Skoda and Pierre Barbizet). He became a French citizen in 1971 and taught at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1970 to 1988, where his students included Akiko Ebi, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artur Pizarro, Géry Moutier, Nicholas Angelich, André Sayasov and Jean-Luc Kandyoti. Other students included Fabio Mengozzi, Francesco Libetta, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Domenico Piccichè, Ivan Donchev and Jean-Marc Savelli.

Ciccolini was a celebrated interpreter and advocate of the piano music of the French composers Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Erik Satie as well as that of less prominent composers such as Déodat de Séverac, Jules Massenet and Alexis de Castillon.

Ciccolini was known for his having played the music of the Spanish composers Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, and Manuel de Falla, as well as of Franz Liszt. Soprano Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf said of him "I have hardly met a more wonderful partner and a more delightful companion."

On 9 December 1999, he celebrated a career in France spanning 50 years with a recital at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

In 2008, he was appointed commander of the French National Order of Merit.

Death
Aldo Ciccolini died on 1 February 2015 at his Paris residence, aged 89.

Recordings
Ciccolini made more than a hundred recordings for EMI-Pathé Marconi and other record companies, including the complete sonata cycles of Mozart and Beethoven, the complete solo piano work of Debussy and two separate cycles of the complete piano works of Satie.

In 2002, Ciccolini was awarded the Diapason d'Or for his recording of the entire solo piano works of Janáček for Abeille Music and of Schumann for Cascavelles. His complete Beethoven sonata cycle was re-published by the Cascavelle label in 2006. He also recorded such unusual repertoire as selections from the Péchés de vieillesse by Rossini and the complete piano music of Massenet.

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Talk:I Want You Back

Cleopatra
Why is so much space devoted to one of the less distinguished covers of this song? Many more interesting covers (Lake Street Dive's street corner performance debut, the version cut from Glee_(TV_series), etc. There are too many covers to cover, so best include none, or point to a separate article with a list. Jds13 (talk) 01:30, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Wilton Felder
It's interesting to discover that Wilton Felder played the bass but who made up the bass line? If it was arranged by the Corporation it must have been on of them, right?

Influence?
Did the song "I want you back" have any social, political, or economical influence in it; was it influenced by (or was it influencial in) society, politics, or the economy?

 * No...it's simply an accessible, bubblegum pop record sung by a kid group. For Motown songs that had social, political, or economical influence, look at the work of Norman Whitfield and the acts he produced (The Temptations, The Undisputed Truth, Edwin Starr). --FuriousFreddy 23:22, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

I Want You Back (Corey Hart song)
Hey, to the one who edited the original "I Want You Back" page to make it a page about Corey Hart's different version, please do the song under this title: "I Want You Back (Corey Hart song)" so there won't be no difficulties. The song was recorded in different versions under the same title by other artists and since the Jacksons' first version was the one people know. I think it's safe to create a new page just for Corey's song alone. Thanks. -- BrothaTimothy

 * Actually, no; any information on any cover of the Gordy/Mizell/Perren/Richards composition "I Want YOu Back" should be in this article and this article alone. We had a huge issue last year with fans writing seperate articles on different cover versions of songs. --FuriousFreddy 15:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I was surprised to see that the article doesn't mention the "Z-Trip Remix" version of the song, which is fascinating in that it exposes some of the individual instrumental tracks (especially the extraordinary guitar line at the beginning). Are remixes outside the scope of "song" articles? They shouldn't be. --Anon

Lyrics
Should anything about the song's lyrics be mentioned in the article?

Reversion unwarranted
Please discuss the specific issues you have with my recent changes. As the edit summary indicated, what I did was "organize into sections, cut back on peacock terms, annotate external links"--none of which qualifies as "unconstructive" as you said on my talk page. 72.244.200.36 (talk) 20:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC). this is the greatest song ever made hands down no argument —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.93.227.64 (talk) 17:18, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Instrumental Cover Version
"The Wild Bunch" (1970, J-Dan, 1970. (as Dandy & The Music Doctors)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4DP9uAg5u2M

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_Livingstone

DutchSeduction (talk) 12:29, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Joe'Nika

where did that live at when that was kid's —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.28.219.191 (talk) 17:51, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Infobox
The "I Want You Back" single by "The Jackson Five", is a 1969 song by the Jackson Five (introduction says Jackson 5) released before the album "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5" (infobox has the song coming "from the album"). Motown signed The Jackson Five not the The Jackson 5 in March 1969. The 1968 titled song in infobox, source [3], is a Steeltown label song by "The Jackson Five", not a Motown label song (infobox has one label, "Label-Motown"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.165.84.140 (talk) 00:48, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 25 October 2018

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved (page mover nac) Flooded  with them hundreds  08:03, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

– There are five other songs of the same title "I Want You Back", two songs called "Want You Back", and the Cher Lloyd song "Want U Back". Considering all the similarly titled songs since this song's release, this page should no longer be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. JE98 (talk) 22:26, 25 October 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. –Ammarpad (talk) 08:59, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I Want You Back → I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 song)
 * I Want You Back (disambiguation) → I Want You Back
 * Question: Have you checked the page views? The Jackson 5 song was huge. —BarrelProof (talk) 23:58, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Neutral |I_Want_You_Back_(NSYNC_song)|I_Want_You_Back_(Hoodoo_Gurus_song)|I_Want_You_Back_(Mel_B_song)|I_Want_You_Back_(Bananarama_song)|I_Want_You_Back_(Pure_Soul_song) strictly on page views not a good case for moving. There are very few entertainment products that really justify WP:PT, as (The Jackson 5 song) here would help all readers. But helping readers is not our only priority. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:05, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Existence does not equate notability. Unreal7 (talk) 10:21, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. A clear primary topic. Station1 (talk) 00:17, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Appears to be primary topic. According to the article, the Jackson 5 song has sold 6 million copies, was ranked #121 on Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and is considered one of the most sampled songs in hip hop music. Nothing else in the disambiguation page comes close. —  Newslinger  talk   00:59, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Johnny Jackson and Ronnie Rancifer
The personnel list has unreferenced claims of these musicians, maintenance tags are three years old. Having said that, I'm gonna go ahead and delete them for now, until reliable sources are found stating that they played on the song.--2601:153:881:3D60:989C:476D:B562:7A0E (talk) 20:30, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Sources for personnel credits
I personally think that, instead of repeating the same citations throughout the list for each of the musicians, it probably would be better to just say "Credits adapted from Michael Jackson All The Songs and AllMusic" as the list itself would look cleaner/tidier and be easier to read, so I'm gonna go ahead and do that.--2601:153:881:3D60:5C85:97F1:B82C:960B (talk) 20:44, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

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Professional Graphics Controller

Professional Graphics Controller (PGC, often called Professional Graphics Adapter and sometimes Professional Graphics Array) is a graphics card manufactured by IBM for PCs. It consists of three interconnected PCBs, and contains its own processor and memory. The PGC was, at the time of its release, the most advanced graphics card for the IBM XT and aimed for tasks such as CAD.

Introduced in 1984, the Professional Graphics Controller offered a maximum resolution of 640 × 480 with 256 colors on an analog RGB monitor, at a refresh rate of 60 hertz—a higher resolution and color depth than CGA and EGA supported. This mode is not BIOS-supported. It was intended for the computer-aided design market and included 320 KB of display RAM and an on-board Intel 8088 microprocessor. The 8088 ran software routines such as "draw polygon" and "fill area" from an on-board 64 KB ROM so that the host CPU didn't need to load and run these routines itself. While never widespread in consumer-class personal computers, its US$2995 1984 list price, plus $1,295 display, compared favorably to US$50,000 dedicated CAD workstations of the time (even when the $4,995 price of a PC XT Model 87 was included). It was discontinued in 1987 with the arrival of VGA and 8514.

Software support
The board was targeted at the CAD market, therefore limited software support is to be expected. The only softwares known to support the PGC are IBM's Graphical Kernel System, P-CAD 4.5, Canyon State Systems CompuShow and AutoCAD 2.5.

Output capabilities
PGC supports:
 *  with 256 colors from a palette of 4,096 (12-bit RGB palette, or 4 bits per color component).
 * Color Graphics Adapter text and graphics modes. Text modes use a font with 8×16-pixel character cells and have 400 rows of pixels.

There are six possible color arrangements:

 * Default 256-colour palette - Low 4 bits intensity, high 4 bits colour;
 * 16-colour palette - Makes the PGC behave as two 16-colour planes. If high 4 bits are 0, low 4 bits are colour; otherwise, high 4 bits are colour.
 * 2-3-3 palette (Palette 2) - Bits 0-2 blue; bits 3-5 green; bits 6-7 red.
 * 3-2-3 palette (Palette 3) - Bits 0-2 blue; bits 3-4 green; bits 5-7 red.
 * 3-3-2 palette (Palette 4) - Bits 0-1 blue; bits 2-4 green; bits 5-7 red.
 * 6x6x6 colour cube - six equally spaced shades of red, green, and blue

Operation
The display adapter was composed of three physical circuit boards (one with the on-board microprocessor, firmware ROMs and video output connector, one providing CGA emulation, and the third mostly carrying RAM) and occupied two adjacent expansion slots on the XT or AT motherboard or the Expansion Unit; the third card was located in between the two slots. The PGC could not be used in the original IBM PC without the 5161 Expansion Unit due to the different spacing of its slots.

In addition to its native mode, the PGC optionally supported the documented text and graphics modes of the Color Graphics Adapter, which could be enabled using an onboard jumper. However, it was only partly register-compatible with CGA.

Related monitor
The PGC's matching display was the IBM 5175, an analog RGB monitor that is unique to it and not compatible with any other video card without modification. With hardware modification, the 5175 can be used with VGA, Macintosh, and various other analog RGB video sources. Some surplus 5175s in VGA-converted form were still sold by catalog retailers such as COMB (Close Out Merchant Buyers) as late as the early 1990s.

Hardware clones

 * Matrox PG-640, PG-1280 and QG-640 (for the DEC MicroVAX)
 * Dell NEC MVA-1024 card
 * Everex EPGA
 * Orchid Technology TurboPGA
 * Vermont Microsystems IM-640, IM-1024

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Lorne Mitton

Lorne M. Mitton is a former mayor of Moncton, New Brunswick, elected in May 2004. His predecessor was Brian Murphy. He was born and raised in Moncton, and studied at the University of Toronto. He has worked with organizations in the transportation industry including CN Rail, the Atlantic Provinces Transportation Commission, and the National Transportation Agency of Canada.

Prior to being elected Mayor, Mitton served the city as a Councillor At Large from 1998 to 2004 on Moncton City Council. During that time he was twice elected Deputy Mayor by his fellow Councillors.

Lorne Mitton announced in 2007 that he would not be re-offering in the next municipal election. Mitton officially retired in May 2008, and was succeeded by George LeBlanc, who was sworn into office on May 26, 2008.

He served as president of the Canadian Curling Association from 1994 to 1995.

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Trachyspermum roxburghianum

Trachyspermum roxburghianum (also known as Carum roxburghianum) is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It is grown extensively in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia. Its aromatic dried fruits, like those of its close relative ajwain, are often used in Bengali cuisine but are rarely used in the rest of India. It is also used as a spice in Bangladesh. The fresh leaves are used as an herb in Thailand and it is used medicinally in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

Characteristics
The small dried fruits, commonly referred to as seeds, are similar in appearance to those of ajwain, celery, and caraway. Because of their similarity in both appearance and flavor, it is often confused or substituted with celery seed.

Etymology
Known as ' in Bengali (রাধুনি), is often confused with celery and is known as wild celery in English. It is known as in Hindi (अजमोद) and Urdu (اجمود), both derived from Sanskrit  (अजमोद) or  (अजमोदिका), from which the name for ajwain is also derived. It is also known as in Burmese, and  in Thai (ผักชีล้อม), although this name may also refer to a variety of celery. It is also known as (අසමෝදගම්) in Sri Lanka.

Uses
It is a very strong spice, with a characteristic smell similar to parsley and a taste similar to celery. A couple of pinches can easily overpower a curry. In Bengali cuisine the seeds are used whole, quickly fried in very hot oil until they crackle. It is commonly used in the Bengali dish. They are sometimes part of a local (Bengali five spice) mixture replacing black mustard seeds; the other ingredients are cumin seed, fenugreek seed, fennel seed, and Nigella Seed. In other places, a common use is in pickling or spice mixtures. It is commonly used as an herb for diarrhea, gastritis, loss of appetite, vomiting, abdominal distention, stomachache related to indigestion and also for worm diseases.

title: Trachyspermum roxburghianum


text: Category:Filipino chess players

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IVCF

IVCF may stand for:

 * InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
 * Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada
 * InterVarsity Choral Festival (Canada)
 * Sydney Intervarsity Choral Festival, (also SIV)

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Long Distance Voyager

Long Distance Voyager is the tenth album by the Moody Blues, first released in May 1981 on the group's Threshold record label. It was the group's first album featuring keyboardist Patrick Moraz (who previously had worked with bands such as Refugee and Yes) in place of co-founder Mike Pinder, who left after Octave in 1978.

Upon release in 1981, Long Distance Voyager became the Moody Blues' second American number one album, and was also the source of the US Top 20 singles "Gemini Dream" (No. 12) and "The Voice" (No. 15) on the Billboard Hot 100. A third single, "Talking Out of Turn", only reached No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 but reached No. 27 in Canada. It also continued the Moody Blues' winning streak in their native United Kingdom, reaching No. 7 there.

Besides the singles, two songs from the album charted on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart. "Meanwhile" charted at No. 11 and "22,000 Days" charted at No. 38.

In November 2008, the album was remastered and released on CD with one extra track.

Writing
According to Ray Thomas, "Most people think that Long Distance Voyager was named after the cosmic themes that dominate our music. But in fact we were simply describing ourselves." John Lodge stated that "The Long Distance Voyager album is about people. Although the title is very space-oriented, it isn't. The whole idea is we are the same as we were a hundred years ago, two hundred years ago. It's about people and situations and feelings, and talking out of turn is a particular feeling." The final three tracks comprise a mini-suite that combines themes of carnival jesters and the chaos experienced backstage at a rock show.

Guitarist Justin Hayward recalls writing "The Voice": "It was the first thing that we recorded for Long Distance Voyager. I used to feel a lot of guilt about our position in the world and that we were really privileged and that went into that song. Long Distance Voyager was a huge milestone for us. There was a time after the Octave album where we didn't quite know how to make things work. We were all a bit nervous. Long Distance Voyager really came together and we had a number one album. "The Voice" and "Gemini Dream" were both hits."

Bassist Lodge remembers the inspiration for "Gemini Dream", and how the production of the album built the band's excitement to go on tour once again: "We had stopped touring with the Moody Blues in 1974, I think it was. In 1980, we had an album called Long Distance Voyager and we were going to go on the road after it was done. We had not recorded the album yet, but we knew we were going into the studio to record it soon. I came up with this idea that we needed a song that said we were are back on the road. The original song was called "Touring in the USA." That was the original demo when we were putting it together. As we were writing it together, we suddenly realized what we were actually talking about, and that is when you're a musician, you're either on the road, as a Moody Blue, or you're at home, as anyone else. It was just trying to combine the two things together that are the same person living two different lives."

Graeme Edge's "22,000 Days" was inspired by his reflection on the number of days in a typical lifetime. He explains, ""I worked out how many days [are in] an average lifespan of 70 years. And it came out to something that really shook me, something like 23,927 days. But I changed it to 22,000 days because it seemed better. Twenty-two thousand days is 66 and a half years. And if you figure, well, maybe the first five or six years you aren't going to be worth much, and the last five or six years you aren't going to be worth much, it works out that your useful life is about 22,000 days. And that really surprised me because that doesn't seem much. And I did a lot of tests on people and I'd say 'give me a quick answer'. I was getting back like a quarter of a million, two million. People think they have so many days to live. See, 70 years, everybody knows, it doesn't really register. If you do too much and have a day's hangover, you've wasted 1/22,000 of your life. And all the sudden the days start getting more valuable."

"Veteran Cosmic Rocker" was inspired by a phrase an interviewer used to describe author Ray Thomas. He remembers, "Some reporter from The New York Times came to one our gigs in the States and he referred to me as the 'Veteran Cosmic Rocker'. At the time I thought 'Bloody cheek. I'm not veteran.' And then I thought 'That sounds good actually.' So I nicked it and wrote that song."

Recording
The songs on Long Distance Voyager were recorded at the band's own Threshold Studios. The songs were recorded and mixed by Greg Jackman, while Pip Williams was the album's producer. Supplementing the Moody Blues—Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Ray Thomas, Graeme Edge, and Patrick Moraz—was a string section performed by the New World Philharmonic, which Pip Williams arranged.

John Lodge remembers the sessions: "Long Distance Voyager changed everything again, because that album went to number one in America. I think we have three or four singles off that album, and it was our first album recorded in our own studio in London as well. We built Westlake Audio Studio to do, but it was the only album ever made at that studio by The Moody Blues."

Album Cover
The cover for the album was based on a painting entitled "Punch" (1840) by Thomas Webster printed for the Art Union of Glasgow, while the sleeve was based on a concept by the Moody Blues which was designed by Cream, who were in charge of the album's cover artwork. NASA's Voyager spacecraft is at the top of the front side of the album cover. Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 ' s flybys of Saturn were in the news in 1980–81.

Reception
Billboard said that "the group is in prime form here with a knockout collection of gorgeous melodies, harmonies and poetic lyrics". Billboard contributor Ed Harrison said that "'Long Distance Voyager,' though bending somewhat to commercial pop trends, still manages to recreate the group's lushly textured, classical /rock symphonic sound epitomized by classics like 'Nights In White Satin,' 'Ride My See-Saw,' 'Question' and others.." ' Cash Box called it "a nice return to vinyl" for the Moody Blues, commenting on the "luxurious, symphoric rock setting on songs like 'In My World,' 'Talking Out of Turn' and '22,000 Days.' and noting that "the patented Moody Blues group vocal is also it fine form and, surprisingly, sounds perfectly contemporary."

Personnel

 * Justin Hayward – vocals, guitars
 * John Lodge – vocals, bass guitar
 * Ray Thomas – vocals, flute, harmonica
 * Graeme Edge – drums, percussion
 * Patrick Moraz – keyboards, synthesizers, arrangements

Additional personnel

 * B. J. Cole – pedal steel guitar on "In My World"
 * New World Philharmonic – orchestrations
 * Pip Williams – string arrangements and director of the orchestra
 * Dave Symonds – spoken word

Production

 * Pip Williams – producer, string arrangements
 * Greg Jackman – recording engineer, mixing
 * Norman Goodman – assistant to Greg Jackman
 * Melvyn Abrahams – mastering
 * Ted Jensen – mastering for US release
 * Cream – sleeve design, artwork

title: Long Distance Voyager


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