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Hyphen
When an adjective and noun form a noun phrase (such as "He's a Christian anarchist") there's no hyphen; when it forms an adjectival phrase (such as "He's a Christian-anarchist writer") it takes a hyphen. Standard English grammar, designed in part to avoid ambiguity (there's a difference between being an anarchist and a Christian and being a Christian anarchist; in the former case there wouldn't be a hyphen). --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 15:38, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Did it bother anyone...
that the prophecy scrolls were supposedly written 600 B.C., but they made predictions about what would happen in the "second millennium," which the protagonists took to mean the present day. I guess the scrolls also foresaw the birth of Christ.

 * The manuscript and story is fiction, but the insights are true. I too have experienced them. 189.162.49.108 17:27, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Needs to be revised
This is only a rather bland view of the book and of the Insights, perhaps a more in depth discussion of each Insight could be done as well as a reference to the Experimental Guide which offers a lot to help people underdtand the book. --Katana Geldar 21:58, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Your "bland" might be Wikipedia's "balanced". It is not the job of Wikipedia to promote a religion or philosophy or prophecy by making it sound exciting. Yakushima (talk) 04:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Title
Why is this book called The Celestine Prophecy? Hanfresco 09:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

 * The title " The Celestine Prophecy " in code for the ideas Noosphere to Omega" Noosphere being Celestine and Omega being Prophecy  .The whole book The Celestine Prophecy is a plagurized copy of Pierre Teilhard with the coinicidence-synchronicity stolen from the ideas of Carl Jung whereas Dan Brown has been exposed for stealing James Redfieldgainst Teilhard's ideas on evolution —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.215.219.88 (talk • contribs) 18:02, March 15, 2007  (UTC)

Criticism, Etc.?
A section on criticism would be especially helpful: Was the book well-received by critics, poorly received? What has been written about the book in other sources, such as popular magazines, film magazines, etc.

Also, a section on the movie and it's reception by critics and the public would be helpful.

Furthemore, I would like to know if the author really believes in the metaphysical aspects of the book, or is this, too, fiction, in his opinion?

Finally, has the book created a following of persons who believe/practice the metaphysical aspects of the book (i.e., who did not do so beforehand) -- in other words, is the book considered by some to be a proselytizing tool of sorts, used by the author to convert people to his beliefs (if he does indeed believe them)?

The criticism for this has come from both the Catholic Church as well as skeptics of spirituality Skeptics of spirtituality? What does that mean? Skepticisim of The Celestine Prophecy does not imply a skepticism of spirituality. This could use a citation. It seems also that the notes section has been deleted, making the footnotes in this article useless.

--76.90.140.101 (talk) 06:27, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the citation for "literary critics" and replaced it with a citation needed, on the basis that the citation given wasn't appropriate under Wikipedia's referencing rules - it needs to be a reliable source, and the source was just some angry person (whom I highly doubt belongs to any literary community, due to their poor writing skills) ranting about how much they personally hate The Celestine Prophecy; their criticism is juvenile and doesn't use any of the proper tools of literary criticism. I'm going to assume in good faith that the author of the website didn't just insert their own link to try and improve their SEO. Either a better source is needed or the statement of there being "criticism from the literary community" needs to be removed. Here's some help for identifying what constitutes an appropriate reference or source for Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources Date: January 2016.

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Tagging for multiple issues
The Insights section is written like a religious tract or New Age promotional piece. It uses "we" without identifying any particular group or person. It presents prediction as fact. It does not cite any particular passages of any primary or secondary source. It could probably be significantly condensed or summarized. Among other issues. Yakushima (talk) 04:36, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It turns out the entire Insights section is a verbatim copy from this source.  Unattributed (therefore arguably plagiarism) and definitely copyright violation either way.  Out it goes. Yakushima (talk) 04:36, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Title
This article should have at least a brief mention of why the book is entitled The Celestine Prophecy. Does it have any reference to any of the "Celestines" from this Wikipedia article (Celestine)? Does anyone know for sure? Can someone please include this in the article? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 11:33, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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Do not merge..
I am not as familiar with how Wikipedia deals with sub topics or alternative terms, but I think this article should not be merged with patent application.

I needed to know what patent prosecution means. I wasn't sure if it refered to the application proces or the process of prosecute patent infringers. If the patent prosecution article was merged with the patent application article I doubt I would have found my answer as quickly as I did. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sebrenner (talk • contribs)

I do not think this article should be merged. As someone who prosecutes patents, it is my opinion that a patent application is just one step in a very long process of getting a patent. Dratoff (talk) 23:48, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Combine..
Patent Prosecution is a process distinct from patent infringement litigation. Prosecution of the patent is merely the "back-and-forth" between the inventor and the USPTO, in an attempt to come to an equilibrium between allowable and non-allowable subject matter. A patent is "prosecuted" in the process of application. I beleive these terms could easily be combined. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.174.73.17 (talk • contribs)

 * I think they should be merged - as per the above, prosecution is the process that occurs during a patent application. (don't forget, though, that's its not just the USPTO that issues patents). Kcordina Talk 14:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Plugs for firms?
Surely it should be sufficient to have references to professional bodies like CIPA (in the UK), rather than direct plugs for specific firms? -- 62.8.111.131 15:33, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Outdated Law
The Federal Circuit in In re Tanaka reversed the USPTO decision in Ex Parte Tanaka. The current law is the opposite of what is stated in this article. See this announcement by the USPTO: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/law/notices/tanaka01aug2011.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.112.19.2 (talk) 18:50, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Hardy (bassist)

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The result of the debate was keep. Could perhaps be merged. Sjakkalle (Check!)  12:40, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Robert Hardy (bassist)
The page Robert Hardy (bassist) appears to be a vanity page and should be deleted.

 * No it isn't. Speedy keep. FF are a world-famous band. Morwen - Talk 16:12, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Morwen. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 16:18, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. FF is a well-known band. Ken 16:20, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Doesn't look like vanity. Multiple editors, and the band appears legit, even though they're not known in my corner of the world.  Friday 16:21, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Franz Ferdinand (band). FF is very notable, but Hardy isn't notable outside of the context of the band (or at least the article doesn't make that clear). All of the information in the article relates to the band's formation and rightly belongs there. If Hardy is notable for being something other than the bassist of a hit band, or if someone writes a long, verified, and interesting bio of this guy, then I can see it as its own article. Otherwise, it's a misplaced story with a goofy picture. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  16:30, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this article and that stupid picture. Nothing here that can't be covered in the FF article. Gamaliel 16:45, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and replace with a sentence or two in the FF article as per Gamaliel. Thryduulf 16:50, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Morwen. Qwghlm 17:23, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Morwen but ditch the picture which makes it difficult to take this article seriously. 23skidoo 17:33, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into band's article as per Android. No indication that Mr. Hardy has any notability outside of that of the band.  Barno 18:13, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Franz Ferdinand (band) per Android79. Dcarrano 20:08, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Morwen. Photograph eightysixed. Hall Monitor 21:28, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into main article as per above. --jonasaurus 21:42, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable in his own right for his contributions to a guitar-based band. David | Talk 22:32, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with band article. Nothing notable about him on his own. --Etacar11 01:04, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as above. Radiant_ >|< 08:53, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge this and the articles on the other members (Alexander Kapranos / Nicholas McCarthy / Paul Thomson) into a Members of Franz Ferdinand (band) article. Thinking being if we merge this article it would imply that we need to merge the others and that would make Franz Ferdinand (band) article too long... -- Lochaber 14:19, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Franz Ferdinand (band). Not notable on his own. JamesBurns 03:32, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article was not produced for vain purposes.  Notable, award-winning band with strong individual contributions.  --Bleary 02:39, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * First edit. Gamaliel 03:04, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, do not merge. James F. (talk) 15:48, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.91.73 (talk • contribs)
 * First edit.
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Terrible
This article is terrible. It is very NPOV and unbalanced. It really needs to be re-edited by someone who knows what they are talking about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.250.155 (talk) 16:52, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

clean up
I have attmepted a bit of clean up and therefore have removed the tag. 172.212.103.181 20:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Correcting definitions of Primary and Secondary Poverty
I'm planning to correct the definitions of Primary and Secondary Poverty to bring them in line with those in Rowntree's Book Poverty. Both groups being defined as being below the poverty line but for different reasons. The part of Poverty that deals with this can be read at the External Link to Glasgow University on the article, follow the link summary and conclusion and look at pages 295 and 296. Kaly99 12:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Plagarism?
The following concern was raised on the article's main page:

Large chunks of this work are lifetd direct from Haralambos and Holborn, "Sociology themes and perspectives." 4th edition (1998) see as an example "Criticism of his work." Compare with page 127 in H&H. Yet I see no acknowledgement of H&H in this text.

Francium12 (talk) 11:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I independently assessed the criticism section as original research. It had already been tagged for lack of citations. I've taken the step of removing it. If other parts of this work are plagiarism, there may be copyright problems. --Geau (talk) 17:34, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

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Murtaza Bhutto

Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto (مُرتضٰی بُھٹّو, 18 September 1954 – 20 September 1996) was a Pakistani politician and leader of al-Zulfiqar, a Pakistani left-wing militant organization. The son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, he earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a master's degree from the University of Oxford. Murtaza founded al-Zulfiqar after his father was overthrown and executed in 1979 by the military regime of General Zia-ul-Haq. In 1981, he claimed responsibility for the murder of conservative politician Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi, and the hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines airplane from Karachi, during which a hostage was killed. In exile in Afghanistan, Murtaza was sentenced to death in absentia by a military tribunal.

He returned to Pakistan in 1993 and was arrested for terrorism on the orders of his sister, then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Released on bail, Murtaza successfully contested elections to the Sindh Provincial Assembly, becoming a vocal critic of Benazir and her husband Asif Ali Zardari. After increasing tensions between the two, he was shot dead along with six associates in a police encounter near his home in Karachi on 20 September 1996. Benazir's government was dismissed a month later by President Farooq Leghari, primarily citing Murtaza's death and corruption. Zardari was arrested and indicted for Murtaza's murder, but acquitted in 2008. Murtaza's own faction of his father's Pakistan People's Party–Shaheed Bhutto, remains active in politics.

Early life and education
Born into the Bhutto family in Karachi on 18 September 1954, to Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto, he received his early education at St. Mary's Academy. He was born in a Sindhi Rajput Bhutto family, and has three siblings: Benazir, Shahnawaz and Sanam. He later passed his 'O' levels from the Karachi Grammar School in 1971. In 1972, Murtaza went off to Harvard University where he took his bachelor's degree. For a period of time, he was the roommate of Texas gubernatorial candidate and former mayor of Houston, Bill White. In 1976, Bhutto graduated with his thesis entitled "Modicum of Harmony". His thesis dealt with the spread of nuclear weapons in general, and the implications of India's nuclear weapons on Pakistan in particular. Murtaza went on to attend Christ Church Oxford, his father's alma mater, for a three-year Master of Letters (MLitt) degree course. Bhutto submitted his master thesis, containing a vast argumentative work on Nuclear strategic studies, where he advocated for Pakistan's right to develop its nuclear deterrence programme to counter Indian nuclear programme.

Al-Zulfiqar
The Al-Zulfiqar Organization (AZO) was born at this point, and disgruntled elements among the younger members of the PPP, disappointed in the party's leadership, flocked to Murtaza's side. The AZO, however, went on to earn the title of terrorist organisation due to its various terrorist activities throughout the country, a label which dogged Murtaza till he died. For his part, Murtaza always denied the charge that he espoused the politics of terrorism.

1981 PIA hijack
Al-Zulfiqar hijacked a Pakistan International Airlines flight after and diverted it to Kabul in March 1981. From Kabul the journey went on to Damascus, Syria. The hijacking went on for thirteen days, during which Murtaza shot Major Tariq Rahim for being an Army officer. Rahim was executed following Murtaza's conferring with Afghan Intelligence (KHAD) chief Mohammad Najibullah. The Zia government had to accept the demands of the hijackers, releasing dozens of prisoners languishing in Pakistani jails and flying them to Tripoli.

According to Vasili Mitrokhin, before the hijacking event Bhutto visited Kabul and met Najibullah on three occasions, together agreeing to fight the Pakistani regime through a plane hijacking in late 1980. Then during the hijacking when the plane was on the Kabul tarmac, Najibullah secretly met Bhutto in disguise at the plane. The KGB offered advice to Najibullah on exploiting the situation politically against Pakistan. Bhutto requested additional Al-Zulfiqar members to join them and Najibullah provided them with money, explosives, and weapons.

Rift with Asif Ali Zardari
He was not happy with the ways of Benazir's husband Asif Ali Zardari and wanted him removed from influence in the PPP. When Benazir decided to side with her husband, Murtaza became a strong critic of the PPP government and the ongoing corruption. It is widely believed in Pakistan that this incident drove Zardari to rage and he used police machinery to assassinate Murtaza Bhutto. Benazir became highly unpopular after this incident and her limo was stoned by PPP workers when she tried to visit Murtaza's funeral ceremonies. After Benazir's government was dismissed in 1996, Zardari was detained for having a part in Murtaza's assassination. However, no charges were ever proven due to lack of evidence.

Personal life
Bhutto fell in love with an Afghan girl named Fauzia Fasihuddin in Afghanistan. He married Fauzia in 1980, and his brother Shahnawaz married her sister Rehana Fasihuddin. They had a daughter Fatima Bhutto. However, the marriage ended in divorce, and Bhutto along with his daughter moved to Syria, where he married the Lebanese dancer Ghinwa Bhutto in 1989. Bhutto, with his wife Ghinwa and daughter Fatima, later moved to Karachi in 1990, where the couple's son Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr was born.

Police trial
During the 13 years that the trial dragged on, a number of judges were appointed to hear the murder case. The change of judges is one of the many reasons behind the delay in disposal of the present case. Other reasons include a lack of interest of the prosecution witnesses and long adjournments sought by the counsel for President Asif Ali. The acquitted included Mazhar Memon, Asghar Ali, Asif Ali Jatoi, Mehmood Bhallai, Ghulam Mustafa Chandio and Akhter Ali Mirani. The police personnel acquitted include Shoaib Suddle, Wajid Durrani, Masood Sharif, Rai Tahir and others who were prosecution witnesses in this case.

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The Story Of Acid Jazz As told to Steve Bunyan by Marc Lessner

Who coined the phrase Acid Jazz?

The term was originally coined by DJ Gilles Peterson at one of Nicky Holloway’s Special Branch gigs at the Watermans Arts Centre in Brentford in late 1987. Nicky's Special Branch gigs had already been going for 2 or 3 years and attracted both suburban dwellers and a London crowd. As well as up and coming guest DJs like Gilles Peterson and Chris Bangs, Nicky decorated his clubs with slide shows on the walls. At one particular gig just as Gilles and Chris were about to start their set of funky jazz, soul and latin Gilles looked up at the visuals and pronounced `acid jazz'. As simple as that - no rhyme or reason for it - just an off-the-cuff remark

What was the club scene like at the time?

London and the suburbs had various different scenes at the time - rare groove, house, jazz dance and two step soul. The acid jazzers embraced the afro-american music of all these other scenes and began to put their own twist on the music.

How did Acid Jazz Records come about?

Eddie Piller was the manager of James Taylor Quartet - the hottest act on the acid jazz circuit at the time - when he met Gilles Peterson at one of the Special Branch club nights and subsequently went on to become part of Gilles’ circle, answering phones on his Mad On Jazz programme, doing warm-up slots at his Wag nights and so on. Eventually the duo decided to start up a label to release acts from the burgeoning acid jazz scene.

What was the first release on Acid Jazz?

The first release was Galliano's `Frederick Lies Still' a take on Curtis Mayfield's `Freddie's Dead' - an ever popular track on the rare groove scene. It was officially released in June 1988, 500 7” dinked middle copies having previously been sold by hand from November 1987.

How did word spread about Acid Jazz?

A combination of a very healthy club scene, Gilles's Tuesday night radio show on GLR and the support of enthusiastic journalists like Dave Swindells at Time Out helped spread the word about the scene. There were also a lot of bands that would come and play at the club nights - bands like the James Taylor Quartet, the Jazz Warriors, Mark Murphy, Courtney Pine and so on - all of which helped energise the scene. It would be wrong though to think that clubbers were part of a scene known as `acid jazz' - at the time (as is the case with so many musical movements) clubbers were just into a certain mix of music and found it at club nights like Nicky Holloway's Special Branch and Gilles Peterson's and Chris Bang's Cock Happy.

The worldwide use of the phrase acid jazz was still some way away.

Why did `acid jazz' become so popular?

There's a whole host of reasons as to why acid jazz was such a lengthy and successful scene and why acid jazz compilations still sell so well today. First up there were a lot of talented people in the scene - the djs we've mentioned, Gilles Peterson and Eddie Piller whose excellent ears for music allied with an ability to move fast and take risks brought forward a whole host of talented musicians and producers - many of whom have continued to be successful to this day. Additionally we should mention the friendly inclusive nature of the scene which attracted both men and women, whites and blacks, Londoners and suburbanites and people from working and middle class backgrounds. Lastly, as we've mentioned before, the unique mix of afro-american music drew people from many other scenes such as mod, rare groove, jazz dance, two-step and so on.

Was acid jazz largely a London and the home counties scene?

Not at all. Acid Jazz quickly spread around the country with DJs like Russ Dewbury in Brighton and Baz Fe Jazz in Birmingham.

Galliano

Galliano main man Rob Gallacher started out reading poetry over the records of his mate Gilles Peterson's at London's Wag club. One thing led to another and Galliano's unique half-spoken take on Curtis Mayfield's Freddie's Dead on `Frederick Lies Still' made for an ambitious first official 7" release on Acid Jazz Records in June 1988. Like so many Acid Jazz artists Rob Gallacher still successfully records today under the name Earl Zinger.

Quiet Boys

Chris Bangs was one of the founding fathers of acid jazz and to many one of the most radical and exciting DJs that the UK has ever produced. His gigs with Gilles Peterson at the legendary Cock Happy nights were the stuff of legend. Chris hung up his headphones on New Year's Eve 1989 to concentrate on his prolific studio output under various monikers - Bangs A Bongo, Grass Snakes, Lay-Zee Muthas and the Quiet Boys to name but a few. Let The Good Times Roll features Galliano (whose first album Bangs produced) and was one of the first actual songs that Bangs wrote after mastering his way round a studio. Astral Space is from much later on in the history of acid jazz and its sophisticated production is reminiscent of the influential Mizell brothers production sound that was so big in the rare groove scene at the time (The Mizell brothers produced the Blackbyrds, Donald Byrd, Patrice Rushen and Johnny Hammond in the mid to late 70s).

D'Influence

Could have been, should have been, would have been but wasn't is one way of summing up the multi-talented D'Influence who many thought would go on to enjoy the sort of success that Soul 11 Soul did but despite major label backing never quite got the recognition they deserved. They recorded just one single with four tracks over the years for Acid Jazz - the classic I'm The One - before moving on to East West and production work for many contemporary British r&b acts including Mark Morrison and Shola Ama.

The Brand New Heavies

Originally inspired to form in 1986 by the rare groove records that its members heard at such influential clubs as The Cat In The Hat, The Brand New Heavies first recorded instrumentals for Cooltempo before moving to Acid Jazz in 1989. Original members Jan Kincaid, Simon Bartholomew and Andrew Levy, Lascelles Gordon and Jim Wellman were joined by vocalist Jay Ella and their funky blue-eyed soul proved a winning sound. Stay This Way and Dream Come True are two of their most popular tracks from their time at Acid Jazz.

K-Collective

A one-off project from Brand New Heavies founder and drummer / keyboardist Jan Kincaid. Never Stop was the track that would later have N'Dea Davenport's vocals added to it and break the Heavies in the US.

Sunship

Originally the on-tour keyboard player for the Brand New Heavies, Ceri Evans released just one single on Acid Jazz under the name Sunship. A driving instrumental obviously inspired by Herbie Hancock its innovative jazz-meets-dance feel evidenced a major talent - one unfortunately that would only really find expression in later albums for Filter records and as a don of the UK garage scene.

Rose Windross

Acid Jazz released a one-off single from the singer and co-writer of Soul II Soul’s ‘Fairplay’. At the time Rose also promoted, bounced and danced her socks off at the popular mid-week club rave Yum Yum in London’s West End and was the retail manageress of a shop. The lyric to the soulful funky ‘Living Life Your Own Way’ not surprisingly reflect Rose’s determination at the time to forge a career on her own terms.

The Subterraneans

Marco Nelson - later of The Young Disciples - and Max Beesley - later of BBC TV's Tom Jones costume drama and Scary Spice fame - were the backbone of the Subterrraneans. Despite `Taurus Woman' being one of the most popular tracks to be featured on the Totally Wired series, it was a flop as a single and The Subterraneans soon disbanded. Acid Jazz's loss was Gilles Peterson's gain as Marco and Taurus Woman's vocalist Carleen Anderson went on to form The Young Disciples and release one of the 90s greatest albums.

Snowboy

Resplendent in quiff, black leather biker's jacket, drainpipe 501s and a pair of creepers Mark `Snowboy' Cotgrove didn't exactly look like your typical Acid Jazz signing he first appeared on the scene. His incredible knowledge of everything from northern soul to funk, jazz dance to all things latin allied with his inspired live conga playing soon got him noticed however and he eventually signed for Acid Jazz in 1989 staying with the label for 8 years and 5 albums. Snowboy continues to keep the jazz dance flag flying as promoter and dj at his Hi-Hat club nights at London's Jazz Cafe and around the world as well as recording for the US Ubiquity label and throwing in a bit of remixing and production work. Leroy Huston's Lucky Fellow and Sam Dee's Girl Overboard are two soul standards from the rare groove scene given the inimitable Snowboy treatment.

Mother Earth

Initially the brainchild of Eddie Piller's flatmate Bunny, Mother Earth incorporated elements of funk, blues, rock, jazz and mod into a sort of working man's Santana. Despite numerous line-up changes the group somehow kept going and, Bunny-less, produced an acclaimed 200,000selling second album from which we've taken the classic ballads `Jesse' and `Apple Tree'.

Apostles

The Apostles were an off shoot of JTQ, set up by the sax player, John Willmott along with Southend keyboard player John Dutton, who made one of the first successful album releases for the label. `Superstrut' being a laid back version of the Deodata jazz dance classic.

James Taylor Quartet

To many people the James Taylor Quartet were - and still are - the sound and vibe of Acid Jazz but despite their close connection to the label were not actually signed until 1994. Previous stints at Poydor's Urban label and then Big Life had helped establish the band's sales credentials but it was their raw Hammond-funk led live sound that Acid Jazz were looking for. We feature two of the group's finest workouts on `Good Thing' and `Creation'.

Vibraphonic

Formerly of popular live swing band the Chevalier Brothers, Roger Beaujolais originally approached Acid Jazz with a self-recorded latin jazz album in 1990. Determined to keep up with the scene, however, he went on to form Vibraphonic and release the acclaimed eponymous album from which we have taken the stand-out track `Trust Me' featuring the vocals of his chart-topping girlfriend of the time Alison Limerick.

Night Trains

Hugh Brooker's Night Trains were one of the first acts to be signed to Acid Jazz. Hugh also formed the Humble Souls with MC / rapper Wildski - splitting his time between both groups. The shuffling soulful groove and infectious lyrics of Lovesick from the Night Trains' second album augured well but the album never took off and despite a third album Hugh Brooker moved on to writing music for the movies.

New Jersey Kings

Another side project of JTQ allowing the group to get down to the funky Hammond led grooves they loved without the pressure of major labels' A&R men wondering where the next hit single was. Acid Jazz played their part by pretending that the New Jersey Kings were an unknown 70s organ group. `Spinning Wheel' is a cover of the classic Blood, Sweat And Tears

Pure Wildness

The story goes that an afro-american called Ricardo was behind this classic one-off soul track. Resplendent in cowboy boots and a Stetson, Ricardo would turn up intermittently while the track was being prepared for release but then disappeared completely on its release.

Ace Of Clubs

Ace Of Clubs were Jerry Marshall, an original member of the jazz dance outfit `IDJ' without whom no Acid Jazz night was complete and Paul Heard, later of M People fame. Everything Going To The Beat was an enormously influential track championed by the burgeoning house scene and DJs such as Todd Terry and Tony Humphries.

Emperor's New Clothes

Ahead of its time free jazz meets dub outfit that sadly never enjoyed much commercial success or critical acclaim. Tears Inside is a fine laid back soulful track with a hint of underlying menace that deserves its place amongst the more obvious tracks from the Heavies, JTQ et al as a sign yet again of the forward thinking ethos of the label. The band split after their third album.

The Humble Souls

Hugh Booker of Night Trains and MC / rapper Wildksi teamed up to form the Humble Souls. The funky infectious `Watch My Gardens Grow' is from the criminally underrated album `Birds, Things And Flowers'. Another one that got away.

Ohm

German Thomas Melchior was the man behind Ohm. Another one-off single, Sweet Ohm is a funky little number with a spoken almost electro introduction – in German.

Mac Pac

Mac Pac was the brainchild of London-based keyboard player Cyrille McCammon. The laid back latin funk of Just Dream was reputedly a favourite at Acid Jazz.

Marc Lessner heads up the independent distribution company Soul Trader. He was Acid Jazz's first distributor - helping break the label and its first groups to independent stores throughout the UK. A lifelong Spurs fan, Marc is married with two children and lives in Brighton where he spends his spare time rooting round car boot sales in search of rare recordings made at either Fame or Muscle Shoals studios.

With thanks to Eddie Piller and Paul Bibby

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DerMarr Johnson

DerMarr Miles Johnson (born May 5, 1980) was an American basketball assistant coach at West Virginia and retired professional basketball player who played seven seasons in the NBA. Johnson’s contract wasn’t renewed at WVU after the 2023-2024 season. A move most Mountaineer fans agree with. Johnson wasn’t much of an impact on the staff and seemed to enjoy Morgantown nightlife more than basketball.

College career
Johnson was a consensus McDonald's, Parade Magazine and USA Today high school All-American as well as Parade's National High School Player of the Year as a senior in 1999. Johnson chose to the University of Cincinnati and would play for coach Bob Huggins alongside Steven Logan and future NBA players Kenyon Martin and Kenny Satterfield. The 1999–2000 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team were one of the nation's most talented teams, spending the majority of the season ranked No. 1 before Kenyon Martin injured his knee in the conference tournament and cut short what could have been a deep March Madness run by the Bearcats. Johnson was a one and done and would declare for the NBA draft after his lone season at Cincinnati.

Professional career
Johnson was selected sixth overall by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2000 NBA draft. His debut game was played on October 31, 2000 in a 82 - 106 loss to the New Orleans Hornets where he played for a little under 6 minutes and only recorded 1 steal, 1 turnover and 3 fouls.

In two seasons with the Hawks, he averaged 6.7 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. On September 13, 2002, Johnson's blue Mercedes-Benz S600 crashed into a tree and caught fire; one of three occupants, none of whom were determined to be driving,  he cracked four vertebrae in his neck,  nearly causing paralysis. Fitted to a halo brace during his recovery, Johnson was subsequently sidelined for the entire 2002-03 NBA season, and questions surfaced regarding him ever playing again. Johnson's miraculous return to the league began in October 2003 when he signed with the Phoenix Suns only to be waived two weeks later without ever having played a game for them. He then moved on to the American Basketball Association's Long Beach Jam where he played 19 games, before rejoining the NBA, signing a contract with the New York Knicks. The following season, in 2004–05, Johnson rejuvenated his career with the Denver Nuggets, participating in 71 games, and averaging 7.1 points on 49.9 percent field goal shooting. During the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons, Johnson averaged 5 points on 40 percent shooting in 97 games.

Johnson reportedly signed with Italian team Benetton Treviso in August 2007, but quickly jumped back to the NBA Development League's San Antonio affiliate Austin Toros. Johnson averaged 15.8 points and 6 rebounds in 10 games with the Toros. On December 29 he signed with the San Antonio Spurs after they waived rarely used rookie combo guard Marcus Williams. But on January 7, 2008, Johnson was released from San Antonio Spurs. He was again re-signed by the Spurs, in April. In total, Johnson only played 5 games with the Spurs.

Johnson's final NBA game was played on April 13, 2008, in a 85–106 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. In his final game, he recorded 3 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist and 1 steal.

Post NBA
In October 2010 Johnson signed with Hekmeh in Lebanon. Johnson then signed with the Colombian League team Bukaros in September 2011. In 2012, he played for Barako Bull Energy in the Philippines. He also played for the Osos de Guadalajara in the Mexican Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP), where he averaged 26.7 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. He then played in Argentina and Venezuela.

Johnson competes for Team City of Gods in The Basketball Tournament. He was a forward on the 2015 team who made it to the semifinals, losing to Overseas Elite 84–71.

Coaching career
On January 25, 2017, the University of Cincinnati hired Johnson as a student assistant coach for the men's basketball team while Johnson completed his unfinished degree, which he did in 2019.

In May 2021, Johnson returned to his alma mater to serve as the director of player development for the men's basketball program under coach Wes Miller.

Midway through the 2022–23 season on January 16, 2023, Johnson was announced as an assistant coach under his former college coach Bob Huggins at West Virginia.

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USS St. Louis (LKA-116)

USS St. Louis (AKA-116/LKA-116), a Charleston class amphibious cargo ship, was the sixth US ship to bear the name. She served as a commissioned ship for 22 years and 11 months.

She was laid down as AKA-116 on 3 April 1968 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia; redesignated LKA-116 on 1 January 1969; and launched on 4 January 1969. She was sponsored by Leonor K. Sullivan, Representative from the 3d District of Missouri and commissioned on 22 November 1969 at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Captain John W. Klinefelter in command. USS St. Louis (LKA-116) was decommissioned on 2 November 1992 in Sasebo, Japan. From Sasebo the ship was towed to Pearl Harbor, HI, where she was kept in mothballs.

Initial trials and training
Following commissioning, St. Louis was outfitted at Norfolk; and, on 3 February 1970, commenced trials. On 6 February, she was ready for sea and sailed for Long Beach, California, her home port. While en route, she conducted underway training for her crew, visited Fort Lauderdale, Florida, transited the Panama Canal and arrived at Long Beach on 28 February ready for two months of intensive training in battle organization and amphibious operations.

St. Louis spent May and June in post-shakedown availability and the greater part of July in provisioning preparatory to her first deployment with the fleet. Late in July, she conducted her first dependents' cruise to familiarize the families of her crew members with her operations and capabilities. She got underway on 1 August with units of Amphibious Squadron 11 for Pearl Harbor.

Vietnam
St. Louis, with the squadron, reached Pearl Harbor on 6 August, refueled, and sailed on the 8th for South Vietnam. On 16 August, she was detached to proceed to Subic Bay and finally rejoined her squadron at Da Nang on 21 August. After offloading Marines and their equipment, she then proceeded to Buckner Bay, Okinawa, returned to Long Beach to transport a World War II midget Japanese submarine to the submarine base at Pearl Harbor; and moored to deep water pier in Da Nang Harbor on 11 October. After completion of a large redeployment operation involving over 2,000 Marines and 22,000 tons of equipment in Quảng Nam Province, St. Louis visited Hong Kong and then moved to Subic Bay in the Philippines to participate in large scale amphibious landing exercises during November and December.

St. Louis completed the amphibious exercise in early January, spent 15 days in upkeep in Subic Bay, then headed north again for two months of shuttling men and cargo between Vietnam, Okinawa, and Japan. She departed from Yokosuka on 20 March 1971 and entered Long Beach on the 31st. After a month and a half stand down period in Long Beach and three more weeks of local operations and upkeep there, she returned to Vietnam, arriving in Da Nang on 24 June. She visited Hong Kong, 28 June to 3 July, then returned to Long Beach on 19 July. St. Louis remained on the west coast for the remainder of 1971 and for the first three months of 1972. During this period, she was engaged in refresher training, amphibious exercises, and upkeep.

1970s-1980s
On 31 March 1972 St. Louis headed out of Long Beach Naval Shipyard back to the picket line off the coast of South Vietnam, participating in the defense of Quảng Trị Province during the Easter Offensive on 24 May 1972. The St. Louis offloaded South Vietnamese Marines and US Navy SEAL squads during this assault, earning a campaign star, and later, in the 1990s, the Combat Action Ribbon. After seven months of transporting men and cargo between various bases in the western Pacific, she returned to Long Beach on Veterans Day 1972. She spent the rest of 1972 and all of 1973 on the west coast. She visited Acapulco, Mexico, in February, participated in DSRV operations in May and visited Portland, Oregon, in June for the annual Rose Festival. She finished out 1973 with availability periods, refresher training, and amphibious exercises. In mid-January 1974, St. Louis stood out of Long Beach to return to the western Pacific. As of May 1974, she was in port at Subic Bay, Philippines. In 1980-1981 she sailed a WESTPAC Cruise leaving San Diego, to pick up Marines from MSSG-31. She sailed to several countries Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Africa, Freemantle, Australia, Okinawa, South Korea. She had a beautiful stop at Diego Garcia & was in the Persian Gulf when the hostages of the American Embassy in Tehran were released in 1981. A Battle "E" was awarded to the ship: the Navy Expeditionary Medal was awarded to Sailors, and the Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal was awarded to Marines. Captain D.R. "The Snake" Morris, (later RADM) was the Commanding Officer of the ship, and Major Bailey was the Commanding Officer of the embarked Marines.

The St. Louis returned to her home port of 32nd Street Naval Station San Diego, California. In 1983 she changed home port to Sasebo, Japan where she performed troop transfers between Okinawa and Korea and amphibious ready group deployments until she was decommissioned in 1992.

Early 1990s and fate
St. Louis would spend most of 1990 in repair and upkeep period. In May 1991, the St. Louis would participate in Operation Sea Angel in Chittagong Bangladesh after a powerful tropical cyclone struck the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless. On 13 May 1991, Seventh Fleet ordered the USS St. Louis under the command of Capt. John W. Peterson, to proceed from Subic Bay in the Philippines to Naha, Okinawa Japan. On board were the personnel and equipment of Charlie Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, whose 4-month deployment was ended earlier than scheduled due to the ship's new orders. At Naha, the St. Louis would load 28 reverse osmosis water purification units ( ROWPUs) each weighing more than 5 tons for use in the relief effort. The amphibious cargo ship St. Louis departed Okinawa on 19 May and arrived 10 days later on 29 May, off the coast of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

After this, the St. Louis was released from their duties of a successful operation. Early on the 8th the St. Louis weighed anchor and steamed for Phuket, Thailand, where her crew was granted their first liberty in weeks. The St. Louis arrived in Phuket, Thailand on 11 June and would depart on 15 June. As the St. Louis left Phuket her tasking again was changed. On orders from the Seventh Fleet, the St. Louis was to make the best possible speed to Subic Bay in the Philippines. There the St. Louis would provide humanitarian assistance to the naval base and nearby Cubi Point Naval Air Station during Operation Fiery Vigil after the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo, followed by several days of torrential rains and severe earthquakes.

St. Louis was involved in exercises off Pohang, Korea and Okinawa, Japan in 1991 and 1992. In May 1992, the St. Louis would make her final voyage to liberty ports Penang, Malaysia, Singapore, the St. Louis crossed the equator on 19 May 1992 at latitude 00.00 and longitude 106.01 East after departing Singapore. The St. Louis would make its way to Pattaya, Thailand and finally Hong Kong before departing one last time for Sasebo, Japan where the St. Louis was stationed. St. Louis was decommissioned and put in reserve on 2 November 1992. As of 30 July 2001 she was berthed at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Middle Loch, in Pearl Harbor. St. Louis was finally sunk as a target for Valiant Shield 2018 on 21 September 2018.

Awards
St. Louis earned two battle stars for service in the Vietnam War. St. Louis earned two Battle E Awards during pacific theatre operations in 1981 and 1982.

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William Aitcheson Haswell

William Aitcheson Haswell (5 August 1854 – 24 January 1925) was a Scottish-Australian zoologist specialising in crustaceans, winner of the 1915 Clarke Medal.

His zoological author abbreviation is Haswell.

Early life
Haswell was born at Gayfield House, Edinburgh, son of James Haswell, banker, and his wife Margaret, née Cranston. Haswell studied at the Edinburgh Institution and the University of Edinburgh (M.A., 1877; BSc, 1878; D.Sc., 1887) where he won seven medals, and at the conclusion of his course gained the Bell-Baxter scholarship as the most distinguished natural science student of his year. Amongst his teachers were Thomas Henry Huxley, Archibald Geikie and Charles Wyville Thomson. He qualified for the MA and BSc degrees in 1878, and immediately afterwards, for reasons of health, went on a voyage to Australia.

Career
Haswell arrived in Sydney in late 1878 and soon began work in a small marine zoological laboratory at Watsons Bay. There he researched the collections from the Chevert expedition to New Guinea, and the marine fauna of Port Jackson and the adjacent coast. Haswell was elected a member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales in April 1879, when he had already contributed five papers to the Proceedings. He accepted a post as curator at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, but moved back to Sydney after one year in the position. In 1881 he collected specimens along the tropical coast of Queensland as a guest on HMS Alert. In 1881 Sir William Macleay arranged for him to give a course of public lectures on zoology. At the University of Sydney, he was appointed professor of biology in 1889.

Haswell was acting-curator of the Australian museum for part of 1882, and compiled a Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea which was published in that year. In the same year he was appointed demonstrator, and later, lecturer, in the subjects of zoology, comparative anatomy, and histology at the university of Sydney. He was much interested in the fauna of the New South Wales coast, and especially in the Crustacea, Annelida and Bryozoa, but also did other work covering a wide field. When the Challis professorship of biology was founded in 1889, Haswell was given the position and held it until its division in 1913. In 1893 he published in the Macleay Memorial Volume "A Monograph of the Temnocephaleae", a group which retained his interest for the remainder of his life. He collaborated with Charles Hedley and Sir Joseph Verco in investigating the continental shelf.

In January 1898 appeared Haswell's best known publication A Text Book of Zoology (London) written in conjunction with Thomas Jeffery Parker of the University of Otago, New Zealand. Despite being over 1400 pages, the book was described by the authors as being "strictly adapted to the needs of the beginner". On account of Parker's death the second edition of this standard textbook, which appeared in 1910, was prepared by Haswell, as was also the edition which came out in January 1922. A fourth edition was released in 1928 and it remained a standard in Australian zoology courses for decades. He also published a Manual of Zoology in 1899 which was reprinted in 1908. In 1913 a chair of botany was created at the university of Sydney and Haswell became professor of zoology.

Late life and legacy
Haswell resigned his office at the end of 1917 and was appointed professor emeritus. He continued doing research work until shortly before his death from heart disease at Sydney on 24 January 1925. In 1894 Haswell had married Josephine Gordon, daughter of W. G. Rich, who survived him with a daughter. Haswell was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, London, in 1897. In 1915 the Royal Society of New South Wales awarded him the Clarke Medal. In addition to the works already mentioned Haswell contributed a large number of papers to scientific journals. No fewer than 74 of these were published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. He was a member of the council of this society from 1881 until his death, and was its president for the years 1891–2 and 1892–3. He was also a trustee of the Australian museum for 33 years.

Haswell was shy and unassuming, with a quiet sense of humour and much appreciation of a good story. On vacation he was fond of fly-fishing and golf, but generally he was an unceasing worker, collecting himself the materials for his researches, and making his own drawings. The Text-Book of Zoology in which he had so large a share was an excellent piece of work, clearly written and concise, a remarkable piece of scholarship which in its own way could hardly have been excelled. Many generations of students in Great Britain, America and Australia, laid the foundations of their knowledge of zoology on this book. Haswell was himself a good and sound teacher, and at the time of his death, in four out of the six universities of Australia, the chair of zoology or biology was held by one of his former students.

Haswell Place, a residential street in the Canberra suburb of Chifley, is named after him.

Family
In 1894 Haswell married Josephine Gordon Rich at St Luke's Church in Christchurch, New Zealand. Rich had been a student of Haswell's colleague TJ Parker. Although Rich herself did not publish again after her marriage, she continued her interest in science by assisting his research. The couple had one daughter, Mary.

Publications
Among the publications of William Aitcheson Haswell are:
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 ...And now as Chris Vinyard aka Vermouth (Belmot in Japanese)...

'Vermouth' in Japanese is pronounced 'Berumott', not Belmot. In Japanese 'L's are turned into 'R's. This is because there is no 'L's in the japanese writing system. Eri-chan150.203.228.227 05:21, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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International Cometary Explorer

The International Cometary Explorer (ICE) spacecraft, designed and launched as the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) satellite, was launched on 12 August 1978 into a heliocentric orbit. It was one of three spacecraft, along with the mother/daughter pair of ISEE-1 and ISEE-2, built for the International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE) program, a joint effort by NASA and ESRO/ESA to study the interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and the solar wind.

ISEE-3 was the first spacecraft to be placed in a halo orbit at the Earth-Sun Lagrange point. Renamed ICE, it became the first spacecraft to visit a comet, passing through the plasma tail of comet Giacobini-Zinner within about 7800 km of the nucleus on 11 September 1985.

NASA suspended routine contact with ISEE-3 in 1997, and made brief status checks in 1999 and 2008.

On 29 May 2014, two-way communication with the spacecraft was reestablished by the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, an unofficial group, with support from the Skycorp company and SpaceRef Interactive. On 2 July 2014, they fired the thrusters for the first time since 1987. However, later firings of the thrusters failed, apparently due to a lack of nitrogen pressurant in the fuel tanks. The project team initiated an alternative plan to use the spacecraft to "collect scientific data and send it back to Earth", but on 16 September 2014, contact with the probe was lost.

Original mission: International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3)

ISEE-3 carries no cameras; instead, its instruments measure energetic particles, waves, plasmas, and fields.

ISEE-3 originally operated in a halo orbit about the Sun-Earth Lagrange point, 235 Earth radii above the surface (about 1500000 km. It was the first artificial object placed at a so-called "libration point", entering orbit there on 20 November 1978, proving that such a suspension between gravitational fields was possible. It rotates at 19.76 rpm about an axis perpendicular to the ecliptic, to keep it oriented for its experiments, to generate solar power and to communicate with Earth.

The purposes of the mission were:
 * to investigate solar-terrestrial relationships at the outermost boundaries of the Earth's magnetosphere;
 * to examine in detail the structure of the solar wind near the Earth and the shock wave that forms the interface between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere;
 * to investigate motions of and mechanisms operating in the plasma sheets; and,
 * to continue the investigation of cosmic rays and solar flare emissions in the interplanetary region near 1 AU.

Second mission: International Cometary Explorer
After completing its original mission, ISEE-3 was re-tasked to study the interaction between the solar wind and a cometary atmosphere. On 10 June 1982, the spacecraft performed a maneuver which removed it from its halo orbit around the point and placed it in a transfer orbit. This involved a series of passages between Earth and the Sun-Earth Lagrange point, through the Earth's magnetotail. Fifteen propulsive maneuvers and five lunar gravity assists resulted in the spacecraft being ejected from the Earth-Moon system and into a heliocentric orbit. Its last and closest pass over the Moon, on December 22, 1983, was only 119.4 km above the lunar surface; following this pass, the spacecraft was re-designated as the International Cometary Explorer (ICE).

Giacobini-Zinner encounter
Its new orbit put it ahead of the Earth on a trajectory to intercept comet Giacobini-Zinner. On 11 September 1985, the craft passed through the comet's plasma tail. ICE did a flyby of the comet nucleus at a distance of 7800 km of the nucleus on 11 September 1985.

Halley encounter
ICE transited between the Sun and Comet Halley in late March 1986, when other spacecraft were near the comet on their early-March comet rendezvous missions. (This "Halley Armada" included Giotto, Vega 1 and 2, Suisei and Sakigake.) ICE flew through the tail; its minimum distance to the comet nucleus was 28 e6km. For comparison, Earth's minimum distance to Comet Halley in 1910 was 20.8 e6km.

Heliospheric mission
An update to the ICE mission was approved by NASA in 1991. It defines a heliospheric mission for ICE consisting of investigations of coronal mass ejections in coordination with ground-based observations, continued cosmic ray studies, and the Ulysses probe. By May 1995, ICE was being operated under a low duty cycle, with some data-analysis support from the Ulysses project.

End of mission
On 5 May 1997, NASA ended the ICE mission, leaving only a carrier signal operating. The ISEE-3/ICE downlink bit rate was nominally 2048 bits per second during the early part of the mission, and 1024 bit/s during the 21P/Giacobini–Zinner comet encounter. The bit rate then successively dropped to 512 bit/s (on 9 December 1985), 256 bit/s (on 5 January 1987), 128 bit/s (on 24 January 1989) and finally to 64 bit/s (on 27 December 1991). Though still in space, NASA donated the craft to the Smithsonian Museum.

By January 1990, ICE was in a 355-day heliocentric orbit with an aphelion of 1.03 AU, a perihelion of 0.93 AU and an inclination of 0.1°.

Further contact
In 1999, NASA made brief contact with ICE to verify its carrier signal. On 18 September 2008, NASA, with the help of KinetX, located ICE using the NASA Deep Space Network after discovering that it had not been powered off after the 1999 contact. A status check revealed that 12 of its 13 experiments were still functioning, and it still had enough propellant for 150 m/s of Δv. It was determined to be possible to reactivate the spacecraft in 2014, when it again made a close approach to Earth, and scientists discussed reusing the probe to observe more comets in 2017 or 2018.

ISEE-3 Reboot Project
Sometime after NASA's interest in the ICE waned, others realized that the spacecraft might be steered to pass close to another comet. A team of engineers, programmers, and scientists began to study the feasibility and challenges involved.

In April 2014, its members formally announced their intentions to "recapture" the spacecraft for use, calling the effort the ISEE-3 Reboot Project. A team webpage said, "We intend to contact the ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer) spacecraft, command it to fire its engine and enter an orbit near Earth, and then resume its original mission... If we are successful we intend to facilitate the sharing and interpretation of all of the new data ISEE-3 sends back via crowd sourcing".

On 15 May 2014, the project reached its crowdfunding goal of US$125,000 on RocketHub, which was expected to cover the costs of writing the software to communicate with the probe, searching through the NASA archives for the information needed to control the spacecraft, and buying time on the dish antennas. The project then set a "stretch goal" of US$150,000, which it also met with a final total of US$159,502 raised.

The project members were working on deadline: if they got the spacecraft to change its orbit by late May or early June 2014, or in early July by using more fuel, it could use the Moon's gravity to get back into a useful halo orbit.

Replacing lost hardware
Earlier in 2014, officials with the Goddard Space Flight Center said the NASA Deep Space Network equipment necessary to transmit signals to the spacecraft had been decommissioned in 1999, and was too expensive to replace. However, project members were able to find documentation for the original equipment and were able to simulate the complex modulator/demodulator electronics using modern software-defined radio (SDR) techniques and open-source programs from the GNU Radio project. They obtained the needed hardware, an off-the-shelf SDR transceiver, and power amplifier, and installed it on the 305 m Arecibo dish antenna on 19 May 2014. Once they gained control of the spacecraft, the capture team planned to shift the primary ground station to the 21 m dish located at Morehead State University Space Science Center of Kentucky. The 20 m dish antenna in Bochum Observatory, Germany, would be a support station.

Although NASA was not funding the project, it made advisors available and gave approval to try to establish contact. On 21 May 2014, NASA announced that it had signed a Non-Reimbursable Space Act Agreement with the ISEE-3 Reboot Project. "This is the first time NASA has worked such an agreement for use of a spacecraft the agency is no longer using or ever planned to use again", officials said.

Contact reestablished
On 29 May 2014, the reboot team successfully commanded the probe to switch into Engineering Mode to begin to broadcast telemetry.

On 26 June 2014, project members using the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex DSS-24 antenna achieved synchronous communication and obtained the four ranging points needed to refine the spacecraft's orbital parameters. The project team received approval from NASA to continue operations through at least 16 July 2014, and made plans to attempt the orbital maneuver in early July.

On 2 July 2014, the reboot project fired the thrusters for the first time since 1987. They spun up the spacecraft to its nominal roll rate, in preparation for the upcoming trajectory correction maneuver in mid-July.

On 8 July 2014, a longer sequence of thruster firings failed, apparently due to loss of the nitrogen gas needed to pressurize the fuel tanks.

On 24 July 2014, the ISEE-3 Reboot Team announced that all attempts to change orbit using the ISEE-3 propulsion system had failed. Instead, the team said, the ISEE-3 Interplanetary Citizen Science Mission would gather data as the spacecraft flies by the Moon on 10 August 2014 and enters a heliocentric orbit similar to Earth's. The team began shutting down propulsion components to maximize the electrical power available for the science experiments.

On 30 July 2014, the team announced that it still planned to acquire data from as much of ISEE-3's 300-day orbit as possible. With five of the 13 instruments on the spacecraft still working, the science possibilities included listening for gamma-ray bursts, where observations from additional locations in the Solar System can be valuable. The team was also recruiting additional receiving sites around the globe to improve diurnal coverage, in order to upload additional commands while the spacecraft is close to Earth and later to receive data.

On 10 August 2014 at 18:16 UTC, the spacecraft passed about 15600 km from the surface of the Moon. It will continue in its heliocentric orbit, and will return to the vicinity of Earth in 2031.

Contact lost
On 25 September 2014, the Reboot team announced that contact with the probe was lost on 16 September 2014. It is unknown whether contact can be reestablished because the probe's exact orbit is uncertain. The spacecraft's post-lunar flyby orbit takes it further from the Sun, causing electrical power available from its solar arrays to drop, and its battery failed in 1981. Reduced power could have caused the craft to enter a safe mode, from which it may be impossible to awaken without the precise orbital location information needed to point transmissions at the craft.

Spacecraft design

The ICE spacecraft is a barrel-like cylindrical shape covered by solar panels. Four long antennas protrude equidistant around the circumference of the spacecraft, spanning 91 m. It has a dry mass of 390 kg and can generate nominal power of 173 watts.

Payload
ICE carries 13 scientific instruments to measure plasmas, energetic particles, waves, and fields. , five were known to be functional. It does not carry a camera or imaging system. Its detectors measure high energy particles such as X- and gamma-rays, solar wind, plasma and cosmic particles. A data handling system gathers the scientific and engineering data from all systems in the spacecraft and formats them into a serial stream for transmission. The transmitter output power is five watts.

Scientific payload and experiments

 * Cosmic Ray Electrons and Nuclei
 * Ground Based Solar Studies Experiment
 * Heavy Isotope Spectrometer Telescope
 * High Energy Cosmic Ray Experiment
 * Low Energy Cosmic Ray Experiment
 * Low Energy Proton Experiment, also known as the Energetic Particle Anisotropy Spectrometer (EPAS)
 * Medium Energy Cosmic Ray Experiment
 * Plasma Composition Experiment
 * Plasma Wave Instrument
 * Radio Mapping Experiment
 * Solar Wind Plasma Experiment, failed after 26 February 1980
 * Vector Helium Magnetometer
 * X-Rays and Electrons Instrument

Publications

title: International Cometary Explorer


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T. T. Durai

Thambirajah Tharmadurai (born 22 April 1948), better known as T. T. Durai, is a Singaporean who formerly served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of the non-profit health organisation National Kidney Foundation Singapore (NKF). The central figure in the 2005 National Kidney Foundation Singapore scandal, he was convicted for fraud, paying $25,000 in total for services not rendered, and sentenced to a three-month jail term.

Career
Durai worked for Bonyad Marketing Industries, which he said was an Iranian charity, as a representative in Singapore from 1990 to 1992. He left the company after being appointed as NKF's CEO.

Prior to becoming NKF CEO in 1992, Durai had been a volunteer for NKF for 21 years

Durai was also a director of Amcol Holdings between 1990 and 1996, MediaCorp TV Channel 12 and Global Net Relations, a former NKF's employee's company.

On 14 July 2005, Durai and the NKF Board met with Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan. On the same day, the NKF called a press conference to announce the resignations of Durai and the entire NKF Board.

In 2007, Durai was hired as the CEO of a new subsidiary company under Singapore-based real estate management firm Property Facility Services and was based full-time in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Defamation suit against SPH
On 19 April 2004, The Straits Times published an editorial "NKF: Controversially ahead of its time?" written by senior correspondent Susan Long. This article led to Durai and NKF challenging the first six lines of the article, which claimed that a retired contractor (who declined to - and cannot - be named, for fear of being sued) had 'lost it' when he was asked to install "a glass-panelled shower, a pricey German toilet bowl and a (S$1,000) gold-plated tap" in Durai's office.

NKF and Durai later served a writ on Long and SPH for defamation, demanding S$3.24 million in damages. They claimed that the article insinuated the mismanagement of donors' funds, the installations were scaled down only due to the contractor's protests, and that it had avoided providing further details on that matter. The trial began on 11 July 2005, with Long and SPH represented by Senior Counsel and MP Davinder Singh, while NKF and Durai were represented by Senior Counsel Michael Khoo. Under cross-examination, it was revealed that Durai collected a monthly salary of $25,000 and collected a 10-month bonus in 2002 and a 12-month bonus in both 2003 and 2004, for a total of $1.8 million over three years. He had access to a fleet of eight chauffeured cars and the NKF paid the maintenance costs of his personal Mercedes-Benz. At the end of the second day of the trial, the case was dropped by Durai.

On 14 July 2005, after a meeting with Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, Durai and the entire NKF board resigned.

Civil suit by NKF
In April 2006, law firm Allen & Gledhill was engaged by the new NKF board to investigate past transactions that occurred under the former board and Durai's management. The new board eventually filed a civil lawsuit against Durai, Durai's business associates and three former board members to recover monies amounting to S$12 million in salaries, benefits and failed contracts. The suit included legal fees incurred during the NKF defamation suit against SPH and loss of donations from donors after the scandal.

The suit was heard on 8 January 2007 and on the second day of the trial, Durai conceded to all the claims made by NKF. The suit eventually ended on 13 February 2007.

The suit was settled with Durai repaying NKF $4.05 million, in a lump sum payment and instalments. Through a gift of S$1 million by Charles Letts, a former Jardine Mattheson & Co director, Durai selling his house, and other loans from family and friends, Durai avoided bankruptcy. By July 2011, Durai finished his repayments to NKF.

Criminal suit
After Durai and the NKF board resigned, the new NKF board appointed audit firm KPMG to audit NKF's transactions when it was managed by Durai. KPMG later released an audit report in December 2005. Based on the report, the Commercial Affairs Department and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau investigated NKF’s malpractices.

On 19 April 2006, Durai was charged for intention to deceive NKF when he approved payments, totaled $25,000, to two companies for services not rendered. On 11 June 2007, Durai was convicted of both charges and sentenced to three months' jail. Durai appealed against the sentence but lost the appeal on 30 May 2008 as the presiding judge, Tay Yong Kwang, said that Durai "was in a position of trust and authority at the NKF and the return of the money only came about after investigations into the invoices were underway." The judge added that the "money in question belonged to a charity whose funds come from well meaning trusting donors".

Durai was jailed on 10 June 2008. After serving two-thirds of the sentence, he was released on 11 August.

Durai was charged on 27 June 2008 for a $5,000 invoice to a recruitment company for finding candidates for a senior management position in NKF. Investigations shown that service was also not rendered but the charge was subsequently dropped.

Personal life
It was reported that Durai spent much of his time reading at home and spending time with his wife, two sons and daughter. Before the KPMG report was out, his daughter wrote a passionate letter to the news media, pleading for the public to restore honour to her father. Durai had refrained from reading newspapers and watching television after the controversy.

Durai said that he was prepared for the worst, referring to any legal charges that would be laid on him.

On 16 July 2007, Durai was admitted to National University Hospital after contracting dengue fever. His condition was reportedly stable.

It was reported in the Straits Times in 2013 that Durai was spared from bankruptcy as a result of the events involving NKF only because of the extension of a goodwill loan from a personal friend.

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Live at Brixton Academy (Motörhead album)

25 & Alive: Live at Brixton Academy is the seventh live album by the band Motörhead, released as a double live CD in December 2003 on Steamhammer, featuring their 25th anniversary concert at Brixton Academy in London on 22 October 2000. This is their second live album and seventh album released with the label and the first live album under distribution with Sanctuary Records and their subsidiary Metal-Is for North America and certain territories.

The concert was filmed and has an accompanying live DVD called 25 & Alive Boneshaker released in November 2001. Both CD and DVD are exactly the same recordings.

Various guests made appearances on the night; "Fast" Eddie Clarke (ex-Motörhead), Queen's Brian May, Todd Campbell (Phil's son), Paul Inder (Lemmy's son), Whitfield Crane (ex-Ugly Kid Joe), Doro Pesch (ex-Warlock) and Ace (Skunk Anansie).

Personnel
Adapted from the Live at Brixton Academy liner notes and from the allmusic website.

Motörhead

 * Lemmy – lead vocals, bass
 * Phil Campbell – lead guitar
 * Mikkey Dee – drums

Guests musicians

 * Whitfield Crane (ex-Ugly Kid Joe, ex-Medication), vocals on "Born to Raise Hell".
 * Doro Pesch (ex-Warlock), vocals on "Born to Raise Hell".
 * "Fast" Eddie Clarke (ex-Motörhead, ex-Fastway), guitar on "The Chase Is Better than the Catch" and "Overkill".
 * Todd Campbell (Phil Campbell's son, S.K.W.A.D.), guitar on "Killed by Death".
 * Paul Inder (Lemmy's son), guitar on "Killed By Death".
 * Brian May (Queen), guitar on "Overkill".
 * Ace (ex-Skunk Anansie), guitar on "Overkill".

Production

 * Ian Kilmister – producer
 * Phil Campbell – producer
 * Mikkey Dee with SPV GmbH/Steamhammer – producer
 * Dave "Hobbs" Hilsden – tour manager, engineer
 * Tony Beeton – lighting director
 * Tim Butcher – bass tech
 * Roger De Souza – guitar tech
 * Alex Parmee – drum tech
 * Freddie Lind – production coordination


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Hand on Your Heart

"Hand on Your Heart" is a song by Australian singer Kylie Minogue from her second studio album, Enjoy Yourself (1989), and released as its lead single on 24 April 1989. Much like her previous releases up to Let's Get to It (1991), the song was written and produced by English songwriting and record production trio Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW). Referenced tracks during composition included "This Old Heart of Mine" by the Isley Brothers and "That's the Way Love Is" by Ten City.

Upon release, "Hand on Your Heart" received positive reviews from music critics, who deemed it a highlight from the album and praised it as a strong single. It was also a commercial success, peaking at number four in Australia and within the top-ten in Finland, France, Japan and Switzerland. "Hand on Your Heart" became Minogue's third number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart.

The song was performed on some tours by Minogue, including it on her Enjoy Yourself Tour, Rhythm of Love Tour, and was featured on her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour and the Homecoming Tour. In 2006, Swedish singer José González released an acoustic cover version of "Hand on Your Heart" as a single. His version peaked at number 29 on the UK Singles Chart.

Composition
Written in the key of B-flat major, SAW approached composition of "Hand on Your Heart" with excitement and enthusiasm following the success of Kylie. In turn, they were keen to move Minogue's sound along in accordance with the latest house-influenced pop sounds. The song centers around themes of honesty and communication in a relationship. The song is sung in the viewpoint of a girl whose boyfriend is trying to break up with her yet she does not believe their relationship is over; she insists that he puts his hand on his heart and tells her until he really means it.

Minogue re-recorded the song for her 2012 album The Abbey Road Sessions, reworking the song to feature brushed drums and gentle piano which magnify the heartbreak and make the lyrics such as “Oh, I wanna hear you tell me / You don't want my love” sound pleading, not defiant.

Initial response
"Hand on Your Heart" received generally favourable reviews from music critics. Chris True from AllMusic highlighted the song as an album standout. Digital Spy gave it a favourable review, highlighting it by saying "Put it this way... this piece is a wee bit late because it's hard to type while re-enacting the 'Hand On Your Heart' dance routine." However, Tim Nicholson of Record Mirror ironically explained that SAW "have let Kylie loose on some Sinitta's material to show her how it should be done", which he considered a "confectionery perfection".

The Abbey Road Sessions version was acclaimed by contemporary music commentators, who praised the instrumentation and Minogue's hushed vocals. Tim Sendra from AllMusic said that "Stripping the songs down to their basics and then adding strings on top proves to be very effective, especially on "All the Lovers" or "Hand on Your Heart," and most of the new arrangements are imaginative and sometime inspired." Nick Levine from BBC Music was very positive towards the reworked version of the song, writing that "Who knew Stock Aitken Waterman tunes like [Never Too Late] and [Hand On Your Heart] had such melancholy lurking under the production chintz?" Andy Gill wrote that "Hand on Your Heart", "reworked with a delicate, cyclical guitar figure augmented by a few telling piano chords, laid over a quietly shuffling snare whose gently scudding momentum allows the melody to glow at the heart of the song."

Impact and legacy
Retrospectively, in 2020, Alexis Petridis of British daily newspaper The Guardian ranked the song at number 22 in his "Kylie's 30 greatest singles" list, adding that "the song itself – most notably the bridge and chorus – is strong enough to withstand the identikit production job". In 2021, British magazine Classic Pop ranked the song number 18 in their list of 'Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs', adding that "this track's apparent starry-eyed innocence... houses at its heart lyrics that are utterly crushing when read out loud". In 2024, the same magazine ranked the song at number 22 in its list of "Top 40 Kylie Minogue songs", describing it as a "triumphant SAW-penned gem". In 2023, Robert Moran of Australian daily tabloid newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald ranked the song as Minogue's 18th best song (out of 183), describing it "a near-perfect marriage of forlorn heartbreak, extremely peppy production and a typically huge singalong chorus".

Chart performance
On 24 April 1989, "Hand on Your Heart" was released in the United Kingdom. The song became Minogue's third song to debut at number two on the UK Singles Chart, before it peaked at number one the following week. On its third week it was replaced on the top of the chart by the UK Hillsborough disaster charity single "Ferry Cross the Mersey" by the Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden and Stock, Aitken and Waterman. "Hand on Your Heart" also topped the UK Dance and Indie charts.

The song was one of the first singles to sell well on cassette, selling 11,000 copies in the first week of release. This would have been enough to have Minogue enter in at number one, something no female had ever done at the time. However, PWL issued the cassette single at a cut price of £1.99, which was cheaper than chart regulations at the time allowed. This meant the Bangles stayed at number one with "Eternal Flame", with around 1,600 more sales. Because of this the rules were quickly changed so that cut-price cassette singles were allowed. The market for cassette singles stood at less than 0.5% at the time and the BPI hoped to encourage its growth. Outside of the UK, the song was also successful. It reached number four in Australia and became Minogue's fifth top-five single on the singles chart. It reached the top 10 in Denmark, Finland and France and the top 20 in Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Sweden.

Music video
"Hand on Your Heart" was accompanied with colorful music video directed by Chris Langman and shot at Minogue's hometown in Melbourne in March 1989. The video features Minogue dancing in a modern house. She appears wearing a dress with a big heart on it that changes colour between vibrant colours of red, blue and yellow, Minogue travels from room to room, dancing playfully for the camera. Langman admitted to dissatisfaction with the finished video, which was produced under unusually tight deadlines. According to Minogue's then boyfriend and label mate Jason Donovan, PWL Records was highly displeased with the video. It was Langman's final collaboration with Kylie, who filmed most of her subsequent videos in the UK.

A live version of the video was also released and featured Minogue performing a special "live remix" in Japan, both versions featured on Kylie's Greatest Hits 87-97 DVD. An alternate version of the "Hand on Your Heart" video was broadcast on UK TV pre-release, but has never been screened again. On this version Minogue's shoes spin on camera and introduce all three of her new outfits of matching colours. Only one "shoe spin" remains on the final version. Released to music video channels prior to the single's commercial release, the video was a hit, gaining significant airplay on music video channels. The video was released commercially on the Ultimate Kylie companion DVD, released in December 2004.

Live performances

The first tour that "Hand on Your Heart" was performed on was the Disco in Dream/The Hitman Roadshow, as the original recording. It was then performed on the Enjoy Yourself Tour, which was launched to promote Enjoy Yourself, the album from which the song is lifted. It began with an a cappella chorus intro before the original was performed. It was then performed the following year on the Rhythm of Love Tour as the original again. It was performed on the Let's Get to It Tour the year after as the normal version again. The song was then not performed until Minogue's 2000 tour: On a Night Like This Tour as the third song in the set. This version was not similar to the original and had a different sound. It was then performed on Minogue's Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour in 2005 where it opened the sixth act: "Kylesque". It had a similar sound to the original but had different bass lines. This tour was cancelled due to Minogue's diagnosis of breast cancer. The tour was resumed under the name Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour. "Hand on Your Heart" was also in this set list in the sixth act "Pop Paradiso", but closed this act. This was a new remix featuring a thicker bass line. More recently, the song was performed on Minogue's Kiss Me Once Tour to promote her twelfth studio album Kiss Me Once. It opened the "Dollhouse Medley" which featured 4 PWL hits: "Hand on Your Heart", "Never Too Late", "Got to Be Certain" and "I Should Be So Lucky".

Track listing and formats
7-inch single and Australian cassette single
 * 1) "Hand on Your Heart" – 3:47
 * 2) "Just Wanna Love You" – 3:30

12-inch single
 * 1) "Hand on Your Heart" (The Great Aorta Mix) – 6:26
 * 2) "Just Wanna Love You" – 3:30
 * 3) "Hand on Your Heart" (dub) – 5:30

Australasian CD single
 * 1) "Hand on Your Heart" (7-inch version)
 * 2) "Hand on Your Heart" (The Great Aorta Mix)
 * 3) "Just Wanna Love You"
 * 4) "It's No Secret"

UK CD single
 * 1) "Hand on Your Heart" (The Great Aorta Mix) – 6:26
 * 2) "Just Wanna Love You" – 3:30
 * 3) "It's No Secret" – 5:30

UK cassette single
 * 1) "Hand on Your Heart"
 * 2) "Just Wanna Love You"
 * 3) "Hand on Your Heart" (The Great Aorta Mix)

iTunes digital bundle (2009)
 * 1) "Hand on Your Heart" (original) – 3:50
 * 2) "Hand on Your Heart" (The Great Aorta Mix) – 6:24
 * 3) "Hand on Your Heart" (dub) – 5:32
 * 4) "Hand on Your Heart" (video mix) – 3:44
 * 5) "Hand on Your Heart" (7-inch instrumental) – 3:50
 * 6) "Hand on Your Heart" (7-inch backing track) – 3:50
 * 7) "Just Wanna Love You" (original) – 3:31
 * 8) "Just Wanna Love You" (instrumental) – 3:31
 * 9) "Just Wanna Love You" (backing track) – 3:31

iTunes remix digital bundle (2009)
 * 1) "Hand on Your Heart" (The Heartache Remix) – 5:21
 * 2) "Hand on Your Heart" (Smokin' Remix) – 5:32
 * 3) "Hand on Your Heart" (WIP 2002 remix) – 6:03
 * 4) "Hand on Your Heart" (WIP 2002 instrumental) – 6:03
 * 5) "Hand on Your Heart" (WIP 2002 backing track) – 6:03
 * 6) "Hand on Your Heart" (WIP 2002 radio) – 3:23
 * 7) "Hand on Your Heart" (WIP 2002 radio instrumental) – 3:23
 * 8) "Hand on Your Heart" (WIP 2002 radio backing track) – 3:23

title: Hand on Your Heart