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Love In a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar is a collection of essays by Irish writer Colm Tóibín published in 2002.

The first essay was a long review, published originally in the London Review of Books, on A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods.

"Writing these pieces", said Tóibín, "helped me to come to terms with things - with my own interest in secret, erotic energy (Roger Casement and Thomas Mann), my pure admiration for figures who, unlike myself, weren't afraid (Oscar Wilde, Bacon, Almodóvar), my abiding fascination with sadness (Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin) and, indeed, tragedy (Thom Gunn and Mark Doty)." The book also contains an essay on Henry James, a figure to whom the author would later devote a novel, The Master.

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UTC−11:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −11:00. This time is used in Niue, American Samoa, Swains Island, and parts of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. This is the latest inhabited time zone, meaning this is the last inhabited time zone to celebrate the New Year, as the world's latest time zone (UTC-12:00) is completely uninhabited.

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Secret Army (TV series)

Secret Army is a British television drama made by the BBC and the Belgian national broadcaster BRT (now VRT) created by Gerard Glaister. It tells the story of a fictional Belgian resistance movement in German-occupied Belgium during the Second World War, an escape line dedicated to returning Allied airmen, usually shot down by the Luftwaffe, to Great Britain. It was made in the UK and Belgium and three series were broadcast on BBC1 between 7 September 1977 and 15 December 1979.

Fay Weldon said of the series: "There is, in the making of such programmes, a level of professionalism, and sheer patient, largely unacclaimed, hard work from producer to script editor to writer to designer to vision mixer to editor by way of sound and lighting engineers that is probably equalled only in a heart transplant theatre".

Series One
Lisa Colbert runs Lifeline, a Brussels-based evasion organisation. It helps Allied aircrew to evade capture and return to Britain via neutral Switzerland or Spain. She is helped by Albert Foiret, proprietor of the Cafe Candide, his mistress Monique Duchamps, and waitress Natalie Chantrens.

Their operations are placed under strain when the fervent Nazi, Gestapo Sturmbannführer Ludwig Kessler is assigned to work with Luftwaffe Major Erwin Brandt and close down the evasion line.

Flight Lieutenant John Curtis, a former evader, is sent back by London as a Special Operations Executive liaison officer to coordinate its activity. At first he is greeted with hostility and suspicion; there is also romantic tension between him and Lisa.

The series highlights the risks that the main characters take to rescue the young airmen whilst under German occupation, protecting their safe houses, and evading investigation. By the end of this series, Kessler and Brandt are closing in on Curtis as their investigation into a murder in France has led them to the name 'Monsieur Maurice', which is Curtis's pseudonym. Brandt and Kessler pay their first visit to the Candide to locate him. Kessler's interest in Curtis poses a significant threat to Lifeline and so it is agreed that Curtis will return to England. Kessler orders a troop encirclement of Brussels, but Curtis manages to escape to Switzerland by posing as bus driver for a local Hitler Youth group that is travelling out of the city on a day trip.

Albert is having an affair with barmaid Monique Duchamps, while his wife Andrée is bedridden, following an accident two years prior (an out-of-control lorry had ploughed into Albert's car, with Andrée as a passenger). In the final episode Andrée finds out by spotting Monique going into Albert's bedroom. She tries to speak to Albert and gets into her wheelchair for the first time, but falls down the stairs and breaks her neck, dying instantly.

Other characters introduced are:
 * Gaston Colbert, Lisa's uncle and bank manager, who has been helping Lifeline, and his wife Louise. A batch of forged banknotes is traced to Gaston, and Kessler interrogates him in the belief he will lead to the people running the evasion line. Lisa later learns that Gaston has been shot dead trying to escape from German HQ.
 * Alain Muny, Lifeline's wireless operator, who maintains contact with London and supplies the Candide with food from his farm.
 * Dr Pascal Keldermans, who helps with medical treatment for the airmen and gives Lisa cover by employing her as a nurse at his surgery.

Series Two
Albert has sold the Cafe Candide and owns an upper-class black-market restaurant, called the Restaurant Candide, which is prominently located in the Grand-Place. This venture is 60% clandestinely owned and financed by London, so as to enable the members of Lifeline to cater for senior German officers, allowing them to overhear indiscretions and to provide better cover for their activities. Albert takes over running Lifeline when Lisa is killed (in the first episode) by Allied bombing, whilst travelling in occupied France.

The German officers frequent the new establishment regularly, allowing the principal characters to interact and increasing the dramatic tension. To capitalise on actress Angela Richards's singing talent, Monique performs regularly for the diners, and this becomes a feature of the series. These scenes transform the character of Monique from a dowdy waitress to a sultry chanteuse, and contrast with their stressful undercover activities.

Secondary storylines include Kessler's developing romance with lonely Belgian 'society woman' Madeleine Duclos, whom he meets while dining alone at Le Candide, and Brandt being asked to join a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler. Although he declines, he comes to be seen as guilty by association. This, and the death of his family in a British air raid on Berlin, results in his suicide to avoid a court-martial, on the same day as the Normandy landings.

The series also introduces a new character, restaurant pianist and forger Max Brocard, a Communist infiltrator of Lifeline who wishes for the Belgian Communist Resistance to take over Lifeline, in order to use its money and political influence from London to establish a Communist takeover of Belgium at the end of the war. His skills are required after the death of Gaston, but he becomes responsible for the death of Natalie's boyfriend François. Along with almost all the other Communist saboteurs, Max is shot dead by the Germans and the civil police whilst taking part in resistance activities, their whereabouts having been tipped off by Albert after he has confirmed that Max is a Communist mole. His death leads to terrible repercussions for Albert in the third series.

Series Three
The series is set during the final weeks of German occupation. Paul Vercors, the leader and sole survivor of the Communist cell to which Max belonged, begins a conspiracy of revenge against Albert. He lodges an accusation with the authorities that Albert murdered his wife. With Albert in prison for much of the series, responsibility for Lifeline falls to Monique. She becomes more independent and eventually her relationship with Albert collapses, owing to his aloofness and her realising that he is more concerned about money than her. After the Germans severely restrict travel to and from Brussels and the Communists sabotage the main railway line, the evasion lines are closed. The rescued airmen can now only be hidden while they all await the end of the war. With Albert away, Monique and Natalie face accusations of being German collaborators, prostitutes and black-marketeers. As news of the Allied troops' imminent arrival reaches the streets, the Germans find it increasingly difficult to keep order and eventually they leave the Belgians to their own devices.

Kessler, promoted to Standartenführer, finds himself in constant conflict with new arrival Major Hans Dietrich Reinhardt, who has been sent to replace Brandt. The pair clash because Reinhardt can see the desperate situation the Germans face, whereas Kessler remains blinded by patriotism and Nazi ideology. Reinhardt is a cynical and world-weary war hero (he has been awarded the Knight's Cross), whose unorthodox approach is at odds with Kessler's by-the-book methods. Reinhart begins to get results and near the end of the series succeeds in identifying Le Candide as the headquarters of Lifeline.

In Albert's absence, Lifeline is helped by Major Nicholas "Nick" Bradley, a charismatic British agent who previously appeared during the second series. Monique resents his presence, believing he threatens her new authority, whereas Natalie has been attracted to Bradley since his earlier visit. Bradley's job is to make sure the remaining evaders are fed and armed to protect themselves whilst they hide in the Ardennes. During his time in Belgium, Bradley succeeds in saving Alain from torture by the Gestapo, blows up a convoy, destroys a V-2 site and discovers where the Germans have laid explosives in the city. Bradley is later shot dead the day before the German withdrawal, being found in the streets after curfew.

When the order for German withdrawal is finally given, Kessler tries to escape with his Belgian mistress, Madeleine. Realizing that his capture could lead to execution, Kessler assumes the identity of a lower-ranking officer, shortly before he is captured by British soldiers and put in a prisoner-of-war camp. Rather than evacuate Brussels, Reinhardt satisfies his own curiosity and visits the Candide. As he suspects, he discovers that this has been the headquarters of Lifeline all along. He chooses not to execute Albert, Monique, Alain and Pascal but hands himself over to Albert as his prisoner. At the same time, Paul Vercors and his communists arrive and take Albert, Reinhardt and Monique captive. Albert is hanged after a Communist-run 'kangaroo court' finds him guilty of treachery for his part in the death of Max Brocard; just in time, he is cut down and saved by British troops. Monique is captured by Brussels residents and held as a collaborator, waiting to have her head shaved in front of the angry crowds. Natalie and the newly arrived British Captain Stephen Durnford manage to rescue her. Monique and the Captain fall in love and Monique realises that she no longer loves Albert; she decides to marry the captain instead.

Having been arrested by the British officers who saved Albert, Reinhardt is put in the same camp as Kessler. To protect his new identity and with the grudging support of the senior officers, Kessler engineers a court-martial of Reinhardt for allowing himself to be captured and disobeying the orders of a superior officer. Despite there being only flimsy evidence, Kessler arranges for Reinhardt to be found guilty and he is shot dead by a German firing squad. This scene reflects an actual incident in Amsterdam on 13 May 1945.

At the same time Kessler's mistress Madeleine bribes Staff Sergeant Dexter to allow her lover's freedom and the couple escape together. For the members of the evasion line, their happiness is tinged with sadness as they all say goodbye to a tearful Monique, who says her final goodbyes to the Candide and to Albert before starting a new life with her husband.

Unbroadcast episode
The final episode in the series, "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?", was set in 1969 and was never broadcast. It looked at how the characters had fared after the war. The reasons for its non-broadcast are unknown. It is possible it was because of the episode's anti-Communist message. BBC historian, Professor Jean Seaton, was interviewed on the subject in 2009 and expressed the belief the tone would have offended BBC executives who had served in the war. Shaun Ley, the presenter of a BBC Radio 4 radio programme Shelved, discussing this and other suppressed drama programmes from the period, wrote an article for the corporation's website stating: "It questioned the whole point of the resistance and went so far as to suggest that fighting the Nazis had led the allies to miss the main threat - communism."

The main themes of the episode were subsequently incorporated into a sequel, Kessler, a series which was transmitted in 1981 and explored Kessler's fate.

Production
Secret Army was created by Gerard Glaister as a follow-up to his drama series Colditz. Glaister was a former RAF pilot and his experiences provided the inspiration for the series. Secret Army loosely portrays the operations of WW II escape and evasion lines especially the Belgian-created Comet line. The character of John Curtis was influenced by the experiences of the series's technical consultant, Group Captain William Randle, who escaped from occupied Europe in 1942 and was later Keeper of the Battle of Britain Museum.

The series followed the timeline of the war to show how it affected Belgium. Filming took place in Belgium, with the assistance of BRT. Other locations were in London and Norfolk. The aircraft type that featured throughout the series was the Westland Lysander.

The title sequence was created by Alan Jeapes, whose credits include EastEnders. The theme music was by Robert Farnon.

The series was later parodied in the BBC comedy series 'Allo 'Allo!, with some cast members appearing in both series.

Crew

 * Producer — Gerard Glaister
 * Script editor — John Brason
 * Script supervisors — Frank Radcliffe, James Cadman
 * Designers — Ray London, Richard Morris, Marjorie Pratt, Austin Ruddy
 * Music arranger — Ken Moule (Series 3)

Books
John Brason wrote a prequel novel entitled Secret Army, and two novelisations of his episodes entitled Secret Army Dossier and The End of the Line.

As stated on its back cover, Secret Army Dossier 'brings together two episodes from the first series [Good Friday and Be the First Kid in Your Block to Rule the World], three from the second [mostly material from Russian Roulette and Day of Wrath], and a specially written story to cover the events between'.

The End of the Line covers several series three episodes, principally Revenge, Ring of Rosies, Just Light the Blue Touch Paper, Collaborator, Bridgehead and The Execution.

An unofficial guidebook to the series is available entitled The Complete Secret Army. This features reviews of every episode, information on the real-life events that inspired the series, behind-the-scenes production material, a location guide, and reminiscences and photos from cast and crew. The book is written by Secret Army fan Andy Priestner, and was published by Classic TV Press in December 2008.

VHS
In 1991 the retailer WHSmith released an exclusive double-tape compilation of seven selected episodes between – and including – the first and last of Series Two, running to 326 minutes in total.

DVD
The complete three series set of Secret Army is available on DVD (Region 2, UK) from DD Home Entertainment. This also carries interviews with cast members Angela Richards, Clifford Rose, Juliet Hammond-Hill, Terrence Hardiman and Hazel McBride. It does not include the final unbroadcast episode (see above).

CD
The songs performed by Angela Richards and pianist Ken Moule proved so popular with audiences that a BBC soundtrack album entitled Au Café Candide was released. Long since deleted, the songs are now available on a new CD recorded some 25 years after the first, entitled An Evening at Le Candide. Tracks include Richards's own compositions "Memories Come Gently" and "If This Is The Last Time I See You", together with popular Forties numbers such as "Lilli Marlene" and "J'attendrai".

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Maritzburg College

Maritzburg College is a semi-private English-medium high school for boys situated in the city of Pietermaritzburg in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest boys' high school in KwaZulu-Natal, and one of the oldest schools in South Africa. it is attended by 1,260 students, of whom approximately 495 are boarders.

Once renowned in the main for its rugby and strongly traditional ethos, Maritzburg College also continues to attain excellent results in the annual National Senior Certificate results. Since the start of the 21$st$ century, it has added strong cultural and pastoral programmes, including a jazz band and vigorous inter-house programme. With (amongst others) 28 rugby teams, 22 cricket teams, 19 basketball teams, and 18 hockey teams, the school continues to offer its long-established, vigorous sporting programme, too. In January 2024, alumni Boyd Dreyer and Gareth Woolridge (rally driving) and Bradley Cox (rally motorcycling) participated in the 2024 Dakar Rally. They became the school's 327th to 329th sporting internationals.

Victorian origins

Maritzburg College was founded as the Pietermaritzburg High School in 1863, by William Calder, in a carpenter's shop in what is today Langalibalele Street, to accommodate the influx of children arriving at the new city of Pietermaritzburg and its surrounding farmlands in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. As the school – commonly known as – swelled, "the best-trained [architect] in the Colony", PM Dudgeon, was commissioned to design – on the then outskirts of the city – a larger classroom and boarding block, which was completed in 1888. This later became known as, honouring the school's third headmaster, RD Clark (MA (Oxon)). He is often referred to as.

Clark House carries the KwaZulu-Natal provincial heritage authorities' seal certifying it as a heritage landmark. A similar honour was bestowed on the school's Victoria Hall, the building of which commenced in 1897 (Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee year). During the Second Boer War, it served as a British Army hospital from November 1899 until July 1900.

Headmasters
Since the school's foundation in 1863, the following 15 men have held the post of headmaster of Maritzburg College:

 * Calder, William, (Edinburgh Training College), 1863-1867
 * Forder, James, BA (Cantab), 1868-1878
 * Clark, Robert D, MA (Oxon), 1879-1902
 * Barns, Ernest W ('Pixie'), MA (London), 1902-1925
 * Pape, Septimus W, MA (Oxon), 1926-1937
 * Snow, John H ('Froggy'), BA Hons (London), 1937-1941
 * Hudson, John W ('John-Willie'), BA (NUC), 1941-1953
 * Fuller, Raymond E ('Bones'), BA, 1954-1965 *
 * Commons, Hector J, MA (South Africa), 1966-1977 *
 * Olivier, Keith, BA UED (Natal), 1978-1985 *
 * Forde, Dr R Dudley, MA (Natal), PhD (UNISA), 1986-1992
 * Elliott, Kenneth P, BA BEd (Natal), 1992-2002 *
 * Pearson, Clive E, BA UED (Rhodes), 2003-2005
 * Jury, D Ronald, BSc UED (Natal), 2006-2012
 * Luman, Dr Christopher J, MEd, PhD (UNISA) BA HDE (UCT) PGDip Sport Management (Massey), 2013-

School crest, colours and motto

The school crest is a red shield with a crossed carbine and assegai (a traditional Zulu weapon), over the Latin scroll bearing Pro Aris et Focis (For Hearth and Home).

The college colours of red, black and white were first introduced in 1891 by EJ Holgate, the captain of the school's football team. A short while later, Mr RD Clark instituted the school motto (derived from the Latin inscription he composed for the Colonial War Memorial, now in the foyer of Clark House) and the badge of carbine-and-assegai, both of which were initially connected more with the school's Old Boys' Association than the school. An ardent Victorian, Mr Clark was especially proud that 11 of his young school's sons had died in the valiant (as he saw them) colonial struggles 'for hearth and home' (the motto) – hence the school's martial insignia too. Notably, 7 alumni had died at the bloody Battle of Isandlwana. Two of the school's most prized artefacts are assegais that had been retrieved from the battlefield in June 1879; these were presented to the school in 2018 and 2022, respectively.

Debate has taken place as to why Holgate chose the combination of red, black and white for the school's colours. A popular belief is that they highlight the various skirmishes, battles and wars between the British and the Zulu that took place in the late 19th century (especially Isandlwana). The colours are said to represent the warring parties (white and black) and the blood that was shed between them (red).

Houses
Although Maritzburg College operated as a boarding school soon after its foundation in 1863, the school's system of sports Houses was not introduced until 1902. Initially, a system of four Houses was introduced. A fifth House – Nathan House – was added in 1910. The old Houses were as follows:

 * , named after the third headmaster, RD Clark (headmaster 1879–1902)
 * , named after Clark's long-serving senior assistant master, Rev John D Stalker (staff 1881–1902)
 * , named after Stalker's successor, AS Langley (staff 1897–1909)
 * , named after an early Games Master at the school, W Oxland (staff 1901–1908)
 * Sir Matthew Nathan House – or simply  –, after the last governor of Natal, Sir Matthew Nathan

The old House system of five sporting Houses was replaced in 2014 with ten new so-called 'day' Houses. Each of these meets every morning, has about 130 boys, and form the basis of the school's strong mentoring programme. The Houses are now as follows:

 * , named after the first headmaster, William Calder
 * , named after the second headmaster, James Forder
 * , named after the fourth headmaster, Ernest Barns
 * , named after the fifth headmaster, Septimus Pape
 * , named after the sixth headmaster, John Snow
 * , named after the eighth headmaster, Raymond Fuller
 * , named after the ninth headmaster, Hector Commons
 * , named after former Vice Principal, SE Lamond (staff 1911–1950)
 * , named after former Deputy Headmaster and distinguished rugby coach, JM Skonk Nicholson (staff 1944–1982)
 * , named after former Deputy Headmaster, JR 'Cabbage' Strachan (staff 1952–1978)

The annual inter-house competition among the 10 Houses includes trials in more than 25 academic, sports, cultural and community-based-events for the Forder Cup for Champion House.

The system of day or sporting Houses is not to be confused with the school's five boarding Houses. To begin with, the sporting and boarding Houses were linked, with the boarders being allocated to Clark's and Langley's sporting Houses (and later Nathan's), and the dayboys to Stalker's and Oxland's.

But, since the headmastership of Mr Snow (headmaster 1937–1941), all boys have been allocated randomly to the sports Houses. Thus, a boarder in the Clark House might these days find himself assigned to Nicholson's day House.

The school's five boarding Houses are:

 * : opened in 1910 and the home of the school's approximately 100 grade 8 (Form 2) boarders
 * : home to about 100 boys in Forms 3-5
 * : opened in 1958 and home to about 130 boys in Forms 3-5
 * : opened in 1998 and home to about 80 Form 6 boarders (originally called College House until 2013)
 * : purchased from the Shepstone family on behalf of the school in 1919 and used for many years as the school's sanatorium and for staff housing. The fifth boarding house, "New" Shepstone House, next door to the old building, was designed by Charles Taylor, the 1984 head prefect, and opened in September 2018. It houses up to 90 boarders in grades 9 to 11.

Academic standards
The school employs 105 teachers on its academic staff - in addition to scores of administrative, estates, additional sports and other support staff. The subjects offered at grade 12 level include accounting, Afrikaans, agricultural sciences, business studies, computer applications & technology, dramatic arts, economics, English, geography, engineering & graphic design, history, information technology, life sciences, life orientation, mathematics, mathematical literacy, ap maths, music, physical science, visual arts and Zulu.

Despite its size and its customary prowess on the sports field, Maritzburg College's academic standards also are traditionally strong. In the early 21st century, the school has continued to boast results that are amongst the best for a top-tier school in the country. In November 2021, all 270 of its grade 12 pupils passed the National Senior Certificate, with 89% achieving a university entrance qualification, and 15 boys each earning seven distinctions.

Privileges, traditions and discipline
One of the school's distinct features is its hierarchical system, which is underpinned by a long-established set of privileges and duties.

In September 2020, Maritzburg College officially released its policy document titled 'College Culture' - aimed at outlining and preserving, but ensuring that these practices subscribe to laws, norms and expectations. This document included a, which requires each boy, at the start of his career at the school, to publicly proclaim his allegiance via the - including his pledge to live out the school's Core Values, to , and to live out the school's Core Traditions.

Well-known duties required of a junior include (the rote-learning of school teams, etc.), the requirement for him to sprint or jog in various parts of the school,  (the daily sorting out of the sports equipment before practices by all 2$nd$ Formers) and. General school traditions include the wearing by all boys of straw boaters (known as ), which are hurled into the air at First XV rugby matches. Also, when a junior is addressing a more senior boy, he must say the word at the end of sentences.

Because of its possibly contentious nature, the hierarchical system of privileges that underpins the school's ethos is monitored by the school's executive committee, in consultation with the Old Boys' Association.

Maritzburg College's structure of traditions and concepts date to similar styles found in traditional British boarding schools. It is perhaps one of the few schools in South Africa where this structure is retained largely to its original extent.

However, a number of its more vigorous customs have long-since been done away with – including (a practice requiring the consumption by Form 5 boarders of mouldy food, especially prepared for them by the departing 6$th$ Formers),  (when, again, Form 5 boarders were used as jockeys by their outgoing 6$th$ Form counterparts, invariably with painful consequences),  (a rough form of backyard rugby that was played especially when the fields were muddy),  (the serving of a 2$nd$ Form boarder of his seniors at meal-times), the annual new boys’ concert, and the regular caning of boys by prefects and masters. (the carrying out of any errands by 2$nd$ Form boys for prefects) and (a watered-down version of the old Victorian custom) were done away with in 2020.

Sport
The first recorded sports match played by the was a cricket match held in the Market Square on 6 May 1865 against the Red Rover Cricket Club. The High School won the first match – "notwithstanding the primitive conditions under which it must have been played".

The first inter-schools cricket and rugby matches were both played against the, on 6 October 1870, with the then High School (now ) winning both fixtures. The cricket match was played in the morning on the Camp Grounds and the rugby match was played in the afternoon on the Pietermaritzburg market square.

Maritzburg College students take part in a wide variety of sports, including rugby, cricket, canoeing, hockey, athletics, swimming, water polo, tennis, shooting, football (soccer), basketball, cross-country, squash, e-sports and golf.

The school has fixtures against its rival schools. Records show College to be the strongest sporting school in the province in sports such as rugby, cricket, canoeing, polo, polocrosse, and hockey.

The school's search for greater sporting competition has taken it beyond the province's borders, and each year in winter it has derby days against Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (known as ), Pretoria Boys High School and King Edward VII School (Johannesburg) (known as ) in Gauteng, in which about 700 College boys take part.

From 1944 until 1982, the school enjoyed the services of the noted geography master and schoolboy rugby coach, the late Mr Skonk Nicholson, whose name is iconic with Maritzburg College and schoolboy rugby, and who is well respected in the South African rugby community as having nurtured many Collegians to national and international sporting fame. In his 35 seasons in charge of the First XV (rugby), his teams established a playing record of Played 504, Won 403, Drew 49 and Lost 52.

Amongst its many notable Old Boys (known as Old Collegians), it can count 329 sporting internationals, including 36 Old Collegians who have captained international sporting sides. In addition, Kevin Pietersen captained the England cricket team, Matthew Hawkins captained the USA rugby sevens team and Darian Townsend captained the USA swimming team. Four Old Collegians attended the 2004 Olympic Games, with Darian Townsend winning a gold medal as part of the world record-setting SA 4 x 100 freestyle team, and Donovan Cech winning a bronze medal in the rowing; six attended the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and four attended the 2012 Olympics in London. Six Old Collegians, across hockey, cycling, and swimming, were included in the SA team competing in the 2018 Commonwealth Games held on the Gold Coast, Australia.

The most recent additions (as at February 2024) to the school's international honours boards in the Kent Pavilion, overlooking Goldstone's field, are Boyd Dreyer and Gareth Woolridge (rally driving), Bradley Cox (rally motorcycling), Chad von Benecke (polocrosse) and Andrew Reintges (rugby - for Germany).

Saturdays during the summer months can often yield 30 cricket teams (an under 14P XI has occasionally been produced), and up to 29 rugby teams and 21 hockey teams during winter.

Prominent Old Collegians (OCs)
Maritzburg College has produced many Old Boys who have distinguished themselves.

The details of the prominent (non-sporting) OCs are displayed on the 'honoris causa' honours board in the Victoria Hall.

Amongst the names on display are a pre-eminent English author, two bishops and 13 South African senators; a Chief Justice of old Natal, three Attorneys General and 10 judges (including a former member of the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein); the general officers commanding the Rhodesian Army and the South African Air Force; five other generals, two admirals and the Commissioner of the British South Africa Police (BSAP) in the former Rhodesia; eight Officers Commanding of the Natal Carbineers alone; 23 Rhodes scholars and scores of academics of distinction, including professors at Harvard and Yale; two Chancellors of the University of Natal and three Directors of Education; numerous Members of Parliament; two Emmy Award-winning cameramen and a winner of the Polar Medal; as well as the founder of Rand Merchant Bank and subsequent CEO of FirstRand Bank and the current CEO of Nedbank.

The most recent (2019-2022) names added to the 'honoris causa' honours board are Major Hugh Gordon NOURSE (RE) (1899), Military Cross; Lt Croye Rothes PITHEY (RFC) (1908), Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar; Francois Adrianus RODGERS (1980), Member of Parliament, Provincial Chairman of the Democratic Alliance; Edmund BOURKE (c1864), Mayor of Pretoria; Dale Anson HANCOCK (1988), Emmy Award-winning filmmaker; and Sgt-Maj (retd.) Michael Steven BOND (1978), Member of Parliament.

The details of the prominent sporting OCs are displayed on an honours board in the Kent Pavilion.

As already mentioned, college has produced locally and internationally acclaimed sportsmen, with a tally of 329 international sportsmen and officials to date, and as such is amongst the most produced by a single South African school.

Amongst that number are 33 SA captains, 3 overseas captains, 10 captains of polo alone, a former Mr USA (bodybuilding), 6 2008 Olympians, 4 2012 Olympians, and the "man who won the 2005 Ashes" for England, Kevin Pietersen. Jesse Kriel represented the Rugby World Cup-winning Springboks in 2023, and 'master blaster' David Miller is a world record-holding exponent of limited overs cricket. Another well-known sportsman produced by the school is Andy Birkett, who since he matriculated at the end of 2008 has emerged as one of the world's pre-eminent marathon canoeists, having won the Dusi Canoe Marathon 13 times in the last 14 years and the world canoeing marathon title in 2022.

In addition to its 298 international sportsmen, a further 31 Old Collegians have officiated at an international level in sport - including Rugby World Cup rugby referee Craig Joubert, former Test (cricket) umpire Dave Orchard and numerous managers and coaches.

Roll of Honour
The school's Roll of Honour lists the names of 3 teachers and 261 former scholars (as at February 2024) who have given their lives in wars since the first Old Collegian casualty fell in 1873 (1863 foundation scholar, Trooper Robert Erskine, who was killed in a skirmish with the Hlubi at Bushman's River Pass). All of their names are displayed on College's numerous war memorials and honours boards, including precisely 100 on the First World War Memorial in front of Clark House and 129 on the honours board in the school chapel that records the names of Old Collegians who died in the Second World War. The most Old Collegians killed in single actions are 11 at the Battle of Delville Wood from 14 to 20 July 1916 and 7 at both the famous Battle of Isandlwana (at which over 1,300 British and colonial troops were slaughtered by the Zulus during the Zulu War – a memorial in honour of those fallen Old Boys was unveiled on the battlefield in 1969, on the 90th anniversary of that battle); and at Gelib in Italian Somaliland in 1941, during the infamous 'White Flag Incident' that claimed the lives of 13 Royal Natal Carbineers. A total of 27 alumni died at the Battle of the Somme, which was fought between July and December 1916. Three additional names to the school's war memorial commemorating its alumni killed in the South African War (1899-1902) were added on Remembrance Day 2022. Old Collegians have also earned a considerable tally of decorations and awards, especially during the two World Wars – the most recent award being the Distinguished Flying Cross awarded in 2012 to Fl Lt LD Flemington, RAF.

Notable Old Collegians (by year of matriculation)

 * 1909: Vyvyan Pearse, cricketer and British Army officer
 * 1910: Cecil (Bill) Payn, South African national rugby player,  multi-talented provincial sportsman (five sports), renowned as the ,   holder of the MM
 * 1911: Prof Edgar Brookes, South African senator, South African representative to the League of Nations
 * 1911: George Campbell, cricketer and physician
 * 1918: Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and political activist
 * 1921: Philip J. Nel (head prefect), captain of 'the Greatest Springboks' of 1937 - the only South African national rugby team to have won a test series against the All Blacks in New Zealand
 * 1936: Lt-Gen Keith Coster, General Officer Commanding (GOC) the Rhodesian Army, Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of South Africa
 * 1937: Brigadier Sidney Bristow (head prefect), Commissioner of the British South Africa Police (BSAP), Legion of Merit (Rhodesia)
 * 1938: Lt-Gen Bob Rogers, Officer Commanding the South African Air Force, South African national shottist whilst still at school
 * c. 1941: Harold Strachan, liberation struggle bomber
 * 1948: DJ Jackie McGlew, captain of South African national cricket team
 * 1951: Rt Revd Michael Nuttall, Bishop of Natal, Elsie Ballot Scholar (University of Cambridge)
 * 1952: Keith Oxlee, South Africa national rugby team player
 * 1953: Dr Malcolm Forsyth, composer, Order of Canada
 * 1964: Maj-Gen Ian Deetlefs, Chief of Defence Reserves, South African National Defence Force
 * 1978: Gary Strydom, Mr USA, bodybuilding
 * 1978: Graham Ford, successive coach of the South African, Sri Lankan and Ireland national cricket teams
 * 1985: Joel Stransky, 1995 Rugby World Cup-winning South Africa national rugby team player
 * 1987: Jonty Rhodes (head prefect), South African national cricket player
 * 1991: Donovan Cech, South African national team rower, bronze medallist at the 2004 Olympic Games
 * 1995: Craig Joubert, international rugby referee who officiated in the final of the 2011 Rugby World Cup
 * 1997: Shaun Morgan, lead singer and guitar player of the band Seether
 * 1997: Kevin Pietersen, captain of the England national cricket team
 * 1997: Andrew 'Butch' James, 2007 Rugby World Cup-winning South Africa national rugby team player
 * 2002: Darian Townsend, Olympic gold medallist in Athens, 2004 – member of the South African 4x100m freestyle world record relay team - captain of the USA swimming team
 * 2006: Don Armand, England national rugby team player
 * 2006: Lunga Shabalala, Actor & TV presenter
 * 2007: David Miller, South Africa national cricket team player
 * 2013: Bandile Shandu, Premier Soccer League player for Orlando Pirates
 * 2012: Jesse Kriel, South Africa national rugby union team
 * 2014: Ryan Moon, South Africa national soccer team player
 * 2017: Fez Mbatha, rugby player for the Sharks
 * 2018: Ntuthuko Mchunu (head prefect), South Africa national rugby union team

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Mia Aegerter

Mia Aegerter is a Swiss musician, model, and stage and film actress.

Childhood and early career
Aegerter was born on October 9, 1976, into an artist family in Fribourg, Switzerland. Her parents were members of a band, which drew Aegerter to the stage at an early age. She started working as a model and took part in many talent competitions. At a young age, she won the "Little-Prix Walo," an important talent competition for young artists in Switzerland. She also succeeded in the famous "Bravo Girl - Model Contest,“ in Germany.

At fifteen, she began to write her own songs. After a yearlong stay in America, she graduated from high-school and moved to Munich to study music, dance, and acting. After a short time, Aegerter was discovered by a talent scout and moved to Berlin, Germany.

Musical and film career
From 2000 to 2003, she became famous for starring as "Xenia di Montalban" in eight episodes of Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten, the most successful daily soap opera in Germany at the time.

At the beginning of 2003, Aegerter had a breakthrough in the national music scene. Her single, "U don't know how to love me," achieved high radio-ratings and got into the Top 20 of the Swiss single charts and the Top 40 of the German single charts. Shortly after, Aegerter played the role of “Laura Moretti” in the film Achtung, fertig, Charlie, which came in second on the list of the most successful Swiss movies ever made (with over 560'000 entries at the box office as of 2011; behind Rolf Lyssy's classic "Schweizermacher" of 1978 with over 940'000 tickets sold). The film was also released in France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the USA, where it was renamed, Ready, Steady, Charlie!. Aegerter also composed and sang the film's title song, "Hie u Jetzt," which became a hit in Switzerland, reaching the Top 5 of the Swiss single charts. She received prizes and honors for her work, including the PRIX WALO in 2003, the VIVA COMET in the category of "Best of all CH Act," and the famous SWISS AWARD.

With her debut album, So wie I bi / The way I am, released in 2004, Aegerter proved that she is not only an excellent dialect singer, but very expressive with English lyrics. With the song, "Alive," she took part in the German selection to the "Grand Prix d'Eurovision". "Alive" was her fourth single release and got into the Swiss and German charts.

In January 2005, the Album So wie I bi / The way I am went gold in Switzerland.

In the same year, Aegerter played the female lead in the Swiss film, Leben auf Kredit, which also played in France and Italy. She also hosted the weekly youth magazine, Bravo TV, for one year. Bravo TV was also broadcast in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

After many unplugged gigs in 2004-2005, she and her rock band, were a supporting-act of Ronan Keating's German Tour, which allowed them to perform on the biggest stages in the country. Aegerter also had her own Club Tour in Switzerland and played in various open-air festivals.

Other skills
Besides acting in various plays and movies in Switzerland and Germany, Aegerter's main passion remains the music and the songwriting. Her lyrics have a healthy portion of provocative irony. She takes the listeners on a journey through her thoughts and beliefs.

She extended her writing, by working for three years, as a columnist for the Neue Luzerner Zeitung, a renowned daily Swiss newspaper.

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Talk:Newsworld International

What a damn shame. NWI is no longer with us. American greed wins again.

I agree, personally I've been requesting that DirecTV carry/add the CBC Newsworld channel to their lineup. I figure if enough people complain or request for the channel every so often, perhaps they-- will approach the CBC to carry the CBC Newsworld channel. I def. will miss the programming in the interim though. P.S. I noticed one can find ITV on the LinkTV channel. I haven't found a spot for the mostly Asian news broadcasts as yet though. CaribDigita

Sites with people missing NWI

 * http://www.CBCWatch.ca/
 * DSL Reports.com
 * Complaints to COMCAST
 * Protest of NWI closing
 * [www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1452611/posts Freerepublic.com - Current TV Connects with DIRECTV (Al Gore's new network)]
 * Article: Newsworld International to close
 * CBC to shut down Newsworld International
 * Newsworld International In The Future
 * [www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1454502/posts AlGore's CurrentTv starts with huge errors! Displaying 'technical difficulties' sign!]
 * glen-ellyn.com - Message board
 * CMG.ca - Message boards
 * NWI Channel Overview
 * BlogCritics.org: Al Gore's Current TV Launches

Sprint is looking at ADDING the CBC on their cell phones.
Just a heads up. I was on the phone with an agent at Sprint PowerVision department and they said they've been getting a few inquiries on adding the CBCNews channel to their line up. So In point and in fact the CBC might soon be available to Sprint phone customers in the United States with the Powervision data access pack on their multimedia phones. Specifically they're looking at the feasibility of adding it. CaribDigita 23:34, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Al Gore
I found NWI very informative with views you cannot get from the infotainment news. Not only views but flat out facts that took months to reach US infotainment channels if ever. That thing Current that replaced it is total garbage.

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Retrospective: 1995–2005

Retrospective: 1995–2005 is Natalie Merchant's first greatest hits album, featuring her most popular songs. It was released on 27 September 2005 on Elektra Records.

Track listing

 * 1) "Wonder" (single version) – 4:24
 * 2) "Carnival" – 5:59
 * 3) "Jealousy" (single version) – 2:44
 * 4) "San Andreas Fault" – 3:58
 * 5) "Kind & Generous" – 4:06
 * 6) "Break Your Heart" – 4:53
 * 7) "Life is Sweet" – 5:14
 * 8) "The Living" – 3:18
 * 9) "Build a Levee" – 4:48
 * 10) "Not in This Life" – 5:22
 * 11) "Motherland" – 4:45
 * 12) "Owensboro" – 4:25
 * 13) "Sally Ann" – 5:49

A Special Deluxe Edition of Retrospective: 1990–2005 was available for a limited time from Merchant's website. This version included a second disc with B-sides and rarities:

 * 1) "She Devil" (outtake from Ophelia) – 5:55
 * 2) "Cowboy Romance" (outtake from The House Carpenter's Daughter) – 8:02
 * 3) "Children Go Where I Send Thee" – 5:12
 * 4) "Birds and Ships" (with Billy Bragg) – 2:13
 * 5) "The Lowlands of Holland" (with The Chieftains) – 3:49
 * 6) "One Fine Day" (from the movie One Fine Day) – 2:47
 * 7) "Photograph" (with R.E.M.) – 3:32
 * 8) "Party of God" (with Bragg) – 4:17
 * 9) "Thick as Thieves" (acoustic version) – 6:23
 * 10) "Bread and Circuses" (with Bragg) – 4:24
 * 11) "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (with Susan McKeown) – 3:50
 * 12) "Tell Yourself" (acoustic version) – 5:05
 * 13) "But Not for Me" – 3:26
 * 14) "I Know How to Do It" – 4:26
 * 15) "Come Take a Trip in My Airship" – 4:03

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Koronis Rift

Koronis Rift is a video game from Lucasfilm Games, produced and designed by Noah Falstein. Originally developed for the Atari 8-bit computers and the Commodore 64, Koronis Rift was published in 1984. It was ported to the Amstrad CPC, Apple II, MSX2, Tandy Color Computer 3, and ZX Spectrum.

The Atari and C64 version shipped on a flippy disk, with one version of the game on each side. A cassette version was also released for the Commodore 64. The Atari version requires computers with the GTIA chip installed in order to display properly.

Koronis Rift was one of two games in Lucasfilm Games' second wave (December 1985). The other was The Eidolon. Both enhanced the fractal technology developed for Rescue on Fractalus!. In Koronis Rift, the Atari 8-bit computer's additional colors (over those of the Commodore 64) allowed the programmers to gradually fade in the background rather than it suddenly popping in as in Rescue, an early example of depth cueing in a computer game.

Gameplay
The player controls a surface rover vehicle to enter several "rifts" on an alien planet which are effectively fractal mazes. A lost civilisation known as the Ancients has left strange machinery, so-called "hulks", within these rifts which are guarded by armed flying saucers of different design and color. Depending on their respective color, shields and gunshots of both the rover and the saucers are of varying effectiveness against each other; part of the game is figuring out which shield and weapon modules work best where.

By means of a drone robot, the rover can retrieve modules with various functions (which are not immediately obvious) from nearby hulks. It can only be deployed when all attacking Guardian Saucers have been destroyed. The modules can then be installed in the rover, analyzed aboard the player's space ship, or sold; the rover can carry up to six different modules at a time which can be activated and de-activated as the player sees fit. A large variety of modules is available: different weapon and shield modules with varying power levels and color codes, modules that increase the rover's power output, a mapper (activating an extra screen on the rover), and even one module that turns the retrieval probe into a bomb, destroying any hulks the probe is sent to investigate instead of retrieving modules.

Conversely, different types of hulks exist including one that simply "swallows" the probe without yielding a module, requiring the player to purchase a new probe (and possibly sell useful modules to raise the required funds).

The goal of the game is to find and destroy the saucer control base hulk which is located in the 20th rift. To this end, the player must explore the rifts, find hulks, retrieve and analyze modules and understand the color-coding of weapons and shields to overcome the increasingly aggressive and dangerous saucers. The game can be solved in several ways; the quickest is to acquire the bomb module and send the probe into the saucer base with the bomb module activated.

Reception
Info rated Koronis Rift four stars out of five, stating that it was the best of Epyx's four Lucasfilm games. Computer Gaming World stated that "if KR is a game, it is also a puzzle ... arcade skill alone isn't enough". The reviewer did not enjoy the game because it was so difficult that he spent too much time savescumming, but praised the graphics and sound. Zzap!64 thought that the game was an improvement on its predecessor, Rescue on Fractalus, with superior graphics and gameplay. It was given an overall rating of 96%.

Reviews

 * Jeux & Stratégie #41
 * Jeux & Stratégie HS #3

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Adolphus Hailstork

Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III (born April 17, 1941) is an American composer and educator. He was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up in Albany, New York, where he studied violin, piano, organ, and voice. He currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Career
Hailstork began his musical career in 1963, when he studied composition with Mark Fax at Howard University, Washington, DC (BMus 1963). In the summer of 1963 he attended the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger. In 1965, Hailstork received a Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, and in 1966 received a Master of Music at the same institution. After studying under H. Owen Reed, Hailstork received his PhD in composition from Michigan State University in 1971.

From 1969 to 1971, Hailstork taught at Michigan State University. He then served as professor at Youngstown State University in Ohio from 1971 to 1976, and in 1977 accepted a post as professor of music and Composer-in-Residence at Virginia's Norfolk State University. He also taught as professor of music and Composer-in-Residence at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Hailstork is of African American, native American and European ancestry and his works blend musical ideas from the African, American and European traditions.

In October 2022 his work was publicised in Britain when he was featured as "Composer of the Week" on BBC Radio 3.

Hailstork married in 2007.

Awards and publications

 * 1971: Ernest Bloch Award for choral composition
 * Mourn Not the Dead
 * 1977: Belwin-Mills Max Winkler Award, presented by the Band Directors National Association
 * Out of Depths
 * 1983: First Prize, Virginia College Band Directors
 * Guernica
 * 1987: Fulbright fellowship for study in Guyana
 * 1992: named a Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia
 * 1995: First Prize, University of Delaware Festival of Contemporary Music
 * Consort Piece
 * 1999: Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association
 * 2001 Honorary Doctorate from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

Hailstork is published by Theodore Presser Company and Carl Fischer Music. Old Dominion University holds several archival documents of Adolphus Hailstork in the special collections area of the F. Ludwig Diehn Composers Room, in the Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center.

Selected works
Works for Solo Instruments Toccata on Veni Emmanuel for Organ/E.C.Schirmer 1996
 * 2 Scherzos for solo piano
 * Bassoon Set for solo bassoon
 * Eight Variations On "Shalom Chaverim" for solo piano
 * Five Friends for solo piano
 * Flute Set for solo flute
 * Four Preludes for solo harp
 * Great Day (That Great Gittin' Up Mornin') for solo carillon
 * Ignis Fatuus (Mysterious Fires) for solo piano
 * Piano Sonata No. 2 for solo piano
 * Piano Sonata No. 3 for solo piano
 * The Surprising Thing Is for solo violin
 * ''Theme and Variations on "Draw the Sacred Circle Closer" for solo Cello
 * Sonata for Solo Cello
 * Three Smiles for Tracy for solo clarinet
 * Trio Sonata for solo piano
 * ''Two Studies on Chant Melodies" for solo organ
 * Variations for solo trumpet

Works for Chamber Ensemble
 * American Fanfare for 3Tpt. 4Hn. 3Tbn. Tu. 3Perc. Timp.
 * American Landscape for string duet
 * Armegeddon for organ and two percussion
 * As Falling Leaves
 * Baroque Suite for violin and piano
 * The Blue Bag for clarinet and piano
 * Consort Piece for septet
 * Divertimento for violin and viola
 * Evensong for violin and cello
 * Fanfare on Amazing Grace for brass quintet, timpani, and organ
 * "Fantasy, Elegy & Caprice" for cello and piano
 * Fantasy Piece for viola and piano
 * Four Hymns Without Words for trumpet and piano
 * Guest Suite for four hands on one piano
 * Ghosts in Grey and Blue for trumpet, horn, and trombone
 * I Am Only One for SATB choir
 * John Henry's Big (Man vs. Machine) for trombone and piano
 * Little Diversions for Lord Byron's Court for two violins or string duet
 * Sanctum for clarinet and piano or viola and piano
 * A Simple Caprice for clarinet and piano
 * Sonata for trumpet and piano
 * Sonata for two pianos
 * Springtime for Elephants for two tubas
 * String Quartet No. 1
 * String Quartet No. 2 - Variations on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
 * Three Meditations for viola and organ
 * Two by Two for horn and trombone
 * Variations on a Guyanese Folk Song for violin and piano
 * Ventriloquist Acts of God for soprano and piano
 * Violin Concerto for violin and piano
 * Who is Sylvia? For Coloratura Soprano, Violin, and Piano

Works for Chorus and Orchestra
 * Break Forth for Chorus and Orchestra
 * Crispus Attucks - American Patriot for mezzo, tenor, bass-bariton, large chorus, and orchestra
 * Done Made My Vow for narrator, soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra
 * EarthRise (A Song of Healing) for two choirs and orchestra
 * Four Spirituals for two sopranos, mixed chorus and orchestra
 * The Gift of the Magi A “Choral Ballet” for dancers, chamber orchestra and children's chorus
 * I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes, cantata for tenor, choir, and orchestra
 * Serenade “To Hearts Which Near Each Other Move” for SATB choir and orchestra
 * Songs of Innocence for three soloists, chorus and orchestra
 * Within Our Gates for solo soprano, solo tenor, SATB chorus and string orchestra
 * The World Called for solo soprano, SATB chorus and orchestra

Works for Chorus
 * Shout for Joy (The Bank Street Festival Anthem)

Works for Wind Ensemble
 * American Guernica

Works for Orchestra
 * An American Port of Call
 * Baroque Suite for String Orchestra (with optional Harpsichord)
 * Church Street Serenade for String Orchestra
 * Concertino for Trumpet and Orchestra
 * Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed In memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
 * Essay for Strings
 * Fanfare on Amazing Grace for Orchestra
 * ''Hercules"
 * Intrada
 * Lachrymosa: 1919
 * Sonata for Trumpet (or Clarinet) and String Orchestra
 * Symphony No. 3
 * Celebration!
 * Three Spirituals
 * Two Romances for Viola and Chamber Orchestra
 * Violin Concerto

Operas
 * Joshua’s Boots an Opera in one Act
 * Paul Laurence Dunbar: Common Ground An Operatic Theaterpiece
 * Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ginsburg standard

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 20:00, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Ginsburg standard
There is no such thing as the "Ginsburg standard". Ruth Bader Ginsburg, during the hearings regarding her nomination as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, refused to answer questions regarding her personal philosphy except as it related to matters on which she had been an advocate in the past. (In that vein, she was no less forthwright (perhaps more) than Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings, when he claimed never to have had an opinion on ''Roe v Wade' or to have discussed the case with anyone (so far as I can recall)'.)

I assume this entry is being added because of the nomination of John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court. It is part of an advance effort to legitimize any lack of responsivenss by Roberts during his nomination hearings. That is clearly evidenced by the fact that the contributer who added this entry and who added similar text to Justice Ginsburg's own entry provided no detail of the nature of her refusals, just making the blanket assertion that she "refuse[d] to answer questions posed to her by Senators" and that it the phrase "still used by some today." However, until just now there has never been such a thing as the "Ginsburg standard," and its inclusion here (and its recent adoption by a conservative pundit or two) is clearly a partisan effort that violates Wikipedia's NPOV rules. Moreover, a Google search (not definitive, but instructive) finds only five references to "Ginsburg standard," all from the last week or two. Because this entry is inaccurate and biased, I vote that it be deleted. Geoff.green 22:15, 23 July 2005 (UTC) Hi. I'm the guy who wrote this article. Wikipedia attempts to calulate the sum of human knowledge, not randomly delete articles. Hence I hereby vote that we KEEP THIS ARTICLE. --user:steven
 * Delete. Neologism at best.  Postdlf 23:18, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nnneologism with 10 Google hits, and per nominator. -Splash 23:39, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism. Some of the articles in google actually are typos too (meant to be the Ginsberg standard) Mmmbeer 19:09, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Ask Sen. Schumer To Apply The Same Standard To Supreme Court Nominee Roberts As Was Applied To Justice Ginsburg Dear Steven,

Sen. Charles Schumer of New York has gone on record as saying he would question John Roberts, President Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court, about his views on abortion and a host of other issues.

When asked questions concerning abortion in her Senate confirmation hearings, now Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (then the nominee of President Clinton) responded by saying that the abortion issue could possibly come before her. Therefore, she said, it would be inappropriate for her to give an opinion on the question of abortion. (Incidentally, she had previously served as general counsel for the ACLU.)

Her refusal to answer questions concerning abortion has become known as the "Ginsburg Standard."

Ask Sen. Schumer to apply the same standard to nominee Roberts as was applied to nominee Ginsburg. It is the only fair thing to do.

Click Here To Send Your Email To Senator Schumer Now!

Sincerely,

Don

Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman American Family Association

P.S. Please forward this e-mail message to your family and friends.

 * "become know as the Ginsburg Standard" by whom? The AFA?  Still vote to delete. Also, please mark who you are when you post changes.  Thank you.  Geoff.green 02:48, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Fuck Donald Wildmon. This is all false anyway, because Ginsburg did represent her views on abortion during her confirmation hearings: "[The right to an abortion] is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she's being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices."  That sounds pretty clear.  If anything, it should be the Clarence "I've never thought about abortion" Thomas standard.  Fuck Donald Wildmon.  Postdlf 05:10, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Talk:Tick (character)

Is the Tick Imaginary?
The main theory is that the superhero known as the Tick is an imaginary superhero made by a kid in his sick bed. This means that all the villains in The Tick are based on inanimate objects. An example is that his archenemy, Chairface Chippendale is just a normal chair in his room, and El Seed, a flower-based super villain, is based on flowers found in his room. His sidekick, Arthur is his father in real life. This is shown in the franchise which Arthur is seen constantly moving due to his job as an accoundant. The American Maid is the boy's mother. This explains why he wasn't interested in her in the franchise, despite her being very sexualized. It all ends due to the boy contacted with a tick, which gave him an illness, and this explains why he got the idea and name from for his fictional persona. I know this could only count for the cartoons, why don't you extend this to all of the franchise itself instead of just the cartoon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.91.225.142 (talk) 05:19, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * You haven't made it clear what you mean by "main theory": could you provide some reliable sources to back up this claim? If not, this would constitute original research. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 13:01, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

invunerable/invincable
is the Tick "nigh invulnerable" or "nigh invincible". CNN says "nigh invincible". I rember reading this in High School in the 80s as a BW comic. I remember it as "nigh invincible" - CNN : 'The Tick' finds new home, life on Amazon BrianFennell (talk) 12:23, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

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Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond

Frederick Charles Gordon Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, 9th Duke of Lennox, 9th Duke of Aubigny, 4th Duke of Gordon (5 February 1904 – 2 November 1989) was a British peer, engineer, racing driver, and motor racing promoter.

Biography
Freddie Richmond, as he was known, was the third son of Charles Gordon Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond and Hilda Brassey. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. His interest in engineering started while he was at university and afterwards, he was apprenticed to Bentley Motors. He began a motor racing career in 1929 when he took part in the JCC High-Speed Trial. In the next year, he became a member of the Austin team and won the Brooklands 500 Miles. He created his own team of MG Midgets in 1931 and won the Brooklands Double Twelve race, but then became more involved in the organisational side of motorsport.

He inherited the Dukedoms in 1935, along with the Goodwood Estate and the racecourse. Death duties meant he had to sell the family interests in Scotland, including Gordon Castle, and settle on the Goodwood Estate near Chichester. He designed and flew his own aircraft and served with the Royal Air Force during World War II. For a time, he was based in Washington, working for the Ministry of Aircraft Production.

After the war, he faced the task of rehabilitating Goodwood, and saw the potential for creating a motor racing circuit from the fighter station built at Goodwood during the Second World War. Horse racing was an important part of the Goodwood scene, but he did not share his ancestors' interest in the sport. The Goodwood Circuit became an important venue in motor racing. However, by 1966 the Duke was concerned at the increasing risks involved in motor racing and closed the circuit except for minor club activities and private testing.

The Duke was the longest-serving Vice President of the Royal Automobile Club, with which he was associated since 1948. As early as the thirties, he was the motoring correspondent of the Sunday Referee, and became the Founder President of the Guild of Motoring Writers.

The Duke appeared on 14 December 1958 episode of the American version of What's My Line?.

A devout Anglican, the Duke represented the Church of England on the World Council of Churches' Central Committee from 1968.

Marriage and children
He married Elizabeth Grace Hudson (1900–1992) on 15 December 1927. She was the daughter of Rev. Thomas William Hudson and his wife, Alethea Mary Matheson, and sister of Bishop Noel Hudson. They were married for sixty-one years and had two children:

 * Charles Henry Gordon Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond (19 September 1929 – 1 September 2017)
 * Lord Nicholas Charles Gordon Lennox KCVO KCMG (31 January 1931 – 11 October 2004), married Mary Williamson and had issue. He was the British Ambassador to Spain from 1984 to 1989


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Karel deLeeuw

Karel deLeeuw, or de Leeuw (February 20, 1930 – August 18, 1978), was a mathematics professor at Stanford University, specializing in harmonic analysis and functional analysis.

Life and career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, earning a B.S. degree in 1950. He stayed at Chicago to earn an M.S. degree in mathematics in 1951, then went to Princeton University, where he obtained a Ph.D. degree in 1954. His thesis, titled "The relative cohomology structure of formations", was written under the direction of Emil Artin.

After first teaching mathematics at Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he joined the Stanford University faculty in 1957, becoming a full professor in 1966. During sabbaticals and leaves he also spent time at the Institute for Advanced Study and at Churchill College, Cambridge (where he was a Fulbright Fellow). He was also a Member-at-Large of the Council of the American Mathematical Society.

Death and legacy
DeLeeuw was murdered by Theodore Streleski, a Stanford doctoral student for 19 years, whom he briefly advised. DeLeeuw's widow Sita deLeeuw was critical of media coverage of the crime, saying, "The media, in their eagerness to give Streleski a forum, become themselves accomplices in the murder—giving Streleski what he wanted in the first place."

A memorial lecture series was established in 1978 by the Stanford Department of Mathematics to honor deLeeuw's memory.

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Orange-billed tern

Orange-billed tern is a name applied to a group of three large terns in the genus Thalasseus with orange bills, which are quite similar in appearance and often considered difficult to identify, namely:

 * Royal tern, Thalasseus maximus
 * Lesser crested tern, Thalasseus bengalensis
 * Elegant tern, Thalasseus elegans

The greater crested tern (Thalasseus bergii) and the Cayenne tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis eurygnatha), which have yellow rather than orange bills, are sometimes also considered part of this group.

Identification
Identification of orange-billed terns within their range is straightforward. Crested and Cayenne terns (which do not overlap in range) can be identified by their bill colour. Of the truly orange-billed species, the only geographical overlaps are between royal and lesser crested, and between royal and elegant Terns, and in both cases the larger size and strong bill of royal tern should prevent misidentifications (in addition, lesser crested terns have a grey, not white, rump).

Identification of vagrants has proved to be much more difficult however, with known hybridisation, and birds which do not match the classic character sets of individual species. See the references list below for more information.

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Probability diagram for Monty Hall problem


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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (abbreviated TGN) is a product of the J. Paul Getty Trust included in the Getty Vocabulary Program. The TGN includes names and associated information about places. Places in TGN include administrative political entities (e.g., cities, nations) and physical features (e.g., mountains, rivers). Current and historical places are included. Other information related to history, population, culture, art and architecture is included.

The resource is available to museums, art libraries, archives, visual resource collection catalogers, bibliographic projects through private license or available to members of the general public for free on the Getty Vocabulary website (see external links).

The Getty vocabulary databases (Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), and TGN) are produced and maintained by the Getty Vocabulary Program. They are compliant with ISO and NISO standards for thesaurus construction. They contain terms, names, and other information about people, places, things, and concepts relating to art, architecture, and material culture.

The Getty vocabularies can be used in three ways: at the data entry stage, by catalogers or indexers who are describing works of art, architecture, material culture, archival materials, visual surrogates, or bibliographic materials; as knowledge bases, providing information for researchers; and as search assistants to enhance end-user access to online resources.

History
Work on the TGN began in 1987, when the Getty created a department dedicated to compiling and distributing terminology, at that time called the Vocabulary Coordination Group. The AAT was already being managed by the Getty at that time, and the Getty attempted to respond to requests from the creators of art information for additional controlled vocabularies for artists' names (ULAN) and geographic names (TGN). The development of TGN was informed by an international study completed by the Thesaurus Artis Universalis (TAU), a working group of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA), and by the consensus reached at a colloquium held in 1991, attended by the spectrum of potential users of geographic vocabulary in cataloging and scholarship of art and architectural history and archaeology. The initial core of the TGN was compiled from thousands of geographic names in use by various Getty cataloging and indexing projects, enlarged by information from U. S. government databases, and further enhanced by the manual entry of information from published hard-copy sources. The TGN grows and changes via contributions from the user community and editorial work of the Getty Vocabulary Program.

The basic principles under which the TGN is constructed and maintained were established by the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) and also employed for the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN): Its scope includes terminology needed to catalog and retrieve information about the visual arts and architecture; it is constructed using national and international standards for thesaurus construction; it comprises a hierarchy with tree structures corresponding to the current and historical worlds; it is based on terminology that is current, warranted for use by authoritative literary sources, and validated by use in the scholarly art and architectural history community; and it is compiled and edited in response to the needs of the user community.

TGN was founded under the management of Eleanor Fink (head of what was then called the Vocabulary Coordination Group, and subsequently Director of the Art History Information Program, later called the Getty Information Institute). TGN has been constructed over the years by numerous members of the user community and an army of dedicated editors, under the supervision of several managers. Technical support for the TGN was provided by the Getty. TGN was first published in 1997 in machine-readable files. Given the growing size and frequency of changes and additions to the TGN, hard-copy publication was deemed to be impractical. It is currently published in both a searchable online Web interface and in data files available for licensing. The data for the TGN is compiled and edited in an editorial system that was custom-built by Getty technical staff to meet the unique requirements of compiling data from many contributors, building complex and changing polyhierarchies, merging, moving, and publishing in various formats. Final editorial control of the TGN is maintained by the Getty Vocabulary Program, using well-established editorial rules. The current managers of the TGN are Patricia Harpring, Managing Editor, and Murtha Baca, Head, Vocabulary Program and Digital Resource Management.

TGN is available as Linked Open Data since August 2014.

Terms
TGN is a structured vocabulary currently containing around 1,106,000 names and other information about places. Names for a place may include names in the vernacular language, English, other languages, historical names, names and in natural order and inverted order. Among these names, one is flagged as the preferred name.

TGN is a thesaurus, compliant with ISO and NISO standards for thesaurus construction; it contains hierarchical, equivalence, and associative relationships. Note that TGN is not a GIS (Geographic Information System). While many records in TGN include coordinates, these coordinates are approximate and are intended for reference only.

The focus of each TGN record is a place. There are around 912,000 places in the TGN. In the database, each place record (also called a subject) is identified by a unique numeric ID. Linked to the record for the place are names, the place's parent or position in the hierarchy, other relationships, geographic coordinates, notes, sources for the data, and place types, which are terms describing the role of the place (e.g., inhabited place and state capital). The temporal coverage of the TGN ranges from prehistory to the present and the scope is global.

Design
The TGN is a faceted classification system as well as a poly-hierarchical one. There are two facets: World and Extraterrestrial. Within the World facet are Physical Features and Political Entities. One can view administrative places from as broad as continents and regions to as specific as neighborhoods, boroughs, towns, and cities. Within the Physical Features facets are mountain ranges, oceans, seas, rivers, waterfalls, island groups, and deserts.

The record for each concept includes its place in the hierarchy (with a link to its parent), as well as links to related terms, related concepts, sources for the data, and notes.

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Marsh tern

The name marsh tern refers to terns of the genus Chlidonias, which are typically found in freshwater marshes, rather than coastal locations. The genus name Chlidonias is from Ancient Greek, "swallow-like", from , "swallow".

Species
There are four species:

Notice the hesitation in the gender of the epithet of the scientific names, as they are usually masculine (albostriatus, leucopterus or niger), but in the case of the whiskered tern is mostly used as feminine (hybrida), maybe from the influence of the previous gender used, Sterna.

The black-bellied tern (Sterna acuticauda) and the white-cheeked tern (Sterna repressa) might also be placed in Chlidonias.

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User talk:Crockboy

Now you can talk to cheese in its native language!

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UTC−09:00

UTC−09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −09:00. This time is used in:

As standard time (Northern Hemisphere winter)
Principal city: Anchorage

North America

 * United States
 * Alaska
 * Except Aleutian Islands west of 169.30°W
 * Hall Island (Alaska), at longitude 173°6′W, is the westernmost area of Alaska that observes UTC−09:00, but is far west of the theoretical zone limits (−142.5° to −127.5° longitude). Its position equates to a mean solar time of UTC−11:32. The westernmost inhabited place in Alaska that observes UTC-09:00 is Gambell on the Northwest Cape of St. Lawrence Island, which is at 171°42′W.

As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer)
Principal settlement: Adak

North America

 * United States
 * Alaska
 * Aleutian Islands west of 169.30°W

As standard time (year-round)
Principal settlement: Rikitea

Polynesia

 * France
 * French Polynesia
 * Gambier Islands

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