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Benny Ziffer

Benny Ziffer (בני ציפר; born 21 January 1953) is an Israeli author and journalist.

Biography
Benjamin (Benny) Ziffer was born in Tel Aviv. His parents, Heinz and Nira (née Farhi), immigrated to Israel from Turkey in 1949. In 1895, his grandfather, Albert (Avraham) Ziffer, founded the world's first Jewish sports team in Istanbul. Ziffer studied French literature and political science. He is married to the curator Irit Ziffer, and they have three children. Ziffer holds two nationalities: Israeli and Turkish.

Journalism career
In 1988, Ziffer was appointed literary editor of Haaretz daily newspaper. Ziffer is the author of three novels. He has also translated French novels and poetry into Hebrew. Ziffer writes a political-cultural column in Haaretz that combines television reviews with reflections on contemporary Israeli life.

Views and opinions
Some of his columns are considered controversial; in 2015, Ziffer wrote that "not recognizing the Armenian genocide is a triumph for common sense", adding "There are still a few responsible adults around who haven't surrendered to the self-righteous kitsch of national victimization".

In August 2019, returning from a condolence visit to the Israeli settlement Ofra in the West Bank, Ziffer wrote on his Facebook page: “En route I looked at the Palestinian villages alongside the Jewish communities, and I thought of how for the Palestinians murder is a type of sport or enjoyment, perhaps a substitute for erotica. From that perspective we will never have anything culturally in common with them. ... Regarding this evil and undignified people living among us, we can only yearn for the land to vomit it out, because it isn’t worthy of this land, which is full of Jewish blood that it has spilled.”

Awards and recognition
In 2010, Ziffer was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to New Media prize by the International Council for Press and Broadcasting at the International Media Awards in London

Published works

 * A Bird Nests at Home (Tsipor Mekanenet Ba-bait) (1978) - poetry
 * Turkish March (Hebrew for 'Alla Turca')(1995)
 * Ziffer and his Kind (1999)
 * The Literary Editor's Progress (2005)

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Record Mirror

Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors. Launched two years after the NME, it never attained the circulation of its rival. The first UK album chart was published in Record Mirror in 1956, and during the 1980s it was the only consumer music paper to carry the official UK singles and UK albums charts used by the BBC for Radio 1 and Top of the Pops, as well as the US Billboard charts.

The title ceased to be a stand-alone publication in April 1991 when United Newspapers closed or sold most of their consumer magazines, including Record Mirror and its sister music magazine Sounds, to concentrate on trade papers like Music Week. In 2010 Giovanni di Stefano bought the name Record Mirror and relaunched it as an online music gossip website in 2011. The website became inactive in 2013 following di Stefano's jailing for fraud.

Early years, 1954–1963
Record Mirror was founded by former Weekly Sporting Review editor Isidore Green, who encouraged the same combative journalism as NME. Staff writers included Dick Tatham, Peter Jones and Ian Dove. Green's background was in show business and he emphasised music hall, a dying tradition. He published articles and interviews connected with theatre and musical personalities.

On 22 January 1955 Record Mirror became the second music paper after NME to publish a singles chart. The chart was a Top 10, from postal returns from 24 stores. On 8 October, the chart expanded to a Top 20, and by 1956, more than 60 stores were being sampled. In April 1961, increased postage costs affected funding of the returns, and on 24 March 1962 the paper abandoned its charts and began using those of Record Retailer, which had begun in March 1960.

The first album charts in the UK were published in Record Mirror on 28 July 1956.

For two months in 1959, Record Mirror failed to appear due to a national printing strike. On its return, Green renamed it Record and Show Mirror, the majority of space devoted to show business. By the end of 1960 circulation had fallen to 18,000 and Decca Records, the main shareholder, became uneasy. In March 1961, Decca replaced Green with Jimmy Watson, a former Decca press officer. Watson changed the title to New Record Mirror and eliminated show business. Circulation rose, aided by an editorial team of Peter Jones, Ian Dove and Norman Jopling. He brought in freelance columnists James Asman, Benny Green and DJ David Gell to implement a chart coverage including jazz, country and pop music. This eventually included the official UK Top 50 singles, Top 30 LPs and Top 10 EPs, as compiled by Record Retailer. The paper also listed the USA Top 50 singles, compiled by Cash Box, and charts such as the Top 20 singles of five years ago and R&B releases.

Features such as Ian Dove's "Rhythm & Blues Round Up", Peter Jones's "New Faces" and Norman Jopling's "Fallen Idols and Great Unknowns", combined with New Record Mirror's music coverage, helped circulation rise to nearly 70,000. New Record Mirror was the first national publication to publish an article on the Beatles, and the first to feature the Rolling Stones, the Searchers, the Who, and the Kinks. Bill Harry, founder and editor of the Liverpool publication Mersey Beat, wrote a column on Liverpool music. Other columnists reported on Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle. New Record Mirror took an interest in black American R&B artists. The paper maintained articles on old-style rock and roll.

1963–1982
During 1963 Decca Records' chairman Edward Lewis sold a substantial share of Decca's interest to John Junor, editor of the Sunday Express. Junor was looking for a paper to print by four-colour printing developed by Woodrow Wyatt in Banbury, before printing the Sunday Express in colour. Junor moved Sunday Express production to Shaftesbury Avenue and New Record Mirror became more mainstream. In November 1963, the paper returned to the name Record Mirror, and featured a colour picture of the Beatles on the cover, the first music paper in full colour. Although the first run of 120,000 sold out, the following issue fell to 60,000. Junor replaced Jimmy Watson by Peter Jones. Circulation recovered and the paper successfully continued with the same format throughout the 1960s. Following acquisition in 1962 of NME by Odhams, Record Mirror was the only independent popular music newspaper.

During 1969, Record Mirror was acquired by Record Retailer and incorporated into Record Retailer offices in Carnaby Street. The acquisition saw the magazine change printers, drop full colour pin-ups and increase its size to a larger tabloid format. Jones continued as editor, supported by Valerie Mabbs, Lon Goddard, Rob Partridge, Bill McAllister (the first music journalist to herald Elton John and Rod Stewart), and broadcast-specialist Rodney Collins, who had moved from Record Retailer. Collins's links with pirate radio gave Record Mirror a continental circulation and a Dutch supplement was frequently included. Terry Chappell resumed as production editor and Bob Houston supervised the change in format. Group editorial manager Mike Hennessey contributed the first interview with John Lennon. The Record Mirror photographic studio became independent, under Dezo Hoffmann.

In a studio outtake of a recording of "Sally Simpson" on the 2003 release of the deluxe edition of the Who's 1969 album Tommy, Pete Townshend said, "I've read the Record Mirror". When Keith Moon presses him to tell what he read in the Record Mirror, Pete says, to the rest of the band's laughter, that the paper said that he was known by the other members of the Who as "Bone".

In 1975 Disc was incorporated into Record Mirror – among the items brought to Record Mirror was J Edward Oliver's cartoon, which had been running in Disc for five years, and which continued for a two years in Record Mirror. By 1977 Record Retailer had become Music Week and Record Mirror was included in a sale by Billboard magazine to the Morgan-Grampian Group. Both offices moved to Covent Garden. Morgan-Grampian moved to Greater London House, north London in 1981.

1982–1991
In 1982, the paper changed from tabloid to glossy magazine. During the next nine years it had a more pop-orientated slant and containing features and a tone of voice that was one part Smash Hits, one part the NME. Part of Record Mirror was devoted over to comic articles as a rival to the NME's Thrills section (infamous for Stuart Maconie's Believe It Or Not column which claimed that Bob Holness was the saxophonist on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street). Features in this section of Record Mirror included:

 * Great Pop Things, a weekly comic strip by Colin B. Morton and Chuck Death which began in 1987 and continued in NME after Record Mirror's closure
 * Star-spotting gossip pages, written by Johnny Dee, which also featured comedy articles
 * Lip – gossip column written by Nancy Culp, and later Lisa Tilston
 * "Spot the Imposter" – photoquiz with a misplaced face in the crowd
 * "Phil's World of Wigs" – each week a picture of Phil Collins appeared with new novelty haircuts, the artwork being created by art director Ian Middleton in response to readers' suggestions
 * "Pete's Poems" – a weekly poem by record producer Pete Waterman (as edited by Neil Wilson)
 * "Sonia's Best Buys" – value for money purchases apparently made by late 1980s singer Sonia
 * "The Stone Roses New Line-Up" – each week a new photo of a gurning celebrity would be added to a photo of the Stone Roses 1989 line-up, for example Harry Enfield as his character "Loadsamoney"
 * "B's Cheeseboard" – various types of cheese apparently reviewed by Soul II Soul star Jazzie B
 * "Star Scene" – pop stars answering questions about items in the news
 * "Tanita and Guy's Psychic Joke Hut" – pictures of the heads of The House Of Love singer Guy Chadwick and singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram telling each other jokes: both were famed for their serious natures in real life
 * "Disco column" – a disco review section from James Hamilton

1991–2013
In 1987, Morgan-Grampian was acquired by United Newspapers (now UBM). On 2 April 1991, Record Mirror closed as a stand-alone title on the same day as its United Newspapers sister publication Sounds closed, with the last issue dated 6 April 1991. The final cover featured Transvision Vamp. Eleanor Levy, the final editor, believed the decision to close the magazine was "taken by accountants rather than people who understand music. When I explained to one of the management team that our strength was dance music, he thought I meant Jive Bunny."

As United Newspapers decided to focus on trade papers, Record Mirror was incorporated into Music Week as a pull-out supplement with the title concentrating on dance music and with the Cool Cuts, Club Chart and James Hamilton's BPM column continuing to be published. Hamilton continued to review records for the Record Mirror Dance Update until two weeks before his death on 17 June 1996, with the supplement running an obituary in the 29 June issue with tributes from Pete Tong, Graham Gold and Les 'L.A. Mix' Adams.

By the 21st century, the Record Mirror Dance Update had been abandoned with the dance charts incorporated into Music Week (with the Music Week Upfront Club and Cool Cuts still being published in 2020 by Future plc, though this may change in 2021 when the publication goes monthly). However, in 2011 Record Mirror was re-launched as an online music gossip website but became inactive two years later following trademark owner Giovanni di Stefano's jailing for fraud.

History of the charts
Record Mirror became the second magazine to compile and publish a record chart on 22 January 1955. Unlike the New Musical Express who conducted a phone poll of retailers for a chart, Record Mirror arranged for its pool of retailers to send in a list of best sellers by post. The paper would finance the costs of this survey and by 1957 over 60 shops would be regularly contributing from a rotating pool of over 80. The chart was a top 10 until 8 October 1955. It then became a top 20; which it stayed at until being replaced by the Record Retailer top 50. It also inaugurated the countries first Long Player chart, which commenced as a top five on 28 July 1956.

By March 1962, Record Mirror adopted publication of Record Retailer's top 50 from 24 March 1962. After 21 April 1966, Record Mirror published a "Bubbling Under List" right under the main chart (at the time, the Singles Top 50, the Albums Top 30 and the EP Top 10). "The Breakers", as it was called later in the year, were 10 to 15 records (for the singles chart) which had not made the top 50 that week, but were poised to reach the main chart the next week, ranked in sales order, i.e. as if they occupied positions 51 to 64. "The Breakers" list was ceased when BMRB took over chart compilation in February 1969, but by September 1970, it was re-instated (for singles only) appearing off and on under the main chart, up until May 1978 (when the top 75 was introduced). In the years 1974 and 1975, the list even expanded to 30 titles, of which the first 10 were called "Star Breakers" and given in order of sales, with the other 20 listed alphabetically.

In January 1983, when Gallup took over chart compilation, the singles chart extended to a Top 100, with positions 76–100 as 'The Next 25' – excluding singles dropping out of the Top 75 or with significantly reduced sales. 'The Next 25' was discontinued by Music Week in November 1990 who decided to only include records that were hits (that is, inside the Top 75). Record Mirror continued printing the Top 100 until it became part of the trade paper in April 1991, with Music Week continuing to print the hits, though the full Top 200 singles chart and Top 150 albums chart could be accessed by subscribing to Music Week's spin-off newsletter Charts Plus and also to Hit Music which superseded it. (Note: As of December 2020 the Official Charts Company website is still missing a lot of the data on regards to records in positions 76 to 100 from 1991 to 12 February 1994)

In addition to the Gallup charts (the future Official Charts Company Top 100), Record Mirror was the only magazine during the 1980s to print the weekly US singles and album charts, with analysis by chart statistician Alan Jones.

Music charts included

 * UK Top 100 Singles Chart
 * UK Top 75 Albums and Compilation Albums Charts
 * Vintage chart from a bygone year
 * US Billboard Singles Chart
 * US Billboard Albums Chart
 * US Billboard Black Singles Chart
 * Music Video Chart
 * 12-inch singles Top 20 Chart
 * Compact Disc Top 20 Chart
 * Reggae Chart (dropped in 1987)

James Hamilton
In June 1975, DJ James Hamilton (1942–1996) started writing a weekly "disco" column, which in 1980s expanded into a general dance music section known as BPM. Later, Hamilton introduced the DJ Directory, including the Beats and Pieces news section and four charts: "Club Chart", "Cool Cuts", "Pop Dance", and Hi-NRG Chart.

Hamilton had started DJing in London in the early 1960s, and had been writing about US soul and R&B for Record Mirror since 1964, originally as Dr Soul. After a visit to the Paradise Garage in the 1970s to see Larry Levan play, he came back to the UK a convert to mixing records, unknown at the time. To promote his views, he developed his onomatopoeic style of describing a record, and from 1979 he started timing and including the beats per minute of records he reviewed.

1950s and 1960s

 * Journalists
 * Norman Jopling
 * Graeme Andrews
 * Derek Boltwood
 * Roy Burden
 * Terry Chappell
 * Rodney Collins
 * Lon Goddard
 * David Griffiths
 * Tony Hall
 * Peter Jones
 * Bill McAllister
 * Valerie Mabbs
 * Ian Middleton
 * Barry May
 * Alan Stinton

 * Photographic department
 * Dezo Hoffmann
 * David Louis [Louis Levy]
 * Bill Williams
 * Eileen Mallory
 * Alan Messer
 * Feri Lukas
 * David Magnus
 * Keith Hammett

 * Production Editor
 * Colin Brown

1970s

 * Journalists
 * Barry Cain
 * Ronnie Gurr
 * Mike Gardner
 * Jan Iles
 * David Hancock
 * Peter Harvey
 * Tim Lott
 * Alf Martin
 * Mike Nicholls
 * Sheila Prophet
 * Rosalind Russell
 * John Shearlaw
 * Daniela Soave
 * Penny Valentine
 * Chris Westwood
 * Paula Yates – wrote a column in the paper titled "Natural Blonde"

 * Photographic department
 * Andy Phillips
 * Paul Slattery

Jack Edward Oliver, 1970–1977
 * Cartoonist

Mick Hitch
 * Advertisement production

1980s and 1990s
Business team
 * Mike Sharman – Publisher
 * Steve Bush-Harris
 * Carole Norvell-Read
 * Tracey Rogers
 * Geof Todd
 * Jo Embleton
 * Journalists
 * Stuart Bailie – now a DJ on BBC Radio Ulster
 * Tony Beard
 * Edwin J Bernard – later became a writer and policy consultant for the human rights of HIV-affected people
 * Graham Black
 * Lysette Cohen
 * Nancy Culp (real name Gill Smith, 1957–2009) – formerly a press officer for Rough Trade Records before moving into journalism: it was Morrissey (of Rough Trade artists The Smiths) who affectionately nicknamed her after The Beverley Hillbillies actress Nancy Kulp. Culp was also responsible for Record Mirror's gossip column Lip for much of the latter half of the 1980s before moving to the NME. She died from cancer on 6 April 2009.
 * Johnny Dee
 * Charlie Dick
 * Ian Dickson
 * Alan Entwistle
 * Tony Farsides – later became editor of the Record Mirror supplement in Music Week
 * Malu Halasa
 * James Hamilton – he also worked for Jocks magazine (which became DJ Magazine).
 * Tim Jeffries – became editor of Jocks and oversaw the transformation to DJ Mag
 * Alan Jones – continues to write chart-based columns for "Music Week"
 * Eleanor Levy – editor, 1989–1991. When Record Mirror closed down she and Andy Strickland (both keen football fans) co-founded the now-defunct football magazine 90 Minutes
 * Vie Marshall
 * Roger Morton – became manager of the band Razorlight
 * Lesley O'Toole
 * Betty Page (real name Beverley Glick) – editor, 1986–1989. Started her career as the secretary to Sounds' editor in 1977 before graduating to interviewing musicians for the paper, moving to Record Mirror in the early 1980s. It was at this time that she became a well-known face on the London club scene and began calling herself "Betty Page" after the 1950s model Bettie Page – she and her friend Nancy Culp were known as the "Rubber Goddesses" as they often dressed in fetish outfits, and both appeared as models on the front cover of the second issue of the fetish magazine Skin Two in 1984. At the end of the decade she moved on first to the NME, and then left the music business altogether to write for The Observer and The Sunday Express. She now runs her own business as a life coach for women.
 * Pete Paisley
 * Robin Smith
 * Andy Strickland – combined journalism with his other job as guitarist for indie rock bands The Loft and later The Caretaker Race. Later edited the online music magazine Dotmusic.
 * Lisa Tilston
 * Chris Twomey
 * David Whitelock – Later on managed indie/punk-funk band APB and others. Partner in Voice studios in 1989–92, Music Industry Consultant for government for four years, programmer at Lemon Tree in Aberdeen in 1999. Founded Vibraphonic (festival) in 2003 and radio station of same name in 2004, station now morphed into PhonicFM in 2007. Headed up Festivals and Event teams for both City Of Exeter and Bristol 2003–08. Now lives in Canada.
 * Jane Wilkes – wrote for RM between 1986 and 1988 before going into P.R. at Polydor Records. Formed own company, Monkey Business P.R. with Pippa Hall in 1997.
 * Photographers
 * Kevin Murphy
 * Parker (aka Stephen Parker, now a DJ under the name Spoonful Sound System)
 * Joe Shutter

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Jack Torrance

John Daniel Edward "Jack" Torrance is the villain protagonist in Stephen King's horror novel The Shining (1977). He was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the novel's 1980 film adaptation, by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries, by Brian Mulligan in the 2016 opera and by Henry Thomas in the 2019 film adaptation of Doctor Sleep. The American Film Institute rated the character (as played by Nicholson) the 25th-greatest film villain of all time. In 2008, Jack Torrance was selected by Empire magazine as one of the 100 greatest movie characters. Premiere magazine also ranked Torrance on their list of their 100 greatest movie characters of all time.

In novels
Jack grew up in Berlin, New Hampshire, where his father, Mark Torrance, worked in the Regional Community Hospital. He also has three older siblings: Brett, Becky, and Mike. He is a writer, former teacher, and debate team coach whose alcoholism and volatile temper costs him his teaching position at Stovington Preparatory School, when he assaults George Hatfield, a student and former member of the debate team, whom he catches vandalizing his car. Later, his drinking nearly ends his marriage to his wife, Wendy, after he breaks his son Danny's arm in a blind rage. He finally decides to quit drinking after a drunk driving crash in which he and a friend run over an abandoned bicycle in the road and realize they could've killed a child. He accepts a position maintaining the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado for the winter, hoping this will salvage his family, re-establish his career, and give him the time and privacy to finish a promising play. He moves to the hotel with Wendy and Danny, who is telepathic and sensitive to supernatural forces. Danny receives guidance from an imaginary friend he calls "Tony." Danny is also comforted by meeting the hotel's kindly cook, Dick Hallorann, who shares Danny's telepathic abilities.

It is later revealed that Jack's father, also an alcoholic, was abusive towards his family. A flashback scene in the novel shows his drunk father brutally bashing Jack's mother with a cane.

The Hotel is haunted by the ghosts of those who died violently within it and is itself host to a being of unknown origin, who wishes to coerce Jack into killing Danny. Apparently, the Hotel believes if it can harness the boy's "shining", then it can gather enough power to "break free" of the building in which it has somehow become trapped. Jack has encounters with ghosts of previous staff of the hotel, who insist he has always been working there and he must kill his family. Jack eventually succumbs to these supernatural forces, starts drinking again, and grows to hate his own wife and child.

Jack cuts off all radio communications and sabotages the hotel snowmobile, their only means of transportation. He then tries to kill Wendy, who knocks him out and locks him in a food storage room. Jack is later helped out of the storage room by the ghost of the previous caretaker, who murdered his own family before committing suicide.

Jack then brutally attacks Wendy with a roque mallet he found, although she escapes. He is interrupted by the arrival of Hallorann, whom he almost beats to death.

Jack finds and confronts Danny, and is about to kill him when his son reaches through the hotel's power and brings out his father's true self. Jack tells Danny to run and remember how much he loves him, before the hotel's power takes over again and forces Jack to bash in his own face with the mallet. Jack had forgotten to dump the boiler, which grows too hot and causes the hotel to explode. Jack is killed, but Danny, Wendy and Hallorann get out just in time.

In the sequel novel Doctor Sleep (2013), Danny (now going by Dan) learns that Jack is also the biological father of Lucy Stone, a woman whose daughter Abra has manifested “shining” abilities even stronger than Dan's. Shortly before he was fired from his teaching position, and unbeknownst to Wendy, Jack had a brief sexual encounter with a student teacher Sandy Reynolds at a party that led to Lucy's conception. Dan is thus Lucy's half-brother and Abra's half-uncle. This book gives Jack's middle name as Edward rather than Daniel.

In the climax of the novel, Jack's ghost intervenes to help Dan's friend Billy Freeman, and Lucy and Abra Stone defeat the main antagonists, Rose the Hat and the True Knot, at the site where the Overlook once stood. After the battle, Jack and Dan make peace with each other before he, Billy, and Abra left the location.

In film
Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson) is portrayed in a less sympathetic manner in the 1980 film. The film's first major deviation from the source material occurs when Jack attacks Hallorann. Instead of merely injuring him with the mallet, Jack kills Hallorann by planting an axe in his chest. Jack hears Danny scream as he kills Hallorann, and chases his son to a hedge maze outside the hotel, while in the novel, topiary animals come to life and threaten Danny. In the film, Danny walks backwards in his own footprints to mislead Jack, then jumps to a side path and slips out of the maze. Wendy and Danny escape the hotel in Hallorann's Snowcat, while Jack gets lost trying to pick up Danny's tracks, sits down to rest, and freezes to death. The film ends featuring an old photograph of a ball at the hotel from July 4, 1921, that shows a man who strongly resembled Jack at the event.

In the 2019 film adaptation of Doctor Sleep, Torrance's likeness (Henry Thomas) is taken by The Bartender at the Overlook for an interaction with the adult Danny (Ewan McGregor), which is expanded in the director's cut to include a following scene in the bathroom. Thomas also portrays Torrance in flashback sequences.

In miniseries
Author Stephen King was unhappy with director Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adaptation of the novel, particularly Nicholson's portrayal of Jack Torrance:

The character of Jack Torrance has no arc in that movie. Absolutely no arc at all. When we first see Jack Nicholson, he's in the office of Mr. Ullman, the manager of the hotel, and you know, then, he's crazy as a shit house rat. All he does is get crazier. In the book, he's a guy who's struggling with his sanity and finally loses it. To me, that's a tragedy. In the movie, there's no tragedy because there's no real change.

King then decided to create a miniseries based on his vision of the novel, with Jack Torrance as a more sympathetic character. Torrance in the miniseries is similar to the character in the novel, but the ending is changed. In the miniseries, Jack redeems himself, and the boiler explodes due to the hotel's negligence. In the book, Jack sacrifices himself by causing the boiler to explode in order to destroy the hotel.

The miniseries ends with a scene not in the book: Danny graduates from high school, while his spectral father looks on.

In opera
An opera based on Stephen King's 1977 novel originated with Eric Simonson, who directed the premiere production of the opera, and Minnesota Opera Artistic Director Dale Johnson. Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell planned to design their opera to adhere to King's novel, unlike the 1980 film adaptation. Jack and the other characters were portrayed similarly like in the novel, and it was approved of by King.

In play
A new play directed by Ivo van Hove and written by Simon Stephens, based on the 1977 book, is coming to the West End in 2023, and Ben Stiller is reportedly in talks to play Jack Torrance in a stage adaptation.

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Tracadie (electoral district)

Tracadie was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was superseded by the Tracadie-Sheila district in 1995.

Following the 2023 redistribution, the riding will be re-created out of Tracadie-Sheila, Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore, Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou and Caraquet.

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Nemesis (Christie novel)

Nemesis is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie (1890–1976) and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1971 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at £1.50 and the US edition at $6.95. It was the last Miss Marple novel the author wrote, although Sleeping Murder was the last Miss Marple novel to be published.

Miss Marple first encounters Jason Rafiel in A Caribbean Mystery, where they solve a mystery. In his will, Rafiel leaves another mystery for Miss Marple to solve.

Nemesis received generally positive reviews at the time of publication. It was described as "astonishingly fresh" with a "devilish fine" confrontation and overall was "quite worthy of the Picasso of the detective story". It is a "first-rate story" in a "traditional detective novel". The novel is "readable and ingenious" and "Miss Christie remains unflagging" at age 80. A later review by Barnard is the only negative note, stating "The garden paths we are led up are neither enticing nor profitable," and Barnard rates Christie's later novels generally not as good as earlier ones.

Recent analyses of the plot and characters in this novel find homosexual themes, but the character "Miss Marple seems to view the passionate friendship between women as just a phase in their life", which was "a conventional view, held by people of Marple's generation and social class".

Plot summary
Miss Marple receives a letter from the solicitors of the recently deceased Jason Rafiel, a millionaire who had once helped her solve a murder. Rafiel asks her to look into an unspecified crime; if she succeeds in solving the crime, she will inherit £20,000. Rafiel has left her few clues. She begins by joining a tour of famous British houses and gardens with fifteen other people, arranged by Mr Rafiel prior to his death. Elizabeth Temple, a retired school headmistress, relates the story of Verity, who was engaged to Rafiel's ne'er-do-well son Michael but never married him. Another member of the tour group, Miss Cooke, is a woman Marple had met briefly in St Mary Mead.

The next clue comes from Lavinia Glynne; Rafiel had written to Mrs Glynne and her two sisters before his death, suggesting Miss Marple spend the most physically challenging few days of the tour with them at their old manor house. Miss Marple accepts Lavinia's invitation. She then meets Lavinia's sisters, Clotilde and Anthea Bradbury-Scott. Touring the grounds, Miss Marple notices a creeping plant about to bloom, Polygonum baldschuanicum, covering the wreck of the greenhouse. On talking with the servant, Miss Marple learns Verity joined the family after both her parents died, becoming quite attached to Clotilde. Verity is dead now, brutally murdered, and Michael Rafiel is in prison.

On returning to the tour party, Miss Marple learns Miss Temple was injured by a rockslide during the previous day's hike, and now is lying in hospital, barely conscious. The group stays over an extra night to wait for news from the tour guide about Miss Temple's health. Professor Wanstead, a pathologist and psychologist interested in criminal brains, had been instructed by Mr Rafiel to go on the tour; he confides that he once examined Michael Rafiel at the behest of the head of the prison where Michael was incarcerated, and came to the conclusion that Michael was not capable of murder. He tells Miss Marple how distant Michael's father seemed, despite wanting justice, and mentions a missing young local woman, Nora Broad, who he fears will also be found murdered.

Wanstead takes Miss Marple to see Miss Temple, who had asked for her. Miss Temple wakes long enough to tell Miss Marple to "search for Verity Hunt", and dies that night. The three sisters extend their invitation to Miss Marple when she decides not to return to the tour, and she promptly accepts. That night, Mrs Glynne tells the story of Verity in their household to Miss Marple.

After the inquiry into Miss Temple's death, Miss Marple is visited by Archdeacon Brabazon, a friend of Miss Temple. He tells Miss Marple he was going to marry Verity Hunt and Michael Rafiel in a secret ceremony. While he disapproved of the secrecy and worried about their prospects, he agreed to marry them because he could see they were in love. He was most surprised when neither turned up for the wedding, nor sent a note. Miss Marple stays another night with the three sisters when the tour moves on. Professor Wanstead travels to London by train on an errand for Miss Marple. Miss Barrow and Miss Cooke decide they will visit a nearby church. Later that evening, Miss Marple talks with the sisters about what she thinks may have happened and, while they are doing so, Miss Barrow and Miss Cooke appear, to talk to Miss Marple. They stay for a time and are then invited back for coffee that evening.

As they talk about Miss Temple, Miss Marple suggests, albeit dissembling, Joanna Crawford and Emlyn Price (two of those on the tour) pushed the boulder, and their alibis are mere fabrication. As they get ready to leave, Miss Cooke suggests the coffee would not suit Miss Marple, as it will keep her up all night. Clotilde then offers some warm milk. The two ladies soon depart, although each returns to retrieve a forgotten item. At three o'clock in the morning, Clotilde enters Miss Marple's room, surprised when Miss Marple turns on the light. Miss Marple tells her she did not drink the milk. Clotilde offers to warm it up, but Miss Marple tells her she still would not drink it because she knows Clotilde killed Verity Hunt and buried her body in the wreck of the greenhouse, because she could not bear Verity leaving her for someone else. She also knows Clotilde brutally murdered Nora Broad to (mis)identify her body as Verity's and thus throw suspicion on Michael Rafiel. Clotilde murdered Miss Temple as well. As Clotilde advances toward her, Miss Marple blows on a whistle, which brings Miss Cooke and Miss Barrow to her defence — they are bodyguards employed by Mr Rafiel to protect Miss Marple. Clotilde drinks the milk herself, which is poisoned. Miss Marple tells the story to the Home Secretary, indicating that Verity is buried on the property of the Bradbury-Scotts. Michael Rafiel is set free, and Miss Marple collects her inheritance, confident she has completed the task given her.

Characters

 * Miss Marple: Single woman who is getting frail with age, a natural detective. She takes on a request from Jason Rafiel, with little initial information, to solve an unnamed crime for him.
 * Jason Rafiel: Millionaire, recently deceased, who first met Miss Marple in A Caribbean Mystery.
 * Michael Rafiel: Son of Jason, still a suspect of murder; Jason considers his son a ne'er do well.
 * Esther Walters: Mr Rafiel's secretary, who first met Miss Marple in A Caribbean Mystery.
 * Verity Hunt: Engaged to Michael Rafiel years ago, but the marriage never happened; she was found murdered, identified by Clotilde Bradbury-Scott.
 * Miss Elizabeth Temple: Retired headmistress of the school that Verity Hunt attended, who shares the story of Verity Hunt's engagement with Miss Marple, as they both take the tour of famous houses and gardens. She is injured by a rock slide while Miss Marple takes her day of rest, and dies the next day.
 * Miss Cooke: Young woman in the tour group, who Miss Marple recalls seeing near her home before the tour; later revealed to be sent on the tour by Jason Rafiel, to aid and protect Miss Marple.
 * Miss Barrow: One of the fifteen on the tour; she appears with Miss Cooke for the protection of Miss Marple.
 * Lavinia Glynne: A widow, and one of the three sisters Bradbury-Scott, who live along the tour route, near the point where the garden to be toured is a taxing walk for a frail woman; the sisters were contacted by Jason Rafiel to invite Miss Marple to stay with them until the tour would move on.
 * Clotilde Bradbury-Scott: Unmarried elder sister of Lavinia who became attached to Verity Hunt, who was sent to live with the three sisters when her parents died.
 * Anthea Bradbury-Scott: Unmarried younger sister of Lavinia and Clotilde.
 * Professor Wanstead: One of the fifteen people on the tour with Miss Marple, also at Jason Rafiel's invitation. He is a psychiatrist who examined Michael Rafiel. Wanstead judges Michael as incapable of murder.
 * Archdeacon Brabazon: A friend of Miss Temple who tells Miss Marple that he had agreed to officiate at the secret marriage of Michael and Verity. That is an unusual procedure for him, a secret marriage, but he judged them to be truly in love with each other.
 * Joanna Crawford: Young woman on the tour with her aunt.
 * Emlyn Price: Young man on the tour.
 * Nora Broad: Local girl in the area of the Bradbury-Scott home whose body is disfigured making identification difficult.

Literary significance and reception
Matthew Coady in The Guardian of 4 November 1971 concluded, "Not a Christie classic but the old hand is astonishingly fresh and the mixture as relaxing as a hot bath."

Maurice Richardson in The Observer of 31 October 1971 said of Miss Marple in this story, "The showdown when, alone in bed, quite defenceless with not even a knitting-needle, she is confronted by a brawny great fiend of a butch, is devilish fine. Not one of her best, perhaps, but remarkably inventive, quite worthy of the Picasso of the detective story."

The Daily Mirror of 28 October 1971 said, "With this first-rate story Dame Agatha triumphantly returns to the traditional detective novel after a spell of psychological suspense."

Robert Weaver in the Toronto Daily Star of 4 December 1971 said, "Christie richly deserves the loyalty offered up to her by devotees of the traditional mystery. She is readable and ingenious, and in Nemesis she has going for her the amateur lady sleuth Miss Jane Marple deep in a murder case as she tries to carry out a request that comes in effect from beyond the grave. Beyond 80 Miss Christie remains unflagging."

Robert Barnard commented about the plot that "Miss Marple is sent on a tour of stately gardens by Mr Rafiel." His generally negative view of the novel was tersely expressed in one sentence: "The garden paths we are led up are neither enticing nor profitable. All the usual strictures about late Christie apply."

Homosexual themes
The novel deals with the unspoken nature of "female love". Clotilde Bradbury-Scott is depicted as an elderly gentlewoman, living with her two sisters. Upon meeting Clotilde, Miss Marple senses Clotilde's real nature. Yet Marple seems blinded from seeing the truth in this case, due to her own expectations concerning gender.

Marple thinks to herself that Clotilde "would have made a magnificent Clytemnestra---she could have stabbed a husband in his bath with exultation." Yet, she dismisses this thought. Clotilde has never married, and Marple thinks Clotilde incapable of murdering anyone but her version of Agamemnon. In the novel, Clotilde has murdered her own beloved one, to prevent the young woman from leaving Clotilde to "live with a man and have children, marriage, and normality.

Christie links the perceived deviance of lesbianism to the deviant behaviour of murder. Yet Clotilde is depicted as being passionate in her love. This passion both prevents her from disfiguring Verity's corpse, and shields her from suffering any real grief about Verity's death.

The identity of the murderer was intended to confound Christie's typical readers. Clotilde Bradbury-Scott is depicted as a respectable spinster. Yet she is revealed to have killed her young ward Verity Hunt, with the combined motivation of love and jealousy. The love between Clotilde and Verity is never fully explored, as Christie typically devoted minimal development and exposure to passionate relationships in her works.

In her conclusion, Miss Marple seems to view the passionate friendship between women as just a phase in their life. A phase destined to end when one of the women chooses a male lover instead. This was a choice typically open to the younger woman in the same-sex relationship. This was a conventional view, held by people of Marple's generation and social class. Christie's works in general imply that women have an "imperative need for and right to full sexual experience". Yet Christie (in this novel) does not even entertain the possibility that a lesbian relationship could be just as fulfilling as a heterosexual one.

In the novel, Verity eventually rejected Clotilde in favour of Michael Rafiel. The wisdom of this choice is not really questioned. Miss Marple herself acknowledges that Michael "has never been any good", and that he had little chance of ever reforming, though he has been convicted wrongfully of the murder. Yet Marple seems convinced that Michael was the right man for "the young, beautiful, innocent, and good" Verity, perhaps because he could offer her sexual fulfilment and children. Michael is thus depicted as a superior choice as a romantic partner to Clotilde. The same Clotilde depicted as noble and intelligent, and loving Verity more than anyone or anything in the world. Clotilde is the only character who refused to accept Verity's natural preference for men.

Verity is not the only one murdered by Clotilde. The other victim is Nora Broad, an attractive working class girl. Clotilde offers Nora "seductive gifts" and acts of friendship, but proceeds to brutally murder her. When asked to identify Nora's corpse, Clotilde falsely identifies her as Verity. This is repeating a pattern from The Body in the Library (1942). In both cases, a person is contacted by the police and asked to identify a corpse. In both cases, the person has secret motivations and intentionally makes a false identification. While the police investigate the murder of the upper-class Verity, Nora's disappearance is not investigated. The police consider her just another "promiscuous" girl who did not inform her family that she was running away with a man.

BBC adaptation
In 1987, Nemesis was broadcast by the BBC in two 50-minute parts on Sunday, 8 February, and Sunday, 15 February 1987. It was the eighth adaptation (of twelve) in the series Miss Marple starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. It deviates quite significantly from the novel. Miss Temple is killed by a stone bust pushed off a balcony while she tours a library rather than by a rock slide during a hike, Michael Rafiel is not sent to prison for Verity's death as he was never charged due to lack of proof and instead is seen living on the streets, and Nora Broad's name is changed to Norah Brent. A new fictional nephew/godson of Miss Marple, Lionel Peel, accompanies her; he is staying with her after his wife chucked him out. Also, the characters of Esther Walters, Emlyn Price and Joanna Crawford are removed.

At the time of the broadcast, the prequel story "A Caribbean Mystery" had not been produced or broadcast. The part of Jason Rafiel was eventually played by Donald Pleasence and not by Frank Gatliff who portrayed the character in this production.

Adaptor: Trevor Bowen Director: David Tucker

Cast:
 * Barbara Franceschi as Miss Kurnowitz
 * Frank Gatliff as Jason Rafiel
 * Peter Tilbury as Lionel Peel
 * John Horsley as Professor Wanstead
 * Jane Booker as Miss Cooke
 * Alison Skilbeck as Miss Barrow
 * Valerie Lush as Lavinia Glynne
 * Margaret Tyzack as Clothilde Bradbury-Scott
 * Anna Cropper as Anthea Bradbury-Scott
 * Jonathan Adams as Carter
 * Oliver Parker as London policeman
 * Bruce Payne as Michael Rafiel
 * Roger Hammond as Mr Broadribb
 * Patrick Godfrey as Mr Schuster
 * Joanna Hole as Madge
 * Helen Cherry as Miss Temple
 * Liz Fraser as Mrs Brent

ITV adaptation
In 2007, ITV broadcast Nemesis (aired 1 January 2009) with Geraldine McEwan as part of the third season of her Agatha Christie's Marple series. As with other adaptations made for this series, this version was only very loosely based on the novel, with the plot, motives and identity of most of the characters and scenes altered, almost everything about the character of the murderer substantially changed, and contemporary themes added.

Sister Clotilde still murders Verity for deciding to leave the nunnery (and her) and marry Michael. She informs the Mother Superior that an unknown and heavily bandaged soldier has died, but covers Verity in bandages so she is buried as 'Ralph Collins'. When she sees a desperate woman's newspaper advert seeking her husband, Martin Waddy, who went missing in Dunkirk, Sister Clotilde tells the soldier (who has lost his memory) that he is Martin Waddy. She then presents him to the desperate wife, who accepts him. This deception is what leads to the other murders. Sister Clotilde commits suicide with a statue saint's spear, and Ralph meets his real wife who has lived as a widow for eleven years.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Cast:
 * Laura Michelle Kelly as Verity Hunt/Margaret Lumley
 * Dan Stevens as Michael Rafiel
 * Richard E. Grant as Raymond West
 * Amanda Burton as Sister Clotilde
 * Anne Reid as Mother Agnes
 * Ronni Ancona as Amanda Dalrymple
 * Ruth Wilson as Georgina Barrow
 * Lee Ingleby as Detective Constable Colin Hards
 * Will Mellor as Martin Waddy
 * Emily Woof as Rowena Waddy
 * George Cole as Lawrence Raeburn
 * Johnny Briggs as Sydney Lumley
 * Adrian Rawlins as Derek Turnball
 * Graeme Garden as Matthew Broadribb

Korean adaptation
The novel was also adapted as part of the 2018 Korean television series, Ms. Ma, Nemesis.

Radio
Nemesis was adapted for radio dramatisation by BBC Radio 4 starring June Whitfield. It first aired in November–December 1998 and again in later years, including 2011 and 2013.

 * June Whitfield as Miss Marple
 * George A. Cooper as Mr Rafiel
 * David Swift as Professor Wanstead
 * Louie Ramsay as Lavinia Glynne
 * Thelma Barlow as Anthea Bradbury-Scott
 * Mary Wimbush as Clotilde Bradbury-Scott
 * Jill Balcon as Miss Temple
 * Desmond Llewelyn as Archdeacon Brabazon
 * Tricia Hitchcock as Miss Cooke
 * Delia Lindsay as Miss Barrow
 * Molly Gaisford as Joanna Crawford
 * Jane Whittenshaw as Cherry
 * Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr Broadribb

Publication history

 * 1971, Collins Crime Club (London), November 1971, Hardcover, 256 pp
 * 1971, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), Hardcover, 271 pp
 * 1973, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, 229 pp
 * 1974, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 192 pp
 * 1976, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 421 pp ISBN 0-85456-476-4
 * 2006, Marple Facsimile edition (Facsimile of 1971 UK first edition), 2 May 2006, Hardcover, ISBN 0-00-720859-6

The novel was first serialised in the UK weekly magazine Woman's Realm in seven abridged instalments from 25 September (Vol 27, No 702) to 6 November 1971 (Vol 27, No 708), with illustrations by Len Thurston. In North America the novel was serialised in the Star Weekly Novel, a Toronto newspaper supplement, in two abridged instalments from 16 to 23 October 1971, with each issue containing the same cover illustration by Laszlo Gal.

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Electrola

Electrola is a German record label and subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Based in Munich, its roster has included Chumbawamba, Matthias Reim, Helene Fischer, Brings, Höhner and Santiano.

History
On 8 May 1925 the British Gramophone Company founded Electrola GmbH in Nowawes near Berlin and received its record licence in December. In March 1931, through its parent company's merger with Lindström's parent Columbia Gramophone Company to form EMI, Electrola thus became the merged entity's German subsidiary. Around 300 publications per month allowed Electrola's general catalogue to grow to 11,000 titles by 1934. At the end of 1939 Electrola - like the other German record labels - came under National Socialist administration. As a result, the most typical US jazz song "In the Mood" was no longer released. Recorded on 1 August 1939 it was released in the United States in September. During the Second World War, 80 per cent of the facilities in the German subsidiaries were destroyed, making it impossible to resume production immediately after the war. Electrola decided - not least because of the uncertain situation in Berlin - to move completely to Cologne.

On the site of the former Atlantic Gummi-Werke Aloys Weyers KG in Cologne-Braunsfeld, Maarweg 149, an area that could be expanded was found. The company was founded here in Cologne by being entered in the commercial register on 13 February 1952; the official relocation to Cologne took place on 8 September 1953. A modern recording studio was opened in 1956 on Maarweg in Cologne - where the records were also made - with all the associated technical rooms. In these studios all hits from Fred Bertelmann to Conny Froboess and Gitte Hænning, but also the last recordings with Marlene Dietrich up to the era of Herbert Grönemeyer, were produced. When the compact cassette came onto the market as a new sound carrier in 1965, an in-house music cassette (MC) production was also set up in 1966. This was the last investment by the Carl Lindström-Gesellschaft, which was merged into EMI Electrola GmbH on 30 November 1972.

After a merger of EMI Ltd. with the British company Thorn Electrical Industries to Thorn EMI Ltd. in October 1979 but not acknowledged until 3 March 1980, the large corporation, represented in over 40 countries, was split in August 1996 into the two independently operating companies Thorn plc and EMI Group and listed on the British Stock Exchange. In June 1992, Thorn EMI bought the previously independent record label Virgin Records for a purchase price of US$957 million, ending intense competition for the company, which had many of the best-selling artists under contract.

In January 1994 another independent German company Intercord Tonträger was added, with which EMI was able to further expand its artist base, in 2000 the Intercord location in Stuttgart was closed, and the repertoire was mainly transferred to EMI Electrola GmbH & Co KG. In August 2000 the company moved from Maarweg to Cologne's media centre - the Mediapark; the data centre followed in December 2002. Earlier in spring 2002 EMI Electrola was renamed EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG. After the Munich location was closed in April 2004, the Virgin label was merged with the Berlin-based labels Mute and Labels. Since then, the company has been operating at the two locations in Cologne and Berlin. Initially, EMI Music Germany was based at three locations in Munich (Virgin), Cologne (Capitol with pop and EMI Classics and Blue Note for jazz) and Berlin (Labels Germany and Mute); Virgin Records was absorbed into Labels and Mute in 2004. The centre of the German record industry, however, was Hamburg with the record labels Polydor, Teldec (Telefunken/Decca), Philips and Metronome.

After Electrola and the rest of EMI's German operations were sold to Universal Music Group (UMG) on 21 September 2012, when the European Commission (EC) gave its approval to the sale, UMG relocated the former EMI Music Germany from Cologne to Berlin later in December, with Electrola moved to Munich. However, the EC compelled UMG to divest itself of EMI Classics, which operated with other European EMI assets to be divested as the Parlophone Label Group (PLG). In February 2013, UMG sold PLG, including EMI Classics, to Warner Music Group (WMG). The EC approved the deal in May, and WMG took control of EMI Classics on 1 July, ceding it to Warner Classics.

Technical aspects
The company name "Electrola" is derived from the electrical recording process that was used for records from 1925 and is named after an electric record player from RCA Victor. Electrical recording meant turning away from the funnel to the microphone, to electrical needle recording and the corresponding playback. The advantages of "electrical recording" were higher volume, lower noise, no "funnel sound" on the recording side, extended frequency response, less bass and excessively center-stressed ("squeaky"), so overall more natural. Whereas before a recording frequency range of only 600 to 2000 Hz was possible, it was now between 100 and 5000 Hz. The number of revolutions was set consistently at 78 / min. Today those recordings that were made with the funnel are called "acoustic" recordings, everything later than "electrical" recordings. The shellac records used were fragile, had a speed of 78 rpm and a maximum playing time of approx. 3 minutes per side for a diameter of 25 cm and 4 minutes for a 30 cm diameter. There were about 4 grooves with a minimum width of 0.15 mm for every 1 mm. There was a regular spiral from the outside in.

In the early days, Electrola recordings were often made at the Singakademie Berlin. In 1927 the first electrical reproduction was possible in Germany; Electrola was already producing electrically recorded records in England from 1925, and in Germany from spring 1926.

Personnel
The energetic reconstruction in Cologne is thanks to Ladislaus Veder, who served as managing director until 1969. Jazz and classical music fan Max Ittenbach was appointed artistic director in 1956.

Nils Nobach worked for Electrola from 1953 as a producer and composer (often under the pseudonym Peter Ström), who became one of the most prominent hit producers of the time. He produced Bibi Johns, Wolfgang Sauer, Fred Bertelmann, Conny (1957), the Nilsen Brothers (1958), Angèle Durand, Gitte Hænning, Rex Gildo (March 1959), and Adamo (1964). In November 1961 Nobach left Electrola and Heinz Gietz took over the position of production manager for pop.

Its debut was the "Hämmerchen-Polka", sung by Chris Howland in November 1961. Under his direction, the super hits "Zwei kleine Italiener" and "Lady Sunshine and Mister Moon" with Conny Froboess, "Speedy Gonzales" with Rex Gildo, "Motorbiene" with Benny Quick, and another of his own compositions, "Mimi Never Goes to Bed" with Bill Ramsey, were created under his direction in 1962 the top seller of the year. Gietz left Electrola in 1965, but continued to produce Electrola performers as a freelance producer (including the Lords). In 1968 the Cornet label, owned by Gietz, released the first record with the title "Mer schenken dä Ahl e couple Blömcher" from the Kölsch dialect group De Bläck Fööss.

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Honda MH02

The Honda MH02 was an experimental business jet built by Honda, in cooperation with Mississippi State University, to research engine placement and composite construction. The prototype was completed in 1992, making its first flight on 5 March 1993.

The MH02 was never intended for production, but was nonetheless the first all-composite light business jet to fly; by 1996 over 170 test flight hours were accumulated on the airframe. Aside from the already unusual above-the-wing engine mounts, the design features a T-tail and a forward-swept wing. The aircraft was deregistered and exported to Japan in 1998.

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Fox News Sunday

Fox News Sunday is a Sunday morning talk show that has aired on the broadcast Fox network since 1996, as a presentation of Fox News Channel. It is the only regularly scheduled Fox News program carried on the main Fox broadcast network. Hosted by Shannon Bream since 2022, the show features interviews with some of the biggest newsmakers in politics from the previous week and "takes on the week's hot political topics", in addition to panel discussions with other Fox contributors and a "power player of the week", which typically is a non-political "feel good" story to end the program.

Host

 * Shannon Bream (2022–present): Bream, who has been with Fox News since 2007 and was the host of Fox News @ Night for five years, was named the permanent host to replace Wallace on August 11, 2022. She also serves as Fox News' Chief Legal Correspondent. Bream is also the first woman to officially host the program since its airing.

Former anchors

 * Tony Snow (1996–2003): Founding anchor of the show, Snow left to become the White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush. Snow died on July 12, 2008.

 * Chris Wallace (2003–2021): Wallace joined Fox News in October 2003, where he replaced Snow as host of Fox News Sunday. Considered by then-Fox president Roger Ailes to be "one of the best interviewers in the business", Wallace hosted the show for 18 years, during which time he secured high-profile interviews with key figures from across the political spectrum, including Barack Obama's first interview on Fox News after he became President. Wallace also interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018, where he received praise for challenging Putin's alleged interference in the 2016 election and asking "why so many" of his political enemies "end up dead". Wallace abruptly announced his departure from Fox News on December 12, 2021, and later announced that he would be joining CNN's new streaming service CNN+ to host his own show. Wallace's CNN+ show was cancelled after the network announced that their new streaming service would be shutting down on April 30 due to low user subscriptions a month after launching. Wallace now hosts a talk show for Max along with a new show for CNN on Sunday nights.

Overview

The program began on April 28, 1996, $5 1/2$ months prior to the launch of the network's sister cable news network Fox News Channel. Because Fox News was still building out its studio facilities, it aired during at that time from historic Washington venues until Fox News Channel launched and the news operation's Washington bureau was opened. The show was the first network news show to stream live on the Internet. The show was also the first to incorporate live user commentary. Users posted on an Internet BBS and the Internet Producer moderated by choosing and posting the comments in the screen's lower third. The show airs live at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, although many Fox stations can choose to broadcast it at a later time slot. The program is also rebroadcast on Fox News Channel the same day at 2:00 p.m ET and 2:00 a.m ET

An audio-only broadcast of the program is also carried on a number of radio stations. Most of these stations are owned by iHeartMedia (the former Clear Channel Communications), the largest radio station group that runs the division's Fox News Radio newscasts, along with WCSP-FM (C-SPAN Radio) in the Washington area and over the Internet, as part of its weekly audio airings of the major Sunday morning talk shows. In August 2008, Fox News Sunday began to be produced in high definition.

Format

The first minutes of the broadcast runs down the day's headlines, since Fox (unlike the Big Three television networks), does not have a conventional national morning news program that leads into Fox News Sunday. Additionally, a limited number of Fox's affiliates have local news programs leading into it. For the rest of the first half of the show, the host interviews news makers from the prior week.

During the second half of the show, the host introduces a panel of four pundits to speak about the political impact of the news. Regular members of the panel include the following people:

 * Brit Hume, Fox News senior political analyst
 * Mara Liasson, NPR correspondent
 * Juan Williams, columnist for The Hill and Fox News senior political analyst
 * Dana Perino, co-host of America's Newsroom, The Five and former White House Press Secretary
 * Guy Benson, host of The Guy Benson Show on Fox News Radio
 * Katie Pavlich, Fox News contributor, Townhall editor
 * Trey Gowdy, Former South Carolina Congressman, host of Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy
 * Susan Page, Washington bureau chief for USA Today
 * Charles Lane, writer for The Washington Post
 * Marie Harf, former deputy spokesperson for the United States Department of State
 * Mo Elleithee, Fox News contributor
 * Jacqui Heinrich, Fox News White House correspondent for president Joe Biden
 * Charles Hurt, Washington Times writer
 * Harold Ford Jr., former Tennessee congressman and co-host of The Five
 * Jennifer Griffin, Fox News Chief national security correspondent
 * Jason L. Riley, Wall Street Journal journalist
 * Peter Doocy, Fox News White House correspondent for president Biden
 * Julie Pace, senior vice president of the Associated Press
 * Howard Kurtz, host of MediaBuzz and Fox News chief media analyst
 * Mollie Hemingway, senior editor of The Federalist
 * Morgan Ortagus, former spokesperson for the United States Department of State
 * Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner
 * Josh Kraushaar, Senior political correspondent for Axios
 * Olivia Beavers, Capitol Hill reporter for Politico
 * Jason Chaffetz, Former Utah Congressman, Fox News Contributor

The program ends with a short segment focusing on a "Power Player of the Week", usually a short, non-political "feel good" story about a person who has made a significant contribution to society.

Guest hosts for the program include Mike Emanuel, Gillian Turner, Jennifer Griffin and Bill Hemmer.

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Naryn (river)

The Naryn (Нарын, Norin) rises in the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, flowing west through the Fergana Valley into Uzbekistan. Here it merges with the Kara Darya (near Namangan) to form the Syr Darya. It is 807 km long (together with its upper course Chong-Naryn) and drains a basin area of 59100 km2. It has an annual flow of 13.7 km3.

The river contains many reservoirs which are important in the generation of hydroelectricity. The largest of these is the Toktogul Reservoir in Kyrgyzstan containing 19.9 km3 of water. Dams downstream of the Toktogul in Kyrgyzstan include: Kürpsay, Tash-Kömür, Shamaldy-Say and Üch-Korgon. Upstream of Toktogul in Kyrgyzstan are the Kambar-Ata-2 and At-Bashy Dams while the Kambar-Ata-1 Dam is in planning stages.

Some places along the river: Kyrgyzstan: Kara-Say (see Barskoon), Naryn Region, Naryn, Dostuk, Jalal-Abad Region, Kazarman, Toktogul Reservoir, Kara-Köl, Tash-Kömür.

Tributaries
The main tributaries of the Naryn are, from source to mouth:

 * Kichi-Naryn (right)
 * On-Archa (right)
 * At-Bashy (left)
 * Kajyrty (right)
 * Ala-Buga (left)
 * Kökirim (left)
 * Kökömeren (right)
 * Chychkan (right)
 * Uzun-Akmat (right)
 * Kara-Suu (right)

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KPRR

KPRR (102.1 FM "Power 102.1"), is a commercial radio station in El Paso, Texas. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and airs a rhythmic contemporary radio format. It offers a more broad-based direction in its playlist than most other rhythmic stations, with a mix of R&B/Hip-Hop, Dance, Hurban and Rhythmic Pop fare. KPRR has its studios and offices on North Mesa Street (Texas State Highway 20).

KPRR broadcasts from a transmitter in the Franklin Mountains. Its signal covers parts of Texas, New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, including Ciudad Juárez. KPRR's studios are located along Mesa Drive in West Central El Paso. KPRR is one of two contemporary hit stations in the El Paso-Juárez radio market, with 104.3 XHTO-FM as the other.

KPRR broadcasts in the HD Radio format. Its HD2 signal carries a Rhythmic Oldies/Classic Hip Hop radio format known as "Hot 93.5." It is also heard on 99 watt FM translator K228FH at 93.5 MHz.

History
The station signed on as KIZZ-FM on December 5, 1969. It was owned by Sunland Broadcasting Company and was the FM counterpart to AM 1150 KIZZ (now KHRO). KIZZ-FM was powered at 27,000 watts, a third of its current output.

In 1972, the call sign was changed to KLOZ. It called itself "K102," and offered a country music format. Mesa Radio bought it in 1975, followed by Jalapeno Broadcasting Company in 1979.

In 1986, the station was acquired by Transcontinental Broadcasting. In September of that year, it switched its call letters to become KPRR with a format patterned after popular Los Angeles rhythmic station KPWR. The move proved successful, with "Power 102" often leading the El Paso radio market in the ratings.

San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications acquired KPRR in 1996. Clear Channel later became iHeartMedia, the current owner.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/On Raglan Road

 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 16:21, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

On Raglan Road
This is just a poem; not an article, unencyclopedic. —Cleared as filed. 18:38, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Possible copyvio, though it is more likely that it was written by the article's creator. Unencyclopedic.  Sonic Mew | talk to me 18:42, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * In fact, a quick Google Search makes it look like it is copyvio. Sonic Mew | talk to me 18:44, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * From a little more research, it appears that this was made in good faith from a red link in List of Irish ballads. If someone creates a non-copyvio stub, I will be prepared to change my vote. Sonic Mew | talk to me 18:53, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Obviously delete as a copyvio, but an article on the song would be welcome, as it's quite well known. I was surprised to find out how recent it is though, as I always thought it was old. Anyway, I think the song is more often just called Raglan Road, but I could be wrong. -R. fiend 21:14, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * delete copyvio and do we really need articles about individual Irish ballads anyway?Palmiro 16:30, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete copyvio. JamesBurns 07:21, 27 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:Brainstorm

Maybe I should have said BrainStorm (1983) was the first published outliner. I can't see why you removed it without consultation or discussion.

 * Hmm. You used an URL as a link instead of an internal one. Usually when this is done it is a case of spam. If you think your case is different, how about writing something about the software? If it was the first in its class, it may well be notable enough. You can then link to the page from here. JFW | T@lk  23:29, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

The Store?
Where is the store?

mathematics
I need help in mathematics —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.217.1.3 (talk) 19:52, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Science
How to balance food diet 2409:4089:AA1D:EFF1:0:0:950B:7A14 (talk) 08:59, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:Richard Doll

About German scientists' studies of tobacco and health before WWII
In the 1920s there were already several German studies proving a link between first-hand smoke and lung cancer, yet the article does not mention it (see ), only mentioning that in the 1930s German scientists discovered this link, which is misleading.--RekishiEJ (talk) 05:54, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The paper which you cite says "In the 1920s, several German studies suggested a link", which is rather different from proving a link. I've amended the lead and added a ref cited by the paper you cited. Qwfp (talk) 22:55, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

I think more should be made of the inexplicable failure to learn from the previous German work, which was not hidden, there was a German Journal of Cancer Research. The epidemiological work did not involve evil experiments. (Erich Schoeniger, one of the authors of the culminating paper, seems to have lost his life because he defied the Nazi party by insisting on giving evidence against a senior Nazi in a traffic accident case.) Robert Proctor's book The Nazi War on Cancer documents all this. Had the German work been properly been taken account of many lives might have been saved. Seadowns (talk) 12:59, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

More useful sources
See, , and the book Our Daily Poison by Marie-Monique Robin. Please utilize these sources, since they all offer sound critique of Richard Doll.--RekishiEJ (talk) 13:56, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

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If Baba Budan is the saint then what does the giri in the article title mean? RJFJR 18:40, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Baba Bundagiri is the location of the shrine. 195.92.67.75 11:45, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Info : Giri = Hill — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.160.135.215 (talk) 05:28, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

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François Biltgen

François Biltgen (born 28 September 1958 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) is a Luxembourgish politician who has served as Minister for Justice, Minister for Communications and the Media, Minister for Religious Affairs, Minister for the Civil Service and Administrative Reform, and Minister for Higher Education and Research. until 2013.

He was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, in the south-western Luxembourg and studied law in Paris. In 1987, he was elected to the communal council of Esch-sur-Alzette, and in 1994 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a Christian Social People's Party (CSV) candidate. He was elected as President of the CSV in 2003.

After the elections which was held in June 2009, he was appointed the Minister of Justice, the Minister for the Civil Service and Administrative Reform, Minister for Higher Education and Research, Minister for Communications and Media as well as the Minister for Religious Affairs. In 2009, he also signed the coalition agreement to distribute ministerial portfolios between the CSV and the LSAP delegates.

In October 2013, he became a Judge at the European Court of Justice, replacing Jean-Jacques Kasel.

Biltgen is married and is the father of two children.

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Postern of Fate

Postern of Fate is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie that was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1973 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at £2.00 and the US edition at $6.95.

The book features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford and is the detectives' last appearance. It is the last novel Christie wrote, but not the last to be published as it was followed by two unpublished novels written in the 1940s.

The Beresfords are depicted as a retired couple, but they start investigating a cold case dating to World War I. The case involves the poisoning of a female spy.

It was her final novel and also one of only four Christie novels not to have received an adaptation of any kind, the others being Death Comes as the End, Destination Unknown, and Passenger to Frankfurt.

Explanation of the title
The title comes from the poem "Gates of Damascus" by James Elroy Flecker. The poem is also referenced in the short story "The Gate of Baghdad" in the 1934 collection Parker Pyne Investigates.

Plot summary
Tommy and Tuppence have decided to retire and purchased a new residence, the Laurels. The house is located in Hollowquay, a resort town. The couple have inherited the library of the Laurels' previous owners, and Tuppence decides to sort through its collection of children's books. She examines a copy of The Black Arrow (1888), as she recalls reading this novel in her youth. Inside the book, Tuppence finds a hidden message: "Mary Jordan did not die naturally. It was one of us. I think I know which one.

Tuppence searches for the grave of Mary Jordan, but is unable to locate it. She instead finds the grave of Alexander Parkinson, who was the book's original owner and the message's writer. Alexander had died at age 14. Investigating the past of the Parkinson household, Tuppence finds out that Mary Jordan was employed as a governess for the Parkinsons. Mary reportedly died accidentally, poisoned by eating lethal foxglove leaves. The leaves had been mixed into a salad that she ate. The death occurred 60 years before the present.

Tommy and Tuppence gather information about Mary from ageing villagers and learn that she was involved in "secret government affairs", involving the plans for the development of a new submarine. Tommy contacts his former associates in British intelligence, who confirm this information. The Beresfords learn that Mary was herself a British secret agent.

The Beresfords are initially content to investigate this cold case, but their gardener Isaac Bodlicott is murdered on their doorstep. The couple are apparently close to uncovering a "long-buried secret", and there are mysterious enemies willing to stop them.

Literary significance and reception
Maurice Richardson in The Observer of 11 November 1973 was positive in his review: "Now in their seventies, the Beresfords, that amateur detective couple of hers whom some of us found too sprightly for comfort, have acquired a Proustian complexity. A code message in an Edwardian children's book puts them on to the murder of a governess involved in a pre-1914 German spy case. Past and present go on interlocking impressively. Despite political naivety; this is a genuine tour de force with a star part for Hannibal, the Manchester Terrier."

Robert Barnard wrote negatively that Postern of Fate was "The last book Christie wrote. Best (and easily) forgotten."

According to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, this novel is one of the "execrable last novels" in which Christie purportedly "loses her grip altogether".

A Canadian study which compared the texts of a number of Christie novels indicated that her later works, including Postern of Fate, showed a 15 to 30% decrease in vocabulary. This change, along with the use of indeterminate words and repetitiveness, are now known to be symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, though the first formal diagnoses of this form of dementia were not made until after Christie's death in January 1976.

Publication history

 * 1973, Collins Crime Club (London), October 1973, Hardcover, 254 pp
 * 1973, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), Hardcover, 310 pp
 * 1974 Bantam Books, Paperback, 276 pp
 * 1974 GK Hall & Co. Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 471 pp; ISBN 0-8161-6197-6
 * 1976, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 221 pp
 * 1992, Ulverscroft large-print Edition, Hardcover; ISBN 0-7089-2708-4

References to other works
The book has many references to the earlier novels and short stories in which Tommy and Tuppence appeared. We learn, rather inconsistently, that Tommy and Tuppence's twin daughter Deborah is herself now a mother of twins, even though her three children are later identified as Andrew aged 15, Janet aged 11 and Rosalie aged 7. We are also informed that Tommy and Tuppence's adopted daughter Betty lives in Kenya and that Amy (previously referred to as Milly in By the Pricking of My Thumbs), Albert's wife, has been dead for "some years". Mr Robinson, the "yellow, big man" from Passenger to Frankfurt appears here, as do Colonel Pikeaway and Horsham, the latter posing undercover as a gardener.

Analysis
In this novel, Tommy and Tuppence are depicted as a retired couple. Their "devoted henchman" Albert has moved in with them. The couple also have a pet dog as a companion. The dog is called Hannibal, a Manchester Terrier. Hannibal is very protective of his owners, an element which later serves as a plot point.

Parts of the novel are devoted to the Beresfords dealing with the plumbers and electricians who are repairing their residence. There are complaints about how these people habitually mistreat their clients, but these characters are largely irrelevant to the mystery plot.

Tuppence is the one initially conducting the investigation, while Tommy seems uninterested. When questioning the locals, Tuppence feigns a general interest in their town's history. Most of them insist that the events they describe happened before their time, but still offer information. Most of the available narratives are contradictory to each other.

Tuppence learns that Mary Jordan was somehow involved in "trouble" in the town during World War I. Some of the narratives report that Mary was a German nursemaid, a "frowline" (from the German Fräulein). She regularly visited London on her days off, and she was rumoured to be a spy. Her death was regarded as accidental, as someone "erroneously" picked foxglove leaves and mixed them with the spinach growing nearby.

The novel has a scene involving Colonel Atkinson, Tommy's contact from the secret service. He feels that the Beresfords moving to Hollowquay is not a coincidence, and suspects that they are there on an official mission. He even indirectly asks Tommy whether he has been sent there "to have a look around", without asking who has sent Tommy in the first place. Other associates of the Beresfords from the secret service drop hints about the past of both Mary Jordan and the Beresfords themselves. Yet these hints do not translate into coherent information.

The Beresfords' gardener is murdered, by being "coshed on the head". His death alerts Tuppence that something is wrong in Hollowquay. She comments that there must be "Something left over from the past". Tommy curiously asks her not to get worked up for this case, hardly a proper reaction to a murder. Shortly after, Tuppence is "grazed by a bullet" within her own back garden.

This is the last novel featuring the Beresfords, and as usual they are affiliated with an intelligence agency. The characters have aged since their previous appearances, with Tommy and Tuppence both over the age of 70. Their children are full adults, and we briefly learn what has become of them. Their biological daughter Deborah has married, has settled in Scotland, and has three children of her own. Their adoptive daughter Betty has become an anthropologist, and is conducting research in Africa.

As with previous Beresford novels, the main theme is the enemy within. An ominous message about a 60-year-old murder sets them to investigating threats to British security. At the end of the novel, the couple are congratulated by appreciative government officials.

Postern is "less tightly plotted" than the previous Beresford novels. The first chapters of the novel are somewhat confusing and directionless. The first hint about the novel's main plot is introduced in chapter 12.

Due to injury and age, Christie switched from typing her later novels, including Postern, to dictating them and leaving transcription to others, which is considered to be part of the reasons for decline in quality.

In the book, Christie makes references to Ashfield, Torquay, the house she grew up in.

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Albert Schaufelberger

Albert Arthur Schaufelberger (August 8, 1949 – May 25, 1983) was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy who was assassinated in El Salvador.

Background
Schaufelberger was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, class of 1971 and was an avid (150 lb) American football and lacrosse player while in college. His father, Albert Arthur Schaufelberger (Senior), was a decorated fighter and bomber pilot during the Vietnam War.

Role in El Salvador
Schaufelberger was commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy on June 9, 1971. ENS Schaufelberger next attended Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training with Class 65 at NAB Coronado, California, from August 1971 to March 1972, followed by service with Underwater Demolition Team TWELVE from March 1972 to June 1975. LT Schaufelberger's next assignment was as the Swimmer Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Platoon Commander with SEAL Team ONE at NAB Coronado from June 1975 to November 1976, and then as an SDV Instructor with BUD/S training at NAB Coronado from November 1976 to January 1979. He served as an Ordnance Officer, Platoon Commander and Operations Officer with SEAL Team ONE at Coronado from January 1979 to February 1981, and then attended the Spanish Language Course at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, from February 1981 to February 1982.

Lieutenant commander Schaufelberger became the senior U.S. Naval representative at the U.S. Military Group, El Salvador in August 1982. He was a United States Navy SEAL, second in command of the U.S. Military Group advising the Salvadoran Armed Forces on counterinsurgency, special operations and weapons traffic interdiction operations. In addition, he was security chief for the 53 U.S. military advisors in the country at the time. Schaufelberger had responsibility, among other duties, for naval operations in the Gulf of Fonseca which were run out of the La Unión naval base. It was at the La Unión naval base where Schaufelberger allowed himself to be photographed for the last time several days before his assassination. Schaufelberger's death was the first of a U.S. military member in El Salvador following the October 1980 arrival in country of U.S. military advisors.

Assassination
At approximately 6:30 p.m. on May 25, 1983, Schaufelberger was assassinated on the grounds of the Central American University in San Salvador. A group under the umbrella of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the Central American Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRTC), is thought to have carried out the act.

Schaufelberger had been dating the manager of a cooperative store, Consuelo Escalante Aguilera, for several months and developed a routine of picking her up at the same time and place. On May 25 he arrived and sounded the horn of his armored embassy-provided Ford Maverick, his signal to inform his date that he had arrived. Ms. Aguilera exited her office and observed what she believed to be a white Volkswagen microbus pull up and stop near Schaufelberger's car. Reportedly several individuals were involved with the assassination, with at least one firing through the open window of Schaufelberger's car. Schaufelberger was shot four times in the head. Schaufelberger's car leaped forward, impacting a car directly in front of it. The assassins then jumped into their vehicle and escaped. Unfortunately for him, Schaufelberger had removed the bullet-resistant glass over the driver's-side window after the air conditioner in his vehicle had broken.

Schaufelberger saw his role in El Salvador of preventing a communist takeover of the country for all of the people of El Salvador—not just those of means. He realized, however, that he might be a target of the insurgents, given the success of the weapon interdiction efforts. During his last discussion with journalists covering U.S.-advised Salvadoran military operations, Schaufelberger told those present that the insurgents "know who I am, and where I live". His house had apparently already received drive-by gunfire on a recent evening prior to the assassination.

Press coverage
Schaufelberger's assassination was featured on the front cover of the June 6, 1983, edition of Newsweek magazine. The U.S. edition was headlined The First Casualty and the international edition Shooting to Kill.

Schaufelberger was photographed in uniform and interviewed by international media representatives (including Newsweek) one week before his death. Previous pictures of Schaufelberger had been taken by the Magnum Photo Agency in Paris for a syndicated feature story on the escalating U.S. military involvement in the region. For security reasons Schaufelberger appeared in those photos as a rear view only and in civilian clothes.

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Wamos Air

Wamos Air, formerly named Pullmantur Air, is a Spanish charter airline headquartered in Madrid. It mostly operates leisure charter flights from its main base at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport and also operates aircraft for other entities.

History
In 2014, former majority owner Royal Caribbean Group (which also owned now defunct Pullmantur Cruises) sold a 81% state of Pullmantur Air to investor Springwater Capital which subsequently also led to a rebrand to Wamos Air.

In 2022, Wamos Air announced it would end all scheduled services to focus solely on passenger and cargo charter and ACMI operations. The airline did serve few destinations throughout the Caribbean, which were subsequently handed over to Iberojet.

From 15 November 2022 to 30 April 2024, Wamos Air will operate the Auckland - Perth route daily using their own aircraft (A330-200), crew and pilots on behalf of Air New Zealand.

From 1 June 2024, Wamos air will operate two Airbus A330-200s from Manila to Sydney and Melbourne on behalf of Philippine Airlines for a five month period due to supply chain issues.

Currently Wamos Air is operating flights for Air Europa on the Madrid (MAD) - New York (JFK) route as well as scheduled flights for Iberia to different destinations from Madrid Barajas airport. TAP Portugal is also being served by Wamos Air on the Lisbon - Fortaleza route.

Charter operations
Wamos Air offers short and long-term charter operations as well as ACMI services for passenger and cargo flights to other airlines such as Condor, tour operators and other businesses such as sports clubs. One of its major customers had been its now defunct sister company Pullmantur Cruises.

In 2021 and 2022 Wamos Air had set up Tallinn Airport as its technical stopover between Asia and North America cargo routes.

Former scheduled destinations
As of December 2019, Wamos Air offered scheduled flights under its own brand name to the following destinations which were since all terminated.

Current fleet
As of May 2024, the Wamos Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Retired fleet
Wamos Air previously also operated the following aircraft types:
 * Boeing 747-300
 * Boeing 747-400

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WEAU

WEAU (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States, serving the La Crosse–Eau Claire market as an affiliate of NBC and The CW Plus. The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios on South Hastings Way / US 53 Business in Altoona (with an Eau Claire postal address); its transmitter is located north of Fairchild, near the Eau Claire–Clark county line.

History
WEAU-TV signed-on December 17, 1953, under the ownership of Central Broadcasting Company. This ownership group was led by a predecessor to Morgan Murphy Media and also included the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram along with WEAU radio (790 AM, now WEAQ at 1150 AM, and 94.1 FM, now WIAL). It has always been a primary NBC affiliate but initially carried programs from CBS, ABC, and DuMont. The station later lost DuMont following that network's shutdown in 1956, CBS when La Crosse and Eau Claire were mixed into one giant market in 1958 (with La Crosse's WKBT becoming the market's CBS affiliate), and ABC when WXOW (channel 19) signed on in 1970. During the late-1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. One of the first well-known personalities on WEAU was "Sheriff Bob" Dawson who hosted a children's show during the 1950s and 1960s. The station initially broadcast from a tower immediately behind the WEAU studios on South Hastings Way in Eau Claire. A new tower, approximately 1000 ft tall, was built in the same location in 1956 44.66389°N, -90.96139°W before an approximately 2000 ft tower was constructed near Fairchild in 1966. The tower in Eau Claire is now topped by the digital transmitter of rival ABC affiliate WQOW (channel 18).

Morgan Murphy sold off WEAU radio in 1959; in 1962, it sold WEAU-TV to The Post Corporation of Appleton (Morgan Murphy would later purchase rival WKBT, channel 8). WEAU's departure from radio proved short-lived as The Post Corporation purchased Chippewa Falls radio station WAXX (1150 AM) in 1963, and two years later, established a new WEAU-FM at 100.7 (moving to 104.5 when the Fairchild tower was built) which largely simulcasted WAXX's country music format. WEAU-FM's call letters were switched to WAXX-FM in 1977, and in 1978, the country format was moved exclusively to WAXX-FM with the AM station becoming WAYY (which later moved to 790 AM in a swap with WEAQ).

In 1984, Racine-born George N. Gillett Jr. purchased the Post Corporation stations, including WEAU-TV, making it a sister station to Milwaukee's WITI for a short time. WAXX and WAYY were spun off to Central Communications at the same time, and in 1985, the two radio stations moved out of the WEAU building to a new facility behind its parking lot. Despite being under separate ownership, WEAU continued to provide weather forecasting services for WAXX and WAYY as well as other stations purchased by Central Communications (which included WEAU's original radio properties, WEAQ and WIAL, in addition to WECL and WDRK) until December 31, 2001. WEAU resumed providing weather services to those same six stations, now under the ownership of Maverick Media, on September 11, 2006.

Gillett began defaulting on some of his purchases in the late-1980s culminating in 1990 when he sold WEAU to Busse Broadcasting, owner of KOLN in Lincoln, Nebraska and KGIN in Grand Island, Nebraska (and at one point also owned WWMT in Kalamazoo, Michigan and KOKH-TV in Oklahoma City). In 1998, Gray Communications Systems (which was subsequently renamed Gray Television) and Cosmos Broadcasting (the broadcasting division of the Liberty Corporation which was later merged into Raycom Media and itself sold to Gray) teamed up to purchase the Busse stations with WEAU going to Cosmos and KOLN/KGIN going to Gray. Cosmos then traded WEAU back to Gray in exchange for WALB (Gray's original flagship station) in Albany, Georgia (that station returned to Gray in 2019 after WALB's last owner Raycom merged with Gray). Technology was the highlight of the following decade as WEAU-DT, which originally transmitted on channel 39, signed-on April 30, 2002, with the digital transmitter located at the top of the tower in Fairchild.

The station turned off its analog transmitter at 12:30 p.m. on February 16, 2009. At around 1 p.m., WEAU's digital signal relocated from channel 39 to channel 13. On October 1, 2012, WEAU dropped the "-TV" suffix from its call sign. The transmission tower for WEAU was the tallest structure in the state of Wisconsin topping out at 2000 ft, or over 500 ft taller than the Empire State Building. The tower was shared with former sister radio station WAXX. On March 22, 2011, this tower collapsed during an intense winter storm that brought a mixture of terrible weather conditions. A replacement tower was completed by December 15, 2011, and broadcasts resumed on UHF channel 38 in late December.

In 2024, WEAU and WECX-LD aired 10 Milwaukee Bucks games as part of an agreement with Weigel Broadcasting.

News operation
WEAU tends to focus its local news coverage on Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley, with a secondary emphasis on La Crosse.

WEAU constructed its own Doppler weather radar in 1979, becoming the first television station in the market to have its own device and no longer rely on delayed data from the National Weather Service. It premiered a 5 o'clock weeknight newscast on September 14, 1981. A satellite truck to provide live remote broadcasts came into use by 1983. The station was met with tragedy in September 1991 when weeknight news anchor Cindy Schott died unexpectedly. Her death was later the subject of a story on Real Life with Jane Pauley and Dateline NBC. WEAU resorted to a solo anchor format for the 6 and 10 p.m. news (John Froyd) following Schott's death but returned to a co-anchor format for their weeknight 10 o'clock program (Pat Kreitlow and Judy Clark) in August 1998 upon Froyd's retirement.

On August 28, 2006, WEAU entered into a news share agreement with Fox affiliates WLAX/WEUX (then owned by Grant Broadcasting System II). The arrangement resulted in those stations airing a weeknight prime time newscast produced by this NBC outlet. Known as Fox 25/48 News at 9, the half-hour broadcast would eventually be expanded to weekends starting January 20, 2007.

WLAX/WEUX features a majority of WEAU's on-air team except for maintaining a separate weeknight meteorologist and weekend news anchor (although they can fill in on the NBC outlet when needed). Fox 25/48 News at 9 originates from a secondary set at WEAU's studios and is fed to the WLAX/WEUX facility through a fiber-optic link. On August 5, 2011, WEAU upgraded its newscasts to high definition level. However, the WLAX/WEUX newscasts were not included in the change because they were produced from a secondary set that lacked HD cameras. As of fall 2015, Fox 25/48 News is broadcast in high definition.

Notable former on-air staff

 * Craig Coshun – BS Wisconsin Broadcaster/Big Ten Play-By-Play Announcer; WEAU Reporter/Anchor: 1988–90
 * Pat Kreitlow – Wisconsin State Senator, 23rd District (D-Chippewa Falls), 2007–2011; WEAU Anchor/Reporter: mid 1990s–2005
 * Cameron Sanders – CNN Correspondent & Host of public radio's Marketplace; WEAU Reporter: 1979–80

Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed: {{legend|#E6FFF7|Simulcast of subchannels of another station}}

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Translators
From July 2020 to September 13, 2021, WEAU was rebroadcast via a Digital Replacement Translator in the La Crosse area on RF channel 30.

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