text:
Milltown brothers

milltown brothers are an English indie band from Colne, Lancashire, England.

They are best known for the top 40 single, "Which Way Should I Jump" and "Here I Stand" which was also used as the theme tune to the BBC drama All Quiet on the Preston Front.

Early Releases
In 1989 the band's first independent release on Big Round Records, was the "Coming From The Mill" EP featuring live favourite "Roses" and the songs "Something On My Mind" and “We’ve Git Time.” It was named single of the week in the NME magazine. The same publication tipped Milltown Brothers for stardom in the 1990s, along with The Hoovers, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, The Charlatans, The Mock Turtles and New Fast Automatic Daffodils.

The band's second indie single was "Which Way Should I Jump" backed up by "Silvertown" on the B-side.

A&M years (1990-1993)
After the band signed to A&M Records worldwide in 1990, "Which Way Should I Jump?" was re-recorded and entered the UK Singles Chart at number 38. It also reached number 10 in the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock chart.

Recorded in Bath in the summer of 1991, the album Slinky followed. It peaked at number 27 in the UK Albums Chart. Q Magazine described it as the "Byrds with hard-edged contemporary pop and upfront vocals" and awarding it a maximum five stars.

It was placed at #46 by the NME in their 1991 best album of the year list.

The next single released from the album was "Here I Stand", which was also used as the theme tune for the BBC television programme, Preston Front. It peaked at number 41 in the UK Singles Chart.

In 1993, the single "Turn Off" was released ahead of the bands second album Valve. The album was not as successful as Slinky and the band eventually left the A&M label.

A 12-track compilation ‘’The Best Of Milltown Brothers’’ was issued by Spectrum Music in 1997.

Independent Releases
It was 10 years before the band worked together again. In March 2004 they released their third studio album, Rubberband. A double CD, it was released on their own label Rubber Band Records and made available on the bands website.

In 2009 an extended 17-track retrospective ‘’Milltown Brothers - Best Of’’ was released on Cherry Red Records.

In the summer of 2015, Milltown Brothers released their fourth album Long Road, which was once again self-released.

In 2020 a further album Stockholm featuring eight new songs was released.

In 2022 a compilation of independent singles and demos from 1987-1990 was released titled Tongue-Tied Mesmerised.

Live Appearances
The band made their Reading Festival debut in 1990, playing the Mean Fiddler stage. and again in 1991. The following year on Friday 28 August 1992, they supported The Wonder Stuff & The Charlatans on the main stage.

In 1991 the band embarked on a tour of North America with The Wonder Stuff and flew to New York on 15 September. The tour started in Baltimore and included venues such as Marquee in New York, Rock Candy in Seattle, Cabaret Metro in Chicago & First Avenue Club in Minneapolis.

On Monday 23 September 1991 the band appeared at the WFNX 101.7 8th birthday celebration festival in Boston, Massachusetts alongside The Wonder Stuff, The Smashing Pumpkins & Nirvana.

Originally booked for 6 October but moved to 14 October 1993 they were the headline act at Manchester Academy 3. Supported by the Real People and an up and coming Manchester band called Oasis.

On 13 April 2012 the band made an appearance at the Colne Muni to promote the charity album, Songs From the Neighbourhood; which was released to rasie money for Pendleside Hospice and Derian House Children's Hospital in Chroley. The album included the milltown brothers first single, Roses. It also included songs by The Rubbish, Danny Handley, Simon Webbe, The Hollies and the former Burnley Building Society song The Best Dreams Begin with B by George Chandler.

On 26 August 2023 they played Hebden Bridge Trades Club to a capacity crowd. The gig followed renewed interest in the band after Slinky made an appearance earlier in the year on an episode of Tim's Twitter Listening Party hosted by The Charlatans frontman, Tim Burgess.

Other Ventures
The Rubbish, later known as The Tidy, featured Barney Williams on keyboards. They released the album "Crazy Farmers" in 1998 and supported Status Quo at Wembley Arena, where James Fraser joined them on bass. He played with them again at Nelson Cricket Club in 2003 while also supporting them with his band the Showponies.

Fraser and Williams also appeared with The Rubbish at Kendal Calling in 2018.

Fraser has also played bass in Jay Diggins' band and is frontman of Greenheart, a band from Lancaster.

As of 2023, Barney Williams is also a member of The Animals & Friends.

Simon Nelson was part of a four piece called SixtyFiveMiles around 2009, along with Ash Woodward, Neil Gordon & Ryan Vann. They released the single "Mary" and album "Finnish Tango" both on Cherry Red Records.

Line-up

 * Matt Nelson - Lead Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
 * Simon Nelson - Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals
 * James Fraser - Bass & Backing Vocals
 * Barney Williams - Organ, Piano, Blues Harmonica & Backing Vocals
 * Nian Brindle - Drums
 * Gary Thistlethwaite - Lap Steel Guitar - (2015 to date)

Awards

 * 1991 NME Slinky Album of the Year #46

 * 1991 Q Magazine Slinky - Album Rating - Five Stars

Albums

 * Slinky (1991) (No. 27 UK)
 * Valve (1993)
 * Rubberband (2004)
 * Long Road (2015)
 * Stockholm (2020)

Compilations

 * The Best Of Milltown Brothers (Spectrum Music, 1997)
 * Best Of (Cherry Red Records, 2009)
 * Tongue-Tied Mesmerised (Independent Singles + Demos 1987-1990) (2022)

Music Videos

 * "Roses"
 * "Apple Green" "Apple Green" (Remix)
 * "Which Way Should I Jump"
 * "Here I Stand"
 * "Turn Off"
 * "It's All Over Now Baby Blue"

title: Milltown brothers


text:
Solihull Barons

The Solihull Barons are an English ice hockey team from the town of Solihull who play at Solihull Ice Rink on Hobs Moat Road. The current team, which is the third incarnation of the Barons, was formed in 2005; they are named after the original team of the same name who were formed in 1965, and played at the same ice rink between 1972 until 2000, after which they moved to Coventry and became the Coventry Blaze.

Previous incarnations
The Solihull Barons won the Southern League in 1977–78 and the English League in 1992–93. Canadian Rick Fera played for the original Solihull Barons in the 1987–88 season.

In 1996, the team rebranded themselves as the "Solihull Blaze", and in 2000 they moved from Solihull's Blue Ice Plaza to Coventry's SkyDome Arena, rebranding themselves again as the "Coventry Blaze". As this left Solihull without an ice hockey team for the first time since 1965, the Barons were reformed under a new franchise and returned to their original arena, which had benefited from a much-needed overhaul. Unfortunately, the £1.8m refurbishment was delayed by vandals, leaving the venue operators with a £75,000 damage repair bill, and the grand re-opening was postponed until mid-October 2000.

Despite the newly improved playing facility, the club struggled to survive in the English Premier Ice Hockey League and ultimately dissolved again just two years later in 2002. They were initially replaced by the Milton Keynes Kings, who moved to Solihull from their own hometown due to a dispute with the owners of their arena, and who re-branded themselves the "Solihull MK Kings" to demonstrate the fact that they were now representing both Solihull and Milton Keynes in ice hockey. Once again, however, the team quickly dissolved, playing just a single season of hockey in the British National League before folding. Following the closure of the Solihull MK Kings, a new "Solihull Kings" team was created and placed back in the EPIHL, but yet again this team folded, collapsing after two seasons in 2007.

Current team
The current Solihull Barons team was formed in 2005, and played their first two seasons in the EPIHL. At the end of the 2006–07 season they were relegated to the English National Ice Hockey League (ENIHL). The Barons currently compete in Northern Division One, known as the "Moralee Conference". The team hold charity games for Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Club roster 2022–23
(*) Denotes a Non-British Trained player (Import)

Honours

 * English National Ice Hockey League North Division 2 champions: 2010-2011
 * English National Ice Hockey League Laidler Division champions: 2013-2014
 * English National Ice Hockey League Laidler Division champions: 2014-2015
 * English National Ice Hockey League Laidler Play-Off champions: 2014-2015
 * English National Ice Hockey League Midland Cup: 2019-2020

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Solihull Barons


text:
Category talk:10th-century mathematicians

Untitled
I'm confused. I want to move Biruni from the A section to the B section, but can't see how to achieve that. I just get lost in a sea of templates. Can anyone help? 69.144.83.104 16:17, 9 October 2005 (UTC) kensson


text: Category:Angolan footballers

title: Category:Angolan footballers


text:
Helène Aylon

Helène Aylon (née Greenfield; February 4, 1931 – April 6, 2020), was an American multimedia, eco-feminist artist, and educator. Her work can be divided into three phases: process art (1970s), anti-nuclear art (1980s), and The G-d Project (1990s and early 2000s), a feminist commentary on the Hebrew Bible and other established traditions. In 2012, Aylon published, Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist. She died during the COVID-19 pandemic, due to complications brought on by COVID-19.

Early life and education
Aylon was born in Brooklyn, New York. While living there, she received an Orthodox Jewish upbringing; she was fluent in Hebrew. She attended grade school at Shulamith School for Girls and her high school education was at the Midrasha; Aylon, however, originally wanted to attend The High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. While attending high school, she became engaged to a rabbinical student named Mandel H. Fisch (b. 1926); they married in 1949. Aylon moved immediately to Montréal, where her husband served as a rabbi. After two years, she gave birth to a son, Nathaniel Fisch, followed by a daughter, Renee Emunah. The couple returned to Brooklyn while Aylon was pregnant with her second child. Mandel Fisch was diagnosed with cancer in 1956 and died five years later; Aylon was 30.

Prior to her husband's death, Aylon enrolled as an art student at Brooklyn College, where she studied under Ad Reinhardt. She graduated with a B.A. degree from Brooklyn College in 1960. She studied at the Art Students League of New York in 1961; and the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1962.

After finishing college, she was commissioned to paint a mural for the youth employment center in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. When photographed for a newspaper article, she said that her name was Helène Aylon, in which she used the Hebrew equivalent of her first name as her surname.

Aylon's first notable work, Rauch (Spirit, Wind, Breath) (1965), was a 16-foot mural, commissioned for the now-defunct Synagogue Library at JFK International Airport, that attempted to portray Judaism through the eyes of women.

Teaching and feminism
She subsequently taught at San Francisco State University, and the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. In 1980, Aylon received a M.A. degree in women's studies from Antioch College/West.

Process art
Aylon's earliest exploration of process art was done in California in the 1970s. She created a series called Paintings That Change (1974–77), which included Tar Pouring, Drifting Boundaries, Receding Beige, and Oval on Left Edge. All of the works consisted of oil on paper which would slowly transform as the oil moved, relying on chance. In 1978, she began work on a series called The Breakings, for which she poured linseed oil on large panels that she placed flat on the studio floor and allowed the oil to form a thick skin. Next, she tilted the panels so that gravity would cause the oil to form a sac underneath the surface, which was subsequently allowed to break, again dependent largely on chance. As a result, the work looked completely different than it originally appeared. Aylon described this work as "very wet, orgasmic process art." In 1970 and 1972, Aylon showed at the Max Hutchinson Gallery in SoHo; in 1975 and 1979, her Paintings that Change in Time were exhibited at Betty Parsons Gallery, Susan Caldwell Gallery, MIT, and the Oakland Museum.

Anti-nuclear and eco-activist art
By the 1980s, Aylon, was a self-described eco-feminist. She began to create anti-nuclear and eco-activist art, which included Earth Ambulance. This work consisted of an "ambulance" (a converted U-Haul van) that symbolized an attempt to save the world from nuclear war. Using the Earth Ambulance, Aylon gathered dirt from Strategic Air Command nuclear bases, uranium mines, and nuclear reactors from across the United States. She stuffed the dirt into pillowcases and used them in a demonstration at the United Nations during the Second Special Session on Nuclear Disarmament on June 12, 1982. In front of a group of spectators, the pillowcases were carried down the steps of Ralph Bunche Park on army stretchers. In 1992, to celebrate the end of the Cold War, she installed a seed-filled ambulance at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, an alternative space in New York City. Pillowcases from previous projects were hung around the installation. For her later Bridge of Knots, Aylon created chains of knotted pillowcases, inscribed with dreams and nightmares about nuclear war, which were draped around the façades of the Knoxville Museum of Art in 1993, Berkeley Art Museum in 1995, and American University Museum in 2006.

In 1985, Aylon traveled to Japan to mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Floating sacks of seeds, grain, pods, and bamboo were sent down the rivers towards those two cities. In 1995, Aylon's video of the "two sacs en route" to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was shown on the Sony Jumbotron in Times Square.

The G-d Project
After the death of Aylon's husband in 1961, she began to develop an idea of reformed Judaism which rejected the patriarchal notions in the Five Books of Moses. In the 1990s, Aylon began work on The G-d Project, a nine-part project that spanned two decades. The first work in the project, The Liberation of G-d, contains the five books of Moses, in English and Hebrew, which sit on velvet-covered stands. Each page is covered in translucent parchment. The sound of turning parchment pages was recorded and played in a loop while the work was on exhibition. Aylon placed the 54 sections of the Torah on glass shelves along a wall, adjacent to the five books of Moses, and used a pink highlighter to mark phrases that, according to her, convey patriarchal attitudes. She also targeted words or phrases that conveyed a sense of vengeance, deception, cruelty, and misogyny that had been falsely attributed to God. The work was first exhibited in ''Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities'' at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art in March 1996. During the exhibition, Aylon formally invited area rabbis to visit and discuss her work.

In 1997, she completed The Women's Section, the second work in The G-d Project, which is dedicated to women with the marital status of agunah: whose estranged husbands do not grant them a Jewish religious divorce called a Get, making it impossible for them to remarry. Included are texts from the Torah that speak of women's "impurity" and "virginity."

In 1998, Aylon created the third work in the series, My Notebooks, which consists of 54 blank 8.5 × 11″ notebooks that form a group of columns. The closed notebooks, with their dark covers, form black columns; the open notebooks form white columns. A transparency of Aylon's photographs from a Jewish girls' school is projected across the notebooks. The work is "Dedicated to Mrs. Rashi and to Mrs. Maimonides, for surely they have something to say" and was intended to be a statement on women's lack of scholarship and participation in education." It also alludes to the female teachers of Aylon's all-female school, who could only teach commentary from male rabbis.

In 1999, Aylon created Epilogue: Alone With My Mother, the fourth work in the series. This work features a seven-foot-wide alcove with a pew, facing a stand with two open Bibles fixed in a way that stops them from closing. In the Bibles the blessings and curses of the last chapters of Deuteronomy are highlighted. There is also a taped conversation between Aylon and her mother to accompany the installation, and the installation is dedicated to Aylon's mother.

In 1999, Aylon created My Bridal Chamber: My Marriage Contract, the fifth work in the series. It is a simple bed covered in a white bedspread that Aylon constructed from handkerchiefs and a wedding canopy. Around it are four columns with superimposed projections of photographs that show the artist in her wedding gown. Behind the headboard, Aylon wrote quotes from Leviticus concerning women's "uncleanliness" and "impurity." The work was meant to be a comment on marital and religious constraints felt by women.

Aylon also created My Bridal Chamber: My Marriage Bed/My Clean Days (2000 - 2001), the sixth work in the series. In this work, Aylon projected shifting images onto a white bedsheet to represent menstrual impurity, while a cascade of voice recordings counted the waiting times between periods and ritual baths.

In 2002, Aylon completed The Partition Is in Place, But the Service Can't Begin, the seventh work in the series. In this work there is a wall made of tzitzit and large photocopies of the Western Wall. The work is a comment on the segregation of male and female worshippers in the Orthodox synagogue and at the Western Wall. As noted by Aylon, "The material I thought appropriate for the Partition that separates male and female worshippers is made of the ritual garb worn by religious men. But if there were nine male worshippers and one thousand female worshippers, the service could not begin because the service requires the presence of ten men."

Aylon also created Wrestlers (1980, 2005), the eighth work in the series. It features large-scale landscape photographs with herself as a tiny figure in them, searching for foremothers. In 2005 she "added another layer of meaning to the Wrestlers by focusing on one particular wrestling fore-mother - Lot's Wife - and I gave her a name." That name was Hashemshela, which according to Aylon means "her name" in Hebrew. Aylon dedicated Wrestlers to Ana Mendieta.

The ninth and final work in Aylon's The G-d Project is All Rise (2007), an imagined feminist court where women who have been forbidden on a Beit Din, the Jewish court of law, can now judge. In the work a wooded platform with three steps holds three chairs with tzitzit dangling from them, flanked by two pink pillowcase-flags and three signs with pink dashes that read "In G-d We Trust." A petitioner's bench faces the bet din. "I petition the traditional bet din of three males to include women as judges," Aylon stated, adding, "I think of my work as a 'rescue' of the Earth and God and women—all stuck in patriarchal designations."

Death
Aylon died of complications of COVID-19 on April 6, 2020, in New York City, at the age of 89.

Public collections and recognition
Aylon's work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Jewish Museum. She was the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, and New York Foundation for the Arts.

Awards

 * 2016: Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award

title: Helène Aylon


text:
Whiting, New Jersey

Whiting is an unincorporated community located on the west side of Manchester Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. It is in the Eastern Standard time zone with an elevation of 180 ft. It is home to various retirement communities. The ZIP Code Tabulation Area for the Whiting 08759 ZIP code has a population of 33,180 as of the 2019 Population Estimates Program from the United States Census Bureau. The majority of the township's population of 43,070 lives here.

Whiting was once a station stop on the southern branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, a line known for the Blue Comet express. Whiting Station was located at the intersection of Diamond Road and Station Road. The town and the train station were named after Nathaniel Whiting's lumber mill. The highest point in town is Halfmoon Hill, with an elevation of 205 feet, with the next highest hill being Crow's Hill, where you can still see Hangar 1 and the site of the Hindenburg Disaster and tracer fire at night from firing ranges on Fort Dix.

Industries in Whiting

Tehophilus T. Price had built the Tuckerton Railroad with yards in Whiting and Tuckerton. Here he built Wye where the Tuckerton Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, and Central Jersey Railroad could interchange tracks. Later replaced by a turntable. Just off of the train yard was the Lancewood Hotel. Also in town in the 1920s was Nature's Rest Nudist Colony, built on the old Jersey Pines Poultry Farm. In the Fox Hollow region, prior to Jersey Pines Poultry Farm, was the Hydraulic Press brick Company that closed operation in Whitings the year that T.S. Eliot's father took over the company and left the area a wasteland. Harry L. Neal leased the property to Eliha J. Granger of the Philadelphia office of the Hydraulic Press Brick Company (incorporated in 1866 in St. Louis, first president steps down in 1905 to travel) for $.10 per cubic yard of clay with a minimum rent of $250 a month. Under the stipulation, he built an operation that will produce 5,000 'stiff mud’ bricks a day to be delivered to a siding on the Tuckerton Railroad where they would have their own box car. Originally bought or taken from the Leni Lenape this acreage was owned by General John Lacey to provide enough water sources to mine bog iron to be processed on location into pig iron and brought back to his Ferrago Forge on Forge Pond (Bamber Lake). Dupont had a gun powder factory behind the Whiting Bible Church prior to WWI and the proving ground they sold to the Russian Imperial Army used to test Russian 3" shrapnel shells from Eddystone Ammunition Company, a subdivision of Baldwin Locomotives, on the location of Lakehurst Naval and Air Engineering base.

Fire Company 33

The Whiting Volunteer Fire Company No.1 was incorporated in 1937. It was the only fire company in Manchester Township until 1955. The first fire engine was kept in the garage at Allegrinia's Bar (a popular Italian restaurant that was open from the 30s-70s), located at the end of Lakewood Avenue. Their first fire station was built and located on Central Avenue, between Manchester Blvd. and Cherry Street, which housed their first new fire truck, which was a 1947 Ward La France. The building was basically a two-bay garage with no other rooms; the trucks had to be pulled out for any function. A wood-burning stove in the rear of one bay supplied heat to the building. They had a large metal ring that was hit with a sledgehammer to alert the members of a fire call.

In the past, Whiting was one of the first communities in the country to elect an African-American judge. Andrew M. Battles won his seat when most of the white settlers of the area were out in the woods during deer season. He would hear court on the porch of his gas station and adjourn when he had a patron at his pump.

Roosevelt City

A plan of mobster Joseph Parisi (of Murder Inc. through Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and later by Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia, and later the Gambino Mafia and the garbage industry in NYC) and his brother Frank (Roosevelt City Land Development Company) during a time of many failed or outright land development schemes during the 1920s, planned to build a city to rival that of his home in NYC. On maps in the Ocean County Clerk office, you can find his planned community built on the old General John Lacey lot. On the map, it shows where the rich neighborhood, the poor, the churches, city hall, factories, and train stations were to be built. All built alongside the Tuckerton Railroad, which would connect to rails going to Atlantic City, New York City, and Philadelphia. The roads were all laid out, including a central grand boulevard named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a fountain (which to this day is the only road not paved). One church can be seen on the map to be on Block 6, Lot 66 right behind the planned city hall. He sold about eight concrete houses and 20 acres to a married couple of masseuses from his Brooklyn neighborhood, which Doctor's Pond is named after. The masseuses opened a nudist colony called Nature's Rest that burned down in the 1970s. At Doctor's Pond, you can see the bridge and foundation of the pump house that served water to the Jersey Pines Poultry Farm and Nature's Rest nudist colony. A spring water company was established there too. In the field at the dirt section of Newark Ave. you can still find the foundation of the chicken coop, horse stable, house, water tower (windmill that sat on top is behind Sloan's Market now), outhouses, arboretum, and hotel. A local story says the locals didn't like their kids looking at them. Then, in 1976, Scarborough developed Fox Hollow, and soon later, Roosevelt City developed beyond Parisi's efforts. Parisi and the masseuses owned the Arsarco property and its checkered past, along with many others.

Joe Portash

Joe Portash a Democrat member of Mayor Hague's machine in Jersey City moved south and became a Republican Ocean County Freeholder. Soon he met Robert J. Schmertz of the soon-to-be Leisure Technology that developed the Leisure Villages in Manchester when he was mayor and still holding a position in the county. Schmertz owned the Boston Celtics. Schmertz bribed him $25,000 to approve his land deal on the county level. A year later, Portash is indicted for extortion and conflict of interest. Turning evidence against Schmertz, Portash put him in jail, and when they used his testimony against himself, he set a US Supreme Court precedent that you cannot incriminate yourself while providing testimony against another. Afterward, they removed him as mayor of Manchester, elected his wife, and made him town administrator. By 1990, he had stolen over $20 million from the town when he died in Bridgton, Maine, on Long Lake where the town veterinarian signed his death certificate. Two weeks after his closed casket funeral, his twin brother would be seen in Harrison on top of the lake where his house was. The township went into receivership, and the FBI took control of the town. Their investigations stopped before reaching the county level.

After working with Schmertz and Leisure Technology, Portash joined forces with Miroslav “Michael” Kokes, who built the company's first active adult community, Crestwood Village in Whiting, starting in 1964. Portash had Harry Wright Lake carved out of the Davenport Branch just opposite the old Tuckerton railroad on Lake Road, made two new ponds behind it, and cleared out for parking. Though Portash stopped Lacey Road from joining Lake Road at a county zoning meeting, traffic had to go past Kokes shopping plaza on Rt. 530, a move that would add fifteen minutes of travel between Bamber Lake and Whiting that could of been two minutes. Kokes would build six more villages and his family continues to plan more.

Leni Lenape

The original natives of this area have left their mark. They would have acre lots with a post oak with three trunks surrounded by a series of Pitch Pine, Scarlet Oak, and Sassafras trees with forked tops encircling them on one side and a post oak with a single oak on the other side, surrounded again by forked trees. On their properties, they would bend trees like lightning bolts or stunt them and make swaying bonsai-like trees out of the pitch pine. Their lots would have wintergreen, scrub oak patches for acorns to eat, and mountain laurel hedges.

Education
Manchester Township provides K–12 education, with Whiting School being the only one in the area that offers education up to the third grade.

Parochial education is offered by St. Mary Academy near Manahawkin, a K-8 school of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton, is in the area. From 1997, until 2019 it operated as All Saints Regional Catholic School and was collectively managed by five churches, with one being St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Whiting. In 2019 St. Mary Church in Barnegat Township took over control of the school, which remained on the same Manahawkin campus, and changed its name. The other churches no longer operate the school but may still send students there. Also, Monsignor Donovan and Saint John's School are offered.

Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Whiting include:
 * Joe Cinderella (1927–2012), jazz guitarist.
 * Julia Scotti, transgender stand-up comedian

title: Whiting, New Jersey


text: User talk:207.230.211.101

title: User talk:207.230.211.101


text:
Talk:Welsh whisky

Old talk
This was in response to the claims about the Pendryn company only needing one still. As the rest of the section was a Copyvio, it has been removed. "Not really true. The first distillation is in a pot still and the vapour is taken directly into a column still. So, it is really distilled twice. The closest approximation in the old days is the Lomond still used in a few distilleries in Scotland many years ago."
 * Unsigned by 216.54.80.2 03:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Older Welsh Whisky
I don't have the time now, but there should probably be mention of the previous "Welsh whiskies" (Prince of Wales, etc) that were produced in Scotland, steeped in welsh herbs, and bottled in Wales. I believe that this practice caused the Scottish government to pass new legislation to put an end to the trickery. Pendryn was not the first attempt at creating a product of Wales.

And for the record, Prince of Wales was a fantasticly unique whisky.

Flavor
what seperates it's flavor from other british isles whisky? That should be in the article. Never having tasted this type, i can't comment. ReverendG 07:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Error in timeframe?
There seems to be an error in the article that I haven't the knowledge to correct. The first paragraph states that Penderyn Distillery "revised" (I think the writer meant "revived") Welsh whisky distilling "after an absence of more than 100 years". Yet the second paragraph states that "The last distillery in Wales closed in 1984, and no whisky has been distilled until 2001." 1984 to 2001 is seventeen years, not "more than 100 years". Was the last distillery open for business for over 83 years without actually producing anything? Which paragraph is correct? 12.22.250.4 20:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree that that does sound wrong. Since there's been no discussion on it since you posted this 5 months ago, I'll go ahead and remove one of them. Neither are cited, but since the latter is more precise, I'll remove thee "100 years" claim. Feel free to change it back if anyone can find a good reason to. Patch86 19:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I think the 100 years was correct and 1984 should be 1884. I'm not aware of any distillery in Wales in my lifetime other than the present one. --84.250.7.88 21:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Awards
I propose to delete the reference to the product awards. The organisations that runs the awards cited on the company's own web site are funded entirely by the drinks industry. The awarding bodies charge a fee for entry into these competitions and they then award nearly all entrants with one prize or another. They are little more than a marketing gimmick. They therefore do not comply with NPOV and wiki policies regarding promotion. Are there any truly independent bodies issuing assessments of whiskies? If anyone disagree with the proposal please state why in the next week or so.

Need more history please
It would be nice if someone could find a reference and include some information about Welsh whisky before 2001. I see there was some here previously but it was unsourced and contradictory. Rees11 (talk) 16:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I found what I thought was going to be a good source, The Whiskey Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Finest Whiskies by Helen Arthur, but it's got a couple obvious mistakes, like misspelling Jack Daniel's name and claiming that Elijah Craig was from Wales (he was of Welsh heritage but was born in the US). Both Jack Daniel and Evan Williams were from Wales, and that info could be added with proper sources. I'll keep looking. Rees11 (talk) 17:39, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Bardsey distilling
This sentence does not help to discount the Bardsey story: "Also, "chwisgi" comes from the Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha or Irish uisce beatha (both meaning "water of life"), themselves calques from Mediaeval Latin aqua vitae."

A later writer would have used the then current word for whisky; if there was a distilled drink in fourth-century Wales then it would have had a different name. I propose deleting this sentence. The point about Reaullt Hir's name is stronger (but not conclusive), and I would keep this. Verbcatcher (talk) 06:23, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Why no contents?
There isn't a table of contents for this page and I was wondering why. Is it because the page doesn't meet length requirements? Firestarforever (talk) 14:28, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, an article must have at least three headers below the lead for a table of contents to be automatically generated. There's only two in this article. oknazevad (talk) 15:12, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Anglesey Mon Whisky
There is no mention of Anglesey Mon which from personsl experience produced whisky in North Wales ahead of the Aber Falls first release, and is one of now 5 distillery brands in Wales. 2A00:23C7:F990:FA01:B96A:2987:98AF:92E8 (talk) 23:12, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Article improvements
Is there any other information that could be added to improve the article?.ChefBear01 (talk) 20:39, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

title: Talk:Welsh whisky


text:
Peter Housden

Sir Peter James Housden (born 7 December 1950) is a former public official who worked in local and central government. He served as Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government from June 2010 to June 2015. He was previously Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Early life
Housden was born on 7 December 1950 and was educated at Grove Comprehensive School, Market Drayton, Shropshire. He studied at the University of Essex where he graduated in 1973 with a First in Sociology. He began his career as a comprehensive school teacher in Shropshire and worked as an education officer in three county LEAs.

Public Service
Housden was appointed as Director of Education in Nottinghamshire in 1991. In 1994, Peter was appointed as Chief Executive and in his seven years in that post managed Nottinghamshire County Council through Local Government Review and a wide-ranging programme of modernisation. In September 2000 he was seconded to the Audit Commission for six months to lead their work on the NHS national plan.

Housden joined the Department for Education and Skills in November 2001 as Director General for Schools. He had overall responsibility for all the Department's work in schools and in early years, and for current priorities on primary standards and secondary reform. He held this role until his appointment as Permanent Secretary of ODPM in 2005.

He was appointed Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government from June 2010. In his role as Scotland's Permanent Secretary, Sir Peter was the principal policy adviser to the First Minister and the Cabinet and led significant work on the integration of public services and new approaches to leadership in public services workforces. He was a member of the UK Civil Service Board and its Senior Leadership Committee. As Permanent Secretary in Scotland, his impartiality over Scottish Independence was called into question with for example the Labour leader Iain Gray accusing Housden of having "gone native", but was consistently defended by the leaders of the UK Civil Service.

Peter Housden delivered the Frank Stacey Memorial Lecture at the 2013 Annual Conference of the Public Administration Committee of the Joint University Council of the Applied Social Sciences where he made the case for a distinct 'Scottish approach' to government.

Peter Housden is a Vice-President of the RNLI, having previously served as a Trustee.

Peter Housden was the Chair of The Civil Service Club. from 2017 to 2023.

Publications

 * 'The Passing of a Country Grammar School' (APS, 2015)
 * 'Local Statesman' (Local Government Centre, Warwick University, 2000)
 * 'Bucking the Market: LEAs and Special Needs' (NASEN, 1993).

Honours and awards
Housden was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

title: Peter Housden


text:
User talk:Tom-/Usability/Why

See, herein lies the problem. #1 would be immensely useful, as to some degree would #2 but so far you haven't proposed any solution to either. You then haven't demonstrated how - at all - any of your changes are supposed to achieve #3. You spout it as a mantra, yet provide very little (or no) evidence to support it. Ambi 16:19, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * No, herein lies the problem - you taking a random, not-even-half-written-at-3am-whilst-half-asleep-and-with-the-beginnings-of-a-nasty-cold brainstorming user page with a big yellow bold notice with "this isn't even near completion" and commenting on it like it's a fully peer-reviewed argument for usability.

 * Please at least wait until I'm feeling better and actually write something coherent before bothering to comment on about it. Tom- 22:37, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I was making that comment in light of everything else you've done so far. Ambi 17:02, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:Tom-/Usability/Why


text:
Tridecoder

Tridecoder is the debut studio album by German electronic music band Lali Puna. It was released on 1 September 1999 by Darla Records, Hausmusik and Morr Music.

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Lali Puna
 * Valerie Trebeljahr – vocals, keyboards, sampler
 * Markus Acher – bass, keyboards, sampler
 * Christoph Brandner – drums, electronic drums, sampler
 * Florian Zimmer – keyboards, sampler

Production
 * Rashad Becker – mastering
 * Albert Pöschl – mixing, recording
 * Mario Thaler – mixing

Design
 * Jan Kruse – cover artwork

title: Tridecoder


text:
Fax art

Fax art is art specifically designed to be sent or transmitted by a facsimile machine, where the "fax art" is the received "fax". It is also called telecommunications art or telematic art. According to art historians Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark, "Fax art was another means of mediating distances".

Fax art was first transmitted in 1980, but that was not documented until 1985. On January 12, 1985, Joseph Beuys together with Andy Warhol and the Japanese artist Kaii Higashiyama participated in the "Global-Art-Fusion" project, a fax art project initiated by the conceptual artist Ueli Fuchser, in which a fax was sent with drawings of all three artists within 32 minutes around the world – from Düsseldorf (Germany) via New York (US) to Tokyo (Japan), received at Vienna's Palais Liechtenstein Museum of Modern Art. This fax was a statement of peace during the Cold War in the 1980s. The earliest scholarly note of fax art in art history was in 1990 by Karen O'Rourke.

title: Fax art


text:
File:Mayo GAA crest.jpg

Summary
Used in: Ladies' Gaelic football to display team visual identity.

title: File:Mayo GAA crest.jpg


text:
George Fletcher (politician)

George Fletcher (circa 1666 – circa March 1708) was the eldest son of Sir George Fletcher, 2nd Baronet by his second wife Mary, daughter of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell. From a local Whig family, he represented the borough of Cockermouth in the Parliament of England from 1698 to 1701 and the county of Cumberland from 1701 to 1702 and then from 1705 to his death. He died without issue, so the baronetcy became extinct on the death of his elder half-brother Sir Henry Fletcher, 3rd Bt.

title: George Fletcher (politician)


text: User talk:70.111.212.56

title: User talk:70.111.212.56


text: User talk:86.133.119.20

title: User talk:86.133.119.20


text: Category:Order of the Bath

title: Category:Order of the Bath


text:
Marshall Rogers

William Marshall Rogers III (January 22, 1950 – March 24, 2007), known professionally as Marshall Rogers, was an American comics artist best known for his work at Marvel and DC Comics in the 1970s.

Biography
Rogers was born in the Flushing neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, and raised there and in Ardsley, New York. He took up mechanical drawing in high school, and then attended Kent State University in Ohio, where he studied architecture. He said later that he felt this

"would keep my parents happy, because it's a legitimate profession, and would allow me some artistic outlet as I worked. Well, I quickly found out that the world wasn't ready for another Frank Lloyd Wright ... and I would end up doing parking lots and designing heating / cooling systems. I had wanted to draw and be imaginative. And then there was one last stumbling block, and that was calculus. ... I just couldn't grasp those weird theories that were running around."

He studied architectural drawing, and his work was characterized by detailed rendering of buildings and structures.

He left college in 1971 before graduating, and returned home to New York, where he discovered his family was moving to Denver, Colorado, where his father's employer, Johns Manville, was relocating. Opting to remain, he completed a 52-page story he had begun in college and presented it in 1972 as a sample to Marvel Comics production manager John Verpoorten, who found Rogers' work wanting. To earn a living, Rogers did illustrations for men's magazines that he described as "[r]eal low-grade schlock sleazo magazines that had illustrations to precede the stories". When one client went bankrupt owing him at least $1,000, a friend, Jim Geraghty, offered him a rent-free house for the winter in Easthampton, New York, on Long Island, in exchange for "four or five illustrations" for a local art project. The following summer he worked in a hardware store for several months, was fired, and while living on unemployment benefits approached the short-lived Atlas/Seaboard Comics and, he said:

"was given a couple of very small assignments. One was to design a costume for a kung-fu character they were going to establish, and another was to do a couple of illustrations for a back-up feature in a black-and-white monster book. The kung-fu costume I designed was rejected because they said, 'It was too good,' which meant, I felt, the costume was too intricate to draw over and over. The black-and-white illustrations were used. One appeared in the back of the black-and-white monster book on a little game-page they called 'Dr. Frankenstein's Brain Twisters.'"

At some unspecified point, Rogers recalled, he "bounced in and out of a shipping clerk job" and did some retouching work for DC Comics on reprints of 1940s Batman stories. He continued showing samples to both Marvel and DC, and in 1977, his artwork began interesting Marie Severin and Vince Colletta, the two companies' respective art directors. "That got me my first job; it wasn't really the drawing ability", he said in 1980, "as much as my design capabilities."

Some of his first comic-book work appeared in the black-and-white magazine The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, where he worked with writer Chris Claremont on a story featuring the "Iron Fist" supporting characters Misty Knight and Colleen Wing as the Daughters of the Dragon. He eschewed the grey wash that was used in other black-and-white comics stories in favor of applying screentone.

With writer Steve Englehart, Rogers penciled an acclaimed run on the Batman in Detective Comics #471–476 (Aug. 1977 – April 1978), providing one of the definitive interpretations that influenced the 1989 movie Batman and that was adapted for the 1990s animated series. The Englehart and Rogers pairing was described in 2009 by comics writer and historian Robert Greenberger as "one of the greatest" creative teams to work on the Batman character. DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz noted in 2010: "Arguably fans' best-loved version of Batman in the mid-1970s, writer Steve Englehart and penciller Rogers's Detective run featured an unambiguously homicidal Joker...in noirish, moodily rendered stories that evoked the classic Kane-Robinson era." In their story "The Laughing Fish", the Joker is brazen enough to disfigure fish with a rictus grin, then expects to be granted a federal trademark on them, only to start killing bureaucrats who try to explain that obtaining such a claim on a natural resource is legally impossible. The supervillain Deadshot was redesigned by Rogers during his Detective Comics run. Rogers also penciled the origin story of the Golden Age Batman in Secret Origins #6 (Sept. 1986) with writer Roy Thomas and inker Terry Austin.

The two also did a sequel miniseries, Batman: Dark Detective, and worked together on other series, including Marvel's The Silver Surfer and a short run on DC's revived Mister Miracle. Englehart and Rogers' first Batman run was collected in the trade paperback Batman: Strange Apparitions (ISBN 1-56389-500-5), and the second run in Batman: Dark Detective (ISBN 1-4012-0898-3). Rogers remained as artist on Detective Comics for a few issues after Englehart's departure from the series. With writer Len Wein, he co-created the third version of the supervillain Clayface. Rogers' other Batman work included a story arc in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight that was begun by writer Archie Goodwin and completed by James Robinson.

An Englehart-Rogers story featuring Madame Xanadu that sat in inventory for a few years was published as a one-shot in 1981, in DC's first attempt at marketing comics specifically to the "direct market" of fans and collectors. In 1986, Rogers drew a graphic novel adaptation of "Demon with a Glass Hand", an episode of The Outer Limits television series, based on a script by Harlan Ellison. It was the fifth title of the DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel series.

At Eclipse Comics during the early 1980s, he collaborated on the graphic novel Detectives Inc. with writer Don McGregor, drew the Scorpio Rose series and the first Coyote series written by Englehart, and wrote and drew his own whimsical series Cap'N Quick & A Foozle. In 1992, McGregor and Rogers crafted a two part-story for Marvel in Spider-Man issues #27–28 dealing with bullying and gun violence.

Personal life
Rogers' mother was Ann White Rogers. He had a sister, Suzanne, and an adopted son, Russell Young.

Rogers died on March 24, 2007, at his home in Fremont, California. His Batman collaborator Steve Englehart said he was told by Spencer Beck, Rogers' agent: "His son found him. They think it was a heart attack, and that he might have been dead for a while."

Awards

 * 1978: nominated at the Eagle Awards for Favourite Artist, for Favourite Single Story for Detective Comics #472: "I am the Batman" with Steve Englehart and for Favourite Continued Story for Detective Comics #471-472 with Steve Englehart
 * 1979: Inkpot Award
 * 1979: nominated at the Eagle Awards for Favourite Comicbook Artist (US), for Best Continued Story for Detective Comics #475-476 with Steve Englehart, and for Best Cover for Detective Comics #476

DC Comics

 * Action Comics #566 (cover only, with Jerry Ordway) (1985)
 * All-Star Squadron #38 (three pages only) (1984)
 * Atari Force #18, Special #1 (1985–1986)
 * Batman Family #11–13 (pages 9–16 only in #13) (1977)
 * Batman: Dark Detective, miniseries, #1–6 (2005)
 * Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #132–136 (2000)
 * DC Graphic Novel Demon With a Glass Hand, graphic novel (1986), 144 pages, ISBN 0-930289-09-9
 * DC Special Series #15 (1978) (Batman)
 * Detective Comics #466–468, 471–479, 481 (1976–1979)
 * Green Lantern #187 (1985)
 * Green Lantern: Evil's Might, miniseries, #1–3 (2002)
 * Heroes Against Hunger (two pages only) (1986)
 * House of Mystery #254, 274 (1977–1979)
 * Justice League America Annual #5 (1991)
 * Justice League Europe #20–22, Annual #2 (1990–1991)
 * Madame Xanadu #1 (1981) (originally produced for Doorway to Nightmare)
 * Mister Miracle #19–22 (1977–1978)
 * Mister Miracle vol. 3 #5–6 (1996)
 * Mystery in Space #111 (1980)
 * Realworlds: Batman (2000)
 * Secret Origins (Golden Age Batman) #6 (1986)
 * The Shadow vol. 3 #7 (1988)
 * Superman #400 (1984)
 * The Superman Family #182, 194 (1977–1979)
 * The Unexpected #191 (1979)
 * Weird War Tales #51–52 (1977)
 * Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #1–2, 5–7, 11–12, 15, 24 (1985–1987)
 * World's Finest Comics #259 (1979)

Eclipse Comics

 * Cap'n Quick & A Foozle #1–2 (1984–1985), writer/artist
 * Detectives Inc.: A Remembrance of Threatening Green, graphic novel (1980), 52 pages
 * Eclipse Magazine #1 ("Slab"), #2–8 (Coyote feature) (1981–1983)
 * Eclipse Monthly #1–4 (Cap'n Quick feature) (1983–1984), writer/artist
 * Scorpio Rose #1–2 (1983)

Marvel Comics

 * Amazing Fantasy #19 (2006)
 * Avengers Annual #16 (among other artists) (1987)
 * Bizarre Adventures #25 (1981)
 * Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #32–33 (1977)
 * Doctor Strange #48–53 (1981–1982)
 * Excalibur #10–11 (1989)
 * Fantastic Four Roast #1 (among other artists) (1982)
 * G.I. Joe #61, 75, 77, 82, 86 (1987–1989)
 * Howard the Duck (black and white magazine) #8 (1980)
 * The Incredible Hulk vol. 3 #94–95 (2006)
 * Marvel Comics Presents (Hulk) #38, (Daredevil) #81 (1989–1991)
 * Marvel Westerns: Strange Westerns Starring the Black Rider #1 (2006)
 * Marvel Fanfare (Doctor Strange) #5 (1982)
 * Silver Surfer vol. 3 #1–10, 12, 21 (1987–1989)
 * Spider-Man #27–28 (1992)
 * What If vol. 2 #38 (Thor) (1992)

Books and compilations

 * Batman: Dark Detective collects Batman: Dark Detective #1–6, April 2006, DC Comics, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1401208981
 * Batman: Strange Apparitions includes Detective Comics #471–476 and #478–479, December 1999, DC Comics, 176 pages, ISBN 978-1563895005
 * Coyote Volume 1 collects Eclipse Magazine #2–8 and Scorpio Rose #1–2, September 2005, Image Comics, 128 pages, ISBN 978-1582405193
 * Legends of the Dark Knight - Marshall Rogers collects Detective Comics #468, #471–479 and #481, DC Special Series #15, Secret Origins #6, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #132–136 and Batman: Dark Detective #1–6, November 2011, DC Comics, 496 pages, ISBN 978-1401232276
 * Shadow Of The Batman miniseries #1–5 (covers) (1985–1986), DC Comics
 * Daughters Of The Dragon Special #1 (2005), Marvel Comics
 * Silver Surfer Epic Collection #3: Freedom collects Silver Surfer #1–10 and #12, Marvel Comics

Portfolios

 * Strange (1979), Schanes & Schanes, six plates, 1200 signed and numbered
 * The Batman - Portfolio #1 (1981), S.Q. Productions Inc, five plates, s/n 1000
 * F.O.O.G. (Friends Of Old Gerber) (1982), one plate (Cap'N Quick & A Foozle)
 * Heroines (1979), one plate (Pulp Heroine)
 * Heroes, Heavies & Heroines (1981), one plate (Nightcrawler)

Comic strips

 * In 1989, he was the first artist to work on the new Batman newspaper comic strip. Rogers drew the strip from its launch on November 6, 1989, until the conclusion of its first storyline on January 21, 1990. The entirety of Rogers work on the strip was reprinted in Comics Revue #41–43.

title: Marshall Rogers


text:
Thunderbirds Are Now!

Thunderbirds are Now! were an American, Livonia, Michigan-based post-punk revival band, whose sound used a mix of traditional post-punk, new wave and noise rock. The band was heavily influenced by 1980s new wave and other post-punk revival acts like Les Savy Fav. They were signed to French Kiss Records, with an additional two releases on Action Driver Records and an EP on Acutest Records.

The band's name is based on the popular British television program Thunderbirds, known for its use of marionettes.

They became inactive in 2009, but reunited for a one-off show in Detroit in 2013.

In 2017, they reunited once again and released two new songs.

Other projects
During and since Thunderbirds Are Now!, Ryan Allen has been involved in numerous projects, including Friendly Foes (2008-2010), Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms (2011–present), and Destroy This Place (2013–present). Before Thunderbirds Are Now!, he was a drummer in Red Shirt Brigade.

Scott Allen plays in Livonia-based band Big Mess (2011–Present), while Matt Rickle and Julian Wettlin continue to be active in Detroit-based Javelins (2004–present).

Albums

 * Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (2003)
 * Justamustache (2005)
 * Make History (2006)

EPs

 * Thunderbirds Are Now! (2002)
 * Another One Hypnotized By... (2003)
 * Necks EP (2005)
 * Outsiders / Operate (2017)

Singles

 * "Eat This City" (2005)
 * "From Skulls" (2005)
 * "We Win (Ha Ha)" (2006)

title: Thunderbirds Are Now!


text:
ASEC Mimosas

ASEC Mimosas (short for Association Sportive des Employés de Commerce Mimosas, lit. 'Mimosas Commerce Employees' Sporting Association') is an Ivorian professional football club based in Abidjan. The club is also known as ASEC Abidjan, especially in international club competitions. Founded in 1948, they are the most successful side in Ivorian football, having won the Ivorian Premier Division 29 times and the 1998 CAF Champions League. In addition, ASEC's youth academy, known as Académie MimoSifcom, has produced a number of famous players predominantly based in top foreign leagues, including Bonaventure Kalou, Didier Zokora, Emmanuel Eboué, Bakari Koné, Gervinho, Salomon Kalou, Romaric, Boubacar Barry, Didier Ya Konan, Kolo Touré, Yaya Touré and Odilon Kossounou, all of whom have played internationally.

History
ASEC Mimosas was founded on 29 April 1948 by a group of businessmen from Western Africa, Lebanon and France. The club originates from a place called Sol-béni (French for Holy Ground) in Abidjan-M'pouto, which today is the name of their training complex. In the following years, ASEC competed in the Championship of Abidjan together with their eternal rival Africa Sports, with their first professional coach being Frenchman Guy Fabre in 1954. Fabre also shaped the club's philosophy of que les enfants s'amusent... en jouant au football (may the children have fun... by playing football).

After Independence in 1960, ASEC won its first title in the newly found Premier Division in 1963. In the early 1970s, ASEC rose to power by winning the league title 5 out of 6 possible times from 1970 to 1975. This was the era of players as Laurent Pokou and Eustache Manglé. In the next years, it was Africa Sports who dominated the league, with ASEC winning only once in 1980.

On 19 November 1989, advocate Roger Ouégnin was elected as club president. In his wish to professionalize the club, he introduced Philippe Troussier as coach from 1989 until 1992. This was the time for ASEC to return to old strength, winning the championship six consecutive times between 1990 and 1995. ASEC also provided the backbone of the national team that won the 1992 African Cup of Nations, including key members of the side such as Ben Badi, Donald-Olivier Sié and Basile Aka Kouamé. After having qualified for the semi-finals already five times before, ASEC finally won the CAF Champions League in 1998. For some players, this was the chance to sign for a European club, for example team captain Tchiressoua Guel, who joined Olympique de Marseille afterwards. A few years later, ASEC beat their own record by winning the league seven consecutive times between 2000 and 2006.

In 1993, former French national player Jean-Marc Guillou joined the club staff as director, manager and financier. Together with chairman Roger Ouégnin, he founded the Académie MimoSifcom at Sol Béni. In the following weeks, they started to scout amongst thousands of young kids to form the first promotions to receive coaching and education. In 1999, following ASECs success in the 1998 Champions League, ASEC faced Espérance Sportive de Tunis in the CAF Super Cup. But most of the old players were aged, had left the club or at least wanted to. So Guillou and Ouégnin decided to replace the old squad with the first products of the academy, most of them only aged around 17/18 years. The owners protested against this measure and Espérance's president Slim Chiboub called it a "scandal to be playing against children". However, the young ASEC squad surprisingly beat their opponents by 3 to 1 goals and brought in the second big international title for their club. Amongst others, Boubacar 'Copa' Barry, Kolo Touré, Didier Zokora, Gilles Yapi Yapo, Siaka Tiéné, Abdoulaye Djire, Venance Zézé, and Aruna Dindane were part of that squad.

When Guillou became manager of Belgian side K.S.K. Beveren in 2001, many of the academy's players joined him. As a result, the Belgian team consisted mainly out of Ivorian players for several years. These could use Beveren as a chance to show their talent to top European clubs. Players as Yaya Touré, Arthur Boka, Emmanuel Eboué, Gervinho, Romaric and Copa all had their time in Beveren. This lasted until 2006, when Guillou and Beveren broke up with ASEC Mimosas. ASEC then linked up with Charlton Athletic.

Satellite clubs
The following clubs are affiliated with ASEC:
 * 🏴 Charlton Athletic
 * 🇬🇭 West African Football Academy

Académie MimoSifcom
ASECs youth academy has been described as the crown jewel of African football. The academy started by Roger Ouégnin and Jean-Marc Guillou in 1993 at ASEC's training complex has since produced many international stars. The student-athletes are given an education, for which they take classes in math, history, geography, physics, French, English, and Spanish. The students live in dorms during the week and have two training sessions a day. They play matches on Saturday and get health care and tutoring.

Club life
The club's colours are yellow and black; the badge displays a Mimosa. Together with their biggest rival Africa Sports National, they contest the most important ivorian football derby. These two are also the only clubs allowed to play their home games in Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny.

ASEC has, after own declarations, more than 8,000,000 fans in Ivory Coast and 15,000,000 in the whole region. The fans are called the Actionnaires. They are organised in the CNACO (Comité National d`Action et de Coordination, = National Committee for Action and Coordination), which has 40,000 members and consists out of 350 commissions.

Records
ASEC holds the world record for unbeaten league games, racking up 108 league and domestic cup games without loss between 1989 and 1994 before they were eventually beaten by SO Armee; four more than the unbeaten run of Steaua București in the late 1980s.

Domestic

 * Côte d'Ivoire Premier Division: 29
 * 1963, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023

 * Côte d'Ivoire Cup: 22
 * 1957, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1983, 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2023

 * Félix Houphouët-Boigny Cup: 16
 * 1975, 1980, 1983, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2017.

International

 * CAF Champions League: 1
 * 1998

 * CAF Super Cup: 1
 * 1999

 * West African Club Championship (UFOA Cup): 1
 * 1990

 * Peace Cup: 1
 * 2001

Performance in CAF competitions

 * CAF Champions League: 15 appearances

 * 1998 – Winners
 * 1999 – Group stage/Semi-finals
 * 2001 – Group stage (Top 8)
 * 2002 – Semi-finals
 * 2003 – Group stage (Top 8)

 * 2004 – First round
 * 2005 – Group stage (Top 8)
 * 2006 – Semi-finals
 * 2007 – Group stage (Top 8)
 * 2008 – Group stage (Top 8)

 * 2009 – Second round
 * 2010 – First round
 * 2011 – Second round
 * 2018 – First round
 * 2018-2019 – Group stage (Top 16)

 * African Cup of Champions Clubs: 12 appearances

 * 1964 – Preliminary round
 * 1971 – Semi-finals
 * 1973 – Second round
 * 1974 – Quarter-finals

 * 1975 – Quarter-finals
 * 1976 – Semi-finals
 * 1981 – Quarter-finals
 * 1991 – Quarter-finals

 * 1992 – Semi-finals
 * 1993 – Semi-finals
 * 1995 – Finalist
 * 1996 – Second round

 * CAF Confederation Cup: 9 appearances

 * 2009 – Second round of 16
 * 2011 – Group stage (Top 8)
 * 2012 – Second round
 * 2013 – Second round
 * 2014 – Group stage (Top 8)

 * 2015 – Second round of 16
 * 2017 – Second round of 16
 * 2018 – Group stage (Top 16)
 * 2021-2022 – Group stage (Top 16)
 * 2022-2023 – Semi-finals

 * CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 4 appearances
 * 1983 – Semi-finals
 * 1984 – Quarter-finals
 * 1987 – Second round
 * 2000 – First round

title: ASEC Mimosas


text:
Swindon Wildcats

The Swindon Wildcats are a professional ice hockey team based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. They play in the National Ice Hockey League (NIHL). Since their inception, the Wildcats have played their home games at the 1600-capacity Link Centre in West Swindon. The club was founded in 1986 as the Swindon Wildcats, shortly after the opening of the Link Centre.

The Wildcats were members of the English Premier Ice Hockey League (EPIHL) from 1997 to 2017. Due to the instability of the EPIHL following the culmination of the 2016–17 season, the Swindon Wildcats announced their intention to join the National League.

In their first season competing in the National League, the Wildcats won both the Autumn Cup and National Cup competitions, securing the club's first silverware since the 2000–01 season. The following year the Wildcats won the regular season, becoming the 2018/2019 champions.

Logo
The Wildcats' logo is an animated wildcat in the team colours of red and white.

Jerseys
The jerseys currently worn by the Swindon Wildcats are in red and white, the colours sported by the team since the 2008–2009 relaunch. They have worn the same jerseys (with a few small variations) since the 2008–2009 season. For the 2019/20 campaign, the Wildcats will have an alternate jersey that is predominantly black with red motifs.

The first Wildcats colours were black, yellow, orange and white. Blue and white were worn in 2006 and 2007.

Mascot
The official mascot for the Swindon Wildcats is an anthropomorphized wildcat by the name of Scratch. Scratch took over from his cousin Willie Wildcats during the 2021/22 Season. Willie Wildcat had been the mascot for the 'Cats since their return to the Wildcats name in 2004, after three seasons as the Lynx. However, he retired after a successful career at the Better Link Centre.

Club roster 2022–23
(*) Denotes a Non-British Trained player (Import)

Retired numbers
6 🏴 Lee Brathwaite, D, 1992–1997, 1998–2009

7 🇨🇦 Bryan Larkin, D, 1991–2001

9 🇨🇦 Gary Dickie, F, 1993–1997

10 🏴 Steve Nell, F, 1986–1988, 1990–1996, 1997–1998, General Manager 2004–2021 (Now Managing Director)

14 🇨🇦 Daryl Lipsey, F, 1986–1995

15 🇨🇦 Scott Koberinski, F, 1989–1993

17 🏴 Ian Richards, F, 1987–1999

title: Swindon Wildcats


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ZIP Codes in New Jersey

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent 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 Keep. Tito xd (?!?) 23:33, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

List of ZIP Codes in New Jersey
This list contains nothing beyond the ZIP codes for towns in New Jersey. We already have an article on the ZIP code, and Wikipiedia is not a repository for original data or a mirror for the United States Postal Service. Pilatus 16:28, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, helps users find articles. Kappa 17:45, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Ryan Norton T 18:42, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator's comments. There are search engines for this (and who wants to track new zips that the post office may issue?) Jtmichcock 23:10, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or move to Wikisource Useful non-copyrightable information.  --ChrisRuvolo (t) 00:33, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - there is a large enough base of these articles that it seems there is precedent for them being here. I also agree with Kappa that it is a nontrivial way of indexing geographic articles. ESkog 01:01, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per ESkog. --Apyule 05:04, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, there's been a lot of trivial lists on AfD lately, but this one could be useful. -- Kjkolb 08:06, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm inclined to agree with above. As long as we keep it to states this could be useful. Ryan Norton T 08:47, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * There are also four of five such lists sorted by first two digits. What's the feeling on those? Pilatus 14:10, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --Rogerd 12:13, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vivian Darkbloom 21:44, 10 October 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.


text:
Emilio Eduardo Massera

Emilio Eduardo Massera (19 October 1925 – 8 November 2010) was an Argentine Naval military officer and a leading participant in the Argentine coup d'état of 1976. In 1981, he was found to be a member of P2 (also known as Propaganda Due), a clandestine Masonic lodge involved in Italy's strategy of tension. Many considered Massera to have masterminded the junta's Dirty War against political opponents, which resulted in over 30,000 deaths and disappearances.

Biography
Emilio Massera was born in Paraná, Entre Ríos, to Paula Padula and Emilio Massera, grandson of immigrants from Switzerland. Massera entered Argentina's Naval Military School in 1942, obtaining his commission as a midshipman in 1946. In June 1955, as a Frigate Captain and one of the aids to the Minister or the Navy, he may have been involved in the bombing of Plaza de Mayo. After the Revolución Libertadora in 1955, Massera entered the Naval Information Service. During his career he occupied different positions within the Navy, including command of the sail training ship ARA Libertad and command of the Sea Fleet in 1973. On December 6th, 1973, Massera was designated General Commander of the Argentine Navy by Decree 552, signed by President Perón and Minister Angel F. Robledo (published on the Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina on December 13th), and, on August 23rd, 1974 he was promoted to full Admiral by Decree Nr. 612, signed by President María Estela Martínez de Perón and Minister José López Rega.. On June 15th, 1974, he, along with the commanders of the Army and the Air Force, accompanied then-Vice President Isabel Perón to Italy and Spain, where she met with Francisco Franco.

Between 1976 and 1978 Admiral Massera was part, together with Jorge Rafael Videla and Orlando Ramón Agosti, of the military junta that deposed President Isabel Perón and ruled Argentina de facto during the National Reorganization Process. In September 1978 Massera stepped down from the office of Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and from his seat in the Military Junta. In 1981 he travelled to Bucharest, Romania.

After the end of the dictatorship in 1983, he was tried for human rights violations and sentenced to life imprisonment and the loss of his military grade. However, on 29 December 1990, he was pardoned by then-President Carlos Menem. Massera was free until 1998 when he was imprisoned again pending an investigation of several instances of kidnapping and suppression of the identity of minors during his term, as well as orders of torture, execution, confinement in illegal detention centers, and drowning of prisoners.

He also explained the delivery of diplomatic passports to Licio Gelli, head of Propaganda Due, by stating that Gelli had "supported [us] in the struggle against subversion and the management of the image of Argentina abroad".

In 2004 he suffered a cerebrovascular accident caused by a burst aneurysm, and he was admitted in the Military Hospital of Buenos Aires. As a result of the stroke, Eduardo Massera was declared legally irresponsible because of insanity on 17 March 2005, and the cases against him were suspended.

Massera died on 8 November 2010 of a hemorrhagic stroke in the Hospital Naval of Buenos Aires. The funeral was kept in secrecy to avoid escraches, and was attended by only 10 people, without any representation of the government or the armed forces.

title: Emilio Eduardo Massera


text:
Talk:Now TV (Hong Kong)

Untitled
Where does the information published on "the Standard" comes from?

If the data provided by the Interim Reports 2005 of PCCW Limited and that contained on "the Standard", I firmly prefer relying on the former in our passage, as it is the legal duty of public listed companies to render genuine information in their Interim and Annual Reports.

NOW Broadband TV Group Members

 * Your introduction sorely needs editing.
 * Elaborate the channels section
 * Add links
 * Your external links should be hidden for better presentation
 * See more comments at WebCT discussion section 0101TA 17:13, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Hong Kong Telecom's Interactive TV
I recall the Hong Kong Telecom, PCCW's predecessor, launched "Interactive TV" like ten years ago. Is there any information on that? Thanks. — Instantnood 14:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

New Channels
Just wondering where is the source for all these upcoming channels (eg. Voice of America, A1, MTV Mandarin, etc.). I don't see it on either the Now-TV.com site or the PCCW website. I would appreciate if somebody can cite the source of such information. Thanks. --theorb 04:23, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

A lot of the new channel information seems to be false. 816 which is supposed to be effective on July 22, is still not available. I would suggest that whoever adds those upcoming channels either 1) cite sources; or 2) remove them. --theorb 05:53, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Given that all the "anticipated" channels are not yet available, and there are no sources cited, at a minimum, I believe that all the channels that are not yet available should be in the Future Plans sections. Can we have a vote on this? --theorb 14:59, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

User(s) 202.78.97.xxx, 203.115.128.xxx etc.
Why you (guys) still adding lots of unconfirmed and unavailable channels? Why you (guys) keep postponing the debut date of those channels on now TV? What I know is now TV is not gonna carry lots of those channels in this August. If you (guys) do it again with no sources or press releases cited, I will suggest executing a semi-protection on this article or even worse, disallowing your (you guys) IPs to access the editing page of this article. NEO-PAELEO 07:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Looks like they started vandalizing the page again. Can an administrator execute protection to this article again? --theorb 04:54, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Unidentified users are still adding unconfirmed channels on a daily basis. I have already reverted their changes manually several times already (since I have no administrator rights). Can somebody excecute protection on this article?? --theorb 07:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I will give whoever added TVB8 to the channel lineup til September 8. I haven't seen any announcement of new channels by Now-TV. I will remove that once the availability date has passed. I doubt that it's legitimate information anyway. --theorb 08:01, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

TVB8 is already launched on now TV channel 815 and TVB pay vision channel 15, please check now TV and TVB pay vision's website again. Star2720 03:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion: Participate in the deletion discussion at the. —Community Tech bot (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * PCCW.svg

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion: Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 17:07, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Now TV logo.svg

title: Talk:Now TV (Hong Kong)


text:
User talk:Rainman420

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * Tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

Also, I moved your comment on Articles_for_deletion/Smurf_Communism to the bottom; Wikipedia custom is that on talk and AfD pages, new comments go to the bottom. Cheers! :) --Ashenai (talk) 16:31, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:Rainman420


text: User talk:69.166.98.186

title: User talk:69.166.98.186


text:
Civil Aeronautics Administration

Civil Aeronautics Administration may refer to:
 * Civil Aeronautics Administration (Taiwan) - a division of Ministry of Transportation and Communication, Executive Yuan, Republic of China
 * Civil Aeronautics Administration (United States) - established in 1940 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

title: Civil Aeronautics Administration


text:
Nathaniel Head

Nathaniel Head (May 20, 1828 – November 12, 1883), also known as Natt Head, was an American construction material supplier and Republican politician from Hooksett, New Hampshire. He served as a member of the House of Representatives, adjutant general of the New Hampshire Militia, state senator, and the 45th governor of New Hampshire.

Biography
Nathaniel Head was born in Hooksett, New Hampshire, on May 20, 1828. He was educated at Pembroke Academy, and became active in his family's farming, brick making and lumber businesses. He later established a successful railroad construction company, and became active in banking and insurance.

A Republican, Head served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1861 and 1862. Having been active in the militia as a musician and chief of the governor's staff during the Civil War, he was appointed adjutant general in 1864 and served until 1870.

In 1874, Head ran for the New Hampshire State Senate from the 2nd District, and narrowly placed second to Democrat James Priest. However, Priest had not won an apparent majority, which was required for election to the State Senate under the state constitution. Had no candidate won a majority, the election would have been decided by the whole General Court, which was narrowly controlled by Republicans, likely guaranteeing that Head would be selected. However, Governor James A. Weston and the Democratic majority on the Executive Council rejected all votes cast for Head on the grounds that they "did not contain the full Christian name of the candidate voted for," which made Priest the winner. Priest, along with John Proctor, another Democratic State Senator who was similarly selected, were both seated by the State Senate. The Democratic majority in the Senate ratified the Governor's actions and rejected, on party lines, a challenge to Priest's and Proctor's qualifications. The Republican majority in the State House sought an advisory opinion from the state supreme court, which ultimately concluded that the action of the State Senate was final and unreviewable.

Head was subsequently elected to the State Senate in 1876 and 1877 and served as the President Pro Tempore in his second term.

In 1878, Head was elected governor and served as the state's first governor elected to a two-year term. During his governorship construction on the state prison begun under his predecessors was completed and the facility became operational. The state also enacted child labor laws and passed railroad safety measures, including one requiring a telegraph in all railroad stations to facilitate emergency communications.

After leaving office Head returned to his business interests. He died in Hooksett on November 12, 1883, at the age of fifty-five, and was buried at Head Cemetery in Hooksett.

title: Nathaniel Head


text:
The Way of All Flesh (disambiguation)

The Way of All Flesh is a 1903 novel by Samuel Butler.

The Way of All Flesh may also refer to:

 * The Way of All Flesh (1927 film), a lost film
 * The Way of All Flesh (1940 film), a remake of the 1927 film
 * The Way of All Flesh, 1997 documentary by Adam Curtis
 * "The Way of All Flesh" (Superman: The Animated Series), a 1996 episode of Superman: The Animated Series
 * The Way of All Flesh (album), a 2008 album by Gojira

title: The Way of All Flesh (disambiguation)


text:
Telford Tigers

The Telford Tigers are a National Ice Hockey League (NIHL) ice hockey team that formed in 1985. After initially closing in 1999, a new team, under the name 'Telford Wild Foxes', was formed in 2001; and re-adopted the original name in 2005.

The team is currently owned by Givarna Ltd. In November 2016, faced with mounting debts, the team began the process of entering creditors voluntary liquidation. A creditors' meeting, which would have decided the fate of the club, was scheduled for 30 November 2016, but on 25 November a consortium of local businesses intervened and acquired the club's assets, securing its future for the remainder of the season.

1985–1988: Foundation and early years
After the Telford Ice Rink opened in October 1984, several challenge games involving Altrincham Aces, Blackpool Seagulls, Nottingham Panthers and Solihull Barons were staged to see if a Telford team would be sustainable.

Telford Tigers IH Club Ltd. was formed for season 1985–86 by Central TV commentator Gary Newbon with entertainer David Ismay as chairman and Canadian defenceman Chuck Taylor as player coach. Newbon and Taylor had previously been involved with the Barons, as had squad members Mark Budz, Gordie Patterson, Alan Gould, Paul O'Higgin and Dave Welch. Goalie John Wolfe and Andy Steel signed for the new club from Grimsby.

The club had been granted permission by the BIHA to join the First Division of the British Hockey League, and finished third in their inaugural season, with near sell out crowds seeing Budz score 134 points and Taylor make the All Star Team.

In 1986–87, Tigers new import Dean Vogelgesang scored 196 points, and Budz made the All Star team with 200 points. Tigers did not lose a single home game, but finished fourth in the league due to a nine-point penalty inflicted on them for icing an ineligible player.

For 87–88, the First Division was split into north–south conferences. Tigers won the Southern conference by two points, and beat Northern Conference champions Cleveland Bombers 21–14 on aggregate to take the title. They played Peterborough Pirates, who had finished bottom of the Premier Division, in a Promotion Playoff. After winning the first leg 14–12, they crumbled in the second. They led 6–1 after two periods but Pirates managed to score eight unanswered goals in the third to stay up by a single goal aggregate scoreline. Imports Kevin Conway and Tim Salmon were voted onto the All Star Team, and Chuck Taylor was named Coach of the Year.

1989–1990: Financial problems
The next season was not so good for Telford. Gerald Waslen made the All Star Team, but the team struggled both on and off the ice. The team was put into liquidation in the summer.

1991–1994: New ownership
A new company, Telford Tigers Ice Hockey Club (1990) reformed the team for next season. A year later, former NHLer Jere Gillis took over the coaching role from Taylor (who carried on as a managing director). By now, the junior programme was starting to pay dividends, with local youngsters Geoff Lane, Darren Broome, Norman Pinnington and Mark Hazlehurst all pulling on Tigers jerseys in the mid 1980s and early 1990s.

For the 1993–94 season Kevin Murphy was appointed head coach and introduced a three line system of forwards. It proved successful as Tigers beat Blackburn Hawks in a bad tempered semi-final and Medway Bears 11–7 on aggregate in the final of the Autumn Trophy and finished runners up in the league. However, later that month the club was issued with an order to fold owing £30,000 in unpaid VAT. A new club was formed, Taylor moved to Nottingham and the team again finished second in the league in 1994–95. John Wolfe was given All Star honours and the Telford-born Plant brothers, Russ and Ricky, were featuring on a regular basis.

1995–1999: Financial problems
Claude Dumas, from Quebec, was signed from Cardiff in 1995, and was a catalyst for the Tigers in the late 1990s. He was an all star in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 and was named player of the year in 1997–98. During this period he scored 443 goals and notched up 316 assists.

In December 1996, Tigers again ran into money troubles, but were saved by Ken Crickmore, who listed them on the OFEX stock market.

In 1997 John Lawless, who had achieved fame with Cardiff Devils and Manchester Storm, was announced as head coach. Under "JL", Telford finished as runners up in the British National League and lifted the Upper Deck Christmas Cup in 1997 with a 10–7 aggregate victory over Guildford Flames. They reached the Benson and Hedges Plate Final in 1998, but were beaten by Guildford 4–3 at Sheffield.

It wasn't to last, as Director Roy Williams resigned before Telford Tigers Ice Hockey plc went bankrupt, eventually being wound up in the High Court in Spring 1999 owing money to both Lawless and his players.

1999–2000: Timberwolves
In Summer 1999, Telford Timberwolves were launched, but folded after losing 6 B&H Cup games, and playing in front of gates of only 500, half the size of Tigers' in their heyday.

2001–2004: Wildfoxes
In 2001, the Wildfoxes competed in the amateur English National League. In 2003 they joined the EPL. Wildfoxes nurtured several promising youngsters including Jared Owen, Daniel Mackriel, Adam Brittle and Tom Carlon. Dumas returned as player coach in 2003.

2005–2008: Tigers
The club returned to the name Telford Tigers for the 2005–06 season. In 2005–06, Tigers finished tenth out of thirteen teams in the EPL and had a good cup run, missing out on the semi-finals by 2 points in the preliminary group. Dumas was third in league scoring, and Slovakian Karol Jets seventh. Netminder Barry Hollyhead and British forwards Tom Carlon, Gareth Owen and Joe Miller all stood out.

2006–07 was a disappointment compared to the previous season. Hollyhead joined playoff champions Milton Keynes Lightning, Jets and his fellow Slovakian Tomas Janak moved to Solihull Barons, Miller joined Elite League team Manchester Phoenix and Carlon and Owen moved to Coventry Blaze. Marc Lovell joined from the Edinburgh Capitals, Juraj Huska and goalie Peter Betinec moved from Slovakian teams (although the latter was released midway through the season to be replaced by Milan Kostolny), and Dumas' former Coventry teammate Matthias Soderstrom (Swedish) joined from the Italian Serie B. Daniel Mackriel moved to Slough Jets midway through the season. Telford finished second bottom in the league, behind local rivals Solihull. To make matters worse, Solihull dropped down to the ENL at the end of the season, thus eliminating the West Midlands Derby from the fixture list.

For 2007–08 Miller, Owen, Mackriel, and Jets returned; D-men Tom Parker and Jake Armstrong joined from Solihull, and Dean Tonks signed from Peterborough Phantoms. However, Miller was unsettled and joined Peterborough in December. After a 9–6 loss away at Swindon Wildcats in January it now looks unlikely that Tigers will qualify for the end of season playoffs.

During the pre season it had been announced that the Telford Tigers had secured a new title sponsor, in the shape of Cannock-based company Eurologix. However, just a few weeks later, it was announced that Eurologix had pulled out of the deal, leaving the Tigers with a large hole in its finances. This was made all the more difficult as the club has begun to recruit players, and negotiate contracts based on the Eurologix money being part of the cash flow.

The GM Telford Tigers faced the MK Lightning for a back to back challenge before a trip to Coventry to face Elite champions Coventry Blaze in a fund raising game arranged following the sponsorship troubles. The first game with MK was away, and resulted in an 8–2 defeat. The return game the following night saw marked improvements from the Tigers as the new team started to gel. MK won the game by 2 goals to 0. The fund raiser at Coventry again saw the Tigers improve, and eventually lost 3–2.

2009–2010: Financial problems
Telford Tigers did not ice during this season, mainly due to financial difficulties and missing a deadline for registration into the English Premier Ice Hockey League.

2010–2012: The Fans' Trust
In February 2010, it was announced that a 'Fans Trust' had been formed, and that it was intending to ice a Telford Tigers team in the EPL once more. In April 2010, it was confirmed that the teams application to the EPL had been accepted.

2013–2015: New ownership
In October 2013, the BBC reported that the CEO of Red Touch Media, Wayne Scholes had dissolved the 'Fans Trust' and taken over the team under a new company called Red Hockey Ltd. Scholes was the stick-boy for the team during the mid-1980s.

The Tigers won the EPL title on March 1, 2015 during their game against the Peterborough Phantoms.

2016–2017: More Financial problems
Despite ongoing financial problems, the Tigers would have success on the ice. With captain Jason Silverthorn scoring 41 goals and talisman Doug Clarkson scoring 50 goals for Telford they would go on a winning streak for 15 games to win the English Premier Ice Hockey League and make it to the playoff finals losing narrowly to Milton Keynes Lightning.

2017–2019: Rebuilding
During the offseason the league the Tigers had just won (the EPL) folded. This meant the Tigers had to start from scratch. The core leaders of the team moved to the Tigers NIHL North 1 side. The Tigers managed to hold on to coach and general manager Tom Watkins as well as the captain no22 Jason Silverthorn. After the financial problems of the season before this meant that Tigers started from a weakened financial position which leads to a smaller Roster and the Coach icing for part of the season, he played 15 games scoring 5 goals. Telford Tigers would go on to come 3rd in the NIHL North 1 conference, a semi-final loss in the NIHL National Cup and lost all games in the NIHL Autumn Cup. The Tigers' best result was to get to the finals of the playoffs in the Coventry Skydome finally losing to Basingstoke Bison 4–0 in the final.

The 2018/19 season saw another small roster but with the notable addition of fan-favorite Doug Clarkson who would go on to score 52 goals in only 27 games before returning to Canada. Unfortunately, the Tigers would come up short this season losing out to Sheffield Steeldogs in the final of the North Cup as well as Sheffield knocking out the Tigers in the semifinal of the postseason. The Tigers would come 3rd in the league but failed to record a win in the Autumn Cup.

2019–2020: Coronavirus Season
After two seasons of building from the ground up Telford would have one of the best seasons in their history. In the offseason, a new division of the NIHL was created above NIHL 1 North and 1 South called the National League. This new league was similar to the old EPL having many of the same teams in it. Telford proceeded to dominate the league despite numerous injuries they went on to win the league with 2 rounds to spare. The coronavirus outbreak had started to grip the UK with the elite league cancelling all games that weekend but Telford needed one more win to see them clinch the title and credit to the Raiders IHC for making the trip to Telford to play the game despite tension and opposition around the league. On top of this, Telford went on to win the NIHL Cup at home against Peterborough Phantoms, as well as surviving a semifinal scare against Swindon Wildcats. Telford were led by the league's top netminder Brad Day as well as a man of the match performance by Brandon Whistle who scored a hattrick in the second leg of the final, winning 14–7 on aggregate over the two legs. Telford would have gone into the playoffs as favorites after their two titles, but because of the virus outbreak the league was ended early and it was decided the final 4 event would be moved to preseason of the 2020–2021 season.

2020-2021: The Online Season
Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic the Tigers were unable to ice. They announced signings of several players over 2020, Tom Watkins as Head Coach and General Manager, Barry Hollyhead and Karl Creamer as Assistant Coaches, Forward Scott McKenzie as a player & second team coach, Forward Brandon Whistle, Forward & Captain Jason Silverthorn, Defenceman Corey Goodison, Forward Jack Watkins, Net minder Brad Day and finally Defenceman Andy McKinney. Although the signings were announced no hockey materialised but the Tigers were approved as an EIHA Elite category under the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) guidelines. This would means they would be government approved to play hockey if the opportunity arose.

On 2 February 2021 the Tigers announced they would be partaking in an online streaming series. It was called the NIHL Spring Cup and would be made of 5 NIHL National Division teams (Telford Tigers, Sheffield Steeldogs, Bees IHC, Swindon Wildcats & Raiders IHC) and would be all streamed online with no fans in attendance. The Telford Tigers proceed to announce an expanded roster with a few Elite League (EIHL) players who were not playing due to that league's suspension, most notably defenceman David Clements and forwards Ross Venus and Robert Lachowicz.

Club roster 2022-23
(*) Denotes a Non-British Trained player (Import)

Retired numbers

 * 1) 9 Claude Dumas
 * 2) 19 Daniel MacKriel

Telford Tigers and The NHL
Jere Gillis played with the Tigers as well as being head coach from 1990-1992. He had previously played for the Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers, Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers.

title: Telford Tigers


text:
Gateways club

The Gateways club was a noted lesbian nightclub located at 239 King's Road on the corner of Bramerton Street, Chelsea, London, England. It was the longest-surviving such club in the world, open by 1931 and legally becoming a members club in 1936. In 1967 it became for women only. It closed on Saturday 21 September 1985 after a period of only opening for a few hours each weekend.

The final non-public night was the following Monday, as the Kenric lesbian group had booked the venue for a social event, and longstanding members removed the nameplate from the front door as a souvenir, amongst other fixtures and fittings.

Early history
Ted Ware (1898–1979) took over the club in 1943 after allegedly winning it in a poker game. Ted was a well travelled man who, unusually for the time, had raised his son from his second marriage on his own. He allowed the club to become a meeting place for the Chelsea Arts Club and was welcoming to the wide variety of people who lived in the area. The club had many gay and lesbian regulars, and was also frequented by black Caribbean people, like Chester Harriott, who played jazz piano there, and by members of other minority groups that were discriminated against elsewhere.

Ted married Gina Cerrato (1922–2001), a glamorous actress, in July 1953 when he was 55 and she was 31 years old. Gina had been born in Italy in 1922, but had grown up in Cardiff. She came to London to pursue her acting career and appeared in several films, before meeting Ted in The Gateways in 1947. She and Ted had one daughter together, before Gina gradually took over running the club during the late 1950s.

Smithy (1933–1993) first arrived at the Gateways in 1959 and eventually went on to co-manage the club with Gina. She was originally from California and as a member of the American Air Force, was posted to a base in Ruislip, London. She decided that she wanted to stay in London with Gina and Ted and had an arranged marriage in 1962, which enabled her to stay in the United Kingdom.

Gateways lesbian life
"The Gates" was one of the few places in the UK where lesbians could meet openly during the 40s, 50s and 60s. Lesbians and bisexuals flocked to the Gateways, as did curious heterosexuals, and by 1967 Gina made the club women-only. For many women, a visit to the Gateways was the first introduction to lesbian life.

The club was described as having a green door with a steep staircase leading down to a windowless cellar bar that was only 35 ft x 18 ft. The walls had been painted by local artists and there was a constant smoky atmosphere. The layout included a bar that was located at one end of the room, with the toilets and a cloakroom at the other.

During the mid 1960s, many lesbians in the club stopped emulating male and female roles. However, the club was still a haven for butch/femme lesbian couples during the era of hardline separatist feminism of the late 1970s and first half of the 1980s. The bar owners worked hard to keep lesbian politics out of the bar and Gina asked them to take their debates elsewhere.

In its heyday in the 1960s, it was popular with artists and celebrities such as Diana Dors and Dusty Springfield. At this point it was entirely run by Ted Ware's wife, Gina, with the help of Smithy. Maggi Hambling described the club as being 'All sweat and sway of so many people dancing in a small space, that was part of the excitement'. It was the electric atmosphere created by a lot of lusty women that made the club so special, not the surroundings.

During the 1970s, gay and lesbian people became more politically motivated. Members of the Gay Liberation Front protested outside the bar and encouraged women entering the club to 'Come out'. When they entered the club, Gina called the police and GLF members were arrested and charged with obstruction. Feminists did not like the club either, because it was not political enough. Political activists were tolerated at the Gateways as long as their politics were left at the door.

More gay and lesbian venues opened up in central London during the 1980s and the fashion was for large gay discos. The Gateways became very quiet during weekday evenings and was only busy on Fridays and Saturdays. The neighbourhood around Chelsea went very upmarket and, in 1985, the club lost its late licence due to complaints of loud music.

After opening only three nights a week for a while, the club was eventually closed in 1985. The last event was the Kenric event on Monday 23 September 1985.

Clubs and groups
In 1963 the Minorities Research Group, the first nationwide lesbian group in the United Kingdom, was started. Members were recruited from amongst the Gateways clientele and the group held meetings at the club.

The first Kenric group - now a nationwide organisation for lesbian and bisexual women - also used to meet regularly in the Gateways club on Monday nights, when the bar was otherwise closed.

Jackie Forster reported being able to distribute Sappho magazine and advertise Sappho's events in the Gateways.

In the media
The song "Green Door" was possibly inspired by the club.

The life of this large cellar club was central to the best-selling lesbian novel The Microcosm (1966) by Maureen Duffy. The Gateways was also the main focus of Duffy's chapter on 'Lesbian London' in New London Spy, a 1966 guide to alternative London, edited by Hunter Davies.

In 1967, when reform of the law on male homosexual acts was about to be passed by Parliament, the BBC aired two programmes called Man Alive: Consenting Adults. The second programme featured an interview with women at the Gateways club.

The club also appeared as a backdrop (including extended scenes filmed inside the club and featuring regular club-goers) in the 1968 film The Killing of Sister George starring Beryl Reid, Susannah York and Coral Browne, which was one of the earliest mainstream films to feature lesbianism. Filming in the club took place over seven days from the 9–16 June 1968.

Eighty Gateways members, including Maggi Hambling, Maureen Duffy, Pat Arrowsmith, and some who appeared in the film, including Archie and Susannah York, shared their memories and photos in From the Closet to the Screen: Women at the Gateways Club 1945-85, by Jill Gardiner. Reading this book inspired Amy Lamé to put on 'Duckie goes to the Gateways' in London Pride in 2013.

Maureen Chadwick's play The Speed Twins was set in an afterlife version of the Gateways, complete with such features as the juke box, and premiered at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith in 2013.

A version of the Gateways club featured in Call the Midwife Series 5 Episode 7 as a place visited by the character Patsy Mount and her girlfriend Delia Busby, first broadcast on BBC 1 on 28 February 2016.

The club features significantly in the novel 'Time of Obsessions' by John Roman Baker (Wilkinson House, 2017). The main protagonist Greg moves into a flat on Bramerton Street and becomes a regular at the club. There is also a significant lesbian character named Prue.

In June 2022 BBC Four broadcast Gateways Grind: London's Secret Lesbian Club, in which Sandi Toksvig interviewed former clients and those associated with the club.

title: Gateways club