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John Spargo

John Spargo (January 31, 1876 – August 17, 1966) was a British political writer who, later in life, became an expert in the history and crafts of Vermont. At first Spargo was active in the Socialist Party of America. A Methodist preacher, he tried to meld the Protestant Social Gospel with Marxist socialism in Marxian Socialism and Religion: A Study of the Relation of the Marxian Theories to the Fundamental Principles of Religion (1915). He also founded a settlement house in Yonkers, N.Y. Spargo moved steadily to the right after 1917 when he supported American intervention in World War I. With AFL leader Samuel Gompers he organized the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy in 1917. Spargo helped draft the Colby Note that formalised the Wilson administration's anti-communist policies. He strongly denounced the Bolshevik Revolution in Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy (1919). He opposed the foreign policy of the New Deal, especially its recognition of the USSR in 1933. He supported the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1930s and Senator Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s. He endorsed Barry Goldwater In the 1964 Elections.

Early years
Spargo was born on January 31, 1876, in the small village of Longdowns in the parish of Stithians, Cornwall, England. His parents were Thomas Spargo (1850–1920) and Jane Hocking Spargo (1851–1900), whose maiden name was also Spargo. As a young man, He trained as a stonecutter, and he later became a lay Methodist minister. He was attracted to the socialist doctrines of early English Marxist Henry Hyndman, particularly to his book England for All.

Spargo was a largely self-educated man, but he did in 1894-95 take two courses through the Oxford University Extension Program, including one by economist J. A. Hobson. Spargo went to work in 1895, moving with his alcoholic father to Barry Docks in South Wales, where he was employed as a stonemason. Within a year after his arrival at Barry Dock, Spargo had started the first local of Hyndman's Social Democratic Federation (SDF), was elected president of the Barry Trades and Labour Council, became an editor of the Barry Herald, and was elected a member of the National Executive Committee of the SDF.

As his biographer notes

"It was an amazing, meteoric progression for an uneducated stonemason from Western Cornwall that took place in these few years of Spargo's education in Marxism; by the end of his residence in Britain, the 25-year-old was recognized as one of the most promising and energetic Marxist agitators in the country. Through it all, he was guided, inspired, and sustained by the Social Democratic Federation's founder and leader, Henry Meyers Hyndman, the man whose England for All had converted him to Marxism and who for the rest of his life would remain Spargo's model, mentor, and friend."

Spargo's political ideas in this early period were an amalgam of Christian Socialism and Marxism, simultaneously seeking the brotherhood of man by following "the true principles of the man of Galillee," while embracing science and the belief in the rule of the working class as the motive force to create social change.

In January 1900, Spargo married Prudence Edwards, a clerk from Lancashire, England who shared her new husband's socialist politics. The couple had one son, named after Christian Socialist leader George D. Herron.

In 1900, Spargo participated in some of the preliminary meetings which brought together representatives of the SDF, the Independent Labour Party, the Fabian Society, and various trade unions and cooperative societies to form the Labour Parliamentary Representation Committee, a direct forerunner of the British Labour Party. This drive of the SDF to unite with various non-Marxist organizations brought about an immediate reaction from the party's hardline "impossibilist" left wing, who sought revolutionary transformation rather than incremental, piecemeal parliamentary reforms. The rise of the left caused Hyndman to temporarily leave the SDF's executive council and alienated Spargo to some extent from the party. Providentially, Spargo received at this time an invitation from the private lecture bureau to travel to America to spend a couple months traveling the country, speaking about socialism. And so the newlyweds sailed for America and ultimately a new life there.

Coming to America
John and Prudence Spargo arrived at the port of New York in February 1901. The promised lecture series proved to be vastly exaggerated and Spargo wound up standing in bread lines to get food and shoveling snow from the sidewalks of the city for $7.50 a week. Eventually a few socialist lectures did come and Spargo made the acquaintance of many leading radicals in the city, including Christian Socialist George D. Herron, Job Harriman, and Algernon Lee. Spargo cast his lot with the dissident (and newly independent wing of the Socialist Labor Party headed by Henry Slobodin and Morris Hillquit), teaching at an SLP education center in Brooklyn, and working as an assistant to the lawyer Hillquit.

Spargo also assumed the role of editor of an illustrated socialist monthly based in New York, The Comrade. The Spargos spent the next eight years living in a small apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, with Spargo spending much of his time traveling the country as a paid lecturer. When the New York SLP dissidents merged with the midwestern Social Democratic Party of America headed by Victor L. Berger and Eugene Debs to establish the Socialist Party of America (SPA), Spargo was a founding member — although he was not in attendance at the Indianapolis Convention which established the organization in the summer of 1901. With regard to his travels on behalf of the American socialist movement as a lecturer, Spargo's biographer notes

"It was well known that on many of his trips Spargo cavorted with a number of attractive ladies, and he quickly built a reputation not just as an effective socialist organizer but as a womanizer of some note... There was nothing unusual in this since the early-20th century intellectuals who crowded New York's socialist circles tended to embrace free love as an indispensable dimension of their newfound aesthetics. In Spargo's case, however, the sexual cavorting led to some tricky situations, and once he had to borrow some 200 dollars from Hillquit to pay off a blackmailer who knew too much of some compromising tryst."

Spargo continued as editor of The Comrade until April 1904. In May of that same year, he traveled to Chicago and attended the second convention of the Socialist Party as a delegate from New York. At the convention, Spargo was elected Chairman of the Resolutions Committee and he reported as such to the conclave. Among other topics, the committee passed resolutions attacking the payment of "exorbitant fees or salaries" of socialist speakers and lecturers and condemning "all propaganda organizations, not connected with the Socialist Party, doing Socialist propaganda" and declaring membership in any such organization to be "sufficient cause for expulsion" from the SPA.

Spargo also took to the floor of the convention in opposition to the establishment of a national party-owned newspaper, a demand put forward by delegates from the left-wing state organizations of the Pacific Coast but regarded as anathema by moderate Easterners who had fairly recently defected from the centralized Socialist Labor Party dominated by party editor Daniel DeLeon. Spargo declared

"I am opposed to a national party-owned organ because I am opposed to the heresy hunter all the time. (Applause.) I am opposed to a national party-owned organ because I will not trust the party integrity, I will not trust the party interests, I will not trust the party faith to the judgment of any one man, no matter how great he may be. (Applause.) If Editor Wayland, of the Appeal to Reason, makes a mistake, the Socialist Party stands firm, but if somebody who is declared to be for the time being the infallible literary pope of the movement makes a mistake, that mistake carries with it the Socialist Party. (Applause.)"

Spargo's position won the day at the 1904 Socialist Party convention and it was not until 1914 until the organization finally established a party-owned weekly newspaper.

Spargo's first wife, Prudence, died of tuberculosis in March 1904. A year and 10 days later, he married Amelia Rose Bennetts, a British-born New York socialist who had lived in America from early childhood and who had recently been employed as a worker in a carpet mill. The couple set up house in Yonkers, New York, and had two children, a daughter named Mary and a son (who died in childhood) named John Jr.

Spargo was elected to the National Committee of the Socialist Party in 1905 and to the governing National Executive Committee in 1909. As his biographer notes, during this period Spargo began "easing his way toward the reformist right-wing" of the SPA, giving up on the tactic of agitation among striking workers in favor of building middle class socialist educational institutions. Spargo was instrumental in helping establish the Rand School of Social Science, persuading George D. Herron and his wife Carrie Rand Herron to make a large bequest and Mrs. Herron's mother to provide seed money for the new institution. Spargo also was a co-founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS), an organization dedicated to the establishment of non-partisan socialist study groups on college campuses and sponsoring debates and lectures on socialist topics. Spargo would later serve on the ISS executive from 1916 to 1919.

Spargo wrote a series of compassionate, well-researched books, The Bitter Cry of the Children (1906), Underfed School Children (1906), and The Common Sense of the Milk Question (1908). Both concerned child slavery in British and American factories and arguing for the state-funded feeding of underprivileged children on the grounds that it was pointless attempting to teach children distracted by hunger, a concept that very successfully came into fruition in America during World War II.

He felt deeply about the issue, later writing that: "The claim for an equal chance for every child born into the world carries with it that most fundamental of claims, that every child has a right to be well-born into the world. And that ideal can never be realized until every mother-to-be is safeguarded by all the arts and resources of our civilization to the end that she may bring her baby into the world with joy–healthy of body, glad of heart, serene of soul, unafraid of the future, unterrified by want or the fear of it, secure in the consciousness that the child she bears is heir to all the riches and advantages of earth."

In 1908, Spargo authored a lengthy and academically serious biography of Karl Marx, his book being recognized as the best such treatment published in the English language at the time.

The same year, Spargo was elected as a delegate to the 1908 National Convention of the Socialist Party, held again at Chicago. Spargo was returned by the convention to the post he had held at the previous national gathering, Chairman of the Resolutions Committee. Spargo was influential in defeating through parliamentary procedure a resolution moved by a majority of the Resolutions Committee calling for the future exclusion of Asian workers from America. Spargo's opposition to the resolution was based upon the principle of state autonomy of local parties rather than upon internationalism and the social equality of the races:

"Comrades, I ask you to vote that we are a party of the working class, that it is the economic interest of the working class which must guide our party, that we leave it to the states themselves to decide if they have an Asiatic problem. They can decide it upon the basis of local state autonomy, and, above all, I ask that you recognize that the immigration problem is a big problem, a complex problem..."

Factional politics of the early 'teens
During the years 1909 to 1914, Spargo continued his reconsideration of socialist theory and practice and emerged as a top leader of the Socialist Party's right wing. He was diagnosed with a heart ailment and suffered from a lung infection which claimed the life of his younger son, so the Spargos moved to a new home in the hamlet of Old Bennington, Vermont, close to the New York border in the southwestern corner of the state. There the ailing Spargo recovered from his illness and was soon back on the road lecturing on socialist themes.

Spargo was one of 24 delegates of the Socialist Party (along with, incidentally, Industrial Workers of the World leader "Big Bill" Haywood) to the 1910 Congress of the International, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from August 28 to September 4, 1910. The gathering discussed matters relating to international relations between socialist parties, the trade union movement, disarmament, and the progress of labor legislation in the various countries.

Spargo was a bitter opponent of the syndicalism which was sweeping parts of the Socialist Party and staunchly supported the established craft unionism of the American Federation of Labor against the radical industrial unionism of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). A battle royal between the dominant center-right coalition that controlled the Socialist Party and its pro-syndicalist left wing erupted in 1912. As Spargo's biographer notes:

"Throughout, the faction fight was about much more than just a struggle for power. To Spargo and his fellow right-wingers, it subsumed under its rubric the larger question of where and how the socialist movement was headed, that is, whether it was to be led by those schooled in theoretical Marxian exegesis and historical study or by those who discarded such exegesis and study and opted instead for direct catastrophic action."

The brewing skirmish erupted into an open fight at the 1912 National Convention of the Socialist Party, to which Spargo was once again a delegate from New York as well as the elected Chairman of the Resolutions Committee. At issue was language to be inserted into the party constitution which called for the expulsion of "any member of the party who opposes political action or advocates crime, sabotage, or other methods of violence as a weapon of the working class to aid in its emancipation." The debate was vitriolic, with Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin stating the matter in its most bellicose form:

"Comrades, the trouble with our party is that we have men in our councils who claim to be in favor of political action when they are not. We have a number of men who use our political organization — our Socialist Party — as a cloak for what they call direct action, for IWW-ism, sabotage and syndicalism. It is anarchism by a new name....

Comrades, I have gone through a number of splits in this party. It was not always a fight against anarchism in the past. In the past we often had to fight Utopianism and fanaticism. Now it is anarchism again that is eating away at the vitals of our party.

If there is to be a parting of the ways, if there is to be a split — and it seems that you will have it, and must have it — then, I am ready to split right here. I am ready to go back to Milwaukee and appeal to the Socialists all over the country to cut this cancer out of our organization."

Spargo played a leading role in this purge of the party's left wing with his 1913 book entitled Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism and Socialism, an attack on the syndicalism of the IWW and its supporters. Spargo charged that the IWW's tactic of encouraging sabotage would have the effect of undermining the honor, courage, and self-respect of the working class, causing it to lose sight of the spiritual ideals of socialism. He held that the "IWW form of organization which denies autonomy to local unions and centralizes power in the hands of the executive, really involves the ideal of a bureaucratic government in the future society." For Spargo, the ideal of "one big union" meant in practice "authoritarianism and bureaucracy" and "the creation of a despotic industrial State in place of a political State." He asked his readers, "If all the unions are to be centralized in one big union and its power centralized in the hands of a single authority, can the government of society by that union be other than democratic?"

While many adhering to the syndicalist and revolutionary socialist ideals of the SPA's left wing exited the party following their defeat at the 1912 National Convention and the successful recall of "Big Bill" Haywood from the party's National Executive Committee, there remained a strong radical current in the party, dissatisfied with the temporizing parliamentarism of the party majority. In the summer of 1914 would come an issue which would sweep the syndicalist controversy aside and fundamentally alter political discourse within the international socialist movement and the Socialist Party of America — the crisis of international war in Europe.

The year 1912 also marked Spargo's only foray into American electoral politics, when he ran for the United States Congress in the 1st Congressional District of Vermont as the nominee of the Socialist Party. Spargo received 456 votes, as opposed to the more than 3,000 that the victorious candidate received.

The war and after
At the 1917 National Convention of the Socialist Party, Spargo was the author of a minority resolution in the Committee on War and Militarism calling for American support of the Allied war effort as the least onerous alternative facing the socialist movement. This proposal was decisively defeated, garnering the support of only 5 delegates, in favor of the militant St. Louis Resolution, which called for an active struggle against the American war effort. Up until the party voted to ratify the St. Louis Resolution, Spargo clung to the hope that a majority of the rank and file would endorse his own views of the European conflict. When, on the other hand, the party's membership enthusiastically endorsed the party's line established at the 1917 convention, Spargo decided to make a decisive exit from the organization. On May 30, 1917, he resigned his seat on the SP's governing National Executive Committee, followed three days later by his resignation from the party itself.

Spargo wrote to his former comrade Morris Hillquit, co-author of the St. Louis Resolution, that his resignation from the Socialist Party "probably means the end of practically everything. In the absence of any other Socialist organization in which I can function, I shall probably devote myself exclusively to my personal affairs and leave the political struggle alone."

Spargo did not drop out of politics, however, choosing instead to actively endorse and collaborate with the Wilson administration in its war effort. He conceived of the US government-sponsored pro-war labor organization the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, which together with Samuel Gompers of the AF of L he subsequently helped lead, and for which he occasionally wrote. Spargo also joined the Social Democratic League of America (SDL), a pro-war organization which emerged through the venerable socialist weekly, the Appeal to Reason — now named The New Appeal by its pro-war editors, Louis Kopelin and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. Spargo was chosen as the first Chairman of the SDL, with Haldeman-Julius apparently handling the day-to-day operations of the organization through the offices of the Appeal in Girard, Kansas.

Spargo conceived of the SDL as a group akin to the Independent Labour Party in England and sought to involve it in a broader pro-war organization analogous to the British Labour Party. Spargo himself conceived of this broader group, the National Party, and sat on the Executive Committee of this new political organization. The National Party dissolved following disappointing returns in the elections of 1918. By the middle 1920s, Spargo had turned away from leftist politics, developing his own theories of what he called "socialized individualism". He became a member of the Republican Party, supported Calvin Coolidge in the election of 1924, and was regarded as a prospective United States Secretary of Labor during the presidency of Herbert Hoover. His biographer characterized the change as that from a "Marxian socialist who became a Goldwater Republican and was throughout an American anti-communist.

Spargo became the director-curator of the Bennington, Vermont Historical Museum and wrote several books on ceramics.

He researched and wrote a booklet on the history of his family name. Spargo is also the name of the locality around Mabe Church in the parish of Mabe. He postulated that evidence supported the place name and Spargo family name being in existence c. 400AD. This pre-dated the arrival by some 400 years of the Christian Church.

The socialist years

 * A Socialist View of Mr. Rockefeller. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1905.
 * Forces That Make For Socialism in America. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1905.
 * The Bitter Cry of the Children. New York: Macmillan, 1906.
 * Underfed School Children: The Problem and the Remedy. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1906.
 * Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles. New York: Macmillan, 1906.
 * The Socialists: Who They Are and What they Stand For. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1906.
 * Capitalist and Laborer: An Open Letter to Professor Goldwin Smith, DCL, in Reply to his "Capital and Labor"; and Modern Socialism: A Lecture Delivered and the New York School of Philanthropy. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1907.
 * "Leon Dabo, Poet in Color." The Craftsman, December 1907.
 * The Socialism of William Morris. Westwood, Mass.: Ariel Press, 1908.
 * The Common Sense of Socialism: A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1908.
 * The Common Sense of the Milk Question. New York: Macmillan, 1908.
 * The Spiritual Significance of Modern Socialism. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1908.
 * Where We Stand: A Lecture Originally Delivered Under the Title, "Our Position: Economic, Ethical and Political". Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, n.d. [1908].
 * Karl Marx: His Life and Work. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1908.
 * The Substance of Socialism. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1909.
 * The Marx He Knew. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1909.
 * The Socialists: Who They Are and What They Stand For. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1910.
 * Sidelights on Contemporary Socialism. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1911.
 * Elements of Socialism: A Text-Book (with George Arner). New York: Macmillan, 1912.
 * Applied Socialism: A Study of the Application of Socialistic Principles to the State. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1912.
 * Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism and Socialism. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1913.
 * Socialism and Motherhood. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1914.
 * Marxian Socialism and Religion: A Study of the Relation of the Marxian Theories to the Fundamental Principles of Religion. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1915.

The social democratic years

 * Our Aims in the War: An Address Delivered by John Spargo at Minneapolis, Minn., September 5, 1917 under the Auspices of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy. New York: American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, 1917.
 * America's Democratic Opportunities: An Address Delivered before the City Club of Cleveland, October 6th, 1917: Being the First Public Exposition of the Principles of the National Party. Cleveland, OH: City Club of Cleveland, 1917.
 * Social Democracy Explained: Theories and Tactics of Modern Socialism. New York: Harper, 1918.
 * Americanism and Social Democracy. New York: Harper, 1918.
 * "Russia and the World Problem of the Jew." Harper's Monthly Magazine, vol. 137, no. 817, June 1918, pp. 65-75.
 * Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy. New York: Harper, 1919.
 * The Psychology of Bolshevism. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1919.
 * "The Greatest Failure in All History": A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in Russia. New York: Harper, 1920.
 * Russia as an American Problem''. New York: Harper, 1920.
 * The Jew and American Ideals. New York: Harper, 1921.
 * A Memorandum on Trade with Soviet Russia. New York: Russian Information Bureau in the U.S., 1921.

Post-radical works

 * Anthony Haswell: Printer — Patriot — Ballader: A Biographical Study with a Selection of his Ballads and an Annotated Bibliographical List of his Imprints. Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Co., 1925.
 * Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga: An Address Delivered By Spargo At Castleton, Vermont May 9, 1925 At The 150th Anniversary Of The Green Mountain Boys Under Ethan Allen And Their Departure For Ticonderoga. (city, publisher, date?)
 * Early American Pottery and China. Garden City, NY: The Century Co., 1926.
 * Potters And Potteries of Bennington. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company/Antiques Incorporated, 1926.
 * The Stars and Stripes in 1777: An Account of the Birth of the Flag and its First Baptism of Victorious Fire. Bennington, VT: Bennington Battle Monument and Historical Association, 1928.
 * The True Story of Capt. David Mathews and His State Line House: Being the Vindication of the Memory of a Revolutionary Patriot & the Exposure of Fantastic Legends Concerning the House He Built. Bennington, VT: Bennington Historical Museum Publications, 1930.
 * Republicans Must Choose. New York: Review of Reviews, 1936.
 * Iron mining and smelting in Bennington, Vermont 1786 - 1842. Bennington, VT: Bennington Battle Monument and Historical Association, 1938.
 * The A.B.C. of Bennington Pottery Wares, a Manual for Collectors and Dealers. Bennington, VT: Bennington Historical Museum, 1938.
 * The Rise and Progress of Freemasonry in Vermont, the Green Mountain State, 1765-1944. Written for the Sesqui-centennial Anniversary Celebration of the Grand Lodge of Vermont, June 13–15, 1944. Burlington, VT: Grand Lodge of Vermont/Lane Press, 1944.
 * The Return of Russell Colvin. Bennington, VT: Bennington Historical Museum and Art Gallery, 1945.
 * Amabimus, amamus, amabimus. In memory of John Spargo, Jr., December 20, 1919—October 10, 1945. Bennington, VT: John Spargo, 1946.
 * Verses Grave and Gay. Bennington, VT: John Spargo, 1946.
 * An Illustrated Descriptive Sketch of Bennington Battle Monument, With an Account of Bennington Battle, August 16, 1777. Bennington, VT: Bennington Battle Monument and Historical Association, 1947.
 * Two Bennington-Born Explorers and Makers of Modern Canada. Bradford, VT: Green Mountain Press, 1950.
 * Faith and Fun at Sunset. Bennington, VT: John Spargo, 1951.
 * Covered Wooden Bridges of Bennington County - Historical and Descriptive Account. Bennington, VT: Bennington Historical Museum and Art Gallery, 1953.
 * The Old First Church of Bennington. Bennington, VT: Broad Brook Press, n.d. [1950s].
 * The Reminiscences of John Spargo. [microfilm] n.c., n.p., 1957. OCLC 1458902.

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List of places in Neath Port Talbot (categorised)

This is a list of places in the Neath Port Talbot County Borough in Wales.

Electoral wards
This is a list of electoral wards in Neath Port Talbot:

Notable places
This is a list of notable places for historical, cultural or topical reasons:
 * Margam Abbey
 * Neath Abbey
 * Port Talbot steelworks

Buildings and structures

 * Margam Castle
 * Neath Castle

Covered markets and shopping malls

 * Aberafan Centre, Port Talbot
 * Neath Indoor Market
 * Rheola Market

Industrial estates & business parks

 * Baglan Energy Park
 * Baglan Industrial Park
 * Port Talbot Industrial Estate
 * Swansea Gate Business Park

Rivers and waterways

 * Neath Canal
 * Tennant Canal
 * River Afan
 * River Neath
 * River Tawe
 * Bagle Brook

Lakes and reservoirs

 * Eglwys Nunydd

Hill and mountains

 * Mynydd Drummau

Urban parks

 * Talbot Memorial Park, Port Talbot
 * Victoria Gardens, Neath

Country parks

 * Afan Argoed Country Park
 * Gnoll Country Park
 * Margam Country Park

Major roads

 * A465 road
 * A48 road
 * M4 motorway

Public transport hubs

 * Neath railway station
 * Victoria Gardens Bus Station, Neath
 * Port Talbot Parkway railway station
 * Port Talbot Bus Station

Railway lines

 * South Wales Main Line

Railway stations

 * Skewen railway station
 * Neath railway station
 * Briton Ferry railway station
 * Baglan railway station
 * Port Talbot Parkway railway station

Shipping

 * Port Talbot Docks
 * Briton Ferry Docks

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 * Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus (180 BC – 113 BC), led several armies during the Roman conquest of Iberia in the 2nd century BC
 * Decimus Junius Brutus (consul 77 BC), consul in 77 BC
 * Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (died 43 BC), conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, 1st century BC

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Paul Staveley O'Duffy

Paul Staveley O'Duffy (born 31 December 1963, London) is a British record producer, composer and mixer. He is best known for producing Swing Out Sister's multi-platinum debut album It's Better to Travel, for his BMI nomination as "Producer of the Year" in 1987, his work with John Barry and his work with Amy Winehouse, which resulted in his co-writing one of the tracks on her multi-platinum album Back to Black.

Mixer / engineer
O'Duffy started out his music career at Marcus Music Studios London, and by the age of 17 was engineering sessions for War, Yes and Marvin Gaye. He moved to New York in 1984, establishing himself as a club remixer working on remixes for artists such as KC and the Sunshine Band, Man Parrish, Stephanie Mills, the System, Animotion, the Bar-Kays, Patti LaBelle, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Freeez.

Production
O'Duffy returned to London in the late eighties where his remixing successes took him into record production. His first production success was the debut album by Scottish group Hipsway which included the top twenty hit on both sides of the Atlantic, "The Honeythief". He followed this up with production on the number one platinum-selling debut album by Curiosity Killed the Cat, Keep Your Distance.

His BMI nomination for Producer of the Year in 1987 came from his work on the multi-platinum debut album It's Better to Travel by Manchester group Swing Out Sister, which included the worldwide hit "Breakout". The album was also nominated in the US for a Grammy Award and led to more work for him and his distinctive retro sound with US acts.

One of these was the band Was (Not Was) with the resulting worldwide hits "Walk the Dinosaur", "Spy in the House of Love" and platinum-selling album What Up, Dog?. At the other end of the spectrum, O'Duffy produced one of Barry Manilow's last chart hits, "Keep Each Other Warm" from his eponymous album Barry Manilow, in which Manilow recorded other artists' songs using a variety of top producers.

O'Duffy additionally produced and mixed Television frontman Tom Verlaine's fifth solo album Flash Light in 1987.

In 2009, he produced John Barry's unreleased orchestral album, The Seasons.

Writer/producer
In the 1990s, O'Duffy increased his songwriting credits, producing and writing on four subsequent albums for Swing Out Sister (including 1992's Get in Touch with Yourself) as well as production for Dusty Springfield on her album Reputation, which became Springfield's best-selling new album since her 1960s-era peak. He produced the Pretenders' "If There Was a Man" and "Where Has Everybody Gone?", as well as Necros, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jeff Beck, Lisa Stansfield, Danny Wilson, the Beloved, John Barry, the eponymous debut album by Lewis Taylor, and Pigeonhed.

In the 2000s, O'Duffy continued to collaborate with artists and songwriters including Charlotte OC, Låpsley, Purple Ferdinand, Andreya Triana and Ella Eyre.

Hiatus and recovery
An amateur racer of both off-road and on-road motorcycles, O'Duffy was riding a road bike in London when a car cut across his lane and ran him down. His back was broken in two places, and he spent many months in traction and several years in recovery. His motorcycle, a Ducati 851 which had been given to him by his then management team, was repaired and presented back to him after a chance meeting with Federico Minoli, then head of Ducati worldwide, at the Houses of Parliament. Fully recovered after further surgery to fuse his back.

During the first three years after the accident, O'Duffy worked almost exclusively out of the substantial studio he had built at his home in North London. It was here that Amy Winehouse came to spend a month in 2006 to work on tracks for what became the Back to Black album, which features the O'Duffy/Winehouse song "Wake up Alone".

Film and television
O'Duffy produced the John Barry score for 007 film The Living Daylights (winner, 1988 BMI Film Music Award).

Further work with Barry continued, including in 1992 the movie Chaplin starring Robert Downey Jr., for which Barry was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. O'Duffy worked with John Barry on his UK concerts at the Albert Hall.

O'Duffy produced the Hans Zimmer score for the film Days of Thunder (winner, 1991 BMI Film Music Award) and the version of "All by Myself" used in the film Bridget Jones's Diary. He also produced the Dr. Calculus track "Full of Love" for the 1988 Kevin Bacon film She's Having a Baby.

O'Duffy is also a well-known composer for television, having composed the themes and incidental music for: The Team – A Season with Mclaren (BBC2 series) The Great Outdoors (Channel 4 series) The Big Elsewhere (with Swing Out Sister, NHK Japan series) London Bridge (Carlton TV drama series).

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Troinex

Troinex is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

Geography
Troinex has an area,, of 3.42 km2. Of this area, 2.29 km2 or 67.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.25 km2 or 7.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.9 km2 or 26.3% is settled (buildings or roads).

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 19.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.8%. Out of the forested land, 1.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 48.8% is used for growing crops and 2.0% is pastures, while 16.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The municipality of Troinex consists of the sub-sections or villages of Troinex - village, Troinex - Dessous, Troinex - Dessus, Troinex - Marais and Les Dolens.

Demographics
Troinex has a population of. , 20.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 13.8%. It has changed at a rate of 8% due to migration and at a rate of 7.7% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population speaks French (1,747 or 86.1%), with German being second most common (80 or 3.9%) and English being third (75 or 3.7%). There are 24 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh.

, the gender distribution of the population was 49.2% male and 50.8% female. The population was made up of 858 Swiss men (39.4% of the population) and 213 (9.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 918 Swiss women (42.2%) and 188 (8.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 309 or about 15.2% were born in Troinex and lived there in 2000. There were 829 or 40.8% who were born in the same canton, while 319 or 15.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 491 or 24.2% were born outside of Switzerland.

In there were 15 live births to Swiss citizens and 5 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 10 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 5 while the foreign population increased by 4. There were 8 Swiss men and 2 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 6 non-Swiss men and 14 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 19 and the non-Swiss population increased by 32 people. This represents a population growth rate of 2.4%.

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.4%.

, there were 863 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 972 married individuals, 80 widows or widowers and 115 individuals who are divorced.

, there were 771 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 195 households that consist of only one person and 49 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 802 households that answered this question, 24.3% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 206 married couples without children, 285 married couples with children There were 72 single parents with a child or children. There were 10 households that were made up of unrelated people and 31 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.

there were 354 single-family homes (or 72.7% of the total) out of a total of 487 inhabited buildings. There were 81 multi-family buildings (16.6%), along with 39 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (8.0%) and 13 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.7%). Of the single-family homes 40 were built before 1919, while 55 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single-family homes (72) were built between 1981 and 1990. The most multi-family homes (20) were built before 1919 and the next most (17) were built between 1991 and 1995. There were 6 multi-family houses built between 1996 and 2000.

there were 820 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 181. There were 46 single-room apartments and 317 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 731 apartments (89.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 78 apartments (9.5%) were seasonally occupied and 11 apartments (1.3%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.6 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 0.23%.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the LPS Party which received 27.32% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (17.76%), the SP (13.84%) and the CVP (13.61%). In the federal election, a total of 719 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.9%.

In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 1,316 registered voters of which 681 (51.7%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 27.2% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts (with 13.6%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the PDC (with 12.7%), they were fifth in the canton-wide election.

For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 1,316 registered voters of which 758 (57.6%) voted.

In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Troinex there were 17 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 1,533 registered voters of which 871 (56.8%) voted. Out of the 871 votes, there were 6 blank votes, 5 null or unreadable votes and 116 votes with a name that was not on the list.

Economy
, Troinex had an unemployment rate of 4.7%. , there were 117 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. 38 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 10 businesses in this sector. 219 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 53 businesses in this sector. There were 964 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.6% of the workforce.

the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 346. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 112, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 37 of which 25 or (67.6%) were in manufacturing and 12 (32.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 197. In the tertiary sector; 30 or 15.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 3.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 18 or 9.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.0% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 11 or 5.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 15 or 7.6% were in education and 18 or 9.1% were in health care.

, there were 164 workers who commuted into the municipality and 833 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 10.4% of the workforce coming into Troinex are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 12.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.7% used a private car.

Religion
From the, 820 or 40.4% were Roman Catholic, while 443 or 21.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 13 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.64% of the population), there were 9 individuals (or about 0.44% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 21 individuals (or about 1.03% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 32 individuals (or about 1.58% of the population) who were Jewish, and 36 (or about 1.77% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 4 individuals who were Buddhist, 3 individuals who were Hindu and 5 individuals who belonged to another church. 504 (or about 24.83% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 140 individuals (or about 6.90% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In Troinex about 633 or (31.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 507 or (25.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 507 who completed tertiary schooling, 41.8% were Swiss men, 35.9% were Swiss women, 14.2% were non-Swiss men and 8.1% were non-Swiss women.

During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 537 students in the Troinex school system. The education system in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten. During that school year, there were 38 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Troinex there were 90 students in kindergarten or primary school and 6 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 90 lower secondary students who attended school in Troinex. There were 113 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 14 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 69 students attended a private school.

, there were 59 students in Troinex who came from another municipality, while 238 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

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Camp Evans Historic District

Camp Evans Historic District is an area of the Camp Evans Formerly Used Defense Site in Wall Township, New Jersey. The site of the military installation (40.18556°N, -74.0625°W) is noted for a 1914 transatlantic radio receiver and various World War II/Cold War laboratories of the United States Army (e.g., signal, vacuum tube, dosimetry, & photo-optics). It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2012, in recognition of the site's long role in the development of modern civilian and military electronic communications.

Belmar Receiving Station
The Belmar Receiving Station was established near the Belmar community together with a separate transatlantic transmitting facility at New Brunswick, New Jersey, by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America (American Marconi). The Belmar station included a mile-long bronze-wire receiving antenna strung on six 400 foot tall masts with three 150 foot balancing towers along the Shark River. Outgoing Morse-code messages were sent via a telegraph land-line from the Belmar Station to the transmitter. The receiving site also had a telegraph land-line to a New York office.

Original buildings on the campus (40.1859°N, -74.0594°W) were built by the J.G. White Engineering Corp. between 1912 and 1914. This was part of the Guglielmo Marconi's wireless girdle around the Earth. In one of the buildings being constructed for the Belmar station, the regenerative circuit was demonstrated on January 31/February 1, 1914.

In April 1917, the Belmar station was acquired as part of the Navy's World War I Trans-Atlantic Communication System and after the November 1918 Armistice with Germany, American Marconi regained the Belmar station, which Radio Corporation of America owned from October 1919 until 1924. In 1924, the site was returned to Radio Corporation of America (RCA) ownership.

Ownership
RCA sold the site to the Monmouth County Pleasure Seekers Club which was closely tied to Arthur H. Bell and the Ku Klux Klan. They owned the site from 1925 to 1935.

The Young People's Association for the Propagation of the Gospel purchased the Belmar station in 1936, and The King's College opened in September 1938 — when it was denied accreditation it relocated (currently it is in the Empire State Building).

The Signal Corps Radar Laboratory (SCRL) of Fort Hancock (formerly "Field Laboratory No. 3") in the late 1930s used a field set-up at the Belmar station to compare US radars with the British CH-CHL Radars (additional testing of hardware was often done at the nearby Twin Lights radar station, such as a trial radar network in 1939).

Evans Signal Laboratory
In 1941 the Belmar radio site was renamed the Evans Signal Laboratory after Wall Township purchased the original Marconi buildings and the surrounding 93 acres for the Army to move the SCRL. Initial construction of Camp Evans Historic District quickly built more than two dozen buildings and structures on the open land to the south and west of the Marconi buildings, including 2 boiler houses, 4 long rectangular one-story buildings, and two groups of radio antenna shelters. Two models of the SCR-271 radar were located near the intersection of Monmouth Boulevard and Watson Road (the model D had a sign for the SCRL Installation and Maintenance School).

Camp Evans
Camp Evans was designated by War Department General Order, 17 February 1942; the Camp Evans Signal Laboratory was named on March 31, 1942 (the date of the camp's dedication); and in December 1942, the War Department directed the Signal Corps General Development Laboratories and the Camp Evans Signal Lab to combine into the Signal Corps Ground Service (SCGS) with headquarters at Bradley Beach, New Jersey (Hotel Grossman). The Camp Evans lab used VT-158 tube(s), developed by Harold A. Zahl, to adapt SCR-268s for picket ships, modified the SCR-268 into the SCR-602 which detected Japanese kamikazes (producing 12 renumbered AN/TPQ-3 developmental models) and on the SCR-584 tracking radar, did preliminary testing in December 1941 and added identification friend or foe. The lab also improved components (e.g. for the proximity fuse) and established a special unit which tested captured German and Japanese radars. The laboratory was also responsible for Army radar development by civilian companies (e.g., GE AN/CPS-1 early warning radar, Rad Lab AN/CPS-4 height finder, Bendix AN/GPN-2 & LE AN/GPN-6 search sets, and Bendix AN/CPN-18 secondary surveillance radar).

By August 1943, Lt Col Paul E. Watson was the director of the Camp Evans Signal Laboratory. In addition to the Signal lab, Camp Evans had the Joint Army-Navy Tube Standardization (JANS) Laboratory and in May 1945, the Signal Corps Ground Services was reformed into the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories. Initial experimentation with an enemy mortar and artillery locating radar was conducted at Camp Evans in 1944. By the end of the war Camp Evans had approximately 134 buildings and structures on approximately 217 acres including the Meteorological Branch of the Army Signal Corps (cf. the Meteorological Branch at McCook Field).

Cold War events
The facility was the initial point of contact for many top German scientists after WWII. These included Wernher von Braun and Erich Traub as part of Operation Paperclip. Camp Evans' black engineers contributed to electronic research, development, product distribution and training. For instance, Dr. Walter McAfee at Fort Monmouth first calculated the speed of the moon during Project Diana (it took 40 minutes to travel 15 deg, the width of the fixed radar beam rotating with the Earth).

After the World War II Peenemünde V-2s tracked by the giant Würzburg radar had reached space and their telemetry had been received (e.g., at burnout); during moonrise on January 10, 1946, Project Diana transmitted VHF radar pulses through the ionosphere to the moon and detected the reflection using a modified version of an experimental SCR-271 at the right of center Camp Evans. By August 1951, the Evans Signal Laboratory had a Meteorological Branch in Bldg. 39.

The 1952 Army Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory was established in building 9401 which had an underground vault, a Van de Graff machine, and AN/UDM-1A caesium-137 and AN/UDM-1 cobalt-60 calibration sources. The building had one and a half foot walls to protect contain the radiation during experiments. After a visit on October 20, 1953. McCarthyism claimed that Camp Evans was a "house of spies", but none of the camp's employees which Senator McCarthy investigated in 1953 and 1954 were ever prosecuted. In 1957, replacement equipment, on the frame of a captured German Wertzburg [sic] Reise radar, erected at the Project Diana site helped track the Soviet Union's Sputnik (cf. the Deal Test Site in Ocean Township that moved to Evans in 1973).

Camp Evans became part of the Signal Radio Propagation Agency and developed a radar weather set The Evans laboratory transferred from the SCGS to the U. S. Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories (SCEL), which in April 1958 was renamed the U. S. Army Signal Corps Research and Development Laboratory. The Project Diana site with building 9162 was used for the NASA TIROS-1 satellite's downlink antenna (60-foot dish shaped antenna, Space Sentry) on April 1, 1960, for the first photograph from space (the ground terminal [was] at Fort Monmouth in the laboratory receiving area). Radiation Incorporated's AN/TLM-18 Space Sentry at Camp Evans was used for minitrack. The Army Photo-optics Laboratory opened at Camp Evans in 1963. Most Deal Test Site facilities and personnel moved to Camp Evans due to the Deal site lease terminating on June 30, 1973.

Closure
The 1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission at the end of the Cold War designated Camp Evans for closure (e.g., the Army Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory closed in 1999) Evans units moved to Fort Monmouth's Main Post (Project 42682), and Camp Evans land transferred to the National Park Service.

A section of the former camp is home to the Brookdale Campus at Wall, a branch of the Brookdale Community College.

A district of Camp Evans was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, and camp areas became part of the Save America's Treasures project (2005 funds were donated to restore the AN/TLM-18). In 2011, Institute for Exploratory Research began in the basement at the InfoAge Science Center.

InfoAge
InfoAge Science & History Museums (InfoAge) was established in some of the historic district buildings. InfoAge is a member of the Association of Science-Technology Centers and was part of the NASA Digital Learning Network. Its focus is science and the scientific and military history of Camp Evans.

Exhibits and participating organizations include the Vintage Computing Federation, The Military Technology Museum of New Jersey, electronic warfare, a Cold War-era fallout shelter, vintage radio, the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame and Museum, The Computer Deconstruction Laboratory,  and the New Jersey Shipwreck Museum.

The InfoAge Space Exploration Center (ISEC) provides adult and youth programs that range from lectures, activities, to week-long summer programs. ISEC exhibits include the operational AN/TLM-18 antenna system, satellite models, and Apollo guidance computer.

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Simple (video game series)

The Simple (シンプル) series is a line of budget-priced video games published by Japanese company D3 Publisher, a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Entertainment. Games in the series have been developed by several different companies, including Sandlot, Success, Irem, and Taito. It was introduced in 1998 for the PlayStation, and has been released for platforms such as the PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, and mobile phones. The number in a series name indicates the price point of the games in the series; for instance, a "Simple 2000" series game would cost 2000 yen.

Early Simple games were generic interpretations of other common video game themes, including tennis, racing, and video board games such as mahjong. Beginning with the PlayStation 2, Simple games began using larger genres such as scrolling shooters and role-playing games, in addition to original ideas and concepts. As the games were sold at a low price point and required little development time, developers were able to experiment with gameplay concepts and mechanics. A few entries in the series were released outside Japan by other companies without the brand. After releasing two Simple games for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013, D3 has chosen to remove the Simple name from its budget titles for systems such as the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. In 2022, D3Publisher announced that the Simple Series brand will return for the Nintendo Switch.

The Simple series and several of its games, including Demolition Girl, The Maid Clothes and Machine Gun, Onechanbara and the Earth Defense Force series, have garnered notoriety outside Japan for their usually outlandish and bizarre nature. Publications have identified the series as being of considerably better quality than similar budget title ranges, with gameplay ideas they consider unique and interesting. As of 2007, the Simple series has sold over 20 million units across all platforms.

Riho Futaba
Riho Futaba (双葉理保) is a character and idol/gravure mascot for the Simple series created by D3. She's a young attractive female with light skin, short brown wavy hair, green colored eyes, and a curvaceous figure with a large bust standing at average height. She's usually cladded in a blue or aqua bikini that accentuates her figure. She also appears in different outfits depending on which game she's featured in. She first made gaming debut in Love Songs♪ Idol ga Classmate in 2001 and had made multiple appearances in many of D3 and Simple games as a selectable or unlockable character including titles such as Demolition Girl (her most infamous title), the Dream Club series, Zombie Hunters and Zombie Hunters 2 from the OneeChanbara series, Earth Defense Force: World Brothers, Heart Beat Boxing, and All-Star Fighters to name a few out of many more games she's been in. In all of her appearances with voice acting she's voiced by Yuko Goto.

She also has a younger sister, Makoto Futaba, whom she shares some of her features with except her sister has shorter darker straight hair with a petite build. She also appeared in Zombie Hunters, Zombie Hunters 2, and All-Star Fighters.

Games catalog
List of Simple series games

Development
D3 Publisher employs a number of external developers for the series, some of the most prolific being Tamsoft (of Battle Arena Toshinden fame) and HuneX - most are smaller or little-known companies, although several games have been licensed from Taito for a (usually enhanced) re-release.

Certain Simple series titles have attracted considerable interest outside Japan for various reasons, either gameplay quality or a particularly unique idea - these include The OneeChanbara and its sequels, as well as Sandlot's Monster Attack and Global Defence Force, which were based on their Gigantic Drive engine and were of considerably higher quality than most games in the series. Both of these series have had sequels for the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console, although they were originally labelled under an "X" moniker (OneChanbara X and Earth Defense Force X) rather than a "Simple" one.

Many of the PlayStation 2 Simple 2000 games have been released in PAL regions as budget titles by Midas Interactive Entertainment, Agetec or 505 GameStreet, usually under different titles and with new cover art; recently D3 Publisher of Europe has released several titles itself under the "Essential Games" brand. Additionally, several of the PlayStation Simple 1500 games were released in the US (by Agetec) and Europe (by Midas and Phoenix Games). Despite the recent establishment of D3 Publisher of America, the only games in the Simple series to gain a North American release are The Bass Fishing (as Fisherman's Bass Club), The Genshijin (as The Adventures of Darwin) and OneChanbara for the Xbox 360 and Wii. Simple Series for Wii U Vol.1: The Family Party was released internationally as Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade.

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Hatesex

Hatesex is an American, Los Angeles–based goth rock band, founded by former Diva Destruction guitarist Benn Ra and vocalist Krisanna Marie.

History
Hatesex was formed in 2003 by Benn Ra, ex-guitarist for Diva Destruction and vocalist Krisanna Marie after meeting through a musicians' advertisement. Working together, the band began developing material for their first release, The Spiritual Palsy, an EP limited to 100 copies. The EP showcased the wide variety of influences the band exhibited and featured a collaboration with Swiss band Celtic Frost on a "gothicized" version of the 1983 Slayer song "Black Magic". The EP met with worldwide acclaim and all four songs featured on the EP received widespread play in dance clubs all over Europe.

The EP's success led to the band signing a recording contract with the Dark Dimensions label group based in Germany. The band's first full-length CD, entitled Unwant, was released on September 26, 2005 and featured 11 songs, including the four songs from The Spiritual Palsy EP. The 2005 release followed a 2006 performance at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Leipzig, Germany. On February 18, 2011, they released their second album A Savage Cabaret, She Said, which features artwork by photographer and artist Tas Limur. The album was influenced by Marie's involvement in the Cabaret and Burlesque community and is considered a concept album where the lyrics match the CD artwork in an overall theme. The concept was based loosely off of The Seven Deadly Sins. In a 2011 Zillo magazine interview, Marie stated "I was staying in Italy and someone had scraped the words ‘Savage Cabaret’ on the back door at a pizza parlor. It stuck with me for days. A few nights later I sat on a balcony with some friends discussing and trying to remember all the names of the seven sins. The next day I was in Rome waiting to catch a plane back to Berlin and this vision came to me that life was a bizarre cabaret production full of strange characters and sins."

Line-up

 * Benn Ra – Guitars, bass and programming
 * Krisanna Marie – Vocals and programming

Discography
Releases:
 * The Spiritual Palsy EP (CD, EP)  Suffer Creek 2004
 * Unwant (CD, Album) Alice In... 2005
 * A Savage Cabaret, She Said (CD, Album) Alice In... 2011

Tracks appear on:
 * Dark Awakening Vol. 4 (2xCD) The Clockwork Heart COP International 2003
 * New Dark Age Vol. 1 (2xCD, Comp) Spiritual Palsy Strobelight Records 2003
 * New Signs & Sounds 10/05 (CD, Sampler) Subculture Queen Zillo 2005
 * Orkus Compilation 13 (CD, Sampler, Enh) The Vapor Chariot Orkus 2005
 * Sonic Seducer Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 52 (CD, Sampler, Enh) Unwant Sonic Seducer 2005
 * Gospels from Your Stereo (CD, Comp) The Vapor Chariot Strobelight Records 2006
 * Gothic Compilation Part XXXI (2xCD, Comp) Hatesex BatBeliever Releases, Indigo (2) 2006
 * Goth Is What You Make It [Seven] (2xCD, Comp) Serpentine (Fatale Mix) Batbeliever Releases 2008
 * Darkness Before Dawn (2xCD, Comp) A Rose Without Eyes Indigo 2009
 * Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 116 (2xCD, Comp) Wanderlust Sonic Seducer 2011
 * Gothic Compilation Part LI (2xCD, Comp) Wanderlust Batbeliever Releases 2011
 * Zillo CD 03/2011 (CD, Comp) The Forest of I Zillo 2011

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Vandœuvres

Vandœuvres is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

Geography
Vandœuvres has an area,, of 4.41 km2. Of this area, 1.72 km2 or 39.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.26 km2 or 5.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.43 km2 or 55.1% is settled (buildings or roads).

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 37.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.1% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 11.8%. Out of the forested land, 2.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.6% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 2.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The municipality of Vandœuvres consists of the sub-sections or villages of Bessinge - La Rippaz, Vandœuvres - village, Crête, Seymaz and Chougny.

Demographics
Vandœuvres has a population of. , 26.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 18%. It has changed at a rate of 15% due to migration and at a rate of 2% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population speaks French (1,876 or 80.4%), with English being second most common (134 or 5.7%) and German being third (131 or 5.6%). There are 42 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.

, the gender distribution of the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 904 Swiss men (33.6% of the population) and 428 (15.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 950 Swiss women (35.3%) and 409 (15.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 340 or about 14.6% were born in Vandœuvres and lived there in 2000. There were 741 or 31.8% who were born in the same canton, while 332 or 14.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 856 or 36.7% were born outside of Switzerland.

In there were 17 live births to Swiss citizens and 9 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 14 deaths of Swiss citizens and 4 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 5. There were 11 Swiss men and 7 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 15 non-Swiss men and 10 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 16 and the non-Swiss population increased by 22 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.2%.

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.2%.

, there were 971 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,123 married individuals, 112 widows or widowers and 127 individuals who are divorced.

, there were 810 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 187 households that consist of only one person and 87 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 830 households that answered this question, 22.5% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 198 married couples without children, 355 married couples with children. There were 55 single parents with a child or children. There were 12 households that were made up of unrelated people and 20 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.

there were 540 single family homes (or 82.3% of the total) out of a total of 656 inhabited buildings. There were 59 multi-family buildings (9.0%), along with 39 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (5.9%) and 18 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.7%). Of the single family homes 84 were built before 1919, while 105 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (16) were built before 1919 and the next most (14) were built between 1996 and 2000.

there were 840 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 163. There were 26 single room apartments and 505 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 760 apartments (90.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 61 apartments (7.3%) were seasonally occupied and 19 apartments (2.3%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0.8 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 0.32%.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the LPS Party which received 33.97% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (23.31%), the Green Party (12.54%) and the SP (8.9%). In the federal election, a total of 834 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 58.8%.

In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 1,412 registered voters of which 712 (50.4%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 39.2% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the UDC (with 11.6%), they were seventh in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Verts (with 11.4%), they were second in the canton-wide election.

For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 1,412 registered voters of which 768 (54.4%) voted.

In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Vandœuvres there were 17 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 1,722 registered voters of which 928 (53.9%) voted. Out of the 928 votes, there were 1 blank votes, 1 null or unreadable votes and 76 votes with a name that was not on the list.

Economy
, Vandœuvres had an unemployment rate of 2.1%. , there were 17 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 56 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 10 businesses in this sector. 408 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 64 businesses in this sector. There were 986 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.1% of the workforce.

the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 385. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 13, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 54 of which 22 or (40.7%) were in manufacturing and 23 (42.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 318. In the tertiary sector; 13 or 4.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 17 or 5.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 0.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 58 or 18.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 44 or 13.8% were in education and 60 or 18.9% were in health care.

, there were 328 workers who commuted into the municipality and 802 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 24.7% of the workforce coming into Vandœuvres are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 13.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 62% used a private car.

Religion
From the, 879 or 37.7% were Roman Catholic, while 682 or 29.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 33 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.41% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.09% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 60 individuals (or about 2.57% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 92 individuals (or about 3.94% of the population) who were Jewish, and 47 (or about 2.01% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 5 individuals who were Buddhist, 4 individuals who were Hindu and 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 395 (or about 16.93% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 131 individuals (or about 5.62% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In Vandœuvres about 561 or (24.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 761 or (32.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 761 who completed tertiary schooling, 40.7% were Swiss men, 30.4% were Swiss women, 17.1% were non-Swiss men and 11.8% were non-Swiss women.

During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 627 students in the Vandœuvres school system. The education system in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten. During that school year, there were 35 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Vandœuvres there were 61 students in kindergarten or primary school and 6 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 61 lower secondary students who attended school in Vandœuvres. There were 103 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 11 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 229 students attended a private school.

, there were 33 students in Vandœuvres who came from another municipality, while 377 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

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Telemundo Puerto Rico

Telemundo Puerto Rico may refer to:

 * Telemundo Puerto Rico (TV channel)
 * WKAQ-TV, a Telemundo station in San Juan, Puerto Rico

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WJPS

WJPS (107.1 FM) is an American radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Boonville, Indiana, United States, the station serves the Evansville area. The station is currently owned by Mark and Saundra Lange, through licensee The Original Company, Inc., and features programming from ABC Radio.

History
The station went on the air as WBNL-FM on March 22, 1979. On May 15, 2001, the station changed its call sign to WYXY; on November 11, 2005, it changed to WEJK, and on October 9, 2014, it changed to the current WJPS.

From the late 1990s to the fall of 2003, the station was known as "Y 107 - Classic Hits." In November 2003, South Central Communications, the station operator switched WYXY to Christmas music. On December 26, 2003, the station became "107.1 WYXY - Today's Christian Music." This was the Salem Radio Network's format that was based out of Nashville, Tennessee, and broadcast on the FISH stations across the country. On October 7, 2005, at 12:00 PM, the station left the Contemporary Christian format and became "107.1 JACK-FM." JACK is the format that originated in Canada in 2002. It plays a shuffle of music from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and a few of today's hits.

It was announced on August 18, 2014, that South Central Communications would be turning the operations of WEJK over to Vincennes-based The Original Company. Once approved by the FCC, The Original Company would take over the operations of WEJK and will operate the station via a time brokerage agreement. Also, when the changing of licenses was finalized, WEJK would become a sister station to WYFX in nearby Mount Vernon, Indiana. The changeover was set to be completed on September 1, at which time 107.1 flipped back to classic hits as Classic Hits 107.1. Upon acquiring WEJK's license outright on October 9, 2014, at a price of $350,000, The Original Company changed the station's call letters to WJPS.

History of call letters
The call letters WJPS were previously assigned to an AM station in Evansville. An ABC affiliate, it began broadcasting October 30, 1948, on 1330 kHz with power of 5 KW (daytime) and 1 KW (night). It was considered one of the finest "Top 40" small-market stations in the nation during the 1960s and 1970s.

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1899 in art

The year 1899 in art involved some significant events.

Events

 * December 15 – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
 * Camille Pissarro takes an apartment overlooking the Tuileries Garden in Paris and produces a series of paintings of the view.

Works

 * José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior – Saudade
 * Wilhelm Amberg – Lost in Thoughts (approx. date)
 * Ottó Baditz – Women in the Prison
 * Louis-Ernest Barrias – Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science
 * George Edwin Bissell – Statue of Chester A. Arthur (bronze, New York City)
 * Pierre Bonnard – Little Girl with a Cat
 * Léon Bonnat – Marie Georgine de Ligne
 * Jules Dalou – Monument à Alphand (Paris)
 * Thomas Eakins
 * Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (first version)
 * Wrestlers
 * Jean Leon Gerome Ferris – Signing the Mayflower Compact
 * Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter – Equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant
 * Paul Gauguin – Two Tahitian Women
 * J. W. Godward
 * The Bouquet
 * The Delphic Oracle
 * The Mirror
 * The Signal
 * William Harnett – Violin
 * Winslow Homer – The Gulf Stream
 * William Holman Hunt – The Miracle of the Holy Fire
 * Peder Severin Krøyer – Summer evening by Skagen's beach: Artist and his wife
 * Constantin Meunier – The Horse at the Pond (Brussels)
 * Claude Monet – Charing Cross Bridge (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)
 * Edvard Munch – The Dance of Life
 * John F. Peto – Still life with Mug, Pipe and Book
 * Maurice Prendergast – Splash of Sunshine and Rain
 * Mykola Pymonenko – A Victim of Fanaticism
 * Lionel Royer -Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar
 * John Singer Sargent – The Wyndham Sisters
 * Vardges Sureniants – After the Massacre
 * Leon Wyczółkowski – Irena Solska
 * W. L. Wyllie – The Battle of the Nile

Births

 * January 20
 * Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (died 1990)
 * Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (died 1972)
 * February 15
 * Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (died 1997)
 * Grethe Jürgens, German painter (died 1981)
 * February 22 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (died 1986)
 * March 20 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (died 1965)
 * April 3 – Borislav Bogdanović, Serbian portraitist (died 1970)
 * April 27 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (died 1994)
 * May 22
 * Kosta Hakman, Serbian painter (died 1961)
 * Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (died 1977)
 * June 2 – Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (died 1981)
 * June 12 – Anni Albers, born Annelise Fleischmann, German-born textile artist and printmaker (died 1994)
 * July 3 – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (died 1987)
 * July 16 – Božidar Jakac, Slovene painter and graphic artist (died 1989)
 * July (unknown day) - Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Israeli French painter and sculptor (died 1981)
 * August 10 – Margarete Heymann, German-born ceramic artist (died 1990)
 * August 19 – Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter (died 1955)
 * September 9 – Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (died 1984)
 * September 24 – William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (died 1970)
 * December 4 – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, German avant-garde painter (euthanized 1940)
 * December 25 – Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American painter (died 1987)

Deaths

 * January 29 – Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist painter (born 1839)
 * January 30 – Harry Bates, English sculptor (born 1850)
 * March 27 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator and watercolour painter (born 1825)
 * May 25 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter (born 1822)
 * July 29 – Adolf Schreyer, German painter (born 1828)
 * August 22 – Caspar Buberl, American sculptor (born 1834)
 * November 13 – José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (born 1850)
 * December 7 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (born 1857)
 * December 23 – Dominique Antoine Magaud, French painter (born 1817)
 * date unknown – François Salle, French realist painter (born 1839)

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Koge-Donbo

Koge-Donbo* (こげどんぼ*) is a Japanese manga artist. Koge-Donbo* started her career soon after college as a doujinshi artist. She got the idea of a unique pen-name, Kobe-Donbo* from Akira Toriyama's pet cat. She made her first official US appearance at Otakon 2004 in Baltimore, MD as a Guest of Honor. Before that, she appeared at the AnimeGamers USA retail store in Los Angeles, California on July 7, 2002, for an autograph session promoting her Chocola 2001 artbook. She returned for another autograph session at the same store on August 3, 2004. She was a Guest of Honor at Anime Expo 2006, presenting the world premiere of the new Di Gi Charat animation series.

Often very shy, her drawings express her beauty and characteristic "cute" factor. She is a Harry Potter fan and has done many fan drawings on her Harry Potter fan site. In 2008, Koge Donbo* finished working on the sequel (ending with chapter 26) of the Kamichama Karin series, named Kamichama Karin Chu. A few months later, she started working on a new manga called Naki Shōjo no Tame no Pavane, serialised in Mag Garden's Comic Blade manga magazine, with six volumes out currently.

On Koge-Donbo's official website, she has announced that she would be starting a new manga called "DokiDoki! Tama-tan," featuring the "Magical Usamimi Girl" pictures that have been on her website. It was launched in Nakayoshi's March 2009 issue. Donbo added an "*" mark to her formal pen name in April 2008.

Manga

 * A Little Snow Fairy Sugar (shōnen manga, published by Kadokawa Shoten)
 * Di Gi Charat (shōnen manga, published by Broccoli)
 * Di Gi Charat: Dejiko à la Mode (shōnen manga, published by Broccoli)
 * Di Gi Charat: Dejiko's Champion Cup Theatre (shōnen manga, published by Broccoli)
 * Di Gi Charat Anthology (shōnen manga, published by Broccoli)
 * Di Gi Charat Theater (shōnen manga, published by Broccoli)
 * Di Gi Charat Theater: Dejiko's Adventure (shōnen manga, published by Broccoli)
 * Di Gi Charat Theater: Dejiko's Summer Vacation (shōnen manga, published by Broccoli)
 * Di Gi Charat Theater: Leave it to Piyoko! (shōnen manga, published by Broccoli)
 * Di Gi Charat Theater: Piyoko is Number One! (shōnen manga, published by Broccoli)
 * Doki Doki! Tama-tan (shōjo manga, published by Kodansha)
 * Kamichama Karin (shōjo manga, published by Kodansha)
 * Kamichama Karin Chu (shōjo manga, published by Kodansha)
 * Koi-Hime Soshi (shōnen manga, published by MediaWorks)
 * Kon Kon Kokon (shōnen manga, published by Jive)
 * Naki Shōjo no Tame no Pavane (shōnen manga, published by Mag Garden)
 * Pita-Ten (shōnen manga, published by MediaWorks)
 * Sumo Oh (shōnen manga, published by Broccoli)
 * Yoki Koto Kiku (shōnen manga, published by Jive)

Artbooks

 * Chocola (annual artbook)
 * Digi Charat Fantasy Perfect Collection
 * Pita-Ten Artbook

Anime Series

 * Di Gi Charat
 * Di Gi Charat Nyo
 * Kamichama Karin
 * Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat
 * Pita Ten
 * Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy

Other works

 * Aquarian Age (illustrator)
 * Princess Concerto (character design)
 * Di Gi Charat Fantasy (character design)
 * Harry Potter Dōjinshi, as well as others done early in her career

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St Paul's Girls' School

St Paul's Girls' School is a private day school for girls, aged 11 to 18, located in Brook Green, Hammersmith, in West London, England.

The school is included in The Schools Index as one of the world's 150 best private schools and among top 30 UK senior schools.

History
St Paul's Girls' School was founded by the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1904, using part of the endowment of the foundation set up by John Colet, to create a girls' school to complement the boys' school he had founded in the sixteenth century. The governors hold proprietorial responsibility, and some are representatives of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London.

The buildings for the school were designed by the architect Gerald Horsley, son of the painter John Callcott Horsley and one of the founder members of the Art Workers Guild.

The school has had several distinguished directors of music, most notably Gustav Holst (1905–34) and Herbert Howells (1936–62). Holst composed his St Paul's and Brook Green suites for the pupils at the school. Holst also composed what is arguably his best known work, "The Planets", while teaching at St Paul's. John Linton Gardner held a part-time position as director of music at the school.

Exam results
St Paul's girls regularly perform extremely well in the GCSEs and A Levels. In 2014, 99.3% of GCSEs were graded at A*s or As with 93.6% graded at A* alone. This was the highest ever A* percentage achieved by the school and in the country. In 2016, the school achieved the highest A Level results in its history with 60.0% of entries achieving an A* grade and 93.8% of entries achieving A* or A grades. In 2023, 80.5% of GCSE entries were awarded a 9 grade and 94% of entries gained an 8 or 9 (which are equivalent to the old A* grade). This is the eleventh consecutive year that the proportion of A* equivalent grades has exceeded 90%.

In the 2023 A level and Pre-U results, 53% of entries attained an A* grade (or the Pre-U equivalent D1 or D2). 87.04% of entries achieved an A* or A grade and 97.1% a B grade or higher (or the Pre-U equivalent of M1 or M2).

Music
Gustav Holst was director of music at the school from 1905 to 1934 when he died, including the period he composed his orchestral suites, including St Paul's Suite and The Planets. He was succeeded by Herbert Howells before John Gardner followed in the 1960s. Gardner wrote many memorable pieces for the school, including his popular Christmas carols Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day and The Holly and the Ivy. Hilary Davan Wetton was director of music from 1979 to 1994. In 1988 a CD with Children's favorite songs was released on the label Spectrum records.

Drama
The school's main theatre, where most school productions are staged, is named after alumna Celia Johnson. Other productions are staged in the drama studio which is a smaller space.

Rowing
The school has an active rowing club called the St Paul's Girls' School Boat Club which is based on the River Thames. The club is affiliated to British Rowing (boat code SPG) and has produced four British champion crews at the 1992 British Rowing Championships, 2002 British Rowing Championships, 2003 British Rowing Championships and 2011 British Rowing Championships.

High Mistresses
The headmistress of St Paul's Girls' School is known as the High Mistress.

 * Frances Ralph Grey (d.1935), High Mistress 1903–1927
 * Ethel Strudwick (1880–1954), High Mistress 1927–1948, daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Melhuish Strudwick
 * Margaret Osborn (1906–1985), High Mistress 1948–1963
 * Alison Munro (1914–2008), High Mistress 1964–1974
 * Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke (1929–2004), High Mistress 1974–1989
 * Helen Elizabeth Webber Williams (born 1938), High Mistress 1989–1992
 * Janet Gough (born 1940), High Mistress 1993–1998
 * Elizabeth Mary Diggory (1945–2007), High Mistress 1998–2006
 * Clarissa Mary Farr (born 1958), High Mistress 2006–2017
 * Sarah Fletcher, High Mistress 2017–present

Alumnae
Alumnae of the school, known as "Old Paulinas", include:

Arts

 * Gillian Ayres – artist
 * Mischa Barton – actress
 * Nicola Beauman – publisher, founder of Persephone Books
 * Helen Binyon – artist
 * Lesley Blanch – author
 * Justin Blanco White – architect
 * Celia Brayfield – author
 * Sophie Hunter – theatre and opera director
 * Brigid Brophy – dramatist
 * Lucy Briers – actress
 * Margaret Calvert – graphic artist
 * Miranda Carter – biographer
 * Edie Campbell – model
 * Cecilia Chancellor – model
 * Joan Cross – singer
 * Emma Darwin – author
 * Monica Dickens – author
 * Suzi Digby – conductor and musician
 * Flora Fraser – author
 * Justine Frischmann – musician
 * Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) – artist
 * Francesca Gonshaw – actress
 * Imogen Holst – musician
 * Sarah Hobson – travel writer
 * Ursula Howells – actress
 * Celia Johnson – actress
 * Rachel Johnson – journalist and editor
 * Jane M. Joseph – musician and composer
 * Amy Key Clarke – poet and author
 * Marghanita Laski – author
 * Nicola LeFanu – composer
 * Amanda Levete – architect
 * Alice Lowe – actress/author
 * Jessica Mann – author
 * Yvonne Mitchell – actress/author
 * Emily Mortimer – actress
 * Lucy Moss - playwright/director
 * Santha Rama Rau – author
 * Joely Richardson – actress
 * Natasha Richardson – actress
 * Georgina Rylance – actress
 * Katherine Shonfield – architect
 * Dodie Smith – playwright
 * Catherine Storr – author
 * Imogen Stubbs – actress
 * Emma Tennant – author
 * Angela Thirkell – author
 * Mary Treadgold – author
 * Salley Vickers – author
 * Samantha Weinberg – author
 * Rachel Weisz – actress
 * Antonia White – author

Business

 * Isabel dos Santos – wealthiest woman in Africa as of 2020
 * Grace Beverley – founder of Tala and Shreddy

Culinary arts

 * Thomasina Miers – chef and founder of Wahaca restaurant chain
 * Henrietta Lovell – founder of the Rare Tea Company

Education

 * Eleanora Carus-Wilson – economic historian
 * Sheila Forbes – principal, St Hilda's College, Oxford
 * Henrietta Harrison – professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford
 * Jessica Rawson – warden, Merton College, Oxford
 * Barbara Reynolds – scholar
 * Joan Robinson – economist

Humanitarianism

 * Myrtle Solomon – pacifist and former chair War Resisters' International

Law

 * Sonia Proudman – High Court Judge

Journalism and media

 * Emily Buchanan – BBC World Affairs correspondent
 * Clemency Burton-Hill – broadcaster and author
 * Edie Campbell – model and socialite
 * Victoria Coren Mitchell – presenter, poker player
 * Daisy Donovan – TV presenter
 * Stephanie Flanders – BBC Economics editor
 * Amelia Gentleman – journalist
 * Bridget Harrison – journalist
 * Bronwen Maddox – senior journalist at 'The Times' newspaper
 * Veronica Pedrosa – Al Jazeera English correspondent
 * Sophie Raworth – news reader
 * Susanna Reid – news presenter
 * Anne Scott-James – journalist and editor
 * Alexandra Shulman – editor-in-chief, Vogue 1992–2017
 * Carol Thatcher – journalist
 * Erica Wagner – author, critic, and literary editor of The Times
 * Eirene White, Baroness White – journalist and Labour politician
 * Petronella Wyatt – journalist

Politics

 * Jane Bonham Carter – Liberal Democrat peer
 * Vicky Ford, Conservative MP and formerly MEP
 * Harriet Harman – Labour MP, former Acting Leader of the Labour Party, former Leader of the Opposition and former Cabinet minister
 * Susan Kramer – former Liberal Democrat MP
 * Mavis Tate – Conservative MP and women's rights campaigner
 * Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Conservative MP
 * Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine – member of the British House of Lords
 * Eirene White, Baroness White – Labour Minister of State then life peer
 * Shirley Williams – former Labour Education Secretary and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party

Science

 * Kate Bingham – venture capitalist
 * Ruth Bowden – anatomist
 * Caroline Deys – doctor
 * Rosalind Franklin – scientist, research led to discovery of the structure of DNA
 * Jean Ginsburg – physiologist, endocrinologist
 * Christine Hamill – mathematician
 * Kathleen Kenyon – archaeologist
 * Irene Manton – botanist
 * Sidnie Manton – entomologist
 * Onora O'Neill – philosopher
 * Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin – astronomer
 * Catherine Peckham – doctor and scientist
 * Joan Beauchamp Procter – zoologist, herpetologist

Sport

 * Kitty Godfree – tennis player
 * Lara Prior-Palmer – equestrian
 * Cecilia Robinson – cricket
 * Zoe de Toledo – rowing

Notable former staff

 * Margaret Cole – socialist politician, former Classics teacher
 * Gustav Holst – composer, pioneer of music education for girls
 * Nicola LeFanu – director of music during the 1970s
 * Clara Taylor – chemist and science teacher, 1913-1921

Controversy
The school was in the news in November 2017 with allegations of sexual abuse between the 1970s and 1990s. One teacher resigned on 22 November 2017 amidst these allegations.

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Harvey Cenaiko

Harvey Cenaiko (born July 15, 1956 in Wakaw, Saskatchewan) is a former Canadian politician who served as Solicitor General and Minister of Public Safety for the province of Alberta. He served as the member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (MLA) for Calgary-Buffalo from 2001 to 2008.

Early life
After graduating from high school in Wakaw, Cenaiko attended the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, then moved west to Calgary where he began training with the Calgary Police Service.

Cenaiko worked for 25 years with the Calgary Police Service. At the time of his retirement, he was an inspector with the Bureau of Community Policing Services.

Member of the Legislative Assembly
In addition to his role as MLA, Cenaiko has acted as a member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Standing Policy Committee on Justice and Government Services. Cenaiko also chaired the Ambulance Advisory and Appeal Board and the Alberta Vehicle Theft Committee. In addition, Cenaiko was a member of the MLA Policing Review Committee and the Government MLA Committee Considering a Review of the Labour Relations Code.

Within his role as Solicitor-General, Cenaiko set up a team of investigators that would investigate criminal activity by police officers which was made up of veteran police officers only with no civilian involvement as Cenaiko felt that civilians lacked the expertise to oversee investigations of criminal activity. This action drew criticism from NDP critic David Eggen who stated that civilians also should form members of the team in order to ensure that they would be independent of the police agencies that are being reviewed. This opinion is echoed by Tom Engels, chair of the policing committee of the Criminal Trial Lawyers’ Association, who states that the current system which allows police to investigate complaints, other than the most serious complaints, against their fellow officers is flawed and lacks credibility. Instead, the system should be replaced by an independent, civilian-led agency to investigate police complaints. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, which investigates police in cases of death or serious injuries, lacks the resources to complete timely investigations.

In 2002/2003, he also chaired the Review of Ambulance Service Delivery and the Child Welfare Act Review. The Child Welfare Act Review, which culminated in the Strengthening Children, Families and Youth Report, formed the basis for a new Child Welfare Amendment Act as well as the Family Support for Children With Disabilities Act.

Cenaiko was elected to his second term as member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding of Calgary-Buffalo on November 22, 2004. On November 25, 2004, he was sworn in as Alberta's Solicitor General. He did not seek re-election in the 2008 election.

Harvey is now the Chair of the National Parole Board of Canada.

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Sven-Ole Thorsen

Sven-Ole Thorsen (born 24 September 1944) is a Danish former actor, stuntman, bodybuilder and strongman competitor. Thorsen won Denmark's Strongest Man in 1983.

Using his stature he often plays imposing giants and villains in his films who are somehow beaten by smaller opponents in a David and Goliath manner, but he has also played heroic characters such as Gunnar the legendary warrior in The Viking Sagas. His autobiography Stærk mand i Hollywood (Strong Man in Hollywood) was published on 26 October 2007, and was very well reviewed. The first printing of the book reportedly sold out in 24 hours.

Career
He is known for his frequent appearances in movies featuring close friend Arnold Schwarzenegger, like Conan the Barbarian, as the hammer-wielding Thorgrim; The Running Man, as the ultimately-sympathetic bodyguard Sven; and in Predator as a Soviet advisor that executes a hostage. His other characters have included the boater-wearing security guard La Fours in Mallrats, the fighter Tigris of Gaul in Gladiator, Lt. Michael 'Tank' Ellis in Captain Power, and the alien villain Secundus in Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe.

Thorsen has been credited in fifteen Arnold Schwarzenegger movies (twelve as actor, three as stuntman or trainer), making him Schwarzenegger's most frequent collaborator. It began with Conan the Barbarian, when Schwarzenegger brought Thorsen and other of his bodybuilder friends (like Franco Columbu) with him to shoot the movie. Later, when Thorsen moved to the United States, he met Schwarzenegger again while he was acting in the movie Commando. Thorsen helped with some of the stuntwork in that movie, and quickly found work in many of the subsequent Schwarzenegger films.

In spite of Thorsen's thick Danish accent, his voice is almost never dubbed (an exception being Hard Target). Thorsen pursued his role as Tigris (of Gaul) in Gladiator for over a year, beating Lou Ferrigno for the part. The part won him two TAURUS World Stunt Awards in the ceremony's inaugural year.

Thorsen has founded various federations, including The Danish Bodybuilding Federation in 1979 and Cigar Night at Schatzi in Santa Monica, California along with Schwarzenegger. He has a black belt in Shotokan karate and holds championship titles.

Personal life
Thorsen is 192 centimetres (6 feet, 3.5 inches) tall and while appearing in Conan the Barbarian (1982) he weighed 138 kilograms (304 lbs), according to his autobiography (page 24 & 110).

Thorsen lives in Santa Monica, California and had two dogs, a Jack Russell Terrier named Jake and an American Bull Terrier named Cleo (now deceased). He won the Danish "Show of Winners" Award of the Year 2006, honouring people who have a special affiliation with dogs.

Filmography
Notes
 * 1 Arnold Schwarzenegger also appeared in this movie.

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