Junior hockey.

Cornwall Royals (1981-1983).

Kyte's first junior season was with the Cornwall Royals of the Ontario Hockey League in 1981-82, where in 52 games, Kyte had four goals and 17 points, helping the club clinch the final playoff spot in the Leyden Division. In five playoff games, Kyte was held pointless.

Professional career.

Winnipeg Jets (1982-1989).

Kyte was drafted by the Winnipeg Jets in the first round, 12th overall, in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. He made his NHL debut late in the 1982-83 season, going pointless while appearing in two games with Winnipeg.  Kyte saw limited ice time with the Jets as a rookie in 1983-84, appearing in 58 games and scoring one goal and two assists, helping the team reach the playoffs. In three playoff games that season, Kyte did not earn a point as Winnipeg was swept by the Edmonton Oilers in the Smythe Division semi-finals.  In 1984-85, Kyte appeared in 71 games with the Jets, earning three assists, while accumulating 111 penalty minutes. In eight playoff games, Kyte was held off the scoresheet, as the team defeated the Calgary Flames in the Smythe Division semi-finals, however, the Jets were then swept by the Edmonton Oilers in the Division finals.  Kyte again appeared in 71 games with the Jets in 1985-86, scoring a goal and four points, while getting 126 penalty minutes, as Winnipeg qualified for the post-season. In three games, Kyte had no points, as the Jets lost to the Calgary Flames in the Smythe Division semi-finals.  Kyte's offensive production increased in 1986-87, as he managed to score five goals and 10 points in 72 games, while getting 162 penalty minutes. In 10 playoff games, Kyte earned four assists, as the Jets would end up losing to the Edmonton Oilers in the Smythe Division finals.  Injuries plagued Kyte during the 1987-88 season, as he played in only 51 games, scoring a goal and four points while accumulating 128 penalty minutes. The Jets qualified for the post-season, however, Kyte did not appear in any games.  Kyte appeared in a career high 74 games with the Jets in 1988-89, scoring three goals and 12 points, as well as getting 190 penalty minutes. Winnipeg failed to make the playoffs.  On June 17, 1989, Kyte, Andrew McBain and Randy Gilhen were traded by the Jets to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Randy Cunneyworth, Rick Tabaracci and Dave McLlwain.

Pittsburgh Penguins (1989-1991).

Kyte joined the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1989-90, where in 56 games, he scored three goals and four points, as well as getting 125 penalty minutes. The Penguins failed to make the playoffs.  The Penguins sent Kyte to begin the 1990-91 season with the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League (IHL). In 25 games, Kyte scored two goals and seven points, as well as recording 157 penalty minutes. Kyte also appeared in one game with the Penguins, getting no points and two penalty minutes.  On December 13, 1990, the Penguins traded Kyte to the Calgary Flames for Jiri Hrdina.

Calgary Flames (1990-1992).

Kyte finished the 1990-91 with the Calgary Flames, where in 42 games, he earned nine assists and 153 penalty minutes, helping the team reach the playoffs. In seven playoff games, Kyte had no points and seven penalty minutes, as the Flames lost to the Edmonton Oilers in the Smythe Division semi-finals.  Kyte appeared in 21 games with Calgary in 1991-92, getting one assist and 107 penalty minutes. He also played in six games with the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the IHL, earning an assist and nine penalty minutes. After the season, Kyte became a free agent.

Ottawa Senators (1992-1993).

Kyte signed with the Ottawa Senators on September 10, 1992. He spent a majority of the 1992-93 season with the New Haven Senators of the American Hockey League (AHL), scoring six goals and 24 points in 63 games. In four games with Ottawa, Kyte earned an assist. Kyte was granted free agency after only one season with the Senators.

Las Vegas Thunder (1993-1995).

Kyte signed with the Las Vegas Thunder of the IHL for the 1993-94 season. In 75 games, Kyte scored two goals and 18 points, and accumulated 246 penalty minutes. In four playoff games, Kyte had an assist, and 51 penalty minutes.  He played a second season with the Thunder in 1994-95, scoring three goals and 20 points in 76 games with the team. Kyte left the Thunder late in the season, as he signed with the San Jose Sharks.

San Jose Sharks (1994-1996).

Kyte signed as a free agent with the San Jose Sharks on March 31, 1995. He finished the 1994-95 season with the Sharks, scoring two goals and seven points in 18 games, helping the team reach the post-season. In 11 playoff games, Kyte had two assists, as the Sharks upset the favoured Calgary Flames in the Western Conference quarter-finals, before losing to the Detroit Red Wings in the second round of the playoffs.  Kyte played in 57 games with San Jose in 1995-96, scoring a goal and eight points, and earning 146 penalty minutes, however, the team failed to make the playoffs. Kyte was granted free agency after the season.

Kansas City Blades (1996-97).

Kyte finished his playing career in 1996-97 with the Kansas City Blades of the IHL. In 76 games, Kyte had three goals and 11 points, as well as recording 259 penalty minutes. In three playoff games, Kyte had no points. Kyte's playing career came to an end from a concussion suffered in an automobile accident in 1997 and he was forced into retirement.

Post-hockey career.

After retiring from hockey, Kyte wrote a hockey column, Point Man, for four years in the Ottawa Citizen and joined Algonquin College in 2002. After creating the very successful Sport Business Management postgraduate program at Algonquin College in 2002, Kyte became the Academic Chair of the Marketing & Management Studies Department in the Algonquin College School of Business in 2007. He earned a master's degree in business administration from Royal Roads University in 2012. In 2014, he was selected to be the Dean of Algonquin College's School of Hospitality and Tourism.

Awards and honors.

In 2018, Kyte was inducted into the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame.

James G. Kyte (born March 21, 1964) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player. Kyte made history by being the first (and to date, only) legally deaf National Hockey League (NHL) player, playing 598 games in the NHL.

James G. „Jim“ Kyte (* 21. März 1964 in Ottawa, Ontario) ist ein ehemaliger kanadischer Eishockeyspieler, der im Verlauf seiner aktiven Karriere zwischen 1981 und 1997 unter anderem 640 Spiele für die Winnipeg Jets, Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames, Ottawa Senators und San Jose Sharks in der National Hockey League auf der Position des Verteidigers bestritten hat. Kyte war der erste gehörlose Spieler der NHL-Geschichte.


Structure.

Based on HTML and JavaScript, as well as the Google Gadgets framework, OpenSocial includes multiple APIs for social software applications to access data and core functions on participating social networks. Each API addresses a different aspect. It also includes APIs for contacting arbitrary third party services on the web using a proxy system and OAuth for security.  In version 0.9 OpenSocial added support for a tag-based language. This language is referred to as OSML and allows tag-based access to data from the OpenSocial APIs that previously required an asynchronous client-side request. It also defined a rich tag template system and adopted an expression language loosely based on the Java Expression Language.  Starting in version 2.0, OpenSocial adopted support for Activity Streams format.

History.

Background.

OpenSocial is commonly described as a more open cross-platform alternative to the Facebook Platform, a proprietary service of the popular social network service Facebook.

Development.

OpenSocial was rumored to be part of a larger social networking initiative by Google code-named "Maka-Maka", which is defined as meaning "intimate friend with whom one is on terms of receiving and giving freely" in Hawaiian.

Implementation.

An open-source project, Shindig, was launched in December 2007, to provide a reference implementation of the OpenSocial standards. It has the support of Google, Ning, and other companies developing OpenSocial-related software. The Myspace OpenSocial parser was released as project Negroni in January 2011 and provides a C# based implementation of OpenSocial.  Apache Rave is a lightweight and open-standards based extensible platform for using, integrating and hosting OpenSocial and W3C Widget related features, technologies and services. It will also provide strong context-aware personalization, collaboration and content integration capabilities and a high quality out-of-the-box installation as well as be easy to integrate in other platforms and solutions.  Both Shindig and Apache Rave are no longer in development and have been retired by the Apache foundation.

Usage.

Enterprise websites, such as Friendster, hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, and Salesforce.com are major users of OpenSocial.

Friendster.

Friendster has deployed APIs from version 0.7 of the OpenSocial specification, making it easy for existing OpenSocial applications using version 0.7 to be launched on Friendster and reach Friendster's over 75 million users. Friendster also plans to support additional OpenSocial APIs in the coming months, including the new 0.8 APIs.

hi5.

hi5 taps Widgetbox's support for OpenSocial to get access to the unsurpassed choice of web widgets Widgetbox provides.

MySpace.

Myspace Developer Platform (MDP) is based on the OpenSocial API. It supports social networks to develop social and interacting widgets. It can be seen as an answer to Facebook's developer platform.

Security issues.

Initial OpenSocial support experienced vulnerabilities in security, with a self-described amateur developer demonstrating exploits of the RockYou gadget on Plaxo, and of Ning social networks using the iLike gadget. As reported by TechCrunch on 5 November 2007, OpenSocial was quickly cracked. The total time to crack the OpenSocial-based iLike on Ning was just 20 minutes, with the attacker being able to add and remove songs on a user's playlist and access the user's friend information.  Hasel and Iacono showed that “OpenSocial specification were far from being comprehensive in respect to security”. They discussed different security implications in the context of OpenSocial. They introduced possible vulnerabilities in Message Integrity and Authentication, Message Confidentiality, and Identity Management and Access Control.

Release versions.

Criticism of initial release.

Opened to much fanfare in news coverage, OpenSocial did not work well in the beginning; it only ran on Google-owned Orkut, and only with a limited number of gadgets, returning errors for other gadgets. Other networks were still looking into implementing the framework.  On December 6, TechCrunch followed up with a report by MediaPops founder Russ Whitman, who said "While we were initially very excited, we have learned the hard way just how limited the release truly is." Russ added that "core functionality components" are missing and that "write once, distribute broadly" was not accurate.  Legend:

Version 2.5.1.

Changes to the REST API were made to address several issues that required changes in the OpenSocial specifications so it could be used by the Open Mobile Alliance.

Version 2.5.0.

Common Containers were added that provided "a set of common services that Container developers can leverage for features like in-browser Gadget lifecycle event callbacks, Embedded Experiences, selection handlers, and action handlers." A new Metadata API gives OpenSocial applications the ability to adapt to the capabilities of different OpenSocial containers. The WAP authentication extension was deprecated.

Version 2.0.1.

OAuth 2.0 support was finalized in this version of OpenSocial.

Version 2.0.0.

OpenSocial introduced support for Activity Streams. JSON had emerged as the preferred data format and support for ATOM was deprecated. The Gadget format was simplified to give the ability to define a template library within a Gadget specification. While not finalized, the groundwork for OAuth 2.0 support was put in place.

Version 1.1.0.

In response to enterprise environment needs, OpenSocial added support for advanced mashup scenarios. It enabled gadgets to "securely message each other in a loosely coupled manner." This new feature was called Inter-Gadget Communication.

Version 1.0.0.

OpenSocial acknowledged that the "one-size-fits-all" approach it was taking was not going to work for the diverse type of websites that had adopted the platform. To address this issue, OpenSocial modularized into four compliance modules: Core API Server, Core Gadget Server, Social API Server, and Social Gadget Server. This allowed a developer to pick and choose the modules they wanted to use while using other services that aren't part of OpenSocial. Extensions were introduced to allow developers to extend OpenSocial containers.

Version 0.9.0.

In response to feedback and observation of how developers were using the API, this version focused on making "application development, testing, and deployment easier and faster, while reducing the learning curve for new app developers." The OpenSocial Javascript API was streamlined to make it lightweight while retaining the power of the old Javascript API. Proxied content was introduced to eliminate the need for developers to work around previous AJAX limitations. Proxied content allows a content to be fetched from a URL and displayed in a <Content> tag. In response to a common use of sending data to a remote server immediately after a request, OpenSocial 0.9.0 introduced data pipelining. Data pipelining allows the developer to specify the social data the application will need and make the data immediately available. OpenSocial Templates were introduced to create data-driven UI with a separation of markup and programmatic logic. OpenSocial Markup Language (OSML Markup) is a new set of standardized tags to accomplish common tasks or safely perform normally unsafe operations within templates. OSML is extensible. Developers can create a library of their own custom tags.

Version 0.8.1.

This minor release placed a major focus on server-to-server protocols as "the Person schema has been aligned with the Portable Contacts effort, and an optional RPC proposal has been added." JSON-RPC protocol was added to increase server to server functionality. The RESTful protocol that was introduced in v0.8.0 underwent a large revision with several fields being added, modified, and deleted.

Version 0.8.0.

OpenSocial changed specifications for containers to implement a RESTful API. Many of the OpenSocial Javascript API changes made this version incompatible with previous versions. Existing gadgets continued to use v0.7.0. After updating the gadget, it would use v0.8.0. Security improved with the introduction of OAuth authorization and HTML sanitation, and container lifecycle events. Persistence data was stored in JSON.

Version 0.7.0.

Released as the "first iteration that can fully support rich, social applications." It added several standard fields for profile information, the ability to send a message to install an application, an Activity template to control activity notifications about what users have been doing, and a simplified persistence API to use feeds instead of global and instance-scoped application data. Another major announcement came from Apache Shindig. Apache Shindig made gadgets open sourced. In coordination with this announcement, OpenSocial 0.7.0 introduced Gadget Specifications for developers to be able to define their gadgets using the Gadget API.

Version 0.6.0.

Security was a large focus in version 0.6.0. Permission controls were tightened to prevent a gadget from returning information if it is not authorized to do so. New classes were added, such as the Environment class to allow a gadget to respond differently according to its environment and the Surface class to support navigation from one surface to another. The Activities class was simplified based on developer needs and the Stream class was deprecated.

Version 0.5.0.

Google announced the launch of OpenSocial with a pre-release of version 0.5.0. While unstable, this API introduced "various XML DTDs, Javascript interfaces and other data structures" to the OpenSocial platform.

OpenSocial is a public specification that defines a component hosting environment (container) and a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for Web-based applications. Initially, it was designed for social network applications and developed by Google along with MySpace and a number of other social networks. More recently, it has become adopted as a general use runtime environment for allowing untrusted and partially trusted components from third parties to run in an existing web application. The OpenSocial Foundation moved to integrate or support numerous other Open Web technologies. This includes OAuth and OAuth 2.0, Activity Streams, and Portable Contacts, among others.

OpenSocial ist eine Sammlung an Programmierschnittstellen für Anwendungen in webbasierten sozialen Netzwerken. OpenSocial wird von Google entwickelt und wurde am 1. November 2007 veröffentlicht.


Life and career.

Early life.

Shiimoto Ine was born on 31 May 1827 in the city of Nagasaki. The surname "Shiimoto" came from a Japanese rendering of the surname of her German father, the physician Philipp Franz von Siebold, who was living on Dejima, an artificial island off Nagasaki to where foreign trade was restricted during the more than two centuries of Japan's near-total self-seclusion from the world. There he played a role in introducing Western medical techniques to Japan. Ine's mother was Kusumoto Taki, a sent at 16 from the Nagasaki pleasure district Maruyama in 1823 to be Siebold's concubine.  Ine lived with her parents on Dejima until Siebold was banished on 22 October 1829 for allegedly exporting restricted information illicitly gathered from the geographer. He was accused of smuggling items including maps which it was believed could fall into the hands of Japan's enemies, such as Russia, which posed a threat on Japan's northern borders. Taki and the two-year-old Ine were not permitted to leave Japan; they waved him goodbye from a small boat in the harbour as his ship left. Taki soon after married a man named Wasaburō.  The wealthy Siebold left Taki and Ine with a stockpile of valuable sugar to support themselves and arranged for his associates to watch over them. He sent Ine books of Dutch grammar, important for Western studies at the time in Japan, and students of Siebold's contributed to her education. An apocryphal story tells of Ine running away at age 14 or 15 to study medicine with one of them,, in Uwajima Domain, where he had been placed under house arrest for his involvement in the Siebold Affair.

Education and early career.

Ine's medical training got an official start in 1845 when she began studying obstetrics in Okayama Domain under another of Siebold's students,, through the introduction of Ninomiya Keisaku. She cut her studies with Sōken short when in 1851 he impregnated her. She returned to Nagasaki, where she gave birth in 1852 to a daughter, whom she named, meaning "free", symbolizing that heaven had granted her this child "for free". Her account of her mother's life is amongst those that assert Ine's pregnancy resulted from Sōken having raped her, though hard evidence is lacking. Ine was to rebuff Sōken's attempts to become involved in Tada's life.  Ine continued her studies in Nagasaki under Abe Roan. In 1854 she left Tada with her mother and went with Ninomiya Keisaku's nephew to study under Keisaku in Uwajima, whose lord, the "daimyō" Date Munenari, enthusiastically promoted Western learning. After he suffered a stroke in 1856, Keisaku returned to Nagasaki with Ine and Shūzō.  Japan's seclusion came to an end in 1854 and in 1859 Nagasaki was opened as a treaty port and the Dutch abandoned Dejima for a consulate in the capital city Edo (modern Tokyo). Siebold received a pardon and returned to Nagasaki 4 August that year with his 13-year-old son Alexander, from his German marriage. Shūzō became Siebold's student, translator, and personal assistant, and Alexander's Japanese teacher. Ine lived at first in her father's house, but the relationship was strained, in part over her command of Dutch, and in part over Siebold's impregnating a maid; Ine soon moved out. She worked closely with Shūzō, who assisted her communications with his advanced Dutch ability. Her father's reputation helped her gain patients of her own. In April 1862 Siebold was made to return to Europe again and never returned to Japan.  Ine continued to learn from Dutch physicians in the Nagasaki community such as J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort, who lauded her skills in print. Van Meerdervoort founded in 1861 the first Western-style hospital and medical school in Japan, the Nagasaki Yōjōsho, with the support of the military government, and Ine attended classes in the women's ward and assisted in operations there. She was the first woman in Japan to witness the dissection of a human corpse, carried out by Van Meerdervoort.  Her reputation and connections in the Western-learning community won Ine the patronage of Date Munenari, whose favour extended to her daughter, now named Takako. As her mixed German–Japanese blood could lead her to suffer discrimination, Munenari had her change her name to Kusumoto Itoku. He extended a modest official rice stipend to Ine, and she was expected to be ready to serve in the women's quarters at the castle; she was one of three doctors present when Munenari's wife Yoshiko gave birth in 1867. Ine had a busy practice in Uwajima and made frequent travel between Nagasaki and Uwajima during the 1860s. Munenari made effort on behalf of her father and Shūzō, who were arrested in 1861 in Edo by anti-foreign factions. Shūzō was released in 1865 and returned to Uwajima, where in 1866 he married Takako.  Ine's mother died in 1869. About this time Ine studied obstetrics in Nagasaki with Antonius Bauduin, who pioneered ovariotomy there and was appointed to the Tōkō national medical school in Tokyo, which had just been renamed from Edo and where the Emperor had moved after his restoration. After other moves Ine also settled in Tokyo. There she became acquainted with Takako's half-brother Ishii Kendō, the son of Ishii Sōken. Ine maintained contact in Tokyo with her half-brother Alexander, who worked for the British legation, and another half-brother Heinrich, who had worked there as an interpreter for the Austro-Hungarian legation since 1869.

Later career and death.

Kendō and Shūzō won prestigious appointments in the capital, and in 1873, through her connections with Fukuzawa Yukichi and other Western scholars, she attended the birth of the child of Emperor Meiji's concubine Hamuro Mitsuko; the child was stillborn and Mitsuko died four days later. Ine received the considerable sum of for her effort. Shūzō and Takako moved to Osaka in 1876, where Shūzō worked for the Osaka Hospital. In 1877 he became sick and died there. Takako became pregnant from an acquaintance and gave birth to a boy in 1879, whom Ine adopted as her heir and named Shūzō. Takako married the doctor Yamawaki Taisuke, with whom she had a further three children before his death in 1886.  Ine returned to Nagasaki, where she earned her midwife's license in 1884. She returned to Tokyo in 1889 and may have retired by 1895, at which time the family moved into a Western-style house Heinrich had had built in Azabu. She died there on 27 August 1903 after eating freshwater eel and watermelon, which are said to have given her food poisoning. She enjoyed the social support of the Western-style medical and scholarly communities, the high regard of her students and fellow practitioners, and the financial support of her father.  Ine was said to have had fair skin, somewhat curly brown hair, and blue eyes. She never married. In later life she preferred not to reveal her mixed ancestry.

Legacy.

Ine appears as a leading character in the novels (1972) by Ryōtarō Shiba and Akira Yoshimura's "Von Siebold no Musume" (1979; translated by Richard Rubinger as "Siebold's Daughter" (2016)), and in the television dramas (""Ine of Holland"") in 1970, in 1977 (based on Shiba's novel), and "O-Ine: Chichi no na wa Siebold" (""O-Ine: Her Father's Name is Siebold"") in 2000. Musicals based on Ine's life include "Bakumatsu Gāru: Dokutoru O-Ine Monogatari" (""Bakumatsu Girl: The Tale of Doktor O-Ine""), which opened in Ehime in 2012.  A volume written by and illustrated by titled "Nihon de Hajimete no Joi: Kusumoto Ine" (""The First Woman Doctor in Japan: Kusumoto Ine"") appeared in 1992 as part of the "" (""Biography: Learn from People"") series of biographies for youths. The cartoonist Maki Masaki adapted Ine's story to comics in "Siebold O-Ine" in 1995; Masaki depicts Ine with red-tinted hair and focuses the story on Ine's strength of will in the face of the trials she underwent both as a female medical student and an, a derogatory term for a mixed-race child.

Kusumoto Ine (, 31 May 182727 August 1903; born Shiimoto Ine ) was a Japanese physician. She was the daughter of Kusumoto Taki, who was a courtesan from Nagasaki; and the German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold, who worked on Dejima, an island foreigners were restricted to during Japan's long period of seclusion from the world. Ine was also known as O-Ine and later in life took the name Itoku (). In Japanese she is often called Oranda O-Ine ("Dutch O-Ine") for her association with Dejima and its Dutch-language Western learning. She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan.

Kusumoto Ine (jap., auch mit dem damals für Frauen üblichen Honorativpräfix O-Ine; * 31. Mai 1827 in Deshima, Nagasaki; † 26. August 1903 in Mamiana, Azabu) war die erste japanische Frauenärztin und Geburtshelferin nach westlichem Vorbild. Ihr Vater war der deutsche Arzt und Naturforscher Philipp Franz von Siebold und ihre Mutter "Kusumoto Taki" (; 1807–1865), auch Sonogi () genannt. Ihr Vater arbeitete als Arzt in der niederländischen Faktorei Deshima, bis er infolge der „Siebold-Affäre“ zum Jahreswechsel 1828/29 des Landes verwiesen wurde. Erst 1859 konnte Siebold wieder nach Japan einreisen und seine Tochter wiedersehen.


Geography.

It is situated in the Hron valley between the mountains Pohronský Inovec and Štiavnické vrchy, located around 40 km east of Nitra and 120 km north-east of Bratislava.

History.

The territory of the village has been settled since the Neolithic and Hallstatt period, but it is best known for a very important Benedictine abbey, which played in important role in the Christianization process and in the development of culture and education. It was founded in 1075 by King Géza I under the name "Monasterium Ecclesia Sancti Benedicti". The Nitra Gospels, the oldest Latin book (i.e. not just text) from the territory of Slovakia, were written here around 1100. The abbey ceased operations during the 16th century in the course of the Ottoman expansion in present-day Hungary. The church of the monastery contains valuable works of art (a wood-carving of the Holy Sepulchre, a wall-painting presenting the legend of St. George, an altar depicting the Passion, a sculpture of Jesus Christ from the 13th century, a Madonna sculpture from the 14th century, etc.). The abbey was declared a National Cultural Monument in 1945.  The village below the abbey arose in the 14th century and received a city charter (town privileges) in 1347, but was destroyed by the Turks (Ottomans) in 1599 and later re-built.

Demographics.

According to the 2001 census, the village had 1,220 inhabitants. 98.44% of inhabitants were Slovaks, 0.41% Roma, 0.33% Hungarians and 0.25% Czechs. The religious make-up was 91.89% Roman Catholics, 3.28% people with no religious affiliation and 0.90% Lutherans.

Notable People.

Both members of the Slovak pop duo TWiiNS were born on 15 May 1986 in Hronský Beňadik.

Hronský Beňadik (before 1960: "Svätý Beňadik", German: "Sankt Benedikt", Hungarian: "Garamszentbenedek") is a village in central Slovakia. It has a population of 1233 (2005).

Hronský Beňadik (bis 1948 slowakisch „Svätý Benedik“ – bis 1960 „Svätý Beňadik“; deutsch "Sankt Benedikt", ungarisch "Garamszentbenedek" – bis 1888 "Szentbenedek") ist eine Gemeinde in der Westlichen Mittelslowakei. Sie liegt im Grantal, zwischen dem Pohronský Inovec und den Schemnitzer Bergen, etwa 45 km von Nitra und 17 km von Levice.


Main towns/villages.

The Shire includes the towns of Ivanhoe, Menindee, Wilcannia and White Cliffs.

Demographics.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics during 2003-04 there:

Council.

Current composition and election method.

In 2014 the Council placed under Administration for a period of three months. Following a public inquiry, Councillors were removed from office and an Administrator originally appointed for three months had his term extended and at September 2018 was still acting in this capacity. The Council is expected to be removed from Administration in September 2020. Central Darling Shire Council is composed of nine Councillors elected proportionally as three separate wards, each electing three Councillors. All Councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The Mayor is elected by the Councillors at the first meeting of the Council. The most recent election was held on 8 September 2012, and the makeup of the Council at the time of moving to Administration was as follows:  The previous Council, elected in 2012, in order of election by ward, is:

Economic activity.

The principle economic activities within the Shire include pastoral, horticultural, agricultural, mining and tourism. Rural grazing properties represent the largest land use within the Shire, accounting for 97% of the entire area. Major horticultural and agricultural production is centred on Menindee. The relative ease of access to water from the Darling River and Menindee Lakes Storage Scheme enables producers to grow a large variety of crops and fruits.  Opal mining has been the predominant mining industry within the Shire. Opal was discovered in White Cliffs in 1884 and the first commercial opal field commenced operation in 1890, reaching its peak in 1899.

Central Darling Shire is a local government area in the Far West region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Barrier Highway. Central Darling Shire was constituted in 1959 and at, it is the largest incorporated local government area in New South Wales.

Central Darling Shire ist ein lokales Verwaltungsgebiet (LGA) im australischen Bundesstaat New South Wales. Das Gebiet ist 53.492,2 km2 groß und hat etwa 1.800 Einwohner.


Towns and localities.

Towns and localities in the Clarence Valley Council are:

Heritage listings.

The Clarence Valley Council has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Demographics.

At the, there were people in the Clarence Valley local government area, of these 49.4 per cent were male and 50.6 per cent were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 5.7 per cent of the population which is more than double the national and state averages of 2.5 per cent. The median age of people in the Clarence Valley Council area was 46 years; some 10 years higher than the national median. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 18.6 per cent of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 21.3 per cent of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 49.3 per cen% were married and 14.6% were either divorced or separated.  Population growth in the Clarence Valley Council area between the and the 2011 Census was 3.15 per cent. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same period, being 8.32 per cent, population growth in the Clarence Valley local government area was lower than the national average. The median weekly income for residents within the Clarence Valley Council area was significantly below the national average, being one of the factors that place the Clarence Valley Council area in an area of social disadvantage.  At the 2011 Census, the proportion of residents in the Clarence Valley local government area who stated their ancestry as Australian or Anglo-Saxon exceeded 82 per cent of all residents (national average was 65.2 per cent). In excess of 64 per cent of all residents in the Clarence Valley Council area nominated a religious affiliation with Christianity at the 2011 Census, which was above the national average of 50.2 per cent. Meanwhile, as at the Census date, compared to the national average, households in the Clarence Valley local government area had a significantly lower than average proportion (3.1 per cent) where two or more languages are spoken (national average was 20.4 per cent); and a significantly higher proportion (94.0 per cent) where English only was spoken at home (national average was 76.8 per cent).

Council.

Clarence Valley Council is composed of nine Councillors elected proportionally as one entire ward. All Councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The Mayor is elected by the Councillors at the first meeting of the Council. The most recent election was held on 10 September 2016, and the makeup of the Council is as follows:  The current Council, elected in 2016, in order of election, is:

Clarence Valley Council is a local government area in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. The council services an area of and draws its name from the Clarence River, which flows through most of the council area. The area under management is adjacent to the Pacific Highway, the Gwydir Highway and the North Coast railway line. The Clarence Valley region includes the coastal plain and lower valleys of the Clarence and Nymboida river. Most of the valley is agricultural; however, the oceanside towns of Yamba and Iluka are popular holiday resorts.

Clarence Valley Council ist ein lokales Verwaltungsgebiet (LGA) im australischen Bundesstaat New South Wales. Das Gebiet ist 10.428,1 km2 groß und hat etwa 51.000 Einwohner.


Life und works.

As monk of Saint Gall, Gozbert is documented as deacon in 798, as priest in 811 and as dean between 813 and 816. In the year 816, he was elected abbot. He succeeded in loosening the dependency of the Abbey of Saint Gall from the Bishopric of Konstanz to whom the town Saint Gall belonged. On 3 June 818, he received the immunity from Emperor Louis the Pious, which was later confirmed by Louis the German. Moreover, Gozbert was assured of the continuing free election of the abbot in the monastery; a privilege that had, less than a hundred years before, cost the founder of the monastery, Otmar, his freedom.  Gozbert laid his focus on the expansion of the monastery estate. His acquisitions and the donations he received were a significant foundation for the future prince abbey. Gozbert centralised the administration of the monastery property and reformed the documentary management as the profession of registrar was regarded as stepping stone to a better position in the monastery. Under Gozbert's regency, Saint Gall became a cultural centre, as many still existing documents from his time affirm. He also paid special attention to the abbey library.  Gozbert was the recipient (and employer?) of the Plan of Saint Gall which was made around 820 in Reichenau. How closely his monastery actually resembled this ideal plan is unknown. What is known, however, is that the building process began with the new construction of the Basilica of Gall (Gallusbasilika) in 830, which was sanctified after 835 in the presence of the Bishops Ulrich I. von Basel, Wolfleoz von Konstanz and Erlebald von Reichenau.  Anno 837, Gozbert resigned from his office as abbot. Possibly, this was due to political uncertainties in which the monastery had become involved when the sons of Louis the Pious struggled over his succession.  In the literature, the following career is stated:  „As first abbot, [in Rheinau Abbey] in the middle of the 9. century, we encounter Gozbert who was summoned from Saint Gall by Wolfene. He is followed by Antwart, Wolfen, the restorer of the monastery († 878), Wichram;..."  Gozbert's exact year of death is not known. It is possible that he died in relation to his successor Anwarth's assumption of office in Rheinau in the year 850.

Gozbert († 4 April 850 (?) in Rheinau) was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 816 until 837 and also abbot of Rheinau Abbey until 850. The beginning of his term of office in Rheinau is unknown.

Gozbert († 4. April 850 (?) in Rheinau) war von 816 bis 837 Abt des Klosters St. Gallen und mit unbekanntem Datum anschließend bis 850 Abt im Kloster Rheinau.


History.

In 1904, UE acquired Aibl publishers, and so acquired the rights to many works by Richard Strauss and Max Reger, but it was the arrival of Emil Hertzka as managing director in 1907 (who remained until his death in 1932) which really pushed the firm towards new music. Under Hertzka, UE signed contracts with a number of important contemporary composers, including Béla Bartók and Frederick Delius in 1908; Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg in 1909 (Mahler's "Symphony No. 8" was the first work UE acquired an original copyright to); Anton Webern and Alexander von Zemlinsky in 1910; Karol Szymanowski in 1912; Leoš Janáček in 1917 and Kurt Weill in 1924. Through their association with Schoenberg, they also published many works by Alban Berg.  The firm's avant garde directions continued after World War II, when UE published works by a number of significant composers, among them Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Later important additions to the catalogue include Harrison Birtwistle, Friedrich Cerha, Georg Friedrich Haas, Cristóbal Halffter, Georges Lentz, Arvo Pärt, David Sawer and Johannes Maria Staud.  UE have also published several significant historical editions, including the complete works of Claudio Monteverdi. In collaboration with Schott, they have published the Wiener Urtext Edition series since 1972. Originally consisting of works for one or two performers by composers from Johann Sebastian Bach to Johannes Brahms, the series was later expanded to include a limited number of later works, such as the "Ludus Tonalis" of Paul Hindemith.

Litigation threats.

On October 19, 2007, Universal Edition entered legal proceedings against the International Music Score Library Project, an online entity which seeks to make musical scores in the public domain available digitally. In response to a cease-and-desist letter from Universal Edition demanding that certain scores still covered by Austrian copyright be removed, IMSLP closed itself voluntarily, amidst controversy that UE's demands lacked reasonable legal grounds. For although Austrian copyright governs works published up to 70 years after its composer's death, IMSLP is hosted in Canada, where copyright lasts twenty years fewer. The Internet Law professor Michael Geist wrote a column for the BBC which suggested UE's actions lacked reasonable legal ground. The International Music Score Library maintained that UE's actions lacked legal justification, and reopened on June 30, 2008.

Universal Edition (UE) is a classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna, and originally intended to provide the core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market (which had until then been dominated by Leipzig-based publishers). The firm soon expanded to become one of the most important publishers of modern music.

Universal Edition AG (häufig mit UE abgekürzt) ist ein 1901 gegründeter österreichischer Musikverlag mit Hauptsitz am Karlsplatz 6 in Wien.


Features.

War of annihilation is defined as a radicalized form of warfare in which "all psycho-physical limits" are abolished.  The Hamburg social scientist Jan Philipp Reemtsma sees a war, "which is led, in the worst case, to destroy or even decimate a population", as the heart of the war of annihilation. The state organization of the enemy will be smashed. Another characteristic of a war of annihilation is its ideological character and the rejection of negotiations with the enemy, as the historian Andreas Hillgruber has shown in the example of the German-Soviet War. The legitimacy and trustworthiness of the opponent is negated, demoted to status of a total enemy, with whom there can be no understanding, but rather devotes the totality of one's own ""Volk, Krieg und Politik [als] Triumph der Idee des Vernichtungskrieges"" (people, war and politics [to the] triumph of the idea of the war of annihilation).

Development.

Herero uprising.

Social Democratic Party of Germany political communications had circulated the term "Vernichtungskrieg" in order to criticize the action against the insurgents during the Herero Wars.  In January 1904 the Herero and Namaqua genocide began in the German colony German South West Africa. With a total of about 15,000 men under Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, this uprising was prostrated until August 1904. Most of the Herero fled to the almost waterless Omaheke, an offshoot of the Kalahari Desert. From Trotha had them locked down and the refugees chased away from the few water spots there, so that thousands of Herero along with their families and cattle herds died of thirst. The hunted in the desert, let Trotha in the so-called "Vernichtungsbefehl", "Annihilation Command":  Trotha's warfare aimed at the complete annihilation of the Herero ("I believe that the nation must be destroyed as such") and was supported in particular by Schlieffen and Kaiser Wilhelm II. His approach is therefore considered to be the first genocide of the twentieth century. Trotha's action sparked outrage in Germany and abroad; at the instigation of chancellor Bernhard von Bülow, the Emperor lifted the order of annihilation two months after the events in the Omaheke. Trotha's policy remained largely unchanged until its revocation in November 1905.

Ludendorff's conception.

The war of annihilation was a further development of the concept of Total War, as 1935 the former imperial General Quartermaster Erich Ludendorff had designed. Thereafter, in a coming war, victory must be given unlimited priority over all other societal concerns: all resources would have to be harnessed, the will of the nation had to be made available before the outbreak of the hostilities are unified by propaganda and dictatorship violence, all available weapons would have to be used, and no consideration could be taken of International law. Even in its objectives, total war is unlimited, as the experience of First World War teaching:  In this conceptual delimitation of the war, Ludendorff was able to draw from the German military-theoretical discourse, which had formed in the confrontation with the People's War, the "Guerre à outrance", which the newly created Third French Republic in the fall and winter of 1870 against the Prussian-German invaders of the Franco-Prussian War.  Ludendorff also dealt with Carl von Clausewitz and his 1832 posthumously published work "On War", in which he distinguished between 'absolute' and 'limited' wars. But even for Clausewitz absolute war was subject to restrictions, such as the distinction between combatants and non-combatants, between military and civil or between public and private. Ludendorff claimed now that in total war it is no longer a "petty political purpose", not even "big... national interests", but the sheer "Lebenserhaltung" (life-support) of the nation, its identity. This existential threat also justifies the annihilation of the enemy, at least moral, if not physical. Ludendorffs efforts to radicalize the war (for which he was responsible from 1916) met with social, political and military barriers. In the year 1935, his advice was then, as the historian Robert Foley writes, "on fertile ground"; the time seemed ripe for an even more radical delimitation of the war by the National Socialists.

Nazi warfare.

The best known example of a "Vernichtungskrieg" is the German-Soviet War, which began on June 22, 1941 with the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The Berlin historian Ernst Nolte called this the "most egregious "Versklavungs- und Vernichtungskrieg" [war of enslavement and annihilation] known to modern history" and distinguished it from a "normal war", as the Nazi regime conducted against France.  According to Andreas Hillgruber, Hitler had four motives in launching Operation Barbarossa, namely  Later, Hillgruber explicitly described the character of the Eastern Front as "intended racial-ideological war of annihilation". Operation Barbarossa has also found its way into the historical-political teaching of general education schools as a historical example of an extermination war.  The concept of the war of annihilation was intensely discussed in the 1990s with reference to the "Wehrmachtsausstellung" of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, which carried the word ""Vernichtungskrieg"" in the title. That Operation Barbarossa would be a war of annihilation, Adolf Hitler had pronounced openly on March 30, 1941 before the generals of the Wehrmacht:  The orientation of Operation Barbarossa as a prior planned war of annihilation proves the commands prepared according to the general guidelines cited by Hitler on 30 March 1941 before the start of the campaign, such as the Barbarossa Decree of 13 May 1941, the Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia of 19 May 1941 and the Commissar Order of 6 June 1941. The German guidelines for agricultural policy in the Soviet territories to be conquered are one of the most extreme examples of a robbery and annihilation strategy. In a meeting of the secretaries of State on May 2, 1941, the Hunger Plan prepared: "This will undoubtedly starve tens of millions of people if we get what we need pried out of the country."  The German historian Jochen Böhler regarded the Invasion of Poland as "prelude to the "Vernichtungskrieg"" against the Soviet Union 1941.

Other examples.

Other premeditated, systematic and continued genocidal behaviour carried out by organized groups of people (state or otherwise) can be considered wars of annihilation. There are many examples of this, including recent ones like the Rwandan genocide or the Pygmy genocide - Effacer le tableau - in the DR Congo, where even no woman or child was to be spared, or other ones like the Yazidi genocide where it did not necessarily entail complete physical extermination, but the destruction of the identity of an independent ethno-religious minority through actions like killing of the men and abduction and forced marriage of women and children of the targeted group. In journalism and research, many other conflicts are also known as "Vernichtungskrieg".  In 1876, the German writer and historian Felix Dahn used the term for the first time in the modern sense: in his novel "A struggle for Rome" he let the Byzantine warlord Narses aim his campaign against Goths to Ethnic group in Italy completely utterly, i.e. lead a "war of annihilation against their entire folklore".  Also for the Third Punic War 149 – 146 BC, the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest or certain tribes in the Indian Wars by American settlers Find evidence that they call war of annihilation.  The ethnologist Otto Stoll wrote 1888 of a war of annihilation of the Spanish Conquistadores against various indigenous populations.  The former employee of the German Military History Research Office (Germany) Joachim Hoffmann described in his book "Stalin's Annihilation War" (1995) the Soviet warfare against Nazi Germany as a "War of Annihilation". He cites as the motto a speech made by Josef Stalin on 6 November 1941, in which this stated:  Other academics do not follow Hoffmann's interpretation of the speech, but refer to Stalin's further statements in the following months that an annihilation of Germany is by no means his goal of war. Hoffmann's work as a whole was highly critically reviewed by a majority.  There is talk of an "unbridled War of Annihilation" (Norbert Blüm), or its English counterpart, "War of Extermination", when Israel's approach is described in Middle East conflict from various sides. However, this is extremely controversial and politically charged, and no scholar agrees with this description. There were Arab cries for a "Mongol massacre" and similar warnings of no mercy during the 1947-48 Israeli war of independence, and although massacres occurred in both communities, there was in practice no confirmation of truly genocidal intent apart from these outbursts of sporadic violence and heated rhetoric. The "Nazi comparison" implied in this wording is an indication of secondary antisemitism.  In a publication of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Potsdam from the year 1998, the action of Guatemalan military in Civil War is called the "relentless war of annihilation against one's own people."

A war of annihilation () or war of extermination is a type of war in which the goal is the complete annihilation of a state, a people or an ethnic minority through genocide or through the destruction of their livelihood. The goal can be outward-directed or inward, against elements of one's own population. The goal is not like other types of warfare, the recognition of limited political goals, such as recognition of a legal status (such as in a war of independence), control of disputed territory (as in war of aggression or defensive war), or the total military defeat of an enemy state.

Ein Vernichtungskrieg ist ein Krieg, dessen Ziel die vollständige Vernichtung eines Staates, eines Volkes oder einer Volksgruppe und die Auslöschung dieser soziopolitischen Entität durch die massenhafte Ermordung der Bevölkerung oder die Zerstörung ihrer Lebensgrundlage ist. Diese Absicht kann sich sowohl nach außen als auch gegen Teile der eigenen Bevölkerung richten. Ziel ist nicht, wie in anderen Kriegen, die Durchsetzung begrenzter politischer Ziele, etwa die Anerkennung eines Rechtszustandes (wie bei einem Unabhängigkeitskrieg), die Verfügungsgewalt über ein umstrittenes Gebiet (wie bei einem Eroberungs- oder Verteidigungskrieg), oder die vollständige militärische Niederringung des feindlichen Staates.


Plot.

One morning, hit men Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) enter a school for the blind and terrorize an administrator until she reveals the whereabouts of a teacher, Johnny North (John Cassavetes). As the hitmen walk toward North's upstairs classroom, the teacher receives a call warning him of their arrival. Johnny sadly responds, "It's okay. I know them." As he calmly waits at his desk, Charlie and Lee enter and shoot him multiple times.  As they depart by train, Charlie is bothered that North refused to flee, and that they were paid an unusually high fee for such a simple hit. He and Lee run through what they know about the man they have just killed. Johnny was once a champion race car driver whose career ended in a violent crash. Four years before his death, he was involved in a million-dollar robbery of a mail truck. Tempted by the missing million, Charlie and Lee visit Miami to interview Johnny's former mechanic.  Earl Sylvester (Claude Akins), who considers himself Johnny's only friend, is devastated to learn of his death. In between sobs and gulps of whiskey, he tells the story as he remembers it. Johnny North was at the top of his profession when he met the beautiful Sheila Farr (Angie Dickinson). Johnny fell in love and planned to propose marriage after winning his next big race. However, Johnny's late nights with Sheila had left him disoriented from lack of sleep. His racing career ended with a fiery crash due a problem with a rear wheel.  At the hospital, Earl revealed to Johnny that Sheila was the mistress of mob boss Jack Browning (Ronald Reagan). Known for her extravagant taste, Sheila has already cheated on Browning with several other sports figures, all of whom met bad ends. Enraged and heartbroken, Johnny rebuffed Sheila's attempts to explain and cut his ties to her.  Intrigued, Charlie and Lee approach a former member of Browning's crew, who also reveals his memories. After the crash, Sheila found Johnny working as a pit mechanic. She says a much better job might soon be his for the taking. Browning was planning the robbery of a U.S. postal truck. On Sheila's recommendation, he agreed to Johnny as his getaway driver.  Although Johnny still felt betrayed, Sheila said that she had always regretted losing him. Johnny forgave her. He also helped Browning by souping up the getaway car. Browning, however, was enraged when he learned that Sheila had returned to Johnny. In a deliberate provocation, Browning brutally slapped Sheila in front of Johnny, after she defied him. Johnny punched Browning and threatened to kill him if he ever hurt Sheila again. They agreed to "settle this" after the robbery.  Browning and North placed a phony detour sign to send the mail truck onto an isolated mountain road. When the truck stopped, the gang held it up at gunpoint, loading more than $1 million into the getaway car. Johnny then forced Browning out of the moving car, driving off alone with the money.  After listening to this story, Charlie and Lee pay a visit to Browning, who is now a real estate developer in Los Angeles. Browning insists he is now an honest businessman and has no idea what happened to the money. He reveals that Sheila is staying at a hotel and arranges a meeting with her.  To deprive Browning of time to plan an ambush, Charlie and Lee call at Sheila's hotel several hours earlier than agreed but unbeknownst to them a hotel clerk spots them and calls Browning. At first Sheila denies all knowledge of Johnny or the money. Charlie and Lee beat her and dangle her by the ankles out a seventh-story window. Terrified, she tells them the truth.  The night before the robbery, she told Johnny his life was in danger. Browning, she said, was planning to kill him and pocket his share. Johnny wanted to kill Browning on the spot. Sheila insisted she had a better idea. On her advice, Johnny threw Browning out of the car and drove the money to Sheila.  As the two lovers entered a motel room that Sheila had prearranged, Browning was waiting for them. Sheila asked Browning to "do it quickly," and the gangster shot Johnny, severely wounding but not killing him before Johnny escaped. It turned out Sheila and Browning were husband and wife and had used Johnny as a fall guy for Browning's plan to take all of the money. Sheila expressed fear that Johnny would seek revenge, so Browning hired Charlie and Lee to murder him.  Charlie now understands at last why Johnny refused to flee: the only man who refuses to run is a man who considers himself to be already dead. Sheila's betrayal had already killed Johnny long before the bullets ever touched him.  Charlie and Lee, with Sheila in tow, intend to confront Browning, but he is waiting nearby with a sniper rifle. He kills Lee and wounds Charlie.  Browning and Sheila return home, where they prepare to flee with the money. A mortally wounded Charlie makes it there in time. Sheila, again revealing her disloyal nature, frantically denies any role in the ambush, insisting that her husband alone was responsible. Charlie calmly shoots Browning dead. He turns his revolver toward Sheila. When she again pleads for her life, Charlie snarls, "Lady, I don't have the time!" He kills Sheila with a single bullet and staggers out the door with the money. Charlie falls dead on the lawn while spilling the money out of the suitcase as a police car in the background makes its way towards the house.

Production.

"The Killers", intended to be one of the first "made-for-TV movies," was intended to be part of a "Project 120" series of films that did not reach the airwaves. It was filmed under the title "Johnny North", but NBC judged it too violent for broadcast, so Universal released the film theatrically instead.  Steve McQueen and George Peppard were considered for the role that eventually went to Cassavetes. After Cassavetes was signed to play the race car driver, director Siegel found out the actor could barely drive.  Don Siegel had originally been hired as director of the earlier 1946 version of the same story, but had been fired. Actress Virginia Christine had also appeared in the 1946 version.  According to the DVD commentary, Dickinson received the news during filming that her friend (and rumored romantic partner) President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed.  "The Killers" was Reagan's last acting role before entering politics, and the only villainous role in his career. According to Kirk Douglas's autobiography, "The Ragman's Son", Reagan regretted doing the movie, particularly because of a scene in which he slaps Dickinson.  The main title and closing music, originally composed by Henry Mancini for the 1958 Orson Welles film "Touch of Evil", was drawn from the Universal Pictures music library and re-edited for use in this film. The song "Too Little Time", which was composed by Mancini with lyrics by Don Raye as the love theme for "The Glenn Miller Story", was sung by Nancy Wilson in a new arrangement.

Reception.

"The Killers" holds a rating of 79% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 24 reviews with the consensus: "Though it can't best Robert Siodmak's classic 1946 version, Don Siegel's take on the Ernest Hemingway story stakes out its own violent territory, and offers a terrifically tough turn from Lee Marvin."

Awards.

Marvin received the 1965 BAFTA Award for Best Actor for this role as well as for his role in "Cat Ballou".

The Killers, released in the UK as Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers", is a 1964 American neo noir crime film released by Universal Studios. Written by Gene L. Coon, and directed by Don Siegel, it is the second Hollywood adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short story of the same name, following the 1946 version.

Der Tod eines Killers ist ein Thriller von Don Siegel aus dem Jahr 1964 nach der Kurzgeschichte "Die Killer" von Ernest Hemingway. Der Film kam am 7. Juli 1964 in den USA in die Kinos im Verleih der Universal Pictures, in Deutschland kam der Film am 7. August heraus.


History.

1997–2004: Formation and early years.

The band was formed in 1997 when Chauntelle and Sherri began creating music together after having been inspired by bands like the Beatles, Jeremy Enigk, and Radiohead. Younger sister Stacy (who was then 8 years old) became frustrated over their insistence that she was too young to be a part of the band and wrote her own song without their help before she was inducted. Their brother Weston (who was then 10 years old) soon joined the band as the drummer.  Boyd and Kim Dupree, parents of the four DuPree siblings, ran a venue called Brewtones Coffee Galaxy by occupying the space of their Vineyard church on days when it was not in use. Eisley, then known as the Towheads, began years of service as the house band, giving them their first exposure. At Brewtones, the band played with many other acts including Ester Drang, Midlake, and Waterdeep. They soon became MossEisley, a reference to the city in the Star Wars trilogy, but later (after a brief stint playing under the names Neverland or Sinclair) shortened the name due to possible legal ramifications. The band played numerous weekend shows at the venue until they became too busy with other opportunities.  After emerging on the Dallas scene in 2001, playing hundreds of shows throughout Texas and garnering a fan base as an indie band, Eisley was signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2003. The same year, the band won "Best New Artist" at the "Dallas Observer" Music Awards. The band had some early radio success with the song "Telescope Eyes" from the "Laughing City" EP. It was ranked the top 25th most played song on FM 102.1 ("The Edge") in Dallas in 2003.

2004–2006: "Room Noises".

During the majority of 2004, the band spent most of their time recording their debut album. During the first part of 2005, the band toured extensively with New Found Glory. In June 2005, Eisley embarked on their first headlining tour, The Summer Scenic Tour, to support their debut album "Room Noises" with Lovedrug and Pilotdrift as opening acts. On June 10, they performed a sold out show at The Troubadour in California. The recording of The Troubadour show was to be released as a live DVD; however, the band was not pleased with the footage or audio so nothing ever came of it.  The band went on to tour with Hot Hot Heat in July. During this tour Eisley's then bassist, Jonathon Wilson, who admittedly was never 100% invested in the band, announced he was leaving after the pressure from their then-label Warner bros got to him. He was replaced as bassist by Garron DuPree, the DuPrees' then fifteen-year-old cousin in 2005.  In August, after the Hot Hot Heat tour, the band went into the studio in Seattle for a day to track "Head Against The Sky". The song was later released in October of that year on the "Head Against The Sky E.P." with three songs from the cancelled "Troubadour" DVD. In October and November 2005, Eisley went on tour with Switchfoot as openers. Around this time, the band started playing new, unrecorded material for their second album. In March 2006, the band did a small tour in Australia as main support for Taking Back Sunday. Following that, Eisley headlined their last tour in support of "Room Noises", The Final Noise Tour.

2006–2010: "Combinations" and label issues.

In September 2006, Eisley headed back to the studio to record their follow up to "Room Noises". While tracking for their second album, Sherri and Stacy also recorded vocals for Bright Eyes's album "Cassadaga." The band finished recording the album in November 2006, but due to assumed conflicts with their label, the album was delayed. "Combinations" was finally released on August 14, 2007.  Eisley performed on a special acoustic tour with Wesley Jensen during the summer of 2007. The band made their national television debut on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" on August 30, 2007, performing "Combination's" lead and only single "Invasion". They spent a couple of months in late 2007 opening shows for Mutemath around the country. Then, in the spring and early summer of 2008, Eisley headlined their own cross-continent finance tour in support of their latest release, "Combinations", with openers including The Envy Corps (who had to leave mid-tour due to an envious European tour), Vedera and The Myriad. On December 18, 2007, the band released the "Like the Actors E.P." on iTunes. This EP contained the two B-sides for "Combinations" as well as an unreleased track from "Room Noises", titled "Sun Feet".  In the spring of 2008, Eisley headlined the only main tour that would be done in support of "Combinations". Eisley has also played a number of individual shows. They played a handful of shows at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2007. In August 2007, they performed at the Carling Weekend Festival, held in Reading and Leeds, England. They returned to Tyler to perform at Brewtones on December 15, 2007.  After the "Combinations" tour, the band originally planned to take a break before starting work on their third album. At this time, relationships with their label was not at the best, and the band's personal lives were getting back into control. However, at the urging of their good friend and A&R, Eisley went back into the studio later in 2008 to record their third album. During the recording process, the band did a few one-off shows. Notably, they performed a benefit with the Seattle Symphony with Mateo Messina in 2008 and headlined a show at Baylor University in the spring of 2009, their first real show since the end of their "Combinations" tour.  During this time, Warner Brothers shifted Eisley from the Reprise to the Sire label. Throughout most of the summer of 2009, the band worked on their follow up album. They finished recording most of the album in August of that year, but complications with WB delayed the release. However, the band went on tour with Dupree-Bemis' husband's band Say Anything that fall and released the "Fire Kite E.P." as a teaser for the upcoming album.

2010–2011: New label and "The Valley".

On February 9, 2010, the band officially announced that they had parted ways with WB right before the Say Anything tour. Throughout most of 2010, Eisley shopped for a new label while they tried to acquire the rights to release their third album. They played SXSW that year, and in late spring and early summer, the band did a small headlining tour called The Mild Mild Midwest tour up to the Cornerstone Music Festival. In the fall of 2010, the band did another headlining tour called The Over The River and Through The Wood tour in anticipation for their third album.  On November 4, 2010, it was announced that the band had signed with Equal Vision Records and had also acquired the rights from WB to release their third album tracked at Rosewood Studios, a studio they had pushed WB into letting them record at in their hometown of Tyler. Following that, on December 10, 2010, it was announced that Eisley would be releasing their new album on March 1, 2011, titled "The Valley". In February 2011, Eisley went on tour as main support for Rooney. On this tour, the band debuted several more new songs in anticipation for "The Valley". A week before release, the band streamed the full album on Spin.com. Finally on March 1, "The Valley" was released.  "The Valley" was met with generally positive reviews. Sputnikmusic and, to the band's surprise, Absolute Punk both gave the album a rating of 90, commenting on the band's vocal style and the instrumentation being different from previous albums. All Music Guide, "Alternative Press", and The Onion A.V. club also praised the album as well. However, "Under the Radar" had mixed reviews, but commented on the tunes being enjoyable as well as the Dupree sisters' voices being thrilling. "The Austin Chronicle" gave the album a negative review, criticizing the album's focus to love and broken relationships as opposed to the whimsical style and fantastical imagery found on the band's 2005 debut "Room Noises" and the EPs before.

2011–2015: "Deep Space E.P." and "Currents".

In June 2011, after finishing their first headlining tour for "The Valley", the band announced plans on Twitter and Tumblr of recording a new EP in August. Also, according to online posts from Tumblr and Instagram, there will be a limited edition of the EP, which will possibly include a bio, original lyrics, rare and never before seen photos, past tour memorabilia, various posters, old album artwork dating back to the Mos Eisley days, and possibly more.  Throughout August 2011, the band recorded the "Deep Space E.P.". Originally, the EP was going to contain a few b-sides from "The Valley", but the band ultimately decided to record mostly new songs. Following the completion of the EP, Eisley recorded a music video for their next single, "The Valley". Though the band initially stated the new EP would be released in the fall, they decided on a February 2012 date instead. The reasons being they needed the EP to close out "The Valley" and point to their fourth album. Recording for the new album started in May 2012.  In a newsletter sent to fans in July 2012, the band announced they were currently writing and recording a fourth full-length album in their new home studio. The record and a debut tour was expected in 2013, and the release date for the album, titled "Currents," was set for May 28, 2013. On April 16, 2013, Eisley released an online stream of the song """Drink The Water""," hosted by "Nylon Magazine". The streaming of this song marked the first full length song to be heard from "Currents".

2015-present: new album and line-up changes.

In 2015 Eisley began writing and preparation for their fifth studio album, with production to begin in 2016. Shortly before announcing their fall North American tour with Copeland, the band announced via their YouTube channel that guitarist Chauntelle D'Agostino and keyboardist/vocalist Stacy King had departed the band, and would be pursuing their own musical projects. It was also made known that Eisley's drummer, Weston, would no longer be touring, but would continue recording with the group in a limited fashion. Sherri DuPree-Bemis and Garron DuPree remain the core of Eisley, with Garron seeing an increased role musically.  On June 10, 2016, Eisley revealed that they had begun the process of recording their fifth studio record with the assistance of producer Will Yip at the band's own studio in Tyler at the beginning of the month. DuPree-Bemis spoke of the new album in the band's press release, mentioning that, “Musically, you could say it’s classic Eisley, in the sense that it’s melodic, moody pop and is written from the heart. Lyrically, it’s very whimsical; it has a vibe that will take you into its own world and let you escape your normal life for a few minutes. I like to cloak things in a little mystery and romance; I think it’s part of what makes all of Eisley’s songs sound like they’re from the same world. Every record is like opening and reading a book in a series.” Tracking for the album concluded in early July, with mention of plans to release the record in early 2017.

Side projects and guest appearances.

It was announced by Max Bemis (of Say Anything) in September 2009 that he and his wife, Sherri, were working on a small project that "became something even cooler." They created a side project called Perma. Limited edition CDs were sold on the fall promo tour of the self-titled "Say Anything." Each copy included a hand drawn cover by Max or Sherri. Perma planned to release their debut album sometime in 2013. They have already released their first single, "Knockout".  Stacy is involved in a project with her husband Darren King and producer Jeremy Larson under the title Sucré. Sucré's debut album, "A Minor Bird", was released on April 10, 2012.  Chauntelle and husband Todd D'Agostino (of LaRose Guitars) released a three-song EP called "Everlasting Songs" under the name Rising Fawn in June 2013.  Guest appearances:

Members.

Current members  Current touring musicians  Former members

Eisley is a rock band from Tyler, Texas, originally consisting of siblings Sherri DuPree, Chauntelle DuPree, Stacy DuPree and Weston DuPree. Remaining recording/touring members are cousins Sherri DuPree-Bemis and Garron DuPree. Their name was inspired by the Star Wars saga (i.e. Mos Eisley). Since forming, the band has released five studio albums: "Room Noises" (2005), "Combinations" (2007), "The Valley" (2011), "Currents" (2013), and "I'm Only Dreaming" (2017), along with numerous EPs. Eisley has recorded videos for "Marvelous Things", "I Wasn't Prepared", "Telescope Eyes" (the version from "Room Noises"), "Invasion", "Memories", "Smarter", "The Valley" and "Currents", which can be viewed on their official website, but largely, the band's strong, steady, organic growth comes from touring and an aggressive online marketing approach.

Eisley ist eine Rockband aus Tyler, Texas. Sie besteht aus den vier Geschwistern Chauntelle, Sherri, Stacy, und Weston DuPree sowie ihrem Cousin Garron DuPree. Sie bezeichnen sich als eine "Melodic-Indie-Rock"-Band.


Gameplay.

"Jericho"s core gameplay consists of leading the game's seven-man team codenamed Jericho, allowing control of all team members by jumping to each character during certain points in the game, through various environments that have been warped by the Firstborn while fighting off a variety of twisted creatures.  The game also features several quick time events where the player must press the corresponding buttons or keys shown on screen in order to successfully survive. Additionally, each team member has both a primary and a secondary attack, either in the form of an alternate fire such as a grenade launcher on a rifle, or a secondary weapon such as a sword or pistol that can be dual wielded. While the game is a first person shooter, the ability to control different members of one's squad adds a tactical element; players must determine which squad member is appropriate for each particular job. Not only does each squad member have different strengths and weaknesses, but they also each have a unique ability (or supernatural abilities in some cases). This allows the player freedom in choosing a playing style that suits them throughout much of the game. However, during certain instances, certain characters are unplayable.  The squad's supernatural abilities play a prominent role in the game. The character the player originally controls is a psychic healer (medic) with the ability to fully heal fallen comrades that are close to death. Other squad members have other powers, such as summoning a fire demon, slowing time, firing a guided bullet, and leeching life from enemies to add it to one's own.

Plot.

Premise.

Certain depictions and ancient scriptures dictate a being created by God in His own image before the creation of Adam and Eve; according to legend, this being was abandoned by its own Creator. In the game's mythology, this being is called the "Firstborn". God was so disturbed by what He created that He banished it into the Abyss. God then started anew and went on to create humankind, giving the species two sexes, feelings, and love.  The Firstborn, too powerful for even God to keep from breaking into the mortal world, would make seven attempts to escape, each time taking back a piece of the earth to add to its domain and each time sent back to the Abyss. Fragments of time and space would form layers around this domain, linked to this world in the city Al Khali. These layers would entrap pieces of history within its walls, from the time of the ancient Sumerians to World War II. Over time, other great conquerors and civilizations would arrive to claim the city as their own. Eventually, the city was forgotten and buried by the sands of time.  The Department of Occult Warfare was created in the 1930s to combat the supernatural and unexplained. Another purpose was to meet Nazi Germany's own research into the paranormal. One of their most brilliant members, Arnold Leach, was recruited in 1962. However, his unscrupulous behavior and nature would eventually have him expelled. He was marked for assassination, and although the operation appeared to be successful, it seems that he may have survived.  The Jericho Squad is sent to Al-Khali to prevent Leach from opening the breach and unleashing the Firstborn upon mankind once again.

Story.

The game begins with General Arnold Leach, a high-ranking member of a secret U.S. organization called the Department of Occult Warfare (DOW), being contacted by the Firstborn, a being that was imprisoned by God at the beginning of time in a patch of reality called the Box. The Firstborn convinces Leach to help it escape from the Box. Leach leaves the DOW, and spends the next twenty years committing acts of great evil to build up evil energy to cause a breach in the Box.  Eventually, a breach is made, and the DOW sends in a Special Forces team called Jericho to seal the breach. The leader of the squad, Captain Devin Ross, is killed by Leach, but is still able to linger on as a ghost able to possess the other members of the squad. Being unable to seal it any other way, they enter the Box to close the breach from within.  Once inside, they must battle the souls of those who have breached the Box in the past; a Nazi officer, a fallen Catholic priest from the Middle Ages, a depraved Roman Governor, and six ancient Sumerian priests (Ninlil and Ki, Inanna and Enlil as well as Nanna and Utu, who were the first to banish the Firstborn but ultimately fell victim to its corruption). Jericho is aided by the souls of those who ultimately resealed the breach each time it was broken.  When they finally reach the point at which they can seal the breach, they decide that they should kill the Firstborn rather than try to reseal the breach, as resealing would just result in them being trapped in the Box and endlessly tortured until the breach was opened again. When Jericho passes into the Firstborn's cavern, they find the Firstborn in the middle of an island on a lake, with Leach tied to a wall. During the final battle between Jericho and the Firstborn, Leach breaks free of his bonds. Angered at the Firstborn's betrayal, he grabs it and carries it to a tunnel of light, with the fate of both left unknown.  The cavern soon begins to collapse. Jericho jumps into the water and swims as deep and far as they can. The game ends as they emerge from under the water in a vast ocean under an orange sky.

Reception.

"Clive Barker's Jericho" received "mixed" reviews on all platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. Many critics praised the squad-based system, elaborate storyline and Clive Barker's dark style while criticizing the character AI, lack of scares, linear gameplay, abrupt ending and difficulty with certain game mechanics.  On the game's style, Eurogamer stated that "Clive Barker's contribution to the concept and narrative direction of the game will certainly help get the attention of horror fans" while GameSpot noted its "gorgeously creepy visuals and sound." "Official Xbox Magazine" praised the choice of characters, being "endless fun to switch tactics and experiment with different combinations of powers and weapons for crowd control." However, reviewers complained about the in-game mechanics. Among their criticisms were the poor AI, whereby teammates would die often, requiring the player to heal them regularly. IGN stated: "If the Jericho members' intelligence level wasn't enough of a nuisance for you, there's the actual shooting itself"; Jolt Online Gaming commented that the maps were too linear and close. Despite this, "GamePro" gave the Xbox 360 version a score of 4.5 out of 5, saying that the game's "slick style, amazing graphics, and dark atmosphere really make it stand out."  After being denied a rating in Germany "Jericho"s uncut version got an 18+ rating for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions. In 2010, UGO included the game as the #6 in the article "The 11 Weirdest Game Endings".

Sequel.

Rumours about a sequel to "Jericho" were confirmed when Clive Barker had announced his intention to make a sequel to the game.

Clive Barker's Jericho is a first-person shooter survival horror video game with author Clive Barker providing the premise of the storyline. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2007.

Clive Barker’s Jericho, im Folgenden "Jericho", ist ein Ego-Shooter mit Horror- und Team-Elementen aus dem Jahr 2007. Das Spiel wurde vom spanischen Studio MercurySteam entwickelt, den Vertrieb übernahmen Codemasters.


Origin.

The use of the term "jock" to refer to an athletic man is thought to have emerged around 1963. It is believed to be derived from the word "jockstrap," which is an undergarment worn to support/protect the male genitals while playing sports.  Jocks are often contrasted with another stereotype: nerds. This dichotomy is a theme in many American movies, television shows, and books.  In the United Kingdom, the term 'Jock' is a stereotypical (possibly, but not necessarily, derogatory) term for a Scotsman.

Stereotypes.

Various characteristics of the jock stereotype include:

Portrayal in the media.

Jocks are often present in books, movies, and television shows involving high school and college. The stereotype is most prevalent in movies for teenagers such as "College", "American Pie", and the "Revenge of the Nerds" movies. The stereotype extends beyond the high-school and collegiate age group, trickling down into media intended for younger audiences. Examples of this include the high school football quarterback Dash Baxter in the Nickelodeon cartoon "Danny Phantom" and Kevin from the Cartoon Network series "Ed, Edd n Eddy". Other notable portrayals of the stereotype include the popular athlete and love interest "Tommy Ross" in "Carrie", the spoiled bullying antagonist Luke Ward in the first season of "The O.C.", and Kim's wealthy and athletic boyfriend Jim in "Edward Scissorhands".  The mass media borrows many stereotypical characteristics of athletes, and they are commonly used to portray a character who is relatively unintelligent and unenlightened, but nonetheless socially and physically well-endowed. Usually, jocks will play aggressive sports such as football and basketball. Examples from television shows include Ryan Shay (Parker Young) in the sitcom "Suburgatory" and Jimmy Armstrong (Dan Cortese) in the sitcom "Hot in Cleveland". The main jock character often occupies a high position, such as the quarterback or captain of the football team. In many cases, the jock is shown to come from a wealthy family: driving a fancy, expensive sports car or SUV, and wearing expensive, name-brand clothing; however, this is not always the case. In this regard, there may be significant overlap with the preppie stereotype.  As a protagonist, the jock is often a dynamic character who through an epiphany or new understanding will lead to a change in the values of the jock. This change often means a cessation of athletics or some other equivalent social sacrifice, which leads to the character no longer being considered a jock. Examples from movies include Randall "Pink" Floyd in "Dazed and Confused" and Andrew Clark in "The Breakfast Club". Examples from television shows include Nathan Scott in the teen drama series "One Tree Hill", Whitney Fordman in "Smallville" and Luke Ward in "The O.C.".  As antagonists, jocks can be stock characters shown as lacking compassion for the protagonist and are generally flat and static. Often in high school comedies or dramas where the main characters are not popular, the jock is the chief antagonist and cruel to the main characters. He is disliked by the nerds and other people who are considered unpopular, and usually has an unfortunate (and in some cases, violent or fatal) ending. "Heathers"' "Kurt" and "Ram" roles, the "Spider-Man" character Flash Thompson, high school football jocks and Connie D'Amico's cronies Scott and Doug in "Family Guy", high school football captain Oliver Wilkerson in "The Cleveland Show", Jean Grey's first boyfriend in "", middle school bully and "Crush Ball" quarterback Rodney Glaxer from "Lloyd in Space", and Massimo Lenzetti (Justin Chambers) in the film "The Wedding Planner" are such examples. There are also numerous jock antagonists found in teen dramas such as the rapist Dean Walton from "".  On the show "Pretty Little Liars", Emily Fields is the athletic one of the group. In the 1978 movie "Grease" Danny Zuko changed his greaser look for jock to impress Sandy. The character of Buzz McCallister in the 1990 film "Home Alone" and its 1992 sequel, "", is implied to be a jock due to his love for basketball and his being a fan of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls as well as his bullying of the protagonist character, Kevin McCallister. In the 2006 hit movie "High School Musical", Troy Bolton was a star jock of East High School in addition to other characters Chad Danforth, Zeke Baylor, and also Troy's father Jack Bolton. In 2013's "Monsters University", Johnny Worthington is the proud leader of Roar Omega Roar (RΩR). Additionally, Kevin Thompson of "Daria", which satirized high school life, conformed to the "dumb" athlete stereotype, though was never mean towards lead character Daria Morgendorffer and her friend Jane Lane; another jock character, Mac Mackenzie, was depicted as intelligent and cordial to the main characters, and was never shown to be a bully even though he was often disturbed by Kevin's dimness.

Education and athletics.

The general perception that athletes are unintelligent is derived from the idea that athletic and academic success are mutually exclusive. Prior to 1990, many researchers were critical with respect to the impact of extracurricular activities and athletics in particular on education. According to the so-called "Zero Sum Model," education and extracurriculars compete for student's time. However, later studies present a strong evidence that athletic or cultural extracurricular activities in school would increase school attendance, self-confidence, grade (in some instance), and college attendance but would reduce performance in standardized test.  Despite the fact that many schools recruit for sports, they put stipulations in place that require student athletes to maintain minimum academic grade in order to maintain their scholarships. Schools recruit students to their athletic teams, but require a student maintain a certain grade-point average (GPA) in order to have the scholarship renewed. For many young athletes, this is imperative as they could not afford higher education on their own. Therefore, they balance enough study to remain eligible with the demands of their sport.  At the college level in the United States, the NCAA does have some education requirements that must be met for high school students to play in a Division I school, and to be eligible for a scholarship. The most recent standards passed by the NCAA, which will apply to all incoming college freshmen beginning with the class of 2016, requires that 16 core high school courses be completed by the student-athlete, 7 of which must be either math, science, or English, and 10 of those 16 classes must be completed prior to their senior year of high school. As well, the students must graduate high school with a minimum 2.3 GPA (up from the 2.0 GPA requirement that was in place prior to these new standards). Such requirements have been debated for years, however.

In the United States and Canada, a jock is a stereotype of an athlete, or someone who is primarily interested in sports and sports culture, and does not take much interest in intellectual culture. It is generally attributed mostly to high school and college male athletics participants who form a distinct youth subculture. As a blanket term, "jock" can be considered synonymous with "athlete". Jocks are usually presented as practitioners of team sports such as football, basketball, baseball, lacrosse, soccer, and hockey.

Jock [] ist eine im amerikanischen Englisch gebräuchliche, scherzhafte bis abwertende Slang-Bezeichnung für einen jungen, sportlich aktiven und sexuell erfolgreichen, aber intellektuell eher überforderten Mann, der häufig als Stereotyp verwendet wird und Niederschlag in der US-amerikanischen Literatur, in Filmen sowie anderen Bereichen der Populärkultur fand.


Composition.

The song was published in 1942 and has become an often-recorded standard, with versions that include the original single release by Glenn Miller, by the singers Margaret Whiting, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Mercer himself, and others. Mercer wrote the lyrics with Judy Garland in mind, who was, on occasion, an intimate partner. Garland recorded the song for Decca Records in 1942. Mercer recalled wanting to write a song about magic, and while composing, asking Arlen to write more music so the song could go on longer, but that they still wrote the whole song in about three hours.

Recordings.

The Glenn Miller recording was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-1523-A, with "A Pink Cocktail For a Blue Lady" as the B side. The vocals were by Skip Nelson and the Modernaires. Glenn Miller recorded the song on July 15, 1942. The release was Glenn Miller's last number-1 hit. It charted in 1943, spending 14 weeks on the "Billboard" magazine charts, peaking at position number 1 for the week of May 29.  The Margaret Whiting recording (with the Freddie Slack Orchestra, which got top billing on the label) was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 126. It charted in 1943, spending a week at number 10 on the "Billboard" chart.  Ella Fitzgerald recorded this on her Verve double-album, "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook" (1961).  Frank Sinatra recorded the song twice: once as a ballad for Columbia, and again in 1961 in a lightly swinging arrangement for Capitol (featured on "Come Swing with Me!"). Sinatra also sang a slightly altered version of the song, titled "That Old Jack Magic" at the inaugural gala he held for John F. Kennedy the night before Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States.  Bing Crosby sang the song in an extraordinarily slow classic crooner style in the World War II- era film "Here Come the Waves" (1944).  A 1950 recording on Mercury Records by Billy Daniels gave him the moniker "The Old Black Magic Man" for the rest of his career.  The Sammy Davis Jr. recording was released by Decca Records as catalog number 29541. It charted in 1955 and spent six weeks on the "Billboard" charts, peaking at position number 16.  Marilyn Monroe famously sang the song in her film "Bus Stop" (1956). Her character Chérie is singing the song (somewhat out of key) to an audience who is not listening and talking loudly, until Don Murray quiets them all down.  In 1963, Jerry Lewis also sang his unforgettable version as suave hipster Buddy Love in his film "The Nutty Professor".  The duet recorded by Louis Prima and Keely Smith was released as a single in 1958 on the Capitol label. It reached a peak of 18 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. This particular version was performed on "Sam and Friends" by Sam and Kermit the Frog, Sam performing as Prima and Kermit dressing in drag and performing as Smith. This sequence became one of the most well-known episodes of "Sam and Friends".  Bobby Rydell had his version released as a single on Cameo in 1961. It reached number 21 on the Hot 100.  Johnny Mercer recorded his version for his album "My Huckleberry Friend" (1974).  As part of his album "My Name is Allan", Allan Sherman sang a parody of this song called "That Old Back Scratcher".  In 1992, it was recorded by Nancy LaMott on her album "Come Rain or Come Shine". She turned it into a torch song, a change from the swing arrangements that Sinatra and others employed. Jonathan Schwartz, the New York DJ and son of composer Arthur Schwartz, often states that the song never appealed to him — just Arlen and Mercer "hokem" — until he heard LaMott's version.  Kevin Spacey covered the song on the soundtrack to 1997's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", in which he played the lead character, Jim Williams.  Deana Martin recorded "That Old Black Magic" in 2009. The song was on her album "Volare", released in 2009 by Big Fish Records.  The Uptown Band, featuring Erich Cawalla and Jenifer Kinder, recorded the song in 2014 and it appears on their sophomore album "Heart, Soul, Body, & Mind". Their version features special guest Will Lee, bassist with the CBS Orchestra on the "Late Show with David Letterman".

"That Old Black Magic" is a 1942 popular song written by Harold Arlen (music), with the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.. They wrote it for the 1942 film "Star Spangled Rhythm", when it was sung by Johnny Johnston and danced by Vera Zorina. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1943 but lost out to "You'll Never Know".

That Old Black Magic ist eine Komposition von Harold Arlen, mit dem Text von Johnny Mercer, die für den Musicalfilm "Star Spangled Rhythm" (1942) geschrieben wurde, gesungen wurde der Song von Johnny Johnston. "That Old Black Magic" bekam 1944 eine Nominierung für den Oscar in der Kategorie „Bester Song“.


Main towns and villages.

The council area includes the town of Glen Innes and villages including Emmaville, Deepwater, Wellingrove, Glencoe, Stonehenge and Red Range and several hamlets including Diehard, Gibraltar Range and Kingsgate.

Heritage listings.

The Glenn Innes Servern has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Demographics.

At the, there were people in the Glen Innes Severn local government area, of these 49.5 per cent were male and 50.5 per cent were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 5.6 per cent of the population which is approximately double both the national and state averages. The median age of people in the Glen Innes Severn Council area was 46 years; nearly ten years higher than the national median. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 18.1 per cent of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 22.0 per cent of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 48.7 per cent were married and 14.1 per cent were either divorced or separated.  Population growth in the Glen Innes Severn Council area between the, the, and the 2011 census was marginal. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same periods, being 5.78 per cent and 8.32 per cent for each fiveyear period respectively, population growth in the Glen Innes Severn local government area was significantly lower than the national average. The median weekly income for residents within the Glen Innes Severn Council area was below the national average.  At the 2011 census, the proportion of residents in the Glen Innes Severn local government area who stated their ancestry as Australian or Anglo-Saxon exceeded 92 per cent of all residents (national average was 65.2 per cent). In excess of 69 per cent of all residents in the Glen Innes Severn Council area nominated a religious affiliation with Christianity at the 2011 census, which was significantly higher than the national average of 50.2 per cent. Meanwhile, as at the census date, compared to the national average, households in the Glen Innes Severn local government area had a significantly lower than average proportion (2.7 per cent) where two or more languages are spoken (national average was 20.4 per cent); and a significantly higher proportion (93 per cent) where English only was spoken at home (national average was 76.8 per cent).

Council.

Glen Innes Severn Council is composed of seven Councillors elected proportionally as a single ward. All Councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The Mayor is elected by the Councillors at the first meeting of the Council. The most recent election was held on 10 September 2016, and the makeup of the Council is as follows:  The current Council, elected in 2016, in order of election, is:

Glen Innes Severn is a local government area in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. The council serves an area of and is located adjacent to the New England Highway. The council was formed by the amalgamation of Severn Shire and Glen Innes City Council.

Glen Innes Severn Council ist ein lokales Verwaltungsgebiet (LGA) im australischen Bundesstaat New South Wales. Das Gebiet ist 5.480,0 km2 groß und hat etwa 8.800 Einwohner.


Synopsis.

A hyper-vigilant agent of the Department of Public Safety Erroll Babbage (Richard Gere) checks on registered sex offenders. Burnt out after a long career, he has become frustrated with the system of sex offender monitoring. With little faith in humanity left he takes on one last job to find a missing girl (Kristina Sisco).  He is three weeks away from taking early retirement and his final job is to train his young female replacement Allison Lowry (Claire Danes). After being left a newspaper with his characteristic headline circling, he is convinced the case of kidnapping is connected to a paroled sex offender he's monitoring and he takes it upon himself to find the victim at all costs.  Errol is eventually forced to leave the department early due to his relentless interrogation of sexual offenders and occasional vigilante actions against them. His efforts center on Viola (KaDee Strickland), a woman who has a history of being abused but is known to have a connection to another culprit that Errol suspects to have taken the girl. Together with his partner they figure out that Viola has become an abuser herself and is the ringleader in a kidnapping and torture syndicate. They track her down to a deserted scrap heap where they find the latest kidnapped girl as well as corpses of previous victims. The movie ends with Viola being brought to book after Errol considers killing her. Errol and Allison realize that in fighting the monsters involved in sexual offenses, they must not become monsters themselves.

Release.

The film was released theatrically in several countries throughout the world in late 2007, early 2008, yet in the United States it premiered April 11, 2008 at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, before being released on DVD on May 20, 2008 by Genius Products.

The Flock is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Andrew Lau, the co-director of the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy. The film, which marks his first English-language film, stars Richard Gere and Claire Danes.

The Flock – Dunkle Triebe "(The Flock)" ist ein US-amerikanischer Thriller aus dem Jahr 2007. Regie führte Wai-Keung Lau, das Drehbuch schrieben Hans Bauer und Craig Mitchell.