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Southampton
On 5 December 2018 he became the new manager of Southampton. He was the first Austrian to manage in the Premier League. At that time the club was one point from safety. On 27 April 2019, Southampton secured Premier League status after a 3–3 draw against Bournemouth at St Mary's. They finished the season in 16th place.

Hasenhüttl's side suffered a 9–0 home loss to Leicester City on 25 October 2019 and the joint-worst loss in Premier League history and worst on home ground. In June 2020, he signed a new contract to extend his stay at the club until 2024. Despite being in the relegation zone in early November, Southampton ended the season on a seven-game unbeaten streak to finish in 11th place, their best finish in three seasons.

Southampton ended the 2020–21 season struggling and finishing 15th. On 7 November 2022, Southampton parted company with Hasenhüttl. At the time, Southampton were in the Premier League relegation zone with 12 points after 14 games.

Honours
Honours

Player
Austria Wien
Austrian Bundesliga: 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93
Austrian Cup: 1991–92, 1993–94

Austria Salzburg
Austrian Bundesliga: 1994–95
Austrian Supercup: 1995

Lierse SK
Belgian Super Cup: 1997

Manager
Aalen
3. Liga promotion:2011–12

FC Ingolstadt 04
2. Bundesliga: 2014–15

Individual
Premier League Manager of the Month: July 2020

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Living people
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RB Leipzig managers
Bundesliga managers
Austrian football forwards
Austrian football champions
Frans B. Van Zaelen (12 June 1930 – 27 December 2022) was a Belgian visual artist.

Biography
Van Zaelen was born in Muizen in 1932, where he grew up. He received in 1971 the first prize of Biesme. He had an exposition of his works in from 21 October to 2 November at the “V.T.B. - Hendrik de Braekeleergalerie' in Antwerp. However, his works of art received little recognition in his home city, but received recognition in France. Between 1980 and 2010 he lived intermittently in Vaison-la Romaine, France. He received the "Gold Medal of the French Republic". In 2012 he had a traffic accident where he was hit by a truck. Due to the accident, he was not able to make new works of art. He transferred his works and his home to a self-named foundation to help new artists and poor families.

The last years of his life he lived at the residential care center Damiaan in Tremelo. He died there on 27 December 2022, at the age of 92.

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1932 births
2022 deaths
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were an American hip hop group. The group was made in New York City in 1978. The group's members were Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Kidd Creole, Keef Cowboy, Scorpio, and Rahiem. The group did many things that were important for hip hop music. They used turntables and political lyrics in their music. They were one of the first groups to do this. 

In 1980, the group joined Sugar Hill Records. This was a record label. Sugar Hill helped the group become more popular. Their first popular song was "Freedom". They made their first album in 1982. It was named The Message. It made the group very popular. The music on the album was about political and social problems. It helped make conscious hip-hop more popular.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five broke up in 1983. The members made two different hip hop groups. They came back together in 1987, and made another album. This album was named On the Strength. After they made the album, they stopped making music. Some of the members made Grandmaster's Furious Five after the original group ended. Melle Mel changed his stage name to Grandmaster Melle Mel.

The group was put in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. They were the first hip hop group in the Hall of Fame. They have influenced many other hip hop musicians. Rolling Stone said "The Message" was one of the greatest songs ever made.

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African-American musical groups
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Het Laatste Nieuws (; in English The Latest News) is a Dutch-language newspaper.It is based in Antwerp, Belgium. It was founded by Julius Hoste Sr. on 7 June 1888. It is now part of DPG Media. The newspaper is the most popular newspaper in Flanders and Belgium.

Profile 

The liberal Julius Hoste Sr. founded the newspaper on 7 June 1888 five days before the Belgian elections. With the newspaper he wanted to support the Liberal Party in the elections. He also wanted to support the Flemish movement in Brussels, a city which was dominated by francophone bourgeois (Franskiljons). The newspaper supported the cause of the Gelijkheidswet (E: equality law between French and Flemish in Belgium), the rescue of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg (KVS) (E: Royal Flemish Theatre) in Brussels and the election of the first Flemish, liberal, Ghent municipal governing board in 1907.
The newspaper has liberal views. Generally it wants to support the Flemish movement, with a minimal focus on French speaking people. These characteristics were very important in the new daily, just like its anti-clericalism. In 1897, Flor Burton founded the newspaper De Nieuwe Gazet in Antwerp, with a substantially similar editorial policy.

When Julius Hoste Sr. died, his son, Julius Hoste Jr., took over the  responsibility. He moderated the confrontational style favored by his father, but changed it to a softer, and more formal tone. He also included more regional news, and expanded the sports section to reach an even wider public.

When World War II broke out, Julius Hoste Jr. fled to the United Kingdom. His newspaper was still published under Nazi control. During this period The Adventures of Tintin was in the newspaper. Stories included Tintin in the Congo, Tintin in America, The Broken Ear, The Shooting Star, and The Secret of the Unicorn.
After the war Julius Hoste Jr. again took control, but the business needed to be rebuilt. He shared day-to-day management with Albert Maertens, who would follow him, after Hoste suddenly died. His heirs wanted to create a foundation, to preserve the newspaper.

Circulation 
In the period of 1995-96 Het Laatste Nieuws had a circulation of 303,993 copies. The circulation of the paper was 287,000 copies in 2001. It was 341,257 copies in 2002. In 2003 its circulation was 294,000 copies, making it the best selling newspaper in Belgium.

In 2009 Het Laatste Nieuws had a circulation of 287,162 copies.  The approximate circulation of the paper was 370,000 copies in 2010.

Notable journalists 

 Piet Van Brabant (1932-2006)

References

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 Newspapers in the class room  
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Grenz-Echo is the only German-language newspaper published in Belgium. It was first published in 1929. It is published in Eupen, in the German-speaking part of Belgium. It has a circulation of about 12.000 copies.

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Belgian newspapers
German-language newspapers
L'Écho is a newspaper published in Bruxelles. It is published in French, and was foused on business, at first. It is mainly circulated in Bruxellles and in Wallonia. It has a circulation of about 270.000.

Belgian newspapers
Gerard Schuurman (20 October 1940 – 28 December 2022) was a Dutch footballer who played as a defender. He played with FC Den Bosch in the Eredivisie where he became in 1972 the first person to receive a red card after its introduction.
Biography
Schuurman was born in 1940 in Geldermalsen. He played football in Geldermalsen with . He became a professional football player in 1961 when he signed a contract with . From 1965 he played seven seasons with FC Den Bosch. In this period he played for the team 161 matches in the Eerste Divisie and Eredivisie. Schuurman was known as a rough defender. In 1971, due to kicking in a match against Volendam, he was suspended for two games and fined. On 16 September 1972, Schuurman became the first footballer who received a red card in the Eredivisie, after the introcudtion of red cards.  That happened in a match against PSV Eindhoven in Eindhoven. After he left FC Den Bosch in 1974 he still played with OJC Rosmalen and  in Den Bosch. He had to end his football career after he broke his leg in a match.

Schuurman died in his hometown Rosmalen on 28 December 2022, at the age of 82.

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1940 births
2022 deaths
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Place of death missing
Jeanne Decorne was a French swimmer and swimming administrator in the 1900s and 1910s from Alfortville.

Affiliations
She was a member of Ondine de Paris and later of Sirènes, where she also was the president. In 1908, she joined Mouettes de Paris where she became the vice-president. She also represented the sports club of Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones.
Career
Her first swimming competitions were in 1907. The next year she won several swimming competitions, including at the second day of the world championships the 100 metres event in a time of 1:48.6. In the 100 metres event at the national championships she finished second behind her daughter Eugénie Decorne. Over the next years she also won several swimming competitions, including the women's category at the 1912 and 1913  open water swimming race.
During the national championships in June 1913 she experimented with a device to remain under water. She was able to remain for over 5 minutes under water. At national championships in August 1913 she won the bronze medal in the 500 metres event. Later, on 24 August, she was able to stay for 18 minutes and 34 seconds under water with a Fernez and Lavegade device during an aquatics festival in Alençon. She participated at , a main open water event, in 1917, 1918 and 1919. In the summmer of 1919 she was training to cross the English Channel. She swam her last swimming competitions in July 1919, winning the 100 metre event at a swimming competition in Calais and competed at the .
Personal life
Decorne was married. Her daughter was swimmer Eugénie Decorne, who died during her career from typhoid fever. She worked for the Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones. In August 1918 she was the first woman to operate the airmail service between Paris and London.

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Other websites
Image of Decorne (1918)
Image of Decorne (1918)

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Sportspeople from Val-de-Marne
DC Studios, formerly named DC Films, is an American film and television studio that is a division of Warner Bros. that oversees the production of films based on intellectual property owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. that manages its DC Comics units and characters in other units. DC Studios has produced every DC Extended Universe film since Suicide Squad (2016).

Since August 2022, Walter Hamada agreed to stay as DC Films president until after the release of Black Adam, a search for new leadership is currently ongoing  On October 19, 2022. Walter Hamada has left the company.

From June to October 2022, Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy are Interim presidents for DC Films. On October 25, 2022, James Gunn and Peter Safran were confirmed as the new bosses of DC Studios. The pair assumed office on November 1st.
History 
DC Films previously existed as a production banner within Warner Bros., but was reorganized to be a formal division after Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice underperformed at the box office and garnered negative reception from audiences and critics alike. The division was created under Warner Bros. executive vice president Jon Berg and DC Comics chief content officer Geoff Johns. This was done at the time to compete more directly with it's popular rival, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Due to the underperformance and negative reception of Justice League, both critically and commercially, Warner Bros. announced a new strategy and organization of DC Films would occur, with Geoff Johns and Jon Berg stepping down as co-chairmen of DC Films and co-runners of DC Extended Universe.
In January 2018, it was announced that Warner Bros. executive Walter Hamada will be the new president of DC Films, and will oversee all future DCEU projects. In February 2018, Chantal Nong Vo was announced to be the vice president of production for DC Films.

On April 5, 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery announced to reshape DC Entertainment and its film division, Newcomer president David Zaslav annouced that he was looking for a "Kevin Feige" type figure to lead DC Films., On August 5, 2022, shortly after Batgirl cancellation, then president Walter Hamada was deeply upset of the cancellation and threatened to resign, however Hamada agreed to stay on until the release of Black Adam, Hamada is set to leave DC Films on October 21, 2022. Hamada left two days eariler on October 19, 2022.

On October 25, 2022, James Gunn and Peter Safran were announced as the new executives of the newly rebranded name "DC Studios".

Key people

Current 

 James Gunn
 Peter Safran

Former
Former 

 Geoff Johns (2016-2017)
 Jon Berg (2016-2017)
 Walter Hamada (2018-2022)
 Chantal Nong (2018-2022)

Films

Released 

 Suicide Squad (2016)
 Wonder Woman (2017)
 Justice League (2017)
 Aquaman (2018)
 Shazam! (2019)
 Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
 Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
 Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
 The Suicide Squad (2021)
 Black Adam (2022)

Future 

 Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
 The Flash (2023)
 Blue Beetle (2023)
 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)
 Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
 Superman: Legacy (2025)
 The Batman – Part II (2025)
 The Authority (TBC)
 The Brave and the Bold (TBC)
 Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (TBC)
 Swamp Thing (TBC)

Television

Released 

 Peacemaker (2022–present)
 Season One (2022)
 Season Two (TBA)

Future 

 Untitled The Suicide Squad spinoff series (TBA)

References 

Warner Bros.
"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a 1981 debut single by American new wave The Go-Go's. It is from their debut studio album Beauty and the Beat. It went to number 2 in Australia, number 3 in Canada, number 14 in Sweden, number 20 in the United States, number 23 in New Zealand and number 47 in the United Kingdom. It went on be covered by Fun Boy Three and Hilary Duff.

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Debut singles
Power pop songs
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Lördagsgodis () is a Swedish tradition of children eating sweets (candy) on a Saturday. 

The tradition started as a health recommendation in the 1950s following the government-funded , where patients of Vipeholm Hospital for the intellectually disabled in Lund, Sweden, were unknowingly fed large amounts of sweets see if a high-sugar diet would make their teeth decay.

References 

Swedish culture
"Only Wanna Be with You" is a 1995 song by Hootie & the Blowfish. It is from their debut studio album Cracked Rear View. It topped the single charts in Canada. It also went to top 40 in Australia, Iceland, El Salvador, New Zealand and the United States. It was covered by Post Malone in 2021.

Track listings

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Roots rock songs
Louise Charel (born 1880) was a French swimmer, swimming administrator and swimming coach in the early 20th-century from Lyon.

Biography
Chatel was a member of Cercle Amical des Nageuses. Her best achievement as a swimmer was winning the women's category of  in 1909. At Cercle Amical des Nageuses she served as secretary in 1908, as the treasurer between 1909 and 1926 and became the president between 1926 and World War II. She was also an swimming instructor. She used an alarm clock to time the swimmers.

Personal life
Charel was born in 1880. She lived in Lyon at "rue de la Tunisie" in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon. She worked as a laundress and later as an ironer in 1909. She married in 1930 to M. Jean. In 1932 she movd to "rue Major-Martin".

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L. Kirchner was a British swimmer and diver in the early 20th-century from London. She was one of the earliest British female international swimmers. Footman was a member of the Battersea Swimming Club and was trained by professor Barrows.

As of 1907 Kirchner Footman had 22 swimming victories. However her specialty was diving, winning for instance the Ealing Open Diving Competition. She competed at the 1907 international Ondine de Paris aquatics competitions in Paris, France. The first international women's aquatics competition in France. Kirchner finished second in the diving event, together with Frenchwoman Marie Baron. In the international 200 metre swimming event she finished fifth. She also competed in the international 60 metre handicap style race.

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20th-century births
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"Teeth" is a industrial/grunge/rock song by Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer. It was released on August 21, 2019. It is from their fourth studio album, Calm. It is also on the soundtrack of the third season of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.

At the APRA 2020 Music Awards, "Teeth" was nominated for Song of the Year. It also won Song of the Year at 2020 APRA Music Awards.

References

2019 songs
5 Seconds of Summer songs
"Bed of Lies" is a pop/hip hop song by Nicki Minaj. It features Skylar Grey on the song's chorus. It was released on November 16, 2014. It is from Minaj's third studio album, The Pinkprint. The song's lyrics touch upon themes of "heartfelt litany of grievances" about an ex-lover.

References

Pop songs
2014 songs
Nicki Minaj songs
Quit Playing Games (with My Heart) is a Pop/R&B song by American boy band Backstreet Boys. It was released in October 1996. It was also recorded in 1995. It is from their debut international studio album. It was also later released on their debut US studio album. It reached number 1 in Austria, Czechia, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland. It also reached number 2 in the United Kingdom and the United States' Billboard Hot 100. Also, it reached number 7 in the Netherlands. Because of this song reaching number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, it makes it their most successful on that billboard. It also sold 2 million copies in the US.

References

1996 songs
Pop ballads
Super Bowl LVII was the 57th Super Bowl. It was the final game of the 2022 NFL season and the end of the 2022–23 NFL playoffs. It was played between the National Football Conference (NFC) champions Philadelphia Eagles and the American Football Conference (AFC) champions Kansas City Chiefs. The game was played on February 12, 2023, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 38–35.

Rihanna performed in the Super Bowl LVII halftime show on February 12, 2023. Rihanna’s halftime show reached a total of 118.7 million viewers.

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Glendale, Arizona
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The National Football League playoffs for the 2022 season are going to begin on January 14, 2023, and will end with Super Bowl LVII on February 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

Playoff qualifying
As of the end of the 4pm Week 18 Sunday games, the following teams have qualified for the playoffs:
AFC
 Baltimore Ravens
 Buffalo Bills, AFC East division champions
 Cincinnati Bengals, AFC North division champions

 Kansas City Chiefs, AFC West division champions and first round bye
 Jacksonville Jaguars, AFC South division champions
 Los Angeles Chargers
 Miami Dolphins

NFC
 Dallas Cowboys
 Minnesota Vikings, NFC North division champions
 New York Giants
 Philadelphia Eagles, NFC East division champions and first round bye
 San Francisco 49ers, NFC West division champions
 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, NFC South division champions

Participants

Bracket

References

2022 National Football League season
National Football League playoffs
The 2019 NFL season was the 100th season of the National Football League (NFL). The season ended with Kansas City Chiefs defeating the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on February 2, 2020.


Regular season standings

Division

Conference

Postseason

Bracket
The 2022 season is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 47th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their first under head coach Todd Bowles.

Regular season

Schedule 

Notes

 Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa
The Conspiracy of Pontiac is a 1910 American silent drama movie directed by Sidney Olcott and stars Gene Gauntier, Robert G. Vignola, and Jack J. Clark.

Actors
 Gene Gauntier as Indian Girl
 Robert G. Vignola
 Jack J. Clark as Major Gladwynn
 Arthur Donaldson as Indian chief

References

Other websites
 

1910 drama movies
American drama movies
American silent movies
Movies directed by Sidney Olcott
The Converted Deacon is a 1910 American silent drama movie. It stars Anna Rosemond, Frank H. Crane, and Violet Heming.

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1910 movies
American drama movies
American silent movies
The Convict is a 1910 American silent comedy movie. It stars Marie Eline.

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American comedy movies
American silent movies
Cupid at the Circus is a 1910 American silent drama movie. It stars Frank H. Crane and Anna Rosemond.

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American movies
1910 movies
American drama movies
American silent movies
Daddy's Double is a 1910 American silent drama movie directed by Lloyd B. Carleton and stars Frank H. Crane, Fred Santley, and Isabelle Daintry.

Cast
 Frank H. Crane as Mr. Post or "Daddy"
 Fred Santley as Hal Dunton or "Daddy's double"
 Isabelle Daintry as Sue Post

References

Other websites
 

American movies
1910 movies
American drama movies
American silent movies
A Dainty Politician is a 1910 American silent drama movie. It stars Anna Rosemond and Frank H. Crane.

References

1910 drama movies
American drama movies
American silent movies
A Daughter of Dixie is a 1910 American silent drama movie directed by Sidney Olcott. and stars Gene Gauntier.

Actors
 Gene Gauntier - Miss Betsy

References

Other websites
 

1910 drama movies
American drama movies
American silent movies
Movies directed by Sidney Olcott
Delightful Dolly is a 1910 American silent comedy movie. It stars Marie Eline, G.W. Abbe, Justus D. Barnes, and Frank H. Crane.

Actors
Marie Eline as Marie Allen

References

1910 comedy movies
American comedy movies
American silent movies
The Doctor's Carriage is a 1910 American silent drama movie. It stars Marie Eline.

References

1910 drama movies
American drama movies
American silent movies
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is an Indian public sector undertaking company. It provides ticketing, catering, and tourism services for the Indian Railways. The IRCTC was put up on 27 September 1999. It was originally and completely owned by the Government of India. It was operated under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways. Later it has been listed on the National Stock Exchange since 2019, after the Government reduced the percentage of the ownership to the company itself.

It began with online rail ticket booking through its website and also from the mobile phones through Wi-Fi, GPRS or SMS. It also provides SMS facility to send PNR status and Live Train Status to the passengers. Along with e-tickets, IRCTC also provides I-tickets that are basically like regular tickets. But they are booked online and delivered by post.
IRCTC brought pantry cars at long or medium distance trains which serves to passengers by giving freshly cooked food. IRCTC has exclusive rights for onboard catering of food on all trains operated by the Indian Railways. It also operates food plazas, cafeterias and refreshment rooms at various railway stations.

References 

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Companies of India
Tourism companies
A dining car (American English) or a restaurant car (British English), also known as diner, is a railroad passenger car. It is a place that provide meals to the passengers like sit-down restaurant.

In the setups, one end of the car contains a kitchen with a long walkway between seats next to it, and the other end has table or booth seating on either side of a center of it.

Gallery

Further reading 

 
 
 
 
 Notes on W.A.G.R.'s Dining Cars Watson, L.G. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, September 1982 pp194–213
 On-train Catering in New South Wales - 1921-2001 Banger, Chris Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, March to July 2004 pp102–118;123-141;188-198;222-237;264-279

Other websites
Other websites 

 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway No. 1474 Cochiti — photographs and short history of a Super Chief Dining Car built in 1936.
 Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society — restoration of two historic dining cars to recreate the dinner in the diner experience.
 Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway's dining car service
 https://web.archive.org/web/20141225025536/http://www.sta-dg.com/etransport/ - new dining car

Restaurants
Rolling stock
Andrew Arthur Taylor (born 16 February 1961) is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is a former member of both Duran Duran and the Power Station. His career began in 1980 and he retired in 2006. He returned to making music in 2019.

He had worked with many bands and singers such as Robert Palmer, Rod Stewart, the Almighty, Thunder, Love and Money, Mark Shaw, Then Jerico, C. C. Catch, Paul Rodgers (with The Law), Belinda Carlisle and Gun.

In 1982, he married Tracey Wilson. He was born in Tynemouth, Northumberland. In 2022, it was announced that Taylor had stage-4 prostate cancer.

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English songwriters
English businesspeople
Record producers
English rock guitarists
English pop musicians
Duran Duran members
Musicians from Northumberland
Headway is the distance or duration between vehicles in a transit system measured in space or time. The minimum headway is the shortest such distance or time got by a system without a reducing the speed of vehicles. The exact meaning depends on the application, but it is most commonly measured as the distance from the tip (front end) of one vehicle to the tip of the next one behind it. It can be shown as the distance between vehicles, or as time it will take for the drifting vehicle to cover that distance. A "shorter" headway marks closer space between the vehicles.

Transport
"Doctor! Doctor!" is a 1984 song by British pop group Thompson Twins and is the second single to their fourth studio album Into the Gap. It went to number 3 in the United Kingdom, number 5 in Ireland, number 11 in Canada, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, number 12 in New Zealand, number 13 in Poland and number 14 in Australia.

Track listing
 12" Single (601 182)
"Doctor! Doctor! (Extended Version)" - 7:50
"Nurse Shark" - 4:05

 7" Single Arista (ARI 8366)
"Doctor! Doctor!" - 4:30  
"Nurse Shark" - 4:07

 7" Promo Single Arista (AS 1-9209)
"Doctor! Doctor!(Short Edit)" -3:46
"Doctor! Doctor!"-4:29

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Thompson Twins songs
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Nick Jr.
Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	
Ireland
United Kingdom
Headquarters	Sky Campus, Isleworth (1993–1995)
Nickelodeon UK, Rathbone Place, London (1995-2012)
MTV Networks Europe, Camden, (2012-)
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed)
Timeshift service	Nick Jr. +1 (2012-)
Nick Jr 2. (2006)
Ownership
Owner	Nickelodeon UK Ltd.
(Paramount Networks UK & Australia)[1]
Sister channels	Nickelodeon
Nick Jr. Too/Nick Jr. 2
Nicktoons
History
Launched	1 September 1993 (programming block)
1 September 1999 (TV channel)
24 April 2006; 17 years ago (Nick Jr. 2)
Links
Website	www.nickjr.co.uk
Availability
Terrestrial
See separate section
Nick Jr. is a British pay television channel owned and operated by Paramount Networks UK & Australia. The channel is aimed at preschool children.
History
Nick Jr. was first broadcast in the UK and Ireland on 1 September 1993 during the daytime hours from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on weekdays on Nickelodeon,[2] though these hours varied over time, particularly when Nick Jr. aired in a breakfast slot in the school holidays (mostly summer time), its programming was a mix of shows from the US version of Nick Jr and other imported shows, Later in the block's existence, syndicated British children's programmes would be a main focus of the channel as well. Its identity followed that of the US feed of the block as well. By the late 1990's it was mostly broadcast between 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
On 10 June 1999, it was announced that the block would be spun off into a channel, and its new branding was being finalised.[3] The channel launched on 1 September 1999 as the world's first dedicated preschoolers' channel.[4] On the Astra 1B satellite of Sky's analogue satellite service, the new channel timeshared with Sky Sports 3 and broadcast between 6 am and 10 am, although this schedule would sometimes be altered if sports were being covered in the early morning.[citation needed] On digital satellite and cable, Nick Jr. aired from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.[5] A spinoff of the recently-launched American Noggin channel was proposed to timeshare with Nick Jr., but this never materialised.[6]

The Nick Jr. block on Nickelodeon continued until July 2000, before it was closed due to the high uptake of Sky Digital. On 31 August 2000, Nick Jr ceased broadcasting on analogue satellite.[7]

On 3 September 2001, MTV Dance started broadcasting during Nick Jr's downtime hours after it was spun off from MTV Extra.
The channel refreshed on 4 February 2002 – Dora the Explorer, The Hoobs and the channel's first homegrown produced series "You Do Too" had their premieres the same day of the rebrand.

On 19 July 2002, the channel moved its EPG slot on Sky to make way for the incoming Nicktoons channel.[8]

On 13 August 2002, MTV Dance acquired its own separate channel. By December, Nick Jr. had gained another hour at the end of the broadcasting day, now operating from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.[9]

On 31 May 2004, Nick Jr extended its runtime to end at 10 p.m., in order to launch Noggin, a block that showed classic British children's TV programmes from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., causing the exodus of these shows from the main daytime schedule leaving more space for new shows.

On 5 September 2005, the Noggin block was changed to Nick Jr Classics as part of a channel-wide refresh (see Identity). The Backyardigans had its linear UK premiere on the same day of the rebrand.
A version of Nick Jr. for Ireland was launched in 2006.[citation needed] This version, like the Irish version of Nickelodeon, shares the same schedule as the British version of the channel but has Irish adverts.[citation needed]

On 30 January 2006, a spinoff of the American Noggin, as a block showing Nick Jr programmes on a free-to-air sister channel TMF from 7 am to 9 am. It was promoted on Nick Jr.

On 24 April 2006, Nick Jr. 2 was launched, initially as a 1-hour timeshift of the main channel, but a few months later, this format was dropped and it became an alternative channel with a completely new schedule, but with Nick Jr. Classics at the same hours.

On 25 September 2006, TMF rebranded its Noggin block as Nick Jr on TMF.
Following the removal of Nick Jr. Classics from the main Nick Jr. channel on 4 January 2009, normal programming ran from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. The block would continue on Nick Jr 2. until July 2010, after which classic British children's shows ceased to be part of the network's library entirely.

In early 2009, TMF reverted its Nick Jr block back to Noggin, and it broadcast until March 2010 before it was shut down permanently, at which point TMF had been replaced by VIVA.

On 2 August 2010, Nick Jr. began broadcasting 24/7, with many old shows from the 2000s being re-added to fill the schedule.[10]

In July 2011, Nick Jr. 2 briefly shifted its sign-on to 5 a.m., but this was reverted back to a 6 a.m. sign-on a month later.[11]

A 1-hour timeshift named Nick Jr. +1 launched on 2 October 2012 replacing Nicktoons Replay.

By July 2013, Nick Jr. 2 had begun broadcasting 21 hours from 3 a.m. to 12 p.m., with teleshopping off the air.[12]
On 3 November 2014, Nick Jr. 2 was renamed Nick Jr. Too and it began broadcasting 24/7.

On 5 July 2016, Nick Jr. HD launched on Sky, replacing MTV Live HD's Sky slot.[13]

On 31 October 2022, Sky sold its stake in Nickelodeon UK, including Nick Jr., to Paramount.[1]

Identity
Nick Jr.'s logo from 1 September 1993 to 29 April 2010.
Between the launch of the block in 1993 and the launch of the channel in 1999, Nick Jr UK's branding largely mirrored that of the American feed and used the American version's idents.[14] The UK input (branded as either Banana Sandwich or Nick Jr in the schedules)[15] was presented by Dave Benson Phillips[16][17] between 1994 and 1996, where Dave was joined by two puppet mascots called Bugsy and Herbie on location around England before the 2 puppet characters eventually went onto present the block by themselves for the whole of 1996, still on location for a while whilst sometimes presenting in a colourful animated studio, joined by some guest presenters occasionally[18][19][20][21][22] until they were replaced by Face from February 1997 until September 2005 and was dubbed into British English by David Holt, Bugsy and Herbie went onto have their own series of mini-episodes aired on Nick Jr. during the advert breaks in the late 1990s until early 2000s, by which point the puppets were phased out completely
.[23][24]
Upon the channel's launch in 1999, it launched its own package featuring live-action children playing in a brightly painted studio or holding posters on which clips of programmes appeared.[25] From the channel's launch, Face's hosting job would be shared by the Early Worms, the titular characters of the Early Worms show, Arnie and Barnie. Due to the abundance of British-produced content along with the channel's status as the first dedicated for preschoolers in the UK, the channel positioned itself in a special British image in its early years.[26] Starting in September 2000, just before signing off for the night, it would air a bedtime segment and song hosted by Kevin Duala (host of the British version of Blue's Clues), titled Bedtime Business.

In 2001, the channel transitioned into using Nick Jr. US's ident package, first with up-next bumpers,[27] and combinations of the 1999 idents with idents from the US.[28]
On 4 February 2002, Nick Jr. fully revamped into the new package, which had a specific jingle and song played in idents. These idents usually consisted of children playing around or dancing, this time in the outdoors, and the logo appeared in a white circle on a plain brightly-coloured background at the end.[29] On some occasions, they would broadcast atmospheric idents which included babies. Sometimes these idents would take up half the ad breaks, or sometimes they appeared in split-screen graphics and next bumpers.[30] Promo endboards were added as well.
Dora the Explorer and The Hoobs had their premieres the same day of the rebrand. Before closing down at 7 p.m. (8 p.m. after Autumn 2002), it would air the Bedtime Business segment, followed by a short closedown bumper featuring some characters from Nick Jr. shows and an announcement telling viewers to resume watching at 6 a.m., before cutting to a static yellow screen with the characters and the broadcast times until 6 a.m. the next morning.[31] In Autumn 2002, they updated their DOG to a much cleaner, organised and less opaque state.

Just before Noggin signed on, an ident showing the logo as two caterpillars played during the last advertisement break at 8 p.m.[citation needed] Then in 2005, this was supplemented with a sting ident of the Nick Jr. and Noggin logos flipping back and forth.[32] After Noggin finished airing, it would play an ident of a UFO flying away, and cut to a dark blue version of the 2002 signoff screen, just telling viewers to come back at 6 a.m.[33]
In July 2004, some in-vision morning presenters were introduced to the network. Neal Wright (Zak) and Jennifer Johnston (Jen) presented and hosted this block simply called "The Garden." Alongside them, there was a puppet plant called Bud, and a blue ball of light/firefly named Izzy.[34]

Also around this period in 2004, Nick Jr. started to use the 2D American animal idents originally introduced there in 2003. It is unknown when they stopped showing them.[35] At the same time, Nick Jr. reeled in the new look of Face to their channel introduced in America the year prior, usually referred to as "Modern Face". He was still voiced by David Holt. Nick Jr. made the unusual decision to not drop the original Face, leaving Modern Face and Face's old look broadcasting simultaneously, much to the confusion of viewers. The UK-dubbed version of Modern Face is extremely hard to come across.[36]
In the spring of 2005, a new animated presenter appeared on the channel alongside Face at the time. This was Piper O'Possum, who presented the UK input of Nick Jr. until its rebrand on 30 April 2010. She was re-dubbed by Alex Kelly and lasted longer on the UK feed than in the US by three years. Between this time and 4 September 2005, a mix of Old Face, Modern Face, Piper, The Garden and the Early Worms hosted the channel.
During the significant rebrand of 5 September 2005, Face was dropped entirely, The Garden stayed but only until October of the same year, and the Early Worms kept their morning presenting. Although, Piper became the main presenter for most of the day, in the late afternoons she got taken off for the rest of the remaining hours and her segments of announcing shows usually got replaced with normal next bumpers. In addition, Noggin changed its name to Nick Jr. Classics and the ident package that had been used since 2002 was dropped, as the international versions of Nick Jr. launched a 2D-3D animated pop-up-book-style ident package, with two animals (a parent and a child) forming the Nick Jr. logo, very similar to the package of Nick Jr. on CBS from 2004 to 2006. This package was designed by British animation studio Studio AKA
.[37] At night, special idents were played, which either consisted of existing daytime-setting bumpers converted into a nightly backdrop, or night-specific bumpers that only played during that time. At the end of regular Nick Jr. programmes on both channels, they played the new bedtime song, "Jimmer Jammers", showed a sign-off ident telling viewers to come back at 6 a.m., and transitioned to Nick Jr. Classics.[38] After Nick Jr Classics, they would cut to a night loop of the same ident or different idents playing over again.
Idents on Nick Jr. 2 had the number "2" appear at the end of each ident in the scenery. On its launch on 25 September 2006, Nick Jr. on TMF began using the idents. The package would be used on both Nick Jr. channels until 29 April 2010. During the time when Nick Jr, Nick Jr 2. and Nick Jr. on TMF co-existed, the three cross-promoted their programmes under the slogan "Three ways to play".

Between 2008 and 2014, the schedule after 6 p.m. was rebranded as "Nick Jr. Bedtime". A new bedtime look and song (Land of Dreams) was commissioned and played alongside the already existing night version of the 2005 idents and its song (Jimmer Jammers). The Early Worms returned as hosts for the strand (and eventually the last hosts of any Nick Jr. feed internationally). During the strand, special celebrity guests would accompany Arnie and Barnie in reading bedtime stories, akin to those of CBeebies.[39]
Logo used since 30 April 2010, used concurrently with the 2023 logo.
On 30 April 2010, Nick Jr. rebranded to a variant of the United States look and French look designed in-house. They used the animated American idents along with their own which included still shots of children in assorted places or doing things like letting go of a balloon or being at a picnic.[40] Like the American rebrand, it was based on the old arts-and-crafts style and music of Noggin, and was used as the basis for the rebrands of the mainland European Nick Jr. feeds. Moose and Zee were brought over from the American Nick Jr. Channel and the former Noggin block on Viva (which had been axed as part of the rebrand) to host the main Nick Jr. channel, with Moose's voice being dubbed by David Holt (voice actor). Just like on the US version of Nick Jr., Moose and Zee presented links between programmes and especially around up-next bumpers, although due to the need for advertisement space, they appeared irregularly and not at night, where they would be replaced by regular next bumpers.
Nick Jr. Classics was rebranded and then discontinued in July of that year. When Nick Jr. and Nick Jr. 2 signed off, they cut to an off-air slide,[41] and then played a night loop of the same ident repeating,[42] but the actual sign-off has not been found yet.

On 2 August 2010, when the main Nick Jr. stopped signing off, the Bedtime block was truncated to an 8 p.m. finish. When Nick Jr. 2 expanded its broadcast hours, it broadcast the segment from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.[43]
However, on 7 January 2013, the channel rebranded again to the next United States look, which dropped Moose and Zee and the arts-and-craft style branding in favour of a 3D CGI world appearing in bumpers and promos where clips of the characters appeared.[44] The Bedtime strand was also revamped under this branding. There were also slight variations between the colour schemes on Nick Jr. and Nick Jr. 2, with the latter opting for a colder colour palette. However, some of the 2010 idents, especially the Christmas ones, were retained until December 2014, albeit with the new Nick Jr. endcap (of the logo changing colour multiple times).
While it was initially the same as the United States version, on 3 November 2014, the branding on the main channel was refreshed by Blue Zoo, and the Bedtime strand was dropped from both channels, leaving the channel without any hosts for the first time in 19 years. This new branding used CGI and 3D shapes like the previous one and used standard colour schemes for different parts of the day.[45] Nick Jr. Too, however, retained the old style until 2019.

On 18 February 2019, Nick Jr. dropped the "Smart Place to Play" look in favour of the "Ready to Play" branding adopted in the United States the previous year, featuring live-action children running in a 3D CGI space, often holding bubble wands in which clips of shows appear out of. Bumpers also show these children interacting with the Nick Jr. characters in live-action environments.
TMF/Viva block
A version of the US Noggin branding was used for the Noggin block on TMF/Viva. It was visibly stripped back from the American version but still very similar. It was hosted by Moose A. Moose and Zee D. Bird from the American version, with Moose dubbed over by David Holt.

Slogans
Grow, Learn and Play (1 September 1993 – 1995)
Just for me! (1 September 1999 – 3 February 2002)
Join in!/Join-in TV/Join the Fun! (4 February 2002 – 29 April 2010)
It's the shows that make Nick Jr. (2010) [46]
Every day's an adventure (7 January 2013 – 17 February 2019)
Other related services
Nick Jr. Too/Nick Jr. 2

Nick Jr. 2's logo from 30 April 2010 to 2 November 2014.
Nick Jr. Too's logo since 3 November 2014.
Another channel, Nick Jr. 2, was launched on Sky on 24 April 2006. The channel initially functioned as a one-hour timeshift of Nick Jr.[47] before becoming a secondary service. The idents and branding were just the same as the main channel. The differences were that logos on promo endboards and promos, in general, had a 2 included next to them. This also was used in the next bumpers and general idents.

After transitioning as a secondary service, the channel began to air programmes that Nick Jr. no longer ran, or shows that never ran on its parent network, such as I Spy, Sali Mali, It's A Big Big World, the second season of Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, and the Nick Jr. Classics block after it left the main channel.

When it changed its name to Nick Jr. Too on 3 November 2014, it also started broadcasting 24 hours a day.
Since October 2013, the channel has occasionally aired long-term marathons (usually one month) of the British preschool series Peppa Pig, during which it rebrands itself as Nick Jr. Peppa.[48][49] The channel has since broadcast marathons of the Canadian preschool series PAW Patrol in a similar manner, likewise rebranding as Nick Jr. PAW Patrol.[50]

Unlike the main channel, Nick Jr. Too is not available on TalkTalk, Eir TV or WightFibre.

Noggin/Nick Jr. Classics

Noggin's logo from 31 May 2004 - 4 September 2005.
During the mid and late 2000s, Nick Jr. and Nick Jr. 2 presented a nighttime programming block dedicated to classic British children's programmes from the 1970s and 1980s under the title Nick Jr. Classics. The block launched under the name Noggin on 31 May 2004,[51] running every night from 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.[52] It was rebranded as Nick Jr. Classics on 5 September 2005.

The block was discontinued on Nick Jr. on 4 January 2009 and on Nick Jr. 2 in mid-late 2010.
Noggin/Nick Jr. on TMF/Viva
Noggin started broadcasting on 30 January 2006, the first international feed of Noggin (excluding the former vintage block on Nick Jr. which only had the name in common). It was a children's television slot broadcast on TMF from 07:00 to 09:00 daily. It showed a selection of Nick Jr shows and often promoted the main channels to viewers with only Freeview and therefore were not subscribed to Nick Jr..
Nick Jr on TMF had replaced the strand Noggin on 25 September 2006, but its programming remained identical. It is unknown why the rebrand happened, but it may have been to consolidate the brand after the launch of Nick Jr. 2. It used the same ident and presentation package as its main sister channel, Nick Jr. Moose and Zee's segments were removed as well. Programmes shown included Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, Thomas & Friends, Blue's Clues, LazyTown, Go Diego Go!, Little Bill amongst others. The channels continued to cross-promote each other, including showing the next bumpers for all three at once.[53]

It was reverted to Noggin in early 2009. The final set of programmes shown were Go Diego Go!, Dora the Explorer, Little Bear, Bruno and Maggie and the Ferocious Beast. In its final year, Noggin received almost zero cross-promotion from Nick Jr., not even on its website.