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300 | """F"" Is for Fugitive" | Her plan is to use the money she will eventually inherit from her parents to tempt Dwight into marriage. She killed her mother to hasten the plan along, and Shana, Jean's mother, because she was jealous of her friendship with Dwight. Before Ann can kill Kinsey, she is interrupted by Royce, who wrestles the gun away from Ann, shooting her in the foot accidentally in the process. Ann, injured, is arrested for the murders of Shana and Oribelle. Though there is insufficient evidence to prove her to be Jean's killer, the circumstances are sufficient to ensure that Bailey is cleared |
301 | """FF.SS."" – Cioè: ""...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?""" | """FF.SS."" - Cioè: ""...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?"" is a 1983 film directed by Renzo Arbore, starring Roberto Benigni, Renzo Arbore and Pietra Montecorvino. The film begins with Renzo Arbore and Luciano De Crescenzo driving in Rome, while discussing an original idea for a new movie. They pass under the window of real-life filmmaker Federico Fellini, who is writing a screenplay entitled ""F.F.S.S"" (""Federico Fellini Sud Story""). A wind causes the screenplay to fall to the road below, and the two pick it up and decide to use Fellini's ideas" |
302 | """FF.SS."" – Cioè: ""...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?""" | "themselves. Renzo Arbore plays Onliù Caporetto, a manager from Irpinia trying to bring success to Lucia Canaria (Pietra Montecorvino). While travelling across Italy, they become involved in TV commercial in Milan, then go to Rome looking for a recommendation to work in RAI. Eventually they encounter Sceicco Beige (Roberto Benigni), a music celebrity. They participate in the Festival di Sanremo 1983, where Raffaella Carrà sings ""Soli sulla luna"" and ""Ahi"". The film includes many Italian celebrities; apart the already said Arbore, De Crescenzo and Benigni, there are also appearances by Pippo Baudo, Isabella Biagini, Gianni Boncompagni, Dino Cassio, Alfredo Cerruti," |
303 | """FF.SS."" – Cioè: ""...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?""" | Maurizio Costanzo, Riccardo Pazzaglia, Lory del Santo, Gerardo Gargiulo, Isaac George, Cesare Gigli, Renato Guttuso, Andy Luotto, Nando Martellini, Andrea Giordana, Sandra Milo, Severino Gazzelloni, Gianni Minà, Domenico Modugno, Gaetano Cristiano Rossi, Gianni Morandi, Nando Murolo, Stella Pende, Gigi Proietti, Teodoro Ricci, Bobby Solo, Massimo Troisi, Vasco Rossi, Luciana Turina, Claudio Villa, Isabel Russinova, Martufello, Mario Marenco, Sergio Japino and Gepy & Gepy During the movie there are references to the politics of the period in which the film is set. It includes allusions to Bettino Craxi, Giulio Andreotti and Ciriaco De Mita. Also De Mita is from Nusco, province |
304 | """False positives"" scandal" | "The ""false positives"" scandal (""Escándalo de los falsos positivos"" in Spanish) was a series of murders in Colombia, part of the armed conflict in that country between the government and guerrilla forces of the FARC and the ELN. Members of the military had poor or mentally impaired civilians lured to remote parts of the country with offers of work, killed them, and presented them to authorities as guerrilleros killed in battle, in an effort to inflate body counts and receive promotions or other benefits. As of June 2012, a total of 3,350 such cases had been investigated in all parts" |
305 | """False positives"" scandal" | "of the country and verdicts had been reached in 170 cases. Human rights groups have charged that the judicial cases progressed too slowly. A 2018 study claims a total of 10,000 ""false positive"" victims between 2002 and 2010. The name of the scandal refers to the technical term of ""false positive"" which describes a test falsely detecting a condition that is not present. The scandal broke in 2008, when 22 men from Soacha who had been recruited for work were found dead several hundred miles away. A recruiter later testified that he had received $500 from the Colombian military for" |
306 | """False positives"" scandal" | each man he recruited and delivered to them. In June 2012, six members of the army were sentenced to long prison sentences in that case. After the 2008 Soacha discoveries, defense minister Juan Manuel Santos denied knowledge of the scheme, fired 27 officers including three generals and changed the army's body count system. General Mario Montoya, commander of the Colombian Army, resigned on November 4, 2008. President Alvaro Uribe ordered the cases to be handled by civilian courts to ensure impartiality. According to reports in 2009, both Defense Minister Santos and President Uribe have claimed that there were cases of |
307 | """False positives"" scandal" | "false denunciations where legitimate killings were presented as ""false positives"" in order to stain the name of the military and undermine military morale. Accusations of similar cases had occurred much earlier. A recently declassified 1990 cable by U.S. Ambassador Thomas McNamara reported on a case involving nine men who were killed by the military, dressed in military fatigues and presented as guerrilleros. Similar extrajudicial executions have been reported throughout the 1990s. In June 2009, UN special rapporteur Philip Alston carried out an investigation of extrajudicial executions in Colombia. He reported: In 2011, a colonel of the Colombian army received a" |
308 | """False positives"" scandal" | "sentence of 21 years in prison for his admitted involvement in the killing of two peasants who were then presented as guerrilleros. He also admitted that his unit had carried out 57 similar murders. He claimed that he learned of previous ""false positive"" killings when he first arrived at his unit, and was warned by Defence Minister Santos to obtain measurable results or lose his position. He later testified at other ""false positive"" trials. In 2013 a Colombian radio station played a tape on which the colonel is overheard extorting other army members with offers not to testify against them." |
309 | """False positives"" scandal" | "The International Federation for Human Rights produced a report on the scandal in May 2012, alleging over 3,000 civilian victims between 2002 and 2008. The group asked the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court prosecutor to open an investigation, as ""those who bear the greatest responsibility for these crimes are not being investigated or prosecuted in Colombia."" Former defense minister Santos was elected President of Colombia in 2010; in 2012 he backed legislation that has been criticized by human rights groups because they fear it could potentially revert the ""false positive"" cases to military courts. The text of a 2013" |
310 | """False positives"" scandal" | law which regulated and implemented the previous 2012 reform includes extrajudicial executions among a list of crimes which will continue to remain under civilian court jurisdiction and will not be submitted to military courts. Critics have expressed concern that the defense lawyers of military personnel accused in false positive cases may argue that their crimes are not extrajudicial executions (which were previously not defined as a crime in the Colombian penal code) but homicides, as a way to avoid the jurisdiction of civilian courts and request a transfer to military courts. Legislators who supported the bill have argued that another |
311 | """False positives"" scandal" | paragraph in the law expressly states that cases of false positives currently in civilian justice cannot be transferred to the military justice system. In June 2015, Human Rights Watch presented a report on the scandal. At that point, about 800 people, mostly ordinary soldiers, had been convicted in related cases. The report criticized that the majority of cases had been handled by military courts, in contradiction to a Supreme Court ruling. Military judges had suppressed evidence and manipulated crime scenes. Whistleblowers were punished. According to the report, both commander of the armed forces General Juan Pablo Rodríguez and top army |
312 | """Fish Alive"" 30min., 1 Sequence by 6 Songs Sakanaquarium 2009 @ Sapporo" | "'""Fish Alive"" 30min., 1 Sequence by 6 Songs Sakanaquarium 2009 @ Sapporo (stylized as “FISH ALIVE”30min., 1 sequence by 6 songs SAKANAQUARIUM 2009@SAPPORO) is a live extended play by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was released on July 15, 2009 through Victor Entertainment and an exclusive digital download to iTunes. In 2008, Sakanaction released their first live extended play, ""'Night Fishing Is Good' Tour 2008 in Sapporo"", on August 6, 2008. This release featured material taken from the band's tour for their second album ""Night Fishing"", and was recorded on March 8, 2008, at Penny Lane 24 in Sapporo. This was" |
313 | """Fish Alive"" 30min., 1 Sequence by 6 Songs Sakanaquarium 2009 @ Sapporo" | "quickly followed with ""Remixion"", an extended play featuring remixes of songs, released digitally on October 5. In January 2009, the band released their third studio album ""Shin-shiro"". To promote this, the band performed a national tour of Japan in February and March 2009, entitled ""Sakanaquarium 2009: Shinshiro"". The 13 date tour began in Kyoto on February 14, and ended with two performances in Sapporo on March 20 and 21. Live audio from the tour final on March 21, 2009 at Penny Lane 24 in Sapporo was compiled into a thirty-minute single track to create the """"Fish Alive"" 30min., 1 Sequence" |
314 | """Fish Alive"" 30min., 1 Sequence by 6 Songs Sakanaquarium 2009 @ Sapporo" | "by 6 Songs Sakanaquarium 2009 @ Sapporo"" release. The songs featured were ""Ame(B)"", ""Light Dance"", ""Inner World"", ""Sample"", ""Minnanouta"" and ""Night Fishing Is Good"". ""Ame(B)"", ""Light Dance"" and ""Minnanouta"" were all taken from ""Shin-shiro"", however ""Inner World"" was originally from the band's debut album ""Go to the Future"" (2007), and ""Sample"" and ""Night Fishing Is Good"" from their second album ""Night Fishing"" (2008). The extended play was released on July 15, 2009. On the same day, videos of the songs ""Sen to Rei"", ""Native Dancer"" and ""Adventure"" taken from the same concert were released as stand-alone digital downloads. These three" |
315 | """Five stars rise in the East"" arm protector" | "The ""Five stars rise in the East"" arm protector (“五星出东方”护膊) is an Eastern Han (25–220) to Western Jin (265–316) era brocade armband embroidered with the words ""Five stars rise in the east, benefitting China"" (). Another cloth of the same pattern was found later and has the words ""put down South Qiang"" (討南羌). In 2002, they were designated one of the cultural relics that forbidden to be exhibited abroad. The pieces were unearthed in October 1995 at the Niya ruins in Xinjiang. It was found near the elbow/waist area of a corpse in a rich tomb. The phrase ""Five stars" |
316 | """Five stars rise in the East"" arm protector" | "rising east benefit China"" (五星出東方利中國) resembles a similar phrase found in the ""Records of the Grand Historian""'s scroll 27 (五星分天之中，積於東方，中國利). In the ancient times the five stars were represented as Chenxing (辰星), Taibai (太白), Yinghuo (熒惑), Suixing (歲星) and Zhenxing (鎮星). In modern times these are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn respectively. These are also represented by Wu xing with water, metal, earth, fire, wood. Researchers from the Japanese observatory said the next alignment of the five stars to the east will not be until March 21, 2022. The phrase ""put down South Qiang"" (討南羌) refers to the area that" |
317 | """For Faultless Service"" medal" | “For Faultless Service” medal – is a medal of Azerbaijani Republic. The medal was approved by Law of Azerbaijan Republic by Decree No. 330 – IIQ, on May 17, 2002. For Faultless Service medal consists of a narrow plate decorated with national ornaments and a round bronze plate of 25 mm diameter. Crossed rifles and an anchor are described against a background with an eagle with opened wings in the front side of the medal. There is a crescent and an eight-pointed star at the top and garlands of oak leaves at the bottom of the medal. The 3rd class |
318 | """For Faultless Service"" medal" | medal is silver color, the second class is gold color, the 1st class is gold color, the crescent and the eight-pointed star are white color, the rifles are silver color and the anchor is black color. Rare side of the medal is flat with “For 20 years faultless service” words on the 1st class medal, “For 15 years of faultless service” on the 2nd class medal, with “For 10 years of faultless service” on the 3rd class medal in the center and with a crescent and an eight-pointed star on a national ornament. “Azerbaijani Republic” words at the top and |
319 | """For Faultless Service"" medal" | “Armed Forces” words at the bottom are carved along the circle. The medal is pinned to the chest with a satin ribbon of 27x43 mm size and a ring and loop. There are vertical olive and white color stripes of 1 mm width and blue and white color vertical stripes of 3 mm located in a sequence from the corners to the center of the satin ribbon. There is one vertical 1 mm gold color stripe on the 1st class medal, 2-3 such stripes on the 2nd and 3rd class medals. A 27x9 mm mould covered with the same satin |
320 | """Free Albania"" National Committee" | """Free Albania"" National Committee (), also known as ""Free Albania"" National-Democratic Committee, also National Committee for a Free Albania or NCFA, was a political organization of post-World War II Albanian emigre in the Western countries. It was supported by CIA, placed as member of National Committee for a Free Europe. The committee aimed organizing the Albanian diaspora and cooperating with western powers into overthrown Enver Hoxha's Communist regime in Albania. <br>The committee creation started in Rome and was finalized in Paris in the summer of 1949. With the triumph of Communism in Albania, many of the political factors of Albania" |
321 | """Free Albania"" National Committee" | "during World War II had to flee the country. Many of them collaborated with the western government and secret services into overthrowing the communists, and changing the form of the regime in Albania. The base for the committee was heterogeneous, the most known actors were former Balli Kombëtar members including Mithat Frashëri, Abas Ermenji, Vasil Andoni, Hafëz Jusuf Azemi, Ali Klissura, etc., Legaliteti members with its leader Abaz Kupi, ""Blloku Indipendent"" (Independent Block) of pro-Italian and/or collaborationist elements that were involved with Albanian puppet governments during the war, i.e. Ernest Koliqi, Mustafa Kruja, Gjon Marka Gjoni, Shefqet Verlaci, anti-fascist and" |
322 | """Free Albania"" National Committee" | "anti-communist guerrillas who cooperated with British-American emissaries during the war led by Said bey Kryeziu, other independent anti-communists, i.e. Muharrem Bajraktari, as well as other political fractions like ""Peasant League"" (), etc. The preparation started in Rome in 1948, with the initiative of Legaliteti. After the rejection of Balli Kombëtar (due to political antagonism inherited since World War II), Balli's leader Mithat Frashëri resumed the initiative again. This time strong confrontations happened between Balli members and ""Blloku Indipendent"" which definitely stayed out of the committee. State Department did not want any of the Blloku members involved in the committee due" |
323 | """Free Albania"" National Committee" | "to their pro Italian/German stance during the war, but there was a silent voucher for guerillas like Ismail Vërlaci of Gjon Markagjoni who could join as individuals and not as representatives of Blloku. An inaugural storefront office was opened in Paris, 1 July 1949. Free Albania"" National Committee was officially constituted on July 7 (although some Albanian sources place it later in time, on 26 August 1949). Mithat Frashëri was its chairman, with other members of the Directing Board: Nuçi Kotta (son of the Albanian former Prime Minister Kostaq Kotta), Abaz Kupi, Said Kryeziu, and Zef Pali. There was also" |
324 | """Free Albania"" National Committee" | "a national committee consisted of Eqrem Telhai of ""Peasant League"" (Albanian: ""Lidhja Katundare""), Hysni Mulleti of ""Agrarian League"" (Albanian: ""Lidhja Agrare""), Muharrem Bajraktari as ""Independent Fighting Group"" (Albanian: ""Grupi Luftëtar i Pavarur""), Ihsan Toptani - independent, Gaqo Gogo, a pro-monarchist and former King Zog I's secretary, Myftar Spahiu and Gani Tafilaj from Legaliteti, whilst Halil Maçi, Vasil Andoni, and Abaz Ermenji from Balli Kombëtar. <br>Gaqo Gogo served also as Executive Secretary, while Abaz Kupi was appointed chairman of the military junta, with Ermenji and Kryeziu as his deputies. On September 6, 1949, the committee proclaimed itself in a BBC radio" |
325 | """Free Albania"" National Committee" | "transmission. In the following days, Mithat Frashëri would organize a press-conference, which rose another conflict with pro-Yugoslavian British authorities, opposing Frashëri's words which included ""Kosovo"", stating that he should speak only regarding territories subject to Albanian state. Soon-after, the British intelligence officer Billy McLean together with Alan Hare and Harold Perkins flew to Alexandria, Egypt where they joined Julian Amery and Robert Low. They had a meeting with King Zog trying to persuade him to recognize the committee. Former King of Albania, Ahmet Zogu, opposed the committee even though his supporter Abaz Kupi was one of the founders, with the" |
326 | """Free Albania"" National Committee" | "explanation that he was the only legitimate representative of Albania. The committee published the biweekly journal ""Shqiperia"" (Albania) in Albanian language. The committee was restructured with its center in New York City. After Frashëri's death in October 1949, Hasan Dosti took over, but later Rexhep Krasniqi, a Kosovar Albanian became chairman with support of Xhafer Deva who had previously settled in US. Abas Ermenji continued to work in France, where he published the journal ""Qëndresa Shqiptare"" (). The committee collaborated with CIA into forming the Company 4000 military units, stationed in Hohenbrunn, Bavaria, West Germany in 1950. The ""company"" consisted" |
327 | """Free Albania"" National Committee" | "of trained military units, supporting the Albanian Subversion, though it was never effective. With Albania joining UN in 1955, the committee's activities diminished over the years, but it continued to organize political gatherings, conferences, and seminars. Over 15,000 Albanian refugees were resettled in the United States through its efforts. Krasniqi publisher the newspaper ""The Free Albanian"" () from November 1957 to 1970. It was one of the nine national representations which were used by State Department to create the Assembly of Captive European Nations (ACEN). With the demise of communism, the board of directors of the FAC decided that its" |
328 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "Ricky Donnell ""Freeway Rick"" Ross (born January 26, 1960) is an American author and convicted drug trafficker best known for the drug empire he established in Los Angeles, California, in the early to mid 1980s. He was sentenced to life in prison, though the sentence was shortened on appeal and Ross was released in 2009. Ross attended school at Susan Miller Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. He played for the tennis team but was unable to get a college scholarship because he was illiterate. Ross has said that when he first saw crack cocaine as a teenager in 1979," |
329 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "he did not immediately believe it was a drug because it looked different from other drugs he had seen. The nickname Freeway came from Ross owning properties along the Los Angeles Harbor Freeway and living next to Interstate 110. According to an October 2013 ""Esquire"" magazine article, ""Between 1982 and 1989, federal prosecutors estimated, Ross bought and resold several metric tons of cocaine,"" with Ross's gross revenue claimed to be more than $900 million (equivalent to $2.7 billion in ) and profits of almost $300 million ($ million in ). During the height of his drug dealing, Ross was said" |
330 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "to have sold ""$3 million in one day."" According to the ""East Bay Times"", ""In the course of his rise, prosecutors estimate that Ross exported several tons of cocaine to New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and made more than $500 million between 1983 and 1984."" In 1996, Ross was sentenced to life imprisonment under the three-strikes law after being convicted for purchasing more than 100 kilograms of cocaine from a federal agent in a sting operation. Later that year, a series of articles by journalist Gary Webb in the ""San Jose Mercury News"" revealed a connection between one of" |
331 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | Ross's cocaine sources, Danilo Blandón, and the CIA as part of the Iran–Contra affair. Having learned to read at the age of 28, during his first stint in prison, Ross spent much of his time behind bars studying the law. He eventually discovered a legal loophole that would lead to his release. Ross's case was brought to a federal court of appeals which found that the three-strikes law had been erroneously applied and reduced his sentence to 20 years. He was released from Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana on September 29, 2009. Ross was arrested in October 2015 on suspicion of |
332 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | possessing cash related to the sales of illegal drugs when police discovered $100,000 in his possession during a traffic stop. Ross later alleged that he had been racially profiled and stated that he was carrying a large amount of cash for the purchase of a home. Charges were ultimately dropped, and Ross explained he had earned the cash from book sales and speaking fees. Ross began selling cocaine after his illiteracy prevented his earning a tennis scholarship for college. He began spending time with an upholstery teacher at a Los Angeles community college who revealed he dealt cocaine and offered |
333 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | Ross a small amount to sell. Ross used his profit to purchase more cocaine to sell, expanding his small operation. Ross eventually began to ask for quantities to sell that exceeded what the teacher was willing to procure, so he turned to find a new dealer. The teacher referred Ross to his supplier, Ivan Arguellas, who offered to keep Ross supplied. Arguellas was able to provide larger quantities at a better price, and Ross quickly went from dealing in grams of cocaine to dealing in ounces. About eight months after becoming Ross's supplier, Arguellas was shot in the spine, resulting |
334 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | in months of hospitalization that forced him out of the cocaine business. His brother-in-law Henry Corrales took over the business, but was not enthusiastic about the trade and had failed to make any connections of his own to suppliers. A Nicaraguan exile and cocaine distributor named Danilo Blandón was acquainted with Arguellas and Corrales, and although he did not know him personally, was impressed with the amount of cocaine that Ross was moving. Blandón offered to supply cocaine to Corrales to sell to Ross, for a fifty-fifty split of the profit. Eventually, Corrales lost his appetite for the cocaine business |
335 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "and retired, at which point Ross became a direct customer of Blandón. Through his connection to Blandón, and Blandón's supplier Norwin Meneses Cantarero, Ross was able to purchase Nicaraguan cocaine at significantly reduced rates. Ross began distributing cocaine at $10,000 per kilo less than the average street price, distributing it to the Bloods and Crips street gangs. By 1982, Ross had received his moniker of ""Freeway Ricky"" and claimed to have sold up to US$3 million worth of cocaine per day, purchasing 455 kilos of cocaine a week. Ross initially invested most of his profits in houses and businesses, because" |
336 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "he feared his mother would catch on to what he was doing if he started spending lavishly on himself. In a jailhouse interview with reporter Gary Webb, Ross said, ""We were hiding our money from our mothers."" He invested a portion of the proceeds from his drug dealing activities in Anita Baker's first album. With thousands of employees, Ross has said he operated drug sales not only in Los Angeles but in places across the country including St. Louis, New Orleans, Texas, Kansas City, Oklahoma, Indiana, Cincinnati, North Carolina, South Carolina, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Seattle. He has said that his" |
337 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "most lucrative sales came from the Ohio area. He made similar claims in a 1996 PBS interview. According to the ""East Bay Times"", ""In the course of his rise, prosecutors estimate that Ross exported several tons of cocaine to New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and made more than $600 million in the process."" Adjusting for inflation using the Consumer Price Index, this becomes more than a billion dollars in 2013. Much of Ross's success at evading law enforcement was due to his ring's possession of police scanners and voice scramblers. Following one drug bust, a Los Angeles County sheriff" |
338 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "remarked that Ross's men had ""better equipment than we have."" According to the October 2013 ""Esquire"" article, “Between 1982 and 1989, federal prosecutors estimated, Ross bought and resold several metric tons of cocaine. In 1980 dollars, his gross earnings were said to be in excess of $900 million – with a profit of nearly $300 million. Converted roughly to present-day dollars: 2.5 billion gross and $850 million in profit. As his distribution empire grew to include forty-two cities, the price he paid per kilo of powder cocaine dropped from as much as $60,000 to as low as $10,000. ” Ross's" |
339 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | capture was facilitated by his main source, drug lord Oscar Danilo Blandón, who set up Ross. Blandón had close ties with the Contras, and had met with Contra leader Enrique Bermúdez on several occasions. Blandón was the link between the CIA and Contras during the Iran–Contra affair. Gary Webb interviewed Ross several times before breaking the story in 1996. Ross claims that the reason he was unfairly tried initially was because of his involvement in the scandal. Blandón received a 24-month sentence for his drug trafficking charges, and following his release, was hired by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) where |
340 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | he was salaried at US$42,000. The Immigration and Naturalization Service was ordered to grant Blandón a green card, despite the criminal convictions, to allow him to work for the DEA. On June 18, 2010, Ross sued rapper Rick Ross (real name William Leonard Roberts II) for using his name, filing a copyright infringement lawsuit against Ross in a California Federal Court. Jay-Z had been called to testify in the lawsuit, as he was CEO of Def Jam when Ross was signed to the label. Ross sought $10 million in compensation in the lawsuit. After the lawsuit was dismissed on July |
341 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "3, 2010, the album ""Teflon Don"" was released as scheduled on July 20, 2010. A federal judge ruled that the case should be refiled in California state court because it fell under California state law. Ross refiled the case with the State of California and the federal case is on appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The state case was filed in 2011 in California. Ross refiled in Los Angeles Superior Court with publicity rights claims. Trial was set for early May 2012. The case was dismissed by a judge in the Los Angeles" |
342 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "Superior Court. The California State case was updated with a motion in Freeway Rick Ross's favor as to Warner Bros. Records and their use of the name and image Rick Ross in July 2012. The ""New York Post"" reported that a trial was set for August 27, 2013 in Freeway Rick Ross versus Rick Ross and Warner Music Group. On December 30, 2013, the court ruled in favor of the rapper Rick Ross, allowing him to keep the name based on a First Amendment ruling. In 2013, ""The Huffington Post"" reported that journalist and author Cathy Scott was co-writing Ross's" |
343 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "autobiography with him, scheduled for release in 2014. The memoir, ""Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography"", was released at a book launch with author Scott at the Eso Won Bookstore in Los Angeles on June 17, 2014 to a standing-room only crowd. KCET TV in its review wrote, ""(The book) is fascinating for its unsentimental, inside look at his career on the streets of South Central, which started for Ross with car theft and quickly shifted to drugs and the big time."" The memoir was nominated for ""ForeWord Review""s IndiFab Best Book of the Year Award 2014 in the true" |
344 | """Freeway"" Rick Ross" | "crime category. In June 2015, winners were announced, with the book named as a Foreword Reviews' 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist, True Crime. Ross was a key figure in filmmaker Kevin Booth's documentary """". The second episode of the first season of BET's ""American Gangster"" documentary series was focused on the story of Ricky Ross and his connection to the Iran–Contra scandal. Ross was a guest interview on VH1's Planet Rock History of Crack and Hip Hop Documentary. Ross is featured in the 2015 two-part documentary ""Freeway: Crack in the System"", which details various levels of the" |
345 | """G"" Is for Gumshoe" | """G"" Is for Gumshoe (1990) is the seventh novel in Sue Grafton's ""Alphabet"" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. In """"G"" Is for Gumshoe"", Kinsey Millhone meets fellow investigator Robert Dietz when someone hires a hit man to kill her. While Kinsey is being stalked, she uncovers an unsolved murder that haunts the lives of her client Mrs. Irene Gersh and Irene's ""mother"" who uses the alias ""Agnes Grey"" (the title of an Anne Brontë novel). In other developments in Kinsey's personal story, she loses her VW car, and her" |
346 | """G"" Is for Gumshoe" | friend Vera Lipton becomes engaged. Three things happen to Kinsey Millhone on her thirty-third birthday: she moves into her remodeled apartment, which has finally been finished; she is hired by Irene Gersh, a sickly Santa Theresa resident, to head out to the Slabs in the Mojave Desert and locate her mother; she gets the news that Tyrone Patty, a particularly dangerous criminal she helped the Carson City Police Department track down a few years back, has hired a hit-man to kill her. After her first night in her new place, Kinsey heads out early the next day in search of |
347 | """G"" Is for Gumshoe" | Mrs Gersh's mother, Agnes Grey, who lives in a trailer in the desert. Agnes isn't home, and the trailer seems to be occupied by two teenage runaways, but Kinsey eventually tracks Agnes down at a local convalescent hospital, where she has been since being taken suddenly ill on a trip to a local town sometime before. Agnes, 83 years old, has not been a model patient, and the hospital staff are delighted to hear that she has relatives who can take responsibility for her. Irene makes plans to transfer Agnes to a facility in Santa Teresa, but Agnes seems terrified |
348 | """G"" Is for Gumshoe" | of going there, and tells Kinsey a confused story about a number of people from the past, including Lottie, and Emily who died. Kinsey makes plans to come home, but before she can do so, a man in a pick-up truck deliberately runs her off the road, seriously injuring Kinsey and totalling her treasured VW automobile. Kinsey recognises the driver as a man traveling with his young son she has seen a couple of times on the journey to the Slabs, and realises she needs to take the death threat against her seriously. She hires Robert Dietz, the PI who |
349 | """G"" Is for Gumshoe" | helped her briefly on an earlier case, as a bodyguard. His vigilance initially frustrates Kinsey, used to making her own decisions, but they soon begin an affair. Dietz discovers the hitman is Mark Messinger, who absconded with his son, Eric, eight months previously. He arranges a meeting with the child's mother, Rochelle, who is desperate to get her son back, and offers to help her. Meanwhile, Agnes goes missing only a few hours after getting to Santa Teresa. She is soon found, yet she within a day she dies of fright. Kinsey and Robert Dietz suspect she has been kept |
350 | """G"" Is for Gumshoe" | prisoner somewhere before her death. Irene suffers a serious panic reaction when she sees a tea set Kinsey found among her mother's possessions, and Kinsey suspects this has triggered a buried childhood memory. Further anomalies occur when Irene tries to fill in the paperwork relating to the death: Kinsey realises that Irene's birth certificate is faked, and that Agnes Grey is a pseudonym. It's Kinsey's CFI colleague Darcy who points out Agnes Grey is the name of a novel by Anne Brontë, which seems to link to the names Emily and Lottie (Charlotte) Agnes had mentioned. She tracks down a |
351 | """G"" Is for Gumshoe" | family called Bronfen who match the circumstances Agnes described, and surmises that the surviving brother of the family, Patrick, murdered Lottie and Emily. She is convinced that Agnes Grey was Anne Bronfen, a third sister, who took off with Irene to protect her when Patrick killed Irene's mother, Sheila, changing their identities and posing as her mother. The three daughters were presumably named for the Brontë sisters, which explains the alias Anne chose to use. Patrick faked Anne's death in order to gain sole possession of the family property. Kinsey is convinced that Patrick is responsible for Agnes's death, to |
352 | """G"" Is for Gumshoe" | cover his past crimes, and discovers evidence of further killings at his home. When she confronts Patrick, she is interrupted by Messinger, who kills Patrick. Dietz and Rochelle have managed to get Eric away from Messinger, and Messinger's stated intention is to use Kinsey as a hostage to exchange for Eric. As she drives Messinger to the airport at gunpoint to intercept Rochelle, Kinsey is convinced Messinger will kill them all, and he succeeds in killing Rochelle's twin Roy who was attempting to help her escape with Eric. However, Rochelle outsmarts Messinger and kills him first. In the epilogue, the |
353 | """Galway Joe"" Dolan" | "Dolan was an arts student in Dublin before becoming involved in the Irish showbands of the 1960s, playing guitar with The Capitol Showband and The Swingtime Aces. He is best known as one of the three founding members, together with Andy Irvine and Johnny Moynihan, of the highly influential folk group Sweeney's Men, which was formed in Galway in May 1966; Dolan also chose the group's name. Sweeney's Men invigorated the Irish folk scene, and had an unexpected Irish top 10 hit with ""Old Maid in the Garret"" in 1967. The week ""Old Maid in the Garret"" was in the" |
354 | """Galway Joe"" Dolan" | "Top Ten, Dolan left the band to go to Israel with the intention of taking part in the Six-Day War. Later on, Des Kelly—Sweeney's Men's manager—joked that Dolan had arrived on the seventh day, ""but it took him a year to get down there"". He wrote the song ""The Trip to Jerusalem"" about his journey there, which was later recorded by Christy Moore in 1978 on the album ""The Iron Behind the Velvet"". In that album's sleeve notes, Moore quoted Dolan's explanation of the genesis of the song: His song ""The Foxy Devil"" was also recorded by Moore on the" |
355 | """Go Home"" vans" | "The ""Go Home"" vans were part of a 2013 advertising campaign by the British Home Office in which advertising vehicles with slogans recommending that illegal immigrants should ""go home or face arrest"" were sent to tour areas with high immigrant populations. The hypothesis of the operation was that people who did not have leave to remain would voluntarily depart if ""a near and present"" danger, such as being arrested, was made apparent. The pilot programme, which had the internal codename 'Operation Vaken', ran in the six London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hounslow, and Redbridge from 22" |
356 | """Go Home"" vans" | "July to 22 August 2013, and was part of the Home Office hostile environment policy. In October 2013, the evaluation report stated that 60 voluntary departures were believed to be directly related to 'Operation Vaken' and 65 more cases were ""currently being progressed to departure."" The campaign was cancelled after a public outcry against it. British politicians including Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and Eric Pickles expressed concerns about the campaign. Nigel Farage described the advertisements as ""unpleasant."" Yvette Cooper compared the slogans on the vans with slogans used by the National Front in the 1970s and the campaign was described" |
357 | """Good Hair"" and Other Dubious Distinctions" | """Good Hair"" and Other Dubious Distinctions is a 2011 documentary film directed, written and edited by Camille S. DeBose. The film focuses on cultural language and practices that negatively impact the development of a healthy sense of self. The filmmaker's commentary asserts a criticism of the way wavy hair, lighter skin and a slender nose are still considered more attractive in the black community in light of historical and contemporary movements which have sought to liberate black self-esteem. As a practicing and teaching sociologist, the filmmaker sought to illuminate the notion of symbolic violence through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu" |
358 | """Good Hair"" and Other Dubious Distinctions" | and spark conversation not just in the black community but all other communities as well. Cultural practices which value some features but not others are issues common to every family and every community. For the filmmaker this is an issue of valuing and finding beauty in every human being. The film begins with a series of outdoor shots narrated by the filmmaker. The viewer follows her fuzzy form as she approaches the camera and tells a story of people remarking on the features they hope her unborn child will be born with. The film continues with a collection of personal |
359 | """Good Luck, Father Ted""" | """Good Luck, Father Ted"" is the first episode to be aired of the Channel 4 sitcom ""Father Ted"". Ted is contacted by a producer from Tele Éireann television programme, ""Faith of our Fathers"", requesting to interview Ted as a priest that works in a remote area. Ted is elated to be asked, but as he fears that his fellow priests Dougal and Jack would embarrass him, he tells the producer that he is the only priest on Craggy Island, and arranges to meet with the television reporter at ""The Field"", one of least-rocky areas on the island. As the day" |
360 | """Good Luck, Father Ted""" | "of the interview arrives, Dougal is excited about attending ""Fun Land"", a funfair that has been set up on ""The Field"". Ted tells Dougal to take Jack via wheelchair to walk along the cliffs while he goes to meet the reporter at the fair; however, Dougal and Jack soon appear at the fair, Dougal claiming that the cliffs were ""closed"" and ""gone"" due to erosion as an excuse to attend the fair. Ted, who has yet to meet the reporter, unsuccessfully tries to usher Dougal and Jack away. Jack soon takes off on his own while Dougal is distracted, and" |
361 | """Good Luck, Father Ted""" | "Ted is forced to chase him down, finding him asleep on a park bench. Ted sits down with him, but too late discovers the bench is part of the ""Crane of Death"" ride, and the bench is lifted high into the air. From his vantage, Ted sees that Dougal has been found by the television reporter, and since Ted said he was the only priest on the island, the reporter assumes Dougal is Ted. In his lament, Ted falls off the bench to the ground. Later, a heavily bandaged Ted watches the television interview along with Dougal, Jack and Mrs" |
362 | """Good Luck, Father Ted""" | "Doyle at the parochial house. Ted cringes as, during the interview, Dougal goes on about his doubts of Christianity and organised religion, while the on-screen caption reads ""Father Ted Crilly"". Jack sees Dougal on the TV, and angrily hurls a wine bottle at the TV like he did earlier in the episode. While this was the first ""Father Ted"" episode broadcast, it was not always intended to be; the writers originally planned to air ""The Passion of Saint Tibulus"" first, but later decided that ""'Good Luck, Father Ted'"" would make a better introduction. Linehan makes a non-speaking cameo appearance, goading" |
363 | """Good day, fellow!"" ""Axe handle!""" | "Good Day, Fellow!' 'Axe Handle! (Norwegian: ""God dag, mann!"" ""Økseskaft!"") is a Norwegian folktale, collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. A deaf or hard of hearing ferryman has a wife, two sons and a daughter. They fritter away all their money, and leave him to pay the bill when their credit runs out. He sees the bailiff coming in the distance and decides to be clever and prepare his answers ahead of time. He reasons that the first thing the man will ask will be about what he is carving. He will say that it is an axe handle. He thinks" |
364 | """Good day, fellow!"" ""Axe handle!""" | "that the other questions will be about the length of the axe handle, his ferry, his mare and the way to the cowshed. However, the first thing the bailiff says is ""Good day, fellow!"" He replies ""Axe handle!"", thinking himself clever. Next the bailiff asks how far it is to the inn. ""Up to this knot!"" he replies, pointing to the axe handle. The bailiff shakes his head and stares at him. ""Where is your wife, man?"" he says. ""I'm going to tar her,"" says the ferryman. ""She's lying on the beach, cracked at both ends."" ""Where is your daughter?""" |
365 | """Good day, fellow!"" ""Axe handle!""" | """Oh, she's in the stable, big with foal,"" he says, still thinking himself clever. The bailiff finally gets angry with him and shouts, ""Go to the devil, fool that you are!"" ""Oh, it's not far away, when you're over the hill, you're almost there,"" says the man. The phrase ""Goddag mann, økseskaft!"" (Good day fellow axe handle) has become a common idiom for a non sequitur, not just in Norway but also the rest of Scandinavia (""Goddag, yxskaft!"" in Swedish, ""Goddag mand, økseskaft!"" in Danish and ""Hyvää päivää, kirvesvartta!"" in Finnish). The folktale was later published in the widely used" |
366 | """H"" Is for Homicide" | """H"" Is for Homicide is the eighth novel in Sue Grafton's ""Alphabet"" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. In this novel, Kinsey Millhone goes under cover to help break up an insurance fraud ring in Los Angeles led by Raymond Maldonado. She infiltrates the ring by befriending Maldonado's former girlfriend Bibianna Diaz. In the process she meets up with a former school mate and ex cop, Jimmy Tate. This novel earned a place on the ""New York Times"" hard-cover best-seller list just two weeks after initial publication. These are troubling" |
367 | """H"" Is for Homicide" | times for California Fidelity, the insurance company for whom Kinsey Millhone does occasional freelance work in return for office space. First, a recent employee and friend of Kinsey's, Parnell Perkins, is shot and killed - and the police investigation seems curiously lacking in results. Second, in the wake of poor profit figures, company troubleshooter Gordon Titus (or 'tight-ass' as he is immediately nicknamed) arrives to shake things up. The informal arrangement with Kinsey seems high on his list of targets. In the new mood of nervous efficiency prevalent at CFI pending Titus's arrival, Kinsey is passed the claim file of |
368 | """H"" Is for Homicide" | Bibianna Diaz to investigate for possible fraud. Kinsey assumes a false identity as Hannah Moore in an attempt to befriend Bibianna, who by co-incidence is in a relationship with a former schoolmate and associate from police academy days of Kinsey's, Jimmy Tate, recently relieved of police duties on the grounds of corruption. Bibianna has problems too, it seems: her former boyfriend Raymond Maldonaldo, of whom she is - rightly as it turns out - terrified, is the jealous type, and is hunting her down. Kinsey realises that a CFI colleague has inadvertently given away information on Bibianna to Raymond's gang, |
369 | """H"" Is for Homicide" | and things come to a head while she is out drinking with Bibianna and Tate. Raymond's brother Chago and his girlfriend Dawna accost Bibianna, and in the fracas which ensues Tate shoots and kills Chago. Bibianna is taken into custody with Kinsey deliberately sticking to her in order to cement their relationship. Kinsey's enforced overnight stay in the police 'tank' is interrupted by Lieutenant Dolan, who has a job offer for her: Raymond is the head of a huge insurance fraud gang and the police want Kinsey to use her new position as Bibianna's confidante to get the evidence they |
370 | """H"" Is for Homicide" | need; there seems to be a leak somewhere in the police department and they need someone unconnected they can trust to bring Raymond to justice. Kinsey withdraws her initial gut refusal when Dolan tells her Raymond killed Parnell, but they have been stalling the murder investigation in order not to jeopardize the longstanding fraud case. Kinsey agrees to help out of a sense of duty to Parnell, but the police plan to have Kinsey wired for her own protection goes awry and she is left to fend for herself. Thus begins a dangerous and stifling few days for Kinsey, undercover |
371 | """H"" Is for Homicide" | and up to her neck in a criminal ring headed by a deluded killer. Raymond effectively keeps both Kinsey and Bibianna under house arrest in Los Angeles, with the aid of his second in command, Luis. Raymond can't accept Bibianna's rejection of him and is determined to force her into marriage. The snag in the plan, which Bibianna doesn't dare confess, is that she has actually just married Tate. Tensions run high, while Kinsey learns much about the car insurance fraud business, keeps her eyes open, and eventually establishes the leak is a clerk at the County Sheriff's office, whose |
372 | """H"" Is for Homicide" | father is a crooked doctor heavily involved in Raymond's ring. Matters come to a head when Bibianna escapes, and is pursued almost to her death by one of Raymond's henchmen. Visiting her in hospital, the doctor inadvertently lets slip to Raymond that Bibianna's next of kin is her husband, Jimmy Tate. Enraged, Raymond shoots Jimmy. Kinsey sets off in hot pursuit and receives unexpected help from Luis, who turns out to be an undercover LAPD cop. Kinsey makes it back to Santa Teresa in the nick of time for her friend Vera Lipton's wedding. Both Bibianna and Tate survive, but |
373 | """Happy"" in Galoshes" | """Happy"" in Galoshes is the second solo album by American rock singer Scott Weiland. Weiland, known for his roles as the lead singer in Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, released his first album, ""12 Bar Blues"" in 1998. Ten years later, """"Happy"" in Galoshes"" served as the official follow-up. Two versions have been released, a single disc and double disc deluxe version—the deluxe edition offers a second disc of 10 extra tracks. The album was released November 25, 2008 on Weiland's own Softdrive Records. Produced by Doug Grean and Scott Weiland, with select tracks recorded by Steve Albini, the" |
374 | """Happy"" in Galoshes" | "album features guest appearances by Paul Oakenfold and No Doubt members Adrian Young, Tony Kanal, and Tom Dumont. Oakenfold appears on a cover of David Bowie's ""Fame."" Weiland has cited Bowie as one of his main influences. In an interview with ""The Pulse of Radio"" regarding the album, Weiland stated: ""It'll definitely be a sonic journey like the first album was, a little bit more focused since I'm not on a narcotic journey like I was on the last one. But, you know, still sort of all over the map, because my influences are so wide and varied."" In an" |
375 | """Happy"" in Galoshes" | "interview with MTV News, Weiland stated that the songs on """"Happy"" In Galoshes"" were inspired by the death of his brother, Michael (who also played drums on a song on the album), and Weiland's separation from his wife of eight years, Mary Forsberg. """"Happy"" in Galoshes"" was originally reported to be a double album, but in actuality, it is a single album that is being offered in a deluxe edition. On September 17, 2008, Spin.com posted an exclusive stream of ""Paralysis"", and the track ""Missing Cleveland"" was posted on Weiland's MySpace site. On October 24, Spin also posted another new" |
376 | """Happy"" in Galoshes" | "song, ""Crash"". On October 27, rockdirt.com released the video for ""Paralysis"", which features actress Paz de la Huerta. On November 18, the album became available to preview on Scott Weiland's MySpace page. A series of 4 webisodes directed by Rocco Guarino were released on scottweiland.com to promote the single ""Crash"". ""Missing Cleveland"" was the first single released from the album on November 11. On February 17, it was announced that fans could vote for the album's second single. The candidates for the voting are ""Paralysis"", ""Blind Confusion"", and ""Killing Me Sweetly."" """"Happy"" in Galoshes"" debuted at #97 on the ""Billboard""" |
377 | """Hello, World!"" program" | "A ""Hello, World!"" program generally is a computer program that outputs or displays the message ""Hello, World!"". Because it is very simple in most programming languages, it is often used to illustrate the basic syntax of a programming language and is often the first program those learning to code write. A ""Hello, World!"" program is traditionally used to introduce novice programmers to a programming language. ""Hello, world!"" is also traditionally used in a sanity test to make sure that a computer language is correctly installed, and that the operator understands how to use it. While small test programs have existed" |
378 | """Hello, World!"" program" | "since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase ""Hello, world!"" as a test message was influenced by an example program in the seminal book ""The C Programming Language"". The example program from that book prints """" (without capital letters or exclamation mark), and was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, ""Programming in C: A Tutorial"": The C version was preceded by Kernighan's own 1972 ""A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B"", where the first known version of the program is found in an example used to illustrate external variables: The program" |
379 | """Hello, World!"" program" | "prints ' on the terminal, including a newline character. The phrase is divided into multiple variables because in B, a character constant is limited to four ASCII characters. The previous example in the tutorial printed ' on the terminal, and the phrase """" was introduced as a slightly longer greeting that required several character constants for its expression. The Jargon File claims that ""hello, world"" originated instead with BCPL (1967).This claim is supported by the archived notes of the inventors of BCPL, Prof. Brian Kernighan at Princeton and Martin Richards at Cambridge. For modern languages, hello, world programs vary in" |
380 | """Hello, World!"" program" | "sophistication. For example, the Go programming language introduced a multilingual program, Sun demonstrated a Java hello, world based on scalable vector graphics, and the XL programming language features a spinning Earth hello, world using 3D graphics. While some languages such as Perl, Python or Ruby may need only a single statement to print ""hello, world"", a low-level assembly language may require dozens of commands. Mark Guzdial and Elliot Soloway have suggested that the ""hello, world"" test message may be outdated now that graphics and sound can be manipulated as easily as text. There are many variations on the punctuation and" |
381 | """Hello, World!"" program" | "casing of the phrase. Variations include the presence or absence of the comma and exclamation mark, and the capitalization of the 'H', both the 'H' and the 'W', or neither. Some languages are forced to implement different forms, such as ""HELLO WORLD"", on systems that support only capital letters, while many ""hello, world"" programs in esoteric languages print out a slightly modified string. For example, the first non-trivial Malbolge program printed ""HEllO WORld"", this having been determined to be good enough. There are variations in spirit, as well. Functional programming languages, like Lisp, ML and Haskell, tend to substitute a" |
382 | """Hello, World!"" program" | "factorial program for Hello, World, as functional programming emphasizes recursive techniques, whereas the original examples emphasize I/O, which violates the spirit of pure functional programming by producing side effects. Languages otherwise capable of Hello, World (Assembly, C, VHDL) may also be used in embedded systems, where text output is either difficult (requiring additional components or communication with another computer) or nonexistent. For devices such as microcontrollers, field-programmable gate arrays, and CPLD's, ""Hello, World"" may thus be substituted with a blinking LED, which demonstrates timing and interaction between components. The Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions provide the ""hello, world"" program through" |
383 | """Hello, World!"" program" | "the apt packaging system; this allows users to simply type ""apt-get install hello"" for the program to be installed, along with any software dependencies. While of itself useless, it serves as a sanity check and a simple example to newcomers of how to install a package. It is significantly more useful for developers, however, as it provides an example of how to create a .deb package, either traditionally or using debhelper, and the version of hello used, GNU Hello, serves as an example of how to write a GNU program. Time to ""Hello World"" (TTHW) is a metric for how" |
384 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie album)" | """Heroes"" is the 12th studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on RCA Records on 14 October 1977. The second installment of his Berlin Trilogy recorded with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti, """"Heroes"""" continued the ambient experiments of Bowie's previous album ""Low"" (released earlier that year) and featured the contributions of King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp. Of the three albums, it was the only one wholly recorded in Berlin. It was well received by critics, and was named ""NME"" Album of the Year. The title track remains one of Bowie's best known and acclaimed songs. Recorded at Hansa Tonstudio" |
385 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie album)" | "in what was then West Berlin, """"Heroes"""" reflected the zeitgeist of the Cold War, symbolised by the divided city. Co-producer Tony Visconti considered it ""one of my last great adventures in making albums. The studio was about 500 yards [460 metres] from the Berlin Wall. Red Guards would look into our control-room window with powerful binoculars."" Earlier in 1977, Kraftwerk had name-checked Bowie on the title track of ""Trans-Europe Express"", and he again paid tribute to his Krautrock influences: the title is a nod to the track ""Hero"" on the album ""Neu! '75"" by the German band Neu! – whose" |
386 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie album)" | "guitarist Michael Rother had originally been approached to play on the album – while ""V-2 Schneider"" is inspired by and named after Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider. Masayoshi Sukita's cover photo was inspired by German artist Erich Heckel's ""Roquairol"". Bowie said that the quotation marks in the title ""indicate a dimension of irony about the word 'heroes' or about the whole concept of heroism"". Brian Eno instigated Robert Fripp's involvement. ""I got a phone call when I was living in New York in July 1977,"" the guitarist recalled. ""It was Brian Eno. He said that he and David were recording in Berlin" |
387 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie album)" | "and passed me over. David said, 'Would you be interested in playing some hairy rock 'n' roll guitar?' I said, 'Well, I haven't really played for three years – but, if you're prepared to take a risk, so will I.' Shortly afterwards, a first-class ticket on Lufthansa arrived."" Upon arriving at the studio, and suffering from jet lag, Fripp recorded a guitar part for ""Beauty and the Beast"": this first take was used in the song's final mix. Although """"Heroes"""" continued Bowie's work in electronic and ambient music styles and included a number of dark and atmospheric instrumentals such as" |
388 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie album)" | """Sense of Doubt"" and ""Neuköln"", it was regarded as a highly passionate and positive artistic statement, particularly after the often melancholy ""Low"". The lyrics for ""Joe the Lion"", written and recorded at the microphone ""in less than an hour"" according to Visconti, typified the improvisational nature of the recording. Eno employed his Oblique Strategies cards during the recording of the album. Stories suggest they were used during the recording of instrumentals such as ""Sense of Doubt"". RCA Records marketed """"Heroes"""" with the slogan ""There's Old Wave. There's New Wave. And there's David Bowie ..."" It enjoyed a positive critical reception" |
389 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie album)" | "on release in late 1977, ""Melody Maker"" and ""NME"" both naming it ""Album of the Year"". It reached No. 3 in the UK and stayed in the charts for 26 weeks, but was less successful in the US where it peaked at No. 35. The album was released in Germany with the title track renamed """"Heroes""/""Helden"""" and partly in German. An early instance of the album's enduring influence is John Lennon's comment in 1980 that, when making his album ""Double Fantasy"", his ambition was to ""do something as good as """"Heroes""""."" ""Rolling Stone"" highlighted Eno's contribution, contending that after Bowie's" |
390 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie album)" | """auteurist exploitation"" of the former on ""Low"", """"Heroes"""" ""prompts a much more enthusiastic reading of the collaboration, which here takes the form of a union of Bowie's dramatic instincts and Eno's unshakable sonic serenity"". Several songs from the album were played live on Bowie's Isolar II Tour in 1978, released on the live album ""Stage"" the same year, and again from a different venue in 2018 with ""Welcome to the Blackout"". Philip Glass adapted a classical suite, """"Heroes"" Symphony"", from this album as a companion to his earlier ""Low Symphony"". The title track has been covered by numerous artists, for" |
391 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie album)" | "example as an encore by subsequent incarnations of King Crimson, and Billy Mackenzie sang ""The Secret Life of Arabia"" in 1982 for the B.E.F. LP ""Music of Quality and Distinction"". Several tracks were used in the film ""Christiane F."" Bowie performed as himself in the film. The cover of Bowie's 2013 album, ""The Next Day"", is an altered and obscured version of the """"Heroes"""" cover. This version has ""Heroes"" crossed out and Bowie's face obscured by an opaque white box reading ""The Next Day"". """"Heroes"""" was first released on CD by RCA Records in the mid-1980s. It was reissued in" |
392 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie album)" | "1991 by Rykodisc with two bonus tracks. The 1991 edition was released in the UK on CD, cassette and LP by EMI Records, and was subsequently rereleased on a numbered 20-bit SBM AU20 Gold CD edition. A further release in 1999 by EMI/Virgin, without bonus tracks, featured 24-bit digitally remastered sound. In 2017, the album was remastered for the ""A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)"" box set released by Parlophone. It was released in CD, vinyl, and digital formats, as part of this compilation and then separately the following year. A volume shift in the song ""Heroes"" received" |
393 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie song)" | """Heroes"" is a song by English musician David Bowie. It was co-written by Bowie and Brian Eno, produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, and recorded in July and August 1977 at Hansa Studio by the Wall. It was released on 23 September 1977 as the lead single from his 12th studio album of the same name, backed with the song ""V-2 Schneider"". A product of Bowie's ""Berlin"" period, the track was not a huge hit in the United Kingdom or United States after its release, but it has since become one of his signature songs. In January 2016, following Bowie's" |
394 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie song)" | "death, the song reached a new peak of number 12 in the UK Singles Chart. ""Heroes"" has been cited as Bowie's second-most covered song after ""Rebel Rebel"". Inspired by the sight of Bowie's producer-engineer Tony Visconti embracing his lover by the Berlin Wall, the song tells the story of two lovers, one from East and one from West Berlin. Bowie's performance of ""Heroes"" on June 6, 1987 at the German Reichstag in West Berlin has been considered a catalyst to the later fall of the Berlin Wall. Following his death in January 2016, the German government thanked Bowie for ""helping" |
395 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie song)" | "to bring down the Wall"", adding ""you are now among Heroes"". ""Heroes"" has received numerous accolades since its release, as seen with its inclusion on lists ranking the 'greatest songs of all time' compiled by the music publications; ""Rolling Stone"" named the song the 46th greatest ever, and ""NME"" named it the 15th greatest. Bowie scholar David Buckley has written that ""Heroes"" ""is perhaps pop's definitive statement of the potential triumph of the human spirit over adversity"". The song title is a reference to the 1975 track ""Hero"" by German krautrock band Neu!, whom Bowie and Eno admired. It was" |
396 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie song)" | "one of the early tracks recorded during the album sessions, but remained an instrumental until towards the end of production. The quotation marks in the title of the song, a deliberate affectation, were designed to impart an ironic quality on the otherwise romantic or triumphant words and music. Bowie said that the ""plodding tempo and rhythm"" were inspired by the Velvet Underground song ""I'm Waiting for the Man"". Producer Tony Visconti took credit for inspiring the image of the lovers kissing ""by the wall"", when he and backing vocalist Antonia Maass ""(Maaß)"" embraced in front of Bowie as he looked" |
397 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie song)" | "out of the Hansa Studio window. Bowie claimed that the protagonists were based on an anonymous young couple, but Visconti, who was married to Mary Hopkin at the time, contends that Bowie was protecting him and his affair with Maass. Bowie confirmed this in 2003. Richard Buskin of ""Sound on Sound"" described ""Heroes"" as a ""highly experimental piece of art rock"". The music, co-written by Bowie and Eno, has been likened to a Wall of Sound production, a forceful and noisy arrangement of guitars, percussion and synthesizers. Eno said the song always ""sounded grand and heroic"" and that he had" |
398 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie song)" | """that very word – heroes – in my mind"" even before Bowie wrote the lyrics. The backing track consists of a conventional arrangement of piano, bass guitar, rhythm guitar and drums. The other parts consist of synthesizer parts by Eno using an EMS VCS3 to produce detuned low-frequency drones, with the beat frequencies from the three oscillators, producing a juddering effect. In addition, King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp generated an unusual sustained sound by allowing his guitar to feed back and sitting at different positions in the room to alter the pitch of the feedback. Visconti mixed out Dennis Davis'" |
399 | """Heroes"" (David Bowie song)" | "kick drum, stating that the track ""seemed to plod"" with it but had a more energetic feel without it. Bowie's vocal was recorded with a ""multi-latch"" system devised by Visconti that creatively misused gating. Three microphones were used to capture the vocal, with one microphone nine inches from Bowie, one 20 feet away and one 50 feet away. Each microphone was muted as the next one was triggered. As the music built, Bowie was forced to sing at increased volumes to overcome the gating effect, leading to an increasingly impassioned vocal performance as the song progresses. Jay Hodgson writes, ""Bowie's" |