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! (pronounced "blah") is the debut studio album by Portuguese singer Cláudia Pascoal. It was released in Portugal on 27 March 2020 by Universal Music Portugal. The album peaked at number six on the Portuguese Albums Chart. ==Track listing== ==Charts== Chart (2020) Peak position ==Release history== Region Date Format Label Portugal 27 March 2020 Universal Music Portugal ==References== Category:2020 debut albums Category:Portuguese-language albums Category:Cláudia Pascoal albums
! is the debut studio album by American indie rock band The Dismemberment Plan. It was released on October 3, 1995, on DeSoto Records. The band's original drummer Steve Cummings played on the album but left shortly after its release. ==Track listing== #"Survey Says" – 2:08 #"The Things That Matter" – 2:25 #"The Small Stuff" – 3:02 #"OK Jokes Over" – 4:27 #"Soon to Be Ex Quaker" – 1:26 #"I'm Going to Buy You a Gun" – 3:06 #"If I Don't Write" – 4:28 #"Wouldn't You Like to Know?" – 2:50 #"13th and Euclid" – 2:18 #"Fantastic!" – 4:14 #"Onward, Fat Girl" – 2:46 #"Rusty" – 4:29 #"The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich" (Japanese bonus track) – 2:23 ==Personnel== The following people were involved in the making of !: ;The Dismemberment Plan *Eric Axelson – bass *Jason Caddell – guitar *Steve Cummings – drums *Travis Morrison – vocals, guitar ;Production *Andy Charneco and Don Zientara – recording ==Footnotes== ==References== * * * * * Category:1995 debut albums Category:The Dismemberment Plan albums Category:DeSoto Records albums
"! (The Song Formerly Known As)" is a song by Australian rock band Regurgitator. The song was released as a double-A sided single with "Modern Life" in September 1998 as the fourth and final single from the band's second studio album Unit. The single peaked at number 28 in Australia and it also ranked at number 6 on Triple J's Hottest 100 in 1998, with the single's bonus track "I Like Your Old Remix Better Than Your New Remix" being ranked at number 27. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1999, the song was nominated for three awards; Best Group, Best Video and Single of the Year. ==Music video== The music video for the song was filmed in Tokyo with the band members being filmed in various locations throughout the city. ==Critical reception== In 2014, Clem Bastow from The Guardian said "'!' is unmatched: it's a towering slab of electronic fuzz, tailor made for giant stadiums and the sort of raves that bring to mind The Matrix's Zion scenes, and yet the song is about staying home and listening to records in the living room with your significant other." In 2015, the song was listed at number 60 in In the Mix's 100 Greatest Australian Dance Tracks of All Time with Nick Jarvis saying "The best track on the album (and arguably the best track the 'Gurge has written yet) – a dance track played by a live band about how dancing around your living room with bae wearing ugly pants is so much better than going out to loud, smoky clubs.". In 2019, Tyler Jenke from The Brag ranked Regurgitator's best songs, with "!" coming it at number 1. Jenke said "Ask anyone from the era, and they'll all agree that '! (The Song Formerly Known As)' is Regurgitator's finest moment.. it managed to become their shining glory, with lyrics that describe just sitting back and avoiding clubs, raves, and concerts in favor of a comfy lounge room in suburbia." calling the song "an essential piece of Aussie music history." Junkee said, "Even at their most ribald, they still sound like an out-of-control after-school care group going to town on a bunch of poor, unsuspecting instruments. "!" isn't even really a song. It's a work of punkish extravagance, dressed in nothing but a streak of yellow paint and with murder on its mind. " ==Track listings== ==Charts== Chart (1998) Peak position ==Release history== Region Date Format Label Catalogue Australia CD Single EastWest, Warner 3984249522 ==References== Category:1997 songs Category:1998 singles Category:Regurgitator songs Category:Song recordings produced by Magoo (Australian producer) Category:Songs written by Quan Yeomans Category:Warner Music Australasia singles
! (pronounced "Exclamation Mark") is the second studio album by American rapper Trippie Redd. It was released on August 9, 2019, by TenThousand Projects and Caroline Records. The album features appearances from Diplo, The Game, Lil Duke, Lil Baby and Coi Leray. The album also originally featured Playboi Carti, but was later removed from the album. ==Background== In January 2019, Trippie Redd announced that he had two more projects to be released soon in an Instagram live stream, his second studio album, Immortal and Mobile Suit Pussy, which was reportedly set to be his fourth commercial mixtape, but it then became scrapped. He explained that Immortal would have tracks where deep and romantic concepts are present, while Mobile Suit Pussy would have contained tracks that are "bangers". Later in March 2019 in another Instagram live stream, Redd stated that his second album had "shifted and changed" and was no longer titled Immortal. He later revealed that the album would be titled !, and inspired by collaborator XXXTentacion's ? album. Trippie released the lead single to the album "Under Enemy Arms" on May 29, 2019. He confirmed in an interview with Zane Lowe of Beats 1 Radio that the album would be titled ! and was already completed, but that he wanted to add several more features as well as videos.https://www.facebook.com/beats1/videos/294611471493365/ ==Critical reception== ! was met with mixed reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 59, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 6 reviews. Rachel Aroesti of The Guardian described the album as "compelling but contradictory emo-rap", noting lyrical contradictions and concluding it "is doubtless part of the genre's forward march – but it's hard to get past the sense that White has sacrificed a coherent artistic identity in the name of progress." Writing for Pitchfork, Andy O'Connor wrote that the "songs touch on being true to oneself at all costs, but these half- baked lessons land flat since Redd himself doesn't really have an identity, musical or otherwise", further commenting, "Most of what happens here couldn't even realistically be considered rapping", calling the verses "dull and unimaginative on top of being restrictive in form" and "nonsense bars". O'Connor concluded that "the most enjoyable moments feel like controlled chaos. Redd [...] does at least sound more composed. That's to his credit as a person but it's not to his advantage as an artist." ==Commercial performance== The album debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 with 51,000 album- equivalent units, of which 7,000 were pure album sales in its first week. ==Track listing== Credits adapted from Apple Music. Notes * "They Afraid of You" (featuring Playboi Carti) originally appeared on the album, but was later removed (including physical), and from all streaming platforms. ==Charts== ===Weekly charts=== Chart (2019) Peak position Latvian Albums (LAIPA) 11 Lithuanian Albums (AGATA) 25 US Billboard 200 3 US Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 2 ===Year-end charts=== Chart (2019) Position US Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 95 ==References== Category:2019 albums Category:Trippie Redd albums Category:Albums produced by Wheezy Category:Albums produced by Bobby Raps Category:Albums produced by Diplo Category:Albums produced by Murda Beatz Category:Albums produced by Frank Dukes Category:Albums produced by WondaGurl
!!! ( ), also known as Chk Chk Chk, is an American rock band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer. Members of !!! came from other local bands such as the Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Pope Smashers. They are currently based in New York City. The band's ninth album, Let It Be Blue, was released in May 2022. ==Background and history== !!! was formed in the fall of 1996 by the merger of members of the groups Black Liquorice and Pope Smashers, while on tour. After a successful joint tour, the two bands decided to mix the disco-funk with more aggressive sounds and integrate the hardcore singer Nic Offer from the Yah Mos. The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the clicking sounds of the San people's Juǀʼhoan language were represented as "!". However, as the bandmembers themselves say, !!! is pronounced by repeating thrice any monosyllabic sound. "Chk Chk Chk" is the most common pronunciation, and the URL of their official website and the title of their Myspace page suggest it is the preferred pronunciation. Offer cites Depeche Mode and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) as influences. The band's full-length debut record came out in 2000 as a self-titled album on the label Gold Standard Laboratories. This was followed in 2003 by the single "Me and Giuliani Down By the School Yard", a lengthy track combining house beats with sinewy basslines, psychedelic guitars, and simple lyrics which quote the title song of the musical Footloose. A second full-length, Louden Up Now, was released on Touch and Go in America and on Warp Records in Europe in June 2004. In June 2005 !!! released a new EP covering "Take Ecstasy with Me" by The Magnetic Fields, and "Get Up" by Nate Dogg. The following December, the original drummer for the band, Mikel Gius, was struck and killed by a car while riding his bike. They released their third album, Myth Takes in 2007. !!! is composed of Mario Andreoni (guitar), Dan Gorman (horns/percussion/keys), Nic Offer (vocals), Rafael Cohen (bass/various electronic devices), Chris Egan (drums) and Meah Pace (vocals). Vocalist and drummer John Pugh officially left the band in July 2007 to concentrate on his new band Free Blood. Vocalist Shannon Funchess stood in for Pugh during much of their 2007 tour. The band also shared membership with the similar, defunct group Out Hud (including Tyler Pope, who has played with LCD Soundsystem and written music for Cake). ==Discography== ===Albums=== List of albums, with selected chart positions Title Album details Peak chart positions US US Elec. FRA JPN UK ! * Released: 2000 * Label: Gold Standard Laboratories — — — — — Louden Up Now * Released: June 7, 2004 * Label: Touch and Go/Warp — 4 169 — 135 Myth Takes * Released: March 5, 2007 * Label: Warp 195 3 134 36 135 Strange Weather, Isn't It? * Released: August 24, 2010 * Label: Warp — 13 112 54 — Thr%21%21%21er * Released: April 29, 2013 * Label: Warp — 18 117 62 121 As If * Released: October 16, 2015 * Label: Warp — 18 — 80 — Shake the Shudder * Released: May 19, 2017 * Label: Warp — — — 153 — Wallop * Released: August 30, 2019 * Label: Warp — — — 166 — Let It Be Blue * Released: May 6, 2022 * Label: Warp — — — — — "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ===EPs=== * GSL26/Lab Series Vol. 2 (Split with Out Hud, 1999, Gold Standard Labs) * Live Live Live (November 2004, Beat Records, Japan only) * Take Ecstasy with Me/Get Up (June 7, 2005, Touch and Go Records) * Yadnus (2007) * Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass E.P. (November 2010) * MEGAMiiiX Vol.1: Shake Shake Shake (2018) * Certified Heavy Kats (July 31, 2020) ===Singles=== List of singles, with selected chart positions Title Year Peak chart positions Album UK "The Dis-Ease/The Funky Branca" 1998 — "Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)" 2003 84 Louden Up Now "Pardon My Freedom" 2004 — "Hello? Is This Thing On?" 74 "Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A Remix)" — "Take Ecstasy With Me/Get Down" 2005 213 "Heart of Hearts" 2007 — Myth Takes "Must Be the Moon" — "AM/FM" 2010 — Strange Weather, Isn't It? "Slyd" 2013 — THR!!!ER "One Girl / One Boy" — "And Anyway It's Christmas" — "All U Writers" 2015 — As If "Freedom '15" / "Sick Ass Moon" — "Bam City" / "Ooo" — "I Feel So Free" (Lost Souls of Saturn Remix) 2016 — "The One 2" 2017 — Shake the Shudder "Dancing Is the Best Revenge" — "Serbia Drums" 2019 — Wallop "I'm Sick of This/So We Can F*ck" 2020 — "Do the Dial Tone" — Certified Heavy Kats "Walk It Off" — ===Other projects=== * !!! (1997, tour cassette) ==Footnotes== ==References== * * * * * * * * * * * ==External links== * *Profile on Music Agency Website Category:Indie rock musical groups from California Category:Musical groups established in 1996 Category:Dance-punk musical groups Category:Post-punk revival music groups Category:Warp (record label) artists Category:Musical groups from Sacramento, California Category:1996 establishments in California Category:Touch and Go Records artists
!!! is the debut studio album by the dance-punk band !!!. It was released in 2000 on Gold Standard Laboratories on vinyl, and saw wide release on CD on 19 June 2001. ==Reception== Johnny Loftus, from AllMusic states "On this [album], !!! trash the axiom that says bands influenced by angular post-punk must be populated by dour misanthropes who sport wallet photos of Ian Curtis. Highly recommended." ==Track listing== ===CD version=== ===LP version=== ==Personnel== * Mario Andreoni – guitar * Justin Van Der Volgen – bass * Nic Offer – vocals * Dan Gorman – trumpet, percussion * Tyler Pope – guitar * Allan Wilson – saxophone, percussion * John Pugh – drums, percussion ==References== ==External links== * Category:!!! albums Category:2001 debut albums Category:Gold Standard Laboratories albums
!Action Pact! was a London-based punk rock band, formed in 1981 by guitarist Wild Planet, bassist Kim Igoe, George Cheex, and drummer Joe Fungus. They would later break up in 1986. ==History== !Action Pact! was from Stanwell in Middlesex, and was also originally named Bad Samaritans. In 1981 they changed their name to !Action Pact!. The John from Dead Mans Shadow (D.M.S.) was Bad Samaritan's original lead singer, and he left to concentrate on D.M.S., before the name change. He was replaced by George Cheex, who got the job because of "her courage to scream along with the band's songs." They contributed two songs to the EP Heathrow Touchdown which was released in October, 1981, while George and Joe were still only 15 years old. "London Bouncers" and "All Purpose Action Footwear", got the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel. He played their songs often and he convinced the band to record their first full session, which they did on 22 February 1982. They recorded "People", "Suicide Bag", "Mindless Aggression", "Losers", and "Cowslick Blues". The resulting demo tape caught the attention of the fledgling label Fall Out Records, which signed the band as the first act on its roster. !Action Pact!'s label debut, the Suicide Bag EP, was released in July 1982 and rocketed to the top of the British punk chart. The band would later be joined by drummer Grimly Fiendish and bassist Thistles, and producer Phil Langham would also moonlight on bass under the name Elvin Pelvin; whereas Kim Igoe, the bassist, continued on as a lyricist. The band split in 1986. In early 2016, Wild Planet (Des Stanley) died from cancer. ==Other projects== Wild Planet managed the heavy rock band Purge, in which his son, Mark Stanley, plays bass guitar; Purge has sometimes played a live cover version of !Action Pact!'s "London Bouncers". Joe Fungus also played with the punk band called Savage Upsurge. ==Discography== Chart positions shown are from the UK Indie Chart. ===Albums=== Title Album details UK Indie album chart Mercury Theatre - On the Air! * Released 1983 * Fall Out 5 Survival of the Fattest * Released 1984 * Fall Out Records - ===Singles/EPs=== Title UK Indie singles chart Heathrow Touchdown EP - Suicide Bag EP 6 "People" 13 London Bouncers EP 23 "Question of Choice" 36 Yet Another Dole Queue Song EP 7 "Cocktail Credibility" 33 ==Footnotes== ==References== * * * * * ==External links== *TrouserPress.com :: ¡Action Pact! Category:Musical groups established in 1981 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1986 Category:English punk rock groups
!Arriba! La Pachanga is an album by Mongo Santamaría, published by Fantasy Records in 1959. == Musicians == ; Mongo Santamaría and his Band * Mongo Santamaría – congas, bongos * Rolando Lozano – flute * José "Chombo" Silva – saxophone * Felix "Pupi" Legarreta – violin * João Donato – piano * Victor Venegas – bass guitar * Willie Bobo – timbales, bongos * Cuco Martinez – timbales, percussion * Rudy Calzado – voice ==Track listing== ===LP version=== ==Footnotes== ==References== * * == External links == * * * * Category:1961 albums Category:Latin jazz albums by Cuban artists
!HERO is a 2003 Christian rock opera about Jesus. It is based on the question, "What if Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania?". After the original tour in 2003 ended, it was released on DVD, CD, and was written into a trilogy of novels and series of comic books. ==Plot== !HERO is a rock opera modernizing Jesus's last two years of life, as narrated in the Bible. The story takes place in New York City, in Brooklyn. The world government in this near-future dystopic Earth is centered under the International Confederation of Nations (I.C.O.N.). Under the iron fist of I.C.O.N., nearly all religion in the world has been wiped out, except for small occult and mystic sects. Only one synagogue in Brooklyn exists. Currently, New York City is a police-occupied warzone between ethnic gangs and small, isolated revolutionary groups fighting I.C.O.N. Of all the ancient world religions, only Judaism survives and flourishes, at least, as much as it can. In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a child named Jesus, but referred to as Hero, is born and forced to flee with his family to the small Jewish section of Brooklyn. Jesus grows up and begins to preach and teach the principles of Christianity to the people of New York City, teaching people to love their enemies and care for each other. I.C.O.N. realizes Hero is a threat, and the chief of police Devlin, with the help of chief Rabbi Kai (Caiaphas), conspire to end Hero's revolutionary teachings. The Opera is narrated by "Agent Hunter", a former I.C.O.N. agent who met Hero and was soon thrown into prison for joining him against I.C.O.N. The opera also features Petrov (Peter), Maggie (Mary Magdalene), and Jude (Judas Iscariot) the latter who conspires with Kai and Devlin to betray Hero. The storyline progresses through several stories about Jesus' miracles and sermons, using references from the Bible's four gospels, continues through Jesus' execution, at the hands of I.C.O.N's angry mob, and eventually ending with his resurrection. ==Recording cast== * Michael Tait – Hero * Mark Stuart – Petrov * Rebecca St. James – Maggie * Paul Wright – Agent Hunter * Nirva – Mama Mary * John Cooper from Skillet – Chief Rabbi Kai * Matt Hammitt from Sanctus Real – Blind Cripple * T-Bone – Jairus * Donnie Lewis – Jairus' Wife * Pete Stewart – Police Chief Devlin, groom at the wedding * Bob Farrell – Governor Pilate * John Grey – Preacher Rabbi at the wedding * Nathan Lee – Janitor Angel * GRITS – Wedding Party * Donna Stewart – bride at the wedding == Song list == ==Footnotes== ==References== * * * == External links == *Hero! Live On Stage DVD review at Jesus Freak Hideout Category:Rock operas Category:Christian rock Category:Rebecca St. James albums Category:American musicals Category:Christianity and government Category:Musicals set in Brooklyn
!Hero is an album featuring the songs from the rock opera, !Hero. It is based on the question, "What if Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania?" The rock opera modernizes Jesus' last two years on earth and features a cast of many well-known Christian rock artists with Michael Tait, Rebecca St. James, and Mark Stuart as the three main characters: Hero (Jesus), Maggie (Mary Magdalene), and Petrov (Peter). == Track listing and performers == == Reviews == Chris Well, writing for CCM Magazine, reviewed it favorably and stated, "!Hero is inventive, rhythmic and should, no doubt, spark debate everywhere about the real Jesus. On the other hand, Andree Farias of Christian Music Today, wrote, "!Hero's attempt to be all things to all people is well- intentioned, its 'replayability' value is minimal, deeming it no more than a glorified post-concert souvenir for the live stage show." == Primary cast == * Michael Tait as Hero * Mark Stuart of Audio Adrenaline as Petrov * Rebecca St. James as Maggie * Paul Wright as Special Agent Hunter * Nirva Dorsaint as Mama Mary * John Cooper of Skillet as Chief Rabbi Kai * Michael Quinlan as Jude * Matt Hammitt of Sanctus Real as blind cripple * T-Bone as Jairus * Donnie Lewis as Jairus' wife * Pete Stewart as Chief of police Devlin * Bob Farrell as Governor Pilate * John Grey as Preacher Rabbi at the wedding * Nathaniel Lee as Janitor Angel * GRITS as the Wedding Party * Pete and Donna Stewart as the bride and groom at the wedding ===Secondary cast and musicians=== * Todd Collins – percussion * Eddie DeGarmo – piano, background vocals, executive producer * DJ Maj – scratching * Jason Eskridge – background vocals * Kim Fleming – choir * Brad Ford – vocals, assistant executive producer * Robert Gay – children's chorus * Rachel Goldstein – choir * Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson – harmonica * Tony Lucido – bass guitar * Rick May – drums * Ann McCrary – choir * Antonio Phelon – choir, background vocals * John Ray – choir * Becky Robertson – children's chorus * Joanna Robertson – children's chorus * Thomas Romines – choir * Pete Stewart – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, piano, electric piano * Greg Thomas – choir * Patti Thomas – choir * Michelle Valentine – choir * Paul Wright III ===Support staff=== * Eddie DeGarmo – executive producer * Brad Ford – assistant executive producer * Carl Marsh – Fairlight, string arrangement * Bethany Newman – art director, design * Marcelo Pennell – audio engineer * Carter Robertson – choir director * Dan Shike – mastering * Pete Stewart – audio engineer, producer, programming * Greg Thomas – choir director ==Notes== ==Footnotes== ==References== * * * * * * Category:2003 albums Category:Rock operas Category:Contemporary Christian music albums Category:Depictions of Jesus in music Category:ForeFront Records albums Category:Concept albums Category:Collaborative albums
!K7 Music is a music company based in Berlin, Germany that focuses mostly on electronic music. The name is an abbreviation of the company's original Berlin address, Kaiserdamm 7 (it has since relocated, first to Heidestrasse 52, and currently headquartered at Gerichtstrasse 35). !K7 has since opened branch offices in New York City and London. The company now operates an artist management division, managing a roster of artists including the British musician Tricky. !K7 Music also runs a successful Label Services and Synch and Licensing department. It has five independent imprints as part of the K7 label group: !K7 Records, !7K, Strut, AUS and Soul Bank. K7 had a licensing deal with the New York-based indie label Frenchkiss Records. It has distributed the labels AGOGO, District 6, Environ, Get Physical, Ghostly International, Lo Recordings, Moshi Moshi Records, Piranha, R2, Skint, Salt Records and Muthas of Invention. It also has a music publishing company. It currently distributes Turbo Recordings, Sonar Kollektiv, Luaka Bop, and Rushhour, among others. == History == Stud!o K7 has produced electronic music artists, especially for the DJ-Kicks compilations. It began in 1985 with the idea of releasing digital video clips. In 1991, the first of the 3LUX series (three volumes) was released, followed by the X-Mix series (from 1993 to 1998). In 1995, the DJ- Kicks series was released. At that time it was unconventional to play complete albums with DJ cuts on home stereos. Artists such as Kruder & Dorfmeister, Nightmares On Wax, Thievery Corporation and Stereo MC's Chromeo, Booka Shade contributed to its release. The compilation series has since included mixes from Jackmaster, Seth Troxler, Marcel Dettmann, Michael Mayer, DJ Koze, Nina Kraviz, Daniel Avery and John Talabot. In 1996, !K7 started launching artist albums. As of 2014 the !K7 discography features albums from artists such as Kruder & Dorfmeister, Matthew Herbert, Dani Siciliano, Ursula Rucker, Swayzak, and Boozoo Bajou. In 2001, Rapster Records, a new subsidiary of !K7, started focusing on urban, soul and hip-hop music. Since then, Rapster has released records by DJ Jazzy Jeff, Pete Rock, and Roy Ayers, among others. Rapster also forged an alliance with UK-based soul aficionado Peter Adarkwah, head of BBE Records. !K7 founded another subsidiary, Ever Records, in 2006, for indie bands and singer-songwriters such as Cortney Tidwell, Cyann & Ben, and Howie Beck. In 2008 Strut Records & Gold Dust Media joined the !K7 label group. Between 1999 and 2003 Strut released Nigerian Afrobeats, Leftfield Discos, Rare Groove and Grandmaster Flash's latest album. Strut's founder, Quinton Scott, is responsible for A&R.; In 2013 !K7 started a cooperation with Tricky for releases on his label, including his 2013 album False Idols. In May 2017, !K7 created a subsidiary focused on Contemporary music, producing artists such as Niklas Paschburg, Hior Chronik, Echo Collective, Henrik Schwarz, Luca D’Alberto, Maike Zazie and Martyn Heyne. In October 2017, !K7 acquired the catalogues of Patrice Rushen, Miriam Makeba and The Beginning of the End from Warner Music Group, as part of the major's divestments after acquiring Parlophone as a result of the sale and break-up of EMI. == Artists == * John Acquaviva * The Beginning of the End * Mykki Blanco * Boozoo Bajou * Brandt Brauer Frick * James Alexander Bright * Circlesquare * da damn phreak noize phunk * Erol Alkan * Digitalism * Chris de Luca * Sean Deason * Benjamin Diamond * Vikter Duplaix * Michael Fakesch * Fehlfarben * Five Deez * Funkstörung * Ghost Cauldron * The Glimmers * A Guy Called Gerald * The Herbaliser * Herbert * Beth Hirsch * Nick Holder * Interstellar * K-Hand * Khao * Koop * Kruder & Dorfmeister * Mike Ladd * Ladytron * Life Force * Miriam Makeba * Milosh * Nicolette * Out Hud * Erlend Øye * Terrence Parker * Peace Orchestra * Playgroup * Princess Superstar * Stacey Pullen * Quiet Village * Rae & Christian * Ursula Rucker * Patrice Rushen * Henrik Schwarz * Ian Simmonds * James Sims * Shantel * Dani Siciliano * Smith & Mighty * Spacek * Stateless * Stereotyp * Swayzak * Terranova * Tosca * Tricky * Trüby Trio * Gez Varley * Goose * Voom:Voom * Wamdue Kids * When Saints Go Machine * Earl Zinger * Bjarki * Red Axes * Reto A Ichi * Tomat Petrella * Bochum Welt * Hundred Waters * Sandunes * Michael Mayer == See also == * List of record labels * List of electronic music record labels == References == == External links == * Official site * Studio !K7 at Discogs Category:Record labels established in 1996 Category:German independent record labels Category:Electronic dance music record labels Category:Electronic music record labels
!Oka Tokat is a Philippine paranormal horror-action-thriller drama which originally aired on ABS-CBN from June 24, 1997 to May 7, 2002 every Tuesday night replacing Abangan ang Susunod Na Kabanata. It starred Ricky Davao, Carmina Villaroel, Diether Ocampo, Jericho Rosales, Angelika Dela Cruz, Rica Peralejo, Paolo Contis, and Agot Isidro, then later, Shaina Magdayao, Alwyn Uytingco, Joy Chiong, Jiro Manio and Emman Abeleda on its reformat of the series. Its title is the reverse spelling of the phrase Takot ako! (I'm scared!); hence, the exclamation point at the beginning. It was the longest- running horror-action-thriller series on Philippine television, every Tuesday nights right after the local drama TV series Esperanza. Later in November 2001, !Oka Tokat was later reformatted as a horror-comedy adventure series. It was re-aired on ABS-CBN's cable channel, Jeepney TV. This series was also streaming on Jeepney TV's own YouTube Channel every 8:00 pm. ==Plot== The show revolves around a media crew led by Rona del Fierro (played by Isidro) who investigate paranormal cases with the help del Fierro's premonitions. Most of the story arcs feature creatures in Filipino mythology, including the dwende (dwarf), tikbalang, diwata and the engkanto. In the reformat, it revolves around a group of five children (played by Magdayao, Uytingco, Chiong, Manio, and Abeleda) as they visit through numerous haunted places (e.g. Horror House). ==Cast and characters== ===Main cast=== *Agot Isidro as Rona Catacutan del Fierro *Ricky Davao as Joaquin "Jack" Viloria *Rica Peralejo as Richelou "Rikki" Montinola (1997-2000) *Diether Ocampo as Benjamin "Benjie" Catacutan (1997-1999) *Jericho Rosales as Jeremiah "Jeremy" Tobias (1997-2000) *Angelika Dela Cruz as Tessa Sytangco (1997-1999) *Paolo Contis as Niccollo "Nico" Tobias (1997-1999) *Carmina Villaroel as Carmela de Dios (2000-2001; 2001 - 2002) *Bojo Molina as Yoyong Panaligan (1999-2001) *Marc Solis as Marco Benitez (1997-2001) *Alessandra De Rossi as Teresa Gonzales (2001) ===Supporting cast=== *Lorena Garcia as Joy Montinola (1997-2001) *Giselle Sanchez as Magdalena "Dahlen" del Rosario (1997-2001) *Joy Viado as Ligaya "Tita Gaying" Montinola (1997-2001) *Nelson Evangelista as Daniel De Dios (2000-2001) * G. Toengi as Melissa "Lizzie" Santiago * Janette McBride as Andrea "Andie" Santiago * Zoren Legaspi as Brad Alcantara * Tin Arnaldo as Abby (half human/half mermaid) * Mel Martinez as Jigs Mendez * Jeffrey Quizon as Lester * Onemig Bondoc as Monty * Meryll Soriano as Sofia Mendez (Cousin of Jigs) ===Reformatted cast=== * Shaina Magdayao as Twinkle * Alwyn Uytingco * Joy Chiong * Jiro Manio * Emman Abeleda as Kyle ===Guest cast=== * Marvin Agustin as Stephen * Cherry Pie Picache as Michelle * Glydel Mercado as Verna Vidal * Rommel Montano as Satan * Sheila Marie Rodriguez * Wilson Go * Jun Urbano * Ching Arellano * Lara Morena * Dindi Gallardo * Nanding Josef * Perla Bautista * Maricel Morales * Noel Trinidad * Joji Isla * Luigi Alvarez * Kaye Abad * Michael Roy Journales * Janus Del Prado * Ronnie Quizon * Joy Chiong * Ate Gay * Carol Banawa * Flora Gasser * Bentong * Gary Lim * Michael De Mesa * Beth Tamayo * Gina Pareño * Assunta De Rossi * Dimples Romana * Baron Geisler * Jestoni Alarcon as Ramon * Emilio Garcia * Richard Quan * Sunshine Cruz * Farrah Florer * Ryan Eigenmann * Adriana Agcaoili * Janice De Belen * Richard Arellano * Nikki Valdez * Daniel Fernando * Susan Africa * Raymond Bagatsing * Chinggoy Alonzo * Lailani Navarro * Kristopher Peralta * Boy 2 Quizon * Jefferson Long * Edward Dela Cruz * Jomari Yllana * Bong Regala * Lui Villaruz * John Lloyd Cruz * Miguel Vera * Connie Chua * Eva Darren * Doreen Bernal * Rossana Jover * Missy King * Paula Peralejo * Nonong De Andres * Kuhol * Steven Alonzo * Jackie Castillejos * Lucita Soriano * Nante Montreal * Andrea Del Rosario * Gammy Viray * Johnny Vicar * Aurora Halili * Nikka Ruiz * Alicia Alonzo * Cris Villanueva * Roi Rodrigo * Rita Avila * Vivian Foz * Dominic Ochoa * Diana Enriquez * Desiree Del Valle * Marithez Samson * Ronalisa Cheng * Eugene Domingo * Allan Palileo * Spanky Manikan * Alma Lerma * Tess Dumpit * Lora Luna * Troy Martino * Jodi Sta. Maria * Kier Legaspi * Georgia Ortega * Melissa Mendez * Mel Kimura * Elpidio Fetalino * Ronnie Lazaro * Celia Rodriguez * Maila Gumila * Lovely Rivero * Reuben Manahan * Denise Joaquin * Ramon Christopher * Mia Gutierrez * JR Herrera * Donnie Fernandez * Carlo Muñoz * Guila Alvarez * Rez Cortez * Anna Marin * Lester Llansang * BJ De Jesus * Sharmaine Suarez * Glenda Garcia * Maureen Mauricio * Gabby Eigenmann * Jeffrey Santos * Mark Vernal * Miguel Dela Rosa * Sylvia Sanchez * Raffy Bonanza * John Prats * Charlie Davao * Ernie Zarate * Rudy Meyer * Camille Prats * Kristine Hermosa * Marianne Dela Riva * Paolo Zobel * Rita Magdalena * Kathleen Hermosa * Cris Daluz * Carmi Martin * Eric Quizon * Jennifer Mendoza * Niño Muhlach * Gina Alajar * Albert Martinez * Rustom Padilla * Chin Chin Gutierrez * Jennifer Sevilla * Evangeline Pascual * Dennis Baltazar * Yayo Aguila * Jean Garcia * Robert Arevalo * Lara Fabregas * Eula Valdez * Brando Legaspi * Charlon Davao * Winnie Cordero * Ray Ventura * Renato del Prado * Teresa Loyzaga * Dante Rivero * Joel Torre * Pinky Amador * Daria Ramirez * Jao Mapa * Tonton Gutierrez * Vangie Labalan * Patrick Garcia * Stefano Mori * William Martinez * Liza Ranillo * Philip Lazaro * Rommel Padilla * Crispin Pineda * Stella Ruiz * Joe Gruta * Tanya Garcia * Boots Anson-Roa * Jeffrey Hidalgo * Symon Soler * King Gutierrez * Raquel Montesa * Pocholo Montes * Ricky Belmonte * Hero Bautista * Gladys Reyes * Isabel Rivas * Roi Vinzon * Kevin Vernal * Jean Saburit * Bernard Palanca * Vhong Navarro * John Arcilla * Ogie Diaz * Pen Medina * Caridad Sanchez * Elizabeth Oropesa * Carlo Aquino * Tracy Vergel * Mon Confiado * Mark Gil * Allan Paule as Eduardo * Dick Israel * Angel Aquino * Suzette Ranillo * Maria Isabel Lopez * Manjo Del Mundo * Mike Magat * Odette Khan * Archie Adamos * Aya Medel * Augusto Victa * Lito Legaspi * Ian Veneracion * Victor Neri * Nonie Buencamino * Katrina De Leon * Corrine Mendez * Kristine Bondoc * Efren Reyes Jr. * Kris Aquino * Ricardo Cepeda * Berting Labra * Dindo Arroyo * Luis Gonzales * Carding Castro * Romeo Rivera * Tanya Gomez * Ama Quiambao * Lui Manansala * Gloria Sevilla * Marita Zobel * Mely Tagasa * Anita Linda * Malou De Guzman * Arlene Tolibas * Ces Quesada * Christopher Roxas * Sherilyn Reyes * Chuck Perez * Klaudia Koronel * Bing Davao * Vandolph * Roy Alvarez * Romnick Sarmienta * Jaime Fabregas * Bembol Roco * Lito Pimentel * Jaclyn Jose * Gardo Versoza * Bella Flores * Gio Alvarez * Ana Capri * Via Veloso * Al Tantay * Lee Robin Salazar * Chat Silayan-Baylon * Smokey Manaloto * Jake Roxas * Lloyd Samartino * Amy Austria * Julia Clarete * Jay Manalo * Tony Mabesa * Eric Fructuoso * Olive Isidro * Serena Dalrymple * Carlos Agassi * CJ Ramos * Cheska Garcia * Spencer Reyes * Miggy Tanchangco * Gerard Fainsan * Gerard Pizarras * Princess Schuck * Monina Bagatsing * Victoria Haynes * Tommy Abuel * Juan Rodrigo * Jackie Lou Blanco * Rosemarie Gil * Anton Bernardo * Angelica Panganiban * Johnny Delgado * Leandro Muñoz * Romy Sison * Manilyn Reynes * John Lapus * Aljon Jimenez * Hilda Koronel * Cherie Gil * Krista Ranillo * Mark Anthony Fernandez * Ian De Leon * Mat Ranillo III * Mymy Davao * Menggie Cobarrubias * Alvin Anson * Amy Perez * Pilar Pilapil * Sharmaine Arnaiz * Gino Paul Guzman * Maritoni Fernandez * Ramil Rodriguez * Tirso Cruz III * Gilleth Sandico * Lilia Cuntapay * Dennis Padilla * Eagle Riggs * Whitney Tyson * Luz Fernandez * Leandro Baldemor * Roldan Aquino * Rio Locsin * Eddie Gutierrez * Matthew Mendoza * Bernardo Bernardo * Diego Salvador * Toby Alejar * Mailes Kanapi * Jolina Magdangal * Marilyn Villamayor * Romy Diaz * Ruel Vernal * Wilma Doesnt * John Regala * Julio Diaz * Manny Castañeda * Carlos Morales * Jon Santos * Marissa Sanchez * Jon Achaval * Melanie Marquez * Beverly Salviejo * Soliman Cruz * Chuckie Dreyfus * Isabel Granada * Marissa Delgado * Candy Pangilinan * Mylene Dizon * Mandy Ochoa * Anna Larrucea * Bearwin Meily * Roderick Paulate * Nova Villa * Tiya Pusit * Ana Roces * Dido Dela Paz * Irma Adlawan * Edu Manzano * Patrick Dela Rosa * Allen Dizon * Sammy Lagmay * Yul Servo * Leo Martinez * Gloria Romero * Lou Veloso * Gloria Diaz * Ronaldo Valdez * Ruffa Gutierrez * Rosanna Roces * Pops Fernandez * Nanette Inventor * Mitch Valdez * Alfred Labatos * Robert Ortega * Bobby Andrews * Wowie De Guzman * Timmy Cruz * Tetchie Agbayani * John Estrada * Jess Lapid, Jr. * Isko Moreno * Jhong Hilario * Mystica ==Sequel== In 2011, ABS-CBN announced that !Oka Tokat will have its sequel entitled "Oka2kat". It was supposed to be aired in March 2011 but it was delayed to February 4, 2012. The sequel does not focus on the previous characters but has the same genre. ==See also== * List of programs aired by ABS-CBN *List of programs broadcast by Jeepney TV ==Footnotes== ==References== * * * Category:1997 Philippine television series debuts Category:2002 Philippine television series endings Category:ABS-CBN drama series Category:Philippine horror fiction television series Category:Filipino- language television shows Category:Television shows set in the Philippines Category:Television series by Star Creatives
!PAUS3, or THEE PAUSE, (born July 27, 1981) is an international platinum selling musician and artist, who began his career in his early teens in the former Soviet Bloc nations of Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria. ==Biography== THEE PAUSE is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and currently based in the New York City area. He has been previously selected by MTV & 495 Productions with other DJs to perform internationally for thousands. Having been selected to perform with and remix multiple platinum selling artists, he has been featured as a guest curator for Trance Mix. He has been featured, interviewed or reviewed by Spin (France), Scotch & Murder Monthly, More Than Disco, Hot Biscuits, The Atlantic Monthly, Trip Hop Daily, Creme de le Creme, reverb, Music Under Fire, and Fahrenheit, and has multiple top-charting tracks and remixes on The Hype Machine and Beatport. THEE PAUSE was selected in February 2012 as a featured DJ for W Hotels Worldwide and a commissioned mix was made available exclusively on W Hotels Worldwide by Starwood Hotels and Resorts iPhone application. ==Collaborations== ===Take Remedy=== Take Remedy was a new collective on the New York City scene featuring Alice Love, THEE PAUSE, and Billy 'Vapor Eyes'. They have been described as a "combination of the alternative organic sound meets digital chaos". THEE PAUSE is bassist, programmer and provides back-up vocals. Lead vocals are provided by Alice Love. Billy Vapor Eyes plays drums, keyboards and rhythm guitars. Their debut EP Hello successfully charted on two individual Hype Machine Top 100 singles charts without major label promotion, EyeView and Lines unusual for a new band with a debut EP. Hello, the five track debut EP originally only available on 12" red limited edition vinyl via Projecting Nothing Records, is now available worldwide digital via Organic Intelligence Records. Announced March 24, 2012, THEE PAUSE began recording with artist Nikki Noir with producer DJ Alex J of Digable Planents fame for a late-2012 CD and digital release on Projecting Nothing Records titled Of The Echoes. ===The Daisy Kids=== In March 2013, THEE PAUSE joined forces with Scott Putesky, former lead guitarist and co-founder of the band Marilyn Manson, to form "The Daisy Kids". The Daisy Kids was an American hard rock group consisting of former Marilyn Manson guitarist Daisy Berkowitz and producer, multi-instrumentalist and bass player THEE PAUSE. Guest vocals on the Mr Conrad Samsung EP were provided by Justin Symbol of Nursing Home fame[2]. Numerous rough demos were recorded, including a yet to circulate four-song CD entitled The Samsung Sessions. That four-song CD/demo was shelved due to legal issues regarding the use of uncleared samples, and only one track from those recording sessions has surfaced to date. Tracks known to have been recorded include: * "White Knuckles", featuring Justin Symbol of Nursing Home on lead vocals, * "Thrift", * "Let Your Ego Die", * Square In The Minor the only commercially available CD and digital release.alt=Daisy "SMP" Berkowitz and THEE PAUSE of The Daisy Kids|thumb|Daisy "SMP" Berkowitz and THEE PAUSE of The Daisy Kids With legal issues resolved, November 20, 2015, saw the release of the Mr Conrad Samsung EP, which had been delayed since 2013 and is the final released recording featuring guitarist and vocalist Scott Putesky prior to his passing in 2017. ===Mr Conrad Samsung EP=== After numerous delays due to internal health problems plaguing both band members[5] Daisy Berkowitz and THEE PAUSE, the Mr Conrad Samsung EP was released digitally on September 20, 2015, via Organic Intelligence Records internationally. Vocal duties were split on this EP between Daisy Berkowitz, THEE PAUSE and Justin Symbol. No tour was planned at the time as the band members focused on their health, and Justin Symbol continued to pursue his various solo and side projects. Digital Release Track List: * "Kill Baby" (intro) (Vocals; Daisy Berkowitz) * "White Mountain Due" (Vocals; Justin Symbol) * "Boheiman Rapecity (Kraft Cheese Ditty)" (Vocals; Daisy Berkowitz) * "Let Your Ego Die" (Vocals; Daisy Berkowitz and THEE PAUSE) * "Victim (Thrift)" (Vocals; THEE PAUSE) * "Square in the Minor" (Vocals; Daisy Berkowitz) ===Andy Stott's Numb (beauty of being) Remix=== Andy Stott is a Manchester-based producer of dub and techno music who has released three albums with the Modern Love label. THEE PAUSE's remix of Andy Stott's "Numb" charted on Pitchfork's Top 200 Tracks of the Decade so Far. ===Let's Go Somewhere Quiet=== The first single from the THEE PAUSE produced album Let's Go Somewhere Quiet to benefit The Children's Brain Tumour Foundation featuring a remix of Lena Katina's track "Never Forget" was released on July 27, 2012, on Projecting Nothing Records. It also features an original unreleased track by THEE PAUSE. ==Discography== ===LPs=== * Silence Please, Atlantic, 2010 * You Can Does Not Equal You Should, Projecting Nothing 2011 * Take Remedy - Hello., KVZ, 2011 (Bass) * Various Artists - Let's Go Somewhere Quiet, Projecting Nothing 2012 (Producer, artist and remix artist) ===EPs=== * Distort My Life With Noise, Projecting Nothing 2011 * Distort My Life With Noise II, Projecting Nothing 2011 * Take Remedy - Crash, (Producer & Bass) – Projecting Nothing/KVZ 2011 * The Daisy Kids - The Samsung Sessions - currently unreleased ** The Daisy Kids - Mr Conrad Samsung EP - Organic Intelligence/KVZ 2-15 ===Singles=== * Simmi Angel, "Many Faces" (Producer) – Projecting Nothing 2011 * S26, "Memory", (Producer / Guest Remix) 2011 * Lost Shadow, "The Last Song We Will Sing" (Guest remix) Phonocratic Records * Lost Shadow, Same Problems – Different Solutions" (Guest remix) Phonocratic Records, 2011 * Lena Katina, "Never Forget" (The Remixes) - (Producer and remix artist) * The Daisy Kids, "Square In The Minor" - Organic Intelligence Records ===Digital releases (Production, remixes and promotional)=== * The Bangles * Dead Prez * Pictureplane * Crystal Castles * Radiohead * Yeah Yeah Yeahs * Richard Sander * Lost Shadow * Hidden Cat * ClipdBeaks * Shallow Sense * Alice DeeJay * S26 * Simmi Angel ==Footnotes== ==References== * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Philadelphia Category:American experimental musicians
!Women Art Revolution is a 2010 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson and distributed by Zeitgeist Films. It tracks the feminist art movement over 40 years through interviews with artists, curators, critics, and historians. ==Synopsis== !Women Art Revolution is a documentary film, created by Lynn Hershman Leeson, to examine the under-recognized world of feminist art. Through interviews, documentary footage, and artworks, the film tracks the trajectory of feminist art. It begins at the start of the 1960s with antiwar and civil rights protests, it follows developments in feminist art through the 1970s. Lynn Hershman Lesson interviewed artists, curators, critics, and historians for over 4 decades about their individual and group efforts to help women succeed in the art world and society by helping them overcome obstacles. There were over 40 individuals interviewed for the project. These interviews are done in a variety of places over time. The interviewees talk about their experiences in the art world facing obstacles because of their gender. Many of the artists discuss the works they made as a result. The movie begins with a scene at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where Hershman asks people to name 3 women artists; very few can name more than Frida Kahlo. Hershman calls the film the, "remains of an insistent history that refuses to wait any longer to be told." She says the events of the day led her to feel an, "urgency to capture that moment" and shoot whenever, wherever with a borrowed camera. The film gets its name from Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), which formed in the 1960s as a coalition to raise awareness about the unique obstacles faced by female artists. Many of the issues started at a fundamental level, Rachel Rosenthal states in the movie, with the women artists not getting recognition in the study of art history and books. The interviewees all talk about how male-dominated the art world was, sharing their personal stories. The work these feminist artists were creating at the time were very different from works shown or talked about at the time. The film overlays historical events with feminist art events, which were somewhat spurred on by these political events such as the Vietnam War, Black Panthers, Civil Rights Movement, Women's Liberation, and Free Speech Movement. She labels the 1968 Miss America Pageant as the moment when art and politics fused, culminating in a weeklong protest of art events. The film mentions that minimalism was the popular art style of the time. Meant to be devoid of politics, this movement didn't match up with what was happening socially and politically. The feminist art movement worked to recognize contemporary political movements and social issues, creating a platform for awareness of these events. == Cast == Interviewees * Janine Antoni * Judith Baca * Judith Brodsky * Cornelia (Connie) Butler * Judy Chicago * Mary Beth Edelson * Howard Fox * Susan Grode * Guerrilla Girls * Harmony Hammond * Alanna Heiss * Lynn Hershman Leeson * Miranda July * Mike Kelley * Joyce Kozloff * Robert Kushner * Suzanne Lacy * Sheila Levrant de Bretteville * Lucy Lippard * Howardena Pindell * Yvonne Rainer * Maura Reilly * B. Ruby Rich * Faith Ringgold * Rachel Rosenthal * Martha Rosler * Moira Roth * Elizabeth Sackler * Miriam Schapiro * Carolee Schneeman * Lowery Sims * Sylvia Sleigh * Nancy Spero * Marcia Tucker * Camille Utterback * Cecilia Vicuña * Faith Wilding * Martha Wilson ==Awards== *2010: Official Selection at Toronto International Film Festival *2011: Official Selection at Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier *2011: Official Selection at Berlin International Film Festival ==Release== The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2010 as part of the Real to Reel category. !Women Art Revolution played at New York's IFC Center beginning June 1, 2011, before opening around the country. ==Digital archive== In the film, Hershman states that the filming process, "has accumulated (roughly) 12,428 minutes of footage", and !W.A.R. shows only 83 minutes, leaving 12,343 minutes of footage out. A digital archive was created to contain the two decades of Hershmann Leeson's interviews that went into creating this film and is available through the Stanford University Libraries collection, !W.A.R. Voices of a Movement. According to the collection website, Hershmann Leeson desired this repository to "be shared with as wide an audience as possible". == Reception == Barry Keith Grant praises the film in his Film International piece, "Leeson's film is a like a patchwork quilt of disparate footage, but in the end it all comes together to become an important feminist work. The film could well serve as required viewing for art and film students today." Reviewer Ellen Druda says, "This powerful film will ignite even the tiniest spark of feminism in any woman's heart. Not only art lovers will come away with a deeper understanding of the movement and an appreciation for those who stood up and paved the way." Richard Knight for the Windy City Times has a more critical view of the film, explaining, "Hershman Leeson succeeds in her goal to expose and pique the interest of the viewer to the radical feminist artists who used activist tactics to get their work shown, demanding parity with their male counterparts. However, by the time queer film historian B. Ruby Rich starts talking about how the lesbian artists didn't want to identify as artists because that label was considered bourgeois by their female counterparts, the movie has taken on an exclusionary air of its own – just like those 'womyn only' coffeehouses that existed 'back in the day'. So, while the film undercuts some of its own arguments by veering too strongly into the very separatist direction it decries – and annoyingly overlooks the artist's feminist forebears (like O'Keeffe, Nevelson and Kahlo, for example) – !Women Art Revolution does offer plenty of food for thought for everyone." Elisabeth Subrin states that, "Fusing history with memoir, Lynn Hershman Leeson enlists multiple visual strategies to produce an elegantly layered visual and sonic web of politics and powerful emotion." == Footnotes== ==References== * * * * * * * * * * ==External links== * * * Zeitgeist Films Latches onto a "Revolution" on indieWire * !W.A.R: Voices of a Movement at Stanford Libraries Category:2010 films Category:American documentary films Category:2010 documentary films Category:Documentary films about feminism Category:Feminism and the arts Category:Documentary films about visual artists Category:2010s English-language films Category:2010s American films
!Wowow! is a collective in Peckham, London. Otherwise known as The Children of !Wowow!, they are a group of artists, fashion designers, writers and musicians, who have promoted numerous art events and parties in London and Berlin. ==History== !Wowow! began in the back of the Joiners Arms in Camberwell in 2003 as a performance night in a pub by Hanna Hanra and Matthew Stone. In 2004, the collective squatted a large Victorian co-op in Peckham South East London and made it into an artist-run space. They include fashion designer Gareth Pugh, performance artist Millie Brown, video installation artist Adham Faramawy, James Balmforth and artist Matthew Stone. Other artists to have shown in the space include Boo Saville, Gareth Cadwallader, Florence & The Machine's Isabella Summers and Ellie Tobin. In 2003, !Wowow! organised warehouse parties in Peckham. At times club nights with 2000 people took place. One of these was attended by Lauren Bush, the former U.S. President's niece, and her two CIA bodyguards. The second show by the collective in December 2004 was of paintings, film, photography and performance by recent Slade graduates for a month in the Georgian building at 251 Rye Lane, Peckham, formerly occupied by the Co-op shop, which the artists gutted and refurbished. The artists, who curated the exhibition together, included Chloe Dewe Mathews with photographs of lidos, Matthew Stone with digital recreations of old paintings, Rachael Haines with surrealist inspired collages and Boo Saville with monkey paintings and biro drawings. The opening featured shamanistic chanting, a shopping Trolley Mardi Gras, live bands and a recreation of Michael Jackson's video Thriller by performance artist Lali Chetwynd's troupe. In November 2005, the Children of !Wowow! organised a week-long event in a large warehouse in Peckham, curated by member Gareth Cadwallader, and in a number of smaller venues in the area, featuring members of the collective and also Mark McGowan. Events included Stolen Cinema with cult films from a local rental shop, Richard Elms' play Factory Dog, and a Greasy Spoon Art Salon Breakfast presided over by Lali Chetwynd and Zoe Brown. he week culminated with a party for 1,500 people, with 10,000 bottles of beer, 500 bottles of whiskey, and 13 live bands on stage. The bands included The So Silage Crew, Ludes, The Long Blondes, and Ivich Lives. The Amazing squat created its own "distinctly odd harlequin-esque fashion style", through Gareth Pughs' participation. Hanna Hanra and Katie Shillingford edited Fashion/ Art/ Leisure, a fanzine affiliated with the group. Matthew Stone said: Since the Imperials left their original building in 2006, they have organised events in Dresden and also squatted a Kwik Fit Garage in Camberwell for an exhibition. Millie Brown and Adham Faramawy have organised several art and music events. These have included an event in March 2007 in Birmingham. Along with the original group, several other artists and performers exhibited, including Theo Adams, Ben Schumacher, Lennie Lee, and Fayann Smith. ==See also== * Artist collective * Lyndhurst Way ==Footnotes== ==References== * * * * * * * Category:English artist groups and collectives Category:Peckham Category:Arts in London Category:Arts organizations established in 2003 Category:Squatting in the United Kingdom
{{infobox book | name = "...And Ladies of the Club" | title_orig = | translator = | image = And Ladies of the Club, Putnam cover.jpg | caption = First trade edition (1984) | author = Helen Hooven Santmyer | illustrator = | cover_artist = from Culver Pictures | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Family saga | publisher = | release_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = 0-8142-0323-X | isbn_note = | dewey= 813/.52 19 | congress= PS3537.A775 A82 1982 | oclc= 8050632 }} "...And Ladies of the Club" is a novel, written by Helen Hooven Santmyer, about a group of women in the fictional town of Waynesboro, Ohio who begin a women's literary club, which evolves through the years into a significant community service organization in the town. The novel, which looks at the club as it changes throughout the years, spans decades in the lives of the women involved in the club, between 1868 and 1932. Many characters are introduced in the course of the novel, but the primary characters are Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch, who in 1868 are new graduates of the Waynesboro Female College. They marry soon after the opening of the book, and the decades that follow chronicle their marriages and those of their children and grandchildren. Santmyer focuses not just on the lives of the women in the club, but also their families, friends, politics, and developments in their small town and the larger world. ==Synopsis== On the day of their graduation from the Waynesboro Female College in 1868, best friends Anne Alexander and Sarah "Sally" Cochran are invited along with several of the college's female teachers by Mrs. Lowrey, who along with her professor husband operates the college, to become founding members of a new local society, the Waynesboro Woman's Club. The club is intended to promote culture and literature among the educated citizens of the Ohio town, while avoiding controversial subjects such as women's suffrage and other reform movements. Socially ambitious Sally agrees to join because she believes the club might become important in the town, and wants to establish herself as a serious-minded member of adult society. Introspective Anne, the class valedictorian, joins in order to support Sally. Other early members of the Club include Miss Louisa Tucker, a beautiful but cold mathematics teacher who later marries the commencement speaker General Deming; scholarly Amanda Reid, who overcame a poor background to earn a degree from Oberlin and has returned to teach at the Female College; Miss Agatha Pinney, an elderly teacher whose sciatica leads to a secret addiction to the laudanum she is prescribed; Mary, Thomasina and Eliza Ballard, the wife and daughters of a prominent local judge; and the Misses Gardiner, two reclusive spinsters whose nephew, Douglas, attends Princeton and becomes a local attorney and judge. The club's membership grows over time to include the daughters, granddaughters, and other relatives of the early members, and other society women, particularly the wives of the town's numerous and often-changing Protestant ministers. Although the club itself is framed as non-controversial, club meetings and social events sponsored by its members often lead to discussions and conflicts stemming from the widely varying social and political views of the members and their families on subjects such as race, class, ethnic and religious biases, women's rights, labor reform, and the morality of drinking alcohol, attending the theater and celebrating Christmas. Anne, the daughter of a doctor, is in love with Dr. John "Dock" Gordon, her father's protege and a friend of her late brother Rob who was killed in the Civil War. Depressed by his war experiences, John gave up his medical practice for several years, but with Anne's encouragement resumes his practice and the two marry. Anne's father consents to the match, but warns her that John is too affected by the suffering he sees as a doctor and that he is likely to make a poor husband, so Anne will have to be very tolerant. Sally develops a relationship with John's friend Captain Ludwig Rausch, who has bought a small local rope-making business and begun building it into a large, updated factory. Although Ludwig is a German immigrant, his ambitions match Sally's and her banker father, approving of his work ethic and prospects, agrees to their marriage. Thomasina Ballard also makes an unexpected marriage to a church organist as a result of a wedding poem she wrote for Anne. Over the years, Anne and Sally continue their club activities while raising families. Anne and John have a son, Johnny, and a daughter, Binny; Sally and Ludwig have a daughter, Elsa, and several sons. Although John is an intelligent and caring doctor, he is secretly unfaithful to Anne as a way of relieving the pressure of his past war memories and current responsibilities. Anne eventually finds out, and suspects that John has even fathered a child with his cousin Jessamine Stevens in New Orleans. Although deeply hurt by John's behavior, Anne, remembering her father's advice, chooses to overlook it and even welcomes Jessamine and her son when they later move to Waynesboro. Meanwhile, Ludwig becomes a successful industrialist and Sally a prominent local hostess, later taking over the presidency of the club. Ludwig hires Eliza Ballard as his secretary after she is forced to leave her previous position in her late father's former law firm due to gossiping about partner Doug Gardiner's romance with an Irish Catholic girl whom he later marries. Despite Eliza's gossip and sharp tongue occasionally causing trouble in the town, she shows a softer side by caring for Ariana McCune, a terminally ill young girl who ran away from her oppressively religious parents. Miss Pinney's laudanum addiction eventually becomes public knowledge after she appears increasingly disheveled and unable to control her primary school class. At the instigation of Louisa Deming, Miss Pinney is forced to retire on a small pension and her laudanum supply is cut off. Embarrassed and suffering severe withdrawal, she dies of a heart attack while trying to burn herself to death. Elsa secretly loves her childhood friend Johnny, but Johnny falls in love with the Demings' daughter Julia, who like her mother is beautiful but cold. Julia is more affectionate towards Johnny's younger sister Binny, who is dazzled by Julia's beauty. Binny gathers violets on a cold damp morning to make Julia a May basket, and is rewarded by a kiss from Julia, but the dampness brings on an attack of rheumatic fever and Binny dies. Johnny and Julia marry and have a son, Tucker, while Elsa marries Gib Evans and has a daughter, Jennifer, who becomes Tucker's close friend. Shortly after the turn of the century, Anne is widowed when John has an accident rushing to help a patient in bad weather, and subsequently dies of pneumonia. Julia's frigidity causes Johnny to have an affair with his Irish Catholic nurse, Norah O'Neill. Through Johnny, Norah's younger sister Ellen meets Ludwig and Sally's youngest son Paul. Ellen and Paul have a secret romance and Ellen becomes pregnant, resulting in Paul quietly marrying her with Ludwig's consent since he is underage. Although Paul and Ellen are happy, Sally disapproves of the marriage, cuts ties with her son and, in response to a barbed remark by Julia's mother Louisa, informs her about Johnny's affair with Norah. As a result, Julia divorces Johnny, moves to California with Tucker, and later marries a wealthy older man who is past the age of having sex. Johnny, suffering from heart disease and the strain of the divorce, soon dies. Anne and the other members of the club are unaware that Sally was the one who revealed Johnny's affair to Louisa, and instead think Eliza spread the story. Sally eventually is reconciled with Paul after he and his family survive a devastating flood. Ludwig dies and his daughter Elsa takes over as president of the family-owned bank; she also succeeds her mother as president of the club. Elsa's son Ludwig takes control of his grandfather's company after returning from his service in the Great War, where he was gassed. Tucker, separated from Jennifer by his parents' divorce, meets her again as an adult when they are both serving in France in the war, he as a medical corpsman and she as a nurse. After the war, they marry, and Tucker becomes a doctor and returns to take up his practice in Waynesboro. By the 1930s, Sally is suffering from arteriosclerosis and asks Elsa to bring Anne so that she can confess to Anne that she was the one who revealed Johnny's affair. Elsa talks her out of doing so, noting that Anne is happy with the company of Tucker, Jennifer and their children. As a result, Sally has a farewell visit with Anne but does not mention the situation involving Johnny. Sally dies soon afterwards. In 1932, right after Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president, Anne, the last surviving founding member of the club, dies and the Club commemorates the end of an era. ==Characters== Due to the length of the book and its large number of characters, this list is selective. † denotes a minor character. ===Gordon/Deming/Stevens family=== * Anne Alexander Gordon – Valedictorian of her 1868 graduating class at Waynesboro Female College, she marries Dr. John Gordon and encourages him to resume practicing medicine. Although hurt by his occasional infidelities, she chooses to overlook them out of love. In 1932, she becomes the last founding member of the club to die. * Dr. John "Dock" Gordon – A medical doctor trained by Anne's father, he is haunted by his bad experiences treating casualties in the Civil War, and has trouble dealing with the suffering of his patients, which he internalizes. Despite his difficulties, he is a competent and compassionate doctor, and is especially sensitive to the plight of some of his female patients who have married into bad situations. He loves and marries Anne, but secretly commits adultery with various women as a momentary escape from the pressure of his work and marriage. * †Dr. Alexander – Anne's father and John Gordon's medical mentor; a widower. He becomes a secret laudanum addict due to pain from rheumatism, and eventually dies of a heart attack. * †Kate Gordon – John's older sister; an eccentric woman who lives independently and operates her own farm. It is implied that she may be a lesbian, as she has a habit of taking in local farm girls for help and companionship, then becoming angry and making a scene when the girls take an interest in local young men. She commits suicide shortly after Anne and John are married. * John "Johnny" Gordon, Jr. – Anne and John's oldest child, he aspires to be, and eventually becomes, a doctor like his father. He marries Julia Deming, but is unfaithful to her because she is frigid and does not like sex, and the marriage ends unhappily after she learns he had an affair. * Belinda "Binny" Gordon – Anne and John's younger child, she has a crush on the older Julia Deming, which Julia seems to reciprocate. She is seen by her father as being similar to his deceased sister Kate as a child. She dies in her early teens from complications of rheumatic fever. * Louisa Tucker Deming – A mathematics teacher at the College at the time of the club's founding, she is beautiful, but also cold and insensitive to the needs of others. Originally from Boston, she regarded Waynesboro as an uncivilized place when she first arrived. She marries General Deming, a former brigadier general who became the local Congressional representative, and has a daughter, Julia. * †General Deming – A former brigadier general in the Civil War, he is Waynesboro's elected representative in Congress. He speaks at Anne Alexander and Sally Cochran's graduation from the Female Academy, and later marries their teacher Louisa Tucker. He later is forced to leave office due to his involvement in the Crédit Mobilier bribery scandal of 1872. * Julia Deming Gordon – The daughter of General Deming and his wife Louisa, she is beautiful and cold like her mother Louisa. Although she enjoys having both men and women admire her beauty, she is not interested in having sex with men. She aspires to a wealthy lifestyle, which she achieves after her divorce from Johnny by marrying a much older rich man. She is possibly a repressed lesbian as shown by her affectionate behavior towards Binny Gordon, including kissing Binny on the mouth. * Alexander Tucker Gordon – The son and only child of Johnny and Julia Gordon, he is estranged from his father Johnny and grandmother Anne after his parents' divorce. He eventually serves in World War I, returns to Waynesboro, marries Jennifer Evans, and becomes a doctor. * Jessamine Stevens Edwards – John Gordon's cousin from New Orleans, she is married after the Civil War to an alcoholic husband with whom she has a son, Rodney. However, Anne suspects that Rodney is actually John's child, conceived when John went to visit his cousin. After the death of Jessamine's husband, she brings her son Rodney to Waynesboro to get him out of the unhealthy climate of New Orleans. Much later she marries widower Sheldon Edwards. * †Rodney Stevens – The son of Jessamine Stevens; possibly fathered by John Gordon. Rodney becomes a doctor in Waynesboro and marries Lavinia Gardiner. * †Theresa Stevens – The daughter of Rodney and Lavinia Stevens, she writes a historical novel based on Captain Bodien's life. ===Rausch/Evans family=== * Sarah "Sally" Cochran Rausch – Anne's best friend and classmate, she is the daughter of the local bank president and wants to establish herself in the society of Waynesboro. She is a founding member of the club and eventually serves for many years as Club president. She marries Ludwig Rausch, who becomes a successful local industrialist, providing Sally with the money and lifestyle to be a prominent local hostess. * Ludwig Rausch – Born in Germany, he later immigrated to the United States and served in the Civil War with John Gordon. He successfully builds a small local rope-making company into a large factory called the "Rausch Cordage Company." He courts and marries Sally, who is both pretty and, with her family money and social connections, an asset to him in his business career. He is also politically active in the local Republican Party. * †Mr. and Mrs. Cochran – Sally's parents; her father owns the local bank. * Elsa Rausch Evans – Sally and Ludwig's oldest child and only daughter. Although she is primarily a housewife and mother, her father recognizes that she has a better head for business than her brothers, and she takes over as head of the family-owned bank after he dies. She is in love with her childhood friend Johnny Gordon, but he falls in love with Julia Deming, so Elsa marries Gib Evans, who had long been in love with her. * †Gilbert "Gib" Evans – Elsa's childhood friend and eventual husband; the nephew of the local Baptist minister. He works as a traveling salesman for his father-in-law, Ludwig Rausch. * †Mrs. Gwen Evans – Gib's aunt; the wife of the local Baptist minister. * Jennifer Evans Gordon – Daughter of Elsa and Gib Evans, she serves as a nurse in Europe in World War I, and eventually marries her childhood friend Tucker Gordon, thus uniting the Gordon and Rausch families. * Ludwig Evans – Son of Elsa and Gib Evans, he serves in World War I and then takes over the operation of his grandfather Ludwig Rausch's factory. He marries Melissa Patton. * †Ludwig Rausch Jr. – Sally and Ludwig's spendthrift son, who despite his irresponsibility, redeems himself somewhat by serving in World War I before his death. * Paul Rausch – The youngest Rausch child and Sally's favorite, he falls in love with Ellen O'Neill, a young Irish Catholic girl, and gets her pregnant while both are underage, leading to a quick marriage. This leads to a family crisis as his father approves of the marriage but his mother does not, and briefly estranges herself from Paul. ===Ballard/Travers family=== * Judge Thomas Ballard – A reform-minded State Supreme Court judge who later resigns and returns to legal practice in Waynesboro. When the club is formed, he is the richest and most prominent man in town. He is active in local Republican Party politics, but conflicts with other local members of the party over his support for Horace Greeley in the 1872 presidential election. * Mrs. Mary Grimes Ballard – The activist wife of Judge Ballard, she supports various causes that are considered radical, including women's suffrage and the temperance movement. She becomes the first president of the club. * Eliza Ballard – The older daughter of Judge Ballard, she never marries and supports herself first by working as a secretary in her father's law firm. After her father's death, due to her conflict with Douglas Gardiner, a principal of the firm, she is hired as secretary by Ludwig Rausch and competently works for him for many years, until her death. She is blunt and also a busybody and gossip, which sometimes stirs up trouble in the town; she upsets Doug by gossiping about his romantic interest in Barbara Bodien, and is wrongly suspected of being the person who revealed Johnny Gordon's affair to his wife Julia, causing their divorce. Despite her brusque nature, Eliza is kind to Ariana McCune, taking her in and caring for her when she is ill and has no place else to go. * Thomasina Ballard Travers – The well-educated, but timid, sickly and romantic daughter of Judge Ballard. She unexpectedly marries church organist Samuel Travers, despite his being relatively poor. * †Samuel Travers – A local church organist and music teacher who marries Thomasina. Although he is at first thought to have married her for her money, the two remain happily married for many years until her death. ===Lowrey/Edwards family=== * †Mrs. Rebecca Lowrey and †Professor Lowrey – Owners and operators of the Waynesboro Female College and parents of Kitty Lowrey Edwards. Mrs. Lowrey spearheads the founding of the club. Although well educated, she is a poor housekeeper who spends much of her time dealing with her daughter Ellen's unruly children. In 1875, the Lowreys close the college, which has ceased to be financially viable, sell the buildings to clear their debt, and move to Kansas where the Professor has been offered a position. * †Ellen Lowrey Tyler – The Lowreys' older daughter, who has several unruly young children. She repeatedly leaves her husband during the 1870s, and brings her children to stay with her parents. * Katherine "Kitty" Lowrey Edwards – The Lowrey's younger daughter, she attends Oberlin, and is considered a "tomboy" and a "bluestocking". She and Sheldon Edwards fall in love, but must delay their marriage until the Lowrey debt is resolved, and then Kitty has trouble carrying a child to term. With Dock Gordon's help she manages to have two sons, but her health is destroyed by the pregnancies and she dies at a young age. * †Sheldon Edwards – The son of a prosperous Waynesboro dry goods merchant, and the Oberlin classmate and eventual husband of Kitty Lowrey. After her untimely death, he raises their sons alone. Many years later when the children have grown up and left home, he marries Jessamine Stevens. ===Gardiner/Bodien family=== * Miss Caroline and Miss Lavinia Gardiner – Two unmarried, reclusive sisters originally from Virginia whose father was Judge Ballard's law partner. Their father, an abolitionist, freed his slaves, thus losing most of the family fortune and forcing the family to have to move to Ohio to escape the anger of pro-slavery neighbors. As a result of the social rejection they suffered in Virginia, the Misses Gardiner chose to isolate themselves from others and give off an air of being aristocratic. At the time of founding of the club, they are in their forties and raising their teenage nephew, Douglas Gardiner. They decide to accept the invitation to join the club in order to become more a part of the community. * Douglas "Doug" Gardiner – The nephew of Miss Caroline and Miss Lavinia Gardiner, he is raised by them, attends Princeton, and becomes a local attorney and partner in Judge Ballard's law firm. He later becomes a judge himself. An individual with a club foot, he initially is angry and argumentative, but later mellows after meeting and marrying Barbara Bodien over his aunts' objections. * Barbara Bodien Gardiner – The daughter of Captain Bodien, raised as an Irish Catholic by her mother, she works as a clerk in Sheldon Edwards' shop, where she meets Doug Gardiner. The two marry and have several children, but because of her background, Barbara is not accepted by many society women, except for Kitty Edwards. * †Lavinia Gardiner – One of the daughters of Doug and Barbara Gardiner, she marries Rodney Stevens. * Mary Gardiner – The youngest daughter of Doug and Barbara Gardiner, she becomes a labor activist and unsuccessfully tries to organize the workers of the Rausch Cordage Company. She later marries Franz Lichtenstein. ===Blair/Voorhees family=== * Rev. Dr. Blair – Head of the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary that buys the buildings of the Waynesboro Female Institute; a widower. He later dies of emphysema. * Christina Blair Voorhees – Dr. Blair's pretty daughter who becomes a longstanding member of the club, marries bank clerk Henry Voorhees, and has two children, Blair and Janey. At first she appears willing to defy convention by appearing in an amateur dramatic production at Sally Rausch's Christmas party, although many Reformed Presbyterians disapprove of the theatre. As time goes by, she becomes more rigid and controlling, and overprotects her children to the detriment of their social development. * †Henry Voorhees – A cashier in the Cochran family bank, he marries Christina Blair after Sally Cochran Rausch plays matchmaker. He sees that Blair and Janey are not fitting in with the rest of the local children, but is unable to convince Christina to change her ways. * Blair Voorhees – The son of Christina and Henry, Blair is a "mama's boy" who resorts to physical violence when involved in a disagreement. Although not permitted to drink alcohol by his parents, he tries some at a party given by the Rausches, causing a family argument and crisis. Sent off to seminary school, he is suspended after drinking liquor with a group of other students, getting into a fight and severely injuring another student. He runs away to enlist in the military and becomes permanently estranged from his family. He is later seen serving in World War I and apparently still drinking. * †Janey Voorhees Lane – The daughter of Christina and Henry, she has a reputation for being dull and a tattletale. She later becomes a member of the club and marries a seminarian. ===McCune family=== * Rev. Mr. McCune – The strict Reformed Presbyterian minister, he dominates his weak wife Mary and their many children. He impregnates Mary again contrary to Dock Gordon's medical advice, as she is in poor health. After Mary dies, he unsuccessfully tries to court Amanda Reid. * Mrs. Mary McCune – Rev. McCune's wife, she is controlled and probably abused by her husband, although she stands up to him once by attending a theatrical party given by Sally Rausch. She dies from the combined effects of many pregnancies and pulmonary tuberculosis. * Ariana McCune – The McCunes' rebellious and dramatic daughter, she is a childhood friend of Johnny Gordon, and has a talent for music and acting. She attends music lessons at the Ballard home, and the Ballard sisters, especially Eliza, take an interest in her. As a young teenager, she runs away from her oppressive family, gets married and joins a traveling acting troupe. She later returns to Waynesboro terminally ill and is cared for by the Ballard sisters until her death. * †Ruhamah McCune – Ariana's younger sister, she becomes the librarian of the first Waynesboro lending library, initially established by the club, and continues as town librarian for many years. Although regarded as knowledgeable about books, she is never asked to join the Club due to her lack of formal education. ===Other major characters=== * Amanda Reid – The daughter of a widow who operates a boarding house, she is an intelligent, dedicated scholar who obtains a "man's degree" from Oberlin College and then returns to teach at the Female College. Due to her gender, she is unable to obtain a position in academia elsewhere. Later she becomes a public school teacher. She is considered unusual by others because she prefers a scholarly and mostly solitary life, and has no desire to marry or have children. * Mrs. Rhoda McKinney – Wife of the Presbyterian minister and a friend of Mrs. Ballard, she is an outspoken reformer and activist. After joining the club, she leads a controversial temperance crusade. * Miss Agatha Pinney – An elderly, unmarried teacher of elementary school pupils and a founding member of the club. She develops a laudanum addiction after being prescribed the drug for pain, and her addiction worsens to the point where she is unable to control her class or teach, and often falls asleep during school hours. When the townspeople find out about this, she is forced to retire, given a pension too small to purchase her necessary laudanum, and the local druggist is warned not to give her any more. In the throes of withdrawal, she tries to burn herself to death and dies of a heart attack. * Captain Bodien – A former military officer who moves with his family to Waynesboro from Baltimore to work as Ludwig Rausch's superintendent. He later becomes Rausch's business partner. He becomes well known for telling the local children stories about the Civil War, and Theresa Stevens eventually writes a book about him. * Naomi Patton – The young daughter of the Rev. Andrew Patton, a Presbyterian minister who comes to Waynesboro in the early 1900s. She is aloof at first, but becomes more outgoing through her friendship with Jennifer Evans. She dies at age 13 in 1909 in an epidemic of poliomyelitis. === Other minor characters === * †Miss Susan Crenshaw – A retired teacher of Latin and Greek at the Female College and a founding member of the club. She dies of cancer a few years later. * †Mr. Thirkield and †Bill Thirkield – Mr. Thirkield operates the town drugstore; his son, Bill, is a contemporary and friend of Johnny Gordon and Elsa Rausch. * †Mrs. Reid – Amanda Reid's mother who operates a boarding house for seminary students. She is a strict Reformed Presbyterian who often clashes with her more open-minded daughter. * †Charlotte Bonner – The daughter of the local newspaper editor, she grows up in Waynesboro, obtains a college degree and becomes a Club member. She joins the newspaper staff and makes news reporting her career. * †Stewart Bodien – The son of Captain Bodien, he becomes an engineer and inventor, and eventually manages a paper mill started by Ludwig Rausch. * †Rudy Lichtenstein and †Sophie Klein Lichtenstein – The children of German immigrants, both grow up in Waynesboro, are excellent students, and marry as adults. Following in his father's footsteps, Rudy becomes a lawyer with a strong interest in workers' rights. His wife, Sophie, obtains a college degree and becomes a member of the club in spite of her German background. * †Franz Lichtenstein – The half-brother of Rudy Lichtenstein, Franz becomes an activist and labor organizer, and along with Mary Gardiner, unsuccessfully attempts to organize the Rausch Cordage Company workers. He and Mary later marry and move to New York City to continue their work. * †Norah and †Ellen O'Neill – Two Irish Catholic sisters who are not accepted by the Protestant society of the town. The elder, Norah, becomes Johnny Gordon's nurse and has an affair with him. The younger, Ellen, a talented musician just out of convent school, falls in love with Paul Rausch and after getting pregnant, becomes his wife over his mother's objections. * †Reverend Andrew Patton and †Mrs. Deborah Patton – A Presbyterian minister, recently converted from Reformed Presbyterianism, and his wife who arrive in Waynesboro in the early 1900s. The father and stepmother of Naomi Patton, they also have two children of their own, Melissa and David. * †Melissa Patton – The Pattons' younger daughter, who marries Ludwig Evans following World War I. ==Background== ===Writing=== From 1922 to 1930, Santmyer wrote three novels. The first two were published to little notice and the third was unpublished. She disliked Sinclair Lewis's negative portrayal of small-town America in his novel Main Street, and conceived of Ladies as an antidote. However, since she worked full-time, she was unable to write very much before her retirement in 1959. A collection of her nostalgic reminiscences of Xenia, Ohio was published as Ohio Town by Ohio State University Press in 1962. The director of the Press, Weldon Kefauver, encouraged her to write more. In 1976 she submitted eleven boxes containing bookkeeping ledgers, her manuscript of Ladies in longhand. Kefauver accepted the novel, but wanted it trimmed. By then, Santmyer was spending much of her time in a nursing home and she dictated changes to her friend Mildred Sandoe. The Press published the novel, printed 1,500 copies and sold a few hundred, priced at $35, mostly to libraries. In 1983, Santmyer was forced to move permanently into a nursing home for health reasons. Ladies was awarded the 1983 Ohioana Book Award in the category of fiction, but otherwise gained little attention at the time. ===Success=== One local library patron, in returning the book, told the librarian that it was the greatest novel she had ever read. Another patron, Grace Sindell, overheard this and checked the book out herself. After reading it, she agreed with the assessment and called her son Gerald in Hollywood. He was at first reluctant to look at the book, believing that anything that was that good would already be taken. Unable to find a copy in California, he ordered one directly from the publisher and agreed that it had great potential. He convinced his Hollywood friend Stanley Corwin of the same and the two purchased movie, TV and republication rights. They sought literary representation from Owen Laster, literary head of the William Morris Agency, who read the book and also believed it was of considerable importance. Laster held an auction for the book, which was won by G. P. Putnam's Sons to republish the book. Before republication, the Book-of-the-Month club chose Ladies as their main selection. Suddenly, Santmyer and her novel were a media sensation, including front-page coverage in the New York Times. The paperback edition, published by Berkley Books in 1985, sold more than 2 million copies between June and September, making it the best-selling paperback in history at the time. ==Reception== Most reviews were enthusiastic. A few were grudging and even hostile. ==References== Category:1982 American novels Category:Novels by Helen Hooven Santmyer Category:American historical novels Category:Novels with lesbian themes Category:Novels set in Ohio
The "21 Azer" Medal was established in 1946 by the National Government of Azerbaijan. It was awarded to about 20 thousand people who participated in the national-democratic movement of the Southern Azerbaijan. After the fall of the National Government, awarding the medal was suspended. == History == On 2 December 1945, the National Government of Azerbaijan was proclaimed in the Southern Azerbaijan. This event remained in history as the “21 Azer” movement as the 12 December, according to the Iranian calendar, corresponded to the 21st day of the Azer month. The newspaper "Azerbaijan", which was the official organ of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party, stated the following about the establishment of the "21 Azer" Medal: ==References== Category:Awards of former countries Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of Azerbaijan Category:Awards established in 1946
"900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe was an Italian magazine published for the first time in November 1926, directed by Massimo Bontempelli with Curzio Malaparte as co-director. Beginning as an internationalist publication, after some numbers it dramatically changed its editorial line, rallying to the nationalist, strapaesani line of the magazine Il Selvaggio. ==History== The magazine was named "900" as it was conceived as part of the Novecento Italiano artistic movement. On its launch in 1926, it was received by "a storm of discussion, almost all hostile" by the strapaesano and fascist environment, but it had very important editors like Ramón Gómez de la Serna, James Joyce, Georg Kaiser, and Pierre Mac Orlan. The magazine was founded by Massimo Bontempelli and was based in Rome. Editorial officers were Corrado Alvaro, in Rome, and the Nino Frank from Paris. The first four preambles, Giustification, Basis, Advices, Analogies were published in French in the journals of autumn 1926, March and June 1927. (They were translated into Italian in 1938 by Bontempelli himself.) They set out the main principles of Novecentism, but later editions abandoned internationalism, were written exclusively in Italian, and switched to a patriotic, nationalist approach in line with Fascist policy. In three years only, "900" hosted the dadaist Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes and the surrealist Soupault; it published, for the first time in Italy, translated paragraphs from Ulysses by James Joyce and from Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; it published also a George Grosz profile written by Yvan Goll, inedited texts by Anton Chekhov and a short story by Tolstoy. Others who wrote for the magazine included Alberto Moravia and Ilya Ehrenburg. The magazine closed in June 1929. ==See also== *List of magazines published in Italy ==References== == External links == * "900" article at the Archivio della Scuola Romana Category:1926 establishments in Italy Category:1929 disestablishments in Italy Category:Curzio Malaparte Category:Defunct political magazines published in Italy Category:Italian-language magazines Category:Magazines established in 1926 Category:Magazines disestablished in 1929 Category:Magazines published in Rome
The "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" Medal () is a commemorative medal of Azerbaijan issued to denote the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Armed Forces of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918. It was established in accordance with the decree of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on May 16, 2008. Eligible personnel include warrant officers and ensigns who succeeded in combat training while serving in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan until June 26, 2008, as well as retired officers who actively participated in the formation and strengthening of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The medal is worn on the left chest, and in the presence of other orders and medals, it is attached after the "10th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1991–2001)" Medal. == Description == The "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" Medal is a round shaped medal that is made of bronze with a 35 mm diameter which is plated with gold ornaments. The relief emblem of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan is depicted on the background of the medal where relief rays and a ribbon pass through the center. The words "Republic of Azerbaijan" along the arc, and "Armed Forces" below the arc have been engraved above the emblem. The octagonal star and crescent are white. There are two numbers on the ribbon, "1918" on the left side and "2008" on the right side. The number "90" is engraved below the center of the medal in white. The reverse side has a smooth surface and the words "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" written in the center. An eight-pointed star and crescent are depicted on the national ornament. == References == Category:2008 establishments in Azerbaijan Category:Awards established in 2008 Category:Military awards and decorations of Azerbaijan
The medal was dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in that was established in 1918. It was designed in accordance with the order of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev dated October 16, 2012. The military personals including warrant officers, ensigns, retired officers (released or reserve) who served in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan actively contributed to the formation and strengthening of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan until June 26, 2008 are awarded the medal. The medal is worn on the left side of the chest, and in the presence of other orders and medals, it is attached after the medal "90th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1918-2008)". == The description of the Medal == "95th Anniversary of Azerbaijani Armed Forces (1918-2013)" Jubilee Medal is a round shaped medal that made of bronze with 35mm diameter and plated with gold ornaments. The ribbon on the right side of the face of the medal is located at the center and colored with National Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In the upper part of the ribbon "Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan", and in the bottom "95 years" were inscribed. Bas-relief of Heydar Aliyev is portrayed on the left side and below the bas relief are the years "1918" and "2013" in two lines. On the obverse, an inscription "Republic of Azerbaijan" written at the top and "Armed Forces" at the bottom. == References == Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of Azerbaijan Category:Awards established in 2012 Category:2012 establishments in Azerbaijan
The "A" Device is a miniature bronze inch letter "A" which comes with and without serifs, that is authorized for wear by the United States Armed Forces as a medal and ribbon device for two military awards. It is added to overseas service ribbons to indicate the theatre of action. The Arctic "A" Device (with serifs), if authorized, may be attached to the center of the Air Force Overseas Ribbon - Short Tour, for service beginning February 10, 2002. If an oak leaf cluster is also authorized for wear on the ribbon, the "A" device is worn to the wearer's right of any oak leaf clusters on the ribbon. The Atlantic "A" Device (without serifs), if authorized, may be attached to the center of the suspension and service ribbon of the American Defense Service Medal for service from June 22 to December 7, 1941. The "A" device is worn in lieu of any authorized inch bronze star that is worn on the medal and service ribbon. == History == The "A" Device is only authorized for the currently in use Air Force Overseas Ribbon - Short Tour, and the American Defense Service Medal which is no longer in use. The two representations of the "A" device are different. The Arctic Device has serifs while the Atlantic Device ("Axis Device") does not have "feet" (sans-serif). === Atlantic Device (World War II) === The American Defense Service Medal was the first military award to use the "A" device which was named the "Atlantic Device" (sometimes was referred to as the "Axis Device"). The "A" device was authorized for wear (in lieu of a inch bronze star that was worn in lieu of a service clasp on the award) on the medal and service ribbon by any member of the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, or United States Coast Guard who served on certain vessels in the Atlantic Ocean between June 22 and December 7, 1941 which engaged in armed conflict, or potential armed conflict, with Axis forces in the Atlantic (naval forces of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine). Such personnel were awarded the American Defense Service Medal with the "Atlantic Device" (Atlantic Fleet service), the intent being to recognize those who had participated in the "undeclared war" when the U.S. was assisting Britain with war convoys and German U-boat interdiction.Atlantic "A" Device for American Defense Service Medal - Eligibility , Naval Historical Center. Accessed 4 January 2013. === Arctic Device (USAF) === The "A" device became obsolete after the Second World War and did not appear again until the year 2002 (authorized on February 10, 2002). At that time, the United States Air Force declared that the "A" device, now known as the "Arctic Device", would be authorized for wear for those who had received the Air Force Overseas Ribbon - Short Tour, for tours of duty north of the Arctic Circle.Air Force Recognition Programs > About Devices, Air Force Personnel Public Web Services. Accessed 4 January 2013. As of February 8, 2007, only those airmen and guardians who were assigned to Pituffik Space Base (north-west Greenland) qualify for the "A" (Arctic) device. Although portions of Alaska are within the Arctic Circle, there are no American military bases within that region. The "A" is worn on the center of the ribbon except when worn with oak leaf clusters. Whenever oak leaf clusters are authorized for wear on the ribbon, the "A" is placed to the wearer's right of the oak leaf clusters on the ribbon. Only one "A" device may be worn on the ribbon. ==See also== * Coast Guard Arctic Service Medal ==References== Category:Devices and accouterments of United States military awards Category:Military in the Arctic Category:Awards for polar exploration
"A" Fort and Battery Hill Redoubt-Camp Early, also known as Measles Fort, is a historic American Civil War military facility and redoubt located in Fairfax County, Virginia south of Centreville and along Bull Run. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. ==References== Category:Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Category:Government buildings completed in 1862 Category:National Register of Historic Places in Fairfax County, Virginia Category:Forts in Virginia Category:1862 establishments in Virginia Category:American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places
"A" Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1982, is the first mystery novel in the author's "Alphabet" series. Featuring sleuth Kinsey Millhone, it is set in the southern California city of Santa Teresa, the nom de plume for Santa Barbara. She wrote the book during a divorce and admits about her husband that she "would lie in bed at night thinking of ways to kill him". The New York Times gave the book a lukewarm review. ==Plot summary== Kinsey Millhone, 32, private detective investigates the death of prominent divorce lawyer Laurence Fife. His murder eight years earlier was blamed on his wife, Nikki Fife. Upon being released from prison, Nikki hires Kinsey to find the real murderer. In the course of the investigation, Kinsey becomes involved with Charlie Scorsoni, the late Mr. Fife's former law partner. She discovers Fife's death has been linked to that of a woman in Los Angeles, his law firm's accountant; both died after taking poisonous oleander capsules, which had been substituted for allergy pills. Kinsey tracks down the accountant's parents and former boyfriend. She then goes to Las Vegas to interview Fife's former secretary, Sharon Napier, who is killed minutes before Kinsey arrives. Back in California, Kinsey is mystified that Nikki's son, Colin, recognizes Laurence's first wife, Gwen, in a photograph. Kinsey surmises that Gwen was having an affair with her ex-husband at the time of his death. She accuses Gwen, who confesses. Shortly afterwards, she too is dead, killed in a hit-and-run crash. Kinsey has solved the case she was hired to investigate; but in a plot twist, she discovers that her previous notions about the accountant's death were entirely wrong: in fact, it was Scorsoni who killed her when she discovered he was skimming dividend money from estate accounts under his management. Scorsoni used the same method that Gwen used to kill Fife, so it would be assumed the same person committed both murders. In a final confrontation, he chases Kinsey across the beach, armed with a knife. Kinsey hides in the shore line, and she is forced to remove her shoes and pants. Before Scorsoni can kill her, she shoots him dead. A secondary storyline involves Millhone's surveillance of Marcia Threadgill, suspected of insurance fraud in a trip-and-fall case. Although Millhone believes she has successfully documented Threadgill's deception, the insurance firm that contracted Millhone to investigate Threadgill moves to pay her claim anyway, citing potential legal costs and complications, including the risk of reprisal. ==Publication history== The first printing of "A" Is for Alibi was 7,500 copies, with initial sales of about 6,000. ==Critical analysis== Grafton openly admits that she conceived the story from her own "fantasies" of murdering her husband while going through a divorce. The novel's style typical hardboiled detective fiction, according to the authors of 'G' is for Grafton, who describe it as "laconic, breezy, wise-cracking".Kaufman (1997), 385 Grafton frames the narrative as a report Kinsey Millhone writes during the course of her investigation, written in the first-person narrative.Kaufman (1997), 386 "A" for Alibi is dedicated to author Chip Grafton, Sue Grafton's father, "who set me on this path". Chip Grafton was a municipal bond attorney in Kentucky who pursued a secondary career as a crime novelist, winning minor acclaim for four novels. He died on January 31, 1982 at age 72, four months before 'A' is for Alibi was published. ==Reviews== Writing when the book was released, Kirkus Reviews said this was a "shakily plotted but otherwise terrific start for a new detective series". The reviewer looked forward to the rest of the Alphabet Series, "fine dialogue, a great eye for people and places", if the author can tighten up her plots. Looking back at the series soon after the author's death, Library Journal Reviews remarked on the slow build up to successful reviews, including a quote from its own review: "Critic Sarah Weinman notes that pseudonymous New York Times critic Newgate Callendar dismissed A Is for Alibi as "competent enough, but not particularly original." Alas, LJ's reviewer was equally unenthusiastic in an April 1, 1982, review, waving the book aside as "nothing to take it out of the ordinary." Before those less enthusiastic words, they had said, "The female detective is well drawn and the plot moves at a fast clip". ==References== ==Sources== * ==Further reading== * * ==External links== *Sue Grafton Alphabet Series official site Category:1982 American novels Category:American mystery novels Category:Novels by Sue Grafton Category:Kinsey Millhone novels Category:Henry Holt and Company books Category:Novels set in California
thumb|Reproductive cone of Agathis jurassica "Agathis" jurassica is an extinct coniferous tree found in the Talbragar Fish Beds of New South Wales. The beds were discovered in 1889 near the Farrs Hills in the Talbragar River valley. Specimens from the area were briefly examined by Australian palaeontologists upon discovery and published by R. Etheridge Jr. later that year. The initial classification identified Agathis jurassica as Podozamites lanceolatus. This name was upheld through further inspections by Walkom in 1921, but the species was reclassified as Agathis jurassica in 1981 by Mary White. In 1999, placement in Agathis was doubted, and the species has been referred to as Podozamites jurassica. The species is found predominantly in the Southern Hemisphere with marginal expanses into the Northern Hemisphere. == Description == === Leaves === * Lanced leaves, between 4–7 cm in length, between .5-.75 cm in width * Spiral phyllotaxy * Parallel venation ** between 5-8 veins per leaf * Swollen stem bases with scale leaves * Foliage spur branchlets === Cones === * Cylindrical cone with sub-triangular bract scales == Taxonomy == The species was originally classified as Podozamites lanceolatus, after a very brief inspection of over one thousand specimens originally collected from the site. A more detailed account of all the flora was performed in 1921 by Walkom where the initial classification was upheld, yet it was noted that the flora from the area was likely coniferous. The fossils found at the Talbragar Fish Beds had similarities in leaf appearance to known records of Podozamites lanceolatus. However, in this species, the pinnae distinctly grow from opposite sides of the rachis rather than growing spirally around it. White notes this error as well as the fact the variation in leaf sizes along smaller branchlets signal that the branches are in fact foliage spurs, which she considered not characteristic of Podozamites. In 1981 these contrasts sparked White to conduct an intensive review of information available on the two genera and led her to the conclusion that the specimen found in the Talbragar Fish Beds were more closely linked to Agathis rather than Podozamites, and the species was described as Agathis jurassica. The reproductive cones recovered from the site were also initially classified under a different name and later also reclassified as White to be those of Agathis jurassica. The cones were believed to be of the same family as Agathis, but were classified as Araucarites grandis. In 1999, in a review of fossil Araucariaceae, Hill and Brodribb considered that the oldest reliably identified fossils of the genus Agathis were from the Middle Eocene of Australia, and so doubted whether Agathis jurassica had been correctly identified. Subsequent authors have used the name Podozamites jurassica, although this combination had apparently not been validly published . == Talbragar Fish Beds == The Talbragar Fish Beds are a well known geological site to the Northwest of Sydney and Wollemi National Park in Southeastern Australia that have produced thousands of incredibly preserved individual fossil specimens. The area is believed to have been a large and shallow freshwater lake that was surrounded by lush, woody vegetation, classified as a ‘Kauri Pine’ forest. The lake supported a large population of fish as well as a diverse range of flora along the shore that gave home to many insects as well. Examination of fish at the site give reason to believe there was a large scale event that rapidly inundated the lake with sediment; likely volcanic ash that trapped and buried the fish as well as some of the surrounding vegetation. The fossils in this locale are predominantly siliceous impressions, further supporting the idea that volcanic ash buried the specimen and left the stark white impressions of the flora over time. Fossilization in this area occurred in the Early to Middle Jurassic where Australia was still a part of Gondwana, under the Tethys Sea, and the site's climate was believed to be moderately warm with increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere that allowed for lush vegetation to flourish. == References == jurassica Category:Prehistoric plants
The "All God's Children" Campaign is an effort by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to challenge religious opposition to the legalization of same-sex marriage and promote LGBT acceptance in the Southern United States. According to the HRC, the program was designed to "change hearts and minds, improve the public perception and overall awareness of LGBT people, begin to reduce the painful stigma that many face in their daily lives, and help future efforts to enact pro-equality legislation." The program targeted Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas – all states that had no form of housing, employment, or marriage protections for LGBT citizens. == Background == The Southern United States is far more culturally conservative than the North. In the early 2000s, while northern states began legalizing same-sex marriage, many southern states were passing laws banning it. However, southern support as a whole rose an entire 26 percentage points from 2003 to 2013, leaving the south split on the issue of same-sex marriage. Scholars suggested that some of the factors leading to this cultural change include generational differences, the "friends and family effect," and a new appreciation for the separation of church and state. Approximately 64% of Southerners can say that they know someone who is gay or lesbian, a factor that is considered crucial for support of legislation such as same-sex marriage.Jones, Robert P. "The South's Stunning Embrace of Gay Marriage."The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 10 Mar. 2014. Web. 24 Feb. 2017. The South also holds the lowest regional social climate index ranking for the LGBT community in the United States, with a score of 55. Same-sex couples with kids have a household income that averages about $11,000 lower than heterosexual couples. Gay and bisexual men in the south hold higher HIV infection rates than those in other parts of the country; additionally, only 75% of southern LGBT people are covered by health insurance.Hasenbush, Amira, Andrew R. Flores, Angeliki Kastanis, Brad Sears, and Gary G. Gates.The LGBT Divide.Williams Institute.Law.UCLA. UCLA, Dec. 2014. Web. 24 Feb. 2017. "Discomfort" with exposure to LGBT lifestyles, such as attending a same-sex wedding or seeing pictures of a coworker with a same-sex partner, polls about 5-10 percentage points higher in the South than in northern states. Additionally, the chosen states are heavily religious; for example, more than half of Mississippi residents are members of the southern Baptist church. Because of this, the Human Rights Campaign refers to Mississippi, their target audience for the early stages of the All God's Children campaign, as being "the most religious state in America." Mississippi also has no statewide protects for LGBT people and, in 2014, passed a law allowing businesses to refuse services to LGBT people. == Strategy == The "All God's Children" project included phone banking, TV commercials, banner ads, and "direct-mail" messages. The ad campaign featured testimonies from Christian parents of LGBT children, gay army veterans, and transgender students to appeal towards the religious community. The Mississippi campaign itself was expected to cost approximately $310,000, out of a total of $8.5 million including Alabama and Arkansas over the course of three years. The first television commercials aired in November 2014 in Mississippi, two days before a federal court hearing on a state law banning same-sex marriage. == Response == The American Family Association of Mississippi issued a retaliatory statement in November [2014] arguing that the "[normalization of] homosexuality in the southern states" would not be acceptable to their program. Others argued that the campaign wouldn't be enough to change the hearts of "biblically literate Christians." Southern Protestants, especially those in the Southern Baptist Convention, have been alleged to be the most vehemently opposed to the expansion of LGBT protections in the south. ==References== Category:LGBT rights in the United States