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Frog Records | reissue

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Frog Records is a UK classic jazz reissue label founded by David French (d 2004). The company has issued about three dozen CDs, many remastered by John R.T. Davies, including the complete recordings of Bessie Smith.


See also

  • List of record labels

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Faulkes Telescope South | website MVMCP

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

The Faulkes Telescope South is a clone of the Liverpool Telescope, and is located at Siding Spring Observatory. It is a 2m reflecting telescope which is used for research as well as for use by school children around the world over the internet.

The Faulkes Telescope website provides data about the telescopes as well as educational materials that teachers can use with students. A number of the activities detailed on the website have example sets of files with them so that teachers and students can try out the activities before deciding if they want to use the telescope themselves.


External links

  • Faulkes Telescope website
  • The RoboNet global network which controls the Faulkes Telescopes over the internet

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Little Saint Nick | Step Into Christmas lyrics

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Little Saint Nick is a Christmas song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, performed by The Beach Boys and first featured on their 1964 album The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album. The song borrows its rhythm and structure from the group’s 1963 hit “Little Deuce Coupe”.

It is sometimes mistakenly called “Run Run Reindeer” because of the lyrics in the chorus [1]. In 2005, the song was re-recorded by Beach Boy Brian Wilson on his solo Christmas collection, What I Really Want for Christmas.
The song is also on the album ‘Snowed In’ by Hanson.

Several different versions of the song exist, including a single version that reached number 3 on the Christmas chart in 1964 and a version included on John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together. The song is also used in a Coca-Cola holiday commercial featuring a family of polar bears who stumble upon a festive penguin gathering.

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Celebrating Christmas | Christmas

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Celebrating Christmas is the second Christmas worship album of Christian Contemporary music comprised of Christmas songs by the Hillsong Church.


Track listing

  1. “Angels We Have Heard on High”/”Gloria” (traditional, arranged by Luke Munns; chorus taken from “Gloria”: Reuben Morgan)
  2. “Joy to the World” (traditional; arranged by Craig Gower & Nigel Hendroff)
  3. “Christmas Time Again” (Barry Southgate)
  4. “O Rejoice” (Mia Fieldes)
  5. “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” (instrumental; arranged by Hendroff)
  6. “O Little Town of Bethlehem” (traditional; arranged by Peter King)
  7. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” (traditional; arranged by Ross Irwin)
  8. “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” (traditional; arranged by Luke-Henri Peipman & Steve McPherson
  9. “Emmanuel” (Raymond Badham)
  10. “What Child Is This” (traditional; arranged by King)
  11. “Can You Hear?” (David Andrew & Fieldes)
  12. “Saviour Christ the King” (Craig Gower)

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Bónus | bonus track on the

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Bónus is an Icelandic/Faroese no-frills supermarket chain of Hagar. Bónus operates 24 stores in Iceland and four in the Faroe Islands. It follows the no-frills format of limited hours, simple shelves and having a giant fridge instead of chiller cabinets.

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History

Bónus was started by Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson and his father, Jóhannes Jónsson, with the first store in Skútuvogur street in Reykjavík in April, 1989. Within just a few years, the chain became the biggest supermarket chain in Iceland. In 1992, another Icelandic supermarket, Hagkaup, bought a 50% stake. In 1998 the chains merged<ref>http://www.baugurgroup.com - Baugur Group website (In english)</ref>, but keeping their separate identities, to form Baugur Group. Bónus and Hagkaup are now both owned by Baugur Group’s subdivision Hagar.


External links

  • Bónus (Iceland) website (in Icelandic)
  • Bónus (Faroe Islands) website (in Faroese)


References

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Note

  1. Bónus is always written with an accent on the “o”.

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Live at the Apollo (The Stranglers) | appears on the albums

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Live at the Apollo is a live album by The Stranglers.

In 2003, two versions of a gig recorded at the Glasgow Apollo appeared. Dating from 1981, this gig was originally recorded for, and aired on, Radio Clyde.

“Live at the Apollo” is an officially remastered version. The second version, “Apollo Revisited” contains audio which appears to be from the original master tapes, but includes “Who Wants the World”, “Nuclear Device”, “Genetix” and “The Raven”.


Track listing

  1. “Waltz in Black”
  2. “Non Stop”
  3. “Threatened”
  4. “Just Like Nothing on Earth”
  5. “Second Coming”
  6. “The Man They Love to Hate”
  7. “The Meninblack”
  8. “Golden Brown”
  9. “Tank”
  10. “Bring on the Nubiles”
  11. “Duchess”
  12. “Let Me Introduce You to the Family”
  13. “Hanging Around”


External links

  • The Stranglers website

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Willow Park | park

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Willow Park may refer to:

  • Willow Grove Park, amusement park located in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania that operated for eighty years from 1896 to 1976
  • Willow Park, Texas, United States
  • Willow Park, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Willow Park School, primary school in Dublin, Ireland which is a feeder school for Blackrock College
  • Willow River State Park, 3000 acre Wisconsin state park located five miles north of Hudson

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Business Basic | covered by The Business

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Business Basic is the name given collectively to the variants of BASIC which were specialised for business use on mini-computers in the 1970s. Business Basics added indexed file access methods to the normal set of BASIC commands, and were optimised for other input/output access.

The two major families of Business Basic were MAI Basic Four, and Data General Business Basic. In the 1980s, Business Basics were ported from their original proprietary environments to many Unix platforms, and to DOS.


See also

  • Apple Business BASIC (Apple ///)
  • B32 Business Basic (Data General Eclipse MV, UNIX, MS-DOS)
  • BBx
  • BBj
  • Dartmouth BASIC (see also True BASIC)
  • Data General Business Basic (Data General Nova and later DG minicomputers)
  • MAI Basic Four
  • ProvideX
  • Thoroughbred BASIC


External links

  • The Business Basic Page
  • Business Basic at Wikibooks
  • Transoft’s Universal Business Language
  • An open source Business Basic
  • Business Basic FAQ
  • Thoroughbred Software International Inc.

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International University of Chabahar | covered by

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

International University of Chabahar (IUC), is a university located in the city of Chabahar, located in the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran.

The institute offers degrees in collaboration with the University of London and Iran University of Science and Technology. Undergraduate Courses which covered by University of London(LSE College) are Information Systems and Management (ISM), Economics and Management, Management, Banking and Finanace, Business, Economics and Development.
Undergraduate Courses which covered by University of London(Goldsmiths College)is Computing and Information Systems (CIS).
Undergraduate Courses which covered by University of London(Royal Halloway College) is Business Administration.
But most of student of this university are study in two majore which covered by Iran University of Science and Technology, Civil Engineering and Architecture.


See also

  • Higher education in Iran
  • Chabahar Free Zone


External links

  • International University of Chabahar

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Event flag | event

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

An event flag is a process synchronization primitive in the OpenVMS operating system. It has two possible states, set or cleared. The following basic primitive operations are provided:

  • Set event flag ($SETEF)
  • Clear event flag ($CLREF)
  • Wait for event flag ($WAITFR)–if the flag was clear, this would make the process wait until it was set. If the flag was already set, this would immediately return, leaving the flag set.

Additional synchronization operations are:

  • $WFLOR–wait for any of the specified event flags to be set.
  • $WFLAND–wait for all the specified event flags to be set.

Event flags can be either local (per-process) or common (accessible by more than one process). Each process has its own set of 64 local flags, numbered 0-63. It is also possible to associate the process with up to 2 sets of common event flags. These come in sets of 32 each, and the process can assign them numbers 64-95 or 96-127. They come into existence when the first process associates with them, and disappear when the last process removes its association.

Every potentially time-consuming asynchronous system call (QIO among others) includes an argument specifying the number of an event flag to set on completion.

Compare semaphore.

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Together (Lulu album) | album

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Together is a 2002 album recorded by Scottish pop star Lulu as an album of duets with various artists, including Elton John, Paul McCartney, Cliff Richard and Ronan Keating, amongst others. The album reached #4 in the UK album charts and was certified Gold.

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Marcie and The Cookies | Cookies

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Made up of Marcie Jones and the three Cook sisters, the all girl, vocal only group, Marcie & The Cookies, were a rarity in Australia’s “mod” music scene of the 1960s, dominated as it was by all male rock bands and solo artists.

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Personnel

  • Marcie Jones (vocals)
  • Beverley Cook (vocals)
  • Margaret Cook (vocals)
  • Wendy Cook (vocals)


History

Marcie Jones started as a teenager with The Thunderbirds at Canterbury Ballroom and Preston Town Hall in Melbourne in the early 60’s. She then went on to perform with Normie Rowe’s band The Playboys and appeared on the “Go-Show”. She issued five singles from 1965 to 1967 on the Sunshine label with some minor chart success.

In 1967, on the suggestion of Normie Rowe, she teamed up with the Cook sisters (who were already performing as “The Cookies” ) in Brisbane. Marcie & The Cookies were in the mould of such U.S acts as The Supremes and The Crystals. In early 1968 they came to the attention of “The Twilights” and “The Groove’s” Manager Garry Spry, who was so impressed by them he became their manager. Spry got them a recording contract with E.M.I. and put them with his all powerful entertainment agency A.M.B.O. Within 12 months they had become widely known for Marcie’s powerful voice and the Cookies superb vocal harmonies and their synchronised stage movements as a result of their appearances on national TV shows, particularly on the pop music “Go-Show”. They toured Australia as support act for overseas artists such as The Monkees on their Australian December 1968 tour. That same year Marcie & The Cookies were presented the “Best Female Act for 1968″ award by national pop magazine Go-Set and were awarded the “Critics Award” for the top Australian vocal act.

As a group they released only two Columbia singles, however both these singles had regional success mainly in Melbourne & Brisbane. They were in demand for session work such as on the Tony Worsley & The Blue Jays track, Something’s Got A Hold On Me. Particularly they should be recognised for their contribution along with musicians - Brian Cadd - piano, Don Mudie - bass and electric guitar solo, Richard Wright - drums, (all of The Groop), Roger Hicks (of the Zoot) acoustic guitar intro/rhythm guitar and (The Chiffons) Judy Condon, Maureen Elkner, Pauline Brady on the recording of Russell Morris’s ground breaking, psychedelic single “The Real Thing” in early 1969.

During 1969 they toured South East Asia for three months performing in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Bangkok and the Philippines. The tour included performances to Vietnam war servicemen at American bases. They then performed around Europe and the U.K for two years and were support act and back-up vocalists for Cliff Richard during that time on his U.K.tours.

After more than two years overseas Marcie decided to return home to Australia, leaving the Cook sisters to continue on as Cliff’s backing singers and joining lead singer Peter Williams (formerly of The Groove) in a new group called Spirit of Progress whom recorded a couple of singles on the Decca label and was the support act also for Cliff Richard on tour, as well as performing on the U.K Cabaret circuit.

On returning to Australia, Marcie Jones then resumed her solo career with a new manager and record label, Atlantic. She released an album and five singles between 1973 and 1976, the second of which, “Gonna Get Married”, was her best chart success in 1974.

Marcie has continued to perform both solo and with The Cookies (under the name of Marcie Jones and The Cookies), in stage shows, clubs, concerts and tours supporting major overseas artists until the present day. In their 40 year career they have toured with The Monkees, Gene Pitney, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Roy Orbison, Tom Jones, Del Shannon, Ray Stevens and other performers. They perform a mixture of sixties and soul, ballads and rock.

More recently Marcie Jones has embraced the country genre putting out a country CD in 1999.


Discography and Chart Positions


Marcie & The Cookies

Singles (45rpm)

  • All Or Nothing/I Would If I Could 1968 (#2 Brisbane, #28 Melbourne)
  • White Christmas/You On My Mind 1968 (#23 Brisbane0


Marcie Jones

Singles (45rpm)

  • Quiet/I Wanna Know 1965 (#29 Melbourne)
  • Imagine/When A Girl Falls In Love 1965
  • Danny Boy/That Hurts 1966
  • That’s The Way It Is/Big Lovers Come In Small Packages 1967 {#34 Brisbane}
  • You Can’t Bypass Love/He’s Gonna Be Fine Fine Fine 1967
  • Armed And Extremely Dangerous/Over The Rainbow 1973 (#17 Brisbane, #22 Adelaide}
  • Gonna Get Married/I Found My Freedom 1974 (#10 Melbourne, #3 Adelaide)
  • I Only Have Eyes For You/Gonna Make It 1974 (#11 Adelaide)
  • Baby I Need Your Loving/Hurts So Good 1975
  • Back In Your Arms Again/I Like Your Music 1976

Albums(33rpm)

  • That Girl Jones - 1973

Compilation Album (33rpm)

  • The Bowl Show - 1965-66 - Includes two tracks - I Wanna Know/Quiet

(Shared with The Blue Jays, Peter Doyle, Toni McCann, The Playboys, Ricky & Tammy, Normie Rowe, Tony Worsley)


References

  • Go-Set 19/3/69 - Article on the recording session for Russell Morris single The Real Thing
  • Noel McGrath’s Australian Encyclopedia of Rock & Pop - 1978
  • Mondo Weirdo - Australia in the Sixties - James Cockington (Photo - John Hearder) - 1992
  • The Various Artist in Australia - Chris Spencer - 1990 - Moonlight Publishing
  • An Australian Rock Discography - Chris Spencer -1990 - Moonlight Publishing
  • The Who’s Who of Australian Rock - Chris Spencer - Moonlight Publishing
  • Gavin Ryan’s Chart Books


External links

  • Marcie Jones and The Cookies Web Site
  • Marcie Jones Web Site
  • Marcie Jones page at EntertainOz
  • Pop Archives - All or Nothing Feature
  • Pop Archives - I Would If I Could Feature
  • Gavin Ryan’s Chart Books
  • Milesago - Reference to backing Tony Worsley & The Blue Jays on single Somethings Got A Hold On Me (Etta James Song)
  • Reference to Marcie & The Cookies
  • Legends of Sixties Rock

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The Land (song) | Twas’

Sunday, July 15th, 2007
This article is about the song entitled “the Land”. For other uses see The Land (disambiguation).

The Land is a protest song, traditionally sung by the Georgist movement in pursuit and promotion of land value taxation. Until the late 1970s it was sung at the end of each year’s Liberal Assembly and remains until this day the party anthem of the Liberal Party, as well as the traditional first song of the Liberal Democrats’ Glee Club. During the chorus, the phrase ‘ballot in our hand’ is accompanied by the collective waving of any paper to hand (usually a liberator song book) by the audience.


Lyrics

Note - to the tune of Marching Through Georgia.

Sound the call for freedom boys, and sound it far and wide,
March along to victory, for God is on our side,
While the voice of nature thunders o’er the rising tide:
“God gave the land to the people.”

Chorus

The land, the land,
‘Twas God who made the land,
The land, the land,
The ground on which we stand,
Why should we be beggars
With a ballot in our hand?
God gave the land to the people.

Hark! The sound is spreading from the east and from the west!
Why should we work hard and let the landlords take the best?
Make them pay their taxes on the land just like the rest!
The land was meant for the people.

Chorus

Clear the way for liberty, the land must all be free,
None of us shall falter from the fight tho’ stern shall be.
‘Til the flag we love so well shall fly from sea to sea,
O’er the land that is free for the people.

Chorus

The army now is marching on, the battle to begin,
The standard now is raised on high to face the battle din,
We’ll never cease from fighting ’til the victory we win,
And the land is free for the people.

Chorus


See also

  • Liberator (magazine)
  • Henry George
  • The Internationale
  • Bread and Roses

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The Edge of Christmas | Christmas

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

The Edge Of Christmas was a Christmas compilation album released in 1995.


Track listing

  1. “Thank God It’s Christmas”
  2. “Please Come Home For Christmas”
  3. “2000 Miles”
  4. “December Will Be Magic Again”
  5. “Peace On Earth-Little Drummer Boy”
  6. “Winter Wonderland”
  7. “Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer”
  8. “Run Run Rudolph”
  9. “Christmas Is Coming”
  10. “Fairytale Of New York”
  11. “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight)”
  12. “Christmas Wrapping”

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Crimbo | Christmas

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Crimbo is a slang term for Christmas, originating in urban slang before becoming more widely used.

The OED cites the first printed usage to 1928 (see [1]). They credit John Lennon’s 1963 usage in a Beatles’ Fan Club Christmas single as the first recorded use of the variant form Crimble (see [2]).

The word also appeared in the title of a 2004 UK hit single, Proper Crimbo, performed by Leigh Francis with guest celebrities, in the guise of various Bo Selecta! characters.

Crimbo is also the name of the MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing’s version of Christmas.

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Christmas EP 2004 | Christmas

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Christmas EP 2004 is an album by Seven Nations.

  1. “2000 Miles”
  2. “Carol of the Bells”
  3. “Away in a Manger”
  4. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
  5. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
  6. “The Rebel Jesus”
  7. “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”

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