# List of Major League Baseball career runs batted in leaders

## Abstract

This is a list of Major League Baseball players who have compiled 1,000 runs batted in (RBIs). RBIs are usually accumulated when a batter in baseball enables a runner on base (including himself, in the case of a home run) to score as a result of making contact at-bat (except in certain situations, such as when an error is made on the play or during a double play). A batter is also credited with an RBI if he reaches first base with the bases loaded via a base on balls (walk), being hit by a pitch, or interference.

As of September 2, 2024, Freddie Freeman is the active leader in career RBIs and is 146th overall with 1,226.

MLB's official list does not include RBIs accumulated before 1920 when runs batted in became an official statistic. The list on this page is compiled from Baseball-Reference, which credits RBIs from 1907 to 1919 as recorded by baseball writer and historian Ernest Lanigan. One difference between the lists is that Babe Ruth is ranked third by Baseball Reference, but seventh by MLB, which does not count Ruth's 224 RBI compiled before 1920.

## List

- Stats updated as of September 15, 2024.

Through September 15, 2024, these active players have at least 850 RBIs.

- Bryce Harper (971) 82 in 2024

- Anthony Rizzo (961) 31 in 2024

- José Abreu (960) 7 in 2024

- Mike Trout (954) 14 in 2024

- Salvador Perez (914) 102 in 2024

- Marcell Ozuna (874) 98 in 2024

- José Ramirez (853) 107 in 2024


Herodians

# Herodians

## Abstract

The Herodians (Greek: Ἡρώδειοι; Latin: Herodiani) were a sect of Hellenistic Jews mentioned in the New Testament on two occasions – first in Galilee, and later in Jerusalem – being hostile to Jesus (Mark 3:6, 12:13; Matthew 22:16; cf. also Mark 8:15, Luke 13:31–32, Acts 4:27). In each of these cases their name is coupled with that of the Pharisees.

According to many interpreters, the courtiers or soldiers of Herod Antipas ("Milites Herodis," Jerome) were intended; others argue that the Herodians were probably a public political party, who distinguished themselves from the two great historical parties of post-exilic Judaism (the Pharisees and Sadducees) by the fact that they were and had been sincerely friendly to Herod the Great, the King of the Edomite placed as King over Judea by Rome, and to his dynasty.

## Overview

The Herodians are often mentioned in the gospels at the same time as the Pharisees. Like the Pharisees, the Herodians wanted political independence for the Jewish people. Unlike the Pharisees, who sought to restore the kingdom of David, the Herodians wished to restore a member of the Herodian dynasty to the throne in Judea.

Anglican bishop Charles Ellicott notes a consistency in format with other designations such as " Mariani (supporters of Gaius Marius), Pompeiani (relating to Pompey the Great), and, we may add, Christiani ".

It is possible that, to gain adherents, the Herodian party may have been in the habit of representing that the establishment of a Herodian Dynasty would be favourable to the realization of the theocracy; and this in turn may account for Pseudo-Tertullian 's (Adversis Omnes Haereses) allegation that the Herodians regarded Herod himself as the Messiah. The sect was called by the Rabbis Boethusians as being friendly to the family of Boethus, whose daughter Mariamne was one of Herod the Great's wives.

Robert Eisenman of California State University, Long Beach argues that Paul the Apostle was a member of the family of Herod the Great. Eisenman makes a connection between Paul and an individual identified by Josephus as "Saulus," a "kinsman of Agrippa." Another oft-cited element of the case for Paul as a member of Herod's family is found in Romans 16:11 where Paul had written, "Greet Herodion, my kinsman."

Some people think that the Herodians was another name for the Essenes who probably wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls.

"Nothing is known of them beyond what the Gospels state."

"... their precise relation to the other sects or schools among the Jews are consequently matters of conjecture."

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews (Book 15 Chapter 10.5) states "5. Now there was one of these Essens, whose name was Manahem, who had this testimony, that he not only conducted his life after an excellent manner, but had the foreknowledge of future events given him by God also. This man once saw Herod when he was a child, and going to school, and saluted him as king of the Jews; but he, thinking that either he did not know him, or that he was in jest, put him in mind that he was but a private man; but Manahem smiled to himself, and clapped him on his backside with his hand, and said," However that be, thou wilt be king, and wilt begin thy reign happily, for God finds thee worthy of it. And do thou remember the blows that Manahem hath given thee, as being a signal of the change of thy fortune. And truly this will be the best reasoning for thee, that thou love justice, and piety towards God, and clemency towards thy citizens; yet do I know how thy whole conduct will be, that thou wilt not be such a one, for thou wilt excel all men in happiness, and obtain an everlasting reputation, but wilt forget piety and righteousness; and these crimes will not be concealed from God, at the conclusion of thy life, when thou wilt find that he will be mindful of them, and punish time for them." Now at that time Herod did not at all attend to what Manahem said, as having no hopes of such advancement; but a little afterward, when he was so fortunate as to be advanced to the dignity of king, and was in the height of his dominion, he sent for Manahem, and asked him how long he should reign. Manahem did not tell him the full length of his reign; wherefore, upon that silence of his, he asked him further, whether he should reign ten years or not? He replied, "Yes, twenty, nay, thirty years;" but did not assign the just determinate limit of his reign. Herod was satisfied with these replies, and gave Manahem his hand, and dismissed him; and from that time he continued to honor all the Essens. We have thought it proper to relate these facts to our readers, how strange soever they be, and to declare what hath happened among us, because many of these Essens have, by their excellent virtue, been thought worthy of this knowledge of Divine revelations."

Josephus said Herod "continued to honor all the Essenes." The people could have thought that the Essenes were Herod's pet and called them the Herodians.


Pineville High School (Louisiana)

# Pineville High School (Louisiana)

## Abstract

Pineville High School (PHS) is a coeducational public high school located in Pineville, in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana, United States. The school opened in 1952.

## Profile

Pineville High School is the largest high school in Rapides Parish. The school's enrollment is approximately 1,500 students as of the 2018–2019 school year. The school has approximately one hundred faculty, staff, and administrators.

## Arts

The school is designated as a magnet center for the creative and performing arts, which hosts award-winning programs in theatre, visual arts, and musical performance. The PHS Theatre has performed musicals such as Legally Blonde, Rock of Ages, Chicago, Les Misérables, Footloose, Grease, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, Crazy for You, Oklahoma!, Pippin, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, among others. The theatre department also won the 2020 Best of Cenla Readers Choice Award for their performance of Into the Woods (2019), and plans to perform Grease, Young Frankenstein, The Taming of the Shrew, Arsenic and Old Lace, West Side Story, and Matilda in its 2022–23 season. The members of the Pineville High School choral program consistently qualify for the Louisiana Music Educator's Association (LMEA) All-State Choir. The Pineville High School Band competes in marching band competitions across the state of Louisiana, and regularly scores superior ratings at each. The orchestra performs annual Christmas and spring concerts, and the theatre program performs various musicals and plays year-round.

## Academics

The curriculum includes gifted, honors, and regular level courses. Many students leave Pineville with multiple academic honors, scholarships, and credentials to prepare them to succeed in the next chapter of their journey. Special education programs cater to students who are multi-handicapped or learning disabled. Academically, the school has the highest school performance score of any school in Rapides Parish. Students are also given the chance to earn college credits through Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA.

## Athletics

Pineville High athletics competes in the LHSAA.

Athletic teams include football, baseball, basketball, soccer, golf, tennis, track and field, powerlifting, swimming, cross country, and softball. The school was re-designated 5-A during the 2006–2007 school year.

### Championships

Football Championships

- (1) State Championship: 1960

## Mascot

The mascot for Pineville High School is the Rebels. The Confederate Rebel General, a copy of the former Ole Miss Colonel Reb, was removed in September 2020 after a decision in regard to a petition aimed to change the mascot following protests over the murder of George Floyd. The current logos include the Pineville "P" and "Rebels" in Brush ATF script.

## Clubs

Pineville High has several student clubs, including the National Honors Society, Chess Club, Future Business Leaders of America, 4-H, Key Club, Educators Rising, Quiz Bowl, Bass Club, Club Kid, Student Council, and Ukulele Club.

## Notable alumni

- Cody Ford, football player

- Faith Ford, actress

- Justin Gaston, commercial actor, musician, model

- Jay F. Honeycutt, former director of the Kennedy Space Center

- Jay Luneau Alexandria lawyer and state senator

- Kenny Mixon, former football player


Dejan Vukomanović

# Dejan Vukomanović

## Abstract

Dejan Vukomanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Вукомановић; born 31 October 1990) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian football midfielder who most recently played for BSK Borča.

## Club career

Born in Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, then still within Yugoslavia, Vukomanović played in Serbia with FK Palilulac in the Serbian League Belgrade since 2006 until he signed with BSK Borča in summer 2011 and played with them in the first half of the 2011–12 Serbian SuperLiga. In January 2015, he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Zrinjski Mostar, but was loaned to Olimpik in January 2016.

In summer 2016 he joined Israeli club Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem, but he returned to Olimpik Sarajevo in January 2017.


C'était un rendez-vous

# C'était un rendez-vous

## Abstract

C'était un rendez-vous (English: It Was a Date) is a 1976 French short film directed by Claude Lelouch, showing a high-speed drive through Paris.

## Plot

The film shows an eight-minute drive through Paris during the early hours (05:30) of a Sunday morning in August (when much of Paris is on summer vacation), accompanied by sounds of a high-revving engine, gear changes and squealing tyres. It starts in a tunnel of the Paris Périphérique at Porte Dauphine, with an on-board view from an unseen car exiting up on a slip road to Avenue Foch. Well-known landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, Palais Garnier, and Place de la Concorde with its obelisk are passed, as well as the Champs-Élysées. Pedestrians are passed, pigeons sitting on the streets are scattered, red lights are ignored, one-way streets are driven up the wrong way, centre lines are crossed, and the car drives on the sidewalk to avoid a rubbish lorry. The car is never seen as the camera seems to be attached below the front bumper (judging from the relative positions of other cars, the visible headlight beam and the final shot when the car is parked in front of a kerb on Montmartre, with the famous Sacré-Cœur Basilica behind, and out of shot). Here, the driver gets out and embraces a young blonde woman as bells ring in the background, with the famous backdrop of Paris.

## Cast

- Gunilla Friden as La fille

- Claude Lelouch as L'homme (uncredited)

## Production

Shot in a single take, it is an example of cinéma vérité. The length of the film was limited by the short capacity of the 1000 foot 35mm film reel, and filmed from a (supposedly) gyro-stabilised camera mounted on the bumper of a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9. A photo has surfaced that seems to reveal an Eclair cam-flex 35mm camera with a wide angle lens, and a typical "speed rail" hard mount—no gyros—on a Mercedes. This model, which could reach a top speed of 235 km/h (146 mph), was only available with a three-speed automatic transmission. Lelouch drove his own car himself and claimed that the top speed achieved was around 200 km/h in the 1.3 km avenue Foch. Lelouch also claimed during a "making of" documentary that the soundtrack was dubbed with the sound of Lelouch's Ferrari 275GTB, which has the corresponding number of gears and a V12 sound that is quite distinct from that of any V8, including the 6.9 litre V8 of the alleged Mercedes camera car.

On the chosen course there were two people who knew to expect Lelouch. First there was Élie Chouraqui, his first assistant, who was posted with a walkie-talkie in the Rue de Rivoli, behind the archway exiting from the gardens of the Louvre palace, meaning to assist the driver at the only blind junction (archway); however, Lelouch has revealed that the radios failed, and if Chouraqui had tried to warn him of a pedestrian the message would not have been received. Anyway, the traffic light at that junction showed green. The other person who knew about his arrival was Lelouch's girlfriend Gunilla Friden. He'd told her he'd arrive within ten minutes at the Sacré-Cœur and asked her to appear upon his arrival.

## DVD release

In 2003, documentary filmmaker Richard Symons contacted Claude Lelouch and after six months of arduous talks, persuaded him the film should be restored from its original 35 mm negative and re-released on DVD. Symons' company Spirit Level Film now distributes the DVD worldwide.

## Route

The route was as follows: Bd Périphérique (exits at Porte Dauphine) · Av Foch · Pl Charles de Gaulle · Av des Champs-Elysées · Pl de la Concorde · Quai des Tuileries · Pl du Carrousel · R de Rohan · Av de l'Opéra · Pl de l'Opéra · Fromental Halévy · R de la Chausée d'Antin · Pl d'Estienne d'Orves · R Blanche · R Pigalle · Pl Pigalle · Bd de Clichy · (aborted turn at R Lepic) · R Caulaincourt · Av Junot · Pl Marcel Aymé · R Norvins · Pl du Tertre · R Ste-Eleuthère · R Azais · Pl du Parvis du Sacré Cœur.

The route measures 10.597 km long, which indicates an average speed of approximately 80 km/h (50 mph).

## Criticism

Comments attributed to Lelouch indicate that he acknowledges the public's "moral outrage" over his method of shooting this film. He also states that he was prepared to take the risks in making the film, but that he was also ready to drop it if he came across any unexpected risk (pedestrian, obstacle, etc.). Nevertheless some pedestrians are visible in the film, as are several small cars at intersections where Lelouch goes through red lights.

## In popular culture

The film was an inspiration for Criterion Games ' 2001 title Burnout, which would spawn the video game series of the same name.

In 2003, Nissan released a promotional DVD for the 350Z entitled The Run. It featured multiple camera views of a copper coloured 350Z driving through the streets of Prague, ending with a rendezvous with a beautiful woman, an obvious homage to Lelouch.

In 2007, the film was used as the music video for Snow Patrol 's song " Open Your Eyes ".

In late 2009, a short film called The Fast and the Famous, directed by Jeremy Hart, was released on YouTube. The film features Jay Leno behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. During his circuit of Mulholland Drive, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Beverly Drive, and Coldwater Canyon Drive, Leno makes several references to Lelouch's classic film. In 2010, Jeremy Clarkson used the film as a basis for the opening scene of his DVD/Blu-ray The Italian Job.

In 2013, French indie pop band Phoenix used the film as a backdrop for live shows during the song "Love Like a Sunset Part I".

On 17 February 2017, Ford Motor Company in association with Claude Lelouch released a 360 degree view remake of the film using a Ford Mustang. Unlike the original, the 2017 version contains several cut scenes and does not show the entire (original) route of Lelouch's 1976 version.

In 2017, the British motoring show The Grand Tour produced an homage featuring a Bugatti Chiron driving across Turin in the episode "Bah Humbug-atti".

The 2018 video game Forza Horizon 4 features a story mission in which the player drives an Alpine A110 around the streets of Edinburgh for a short film in an homage to C'était un rendez-vous.

In the video game Burnout Paradise, the radio host DJ Atomika mentions how watching C'était un rendez-vous inspired him to enter the street racing scene.

In 2018, series 2 episode 8 ("Escape From Paris") of the Amazon series Patriot featured a drive across Paris with shots taken from a camera mounted low on the front of a car. This appears to be an homage to "C'était un rendez-vous". In later scenes it even includes inappropriate engine noise and tyre squeal, just like the original.

Christopher McQuarrie noted on the Empire Film Podcast that the film inspired multiple shots in his 2018 film Mission: Impossible - Fallout.

## Tribute film

In 2020 Lelouch filmed a tribute film of the film with assistance from Scuderia Ferrari entitled Le Grand Rendez-vous, this time set in Monaco instead of Paris and starring Monegasque Scuderia driver Charles Leclerc. Filming for the new version took place on the streets of Monte Carlo, featuring Leclerc driving a Ferrari SF90 Stradale. It took place on 24 May 2020, which was to have been the date of the Monaco Grand Prix that had been called off because of the global pandemic as only two major motorsport series had resumed competing as of that date. The film premiered on 13 June 2020.


# List of radio stations in the United Kingdom

## Abstract

This is a list of radio stations in the United Kingdom.

## National analogue and digital stations

### DAB

This list does not include stations which broadcast on numerous local digital multiplexes or MW licences to achieve near-national coverage.

DAB frequencies:

- 11A - radio stations operated under the Sound Digital multiplex

- 11D / 12A - radio stations operated under the Digital One multiplex (12A in Scotland and 11D in England, Wales and Northern Ireland)

- 12B - radio stations operated under the BBC National DAB multiplex

### DAB+

List of stations on the Digital One and Sound Digital multiplexes broadcasting in the newer DAB+ Digital Radio standard

DAB frequencies:

- 11A - radio stations operated under the Sound Digital multiplex

- 11D / 12A - radio stations operated under the Digital One multiplex (12A in Scotland and 11D in England, Wales and Northern Ireland)

NOTE: Heart Xmas available as an additional, temporary station on Digital One DAB+ from 22 September until 26 December (2023).

## Semi-national analogue and digital stations

Stations which are available nationally on Freeview and satellite and / or broadcast on more than one local DAB multiplex:

## Local and regional analogue and digital stations

### BBC Local Radio

Local radio stations from the BBC in England and the Channel Islands:

### BBC Nations Radio

BBC radio stations from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, broadcast in their respective areas via analogue and digital radio, Freeview and across the UK on satellite and cable television and BBC Sounds:

### Commercial radio

#### England

England 's radio stations adhere to the statistical regions of East Midlands, East, Greater London, Greater Manchester, North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber.

#### Former English stations

This list details radio stations which have lost their licence to broadcast or have closed down due to financial reasons.

#### The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man

Although the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are not part of the UK, they are served by the UK 's national radio stations. Additionally services in the Channel Islands are licensed by the UK 's regulator, Ofcom. Services in the Isle of Man are not licensed by a UK regulator but rather by the Broadcasting Act 1990 of Tynwald.

## Former community radio stations

The followed stations have closed down and returned their licences to Ofcom:

## Small-scale DAB multiplexes

Permanent small-scale multiplexes licensed by Ofcom:

## Small-scale trial DAB multiplexes

Small-scale multiplexes licensed by Ofcom for a trial period allowing a "more affordable way for smaller stations to broadcast on DAB digital radio":

## RSL stations

Temporary Restricted Service Licence stations are licensed by Ofcom and broadcast for up to 28 days. RSLs are used for a number of purposes including coverage of events and festivals, trial broadcasts by groups aiming to launch a full-time service, student radio and training projects and religious festivals including the Sikh festival Vaisakhi, the Muslim month of Ramadan, Jehovah's Witness conventions and Christian events such as Easter and Christmas.

The following list is a small selection of regular RSL stations which have been set up to cover various festivals and events across the UK:

## Student radio stations

Most universities plus a number of colleges operate student radio stations with the vast majority only available online. The Student Radio Association represents around 65 student stations.

The following stations are available via an FM community licence or via LPFM transmitters:

## Hospital radio stations

Typically available within the grounds of a single hospital, these stations broadcast to bedside units and occasionally public areas of the hospital. Hospital radio is free of charge on bedside entertainment systems operated by Hospedia and Premier Bedside and an increasing number of stations are available online.

Around 200 stations are supported by the Hospital Broadcasting Association (HBA).

The following stations are available via LPAM or LPFM transmitters or as Ofcom licensed community stations:

## Television radio stations

Stations which are broadcast to the UK via satellite, cable and digital terrestrial television:

## Frequencies

To conserve space in the listings, the waveband has not been listed after each frequency, but they are easy to tell apart.

- Whole numbers always refer to a kHz (AM) frequency - i.e. 999 = 999 kHz.

- Decimal numbers always refer to a MHz (FM) frequency - i.e. 96.2 = 96.2 MHz.

- A number and letter combination refers to a DAB channel - i.e. 12C = frequency block 12C on 227.360 MHz.


Kiril Kutlik

# Kiril Kutlik

## Abstract

Cyril Kutlík (Serbian: Kiril Kutlik; 29 March 1869 – 4 April 1900) was a Slovak - Czech painter, educator and illustrator. He was the founder of the Serbian Drawing and Painting School, one of the first modern painting schools in Belgrade (1895). An advocate of historicism in the visual arts, he is primarily known for his Serbian folklife motifs from the genre, portrait, sacral and historical paintings an illustrating folk calendars.

## Biography

Kiril Kutlik was born on 29 March 1869 in Křížlice in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.

## Origin and family

His father, Bohdan Kutlik (1838–1925), an evangelical priest and editor of the Czech and Slovak periodicals, is a native of Stara Pazova, where his grandfather Jan Kutlik previously lived, working as a priest and teacher. Uncle Felix Kutlik (1843-1890), a priest, teacher, and writer, worked in Bački Petrovac, Silbas, and Kulpin.

Mother Anna, born Kratochvílová, came from the city of Prostějov in what is today the Czech Republic. He was born as the third of thirteen children in the family, only five of whom have lived for more than ten years.

## Schooling

At the place of his birth, he finished elementary school and high school in Hradec Králové. As a child, he showed a fondness for painting, while he showed less interest in school materials. At the age of fifteen, he made copies of paintings and illustrations in oil paints.

In 1885 he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He completed his studies in 1891, proving to be a student with enviable successes. His final work at the academy was "The Last Moments of Hus's Freedom" which was exhibited at the Jubilee Mediterranean Exhibition in Prague (1891).

After his studies, for one year (1891–1892), he attended lectures at the Department of Historical Painting, with Professor August Eisenmenger at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and after that, he worked as a freelance artist.

## Work

He spent the next two years in the town of Arco Varignane, moving to Tyrol on the advice of a doctor, after he had returned symptoms of tuberculosis, from which he became ill during his studies. In Tyrol, where he resided (1893-1895), he painted about forty works, including "The First Death Victim" or "The Avely Death".

During his studies in Prague in 1887, he was in Belgrade during a ceremony organized in honor of Vuk Karadžić, and at the time he saw that Belgrade did not have a private art school, so he decided to found one. In July 1895 he came to Belgrade again and in September of the same year, he opened the Serbian Drawing and Painting School, situated in the neighborhood of Kosančićev venac (Kosančić wreath), from Kalemegdan to Brankovog mosta (Branko's Bridge). After the attempt of Stevan Todorović thirty years earlier, Kutlik became the founder of the first private painting school in Belgrade, which became the cornerstone of art education in Serbia. The school had classes for full-time and part-time students, for artisans and for women (since 1897). Students were enrolled in the school regardless of nationality or religion. Initially, he gave only practical courses and later, theoretical instruction was introduced.

French and German classes were also held for a while. The school had its own library and reproductions of paintings, reliefs and plaster models. He regularly published annual reports, and organized exhibitions of his students, with some of his work.

His most notable student was Serbian painter Nadežda Petrović, though he had other Serbian artists equally talented in their own particular genre such as Milan Milovanović, Kosta Miličević, Borivoje Stevanović, war painter Dragomir Glišić, Djordje Mihailović, Ljubomir Ivanović, Branko Popović, Natalija Cvetković, Anđelia Lazarević, and Rafailo Momčilović.

In the summer of 1899, he married Milada Nekvasilová, the daughter of Czech engineer František Nekvasil. They both believed in his healing. They went on a wedding trip to Austria-Hungary. They also arrived to visit Kiril's parents, who in the meantime moved to Dechtare, Slovakia.

Nine months later, however, Kiril had overcome the disease. He died on 4 April 1900 and was buried in the Belgrade New Cemetery, in the Nekvasil Family Tomb.

His paintings were exhibited posthumously in Paris at the Exposition Universelle in 1900.

## Legacy

Kiril Kutlik is part of an Early Modernist Movement in Serbia along with Anton Ažbe, Beta Vukanović, Nadežda Petrović, Mihailo Valtrović, Milan Milovanović, Kosta Miličević, Borivoje Stevanović, and Ljubomir Ivanović.

## General sources

- Slovak National Gallery: Slovak: MníchMonktitle QS:P1476,sk:"Mních"

- Čukur česma: Čukur česma - srpski rečnik porekla i značenja reči i izraza


Brad Graham

# Brad Graham

## Abstract

Brad Graham (born 1 September 2001) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays second Row for the Dewsbury Rams in the RFL Championship.

## Career

England Youth International touring France in July 2018.

### Castleford Tigers

In 2020 he made his Super League début for Castleford Tigers (Heritage No. 1001) against Hull FC.

In June 2021 he made his second Super League appearance for Castleford Tigers against Catalan Dragons.

In August 2021 he made his third Super League appearance for Castleford Tigers against Huddersfield Giants. He also scored his first Super League try.

### Dewsbury Rams

On 19 Nov 2021 it was reported that he had signed for Dewsbury Rams in the RFL Championship.

On 7 Feb 2022 made Dewsbury Rams debut v York City Knights.

On 13 Feb 2022 he made his second Championship appearance for Dewsbury Rams v Sheffield Eagles scoring his first try in a 12- 10 Dewsbury victory.

On 20 March 2022 he made his fifth Championship appearance for Dewsbury Rams v Newcastle Thunder scoring his second try in a 22–24 defeat.

On 3 July 2022 he made his ninth Championship appearance for Dewsbury Rams v Halifax Panthers playing in the right second row position. Rams lost 12–38.

On 10 July 2022 he made his tenth Championship appearance for Dewsbury Rams v Widnes Vikings playing in the left centre position. He scored a try in a 16–20 defeat for the Rams.

On 21 Aug 2022 he made his sixteenth Championship appearance for Dewsbury Rams v Workington playing in the right second row position. Rams won 26–20.

Sept 2022 he signed a one-year deal to remain at the Rams during their League 1 campaign in 2023.

On 19 Feb 2023 he made his 1st appearance in League One for Dewsbury Rams v North Wales Crusaders playing in the left second row position. He scored a try in a 38 - 18 win for the Rams.

On 25 Feb 2023 he made his first appearance in the challenge cup for Dewsbury Rams v Ashton Bears(Wigan) playing in the left second row position. The Rams won 38 - 8.

On 12 March 2023 he made his second appearance in the challenge cup for Dewsbury Rams v Rochdale Hornets playing in the left second row position. The Rams won 38 - 18 and he scored his first professional hat trick.

On 23 March 2023 he made his fourth appearance in the challenge cup for Dewsbury Rams away at London Broncos. He scored a try in a 16 - 36 defeat.

On 14 May 2023 he scored a try in a man of the match performance against Doncaster. The rams won the top of the table clash 26 - 12 to remain unbeaten in League 1.

On 26 May 2023 he was named in the Betfred League One team of the month for May 2023 in the left second row position.

On 6 August 2023 he played in the left second row position v Workington. The Rams won 38-8 and finished as champions of the Betfred League One. They gained promotion to the Championship in 2024.

On 3 October 2023 he signed a new twelve-month contract to remain at the Dewsbury Rams in 2024 where they will play back in the rugby league championship.

On 31 May 2024 he made his 50th professional appearance against his hometown club Wakefield Trinity.


Dejan Živković (footballer, born 1979)

# Dejan Živković (footballer, born 1979)

## Abstract

Dejan Živković (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Живковић; born 19 August 1979) is a former Serbian professional footballer who played as a striker.

He is best remembered for scoring an extra time goal for Partizan against Sporting Clube de Portugal in the 2002–03 UEFA Cup first round.

## Career

Živković started playing football at Partizan at the age of 8. In 1998, he signed a six-year contract for the club. After several years of playing on loans with Teleoptik and Zvezdara, scoring 12 league goals with the latter in the 2001–02 season, Živković returned to Partizan for the 2002–03 season. In the 2003–04 season, he played with Sartid Smederevo, scoring six league goals in 19 appearances. In the following next years, Živković also played with OFK Beograd and Voždovac in the national top flight, before playing in the lower leagues with several clubs.

In 2009, Živković traveled to Australia for a trial with A-League club Central Coast Mariners. However, he signed with the Serbian-backed club Bonnyrigg White Eagles, playing in the NSW Premier League.

In 2012, Živković signed to play with Popinci in the Vojvodina lower league.


Profetamine

# Profetamine

## Abstract

Profetamine is the name of a generic form of amphetamine sulfate which was introduced in the 1940s. Apparently, it was a counterfeit of the patented SKF Benzedrine Sulfate tablets that were available at the time.


Gregorian Bivolaru

# Gregorian Bivolaru

## Abstract

Gregorian Bivolaru also known as Magnus Aurolsson and nicknamed Grieg, Grig or, by the press, Guru (born 12 March 1952) is the founder of the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA). MISA has faced allegations of procuring and forced prostitution. He is imprisoned in France for an "alleged rape, human trafficking and kidnapping scheme". He faces accusations of organized crime.

In 2005, the Supreme Court of Sweden agreed to grant political refugee status to Bivolaru in response to his claims of persecution by Romanian authorities. On 14 June 2013, the High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania definitively sentenced Bivolaru to six years in prison, without suspension, for sexual acts with a minor. Furthermore, he was acquitted for all the other charges against him (e.g. trafficking of a minor). Bivolaru is also on the 'wanted' list of Interpol, for criminal charges of aggravated trafficking in human beings. In a European Court of Human Rights judgement in 2021, he was proclaimed to be criminal on-the-run for forcing his followers to turn over their life savings to him and have sex with each other, and him, at his command. Young female members said they were forced to work as strippers and appear in hardcore porn films. In 2013, he was convicted in absentia for having sex with a minor. France executed a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) for him in 2016. He was again arrested in France in November 2023, but not for extradition purposes.

## Early life

Bivolaru, born in Tărtășești, Ilfov County, (now in Dâmbovița County), Romania, completed high school in Bucharest. He joined a predecessor to the Bucharest Metro company as an unskilled labourer in 1971. He began practicing yoga at the age of 17.

During the communist regime Bivolaru was kept under observation by the Department of State Security, because he was practicing and teaching yoga, yoga being dissuaded in Romania at that time. He was jailed twice and forcefully hospitalized in a psychiatric ward once. In 2012 two courts acknowledged that Bivolaru was sentenced and jailed for political reasons during the communist regime.

In 1977, he was arrested on the charge of distributing pornographic materials and sentenced to one year in prison, but he did not complete it due to an amnesty granted for all minor convictions by the President of Romania Nicolae Ceauşescu on his birthday. On 17 April 1984, he was arrested again for the distribution of pornographic materials. He was locked up in a Securitate cell, from which he managed to escape. He was captured a few days afterwards, then tried only on the charges of escaping from prison and sentenced to 18 months in jail.

On 17 August 1989, Bivolaru was arrested again, on the grounds that he was mentally unhinged and a menace to the general public. Prosecutors requested he be hospitalized, which was granted two days later on 19 August 1989 by the sector 1 Tribunal of Bucharest based on a report submitted by National Institute for Legal Medicine IML. He was sentenced to hospitalization at The Poiana Mare Neuropsychiatry Hospital in Dolj county. In the IML report the diagnostic was schizoid personality disorder, paranoia with obsessive-phobic elements. Until 1989 he was constantly on the list of the most dangerous people for the communist regime, being permanently in the sights of the Security, but he never stopped practicing and teaching yoga. Gabriel Andreescu, researcher of the CNSAS archives, dissident and human rights activist, states in his book MISA - Radiografia unei represiuni that the group of yogis coordinated by Bivolaru is "the only example of long-lasting collective resistance under Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime". On 1 July 2011, a Bucharest court issued a ruling recognizing the political nature of the sentences suffered by Bivolaru during the communist period and his internment in Poiana Mare Psychiatric Hospital.

Debate exists about the validity of the Bivolaru's mental health diagnoses. A psychologist friend of Bivolaru, when asked by a young girl in 1993 about attending Bivolaru's courses, advised her to stay clear of him because he is a "psychopath". Cecilia Tiz, a yoga teacher and formerly associated with MISA, has publicly stated that "Bivolaru is a sick man who needs therapy". During his 2016 extradition procedures, Bivolaru pleaded irresponsible by reason of being legally insane, although the French court refused to pass judgment upon him being insane, since that is not germane to extradition procedures. One of his lawyers publicly declared during that trial "He has become paranoid, he is fearful of everything."

However, the doctor at Poiana Mare who was in charge of Bivolaru, Leonard Hriscu, declared that "Gregorian Bivolaru was not a man in need of psychiatric treatment."

Bivolaru thinks he is unfairly persecuted, just as Jesus Christ was unjustly crucified. Gregorian Bivolaru was acquitted after 17 years of trial. The name "Operation Christ" was given to the case by prosecutors.

## MISA

In Romania, yoga was removed from public facilities in 1982, in connection with the "Transcendental Meditation scandal." Yoga not was illegal in Romania but it was dissuaded by the regime, until December 1989, the time of the Romanian Revolution. After it, Bivolaru founded the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) as a non-profit association on 23 January 1990. It claimed a socio-professional, philosophical and educative character, aiming to increase the spiritual level of people by spreading the yoga knowledge and practices. MISA included bogus lectures on related disciplines such as Kashmirian philosophy and Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine). The yoga courses were first held in Bucharest but quickly spread all over the country.

Finnish broadcasting company Yle published a program under MOT series on MISA and Bivolaru. In the program, ex-Natha members were interviewed. Natha is described as being rooted to Romanian MISA movement. The interviewees described controversial activities like vomiting as a way of purification. Also sexual tendencies like pornography and sexual relations with the teachers and pupils were reported. A representative of Finnish Natha commented that sex is always a matter between the two persons. Seppo Isotalo, a human rights activist who tried to help MISA in confrontation with Romanian authorities, described MISA as follows:

It has all the characteristics of a cult: one truth, one leader, and it isolates the dissident.

Bivolaru was an honorary member of the European Yoga Council until April 2008, when he was expelled from it and from all affiliated branches. Shri Yogacharya Ajita, as President of the European Yoga Council of European Yoga Alliance and Honorary Secretary of the European Federation of Yoga for the European Union, announced the following to the International Yoga Federation: "My official resolution as president of the European Yoga Council of the European Yoga Alliance is that Mihai Stoian, Grieg Bivolaru and all people linked to the MISA/NATHA organization are immediately expelled from our organization and that we stop their membership."

According to The Times of India, MISA currently operates under different names in different countries. It is Natha in Denmark and Portugal, Tara in the US and UK and Satya in India. MISA is also known as ATMAN.

According to Romania TV (data from 2014) "Thus, only from the annual membership fee, Guru collects 4 million euros." In December 2023, MISA (all worldwide branches, regardless of their different names) counted a hundred thousand adepts.

In 2011 MISA was entangled in a scandal in Argentina described as "porno-yoga".

In 2012 MISA was entangled in a scandal in Italy involving sexual slavery. At the time, several tabloid newspapers took some of the bombshell accusations without checking them, without waiting for any proof. Despite the searches and confiscations carried out by the Italian police, even 10 years later none of the accusations have been proven and not a single person has been prosecuted.

In fact, the long trial of MISA members on charges of "Trafficking in human beings and conspiracy to commit crimes", which took place in Romania, was finally concluded after 17 years and not a single guilty party was found, according to a 2021 post of a justice watch organization. Other articles show that there have never been any official charges of pimping, according to the 2021 post.

In 2023 MISA was entangled in a scandal in France involving sexual slavery and human trafficking. MISA has been described as "a group reminiscent of the Mafia and pimping disguised as philosophy". 30 years prison sentences are on the table. In France, various women were deprived of passports, of mobile phones, they were transported blindfolded, so that they will not know where they are, there were rarely allowed to remotely communicate with their parents, and all such talks were supervised, they were forced to sign formal statements that they did sex and porn because of their own free will, and except for women's underwear they were allowed no clothes. Some yogis, claiming that they had been detained by the French police, accused French police officers of not respecting their rights. MISA has been described as organized crime. MISA is organized compartmentally, according to a general operating principle of organized crime.

Some MISA ashrams close to Bivolaru, hidden from the main teaching schools are, for a want of a better word brothels, and it has been said that children born in ashrams are sometimes sold to pedophiles. Many local politicians, policemen and prosecutors from Romania were clients of MISA prostitutes. Bivolaru built a real estate financial empire based on pimping and money laundering.

## Legal problems

In 2005, he was charged in Romania with eight counts, including sexual exploitation, tax evasion, and illegally crossing the border to escape prosecution. In March 2005, Bivolaru asked for asylum in Sweden, claiming that he feared persecution in Romania. On 4 April 2005, the Swedish police of Malmö detained Bivolaru.

On 15 April the Romanian Police issued a second warrant in his name, in which he was accused of "human trafficking and other charges related to organized crime" (related to an allegedly sequestration of some persons in some ashrams and forcing them to work without being paid).

The decision of the Swedish Immigration Authority that Bivolaru should be granted political asylum was effective 2 January 2006.

The lawyers of Bivolaru filed two applications to the European Court for Human Rights. The applications cover alleged violations that occurred while issuing the two arrest warrants.

On 18 January 2011, Bivolaru's trial was, for the tenth time, postponed again until 23 March 2011, marking his case as one of the oldest in the Cluj court. This trial for human trafficking is still pending, but the unconstitutionality exceptions invoked by the suspects were already rejected.

The solution in another trial, held at the Sibiu court, was that the charges were dropped, partly due to lack of evidence for some charges (the prosecutors refused to show authorization for performing the taps, considering it a state secret, so evidence was dropped) and partly due to exceeding the statute of limitations corresponding to the charges.

Bivolaru has requested damages from the Romanian state for being sentenced to mandatory psychiatric treatment during the Communist regime.

On 14 June 2013, the High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania convicted and sentenced Bivolaru in absentia to six years in prison, without suspension, for sexual acts with a minor, who said she never had sexual relations with Bivolaru. Also, on the same day, Court Judge Ionuț Matei received a letter threatening him and his family.

On 27 February 2016, Bivolaru was arrested in France. After extradition from France, he was imprisoned in Romania. He has requested a retrial. He had to do one year and three months less than six years, since he had already spent this time in detention. Alba Iulia Court of Appeals had rejected Bivolaru's demand for a retrial.

On 13 September 2017, he was conditionally released from prison. After being conditionally released, Bivolaru fled the country shortly after. The Romanian news agency Agerpres wrote in 2017, citing the website of Europol, "Bivolaru is wanted for trafficking in human beings, Finland and France between 2008 - 2013", sexual abuse, and other crimes. In 2023 he was wanted by Interpol for aggravated trafficking in human beings and sexual assault at the request of Finland. He has been arrested in France on 28 November 2023. Bivolaru and five other people belonging to MISA remain under provisional arrest. They are accused of financial exploitation, under the guise of Tantra (sexual exploitation). Bivolaru thinks he is "the victim of a political conspiracy", who would have retaliated against him for "fighting against a gigantic planetary satanic and freemasonic conspiracy".

The Spanish newspaper El País confirms he is accused of exploiting female adepts for sexual contacts and luring them into performing in pornography, even by secretly recording them for such purposes.

In Finland he is punishable with ten years imprisonment. In France he is punishable with 30 years imprisonment. The other five persons still in prison at this time are punishable with 15 years imprisonment.

According to Le Monde, "At the eight locations they visited, the police found 58 women – 51 of Romanian nationality, none French – 'living in difficult conditions, with severe overcrowding and no privacy'". Each woman in the villa of Bivolaru's right-hand man from France had a room of three square meters, and the hygiene conditions were poor.

In 2024 German authorities also opened an investigation regarding MISA/ATMAN.

At the end of April 2024, the French authorities arrested the wife of Bivolaru's right-hand man.

Bivolaru will receive payment for damages, for a 17-year trial in Romania, a period which was ruled excessive.

As of September 2024 he is still wanted by Interpol at the request of Finland.

## Controversies

Bivolaru flirted with the purportedly Hindu myth of having sex with a thousand virgins, hoping to reach the heights of spiritual power. (In fact it was a Chinese myth.)

An article in Huffington Post referred to MISA as a

"dangerous personality cult whose "supreme spiritual leader", Gregorian Bivolaru, has been accused of coercing or seducing hundreds of vulnerable women into producing hard-core porn videos, abandoning their spouses, and in some cases, becoming strippers and prostitutes — all in the name of "liberating" the female body and bringing MISA members into intimate communion with the "Divine Goddess."

"Bivolaru and his chief lieutenants were known to engage in sex with underage girls, some in their early teens. One prominent MISA activity — which the group describes euphemistically as "karma yoga", or service — involves young female MISA members being sent to Japan and other countries to work as pole dancers and strippers."

A Vice article states that

"as a MISA female member, it was an honour to have sex with guru Gregorian, because it meant positive karma and spiritual progress"

In one his books, Bivolaru claims Freemasonry is a satanic conspiracy trying to achieve world domination via the establishment of a world masonic government, a world kingdom, as well as a unique world religion. Gregorian Bivolaru claims to have contact with extraterrestrials who have healing powers and they will help humanity during its "difficult moments". His publications have been described as "conspiracy theory writings having paranoid ideas".

Bivolaru and MISA are fiercely against homosexuals, but they have no objection to lesbianism, which they even promote during Tantric initiation (underage virgins first had to undergo lesbianism before having sex with Bivolaru). One woman claimed in court she was sexually exploited by Gregorian Bivolaru and lost her virginity to him while she was only 15. Before getting deflowered by Bivolaru she was initiated through "performing lesbian acts with a dozen other women".

One German witness described how Bivolaru raped a 16-year-old Hungarian girl.

Bivolaru early gained a bad reputation in Romania, through advising his adepts to drink urine, both as urine therapy and as paraphilia.

The religion scholar Zdeněk Vojtíšek described in 2018 that Bivolaru sexually initiates women in an atmosphere of secrecy and drinking urine, but ultimately concluded that the bad press which MISA had is due to an unavoidable misunderstanding.


Elke Reva Sudin

# Elke Reva Sudin

## Abstract

Elke Reva Sudin (born 1987) is an American painter, illustrator, fashion designer, and lecturer. In 2010, her Hipsters and Hassids painting series premiered in New York City, comparing and contrasting the Hasidic Jewish and hipster Brooklyn cultures. She founded the live sketching company Drawing Booth in 2014, and is also a founder of Jewish Art Now. In 2023, she launched a collection of luxury scarves with her own custom designs.

## Early life and education

Sudin was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Longmeadow. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, earning a BFA in Illustration in 2009.

## Career

### Hipsters and Hassids

Sudin's 2010 Hipsters and Hassids series depicts the parallel lives of the disparate cultural groups in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, known for feuding over a variety of issues, such as whether or not there should be bicycle lanes down the Satmar stretch of Bedford Avenue. Sudin's colorful paintings examine the similarities and differences of north Williamsburg's hipster residents with south Williamsburg's Satmar Hasidic Jews, such as 2 am, with side-by-side paintings showing a group of partying community members, one of hipsters, one of Hasids. To create the series, Sudin interviewed neighborhood residents in Williamsburg and made a drawing of them in her sketchbook with a felt-tip pen. She would later make acrylic paintings based on the drawings. The series was originally produced as part of her senior BFA thesis at the Pratt Institute. It premiered in 2010 in New York City.

In the 2012 documentary Punk Jews (dir. Jesse Zook Mann), Sudin is profiled and presents paintings from Hipsters and Hassids.

### Drawing Booth

In 2014, Sudin founded Drawing Booth, an event service in which a team of artists circulate among the guests and offer to create quick, realistic hand-drawn digital portraits using an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. The portraits can be emailed, live-tweeted, projected at the event, or printed on-site and made available on archival-quality paper as 4" by 6" portraits. Past clients include L'Oreal, IBM, Disney, ESPN, Marriott Hotels, Bain Capital, Godiva and InStyle magazine.

### Scarves

In 2023, at an event put on by the Jewish art collective Havurah, Sudin launched The Crown Collection, a series of silk head scarves. It is her first foray into fashion. She views the collection as a statement of pride and a way to bring attention towards the tradition of hair covering as a married Orthodox Jewish woman, and of head covering in a religious context in general. Some of the headscarf designs align with pressure points on the wearer's head, which Sudin learned about while studying reiki in India.

### Other work

Sudin has gained recognition for her 2009 series of portraits of World Boxing Association super welterweight champion boxer Yuri Foreman, which were exhibited as part of the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival in 2009 at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn.

In 2010, Sudin and her husband Saul Sudin founded the group Jewish Art Now, a website focused on contemporary Jewish art and culture. They also founded SUDIN magazine, which explored similar topics and was later incorporated into Jewish Art Now. She also served as artistic director of PresenTense magazine from 2011 to 2013.

Her 2013 series We Are Patriarchs is a series of portraits reimagining Biblical figures as contemporary Jews living in modern-day Brooklyn. The 12 oil paintings debuted at the Hadas Gallery in Brooklyn in 2013. A painting from the series, Joseph in Exile, was included in the 2016 exhibit Brooklyn: Juxtaposition at Repair the World in Brooklyn. "An exceptionally large and well executed piece" that portrays Joseph and his Egyptian wife Osnat as Jews of color, it was cited as the standout of the exhibit by Tablet magazine.

## Style

Sudin draws and paints portraits, urban landscapes and abstract conceptual landscapes, often with Jewish themes. She works on paper with watercolor and ink, on canvas with acrylics or oils, and also creates drawings using the iPad Pro.

## Personal life

Sudin lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, filmmaker Saul Sudin.

## Honors and awards

- The Jewish Week 36 Under 36, 2011

- PresenTense Fellow, 2013

- Art Sprinter Emerging Jewish Artist Award finalist, 2015

- Forbes Councils member, 2023


Cyber Core

# Cyber Core

## Abstract

Cyber Core is a 1990 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed by Alfa System and published in Japan by Information Global Service (IGS) and in North America by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16. Set in the year 2269 where Earth has been overrun by an alien race known as Hyper Insects, the player controls a Chimera bio-fighter craft, piloted by the enforcer Rad Ralph (Kato Melange in the Japanese version) in order to fend off the invaders and reclaim the planet. Similar to Dragon Spirit, Ralph has a projectile weapon for destroying air-based enemies and a bomb for destroying ground-based enemies.

Co-headed by director Kenji Hisatomi and producer Kotoshi Yokoyama, Cyber Core was the first shoot 'em up title created by Alfa System, who would later work on future projects such as Down Load and the Shikigami no Shiro series. First released on the TurboGrafx-16, the game was ported to the X68000 by SPS, featuring improved visuals and audio, as well as a rebalanced difficulty. The X68000 conversion has since been re-released only in Japan for Microsoft Windows through D4 Enterprise 's Project EGG download service.

Cyber Core on the TurboGrafx-16 received mostly positive reception from critics, but the X68000 conversion was met with mixed reception; reviewers drew comparisons with Dragon Spirit due to its gameplay system but praise was given to its technical performance, visual presentation, sound, and fast-paced gameplay, but criticism was geared towards the repetitive action and enemy attack patterns, while many were divided in regards to its difficulty.

## Gameplay

Cyber Core is a science fiction-themed vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up game. The plot takes place in the year 2269, where Earth has been overrun by a cybernetic alien race called Hyper Insects. Their primary base is an underground mobile fort known only as the mothership. To fend off the Hyper Insects, Earth's defense forces create an insect-themed bio-jet in similar form to the enemy called the Chimera, which mutates the pilot into a humanoid insect upon use. This occurs to protagonist Rad Ralph (Kato Melange in the Japanese version), who has been assigned to attack the Hyper Insects and reclaim Earth.

The gameplay structure is similar to Xevious and Dragon Spirit. The player controls the Chimera through eight increasingly difficult stages over a constantly scrolling background, populated with an assortment of enemies and the scenery never stops moving until a boss is reached, which must be fought in order to progress further. The Chimera moves in eight directions and is equipped with two main weapons: a projectile weapon for air-based enemies and a bomb for ground-based enemies. The Chimera can mutate into four types of weapons by collecting their respective color eggs when shooting at the supply carrier.

Collecting three eggs in a row also grants the Chimera shield units to sustain enemy hits but this can also prove to be a risky proposition, as the Chimera's size is increased when more weapon eggs are collected. The Chimera can also acquire special egg types, which are dropped when firing at bosses or enemy formations, that grants additional abilities such as invincibility and a destruction egg capable of obliterating enemies and bullets on-screen. The Chimera is equipped with a speed setting, which can be increased or decreased across three levels by pressing its dedicated button. The title uses a checkpoint system in which the Chimera will start off at the beginning of the checkpoint the player managed to reach before dying. Getting hit by enemy fire reduces the Chimera's firepower and shield, which results in losing a live once the shields are depleted. The game is over once all lives are lost, though the player can use limited continues at the title screen to keep playing.

## Development and release

Cyber Core was the first shoot 'em up title created by Alfa System, who would later work on future projects such as Down Load and the Shikigami no Shiro series. Its development was co-led by director Kenji Hisatomi and producer Kotoshi Yokoyama. Sei Mochizuki and a member under the pseudonym "Bokegi!" served as co-programmers. The scenario was written by Syuichi Kouyama, while Kiyofumi Katō and Satoru Kubota acted as co-designers, in addition of Masashige Yumoto acting as illustrator. The soundtrack was co-composed by Masahiro Teramoto, who also created the game's sound effects, and Toshio Murai.

Cyber Core was first published in Japan by Information Global Service (IGS) on March 9, 1990, for the PC Engine and later in North America by NEC in May 1990 for the TurboGrafx-16. The game was ported to the X68000 by SPS on October 25, 1991, featuring improved visuals and audio, as well as a rebalanced difficulty. The original X68000 version has since been re-released in digital form for Microsoft Windows through D4 Enterprise 's Project EGG service on March 26, 2013.

## Reception

Cyber Core on the TurboGrafx-16 received mostly positive reception from critics, most of which reviewed it as an import title. However, public reception of the original PC Engine release was mixed; readers of PC Engine Fan voted to give the game a 19.26 out of 30 score, ranking at the number 378 spot in a poll, indicating a middling following. The X68000 conversion was also met with mixed reception from reviewers.

Famitsu ' s four reviewers drew comparisons with Dragon Spirit due to its gameplay system. However, they praised the game's sense of speed, as well as the insect character sprites for being quite attractive and slightly creepy but criticized the enemy attack patterns. Génération 4 ' s Philippe Querleux also felt that the title was similar to Dragon Spirit, but with mecha and insect characters. Regardless, Querleux expressed that "fans of the genre will not be disappointed" with Cyber Core. Aktueller Software Markt ' s Torsten Oppermann noted that the game borrowed ideas from Dragon Spirit as well, but stated that it stands out among the PC Engine library. Oppermann commended visuals, sound and addictive gameplay.

Joystick ' s Jean-Marc Demoly gave positive remarks to its animated graphics, sound and controls. Electronic Gaming Monthly ' s four reviewers criticized its repetitive action for not being varied as Blazing Lazers and lack of difficulty balance due to the overpowered weapons. Nevertheless, they gave positive commentary to the frantic gameplay, graphical presentation and large bosses. Power Play ' s Martin Gaksch praised Cyber Core for its technical performance, good visuals, enemy variety, sound and customizable gameplay. Gaksch also commended the game's adjustable difficulty system that changes the enemy's behavior based on how much items are collected, but noted that it "stole" ideas from both Dragon Spirit and Tiger-Heli.

VideoGames & Computer Entertainment ' s Clayton Walnum gave positive remarks to the vivid backgrounds, detailed insect sprites, music, interesting sound effects and fast-pacing but felt mixed in regards to the difficult playability. Takahashi Tetushi of Japanese magazine Oh!X gave the X68000 version a positive overview, commending its graphics and music. In contrast, Japanese publication Technopolis gave the X68000 port a mixed outlook. Hardcore Gaming 101 ' s Steven Barbato noted its Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind -esque world and aesthetic, as well as the skill-based power-up system but criticized the game's difficulty for being occasionally unfair.


Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

# Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

## Abstract

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill is a play with music featuring several of Billie Holiday 's most famous songs. The play was written by Lanie Robertson and recounts some events in the life of Holiday. It premiered in 1986 at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and soon played Off-Broadway. The play opened on Broadway in 2014, and also played in London's West End in 2017.

## Production history

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill premiered at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, on April 16, 1986, with direction by Woodie King Jr. and Reenie Upchurch as Billie Holiday.

The play was next produced Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre on June 5, 1986, and then opened in a Vineyard Theatre production at the Westside Theatre on September 7, 1986. This production closed on May 17, 1987 after 281 performances. Directed by Andre Ernotte, Lonette McKee starred as Holiday. In February 1987 S. Epatha Merkerson took over the role of Billie Holiday. The play won the 1987 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Book (Robertson).

The Hollywood Playhouse (in California) produced Lady Day in October 1987, directed by Andre Ernotte, and with S. Epatha Merkerson reprising her role as Holiday. Ernotte said that he wanted to "deglamorize Billie: show the dark, sad side. So it's not so much a nightclub act as a theater play with music." He also noted that Merkerson brought another aspect to the role as an actress rather than as a singer. The play was presented at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut in November 2005, with Ernestine Jackson as Billie Holiday.

The play opened on Broadway at Circle in the Square on April 13, 2014. Directed by Lonny Price, the production starred Audra McDonald as Billie Holiday and featured Shelton Becton as pianist Jimmy Powers. The sets are by James Noone, costumes by Esosa, lighting by Robert Wierzel and sound by Steve Canyon Kennedy. The play was originally scheduled for a limited 10-week engagement, but was extended several times until it finally closed on October 5, 2014. Audra McDonald won her record-breaking sixth Tony Award for the production, and she became the only person to win in all four acting categories, this time winning for Best Actress in a Play. The play also won for Best Sound Design of a Play.

The 2014 Broadway production was filmed at the Cafe Brasil in New Orleans and broadcast on HBO on March 12, 2016. Audra McDonald received a 2016 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role in the broadcast.

McDonald was expected to reprise her role in the West End at the Wyndham's Theatre, from June 15 through September 3, 2016. She was to take a 3-month break from her role on Broadway in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. However, in a change announced on May 10, 2016, Lady Day was postponed because McDonald and her husband Will Swenson were expecting a baby. She said, in part: "Of course, I’m disappointed I have to postpone my West End debut in Lady Day, but I look forward to rescheduling as soon as possible.” The play was rescheduled, with McDonald making her West End debut at Wyndham’s Theatre from June 27, 2017 through September 9, 2017.

## Plot

The play takes place in South Philadelphia in March 1959. Billie Holiday is performing in a run-down bar, during one of her last performances before her death in July 1959. She sings, accompanied by Jimmy Powers on the piano, and also tells stories about her life as she becomes increasingly intoxicated and incoherent.

## Songs

- "I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone" (music by Buddy Johnson; lyrics by Buddy Johnson)

- " When a Woman Loves a Man " (music by Bernie Hanighen and Gordon Jenkins; lyrics by Johnny Mercer)

- " What a Little Moonlight Can Do " (music by Harry Woods; lyrics by Harry Woods)

- " Crazy He Calls Me " (music by Carl Sigman; lyrics by Bob Russell)

- " Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer) ", (music by Wesley Wilson; lyrics by Wesley Wilson)

- "Baby Doll"

- " God Bless the Child " (music by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.; lyrics by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.)

- "Foolin' Myself" (music by Jack Lawrence and Peter Tinturin; lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Peter Tinturin)

- "Somebody's on My Mind" (music by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.; lyrics by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.)

- " Easy Livin' " (music by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin; lyrics by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin)

- " Strange Fruit " (music by Abel Meeropol; lyrics by Abel Meeropol)

- Blues Break

- " T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do " (music by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins; lyrics by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins)

- " Don't Explain " (music by Arthur Herzog, Jr. and Billie Holiday; lyrics by Arthur Herzog, Jr. and Billie Holiday)

- "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Reprise) (music by Harry Woods; lyrics by Harry Woods)

- "Deep Song" (music by George Cory and Douglass Cross; lyrics by George Cory, Douglass Cross)

## Critical reception

In his review of the 2005 Long Wharf production for Variety, Frank Rizzo wrote:

...two-time Tony nominee Ernestine Jackson... presents the singer as a simultaneously strong and desperate figure who finds some solace in her songs, but more in her own personal “moonlight” of drugs, booze and memories. Jackson nicely suggests rather than mimics the famous Holiday deeply lived sound in a show filled with more than a dozen tunes accompanied by an accomplished trio. But this is far from a simple songbook, and the cumulative power comes in the unraveling of an addicted artist and her story at the end of her days.

Critics praised the performance of Audra McDonald in the 2014 Broadway production while not being as enthusiastic about the writing. In his review for The New York Times, Charles Isherwood said,

it's worth putting up with the show's tackier (and duller) aspects for the pleasure of hearing Ms. McDonald breathe aching life into some of Holiday's greatest songs. She has tamped down the lush bloom of her voice to suggest the withered state of Holiday's instrument during the last years of her career, but the sound remains tangy, expressive and rich.

Marilyn Stasio in Variety called the play's script "unrealistically stuffed with just about every known biographical detail about unhappy life", but praised McDonald's performance, saying

she captures the plaintive sound, the eccentric phrasing and all the little vocal catches that identify Billie Holiday's unique style. But it's her extraordinary sensitivity as an actor that makes McDonald's interpretation memorable.

## Recording

PS Classics recorded the cast album live during the May 27–31 performances, with the album scheduled for release on July 15, 2014.

## Awards and nominations

- Audra McDonald was nominated for the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Award, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

- Audra McDonald was nominated for the 2016 Emmy Award, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

- Audra McDonald won the 2014 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play.

- The play received two 2014 Outer Critics Circle Awards nominations: Outstanding Revival Of A Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) and Outstanding Actress In A Musical (Audra McDonald). Audra McDonald won the award.

- The play received two 2014 Tony Award nominations: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play and Best Sound Design of a Play (Steve Canyon Kennedy). (The Tony Awards Administration Committee had decided that Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill is eligible for the category of Best Revival of a Play, and that ruling made McDonald eligible for Best Actress in a Play.) Audra McDonald won for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play and Steve Canyon Kennedy won for Best Sound Design of a Play.


The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000 film)

# The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000 film)

## Abstract

The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a 2000 American documentary film about the life of Tammy Faye Bakker. Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, produced by their company World of Wonder, it is narrated by RuPaul Charles.

## Legacy and home media

It was followed by a 2005 documentary Tammy Faye: Death Defying, which follows Bakker's struggle with inoperable stage 4 colon cancer. Both films are available on WOW Presents Plus.

## Reception

The Eyes of Tammy Faye has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 86% based on 36 reviews. It is listed at 23rd on the 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die on Current TV.

## Accolades

It won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary Film and was also nominated for Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature.

## Film adaptation

The documentary served as the basis for a biographical film of the same title, starring Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye and Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker, with Cherry Jones and Vincent D'Onofrio co-starring. Released in September 2021 to critical acclaim, Chastain won the Best Actress at the 94th Academy Awards.