WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States on Friday sent another long-range signal to North Korea that it is willing to talk one-on-one if that would restart negotiations on how to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
Special envoy for North Korea policy Stephen Bosworth, in South Korea Friday, wants six-party talks to resume.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the United States is ready to act alone if that would persuade North Korea to return to the six-party talks that stalled in the final months of the Bush administration.
North Korea has refused to sit down with the other members of those talks -- the United States, Japan, Russia, China and South Korea.
Relations deteriorated further in recent weeks after the North Korean regime launched a rocket, expelled international inspectors and threatened to restart its nuclear reactor and test another nuclear bomb.
The United States has repeatedly said that bilateral talks would supplement -- not replace -- the multilateral talks.
The Obama administration's special envoy for North Korea policy, long-time diplomat and academic Stephen Bosworth, is touring Asian capitals discussing how to end the stalemate. He met with South Korean officials on Friday, Wood said, and will be in Tokyo on Monday before returning to Washington.
"Ambassador Bosworth and [South] Korean officials agreed that our views about recent developments in North Korea and the way forward are similar," Wood said at his morning briefing at the State Department.
"They agreed that the six-party process remains the heart of the effort to achieve the goal of a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, [and] that the United States is prepared to deal with North Korean bilaterally in a way that reinforces the multilateral process."
He added, "We have held [previous] bilateral talks with the North in the context of the six-party framework. That's the way it's been."
Wood said Bosworth has no plans to add North Korea to his itinerary on the trip. "I'm not going to rule anything out. ... I'm not going to rule out that we may have talks at some point with the North. Our purpose is to get the North back to the six-party talks," he said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that she considers it "implausible, if not impossible" that the North Koreans would come back to the table.
Clinton also said the United States would not provide additional aid to North Korea if it didn't return to the nuclear talks.
At the time, some experts questioned Clinton's hard line. Heritage Foundation analyst Bruce Klingner -- who worked in the U.S. intelligence community -- said many Korea-watchers might be surprised by Clinton's statement that it may be impossible for North Korean talks to resume.
"It may be true, but it is not productive," Klingner said in a telephone interview. "It seems to be closing the door. And the obvious question is, 'What's next?'"
He also questioned whether the United States and the countries it has worked with are ready to accept a nuclear-armed North Korea with the long-term ability to increase its own nuclear arsenal as well as spread material and expertise to others.


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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEN: Ken Fairhall, grew up in Iden. He is a well-loved character, and he celebrated his ninetieth birthday in Iden village hall, on Saturday 28th April. Ken's actual birthday, the week before was celebrated with just family, but friends and family surprised him with a party on the 28th organised by Ken's daughter's Lesley and Caroline. Ken and his wife Jenny [Ken and Jen] are the proud parents, grandparents and great grandparents who are at the head of an ever-expanding, close-knit family. It was Elsie Fairhall's birthday on 28th, so guests drank a toast to both Ken and Elsie. The food was great, and the great grandchildren provided much fun and hilarity. I suspect that most of Ken's gifts were in some way related to gardening, because not only was Ken a career gardener responsible for much of Iden's past beauty, but gardening is his enduring hobby. His expertise lie in all things horticultural, but Bonsai trees are a particular speciality. Ken very much appreciated his daughter's thoughtful birthday surprises, and he enjoyed them with youthfulness and vigour. How do you do it Ken at age 90? I think the answer lies in the soil!
A SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION: There is a Service of Holy Communion, in Iden Parish Church on Sunday. at 9.30am.
BINGO AT THE BOWLS!: On Friday 11th May, Iden Bowls Club is having an evening of 'Bingo'. Doors open at 6.30pm. Eyes Down at 7pm. All are welcome, not just members. There will be a raffle, and light refreshments.
A BIG TEASE: The weather is having a laugh isn't it? I'm writing this watching the raindrops having a race on the window pane. Last week when the sun shone, I got out the Brasso, the Pledge and the Windowlene. The tail of my husband's shirt made a lovely duster, and I was away, polishing anything that moved. Sunshine does so much for energy levels doesn't it? Whoever wrote ''Ne'er Cast A Clout till May Is Out' knew full well that our weather does not allow us to assume.
LOOKING FOR A MUG: Nothing perks me up more than new mugs for the kitchen, so this week we went to Hastings to buy some, and came back with none. Nothing grabbed me, and buying a mug is a big thing in a person's life. We use them every day, so they need to suit our home and our personality. People have definite preferences when it comes to mugs don't they?. We have a cupboard full, but some never get chosen and you can almost hear "pick me pick me" coming from the cupboard. It must be awful [in a 'mug' sense] never to be chosen , like a wallflower at a barn dance. My husband likes a squat, rounded mug, I like a big builder's mug that would float Noah's ark, and when the family come, the kettle goes off the boil while I pick out everyone's favourite mug. Do you know what, I'm not going to bother in future, I'm going to give everyone the first one that comes to hand. Well, for goodness sake, who do they think I am dithering around for everyone's convenience, some kind of mug no doubt!


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HD photographs of bronze Monument to Komitas in Jardin d'Erevan - Page 493
Located on the Cours Albert 1st in the 8th Arrondissement of Paris, we took these high definition photos showing the Monument to Komitas and the Armenian victims of the 1915 genocide, which was sculpted by David Erevantzi.
This first HD photo shows the statue of Komitas, which is located in a small garden area called the Jardin d'Erevan, and named after the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, spelt Erevan in French, this was only inaugurated in 2009 by the French Foreign Affairs Minister and other famous people who had an Armenian heritage.
Yet the statue itself was originally approved by the Paris council in 2001, with the designs by the Armenian artist David Erevantzi being approved on 29th January that same year, and completed in 2002, it was officially inaugurated on the Cour Albert 1st in between the Grand Palais and the Pont des Invalides on the 24th April 2003 in the presence of the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, along with other dignitaries.
Now this next high definition photograph shows the back of the monument, which was sculpted in bronze with an antique green patina and stands at an impressive 4 metres in height, that is positioned on the top of a stone base made of white stone from Saint Maximim in the Provence-Alpes Cote d'Azur region, which in itself is actually two metres.
And this close up shows some of the detailing that went into the production of this sculpture including a part of the khachkar, or Armenian Cross-Stone, that is dedicated to R Pere Komitas, or Reverand Father Komitas in English, along with the 1,500,000 victims of the Armenian genocide in 1915 under the Ottoman Empire and those who volunteered to fight and died for France.
So, Komitas was originally born Soghomon Gevorki Soghomonian in 1869, yet renamed Komitas when he was ordained as a priest. But he was also a hymn writer, composer and musicologist who is considered to be the founder of the Armenian school of music.
But through his passion of collecting folk songs and other traditional music from his heritage that he re-transcribed right up until the start of the genocide, which Komitas managed to survive, he is classed as having saved the Armenian patrimony and heritage for future generations, even though his final years were not the best.
In fact, Father Komitas was actually arrested and deported at the very start of the Armenian genocide, yet was released after government intervention, but afflicted with trauma he was sent to a hospital in Constantinople and then in 1919 Komitas was moved to a psychiatric clinic on the outskirts of Paris, which is where he eventually passed away in 1935 at the age of 66.
This next close up photo shows the inscription on the base of the bronze statue with the artists name, David Erevantzi, which is also sometimes spelt Erevantsi or Yerevantsi, and he was born in Armenia in 1940, so having studied to become an artist, medallist and sculptor, this was a very apt choice for the person commissioned to sculpt this monument in Paris.
Now this next close up HD photo shows an inscription in French located on the stone base of the monument, which generally translates in English to:
In tribute to composer Komitas, a musicologist and 1,500,000 victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire.
However, you can also discover another inscription written in French, but this is also written in Armenian, and again this generally translates in English to:
To the Memory of the Armenian fighters engaged voluntarily and resistant's who died for France.
Yet there is also a third inscription as you can see in this close up image, and again this roughly translates to:
The Reverend Pero Komitas collected, until the genocide of 1915, the oral tradition of songs of the Armenian people and transcribing them he was able to rescue a universal scope of heritage.
And as we mentioned earlier, as well as the inscriptions in French, they are also written in the Armenian language and the one you can see in this photograph is the tribute to Komistas and the victims of the 1915 genocide.
But this last image shows the imposing monument in all its glory within the Jardin d'Erevan, which was funded by numerous Armenian people through an association originally set up named the Friends of RP Komitas and close to the Armenian church in Paris, this can be found by the Cours Albert 1st and the Place du Canada in the 8th Arrondissement of the city.
Monument to Komitas, Jardin d'Erevan, Cours la Reine, 75008 Paris, France
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My oldest nephew Jeremiah. My youngest niece Sarai.
My baby cousin Caison and I. Christmas Eve, 2018.
My niece, the dimpled dream, Kali.
My nephew Jr., always frowning. Lol.
My oldest niece Tierney, the eldest of them all. This young one is so incredibly intelligent, it truly renders me speechless.
The two things that I am sincerely proud of is being an Auntie and a big cousin. If I could divvy out my heart equally to each of these wondrous beings, I would. Time and distance keeps us apart more than I believe that it should, but I am most grateful for photos, the phone, and the US Postal service.
Turkey stew, homemade mashed potatoes, and sweet cornbread.
Peace, blessings, and a massive Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate.


The brewery was located beside the railway to the west of Crowle Wharf. It had its own railway siding. The site is now occupied by the food processing company Canley Packers.
The Brewery was constructed in 1878.
14 March 1882 – Partnership between Thomas Dymond, George Robinson, the younger, and Thomas Nutt dissolved as Thomas Nutt has retired. Thomas Dymond and George Robinson to take over.
13 October 1883 – Thomas Dymond dissolved his partnership with George Robinson.
In preparation for the Auction in June a valuation of the Brewery and its other properties was carried out by Hebblethwaite & Son, Land Agents of Hull. The paper relating to this valuation are now in the Hull History Centre and can be seen here; This includes an estimate of the costs for building the Brewery.
All the pubs with the exception of the Ellers Tavern were bought between 1876 and 1878.
The original partnership of three had put in shares of £7000 each. However in 1882 Thomas Dymond purchased Thomas Nutt's share at 50/- in the £ – ie he paid £3,500. The valuer notes that Dymonds share was £10,00 to Robinson's £7000.
12 Jun 1884 – Brewery Auctioned, by order of the Mortgagee, along with the Mariner's Arms in Keadby and the Red Lion Inn in Doncaster. Report in the Sheffield Independent stated that the Brewery and Mariner's Arms were withdrawn without a bid whereas the Red Lion was withdrawn at £2000.
28 August 1886 – Partnership between Thomas Dymond, of Barnsley, and George Robinson, the younger, dissolved. Had been operating as George Robinson Junior and company. Thomas Dymond to continue under the name New Trent Brewery.
1891 – Thomas Dymond Purchased the New Trent Inn for £1400. Additionally he bought the two adjoining villas for Joseph Franks.
1898 – Thomas Dymond died, after which the brewery was run by his executors until 1900 when it was taken over by John Dymond, his son.
New Tent Brewery Company Ltd registered in 1911 to acquire the business carried on by John Dymond. Closed for financial reasons in 1915.
1916 the Barnsley Brewery Company took over the lease of the New Trent Brewery Company of Crowle and their 36 licensed houses and in 1918, took full control of the Company.
1918 Property commandeered as a "Flax Factory" by the Ministry of Supply. However by 1925 the assets of Flax Cultivation, Ltd were being sold off including the site at Crowle which was sold to Mr R Thomas.
1951 – New Trent Brewery in administration – I suspect this was in order to wind the company up.


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Confirmed: Celtic are set to open contract talks with midfielder, Rodgers wants him
Date: 31st July 2018 at 10:50pm
Celtic midfielder James Forrest has less than a year left on his contract at Celtic, but Brendan Rodgers believes the club are set to open discussions on a longer stay.
The 27-year-old has emerged as one of the club's top performers over the last 18 months, weighing in heavily with direct goal contributions and also showing the work ethic to perform defensive duties more consistently.
In the three matches so far this season he has already scored twice and assisted five times, set to have a stellar 2018/19 season.
Speaking ahead of the club's trip to Norway this week, the Celtic boss confirmed that the winger is a player that he would love to keep and says the negotiators at Celtic are set to open talks on a new deal.
As quoted by STV, Rodgers said:
In terms of James, he's clearly a player we'd love to keep. He's been outstanding in my time here, not just in games but in training too.
You can see how much he wants to improve and I think his best years are still ahead of him so I'm sure the club will be working with James representatives to tie him down to a longer deal.
That's good news for Celtic supporters who are eager to see him spend many more years at the club, hopefully avoiding the contract drama prior to him signing his previous deal in 2016.
He had just a few months until the expiry of his previous contract and at one point looked like he might exit the club.
Signing him up to a new deal must be seen as a priority and Rodgers moving to assure fans he is valued is great to hear.
What are your thoughts on James Forrest's form in recent seasons? Let us know in the comments…


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Thatcher's poisonous television legacy is still being felt
Margaret Thatcher speaking in the Commons, November 1990.
Death on the Rock took a heavy toll on Thames Television. What had started off as a routine report by the ITV London region's weekday flagship current affairs programme This Week had been turned into a cause célèbre. The shooting down of an IRA gang in Gibraltar in March 1988 had been subjected to detailed journalistic scrutiny by the This Week team, led by editor Roger Bolton – and Margaret Thatcher's government was incandescent with fury.
As Thames' Director of Programmes I approved the production, and agreed an extended slot for transmission on Thursday April 28th with my colleagues from the other major ITV companies on the Network Controllers Group – whose weekly meetings were observed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA). I previewed and signed off the film, with the support of Thames' Chief Executive, Richard Dunn, who had also viewed it, and departed for the main television market of the year, in Cannes, little realising what was going on behind the scenes.
Margaret Thatcher, at that point not having even seen the programme, was asked by a group of Japanese journalists whether she was furious about it, and replied ominously that her reaction "went deeper than that" – a tale set out in Roger Bolton's excellent book about the whole episode, "Death on the Rock", which I draw on throughout this piece. She encouraged her normally mild-mannered Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, to try to bully the IBA into blocking transmission. The regulator's chairman, Lord Thomson, firmly and repeatedly rejected Howe's demand. Thames knew nothing of this until Howe made it all public with a press conference hours before the programme was scheduled for broadcast.
Ministerial bitterness grew after transmission, perhaps because all the prior publicity had secured an unusually large audience (6.5 million) for a This Week episode.
The main press allies of the government pitched in, with lurid and ill-judged stories and commentary, which eventually cost many of them hundreds of thousands in libel damages, including a substantial payout to one witness whom the Sun had labelled "the tart of the Gib". Despite the ultimate successes in court, the whole fracas was a torrid reminder for a board consisting mostly of finance people – though Chairman Sir Ian Trethowan had been Director-General of the BBC – that commercial television was not a risk-free investment.
A still image from the 1988 Thames Television documentary 'Death on the Rock' | Thames Television, fair use.
One of Howe's supposed grounds for seeking a ban was the danger of This Week contaminating the eventual inquest into the shootings by the security services, by broadcasting interviews with witnesses. The IBA's legal advisors robustly rejected this fear, not least because no date for an inquest had yet been announced. The Gibraltar magistrate overseeing the inquest, Felix Pizzarello, told the This Week team that he was grateful for their efforts to find witnesses, knocking on hundreds of doors to locate them. In the event, very few independent witnesses other than those we identified were ever called to testify.
The inquest itself triggered a second barrage against Thames. A 20-year-old bank clerk, Kenneth Asquez, had told two prominent Gibraltarians who interviewed him separately on This Week's behalf, that he had seen one of the IRA gang being repeatedly shot whilst lying on the ground, although he declined to sign an affidavit to this effect.
Asquez arrived at court accompanied by one of Gibraltar's most senior lawyer/politicians, Sir Joshua Hassan. The young man proceeded to tell the magistrate that he had been confused when he gave his account, had felt pressurised, and claimed that one of our intermediaries had implied there might be money for him if he gave us a statement. There was no truth in this - we paid none of the witnesses we interviewed. When challenged to repeat this potentially libellous claim outside the protection of court privilege, Asquez refused.
Despite Asquez's subsequent 'confusion', his account of the frenzied shooting of Sean Savage – almost exactly matched the evidence submitted by one of the forensic scientists – that he had suffered 29 gunshot wounds, mostly inflicted when he was lying on the ground. As he gave two separate, but almost identical statements, to two different people representing Thames, the programme makers had taken the view he must have actually seen what he described so vividly.
None of that deterred the press pack thirsting for anything with which to berate Thames. Even the IBA was worried by Asquez's claim of pressure, and urged Thames to set up a formal inquiry. Lord Windlesham – a former Tory cabinet minister, and also a one-time director of an ITV company – took on the task, alongside the prominent QC, Richard Rampton.
For the This Week team, fearful of being scapegoated by management, the three months of the inquiry process were very stressful. So they were relieved – indeed, exhilarated – when Windlesham published his conclusions. There were some points of criticism of the programme's script, which we should certainly have picked up at the time, but the overall verdict was one of vindication. The editor of The Sunday Times, Andrew Neil – whose own coverage of the affair had triggered two resignations by reporters irate at the way their material was edited – rejected the findings when he appeared on a special This Week programme the day the Windlesham report was published. I suspect Neil will never change his mind about Death on the Rock.
Title image from Death on the Rock | Thames Television, fair use.
More dispiritingly, ministers were as hostile to the Windlesham report as they had been to the programme. Geoffrey Howe rejected it as "about television, by television, for television", shamefully dismissing his former friend and colleague with a cheap jibe. In response, Windlesham waived the fee that he had agreed with Thames.
You can buy online a copy of the Windlesham/Rampton Report and of Roger Bolton's excellent Death on the Rock: and other stories (W H Allen, 1990), but be wary of Christopher Andrew's authorised history of MI5, The Defence of the Realm. His account of Operation Flavius, as the security forces' operation was code-named, manages – hilariously – to avoid any mention of the SAS, presumably to avoid breaching the Official Secrets Act, and throughout confuses This Week with its arch rival, Granada's World in Action.
A tougher battle
The board may have been relieved by Windlesham's verdict, but an even tougher battle was looming. Vexed as much by ITV's laxity with regard to trade unions as by its perceived journalistic failings, Mrs Thatcher had decided to implement a seemingly eccentric recommendation from the 1986 Peacock Report on the future of the BBC that the right to operate ITV franchises be auctioned off to the highest bidder, despite the fact that ITV's operation had been no part of his terms of reference.
Richard Dunn, as chairman of the ITV Council, would spend much of the next two years negotiating with Home Office ministers to mitigate the risk of a straight financial shoot-out, which would otherwise leave incumbents like Thames, with their heavy fixed costs, vulnerable to bids from "green field" operators.
Mrs Thatcher had fired her first warning shot across the bows at her Downing Street summit with the television industry in 1987, where she told ITV's leaders that their business represented "the last bastion of restrictive practices". Then, in May 1988 – just three weeks after Death on the Rock – came the creation of a new regulator, the Broadcasting Standards Council, which Howe's wife would later chair.
Of far greater significance would be the Broadcasting Act of 1990. The Act scrapped the IBA and replaced it with the Independent Television Commission, thereby removing key friends of the established broadcasters from decision-making over licence renewal or removal. The system it created also allowed completely new companies to bid for ITV franchises, potentially – industry voices warned - without actually having to produce any actual programming of their own, as there would be a new ITV Network Centre responsible for all commissions. Dunn had persuaded the Home Office ministers, Douglas Hurd and David Mellor, to insert a safety net clause into the 1990 legislation, which ostensibly allowed the ITC to award the franchise not to the highest bidding company, but to another applicant if that bidder offered exceptional quality in terms of producing programmes (the "exceptional circumstances" clause). But there were doubts about how, or even if, this clause would operate in practice under the new regulatory regime.
Miscarriages of justice
In the midst of this high stakes manoeuvring, Frank Cvitanovich strolled into my office, offering a drama script by the Belfast journalist, Tom McGurk. The title was Dear Sarah, and the story was substantially based on the letters between Giuseppe Conlon and his wife Sarah during the years when he was wrongly imprisoned for terrorist offences. McGurk had been one of the first to cover that gross miscarriage of justice.
Sarah Conlon, wife of Guiseppe Conlon who was wrongly imprisoned for the Guildford pub bombings, with Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern and by her son-in-law, Joe McKernan. | Haydn West/PA Archive/PA Images
I had known Frank for many years – we were at one time season ticket holders at Tottenham Hotspur – but his reputation was based on his prize-winning documentaries, such as Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton, a portrait of five shire horses and their master which was awarded the Italia Prize in 1977, the annus mirabilis for Jeremy Isaacs' Thames, which also won that year's TV fiction prize for The Naked Civil Servant. Frank reminded me of his beautifully understated dramatisation of John Osborne's A Better Class of Person, starring Eileen Atkins and Alan Howard, and promised a similar treatment for this script.
I had an indirect connection with Giuseppe Conlon. Despite being a chronic invalid, Giuseppe (actually baptized Patrick, but commonly known by his Italian godfather's name) had come to London in late 1974 to help his son, Gerry, who had been arrested with three others in connection with the IRA bombing of two pubs in Guildford (Gerry and the others spent fifteen years in prison before their convictions were overturned). From his sister-in-law's house in West London, and on the instructions of his Belfast solicitors, Guiseppe called a well-known human rights lawyer, Bernard Simons. At the time, I was This Week's editor, and shared a house in Highbury with Bernard (we each complained, on the assumption that our phone was tapped, that it was the other's fault).
Grotesquely, Gerry Conlon had named his aunt as a bomb-maker. This was under fierce interrogation, enabled by the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which extended to seven days the length of time suspects could be held for questioning without legal representation. The Act had been rushed through Parliament after a separate atrocity, the bombing of two Birmingham pubs in November 1974. I can still remember Roy Jenkins, pink with anger when challenged on This Week as the POTA legislation speeded through Parliament, defending it as draconian, but necessary.
Annie Maguire's house was raided shortly after the passage of that Act, and everyone there arrested. She, Giuseppe and five others, including her two teenage sons, were charged with handling explosives, on the flimsiest of evidence. Perhaps if he had called Bernard promptly, rather than spending the afternoon in a pub with his brother-in-law, Giuseppe might have been sitting in the law offices at Bedford Row rather than Annie's house when the police came.
Anne Maguire, her husband Patrick, son Patrick and Sean Smith outside the High Court in London in 1991 for the Maguire Seven retrial. | Louis Hollingsbee/PA Archive/PA Images
On conviction, the adults were given lengthy prison sentences. The 14-year-old boy was sentenced to 4 years and the 17-year-old to five years. The Maguire Seven, along with the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six and Judith Ward were all victims of miscarriages of justice, but nearly all served many years in prison before being released. Giuseppe, who suffered from TB, died aged 56 less than halfway through his sentence, handcuffed to a hospital bed. It later emerged that the Home Secretary, William Whitelaw, had decided on that day, January 23rd 1980, to release him on parole on grounds of ill health.
ITV regions had developed a strong record of exposing miscarriages of justice, both terrorist related and otherwise. It was McGurk himself who had first persuaded Yorkshire Television's First Tuesday team to embark on its series of films exposing the alarming errors in the convictions of the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven. He had also worked at Granada Television, whose weekly World in Action programme (like This Week, a staple of the ITV schedule) had run several editions on the Birmingham Six.
World in Action title screen | Granada Television, fair use.
Thames, too, had contributed other stories aside from Death on the Rock – such as a This Week episode (which I produced) that led to the release of three teenagers convicted of murdering Maxwell Confait.
The absence of recordings of police interviews had allowed false confessions to be extracted from vulnerable suspects. It was not ended until the passage of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, in 1984, legislation arising directly from the Confait case.
Thames had also commissioned a documentary in 1987, Murder on the Farm: Who Killed Carl Bridgewater?, based on the book of the same name by Paul Foot.
Dear Sarah, on the other hand, was not envisaged as a campaigning documentary: rather, a personal drama, suffused with love and patience rather than anger.
McGurk brought one other element to the table: his close working relationship with the Irish state broadcaster, RTE, which – he told us – was keen to co-produce the film with Thames. That connection, coupled with Frank's famously economical directing style, meant that a two-hour drama would cost Thames just £500,000.
When I mentioned Dear Sarah to the board as a prospective Thames/RTE co- production, the reaction was almost wholly negative. The industry awards that Death on the Rock had gained had proved small consolation for the upheaval endured (and perhaps were seen as confirming Howe's dismissive view of television people). Richard understandably wanted to ensure that the wishes of the board were respected; and he was also concerned about the continuing problems with the prospective Broadcasting Act.
Yet it did not seem likely that ITV would be let off the Thatcher hook by Thames ducking a difficult project with a Northern Ireland angle. Two of the other five major ITV companies (those companies with permanent seats at the Network Controllers Group, recently joined by the largest of the regional contractors, TVS) were heavily committed on that front: Granada and journalist Chris Mullin had led the campaign to release the Birmingham Six, which had just succeeded, and Yorkshire's First Tuesday strand had recently returned to the fray in support of quashing the convictions of the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven. By comparison, Dear Sarah was a much less strictly journalistic production.
Nor was there any chance that Thames withdrawing from the McGurk project would go unnoticed, both inside and outside the ITV family. The NCG would cease to take Thames seriously as a supporter, let alone provider, of controversial programming, which would in turn undermine its ability to shape the ITV weekday schedule according to its best judgment. As London was the only region split into weekend and weekday franchises. Thames and London Weekend Television were keenly competitive, and their constant efforts to strengthen the weekday and weekend schedules were for the most part respected by the seven-day companies as despite the good work of the other regional franchises, it was the capital's competitive tension that was the main driver of ITV's success.
The external verdict would surely be that Thames had lost its bottle, much to the glee of those newspapers which had condemned Death on the Rock, and the dismay of those who had applauded it. Our ability to attract, perhaps even retain, journalistic talent, would be undermined. For Thames to be seen to have been cowed by hostile politicians would only encourage more hostility.
Collegiate competition
My colleagues on the NCG put aside a certain schadenfreude at the spectacle of disarray within Thames management, and tried to rescue me from my predicament. Steve Morrison of Granada and John Fairley of Yorkshire were natural allies, as their own ability to offer bold documentaries was protected by the wider spread of such projects within ITV. Andy Allan, of Central, had long worked at Thames as a producer, and knew me well. Alan Boyd of TVS was another personal friend, and even my natural rival, Greg Dyke of LWT, had earned his stripes as a current affairs producer, so understood the broader editorial considerations.
It was Fairley, as chairman of the Film Purchase Committee (all NCG members ran specialist committees, my own responsibility being finance), who offered a way forward. If RTE were to take lead responsibility for the production, then ITV could buy the finished programme from them for the planned co-production amount of £500,000, and schedule it like any other acquired film or TV series. To make this a painless decision for the other NCG members, he wanted Thames to waive its right to deliver an equivalent amount of programming from its agreed supply of drama to the schedule.
By doing so, Thames made room for another ITV company to fill the gap in the network schedule with a prestige drama of their own. Whoever filled the gap would win additional bonus points with the regulator who, before 1992, made licence renewals on the basis of hours of quality programming produced. Hence the support of my fellow controllers of programmes at the Network Controllers Group.
For Thames, there was no cost, and only a modest step back in terms of quality programming contributed. Indeed, our Finance Director would have noted that given that the complex tariff mechanism meant quality drama costs were not always fully recouped, it was a cost effective move.
But this wasn't enough for Richard Dunn, at that point chairman of the ITV Council and its public-facing spokesman. At the next ITV top management meeting, he raised the case of the acquisition of Dear Sarah, arguing that it was an unnecessary risk for ITV to take.
I responded on behalf of the NCG, saying we were content with the proposed purchase, and had no problems with the script. The committee finessed the issue by inviting the Managing Director of Ulster Television, Desmond Smyth, to read and advise. After all, if he could live with such a programme being put out by UTV's transmitters, who else in ITV could object?
Desmond reported that he had no objections. The film was completed by RTE, and its first broadcast was on ITV on July 2nd 1990 (it won an acting award for Stella McCusker, playing Sarah Conlon). By coincidence, a week later, the new Home Secretary David Waddington released the findings of an inquiry into the convictions of the Maguire Seven that had been set up by his predecessor after the Guildford Four convictions had been overturned in 1989. All the Maguire convictions were overturned in 1991.
Jim Sheridan's version of Gerry Conlon's story, In the Name of the Father, arrived on cinema screens in 1994, and earned four Oscar nominations, but by then all the heavy lifting on the multiple miscarriages of justice relating to IRA attacks had been undertaken by television, mostly by ITV (the BBC's admirable Rough Justice series did not deal with IRA cases).
Waddington also inherited from Douglas Hurd the broadcasting legislation that was enacted in November 1990. Richard had succeeded in cementing the "exceptional circumstances" clause into the bill – the chairman-designate of the new regulator had made the clause a condition of accepting his appointment. Sadly, reliance on the clause proved to be Thames' downfall.
Popular mythology blames the Death on the Rock controversy for the loss of Thames' franchise, but the truth was that the company simply underbid its main rival, Carlton Television. Any hopes that Thames would win out via the "exceptional circumstances" loophole – effectively, that they would produce more high quality programming – were dashed when the regulator's lawyers advised that such a move would be wide open to legal challenge, because it was so subjective. The clause was thus never used.
The problem for Thames was that its long track record and demonstrable capacity to deliver large volumes of high quality programming became irrelevant with the new proposed structure of ITV, whereby the guarantees that the existing main ITV companies had for providing programming to the ITV network, would be replaced by a Network Centre, deciding every single programme commission. All a new bidder had to show was that its ambitions were suitably high. The fear was bidders could win by pitching at the right cost whilst simply proposing high quality – in other words, expensive - programming, safe in the knowledge that it would never actually have to be made, if the Network Centre rejected it. One former colleague who worked for a rival told me later that he had simply copied out the Thames schedule, changing the names of all the programmes, and promising to offer them all to the new Centre. In the end, the cost of the bid would be what counted.
Richard was trapped by his loyalty to long-term staff, which made Thames highly vulnerable to a greenfield bidder with no fixed costs. When he recruited me to re-join Thames in 1986, his Finance Director, Derek Hunt, had asked me how much of ITV's Teddington production site I really needed as Director of Programmes. I told him that, based on my four years as an independent producer, I would need none of it, as there were ample alternatives – studios, editing, dubbing and so on – available in the market. Most of the £35 million annual cost of its Teddington production studios was simply surplus to requirements.
Teddington studios | Wikicommons
To demonstrate my point, I assigned one of my departmental heads a pure cash budget, rather than a mixture of cash and resources. His output was highly successful without ever needing to use Thames' facilities. When I decided to convert our successful drama series The Bill from 13 hourly episodes to 104 half-hourly, I insisted that independent producers be allowed to bid for the contract. Thames' production department only won the tender by setting up a standalone unit in Merton, to be closed down as and when the programme was cancelled.
By the time Thames' ITV licence renewal came around, the losses at Teddington became an impossible burden if a competitive bid were to be made. The local management offered to reduce their 1,250 headcount to 750 in order to allow a bid of £32.7 million, but Carlton Television bid £43.2 million. After Carlton was declared the winner, all but 27 of the staff at Teddington lost their jobs.
Frustratingly, the £32.7 million would have been more than enough to win the London weekend franchise from a low-bidding LWT, and we had prepared a strong application; but Richard chose to sign a non-aggression pact with LWT's Chairman, Christopher Bland, and the opportunity was missed (in fact, Bland had secretly agreed a deal with Carlton, to help them win against Thames, whose monopoly of TV newsgathering resources in London had long irked the weekend contractor).
The results of the auction were not announced till October 16th 1991. In a remarkable scoop, Ray Snoddy of the Financial Times correctly forecast the ousting of the four "T" incumbents: Thames, TVS, TSW and TV-AM. The last was the breakfast franchise, run by Bruce Gyngell, to whom Mrs Thatcher wrote a personal note of regret, saying she was mystified and heartbroken that he had lost his licence as a result of legislation she had introduced. Richard received no such note.
It was a grey-faced Richard who brought the fateful fax the few yards from his office to the assembled Thames board. He and I went immediately to two mass meetings of staff to spell out the consequences, and the details of the redundancy terms being offered. The news was received in silence. Management had failed them. Now they would pay the price.
Thatcher's legacy
By then, of course, Mrs Thatcher had ceased to be Prime Minister, her advisers having miscalculated her support when Michael Heseltine challenged her for the Tory Party leadership. One of my responsibilities as Director of Programmes at Thames was to decide, on weekdays, when to suspend the published schedule in order to run open-ended news coverage from ITN. November 22nd 1990 was just such a day. Thames had, perhaps surprisingly, outlived her premiership: but not her poisonous legacy.
Only those actually involved in production of continuing programmes would survive the end of the franchise (we subsequently managed to place This Is Your Life with the BBC, while ITV retained The Bill and Wish You Were Here, and Carlton took over the presentation department). Richard would go on to head Pearson Television, which bought Thames for £100 million, such value largely being derived, not from the residual production contracts or library assets, but the 10% stake in the Luxembourg satellite company SES, which Richard had had the prescience to acquire, when the rest of the industry was focused on a joint BBC/ITV satellite venture that he was sure would collapse (it did).
Sadly, Richard died suddenly, aged 54, soon after he was dislodged from Pearson by the appointment as Chief Executive of Greg Dyke (who had been ousted from LWT when Granada acquired it). Christopher Bland also departed LWT: like the other recipients of golden handcuff deals granted to key executives in order to safeguard LWT's franchise renewal, he had many millions to comfort him. Within a few years, he had been appointed Chairman of the BBC Governors, choosing Greg as his Director-General when John Birt (Greg's predecessor as LWT Director of Programmes) retired: a small world.
The Granada/LWT deal was one of a dozen transactions after the new franchises came into operation in 1993, whereby ITV progressively consolidated all the English and Welsh franchises into a single company, ITV plc. None of that would have been possible before the 1990 Broadcasting Act. The carefully balanced federal structure collapsed, and with it the distinctive regional voices, in drama and entertainment, that that structure had nurtured and enabled. The inevitable result was that ITV, at every opportunity, reduced the scale and scope of its regional coverage: but that was only part of a grim story.
The sealed bid auction had been a farce, with several incumbents bidding minimal amounts for the right to operate the franchise once they had concluded there was no serious competitor for their areas. LWT bid £7.5 million, calculating that its main rival, which bid £35.4 million, would fail to meet the statutory "quality threshold". Granada likewise bid just £9 million to see off a competitor bidding £35 million. Central and Scottish each bid £2,000, having worked out they faced no competitor – even the £2,000 was debated internally, with executives not sure whether the requirement that bids be in multiples of £1,000 meant that the minimum was therefore £2,000. Channel Television got that right, bidding just £1,000 to renew its franchise.
UTV, bidding £1million, saw off competitors bidding twice and three times as much, one failed for over-bidding, the other for not meeting the quality threshold. Two incumbents were failed by the new Independent Television Commission for bidding too much, three others survived by outbidding their competition; but – as a consequence – they became early victims in the consolidation process, subsumed by the more strongly financed low bidders.
Many people had suggested to Nigel Lawson, the Chancellor, that it would give greater certainty to the auction if the regulator decided the right price, and then chose on quality terms between those willing to pay that price. Lawson's dogmatic preference was for a showdown blind auction, which allowed some incumbents to pay almost nothing, having found ways to scare off the competition, and led to others over-bidding and either being disqualified or subsequently sunk by debt.
Thatcher, of course, wanted to punish ITV for its past inefficiencies – and perhaps also, for Death on the Rock.
Margaret Thatcher at the Conservative party conference in 1989 flanked by Nigel Lawson, Geoffrey How, Douglas Hurd and other cabinet ministers. | PA archive.
The amount generated by the auction for the public purse was double the revenue raised by the previous ITV levy. But the impact was so wildly different between companies that it proved deeply destabilizing.
The ITC persuaded the Treasury to abandon it, and there never was another auction.
In any case, the winners quickly negotiated their payments down, as the value of ITV licences dropped in line with the spread of new channels. Within two decades of the auction, the deemed value of the spectrum occupied by ITV had fallen from £340 million a year to £25 million.
Having abandoned the blind auction system, subsequently, the regulator set a price for each franchise, and invited the incumbent to stay in place.
Yet now that incumbents could so easily dispose of any challengers, the franchises effectively became freeholds, and so the need to impress the regulator with quality programming disappeared.
With the passage of the 2003 Communications Act (which saw Ofcom become the over-arching media regulator), the withdrawal from old-style public service broadcasting obligations became formalised in law. This Week had not survived beyond 1992, but was in due course followed into the TV graveyard by Weekend World, First Tuesday and World in Action. Current affairs programming barely exists in today's ITV. Investigative documentaries are as rare as hen's teeth. Schools, adult education, religion, arts and children's have all disappeared from the ITV schedule.
News at Ten was exiled from its slot for nine years, without the regulator being able to do more than protest. Ofcom was bullied into allowing a huge reduction in regional output during a short-term advertising recession: the economy recovered, ITV has paid out £5 billion in dividends subsequently, but the cuts have never been restored. Even drama output – once the backbone of a successful ITV schedule – has fallen from seven hours a week to two hours. The 42% share of viewing captured by ITV in 1992 now stands at 15%.
Perhaps all that public service output would have disappeared anyway, under the pressure of channel proliferation and online provision of content: Channel 4 has also abandoned virtually all the public service content quotas that so distinguished the first twenty-five years of its life.
Yet it is impossible to ignore the role of the 1990 Act in converting a commercial broadcaster acclaimed for the range and quality of its programming, and committed to high levels of rigorously monitored public service content, into the ITV of today, commercially successful, but creatively limited, and spending less on original UK content in relative terms than it did thirty years ago. It is particularly hard to imagine today's ITV broadcasting a Death on the Rock, let alone a Dear Sarah.
Source https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/thatchers-poisonous-television-legacy-still-being-felt/
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P.N.03, short for Product Number Three, is a 2003 (18 years ago) video game developed by Capcom for the Nintendo GameCube. P.N.03 is a third-person shooter featuring a dexterous, cybernetically-enhanced woman named Vanessa Z. Schneider who the player controls to destroy a series of robots. The game was designed to have a "classic" feel through the of use things such as point combos for destroying multiple enemies in a row. It is part of Shinji Mikami's Capcom Five, a selection of five 2003 (18 years ago) Capcom games intended to be exclusive for the GameCube. Eventually though, P.N.03 ended up being the only Capcom Five game not to be ported to the PlayStation 2. In the United States, those who pre-ordered the game could either get a free T-shirt or a special pair of limited-edition sunglasses depending on where they pre-ordered.
P.N.03's gameplay is defined by the restrictions placed on players and enemies. Players cannot attack while moving, but have a variety of evasive maneuvers such as flips and spins. Similarly, enemies' attacks and movements are restricted to specific patterns. The game encourages use of cover while enemies are attacking, followed by carefully-timed attacks. As the player becomes more skilled and listens more carefully to the enemy audio cues, it is ultimately possible to predict and evade incoming enemy fire while in the open. Enemies destroyed may drop items replenishing the player's barrier or energy. A combo counter provides cumulative bonus points for destroying enemies consecutively. Additional bonuses are given upon clearing a room.
Vanessa in the Prima Blazer Aegis suit, using the Harrier energy drive against an enemyThe game also features a variety of "energy drives", special moves which render the character indestructible during their execution and then either launch an attack or grant a temporary status for the character. These drain the player's energy bar.
There is also an assortment of Aegis suits which may be acquired or upgraded in exchange for points earned. As each suit has pre-set restrictions on which upgrades are possible for it, and use different energy drives, they are suitable for different situations.
The game's structure uses a series of pre-set levels, each consisting of pre-fabricated rooms populated by a fixed number of enemies which do not re-appear in the level once eliminated, and may include one or more bosses. If the player dies in these levels, they may reload or use a continue to restart at the last completed room. Upon reaching the end of the level, the player receives a ranking and score based on their success in the mission.
Between missions, players can shop for upgrades, new Aegis suits, and extra continues with their points earned. There is also the option to play trial missions, an assembly of 15 randomly-selected rooms each populated by enemies. These missions provide practice and additional points for the player to use in the shop.
Vanessa Z. Schneider is the main character of P.N.03. She is depicted as extremely lithe and agile. She wears various "Aegis suits" which allow her to shoot energy blasts out of her palm and perform special moves called "energy drives" named after various winged creatures such as the harrier and the tengu. She has been hired by an anonymous person known as "the client" to destroy a group of rogue Computer Arms Management Systems robots that have been massacring innocent colonists, including Vanessa's parents.
Near the end of the game Vanessa discovers a specimen that is an identical clone of herself. It is also revealed that "the client" is also a clone of the same person Vanessa was cloned from. The revelation of Vanessa being a clone does conflict with the earlier statement of Vanessa's parents being killed by machines, though it is implied, but not actually stated, that her parents may actually have been just an implanted memory.
Originally, during the planning stages, P.N.03 was a wargame known simply as "Robot war game". Five days after starting development, graphics were put on-screen and Shinji Mikami felt nothing from how the game was turning out. He then decided to change the direction of the game to its current form. Later during development, Mikami felt that the game's name should be Jaguar to reflect Vanessa's cat-like agility. However, other staff members did not like the name; some claimed that it didn't describe the game well enough and others thought that White Jaguar would be a better title. Mikami then forced himself to come up with the name Product Number 03, which he shortened to P.N.03 to give it a more mysterious feel. Even after the name was changed, a staff member made Vanessa's crouch pose on her hands and knees to resemble a jaguar, saying that the game would always be 'Jaguar' to him.
Later in the game, it is revealed that Vanessa is actually the third clone created through a secret military program, thus being the product referred to in the title.
Shinji Mikami wanted P.N.03 to express the feeling of simple old Nintendo games and did not care about what gender the main character was. When design pictures (wallpaper) were being created, he asked the staff member "Which one do you want to draw? Man or woman?", and the designer chose the latter. Because P.N.03 takes place on a space colony, Mikami wanted Vanessa's country of origin to be ambiguous. Thus, her name is a combination of French, German, and English names. An early teaser trailer released for P.N.03 showed a gun that Vanessa was able to materialize out of thin air, an aspect later dropped for her trademark "palm shot" due to complaints from fans that guns were "boring". All of Vanessa's movements were created freehand and without any motion capturing devices. Producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi has said, "I'm really proud of Vanessa's style and movements."
Though the game has received somewhat of a cult following, reviews of P.N.03 were mostly lukewarm, receiving a press average of 6.0 out of 10 on GameStats and 64% on Game Rankings. Many critics praised P.N.03 for its effort at being a unique game, but felt that the gameplay was flawed. The most common complaint is the inability to shoot and run at the same time. Critics felt it defeated the purpose of having a graceful character when the controls were limited in such ways. Other complaints include the poor diversity among environments, graphics not being up to par, and a lack of depth. Shinji Mikami himself was somewhat unsatisfied with the game.
To be honest, after I finished this project, my feelings were "This game doesn't have so much catchy point" "I wanted to put little more time into it" and a lot more.
― Shinji Mikami
P.N.03 sold 10,000 copies in Japan and 13,000 in North America.
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Quitting is the enemy's (Satan's) way of derailing God's plan for us to live out our purpose. Quitting steals from us the potential that God has established for us. Pastor Dinkins reminds us that quitting should never be an option in our Christian walk. Quitting shows us that we have taken our eyes off God and onto ourselves. To overcome the spirit of quitting, let us keep our mind and hearts focused on God, trusting in Him to help us overcome any and every obstacle that we face in our Christian journey. Be encouraged - when God is for us, who and what can be against us?
"Even the strongest people get tired at times, but God's power and strength never diminish. He is never too tired or too busy to help and listen. His strength is our source of strength. When you feel all of life crushing you and cannot go another step, remember that you can call upon God to renew your strength.
We all need regular times to listen to God. Waiting upon the Lord is expecting His promised strength to help up rise above life's distractions and difficulties. Listening to God helps us to be prepared for when He speaks to us, be patient when He asks us to wait, and trust Him to fulfill the promises found in His Word."


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This is a list of topics related to Yemen.

Yemen
 Yemen
 A New Day in Old Sana'a
 Culture of Yemen
 Greater Yemen

Cities in Yemen

Aden
Ahwar
Al Qasha
Baraqish
Al Bayda', Yemen
Beihan
Ad Dali'
Dhamar, Yemen
Furah
Al Ghaydah
Hadiboh
Hajjah
Al Hudaydah
Ibb
Jibla
Kawkaban
Lahij
Ma'rib
Al Mahwit
Makram
Mocha, Yemen
Mukalla
Mukayras
Nishtun
Qishn
Sa'dah
As Salif
San'a'
Sayfaf
Seiyun
Shibam
Ash Shihr
Shuqrah
Steroh
Ta'izz
Tarim, Yemen
Thamud, Yemen
Yarim
Zabid
Zinjibar

Communications in Yemen
 Communications in Yemen
 Internet usage in Yemen
 Postage stamps and postal history of Aden
 .ye

Yemeni culture

Yemeni architecture
 Architecture of Yemen

Buildings and structures in Yemen

Dams in Yemen
 Marib Dam

Theatre in Yemen

Yemeni cuisine
 Yemeni cuisine
 Lahoh
 Malooga
 Mandi (food)
 Saltah
 Shafoot
 Fatoot
 Fahsa
 Zhug
 Murtabak

Languages of Yemen
Hadhrami Arabic
Sanaani Arabic
Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic
Yemenite Hebrew language
Mehri language
Sanaani Hebrew language
Soqotri language
Hobyót language

Literature of Yemen
 Lost in a Fairy Tale

Yemeni music
 Music of Yemen
 National anthem of Yemen

Economy of Yemen
 Economy of Yemen
 Water supply and sanitation in Yemen
 Yemeni buqsha
 Yemeni rial
 Yemenia

Trade unions of Yemen
 Yemeni Confederation of Labor Unions

Education in Yemen
 Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani

Schools in Yemen
 Sanaa International School

Universities and colleges in Yemen
 University of Aden
 Lebanese International University

Yemeni Organizations Outside Yemen
 AAYSP

Environment of Yemen

Conservation in Yemen

World Heritage Sites in Yemen
 San'a'
 Shibam
 Zabid

Geography of Yemen
 Geography of Yemen
 Bab-el-Mandeb
 Gulf of Aden
 Hadhramaut
 ISO 3166-2:YE
 Lower Yemen
 Bab Iskender
 Ras Menheli
 Saudi-Yemen barrier
 Tihamah
 Upper Yemen

Islands of Yemen
 Hanish Islands
 Kamaran
 Perim
 Socotra

Maps of Yemen

Mountains of Yemen
 Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb

Volcanoes of Yemen
 Jabal al-Tair

Yemen geography stubs
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 Al Mahwit Governorate
 Al Marqab, Yemen
 Mukalla
 Al Qasha
 Alawi (sheikhdom)
 Aqrabi
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 Audhali
 Bab Iskender
 Baraqish
 Cheikh Saïd
 Dathina
 Dhamar, Yemen
 Emirate of Beihan
 Emirate of Dhala
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 Federation of Arab Emirates of the South
 Furah
 Gulf of Aden
 Hadhramaut Governorate
 Hadiboh
 Hajjah
 Hajjah Governorate
 Hanish Islands
 Haushabi Sultanate
 Havilah
 Himyar
 Ibb
 Jabal an Nabi Shu'ayb
 Jibla
 Kamaran
 Kathiri
 Kawkaban
 Lahej Sultanate
 Lahij
 Lahij Governorate
 Lower Aulaqi
 Lower Yafa
 Lower Yemen
 Ma'rib
 Ma'rib Governorate
 Maflahi
 Mahra Sultanate
 Makram
 Mukayras
 Nishtun
 Protectorate of South Arabia
 Qishn
 Qu'aiti
 Radfan
 Ras Menheli
 Raymah Governorate
 Sa'dah
 Sa'dah Governorate
 San'a' Governorate
 Sayfaf
 Seiyun
 Shabwah Governorate
 Shaib
 Shibam
 Shuqrah
 Steroh
 Subeihi Sultanate
 Ta'izz
 Tarim, Yemen
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 Tihamah
 Timna
 United Arab States
 Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom
 Upper Aulaqi Sultanate
 Upper Yafa
 Upper Yemen
 Wahidi Balhaf
 Wahidi Bir Ali
 Wahidi Haban
 Yarim
 Zabid
 Zafar
 Zinjibar
 Zuqar Island

Yemeni society
 Demographics of Yemen
 Yemen Scouts and Guides Association

 Chaush - Yemeni community in Hyderabad

Arab Tribes of Yemen
 Qahtanite
 Kindah
 Ba'Alawi
 Banu Tamim

Government of Yemen
 Assembly of Representatives of Yemen
 Foreign relations of Yemen
 Human rights in Yemen
 President of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
 President of Yemen Arab Republic
 List of presidents of Yemen
 Prime Minister of South Yemen
 Prime Minister of Yemen
 Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
 Wahiba Fara'a
 Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of Yemen

Foreign relations of Yemen

Governorates of Yemen
 Governorates of Yemen
 Abyan Governorate
 Ad Dali' Governorate
 'Adan Governorate
 Al Bayda' Governorate
 Al Hudaydah Governorate
 Al Jawf Governorate
 Al Mahrah Governorate
 Al Mahwit Governorate
 'Amran Governorate
 Dhamar Governorate
 Hadhramaut Governorate
 Hajjah Governorate
 Ibb Governorate
 Lahij Governorate
 Ma'rib Governorate
 Raymah Governorate
 Sa'dah Governorate
 San'a'
 San'a' Governorate
 Shabwah Governorate
 Ta'izz Governorate
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History of Yemen
 History of Yemen
 Aden (colony)
 Aden Protectorate
 Adnan
 Al-Hurra Al-Malika
 Alawi (sheikhdom)
 Ancient history of Yemen
 Aqrabi
 Audhali
 Cheikh Saïd
 Corrective Revolution
 Dathina
 Democratic Republic of Yemen
 Dhu Nuwas
 Emblem of Yemen
 Emirate of Beihan
 Emirate of Dhala
 Fadhli Sultanate
 Federation of Arab Emirates of the South
 Federation of South Arabia
 Flag of Yemen
 Greater Yemen
 Hadhramaut
 Haushabi Sultanate
 Himyar
 Imams of Yemen
 Islamic history of Yemen
 Kathiri
 Kingdom of Awsan
 Lahej Sultanate
 List of rulers of Saba and Himyar
 Lower Aulaqi
 Lower Yafa
 Maflahi
 Mahra Sultanate
 Marib Dam
 Maritime Jewel
 Minaeans
 Modern history of Yemen
 Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
 North Yemen Civil War
 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
 Postage stamps and postal history of Aden
 President of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
 President of Yemen Arab Republic
 List of Presidents of Yemen
 Prime Minister of South Yemen
 Prime Minister of Yemen
 Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
 Protectorate of South Arabia
 Qahtanite
 Qu'aiti
 Qutaibi
 Radfan
 Sabaean language
 Sabaeans
 Sanaa massacre
 September 15th, 2006 Yemen attacks
 Shaib
 South Arabian alphabet
 South Yemen
 South Yemeni dinar
 Subeihi Sultanate
 Terrorism in Yemen
 Timeline of Yemeni history
 Treaty of Jeddah (2000)
 USS Cole bombing
 United Nations Yemen Observation Mission
 Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom
 Upper Aulaqi Sultanate
 Upper Yafa
 Wahidi Balhaf
 Wahidi Bir Ali
 Wahidi Haban
 Yemen Arab Republic
 Yemeni buqsha
 Yemeni unification
 Ziyadid dynasty

Archaeological sites in Yemen
 Ma'rib
 Marib Dam
 Timna

Elections in Yemen
 Elections in Yemen
 Yemeni presidential election, 2006

Maps of the history of Yemen

School massacres in Yemen
 Sanaa massacre

Terrorism in Yemen
 September 15, 2006 Yemen attacks
 2010 cargo plane bomb plot

Wars involving Yemen
 Saudi–Yemeni War
 1948 Arab–Israeli War
 North Yemen Civil War
 Hanish Islands conflict

Years in Yemen

2006 in Yemen
 Yemen at the 2006 Asian Games
 Yemeni presidential election, 2006

Yemeni law

Crime in Yemen

Yemeni media

Newspapers published in Yemen
 Al-Ayyam (Yemen)
 Shabab Yemeni
 Yemen Observer
 Yemen Times

Military of Yemen
 Military of Yemen
 Yemen Air Force

Organizations based in Yemen
 Dofar Liberation Front

Yemeni people
 List of Yemenis
 Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd
 Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa
 Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim
 Abdul Aziz bin Hars bin Asad Yemeni Tamimi
 Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser
 Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi
 Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal
 Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi
 Faruq Ali Ahmed
 Fayad Yahya Ahmed
 Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi
 Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi
 Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani
 Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al Bahlul
 Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani
 Adil Said Al Haj Obeid Al Busayss
 Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj
 Al Hamdani
 Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal
 Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammed Al Yafi
 Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid
 Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi
 Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri
 Hani Abdul Muslih al Shulan
 Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi
 Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi
 Abdullah Al-Baradouni
 Muhammed al-Darbi
 Muhammad al-Gharsi
 Omar Ahmad Omar al-Hubishi
 Al-Khayzuran
 Issam Ahmad Dibwan al-Makhlafi
 Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi
 Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah
 Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi
 Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri
 Fahd al-Quso
 Fawaz al-Rabeiee
 Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifri
 Abdullah Al-Rimi
 Shuhour Abdullah Mukbil al-Sabri
 Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari
 Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli
 Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli
 Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari
 Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani
 Naji Al Ashwal
 Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh
 Azd
 Banu Lakhm
 Jalal Salam Bin Amer
 Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash
 Ramzi bin al-Shibh
 Ghassanids
 Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi
 Salem Ahmed Hadi
 Salim Ahmed Hamdan
 Hamdani
 Harbi al-Himyari
 Abu Ali al-Harithi
 Hashid
 Emad Abdalla Hassan
 Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif
 Bader Ben Hirsi
 Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris
 Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris
 Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail
 Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby
 Karama Khamis
 Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan
 Rizwan Khan
 Lakhmids
 Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef
 Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i
 Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi
 Muhhammad Said Bin Salem
 Musa bin Nusair
 Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir
 Nethanel ben Isaiah
 Abdulaziz Muhammad Saleh bin Otash
 Qahtanite
 Khaled Qasim
 Rabiah ibn Mudhar
 Sabaeans
 Said Muhammed Salih Hatim
 Sharifa Fatima
 Shawki Awad Balzuhair
 Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani
 Riyadh Shikawi
 Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman
 Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada
 Ayoob Tarish
 Toufiq Saber Muhammad Al Marwa'i
 Waddah al-Yaman
 Haitham al-Yemeni
 Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun
 Walid Said Bin Said Zaid
 Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi

Yemeni extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
 Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi
 Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal
 Ahmed Umar Abdullah al Hikimi
 Ali Abdullah Ahmed
 Fahmi Abdullah Ahmed
 Faruq Ali Ahmed
 Fayad Yahya Ahmed
 Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi
 Mohammed Ahmed Ali Al Asadi
 Saad Masir Mukbl Al Azani
 Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani
 Mohammed Ahmad Said Al Edah
 Atag Ali Abdoh Al-Haj
 Mohammed Abdullah Al Hamiri
 Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi
 Abdul Al Salam Al Hilal
 Issam Hamid Al Bin Ali Al Jayfi
 Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi
 Ha Il Aziz Ahmed Al Maythali
 Musab Omar Ali Al Mudwani
 Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid
 Nasir Najr Nasir Balud Al Mutayri
 Sulaiman Awath Sulaiman Bin Ageel Al Nahdi
 Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman Al Qadasi
 Sabri Mohammed Ebrahim Al Qurashi
 Abdul Rahman Umir Al Qyati
 Riyad Atiq Ali Abdu Al Haj Al Radai
 Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi
 Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi
 Mashur Abdallah Muqbil Ahmed Al Sabri
 Abdul Al Saleh
 Fahmi Salem Said Al Sani
 Mustafa Abdul Qawi Abdul Aziz Al Shamyri
 Hani Abdul Muslih al Shulan
 Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays
 Hamoud Abdullah Hamoud Hassan Al Wady
 Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab
 Muktar Yahya Najee Al Warafi
 Mohammed Ali Salem Al Zarnuki
 Saleh Mohamed Al Zuba
 Muhammed al-Darbi
 Sanad Ali Yislam Al-Kazimi
 Abdulah Alhamiri
 Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh
 Yasim Muhammed Basardah
 Jalal Salam Bin Amer
 Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash
 Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir
 Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi
 Salem Ahmed Hadi
 Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel
 Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim
 Salim Ahmed Hamdan
 Mohammed Mohammed Hassen
 Said Muhammed Salih Hatim
 Fadil Husayn Salih Hintif
 Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris
 Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris
 Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail
 Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail
 Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby
 Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan
 Mohammed Nasir Yahya Khusruf
 Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman
 Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi
 Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef
 Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mar'i
 Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud
 Hussein Salem Mohammed
 Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel
 Muhsin Muhammad Musheen Moqbill
 Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi
 Muhhammad Said Bin Salem
 Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser
 Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir
 Ahmed Abdul Qader
 Khaled Qasim
 Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii
 Mohammed Ahmed Salam
 Shawki Awad Balzuhair
 Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghiyth Sulayman
 Mohmmad Ahmad Ali Tahar
 Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada
 Toufiq Saber Muhammad Al Marwa'i
 Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman
 Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun
 Walid Said Bin Said Zaid
 Mohammed H. Al-Shatri

Yemenite Jews
 Yemenite Jews
 Yemenite Hebrew language
 Zohar Argov
 Daklon
 Shoshana Damari
 Dhu Nuwas
 Dor Daim
 Zion Golan
 Ofra Haza
 Jacob ben Nathanael
 Kerem Hatemanim
 Kiryat Netafim
 Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)
 Sanaani Hebrew language
 Shalom Shabazi
 Shalom Sharabi
 Amnon Yitzhak
 Yosef Qafih

Yemeni murder victims

Assassinated Yemeni people

Yemeni politicians
 Hamid al-Ahmar
 Abdulkarim Al-Arhabi
 Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini
 Muhammad Said al-Attar
 Abdul Karim al-Iryani
 Hassan al-Amri
 Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
 Ali Salim al-Baidh
 Abdul Qadir Bajamal
 Faraj Said Bin Ghanem
 Ahmad bin Yahya
 Abdul Latif Dayfallah
 Dhu Nuwas
 Mahmoud al-Gayifi
 Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
 Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri
 Muhammad Ali Haitham
 Abdul Rahman al-Iryani
 Abdullah Kurshumi
 Hassan Muhammad Makki
 Muhammad al-Badr
 Yasin Said Numan
 Ahmad Muhammad Numan
 Jarallah Omar
 List of Presidents of Yemen
 Prime Minister of South Yemen
 Prime Minister of Yemen
 Deputy Prime Minister of Yemen
 Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
 AbdulWahab Raweh
 Abdul Salam Sabrah
 Ali Abdullah Saleh
 Abdullah as-Sallal
 Faysal al-Shaabi
 Faisal Bin Shamlan
 Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani
 Wahiba Fara'a
 Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din

Assassinated Yemeni politicians
 Ahmad al-Ghashmi
 Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri
 Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din

Presidents of North Yemen
 President of Yemen Arab Republic
 Ahmad al-Ghashmi
 Ibrahim al-Hamadi
 Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi
 Abdul Rahman al-Iryani
 Ali Abdullah Saleh
 Abdullah as-Sallal

Presidents of South Yemen
 President of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
 Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
 Abdul Fattah Ismail
 Ali Nasir Muhammad
 Salim Ali Rubai
 Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi

Rulers of Yemen
 Arwa al-Sulayhi
 Ali Abdullah Saleh

Yemeni economists
 Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf

Yemeni people stubs
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 Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa
 Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
 Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi
 Abdul Karim al-Iryani
 Abdul Latif Dayfallah
 Abdul Qadir Bajamal
 Abdul Rahman al-Iryani
 Abdul Salam Sabrah
 AbdulWahab Raweh
 Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf
 Abdullah Al-Baradouni
 Abdullah Kurshumi
 Abdullah as-Sallal
 Abu Ali al-Harithi
 Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr
 Ahmad Muhammad Numan
 Ahmad al-Ghashmi
 Al-Khayzuran
 Ali Nasir Muhammad
 Ali Salim al-Baidh
 Amnon Yitzhak
 Ayoob Tarish
 Faraj Said Bin Ghanem
 Faysal al-Shaabi
 Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
 Haitham al-Yemeni
 Harbi al-Himyari
 Hassan Muhammad Makki
 Hassan al-Amri
 Ibrahim al-Hamadi
 Jacob ben Nathanael
 Kadhi Abdullah al-Hagri
 Karama Khamis
 Mahmoud al-Gayifi
 Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri
 Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini
 Muhammad Ali Haitham
 Muhammad Assad
 Muhammad Said al-Attar
 Muhammad al-Gharsi
 Naji Al Ashwal
 Qahtan Mohammed al-Shaabi
 Rabiah ibn Mudhar
 Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq
 Said Muhammed Salih Hatim
 Salim Ali Rubai
 Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel
 Sharifa Fatima
 Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani
 Wahiba Fara'a
 Yasin Said Numan
 Abdullah Muhammad AlKathiri

Politics of Yemen
 Politics of Yemen
 Assembly of Representatives of Yemen
 Dofar Liberation Front
 Emblem of Yemen
 Flag of Yemen
 Foreign relations of Yemen
 Human rights in Yemen
 National anthem of Yemen
 Steadfastness and Confrontation Front
 Wahiba Fara'a

Political parties in Yemen
 List of political parties in Yemen
 Arab Socialist Rebirth Party (Yemen)
 Baath Party
 General People's Congress
 Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation
 Yemeni Congregation for Reform
 Yemeni Socialist Party

Religion in Yemen
 Islam in Yemen
 Roman Catholicism in Yemen

Zaydi
 Zaidiyyah

Zaydis
 Muhammad ash-Shawkani

Science and Technology in Yemen
 Internet in Yemen

Sport in Yemen
 Yemen at the 2006 Asian Games
 Yemen at the Commonwealth Games

Football in Yemen
 South Yemen national football team
 Yemen Football Association
 Yemen national football team

Yemeni football clubs
 Al Yarmuk Al Rawda
 Al-Ahli (San'a')
 Al-Hilal (Al Hudaydah)
 Hassan (Yemen football club)
 Al-Saqr
 Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut
 Al-Tilal

Yemeni football competitions
 Yemeni League

Football venues in Yemen
 Ali Muhesen Stadium
 Althawra Sports City Stadium
 Baradem Mukalla Stadium
 May 22 Stadium

Yemen at the Olympics
 North Yemen at the 1984 Summer Olympics
 North Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
 South Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
 Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics
 Yemen at the 1996 Summer Olympics
 Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics
 Yemen at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Transport and travel in Yemen
 Transport in Yemen
Visa requirements for Yemeni citizens

Aviation in Yemen
 Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq
 Yemen Air Force
 Yemenia

Airports in Yemen
 Al Ghaydah Airport
 Sana'a International Airport
 Ta'izz International Airport

Yemen stubs
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 Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
 Al Yarmuk Al Rawda
 Al-Ahli (San'a')
 Al-Hilal (Al Hudaydah)
 Al-Saqr
 Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut
 Al-Tilal
 Ali Muhesen Stadium
 Althawra Sports City Stadium
 Arab Socialist Rebirth Party (Yemen)
 Assembly of Representatives of Yemen
 Azd
 Baradem Mukalla Stadium
 Communications in Yemen
 Culture of Yemen
 Democratic Republic of Yemen
 Elections in Yemen
 Emblem of Yemen
 Flag of Yemen
 General People's Congress
 Hashid
 Hassan (Yemen football club)
 Jachnun
 List of Presidents of Yemen
 List of newspapers in Yemen
 Mandi (food)
 May 22 Stadium
 Mehri people
 Mehri language
 Military of Yemen
 Minaeans
 Mudhaffar
 Music of Yemen
 Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation
 North Yemen Civil War
 North Yemen at the 1984 Summer Olympics
 North Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
 Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)
 Postage stamps and postal history of Aden
 President of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
 President of Yemen Arab Republic
 Prime Minister of South Yemen
 Prime Minister of Yemen
 Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic
 Qahtanite
 Qutaibi
 Roman Catholicism in Yemen
 Sabaean language
 Sabaeans
 Sanaa International School
 Sanaa massacre
 Sanaani Hebrew language
 Saudi-Yemeni War
 Shabab Yemeni
 Soqotri language
 South Arabian alphabet
 South Yemen
 South Yemen at the 1988 Summer Olympics
 South Yemen national football team
 South Yemeni dinar
 Transport in Yemen
 United Nations Yemen Observation Mission
 Yemen Times
 Yemen at the 1992 Summer Olympics
 Yemen at the 1996 Summer Olympics
 Yemen at the 2000 Summer Olympics
 Yemen at the 2004 Summer Olympics
 Yemen at the 2006 Asian Games
 Yemen at the Commonwealth Games
 Yemen national football team
 Yemeni Confederation of Labor Unions
 Yemeni Congregation for Reform
 Yemeni buqsha
 Yemeni rial
 Yemenia
 Yemenite Hebrew language
 Ziyadid dynasty

See also
 Lists of country-related topics - similar lists for other countries

Outlines of countries

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The London Knights dangerous top line – Mitch Marner (TOR), Christian Dvorak (ARI), and Matthew Tkachuk (2016) – was the story of the Canadian Hockey League this season. The trio was troublesome for opposition defenders en route to a Memorial Cup win, but they alone weren't responsible for a national championship.
Coaching, goaltending, and obviously, defense played a big part in the team's incredible 17-game winning streak to finish the season. Following the Memorial Cup win, as players celebrated on the ice of the Enmax Centrium in Red Deer, the one player who stood out most was a 19 year old whose job it is to not stand out.
Chris Martenet is a 6-foot-7, 212-pound defenseman from Illinois. After playing two years of Midget AA at the prestigious Shattuck St. Mary's School in Minnesota, Martenet spent the 2013-14 season with the USHL's Indiana Ice. He plays a smart, physical game, but his giant stature primarily attracted the Knights, who signed him as a free agent for the 2014-15 season.
Though Martenet didn't play much on the power play with London's elite-level prospects, he learned a valuable lesson this season that he will employ in the future.
While his size – and reach – is his biggest asset, it is those skills that he has improved which made him a legitimate NHL prospect in the past two seasons. If he had been born 10 days earlier, he would have been draft-eligible following his season with the Indiana Ice and likely would have been passed over after a five-point season. But the additional year of development – and move to London – helped his draft stock. He was rated by NHL Central Scouting as the 81st-best North American skater prior to the 2015 NHL Draft and had 16 points in 64 games as a rookie for the Knights.
Martenet was drafted in the fourth round by the Dallas Stars. The week before the start of the Memorial Cup, he signed his entry-level contract with the organization. With that comes the promise of income, the realization of a childhood dream and three years of security. But, at least in the moment, it wasn't as meaningful as what he accomplished with his Knights teammates.
"On top of the world maybe – I don't know," he said of the past few weeks. "It's great to have signed, yeah, but this is better than that. This is probably the hardest trophy to win in all of sports. You go through four rounds in the playoffs and you come here and you have to win three or four more games. You think about the odds of that – it's messed up.
Martenet's production dipped from 16 to 12 points this season, but he gave London valuable penalty-kill minutes and played in late-game situations. He also added size and physicality to an otherwise undersized defense core.
For the second straight year he failed to record a point in the playoffs, but that wasn't his focus, nor what the team was expecting from him.
The short-term future for Martenet involves reconnecting with his family and taking a trip to Panama. Long term, the lengthy rearguard could begin his pro career next year with Dallas' AHL affiliate in Texas, head to the ECHL to play with the Idaho Steelheads, or even return to the Knights – or another OHL team – to play out his overage season.
Wherever he ends up, he knows the one thing he needs to do over the summer: "Gain weight. I'm still a beanpole," he said, laughing.


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Tropical Storm Philippe: No threat to the CONUS but Storm #17 in a busy season
By John Galt September 24, 2011 17:15 No further updates other than this entry as this storm is projected to become a hurricane then fizzle in the North Atlantic as a fish. The fascinating storyline though is that the season is still quite active and running far above the averages. Let's hope this doesn't mean October and November mean a lot of action for those of us in the Southeastern U.S. Satellite photos will update automatically from NOAA: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NCAR/SWFMUD MODEL PLOTS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (click to enlarge/reduce charts) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TROPICAL…
And as predicted: Putin to Return as Russia's President
By John Galt September 24, 2011 – 08:34 ET As I predicted earlier this week on my broadcast, the Russian people are demanding a dictator with unyielding will and power to confront their weakening and fracturing national structure. The return of Putin all but seals the deal that the Cold War will return as James Earl Obama will fill the role of diluting America's power and worldwide standing to a point similar to the 1979 era fiasco many of us remember. For those of my readers too young to remember the…


Plans for "Hall of Fame Village" include a luxury hotel, a stadium, an upgraded museum, a virtual reality amusement area and much more.
(TNS) — CANTON — Stark County, Ohio, is poised to see its first smart city with the opening of Johnson Controls Hall of Fame Village.
The development — scheduled to be finished in 2019 — will include technology from Johnson Controls that will make the buildings consume energy and other utilities more efficiently and also connect the buildings' inner workings so they operate cooperatively on a single system. The one-of-a-kind smart sports and entertainment campus is expected to become a showpiece Johnson Controls will share with clients from around the world.
Kim Metcalf-Kupres, vice president and chief marketing officer for Johnson Controls, has said that while the building efficiency and automotive battery company has done large-scale projects before, many have been for government or educational campuses where the buildings largely serve the same purpose.
At the Village, however, plans include a luxury hotel, a stadium, an upgraded museum, a virtual reality amusement area, an assisted living facility, a sports research and medical center, retail and restaurants, an indoor sports facility, and a youth sports complex.
The technology package for the first phase of construction already is contracted.
David Baker, president of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, has said he anticipates the Village will be "the most technologically proficient and advanced entertainment and sports community in the world."
A smart city is a series of smart buildings and smart infrastructure in one place. Technology is inter-connected and works to develop energy — and other — efficiencies.
At the Johnson Controls operational headquarters in Milwaukee — a smart building — the goal is to have a sustainable facility that's comfortable for employees. The shades on the windows track the movement of the sun and then adjust accordingly. The overhead lights dim as more natural light is allowed into the rooms, which saves on energy costs. Employees control the temperature within their cubicles using small fans and radiant heat panels. Security cameras capture the faces of people entering and exiting the company's offices across the world, and their employee badges pop up on a monitoring screen as people come and go. And all of the building's systems can be viewed and controlled remotely through the use of a mobile device.
At the Village, plans for smart technology include those related to heating and cooling, fire and security, and the fan experience and scoreboard, plus the same building- and campus-wide operating system seen at the company's Milwaukee office.
In Louisville, Ky., Johnson Controls handled nearly $27 million in upgrade and repairs across government buildings for free, using something called a performance contract. The city will pay back the company using the savings it sees from utility bills. If it doesn't save the full amount, Johnson Controls will eat the cost. It's a model they like using for public projects, company officials have said, because it doesn't require any public funding, such as raised taxes.
When Johnson Controls Chairman and CEO Alex Molinaroli came to Canton last month, he said during his speech at the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce dinner that he already had begun conversations with government officials here about projects that could support them.
"We're going to be with the folks of Canton," he said.
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