I recently visited The Kitty Hawk for dinner, in the heart of the city. It describes itself as an 'all-day destination for those with a love of food, drink and discovery, infused with a heady blend of London cool and New York glamour' with five bespoke dining experiences under one roof: The Bar & Kitchen, The Restaurant, The Coffee Bar & Patisserie, The Bar and The Private Dining Room.
We were led downstairs to the main restaurant – I was a little bit scared for my photos when I saw the lighting, but luckily I happened to be sitting right next to a spotlight. I loved the decor and open plan kitchen.
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The menu at The Kitty Hawk, much like the restaurant itself, is quite big, with starter options across meat, fish, cheese and 'sharer' plates. We chose one of the latter, the Steak Tartare. The award-winning Ashdale steak tartare is brought to your table and much like the breads and oils, mixed to taste with shallots, capers, cornichons and mustard, topped with a quail's egg and served with grilled sourdough.
It was easily one of the best steak tartare dishes I've ever had, with high quality beef and the perfect level of spice from the pepper and mustard.
The Kitty Hawk really excels in steak. Their Ashdale beef is sourced from Alec Jarrett, a West Country family business founded in 1926 which uses local farmers to rear the best livestock on open farmland. The beef is dry-aged for 7-10 days and wet-aged for a further 28. We shared once again for main course, this time the 20oz Côte de Boeuf. This was also brought out on a trolley and carved next to the table.
The steak was beautifully cooked and tender and the portion size was incredibly generous. The roasted garlic was rich and delicious (although I felt sorry for my colleagues the following day, despite plenty of teeth brushing and mints!) A really satisfying, meaty meal.
We were truly stuffed but we wanted to be able to sample everything The Kitty Hawk had to offer, and when we saw the Sundae on the menu, it was difficult to say no – scoops of Cotswold ice cream layered with caramel sauce, vanilla bean cream and seasonal compote, served with chocolate shards, hand-broken meringue and honeycomb.
I don't think I really need to say how good this was, everything in it was a winner for me!
We really enjoyed our evening at The Kitty Hawk – the service was excellent and there's a lot of interaction with the waiters/waitresses, as many of the dishes (or certainly the ones we chose) are prepared at the table for you. We really enjoyed this personal touch.
Only minor niggle was that the table was a bit small. There was only two of us, but for the amount of food we ordered and the lovely little extras like the oils, salts, peppers etc, the two seater tables could have done with being slightly bigger given the large size of the restaurant. But hey, that's just a tiny thing.
I was invited to review The Kitty Hawk by Full Fat and The Kitty Hawk, but did not receive any payment. All views are my own.


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The story that got everyone talking about marriage
Lyle Shelton | August 23, 2016
There was confirmation from the Government this week that the long-awaited people's vote on marriage is to be pushed back into next year.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney General George Brandis had previously indicated their preference to hold it before Christmas.
Australian Electoral Commission advice is that there is not enough time to organise another national poll to meet this timeline.
The AEC had actually signalled this some weeks ago.
But a leak from somewhere within the Government to a Sunday newspaper confirming that the Government agreed with this advice set the media in a frenzy.
The story also contained details of a draft question.
This was disappointing given that consultations with both sides of the debate about the plebiscite process and question has not yet been held.
The Prime Minister's office and senior ministers were quick to distance themselves from the story and stressed that Cabinet was yet to consider these issues.
That's code for the process has a way to go yet and everyone should settle down.
A February date has been touted but the WA election is on that month.
Also, Parliament resumes next week and it is uncertain whether or not legislation enabling the plebiscite will make it through the Parliament.
I think there will be attempts to get a private member's bill on same-sex marriage passed; that these will fail and that Labor will finally allow plebiscite enabling legislation to pass.
I could be wrong, but that's how I think it will play out. Watch this space.
Whatever happens, it is important the plebiscite process is not rushed and that it is fair to both sides.
Meanwhile, it is disappointing to continue to hear commentary that allowing a plebiscite will somehow unleash hate upon the same-sex attracted community.
Yes, there are trolls on social media on both sides and they are reprehensible.
In the mainstream media space, however, there has been no evidence of "hate" or "bigotry" from the pro-marriage side. While debate may be robust at times, as it should be in a mature democracy, our spokespeople have always been respectful.
In contrast, a senior Canberra press gallery journalist this week took to Twitter to describe supporters of marriage as "Neanderthals".
I have been called a "creep" and a "nauseating piece of filth" on Twitter by another senior journalist, who incidentally tweets this to 50,000 people.
These are not trolls, they are journalists who support changing the definition of marriage.
If I started calling same-sex marriage advocates these sorts of names on social media, I would be hounded from my job and rightly so.
But there are double standards in this debate.
Those of us who wish to preserve marriage must not give in to the narrative that assumes our side is about hate. It is not.
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Der Verein Die Arche – Christliches Kinder- und Jugendwerk e. V. ist ein von Pastor Bernd Siggelkow 1995 in Berlin-Hellersdorf gegründetes evangelisches Hilfswerk, das sich gegen Kinderarmut in Deutschland engagiert. Die Arche betreibt Freizeiteinrichtungen und Schulbetreuung für sozial benachteiligte Kinder in verschiedenen deutschen Städten. Mit dem Ziel, Kinder stark zu machen, gestaltet die Arche Freizeitangebote und Feriencamps, Hausaufgabenbetreuung und Lernförderung. Auf diese Weise werden Kindern sinnvolle Freizeitmöglichkeiten geboten, die sonst wenig soziale und kulturelle Teilhabe erleben. Die Arche gewährt Kindern und Familien materielle Hilfen in Form von kostenlosen Mahlzeiten und Kleiderkammern. Im Rahmen ihrer Schulkooperationen ermöglicht der Verein Kindern, die morgens ohne Frühstück in die Schule kommen, kostenlose Frühstücksversorgung. Daneben leistet die Arche aktiv Elternarbeit, um Familien in belastetem Lebensumfeld in ihrer Alltagsbewältigung zu unterstützen. Die Arbeit der Arche ist niederschwellig angelegt. Angebote in seinen Freizeiteinrichtungen ergänzt der Verein durch aufsuchende Jugendarbeit im Stadtteil und mobile Familienhilfe.

Entstehungsgeschichte
Siggelkow wuchs ohne Mutter in Hamburg-St. Pauli auf und kam über die Hamburger Heilsarmee als 16-Jähriger zum christlichen Glauben. Nach einer kaufmännischen Ausbildung studierte er Theologie an einem Theologischen Seminar der Heilsarmee. Nach seiner Ordination arbeitete er zunächst in Lörrach als Pastor. 1990 wechselte er nach Berlin, um in Berlin-Wedding in einer Ev. Landeskirchlichen Gemeinschaft zu arbeiten. 1995 begann er die Arbeit in Berlin-Hellersdorf. Unter anderem war Siggelkow dort immer wieder mit sozialen Nöten vieler Kinder konfrontiert, als er Kinder mit einem Team zu wöchentlichen Kinderstunden einlud. Durch vielfältige sozial-diakonische Dienste und Lobbyarbeit gegen Kinderarmut, über die häufig auch in der überregionalen Presse und im Fernsehen berichtet wird, hat sich die Arche innerhalb weniger Jahre bundesweit einen Namen gemacht. Siggelkow ist Vater von sechs Kindern.

Religiöse Ausrichtung
Die Arche gehört zu den mit der evangelikalen Deutschen Evangelischen Allianz (DEA) verbundenen Werken und ist Mitglied im Diakonischen Werk Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz.

Laut dem Gründer Bernd Siggelkow erreicht die Arche "als christliche Einrichtungen die meisten Moslems überhaupt in Deutschland. Wir haben dort eine hohe Anerkennung bei diesen Leuten, obwohl sie wissen, dass wir Christen sind. Natürlich predigen wir sie nicht zu oder texten sie mit Bibelversen voll, aber wir sind Christen und leben das."

Über sich selbst sagte Siggelkow 2022: "Ich mache das wie Klaus Wowereit. Der sagte: Ich bin schwul, und das ist gut so. Ich sage: Ich bin Christ, und das ist gut so. Ich stehe dazu. Das macht uns auch authentisch. Ich habe in den vergangenen 27 Jahren sechs Kinder beerdigt, die ich betreut habe, und wenn ich keine christliche Motivation hätte, würde ich nicht weitermachen, sondern würde an der Arbeit zerbrechen."

Einrichtungen
Die Arche betreibt Kinder- und Jugendfreizeiteinrichtungen sowie Schulbetreuung und hat 2006 die Gründung einer christlichen Privatschule in Berlin-Hellersdorf mit initiiert. Im April 2009 wurde die erste Arche in der Schweiz eröffnet. Seit 2014 gibt es auch eine Arche in der polnischen Hauptstadt Warschau. Ein weiteres Projekt ist die Arche Kinder-Ranch im brandenburgischen Gransee – ein pädagogischer Erlebnisort, der (Stadt-)Kindern ursprüngliche Naturerfahrungen und Umgang mit Tieren ermöglicht. Im März 2018 erfolgte die Eröffnung eines Standortes in Dresden.

Freizeiteinrichtungen
Die erste von insgesamt fünf Kinder- und Jugendfreizeiteinrichtungen in Berlin wurde 1995 in Berlin-Hellersdorf eröffnet. Weitere Standorte in Deutschland sind Hamburg, München, Potsdam, Göttingen, Köln, Meißen, Frankfurt, Leipzig und Düsseldorf sowie in Polen in Warschau und in der Schweiz in Ebnat-Kappel und Kreuzlingen.

Schulbetreuung
Neben dem Betrieb von Freizeiteinrichtungen leistet die Arche in Berlin, Hamburg und Frankfurt a. M. (2×) an insgesamt vier Standorten Schulbetreuung.

Privatschule
Im August 2006 eröffnete der Freie Evangelische Schulen Berlin e. V. in Berlin-Hellersdorf eine Grundschule in Kooperation mit der Arche. Dort begann das erste Schuljahr mit 14 Kindern, im zweiten Jahr wurden bereits 22 Kinder eingeschult. Bis zum November 2009 erhöhte sich die Schülerzahl auf 82.

Der Trägerverein beschäftigt zusätzlich zu den Lehrern auch Erzieher. Nach Unterrichtsende erfolgt eine Hortbetreuung.
Es wird in Abhängigkeit vom Einkommen der Eltern ein gestaffeltes Schulgeld erhoben. In Härtefällen übernimmt ein Sozialfonds aus Spendengeldern diese Kosten. Die Schule finanziert sich durch Finanzmittel des Berliner Senats in Form eines Teilkostenzuschusses, außerdem durch Schulgeld und Spenden.

Inzwischen besuchen 180 Kinder der Klassenstufen 1 bis 6 die Arche-Grundschule am neuen Standort in der Lichtenhainer Straße 2.
Der Schulträger heißt seit 2014 Christburg Campus Berlin e. V., die Schule trägt seither den Namen Sabine-Ball-Grundschule.

Finanzierung und Förderer
Die Finanzierung erfolgt beinahe vollständig über Spenden. Neben Privatpersonen fördern auch Unternehmen das Projekt. Die Aktion Buddy Bär unterstützt Die Arche seit 2003 regelmäßig. Der TV-Moderator Günther Jauch trägt die laufenden Kosten der Arche in Potsdam, die auf seine Initiative hin gegründet wurde. Falko Götz, ehemals Trainer der Fußball-Bundesliga-Mannschaft Hertha BSC, wurde 2006 erster Arche-Botschafter; es besteht eine Zusammenarbeit mit Hertha BSC. Weitere Arche-Botschafter sind Fußballnationalspieler Lukas Podolski, die Fernsehmoderatorin Bettina Cramer, der Musikproduzent Dieter Falk, die Schauspielerin Susan Sideropoulos, der TV-Komiker Mario Barth sowie der Schauspieler Erdogan Atalay. Nina Hagen ist Botschafterin für die Arche-Grundschule. Wolfgang Thierse übernahm die Schirmherrschaft für die Eröffnung der Schule.

Transparenz
In einer im November 2014 von Phineo im Auftrag von Spiegel Online veröffentlichten Studie über die Wirkungstransparenz von 50 Spendenorganisationen erhielt die Arche nur 0,8 der 5 möglichen Punkte und somit das schlechteste Gesamtergebnis.

Seit 2015 ist die Arche Teil der Initiative Transparente Zivilgesellschaft. Im Rahmen dieser freiwilligen Selbstverpflichtung stellt sie seither wichtige Basisinformationen zu Strukturen und Finanzen auf ihrer Homepage öffentlich zur Verfügung.

Auszeichnungen
Die Arche bzw. der Gründer haben verschiedene Auszeichnungen erhalten:

 HanseMerkur-Anerkennungspreis für Kinderschutz 2002.
 Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medaille der Internationalen Liga für Menschenrechte 2005.
 Siggelkow wurde mit der mit 5.000 € dotierten TafelSpitze 2005 ausgezeichnet. Die Tafelspitze wird vom Treffpunkt Tisch, einem Dachverband der Branchen Glas, Porzellan, Keramik und Besteck, an "herausragende Gastgeber" verliehen.
 Darüber hinaus erhielt Siggelkow im Jahr 2005 den Verdienstorden des Landes Berlin überreicht durch den Regierenden Bürgermeister Klaus Wowereit. Des Weiteren erhielt er 2008 den Preis Berliner Bär.
 Bernd Siggelkow erhielt am 22. April 2008 das Bundesverdienstkreuz (Verdienstorden am Bande der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) für seine Arbeit mit sozial benachteiligten Kindern und deren Familien.
 2008 erhielt Siggelkow für die Gründung und Arbeit in der Arche von Kinderlachen den Kind-Award 2008 in der Kategorie National.
 Ebenfalls im Jahre 2008 wurde Arche der Hamburger Bürgerpreis der CDU Hamburg verliehen.
 Siggelkow war einer der Botschafter des Europäischen Jahres zur Bekämpfung von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung 2010.

Kritik
Die PDS-Politikerin Petra Pau äußerte sich auf ihrer Website grundsätzlich positiv über die Arche, stimmte jedoch mit ihrer Partei der (später zurückgenommenen) Halbierung der städtischen Zuschüsse im Jahr 2005 zunächst zu und wies auf einige strittige Aspekte der PR-Arbeit früherer Jahre hin. Siggelkow habe ihrer Meinung nach Hellersdorf über seine ärmsten Kinder "vermarktet". Sie distanzierte sich allerdings deutlich ("abseitig", "skandalös") von im Jahr 2005 geäußerten Vorwurf ihres damaligen Genossen Martin Uther, die Arche "missioniere die Kinder über den Magen" und Siggelkow komme den Kindern körperlich zu nahe, was zu Parteiausschlussforderungen und Verleumdungsklage gegen diesen geführt hatte.

In Hamburg kritisierten einige Sozialhilfeeinrichtungen und Stadtteilgruppen eine Plakat-Kampagne der Arche und bemängelten das pädagogische Konzept der Arche. Durch eine "aggressive Medienpolitik" der Arche würden Quartiere, in denen sie tätig sei, in die negative Berichterstattung der gesamten Bundesrepublik gezogen, was die vorliegenden Probleme durch die so ausgelöste Stigmatisierung eher verstärke denn mindere und somit deren Bekämpfung erschwere.

In Köln wurde eine vermeintlich bevorzugte Behandlung seitens der Stadtverwaltung im Vergleich zu bestehenden sozialen Einrichtungen kritisiert.

Soundtrack
Zu den fünf Büchern der Arche erschien 2008 mit Deutschlands vergessene Kinder der offizielle Rap-Soundtrack, mit exklusiven Songs von u. a. D-Flame, Kool Savas, Culcha Candela, Curse mit Max Herre, Colos, Joe Rilla, Frauenarzt, Jonesmann, Morlockk Dilemma, F.R., Taichi, Alpa Gun, Franky Kubrick und viele andere.

Im November 2012 erschien das Album Giraffenaffen zugunsten der Arche, auf dem unter anderem Mono & Nikitaman, Lena Meyer-Landrut, Roger Cicero, Max Mutzke, Thomas D & Roman Lob, The BossHoss, Culcha Candela, Annett Louisan, Ulla Meinecke, Flo Mega und Götz Alsmann Kinderlieder neu aufgenommen haben.

Im Oktober 2013 erschien das Album Giraffenaffen 2, auf dem unter anderem Cassandra Steen, Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Johannes Oerding, Max Raabe, Andreas Bourani und Wolfgang Haffner zu hören sind. Ein Teil der Erlöse geht an die Arche.

Literatur
 Klaus Schmals et al.: Eine Arche für die armen Kinder von Hellersdorf. Untersuchung der Freien Universität Berlin, Berlin 2007 (PDF; 4,7 MB).
 Bernd Siggelkow, Wolfgang Büscher: Deutschlands vergessene Kinder. Hoffnungsgeschichten aus der Arche. Gerth Medien, Aßlar 2007, ISBN 978-3-86591-187-2.
 Bernd Siggelkow, Wolfgang Büscher, Marcus Mockler: Papa Bernd. Arche-Gründer Bernd Siggelkow – Ein Leben für die vergessenen Kinder. Adeo, Aßlar 2010, ISBN 978-3-942208-18-5.
 Helmut Kuhn: Die Kinder der Arche. In: Arm, reich – und nichts dazwischen? Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-60612-2, S. 91–118.

Weblinks
 Offizielle Seite der Arche
 Kathleen Fietz: Die Arche und die Mediensintflut. In: die tageszeitung, 13. Dezember 2007.

Einzelnachweise

Berliner Verein
Wohlfahrtsorganisation (Deutschland)
Gegründet 1995
Jugendarbeit
Verein (Soziale Arbeit)
Evangelikale Organisation
Kinderhilfswerk
Träger der Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medaille
Protestantismus in Berlin

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However with George Clinton at the helm, Maggot Brain was always going to be funky – and from track two, Can You Get To That, onwards, the mould for the funk rock genre was set.
On Hit It And Quit It, the guitars roar, and You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks sees a soulful gospel side added to the mix.
Fans of any modern rock band that every slapped a bass string in anger should not hesitate to add this blistering collection of formative funk rock to their collection.
THE 4-four track EP, when done properly, has a particular soft spot for me – and Frightened Rabbit's The Woodpile leaves me beaming.
Normally the format works best as a precursor to an album, with just enough material to tease a great band's forthcoming sound but too much so the listener is left wanting more.
And although the title track here already sits on their Pedestrian Verse album, the Scottish indie rockers have got fully on board with the format, throwing three new tracks at fans – Default Blues, Radio Silence and Candlelit.
While the first two of these extras may just be pretty straight-up indie rock tracks, Candlelit and the title track show off Frightened Rabbit at their emotional soaring best, and as a whole, The Woodpile will only fuel the passions of fans of the band.
AS A taster for Manchester four-piece PINS' new album Girls Like Us, the group have unveiled a brand new song from the LP.
Lost Lost Lost, from the Bella Union-released debut album, is a lithe two and a half minutes which perfectly showcases the stark, analogue sound of the album.
Click here to download a free mp3 of Lost Lost Lost now.


For most of their careers, Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson were third-tier pop stars. Simpson was always the bronze medal to Christina Aguilera's silver and Britney Spears's gold. Likewise, Lachey and his boy band, 98 Degrees, were consistently afterthoughts to the insanely popular Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. But thanks to a little show called Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica in 2003, MTV catapulted these two into household names. Simpson's dumb blonde act (at least, we're pretty sure it was an act) gave us so many gems that the couple forever secured their place in pop culture, even though they split only 3 years later in 2005. To get an idea of what went on behind the scenes, we spoke to Sue Kolinsky, who served as producer on the show for all three seasons of Newlyweds. Kolinsky, who lives in Los Angeles and still works in the television industry, is a three-time Emmy nominated producer. She has popular reality shows such Top Chef, Last Comic Standing and The Osbournes on her resume. Kolinsky spilled on the show's surprising success, Jessica's dumb blonde "act" and the tension between the couple in the last season.
Were you fans of Nick and/or Jessica before production started?
I had no idea who Jessica was.
So how did you end up working on the show?
A group of us had worked with MTV on The Osbournes, and then two shows came up, and we had a choice between Rich Girls with Tommy Hilfiger's daughter or Newlyweds. I just chose Newlyweds because it sounded fun to be inside the world of somebody's brand new marriage. As soon as we started looking at the footage and I saw the "Is this chicken or fish?" [scene], I knew it was going to be a really fun ride.
Did you suspect the show was going to be as successful as it turned out?
With the success of The Osbournes, we knew that this would probably be successful just based on the nature of the show. It was a whole new genre. When it comes to reality tv, back then it was at its purest form. Plus, [Nick & Jessica] were perfect because they were polar opposites, they were beautiful, and without even realizing it, they were very funny.
What's your take on people who said Jessica was just putting on a "dumb blonde" act?
There were times when we were like, "Hm, does she really not know what this means?" I truly believe the whole 'chicken & fish' situation was accurate. She really did not know. I remember there was a scene where there was a dead mouse by their pool and it had been dead for a while. Nick said, "it's in rigor mortis" and Jessica said, "Riga-what?" I truly believe she didn't know what that meant.
Did you ever interact with Nick and Jessica personally?
I would go out into the field occasionally and go to the shoots. They were nice. Nick was a little more accessible than Jessica, but she was very sweet and it was fun hanging out with them.
They split up soon after the last season aired. What was it like to be on set at that time?
You could feel there was tension between the two of them. They were very different people. He was a blue collar guy—he did a lot of things himself, like he and his brother would build things. He was frugal, and she had excessive taste. In the end they weren't suited for each other. The only thing they really had in common was their music. She was really young; I think he's seven years older than her. He wanted a family, and her father thought maybe she was too young. Her father was very involved in her life.
Did you have any interaction with Joe Simpson?
The first season, I didn't [interact with] him, really. But with the popularity of the show, he was given an executive producer credit and he did get a little more involved. He had a little more say in what went in and out of the episode. Not a tremendous amount.
Do you still keep in touch with anyone from the Newlyweds set?
Oh yes, I've forged amazing friendships just from that whole experience. We have reunions a lot of the time—we're very close. It was a really special time for all of us. We joked about the days when we'd go to a club and there wouldn't be any seats and you could tell [the hostess] "we work on The Osbournes and they'd let us in.


Vibrant Water Engineering produces Water Filters for many applications. Water Filers can be designed for simple sediment removal where water passes though a single layer up to technologies were media and processes actually change the chemistry of the water.
There are several point of use water filters available. Taste and Odor Water Filters are designed to improve the overall taste of the water. Most of these water filters are a combination of layered filtration for sediment removal and some type of carbon to improve the taste and remove chlorine from the water. A new process media called KDF has become very popular for taste and odor improvement. KDF lasts much longer than activated carbon and treats the water by altering the chemistry of the water. Reverse osmosis is another popular form of point of use water filtration. Point of use water filters are usually installed under the kitchen sink and are used for drinking water as well as coffee, tea, juices, cooking, washing vegetables and fruits, etc.
Water Filters for Commercial and Industrial Applications: Commercial Water Filters are always custom engineered by Vibrant Water based on the customers requirements and the quality of the product water needed. Commercial water filters can be simple water filters for sediment removal, scale prevention, contaminant removal, mechanical water softening, altering of water chemistry, reverse osmosis systems, bacteria control, de-ionization and many others.
Depending on your water chemistry and concerns, Vibrant Water can custom engineer and design a water filtration system for your specific needs. Vibrant Water specializes in water analysis and product recommendations for any water issue.


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People love to do photography and want to capture beautiful pictures and moments. There are several different cameras that are available in market whether you want to do professional photography or as just your hobby. You can buy as you want to that best meets your need.
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beoticPROJECT is a modular project steering and project portfolio management solution covering the entire life cycle of a project, from conception to development and delivery.
beoticPROJECT is multi-project, multi-user, multilingual, 100% Web and includes remarkably rich user interfaces, all while remaining easy to use.
You can bring it with you wherever you go, and access it from any location thanks to its special mobile version.
beoticPROJECT is a highly modular and customizable solution that can be integrated with your company portal or your applications.
A solution for Company looking for decision support tools for tracking budgets, screening projects and calculating the ROI for these projects.
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A tool to allow a system-wide implementation of project management best practices (PMBOK, ISO 10006, Prince2, X50), which makes it easy to adopt CMMi guidelines.
Do you already use a solution? In addition to being open source and modular, our solution can integrate with your existing tools, whether Web-based or not.
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Home The Latest Mid-term election shows race not yet an issue of the past
Mid-term election shows race not yet an issue of the past
by Clarence Lusane
In the recent election, several significant events in black politics flew under the radar.
Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Deval Patrick was elected as governor of Massachusetts. He will be the second elected black governor in U.S. history, following the 1990 election of Douglas Wilder in Virginia. This was Patrick's first attempt at elective office and he won 56 percent of the vote against three other candidates.
Meanwhile, Minnesota elected the first Muslim to Congress. African-American Democrat Keith Ellison, who converted to Islam while in college, won 56 percent of the vote in a Minneapolis district.
And Anthony Brown, an Iraq war veteran and son of a Jamaican-born father, will become Maryland's next lieutenant governor, having been on the successful Democratic ticket.
But the Patrick race contrasted sharply with the racially charged atmosphere that dominated many other national campaigns, where the GOP either sought to run extremely conservative blacks or defeat black candidates who threatened previously held Republican seats.
Despite the negative ads and dirty tricks, every black Republican candidate running for either Congress or governor was soundly defeated.
In Maryland's Senate race, black GOP candidate Lt. Gov. Michael Steele attempted to hide his Republican pedigree and presented himself as a rapping, street-wise independent soul brother. It was an impossible charade to pull off. He had publicly nominated President Bush at the 2004 Republican convention and been personally persuaded to run by Bush, Bush adviser Karl Rove and other Republican heavy hitters.
In the end, he received only 44 percent of the vote, including about 25 percent of the black vote. During the last days of the campaign, flyers falsely implying that prominent black leaders had endorsed Steele were distributed to apparent little effect.
Steele did much better, however, than his brethren in Ohio and Pennsylvania who ran for gubernatorial seats.
Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, the disenfranchiser-in-chief of the 2004 elections in Ohio, won only 37 percent of the vote.
Former footballer Lynn Swann, another black Republican, carried home only 40 percent in Pennsylvania.
In his congressional bid in North Carolina, Vernon Robinson, who referred to himself as the "black Jesse Helms," was crushed with only 36 percent of the vote in that traditionally Republican state.
Perhaps the two most racially ugly events occurred in Tennessee and Michigan.
While the U.S. Senate race between Harold Ford Jr. and his Republican opponent went back and forth, most analysts agree that the "Call me, Harold" ad on television probably was a turning point. The jungle fever issue raised with having a blond white woman in the ad teased out racial ghosts that many in the South know still haunt the region.
In Michigan, to the surprise of many, the anti-affirmative action "Civil Rights Initiative" passed by a large margin of 58 percent to 42 percent. Although the state elected Democrats in key statewide races -- most notably into the governorship and the U.S. Senate -- the controversial bill seemed to go against the Democratic trends across the state.
The misleading title may have led some to believe that they were voting for civil rights rather than against them. In fact, a lawsuit involving the petitions used to get the measure on the ballot found a judge agreeing that many had signed the petition because they were told that it was a bill to stop the state government from violating civil rights.
While a number of African-American candidates were successful in winning statewide offices, this year's mid-term election showed that our nation has still not come to grips with its racial past and present.
Clarence Lusane is assistant professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several works, including "Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice: Foreign Policy, Race and the New American Century" (Praeger, 2006). He can be reached at pmproj@progressive.org.
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Esophageal cancer is the sixth leading cause of cancer death worldwide.
Esophagectomy remains the standard for the long-term survival of patients with early stage and advanced esophageal cancer, and improved perioperative care and advanced surgical techniques have contributed to reduced postoperative morbidity. However, despite these advances, esophagectomy continues to be associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
Minimally invasive esophageal surgery has been increasingly used in patients undergoing surgery for esophageal cancer. Potential advantages include the decreased postoperative pain, lower postoperative wound infection, decreased pulmonary complications, and decreased length of hospitalization.
Robotic esophagectomy is an increasingly used minimally invasive modality. Patients who are candidates for traditional, open esophagectomy are typically also candidates for robotic esophagectomy. Knowledge of and training on the robotic platform is critical for success.
Robotic-assisted 3-hole esophagectomy with anastomosis in the neck is a safe and feasible method of minimally-invasive esophagectomy. In this video presentation, we describe our technical approach to a robotic-assisted 3-hole esophagectomy describing the thoracic and abdominal phases of the operation, and the anastomosis on the left side of the neck. We also review the most recent clinical outcomes of this approach and make comparisons with other techniques. Advantages and disadvantages to robotic esophagectomy are discussed.
Olusola Oduntan, MD, FACS, FCCP, is as an associate professor in the division of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at the UF College of Medicine. He received his medical degree at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and completed an internship and a general surgery residency at University College Hospital, also in Ibadan. He also completed a general surgery residency at Yale University/Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven, Connecticut; a cardiothoracic surgery residency at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta; and an advanced general thoracic surgery fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Dr. Oduntan has received specialty training in robotics in thoracic surgery and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy. His clinical and research interests include general thoracic surgery (lung cancer, esophageal cancer and benign diseases of the esophagus).


GIS-PAX has developed a 'family' of software products that merge functionality and ease with the technical complexity and evaluation requirements of global exploration and production companies.
Player is a non-specialist ArcGIS extension that helps exploration geologists collate and understand the exploration potential of individual or groups of plays in a basin/project area so that day to day portfolio and new business decisions can be made efficiently. Player is used in conventional and simple unconventional evaluations. It can produce portfolio views including maps of risked volumes and values by play and block/license area.
PlayPen is our unconventional mapping tool and is a subset of Player with specific objectives. It is a series of grid/raster tools that perform key analysis functions together with a workflow interface that can link grids, polygons and other data using ArcGIS toolbox functions.
PlayHouse is our intranet library and multi project viewing interface. This is an internal company solution which allows all Player/PlayPen projects (globally) to be archived, viewed, and recovered so that valuable work is not lost or duplicated.
The GIS-PAX software uses 3rd party data inputs and company information such as discovery volumes and well failure analyses to produce valuable outputs such as success rates, sweetspot maps and block rankings by value. This information can be further analysed by Player, archived into PlayHouse or exported to other programs like Petrel.


Police have released a letter they say was written by the man accused of murdering 22-yr-previous Davis Police Officer Natalie Corona.
Forty-eight-yr-previous Kevin Douglas Limbaugh was identified because the suspect on Saturday.
Police found him lifeless of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after he reportedly ambushed Officer Corona.
They say he left behind this letter, stating he believed Davis PD was hitting him extremely sonic waves.


Likened to Sonic Youth crossed with Brian Eno, Getintothis' Paul Higham takes a peek into the science fiction sounds of the galactically-minded Wired To Follow.
Wired To Follow are a conceptual Merseyside-based duo making experimental post-rock soundscapes that fuse avant-garde rock with ambient dissonance while evoking the spirit of the early electronic sonic pioneers.
We can reveal their latest track, Constructor, taken from the forthcoming debut LP, Read Write Execute which is set for release on 2 April.
The track seemingly has no beginning and no end, emerging fully formed and ending with a blunt abruptness. A cacophonous noise gives way to a persistent beat which provides structure around which delicious sonic waves are delicately added.
It shimmers and glides with a seemingly chaotic hypnotism, a howling flux of tension and release as sound passes seamlessly across an open soundstage. The duo – who consider themselves more a collaborative musical project than a band – have a strong science fiction influence with their second EP having been described as 'music for the galactically inclined' and their third EP, 90Y, taking its name from an episode of The Twilight Zone.
Indeed, Constructor brings to mind the inventive and otherworldly spirit of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop. One reviewer has suggested that their music might be what Sonic Youth might have sounded like had they been locked in a room with Brian Eno.
On this listen, such an assessment doesn't sound too wide of the mark.


The Nigerian equities market closed Tuesday negative as the All Share Index shed 52bps to settle at 36,600.07 points; accordingly, YTD return retreated to 36.2%. Performance today can be largely attributed to losses in NIGERIAN BREWERIES (-3.3%), ZENITH (-3.0%), and GUARANTY (-1.4%). As a result, market capitalization decreased by N67.0bn to N12.7tn. Nonetheless, activity level improved as volume and value traded inched 23.6% and 34.3% higher to 258.0m units and N3.3bn respectively.
Sector performance was broadly negative as 3 of 5 major indices closed in the red. The Banking index led losers, down 1.2% as investors booked profit in ZENITH (-3.0%) and GUARANTY (-1.4%). The Oil & Gas index trailed, down 0.9% on the back of price depreciation in FORTE (-8.9%). Similarly, losses in NIGERIAN BREWERIES (-3.3%) and FLOURMILL (-5.9%) dragged the Consumer index 0.7% lower. The Insurance and Industrial Goods indices however closed the day flat.
Market breadth (advancers/decliners' ) - which measures investors' sentiment, weakened to 0.9x from 1.2x recorded the previous day as 18 stocks advanced against 21 stocks that declined. The best performing stocks were CHAMPION (+9.1%), LINKASSURE (+5.2%) and CUSTODYINS (+4.8%) while FORTE (-8.9%), CAVERTON (-5.3%) and FLOURMILL (-5.0%) were the worst performing stocks. Although we expect year-end rebalancing of by portfolio managers to boost performance in December, market will likely continue to trade sideways in the interim due to absence of fundamental drivers of sentiment post-earnings season.


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Top 10 Space Research Organizations in the World 2019
Top Space Research Organizations in the World
10. Canadian Space Agency (Canada)
CSA was formed under Canadian Space Agency Actand got Royal Ascent on 10th May, 1990. The agency is liable to report to Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. The space programs in Canada started towards the end of World War II. Presently, Sylvain Laporte is the president of the agency since 27th February, 2015.
It has its headquarters in Quebec and an annual budget of $483 million. In 1962, Canada launched Alouette 1 and became the 3rd country to have artificial satellite in space. After the success of Alouette1, it initiated further research and with launch of Anik A-1, Canada became the 1st country to have its own satellite for geostationary communication. Some of its satellites include MOST, Sapphire, ISIS 1 & 2, Hermes, RADARSAT-1 etc.
9 Indian Space Research Organization (India)
Often called as ISRO, it is a space agency of government of India and headquarters are situated in Bangalore. Formed in 1969, ISRO superseded the erstwhile Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR)established in 1962 by the efforts of independent India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and scientist Vikram Sarabhai.
ISRO built India's first satellite, Aryabhata, which was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975. In 1980. Mars Orbiter Mission , which successfully entered Mars orbit on 24 September 2014, making India the first nation to succeed on its first attempt, and ISRO the fourth space agency in the world as well as the first space agency in Asia to successfully reach Mars orbit.
On 18 June 2016 ISRO successfully set a record with a launch of 20 satellites in a single payload, one being a satellite from Google. On 15 February 2017, ISRO launched 104 satellites in a single rocket PSLV-C37 and created a world record.
ISRO launched its heaviest rocket, Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III), on 5 June 2017 and placed a communications satellite GSAT-19 in orbit. With this launch, ISRO became capable of launching 4 ton heavy satellites.
8 China National Space Administration (China)
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is the national space agency of the People's Republic of China. It is responsible for the national space program and for planning and development of space activities. CNSA and China Aerospace Corporation (CASC) assumed the authority over space development efforts previously held by the Ministry of Aerospace Industry.
It is a subordinate agency of the State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND), itself a subordinate agency of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The headquarters are in Haidian District, Beijing.
The agency was formed in 1993 after the Ministry of Aerospace Industry was divided into China Aerospace Corporation (CASC) and CNSA. The policies were formulated by CNSA and were executed by CASC. CNSA has 4 departments under it which include Dept. of General Planning, Department of System Engineering, Dept. of Science, Technology and Quality Control and Dept. of Foreign Affairs. Its headquarters are in Beijing and has a budget of US$500 million.
7 Italian Space Agency (Italy)
The Italian Space Agency is a government agency established in 1988 to fund, regulate and coordinate space exploration activities in Italy. Operating under the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR).
The major programs of the agency include Robotic Exploration, development of Launchers Observation of the Earth and Human spaceflight. it has a total of 200 workers and a budget of $1.8 billion.
The agency is responsible for blueprinting National Aerospace Plan and its execution. The headquarters of the agency are in Rome and 3 operational centers which are under its control. Presently, Aldo Sandulli is the present and Fabrizio Tuzi its general manager.
6 German Aerospace Center (Germany)
Often called as DLR, The full form of DLR- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt means "German Center for Aviation and Space Flight". DLR was formed in 1997 after culmination of more than 6 aerospace, research and space institutes.DLR is a center for energy, transportation and aerospace research of Federal Republic of Germany.
The headquarters are in Cologne and has multiple locations all over Germany. The mission of the center consists of exploration of solar system and earth and aims to protect environment and develop environment friendly technologies and promote communication, security and mobility. It has several projects under national and international partnership for research and development.
Its past and current missions include AZUR, AEROS, Prisma, Columbus, Automated Transfer Vehicle, HELIOS etc. The budget of the agency is estimated to be US$2 billion
5 French Space Agency (France)
Center National d'études spatiales (CNES) or National Center for Space Studies is a space agency of French Government. It was founded in 1961 under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle. They were responsible to train the French astronauts until every single one was transferred to European Space Agency in the year 2001.
It has to report to the French Ministries of Defense and Research and has its headquarters in Paris. It mainly operates from Guiana Space Center and Toulouse Space Center but it also launched payloads from centers of other countries.
The president of CNES is Jean-Yves Le Gall. CNES is member of Institute of Space, its Applications and Technologies . It operates from the Toulouse Space Center and Guiana Space Centre,but also has payloads launched from space centers operated by other countries.
4 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Japan)
Commonly known as JAXA, is an aerospace agency of Japan. It was formed after the merger of 3 independent organizations on 1st October, 2003. JAXA undertakes responsibilities like technology development, research and satellite launching and also some advanced missions like moon's manned exploration and asteroid exploration.
The rockets used by the organization include H-IIA form the NASDA body and H-IIB, which was used in launching of satellite for engineering test, weather satellite etc. Another rocket, Epsilon is used for X-ray astronomy. In its earth observation project, it involves land observation, rainfall observation, Carbon Dioxide monitoring, observation of any Global change.
The satellites currently used include EXOS-D- Aurora observation and GEOTAIL- magnetosphere observation satellite . It also has several ongoing joint projects with NASA like Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, Global Precipitation Measurement core satellite and the Aqua Earth observation satellite. It has list of future mission for coming years. the budget is estimated to be $2.17 billion.
3 European Space Agency
European Space Agency is dedicated to the work of exploration of space and has 22 states as its members. It is an organization which is intergovernmental and has its headquarters in Paris with 2000 employees all over the world with an estimated budget of US$5.51 billion. It has 10 states as its founding members including: United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden.
The work of the organization is described in 2 overlapping ways: Activities and Programs. Activities include earth observation, Launchers, Navigation, operations, Space for climate etc and programs include Science core Technology Program, General Study Program, European Component Initiative etc.
2 Russian Federal Space Agency (Russia)
Also known as Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities or just Roscosmos is a responsible for aerospace research and space programs to be carried out for Russia. It is a governmental body and had a budget of $5.9 billion. It was founded on 25th February, 1992 and was earlier known as Russian Aviation and Space Agency.
The headquarters are situated in Moscow and its main research center is near Korolev city. The current programs of the corporation include earth science, scientific research and communication with satellite like Luna-Glob- Moon orbiters, Venera-D – Venus Lander and Fobos- Grunt- Mars mission. Presently, Igor Komarov is the Director since 2015 January.
1 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States)
It is abbreviated as NASA, is an executive part of United States Federal Government but is independent and responsibility to carry out research on aerospace and aeronautics and space programs. NASA was founded by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 with civilian orientation. The National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed on July 29, 1958, deformed NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) .
The new agency became operational on October 1, 1958 NASA mainly focuses on exploring bodies in solar system, Earth Observing System, research on astrophysics topics, heliophysics etc. It also shares data with other international and national organizations like from Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite. The estimated budget of NASA is US$19.8 billion.
List of Top Specialized agencies In the World
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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Travels through literature, alcohol and America: A review of 'The Trip to Echo Spring' by Olivia Laing
November 17, 2014 November 17, 2014 freshlyworded
Ernst Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, John Berryman and Raymond Carver had at least two things in common: they are all giants of 20th Century American literature and…they were all confirmed, raging alcoholics.
These two commonalities are the basis for 'The Trip to Echo Spring' by English author Olivia Laing, a writer and book reviewer for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers.
The title of the book refers a line said by the sexually conflicted character Brick in Tennessee Williams' great Southern play 'Cat on a Hat Tin Roof'. He says it to indicate he is going to get a drink of whiskey: to numb the pain of his "mendacity".
Laing sets out to explore how these six writers – whom she admired greatly and who shaped the course of American fiction – experienced, thought about, wrote about and dealt with their addiction to alcohol.
She does so by undertaking a physical trip across America in the Spring of 2011 starting in New York and staying in the Elysee, a hotel in Manhattan's theatre district where Tennessee Williams spent his last days, and finishing in Port Angeles on the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the upper north corner of Washington State, where Raymond Carver lived the last years of his life and wrote some of his best short stories while living with the poet Tess Gallagher.
In between, Laing heads down to New Orleans to sit at the hotel bar where Tennessee Williams came in for a drink and to pick up young men and to attend the annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, flies south-east to balmy Key West, Florida to visit Hemingway haunts, takes a train west to Baltimore and North Carolina to follow Fitzgerald's own journey and then chugs out west to Illinois and Minneapolis, tracing the fatal path of the poet, John Berryman.
Amongst all this travel, are Laing's reflections and contemplations of the alcoholic lives of these writers interwoven with meditative observations of the vast, constantly changing American landscape, mostly from her train window. She writes:
"In Alabama the earth was red and their was Wisteria in the trees. Somewhere deep in the country the train stopped in a pine forest. It was very quiet. A needle dropped lazily through the warm air. The woman beside me was on the phone…"
"Between Tuscaloosa [Alabama] and Meridian [Mississippi] we ran through uninterrupted miles of forest. The hills were covered in bone-grey timber, split and weather-worn into fantastic shapes. Then open country with cows grazing…
I awoke again at dawn. This time the world outside was white. North Dakota, flat as an ironed sheet.
The constant travel not only gives the book it's part travel-guide feel, but also it's momentum. Laing is not only on a journey to discover more about her literary heroes and their afflictions, but is also on a journey of self-discovery; making sense of a disjointed, dysfunctional upbringing and one washed through with alcohol. Her mother's partner was a violent alcoholic.
One of the great strength of 'The Trip to Echo Spring" and a sign of its success is that makes you want to go out and read (or re-read) the works of Williams, Hemingway, Cheever, Fitzgerald, Berryman and Carver, reminded as you are of their massive contribution to the world of literature despite the booze, blackouts, collapses, rehabilitations and relapses.
Just off the top of my head I could reel off a dozen books, plays and poetry collections I've now added to my "must read" list:
– The Glass Menagerie (Williams)
– Sweet Bird of Youth (Williams)
– For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway)
– Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway)
– Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald)
– The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald – AGAIN!)
– Cathedral (Carver)
– Dream Songs (Berryman)
– Recovery (Berrryman)
Already, a copy of Cheever's novel "Falconer" about a jailed heroin addict is waiting beside my bed and I've begun to read the opening scene of "A Streetcar Named Desire" from an old paperback that was tucked into the book shelf. And I am waiting for the opportunity to watch Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as Maggie and Brick.
Laing has great empathy for her heroes because of the writing they produced, but she does not sentamentalise them, brush aside their faults or criticise their weaker efforts. Nor is their any glamorization of alcoholism:
[On Cheever's drinking in 1966]: "…his drinking had passed well beyond normal measures now, even bearing in mind the norms of the time. When he wasn't on location [filming his short story 'The Swimmer'] he wrote in the early hours of the morning and by half past ten could be found twitching in the kitchen waiting for his family to disperse so he could administer the first self-soothing scoop of scotch or gin. If they didn't leave quick enough he'd drive himself to the liquor store, where he'd buy a bottle, motor on to some pretty back street and sit there suckling, inevitably spilling a good slug down his chin.
All six writers were at times monstrous personalities, capable of inflicting great cruelty on their wives, children, lovers, friends and families: Raymond Carver almost killed his wife and was resentful of his own children, Tennessee Williams once defecated in a university hallway, John Cheever projected his closeted homosexuality into rage against his wife.
The book is rich with analysis of the works of fiction these writers produced as well as their non-fiction articles and memoirs. But she is no literary snob, relishing the opportunity to join a tour group visiting Hemingway's home and museum in Key West or do a Tennessee Williams walk in New Orleans or enjoy meals with retired farmers on her train journeys.
The conclusions she reaches about these writers are not surprising – that they drank to deaden the pain of their childhood, their parents, their sexuality, their broken-ness, their perceived and real failures, while writing was a way to try to become whole again.
None, apart from John Cheever, managed to stop drinking though they all tried. None lived into old age and two – Berryman and Hemingway – died at their own hand.
But ultimately it is the journey that Laing takes you on through the minds and immense body of work of these giants of fiction that is the real joy
Not the destination.
An interview with the author, Olivia Laing (Buzzfeed)
A review of The Trip to Echo Springs by The Times Literary Supplement
Olivia Laing's personal website
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Frank Farian (born Franz Reuther; 18 July 1941) is a German record producer, musician, singer and songwriter, who founded the 1970s disco-pop group Boney M., the Latin pop band No Mercy and the pop band Milli Vanilli. He frequently created vocal groups in which the publicised members merely lip-synced to songs sung by session members. He owns the record label MCI and several subsidiaries. Over the course of his career, Farian has sold over 850 million records and earned 800 gold and platinum certifications.

Career
Farian started as a trained cook before moving into the music industry. In April 1967, he released a cover of Otis Redding's "Mr. Pitiful" under the name "Frankie Farian". In 1976, Farian's German-language cover of Dickey Lee's "Rocky" stayed at No. 1 for four weeks and received gold certification.

Boney M.
In the early days of his career, he was keen to attain success as a solo artist, but made little impact on the popular music scene until his song "Baby Do You Wanna Bump" (a remake of Prince Buster's song "Al Capone" from 1967), released under the pseudonym Boney M., became successful. He recruited a line-up which included vocalists Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett along with a male, Bobby Farrell, and female dancer, Maizie Williams, and his own additional vocals. Under the name Boney M, he achieved his biggest success in Europe as well as across the whole world with well-known songs, like "Daddy Cool", "Rivers of Babylon", "Rasputin" and a remake of "Mary's Boy Child".

Far Corporation
Farian also started the supergroup Far Corporation (named after the first syllable of his last name), which featured Steve Lukather, David Paich, Bobby Kimball, Simon Phillips (all from Toto fame) and Robin McAuley. Far Corporation were the first act to chart with a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven"; their cover was a top 10 hit in the UK, reaching number 8 in October 1985.

Meat Loaf
In 1986, Farian produced and mixed the Meat Loaf album Blind Before I Stop. He also sang backing vocals on the first single from the album Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries, which was credited to Meat Loaf featuring John Parr.

Milli Vanilli

On 14 November 1990, Farian confessed to orchestrating the events leading to the Milli Vanilli scandal. As a producer, he  assembled a group of session musicians and fronted it with physically attractive dancers Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan. Following a 1989 performance where a backing track error first revealed the singers had been lip-syncing, Farian later confirmed to the press that others had sung on the albums. Milli Vanilli's 1990 Grammy Award for Best New Artist was revoked, and at least 27 lawsuits were filed in the United States under U.S. consumer fraud protection laws.

La Bouche, Le Click, Eruption, No Mercy
Following the Milli Vanilli controversy, Farian developed similar Eurodance groups La Bouche and Le Click. He also produced the 1997 version of "Tic, Tic Tac" by Chilli Feat. Carrapicho.

Some other groups Farian has been involved with are Eruption (whom he managed in 1977), singer Precious Wilson and Latin pop band No Mercy based in Germany.

Daddy Cool musical
On 15 August 2006, the musical Daddy Cool opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End, featuring Michelle Collins, Michael Harvey, Javine Hylton and singer/songwriter Darvina Plante. The £3 million show was produced by Farian and Robert Mackintosh. The story, written by Stephen Plaice with Amani Naphtali, is predominantly based on the songs of Boney M., but also features songs by Milli Vanilli and No Mercy. A second show opened 23 April 2007 in Berlin, Germany, and toured in the Netherlands from August 2011 to February 2012, Spain (Palma de Mallorca) in July 2012, Switzerland from November 2015 to January 2016, and Germany 2016.

Other activities
In 2006, Farian was credited as co-writing the song "Doin' Fine" with British producers Nathan Thomas and Carl M. Cox. (Other writers involved in the song were Chris Rudall, Baz Qureshi, Peter Wilson, Chris Richards and George Reyam.) Described as paying tribute to the 'sound' of Boney M., the song was essentially a new composition featuring the string arrangement from Boney M.'s 1976 number one hit "Daddy Cool". It was recorded by Australian pop singer Peter Wilson. It was initially released in the UK on 16 April 2007 in its extended format, entitled "Daddy's Cool 12" Mix", and reached number one on the EuroDanceHits EuroNRG Top 40 in May 2007. The original version of "Doin' Fine" was featured on Peter Wilson's debut album, Follow Me, released in the UK on 8 October 2007. It was also recorded in 2008 by Amanda Lear.

Personal life
Farian resides in Miami, Florida, US. He has a daughter born in 1980 from his first marriage. His daughter Yanina was born to his then girlfriend Chinya. Yanina sang with her father in 2021 on a cover of "Cherish" by Kool & the Gang.

Discography

Studio albums
 So ein Tag (1971)
 So muß Liebe sein (1973)
 Rocky (1976)
 Division One (1985)
 Solitude (1994)

Compilations
 Star Discothek (1978)
 The Hit Man – The Best of 25 Years (1994)
 The Hit Collection – The Best of 25 Years (1994)
 The Hit Man II (2000)
 Summer Hits (2001)
 Dieter Thomas Heck präsentiert: 40 Jahre ZDF Hitparade (2009)
 Produced by Frank Farian (2009)

Singles
 "Shouting Ghost" (1964)
 "Yakety Yak" (1964)
 "Under the Boardwalk" (1965)
 "Mr. Pitiful" (1967)
 "Gipsy" (1968)
 "Dana My Love" (1968)
 "Ein Kissen voller Träume" (1969)
 "Speedy Jack" (1970)
 "Du bist wunderbar" (1971)
 "Morgens, mittags, abends – Barbara" (1971)
 "So ein Tag" (1971)
 "Gold in Acapulco" (1972)
 "Leg den Kopf an meine Schulter" (1972)
 "Was kann schöner sein" (1973)
 "So muß Liebe sein" (1973)
 "Wunderbar" (1973)
 "Bleib bei mir" (1974)
 "An mir soll es nicht liegen" (1974)
 "Atlantica" (1975)
 "My Decision" (1975)
 "Cara mia bleib" (1975)
 "Rocky" (1976)
 "Spring über deinen Schatten, Tommy" (1976)
 "Sie war erst 17 (und neu in der Stadt)" (1977)
 "Mother and Child Reunion" (1985)
 "Stairway to Heaven" (1985)
 "Fire and Water" (1986)
 "You Are the Woman" (1986)
 "One By One" (1987)
 "Sebastian" (1987)
 "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (1994)
 "Rainy Days" (1994)

Albums produced (selection)
Boney M.

Take the Heat off Me (No. 2 Germany, No. 1 Sweden)
Love for Sale (No. 1 Germany, No. 1 Sweden, No. 2 Netherlands)
Nightflight to Venus (No. 1 UK, No. 1 Germany, No. 1 Netherlands)
Oceans of Fantasy (No. 1 UK, No. 1 Germany, No. 3 Netherlands)
The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits (No. 1 UK, No. 2 Germany, No. 2 New Zealand)
Gold – 20 Super Hits (No. 2 Netherlands, No. 2 New Zealand)

Gilla
 Help! Help!  (1977)
Meat Loaf
Blind Before I Stop (1986) (No. 28 UK, No. 21 Switzerland, No. 51 Germany)
Milli Vanilli

All or Nothing (1988) (No. 4 Germany, No. 1 Australia, No. 1 New Zealand)
Girl You Know It's True (1989) (No. 1 USA, No. 1 Canada)
La Bouche
Sweet Dreams (1995) (No. 2 Finland, No. 2 Switzerland, No. 10 Australia)
No Mercy
My Promise (1996) (No. 4 Australia, No. 3 Netherlands)
Eruption
Eruption, also released as I Can't Stand The Rain (1977)
Leave A Light (1979)
Precious Wilson
On the Race Track (1980)
All Coloured in Love (1982)
Funky Fingers (1983)

References

External links
 Official website
 Daddy Cool Kids – Official website
 Musical Daddy Cool – Official website
 ZZ Queen – Official website
 - FFFclub website

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