title: Victorien Angban

abstract: Bekanty Victorien Angban is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Russian club Dynamo Makhachkala on loan from Sochi.

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# Victorien Angban

**Bekanty Victorien Angban** (born 29 September 1996) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Russian club Dynamo Makhachkala on loan from Sochi.

## Club career

### Chelsea

In 2012, Angban joined Chelsea from Stade d'Abidjan as a trialist. He only officially signed for Chelsea in 2015, after he was able to obtain a work permit after spending three years in the country.

#### Loan to Sint-Truiden

On 14 July 2015, it was announced that Angban would spend the season on loan at Belgian club Sint-Truiden. On 24 July 2015, he made his professional debut as a 64th-minute substitute in a 2–1 victory over Club Brugge in their first game of the season. Angban made his first start for the team on 8 August, against K.V. Oostende which ended in a 1–1 draw. On 27 September 2015, Angban was sent off in the 79th minute, in a 1–0 loss against Anderlecht. On 29 January 2016, he was again sent off in a match against Anderlecht in the closing minutes of a 2–1 loss. On 5 March 2016, Angban was sent off for the third time, then in a match against Club Brugge after picking up two yellows; the match ended in a 3–0 loss for Sint-Truiden. At the end of the season, Angban picked up a total of 8 yellow cards and was sent off a total of 3 times.

#### Loan to Granada

On 22 July 2016, it was announced that Angban would be joining Spanish side Granada on loan for the season. He is the second Chelsea player to join Granada on loan, with the first being Jérémie Boga. On 16 September 2016, he made his debut in a 2–2 draw against Real Betis.

#### Loan to Waasland-Beveren

On 28 July 2017, it was announced that Angban would be joining Belgian side Waasland-Beveren on loan for the season.

#### Loan to Metz

In July 2018, it was announced that Angban would be joining FC Metz in French Ligue 2 on loan for the season.

### Metz

In April 2019, it was revealed that Metz had exercised the promotion clause in Angban's contract, and he joined the club in a €6 million deal.

### Sochi

On 3 July 2021, he joined Russian Premier League club Sochi. On 30 May 2023, Angban extended his contract with Sochi to June 2026.

On 27 June 2024, Angban moved on loan to Dynamo Makhachkala.

## International career

Angban has represented Ivory Coast at U17 level and scored at the 2015 African Under-20 Championship finals. On 2 October 2015, he received his first senior Ivory Coast call up by manager Michel Dussuyer as they took on Morocco in a friendly. He was named in the senior Ivory Coast squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.

## Personal life

Angban's older brother, Vincent, is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

## Career statistics

*As of match played 2 October 2024.*

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
| Club | Season | League | | | National Cup | | League Cup | | Europe | | Other | | Total | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Sint-Truiden (loan) | 2015–16 | Belgian Pro League | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  | |  | |  | | 23 | 0 |
| Granada (loan) | 2016–17 | La Liga | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |  | |  | |  | | 11 | 0 |
| Waasland-Beveren (loan) | 2017–18 | Belgian Pro League | 25 | 1 | 2 | 0 |  | |  | | 6 | 0 | 33 | 1 |
| Metz (loan) | 2018–19 | Ligue 2 | 27 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |  | |  | | 33 | 1 |
| Metz | 2019–20 | Ligue 1 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |  | |  | | 22 | 0 |
| | 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  | |  | | 21 | 0 |
| | Total | | 41 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |  | |  | | 43 | 0 |
| Sochi | 2021–22 | Russian Premier League | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 |  | | 4 | 0 |  | | 29 | 1 |
| | 2022–23 | Russian Premier League | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  | |  | |  | | 7 | 0 |
| | 2023–24 | Russian Premier League | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 |  | |  | |  | | 11 | 0 |
| | Total | | 38 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |  | | 47 | 1 |
| Dynamo Makhachkala | 2024–25 | Russian Premier League | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 |  | |  | |  | | 9 | 0 |
| Career total | | | 169 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 199 | 3 |

## Honours

**Metz**

1. "Acta del Partido celebrado el 16 de septiembre de 2016, en Sevilla" \[Minutes of the Match held on 16 September 2016, in Sevilla\] (in Spanish). Royal Spanish Football Federation. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
2. "Victorien Angban - TheChels.info - The Chelsea Football Club Wiki". TheChels.info.
3. "Loan for young midfielder". Chelsea F.C. 14 July 2015.
4. "Belgium Pro League: STVV - Club Brugge". FIFA. 24 July 2015. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015.
5. *STVV 1-1 K.V. Oostende*, Soccerway, 8 August 2015
6. *Anderlecht 1-0 STVV*, Soccerway, 27 September 2015
7. *STVV 1-2 Anderlecht*, Soccerway, 29 January 2016
8. *Club Brugge 3-0 STVV*, Soccerway, 5 March 2016
9. "Angban, músculo para la medular granadinista". Granada CF. 22 July 2016.
10. "Real Betis vs. Granada 2 - 2 (2016/09/16)". 16 September 2016.
11. "WAASLAND-BEVEREN VERSTERKT ZICH MET VICTORIEN ANGBAN". Waasland-Beveren. 28 July 2017.
12. sgobbi (27 July 2018). "Victorien Angban arrive en prêt !". *Football Club de Metz* (in French). Retrieved 25 August 2018.
13. "Chelsea loanee Victorien Angban joins Metz in €6m deal as promotion clause is activated". Goal. 26 April 2019.
14. "Полузащитник Викторьен Ангбан продолжит карьеру в "Сочи"" (in Russian). PFC Sochi. 3 July 2021.
15. "Викторьен Ангбан продлил контракт с "Сочи"" (in Russian). PFC Sochi. 30 May 2023.
16. ""Динамо" арендовало у "Сочи" Викторьена Ангбана" (in Russian). FC Dynamo Makhachkala. 27 June 2024.
17. "Bekanty Victorien Angban". *www.chelseafc.com*. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
18. "Ivory Coast decline to call up star City pair". sport24. 2 October 2015.
19. "Ivory Coast announces final squad for 2019 AFCON - Africa Cup of Nations 2019". *ahram.org*. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
20. "Côte d'Ivoire: Mercato, Chelsea prête l'éléphant Victorien Angban pour une saison au FC Metz" \[Ivory Coast: Mercato, Chelsea sends Ivorian international Victorien Angban on loan for one season at FC Metz\] (in French). Actualité Ivoire. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
21. Victorien Angban at Soccerway
22. "Le FC Metz sacré champion". *lfp.fr*. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2019.

## InfoBox

Victorien Angban
| Angban with Sochi in 2022 | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Personal information | | | |
| Full name | Bekanty Victorien Angban | | |
| Date of birth | (1996-09-29) 29 September 1996 | | |
| Place of birth | Abidjan, Ivory Coast | | |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | | |
| Position(s) | Midfielder | | |
| Team information | | | |
| Current team | Dynamo Makhachkala | | |
| Number | 8 | | |
| Youth career | | | |
| 2010–2012 | Stade d'Abidjan | | |
| 2012–2015 | Chelsea | | |
| Senior career\* | | | |
| Years | **Team** | **Apps** | **(Gls)** |
| 2015–2019 | Chelsea | 0 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Sint-Truiden (loan) | 23 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Granada (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | Waasland-Beveren (loan) | 25 | (1) |
| 2018–2019 | Metz (loan) | 27 | (1) |
| 2019–2021 | Metz | 46 | (0) |
| 2021– | Sochi | 38 | (1) |
| 2024– | Dynamo Makhachkala (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| International career | | | |
| 2013–2014 | Ivory Coast U17 | 4 | (0) |
| 2015 | Ivory Coast U20 | 2 | (1) |
| 2015– | Ivory Coast | 10 | (0) |
| \*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 September 2024<br>‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 06:00, 24 August 2019 (UTC) | | | |


title: Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

abstract: Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is a 1997 fantasy romance film directed by Guy Maddin. The screenplay was written by George Toles and inspired by the novel Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsun, with an additional literary touchstones being the short story "La Vénus d'Ille" (1837) by Prosper Mérimée. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs was Maddin's second feature film in colour and his first shot in 35 mm, on a budget of $1.5 million. As seen in Noam Gonick's documentary Waiting for Twilight, Maddin was dissatisfied with the filmmaking process due to creative interference from his producers.

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# Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

***Twilight of the Ice Nymphs*** is a 1997 fantasy romance film directed by Guy Maddin. The screenplay was written by George Toles and inspired by the novel *Pan* (1894) by Knut Hamsun, with an additional literary touchstones being the short story "La Vénus d'Ille" (1837) by Prosper Mérimée. *Twilight of the Ice Nymphs* was Maddin's second feature film in colour and his first shot in 35 mm, on a budget of $1.5 million. As seen in Noam Gonick's documentary *Waiting for Twilight*, Maddin was dissatisfied with the filmmaking process due to creative interference from his producers.

## Plot

A newly released prisoner, Peter Glahn, returns home to the land of Mandragora, where the sun never sets. Aboard the ship, Glahn has a romantic encounter with Juliana Kossel, then proceeds to the family ostrich farm, which is run by his sister Amelia. Amelia is in love with Dr. Isaac Solti, a manipulative gentleman scientist/mesmerist. Cain Ball, Amelia's hired hand, quarrels with her about her promise to sell him the ostrich farm. Peter heads into the forest to go hunting and meets the pregnant Zephyr, who despite her fisherman husband falls for Peter. Zephyr prays to a stone statue of the goddess Venus that stands in the forest that Peter will be hers, and gives the statue her wedding ring as a gift. Zephyr meets Peter again and Venus appears to have worked her magic, since the two embrace, although Peter notes that he is in love with Juliana and Zephyr notes her marriage.

Dr. Solti has likewise been talking to the statue of Venus, which fell over and crushed his leg, causing its amputation. During a picnic, Amelia and Peter meet Solti and Juliana (revealed to be Solti's companion) causing both Glahns to become quite jealous. Solti has mesmerized Juliana and reveals that he orchestrated her affection for Peter as part of his everyday manipulative sadism. Peter assaults Solti and ineffectively attacks his artificial leg. Amelia, meanwhile, has concluded that Cain Ball is trying to kill her and so hammers a giant nail into his skull, sets him on fire, and stuffs his face with live flies, before entering into a semi-catatonic madness herself. Zephyr reveals that she has murdered her husband by leading him into a pit of snakes.

Peter and Juliana reignite their romance briefly, before it sours due to Peter's jealousy. He calls upon the spirits of the forest trees to descend on his tormentors, but they only droop a little. Zephyr attempts to take her ring back from the statue of Venus but it falls over to crush her. Cain, nail in head, hallucinates that the cast has piled into a boat, then dies. Solti leaves Mandragora and Juliana follows. She asks Peter for his dog Aesop as a memento, and he agrees but first kills the dog. Peter retreats with Amelia to a wintry cave.

## Cast

The film's star is not credited: Nigel Whitmey plays the lead role of Peter Glahn, but had his name removed after the producers pressured director Maddin to remove Whitmey's voice from the film and replace it with Ross McMillan's. McMillan is not credited as the voice of Peter Glahn, meaning that the lead role is not credited on-screen.

## Release

*Twilight of the Ice Nymphs* was released to home video on a three-film disc titled *The Guy Maddin Collection*, which also includes Maddin's short film *The Heart of the World* and his feature film *Archangel*. *Twilight of the Ice Nymphs* is also included on the DVD boxed set *The Quintessential Guy Maddin: 5 Films from the Heart of Winnipeg,* released by Zeitgeist Video, alongside *Archangel*, *Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary*, *Careful*, and *Cowards Bend the Knee*.

## Critical reception

*Twilight of the Ice Nymphs* received mixed reviews, and Maddin himself expressed displeasure while working on the film, and disapproval afterwards. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported a 67% approval rating based on 9 reviews.

Generally, critics considered *Twilight* a film for Maddin's core fans, although Lisa Alspector of the *Chicago Reader* noted that Maddin's "overwhelming stylization unexpectedly produces an emotional and psychological authenticity."

## InfoBox

| Twilight of the Ice Nymphs | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Directed by | Guy Maddin |
| Written by | George Toles |
| Produced by | Richard Findlay |
| Starring | Pascale Bussières
Nigel Whitmey (uncredited)
Shelley Duvall
Frank Gorshin
Alice Krige |
| Cinematography | Michael Marshall |
| Edited by | Reginald Harkema |
| Music by | John McCulloch |
| Release date | * 1997 (1997) |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.5 million |


title: Forst, Altenkirchen

abstract: Forst is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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# Forst, Altenkirchen

**Forst** (German pronunciation: \[fɔʁst\] ) is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

## InfoBox

| Forst | |
| --- | --- |
| Municipality | |
|  | |
| Location of Forst within Altenkirchen district | |
| Forst Forst | |
| Coordinates: 50°48′17″N 7°40′57″E / 50.80474°N 7.68242°E / 50.80474; 7.68242 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Altenkirchen |
| Municipal assoc. | Hamm (Sieg) |
| Government | |
| Mayor (201924) | Jürgen Mai |
| Area | |
| Total | 4.25 km2 (1.64 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 272 m (892 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31) | |
| Total | 603 |
| Density | 140/km2 (370/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 57537 |
| Dialling codes | 02292, 02742, 02682 |
| Vehicle registration | AK |
| Website | www.hamm-sieg.de |


title: Oni, Georgia

abstract: Oni is a town in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region (mkhare), Georgia. Historically and ethnographically, it is part of Racha, a historic highland province in western Georgia. The town also serves as an administrative center of the Oni district (raioni). Oni is situated in a deep gorge on the left bank of Rioni River, some 830 metres above sea level and 210 kilometres northwest of Georgia's capital Tbilisi.

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# Oni, Georgia

**Oni** (Georgian: ონი, romanized: oni) is a town in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region (*mkhare*), Georgia. Historically and ethnographically, it is part of Racha, a historic highland province in western Georgia. The town also serves as an administrative center of the Oni district (*raioni*).

Oni is situated in a deep gorge on the left bank of Rioni River, some 830 metres (2,723 feet) above sea level and 210 kilometres (130 miles) northwest of Georgia's capital Tbilisi.

## History

The territory of modern-day Oni has been inhabited since the Bronze Age. Archaeology revealed the artifacts of Colchian culture, particularly a collection of Colchian coins dating back to the 6th–3rd centuries BC. Oni is first chronicled in the 15th century, though a legend has it that the town was founded by the 2nd BC king Pharnajom of Iberia. Located on the crossroads from Northern Caucasus, Kartli (central Georgia), Imereti (western Georgia) and Lower Rach’a, Oni developed into a typical late medieval commercial town and was contested between the kings of Imereti and the princes of Rach’a. The town was absorbed by Imperial Russia in 1810, and made it, in 1846 the administrative center of the Racha Uyezd of the Kutaisi Governorate. During the Soviet Union, the town was united with a number of surrounding villages into the Oni district, which is currently administered as a part of the Racha-Lechkhumi and Lower Svaneti region.

In recent decades Oni has suffered from earthquakes and a series of avalanches. A particularly severe earthquake occurred on 29 April 1991. The earthquake measured 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (*Destructive*), the most powerful ever recorded in the Caucasus Mountains, and caused significant damage to the infrastructure of Oni.

Despite a post-Soviet tendency towards migration, Oni still retains a small number of Jewish families – remnants of once powerful and large historic Jewish community, Georgia's third largest, after those of Tbilisi and Kutaisi. The Oni Synagogue was built in the 1880s by a Polish architect and the builders were Greek Jews from Thessaloniki.

Oni and its environs house a number of historical monuments, including the ruins of medieval forts and Georgian Orthodox churches. A popular spa, Shovi, and Utsera are located some 15 to 30 kilometres (9 to 19 miles) from Oni, on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus mountains. The Racha Regional Museum, located in Oni, has an impressive collection of 14000 unique artifacts from the fields of archaeology, ethnography, numismatics, natural history, fine art, historical documents, manuscripts, and printed books.

## Demographic

The vast majority of the population is of Georgian origin and are Christians Orthodox. The largest ethnic minority is the Ossetian people.

There was a large community of Georgian Jews which explain the presence of the Oni Synagogue but they emigrated to Israel after the fall of USSR and only a few remain to look after synagogue.

## International relations

### Twin towns — Sister cities

## Notable people from Oni

## InfoBox

| Oni ონი | |
| --- | --- |
| Town | |
| View of Oni | |
|  | |
| OniOni | |
| Coordinates: 42°35′02″N 43°26′30″E / 42.58389°N 43.44167°E / 42.58389; 43.44167 | |
| Country | Georgia |
| Region | Racha |
| Municipality | Oni |
| Elevation | 830 m (2,720 ft) |
| Population (2024) | |
| Total | 2,498 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (Georgian Time) |
|  | |


title: Thomas Rendle

abstract: Thomas Edward Rendle is a British FIDE International Master chess player and coach. Rendle became an International Master in June 2006 and is part way towards becoming a Grandmaster, with one GM Norm. He gained an interest in chess at an early age, and soon entered chess tournaments, gaining success in his age categories. He was put on top board for the England under 11 team and won the Sussex Under 18 Championships, whilst still under 12. In 1998 Rendle played Garry Kasparov in the BT Wireplay Challenge 1998. In 2005 he was a coach for England's team at the 1st FIDE World Schools Championship in Halkidiki, Greece and in 2006 he coached with the England Team at the European Youth Chess Championships in Montenegro. Rendle currently works as a chess coach, both online and face-to-face. He is a regular coach of England Juniors. Thomas is currently in a long-term relationship with author and dedicated chess wag Elra Desmond.

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# Thomas Rendle

**Thomas Edward Rendle** (born 29 September 1986) is a British FIDE International Master chess player and coach. Rendle became an International Master in June 2006 and is part way towards becoming a Grandmaster, with one GM Norm.

He gained an interest in chess at an early age, and soon entered chess tournaments, gaining success in his age categories (such as becoming Mini Squad Under 7s Champion, England Under 11 Champion). He was put on top board for the England under 11 team and won the Sussex Under 18 Championships, whilst still under 12.

In 1998 Rendle played Garry Kasparov in the BT Wireplay Challenge 1998. In 2005 he was a coach for England's team at the 1st FIDE World Schools Championship in Halkidiki, Greece and in 2006 he coached with the England Team at the European Youth Chess Championships in Montenegro.

Rendle currently works as a chess coach, both online and face-to-face. He is a regular coach of England Juniors.

Thomas is currently in a long-term relationship with author and dedicated chess wag Elra Desmond.

## InfoBox

| Thomas Rendle | |
| --- | --- |
| Thomas Rendle at the June 2022 4NCL | |
| Full name | Thomas Edward Rendle |
| Country | England |
| Born | (1986-09-29) 29 September 1986<br>Hastings, East Sussex, England |
| Title | International Master (2006) |
| Peak rating | 2416 (July 2007) |


abstract: This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1935 to 1938. Half of its members were elected at the 19 December 1931 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1932 and finishing on 30 June 1938; the other half were elected at the 15 September 1934 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1935 and finishing on 30 June 1941. The process for filling casual vacancies was complex. While senators were elected for a six-year term, people appointed to a casual vacancy only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives or the Senate.

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# Members of the Australian Senate, 1935–1938

> **Senate composition at 1 July 1935**
> **Government (33)** \- (15 seat majority)
> United Australia Party (26)
> Country Party (7)
> **Opposition (3)**
> Labor (3)
> Changes in composition

This is a list of **members of the Australian Senate** from 1935 to 1938. Half of its members were elected at the 19 December 1931 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1932 and finishing on 30 June 1938; the other half were elected at the 15 September 1934 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1935 and finishing on 30 June 1941. The process for filling casual vacancies was complex. While senators were elected for a six-year term, people appointed to a casual vacancy only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives or the Senate.

| Senator | Party | | State | Term ending | Years in office |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mac Abbott |  | Country | New South Wales | 1941 | 1935–1941 |
| Guy Arkins |  | United Australia | New South Wales | 1937 | 1935–1937 |
| Bill Ashley |  | Labor | New South Wales | 1941 | 1937–1958 |
| Oliver Badman |  | Country | South Australia | 1938 | 1932–1937 |
| Charles Brand |  | United Australia | Victoria | 1941 | 1935–1947 |
| Tom Brennan |  | United Australia | Victoria | 1938 | 1931–1938 |
| Gordon Brown |  | Labor | Queensland | 1938 | 1932–1965 |
| William Carroll |  | Country | Western Australia | 1938 | 1926–1936 |
| Herbert Collett |  | United Australia | Western Australia | 1941 | 1933–1947 |
| Joe Collings |  | Labor | Queensland | 1938 | 1932–1950 |
| Walter Cooper |  | Country | Queensland | 1941 | 1928–1932, 1935–1968 |
| Lionel Courtenay |  | United Australia | New South Wales | 1941 | 1935 |
| Ben Courtice |  | Labor | Queensland | 1937, 1938 | 1937–1962 |
| Charles Cox |  | United Australia | New South Wales | 1938 | 1920–1938 |
| Thomas Crawford |  | United Australia | Queensland | 1941 | 1917–1947 |
| James Cunningham |  | Labor | Western Australia | 1938 | 1937–1943 |
| Dick Dein |  | United Australia | New South Wales | 1941 | 1935–1941 |
| Jack Duncan-Hughes |  | United Australia | South Australia | 1938 | 1931–38 |
| Harry Foll |  | United Australia | Queensland | 1941 | 1917–1947 |
| William Gibson |  | Country / Independent | Victoria | 1941 | 1935–1947 |
| Charles Grant |  | United Australia | Tasmania | 1941 | 1925, 1932–1941 |
| James Guthrie |  | United Australia | Victoria | 1938 | 1920–1938 |
| Charles Hardy |  | Country | New South Wales | 1938 | 1932–1938 |
| John Hayes |  | United Australia | Tasmania | 1941 | 1923–1947 |
| Herbert Hays |  | United Australia | Tasmania | 1941 | 1923–1947 |
| Bertie Johnston |  | Country | Western Australia | 1941 | 1929–1942 |
| John Leckie |  | United Australia | Victoria | 1941 | 1935–1947 |
| Patrick Lynch |  | United Australia | Western Australia | 1938 | 1907–1938 |
| Allan MacDonald |  | United Australia | Western Australia | 1941 | 1935–1947 |
| John MacDonald |  | Labor | Queensland | 1938 | 1922, 1928, 1932–1937 |
| Walter Massy-Greene |  | United Australia | New South Wales | 1938 | 1923–1925, 1926–1938 |
| Thomas Marwick |  | Country | Western Australia | 1937 | 1936–1937 |
| Philip McBride |  | United Australia | South Australia | 1937, 1938 | 1937–1944 |
| Alexander McLachlan |  | United Australia | South Australia | 1938 | 1926–1944 |
| James McLachlan |  | United Australia | South Australia | 1941 | 1935–1947 |
| George McLeay |  | United Australia | South Australia | 1941 | 1935–1947, 1950–1955 |
| John Millen |  | United Australia | Tasmania | 1938 | 1920–1938 |
| Herbert Payne |  | United Australia | Tasmania | 1938 | 1920–1938 |
| Sir George Pearce |  | United Australia | Western Australia | 1938 | 1901–1938 |
| William Plain |  | United Australia | Victoria | 1938 | 1917–1923, 1925–1938 |
| Burford Sampson |  | United Australia | Tasmania | 1938 | 1925–1938, 1941–1947 |
| Oliver Uppill |  | United Australia | South Australia | 1941 | 1935–1944 |

1. UAP Senator Lionel Courtenay died on 11 July 1935 before he could take his seat. UAP member Guy Arkins was appointed to replace him on 26 September, with his term expiring at the 23 October 1937 election, when he was defeated by Labor candidate Bill Ashley to fill the remainder of the vacancy, expiring on 30 June 1941.
2. Appointed to a casual vacancy and only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives or the Senate.
3. Country Party senator Oliver Badman resigned on 30 September 1937 to run for the House of Representatives seat of the Grey; UAP member for Grey, Philip McBride was appointed to replace him on 21 October, with his term expiring at the 23 October 1937 election, when he was re-elected with his term expiring on 30 June 1944.
4. Country Party Senator William Carroll died on 30 May 1936; Country Party member Thomas Marwick was appointed to replace him on 19 August, with his term expiring at the 23 October 1937 election, when he was defeated by Labor candidate James Cunningham for the vacancy.
5. Labor Senator John MacDonald died on 17 August 1937; Labor member Ben Courtice was appointed to replace him on 26 September, with his term expiring at the 23 October 1937 election, when he was re-elected with his term expiring on 30 June 1944.
6. Gibson was elected to the Senate on a joint ticket with the UAP, with the support of the Victorian state executive of the Country Party. This was opposed by the federal executive, which endorsed the sitting Country Party senator Robert Elliott; he was defeated. Gibson took his seat on 1 July 1935 as a member of the Country Party. However, on 23 September the parliamentary party voted to expel him. He was not re-admitted to the party until November 1939.
7. Father of the Senate
1. "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1935". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
2. Evans, H. "Filling Casual Vacancies before 1977" (PDF). *The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 3*. Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
3. "Senator Gibson". *The Sydney Morning Herald*. 2 July 1935.
4. "Senator Gibson expelled by the Country Party". *The Advocate*. 24 September 1935.
5. "Senator Gibson rejoins Country Party". *The Canberra Times*. 22 November 1939.


abstract: In September 2000, Major League Baseball signed a six-year, $2.5 billion contract with Fox to show Saturday baseball, the All-Star Game, selected Division Series games and exclusive coverage of both League Championship Series and the World Series. Under the previous five-year deal with NBC (1996–2000), Fox paid $115 million while NBC only paid $80 million per year. Fox paid about $575 million overall while NBC paid about $400 million overall. The difference between the Fox and the NBC contracts implicitly values Fox's Saturday Game of the Week at less than $90 million for five years. Before NBC officially decided to part ways with Major League Baseball on September 26, 2000, Fox's payment would've been $345 million while NBC would've paid $240 million. Before 1990, NBC had carried Major League Baseball since 1947. When asked about the new deal with Fox, Commissioner Bud Selig said, "We at Major League Baseball could not be happier with the result. They have been a good partner and an innovative producer of our games." Neal Pilson, who served as the president of CBS Sports when the network had the exclusive television rights for Major League Baseball said of Fox's $2.5 billion deal: It is a lot of baseball. It will force Fox to delay the start of its entertainment season every fall in order to cover the playoffs and the World Series, but I am sure they have taken that into account. Fox probably believes it has driven a good deal financially. It has kept its cost escalation at a very modest number. I'm sure Fox believes if it is the only national carrier, it can sell its commercial (slots) without having to face underpricing from a competitor. Some observers believed that gaining the relative ratings boost from the League Championship Series and World Series meant more to Fox than the other broadcast networks. This was because Fox had suffered the biggest prime time ratings decline among the four major networks during the 1999–2000 television season, with an average prime time audience of 8.97 million viewers, down 17% from the year before according to Nielsen Media Research.

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# Major League Baseball on television in the 2000s

In September 2000, Major League Baseball signed a six-year, 2.5 billion contract with Fox to show Saturday baseball, the All-Star Game, selected Division Series games and exclusive coverage of both League Championship Series and the World Series.

Under the previous five-year deal with NBC (19962000), Fox paid $115 million while NBC only paid $80 million per year. Fox paid about $575 million overall while NBC paid about $400 million overall. The difference between the Fox and the NBC contracts implicitly values Fox's Saturday *Game of the Week* at less than $90 million for five years. Before NBC officially decided to part ways with Major League Baseball (for the second time in about 12 years) on September 26, 2000, Fox's payment would've been $345 million while NBC would've paid $240 million. Before 1990, NBC had carried Major League Baseball since 1947.

When asked about the new deal with Fox, Commissioner Bud Selig said, "We at Major League Baseball could not be happier with the result. They have been a good partner and an innovative producer of our games."

Neal Pilson, who served as the president of CBS Sports when the network had the exclusive television rights for Major League Baseball said of Fox's $2.5 billion deal:

> It is a lot of baseball. It will force Fox to delay the start of its entertainment season every fall in order to cover the playoffs and the World Series, but I am sure they have taken that into account. Fox probably believes it has driven a good deal financially. It has kept its cost escalation at a very modest number. I'm sure Fox believes if it is the only national carrier, it can sell its commercial (slots) without having to face underpricing from a competitor.

Some observers believed that gaining the relative ratings boost from the League Championship Series and World Series meant more to Fox than the other broadcast networks. This was because Fox had suffered the biggest prime time ratings decline among the four major networks during the 1999–2000 television season, with an average prime time audience of 8.97 million viewers, down 17% from the year before according to Nielsen Media Research.

## Year-by-year breakdown

### 2000

For a Saturday afternoon telecast of a Los Angeles Dodgers/Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field on August 26, 2000, Fox aired a special "Turn Back the Clock" broadcast to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the first televised baseball game. The broadcast started with a recreation of the television technology of 1939, with play-by-play announcer Joe Buck working alone with a single microphone, a single black-and-white camera, and no graphics; each subsequent half-inning would then see the broadcast "jump ahead in time" to a later era, showing the evolving technologies and presentation of network baseball coverage through the years.

In 2000, NBC was caught in the dilemma of having to televise a first-round playoff game between the New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics over the first presidential debate between George W. Bush and Al Gore. NBC decided to give its local stations the option of carrying the debate or the baseball game. If an NBC affiliate decided to carry the debate, then the Pax TV affiliate in their local market could carry the game. NBC also placed a crawl at the bottom of the screen to inform viewers that they could see the debate on its sister channel MSNBC.

On the other end, Fox said that it would carry baseball on the two nights when its schedule conflicted with the presidential or vice presidential debates. NBC spokeswoman Barbara Levin said "We have a contract with Major League Baseball. The commission was informed well in advance of their selecting the debate dates. If we didn't have the baseball conflict we would be televising it." Although there has not been confirmation, anecdotal reports indicated that many NBC affiliates in swing states (such as Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania) chose to air the debate over the baseball game. This is an option that CBS affiliates did not have in 1992, when that network refused to break away from Game 4 of the American League Championship Series (which had gone into extra innings) to the first ClintonBushPerot debate. Like NBC and Fox would do in 2000, CBS cited its contract with Major League Baseball.

During NBC's coverage of the 2000 Division Series between the New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics, regular play-by-play announcer Bob Costas decided to take a breather after anchoring NBC's prime time coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from Sydney. In Costas' place was Atlanta Braves announcer Skip Caray, who teamed with Joe Morgan before Costas' return for the ALCS. It wasn't just Costas but all of NBC's production crews who were down in Sydney. The Olympics ended just two or three days before the MLB playoffs started that year, so the TBS crew worked the Division Series games for NBC.

As previously mentioned, in September 2000, Major League Baseball signed a six-year, $2.5 billion contract with Fox to televise Saturday afternoon regular-season baseball games, the All-Star Game and coverage of the Division Series, League Championship Series and World Series. 90% of the contract's value to Fox, which was paying the league $417 million per year, came from the postseason, which not only attracted large audiences, but also provided an irreplaceable opportunity for the network to showcase its fall schedule. Under the previous five-year deal with NBC (running from 1996 to 2000), Fox paid $115 million ($575 million overall), compared to the $80 million ($400 million overall) that NBC paid. The difference between the Fox and the NBC contracts was that Fox's Saturday *Game of the Week* was implicitly valued at less than $90 million for five years. Before NBC officially decided to part ways with Major League Baseball (for the second time in about 12 years) on September 26, 2000, Fox's payment would have been $345 million, while NBC would have paid $240 million. NBC Sports president Ken Schanzer said regarding the loss of Major League Baseball rights for the second time since 1990:

> *We have notified Major League Baseball that we have passed on their offer and we wish them well going forward.*

NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol added that it was not cost-effective for NBC to be paying out the kind of money that Major League Baseball wanted. The network was also reportedly concerned over disruptions to its regular fall prime time lineup that would result from having to broadcast the playoffs and World Series. In addition, NBC had several NASCAR races scheduled during the summer.

Ebersol further added:

> We walked away from the N.F.L., because it was the right thing to do, and we stayed No. 1 in prime-time in all the important aspects. We walked away from baseball because it was the right thing to do and we don't have to take off our fall shows to show playoff games. The N.B.A. was asking us to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

The last Major League Baseball game that NBC televised until 2022 was Game 6 of the 2000 American League Championship Series, occurring on October 17, 2000. In Houston, due to the coverage of the 2000 Presidential Debate, KPRC-TV elected to carry NBC News' coverage of the debate while independent station KNWS-TV carried the ALCS game via NBC.

### 2001

For the 2001 season, Fox implemented a new graphics package for its MLB telecasts, which debuted on the network's NASCAR broadcasts in February of that year. The graphics package was an updated version of the design in 1999, but its score bug was revised as a top-screen banner. A simple, transparent black rectangle with a shaded area above it spanned the top of the screen from left to right, displaying the diamond graphic representing the baseball diamond, and the abbreviations of both teams in white. The scores would be shown in yellow boxes next to the team abbreviations; the center showed the inning (a triangle was placed to the left of the inning number to show which half-inning it was: pointing up to represent the top of an inning and pointing down to represent the bottom of an inning), to the right was the number of outs, right of that was the pitch count and the pitch speed (the pitch speed was in the same location as the pitch count, and the pitch speed would appear be in a yellow box); and the *MLB on Fox* logo was placed on the far right. This banner, along with the shaded area above it, retracted from the top of the screen whenever it appeared or was removed.

For the 2000 and 2001 seasons, the Fox network's then-sister cable channel, Fox Family (later ABC Family, now Freeform) carried a weekly Major League Baseball game on Thursday nights (a game that had previously aired nationwide on Fox Sports Net from 1997 to 1999), as well as select postseason games from the Division Series. Among the noteworthy games that aired on Fox Family was the October 4, 2001 game between the San Francisco Giants and the Houston Astros, during which Barry Bonds hit his 70th home run of the season, which tied the all-time single season record that Mark McGwire had set only three years earlier (Bonds broke the record the next night).

Meanwhile, the Fox Broadcasting Company's other sister cable channel FX, aired numerous Saturday night Major League Baseball contests in 2001, including Cal Ripken Jr.'s final game at Camden Yards. FX also aired one game in the Major League Baseball postseason each year from 2001 to 2005, on the first Wednesday night of League Championship Series week when the league scheduled two games at the same time. On that night, Fox distributed one game to local affiliates with the availability of coverage being based on region, and the other game aired on the corresponding cable affiliate of FX, the main DirecTV or Dish Network channel, or an alternate channel on the satellite providers.

ESPN was on hand for the Cleveland Indians' historic comeback against the Seattle Mariners on August 5, 2001. The Indians trailed 142 after six innings, but scored twelve runs in the final three innings before winning in the bottom of the eleventh, 1514. The twelve-run comeback tied the Major League record for largest deficit overcome in a game.

For the first year of its exclusive six-year contract (2001), Fox did a split telecast (which had not been attempted since the ill-fated "Baseball Network" arrangement existed) for the League Championship Series. This meant that two games were played simultaneously on the same night, with one game airing on the Fox network and the other on the regional Fox Sports Net cable channel (depending on market, as some markets did not have a regional sports network with a relationship to FSN). The rationale behind the split-telecast was that because of the September 11 attacks, the entire post-season schedule was delayed by a week. Because of this, two Sunday LCS games came in conflict with a *Fox NFL* doubleheader. Fans and sports journalists were unimpressed with the situation and MLB commissioner Bud Selig vowed that it was a one-time deal necessitated by circumstance. However, in later years, Fox used split telecasts on a few occasions to keep the playoffs "on schedule" and maximize its prime time advertising revenue, and aired the second game on FX, which has virtually nationwide distribution on cable and satellite. This ensured that Fox did not have to air an LCS game on a weekday afternoon, when many viewers are unable to watch. The 2007–2013 contract eliminated this issue, as TBS had rights to one of the League Championship Series each year. However, Fox continued to air afternoon LCS games on weekdays through the entire length of the contract.

### 2002

As part of its 2001 purchase of Fox Family, in addition to rights to the Thursday night game, The Walt Disney Company acquired the MLB rights that were also held by FX. Those two game packages were moved to ESPN beginning with the 2002 baseball season; however, the playoff games remained on ABC Family for one additional year due to contractual issues. A deal was reached to move those playoff games to ESPN, which produced the games for ABC Family, starting with the 2003 season. Although the games aired on networks owned by Disney, Fox kept the exclusive negotiation rights to renew the contract after the 2006 season. Fox chose not to renew its rights to the Division Series, which went to TBS as part of its new baseball contract.

On June 16, 2002, *Sunday Night Baseball* covered a Subway Series game at Shea Stadium in which Mo Vaughn hit a game winning three-run home run in the New York Mets' 3-2 win over the New York Yankees.

### 2003

In 2003, the Braves telecasts on TBS underwent significant changes for the first time in many years, reflecting an increase in the network's rights fee payments to Major League Baseball. In turn, national sponsors could fulfill their advertising commitments by purchasing ads on TBS, in addition to ESPN or Fox. In the process, Don Sutton and Joe Simpson assumed duties as lead commentators, while longtime play-by-play announcers Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren had their participation on the broadcasts reduced. This was done in an attempt to combat criticism of Caray's on-air "home team" bias and to market its baseball coverage to fans of MLB teams other than the Braves. Meanwhile, the brand ***Braves Baseball on TBS*** was replaced by ***Major League Baseball on TBS***. The move was strongly criticized by Braves fans, Atlanta area media outlets and Braves manager Bobby Cox. Over 90% of Braves fans who voted in an online poll conducted by the *Atlanta Journal-Constitution* preferred Caray and Van Wieren to the more neutral broadcasts. The move backfired, and ratings for the TBS broadcasts declined sharply. After that year's All-Star break, TBS brought back Caray and Van Wieren to work with the two analysts, while broadcasts reverted to the *Braves Baseball on TBS* brand the following year.

### 2004

On April 16, 2004, Fox aired a Friday night game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to cover those teams' first head-to-head meeting since the memorable 2003 ALCS.

Scooter debuted in the 2004 baseball season on April 16, during a game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. While Fox Sports television chairman David Hill called Scooter "really cute and really terrific", the character has garnered few positive reactions otherwise, with *Sports Illustrated* writer John Donovan warning "purists everywhere, grab the barf bag," and *Sports Illustrated* media writer Richard Deitsch using Scooter as an example of "how technology does not always help society." *The Sporting News* reported polling their staff with the question "What best summarizes your feelings for Scooter, Fox's talking baseball?": 45% of responders chose the answer "Send him to a slow, painful death." Despite most reactions, Scooter would still be used in televised baseball games until after the 2006 World Series.

Starting with the 2004 postseason, Fox's baseball broadcasts began using the same graphics package that debuted with NFL telecasts in 2003. The score banner was changed to match the layout adopted by the network's football coverage at the start of the 2004 season, but using the abbreviations of the teams playing instead of their logos. Team abbreviations were shown this time in electronic eggcrate lettering in the team's main color, the shaded area above the score banner was removed, and the scores were shown in white text in black parallelograms. Whenever team-specific information was displayed in the banner such as a scored run or an out, the abbreviation would morph into the team logo with the scored run being displayed; the team who would score a run would have its abbreviation morph into its logo and a "strobe light" would flash over the black parallelogram as the score changes. When a home run was displayed in the banner, a split "strobe light" would flash a few times across the banner with the words "HOME RUN (team)" in the team's color then zooming in to the center from both left and right angles, accompanied by two distorted electric buzzes followed by a futuristic computer sounder. This marked the first time that a home run was displayed in the banner. When it appeared, flashing lights spanning the top of the screen with two moving lines on top and bottom would join to morph into the banner; when first formed, the team logos were shown before changing into the abbreviations. When it was removed, the banner became just a quick beam of light spanning the top of the screen, which would disappear very quickly.

In October 2004, Fox started airing all Major League Baseball postseason broadcasts (including the League Championship Series and World Series) in high definition; Fox also started airing the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in HD that year. Prior to the 2008 season, one of the three regional games the network televises each Saturday was presented in HD. Since 2008, all MLB games televised by Fox – including Saturday regional games – are presented in high definition.

Dave O'Brien provided commentary for MLB International's coverage of the World Series from 2004 until 2009. O'Brien teamed with his usual ESPN partner Rick Sutcliffe on broadcasts of the World Series and the American League Championship Series for MLB International.

### 2005

While covering the 2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Comerica Park in Detroit, host Jeanne Zelasko angered many fans for her treatment of legendary broadcaster Ernie Harwell. Many disliked the way Zelasko abruptly – and in many fans' eyes, awkwardly – cut Harwell off just 17 seconds into a pre-game interview, as Harwell was detailing the accomplishments of famous Tiger Al Kaline. Harwell later said he was not offended by Zelasko, and let the matter drop. In September 2008, Zelasko took heat for referring to the Tampa Bay Rays as the "Tampa Rays". Jeanne Zelasko has, in general, been accused of being too flippant, not particularly knowledgeable about the sport of baseball, and inserting too many corny cliches or plays on words during broadcasts.

OLN was briefly considering picking up the rights to the Sunday and Wednesday games, which expired after the 2005 season. On September 14, 2005 however, ESPN, then the current rights holder, signed an eight-year contract with Major League Baseball. The weekday afternoon "DayGame" telecasts that ESPN and ESPN2 had previously aired were eliminated in the new pact, along with the late (10 p.m. ET) Wednesday night game (although ESPN can elect to show a late game instead of an early one should it so desire), and the coverage of Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day games (except for games that fall under the regular Monday-night slot).

ESPN's Monday and Wednesday telecasts remain mostly nonexclusive, meaning the games also can be televised by each club's local broadcasters. In fact, Wednesday games are blacked out on ESPN unless a participating team's local broadcaster does not choose to televise the game. The Sunday games remain on ESPN only, and with ESPN losing the rights to *Sunday Night Football* telecasts, it looks likely that *Sunday Night Baseball* will run uninterrupted on ESPN throughout the season, except on Opening Night (when it will air on ESPN2, since it usually conflicts with the NCAA Women's Basketball Final Four).

Alternate telecasts for home-team markets which are blacked out have also been phased out, either in an effort to save costs or in an effort to allocate more satellite space for high-definition broadcasts on ESPNHD. Those who get ESPN via cable get ESPNEWS instead, and those who get the channel via satellite see a blank picture and a blackout notice.

MLB will receive, on average, 296 million a year under the new agreement, a television and a baseball official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of a confidentiality agreement in the deal. ESPN will pay baseball $273.5 million in 2006, $293.5 million in each of the following four years, $308.5 million in 2011 and $306 million in each of the final two seasons.

During the 2005 World Series on Fox, a new white banner was introduced. This would resemble a chrome finish, and the team abbreviations became white letters in the team's main color; the next few years, the new banner was adopted for all games. This banner, unlike the 2001–2004 version, would not be removed for the final out of the World Series but was dropped at other critical points (like whenever Alex Rodriguez came to bat, tied with an April record 14 home runs, and when Barry Bonds had 753).

### 2006

Fox has used numerous scheduling formulas for its Saturday regular season coverage. These have often changed based on the rights granted by new television contracts, and the pregame programs that the network has chosen to air. From 1996 to 2006, Fox began its weekly game telecasts on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend or the weekend before. The selection of games varied on a regional basis, and the start times were staggered based on region. A half-hour pregame show aired at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time, followed by game broadcasts held at 1:00 p.m. in the Eastern and Central Time Zones. West Coast games did not air until 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1:00 p.m. in the Pacific Time Zone). All of these games were exclusive to the broadcast network, and as a result, Fox's exclusivity window lasted through the entire afternoon.

On July 11, 2006, Major League Baseball announced that the Fox network had signed a new seven-year contract, which guaranteed that Fox would remain the broadcaster of the World Series through the 2013 season. Fox had widely been expected to renew the deal, but it was unclear what the network would be willing to air beyond the All-Star Game and World Series.

After weeks of speculation and rumors, on July 11, 2006 at the All-Star Game, Major League baseball announced that Time Warner's TBS will gain rights to a Sunday afternoon *Game of the Week* beginning in the 2008 season. TBS will be allowed to choose the games that it will carry and may select a single team up to 13 times. TBS also will gain exclusive broadcast rights to the Division Series in both leagues starting in 2007, as well as any tiebreakers starting with the 2007 season. On October 18, 2006, Major League Baseball announced that TBS will also carry the other League Championship Series. (Through the 2006 season, ESPN had national broadcast rights to tiebreakers, and ESPN and Fox shared coverage of the Division Series, with ESPN covering the majority of the games, while Fox was guaranteed the 8:00 p.m. Eastern slot most nights.) TBS also gained the rights to the *All-Star Game Selection Show*, formerly on ESPN.

As part of the agreement, the network also announced that it will no longer cover the Atlanta Braves on an exclusive national basis after the 2007 season. Games will be subject to blackout in the teams' markets, but local broadcasters can still air the games. TBS would carry 70 Braves games in the 2007 season, in addition to the postseason package, but beginning in 2008 will only carry the Sunday game on a national basis.

However, WTBS (now WPCH-TV) could still carry up to 45 games within the Braves' six-state geographical area (Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Mississippi). These games could conceivably air nationally as part of the MLB Extra Innings package.

The package with Fox was officially announced on October 17, 2006. Under the terms of the arrangement, Fox retained its rights to the network's regular-season package, which would now begin in April, and would remain the exclusive home of the All-Star Game and World Series. Fox's postseason coverage beyond the World Series is limited to one League Championship Series per year (the American League Championship Series in odd numbered years and National League Championship Series in even numbered years), which alternates every year with TBS (which took over exclusive rights to the Division Series from ESPN) airing the other LCS.

One of the terms of the deal was that, beginning with the 2007 season, the Saturday "Game of the Week" coverage was extended over the entire season rather than starting after Memorial Day, with most games being aired in the 3:30 to 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) time slot, which was reduced to 4:00 to 7:00 after Fox cancelled its in-studio pre-game program for the 2009 season. Exceptions were added in 2010 with a 3:00 to 7:00 afternoon window being used on Saturdays when Fox was scheduled to broadcast a NASCAR Cup Series race in prime time (which would start at 7:30) and a 7:00 to 10:00 window, when Fox is scheduled to broadcast the UEFA Champions League soccer final (which would start at 3:00).

As previously mentioned, after the 2006 Division Series, ESPN lost the rights to broadcast playoff games on TV. All postseason games, from possible one-game playoffs to the World Series, have aired on Fox Sports and TBS since 2007. Games remained on ESPN Radio. ESPN also lost rights to *ESPN DayGame presented by Fruit of the Loom* and *Thursday Night Baseball powered by Castrol*.

Because of the reduction of ESPN's weekly schedule from five games to three, ESPN released numerous commentators from the network, including Jeff Brantley, Tino Martinez, Steve Stone and Eric Karros.

With the new deal coming into play this year, several things changed with the Monday and Wednesday night games in particular. For *Monday Night Baseball*, the telecast will now co-exist with teams' local carriers up to three times per year, up from two times in previous years. *Wednesday Night Baseball* also changed slightly. Now, in addition to the featured game that night, they will also have some live cut-ins to other games across the nation and discuss some the hot topics in the major leagues.

ESPN telecasts in 2006, posted an average of 1,115,000 household impressions, up 27% when compared to 2005's 875,000. The corresponding 1.2 rating this year marks a 20% increase over the 1.0 average in 2005. ESPN2's baseball telecasts have averaged 704,000 households, an increase of 34% over 2005's 525,000. Ratings on ESPN2 went up 33% (0.8 vs. 0.6).

During their broadcast of Game 3 of the 2006 American League Championship Series, Lou Piniella, who is of Spanish descent, made an analogy involving the luck of finding a wallet, and then briefly used a couple of Spanish phrases. Fox color commentator Steve Lyons responded by saying that Piniella was "hablaing Español" – Spanglish for "speaking Spanish" – and added, "I still can't find my wallet. I don't understand him, and I don't want to sit close to him now." On October 13, 2006, Fox fired Lyons for making these remarks, which the network determined to be racially insensitive. Lyons was replaced for the last game of the series in Detroit by Los Angeles Angels announcer José Mota. Piniella later stated that he thought that Lyons was just "kidding" and that Lyons was, per Piniella's experience, not bigoted. Lyons had previously maligned Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Shawn Green, who is Jewish, for sitting out a game on Yom Kippur in 2004, saying "He's not even a practicing Jew. He didn't marry a Jewish girl. And from what I understand, he never had a bar mitzvah, which is unfortunate because he doesn't get the money." Lyons was suspended briefly without pay after his remarks, and Fox apologized for Lyons' comments, though Lyons never made an on-air apology.

### 2007

In 2007, Fox began airing games every Saturday during the season. A new scheduling format was devised, in which all of the regional games started simultaneously. Fox moved the pregame, which became part of the exclusive game window, to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. All of the Fox games would then start at 3:55 p.m. Eastern Time, regardless of region. This format gave more leeway for teams not being shown on Fox to schedule daytime games. Fox's exclusivity began at the start of the pregame at 3:30 and ran until 7:00 p.m. Eastern.

On April 1, for the season-opening game between the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals, ESPN changed its on-screen graphics to the version that debuted with *Monday Night Football* in 2006 and was later adopted by its NBA coverage at the start of the 2006-07 season. The previous graphics dated back to the advent of ESPN HD in 2004.

In 2007, Joe Buck was only scheduled to call eight regular season MLB games out of a 26-game schedule for Fox (along with a handful of regional St. Louis Cardinals telecasts on FSN Midwest). In an interview with Richard Sandomir of the *New York Times*, Buck defended his reduced baseball commitment:

> If you or the casual fan doesn't want to consider me the No. 1 baseball announcer at Fox, it's not my concern ... I don't know why it would matter. I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a kid in that situation ... He was gone a lot. He needed to be. I understood it. So did my mom. Because my career has gone the way it's gone, I don't have to go wall to wall. ...While I’m deathly afraid of overexposure, I'm more afraid of underexposure at home with my wife and girls.

In 2008, Buck drew criticism for comments he made during an appearance on ESPN Radio's *The Herd with Colin Cowherd*, in which he admitted to spending "barely any" time following sporting events he does not broadcast, and facetiously claimed that he preferred watching *The Bachelorette* instead.

In general, Fox's initial lead broadcast team of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver had been heavily scrutinized, much less criticized over time. During the 2012 National League Championship Series between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals, Buck and McCarver were accused by the San Francisco media in particular, of being too biased towards the Cardinals.

During the week of the All-Star Game, *Baseball Tonight* and *SportsCenter* did not travel to the game site as it normally does; the 2007 site was AT&T Park in San Francisco. The reason was that MLB stripped ESPN of its on-site credentials for its studio crew as punishment for leaking the rosters of the All-Star teams before TBS did. TBS' announcement, which was billed as exclusive, was scheduled for 4 p.m. Eastern time but was delayed for nearly two hours, by which point ESPN, in apparent violation of its contract with MLB, went ahead and revealed the rosters anyway. ESPN later agreed to promote playoff coverage on TBS and Fox (alongside its own radio coverage) in return for *Baseball Tonight* going on the air shortly after each night's games concluded.

ESPN pre-empted part of the Kansas StateAuburn college football game on September 1 to show the end of the no-hitter thrown by Boston Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz.

From 2007 to 2010, when TBS aired every Division Series game, start times were staggered throughout the day from early afternoon to late primetime. The first game was usually scheduled to start at 1:07 and the last game was usually scheduled for 9:07. If a game ran long, the start of the next game would be shifted to TNT (the game would move back to TBS during the first commercial break after the end of the earlier game, with an announcement from the in-studio crew to switch to TBS). For the LCS round, TBS would show all of the games at a start time pre-set by MLB. All coverage was followed by *Inside MLB*. This schedule was brought back for 2013 only, with the exception that MLB Network aired the two games scheduled for the early afternoon slot.

During some broadcasts, Fox has experienced various technical difficulties. During its broadcast of Game 3 of the 2007 World Series between the Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox, for instance, a blackout occurred during the top half of the seventh inning, resulting in the disruption of a key moment in the game.

### 2008

Beginning with the 2006 NFL season, Fox's other properties, the NFL, NASCAR, the Bowl Championship Series, and Formula One, again upgraded their graphics packages (Formula One used a different graphics package than the other three properties), but baseball broadcasts continued to use this on-screen design in 2007. It was also used in the July 12, 2008 game between the Colorado Rockies and the New York Mets until the 9th inning, but with the 2008 graphics package instead of the package that was used with this banner.

ESPN2 showed the season-opening games in Tokyo between the Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics. Unfortunately, due to a transponder failure, viewers on DirecTV reliant on the standard-definition feed missed the first of the two games. (ESPNHD was unaffected.)

On March 30, ESPN showed the first-ever game at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. The Nationals defeated the Atlanta Braves on a walk-off home run by Ryan Zimmerman.

On May 4, ESPN introduced enhanced updates targeting viewers who play fantasy baseball. It shows season batting statistics for the current batter on each potential count and updates batting average and other selected stats after the at-bat concludes.

*Sunday Night Baseball* broadcast the Washington Nationals' very first game at Nationals Park on March 30, 2008. The Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves, 32, on Ryan Zimmerman's walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth. President George W. Bush, who threw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to the game, joined Jon Miller and Joe Morgan in the ESPN booth during the telecast.

The final game played at Yankee Stadium on September 21, 2008, pitting the New York Yankees against the Baltimore Orioles, was broadcast on *Sunday Night Baseball*.

The Mariano Rivera 500th career save (and also his 1st lifetime RBI) was broadcast on *Sunday Night Baseball* from Citi Field (home of the New York Mets).

TBS began airing the game just prior to the last out in the bottom of the first, with announcer Chip Caray apologizing to viewers for "technical difficulties." TBS acknowledged there was a problem with one of the routers used in the broadcast transmission of the relay of the telecast from Atlanta.

### 2009

Fox discontinued its pregame show in 2009, with the telecasts now beginning at 4:00 p.m. Eastern and the game time being pushed to 4:10. Fox gave up the first half-hour of its exclusivity, with its window now beginning at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

For the 2009 season, telecasts began using the same graphics package implemented by FSN, with the scoreboard now including a rectangular box in the top-left corner of the 4:3 safe area. Along with FSN in observance of the holiday weekend, the baserunner graphic was changed to a blue pattern with stars during the Fourth of July weekend and All-Star Game in 2010. Also in July 2010, broadcasts began to be produced in full 16:9 widescreen and letterboxed for standard definition viewers through the use of the #10 Active Format Description code (which is primarily used for Fox broadcasts transmitted to pay television providers via its stations). The score box was moved to be in the top-left corner of the widescreen feed.

Some sports media critics were critical of the announcers used in the coverage on TBS as being more skewed towards the National League than the American League, along with the choice of Chip Caray (who along the way, was criticized for making factual mistakes during postseason broadcasts) as the lead voice of the network's coverage, as he had only done Braves baseball telecasts during the 2007 season before TBS assumed rights to playoff coverage. In response to such criticisms, Caray said, "It wasn't the job that I had when I came here in the first place. It would be like being a pinch-hitter or being a relief pitcher that works once every ten days. I'm better when I work more." TBS and Caray parted ways following the 2009 playoffs. Ernie Johnson Jr., Dick Stockton and Brian Anderson began handling play-by-play duties in his place.

Following the Philadelphia Phillies' victory in the 2009 NLCS, TBS studio host Ernie Johnson went to the podium to present the championship trophy.


title: Fairfield Independent School District

abstract: Fairfield Independent School District is an American school district in Texas with approximately 1,700 students. Its president is Eric Chavers.

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# Fairfield Independent School District

**Fairfield Independent School District** is an American school district in Texas with approximately 1,700 students. Its president is Eric Chavers.

## History

In 1964 the district received a portion of the Butler Independent School District which had only white students, while Fairfield ISD gave areas to Butler ISD that had only black students.

## Demographics

FISD encompasses an area of 456 square miles in Freestone County with approximately 1,700 students in EE-12. The school district is fully accredited by the Texas Education Agency , and 100% core classroom teachers are highly qualified according to NCLB. The curriculum is designed to meet the needs of all students with the latest in instructional technology available at each grade level. FISD offers above state base for teachers with a bachelor or a master's degree plus partial insurance benefits. Currently, FISD employs 258.7 staff members; 139.9 are full-time teachers. The average teacher salary is $52,291. The student population is approximately 0.4% Am. Indian, 0.9% Asian, 13.3% African American, 28.0% Hispanic, 53.4% White, 3.9% two or more; 63.6% are economically disadvantaged. Attendance is 96.4%.

## Instructional Programs

Instructional programs include regular education, special education, pre-kindergarten, compensatory, career and technology, English as a Second Language, dyslexia, gifted/talented, honors, advanced placement, agriculture, horticulture, consumer science, pre-nursing, dual credit courses, Read Right, Grand Central Station and extended year. Math and reading academies are offered in the summer to at-risk students. The campuses utilize many forms of modern technology with wireless connections.

## Achievements

FISD students engage in numerous UIL activities in 4A, winning 24 of the last 25 High School Academic UIL District and Spring Sweepstakes Championships, as well as numerous district, area, and state championships in respective contests. Some other extra-curricular activities include band, drama, cross-country, volleyball, football, basketball, track, softball, baseball, power lifting, tennis, golf, FCCLA, and FFA.

Fairfield High School has experienced much success in extra-curricular activities. In athletics, teams have advanced to the next level in cross country, football, volleyball, girls' and boys' basketball, softball and baseball. The Fairfield Eagles Football Team were 3A state contenders in 2013 and played at AT&T Stadium. Both the girls' and boys' basketball teams advanced to the Regional Tournament this last spring. The girls' cross-country team has won district for over ten times and advanced to state twice. The Fairfield FFA has excelled for many years winning both the fall and spring sweepstakes, and the Grand Band from Eagleland won five consecutive UIL sweepstakes. In the last ten years, FISD has had one state FFA President and two state FFA Vice-presidents, one FFCLA state officer, a FFA State Debate Winner and many State UIL Contestants. In 2020, the girls’ basketball team captured the Texas 4A state title at the Alamodome in San Antonio.

Both Fairfield Junior High and Fairfield Intermediate/Elementary have been UIL academic champs for the last several years!

Navarro College offers year-round classes at Fairfield High School for undergraduate and graduate students. SFA, Texas A&M at Commerce, Tarleton, and University of Texas at Tyler place student teachers in the district.

## Financial and history

As of 1982, Fairfield Independent School District was the largest in Freestone County, having a 1978-1979 attendance of 1,300.

Fairfield approved a $12.5 million bond election to build a new EE-4 campus that was completed in June 2002. The community passed another $12.5 million bond in August 2002 to expand and improve the current high school facilities. The additions include an outstanding multi-media center, two modern science labs, two computer labs, a lecture room, a practice gym, and a competition gym. Students were able to enter the new expansion at the start of school in 2003. In the fall of 2007, football and band students competed on a new all-weather field turf surface at Eagle Field, and track competitors enjoyed a new resurfaced track.

In 2008, the citizens of Fairfield passed a $21 million bond for the construction of a new intermediate school. The new campus houses the district's 3rd through 5th graders. Completion of the new fully inclusive campus was the summer of 2010. The district was also excited to use part of the bond funds to construct an academic wing addition to the current high school. The classroom additions includes three state-of-the-art science labs, a computer lab and hands-on computer shop, two language labs, as well as an instructional classroom. Completion of the high school addition was the fall of 2009. The schools have approximately 3,600 households in the school district.

## Freestone-Navarro Bi-County Coop

Fairfield ISD business office also receives the superior performance title on the state's Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST). Fairfield ISD is also the fiscal agent for the Freestone-Navarro Bi-County Coop which employs an additional 38 employees and includes nine neighboring school districts.

## TEA

**Fairfield High School** (2018-2019)
School Overview - 91/100 (based on the following)
Student Achievement - 93/100
School Progress - 91/100
Closing The Gaps - 87/100

**Fairfield Junior High** (2018-2019)
School Overview - 71/100 (based on the following)
Student Achievement - 75/100
School Progress - 72/100
Closing The Gaps - 60/100

**Fairfield Intermediate** (2018-2019)
School Overview - 72/100 (based on the following)
Student Achievement - 74/100
School Progress - 70/100
Closing The Gaps - 67/100

**Fairfield Elementary** (2018-2019)
This campus is paired with Fairfield Intermediate

## Board of trustees

**President:** Eric Chavers
**Vice President:** John Fryer
**Secretary:** Kim Whitaker
**Member:** Kevin Benedict
**Member:** Kirby Flandry
**Member:** Gregory Gibson
**Member:** OB Utley

## Administration

**Superintendent:** Dr. Jason Adams
**Deputy Superintendent:** Melissa Cox
**Personnel Director:** Lisa Tate
**Finance Director:** Sharon Gibson
**Director of Student Services & Transportation Director:** Bryan Gawryszewski
**Child Nutrition Director:** Crystal Thill
**Maintenance Director:** Ron Harris
**Technology Director:** Arland Thill
**PEIMS Coordinator:** Robin Smith
**Finance/HR Specialist:** Mandie Judd
**Receptionist:** Mary Ann Masiel
**Police Chief:** Billy Barlow

## InfoBox

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| Location | |
| Freestone County, Texas, United States of America | |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 1,700 |


title: Fairmont Royal Pavilion

abstract: The Fairmont Royal Pavilion is a beachfront hotel in St. James, Barbados is situated 29 km from the Grantley Adams International Airport and 14 km from the capital city of Bridgetown, and a half mile from the nearest shopping centre in Holetown.

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# Fairmont Royal Pavilion

The **Fairmont Royal Pavilion** is a beachfront hotel in St. James, Barbados is situated 29 km (17 miles) from the Grantley Adams International Airport and 14 km (8 miles) from the capital city of Bridgetown, and a half mile from the nearest shopping centre in Holetown.

## History and architecture

The Fairmont Royal Pavilion was originally The Miramar Hotel, built in the 1940s and the first hotel to be constructed on the West Coast of Barbados. The original structure had only 12 rooms and now houses the Palm Terrace Restaurant. The Taboras Restaurant was once the manager's bungalow and the private three-bedroom villa part of what was known as the Garden Rooms.

In later years came an expansion into a hotel and private residence estate. The Miramar was purchased by a private investor in April 1987, who immediately began work on restoration. Doors opened in December 1987.

Today, The Fairmont Royal Pavilion is situated on an 11-acre (45,000 m2) estate with gardens.

## InfoBox

| The Fairmont Royal Pavilion | |
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| Location within Barbados | |
| General information | |
| Location | St. James, Barbados |
| Coordinates | 13°12′10″N 59°38′25″W / 13.2028°N 59.6404°W / 13.2028; -59.6404 |
| Opening | 1987 |
| Management | Fairmont Hotels and Resorts |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 75 |
| Website | |
| www.fairmont.com/royalpavilion | |


title: Fairmont Preparatory Academy

abstract: Fairmont Preparatory Academy is a private college preparatory high school located in Anaheim, California. It is one of the campuses of the Fairmont Private Schools system. It has been an IB World School since August 1995.

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# Fairmont Preparatory Academy

**Fairmont Preparatory Academy** is a private college preparatory high school located in Anaheim, California. It is one of the campuses of the Fairmont Private Schools system. It has been an IB World School since August 1995.

## Awards and recognition

For the 1990-91 school year, Fairmont Private Junior High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. School officials were presented with a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence award at a White House event held on March 25, 1991, at a ceremony hosted by President of the United States George H. W. Bush and United States Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander.

In 2008, the College Board recognized Fairmont Preparatory Academy as having one of the strongest Advanced Placement calculus programs in California.

## History

Fairmont Middle and High School (later renamed Fairmont Preparatory Academy) opened for the 1993-1994 school year on the site of the Stanton estate, which includes a hacienda-style house built in 1929 by Col. Philip A. Stanton. The Phillip Ackley Stanton House building was entered into the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1980.

## Class sizes

Fairmont Preparatory Academy has comparatively small class sizes. For example, its Anaheim, CA campus has a student/teacher ratio of 13.26.

## Fairmont Private Schools

Founded in 1953, Fairmont Private Schools is the largest and oldest non-sectarian private school in Orange County. The Fairmont Schools consists of five campuses: Fairmont Preparatory Academy (9 - 12th grade), Anaheim Hills (pre-kindergarten - 8th grade), North Tustin (pre-kindergarten - 8th grade), Historic Anaheim (preschool - 8th grade), and San Juan Capistrano (preschool - 8th grade) which together aim to teach a consistent program from preschool through 12th grade.

## Images

## InfoBox

| Fairmont Preparatory Academy | |
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| Location | |
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| Anaheim, California | |
| Coordinates | 33°50′38″N 117°57′36″W / 33.84391788157294°N 117.95989318784466°W / 33.84391788157294; -117.95989318784466 |
| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Motto | *Inspiring minds. Empowering dreams* |
| Established | 1953 |
| School district | Anaheim, California |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | approximately 650 |
| Website |  |


title: The Diviner

abstract: "The Diviner" is the tenth episode of the third season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series Fear the Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on September 10, 2017, along with the mid-season premiere episode "Minotaur".

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# The Diviner

"**The Diviner**" is the tenth episode of the third season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series *Fear the Walking Dead*, which aired on AMC on September 10, 2017, along with the mid-season premiere episode "Minotaur".

## Plot

Madison informs Walker that the ranch's aquifer is running dry, and they take a tanker to a bazaar in Mexicali to negotiate for water. They find Strand who owes debts to the authorities. Madison uses Walker's gold to buy his freedom. At the ranch, the natives are overseeing the water distribution, leading to tensions. The militia see Nick as Troy's successor and he cautions them to bide their time. Alicia tries to head-off water disputes but ends up starting a riot by revealing that they have only six weeks of water. The natives try to take possession of the main well but Nick, armed with the ranchers' last pistol, leads a sit-in. There is a run for water, draining the aquifer. The militia move on the native guards but at the last moment are inspired by efforts to tap a new well.

## Reception

"The Diviner", along with the mid-season premiere "Minotaur", received very positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, "The Diviner" garnered an 86% rating, with an average score of 7.25/10 based on 7 reviews.

In a joint review along with the mid-season premiere episode "Minotaur", Matt Fowler of IGN gave "The Diviner" an 8.4/10.0 rating, stating; "Things felt rushed and forced when it came to the spilling of secrets (and no real fallout followed) on Fear the Walking Dead's midseason premiere(s), but overall these were solid chapters with some great character-defining scenes"

Conversely, David S.E Zapanta of Den of Geek gave "The Diviner" a more negative review, with a 2.5/5 rating, stating; "We have six episodes left, so there's still time for AMC to turn things around. Until then, I'm rooting for the zombies. And maybe Alicia. But mostly the undead."

### Ratings

"The Diviner" was seen by 2.14 million viewers in the United States on its original air date, the same as the previous episodes rating of 2.14 million.

## InfoBox

| "**The Diviner**" | |
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| *Fear the Walking Dead* episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3<br>Episode 10 |
| Directed by | Paco Cabezas |
| Written by | Ryan Scott |
| Original air date | September 10, 2017 (2017-09-10) |
| Running time | 43 minutes |
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title: Fabian von Fersen (1762–1818)

abstract: Count Fabian Reinhold von Fersen was a Swedish count, politician, officer and courtier. He was the son of Axel von Fersen the Elder and Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie and the brother of Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen and Sophie Piper.

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# Fabian von Fersen (1762–1818)

Count **Fabian Reinhold von Fersen** (7 October 1762, Stockholm – 10 March 1818, Stockholm) was a Swedish count, politician, officer and courtier. He was the son of Axel von Fersen the Elder and Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie and the brother of Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen and Sophie Piper.

## Life

Fabian von Fersen served in the Royal Life Guards from 1771 and 1796 and climbed through the ranks from an ensign to a colonel lieutenant. In 1793–1802, he was a *Valet de chambre* and in 1802–10 a Chamberlain (office) at the royal court. He served as a member of the nobility in the *riksdag* several times between 1789 and 1818.

In 1796, he belonged to the entourage accompanying Gustav IV Adolf on the king's marriage trip to Russia. Before the deposition of Gustav IV Adolf during the Coup of 1809, he prevented the monarch from the withdrawal of funds from the national bank. He participated in the funeral procession of Charles August later that same year. At that occasion, his brother Count Axel von Fersen the Younger was murdered in a riot suspected of having poisoned Carl August, and Fabian and his sister Sophie were also targeted by the mob as known followers of the Gustavian Party. In 1810, he belonged to the entourage welcoming the elected heir to the throne, Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, upon his arrival to Sweden. Fabian von Fersen demanded that the paper of his murdered brother be sealed, and him and his wife (at that point mistress of the Robes of the queen), both left court.

Fabian von Fersen has been given various descriptions in contemporary diaries and memoirs. Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie, whose interests in Sweden he protected when her spouse was exiled for treason, describes him as *noble et généreux*, and Anders Fredrik Skjöldebrand said of him that he had: "many good qualities, such as a pure and open personality, honesty and reliability, but also the haughty bearing of his family in his way of interaction".

### Private life

Fabian von Fersen is known to have been the long-term lover of the royal Duchess Charlotte. The affair is assumed to have started in the late 1780s. It was rumored at the time that the pregnancy which ended in a miscarriage of the Duchess in 1792 was caused by Fabian von Fersen. The affair was discontinued with the marriage of von Fersen in 1797.

He married countess Louise Piper (1777–1849), maid of honor to Princess Sophia Albertine of Sweden, in 1797. Their children: Axel von Fersen (1798–1838), Fabian von Fersen (1800-1800), Gustaf Hans von Fersen (1802-1839) and the great heiress Louise von Fersen (1816–1879), of whom all sons died officially childless (although Gustaf Hans had in fact several children with Carolina Brunström), were the last of the von Fersen family.

1. Fabian Reinhold Fersen, von, urn:sbl:15290, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Bengt Hildebrand.), hämtad 17 February 2015.
2. Alma Söderhjelm (1945). Gustav III:s syskon (The siblings of Gustav III) Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. p. 27-28. 23033 (Swedish)
3. My Hellsing (2013). Hovpolitik. Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte som politisk aktör vid det gustavianska hovet (Court Politics. Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte as a political actor at the Gustavian court) Örebro: Örebro universitet. ISBN 978-91-7668-964-6 page 84 (in Swedish)
4. My Hellsing (2013). Hovpolitik. Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte som politisk aktör vid det gustavianska hovet (Court Politics. Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte as a political actor at the Gustavian court) Örebro: Örebro universitet. ISBN 978-91-7668-964-6 page 84 (in Swedish)
5. Alma Söderhjelm (1945). Gustav III:s syskon (The siblings of Gustav III) Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. p. 45. 23033 (Swedish)
6. Gustaf Elgenstierna, Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor. 1925-36. Tillägg och rättelser ur supplementband 1 - 2 / Carl Szabad.
* Fabian Reinhold Fersen, von, urn:sbl:15290, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Bengt Hildebrand.), hämtad 2015-02-17.
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title: Manhean Senior High School

abstract: Manhean Senior High/Technical School is a coeducational second-cycle institution in Ghana, established in 1991.

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# Manhean Senior High School

**Manhean Senior High/Technical School** is a coeducational second-cycle institution in Ghana, established in 1991.

Details of Manhean Senior High School
| Year of establishment | 1991 |
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| Motto | Honesty and Service |
| Short name | MANSECTEC |
| Location | Manhean, Tema |
| Category | C |

## Courses

The school offers courses in Visual Arts, Agricultural Science, General Arts, Technical and Home Economics.

1. https://www.ghanaschoolsinfo.org/project/7900
2. "Explore Tema: 6 Public Senior High Schools in Tema You May Want to Know". Retrieved 2019-04-30.
3. "Manhean Senior High Technical School: All details - MANSECTECH | Tema". 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2020-11-23.

## InfoBox

| Manhean Senior High/Technical School | |
| --- | --- |
| Location | |
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| Tema Manhean
Greater Accra Region
Tema
Ghana | |
| Coordinates | 5°34′16″N 0°14′58″E / 5.571057°N 0.249440°E / 5.571057; 0.249440 |
| Information | |
| School type | Public High School coeducational |
| Established | 1991 |
| Status | active |
| Oversight | Ministry of Education |
| School code | 205060004 |
| Headteacher | Emmanuel Kobina Baidoo |
| Gender | Unisex |
| Age | 14 to 20 |
| Classes offered | Visual Arts, Agricultural Science, General Arts, Technical and Home Economics |
| Language | English |
| Affiliation | Ghana |


title: The Dance of Dragons

abstract: "The Dance of Dragons" is the ninth and penultimate episode of the fifth season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones. The 49th episode overall, "The Dance of Dragons" was written by the series' creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss based on material primarily found on George R. R. Martin's novel A Dance with Dragons, from which the title of the episode is derived. It was directed by David Nutter, who also directed the season finale. In the episode, Jon Snow allows the surviving wildlings to pass through the Wall at Castle Black. Stannis Baratheon allows Melisandre to sacrifice his daughter, Shireen Baratheon, to the Lord of Light. Arya Stark seeks personal revenge in Braavos. Jaime Lannister strikes a deal with Prince Doran Martell of Dorne to allow Myrcella Baratheon to return home. In Meereen, Daenerys Targaryen is ambushed in a surprise attack by the Sons of the Harpy during a tournament in the fighting pits, eventually escaping with Drogon. "The Dance of Dragons" received a positive response from critics, who mainly lauded its action-packed conclusion on Daznak's Pit, but was polarized by the characterization of Stannis Baratheon. In the United States, it received a viewership of 7.14 million in its initial broadcast. It won two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Special Visual Effects, and was submitted by actress Emilia Clarke to support her nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. This episode marks the final appearances of Joel Fry and Kerry Ingram.

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# The Dance of Dragons

"**The Dance of Dragons**" is the ninth and penultimate episode of the fifth season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series *Game of Thrones.* The 49th episode overall, "The Dance of Dragons" was written by the series' creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss based on material primarily found on George R. R. Martin's novel *A Dance with Dragons*, from which the title of the episode is derived. It was directed by David Nutter, who also directed the season finale.

In the episode, Jon Snow allows the surviving wildlings to pass through the Wall at Castle Black. Stannis Baratheon allows Melisandre to sacrifice his daughter, Shireen Baratheon, to the Lord of Light. Arya Stark seeks personal revenge in Braavos. Jaime Lannister strikes a deal with Prince Doran Martell of Dorne to allow Myrcella Baratheon to return home. In Meereen, Daenerys Targaryen is ambushed in a surprise attack by the Sons of the Harpy during a tournament in the fighting pits, eventually escaping with Drogon. "The Dance of Dragons" received a positive response from critics, who mainly lauded its action-packed conclusion on Daznak's Pit, but was polarized by the characterization of Stannis Baratheon.

In the United States, it received a viewership of 7.14 million in its initial broadcast. It won two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Special Visual Effects, and was submitted by actress Emilia Clarke (who portrayed Daenerys Targaryen) to support her nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

This episode marks the final appearances of Joel Fry (Hizdahr Zo Loraq) and Kerry Ingram (Shireen Baratheon).

## Plot

### At the Wall

Jon retreats from Hardhome to the Wall defeated, accompanied by the surviving wildlings. Much to the chagrin of some of the Night's Watch, Jon allows them to pass through the gates and come south of the Wall.

### In the North

Caught in a snowstorm, Stannis's army is low on morale and supplies after Ramsay Bolton sabotages his resources in the night. Stannis commands Davos to return to Castle Black and ask Jon for supplies and manpower, promising to return the favor when he takes the Iron Throne. After Davos leaves, Stannis reluctantly allows Melisandre to sacrifice his daughter, Shireen, to the Lord of Light for the prospect of better weather, so his army can continue their march to Winterfell.

### In Dorne

Jaime secures Myrcella Baratheon's release from Doran Martell's court against an indignant Ellaria Sand. Bronn is also released from captivity by Prince Trystane.

### In Braavos

Arya Stark detours from her mission given by Jaqen H'ghar to reconnoiter Meryn Trant instead.

### In Meereen

In the fighting pits, Daenerys Targaryen attends a tournament. To her surprise, Jorah is competing, and he wins. As he does, the Sons of the Harpy attack the stadium of Daznak's Pit in an attempt to assassinate Daenerys Targaryen, who is rescued by Jorah and her largest dragon, Drogon. Leaving Tyrion Lannister and her retainers behind with awe, Daenerys rides the dragon for the first time and flees the city.

## Production

### Writing

This episode was adapted for television by series co-creators and showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It contains content from George R. R. Martin's novel *A Dance with Dragons*, chapters "The Sacrifice", "The Watcher", and "Daenerys IX". It also contains material from the preview chapter "Mercy" from the forthcoming *The Winds of Winter*.

Like other episodes this season, "The Dance of Dragons" contains original content not found in Martin's novels. This episode features the first instance of containing content that will appear in future, forthcoming novels. Martin confirmed to Benioff and Weiss Shireen would be burned to death as a sacrifice in an unpublished future novel. Benioff said: "When George first told us about this, it was one of those moments where I remember looking at Dan, it was just, like, god it's so, so horrible, and it's so good in a story sense, because it all comes together." Weiss says he believes the decision to kill Shireen in this way is, "entirely \[narratively\] justified," questioning why "we're all highly selective about which characters deserve our empathy. Stannis has been burning people alive for seemingly trivial reasons since season 2."

### Filming

"The Dance of Dragons" was directed by David Nutter. He also directed the subsequent episode, "Mother's Mercy".

## Reception

### Ratings

"The Dance of Dragons" was watched by an estimated 7.14 million American viewers during its first airing. With Live+7 DVR viewing factored in, the episode had an overall rating of 9.92 million viewers, and a 5.2 in the 18–49 demographic. In the United Kingdom, the episode was viewed by 2.473 million viewers, making it the highest-rated broadcast that week. It also received 0.141 million timeshift viewers.

### Critical reception

"The Dance of Dragons" received highly positive reviews, with many critics praising the episode's conclusion in Daznak's Pit. The showrunners's decision to have Stannis sacrifice Shireen, however, polarized critics, with some praising it as strong character development and others feeling it betrayed Stannis's character. The episode received a rating of 88% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes from 33 reviews with an average rating of 8.9 out of 10 and the critics consensus reading "Underscored by an especially heartwrenching moment and a spectacular display of power, *The Dance of Dragons* successfully delivers the shock and awe audiences have come to expect from the series' penultimate episodes."

Matt Fowler of *IGN* heavily praised the episode, awarding it 9.3/10, an "amazing" score. He especially praised the episode's final act, stating "And just the spectacle of Dany climbing on top of Drogon, with care, and then soaring up and off into the sky was remarkable. It's funny that a huge moment for her as a Targaryen and the possible future leader of Westeros came right during one of her most bloody and spectacular failures as a Queen." He summarized his review by saying "GoT delivered another exciting (and unsettling) episode as Stannis made a big decision & Daenerys attended a tournament" and labelled Stannis's decision a strong point of the episode. Charlotte Runcie of *The Daily Telegraph* also reviewed the episode favorably: "Hurling Hollywood-level budgets behind a multi-season TV show paid rich rewards this week, from the enormous *Gladiator*-style sweep of the crowded coliseum arena to thrillingly choreographed fights to the death before a huge, baying audience." Runcie was also impressed with the Shireen sacrifice scene, calling it "one of the most upsetting scenes" in season 5.

Writing for *The A.V. Club*, both writers responded positively to the episode. Writing for people who have not read the novels, Brandon Nowalk awarded the episode an A−, praising Stannis's sacrifice of Shireen. He said "Stannis burning his daughter Shireen at the stake is the hardest *Game of Thrones* has hit since the Red Wedding, only this violence is completely drained of excitement. It’s not a shock moment, and there’s no gross-out gore as in Oberyn’s death. Instead it’s a long, cold death march. What’s most impressive is the pacing, which is not the season’s strongest suit." He also praised the episode's conclusion in Meereen by saying "The close-up of Dany taking Missandei’s hand is so vivid I’m practically getting misty now", and further stated "The CGI could use some polish, but nothing short of Shireen can turn my smile upside down." Writing for people who have read the novels, Myles McNutt awarded the episode a B+, praising the Meereen story by saying "It’s a powerful image, rendered as effectively as it could be given the budgetary limitations of the series. Watching Dany soar about the stadium on Drogon is an iconic image, but it’s not one that any other characters could really experience, which is meaningful in and of itself."

Erik Kain of *Forbes* was more critical of the sacrifice scene. While he praised the episode overall as "thrilling and tragic and intense," he called the sacrifice scene "a horrible, no-good, very bad, infuriating way to ruin Stannis as a character" and "a monstrosity of a writing decision." He also said the scene was "one of the most disturbing, baffling, and unnecessary departures from the books" that the show has so far presented, though he noted that the sacrifice scene had actually been George R. R. Martin's idea and that (with two installments of *The Song of Ice and Fire* still unpublished) it was unclear exactly how much Shireen's death in the show would deviate from her story arc in the books.

Finding a middle ground, Alyssa Rosenberg of *The Washington Post* agreed that the sacrifice scene was disturbing, but she found that David Nutter "did a beautiful job" directing it and believed that the scene wondrously developed Stannis as a character who is so fixated on "his own chosenness" that he will do anything to fulfill his claim to the throne. She also noted that the scene departed from the books so far, but would possibly be reconciled in one of the future installments.

### Accolades

| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen | Nominated |  |
| | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series | Rob McLachlan | Nominated | |
| | Outstanding Costumes for a Fantasy Series | Michele Clapton, Sheena Wichary, Nina Ayres, Alex Fordham | Nominated ||
| | Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama series | Katie Weiland | Won ||
| | Outstanding Special Visual Effects | Steve Kullback, Joe Bauer, Adam Chazen, Jabbar Raisani, Eric Carney,
Stuart Brisdon, Derek Spears, James Kinnings, Matthew Rouleau | Won ||
| | Hollywood Professional Alliance | Outstanding Visual Effects | Joe Bauer, Steve Kullback, Derek Spears, Eric Carney, Jabbar Raisani | Won |  |
| 2016 | American Cinema Editors Awards 2016 | Best Edited One-Hour Series For Non-Commercial Television | Katie Weiland | Nominated |  |
| | Visual Effects Society Awards 2015 | Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode | Joe Bauer, Steve Kullback, Eric Carney, Derek Spears, Stuart Brisdon for "The Dance of Dragons" | Won |  |
| | Outstanding Animated Performance in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project | James Kinnings, Michael Holzl, Joseph Hoback, Matt Derksen for "Dance of Dragons" - Drogon Arena Rescue | Nominated | |
| | Outstanding Created Environment in an Episode, Commercial, or Real-Time Project | Rajeev B R., Loganathan Perumal, Ramesh Shankers, Anders Ericson for "Drogon Arena" | Nominated | |
| | Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode | Dan Breckwoldt, Martin Furman, Sophie Marfleet, Eric Andrusyszyn for "Drogon Arena" | Nominated | |
| | Canadian Society of Cinematographers | TV series Cinematography | Robert McLachlan | Won |  |
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## InfoBox

| "**The Dance of Dragons**" | |
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| *Game of Thrones* episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5
Episode 9 |
| Directed by | David Nutter |
| Written by | David Benioff
D. B. Weiss |
| Featured music | Ramin Djawadi |
| Cinematography by | Robert McLachlan |
| Editing by | Katie Weiland |
| Original air date | June 7, 2015 (2015-06-07) |
| Running time | 52 minutes |
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