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Kevin Eldon
Born	4 December 1960 (1960-12-04) (age 48) Chatham, Kent, England

Kevin Eldon (born 4 December 1960, Chatham, Kent, England) is an English actor and comedian. He has appeared prominently in several of the most critically-acclaimed British comedy television shows of the 1990s, notably Fist of Fun, I’m Alan Partridge, Big Train, Brass Eye and Jam.

He is a Soka Gakkai Buddhist.

Career

Early career and Lee & Herring

Eldon started on the stand-up circuit in the early ’90s performing an act in character as the political poet Paul Hamilton, but has also done stand-up as himself on occasions. On the circuit, Eldon formed a friendship with the stand-up comedian Stewart Lee, which would later lead to an invitation to work with Lee on the radio series Lee & Herring’s Fist Of Fun with Lee’s comedy partner Richard Herring. Lee and Herring would usually refer to him as “The Actor Kevin Eldon”, in reference to his claim to be an actor, rather than a comedian.

Eldon’s work sat well with that of Lee & Herring, and he continued to work with them on all their projects, including The Lee & Herring Radio Show, Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy, providing a multitude of characters, most notably: the jelly-obsessed False Rod Hull; and Simon Quinlank, the self-proclaimed “king of hobbies”, who would always be accompanied by a flask of “weak lemon drink”. He also played a version of himself, as The Actor Kevin Eldon. In addition to his Lee & Herring collaborations, he has worked closely with Simon Munnery and Julia Davis.

Stage and screen

Eldon has featured in several other comedy projects including Brass Eye, Smack the Pony, Sean Lock’s 15 Storeys High, Spaced, Look Around You, Black Books, Big Train, World of Pub, The Sunday Show, Comedy Nation, Cows (ill-fated Eddie Izzard-penned comedy pilot that followed the life of a family of cows), Jam, I Am Not An Animal, I’m Alan Partridge, The Sofa of Time, Attention Scum!, Nighty Night, Green Wing, Jammin’, Nathan Barley, Hyperdrive and Saxondale. He has also been seen on the comedy panel show, Never Mind The Buzzcocks. His guest appearance on Black Books involved him playing the critically appraised role of a creepy cleaner. He also had a brief role in the 2005 film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, playing “Man with Dog” alongside his friend and regular on-screen companion Mark Heap who had a similar role.

Eldon has also appeared onstage performing as a spoof member of the German band Kraftwerk for the recorded version of Bill Bailey’s Part Troll comedy tour when it was performed in Hammersmith, along with two others (John Moloney and Martin Trenaman). He played the same role in Bailey’s 2007 tour Tinselworm.

In late 2006 Eldon helped organise and produce a short tour and a West End run of Pinter’s People at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London (2007). The show was a collection of sketches written by Harold Pinter. Pinter titled the show himself. The show also starred Geraldine McNulty, Bill Bailey and Sally Philips.

Eldon has recently starred as First Officer York in two series of the BBC sitcom Hyperdrive. He also played the role of Pete in the David Shrigley/Chris Shepherd animation Who I Am And What I Want, and appeared in Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s Cop Comedy Hot Fuzz, as Sergeant Tony Fisher.

Eldon played Mick McManus in Tim Plester’s short film World of Wrestling in 2007.

In October 2008 he played housemate Joplin in Charlie Brooker’s five-part horror thriller for E4 Dead Set.

Radio

He made a guest appearance in a special webcast version of Doctor Who in a story called Death Comes to Time, in which he played Antimony, a companion of the Doctor.

Kevin Eldon has also written and starred in a series of monologues, collectively entitled Speakers, broadcast on the London art radio station, Resonance FM. The podcasts are available on the station’s website. Eldon also features on a CERN podcast and YouTube video with Simon Munnery.

In 2008, Eldon presented “Poets’ Tree”, a four-part “poetry type programme” for Radio 4, in the character of Paul Hamilton. The series was co-written and edited by Stewart Lee.

References

1. ^ http://www.notbbc.co.uk/features/15/kevin_eldon_interview.html
2. ^ http://www.resonancearchive1.org.uk/audio/speakers

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Bühl bei Aarberg (or simply Bühl) is a municipality in the district of Nidau in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Its neighboring municipalities in a clockwise direction from the north are Hermrigen, Kappelen, Walperswil and Epsach.

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Renmin University of China Law School, formerly Renmin University of China Department of Law, is the school of law under Renmin University of China. It was founded as the Department of Law in 1950 and renamed to Law School in 1988. Its current dean is Wang Liming, Honorary Dean is Zeng Xianyi, Deputy Dean is Han Dayuan, associate deans are Ye Qiuhua, Long Yifei, Zheng Ding, and Liu Mingxiang.

Heads of Department and Deans of School

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1. Zhu Shiying (???) 1950.8-1950.11
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9. Zeng Xianyi 1990.11-1994.11

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1. Zeng Xianyi, 1994.11-2005.5
2. Wang Liming 2005.5

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Capital City Red service
Slogan	We are Cardiff’s Bus company
Parent company	Cardiff Council
Founded	1902
Headquarters	Leckwith Depot, Sloper Road, Cardiff
Service type	Local-regional bus service
Hubs	Cardiff central bus station
Fleet	219 buses
Daily ridership	80,000
Operator	Cardiff City Transport Services Limited
Web site	Cardiff Bus website

Cardiff Bus (Welsh: Bws Caerdydd) is the dominant bus operator in Cardiff, Wales and the surrounding area, including Barry and Penarth. Its hub is Cardiff central bus station. The company is wholly owned by Cardiff County Council and is one of the few municipal bus companies to survive the effects of UK bus deregulation in the late 1980s.

History

While horse buses (and later horse trams) had run in the city since 1845, Cardiff Bus can trace its history back to 1902, when the borough council took over and electrified a tram line between Roath and the city centre. It had been previously run by the Cardiff Tramway Company. The resultant Cardiff Corporation Tramways spent the next 3 decades extending its electric tram network, and at its peak in 1927 ran 141 electric trams over 18 miles of line.

On Christmas Eve 1920, the corporation introduced its first motor buses, although the first motor bus route was operated by the Tramway Company from 1907.

The first trolleybuses were introduced in 1942, their introduction having been delayed by the outbreak of World War II. The intention was to convert the remaining tramway system to trolleybus operation, then to extend the network. While the first stage was completed in 1950, the only extension made to the system was to Ely which took place in 1955. Although powers had been obtained to considerably expand the network, a policy U-turn occurred in 1961 when the decision was made to replace all the trolleybuses with motor buses. This task was completed in 1970, bringing to an end 68 years of electric traction on the streets of Cardiff.

A Leyland Lynx Mk.II on service 49 to Llanrumney

The Transport Act of 1985 deregulated bus services outside London and required all Local Authorities to establish private “arm’s length” bus companies. In October 1986 the council established its own wholly owned company - ‘Cardiff City Transport Services Limited’, trading as ‘Cardiff Bus’. In 1992, the closure of the National Welsh bus company led Cardiff Bus to extend and intensify its network in the areas and towns surrounding Cardiff, including Barry, the Vale of Glamorgan and Caerphilly. The Caerphilly local network of services including links between Cardiff, Caerphilly, Blackwood and Tredegar were discontinued in 2001 and are now provided by Stagecoach in South Wales and IBT.

Former Cardiff Bus Volvo Ailsa No.452, now sold to Sunray Travel.

Some loss-making services have been withdrawn and are operated under local authority tender by other companies, including Bebb Travel and the former Shamrock group, now owned by Bebb’s proprietor Veolia. Several operate entirely within the City of Cardiff, while some in the Vale of Glamorgan are operated by ESTbus.

In September 2007, Council chief executive Byron Davies unveiled plans aimed at massive efficiency improvements and bringing in additional funding, which would include selling County Hall, the Cardiff Heliport and up to 40% of Cardiff Bus.

Operations

Cardiff Bus headquarters, located in Leckwith.

Scania OmniCity operating service 27, branded Capital City Green

The interior of a mid-1990s Dennis Dart operated by Cardiff Bus

Scania N-Series/East Lancs Olympus operating service No.57 after turning at Pontprennau.

Cardiff Bus has a turnover of £27million, employs around 720 people, on an average weekday carries around 100,000 passengers. The fleet and drivers are managed against a timetable using software systems supplied by UK based software supplier Omnibus Systems, which allows the real-time digital information displays positioned at many stops around the city, to inform people when the next bus is due and alerting waiting passengers of any delays. Raised kerbs have been installed at the majority of stops.

Fares

Cardiff Bus operates an exact fare policy and no change is given. The city used to be divided into four fare zones for the purpose of fare calculation, but on 5 April 2009, Cardiff Bus introduced a flat fare of £1.50 for a one-way journey or £3 for all-day travel in Cardiff and Penarth, or £1.40/£2.80 for travel within Barry. Special fares apply for travel between Cardiff and Barry, Newport, the Airport and Llantwit Major.

Fleet

The current fleet is composed of 219 buses, the entire operational is comprised of low-floor buses.

In May 2006, Cardiff Bus invested 4.5m in 19 new Scania OmniCity articulated bendy buses to provide much needed extra capacity on the busiest routes, and at 235,000 each show the high specification. Thirteen operate exclusively on the 17/18 Ely route, branded Capital City Red, and four buses operate on the Bay and City Centre link service known as baycar.

On 8 October 2007, Cardiff Bus received 15 Scania OmniCitys and 13 Scania N230UD/East Lancs Olympus in late November, with the final delivered in early 2008.,. These replaced the Leyland Lynxs, the Optare MetroRiders, Volvo Ailsa B55 and the N-registration Dennis Darts. Six Scania Omnicity buses will operate exclusively on the 27 route, branded Capital City Green, from the city centre to Llanishen and Thornhill, with the remainder principally operating on services 28, 29, 29B, 30 as well as the christmas park & ride services. On the Capital City Green routes, there are 6 buses, all with a person from Cardiff on the back of them. Bus 721 is unknown, bus 722 is Michael Simmons, bus 723 is unknown, bus 724 is Pauline De Rochha, bus 725 is Daniel Bois and bus 726 is Stephen Bailey.

On 15 December 2007 Cardiff Bus held a final running day as a farewell gesture to the Volvo Ailsa, to commemorate 25 years of service to the city starting in March 1982. Cardiff Bus scheduled two Ailsas, 408 (NDW408X) and 436 (A436VNY) to run a number of duplicate services on a large variety of routes. All Volvos with the exception of three, have now passed onto new owners with: 407 and 436 with the Cardiff Transport Preservation group; 404 and 419 with members of the Rhymney Valley Transport Preservation Society.

Controversy

Cardiff Bus’s dominant position has sometimes come in for criticism and investigation. In 2004, 2Travel, a company operating significant numbers of school contract services in South Wales, launched low-cost services in Cardiff and Swansea to utilise its stock between the school runs. In both cases, the low fares were achieved by omitting the major bus stations, thereby avoiding hefty access fees. While the services were mostly ignored by First in Swansea, Cardiff Bus launched a basic service in competition with 2Travel, using white buses bearing no livery (displaying only the operator address as required) also stopping short of the bus station. The Office of Fair Trading eventually launched an investigation in 2007 into claims of “predatory behaviour” 18 months after 2Travel had ceased the service and gone into liquidation.

See also

• List of bus operators of the United Kingdom
• Municipal bus companies
• Transport in Wales
• Transport in Cardiff

References

• 26 September 2005 - ‘History of Cardiff Bus’ at cardiffbus.com. Accessed 5 October 2005

1. ^ Cardiff Bus: Offices
2. ^ Cardiff Bus: History
3. ^ Next stop: The great big sell-off of Cardiff Bus South Wales Echo - September 6 2007
4. ^ “Staff turnover plummets to record low levels”. TUC Wales. http://www.wtuclearn.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&Itemid=49. Retrieved on 2008-11-02. 
5. ^ “Case Study - Cardiff Bus (Bws Caerdydd)”. omnibus-systems.co.uk. http://www.omnibus-systems.co.uk/case_cardiffbus.html. Retrieved on 2008-11-02. 
6. ^ http://www.worldtravelguide.net/city/30/getting_around/Europe/Cardiff.html
7. ^ http://www.cardiffbus.com/news/popup_news18.shtml
8. ^ Cardiff Bus Fleet List
9. ^ Bus and Coach.com
10. ^ Darwen East Lancs & Darwen North West Master Collection @ Fotopic.Net
11. ^ Cardiff Bus takes ‘Going Green to the next level
12. ^ OFT under fire for delays in Cardiff Bus case - icWales
13. ^ BBC News -Bus firm predatory tactics claim

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133 Cyrene is a fairly large and very bright main belt asteroid. It is an S-type.

It was discovered by J. C. Watson on August 16, 1873 and named after Cyrene, a nymph, daughter of king Hypseus and beloved of Apollo in Greek mythology.

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Jidapterus (meaning “Jilin University wing”) was a genus of azhdarchoid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China. It is based on CAD-01, a nearly complete skeleton with partial skull. The skull is toothless and relatively long, with a straight beak, and a large hole where the antorbital fenestra is joined with the nostrils. The eye sockets are small, and there is no crest along the lower jaw as seen in ornithocheiroids, although a short projection was present at the back of the skull. The wingspan of this individual was estimated to be 1.7 m (5.58 ft). Its classification has been unstable; the original authors did not assign it to a group. Some of the original authors later suggested it was a more basal azhdarchoid, whereas another group suggested it was closer to Pteranodon and possibly the same genus as Chaoyangopterus David Unwin assigned it to Tapejaridae without comment in The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time, but later, in a collaboration with Lü, agreed that it was a basal azhdarchoid and close relative of Chaoyangopterus and placed both in the new family Chaoyangopteridae.

References

1. ^ Dong Z., Sun Y., and Wu S. (2003). On a new pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Chaoyang Basin, Western Liaoning, China. Global Geology 22(1):1-7.
2. ^ Li, J., Lü, J., and Zhang, B. (2003). “A new Lower Cretaceous sinopterid pterosaur from the Western Liaoning, China.” Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 42(3):442-447.
3. ^ J. Lü, and Q. Ji. (2006). Preliminary results of a phylogenetic analysis of the pterosaurs from western Liaoning and surrounding area. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 22(1):239-261.
4. ^ Xiaolin Wang, Kellner, A.W.K., Zhonghe Zhou, and de Almeida Campos, D. (2005). Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature 437:875-879.
5. ^ Unwin, D.M. (2006). The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time. Pi Press:New York, p. 273. ISBN 0-13-146308-X.
6. ^ Lü, J., Unwin, D.M., Xu, L., and Zhang, X. (2008). “A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China and its implications for pterosaur phylogeny and evolution.” Naturwissenschaften,

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Bill Foster (born April 1, 1936) is an American former college basketball coach who won over 500 games during a career that spanned 30 years. Foster, a native of Palatka, Florida, compiled an overall record of 532-325 in 30 seasons.

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Montecito Broadcast Group, LLC was an American holding company that operates television stations with most of its operations centered largely west of the Mississippi River. The company was founded in 1984 as SJL Broadcast Management, renaming itself in 1996 as SJL Communications and in 2000 as SJL Broadcasting (coinciding with their purchase of Gateway Communications). The company was reincorporated in October 2005 when SJL partnered with investment firm Blackstone Group to purchase four stations from Emmis Communications. The company is based in Montecito, California and is headed by George Lilly who was the head of the original consortium that formed the original SJL group.

Montecito maintains a unique relationship with Lilly Broadcasting (a company that only owns one broadcast station, WENY-TV in Elmira) in that the latter company was founded and is primarily owned by Brian Lilly, son of George Lilly. WSEE, Lilly’s station in Erie, Pennsylvania, is controlled in part by Montecito’s WICU.

On July 24, 2007, Montecito announced the sale of all of its stations (KHON, KOIN, KSNW and KSNT) to New Vision Television, ending the partnership between SJL and The Blackstone Group. The FCC granted approval of this sale in late-October of that year, and ownership was officially transferred on November 1.

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Adeline Canac

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Country represented:	France
Date of birth:	May 20, 1990 (1990-05-20) (age 18)
Height:	158 cm
Partner:	Maximin Coia
Coach:	Vivien Rolland, Jean-Rolland Racle
Former coach:	Stephane Bernadis
Choreographer:	Line Haddad
Skating club:	Club des Francais Volants
ISU Personal Best Scores
Combined Total:	135.64	2008 Trophee Eric Bompard
Short Program:	47.54	2008 Trophee Eric Bompard
Free Skate:	90.36	2008 Skate America

Adeline Canac (born May 20, 1990 in Lagny sur Marne) is a French pair skater who previously competed as a single skater. She competed internationally as a single skater and her highest placement was fourth at the 2004 Triglav Trophy. She was eighth at the senior French nationals in the Olympic year. She switched to pair skating after that. As a pair skater, she competes with Maxima Coia. The pair competed at the 2006 Trophee Eric Bompard, where they placed seventh. They are the 2008 French national champions.

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The Maecenas Foundation is a Swiss foundation whose sole officer is Mario Roberty, a Swiss attorney. Centered in the city of Basel, it came to notice in 2005 when Swiss art dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, the owner of the Codex Tchacos, which contains the Gospel of Judas, informed the press that the manuscript would be donated to Maecenas for conservation and publication. The foundation reached a commercial agreement with National Geographic, and sold the copyright of the Coptic text to the magazine. Roberty was previously best known as Nussberger-Tchacos’ lawyer.

The creation of a foundation to contain the Gospel of Judas was proposed earlier on by the various people who owned it between 2000–2005. Papers online at Michel van Rijn’s site indicate that such shell foundations were part of the process of marketing the text by the art dealers.

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