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Bats for the Junior League level may have a maximum length of thirty four 34 inches and a maximum barrel diameter of 2 inches Bats for the Big and Senior League levels may have a maximum length of thirty six 36 inches and a maximum barrel diameter of 2 inches Nonwood Big and Senior League bats must meet the Batted Ball Coefficient of Restitution BBCOR testing standards that are currently used in the NCAA and NFHS high school Intermediate Little League bats must meet Junior League specifications |
When the pitcher is ready to pitch a baserunner may not leave the bag until the pitch reaches the batter in Minor League and standard Little League In the upper levels including Intermediate Little League the runner can leave the bag at any time while the ball is in play |
If a fielder is waiting at the base with the ball an advancing runner must attempt to avoid contact A runner may not slide head first except when retreating to a previously held base |
In the upper levels runners must still make an attempt to avoid contact if possible and may not maliciously initiate contact with a fielder |
The upper limit of the strike zone extends to the batter s armpits |
In Tee Ball Minor League and Little League if uncaught third strike rule is waived by the local league the batter is out after the third strike regardless of whether the pitched ball is held by the catcher In Little League both standard and Intermediate Junior Senior and Big League a batter may attempt to advance to first base on a dropped third strike if first base is unoccupied with less than two outs or if first base is unoccupied or occupied with two outs |
If the batter is hit by a pitch the batter gets walked automatically However if the batter does not make an attempt to get out of the way of the pitched ball the home plate umpire may continue the at bat |
Players who have been substituted for may return to the game under certain conditions though a player who is removed as pitcher may not return to pitch |
Pitchers in all divisions are limited to a specific pitch count per game and a mandatory rest period between outings These vary with age The rest period also depends on the number of pitches thrown |
If the pitcher hits too many batters with the ball or intentionally hits the batter he is ejected from the pitching spot |
Historically a pitcher could intentionally walk a batter by simply announcing his intent to do so and not have to actually throw any pitches Beginning in 2008 the pitcher had to actually pitch the required four balls which were counted against the pitch count In 2017 the Major and Minor levels of Little League Baseball aligned with a new rule of Major League Baseball and allowed the batter to intentionally walk a batter simply by declaration The intentional walk adds 4 to the pitcher s pitch count This change rescinded a former rule in which the team at bat could decline the award of first base and force the pitcher to pitch such as to further inflate the pitch count to force the removal of the pitcher |
Local leagues have a certain amount of flexibility For example a league may opt to use the continuous batting order rule 404 under which each player on the team s roster bats even when not in the defensive lineup Leagues may also waive the ten run rule 410 e which ends the game if one team is ahead by ten or more runs after four innings |
The following is an incomplete list of current and former Major League Baseball players who played Little League Baseball Each player also participated in the Little League World Series unless otherwise noted |
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a nonfiction work by John Berendt The book Berendt s first was published in 1994 It became a New York Times Best Seller for 216 weeks following its debut and remains the longest standing New York Times Best Seller |
The book was subsequently made into Clint Eastwood s 1997 film adaptation It was also adapted as a metabook in 2015 |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is atmospherically Deep South coastal Savannah Georgia Beaufort South Carolina and Southern Gothic in tone depicting a wide range of eccentric personalities in and around the city of Savannah Georgia |
The story unsettling and real broke down the idea of the quintessential phenomenon of a true American city only to reveal its quirks its man walking an invisible dog its voice of the drag queen a high society man in its elite community all that somehow unravels a murder mystery Virtually seeming like a novel and reading like a tale the nonfictional story is about the real life events surrounding the murder |
The central narrative concerns the killing of Danny Hansford a local male prostitute characterized as a good time not yet had by all by an important Savannah socialite respected antiques dealer Jim Williams This results in four murder trials with the fourth ending in acquittal after the judge finally agreed to a change of venue to move the case away from the Savannah jury pool The book describes Williams version of the killing which is that it was in self defense the result of Hansford who is prone to fits of rage shooting at Williams with a gun that is on display and Williams shooting back in self defense and not murder premeditated or otherwise by Williams The death occurred in Williams home Mercer House |
The book highlights many other notable Savannah residents as well including The Lady Chablis a transgender woman and local drag queen and entertainer Chablis provides both a Greek chorus of sorts as well as a light hearted contrast to the more serious action |
The book s plot is based on real life events that occurred in the 1980s and is classified as nonfiction Because it reads like a novel and rearranges the sequence of true events in time it is sometimes referred to as a nonfiction novel or faction a subgenre popularized by Truman Capote and Norman Mailer |
The title alludes to the voodoo notion of midnight the period between the time for good magic 11 pm to midnight and the time for evil magic midnight to 1 am and the garden of good and evil which refers principally to the cemetery in Beaufort South Carolina where Dr Buzzard the husband of Minerva the voodoo priestess who figures in the story is buried It is over his grave that Minerva performed the incantations to ensure a more successful result in the retrial for the case of Jim Williams |
The famous Bird Girl statue originally designed both as art and as a birdseed holder was originally located at Savannah s historic Bonaventure Cemetery A Savannah photographer Jack Leigh was commissioned to take a photograph for the cover of the book The cover image became immediately iconic with author John Berendt calling it one of the strongest covers I ve ever seen and the statue became a popular stop for tourists Due to rising concerns about the integrity of the statue and the cemetery s privacy Bird Girl was relocated in 1997 for display in Telfair Museums in Savannah In late 2014 the statue was moved to a dedicated space in the Telfair Museums Jepson Center for the Arts on West York Street in Savannah Both Hugh W Mercer and Johnny Mercer are buried in Bonaventure Cemetery |
The book won the 1995 Boeke Prize and was one of the finalists for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction |
The Associated Press AP Poll provides weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports football men s basketball and women s basketball The rankings are compiled by polling 65 sportswriters and broadcasters from across the nation Each voter provides his own ranking of the top 25 teams and the individual rankings are then combined to produce the national ranking by giving a team 25 points for a first place vote 24 for a second place vote and so on down to 1 point for a twenty fifth place vote Ballots of the voting members in the AP Poll are made public |
The football poll is released Sundays at 2pm Eastern time during the football season unless ranked teams have not finished their games |
The AP college football poll has a long history The news media began running their own polls of sports writers to determine who was by popular opinion the best football team in the country at the end of the season One of the earliest such polls was the AP College Football Poll first run in 1934 In 1935 AP sports editor Alan J Gould declared a three way tie for national champion in football between Minnesota Princeton and Southern Methodist Minnesota fans protested and a number of Gould s colleagues led by Charles Cy Sherman suggested he create a poll of sports editors instead of only using his own list and the next year the poll was born It has run continuously from 1936 |
Due to the long standing historical ties between individual college football conferences and high paying bowl games like the Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl the NCAA had not held a tournament or championship game to determine the champion of what is now the highest division NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision the Division I Football Championship Subdivision and lower divisions do hold championship tournaments As a result the public and the media began to acknowledge the leading vote getter in the final AP Poll as the national champion for that season |
While the AP Poll currently lists the Top 25 teams in the nation from 1936 to 1961 the wire service only ranked 20 teams From 1962 to 1967 only 10 teams were recognized From 1968 to 1988 the AP again resumed its Top 20 before expanding to the current 25 teams in 1989 |
The AP began conducting a preseason poll starting in 1950 |
At the end of the 1947 season the AP released an unofficial postbowl poll which differed from the regular season final poll Until the 1968 college football season the final AP poll of the season was released following the end of the regular season with the lone exception of the 1965 season In 1964 Alabama was named the national champion in the final AP Poll following the completion of the regular season but lost in the Orange Bowl to Texas leaving Arkansas as the only undefeated untied team after the Razorbacks defeated Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl Classic In 1965 the AP s decision to wait to crown its champion paid handsomely as top ranked Michigan State lost to UCLA in the Rose Bowl number two Arkansas lost to LSU in the Cotton Bowl Classic and fourth ranked Alabama defeated third ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl vaulting the Crimson Tide to the top of the AP s final poll Michigan State was named national champion in the final UPI Coaches Poll which did not conduct a postbowl poll |
Beginning in the 1968 season the post bowl game poll became permanent and the AP championship reflected the bowl game results The UPI did not follow suit with the coaches poll until the 1974 season |
Clemson 1 vs Alabama 2 As of the completion of the 2015 season the number one ranked team has faced the number two ranked team 50 times since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936 The number one team has a record of 28 20 2 against the number two team |
In 1997 the Bowl Championship Series BCS was developed to try to unify the poll results by picking two teams for a real national championship game For the first several years the AP Poll factored in the determination of the BCS rankings along with other factors including the Coaches Poll and computer based polls Because of a series of controversies surrounding the BCS the AP demanded in December 2004 that its poll no longer be used in the BCS rankings and so the 2004 2005 season was the last season that the AP Poll was used for this purpose |
In the 2003 season the BCS system broke down when the final BCS standings ranked the University of Southern California USC at No 3 while the two human polls in the system had ranked USC at No 1 As a result USC did not play in the BCS designated national championship game After defeating another highly ranked team Michigan in its final game the AP Poll kept USC at No 1 while the Coaches Poll was contractually obligated to select the winner of the BCS game Louisiana State University LSU as the No 1 team The resulting split national title was the very problem that the BCS was created to solve and has been widely considered an embarrassment |
In 2004 a new controversy erupted at the end of the season when Auburn and Utah who both finished the regular season 12 0 were left out of the BCS title game in favor of Oklahoma who also was 12 0 and had won decisively over Colorado in the Big 12 Championship game USC went on to a win easily over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl while Auburn and Utah both won their bowl games leaving three undefeated teams at the end of the season Also in that same year Texas made up late ground on California Cal in the BCS standings and as a result grabbed a high payout at large spot in the Rose Bowl Previous to that poll Cal had been ranked ahead of Texas in both human polls and the BCS poll Going into their final game the Golden Bears were made aware that while margin of victory did not affect computer rankings it did affect human polls and just eight voters changing their vote could affect the final standings Both teams won their game that week but the Texas coach Mack Brown had made a public effort to lobby for his team to be moved higher in the ranking When the human polls were released Texas remained behind Cal but it had closed the gap enough so that the BCS poll which determines placement placed Texas above Cal angering both Cal and its conference the Pac 10 The final poll positions had been unchanged with Cal at No 4 AP No 4 coaches and No 6 computers polls and Texas at No 6 AP No 5 coaches and No 4 computer polls The AP Poll voters were caught in the middle because their vote changes were automatically made public while the votes of the Coaches poll were kept confidential Although there had been a more substantial shift in the votes of the Coaches Poll the only clear targets for the ire of fanatical fans were the voters in the AP Poll While officials from both Cal and the Pac 10 called for the coaches votes to be made public the overtures were turned down and did little to solve the problem of AP voters Cal went on to lose to Texas Tech in the Holiday Bowl Texas defeated Michigan in the Rose Bowl |
Many members of the press who voted in the AP Poll were upset by the controversy and at the behest of its members the AP asked that its poll no longer be used in the BCS rankings The 2004 season was the last season that the AP Poll was used in the BCS rankings it was replaced in the BCS equation by the newly created Harris Interactive College Football Poll |
The AP Poll is not the only college football poll The other major poll is the Coaches Poll which has been sponsored by several organizations the United Press 1950 1957 the United Press International 1958 1990 USA Today 1991 present CNN 1991 1996 and ESPN 1997 2005 Having two major polls has led to numerous split national titles where the two polls disagreed on the No 1 team This has occurred on eleven different occasions 1954 1957 1965 1970 1973 1974 1978 1990 1991 1997 2003 |
In Division I men s and women s college basketball the AP Poll is largely just a tool to compare schools throughout the season and spark debate as it has no bearing on postseason play Generally all top 25 teams in the poll are invited to the men s and women s NCAA basketball tournament also known as March Madness The poll is usually released every Monday and voters ballots are made public |
The AP began compiling a ranking of the top 20 college men s basketball teams during the 1948 1949 season It has issued this poll continuously since the 1950 1951 season North Carolina has been ranked 1 the most times 9 and UCLA has been ranked 1 the second most times 8 |
The women s basketball poll began during the 1976 1977 season and was initially compiled by Mel Greenberg and published by The Philadelphia Inquirer At first it was a poll of coaches conducted via telephone where coaches identified top teams and a list of the Top 20 team was produced The initial list of coaches did not include Pat Summitt who asked to join the group not to improve her rankings but because of the lack of media coverage Summitt believed it would be a good way to stay on top of who the top teams were outside of her own schedule The contributors continued to be coaches until 1994 when the AP took over administration of the poll from Greenberg and switched to a panel of writers In 1994 Tennessee started out as No 1 in the polls with Connecticut at No 4 After losses by the No 2 and No 3 teams Tennessee and Connecticut were ranked No 1 and No 2 headed into a showdown scheduled as a special event on Martin Luther King day the only women s basketball game scheduled on that day Because of the unusual circumstances the decision was made to hold off the AP voting for one day to ensure it would be after the game Connecticut won the game and moved into first place in the AP poll published on Tuesday for the only time Connecticut went on to complete an undefeated season Over the history of the poll over 255 coaches have had a team represented in polls |
Beginning in 2012 the AP began issuing a weekly pro football ranking the AP Pro32 rankings |
Judie Tzuke born Judie Myers 3 April 1956 is an English singer songwriter She is best known for her 1979 hit Stay with Me till Dawn which reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart |
Tzuke s family relocated from Poland to England in the 1920s and changed their surname from Tzuke to Myers Her mother Jean Silverside was a television actress and her father Sefton Myers was a successful property developer who also managed artists and singers most notably Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice during the writing of Jesus Christ Superstar When Tzuke embarked on her singing career she decided to reclaim the family s Polish name as her stage name |
Educated in the visual arts performing arts and music Tzuke performed in folk clubs from the age of 15 Her meeting with Mike Paxman in 1975 was a turning point and they began to collaborate Under the name Tzuke Paxo they eventually secured a recording contract and the duo released a single These are the Laws produced by Tony Visconti |
Tzuke s career as a solo artist began in 1977 when she signed to Elton John s label The Rocket Record Company Her first single was on Rocket For You released in 1978 Her only notable success Stay with Me Till Dawn was released in 1979 The track which was cowritten with Mike Paxman became a Top 20 hit in the UK in the summer of 1979 and a Top 10 hit in Australia and was featured on Tzuke s 1979 debut album Welcome to the Cruise which was also a Top 20 hit In 2002 Stay With Me Till Dawn was chosen by the British public in a poll of the 50 Best British Songs 1952 2002 ranking at number 39 The song was also sampled by Mylo in the song Need You Tonite which is taken from his 2004 album Destroy Rock Roll |
Tzuke s second album Sports Car 1980 charted higher than her debut album reaching no 7 in the UK and contained one single Living on the Coast which failed to chart Both albums were certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry in 1981 Tzuke became Elton John s support act for his North American tour and went on to release one more album on Rocket I Am the Phoenix 1981 which also made the UK Top 20 |
In 1982 Tzuke signed to Chrysalis Records and released her fourth album Shoot The Moon Although the album reached the UK Top 20 it was Tzuke s last album to do so Three singles were taken from the album including a 7 picture disc release for I m Not A Loser but none were chart hits Tzuke completed a 57 date tour of the UK culminating as the headline act at that year s Glastonbury Festival The performance was recorded for a TV special by ITV Several performances from the tour were recorded and released at the end of 1982 as a double album Road Noise The Official Bootleg |
In 1983 Rocket issued a compilation album The Best of Judie Tzuke and released the track Black Furs as a single the original version of which was on Tzuke s 1981 album I Am The Phoenix September 1983 saw the release of Tzuke s fifth studio album Ritmo Spanish for rhythm The album was somewhat of a departure from her previous work with a much more electronic feel The single Jeannie No preceded the album and had radio airplay but did not chart An edit and extended remix of the track were issued on 7 and 12 single formats Tzuke s first The subsequent single How Do I Feel did not fare any better and the album itself peaked at No 26 in the UK Neither the album nor singles were released internationally |
During autumn 1983 Tzuke toured a series of larger but fewer venues After two albums Tzuke left Chrysalis Records Wanting to take greater control of her work she signed with the small independent Legacy Records for the release of her next album A new single You was released in October 1984 A cover of a lesser known Marvin Gaye track her version turned a rather sedate piece into a grinding electro production It peaked at No 92 in the UK and several different versions of the track were released on 7 and 12 formats In March 1985 I ll Be The One was issued as a new single from Tzuke s forthcoming sixth album The Cat Is Out which was mainly recorded at her home studio and released in June 1985 The single peaked at No 97 while the album peaked at no 35 on the UK Album Chart A third single Love Like Fire was released shortly afterwards again with several versions on 7 and 12 formats though this failed to chart September 1985 saw a fourth single from the album This Side of Heaven which coincided with Tzuke s national concert tour although this too failed to chart The show at Fairfield Halls in Croydon was recorded for a television special which several years later was issued as a CD DVD release |
Following the muted reception of The Cat Is Out Tzuke signed with another major label Polydor Records in 1987 She began working on her seventh album though took some time off in June 1987 when she gave birth to her daughter Bailey However the release of the album was delayed further after Polydor first requested that Tzuke work with a producer of their choice rather than with her usual team Polydor later agreed to allow Tzuke to rerecord the entire album with her own team of Paul Muggleton her husband and Mike Paxman The album Turning Stones was released in April 1989 peaking at No 57 in the UK Album Chart It was preceded by the single We ll Go Dreaming which had peaked at no 96 several weeks earlier Further problems arose between Tzuke and Polydor which led to the last minute cancellation of her 1989 tour enraging fans who had turned up to venues She apologised to fans and when she appeared as a guest on Radio 1 s Friday evening record review show Round Table |
In 1990 she switched to Columbia Records CBS In August she released a new single a cover version of the Beach Boys classic God Only Knows Despite the single being issued in various formats 7 7 poster wrap limited edition numbered 10 12 cassette single and CD single and a video being made the song failed to gain chart success A limited promo 12 was issued of a remix made by DJ Judge Jules The song also featured in an ITV documentary series about recording techniques where Tzuke and her producers Mike Paxman and Paul Muggleton showed how the song had been constructed using samples of her voice which were transposed into a synthesizer range Her eighth album Left Hand Talking was released by Columbia in May 1991 |
Promotion for the album had begun in March when a 3 track promo had been issued widely to independent record stores and Tzuke made two live performances at London s Shaw Theatre in April These performances were the first time neither Muggleton Paxman or Bob Noble were part of her live band Outlaws was released as a single by Columbia in June 1991 but neither the album nor single made an impact upon the charts despite Radio 1 DJ Richard Skinner making Outlaws his record of the week on his Saturday afternoon show Her tenure with Columbia ended after only one album |
Tzuke signed with another small independent label for the release of her ninth album Wonderland which was released in September 1992 by Essential Records a subsidiary of the now defunct Castle Communications Two singles from the album Wonderland and Fly were performed on the BBC1 lunchtime programme Pebble Mill At One in November 1992 after Tzuke had performed a concert tour of smaller venues in October and November Neither the album nor singles charted despite featuring the talents of Brian May from Queen and Nigel Kennedy on violin She stated in a later interview used in the inner booklet of the 2002 reissue of the album that Wonderland was the album she felt most proud of as a songwriter August 1995 saw the release of two albums The BBC issued its recording of Tzuke s Radio 1 in Concert performance from 1981 and Polygram issued a compilation album entitled Stay With Me Till Dawn which drew on Tzuke s first three albums released on Rocket Records with tracks from the Turning Stones album on Polydor Records The album included four single remixes which had not previously been available on CD |
Tzuke released her tenth studio album Under the Angels in October 1996 on her own label Big Moon Records The album was previewed by two dates at London s Jazz Cafe in August 1996 and in Dublin in October that year Three tours to promote the album playing at over 30 venues took place in January February June and November 1997 Recordings from the tour culminated in another live album Over the Moon 1997 |
In 1998 Tzuke released her eleventh studio album Secret Agent again on her own label Big Moon Bob Harris of BBC Radio 2 included one of the album s tracks Tonight on his compilation CD Bob Harris Presents Vol 1 In 2000 Tzuke gained the rights to her first three albums recorded for Rocket Records and reissued them on CD via Big Moon She named her tour later that year the Phoenix Tour a reference to her last Rocket Records album I Am the Phoenix Following this came a new live album Six Days Before the Flood 2000 and a new studio album Queen Secret Keeper 2001 Another live album Drive Live was released in 2002 |
Tzuke then released an album of covers The Beauty of Hindsight in September 2003 A self promoted tour in September ended with two nights at London s Bush Hall Two dates in March 2004 were played at London s Cabot Hall in Canary Wharf as part of the Docklands Music Festival and the following night at Dartford s Mick Jagger Centre previewing two new tracks Addiction never released but later part of the BED s Ver 10 and Ver 15 albums with Tzuke on backing vocals and Before I Found My Heart |
2004 saw Tzuke release her thirteenth album The End of the Beginning which saw her returning to a much heavier rock style on many of the tracks and the use of strings for the first time since 1981 Most of the album was played as part of her tour in October of that year 2002 Pop Idol runner up Gareth Gates joined Tzuke on stage to sing backing vocals on the track Bully The pair were first introduced by Lucie Silvas who had previously been one of Tzuke s backing singers and had also written material for Gates Silvas and Tzuke also cowrote most of the songs for Silvas platinum selling 2004 album Breathe In and cowrote four tracks for Silvas 2006 album The Same Side Tzuke also provided backing vocals |
In January 2006 one of Tzuke s cowrites Strange Love hit the UK top twenty for the group Phixx Later in 2006 Tzuke provided vocals for the song Falling Down for the group Hybrid on their album I Choose Noise In 2007 two other Tzuke cowrites featured on the eponymous album by the Canadian brothers RyanDan Like The Sun and High were both released as singles and the album reached number 7 in the UK album charts |
In 2007 Tzuke released her fifteenth album Songs 1 It was accompanied by her biggest tour in almost a decade with her daughter Bailey Tzuke on backing vocals and collaborations with other musicians such as Gareth Gates on piano Gates also cowrote the album s track Dark Days with Tzuke March 2007 saw the download single release of Cup of Tea Song from the album She also collaborated with David P Goodes and cowrote the song What s It All For for Laura Michelle Kelly |
June 2008 saw the release of Tzuke s sixteenth studio album Songs 2 The same year Tzuke cowrote four tracks with the band Morcheeba and featured as a vocalist on two tracks from their Dive Deep album including the lead single Enjoy The Ride In October 2008 Tzuke reached no 37 in the USA Adult Contemporary chart when she provided vocals for the American Jazz combo Project Grand Slam on their self titled album The track Captain Of The Heart was not officially released as a single but charted through airplay The album was produced by Grammy winning producer Frank Filipetti and was nominated for eight Grammy awards Hot on the heels of this there was an official USA release via CD Baby only and international download release of the single Christmas And I m Home which Tzuke had written with Gareth Gates in 2004 Gates had already released his own version of the song Tzuke recorded versions of the song with Haim Cotton the pianist with Project Grand Slam Proceeds from sales went to the New York Ronald McDonald s charity |
On 18 July 2009 Tzuke took part in a Teenage Cancer benefit concert at Kilworth House Leicestershire alongside Lucie Silvas She performed three tracks solo Love Me No More Stay With Me Till Dawn and If When You Go accompanied by a string quartet She returned to the stage for an encore performance alongside Silvas singing their cowritten Place To Hide as a duet |
In 2010 Tzuke released a thirty year celebratory double album titled Moon On a Mirrorball via a new deal with Wrasse Records The collection featured over thirty songs from her back catalogue some rerecorded songs and some new songs one of which If When You Go was released as a single in April 2010 and the song Love You No More was made available as a 1 track promo single Wrasse also rereleased all of Tzuke s Big Moon back catalogue as downloads and reissued her debut album Welcome To The Cruise on CD A live album October Road was recorded from the tour and was released in March 2011 via Tzuke s official website In 2011 she contributed to John Martyn s tribute album Johnny Boy Would Have Loved This with a recording of Martyn s Hurt in Your Heart |
December 2011 say the release of the album One Tree Less by Big Moon and a subsequent national release by Wrasse in March 2012 Humankind was issued as a promo single and was played several times on the Radio 2 shows of Graham Norton Bob Harris Lisa Tarbuck and Claudia Winkleman helping the album to feature in the top 10 of Itune s Singer Songwriter chart A national tour in Spring 2012 was made promote the album alongside many interviews for BBC and regional independent radio stations |
2013 started with a new initiative Song Club with fans able to purchase a monthly download and or CD issue of 13 tracks Songs on the album where an array of tracks written for other artists demos and new recordings Buyers were also treated to an additional downloadable 4 tracks which included 3 instrumentals from the album and an alternative recording of If When You Go The CD issue of the album was issued in December 2013 |
Judie announced in early 2013 that work had commenced on a new album entitled Woman Overboard Unfortunately due to Judie being diagnosed with cancer work on the album was halted |
Due to the popularity and positive feedback of Song Club and obvious delays with the Woman Overboard album Judie decided to continue issue Song Club 2 starting in May 2014 Again the album was released with monthly downloads and CD issue in May 2015 again with purchases treated to several bonus tracks Song Club 2 had a more rockier and dance orientated feel than its predecessor |
May and June 2014 saw Judie on another UK tour entitled Woman Overboard Unfortunately further health issues this time with her voice meant several dates were rescheduled Throughout the tour Judie had battled with laryngitis and was reluctant to disappoint fans as ticket sales had been extremely successful Often battling with nerves of performing a during one noticeable sold out performance at London s Union Chapel mid performance her voice gave way but with the help of her daughters sharing lead duties and fans in the audience she completed a slightly truncated performance She received three standing ovations that night Judie later confirmed that it was this performance that acted as the catalyst for her beating her crippling stage fright |
Starting in late 2014 Judie commenced on a new approach to touring called Songs and Stories Judie chose to play significantly smaller venues clocking up 54 dates during 2015 and over 40 in 2016 across the length and breadth of the country Most dates were completely sold out and Twitter and Facebook comments reflected hundreds of people refinding her music again The format of the Songs and Stories dates were to sing a cross range of old and new songs spanning her careers interspersed with anecdotes relating the songs and inviting people in the audience to ask questions These performances saw Judie accompanied by one or both of her daughters on backing vocals Graham Kearns and or Chaz Thorogood on guitar and on occasions other friends and musicians accompanying her |
From 2016 Judie continued playing acoustic dates across the country under Peace has Broken Out introducing her audience to many new tracks from her forthcoming album |
Judie started a crowd funding issue of her next album Peace Has Broken Out renamed from Woman Overboard which was prereleased to crowd funders on 25 June with a download of 13 tracks with a physical release issued in August The official release of the album was made on 1 September with a national release and download planned for the following month Judie treated fans who had crowd funded the album to several additional tracks including early mixes of songs from the album a bonus track and three live versions of songs from the Songs and Stories tour |
Nondairy creamers or coffee whiteners are liquid or granular substances intended to substitute for milk or cream as an additive to coffee tea hot chocolate or other beverages They do not contain lactose and therefore are commonly described as not being dairy products although many contain casein a milk derived protein Dry granular products do not need to be refrigerated and can be used and stored in locations which do not have a refrigerator Liquid nondairy creamers should be tightly capped and refrigerated after opening Some nondairy creamers contain sweeteners and flavours such as vanilla hazelnut or Irish cream As with other processed food products low calorie and low fat versions are available for nondairy creamers |
Holton Rex Diamond an employee of Rich Products did experiments from 1943 to 1945 with using a g elationous form of soybean protein to make a soy cream that would not form curds when mixed with coffee Diamond s experiments are the first English language reference to a nondairy creamer for coffee Frank S Mitchell another Rich Products Corp employee and Diamond developed a nondairy whip topping for their employer in 1946 Mitchell also developed a nondairy coffee creamer Perx which was successful in the market |
In 1950 Melvin Morse and Dick Borne of Presto Foods developed Mocha Mix Coffee Creamer which was the first commercial nondairy creamer and the first product with the term Coffee Creamer in the name Another early commercial powdered creamer was Pream first marketed in 1952 and made from dehydrated cream and sugar It did not dissolve easily because of the protein in the milk |
Six years later in 1958 the Carnation Company developed a product that easily dissolved in hot liquid because it replaced most of the milk fat with vegetable oil and reduced the milk protein The new product was marketed under the Carnation label with the brand name Coffee Mate Borden followed suit by launching Cremora nondairy creamer in 1963 by which time CoffeeRich had been introduced to the marketplace |
To replicate the mouthfeel of milk fats nondairy creamers often contain hydrogenated vegetable based fats although nonfat nondairy creamers whiteners also exist Other common ingredients include solidified corn syrup and other sweeteners or and flavourings such as French vanilla hazelnut and Irish cream as well as sodium caseinate a milk protein derivative from casein that does not contain lactose |
The use of a milk derivative prompts some individuals and organisations such as vegans and Jewish dietary law authorities to classify the product as dairy rather than nondairy Those who rely on this classification will either not consume the product eg vegans or will not use or consume it in conjunction with any meat products eg observant Jews As with other processed food products low calorie and low fat versions are available for nondairy creamers People with milk allergy need to be aware that nondairy creamer may contain sodium caseinate a milk protein It will be in the ingredient list |
The US Food and Drug Administration FDA has stated that products with sodium caseinate may contain low levels of lactose For a normal serving the amounts are too small to trigger lactose intolerance |
A song with the words You re the Pream in my coffee was used to sell that product |
CoffeeRich was marketed with a successful series of national ads featuring George Burns its sales soared particularly among Jews who kept kosher and were forbidden to put cream in their coffee while eating meat |
As with many other powders large amounts of powdered nondairy creamer powder are susceptible to dust explosion when suspended in air Amateur filmmakers and pyrotechnicians have taken advantage of this property to produce several types of fireball effects Individuals using powdered nondairy creamer in the ordinary amounts used in a cup of coffee do not face a risk of dust explosion |
Coffee creamer powder has also been used for creating fake snow in television and movies |
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The CMYK color model process color four color is a subtractive color model used in color printing and is also used to describe the printing process itself CMYK refers to the four inks used in some color printing cyan magenta yellow and key black Although it varies by print house press operator press manufacturer and press run ink is typically applied in the order of the abbreviation |
The K in CMYK stands for key because in four color printing cyan magenta and yellow printing plates are carefully keyed or aligned with the key of the black key plate Some sources suggest that the K in CMYK comes from the last letter in black and was chosen because B already means blue However some people disagree with this because C for Cyan is classed as the blue when printing in CMYK format Some sources claim this explanation although useful as a mnemonic is incorrect that K comes only from Key because black is often used as outline and printed first |
The CMYK model works by partially or entirely masking colors on a lighter usually white background The ink reduces the light that would otherwise be reflected Such a model is called subtractive because inks subtract brightness from white |
In additive color models such as RGB white is the additive combination of all primary colored lights while black is the absence of light In the CMYK model it is the opposite white is the natural color of the paper or other background while black results from a full combination of colored inks To save cost on ink and to produce deeper black tones unsaturated and dark colors are produced by using black ink instead of the combination of cyan magenta and yellow |
With CMYK printing halftoning also called screening allows for less than full saturation of the primary colors tiny dots of each primary color are printed in a pattern small enough that humans perceive a solid color Magenta printed with a 20 halftone for example produces a pink color because the eye perceives the tiny magenta dots on the large white paper as lighter and less saturated than the color of pure magenta ink |