Chlöe Howl

Chlöe Howl (born 4 March 1995) is a British singer-songwriter. She was shortlisted for the BBC Sound of 2014 and the 2014 BRIT Awards: Critics Choice Award.

Career

Early life

Chlöe Howl (real name Chlöe Howells) was born on 4 March 1995 in England. The unusual use of the diaeresis above the "o" in her name is said to be a mistake her parents made on her birth certificate. Her father is from England and her mother has Welsh origins. She grew up in the village of Holyport, near Maidenhead, Berkshire. She attended Holyport Primary, and then Altwood Secondary School. At the age of 10 she recorded and sold her own Christmas CD (singing All I Want for Christmas Is You) to help raise funds for her primary school. In 2006, at the age of 11, she filmed a pilot episode for an environmentally-aware music show called "The Trollmates" in which she played one of four singing trolls (complete with pointed latex ears) discovered in Scotland by an American recording executive. As part of the TrollMates singing group she went on a promotional tour to the USA in August 2006, where she met David Hasselhoff. TrollMates made a concert appearance at the Great Wall of China at Badaling in September 2006 on the occasion of the launch of the 2008 Paralympics mascot. Among the tracks the group recorded was a special edition CD "to benefit the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games".

Howl

"Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955, published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled Howl and Other Poems, and dedicated to Carl Solomon.

Ginsberg began work on "Howl" as early as 1954. In the Paul Blackburn Tape Archive at the University of California, San Diego, Ginsberg can be heard reading early drafts of his poem to his fellow writing associates. "Howl" is considered to be one of the great works of American literature. It came to be associated with the group of writers known as the Beat Generation.

There is no foundation to the myth that "Howl" was written as a performance piece and later published by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books. This myth was perpetrated by Ferlinghetti as part of the defense's case during the poem's obscenity trial. Upon the poem's release, Ferlinghetti and the bookstore's manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were charged with disseminating obscene literature, and both were arrested. On October 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene.

Red (mascot)

In 2003, Arkansas State University decided to make a new mascot, named Red, created by ASU’s director of athletic marketing, Andrea Scott.

“The spirit character began as a project to design a character that looks friendly, is unique, and is not an animal,” Andrea said. “I was looking for something out of the ordinary that’s presence could elevate spirit at ball games.”

“Red absolutely will not replace Arkansas State’s official mascot, the Indian Family,” said Dr. Dean Lee, ASU director of athletics.

“Red was named because that was how he was perceived by the marketing analysis and research groups, which were children and youth,” said Dr. Dean Lee, ASU’s athletic director.

Awards

He has won many awards, such as: 2004 – Universal Cheerleader Association – won 3rd place as “best mascot”

2005 – Universal Cheerleader Association – won “best mascot”

2005 – University Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship – won 6th place

2006 – Universal Cheerleader Association – won “best mascot”

Howl (2015 film)

Howl is a direct-to-video 2015 British indie monster movie, directed by Paul Hyett and starring Ed Speleers. The film is set to be released on Region 2 DVD on 26 October 2015.

Plot

Down-on-his-luck Alpha Trax train guard Joe Griffin (Ed Speleers) arrives at Waterloo Station in time to start his shift on one of the overnight passenger train, which is scheduled to depart London at midnight under a full moon. We meet the group of passengers that consist of Kate (Shauna Macdonald), Adrian (Elliot Cowan), Matthew (Amit Shah), Billy (Sam Gittens), Nina (Rosie Day), Paul (Calvin Dean) and Ged (Duncan Preston) and his wife Jenny (Ania Marson). While he checks the passengers for tickets, he meets his unrequited love, the tea-trolley girl, Ellen (Holly Weston), who consoles him for being turned down for a promotion. An hour after departure, the train is travelling through a remote and forested part of the English countryside, in a mobile communication "dead zone". Here the train is forced to undergo an emergency brake to prevent a derailment when a deer runs onto the track. The train driver Tony (Sean Pertwee) goes outside to remove the body of the deer from the undercarriage. Whilst outside, Tony gets the deer's blood on him, and is suddenly eviscerated by the creature which was stalking the deer - a howling, contorted humanoid with wolf-like legs and glowing eyes, yet disturbingly human and largely hairless.