Hooligan (song)
"Hooligan" (released 8 November 1999) is a song by English rock band Embrace, which became their sixth Top 40 single (#18 in the UK), and the first from their second album Drawn From Memory. It is one of only two singles so far to be sung entirely by Richard (the other one being "One Big Family") rather than the band's lead singer Danny.
The song "I've Been Running" is featured on the B-sides compilation Dry Kids: B-Sides 1997-2005.
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Eulachon
The eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus), also oolichan, hooligan, ooligan, or candlefish, is a small anadromous ocean fish, a smelt found along the Pacific coast of North America from northern California to Alaska.
Etymology
The common names of this fish have a somewhat confusing relationship. The name "candlefish" derives from it being so fat during spawning, with up to 15% of total body weight in fat, that if caught, dried, and strung on a wick, it can be burned as a candle. This is the name most often used by early explorers. The name eulachon (occasionally seen as oolichan, oulachon, and uthlecan) is from the Chinookan language and the Chinook jargon based on that language. There is a theory that the term "hooligan" was influenced by "eulachon", rather than simply taken from the Irish surname.
The unrelated sablefish Anoplopoma fimbria is also called "candlefish" in the United Kingdom.
Species description
Eulachon are distinguished by the large canine teeth on the vomer bone and 18 to 23 rays in the anal fin. Like salmon and trout they have an adipose fin; it is sickle-shaped. The paired fins are longer in males than in females. All fins have well-developed breeding tubercles (raised tissue "bumps") in ripe males, but these are poorly developed or absent in females. Adult coloration is brown to blue on the back and top of the head, lighter to silvery white on the sides, and white on the ventral surface; speckling is fine, sparse, and restricted to the back. Adults can reach maximum lengths of 30 cm (1 ft) but most adults are between 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8 in.) They feed on plankton but only while at sea.
Hooligan (sternwheeler)
Hooligan was a sternwheel-driven steamboat that operated on Upper Klamath Lake and the Wood River in the U.S. state of Oregon, mostly in the towing of barges and log rafts. Built in 1909, Hooligan was sold in 1914, rebuilt as an excursion boat, and renamed Annie Laurie. The last attested powered operation of this vessel was in 1916. It appears to have later been used as an unpowered barge by the California Oregon Power Company, a predecessor to Pacific Power and Light.
Nomenclature
Hooligan was sometimes referred to as the “Happy Hooligan” in press reports.
Launch
Hooligan was launched on Saturday, April 17, 1909. The engines were installed later the same month.Hooligan was reported to have a “barge-type” front, but a photograph said to be of Hooligan shows a canoe-type pointed bow. According to one source, there were two steamers named Hooligan, one with a barge-type bow.
Hooligan was built by Capt. Harry E. Hansberry (1875-1937), who had been partners in the larger steamer Winema, also running on Klamath Lake. After the dissolution of the partnership, Hansberry built and operated Hooligan on upper Klamath Lake and also on the Wood River.
Vanguard (Nigeria)
The Vanguard is a daily newspaper published by Vanguard Media, based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Vanguard Media was established in 1983 by veteran journalist Sam Amuka-Pemu with three friends. The paper has an online edition. The newspaper is one of the few in Nigeria that is considered independent of political control, the others being Thisday, The Punch, The Sun and The Guardian. In June 1990, the paper was briefly suspended by Col. Raji Rasaki, Military Governor of Lagos State.
In December 2008 the US-based Pointblanknews.com published a story that alleged the wife of the publisher of Vanguard Newspapers was involved in a ritual killing. The Vanguard took the reporter to court, claiming he was attempting extortion. In December 2009, a Niger Delta peace activist commended Vanguard Newspapers for its reporting on the government's intentions, which he said helped persuade the militants to accept amnesty.
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Vanguard (band)
Vanguard is a Finnish metal band from Helsinki. It was formed in 1999 by J.Grym and has released two international albums, Succumbra (2005), Hydralchemy (2007) and one demo Cestrum Nocturnum (2004).
The band got its first record deal by winning the Metal Battle band competition held at the Wacken Open Air metal festival in Germany in 2004. They also performed there the next year.
Vanguard's producer/drummer Tonmi Lillman died in 2012 leaving the band's third record incomplete.
The band has made no statement to break up and radio host Klaus Flaming from Radio Rock recently told on air during a memorial show to Tonmi Lillman that the band was working to finish its third album with a new line-up.
This was later corroborated by the band's vocalist J.Grym on their MySpace page (citing the reason to do it there because the band had not built its new web presence yet).
Albums
Hydralchemy, 2007, Shadow World Records
Succumbra, 2005, Armageddon Music
Other Releases
Armageddon Over Wacken - Live 2004 - DVD, 2005, Armageddon Music
Ulmus 'Morton Plainsman' Vanguard
Ulmus 'Morton Plainsman' (selling name Vanguard™) is a hybrid cultivar raised by the Morton Arboretum from a crossing of the Siberian Elm U. pumila (female parent) and a specimen of the Japanese Elm U. davidiana var. japonica grown from openly-pollinated seed donated by the Agriculture Canada Research Station at Morden, Manitoba.
Description
Vanguard has modest upright growth, increasing in height by an average of 0.8 m in an assessment at U C Davis, with leaves much the same size and colour of the American Elm. However, its performance in the southern United States has not impressed, and it was dismissed, along with its Morton stablemates Commendation and Triumph, as "ugly" by Michael Dirr, Professor of Horticulture at the University of Georgia , on account of its "wild" growth and splaying branches.
Pests and diseases
Although resistant to Dutch elm disease, Vanguard remains very susceptible to pests such as the elm-leaf beetle Xanthogaleruca luteola , Japanese beetle, and cankerworms.
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