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Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Account of the murder | After Lee returned to the flat with Richard Chew, Barokah claimed that Wee was not inside the flat, and she even said that Wee must have gone out for morning exercise like she usually did. Later, Wee's youngest son Lee Seng Lim, his wife Lim Yock Hoon and their two sons also arrived at the flat after his father called him, and they also searched for Wee. Similarly, when she was probed by Lee Seng Lim about his mother's whereabouts, Barokah feigned ignorance and said she did not know, and also stated Wee might have gone out for morning exercise. After Wee's body was discovered later that morning, Barokah was brought in for questioning due to the police suspecting her in light of her numerous inconsistencies in her account, which led to her arrest. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Trial of Barokah | In July 2006, Barokah's case was transferred to the High Court, where she was set to stand trial for killing her employer Wee Keng Wah. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Trial of Barokah | Before the start of her trial, Barokah's murder charge was reduced to a lesser offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, also known as manslaughter in Singapore's legal terms, and the reduction of the charge allowed Barokah to no longer face the death penalty for murdering Wee. The stipulated penalty for manslaughter was either life imprisonment or up to ten years in prison. According to Dr Tommy Tan, a government psychiatrist, Barokah suffered from both depression and a dependent personality disorder that draws her to men, and the combination of these disorders were sufficient to impair her mental responsibility at the time of the murder. Therefore, Barokah's murder charge was reduced on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The defence's psychiatric expert Dr R Nagulendran similarly diagnosed Barokah with both dependent personality disorder and depression. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Trial of Barokah | On 26 November 2007, Barokah, who was represented by Senior Counsel Harpreet Singh Nehal (plus Kelly Fan and Wendell Wong), pleaded guilty to the reduced charge at the High Court, and her sentencing was carried out that same day. The trial judge, Justice Tay Yong Kwang, gave his full grounds of decision on 11 February 2008 to explain his verdict on sentence, finding that the victim concerned in the present case was a vulnerable person with an advanced age of 75 and also defenceless during the maid's attack on her. Justice Tay also explained that while the fight between Wee and Barokah was spontaneous and unpremeditated, and there was no prior intention on Barokah's part to cause death, he nevertheless found that there was a huge time lapse between the first assault and Barokah's subsequent decision to push the unconscious and helpless Wee down from the ninth storey, and she would have had time to recover and reflect on the incident after Wee was rendered unconscious from the fight. This lethal decision made Justice Tay conclude that Barokah was a dangerous and cold-blooded killer, and even with her depression, she was still able to fully understand right and wrong and also had a collected thought process since she took steps to deny her involvement. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Trial of Barokah | Aside from this, Justice Tay pointed out that Barokah had betrayed the trust reposed in her as the caregiver of Wee's home by killing Wee in cold blood at the sanctity of Wee's home, and there was a need for deterrence in sentencing maids for committing offences against their employers to uphold the domestic worker-employer relationship, as is the case of employers who abused their maids. Justice Tay also took note that Barokah did not have strong familial support, since her husband spent most of his time working in Malaysia and would likely do so in the future as well, and the family income of Barokah was quite low, which may further add to her husband's need to work overseas. While her prognosis was relatively good and she could still recover with treatment, Barokah was likely to suffer a relapse, and in view of her dependent personality disorder and history of having affairs with other men and becoming guilty each time it happened, it was likely that a reoccurrence of such a matter might exacerbate her depression, and her mental disorders also signaled the high possibility of re-offending should similar situations of "push comes to shove" happen to Barokah, as demonstrated by the manner of the killing and her reaction to Wee's berate on the date of the killing. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Trial of Barokah | Therefore, in summary of these above factors, Justice Tay found that the aggravated nature of Wee's manslaughter had sufficiently called for the higher tier of punishment allowed for manslaughter under the law. As such, 28-year-old Barokah was sentenced to life imprisonment, the maximum penalty for manslaughter in Singapore. Justice Tay additionally ordered her life term to commence from the date of her arrest on 19 October 2005. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Trial of Barokah | In accordance with the landmark ruling of Abdul Nasir Amer Hamsah's appeal on 20 August 1997, an offender sentenced to life imprisonment must remain behind bars for the rest of his or her natural life. Previously, before the landmark ruling, a life sentence in Singapore was construed as a jail term of 20 years. The legal change was applicable to offences that were committed after 20 August 1997. Since the manslaughter of Wee Keng Wah was committed on 19 October 2005, eight years and two months after the legal reform, Barokah was to be imprisoned for the remainder of her whole life under her life sentence with pursuant to the amended law. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Barokah's first appeal | After her sentencing, Barokah filed an appeal against her sentence. Her defence counsel applied to the Court of Appeal for leave to adduce a further report to determine whether Barokah's pregnancy (which was not detected during her remand) had a substantial impact on her mental responsibility at the material time, and they also submitted new psychiatric evidence to support their other points of appeal. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Barokah's first appeal | On 20 August 2008, the Court of Appeal meted out their judgement. They ordered the case to be remitted back to the High Court for a re-trial with respect to Barokah's sentence, and ordered the trial judge to re-evaluate the psychiatric evidence and decide on whether to impose a life sentence or a jail term of ten years or less for Barokah's conviction, which the Court of Appeal upheld. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Re-trial of Barokah | The re-trial of Barokah was held between 16 and 19 February 2009, with the original trial judge Tay Yong Kwang presiding over the proceedings at the High Court. The psychiatrists Tommy Tan and R Nagulendran summoned in court to testify about Barokah’s mental state, which also included their differing opinions on whether Barokah’s pregnancy had a substantial bearing on her mental state. Dr Tan, who appeared for the prosecution, testified that during his interviews with Barokah, there was no observation that she was aware of her pregnancy and he also cited medical evidence that showed no correlation between pregnancy and mental impairment, and it could not have been a stressor of her depression, although Dr Nagulendran disagreed with Dr Tan’s testimony when he appeared to testify for the defence. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Re-trial of Barokah | Lee Seng Lim, the youngest son of Wee, also appeared as a witness in the re-trial, and he told the court that the relationship between his parents and Barokah was good and he also noticed the maid repeatedly giving answers that she did not know when he arrived at the flat and asked her repeatedly about his mother on the date of her death. On the stand, Lee reportedly broke down and he wanted a fair answer for his mother’s death. Other witnesses include Wee’s neighbour Richard Wee and two police officers - SSGT Mohamad Kamil bin Hassan and SGT Nor Hida binte Nasib - who first arrived at the scene, and they all testified that Barokah had a calm and collected demeanor when they asked her about Wee’s whereabouts. Additionally, the police officers testified that when they informed Barokah of Wee's death, she appeared shocked and sad but never cried. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Re-trial of Barokah | Aside from the defence's mitigation plea to impose a sentence lower than life, the embassy of Indonesia to Singapore also pledged to ensure that Barokah would adhere to her treatment once she was released and repatriated to Indonesia, and asked for leniency from the courts. Barokah's 31-year-old husband Isnaini Mislani also stated he was willing to take care of the daughter his wife bore with Ali, and also forgave her for her infidelity. The girl was entrusted to her grandparents by Barokah, who took care of her for 20 months while in prison. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Re-trial of Barokah | On 26 February 2009, three days after closing submissions were made, Justice Tay Yong Kwang delivered his re-trial verdict and re-instated the life sentence he first imposed on Barokah back in 2007. In his judgement, Justice Tay disagreed that Barokah's mental state was not affected by her pregnancy. He found that regardless of whether Barokah was suffering from diminished responsibility or not, she was still an inherent menace to society, even though she did not possess a high possibility to commit another offence. He also found that Barokah still had the propensity to become involved in extra-martial relationships and feeling guilty and depressed about it, and as a result of her psychiatric condition, her employer Wee Keng Wah died an unjust and brutal death, and such a "devastating" consequence only corroborated the fact that Barokah was a cold-blooded and dangerous killer. He also stated that the witnesses’ testimonies of Barokah’s calm demeanor in the aftermath of the killing also supported his observation that she had a collected state of mind. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Re-trial of Barokah | Justice Tay ruled that the killing of Wee, which arose from the matter of Barokah sneaking out, was "cruel and inhumane" and it was totally unjustified in light of the circumstances. Justice Tay also determined that Barokah had a "brittle, volatile and violent temperament", and her depression was caused by her own decision to repeatedly engage in illicit affairs with other men and there were no encouraging signs that Barokah could change. On these grounds, Justice Tay was convinced that a strong signal for retribution was needed when imposing the most appropriate punishment in Barokah’s case. The judge also stated that while sympathy could be given to the defendants, justice must also be prioritized and cannot be solely about the defendants, and in his own words, he quoted: |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Re-trial of Barokah | Justice is also about the victims and their families and the good of society at large. While we are concerned about the future of accused persons and their families, we must never forget the victims and their families. The victim in this case has no voice but the court’s and has no future to even think about as a result of the crime. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Re-trial of Barokah | In conclusion, Justice Tay decided that the appropriate punishment he could impose in the case of Barokah would be none other than life imprisonment, and he found no need to depart from his original decision back in 2007. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Re-trial of Barokah | Wee's youngest son Lee Seng Lim, who was present in court to hear the judgement, told the press that while the sentence could not bring back his mother, he nonetheless hoped that the case can be closed for good in the future and he and his family wanted to move on, and he was still struggling with grief over the loss of his mother. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Barokah's second appeal | After her life sentence was reinstated by the High Court, Barokah filed a second appeal to the Court of Appeal against the re-trial verdict. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Barokah's second appeal | On 20 August 2009, in spite of the defence's plea to reduce Barokah's sentence on the grounds that the killing was unpremeditated, her mental condition had a bearing on her actions and she did not pose as a risk to society, the Court of Appeal elected to dismiss the appeal. One of the appellate judges, Justice V K Rajah, told Singh that they acknowledged Barokah's psychiatric condition, but this was not an excuse to reduce her culpability and her psychiatric condition had already been duly considered, and it was sufficient to spare her from the murder charge, which would have warranted her a death sentence should she be convicted of murder. Overall, the appellate court affirmed the ruling of the trial judge Tay Yong Kwang and therefore upheld the life sentence imposed on Barokah. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Aftermath | The case of Wee Keng Wah's death was one of the high-profile killings in Singapore which involved maids killing their employers and/or the family member(s) of their employers. Nearly all of the maids in these cases were, like Barokah, spared the gallows and convicted of manslaughter due to either diminished responsibility, sudden and grave provocation or other factors. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Aftermath | In July 2012, Senior Counsel Harpreet Singh Nehal spoke about the case of Barokah, which was one of the memorable cases he took pro bono as a lawyer. He encouraged lawyers to continue providing pro bono services to those in need, stating that it could help bring about a difference to the lives of those who need help. Singh also stated that whenever he visited Barokah in prison, he would often get to see her daughter, whom he described as a beautiful girl, and he felt saddened that Barokah would be separated from her daughter permanently since she would be serving a life sentence in another country away from Indonesia, and it also sent Singh an equal reminder that the victim Wee Keng Wah's bereaved family had to deal with their permanent loss as well. |
Murder of Wee Keng Wah | 75,678,648 | Aftermath | Barokah is currently serving her life sentence at Changi Women's Prison since 19 October 2005. If Barokah serves with good behaviour while in jail, she will become eligible to be released on parole after completing at least 20 years of her sentence. |
Benjamin T. DuVal | 75,678,649 | Benjamin DuVal should link here |
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Benjamin T. DuVal | 75,678,649 | Benjamin T. DuVal (1822-1905) was a state legislator in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1858-1861 and 1895-1896. |
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Benjamin T. DuVal | 75,678,649 | He was the eldest of William DuVal's (1786-1851) six children. His father was a pioneer resident of Fort Smith, Arkansas who arrived with his family in 1822 and established a trading business. |
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Benjamin T. DuVal | 75,678,649 | During the Civil War he served on James Fleming Fagan's staff. |
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Alif Jana Khattaka | 75,678,652 | Alif Jana Khattaka (February 28, 1929 - September 14, 2019) was a Pashto revolutionary poet and a prominent activist of the Karwan Khudai Khidmatgar Tehreek led by Fakhre Afghan Bacha Khan. |
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Alif Jana Khattaka | 75,678,652 | Early life and education | Born in Ahmadi Banda, Karak during British occupation, Khattaka was raised in a family actively involved in Bacha Khan's movement. Due to the prevailing circumstances, she received home education and later pursued formal education, earning a master's degree in Pashto and Urdu, as well as a Bachelor of Arts. |
Alif Jana Khattaka | 75,678,652 | Literary contributions | A collaborator with poet Haleem Muhammad, Khattaka contributed to the monthly magazine "Pashtun" published in Bacha Khan's office. She gained recognition as a regular writer for "Pashtun" and expressed critical views, earning praise from Bacha Khan for developing critical skills among Pashtun women. |
Alif Jana Khattaka | 75,678,652 | Literary contributions | Khattaka dedicated her poetry to the freedom and prosperity of her people, actively participating in the Muslim freedom movement. Her verses reflect a keen awareness of the political situation, exposing British machinations and urging Pashtuns to rise against oppression. |
Alif Jana Khattaka | 75,678,652 | Literary contributions | Post-independence, Khattaka continued to advocate for Pashtun rights, especially highlighting the plight of the community in Pakistan. Despite adopting a quieter life later on, she remained committed to preserving the legacy of Bacha Khan and other freedom heroes. |
Alif Jana Khattaka | 75,678,652 | Death and legacy | Alif Jana Khattaka's contributions endure, with her poetry included in educational curricula, and a college named after her in Bandha Dawood Shah district of Karak. She died on September 14, 2019 due to a cerebral vascular accident. |
Alif Jana Khattaka | 75,678,652 | Personal life | Alif Jana Khattaka married Muhammad Zafar but the marriage faced challenges, leading to differences between the couple. She later served in various schools in Karak and Kohat, eventually retiring as a Divisional Education Officer. |
Karam Singh Raju | 75,678,679 | Karam Singh Raju was an Indian bureaucrat who joined the Punjab State Civil Service just after the Independence of India. He was one of the very few first dalits who joined this prestigious service. |
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Karam Singh Raju | 75,678,679 | Early life | He was born in Hoshiarpur and his father, Duni Chand, used to work as a leather worker. |
Karam Singh Raju | 75,678,679 | Professional and personal life | Raju retired from the Indian Administrative Service in the year 1986. At the time of retirement, he was Principal Secretary and, before that, he served as Deputy Commissioner for many districts of Punjab. |
Karam Singh Raju | 75,678,679 | Professional and personal life | Raju was a staunch follower of Guru Ravidass and Sikhism, and he penned several books. |
Karam Singh Raju | 75,678,679 | Professional and personal life | During his lifetime Raju wrote several books and few of them are as the follows- |
2024 in LGBT rights | 75,678,688 | This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights taking place in the year 2024. |
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Fontaine Richard Earle | 75,678,689 | F. R. Earle should link here |
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Fontaine Richard Earle | 75,678,689 | Fontaine Richard Earle (January 9, 1831 - September 6, 1908) was an officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, a Presbyterian minister, a college president, and a state legislator in Arkansas. |
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Fontaine Richard Earle | 75,678,689 | Biography | He was born January 9, 1831 in Pond River, Kentucky to Jane Woodson and Samuel Baylis Earle. He graduated from Cumberland University with a degree in arts and divinity in 1858. He moved to Cane Hill in 1858. His home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places called the Greek Revival Earle House was constructed in 1859 with little remaining apart from some foundations and chimneys. |
Fontaine Richard Earle | 75,678,689 | Biography | In the American Civil War he had served as a major for the Confederate States Army in the 34th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. He was in command of the 34th at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. After the war he returned to Cane Hill and married Amanda Buchanan, a teacher. |
Fontaine Richard Earle | 75,678,689 | Biography | Earle was elected to the Arkansas Senate to represent the third senatorial district, Washington, and served from 1866-1867. He was Arkansas' first secretary of education and served as president of Cane Hill College until it closed in 1892. His grammar book, called The English Grammar was published in 1867. He was a Presbyterian preacher for 50 years. |
Fontaine Richard Earle | 75,678,689 | Biography | Earle died September 6, 1908 at his home in Cane Hill from dropsy. His wife had preceded him dieing in 1894. |
Fontaine Richard Earle | 75,678,689 | Notes | The University of Arkansas has papers related to him including an interview with him. A collection of his sermons, letters, and clippings was published in 1999 from the collection called the Fontaine Richard Earle Papers. |
Thor (1930) | 75,678,692 | Thor (1930) | Hydrographical research vessel build in 1930 for Swedish biologist fil. dr L. Gunnar Sjösted (1892-1975), teaching college, Kristianstad, Sweden for use in marine biological studies in the Sound/Øresund. |
Thor (1930) | 75,678,692 | Thor (1930) | Sold in 1933 to the Danish Captain Alf Trolle and refitted for use in polar waters. The refitting was substantial and included installation of a new engine (30 Hp Bolinder hot bulb engine), electric generators (12/18V, 50A, and 110V, 2 kW; Titan, Copenhagen), electric winches for anchor and a 4000 m hydrographical wire (3.5 mm steel wire), radio (short wave radiotelegraph and MF radiotelephone), echosounder (Echometer, The International Marine Sounding Device, Bruxelles). |
Thor (1930) | 75,678,692 | Thor (1930) | Thor was used for two hydrographical expeditions to East Greenland in 1934 and 1935, paid for by the "Alf Trolle and wife's fund in the memory of the Danmark-expedition 1906-1908". The first expedition was led by Trolle himself, the second by Poul Gjessing. |
Thor (1930) | 75,678,692 | Thor (1930) | The fate of the ship after returning from the second expedition is unknown. |
Alianne Matamoros | 75,678,694 | Alianne Matamoros Reyes (born January 19, 2000) is a Cuban footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Municipal and the Cuba women's national football team. |
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Alianne Matamoros | 75,678,694 | Early life | Matamoros played volleyball as a child. |
Alianne Matamoros | 75,678,694 | Club career | Matamoros played for Cuban side Santiago de Cuba, where she was described as a "mainstay for Santiago de Cuba's runners-up finish in the national league". In 2023, she signed for Guatemalan side Municipal. |
Alianne Matamoros | 75,678,694 | International career | Matamoros plays for the Cuba women's national football team, where she has been regarded as one of the team's most important players. |
Alianne Matamoros | 75,678,694 | Style of play | Matamoros has been described as "her enviable size and fierce leadership on the field distinguish her from the rest of the soccer players". |
2022-23 Aldershot Town F.C. season | 75,678,714 | The 2022-23 season was the 31st season in the existence of Aldershot Town Football Club and the club's ninth consecutive season in the Vanarama National League. In addition to the league, they also competed in the FA Cup and the FA Trophy. |
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Marta Lois | 75,678,730 | Marta Irene Lois González (born 1969) is a Spanish politician of Sumar appointed as its spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies in August 2023. Later, in December 2023, she was selected as the platform's candidate for the 2024 Galician regional election. |
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Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Yoru no Hit Studio (夜のヒットスタジオ, Yoru no Hitto Sutajio), was a Japanese music television program. Broadcast live weekly on Fuji TV from 1968 until 1990. During its broadcast history, it frequently changed its titles, presenters, air time and day. The program is also colloquially known as Yoru Hit (夜ヒット, Yoru Hitto) and Hit Studio (ヒットスタジオ, Hitto Sutajio). |
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Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | During its broadcast time since 1978, a superior TBS music program The Best Ten (ザ・ベストテン, Za Besuto Ten) start broadcast, which unlike Yoru no Hit Studio, includes its own music ranking chart, which was similar to Oricon Music Charts and their rankings were equally recognized. |
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Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Since the end of program in 1990, between 1991 and 1997 various special programs were broadcast once a year. The program has been re-broadcast on the cable television channel Fuji TV One from 1999 until 2011. The order of broadcasting was from the July 1976 broadcast until March 2009 (later again in October 2023), and from April 2009 onward 2011, the broadcasts were broadcast retroactively from the April 1974. |
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Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | In May 2010, Oricon Style published the results of the national survey of "Music programs that I would like to see revived", Yoru no Hit Studio placed second place behind The Best Ten, which placed first place. In November 2023, news website Shunkan Josei Prime published the same survey, Yoru no Hit Studio placed second place behind The Best Ten, which placed first place, both of them regaining same place as in 2010 survey charts. The surveyors answered the reason behind revival for Gorgeous stage sets, full chorus singing with live orchestra performance, singers performing songs from a wide range of genres, collaboration projects, beautiful costumes. |
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Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | History | Yoru no Hit Studio was a weekly one-hour (in later years almost two-hour) music program. Many Japanese musical acts make their television performance debut on Yoru no Hit Studio, but the show has also hosted many artists from all around the world. For the solo artist, they were always accompanied by Fuji TV studio's orchestral band, who played on live. In the span of 22 years, over 1131 episodes were broadcast, more than 1,000 artists performed and approximately 13,000 songs were performed. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | History | From October 24, 1968, to March 25, 1985, Yoru no Hit Studio was broadcast live on Sundays from 22:00–22:54 JST. Until the second half of 1970s, the show was divided into comic variety and music show within the time spawn. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | History | From April 3, 1985, to September 27, 1989, Yoru no Hit Studio has been renamed to Yoru no Hit Deluxe (夜のヒットスタジオDELUXE, Yoru no Hitto Sutajio Derakkusu) and changed its broadcast day from Sundays to Wednesdays from 21:02–22:52 JST, at the same time renewed broadcast time from 54 minutes to 1 hour and 50 minutes. The reason behind the changes were announced during the time "to please people with more international type of music and extend length of the performance to the full chorus". Reflecting the upcoming changes, there occasional were sets up that featured live appearances by that-time popular overseas artists. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | History | From April 3, 1985, to September 27, 1990, Yoru no Hit Studio Deluxe has been renamed to Yoru no Hit Super (夜のヒットスタジオSUPER, Yoru no Hitto Sutajio Sūpa) and changed its broadcast day from Sundays to Wednesdays from 22:00–22:54 JST, at the same time broadcast time shortened to its half and origin time, 54 minutes. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | History | The reason for the change was for the viewership ratings that suffered from a serious decline, and from around this time onwards, the huge production costs expended on each broadcast began to rise. Following the drastic budget cut, frequency of appearances by big-name artists, who has appeared regularly weekly, has rapidly decreased to make only appearance once in one or two months. By transferring the name of period from Shōwa to Heisei, coupled changes for the composition of the program, such as live music by a big band, the use of handwritten captions, and the relay medley at the opening, and the formula itself began to have a strong impression to younger audience that it was being "outdated," which further accelerated the loss of viewers. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | History | As a result of a bad management choices for changes and week by week rapid decrease of the view ranting, on September 4, 1990, Fuji Television officially decided to end the program. In response to this, three episodes of a special program entitled "22 Years of Thank You Month" broadcast on the same month, and then on October 3 of the same year, a special program "Thank You & Goodbye Night Hit" was broadcast in a 3-hour time slot. Studio" broadcast. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | History | By the end of Yoru no Hit Studio, the new music program successor Hit Parade 90's start broadcast and was moved to Fridays at 23:00 JST. The success way below the expectations, within the year the broadcast was canceled. Until 1993, there was no music program on Fuji TV. In 1994, a new true successor of Yoru no Hit Studio Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ began to air and was hosted from the beginning until the end by the comedy duo Downtown, which consists of Hitoshi Matsumoto and Masatoshi Hamada. The broadcast lasted until 2012. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Presenters | Yoru no Hit Studio has been hosted during its entire history of broadcast in total by 4 male presenters and 2 female presenters, marking Mari Yoshimura the longest among the all presents in span of 17 years. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Presenters | In 2020, Furutachi launched his YouTube channel. In some of his video, he talks about inside-stories during his time of hosting the program. Some of the stories are exclusively published only in the news websites. In 2017 Fraglab interview, Yoshimura confessed about wearing over 2000 different outfits during her time as presenter. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Segments | Yoru no Hit Studio was home to various weekly and monthly segments, the most common being the opening medley, which occurred weekly. The other segments were discontinued after some time of period or not be part of the weekly schedule. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Segments | The singer sings a phrase from another singer's song, then hands the microphone to the owner of the song that was just sung. The following sings repeats the same thing to next singers. Similar to a baton relay, person sing a medley of other person's songs, only one phrase at a time, and at the very end, the singer on the final sings the 1-chorus of his own song sung by the previous singer. By that time the performers assemble together and after songs ends, the segment ends. In broadcasts around Christmas time, the medley songs were sometimes changed to only Christmas themed songs. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Segments | A viewer participation corner was held at the ending of the broadcast. After extracting the last four or five digits of the phone number from a random number table, applicants among the viewers corresponding to those phone numbers are searched from the applicant data registered in advance on the computer, and then one applicant is selected at random. The prize money at the beginning of the program was 50,000 yen, but it was later increased to the maximum amount 100,000 yen. In some cases, if only slot numbers are 0, the maximum amount was automatically given. In 1987, the segment changed its name to Yoru Hit Telephone Card (夜ヒットテレカ, Yoru Hitto Tereka). Instead of the money, photos which were taken during the broadcast of the program turned into telephone cards and were presented to viewers, who applied. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Segments | A segment, where either family, relatives or friends, staff the recording company or label related to guest singers are invited to the studio and have a conversation with the singer/host. Another part of the segment was where guests were directly connected over the phone to the singer from the studio, and the host led the show in order to hear about the singer's past or childhood memories and hidden episodes in his personal life. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Segments | A special segment, which aired only during the times, when a singer retired or a music group disband, making their final television appearance. In the most of cases, only one part of the program featured a special section called "Sayonara", however in case, when a singer Momoe Yamaguchi retired, the entire broadcast episode was devoted to the Goodbye project. The final farewell corner aired in 1988. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Segments | An acting performance of sings with the fictional story and artist themselves being part or main character of the story. The drama segment only aired during its beginning of the broadcast until 1976. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Specials | In annual occasions, Yoru no Hit Studio held various specials from various places in Japan and sometimes broadcast location in Europe and Asia. Some of these include, broadcast anniversary specials and such. These can range from the regular broadcast time from 2 to 3 hours in length. There will also be various specials with no actual artists performances, these will often be the current hosts discussing the history of the shows and playing some of the more notable performances from archived videotape recorder (known in Japanese as VTR). |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Specials | Notes: Broadcast times, unless otherwise noted, were aired in the regular broadcast time. |
Yoru no Hit Studio | 75,678,761 | Releases | Prior from the 2010s decade until present, a numerous of special DVD-box sets were released by the high demand of the artist fans. The discs include full footage of the performances, however in some occasions before-performance talks were completely cut off and not showed at all. |
Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | Any Wednesday is a 1966 American Technicolor romantic comedy film starring Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, and Dean Jones. It was directed by Robert Ellis Miller from a screenplay by producer Julius J. Epstein based on the play of the same name by Muriel Resnik, which ran for 984 performances from 1964 to 1966. The film was titled Bachelor Girl Apartment in the UK. |
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Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | The story centers on a Manhattan woman (Fonda) who is trying to decide between two suitors, one married (Robards) and one not (Jones), on the day of her 30th birthday. |
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Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | Plot | John Cleves (Jason Robards) is a businessman with an office in New York and a home in New Jersey. On one day of each week, Wednesday, he spends the night in the city, lying to wife Dorothy (Rosemary Murphy) that he is out of town on business when he actually is seeing Ellen, his mistress (Jane Fonda). |
Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | Plot | A business client from Akron, Ohio, Cass Henderson (Dean Jones), comes to town and is unable to find a hotel room for the night. Cleves' new secretary knows of an "executive suite" the boss maintains in town, so Cass is sent there for the night. When he meets Ellen, he mistakenly assumes she is a certain kind of lady hired by Cleves to entertain him. |
Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | Plot | The secretary compounds the error by telling Dorothy about the apartment. Dorothy goes there and discovers Ellen and Cass, assuming them to be a young couple. The women take a liking to each other so Dorothy invites them to spend an evening out on the town with her and John. |
Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | Plot | Dorothy eventually catches on to what her husband is up to and leaves him. Ellen invites her to use the apartment. John goes there and tries to win his wife's love back, but she just tells her husband to come visit her on any Wednesday. |
Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | Production | Exterior location scenes for Any Wednesday were filmed in Manhattan, New York City. |
Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | Production | During the course of the 28-month run of the play Any Wednesday on Broadway, the role of Ellen was played by Sandy Dennis – who won a Tony Award for her performance – and Barbara Cook. Don Porter and Gene Hackman also appeared in it. |
Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | Critical reception | Richard F. Shepard of The New York Times was fairly positive, writing that the story had made the transition from stage to screen "not much the worse for wear," though he felt "it might have been better if it were shorter. The funny lines, and there are a good number, would have been even sharper." Variety called it "an outstanding sophisticated comedy" with "solid direction and excellent performances." Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Neither Jason Robards nor Jane Fonda strikes me particularly as a 'natural' comedian (whatever that may be) and the timing of both seems off ... In the case of Robards, a superior actor whenever he is permitted to be, I must admit to some surprise that he was willing to waste his time and talents on such a contrived and cinematically weak affair as this." Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post called Fonda "miscast" because she "is simply not the sort of girl who doesn't know what she is doing." He thought Rosemary Murphy stole the film with an "immensely amusing" performance. The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "A moderately entertaining film version of a Broadway stage production; but it could have been much more so if director Robert Ellis Miller had a lighter touch." |
Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | Awards and honors | Jane Fonda was nominated for a 1966 Golden Globe Award in the category "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy". |
Any Wednesday | 75,678,771 | Home media | On August 18, 2009, Warner Home Video released the movie on DVD-R as part of the Warner Archive Collection. |
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Naya Vialva | 75,678,779 | Naya Vialva is a footballer who plays as a defender for the United States Virgin Islands women's national soccer team. Born in the United States, she is a United States Virgin Islands international. |
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Naya Vialva | 75,678,779 | Early life | Vialva is the daughter of Mona Ressaissi and Devon Vialva. Raised in Mount Olive Township, New Jersey, she played prep soccer at Mount Olive High School. |
Naya Vialva | 75,678,779 | Club career | Vialva played for the Princeton Soccer Academy, helping the club win the league championship. |
Naya Vialva | 75,678,779 | International career | Vialva represented the United States Virgin Islands internationally at 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup qualification. |
Naya Vialva | 75,678,779 | Style of play | Vialva mainly operates as a central defender. |
Naya Vialva | 75,678,779 | Personal life | Vialva has a brother and two sisters. |
Aubrey Sinden | 75,678,807 | Aubrey Maurice Sinden (16 November 1917 – 13 January 1988) was an English first-class cricketer. |
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Aubrey Sinden | 75,678,807 | Sinden was born at East Grinstead in November 1917. During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Air Force. While serving in British India shortly after the war, Sinden played one first-class cricket match for the Europeans cricket team against the Hindus at Bombay in the 1945–46 Bombay Pentangular. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 20 runs in the Europeans first innings by Dattu Phadkar, while in their second innings he opened the batting and was run out for 56 runs, in an opening partnership of 75 alongside Reg Simpson. Sinden returned to England after the war, where he played club cricket for East Grinstead Cricket Club and [[association football|football] for East Grinstead Town as a centre-forward. |
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