title: Aqib Talib

text: He made his professional regular season debut in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' season-opener at the New Orleans Saints and made one solo tackle in their 24–20 loss. In Week 2, Talib made his first career interception off a pass attempt by Atlanta Falcons' rookie quarterback Matt Ryan as Tampa Bay defeated them 24–9. The following game, Talib was inactive for Tampa Bay's 27–24 victory at the Chicago Bears. On October 12, 2008, he recorded a season-high three combined tackles, deflected two passes, and intercepted Jake Delhomme in a 27–3 win over the Carolina Panthers. On November 2, 2008, Talib made his first career start during the Buccaneers' 30–27 victory at the Kansas City Chiefs. He finished his rookie season in with 23 combined tackles (17 solo), nine pass deflections, and four interceptions in 15 games and two starts. Head coach Jon Gruden was fired after the Buccaneers finished third in the NFC South with a 9–7 record.


title: Aqib Talib

text: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers promoted defensive backs coach Raheem Morris to head coach. He named Talib the starting cornerback, alongside Ronde Barber, after Buchanon departed for the Detroit Lions in free agency.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On October 4, 2009, Talib recorded four solo tackles, three pass deflections, and had a career-high three interceptions off of Washington Redskins' quarterback Jason Campbell during their 16–13 loss. Talib was inactive for the Buccaneers' Week 13 loss at the Carolina Panthers. On December 20, 2009, he collected a season-high eight combined tackles in their 24–7 win at the Seattle Seahawks. He finished the season with a career-high 64 combined tackles (56 solo), 15 passes defensed, and five interceptions in 15 games and 15 starts. Defensive coordinator Jim Bates was fired after a 1–9 start and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers finished the season with a 3–13 record.


title: Aqib Talib

text: Head coach Raheem Morris retained defensive coordinator duties and opted to keep Ronde Barber and Aqib Talib as the starting cornerbacks. On August 31, 2010, it was reported that the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell issued Talib a one-game suspension, to serve during the Buccaneers' season-opener, for his involvement in a battery of a taxi driver (See Personal life).


title: Aqib Talib

text: He made his season debut in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Week 2 game against the Carolina Panthers and recorded a tackle, a pass deflection, and an interception during their 20–7 victory. On October 31, 2010, Talib recorded five solo tackles, two interceptions, and scored his first career touchdown in Tampa Bay's 38–35 victory at the Arizona Cardinals. He intercepted quarterback Max Hall in the second quarter and returned it 45-yards for his first career touchdown, but also was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct for taunting during his return. In Week 10, he recorded a season-high eight combined tackles and deflected a pass during a 31–16 victory against the Carolina Panthers. On December 6, 2010, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers placed Talib on injured reserve due to a hip injury he suffered during a Week 13 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. He finished the season with 40 combined tackles (39 solo), 11 pass deflections, a touchdown, and a career-high six interceptions in 11 games and 11 starts.


title: Aqib Talib

text: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers finished with a 10–6 record in 2010, but did not qualify for the playoffs after finishing third in their division. After the 2010 season, Talib was named Defensive Back of the Year by the NFL Alumni Association.


title: Aqib Talib

text: Talib and Barber remained as the starting cornerback duo in 2011. He started the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' season-opener against the Detroit Lions and recorded three solo tackles, two pass deflections, and returned an interception by Matthew Stafford for a 28-yard touchdown during their 27–20 loss to the Lions. In Week 3, Talib made a season-high six solo tackles in a 16–13 victory over the Atlanta Falcons. On November 27, 2011, Talib recorded three combined tackles, deflected a pass, and scored his third career touchdown after intercepting Matt Hasselbeck and returning it 28-yards during the Buccaneers' 23–17 loss at the Tennessee Titans. He was sidelined for a Week 11 loss at the Jacksonville Jaguars due to a hamstring injury. On December 19, 2011, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers placed Talib on injured reserve after due to a recurring hamstring injury. He finished the season with 34 combined tackles (31 solo), 11 pass deflections, two interceptions, two touchdowns, and a forced fumble in 13 games and 13 starts.


title: Aqib Talib

text: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers finished the season last in the NFC South with a 4–12 record and had a ten-game losing streak to end the season. On January 2, 2012, head coach Raheem Morris was fired by the Buccaneers after his third season.


title: Aqib Talib

text: New head coach Greg Schiano named Talib and newly acquired free agent Eric Wright the starting cornerbacks to begin the regular season after Ronde Barber was moved to free safety.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On September 15, 2012, Talib recorded a season-high eight solo tackles during a 41–34 loss at the New York Giants. The following week, he made seven solo tackles, deflected a pass, and intercepted Tony Romo in their 16–10 loss at the Dallas Cowboys.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On October 13, 2012, Talib was suspended by the NFL for four games for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances. Talib's positive result was for Adderall and he released a statement saying, "Around the beginning of training camp, I made a mistake by taking an Adderall pill without a prescription."


title: Aqib Talib

text: On November 1, 2012, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers traded Talib and a 2013 seventh-round draft pick to the New England Patriots for a 2013 fourth-round draft pick. The Buccaneers went on to draft defensive end William Gholston with their fourth-round pick and the Patriots selected defensive end Michael Buchanan with their seventh-round pick.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On November 12, 2012, Talib returned from his four-game suspension. Head coach Bill Belichick named Talib one of the starting cornerbacks with Kyle Arrington after moving Devin McCourty to free safety. On November 18, 2012, Talib made his New England Patriots debut against the Indianapolis Colts and recorded seven combined tackles, defended a pass, and returned an interception from rookie quarterback Andrew Luck for a 59-yard touchdown as the Patriots routed the Colts 59–24. Talib was plagued with a hip injury throughout the season and missed the Patriots' Week 17 28–0 win vs the Miami Dolphins. He finished the season with 40 combined tackles (33 solo), ten pass deflections, two interceptions, and a touchdown in ten games and nine starts.


title: Aqib Talib

text: The New England Patriots finished atop the AFC East with a 12–4 record and were given a first round bye. On January 13. 2013, Talib started his first career playoff game and recorded ten combined tackles as the Patriots defeated the Houston Texans 41–28. The following week, they were defeated 28–13 in the AFC Championship by the eventual Super Bowl XLVII champion Baltimore Ravens.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On March 16, 2013, the Patriots signed Talib to a one-year, $4.86 million contract that includes $4.57 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $3 million.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On September 12, 2013, Talib recorded two combined tackles, two pass deflections, and two interceptions during a 13–10 win against the New York Jets. He missed three consecutive games (Weeks 7-9) after aggravating his hip injury that plagued him over the last two seasons. He finished the with 41 combined tackles (35 solo), 14 pass deflections, and four interceptions in 13 games and 13 starts. Talib was targeted 65 times and allowed 29 receptions (44%) for 471 yards and two touchdowns in 2013.


title: Aqib Talib

text: The Patriots repeated as AFC East champions and received a first-round bye with a 12–4 record. After defeating the Indianapolis Colts in the divisional round, they went on to face the Denver Broncos, only to lose the game 26–16. Talib left in the second quarter after taking a hit by former teammate Wes Welker and did not return. Although it was suspected he suffered an injury to his ribs at first, it was later discovered Talib suffered a knee injury. Head coach Bill Belichick stated "As it turned out, it was a key play in the game." Without Talib, Kyle Arrington and rookie Logan Ryan were tasked with covering Demaryius Thomas as the Patriots' defense gave up 505 yards, the most during the Belichick's tenure with New England at the time. Talib's 2013 performance was good enough for a selection to the 2013 Pro Bowl and a second-team selection to the 2013 All-Pro Team, both of which were his first career selections.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On March 11, 2014, the Denver Broncos signed Talib to a six-year, $57 million contract that included $26 million guaranteed. He was reunited with his former college teammate Chris Harris Jr. and former Patriots teammate Wes Welker. The contract was heavily criticized by members of the media and analysts, many opining that the Broncos overpaid for Talib. The New England Patriots also offered Talib a contract, but he stated it was a business decision and both parties could not agree on the amount of guaranteed money and time of payouts. He signed with the Broncos on the first day of free agency and stated he knew beforehand that he would end up signing with them. The joining of the Broncos would bring in a major piece of the No Fly Zone.


title: Aqib Talib

text: Talib was named the starting cornerback, along with Chris Harris Jr, replacing Champ Bailey and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie. Head coach John Fox revamped the secondary by signing Talib, safety T. J. Ward, and drafting cornerback Bradley Roby in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On October 12, 2014, Talib recorded four solo tackles, two pass deflections, and returned an interception by Geno Smith for a 22-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter of their 31–17 victory at the New York Jets. Talib missed the Broncos' Week 13 victory at the Kansas City Chiefs with a hamstring injury. In Week 15, he made a season-high eight combined tackles, deflected three passes, and had an interception in the Broncos' 22–10 win at the San Diego Chargers. The following week, Talib made four combined tackles, tied his season-high of three pass deflections, and returned an interception off Cincinnati Bengals' quarterback Andy Dalton for a 33-yard touchdown in a 37–28 loss. On December 23, 2014, Talib was voted to his second career Pro Bowl, along with eight teammates. In Week 17, Talib recorded four combined tackles and made his first career sack on Derek Carr as the Broncos routed the Oakland Raiders 47–14. He finished his first season in Denver with a career-high tying 64 combined tackles (55 solo), a career-high 16 pass deflections, four interceptions, and two touchdowns in 15 games and 15 starts.


title: Aqib Talib

text: The Denver Broncos finished first in the AFC West with a 12–4 record, but were eliminated from the playoffs after losing 24–13 in the AFC divisional round to the Indianapolis Colts. Talib made four solo tackles and a pass deflection during the game. On January 25, 2015, Talib appeared in the 2015 Pro Bowl as part of Team Carter and recorded four solo tackles and a pass deflection as they were defeated by Team Irvin 32–28.


title: Aqib Talib

text: Baltimore Ravens' offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak was named the new head coach after the Denver Broncos and head coach John Fox agreed to part ways. Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips chose to keep Talib and Chris Harris Jr. as the starting cornerbacks with Bradley Roby as the nickelback.


title: Aqib Talib

text: He started the Denver Broncos' season-opener against the Baltimore Ravens' and recorded three combined tackles, two pass deflections, and intercepted quarterback Joe Flacco and returned it for a 51-yard touchdown in their 19–13 victory. On November 8, 2015, Talib poked the eye of Indianapolis Colts tight end Dwayne Allen late in the fourth quarter of the Broncos' 27–24 loss. The Broncos were given a 15-yard penalty with the Colts receiving a first down and ended any chance of a comeback by the Broncos. Talib was later suspended for the Broncos' Week 10 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. He finished the season with 45 combined tackles (39 solo), 13 pass deflections, two interceptions, and a touchdown in 15 games and 15 starts.


title: Aqib Talib

text: The Denver Broncos finished with a 12–4 record, received a first round bye and defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 23–16 in the AFC Divisional round. On January 24, 2016, Talib tipped a two-point conversion pass by Tom Brady which the Broncos intercepted in the end zone, preserving a 20–18 fourth quarter lead as they defeated the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On February 7, 2016, Talib appeared in his first career Super Bowl and recorded five solo tackles and deflected two passes during their 24–10 victory over the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50. In the first half, he was penalized 15-yards for viciously grabbing the face mask of wide receiver Corey Brown to prevent him from scoring a touchdown. Later, Talib admitted to reporters that he committed the face-mask penalty on purpose. Talib was fined $26,044 for the intentional face-mask on Brown and taunting the opponent. Talib was ranked 34th by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2016.


title: Aqib Talib

text: Talib had 12 pass deflections and three interceptions in 2016, including one returned 46 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter in Week 2 against the Indianapolis Colts. It was his franchise-record fifth interception return touchdown as a member of the Broncos. Despite missing three games due to injury, on December 20, Talib was named to the 2016 Pro Bowl and was named First-team All-Pro along with fellow Bronco cornerback Chris Harris Jr. He was also ranked 37th by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2017. Pro Football Focus ranked Talib the top defensive back in 2016.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On September 17, 2017, in Week 2 against the Dallas Cowboys, Talib recorded a career-long 103-yard pick six off quarterback Dak Prescott late in the fourth quarter of the 42–17 victory. During Week 12 against the Oakland Raiders, Talib got into a fight with Michael Crabtree, resulting in both players being ejected. The next day, both combatants were suspended for two games. However, the suspension was reduced to one game following a joint appeal. On December 19, 2017, Talib was named to his fifth straight Pro Bowl. Talib finished the season with 31 combined tackles (23 solo), seven pass deflections, an interception, and a touchdown in 15 games and 15 starts. He was ranked 53rd by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On March 8, 2018, the Broncos agreed to a trade that sent Talib to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for a fifth round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. The deal became official on March 14, 2018, at the start of the NFL year.


title: Aqib Talib

text: Talib entered the 2018 season as a starting cornerback alongside fellow trade acquisition Marcus Peters. In Week 3, Talib suffered an ankle injury that required surgery. He was placed on injured reserve on September 26, 2018. He was activated off injured reserve on November 30, 2018. Talib returned in week 13 where the Rams defeated the Detroit Lions 30–16. In week 15, Talib recorded his first interception on the season in a 30–23 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. He finished the season with 23 tackles, 1 interception, and 1 forced fumble. Talib helped the Rams defeat the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints in the playoffs to reach Super Bowl LIII where the Rams lost 13–3 to Talib's former team the New England Patriots. Talib recorded 4 tackles in the game.


title: Aqib Talib

text: Talib entered the 2019 season as a starting cornerback for the Rams. He was placed on injured reserve on October 14, 2019 with a rib injury.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On October 29, 2019, Talib was traded, along with a fifth-round pick, to the Miami Dolphins for a 2022 seventh-round pick, reuniting Talib with former Patriots coaches, including head coach Brian Flores and wide receiver coach Chad O'Shea. Because he was on injured reserve, Talib did not play for the Dolphins before becoming a free agent at the end of the season.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On September 9, 2020, Talib announced his retirement. He had turned down an offer to return to the Patriots, saying he no longer felt like playing football. Talib currently works as a commentator for Fox Sports.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On March 26, 2016, Talib married his girlfriend of over seven years, Gypsy Benitez, in a ceremony outside of Dallas, Texas. Teammates from the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots attended, although the Broncos defeated the Patriots in the AFC Championship less than three months prior. The couple have two children together. His son is named Jabril and is the youngest, and his daughter is named Kiara, the oldest from a previous relationship in college.


title: Aqib Talib

text: Talib had several conduct-related issues during his NFL career. At the NFL rookie symposium in July 2008, Talib was involved in a fistfight with fellow Buccaneers rookie Cory Boyd. In the early morning of June 5, 2016, Talib was shot in the leg outside a Dallas strip club. He was released from the hospital the same day. It was later revealed that Talib falsified the report, having actually shot himself in the leg and lied to police, and that, while intoxicated, he never was at the strip club in question.


title: Aqib Talib

text: On August 20, 2009, Talib allegedly battered a taxi driver and he was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol and booked into the Pinellas County jail, charged with resisting arrest without violence and simple battery.


title: Aqib Talib

text: In March 2011, police in Garland, Texas issued a felony warrant for Talib for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he was accused of firing a gun at his sister's boyfriend. He was later released on $25,000 bond. Talib was indicted on the charge in May 2011. On June 18, 2012, the charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence and credibility concerns with the accuser.


title: Aqib Talib

text: In August 2022, Talib's brother, Yaqub Talib, was sought by police in Lancaster, Texas on a murder warrant after he fled the fatal shooting of youth football coach Michael Hickmon. He turned himself in to the authorities two days later. Youth football coaching staff and officials had gotten into a disagreement that became physical, resulting in Yaqub shooting Hickmon. Witnesses said Aqib Talib had started the brawl that led to the fatal shooting of Hickmon.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: Thank You is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film directed by Vikram Kumar from a story written by B. V. S. Ravi. It is produced by Dil Raju and Sirish under Sri Venkateswara Creations. The film stars Naga Chaitanya, Raashii Khanna, Malavika Nair, Avika Gor and Sai Sushanth Reddy.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: "Thank You" was released theatrically on 22 July 2022. The film opened to negative reviews from critics and bombed at the box office.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: In New York, Priya learns that she is pregnant, much to her distress. She talks to her family friend, Aunt Sailaja, about her relationship with her live-in boyfriend, Abhi.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: In 2011, Abhi comes to New York from India through a consultancy company managed by Sailaja's husband, Rao, through which he meets Priya. He designs an app called "Ydhya" which can diagnose any injury or disease through artificial intelligence. However, Rao disapproves of the app and insists Abhi get a steady job first. Abhi persists and successfully pitches "Ydhya" to a group of investors. When Rao refuses to fund him, Priya gives Abhi $15,000 to build a start-up and hire coders. In the next decade, "Ydhya" grows worldwide. Abhi and Priya fall in love and eventually move in together. Over time though, Abhi's enormous success causes him to become self-centric and egotistical, which strains his relationships with everyone. Priya refuses to marry Abhi as he grows distant from her.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: In the present, Sailaja encourages Priya to tell Abhi about her pregnancy and give him a chance to change. Meanwhile, Rao struggles to place 60 people that have come through his consultancy before their visas expire and his company goes into debt. Rao, as a last hope, tries to meet Abhi, but he coldly refuses to employ them in retaliation on Rao for denying him the funding for his start-up. This causes Priya to break up with Abhi, just as Rao gets a fatal cardiac arrest. Abhi then gets a call from one of his investors, who reveals that Rao convinced him to invest in "Ydhya". A conflicted Abhi has a panic attack which causes his dormant conscience to manifest. Abhi's conscience tells him to re-visit his past to remember all the people that helped him succeed up to that point.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: In 2003, an 18-year-old Abhi is an excellent student and promising hockey player in Narayanapuram. He wins a boat race and gets his higher studies funded by the village head, Narayana Rao. Abhi also develops feelings for Narayana Rao's daughter, Parvathi aka Paaru, who he tries to help get into culinary school. When Narayana Rao finds out about their romance, he threatens Abhi's mother to take her son and leave the village. Abhi asks Paaru to come with him, but she leaves him for good, urging Abhi to never compromise his goals.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: In the present, Abhi reunites with Paaru, now married with two daughters and running her own cooking channel. He ultimately thanks Paaru for leaving him that day, as it allowed him to go to pursue his future studies and dreams. He also helps Narayana Rao reconcile with Paaru. Abhi tries calling Priya, but she declines, planning to get an abortion against Sailaja's wishes. Abhi's conscience instructs him to meet his college rival, Sharva.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: In 2006 in Visakhapatnam, Abhi and Sharva have a heated rivalry for three years, which is fueled through field hockey. However, Abhi begins to develop a sibling-like relationship with Sharva's sister, Chinnu, who tries to end their enmity. She secretly helps Abhi win a hockey game against Sharva, allowing Abhi to be selected for the Railways. An enraged Sharva lures Abhi to the hockey field after their graduation and heavily beats him up with his gang. Abhi escapes on a train, but his hand is broken, ending his hockey career.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: In the present, Abhi meets Sharva at his MLA campaign. Sharva lost his leg six years prior in a car bomb planted by an opponent. He apologizes to Abhi for his actions, and they reconcile. After reuniting with Chinnu, Abhi thanks Sharva for beating him up that day because his broken hand served as the inspiration for "Ydhya".


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: Abhi returns to New York and makes amends by employing the 60 people from Rao's consultancy at "Ydhya", rehiring the employees who were part of his initial success, making the app free, and resigning as CEO. Priya learns of Abhi's deeds at Rao's funeral and finds him at the airport, now working for Rao's consultancy. Priya and Abhi reconcile, with Abhi thanking Priya for standing by him. Priya reveals she is pregnant, having decided to keep their baby.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: "Thank You" was announced in August 2020. The film features Naga Chaitanya alongside Raashi Khanna, Avika Gor, and Malavika Nair. The film was formally launched with a pooja ceremony in October 2020. The music of the film is being composed by S. Thaman.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: The principal photography was expected to begin from Dusserah (October 2020) but ultimately began on 21 December 2020.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: The film score and soundtrack album of the film is composed by Thaman S. The music rights were acquired by Aditya Music.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: "Thank You" was released in cinemas on 22 July 2022. Previously the film was scheduled to release on 8 July 2022 but was postponed due to a delay in post-production.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: The digital distribution rights were acquired by Amazon Prime Video and Sun NXT. It was premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 11 August 2022.


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: "Thank You" received negative reviews from critics. Ram Venkat Srikar of "Cinema Express" rated the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote ""Thank You" still has its soul intact and ensures that it puts a smile on your face". Neeshita Nyayapati of "The Times of India" rated the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote ""Thank You" doesn't offer anything fresh in terms of the story or the performances". Janani K of "India Today" rated the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "If only director Vikram Kumar had concentrated more on the screenplay, "Thank You" would have made more impact". Shubham Kulkarni of "Koimoi" rated the film 1.5 out of 5 stars and wrote ""Thank you" is just another lazy film about a manchild trying to mend things without any layer or metaphor".


title: Thank You (2022 film)

text: Arvind V of "Pinkvilla" rated the film 2 out of 5 stars and wrote "Writer BVS Ravi and director Vikram K Kumar should have invested in Abhiram's character more". Balakrishna Ganeshan of "The News Minute" rated the film 2 out of 5 stars and wrote ""Thank You" could have been a better film, had the writing been more strong and not so superficial. But as a visual art, the film excels". A critic for "The Hans India" rated the film 2 out of 5 stars and wrote "Only a few moments in the first half an hour are worth watching while the rest of the film is nothing but a thorough disappointment and difficult the sit through its entirety". Sangeetha Devi Dundoo of "The Hindu" wrote in her review ""Thank You" begins on a promising note and ends up withering away its chances of being a truly moving and poignant journey. This isn't among the memorable films in Vikram Kumar's oeuvre."


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Look Back in Anger (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne. It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin, Jimmy Porter, and his equally competent yet impassive upper-middle-class wife Alison. The supporting characters include Cliff Lewis, an amiable Welsh lodger who attempts to keep the peace; and Helena Charles, Alison's snobbish friend.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Osborne drew inspiration from his personal life and failing marriage with Pamela Lane while writing "Look Back in Anger", which was his first successful outing as a playwright. The play spawned the term "angry young men" to describe Osborne and those of his generation who employed the harshness of realism in the theatre in contrast to the more escapist theatre that characterised the previous generation. This harsh realism has led to "Look Back in Anger" being considered one of the first examples of kitchen sink drama in theatre.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: The play was received favourably in the theatre community, becoming an enormous commercial success, transferring to the West End and Broadway, and even touring to Moscow. It is credited with turning Osborne from a struggling playwright into a wealthy and famous personality, and also won him the Evening Standard Drama Award as the most promising playwright of 1956. The play was adapted into a motion picture of the same name by Tony Richardson, starring Richard Burton and Mary Ure, which was released in 1959. Film production credited circa 1958.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Act 1 opens on a dismal April Sunday afternoon in Jimmy and Alison's cramped attic in the Midlands. Jimmy and Cliff are reading the Sunday papers, plus the radical weekly, "price ninepence, obtainable at any bookstall" as Jimmy snaps, claiming it from Cliff. This is a reference to the "New Statesman", and in the context of the period would have instantly signalled the pair's political preference to the audience. Alison is attempting to do the week's ironing and is only half listening as Jimmy and Cliff engage in the expository dialogue.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: It becomes apparent that there is a huge social gulf between Jimmy and Alison. Her family is upper-middle-class military, while Jimmy belongs to working class. He had to fight hard against her family's disapproval to win her. "Alison's mummy and I took one look at each other, and from then on the age of chivalry was dead," he explains. We also learn that the sole family income is derived from a sweets confectionary stall in the local market—an enterprise that is surely well beneath Jimmy's education, let alone Alison's "station in life".


title: Look Back in Anger

text: As Act 1 progresses, Jimmy becomes more and more vituperative, transferring his contempt for Alison's family onto her personally, calling her "pusillanimous" and generally belittling her to Cliff. (Some actors play this scene as though Jimmy thinks everything is just a joke, while others play it as though he really is excoriating her.) The tirade ends with physical horseplay, resulting in the ironing board overturning and Alison's arm getting burned. Jimmy exits to play his trumpet off stage.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Alison, alone with Cliff, confides that she's accidentally pregnant and can't quite bring herself to tell Jimmy. Cliff urges her to tell him. When Jimmy returns, Alison announces that her actress friend Helena Charles is coming to stay, and Jimmy despises Helena even more than Alison. He flies into a rage.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Act 2 opens on another Sunday afternoon, with Helena and Alison making lunch. In a two-handed scene, Alison says that she decided to marry Jimmy because of


title: Look Back in Anger

text: her own minor rebellion against her upbringing and her admiration for Jimmy's campaigns against the dereliction of life in postwar England. She describes Jimmy to Helena as a "knight in shining armour". Helena says, firmly, "You've got to fight him".


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Jimmy enters, and the tirade continues. If his Act 1 material could be played as a joke, there's no doubt about the intentional viciousness of his attacks on Helena. When the women put on hats and declare that they are going to church, Jimmy's sense of betrayal peaks. When he leaves to take an urgent phone call, Helena announces that she has forced the issue. She has sent a telegram to Alison's parents asking them to come and "rescue" her. Alison is stunned but agrees that she will go.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: The next evening, Alison's father, Colonel Redfern, comes to collect her to take her back to her family home. The playwright allows the Colonel to come across as quite a sympathetic character, albeit totally out of touch with the modern world, as he himself admits. "You're hurt because everything's changed", Alison tells him, "and Jimmy's hurt because everything's stayed the same". Helena arrives to say goodbye, intending to leave very soon herself. Alison is surprised that Helena is staying on for another day, but she leaves, giving Cliff a note for Jimmy. Cliff in turn hands it to Helena and leaves, saying "I hope he rams it up your nostrils".


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Almost immediately, Jimmy bursts in. His contempt at finding a "goodbye" note makes him turn on Helena again, warning her to keep out of his way until she leaves. Helena tells him that Alison is expecting a baby, and Jimmy admits grudgingly that he's taken aback. However, his tirade continues. They first come to physical blows, and then as the Act 2 curtain falls, Jimmy and Helena are kissing passionately and falling on the bed.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Act 3 opens as a deliberate replay of Act 1, but this time with Helena at the ironing-board wearing Jimmy's Act 1 red shirt. Months have passed. Jimmy is notably more pleasant to Helena than he was to Alison in Act 1. She actually laughs at his jokes, and the three of them (Jimmy, Cliff, and Helena) get into a music hall comedy routine that obviously is not improvised. Cliff announces that he's decided to strike out on his own. As Jimmy leaves the room to get ready for a final night out for the three of them, he opens the door to find Alison, looking like death. He snaps over his shoulder "Friend of yours to see you" and abruptly leaves.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Alison explains to Helena that she lost the baby (one of Jimmy's cruellest speeches in Act 1 expressed the wish that Alison would conceive a child and lose it). The two women reconcile, but Helena realises that what she's done is immoral and she in turn decides to leave. She summons Jimmy to hear her decision and he lets her go with a sarcastic farewell.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: The play ends with a sentimental reconciliation between Jimmy and Alison. They revive an old game they used to play, pretending to be bears and squirrels, and seem to be in a state of truce.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Written in 17 days in a deck chair on Morecambe Pier, "Look Back in Anger" was a strongly autobiographical piece based on Osborne's unhappy marriage to actress Pamela Lane and their life in cramped accommodation in Derby. While Osborne aspired towards a career in theatre, Lane was more practical and materialistic. It also draws from Osborne's earlier life; for example, the wrenching speech of witnessing a loved one's death was a replay of the death of his father, Thomas.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: What it is best remembered for, though, are Jimmy's tirades. Some of these are directed against generalised British middle-class smugness in the post-atomic world. Many are directed against the female characters, a very distinct echo of Osborne's uneasiness with women, including his mother, Nellie Beatrice, whom he describes in his autobiography "A Better Class of Person" as "hypocritical, self-absorbed, calculating and indifferent". Madeline, the lost love Jimmy pines for, is based on Stella Linden, the older rep-company actress who first encouraged Osborne to write. After the first production in London, Osborne began a relationship with Mary Ure, who played Alison; he divorced his first wife (of five years) Pamela Lane to marry Ure in 1957.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: The play was premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre, on 8 May 1956 by the English Stage Company under the direction of Tony Richardson, setting by Alan Tagg, and music for songs by Tom Eastwood. The press release called the author an "angry young man", a phrase that came to represent a new movement in 1950s British theatre. Audiences supposedly gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: The cast was as follows: Kenneth Haigh (Jimmy), Alan Bates (Cliff), Mary Ure (Alison), Helena Hughes (Helena Charles) and John Welsh (Colonel Redfern). The following year, the production moved to Broadway under producer David Merrick and director Tony Richardson. Retaining the original cast but starring Vivienne Drummond as Helena, it would receive three Tony Award nominations including for Best Play and "Best Dramatic Actress" for Ure.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: At the time of production reviews of "Look Back in Anger" were deeply negative. Kenneth Tynan and Harold Hobson were among the few critics to praise it, and are now regarded among the most influential critics of the time.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: For example, on BBC Radio's "The Critics", Ivor Brown began his review by describing the play's setting—a one-room flat in the Midlands—as "unspeakably dirty and squalid" such that it was difficult for him to "believe that a colonel's daughter, brought up with some standards", would have lived in it. He expressed anger at having watched something that "wasted [his] time". The "Daily Mail"'s Cecil Wilson wrote that the beauty of Mary Ure was "frittered away" on a pathetic wife, who, "judging by the time she spends ironing, seems to have taken on the nation's laundry". Indeed, Alison, Ure's character, irons during Act One, makes lunch in Act Two, and leaves the ironing to her rival in Act Three.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: On the other hand, Kenneth Tynan wrote that he "could not love anyone who did not wish to see "Look Back in Anger"", describing the play as a "minor miracle" containing "all the qualities...one had despaired of ever seeing on the stage—the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive leftishness, the automatic rejection of "official" attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour (e.g., Jimmy describes an effeminate male friend as a 'female Emily Brontë'), the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a crusade worth fighting for and, underlying all these, the determination that no one who dies shall go unmourned." Harold Hobson was also quick to recognize the importance of the play "as a landmark of British theatre". He praised Osborne for the play, despite the fact that "blinkers still obscure his vision".


title: Look Back in Anger

text: Alan Sillitoe, author of "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (both of which are also part of the "angry young men" movement), wrote that Osborne "didn't contribute to British theatre, he set off a landmine and blew most of it up".


title: Look Back in Anger

text: The Renaissance Theatre Company's August 1989 production at the Lyric Theatre, London was directed by Judi Dench with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. A television version of the production was broadcast in Britain in December of that year.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: In 1995 Greg Hersov directed a production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Michael Sheen as Jimmy Porter, Claire Skinner as Alison Porter, Dominic Rowan as Cliff Lewis and Hermione Norris as Helena Charles. Hersov directed a second production in 1999, again starring Michael Sheen, at the Royal National Theatre in London.


title: Look Back in Anger

text: In 1989 Osborne wrote a sequel to the play entitled "Déjàvu", which was first produced in 1992. "Déjàvu" depicted Jimmy Porter, now known as J.P., in middle age, living with his daughter Alison. He rants about the state of the country to his old friend Cliff, while his Alison irons, just as her mother had done in "Look Back". The play was not a commercial success, closing after seven weeks. It was Osborne's last play.


title: Home (2021 film)

text: Home is an Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed and written by Rojin Thomas. The film stars Indrans, Sreenath Bhasi, Naslen K. Gafoor, Manju Pillai, Johny Antony, Kainakary Thankaraj and Deepa Thomas. The film was released on Amazon Prime Video on 19 August 2021. This film received widespread critical attention. The story, background score, cinematography, social relevance, characterization and performances of the lead cast especially that of Indrans and Manju Pillai were critically acclaimed.


title: Home (2021 film)

text: The plot revolves around a middle-class family consisting of Oliver Twist (Indrans), Kuttiyamma (Manju Pillai), Antony (Sreenath Bhasi), Charles (Naslen K. Gafoor), and Appachan (Kainakary Thankaraj). It's a film that serves as a mirror for today's generation in a world full of technology.The story revolves around a technologically challenged father and his tech-savvy sons.


title: Home (2021 film)

text: Rahul Subrahmanian is the music director of the movie. He has composed four songs for the film and also did the background scores for the movie.


title: Home (2021 film)

text: "The Times of India" rated 3.5 out of 5 and wrote, "The movie is a must watch entertainer that the whole family can laugh and cry happy tears all through together". "The Free Press Journal" said that thoughtfully written and directed by Rojin Thomas, Home is a film representing the present times when emotions get only expressed on digital mediums, forgetting or avoiding personal contacts. "Hindustan Times" commented that sometimes too sweets but most times heartwarming, Rojin Thomas brings to life a lovely family drama that is driven by Indrans' effortless performance. "Firstpost" rated 3 on 5 for the movie and wrote, "Parts of #Home feel stretched, and the film could have done with some scissoring, but when it works, it works so well that this complaint recedes into the background in the face of its overall endearing nature and loveable simplicity."


title: Chad (TV series)

text: Chad is an American sitcom created by Nasim Pedrad, who also stars as the titular role in the series. The series premiered on April 6, 2021, on TBS.


title: Chad (TV series)

text: In February 2016, "Chad" was originally sold to Fox and ordered for a series in 2016 titled "Chad: An American Boy" with the original concept about a "14-year-old boy in the throes of adolescence who is tasked with being the man of the house", with the original pilot written by Pedrad and Rob Rosell. In August 2016, it was announced that the series would not be moving forward at Fox and would be shopped to other networks. In May 2019, the series was picked up by TBS for a 10-episode order. In May 2021, the series was renewed for a second season. In July 2022, TBS announced that while the second season of "Chad" had been filmed, that they would not be airing it or ordering a third season, as the channel was pivoting away from scripted content.


title: Chad (TV series)

text: On October 26, 2022, it was announced that The Roku Channel had acquired the series and would air the second season.


title: Chad (TV series)

text: Chad (Pedrad) is a 14-year-old Persian-American boy on a mission to become popular as he navigates his first year of high school. During the first season, Chad's friendships and sanity are pushed to the limits as he uses every tactic at his disposal to befriend the cool kids while enduring his mother's new dating life and reconciling with his cultural identity.


title: Chad (TV series)

text: On February 10, 2016, it was reported that a comedy starring Nasim Pedrad was given a pilot order at Fox. On August 5, 2016, it was announced that the idea would not be moving forward at Fox, and would be shopped elsewhere to broadcast, cable and streaming networks. On May 15, 2019, TBS gave "Chad" a series order, along with the first trailer of the series being released. On May 19, 2021, TBS renewed the series for a second season; which was scheduled to premiere in July 2022. Instead, hours before the second season was scheduled to premiere, TBS canceled the series.


title: Chad (TV series)

text: In April 2021, it was announced that the series will be relocating its production to California, to take advantage of tax incentives provided by the California Film Commission.


title: Chad (TV series)

text: On April 7, 2021, it was revealed that "Chad" debuted as the top-rated scripted cable program of 2021. The series premiere received 1.9 million viewers across two airings, with 765,000 viewers in the targeted 18-49 demographic.


title: Chad (TV series)

text: On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the first seasons holds an approval rating of 81% based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 7.80/10. On Metacritic, the season has a 65 out of 100 based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The "Baltimore"-class heavy cruisers were a large class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy commissioned during and shortly after World War II. Fourteen "Baltimore"s were completed, more than any other class of heavy cruiser (the British had 15 vessels planned, but only 13 completed), along with three ships of the sub-class. The "Baltimores" also were the first cruisers in the US Navy to be designed without the limitations of the London Naval Treaty.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: Fast and heavily armed, the "Baltimore" cruisers were mainly used in World War II to protect the fast aircraft carriers in battle groups from air attack. Additionally, their main guns and secondary guns were regularly used to bombard land targets in support of amphibious landings. After the war, only six "Baltimore"s ("St. Paul", "Macon", "Toledo", "Columbus", "Bremerton", and "Helena") and two "Oregon City"-class ships ("Albany" and "Rochester") remained in service, while the rest were moved to the reserve fleet. However, all ships except "Boston", "Canberra", "Chicago" and "Fall River" were reactivated for the Korean War.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: Except for "St. Paul", all the ships retaining all-gun configurations had very short (18 years or less) service lives, and by 1971 were decommissioned, and started showing up in the scrap-sale lists. However, four "Baltimore"-class cruisers were refitted and converted into some of the first guided missile cruisers in the world, becoming two of the three and two cruisers. The last of these was decommissioned in 1980, with the "Chicago" lasting until 1991 in reserve. No example of the "Baltimore" class still exists.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: Immediately after the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the US Navy initiated studies regarding a new class of heavy cruiser that led to construction of the "Baltimore" class. With the start of the war, the limitations instituted by the Second London Naval Treaty, which had completely banned the construction of heavy cruisers, became obsolete. The "Baltimore" class was based partly on , a heavy cruiser from 1937, which represented the transition from inter-war to World War II designs. It was also based partly on the , a light cruiser that was then being built. In profile, the "Baltimore"s looked very much like the "Cleveland"-class light cruisers, the obvious difference being that the larger "Baltimore"s carried nine guns in three triple turrets, compared to the twelve guns in four triple turrets of the "Cleveland"s.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The construction of the first four ships of the "Baltimore" class began on July 1, 1940, and four more were ordered before the year was out. A second order, which consisted of 16 more ships, was approved on August 7, 1942. Despite the heavy losses in cruisers during the first 14 months of the Pacific War, the completion of the ships was delayed, because the Navy gave priority to the construction of the lighter "Cleveland"-class ships, as more of the lighter ships could be completed more quickly for deployment in carrier groups. With the construction of the first eight "Baltimore"-class ships moving slowly, the US Navy used the time to review the initial plans and improve them. The new, modified design was itself delayed, so that construction had begun on a further six ships—for a total of 14—using the original design before the revisions were completed. The final three ships ordered were converted to the second design, known as the "Oregon City" class. Between 1943 and 1947, 17 ships of the "Baltimore" and "Oregon City" classes entered service. Construction of the eighteenth ship () was suspended, to eventually be completed as a flagship/command ship in 1950. Five more were laid down, but cancelled and scrapped before launch, and one was never started before being cancelled.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The largest contractor for the construction of the "Baltimore"-class ships was Bethlehem Steel, which produced eight ships at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey, built four and the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia completed two. The ships were named after cities in the United States, the only exception being , which was named in honor of (sunk at the battle of Savo Island), which had been named after Canberra, the Australian capital. The classification "CA" originally stood for "armored cruiser" but was later used for heavy cruisers.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: Of the seventeen (including the three "Oregon City"s) completed ships, twelve were commissioned before the Japanese capitulation on September 2, 1945, though only seven took part in the battles of the Pacific Theater and one in the European Theater. By 1947, nine of the "Baltimore"s had been decommissioned and placed in the reserve fleet, while seven ("Helena", "Toledo", "Macon", "Columbus", "Saint Paul", "Rochester", and "Albany") remained in service. However, at the start of the 1950s, six were reactivated ("Macon" had been decommissioned for four short months: June–October 1950), making thirteen available for deployment in the Korean War. Six of these were used for escort missions and coastal bombardment in Korea, while the other seven reinforced fleets in other areas of the globe. Four ships remained out of service: the "Fall River" was never reactivated, the "Boston" and "Canberra" were refitted as "Boston"-class guided missile cruisers (CGs), and the "Chicago" was reactivated after being converted to an "Albany"-class CG.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: After the Korean War ended and due to the high cost of keeping them in service; starting in 1954 with "Quincy", some of the "Baltimore"s decommissioned for good. By 1969, six ships were still in commission; five ("Boston", "Canberra", "Chicago", "Columbus", "Albany") as CGs, and only one unmodified ship, the "Saint Paul", which remained active to serve in the Vietnam War, providing gunfire support. "Saint Paul" was the only member of the class to serve continuously from commissioning (serving 26 years) and was finally decommissioned in 1971. "Boston" and "Canberra" retired in 1970, "Columbus" (serving 29.5 years) in 1975, and finally "Chicago" in 1980. Starting in 1972 all fourteen of the original "Baltimore"s were sold for scrap after being decommissioned, with "Chicago" being the final one broken up in 1991.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: In World War II, only the was damaged through enemy fire, when she was struck with an air-dropped torpedo on October 13, 1944, which killed 23 men in the engine room and left the ship immobilized. The ship was hit amidships and both boiler rooms were flooded with 3,000 tons of seawater. She was towed away by sister ship , and as a result both ships missed the crucial Battle of Leyte Gulf. A year later, repairs were completed at the Boston Naval Shipyard and "Canberra" was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet. In June 1945, had her entire bow ripped off in a typhoon, but there were no casualties. The ship struggled through winds to Guam, where provisional repairs were made before sailing to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for a full reconstruction. "Pittsburgh"s detached bow stayed afloat, and was later towed into Guam and scrapped.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: During the Korean War, a fire in a forward gun turret on 12 April 1952, killed 30 men on "St. Paul". Then, in 1953, the same ship was hit by a coastal battery, though without injury to the crew. "Helena" in 1951 and "Los Angeles" in 1953 were also struck by coastal batteries without injuries during the war.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: In June 1968, "Boston", along with its escort, the Australian destroyer , were victims of friendly fire when planes of the US Air Force mistook them for enemy targets and fired on them with AIM-7 Sparrow missiles. Only "Hobart" was seriously damaged; although "Boston" was hit, the warhead of the missile failed to detonate.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: By the latter half of the 1940s, the navy was planning warships equipped with missiles. In 1946 the battleship and in 1948 the seaplane tender were converted to test this idea. Both were equipped with, among other weapons, with RIM-2 Terrier missiles, which were also used after 1952 on the first series of operational missile cruisers. Two "Baltimore"-class cruisers were refitted in this first series, and "Canberra". These were the first operational guided missile cruisers in the world. They were designated the "Boston" class and returned to service in 1955 and 1956 respectively, reclassified as CAG-1 and CAG-2--"G" for "guided missile" and maintaining the "A" because they retained their heavy guns.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: In the following years six light cruisers of the "Cleveland" class were equipped with guided missiles and in 1957 the first ship designed from the start to be a missile cruiser was completed (). Ships also continued to be converted, so starting in 1958, two "Baltimore"-class cruisers, and , along with an , (considered a sub-class of the "Baltimore" class) , were converted to the new "Albany" class. These were launched in 1962 and 1964, respectively. Two more ships were planned to be refitted as "Albany"s, the "Baltimore" class and the "Oregon City"-class but these conversions were cancelled on financial considerations. As opposed to the "Boston"-class refit, the "Albany"-class refit required a total reconstruction. Both entire weapons systems and the superstructure were removed and replaced with new ones; the cost of one refit was $175 million. Because no high-caliber guns were retained, the "Albany" class ships received the designation "CG".


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: In addition to the operational conversions, four "Baltimore"-class ships, , , and , received modifications to operate the SSM-N-8 Regulus cruise missile between 1956 and 1958 on an experimental basis. Regulus was a nuclear-armed weapon that was primarily used by the US Navy in the nuclear deterrent role. Although associated primarily with submarines, the four "Baltimore"-class cruisers fitted to operate the missile undertook operational taskings with it to the Western Pacific during the experimental period.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: "Baltimore"-class cruisers were long and wide. Since the hull was not altered in either the "Albany" or the "Boston" class, these numbers were the same for those ships as well, but the alterations differentiated them in all other categories.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: Fully loaded, original "Baltimore"s displaced of water. Their draft was . At the bow, the top level of the hull lay above the water; at the stern, . The funnels were high, and the highest point on the masts was at . The superstructure occupied about a third of the ship's length and was divided into two deckhouses. The gap between these housed the two thin funnels. Two masts, one a bit forward and the other a bit aft of the funnels, accommodated the positioning electronics.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The vertical belt armor was thick and the horizontal deck armor was up to thick. The turrets were also heavily armored, between thick, while the conning tower had up to .


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The "Boston" class had a draft about deeper in the water, and displaced about more water than their former sister ships. Because the "Boston"s were only partially refitted, the forward third of the ship remained virtually untouched. The first serious change was the combination of what were two funnels on the "Balitmore"s to just one, thicker funnel, which still stood in the gap between the two deckhouses. Because the missiles required more guiding electronic systems, the forward mast was replaced with a four-legged lattice mast with an enlarged platform. The most conspicuous change was of course the addition of the missile-launching apparatus and its magazine of missiles, which took up the entire back half of the ship and replaced the guns which had been there.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The three "Albany"s were completely rebuilt from the deck level up; except for the hull they bore very little resemblance to their former sister ships. The deckhouse now took up nearly two thirds of the ship's length and was two decks high for almost the entire length. Above that lay the box-shaped bridge which was one of the most recognizable markers of the class. The two masts and funnels were combined into the so-called "macks, combining "mast" and "stack" (smokestack), where the electronics platforms were attached to the tops of the funnels rather than attached to masts rising all the way from the deck. The highest points on the forward mack was more than above the water line. Such heights could only be achieved with the use of aluminum alloys, which were used to a great extent in the construction of the superstructures. Despite this, the fully loaded displacement of the "Albany"s grew to more than .


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The "Baltimore" cruisers were propelled with steam power. Each ship had four shafts, each with a propeller. The shafts were turned by four steam turbines, the steam produced by four boilers, which at full speed reached pressures of up to . The "Baltimore"s each had two engine rooms and two funnels, though this was changed in the "Boston"s, which only had one funnel for all four turbines, as noted above. The high speed was around and the performance of the engine was around .


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The original "Baltimore"s could carry up to of fuel, putting the maximum range at a cruising speed of at about . The increased displacement of the modified "Boston" and "Albany" classes meant their range was reduced to about 9000 and respectively, despite increases in fuel capacity to 2600 and 2500 tons.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The main armament of the "Baltimore" class consisted of three turrets, each with three Mark 15 8"/55 caliber guns (Mark 12 in "Baltimore"). Two of these were located forward and one aft. They fired a 335-pound (152 kg) shell out to a maximum range of 30,050 yards (27,480 m). The armor-piercing shell could penetrate six inches of armor plating at . The secondary armament consisted of twelve 5"/38 caliber guns in six twin mounts. Two mounts were located on each side of the superstructure and two were behind the main batteries fore and aft. These guns could be used against aircraft and surface targets. Their maximum range for surface targets was and they could reach aircraft at altitudes of up to . In addition, the ships had numerous light anti-aircraft weapons: 12 quadruple mounts of Bofors 40 mm guns (or 11 quadruple mounts and 2 twin mounts on ships with only one rear aircraft crane) as well as 20–28 Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, depending on when a given ship was commissioned. After World War II the 20 mm anti-aircraft guns were removed without replacement, due to limited effectiveness against kamikaze attacks, and because it was expected they would be completely ineffective against postwar aircraft. The 40 mm Bofors were replaced with 3"/50 caliber guns in the 1950s.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: Four ships, , , , and , were also each equipped with three nuclear cruise missiles of the SSM-N-8 Regulus type between 1956 and 1958. Ultimately, though, the deployment of such missiles on surface ships remained an experiment, which was only undertaken until the 1960s. The successor UGM-27 Polaris was carried only by nuclear submarines. In the late 1950s, plans were made to fit Polaris to missile conversions of these cruisers, but the only missile cruiser conversion ever so equipped was the , (four tubes), and the missiles were never actually shipped.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: Initially, the "Baltimore"s were equipped with SG radar systems for surface targets and SK systems for airborne targets. The range of these systems for surface targets, depending on the size of the target was between . The SK could detect bombers at medium altitudes from . The radar systems were replaced in the Korean war with the more effective SPS-6 (built by Westinghouse Electric or later with the SPS-12 (from the Radio Corporation of America combined with a SPS-8 as a height-finder. With these systems the detection range for bombers was increased to . The ships in active service longer received further upgrades in their final years: the SPS-6 was replaced with the SPS-37 (also from Westinghouse) and the SPS-12 was replaced with the SPS-10 from Raytheon. With this equipment planes could be detected at over away.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The "Baltimore" class was equipped from the start with electronic and electromechanical fire control systems to determine the fire-parameters by which targets over the horizon could be hit. The main guns were controlled by a Mark 34 fire control system connected to an MK 8 radar. The 5-inch/38 dual purpose guns were guided by two Mk 37 systems with Mk-4 radar. Later, the fire control radars were replaced along with the main radar systems. The fire control systems remained the same except that the new 3 in guns were fitted upgraded to Mk 56 with Mk 35 radars.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The onboard flight systems of the "Baltimore"-class cruisers during World War II consisted of two aircraft catapults on the side edges of the aft deck. Between the catapults was a sliding hatchway which was the roof of an onboard hangar. Directly under the hatch was an aircraft elevator. The hangar had room to accommodate up to four aircraft at one time, one to port forward of the elevator, one to port abeam the elevator, one starboard abeam, and one on the elevator itself. The first four ships of the class had two cranes each, while the later models had only one.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: At full speed, Vought OS2U Kingfisher could be launched from these catapults and later Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk as well. These planes were used for reconnaissance, anti-submarine, and rescue missions. The planes were seaplanes, and after their missions would land in the water near the cruiser and be lifted back up into the ship by the crane or cranes in the rear and reset upon their catapults. In the 1950s, the catapults and the accompanying capacity to launch airplanes were removed, though the cranes were left and the hangars used to house helicopters, ship's boats or the workings of the Regulus missile system.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: "Macon" in 1948, had a slightly elevated helipad installed instead of the catapults. Because of the helipad, the available firing angles for the main guns were sharply narrowed and the experiment was therefore quickly abandoned and not attempted on any other ships of the class. The ships of the "Albany" class did have an area on the deck for helicopters to land, but no platform.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The hull of the "Baltimore" class was used for the development of a number of other classes. The "Oregon City"-class cruisers differed only slightly from "Baltimores", because they were originally planned as "Baltimore"-class cruisers but were constructed based on modified plans. Though nine ships were planned, only three were completed. The main differences between the two classes is the reduction to a single-trunked funnel, a redesigned forward superstructure that was placed further aft, primarily to decrease top-heaviness and increase the arcs of fire for the guns.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: A fourth "Oregon City"-class cruiser, the , was ultimately completed as a light command cruiser. Despite having a heavy cruiser hull, she was classed as a light cruiser because her main armament was smaller than 8 inches.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The was an entirely new heavy cruiser design that attempted to improve upon the "Baltimore" class. While the basic deck and machinery layout was largely unchanged, this class carried the first fully automated high-caliber guns on a warship and had improved damage protection features. None was constructed in time to take part in World War II.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The plans for the light aircraft carrier were adapted from the drafts of the "Baltimore" hull design, including the layout of the engines. The hulls of these ships were, however, significantly widened. The "Saipan"-class ships were completed in 1947 and 1948, but by the mid-1950s, they proved too small for the planes of the jet age and were converted for use as communication and command ships.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: The size of the crew of a "Baltimore"-class cruiser varied by era and by tactical situation. Different sources also differ about the numbers. Naturally, the crew sizes were larger during wartime and furthermore, some cruisers — including all three of the modified "Albany" class - were used as flagships and therefore housed an admiral and his staff.


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: At launch, during and shortly after the war, the crews consisted of around 60 officers and about 1000 rank and file crewmen. When an admiral's staff was aboard during wartime, this number could swell to 80 officers and 1500 crewmen. On the "Boston"s, the standard crew, even in peacetime and without an admiral's staff, was 80 officers and around 1650 crewmen. Because the "Albany" class was equipped almost exclusively for guided missiles, it required fewer crew than the "Boston"s, and was roughly comparable numerically to the basic "Baltimore".


title: Baltimore-class cruiser

text: Compared to today's crew sizes, these numbers seem high. The modern is manned by about 400. These differences are mostly due to the much less manpower intensive nature of modern weapon systems.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Fotbal Club Dinamo București (), commonly known as Dinamo București or simply Dinamo, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Founded in 1948, they have spent almost their entire history in Romania's top tier, the Liga I. Domestically, Dinamo București is one of the two most successful teams in the country, having won 18 Liga I, 13 Cupa României, two Supercupa României, and one Cupa Ligii. In the 1983–84 season, they became the first Romanian club to reach the semi-finals of the European Cup.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Dinamo's traditional home colours are white and red, while the current crest is a modified version of the one adopted in the 1998. Their home venue is Stadionul Dinamo, although significant matches are also played at Arena Națională. Their bitter rivals are neighbouring FC Steaua București, with the matches between the two being commonly referred to as "the Eternal Derby".


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Dinamo București was founded on 14 May 1948, when Unirea Tricolor MAI, newly entered in January 1948 under the umbrella of the Communist regime's Internal Affairs Ministry, merged with Ciocanul București. The people who contributed at the foundation of the club were the Minister of Internal Affairs, Teohari Georgescu and the Jewish brothers Alexandru and Turi Vogl. The sporting club represented the above-mentioned institution. The "Dinamo" name was used for the first time on 1 May 1948. Nevertheless, the real debut of Dinamo was in the 1947–48 Divizia A edition, finishing eighth. The squad included Ambru, Angelo Niculescu, Teodorescu, Șiclovan, Bartha, and Sârbu. In 1955, Dinamo achieved its inaugural league championship. With Angelo Niculescu as head coach, Dinamo had a strong offensive power, with an attack formed by Ene I, Neagu and Suru. The defense, with players like Băcuț I, Băcuț II, Szökő, Călinoiu, was the best in the championship, with only 19 goals conceded.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: In the fall of 1956, the team achieved Romania's inaugural presence in European competition in the European Champion Clubs' Cup, created in 1955. On 26 August 1956, with 32,000 spectators, Dinamo defeated Galatasaray, 3–1. In the second leg, Dinamo would lose in Istanbul 1–2.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Other teams Dinamo would compete in Europe, were Real Madrid (a team with Di Stefano and Gento – the game played in Bucharest took place at 23 August Stadium, and established a new record for this arena: 100,000 spectators), Inter Milan and Feyenoord: 0–3 and 0–2.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: In 1973, Dinamo won a European Cup home match against Northern Ireland's Crusaders Belfast with 11–0. The game continues to be the largest margin of victory in the history of the European Cup.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: The autumn of 1983–84 was going to represent a valuable step into the international arena. The "European Champions Cup campaign" started with Finnish team Kuusysi Lahti, which they defeated 1–0 and 3–0. The second round pushed Dinamo against the current champion, Hamburger SV – team of Stein, Kalz and Magath. At Bucharest, Augustin, Mulțescu and Orac scored for 3–0. The thrilling second leg finished 3–2, with goals from Țălnar and Mulțescu). In order to accede to the semi-finals of CCE, Dinamo had to defeat another top team—Dinamo Minsk. The first leg was 1–1, Rednic equalizing in the 87th minute, and it was followed by a 1–0 victory at Bucharest with Augustin scoring. Dinamo was the first Romanian team to reach the European Champions Cup semi-finals, where it met Liverpool. Dinamo lost 1–0 at Anfield and 2–1 in Bucharest, as Liverpool progressed to the 1984 European Cup Final.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: In 1986 Dinamo won the Cup against Steaua, the team that only a few days before won the European Cup final.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: In the summer of 1990, Dinamo—with Mircea Lucescu as coach—conquered a new national title, its thirteenth. Also the team won the Cup final 6–4, against Steaua.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Dinamo won the league title in 1992, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2007, but failed to reach the final phases of European competitions during those years.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: In 2013, the team changed ownership, as businessman Ionuț Negoiță bought the club. Instead, the club was declared insolvent and started a period of poor results. Even after the club got out of insolvency, the results didn't improve and Dinamo failed to qualify for the Liga I championship play-off for four seasons in a row (2017–18 through to 2020–21).


title: FC Dinamo București

text: In August 2020, Negoiță sold the club to a Spanish company, Benel International SA, represented by Pablo Cortacero.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: On 29 May 2022, Dinamo was relegated for the first time in their 74-year history to the Liga II, having lost in the relegation play-off against Universitatea Cluj with 3–1 on aggregate.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Dinamo's colours are red and white. The current crest includes the profile of two red dogs and also a gold star above them, representing the club's tenth league title.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Dinamo plays its home games at Stadionul Dinamo. The arena was built in 1951, and for the official inauguration Dinamo played a game against Locomotiva Timișoara. The stadium capacity was planned at 16,000, but the installation of seats decreased it to 15,032. The stadium is part of a larger complex which contains a smaller stadium, Stadionul Florea Dumitrache, where the second team, Dinamo II, would play its matches. It is currently used by CS Dinamo București rugby team. There is also a sports hall and a swimming pool.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: The stadium is referred to as "Groapa" (The Pit), as it was dug rather than raising stands. The North stand is honors Peluza Cătălin Hîldan, a former Dinamo player who died in 2000 at the age of 24.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Dinamo has an estimated 13% support in Romania, making them the second most supported Romanian club, after FCSB. The largest concentration of fans is in Bucharest, mainly in the northeast and central areas of the city. The club also has important fan bases on other parts of the country and where significant bases of Romanians are found.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: The roots of the Dinamo ultras (fans) movement can be found in 1995 when groups like Dracula and Rams Pantelimon appeared in the North End. In 1996 a group called Nuova Guardia was formed, and became the leading group in the stadium and later on in the entire Romanian ultras movement. Following the death of the former captain, Cătălin Hîldan, in 2000, the fans renamed the North End of Dinamo's stadium to Peluza Catalin Hîldan (PCH Stand) in his honor. The majority of supporters are located in the PCH, but several factions have moved to the South End.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Dinamo's significant rivalry is with FCSB, with matches between them dubbed the Eternal derby. Both clubs have had the most popularity in Romania with as strong reactions from its respective fans in clashes in the stadium during games and elsewhere. In 1997, Dinamo's fans set a sector of the Stadionul Ghencea on fire. On 16 August 2016, during FCSB's UEFA Champions League 0–5 play-off loss against Manchester City, Dinamo fans unveiled a banner that read "Doar Dinamo București" ("Only Dinamo Bucharest").


title: FC Dinamo București

text: The club's second most important rivalry is against Rapid București. In the 1990s, there was fierce competition between the two in winning the championship title.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Another rivalry is held against Universitatea Craiova; both finished with the same number of points in the 1972–73 Divizia A, but Dinamo was given the title because of their superior goal difference. A conflict has existed ever since. Other smaller rivalries exist, such as the one against Petrolul Ploiești.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Dinamo's fans have a good friendship with Universitatea Cluj's fans. The friendship started in the mid-1990s, both ultras groups being linked with "the mentality, fanaticism and nationalist side" and the common hate for FCSB. Dinamo have unofficial friendship with Crvena zvezda, famous Serbian club. Friendship between this two clubs, are based on Orthodox Christianity same religion.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Dinamo has an important infrastructure for training professionalism in the sport and developing interest in the youth area. The youth center organises a system based on nine age groups between nine and 18 years. Dinamo has around 180 juniors.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: All the groups play in the competitions organised by the Bucharest Football Association and in those created by the Romanian Federation. Youths around 16–18 years old are promoted to the second team, Dinamo II.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: The youth center has its base in the Dinamo Sports Center, where they have eight dressing rooms for the players, one for the coaches, one for the referees, a medical center and a store room for the equipment. Also, the center has many training grounds, among them the Piți Varga field.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Dinamo's record appearance-maker is Cornel Dinu, who made 454 appearances between 1966 and 1983. Ionel Dănciulescu has made the second most appearances with 355.


title: FC Dinamo București

text: Nicolae Dumitru is the most successful head coach in Dinamo's history, with five league titles and two Romanian Cups. Ioan Andone won five trophies for Dinamo, winning one title in Liga I, three Romanian Cups and one Supercup.


title: JTBC

text: JTBC (shortened from "Joongang Tongyang Broadcasting Company" (; stylized as jtbc) is a South Korean nationwide pay television network. Its primary shareholder is JoongAng Holdings, with a 25% stake. It was launched on 1 December 2011. JTBC is a generalist channel, with programming consisting of television series, variety shows, and news broadcasting; its news division is held in similar regard to the three main terrestrial networks in South Korea.


title: JTBC

text: JTBC was one of four new South Korean nationwide generalist cable TV networks alongside Dong-A Ilbo's Channel A, Chosun Ilbo's TV Chosun and Maeil Kyungje's MBN launch in 2011, to serve as supplementary networks to the existing conventional free-to-air TV networks like KBS, MBC, SBS and other smaller channels launched following deregulation in 1990.


title: JTBC

text: The JoongAng Ilbo, which used to be a part of the Samsung, had owned a TV station before. In 1964 it founded the Tongyang Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) and ran the network for 16 years. In 1980, however TBC was forcibly merged with the state-run KBS by the military regime of Chun Doo-hwan. At its founding in 2011 some media analysts considered the return of JoongAng Ilbo to television in JTBC as the reincarnation of TBC.


title: Relient K

text: Relient K is an American rock band formed in 1998 in Canton, Ohio, by Matt Thiessen, Matt Hoopes, and Brian Pittman during the band members' third year in high school and their time at Malone University. The band is named after guitarist Hoopes' automobile, a Plymouth Reliant K car, with the spelling intentionally altered to avoid trademark infringement over the "Reliant" name. The group is known for its Christian rock, alternative Christian rock, and contemporary Christian music.


title: Relient K

text: The group is associated with the contemporary Christian music culture, most notably the Christian rock and punk scene. The group has also performed alongside secular artists. The band has reached critical success with mainstream pop punk and alternative rock. The band's sound incorporates piano and acoustic elements. Since its formation, Relient K has released nine studio albums, seven EPs, two Christmas albums, and one collection of rarities. The band has received numerous awards including a Grammy Award nomination in 2004 for Best Rock Gospel Album and two Dove Awards.


title: Relient K

text: Relient K has found commercial success with their studio albums, three of which peaked in the top 15 of the U.S. "Billboard" 200 chart: 2004's "Mmhmm", which debuted at No. 15; 2007's "Five Score and Seven Years Ago", their fifth and most successful album, which debuted at No. 6; and 2009's "Forget and Not Slow Down", which debuted at No. 15. The band has sold over 2 million records, with three albums being given gold certification by the RIAA. The band is also highly successful throughout the Christian albums and contemporary Christian music charts. On October 4, 2011 the band released a cover album "Is for Karaoke". On July 2, 2013, the band's seventh full-length album, "Collapsible Lung", was released. On July 22, 2016, the band's eighth full-length album, "Air for Free", was released. On April 24, 2020, they released "Relient K: Live" that includes 15 tracks that were only previously available on vinyl and were recorded at shows in 2009 and 2016.


title: Relient K

text: After Relient K was founded by Matt Thiessen, Matt Hoopes and Brian Pittman in 1998, Todd Frascone joined for a short time in 1998 as a drummer. However, Frascone left the band after recording the demo "All Work & No Play". The demo was recorded by Mark Lee Townsend, the former live guitar player for dc Talk. Townsend had met the band members because his daughter, Danielle, was friends with the band. Danielle eventually married guitarist Matt Hoopes.


title: Relient K

text: "All Work & No Play" caught the attention of dc Talk's Toby McKeehan (tobyMac), who later signed the band to his label, Gotee Records. With the label Relient K released its debut EP, "2000 A.D.D." in 2000, with Stephen Cushman on drums. Soon after, the band released "Relient K", the group's first full-length CD. It was distinctly Christian rock and featured lyrics with a wide range of pop-culture references. Cushman left later that year to join the Christian metal band Narcissus. Brett Schoneman of Christian rock band Philmore filled in temporarily, followed by Jared Byers, drummer of the Christian rock band Bleach, until Dave Douglas joined in December 2000.


title: Relient K

text: In an interview, Matt Thiessen said that when the band started, he was the only one who sang, but he knew Matt Hoopes could sing as well. Hoopes was reluctant, but Thiessen said he "got it out of him". As a result, Hoopes became the primary back-up vocalist.


title: Relient K

text: The band released its second album, "The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek", in 2001. Though there were still plenty of pop-culture references on this album, it contained many more softer songs and slightly lighter guitars. The band would continue chords through tracks in order to fluidly transition in between songs, a trend that continued on the group's later albums.


title: Relient K

text: "Anatomy" landed them in the Christian rock limelight, and Relient K was offered a clothing deal with Abercrombie & Fitch in 2001. Gotee, the band's label, accepted the offer on Relient K's behalf; Pittman recalls, "The choice was never really given to us. The label made the choice." After significant pressure from conservative Christian organizations such as Focus on the Family, Gotee backed out of the contract.


title: Relient K

text: Relient K was then asked to do a rendition of the popular "VeggieTales" song "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" for the 2002 feature length "VeggieTales" movie "". The song was released on three different albums, two in single form. The first version also included Relient K's "Breakdown" being sung by Larry the Cucumber. There was also a promotional version which included the original version of "Breakdown". A cut-down version (missing the bridge) was included on the Christian rock compilation "Veggie Rocks!". This song mixes the sounds of "The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek", and the band's third album, "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do".


title: Relient K

text: In 2003, Relient K released "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do". The album had multiple covers of different colors, each depicting a vehicle in some kind of wreck. As pop-culture references became less specific, sound and vocals became far more defined. "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do" (often called "Two Lefts" by fans) combined the soft, meaningful songs of "The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek" and threw in fast-paced songs with deep lyrics. It was nominated for a Grammy in the category of "Best Rock Gospel Album" and won the Dove Award for "Modern Rock Album of the Year" in 2004.


title: Relient K

text: During this time, Relient K also released a limited edition red vinyl EP entitled "The Vinyl Countdown", only released in one printing. The EP included two versions of the song, "Five Iron Frenzy is Either Dead or Dying." The album was dedicated to Jesse Alkire, contest winner and friend of Matthew Thiessen, who inspired the song "The Vinyl Countdown."


title: Relient K

text: Since "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do" was released in March 2003, Relient K released a bonus disc for Christmas, entitled "Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand". The album was packaged with "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do" from November 2003 to December 2003.


title: Relient K

text: The group released its fourth album, "Mmhmm", in late 2004. Pop-culture references were even less specific than on the band's third album, if present at all. The album was significantly more on the serious side with very few of the silly songs the band was known for. The album had the band experimenting with its sound a bit more, which included incorporating piano, hardcore punk and some pop music. In July 2005, the album was certified gold for shipping over 500,000 copies. It is reported that it has sold approximately 796,000 copies. Driven by newfound recognition from "Mmhmm", "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do" was also certified gold in spring 2005. Also, it was announced in 2006 that the band's second record, "The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek", had reached the Gold rank as well as certified by the RIAA.


title: Relient K

text: Shortly before "Mmhmm"s release, longtime bassist Brian Pittman left the band, citing that he was tired of touring and wanted to start a landscaping company. He also joined Christian metal band Inhale Exhale shortly afterward. Matt Thiessen announced Pittman's departure in fall 2004, saying:


title: Relient K

text: "After almost seven years of being in Relient K, our cherished and lifelong friend, Brian Pittman has decided to move on to other things. That IS crazy, huh? Brian decided to leave the band in July, so we've had plenty of time to let the initial shock die down. We're aware that a lot of you already knew, so we apologize for not announcing this sooner. There were many reasons. He thought long and hard about his decision, and he came to the conclusion that he would like to do other things than play bass for the band. We respect him for it. We'd be lying to say that we're not all completely bummed that Brian won't be a part of Relient K anymore. And though we know things won't be the same without him, it must be said that we have always valued our friendships with him more than our on-stage relationship.


title: Relient K

text: "Anyway, all of us still hang out, and its like nothing is different at all. I feel like that's how you know that you've made a friend that will be there for the rest of your days. We want to thank Brian for all the years he gave the band. You're the best, buddy."


title: Relient K

text: Pittman reunited with the band for one final show, which was the release party for "Mmhmm" at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio on November 1, 2004. John Warne, lead singer and guitarist of Ace Troubleshooter, filled in as bassist for the remainder of 2004 and became full-time bassist in 2005. Also in 2005, Jon Schneck joined as a third guitarist, as well as a banjo and bell player, to create a fuller, more distinctive sound. This was also because the band planned to add more piano, and having another guitarist gave Matt Thiessen the freedom to do that.


title: Relient K

text: Relient K provided the first track, "Manic Monday" originally recorded by The Bangles, to the various artist CD, "Punk Goes 80's", released on June 7, 2005.


title: Relient K

text: "Mmhmm" features two Top 40 hits which both made it on MTV's Top Ten. The music video for the track Be My Escape entered MTV's Top Ten, and landed them an appearance on "The Tonight Show" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!". "Be My Escape" is also featured on "Now! 19", a popular secular and quasi-annual compilation series. It was classified as a gold single in October 2005. The music video for "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been" has also made its way onto the "Total Request Live" countdown, many top 40 radio stations, and was included on "Now! 21". "Mmhmm" was awarded a Dove Award in 2006 for the "Rock Album of the Year." The band was also nominated for "Artist of the Year" and "Band of the Year" at GMA Canada's 2006 Covenant Awards.


title: Relient K

text: Recording sessions for another studio album, "Five Score and Seven Years Ago", started on June 18, 2006 and continued for parts of July and August. Some tracks on the album were produced by Howard Benson, (The All-American Rejects, My Chemical Romance, P.O.D.). "Four score and seven years ago" is the first line of the Gettysburg Address, the famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. Thiessen had said that the title of the album comes from the fact that it's the band's fifth album, it is the first time all five of them are on a record together, and the band had been seven years since the release of "Relient K".


title: Relient K

text: While the band hoped for a November 2006 release, the official release date was announced as March 6, 2007. The album is considered, by the band, to be the group's happiest record to date. On March 2, 2007 the entire album (except the last track, "Deathbed") was made available for streaming on the band's MySpace. "Five Score and Seven Years Ago" debuted at No. 6 on the "Billboard" 200 chart, selling about 64,000 copies in its first week.


title: Relient K

text: The band's first single from the album, "Must Have Done Something Right," was released on the iTunes Store on November 28, 2006 and to radio on January 9, 2007. "Forgiven" was the first radio single directed at Christian stations. "Forgiven" was the most added song on Christian radio and entered "Billboard"'s Hot Christian Songs chart on January 11, 2007. The single received enough airplay to be the fourth most played song on Christian Hit Radio (CHR) stations in 2007 according to "R&R" magazine.


title: Relient K

text: The second single from the album, "The Best Thing," was released to radio on April 10, 2007, taking the 7th most adds in its first week. Thiessen has said that "The Best Thing" is "the anti-Daniel Powter "Bad Day" song. It's straight-up positive." A video was filmed for the single. The second single released on Christian CHR radio stations was "Give Until There's Nothing Left", which was the 20th most played song on CHR radio stations in 2007.


title: Relient K

text: In the early morning of June 28, 2007, Relient K's bus caught on fire from an oil spill from the engine. Everyone escaped safely, but the band lost many instruments, laptops, cameras, phones, iPods, clothes, and merchandise. Matt Thiessen said he lost a laptop that had roughly 100 unfinished songs on it, and Dave Douglas lost his Battlefield drum set. In the midst of it, the band still laughed at the situation, calling it "cinematic". On a blog post on the band's website, Matt Thiessen stated that the next day after the fire, the band members went to view the damage of their van and found that while 85% of their gear was intact, Douglas's drum kit set was not salvageable. A member of the Switchfoot forums first announced it, asking everyone to pray for the band. The band had just played Creation Northeast, and had to cancel its scheduled appearance at Cornerstone Festival in Illinois. The group did, however, play its next scheduled show in Greeley, CO on June 30, 2007. In the months following, the band played more Christian rock festivals.


title: Relient K

text: The band released "Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer", a Christmas album, on October 23, 2007. The CD contained all of the tracks from "Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand" as well as six new songs. This Christmas themed re-release was met with a peak of No. 96 on the "Billboard" 200.


title: Relient K

text: Relient K, Switchfoot and Ruth recorded a song together, "Rebuild". It is available for download on Switchfoot's website; fans can choose between paying for the song (with proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity) or downloading it for free.


title: Relient K

text: On October 18, 2007 drummer Dave Douglas announced his departure on good terms on the band's website due to a desire to pursue his side-project Gypsy Parade with his wife Rachel. He played his last show with Relient K on December 29, 2007. On February 12, 2008 it was announced that Ethan Luck, former guitarist of The O.C. Supertones and for Demon Hunter, would be replacing Douglas as the band's new drummer.


title: Relient K

text: "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" which was originally recorded for "Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie", was also used in "".


title: Relient K

text: On July 1, 2008 Relient K released a double EP. The double EP is contained on a single disc and contains "The Nashville Tennis EP" and "The Bird and the Bee Sides". "The Nashville Tennis EP" included 13 tracks of new material that allowed the band to explore its sound a bit by allowing other band members, besides Thiessen and Hoopes, to compose/record a few tracks, as well as adding some influences from country and ska music. "The Bird and the Bee Sides" contained tracks that had previously been released on hard-to-come-by records. "The Bird and the Bee Sides" won the 2009 GMA Canada Covenant Award for Modern Rock/Alternative Album of the Year. In turning in the EP, Relient K officially fulfilled its contract with Gotee Records and subsequently signed to and now manage Mono vs Stereo (an imprint of Gotee Records).


title: Relient K

text: In November 2008, the band released three bonus iTunes tracks for a re-issue of "Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer". The tracks were later pulled from iTunes, but have since then been released on Gotee Records's 2010 Christmas compilation album: "'Tis The Season To Be Gotee".


title: Relient K

text: In early 2009, the band began to write music for an album to be released later in 2009. Thiessen stated that the band had been keen on finishing the album for a 2009 release and had begun recording the new album with the band's "favorite" producer, Mark Lee Townsend at Dark Horse Recording Studio in Tennessee. After recording a few tracks, the band stated that more tracks were set to be recorded with John Feldmann. Webisodes released weekly via the band's MySpace and Facebook pages show the recording progress in the studio. On May 8, 2009, Thiessen announced on Twitter the album's title, "Forget and Not Slow Down", also noting that 'Forget and Not Slow Down' is the name of a track.


title: Relient K

text: "Forget and Not Slow Down" was available for pre-order, with the option of having a faux VIP-Pass signed by members of the band, and T-shirt, and a poster featuring the names of all who pre-ordered the album. On September 29, the album was made available for stream off of AbsolutePunk. It was released on October 6, 2009.


title: Relient K

text: A bonus song was offered to customers who bought the album from Amazon.com's MP3 store. The song is entitled "Terminals" and was produced by "Owl City's" Adam Young. The song is now available for download without purchasing the full album.


title: Relient K

text: In May 2010, Relient K released a triple-compilation collection CD entitled "The First Three Gears". It included the band's first three studio albums with various "EP exclusive" tracks attached to each CD, according to their approximate release year.


title: Relient K

text: In October 2010, the band contributed an original song—"What Can I Do"—for Family Christian Stores' exclusive compilation album "Freedom: Artists United for International Justice Mission", created in order to generate funds for International Justice Mission in fighting modern-day slavery.


title: Relient K

text: On April 11, 2011, the band announced via Facebook that a cover album was set to be recorded. On June 14, 2011, Alt Press reported the EP would be called "K Is for Karaoke" and displayed the album artwork. The band revealed one album song per day on its Facebook page. The first album, "Is for Karaoke EP", was made available for download on June 28, 2011 through the Amazon MP3 store. It was also available through iTunes or as a physical CD on the Vans Warped Tour and Rock The Universe at Universal Studios. On October 4, 2011 the group released a second EP, "Is for Karaoke EP, Part 2", and also the full-length album, "Is for Karaoke", which features all the tracks from both EPs.


title: Relient K

text: In several interviews on YouTube, Matt Thiessen and other band members stated that they had planned to enter the studio in November 2011 to write and record an album, which they hoped would be released mid-2012. However, due to a record label swap, the album was delayed. RCA Music Group announced it was dissolving Jive Records along with Arista Records and J Records. With the shutdown, Relient K and all other artists previously signed to these three labels would release their future material on the RCA Records. In May 2012, it was announced via the band's Twitter that recording had begun with producer Paul Moak. On February 22, 2013, Absolutepunk.net posted that the new album was finished and that details were coming soon.


title: Relient K

text: On February 4, 2013, the band released a single via YouTube, in the form of a lyric video: "That's My Jam". According to the group, the song was used in the background of a Pizza Hut commercial. Later, the track was redone, featuring Owl City, as an iTunes bonus track for "Collapsible Lung".


title: Relient K

text: On March 30, the band announced at Easterfest that the new album would be called "Collapsible Lung". The song "Don't Blink" was released in the form of a lyric video on the band's YouTube channel. On April 19, the band announced that the release of "Collapsible Lung" had been postponed to July 2013, and the specific date of July 2 was confirmed, along with the album cover artwork, on May 17.


title: Relient K

text: On April 21, drummer Ethan Luck stated that he is no longer a member of the band. He became the on-tour guitar technician for the Cold War Kids. He and the Jo(h)ns had earlier posted that they would not be appearing on the next tour.


title: Relient K

text: On May 29, the band released a second lyric video for the album via YouTube titled "Lost Boy". This was then followed on June 29, by a third lyric video for the title song "Collapsible Lung".


title: Relient K

text: On July 2, 2013, "Collapsible Lung" was released as expected. The album charted well on many of Billboard's charts, most notably topping at number No. 16 on the "Billboard" 200.


title: Relient K

text: In June 2014, the band contributed two cover songs to Gotee Records' twentieth anniversary album, "Gotee Records: Twenty Years Brand New". The band performed a cover of "Body Be" by Johnny Q. Public, as well as a tenth anniversary version of the band's "Sadie Hawkins Dance".


title: Relient K

text: In July 2014, the band announced a 10th anniversary "Mmhmm" tour slated from October 30 in Louisville to December 12 in Nashville. Shortly after the tour announcement, drummer Dave Douglas announced his return to the band for the 10th anniversary tour. Neither Jon Schneck nor John Warne joined the band on this tour.


title: Relient K

text: On September 30, 2015, long-time Relient K producer Mark Lee Townsend posted a short video on his Twitter account with the caption "RK 8 has been serious fun to make... you're gonna dig it. #rkjamsessions." The video showed Matt Thiessen, Matt Hoopes, and three other people in a studio recording a new song.


title: Relient K

text: Thiessen stated in an interview in November 2015, "[Relient K has] a new record finished and poised for a 2016 release. At a show in December, the band revealed the album's title to be "Air for Free".


title: Relient K

text: On February 14, 2016, Relient K digitally released a new single titled "Look on Up". The song, however, was said by Matt Hoopes to not make it onto the new record. Although there were rumors that the album would be released in May, the band announced that the album would release on July 22, 2016. The album has 16 tracks, and is available digitally and on CD and vinyl.


title: Relient K

text: On July 22, 2016 "Air For Free" was released. It debuted at No. 44 on the "Billboard" 200, No. 1 on Top Christian Albums, No. 6 on Top Rock Albums, and No. 3 on Top Alternative albums, selling 9,000 copies in its first week.