After falling out with Harold over their mutual attraction to Rosie Hoyland they were eventually reconciled during their mutual recovery from a major operation, in this case a transplant, after Harold donated Lou a kidney. This also caused one of the more entertaining moments between the two. After Harold suffered a stroke, while drunk he accused Lou of being a kidney thief. He went to jail but was later released after an appeal hearing conducted by lawyer Toadfish Rebecchi. He was kicked out of his house by Paul Robinson, who rented the house to Lou after buying it from Valda Sheergold. Lou was forced to move into Number 30, and when that share house situation didn’t work out he lived in a tent in a caravan park.

Lou was blackmailing Izzy Hoyland with a videotape of her kissing Ned Parker which was intended for Paul from the mystery stalker, but this backfired when Izzy (with encouragement from Max) told Paul the truth herself. In truth she was trying to seduce Ned to break up his relationship with Elle. Paul set up a rival to The General Store, a luxury café called Lucinda’s, which squeezed Lou and Harold briefly out of business.

While looking for love on the internet, Lou hooked up with a Russian Mail-Order Bride, called Mishka Schneiderova (Deborah Kennedy). After a very passionate cyber-relationship, Mishka came over to Australia, on a fake visa, unknown to Lou. When he arrived at the airport to pick her up she was not here, Lou presumed she had seen him and run away. However Mishka turned up at Lou’s doorstep later than evening and explained that she had visited a beauty salon and missed her flight because of it. Lou was reluctant to believe her but a nice home cooked meal made by Mishka sorted things out. While questioning their relationship, Harold found out that Lou had been lying about his age. Luckily, Mishka had lied about her age too, with Lou firstly asking if she was Mishka’s mother. Their relationship blossomed, and despite several “white lies” being told, their love was true. After the invention of “Old 997 Vodka”, named after Mishka’s old address in Moscow, Harold got suspicious of Mishka, believing she was an alcoholic. Lou and Mishka denied that Old 997 was a vodka, and said it was a cleaning fluid. This led to a more serious suspicion when Harold saw Mishka drinking this “cleaning fluid” in his garden. When the truth finally came out, Harold demanded that all of the profits made from the sale of their vodka go to a charity. Lou donated it to Mishka’s hero Shane Warne’s charity, The Shane Warne Foundation, which made Warne so happy, he visited Mishka in person.

After possibly the happiest day of her life, disaster struck, when two men claiming to be from the Russian Foreign Service said they had to take Mishka away, because of her fake passport. Later on it was revealed that the men were actually agents of Mishka’s husband, Igor, who was attempting to kidnap her. Mishka returned to Russia, and Lou was devastated. He then went to Russia to rescue his love but discovered she had fallen back in love with Igor and returned heartbroken. Lou has now decided that he needs an Australian woman and has set his sights on neighbour Janelle Timmins. Lou has also returned from Russia with a mysterious tattoo baring Mishka’s name on his back and a gap in his memory regarding his time in Russia. After having some hypnotherapy from Karl, he remembered that Mishka pushed him down the stairs in a hotel. After a while Mishka came back as a stewardess for Australian Airlines. They got back together when Janelle told him to. However, when it seemed to go well for the two of them, when Mishka was trying to get Australian citizenship, she bribed the officers, who were interviewing her, mistakenly. Lou became heartbroken, as she was forced to leave Australia.

Lou’s daughter Lolly (Adelaide Kane) returns. Lou was totally supportive of her, despite her stealing and lying to numerous people, such as Karl Kennedy (Alan Fletcher) and Pepper Steiger. Lou accused Pepper after Lolly lied to Susan Kennedy about Pepper hitting her, though it was soon revealed that it was her stepmother Sandy who was hitting her, the reason why Lolly wanted to live with Lou. Lou found out when Sandy came to stay and kicked her out of the house. He is currently working for BonzAir, where he insists that they put him off the roster a lot, but in fact he has a fear of flying. He was trying to get the Moscow route to see his girlfriend Mishka.

Later Lolly left to be with real father John. Lou drove her, and Zeke Kinski (Matthew Werkmeister), Lolly’s boyfriend, went with them in the car. Lou, Lolly and Zeke then went to see Mishka in Russia for the weekend. Valda Sheergold returned to Ramsay Street, and she and Lou have been fighting with each other ever since, including when they both started up websites with Retail Dreams, but they went bust.

With Harold leaving Lou didn’t know how to say goodbye to his best friend setting himself to have panic attacks. When Harold offered Lou the chance to join him on his trip around Australia Lou jumped at the chance, but he later realised that he would have to leave poor Mickey behind and everyone else in Ramsay Street. So after much discussion Lou stayed in Ramsay Street, living in a caravan outside the Parker’s residence. When Riley Parker (Sweeney Young) moved out, Lou moved in to Riley’s old bedroom.

After Harold’s departure Lou decided to sell the General Store to Marco Silvani (Jesse Rosenfeld) and Frazer Yeats (Ben Lawson). They planned to open it up as a restaurant. However, so that he is not kept in the dark or unemployed Lou added to the contract that they keep him as a full paid employee. Shortly afterwards Frazer Yeats left for Italy and before the restaurant was fully established Marco Silvani was killed in a bushfire, leaving Lou as the only employee left at the General store with Carmella Cammeniti (Natalie Blair) as owner. She continued to run the Store for a while, as a traditional coffee shop rather than a restaurant. Lou finds out that Harold has been diagnosed with cancer. After going through chemotheraphy, Harold suffers a heart attack and found no will to live. With help from Lou and his neighbours, he pulled through. Lou joined Harold on his journey to Queensland.

After three months travelling, Lou returns to the street and continues working at the store. He later offers Katie Ramsay a job there. Lou accompanies Mickey Gannon to New York to reunite him with his parents. Lou helps the Ramsay children out and becomes their guardian, so they can stay together. Lou had to leave to look after his daughter, Lauren when she fell from her horse. On his return he found that Kate had become the Ramsay’s guardian, but was told that he would always have a place with the family. He almost goes on a blind date with Lyn Scully when he posts a profile online, until Summer Hoyland and Harry Ramsay employ an actress to stop them from meeting. Kate decides to get Lou together with Terry Kearney (Peter Moon), so they can become friends. Her plan backfires when the two meet and instantly dislike each other. When Harry gets into a Basketball academy, Lou decides to drive him to Sydney. On his return to Ramsay Street, Lou finds the Kennedy and Scully families at war with each other, following the revelation that Stephanie Scully (Carla Bonner) slept with Libby Kennedy’s (Kym Valentine) husband. Lou tries to get the families talking again, but a meeting between Karl and Susan Kennedy (Jackie Woodburne) and Lyn results in an argument. Lou decides to purchase the car yard next to his old Mechanics garage. When Karl helps Susan out with a report on the car lot, he spots a Galah near by. Lou tells him that the bird has been annoying him all day. Karl decides that he will help Lou bond with the bird, but he discovers that it is in fact his missing Galah, Dahl. Lou refuses to give up the bird as he wants to use her in his new advertisements. They begin a competition with each other to see who can attract the bird. Dahl flies in to Toadie’s house and Toadie brings her back to Karl.

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Week 1

*Project managers: Saira (First Forte) and Timothy (Impact).

*Task: Buying and selling flowers, the team that makes the most profit wins.

*Result: First Forte spent the first half the day selling flowers at the market before deciding to sell from pavement to pavement. Impact, on the other hand, immediately started selling flowers door to door. Impact won with £865. First Forte lost with £602.

*Winner: Impact.

*Reward: A trip to the London Eye.

*Brought into the boardroom: Saira, Adenike and Miranda.

*Who gets fired: Adenike, for undermining the project manager and her strategy.

Week 2

*Project managers: Lindsay (First Forte) and Raj (Impact).

*Task: Create and design a new toy for a toy company; the team deemed to have created the best concept wins.

*Result: Impact came up with an idea for an electronic trading card game named “Switchbase”, while First Forte could not decide between a card semaphore system called “Secret Signals” and a robot (a third idea, a set of electrical plugs that would produce different sounds depending on which order they were plugged into a mains socket, was vetoed early on by the toy company since it would not have met safety regulations). A focus group of Brownies and Cub Scouts came out in favour of the latter, as well as the majority of team members, however project manager Lindsay opted to take a risk with “Secret Signals”.

*Winner: Impact.

*Reward: Clay pigeon shooting at a country club.

*Brought into the boardroom: Lindsay, Adele and Miriam.

*Who gets fired: Lindsay, for not listening to her team-mates.

*Notes: While Impact may have won, Sir Alan confronted them with similar products from other toy companies in an effort to find out if they had copied the idea of the electronic card game or were simply unaware. It subsequently emerged that Adele had told Lindsay that she could take her into the boardroom, as she didn’t care if she was fired since it meant she’d be able to see her family again. In the final boardroom however it became apparent that Sir Alan actually favoured firing Miriam rather than Adele, until Miriam put in a strong defence of herself. Impressed by her defence, and wanting to see how Adele would cope as a project manager, Sir Alan therefore fired Lindsay.

Week 3

*Team re-shuffle: Ben, Sebastian and Tim moved to First Forte, whilst Rachel and Saira moved to Impact.

*Project managers: Adele (First Forte) and Matthew (Impact).

*Task: Purchase a set list of ten items for prices lower than those asked by the retailers. The team which spends the least wins.

*Result: Impact failed to find a new bowler hat, for which they were fined £80. However, an electronics store’s shopkeeper decided to give them a Freeview box for nothing, offsetting the fine. First Forte managed to acquire all of the items. Impact Spent £447.38p And First Forte Spent £506.94p

*Winner: Impact.

*Reward: Dinner with Sir Alan Sugar at an Italian restaurant.

*Brought into the boardroom: Adele, Ben and Miranda.

*Who gets fired: Miranda, for not showing respect to the project manager.

Week 4=

*Project managers: Tim (First Forte) and James (Impact).

*Task: Select items from the Harrods catalogue and sell them from concession stands within the store. The team that makes the most money wins.

*Result: Impact was able to sell a bag just before closing time that gave them almost £100 lead over First Forte. Impact brought in £3295.38p And First Forte brought in £3108.50p

*Winner: Impact.

*Reward: A helicopter trip around English stately homes.

*Quit: Adele, for personal reasons and for not being able to get along with the other candidates.

*Notes: Adele quit before Sir Alan had the chance to ask Tim who he wanted to bring back. After her resignation, Sir Alan Sugar informed Adele that she would have been the one who was fired due to her consistent failures and disrespectful attitude. However, it is unknown whether this would actually have been the case, because Tim might have decided not to bring Adele into the Boardroom.

Week 5=

*Project managers: Sebastian (First Forte) and Rachel (Impact).

*Task: Selecting an artist and selling their work in an art gallery. The team that makes the most money wins.

*Result: Both teams initially selected an artist couple whose works were inspired by light and spectra. After meeting both teams, the couple elected to work with First Forte. Impact had to settle for an artist specialising in paintings of the female silhouette. Despite the higher selling price of the couple’s works, First Forte sold several and managed to make £19,563. Impact sold more paintings, but their artist’s works generally sold for only £250 to £2,000, and as a result they netted just £6,147.

*Winner: First Forte.

*Reward: A lunch trip on board the Orient Express.

*Brought into the boardroom: Rachel, Matthew and Paul.

*Who gets fired: Matthew, for falsely accusing First Forte of stealing Impact’s advertising materials, and for being too awkward and overbearing.

Week 6=

*Project managers: Miriam (First Forte) and Paul (Impact).

*Task: Design a TV and print advertising campaign for Amstrad’s new Jukebox music system, then pitch it to potential buyers.

*Result: Paul spent much of his time directing the TV advert instead of managing his team, leaving Saira to give a very vague brief to a graphics designer on what was required from their print ad. This resulted in a TV advert that hardly showed the product, and a poor quality print advert. Rachel’s sales pitch for Impact involved throwing her shoes across the room and dancing during the product demonstration. First Forte’s campaign went much better, and Sir Alan decided to make Raj admit this fact in the boardroom, instead of announcing their victory himself.

*Winner: First Forte.

*Reward: A shopping spree.

*Brought into the boardroom: Paul, Rachel and Saira.

*Who gets fired: Rachel, for delivering a poor sales pitch, despite being an advertising expert.

*Notes: Miriam’s victory in this task made her the only woman to claim victory as a project manager this series. After Rachel was fired, Paul and Saira were warned about their conduct and repeated arguments, and Sir Alan decided to separate them for the next task.

Week 7=

*Team re-shuffle: Ben, Miriam and Tim joined Impact, whilst Saira, James, and Raj moved to First Forte.

*Project managers: James (First Forte) and Ben (Impact).

*Task: Negotiate with five celebrities for their services or property to sell in a charity auction, with the money going to the refurbishment of the Hackney Empire theatre.

*Result: Raj was awestruck by his assigned celebrity, Paul McKenna, forcing James to step in and negotiate a personal hypnotherapy session. Saira also managed to negotiate some books and DVDs from McKenna, but this backfired at the auction when the audience thought these were the only things on offer, resulting in the session going for far less than it should have done. Sebastian did not push for more from his celebrity, Mel Smith, and only got four theater tickets (compared to the fifty ”Chicago” tickets Impact got) which very nearly failed to sell at all, until auctioneer Griff Rhys Jones stepped in and bought them himself. A guided tour of the GMTV studio donated by Eamonn Holmes also sold at a low price. Impact managed to get Diarmuid Gavin to donate a motorcycle, which ended up being the highest-earning item of the night, and their ”Chicago” tickets also sold well, as did a dinner at The Ivy, donated by Michael Winner. Tim nearly lost the negotiation with former footballer, Ian Wright, but was saved by Miriam. Impact made £18,000 whereas First Forte made £10,000.

*Winner: Impact.

*Reward: No specific reward as it was a charity task, but Impact did get to have celebratory drinks with Sir Alan and Griff Rhys Jones, the auctioneer.

*Brought into the boardroom: James, Raj and Sebastian.

*Who gets fired: Sebastian, (with regret) for staying on the sidelines too much.

*Notes:

**Impact’s celebrities: Two ”Chicago” cast members, Diarmuid Gavin, Michael Winner, Antony Worrall Thompson and Ian Wright.

**First Forte’s celebrities: Eamonn Holmes, Paul McKenna, Mo Mowlam, Mel Smith and the London Wasps (the team initially chose Richard Birkett specifically, but this was changed to the club itself after Birkett had to deal with a “family emergency”).

Week 8=

*Project managers: Raj (First Forte) and Ben (Impact).

*Task: Purchase produce and create food to sell at a country market.

*Result: First Forte focused on jellies, jams and chutneys. James was concerned about how much they could make with the cook charging them £50 per hour. The team managed to convince the cook to work for nothing in exchange for promoting her store. Impact focused on soups but spent a lot of money buying the ingredients. Both teams were chastised by the market manager for arriving late. First Forte managed to sell all their stock, while Impact had a lot of soup left over. First Forte made £364.35, Impact made £149.69.

*Winner: First Forte.

*Reward: A trip to Monaco, using the task profits as gambling money in the casino.

*Brought into the boardroom: Ben, Miriam and Paul.

*Who gets fired: Ben, for not taking stronger control of his team.

*Notes: Paul was cautioned by Sir Alan for losing his temper after Ben and Miriam both claimed he was ineffective on the task and should be fired despite his large contributions to the sales and negotiations for ingredients. Miriam also tried to place blame on him for the excessive amount of money spent on certain ingredients that she had authorised.

Week 9=

*Project managers: Saira (First Forte) and Paul (Impact).

*Task: Conduct a marketing campaign for a text messaging service of football team news sent to fans’ mobile phones.

*Result: The task was set to take place during a Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United football match at White Hart Lane. Originally, Impact planned to place an advert on the Jumbotron, and First Forte planned to place a slogan on banners and online. However, Saira’s rudeness and aggressive behaviour towards Tottenham’s marketing manager resulted in the club refusing to give any sort of assistance to either team. In the end, First Forte placed posters around the stadium, and hired professional promotional staff to market their service. Impact also hired promotional staff for their campaign, with the incentive of a percentage (commission) for number of text messages sold. Impact captured 704 subscriptions whilst First Forte got 468.

*Winner: Impact.

*Reward: A meal cooked at the candidates’ house by chef Gary Rhodes.

*Brought into the boardroom: Saira, James and Raj.

*Who is fired: Raj, for failing to step up and make a better effort in the task, despite a previous warning.

*Notes: The task was filmed on September 25, 2004, with the result of the game being a 1-0 win to Manchester United. Sir Alan admitted that he came very close to firing Saira for her being rude to the Tottenham marketing manager and then refusing to acknowledge or apologize for her mistake in the boardroom, but chose to fire Raj instead because he had not heeded Sir Alan’s warnings, and was a less impressive candidate overall than Saira.

Week 10=

*Project managers: James (First Forte) and Miriam (Impact).

*Task: Choose and sell items live on Ideal World shopping TV.

*Result: Miriam and James were chosen as presenters. Tim and Paul of Impact pretended to have picked the same items as Saira of First Forte, so that she got fewer of the products she wanted. Saira ended up with a unisex jacket and a mattress among the items. On the day of the live presentation, Miriam received advice and direction from both Tim and Paul who kept interrupting Tim. James managed to sell out of mattresses, and also sold a considerable number of unisex jackets. Impact made £2017 sales revenue and First Forte made £5407.

*Winner: First Forte.

*Reward: Rest and recreation at a castle in Scotland.

*Brought into the boardroom: Miriam, Paul and Tim.

*Who gets fired: Miriam, for not managing her staff properly.

*Note: Sir Alan Sugar later admitted that Miriam probably didn’t deserve to be fired at this point, as she performed better than her team-mates at this task.

Week 11: Interviews=

*Semi-Finalists: James, Paul, Saira and Tim.

*Task: The remaining four applicants undergo gruelling interviews, after which two applicants will be fired.

*Result: Unlike the US version, Sir Alan’s advisers also interview the applicants.

*Who stays: Saira and Tim.

*Who gets fired: James because Sir Alan and the interviewers were not convinced of his dedication to work for Sir Alan (although he had the best CV of the four); and Paul for having unclear reasons to work for Sir Alan considering he had thriving businesses of his own, as well as for being too aggressive and temperamental.

*Notes: In reality, Paul Torrisi was fired before James Max. However, the editing of the programme showed Paul getting fired after James. The continuity error of this editing was evident. When James was fired and exited the boardroom, Paul’s luggage was not visible anywhere in reception. When Paul was fired and exited the boardroom, James’ luggage was still in reception. It is also possible to see James still in the boardroom when Paul says goodbye to Tim and an empty seat where Paul sat when James said goodbye.

Week 12: The Grand Finale

*Finalists: Saira and Tim.

*Task: Each team is given a riverboat and £5,000 budget to hold an event. Attendees must buy tickets to the events. As in the US version, fired candidates were brought back to help the finalists. Tim chose Miriam, Sebastian and Ben, while Saira chose Paul, James and Raj.

*Result: Tim’s team chose to put on a fashion show while Saira’s team held a wine tasting event that showcased a new brand of Californian wine. Saira’s team more than recouped their budget, collecting £5,800. Despite making only about £2,800 and therefore losing money, Tim explained his long-term strategic vision.

*Not hired: Saira was not hired. (Sir Alan did not dismiss her with “You’re fired!”) However, Sir Alan said there was also a position in his company for her if she wanted to take it. She turned it down but may decide to work for Sir Alan in the future (though she is not allowed to apply for subsequent series of ”The Apprentice”).

*Who gets hired: Tim.

: The contestant was hired and won the apprentice.

: The contestant won as project manager on his/her team.

: The contestant lost as project manager on his/her team.

: The contestant was brought to the final boardroom.

: The contestant was fired.

: The contestant lost as project manager and was fired.

: The contestant decided to quit the competition.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article The Apprentice (UK series one), under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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In 1968, Willis accepted an invitation to join Middlesex and Surrey Young Cricketers on tour in Pakistan, and used this opportunity to further hone his skills. Upon his return he made early appearances for Surrey’s Second XI, his first being on 26 August against Worcestershire’s Seconds. Willis, 19 years of age, took one wicket for 48 runs in the first innings, and bowled four wicketless overs in the second. He was not called on to bat at all. Two days later, he faced Glamorgan and took three wickets. He played several further Second XI matches through May and June 1969, before his first-class debut on August 6. Scotland was touring England that season and had already beaten Warwickshire. Willis took three wickets for 13 runs from 13 overs in his first innings, and two for 37 in his second, to help Surrey to victory by an innings and 97 runs. Willis went on to take 22 first-class wickets that season at 17.22 from six matches, placing him 15th in the national averages for that season’s County Championship. Surrey came third in the competition that year. Willis also played two List-A games, but took only one wicket at 52.00.

Willis had thus earned a second season at Surrey, and in 1970 played 14 Championship matches, taking 40 first-class wickets at 28.37, and 31 one day wickets at 14.65. Surrey came fifth in the Championship that year. He achieved a noteworthy performance in the Gillette Cup quarter-final against Middlesex. In a high-scoring match, Surrey made 280 for the loss of five wickets. Middlesex appeared to be coasting to victory when they reached 240–3, but Willis turned the game, and they collapsed and finished on 272–9. Willis took 6–49 in his 12 overs and won the Man of the Match award. Despite this, Surrey’s preference for Geoff Arnold and Robin Jackman kept Willis out of the side on occasions. He prepared to spend the winter employed at the Crystal Palace Recreation Centre while playing as a goalkeeper for local football clubs. However, Ray Illingworth and Colin Cowdrey, captain and vice captain of England’s Test side, contacted him via telephone to ask him to travel to Australia and join the current England tour there. Willis, who knew that Illingworth and Cowdrey had little knowledge of his bowling, later credited his call up to the influence of senior member of the touring party John Edrich, Willis’ long-term friend, mentor, and Surrey team-mate.

International beginnings

Willis joined England’s 1970–71 tour of Australia as a replacement for the injured Alan Ward, and played several warm-up matches for the MCC in December. ”Wisden” records that his “infectious enthusiasm and team spirit played no small part in Australia’s downfall” as England won The Ashes in the subsequent Test series. Willis’ first Test, on January 9, 1971 – the fourth Test of the series, played when the series stood level after two draws and an abandonment – saw him score 15 not out as England batted first and reached 332. In the Australian first innings he bowled an economical nine overs for 26 runs, while Derek Underwood took four wickets to reduce Australia to 236. Subsequently, an unbeaten 142* from Geoffrey Boycott set Australia 416 to win. With John Snow routing Australia with 7/40, Willis was only given three overs to bowl on a pitch “without pace”, but he managed to take his first Test wicket – Ashley Mallett, caught by Alan Knott for six.

Willis remained in the team for the fifth Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground, and rewarded the selectors with 3/73 in the first innings and 1/42 in the second as the match was drawn. Of the final two matches, Willis took three wickets in the drawn Adelaide Oval Test, and four more in the final match of the series, a victory at Sydney Cricket Ground which gave England a 2:0 series victory. Willis finished his first Test series with 12 wickets at 27.41, and had also taken several “crucial catches”. He was retained for the second match of the two-Test series against New Zealand in Auckland in March, where he took two wickets.

Surrey to Warwickshire

Willis returned in early 1971 to help Surrey win the 1971 County Championship title. However, friction was developing between the club and himself. During that season Willis took 31 Championship wickets at 28.83, but found himself unable to accept the contract offered to him by the club. Though the county was reluctant to lose him, Willis sought another club. He took two wickets in his final match for Surrey against Hampshire on September 11, 1971. After turning down Leicestershire and Lancashire he signed for Warwickshire, for whom he had immediate success, with 25 wickets at 29.28, including one five-wicket haul (taking five wickets in one innings). Willis, who under rules then applying was banned from playing for his new county before July, helped Warwickshire win the 1972 Championship, thus achieving the unusual feat of winning the Championship in consecutive years with two different counties. In his final match of the season, he took 8/44 to dismantle Derbyshire. His new team won nine of their 20 matches, drew 11 and lost none. He was not selected for the 1972 Ashes series in England, and travelled to South Africa as part of Derrick Robins’ invitation XI in January. On the tour Willis took 13 wickets from the six matches.

Willis spent part of the 1973 season injured with one of what would become several recurring complaints. He nevertheless managed 43 wickets in the Championship at 18.95, though his injury barred him from all but one Test against the West Indies cricket team. The West Indies amassed 652/8 declared. Willis took four wickets for 118 runs – career-best Test figures thus far – and was the last batsman standing as Vanburn Holder and Keith Boyce routed England for 233 and 193. He then make his ODI debut with two games against the touring side in September, taking 2/29 and scoring five not out as England took a one-wicket victory in the West Indies’ first ever ODI match. Willis went wicketless and at conceded 5.5 runs an over in the second, which the West Indies won by eight wickets.

West Indies, sub-continent and Australia

Willis then travelled to the Caribbean as part of England’s winter tour, in what ”Wisden” described as an “automatic selection” however he was to struggle against the top Test side. In the first Test, on February 2, 1974, he took only one wicket, followed by three in the second, and one for a hundred runs in the final match. He was to struggle against the West Indies throughout his career. His bowling average against them ended at 36.34, whereas against no other team was it above 26.14.

Willis then returned to England, to face India and Pakistan, playing in one Test against each. Against India he took 4/64 – a career best against that team – and made a Test best 24 with the bat. Pakistan toured in early August, and Willis featured in one Test. He took one wicket for 133 runs. He also played one ODI where he took one wicket caught and bowled as Pakistan achieved a seven wicket victory. At this point, Willis was suffering from a recurring back injury. He played 13 Championship games for Warwickshire during the 1974 season, taking 44 wickets at 21.56 including one five-wicket haul. In November, Willis touring Australia during the 1974/75 Ashes series, playing in five Test matches. He took 17 Test wickets at 30.70, including a best of 5/42, out of 26 first-class wickets at 31.19 overall. He was, however, playing with growing injury concerns which required several painkilling injections.

Injury and operation

Willis returned to England in January 1975 with a recurring knee injury which had caused him to collapse at a county game early that season, and underwent several operations to correct it. He had surgery on both knees, and suffered a post-operative blood clot. He was forced to use crutches for most of the season, and reflected in 1978 that it was “similar to a 50,000-mile service.” His recovery was particularly tortuous, requiring daily runs around the cricket field and an intensive gym program under the supervision of Dr. Arthur Jackson, an advocate of slow running therapy to build stamina. He played no part in the international arena in 1975, and managed only four first-class appearances, though these returned a healthy 18 wickets at 18.77. He was not to return to the Test game until 1976, where he faced the West Indies in two matches in July and August.

That year, he had made a comfortable return to the county game from injury – taking 16 Championship wickets at 26.12. He had also scored a career best 43 with the bat. After coming fit from injury, Willis was brought into the squad for the fourth Test against the West Indies on July 22 as part of wholesale bowling changes that saw Brian Close, Edrich, Mike Hendrick, Mike Selvey and Pat Pocock replaced with John Snow, Ward, Bob Woolmer, David Steele and Willis. He took three wickets for 71 runs and then a five-wicket haul in the second innings. This both gave him career best figures and took him past 50 Test wickets. His last four wickets fell in 24 balls at the cost of three runs, described by ”Wisden” as a “fine piece of fast bowling”. Tony Greig’s England, however, struggled to make any impression on the West Indies through the series, Viv Richards dominating with 829 runs across the series. Willis could only take one further wicket in the fifth and final Test, which the tourists won easily. By this time Willis, whose injury troubles were continuing, turned down a coaching opportunity in South Africa in order to not risk his fitness, and went on the dole.

Revival in India and the 1977 Ashes

Over the winter of 1976/77, England toured India in a five Test series through December to February, and it proved to be a revival for Willis. ”Wisden” recorded the India tour to be the time when he “put to flight any who doubted his right to be acclaimed as one of the world’s foremost fast bowlers.” Willis took 32 wickets for 15.09 across the entire tour, 20 of those in the Test matches for 16.75. He took five for 27 in the second Test, and then six for 53 in the fourth – earning him career best Test figures thus far, and taking him past 400 first-class wickets. Four of his wickets came in four overs with the second new ball, “although he received no help from the pitch”. ”Wisden” record that “His 20 wickets in the series stamped Willis as a bowler of genuine pace and in-disputable class.”

The 1977 Ashes took place across five Tests between June and August that year, in all of which Willis featured. Preceding them were three ODI fixtures, across which Willis took a total of five wickets at 15.80. The first Test took place on June 16, at Lord’s Cricket Ground. Australia, batting second and looking to take a lead over England’s 216 all out, were dismantled by Willis who returned a career-best 7/78. After a century from Woolmer, Australia fell to 114/6 with two more wickets to Willis before the match ended as a draw. Willis’ “hostile speed” gained praise in giving “Australia a real fright.” Wills took four more wickets in the second Test to aid Underwood in restricting Australia’s totals and giving England a nine wicket victory, and was “fast and accurate” for his third Test five-wicket haul, the match in which Botham made his debut. Willis went wicketless in England’s innings victory in the fourth Test, however he took another five-for in the final match, including both Australian openers. His 27 wickets across the series was a record for an England fast bowled facing Australia in England, and his final wicket of the series was his 100th. Around these Test matches, Willis also made 10 County Championship appearances, netting 29 wickets at 19.41. This included a haul of 8/32 against Gloucestershire on August 20, which would remain his best first-class figures for his career.

The year ended with Willis on winter tour to Pakistan and New Zealand. Willis took dismissed seven Pakistani batsmen for 27.14 runs each, though did not appear in any of the ODI matches. In New Zealand he took a further 14 wickets at 18.21, including 5/32 in the first Test.

Wisden Cricketer of the Year – 1978

Willis made 10 Championship appearances in the 1978 season, taking 37 wickets at 18.27. He was also third in the national averages for the Benson and Hedges Cup that year, with 16 wickets at 6.75, including four wickets for four runs in one innings. That year also saw Pakistan and New Zealand return to tour England between June and August. Though Botham took Man of the Series for his 13 wickets, Willis also netted 13 Pakistani batsmen for 17.92, including a five-wicket haul in the second Test. He also earned a Man of the Match award for his 4/15 in the first ODI. Against New Zealand, Willis took 12 Test wickets at 19.08, and passed 150 career Test wickets with his 4/16 in the third Test.

”Wisden” noted Willis’ achievements against Australia in 1977, stating that “the new-ball fire power of Bob Willis, which yielded 27 wickets, was of special significance in England’s high summer of success. No England bowler of authentic speed can boast a comparable record in a home series against Australia”. In continued: “It was singularly appropriate that team and personal triumph should go hand in hand, for few players have given such loyal and unstinted service to England as the wholehearted Willis… Happily determination is one virtue Willis does not lack, and his re-emergence as a top ranking fast bowler was well and truly deserved.” Across all first-class matches that year, Willis had taken 65 wickets at 18.41, the most of any season of his career. His 35 List-A wickets was also the second highest he would achieve for a season behind the 45 of 1983. ”Wisden” also praised him for refusing to partake in Kerry Packer’s World Series cricket, and proclaimed him a Wisden Cricketer of the Year along with Botham, Hendrick, Alan Jones and Ken McEwan.

1978–79 Ashes

In the winter of 1978/79, Willis travelled to Australia for that season’s Ashes series, which England won 5:1 against an Australian team depleted by the rebel Packer tour. The tour commenced with four first-class fixtures against South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Willis then bowled 1,123 deliveries during the Test series, taking 20 wickets at 23.05. In the first Test on December 1, 1978, he took 4/44 and 3/69 in a seven-wicket England win. He then took 5/44 in the second match on December 15, as England secured a 2:0 lead with a 166 run victory, and following an abandoned ODI match on Boxing Day failed to take a wicket as Australia won the third Test to bring the series to 2:1.

The fourth Test followed on January 6, and England took a 93-run victory with two wickets to Willis, before a repeat of the first ODI was attempted and again abandoned after 7.2 overs. England then played three first-class matches before a second ODI on January 24. Australia, batting first, were routed for 101 all out by Hendrick and Botham, Willis bowling a wicketless but economic spell of eight overs for 15 runs and four maidens. England reached the target with seven wickets to spare. In the fifth Test that followed, Willis picked up 3/41 in Australia’s second innings, however with the bat he made 24 from 20 balls, with three fours and a six. With this cameo knock, he both surpassed his previous best Test score, and passed 1,500 first-class runs.

In the sixth and final Test, England took a nine wicket victory to seal the series convincingly 5:1. Graham Yallop, the Australian captain, had opened the Australian bowling attack with an old ball and two spinners, Bruce Yardley and Jim Higgs, in an effort to disrupt the English openers. Willis took 1/48 and managed to hit 10 runs with the bat. Willis “struck early and decisive blows” through the tournament, although struggled for rhythm between the second and fifth Tests, whereupon he “suddenly regained his fire and rhythm.” In all first-class fixtures of the tour, Willis had taken 34 wickets at 20.47, though this was the third highest average of the England bowlers. His tail-end batting had netted him 115 runs at 12.77.

1979 World Cup

In 1979, England hosted the Cricket World Cup. The host nation played a 13-man squad: captain Mike Brearley,

Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Phil Edmonds, Graham Gooch, David Gower, Hendrick, Wayne Larkins, Geoff Miller, Chris Old, Derek Randall, Bob Taylor& (wk) and Willis. England, who had no warm-up games, played their first match against Australia on June 9 at Lord’s, who the “breezed” past. Willis took one wicket for 20 runs from his 11 overs, surpassed by Boycott – who would be an unlikely bowling hero during the tournament – who took 2/15. Reduced to chasing 159, England proceeded slowly, with Brearley’s 44 coming from 147 balls, and they reached the target at 47.1 overs. Their next game, against Canada, saw the visiting team routed for 45 with Willis taking 4/11 and Man of the Match Old taking 4/8. Boycott and Gooch finished the game within 13.5 overs. England’s final Group A match on June 16 saw them defeat Pakistan by 14 runs. Willis hit three fours in his 24 from 37 balls to help England to 165/9, and his one wicket for 37 runs, along with Boycott’s 2/14, helped England keep Pakistan from the target.

England thus qualified for the semi-finals against New Zealand. Willis managed to chip one run from his two balls as England reached 221/8, and then took a single wicket to keep New Zealand to 212. During the match, however, Willis fell to injury. He had left the field before the end of the match with a recurrence of his knee injury and was ruled out of the final. With Pakistan defeated in the other semi-final England were left to face the West Indies in the final at Lord’s on June 23. England, winning the toss and choosing to bowl first, conceded 286 runs from the 60-over innings thanks largely to Viv Richard’s 138*, which Botham recalls as one of his “greatest innings”. Though both Brearley and Boycott reached half-centuries, the hosts were dismissed by Joel Garner’s five-wicket haul, falling to 194 all out, and the West Indies secured the title. Though he missed the final, Willis took seven wickets across the whole competition at 15.57 runs each – placing him fifth in bowling average across all the teams, and his economy rate of 2.44 runs an over was the fourth best.

Willis followed his recuperation from injury by playing the first, third and fourth Test matches against India, taking 10 wickets at 29.80. Between his international appearances, he struggled with nine Championship wickets at 42.00, as Warwickshire came fifteenth in the country.

1980, Australia and the West Indies

The winter of 1979/80 and the followed summer saw difficult tours for Willis: the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup and a Test tour in Australia followed by a home series against the West Indies. Willis partook in all seven of England’s matches for the World Series Cup, however he struggled with six wickets at 41.00. England did secure the highest number of points however they were beaten in both finals by the West Indies. In the midst of these matches, England and Australia played three Test matches in which Willis took only 3 wickets at 74.66, going wicketless in third Test. In the county front, however, his position at Warwickshire was reaffirmed as he was appointed county captain.

Two ODI matches back in England commenced the West Indies tour, with Willis being included only in the team for the second match, here he took two wickets and two catches in a three-wicket England victory. Wills then faced the West Indies Test team across four matches, the first on June 5. He took four wickets for 82 runs in the first innings, and five in the second – passing 650 first-class wickets in the process though the Man of the Match award was given to Andy Roberts’ 5/72 and 3/57, the West Indies winning by two wickets. The second Test was a draw, though Willis collected three wickets. He only managed 1/99 in the third match, however, and equalled his Test best score of 24 with the bat in the fourth Test, passing 500 Test runs in the process. The West Indies secured a 1:0 series victory. Willis had marked his improved form with 14 wickets at 29.07, and had fared better in the County Championship that year, taking 27 wickets at 31.70. He had also taken 23 one day wickets that season at 25.95.

1981 Ashes

Australia arrived in England for the 51st Ashes series in 1981. Willis, who was selected to play in all six Test matches, came into the series on a run of good county form. He had played four county matches, commencing with 5/61 against Yorkshire on May 6, and 3/58 against Lancashire on June 10. The first Test took place at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, on June 18. England, batting first, were cut down for 185 all out thanks to four wickets for Terry Alderman and three a-piece for Dennis Lillee and Rodney Hogg. Only Mike Gatting passed fifty, and Willis was dismissed for a first-ball duck. Willis, however, combined with Dilley, Hendrick and Botham to reduce Australia to 179 all out, with three wickets for Willis. England could not take advantage, however, as Lillee and Alderman shared the host nation’s ten wickets equally between them to leave Australia only 132 to win. Dilley took four wickets and Willis snatched Graeme Wood for eight to reach 200 Test wickets, however the tourists won the match with four wickets to spare.

Between the first and second Tests, Willis went back to Warwickshire to face Gloucestershire in a County Championship match, grabbing three wickets. He returned to face Australia on July 2 for the second Test, and England batting first. Thanks to 82 from Peter Willey, and a second half-century from Gatting, together with five runs from Willis, England reached 311 – though Geoff Lawson took seven wickets. Australia surpassed this and were dismissed for 345, with three wickets for Willis and three for Dilley. The England bowlers suffered from no balls, Willis alone bowling 28. England declared late in the game on 265/8, and Willis picked up another wicket as Australia reached 90/4 at the close of play. Botham, who had captained the side until then, was sacked and replaced by Brearley. Willis, who was struggling for fitness and had a chest infection, was dropped from the side. He sat out a Warwickshire county match and after speaking to Alec Bedser was given back his place in the team on the condition that he played in a 40-over match, played a Second XI game, and bowled 12 overs in the nets. He succeeded in these tasks, and was tentatively let back into the squad over a spinner.

The third Test – Willis’ 60th – came on July 16, and England were able to level the series 1:1 thanks to Botham’s Man of the Match performance (seven wickets, century and half century) and Willis’s hostile bowling in the second innings. Willis bowled 30 wicketless overs in Australia’s first innings, and made one one and two with the bat, before returning to bowl with Australia requiring 130 runs. At this point, England had been quoted at 500–1 to win the match. Willis began an “inspired” bowling performance, having requested to bowl downhill from the Kirkstall Lane end once Australia were 56/1. Trevor Chappell, Kim Hughes and Graham Yallop were caught by close fielders, while Rod Marsh and John Dyson were caught at fine leg and behind the wicket respectively trying to play the hook shot. Dennis Lillee was caught from the only ball Willis pitched up. Then when Willis uprooted Ray Bright’s middle stump Australia were bowled out for 111, losing by 18 runs. Willis took 8/43, his career best Test figures. Two of his victims had been out for zero, and three others for single figure scores. John Dyson had top-scored with 34 before Willis removed him. Willey recalled it as an “amazing spell” while ”Wisden” called it “the most staggering bowling of his life when his place again seemed threatened.”

England then moved into the fourth Test 1:1 in the series. Again batting first, Alderman’s five-for took England to 189 all out, with Willis making 13 runs. He then bowled a wicketless but “stormy” 19 overs “as if the devil were at his heels” and, after England had set Australia a final target of 151 runs, took two wickets which along with Botham’s five-wicket haul dismissed the Australians for 121 and handed England a 29-run victory and a series lead. Willis played for his county against Middlesex between the fourth and fifth Tests, taking one wicket. He then rejoined his team for the fifth Test at Old Trafford. England reached 231 thanks to partly to a “priceless” 56-run late partnership between Paul Allott (52) and Willis (11) before Willis then led the bowling attack with four wickets to restrict Australia to 130 all out. Another century from Botham took England to 404, setting the tourists 506 runs to win. Yallop and Alan Border both scored centuries, however three wickets for Willis and two for Paul Allott, Botham and John Emburey dismissed them for 402, 103 runs short of victory.

Willis continued form with the bat with 33* against Nottinghamshire in the interim between the fifth and final Tests, though he went wicketless. On August 27, Australia and England met for the sixth Test at The Oval. The tourists reached 352 thanks to a century from Border, while Willis took four wickets and Botham six. A century from Boycott then defied Lillee’s seven wicket haul to take England to 314, and in reply Hendrick and Botham took four wickets each to set their team a target of 383 runs to win while Willis went without a wicket in the second innings. With half-centuries from Gatting and Brearley, England reached 261 before the match ended as a draw. England were victorious in the series 3:1, and Botham’s efforts led to it being unofficially referred to as ‘Botham’s Ashes’.

Willis meanwhile, travelled to India with England in November 1981 for a six Test series against India and one against Sri Lanka. He took 12 wickets at 31.75 against India, and three more Test and two wickets ODI against Sri Lanka. Between these international fixtures, Willis had secured 13 County Championship wickets at 28.55, though Warwickshire came bottom of the table.

England captaincy

Willis began the 1982 county season with five County Championship fixtures, featuring his first half-century with the bat, a career-best 72, while leading Warwickshire against the touring Indian side on May 9. He also took two wickets. He also reached his 750th first-class wickets with his 2/71 against Yorkshire on May 19. India were scheduled to play three Tests and two ODI matches that tour, however before the matches began, the England selectors dropped Fletcher, the captain. Willis, though seen as an unlikely candidate and ambivalent towards the role, was awarded the captaincy. On June 2, the new captain faced India as part of the England ODI squad, taking two wickets and effecting a run-out with the help of Botham, who also took four wickets. England restricted India to 193 and achieved victory by nine wickets. The second ODI match followed two days later, and England also won – this time by 114 runs with Willis taking 1/10 from seven overs.

With two victories under his belt, Willis led his team to the first Test on June 10. Batting first, he hit a career-best 28 runs in a last-wicket partnership with Allott (41) worth 70 – an England record against India – which took the hosts to 433 all out. Willis then set about taking apart the Indian batting line-up with 3/41 and 6/101 to leave England 65 runs to chase, which they reached for the loss of three wickets. ”Wisden” described Willis as “bowling near his fastest” and he took his 250th Test wicket during the match. Willis took two further wickets in the second Test, however centuries from Botham and Sandeep Patil ensured large innings scores that pushed the match to a draw. Botham followed with his career-best 208 in the third match to take England to 594 all out, and Willis then took 3/78 to keep India to 410. He then declared England’s second innings at 191 to leave India 376 to win, and collected the wicket of Ravi Shastri before India closed out the final day with 111/3. Willis thus completed his first Test series in victorious fashion, with 15 Test wickets of his own at 22.00. Willis was available for only three more first-class games that season, and finished it with a total of 24 wickets at 35.08. He promptly travelled to Australia to lead England in the 1982-83 Ashes.

Over the winter of 1982/83, England’s winning Ashes team travelled to Australia under Willis’ captaincy. Willis took two three-wicket hauls in two warm-up first-class matches, however he was absent from two others and Botham took over the captaincy. By now, continuing injury problems were beginning to plague the ageing bowler’s body. He took 3/95 in the first Test as Australia reached 424 in reply to England’s first innings 411, of which Willis had made 26. Derek Randall’s century in England’s second innings took them to 358, however Australia completed their unchallenging fourth innings target for the loss of two wickets, both of which were taken by Willis. Willis picked up 5/66 in the second Test, however Australia easily reached another low fourth innings target to take the series to 2:0. The third Test followed a similar pattern, with England replying with two low scores in the face of Australia’s first innings 438, and Australia taking an eight-wicket win to win back the Ashes, despite Willis’ three wickets. England achieved what was then the narrowest Ashes victory margin of three runs in the fourth Test, with Willis taking three wickets. Wills commentated on the game that “You never give up and you never think it has gone.” The fifth match ended in a draw. Across the entire tour, Willis took 28 first-class wickets. In the following World Series Cup between England, Australia and New Zealand, England were knocked out despite 14 wickets for Willis at 21.14.

Willis returned to Warwickshire for the 1983 season, struggling in the county season with 21 wickets at 36.76 in the County Championship, though finding more success in the one day arena with a career-best 45 wickets at 16.24. He also led England in a four Test series against New Zealand, finding greater success with 20 wickets at 13.65 including a five-wicket haul. This, coming in the second Test, took Willis past 850 first-class wickets and 300 Test wickets. England won the series convincingly 3:1, and returned to New Zealand over the winter. In the drawn first Test, Willis overtook Fred Trueman’s record England tally of 307 Test wickets when he dismissed Lance Cairns in the first innings. England lost the second Test by an innings despite 4/51 from Willis. With the third Test ending as a draw, England lost the series. Willis, with increasing physical and mental weariness and now using hypnotherapy to reduce stress and focus his game, took three wickets in the following ODI series, in which England whitewashed New Zealand 3:0.

England played a three Test series against Pakistan in early 1984, however Willis was unable to contribute more than two wickets in the first match due to injury. He made only five County Championship appearances, taking only nine wickets at 42.22. Willis, with pressure mounting due to injury and poor performances by the England team, was sacked as captain before the upcoming Test series against the West Indies, and replaced by Gower.

As a captain, Willis has subsequently received mixed assessment. Botham retained fond memories of Willis the player, however remarked Willis found it difficult to captain him because the men were of similar age. Willis, often noted for his enthusiasm, became an “effective motivator” as a captain however he was “no outstanding tactical genius” and “towards the end his feelings bordered on disgust at the conviction that some of England’s cricketers accepted failure too readily. Nor was he able to close himself off against media comment.” He was also characterised as a loner in the game, and a reluctant captain grateful to be placed back within the ranks after repeated defeats while he was at the reins. His 18 Tests as England captain saw 7 victories, 5 defeats, and 6 draws, while he led England in 29 ODI matches, winning 16 and losing 13.

Willis played in the next Test series against the West Indies, taking two wickets in the first two matches. and before the last match played against Derbyshire for his county, taking three wickets. Willis took to the field on July 12 for the third Test and took only two wickets for 123 runs as the West Indies, particularly Michael Holding, “hammered” his bowling – Holding hit 59 from 55 deliveries. Willis conceded 40 more runs from eight overs in the second innings, which ”Wisden” referred to as “the death throes” of his career. He announced his retirement from all cricket immediately after England’s defeat.

He finished his career with 325 Test wickets, at the time second only to Dennis Lillee, and 899 wickets in all first-class matches. Only Ian Botham has since surpassed his number of Test wickets for England.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Bob Willis, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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Darcy was born to Robert and Carmel Tyler in 1972. As he grew up, He became interested in medicine and became a doctor. Darcy ran his own practice with girlfriend, Alice Jamison.

2000-2003

Darcy arrives in Ramsay Street to stay with his aunt, Susan Kennedy and her husband, Karl after accepting a post in Accident and Emergency at Erinsborough Hospital. Darcy immediately catches the eye of Dee Bliss, a local nurse at the hospital who lives in the same street.

There is an obvious attraction between the pair and they both begin to enjoy each other’s company and attend the medical ball together. Alice, Darcy’s partner turns up on the day of the ball and issues Dee a warning to stay away from Darcy.

Darcy returns home with Alice, but returns to Erinsborough several months later after having broken up with her and resumes his relationship with Dee. After Alice demands money from Darcy to buy her out of the practice, he borrows $1000 from Dee While working as a locum for Karl, Darcy causes friction by overcharging patients for medication and causing an audit at the surgery, almost causing closure.

With things strained between Karl and Darcy at Number 28, Darcy decides to move out. After saving Louise Carpenter from drowning in the pool at Number 30, Louise’s father, Lou offers Darcy the spare room at Number 22 where he and Louise live.

Darcy begins an illicit affair with Dee’s friend, schoolteacher Tess Bell and it remains secret for a while until Lou arrives home to find them kissing. Darcy tries to convince Lou Tess pursued him, but he isn’t so quick to believe Darcy. The affair is eventually discovered by Dee when she spies Darcy and Tess kissing after winning a fishing competition. At the pub during the celebrations, Dee pours champagne over Darcy and promptly dumps him.

Darcy and Tess remain a couple and become engaged, but on the day of the ceremony Tess backs out and jilts Darcy and subsequently flees to London.

While arguing with Joel Samuels, Dee’s other ex-boyfriend and housemate, Darcy learns that he fathered the child Dee miscarried and offers sympathy but is rejected.

Darcy tries to make a move on new receptionist, Serena Lucas but she only has eyes for Karl. After learning that Karl is married, Serena turns her attentions to Darcy but this is only a cover to steal prescription pads and deal drugs at nightclub Hemisfear. After a young girl collapses at the club, Darcy is in hot water but Serena confesses her deceit and is arrested.

Darcy suffers a heart attack in the surgery one day and his teenage cousin, Elly Conway acts quickly to save his life. While in hospital, Darcy is cared for by Dee and they managed to heal their rift of sorts.

After a series of meaningless relationships, Darcy dates Chloe Lambert, owner of Lassiter’s who offers him the chance to see a performance of ”The Graduate” at a local theatre (in gratitude as Darcy had saved her life during an asthma attack). This relationship doesn’t sit well with Jordan, Chloe’s daughter, who begins a hate campaign against Darcy (who is much younger than Chloe), including having his car trashed and having him beaten up by a heavy.

While being hospitalized for the second time in a year Darcy overhears a conversation between Dee, and Martin Cook, a retiring surgeon and one of Chloe’s friends. It emerges that Martin is sexually harassing Dee but denies it when she makes a complaint. Darcy invents a plan to bring Martin to justice by befriending him and ultimately tricking him into confessing his misdeed, which is recorded on a hidden tape record. When Chloe finds out she is unimpressed and she and Darcy part.

At the start of 2003, Darcy begins working on a scheme to win Dee back. First, he rummages through her personal effects and discovers her marriage certificate which reveals that Dee was previously married to Darren Turner when they were 18. Darcy contacts Darren and invites him to Erinsborough to attend a charity ball along with Dee and her partner, Toadfish Rebecchi. Throughout the evening, Darcy puts his plan to drive a wedge between Dee and Toadie into action and asks how she and Darren know each other. When Darren reveals his connection with Dee, Dee and Toadie split up and both come to Darcy for advice (neither one knowing the other has consulted him).

Darcy then contacts Sindi Watts, the sister of his ex-girlfriend Penny and enlists her in the final phase of his plan, he pays her to flirt with Toadie at the pub just as Dee walks in with Darcy’s cousin, Libby Kennedy. Sindi falls for Toadie for real, and Darcy is displeased but is forced to comply when Sindi threatens to reveal his plan.

After gaining acceptance to the Aurora Club, Darcy begins playing poker regularly and ends up $10,000 in debt to James Atkinson. Darcy’s gambling gets the better of him and the next time he loses, he owes $60,000. Desperate to pay James, Darcy resorts to burgling the pub and stealing $2,0000 from the takings but it is not nearly enough.

Upon learning of Karl and Susan inheriting some valuable jewellery from an elderly relative, Darcy stages a break-in at Number 28, but is discovered by Lyn Scully. Upon fleeing the scene, he knocks Lyn (who is seven months pregnant) down. Darcy is able to pay off James.

In an ironic twist, Darcy treats Lyn after she is admitted to hospital. Lyn cannot remember at first, but after hypnotherapy, she remembers Darcy being at the Kennedys on the day of the robbery. Susan is outraged and refuses to believe it. However, Dee finds Susan’s ring in a plant pot at Darcy’s place and contacts the police. Darcy tries to sneak the ring back into the house during dinner with Karl and Susan but when Karl spills some wine and Darcy offers a handkerchief, the ring falls out onto the kitchen table. Darcy is forced to confess,

After being told to leave by Susan, Darcy walks away and notices police cars arriving on Ramsay Street. He makes a run for it but his escape is blocked and he is arrested for burglary.

While on remand, Darcy summons Dee and Toadie to visit him and reveals his plan to split them up, garnering disgust from them both. In Darcy’s final scene, he is seen in his cell looking dejected and broken while the camera pans away and the cell door slams shut and the bolts tighten. It is later revealed Darcy has received 18 months imprisonment for his crimes.

2004-2005

Darcy is seen again the following year when, Lou is sentenced to three years imprisonment for being involved in Rocco Cammenitti’s horse fixing scam. Lou, fearing the worst, is a little relieved when Darcy is revealed to be his cellmate at Warrinor. Lou agrees to sponsor Darcy for day release but is unable to after being in prison himself. Susan reluctantly agrees and Darcy works as an orderly at Erinsborough Hospital.

After learning of Karl and Susan’s separation, Darcy antagonizes Izzy Hoyland, the woman Karl had left Susan for. On the day of Izzy’s maternity appointment, Darcy sneaks a look at her records and sees that the father of her baby is listed as “Unknown”. Darcy confronts Izzy and she offers him money to keep quiet but he won’t listen. As Darcy turns to leave, he falls down the stairs, hits his head on the wall and loses consciousness. Izzy is quick to frame him by planting jewellery on him. After lapsing into a coma, Darcy is transferred to a hospital near his mother Carmel. Darcy, albeit comatose, begins appearing in Izzy’s nightmares for a while. At Christmas, Karl reveals Darcy has suffered a small stroke that finished off the little brain function he had.

When Darcy is transferred back to Erinsborough Hospital in a private room, he wakes up but keeps up the pretence of being comatose when crooked nurse Gareth Peters walks in. Gareth taunts Darcy about being him being kept alive being a waste of taxpayers money and steals the flowers left for Darcy by Susan, to give to his girlfriend. The following morning, Gareth continues taunting Darcy but receives a punch in the testicles and is asked by Darcy “Shall I Call a Nurse?”. After being wheeled down the corridor, Darcy locks eyes on Izzy who faints in Karl’s arms.

Darcy passes a polygraph test set by the police after claiming to have no memory of the supposed robbery Izzy alleged. Darcy soon begins blackmailing Izzy as he remembers her secret and demands $70, 000. Izzy pays up but Darcy demands $200 plus sexual favors. Izzy then contacts Paul Robinson out of desperation to get rid of Darcy by asking him for the number of a hitman. Paul, also in hospital with Darcy, only gives Izzy a number for a local linen supplier. Darcy and Paul share a joke about this.

Darcy stands trial and Izzy testifies with a glowing reference, resulting in Darcy escaping with a 12-month good behaviour bond. Darcy immediately considers the debt repaid.

Before leaving, Darcy gives Susan a letter revealing the truth about Karl not being the father of Izzy’s baby. As Darcy’s bus is about to depart, he meets Karl who is frosty with him and tells him that he is not the evil person in his life and will one day be thankful that Susan is there for him.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Darcy Tyler, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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Lennon was distant from Julian, his first son, born as his commitments with the Beatles intensified at the height of Beatlemania during his marriage to Cynthia. Adopting the role of househusband in his relationship with Ono, he became close to their son Sean.

Cynthia Lennon

Lennon and Cynthia Powell met in 1957 as fellow students at the Liverpool College of Art. She recalls that although she found him frightening, scruffy and disruptive in college, she was attracted to him. After discovering that he was obsessed with Brigitte Bardot, she changed the colour of her hair to blonde. They danced together at an end-of-term event, and Lennon asked her out. When she replied that she was engaged, he told her, “I didn’t ask you to fucking marry me.” Continuing to Ye Cracke for a drink with his friends, they became partners. They quickly became inseparable, spending long hours together in coffee bars and at the cinema. She began to accompany him to Quarrymen gigs; later, upset to be parted from him during the Beatles’ Hamburg residencies, she travelled to Germany to be with him. Lennon, jealous by nature, eventually grew possessive and mistrustful in the relationship and often terrified her with his anger and physical violence.

Recalling his reaction in 1962 on learning that Cynthia was pregnant, Lennon said, “I was a bit shocked when she told me but I said, ‘Yes, we’ll have to get married.’ I didn’t fight it.” His relatives, counselling him not to feel obligated, were told, “I am going to marry Cynthia.” The couple were married on 23& August at the Mount Pleasant Register Office in Liverpool, with Beatles manager Brian Epstein as best man. Lennon’s relatives declined to attend. His marriage began just as his commitments with the Beatles escalated: the group’s popularity was rocketing as Beatlemania took hold across the UK. He performed with the band the same evening, and would continue to do so almost daily from then on. Epstein, fearing that fans would be alienated by the idea of a married Beatle, asked the Lennons keep their marriage secret. Cynthia complied by telling anyone who asked that her name was Phyllis McKenzie and she had never heard of Lennon. Julian was born on 8& April 1963; Lennon was on tour at the time and did not see his son for three days.

Cynthia attributes the start of the marriage breakdown to LSD. After his involuntary first ingestion of the drug when his dentist spiked his coffee, Lennon made increasing use of it. As a result, Cynthia felt, he lost interest in her. When the group travelled by train to Bangor, Wales in 1967 for the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Transcendental Meditation seminar, she became separated from him on the platform as they were leaving. A policeman, who did not recognise her, kept her from boarding and the train left without her. She recalls how, though she knew she could easily travel to the seminar by other means, the incident was one of profound sadness for her as it seemed to symbolize the relationship.

On learning of Lennon’s affair with Ono, Cynthia had her own one-night affair with Alexis Mardas. A few weeks later Mardas told her Lennon was seeking a divorce and custody of Julian on grounds of her adultery, to which Mardas would bear witness. After negotiation, Lennon capitulated and agreed to her divorcing him on the same grounds. The case was settled out of court, Lennon giving her £100,000, roughly one month’s earnings for him at the time, along with £2,400 annually, custody of Julian, and ownership of their home.

Brian Epstein

Lennon met Brian Epstein when the Beatles were performing at Liverpool’s Cavern Club in 1962. A Jewish record store manager, Epstein was homosexual, at a time of strong and widespread social prejudice against homosexuality. He soon became the band’s manager, a role in which he remained until his death in 1967. According to biographer Philip Norman, one of his reasons for doing so was that he was physically attracted to Lennon. Biographer Bill Harry disagrees, saying the band “were not the type of sexual partners Brian was interested in”.

Almost as soon as Julian was born, Lennon went on holiday to Spain with Epstein, leading to speculation about their relationship. Questioned about it later, Lennon said, “Well, it was almost a love affair, but not quite. It was never consummated. But it was a pretty intense relationship. It was my first experience with a homosexual that I was conscious was homosexual. We used to sit in a cafe in Torremolinos looking at all the boys and I’d say, ‘Do you like that one? Do you like this one?’ I was rather enjoying the experience, thinking like a writer all the time: I am experiencing this.” Soon after their return from Spain, at McCartney’s twenty-first birthday party in June 1963, Lennon physically attacked Cavern Club MC Bob Wooler for saying “How was your honeymoon, John?” The MC, known for his wordplay and affectionate but cutting remarks, was making a joke; but ten months had passed since Lennon’s marriage, and the honeymoon, deferred, was still two months in the future. To Lennon, drunk, the matter was simple: “He called me a queer so I battered his bloody ribs in”. In 1991, a fictionalized account of the Lennon/Epstein holiday was made into the independent movie ”The Hours And Times”.

Lennon delighted in mocking Epstein for his homosexuality and for the fact that he was Jewish, often ridiculing him with sarcastic remarks. When Epstein invited suggestions for his autobiography title, Lennon offered ”Queer Jew”. On learning of the eventual title, ”A Cellarful of Noise”, he said to a friend, “More like ”A Cellarful of Boys””. He demanded of a visitor to Epstein’s flat, “Have you come to blackmail him? If not, you’re the only bugger in London who hasn’t.” And he taunted Epstein with twisted Beatles lyrics, changing “baby, you’re a rich man too” to “baby, you’re a rich fag Jew”.

Julian Lennon

Lennon was touring with the Beatles when Julian was born on 8& April 1963. Julian’s birth, like his mother Cynthia’s marriage to Lennon, was kept secret because Epstein was convinced public knowledge of such things would threaten the Beatles’ commercial success. Julian recalls how some four years later, as a small child in Weybridge, “I was trundled home from school and came walking up with one of my watercolour paintings. It was just a bunch of stars and this blonde girl I knew at school. And Dad said, ‘What’s this?’ I said, ‘It’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds.’” Lennon used it as the title of a Beatles’ song, though it was later reported to have derived from the initials LSD. Lennon was distant from Julian, who felt closer to McCartney than to his father. During a car journey to visit Cynthia and Julian during Lennon’s divorce, McCartney composed a song, “Hey Jules”, to comfort him. It would evolve into the Beatles song “Hey Jude”. Lennon later said, “That’s his best song. It started off as a song about my son Julian … he turned it into ‘Hey Jude’. I always thought it was about me and Yoko but he said it wasn’t.”

Lennon’s relationship with his first son was always strained. After Lennon and Ono’s 1971 move to New York, Julian would not see his father until 1973. With Pang’s encouragement, it was arranged for him (and his mother) to visit Lennon in Los Angeles, where they went to Disneyland. Julian started to see his father regularly, and Lennon gave him a drumming part on a ”Walls and Bridges” track. He bought Julian a Gibson Les Paul guitar and other instruments, and encouraged his interest in music by demonstrating guitar chord techniques. Julian recalls that he and his father “got on a great deal better” during the time he spent in New York: “We had a lot of fun, laughed a lot and had a great time in general”.

Lennon told ”Playboy” in 1980, “Sean was a planned child, and therein lies the difference. I don’t love Julian any less as a child. He’s still my son, whether he came from a bottle of whiskey or because they didn’t have pills in those days. He’s here, he belongs to me, and he always will.” In an interview shortly before his death Lennon said he was trying to re-establish a connection with the then 17-year-old, and confidently predicted that “Julian and I will have a relationship in the future.” After his death it was revealed that he had left Julian very little in his will.

Yoko Ono

There are two versions of how Lennon met Ono during his marriage to Cynthia. According to the first, on 9& November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar. Lennon was intrigued by Ono’s “Hammer A Nail”: patrons hammered a nail into a wooden board, creating the art piece. Although the exhibition had not yet begun, Lennon wanted to hammer a nail into the clean board, but Ono stopped him. Dunbar asked her, “Don’t you know who this is? He’s a millionaire! He might buy it.” Ono had not heard of the Beatles, but relented on condition that Lennon pay her five shillings. Lennon replied, “I’ll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in.” The second version, told by McCartney, is that in late 1965, Ono was in London compiling original musical scores for a book John Cage was working on. McCartney declined to give her any of his own manuscripts for the book, but suggested Lennon might oblige. When asked, Lennon gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to “The Word”. (The latter are reproduced in Cage’s book, ”Notations”.)

ABKCO Industries, formed in 1968 by Allen Klein as an umbrella company to ABKCO Records, recruited May Pang as a receptionist in 1969. Through involvement in a project with ABKCO, Lennon and Ono met her the following year. She became their personal assistant. After she had been working with the couple for three years, Ono confided that she and Lennon were becoming estranged from one another. She went on to suggest that Pang should begin a physical relationship with Lennon, telling her, “He likes you a lot.” Pang, 22, astounded by Ono’s proposition, eventually agreed to become Lennon’s companion. The pair soon moved to California, beginning an eighteen-month period he later called his “lost weekend”. In Los Angeles, Pang encouraged Lennon to develop regular contact with Julian, whom he had not seen for two years. He also rekindled friendships with Starr, McCartney, Beatles roadie Mal Evans, and Harry Nilsson.

When Lennon decided to produce Nilsson’s album ”Pussy Cats,” Pang rented a beach house for all the musicians. Together, Lennon and Nilsson soon began to indulge in alcoholic excesses, and their drunken antics became fodder for the tabloids. Two widely publicised incidents occurred at The Troubadour club in March 1974, the first when Lennon placed a Kotex on his forehead and scuffled with a waitress, and the second, two weeks later, when Lennon and Nilsson were ejected from the same club after heckling the Smothers Brothers. On another occasion, after misunderstanding something Pang said, Lennon attempted to strangle her, only relenting when physically restrained by Nilsson.

In 1975, Lennon told Bob Harris on The Old Grey Whistle Test, “We had a lot of fun. It was Keith Moon, Harry, me, Ringo all living together in a house, and we had some moments folks… but it got a little near the knuckle. I hit the bottle like I was 18 or 19 and I was acting like I was still at college. It was the first night I drank Brandy Alexanders… I was with Harry Nilsson, who didn’t quite get as much coverage as me.”

Lennon returned to New York with Pang in June 1974 to finish work on ”Pussy Cats” and record his own ”Walls and Bridges”. They reserved a room in their newly rented apartment for Julian to visit. Lennon, hitherto inhibited by Ono in this regard, began to reestablish contact with other relatives and friends. By December he and Pang were considering a house purchase, and he was refusing to accept Ono’s telephone calls. In January 1975, he agreed to meet Ono—who said she had found a cure for smoking—and after the meeting failed to return home or call Pang. When Pang telephoned the next day, Ono told her Lennon was unavailable, exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappeared at a joint dental appointment, stupified and confused to such an extent that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. He told her his separation from Ono was now over.

Sean Lennon

When Lennon and Ono were reunited, she became pregnant, but having previously suffered three miscarriages in her attempt to have a child with Lennon, she said she wanted an abortion. She agreed to allow the pregnancy to continue on condition that Lennon adopt the role of househusband; this he agreed to do. Sean was born on 9& October 1975, Lennon’s 35th birthday, delivered by Caesarean section. Lennon’s subsequent career break would span five years. He became utterly devoted to his son. He had a photographer take pictures of Sean every day of his first year, and created numerous drawings for him, posthumously published as ”Real Love: The Drawings for Sean”. Lennon later proudly declared, “He didn’t come out of my belly but, by God, I made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and to how he sleeps, and to the fact that he swims like a fish.”

The former Beatles

Although his friendship with Ringo Starr remained consistently warm during the years following the Beatles’ break-up in 1970, Lennon’s relationship with his other fellow ex-Beatles varied. He was close to Harrison initially, but the two drifted apart after Lennon moved to America. When Harrison was in New York for his December 1974 ”Dark Horse” tour, Lennon agreed to join him on stage, but failed to appear after an argument over Lennon’s refusal to sign an agreement that would finally dissolve the Beatles’ legal partnership. (Lennon eventually signed the papers in Walt Disney World in Florida, while on holiday there with Pang and Julian.) Harrison incensed Lennon in 1980 when he published an autobiography that made very little mention of him. Lennon told ”Playboy”, “I was hurt by it. By glaring omission … my influence on his life is absolutely zilch and nil … he remembers every two-bit sax player or guitarist he met in subsequent years. I’m not in the book.”

Lennon’s most intense feelings were reserved for McCartney. In addition to attacking him through the lyrics of “How Do You Sleep?”, Lennon argued with him through the press for three years after the group split. The two later began to reestablish something of the close friendship they had once known, and in 1974 even played music together again for what would be the one and only time (see ”A Toot and a Snore in ’74”), before growing apart once more. Lennon said that during McCartney’s final visit, in April 1976, they watched the episode of ”Saturday Night Live” in which Lorne Michaels made a $3,000 cash offer to get the Beatles to reunite on the show. The pair considered going to the studio to make a joke appearance, attempting to claim their share of the money, but were too tired. The event was fictionalised in the 2000 television film, ”Two of Us”.

Despite his estrangement from McCartney, Lennon always felt a musical competitiveness with him and kept an ear on his music. During his five-year career break he was content to sit back so long as McCartney was producing what Lennon saw as garbage. When McCartney released “Coming Up” in 1980, the year Lennon returned to the studio and the last year of his life, he took notice. Asked the same year whether the group were dreaded enemies or the best of friends, he replied that they were neither, and that he had not seen any of them in a long time. But he also said, “I still love those guys. The Beatles are over, but John, Paul, George and Ringo go on.”

Adapted from the Wikipedia article John Lennon, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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*Marilyn Jean Kelly (1956) Current Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court

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*Jim Oliphant (1958) Two-time NCAA All-American track athlete for Western Michigan University, high jump (1961, 62)

*Chuck Wasiluk (1958) former MHS baseball player; longtime WDIV-TV producer/director on Detroit Tigers television network

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==External links

Main websites

*[http://www.albertellisinstitute.org/ The Albert Ellis Institute (New York City)]

*[http://www.rebtnetwork.org/ The REBT Network - Albert Ellis and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy]

*[http://www.albert-ellis-friends.net/ Albert-Ellis-Friends.Net: A Rational Oasis]

*[http://www.rebt.ws/ Albert Ellis Biography Site]

*[http://www.albertellis.info Albert Ellis Information Site]

*[http://www.arebt.org/ Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy]

*[http://rebtresources.stornes.net The REBT Resources Website]

*[http://www.exclusivehypnotherapy.co.uk/ Edinburgh Hypnotherapy & REBT]

Articles and features

*[http://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/Albert_Ellis Psychotherapy.net: An Interview with Albert Ellis]

*[http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/albert_ellis.html Selfgrowth.com: Albert Ellis]

*[http://www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2007/08/11/lifestyle/life33.txt Santa Maria Times: Dr. Albert Ellis and his legacy]

*[http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=1013389&srvc=home Boston Herald: Shrink was ours for a song - One last refrain for Albert Ellis]

*[http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9738 Prospect Magazine: Portrait – Albert Ellis]

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The Biological Sciences Research Group maintains many national and international connections and is interdisciplinary in scope and method. Current research interest are: cryopreservation for plant conservation, comparative DNA analysis for evolutionary studies, biomedical research, nuptial feeding in insects, toxic metals and biota interactions, aquatic microbial ecology, forensics, and vascular plants. The research group supervises master and doctoral courses.

Centre for Psychological Research in Human Behaviour

Owning a developed national and international network and as a focal underpinning of taught undergraduate and postgraduate studies, the centre produces research in varied areas including; facial imaging scales for medical anxiety, life event exposure, sensation seeking and personality, modelling, learning, rule discovery, vocabulary acquisition, cognition, constructivity, distress prediction, postnatal perineal morbidity, memory, recall, speech, neurology, hypnotherapy, research methods, diversity, object assembly, and behaviour. MPhil/PhD programmes are available.

Community Regeneration Research Centre

The Community Regeneration Research Centre exists to contribute to the maturation and general quality of habitated areas be they rural, suburban, or urban. Utilizing healthy links with community organisations the centre heads consultancy, research, mentoring and training efforts for a variety of sub disciplines. MPhil and PhD engagement is accessible.

Culture, Landscape, and Lifestyle Research Group

The Culture, Landscape, and Lifestyle Research Group is a hybrid enterprise indulging heavily in both the social sciences and humanities. The members and methods of this group are of international notoriety and presently lend themselves to areas such as; leisure, market evaluations, entrepreneurship, creative industries, conflict and identity, consumption, cultural space, education and change, heritage, regeneration, representation, third world development, global adjustment, and visual culture. The group facilitates MPhil and PhD programmes.

Health, Nursing and Therapeutic Research Group

The Health, Nursing and Therapeutic Research Group participates in consultancy and research in several areas. Aetiology, continuous professional development, ethics and learning disabilities, child protection, dementia and care, therapeutic writing, distributory justice, nursing assessment, IT and education, domestic abuse treatment, and user involvement constitute a small sampling of present areas of activity. The group also oversees and partners with student research for various masters and doctoral awards.

Research Centre for Advanced Innovation & Management

As a research and consultancy group of the Faculty of Business, Computing, and Law, the Research Centre for Advanced Innovation & Management has placed itself in diverse arenas of typical mass appeal with particular attention being paid to applied and practice-based applications. Expertise includes but is not limited to: entrepreneurship, management and innovative practice, business opportunities, knowledge management, marketing, finance, risk management, optimisation, virtual reality, measurement science and technology, AI, commercial law, welfare law, data mining, human resources, software, medical imagery, purchasing, and accounting strategy. Students are able to study for the DBA, MPhil, or PhD.

Research Centre for Education and Professional Practice

The Research Centre for Education and Professional Practice studies and disseminates material on virtually every core aspect of historical and contemporary education. Members of the centre have published widely in their respective fields and are of the aspiration to translate their expertise into both public and academic knowledge, both theory and practice. In conjunction with present research activities the mentioned fields include; religion and education, behaviour management, cultural diversity in education, educational psychology, learning, motivation, post compulsory education, telephonics in education, social justice, curriculum and sociomoral epistemology, student feedback, improving performance, nursing and health education, substance abuse education, race and education, dyslexia, organizational change, student self-esteem, violence and education, and bilingual education. Students are able to pursue the MPhil, PhD, or Ed.D degrees.

Signal Processing Applications Research Group

The Signal Processing Applications Research Group dwells within the Electronics and Sound area of the Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology. SPARG has robust relationships with the industry and has placed many graduates with engineering research partners. The key areas of research are real-time Digital Signal Processing and the applications of signal processing in the aim to positively compliment a myriad of technological issues. Individual expertise is had in: spatial audio-capture, psychoacoustics and spatial perception in artificial environments, embedded systems, manipulation and transmission of spatial sound, multimodal spatial information display, perceptual testing and signal processing, synthesis, and digital music technology and spatial music. There are routes to study and research on to a PhD.

The Open Studio

With national and international collaboration, The Open Studio functions as a physical and virtual domain for creative development that is experimental, reflective, and culturally and interpersonally encouraging. Studio spaces, conferences, seminars, exhibitions and the internet are all used in the facilitation of this function. Main areas of research activity are but are not limited to: photography, sculpture, painting, mixed media, film, design, art theory, art history, visual environment, and non-traditional media. There is potential within The Open Studio to study up to a doctorate degree.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article University of Derby, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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;Ein (Elen): An assassin with such skill she was given the codename “Phantom”, a designation given only to the best killer in Inferno. She was found by Scythe Master and was his first test subject to be given his assassin-processing treatment. She has no memories of her past and is incredibly apathetic. When she escapes to Japan, she changes her name to Elen and claims to be Reiji’s twin sister. A long and rigorous investigation by Elen and Reiji traces her history back to Ulan Bator, Mongolia, and though the trail manages to stop there, Elen is able to find some peace in the area. In the OVA, she is shown to have an older brother, and it is suggested the village where she lived was massacred.

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;Claudia McCunnen: A beautiful executive of Inferno who is quick to befriend and manipulate Zwei. Though she seems to have good intentions, she is quietly manipulating Inferno and its actions. ”This cunning and double sided nature is never shown in the OVA.”

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;Lizzie Garland: Claudia’s loyal childhood friend and bodyguard.

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;Scythe Master: A scientist with sadistic delusions of grandeur. He is the creator of Ein, Zwei, Drei, and the members of the Zahlen Schwestern. ”He is referred to as Master Scythe in the OVA dub.”

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;Isaac Wisemel: A brutal executive of Inferno, and leader of the Los Angeles gang, the “Bloodies”.

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;Raymond McGuire: A quiet and calculating Colombian drug lord who other executives of Inferno are quick to obey. ”His family name is erroneously spelled “McGwire” in the OVA and the anime.”

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;Mio Fujieda: A young girl who is unaware that her father is a boss in the yakuza. Reiji goes to her high school when he and Elen escape back to Japan. Mio soon finds herself developing feelings for him.

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;Drei (Cal Devens): A young girl that tried to hire Zwei, thinking he was a killer for justice, by using money she had unknowingly stolen from Inferno. Zwei tries to hide her from Inferno but is unsuccessful and in a move to save her life asks that she becomes his assistant as he had been to Ein. After an attempt on his life, Zwei took her for dead and was forced to leave America to go into hiding. Cal believed that she had been left behind by Zwei and was manipulated by an exonerated Scythe, who turned her beliefs into full hatred for Zwei and trained her as his third assassin, Drei. Her clothing and situation-teenaged girl trying to hire an assassin to avenge her murdered sibling, beginning to fall in love with said assassin, and learning the art of killing herself-are very similar to those of the character Mathilda from the film Léon.

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;Zahlen Schwestern: Six girls who all went through Scythe Master’s finalized assassin creation process. They are nearly the same quality of killers as the first three, and took nowhere near as much time to train since the process to make them was based on all the original three’s data. They all wear white carnival masks (similar to ones Zwei and Ein wear during one of their missions at one point) and are named: Vier, Fünf, Sechs, Sieben, Acht and Neun. “Zahlen Schwestern” appropriately means “Number Sisters.”

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Phantom of Inferno, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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On a later mission, Jameson was infected with spores that gave him super-strength, but strained his body and mind. He was forced to wear a strength-restraining “Jupiter suit” and battled Spider-Man at his father’s urging before recovering. His father convinced him to go after Spider-Man, who was seen robbing a bank. However, the web-slinger outsmarted him and Jonah soon learned that Spider-Man was saving the bank from a bomb. However, John didn’t care about the misunderstanding; he was really out for revenge. Spider-Man managed to neutralize the spores with electricity, returning Jameson to normal.

While he was on the moon, Jameson found the mystical Godstone, an other-dimensional ruby. The jewel grafted itself to his throat and extended tendrils through his body. Moonlight activated the gem, which transformed him into the lycanthropic Man-Wolf, and he fought Spider-Man in this bestial form. The ruby was removed by Spider-Man.

Some time after that, the ruby was reattached to John by Morbius, the Living Vampire who used Man-Wolf as a pawn so Morbius could find a cure for himself. Man-Wolf was again thwarted by Spider-Man.

Later, he was transported to the dimension known as ”Other Realm”, from which the ruby originated and the source of the radiation that transforms John into the Man-Wolf. It was revealed that the ruby was created by the dying Stargod to pass on his powers. While on Earth Jameson could only partially transform, resulting in his berserk behavior. While in the Other Realm he could fully transform, resulting in retention of his human consciousness while in lupine form. He took up the mantle of Stargod, and acted as champion of the Other Realm, and gained new powers such as telepathy and energy manipulation. He fought his foes with a sword, dagger, and longbow in this incarnation. Afterward, he opted to return to Earth, resulting in him losing the ability to fully transform, and the loss of all memories of being the Stargod. He later allowed himself to be subjected to a procedure that removed the ruby, restoring normalcy for some time.

Jameson became the pilot of Captain America’s personal Quinjet for a period, using the call-sign “Skywolf”. During this time, he was temporarily transformed into Man-Wolf by Dredmond Druid, who wanted the power of the Stargod. Jameson left Captain America’s employ due to his attraction to Cap’s then girlfriend, Diamondback.

Jameson remains friends with Spider-Man and often tries to convince his father to “”let up on him.”” He spent some time as Ravencroft Head of Security and briefly dated its director Dr. Ashley Kafka. Both John and Ashley were fired by a director angry about the escape of the Chameleon and his subsequent wounding by Kraven the Hunter II. Via hypnotherapy, Kafka helped discover that Jack O’Lantern had caused him to attack his hospitalized father. This therapy also briefly unleashed John’s Man-Wolf aspect before Ashley was able to help John suppress his changes once more.

”Civil War”

John helped Captain America while the latter was in hiding. He was assisting She-Hulk in locating and signing up unregistered superheroes. John has also been registered as the Man-Wolf under the Superhuman Registration Act. During this time, the villain Stegron temporarily transformed him into the Man-Wolf again, as a side-effect of his latest mad scheme, to devolve the entire population of New York City. He attacked Mary Jane and Aunt May in the Avengers Tower, but was subdued by Tony Stark’s Guardsmen before he could harm them. Reed Richards subsequently cured him of this form.

Stargod and She-Hulk

John had been dating She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters) and the two had been living together for some time along with She-Hulk’s coworker, Augustus Pugliese. Eventually they eloped in Las Vegas. However, John was forced into becoming the Man-Wolf once more after being injected by a mysterious substance. After a brief rampage, John stopped fighting his situation and became the Stargod again. He now retains his intelligence while in Man-Wolf form, has the Stargod’s powers, and apparently can switch between human and lupine forms. His current superhuman status can be defined in his own words as “”I am a god”” and is supported by a battle with a clone of the Mad Titan Thanos in which he held his own. However, John does not want to be the Stargod because he feels that having powers makes him arrogant and savage. She-Hulk and Stargod separated after she discovered that her feelings for John were influenced prior to their marriage by her former Avengers teammate, Starfox, and when she learned that John had hoped to convince her to give up her powers permanently. Dejected, Stargod sought adventure in outer space, before finally returning to Earth. He resumed his human form and tried to reconcile with Jennifer, but when she rejected him again John realized their relationship was truly over and he signed the legal papers annulling their marriage.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article John Jameson (comics), under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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