Transport Aérien Transrégional was a French regional airline with its head office on the grounds of Tours Val de Loire Airport in Tours. It was formed in 1968 as Touraine Air Transport (TAT) by M. Marchais.Air France acquired a minority stake in the airline in 1989. Between 1993 and 1996 the company was gradually taken over by British Airways. It subsequently merged with Air Liberté. The merged entity was sold on to the SAir Group in 2001, which in turn merged it with AOM.
History
Touraine Air Transport commenced scheduled operations in 1968. The airline acquired its first Beech 99 Airliner twin-engined turboprop passenger airliner in June 1971 and used this type to commence French internal services. These aircraft remained in operation with TAT until 1975.
During the 1970s TAT began building up a comprehensive network of regional, short-haul domestic and international scheduled routes, as a result of being taken over in 1973 by Société Auxiliare de Services et Materiel Aéronautiques (SASMAT), the owner of rival French regional airline Rousseau Aviation, as well as the subsequent mergers with regional rivals Taxi Avia France and Air Paris. The resulting regional network served 30 provincial points in France and neighbouring European countries from Paris Orly, Lyons Satolas, Lille and St. Brieuc, respectively.
TAT-9 was the first fiber optic system to operate at 565 Mbit/s, twice the speed of the first transatlantic fiber optic system, TAT-8. It was also the first system to have the ability to switch traffic on demand between the five landing points: Canada, the United States, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. This enabled the smaller countries in the network to afford their own landing points, and also allowed the network to accommodate for large changes in traffic demands at any individual station, such as the dramatic increase during the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
Composed of Matt Suggs and Debby Vander Wall, it has been said that Butterglory feature "simple pop pleasures of strum-and-drone guitars, big snare beats, and hummable melodies." The band began in 1992 with the release of their Alexander Bends EP. They later found a home at Merge Records and released their first album 'Crumble' in 1994. This was followed by a collection of singles entitled 'Downed' in 1995. Adding bassist Stephen Naron and a variety of other players the group released the more developed 'Are You Building a Temple in Heaven?'. The group's final record, 'Rat Tat Tat' was released on Merge Records in 1997.
Rat is a megalomaniacal, misanthropic rat, who is frequently critical of the strip's style and artwork, as well as the other characters in his and other strips, real life people, and almost all living (and often nonliving) things. He believes himself to be much more intelligent than he actually is, and thinks more or less anybody else is stupid with the only person he believes worthy of his respect being Leonardo da Vinci. He tends to irritate people, particularly his intelligent friend Goat, and is easily irritated by his naïve, dim-witted housemate Pig. Rat believes himself to be the wisdom of the strip, if not wisdom itself, and that anybody else is more or less dumb, whereas most other characters view him as "a loudmouth, pompous malcontent". He may or may not be a personification of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Rat is very prideful and arrogant (he once made a list of all the geniuses in the world that only said "Mozart, da Vinci, Me", and then said that he only put 'that music dude' there to be nice), and is constantly dreaming up schemes that invariably would keep him away from anyone and everyone else, though these inevitably backfire. He often appears incapable of seeing his own faults.
Rat is a 2000 Irish/British/Americancomedy film directed by Steve Barron. The film focuses on the transformation of a working-class man into a rat and how his family copes with the startling change.
Synopsis
After his usual night of drinking at the local pub, Hubert Flynn (Pete Postlethwaite) returns home and transforms into a rat. Hubert's family each have different views on him now that he became a rodent. His wife Conchita (Imelda Staunton) thinks that this change is supposed to be a lesson to Hubert and that the reason he transformed is his own fault. Their son Pius (Andrew Lovern), destined for a religious life, feels that because his father is now an animal, his family should kill him. Their daughter Marietta (Kerry Condon) feels that the rat is still her father and that they should treat him with love and respect.
After hearing the news of a man changing into a rat on the local radio, ghostwriter Phelim Spratt (David Wilmot) convinces Conchita to write a book of the story. Because Phelim wants to write about Conchita's bravery and the family's loyalty to Hubert in the face of adversity, he suggests that they take Hubert out to the pub and bookie to see his friends and to show the public that they are proud of him.
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Hexed · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
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Serpentine
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Serpentine · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
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Come On!
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Come On! · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
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Widows Smirk
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Widows Smirk · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
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Her Comedy's a Bore
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Her Comedy's a Bore · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
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published: 09 Jan 2020
Oh Goodness
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Oh Goodness · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
Released on: 1997-10-14
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Happy 1 2 3 4
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Happy 1 2 3 4 · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
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Novelty in Two
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Novelty in Two · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
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Carmen Cross
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Carmen Cross · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
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On a Horse
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On a Horse · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
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Her Comedy's a Bore · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
Released on: 1997-10-14
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Her Comedy's a Bore · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
Released on: 1997-10-14
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Her Comedy's a Bore · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
Released on: 1997-10-14
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Novelty in Two · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
Released on: 1997-10-14
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Novelty in Two · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
Released on: 1997-10-14
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Provided to YouTube by Merge Media Ltd
Novelty in Two · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
Released on: 1997-10-14
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Provided to YouTube by Merge Media Ltd
Her Comedy's a Bore · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
Released on: 1997-10-14
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by Merge Media Ltd
Novelty in Two · Butterglory
Rat Tat Tat
℗ 1997 Merge Records
Released on: 1997-10-14
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Transport Aérien Transrégional was a French regional airline with its head office on the grounds of Tours Val de Loire Airport in Tours. It was formed in 1968 as Touraine Air Transport (TAT) by M. Marchais.Air France acquired a minority stake in the airline in 1989. Between 1993 and 1996 the company was gradually taken over by British Airways. It subsequently merged with Air Liberté. The merged entity was sold on to the SAir Group in 2001, which in turn merged it with AOM.
History
Touraine Air Transport commenced scheduled operations in 1968. The airline acquired its first Beech 99 Airliner twin-engined turboprop passenger airliner in June 1971 and used this type to commence French internal services. These aircraft remained in operation with TAT until 1975.
During the 1970s TAT began building up a comprehensive network of regional, short-haul domestic and international scheduled routes, as a result of being taken over in 1973 by Société Auxiliare de Services et Materiel Aéronautiques (SASMAT), the owner of rival French regional airline Rousseau Aviation, as well as the subsequent mergers with regional rivals Taxi Avia France and Air Paris. The resulting regional network served 30 provincial points in France and neighbouring European countries from Paris Orly, Lyons Satolas, Lille and St. Brieuc, respectively.