title: Duitse Huis

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The Duitse Huis () is a complex of buildings in the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, protected as a national monument.
The older parts date to a monastery of the Bailiwick of Utrecht of the Teutonic Knights founded in 1348.
Originally Catholic, the order became Protestant during the Reformation.
A military hospital was added in 1823 after the knights had sold the property.
The property was sold back to the Bailiwick of Utrecht and a major renovation started in 1992.
Some of the older buildings are again the headquarters of the Bailiwick of Utrecht, now a charity, and hold an important collection of medieval manuscripts, coins and pictures.
Other buildings, including the former hospital, have been converted into a five-star hotel, the Grand Hotel Karel V.

Teutonic Order

The Teutonic Order was one of the great Christian military orders, along with the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller. It was mainly active in the Holy Land and the Baltic region, but had many branches in the west to provide sources of funds and of recruits.
The Bailiwick of Utrecht of the Teutonic Order (Ridderlijke Duitse Orde Balije van Utrecht) was founded in 1231, initially focused mainly on the spiritual development of its own members. The order held agricultural lands, called commanderies, in different areas of the Netherlands,
The knights and priests had taken the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
In 1348 the order built the Duitse Huis as a monastery and headquarters between the city wall and Springweg in Utrecht.

The Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) visited Utrecht between 30 December 1545 and 3 February 1546.
A meeting of the chapter of the order of the Golden Fleece began on 2 January 1546, attended by Charles V and his sister Mary of Hungary (governor of the Netherlands).
Kings Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France, both knights of the order, were present at this important event.
The meetings of the chapter and the feasts took place in the Duitse Huis.

By 1580 the States of Utrecht were demanding that Catholic institutions such as the Bailiwick be dissolved and their goods used for charity.
The land commander in 1579–1612, Jacob Taets van Amerongen, resisted on the basis that the goods "belonged to our Lord the German Master", and that the Bailiwick was a knightly institution that served "where necessary to fight with weapons for the defence of the Empire against our common arch enemy, the Turk..."
However, in 1637 the knights formally accepted the protection of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
They remained an order of Teutonic Knights, but were no longer Catholic.

Buildings

From 17th century drawings it appears that the church was a large building, standing high over its surroundings.
Most of the land commanders of the order were buried there, as were prominent citizens of Utrecht.
One bay has survived, just over  wide. There were probably seven or eight such bays, and perhaps a small transept.
The main building contained the chapter room and the refectory, sometimes called the "Queens room", where the knights ate.
Many dignitaries were entertained with elaborate feasts in the refectory.
The commander's house, at right angles to the main building, was closed to the public.
The commander's room was on the west side of the first floor, and there were two smaller reception rooms to the east of this floor.

The chapter room was renovated in the second half of the 16th century.
The work was probably done between 1550 and 1580 to accommodate growing numbers of visiting dignitaries, but may have been undertaken after 1580 due to the ban on public Catholic worship, or in preparation for the 1586 visit by the Calvinist governor-general of the United Provinces, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.
The joists above the hall were raised and new corbels were put in. The former Gothic windows were raised and converted to bay windows. The wall posts were moved to give a symmetrical layout with a stone mantelpiece in the center of the north wall. From that date the walls may have been hung with tapestries.

In 1674 the monastery was badly damaged by a windstorm. The church was ruined, and it was demolished.
The sacristy, main building, kitchen with outbuildings and Commander's house remained standing.
The "knights room" in the commander's house was used as a replacement church.
In 1700 the 14th-century facade was truncated.

Hospital

Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte bought the property in 1807.
The French government planned to convert the complex into a military hospital, and the Teutonic Order had to move to a new building on the canal.
On 27 February 1811 the Teutonic Order was abolished in the Kingdom of Holland and its estates were confiscated.
After the fall of Napoleon and the restoration of the House of Orange, on 8 August 1815 the Bailiwick was revived by royal decree of William I of the Netherlands.
During the reign of King William I a very modern hospital building (for the time) was built on the property along the Geertebolwerk.
The hospital was completed in 1823, and remained military property until 1990.
The Duitse Huis was registered as a national monument on 20 June 1967.
The complex was poorly maintained, and for a few years was occupied by squatters.
In 1990 the Military Hospital moved to the Uithof.

Recent years

Bailiwick of Utrecht

When the military hospital became vacant in the late 1980s the Bailiwick of Utrecht was able to repurchase the property due to an agreement dating back to 1808.
A major renovation was started in 1992.
The 14th century facade was restored during the renovation.
In 1995 the Bailiwick of Utrecht moved back into the 15th century Commander's house on the corner of Springweg and Walsteeg.
The order has become a charity that assists people with disabilities, the homeless and drug addicts.

The Teutonic Order in the Netherlands converted to Calvinism in time, so they were able to preserve their property, including archival records dating back to the start of the 13th century.
The Bailiwick of Utrecht has a collection of historical items in the Duitse Huis including many old charters with seals and a collection of medieval coins.
The well-preserved archive is open to researchers.
The Duitse Huis has several impressive rooms, including the meeting room for the officers of the Bailiwick.
The walls have portraits of every Landcommandeur from the order's foundation.
All but the most recent are depicted in armor with a mantle over their shoulders.
The old buildings, surrounded by tall trees in a fenced area, are an oasis of tranquility in the center of modern Utrecht.

Hotel

Further renovations converted much of the complex into a hotel.
The hospital's wards were converted into hotel rooms and suites.
The Grand Hotel Karel V, a five-star hotel, opened in part of the building complex in 1999.
The hotel has 121 rooms, conference rooms, a health center, bar, brasserie and restaurant.
The former chapter room and former refectory are now dining areas.
The remains of a fireplace were found during the renovation on which the double-headed eagle, the emblem of Charles V, was engraved in sandstone.
A new fireplace has been built in the same place in the former refectory as the old fireplace with the coat of arms and motto of Charles V.

During the restoration archaeologists discovered the remains of a Roman cemetery dating to between 40 BC and 275 AD.
This may be associated with the Roman fort of Traiectum.
The garden wing was renovated and extended in 2007 and renamed the Roman wing after this discovery.
There are traces of the past history of the complex including objects, photographs and historical drawings displayed in locations throughout the hotel.

References

Citations

Sources

Further reading

External links

Rijksmonuments in Utrecht (city)
Hotels in the Netherlands
1348 establishments in Europe
Buildings and structures of the Teutonic Order
Former squats
Squats in the Netherlands
Buildings and structures in Utrecht (city)


title: Mirocossus siniaevi

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Mirocossus siniaevi is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2011. It is found in the Republic of Congo.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Cossinae
Moths described in 2011


title: Mirocossus sombo

text:
Mirocossus sombo is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2011. It is found in Angola.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Cossinae
Moths described in 2011


title: Mirocossus sudanicus

text:
Mirocossus sudanicus is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2011. It is found in Sudan.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Cossinae
Moths described in 2011


title: Hormones and Behavior

text:
Hormones and Behavior is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering behavioral endocrinology. It is published by Elsevier and is an official journal of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. The journal covers hormone-brain relationships and publishes original research articles from laboratory or field studies on species ranging from invertebrates to mammals. It focuses on neuroendocrine and endocrine mechanisms affecting the development of behavior and on the ecological and evolutionary significance of hormone-behavior relationships.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Chemical Abstracts Service, Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Life Sciences, The Zoological Record, BIOSIS Previews, and Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed. The 2018 journal impact factor for the journal was 4.445.

References

External links

English-language journals
Elsevier academic journals
Endocrinology journals
Academic journals established in 1969
Neuroscience journals


title: Julius Caesar (1914 film)

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Julius Caesar (Italian:Giulio Cesare) is a 1914 Italian silent historical film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Amleto Novelli, Bruto Castellani and Pina Menichelli. Taking minor inspiration from William Shakespeare's 1599 play of the same title, the film portrays the events leading up to the assassination of Julius Caesar. In the wake of Guazzoni's internationally successful Quo Vadis it was produced on an epic scale, including vast sets recreating Ancient Rome and more than 20,000 extras.

Plot summary

Cast
 Amleto Novelli as Julius Caesar
 Bruto Castellani
 Irene Mattalia as Servilia
 Ignazio Lupi
 Augusto Mastripietri
 Antonio Nazzari as Brutus
 Gianna Terribili-Gonzales
 Lia Orlandini
 Ruffo Geri
 Pina Menichelli
 Orlando Ricci

References

Bibliography
 Moliterno, Gino. Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

1914 films
Italian historical drama films
Italian silent feature films
1910s Italian-language films
Films directed by Enrico Guazzoni
1910s historical drama films
Films set in ancient Rome
Films set in the 1st century BC
Italian films based on plays
Italian black-and-white films
Films about Julius Caesar
1914 drama films
Articles containing video clips
Silent historical drama films


title: Paracossus griseatus

text:
Paracossus griseatus is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2009. It is found in Cambodia.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Cossinae
Moths described in 2009


title: Glengarry Pioneer Museum

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The Glengarry Pioneer Museum was established in 1962 by the Glengarry Historical Society. In 2013, the Museum was incorporated as a non-profit organization, and was awarded charitable status later that year. It is located in the hamlet of Dunvegan, in the township of North Glengarry, Ontario, in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry in Eastern Ontario. The Museum provides a look at the pioneer and Celtic history of eastern Ontario (Upper Canada) from before 1812 until the 1920s.

The museum features twelve 19th-century log or wood-frame buildings with historic artifacts. The buildings include a mid-19th-century period inn (the oldest still-functioning bar in Ontario), a functioning blacksmith shop, a livery shed with farming equipment, a cheese factory, a barn with sleighs, a barn with tools, a trapper's cabin and a schoolhouse. The former township hall building features several displays including a general store, a doctor's office, the roles of women in the household, the War of 1812 and other exhibits.  An 1870s "Orange Lodge" houses a reception area, gift shop, displays, and offices.  The most recent addition is an open-sided pavilion suitable for fairs, presentations, large parties and receptions.

The museum is open seasonally: daily in the summer; weekends spring and fall.

References

External links

Museums in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
History museums in Ontario
Open-air museums in Canada
Designated heritage properties in Ontario


title: Paracossus hainanicus

text:
Paracossus hainanicus is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2009. It is found in China (Hainan).

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Cossinae
Moths described in 2009


title: Paracossus indradit

text:
Paracossus indradit is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2009. It is found in Thailand.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Cossinae
Moths described in 2009


title: Jean-Damien Climonet

text:
Jean-Damien Climonet (born 27 March 1969) is retired French freestyle skier who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. The best result at the World Cup has reached championship in Iizuna, where he finished 6th in acrobatic jumps. He also finished his 16th place in the same event in Olympic Games in Nagano. In his best performance in the world cup has reached 1996/1997 season, when he reached in 12th place in the general classification and the classification of acrobatic jumps was second. In 1998 he ended his skiing career.

References

External links
Jean Damien Climonet at the Sports Reference
Profile at the World Cup season standings - Jean Damien Climonet

1969 births
Living people
French male freestyle skiers
Olympic freestyle skiers for France
Freestyle skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
People from Lons-le-Saunier
Sportspeople from Jura (department)


title: Hollowiella amasonca

text:
Hollowiella amasonca is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2006. It is found in the Philippines (Palawan).

Description
The length of the forewings measures 14–17 mm across.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Cossinae
Moths described in 2006
Moths of Asia


title: Mary Cappello

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Mary Cappello is a writer and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of five books of literary nonfiction, and her essays and experimental prose have been published in The Georgia Review, Salmagundi and Cabinet Magazine. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Salon, The Huffington Post, in guest author blogs for Powell's Books, and on six separate occasions as Notable Essay of the Year in Best American Essays. A 2011 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts/Nonfiction, she recently received a 2015 Berlin Prize from The American Academy in Berlin, a fellowship awarded to scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields.

Education
Cappello is originally from Darby, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside Philadelphia. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from State University of New York, Buffalo, and her B.A. from Dickinson College. Cappello has taught at the University of Rhode Island, as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, Russia, and at the University of Rochester.

Publications and works

Literary nonfiction: Books
 Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack, University of Chicago Press, October 2016.

Essays and experimental prose print

“Mood Rooms,” chosen as the annual Meridel Le Sueur Essay, Water~Stone Review, Fall 2015.
“Wending Artifice: Creative Nonfiction and our Century’s Turn," in
“Contact,” in
 “My Secret, Private Errand (An Essay on Love and Theft),” Salmagundi, Fall 2013-Winter 2014, nos. 180-181: 135–183.
“objective correlatives: a trialogue on love,” Hotel Amerika, volume 8, no. 2, Spring 2010, 7–15.
“Losing Consciousness to a Lost Art,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2007, 329–338.
 "The Trees are Aflame" from My Commie Sweetheart: Scenes from a Queer Friendship, 2004.

Essays and experimental prose on-line

 “Courting the Peculiar: The Ever-changing Queerness of Creative Nonfiction" a series of essays, sound texts and performances on creative nonfiction as a queer genre, Slag Glass City, December 2014.
 "Flow," a lyric essay for Bending Genre: Toward a Theory of Creative Nonfiction, April 2013.
 "Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the Interview" with David Lazar for The Conversant: Interview Projects, Talk Poetries, Embodied Inquiry, November 2013.
 "Lyric Essay as Perversion: Channeling Djuna Barnes," TriQuarterly, September 2014.
 "Disconcerting Pleasures; or, The Mysterious Unknowability of the Mind: A Conversation with Mary Cappello and Christine Montross", for Bellevue Literary Press Conversation Series between doctors and artists, May 23, 2014.

Awards and recognition
 Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin, Individual Fellowship, 2015.
The University of Rhode Island Foundation Scholarly Excellence Award, 2015. Nominated in 2014, 2013.
 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Creative Arts/Nonfiction.
 GAMMA Award for Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southeast for "Getting the News: A Signer among Signs," The Georgia Review, volume 63, number 2, Summer 2009.
 Teacher of the Year Award, University of Rochester.
The Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, NYC for the essay, "Can Creative Writing Be Taught?"
 The Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize, with photographer Paola Ferrario, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, for "Pane Amaro/Bitter Bread: The Struggle of New Immigrants to Italy," 2001.
 Fulbright Fellowship, Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, Moscow, Russia, 2001.

References

External links and interviews
Interview with Mutter Museum Director Robert Hicks for No Bones About It on the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection
Interview with LA Times Carolyn Kellogg, on the most important book Cappello read in school
Interview with Julie Bolcer for Here! TV, on writing breast cancer and its politics, posted by Antonio Gonzalez Cerna from Lambda Literary
Interview with Sarah Kruse, on writing the strange and non-narrative assemblage
 The Curious Collection of Swallowed Objects, Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, March 23, 2011.
 Awkward: A Detour with Celeste Quinn for Illinois Public Radio's Afternoon Magazine, February 27, 2008.
 An illustrated reading, "The Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection and the Art It Has Inspired," at St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum and Gallery, London, England, June 2012.

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Dickinson College alumni
University of Rhode Island faculty
People from Darby, Pennsylvania
University at Buffalo alumni
Fulbright alumni


title: New York Helicopter

text:
New York Helicopter was an American helicopter transportation company, fully owned and operated as a subsidiary of Island Helicopter Corporation which was formed in July 1980. Providing scheduled service connecting  Manhattan with the three major New York airports. Kennedy International, La Guardia and Newark International, all three are served from the East 34th Street heliport on the East River. The company also provided sightseeing and private charter operations.

Fleet
Fleet consisted of a mix of helicopters.
 2- Sikorsky S-58
 2- Aérospatiale AS 350
 7-Aérospatiale SA 360

See also
 List of defunct airlines of the United States

References

Transportation companies based in New York City
Aviation in New York City
Defunct helicopter airlines
Defunct airlines of the United States
1980 establishments in New York City
1988 disestablishments in New York (state)
Airlines established in 1980
Airlines disestablished in 1988
Airlines based in New York (state)


title: Lecanora xanthoplumosella

text:
Lecanora xanthoplumosella is a species of crustose lichen in the family Lecanoraceae. Known from Australia, it was described as new to science in 2011.

Taxonomy

The Lecanora xanthoplumosella was formally described by the lichenologists H. Thorsten Lumbsch and John Elix, who introduced it as a distinct species in 2011. This newly delineated species owes its name to a superficial resemblance with another neotropical species, Lecanora xanthoplumosa. As such, the etymological roots of Lecanora xanthoplumosella link it to this neotropical cousin.

The type specimen of Lecanora xanthoplumosella, was collected from the Razorback Range (north of Mount Morgan) in Queensland, Australia. Collected by the second author in August 1993, it was found in a dry sclerophyll forest situated on a steep slope enriched with Cycas and Macrozamia, growing on metamorphic rocks.

Description

Lecanora xanthoplumosella has a cream to light yellow thallus — a vegetative layer that comprises the main body of the lichen. Its thickness varies, presenting a thin to thick texture. Its surface, smooth and epruinose, meaning it lacks any powdery or crystalline covering, is notably free of isidia and soredia, two common forms of vegetative reproduction in lichens.

There are a multitude of sessile apothecia – the fruiting bodies where spores are produced – that are abundant and dispersed across the lichen's surface. These are roundish and range from a plane to convex shape, measuring between 0.5 and 1.2 mm in diameter. Their margin is  – shared with the thallus – and it evolves over time from being smooth to having a strikingly , or warty, texture.

Microscopically, Lecanora xanthoplumosella is distinguished by its broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid , which measure between 9.5 and 13.5 μm by 6.0–7.5 μm.

Lecanora xanthoplumosella contains several secondary metabolites (lichen products). Among these, the dominant compound is thiophanic acid. Others include arthothelin, 2’-O-methylperlatolic acid, and 5-chloro-2'-O-methylanziaic acid — all appearing in minor quantities. Two other substances, atranorin and chloroatranorin, are also part of its chemical profile in trace amounts.

The expected results of standard chemical spot tests conducted on this species are: K+ (yellow), C+ (orange), KC+ (orange), and a dark orange reaction under UV light (UV+).

Similar species

Within the genus Lecanora, L. xanthoplumosella might be confused with several species, including Lecanora margarodes and L. pseudogangaleoides ssp. verdonii. It stands apart from L. margarodes by its lack of pannarin – a substance found in other species – despite having similar ascospore length. The species is also distinguished from L. pseudogangaleoides ssp. verdonii, which is characterised by its black apothecial , egranulose epihymenium — an upper layer of the hymenium lacking granules — and the presence of usnic acid, a substance not found in L. xanthoplumosella.

Although bearing a superficial resemblance to L. xanthoplumosella, the neotropical L. xanthoplumosa actually shows several differences. Notably, it has smaller apothecia with epruinose or slightly pruinose apothecial discs, and presents a different  — the chodation chemosyndrome.

Habitat and distribution

Native to Australia, Lecanora xanthoplumosella can be found growing on siliceous rocks in semi-exposed to exposed habitats in dry sclerophyll forests in Queensland. At the time of its original publication, the lichen species had so far been recorded in just two localities, at elevations ranging between .

See also
List of Lecanora species

References

xanthoplumosella
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2011
Lichens of Australia
Taxa named by Helge Thorsten Lumbsch
Taxa named by John Alan Elix


title: James Bovell

text:
James Bovell (1817–1880) was a prominent Canadian physician, microscopist, educator,   theologian and minister.

In his youth, he traveled to London to study medicine at Guy's Hospital. There, he was related to Sir Astley Cooper and had Richard Bright and Thomas Addison among his professors, and Robert Graves and William Stokes among his colleagues. He studied at schools in Edinburgh and Glasgow and later was elected a member of the Royal College of Physicians.

When he returned to Canada he worked on the fields of pathology and clinical microscopy, and he founded the Upper Canada Journal of Medical, Surgical, and Physical Science which he edited. He became an important member of the Canadian Institute and later became a vice president of it. He became an early mentor of the famous physician William Osler, whom he strongly influenced in his early years.

Bovell later became a clergyman of the Church of England and wrote on the topic of natural theology. He is known for his rejection of the Darwinian theory of evolution and Lyell's geology, believing instead in the Book of Genesis on the side of the early Louis Agassiz and John Hunter. Yet, he wrote on the relation of religion and science. In a book published in 1860 he wrote to the Diocese of Huron "with the hope that the explanations given may remove erroneous impressions" at the Church in Canada.

Works
 A lecture on the future of Canada (1846)
 An outline of the history of the British church from the earliest times to the period of Reformation (1852)
 Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student (1859)
 Defence of doctrinal statement  (1860)
 Passing thoughts on man's relation to God and on God's relation to man (1862)
 A plea for inebriate asylums: commended of the consideration of the legislators of the province of Canada (1862)
 Letters: addressed to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher and others: framers of a series of resolutions on "ritual" (1867)
 The world at the advent of the Lord Jesus. Toronto : W.C. Chewett. (1868)

References

 Bovell, James (1859). Outlines of natural theology : for the use of the Canadian student. Toronto. Rowsell & Ellis

External links
 BOVELL, JAMES, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
 James Bovell (1817-1880): The Toronto Years

1817 births
1880 deaths
Canadian Anglican priests
Canadian Anglican theologians
19th-century Canadian physicians
Church of England priests
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Microscopists


title: List of Gunsmith Cats characters

text:
is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kenichi Sonoda. It was published in Kodansha's Afternoon from 1991 to 1997 and was followed between 2004 and 2008 by a sequel series Gunsmith Cats Burst which included the same characters and situations.

The series describes the adventures of young women fighting crime in Chicago, Illinois and across the Midwestern United States.

Main characters

Rally Vincent
 is a gunshop owner by trade, Rally dabbles in bounty hunting to pay the bills. Her father was an Olympic-level marksman who taught Rally about firearms while running a gun store called Gunsmith Cat in Chicago. Her mother, who had wanted Rally to be a violinist, opposed everything to do with guns and eventually was murdered at the store by robbers when trying to file divorce papers on her husband. After her father disappeared to search for her mother's murderers, Rally took over the store as her own venture, and recruited Minnie May as an assistant. Upon making May a partner, the shop became known as "Gunsmith Cats".

A bit reserved when it comes to men, Rally feels most comfortable when discussing firearms. Although her age is 19, her records state that she is 21, the legal age to operate gun shops in Chicago. Her weapon of choice is a first version CZ-75 and she also carries a concealed pistol. Rally drives a blue 1967 model Shelby Mustang Cobra GT500 with white racing stripes, which she cherishes until its destruction in Gunsmith Cats Burst, when it is replaced by a heavily modified Mustang II Cobra. When quarreling with Rally, Minnie May implied that guns and cars were sex substitutes for the virginal Rally; there is arguably an erotic undertone to her fondness for guns and cars.

Rally's father is Indian and her mother was English. As a result, she has dark blue eyes, dusky skin, and dark hair. She is highly skilled in hand-to-hand combat, with great speed and physical agility, and is an expert but reckless driver. Although she does not always respect the letter of the law, she has a strong moral sense of right and wrong and is reluctant to kill unless absolutely necessary. An excellent marksman, she often targets her opponents' trigger fingers or crucial components of their guns in combat rather than going for a lethal shot. As a result, she has sometimes been hunted by criminals angry at their mutilation at her hands.

Rally also usually carries a .25 DuO (made by the same company as the CZ-75) with the trigger guard removed, mounted on a spring-loaded frame strapped to her arm for quick access in a tight spot. When her CZ-75 has been unavailable, she relies on a SIG P210, another very high quality weapon, and sometimes carries a back-up gun in an ankle holster. She keeps a precision rifle and shotgun in the trunk of her Shelby; these have included a Walther WA 2000 and a SIG 550 Sniper variant. Her first gun, given to her by her father, was an AR-7, a small .22 LR rifle that can be disassembled and the components stored inside the buttstock; she uses this from time to time. Other guns Rally owns and cherishes are a 1960 Colt .25 pocket model, a Beretta 84F, a Walther P38, a Parabellum P'08 (Luger), a  Colt Lawman Mk.3 and a Browning Hi-Power. She has occasionally used other weapons, including a Glock 19 and an RG14 "Saturday night special" revolver when she was completely devoid of other weapons, and she is an expert shot with any firearm she has been shown using.

While Irene is her actual name, she chose the alias "Rally (or rather, Larry)" as a pseudonym and cover name to not clarify her gender and demoralize her clients. It was not clear from the Japanese whether Rally's name is intended to be "Irene" or "Eileen" but the official English translation uses Irene. In several European editions of the manga, most notably in the Italian one, it is "Aileen". Since L's and R's are mostly interchangeable in Japanese to English translations, the main character's name is often translated as Rally Vincent, and this has become the standard. However, at the 1993 Anime America convention Kenichi Sonoda, when asked a question about the character, started his answer with "It's Larry, not Rally." This is further backed up in the manga where in one scene she is receiving a fax from Becky (about Riff-Raff), and the note scrawled on it addresses her as Larry.

By the end of the series, as her team members and friends head off towards lighter ventures and greener pastures, Rally herself retires from Chicago's underworld and the bounty hunting scene, moving on with her life, yet still honing her marksmanship.

Minnie May
 is a self-styled "bomb specialist", May learned the trade from her boyfriend, Ken Takizawa. While only 17 (in the original English release, her age was raised to 18 since she is depicted performing explicit sexual acts; it was changed back in the Dark Horse revised edition), she is considerably more knowledgeable and mature than the average 17-year-old girl.

May ran away from home at 13 for undisclosed reasons and was found and cared for by Ken. When Ken had to go underground for several years, she worked as a prostitute at a brothel in Chinatown - even advancing into teaching other newcomers - before leaving and joining up with Rally to run the gun shop. Her time in the brothel is still a very touchy subject for her, though, and she prefers not to bring it up again, though she is quite proud of the skills she acquired there.

When action is called for, May carries a wide range of explosive weapons with her. She typically uses a self-modified grenade called a "May Special," a grenade with no materials to cause shrapnel. Perhaps even more impressive is her talent for disguises and acting; she has fooled Ken into thinking she was a boy for several months, blushed and wept on command, imitated the police chief's voice on the phone so well she fools one of his officers, and impersonated a child actress well enough to fool an entire film crew. Drives a Fiat 500 across both manga series.

May is tiny and young-appearing for her age, having taken growth-stunting herbal drugs in an effort to stay attractive to Ken (this plot element was modified in the English translation to a condition that she is taking drugs in an attempt to correct). She can pass for a child of ten or twelve and often takes advantage of this. She is very cute - "like Minnie Mouse", hence her nickname - with blonde hair and blue-green eyes.

May is generally cheerful and possesses a great "joie de vivre". She does have a temper, though, particularly if someone comes down hard on her lover and mentor Ken Takizawa, or if it is suggested that she may not be mature enough to handle a particular assignment.

By the end of Gunsmith Cats, May and Ken, married, settle down in a better part of Chicago, with their ties to the world of crime severed, and eventually have a son.

Bean Bandit
Bean bandit is a tall, scar-faced tough-as-nails driver for hire known for his invulnerability. He is typically depicted wearing a steel-padded Kevlar-lined leather jacket, blue jeans and an armored headband. According to sources found in the Riding Bean OAV, his boots, jeans and shirts are all laminated with Kevlar, while his signature jacket is titanium mesh with Kevlar-laminated leather. According to the manga, the jacket is actually a combination of Moose Leather, chain-mail and ceramic plates.

Overall, he is an even better driver than Rally, capable of stunt-driver-level feats. He prefers American muscle cars of the 1970s and Fords in particular; a couple of his personal favorites being a modified 1970 Boss 302 Mustang and a supercharged 1971 Mach 1. However, he owns a whole garage full of famous muscle-car models and is often seen driving a 1968 Chevrolet Corvette C3 fitted with an ultra-rare LS-7.

Despite his impressive collection, he has further aspirations: in his signature story arc, he tells Rally about his desire to build his own car, "from the chassis on up", an original, designed to his specifications. At the time he had already paid a designer over three hundred thousand dollars, and it debuts in the eighth story arc.  He dubs this monstrous gas-guzzler the 'Buff' (as in African Cape Buffalo). It is a blueprinted, supercharged 427 cubic-inch displacement engine(dyno'd at 500 BHP), with not only armor plating and bulletproof glass, but a reinforced frame, specifically designed to be bulletproof from the ground up-all but indestructible. It can drive sideways and has special air brakes and wheel spikes to aid in sudden stops. The Buff is very similar in design to the Ford RS200, a Group B rally car made in the 1980s. Considering Bean's preference for Fords throughout the series, the design similarities are very likely to be deliberate.

Bean insists on following his strict rules of engagement in all circumstances, and sticks to his word (and he expects his business partners to do the same). Although he doesn't shy away from violence, he prefers to remain neutral when he can and collect his hefty driving fees for almost any kind of job. He will work for criminals and legitimate interests alike as long as he is paid as agreed, although after a competition against Rally about a Kerasine delivery (see Goldie's entry) he has agreed not to deliver any more drugs. He will charge hefty penalties to employers who break his terms; his only Achilles heel is a protective instinct towards children and noncombatants.

Bean is huge and muscular, towering over most people. He can perform amazing feats of strength (like ripping the door off a car with one hand) and shrug off most injuries. Even a pistol shot to his armored headband will barely slow him down. He prefers knives to guns, and can throw a knife straight through a car windscreen with deadly accuracy. He has long black hair, darkish skin and brown eyes, and his race is not determined. However, in interviews, Sonoda has implied that Bean's amazing traits are a result of him being a mix of the strongest characteristics from many different races.

Bean Bandit is also the star of a 1989 original video animation and manga, written by Sonoda, called Riding Bean. In this separate story, Bean and a blonde Rally are partners and have a close, but professional, friendship.

At the end of Gunsmith Cats, his recent scuffle with Percy Bacharach, an aggressive and otherwise reckless officer with a long history with Bean, has him leaving the Chicago scene for a while, although he still keeps offering his services outside of the state of Illinois.

Becky Farrah
"Becky the Nose" is Rally's main source of information on all the goings on in the Chicago underworld. While her fees are high and she can come across as money-grubbing, most if not all of her information is legitimate; she is also known for working in finding missing persons. When she is not chasing after Rally for her payment, the two share a friendship that crosses business lines. Becky eventually withdraws from the Chicago underworld in the end and uses her scouting skills in investment and business, although her friends remind her when it borders on insider trading.

Becky wears glasses with a ponytail and is usually businesslike in appearance. She can be seen driving a BMW 2002 Turbo. Bought a BMW 3 Series Compact in Gunsmith Cats Burst after selling the 2002 to Misty.

Ken Takizawa
An explosives expert by trade, he learned his craft through a combination of his connections to the Chicago underworld and on the set of Hollywood movies. In addition to being Minnie May's on-again off-again boyfriend, he taught her everything he knows. Ken is Japanese-American and about 20 years older than May. He also suffers from multiple sclerosis, which affects his ability to handle sensitive explosives.

At the end of the series, he and May open up an anime and Japanese hobby store in Chicago after their honeymoon to Osaka, and have a son.

As a personal joke, he uses the nickname "Ken Taki", which is similar to the Japanese pronunciation of the state Kentucky as well as the fast food franchise, "kentakkī".

Misty Brown
An expert sneak thief and burglar, she is caught by Rally and Minnie-May but joins them upon her subsequent release from jail. Like May, she moves into Rally's house and helps both in the shop and in the pursuit of fugitives, where her lock-picking skills prove useful. Misty doesn't carry any guns but is quite adept in the use of knives, wielded and thrown. She is a lesbian and has a crush on Rally, although later on she becomes Goldie's lover.
Drives Becky's BMW 2002 Turbo after it was sold to her cheaply by Becky in Gunsmith Burst.

Roy Coleman
A detective of the Chicago Police, Roy is Rally's main contact with the force. Acting as more of an older brother at times, he watches out for Rally when she's in trouble. While considerably older than Rally, he still enjoys spending time with her, as it gives him a sense of belonging to the younger generation, and a contact of his own in the same generation.

Initially drive a Volkswagen Beetle but totalled it and changed to a Volkswagen Golf Mk 1 before changing again to a red Ford Sierra XR4i.

At the end of the series, not content with workings of the Chicago Police Department after Percy Bacharach's recent attempt to capture Bean Bandit and violations of protocol, Roy transfers out to the Rosemount department.

Riff-Raff
A wild female courier driver, much like Bean Bandit. While working on the wrong side of the law, she has deep within herself a sense of honor which does not let her betray anyone she has taken sympathy to, and becomes a sort-of friend of Bandit, Rally and company. Her greatest dream is to become the best courier driver and outdo Bean himself. She is extremely proud of her driving skills and once belted Bean in the jaw after he had made a crack about her car being an automatic. She can be seen driving an AC Cobra 427; because of her skill with it, she has adopted the name "Snake Charmer".

Her appearance was modeled after the character Luffy from the anime series Gall Force, to which Kenichi Sonoda also provided the character designs while he worked for ARTMIC.

Antagonists
In Gunsmith Cats, Chicago has many large-scale criminals and outlaws, each crossing paths with Rally & company over the course of the series.

Bonnie and Clyde
A fictional take on a factual pair, Bonnie and Clyde Dorman are a brother-sister pair of hired guns: Bonnie operates in Chicago, while Clyde runs with an outfit in Mexico. Bonnie's first encounter with Rally costs both of her legs and her right thumb; after Clyde facilitates her escape from jail, Bonnie takes to wearing specially-designed prosthetic limbs with weapons inside them, and becomes obsessed with evening the score. Together Bonnie and Clyde hatch a scheme to steal from the local drug cartels, get revenge on Rally, then sneak out of town and retire. They are nearly successful, but are slain in a brief and chaotic firefight.

Gray
A drug lord and gang leader, Gray runs a large cocaine distribution ring in Chicago. During a fateful encounter with Rally, she relieved him of one of his hands by means of a shotgun; henceforth, he sports a prosthetic hook hand. He is eventually caught and imprisoned, though he continues to run his drug ring from his cell. Through his many connections, he is eventually released and swears vengeance on Rally (and is eventually killed in his pursuit, right after confessing his love for Rally).

Jones
A small-time drug dealer, first seen with his driver, Riff-Raff.

Borgnine
A mysterious figure involved in the 'Kidnapped' story arc. In order to draft stage magician and hypnotist Mr. Smart as an accomplice in a heist, Borgnine seduces Smart's estranged wife and fits his daughter Jeena with an explosive collar, which can be detonated via cell phone anytime. Rally is hired by Jeena's friends to rescue Jeena and save Mr. Smart's reputation. Borgnine proves to be a dangerous adversary, but his greed and treachery eventually lead to his demise.

Goldie Musou
Arguably the most ruthless of Rally's opponents. Of Italian ancestry, "Iron Goldie" is a high-ranking member of a mob family in Sicily. Many call her a Mafia Queen. She is an incredible hand-to-hand combatant, and is quite skilled at creating complex plans, which, though often successful, often make plain her cavalier attitude towards her subordinates.

She is a pathological personality, the textbook definition of a "control freak." She is obsessed with controlling everything and everyone around her. People who resist her successfully, such as Rally, become even more attractive to her. She is a lesbian, though she tends to express it as a form of sadistic pedophilia. She keeps a trademark harem of young girls who have murdered their parents while under the influence of her drugs. Goldie and Rally crossed paths many times, and the bounty hunter is usually quite lucky to escape with her life and the lives of her friends. However, this is far better than any of Goldie's previous opponents have done, and repeated escapes quickly turn the mobster's appreciation for her skills into a dedicated sexual obsession. Finally, Goldie decides that she will make Rally her masterpiece - a slave broken to her will through sheer psychological torture, without the aid of drugs.

The linchpin of her power base is psychopharmacology, or the use of hallucinogenic drugs similar to LSD. With a valedictorian in pharmaceuticals, over the years she has developed an incredibly effective method of mind control. The first thing she does after she gains chemical control of someone she considers a worthy "pet" is order him or her to kill his or her loved ones. The alternative to the chemically-induced fantasy world she had built for her puppets is a reality where they have murdered everyone who cared for them.  She has yet to lose control of a subject whom she has completely enslaved.

Her current empire is based on a powerful designer drug called Kerasine, which is also a major plot device of the series. It is a compound that she knows how to produce cheaply but has yet to be reverse-engineered by chemists outside of her organization. Its popularity is due to both its low cost and its ability to produce the effects of several different drugs: a small amount is a stimulant like cocaine, a larger amount is a euphoric similar to heroin, and the entire contents of a vial combines both with a powerful hallucinogenic effect similar to lysergic acid diethylamide.

All this comes with a nasty side effect - a user of the drug can be given hypnotic commands while he or she is under its influence. Currently, it is the most popular drug in the world of the manga. Several storylines detail Rally's efforts to prevent Goldie from flooding Chicago with this mind-bending substance, including one which involves using Rally's father, through Kerasine inducement, in which he becomes Goldie's personal assassin.

However, despite her malicious actions and otherwise antagonistic qualities, Goldie's plans and desires were often intentioned for means other than a lust for power and dominance over the criminal underworld out of spiteful reasons. By the end of Gunsmith Cats, it was revealed that Kerasine was created as a designer drug that would be addictive yet without negative side effects, allowing for a drug that would not harm consumers and thus, higher profits, and through her influence, that she would use that to establish an honorable and stable order of criminal activity and "necessary evil" in Chicago, wiping out gangs and syndicates with otherwise greedy or selfish intentions and dishonorable and disreputable reputations for breaking deals and cruel intrigues that were also affecting society in a worse way. After losing her memory in her final battle with Rally in the original series, she regains it after Rally and Misty get tangled up in a turf war between Goldie and the more hostile Mafia fractions, in which course Rally saves Goldie's life. In the end Goldie and Rally part on a truce, especially since Misty has (more or less voluntarily) joined Goldie as her lover.

Anime

William "Bill" Collins
An agent in the Chicago office of the A.T.F., Bill Collins comes across as a sleazy, nosy government agent who fancies himself as Eliot Ness. He is investigating a gun-running operation, but has run into a lot of dead leads, as well as a few dead agents. Desperate for help, he 'enlists' Rally and May's help by holding up the gun shop's license as insurance.

Although they had success at first by shutting down a distribution point in Chicago, Jonathan Washington, the lone witness, along with five A.T.F. agents, are assassinated by in a safehouse by Natasha Radinov, using Collins' cardkey and access code to gain entry. Now the investigation is due to be closed and Collins soon discovers a conspiracy within the A.T.F., which involves his superior George Black and mayoral candidate Edward Haints who has Rally as a target.

George Black
Collins' superior in the A.T.F. Chicago office, George Black is revealed to be part of a gun-running operation which he co-ran with Edward Haints, an Illinois assemblyman running for mayor in Chicago under a gun-control platform. It was Black who contracts Natasha Radinov to kill Jonathan Washington, the only witness to the operation, for which he provided her with a cardkey with Collins' ID, as well as Rally and May for helping Collins. He also supplies Radinov with the use of a supposedly shut-down A.T.F. safehouse for her to stay in.

But after the first attempt to kill Rally fails, Black files a vacation leave and decides to flee the country. He goes to the safehouse where he knows Radinov is, but soon discovers that his partner Haints was talking to Radinov on the phone, with Radinov aiming her pistol at him. Realizing he has been double-crossed, he tries to persuade Radinov to tell Haints not to kill him, but to no avail. Radinov kills him.

Natasha Radinov
Also known as "Bloody Pierce", Natasha Radinov is initially an agent for the K.G.B. and Spetsnaz, but after the fall of the Soviet Union, she contracts her services out as a freelance assassin. She is proficient in almost every deadly hand weapon in the world, but prefers to work with silent weapons, especially a Welrod silenced pistol and a ballistic knife designed for Spetsnaz use. She also wears a long coat lined with ballistic nylon and Kevlar, the inside lining holding a vast arsenal of weapons.

Radinov prefers to be paid for her services in heroin, which she sells in Russia; she personally stays away from the drug herself. Recently, she had accepted an assignment to kill Rally and May because the two had interfered in a gun-running operation run by Edward Haints, an Illinois assemblyman running for mayor under a gun-control platform. However, when the first attempt fails, and Radinov is injured because of it, she takes it as "a matter of pride" and went after Rally personally. After a violent chase, Radinov is killed by Rally thanks to several shots to the chest at close range.

Edward Haints
A senator in the Illinois General Assembly, Edward Haints is running for mayor of Chicago. His campaign style has him wrapping himself in an "All American" theme, which favors heavily on protecting the city's citizens by instituting stricter gun-access laws.

In truth, Haints runs one of the biggest gun-running operations in the state, and the strict gun laws he plans to enact will enable him to raise the prices of his own illicit operations. When Bill Collins gets a little too close with his investigations, he asks his friend and partner George Black to hire Natasha Radinov to kill the witnesses and derail the investigation. However, Haints also hires Radinov to kill Black as well, mostly to keep the profits of his gun-running to himself.

However, Roy Coleman's partner disguises herself as Radinov and has Becky Farra videotape a meeting between her and Haints, exposing Haints' plot.

Jonathan Washington
At the beginning of the series, Jonathan Washington had skipped bail for drug smuggling charges, only to be captured by Rally Vincent. In truth, Washington has been working for Edward Haints' gun-running ring and operates an entire warehouse filled with illicit firearms... firearms that Rally, with a little "help" from Bill Collins, were able to prevent hitting the streets.

However, since Washington is a vital witness to the gun ring, he is taken to an A.T.F. safehouse outside Chicago. He tries to persuade Rally to help him escape the safehouse because he now fears for his life. He knows that George Black, the head of the A.T.F.'s Chicago office, is also a partner of Haints and has now dispatched an assassin to kill him. When Rally refuses to help him escape, he leaves a fake Rolex watch and a scrap of paper with the address of his "daughter" on it with May. In fact, the paper holds an Internet address and the watch has an access code to the shipping dates of the gun ring engraved on the back of the watchband's latch.

True to his warning, Washington does meet his demise when Natasha Radinov, using a copy of Collins' cardkey and access code, enters the safehouse, and kills Washington and the A.T.F agents guarding him.

Reception

References

Gunsmith Cats
Gunsmith Cats


title: Artillery (magazine)

text:
Artillery is an American contemporary art magazine based in Los Angeles. Features and exhibition reviews are often L.A.-centric yet increasingly dedicated to coverage of the arts worldwide, with contributors based in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Berlin, and London. The bi-monthly publication is available in both print and web editions. The print version is distributed and for sale via subscription and can also be found in bookstores, museum shops, art galleries, and other locations. Print circulation is currently at about 50,000, with a readership of about 35,000. Artillery also hosts public events such as live debates, poetry readings, and book signings in major cities as well as at art fairs.

History and profile
Artillery was co-founded in 2006 by former LA Weekly editorial staff members Tulsa Kinney and Charles Rappleye as an alternative to "the stodgy, art-mag paradigm"—as editor-in-chief, Kinney put it in the inaugural issue—slyly referencing the often academic "artspeak" generated by gallery press releases and prevalent in widely circulated arts publications such as Art in America and Artforum.

To date, the single most widely read Artillery feature article, published in January 2011, turned out to be the last interview conducted with international art star Mike Kelley before the artist committed suicide that same month. The feature, written by Kinney, revealed the depths of the artist's depression and his apparent disenchantment with the commercial art world.

Artillery is notable for its interviews and reviews of artists, including artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kehinde Wiley, Jim Shaw, Elliott Hundley, Amadour, Joan Didion, Francesca Woodman, William Kentridge, Tala Madani, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Abraham Cruzvillegas.

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 Artillery Magazine

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title: Robert Dickinson (lighting designer)

text:
Robert Dickinson (born July 25, 1954) is a television lighting designer.  His career, spanning decades, has focussed on awards shows, music shows, game shows, talk shows, and special events, which make up his over 1500 on screen television credits.  In 1990 Dickinson founded Full Flood, Inc., a consortium of lighting designers and directors of photography for the multi-camera television industry.  Dickinson has been involved with many high-profile shows, including the Academy Awards, multiple Super Bowl Halftime Shows, multiple Olympic Opening Ceremonies, the 2010 Shanghai Expo, among others.

Biography

Dickinson was born in the UK before moving to Kansas at the age of two.  Shortly thereafter his family moved to Southern California where he remains to this day.  Dickinson's break into the industry came when joining the stagehands union.  He quickly moved into lighting direction, working under industry leader Imero Fiorentino.  His breakthrough show Solid Gold garnered him his first Emmy win at the age of 29, and was the catalyst that lead to an exploding career in Television Lighting.

In 2005 Dickinson was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University.

Aesthetic

Dickinson pioneered the use of moving lights in television lighting design, starting with the 1983 Academy Awards.  He is known for his "ceiling of light" approach, and the use of floor lights.  On key lighting, Dickinson says: "I have a tendency to take risks. I don't key light in a predictable manner; I do it in an appropriate manner. "

Work of Full Flood

Large Scale Events
Baku 2015 European Games Opening Ceremony
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games Opening, Closing and Medals Ceremonies
Shanghai Expo 2010 Opening Ceremony
Five Democratic National Conventions: 2012, 2008, 2004, 2000 and 1996
Opening Ceremony of the 2007 Special Olympics in Shanghai, China
Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies
Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games Opening, and Closing Ceremonies
Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies

Awards Shows

The Academy Awards
The Grammy Awards
The Primetime Emmy Awards
The Daytime Emmy Awards
The Tony Awards
The Country Music Association Awards
The Kids’ Choice Awards
The American Music Awards
The Academy of Country Music Awards
The Golden Globe Awards
The Billboard Awards
The Comedy Awards
The ESPY Awards
The BET Awards
The BET Hip Hop Awards
The NFL Honors
The Scream Awards
The Kennedy Center Honors
The American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award

Television Specials

The Miss USA Pageant
The Lincoln Memorial Inaugural Concert at Inauguration 2009: “We Are One”
An Inauguration Celebration 2009: “The Neighborhood Ball”
VH1 Divas
VH1 Rock Honors
Christmas in Washington
Five Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows
Thirteen Super Bowl Halftime Shows featuring such singers and musicians as:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Prince, The Rolling Stones, U2, Aerosmith, ‘N Sync, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige, Nelly, Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Savion Glover, Boyz II Men, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, The Temptations, Queen Latifah, The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman and Jim Belushi), ZZ Top, James Brown, Diana Ross, Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt, The Judds and Michael Jackson

Television series

Conan on TBS
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Duets

Installation

The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010

Concerts and Music Events

James Taylor “One Man Band”
The Eagles “Hell Freezers Over”
Harry Connick, Jr. World Tour
Harry Connick, Jr. Live on Broadway
Fleetwood Mac “The Dance”
Celine Dion “These Are Special Times”
Ricky Martin “One Night Only”
Jessica Simpson “Tour Of Duty”
Justin Timberlake “Down Home In Memphis”
Willie Nelson “Willie and Friends”
Harry Connick Jr. “Christmas Special”
‘N Sync “The Atlantis Concert”
'N Sync "‘Ntimate Holiday Special”

Live Events Adapted To The Screen

Neil Diamond “Live At Madison Square Garden”
Shania Twain “Shania Up! Live In Chicago”
Cher "The Farewell Tour"
Barbra Streisand's Millennium Concert “Timeless”
The Backstreet Boys “Larger Than Life”

Primetime Emmy Awards and Nominations

References

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American cinematographers
Living people
1954 births
Long Beach Polytechnic High School alumni
English emigrants to the United States


title: Annular lipid shell

text:
Annular lipids (also called shell lipids or boundary lipids) are a set of lipids or lipidic molecules which preferentially bind or stick to the surface of membrane proteins in biological cells. They constitute a layer, or an annulus/ shell, of lipids which are partially immobilized due to the existence of lipid-protein interactions. Polar headgroups of these lipids bind to the hydrophilic part of the membrane protein(s) at the inner and outer surfaces of lipid bilayer membrane. The hydrophobic surface of the membrane proteins is bound to the apposed lipid fatty acid chains of the membrane bilayer. For integral membrane proteins spanning the thickness of the membrane bilayer, these annular/shell lipids may act like a lubricating layer on the proteins' surfaces, thereby facilitating almost free rotation and lateral diffusion of membrane proteins within the 2-dimensional expanse of the biological membrane(s). Outside the layer of shell/annular lipids, lipids are not tied down to protein molecules. However, they may be slightly restricted in their segmental motion freedom due to mild peer pressure of protein molecules, if present in high concentration,  which arises from extended influence of protein-lipid interaction. Membrane areas away from protein molecules contain lamellar phase bulk lipids, which are largely free from any restraining effects due to protein-lipid interactions. Thermal denaturation of membrane proteins may destroy the secondary and tertiary structure of membrane proteins, exposing newer surfaces to membrane lipids and therefore increasing the number of lipids molecules in the annulus/shell layer. This phenomenon can be studied by the spin label electron paramagnetic resonance technique. The protein-lipid binding are dependent on OmpF pH levels and their structural features and location of the membranes. When said lipids bind to OmpF it is sensitive to changes that may occur in the electrospray polarity.

See more
Lipid bilayer
Membrane lipids

Further reading
Contreras F X, Ernst A M, Wieland F and Brugger B (June 6, 2014) Specificity of intra-membrane protein-lipid interactions. ''Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/3/6/a004705.full
https://www.academia.edu/7707301

References

Lipids


title: Clinton L. Cutler

text:
Clinton Louis Cutler (December 27, 1929 – April 9, 1994) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1990 until his death. He was a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy and was a counselor in the church's Sunday School General Presidency.

Cutler was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and received his college education at Utah State University and the University of Utah. He then worked for many years for the company that became US West Communications. He was an assistant vice president when he retired in 1986.

Prior to becoming a general authority, Cutler served in the LDS Church as president of the Washington Seattle Mission, regional representative, president of the Littleton Colorado Stake (beginning at its creation in 1973, president of the Boise Idaho West Stake, and bishop. Cutler was second counselor in the Sunday School General Presidency from October 1991 to August 1992 and was first counselor from August 1992 until his death.

Notes

References
"Elder Clinton L. Cutler Succumbs to Cancer", Deseret News, April 10, 1994.
"Elder Clinton L. Cutler Of the Seventy", Ensign, May 1990.
"Elder Clinton L. Cutler of the Seventy Eulogized", Ensign, May 1994
"Clinton L. Cutler", Grandpa Bill's GA pages

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University of Utah alumni
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Latter Day Saints from Colorado
Latter Day Saints from Idaho
Latter Day Saints from Utah
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Regional representatives of the Twelve
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Religious leaders from Salt Lake City
Deaths from cancer in Utah
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title: Thad Jaracz

text:
Thad Jaracz (born December 15, 1946) is an American former basketball player, best known for his All-American college career at the University of Kentucky.

Jaracz came to UK from Lexington, Kentucky's Lafayette High School.  A 6'5" center, Jaracz anchored the middle as a sophomore for Adolph Rupp's undersized "Rupp's Runts" in 1965–66.  Jaracz was the team's third-leading scorer, averaging 13.2 points per game as the Wildcats made it to the 1966 NCAA championship game, where they famously lost to the Texas Western Miners, the first team to win a title with five black starters.  At the close of the season, Jaracz joined teammates Louie Dampier and Pat Riley on the Associated Press All-American team, earning third team honors.

Following the close of his college career in 1968, Jaracz was drafted both by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association and the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association.  However, he never played in either league.  Instead, he entered into a military career, eventually overseeing the ROTC at the University of Louisville.

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title: Batsauce

text:
Britt Traynham, better known by his stage name Batsauce, is an underground hip hop producer from Jacksonville, Florida, who lives nomadically and is usually located in Berlin, Southeast Asia, or camping in the Northwest in his Volkswagen van. He is signed to Galapagos4 and has released several records with his wife Lady Daisey and with Typical Cats member Qwazaar.

Discography

Solo
Albums
Starcrossed (Galapagos4, 2012)

Mixtapes, beat tapes, etc.
Pour It in Your Ear (2004)
1971 Instrumentals (2006)
The Gypsy Diaries (2008)
Spy vs Spy (2009)
Summertime (2010)
Bat Meets Blaine Instrumentals (2012)
What Is a Batsauce? (2012)
The Rudy Stevenson Remixes (2014)

Collaborations
Albums
Party... Place. (Subcontact, 2007) (with The Smile Rays)
Smilin' on You (Rawkus 50, 2007) (with The Smile Rays)
In My Pocket (Barely Breaking Even, 2010) (with Lady Daisey)
Bat Meets Blaine (Galapagos4, 2011) (with Qwazaar)
In My Headphones (Barely Breaking Even, 2014) (with Lady Daisey)
Bat Outta Hell (Galapagos4, 2014) (with Hellsent)
TBA (Galapagos4, 2014) (with Qwazaar)

EPs
Party... Place. EP (Subcontact, 2007) (with The Smile Rays)
Cupid's Revenge (2010) (with Dillon)
In My Pocket EP (Barely Breaking Even, 2010) (with Lady Daisey)
Style Be the King (Galapagos4, 2011) (with Qwazaar)
The New Blues Brothers EP (2013) (with Dillon & H2o)
Stress Chasers (Galapagos4, 2014) (with Qwazaar)
The Soledad Brothers (Galapagos4, 2014) (with WaX)

Production credits
 Dillon – "Without You (Aww Shit!)" & "D.I.Y." from Un-Cut (2007)
 Surreal – "The Surface" from Pardon My Dust (Subcontact, 2008)
 Surreal – "The Surface" from Pardon My Dust EP (Subcontact, 2009)
 Mr. Lif – "Welcome to the World", "What About Us?", "Breathe" & "Folklore" from I Heard It Today (Bloodbot Tactical Enterprises, 2009)
 Jedi Mind Tricks – "Folklore" from Greatest Features (Babygrande, 2009)
 Dillon – "Gimme That" from Dillon Ain't Playin''' (2011)
 Loopez & Renegades of Jazz – "Jungle Haze (Batsauce Remix)" from Jungle Haze EP (Hiperbole, 2011)
 Sinks – "Curmudgeons" from Backlash (Down for the Count, 2013)
 Hellsent – "Strange Fiction" & "Free Shots" from Free Shots'' (2014)

References

External links
 Official website
 Batsauce at Galapagos4

Year of birth missing (living people)
American hip hop record producers
Musicians from Florida
Living people


title: Amai Muchi

text:
is a 2013 Japanese erotic drama film directed by Takashi Ishii, based on a novel of the same name by  and starring Mitsu Dan, Yuki Mamiya and Tsuyoshi Nakano. It was released on 21 September 2013.

Plot
While working as a doctor that treats infertility, Naoko is also the Celica, a masochist girl at SM clubs. She treats patients who adore Naoko like a virgin, and men who want Celica like a true masochistic girl who arouses sadistic feelings. Her double life began when she was 17 years old and endured a terrible incident.

Cast
 Mitsu Dan as Naoko Misaki
 Yuki Mamiya as 17-year-old Naoko
 When she was 17 years old, Naoko was abducted and held captive by a man who lived next door, and after being toyed with for a month, killed him and barely escaped. She grew up with tremendous trauma and now, while she is gaining recognition as a doctor specializing in infertility treatments, she is also Celica, the popular masochist girl at SM clubs.
 Tsuyoshi Nakano as Takeo Fujita
 He kidnapped 17-year-old Naoko and locks her in the basement of his house. He treats her as a sex slave for a month but is ultimately killed by her.
 Hiroko Nakajima as Kayoko Misaki
 Naoko's mother. At first, she was worried for Naoko's safety, but after the case was resolved, she was unable to accept the reality of the violence her daughter suffered, causing a rift in their relationship.
 Hiroko Yashiki as Keiko Kinoshita
 Owner of the SM club that Naoko works at as Celica.
 Shun Nakayama as Narumi
 A bouncer at the SM club and Kinoshita's right-hand man.
 Naoto Takenaka as Daigo
 A top customer at the SM club.
 Yōzaburō Itō as Kamiyama
 Customer of the SM club.

Reception

Accolades

References

External links

2010s erotic drama films
Films based on Japanese novels
Films directed by Takashi Ishii
Japanese erotic drama films
Kadokawa Daiei Studio films
2013 drama films
2013 films
2010s Japanese films


title: Grand Hotel Karel V

text:
The Grand Hotel Karel V is a hotel in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is located in the Duitse Huis complex of buildings, including part of the old monastery of the Bailiwick of Utrecht of the Teutonic Knights founded in 1348. Most of the rooms and suites are in a former military hospital, which dates from 1823 and has been carefully renovated, or in the modern Roman wing opened in 2008. The hotel contains a Roman-themed health center, conference rooms, a bar, brasserie and the Grand Restaurant Karel V. It is set in extensive grounds.

Building history

In 1348 the Bailiwick of Utrecht of the noble Teutonic Order (Ridderlijke Duitse Orde Balije van Utrecht) built the Duitse Huis as a monastery and headquarters between the Utrecht city wall and Springweg. In the sixteenth century, Charles the Fifth (Karl V), who was emperor of the German Empire, king of Spain and sovereign ruler of the seventeen Netherlands' provinces, stayed at this monastery which by then also served as a hospital. By 1580, when the Reformation was introduced in Utrecht, the Teutonic Order converted to Protestantism but it maintained the building as a hospital.
Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte bought the property in 1807 and the Teutonic Order left the premises.
During the reign of King William I of the Netherlands a military hospital was built on the property along the Geertebolwerk.
For its time, the hospital was very modern.
It was completed in 1823.

When the hospital became vacant in the late 1980s the Bailiwick of Utrecht was able to repurchase the property.
A major renovation was started in 1992.
In 1995 the Bailiwick of Utrecht moved back into the 15th century Commander's house on the corner of Springweg and Walsteeg.
Further renovations converted much of the rest of the complex into a hotel and restaurant by 1999.
The building was restored with help from the National Restoration Fund.
The hospital's wards were converted into hotel rooms and suites.
As far as possible the old fabric and appearance were preserved.

The garden wing was renovated and extended in 2007. During the excavation archaeologists discovered the remains of a Roman cemetery dating to between 40 BC and 275 AD, which may be associated with the Roman fort of Traiectum. The wing was called the Roman wing after this discovery.
The Roman Wing is called "contemporary" by reviewers, in contrast to the "cleverly modernized" main building.
It was designed by the Heine & van de Rijt architectural firm and Hylkema Consultants. The wing has a modern pavilion and extension of the existing garden wing.
It was formally opened in November 2008 with a ceremony that included marching Roman soldiers.

Facilities

The Grand Hotel Karel V opened in 1999.
It is named after the Emperor Charles V, who once visited the Duitse Huis. A formal opening ceremony with the mayor of Utrecht and a representative of the queen was held on 10 September 2000.
At this ceremony the hotel received its five star rating, the first in the Utrecht region. The hotel has 121 rooms, conference rooms, a health center, bar, bistro and restaurant. The auditorium seats 114 people. There is an unobtrusive sound system in the conference facility and public areas of the hotel.

The hotel has three wings. The Medieval Wing is in the center, the Napoleonic Wing to the west and the Roman Wing to the south. The "wellness center" in the basement of the Roman wing has a "Roman" motif, with a sauna, steam room and swimming pool. Some of the finds from Roman times are exhibited in the wing.
Traces of the past history of the complex, including objects, photographs and historical drawings, are displayed throughout the hotel. The hotel is set in extensive gardens.

Restaurants

Bistro Karel 5 is in the former convent kitchen, and has a terrace that is open in good weather.
The chapter room and refectory of the main building of the medieval Duitse Huis are now also dining areas.
The remains of a fireplace were found during the renovation on which the double-headed eagle, the emblem of Charles V, was engraved in sandstone.
A new fireplace was built in the refectory in the same place as the old fireplace, decorated with the coat of arms and motto of the Emperor Charles V.

A 2004 guide said the Bistro Karel 5 could be enjoyed in a casual atmosphere, and the classic Restaurant Karel 5 offered an excellent choice.
Restaurant Karel 5 received a Michelin star in 2005, but lost it in 2013 after a change in chefs.
Restaurant Karel 5 held the star in the period 2005–2013.
As of June 2014 Gault Millau showed the restaurant rating as 14 points.

See also

Notes

Citations

Sources

Hotels in the Netherlands
1999 establishments in the Netherlands
Hotels established in 1999
Rijksmonuments in Utrecht (city)
Hospital buildings completed in 1823
Buildings and structures in Utrecht (city)
20th-century architecture in the Netherlands


title: Pat McCoy

text:
Pat McCoy may refer to:

 Pat McCoy (American football) (born 1980), American football offensive tackle
 Pat McCoy (baseball) (born 1988), American baseball pitcher
 Pat Moran McCoy (born 1934), jazz pianist
 Pat McCoy (footballer), Ulster Footballer of the Year 1985–86


title: Recorded Live in Ireland

text:
Recorded Live in Ireland is a 1965 album of Irish folk songs performed by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. It was the first live album to be recorded in stereo in Ireland. It was their sixth LP for Columbia Records and, unusually for the group, included two newly composed songs in the folk style. Music critic Joe Goldberg wrote the liner notes.

Music on the album

The album contained the first recording of "Lament for Brendan Behan," a recently composed tribute to the late Irish author, Brendan Behan, whom the Clancys had personally known. Tommy Makem wrote "The Curlew's Song" for the album. Two more songs, "Butcher Boy" and "Beggar Man" (a.k.a. "The Little Beggarman"), Makem learned from his mother, Sarah, a source singer for folk song collectors. The sound fades briefly at the end of "Beggar Man" when Makem danced a jig onstage as the audience cheered. The group learned "Wild Rover" from Luke Kelly of The Dubliners, with whom they were friends. They sang the number "Wella Wallia" (a.k.a. "Weile Waile" and "The River Saile") for laughs, using fake Dublin accents to the delight of the audience. As was standard in their concerts, Tom Clancy recited the opening lines of James Joyce's novel, Finnegans Wake before the group sang "New Finnegan's Wake."

Reception

Billboard chose the album as a "Special Merit Pick." The magazine's reviewer called the album "a happy package, packed with lots of folk zing." The reviewer also noted how the group had "an exuberant audience for their exuberant style" during the live concert.

Other versions

A special mono version (XLP-78272-1A/XLP-78273-1A) of the album released only in Canada in 1965 contains some spoken material that is not included on the U.S. and British releases. On this mono LP, Paddy Clancy introduces the song, "The Rocks of Bawn"; on the standard version, there is no spoken introduction before the number. The dialogue before "Maid of Fife" is also longer, and Tom Clancy makes a comment after "New Finnegan's Wake" before the concert's intermission. This version also switches the order of the songs, "Wild Rover" and "Nightingale."

The American version of the LP was released in the United Kingdom by CBS Records in both stereo and mono versions. It was also released in Australia in EP format.

Track listing

All songs are Traditional, except where noted.

Personnel
 Paddy Clancy - vocals, harmonica
 Tom Clancy - vocals
 Liam Clancy - vocals, guitar
 Tommy Makem - vocals, banjo, tin whistle

References

The Clancy Brothers albums
1965 albums
Columbia Records albums
Albums produced by Tom Wilson (record producer)


title: Pharmaceutical physician

text:
A Pharmaceutical Physician is a healthcare professional, usually a medical physician, who performs actions related to pharmacology. They work in biotechnology companies, Clinical Research Organisations (CROs), Regulatory Authorities, and pharmaceutical companies.

Role
Pharmaceutical physicians' primary role is to inform others about development of new treatments, newly established products dealing with the pharmaceutical industry, and to help with medical need. Pharmaceutical physicians must make sure that all of the materials comply with Pharmaceutical Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA).

Types
Clinical pharmacologist or Phase I physician- works with chemists, biochemists, pharmacologists and toxicologists on drug development.
Clinical research physician (CRP) or Phase II/III physician- examines newly used chemical or biological products on patients.
Medical adviser (MA)- works with marketing and sales people to commercialize their company.

History
Pharmaceutical physicians were first recruited after the second World War to fluctuate medical aspects of drug development. British Association of Pharmaceutical Physicians was the first industry composed of pharmaceutical physicians. It was created in 1957 in Britain.

References

Health care occupations
Clinical pharmacology


title: Carlyle Eubank

text:
Carlyle Eubank is an American writer and screenwriter. His 2014 film The Signal, starring Laurence Fishburne, Brenton Thwaites, and Olivia Cooke, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released in US theaters on June 13 by Focus Features.

Background
Eubank attended Amherst College where he majored in English and Literature. He has drawn inspiration from his studying of literature, saying in an interview that he is especially influenced by the "weird, idiosyncratic characters in the Russian canon".

While writing The Signal, Eubank drew on numerous personal experiences. Himself a track and cross country runner, having run all four years of high school, where he won the CIF Southern Section Division 4 1600, and having run all four years of college, Eubank made two of the main characters cross country runners at MIT. The film features a number of flashbacks to East Coast cross-country races, and the main characters are placed in a number of situations of physical peril. While working on the script, Eubank was affected by his 2011 attempt to summit Mount Everest in which his climbing partner died during the expedition.

A lover of carpentry, Eubank worked as a set builder on both the 2011 film Love and The Signal, for the latter of which he also fashioned a number of makeshift effects.

Bibliography

References

External links

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American screenwriters


title: William Arthur Johnson

text:
Rev. William Arthur Johnson (1816–1880) was an amateur biologist, naturalist, microscopist, botanist, and ordained clergyman who lived in Canada.

Biography
Born in Bombay, India, he was a descendant of the Duke of Wellington, he was called Arthur. Johnson moved in Upper Canada in 1835, first settling in Port Maitland, Ontario, then to Toronto by 1848. He attended the Diocesan Theological Institute in Cobourg, Ontario and became a clergyman. He was a curate to Archdeacon A. N. Bethune at Cobourg. However, his tractarian tendencies made him unpopular and he was made rector of St.Philip's at Etobicoke, a remote village across the river from Weston. There, he established a school in 1865 that was to become Trinity College School in Weston, Ontario, where William Osler became a student. Johnson became the major early influence for Osler at this time, along with his friend James Bovell. A keen collector of both animal and vegetal specimens, Johnson was schoolmaster and rector of St. Philip's Church, Weston. Johnson died in Toronto in 1880. A collection of his microscopic and field sketches are conserved at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University.

References

Further reading
 Keith Dalton, Frederick (1965). A Biography of the Reverend William Arthur Johnson (1816-1880), Clergyman, Artist, Architect, Scientist, Teacher.  F.K. Dalton

External links
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Amateur biologists
Canadian educators
Canadian biologists
Canadian Anglican priests
1816 births
1880 deaths


title: The Crusaders (1918 film)

text:
The Crusaders or Jerusalem Liberated (Italian:La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1918 Italian silent historical film directed by Enrico Guazzoni. It is based on the poem Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso. The film is set during the Crusades and describes Godfrey of Bouillon's conquest of Jerusalem in 1099.

Cast
In alphabetical order
 Olga Benetti
 Laura Brezet
 Beppo Corradi
 Edy Darclea
 Americo De Giorgio
 Aristide Garbini
 Alfredo Gelmi
 Adolfo Geri
 Mity Mignone
 Eduardo Monteneve
 Amleto Novelli
 Rinaldo Rinaldi
 Elena Sangro
 Ljubomir Stanojevic

References

Bibliography
 Moliterno, Gino. Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

1918 films
Italian historical drama films
Italian silent feature films
1910s Italian-language films
Films directed by Enrico Guazzoni
1910s historical drama films
Films set in Jerusalem
Crusades films
Films based on poems
Films set in the 11th century
Cultural depictions of Godfrey of Bouillon
Italian black-and-white films
Films about nobility
1918 drama films
Silent historical drama films
Silent war films


title: USS Phoenix (1841)

text:
The second USS Phoenix was a schooner which served in the United States Navy from 1841 to 1853, seeing service in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican War.

Phoenix was constructed for the U.S. Navy at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1841. She departed Baltimore on 19 September 1841 with Passed Midshipman C. St. G. Noland as her commanding officer and sailed to the coast of Florida for operations against the Seminoles in the Second Seminole War. She continued this duty supporting operations of the "Mosquito Fleet" through the general pacification of the Seminoles in August 1842.

Phoenix arrived at Norfolk, Virginia on 18 October 1842. During the following two years she made three voyages to Panama. From 1846 to 1850, she served in the Gulf of Mexico conducting hydrographic surveys and providing general support to U.S. naval operations during the Mexican War and the peace which followed.

Phoenix returned to the United States East Coast in 1851 and served in the Atlantic Ocean until the Navy sold her in 1853.

References

Schooners of the United States Navy
Seminole War ships of the United States
Mexican–American War ships of the United States
Ships built in Baltimore
1841 ships


title: Alfredo Lenci

text:
Alfredo Lenci (1873–1959) was an Italian cinematographer. After working as a cinematographer on a number of historical epics during the silent era, Lenci was later employed by the state-owned Istituto Luce on documentary and propaganda films such as Black Shirt (1933).

Selected filmography
 Fabiola (1918)
 The Crusaders (1918)
 A Dying Nation (1922)
 Messalina (1924)
 Black Shirt (1933)

References

Bibliography
 Poppi, Roberto. I film: Tutti i film italiani dal 1930 al 1944. Gremese Editore, 2005.

External links

1873 births
1959 deaths
Italian cinematographers
Film people from Rome


title: Christopher Thornberg

text:
Christopher Thornberg is an economist, public speaker, and the founding partner of Beacon Economics, LLC,  an independent research and consulting firm. He is also director of the UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development.

Education and early career
Thornberg is a native of Rochester, New York. He graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1989 with a B.S. in Business Administration from the School of Management. He then attended the UCLA Anderson School of Management where he received his Ph.D in Business Economics in 1997. He first started his career as an economics professor at Clemson University. Soon though, he moved back to UCLA where he researched under the university’s economic forecasting center.

Media Appearances
Thornberg has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, ABC’s Nightline, CNN, FOX News Channel, NPR, and is regularly quoted in major national and California dailies including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune.

Work
Thornberg has served on the advisory board of Wall Street hedge fund Paulson & Co. Inc. Between 2008 and 2012, he served as a chief economic advisor to the California State Controller's Office and served as Chair of State Controller John Chiang’s Council of Economic Advisors.

References

1967 births
Living people
21st-century American economists
Economists from New York (state)
Businesspeople from Rochester, New York


title: Worldwide Atrocities Dataset

text:
The Worldwide Atrocities Dataset is a dataset collected by the Computational Event Data System at Pennsylvania State University and sponsored by the Political Instability Task Force (PITF) that is, in turn, funded by the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States.

Data

Unlike other datasets such as the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT), Integrated Conflict Early Warning System (ICEWS), data for the Worldwide Atrocities Dataset is entered and coded manually. Data is available for download in two files:

 Data from January 1995 to December 2012, covering 7775 events. This is 3.5 MB compressed, and 12 MB uncompressed.
 Data from January 1, 2013 to the present, with a four-month embargo period (so the four most recent months are unavailable). Data is updated monthly.

In addition to the datasets, a coding manual is available for download.

Reception

Academic reception

The Worldwide Atrocities Dataset has been referenced in academic research on the impact of climate change on violence in Africa. It has also been referenced alongside the ACLED dataset and the Peacekeeping Operations Locations and Event Dataset in a paper on the geography of conflict by  Wiedmann and Kuse (2009). A 2011 paper by Gold and Haar used the Worldwide Atrocities Dataset to understand the spatial dimension of refugee flows.

Reception in blogs

Political scientist and forecasting expert Jay Ulfelder called the Worldwide Atrocities Dataset a "useful data set on political violence that almost no one is using." It was also referenced by Patrick Meier while reviewing a paper that used the dataset.

References

External links

Political databases


title: Shaun Williams

text:
Shaun Williams may refer to:

Shaun Williams (American football) (born 1976), safety
Shaun Williams (cricket coach) (born 1970), Australian coach of Bangladesh
Shaun Williams (DJ), British DJ and jazz dancer
Shaun Williams (footballer) (born 1986), Irish footballer
Shaun Williams (rugby union), South African rugby union player
Shaun Williams (wrestler) (born 1976), South African freestyle wrestler

See also
Sean Williams (disambiguation)


title: Daniel Adler (prosecutor)

text:
Daniel Adler is an Argentine prosecutor. He started a case against the judge Federico Hooft, accusing him of not investigating two forced disappearances in 1977. Hooft was acquitted from all charges in April 2014 by eight votes against two in the jury trial. Adler was in turn accused for his role in the case, for procedural scam, ideological deception, dereliction of duty and malfeasance.

Daniel Adler represents the attorney general Alejandra Gils Carbó in the trial against prosecutor José María Campagnoli, who investigated The Route of the K-Money.

References

Argentine people of German descent
Argentine prosecutors
People from Mar del Plata
Living people
1958 births


title: 2014 International German Open

text:
The 2014 International German Open (also known as the bet–at–home Open – German Tennis Championships 2014 for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 108th edition of the event known that year as the International German Open and was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2014 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, Germany, from 14 July through 20 July 2014. Unseeded Leonardo Mayer won the singles title.

Points and prize money

Points distribution

Prize money

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings are as of July 7, 2014

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  David Ferrer
  Peter Gojowczyk
  Tobias Kamke
  Julian Reister
  Alexander Zverev

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Mate Delić
  Gastão Elias
  Daniel Gimeno Traver
  Marsel İlhan
  Filip Krajinović
  Albert Ramos-Viñolas

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
  Thomaz Bellucci

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Nicolás Almagro → replaced by  Pablo Andújar
  Roberto Bautista Agut → replaced by  Thomaz Bellucci
  Jérémy Chardy → replaced by  Pere Riba
  Tommy Haas (shoulder injury) → replaced by  Jiří Veselý
  Denis Istomin → replaced by  Albert Montañés
  Jürgen Melzer → replaced by  Dustin Brown
  Stéphane Robert → replaced by  Dušan Lajović

During the tournament
  Martin Kližan

Retirements
  Filip Krajinović (stomach virus)
  Julian Reister (right ankle injury)

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

 Rankings are as of July 7, 2014

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
  Andre Begemann /  Alexander Zverev
  Martin Emmrich /  Christopher Kas

The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Mikhail Kukushkin /  Philipp Marx

The following pair received entry as lucky losers:
  Facundo Bagnis /  Diego Sebastián Schwartzman

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Roberto Bautista Agut (gastrointestinal illness)
  Julian Reister (right ankle injury)

Finals

Singles

  Leonardo Mayer defeated  David Ferrer,  6–7(3–7), 6–1, 7–6(7–4)

Doubles

  Marin Draganja /  Florin Mergea defeated  Alexander Peya /  Bruno Soares, 6–4, 7–5

References

External links

 Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profile

International German Open
Hamburg European Open
International German Open
July 2014 sports events in Germany


title: Michael Shipster

text:
Michael David Shipster  (born 17 March 1951) is a British former diplomat.

He was educated at Ratcliffe College, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (MA 1972) and the University of East Anglia (MA, Development Studies, 1977). He was an Overseas Development Institute Nuffield Fellow in Botswana between 1972 and 1974, and joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1977, serving in Moscow, New Delhi, Lusaka, Johannesburg and Washington. He was awarded an OBE in 1990 and a CMG in 2003.

His wife Jackie was an actor, pianist and music teacher.

Iraq intelligence

In The Way of the World, journalist and author Ron Suskind claims that Shipster was the head of MI6 in the Middle East prior to the Iraq War, and that he had held secret meetings in Jordan with Tahir Jalil Habbush, head of Iraqi Intelligence. Suskind claims that Habbush assured Shipster that Iraq did not possess active nuclear, chemical, biological or other weapons of mass destruction, and that the then head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove flew to Washington to brief the head of the CIA George Tenet about this, and that Tenet immediately briefed George Bush.

References

1951 births
Living people
People educated at Ratcliffe College
Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
British diplomats


title: Paul van K. Thomson

text:
The Reverend Paul van Kuykendall Thomson (December 14, 1916 – December 22, 1999) was an American Anglo-Catholic then Roman Catholic priest, author and educator.

Born in Weehawken, New Jersey to Walter Scott Thomson and Mary van Kuykendall Thomson, he graduated from Weehawken High School and attended Columbia University, where he graduated in English as a classmate of Thomas Merton. He next attended Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut (1937-1940).

He was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1940, and volunteered to serve as a naval chaplain during the Second World War. He received two Combat Stars and a Presidential Unit Citation.

Thomson served parishes in New Jersey before becoming rector of St. Stephen's Church (Providence, Rhode Island). In 1949, he and his family became Roman Catholics. In the same year, Thomson became a professor at Providence College. He next received an M.A. and doctorate from Brown University. Thomson served as a full professor and administrator at Providence College from 1959, overseeing the implementation of coeducation at the school.

In 1983, Thomson became the sixth married former Episcopal priest in the United States to be ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood under the Pastoral Provision; he was the first such priest in the Diocese of Providence.

Thomson retired from teaching at Providence College in 1985.

See also

Pastoral Provision
Anglican Use
Clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church

References

Bibliography
 Byron's Use of Religious Materials (1952)
 Why I Am a Catholic (1959)
 Francis Thompson: A Critical Biography (1961)
 Plus Sign on the Roof (1990), autobiography

External links
Paul van K. Thomson papers at Providence College, Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online
S. Stephen's Providence parish history by Norman Catir

1916 births
1999 deaths
American Episcopal priests
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Brown University alumni
People from Weehawken, New Jersey
Weehawken High School alumni
Married Roman Catholic clergy
Anglican priest converts to Roman Catholicism
20th-century American Roman Catholic priests
20th-century American Episcopalians


title: Mirandela Aerodrome

text:
Mirandela Aerodrome  (Aeródromo Municipal de Mirandela) is a recreational aerodrome serving Mirandela, a town in the Norte Region of Portugal. The aerodrome is located  southwest of Mirandela.
The terrain around the airport is uneven. There are large hills  west of the runway.

The Mirandela Aero Club has been based there since 1946.

See also
Transport in Portugal
List of airports in Portugal

References

External links
Aero Clube de Mirandela
OurAirports - Mirandela Airfield

Airports in Portugal
Buildings and structures in Mirandela


title: Beaver Brook, New Brunswick

text:
Beaver Brook is a Canadian rural community in Albert County, New Brunswick.

History

Notable people

See also
List of communities in New Brunswick

References

Communities in Albert County, New Brunswick


title: Mocl

text:
mocl is a programming language, a dialect and implementation of the language Lisp named Common Lisp. It is focused on mobile device platforms. It includes a compiler and runtime system. It currently runs on iOS, Android, and macOS.

History
mocl was first announced on November 14, 2012. The first release was timed to occur at Lisp universal time 3581000000 (June 23, 2013). The most recent release of mocl is named Paren Mage and was released on May 6, 2014, adding support for macOS application creation and a remote read–eval–print loop (REPL) that runs on the mobile device.

As of September 2021, the website of mocl appears inactive.

References

External links

Common Lisp implementations


title: 2014 Claro Open Colombia

text:
The 2014 Claro Open Colombia was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2014 ATP World Tour. It took place in Bogotá, Colombia at Centro de Alto Rendimiento, between 14 and 20 July 2014.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings are as of July 7, 2014

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Juan Sebastián Cabal
  Eduardo Struvay
  Bernard Tomic

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Nicolás Barrientos
  Kevin King
  Juan Ignacio Londero
  James Ward

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Máximo González
  Dmitry Tursunov

Retirements
  Matthew Ebden (wrist injury)

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings are as of July 7, 2014

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
  Facundo Argüello /  Michael Quintero
  Carlos Salamanca /  Eduardo Struvay

The following pair received entry as alternates:
  César Ramírez /  Bernard Tomic

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Matthew Ebden (wrist injury)

During the tournament
  Radek Štěpánek (left harmstring injury)

Champions

Singles

  Bernard Tomic def.  Ivo Karlović, 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 7–6(7–4)

Doubles

  Samuel Groth /  Chris Guccione def.  Nicolás Barrientos /  Juan Sebastián Cabal,  7–6(7–5), 6–7(3–7), [11–9]

References

External links

Claro Open Colombia
Claro Open Colombia
2014 in Colombian tennis


title: Accident (2013 film)

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Accident is a 2013 Nigerian thriller drama film produced and directed by Teco Benson and starring Kalu Ikeagwu and Chioma Chukwuka. It won the Best Nigerian Film award at the 10th Africa Movie Academy Awards. It also has 3 nominations at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Its story revolves around the life of a female lawyer who is approached by a client seeking divorce with low-sexual satisfaction from partner as reason. An unexpected event occur leading to several consequences.

Plot summary

Cast
 Chioma Chukwuka as Chy
 Kalu Ikeagwu as Don
 Frederick Leonard as Chike
 Wale Macaulay as Pros Counsel
 Cassandra Odita as Angela's mum
 Bukky Babalola as Ada
 Eric Anderson
 George Davidson
 Tope Osoba

See also
 List of Nigerian films of 2013

References

External links

2013 films
English-language Nigerian films
2013 thriller films
Nigerian thriller films
Best Nigerian Film Africa Movie Academy Award winners
2013 drama films
2010s English-language films


title: Cover Version

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Cover Version is a compilation album released in 2014 by British musician and record producer Steven Wilson. The album compiles the 12 songs originally released as six "2 song" singles. Every release was made up of one original song and one cover song that involved new interpretations of other artist's songs in ways much different from their original versions. The only exception to this format is in "The Unquiet Grave" which is actually an old English folk song, and not an original song written by Wilson.

Track listing

Original release chart

References

2014 compilation albums
Albums produced by Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson albums
Covers albums