Get Him to the Greek is a 2010 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Nicholas Stoller and starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill. Released on June 4, 2010, the film is a spin-off sequel of Stoller's 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, reuniting director Stoller with stars Hill and Brand and producer Judd Apatow. Brand reprises his role as character Aldous Snow from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, while Hill plays an entirely new character, Aaron Green. The film also stars Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne, Sean Combs, and Colm Meaney.

Plot
In 2009, British rock star Aldous Snow releases his new album and a titular single, "African Child", which is a commercial and critical failure. In an interview, his girlfriend, pop star Jackie Q, drunkenly declares they have a boring life. Aldous relapses, ending their relationship and losing custody of his son, Naples.

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Aaron Green is a talent scout at Pinnacle Records, living with his girlfriend Daphne, who is completing a medical residency at a local hospital. Pinnacle is performing poorly, and the head of the company, Sergio Roma, asks for ideas. Aaron suggests Aldous play at the Greek Theatre on the tenth anniversary of a performance there in 1999.

Sergio sends Aaron to London to escort Aldous to Los Angeles. Daphne informs Aaron that she has received a residency job offer in Seattle and that they are moving there. They argue and seemingly break up. Aaron meets Aldous and learns that he had not been expecting him, thinking that the concert was not for two months. They bar-hop across the city as Aaron tries to get Aldous to catch a flight to New York City.

Aaron and Aldous go to New York City for Aldous's appearance on Today. To keep him sober, Aaron imbibes all of Aldous's alcohol and drugs. While performing live, Aldous is unable to remember the lyrics to "African Child", and replaces it with an old hit, "The Clap", to cheers from the audience. Daphne calls Aaron to apologize, only to learn that he believes they broke up. While partying, Aaron's phone accidentally calls Daphne, informing her of his drunken activities.

On their flight to Los Angeles, Aaron learns that Aldous has become depressed, as he misses his son and has been alienated from his own father, Jonathan, for years. Aaron suggests he visit him after the show; instead, Aldous insists they go to Las Vegas to see Jonathan. Sergio, having been keeping tabs on the two, arrives to take control of the situation. Meanwhile, Aldous and Jonathan argue over Jonathan's seeming disinterest in his son outside of his career and his mockery of Aldous's mother. Sergio hooks Aaron up with a sexually violent girl, Destiny, who takes him to a hotel room and rapes him. After Aaron tells Aldous that he has been raped, Aldous gives him a laced marijuana joint to calm him down. He has a bad trip, causing a fight that inadvertently sets the hotel lounge on fire.

Believing he is having a heart attack, Aldous attempts to help Aaron by giving him an adrenaline shot. They flee a drugged up Sergio to Los Angeles, where Aaron convinces Aldous to visit Jackie Q. She has been sleeping with Metallica's drummer, Lars Ulrich, and confesses that Naples is not actually Aldous’ biological son. Meanwhile, Aaron goes to his home to apologize to Daphne. They are interrupted when Aldous arrives, proposing a threesome. Daphne agrees and Aaron hesitantly goes along.

Aaron angrily decides to kiss Aldous, ending the tryst. Daphne and Aaron both immediately regret it, and Aaron angrily tells Aldous to go, criticizing his mental state. Instead of preparing for his show, he goes to the rooftop of the Standard Hotel, and calls Aaron, threatening to jump. Aaron rushes to the hotel and attempts to talk him down.

Aaron arrives, in time to stop Aldous from jumping. Nevertheless, Aldous jumps into a pool several floors down, breaking his arm. Aldous tells him that he is lonely, sad, and embarrassed, but is reminded that thousands of fans love him and are waiting to see him. Aldous decides to perform at the Greek Theatre, although Aaron pleads for him to go to the hospital. Upon their arrival, Sergio offers Aaron drugs to give to Aldous so he will not cancel the concert. Aaron, tired of Sergio's abuse, quits on the spot, then walks stage-side with Aldous, trying to convince him to go to the hospital. However, seeing how happy Aldous is while performing, he heads home to reconcile with Daphne.

Months later, Aldous, sober again, has returned to fame with a single produced by Aaron based on events from their night in Las Vegas.

Cast

 Jonah Hill as Aaron Green, a record company employee
 Russell Brand as Aldous Snow, a free-spirited rock star with a faltering career who first appears in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
 Elisabeth Moss as Daphne Binks, Aaron's girlfriend
 Rose Byrne as Jackie Q, a scandalous pop star, Aldous's on and off girlfriend and Naples's mother
 Sean Combs as Sergio Roma, a volatile and aggressive record company owner and Aaron's boss who assigns him to manage Aldous
 Aziz Ansari as Matty Briggs, one of Aaron's co-workers
 Nick Kroll as Kevin McLean, one of Aaron's co-workers
 Ellie Kemper as one of Aaron's co-workers
 Kali Hawk as Kali Coleman, one of Aaron's co-workers
 Jake Johnson as Jazz Man, one of Aaron's co-workers
 Colm Meaney as Jonathan Snow, Aldous's father
 Karl Theobald as Aldous's assistant
 Carla Gallo as Destiny, a groupie
 T. J. Miller as Brian, a hotel clerk
 Neal Brennan as Brian's roommate
 Lino Facioli as Naples, Jackie Q and Aldous's son, later revealed to have been fathered by a photographer
 Kristen Schaal as a Today Show production assistant
 Lindsey Broad as Pocket Dial Girl
 Dinah Stabb as Lena Snow, Aldous's mother

Cameo guest stars

 Kristen Bell as Sarah Marshall, an actress and Aldous's former girlfriend
 Lars Ulrich
 Tom Felton
 Christina Aguilera
 Pink
 Kurt F. Loder
 Meredith Vieira
 Mario Lopez
 Pharrell Williams
 Paul Krugman
 Rick Schroder
 Zöe Salmon
 Katy Perry (deleted scenes)
 Alanis Morissette (deleted scenes)
 Meghan Markle (uncredited)
 Dee Snider (uncredited)
 Holly Weber (uncredited)
 Billy Bush
 Rachel Roberts

Brand's friends Karl Theobald, Greg "Mr Gee" Sekweyama and Jamie Sives also appear in the film.

Production

Development
A week after the release of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Universal Studios announced a new film, Get Him to the Greek, reuniting Jonah Hill and Russell Brand with writer/director Nicholas Stoller and producer Judd Apatow. Variety initially announced the project would focus on "fresh-out-of-college insurance adjuster (Hill) who is hired to accompany an out-of-control rock star (Brand) from London to a gig at L.A.'s Greek Theatre." In July 2008, Brand mentioned that he would be reprising his Aldous Snow role from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, in a new film from Apatow in which the character was back on drugs.

In an interview with CHUD.com, Apatow would later reveal that Get Him to the Greek was indeed a spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall with Brand again playing a no-longer-sober Aldous Snow while in a different interview Nicholas Stoller said that Jonah Hill will play a different character named Aaron Green, a young music executive.

Filming

While Brand was backstage at the Paramount studio lot preparing to present the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, he approached Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Katy Perry about filming cameos for Get Him to the Greek.

Rehearsals began on April 27, 2009 and filming began on May 12 of that year. The film was shot in New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and London.  News footage featured in the film was filmed after a Russell Brand stand up performance of "Scandalous" at the O2 Arena in London, which most of the audience stayed for. While filming in Trafalgar Square, Brand was pushed into a fountain by a passerby.

Release
The film was released on June 4, 2010 in the United States.

Box office
Get Him to the Greek grossed $61 million in the United States and Canada and $30.7 million overseas bringing its worldwide total to $91.7 million, against a production budget of $40 million.

Get Him to the Greek was released alongside Killers and Marmaduke, and in its opening weekend debuted second at the box office behind Shrek Forever After with $17.6 million. The film fell to fourth the following week with a weekend gross of $10.1 million.

In the UK, Get Him to the Greek opened at No. 1 grossing £1.6 million in its first week before dropping to No. 2 the following week with takings of £1 million.

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, Get Him to the Greek has an approval rating of 73% based on 203 reviews, with an average rating of 6.30/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Thanks to a suitably raunchy script and a pair of winning performances from Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, Get Him to the Greek is one of the year's funniest comedies." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars, writing: "under the cover of slapstick, cheap laughs, raunchy humor, gross-out physical comedy and sheer exploitation, Get Him to the Greek also is fundamentally a sound movie."

Controversy
A scene in which Jonah Hill is forcibly raped has been lambasted by critics as being "particularly egregious" and "horrific" and of furthering rape culture by "reinforc(ing) cultural myths surrounding the acceptance of rape."

Home media
A two-disc and one-disc unrated and theatrical version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on September 28, 2010.

Music

Soundtrack

Kim Garner, the senior vice president of marketing and artist development at Universal Republic Records, said that Brand and Universal Pictures "felt very strongly about doing something like this as opposed to a traditional soundtrack," and that they "wanted to release it like we would an actual rock band's album."

The following songs were featured in the film, but not included in the soundtrack:

 "And Ghosted Pouts (Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt)" by The Mars Volta
 "London Calling" by The Clash
 "Anarchy in the U.K." by The Sex Pistols
 "20th Century Boy" by T.Rex
 "Rocks Off" by The Rolling Stones
 "Another Girl, Another Planet" by The Only Ones
 "Strict Machine" by Goldfrapp
 "Ghosts N Stuff" by Deadmau5 featuring Rob Swire
 "Personality Crisis" by The New York Dolls
 "Girls on the Dance Floor" by Far East Movement
 "Heureux Tous Les Deux" by Frank Alamo
 "Come on Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners
 "Cretin Hop" by The Ramones
 "Stop Drop and Roll" by Foxboro Hot Tubs
 "Touch My Body" by Mariah Carey
 "Love Today" by Mika
 "Fuck Me I'm Famous" by DJ Dougal and Gammer
 "What Planet You On" by Bodyrox featuring Luciana
 "Inside of You" by Infant Sorrow (which was originally featured in Forgetting Sarah Marshall).
 "Licky feat. Princess Superstar (Herve Remix)" by Larry Tee

See also
 List of films set in Las Vegas

References

External links

2010 films
2010s English-language films
2010s buddy comedy films
2010 comedy films
American buddy comedy films
American comedy films
Film spin-offs
Films about music and musicians
Films directed by Nicholas Stoller
Films produced by Judd Apatow
Films set in the Las Vegas Valley
Films set in London
Films set in Los Angeles
Films shot in the Las Vegas Valley
Films shot in London
Films shot in Los Angeles
Films shot in New York City
Films with screenplays by Nicholas Stoller
Apatow Productions films
Films about drugs
Films about alcoholism
Relativity Media films
Films about rape
Spyglass Entertainment films
Universal Pictures films
Films scored by Lyle Workman
2010s American films


Škvorec Chateau (;  or Schkworetz) is a chateau, formerly a minor castle, located in Škvorec in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, about  east of Prague. The chateau, locally also known as the Starý zámek ("Old Chateau"), was indirectly first mentioned in historical sources in 1279, yet fully documented as late as since 1404. This Gothic castle was rebuilt during the 1520s into a Renaissance palace; but in 1639 – during the devastating Thirty Years' War – the premises were looted, burned and until 1710 laid in ruins. The chateau was restored then, this time in the Baroque style. Between 1860–1884 most of the compound was demolished (also due to the construction of local municipal school), leaving only the buildings in south-eastern corner.

In 2008, the almost ruined remnants of the chateau were bought by a family of Russian-Italian immigrants which have gradually restored it and now promote a new name: the Savoia Castle (as an allusion of a noble family to which one of previous owners married – see below). New owners made the chateau partially accessible to the public in May 2016, since then there have been various cultural and commercial events here.

History

Middle ages
The founder, and maybe the builder too, was probably local noble Domaslav () around 1279, an important courtier and country official, the butler (1262) of Queen Kunigunda of Slavonia and her food taster (1263–69, 1279), Lord High Treasurer (1267–78) and one of the ten burgraves () of the Prague Castle. From the castle he built, only the deep well is now preserved, cut in the granite rock, which was situated near to the Early Gothic palace (on the site of present school building). The coat-of-arms of Domaslav of Škvorec, three vertical stripes, which cannot be found anywhere in central Bohemia later, proving that the castle must have passed to another noble family not long after. The names of the owners until after 1450 aren't known.

In the second half of 14th century, the castle was owned by the Olbramovicové ("Wolfram's family"), rich merchant clan of German origin from Prague. One of them, Olbram son of Menhart (died around 1388), installed the priest of the church in Horky, which already belonged to Škvorec by 1354. Olbram, son of Menhart was since 1356 the Reeve of Prague New Town and in 1373–80 the Burgrave of Vyšehrad. In connection with Škvorec he is mentioned only two times: first as Olbram of Škvorec (in Skworzecz) in the records of visitation of the Prague archdeacon Pavel of Janovice from 1380, and secondly as Olbram, son of Menhart of Škvorec (de Skworecz), in a charter from 1385.

After his death, his three sons Olbram, Pavel and Václav became the owners of Škvorec. The most important of them was Olbram: since 1379/82 he became the canon of the Metropolitan (St. Vitus') and Vyšehrad Chapters, between 1389–96 was the provost at St. Apollinaire in Prague New Town, also the chancellor of the king's Wenceslaus IV  brother John of Görlitz and finally, on 31 January 1396, he was appointed the fourth Archbishop of Prague. His brother Pavel was a burgrave in town Týn nad Vltavou (1397), and Wenceslaus earned 500 marks of silver in the king's service in 1396. These successes of the three brothers had an influence on their building activity at Škvorec, because its Early Gothic castle did not conform to the needs of noblemen at the end of 14th century. According to modern archeological, historical and construction research made by architect Jan Žižka, it appears that around 1400 the Olbram's family essentially enlarged the area of the castle and added to the buildings. Opposite the old Early Gothic palace they built an oblong tower with a pointed-arched gate and with a small wicket, together with drawbridges across the newly dug water-filled moat. Above it, east of the entrance tower, they built another Gothic palace with a chapel, whose chaplain called Václav is noted in judgment roll of the Archbishopric of Prague in 1404. Due to the building of the new palace, Škvorec thus had two palaces, as was faithfully recorded in the fideicommissum charters in 1654.

The archbishop with his two brothers owned Škvorec Castle until 2 May 1402 when he died. His two surviving brothers then divided the property amongst themselves. Next, Jan Nichilen of Prague bought the Wenceslaus's share (the rent from Škvorec Castle, half of the farmyard and some villages) in 1411, and before 1418 the owner of it was Jan of Klučov. The second half of property was still owned by Pavel of Škvorec until his death (after 1418).

His widow Eliška married before 1422 Jan Ohništko of Ohnišťany, who appropriated the second half of the property too. But in 1426 he violated the parliamentary peace, when he killed his ex-neighbor Prokop Trčka of Květnice in a duel in Prague. As a result, he was brought to court and then executed. Eliška became a widow again and very soon she had big debts. Because of them, she had to sell the rent from Škvorec, Hostyň and the half of the market-town of Úvaly to Prokop Bervík of Malešice in the same year. But he sold it only a short time after to Vilém of Kounice, from whom it was bought by Petřík Olbrámovic (shortly called Olbrámek), and thanks to this the whole property was again owned by the Olbramovicové family of Prague.

Early modern history

The next important owner of Škvorec castle was Čeněk of Klinštejn, the Crown Prosecutor, who bought it from the Olbramovic family in 1462. He was a significant person in the Crown of Bohemia of that time. He was not only the Crown Prosecutor, but also a Burgrave of Prague Castle (1451–61) and of Vyšehrad (1467–79) and in the years 1457–81 he was the Queen's Prosecutor. In the time of his son Jan, King Vladislaus II raised Škvorec into a market town (1497). After his death round 1509, his brother Zdeněk inherited the castle. He had many lawsuits with his neighbours, townsmen and also with his nearest relatives, as did his son Jindřich, who died in the battles against the Turks in Hungary. After that, the castle passed to brother of Jindřich's mother: Lord Zikmund Smiřický of Smiřice. In about 1545 he started reconstructing the old castle and modernised it into a Renaissance residence. During this reconstruction he probably built the western range with arcades and the building on the eastern side of the courtyard.

During the inheritance procedure after his death, his sons divided the large family property so that Jaroslav became the owner of Škvorec, Albrecht received Náchod and Miletín and Jindřich got Hrubá Skála and Hořice. But not much earlier than 1560, Albrecht is also mentioned as the owner of Škvorec. His son Václav Jaroslav spent a long time in Škvorec, where he died in 1593. His son, Albrecht Václav, died in 1614 and the castle was inherited by his uncle, Albrecht Jan.

As the fideicommissum records from 1618 tell, Albrecht Jan Smiřický of Smiřice had a vaulted hall known as "the stone hall", lord's apartment and also an armoury built in the castle. In other parts of the castle there were offices and rooms of the members of his estate government and on the ground floor there was some economic establishment. During the confiscation of his property in 1621 (it was a part of larger confiscations that hit most of the Protestant nobility and burghers of Bohemia and Moravia as a punishment for the failed anti-Habsburg Bohemian Revolt), Škvorec Castle fell into the hands of general Albrecht von Wallenstein because his mother was from the Smiřický family. Nevertheless, he sold it almost immediately to Prince Karl I of Liechtenstein in 1622.

The preserved records of the hejtman of Černý Kostelec Manor, Captain Přech Svatkovský of Dobrohošť, shows that the Swedes plundered the castle and set it on fire on 27 November 1639. During the fire the ceilings in some rooms in both palaces collapsed (in one of them – in the upper palace – was the jail for the retainers in that time). The repair works appear to have been minimal: until 1654 only the upper palace was covered by a temporary thatched roof and no more reconstruction then continued. So for the rest of 17th century the castle was known as a ruin.

From the records of the Uhříněves manor (to which Škvorec belonged at that time) it is known that the first part of the castle was repaired by Italian builder Kristian Minedi in 1710, when he submitted accounts for repairing six rooms to the Estate government; major repairs were carried out subsequently in 1727. This northern parts of the castle became since 1729 a seat of Princess Maria Theresa of Soissons (a cadet branch of the House of Savoy-Carignano), née Liechtenstein. This princess-countess, popular with her subjects – who familiarly nicknamed her Cafojka ("Savoyarde") – for her kind behavior and philanthropy, essentially gave the chateau its final appearance which has been partially preserved to this day. After the death of the Countess (1772), the chateau was no longer used as a mansion, but it fell to the mere seat of the economic administration of the estate, gradually dilapidated, while its parts were redesigned to flats for clerks and servants.

Modern era

Škvorec Chateau was still habitable in 1794, but in the years that followed it rapidly decayed. Instead of reconstruction, most of buildings were largely dismantled between 1860–84. The dilapidated north-western palace was demolished first, then the western two-storied wing was taken down in 1883. On the site of ruin of the old Gothic-Renaissance palace, local school was built in 1890. Of the whole castle only the rebuilt Baroque south-eastern part with the gatehouse tower was left (perhaps because the southern wing of the chateau was adapted from the late 1850s to a synagogue for local Jews, and also there, until 1939, an yeshiva was housed), together with old dug well in the courtyard.

In 1924 the chateau was expropriated by the Czechoslovak state in the framework of the 1st land reform and transferred to the ownership of the municipality, which used the buildings in the following decades partially as flats and partially for needs of the local school. In 1958 the remnants of the old chateau were declared a cultural monument. During general repair in 1964 the building got its present architectural forms.

In 1994, the building was bought by a private owner, who didn't start promised reconstruction, so during the following 10 years of decaying the roof, rafters and floors were gradually collapsed, and there were many irreversible damages of the original constructions. In 2004 English filmmaker Stephen Weeks, owner of company Monumental Trust Bohemia Co., bought the chateau for repair and subsequent commercial use but the project was never launched. However, further unprofessional building interventions led to a desperate condition, so after 22 years of private "care" the chateau was considered irreparable (since 2001 it was listed on the List of Endangered Immovable Monuments of the Czech Republic) and was destined for demolition. The rescue for the chateau came at the beginning of 2008, when it was bought for about 8 million CZK by Russian-Italian noble couple Dmitri Eremeev and Monica Salvatore-Eremeev (with Czech roots), who started a general reconstruction exclusively from their own funds, according to the project of Czech architect Olga Kantová. In the next 8 years, the whole area (together with the surrounding park) has been carefully reconstructed under the supervision of preservationists and in cooperation with the municipal office; the family subsequently made its new seat partly accessible to the public for concerts, lectures, exhibitions, weddings, etc.

In addition, archaeological research in the courtyard between the chateau and the school building took place in the years of 2009–10, which revealed until then unknown details about previous Early Gothic castle buildings: for example, the foundations of a massive circular bergfried with a diameter of 12 meters and wall thickness of 4 meters were excavated.

Architecture
The building (or, rather, its preserved part), standing on a small rocky hillock, has a ground plan in the shape of a broken letter "U", with sides about 26-17-13 meters long, with the longest wing forming the southern side. All wings of the building are two-storeyed; in the southeast corner there is a gate, above which a small turret towers. To the gate leads a stone bridge (with two arches) over the former castle moat.

References

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Castles in the Central Bohemian Region
Buildings and structures in Prague-East District
Baroque castles in the Czech Republic


Beach Park is a Brazilian water park and resort, located at the beach of Porto das Dunas in Aquiraz, Fortaleza. Spread out across an area of 170,000 m2 (approximately 1.8 million ft²), its aquatic park consists of 35,000 m2 (376,700 ft²). Beach Park receives over 1.7 million visitors annually and was elected the second-best beach park in the world in 2014.

The Beach Park complex is composed of the Beach, Aquatic Park and Resort.

Beach Park is affiliated with several national and international water parks, theme parks, tourism and entertainment associations. It is a member of the World Waterpark Association (WWA), the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA), the Brazilian Association of Restaurants and Entertainment Companies (ABRASEL), the Brazilian Association of the Hospitality Industry (ABIH), and the Aquiraz Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB).

Beach Park was one of the filming locations for the film O Noviço Rebelde (Brazilian adaptation of The Sound of Music).

Accommodations
 Beach Park Suites Resort offers 182 seaside apartments.
 Oceani Beach Park Resort, located alongside the beach of Porto das Dunas, has 131 rooms.
 Beach Park Aqua Resort offers tennis and multi-purpose sports courts, a fitness center, kid's club, restaurant, pool bar and infinity pool.
 Beach Park Wellness Resort has 90 rooms designed for families.

Extreme attractions

Constructed in 1989, the Insano previously held the Guinness world record for "World's Tallest Water Slide" at 135-feet tall. The slide held that record until the construction of the Kilimanjaro at Aldeia das Águas Park Resort (formerly Águas Quentes Country Club) in Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro, at 193 feet tall.

Arrepius, the latest addition to the Beach Park complex, is a collection of ProSlide water slides that features the first and only Skybox in Brazil with five different descents that occupy an area of approximately 7,000 m2 (5347.37 ft²). The Skybox, a transparent capsule situated 25 meters above the park, which sends the occupants down it upon activation by button.

Travel awards

2011
 "Best E-mail Campaign" - (WWA)
 " Best TV Commercial" - (WWA)

2012
 "Best Print Media"- (WWA)

2013
 "Best YouTube Campaign" - (WWA)
 "Best Radio Commercial"- (WWA)
 "Best Print Media"- (WWA)

Additional honors include:
 Quality WWA- (WWA)
Industry Leadership WWA- (WWA)
 Best Park in the Country- (O Estado Newspaper)
 Best Theme Park- (Viagem e Turismo Magazine)

References

External links
 https://www.beachpark.com.br/home/en

Parques Reunidos
Resorts in Brazil
Water parks in Brazil
Buildings and structures in Ceará
Tourist attractions in Ceará


William George Stern (born Vilmos György Stern, 2 July 1935 – 21 March 2020)

was a British businessman most notable as the owner of the Stern Group of companies. When it collapsed in 1973, Stern became Britain's biggest bankrupt with debts of £118 million. The uninsured losses sustained by thousands of investors led directly to the creation of Britain's first Policyholders' Protection Act. He died during the COVID-19 pandemic due to complications brought on by COVID-19.

Early life
He was born Vilmos György Stern or Ze’ev HaKohen Stern in Budapest, the youngest of three children of Chaim Stern, who owned a textile factory supplying goods to the Hungarian government.

When Hungary was invaded by Nazi Germany in March 1944, Stern along with his family, escaped on the Kastner train, which carried 1,684 Jews to safety in Switzerland.

Career
During the 1960s, rising economic fortunes in Britain led to the creation of the first unitised property funds. Initially, only pension funds and charities were permitted to purchase units in these trusts, but these regulations were relaxed under the leadership of Prime Minister Edward Heath who came to power in 1970, after which time the general public could also invest via insurance companies. One such intermediary was Nation Life Insurance, part of the Stern Group.

As a result of the stock market crash and secondary bank crisis of 1973–74, property prices in Britain tumbled dramatically. Investment fund customers attempted to liquidate their rapidly devaluing bonds, but the funds had insufficient cash to meet their redemption obligations, leading to their collapse. Nation Life, and its parent company, were forced into administration, and William Stern was declared bankrupt. Renowned lawyer and longtime business partner Winston Held ensured that himself, Stern and other investors in Stern Group managed to keep almost all of the personal wealth that they had accrued through many years of directorship at the company. The scandal was raised in the British Parliament on several occasions, and a BBC documentary on the subject aired in 1974. Thousands of private investors lost their life savings, since at the time there was no compensation scheme in place to protect them. As a direct consequence of Nation Life's failure, the 1975 Policyholders' Protection Act was introduced, which mandates investors' insurance be paid for by a one per cent levy on investment premiums.

After being discharged in 1987, Stern resumed his business activities, until a second commercial empire under his control collapsed in the 1990s with debts of £11 million. He was subsequently banned from serving as a company director for twelve years in April 2000, following the emergence of evidence that he had appropriated £1.5 million from the business despite his prior knowledge that it was on the brink of failure.

Personal life
In 1957 or 1958, he married Shoshana Stempel (Freshwater).

In 2000, Stern was living in a "£4m six-bedroom mansion" in West Heath Avenue, Hampstead, London, owned another home in Jerusalem, and a villa in the south of France.

Death
He died on 21 March 2020 from COVID-19. He was eulogised as a "titan" by relative-in-law Rabbi Pini Dunner.

References

1935 births
20th-century British businesspeople
2020 deaths
Hungarian Jews
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors
British people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
Kastner train
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in England
Hungarian emigrants to the United Kingdom


The School of International Affairs of Pennsylvania State University was officially launched on July 1, 2007, having been approved by Pennsylvania State University's (Penn State) Board of Trustees in January 2007. The school is administratively part of Penn State Law at University Park, PA. It draws extensively upon the intellectual resources of faculty in several academic colleges of the University. The School of International Affairs offers a professional master's degree in international affairs with several speciality concentrations.

Faculty and Administration
The School operates under the guidance of Interim Director Elizabeth Ransom, and a faculty governing council composed of leading faculty from some of Penn State's top graduate departments.

Faculty members include former diplomats, a Navy Vice Admiral, National Security Council staff, a senior official of both the African Union and the United Nations, an economic development agency director, former CIA officials, a State Department Senior Counselor, a U.S. Geological Survey chief scientist, as well as international and arbitration experts and top scholars who contribute to public discourse. Together they represent scholars and practitioners in their respective disciplines.

SIA students also learn from faculty from throughout Penn State, including the Smeal College of Business, College of Engineering, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, College of Agricultural Science, and the Eberly College of Science. The combination of these schools allows SIA to offer programs  in interdisciplinary range and flexibility.

The school is a full member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a group of schools of public policy, public administration, and international studies.

References

Penn State School of International
Schools of international relations in the United States
Universities and colleges in Centre County, Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 2007
2007 establishments in Pennsylvania


HolidayCheck Group AG is an exchange-listed internet group, registered in Munich, Germany. It provides online portals for package travel reviews and bookings in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, under the HolidayCheck brand.

The group was created in 2001 as Tomorrow Focus AG by the merger of Focus Digital AG and Tomorrow Internet AG, and renamed HolidayCheck Group AG in 2016 to reflect its focus on travel businesses.

Origin
HolidayCheck was started in 1999 by students in Konstanz, Germany, including Markus Schott, Hakan Öktem, Jens Freiter, Jörg Kampshoff and Sascha Vasic.

Initially, the site was operated privately under the domain hotel reviews.de. In 2003, the television station RTL reported on the portal. The ensuing publicity prompted the founders to register the site as a commercial venture, debuting on 11 November 2003.

Operations
HolidayCheck users can book travel, compare offers and rate their experience.

The company claims 2.5 million members and 8 million reviews, from an average of 24.13 million visits and 133 million page impressions per month (June 2017). HolidayCheck also publishes an online travel magazine, Away.

HolidayCheck also operates Zoover, a Dutch-language hotel review portal, as well as weather platform Meteovista and car rental comparison site MietwagenCheck.

The company was a founding member of the Association of New Tourism (VNT), an industry group of non-corporate travel agents promoting new distribution channels, latterly the Association of Internet Travel Distribution (VIR).

Ownership and acquisitions
In July 2006, Hubert Burda Media Holding acquired 80 percent of the shares in HolidayCheck AG for €60 million, through its subsidiaries Burda Digital Ventures and Tomorrow Focus AG. Tomorrow Focus took a 51% share and Burda Digital Ventures took 29%.

In 2007 Burda Digital Ventures sold its shares to Tomorrow Focus AG. At the time, HolidayCheck was the market leader among German-speaking hotel and travel review sites, having Hotelcheck.de. In 2008, HolidayCheck acquired rival portal Urlaub.com.

In January 2009, Tomorrow Focus AG acquired a further 14 percent stake for €21.6 million, taking its stake to 94 percent of the company. The founders sold their remaining 6 percent of the company in June 2013; Tomorrow Focus AG then became the sole owner.

The site's parent company made further investments in the travel sector in 2015, while selling several online publishing businesses at the time, including Focus Online and the Huffington Post. The company changed its name from Tomorrow Focus AG to HolidayCheck Group AG in 2016.

Financial results
For the 2018 financial year the firm reported operating EBITDA of €10.7 million (7.7%), on total revenue of €138.9m. HolidayCheck is listed on the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt stock exchange.

As of July 2019, the company had 471 employees in Bottighofen, Munich, Poznan and Warsaw. The management board consists of Georg Hesse (Chief Executive Officer), Dirk Scheuermann (Chief Financial Officer) and Nate Glissmeyer (Chief Product Officer and SVP Engineering).

External links
 The HolidayCheck AG website
 Sources

Companies based in Munich
Mass media in Munich


Guru Gaddi (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਗੱਦੀ), alternatively spelt as Gurgadi, Gurgadhi, or Gurgaddi, means "seat of the guru".

History
The Gurgadi being passed from one Sikh guru to the next was a ceremony that bestowed the guruship upon the new guru.

Celebration
Guru-ta-Gaddi is an important Sikh religious event held every 3 November. The event honors when the tenth and last Sikh Guru  said that 'the next Guru would be the Holy Sikh Book' Guru Granth Sahib. Guru Gobind Singh, declared that Guru Granth Sahib from that moment would be the only Guru or the Guiding Force. The message was delivered on 3 November 1708 by Guru Gobind Singh at Nanded, presently in the state of Maharashtra in India. Guru Gobind Singh Ji established Khalsa and conferred the status of the Guru to the Guru Granth Sahib and elevated it as the everlasting Guru.

This event is commemorated with a festival/ritual that starts with Diwali in India. The tercentenary celebrations of the occasion are being referred at Guru-da-gaddi and are being celebrated on 3 November 2008 in Nanded in Maharashtra. The occasion comes after celebrations of 300 Years of Khalsa panth established by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699.

Gallery

See also

 Baba Buddha
 Gurpurb
 Joti Jot
 Guru Maneyo Granth
 Gaddi Nashin

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080719151813/http://www.sikhdharma.org/content-ten-sikh-gurus-siri-guru-granth-sahib

History of Sikhism
Sikh festivals
Nanded
Religious festivals in India


Stephen Ettien (born 10 April 1988) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for French club Aussonne Football.

Career
Ettien spent his early career in France with Balma, Cugnaux and Lyon.

He signed for Scottish club Hamilton Academical in August 2008, making his debut for the club in September 2008. In total he made 8 appearances for Hamilton in all competitions, scoring one goal. He moved on loan to Brechin City in January 2009, scoring 4 goals in 14 League appearances for them. Ettien was released from his contract with Hamilton in 2009.

He later played back in France with Toulon and US Colomiers.

In January 2019, Ettien joined futsal team TMFC. Six months later, he left the team to join Etoile Aussonnaise Football.

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Footballers from Toulouse
French men's footballers
Balma SC players
Olympique Lyonnais players
Hamilton Academical F.C. players
Brechin City F.C. players
SC Toulon players
US Colomiers Football players
Blagnac FC players
Scottish Premier League players
Scottish Football League players
Championnat National players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players
Men's association football midfielders
French expatriate men's footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland


InLoox, Inc. is a company that develops and sells software for project planning, resource management, project document management, mind mapping, and project accounting. InLoox, Inc. is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but the company headquarters are at InLoox GmbH in Munich, Germany.

Many other companies automate and streamline business processes with the use of Microsoft Outlook. SAP and Microsoft take a comparable approach with their joint venture "Duet", but InLoox claims to integrate the whole business process into Outlook.

InLoox stores ongoing projects in an SQL database. Versions earlier than 2007 (2.x–4.x) used Microsoft Exchange public folders or Personal Folders (.pst) files for data storage. Microsoft's announcements of moving away from Exchange public folders might have prompted the switch to SQL.

In 2012, InLoox started the SaaS solution. The Cloud technology enables customers to use the InLoox Web App even if they do not have their own server and without requiring software installation.

External links
 www.inloox.com the Official English InLoox Website

References

Microsoft Office
Project management software
Business software for Windows


The Hotel Settles is a historic 15-story hotel located at 200 East Third Street in Big Spring, Texas. Originally completed in 1930, the Settles opened for business October 1, 1930. It operated from 1930 until the early 1980s, and was subsequently abandoned for around 30 years, before reopening in late 2012.

The building was purchased by the Settles Hotel Development Corporation in late 2006. Since that time, the SHDC has also acquired adjoining properties, including the Big Spring Boys and Girls Club and the abandoned Greyhound Bus terminal, which was then demolished.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 2013. Hotel Settles is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Reopening
The Hotel Settles re-opened its doors to the public on December 28, 2012. Construction on other parts of the Hotel continued through 2013.

On April 10, 2015, the West Texas Historical Association at its 92nd annual conference in Amarillo, presented a lecture and discussion on the Hotel Settles: "A Grand Dame Shines Again: Big Spring's Hotel Settles During Eighty-five Years of Boom, Bust, and Boom" by Barbara Brannon.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Howard County, Texas
Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Howard County

References

External links

Hotel Settles website
Photos of the Llano Estacado

Hotels in Texas
Buildings and structures in Howard County, Texas
Hotel buildings completed in 1930
Hotels established in 1930
Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks
Historic Hotels of America


Runn, is a lake in Dalarna in central Sweden, between the cities of Falun and Borlänge.

Runn has many islands and is popular for recreational boating in the summer.

In winter, Runn is popular for Tour skating and over 30 km of skating trails are plowed on the ice. Every February, 'Runn Winter Week' is held with many ice skating activities, including marathon Speed skating competitions.

Footnotes

External links

Lakes of Dalarna County


La Lotería Letal (English: The Lethal Lottery) is a tag team tournament that was held in autumn 2008 by professional wrestling promotion Chikara. It consisted of eight teams, who competed in a single-elimination tournament.

Background
To determine the participants in the tournament, eighteen of Chikara's wrestlers were selected to participate. The tournament included several well-known wrestlers, including Colin Delaney, who gained fame on World Wrestling Entertainment's Extreme Championship Wrestling brand, and longtime independent circuit veteran Mike Quackenbush. Other participants included Chikara regulars and other independent wrestlers. Sixteen names were drawn at random to form tag teams and determine the match pairings. The two remaining wrestlers, Hydra and Brodie Lee, faced each other in a singles match at the September 6 event. The format was similar to that used in World Championship Wrestling's Lethal Lottery tournaments, which also involved random pairings of wrestlers.

Event
The first two rounds were held at the Palmer Center in Easton, Pennsylvania on September 6, 2008.

The singles match took place between the first and second rounds of the tournament, and Lee defeated Hydra. The team of Jimmy Olsen and Lince Dorado and the team of Vin Gerard and Colin Delaney faced each other in the final match, which was held on October 18, also at the Palmer Center. Olsen and Delaney competing against each other was significant, as they had competed as kayfabe twin brothers, The Olsen Twins, early in their careers. Olsen and Dorado won the tournament; as a result, they were awarded three points in Chikara's tag team division. In the division, teams must accumulate three points before they are permitted to challenge for the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas, the promotion's tag team championship.

The shows at which the tournament matches took place were recorded and have been released separately on DVD through Smart Mark Video.

Challenge for tag team championship
Olsen, competing under the ring name Equinox, and Dorado, challenged tag team champions The Osirian Portal at Chikara's "Armdrags to Riches" event on November 16, 2008. In a two out of three falls match, Dorado gained the first pinfall. The Osirian Portal won the match, however, after pinning Dorado and then Equinox to retain the title belts.

Tournament bracket

References

External links
CHIKARA Pro Results

2008 in professional wrestling
Chikara (professional wrestling) shows
Professional wrestling tournaments
Professional wrestling in Pennsylvania
2008 in Pennsylvania


Turovi () is a village in Trnovo municipality, Istočno Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

References

Populated places in Trnovo, Republika Srpska
Istočno Sarajevo
Villages in Republika Srpska


ZYpp (or libzypp; "Zen / YaST Packages Patches Patterns Products") is a package manager engine that powers Linux applications like YaST, Zypper and the implementation of PackageKit for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Unlike some more basic package managers, it provides a satisfiability solver to compute package dependencies. It is a free and open-source software project sponsored by SUSE and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 or later. ZYpp is implemented mostly in the programming language C++.

Zypper is the native command-line interface of the ZYpp package manager to install, remove, update and query software packages of local or remote (networked) media. Its graphical equivalent is the YaST package manager module. It has been used in openSUSE since version 10.2 beta1. In openSUSE 11.1, Zypper reached version 1.0. On June 2, 2009, Ark Linux announced that it has completed its review of dependency solvers and has chosen ZYpp and its tools to replace the aging APT-RPM, as the first distribution to do so. Zypper is also part of the mobile Linux distributions MeeGo, Sailfish OS, and Tizen.

History

Purpose
Following its consecutive acquisitions of Ximian and SuSE GmbH in 2003, Novell decided to merge both package management systems, YaST package manager and Red Carpet, in a best of breed approach, as the two solutions so far were used at Novell. Looking at the extant open source tools and their maturity available back in 2005, none fulfilled the requirements, and were able to work smoothly with the extant Linux management infrastructure software developed by Ximian and SUSE, so it was decided to get the best ideas from extant pieces and to work on a new implementation. Libzypp, the resulting library, was planned to be the software management engine of the SUSE distributions and the Linux Management component of the Novell ZENworks Management suite.

Early days
The Libzypp's solver was a port from the Red Carpet solver, which was written to update packages in installed systems. Using it for the full installing process brought it to its limits, and adding extensions such as support for weak dependencies and patches made it fragile and unpredictable. Although this first version of ZYpp's solver worked satisfactorily, on the company enterprise products with the coupled ZMD daemon, it led to an openSUSE 10.1 release which came out in May 2006 with a system package not working as expected. In December 2006, the openSUSE 10.2 release corrected some defects of the prior release, using the revisited ZYpp v2. ZMD was subsequently removed from the 10.3 release and reserved for only the company Enterprise products. While ZYpp v3 provided openSUSE with a relatively good package manager, equivalent to other existing package managers, it suffered from some flaws in its implementation which greatly limited its speed performance.

SAT solver integration
An area where libzypp needed improvement was the speed of the dependency solver. libsolv is being written and released under the revised BSD license.

Projects like Optimal Package Install/Uninstall Manager (OPIUM) and MANCOOSI were trying to fix dependency solving issues with a SAT solver. Traditional solvers like Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) sometimes show unacceptable deficiencies. It was decided to integrate SAT algorithms into the ZYpp stack; the solver algorithms used were based on the popular minisat solver.

The SAT solver implementation as it appears in openSUSE 11.0 is based on two major, but independent, blocks:
 Using a data dictionary approach to store and retrieve package and dependency information. A new solv format was created, which stores a repository as a string dictionary, a relation dictionary and then all package dependencies. Reading and merging multiple solv repositories takes only milliseconds.
 Using satisfiability for computing package dependencies. The Boolean satisfiability problem is a well-researched problem with many exemplar solvers available. It is very fast, as package solving complexity is very low compared to other areas where SAT solvers are used. Also, it does not need complex algorithms and can provide understandable suggestions by calculating proof of why a problem is unsolvable.

After several months of work, the benchmark results of this fourth ZYpp version integrated with the SAT solver are more than encouraging, moving YaST and Zypper ahead of other RPM-based package managers in speed and size.

See also

 openSUSE
 YaST

References

External links

 Sneak peeks at openSUSE new package management
 DistroWatch.com

Free package management systems
Linux package management-related software
SUSE Linux


Clem is an unincorporated community in Gilliam County, Oregon, United States, at an elevation of . It was named for Clemens Augustus Danneman, who was born in Germany, came to Oregon in 1879, and owned a ranch in Gilliam County. The Clem post office was open between November 1884 and April 1937. Clem "also was a station on the Condon branch of the Union Pacific Railroad." Now, Clem is on Oregon Route 19 about  southeast of Mikkalo. As of November 2021, the population is seven people and one cow.

References

Unincorporated communities in Gilliam County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon


The Breakaway Tour was the first headlining concert tour by American pop recording artist Kelly Clarkson. It began on March 30, 2005, in Tulsa, Oklahoma and finished on March 23, 2006, in Vienna, Austria. The tour promoted her second studio album, Breakaway (2004), and this was her first tour to visit Australia and Europe. This was the first of three tours to promote Breakaway. Clarkson went on to embark on the Hazel Eyes Tour in North America before and in between the Australian and European legs of this tour.

Background
The North American leg of the tour was announced in February 2005. In September 2005, the Australian leg was announced.

Opening acts
Graham Colton Band
Rogue Traders

Setlist
"Since U Been Gone"
"Walk Away"
"Gone"
"Low"
"Just Missed the Train"
"What's Up Lonely"
"Thankful"
"The Trouble with Love Is"
"Don't"
"Covers medley: "Piece of My Heart" / "The Thrill Is Gone" / "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
"Beautiful Disaster"
"Addicted"
"Because of You"
"Where is Your Heart"
"Behind These Hazel Eyes"
Encore
"Miss Independent"
"A Moment Like This"
"Breakaway"

Tour dates

Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
This concert was a part of "Channel 933's Your Show"
This concert was a part of "Wango Tango"
This concert was a part of "Beauty Live"

Canceled shows

External links
Kelly Clarkson Official Website
Breakaway Tour

References

2005 concert tours
2006 concert tours
Kelly Clarkson concert tours


Guy Accoceberry (born 5 May 1967, in Vittel) is a former French rugby union footballer. He played as a scrum-half.

He played for Tyrosse RCS and for CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde, from 1993/94 to 1998/1999, where he achieved the greatest success of his career.

Accoceberry had 19 caps for France, from 1994 to 1997, scoring 2 tries, 10 points in aggregate. He had two matches played at the 1995 Rugby World Cup finals, and won a Grand Slam at the Five Nations, in 1997.

External links
Guy Accoceberry International Statistics

1967 births
Living people
French rugby union players
France international rugby union players
Rugby union scrum-halves
CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde players
Sportspeople from Vosges (department)
Sportspeople from Landes (department)
Rugby union players from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Politicians from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
French pharmacists
1995 Rugby World Cup players


Air Commodore Peter Malam "Pete" Brothers,  (30 September 1917 – 18 December 2008) was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and flying ace of World War II. Brothers was credited with 16 aerial victories, 10 of which he achieved during the Battle of Britain.

Early life
Born in Prestwich, Lancashire, the son of John Malam Brothers, Brothers was educated at North Manchester School. His early interest in flying was shown by learning to fly aged 16.  He joined the Royal Air Force in January 1936, and was granted a short service commission as an acting Pilot Officer on probation on 23 March, Joining No 32 Squadron in October 1936, his commission was confirmed on 27 January 1937, and he was promoted to flying officer on 27 October 1938.

Second World War
Brothers first saw action during the Battle of Britain as a flight commander in No 32. Squadron RAF which was then based at RAF Biggin Hill flying Hurricane aircraft.  The Battle of Britain was a very busy time for Brothers, and during this time he shot down his first enemy aircraft, a Messerschmitt Bf 109. By the end of August 1940, he was officially recognised as an ace, having shot down eight enemy aircraft. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for these actions; the citation read:

Brothers was promoted substantive Flight Lieutenant on 3 September 1940, and due to the level of losses within 32 Sqn, it was stood down, and on 9 September he was posted to No. 257 Squadron RAF based at RAF Coltishall on 9 September as a Flight Commander under Squadron Leader Robert Stanford Tuck. He was promoted Acting Squadron Leader in 1941 and took command of No. 457 Squadron RAAF in June 1941, and converted to the Spitfire aircraft. He was promoted temporary Squadron Leader on 1 December 1941. A year later when 457 Squadron returned to Australia, Brothers took command of No. 602 Squadron RAF.  He became wing leader of the Tangmere Wing in October 1942. He was awarded a Bar to his DFC on 15 June 1943:

and the DSO in 1944:

By 1945, Brothers had flown 875 operational hours and was credited with having shot down 16 enemy aircraft and damaged many more.  Despite his record, he was not offered a permanent commission so left the RAF in 1947 and joined the Colonial Service.

Post-war
After two years as a district officer in Kenya, Brothers applied to rejoin the RAF. He was commissioned as a Squadron Leader on 2 June 1949 (with seniority from 5 August 1946), and rather to his surprise was given command of a bomber squadron, No. 57 Squadron RAF, equipped with the Avro Lincoln bomber.  He held command from 1950 to 1952, which included the Malayan Emergency campaign (Operation Firedog). He was promoted Wing Commander on 2 July 1952, and after RAF Staff College, Andover he was appointed Wing Commander (Flying) at RAF Marham. There he joined the V bombers, flying the Vickers Valiant jet bombers.

Brothers was promoted to group captain on 1 January 1959, and to Air Commodore on 1 July 1966. After tours including Staff Officer at SHAPE, Director of RAF Operations (Overseas), Air Officer Commanding Military Air Traffic Operations and Director of Public Relations (RAF), he retired in 1973.  He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1964 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Post-RAF life
Brothers was best known for his Battle of Britain exploits and was the Chairman of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association for a number of years. He normally wore bright red socks. He died, aged 91, on 18 December 2008.

Brothers is remembered in a memorial, the ‘Spirit of The Few’ Monument, unveiled on 29 July 2022 at Hawkinge airfield. He is represented as one of seven bronze sculptures of No. 32 Squadron pilots, replicating a photograph taken of the men during the Battle of Britain.

References

External links
Brothers describing his attempts to boost the morale of the men he was leading – The Imperial War Museum
Brothers at the final Sunset Ceremony at RAF Bentley Priory 20 July 2007
Brothers meeting Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall at RAF Bentley Priory 19 June 2007
Brothers laying the Battle of Britain Fighter Association wreath at the Battle of Britain London Monument 16 September 2006
Brothers at the unveiling of the Battle of Britain London Monument (to the left of Prince Charles) 18 September 2005
Imperial War Museum Interview

1917 births
2008 deaths
Military personnel from Lancashire
Royal Air Force air commodores
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
British World War II flying aces
Royal Air Force pilots of World War II
Royal Air Force personnel of the Malayan Emergency
People from Prestwich
The Few
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
Wing leaders


Linda Medlar-Jones (born 1949) was a principal figure in a high-profile political sex scandal that triggered an exhaustive 2½ year, multimillion-dollar investigation by the U.S. Office of the Independent Counsel during the first term of U.S. President Bill Clinton. The principal target of the investigation was her former lover, Housing and Urban Development secretary Henry Gabriel Cisneros of San Antonio, Texas.

The illicit relationship between Medlar and Cisneros, who were both married at the time, began in 1987 while he was Mayor of San Antonio, and she was a volunteer mayoral campaign staffer. Medlar, who according to court documents, had a long history of mental illness, secretly recorded many of her telephone conversations with Cisneros. These recordings she later sold to the television program Inside Edition for the sum $15,000. In 1994, Medlar entered a lawsuit for $250,000 against Cisneros, accusing him of fraud, breach of contract, and failure to support her. This lawsuit was settled the following year for $49,000.

Court records reveal that Medlar had received a total of  from Cisneros between 1988 and 1992, prior to his cabinet appointment. These payments continued after Cisneros' Senate confirmation, court documents indicating that she received a total of  in 1993 alone.

The television broadcast of transcripts of the taped conversations, as well as a televised Inside Edition interview in which Medlar charged Secretary Cisneros with lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, prompted U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno to call for an independent investigation. As a result of the investigation, a Washington, D.C. grand jury handed down a 21 count indictment on December 11, 1997. In the 66 page indictment entitled the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. HENRY G. CISNEROS, LINDA D. MEDLAR, SYLVIA ARCE-GARCIA, and JOHN D. ROSALES, Independent Counsel David Barrett brought charges against HUD Secretary Cisneros, his former mistress Medlar, and two of Cisneros’ former employees. Medlar had previously been granted immunity in exchange for her testimony against Cisneros. This was in turn revoked due to false and misleading statements on her part during the criminal investigation.
Medlar was sentenced to prison. Secretary Cisneros pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and served no jail time.

Ten years later, Medlar was convicted of bank fraud, in a scheme designed to provide her daughter with a home. She was sentenced to four years in prison, and did not appeal the sentence, saying, "I guess there's a sense of relief that this is over with. I take full responsibility for it, but at the time I didn't know it was a crime."

References

External links
"What a Tangled Web We Weave", American Politics Journal
"Cisneros Probe: An Indictment Many Years in the Making", Washington Post.com
"Henry and Linda", The Washington Post Magazine
Collection of articles from the Washington Post about the Cisneros investigation
"THE RECKONING-Building Flawed American Dreams", NY Times.com

Living people
1949 births
20th-century American women


San Rosendo () is a Chilean city and commune in Bío Bío Province, Bío Bío Region.

The city of San Rosendo lies on the gentle slopes of a hill overlooking the confluence of the rivers Bío Bío and Laja, which respectively bound the city to the west and south. On the opposite bank of the Laja River is the city of Laja, forming both an incipient conurbation.

History
San Rosendo was first a fort built by the Royal Governor Martín García Óñez de Loyola in 1593.  It was destroyed and burned by the Mapuche in 1655, it recovered later but did not survive the rising of the Mapuche in 1723. The current settlement grew up around the railroad station in the same location in the later 19th century.

Demographics
According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, San Rosendo spans an area of  and has 3,918 inhabitants (1,930 men and 1,988 women). Of these, 3,249 (82.9%) lived in urban areas and 669 (17.1%) in rural areas. The population fell by 10.4% (457 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.

Administration
As a commune, San Rosendo is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Duverlis Valenzuela Martínez (RN).

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, San Rosendo is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Juan Lobos (UDI) and José Pérez (PRSD) as part of the 47th electoral district, together with Los Ángeles, Tucapel, Antuco, Quilleco, Santa Bárbara, Quilaco, Mulchén, Negrete, Nacimiento, Laja and Alto Bío Bío. The commune is represented in the Senate by Victor Pérez Varela (UDI) and Mariano Ruiz-Esquide Jara (PDC) as part of the 13th senatorial constituency (Biobío-Coast).

References

External links
  Municipality of San Rosendo

Communes of Chile
Populated places in Bío Bío Province
1593 establishments in the Spanish Empire


Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer (March 6, 1898 – August 25, 1982) was a French archeologist, born in Strasbourg, who led the French excavation team that began working on the site of Ugarit, the present day Ras Shamra in 1929, leading to the uncovering of the Ugaritic religious texts. After the Second World War he began excavating the Late Bronze Age site of Enkomi.

He was curator for the Prehistoric and Gallo-Roman Museum, Strasbourg (1924–1933) and for the Museum of National Antiquities, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1933–1956). Schaeffer was an advocate of catastrophism. He argued that on at least five occasions catastrophic events (such as earthquakes) had destroyed Bronze Age civilizations.

Selected publications

The Cuneiform Texts of Ras Shamra-Ugarit (1939)
Stratigraphie Comparee Et Chronologie De L Asie Occidentale (1948)
Note Sur L'enceinte Mycénienne D'enkomi (Chypre) (1948)

References

External links
 Claude Schaeffer – Ancient Middle East Destruction and epic discoveries

1898 births
1982 deaths
Catastrophism
Archaeologists from Strasbourg
20th-century French archaeologists
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy


Robert Kennedy and His Times is a 1985 American television miniseries directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, based on the 1978 Robert F. Kennedy biography of the same name by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Cast

Awards and nominations

See also
 Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy

References

External links

1980s American television miniseries
1985 television films
1985 films
American biographical series
Television shows based on books
CBS network films
Films scored by Fred Karlin
Films about Robert F. Kennedy
Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy
Cultural depictions of Lyndon B. Johnson
Cultural depictions of Robert F. Kennedy
Cultural depictions of Jimmy Hoffa
Cultural depictions of Joseph McCarthy
Cultural depictions of J. Edgar Hoover
Cultural depictions of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Films directed by Marvin J. Chomsky


The Biblioburro (The donkey library) is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons from the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto. The program was created in La Gloria, Colombia, by Luis Soriano. The biblioburro operates within the central municipalities of the Department of Magdalena, on Colombia's Caribbean shore.

Soriano became fascinated with reading as a child and obtained a college degree in Spanish literature after studying with a professor who visited his village twice a month. A primary school teacher by profession, Soriano developed the idea after witnessing first-hand the power reading had on his students, most of whom had lived through intense life conflicts at a young age. Starting in the late 1990s, Soriano traveled to communities in Colombia's Caribbean Sea hinterlands with a portable library, which began with 70 books.

Soriano wrote to Juan Gossaín, a Colombian journalist and writer, after having heard him read excerpts from his novel The Ballad of Maria Abdala on a radio program. Soriano asked Gossaín for a copy of his book to be distributed on the Biblioburro, details that Gossaín broadcast on his radio program. The response created a flood of book donations and Soriano's collection soon expanded to 4,800 volumes. As of November 2009, a library building next to Soriano's house has been completed funded in part by donations from the public, and it opened as the first library in La Gloria. Additional funding is also provided by the director of a community library, located nearly  from the Caribbean shore in Santa Maria, who hired Soriano as a satellite employee in order to share a portion of its US$7,000 annual budget.

Children's adventure stories have remained one of the most popular items distributed by the Biblioburros. In addition to encyclopedia volumes, novels, and medical texts, other items distributed by the Biblioburro include Horacio Quiroga's animal fable Anaconda, the Dictionary of the Spanish Language of the Royal Spanish Academy (Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española) and a number of Time–Life travel pictorial books. Books lost from the collection include a sex education manual and a copy of Laura Esquivel's 1989 novel Like Water for Chocolate, both of which were not returned by borrowers. A copy of Paulo Coelho's 1990 novel Brida was stolen by bandits, who tied up Soriano after attempting to rob him and discovered he had no money.

Colombian documentary filmmaker Carlos Rendón Zipagauta has made a film that tells the story of Soriano and the Biblioburros.

In June 2012, Soriano had a leg amputated after an accident involving one of his burros, but as of January 2013 he continued committed to his work.

See also
 Pack Horse Library Project
 Warrington Perambulating Library
 Bookmobile

References

External links
Ayoka short film
Biblioburro blog
Biblioburro Rocketboom Video

PBS POV: Biblioburro Documentary and lesson plans

Colombian culture
Libraries in Colombia
Mobile libraries
Donkeys


All Hell Broke Loose is a 1995 Israeli documentary that follows the victims of a Hamas suicide bombing in Israel a year after the attack.

Summary
The documentary shares interviews with victims of a 1994 Hamas suicide-bomb that detonated at a bus station in Afula just as a group of students were boarding. The film looks at the cycle of prejudice and violence that feeds on itself and perpetuates the conflict between Jews and Arabs.

After the massacre, Israelis rioted and chanted, “death to the Arabs.” Some family members, outraged by the terror their loved one had faced, chanted along. But others realized that Arabs had been injured too, and a rare few  worked even harder to promote understanding and peace between the divided people.

The film shares the devastating effects of having survived a terrorist attack. One little boy who survived the attack now has burn scars all over his back and arms; he was robbed of his naiveté and now stared at his playmates like a skeptical old man. He says he thinks about death now, which is something he'd never thought about before.

Despite the documentary's grim subject matter, it does leave room to hope for the future. The film profiles two young people who are working to end the pattern of violence. A young Israeli girl and her Palestinian friend are leaders in a movement that brings Arabs and Jews together to live and socialize, in an effort to prove that the two groups can exist peacefully. When three Arabs move onto a house with three Jews on a Kibbutz their lives are challenging, but the idealists are willing to suffer through slanderous attacks in order to help move their nation in the direction they want to see it go.

See also
Other Israeli Documentaries about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
The Land of the Settlers
My Dearest Enemy
The Temple Mount is Mine
At the Green Line
On the Objective Front

References

External links
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
The Jewish Channel

Films about Jews and Judaism
1990s Hebrew-language films
1995 films
Israeli documentary films
Documentary films about terrorism
Documentary films about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
1995 documentary films


A Game for the Living (1958) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. It is the sixth of her 22 novels and the only one set in Mexico.

Composition
The novel is dedicated to one of Highsmith's college teachers, Ethel Sturtevant, "my friend and teacher", along with Dorothy Hargreaves and Mary McCurdy.

Synopsis
Ramon, a devoutly Catholic furniture repairman in Mexico City meets Theo, a wealthy German atheist expatriate who questions the happiness he had found in his new home: "Theodore thought he was as happy as anyone logically could be in an age when atomic bombs and annihilation hung over everybody's head, though the world 'logically' troubled him in this context. Could one be logically happy?"  An unlikely friendship develops, until Lelia, a woman they have both slept with and care for, is found brutally raped, murdered and mutilated. Each suspects the other is responsible, and the police investigate them both as well. They learn that Lelia may have been robbed and track a suspect to Acapulco, but Theo believes he is under surveillance.

Reception
Dorothy B. Hughes, a somewhat older author of crime fiction who did not care for Highsmith's writing in general, objected in private to Highsmith's "lack of empathy to the Mexican nationals" in this novel.

Highsmith herself had a negative opinion of her novel, regretting her attempt to write in the mystery genre. She later wrote:
I had tried to do something different from what I had been doing, but this caused me to leave out certain elements that are vital for me: surprise, speed of action, stretching the reader's credulity, and above all the intimacy with the murderer himself. I am not an inventor of puzzles, nor do I like secrets. The result, after rewriting the book four times in a gruelling year of work, was mediocrity. I always say to foreign publishers, and to publishers who contemplate a reprint, "This is my worst book, so please think twice before you buy it."

References

1958 American novels
Novels by Patricia Highsmith
Novels set in Mexico
Harper & Brothers books


Paddy O'Donoghue was a selector for the Dublin senior football team, along with Mickey Whelan, for former manager Pat Gilroy. He was formerly a player for both his county team (Dublin) and his club Kilmacud Crokes.

He won two Dublin Senior Football Championship medals with Kilmacud Crokes in 1994 and again in 1995. He also won two Leinster Senior Club Football Championship medals with Crokes in 1994 and 1995. He won an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship medal with Crokes in 1995; in the final, he was awarded the man of the match award. He also captained Trinity College Dublin to their first Ryan Cup in the 1998/89 season. He played with Dublin during the early nineties.

Prior to his appointment as Dublin selector, O'Donoghue  was the manager of the Kilmacud Crokes minor football team.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Dublin inter-county Gaelic footballers
Gaelic football managers
Gaelic football selectors
Kilmacud Crokes Gaelic footballers
Place of birth missing (living people)


The ALFA Series of Revolvers are a series of Czech-made revolvers designed for law enforcement, private security agencies, personal security, and hunting needs. The ALFA Series is part of the three revolver series made by ALFA:
Series ALFA, Series ALFA Steel, and Series HOLEK. The revolvers in the ALFA Series all have a blued finish, and the only one to have no chrome finish is the 12-inch Sports model.

Overview
As the manufacturers' product page states:
The revolvers of cal. 357 Magnum have been designed to comply with requirements of demanding users from among the law enforcement corps, private security agencies and citizens who take their safety seriously. The design of cartridge cylinder mounting in tilting console and shock transition control from the console to the frame considers as much as possible maintaining the minimum limits for a long time. Cylinder rotation design takes no compromise in forcing the cylinder turn by exact spacing distance to safely adjust to the barrel leaving no reckon on inertia of the cylinder to finish its turning movement. The user obtains thus a guarantee of safe action disabled when the cartridge is off the barrel axis even if the cylinder is braked, e.g. with impurities. The combination of 357 Magnum cartridge high output and our revolver makes up a reliable arms system for any crisis situation. Drop safety and all-steel design guarantee a high level of safety when carried under any condition. The accuracy and power of the six-inch version is a challenge for hunters using short guns.

Models
There are seven revolver models in the ALFA Series, each one longer and heavier than the last.
All the models have a 6-round cylinder capacity and use a powerful .357 Magnum cartridge.

Model 3520
Length, 7.5 inches (192 millimeters)
Barrel Length, 2 inches (51 millimeters)
Weight, 1.8 pounds (850 grams)
Sights, Fixed Iron

Model 3530
Length, 8.5 inches (217 millimeters)
Barrel Length, 3 inches (76 millimeters)
Weight, 1.9 pound (890 grams)
Sights, fixed iron

Model 3531
Length, 8.5 inches (217 millimeters)
Barrel Length, 3 inches (76 millimeters)
Weight, 1.9 pounds (900 grams)
Sights, Adjustable Iron

Model 3540
Length, 9.5 inches (243 millimeters)
Barrel Length, 4 inches (102 millimeters)
Weight, 2.1 pounds (990 grams)
Sights, Fixed Iron

Model 3541
Length, 9.5 inches (243 millimeters)
Barrel Length, 4 inches (102 millimeters)
Weight, 2.2 pounds (1000 grams)
Sights, Adjustable Iron

Model 3551C Produced for the Canadian Market
Length, 10.0 inches (255 millimeters)
Barrel Length, 4.5 inches (114 millimeters)
Weight, 2.2 pounds (1050 grams)
Sights, Adjustable Iron

Model 3561
Length, 11.5 inches (293 millimeters)
Barrel Length, 6 inches (152 millimeters)
Weight, 2.5 pounds (1150 grams)
Sights, Adjustable Iron

Model 3563 Sport
Length, 11.8 inches (300 millimeters)
Barrel Length, 6 inches (152 millimeters)
Weight, 3 pounds (1390 grams)
Sights, LPA

See also
 ALFA Combat
 ALFA Defender
 List of firearms
 Series ALFA Steel

References
Product Page

Revolvers of Czechoslovakia
Revolvers
.357 Magnum firearms


The Hyderabad Civil Service (HCS), was a modern civil service system in the State of Hyderabad. In 1882 Sir Salar Jung I dismantled the old Mughal administration practices and traditions and created the Hyderabad Civil Services.

The establishment of Zilabandi system, the creation of Subedari and Taluqdari system, Revenue, Police and Judicial reforms by Salar Jung facilitated the formation of Hyderabad Civil Service. The new system was based on British administration practices. The legal framework of the Hyderabad State Services was laid by the Rules and regulations codified in 1919. The Hyderabad Civil Service, was a coveted service in the State of Hyderabad and was considered to be an elite service, and the best of the government officers were inducted into it through a competitive examination. It was abolished after the Police Action in 1948 and its Officers were absorbed into the Indian government civil services. The top officers of HCS were accommodated at Hyderabad Civil Service House located near Khairatabad and after merger in 1950 this building was converted into College of Nursing.

References

Hyderabad State
Indian Civil Service
Government of Hyderabad, India


Luciano Valente de Deus (born 12 June 1981) is a Brazilian footballer.

External links

Living people
1981 births

Men's association football forwards

Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Paraná Clube players
Sport Club Internacional players
Iraty Sport Club players
Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube players
Daejeon Hana Citizen players
Gyeongnam FC players
Busan IPark players
Foolad F.C. players
Shahin Bushehr F.C. players
K League 1 players
Expatriate men's footballers in South Korea
Expatriate men's footballers in Iran
Footballers from Minas Gerais
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in South Korea
Esporte Clube Internacional (SC) players
People from Ouro Preto


Papa A.P. (born on January 6, 1982, in Chalatenango, Chalatenango, El Salvador) is a singer and producer of reggaeton. His biggest hits are his cover version of "Gasolina" and "Entre tu y yo (entre toi et moi)" (featuring Linda), released in 2005. He has eight brothers and sisters.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

21st-century Salvadoran male singers
1982 births
Living people
Reggaeton musicians


Utrecht Hill Ridge () is a ridge of low sandhills that stretches in a direction from southeast to northwest over the Dutch province of Utrecht and over a part of North Holland. The total length of the region is about 50 km. It covers an area of approximately 23,000 hectares. The part of the ridge in North Holland is commonly called Het Gooi in Dutch, the Gooi (area) in English.

On the southeastern side the ridge rises sharply from the valley of the Nederrijn (“Lower Rhine”). Here the famous Grebbeberg (“Grebbe Mountain”) forms a landmark (52 m. high) where Battle of the Grebbeberg took place in 1940 as important part of Battle of the Netherlands. The highest peak of the ridge is the Amerongse Berg (“Amerongen Mountain”) of 68 m. On the northern side the ridge continues to the shores of the Gooimeer (“Lake Gooi”).

The Utrecht Hill Ridge was created 150.000 years ago as a push moraine in the Wolstonian Stage, a middle Pleistocene glacial period. Before that time the rivers Rhine and Meuse flowed more north, and created deposits of sand. The glaciers pushed these deposits in a southern and western direction.

After the last Ice Age the area got overgrown with woods. In historical times the population increased and woodlands were cleared for cattle and sheep. The Utrecht Hill Ridge was then largely covered with heather and sand drifts. In the 19th and 20th century large parts of the ridge were replanted with trees again.

The Utrecht Hill Ridge has given name to:
 Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a municipality in the southern part of the ridge, that was formed 1 January 2006 as a combination of the former municipalities of Amerongen, Doorn, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Leersum, and Maarn.
 Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park, a national park in the southern part of the region, that was established 11 October 2003. It covers 6,000 hectares.

External links

Ridges of Europe
Regions of the Netherlands
Regions of North Holland
Regions of Utrecht (province)
Landforms of North Holland
Landforms of Utrecht (province)


The 2000 Stuttgart Masters was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 12th edition of the event known that year as the Tennis Masters Series–Stuttgart or Stuttgart Masters, and was part of the Tennis Masters Series events of the 2000 ATP Tour. It took place at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart, Germany, from 30 October to 6 November 2000. Wayne Ferreira won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 Wayne Ferreira  defeated  Lleyton Hewitt, 7–6(8–6), 3–6, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–2), 6–2
It was Ferreira's first singles title of the year, and the 14th of his career.

Doubles

 Jiří Novák/  David Rikl defeated  Donald Johnson /  Piet Norval, 6–2, 6–2
It was Novák's fourth doubles title of the year, and the 13th of his career.
It was Rikl's fourth doubles title of the year, and the 19th of his career.

References
General

Stuttgart Masters


Paul Nugent is a former Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Dublin county team. He was one of the selectors for the Dublin senior football team during Pat Gilroy's first season in charge in 2009. He played inter-county football for Dublin between 1988 and 1991, and played club football with Thomas Davis (winning three Dublin Senior Football Championship medals with them in 1989, 1990 and 1991). He played with the Dublin Junior team, which reached the All-Ireland Junior Football final in 1987 but failed to beat eventual winners Cork. Nugent was Thomas Davis senior football manager until Mick Bolan's appointment in December 2003.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Dublin inter-county Gaelic footballers
Gaelic football managers
Gaelic football selectors
Thomas Davis Gaelic footballers


Server supported gaming (SSG) is a method employed by video lotteries and casinos to operate Video Lottery Terminals (VLTs) and Electronic Gaming Machines (EGMs, commonly referred to as slot machines). An SSG system includes a central system and gaming terminals which connect to the central system. SSG systems may be operated locally over a LAN or span large geographical areas, even entire nations, over a WAN, such as the Internet.

SSG is often mistakenly referred to as Server Based Gaming (SBG), both examples of server centric gaming. A key difference is that in SSG systems, each game terminal has to contain a Random Number Generator (RNG) and complete local copies of the games, whereas SBG systems centralize both the RNG and game logic. In SSG systems, the server support is limited to analysis, content distribution and management, while SBG systems utilize the server for the actual gameplay and multiple other features as well.

Certification and legality
Gaming Laboratories International has created a standard (GLI #21) which includes requirements and definitions for Server Centric Gaming systems, referred to as Client-Server Systems (CSS). GLI differentiates between Server Based Gaming Systems (SBGS) and Server Supported Gaming Systems (SSGS). GLI defines SBGS as “The combination of a server and client terminals in which the entire or integral portion of game content resides on the server.” SSGS is defined as “The combination of a server and client terminal(s) which together allow the transfer of the entire control program and game content to the client terminal(s)…” GLI certifies SBG and SSG systems according to the GLI #21 standard, something which is a requirement by many operators and jurisdictions for them to consider and allow such systems.

References

See also
 Server Based Gaming
 Server centric gaming
 Video lottery terminals
 Slot machine
 Casino game

Gaming devices


The Two Faces of January (1964) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. Its title alludes to the two faces of the Roman god Janus, after whom the month of January was named. Biographer Andrew Wilson, in his 2003 publication Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith claims the title is 'appropriate for the janus-faced, flux-like nature of her protagonists'.

Plot outline
Chester MacFarland is an alcoholic con artist traveling in Greece with his young wife, Colette. In Athens, a private detective questions McFarland, who accidentally kills him during a struggle in his hotel room. A recent acquaintance, a young American law graduate and poet named Rydal Keener, decides to help them, in part because McFarland reminds him of his recently deceased father, from whom he was estranged. He helps McFarland and Colette hide the body and leave Athens under false passports procured by his friend Niko, a local street vendor.

The trio take a flight to Crete and install themselves in a hotel under assumed names. Colette flirts with a smitten Keener in front of McFarland, whose jealousy eventually gets the better of him. On a rainy morning, while they visit the palace of Knossos, MacFarland tries to kill Keener by throwing a pithos at him from above, but accidentally kills Colette instead. Both MacFarland and Keener separately flee the scene undetected and take the same boat back to Athens, now more dependent on each other than ever.

Back in Athens, MacFarland is interviewed by the police, and states that Keener murdered Colette. At the same time, he hires a contract killer to get rid of Keener once and for all. However, MacFarland is unaware that the "hitman", whom he pays in advance, is in fact a florist whom Keener paid to set him up. Keener goes into hiding from the police, while MacFarland procures another false passport and books a flight to Paris.

MacFarland learns from his accomplices that he is wanted in the U.S. over a Ponzi scheme. Nevertheless, he believes that going back to America and starting afresh under a new name is the only option left to him. Keener, who McFarland had assumed was dead, suddenly reappears and blackmails him. Unbeknownst to McFarland, Keener is working with the police to get him to confess to Colette's murder. Leaving behind all his possessions except his cash stuffed into his pockets, McFarland travels by taxi to Lyon and then on to Marseille, where he intends to depart for America.

While waiting for his boat, MacFarland gets drunk in a bar and is mugged, robbed of everything except his overcoat. In his stupor, he is arrested and identified by the French police. In custody, MacFarland gets hold of a guard's pistol, fires at him, and is shot in turn. As he dies, MacFarland takes responsibility for Colette's death, exonerating Keener. After the police clear Keener of any wrongdoing, he promises to go to MacFarland's funeral service out of gratitude.

Reception
The UK-based Crime Writers Association named The Two Faces of January the Best Crime Novel (foreign) for 1964. Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher called it "an offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel".

Adaptations

A first screen adaptation of the novel was filmed in Germany in 1986, as Die zwei Gesichter des Januar. The second adaptation of the novel was released in 2014. It was written and directed by Hossein Amini, and starred Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac.

References

American thriller novels
1964 American novels
American novels adapted into films
Novels by Patricia Highsmith
Novels set in Paris
Novels set in Greece
Doubleday (publisher) books


Judith T. Zeitlin (b. 1958; Chinese: 蔡九迪) is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her areas of interest are Ming-Qing literary and cultural history, with specialties in the classical tale and drama. In 2011 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Zeitlin is "Among the most active
of the literary scholars who focus on women."

She is the daughter of classics scholar Froma Zeitlin and the sister of the economic historian Jonathan Zeitlin.

Selected publications
Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale_志怪史家:蒲松齡與中國古代傳奇小說 (Stanford, 1993)
Writing and Materiality in China, co-edited with Lydia Liu (Harvard, 2003)
"Shared Dreams: The Story of the Three Wives' Commentary on The Peony Pavilion" (1994)
"Disappearing Verses: Writings on Walls and Anxieties of Loss" in Writing and Materiality (2003)
"The Life and Death of the Image: Ghosts and Portraits in Chinese Literature" in Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture, ed. Wu Hung and Katherine Tsiang (Harvard, 2005)
"Notes of Flesh: The Courtesan's Song in Seventeenth-Century China," in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon (Oxford, 2006)
"The Return of the Palace Lady" in Cultural Innovation and Dynastic Decline, ed. David Wang and Wei Shang (Harvard, 2006)
"Music and Performance in Palace of Lasting Life" in Trauma and Transcendence in Chinese Literature, ed. Idema, Li, and Widmer (2006)
"Xiaoshuo" in The Novel, ed. Franco Moretti (2006)

Selected articles in Chinese by Cai Jiudi 蔡九迪
Chongshen yu fenshen: Mingmo Zhongguo xiqu zhong de hun dan. [Doubling and Splitting the Phantom Heroine in Seventeenth-Century Drama] *In Tang Xianzu yu Mudanting yanjiu [Research on Tang Xianzu and Peony Pavilion], ed. Hua Wei (Taipei, 2006)
Tibishi yu Ming Qing zhi ji dui funü shi di shouji [Writing on Walls and the Collection of Women’s Poetry in the Late Ming and Early Qing.]
In Ming Qing wenxue yu xingbie yanjiu [Ming Qing Literature and Gender], ed. Zhang Hongsheng, (Nanjing, 2002)

References

University of Chicago faculty
Living people
1958 births
American sinologists


When Love Speaks is a compilation album that features interpretations of William Shakespeare's sonnets – some spoken, some set to music – and excerpts from his plays by famous actors and musicians, released under EMI Classics in April 2002. The original idea came from Joy Gelardi (now Joy Beresford Frye) who proposed the album as a fund raiser for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. When that plan fell through, Joy and Michael Kamen, together with Alan Rickman, co-produced it in support of RADA. Alan chose the title, which alludes to a speech in Love's Labour's Lost – "And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods make heaven drowsy with the harmony." – which is, however, not on the album.

Alan Rickman proposed the idea for a benefit album for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – where most of the featured actors on this album had studied – and together with Richard Attenborough and Michael Kamen backed it and recruited artists to participate. The launch took place at The Old Vic.

Track listing
"Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises" (from The Tempest – Act III, Scene II), performed by Joseph Fiennes
"Live With Me and Be My Love" (from The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Christopher Marlowe), set to music and sung by Annie Lennox
"As an unperfect actor on the stage" ("Sonnet 23"), performed by John Gielgud
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" ("Sonnet 130"), performed by Alan Rickman
"Why is my verse so barren of new pride" ("Sonnet 76"), performed by Diana Rigg
"Who will believe my verse in time to come" ("Sonnet 17"), performed by Richard Attenborough
"That you were once unkind befriends me now" ("Sonnet 120"), performed by Paul Rhys
"How oft, when thou, my music" ("Sonnet 128"), performed by Juliet Stevenson
"When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" ("Sonnet 29"), set to music and sung by Rufus Wainwright
"Being your slave, what should I do but tend" ("Sonnet 57"), performed by Janet McTeer
"Tired with all these, for restful death I cry" ("Sonnet 66"), performed by Alan Bates
"When I consider everything that grows" ("Sonnet 15"), performed by Marianne Jean-Baptiste
"Let those who are in favour with their stars" ("Sonnet 25"), performed by David Warner
"They that have power to hurt and will do none" ("Sonnet 94"), performed by Siân Phillips
"Those lips that Love's own hand did make" ("Sonnet 145"), performed by John Hurt
"Come again, sweet love doth now invite" (John Dowland) sung by John Potter
"Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" ("Sonnet 129"), performed by Ralph Fiennes
"Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me" ("Sonnet 132"), performed by Matthew Rhys
"I never saw that you did painting need" ("Sonnet 83"), performed by Imelda Staunton
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" ("Sonnet 30"), performed by Kenneth Branagh
"Is it thy will thy image should keep open" ("Sonnet 61"), performed by Fiona Shaw
"Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war" ("Sonnet 46"), performed by Henry Goodman
"No more be grieved at that which thou hast done" ("Sonnet 35"), set to music and sung by Keb' Mo'
"O never say that I was false of heart" ("Sonnet 109"), performed by Susannah York
"Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest" ("Sonnet 3"), performed by Timothy Spall
"Some glory in their birth, some in their skill" ("Sonnet 91"), performed by Peter Barkworth
"How heavy do I journey on the way" ("Sonnet 50"), performed by Gemma Jones
"Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea" ("Sonnet 65"), performed by Jonathan Pryce
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore" ("Sonnet 60"), performed by Richard Wilson
"The quality of mercy is not strained" (from The Merchant of Venice – Act IV, Scene I), set to music and sung by Des'ree
"Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said" ("Sonnet 56"), performed by Tom Courtenay
"Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind" ("Sonnet 113"), performed by Zoe Waites
"Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press" ("Sonnet 140"), performed by Edward Fox
"Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye" ("Sonnet 9"), performed by Trevor Eve
"So it is not with me as with that Muse" ("Sonnet 21"), performed by Imogen Stubbs
"Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws" ("Sonnet 19"), performed by David Harewood
"The Willow Song" (from Othello – Act IV, Scene III), sung by Barbara Bonney
"When my love swears that she is made of truth" ("Sonnet 138"), performed by Richard Johnson
"When I do count the clock that tells the time" ("Sonnet 12"), performed by Martin Jarvis
"What potions have I drunk of siren tears" ("Sonnet 119"), performed by Roger Hammond
"Not marble nor the gilded monuments" ("Sonnet 55"), performed by Richard Briers
"Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye" ("Sonnet 62"), performed by John Sessions
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds" ("Sonnet 116"), performed by Thelma Holt
"Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly" ("Sonnet 8"), set to music by Joseph Shabalala and sung by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
"When forty winters shall besiege thy brow" ("Sonnet 2"), performed by Caroline Blakiston
"No longer mourn for me when I am dead" ("Sonnet 71"), performed by Peter Bowles
"In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes" ("Sonnet 141"), performed by Sylvia Syms
"Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day" ("Sonnet 34"), performed by Robert Lindsay
"Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck" ("Sonnet 14"), performed by Ioan Gruffudd
"My love is as a fever, longing still" ("Sonnet 147"), performed by John Hurt
"The little Love-God lying once asleep" ("Sonnet 154"), performed by Bohdan Poraj
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" ("Sonnet 18"), sung by Bryan Ferry
"Our revels are now ended" (from The Tempest – Act IV, Scene I), performed by Joseph Fiennes

Personnel

Actors

 Peter Barkworth
 Alan Bates
 Kenneth Branagh
 Tom Courtenay
 Trevor Eve
 Joseph Fiennes
 Ralph Fiennes
 Edward Fox
 Sir John Gielgud
 Henry Goodman
 John Hurt
 Bohdan Poraj
 Jonathan Pryce
 Alan Rickman
 Diana Rigg
 Imelda Staunton
 Juliet Stevenson
 Richard Wilson
 Zoe Waites
 David Warner

Musicians

 Barbara Bonney – soprano
 Caroline Dale – cello
 Des'ree – voice
 Bryan Ferry – voice
 Charles Green – clarinet
 Barry Guy – double bass
 Maya Homburger – baroque violin
 Michael Kamen – piano, arranger, composer, conductor, producer, liner notes, executive producer, string arrangements
 Keb' Mo' – voice
 Ladysmith Black Mambazo – voice
 Annie Lennox – voice
 Anna McGarrigle – accordion
 Kate McGarrigle – banjo
 Michel Pépin – bass, guitar, producer, engineer, mixing
 John Potter – voice
 John Surman – tenor saxophone
 Stephen Stubbs – lute
 Gillian Tingay – harp
 Matthew Wadsworth – lute
 Rufus Wainwright – piano, vocals, composer, producer
 Joel Zifkin – violin

Production

 Tony Bridge – mastering
 Tim Atack – mixing
 James Brett – producer, engineer, mixing
 Joseph Shabalala – arranger, producer
 Geoff Foster – engineer
 Martin Jarvis – engineer
 Anthony (Tony) Fisher – engineer
 Brian Tench – engineer
 Ned Douglas – engineer
 Robert Lindsay – engineer
 Don Murnaghan – engineer, mixing
 Iain Roberton – engineer, mixing
 Mark Johnson – engineer, mixing
 Stephen McLaughlin – engineer, mixing
 Ash Howes – mixing
 Ricky Graham – mixing
 Peter Cobbin – pre-mastering

Producers

 Richard Attenborough – liner notes
 Nicholas Barter – liner notes
 Andrew Brown
 Des'ree
 Manfred Eicher
 Bryan Ferry
 Annie Lennox
 Robin Trower
 Alan Rickman
 Prince Sampson

References

External links

2002 compilation albums
2000s spoken word albums
EMI Classics albums
Music based on works by William Shakespeare
Tribute albums to non-musicians


Microtentacles are microtubule-based membrane protrusions that occur in detached cells. They were discovered by scientists studying metastatic breast cancer cells at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

These novel structures are distinct from classical actin based extensions of adherent cells, persist for days in breast tumor lines that are resistant to apoptosis, and aid in the reattachment to matrix or cell monolayers.

The formation of microtentacles (McTNs) in detached or circulating tumor cells may promote seeding of bloodborne metastatic disease.

References

Cell biology


Dinsdale Park is a 19th-century mansion and former Spa hotel at Low Dinsdale, near Darlington, County Durham, England now converted into residential apartments. It is a Grade II listed building.

Low Dinsdale Manor estate, anciently the seat of the Surtees family, was acquired by John Lambton of Lambton in 1770.

In 1789, during drilling for coal, a natural spring of sulphurated mineral water was discovered on the northern bank of the River Tees at Dinsdale. The first Spa was established there in 1797. In 1829 John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham built the Dinsdale Spa Hotel on his estate to a design by architect Ignatius Bonomi. The three storey seven bayed mansion provided accommodation for seventy visitors. The business was not greatly successful and the property was sold for residential use, together with the manor, in 1844 to Henry George Surtees (High Sheriff of Durham) a descendant of the ancient family.

Following the sale of the property in 1914 by Aubone Surtees, the building has had various uses, including a psychiatric hospital, a local authority residential school and a nursing home. The grounds were laid out as a golf course and more recently the building has been converted into residential apartments.

References
  Photograph and architectural description of listed building
  A History of the County of Durham Vol 3, (1928) pp217-222. Low Dinsdale. from British History Online
   University of Newcastle, SINE. Dinsdale Spa Hotel and Spa

Grade II listed buildings in County Durham
History of County Durham


Serve Afghanistan is a charity registered in the UK which works in Afghanistan carrying out community development, education and training projects, particularly for Afghans with disabilities.

It was founded in 1972 to help victims of a famine in Ghor in Afghanistan and it was formally registered in 1980 as SERVE. In 2005 the charity transferred all assets to the newly formed charity Serve Afghanistan.

Serve Afghanistan is primarily funded by grants from other international charities.

References

External links
 Serve Afghanistan

Organizations established in 1972
Foreign charities operating in Afghanistan