Keating v. Edmondson, 2001 OK 110, 37 P.3d 882 (2001), was an Oklahoma Supreme Court case that ruled that the Governor of Oklahoma could not alter the structure of his Cabinet without the approval of the Legislature. The case was primarily concerned with the Governor–Legislature relation. The case is unique because the two parties in the case were both state-wide elected officials:
Frank Keating, the Governor of Oklahoma, was the plaintiff
Drew Edmondson, the Attorney General of Oklahoma, was the defendant

Background
In 1986, the Oklahoma Legislature passed the Executive Branch Reform Act of 1986. The Act allows each Governor of Oklahoma, within 45 days of assuming office, to organize the various State agencies, boards, and commissions into between 10 and 15 Cabinet Departments, with each headed by a Cabinet Secretary. The Governor is allowed to create whatever Cabinet Department he desires and may assign such State agencies to that Cabinet Department as he sees fit. The State agencies assigned to a cabinet department must have "similar programmatic or administrative objectives" but that definition is left to the Governor for determination. Once established, the Governor's Cabinet remains in effect until the Legislature supersedes the governor's organization.

In early May 2000, Governor Frank Keating appointed Russell Perry as acting Secretary of Commerce and sent his nomination as full Secretary to the Oklahoma Senate for approval. However, his nomination was deemed rejected when the Oklahoma Legislature adjourned without consideration his nomination. In response, on May 26, 2000, Governor Keating issued Executive Order No. 2000-11, which abolished the Cabinet Department of Commerce and creating the Cabinet Department of Economic Development and Special Affairs. On the same day, the Governor appointed Russell Perry to serve as the newly created position of Secretary of Economic Development and Special Affairs.

On June 8, 2000, State Senator Angela Monson submitted a request for an official opinion to Attorney General Drew Edmondson concerning the Governor's authority to make changes in his cabinet. Pursuant to statutorily imposed duties, the Attorney General issued an official opinion (Attorney General Opinion 2000 OK AG 54) on October 26, 2000, providing:

Recognizing his duty to follow the Attorney General's opinion until overturned by a court of competent jurisdiction, Governor Keating filed a petition on October 27, 2000, in the District Court of Oklahoma County. The Governor's petition wanted a declaration of relief and stay of effectiveness of the opinion and challenged the cited portions of the opinion. After hearing oral argument and considering the briefs of the parties and of the amicus curiae, such as Stratton Taylor, the  President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate, the trial judge found the Attorney General's opinion to be a correct statement of the law set forth in the Executive Branch Reform Act of 1986.

On December 5, 2000, judgment was entered in the Attorney General's favor and a stay pending appeal was granted. On December 29, 2000, the Governor appealed a single issue - whether a Governor is empowered to reorganize the executive Cabinet throughout the term of office. The appeal was sent to the Oklahoma Supreme Court for consideration.

Case
The Governor asserted that the Executive Branch Reform Act should be interpreted to permit gubernatorial reorganization of his Cabinet throughout a term of office as changing times and circumstances warrant. He argued that the forty-five-day time limitation contained in the statute is merely the period within which the initial Cabinet must be formed. The Attorney General contended that the plain language of the law:
 requires the creation of an executive Cabinet within forty-five days of the Governor's taking office
 the Cabinet so created cannot be altered absent legislative intervention

While acknowledging the legislative authority to alter the executive Cabinet, the Governor argued that the Executive Branch Reform Act contains no express limitation on his reorganization authority. He asserted that the statute was ambiguous in that it does not expressly prevent the governor from altering or amending his cabinet after it is initially established. The Governor contended that the cabinet, however designed or altered during the chief executive's term, will be in effect under the statute unless expressly superseded by the Legislature.

Decision
The Supreme Court decided the case on December 4, 2001. In a unanimous decision, the Court rejected the Governor's appeal. Chief Justice Hargrave authored the majority opinion and was joined by Justices Watt, Hodges, Lavender, Opala, Kauger, Summers, and Boudreau. Justice Winchester wrote a concurring opinion to the majority. Noting that the legislative intent was clear and not ambiguous, the Court rejected the Governor's position and found that state law provided the Governor no power to alter the Cabinet at will.

The Court held that by virtue of office as the chief executive of the state, the Governor did not possess any inherent power to reorganize the Cabinet as circumstances require. The Legislature, it continued, was the only branch that held the reorganization power. Had the Legislature intended to allow gubernatorial authority to alter the cabinet, it could have provided it in the law. The Court found that:

In its majority opinion, the Court did mention that the Legislature was free to amend the Executive Branch Reform Act of 1986 to include the flexibility Governor Keating desired.

See also
Frank Keating
Drew Edmondson
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Executive Branch Reform Act of 1986

External links
 Keating v. Edmondson Opinion

Oklahoma state case law
Governor of Oklahoma
U.S. state separation of powers case law
2001 in United States case law
2001 in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Legislature


Karin Baal (born 19 September 1940), real name Karin Blauermel, is a German film actress. She has appeared in more than 90 films since 1956.

Filmography

Films

1956: Teenage Wolfpack
1957: Tired Theodore
1957:
1957: The Heart of St. Pauli
1958: Rosemary
1958: Iron Gustav
1959: That's No Way to Land a Man
1959:
1959: Jons und Erdme
1959:
1959: The Juvenile Judge
1960: We Cellar Children
1960: Juke Box – Urli d'amore
1960: The Young Sinner
1960:
1961: The Dead Eyes of London
1961:
1961: You Must Be Blonde on Capri
1961:
1962:
1962:
1962: Between Shanghai and St. Pauli
1962: Street of Temptation
1964: Mission to Venice
1966:
1968: The Hound of Blackwood Castle
1969: Hannibal Brooks
1972: What Have You Done to Solange?
1977:
1981: Lili Marleen
1981: Angels of Iron
1981: Desperado City
1981: Lola
1982:
1982:
1984:
1984:
1986: Rosa Luxemburg
1988: The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
1991: The Terrible Threesome
1992: Cosimas Lexikon
2001:
2004:
2004: Das Kuckucksei
2007:

Television

1959: Das letzte Aufgebot
1962: Film an Bord
1963: Karibisches Vergnügen
1963: Der Privatsekretär
1964: Spätsommer
1964: Das Blaue vom Himmel
1965: Michael Kramer
1966: Der Mann aus Brooklyn
1966: Ein Mädchen von heute
1966: Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
1966:
1968:
1969: Ein Jahr ohne Sonntag (TV series)
1971: Der Kommissar: Die Anhalterin
1972: Das System Fabrizzi
1973: Ein für allemal
1974: The Unguarded House
1976: Erika's Passions
1976: Derrick - Season 3, Episode 5: "Schock"
1977:
1979: Drei Freundinnen
1979: Desperado
1979: Wunder einer Nacht
1979: Die Weber
1979/80: Berlin Alexanderplatz
1980: Derrick - Season 7, Episode 8: "Auf einem Gutshof"
1980: Sternensommer (TV series)
1981: Derrick - Season 8, Episode 6 "Tod eines Italieners"
1984:
1984: Le Dernier Civil
1984: Tod eines Schaustellers
1984: Die Abschiebung
1984: Derrick - Season 11, Episode 8: "Ein Mörder zu wenig"
1985: Der Galaxenbauer
1986: Die Fräulein von damals
1986: Dann ist nichts mehr wie vorher
1989: Der letzte Gast
1990: Marleneken
1993: Wenn Engel reisen (TV series)
1995:
1995: 5 Stunden Angst – Geiselnahme im Kindergarten
1998: Alice auf der Flucht / Angst im Nacken
2001: Der Tunnel
2002: Betty – Schön wie der Tod
2003: Für immer verloren
2004: Fliege hat Angst
2005: Irren ist sexy
2006:
2007: Hurenkinder
2009: Pfarrer Braun

References

External links

1940 births
Living people
German film actresses
German television actresses
Actresses from Berlin
20th-century German actresses
21st-century German actresses


Dhivyadharshini "DD" Neelakandan is an Indian television host and actress who prominently works in the Tamil film and television industries.

Initially making her debut as an actress, she featured in supporting roles in films including Kamal Haasan's production Nala Damayanthi (2003), before going on to work in television serials, drawing attention for her performances in the Raadan Media ventures Selvi and Arasi. Since 2007, she has regularly been a host for shows on Vijay TV and in 2014, began hosting Koffee with DD, her own show.

Early life
Dhivyadharshini was born to K. Neelakandan and N. Srilatha. Her sister Priyadarshini is also a television host, while her younger brother is an airline pilot. She attended Our Lady's Matriculation Higher Secondary School and has since has continued part-time education at Anna Adarsh College, Chennai.

Career
Dhivyadharshini made her debut as a television anchor in 1999, when she successfully auditioned to be the child anchor for Vijay TV's Ungal Theerpu. She made a breakthrough as an actress, portraying a serious character in K. Balachander's television serial Rekkai Kattiya Manasu, shown on Raj TV, and subsequently, her performance helped her to popularity and gain further acting assignments. After a few more cameo appearances in films, Dhivyadharshini moved back to television, where she played notable roles in the Raadan Media ventures Selvi and Arase. She has also contributed as a dubbing artiste in films, notably voicing Vega Tamotia in Saroja (2008) and Piaa Bajpai in Goa (2010).

Since 2007, Dhivyadharshini has become one amongst the leading TV anchors as featured on Tamil television and has notably continued to host several reality TV shows on Vijay TV. She hosted the initial seasons of Jodi Number One alongside Deepak and Aravind Akash, as well being the initial host of Boys Vs. Girls.

Personal life
She married her long time friend & assistant director Srikanth Ravichandran. But the couple announced their split in 2017. They filed for divorce in a family court in Chennai subsequently. Dhivyadharshini has rheumatoid arthritis, which prevents her from long-distance walking.

Filmography

Voice Artist

Television

Shows

Serial

Web series

Awards

Vikatan Award
Ananda Vikatan, one of the leading weeklies of Tamil Nadu has been awarding the films, actors and technicians on various criteria.

Vijay Television Awards

References

External links

Living people
Television personalities from Tamil Nadu
Actresses in Tamil cinema
Indian women television presenters
Indian television talk show hosts
Actresses from Chennai
20th-century Indian actresses
21st-century Indian actresses
Actresses in Tamil television
Indian television actresses
Child actresses in Malayalam cinema
Indian VJs (media personalities)
Year of birth missing (living people)


The Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia (in Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Sovet Ensiklopediyası, Cyrillic: Азәрбајҹан Совет Енсиклопедијасы,  or ) is a ten volume universal encyclopedia published in Baku, Azerbaijan from 1976 to 1987 by the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. The editors-in-chief were Rasul Rza and Jemil Kuliyev. A special volume dedicated to Azerbaijan was scheduled to be published after the main ten volumes, but due to rising political problems and difficult economic situation, it has not been released. The complete set has been digitized and archived at the Internet Archive as of 2021.

List of volumes by publication date

Volume I, 1976
Volume II, 1978
Volume III, 1979
Volume IV, 1980
Volume V, 1981
Volume VI, 1982
Volume VII, 1983
Volume VIII,1984
Volume IX, 1986
Volume X, 1987

See also
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
National Encyclopedia of Azerbaijan

References
 "Азәрбајҹан Совет Енсиклопедијасы (Azərbaycan Sovet Ensiklopediyası)" Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin İşlər İdarəsinin Prezident Kitabxanası
"Азәрбајҹан Совет Енсиклопедијасы (Azərbaycan Sovet Ensiklopediyası)" Digitized and archived in the Internet Archive

Azerbaijani-language encyclopedias
Azerbaijani encyclopedias
National Soviet encyclopedias
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Publishing companies of the Soviet Union
Publishing companies established in 1965
1965 establishments in Azerbaijan

20th-century encyclopedias


Niccolò Gattilusio (died 1409) was the first member of the Gattilusio family to rule the city of Aenus (modern Enez in Turkey).

The Gattilusio family came from the Republic of Genoa. The parents of Niccolò and his brother Francesco I Gattilusio are not known, although based on the heraldic evidence of their inscriptions, Anthony Luttrell argues that their mother was a member of the Doria family. He accompanied his brother in his adventures. As the former was rewarded by the Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos with the island of Lesbos, so Niccolò received the coastal city of Ainos, which he took title to at some point between 1376 and 1379. From 1384 to 1387 he served as regent for his nephew Francesco II Gattilusio until the two fell out in an argument between them. When his nephew died in an unusual accident, Niccolò served once more as regent, this time for Francesco's son Jacopo.

He is known to have a daughter Marietta, although the name of her mother is not recorded; she died before him. Niccolò was succeeded by his grand-nephew Palamede as ruler of Ainos.

References

External links

1409 deaths
Italian untitled nobility
House of Gattilusio
Year of birth unknown
Lords of Ainos
14th-century Genoese people
15th-century Genoese people


Střekov Castle (, ) is a ruined castle in Ústí nad Labem in the Central Bohemian Highlands in the Czech Republic. It is perched atop a cliff above the Elbe river. It was built in the 14th century to protect the waterway and collect duties on transported goods, and is renowned for its impressive views.

It has enchanted a variety of visiting artists, most notably Goethe, Richard Wagner, and Karel Hynek Mácha. The castle is especially well known from the painting by Ludwig Richter called Passing the Schreckenstein (Überfahrt am Schreckenstein) which hangs in the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden.

The castle is perched atop a steep, monolithic, clinkstone rock that rises steeply to 100 metres above the Elbe and is the symbol of North Bohemia. Large parts of the castle have survived or been rebuilt, including the bergfried, palas and castle walls.

History

The castle was built in 1316 for King John of Bohemia, the father of the Emperor Charles IV, to guard an important trade route to Germany. Schreckenstein was first mentioned in 1319, when Pešek of Weitmühl was given the new castle as a fief. Only shortly afterwards, Schreckenstein came into the possession of the Bohemian House of Wartenberg from Tetschen (now Děčín). In the Hussite Wars (1419–1434), many persecuted Catholics found refuge on Schreckenstein.

After changing hands several times, the castle was acquired by the Lobkowicz family in 1563 when Wenzel Popel of Lobkowicz became castellan. Around 1570, the castle was rebuilt and expanded. In 1601, the castle passed into the direct possession of the House of Lobkowicz. At the beginning of the 17th century, the castle was no longer permanently inhabited and gradually fell into disrepair.

Its strategic importance led to occupations by Imperial Habsburg, Saxon, and Swedish forces during the Thirty Years' War, as well as successive sieges by Austrian and Prussian armies during the Seven Years' War. It was plundered several times and was heavily damaged during those conflicts, being abandoned as a military installation by the end of the 18th century. However, the 1800s saw many poets and artists visiting the castle, drawn by a new trend of interest in romantic ruins. Well known painters such as Ludwig Richter, Caspar David Friedrich and Ernst Gustav Doerell stayed at the castle and captured it in romantic paintings. Goethe declared the view from the castle's position above the Elbe to be the most beautiful in Central Europe, while Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser was supposedly inspired by his visit to Schreckenstein. In 1830, the first castle inn was set up in the former domestic courtyard, and it still exists today.

In 1948, the castle was confiscated from the Lobkowicz family after almost 400 years and became state property. In 1953, the monument was placed under a preservation order. In 1990, the castle was returned to the Lobkowicz family.

The first preservation work on the castle ruins was carried out at the end of the 19th century and in 1911–1912. A caesura for the castle was the construction of the Elbe Sluice in 1923–1936 directly beneath the castle rock. As important as this dam is for safe navigation on the Elbe, the facility is a particularly blatant example of the destruction of a cultural landscape.

In the 1999 film The Hard Dracula, Střekov served as the backdrop for the castle of Count Dracula.

Wine known as Schreckensteiner was grown in the vicinity of the castle in the 19th century.

Architecture

Střekov Castle is divided into two sections connected by an arched bridge spanning a natural moat—an unusual style for the 14th century, when it was first built. The castle's semi-circular bastions, inspired by French architecture, are possibly the first example of that type of defensive design in Bohemia. The connecting round tower, a smaller tower guarding the castle entrance, and an irregular oblong section of the castle date back to the very earliest period of construction.

Further reading
 Kocourek J., Severní Čechy obrazový vlastivědný průvodce, Freytag & Berndt Praha, 2002
 Sušanka J., Zámky hrady kuturní památky v Severočeském kraji, KKCR a KSSPPOP v Ústí nad Labem

 Vlastimil Pažourek (ed.): Burgen im Grenzraum Sachsen – Böhmen. Iniciativa pro Děčínský zámek, Děčín 2012, , pp. 115–121.
 Tomáš Durdík: Burgen Nordböhmens. Propagační tvorba, Prague, 1992. .
 Franz J. Umlauft: Der Schreckenstein. Eine Beschreibung und Geschichte der Burg. 2nd, improved edn. Selbstverlag, Aussig 1939.
 Ferdinand Bretislav Mikówec: Schloß Friedland und die Burgruinen Bösig und Schreckenstein in Böhmen. Verlag Eduard Hölzel, Vienna and Ölmüz 1859  (online)

External links

 Description of castle at burgenwelt.de
 Description of castle on hrady.cz

Ústí nad Labem District
Castles in the Ústí nad Labem Region
Museums in the Ústí nad Labem Region
Buildings and structures in Ústí nad Labem
Ruined castles in the Czech Republic


U-146 may refer to one of the following German submarines:

 , a Type U 142 submarine laid down during the First World War but unfinished at the end of the war; broken up incomplete 1919–20
 During the First World War, Germany also had this submarine with a similar name:
 , a Type UB III submarine launched in 1918 and but unfinished at the end of the war; broken up incomplete in 1919
 , a Type IID submarine that served in the Second World War until scuttled 2 May 1945; wreck broken up at later date

Submarines of Germany


U-147 may refer to one of the following German submarines:

 , a Type U 142 submarine laid down during the First World War but unfinished at the end of the war; broken up incomplete 1919–20
 During the First World War, Germany also had this submarine with a similar name:
 , a Type UB III submarine launched in 1918 and but unfinished at the end of the war; broken up incomplete in 1919
 , a Type IID submarine that served in the Second World War until sunk on 2 June 1941

Submarines of Germany


The Zwischbergen Pass (el. 3268 m.) () is a high mountain pass across the eastern Pennine Alps, connecting Saas Almagell and Zwischbergen in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

The pass lies between the Weissmies on the north and Portjengrat on the South.

See also
 List of mountain passes in Switzerland

External links
 Information on itinerary (German)

Mountain passes of Valais
Mountain passes of the Alps


Uma Riyaz Khan is an Indian actress. She has appeared in Tamil television shows and in supporting roles in a few Tamil films.

Personal life
Uma was the only child of her artist parents. Her father, Kamesh, was a music director and her mother, Kamala Kamesh, was a famous actress who is well respected in the industry. After losing her father aged nine, she was single-handedly brought up by her mother. She married Malayalam actor Riyaz Khan in 1992. They have two sons, Shariq Hassan Khan and Shamarth Hassan Khan.

Khan went to Fatima Convent School in Kodambakkam. She was a state level athlete in 100 meters, Javelin throw, and a professional dancer. She was a trained classical dancer, and later switched to salsa and other Latin American dance forms.

Career
Uma's first film was the Hindi film Muskurahat (1992) by director Priyadarshan. In the film she played Amrish Puri's daughter. She described her first movie as a 'superb' experience. She calls her work in the film Anbe Sivam (2003) as her magnum opus. For her performance in Mouna Guru (2011), she received a lot of appreciation in the form of awards that year.

She took part in second season of the much talked about show, Jodi Number One, which aired on Vijay TV in 2007. After that she judged a show called Kalakka Povathu Yaaru.  Uma Riyaz Khan acted in the negative role in Chandrakumari serial along with Raadhika Sarathkumar in Sun TV.

Filmography

Films

Television
Serials

Shows

Awards
Vijay Awards
 2011 - Vijay Award for Best Supporting Actress - Mouna Guru

Vikatan Award
2011 - Vikatan Award for Best Supporting Actress - Mouna Guru

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
Tamil actresses
Indian film actresses
Actresses from Chennai
Actresses in Tamil cinema
Actresses in Tamil television
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Actresses in Kannada cinema
Cooku with Comali contestants


Semi Chellas (born 1969) is a director, writer, producer who has written for film, television and magazines. She was born in Palo Alto, California and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. She is known for her work on the television series Mad Men and her film adaptation of American Woman based on Susan Choi's novel of the same name.

Education
She holds a B.A. in literature from Yale University and was a Mellon Fellow in English at Cornell University. She was a screenwriting resident at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.

Career
Chellas was the co-creator with Ilana Frank and executive producer and head writer of the Canadian prime-time dramatic television series The Eleventh Hour, two-time winner of the Gemini Award (Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television award) for Best Series. Chellas and Tassie Cameron shared the Gemini for Best Writing in 2005 for the series finale, "Bumpy Cover".  The series was critically acclaimed; it was nominated for more than 30 Geminis and won nine.

Chellas adapted Linda Spalding’s Who Named the Knife as a television movie entitled Murder on Her Mind; she also executive produced.  She wrote the script for Picture Claire, a low-budget feature directed by Bruce McDonald. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001.  She also wrote The Life Before This, a low-budget feature directed by Jerry Ciccoritti that premiered at TIFF in 1999; she also served as an associate producer. Her script for the Showtime/CBC television movie Restless Spirits (Canadian title:  Dead Aviators) garnered her both a Gemini and a day-time Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Children's Special.

Chellas joined the American series Mad Men in season 5. She co-wrote two episodes of season 5 with Matthew Weiner. Both episodes, "Far Away Places" and "The Other Woman", were nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. "The Other Woman" won a WGA award for Best Episodic Drama.

In season 6, Chellas wrote "Man with a Plan" and co-wrote "Favors." In season 7, she wrote "The Strategy" and co-wrote "Lost Horizon." Along with Matthew Weiner, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "Lost Horizon." She also served as co-executive producer, running the writers room in seasons 6 and 7. Together with her colleagues on the writing staff, Chellas was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for Mad Men in 2013, 2014, and 2015.

Chellas has directed four short films, three of which have premiered at The Toronto International Film Festival: Green Door (written by Barbara Gowdy; selected as one of Canada's Top Ten Short Films 2008 by TIFF);  Trouser Accidents (included in the Best Canadian Short Films Showcase) and Three Stories from the End of Everything (nominated for a Genie Award for best live-action short); and One Tomato.

In addition, she has published short fiction and interviews in Brick, Epoch, The Malahat Review and Grain.  A non-fiction piece on embedded reporters, "Good to Go", appeared in The Walrus and The Commonwealth Journalists' Quarterly''.

Semi Chellas wrote the screenplay for the movie Ophelia, directed by Claire McCarthy, which premiered at Sundance in January 2018. The film stars Daisy Ridley, George MacKay, Naomi Watts, and Clive Owen.

Chellas was an executive producer on the Amazon series The Romanoffs. She wrote the episode "Expectation" starring Amanda Peet and John Slattery.

Her feature directorial debut was American Woman starring Hong Chau and Sarah Gadon. The screenplay was written by Chellas, and she also produced the project, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2019.
American Woman had its international premiere as a gala presentation at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2019.

Indiewire named Semi Chellas as one of their 25 Rising Female Filmmakers to Know in 2019. American Woman was the opening gala presentation at the Female Eye Film Festival in 2020.

At the 2019 Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival, the film won the following awards: Best Director, Best Film, Best Actress, and Best Cinematography. It won the Special Jury Prize for lead actresses Chau and Gadon at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2019. American Woman also received a special presentation at the Victoria International Film Festival in 2020 and won the Gold Remi award for period film at WorldFest-Houston in 2020.

Chellas has mentored and taught at Maisha Film Lab of East Africa, Toronto Workshop for Underprivileged Youth, Tribeca Festival's Through Her Lens, and at the Sundance Institute.

Along with Patricia Rozema, Chellas was the screenwriter in residence at the University of Toronto in 2003. She delivered The Gellman Lecture in English at Cornell University in 2016. She received the Crystal Award for Creative Excellence from Women in Film and Television Toronto (WIFT-T), as well as the Margaret Collier Award for Writing from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television in 2013. Chellas received the Inaugural award for Creative Excellence in 2014 at the Canadian Film Centre (presented by Norman Jewison).

Personal life
Semi Chellas is now based in Los Angeles, where she lives with her partner, writer-director Mike Goldbach, and their two children.

Her interest in social change fuels much of her writing, including her Emmy nominated work on Mad Men, and her directorial debut American Woman. Her writing is influenced by social issues and themes that are pervasive in society, in particular sexism, racism and political activism. She is a supporter of Black Lives Matter, having witnessed the protests that took place outside her home in Los Angeles during the pandemic in 2020. This stems from her upbringing by parents, who were very politically engaged, and this influenced her own passion for activism.
A theme in her dramatic writing is people's struggle to change.

References

External links

American expatriate writers in Canada
Writers from Calgary
Screenwriters from Toronto
Writers from Palo Alto, California
1969 births
Living people
American women screenwriters
Canadian television producers
Canadian women television producers
Yale College alumni
American women television writers
Canadian women screenwriters
Canadian Film Centre alumni
Screenwriters from California
Canadian women television writers
Writers Guild of America Award winners


Tharika is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil films and television serials. She first appeared in a character role in Bharathiraja's Eera Nilam before she shifted to item numbers.

She participated in season 1 of the reality dance show Jodi Number One.

Filmography

Films

Television series
Tamil
 Marabhu Kavithaigal
 Chiththi as Shwetha
 "Premi" as Preethi
 Getti Melam
 Kalki
 Lakshmi
 Sivamayam
 Thavam
 Simran Thirai
 Poi Solla Porom
 Ramany vs. Ramany Part II
Malayalam
Unniyarcha (Asianet) as Unniyarcha
Kavyanjali (Surya TV)

References

External links

Living people
Tamil actresses
Indian film actresses
Actresses from Tamil Nadu
Year of birth missing (living people)
Actresses in Kannada cinema
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Actresses in Tamil cinema
Actresses in Malayalam television
Actresses in Tamil television


Mediehuset Østfold AS is a Norwegian media company. Owned 99.3% by Edda Media, it publishes the Østfold-based newspapers  and Sarpsborgavisa. It also owns the local radio stations Radio Sarpsborg, Radio Fredrikstad and Radio Moss.

In the spring of 2008, the "best profit margin of all times" was announced, with expectations for an even better fiscal year in 2008. In the autumn of the same year, Edda Media demanded a five percent cut in expenditures.

References

Mass media in Østfold
Companies based in Fredrikstad


Occupation is a three-part drama serial broadcast by BBC One in June 2009. It was written by Peter Bowker and produced by Kudos for BBC Northern Ireland.

It took four years to bring the serial to screen. Filming took place in Morocco and Northern Ireland.

The serial follows the fortunes of three British Army soldiers from the 2003 invasion of Basra  to 2007. Each is inspired to return to Basra for different reasons: one returns for love, one for monetary gain, and one for his belief in the mission to rebuild the country.

It received the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Serial in 2010.

Episodes

Episode 1
A British Army section led by Sergeant Mike Swift are attempting to assault a sniper group in an apartment block in Basra. The group are caught in a grenade blast, and several members of the section and an innocent young Iraqi girl are injured. Swift carries the girl to a local hospital, where he meets Dr Aliya Nabil. The unit returns to Manchester, England, with Swift being hailed as a hero, but all experience difficulty integrating back into normal family life. The girl and Aliya have also travelled to England, and Swift begins to fall in love with the doctor, nearly embarking on an affair. Having left the Army, Corporal Danny Ferguson finds solace in drugs, before going into partnership with Sergeant Erik Lester, a former U.S. Marine who was impressed by Ferguson's calmness under fire and has gone into business as a contractor for a private military company. Ferguson and Lester return to Iraq, and secure a contract to escort American businessmen around hospitals and clinics they are planning to rebuild. Lance Corporal Lee Hibbs, having also left the Army and being unimpressed with work as a nightclub bouncer, joins Ferguson and Lester, thinking he can play a role in rebuilding Iraq. On their first assignment, the escort group dress and apply makeup to look like Arabs, and begin their escort job in two old cars. After becoming separated from their other car, Ferguson and Lester, with the American businessman, are ambushed in a roadblock, and the episode ends with Ferguson somewhat comically stripping naked in front of a British patrol shouting "I'm from Kirkby!", mirroring the actor's real world origins, in order to prove he is British, the car having been driven away from the ambush by Lester, who has been shot in the neck. Meanwhile, Aliya and the little girl return to Iraq without telling Swift, leading him to volunteer to return.

Episode 2
Episode 2 begins in March 2004, four months after episode 1. Swift, promoted to Staff Sergeant and transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps, is looking for Aliya by enquiring at her former hospital, where he meets Dr Sadiq Alasadi, a male doctor and influential local figure, who had been missing presumed dead in prison under Saddam Hussein's rule. Having saved the American, Lester and Ferguson outfit, Pacific Solutions, has flourished, and they are looking to expand from simple escort protection of contractors, to organising the reconstruction projects as well, starting with Sadiq's hospital. Reunited, Ferguson informs Swift that he knows where Aliya is, and while as a friend warns him against contacting her, as a businessman he says he will tell him, in exchange for putting a word in with Sadiq. He agrees, but on finding her working in another clinic she again refuses his advances and reveals she had been married all along. Swift, Ferguson and Lester meet Sadiq at the hospital, and once he learns of Swift's earlier heroics, Paterson and Lester secure the contract. In the process, Swift learns that Sadiq is Aliya's husband, to the amusement of Lester and Ferguson. On a further visit, Aliya rejects an offer from Swift to take her to England, even though conditions for her are worsening in Iraq.

Moving into August 2004, Yunis, an Iraqi translator working for Pacific solutions, who has befriended Hibbs, leaves the firm to set up his own pizzeria. While at his shop, Yunis is murdered by two Iraqi policeman for collaborating. Hibbs is off guard not expecting danger, as he trained the pair while he was in the Army. Hibbs, angry at the death, seeks revenge, but is persuaded not to act by Ferguson and Lester. Fearing he is having a breakdown, Ferguson arranges for Swift to take Hibbs back to England on his transport a week later, as he finishes his second tour.

A year later, Hibbs and Swift are back home, and it is around the time of the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Hibbs' view of the Iraqi people has hardened, and he states he endorses the July attackers' actions, if it makes his sister, who has constantly opposed the war, realise "what they are like". Meanwhile, in Iraq, Pacific Solutions is expanding, and Ferguson and Lester enter a partnership with Western investors in Dubai, explaining how they cream money off the top of coalition reconstruction grants by inventing cost overruns. Swift's wife has guessed that he had an affair and demands he leave the marital home. Hibbs, obsessed with Yunis's death, returns to Iraq at Christmas, visits his wife and family, and gives them all his savings. On leaving their house, he is kidnapped by a militant group led by the two policeman he knows. The episode ends with Hibbs being forced to video a statement stating that he is a private contractor and he and the United States and British forces should not be in Iraq. Meanwhile, against the wishes of Lester, Ferguson and a colleague look for him in the streets of Basra.

Episode 3
Still in December 2005, Ferguson has located the police station where Hibbs is being held after being told by Yassin, Yunis's teenage son, who witnessed the kidnap. He is successfully exchanged for money, to the anger of Lester. To pay back Lester, Ferguson persuades him that Hibbs can be used to drive a regular truck shipment they have been contracted to undertake from Kuwait to Basra, which routinely runs empty while Pacific Solutions are still paid for the job. Ferguson and Lester meet Sadiq to sign off on a contract. After Ferguson attempts a last minute change to the sundries total from $6,000 to $60,000, the doctor refuses to sign the contract, to the annoyance of Lester who sees an avenue to millions of dollars' worth of contacts closed. Back at base, Ferguson forges the doctor's signature on the contract and tells Lester to go ahead with it. Sadiq gets into an argument with three young militiamen who want treatment for a wounded member, but object to the hospital's continued use of women doctors against mosque instructions. As he leaves for home, he is kidnapped by unseen assailants as he stands next to his car.

By June 2007, Swift's son, Richard, has decided to join the Army, and instead of leaving the Army, Swift, who is now divorced, returns to Basra to watch over his son on his first tour. Relations between Lester and Ferguson worsen as Ferguson expresses boredom with life in Dubai. They agree to split their skills, with Lester in Dubai and Petersen in Basra. Swift learns of Sadiq's kidnap, and visits his wife in the hospital, where she is now forced to work out of sight in the pharmacy. While he is obliged to communicate through a male intermediary, she tells him she does not know who is holding him and that no ransom demand has been made. After consulting with Yassin, Swift theorises that, since no ransom has been demanded, he may have been arrested by British or American authorities, but gets nowhere with inquiries. Swift arranges for Hibbs to bring Aliya to his office, where they have sex, apparently for the first time, and Yassin, who has been getting progressively more religious, expresses displeasure at being in the company of "immoral women" like her.

Three months later, having got nowhere, Swift turns to Ferguson for help, and they argue, as Ferguson assumes that Sadiq must have done something to deserve being arrested, being no good just like "everybody in this country", bombing and killing each other over religion and tribal conflict. After Swift leaves, Ferguson eventually instructs Hibbs and a colleague to do a job for him; they protest that they should not go outside with fewer than six men, and he counters that work is drying up and they cannot afford to use more. Hibbs meets an Arab pair in the desert, who in exchange for money, hand over a hooded man, who Hibbs discovers is Sadiq. They return him to the hospital, and pay him off with compensation, insisting the incident was a case of mistaken identity.

As they leave, they drive into a demonstrating mob, and after grounding their car are forced to escape on foot as the mob turns on them. As Swift is in the British base, attempting to counsel his son who is not coping well with his first tour, he gets a message from Aliya, asking him to come to the hospital. On arriving, Sadiq reveals it was Ferguson who kidnapped him, and he urges Swift to go to the press to expose Pacific Solutions and to take Aliya out of Iraq, intimating that he knows of their affair, but believes that he "is finished" and that Swift is her best hope of safety. Lester returns to the Basra Pacific office, and is angry at Ferguson, blaming his erratic behaviour, bullying and forgery for losing a multimillion-dollar oil field deal. As they argue, Ferguson receives a call for help from Hibbs, who with his colleague are pinned down. Lester prepares to leave to help Hibbs, while urging Ferguson to take some responsibility for the situation. Ferguson responds by stating he will call the British Army in to rescue the pair, over objections from Lester, who states it would finish them in Iraq.

Richard Swift is a member of the patrol tasked to rescue Hibbs, but is separated from his unit and finds himself in an apartment block. He unsuccessfully attempts to radio for help, and then texts his father, who is in the hospital with Sadiq and Aliya; all three are by now helping the victims of the developing violence outside. As militia arrive, Yassin now among them, Swift is urged to leave by his translator. As Swift leaves, Aliya is pinned up against a wall and shot in the head by Yassin. Swift receives the text message from his son, and finds him dead in the apartment block.

Back in England, Ferguson, Hibbs and Swift are at Richard's funeral. The episode ends with the men in a bar afterwards, with Swift angry at Ferguson, blaming him for his son being there, fighting the guilt of having not got to him in time. Hibbs, having become a counsellor for returning servicemen, is prepared to aid Swift in "taking down" Ferguson and Lester with information about their dodgy dealings. Ferguson retaliates by stating that his new-found reason for risking his life in Iraq is money, in contrast to the lack of a reason while in the Army. Swift questions what has happened to him, to which he replies "I went to Iraq, why, what happened to you?". The episode ends poignantly as all three are left sitting in the bar, all close to tears.

Cast
 James Nesbitt as Mike Swift
 Stephen Graham as Danny Ferguson
 Warren Brown as Lee Hibbs
 Nonso Anozie as Erik Lester
 Yigal Naor as Dr Sadiq Alasadi
 Lubna Azabal as Dr Aliya Nabil
 Omar Berdouni as Ahmed
 Monica Dolan as Nicky Swift
 Andrew-Paul Roberts as Richard Swift
 Lewis Alsamari as Yunis
 Fenar Mohammed-Ali as Yassin
Greg Kelly as Spike
 John Prentice as John Prentice the 3rd of Lisburn Town

Critical reception
Tim Walker of The Independent called Occupation "a predictably masterly production" but felt that its "bleak climax...stretched the bounds of plausibility". Writing for The Times, Caitlin Moran praised Nesbitt's performance as "surpringsly gripping". Helen Rumbelow, also from The Times, reviewed the first episode and felt the opening "a sequence of brilliant film-making" but criticised the acting from Nesbitt and Graham as "a touch too comedic". The Telegraph felt the series gave "a poignant sense of the ironies" of the war in Iraq, praised writer Peter Bowker and summarised by calling the series "Truly excellent". Kathryn Flett wrote in The Guardian that "Nesbitt was very good and easy to like" but "not the film's star", feeling that performances by Stephen Graham and Warren Brown "made the deeper, more lasting impression". She also praised the writing as "thrilling - funny, sad, real, believable".

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Gebhardt Georg Arendt (5 May 1925 – 28 May 2013) was a German actor, cabaret artist and comedian. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1956 and 2002. He was born in Danzig, Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland) and died in Munich, Germany, aged 88 from Alzheimer's disease.

Partial filmography

 It Was Always So Nice With You (1954) - Peters Begleiter in Hafenbar (uncredited)
 The Model Husband (1956)
 The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958) - Lagerinsasse
 Das haut einen Seemann doch nicht um (1958)
 Der Sündenbock von Spatzenhausen (1958) - Leopold Lugauer
 Kleine Leute mal ganz groß (1958) - Alois Knopf
 Mikosch of the Secret Service (1959) - Major Claus Dieter Graf Schnackewitz
 Paprika (1959)
 Der Frosch mit der Maske (1959) - James
 A Summer You Will Never Forget (1959) - Ruprecht
 The Crimson Circle (1960) - Sgt. Haggett
 Schlagerparade 1960 (1960) - Dixi Dolant
 The Terrible People (1960) - Antony Edwards
 Gustav Adolf's Page (1960) - Anton Leublfing
 The Green Archer (1961) - Spike Holland
 Schlagerparade 1961 (1961) - Dixie Dolan
 The Dead Eyes of London (1961) - Sergeant / Inspektor S. "Sunny" Harvey
 The Forger of London (1961) - Nachbar Stone / Organist Miller
 Musik ist Trumpf (1961) - Manager Nicky
 The Strange Countess (1961) - Lord Selwyn 'Selly' Moron
 So liebt und küsst man in Tirol (1961) - Graf Hasso Steinbach
 The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (1962) - Parker
 The Door with Seven Locks (1962) - Kriminalassistent Holms
 Wenn die Musik spielt am Wörthersee (1962) - Eddy Kummer
 The Inn on the River (1962) - Barnaby
 Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962) - Lord Castlepool
The Curse of the Yellow Snake (1963) - Samuel Carter
 The Squeaker (1963) - Josua 'Jos' Harras
 The Black Abbot (1963) - Horatio W. Smith
 The Indian Scarf (1963) - Richard Maria Bonwit
 The Secret of the Black Widow (1963) - Fish
 Room 13 (1964) - Dr. Higgins
 The Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964) - Ferry Westlake
 Der Hexer (1964) - Archibald Finch
 Last of the Renegades (1964) - Lord Castlepool
 Traitor's Gate (1964) - Hector
 Neues vom Hexer (1965) - Archibald Finch
 The Sinister Monk (1965) - Smith
 The Fountain of Love (1966) - Alwin Knobbe
 Circus of Fear (1966) - Eddie
 The Hunchback of Soho (1966) - Reverend David
 Maigret and His Greatest Case (1966) - François Labas
 The Trygon Factor (1966) - Emil Clossen
 Spy Today, Die Tomorrow (1967) - Prof. Strahlmann
 Feuer frei auf Frankie (1967) - Kaiser
 Ich spreng' euch alle in die Luft (1968) - Sgt. Harry Colman
 The Valley of Death (1968) - Lord Castlepool
 Das Go-Go-Girl vom Blow-Up (1969) - Dr. Adler
 Help, I Love Twins (1969) - Mr. Brown
 The Sex Nest (1970) - Majordomus alias Paganini
  (1970) - Hausmeister Gustav
 When You're With Me (1970) - Tobby Kirsch
  (1970) - Amtsrat Ernst Springbock
 Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best (1971) - Archibald Krüglein
 Hilfe, die Verwandten kommen (1971)
 Kompanie der Knallköppe (1971) - Adam Kahlfuß
  (1972) - Moritz Morris
 Always Trouble with the Reverend (1972) - Punchen
 The Heath Is Green (1972) - Herr Locher
 Blue Blooms the Gentian (1973) - Dr. Überlein
 Old Barge, Young Love (1973) - Eugen Quandt
 Das Wandern ist Herrn Müllers Lust (1973) - Dr. Schön
 Unsere Tante ist das Letzte (1973) - Otto-Wilhelm Hirsekorn
 Opération Lady Marlène (1975) - Simson
 The Secret Carrier (1975) - Weisbach
 Lady Dracula (1977) - Eddie
 Himmel, Scheich und Wolkenbruch (1979) - Professor Ewald Ziebiz
 Keiner hat das Pferd geküsst (1980) - Eddi
  (1990) - Psychiatrist
  (1995) - Klapka
  (2000) - Eddi

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U-158 may refer to one of the following German submarines:

 , the lead ship of the Type U 158 submarines; launched in 1918 during World War I; unfinished at the end of the war; broken up incomplete
 , a Type IXC submarine that served in World War II until sunk on 30 June 1942

Submarines of Germany


Glimcher Realty Trust was a real estate investment trust based in Columbus, Ohio that invested in shopping malls. In 2015, the company was acquired by Washington Prime Group.

Investments
As of December 31, 2013, the company owned interests in 28 shopping centers in 15 states in the United States containing 19.3 million square feet of gross leasable area.

Notable properties wholly owned by the company included the following:

History
The company was founded as The Glimcher Company by Herbert Glimcher in 1959, who started in the lumber business. Throughout much of its history, the company's largest tenant was Kmart.

In 1998, the company acquired 5 shopping malls for $375 million.

In 1999, the company received a $1 billion investment from Nomura Holdings to build 4 shopping centers.

On January 26, 1994, the company became a public company via an initial public offering.

In 2004, the company sold 25 properties for $103.1 million.

In 2007, the company sold University Mall in Tampa, Florida for $149 million.

In 2010, the company closed a $320 million joint venture with The Blackstone Group, which included the sale of a 60% interest in 2 malls.

In 2011, the company completed an asset swap with DDR Corp. in which the company sold Polaris Towne Center and purchased Town Center Plaza for $139 million.

In 2013, the company acquired University Park Village in Fort Worth, Texas for $105 million. The company also acquired Blackstone's 60% interest in WestShore Plaza.

In 2015, the company was acquired by Washington Prime Group for $4.3 billion in stock and cash. As part of the transaction, Jersey Gardens and University Park Village were sold to Simon Property Group for $1.09 billion.

References

1959 establishments in Ohio
2015 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct real estate companies of the United States
Real estate companies established in 1959
Washington Prime Group


U-159 may refer to one of the following German submarines:

 , a Type U 158 submarine launched in 1918 during World War I but unfinished at the end of the war; broken up
 , a Type IXC submarine that served in the Second World War until sunk on 28 July 1943

Submarines of Germany


The Committee for Education is a Northern Ireland Assembly committee established to advise, assist and scrutinise the work of the Department of Education and Minister for Education (currently Peter Weir (politician))on matters within his or her responsibility as a minister. The committee undertakes a scrutiny, policy development and consultation role and plays a key role in the consideration and development of legislation.

Membership

References

External links
 Official website

Northern Ireland Assembly


View from the Vault is a four-part series of live DVDs and companion soundtracks by the Grateful Dead. The audio is taken from the soundboard and the video from the video screens at the concerts. Each volume was released simultaneously as an album on CD and as a concert performance video on DVD.

Volumes
The first volume was recorded and filmed at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh on July 8, 1990 with bonus material recorded two days earlier at Cardinal Stadium, Louisville. The soundtrack was released as a 3-CD set.

The second volume features the June 14, 1991 concert at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington, D.C., and bonus material from a show at the same venue on July 12, 1990. It is the only Grateful Dead video release featuring Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby. The DVD contains one track that is not on the CD, "Box of Rain", recorded at the 1990 show.  It also includes a music video, "Liberty", directed by Justin Kreutzmann, the son of Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann.

The third volume contains the June 16, 1990 show at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The album also includes six songs from a show at the same venue on October 3, 1987.  One of these is "My Brother Esau", the first appearance of this song on CD.

The fourth volume contains two consecutive complete shows—July 24, 1987, at Oakland Stadium, and July 26, 1987 at Anaheim Stadium.  The album was released as a 4-CD set. These concerts were recorded during the "Dylan & the Dead" tour.  On this brief tour, each Grateful Dead show was followed by a performance by Bob Dylan, with the Dead providing accompaniment.  Songs from those performances are documented on the album Dylan & the Dead. The fourth volume was the only volume that was not also released on VHS videotape.  It was also the only DVD of the series that included the option of either a two-channel stereo or a Dolby 5.1 channel surround sound soundtrack.

See also
 Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies

References

 Post-Gazette.com
 Worcester Telegram & Gazette Archives
 Worcester Telegram & Gazette Archives
 Suburban Chicago Newspapers – Search Results
 The Dead Lives On In Many Art Forms
 Daily Herald | Electronic Archive
 Philadelphia Daily News: Search Results

2000s live albums
2000s video albums


Michael L. Goldfarb (born June 6, 1980) is an American conservative political writer. He was contributing editor for The Weekly Standard and was a research associate at the Project for the New American Century. During the 2008 presidential race he served as John McCain's deputy communications director. He is a founder of the online conservative magazine The Washington Free Beacon. Goldfarb attracted some online attention for two posts ridiculing liberal bloggers as basement-dwelling Dungeons & Dragons players.

Goldfarb graduated with an A.B. in history from Princeton University in 2002 after completing a 98-page-long senior thesis, titled "The Search for Stability in Afghanistan: The Lessons of State Building in Afghan History," under the supervision of Stephen Kotkin.

In an article titled "A Conservative Provocateur, Using a Blowtorch as His Pen," The New York Times called Goldfarb "an all-around anti-liberal provocateur" and said he "has blazed a trail in the new era of campaign finance, in which loosened restrictions have flooded the political world with cash for a whole new array of organizations that operate outside the traditional bounds of the parties."

Accusation of antisemitism against Obama
As a blogger and deputy communications director for the McCain presidential campaign, Goldfarb told CNN, "The point is that Barack Obama has a long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric."

Asked to be specific, Goldfarb named Rashid Khalidi, a Columbia University professor who once held a fundraiser for Obama, but then refused to cite anyone else. Blogger Andrew Sullivan wrote on The Daily Dish, "Asked to name one other anti-Semite other than his allegation about Rashid Khalidi, he can't. He won't. But he leaves it hanging, refusing to disown or retract the charge. This is pure McCarthyism. And it is the rotten core of McCain." Goldfarb later explained that the McCain campaign had decided not to make mention of Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright, who has a long history of such rhetoric.

Beauchamp affair
While at The Weekly Standard, Goldfarb was the first to raise doubts about the veracity of Scott Beauchamp's then-anonymous Iraq reporting for The New Republic.

Affiliations
 Orion Strategies LLC – Senior Vice President
 Emergency Committee for Israel – Advisor
 Keep America Safe – Advisor

References

External links
 Video debates and discussions involving Goldfarb on Bloggingheads.tv
 Ken Silverstein, Neoconservatives hype a new Cold War, Salon, 5 October 2011.  One can hear an interview with Silverstein on this topic on AntiWar.com (8 October 2011).  Contains an extensive discussion about Goldfarb.
 IPS Right Web profile on Michael Goldfarb Retrieved 2011-11-06

American bloggers
Jewish American writers
American political writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
American male non-fiction writers
Living people
Princeton University alumni
The Weekly Standard people
1980 births
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male bloggers
21st-century American Jews


John Wesley Mayhew Whiting (June 12, 1908 Chilmark, Massachusetts – May 13, 1999, Chilmark, Massachusetts) was an American  sociologist and anthropologist, specializing in child development.

Whiting grew up on Martha's Vineyard, on the Massachusetts coast. He received his B.A. in 1931 and his Ph.D. in sociology & anthropology in 1938, both from Yale University. He remained at Yale until 1947 on the staff of Yale Institute of Human Relations. After two years at the State University of Iowa, he was offered a position at Harvard in the Graduate School of Education. In 1963 he transferred to the Department of Social Relations, where he taught and conducted research in anthropology and comparative child development.

Together with his wife Beatrice, John Whiting organized the Six Cultures Study of Socialization, the largest and most comprehensive comparative study of child rearing and child development. The study assigned teams of anthropologists with interdisciplinary training in psychology and child development to six sites around the world: The six cultures studied are "Nyansongo: a Gusii community in Kenya" (Robert A. LeVine and Barbara B. LeVine); "the Rajputs of Khalapur, India" (Leigh Minturn and John T. Hitchcock); "Taira: an Okinawan village" (Thomas W. Maretzki and Hatsumi Maretzki) ; "the Mixtecans of Juxtlahuaca, Mexico" (Kimball Romney and Romaine Romney); "Tarong: an Ilocos barrio in the Philippines" (William F. Nydegger and Corinne Nydegger); and "the New Englanders of Orchard Town, USA". (John L. Fischer and Ann Fischer). The Whitings continued work on comparative child development, both with their own fieldwork and through many students and collaborators, throughout their careers.

In 1973, the American Psychological Association honored him with the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Psychology. Whiting was elected the first President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology in 1978. In 1982, John and his wife, Beatrice (née, Blyth) Whiting, won the American Anthropological Association's Distinguished Service Award. In 1989, they received the Society's first Career Contribution Award.

References

External links

 Robert L. Munroe and Robert A. LeVine, "John Wesley Mayhew Whiting", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)

Yale College alumni
Yale University faculty
University of Iowa faculty
Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty
1908 births
1999 deaths
People from Chilmark, Massachusetts
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni


John "Jack" Thomas (b. April 28, 1952) is a former All-American lacrosse player at Johns Hopkins University from 1972 to 1974.

Lacrosse career

Thomas was the Baltimore Sun 1970 Athlete of the Year at Towson High School where he played Varsity Lacrosse for his father, William Thomas Sr.–considered the dean of Maryland high school coaches–as well as playing Varsity Football (Quarterback) and Basketball (Point Guard).

With the Blue Jays, Thomas led the team to a national title in 1974. He is ranked fourth all-time in Hopkin's career scoring with 224 points. Thomas earned first-team All-America honors all three years while in college, as well as being named the Jack Turnbull Award winner in 1973 and 1974. Thomas also led Hopkins to championship finals in 1972 and 1973, getting upset by Virginia 13-12 and losing in double overtime 10-9 to Maryland. During his career at Hopkins, Thomas led the team to an overall 34 and 6 record.

Thomas was elected to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1989, and is considered one of the top lacrosse players of all time, having been named to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Silver Anniversary team. He is tenth all-time in NCAA career points-per-game, and fourth all-time in career points at Hopkins. Thomas also played quarterback on the Johns Hopkins' football team, ranking 10th in total yardage in NCAA Division III in 1974.

Thomas led the US Men's National Lacrosse Team in winning the 1974 IFL World Lacrosse Championship hosted at Olympic Park Stadium in Melbourne, Australia and was awarded the Ray Kinderman Trophy for "Best and Fairest Player" of the tournament.

Post-lacrosse
After teaching World History and having coaching tenures of Boys Varsity lacrosse and both the Boys and Girls Soccer teams at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland, Thomas taught World History at Centennial High School in Ellicott City, Maryland/. During his tenure at Centennial, he was instrumental in winning 3 more Maryland state titles.  After the 2014-2015 school year, Thomas retired from teaching. He's a magician.

Statistics

Johns Hopkins University

 [a] 10th in NCAA career points-per-game

Accomplishments
1969 Maryland State High School Scoring Leader - Boys Varsity Lacrosse
1970 Maryland State High School Scoring Leader - Boys Varsity Lacrosse
1970 Baltimore Sun - First Team All-Metro - Boys Varsity Football
1970 Baltimore Sun - High School Athlete of the Year
1970 MSLCA C. Markland Kelly Award - Best High School Lacrosse Player in the State of Maryland
1972 Johns Hopkins University W. Kelso Morrill Award - Outstanding Attackman
1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse - First Team All-American
1973 Johns Hopkins University W. Kelso Morrill Award - Outstanding Attackman
1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse - First Team All-American
1973 USILA Jack Turnbull Award - National Collegiate Attackman of the Year
1974 Johns Hopkins University W. Kelso Morrill Award - Outstanding Attackman
1974 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse - National Champion Title (Johns Hopkins University)
1974 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse - Single Season Scoring Record
1974 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse - First Team All-American
1974 USILA Jack Turnbull Award - National Collegiate Attackman of the Year
1974 World Lacrosse Championship World Champion Title (United States)
1974 World Lacrosse Championship Ray Kinderman Trophy (Best and Fairest Player of Tournament)
1989 Inductee - National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
1995 Voted - NCAA Men's Lacrosse Silver Anniversary Team

See also
National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
Johns Hopkins Blue Jays lacrosse
1974 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
World Lacrosse Championship

References

External links
The Baltimore Game, Time Magazine, May. 21, 1973
Jays Take It Back, Sports Illustrated, June 10, 1974
Cornell, Hopkins Advance to Lacrosse Final - Harvard Crimson 1977
Jack Thomas USA Lacrosse HOF Entry
1974 US Men's National Lacrosse Team Roster (World Champions)
One Stick Rebuilds The Hopkins Dynasty, Sports Illustrated, May 01, 1972
Jack Thomas Lacrosse Action Photo
Johns Hopkins University Athletics HOF Entry

Awards

American lacrosse players
Johns Hopkins Blue Jays men's lacrosse players
Johns Hopkins Blue Jays football players
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
American educators
Sportspeople from Towson, Maryland
Sportspeople from Baltimore County, Maryland
1952 births
Sportspeople from Columbia, Maryland
Players of American football from Maryland


Moishe Tokar (Yiddish: משה טאָקאַר; fl. 1905–1910) was a Jewish anarchist who attempted to assassinate the Russian general Sergei Gershelman.

Anarchist activity
During the 1905 Russian Revolution, Tokar lived in Warsaw (then part of the Russian Empire) where he was a member of an anarchist collective of Jewish workers known as International. His daring in propaganda of the deed won him renown within the Russian anarchist movement. After escaping arrest by the police in Warsaw, he became a fugitive before being captured and imprisoned in the city's notorious Citadel prison. Possessing no identifying documents, he defied torture and managed to withhold his name from the authorities. In 1907 he escaped, fleeing first to Paris and then to London, where he became an associate of the revolutionary, Judith Goodman, and anarchist theorist, Rudolf Rocker.

Finding life in both cities too tame, he returned from London to Paris with the intention of returning to Russia. In Paris he met a group of similarly disposed young Russian illegalists, with whom he planned to rob a Parisian bank, but the group were betrayed by one of their own and arrested. Under the influence of Prime Minister Clemenceau, who was sympathetic to their youthful idealism and unaware of their criminal intent, the group were not imprisoned but rather were ordered to leave Paris on the next train.

Tokar returned to London, where he remained for nearly a year before informing his colleagues that he was unable to tolerate it any longer and would risk traveling to Russia, whatever the consequences.

Assassination attempt and death
In January 1909 he finally returned to his native country, settling in Łódź. There he read reports of the cruel torture of political prisoners in Vilnius and resolved to assassinate Sergei Gershelman, the military commander responsible. Tokar went to Vilnius where, on December 6, 1909, he shot at Gershelman as the latter drove his carriage through the street. Though Gershelman was uninjured, Tokar's shots wounded General Fenga, who had accompanied Gershelman in the carriage.

Tokar was sentenced to death for the crime on January 13, 1910. In his cell a couple of days before he was to be executed, Moishe Tokar doused himself in paraffin from his lamp and burned himself alive.

See also
Anarchism and violence
List of Jewish anarchists

References

Year of birth missing
1910 suicides
1910 deaths
Anarchist assassins
Jewish anarchists
Russian anarchists
Anarcho-communists
Suicides by self-immolation
Suicides in the Russian Empire
Revolutionaries from the Russian Empire


Nicholas Crispo, Patrizio Veneto (or Niccolò; 1392–1450), became Lord of Syros in 1420 and Regent of the Duchy of the Archipelago between 1447 and 1450. He was a son of Francesco I Crispo, tenth Duke of the Archipelago, and wife Fiorenza I Sanudo, Lady of Milos, and brother of Dukes Giacomo I, John II and William II.

Marriage and issue
It is not known for certain how many wives he had. In a letter dated 1426 Crispo says he was married to the daughter of Jacopo Gattilusio, lord of Lesbos. In a 1474 chronicle by the Venetian traveller Caterino Zeno it is said that he was married to an Eudoksia Valenza, of whom there is no other mention in any source. Although Zeno claims that she was a daughter of John IV of Trebizond, this has been disproved by historiographical research, which has shown that John had an only daughter, Theodora Despina (married to Uzun Hassan of Ak Koyunlu). Alternative identities have been proposed for Valenza: whether it was the name of Gattilusio's daughter, whether she was a daughter of Alexios IV of Trebizond or whether she was a Genoese woman.
 Caterina Crispo, married in 1429 Angelo I Gozzadini, Lord of Kythnos (- 1468/76)
 Lucrezia Crispo, married Nobil Huomo Leone Malipiero, Patrizio Veneto
 Francesco II Crispo
 Petronilla Crispo, married in 1437 Nobil Huomo Jacopo Priuli, Patrizio Veneto
 Maria Crispo, married Nobil Huomo Nicolo Balbi, Patrizio Veneto
 Fiorenza Crispo (–1501), married in 1444 Nobil Huomo Marco Cornaro, Cavaliere del Sacro Romano Impero, Patrizio Veneto (Venice, December 1406 – Venice, 1 August 1479), and had:
 Giorgio Cornaro
 Catherine Cornaro
 Valenza Crispo, married Nobil Huomo Giovanni Loredan, Patrizio Veneto
 Marco Crispo, Knight of the Knights Hospitaller, who had illegitimate issue
 Violante Crispo, married Nobil Huomo Caterino Zeno, Patrizio Veneto, Diplomat of the Venetian Republic, and had:
 Adriana Zeno
 Pietro Zeno
 A daughter
 Anthony Crispo, Lord of Syros

References

An account by Caterino Zeno dated to 1474 names Niccolò as married to an otherwise unknown Valenza, sister of Theodora Megali Komnene, daughter of John IV of Trebizond. Whether this means Niccolò took a second wife or whether Zeno was in error has been debated by genealogists

1392 births
1450 deaths
Duchy of the Archipelago
Nicholas
Lords of Syros
People from the Cyclades
15th-century regents


The 2008–09 Biathlon World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of biathlon, organised by the International Biathlon Union. The season started on 2 December 2008 in Östersund, Sweden and ends on 29 March 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

Calendar
Below is the World Cup calendar for the 2008–09 season.

World Cup podiums

Men

Women

Men's team

Women's team

Mixed

Standings: Men

Overall

Final standings after 26 races.

Individual

Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint

Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit

Final standings after 7 races.

Mass start

Final standings after 5 races.

Relay

Final standings after 6 races.

Nation

Final standings after 20 races.

Standings: Women

Overall

Final standings after 26 races.

Individual

Final standings after 4 races.

Sprint

Final standings after 10 races.

Pursuit

Final standings after 7 races.

Mass start

Final standings after 5 races.

Relay

Final standings after 6 races.

Nation

Final standings after 20 races.

Medal table

Achievements
First World Cup career victory
, 25, in her 3rd season — the WC 1 Sprint in Östersund; also her first individual podium
, 29, in her 9th season — the WC 2 Sprint in Hochfilzen; first podium was 2004-05 Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva
, 30, in her 13th season — the WC 3 Individual in Hochfilzen; also her first individual podium
, 25, in her 3rd season — the WC 6 Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva; also her first individual podium
, 23, in his 4th season — the WC 6 Mass Start in Antholz-Anterselva; also his first individual podium
, 20, in his 2nd season — the WCh  Mass Start in Pyeong Chang; first podium was 2008-09 Sprint in Ruhpolding
, 23, in his 4th season — the WC 7 Individual in Vancouver; also his first individual podium
, 22, in his 1st season — the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk; also his first individual podium
, 22, in her 1st season — the WC 9 Sprint in Khanty-Mansiysk; also her first individual podium
,  25, in his 6th season — the WC 9 Mass Start in Khanty-Mansiysk; first podium was 2008-09 Pursuit in Antholz-Anterselva

First World Cup podium
,  22, in her 3rd season — no. 2 in the WC 3 Sprint in Hochfilzen
,  22, in her 3rd season — no. 3 in the WC 5 Sprint in Ruhpolding
,  21, in his 3rd season — no. 3 in the WCh  Individual in Pyeong Chang
,  28, in her 6th season — no. 2 in the WCh  Individual in Pyeong Chang
,  24, in her 2nd season — no. 2 in the WCh  Mass Start in Pyeong Chang
,  22, in his 1st season — no. 2 in the WC 7 Individual in Vancouver
,  32, in his 13th season — no. 3 in the WC 7 Individual in Vancouver
,  20, in her 2nd season — no. 3 in the WC 8 Pursuit in Trondheim
,  22, in her 2nd season — no. 3 in the WC 9 Pursuit in Khanty-Mansiysk

Victory in this World Cup (all-time number of victories in parentheses)

Men
 , 7 (88) first places
 , 5 (11) first places
 , 2 (11) first places
 , 2 (5) first places
 , 2 (4) first places
 , 1 (5) first place
 , 1 (4) first place
 , 1 (2) first place
 , 1 (1) first place
 , 1 (1) first place
 , 1 (1) first place
 , 1 (1) first place
 , 1 (1) first place

Women
 , 4 (5) first places
 , 3 (21) first places
 , 3 (14) first places
 , 3 (3) first places
 , 2 (16) first places
 , 2 (15) first places
 , 2 (8) first places
 , 2 (4) first places
 , 1 (4) first place
 , 1 (1) first place
 , 1 (1) first place
 , 1 (1) first place
 , 1 (1) first place

Retirements
Following notable biathletes retired after the 2008–09 season:

References

External links
IBU official site

World Cup
World Cup
Biathlon World Cup


A dermal patch or skin patch is a medicated adhesive patch placed on human skin to deliver a medication into the skin. This is in contrast to a transdermal patch, which delivers the medication through the skin and into the bloodstream.

Popular uses
 Flector (diclofenac epolamine) patch is an NSAID topical patch for the treatment of acute pain due to minor strains, sprains, and contusions. It is also being used in the treatment of pain and inflammation for chronic conditions benefiting from NSAIDs, including fibromyalgia and arthritis.
 Lidocaine patches, marketed as Lidoderm, relieve the peripheral pain of shingles (herpes zoster). It became commonly used off-label, for pain from acute injuries and chronic pain, although limited by its requirement to be removed for 12 hours, after 12 hours of use.
Some experimental studies investigate the use of ceramic dermal patches for local antibiotic delivery to contaminated commercial skin graft patches, and antibiotic dermal patches to deliver local antibiotic to the gum after dental surgery.

Innovative biomaterials

Silks

Spider silk

Research
In 2016, a study from the University of Nottingham was published describing the first  synthetic spider silk that is functionally identical to naturally spun spider silk. Using non-natural methionine analog L-azidohomoalanine (L-Aha) and genetically modified E-Coli cells, self-assembling proteins under the conditions needed to create the filament were produced. These conditions had been researched years earlier by J. Johansson and co-workers studying the production of spider silk proteins. The proteins used in the study are a miniaturized version of the silk monomers found in nature that behave the same way; because of the modifications, they were able to express functionalized regions of the protein 4RepCT, which is a self-assembling recombinant dragline silk protein, derived from the nursery-web spider along the axis of the filament.

Methods
Methods of functionalizing the 4RepCT protein have been successful, but not in the way of reliably producing a stable protein functionalization in biologic environments that can also be tuned and modified. Genetic fusion of functional peptide sequences to silk genes and chemical conjugation of functional molecules onto amino acid side chains are the only two methods currently known to achieve a functionalized 4RepCT protein with tunable functionality. The first approach has the advantage that post-translational manipulation of the silk is minimized. Unfortunately, genetic manipulation is challenging due to the high GC (guanine-cytosine) content of the gene which leads to transcription errors. This method also limits the prevalence of functional binding sites to a single ligand-binding site per 25 kDa 4RepCT silk protein. Large adaptor proteins such as antibodies can be used to display more binding sites, but it isn't considered a feasible solution. This method has been shown to produce 4RepCT proteins that have a higher cell adhesion than natural spidroin proteins and have varied antimicrobial properties. The second method, chemical modification of the silk proteins should result in the covalent attachment of several copies of a wide range of organic and organometallic ligands using robust or sensitive linkers depending on the application. The challenge with this method is it is difficult to make the modification of the 4RepCT protein site-specific. Specific site targeting requires the residues to also be modified to be accessible and chemically bioorthogonal to the rest of the silk protein. Cytosine residues are commonly used for this type of conjugation through a Michael addition, but they tend to undergo exchange reactions which makes them unstable for long durations in a biological environment. These two methods are rather outdated but have been useful in validating the fact that 4RepCT can be tuned in the important areas of cellular adhesion, antimicrobial potency, and the type of molecule or drug attached to it.

Later azide functional groups were conjugated to the N-terminal of a dragline silk protein using EDC/NHS coupling, yielding glycopolymer-conjugated films with enhanced cell adhesion and DNA-silk chimeras with controllable micro-architectures. Armed with this, the researchers in this study investigated the incorporation of 3 L-Aha residues into 4RepCT, yielding . The azide side chains of L-Aha allow highly specific and efficient site-specific conjugation to a lot different of functional molecules via Staudinger ligation with phosphine reagents, and Copper (I)-catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) or Strain promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition (SPAAC) in click reactions.

Preferred click reactions
CuAAC and SPAAC are both common click reactions which are often interchangeable in click chemistry. It is well known that intracellular Cu(I) is cytotoxic, which means CuAAC is not as common as SPAAC click reactions for research leading to in-vivo applications. The researchers for this study decided to use CuAAC, despite the purpose of this research to have in-vivo applications, for a few reasons. First, the likelihood for copper to be bound by the  protein is low due to the presence of only 2 glutamic acid residues and no histidine residues (two residues with a high affinity for Cu(I)). These residues are present in the thioredoxin; which is the solubilizing fusion partner conjugated to the 4RepCT protein during synthesis. However, this does not cause issues since the thioredoxin is removed in order to trigger the self-assembly reaction with thrombin which results in fiber formation. This removal of the Cu(I) laden thioredoxin removes virtually all copper from the silk structure. The researchers also, through a buffer containing EDTA and by utilizing THPTA (which stabilizes the copper ions), rinsed the fibers resulting in further removal of Cu(I) leaving a <0.1 % by weight trace of copper ions. Secondly, CuAAC outperforms SPAAC in click reactions where proteins with a high cytosine content, such as 4RepCT, are present. The SPAAC process, in the presence of proteins like 4RepCT, will often create ‘clicks’ in off-target sites resulting in the ligand conjugating to the wrong part of the protein and rendering the protein essentially useless. In order to maximize the number of functional sites along the fiber, CuAAC is preferred.

Leading results
This study demonstrated the CuAAC mediated conjugation of  with two different fluorophores and the antibiotic levofloxacin, showcasing the potential of covalently functionalized recombinant spider silk proteins as biomaterials with enhanced properties. The researchers were able to successfully conjugate  with alkyne fluorophores, proving the protein can be functionalized through an azide group while conjugated to the axis of the silk fiber. Their results showed not only an intense uniform fluorescence along the fiber axis but also an intense uniform composite fluorescence when the fiber was decorated with two different fluorophores in a 1:1 ratio.

To prove the functional azide group could be decorated with a clinically relevant molecule, the researchers attempted to decorate the fiber with glycidyl propargyl ether (an acid-labile linker) and bound Levofloxacin (a gram-positive targeting antibiotic) to it using an ester bond between the epoxide carboxylate groups respectively. They conducted an inhibition zone assay with the functionalized silk fibers against E. Coli NCTC 12242 bacteria where each factor level contained LB media. Their results showed a successful functionalization of the Levofloxacin decorated fiber which maintained an antibiotic persistence across a 3.5 cm radius for 120 hours and a cell density ~50% of other factor levels (LB media only, unfunctionalized silk, and Levofloxacin doped silk) with p ≤ 0.01. A maximum sustained release of Levofloxacin from the fiber of 5 days was achieved.

Dermal applications

Historical
Spider silk is one of the earliest known dermal patches. Primarily used for wound binding, the glycoprotein adhesive found on the capture spiral silk, as well as the protein structure of the fiber itself, has mild antibacterial properties. The silk, acting as a local antiseptic, reduced the rate of sepsis and chronic illness. The silk's viscoelastic properties and high tensile strength and toughness aided wound healing in a way similar to surgical tape.

Proposed
Despite its superiority to current methods of large-surface-area wound care—gauze wrapping, honey vinegar treatments, and systemic antibiotics—and popular dermal patch uses, spider silk has not found its way into clinical practice. Historically the main reason for this is the difficulty of farming, and harvesting the silk. Unlike silkworms, that spin silk for several easy-to-replicate conditions, spiders spin silk for specific purposes such as catching prey, difficult to replicate in laboratory conditions. In addition, spiders generally tend to be cannibalistic, so breeding sufficient numbers becomes difficult. Forced silking yields unsuitable silks. The most popular proposed use case for dermal applications are:

 Dermal patch for local drug delivery
 Local antibiotic wound dressings
 Local dermal reperfusion scaffolds
 Cutaneous mucosal adhesive for attaching non-adhesive local drug delivery devices

Silkworm silk

Research
Research shows silkworm silk does not possess any inherent antibiotic characteristics, bio-mimicking mechanical properties, and can cause fatal respiratory allergic reactions in some people.

A 2020 study found that recombinantly produced spider silk proteins self-assemble at the liquid-air interface of a standing solution, forming protein permeable, super strong and ultra flexible membranes. The unforced self-assembly creates a nanofibrilar membrane which supports cell growth. A confluent layer of human skin cells forms within three days, and would be suitable for direct delivery to a patient.

Dermal applications
As silkworm silk is potentially fatal to humans when in contact with vasculature, there is no approved dermal patch, or dermal patch-like, application for silkworm silk.

References

Dosage forms
Drug delivery devices
Pharmacokinetics


Anneli Sauli (6 August 1932 – 15 March 2022) was a Finnish film actress. She appeared in more than 40 films since 1953. She starred in the film Miriam, which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. She was born in Pyhäjoki, Finland to a Finnish Romani father, Valdemar Schwartz, and a Finnish mother, Salli Maria Heikkilä. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s she lived and worked in West Germany using the name Ann Savo.

Sauli was married to film director-actor Åke Lindman from 1956 to 1962, and to director-actor Jaakko Pakkasvirta from 1965 to 1968. She had one daughter.

Sauli died in Helsinki on 15 March 2022, at the age of 89.

Selected filmography
 We Come During Spring (1953)
 The Milkmaid (1953)
 1918 (1957)
 Miriam (1957)
 No Tomorrow (1957)
 Restless Night (1958)
 Moonwolf (1959)
 Mrs. Warren's Profession (1960)
 The Dead Eyes of London (1961)
 Doctor Sibelius (1962)
 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1962)
 The Seventh Victim (1964)
 Der Hexer (1964)
 Let Not One Devil Cross the Bridge (1968)
 A Baltic Tragedy (1970)
 The Man Without a Past (2002)

References

External links

1932 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Finnish actresses
21st-century Finnish actresses
People from Pyhäjoki
Finnish film actresses
Finnish expatriates in West Germany
Finnish people of Romani descent


The Iron Woman is a novel of manners by the American writer Margaret Deland, set in the 19th century fictional locale of Mercer, an Ohio River community representing Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The novel tells the story of Mrs. Maitland, a leathery old widow who owns and operates an iron mill. Her devotion to a Puritanical work ethic alienates her son Blair, who though he stands to inherit the business, is headstrong and in love with Elizabeth Ferguson, a match Mrs. Maitland disapproves of.

It was first published in installments in Harper's Monthly from November 1910 through October 1911.

Plot
This is a sequel to The Awakening of Helena Richie and continues the narrative of her life. The story opens when her adopted son David is ten years old and she is living with him in the manufacturing town of Mercer, situated but a short distance from Old Chester. David has three playmates of his own age: Elizabeth Ferguson, a fascinating and passionate child, who lives with her bachelor uncle, and Blair and Nannie Maitland, whose mother is known as the "Iron Woman". Sarah Maitland is a forceful woman. She manages the Maitland Iron Works which she has inherited from her husband, who only survived his marriage to her by a few months, and who died before the birth of Blair. Nannie, the child by a previous marriage, is a gentle and timid girl devoted to her stepbrother. The children grow up and Elizabeth after having a youthful affair with Blair, becomes engaged to David who is studying to be a doctor. A misunderstanding arises between them and Elizabeth, in a burst of wild passion, marries Blair who is so much in love with her that he is willing to be false to his old friend. Mrs. Maitland, whose rough exterior hides an honest and affectionate nature, is overwhelmed by the dishonorable action of her son, whom she has idolized, and at once disinherits him. Blair whose artistic nature has been so shocked and repulsed by his mother's eccentricities that he has no real affection for her, is furious, and severs all connection with her. An explosion occurs at the works, and Sarah Maitland is fatally hurt. Before her death she writes the name of Blair upon a check for a large sum of money which she had planned to give David for building a hospital. She is unable to sign the check and Nannie who is the only one present, anxious that Blair shall have the money, forges her mother's name after her death. Blair is gratified with the bequest and is preparing to invest it when the truth becomes known. Elizabeth, who has always loved David, asks Blair to give him the money and when he declines to do so, leaves him and goes to David. David, who has continued to love Elizabeth passionately, urges her to flee with him, and she is ready to do so when Helena Ritchie appears upon the scene and prevents the action by confessing to them her own experience. Elizabeth returns to Blair. But after futile efforts to win her love he finally agrees to free her and allows her to get a divorce and marry David. Helena, who has been ardently sought in marriage by Robert Ferguson, Elizabeth's uncle, at last gives in and acknowledges her love for him.

References

Sources

External links
The Iron Woman (1911) (Project Gutenberg Entry:) ( Internet Archive e-text)

1911 American novels
Novels set in Pittsburgh
Novels first published in serial form
Works originally published in Harper's Magazine
Harper & Brothers books
American novels adapted into films


The 1991 Stockholm Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 23rd edition of the Stockholm Open and was part of the ATP Championship Series of the 1991 ATP Tour. It took place at the Stockholm Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, from 21 October through 28 October 1991. Second-seed Boris Becker won the singles title, his second consecutive win at the event and his third overall after winning in 1990 and 1988..

The singles draw was headlined by Stefan Edberg. Other top seeds were Boris Becker, Jim Courier and Michael Stich.

Finals

Singles

 Boris Becker defeated  Stefan Edberg, 3–6, 6–4, 1–6, 6–2, 6–2
 It was Becker's 2nd title of the year, and his 31st overall. It was his 1st Masters title of the year and his 2nd overall.

Doubles

 John Fitzgerald /  Anders Järryd defeated  Tom Nijssen /  Cyril Suk, 7–5, 6–2

Notes

References

External links

 ATP tournament profile
 ITF tournament edition details

October 1991 sports events in Europe
1991 in Swedish tennis


The Schöllijoch (el. 3343 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Pennine Alps, connecting Gruben/Meiden and St. Niklaus (Mattertal) in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The path has been recently equipped and is accessible to experienced hikers.

The pass lies between the Barrhorn on the north and the Brunegghorn on the south.

See also
 List of mountain passes in Switzerland

External links
Description of itinerary

Mountain passes of Valais
Mountain passes of the Alps


Michael Gershman (October 11, 1939 – January 4, 2000) was an American writer, publicist, and music producer.

Biography

Gershman was born in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Brown University, Gershman worked briefly as a newspaper reporter before joining the Dorothy Ross Agency in New York City. There, he served as a press agent for comedians Woody Allen, Dick Cavett, and Joan Rivers.

In the late 1960s, he moved to California to focus on clients in the music business. Among his clients were the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Neil Diamond, Elton John, and James Taylor. He left the business to manage and produce the band Looking Glass. Among the songs he worked on was the 1972 single Brandy (You're a Fine Girl), which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Gershman would later return to work as a publicist, representing musicians like Mel Torme and Lionel Richie. He moved back to the east coast in the 1980s and became a prolific baseball writer authoring 16 books  on the subject.

His 1993 book, Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark, received the CASEY Award.

With John Thorn, he formed the book packaging company called Baseball Ink, and produced the groundbreaking reference work "Total Baseball", which would eventually become the official encyclopedia of Major League Baseball. Thorn and Gershman went on to found  Total Sports Publishing.

Personal life
In 1969, he divorced his first wife Barbara Corday; they had one daughter, Evan.

In 1975, he married his second wife, Suzy Kalter. His widow, who died on July 25, 2012, from brain cancer at age 64, was a journalist and the author of the Born to Shop book series.

Gershman died at his home in Westport, Connecticut, in 2000, following a battle with lung cancer.

Further reading
 Light My Fire: My Life with the Doors, by Ray Manzarek, Berkeley Publishing Group,
 No One Here Gets Out Alive, by Jerry Hopkins  and Danny Sugerman, Warner Books,

References

External sources
 Obituary from the Hollywood Reporter
 Notice of death of Suzy Gershman

1939 births
2000 deaths
Writers from Brooklyn
Deaths from cancer in Connecticut
Deaths from lung cancer
20th-century American non-fiction writers
Sportswriters from New York (state)


The Committee for Health is a Northern Ireland Assembly committee established to advise, assist and scrutinise the work of the Department of Health and Minister for Health. The committee also plays a key role in the consultation, consideration and development of new legislation.

Until 2016, the committee was called the Committee for Health, Social Services and Public Safety.

2017–2022 Assembly
The committee met for the first time in the 2017–2022 Assembly on 23 January 2020.

Changes 2017–2022

Source:

2016–2017 Assembly
The committee met for the first time in the 2016–2017 Assembly on 2 June 2016.

Changes 2016–2017

2011–2016 Assembly
The committee met for the first time in the 2011–2016 Assembly on 25 May 2011.

Changes 2011–2016

See also
 Committee

References

External links
 Committee for Health

Northern Ireland Assembly
Parliamentary committees on Healthcare


Commissioner Thomas Henry Howard OF (July 17, 1849 – July 1, 1923) was the Second Chief of the Staff of The Salvation Army, succeeding Bramwell Booth on his appointment as General on the death of his father William Booth in 1912.

Biography
Howard was born on July 17, 1849, in Ilkeston in Derbyshire to Hannah and William Howard. He worked as a builder and spent a night in prayer before making the decision to join The Salvation Army. After a short period spent at the Whitechapel Corps, he was appointed to the work of officer training.

In 1884 he was transferred to Australia, where he was instrumental in expanding the work of the Army, and was the first Commander of The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory, from 1886 to 1889. Later appointments included British Commissioner, International Training Commissioner and Foreign Secretary at the International Headquarters in London.

Howard was appointed The Salvation Army's Second Chief of Staff by General Bramwell Booth in 1912, a post he held until his retirement from active service in 1919. In 1920 he was awarded the Order of the Founder, the Salvation Army's most prestigious award. Commissioner Howard died in Margate in Kent in 1923.

Two of the children he had with his wife Martha (1847-1937) died young. His son John Howard married Florence Annie Lawley, the daughter of Commissioner John Lawley.

He died on July 1, 1923. Like many prominent Salvationists, T. Henry Howard is buried in Abney Park Cemetery.

References

External links
 Howard in The New York Times October 5, 1908, Retrieved on 2008-10-31

 Howard on Salvation Army Collectables

1849 births
1923 deaths
Salvation Army officers
Commissioners in The Salvation Army
English Salvationists
Burials at Abney Park Cemetery
People from Ilkeston


Skip Heitzig (born 1955) is the American founder and senior pastor of Calvary Church, a Calvary Chapel fellowship located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Personal
A native of Southern California, Heitzig has three siblings (his brother, Bob, died in a motorcycle accident in 1975).

He has been described as a former "marijuana smoking surfer dude". Heitzig was witnessed to by a friend, Gino Geraci, senior pastor of Calvary South Denver.
Shortly after this experience, Heitzig began to study under Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa.

In 1981, Heitzig married his wife, Lenya, and together they moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to continue his work in the medical field. Together, they have one son, Nathan.

In October 2020 Heitzig's health and judgement were called into question when he attended a large event in Washington D.C.

Ministry
In 1982, Heitzig began a home Bible study that eventually grew into Calvary of Albuquerque. In 1988 and 1989, Calvary of Albuquerque was listed as one of the fastest-growing churches in America. In 2009, Calvary of Albuquerque was listed as one of the 15 largest churches in America, with an average weekend attendance of 13,000.

After a brief pastorate in San Juan Capistrano (Ocean Hills, 2004-2006), Heitzig returned to Calvary of Albuquerque as senior pastor in 2006, following the resignation of the previous pastor, Pete Nelson.

Heitzig serves on several boards of directors, including that of Samaritan's Purse. He also serves as Associate Professor of Pastoral and Biblical Studies at Veritas International University.

Each year, Heitzig hosts a week-long seminar of teachings at The Cove, the Billy Graham Training Center in North Carolina. He is also a frequent guest speaker at Franklin Graham Festivals and at Harvest Crusades with Greg Laurie.

Education
Heitzig attended Victor Valley Community College in California and UCLA.

Heitzig earned a Ph.D. from Trinity Southwest University in New Mexico and an M.A. and B.A. from Trinity Seminary, Newburgh, Indiana.

Publishing and media
Heitzig is the author of several books and booklets, including:
How To Study the Bible and Enjoy It (Tyndale House, 1996)
Jesus Up Close (Tyndale House, 2001)
When God Prays (Tyndale House, 2003).
Encounter: Face 2 Face with Jesus (Bridge-Logos, 2009).
GodPrint (Bridge-Logos, 2009).
The Daily God Book (Tyndale House, 2010).
Homeland Security (Bridge-Logos, 2010).
You Can Understand the Book of Revelation (Harvest House Publishers, 2011)
Defying Normal (Worthy Books, 2015).
The Bible from 30,000 Feet (Harvest House Publishers, 2017).
You Can Understand™ the Book of Genesis: Experience Its Meaning and Message (Harvest House Publishers, 2018).
Bloodline: Tracing God's Rescue Plan from Eden to Eternity (Harvest House Publishers, 2019).

Heitzig can be heard throughout the United States and worldwide on his radio broadcast, The Connection, as well as various cable and internet-based television channels (His Channel, KNET).

Music
As a musician, songwriter, and producer, Heitzig has been featured on several musical projects, including:
Lively Hearts (1999)
Everywhere I Go (2000)

Heitzig wrote the lyrics to the modern hymn (with Brian Nixon) "Gloria Exaltus" (2008), which was released on the album Stars Shine Bright.

TV and documentaries
Heitzig hosted the video documentary Epicenter (Tyndale 2007), with author Joel C. Rosenberg, as well as the documentary The Jesus Boat (2009). In 2010, Heitzig released two additional documentaries, Shattered and Riptide. Heitzig has also been a featured guest on several documentaries and video teachings, including A Venture in Faith.

See also
Chuck Smith

References

External links
Skip Heitzig.com

1955 births
Living people
American sermon writers
American Protestant ministers and clergy
American Christian writers
American Christian creationists
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
People from Albuquerque, New Mexico


This is a list of Maltese football transfers for the 2008-09 winter transfer window by club. Only transfers of the Maltese Premier League are included.

The winter transfer window opened on 1 January 2009, although a few transfers may take place prior to that date. The window closed at midnight on 31 January 2009. Players without a club may join one at any time, either during or in between transfer windows.

The transfer window was concluded on 31 January 2009. The big movers being Roderick Briffa who swapped Sliema Wanderers for current champions Valletta, also joining Valletta were Brazilian striker Paulo Massaro and returning was Argentina striker Omar Sebastián Monesterolo, who had left the club in the summer. Departing the club on a temporary basis were defender Jonathan Bondin who teamed up with Ħamrun Spartans} on loan for the remainder of the season and midfielder David Camilleri who also went on loan for the remainder of the season to Tarxien Rainbows.

Marsaxlokk made an effort to strengthen their team with the signings of Chris Camilleri from Msida Saint-Joseph and Dylan Kokavessis from Ħamrun Spartans. The only outgoing player was Stephen Wellman who joined Qormi.

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Tarxien Rainbows

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Out:

Valletta

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Manager Transfers

See also
 List of Belgian football transfers winter 2008–09
 List of Cypriot football transfers winter 2008–09
 List of Danish football transfers winter 2008-09
 List of Dutch football transfers winter 2008-09
 List of English football transfers winter 2008-09
 List of German football transfers winter 2008–09
 List of Italian football transfers winter 2008–09
 List of Spanish football transfers winter 2008-09

References

External links
 Official Website

Transfers Winter 2008-09|Transfers
Maltese
2008–09


Donnie James Meche (born October 10, 1974 in Rayne, Louisiana) is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

Donnie Meche won his first race at Evangeline Downs in May 1993. He was the top apprentice rider at Louisiana Downs in 1994.

He is ten minutes younger than twin brother Lonnie, who, along with younger brother Cody, is also a jockey.

References

Year-end charts

1974 births
Living people
American jockeys
Cajun jockeys
People from Rayne, Louisiana


Gruben has different meanings:

Places
 Gruben/Meiden, a village in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
 Gruben, a village in the municipality of Rana in Nordland county, Norway

People
 Federico Grüben, an Argentine Olympic shooter
 Franz Josef von Gruben (1829–1888), a German politician
 Patricia Gruben, an American-born filmmaker
 Thierry de Gruben, a former Ambassador from the Kingdom of Belgium to the United Kingdom

See also
 Tuktoyaktuk/James Gruben Airport, an airport in northern Canada


Government.no (, ) is the web portal for the Government of Norway. Operated by the Government Administration Services, it provides a range of information services related to each of the ministries, the Office of the Prime Minister, historical information and a large backlog of public documents.

The site was launched on 12 February 2007, replacing the former odin.dep.no site.

References

External links

Government of Norway
Government services portals
Norwegian websites
2007 establishments in Norway