'The Austrian Film Commission (AFC), founded in 1987, is an organisation dedicated to promoting Austrian cinema throughout the world.

Activities
The AFC's role is to increase awareness of Austrian film making abroad and to support the positioning and release of Austrian films on the international marketplace.

Acting both as an information clearing house and as a facilitating agency for export purposes, the AFC maintains ongoing contacts with festival directors, sales agents, buyers and distributors, as well as the press, concerning new Austrian productions. Offering a wide variety of services at the domestic and international level, the AFC consults with producers and creative artists attending international festivals and markets and supports their activities.

The AFC represents Austria in the network of European film organisations for the worldwide advertisement of European film, the European Film Promotion.

The AFC represents the Austrian film industry at all important festivals and markets, principally the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Locarno International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and the American Film Market in Los Angeles.

The AFC produces a number of publications:
Austrian Films: The annual catalogue Austrian Films lists the current year's productions in various categories (features, documentaries, co-productions, and a selection of students’ shorts and of TV features).
Austrian Film Guide: a brochure containing the most important data and addresses relating to the Austrian film industry;
Austrian Film News: The Austrian Film News magazine provides information about filmmakers and the film industry in Austria; published twice a year. Its contents include interviews with and portraits of filmmakers; articles on current shootings and relevant topics; information about subsidies, festival showings and the most important festival dates. The production telegram provides news about films in production and the theatre releases..

The AFC website provides news on current Austrian filmmaking and interviews, a film database, addresses and data on the Austrian film industry and a comprehensive list of the festival participations of Austrian films since 2006.

The first Diagonale film festivals in Salzburg (1993 to 1995) were organised by the Austrian Film Commission.

Martin Schweighofer has been the director of the Austrian Film Commission since 1992.

See also
 Location Austria – agency for promoting Austria as an international film location

Notes

Sources and external links
 Austrian Film Commission official website
 European Film Promotion

Film commissions
Film organisations in Austria
1987 establishments in Austria
Organizations established in 1987


Joe Pass at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 is a live album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass that was released in 1975. It was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975.

Track listing
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) – 5:12
"The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 3:22
"Nobs" (Joe Pass) – 4:07
"Li'l Darlin'" (Neal Hefti) – 3:15
"Blues for Nina" (Pass) – 2:51
"How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:24
"More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 4:03
"Grete" (Pass) – 3:32
"Nuages" (Jacques Larue, Django Reinhardt) – 3:39
"I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Mertz) – 4:03
"Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 4:05

Personnel
Joe Pass – guitar

References

Joe Pass live albums
Albums produced by Norman Granz
Albums recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival
1975 live albums
Pablo Records live albums


Matthew Conlan may refer to:

 Matt Conlan (born 1968), Australian politician
 Matthew Conlan (hurler) (born 1993), Irish hurler


A blunt is a cigar that has been hollowed out and filled with cannabis. It is rolled with the tobacco-leaf "wrap", usually from an inexpensive cigar, or any other wrap that is not a joint paper that has glue. A blunt is different from a joint, which uses rolling papers.

History and etymology

The practice originated in cities such as New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Blunts take their name from Phillies Blunt brand cigars, although any commonly available inexpensive cigar or cigarillo may be used, depending on suitability and availability. Other common synonyms  for a blunt include "El-P" or "L" (from the El Producto brand) and "Dutch" (from Dutch Masters). Backwoods, Swisher Sweets, White Owl and 4ks cigars/cigarillos are other popular brands for rolling blunts.

Readymade blunts
Blunts also come as ready made tobacco wraps with hundreds of flavors across numerous brands.
In addition to using cheap cigars and cigarillos to smoke cannabis, cigar wraps or "blunt wraps" are also used.

Tobacco industry term
In the tobacco industry, a blunt is defined as a cigar that is wider than a cigarillo and not quite as wide as a Corona. A cigarillo that has been split and re-rolled with marijuana is still called a blunt in cannabis culture.

Nicotine addiction
Due to the tobacco content in the wrapper leaf, blunts carry with them the risks of tobacco use, including nicotine addiction.

See also

 Joint (cannabis)
 Cannabis consumption
 Cannabis smoking
 Smoking

References

American slang
Cannabis culture
Cannabis smoking
Cigars


Adam Graham Giles (né Romer; born 10 April 1973) is an Australian former politician and former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (2013–2016) as well as the former leader of the Country Liberal Party (CLP) in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. Giles was the first Indigenous Australian to serve as a head of government in Australia.

Giles became a CLP member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly seat of Braitling at the 2008 election. The Terry Mills-led CLP opposition defeated the Paul Henderson-led Labor government at the 2012 election, winning 16 of 25 seats. Giles was elected by the CLP party room to replace Mills as Chief Minister and CLP leader less than a year later at the 2013 CLP leadership ballot. Giles was defeated at the 2015 CLP leadership ballot but managed to survive in the aftermath. Multiple defections saw the CLP reduced to minority government a few months later. At the 2016 election on 27 August, his government was heavily defeated by the Labor Party, suffering the worst defeat of a sitting government in Territory history.  Giles also lost his seat of Braitling to Labor, becoming the second sitting head of government in the Northern Territory to lose his own seat.

After leaving politics, Giles has hosted a Sunday night current affairs program, The Adam Giles Show, on Sky News Australia since May 2018.

Early life and public service career
Giles was born Adam Graham Romer in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. His mother is Anglo-Saxon and his father was descended from the Kamilaroi people through Giles' grandmother. His grandmother discovered that she had indigenous ancestry during the 1980s, but has said she did not regard herself as Aboriginal. When his parents split up, Adam's mother remarried, and he took his surname from his stepfather.

Giles studied accounting and real estate after leaving Blaxland High School, working in property management before moving into public housing management for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). He then moved to Canberra to work in the Australian Public Service as a social and economic policy advisor for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (2001–2007), and was the Liberal Party candidate for Fraser in the 2004 federal election.

Parliament

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As a member of the Northern Territory's Indigenous Economic Taskforce, Giles travelled and worked throughout the Territory before settling in Alice Springs. There he stood as a CLP candidate for Lingiari at the 2007 federal election, losing to Labor incumbent Warren Snowdon.

Following the retirement of Loraine Braham, the CLP-turned-independent member for the Alice Springs-based seat of Braitling, Giles was preselected as CLP candidate for the 2008 Northern Territory election. He won with 2,052 primary votes, or with 70% (2,475 votes) after preferences were distributed—thus reverting Braitling to its traditional status as a comfortably safe CLP seat.

Following the 2012 Northern Territory election, Giles became the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government.

Chief Minister

2013 CLP leadership ballot

Giles replaced Terry Mills as Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and party leader at the 2013 CLP leadership ballot on 13 March while Mills was on a trade mission in Japan. Giles was sworn in as Chief Minister on 14 March, becoming the first indigenous head of government of an Australian state or territory.

When the CLP introduced mandatory alcohol rehabilitation for recidivist problem drinkers to replace a banned drinker register, Giles dismissed critics of the policy as "lefty welfare-orientated people".

2015 CLP leadership ballot

Willem Westra van Holthe challenged Giles at the 2015 CLP leadership ballot on 2 February and was elected leader by the party room in a late-night vote conducted by phone. However, Giles refused to resign as Chief Minister following the vote. On 3 February, ABC News reported that officials were preparing an instrument that would allow the Administrator to use his reserve power to sack Giles and commission Westra van Holthe in his place. The swearing-in of Westra van Holthe, which had been scheduled for 11:00 local time (01:30 UTC), was delayed. After a meeting of the parliamentary wing of the CLP, Giles announced that he would remain as party leader and Chief Minister, with Westra van Holthe as his deputy.

Defections and minority government

After four defections during the parliamentary term including Kezia Purick, Alison Anderson, Larisa Lee and Robyn Lambley, the CLP was reduced to minority government by July 2015. Giles raised the possibility of an early election on 20 July stating that he would "love" to call a snap poll, but that it was "pretty much impossible to do". Crossbenchers dismissed the notion of voting against a confidence motion to bring down the government.

Port of Darwin

In October 2015, the then Country Liberal-controlled Northern Territory Government under Giles granted the Chinese-owned Landbridge Group company a 99-year lease for A$506 million of Port Darwin. Concerns have been expressed over this leasing arrangement due its strategic significance, Landbridge being owned by a billionaire with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and the port being adjacent to facilities in active use by both Australian and U.S. military forces.

2016 election and electoral changes

Legislation passed in February 2016 changed the voting method of single-member electorates from full-preferential voting to optional preferential voting. The 2016 election was held on 27 August.

The CLP went into the election as a decided underdog. Polls showed the CLP in danger of losing seats where it had never been seriously threatened. For instance, a poll conducted by ReachTEL and commissioned by The Australian which surveyed 1036 residents via robocall on the afternoon of Sunday 1 March 2015 across all 18 electorates in Darwin, Palmerston and Alice Springs–almost three-fourths of the legislature–indicated a landslide 17.6% two-party swing against the incumbent CLP government since the last election. Another poll conducted for Northern Territory News a week before the writs were issued showed the CLP on 36 percent of the two-party vote—a swing of over 20 percent from 2012.  The CLP would have been decimated with a swing even half that large.  The poll showed the CLP trailing badly in the politically critical Darwin/Palmerston area, which accounts for more than half the seats in the legislature.  Most seriously, the CLP had plunged to only 37 percent support in Palmerston, which has been a CLP stronghold for four decades.  Had this result been repeated at an election, the CLP would have lost most, if not all, of its seats in Darwin/Palmerston.

A further warning sign came at the 2 July federal election, in which the CLP suffered a 7.4 percent swing to Labor—more than enough for a change of government had this been repeated at a Territory election. Ominously, it lost Solomon, which is virtually coextensive with the Darwin/Palmerston metropolitan area, on a swing of over seven percent.

At the 27 August election, the CLP was thrown from office in a massive swing, suffering the worst defeat of a sitting government in the Territory's history.  It is also the first time that a Territory government has failed to win a second term.  Giles conceded defeat three hours after counting began, saying, "Tonight, no doubt, is a landslide, it's a thumping."

By Sunday morning, all but one member of Giles' cabinet, Gary Higgins, had been defeated, and Giles was in danger of being rolled in his own seat as well. After a redistribution, he went into the election sitting on a seemingly insurmountable majority of 19.6 percent—on paper, the fourth-safest CLP seat in the Territory. Additionally, Labor has usually run dead in Alice Springs. It had only come close to winning a seat in inner Alice Springs twice before 2016, and had never come particularly close to winning Braitling.  However, on election night, Giles lost 20 percent of his primary vote from 2012. ABC projections showed him trailing Labor challenger Dale Wakefield, with Giles on 49.9 percent to Wakefield's 50.1 percent—a lead that increased as returns came in during the week after the election.  By 2 September, Wakefield led Giles by 23 votes—well within the threshold for a recount under Territory election law. The recount took place on 5 September, and confirmed that Wakefield was still leading on a knife-edge. When the final result was announced, Wakefield won the seat with a margin of 27 votes on a swing of 19.9 percent, making Giles the second Majority Leader/Chief Minister to lose his own seat. At this same election, Mills, the man Giles had rolled three years earlier, took back his old seat as an independent. Even before it was confirmed that Giles had been rolled in his own seat, he resigned as leader of what remained of the CLP, and Higgins was elected his successor.

Giles later told AM that he had known for some time that the CLP would not be re-elected, but felt compelled to "put on a shiny face with the pearly whites" in order to maintain morale. Despite leading the CLP to such a massive defeat, he has expressed interest in running for the Senate, prompting former Chief Minister Shane Stone to demand that Giles stay in the Territory in order to "repent" and "help repair the damage" to the CLP.

Media career
On 6 May 2018, Giles began hosting a weekly half-hour discussion show on Sky News Australia, titled The Adam Giles Show.

In August 2018, Giles conducted an interview with Blair Cottrell, chairman of the far-right extremist group the United Patriots Front (UPF). Following a public outcry, Giles' program was put "in recess", and Sky News stated it regretted featuring the interview on the channel, and that it was an "error of judgement". The show returned to air two months later in October.

See also
2013 Country Liberal Party leadership spill
2015 Country Liberal Party leadership spill
2016 Northern Territory general election

References

External links

Adam Giles MLA (Braitling) (Country Liberal Party)
Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (Official website)

1973 births
Living people
Chief Ministers of the Northern Territory
Gamilaraay
Treasurers of the Northern Territory
Members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
Australian people of Indigenous Australian descent
Country Liberal Party members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
Australian public servants
Australian television talk show hosts
21st-century Australian politicians


David Stead may refer to:

 David George Stead (1877–1957), Australian marine biologist, conservationist and writer
 David Stead (cricketer) (born 1947), New Zealand cricketer


Alexander Watkins Terrell (November 23, 1827 – September 9, 1912) was an American lawyer, judge, planter, Confederate officer, and diplomat. He served as the U. S. Envoy to the Ottoman Empire and a Confederate military officer. He helped pass influential legislation including the Terrell Election Law, served as president of the Texas State Historical Association and on the board of regents for the University of Texas.

Early life
Alexander Watkins Terrell was born on November 23, 1827, in Patrick County, Virginia. His father was Christopher Joseph Terrell and his mother, Susan Kennerly. His Quaker family moved to Boonville, Missouri, in 1831.

Terrell graduated from the University of Missouri and was admitted to the bar in 1849.

Career
Terrell practiced law in St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1852, he moved to Austin, Texas. He served as a district court judge from 1857 until 1863.

On July 4, 1861, Terrell gave a speech on the Texas State Capitol in defense of the Confederate States of America. He drew a parallel between George Washington and the secession of the Confederacy.

When his term as judge came to an end, Terrell joined the 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment of the Confederate States Army as major. He fought in several major battles as part of the Red River Campaign including the Battle of Mansfield. On May 16, 1865, Terrell was assigned to duty as a brigadier general by General E. Kirby Smith. He was never officially appointed by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and confirmed by the Confederate Senate to that grade.

Davis was captured by Union forces on May 10, 1865, and Smith soon accepted the Appomattox surrender terms agreed to by Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner on May 26, 1865, pending Smith's approval.

Terrell fled to Mexico after the war and briefly served Emperor Maximilian as a battalion commander. In 1866 he returned to Texas, where he practised the law in Houston. Subsequently, he spent time on his plantation in Robertson County, Texas.

After Reconstruction, he served in both the Texas Senate and House of Representatives, serving sixteen years in the state legislature. From 1893 until 1897, he was minister plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire during U.S. President Grover Cleveland's second administration. From 1909 to 1911, he was a member of the University of Texas board of regents. He also served as the president of the Texas State Historical Association.

Personal life
Terrell married Ann Elizabeth Boulding. They had five children. After she died in 1860, he married Sarah D. Mitchell. They had three children.

Death and legacy
Terrell died on September 9, 1912, in Mineral Wells, Texas. He was buried at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Terrell County, Texas, is named in his honor.

See also

List of American Civil War generals (Acting Confederate)

Notes

References
 Lone Star Junction biography
 Allardice, Bruce S. Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. .
 Allardice, Bruce S. More Generals in Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. .
 Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
 Jamieson, Perry D. Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. .
 Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. .
 Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. .
 Winters, John D. The Civil War in Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963. .

1827 births
1912 deaths
Confederate States Army generals
19th-century American diplomats
People of Missouri in the American Civil War
People of Texas in the American Civil War
University of Missouri alumni
Ambassadors of the United States to the Ottoman Empire
People from Patrick County, Virginia
American Quakers
Missouri lawyers
Members of the Texas House of Representatives
Texas state senators
Politicians from St. Joseph, Missouri
American planters
19th-century American politicians
Confederate expatriates
19th-century American lawyers


Richard William Rowntree (6 April 1884 in Leyburn, England – 16 June 1968 in Auckland) was a New Zealand cricketer who played 33 first-class matches, all but two of them for Auckland.

A wicket-keeper and tail-end right-handed batsman, he played for Yorkshire Second XI in 1905. After a serious illness he migrated to New Zealand. He played his first game for Auckland in the 1914–15 season and his last at the age of 47 in the 1931–32 season. His career in Auckland senior club cricket extended from 1907 to 1935, when he was awarded a benefit match at the end of his last season.

He appeared in both matches New Zealand played against the visiting Australian team in 1920–21. Earlier in the tour he had made his highest score of 48: batting at number 11 for Auckland he added 75 for the last wicket with Eddie McLeod after the Australians had taken the first nine Auckland wickets for 73. He was selected as the principal wicket-keeper in the New Zealand team to tour Australia in 1925-26 but was unable to go, and was replaced by Ken James.

See also
 List of Auckland representative cricketers

References

External links
 Richard Rowntree at Cricket Archive

1884 births
1968 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Pre-1930 New Zealand representative cricketers
Auckland cricketers
British emigrants to New Zealand
Wicket-keepers


Bernard C. Kirk (May 8, 1900 – December 23, 1922) was an American football player who played for Notre Dame in 1919 and for Michigan from 1921 to 1922.  He was selected as an All-American at the end position in both 1921 and 1922.  In December 1922, shortly after being named an All-American and while at the height of his popularity, Kirk suffered a fractured skull in an automobile accident, and died several days later at a hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan.  His funeral was attended by the Governor of Michigan and many other dignitaries, and was reported in newspapers across the United States.

Youth in Ypsilanti
Kirk was raised in Ypsilanti, Michigan and played football for three years for Ypsilanti High School.  He was the only son of Gen. John P. Kirk, a prominent Ypsilanti attorney and former general in the Michigan National Guard.

Notre Dame
After graduating from high school, Kirk enrolled at the University of Notre Dame.  As a sophomore in 1919, he was a starter for the Notre Dame football team coached by the legendary Knute Rockne.  He played end for the undefeated 1919 Fighting Irish team that also featured another Michiganian, George Gipp. The passing combination of Gipp at left halfback to Kirk at left end became one of Notre Dame's greatest offensive weapons in 1919.  In October 1919, The Fort Wayne News and Sentinel praised "the ability of Kirk in receiving passes and breaking away for long runs."  In early November 1919, Kirk drew attention for his work in Notre Dame's win over Indiana.  The Indianapolis Star praised the team's end play
The Irish wing men are wonderful performers.  Either Kirk or Anderson can snag the ball out of the air on forward passes with great skill.  Both are fast and wonderful defensive men.  It was seldom in Saturday's game that either was boxed.  They broke up what little interference Indiana displayed and got through to their man time after time.
In late November, Notre Dame defeated Purdue 33-13, and the Indiana Star reported that the Boilermakers would have finished on top had it not been for the passing attack of Gipp and Kirk.  Kirk scored two touchdowns against Purdue, and the Star noted: "Some of the passes completed by Gipp and Kirk were of the sensational order.  Two touchdowns resulted from passes, Gipp to Kirk ..." At the end of the 1919 season, the Indianapolis Sunday Star named Gipp and Kirk to its All-Indiana team, two of the four Notre Dame players to be so honored in 1919.  The Star wrote of Kirk
In every game the Irish have competed in this season, Kirk has been a star.  His uncanny ability to camp under forward passes gives him a call on the eleven.  Not only that, but he was down the field fast under punts and played a great defensive game.
Kirk was also selected by critics for the All-Western team in 1919.

Michigan

Transfer from Notre Dame
In September 1920, Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne expressed concern when his two Michiganian stars, Gipp and Kirk, failed to report for the team's fall practice.  While Gipp returned to South Bend, Kirk transferred to the University of Michigan. Rockne later recalled that Kirk and Gipp had been "practically inseparable" and reflected on his disappointment in losing the talented Kirk.  Rockne said of Kirk
He was the apple of my eye.  Kirk played with Notre Dame a couple of seasons before he entered Michigan and not one was more sorry to see him go to the Wolverines than I was.  He played with Notre Dame when Gipp was at his best and the forward pass combination from Gipp to Kirk could not be beaten on any team.
Kirk starred on Michigan's freshman team in 1920, but was ineligible to play on Michigan's varsity team in his first year after transferring.

1921 season
In 1921, Kirk was a starter at the end position in six of Michigan's seven games.  However, he was unable to play in the season's final game against Minnesota due to an ankle injury sustained in the game against Wisconsin.  At the end of the 1921 season, Kirk was selected as a first-team end on the All Western football team.  He was also the only Michigan player selected as a first-team player on the Harp's All-American Team.  Walter Camp picked Kirk for "Honorable Mention" honors on his 1921 All-American team.

1922 season
Kirk's greatest success came in the 1922 football season, and his biggest play came in a 24-0 win over Illinois.  At the start of the third quarter, Kirk ran a kickoff back 80 yards for a touchdown.  Syndicated columnist Billy Evans wrote that Kirk's 80-yard run "through the entire Illinois team" was "the most spectacular play performed by a Michigan player this year," and "one of the most brilliant feats of the year."  Kirk also recovered a fumbled punt in the second quarter at the Illinois 18-yard-line that led to another Michigan touchdown.  Columnist Evans wrote that Kirk was "directly and indirectly responsible" for all 24 points scored by Michigan against Illinois.  After the Illinois game, Kirk reportedly left the stadium before the crowd and spent several hours hunting in the woods outside of Ann Arbor.

Another columnist, writing under the name "Roundy," wrote that Kirk gave him "an eye full," turning plays "so fast that the thing is looked up in the stands as a joke."  Roundy continued in his praise of Kirk as follows
As soon as Kirk grabs a pass he becomes a halfback with his speed and trick running.  His run on the kickoff through the whole Illinois team proved that, for an end, he is all over the field and has a nose for fumbles, is strong and tricky.  There is no such thing as boxing this bird. Kirk, and his tackling of receivers of punts is a beautiful thing to see.  So the ends are the strongest spot on the team.  These two birds can play on my team any time, any place, anywhere, and at any price.

All-American selections
At the end of the 1922 season, Kirk was selected as a first-team end on several All-Western and All-American teams.  Harold Johnson of the Chicago American wrote that Kirk "stands out" among the ends
Virtually every coach, critic and student of the pastime is agreed upon the choice of Bernie Kirk, left end of the undefeated Michigan machine.  Yost's star was good in every respect that a flanker could be.  Not only was he one of the most deadly tacklers in the circuit, but he was shifty and fleet in streaking down the field to nail the receivers of forward passes or punts.  He shone, too, at stopping end plays directed at him and was without a superior at spearing aerial shots from his comrades.
The Capital Times from Wisconsin picked Kirk as the best end in the west and noted, "The Wolverine flank protected by Kirk is one of the strongest in the country.  Little has been gained around him, while on the offense his backs have had plenty of success -- thanks to Kirk who helps pave the way." The Iowa City Press-Citizen wrote that Kirk "seems to stand out by himself" among the ends, noting that he "attracted most attention for his receiving of passes and his deadly spilling of interference."

Billy Evans picked Kirk for his 1922 "National Honor Roll," and credited Kirk's performance to physical conditioningBernie Kirk of Michigan was the leading end of the west this year. ...  Condition made Kirk a star.  He lacked condition in 1921.  At that time he was just  as able, otherwise as this year.  But nobody mentioned him and he did nothing much to help his team.  Kirk realized why he failed in 1921 and immediately began preparing for the season of 1922.  Careful diet, regular hours and well-planned exercise brought him into remarkable condition.  Kirk was fit when the training season started.  Kirk played every minute of every game he started this year.  He never had time taken out.  He was really a physical marvel, considering how hard he played.
Kirk was acclaimed as a first-team All-American at the end position by the New York Tribune and by noted sports writers, including Walter Eckersall of the Chicago Tribune and Fred Hayner of the Chicago Daily News.  When the dean of football critics, Walter Camp, named Kirk to his second team and selected little known end Taylor of Navy to his first team, charges of Eastern bias were leveled at Camp.  An Illinois newspaper wrote the following about Camp's omission of Kirk
The fact that eastern football did not demonstrate any great superiority over the other sections of the country is not going to help justify the selection of seven eastern men.  The failure of Kirk to win a place will come as a great surprise.  Kirk is one of the best ends the 'Big Ten' has produced in years.  It was felt certain that he would be selected.  Most of the critics picked Kirk and Muller as the ends.  Camp gives Taylor of Annapolis the preference over Kirk.
One Ohio columnist wrote that his paper printed Camp's All-American selections "with apologies" and called Camp's favoritism of eastern players "a positive travesty."  None of the other major All-American selectors chose Taylor as a first-team All-American, and one California newspaper referred to Kirk as one of the greatest ends ever turned out in the Middle WestKirk's remarkable showing with Michigan this season stamped him as one of the greatest ends ever turned out in the Middle West.  He was named by a majority of sports writers throughout the country as All-America end.  Walter Camp, however, placed Taylor of the Navy at end instead of Kirk, on his first team.  Kirk was placed on the second team.
Billy Evans echoed the same sentimentKirk was unquestionably the best end the west, if not the country, has produced in years.  As a defensive player, he was without a peer.  He also was very proficient in handling the forward pass.  Kirk starred in every game that Michigan played during the 1922 season.  No one player meant more to the success of Yost's great eleven than Kirk.  Every critic in the west selected Kirk on either the 'Big Ten' or middle west all-star teams.  A great majority of the critics of the country placed him on their All-American elevens.

Death from injuries sustained in automobile accident
In the early morning hours of Sunday, December 17, 1922, Kirk sustained a fractured skull and internal injuries in an automobile accident.  Kirk and four others were returning to Ann Arbor after a night in Detroit when the car in which Kirk was a passenger slid off the icy road and crashed into a telephone pole.  The other four members of the party, including fellow Michigan football player Eddie Usher, were either uninjured or sustained only minor injuries.  Kirk was taken to Beyer Memorial Hospital in Ypsilanti unconscious and in critical condition.

Over the next week, newspapers across the country followed the daily changes in Kirk's condition.  On Sunday evening, Kirk remained unconscious and doctors expressed fear for his recovery.  Early in the week, Kirk's condition was much improved, and Kirk's father reported that physicians had told him that his son would recover.  Doctors also reported that Kirk's right eye had been badly injured, but it was thought that his sight would not be impaired.

The press also reported closely on the investigation into the cause of the crash.  Initial reports indicated that the automobile, owned by Harold Covert but being driven by Cyrenus Darling, was speeding on the icy road.  But after an investigation, Ypsilanti Police Chief John F. Connor reported that the accident was "unavoidable" and caused by the icy condition of the road.  Chief Connor said the vehicle was not being driven at an unlawful speed, and witnesses told him it was moving at 30 to 35 miles per hour.

Kirk suffered what was reported as a "slight relapse" on Wednesday.   The United Press reported that Kirk's pulse was down, and doctors expressed fears that meningitis might develop and described his condition as "not so good."  Doctors hoped that Kirk's "fine physical condition will pull him through," and his condition improved again on Thursday.

After an up-and-down week, meningitis set in, and Kirk died on Saturday morning, December 23, 1922.  On learning of Kirk's passing, Kirk's teammate Harry Kipke told reporters, "Bernie Kirk was one of the best liked boys that ever wore a Michigan uniform.  He was one of the greatest ends the University ever had, and he was a real fellow in every respect."

Hundreds of telegrams of condolence were sent to the family "from all parts of the world," including one from Walter Camp, which readDeepest regrets and sympathy.  We shall not soon forget the remarkable play on the gridiron of Bernard Kirk, a star indeed and one of those indefatigable performers combining both brain and physique with speed and judgment, a fine example of real football players.

Many newspapers noted the coincidence that Kirk and George Gipp, former teammates and close friends, had both died even before all of the All-American teams had been announced (Gipp had died in December 1920).  Notre Dame Coach Rockne recalled that Gipp and Kirk had been "great pals" and "practically inseparable." A Wisconsin newspaper made the following observation[Kirk] had played end on the Notre Dame eleven before coming to Michigan, and the death of Kirk marks the passing of that ill fated but brilliant Notre Dame combination of Gipp to Kirk.  Like Kirk, George Gipp, died in the height of his stardom, just after the close of a season in which he was picked by most critics for the all-American.  As a member of the Notre Dame team Kirk played end and received most of the passes hurled by Gipp.

Funeral

Kirk's funeral, held in Ypsilanti, was covered by newspapers across the United States.  The New York Times reported: "High officials of the State and the educational world, as well as gridiron stars of this and other years, gathered here today to pay the last honors to Bernard Kirk, star football player of the University of Michigan, whose death resulted Saturday from an automobile accident."  A requiem mass was held at St. John's Catholic Church, which "could not accommodate a tenth of those attending the services."  Kirk's honorary pallbearers included University of Michigan President Marion Leroy Burton, Michigan Governor Alex Groesbeck, University of Michigan Coach Fielding H. Yost, and two U.S. Congressmen.
His casket was carried to the grave by eight of his Michigan teammates, including Harry Kipke, Paul G. Goebel, Irwin Uteritz, and Franklin Cappon.  One account described the emotion of the funeral: "As the casket bearing the body of the former University of Michigan football star was slowly lowered into his last resting place, husky athletes who battled with him on the football fields for the glory and honor of Michigan sobbed unashamed." That last resting place is St. John Cemetery in Ypsilanti.

See also
 1922 College Football All-America Team
 List of Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans

References

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The Midway Drive-In located in Sterling, Illinois is one of 12 drive-in theaters in Illinois.

History
Opened in 1950, it is named for being located midway between Dixon and Sterling, Illinois.

In 2007, the Midway Drive-In was purchased by Mike and Mia Kerz (who are also the founders of the Flashback Weekend Movie Conventions in Rosemont, Illinois). The facility then underwent a two-year renovation. The historic Drive-In Screen Tower was refurbished and painted, the projection booth equipment was upgraded, and the concession stand was restored to its original '50's diner decor, including the retro "spaceship" ticket booth and the children's playground.

See also
 List of drive-in theaters

References

External links
Official site
Sauk Valley Newspaper
Encounter Lee County
Horror Film Festivals

Drive-in theaters in the United States
Dixon, Illinois
Sterling, Illinois
1950 establishments in Illinois
Buildings and structures in Lee County, Illinois
Tourist attractions in Lee County, Illinois


Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster is a Looney Tunes television special directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon. In new animation, Jeff Bergman voiced Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Elmer and Sylvester. The special first aired April 17, 1991 on CBS.

Shorts used
"Baton Bunny" (the first event; retried again as the last event which was ruined by a fly)
"Tree for Two" (audio clip used when Sylvester the Cat sings "Charleston" as interruption)
"Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in The William Tell Overture" (the second event; this was originally produced for this special and also later released as standalone short)
"Back Alley Oproar" (audio clip used when Sylvester tries to ruin Elmer's Hungarian Rhapsody)
"Rabbit of Seville" (the Fourth Event)
"What's Opera, Doc?" (the last event on the agenda, but Bugs tries Baton Bunny again afterward)
"Long-Haired Hare" (audio clip of "Leopold's" conducting used in the credits)

Plot
While reading the newspaper, The Three Bears decide to go to the opera.  Also seen in the paper is the headline Experimental Fly escapes, cannot be killed.

After a clip from Baton Bunny of the audience walking in, Bugs Bunny emerges from his dressing room and begins to conduct.  In the audience, the fly lands on Papa Bear's head; Baby Bear tries to squash it with his toy wagon, but only succeeds in knocking Papa unconscious.  The fly flies up to Bugs, whose conducting is ruined.

Elmer Fudd starts practicing for the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 and gets interrupted by Sylvester the Cat singing "Charleston" before scaring him away with his anger. In the audience, Granny tries to kill the fly with bug spray, but the fly wears a gas mask. Porky Pig starts playing the William Tell Overture before Daffy Duck. Daffy is angered, and a fight ensues. The Lone Ranger and his horse Silver come in when the music is over.

Elmer Fudd is up, and Sylvester continues singing. In effect, Elmer decides to throw Sylvester out. Elmer starts to conduct "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" when Sylvester runs up and down the stairs singing the same tune. Elmer beats up Sylvester and walks back in, but sees that the audience loved Sylvester's act.  Elmer quits, declaring that he has been "humiwiated fow the wast time and is leaving show business for good." In the audience, Mr. Meek tries to kill the fly with a flyswatter, but the fly swats him back on the nose.

Bugs introduces The Barber of Seville when Porky informs him that Elmer quit. Bugs goes to get him back and tricks him back onto the set, performing Rabbit of Seville. Bugs then tells him how they loved it and changes him into his Wagnerian warrior costume. Bugs tells him he'll like the next one because he gets to kill Bugs. They perform What's Opera, Doc?. In the audience, Petunia Pig shoos the fly off her binoculars; Yosemite Sam tries to kill the fly with his gun, but fails.

Bugs then takes another shot at conducting, unaware that the fly has driven the audience away. Bugs eventually succeeds in knocking the fly out cold, but when he sees the audience empty, he notices that the fly claps as Bugs shrugs and finally bows.

Voice Characterizations
Mel Blanc - Bugs Bunny (archive footage)
Arthur Q. Bryan - Elmer Fudd (archive footage)
Jeff Bergman - Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester and Papa Bear
June Foray - Mama Bear
Stan Freberg - Junior Bear

Trivia
Sylvester's Hungarian Rhapsody from Back Alley Oproar is reused here, with new animation because while Warner/Chappell Music held the rights to the music in the cartoon, Turner Entertainment (through the 1956 a.a.p. sale and various mergers) owned the rights to the footage at the time (Warner would not regain the rights until 1996, despite the studio having the cartoon's original negatives stored in the WB vault).
Mr. Meek from The Wise Quacking Duck, the two stranded men from Wackiki Wabbit, and Granny and Sam from Hare Trimmed make cameos in the audience, .

References

External links

Looney Tunes television specials
1991 television specials
1990s American television specials
Bugs Bunny films
Daffy Duck films
Porky Pig films


Michael Patrick Francis Gunner (born 6 January 1976) is an Australian former politician who was the 11th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from 2016 to 2022. He was a Labor member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, holding the seat of Fannie Bay in Darwin from the retirement of then Chief Minister Clare Martin at the 2008 election until his resignation in July 2022.

Gunner was elected Labor leader in the Northern Territory, becoming Leader of the Opposition, in April 2015.  He led Labor to a landslide victory in the 2016 Northern Territory election. He was sworn in on 31 August, the first Northern Territory Chief Minister to have been born there. Gunner led Labor to another victory in the 2020 election, albeit with a reduced majority.

On 10 May 2022, Gunner announced his intention to resign the position of Chief Minister. On 27 July 2022, Gunner resigned his position as member for Fannie Bay.

Early life

Gunner was born in Alice Springs in 1976, the eldest of four children, to Mick and Jane Gunner. His great-grandfather settled in Tennant Creek in the 1930s from Tbilisi in Georgia, fleeing the country after the Russian Revolution. He has Indigenous relatives in Utopia north of Alice Springs.

Gunner went to school in Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Darwin. He began a law degree at Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University), switching to a Bachelor of Arts degree which he completed. He supported himself by working at retail chain Big W and as an electorate officer. He has represented the Territory in rugby union. Gunner went on to work as a senior government ministerial and policy adviser between 2001 and 2008 to former Chief Minister Clare Martin.

Early political career

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Member for Fannie Bay
Gunner was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly for the Electoral division of Fannie Bay in 2008 after the retirement of Chief Minister Clare Martin at the 2008 election. The election saw Gunner retain the seat for the Labor Party by only a slight margin, over Garry Lambert, former alderman and acting Lord Mayor.

Opposition Leader
After a failed attempt in 2013, on 19 April 2015 Gunner announced he would stand for the leadership of the Northern Territory Labor Party against incumbent Delia Lawrie, who was facing criticism of her conduct during an inquiry into the gifting of heritage property Stella Maris to Unions NT while she was a minister. Four days later, Lawrie resigned and Gunner was elected unopposed as leader. He held the portfolios of Major Projects, Northern Australia Development, Police, Fire and Emergency Services, Open and Transparent Government and Business and was Shadow Treasurer. Originally a member of Labor Right, Gunner became factionally unaligned, resigning from the Right after taking over as Opposition Leader. Gunner moved a Motion of No Confidence against the Adam Giles Government on 1 December 2015 but was unsuccessful.

Chief Minister

2016 election
Labor went into the 2016 territory election as unbackable favourites, with Northern Territory opinion polls indicating a massive swing against the CLP.  Additionally, at the 2016 federal election held two months earlier, Labor picked up a healthy seven-point swing in the Territory, and took the federal seat of Solomon—which is largely coextensive with the Darwin/Palmerston area—off the CLP in a large swing.

At the 27 August Territory election, Gunner led Territory Labor to one of the most comprehensive election victories on record at the state or territory level in Australia.  Labor won 18 seats in the 25-member Legislative Assembly on a swing of over 14 percent, the largest two-party swing on record in the Territory. En route, Labor took all but one seat in Darwin/Palmerston, and even ousted Giles in his own seat—only the second time that a Majority Leader/Chief Minister had been rolled in his own electorate. The CLP was cut down to just two seats − the worst defeat of a sitting government in the Territory's history, and among the worst ever suffered by a state or territory government in Australia.  Gunner declared that Territorians had "rejected the chaos of the last four years", in part a reference to the numerous reshuffles that had taken place during the previous government, including multiple leadership spills.

Normal practice in Australia calls for a defeated government to stay in office on a caretaker basis until the final results are in.  However, with Labor's victory beyond doubt even though counting continued until early September, Gunner arranged to have Administrator John Hardy swear himself, Natasha Fyles, and Nicole Manison as an interim three-person government until all prospective ministers were confirmed as elected.  Accordingly, Gunner was sworn in as Chief Minister on 31 August 2016.  Gunner held 38 portfolios in the three-person ministry in contrast to Manison solely as Treasurer and Fyles as just Attorney General and Justice Minister.  His full ministry was selected on 11 September and sworn in the next day, with Manison as his Deputy Chief Minister after former deputy leader Lynne Walker was narrowly defeated in her own seat. Notably, a majority of the new cabinet -five of its eight members  − were women.

First term

Gunner entered office in a formidable position. He won the third-largest majority government in Territory history (just percentage points behind Labor's 2005 landslide), and faced only two CLP members as opposition − fewer than the five independents in the chamber.  Although Labor was technically the only official party in the legislature, Gunner pledged that the CLP would be properly resourced as an opposition.

Despite Labor's massive majority, Gunner retained CLP-turned-independent Kezia Purick as Speaker of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly for a second term.

A perennial election issue, Labor removed the CLP's open speed limit and implemented a 130 km/h speed limit along a 300 km stretch of the Stuart Highway between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek.

Gunner ordered a moratorium on fracking, and also undertook a review of all water licences issued under the previous government. The moratorium commenced on 14 September. On 17 April 2018, the moratorium was revoked.

Gunner has expressed support for Chinese government investment in the Northern Territory in the form of the Belt and Road Initiative.

2020 election
Gunner led Territory Labor through the 2020 NT election. Labor heavily centered their campaign around Gunner's leadership and government handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, even going as far to say the election was, "literally the difference between life and death," which drew criticism from his opponents. Before the election, opinion polls suggested that Labor would suffer an almost certain swing against them, with the newcomer Territory Alliance party posing a serious threat to the typical two-party system that has dominated NT politics.

Nevertheless, on election night, ABC psephologist Antony Green projected that Labor would win at least a minority government almost three hours after the polls closed. Gunner later declared victory an hour later, saying that he was "very confident" that Labor had won another term, with the Country Liberals refusing to concede defeat on election night.

Ultimately, Gunner led Labor to win 14 of the 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Labor suffered a net four seat drop from the 2016 landslide, but retained a bare majority of two seats. Labor grabbed all but two seats in the Darwin/Palmerston area, even managing to oust Territory Alliance leader and former CLP Chief Minister Terry Mills from his own seat of Blain. The CLP, under Lia Finocchiaro, managed to snatch some of its usual heartland seats in Alice Springs and Katherine back from Labor that were swept away amid the massive 2016 landslide, allowing it to quadruple its seat count to eight.

Second term
Gunner announced his new cabinet on the 7 September 2020. Gunner himself dropped half of his portfolios in favour for Treasurer, a portfolio once held by Manison. Like his previous cabinets, a majority of the members are women - outnumbering men 6 to 3.

COVID-19 pandemic

Gunner led the Northern Territory's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In October 2021, the United States Senator from Texas Ted Cruz posted a tweet that was critical of the Northern Territory's vaccine mandates. Gunner's response to the tweet went viral quickly.

Resignation
On 10 May 2022, Gunner announced his resignation from his positions as the NT Chief Minister and Treasurer, citing a desire to spend more time with his family. On 27 July 2022, two and a half months after he resigned as Chief Minister, Gunner announced in a speech to the Legislative Assembly his resignation as the member for Fannie Bay. On 29 July, an ICAC report was tabled in Parliament which stated that Gunner had declined to provide cabinet documents to Independent Commissioner Against Corruption, Michael Riches, regarding a "serious allegation" that a cabinet submission had been "edited by a public officer so as to be misleading as to the true state of affairs." The ICAC Act prohibits the commission from compelling the production of cabinet-related material, so Riches had to close the investigation into that matter. The ICAC Act (Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Act 2018) was drafted and legislated by the Northern Territory Labor Government in November 2017.

After politics
In November 2022, Gunner joined Fortescue Future Industries (FFI). He was promoted to lead FFI's Australia West division in April 2023.

Political positions
Gunner is a republican. He supports a woman's right to have an abortion.

Personal life
On 3 December 2017, Gunner married ABC journalist Kristy O'Brien. It is his second marriage. The couple has two sons, born in 2020 and 2022.

In late January 2020, it was reported that Gunner would undergo heart surgery, after suffering a heart attack earlier in the month which had originally been described as a "minor heart scare".

References

External links
2016 election commitments: TerritoryLabor.com.au
Territory Labor lays out plan in Michael Gunner's budget reply speech: NT News 25 May 2016

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1976 births
Living people
Members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
Australian Labor Party members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
Australian people of Georgian descent
Chief Ministers of the Northern Territory
21st-century Australian politicians
Australian republicans


Johan Herman Wollebæk (16 November 1875 – 24 October 1940) was a Norwegian jurist and diplomatist. He worked with international law, and is known for his time as leader of the Norwegian legation in Stockholm from 1921 to October 1940, a period which includes the early phase of World War II.

Personal life
He was born in Lier as the son of Colonel Sigvard Polidor Wollebæk (1835–1920) and his wife Anine Julie Augusta Dahl (1834–1912). He was the brother of zoologist Alf Wollebæk, and on the maternal side he was a descendant of Carl Adolph Dahl and Carl Adolf Dahl.

In December 1912 he married Ida Fredrikke Gram (1880–1967), a daughter of the former Prime Minister Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram. Through his wife, he was the brother-in-law of Harald Gram and uncle of Gregers Gram.

Career
Wollebæk went to school in Drammen and Lillehammer. He finished his secondary school in 1893, and graduated from the University of Kristiania with the cand.jur. degree in 1898. He began his career in the foreign service a few years later, as a secretary in the Ministry of Trade. His first assignment abroad came while the Union between Sweden and Norway still existed, as an attaché at the two countries' legation in Paris. Following the dissolution of the union in 1905, Norway established its own Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he was promoted to subdirector in 1909 and deputy under-secretary of state in 1916.

He worked with international law, as chairman of Sjøgrensekommisjonen, and delegate to the Spitsbergen conferences in 1912 and 1914. He was minister (leader) of the Norwegian legation in Berlin from 1920 to 1921, and in 1921 he was given the same position the Norwegian legation in Stockholm, following the death of Francis Hagerup. He remained here until 1940.

Following 9 April 1940, when Norway was invaded and subsequently occupied by Nazi Germany, Stockholm became an important city for Norwegian politics. Wollebæk had refused to obey the orders of Vidkun Quisling—who during the German invasion declared a Fascist coup d'état—and the Norwegian legation in Stockholm was soon reinforced with additional personnel. Jens Bull, the highest-ranking civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was sent to Stockholm, and the Norwegian government-in-exile, once secure in London, sent its representatives. Wollebæk participated in negotiations in the summer of 1940, but at the same time he fell ill. He died in October 1940, being succeeded by Jens Bull. Before the war ended, more than 50,000 Norwegians had fled to Sweden.

Wollebæk was decorated as a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1922. He received the Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star and the  Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic, and was Commander of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog and the Swedish Order of Vasa.

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1875 births
1940 deaths
Norwegian diplomats
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University of Oslo alumni
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Norwegian expatriates in Germany
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People from Lier, Norway
Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star
Commanders of the Order of the Dannebrog
Commanders of the Order of Vasa
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic


Jens Steenberg Bull (25 November 1886 – 1 June 1956) was a Norwegian jurist and diplomatist. He played his most important role during World War II, when he represented his country in Stockholm, Sweden.

Personal life
He was born in Christiania as the son of Ole Bornemann Bull (1842–1916) and Kaja Constance Steenberg (1855–1939). He was the eleventh of fifteen children in his family, and his younger brother Johan Bull was a notable illustrator. His older half-brother was Fredrik Rosing Bull. From November 1917, Jens Bull was married to Aslaug Malling.

Career
He finished his secondary school in 1905, and graduated from the University of Kristiania with the cand.jur. degree in 1909. He was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1911, worked with international law and was a delegate to the League of Nations from 1921 to 1924. He was a counsellor at the Norwegian legations in Berlin from 1925 to 1931, in The Hague from 1931 to 1933, and in Stockholm from 1934 to 1938. He was appointed deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1938, and was promoted to permanent under-secretary of state in 1939. In 1938 he also published a genealogical work on his own lineage.

Following 9 April 1940, when Norway was invaded and subsequently occupied by Nazi Germany, Bull took part in various negotiations, being dispatched to non-occupied Stockholm in Sweden. He was ambassador in Stockholm from 1940 to 1945, taking over as chargé d'affaires after the death of Johan Wollebæk in October 1940. He was recognized as minister by the Swedish authorities from 1942. He played an important role at the Norwegian legation in Stockholm during World War II, when there was a colony of more than 50,000 Norwegian refugees in Sweden.

He was made ambassador in The Hague in March 1945, and continued after the war's end, to 1951. During this period he also helped establish the Council of Europe. He was then the Norwegian ambassador in Copenhagen from 1951 until his death in 1956.

Bull was decorated as a Commander with Star of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1948. He received the Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star and the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau.

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Shaganappi Point station is a CTrain light rail station in Shaganappi, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is located in the median of Bow Trail, just west of 26th St. SW, 3km West of the 7 Avenue & 9 Street SW Interlocking. The second station on the West line, it opened with preview service on December 8, 2012, and opened for revenue service on December 10, 2012.

The station has side-loading platforms that are only accessed by ramps from the intersection of Bow Trail and 26 Street SW immediately east.

The 27-hole Shaganappi Point Golf Course is located near the station.

In its first year of service, Shaganappi Point served an average of 1,320 boardings per day.

The Kerby Centre (a major drop-in centre for seniors) was planned to be relocated to a location beside this LRT station by 2017 from its current location in downtown Calgary, but this plan was later dropped in favour of considering other locations. As of spring 2023, new residential development is underway north of Bow Trail.

References

CTrain stations
Railway stations in Canada opened in 2012