Sir Charles Walter Starmer (12 July 1870 – 27 June 1933) was a British newspaper proprietor and Liberal politician.

Family
Charles Starmer was born in Haltham, near Horncastle in Lincolnshire but while he was still a child he moved with his family to the Cleveland area of the North Riding of Yorkshire. In 1893 he married Ada Cornforth and they had a daughter, Freda Marjorie Cornforth Starmer, born 14 September 1908 in Darlington died on 28 January 1935 aged 26 years.  Ada Cornforth Starmer died in 1923, after a long illness and Starmer was married again in October 1929 to Mary Cecilia Willink, the daughter of John Wakefield Willink, Dean of Norwich. Lady Starmer was appointed OBE in 1948 and served as a Justice of the Peace, surviving him until 1979.

Career
Starmer was a career journalist and went on to become one of the biggest newspaper proprietors of his day. He joined the commercial staff of The Northern Echo in West Hartlepool in 1899 working his way up to be its manager by 1908. Later he took over control of the Sheffield Independent, Birmingham Gazette, and other papers. As managing director of the Birmingham Gazette Ltd, the North of England Newspaper Co. Ltd, the Bradford and District Newspaper Co. Ltd and the Nottingham Journal, Ltd, he eventually controlled the publication of 30 provincial daily and weekly newspapers. At his death he was owner of the Westminster Press Group, also known as the Starmer Group. The company included the liberal newspaper the Westminster Gazette which had merged with the Daily News in 1928. He was a patron of the London School of Journalism

Knighthood
Starmer was knighted for his public services in 1917. His newspaper businesses, political service and interests in labour questions and the condition of the north east of England were all mentioned in the context of his knighthood.

Politics
Starmer was first elected a member of the Darlington Town Council in 1903, becoming an Alderman in 1915. He was Mayor of Darlington in 1907–08 and again in 1933. Starmer fought his first Parliamentary contest at the 1918 general election, when he stood as an independent Asquithian Liberal in the Sedgefield constituency in County Durham. He was selected to fight Darlington as an Independent Liberal for the 1922 general election, but did not stand as a candidate in the event, transferring instead to the Cleveland Division of the North Riding of Yorkshire, where he came second to the sitting Conservative MP, Sir Park Goff, in a three-cornered contest with Labour. Then, at the 1923 general election he stood again in Cleveland and this time was elected Liberal Member of Parliament, defeating Goff by a majority of 1,471 votes, again a three-cornered contest. However, in the Tory revival of 1924 Starmer was unable to hold on, this time falling to third place in another three-cornered fight. He fought the seat again at the 1929 general election but again came third, albeit in a tight three-way contest. He did not fight another Parliamentary election being too unwell to stand in 1931

Starmer was a Member of the Executive Committee of the National Liberal Federation from 1928 until his death. He also served as a Justice of the Peace.

Death
He died on 27 June 1933 aged 62 years at his London home in Tufton Street, Westminster.

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The Western Michigan Broncos men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college ice hockey program that represents Western Michigan University. The Broncos are a member of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC). They play at Lawson Arena in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.

History
The Broncos program began in 1973 and joined the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) for the 1975–76 season. After ten seasons in the league Western Michigan won the 1986 CCHA Playoff Tournament and advanced to the school's first NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament in 1986. The 1986 season marked the program's first CCHA Tournament Championship and the program's first bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Broncos entered the tournament in the West Regional against Harvard and lost the two-game aggregate series, being outscored 11–4 by the Crimson.

Western Michigan's next post season appearance came in 1994. Western Michigan received an at-large bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I Tournament and again fell in the first round with a 6–3 loss to Wisconsin.

The Broncos rebounded in the 1995–96 season after a sub-.500 season in 1994–95. Western Michigan received the program's second at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Western Michigan lost again in the first round to Clarkson 6–1.

Under first-year coach Jeff Blashill, Western Michigan received an at-large bid to the 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, where they would lose their opening game 3–2 in double overtime to Denver.  Denver scored two goals in the last 4:29 of the third period to force overtime.

In 2011–12, for the second consecutive season, Western Michigan had a new head coach and reached the NCAA tournament. Longtime National Hockey League (NHL) coach Andy Murray was named as coach of the Broncos after Blashill left for the Detroit Red Wings. WMU finished tied for second in the CCHA and won the CCHA tournament, thereby receiving an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. Western Michigan lost in the first round of the tournament 3–1 to No. 1 seed North Dakota.

The Broncos joined the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) starting in the 2013–14 season. The CCHA disbanded after the 2012–13 season, in part due to the addition of men's ice hockey to the Big Ten Conference.

Western Michigan won the 2013 four-team Great Lakes Invitational which was played outdoors at Comerica Park in Detroit. The Broncos defeated No. 3 Michigan 3–2 in overtime in the semifinals, and then claimed the championship by beating Michigan Tech 1–0, also in overtime. WMU won the 2014 Shillelagh Tournament with an 8–2 victory over No. 17 Union. The Broncos also defeated Ohio State in the first round of the tournament, 6–2.

In 2016–17, the Broncos followed up a disappointing 8-25-3 season with an impressive 22-13-5 and a third-place finish in the NCHC. Western Michigan was invited to the final Great Lakes Invitational at Joe Louis Arena, where they defeated Michigan Tech in the championship. WMU has been invited to the GLI 5 times dating back to 1977, winning it 3 of those times. The Broncos were defeated in the first round of the 2017 NCAA Division I tournament by Air Force.

Season-by-season results

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Coaching

All-time coaching records
As of the completion of 2022–23 season

† The 1998–99 season was coached by both Wilkinson and Culhane.

Statistical leaders

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Career points leaders

Career goaltending leaders

GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average

Minimum 30 games played

Statistics current through the start of the 2022–2023 season.

Current roster
As of August 2, 2023.

Awards and honors

All-Americans
AHCA First Team All-Americans

1985–86: Wayne Gagné, D; Dan Dorion, F
1986–87: Wayne Gagné, F
2019–20: Hugh McGing, F
2020–21: Ronnie Attard, D
2021–22: Ronnie Attard, D

AHCA Second Team All-Americans

1983–84: Dan Dorion, F
1984–85: Glenn Healy, G
1985–86: Bill Horn, G
1995–96: Marc Magliarditi, G
2000–01: Mike Bishai, F
2011–12: Danny DeKeyser, D
2012–13: Danny DeKeyser, D
2021–22: Ethen Frank, F
2022–23: Jason Polin, F

CCHA

Individual awards

Player of the Year
Dan Dorion: 1986
Wayne Gagné: 1987

Best Defensive Forward
Pat Ferschweiler: 1992
Dane Walters: 2013

Best Defensive Defenseman
Brent Brekke: 1994
Danny DeKeyser: 2012, 2013

Rookie of the Year
Chris Brooks: 1993
Marc Magliarditi: 1996
Daryl Andrews: 1997
Patrick Dwyer: 2002
Mark Letestu: 2007

Coach of the Year
Bill Wilkinson: 1984, 1986, 1996

Ilitch Humanitarian Award
Brett Beebe: 2013

Most Valuable Player in Tournament
Glenn Healy: 1984
Bill Horn: 1986
Frank Slubowski: 2012

All-Conference teams
First Team All-CCHA

1976–77: Tim Dunlop, F
1980–81: Ross Fitzpatrick, F
1983–84: Dan Dorion, F
1985–86: Wayne Gagné, D; Dan Dorion, F
1986–87: Wayne Gagné, D
1987–88: Paul Polillo, F
1991–92: Keith Jones, G
1995–96: Marc Magliarditi, G
2012–13: Danny DeKeyser, D

Second Team All-CCHA

1977–78: Bernie Saunders, F; Paul Cappuccio, F
1979–80: Bob Scurfield, F
1984–85: Glenn Healy, G
1985–86: Chris MacDonald, F; Stu Burnie, F
1986–87: Bill Horn, G; Rob Bryden, F
1987–88: Mike Posma, D; Ron Hoover, F
1990–91: Mike Eastwood, F
1995–96: Jeremy Brown, F
1996–97: Joe Corvo, D
1999–00: David Gove, F
2000–01: Mike Bishai, F; David Gove, F
2004–05: Brent Walton, F
2008–09: Patrick Galivan, F
2011–12: Danny DeKeyser, D; Matt Tennyson, D
2012–13: Frank Slubowski, G; Luke Witkowski, D

CCHA All-Rookie Team

1991–92: Chris Belanger, D
1992–93: Scott Chartier, D; Chris Brooks, F
1994–95: Steve Duke, D
1995–96: Marc Magliarditi, G; Joe Corvo, D
1996–97: Daryl Andrews, D
2001–02: Patrick Dwyer, F
2002–03: Vince Bellissimo, F
2006–07: Mark Letestu, F
2010–11: Danny DeKeyser, D; Chase Balisy, F
2011–12: Frank Slubowski, G; Garrett Haar, D
2012–13: Kenney Morrison, D

NCHC

Individual awards

Player of the Year
Jason Polin: 2023

Forward of the Year
Jason Polin: 2023

Offensive Defenseman of the Year
Ronnie Attard: 2021, 2022

Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Kale Bennett: 2021
Drew Worrad: 2022

Herb Brooks Coach of the Year
Andy Murray: 2017
Pat Ferschweiler: 2023

All-Conference teams
First Team All-NCHC

2019–20: Hugh McGing, F
2020–21: Ronnie Attard, D
2021–22: Ronnie Attard, D; Ethen Frank, F
2022–23: Jason Polin, F

Second Team All-NCHC

2013–14: Chase Balisy, F
2016–17: Sheldon Dries, F
2018–19: Hugh McGing, F
2019–20: Ronnie Attard, D
2021–22: Drew Worrad, F

NCHC All-Rookie Team

2016–17: Ben Blacker, G
2019–20: Ronnie Attard, D
2022–23: Ryan McAllister, F

Western Michigan Broncos Hall of Fame
The following is a list of people associated with the Western Michigan men's ice hockey program who were elected into the Western Michigan University Athletic Hall of Fame.

Dan Dorion (1998)
Ross Fitzpatrick (2004)
Wayne Gagné (2001)
Glenn Healy (1996)
Rob Hodge (2008)
Harry Lawson (1990)
Jamal Mayers (2014)
Bernie Saunders (1994)
Neil Smith (1991)

Broncos in the NHL
As of July 1, 2023

‡Scott Foster played 14 minutes for the Blackhawks after being signed to a 1-day contract as an emergency backup due to injury.

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See also
Western Michigan Broncos

References

External links
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Ice hockey teams in Michigan


Eugene Thompson may refer to:
 Flash Thompson (Eugene Thompson), a character appearing in Marvel Comics
 T. Eugene Thompson, American attorney who hired a hit man to kill his wife
 Eugene H. Thompson, member of the New Jersey General Assembly
 Junior Thompson (Eugene Earl Thompson), American baseball pitcher


Progeryonidae is a small family of crabs in the order Decapoda. These crabs were until 2005 included in the Goneplacidae as part of the subfamily Carcinoplacinae. Three genera are included:
 Paragalene Kossmann, 1878
 Progeryon Bouvier, 1922
 Rhadinoplax Castro & Ng, 2008

References

Goneplacoidea
Decapod families


Trantlemore () is a small remote linear crofting township, lying on the left bank of the River Halladale, in Eastern Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

The A897 road runs past Trantlemore.

Populated places in Sutherland


Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram (10 December 1846 – 1 August 1929) was a Norwegian jurist and politician, and international arbitrator. He was a Supreme Court Assessor, Norwegian prime minister in Stockholm from 1889 to 1891 and from 1893 to 1898 and County Governor from 1898 to 1915.

Personal life
Gram was born in Moss as the son of district stipendiary magistrate Paul James Reinhold Harald Gram (1818–1900) and Jensine Sophie Wulfsberg (1810–1902). He was a grandson of Jens Jensen Gram and Gregers Winther Wulfsberg, and a first cousin of Jens Gram.

In August 1878 he married Antoinette Augusta Brodtkorb (1857–1938). He was the father of politician Harald Gram (1887–1961) and through him the grandfather of resistance fighter Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram (1917–1944). His daughter Ida Fredrikke married diplomatist Johan Wollebæk.

Career
Gram took his examen artium in 1864, and the cand.jur. degree in 1869. He worked in France and in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, but then left Norway for some years. He worked as a jurist in Egypt, in Ismailia from 1875 to 1882, and later in Alexandria. Back in Norway he was a Supreme Court Assessor from 1884.

Gram belonged to the Conservative Party. When the first cabinet Stang assumed office in 1889, Gram was appointed Norwegian Prime Minister in Stockholm by Prime Minister Emil Stang. He served this position until the resignation of Stang's government in 1891. He was again Prime Minister in Stockholm during Stang's government from 1893. By 1895 this government had become weak due to internal conflicts. Gram was the architect of a new cabinet with Francis Hagerup as Prime Minister. This lasted from 1895 to 1898, but was unseated following the 1898 general election. During his last two tenures as Prime Minister in Stockholm, Gram had taken a moderate stance towards the union between Sweden and Norway, which many wanted to abolish. When a referendum was held on the dissolution of the union in 1905, Gram is believed to have voted against it, though this view was outnumbered 368,392 to 184.

After ending his political career he was County Governor of Hedmark from 1898 to 1915. He had declined several offers of ambassador positions during his career. Gram also served as a member of the arbitration tribunal in several international conflicts. He was a member of the Institut de Droit International from 1904, a board member from 1906 to 1910 and an honorary member from 1925. For his arbitration work he received the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1893. He died in August 1929 in Vestre Aker, and is buried at Vestre gravlund.

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1846 births
1929 deaths
Members of the Institut de Droit International
People from Moss, Norway
Norwegian jurists
Supreme Court of Norway justices
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Government ministers of Norway
County governors of Norway
University of Oslo alumni
Burials at Vestre gravlund
19th-century Norwegian politicians


Albert Montañés and Santiago Ventura were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

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Doubles


The Conscience Fund is one of three gift funds maintained by the United States Department of the Treasury and is used for voluntary contributions from people who have stolen from or defrauded the United States Government. The fund was created in 1811 and received US$5 during its first year and over US$5.7million during its first 175 years. The fund's name comes from a letter sent during the Civil War from a former Quartermaster in the Army to then-Treasurer of the United States Francis E. Spinner with a US$1500 check for previously misappropriated funds saying, "Suppose we call this a contribution to the conscience fund and get it announced in the newspapers, and perhaps we will get some more".

Donations given to the Conscience Fund vary in size and reason. A 9 cent donation was made by a person from Massachusetts who had reused a 3 cent postage stamp, while a person from Jersey City sent US$40,000 in several installments for US$8,000 he had previously taken.
Another donor sent handmade quilts in an effort to settle her tax bill. Most gifts to the Conscience Fund are from anonymous donors. Others are forwarded by clergy who have received deathbed confessions. The sincerity of some donors' repentance can be uncertain, as demonstrated by a received letter reading, "Dear Internal Revenue Service, I have not been able to sleep at night because I cheated on last year's income tax. Enclosed find a cashier's check for $1,000. If I still can't sleep, I'll send you the balance."

Due to the fund's association with ill-gotten monies, some people object to having the funds they return associated with the fund. An example of this is when then-President Herbert Hoover and his Cabinet volunteered to reduce their pay in 1932 and instructed the Treasury to place the returned salary in the General Fund instead of the Conscience Fund.

Donations to the Conscience Fund are not tax deductible, although gifts to the U.S. Treasury through the U.S. Fund are.

References

Taxation in the United States
United States Department of the Treasury


The Umineko When They Cry visual novel series features an extensive cast of characters created and originally illustrated by 07th Expansion's Ryukishi07. The series takes place on the fictional secluded island Rokkenjima in Japan, and the storyline primarily follows the Ushiromiya family during the time period of October 4 and October 5, 1986. Kinzo, the head of the wealthy Ushiromiya family, owns and resides on Rokkenjima. Kinzo is near death, and eight of his family members arrive on the island for the annual family conference, where the adults plan to discuss how Kinzo's assets will be divided once he is dead. Also on the island are three family members who live there, five of Kinzo's servants, and his personal physician, for a total of 18 people. After the eight family members arrive, a typhoon traps them on the island, and shortly after, strange things start to happen and people start dying.

Real world characters

Ushiromiya family
Rokkenjima is owned by the wealthy Ushiromiya family and serves as the home of the family head. The family was initially much greater and contained more members until the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, after which the family was severely crippled, both domestically and financially. The current head, Kinzo, was originally part of a smaller branch of the family, and it fell to him to restore the family's glory. In Umineko, there is a rumor that Kinzo turned to the Golden Witch Beatrice and sold his soul for ¥20 billion worth of gold, allowing the Ushiromiya family to prosper more than it ever had before.

The current members of the Ushiromiya family gather on Rokkenjima every year for their annual family conference. While the youngest members of the family, Kinzo's grandchildren, see it as a chance to bond and have a pleasurable time chatting about their lives, their parents, Kinzo's children, take the opportunity to debate how Kinzo's assets are to be divided after his death. After that comes to pass, the headship will be passed down onto a successor according to a preset hierarchy. As the current head, Kinzo holds the highest rank of all the family members. Following Kinzo are his four children, from oldest to youngest (first son Krauss, first daughter Eva, second son Rudolf, and second daughter Rosa), then his grandchildren in order of their parents' age (Krauss' daughter Jessica, Eva's son George, Rudolf's son Battler, and Rosa's daughter Maria), and finally his children's spouses as they are not blood relatives (Krauss' wife Natsuhi, Eva's husband Hideyoshi, and Rudolf's wife Kyrie). Those born under the name Ushiromiya bear the family crest, the , on their clothes, while those outside the family do not.

Kinzo's descendants have a Western naming style. While foreign names are normally written in katakana, the names of Kinzo's children and grandchildren are written using similar-sounding kanji. One exception is , which is pronounced  rather than the way the kanji that make up his name would otherwise normally be pronounced, .

Family heads

Kinzo is the elderly head of the Ushiromiya family and the owner of Rokkenjima. Throughout the first four games, Kinzo's body frequently turns up burnt in the incinerator of the mansion's underground boiler room as a means to conceal how long he had been dead, and is identified as Kinzo due to his polydactyly, distinguished by having six toes on each foot. In life, Kinzo held his children in contempt, viewing them as vultures ready to feast on his inheritance as soon as he died. He would rarely leave his large study, which contains various commodities such as a bed and bathroom. He was also a rabid practitioner of black magic and the occult, his shelves lined with volumes of grimoires. One of his most prominent obsessions was Beatrice, a witch he is said to have summoned and contracted for ten tons worth of gold.

Sayo, also known as "Yasu" (ヤス), shortened from "Yasuda" (安田), is the true human identity of Beatrice. She is the secret family head of the Ushiromiya family, who took over after Kinzo's death in 1984. Her birth name is Lion Ushiromiya, but she was given the name Sayo Yasuda by Genji in an effort to hide her real identity. Sayo is a child born from the incest between Kinzo and his daughter Beatrice Ushiromiya, making Sayo both Kinzo's child and grandchild. Sayo's birth sex is kept hidden throughout the game. Her true last name was only revealed in Requiem of the Golden Witch, while her first name, Sayo is revealed in Legend of the Golden Witch. When Lion was still a baby, the servant carrying her was pushed off a cliff by Natsuhi, resulting in the servant's death and the mutilation of Lion's lower abdominal area. Fortunately Genji managed to save her life with Nanjo's help. She was raised in the Fukuin House under the name "Sayo Yasuda" to avoid Natsuhi's suspicions regarding her true identity. It was said that Genji had to hide Sayo, from another potential incestuous advance by Kinzo. Sayo has since been living on Rokkenjima, disguised as the servants "Shannon" and "Kanon". Her full appearance is only revealed in the manga.

First generation descendants
Kinzo's immediate children and potential heirs to his fortune.

Kinzo's first child and eldest son. He is the current heir of the Ushiromiya family, and leads the family conference on Kinzo's behalf. He is a real estate investor and plans to turn Rokkenjima into a resort, but has wasted most of his funds. He thus hides Kinzo's death from his younger siblings in an attempt to monopolize Kinzo's fortune. His daughter, Jessica, also has little respect for him, particularly due to the pressure he places on her to become a suitable successor to the Ushiromiya family after him. Despite always swaggering about, Krauss holds genuine remorse for all the troubles he put his family through. He is known to have taken up boxing in his youth, and still possesses quite a bit of skill in that area. Unlike his siblings, he lives on Rokkenjima with his father, wife, and daughter.

Kinzo's second child and eldest daughter. Eva is hostile towards her older brother Krauss out of discontent for her family's patriarchal tradition, which places her in a position inferior to her brother in the family hierarchy. She rallies her younger siblings against Krauss to try and extort money out of him, though with limited success. She is skilled in various forms of martial arts, and is said to be excellent at cooking. Under normal circumstances, Eva would have been out of the family register upon marrying her husband, Hideyoshi. She gave birth before Krauss and raised her son George strictly so he could become the head of the family. She is also condescending towards Natsuhi for not being related to the Ushiromiya family by blood, and acts cruelly towards Shannon, who she suspects of being George's lover. Despite her insidious personality, however, she treasures her husband and son dearly and fears that they dislike her for using them out of revenge towards her brother.

Rudolf is Kinzo's third child. He was known as a philanderer in his youth and had impregnated his business partner and old girlfriend Kyrie before he married his first wife Asumu. After Asumu's death, he immediately remarried with Kyrie, leading to a falling out with his son Battler (who believed Asumu to have been his mother), who ran away from home to his maternal grandparents for six years. Rudolf is still known to chat up young women from time to time, though this does not seem to disturb Kyrie. He seeks Kinzo's fortune to settle a court case in America. He is an avid lover of Western films and an impressive marksman.

Rosa is Kinzo's fourth child. As the youngest of her siblings, she has the least influence at the family conference. Her husband abandoned her shortly before the birth of her daughter and only child, Maria. Rosa is the president of a small design company, "Anti-Rosa", and thus seeks out Kinzo's inheritance to pay off her co-endorsers. On the surface, Rosa appears to be the most sensible and soothing of all the siblings. However, as a result of being downtrodden by her older siblings in her childhood and forced to endure the pressures of a single mother, she frequently loses control of her emotions and responds violently to her daughter's childish behavior and overenthusiastic approach to the occult. Her relationship with Maria is complicated by how she does not spend enough time with her daughter. Though Maria knows her mother's behavior, she also suspects that Rosa resents her. Her former relationship with Maria's father was once happy, and the two had signed a co-endorsed loan which would later on cause financial problems for him. As a result he left when Rosa became pregnant, saddling her with both Maria and a large debt. Despite the things he's done, Rosa believes that once she has paid off her debt that he will come back to her and become a proper father to Maria.

First descendants' spouses

Krauss' wife. Born into a family of Shinto priests, Natsuhi discarded her old life when she married into the Ushiromiya family. She is a very proud woman who holds her new family's name in high regard, and is in charge of managing the family head house and family conferences. However, her efforts are undervalued by her husband, and she is often afflicted with headaches. She holds a bitter rivalry with Eva, who mocks her for not being related to the Ushiromiya family by blood. She is also incredibly strict towards her daughter Jessica, but only out of concern that she becomes an ideal heiress to the Ushiromiya family.

Eva's husband. Hideyoshi is a very jovial man whose cheerful nature manages to tone down the tension between the siblings during their various meetings. Having lost his family in World War II, he willingly adopted the name "Ushiromiya" when he married Eva. He is the successful president of a chain of fast food restaurants, but seeks Kinzo's fortune due to people trying to buy all the shares in his company. He speaks with a fake Kansai accent (US Southern accent in the English translation), which he is said to be too embarrassed to use against actual people from the Kansai region of Japan.

Kyrie is Rudolf's second wife. She is also one of Rudolf's business partners, always assisting him in shady dealings and keeping him in line when he gets out of hand. Kyrie and Battler have bonded more as close friends with a sibling-like relationship rather than mother and son. She has a "flip the chessboard" mentality to work out mental problems, and influences Battler in this regard. She had dated Rudolf long before his first wife Asumu, who she envied for marrying Rudolf while she was still going out with him.

Second generation descendants

Krauss and Natsuhi's 18-year-old daughter. Although Jessica is the heiress of the Ushiromiya family after her father, she is an energetic and tomboyish young woman who lacks the more refined behavior expected of such a role. Due to her rebellious nature, she is resentful of her parents for the pressures they place on her regarding the family headship, but still shows concern for them. She has a habit of faking asthma attacks as a means of escaping from tense situations. She has a crush on the servant Kanon, which is reciprocated to some extent. She is also proficient in the use of brass knuckles thanks to her father training her in Boxing.

Eva and Hideyoshi's 23-year-old son. He is the oldest of Kinzo's grandchildren, and an exceptional and diligent young adult. He was brought up by Eva specifically with the family headship in mind, works at his father's company as an apprentice, and is a skilled martial artist like his mother. He respects his parents greatly, though he admittedly finds his mother overbearing. He is in love with the servant Shannon and proposes to her, making him her fiancé. Believing that his romance with a servant would be frowned upon by his family, however, he is fully willing and prepared to face the consequences.

George is admired by everyone in his family, especially his cousins, who view him as their older brother and peacemaker. In his youth, however, he had been jealous of their more independent and impulsive lifestyles, particularly Battler, as unlike him, his mother made him do various things in his youth in order to shape him into the next head. As a result, he put up a more condescending mask towards his cousins, but has since outgrown this inferiority complex to a certain degree.

Battler is Rudolf's 18-year-old son, and the main protagonist of the first four games of the series. Although stubborn and hotheaded, he is a very compassionate young man. He tends to flirt with young women and has a perpetual fear of "shaky" transportation, thinking he may fall out of a plane or boat depending on the turbulence. Due to his father's remarriage, Battler rebelled and went to live with his maternal grandparents for the next six years, cutting all ties to the Ushiromiya family. After his grandparents' deaths, he returned to his family, though he had not fully reconciled with his father. He is greatly influenced by Kyrie's "flip the chessboard" mindset, which allows him to predict his enemies' thoughts based on the situation at hand. He has a habit of saying  when in a difficult situation. One of the main themes of the series is Battler's disbelief in the existence of witches and magic when his family and friends are murdered in the mysterious ways. Though he is convinced that the culprit is human, he is reluctant to suspect his loved ones as the culprits.

Maria is Rosa's nine-year-old daughter. She has a long-standing habit of uttering  whenever excited or upset. She is very honest and naïve, as shown by her tendency to easily believe lies and take jokes very seriously. While she loves her mother, Maria subconsciously resents that Rosa's long and frequent absences have made her lonely and wishes Rosa would spend more time with her. Having no interest in friends or studies, Maria has an extensive knowledge of the occult. There have been instances, usually when Beatrice or the occult is involved, where she acts very creepy. She believes avidly in Beatrice's existence, and gets mad at anyone who questions it; she even claims to have met and played with Beatrice on multiple occasions. Her interest in the occult and black magic is shared with Kinzo.

Ange is Rudolf and Kyrie's six-year-old daughter, and Battler's sister. She could not come to the island in 1986 due to sickness.

House guests
Guests who were present at the annual family meeting of the Ushiromiya family held on October 4 and October 5, 1986.

Nanjo is Kinzo's personal physician and close friend. He is also Kinzo's opponent in chess. He is one of the few people Kinzo, who has grown fanatical in his suspicions, opens his heart to. He has a bighearted disposition, and has come to the island for a long time, never getting upset by Kinzo's hot temper. He owned a clinic on Niijima, the island closest to Rokkenjima, but he resigned in favor of his son Masayuki.

Erika is a young detective introduced in End of the Golden Witch. A blue-haired girl estimated to be around the age of a middle school student, she is characterized as being highly intelligent and possessing an excellent memory. She acts very polite in public, and shows an extreme interest in puzzles and mysteries. In truth, she is ruthless and cunning, and only solves mysteries to boast her superiority towards those who execute them. She does, however, possess a serious inferiority complex, and is prone to breaking down emotionally whenever things do not go her way. Erika had been presumed lost at sea after falling off of a boat near Rokkenjima around the time of the murders. By the time public interest about Erika's fate arose, she was written into the stories of End and Dawn of the Golden Witch as having washed up on the shores of Rokkenjima and being taken in by the Ushiromiya family as a guest. Her name is strikingly similar to Rika Furude's from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.

Servants
The Ushiromiya head house is tended to by multiple servants. While there are more, only five servants are on duty at the time of the murders on Rokkenjima.

Genji is the head butler of Kinzo's mansion. He is said by Beatrice to be the first furniture Kinzo ever created, and is the person Kinzo trusts the most. While it is shown very briefly, Genji is very skilled with knives.

Shannon is a young maid of Kinzo's mansion. Her real name is . She has a habit of making mistakes and blunders when she is nervous, despite being an extremely talented and hardworking servant. She thinks of Kanon as her younger brother, and like him, she feels she is inferior to humans, as she is only furniture.

Kanon is a young servant of Kinzo's mansion. His real name is . He is a serious and fervent servant, carrying out his master's orders thoroughly. He is a bit frail and antisocial. He considers Shannon as an older sister and highly disapproves of her feelings for George, as he believes she should not feel love as she is only furniture. Hypocritically though, he has feelings for Jessica, which he tries to hide from even himself, because he thinks of himself as "furniture", rather than a human being.

Gohda is the head cook of Kinzo's mansion. Unlike the other servants in the mansion, he had been hired by Krauss and Natsuhi. Due to this, his rank is very low. He is extremely proud of his culinary skills. He was previously employed at a hotel, and due to his experience, he is ostentatious and looks down upon Shannon and Kanon, meanwhile, he is actually quite concerned for them, and is very reliable when it counts.

Kumasawa is a part-time worker who assists with domestic chores in Kinzo's mansion. She often shirks her responsibilities and likes to tell stories and jokes, especially outrageous ones involving mackerel.

Other servants
Former and absents servants that were not present on the Rokkenjima Murders.

An arrogant servant that was close to Krauss and Natsuhi, cleaning Krauss's study and the main stairs, seeing herself as superior as Shannon despite her lower rank. She was a bully to Shannon.

An envious servant that was jealous due to "Shannon's special treatment and hierarchy" among the servants.  She was a bully to Shannon.

A wrathful servant that use to yell at Shannon all the time due to their clumsiness. She was a bully to Shannon.

A sloth servant that use being mean to Shannon due to her being more of a hard worker than her. She was a bully to Shannon.

A greedy servant that became the only friend of Shannon, due to them having the same interests and tastes and for both to being hard workers. She was also a friend of Jessica.

A young servant that used to have hunger all the time but was a hard worker like Manon. She respected Shannon but didn't understand why she was higher than her despite "being younger" than her, being jealous of her in secret.

A young servant that used to fall in love all the time, specially with Kanon. She respected Shannon but didn't understand why she was higher than her despite "being younger" than her, being jealous of her in secret.

World of 1998
Characters introduced in Alliance of the Golden Witch, in the world of Ange Ushiromiya's future.

Amakusa is a hot-blooded and open young man who cannot stand boredom and is hired by Okonogi as Ange's bodyguard. He stands by Ange's side despite being originally hired by Eva, who grew to resent Ange. Due to his talkative nature, Eva fired him before her death. He is skilled at operating many weapons.

Okonogi is the president of a company who has ties with Rudolf's and Hideyoshi's companies. Ange goes to question him about everything he knows of the Rokkenjima murders, despite suspecting that he may betray her. Although he had been hired by the Sumadera family to stall Ange and allow them to take control of her wealth, he proves himself to be Ange's fundamental ally in the end and allows her to escape, hiring Amakusa to protect her. He influences Ange greatly in her battle against Beatrice, particularly his belief that truth can only be obtained through love. He is identical in appearance to the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni character Okonogi, though their personalities differ slightly.

Kasumi is the daughter of the struggling Sumadera family, and Kyrie's younger sister. Since Kyrie was the original heiress to the Sumadera family, Kasumi spent her life like a spoiled princess. However, since Kyrie cut all ties to her family when she married into the Ushiromiya family, Kasumi was forced to take up the responsibility as the Sumadera heiress. Kasumi thus blames Kyrie for all the pressures she must now face, and loathes everything about her, including her daughter Ange. She is much more open and charitable than Kyrie, though not even that can mask her malicious envy. In 1998, Kasumi participates in a feud within the Sumadera family over who will control the vast wealth Ange holds as the head of the Ushiromiya family, hunting down Ange in the additional hopes that killing her will finally alleviate some of her hatred towards the deceased Kyrie.

Masayuki is the son of Terumasa Nanjo who succeeded his father as head physician of a clinic on Niijima. Due to his family's sensitivity to Terumasa's death, Masayuki is resentful of the media for its rather flippant depiction of the murder incident on Rokkenjima, and prefers to keep quiet about it. He is interrogated by Ange during her own investigation of the incident, and only opens up to her as a fellow victim who lost her family.

Sabakichi is one of Chiyo Kumasawa's sons who works as a fisherman on Niijima. Like his mother, he is bighearted and carefree. Sabakichi is one of the relatives of the Rokkenjima murder incident's victims who Ange interrogates during her investigation.

Ootsuki is the foremost Japanese member of the Witch Hunt, an international organization of occult enthusiasts dedicated to researching the tragedy on Rokkenjima from a magical perspective. However, their presence and activities are less than welcome by the surviving family members of the victims on Rokkenjima, since they stirred up the tabloids in an unpleasant light. The name of this organization was borrowed from the English fan translation group for the game, also called "Witch Hunt".

Kawabata is the captain of a high-speed boat that sends the Ushiromiya family to Rokkenjima back and forth. After the murder incident on Rokkenjima, Kawabata held himself partially responsible for being unable to pick up the family sooner, in spite of the typhoon that otherwise prevented him from doing so. In 1998, he agrees to bring Ange to Rokkenjima in the hopes of finding closure.

Introduced in Dawn of the Golden Witch under the name , Ikuko is a mystery novelist who fabricated stories about the Rokkenjima murders based on the contradicting stories of Legend and Turn of the Golden Witch, which were written in notebook fragments found in two separate wine bottles after the tragedy occurred.

"Toya Hachijo" is the name given to Battler Ushiromiya after he is found alive by Ikuko Hachijo after the Rokkenjima incident. He suffers from amnesia and remembers nothing about himself other than that he was 18 years old at the time of his rescue.

Other human characters

Asumu is Rudolf's first wife and Battler's mother, who had died six years prior to the start of the series. She never appears directly in the story, but is mentioned frequently in the game's dialogue and tips. She is said by Kyrie to have butted in on her relationship with Rudolf and forced him to marry her. Upon her death, Rudolf immediately remarried with Kyrie, leading Battler to believe that Rudolf had betrayed Asumu and he cut his ties to the Ushiromiya family for the next six years.

Beatrice is Kinzo's lover, the daughter of an Italian Social Republic official, and mother of the Beatrice who would later become the basis of the legend of the Golden Witch. She is called  for short. She went to Rokkenjima, which hid a secret Japanese base at the time, together with her father in the Navy, who died on the voyage.

Beatrice was the daughter of Kinzo and Beatrice Castiglioni, alas never recognized as such, as Kinzo was convinced she was the reincarnation of his deceased lover. Kinzo kept Beatrice living in the hidden mansion of Kuwadorian where she was raised by Kumasawa, and was told to never leave the house limits as there were wolves outside its gates. As she grew older, her appearance was strikingly similar to that of her dead mother, although she never understood who she really was. As Kinzo vehemently believed she was the reincarnation of Beatrice, he eventually began an incestuous relationship with her, which resulted in the birth of Sayo/Lion.

Lion is a member of the Ushiromiya family who exists only within the alternate world shown in Requiem of the Golden Witch as a result of Natsuhi deciding to keep the baby Kinzo offered her instead of leaving them to their death. Lion's physical appearance is depicted as androgynous which many people especially Willard, their investigation partner, question what Lion's true gender is and Lion insists that it's not important. Bernkastel also has to control everyone around them to hide Lion's gender making them refer to Lion as "Successor-sama". Despite this it is implied that Lion's true gender, and thus Sayo's gender too, is male.

Fantasy world characters

Witches and sorcerers
In the world of Umineko When They Cry, witches are beings who hold powers that allow them to surpass human limitations, and are able to use that power freely. The term "witch" generally refers to females, while males are generally defined as "sorcerers". All witches were either once humans who learned how to use magic, or manifested from human emotions. Humans who can use magic but are unable to use it to its fullest potential are referred to as magicians.

Witches are classified by the types of magic they are able to use. The most recurring type of magic in Umineko is Endless Magic, which grants witches the power to break and repair anything infinitely, including human lives. Witches with this ability, such as Beatrice, are known as Endless Witches and are greatly respected, though they often lose their concept of life and death entirely and are easily corrupted. Even with this power, Endless Witches and all other witches of a lower class are very limited beings, as they are bound to certain territories and unable to use their powers outside of them. Witches who gain the ability to move into other territories called , such as Bernkastel and Lambdadelta, are known as Voyagers, to whom few other witches can compare, though their sense of worth is often deterred, and they are even at the risk of losing their souls on their voyages, which they often hope will be endless. Witches of an even higher order are Creators, beings who hold the ability to create something from nothing. Voyagers are said to become Creators at the ends of their journeys, which they fear for unknown reasons.

Also known as the , Beatrice is the primary antagonist of the series for the first four games, as the purpose of the game from Batler's perspective is to deny the witch's existence. She took on the role of an antagonist in order to guide Battler towards the truth of the Rokkenjima Massacre. She is affectionately referred to as  starting in Banquet of the Golden Witch. She first appears in the "Tea Party" of Legend of the Golden Witch, where she confronts Battler over his refusal to accept that his friends and family were killed by magic, and challenges him to a game in which he must prove otherwise from Turn of the Golden Witch onward. A witch who has lived for over a thousand years, she is said to appear as a cloud of golden butterflies, and has the power to summon higher demons among the 72 pillars to serve her. It is said that humans can summon her to have their wishes granted in exchange for compensation, though she often acts whimsically. She is the one rumored to have given Kinzo ten tons of gold and served under him as the alchemic advisor to the Ushiromiya family. There are also rumors of a woman named Beatrice who was kept by Kinzo as a mistress in a hidden mansion on Rokkenjima called Kuwadorian until her death in 1967. In the official manga of Twilight of the Golden Witch, Beatrice was referred to as "Sayo-Beatrice" (reflecting her true identity) to differentiate her from Eva-Beatrice and Ange-Beatrice, as well as from her birth mother Beatrice Ushiromiya and her grandmother Beatrice Castiglioni. She is the witch form of Sayo Yasuda.

Bernkastel is a witch known as the Witch of Miracles, and the true main antagonist of the series. It is said that she resides in a world where concepts such as fate and probability can be visualized. She comes to Beatrice's game to ease her boredom. She assists the player by giving some hints around the workings of the game. Her "Magic of Miracles" allows her to reset a desperate situation as long as the probability of a favorable situation is not equal to zero. She wants to defeat Beatrice, regardless of the means used for this objective. Throughout Umineko When They Cry, she maintains an icy and aloof calm personality in most situations, though by the end of Alliance of the Golden Witch and throughout Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru, she is shown to be just as impish and playfully cruel as Lambdadelta, if not more. Bernkastel bears a strong resemblance to Rika Furude from Higurashi When They Cry and is implied to be connected to her.

Lambdadelta is another witch who fought Bernkastel in a "game" in the past. This is later explained in supplementary tips as her actually aiding Takano from Higurashi, but they do not share any other connection. She is quite childish and holds a grudge against Bernkastel for finally beating her in their last game, although she actually cares for her. She is also known as the "Witch of the Absolute" and was the "Most Powerful Witch in the Universe" before she lost to Bernkastel. She is the most powerful witch next to Bernkastel, and is feared by most other witches, including Beatrice. Her "Magic of Certainty" allows her to kill anyone without fail as an absolute result, which bends the basic rule of magic in Umineko. Like Bernkastel, she is a Voyager. She wishes for Battler and Beatrice to fight against each other for eternity as part of a larger plot to have Bernkastel lose against her. Lambdadelta is strongly implied to be related to Satoko Houjou from Higurashi.

Virgilia was the previous Endless Witch before Beatrice, and was also her teacher. Her new name comes from the Divine Comedy character Virgil, who guides Dante through Hell and Purgatory to Beatrice, who is his guide through Heaven. She is a silver-haired witch with great powers, despite surrendering most of them to Beatrice with the title of the "Endless Witch". She is a dangerous opponent, as she can beat Beatrice in combat if not for a surprise attack. She is also somewhat bumbling as well. She is the witch form of Chiyo Kumasawa and her full name is Publius Virgilia Maro.

Eva-Beatrice is a witch who resides within Eva's heart. She represents all of Eva's dark desires from her childhood, including her greed for the Ushiromiya family inheritance; as such, she has the appearance of Eva as a young girl. She first appears in Banquet of the Golden Witch, where she helps Eva solve the riddle of Beatrice's epitaph, leading to her discovery of Kinzo's hidden gold and her inheritance of the Ushiromiya family. As stipulated in the epitaph, Eva inherits the name "Beatrice" and is granted the titles of Golden and Endless Witch, with Lambdadelta as her guardian. Eva-Beatrice is described by Ange as a "black witch", meaning she manipulates others through anger and hatred. In many ways, she is even crueler than the original Beatrice, using her Endless Magic to "play" with her victims before resurrecting them and killing them again, repeating the cycle until she tires. She is very mocking of others, repeatedly taunting them by saying, .

Ange-Beatrice is the witch form of Ange Ushiromiya, and one of the successors to the name "Beatrice". She inherited the titles of Golden and Endless Witch from Eva on her deathbed in 1998 following the events of Banquet of the Golden Witch and, with Bernkastel's blessing, is the last witch of her time period. By the end of Twilight of the Golden Witch she takes the title of "The Witch of Resurrection".

Maria is the witch form of Maria Ushiromiya, having become Beatrice's apprentice after giving a soul to Sakutaro. By succeeding in doing this feat, she is a potential Creator: a witch with an even higher rank than Bernkastel and Lambdadelta, and treated by Beatrice as her equal. Known by the title of "Witch of Origins", she is able to create something from nothing.

Goldsmith is the magician form of Kinzo and is shown to be the main antagonist of Alliance of the Golden Witch.

Erika is the "Witch of Truth", and the witch form of Erika Furudo. At the end of End of the Golden Witch, Erika is named the temporary "Witch of Truth" and Territory Landlord by Bernkastel after her investigation of the murders in the game pins Natsuhi, however, she loses the latter of the two titles to Battler. She is Battler's opponent in End and Dawn of the Golden Witch. Her weapon of choice during debates of red and blue truth is a blue sickle. She manages to take advantage of a logic error in Battler's game in Dawn of the Golden Witch, however, at the climax she is defeated by Beatrice and Battler, and is ultimately erased out of existence, until she returns due to Bernkastel's power.

Battler is the Endless Sorcerer, and the sorcerer form of Battler Ushiromiya. At the end of End of the Golden Witch, Battler is named the "Endless Sorcerer" and "Golden Sorcerer" by Lambdadelta after he inherits Beatrice's power and becomes the new Game Master. In Dawn of the Golden Witch, he grows increasingly obsessed with reviving Beatrice, but proves to be unsuccessful when his efforts produce a much tamer Beatrice, who is childish, naïve and lacks the original's memories. He attempts to demonstrate his understanding of the game in Dawn of the Golden Witch, but ends up inadvertently producing a logic error Erika takes advantage of, and forfeits himself to her entirely.

Featherine is "The Witch of Theatergoing, Drama and Spectating ". She is said to have been the Game Master for countless other games in the past, though she has long-forgotten them. She possesses a crescent-shaped device which floats around her head, serving as a memory aid which maintains traits such as her name, appearance and personality. She is the master of Bernkastel and the most powerful witch among all, calling herself a creator. Was said to have died due to boredom until she was resurrected thanks to Bernkastel's efforts in Beatrice's gameboard. She is the witch form of Ikuko Hachijo.

Piece is "The Witch of the Pieces" and is the antagonist of Last Note of the Golden Witch, the epilogue of Umineko No Naku Koro Ni. She was sent to Beatrice's gameboard to challenge Battler, Beatrice and Ange with the objective for them is to uncover her human form, by the command of her master, Featherine Augustus Aurora. She has a power similar to Featherine's: she can "erase" people from the story and the minds of everyone else by eating them with her hair as she was "erasing them from the plot", also being capable of taking their place as she pleases. She is the witch form of Battler's mother and Rudolph's first wife, Asumu Ushiromiya.

Furniture
The term  in Umineko is used to refer to characters below humans, those who serve others, similar to that of a servant, except those termed furniture are summoned or created by a magician or witch, and have no will on their own. It is suggested that the real human servants are actually furniture created by Kinzo's hands through magic, and are permitted to bear the One-Winged Eagle on their uniforms (a majority of the real servants were raised in an orphanage owned by Kinzo, and when on duty, they utilize pseudonyms, consisting of the kanji  as a suffix. The number and type of furniture summoned at one time depends on the summoner's skill. The term is also used as a form of dehumanization. In addition to special powers, such as transformation and barriers, most furniture have the ability to conjure a magical ornate blade of light from one of their hands for offensive purposes.

Great Demons
The Great Demons of the 72 Pillars are the highest ranking earls of Hell, based on the 72 Demons from The Lesser Key of Solomon. Unlike normal furniture, demons are not created by witches or sorcerers, but are contracted to do their bidding. Due to their nobility in Hell, the 72 demons are well respected in the society of witches.

Ronove is the 27th highest ranking earl of hell named after the demon of the same name. Ronove serves as Beatrice's (and later, Battler's) butler and head furniture. He often serves black tea and cookies to Beatrice and her guests. Nonchalant, he often bears a mysterious smile that is hard to interpret, even for his master. Even though he is bound by contract with Beatrice, he does not hesitate to state facts to tease her. He utilizes barriers for both offense and defense, generating strong ones to both deflect attacks and launch enemies backwards. He can also use a special barrier that returns damage back to the attacker. He is the demon form of Genji Ronoue.

Gaap is the 33rd highest ranking earl of hell named after the demon of the same name. She is a curly-haired woman who wears a red dress and a hat with a pink bow. Quite flamboyant, Gaap loves to tease people and gives people random nicknames by shortening their names ("Riiche" for Beatrice, "Lia" for Virgilia, etc.). She is one of Beatrice's friends, though she is greatly disliked by Virgilia. In the fury of battle, she uses a combination of these portals and various kicks that stab with her sharp heels, overwhelming her opponent and keeping them from moving.

Zepar is the 16th highest ranking earl of hell, named after the demon of the same name, and is Furfur's twin. Despite having the appearance of a girl with long, light-blue hair and a darkly colored dress, Zepar might be male since Furfur is said to be of a different gender. Zepar appears alongside Furfur when summoned by those who seek romance, and has the power to seduce humans. Zepar can also grant unlimited defensive power and even brief immortality to those who contract them.

Furfur is the 34th highest ranking earl of hell, named after the demon of the same name, and is Zepar's twin. Despite having the appearance of a girl with mid-length, red hair and a brightly colored dress, Furfur might be male since Zepar is said to be of a different gender. Furfur appears in unison with Zepar when summoned, and has the power to cultivate emotions. Furfur can also grant an inexhaustible offensive power to those who contract them.

Flauros is the 64th highest ranking earl of hell, named after the demon of the same name. She has the appearance of a red hair girl in a white bikini with tiger ears. Flauros can change into a tiger to eat her victims and is shown to be the one helping Beatrice killing Kinzo, Eva, Hideyoshi, Rudolph, Kyrie and Rosa in the first twilight of one of her many games.

The Seven Stakes of Purgatory
, also known as the , are the weapons which are said to be controlled by Beatrice. There are seven of them, named after the corresponding demons of the seven deadly sins, and each one can gain power from said sin. The Stakes of Purgatory are described as being inescapable. Only powerful mages can control the Stakes of Purgatory, but they cannot hurt any who have not committed the sins, or have strong magical resistance. The Stakes can take on a human form and their true form, a powerful stake.

While in human form, they rely on their blades of light for offense, switching to stake form to dodge attacks and get in their opponent's blind spot. As for their stake form, while smaller, they are many times faster and can kill by impalement. They can also bounce off walls and anything blocking their way, able to attack from any angle. However, in human form, they are far from invincible, and can still be injured or even killed if shot by guns. In Turn of the Golden Witch, the Stakes of Purgatory first appeared in human form, taking the shape of young girls, each with a different personality, but all have red irises. They can be distinguished through hair styles and colors. They represent the seven stakes with satanic inscriptions owned by Kinzo.

Representing the fallen angel Lucifer and the corresponding sin of pride, she is the eldest among all the Stakes of Purgatory and acts as their leader. Lucifer is based on the servant . She is extremely insecure, knowing herself to be the most inferior to her sisters, and fears what they would do if they found out. As such, she acts arrogant and conceited to keep her weaknesses from being discovered. Despite that, she takes pleasure in surrendering on her own accord. Lucifer's appearance is a girl with long, straight black hair.

Representing the demon Leviathan and the corresponding sin of envy, she is the second eldest of the Stakes of Purgatory, and the self-fashioned representative of the younger sisters to Lucifer. Leviathan is based on the servant . By nature, she is a jealous, selfish crybaby who will do anything to win. Her otherwise brutal personality allows her to easily pinpoint the weaknesses of others. Unfortunately for her, she is clumsy at everything she does and always comes out last at everything she and her sisters do together. Leviathan's appearance is a girl with wavy, middle-length green hair.

Representing the demon Satan and the corresponding sin of wrath, she is the third eldest of the Stakes of Purgatory, based on the servant . She is easily angered and speaks with scornful inflection, making her the most feared out of the sisters, including by the sisters themselves. Since people are too afraid to talk back at her, she often becomes lonely. She often tries to intentionally anger her sisters so they can be angry with her, but to no avail. Satan's appearance is a girl with short, curly pale hair.

Representing the demon Belphegor and the corresponding sin of sloth, she is the middle child of the Stakes of Purgatory, based on the servant . She is hard-working and sensible, but only so that her master can become a lazy pig and fall all the harder. In terms of her motives, Belphegor can be said to be the most demonic of all her sisters. Her serious nature makes her the most trusted of her sisters, but she is not used to being treated with kindness. Belphegor's appearance is a girl with long dark hair in a ponytail.

Representing the demon Mammon and the corresponding sin of greed, she is the third youngest of the Stakes of Purgatory, based on the servant . She is extremely greedy and, with her ability to act quickly, will do anything to get what she wants, often leading her to start conflicts between her sisters. Unlike the other Stakes, however, she is the most honest emotionally. Mammon's appearance is a girl with long brown hair.

Representing the demon Beelzebub and the corresponding sin of gluttony, she is the second youngest of the Stakes of Purgatory, based on the servant . She is a gourmet, and is willing to use even her own flesh if it is used to make a delicious meal. Due to her connection to food, she is widely known among other enthusiasts. She serves as a calming influence among the sisters. She has a competitive streak with Mammon to see who will get something first. Beelzebub's appearance is a girl with short, curly, blonde hair in two drill pony tails.

Representing the demon Asmodeus and the corresponding sin of lust, she is the youngest of the Stakes of Purgatory, based on the servant . She wants to fall in love, and is willing to sacrifice her life for the sake of it. Due to her young age, she is treated affectionately by everyone, but is not taken seriously among the sisters. This makes her wish all the harder for her knight in shining armor to arrive and help her be accepted as an adult, though such a thing is nothing more than a delusion. Asmodeus' appearance is a girl with long, blonde, straight hair in two pony tails.

Chiester Sister Imperial Guard Corps
The  are bunny-girl weapons who can only be summoned by witches and sorcerers with a substantial amount of summoning skills. They are also called "Siesta" as a result a mistranslation. They attack using bows and arrows of light that fire potent beams of light which kill instantly on impact; the lone exception being Battler due to his invincible anti-magic shield. In End of the Golden Witch it is revealed that whoever is the Game Master is also immune. It is said that there is no escape from the Chiesters' attacks, and they can even locate targets from far parts of the island and retrieve the corpses of whom they have killed; despite this, the Chiesters appear to be far from fearless, being terrified away twice when it appeared that their attacks had been useless against both Beatrice and Battler in Banquet of the Golden Witch. They have red eyes, bunny ears, and elaborate military-styled outfits. They represent four guns owned by Kinzo, as well as four bunny toys owned by Maria.

Chiester 00 is named after the "00 buck" shotgun load. Chiester 00 wears a black uniform and has long blonde hair. She has an eyepatch over her right eye, and her left bunny-ear has a scar. As the leader of the summoned Chiesters, she is very composed and serious in her work, though in general besides her work she is a kind-hearted and gentle. She is also known for going full force in battle, and lost her eye for it. She is in charge of guard and reconnaissance.

Chiester 410 is named after the .410 Winchester shotgun. Chiester 410 wears a blue uniform and has short teal hair. Unlike Chiester 45, 410 has a childish, silly smile on her face most of the time. Her duty is the main sniper using the information from Chiester 45.

Chiester 45 is named after the .45 Winchester rifle. Chiester 45 wears a red uniform and has long pink hair tied in two ponytails. She has a nervous look most of the time and she is also somewhat hesitant. Her duty is battle control, information gathering and data mining, trajectory calculating and sending it to Chiester 410.

Chiester 556 is named after the 5.56×45mm NATO rifle cartridge. Chiester 556 wears a purple uniform and has short black hair. She is said to be dead after having been killed by a "Black Witch". This is suggested to be a metaphor for Rosa ripping apart one of Maria's four bunny toys. She was in charge of firing support and guard. In life, she is said to have been teased by the other Chiesters, but only out of love for her. At the end she was resurrected on the Golden Land thanks to Ange-Beatrice's magic.

Eiserne Jungfrau
 is a clergy introduced in End of the Golden Witch. Its name literally means "Iron Maiden" in German. It is a redemption enforcement agency supervised by the Great Court of Heaven, tasked with carrying out interrogations and executions of those who have committed heresy, particularly witches. It is made up of seven Inquisitors, led by Archbishop Dlanor A. Knox, and several other Assistant Inquisitors. Eiserne Jungfrau boasts a great number of spectacular achievements in witch-hunting, and is extremely well known among other agencies.

Inquisitors are armed with two kinds of weapons: the Red Key and the Blue Key. These weapons do not cause physical damage, but instead attack concepts. The Red Key is used to deny the existence of concepts, particularly the concept of witches, and cannot be blocked, avoided, or stalled. The Blue Key is used to cause concepts to waver and create self-doubt in the intended target, though it can be defended against. The Keys take different shapes depending on the Inquisitors who wield them. In heresy trials, the Eiserne Jungfrauen enforce a set of ten commandments created by Dlanor A. Knox's father known as "Knox's Decalogue".

Dlanor is Chief Inquisitor of Eiserne Jungfrau and a first-class archbishop, popularly known as "Dlanor of the Ten Wedges" and "Death Sentence Dlanor". She is named after Ronald Knox, and even upholds Knox's Decalogue during her debates. She has the appearance of a young girl with lavender hair and yellow eyes, and wears a uniform similar to that of a cleric. She is cold towards witches and takes her duties very seriously. Despite her duties as a witch-hunter, however, she is old friends with Virgilia.

Her main weapons are her Red Key and Blue Key, which take the forms of a longsword and shortsword, respectively. She is only dispatched by the Great Court as a last resort after a case is vigorously inspected. Her father created Knox's Decalogue and was a legendary Inquisitor, but broke his own commandments and was interrogated and executed by Dlanor herself, who stopped aging physically and mentally afterward for mysterious reasons.

Cornelia is an aide in Eiserne Jungfrau, and a third-class priest. She wears a cleric-like uniform and appears as a girl with red eyes and bobbed brown hair decorated with yellow ribbons. She has a strong sense of justice, but despite her cold exterior shared by her comrades, she is quite hot-blooded in nature.

Gertrude is a senior aide in Eiserne Jungfrau, and a first-class priest. She wears a uniform similar to Cornelia's, and appears as a girl with red eyes and long blonde hair. Like her comrades, she appears extremely deadpan when on duty, but is actually a very charitable character well liked by her juniors. She was offered a position as an Inquisitor like Dlanor, but she kindly refused.

SSVD
SSVD is another famous redemption agency supervised by the Great Court of Heaven, formally introduced in Requiem of the Golden Witch. Its name is an abbreviation of mystery fiction writer S. S. Van Dine. Inquisitors from SSVD are generally more rigid and fundamentalistic in their jurisdiction than Eiserne Jungfrau, and their conservative values garner both criticism for being outdated and praise for preserving their original intentions.

Willard is a former first-class archbishop and Chief Inquisitor of SSVD, called  for short. He is named after Willard Wright and enforces Van Dine's Commandments. A young ace inquisitor once feared by witches for his cold and ruthless tactics, he gained the nicknames "Wright of the Twenty Wedges" and "Wizard-Hunting Wright". Over time, however, he grew malcontent with SSVD's brutal standards and resigned from his position. Although he appears gruff and quick to anger, he is genuinely good-hearted and opts to be as lenient as possible during his investigations.

Other Furniture

Sakutaro is a stuffed lion doll handmade by Rosa and given to Maria for her birthday. He became Maria's furniture when she gave him a soul through magic. His name was originally intended to be , but since "Sakura" is traditionally a female name, Maria derived from it and added the male suffix . In reality, Sakutaro is a normal stuffed animal who Maria simply imagines to be alive, viewing him as one of her most beloved friends. His vessel takes the shape of a simple lion cub, while his human form has the appearance of a young boy with blond hair, red eyes, an orange cap with pointed ears, and an oversized yellow jacket; he wears a red muffler given to him by Maria in both of his forms. He is innocent and shy, and often utters the phrase .

He is incredibly popular among the Sisters of Purgatory, who never waste an opportunity to pounce and cuddle him all at once, much to his dismay. As furniture under a witch of Mariage Sorcière, he serves as a non-aggressive diplomat with the ability to produce barriers and negate magical attacks to protect Maria, though his defensive powers pale in comparison to more experienced furniture.

Clair is the original form of Sayo's Beatrice, who is made to match the image of a ghost that haunts Rokkenjima with a pure white dress and contrasting personality.

The Goat Butlers are low-level furniture that serve under Beatrice. They commonly appear as largely built men with goat heads and glowing red eyes, similar to a minotaur; there are also females among them, but they are difficult to distinguish. Although faithful to their master, they are lumbering and simple-minded creatures that often misinterpret orders similar to the manner an animal would than a human, and are inferior to most other furniture. However, they pose more than a threat to average humans with their superhuman strength, extremely high resilience to otherwise lethal blows and wounds (save for a gunshot to the head, their weak point), and taste for human flesh. They are seemingly endless in number, allowing an inexhaustible supply of them to be summoned. Their main weapon is a purple blade of light extending from their hands.

References

External links
Official Umineko When They Cry visual novel character profiles

Lists of anime and manga characters
Umineko When They Cry


Larrey's sign is a clinical sign in which patients with sacroiliitis experience pain in the sacroiliac area of the lower back on sitting down suddenly on a hard chair.

The sign is named after Dominique Larrey.

References

Medical signs
Rheumatology


Joop Sanders (October 6, 1921 – July 6, 2023) was a Dutch-American painter, educator, and founding member of the American Abstract Expressionist group. He was the youngest member of the first generation of the New York School.

Sanders' work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Early life and education
Sanders was born on October 6, 1921, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and emigrated to the United States in 1939. He studied in 1940 at the Art Students League of New York, in New York City, for six months with artist George Grosz.

In 1940 Sanders met Elaine de Kooning and Willem de Kooning at a concert featuring the music of Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland and William Schuman. By the mid-1940s, Elaine de Kooning had painted approximately a dozen portraits of Sanders, which seem to express loneliness and androgyny. Sanders spoke at Elaine de Kooning's memorial service.

Work
Sanders was one of twenty original members and a charter member of The Club, which was located at 39 East 8th Street. Sanders married Isca Jörgensen at The Club on December 27, 1950. Until his death, he was the only surviving artist to have exhibited at the historic 9th Street Show of 1951.

In the mid-1950's Sanders left New York for Europe. This move—just at the time abstract expressionism was being accepted in America—resulted, however, in his being overlooked as one of the first younger artists to contribute to the style in New York. Sanders established a considerable European reputation and exhibited extensively in Europe. In addition, his inclusion in exhibitions with the Zero Group, curated by Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni connected his work with many of the leading Italian artists of the period, including Manzoni.

Sanders returned to New York in 1959, where his work became almost monochromatic and fieldlike. It never was impersonal; he always retained an emotional content.

In 1960 he was the first young American painter to be given a one-man show at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which played a crucial role in introducing advanced American art to Europe.

During the late 1960s, Sanders created sectional paintings which would be arranged in a variety of configurations by the owner or even construed as three-dimensional sculpture..

Horizon Magazine's art critic, Hiram Butler, described Sanders' painting "Pantagruel, 1955" as roughly painted and reflects abstract-expressionist Angst at its fullest. Yet, like its namesake from Rabelais' work, it is also good-humored. American commercial colors elevate the pitch and serve to delight. Along with the serious express there is a capricious and fanciful, almost mocking stroke. Sanders' "Gong, 1979", places the power of abstract-expressionist color and painterliness within a more formal and refined structure. Shapes are larger than in his earlier work. the dominant purples, deep greens, and pinks are rich and more closely hued. The combination results in a powerful, serene rhythm. When asked about reincorporating earlier tendencies in his art, Sanders responds, "the artist is like Sisyphus, punished by Zeus to try forever to roll a rock uphill which forever rolls back upon him."

Art critic Lawrence Campbell in describing Sanders' work for Art in America in 1987 at Alfred Kren Gallery in New York remarked: "These paintings are like spirit photographs in which the spirit reaches out and touches the viewer. Barnett Newman once said to Sanders on seeing paintings like these, “Of all the painters working in the context of color field, you seem to me to be the only one who, like, me, concerns himself with the humanist spirit in painting.

The New York Times critic Joseph Masheck in reviewing the Kren show stated:"It is nice to see somebody stick to his guns and have the world catch up. Joop (pronounced Yope) Sanders came to New York from Amsterdam in 1939 as a teen-ager; 10 years later, he was the youngest founding member of The Club, of those most radical painters of the day, the Abstract Expressionists. We would probably know him better by now if he hadn't been back in Europe during the later 50's.

In sampling two separate decades, the 60's and the 80's, this exhibition provokes a bracing double take. First comes a glowing roomful of paintings, each practically a monochrome but divided into rounded zones, from 1962 and 1963. Here a spiritual purity akin to Ad Reinhardt's, though more lyrical, makes itself felt. Then, in another room, are works of the present, some on paper startlingly like paintings by that compatriot of Sanders', Willem de Kooning. In a different vein, two small canvases, Pogrom (1984) and Interrogation Room (1986), would be morally serious even without the titles. Toughly sensitive and in more than one sense reviving are some small recent drawings and watercolors: in these the Orientalizing calligraphies of artists and poets and others who refused to buy into the American 50's are renewed with winning finesse and timely conviction by an individualist still unspoiled.

Personal life
Sanders was married for 68 years to the lieder singer Isca Sanders-Jörgensen (1925–2019). His son is the sculptor, John Sanders and his daughter is the attorney, Karin Greenfield-Sanders. His son-in-law is the photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and his grandchildren include artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders and filmmaker Liliana Greenfield-Sanders.

Sanders died at his home in Putnam County, New York, on July 6, 2023, at the age of 101.

Exhibitions
 9th Street Art Exhibition, 60 East 9th Street, 1951
 "Joop Sanders" 1959 Stedelijk Museum
 "Joop Sanders" 1965 Bertha Schaefer Gallery
 Abstractions, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, 1988/89
 Dubuffet to de Kooning: Expressionist Prints from Europe and America, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, 1998/99
 Sanders and Greenfield-Sanders, Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL, 2003
 Elaine de Kooning Portrayed, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, 2015
 Elaine de Kooning: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2015/16
 Galerie Biedermann, 2021/22

Collections
Sanders' work is held in the following permanent collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York: 1 work (as of 16 November 2022)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

See also
Abstract expressionism
Abstract impressionism
Action painting
New York School
10th Street galleries

References

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2023 deaths
20th-century Dutch male artists
Dutch emigrants to the United States
20th-century American male artists
Abstract expressionist artists
Modern painters
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20th-century American printmakers
21st-century American painters
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Pittentrail () is a hamlet on the A839 road, in the Rogart parish in east Sutherland, in the Scottish Highlands. The River Fleet runs to the south. The settlement became better known in the area when Rogart railway station was built in the village. The station is still in use and operates as a request stop on the Far North Line, but the station buildings have been converted into private residential use. The station yard has been made into gardens, with old signs and other railway memorabilia lying about. The original sidings have been retained, and the train carriages sitting on them converted into a novel independent youth hostel, known as sleeperzzz.com (sic).  The lively Pittentrail Inn is on the north side of the village, near the war memorial.

Etymology
Etymologically speaking, the first element the name Pittentrail is pett, a Pictish word borrowed into Gaelic meaning "land-holding, unit of land". The second is Gaelic tràill, another loan-word, from the Old Norse for "thrall, slave".

Notes

Populated places in Sutherland


Neil Trevor Kaplan, CBE, SBS, KC, JP is an international arbitrator, licensed to practise law in Hong Kong, Australia and New York. He is currently an international arbitrator at Arbitration Chambers Hong Kong, and has been described as the "Father of Hong Kong Arbitration". Chambers and Partners ranks Kaplan as one of the Most In Demand Arbitrators in Global Market (Band 1).

Education

Born in 1942, Kaplan attended St Paul's School, London (1956–1961) and King's College London (1961–1964) earning his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1964.

In 1965 he was called to the Bar of England and Wales, where he practised in London until 1980, when he was named Deputy Principal Crown Counsel at the Attorney General's Chambers (Hong Kong), specialising in civil litigation. Two years later he took silk as Queen's Counsel for Hong Kong and became Principal Crown Counsel. Two years later, in 1984, he founded and became the first Head of Des Voeux Chambers, a leading barristers' chambers in Hong Kong.

In 1983, he was admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in Victoria, Australia. In 1986, he was admitted to the Bar in New York State.

From 1984 to 1989 (with a brief break), Kaplan chaired the Hong Kong branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He later became Overseas Vice-President of the Institute, and finally President in 1999-2000.

From 1990 to 1994, he served as a High Court Judge in Charge of the Construction and Arbitration List in Hong Kong. From 1991 until 2004, he was Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, of which he is a founder. In 1995 he became a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and is now a Governing Board member. From 1999–2004 he chaired the WTO Review Panel for Hong Kong.

In the 2001 Birthday Honours, Kaplan was awarded a CBE for services to international arbitration. In 2007, he was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.

Kaplan is the author of numerous articles, speeches, and books on international arbitration.

Fellowships

 Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
 Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
 Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators

References

 http://www.hk-lawyer.org/content/father-hong-kong-arbitration

External links

HKIAC webpage

1942 births
People educated at St Paul's School, London
Alumni of King's College London
Members of the Inner Temple
British King's Counsel
British solicitors
Recipients of the Silver Bauhinia Star
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Barristers of Hong Kong
British Hong Kong judges
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Date of birth missing (living people)
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Hong Kong Queen's Counsel


Katherine Baldwin (born May 2, 1975) is an American singer and actress known for her work in musical theater. She received a Tony Award nomination for her work in the 2009 Broadway revival of Finian's Rainbow. She also co-starred opposite Bette Midler, David Hyde Pierce, and Gavin Creel in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, for which she received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle award nominations for her work as the saucy millineress Irene Molloy. Baldwin continued with the production until it closed in August 2018.

Biography
Born in Evanston, Illinois, Baldwin graduated from Shorewood High School in Shorewood, Wisconsin in 1993, and from the theatre program at Northwestern University in 1997. As a youth she attended Interlochen Arts Camp.

During her four years at Northwestern, she performed in seventeen university stage productions and studied voice with Marie Michuda, who helped to make Baldwin a versatile performer. In March of her senior year, Baldwin auditioned for the musical Baby which was being produced at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, in Lincolnshire, Illinois, and obtained her Equity card for her work in the production. She stayed in the Chicago area, performing in multiple other Marriott Lincolnshire productions, before moving to New York City.

Career
Baldwin made her Broadway debut as a swing in the original Broadway production of The Full Monty (2000). Additional Broadway credits include:
 Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002) - Daphne/Lucille, Miss Dorothy Understudy
 Wonderful Town revival (2004) - Helen [Replacement]
 Finian's Rainbow revival (2009) - Sharon McLonergan (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic's Circle noms)
 Big Fish (2013) - Sandra Bloom
 Hello, Dolly! revival (2017) - Irene Molloy (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic's Circle noms)

Baldwin's off-Broadway credits include:
 Babes in Arms**
 A Connecticut Yankee**
 Bloomer Girl**
 Bush is Bad**
 Finian's Rainbow**
 Giant (Drama Desk nom)
 John & Jen (Drama Desk nom)
 Songbird
Superhero (Lucille Lortel nom)

** notes Encores! New York City Center performance

Along with all of her Broadway and Off-Broadway credits she has also accumulated an extensive amount of regional theater credits. One of the most notable being her portrayal of Nellie Forbush in the 2002 Arena Stage production of South Pacific, for which she was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. Additional credits include She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, The King and I, and many others.

Baldwin played the role of Sharon in the 2009 New York City Center Encores! staged concert production of Finian's Rainbow. The New York Times critic Charles Isherwood called her a "discovery" and praised her performance, noting she sang the role "beautifully...  her rich, pure soprano riding the crests of the melodies with ease." She reprised the role in the Broadway revival that brought the Encores! production to the St. James Theatre in October 2009. Her performance received positive notices again, as well as a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in Musical.

In October 2009, Baldwin released her first solo album, Let's See What Happens, a compilation of songs written by Burton Lane and E. Y. Harburg. More recently, she released an album dedicated solely to the work of the team, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, titled She Loves Him.

In the West End, the premiere of the new musical Paradise Found featured Baldwin in a production co-directed by Harold Prince and Susan Stroman at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London (May 19 – June 26, 2010). The Telegraph reviewer wrote of her performance: "The best performance comes from Kate Baldwin, who is both affecting and a succulent feast for the eye, as Mizzi."

Baldwin appeared in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! as Irene Molloy, opposite Bette Midler. The musical opened at the Shubert Theatre on April 20, 2017, and closed on August 25, 2018.

In 2020, Baldwin was scheduled to appear in New York City Center's production of Love Life directed by Victoria Clark, and starring opposite Brian Stoke Mitchell. However, the production was postponed and later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Personal life
Baldwin met her husband, actor Graham Rowat, in 2003 during a Washington DC production of 1776, in which he played Richard Henry Lee and she played Martha Jefferson. Because they both had a lot of downtime during act two of the musical, they bonded quickly and began dating after the show closing. They married on October 2, 2005, and on April 19, 2011, welcomed their son, Colin James. The husband and wife acting duo have done multiple regional shows together since 1776, including Bells Are Ringing and A Little Night Music.

Awards and nominations

Additional credits
Opening Doors concert, Zankel Hall, October 2004
Miss Saigon, Paper Mill Playhouse, 2002
Hello, Dolly!, Paper Mill Playhouse, June 2006
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Muny, St. Louis, August 2006
The Pajama Game, The Muny, St. Louis, July 2007
White Christmas, San Francisco, November 2005-December 2005 and Toronto, November 2007-January 2008
She Loves Me, Huntington Theatre Company and Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts, May 2008-June 2008
My Fair Lady, Sacramento Music Circus, August 2008
The Broadway Musicals of 1927, "Broadway By the Year" February 22, 2010, The Town Hall, New York

References

External links

Kate Baldwin at Broadwayworld.com
Kate Baldwin at ToDoMusicales.com

1975 births
Living people
Actresses from Evanston, Illinois
Northwestern University School of Communication alumni
People from Shorewood, Wisconsin
American musical theatre actresses
Actresses from Wisconsin
20th-century American actresses
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Musicians from Evanston, Illinois
Singers from Wisconsin
Singers from Illinois
20th-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
21st-century American singers
20th-century American women singers
Shorewood High School (Wisconsin) alumni


Jorge Cortez (born September 4, 1972) is a minor league baseball coach and former pitcher who was on Panama's roster in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and the 2009 World Baseball Classic. His last name is also spelled Cortes.

In the 2001 Baseball World Cup, Cortez got a start against the Canadian team, holding them to four hits in  innings. He pitched in the 2002 Intercontinental Cup, going 1–1 with a 9.39 ERA. Along with three other players, Cortez was caught doping during the Intercontintal Cup, thus costing Panama their bronze medal. Cortez was banned from international play for two years.

He was signed by the Cincinnati Reds and he played in their farm system in 2003. He played for the GCL Reds (two games), Potomac Cannons (five games), Chattanooga Lookouts (nine games) and Louisville Bats (one game), going a combined 1–3 with a 4.28 ERA in 17 games.

Cortez pitched for the Sinon Bulls of the Chinese Professional Baseball League in 2005, going 3–1 with a 2.96 ERA. In the 2006 World Baseball Classic, he appeared in one game, allowing two earned runs in two innings of work and earning the loss. He pitched for the Bulls in 2006, with whom he went 5–4 with a 2.48 ERA.

In the 2006 qualifier for the 2008 Olympics, Cortez went 1–1 with an 11.74 ERA. He also made one appearance in the 2008 Americas Baseball Cup. He did not make an appearance in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

Coaching career

On February 3, 2022, Cortes was named the manager of the Visalia Rawhide, the Single-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

References

External links

1972 births
2006 World Baseball Classic players
2009 World Baseball Classic players
Chattanooga Lookouts players
Panamanian expatriate baseball players in Taiwan
Gulf Coast Reds players
Living people
Louisville Bats players
Panamanian expatriate baseball players in the United States
Potomac Cannons players
Baseball players from Panama City
Minor league baseball managers


Jorge Cortés is a Spanish engineer and professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Geometric, Control and Numerical Aspects of Nonholonomic Systems.

Education and career
In 2001, Jorge Cortés received his Ph.D. in engineering mathematics from Charles III University of Madrid. He became a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Twente from 2001 to 2002, and continued his postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2002 to 2004. He then worked as an assistant professor at University of California, Santa Cruz from 2004 to 2007. He subsequently joined the University of California, San Diego faculty as a professor.

Awards and honors
He was elected SIAM fellow in 2020. The IEEE granted him an equivalent honor in 2014.

References

External links

Fellow Members of the IEEE
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
University of California, San Diego faculty
Spanish expatriates in the United States
Spanish engineers
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Charles III University of Madrid alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


The Crown of João VI, also known as the Portuguese Royal Crown (; Coroa Real de Portugal) is the most recent and only extant crown of the Portuguese Crown Jewels.

Description

The crown is fashioned out of gold, silver, iron, and red velvet.  Its eight half arches are surmounted by a monde: a globus cruciger on a crown, with a cross at its top—as Portugal was a Catholic nation. The base of the crown is elaborately decorated with baroque patterns and designs.

History
The Crown of João VI was made in 1817 for the acclamation of King João VI. The crown was fashioned in the workshop of D. Antonio Gomes da Silva, the Royal Jeweler.

The crown was made as part of the set of crown jewels, which included the Sceptre of the Armillary and the Mantle of João VI, which was specifically made for João VI's acclamation. It then became the official crown of the monarchs of Portugal and was used by all the Portuguese monarchs after João VI.

Though serving as the monarchy's official symbol, the crown was never actually worn by any Portuguese monarch.  In 1646, King John IV of Portugal had consecrated the Crown of Portugal to the Virgin Mary; following this, no Portuguese sovereign ever wore a diadem, though it was usually present at the ceremony where his ascension was proclaimed.

The crown saw its last official use during the reign of Manuel II of Portugal, when it was used for his acclamation and at the official opening of the Cortes, the Portuguese parliament.

The Crown of João VI, along with all the other Portuguese Crown Jewels, are kept in the Ajuda National Palace, in Lisbon.

See also
Portuguese Crown Jewels
Mantle of João VI
Sceptre of the Armillary

References

External links
Jóias da Coroa Portuguesa

Portuguese Crown Jewels
Portuguese monarchy
Joao


"Honkytonk U" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released on February 8, 2005 as the lead-off single and title track from his 2005 album Honkytonk University. The song peaked at number 8 in the United States, and it reached number 6 in Canada.

Content
The song describe's Toby Keith's past and early career stages, and when he used to go to his grandmother's nightclub every summer and work until late at night when he got to sit with the band.

Critical reception
Kevin John Coyne, reviewing the song for Country Universe, gave it a negative rating. He summed up his review by stating that this song is an example of why Keith doesn't win Grammy Awards.

Music video
The music video was directed by Michael Salomon, and premiered on CMT on February 12, 2005. The video begins in 1972, where Keith works at his grandmother's nightclub in Fort Smith, Arkansas when he was a child, and the nightclub was called Billie's. Then, it cuts to Keith performing in the present day (2005), showing photographs of Keith in his younger days, and showing footage of Keith in Baghdad. This video is dedicated to Keith's grandmother, who died in 2005.

Chart positions
"Honkytonk U" debuted at number 30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of February 12, 2005.

Year-end charts

References

2005 songs
Toby Keith songs
2005 singles
Songs written by Toby Keith
Song recordings produced by James Stroud
DreamWorks Records singles
Music videos directed by Michael Salomon


The Lycoming O-233 is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, horizontally opposed piston aircraft engine that was built by Lycoming Engines between 1940 and 1944.

Development
Lycoming applied for certification of the O-233 on 13 June 1940, with certification to CAR 13 (amended to 31 May 1938) granted on 16 August 1940. The O-233 had its type certificate cancelled on 25 February 1944 at serial number 106.

The FAA type certificate notes:

Variants
O-233-A1
Sole variant, type certification cancelled 25 February 1944

Specifications (O-233-A1)

See also

References

External links

 Textron Lycoming - Manufacturer's home page

Boxer engines
O-233
1940s aircraft piston engines