Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 – 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers, and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie's famous Hercule Poirot.

His prolific output in short stories and novels were frequently made and remade into films during his lifetime; though many of the silent versions have been lost or forgotten, the productions of Fire Over England (1937) and The Four Feathers (1939) remain enduring classics of British cinema.

Life
Mason was born in Camberwell. He studied at Dulwich College and graduated from Trinity College, Oxford, in 1888. He was a contemporary of fellow Liberal Anthony Hope, who went on to write the adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda. He was an actor before he became a writer, and took the role of Major Plechanoff in the premiere of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man in 1894. He was also an avid cricket player.

His first novel, A Romance of Wastdale, was published in 1895. He was the author of more than 30 books, including At The Villa Rose (1910), a mystery novel in which he introduced his French detective, Inspector Hanaud; Hanaud's career in six novels spanned from before World War I to after World War II.

His best-known book is The Four Feathers, which has been made into several films (see below). Many consider it his masterpiece. Other books are The House of the Arrow (1924), No Other Tiger (1927), The Prisoner in the Opal (1929) and Fire Over England (1937). He contributed a short story, "The Conjurer", to The Queen's Book of the Red Cross.

Mason was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Coventry in the 1906 general election. He served only a single term in Parliament, retiring at the next general election in January 1910.

His first play was the four-act comedy Marjory Strode. Mason wrote three plays that were produced and presented by Sir George Alexander in St James's Theatre. He wrote, "I had three plays produced by George Alexander; one a failure, Colonel Smith, one which made a moderate profit, Open Windows, and one which was a considerable success, The Witness for the Defence. The light farce Colonel Smith opened on 23 April 1909. The Witness for the Defence opened on 1 February 1911, starring Sir George Alexander as Henry Thresk. In 1913 Mason's problem play Open Windows opened on the evening of 11 March, starring Sydney Valentine as Phillip Hammond, Irene Vanbrugh as Cynthia Herrick, Sir George Alexander as John Herrick, with Rosalie Toller as Elsie Herrick.

Mason served with the Manchester Regiment in the First World War, being promoted Captain in December 1914. He transferred to the General List (reservists) in 1915 and the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1917 with the rank of Major. His military career included work in naval intelligence, serving in Spain and Mexico, where he set up counter-espionage networks on behalf of the British government.

Mason turned to non-fiction as well; he wrote a biography of Sir Francis Drake (1941), whose piratical exploits for the Queen figure in Fire Over England. He was working on a non-fiction book about Admiral Robert Blake when he died in 1948.

Mason had been offered a knighthood but reportedly declined it, declaring that such honours meant little to a childless man.

Works

Mason's prolific output included over 30 novels as well as plays, short stories and articles. Many of his novels were adapted for the screen, several multiples times. During the 1910s and 1920s he worked closely with many film directors of the silent era.

Inspector Hanaud

In 1910, Mason undertook to create a fictional detective as different as possible from Sherlock Holmes, who had recently been resuscitated after his supposed death by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1903. Inspector Gabriel Hanaud was stout, not gaunt like Holmes; a professional policeman, not a gentleman amateur; from the French Sûreté, not Victorian England; and relying on psychological insights rather than physical evidence. His "Watson" is a retired London banker named Mr. Julius Ricardo.

Hanaud's appearance in the 1910 novel At The Villa Rose marks "the first major fiction detective of the Twentieth Century," according to a historian of the genre. Set in the south of France, its plot also ridicules spiritualism and mediums, well-known enthusiasms of A. Conan Doyle.

Four more Hanaud novels and several short stories followed, the last, The House in Lordship Lane, in 1946 and the only one set in England.

The first Hanaud book was a best-seller, as were several of Mason's 30 novels, and as such often adapted into films, often more than once. A 1920 version of At the Villa Rose was a great success in British movie theatres that year, even as a play version of the novel simultaneously began a long run at the Strand. A successful silent version of The Four Feathers followed the next year.

The first sound version of At the Villa Rose was shot both in English and in French at Twickenham Studios in 1930, making it the first British bi-lingual production,  released in America under the name The Mystery of the Villa Rose. This marked the film début of Austin Trevor, an actor from Northern Ireland, in the role of Mr. Ricardo. Trevor would go on to be the first actor to create Hercule Poirot on the screen. Veteran British director Walter Summers directed At the Villa Rose, aka House of Mystery, in 1940.

Film adaptations

Mason's historical novel Fire Over England (1936) was set in the 16th century as a beleaguered Elizabeth I of England prepares for invasion by a tyrannical Spain in the throes of the Inquisition. A thinly veiled metaphor for then-neutral Britain's need to prepare for the threat of Nazi invasion, and published while the Spanish Civil War was raging, the book was adapted for film by the author Clemence Dane for Alexander Korda, England's leading film producer; Korda was helping Winston Churchill in his struggle to alert the British people to the military threat of the Third Reich. The lavish costume drama also made stars of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in their first pairing as lovers onscreen, as they were off-screen.

Korda also produced The Four Feathers (1939), directed by his brother, Zoltan Korda. Filmed on location in the desert of Sudan, starring Ralph Richardson and John Clements; its technicolor cinematography was nominated for an Oscar. Released before Britain's entry into World War II, its pro-British theme also features valiant British fighting against hopeless odds, this time in a late 19th century imperial setting.

Zoltan Korda directed a remake, the much less successful Storm Over the Nile (1955), starring Anthony Steel. Other film versions include three earlier silent films, from 1915, 1921 and 1929, a 1978 American television film with Beau Bridges in the lead role, and The Four Feathers (2002), starring Heath Ledger and Kate Hudson.

References

Sources

External links

 A. E. W. Mason Collection at the Harry Ransom Center

 AEW Mason: The most popular (and now forgotten) Storyteller of Edwardian and Modernist England.

Online editions

 A E W Mason at Project Gutenberg Australia

1865 births
1948 deaths
20th-century English novelists
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
British Army General List officers
British Army personnel of World War I
English mystery writers
Military personnel from London
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Manchester Regiment officers
People educated at Dulwich College
People from Dulwich
Royal Marines officers
Royal Marines personnel of World War I
UK MPs 1906–1910
Victorian novelists
Novelists from London
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Coventry

A. E. W. Mason


Tunde Bakare was born on the 11th of November 1955. He is a Nigerian prophetic apostolic pastor. He was said to have been arrested in the month of March 2002 after preaching a message particularly referring to the former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

He was the opposing party for the presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Tunde was a member and also the legal adviser at the Deeper life Bible Church before becoming a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God where he became a pastor and later founded his own church which is by name The Latter Rain Assembly.

Tunde Bakare was born into a Muslim home, but he later got changed to Christianity in the year 1974. He went to All Saints Primary School, Kemta, in Abeokuta and further to Lisabi Grammar school still in Abeokuta,after which he went on to study law at the University of lagos. He was called to the Bar in 1981 and during his National Youth Service Corps he practiced law with Gani Fewehinmi chambers, Rotimi Williams and Co and Burke and Co, solicitors. He founded his own law firm named Tunde Bakare and Co (El-Shaddai chambers) in October 1984. In May 1988,at the very height of his law profession, he was called into ministry (to serve God) and he started his own church which is Latter Rain Assembly (End-Time Church) which is now called the Citadel Global Community Church on 1April 1989 and he is the present ministering Overseer of the church.

According to The Guardian he is one of the most politically influential pastors in Nigeria.

References

1955 births
Nigerian Christian clergy
Living people

Tunde Bakare


Khua kling (, ) is a spicy, dry-fried curry from Thai cuisine originating from the Southern Region. The primary components are meat and Southern Thai style red curry paste. Unlike most curries that are cooked in a spicy sauce, the dry meat style directly seasons the meat. When dry-frying the meat its fat renders allowing the curry paste to adhere.

References

Thai cuisine

Khua kling


In cryptography, DFC (Decorrelated Fast Cipher) is a symmetric block cipher which was
created in 1998 by a group of researchers from École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, and France Télécom (including Jacques Stern and Serge Vaudenay) and submitted to the AES competition.

Like other AES candidates, DFC operates on blocks of 128 bits, using a key of 128, 192, or 256 bits. It uses an 8-round Feistel network. The round function uses a single 6×32-bit S-box, as well as an affine transformation mod 264+13. DFC can actually use a key of any size up to 256 bits; the key schedule uses another 4-round Feistel network to generate a 1024-bit "expanded key". The arbitrary constants, including all entries of the S-box, are derived using the binary expansion of e as a source of "nothing up my sleeve numbers".

Soon after DFC's publication, Ian Harvey raised the concern that reduction modulo a 65-bit number was beyond the native capabilities of most platforms, and that careful implementation would be required to protect against side-channel attacks, especially timing attacks. Although DFC was designed using Vaudenay's decorrelation theory to be provably secure against ordinary differential and linear cryptanalysis, in 1999 Lars Knudsen and Vincent Rijmen presented a differential chosen-ciphertext attack that breaks 6 rounds faster than exhaustive search.

In 2000, Vaudenay, et al. presented an updated version of the algorithm, called DFCv2. This variant allows for more choice in the cipher's parameters, and uses a modified key schedule to eliminate certain weak keys discovered by Don Coppersmith.

References

External links
 SCAN's entry for DFC

Feistel ciphers

DFC (cipher)


Greenfield is a town in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the La Crosse Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,060 as of the 2010 census, up from 1,538 at the 2000 census. The census-designated place of St. Joseph is located in the town.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,538 people, 549 households, and 434 families residing in the town. The population density was 51.1 people per square mile (19.7/km2).  There were 570 housing units at an average density of 18.9 per square mile (7.3/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 98.50% White, 0.07% African American, 0.59% Asian, 0.39% from other races, and 0.46% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.85% of the population.

There were 549 households, out of which 39.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.1% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.9% were non-families. 15.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.80 and the average family size was 3.16.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 29.8% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 31.3% from 25 to 44, 23.2% from 45 to 64, and 9.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 106.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 105.9 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $49,653, and the median income for a family was $52,625. Males had a median income of $35,833 versus $25,673 for females. The per capita income for the town was $20,501. About 4.1% of families and 4.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.3% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

Notable people
Henry Freehoff, Wisconsin state representative; born in the town
George Albert Hammes, Roman Catholic bishop; born in St. Joseph

Economy
The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have their retirement home in St. Joseph.

References

External links

Towns in La Crosse County, Wisconsin
Towns in Wisconsin

Greenfield, La Crosse County, Wisconsin


KFXV (channel 60) is a television station licensed to Harlingen, Texas, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Lower Rio Grande Valley. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside McAllen-licensed Univision affiliate KNVO (channel 48), Class A primary CW+ affiliate and secondary PBS member KCWT-CD (channel 21), and Class A UniMás affiliate KTFV-CD (channel 32). The stations share studios on North Jackson Road in McAllen, while KFXV's transmitter is located near La Feria, Texas.

Prior to being a Fox affiliate, KFXV had been the PBS member station for the Lower Rio Grande Valley as KZLN from 1982 to 1983 and KMBH, owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, between 1985 and 2014. As a result of a historical quirk, it was built on a channel not reserved for noncommercial use and thus could be sold and become a commercial station. It has operated as a commercial outlet since 2014. The station returned to the air in May 2020, assuming the Fox affiliation from two low-power TV stations also owned by Entravision: McAllen-licensed KMBH-LD and Brownsville-licensed KXFX-CD (channel 67), which today operate as translators of KFXV.

History

KZLN
On April 20, 1977, the Texas Consumer Education and Communications Development Committee, related to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, filed an application to build a new television station on non-commercially reserved channel 44 in Harlingen; however, in October, TCECDC modified its application to specify channel 60—thus becoming a non-commercial station operating on a non-reserved commercial channel. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the committee a construction permit on January 24, 1979. The call letters KZLN were assigned that June for the new educational television outlet. Original plans called for the station to be on the air by December 1979 with a bilingual program schedule; however, opposition from Harlingen officials brought those plans to a halt. One Harlingen city commissioner sympathetic to the project told the Hispanic group to "get some Browns, Joneses, and Smiths on that board of directors"; another high-ranking official anonymously told John Bloom of Texas Monthly that they were afraid of KZLN being a "Chicano-type propaganda station".

KZLN would also be beset by several years of delays in tower construction and facilities. The station shared its transmitter facility with another new station in the Rio Grande Valley, KVEO-TV, whose owner contributed $96,000. By the time KZLN began telecasting on May 5, 1982, the climate was poor for PBS due to major cutbacks by the Reagan administration that affected funding for public broadcasting. For cable viewers in the Valley, KZLN replaced KEDT of Corpus Christi.

As had been feared at launch, KZLN's road was rocky. In September, more than $150,000 of equipment was stolen and taken to Mexico, from where it was dispersed to Arkansas, California, and elsewhere; the thieves would be arrested in Cancún in 1983, and some of the equipment was recovered. By December, the station's fundraising appeals warned, "Without your help, KZLN will not be able to continue to operate". In February 1983, the station managed to stay on the air thanks to a reprieve from the Central Power and Light Co. (CPL), the local electric utility; at the time, channel 60 owed CPL more than $19,000, had just avoided a full staff walkout, and had its telephone service disconnected for nonpayment. The station made it to its first birthday, in large part under interim leadership and with station driving force Francisco Briones having resigned.

Poor community support, however, prevented KZLN from continuing much further. With only 400 memberships and no local programming, the station ceased operating July 13, 1983.

Becoming KMBH
When KZLN folded, the diocese, by way of RGV Educational Broadcasting, Inc., stepped in to acquire the channel 60 license in a transaction approved by the FCC in December 1983. The diocese assumed a $36,000 tax liability and $15,000 in outstanding wages and forgave $356,000 in debt.

RGV Educational Broadcasting changed the call letters to KEDV; in August, the diocese announced a $1.2 million pledge to cover the start-up expenses for a new facility, to be located on diocesan land south of the Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, as well as a new tower at La Feria. At the time, a May 1985 start-up date was projected, though KEDV—which soon would take on its KMBH call letters after receiving a request from KEDT—got off to a slow start in fundraising. Channel 60 returned to the air, this time as KMBH, on October 8, 1985.

KMBH produced a limited amount of local programming in its years as a PBS station. In the early 1990s, it produced Valley Football Week, a local high school football roundtable program. Most of the shows it produced were of a religious orientation, including a Spanish-language Bible study and the Sunday Mass.

In its later years, RGV Educational Broadcasting's practices came under scrutiny on multiple fronts. In November 2007, the management of KMBH demanded that Bruce Lee Smith, a reporter for Harlingen's Valley Morning Star and a former volunteer for KMBH in the 1990s, reveal his confidential sources, in exchange for the station's financial records that he requested. The station would later file a police report, citing that Smith was abusive to its secretary when he requested the records, a charge that Smith denied. KMBH would soon run hourly announcements on its radio and TV stations, questioning Smith's ethics. In August 2008, Raymundo Joseph Peña, the Bishop of Brownsville, removed three of the seven KMBH board members without comment; the bishop was the sole member of RGV Educational Broadcasting, allowing him sole discretion to appoint or dismiss board members. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting investigated the station's finances; KMBH had run deficits for four consecutive years and also lacked a community advisory board.

Several programming moves also drew attention. In 2007, the station refused to air in prime time a Frontline documentary, Hand of God, which dealt with sex abuse by clergymen; the station only aired it the next day at 1 a.m., drawing complaints from viewers in support of the program. KMBH was one of just two PBS stations not to air the program in prime time. In 2010, a Frontline documentary on the response to Hurricane Katrina was similarly not aired in prime time because, per the general manager, it contained offensive language.

Conversion to commercial operation
On January 14, 2014, the Diocese announced its intention to file with the FCC to convert KMBH's license to a commercial license, with the intention to sign a local marketing agreement with, and sell the station to, MBTV Texas Valley LLC; the Diocese cited the expenses of running the station. Though KZLN/KMBH had always operated as non-commercial, public television stations, the 1979 decision to file for channel 60 instead of 44 meant that it operated on a non-reserved channel—unusual among PBS stations—allowing KMBH to be converted. The move raised questions about KMBH's continued operation as a PBS member, though it was stated that efforts would be made to keep PBS programming available in the Rio Grande Valley; KEDT in Corpus Christi also sought a potential purchase of the station. The proceeds from the sale were used to repay nearly $800,000 in grants to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Sister station KMBH-FM, later renamed KJJF, was not affected by the sale of KMBH television; the diocese later withdrew the station from National Public Radio (NPR) and sold it to the Relevant Radio Catholic network.

The FCC approved of the switch of KMBH's license to commercial use on February 21, 2014. In March 2014, the $8.5 million sale to MB Revolution LLC (like MBTV Texas Valley, a subsidiary of R Communications) was officially announced and filed with the FCC. MB's owner, Robert Martínez-McCarter, already owns six radio stations in the Rio Grande Valley. The new owners then took control of KMBH through a local marketing agreement; though MB intended to program the station commercially, it remained a PBS station. Programming from the diocese would continue to be produced from the KMBH studios and aired on a digital subchannel for eight hours each month. On May 20, 2015, MB Revolution received FCC approval to buy the station.

Under R Communications, the station used virtual channel 38 instead of 60. By early 2016, KMBH's primary subchannel had switched from PBS to Cozi TV, a national diginet owned by NBCUniversal; PBS programming would move to the second subchannel, while a third subchannel was added with "RTV-Música", a locally programmed Spanish-language music channel. On August 8, 2018, "RTV-Música" was simulcast on both the .1 and .3 subchannels, with Cozi TV programming airing on the third subchannel of KTLM. RTV Música later began airing programming from Teleritmo, a grupera music video channel owned by Multimedios Televisión.

On January 25, 2018, local utility work resulted in a power surge that damaged the KMBH transmitter. The station returned to air at reduced power in late July; however, efforts to ramp up to full power operation damaged the transmitter again, forcing KMBH off the air on February 11, 2019.

Sale to Entravision Communications and change to Fox
In August 2019, Entravision Communications, owners of full-power KNVO (channel 48) as well as low-power stations KFXV-LD/KXFX-CD and KCWT-CD in the Valley, announced it would acquire KMBH for $2.9 million. For attribution reasons related to its minority ownership by Univision and certain rights held by the company relating to its Univision affiliates, Entravision declared that KMBH would not air any Univision-owned network. PBS was ultimately added by Entravision to the 21.4 subchannel of KCWT-CD on June 30, 2020, reaching about 80 percent of the households covered by the former KMBH.

KMBH briefly returned to air on January 8, 2020, at reduced power with temporary facilities as it awaited being repacked to channel 16 in phase 8. The facility was reactivated on May 5, simulcasting KFXV-LD/KXFX-CD. Channel 60 then became KFXV on May 27, 2020.

On October 1, 2021, MyNetworkTV (which was carried on KFXV and KMBH as a secondary affiliation) moved to Antenna TV O&O KGBT-TV (channel 4) also as a secondary affiliation.

Programming

Syndicated programming
Syndicated programming on KFXV includes Right This Minute, Extra, Access Daily, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Real, Hot Bench, The People's Court, Justice for All with Judge Cristina Perez, Mom, Modern Family, TMZ, Entertainment Tonight, You Bet Your Life, Two and a Half Men, and Last Man Standing, among others.

Newscasts
On March 12, 2007, Entravision debuted "Fox 2 News at Nine" on XHRIO. The 30-minute 9 p.m. newscast, which airs Monday to Friday, was not the first in the market, as XHFOX had aired one in 2001, the final year of its affiliation, through a partnership with KRGV-TV. KFXV's sister Fox affiliate to the northwest in Laredo, KXOF-CD, carries KFXV's "Fox News South Texas" newscasts with some Laredo news and weather inserted into the programs.

Prior programming
KMBH-DT2 carried general PBS fare, as well as some programming pertaining to the Catholic faith, including Sunday Mass, a Spanish-language Bible study program, and a Catholic family issues program. KMBH was one of at least two PBS members run by a religious organization (KBYU-TV was the other, which left PBS in 2018), and was formerly one of at least three PBS members owned at least in part by a Catholic-related organization (along with WXEL-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida, which was sold to a community group in 2012, and WLAE-TV in New Orleans, which left PBS in 2013). Because of the Catholic-based ownership, KMBH occasionally refused to show programming that is contrary to the Catholic faith—one example is a 2007 Frontline documentary, "Hand of God", which dealt with sex abuse by clergymen; the station only aired it the next day as part of PBS' automated overnight schedule at 1 a.m., drawing complaints from viewers in support of the program.

Technical information

Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

KFXV used its former physical channel 38 as its virtual channel for most of its history telecasting in digital, opting not to remap to virtual channel 60. Under Entravision, KFXV began using virtual channel 60.

References

External links

Television channels and stations established in 1982
Fox network affiliates
Bounce TV affiliates
Television stations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
1982 establishments in Texas
Entravision Communications stations

KFXV (TV)


ShadowWraith is a top-down view scrolling shooter video game created by American studio Terminal Sunset for the Macintosh, and published by StarPlay. This game has a sequel called Souls in the System.

As of December 2002, the StarPlay online product catalog indicated that the company was no longer selling games directly.

Story
In the game, the player assumes the role of an artificial intelligence representation of a man named Alex Kendall, who was assassinated for having associations with the Defense Department. Before his annihilation, Kendall's work in the Defense Department had grown unsatisfying for him, and so he instead devoted his time and efforts to the expansion of the ever growing cyberspace. In his latest project, he had created a way of designing a person's ego into the net, with such a cybernetic ego incorporating personality and intelligence in addition to tactile senses, using his own as a prototype. His attempt at doing so was a success, though Kendall never got a chance to reveal his findings to the world, as he was killed shortly after, awaking to see his family die at the hands of his murderers. Soon afterwards, Kendall's mind came to life again in the form of a cyberspace program.

Throughout the game, the player controls Alex Kendall's cyberspace program of himself, seeking revenge of his family, and his own mortal self. The phrase "Revenge is best served on the Net" is shown in the opening titles before game play commences.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack for ShadowWraith is widely considered among the greatest video game soundtracks of all time and was composed by Steven Allen, Andrew Schlesinger, Volker Tripp, and Thomas Chenhall, with the songs being stored in MOD format. It consisted of the following song titles in alleged order of game play:

Extend
Into the Shadow
Haunt
Night
Cyberride
Fall
Wraith
Marshins
Dance of Zax
Overlord
World
Ryu
Stardust (Memories)
Oblivion
Silntrac (Silent Racer)
Elysium
Molecule (Molecule's Revenge)
DENSETSU
Pulse
Off Line Pulse
Dance Factory
Internal Impactor
Evergladez
Space
Xenon

Reception
Inside Mac Games complimented the game on its detailed physics model and music, among other things, and commented that ShadowWraith was better than the other games in its genre, though there were slight difficulties with switching weapons during gameplay and slower performance on 68030-based Macs.

References

External links
 Overview of ShadowWraith by Lisa Karen Savignano at Allgame (archived resource)
 ShadowWraith FAQ at StarPlay Technical Support (archived resource)

1995 video games
Classic Mac OS games
Classic Mac OS-only games
Scrolling shooters
Single-player video games
StarPlay Productions games
Video games developed in the United States

ShadowWraith


ECE Regulation 90 (abbreviated "ECE R90") is an ECE Regulation specifying design, construction, and performance requirements and test protocols for replacement brake linings for roadgoing motor vehicles and trailers.

R90 calls for linings to be tested for speed sensitivity, cold performance, and replacement Brake pads and brake shoes are permitted to deviate from the frictional characteristics of their original-equipment counterparts by not more than 15%. In addition, R90 requires tamper-evident, sealed packaging for replacement brake linings.

Type-approval to R90 is required for all replacement brake linings throughout the European Union and in non-European countries that have adopted ECE Regulations.

Test protocols

Tests required by R90 include:
 Bedding (burnishing)
 Performance Check
 Brake Tests
 Cold Performance Equivalence and Speed Sensitivity Tests

For the tests the vehicle brake for which the replacement linings are designed is installed in an inertia dynamometer instrumented for continuous recording of rotative speed, brake torque, brake line pressure, number of rotations after brake application, braking time, and brake rotor temperature.

Notes

References

Vehicle law

ECE Regulation 90


Evergreen Valley College (EVC) is a public community college in San Jose, California. Located in the Evergreen district of East San Jose, California, EVC was founded in 1975 and is part of the California Community College System.

History

The San José-Evergreen Community College District was officially created on 1 July 1964, after which the district immediately began planning to build a community college.

The site in Evergreen, in East San Jose, was chosen in 1967. The college was officially named Evergreen Valley College in 1970 and opened to its first class in 1975. The college expanded to include the biological sciences, nursing education programs, a library, a student center, a center for the arts, and the Montgomery Hill Observatory.

Academics

Accreditation
Evergreen Valley College is institutionally accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. Approvals and certifications of specific programs include:

 The Certified Nursing Assistant Program is approved through California Department of Public Health Aide and Technician Certification Section
 The Registered Nursing (ADN) Program is approved by the California State Board of Registered Nursing and the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing
 The Honda program is a certified American Honda Training Program certified through NCTE

Academic divisions

Academic divisions at the college include:

 Business and Workforce Development
 Nursing and Allied Health
 Math, Science, and Engineering
 Language Arts
 Library and Learning Resources
 Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts and Physical Education (SSHAPE)

Tesla START Program
The Tesla START Program is a program jointly run by Tesla, Inc. and EVC. The program is an educational and training partnership between the EVC and the electric carmaker.

Campus

Evergreen Valley College's campus is set on 175 acres in the Evergreen district of East San Jose, located at the base of the foothills of the Diablo Range.

Campus buildings include a 400-seat Performing Arts Center, Center for Visual Arts, Sequoia Hall, Acacia Hall, Math, Sciences, & Social Studies Building, Gullo Center, Cedro Hall, Fitness Center, Student Center, Automotive Technology Building, Physical Education Building, Gymnasium, and the Montgomery Hill Observatory.

Montgomery Hill Observatory is regularly open to free public stargazing events.

North of the EVC campus is Montgomery Hill Park, a large city park and the historic site where John Joseph Montgomery conducted his flight experiments on his glider "The Evergreen".

EVC has two primary entrances, the Paseo de Arboles entry from San Felipe Road and the Yerba Buena Road entry.

Athletics

Evergreen Valley College is a member of the Coast Conference of California Community College Athletic Association. The school mascot is a hawk. The school colors are green, gray and marigold. The athletic director for Evergreen Valley College is Jaclyn Johnson. The head coach of Men's Soccer is Simon Cook and the head coach of Women's Soccer is Felicia Perez.

Facilities for athletics include a softball field, turf soccer stadium, eleven tennis courts, a gymnasium, and a large grass field.

Intercollegiate teams include:
 Men's Soccer
 Women's Soccer
 Women's Badminton

References

External links

 Official website

Universities and colleges in San Jose
Universities and colleges established in 1975
Schools accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
California Community Colleges

Evergreen Valley College


The Temple Cup was a cup awarded to the winner of an annual best-of-seven postseason championship series for American professional baseball from 1894 to 1897. Competing teams were exclusively from the National League, which had been founded in 1876 as the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. There was only one major league at the time, following the folding of the American Association after the 1891 season, and the series was played between the first and second-place teams of the surviving National League. The series played for the Temple Cup was also known as the "World's Championship Series".

The approximately  silver cup cost $800 () and was donated by coal, citrus, and lumber baron William Chase Temple (1862–1917), a part-owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates at the time. The Temple Cup is now in the collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

History

In the 1880s, there had been postseason play between the winners of the National League and the American Association, but following the 1891 season, the National League absorbed the Association, becoming a 12-team league. In 1892, the National League played split season followed by a postseason championship series, but then abandoned split season. In 1893, the Pittsburgh Pirates finished second to the Boston Beaneaters. The Pirates' president, William Chase Temple, felt that his team should have the option of having a playoff series to claim the title. As a result, Temple had an $800 trophy minted and he donated it to the league.

Much like the long running Stanley Cup of the National Hockey League and the Temple Cup's baseball predecessor, the Dauvray Cup (awarded 1887–1893), there was only one actual Temple Cup to be passed along to each baseball season's winning team and city. If any team had won three titles, that team would have gained permanent possession of the Cup.

Revenue from the Temple Cup series was to be split 65% to 35% between the winner and the loser, but the players of the first series agreed to split the money evenly. However, after that 1894 series, the New York Giants cheated some Baltimore Orioles players out of their money, tainting the Cup and prompting Temple to sell the Pirates in disgust.

The Baltimore Orioles appeared in every Temple Cup series, winning the last two and thus coming the closest to gaining permanent possession of the trophy. Having moved over to the National League with several other strong American Association franchises, the powerful, scrappy Baltimore teams continued their winning ways from the old Association, capturing three National League pennants in a row (1894–1896) and winning the Temple Cup in 1896 and 1897. Owner/manager Ned Hanlon (1857–1937), a Baltimorean and one of the most talented baseball men of the sport's early era, ran the team with talented players like "Wee Willie" Keeler (1872–1923), Wilbert Robinson (1863–1934), and John McGraw (1873–1934).

Lack of enthusiasm on the part of the players doomed the series; their apathy spread to the fans, few of whom attended Temple Cup games in later years. Interest in the series faded quickly, as it seemed artificial, with the second-place team winning three of the four series. The last Temple Cup series was played in 1897, although the concept was revived in 1900 with the Chronicle-Telegraph Cup. After the Temple Cup series ended, the National League returned the trophy to Temple, whose Pirates team never finished higher than sixth place in the standings during the Cup's existence.

John McGraw of the Temple Cup-winning Orioles was later player/manager/owner with another franchise also known as the Baltimore Orioles, one of the eight original franchises of the American League upon its founding in 1901 and the third franchise to carry the Orioles name, prior to relocating to New York City after two seasons. In 1903, a "peace pact" between the National League and American League resulted in each recognizing the other as equal in stature. The leagues accepted a joint policy on player contracts, and initiated a postseason series between their champions, beginning the modern interleague World Series.

In 1939, The Sporting News tracked down the Temple Cup, finding it in the possession of Temple's daughter in Winter Park, Florida. That year, the Cup was included in a large display of sports trophies at the New York World's Fair. In 1951, Temple's daughter donated the Cup to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, where it remains today in Cooperstown, New York.

Temple Cup series results
Winning team is denoted in bold font. The regular season record of each team is noted in parentheses.

Appearances

Temple Cup winners gallery

See also
 List of pre-World Series baseball champions

References

Further reading

External links
Notated Music: The Temple Cup at Library of Congress

Major League Baseball postseason
Major League Baseball trophies and awards
Baltimore Orioles (1882–1899)
Cleveland Spiders
New York Giants (NL)
Pittsburgh Pirates

Temple Cup


Masenate Mohato Seeiso (born Anna Karabo Motšoeneng, June 2, 1976) is Queen of Lesotho as the wife of King Letsie III of Lesotho. She was the first commoner in modern history to marry into the royal family of Lesotho. Since becoming queen, she has become the patron of several charities and has worked to promote the work of projects related to HIV/AIDS.

Early life
Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso was born Anna Karabo Motšoeneng at Maluti Adventist Hospital in Mapoteng in the Berea District, the eldest daughter of the five children of Thekiso Motšoeneng and his wife 'Makarabo. She was christened Anna in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1990 Queen 'Masenate enrolled at the Machabeng International College in Maseru and studied there until 1996, completing an International General Certificate for Secondary Education and an International Baccalaureate Diploma. While attending college, she took party in community service with the Angela School for the Disabled and Centre for the Blind. In 1997 she attended the National University of Lesotho (NUL) and where she studied for a Bachelor of Science degree; her studies were interrupted by her relationship with King Letsie III of Lesotho.

She is a French language learner at the Alliance Française.

Relationship with Letsie III of Lesotho
Queen 'Masenate first met King Letsie III of Lesotho in 1996. This was the same year he became King for the second time, following the death of his father in a road accident.

Engagement and marriage
In October 1999, two years into her studies at the National University of Lesotho, she became engaged to King Letsie III. They were married on February 18, 2000, in Maseru. He was the only unmarried King in Africa. The ceremony was conducted in the Setsoto Stadium by Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi, with 40,000 people present including dignitaries such as Nelson Mandela, Festus Mogae, Bakili Muluzi and Prince Charles of the British Royal Family. This marked the first time in the history of modern Lesotho where a royal had married a commoner.

She credited the Royal Family for making her welcome, in particular the influence of Queen 'Mamohato, the Queen Mother. 'Masenate and 'Mamohato grew close and the Queen found it difficult when Mamohato died in 2003, but praised her husband for supporting her at the time. In an interview with the Lesotho Times in 2014, she said "I like the fact that he listens when I advise him on various issues that are personal. For instance, I want him to be well-dressed for various functions. And, as the woman of the house, I also recommend a lot of things, food, music, movies and more educative television channels for all of us. His Majesty is a very reserved, respectful, patient, wise and humble person and he is all that in a very sweet way. These are the qualities he has sustained over the years. They have drawn me much closer to him. I love him dearly every day."

Motherhood and children
Queen 'Masenate and King Letsie have three children; Princess Senate (b. 7 October 2001), Princess 'Maseeiso (b. 20 November 2004), and Prince Lerotholi (b. 18 April 2007), They were born in a Private Hospital. She later explained that she wished she had more children, saying "Maybe I should have had one early after Prince Lerotholi but now my biological clock is telling me the time is up. I have read a lot about reproductive health-related risks and some medical researchers, in their studies, don't recommend women to consider falling pregnant at my age. When your eggs are no longer that fresh to make a healthy baby, then it's better to be on the safe side."

Public life

Charity work

Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso is involved in a variety of charitable projects, including Patronage of the Lesotho Red Cross Society, the SOS Children's Village, and the Machabeng International College where she studied before becoming Queen. In addition to her work with the charity People with Disabilities, Queen 'Masenate is generally interested in working with projects seeking to improve the voices of disabled people in Lesotho.

Following the death of the late Queen Mother 'Mamohato Bereng Seeiso in 2003, Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso runs Hlokomela Bana (Take Care of Children).

Public health work
She has a strong interest in enabling the work undertaken with HIV/AIDS patients to be spoken of publicly, and has been involved in several awareness programmes in Lesotho. Queen 'Masenate has also undertaken visits to a variety of AIDS projects around the country, including orphanages. She also holds a First Aid Certificate.

Honours
National honours
  : Dame Commander of the Most Dignified Order of Moshoeshoe.
  : Prince Mohato Award Bronze Medal (06/1993).
Foreign honours
  : Commander of the Order of Academic Palms (05/07/2018).

Notes

1976 births
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
House of Moshesh
Lesotho Christians
Lesotho royalty
Living people
National University of Lesotho alumni
People from Berea District
African queens

'Masenate Mohato Seeiso


Lydia is a feminine first name. It derives from the Greek Λυδία, Ludía, from λυδία (ludía; "beautiful one", "noble one", "from Lydia/Persia"), a feminine form of the ancient given name Λυδός (Lydus). The region of Lydia is said to be named for a king named Λυδός; the given name Lydia originally indicated ancestry or residence in the region of Lydia.

Bible
Lydia is a Biblical given name: Lydia of Thyatira, businesswoman in the city of Thyatira in the New Testament's Acts of the Apostles. She was the apostle Paul's first convert in Philippi and thus the first convert to Christianity in Europe. Lydia hosted Paul and Silas after their release from prison. It is possible that Lydia was the host for a house church during that time. According to Coleman Baker, "Lydia is described as a "worshipper of God" (probably synonymous with "God-fearer," used elsewhere in Acts) "from the city of Thyatira" (located in Western Asia Minor) and "a dealer in purple cloth" (a luxury item in the ancient Mediterranean). She and her household are soon baptized and offer hospitality to the traveling preachers. Lydia's house becomes the site for the church in Philippi, with her as its host and perhaps leader.... According to the book of Acts, Paul and his associates founded the church in Phillipi when Lydia and her household were baptized. One might conjecture that several of the women from the "place of prayer" were among those who joined with Lydia in this new movement."

People
 Lydia Baxter (1809–1874), American poet
 Lydia Becker (1820–1890), British suffragette and amateur scientist
 Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet
 Lydia Canaan, Lebanon-born pioneering singer-songwriter, humanitarian, and activist
 Lydia de Crescenzo, Italian fashion designer working as "Lydia de Roma"
 Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880), American abolitionist, women's rights activist, novelist and journalist
 Lydia Avery Coonley (1845 - 1924), American social leader, clubwoman and writer
 Lydia Cornell (born 1953), American actress, blogger and radio talk show host
 Lydia Davis (born 1947), American author
 Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn (born 1940), Hong Kong politician
 Lydia Echevarría (born 1931), Puerto Rican actress
 Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903), American author, women's rights activist
 Lydia Mary Fay (1804-1878), American missionary, educator, writer, and translator
 Lydia Rodríguez Fernández (born 1980), Spanish pop singer who participated in the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest
 Lydia Field Emmet (1866–1952), American painter
 Lydia Gibson (1891–1964), American artist
 Lydia Gromyko (1911–2004), Belarusian agriculturist
 Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann  (born 1963), Israeli foil fencer
 Lydia Hearst (born 1984), American model and socialite
 Lydia Jacoby (born 2004), American swimmer
 Lydia Kavina (born 1967), Russian theremin player and conductor
 Lydia Ko (born 1997), Korean-born New Zealand Professional Golfer
 Lydia Koidula (1843–1886), Estonian poet
 Lydia Lamaison (1914-2012), Argentine actress
 Lydia Lassila (born 1982), Australian skier
 Lydia Lazarov (born 1946), Israeli yachting world champion
 Lydia Lindeque (1916–1997), South African actor
 Lydia Litvyak (1921–1943), Russian fighter pilot in World War II
 Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (1892–1981), Russian ballerina
 Lydia Lunch (born 1959), American No Wave singer
 Lydia Mackay (born 1977), American actress and voice actress
 Lydia Mei (1896–1965), Estonian painter
 Lydia Mendoza (1916–2007), American guitarist and singer of Tejano music
 Lydia Millet (born 1968), American author
 Lydia Night (born 2000), American punk musician
 Lydia Pense (born 1948), American singer
 Lydia Pinkham (1819–1883), American patent medicine manufacturer and businesswoman
 Lydia Polgreen (born 1975), American journalist
 Lydia Riezouw (1923–2005), Dutch photographer, resistance fighter during World War II
 Lydia Shum (1945–2008), Hong Kong actress and comedian
 Lydia Simoneschi (1908–1981), Italian actress and voice actress
 Lydia Stahl (1890), a Russian espionage agent
 Lydia H. Tilton (1839–1915), American journalist and temperance activist
 Lydia de Vega (1964–2022), Filipina former athlete
 Lydia Venieri (born 1964), Greek artist
 Lydia Louisa Anna Very (1823–1901), American author and illustrator
 Lydia Wahlström (1869–1954),  Swedish historian, author and feminist
 Lydia Weld (1878–1962), engineer and naval architect

Fictional characters
 Lydia, a character from John Flanagan's series of novels, Brotherband
 Lydia Sharp, a character from Silas House's novel, Southernmost, in which the character is symbolic of a fanatical Christian
 Lydia, a follower (housecarl) NPC in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
 Lydia, a character from The Walking Dead comic book series
 Lydia, a character from the television show Hotel Transylvania: The Series
 Lydia, the second portrait ghost from the GameCube game Luigi's Mansion
 Lydia Aspen, in the 1952 novel Love for Lydia
 Lydia Wickham (née Bennet), a character from Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice
 Lydia Branwell, a character from the TV show Shadowhunters
 Lydia Brenner, a character in The Birds
 Lydia Brown, a character in The Birth of a Nation
 Lydia Davis, a character from the television series Revenge
 Lydia Deetz, a character in the 1988 feature film Beetlejuice and the subsequent television show Beetlejuice
 Lydia Douce, a barmaid in the "Sirens" chapter of James Joyce's 20th century novel, Ulysses
 Lydia Fox, a character from the Arthur television show
 Lydia González, a bullfighter from the 2002 film, Talk to Her
 Lydia Gwilt, the femme fatale in Wilkie Collins's novel, Armadale
 Lydia Hadley, mother in Ray Bradbury's short story, The Veldt
 Lydia Hillard, in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire
 Lydia Karenin, a former character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital
 Lydia King, a character in Charles Bukowski's 1982 novel Ham On Rye
 Lydia Languish, a character in Richard Sheridan's first play, The Rivals
 Lydia Marlowe, a character in The Woman in Green
 Lydia Martin, a character from MTV TV show Teen Wolf played by Holland Roden
 Lydia Maxwell, a character from the 1987 movie Innerspace, portrayed by Meg Ryan
 Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, a character from Breaking Bad
 Lydia Tár, the titular character of the 2022 film Tár
 Lydia, Countess of Walden, a character in Ken Follett's 1982 novel The Man from St. Petersburg
 Lydia "Lyddie" Worthen, the main character of the 1991 historical novel Lyddie by Katherine Paterson and the 1993 TV movie based on it
 Raven Lydia Baxter, the titular character of That's So Raven
 Lydia, a neutral good goddess of music, light and knowledge in the Greyhawk setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game
 Aunt Lydia, The Handmaid's Tale

Other
 HMS Lydia, a fictional ship captained by Horatio Hornblower in the C.S. Forester's novel The Happy Return (called Beat to Quarters in the US)
 , a US patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
 , a US cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919
 Lydia stone, a stone used to test the quality of gold and silver, a touchstone

See also

 Lidia
Lidija
 Lidiya

References

English feminine given names
Greek feminine given names
Feminine given names
German feminine given names
Given names

Lydia (name)


Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955 for his work on oxytocin.

Du Vigneaud was born in Chicago, Illinois. He studied chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then worked for the chemical company DuPont for one year. He then went back to university to study for his Ph.D degree. He received his Ph.D in 1927. He taught for one year at the medical school of Johns Hopkins University and then went to Europe. He did research in Dresden in Germany and at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. When he went back to America, he became a professor at the University of Illinois. In 1932 he moved to the George Washington University Medical School. In 1938 he moved to Cornell University Medical College in New York City. He was a professor at Cornell until he retired in 1967.

References

1901 births
1978 deaths
American biochemists
American biologists
American Nobel Prize winners
George Washington University faculty
Cornell University faculty

Vincent du Vigneaud


Brendan McCarthy is an Irish film producer and screenwriter based in Dublin, Ireland. Together with John McDonnell, McCarthy runs the Oscar-winning production company Fantastic Films (Ireland).

Career
Recent films include The Last Days on Mars (2013), the debut feature film from Oscar-nominated Irish director Ruairí Robinson, selected for Directors' Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival, 2013; the award-winning Stitches (movie) 2012, directed by Conor McMahon and starring Ross Noble and Tommy Knight, the Bollywood hit Ek Tha Tiger 2012, directed by Kabir Khan (director) and starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, the critically acclaimed Hammer Horror Wake Wood 2011, directed by David Keating and starring Timothy Spall, Aidan Gillen and Eva Birthistle and Outcast (2010 film) directed by Colm McCarthy (director) and starring James Nesbitt, Kate Dickie and fellow Scottish actress Hannah Stanbridge, who received a Scottish BAFTA for her role in the film.

Brendan McCarthy is a Film Adviser to Arts Council of Ireland, where he consults on both policy and project related issues. From 2001 to 2012 McCarthy acted as the Irish delegate to Eurimages. Eurimages is the European co-production fund based at the Council of Europe. He was active in the creation of policy and project selection during this time.

From 2001 to 2005, McCarthy was the Head of Production and Development at the Irish Film Board, where he was instrumental in helping to create new production finance initiatives, including the Low Budget Initiative and the Micro Budget Digital/Development Fund. He was also actively involved in the selection and funding of projects for both development and production.

Brendan McCarthy is a graduate of EAVE, ACE, Media Film School and Scale Strategics Marketing. In addition to this McCarthy has also acted as a Board Member of Media Desk Ireland and previously ran his own production company, Blue Light Productions.

After receiving 1st Class Hons MA in Screenwriting from Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, in 2006, McCarthy's screenplay for the horror film Wake Wood was produced by www.fantasticfilms.ie, in partnership with the legendary studio Hammer Films. The movie was released in the U.S. by MPI Media Group in 2011.

Filmography

Writer
The Cherry Tree (2013)
Wake Wood (2011)
The Metal Man (1989)

Producer
 Dead Meat (executive producer, 2004)
 Man About Dog (executive producer, 2004)
 Breakfast on Pluto (executive producer, 2005)
 48 Angels (executive producer, 2007)
 Outcast (producer, 2010)
 Wake Wood (producer, 2011)
 Ek Tha Tiger (executive producer, 2012)
 Stitches (producer, 2012)
 The Last Days on Mars (co-producer, 2013)
 Muse (co-producer, 2017)
 Vivarium (producer, 2019)

References

External links
Fantastic Films

Living people
Irish film producers
Year of birth missing (living people)

Irish male screenwriters
21st-century Irish screenwriters
Film people from Dublin (city)

Brendan McCarthy (producer)


Talabat (Arabic: , Ṭalabāt) is an online food ordering company founded in Kuwait in 2004.  Talabat operates in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq. A subsidiary of Delivery Hero since 2016, Talabat became the largest online food ordering company in the Middle East.

History

In 2004, Talabat General Trading and Contracting Company was founded by Abdulaziz Al Loughani and Khaled Al Otaibi in Kuwait. The name "Talabat" derives from the Arabic language and it means "orders" or "requests".

As Talabat's popularity grew locally, it won the "Best E-Business Award" repeatedly in 2008 and 2009 with special recognition from the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

In 2010, the business was operating out of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia with an average of 1,250 daily transactions. Talabat then underwent key changes such as the re-branding from 6alabat.com to Talabat.com, a shift from a hybrid form of Arabic and English spelling to a pure English spelling.

In 2011, a revamp of the platform took place with a new website layout and improvement in user interface.

In 2012, Talabat expanded to Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Oman.

In 2013, it continued its expansion to Qatar.

In 2015, Talabat was acquired by the global German e-commerce group Rocket Internet for US$170 million. It became part of Rocket Internet's business unit Global Online Takeaway Group.

In 2016, Rocket Internet's food delivery business, including Talabat, was taken over by online food marketplace Delivery Hero. In line with this acquisition, Abdulhamid Alomar took over as the CEO of the company.

In 2017, Talabat expanded its operations to Jordan.

In 2019, former Grab executive Tomaso Rodriguez was appointed as CEO, after the stepping down of Abdulhamid Alomar.

Lawsuits were filed against the company after they were found violating fair competition rules in Kuwait. A settlement plea made by Talabat was also turned down.

In January 2020, the food delivery company Carriage, also owned by Delivery Hero, was absorbed by Talabat.

In August 2020, it has been confirmed that the Egyptian food delivery service Otlob, which was in operation since 1999 and became a Delivery Hero subsidiary in 2016, is getting rebranded as Talabat. As of September 2020, Talabat operates in Egypt.

In October 2020, Talabat announced they will expand into Iraq in early 2021, initially operating in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan before gradually expanding into more cities in the rest of the country.

In December 2020, Talabat and Huawei signed a partnership to list Talabat App in the Huawei marketplace.

In August 2021, Talabat was selected as the official food delivery provider for Expo 2020, and their pavilion would display technological innovations for food delivery, such the cloud kitchen concept, whilst representing multiple food brands. In September 2021, Talabat partnered with Terminus Group, who is also an official premier partner for Expo 2020, to launch ten autonomous, last mile food-delivery robots for Expo visitors. Expo 2020 itself launched on 1 October 2021 following a year-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

Companies of Kuwait
Online food ordering
2015 mergers and acquisitions
2004 establishments in Kuwait

Talabat


Arthur Holmes (18901965) was an English geologist. He made two important contributions: the use of radioactive isotopes for dating minerals, and the suggestion that convection currents in the mantle play an important role in continental drift.

Holmes showed us that thermal convection currents were strong enough to move large land masses, which contributed to Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift or theory of Plate tectonics. Harry H. Hess (19061969) also supported this view.

Holmes was a pioneer of geochronology, and performed the first accurate uranium-lead radiometric dating while an undergraduate in London. This gave a date of of 370 mya to a Devonian rock from Norway.  This result was published in 1911, after his graduation in 1910.

Holmes worked on the problem of the age of the Earth all his life. He reached an approximately correct estimate by the 1940s of 4,500±100 mya.

Geologists
Structure of the Earth

Arthur Holmes


Paul Homeyer (26 October 1853 – 27 July 1908) was a German organist who had an active international concert career during the late 19th century and early 20th century. His repertoire encompassed works from a variety of musical periods from ancient to contemporary works. He was particularly admired for his performances of the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn. In 1903 he was given special recognition for his work by King George of Saxony.

Life
Born in Osterode am Harz, Homeyer began studying music at an early age with his father, organist Henry Homeyer, and his uncle, Josef Maria Homeyer. After attending high school in Hildesheim, he studied at Göttingen and at the Leipzig Conservatory. His teachers there were the professors Benjamin Robert Papperitz and Salomon Jadassohn.

In 1881 he started appearing in concerts in Leipzig that were organized by Carl Riedel's music club. Three years later he began performing regularly at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. In 1885 he joined the faculty of the Leipzig Conservatory where he taught for the rest of his life. Among his pupils were the composer Sigfrid Karg-Elert and the Anglo-Canadian conductor and keyboardist Harry Dean.

From the mid-1880s up until his death, Homeyer traveled extensively as a recitalist. He gave performances in Italy and Austria as well as cities throughout Germany. Franz Liszt attended one of these performances in 1883 in Karlsruhe and became an admirer of his artistry. He died in Leipzig at the age of 54.

Sources
Franz Neubert (Hrsg.), Deutsches Zeitgenossenlexikon, Leipzig (1905).

1853 births
1908 deaths
People from Osterode am Harz
German organists
German male organists
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni
Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
Pupils of Salomon Jadassohn
19th-century German musicians
19th-century German male musicians
19th-century organists

Paul Homeyer


Graeme "Pope" Pope-Ellis (born 26 July 1947 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, died 17 June 2010) was a South African canoeist best known for his 46 consecutive year Dusi Canoe Marathon career, having won the race a record 15 times.

Personal life

Pope-Ellis grew up along the banks of the Msunduzi River on a farm in Ashburton, just outside Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He attended Alexandra High School in Pietermaritzburg and completed his first Dusi in 1965, aged 17.

Dusi career

Pope-Ellis completed the Dusi Canoe Marathon, arguably the world's most prestigious canoe race, 46 consecutive times between 1965 and 2010. He also hold the record for having won the race 15 times. Pope-Ellis has become synonymous with the race and has been affectionately named the "Dusi King". Pope-Ellis won his first Dusi in 1972 with K2 partner Eric Clarke and became the first person to win the Dusi in a single canoe in 1981. Between 1970 and 1990 he won a total of three Dusis with Clarke, four with Tim Cornish, five with Peter Peacock and three K1 victories. Furthermore during this period only once, in 1979, did Pope-Ellis fail to either win or take second position.

Influence

Pope-Ellis has been called South Africa's pre-eminent sportsman and is one of the best known canoeists in the world. Pope Ellis has been heavily involved with the development of canoeing in South Africa and has mentored and coached a number of South Africa's top paddlers including seven time Dusi winner Martin Dreyer and former World champion Shaun Rubenstein. Pope-Ellis was also instrumental in the development of kayaks in South Africa whilst running Pope's Canoe Centre, a successful boat-building business in Pietermaritzburg. Fluent in isiZulu, he was closely involved with the people who live in the valleys that the 120 km race is run through.

Pope-Ellis also won many other canoe races, including twice winning the prestigious Umkomaas Canoe Marathon, a big water race with minimal portaging.

Death

Pope-Ellis died on 17 June 2010 on his farm in Bishopstowe while driving his tractor. An accident occurred while ploughing his fields, causing the tractor to roll over him.

References

1963 births
South African male canoeists
Sportspeople from Pietermaritzburg
2010 deaths

Graeme Pope-Ellis


Radio Globo is an Italian popular radio station based in Rome. Despite its name, this radio station is not endorsed or affiliated with Rede Globo.

History
It was founded by Virginia Dantas as Gamma Radio in 1986, broadcasting popular mostly American and Latin hits, a format that proved very popular. After an initial period of pre-programmed music, soon the station engaged services of popular radio hosts like er Massimo Vari, Annibale Grasso, Fabio Calvari, Silvia Giansanti, Stefano Valli etc.

The station first broadcast in Rome but expanded through the Lazio region and soon had transmitters in a number of Italian cities. The station was acquired by Globo Media with CEO Bruno Benvenuti. The station's The Morning Show includes sharp humor on current topics, uses gags, parodies and characters with hosts like Maurizio Paniconi, Nandone, Massimo Vari, Gabry Venus, Alessandro Tirocchi, Andrea Torre and Roberta Coletti.

The station has also been instrumental in launching a number of novelty songs. Of notability are the 2011 Italian summer hit and the station's own version of the Romanian hit "Mr. Saxobeat". Showcasing the station staff and featuring hosts Maurizio Panicni, Alessandro Tirocchi and Morgana Giovannetti, the alternative Radio Globo Morning Show 's "Mr. Saxobeat Ostia Beach version" produced by Lucio Scarpa  became popular.

Banking on that success, the station's The Morning Show came back in summer of 2012 launching an even bigger success the song "Il Pulcino Pio" featuring Morgana Giovannetti based on a Brazilian tune using sound of the character "Pulcino Pio", literally the little chirping chick  that topped the Italian charts for 8 consecutive weeks.

Frequencies

Rome: 99.6 MHz
Latina: 99.6 MHz
Viterbo: 97.3 MHz
Frosinone
Rieti

References

External links
Official website

Radio stations in Italy
Mass media in Rome
Radio stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Italy

Radio Globo (Italy)


Marie Claire (stylized in all lowercase) is a French international monthly magazine first published in France in 1937, followed by the United Kingdom in 1941. Since then various editions are published in many countries and languages. The feature editions focus on women around the world and global issues. Marie Claire magazine also covers health, beauty, fashion, politics, finance, and career topics.

History
Marie Claire was founded by Jean Prouvost (1885–1978) and Marcelle Auclair (1899–1983). Its first issue appeared in 1937, and it was distributed each Wednesday until 1941 when it handed out its shares to open in London, going international for the first time. In 1976, Prouvost retired and his daughter Évelyne took over the magazine and added L'Oréal Group to the company.

Worldwide

Marie Claire publishes editions in more than 35 countries on five continents.

United States
The U.S. edition of the magazine was started by the Hearst Corporation, based in New York City, in 1994. Hearst has branch offices in France, Italy, and several locations in the United States including Detroit, the West Coast, New England, the Midwest, the Southwest, and the Southeast. The Esquire Network reality television series Running In Heels follows three interns working in the NYC office of the magazine. The editor-in-chief from 2012 to 2020 was Anne Fulenwider. On 9 December 2019, Hearst Magazines announced that Fulenwider would be leaving her post at the end of the year. Aya Kanai, then chief fashion director of Hearst, was named the new editor of the women's magazine and started in January 2020. Sally Holmes took the helm in September from Aya Kanai, who surprised Hearst execs when she jumped ship to Pinterest after just nine months as editor in chief.

During the pandemic, Hearst quietly reduced the title's print frequency from 11 issues to seven in 2020 and instead launched its first digital issue with cover face Janet Mock. It also made Marie Claire's 2020 Power Trip virtual. Power Trip is Marie Claire's annual 36-hour, invite-only, all-expenses-paid networking conference for successful women across all industries that Fulenwider launched in 2016 as a way to make the magazine stand out in the event space. In May 2021, Future US acquired the American edition of Marie Claire magazine from Hearst and has published it since June 2021. In September 2021, it was announced that the Summer 2021 issue of Marie Claire would be its last monthly print edition, and remaining subscribers would receive issues of Harper's Bazaar. That same year, Power Trip was once again an in-person experiential event. In June 2022, Future relaunched Marie Claire in print with its Beauty Changemakers Issue.

Online, Marie Claire claims to reach 15 million visitors per month.

United Kingdom

Marie Claire launched a UK print edition in 1988, with a website launched in 2006 featuring segments on daily news, catwalk shows, photographs and reports, fashion and beauty, buys of the day, daily horoscopes, and competitions.

Its cover price was increased in February 2018 from £3.99 to £4.20, but this did not compensate for a decline in sales and advertising revenue, with print display advertising down 25% in 2018 and 30% in 2019. In September 2019, the magazine's then owner, TI Media, announced that the final print edition would be published in November and the brand would become digital only, under licence with Groupe Marie Claire. The UK website currently has two million monthly users.

Combined print and digital circulation from July to December 2018 was 120,133 per issue – almost a third of which were free copies, and 4,729 of which were for the digital edition. This was down on the same period in 2017, when the average circulation was 157,412, with 4,012 digital edition readers.

Currently, Marie Claire UK is published by Future Publishing, which acquired TI Media and also owns Marie Claire US.

Australia
Marie Claire magazine is run by magazine and digital publisher Are Media, which acquired Pacific Magazines in 2020.

MarieClaire.com.au launched in 2016 after the digital rights were returned to Pacific Magazines from Yahoo and provides daily fashion, beauty, and lifestyle news. In March 2019, Marie Claire partnered with Salesforce.com to survey Australian women to analyse how attitudes have changed in the workplace.

Japan

The Japanese-language edition of Marie Claire, first published in 1982, was the first international edition published in a non-French speaking territory, as well as the first non-European edition, although it ceased publication after the 9 September issue went on sale in July 2009, due partly to the economic downturn.

Following a relaunch, since 2012, Marie Claire has been published in Japan under the name Marie Claire Style. This new format is offered as a free supplement in the Yomiuri Shimbun and distributed in wealthier suburbs of Japan. The magazine has now been made available at subway kiosks for a ¥200 cover price.

Korea
The first Korean edition of Marie Claire was published in March 1993 by MCK Publishing. Since 2012, the Marie Claire Film Festival has been held in Korea.

Rest of the world

Marie Claire has Arabic editions which are published in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria. In 2010, an Indonesian edition was launched.  The magazine was published in Mexico by Editorial Televisa since 1990 but ceased its publication due to the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2020 and is published again by Fashion Group in June 2021 and started publishing in Argentina under Editorial Perfil in March 2019.

International editions of Marie Claire have been discontinued in Colombia (published from 1990 to 2019), Estonia (published between 2007 and 2010), Germany (published from 1990 to 2003), India, Philippines (published between 2005 and 2009), Indonesia, and Poland.

See also
List of women's magazines
List of Marie Claire cover models

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David Klein (February 23, 1918 – December 9, 2005) was an American artist, best known for his influential work in advertising. Although he produced illustrations for Broadway theatrical productions, Hollywood films, the United States Army, and numerous corporate clients, Klein is best remembered for the iconic travel images he created for Howard Hughes and Trans World Airlines (TWA) during the 1950s and 1960s.

Early career

Klein was born in El Paso, Texas in 1918, but moved to California where he attended the Art Center School (later renamed Art Center College of Design) in Los Angeles. During the 1930s, he was a prominent member of the California Watercolor Society and displayed his work at various exhibits, most notably the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939–40.

During World War II, Klein served for the United States Army and produced a variety of illustrations on behalf of the United States Armed Forces. In 1953, the United States Air Force created the Air Force Art Collection, which features several of Klein's works. The Smithsonian Institution has periodically exhibited a number of these pieces at its museum in Washington D.C.

Following the war, Klein relocated to New York City where he became the preferred illustrator of the Broadway Theater District. He is credited with creating window cards and posters for many of the most popular Broadway productions of the late 1940s and early 1950s, including: Death of a Salesman; Brigadoon; The Most Happy Fella; The Music Man; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; and Alice In Wonderland.

Trans World Airlines

By the mid-1950s, Klein had established a reputation as one of America's preeminent commercial illustrators. However, his most lasting contribution to the art world came in the following decade as he applied his talent to the world of commercial travel. Between approximately 1955–1965, Klein designed numerous award-winning travel advertisement posters, many of which are now considered emblematic of the 1960s Jet Age. Klein produced the bulk of this work for Howard Hughes and Trans World Airlines (TWA), illustrating dozens of posters advertising travel throughout the United States and abroad.

Through his TWA work, Klein earned additional recognition, and, in 1957, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) added Klein's TWA Times Square poster to its permanent collection.

Revival and renewed interest

In the summer of 2001, internet travel agency Orbitz launched a six-poster advertising series featuring Klein's original images. The Orbitz campaign, along with a resurgence of interest in 1960s commercial art, increased the popularity and resale value of Klein's work.

In late 2008, Entertainment Weekly featured Klein's 1964 TWA World's Fair poster in an article discussing the popular AMC advertising drama, Mad Men.

On November 19, 2009, Swann Galleries sold Klein's aforementioned TWA Times Square poster at auction for $6,000.

The April 19, 2010 episode of the PBS television series, Antiques Roadshow, featured the same Times Square poster in its opening appraisal by poster expert Nicholas Lowry, describing the piece as "one of the greatest graphic depictions of Times Square."

On May 12, 2011, Christie's sold a first printing of Klein's TWA San Francisco poster for $5,700 at its South Kensington, London Vintage Poster Auction.

The January 10, 2012 online issues of The Atlantic featured an article titled, "How David Klein and TWA Branded America's Jet Age," which briefly chronicled Klein's role in creating the imagery that defined the era.

On April 18, 2012, Christie's sold a first printing of Klein's TWA New York Times Square poster for $9,944, representing the highest auction price ever recorded for a Klein poster.

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LGBT conservatism refers to a socio-political movement which embraces and promotes the ideology of conservatism within an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) context. Gay conservatives may also refer to lesbian or gay persons with socially and/or economically conservative political views. The number of openly LGBT advocates for conservative policies has only become increasingly apparent since the advent of the modern LGBT civil rights movement in the 1970s while many more LGBT conservatives remain closeted in countries where other socially conservative politicians have led the most organized opposition to LGBT rights efforts as well as the backlash from liberal and left-leaning LGBT social activists.

In 1975, the Conservative Group for Homosexual Equality (CGHE) was founded in the United Kingdom by Peter Walter Campbell. It was the first LGBT conservative organization ever.

There are those who are LGBT people who believe in economical (or other form of) conservativism and there are LGBT people who believe in Social Conservatism and they don't accept LGBT rights (like same sex marriage, civil unions, adoption).

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The Spyker Castle () and estate lie on the territory of the municipality of Glowe in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Spycker Castle is the oldest profane structure on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen.

Spycker was first recorded in 1318. It belonged at that time to the Stralsund patrician family, the von Külpens. In 1344 a daughter from the House of von Külpen married the Jasmunds. As a result, the Spyker branch of the von Jasmunds was founded which died without issue in 1648.

As a result of the Thirty Years' War, Pomerania, and hence Rügen, fell to Sweden under the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. As a reward for his wartime services, Queen Christine of Sweden gave the now empty seat of Spycker in 1649 to the Swedish field marshal and later governor-general of Swedish Pomerania, Carl Gustav Wrangel. The castle, originally furnished with a defensive moat, was remodelled after 1650 into its present appearance as a Renaissance schloss and painted in Swedish Falu red, which was atypical of Rügen. Fully sculptured stucco ceilings, unique in the Baltic region, date to around 1652.

After the death of Carl Gustav Wrangel in 1676, the property passed to his daughter Eleanora-Sophia, wife of the Lord of Putbus. Eleanora-Sophia died in 1687, and the property went to the Swedish family of Brahe, with whom her older sister was connected by marriage. After its occupation by the Napoleonic troops in 1806/07 Spycker temporarily became the seat of the French governor of Rügen. In 1815, Rügen, which had hitherto been Swedish, was handed over to Prussia. Magnus Fredrik Brahe sold Spycker in 1817 and it came into the possession of Prince Wilhelm Malte I of Putbus.

Until the land reform in the Soviet Occupation Zone in 1945, the estate remained in the possession of the von Putbus family. In subsequent years, the castle was left to decay. From the 1960s until 1989, the East German trade union federation, FDGB,  used the castle as a holiday home. Since 1990, the castle has been used as a hotel and, in 1995, it was restored in line with its historical appearance. The hotel has 32 guest rooms.

In March 2006, the castle and its 67,000-square-foot estate was purchased at a forced sale by the present owner. The buyer was the architect, Dominik von Boettinger, who, in addition to the hotel and restaurant operation of the castle, also wants to use it as a cultural centre with exhibitions, concerts, readings, and a sculpture park.

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Hot Shots! Part Deux is a 1993 American parody film directed by Jim Abrahams. It stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna (parodying his Colonel role in the Rambo franchise), Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Rowan Atkinson, and Jerry Haleva. Sheen, who portrays a spoof of John Rambo, went through a tough weight lifting/training program to gain the physique needed to play the role of an action hero. A sequel to Hot Shots! (1991) and the second installment in the Hot Shots franchise, the movie primarily spoofs the 1980s action films Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Rambo III (1988).

Abrahams and Pat Proft wrote the screenplay. Members of both men's families have roles as extras.

Plot
One night, an American special forces team invades Saddam Hussein's palace and a nearby prison camp to rescue captured soldiers from Operation Desert Storm and to assassinate Saddam, but they find the Iraqis waiting for them, and the entire rescue team is captured. This failed operation turns out to be the latest in a series of rescue attempts which were foiled by the Iraqis, and consequently the advisors of President Benson suspect a mole in their own ranks. Colonel Denton Walters suggests that they recruit war hero Topper Harley for the next mission, but Topper has retired from the United States Navy and become a reclusive Buddhist in a small Thai village. Walters and Michelle Huddleston, CIA, arrive and try to tempt him out of retirement in order to rescue the imprisoned soldiers and the previous rescue parties.

Topper initially refuses, but when yet another rescue mission (this one, in turn, led by Walters) fails, he agrees to lead a small group of soldiers into Iraq. He is joined by Harbinger, Williams, and Rabinowitz, the sole escapee of the prior rescue mission and whom Topper suspects to be the saboteur. They parachute into an Iraqi jungle close to the heavily guarded hostage camp and set off to meet their contact, who turns out to be Topper's ex-girlfriend, Ramada. Ramada guides them to a fishing boat that she prepared for their transportation. As they move towards the camp, she and Topper reminisce, and she explains that she was married before she met him. When she was informed that her husband, Dexter, was still alive and a prisoner in Iraq, she volunteered to participate in his rescue, but was instructed to keep this strictly confidential, forcing her to break up with Topper just as they were preparing to elope; this ultimately inspired Topper's decision to retire from the Navy.

Topper's team proceeds to the prison camp disguised as river fishermen, but a confrontation with an Iraqi patrol boat sets them back. When President Benson hears of the apparent demise of another mission, he decides to help the fight and joins additional forces in Iraq. However, Topper and his teammates have survived, and soon reach the Iraqi hostage camp. In the course of the operation, the alarm is raised and a gunfight ensues, during which Topper finds out that Harbinger is not the saboteur, but has merely become disillusioned in fighting, and manages to inspire him. After the prisoners are freed, Topper goes back to rescue Dexter, who is imprisoned in Saddam's palace.

While the squad evacuates the hostages, Topper enters Saddam's palace and encounters the dictator himself, who pulls out his machine pistol and commands Topper to surrender. Topper overpowers Saddam, and they engage in a sword fight. President Benson arrives and orders Topper to release Dexter while Benson and Saddam continue the duel. Benson defeats Saddam by spraying him with a fire extinguisher, upon which he and his dog freeze and crack into pieces, only to subsequently melt, combine and reform as Saddam with his dog's head, fur, nose and ears. In the meantime, Topper manages to locate Dexter, but is forced to carry him out on his shoulders as the Iraqis have tied Dexter's shoelaces together.

The squad heads back to the army helicopter, where Ramada, after an intense revelation involving unfounded jealousy, reveals and arrests Michelle as the saboteur who ruined the previous rescue attempts to assist the Iraqis. Dexter arrives with Topper and asks to take a picture of him and Ramada, but backs away too far and falls off a cliff. President Benson joins the escapees, and the evacuation team lifts off; Saddam is about to shoot down the chopper when Topper and Ramada get rid of extra weight in it by pushing a piano out the open door, which crushes him. Reunited, Topper and Ramada kiss as they fly off into the sunset.

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Reception

Reviews for Hot Shots! Part Deux were mixed. Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 59% based on reviews from 34 critics with the consensus stating, "Audiences who enjoyed the first Hot Shots! will probably get tickled by this second helping, although the barrage of laughs miss more than they hit this time around".

Roger Ebert noted that the film references such movies as Rambo III, Lady and the Tramp and Apocalypse Now, as well as the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Ebert concluded, "Movies like this are more or less impervious to the depredations of movie critics. Either you laugh, or you don't. I laughed."

The film became a financial success at the box office in 1993, grossing over $130 million worldwide.

Mockumentary promotion
As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodied Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, the 1991 documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now (which starred Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen). Martin and Charlie Sheen briefly encounter each other in a scene in the main movie, parodying Apocalypse Now and Platoon, where they pass each other in PBR vessels along a river, and shout across to each other, "I loved you in Wall Street!".

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The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908.  It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age.  It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris.  It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works.

Bennett was initially inspired to write the book by a chance encounter in a Parisian restaurant. In the introduction to the book, he says

and

Bennett also found inspiration in Maupassant's novel Une Vie.

Plot details
The book is broken up into four parts. The first section, "Mrs Baines" details the adolescence of both Sophia and Constance, and their life in their father's shop and house (a combined property). The father is ill and bedridden, and the main adult in their life is Mrs Baines, their mother.

By the end of the first book, Sophia (whose name reflects her sophistication, as opposed to the constant Constance) has eloped with a travelling salesman. Constance meanwhile marries Mr Povey, who works in the shop.

The second part, "Constance", details the life of Constance from that point forward up until the time she is reunited with her sister in old age. Her life, although outwardly prosaic, is nevertheless filled with personal incident, including the death of her husband, Mr Povey, and her concerns about the character and behaviour of her son.

The third part, "Sophia", carries forward the story of what happened to Sophia after her elopement. Abandoned by her husband in Paris, Sophia eventually becomes the owner of a successful pension.

The final part, "What Life Is", details how the two sisters are eventually reunited. Sophia returns to England and the house of her childhood, where Constance still lives.

Details and legacy
According to Tom Wolfe (Hooking Up, p. 148), the book was "wildly successful," with the author demurring with "I don't read my reviews, I measure them."

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Old Wives' Tale No. 87 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

A facsimile edition of the manuscript has been published, which is a testament to Bennett's calligraphic skills.  The original manuscript is in the Lilly Library, Indiana.

It was adapted into a 1921 film The Old Wives' Tale starring Fay Compton. It was made into a TV series by the BBC in 1988 as Sophia and Constance.

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Caspar Henderson is a British writer and journalist living in Oxford, England. He writes on the subjects of energy, science, environment and human rights.

Biography
Henderson was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

After working as a film script reader in Los Angeles, an aid worker in Uganda, and a research assistant and junior journalist working on human rights and the arming of Iraq by foreign powers and other matters, he became co-ordinator of the Green College Centre at Oxford University from 1992 to 1994, which focused on climate change and other environmental issues.  In 1995 and 1996 he worked on Costing the Earth, the flagship environment program on BBC Radio 4.

From 1996 to 2002 he wrote on topics such as energy, science, environment and human rights for The Financial Times, The Independent, New Scientist, The Ecologist, Environmental Finance, Green Futures and other newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media.  In 1999 he won the IUCN-Reuters award for best environmental writing in western and central Europe.  From 1996 to 2002 he was also a consultant, analyst and writer for government, commercial and non-profit organisations.

From 2002 to 2005 he was a senior editor at OpenDemocracy, a project for open global politics, where he commissioned, edited and contributed to analysis and debate on globalisation, security, the environment, and the politics of climate change. He has been a contributing editor and member of the editorial advisory board at chinadialogue, and a member of the advisory group for Artists' Project Earth.

His Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary  received the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors in 2009 and the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award in 2010 while it was a work in progress, and was published by Granta Books in October 2012 and by Chicago University Press in April 2013 (). In 2013 it was short-listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, for the Society of Biology book awards (general category), and for Best British Book category of the British Book Design & Production Awards. Editions have been published in Chinese, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

His book A New Map of Wonders was published in November 2017 by Granta and Chicago University Press, with editions from other publishers in Chinese, French, German, Polish and Spanish.

His next work, A Book of Noises, will be published in 2023.

He is researching  The Green Ways: Walks Into A Wild Future for publication in 2024.

References

 Green College Centre for Environmental Policy and Understanding
 Costing the Earth
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 A New Map of Wonders
 A Book of Noises
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1963 births
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Ban Pako, also known as Ban Pako Eco Resort, is an ecotourist resort lodge and ancient site along the Nam Ngum River, approximately 50 kilometres northeast of Vientiane, Laos. The area is a major archaeological significance with the remains on an ancient temple which has been excavated and revealed evidence of ancient metal working and textile making in the area and that the inhabitants had advanced skills in pottery. The resort has 22 rooms and the buildings are low and made traditionally with thatched roofs.

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