Larry Beckett (born April 4, 1947) is an American poet, songwriter, musician, and literary critic. As a songwriter and music arranger, Beckett collaborated with Tim Buckley in the late 1960s and early 1970s on several songs and albums, including the critically acclaimed "Song to the Siren" which has been recorded by many artists, from This Mortal Coil to Robert Plant. He has also collaborated with British group The Long Lost Band, and local Portland indie band Eyelids.

Beckett has had several books of poetry published including Songs and Sonnets, Beat Poetry, and a few book-length poems entitled Paul Bunyan, Wyatt Earp, and Amelia Earhart. American Cycle, a 47-year project, will be published in April 2021 by Running Wild Press.

Early life
Beckett was born in Glendale, California where his father was an English and speech teacher and his mother worked in the career counseling industry.  The Becketts moved around for the first decade of Larry Beckett's life, first to Ashland, Oregon, then back down south to Downey, California and eventually settling in nearby Anaheim when Larry was 10 years old. Larry Beckett attended Loara High School where he developed a passion for writing and poetry. A high school English teacher helped change his mind from thinking he wanted to be a mathematical physicist, to realizing he was a writer. Also while in high school Larry Beckett befriended classmates Tim Buckley and Jim Fielder, a relationship that would launch Beckett into music songwriting.

Poetry

Beckett read two of his 1966 poems, Found at the Scene of a Rendezvous that Failed, and Birth Day, on the Rhino Handmade reissue of the album Tim Buckley, to which he contributed liner notes, including the lyric "1, 2, 3." He recited Song to the Siren and an essay on its composition on the MVDvisual DVD Tim Buckley: My Fleeting House.

Beckett's lyrics and poems were published in Songs and Sonnets, 2002, by Rainy Day Women Press.

Beat Poetry, with twelve central San Francisco renaissance poems and Beckett's essays on them reconsidered as literature, was published in 2012. The Jack Kerouac chapter was reprinted in the 2019 anthology Kerouac on Record: A Literary Soundtrack, edited by Simon Warner and Jim Sampas.

For 47 years, Beckett worked on American Cycle, a series of long poems: U. S. Rivers: Highway 1, Old California, Paul Bunyan, John Henry (folklore), Chief Joseph, Wyatt Earp, P. T. Barnum, Amelia Earhart, Blue Ridge, U. S. Rivers: Route 66. The Cycle's themes are love, local mythology, history, justice, memory, accomplishment, time. Paul Bunyan, Wyatt Earp, and Amelia Earhart were published as individual volumes, Paul Bunyan with a recording of a performance. American Cycle is to be published in 2021.

Translations

Beckett's translations include The Way of Rain, a reconstruction of the lost order of the Tao Te Ching; Poems After Li Po,; Poems After Li Shang-yin; The Wisewoman's Song, from the Poetic Edda; The Logos, by Heraclitus; East-West Divan, by Johann Goethe; Heroic Sonnets, by José-Maria de Heredia.

Songwriting

With Tim Buckley
Beckett, Buckley, and Fielder frequented Hollywood together where they were introduced to the area's art and music scene. Buckley and Beckett started writing together in the mid-1960s as members of Southern California rock band The Bohemians, with Buckley on rhythm guitar, Brian Hartzel on lead guitar, Beckett on drums, and Jim Fielder (later of Blood, Sweat & Tears) on bass. They recorded a demo for Elektra Records, I Can't See You, but the company was only interested in Buckley as a solo artist, not the group.

Beckett contributed to Buckley's first two albums, Tim Buckley and Goodbye and Hello, both as co-songwriter and as a collaborator on arrangements. The lyrics Beckett wrote, such as "No Man Can Find the War", "Morning Glory" and "Song to the Siren", were characterized by their literary tone. The title track of Goodbye and Hello was originally constructed by Beckett as a piece in which two voices would sing different words and melodies.

Beckett and Buckley resumed their songwriting partnership for Starsailor in 1970, and Beckett was sporadically involved in Buckley's later work until Buckley's death in 1975.

Other collaborations

In 2014, Beckett began working with a group of musicians from Lancaster, England, The Long Lost Band.  He toured with them in the UK in 2015, and contributed poetry and song lyrics to a full-length studio album, One More Mile. The presence of Larry Beckett in the UK was covered in an extensive feature in Record Collector magazine  which also covered his relationship with Buckley.  Beckett continued his working relationship with Stuart Anthony of The Long Lost Band in 2018, releasing a full-length album Love & Trial.

An admirer of the 5-piece Portland indie band Eyelids, powered by singer-songwriters Chris Slusarenko, from Guided by Voices, and John Moen, of The Decemberists, Beckett began a collaboration with the band by opening his book of songs to them. Beckett also wrote new lyrics. The resulting album, The Accidental Falls, produced by Peter Buck, from R.E.M., made several Best of 2020 lists. The album includes the lost 1966 Beckett/Buckley song "Found at the Scene of a Rendezvous That Failed" with Beckett on piano and Buck on bass.

Personal life

Beckett has remained a poet and songwriter while working as a computer programmer and analyst, based in Portland, Oregon.
He is married to photographer Laura Fletcher and they have two children - Susannah Beckett (born 1990) and Liam Beckett (born 1999).

References

External links
American Cycle
 Reviews in Brief - Songs and Sonnets by Larry Beckett, 2002
 Reflections from Shadow Interview, 2004
 Tom Clark essay on Morning-Glory, 2010
 Tom Clark comment on Second Avenue, 2012
Beat Poetry Book Review by Lydia Pyne 2012
 A Careful Reading of a Literature's Underdog: Larry Beckett's Beat Poetry, 2013
Beat Poetry review by Ryder Miller 2013
20 Questions: Larry Beckett 2015
Walking on the Clouds - Interview 2015
Paul Bunyan Book Review 2015
 An American Epic Larry Beckett's Paul Bunyan 2017
 Flight Patterns: Q&A with 'Amelia Earhart' Author Larry Beckett 2018
 I Guess it Must Be Up to Me: Larry Beckett's Western Cries, and Whispers 2020

1947 births
Living people
Songwriters from California
Poets from California
Writers from Glendale, California
Musicians from Anaheim, California
Musicians from Glendale, California
American poets
American male writers

Larry Beckett


The Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution is a program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. The program analyzes the causes of ethnic, religious, and other intercommunal conflict, and seeks to identify practical ways to prevent and limit such conflict. It is concerned with the vulnerability of weak and failed states, with good governance, with improving leadership, with peace building and peace enforcement capabilities in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and with the role of truth commissions in conflict prevention and conflict resolution.

One of the more recent aims of the program, headed by its Director, Robert I. Rotberg, is to develop an Index of African Governance. The Index evaluates the governance of 48 African nations as a continuation of the program's ongoing efforts to assist Africans in strengthening governance and leadership throughout the continent.

The Program on Intrastate Conflict has published a number of books including Building a New Afghanistan; When States Fail; and Worst of the Worst: Dealing with Repressive and Rogue Nations.

The program supports and sponsors an international group of fellows whose research focuses on all aspects of conflict within states; ethnic/religious/linguistic conflict; peacekeeping and peace building; conflict prevention in general; conflict resolution, especially in divided states; all aspects of state failure and the prevention of state failure.

Dispute resolution
Harvard Kennedy School


The Danish Centre of Urban History (in Danish, Dansk Center for Byhistorie) is a research and communication center for the history of Danish cities. The centre was founded in 2001 by The Institute of History and Area Studies at Aarhus University and The Old Town, National Open Air Museum of Urban History and Culture.

Books
The Centre has two book series called "Danish Urban Studies" and "Writings on Danish Urban History". These series have books and articles about Danish urban history from medieval ages until today. The centre provides Danish urban history to a wider audience on the internet through a website called The Digital City Gate. This site gives access to databases and presentations of Danish urban history. It mainly focuses on the period from 1600 to 1900.

Other websites
Danish center of urban history

2001 establishments in Europe
2000s establishments in Denmark

Danish Centre of Urban History


Guy Montagné (born 6 March 1948) is a French actor, comedian and radio personality.

Life
He was the "grandson of a lyrical singer, in a family that had produced generations of musicians", and the son of Jean-Claude Beïret Montagné, a radio and electronics engineer who during the Vichy years went underground rather than submit to forced labor conscription; was imprisoned in Pamplona under the Franco regime; but eventually joined the Free French in Casablanca.

In 1972, he graduated from René Simon's acting school and quickly found employment in the films of Robert Manuel as well as Luis Buñuel, who cast him as the Young Monk in The Phantom of Liberty (1974).

Career
From 1976 to 1978, Guy Montagné portrayed in several episodes the role of Guyomard in the television series Commissaire Moulin. In 1978, Stéphane Collaro engaged him to perform imitations and write comic texts of his radio program on Europe 1. Having found the sitcom Tous les chemins mènent au rhum, the first political radiophonic sitcom, propelled Collaro and Montagné at the top of the radio audience. These audience successes then became televisual from 1979 to 1981 with Le Collaro show. The Collaro troop pass from Antenne 2 to TF1 and the show was retitled Co-Co Boy where Guy Montagné met American coco-girl Terry Shane. She then became his wife and his screenwriter for his one-man shows.

In 1985, he is the French voice of Donald Duck in the television program Le Disney Channel on FR3. For a decade from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, he knew his period of success, where he was very popular, with his neurotic, hot-tempered and talkative character. After that period, due to the departure of Stéphane Collaro for the channel La Cinq in 1987, the following period was darker and more difficult. In the 1990s, he began a career in cabaret where he played numerous shows, but the successful period of the 1980s was far. He asked from time to time his friend Patrick Sébastien to participate at his television shows, which gave him the opportunity to begin in the television field. But in the meantime, the audience began more attracted to other comics like Alex Métayer and Élie Kakou. His repertoire had no evolution and since the 1990s, his situation was similar to Jean Roucas.

Willing to start again his career in cinema, he made the mistake in 1992 participating at the film of the return of Les Charlots without Gérard Rinaldi entitled Le Retour des Charlots. The film was a commercial failure and considered as a flop, which compromised his film career with a lot of refuses to castings. Guy Montagné was in the 1990s one of the most important personalities of the radio program Les Grosses Têtes hosted by Philippe Bouvard and also participated at the occasional television programs of the same name.

In February 2014, he was victim of a facial nerve paralysis on the left side called Bell's palsy, due to the stress of the ticket theft of the show he had to play in the town of Muzillac in the department of Morbihan, and the way he was treated by the municipality after the theft, who refused to reimburse him. He then made a sketch of it. Treated at La Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, he was cured two months after the incident.

Filmography
 La Bonzesse (1974) .... Le barman du club échangiste (uncredited)
 Le Fantôme de la liberté (1974) .... Le jeune moine (the Young Monk)
 L'apprenti salaud (1977) .... L'employé de banque (uncredited)
 That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) .... (uncredited)
 Elle voit des nains partout ! (1982) .... Le Temps
 Qu'est-ce qui fait craquer les filles ? (1982) .... Cervoise, the hotel owner
 American Dreamer (1984) .... a taxi driver
 Profs (1985) .... René Nogret, the math teacher
 Paulette, la pauvre petite milliardaire (1986) .... the farmer
 Les Oreilles entre les dents (1987) .... Gayat
 The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck (1991) .... Un gendarme (uncredited)
 Le Retour des Charlots (1992) .... Adjudant Caussade
 Dieu, l'amant de ma mère et le fils du charcutier (1995) .... Jean Richain
 Le Temps d'un regard (2007) .... Gaston (final film role)

Radio programs
 1978–81 : participation at the program of Stéphane Collaro À vos souhaits on Europe 1.
 1981–82 : presenter with Jacques Pessis of the program Show les cœurs on RMC.
 1986–87 : presenter at the daily rubric Le journal à Montagné on Radio Tour Eiffel.
 1988–2000 : participant at the program Les Grosses Têtes of Philippe Bouvard on RTL.

References

External links

Official website

1948 births
Living people
French male film actors
French male television actors
French male stage actors
French humorists
French radio presenters
Male actors from Paris
French impressionists (entertainers)

Guy Montagné


Thai Nation Party, or Chart Thai Party (, ) was a conservative political party in Thailand. It was dissolved by the Constitutional Court of Thailand on December 2, 2008, along with the People's Power Party and the Neutral Democratic Party, for having violated electoral laws in the 2007 Thai general election. Thereafter, most MPs founded the Chartthaipattana Party (Thai Nation Development Party), which became the Thai Nation Party's successor.

Foundation and first electoral successes

The Thai Nation Party was founded in 1974 by Chatichai Choonhavan, son of Field Marshal Phin Choonhavan, and his in-laws Pramarn Adireksarn and Siri Siriyothin, who were at the time major-generals like him. The three belonged to the "Rajakru clan", a military, economic and political interest group established by Field Marshal Phin. The party represented the rightist and pro-military wing of Thai politics during the relatively liberal and democratic years from 1973 to 1976. During the campaign for the election in April 1976, the party called for "the Right to kill the Left", and party chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Pramarn declared in a cabinet meeting on October 6, 1976 that it was the right moment to destroy the student movement, which was eventually executed in the Thammasat University massacre.

In the subsequent elections 1976, 1979, 1983 and 1986, the party consistently was the second-strongest party. During the 1980s, the party deideologized itself. It was a "government party" that tried to be part of the ruling coalition at any rate. Only between 1983 and 1986 it was the main parliamentary opposition. According to then-secretary general Banharn Silpa-archa, "for a politician, being in opposition is like starving yourself to death."

Chatichai and Banharn governments
In the general election of 1988, the Thai Nation Party won the most votes, resulting in its leader Chatichai Choonhavan becoming the prime minister. Chatichai was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Thailand in over a decade. Chatichai's government became known as the "buffet cabinet" for its members scrambling overtly over the distribution of public funds. The Thai Nation Party advocated a reinforcement of the role of Parliament, in which many businessmen from the province were represented who had gained wealth and growing political ambitions, vis-à-vis the traditionally powerful, but not democratically legitimised administration. Chatichai's government was deposed by a military coup d'état in 1991. The putschists accused the Prime Minister and several other members of the cabinet of having acquired "unusual wealth".

After the March 1992 general election, the Thai Nation Party — now led by Air Chief Marshal Somboon Rahong — joined a military-sponsored coalition led by the Justice Unity Party (Samakkhi Tham), under coup leader General Suchinda Kraprayoon. During the street protests and bloody crackdown of Black May 1992, it was therefore considered one of the "devil parties". One of the party's factions rejected this alliance and left the party to found the National Development Party (Chart Pattana). It was led by former Thai Nation leader and Prime Minister Chatichai.

After return to democracy in 1992, the Thai Nation Party became the main opposition force against the Democrat-led government of Chuan Leekpai. In a 1993 representative survey, 50% of the respondents identified the Thai Nation Party as the most corrupt of the country. In 1994 Banharn Silpa-archa, a billionaire construction building contractor and "godfather of Suphanburi", became the party's chairman. The party won the 1995 elections that were heavily tainted with vote-buying. Banharn became Prime Minister, but his government coalition broke as early as in November 1996. After new elections, Chart Thai was in opposition against the short-lived government of Chavalit Yongchaiyudh. In November 1997, it joined a seven-party coalition supporting Democrat Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai.

During the Thaksin premiership

In the 2001 elections, the Thai Nation Party won 41 out of 500 seats and formed a coalition government with the largest party, the populist Thai Rak Thai, formerly led and co-founded by tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra.  The party lost some seats in the 2005 elections, despite the support of the popular politician and former "massage parlour" owner Chuwit Kamolvisit. The party won 11.4% of the popular vote and 27 out of 500 seats. Due to policy conflicts, the Chart Thai Party subsequently defected from the coalition with the Thai Rak Thai party. The party, along with the 2 other largest opposition parties, boycotted the elections of April 2006 hoping to make it impossible for a new Thai Rak Thai-led government to form.

After the 2006 coup
The Thai Nation Party participated in the 2007 general election and won 8.87% of the vote (37 of 480 seats), coming in third after the People Power Party (led by former Thai Rak Thai members) and the Democrats. In January 2008, the Thai Nation Party joined the PPP and five others in the six-party coalition government.

Along with the coalition members People Power Party and Matchima, the Thai Nation Party was dissolved by the Constitutional Court on December 2, 2008, with party executives banned from Thai politics for five years, amid charges of electoral fraud during the 2007 election. The non-executive MPs of the parties were given 60 days to defect to new or existing parties.  MPs from the Chart Thai and Matchima parties announced that they would stick with MPs from the PPP party in forming a new government, but failed to do so due to the party dissolution. Thereafter, most former Chart Thai MPs and members convened to found the Chartthaipattana Party (Thai Nation Development Party), which has been part of the coalition government since 2008.

Party leader
 General Pramarn Adireksarn (1974-1986)
 General Chatichai Choonhavan (1986-1991)
 Air Chief Marshal Somboon Rahong (1991-1992)
 General Pramarn Adireksarn (1992-1994)
 Banharn Silpa-archa (1994-2008)

References

External links
Official web site

Banned political parties in Thailand
Conservative parties in Thailand
Defunct political parties in Thailand
Far-right politics in Thailand
Political parties established in 1974
Political parties disestablished in 2008
1974 establishments in Thailand

Thai Nation Party


The Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Sliema, Malta was founded in 1877, and has been a parish church since 1918.

History
The church was built on the initiative of Fr. Paul Vella, between 1877–1881, and six months after its completion in November 1881 it was handed over to the Maltese Province of the Friars Minor. The provincial superior at the time was Fr. Anton M. Cesal, who appointed Fr. Aegidius Portelli as its rector.

In 1930 the church was enlarged to handle the increased population. It was built in a Roman-Ionic style, with gilded sculptures and decorative paintings. The dome is decorated with paintings of different Franciscan saints, and the ceiling depicts joyful episodes from the life of the Virgin Mary. The altar has five paintings by the Maltese artist Giuseppe Calì, one of which is his masterpiece representing St Gerome half naked in the grotto in Bethlehem. The statue of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was made in 1879 by the Maltese artist Girolamo Darmanin and brought into the church on 26 June 1881, the day the church was consecrated and opened for worship.

During World War II, the church was heavily damaged and the Franciscan friary was completely destroyed. A Franciscan Father and 22 others died buried under the rubble. Through the years, Devotion to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart spread rapidly throughout Malta. A perpetual novena is held every Wednesday in honour of the Virgin Mary. The feast day is celebrated on the first Sunday of July, with liturgical services, a procession of the statue around the decorated streets of the parish, outdoor festivities and fireworks.

See also

Culture of Malta
History of Malta
List of Churches in Malta
Religion in Malta

References

 Information taken from a publication in Maltese about the Sanctuary "Is-Sacro Cuor", 1968; and from a researched and documented history of the Sanctuary published in Maltese, "Il-Parrocca Madonna tas-Sacro Cuor, Tas-Sliema - Taghrif Storiku", 1993.

External links
 National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands

Religious organizations established in 1877
Sliema
National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1881
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Malta
1877 establishments in the British Empire

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Parish Church


The Presidential Communications Group, or simply the Communications Group, is the collective name for the offices within the Office of the President of the Philippines and refers to the position of the Secretary of Presidential Communications Office formerly known as Office of the Press Secretary and the Secretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). The office of the presidential spokesperson was previously under the Communications Group.

The Communications Group is primarily responsible for planning, programming, and coordinating the activities that will most effectively collect information about what is happening in the Executive branch of the government, and getting this information to the media. The Group's other role is to help Filipinos understand government policies and programs, and to shore up support for them.

Presidential Spokesperson

The Presidential Spokesperson spoke on behalf of the President about matters of public interest. Considering the restricted level of access that the media has to the Chief Executive, the Spokesperson was expected to be the primary source of presidential directives in the absence of the President of the Philippines.

The Presidential Spokesperson was not subject to confirmation by the Commission on Appointments, and did not have any specific item or template in government.

The position was last occupied by the Secretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office Martin Andanar in an acting capacity due to the resignation of Harry Roque, while the Assistant to the Presidential Spokesperson was Atty. Kris Roman of the Duterte administration. During the administration of President Bongbong Marcos, the office was abolished and all its personnel, equipment and functions were transferred to the office of the Press Secretary then headed by Trixie Cruz-Angeles.

On December 2022, Daphne Oseña-Paez was appointed as the Presidential Communications Office Press Briefer, a position created only for briefings for the Malacañang Press Corps in the New Executive Building. All press conferences that includes President Bongbong Marcos is personally moderated by the PCO Secretary.

Presidential Communications Office

The Presidential Communications Office (PCO), is in charge of disseminating the government's message to private media entities. It exercises supervision and control over state-owned media entities to disseminate the official messages properly and effectively in accordance with the communications plan. It is responsible for the accreditation and authentication of the credentials of foreign media correspondents in line with its primary task to cultivate relations and assist private media entities. It is formerly known as the Office of the Press Secretary (OPS) from April 28, 1986 to August 9, 2010 and June 30 to December 29, 2022 from the presidencies of Corazon Aquino to the first two months of her son Benigno Aquino III and the first six months of Bongbong Marcos, and Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) from August 9, 2010 to June 30, 2022 during the rest of the administration of Benigno Aquino III and whole of Rodrigo Duterte's presidency.

The PCO Secretary holds a cabinet rank. He/she is assisted by an undersecretary for administration, finance and procurement; an undersecretary for operations, plans, and policies; an undersecretary for legal affairs; an undersecretary for media accreditation and relations; one undersecretary each for digital media, print media, and broadcast media services; an undersecretary for special concerns; an assistant secretary; and an electronic data processing division chief.

The PCO is composed of the following units and agencies:

 APO Production Unit
 Bureau of Communications Services
 Freedom of Information-Program Management Office
 Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
 National Printing Office
 People's Television Network
 Philippine Information Agency
 Philippines News Agency - News and Information Bureau
 Presidential Broadcast Service - Bureau of Broadcast Services (Radyo Pilipinas)
 Presidential Broadcast Staff - Radio Television Malacañang

Powers and Functions
Pursuant to Section 3 of the Executive Order No. 2, s. 2022, the Office of the Press Secretary shall perform the following functions:
Pronounce on behalf of the President the matters pertaining to his/her actions, policies, programs, official activities, and accomplishments.
Develop and implement necessary guidelines and mechanisms pertaining to the delivery and dissemination of information on policies, programs, official activities, and achievements of the President and the Executive Branch.
Coordinate the crafting, formulation, development, and enhancement of the messaging system under the Office of the President and the Executive Branch.
Supervise and Coordinate with the agencies and Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCC)'s attached to the Office of the Press Secretary for purposes of further strengthening the system of information delivery to the public.
Established and Maintain rapport with private media and other similar entities and stakeholders; and
Perform such other functions as the Office of the President may assign from time to time.

Organization
The Office of the Press Secretary shall be organized as follows pursuant to Section 2 of the Executive Order No. 2, s. 2022:

(a) Office of the Secretary. The Office of the Secretary shall have an Assistant Secretary with support staff not more than twenty (20) personnel to be designated by the Press Secretary and approved by the Executive Secretary in the exigency of the service and in accordance with the civil service law and rules.

(b) Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries. In addition of the foregoing, there shall be Undersecretaries for the following areas. Each of which shall have Assistant Secretaries and Support Staff:

(I) Operations, Plans and Policies

(II) Administration, Finance and Procurement

(III) Legal Affairs

(IV) Media Accreditation and Relations

(V) Digital Media Services

(VI) Print Media Services and related Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCC)'s and attached agencies

(VII) Broadcast Media Services and related Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCC)'s and attached agencies; and

(VIII) Special Concerns

Key Officials
List of Key Officials as of June 2023:

Office of the Secretary
Atty. Cheloy Velicaria-Garafil - Secretary
Maria Ruperta P. Aguilar - Head Executive Assistant
Francisco P. Rodriguez III - Assistant Secretary
Nelson R. De Guzman - Director II
Robertson F. Ramirez - Director I
Daphne Oseña-Paez, Malacañang Press Briefer

Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries:
Honey Rose V. Mercado - Undersecretary for Traditional Media and External Affairs
Cherbett Karen L. Maralit - Undersecretary for Administration, Operations and Finance
Emerald Anne R. Ridao - Undersecretary for Digital Media Services
Gerald R. Baria - Undersecretary for Content Production
Franz Gerard R. Imperial - Undersecretary for Broadcast Production
Atty. Eugene Henry C. Rodriguez - Assistant Secretary for Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations
Patricia R. Magistrado - Assistant Secretary for External Affairs
Dale Q. Vera - Assistant Secretary for Television
Atty. Jefferson G. Ang - Assistant Secretary for Finance
Atty. Katrina Grace C. Ongoco - Assistant Secretary for Administration
Atty. Evangeline Q. De Leon - Assistant Secretary for Operations
Karen C. Alvarez - Assistant Secretary for Broadcast Production
Rowena H. Otida - Assistant Secretary for Media Accreditation and Relations
Patricia Kayle S. Martin - Assistant Secretary for Digital Media & Communications
Mardielyn D. Perez - Assistant Secretary for Digital Asset Management

Bureau and Service Directors:
Rowena S. Quiogue - Director III, Director for Administration
Sheryll Anne M. Lizarondo - Director III, Director for Print
Rufino Gerard G. Moreno III - Director III, Director for Finance
Maria Waywaya B. Macalma - Director III, Director for Television
Anna Cristina S. Villonco - Director III, Director for Broadcast Production
Jonathan Ian SJ Gonzales - Director III, Director for Content Production
Jonathan S. Jalbuna - Director II, Director for Content Production
Dianlyn A. Magallon - Director I, Director for Media Accreditation and Relations

Division Chiefs:
Ma. Alma A. Francisco - Budget Division
Ma. Teresa L. Ubas - Accounting Division
Gerald M. Bautista - General Services Division
Rochelle I. Rubenecia - Human Resource Development Division
Mary Willen DJ Renomeron - Procurement Division
Atty. Dictador V. Untayao - Legal Division
Krizia Casey P. Avejar - Communications and Capacity Development Division
Ma. Danica Andeo Orcullo - Policy, Planning, and Support Division
Eden Darlene A. Mendoza - Compliance Monitoring Division
Jose L. Ogrimen Jr. - Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Division

Attached Agency, Bureau and Office Heads:
Rizal Giovanni P. Aportadera, Jr. - Director IV, Presidential Broadcast Service - Bureau of Broadcast Services (BBS)
Renato P. Acosta - Director IV, National Printing Office (NPO)
Luis A. Morente - Director IV, News and Information Bureau (NIB)
Analisa V. Puod - General Manager, People's Television Network, Inc. (PTV 4)
Jose C. Policarpio, Jr. -  President and CEO, Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC 13)
Jaime H. Aldaba - Executive Vice President and General Manager, APO Production Unit, Inc.
Jose A. Torres, Jr. - Director General, Philippine Information Agency (PIA)
Francisco P. Rodriguez III - Officer in Charge, Bureau of Communications Services
Franz Gerard R. Imperial - Officer in Charge, Presidential Broadcast Staff-Radio Television Malacañang (PBS-RTVM)

Units under the Presidential Communications Office
With the reorganization of the PCOO under President Bongbong Marcos, most units previously under the agency were transferred to the Presidential Communications Office.

Presidential News Desk
The Presidential News Desk (PND) functions as the newsroom of Malacañang Palace. It gathers and disseminates information, such as press and photograph releases, and official statements from the Palace, on a daily basis.

The PND operates from Sundays to Saturdays, 5:00 AM to 7:00 PM.  It is headed by a chief editor and is composed of a managing editor, deskmen, and reporters. Other units, which support the PND are Electronic Data Processing, Transcription and Monitoring, and Photographs.

Francisco Tatad conceived the PND. He was the Press Secretary to President Ferdinand Marcos. It was then called the Central Desk and was located in the Mabini Building. During the administration of President Corazon C. Aquino, Press Secretary Benigno Teodoro relegated the Central Desk, which became the News and Reportorial Section, as a section of the Presidential Press Staff. Under the Ramos administration, Press Secretary Rodolfo Reyes strengthened presidential coverage and set up the PND.

Philippine Information Agency

The Philippine Information Agency (PIA), established by Executive Order No. 100, is the main development communication arm of the government.

The PIA directly serves the Presidency and the executive branch of the national, regional and provincial levels through its 16 regional offices and 71 provincial information centers. Its core services include: information gathering/research, production and dissemination, and institutional development and capacity-building focusing on alliance-building, networking, communication-related training, consultancy and technical assistance. The PIA is also the advertising arm of the government.

It is headed by a director general with a rank of undersecretary and four deputy director generals, four assistant director generals, staff directors in the central office, regional directors in the regional offices, and more than 500 permanent and contractual employees. It works closely with other government agencies, in particular the National Printing Office in the production of information materials.

Its tagline is "Empowering Communities". The PIA works with community stakeholders, including local government units, line agencies, private entities, schools, colleges and universities, civil society organizations, and other groups in ensuring proper dissemination of information at the grassroots level. The agency advocates responsible sharing of information and responsible use of social media. Its current management and personnel work with the mantra and belief that "a well-informed Filipino is an empowered Filipino".

Currently, the PIA is under the direct supervision of the Office of the President and absorbed offices previously under the PCOO, namely the Bureau of Communications Services, the Freedom of Information – Project Management Office, and the Good Governance Office.

Bureau of Communications Services
The Bureau of Communications Services was an attached agency of the PCOO that is tasked to provide materials and services related to various functions of the Presidency, PCOO and the general public. It also owns Balita Central, a tabloid newspaper which is published bi-monthly through its official website and at selected LRT Line 2 stations. It also produces information materials for state events such as the anniversary of the People Power Revolution, Araw ng Kalayaan celebrations, and others.

It is currently absorbed by the Philippine Information Agency as ordered by Bongbong Marcos's Executive Order No. 2 s. 2022.

Presidential Broadcast Staff - Radio Television Malacañang

Created by President Corazon C. Aquino under Executive Order No. 297 on July 25, 1987, the Presidential Broadcast Staff - Radio Television Malacañang is tasked to provide the necessary media services, video and audio, to the incumbent President, to document all official engagements, and to make available to the public accurate and relevant information on the activities, programs and pronouncements of the national leadership.

The agency is involved in television coverage and documentation, news and public affairs syndication of all the activities of the President, either live or delayed telecast through government or private collaborating networks.

Since February 13, 2023, the agency is under the control and supervision of the PCO in accordance with Bongbong Marcos' Executive Order No. 16 s. 2023. The agency was under the Presidential Management Staff.

Media networks
There are two government-run television networks, namely the People's Television Network (PTV-4), and the Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC-13). The Presidential Broadcast Service-Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS) constitutes the government radio network. PCO still holds 20% minority stake in the Radio Philippines Network (RPN-9).

IBC-13 and RPN-9 were sequestered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government after the fall of the Marcos dictatorship. However, plans are being made to privatize IBC-13 and RPN-9 within two years to raise money. According to the 2009 report of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), IBC-13 is valued at PHP 3.074 billion while RPN-9 is valued at PHP 1.3 billion.

National Printing Office

The National Printing Office (NPO) was established by Executive Order No. 285 on July 25, 1987.  Executive Order No. 285 abolished the General Services Administration and transferred its functions to other agencies. Its Government Printing Offices were merged with the printing units of the PIA. The NPO is mandated by Executive Order No. 285 to print forms, official ballots, public documents, and public information materials.

News and Information Bureau
The News and Information Bureau's main aim is to provide services relating to the development and formulation of a domestic and foreign information program for the Government in general, and the Presidency in particular, including the development of strategies for the dissemination of information on specific government programs. It is composed of the following divisions:
Finance and Administrative Division
Presidential Press Staff
Media Accreditation and Relations Division/International Press Center
Philippine News Agency

OP Web Development Office
The OP Web Development Office, commonly referred to as the President's New Media Team, is responsible for the establishment and management of the President's Official Website and Official Presence on social networking channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. It is also partly responsible for the feedback mechanism of the President wherein it receives the comments, concerns and suggestions through the Contact Us section of the President's website. It is also responsible for the President's Social Media engagement and in maximizing the use of new technologies to further the President's agenda, policies and programs.

Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office

The Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) ensures that all aspects of communications are covered, to ensure that the administration's message has been delivered successfully. This includes market research and polling. It devises the communications strategy to promote the President's agenda throughout all media, and among the many people with whom the administration interacts. This can include, but is not limited to, the State of the Nation address, televised press conferences, statements to the press, and radio addresses. This office also works closely with cabinet-level departments and other executive agencies, in order to create a coherent strategy through which the president's message can be disseminated.

During the administration of former president Benigno Aquino III, the PCDSPO head held a cabinet rank. The head was supported by a deputy of undersecretary rank, a chief of staff, an assistant secretary for messaging, and an electronic data processing division chief. After Rodrigo Duterte became the President in 2016, the PCDSPO was merged with the PCOO, thus effectively abolishing the PCDSPO. The PCOO was renamed as the Presidential Communications Office before it was reverted to Presidential Communications Operations Office.

Prior to June 30, 2016, the PCDSPO was composed of the following units and agencies, all of which were under the PCOO:
 Presidential Message Staff
 The OP Correspondence Office (previously placed under the Office of the Communications Director from the Presidential Management Staff per E.O. No. 348, August 11, 2004
 Media Research and Development Staff created by E.O. No. 297, July 25, 1987, from the Office of the Press Secretary
 The Presidential Museum and Library
 The Official Gazette
 The Speech Writers Group (previously placed under the Office of the Communications Director from the Presidential Management Staff per E.O. No. 348, August 11, 2004

Controversies
During the Duterte administration, the PCOO has been criticized for various errors and lapses committed by the office, including what one lawmaker called a "revisionist attempt to whitewash the dark years of martial law". The Secretary of the PCOO assured Congress that it will not repeat the office's mistakes.

In March 2018, the News and Information Bureau released a transcript to reporters of an interview erroneously attributed to the President of the Philippines which was in fact an interview with an impersonator.

In their 2020 annual report, the Commission on Audit flagged the PCOO for the mass hiring of employees under contract service worth PH₱70.6 million. Speculation cited that they're hiring them as "online trolls" to attack critics of the government, in which the state media agency denied the claim.

Notes

References

External links
 About the PCOO
 PCOO Directory
 Executive Order No. 4 Creating the Communications Group
 Briefer on Executive Order No. 4

Government agencies established in 2010
2010 establishments in the Philippines
Mass media companies established in 2010
Information ministries
Office of the President of the Philippines
Public relations in the Philippines

Presidential Communications Group


The Old Mill Museum, also known as the Alfred Wilkerson Grist Mill, is a historic structure located along the River Raisin at 242 Toledo Street in Dundee, Michigan.  It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on August 3, 1979.  It was later listed as a contributing property within the Dundee Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 1990.

Referred to as the oldest and most notable landmark in Dundee, it is the Dundee Historic District's only inclusion (along with the surrounding park) on the opposite of the river from the rest of the downtown area.  While the facility itself was not built until the 1849, the dam upon which it is located was first constructed in 1827 and rebuilt in 1846.  It is the largest of several dams located along the River Raisin — the majority of which are in nearby Monroe.

The facility first served as a gristmill for the growing milling industry in Dundee.  Later, the building was converted to produce hydroelectricity as the village's only source of power around 1910.  As the oldest surviving structure in Dundee, it was almost demolished in 1934 after years of disuse.  Automotive magnate Henry Ford purchased the building and restored it at great cost as part of his village industries program.  His only addition to the original three-story structure was the addition of a single-story structure on the side of the building.  He converted the mill into a small factory to produce welding tips for his industry, and he was known to make many visits to Dundee.  His interest in Dundee was an experiment to see if small towns could be used for his massive, global industry.  After Ford's death in 1947, support for this small factory diminished, and it was sold in 1954 to the Wolverine Manufacturing Company, where the building was converted once more to produce paper products.  The Wolverine Manufacturing Company used the facility until 1970, when they sold it to the village of Dundee for $1.  The village revamped the structure and its surrounding 13.8 acres (5.6 ha) for public use as a museum and park.  Although the property is praised for its historical nature, it is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places in its own right.

The museum offers ghosts tours and paranormal investigations. The Old Mill Museum is also the location of the annual Old Mill ParaFest.

References

External links
 Old Mill Museum - official site

Industry museums in Michigan
Museums in Monroe County, Michigan
Industrial buildings completed in 1849
Michigan State Historic Sites in Monroe County
Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan
Historic district contributing properties in Michigan
Ford village industries
Victorian architecture in Michigan
History museums in Michigan
Grinding mills in Michigan
Mill museums in Michigan
1849 establishments in Michigan
National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, Michigan

Old Mill Museum (Dundee, Michigan)


Hans Thomas Eriksson (born 29 November 1958), known by his stage name Orup, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician who enjoyed major success in his native country and Scandinavia in the late 1980s and early 1990s with songs like "Jag blir hellre jagad av vargar", "Regn hos mej", "M.B.", "Då står pojkarna på rad", "Magaluf", and "Stockholm". Orup has also written several songs for other performers. He wrote the winning song of Melodifestivalen 2004, "Det gör ont" performed by Lena Philipsson.  He was one of the judges on X Factor in 2012. Orup also took part in season 5 of the Swedish TV-show Så mycket bättre, broadcast on TV4.

Early life

Orup was born Hans Thomas Eriksson in Huddinge, Sweden, on 29 November 1958, as the second child of Ann-Marie and Hasse Eriksson; Orup's sister is six years his senior. Eriksson's household was a lower middle class one.

His parents divorced when he was seven. Orup's father died on 24 July 1978.

Eriksson received his first guitar and a tape recorder for his eighth birthday. Orup was introduced to the Beatles by his sister. Eriksson was into sports, playing ice-hockey for Huddinge IK, as well as football and handball, until his early teens when he formed his first band, a Black Sabbath-inspired heavy metal band with himself as the lead singer.

After Orup left school, he worked several temporary jobs as a taxi driver, postman and waiter.

Career

In 1973, when he was 14, Orup formed Magnum Bonum, a band inspired by American prog rockers Styx. At age 16 he wrote his first song, entitled "I Can't Get You Out Of My Mind", for his band MBI, an acronym for, and joint venture of, the two bands Magnum Bonum and Intermezzo.

In the late 1970s Orup grew fond of Anglo-American punk rock, whose short and intense songs appealed to him and would later become his ethos. He was into British bands the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and also American groups like MC5, the Stooges and the New York Dolls. Although he enjoyed listening to punk, it didn't show in his own songwriting. At this time he also discovered 1960s soul music and Motown, styles also known for having short and intense songs. Unlike punk, this type of music influenced him heavily, which was evident in his own music from the late 1980s onwards.

After Orup left Magnum Bonum, the band reached number one in the Swedish charts in 1978 with "Skateboard", a Swedish-language version of "LA Run" (an American-sounding single by a British group, the Carvells, that barely grazed the UK singles charts, peaking at 31 in 1977). Orup, in turn, had a first minor hit with "Kom och ta mej" (Come and take me), released by his band Intermezzo in 1979. In the 1980s, he formed and fronted the Talking Heads and Devo inspired new wave group Ubangi (1982–1985), and subsequently Thereisnoorchestra (1986–1987). Both bands were co-fronted by Cia Soro.

In 1986 a major-label A&R manager, Leif Käck, came across a demo of Orup's song "Vill du inte ha mina kyssar?" (Don't you want my kisses?) and recorded it with Björn Skifs. Käck also signed Orup to Warners as a solo artist. In the summer of 1987 Orup's debut single "Är du redo?" (Are you ready?), a go-go ditty, was released, reaching number 19 in the charts. In the summer of 1987 Orup was the opening act for the established acts Roxette, Eva Dahlgren and Ratata on the Rock runt riket tour.

His big breakthrough came that autumn with the follow-up single "Jag blir hellre jagad av vargar" (I'd rather be chased by wolves), which reached number 4. Orup's eponymous debut album, released in 1988, reached number one, as did the follow up album 2 in 1989. Both albums were produced by Anders Glenmark and contained a string of hit singles.

In 1989 Orup came close second in Melodifestivalen, performing "Upp över min öron" (Up over my ears) as a duet with Anders Glenmark.

Orup's third album, Orupean Songs, released in 1991 was his first (and to date only) album with lyrics in English. It failed to garner any interest in the Anglophone world, but sold a reasonable 80 000 copies in Sweden, which was nowhere near the success of his first two albums; his previous album had sold a staggering 250 000 copies.

Orup had two big hits in 1992 with "Stockholm", a heavily Pet Shop Boys-influenced dance track about his hometown, and "Magaluf" about the Mallorca holiday resort, both lifted from the album Stockholm och andra ställen (Stockholm and other places).

The summer of 1994 is a fond memory for Swedish sports fans, since Sweden came third in the football World Cup. The soundtrack to this event for many Swedes was the official anthem for the national team for the campaign, "När vi gräver guld i USA" (When we dig for gold in the USA). Originally the assignment went to Niklas Strömstedt alone, but his friends Anders Glenmark and the football crazy Orup convinced him to let them co-write the song with him. The three formed a supergroup, GES, an acronym of the trio's last names, and also released an album that year.

Orup released three more albums – Orup 5 (1993), Teddy (1998) and Elva hjärtan (2000). Orup has reported how difficult it was to get airplay for his music during this period. In 2003 GES released a second album, Den andra skivan (The second album).

In 2004 Orup wrote and produced "Det gör ont" (It hurts) for Lena Philipsson, which won Melodifestivalen that year and came fifth place in the Eurovision Song Contest. Orup wrote all the songs for Philipsson's 2004 album Det gör ont en stund på natten men inget på dan (It hurts a while at night but nothing daytime) and wrote or co-wrote all the songs for her follow up album Jag ångrar ingenting (I regret nothing) in 2005, and their 2008 duet album Dubbel (Double).

In 2006 and 2010 Orup released solo albums. In 2014 he created the successful show Viva la pop, performing hits from his career, interspersed with humorous monologs, for a dinner audience. In Sweden this format is called krogshow (roughly: restaurant show).

In 2017 GES played seven nights at Borgholm Castle in Öland, and in 2018 they went on a summer tour of Sweden, which became the subject of a TV4 documentary aired in 2019. For his 60th birthday, in 2018, he performed 35 songs  for three hours and fifteen minutes at Globe Arena, Stockholm.

Personal life

Eriksson married the television presenter Sofia Eklöf in 1989. The marriage lasted seven years, and they had a son together, Kid (born 1991), a musician in the hip hop group Tjuvjakt. Orup is married to patternmaker Pernilla Pettersson. The couple have four children: daughter Charlie (born 2001) and sons Isidor (born 2001), Seth (born 2011) and Ozzy (born 2014).

They live in the Mariatorget district of Södermalm in Stockholm.

Health

Orup suffers from stuttering.

Discography

Solo
 Orup (1988)
 Orup 2 (1989)
 Orupeansongs (1991)
 Stockholm & andra ställen (1992)
 Orup 5 - Jag vände mig om men det var ingen där (1993)
 Teddy (1998)
 Elva hjärtan (2000)
 Faktiskt (2006)
 Dubbel (2008)
 Född i november (2010)

Glenmark Eriksson Strömstedt
 Glenmark, Eriksson, Strömstedt (1995)
 Den andra skivan (2003)

Filmography

Television

Citations

External links

1958 births
Living people
20th-century Swedish guitarists
20th-century Swedish composers
20th-century Swedish singers
21st-century Swedish guitarists
21st-century Swedish composers
21st-century Swedish singers
Glenmark Eriksson Strömstedt members
Musicians from Huddinge
Roxy Recordings artists
Singers from Huddinge
Swedish male guitarists
Swedish male singers
Swedish male singer-songwriters
Swedish singer-songwriters
Swedish multi-instrumentalists
Swedish pop guitarists
Swedish pop rock singers
Swedish pop singers
Swedish rock guitarists
Swedish rock singers
Melodifestivalen contestants of 1989

Orup


The 14th Suwałki Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment named for Józef Piłsudski is a unit of the Rocket Forces and Artillery (:pl:Wojska rakietowe i artyleria) of the Polish Army. The regiment is equipped with the BRDM-2/Malyutka anti-tank missile/armoured car system.

It is located at Suwałki. It was subordinated to the 16 DZ (2007-2010); the 11th Masurian Artillery Regiment (2011-2019); and the Armed Forces General Command from 2019.

History
In August 1951, the 101st Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment was formed at Kwidzyn. On October 20, 1957, by a resolution of the State Council, the regiment received its banner. From 1967, the regiment became part of the 22nd Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade, which was disbanded by the Order of the Minister of National Defense No. 25 of September this year, while the 101st Regiment was renamed the 14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment and subordinated to the Commander of the Pomeranian Military District.

In the spring of 1994, the regiment was transferred from Kwidzyn to Suwałki. Here the regiment received a new banner.

In July 1999 the regiment was transferred from the 15th Warmian-Masurian Mechanized Division to the 1st Warsaw Mechanised Division.

As a result of the reorganization of the Armed Forces in October 2001, the regiment became part of the 1st Mechanized Corps in Bydgoszcz. Another change of subordination took place in November 2003, as a result of which the regiment was subordinated to the Commanders of the Land Forces. From January 11, 2007, to December 31, 2010, the regiment was within the structures of the 16th Pomeranian Mechanized Division "King Kazimierz Jagiellończyk".

The 14th Anti-Tank Regiment was stationed in the Suwałki Garrison. The regiment celebrates its holiday on September 10.

By order of the commander of the 16th Mechanized Division on August 11, 2010, the regiment was transformed into the 14th anti-tank artillery squadron. The squadron became part of the 11th Masurian Artillery Regiment "General Józef Bem" (:pl:11 Mazurski Pułk Artylerii).

On September 30, 2019, the Suwałki squadron was formally transformed into the 14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment "Marshal Józef Piłsudski". By order of the Minister of National Defence, the 14th Suwałki anti-tank artillery squadron was removed from the Węgorzewo regiment, transformed into the 14th Suwałki anti-tank artillery regiment and subordinated to the Commander of the Armed Forces.

References

This article is based on the Polish Wikipedia article of the same name as it existed on January 15, 2021.

Regiments of Poland's land forces
Anti-tank artillery units and formations
Military units and formations established in the 1960s

14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Poland)


In enzymology, a 3'-demethylstaurosporine O-methyltransferase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

S-adenosyl-L-methionine + 3'-demethylstaurosporine  S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + staurosporine

Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are S-adenosyl methionine and 3'-demethylstaurosporine, whereas its two products are S-adenosylhomocysteine and staurosporine.

This enzyme belongs to the family of transferases, specifically those transferring one-carbon group methyltransferases.  The systematic name of this enzyme class is S-adenosyl-L-methionine:3'-demethylstaurosporine O-methyltransferase. Other names in common use include 3'-demethoxy-3'-hydroxystaurosporine O-methyltransferase, and staurosporine synthase.

References

EC 2.1.1
Enzymes of unknown structure


Elleston Trevor (17 February 1920 – 21 July 1995) was a British novelist and playwright who wrote under several pseudonyms. Born Trevor Dudley-Smith, he eventually changed his name to Elleston Trevor. Trevor worked in many genres, but is principally remembered for his 1964 adventure story The Flight of the Phoenix, written as Elleston Trevor, and for a series of Cold War thrillers featuring the British secret agent Quiller, written under the pseudonym Adam Hall.

In all, Trevor wrote over 100 books.

He also wrote as Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone.

Life and work

Early life
Trevor was born (as Trevor Dudley-Smith) to an alcoholic stockbroker and his (also alcoholic) wife. He hated his prep school, Yardley Court, where he was beaten weekly for doing badly at Latin, and subsequently also disliked Sevenoaks School. He did not attend university, having been apprenticed as a racing driver and then recruited by the Royal Air Force as a Flight Engineer for the duration of the Second World War. He also wrote prolifically, having several story-books for children published while still serving in the air force.

In the 1950s, he was a bestselling author of military adventure stories, published mainly, at that stage, by Heinemann. His spy writing started in the early 1960s and he was often described in the blurb to his paperbacks as "Adam Hall, the mystery author of international bestsellerdom".

Private life
Born in Bromley, Kent, he lived after the Second World War in Roedean, by Brighton, Sussex, before relocating out of the UK. He lived in Spain and France for fifteen years before moving in 1973 to the United States, where he lived in Phoenix, Arizona and where he died of cancer, in Cave Creek, in 1995.  He was married twice — in 1947 to Jonquil Burgess (died 1986) by whom he had one son, Jean Pierre Trevor, and in 1987 to Chaille Anne Groom. He was proficient in karate. He also enjoyed flying kites and racing miniature cars.

Writing
The Quiller series focuses on a solitary, highly capable "shadow executive" (named after Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch) who works (generally alone) for a British agency in Whitehall called "the Bureau". Officially the organization doesn't exist, which allows a greater latitude to the sometimes-questionable and always hazardous operations it conducts.  He narrates his own adventures. Quiller (not his real name) occupies a literary middle ground between James Bond and John le Carré.  He is a skilled driver, pilot, diver, martial artist, and linguist, but he does not carry a gun. Regarded by his superiors as "reliable under torture", Quiller is sometimes captured, then interrogated or tortured without giving away vital information.

The series is very stylized, featuring intense depictions of spy tradecraft (especially "shadowing," the techniques of tailing and evading surveillance) and professional relationships, surprising jump cuts between chapters, and deep, self-critical, incisive, practically stream-of-consciousness, interior monologues highlighting Quiller's mental self-discipline. Most of the novels feature a high-speed car chase, with Quiller as pursuer or pursued, and an extended, detailed scene of hand-to-hand combat.

The first of the Quiller novels, The Berlin Memorandum (1965) (retitled The Quiller Memorandum in the US) won an Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Novel.  It was filmed in 1966 under its US title with a screenplay by Harold Pinter and starred George Segal, Max von Sydow, and Alec Guinness.  It was also adapted into a 1975 British television series, featuring Michael Jayston.

As "Simon Rattray," he wrote mystery novels featuring Hugo Bishop, a brilliant man who, like Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, solved crimes as a kind of mental challenge.  The first Bishop novel, Knight Sinister, appeared in 1951; five more followed, the last appearing in 1957. (These have later been republished under the Adam Hall byline.) That Trevor could also be very effective in the straight, non-mystery genre is shown by The Billboard Madonna (1961): the protagonist accidentally kills a beautiful woman in a car crash, and is obsessively compelled to memorialize her.

Under the name "Adam Hall," he also wrote The Volcanoes of San Domingo about a mysterious plane crash off the coast of San Domingo and the efforts to uncover what really happened. When alerted by a report indicating that one of the crew members had been seen alive, "Rayner," an employee of the airline, is sent to investigate.

He also wrote children's books about the character "Wumpus", a koala, and his friends, including Flip Flap, the penguin.  Titles included Wumpus (published 1945, by Gerald G. Swan), and More about Wumpus (published 1947). Other children's books include Scamper-Foot the Pine Marten, Ripple-Swim the Otter, and the Woodlander series (Deep Wood, Green Glade, Sweethallow Valley, Badger's Moon, Badger's Beech, Badger's Wood, Mole's Castle and Panic in the Woodland).

His book The Big Pick-Up was one of the stories on which the 1958 film Dunkirk was based.

Trevor also wrote radio plays for the BBC.

Reception
Some of the critical acclaim for the Quiller series: "Tense, intelligent, harsh, surprising" (The New York Times)..."A model of breathless entertainment" (The New Yorker)..."Stunningly well done, tense, elliptical, without a misplaced word" (The New Republic)..."You can't go wrong with Quiller" (Harper's).

Works

Novels

As by Elleston Trevor
 The Immortal Error (1946)
 Chorus of Echoes (1950)
 Redfern's Miracle (1951)
 Tiger Street (1951)
 A Blaze of Roses (1952); published in the UK as The Fire-Raiser (1970)
 The Passion and the Pity (1953)
 The Big Pick-Up (1955)
 Squadron Airborne (1955)
 The Killing Ground (1956)
 Gale Force (1956)
 The Pillars of Midnight (1957); reissued in the UK as 80,000 Suspects
 Dream of Death (1958)
 Runaway Man (1958)
 Silhouette (1959)
 The V.I.P. (1959)
 The Billboard Madonna (1960)
 The Mind of Max Duvine (1960)
 The Burning Shore (1961); published in the US as The Pasang Run (1962)
 The Flight of the Phoenix (1964)
 The Second Chance (1965)
 Weave a Rope of Sand (1965)
 The Shoot (1966)
 The Freebooters (1967)
 A Place for the Wicked (1968)
 Bury Him Among Kings (1970)
 The Paragon (1975) published in the US as Night Stop
 The Theta Syndrome (1977)
 Blue Jay Summer (1977)
 Seven Witnesses (1977)
 The Damocles Sword (1981)
 The Penthouse (1983)
 Deathwatch (1984)
 The Sister (1994)
 Flycatcher (1994)
 Welcome to South Park (1995)

As by Adam Hall
 The Volcanoes of San Domingo (1963)
 Quiller series:
 The Berlin Memorandum (1965); republished as The Quiller Memorandum
 The 9th Directive (1966)
 The Striker Portfolio (1968)
 The Warsaw Document (1971)
 The Tango Briefing (1973)
 The Mandarin Cypher (1975)
 The Kobra Manifesto (1976)
 The Sinkiang Executive (1978)
 The Scorpion Signal (1979)
 The Pekin Target (1981); published in the U.S. as The Peking Target (1982)
 Northlight (1985); published in the U.S. as Quiller
 Quiller's Run (1988)
 Quiller KGB (1989)
 Quiller Barracuda (1990)
 Quiller Bamboo (1991)
 Quiller Solitaire (1992)
 Quiller Meridian (1993)
 Quiller Salamander (1994)
 Quiller Balalaika (1996)
 The Sibling (1979), published in the U.K. as by Elleston Trevor (1981); later reissued in the U.S. as by Elleston Trevor

As by Mansell Black
 Dead on Course (1951)
 Sinister Cargo (1951)
 Shadow of Evil (1953)
 Steps in the Dark (1954)

As by Trevor Dudley-Smith
 Over the Wall (1943)
 Double Who Double Crossed (1944)
 Escape to Fear (1948)
 Now Try the Morgue (1948)

As by Roger Fitzalan
 A Blaze of Arms (1967); later published in the UK as by Adam Hall

As by Howard North
 Expressway (1973); reissued in the U.S. and U.K. in paperback as by Elleston Trevor

As by Simon Rattray
 Knight Sinister (1951); reissued in the UK and US as by Adam Hall
 Queen in Danger (1952); reissued in UK and US as by Adam Hall
 Bishop in Check (1953); reissued in the UK and US as by Adam Hall
 Dead Silence (1954); reissued in the UK and US as by Adam Hall as Pawn in Jeopardy
 Dead Circuit (1955); reissued in the UK and US as by Adam Hall as Rook's Gambit
 Dead Sequence (1957)

As by Warwick Scott
 Image in the Dust (1951); US title Cockpit (1953); reissued in the UK as by Elleston Trevor
 The Domesday Story (1952); US title Doomsday (1953); reissued in the UK as by Elleston Trevor
 Naked Canvas (1954); reissued in the UK and US as by Elleston Trevor

As by Caesar Smith
 Heat Wave (1957); reissued in the UK as by Elleston Trevor

As by Lesley Stone
 Siren Song (1985); as by Leslie Stone in the US
 Riviera Story (1987)

Short stories collections

As by Elleston Trevor
 Elleston Trevor Miscellany (1944)

Short stories

As by Adam Hall
 Quiller series:
 "Last Rites", published in the April 1986 issue of Espionage Magazine

As by Elleston Trevor
 "The Chicken Switch" published in the April 1965 issue of Science Fantasy; republished in ; republished in
 "They're Making a Mistake" published in

Children's books

As by Elleston Trevor
 Animal Life series:
 Scamperfoot, the Pine Marten (1943)
 Ripple-Swim, the Otter (1944)
 Shadow, the Fox (1944)
 Happy Glade/Deep Wood series:
 Into the Happy Glade (1943); issued as by Trevor Dudley-Smith
 By a Silver Stream (1944); issued as by Trevor Dudley-Smith
 Deep Wood (1945)
 Heather Hill (1946)
 The Secret Travellers (1948)
 The Island of the Pines (1948)
 Badger's Beech (1948)
 The Chipmunks of Willow Wood (1948)
 The Wizard of the Wood (1948)
 Badger's Moon (1949)
 Mole's Castle (1951)
 Sweethallow Valley (1951)
 Badger's Wood (1958)
 Green Glade (1959)
 Squirrel's Island (1963)

 Wumpus series:
 Wumpus (1945)
 More about Wumpus (1947)
 Where's Wumpus (1948)
 Ant's Castle (1949)
 Challenge of the Firebrand (1951)
 Secret Arena (1951)
 Forbidden Kingdom (1955)
 The Crystal City (1959)

As by Trevor Burgess
 A Spy at Monk's Court (1949)
 Mystery of the Missing Book  (1950)
 The Racing Wraith (1953)

As by Trevor Dudley-Smith
 Happy Glade/Deep Wood series:
 Into the Happy Glade (1943)
 By a Silver Stream (1944)

Stage plays

As by Elleston Trevor
 The Last of the Daylight (1959)
 Murder by All Means (1960)
 The Search (no later than 1963)
 A Pinch of Purple (1971)
 A Touch of Purple (1972)
 Just Before Dawn (1972)

Radio plays

As by Elleston Trevor
 Knight Sinister (BBC Light Programme, 29 October 1952; adapted from his 1951 novel)
 Full Cry (BBC Home Service, 7 February 1953)
 The Hoxton Statement (BBC Home Service, 20 May 1953)
 Dead Silence (BBC Light Programme, 8 June – 27 July 1953 in eight weekly episodes; adapted from his own story)
 One Green Bottle (BBC Light Programme, 18 October 1953)
 Queen in Danger (BBC Light Programme, 4 November 1953; adapted from his 1952 novel)
 A Blaze of Roses (BBC Light Programme, 17 January 1954; adapted from his 1952 novel)
 The Domesday Story (BBC Light Programme, 21 March 1954; adapted from his 1952 novel)
 The Passion and the Pity (BBC Home Service, 27 March 1954; adapted from his 1953 novel)
 Mister Mysterious (BBC Home Service, 30 October 1954; adapted from his 1951 novel Redfern's Miracle)
 Dead Circuit (BBC Light Programme, 31 May – 19 July 1955 in eight weekly episodes; adapted from his own novel)
 Heatwave (BBC Home Service, 17 November 1955)
 The Cloud (no later than 1962)
 Murder By All Means (BBC Home Service, 1 April 1964; adapted from his 1960 stage play)
 Bury Him Among Kings (BBC Home Service, 4–18 July 1973 in three weekly parts; adapted from his 1970 novel)

Unfilmed screenplays

As by Elleston Trevor
 Woman of Straw (1964; uncredited)

Nonfiction

As by Elleston Trevor
Journalism:

References

Works cited

Further reading
 Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, ed. John M. Reilly (1985)
 Encyclopedia Mysteriosa by William L. DeAndrea (1997)
 Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, ed. by Chris Steinbrunner and Otto Penzler (1976)
 Bury Him Among Kings. Intimate Glimpses into the Life and Work of Elleston Trevor by Chaille Trevor (2012)

External links

 Elleston Trevor at the British Film Institute
 The Unofficial Quiller Web Site – with comprehensive bibliography covering many pseudonyms
 Elleston Trevor in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
  catalogued under this name (more under linked pseudonyms)

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Death Nurse is a 1987 slasher film written and directed by Nick Millard. It was followed by a 1988 sequel entitled Death Nurse 2.

Plot

From their suburban home, Doctor Gordon Mortley and his sister Nurse Edith run Shady Palms Clinic, a facility that takes in physically or mentally ill indigents sent to them by the county. In reality, the Mortleys are con artists who murder their patients (usually during "surgeries" performed on them by Gordon) and continue billing the state for their care afterward. The only permanent resident of the clinic is the alcoholic Louise Kagel. One day, a social services worker, Faith Chandler, drops off John Davis, a man afflicted with tuberculosis. Edith smothers John, and Gordon buries his body, though he is later forced to dig it up and crudely puppeteer it to create the illusion that Davis is still alive when Faith asks to check in on him after bringing Charles Bedowski, who has a heart condition, to Shady Palms.

After Faith's visit, Edith and Gordon kill Bedowski while attempting to replace his heart with a dead dog's. The procedure is interrupted by the Mortley family cat, who grabs the heart. Gordon and Edith chase the cat, and deem the transplant a failure. Bedowski's remains are buried by Gordon, and Edith feeds pieces of him to the rats that live in the garage. The infestation of vermin does not go unnoticed by the authorities, and when Mr. Smith, an environmental health officer, threatens to shut the clinic down, Edith stabs him to death.

Faith herself checks into Shady Palms, and grows suspicious of the facility, which causes Edith to knife her, after feeding the woman rats she had cooked her for lunch. Louise witnesses Faith's murder, so Edith kills her with a syringe, despite Gordon's fondness for her. Edith has Gordon place the bodies of Smith, Faith, and Louise in the garage, from which their smell attracts the attention of a police lieutenant who had stopped by to visit Charles Bedowski. Observing from a window as the lieutenant opens the garage and discovers what is inside it, a dejected Edith sits on a sofa with Gordon, and the film ends.

Cast

 Priscilla Alden as Nurse Edith Mortley
 Albert Eskinazi as Doctor Gordon Mortley
 Royal Farros as Mr. Powell/Charles Bedowski
 Frances Millard as Faith Chandler
 Irmgard Millard as Louise Kagel
 Nick Millard as John Davis
 Fred Sarra as Lieutenant Cal Bedowski

DVD release

Slasher // Video released Death Nurse and its sequel on DVD in 2012. Limited to 1000 copies, the DVD includes features such as a Q&A with Nick Millard, and a commentary provided by him, Irmgard Millard, and Slasher // Video founder Jesus Terán.

Reception

Rock! Shock! Pop!'s Ian Jane called the film "fascinatingly watchable" despite its horribleness, and wrote, "The acting is amateur hour in the best/worst way possible but say what you will, the movie is something. Exactly what, it's hard to say but as far as slashers go, this one ranks down there with the cheapest of the cheap, the worst of the worse. As such, it's easy to love if you're in the right frame of mind for it. You'd be foolish to take any of it seriously, it's obvious that those making the picture weren't". Slasherpool gave Death Nurse a 2 out of 5, finding some entertainment in Priscilla Alden's performance, the death scenes, and the film's ineptness and absurdity, concluding "The premise isn't a bad one... in fact, in more capable hands, this would make a pretty good black comedy... but you get what you get".

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Antonio Gutiérrez de Humana and Francisco Leyva de Bonilla, Spanish colonists, made an unauthorized expedition to the Great Plains in 1594 or 1595.  An Indian, Jusepe Gutierrez, was the only survivor and the source of fragmentary information about the expedition. The route Humana and Leyva followed can not be determined with certitude, but it probably included traveling to what is today Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

Background
In 1593, Antonio Gutiérrez de Humana (also spelled Umana) recruited Jusepe Gutierrez (usually called just Jusepe) in Culiacán, Mexico, to join him on an entrada (expedition) to what would become New Mexico.  At the time, the Viceroy of New Spain was planning to authorize an official expedition and colonization of New Mexico. The expedition of Humana and his partner, Francisco Leyva de Bonilla (also spelled Leyba), was therefore illegal.

After recruiting Jusepe, Humana and Leyva found additional Spanish and Indian soldiers and servants in Santa Barbara, Chihuahua and proceeded onward into what is today New Mexico.  They remained there, among the Pueblo Indians near the Rio Grande, about one year. At the time there were no Spanish settlers in New Mexico, although there may have been other fortune-seekers and slavers living among the Pueblos.

The expedition
Jusepe told the story of the expedition to Juan de Oñate.

Humana and Leyva and an unknown number of Spanish and Indian soldiers and servants left New Mexico to explore eastwards, presumably in search of rich kingdoms which were rumored to be just over the horizon. Their route led them by the Indian pueblo at Pecos and out onto the Great Plains of Texas where they met the Vaquero (Apache) Indians.  They found numerous rancherías, some of them abandoned, and herds of bison, the American buffalo. Jusepe said they found abundant water in many marshes, springs, and arroyos (brooks) as well as great numbers of plum trees and nuts. At some point they turned toward the north. The further they went the more abundant the bison became. After traveling 45 days, they crossed two big rivers and beyond was a very large Indian settlement ten leagues long (about 26 miles) and two leagues wide.  One of the two rivers flowed through the settlement.

Jusepe gave a brief description of the "Great Settlement." The houses were built on a frame of stakes with straw roofs. They were built close together, separated by narrow pathways and, in some places, between the houses were fields of maize, pumpkins, and beans. The people of the settlement received the Spanish in peace and provided them with food. They depended upon buffalo hunting and also agriculture.

Leaving the Settlement, three days to the north they came upon a "multitude of buffalo," but no more Indian settlements. Discord between the leaders broke out. Humana spent an afternoon and morning in his tent apparently writing up his account of the dispute and then sent a soldier, Miguel Pérez, to summon Leyva. Leyva came to Humana's tent, dressed in shirt and breeches only. Humana "drew a butcher knife which he carried in his pocket, unsheathed it, and stabbed Captain Leyba twice." Leyva died and was quickly buried. Then Humana showed "some papers" to his men. He said that because Leyva had threatened to give him a "beating with a stick" he had killed him.

The expedition continued, reaching a very large river ten days beyond the Great Settlement.  The river was one-fourth of a league wide (about two-thirds of a mile, or one kilometer), deep and sluggish.  "They did not dare to cross it." It was here that five of the Indians, including Jusepe, deserted. Three became lost on the plains and Indians killed another.  Jusepe was taken captive by Apaches and lived with them for a year until he escaped or was set free and made his way back to New Mexico. By this time (1596) Oñate and a large group of settlers had arrived in New Mexico and Jusepe took up residence at the San Juan Bautista Pueblo. On February 16, 1599, Oñate interviewed him concerning the Humana and Leyva expedition.

According to later accounts from Indians, Humana and the other members of the expedition were killed by Indians 18 days beyond the Great Settlement.

Etzanoa, the "Great Settlement"

In 1601, Jusepe guided Juan de Oñate, the founder of New Mexico and governor of the new colony, on a large expedition to the Plains.  He took Oñate to the same area where he had gone with Humana and Leyva.  They found the "Great Settlement" or Etzanoa, which was located along the Walnut River in Arkansas City, Kansas. The people of the Great Settlement were almost certainly Wichita Indians whom Oñate later called Rayados.

The large river where Jusepe deserted the expedition may have been the Missouri, perhaps near Kansas City.  The Missouri is about 500 yards wide at this point, not as wide as Jusepe estimated, but the largest river that could be reached in about 10 days travel from the Great Settlement. This would be the first known visit of Europeans to the Missouri River.

What does not fit very well with this possible route is Jusepe's comment that three days beyond the Great Settlement that they came upon "such a multitude of buffalo that the plain—which was level, for there are no mountains—was so covered with them that they were startled and amazed at the sight."  If the Great Settlement were at Wichita or Arkansas City, three days travel toward the Missouri River would place the expedition in the rocky and rolling Flint Hills not a plain.  Moreover, in historic times buffalo were most abundant in the shorter grass prairies west of longitude 97° rather than the tall grass prairies to the east.  Thus, the contradictions in Jusepe's account will continue to provoke speculation.

Conceivably the "great river" was the Kansas, which during high water would have been deep and wide.  The Platte River in Nebraska has also been suggested, but that would require a major recalculation of the route of Humana, Leyva, and Oñate and the location of the Great Settlement.

References

External links
 Francisco Leyva de Bonilla and Antonio Gutierrez de Humana on New Mexico Office of the State Historian

Spanish explorers of North America
Explorers of the United States
1590s in New Spain
1590s in New Mexico
16th-century explorers
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Colonial United States (Spanish)
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Spanish Texas
Pre-statehood history of Kansas
Pre-statehood history of New Mexico
Pre-statehood history of Oklahoma
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James Clair Flood (October 25, 1826 – February 21, 1889) was an American businessman who made a fortune thanks to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. His mining operations are recounted to this day as an outstanding example of what may be done with a rich ore body and a genius for stock manipulation. Flood piled up millions as one of the famed "Bonanza Kings" and is considered to have been one of the 100 wealthiest Americans, leaving an enormous fortune. He is famous for two mansions, the James C. Flood Mansion at 1000 California St. in San Francisco, and Linden Towers located in Menlo Park, torn down in 1936.

Biography
Flood was born on October 25, 1826, in Staten Island, New York, to Irish immigrant parents. He had an eighth grade education, and was then apprenticed to a New York carriage maker.

In 1849 he sailed for San Francisco and the Gold Rush. After some success in the mines, he returned east to marry Mary Emma Leary of County Wexford, Ireland. They were back in San Francisco by 1854. Flood had two children, Jennie who never married, and James Leary born in 1857.

James Leary married Marie Rosina "Rose" Fritz, a burlesque dancer, who died in 1898. James L. had three children from his second marriage, James Flood (born 1900), Mary Emma Flood (Mrs. Theodore) Stebbins (born 1908), and a boy who died at age 5. As a tribute to his father, James L. built the Flood Building on San Francisco's Market Street, which in 2003 was still owned by the Flood family.

Beginning of a fortune
In 1857 James Flood opened a saloon with partner William S. O'Brien on Washington street in San Francisco. In 1858 they sold the saloon and went into business as stockbrokers. After the discovery of silver in Nevada in 1859, the partners began investing in mining stocks. The following year, Flood and O'Brien formed a partnership with fellow Irishmen James Graham Fair, a mine superintendent, and John William Mackay, a mining engineer. None of the four had impressed themselves on others than their immediate circle of friends and acquaintances until some time in the 1870s they joined forces in operating the Consolidated Virginia and the California claims in the Comstock Lode.

Mackay and Fair had the mining knowledge and Flood and O'Brien raised the money. The purchase price of the claims, later to become a fabulous source of wealth, was about $100,000. The original stock issue was 10,700 shares, selling for between $4 and $5 a share.

Stock gambling fever
The new firm gained control of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company stock in 1873, and it was in this mine that the greatest silver bonanza in history was discovered in 1873. The ore body was more than 1,200 feet deep, which yielded in March of that year as much as $632 per ton. A little while after uncovering the "big bonanza" the price of the stock went skyward. Flood is traditionally credited with having directed the subsequent proceedings so far as stock market operations were concerned.

San Francisco and the entire mining world were hurtled into a fever of excitement by proof of early reports of richness of the mining claims. The first stock issue was converted into two issues of 108,000 shares each, and by the middle of 1875 the speculative value of the two mines were close to $1,000,000,000. Shares went as high as $710.

It was said that in the first six months of 1875 the output of the mines averaged $1,500,000 monthly.

Seats on the San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board jumped to $25,000 each as a result of the excitement. Varied interests sought to obtain stock control of the rich properties and there came the inevitable crash in which many went to financial doom.

The "Bonanza Kings" profited, however, and late in 1875 Flood and O'Brien sought to become leaders in finance. After producing $133,471,000, the Consolidated Virginia and California mines could not be operated profitably, but in the language of the street, the owners had "caught them coming and going."

Bank of Nevada
The Bonanza firm was said to be held together by Flood, though he was the most unpopular of the partners with the public, and was regarded by some as a stock manipulator. The advent of Flood and O'Brien, operating independently of Fair and Mackay, into the financial field met fierce resistance from William Sharon and William C. Ralston of the Bank of California. As a result of a battle between the two groups, the Bank of California failed and Flood and O'Brien started the Nevada Bank.

From that time on finance more than mining engaged Flood's time, and much of his wealth went into real estate. Dissension and an ill-fated attempt to corner the world wheat market in 1887 cost the firm millions. William Alvord, president of the Bank of California,  in 1887 warned James C. Flood of signs of irregularities at the Nevada Bank, enabling Flood to avert the collapse of the Nevada Bank following the speculation of its cashier in the wheat market.

Other investments
In 1882, Flood purchased the Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores.

References

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KPXM-TV (channel 41) is a television station licensed to St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, and maintains a sales office on 176th Street NW near Big Lake; its transmitter is located in Nowthen, Minnesota.

KPXM-TV also serves the Mankato market (via K20LP-D in nearby St. James through the local municipal-operated Cooperative TV [CTV] network of translators), as that area does not have an Ion station of its own.

History
The station originally signed on the air in 1982 as KXLI ("XLI" is 41 in Roman numerals). The station branded as K-41 and showed syndicated fare and cartoons. KXLI was also simulcast on KXLT-TV channel 47 in Rochester, and by the late 1980s, Minnesota North Stars hockey broadcasts would also air on the stations.

KXLI and KXLT were owned by Halcomm Inc. with its majority stockholder and president Dale W. Lang, chairman of magazine publisher Lang Communications Inc. Lang attempted with partners to create the "Minnesota Independent Network" (MIN) with 11 stations but never got past planning and initial work.

Lang also made a $9.6 million loan to Halcomm. The stations closed down in December 1988 with Lang calling the loan in 1989 taking possession of the stations.

In 1989, Lang became the primary investor in a new television network based in Orlando, Florida, the Star Television Network. KXLT returned on September 29, 1990 again simulcasting KXLI programming as an owned and operated Star station. Both stations were broadcasting 22 hours a day with 10 hours from Star, which consisted of at least four hours of infomercials and eight hours of classic shows under the TV Heaven banner.

Following Star's closure in January 1991, KXLI/KXLT replaced its schedule with religious and infomercial programming, as well as programming from the Home Shopping Network, which continued through their purchase by Lowell "Bud" Paxson in the mid-1990s. Saturday afternoons during this time consisted of local and national hunting programs. Programming originated from the transmitter building during this time in Big Lake.

Once it was decided to bring back the moniker of TV Heaven, money was spent on a new building near the tower. TV Heaven was brought back with programs from the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and some new shows during the '90s. It also had agreements to air programming from an upstart conservative network NET (National Empowerment Television) run by Paul Weyrich. To that end, the stations nicknamed themselves the Political News Network. Late evenings were taken up by many different shopping networks.

In 1998, Paxson broke the KXLI/KXLT simulcast by selling KXLT to Shockley Communications, who converted that station into a full-powered Fox affiliate for the Rochester–Austin–Mason City market; that station would replace two Minneapolis-based stations, WFTC and KMSP-TV, on cable and satellite providers in the Rochester market. Paxson also changed KXLI's call letters to KPXM, and the station would join the Pax TV network (later i: Independent Television and now Ion Television) later in 1998. The station also got a significant technical overhaul, replacing the 1970s-vintage La Kart tape switching equipment. It also moved to a new, much more powerful tower in Big Lake. It is the tallest structure in Minnesota, standing  tall—nearly twice as high as the skyscrapers of downtown Minneapolis. The new tower more than doubled the station's coverage area, which was now comparable to those of the major Twin Cities stations.

KPXM originally had a marketing agreement with KARE (channel 11) in which KPXM repeated KARE's evening newscasts tape-delayed by half an hour, and also repeated KARE's morning show again in the afternoon. Similar arrangements were in place between other Pax and NBC stations across the country. This agreement ended in June 2005, when Paxson chose to end such agreements for all its stations.

In 2009 and 2012, the FCC authorized the station to move to a tower closer to the Twin Cities tower farm in Shoreview. However, that facility was never built.

During late May 2018, the station simulcast on RF channel 16 from the Anoka tower shared with radio station KQQL, encouraging viewers to re-scan their TVs. This change only affected those who use an antenna to receive KPXM. The station permanently moved to channel 16 on June 1, 2018 as part of the digital television repack. While both channels were still on the air, viewers saw two identical sets of channels. This move forced K16HY-D off the air in the Twin Cities, as that station broadcast from the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis, and the two stations would interfere with each other. After the repack is complete, T-Mobile will own the spectrum vacated by the station.

Technical information

Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
KPXM-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 41, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 40. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 41.

On June 1, 2018, the station signed off its transmitter on channel 40, relocating to 16 permanently after moving towers.

Translators
The broadcast signal of KPXM is extended by way of five digital translators in central and southern Minnesota.

 Alexandria
 Jackson
 Redwood Falls
 St. James
 Willmar

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The Silicon Imaging (SI-2K) was a 2K digital video camera built on a single 16mm sized CMOS sensor manufactured by Altasens. It was able to record direct to disk in the compressed CineForm RAW format, and was notable for its tiny detachable camera head, which can be positioned up to 100m from the recording unit through an ethernet cable. Danny Boyle and his director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle used the camera on the films Slumdog Millionaire (Academy Award for Best Cinematography) and 127 Hours. The head and the recording unit together cost (c.a. 2011) $23,000. The head by itself costs $13,750, and could be used to record to a laptop that had appropriate specifications and software.

Silicon Imaging 3D
At NAB 2009 Silicon Imaging unveiled the very first integrated 3D cinema camera and stereo visualization system, based on two SI-2K camera heads. The so-called SI-3D shoots uncompressed raw imagery from two synchronized cameras and encodes directly to a single stereo CineForm RAW file. Combining two cameras into a single control, processing and recording platform enables shooting and instant playback like a traditional 2D camera with the added tools needed on-set to analyze and adjust the lighting, color, flip orientation and stereo depth effects. In post, a unified stereo file plus associated metadata can be immediately graded for dailies, edited, and viewed in either 2D or 3D.

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Stella Aba Seal is a Ghanaian female gospel musician.

Early life
Stella was born to Mr. Theophilus Seal of British and Cameroonian parentage and Madam Violet Addo from Anum Boso in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Education
Stella started her basic education at the Accra New Town 4 School in Accra New Town, a suburb of Accra, and then proceeded to Kotobabi 2 Middle School also in Kotobabi, a suburb of Accra. She furthered her education at Accra Polytechnic, where she trained as a secretary after her GCE 'O' levels in 1981 at the City Secondary and Business College at Caprice in Accra.

Personal life
Seal was previously known as Stella Dugan, her marital name. She has about three children with her ex-husband. Dugan reverted to her maiden name after her divorce.

References

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The Cat in the Hat is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and was first published in 1957. Seuss wrote the book after being challenged to write a story beginning readers would love. He was given a list of 438 words beginning readers were expected to know. He was told these were the only words he could use. He used 223 words on the list.  The Cat would appear in other Dr. Seuss books. More than 11 million copies of the book have been printed. It has been translated into more than 12 different languages including Latin and Yiddish. The story has been made into a television special and a 2003 movie. The Cat appears in a Broadway musical called Seussical. He also is the host of the educational children's shows The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss and The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That. In 1958, a sequel to the book was released, which was called The Cat in the Hat Comes Back!. In 1998, a spin-off book series of both of the books was made, which was called The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library. The series has a total of 54 books. In 2003, a film based on The Cat in the Hat book was made.

Story
Two children, Sally and Conrad, are left at home alone on a rainy day. They are visited by a cat wearing a red and white striped hat and a red bowtie. He performs all sorts of tricks. He balances a cup, a cake, an umbrella, and other things while standing on a ball. The Cat gets a box from outside. Inside are two creatures named Thing One and Thing Two. The Things begin to fly kites in the house. The children catch the Things with a net. The house is a mess. The Cat cleans it up. He leaves just before the mother comes home.

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