YPlan was a mobile-first event discovery and booking service, which was co-founded by Viktoras Jucikas and Rytis Vitkauskas in London, United Kingdom in 2012. Users are presented with a curated list of things to do, including last-minute events, which can be booked direct on the app or via the website.

In 2015, The Next Web named YPlan the UK's Fasted Growing Tech Company. In 2013, the London Evening Standard reported that Stephen Fry was a fan of the app. On the 21 October 2016, YPlan was acquired by Time Out Group for 1.6 million GBP.

In August 2017 the YPlan app for London was discontinued without prior notice.

Background
Viktoras Jucikas and Rytis Vitkauskas co-founded YPlan in 2012. Vitkauskas is co-founder and CEO. Previously he was Vice President at Summit Partners and responsible for software and technology investments from 2008 until 2011. He started his first business aged 14, a computer assembly, repair and network maintenance company in Lithuania. He went on to Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, where he met fellow co-founder Viktoras on a basketball court in 2003. Rytis went on to receive his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Jucikas (CTO) was previously an Executive Director with Goldman Sachs. He graduated from Jacobs University, Bremen with an MSc in Computational Sciences and Kaunas University of Technology with a BSc in Computer Science. He has won Seedhack FinTech'12, was quarter-finalist of Google Code Jam'04 and semi-finalist of ACM ICPC'02.

YPlan provides London and its other cities with a curated list of events. In the first months of the app's launch, it presented events on the same day, the next day and the coming weekend. As the company grew, so did the selection of events. Now there are hundreds of things to do that can be booked, from a few hours' time away, to months in advance. It is the element of curation, highlighting different events for each user, that makes YPlan different from comparable event apps.

The example used in the New York Times stated that the events often vary in culture and geographical distance across the city, with events located in Paddington in West London, to Shoreditch in East London. This limited choice was integral to how the events are showcased. YPlan has full coverage and a large range, but highlights the very best up front. Jucikas stated, from research carried out by the company and others, that  "the absence of too much choice makes the consumer buy more rather than less. If you have 100 events you would be less likely to go to one because you would be overwhelmed by choice."

Events are selected by hand and advanced personalisation algorithms. Things like Facebook likes and the users location, browsing behaviour, tag selection and the browsing behaviour of their friends affect which events are highlighted. At the time of Jucikas' interview with the New York Times, he stated the company had no real competitors as larger ticketing companies, such as Ticketmaster, would not have interest in such a small niche.

The market size according to various researchers would be hard to measure, but Jucikas stated that only 2% of London events were ever sold out, meaning they potentially had a large market to work in. According to the London Standard, there are around £600 million-worth of unsold theatre seats each year.

In April 2013, Business Insider listed YPlan on their list of London startups to watch. Around the same time, YPlan appeared in 1st place on a similar list published by Mashable.

The New York YPlan launch party took place on September 19, 2013 in New York City. Pharrell Williams performed and guests included David Schwimmer, Stephen Dorff, Kelly Rutherford, Emily Ratajkowski and Adrienne Bailon.

A year after launch, it was stated that the company had reached over 500,000 users. By the end of 2014, the app had more than 1 million downloads.

Mechanics
Users of YPlan can login each day and are given a selection of plays, concerts, pop-up restaurants and other events. Events can then be purchased through the app or on the website, with users also given the opportunity to share their purchase via social media.

During a New York Times interview, it was stated that when the app moved into a new city, the company must focus on signing venues and partners, in order to ensure that users come back to the app after initial registration.

Initially, the YPlan app was only available on Apple's iOS, but was later released on Android and Kindle.

Funding
Early investors in the app included Wellington Partners, Octopus Ventures, Brent Hoberman, the founder of lastminute.com and Peter Reid, the founder of Songkick.

The company's first major investment in a Series A funding deal came in 2013 and was worth $12 million. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners, the venture capital group behind Airbnb. Other key backers include Ashton Kutcher's A-Grade Investments and Baltcap. The funding was part of a major expansion to provide the app in New York City. It was at this stage that Sean Moriarty, former CEO of Ticketmaster, joined the Board of Directors.

In 2014, the app received funding of $24 million (£16 million), according to TechCrunch. This brought the total funding of YPlan to just under $38 million. It was stated that the financing deal will allow the company to expand into other cities.

On the 21 October 2016, YPlan was acquired by Time Out Group for 1.6 million GBP.
AS of 2015, the company had accumulated losses of $20.8M, and accounts showed how Rytis Vitkauskas talks of building a billion dollar company were far off the mark.

Recognition
 Tech5 UK's Fastest Growing Tech Startup (2015)
 The Sunday Times Tech Track 100: Ones to Watch (2014)
 WIRED: Europe's 100 Hottest Start-ups 2014 (2014)
 Forbes: Hottest Global Start-up of 2013 (2013)
 Evening Standard: Power List Tech Stars Rytis Vitkauskas (2013)
 Evening Standard: Silicon 60 Rytis Vitkauskas (2013
 The Hospital Club 100 list (2013)
 Startups Awards: Business of the Year (2013)
 Startups Awards: Mobile Business of the Year (2013)
 Tech City News: Elevator Pitch Awards: Fastest Growing Startup (2013)
 Appsters Awards: Best Entertainment App (2013)

References

Online companies of the United Kingdom
British companies established in 2012
2016 mergers and acquisitions
Privately held companies based in London

YPlan


Werner M. Wiskari (May 16, 1918, Michigan – December 8,  2008, Wakefield, Charlestown, Rhode Island, United States) was a Finnish-American journalist who worked for The New York Times for 36 years. Wiskari's parents were Finnish immigrants.

Wiskari served in Pacific Theater of World War II as a member of the U.S. Navy. After the war he studied journalism at Columbia University and began his career with The New York Times in 1948 as a radio news scriptwriter. From 1958–1964, Wiskari was a correspondent for the New York Times in Northern Europe. He was based in Stockholm, where he reported on the annual Nobel Prize award winners, the difficulties both Sweden as well as Finland faced with staying neutral in the shadow of the Soviet Union during the midst of the Cold War, and about general Nordic life.

In 1959, Wiskari was the first foreign journalist to interview the President of Finland Urho Kekkonen. Wiskari visited Kekkonen several times in Helsinki, Finland even after his post ended in Stockholm.

In 1968, Wiskari became an assistant to the foreign news editor at The New York Times. Shortly thereafter, in 1971, he served as a member of a team of editors who were charged with preparing the Pentagon papers which covered the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War for publication.

In 1978, Wiskari reported that Finnish President Urho Kekkonen was suffering from memory problems. He was the only western journalist to do so because the Finnish media censored the illness of the president.

In the 1980s, Wiskari reported on the Iran–Iraq War.

Wiskari retired from journalism in 1984 and moved to Charlestown, Rhode Island. He wrote a memoir, Bad Weather Bird, on his time in Northern Europe.

Wiskari was a member of Charlestown's local council, serving as a Democrat member.

References

American people of Finnish descent
1918 births
2008 deaths
The New York Times writers
Journalists from Michigan
People from Washington County, Rhode Island
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
United States Navy personnel of World War II

Werner Wiskari


Career management is the combination of structured planning and the active management choice of one's own professional career. Career Management is an umbrella term that covers Career Planning & Career Development on an individual level or at an organizational level. Career management also covers talent management, as part of a talent retention strategy. Career management was first defined in a social work doctoral thesis by Mary Valentich as the implementation of a career strategy through the application of career tactics in relation to chosen career orientation (Valentich & Gripton, 1978). Career orientation referred to the overall design or pattern of one's career, shaped by particular goals and interests and identifiable by particular positions that embody these goals and interests. Career strategy pertains to the individual's general approach to the realization of career goals, and to the specificity of the goals themselves. Two general strategy approaches are adaptive and planned. Career tactics are actions to maintain oneself in a satisfactory employment situation. Tactics may be more or less assertive, with assertiveness in the work situation referring to actions taken to advance one's career interests or to exercise one's legitimate rights while respecting the rights of others.

Valentich and Gripton defined success as managing one's career effectively through the attainment of desired positions and other rewards. The outcome of successful career management should include personal fulfillment, work–life balance, goal achievement, and financial security.

A career includes all types of employment ranging from semi-skilled through to skilled, and semi-professional to professional. Careers have often been restricted to an employment commitment to a single trade skill, profession or business firm for the entire working life of a person. In recent years, however, a career  now includes changes or modifications in employment during the foreseeable future.

The following classification system with minor variations is widely used:

 Development of overall goals and objectives,
 Development of a strategy (a general means to accomplish the selected goals/objectives),
 Development of the specific means (policies, rules, procedures and activities) to implement the strategy, and
Systematic evaluation of the progress toward the achievement of the selected goals/objectives to modify the strategy, if necessary.

Goals or objectives development

The career management process begins with setting goals/objectives.  A relatively specific goal/objective must be formulated.  This task may be quite difficult when the individual lacks knowledge of career opportunities and/or is not fully aware of their talents and abilities.  However, the entire career management process is based on the establishment of defined goals/objectives whether specific or general in nature. Utilizing career assessments may be a critical step in identifying opportunities and career paths that most resonate with someone.  Career assessments can range from quick and informal to more in-depth.  Regardless of the ones you use, you will need to evaluate them.  Most assessments found today for free (although good) do not offer an in-depth evaluation.

The time horizon for the achievement of the selected goals or objectives - short term, medium-term or long term - will have a major influence on their formulation.

 Short-term goals (one or two years) are usually specific and limited in scope.  Short-term goals are easier to formulate. Make sure they are achievable and relate to your longer term career goals.
 Intermediate goals (3 to 20 years) tend to be less specific and more open ended than short-term goals. Both intermediate and long-term goals are more difficult to formulate than short-term goals because there are so many unknowns about the future.
 Long-term goals (Over 20 years), of course, are the most fluid of all.  Lack of life experience and knowledge about potential opportunities and pitfalls make the formulation of long-term goals/objectives very difficult. Long-range goals/objectives, however, may be easily modified as additional information is received without a great loss of career efforts because of experience/knowledge transfer from one career to another.
 Making career choices and decisions – the traditional focus of career interventions. The changed nature of work means that individuals may have to revisit this process more frequently now than in the past.
 Managing the organizational career – concerns the career management tasks of individuals within the workplace, such as decision-making, life-stage transitions, dealing with stress etc.
 Managing 'boundaryless' careers – refers to skills needed by workers whose employment is beyond the boundaries of a single organization, a workstyle common among, for example, artists and designers.
 Taking control of one's personal development – as employers take less responsibility, employees need to take control of their own development in order to maintain and enhance their employability.

Other elements include:
 Career change

Career planning
Career planning is a subset of career management.  Career planning applies the concepts of Strategic planning and Marketing to taking charge of one's professional future. Career is an ongoing process and so it needs to be assessed on continuous basis. This process of re-assessing individual learning and development over a period of time is called Career Planning.  According to Mondy and Noe - " Career planning is an ongoing process whereby an individual sets career goals and identifies the means to achieve them."

Process of career planning
Career planning is the continuous process of:

 thinking about your interests, values, skills and preferences;
 exploring the life, work and learning options available to you;
 ensuring that your work fits with your personal circumstances; and
 continuously fine-tuning your work and learning plans to help you manage the changes in your life and the world of work.

See also
Career
Career Development
Job interview
Résumé
KUDOS

References

Valentich, Mary & Gripton, James (1978). "Sexism and sex differences in career management of social workers. The Social Science Journal. 15(2), 101-111.

Career development

Career management


Dirweyn is one of the four big tribes in Somalia. Dirweyn means greater Dir. Dirweyn is made up of two tribes called Isaaq and Dir. The other three big tribes in Somalia are the bulshada Koofur Orsi, the Darood and the Hawiye. Isaaq borders Warsangeli and reer darawiish to the east, the Ogaden to the south and the Gadabuursi to the west.

References

Ethnic groups in Somalia

Dirweyn


Wormwood is a fantasy sequel to G. P. Taylor's Shadowmancer. It follows the adventures of Dr. Sabian Blake and his servant girl, Agetta Lamian. It is a Christian allegory.

Like its predecessor, it was criticised for attacking other religions. Taylor professed that the work was against the Kabbalah, which he saw as a practice that led to Satan.

Plot

The story takes place in London, where Dr. Sabian Blake is sitting in his attic at the top of his house in Bloomsbury Square, looking out to space through his telescope, in search of a special star. He is told about this star by The Nemorensis, an ancient book that holds many old and powerful secrets. It has predicted that the comet Wormwood (which was foretold in the Book of Revelation) is hurtling towards the earth, and would spell certain doom for London and all other lands around her. As Blake is observing this, a series of cataclysmic and destructive events, referred to as a 'sky-quake', hits the city, the aftermath of which involves horses and dogs going completely mad and attacking everyone in sight. The reason for these happenings was that the power of the Keruvim was being used in the north by the evil Pyratheon, in his vain attempt to overthrow Riathamus.
We are then introduced to Agetta Lamian, Blake's servant-girl, whose father Cadmus Lamian owns a lodging house on Fleet Street.

Eventually it transpires that Pyratheon's evil sister, Yerzinia, is using the Nemorensis to call down the comet and reshape the devastated London in her own, dark image.

References

External links

BBC North Yorkshire: Preview of Wormwood

2004 British novels
2004 children's books
Children's fantasy novels
British children's novels
Christian allegory
Novels about impact events
Novels set in London
Faber and Faber books
Children's books set in London
Christian children's books

Wormwood (Taylor novel)


A Good Man is a 2014 American action crime film directed by Keoni Waxman and starring Steven Seagal, Victor Webster, Tzi Ma, Iulia Verdes, and Claudiu Bleont. The film is a prequel to Force of Execution, and is the fifth collaboration between Steven Seagal and director Keoni Waxman. A Good Man was followed by a sequel, Absolution, in 2015.

Plot
Alexander (Steven Seagal) is the leader of a covert operation on the border of Dagestan. The primary target is Islamic terrorist Abu Alwaki, whereas the secondary target is Mr. Chen (Tzi Ma). Mr. Chen is an Islamic fundamentalist arms dealer who is financing terrorism.  The operation fails, resulting in the death of Alexander's entire team and Mr. Chen's escape.

Long after the disastrous operation in Dagestan, Alexander has relocated to Romania. He starts to bond with his neighbor Lena (Iulia Verdes), and her younger sister Mya (Sofia Nicolaescu). Lena and Mya's older brother Sasha (Victor Webster) collects protection money for the Mafia, in order to pay off his father's debt and protect his younger sisters from any danger.

Lena works in a club that happens to be owned by mafia boss Vladimir (Claudiu Bleont), and Alexander drops by to have a chat. Vladimir notices the two of them bonding, and has his men to warn Alexander to stay away from Lena. Alexander refuses, and an ensuing fight results in death of three of Vladimir's men.  After killing Vladimir's men, Alexander takes a bag containing $300,000 from the club. The $300,000 belongs to arms-dealer Mr. Chen. Mr. Chen was using Vladimir's club to launder money on behalf of one of his buyers. Mr. Chen gives Vlad 24 hours to retrieve the money; otherwise he will take Lena to compensate for the missing $300,000.

Afterwards, Sasha is suspected of stealing Vladimir's money. Because of this, Vladimir sends a team of hit-men to kill Sasha. Assuming that Sasha is now dead, Vladimir goes to Lena's flat to prepare her for Mr. Chen, but after noticing Lena's considerably younger sister Mya, he decides to take her instead. Mr. Chen's buyer has a particular taste for young women, and according to Mr. Chen, "the younger the better".

Sasha goes to Vladimir's club, and Vladimir is surprised that he is still alive. Although Vladimir tried to have him killed, Sasha asks for more time to get Vladimir his money back. After beating up Vladimir's men in a fistfight, Sasha is given more time to recover the money. Vladimir tells Sasha that as long as he gets his money back in 14 hours, he will give Mya back to him in one piece.

To try to find out the location of Mya, Alexander kidnaps Vladimir. After being tortured, Vladimir discloses the location of where Mr. Chen is holding Mya. Alexander then attends a meeting with Mr. Chen, and offers to give Mr. Chen his $300,000 - in exchange for Mya's safe return. After initially accepting Alexander's offer, Mr. Chen soon double crosses him on the deal. A bloody shootout then ensues, and after killing all of Mr. Chen's men, Alexander finally kills Mr. Chen in a sword-fight. He then takes Mya safely home to her brother Sasha and sister Lena.

Cast
 Steven Seagal as John Alexander
 Victor Webster as Sasha
 Tzi Ma as Mr. Chen
 Iulia Verdes as Lena
 Claudiu Bleont as Vladimir
 Bogdan Farkas as Aleksey
 Dave Maynard as Movie Star
 Sofia Nicolaescu as Mya
 Ana Adelaida Perjoiu as Maria
 Ovidiu Niculescu as Pavel
 Elias Ferkin as Li Wei
 Radu Banzaru as Priest
 Massimo Dobrovic as Roberto
 Alina Ionescu as Female Bartender
 Ioana Moldovanu as Passion

Production

Filming
The movie was shot over a period of three weeks. While filming in Bucharest, Steven Seagal adopted a seven-month-old puppy. He adopted the puppy to raise awareness of "stray dogs" that have been viewed as a major nuisance in the "formerly communist country (Romania)" for many years. In September 2013, Romania's parliament passed a law that allowed Bucharest's 64,000 street dogs to be euthanized, despite the objections of animal rights activists.

Release and reception

Distribution
The movie was released by Lionsgate Entertainment on August 19, 2014.

Critical reception
There are currently no reviews for the movie on Rotten Tomatoes.

The movie has received mixed reviews from film critics. One film critic said that A Good Man is "not a good movie" and only has a "basic story of vigilantism".

Piracy lawsuit
In January 2015, the law firm 'Nicoletti Law PLC' filed a suit against 12 residents of West Michigan on behalf of the copyright holders of the movie. Attorney Paul Nicoletti has stated in court documents that "IP address holders found to have downloaded or distributed" copyright material could be subject to "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in fines. The movies copyright holders have maintained that piracy is hurting them financially, and because of this, they have had to step up "their efforts" to seek financial compensation. Since November 2014, 127 lawsuits have been filed against alleged copyright violators throughout the United States. A number of other lawsuits have also been filed throughout the states of Michigan (as a whole) and Colorado. A Good Man marks at least the second time a Seagal picture has been placed into mass copyright litigation, following Maximum Conviction in 2013.

Sequel
Seagal reprised his role as Alexander, and Keoni Waxman returned to direct the movie. The sequel is called Absolution.

References

2014 direct-to-video films
2014 films
2014 crime action films
John Alexander films
American crime action films
Direct-to-video action films
Films shot in Bucharest
Lionsgate films
Voltage Pictures films
Films directed by Keoni Waxman
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
English-language crime action films

A Good Man (2014 film)


Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress () is a 1957 Austrian film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth and Josef Meinrad, costumes by  (Gerda Gottschlich). It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.

It is the last film in the Sissi trilogy, following Sissi (1955) and Sissi – The Young Empress (1956). The director Ernst Marischka planned a fourth film, but Schneider refused to play Sissi any longer. She appeared 15 years later again as Empress Elisabeth in Luchino Visconti's 1972 film Ludwig.

Plot
Empress Elisabeth of Austria, nicknamed Sissi, enjoys travelling in Hungary. She welcomes the politically valuable friendship of Count Andrássy, but when he confesses he is in love with her, she returns to Vienna lest the relationship become too intimate. Her time in Hungary is only a temporary relief from the frustrations of court life in Vienna, where dutiful Franz Josef remains at his desk and allows his strict, domineering mother Sophie to interfere in the raising of his daughter with Sissi, Sophie. Sissi decides to return and meets Franz underway who was coming to Hungary to bring her back to Vienna. They decide to take a vacation in Bad Ischl but Sissi falls ill and is diagnosed with possibly fatal tuberculosis. On doctors' orders Franz Josef must allow his mother to remove his daughter from Sissi's keeping.

In poor health, deprived of the company of husband and child, Sissi is in danger of losing the will to live as she travels to healthier climates on Madeira and Corfu. Desperately needed psychosomatic therapy appears in the form of her indestructibly positive mother Ludovika, who lovingly nurses Sissi's illness and restores her zest for life by taking her on idyllic walks. Once again Oberst Böckl, the clumsy body-guard whose doting admiration for the empress borders on the improper, provides a comical note, as he does in each part of the trilogy.

Finally, Sissi recovers and rejoins her husband on an official visit to Milan and Venice, Austria's remaining possessions in northern Italy. Italian nationalists have prepared a hostile welcome for the Habsburg sovereigns; the Milanese nobility send their servants, dressed in noble clothing, to a royal command performance at La Scala, at which the orchestra begins with the melody of Joseph Haydn's "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" but smoothly transitions to Verdi's chorus "Va, pensiero" from Nabucco and the disguised servants in the audience sing it in protest against Austrian rule. There is a moment of comic relief when, after the opera, Franz Josef and Sissi receive the disguised servants at a formal reception, where the servants are presented to the imperial couple under the names of their aristocratic masters and mistresses. Sissi is aware that she is not meeting the true nobility, but when the real nobles realize their servants were introduced to the emperor and empress, they shriek in despair and panic at the idea that the imperial couple believe the awkward, common servants were really the aristocrats. In Venice, crowds stand in hostile silence at the couple's procession by royal barge on the Grand Canal and as they pass, Italian nationalist flags are defiantly unfurled from behind shuttered windows. But the emotional Italians melt when they witness the openly loving reunion between Sissi and her little daughter on St Mark's Square.

Cast
 Romy Schneider as Empress Elisabeth of Austria, or "Sissi"
 Karlheinz Böhm as Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria
 Vilma Degischer as Archduchess Sophie, Franz Joseph's mother
  as Archduke Franz Karl, Franz Joseph's father
 Magda Schneider as Duchess Ludovika in Bavaria, Sissi's mother
 Gustav Knuth as Duke Max in Bavaria, Sissi's father
  as Princess Helene in Bavaria, or "Néné", Sissi's older sister
 Walther Reyer as Count Andrássy
  as Count Batthyány
 Josef Meinrad as Lieutenant Colonel Böckl
 Senta Wengraf as Countess Bellegarde (Pauline von Königsegg)
  as Dr. Seeburger
  as Henriette Mendel
  as Prince Ludwig
  as Archduke Ferdinand Max
  as Count Windisch-Graetz

References

External links

1957 films
1950s biographical drama films
1950s historical drama films
Austrian biographical drama films
Austrian historical drama films
Cultural depictions of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Cultural depictions of Franz Joseph I of Austria
Films directed by Ernst Marischka
Biographical films about Austrian royalty
Films set in Austria
Films set in Bavaria
Films set in Greece
Films set in Hungary
Films set in Italy
Films set in Portugal
Films set in the 1860s
Films set in Vienna
Monarchy in fiction
Austrian sequel films
Films set in the Austrian Empire
Films set in the Kingdom of Bavaria
Films set in the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia

Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress


The Attentive Nurse is an oil painting by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon-Chardin. It measures 46.2 x 37 cm (18 3/16 x 14 9/16 in.). It was painted in 1747. It hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

The National Gallery tells us that Chardin reveals dignity and beauty in everyday life. The woman is preparing an invalid's meal. Each object receives careful treatment from the artist. The table setting is a harmony of white tones: jug, tablecloth, egg, and plate. Every pot, each piece of crockery has been given distinct treatment. As Diderot wrote of Chardin, "it is not white, red, or black pigment that you mix on your palette, it is the very substance of objects."

Chardin's subjects were popular with all classes of society, including the aristocracy. The National Gallery writes, "Perhaps their appeal rested in their sense of order, of things in their proper place. Chardin anticipated the popularity of paintings of "sensibility," which increased from the 1740s on, telling a colleague that "one uses color, but one paints with sentiment."

References

1740s paintings
Paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
French paintings
1747

The Attentive Nurse


De Haar Castle (Dutch: Kasteel de Haar) is located outside Utrecht, Netherlands. It is the largest castle in The Netherlands.

Original site
The oldest historical record of a building at the location of the current castle dates to 1391. In that year, the De Haar family received the castle and the surrounding lands as a fiefdom from Hendrik van Woerden. The castle remained in the ownership of the De Haar family until 1440, when the last male heir died childless. The castle then passed to the Van Zuylen family. In 1482, the castle was burned down and the walls were destroyed, except for the parts that did not have a military function. These parts probably were incorporated into the castle when it was rebuilt during the early 16th century. The castle is mentioned in an inventory of the possessions of Steven van Zuylen from 1506, and again in a list of fiefdoms in the province Utrecht from 1536. The oldest image of the castle dates to 1554 and shows that the castle had been largely rebuilt by then. After 1641, when Johan van Zuylen van de Haar died childless, the castle seems to have gradually fallen into ruins. The castle escaped total destruction by the French during the Rampjaar 1672.

In 1801 the last Catholic van Zuylen in the Netherlands, the bachelor Anton-Martinus van Zuylen van Nijevelt (1708–1801), bequeathed the property to his cousin Jean-Jacques van Zuylen van Nyevelt (1752–1846) of the Catholic branch in the Southern Netherlands.

1892 restoration
In 1887, Jean-Jacques' grandson, Etienne Gustave Frédéric Baron van Zuylen van Nyevelt van de Haar (1860–1934), married Baroness Hélène de Rothschild, of the Rothschild family. When Etienne inherited the ruined castle in 1890 from his grandfather, the couple set about rebuilding the castle, fully financed by Hélène's family.  For the restoration of the castle, they contracted famous architect Pierre Cuypers. He would work on this project for 20 years (from 1892 to 1912). The castle has 200 rooms and 30 bathrooms, of which only a small number on the ground and first floor have been opened to be viewed by the public. Cuypers placed a statue of himself in a corner of the gallery on the first floor.

The castle was equipped by Cuypers with the most modern gadgets, such as electrical lighting with its own generator, and central heating by way of steam. This installation is internationally recognized as an industrial monument. The kitchen was for that period also very modern and still has its copper pots and pans, the largest extant set in the Netherlands, and an enormous furnace approximately 6 metres long, which was heated with peat or coals. The tiles in the kitchen are decorated with the coats of arms of the families De Haar and Van Zuylen, which were for this purpose especially baked in Franeker. Cuypers emphasized the difference between the old and new walls by using different kinds of bricks. For the interior Cuypers made extensive use of cast iron.

Many details in the castle refer to the Rothschild family, such as the Stars of David on the balconies of the knight's hall and the coat of arms of the family right underneath on the hearth in the library. The coat of arms of the Van Zuylen family are omnipresent. Their motto is on the hearth in the knight's hall (A majoribus et virtute).

Interior

The interior of the castle is decorated with richly ornamented woodcarving, reminiscent of the interior of a Roman Catholic church. This carving was made in the workshop of Cuypers in Roermond, who even designed the tableware. The interior is furnished with many works from the Rothschild collections, including beautiful old porcelain from Japan and China, and several old Flemish tapestries and paintings with religious illustrations. The centrepiece is a carrier coach of the wife of a Japanese shōgun, which reportedly is only one of two worldwide, the other one being exhibit in Tokyo. Japanese tourists come to De Haar to admire this coach, which was donated from the Rothschilds' collections.

Park and gardens
Surrounding the castle there is a park, designed by , for which Van Zuylen ordered 7,000 grown trees. Because these could not be transported through the city of Utrecht, Van Zuylen bought a house and demolished it. The park contains many waterworks and a formal garden reminiscent of the French gardens of Versailles. During the Second World War many of the gardens were lost, because the wood was used to light fires, and the soil was used to grow vegetables. Today most are restored to their original state.

For the decoration of the park, the village Haarzuilens, except for the town church, was demolished. The inhabitants were moved to a place a kilometre away, where a new Haarzuilens arose and where they lived as tenants of the lord of the castle. This new village was also built in a pseudo-medieval style, including a rural village green. The buildings were for the most part designed by Cuypers and his son Joseph Cuypers. Since 2000, the estate is partly owned by Natuurmonumenten.

Arms
The colours of the family van Zuylen are red and white. The coat of arms consists of three red columns on a white field. The different branches of this family differ slightly on these colours.  This coat of arms does not only live on in the colours of the castle, but also in nearly all of the houses of Haarzuilens, even in the newly constructed ones.

Current ownership
In 2000, the family Van Zuylen van Nyevelt passed ownership of the castle and the gardens (45 ha) to the foundation Kasteel de Haar. However, the family retained the right to spend one month per year in the castle. In the same year, the Dutch society Natuurmonumenten bought the surrounding estate of 400 ha. An extensive restoration programme of the castle and the gardens was initiated in 2001 and was completed in 2011.

After the death in 2011 of the last male heir, Thierry van Zuylen, his five daughters also sold the castle's art collection and furnishings to the new owners.

Fairs
The castle terrain is regularly used for fairs and markets, such as the Elf Fantasy Fair.

Gallery

See also
List of castles in the Netherlands
Hélène van Zuylen
Marie-Hélène de Rothschild
Rothschild family
Waddesdon Manor
Van Zuylen van Nievelt
Van Zuylen van Nijevelt
Slot Zuylen

References

External links

Virtual tour

Historic house museums in the Netherlands
Castles in Utrecht (province)
Museums in Utrecht (province)
Rijksmonuments in Utrecht (city)
Pierre Cuypers buildings
Rothschild family residences
Buildings and structures in Utrecht (city)

De Haar Castle


A vector space is a collection of mathematical objects called vectors, along with some operations you can do on them. Two operations are defined in a vector space: addition of two vectors and multiplication of a vector with a scalar. These operations can change the size of a vector and the direction it points to. The most important thing to understand is that after you do the addition or multiplication, the result is still in the vector space; you have not changed the vector in a way that makes it not a vector anymore. A vector space is often represented using symbols such as ,  and .

More formally, a vector space is a special combination of a group and a field. The elements of the group are called vectors, and the elements of the field are called scalars. Vector spaces are important in an area of mathematics called linear algebra, an area which deals with linear functions (functions of straight lines, not curves).

A vector can be represented graphically with an arrow that has a tail and a head. To add two vectors, you place the end of one vector at the head of the other one (see figure). The sum is the vector that goes from the tail of the first vector to the head of the second.

Scalar multiplication means that one vector is made bigger or smaller (it is "scaled"). Scalars are just numbers: if you multiply a vector by 2, you make it twice as long. If you multiply it by 1/2, you make it half as long.

The "vectors" don't have to be vectors in the sense of things that have magnitude and direction. For example, they could be functions, matrices or simply numbers. If they obey the axioms of a vector space (a list of properties a vector space needs to satisfy), you can think of them as vectors and the theorems of linear algebra will still apply to them.

There are some combinations of vectors that are special. A minimum set of vectors that—through some combination of addition and multiplication—can reach any point in the vector space is called a basis (of that vector space). It is true that every vector space has a basis. It is also true that all bases of any one vector space have the same number of vectors in them. This is called the dimension theorem. We can then define the dimension of a vector space to be the size of its basis.

Related pages
 Abstract algebra
 Dimension
 Linear independence
 Unit vector
 Vector subspace

References

Linear algebra
Vectors

Vector space


In mathematics graph theory, a single-entry single-exit (SESE) region in a given graph is an ordered edge pair.

For example, with the ordered edge pair, (a, b) of distinct control-flow edges a and b where:

a dominates b
b postdominates a
 Every cycle containing a also contains b and vice versa.

where a node x is said to dominate node y in a directed graph if every path from start to y includes x. A node x is said to postdominate a node y if every path from y to end includes x.

So, a and b refer to the entry and exit edge, respectively.

 The first condition ensures that every path from start into the region passes through the region's entry edge, a.
 The second condition ensures that every path from inside the region to end passes through the region's exit edge, b.
 The first two conditions are necessary but not enough to characterize SESE regions: since backedges do not alter the dominance or postdominance relationships, the first two conditions alone do not prohibit backedges entering or exiting the region.
 The third condition encodes two constraints: every path from inside the region to a point 'above' a passed through b, and every path from a point 'below' b to a point inside the region passes through a.

References

Graph theory

Single-entry single-exit


Hiland (also Poison Creek Station, Woolton, or Wolton) is an unincorporated community in western Natrona County, Wyoming, United States.  It lies along the concurrent U.S. Routes 20 and 26, west of the city of Casper, the county seat of Natrona County. Its elevation is 6,004 feet (1,830 m). Although the Hiland post office closed in 2014, it retains a ZIP code of 82638. Hiland is so named because it formed the highest elevation point within the Wyoming portion of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad: it was originally named Woolton at its founding, with the spelling later changed to Wolton until 1914, when most of Wolton's population moved to Arminto, the new, nearby railhead, and the remaining citizens renamed the town Hiland. As of 2014, the town consisted only of a bar catering to bikers, and an adjacent house.

References

Unincorporated communities in Natrona County, Wyoming
Unincorporated communities in Wyoming

Hiland, Wyoming


Ancylomenes pedersoni, sometimes known as Pederson's shrimp and Pederson's cleaner shrimp, is a species of cleaner shrimp. It is part of the genus Ancylomenes and was described in 1958 by Fenner A. Chace Jr. as Periclimenes pedersoni. Ancylomenes pedersoni is found in the Caribbean Sea, often associated with a sea anemone, at depths of . They are often found on the reefs off Bermuda.

Description
Pederson's shrimp is a small transparent shrimp with bluish and violet markings on the body and long white antennae and within its range is unlikely to be confused with other species.

Ecology
Pederson's shrimp lives in association with a sea anemone, either Bartholomea annulata or Condylactis gigantea, living among the tentacles with impunity. Before it can do this it needs to acclimatise itself to the anemone by progressively pressing its body and appendages against the tentacles for increasing periods of time. After this it is able to move between the tentacles without getting stung but if it is separated from its host for a few days, it will need to repeat the immunizing procedure. Up to 26 shrimps have been found associated with one sea anemone but usually there are just one or two. The shrimp offers cleaning services to passing fish and attracts their attention by lashing its antennae about. Fish visiting the cleaning station will remain stationary while their external parasites are removed and eaten by the shrimp, which even cleans inside the gill covers and the mouth. If a neon goby sets up a cleaning station nearby, the shrimp will clean the client fish at the same time as the goby does. Researchers have shown that fish recognise the sea anemone Bartholomea annulata as being a place at which the shrimps' services are likely to be available. The larger the sea anemone, the more likely fish are to visit it.

References

Further reading

External links

Palaemonoidea
Crustaceans described in 1958
Fauna of the Caribbean
Arthropods of the Dominican Republic

Ancylomenes pedersoni


The Swedish Society of Composers ('Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare', 'FST') is a professional organization based in Stockholm, Sweden, representing Swedish composers of contemporary classical music. It was founded in 1918, and today has 370 members, of which 347 are composers. The president is Martin Q Larsson, since 2010.

The FST is represented in national boards and institutions within the Swedish art music field. It was the FST that in 1923 founded STIM, in order to collect license fees when musical works are performed in public, broadcast or transmitted, and to pay out performing royalties.

The Nordic cooperation within 'Nordic Composers Council' is very active. Swedish Society of Composers is also internationally represented in ECSA – European Composer and Songwriter Alliance, ECF (European Composers Forum) and FFACE (Federation of Film & Audiovisual Composers of Europe).

External links
 —Official Swedish Society of Composers webpage

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Contemporary classical music in Sweden
Contemporary music organizations
Organizations based in Stockholm
Arts organizations based in Europe
Arts organizations established in 1918
1918 establishments in Sweden
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Stylidium alsinoides is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an erect annual plant that grows from  tall. Obovate or elliptical leaves, about 20–100 per plant, are scattered along the elongate, glabrous stems. The leaves are generally  long and  wide. The bracts on the inflorescence can be as large as leaves and may be hard to distinguish them except for their growth habit: the leaves are alternate whereas the bracts are opposite.

This species lacks a scape. Inflorescences are  long and produce white flowers that bloom from April to September in Australia but occur year-round in Malesia. S. alsinoides'''s distribution ranges from northern Queensland in Australia north to the island of Luzon in the Philippines and southern parts of Sulawesi in New Guinea. In Australia its typical habitat has been reported as a sandy soil in swamps that are dominated by Melaleuca quinquenervia, but has also been found on creekbanks with Melaleuca leucadendra or in some of the wetter rock crevices. S. alsinoides is most closely related to S. fluminense''.

Its conservation status has been assessed as data deficient.

See also
 List of Stylidium species

References

Asterales of Australia
Carnivorous plants of Asia
Carnivorous plants of Australia
Flora of Queensland
Flora of New Guinea
Flora of the Philippines
alsinoides
Plants described in 1810

Stylidium alsinoides


Dr Archie Barton, AM (March 1936 – 18 October 2008) was an Aboriginal Australian activist. He fought for land rights and compensation for the Maralinga Tjarutja people against the Australian and British governments in the 1980s and 1990s. He played an important role in the 20-year campaign of the Maralinga people regaining access to their land after the British nuclear weapons tests.

Early life
Barton was born in South Australia in March 1936; the exact date is unknown. He was born at a siding on the east-west Trans-Australian Railway line, about  east of Ooldea. His mother was a Pitjantjatjara woman from the Maralinga lands. It is not known who his father was, and Barton never knew him, but he is believed to have been a White railway worker. He was given the surname "Barton" because that was the name of the siding where he was born (Barton Siding). Archie spent his infancy in the care of his mother at Ooldea, which at the time was a mission station for Aboriginal people.

At the age of five, Barton became a victim of the Stolen Generations. He was taken from his mother and placed into a children's home in Port Augusta run by the Christian Brethren. When he was captured, he was hiding behind the skirt of Daisy Bates, a well-known writer who was living near Ooldea at the time. Archie never saw his mother again.

He was taught by the Christian Brethren until he was 12 years old. After this, he was sent to work on agricultural stations. He worked at a number of stations during his teenage years, and was often aggravated at being treated differently to White workers. After this, he worked several jobs as a labourer, including on the railway. In his twenties, Barton moved to Adelaide where he worked digging trenches for the South Australian Gas Company. While there, he became an alcoholic, got tuberculosis and spent a year in a sanitorium. By the time he was in his thirties, his addiction to alcohol was so bad that a doctor gave him six months to live. He immediately gave up drinking, and later began working for an Aboriginal alcohol-rehabilitation service in Port Augusta.

Maralinga
During the 1950s and 1960s, the British government tested nuclear weapons at the Woomera Test Range in central South Australia. The first two bombs were exploded at Emu Field, located to the north of Maralinga, in 1953. Major tests were done at Maralinga in 1956 and 1957, and multiple smaller tests were made up until 1963. Barton was still a young man at the time. Maralinga was Barton's mother's country, and remains the homeland of the Maralinga Tjarutja people. Most of the indigenous families living in these lands were forced to move out of the area before the major tests began. They were placed in Aboriginal missions and settlements built by the government.

One of these settlements was Yalata, located far to the south. The community at Ooldea was relocated there in 1952. In 1981, Barton was chosen as a community adviser for Yalata. Four years later, in January 1985, the government of South Australia handed back the native title to the Maralinga Tjarutja lands. Barton was appointed administrator of the newly created Maralinga Land Rights Council. However, the land remained contaminated from the nuclear waste and was not fit to be lived in.

In his role as administrator, Barton led the Maralinga people in their campaign to get the land cleaned and restored so that they could safely return to living there. He represented his people before many enquiries and commissions, in both Canberra and London. A royal commission into the nuclear tests was done by the Australian government. This was the McClelland Royal Commission, for which Barton helped provide evidence. Ten years later, in 1995, the government paid the community AU$13.5 million in compensation. Barton and two elders travelled to London in 1991 and 1992, to negotiate with the British government. They met with the leader of the House of Lords, Viscount Cranborne, to whom Barton presented two bags of soil from Maralinga, tainted with plutonium.

The clean-up of the land was estimated to cost over AU$100 million. It took several years before the British offered an acceptable contribution, which was about £20 million. The clean-up was completed in 2000, but the test sites themselves will remain poisonous for many thousands of years.

Later life
Barton served as the administrator of the Maralinga Land Rights Council for 20 years (1985–2005). He was forced to resign the office in 2005, when it was discovered that he had stolen $230,000 of community money. His friends blamed old age and the stress of financial demands from his relatives. His reputation and position in the community was destroyed, and he became poor, unhealthy and an outcast. He lived in sheds in Whyalla and Port Augusta during this time. He was welcomed back into the community shortly before his death, but by that time he was already very weak.

Barton died on 18 October 2008, in Ceduna. He was buried at Oak Valley, the new settlement built near Maralinga when the traditional owners returned to their lands. He no children of his own, but looked after the children and grandchildren of his long-term partner Mary Harrison.

Recognition
Barton was awarded the South Australian Aboriginal of the Year in 1988, and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1989. In 1996, he was given an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Adelaide.

In 2001, he became one of the founding members of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. He served as a member of the National Indigenous Council from 2004 to 2005. He also served as a director of Imparja Television, the national Aboriginal broadcasting network.

References

Other websites
Archie Barton at the National Library of Australia
Speech by Archie Barton at the World Uranium Hearing in Salzburg 1992

1936 births
2008 deaths
Indigenous Australian activists
People from South Australia
Order of Australia
Pitjantjatjara

Archie Barton


Joe Frank Edwards Jr. (born February 3, 1958), (Cmdr, USN, Ret.), is an American aerospace engineer,former naval officer, aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut.

Early life and education

Edwards was born February 3, 1958, in Richmond, Virginia, but considers both Lineville, and Roanoke Alabama to be his hometowns. He graduated from Lineville High School in 1976 and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1980. In 1994, he received a Master of Science degree in Aviation Systems from University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Career

Edwards was designated a Naval Aviator in February 1982. He was assigned to Fighter Squadron 143 (VF-143) in 1983, after completion of F-14 Tomcat training, and flew fighter escort and reconnaissance combat missions over Lebanon in 1983.

He graduated from the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) in 1984 and from U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1986. He subsequently worked as project flight test officer and pilot for F-14A (PLUS) and F-14D Full Scale Development. He flew the first Navy flight of the F-14D and a high angle of attack/departure from controlled flight test program for the F-14 airframe/F110 engine integration. He served as Operations and Maintenance Officer in Fighter Squadron 142 (VF-142) from 1989 to 1992. He worked as Operations Officer in the Operations Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C. from 1992 to 1994.

He has flown 4,000 hours in over 25 different aircraft and logged over 650 carrier-arrested landings.

On November 13, 1991, while serving as maintenance officer of VF-142, he was flying in the Persian Gulf at Mach 0.9 at  when the radome separated from his airplane, impacted, and destroyed his canopy. With a blinded eye, collapsed lung, broken arm and no communications or flight instruments, he recovered his "convertible" Tomcat with his Radar Intercept Officer LCDR Scott Grundmeier hunkered down in the rear cockpit and landed aboard the aircraft carrier . He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for this superior display of airmanship under grave circumstances.

NASA career

Selected as an astronaut by NASA in December 1994, Edwards reported to the Johnson Space Center in March 1995. He worked on technical issues for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station in the Safety Department of the Astronaut Office. He also served as Technical Assistant to the Director, Flight Crew Operations Directorate, NASA Director of Operations (DOR), Russia, and Astronaut CAPCOM representative in Mission Control for Shuttle ascent and entry.

Edwards flew on STS-89 (January 22–31, 1998), the eighth Shuttle-Mir docking mission, during which the crew transferred more than  of scientific equipment, logistical hardware and water from  to Mir. In the fifth and last exchange of a U.S. astronaut, STS-89 delivered Andy Thomas to Mir and returned with David Wolf. Mission duration was 8 days, 19 hours and 47 seconds, traveling 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km) in 138 orbits of the Earth.

Awards and memberships

Edwards is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Association of Naval Aviation, and the U.S. Naval Institute.

He has received the Defense Superior Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Daedalian Superior Airmanship Award 1992, Fighter Squadron 143 Fighter Pilot of the Year, 1984, 1985, Fighter Squadron 142 Fighter Pilot of the Year, 1990, 1991, 1992. Carrier Air Wing 7 Pilot of the Year, 1985, 1990, 1991.

Personal life

Edwards retired from NASA and the U.S. Navy on April 30, 2000.

He is married to the former Janet Leigh Ragan of Leonardtown, Maryland. His parents, Joe Frank and Jane McMurray Edwards, are deceased and formerly resided in Roanoke, Alabama.

References

External links

Space facts biography of Joe F. Edwards Jr.

1958 births
Living people
1998 in spaceflight
United States Navy astronauts
Military personnel from Richmond, Virginia
People from Lineville, Alabama
United States Naval Academy alumni
United States Naval Test Pilot School alumni
University of Tennessee alumni
American aerospace engineers
United States Navy officers
United States Naval Aviators
Aviators from Virginia
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Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
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Salomon Stricker (1 January 1834 – 2 April 1898) was a pathologist and histologist from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Career
Stricker was born in Waag-Neustadtl (Hungarian: Vágújhely, now Nové Mesto nad Váhom in Slovakia). He studied at the University of Vienna, and subsequently became a research assistant at the Institute of Physiology under Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke. Later he became head of the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology in Vienna.

Stricker is remembered for his extensive studies in the fields of histology and experimental pathology, and is credited with making discoveries involving the diapedesis of erythrocytes and the contractility of vascular walls. He also made contributions in his research of cell division in vivo, on the histology of the cornea, and on the relationship of cells to the extracellular matrix.

Among his written works is the , a two-volume textbook that contains Stricker's essays on histology, along with treatises from several other prominent physicians and scientists, such as Max Schultze, Wilhelm Kühne, Joseph von Gerlach, Siegmund Mayer, Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer, Theodor Meynert, Ewald Hering, et al. During its time, it was considered one of the greatest textbooks concerning histology. Stricker was also the author of a number of philosophical works.

In his landmark The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud discusses a passage in Stricker's Studien über das Bewusstsein regarding the expression of affect in dreams (e.g. fear, joy) and the dream's ideational content, and how these two elements compare to the ideational/affective dynamic in an awake state. In his book, Stricker uses as an example: "If I am afraid of robbers in my dreams, the robbers, to be sure, are imaginary, but the fear of them is real". It was at Stricker's institute that ophthalmologist Karl Koller, at the suggestion of Freud, began his experimentation with cocaine as a local anaesthetic.

Stricker died in Vienna, aged 64.

Selected publications
 Handbuch der Lehre von den Geweben des Menschen und der Thiere (Textbook on the doctrine of tissues of humans and animals), (1871–73)
 Vorlesungen über allgemeine und experimentelle Pathologie (Lectures on general and experimental pathology), (1877–83)
 Studien über das Bewusstsein (Studies on consciousness), (1879)
 Studien über die Sprachvorstellungen (Studies on language performances), (1880)
 Über die Bewegungsvorstellungen (1882)
 Studien über die Association der Vorstellungen (Studies on the association of ideas), 1883
 Physiologie des Rechts, (1884).
From 1871 to 1880, Stricker was editor of the Medicinischen Jahrbücher.

References
 History of the Department of Pathophysiology, University of Vienna
 Stricker, Salomon, Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

External links
 Jewish Encyclopedia: "Stricker, Salomon" by Isidore Singer & Frederick Haneman, 1906.
, Volume 1; Volume 2
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, the Affects in Dreams p. 226

Academic staff of the University of Vienna
University of Vienna alumni
Pathologists from Austria-Hungary
Histologists
Jewish physicians
People from Nové Mesto nad Váhom
Austro-Hungarian Jews
1834 births
1898 deaths
Burials at Döbling Cemetery

Salomon Stricker


Milton John Cross (April 16, 1897 – January 3, 1975) was an American radio announcer famous for his work on the NBC and ABC radio networks.

He was best known as the voice of the Metropolitan Opera, hosting its Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts for 43 years, from the time of their inception on December 25, 1931, until his death in 1975.

Biography

Early career
Born in New York City, Milton Cross started his career just as network radio itself was in its earliest stages. He joined the New Jersey station WJZ in 1921, not just as an announcer but also as a singer, often engaging in recitals with the station's staff pianist, Keith McLeod. By 1927, WJZ had moved to Manhattan and had become the flagship station of the Blue Network of NBC's new national radio network. Cross' voice became familiar as he not only delivered announcements for the Blue Network but also hosted a number of popular programs. Cross was the announcer for the quiz program Information Please, and in the 1940s Cross hosted a Sunday morning show featuring child performers, called Coast To Coast on a Bus.

Metropolitan Opera broadcasts
From 1931 to 1975, Cross served as host for the weekly live broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera, the job for which he is most remembered. His distinctive voice conveyed the excitement of live performances "from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City" for generations of radio listeners. Initially, he broadcast from a seat in "Box 44" at the old Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 40th Street. In 1966, he introduced the radio audience to the Met's new home at Lincoln Center as he hosted a special broadcast of the opening night performance from a modern radio booth in the new house.

For 43 seasons, he was the main (usually sole) commentator. In the 1930s, he shared some broadcasts with other commentators, such as Deems Taylor, John B. Kennedy and Marcia Davenport, and Robert Woldrop replaced him (for unknown reasons) for the April 3, 1937 broadcast of Das Rheingold and the May 15, 1937 broadcast of Mignon. He also missed two later broadcasts (Rigoletto – February 10, 1973 and Norma – February 17, 1973) due to the death of his wife. Cross never retired but died in New York from a heart attack during the Met season of 1974–75. His first Met broadcast was Hansel and Gretel on December 25, 1931, and his last was of Turandot on December 28, 1974, 43 years and three days later. He was succeeded by Peter Allen, who had been his standby announcer.

Popular culture
In 1940 NBC Radio launched The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, a satire of Milton Cross's dignified symphony broadcasts, with announcer Gene Hamilton burlesquing the Cross delivery and format. Hamilton peppered his remarks with jazz-musician slang and introduced dixieland jazz selections. The show's success resulted in Hamilton being promoted to a producer, and he was ultimately replaced by the very man the series was lampooning: Milton J. Cross. Cross proved extremely adept in the role, reading the scripted remarks with sharp comedy timing. His dialogue skills were noticed by film producer Joseph E. Levine, who hired Cross to narrate his silent-film compilation Gaslight Follies (1945).

Cross was parodied in the character of "Doktor Quilton Foss" in G.I. Carmen, an all-soldier musical stage production of the U.S. Army. Billed as "the Boilesk Voishin" the show toured occupied Europe from June 9, 1945, through January 24, 1946. Host "Foss" introduced the show and offered commentary throughout the evening's proceedings. Cross was later lampooned in Peter Schickele's album, P. D. Q. Bach: The Stoned Guest. Will Jordan played the role of "Milton Host", the host, who gave the commentary and told the listener what the synopsis of the act for the opera was.

Books and recordings
Cross edited several popular editions of opera synopses and composer biographies, published by Doubleday in conjunction with the Met broadcasts. The earliest was entitled Milton Cross' Complete Stories of the Great Operas and was originally published in 1949 recounting the plots of 72 operas. It would be followed by More Stories of the Great Operas in 1971, and both titles would receive updated editions with "The New" appended to the title. He also co-authored with David Ewen Milton Cross' Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and their Music, a two-volume set of biographies for 78 composers, published in 1953.

Cross was also featured as narrator on several records, including:
 Peter and the Wolf, 4 78-rpm discs, c. 1950, Musicraft Records M 65 302–305
 Milton Cross Explains, 2 discs each, Ottenheimer Publishers/Cabot Records 1958
 The Instruments of the Orchestra CAB 4021
 The Magic of Music CAB 4022

Death
A native New Yorker, Cross died in New York City where he had lived all his life. He is interred at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

References

External links
Musicradio77.com Milton Cross profile
Metropolitan Opera radio scripts, 1933–1974 Music Division, The New York Public Library.
The New York Times photo

1897 births
1975 deaths
Radio personalities from New York City
Classical music radio presenters
Metropolitan Opera people
Radio and television announcers
RCA Victor artists
Burials at Kensico Cemetery

Milton Cross


André de Richaud (April 6, 1907 in Perpignan – September 29, 1968 in Montpellier) was a French poet and writer. After his father was killed in the First World War in 1915, his mother became a lover of a German prisoner of war, which caused him a trauma that made him later sell their house and move away. At the age of twenty he wrote an autobiographical novel Pain (whose heroine's impact on her son's life seems similar to the impact of the stepfather on the life of Baudelaire) which greatly influenced Albert Camus.
He was awarded the 1954 Prix Guillaume Apollinaire.

His works include novels, poetry, plays and essays. Despite being successful (his friends included Jean Giraudoux, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Luis Buñuel, Jean Marais and Léon-Paul Fargue), he could never come to terms with the world (which is typical for a poète maudit), and became addicted to alcohol and drugs. He died in a hospital, self-destructed, paralyzed and penniless, but in his words "thankfully surrounded by friends - children and dogs."

Works

"J'ai cru tricher, et l'on m'a triché : croyant avoir deux figures, je n'en ai plus." / "I thought that I was creating delusions, but I was deluded myself: I thought I had two personalities, and I have none."

 Vie de saint Delteil, (1928)
 La Création du monde, (1930)
 La Douleur, (1930); Pain
 La Fontaine des lunatiques, (1932)
 Le Village, (1932)
 Le Château des papes, (1933)
 L'Amour fraternel, (1936)
 Le Droit d'asile, (1937)
 La Barrette rouge, (1938)
 Le Mauvais, (1945)
 La Rose de Noël, (1947)
 L'Étrange Visiteur, (1956)
 Je ne suis pas mort, (1965)

References

External links
 Société des Etudes André de Richaud, in French

People from Perpignan
1907 births
1961 deaths
Poètes maudits
20th-century French poets
Roger Nimier Prize winners
Prix Guillaume Apollinaire winners
French male poets
20th-century French male writers

André de Richaud


Ryan Robert Wendell (born March 4, 1986) is a former American football center who played his first eight seasons with the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Fresno State. He has also played for the Carolina Panthers.

Early years
Wendell was born in Diamond Bar, California.  He attended Diamond Bar High School where he played football as both an offensive and defensive lineman.  His jersey number was retired and he is a member of the school's hall of fame.

Collegiate career
After graduating from high school, Wendell attended Fresno State University, where he started in 9 games as a true freshman in 2004 and earned WAC Co-Freshman of the Year. He started all 13 games of his sophomore season and all 12 games of his junior season (the first 8 at guard and the last 4 at center), earning All-WAC honors.  As a senior he started at center.

Professional career

New England Patriots
Wendell was signed by the Patriots as an undrafted free agent on May 1, 2008. He was waived by the team on August 26, 2008, and signed to the Patriots' practice squad on September 24, 2008. He spent the remainder of the season on the practice squad and was re-signed to a future contract following the season.

The Patriots waived Wendell on September 22, 2009. He was re-signed to the team's practice squad two days later. In mid-season, the Patriots raised Wendell's salary in mid-season from the practice-squad minimum (about $150,000) to that of a first-year active-roster player ($310,000). Wendell was promoted to the active roster on December 31, 2009.

Wendell played in 15 games for the Patriots in the 2010 season. He started the final two games of the season in place of an injured Dan Connolly.

During training camp before the 2012 season, Wendell was part of a competition for the starting center job in New England. He beat out longtime Patriot Dan Koppen for the job. In 2012, counting special teams, he played a total of 1,379 snaps, the most of any NFL player. As a result, he earned a bonus of $179,907 from the Patriots in March 2013 as a result of the NFL's "performance-based pay" system, which rewards players who have high playing time and low salaries (his 2012 base salary was $750,000).

On March 28, 2014, Wendell signed a two-year deal worth up to $3.25 million. During the week five 2014 Sunday Night Football game against the Bengals, Wendell was moved to guard, where he enjoyed immediate success on a Patriots team experimenting with their offensive line. The offensive line only allowed one sack the entire game. Wendell started the rest of the year at right guard, and was a part of the offensive line that won Super Bowl XLIX over the Seattle Seahawks.

Prior to the 2015 season, Wendell was voted a captain by his teammates for the first time in his career. He missed the first five games of the 2015 season with an illness and played a reserve role the next two games before being placed on injured reserve on November 7, 2015, ending his time with the Patriots.

Carolina Panthers
On November 29, 2016, Wendell was signed by the Carolina Panthers after injuries to starting centers Ryan Kalil and Gino Gradkowski.

Coaching career

Buffalo Bills
In 2019 Wendell was hired as a coaching assistant by the Buffalo Bills and he was elevated to Assistant Offensive line coach for the 2020 season.

Los Angeles Rams
In February 2023 it was announced the Los Angeles Rams hired Wendell as their Offensive line coach.

Personal life
Wendell and his wife Meredith have a daughter named Callie.

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The Curtiss No. 2, often known as the Reims Racer, was a racing aircraft built in the United States by Glenn Curtiss in 1909 to contest the Gordon Bennett Cup air race in Reims, France that year.

Design and characteristics
The No. 2 was a modified Golden Flyer (also known as the Curtiss No. 1), and was an open-framework biplane with two-bay unstaggered wings of equal span. It had an all-moving cruciform tail unit comprising a small elevator surface plus a rudder for directional control, but larger elevators were carried forward of the pilot as a biplane canard unit. The landing gear was in a tricycle configuration, with three individual wheels. Large ailerons were carried in the interplane gap.

Curtiss had modified the Golden Flyer into the Reims Racer by adding a covered stabilizer unit at the canard position, increasing the wing size, modifying the interplane ailerons and replacing the 25 hp four cylinder inline Curtiss OX engine with a 63 hp Curtiss OX V8 that had been stripped down and specially lightened for the race. A new, lighter fuel tank was exchanged for the older, heavier one.

A transverse-rocking, metal framework "shoulder cradle", hinged longitudinally on either side of the pilot's seat, with forward-projecting members, one per side resting against the midpoint of each of the pilot's upper arms (see photo of Curtiss in the pilot's seat), achieved the connection between the pilot and aileron control cabling. This apparatus required the pilot to "lean-into" the turn to operate the ailerons and thus turn the aircraft in the same direction. This system was later used again in the Curtiss Model D.

Operational history
Curtiss' participation in the race was sponsored by the Aero Club of America, which had offered to back him after a similar offer was turned down by the Wright brothers. While not as fast as its European competitors, the Reims Racer was more maneuverable, and Curtiss, who piloted the machine himself, was able to take advantage of this by paying special attention to his turns. The first competitor to fly, Curtiss recorded a time of 15 minutes 50.4 seconds for the two 10 km circuits required. When Louis Bleriot made the final flight of the competition, he recorded a time 5.8 seconds longer, leaving Curtiss to claim the FF 25,000 prize. Curtiss's flight, at an average speed of 47.06 mph (75.48 km/h) was also a new airspeed record for the distance.

After Reims, Curtiss took the aircraft to Italy, where he won events at a competition at the Air Show in Brescia in September 1909. There, he won the overall grand prize by flying the required five 10 km circuits in 49 minutes 24 seconds. He also won the quick starting prize, starting his engine in 8.2 seconds, and took second place to Henri Rougier in the altitude prize, climbing to 165 ft (51 m). While at Brescia, Curtiss gave Italian poet Gabriele d'Annunzio a short joyride, but declined a similar request by Princess Laetitia on the grounds that the seat would be unsuitable.

Returning to the United States, Curtiss flew the Reims Racer in the country's first air meet at Dominguez Hills in October 1909, setting a new airspeed record of 55 mph (88 km/h).

Curtiss sold the Reims Racer to Charles Hamilton, who crashed it in Seattle on 12 March 1910.

The book "How to Fly" – or The Conquest of the Air – published in 1910 by Thomas Nelson & Sons has a description of how to fly this aircraft (pp 157 to 162) as follows:

"There is a diversity of design in the arrangement of the means of control. We shall describe that of the Curtiss biplane, as largely typical of them all.  In general, the biplane consists of two large sustaining planes, one above the other. Between the planes is the motor which operates a propeller located in the rear of the planes. Projecting behind the planes, and held by a framework of bamboo rods, is a small horizontal plane, called the tail. The rudder which guides the aeroplane to the right or the left is partially bisected by the tail. This rudder is worked by wires which run to a steering wheel located in front of the pilot's seat. This wheel is similar in size and appearance to the steering wheel of an automobile, and is used in the same way for guiding the aeroplane to the right or left.
In front of the planes, supported on a shorter projecting framework, is the altitude rudder, a pair of planes hinged horizontally, so that their front edges may tip up or down. When they tilt up, the air through which the machine is passing catches on the under sides and lifts them up, thus elevating the front of the whole aeroplane and causing it to glide upward. The opposite action takes place when these altitude planes are tilted downward.  This altitude rudder is controlled by a long rod which runs to the steering wheel. By pushing on the wheel the rod is shoved forward and turns the altitude planes downward. Pulling the wheel turns the rudder planes upward. This rod has a backward and forward thrust of over two feet, but the usual movement in ordinary wind currents is rarely more than an inch.  In climbing to high levels or swooping down rapidly the extreme play of the rod is about four or five inches.
Thus the steering wheel controls both the horizontal and vertical movements of the aeroplane. More than this, it is a feeler to the aviator, warning him of the condition of the air currents, and for this reason must not be grasped too firmly. It is to be held steady, yet loosely enough to transmit any wavering force in the air to the sensitive touch of the pilot, enabling him instinctively to rise or dip as the current compels.

The preserving of an even keel is accomplished in the Curtiss machine by small planes hinged between the main planes at the outer ends. They serve to prevent the machine from tipping over sideways. They are operated by arms, projecting from the back of the aviator's seat, which embrace his shoulders on each side, and are moved by the swaying of his body. In a measure, they are automatic in action, for when the aeroplane sags downward on one side, the pilot naturally leans the other way to preserve his balance, and that motion swings the ailerons (as these small stabilizing planes are called) in such a way that the pressure of the wind restores the aeroplane to an even keel. The wires which connect them with the back of the seat are so arranged that when one aileron is being pulled down at its rear edge the rear of the other one is being raised, thus doubling the effect. As the machine is righted the aviator comes back to an upright position, and the ailerons become level once more.  There are other controls which the pilot must operate consciously. In the Curtiss machine these are levers moved by the feet. With a pressure of the right foot he short-circuits the magneto, thus cutting off the spark in the engine cylinders and stopping the motor. This lever also puts a brake on the forward landing wheels, and checks the speed of the machine as it touches the ground. The right foot also controls the pump which forces the lubricating oil faster or slower to the points where it is needed.  The left foot operates the lever which controls the throttle by which the aviator can regulate the flow of gas to the engine cylinders. The average speed of the 7-foot propeller is 1,100 revolutions per minute.  With the throttle it may be cut down to 100 revolutions per minute, which is not fast enough to keep afloat, but will help along when gliding."

Specifications

References

 Citations

 Bibliography
 Casey, Louis S. Curtiss, The Hammondsport Era, 1907–1915, New York: Crown Publishers, 1981, pp. 12–15, , .

 airracinghistory.freeola.com
 aerofiles.com
 NASM
 centennialofflight.net
 New York Times 13 September 1909

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Farmasi sacara historis nyaéta pagawéan méré ubar. ka dieunakeun, istilah ieu jadi ngawengku fungsi séjén nu patali jeung mulasara pasén (fungsi klinis), nu kiwari sapalih ti antarana aya dina hukum féderal atawa nagara. Pagawean bidang farmasi diantawisna pangawasan resép ubar, dina éfék negatif ubar (adverse drug reaction) sareng terapi anu ningkatkeun kesehatan pasén ogé mastikeun yen pangubaran anu dilakonan masihan hasil positif. Dina wilayah pagawéanna, farmasi dipisahkeun tina dokter. Di regulasi sejenna, dokter meunang ngadamel resep ubar nyalira, praktek farmasis terintegrasi sareng dokter. Dina hal husus, mung farmasi anu tiasa nyayogikeun sababaraha jenis ubar, diantawisna narkotika ogé antibiotik.

Étimologi
Farmasi dicandak tina basa Perancis farmacie anu ngandung harti "bahan anu dianggo janten tuangeun dina bentuk ubar anu ngagaduhan efek laksatif". Di samping éta, kata farmasi dicandak ogé tina basa Yunani pharmakon anu ngandung harti "ubar".

A pharmacy (known also as a chemist's or in American English a drugstore, or historically an Apothecary) is also a place where pharmacists (chemists) practise the profession of pharmacy.
Many retailers (including grocery stores and mass merchandisers) now include a pharmacy as department of their store. Many pharmacies also sell household items. Within pharmacies, the term "dispensary" is sometimes used to distinguish that part of the store which pharmacists practise pharmacy.
The dispensary is subject to pharmacy legislation. The rest of the pharmacy is simply a retail store.

Pharmacies are also located within hospitals and nursing homes and function as a department of these larger organizations.  Such pharmacies are known within the pharmacy industry as "hospital pharmacies" to distinguish from "retail" or "community" pharmacies.
Pharmacists in hospital pharmacies often have more complex medications wheréas pharmacists in community pharmacies often have more complex business and customer relations issues.
In medical buildings where physicians and other medical professionals congregate, a small community pharmacy may be present as well for the convenience of patients. Such a "medical pharmacy" is legally distinct from the other medical professionals, unlike the pharmacies integrated into hospitals. A medical pharmacy is in fact a community pharmacy.

The icon most commonly associated with the practise of pharmacy in the United States is the mortar and pestle; in France, it is a green Greek cross.

In the United States, a person must pass the Naplex examination before they can practice pharmacy.

Tingal Ogé
List of pharmaciesPharmacist.com Very useful site for pharmacists and pharmacy students.National association of Boards of Pharmacy  Home of the National association of Boards of Pharmacy

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Yeti were an English rock band, founded in 2004 by John Hassall, of The Libertines. Hassall met Brendan Kersey, Andrew Deian and Mark Underwood (formerly Harmony Williams) through mutual friends, and the line-up was completed when drummer Graham Blacow responded to a classified advertisement.  The band is based in North London.

Career
Yeti began with Hassall as the main songwriter, but soon Underwood started writing and singing a few of his own (including lead-off track on One Eye on the Banquet, "The Last Time You Go" and "Insect-Eating Man"), while Deian has also penned several tracks, including their single "Don't Go Back to the One You Love" and "Jermyn Girls".  The NME compared the band's sound to "early" Beatles, The La's, The Kinks, The Byrds, The Coral, The Zombies, Love and early "pre-Rough Trade" Libertines.

Their debut single "Never Lose Your Sense Of Wonder" was released in March 2005, and sold out within 3 days.  It reached top 30 in the UK Singles Chart. It was named "Single of the Week" by The Guardian and the NME. "Keep Pushin' On" was released on 29 August 2005 under Moshi Moshi Records and reached No. 57.

The band was also featured in magazines such as Vogue, Arena, GQ, Spin, Dazed & Confused and Clash. In December 2005, Yeti played "Noise and Confusion 05" – their biggest show to date – at the Cardiff Millennium Stadium, opening for Oasis and Foo Fighters. This was followed by a string of supporting shows on Oasis' European Tour in February 2006. Yeti featured in the 2006 advertising campaign for the Italian fashion label "Energie".

Yeti returned to action at the end of October 2006 and released a limited edition EP, One Eye on the Banquet, playing a series of small gigs within the UK throughout the final months of 2006.

In early 2007, Kersey left the band and joined London band The Early Years, with Hassall taking over on his favoured bass.

The band played their first show as a four-piece at the Proud Gallery in London in August 2007. Yeti released a compilation album, Yume!, in Japan on 29 August 2007, and the band played shows in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Sapporo and Yokohama in September 2007 to promote the record. Yume! was a commercial success and peaked at number 3 in the Japanese HMV Foreign chart.

The band completed a thirty date UK tour, with support from London band The Foxes, to promote their album, The Legend of Yeti Gonzales.  The album was recorded live with only a handful of overdubs onto a 16 track tape recorder without any mastering.  It was released in June 2008, and received favourable reviews from the NME, "Clash" and Daily Mirror. Yeti split sometime towards the end of 2008/09.

Discography

Albums
 The Legend Of Yeti Gonzales – 23 June 2008; Get Up & Go Records

Compilation albums
 Yume!, 29 August 2007 (Japan only), (Vinyl Junkie)

EPs
 One Eye on the Banquet, 30 October 2006

Singles
 "Never Lose Your Sense Of Wonder", 28 March 2005 (Moshi Moshi)
 "Keep Pushin' On", 29 August 2005 (Moshi Moshi)
 "Don't Go Back to the One You Love", 26 May 2008 (Get Up & Go Records)

References

External links

British indie rock groups
Moshi Moshi Records artists

Yeti (band)


Rider from Tucson is a 1950 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander for RKO Pictures and starring Tim Holt and Richard Martin. It was the only time  Martin worked on screen with his wife Elaine Riley.

The film was known earlier as Gun Thunder.

Plot
Dave Saunders and sidekick, Chito Rafferty, visit their friend Tug Bailey who is engaged to Jane Whipple. Tug has a gold claim, and is reluctant to marry Jane because his life is now in danger from potential claim jumpers. John Avery, and wife, Gypsy, plan to jump Tug's claim. Gypsy hires Bob Rankin to kidnap Jane as her stagecoach enters town, telling Rankin that Jane is one of Gypsy's new showgirls and she wants to "kidnap" her as a joke. The plan goes awry after Rankin discovers Jane's kidnapping is actually leverage against Tug's claim. Rankin tells Gypsy he wants half the claim, or he will deal with Tug directly. Tug learns from the stage driver that Jane has been kidnapped. Dave and Chito persuade Tug to allow them to find Jane rather than surrender his claim.  Dave and Chito find Jane and free her when Rankin's gang abandon their hideout after a short skirmish. They take Jane to Mrs. O'Reilly's boarding house for safety. Jane understands Tug is reluctant to marry, but she is not told why.

Rankin arrives at Tug's ranch offering to split his claim in return for Jane. As they are negotiating the deal, Gypsy arrives, kills Rankin and knocks Tug unconscious taking him with her. Jackson, one of the henchmen, is left behind to dispose of Rankin's body. Jackson is interrupted by Dave and Chito. They see Jackson riding away and give chase. Unable to catch him, they return to Tug's and find Rankin's body. The sheriff and his deputies arrive, and arrest Dave and Chito for Rankin's murder. En route to jail, Dave and Chito overpower the sheriff's deputies and escape. In town, Dave and Chito find Jackson, who confesses that one of the Averys killed Rankin. Dave and Chito visit the boarding house where Mrs. O'Reilly identifies Jackson. Jane, preparing to leave town, is told the truth about Tug's reluctance to marry. She tells Dave and Chito that a miner named Hardrock knows the location of Tug's gold mine.

Tug agrees to show Gypsy the mine in exchange for Jane's release. Dave and Chito find Hardrock who escorts them to find Tug's mine. Nearing the mine, Tug refuses to go all the way until Jane is released. Dave, Chito and Hardrock arrive and a gunfight ensues. Chito and Hardrock ride away, and the Averys believe the fight is over. Dave, however, ambushes the group by jumping on John Avery. The sheriff and his posse arrive and the Avery gang is subdued. Tug and Jane marry. At the wedding reception, Dave and Chito wish the newlyweds luck and ride away.

Cast
Tim Holt as Dave Saunders
Richard Martin as Chito Rafferty
William Phipps as Tug Bailey
Veda Ann Borg as Gypsy Avery
Robert Shayne as John Avery
Elaine Riley as Jane Whipple
Douglas Fowley as Bob Rankin
 Harry Tyler as Hardrock Jones
 Dorothy Vaughan as Mrs. Brigitte O'Reilly
 Luther Crockett as Sheriff
Marshall Reed as Jackson
Stuart Randall as Slim

References

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Taggart Mitt Romney (born March 21, 1970) is an American management consultant, businessman, venture capitalist and political advisor. He is the eldest son of businessman and U.S. Senator Mitt Romney.

Early life and education
Taggart Romney is the oldest son of Ann and Mitt Romney, born when both were undergraduates at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Tagg's birthplace of Provo, Utah. He attended Belmont Hill School, a preparatory academy before he graduated magna cum laude with a BA in economics from BYU and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Career
Romney has worked as the head of marketing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, VP of onfield marketing at Reebok, and director of strategic planning at Elan Pharmaceuticals. Romney founded and subsequently sold Season Perks, a software design company. He also worked for several years as a consultant at both Monitor Group and McKinsey and Co. Romney has been a partner in the private equity firm Solamere Capital, together with family friend Spencer Zwick, and Eric Scheuermann, previously a partner in New York-based Jupiter Partners. Zwick was also finance chair of the 2012 campaign. Romney worked as a senior aide on his father's presidential campaign in 2008 and during his Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign in 2002. He participated as an advisor in his father's 2012 presidential campaign and he attracted the attention of the media just prior to the November election.

In June 2014, Solamere sponsored the third annual "Romney Retreat" at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City, Utah. Most potential 2016 Republican Party Presidential candidates, Peyton Manning, firm clients, former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and Mia Love, among others, along with Mitt Romney, spoke or were in attendance for the three-day event. Other scheduled attendees included business executives Meg Whitman and Harold Hamm.

He was the subject of speculation in February 2013 that he would run for the United States Senate from Massachusetts in the 2014 election. He declined to do so, saying that "the timing is not right for me."

2012 presidential election
After the second presidential debate, a North Carolina radio station interviewed Romney and asked him what it was like "to hear the president of the United States call your dad a liar." Romney laughed and replied: "Jump out of your seat and you want to rush down to the stage and take a swing at him. But you know you can't do that because, well, first because there's a lot of Secret Service between you and him, but also because that's the nature of the process. They're gonna try to do everything they can do to try to make my dad into someone he's not. We signed up for it, we've gotta try to kind of sit there and take our punches, and then send them right back the other way."
A campaign aide told ABC News that the remarks about taking a swing at the president were "all in jest".

HIG Capital, an investment partner of Romney's company, Solamere, supplied voting machines in the state of Ohio, which caused concern prior to the November elections. A spokesperson for Solamere later commented on the matter, saying, "Not only does Solamere have no direct or indirect interest in this company Hart InterCivic, Solamere and its partners have no ownership in this company, nor do they have any ownership in nor have made any investments in the fund that invested in the voting machine company."

In 2012, National Journal named Romney one of ten Republicans to follow on Twitter. Romney stated in 2012 that he was uninterested in pursuing a political career in his own right.

Post-2012 election
In 2015, Romney stated he was both "sad and relieved" at his father's decision to not run in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary.

Personal life
Romney and his wife, Jennifer, have six children, three via surrogate mothers. The family resides in Belmont, Massachusetts.

References

Further reading

External links

Audio of NC radio station interview, on BuzzFeed

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Carmelina Marchetta (born 25 March 1965) is an Australian writer and teacher. Marchetta is best known as the author of teen novels, Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca and On the Jellicoe Road. She has twice been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers, in 1993 and 2004. For Jellicoe Road she won the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognizing the year's best book for young adults.

Education and early work

Melina Marchetta was born in Sydney on 25 March 1965. She is of Italian descent, a middle child with two sisters. Marchetta attended high school at Rosebank College in the Sydney suburb of Five Dock. She left school at age fifteen as she was not confident in her academic ability. She enrolled in a business school which helped her gain employment with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and later at a travel agency. This gave her confidence to return to study and gain a teaching degree from the Australian Catholic University. She then got a job teaching at St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney in the heart of the Sydney CBD until 2006. She now writes full-time.

Breakthrough: Looking for Alibrandi

Her first novel, Looking for Alibrandi was released in 1992 with a first print-run sellout within two months of its release. Published in 16 countries, including 11 translated editions, Looking for Alibrandi swept the pool of literary awards for young adult fiction in 1993 including the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers. Dubbed "the most stolen library book", the novel has sold more than half a million copies worldwide and was followed by her film adaptation of the same title released in 1999, Looking for Alibrandi.

Worldwide recognition: 2003–present

While writing the AFI award-winning screenplay Marchetta taught English, Italian and History full-time for ten years at a city high school for boys. During that time she released her second novel, Saving Francesca in 2003, followed by On the Jellicoe Road in 2006. Both novels have been published in more than 6 countries, with Saving Francesca translated into 4 languages. In its U.S. edition, Jellicoe Road won the 2009 Printz Award for "literary excellence in young adult literature".

Marchetta's fourth novel, the fantasy epic Finnikin of the Rock, was released by Penguin Australia in October 2008. It has since won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel and the 2009 ABIA (Australian Booksellers Industry Awards) Book of the Year for Older Children, and was shortlisted for the 2009 CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers. In the USA Finnikin has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist and the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

Marchetta has also written short stories including Twelve Minutes, part of the Books Alive anthology "10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year", along with reviews and opinion pieces for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and the Australian Literary Review. She has been a writer-in-residence around the country, as far north as Thursday Island and as far south as Hobart.

Her fifth novel, The Piper's Son was released in Australia in 2010 and is an accompanying novel to Saving Francesca, but through the perspective of another character in the book.

She has been working on getting the Jellicoe Road movie script into production, while also working on writing the script for Saving Francesca.  In 2016, she published Tell The Truth, Shame The Devil. Melina went on to collaborate with Kathryn Barker on a book When Rosie Met Jim/ Shoeboxes: Volume 22. In 2019, she released The Place on Dalhousie. Marchetta's most recent publications have been part of a junior fiction series entitled What Zola Did.

Personal life
Marchetta lives in Sydney. Marchetta makes visits to schools to talk about her books. She also attends interviews, book signings, book club meetings at libraries and bookshops and gives talks to students about her novels.

Awards and nominations
 Won – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers for Looking for Alibrandi (1993)
 Won – Film Critics Circle of Australia, Best Screenplay – Adapted for Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
 Won – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Script Writing Award for Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
 Won – Australian Film Institute Award, Best Adapted Screenplay for Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
 Won – BILBY Award: Older Readers winner for Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
 Shortlisted – South Australia Premier's Awards, Children's Literature Award for Saving Francesca (2004)
 Won – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers for Saving Francesca (2004)
 Shortlisted – Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), Australian Book of the Year: Older Children for On the Jellicoe Road (2007)
 Shortlisted – Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Young Adult Book for On the Road (2007)
 Won – Aurealis Award, Young Adult Division, Best Long Fiction for Finnikin of the Rock (2008)
 Won – Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature for On the Jellicoe Road (2009)
 Shortlisted –  New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Young Adult Book Award for The Piper's Son (2010)
 Shortlisted – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for The Piper's Son (2010)
 Shortlisted – Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Young Adult Literature, for The Piper's Son (2011)
Winner – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Special Award

Screenplay
Marchetta wrote the screenplay for the film Looking for Alibrandi (1999), a film starring Pia Miranda, Greta Scacchi and Anthony La Paglia. The film was a box office success, winning five awards including an AFI award and an Independent Film Award for best screenplay, as well as the NSW Premier's Literary Award and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award.

In 2016, Marchetta announced on her blog she had completed the screenplay for a film adaptation of On the Jellicoe Road. In December 2019 Werner Film Productions, ZDF Enterprises and Wild Sheep Content announced an 8-part TV series. Marchetta will write the pilot with writers Samantha Strauss, Sarah Walker and Angela Betzien also attached.

Selected works
 Looking for Alibrandi (1992), novel
 Looking for Alibrandi (1999), screenplay
 On the Jellicoe Road (2006); U.S. title, Jellicoe Road (2008)
 The Gorgon in the Gully: Pocket Money Puffins (September 2010)
 Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil (2016)
When Rosie Met Jim/ Shoeboxes: Volume 22 (2017) with Kathryn Barker

Saving Francesca
 Saving Francesca (2003)
 The Piper's Son (March 2010)
 The Place on Dalhousie (2019)

The Lumatere Chronicles
 Finnikin of the Rock (2008)
 Froi of the Exiles (2011)
 Quintana of Charyn (2012)

What Zola Did
 What Zola Did on Monday (2020)
 What Zola Did on Tuesday (2020)
 What Zola Did on Wednesday (2020)
 What Zola Did on Thursday (2021)
 What Zola Did on Friday (2021)
 What Zola Did on Saturday (2021)
 What Zola Did on Sunday (2021)

See also

References

External links

1965 births
Australian fantasy writers
Australian screenwriters
Michael L. Printz Award winners
Australian people of Italian descent
Writers from Sydney
Living people
Australian Catholic University alumni
Australian women children's writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
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Australian women novelists
Australian schoolteachers

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