Ryan Larkin (July 31, 1943 – February 14, 2007) was a Canadian animator, artist, and sculptor who rose to fame with the psychedelic Oscar-nominated short Walking (1968) and the acclaimed Street Musique (1972). He was the subject of the Oscar-winning film Ryan.

Early life
Larkin had idolized his older brother, Ronald, whom he described as "the epitome of cool". In 1958, at the age of fifteen, Larkin witnessed his brother die in a boating accident and, because he had never learned to swim, was unable to save him. Larkin stated that his brother's death deeply scarred him.

Larkin attended the Art School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts where he studied under Arthur Lismer (a member of the Group of Seven) before starting to work at the National Film Board of Canada in 1962.

NFB years
At the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Larkin learned animation techniques from the ground-breaking and award-winning animator Norman McLaren. He made two acclaimed short animated films, Syrinx (1965) and Cityscape (1966), before going on to create Walking (1969). Walking was nominated for an Academy Award in 1970 in the category Best Short Subject, Cartoon, but lost to It's Tough to Be a Bird by director Ward Kimball. Syrinx won many international awards. He went on to direct the award-winning short Street Musique, which premiered in 1972 and would be the last of his works, finished during his lifetime.

He also contributed art work and animation effects to NFB films including the 1974 feature Running Time, directed by Mort Ransen, in which Larkin also played three bit parts.

In 1975, the NFB commissioned Larkin to create a mural for the entrance foyer at its Montreal headquarters. Larkin, who was bi-sexual, delivered a piece featuring an adolescent boy with an erection, which the NFB removed from viewing.

Larkin left the NFB in 1982.

Ryan, the film (2004)
In later years, Larkin was plagued by a downward spiral of drug abuse, alcoholism and homelessness. By this time, estranged from his parents, he had developed a routine of spending his nights at Montreal's Old Brewery Mission, and his days panhandling at Schwartz's Deli, eating at Mondo Fritz, drinking beer at the Copacabana bar, or reading a book in the lounge at Welch's used book store. In 2004, he was back in the limelight when a 14-minute computer-animated documentary on his life, Ryan, by Canadian animator Chris Landreth, won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film and screened to acclaim at film festivals throughout the world. Alter Egos (2004), directed by Laurence Green, is a documentary about the making of Ryan that includes interviews with both Larkin and Chris Landreth as well as with various people who knew Larkin at the peak of his success.

Later work
As of 2002, Larkin was working with composer Laurie Gordon of the band 'Chiwawa' on a new animated film entitled Spare Change, his first auteur film since working at the NFB. Together, they founded Spare Change Productions and sought funding for the film through Gordon's production company MusiVision. They received grants from Bravo!FACT, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and SODEC but were still short of financing. MusiVision and the National Film Board of Canada went into co-production only after Larkin's death.

Spare Change, which premiered at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema on October 9, 2008, features three Chiwawa tunes for which Larkin created storyboards and animation, including Do It For Me from the 2005 album Bright. The 2009 Chiwawa album Bus Stop Chinese Buffet include tracks from Spare Change; the lyrics of Overcast Skies were penned by Larkin.

MusiVision's Gordon and Nicola Zavaglia also produced the documentary film Ryan's Renaissance for CTV Television about Ryan's final years, his return to creating art, and Spare Change. Larkin, who had panhandled outside Montreal Schwartz's deli, appeared briefly in a documentary on the famous restaurant, Chez Schwartz, directed by Garry Beitel.

In December 2006, Larkin created three five-second bumpers for MTV in Canada, a preview to Spare Change. Each frame was hand-drawn. It was the first professional work he had executed in over 20 years. Larkin said that he had given up some bad habits, including drinking, in order to better focus on his animating career.

Death
Larkin died in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, on February 14, 2007, from lung cancer, which had spread to his brain.

Filmography
The Ball Resolver in Antac – animated short, Bernard Longpré 1964 – co-animator with William Pettigrew
Syrinx – animated short, 1965 – director
Cityscape – animated short, 1966 - animator, producer, director
The Canadian Forces Hydrofoil Ship: Concept and Design – documentary short, Martin Defalco and Kenneth McCready 1967 – co-animator with Sidney Goldsmith
 Walking – animated short, 1968 – animator, producer, director
Street Musique – animated short, 1972 - animator, producer, director
Running Time – feature, Mort Ransen 1974 – co-animator with Co Hoedeman
The Agency – feature, George Kaczender, RSL Entertainment 1981 – co-animator with Ida Eva Zielinska
Gulf Stream – documentary short, William Hansen and Bruce Mackay, 1982 – co-animator with Meilan Lam, Kenneth Horn and Sydney Goldsmith
Spare Change – animated short, 2008 – writer, animator, designer, cinematographer, co-director with Laurie Gordon

Awards

Syrinx (1965)
 18th Canadian Film Awards, Montreal: Genie Award for Best Film, Arts and Experimental, 1966
 Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Certificate of Motion Picture Excellence, 1966
 International Film Festival at Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: First Prize, Best Short film, 1966
 Philadelphia International Festival of Short Films, Philadelphia: Award for Exceptional Merit, 1968

Cityscape (1966)
 Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Honorable Mention, Film-as-Art, 1967

Walking (1968)
 21st Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Genie Award for Best Animated Film 1969
 Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago:  Gold Hugo for Best Animated Film, 1969
 American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, 1969
 Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide: Silver Southern Cross Plaque, 1969
 Kraków Film Festival, Kraków: Award of the Science and Art Films Committee, 1969
 Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Certificate of Merit, Short Films, 1969
 La Plata International Children's Film Festival, La Plata: Honourable Mention, 1969
 Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne: Silver Boomerang – Silver Boomerang, 1970
 Salerno Film Festival, Salerno: Diploma of Merit, 1970
 International Week of Cinema in Colour, Barcelona: Silver Medal, 1970
 Roshd International Film Festival, Tehran: Golden Delfan - General Release, Children and Young Adults, 1971
 San Francisco Short Film Festival, San Francisco: Certificate of Merit in Recognition of the Artistic Quality and Significance of the Work of Ryan Larkin for the film Walking, 1976
 42nd Academy Awards, Los Angeles: Nominee: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, 1970

Street Musique (1972)
 International Week of Animation Cinema, Barcelona: Molinillo de Oro, First Prize, Special Techniques, 1972
 Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne: Grand Prix – Gold Boomerang, 1973
 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen: First Prize of the International Animation Film Jury, 1973
 Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Bronze Plaque, 1973
 FIBA International Festival of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires: Honorable Mention, 1974

See also
History of Canadian animation

References

External links

Ryan Larkin at the NFB (watch Street Musique and Walking for free)
 Animation World Magazine - Last Exit on St. Laurent Street
 NFB Web page for the animated short Ryan
 NFB Web page for the documentary Alter Egos
 Film Reference Library biography

1943 births
2007 deaths
Anglophone Quebec people
Artists from Montreal
Bisexual male artists
Canadian animators
Canadian sculptors
Deaths from cancer in Quebec
Deaths from lung cancer
Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Animated Short
Film directors from Montreal
LGBT animators
National Film Board of Canada people
People from Saint-Hyacinthe
20th-century Canadian LGBT people
Canadian bisexual artists

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The Tourist and Heritage Railways Act 2010 (the THR Act) is a law enacted by the Parliament of the State of Victoria, Australia and is the prime statute regulating the activities of tourist and heritage rail operators in the State.  The Act covers the bulk of Victoria's operational tourist and heritage railways including many heavy and light rail operations and tramways, predominantly in regional areas of Victoria.

The Tourist and Heritage Railways Act and the supporting regulations were developed by the Transport Legislation Review conducted by the Department of Transport.  The Act was the first dedicated statute in Victoria for the tourist and heritage railways sector (the THR sector) and is also the only dedicated principal statute for the THR sector in Australia.  The Act was passed in late 2010 and came into force on 1 October 2011.  It replaced provisions regulating the THR sector in the Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983.

The Tourist and Heritage Railways Act is part of the transport policy and legislation framework in Victoria headed by the Transport Integration Act.

Outline

The broad purpose of the Act is ". . . to promote the long term viability of the tourist and heritage railway sector and promote an improvement in the operations of that sector as part of an integrated and sustainable transport system . . ."

The Act establishes a regulatory scheme with the following key elements:
 development of an asset register for tourist and heritage assets including state-owned assets
 provision for new lease agreements for the state rail assets used by tourist and heritage operators
 creation of a voluntary registration scheme
 establishment of a Tourist and Heritage Railways Registrar and advisory committee.

Industry background
The Tourist and Heritage Railways Act and the background to its development and passage was summarised by Ian Shepherd, Kate Williams and Jenny Gabriele in an article in the Railway Gazette International.  The authors noted that "With around 60 tourist and heritage railways or tramways, Australia has more lines per capita that Europe or the USA.  A third of them are in Victoria, where Australia's railway preservation movement started with the formation of the Puffing Billy Preservation Society in 1955."  The tourist and heritage railways sector in Victoria today consists of organisations which operate, restore and preserve tourist and heritage railways and tramways.  It is estimated that around 3,500 Victorians are actively involved in the industry.  As of 1 January 2011 there were around 22 organisations across the State although only 17 are expected to be subject to the new statute.  The THR organisations operate in various locations across Victoria, primarily in regional areas.  The railways attract tourism and provide economic benefits to the regional areas where they operate with an estimated half a million people visiting the railways each year.

Parts

The Act is divided into seven parts:
 Preliminary
 Administration
 Tourist and Heritage Rail Asset Register
 Lease Agreements
 Voluntary Accreditation Scheme
 General
 Consequential Amendments and Savings

Coverage

The Act regulates the majority of the operational tourist and heritage railways in Victoria.  To be covered by the Act, a tourist and heritage railway operator must be a not for profit organisation that provides historical and heritage-related rail services mostly for tourists and mostly in Victoria. The following railways are covered by the Act:

Alexandra Timber and Tramway Museum
 Ballarat Tramway Museum
 Bellarine Railway
 Bendigo Tramways
 Daylesford Spa Country Railway
 Diesel Electric Railmotor Preservation Association of Victoria
 Melbourne Tramcar Preservation Society
 Mornington Railway Preservation Society
Portland Cable Tram
 R707 Operations
 Red Cliffs Steam Railway
 Seymour Railway Heritage Centre
 South Gippsland Railway
 Steamrail Victoria
 Victorian Goldfields Railway
 Walhalla Goldfields Railway
 Yarra Valley Railway.

The Act does not apply to Victoria's most popular tourist and heritage railway, Puffing Billy. Instead, the Puffing Billy Railway is regulated by its own statute, the Emerald Tourist Railway Act 1977. The Tourist and Heritage Railways Act does also not extend to static rail exhibits such as the Williamstown Rail Museum.

Regulators

The prime regulator of the tourist and heritage railway sector in Victoria is the Director, Transport Safety or Transport Safety Victoria (TSV). The prime regulators of the tourist and heritage railway sector in Victoria are VicTrack and the Public Transport Development Authority (trading as Public Transport Victoria).

VicTrack holds all State owned rail land, infrastructure and assets. VicTrack leases assets to tourist and heritage railway operators when they are not required for mainstream transport operations and therefore non operational. Public Transport Victoria provides general coordination and support to the THR sector and is a regulator under the Act.

VicTrack

VicTrack is established under the Transport Integration Act and is required under that Act to ". . . provide or enable access to the non-operational transport-related land, infrastructure or assets where this supports the transport system . . . ".  VicTrack is charged with considering providing this access for a variety of reasons including for ". . . tourist and heritage rail operations . . ." and ". . . through the granting of leases for business or community purposes . . . ".  As part of this function, VicTrack is required to collaborate with the Secretary of the Department of Transport, or more particularly Public Transport Victoria, in protecting land, infrastructure and assets which are registered on the Victorian Heritage Register.  VicTrack must do this ". . . whilst ensuring that reasonable access is provided for public enjoyment and historical appreciation and that support is provided to tourist and heritage operators . . . ".

The Registrar
Part 2 of the Act provides that the Director must appoint a person to be the Tourist and Heritage Railway Registrar.  The Registrar is the key administrator for the purposes of the Act.   The function of the Registrar is to compile and maintain an asset register for the sector, a register of lease agreements granted by VicTrack and a group register for THR railway groups.

Advisory committee

The Act enables Public Transport Victoria to establish an advisory committee to provide advice to PTV on—
 the voluntary registration scheme for T and H operators; and
 other matters relating to the provision of historical and heritage related rail services.

The number of members and the composition of the advisory committee is set out in regulations made under the Act.

Rail asset register
Part 3 of the Tourist and Heritage Railways Act provides for establishment and operation of a tourist and heritage rail asset register.  The broad purpose of the Part is to gather and maintain accurate information about THR assets.  The register is required to be established by Public Transport Victoria and divided into three divisions listing assets owned by the State, assets owned by custodians and assets owned by persons other than the State or the custodian which the owner has elected to include on the register.  The remainder of the provisions regulate the information to be included in the register, the form of the register and access, currency and accuracy of information, inspection of assets and the relationship of the register to the separate Victorian Heritage Register established under the Heritage Act 1995.

Lease agreements
Part 4 of the Act sets out a scheme to facilitate the leasing of land and assets by VicTrack for tourist and heritage railways purposes.  The Act provides power for VicTrack to grant leases of land which must include  a range of matters including a description of the land and fixtures, the term of the lease, the amount of rent (if payable), maintenance and insurance arrangements, subleasing rights or restrictions, reclamation rights and other matters.  Similar provision is made for the leasing of assets and these also require the lease to include certain minimum terms.  The Part also imposes a duty on VicTrack to provide copies of leases to the Registrar who must keep a register of the agreements and details about duration and renewal.

Voluntary accreditation scheme

Part 5 of the Act provides for a voluntary accreditation scheme for tourist and heritage railway operators.  Public Transport Victoria is required to establish the scheme and a register known as the Tourist and Heritage Railway Group Register.  The purpose of the scheme is to enable operators which meet certain criteria to register in order to demonstrate their commitment to best business practice and continuous improvement and to access programs and initiatives made available under the scheme.

The other provisions in the Part regulate the matters to be recorded in the register, applications for registration, registration itself, changes of details, removal from the register and rights of review to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal concerning decisions made by the Registrar.

Other notable provisions
The Act contains two general provisions in Part 6.  The first provision confirms that THR operators are not required to fence railways or contribute to fencing costs and that operators are not liable for any damage which may be caused by the railway not being fenced.  The remaining and final provision in the Act confers power on the Governor in Council to make regulations to support the Act including in relation to the asset register, criteria for registration on the group register, fees for registration, safety in connection with TH railways, powers of THR operators, conduct requirements, trespassing and interference with equipment, fixtures and other things.

Development

The development of the proposal for the Tourist and Heritage Railways Act was managed by the Department of Transport in Victoria as part of its  Transport Legislation Review project.

The Department commenced the process by holding an inter Government agency workshop in June 2008 followed by workshops with the THR sector in August of that year.  This was followed by a period of research and policy development leading into further workshops and target consultation with the industry in April 2010 where new regulatory concepts were outlined in detail.  Ultimately, the proposal for a new regulatory scheme for the tourist and heritage railways sector was presented to the Victorian Parliament as proposed legislation in late July 2010.

Parliamentary approval

Introduction
The Tourist and Heritage Railways Act was introduced into the upper house of the Victorian Parliament, the Legislative Council, as the Tourist and Heritage Railways Bill 2010.  The responsible Minister for the proposal was the Minister for Public Transport, the Hon Martin Pakula MLC.  The Hon Justin Madden MLC, the Minister for Planning, moved the second reading of the Bill on 27 July 2010 on behalf of the Public Transport Minister.

Second reading speech

The Minister set the context for the Bill in his second reading speech in support of the Bill as follows:

"The Bill is aligned to the Transport Integration Act's new vision and shared objectives for transport in Victoria. This vision is one of an integrated and sustainable transport system. A sustainable transport system works to secure ongoing economic, social and environmental benefits for the state. It must promote social outcomes and economic prosperity. The transport system should also support the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

The tourist and heritage railway sector makes vital and significant contributions in these areas. Victoria's tourist and heritage railways positively contribute to community spirit and conserve Victoria's heritage for future generations.  The groups provide a foundation for local and regional community involvement and make major contributions, both directly and indirectly, to community wellbeing. The railways also attract local, regional and international tourism, benefiting local business and employment.

The Bill renews and modernises legislation applying to the tourist and heritage rail sector to ensure the sector is equipped to make these social and economic contributions both now and in the future. The groups that comprise the sector are diverse, but all groups within the scope of this Bill share common characteristics. They are active rail operators with strong heritage objectives, and they attract patronage from tourists and visitors. Indeed, tourist and heritage railways attract more than half a million visitors each year, bringing clear economic value to the State. Their operations run under not-for-profit organisational structures and revenue from visitors is of primary importance. Typically, the groups draw heavily on volunteers. They also rely on donations, Government grants and external funding for capital projects as well as for day-to-day activities.

Tourist and heritage rail operators keenly restore, preserve and operate heritage and other unique types of trains and trams. Approximately 3500 people are actively engaged in operational rail and tram preservation activities in Victoria—as employees, as members and as volunteers. The sector's story, collectively, is one of success. Victorians can be justly proud of their tourist and heritage railways and the social, economic and cultural benefits they bring to the State.

"This Bill supports these important not-for-profit groups to promote their ongoing viability. Entities that operate historical or heritage-related rail and tram services primarily as a tourist activity are given new settings under the Bill. This includes better arrangements relating to land and asset use, and access to a voluntary registration scheme that will promote improved performance and business practices.".

Debate and passage
The Tourist and Heritage Railways Bill was strongly supported by the Opposition parties and other members during its passage through the Victorian Parliament.

Upper house
The lead Liberal Party speaker in the first house of passage the Legislative Council, David Koch MLC, observed that—

This is a common-sense Bill that corrects and ties up many loose ends for these small rail operations, which will now have their own advisory group and great support from the Department of Transport in undertaking what I think is seen collectively as an important part of the tourism industry and of preserving our history.

The Bill was passed by the Legislative Council on 12 August 2010 after a short debate and introduced into the lower house, the Legislative Assembly, on the same day.

Lower house

Support from the Opposition parties for the Bill was equally strong in the Legislative Assembly.  The lead speaker in the Legislative Assembly, the then Shadow Transport Minister and now the Minister for Public Transport in the Victorian Government, Terry Mulder MP, commented that—

"The Bill comes about as a result of the tourist and heritage railway operators, the manner in which their organisations were functioning and the fact that they were looking for a significant level of support in terms of viability and ongoing operation for their visitors. They provide a great tourist attraction here in Victoria in promoting the heritage of our railway networks, and it is commendable that the Government has picked up this issue and decided to throw its support behind these organisations, many of which are run by volunteers and people who are absolutely passionate about trains and particularly passionate about some of the older trains that were on the tracks hauling passengers on our railway network in the very early years.

The level of support for this Bill—and I have emails of support from a couple of the operators—indicates to me that the negotiations the operators have had with the government have been conducted in a pretty fine spirit . . .".

Passage, assent and commencement
After several procedural delays, the Tourist and Heritage Railways Bill was ultimately passed by the Victorian Parliament on 7 October 2010. The Bill received royal assent on 19 October 2010 to become the Tourist and Heritage Railways Act 2010.

Regulations
The Tourist and Heritage Railways Act was proclaimed to commence on 1 October 2011.  The Tourist and Heritage Railways Regulations 2011 were made to support the operation of the Act after being developed by the Department of Transport and commenced on the same day.  They were released for public comment and then approved by the Minister and presented to the Governor in Council for making and commencement.

Safety regulation

Legislation

The safety compliance of most rail transport in Victoria is regulated under the Rail Safety Act 2006. The main railways regulated include the Melbourne heavy rail system, the Melbourne tram and light rail network, Victoria's regional standard and broad gauge rail networks and regional tourist and heritage railways.  Operators are subject to safety duties, a requirement to be accredited and a range of compliance sanctions.  Railways excluded from coverage under the Act include railways in mines, amusement and theme park railways and slipways.

Regulator

The safety regulator for the application and enforcement of the Rail Safety Act 2006 and therefore the oversight of the safety performance of the tourist and heritage rail sector in Victoria is the Director, Transport Safety. The Director operates under the trading name, Transport Safety Victoria.  The office of the Director is established under the Transport Integration Act 2010 and is independent of the Department of Transport and responsible Ministers except in limited circumstances.

See also

 Rail transport in Victoria
 Heritage railways
 Railways in Melbourne
 Trams in Melbourne
 Transport Legislation Review
 Transport Integration Act
 Director of Public Transport
 Public Transport Development Authority
 Director, Transport Safety
 Director, Public Transport Safety
 VicTrack
 Safety

References

External links
 Department of Transport
 Transport Safety Victoria

Victoria (state) legislation
Rail transport preservation in Australia
Tourist and Heritage Railways Act
2010 in Australian law
2010s in Victoria (state)
History of rail transport in Australia
2010 in rail transport
Transport legislation

Tourist and Heritage Railways Act


Faisal Masud () (16 October 1954 – 16 August 2019) was a renowned Pakistani endocrinologist.

He served as the founding principal at Services Institute of Medical Sciences affiliated with the Services Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan. He also served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Health Sciences and a vice-chancellor of the King Edward Medical University, Lahore (January 2013–February 2017).

Education and career
Faisal obtained his MBBS degree in 1976, from Nishtar Medical College, Multan. He became a member of Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London in 1982 and a Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh in 1998, where his area of interest was endocrinology. He started his teaching career from Allama Iqbal Medical College in 1982 and then moved on to teach at King Edward Medical College, Lahore, and Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore.

He was passionate in his belief that the medical colleges and universities should adopt liberalism. He encouraged basic research and sometimes referred to clinical research as mere "stamp collecting effort". Although he himself started as a clinical researcher with numerous research publications to his credit, over time his emphasis shifted more towards the basic research. He wanted to create a multi-disciplinary research group as he often said, "the best research proposals come from cross insemination of ideas from unrelated fields". He managed to create an endowment fund for SIMS to provide annual research grants to the promising young researchers. In this process, he established a system of grant assessment and research audit. This effort resulted in the birth of the research journal at SIMS, named Esculapio.

In 2003, in the face of stiff administrative opposition, he started a comprehensive diabetes management center at services hospital Lahore where he was serving as a professor at that time. His daughter helped him write a software for this center to create a huge database of more than 84,000 patients with diabetes. This center was upgraded with philanthropic support in 2004 to the full-fledged department of endocrinology and metabolism to impart post-graduate endocrine training. In recognition of this effort, College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan elected him as its first fellow in the field of endocrinology in 2010.

Role in Dengue epidemic 2011
In 2011, when the province of Punjab faced an epidemic of Dengue fever, he was appointed by the government to head a group of experts to draw up treatment protocols and algorithms for its management. This group of experts DEAG (Dengue Expert Advisory Group) was instrumental in training of family physicians, doctors and paramedics and publication of GCP (Good clinical practice) guidelines for the management of dengue fever. For his efforts during this epidemic he was decorated with Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 2013. Soon afterwards he got promoted in recognition of the meritorious services rendered by him during the epidemic.

PIC related drug reaction
In early December 2011, soon after the end of dengue epidemic, Lahore hospitals started receiving patients with bone marrow suppression. Most of them tested positive for dengue IgM raising a possibility of some aberrant form of dengue disease. He was the first one to raise alarm about the possibility of a drug reaction, pointing to the common denominator of the consumption of PIC (Punjab Institute of Cardiology) dispensed medications. He strongly disagreed with the possibility of it being a variant of Dengue. He was a member appointed to inquire into this matter. He was proven right when the problem was traced to a heart medicine that was heavily contaminated with antimalarial (pyrimethamine) which is known for its hematological side effects.

Hospital automation and EMR
His enthusiasm to embrace IT as a tool for effective management and for gleaning authentic data for resource allocation was greeted with muted scepticism, considering the previous attempts at other institutions were the absolute failure. Within three years he not only prepared the EMR and hospital management software but also got it implemented. When asked he once said, "changing the hardened attitudes in a public sector establishment is the biggest challenge".

Although his administrative abilities were doubted, he proved his critics wrong when he established Services Institute of Medical Sciences, in the face of stiff opposition. Services Institute of Medical Sciences is now a premier destination for the students seeking quality medical education. He achieved phenomenal success in creating acceptability of the institution which was recognised by Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, University of Health Sciences and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan. Results declared by the independent examining body, UHS, show extraordinary achievements of SIMS. He believed in the need for meticulous planning for the future while drawing up development plans. His development plans often faced bureaucratic obstacles for being too ambitious. He was relegated to political backwaters because he was often bracketed with the outgoing government of PML-Q of 2008; but in spite of the fiscal constraints he managed to upgrade the infra-structure including OPD tower, radiology block in addition to the three-story air-conditioned waiting hall, Accidents and Emergency Department with 16 slice CT Scanner thereby almost doubling the covered area of the hospital. His interest in the endocrine disorders was, perhaps, the reason behind the establishment of assisted conception Unit at SHL. Although a physician by training, his faculty members often called him a surgeon by temperament. Not surprisingly he invested disproportionately in surgical sector upgrading ENT, Urology, General surgery, Ophthalmology Department and operation theatres.

Early and personal life
Born in a conservative family of Kashmiri origin, with ancestral base at Shopian, Faisal Masud was educated at different schools as his father, who was a civil servant, got posted to different places all over Punjab, Pakistan. In spite of achieving top merit in his FSc, he opted to study at Nishtar Medical College, Multan to a great displeasure of his father. During his university time, he was not one of the most regular students but still managed to achieve top academic scores. Once asked later in his life about his ambivalent attitude, he remarked, "they didn't cater for my needs". His education in the UK was marked by his training by his mentor. He often confessed to the great influence of his mentor, after whom he modelled himself. There he met his wife to be.
He was an active writer of English short stories.

Death
On 16 August 2019, Faisal Masud suffered a cardiac arrest and was shifted to Iqra Medical Complex, where he was pronounced dead. He was involved as the founding Director General at the Punjab Human Organ Transplantation Authority (PHOTA) at the time of his death.

Research Papers & Publications
Glycaemic behaviour of rice & wheat as a part of mixed Pakistani diet, Pakistan Journal of Medical Research, Vol. 28, No.1, Jan–March 1989
The Profile of patients with Ischaemic Heart Disease, Pakistan Journal of Medical Research, Vol. 29, No. 2, April–June 1990
Pheochromocytoma, Pakistan Journal of Medical Research, Vol. 26, No. 2, April–June 1987
Secondary Failure with sulphonylureas, Biomedica, Vol. 9, July- December 1990
Combination Treatment of Type II Diabetes, Biomedica, Vol. 10, Jan–June 1991
Comparison of metabolic control achieved with twice a day beef versus human Insulin in Pakistani population, Specialist, Vol. 8, No. 3, April–June 1992
Assessment of metabolic profile and Body Mass Index in Type II diabetes treated with Metformin and Insulin, Specialist, Vol. 9, No. 1, Oct–Dec 1992
Insulin Sparing Effect of glibenclamide in poorly controlled type ii diabetics and its effect on body mass index, Specialist:, Vol. 9, No. 2, Jan–March 1993
Cutting needle thyroid biopsy in the preoperative evaluation of isotopically cold, solitary, solid thyroid nodule Specialist, Vol. 9, No. 3, April–June 1993
Serological markers of Hepatitis-C Virus infection in patients with Chronic Active Hepatitis, Pakistan Journal of Gastroenterology: Vol. 6. No. 1. 1992
Efficacy of alpha Interferon in the treatment of Hepatitis C positive Chronic Active Hepatitis (CAH), Pakistan Journal of Gastroentrology, Vol. 7. No. 1, 1993
Autonomic dysfunction of GI system in the diabetic population, Pakistan Journal of Gastroenterology, Vol. 8. No. 1, 1994
Acanthosis Nigricans in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, Specialist:, Vol. 11, No. 3, April–June 1995
Insulin resistance and hyper-insulinaemia in patients with ischaemic heart disease, Specialist, Vol. 12, No. 3, April–June 1996
Review: Breaking insulin resistance with thiazolidinediones, Esculapio, Vol.1, No. 1. April–June 2005
Can vascular pathology in cerebral and coronary fields predict peripheral artery disease in a cohort of diabetic patients?, Esculapio, Vol.1, No. 2, July–Sep 2005
The effect of age and lipid profiles on peripheral vascular disease in a cohort of diabetic patients Esculapio, Vol.1, No. 3, Oct–Dec 2005
Anthropometric measurements as a determinant and predictor of peripheral vascular disease in a cohort of diabetic patients, Esculapio, Vol.1, No. 3, Oct–Dec 2005
Helicobacter pylori- role in decompensation of patients with HCV-positive chronic liver disease, Esculapio, Vol.1, No. 3, Oct–Dec 2005
Role of clinical diagnosis to ascertain the type of stroke, Esculapio, Vol. 1, No. 4, Jan–March 2006
Vitamin D levels for optimum bone health, Singapore Med J, Vol. 48, No. 3, 2007

Topical therapy for neuropathic diabetic foot ulcers, Esculapio: Vol. 1, No.4. Jan–March 2006

References

External links
Services Institute of Medical Sciences

1954 births
2019 deaths
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Vice-Chancellors of the King Edward Medical University
Pakistani diabetologists
Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent
Academics from Lahore
Academic staff of the Services Institute of Medical Sciences
Pakistani endocrinologists
People from Gujrat, Pakistan
Recipients of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz

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Alicios Theluji (last name pronounced Ze-loo-gee), (born in 1987), is a Congolese recording artist, based in Nairobi, Kenya. She sings in Swahili and Lingala, but is also fluent in English and French.

Background and education
She was born in Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1987, to "Jacky Kahara Laini" and a father who was a businessman. Her mother was a singer and tailor. Theluji's father died in an automobile accident when she was four years old.

The family, which included Theluji, two siblings and their mother, relocated to Kinshasa, the capital and largest city in DR Congo. In 1993, when she was six years old, the family visited Kenya, but they returned to DR Congo. In 1996, when the First Congo War that removed Mobutu Sese Seko from power broke out, the family took refugee in Nairobi.

Alicios attended St. Mary's School, Nairobi for her high school education. She then left Kenya to attend Blekinge Institute of Technology, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. She also holds a Master of Science in Business Management from an institution in Sweden.

Career
Alicios recorded her first song Mpita Njia, was recorded in 2011 and released in 2012, when she was still an undergraduate. The song, composed and written by Alicios, included collaboration with Ugandan performing artist Juliana Kanyomozi. Alicios maintains a successful solo-recording career, with collaboration from other leading East African artists on some of the records. She now spends lot of her time in Sweden where her mother and step-sister also live.

In 2017 Alicios signed a recording deal with Kenya's Biggest Record label Taurus Musik which is also label for Lady Jaydee Alicios Theluji is the mother to one son, born circa 2015, is called Kito. His father is also DR Congolese and he and Alicios met when she was 13 years old.

See also
Cindy Le Coeur
M'bilia Bel
Nathalie Makoma

References

External links
 List of Alicios Theluji Videos At Youtube.com

Living people
1987 births
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo women singers
Democratic Republic of the Congo songwriters
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people

Alicios Theluji


The Focke-Wulf Project I was a design study for a jet fighter, to be built in Germany during World War II. In 1942, the Reichsluftministerium (RLM) asked Professor Kurt Tank of the Focke-Wulf factory to investigate the possibility of a single-engine jet fighter. He was given the development plans of the BMW 003, Jumo 004 and Heinkel HeS 011 engines. Late in 1942 the Project Office, led by Ludwig Mittelhuber, began to work on a series of fighter projects, to be powered by one of these new turbojet units.

The first proposed design featured a BMW P.330 2 or Jumo 004 engine, positioned on the fuselage back. The pilot was situated in the fuselage nose, and underneath were four units of armament. Its mid-wing was swept forward and the V-tail was swept back. The mainwheels of the tricycle undercarriage were so positioned under the fuselage that they could lie between themselves, when retracted.

Specifications (as designed)

See also
Emergency Fighter Program

References

Abandoned military aircraft projects of Germany
Project I
Single-engined jet aircraft
Forward-swept-wing aircraft
V-tail aircraft

Focke-Wulf Project I


Alfred William Bedford OBE AFC FRAeS (18 November 1920 – 20 October 1996) was a British test pilot and pioneered the development of V/STOL aircraft.

Bedford was born on 18 November 1920 at Loughborough and was educated at Loughborough College. He was serving an electrical a mechanical apprenticeship and training to be a steeplejack when the war started.

Bedford joined the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot in 1940. He flew the Hawker Hurricane and the Republic Thunderbolt with No. 605 Squadron RAF and No. 135 Squadron RAF, and the North American Mustang with No. 65 Squadron RAF. Bedford was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1945. After the war, he took a permanent commission with the RAF and became an all-weather flying instructor and tutor at the Empire Test Pilots' School.

On 24 August 1950, an Eon Olympia glider flown by Bill Bedford broke the British distance record by flying 310 km in 3:50 hr. On 2 May 1951 Bedford broke this record with a flight of 413 km from Farnborough to Newcastle.

On his retirement in 1951, he joined Hawker Siddeley and was chief test pilot from 1956 till 1967. Together with his colleague Hugh Merewether he pioneered Hawker's development of V/STOL aircraft. Bedford was the first pilot to fly the Hawker P.1127, Kestrel, and Harrier. In addition to his land-based test pilot duties, he also pioneered the operation of V/STOL aircraft from a ship - the P.1127 on HMS Ark Royal in 1963.

From 1968, he became the Sales Manager for Hawker Siddeley Aviation and later marketing manager when it became British Aerospace. Bedford retired in 1986 and died on 20 October 1996 in West End Esher, Surrey.

Bedford's awards include the King's Commendation, the Order of the British Empire, and the Air Force Cross. In addition, he was awarded the Britannia, Segrave and de Havilland trophies. In 1994, he was awarded the Sir Peter Masefield Gold Medal.

Notes

References
British Aerospace Harrier - Aviation History magazine
Obituary
Test & Research Pilots retrieved 14 June 2008.

1920 births
1996 deaths
Military personnel from Leicestershire
People from Loughborough
English test pilots
Royal Air Force officers
Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society
British World War II pilots
Alumni of Loughborough University
Britannia Trophy winners
Alumni of Loughborough College
Segrave Trophy recipients
Harrier Jump Jet
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Airfix Magazine was the first British magazine dedicated to the hobby of plastic modelling. It was launched in 1960 in association with the model kit company Airfix, and ceased publication in 1993. Originally a small-format magazine, it increased in sized eventually to A4 format in January 1976. It covered various scale modelling subjects, including aircraft, railways, ships, vehicles (military and civilian), and military figures.
Although carrying the Airfix branding, the magazine was impartial in its editorial content and featured kits from other manufacturers.

History
The first issue was dated June 1960. The title was taken over by PSL Publications Ltd. in 1967. From 1978, it was produced by a succession of small publishers (with some interruptions) until September 1987. The title was subsequently acquired by Alan W. Hall (Publications) Ltd. and publishing resumed with the September 1988 issue.  Occasionally reduced to a bi-monthly periodical,  publication finally ceased after the October/November 1993 issue.

In 2010, Key Publishing launched Airfix Model World, a magazine very similar in concept to Airfix Magazine.

Related publications
To complement the magazine, Airfix Magazine Annuals were produced for the years 1972 to 1979. In addition, the Airfix Magazine Guide series of A5-size scale modelling guide books on various subjects were also published during the 1970s.

References

External links
Scanned issues of Airfix Magazine (mostly 1969-74) at Archive.org

1960 establishments in the United Kingdom
1993 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1960
Magazines disestablished in 1993
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Hobby magazines published in the United Kingdom
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Lucy Maria Powell (born 10 October 1974) is a British politician serving as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons since 2023. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Central since 2012.

Prior to her election, she worked in campaigning and PR roles for Britain in Europe, NESTA and the Labour Party. She was a shadow Cabinet Office minister and vice-chair for the 2015 United Kingdom general election campaign. She was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Education in September 2015, but resigned in June 2016. She served as Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers from April 2020 to May 2021, and Shadow Secretary of State for Housing from May to November 2021.

Early life
Powell was born in Moss Side. She attended Beaver Road Primary School and Parrs Wood High School in the suburb of Didsbury, and then studied for A-levels at Xaverian College. She studied Chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and King's College London.

Political career

Powell began her career working as a parliamentary assistant for Beverley Hughes MP, after having worked at the Labour Party Headquarters in Millbank Tower during the 1997 general election campaign.

She joined the pro-Euro and pro-EU Treaty pressure group Britain in Europe (BiE), originally in a public relations role and later as head of regional campaigning. She replaced Simon Buckby as Campaign Director of BiE. In this capacity, she worked with Chris Patten, Neil Kinnock, Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander.

After Britain in Europe was wound down in June 2005 because of the referendum "No" votes in France and the Netherlands, she worked for the non-departmental public body or quango NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), initially in a public affairs role and later to establish and manage the Manchester Innovation Fund project.

She was selected as prospective parliamentary candidate for Manchester Withington in April 2007. She failed to defeat  the incumbent Liberal Democrat, John Leech at the 2010 general election.

From May 2010 to September 2010 Powell managed Ed Miliband's successful campaign for the Labour Party leadership. She then served as Miliband's acting and later deputy chief of staff from September 2010 to April 2012. She was selected by the local Constituency Labour Party (CLP) in April 2012 for the upcoming Manchester Central by-election, defeating local councillors Mike Amesbury (who became an MP in 2017) and Rosa Battle and the London councillor Patrick Vernon.

The by-election was triggered by Tony Lloyd, who stepped down as its MP to contest the 2012 England and Wales Police and Crime Commissioner elections for Greater Manchester Police area.

Member of Parliament (2012–present)
Powell was elected at the Manchester Central by-election held in November 2012. She won the election with a majority of 9,936 votes.

Voter turnout of 18.2% at the by-election is believed to be the lowest in a by-election since the Second World War. Powell became Manchester's first female Labour member of parliament and the first woman elected from Manchester since 1964.

Powell first joined the opposition front-bench in October 2013 as Shadow Childcare and Early Years Minister, and entered the Shadow Cabinet in November 2014 as Shadow Cabinet Office Minister.

Powell was appointed vice-chair of the 2015 general election campaign by Ed Miliband, in which Labour suffered a net loss of 26 seats, including a net loss of 40 seats in Scotland. She was heavily criticised for apparently suggesting that Labour's election pledges were liable to be broken: in talking about the so-called EdStone, she commented: "I don't think anyone is suggesting that the fact that he's carved them into stone means that he is absolutely not going to break them or anything like that." She said that she had been quoted out of context. She was responsible for Ed Miliband's interview with Russell Brand, described as a PR blunder. As a result of these actions coupled to the result, Tanya Gold, writing for The Sunday Times, described her as "discredited". In response to the result, Powell stated, "I bear my share of responsibility in this".

In the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, she nominated Andy Burnham.

Powell was appointed as Shadow Education Secretary on 13 September 2015 by Jeremy Corbyn, succeeding Tristram Hunt. As Shadow Education Secretary, she argued for bringing free schools and academies under Local Education Authority control. She resigned from the Shadow Cabinet on 26 June 2016, along with dozens of shadow cabinet colleagues unhappy with Corbyn's leadership. She supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour leadership election. However, she later stated that, "We were wrong about Jeremy Corbyn" in an interview following the 2017 general election.

In September 2017, the political commentator Iain Dale placed Powell at Number 81 in The 100 Most Influential People on the Left.

In September 2018, Powell introduced legislation in the House of Commons to ban secret, private, invite-only groups on Facebook and hold moderators legally responsible for hate speech or defamation on forums. She is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.

On 9 April 2020, Powell rejoined the Labour front bench when she was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers by new party leader Keir Starmer. In a minor reshuffle in May 2021, she was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, succeeding Thangam Debbonaire.

In the November 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle, Powell was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Powell has described herself as a "tech optimist".

Personal life
Powell is married to James Williamson, an emergency medicine doctor, and has three children – a step-son, a daughter, and a son who was born on 27 May 2013.

She supports Manchester City football club.

Notes

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References

External links

Lucy Powell Twitter account
articles by Lucy Powell at The Guardian

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21st-century English women politicians
Alumni of King's College London
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Lovelace is a 2013 biographical drama movie about the pornographic actress Linda Lovelace (real name: Linda Boreman). The movie had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2013. It opened in limited release on August 9.

Plot
In 1970, Linda Lovelace is living with her parents in Florida. She's out dancing one night with her best friend Patty. She attracts the attention of a man named Chuck Traynor. He and Linda soon get into a relationship. He's much older than she is. Chuck teaches her how to perform sexual acts.

Linda breaks curfew one night. She is slapped by her mother. She moves out to live with Chuck and marries him. At a party, Linda watches one of Chuck's pornographic movies. She tells him good girls never do things like that.

Six months later, Linda bails Chuck out of jail for soliciting prostitution. Chuck is desperate for money. He makes Linda become a porn actress. She soon begins working on a movie, Deep Throat. In the movie, she uses the stage name Linda Lovelace. The movie is a huge hit. It makes over $30,000 in its first week. Linda later poses nude. She attends parties.

But Chuck has a violent nature. Linda's life is revealed to not be as perfect as it seems. Chuck chokes Linda during sex. When she asks Chuck to stop, he refuses. He forces her into prostitution at gunpoint.

Linda visits her parents to ask if she can move back. She reveals that Chuck has been abusing her. But her mother says no.

When Chuck learns that Linda has been talking about a new salary with the movie's director, Gerard Damiano, without telling him, Chuck punishes her by making her shower in freezing water.

When Deep Throat becomes a hit, Chuck tries to force Linda into doing another porn movie. But she refuses to do that. He then takes her to a party and forces her to participate in a sexual act with several people. Linda tries to escape from Chuck. But he catches her and sleeps on top of her to stop her from trying again.

The following day, she secretly meets a man named Anthony Romano. She tells Romano she wants out of the porn business. She reveals the abuse done by Chuck. A disgusted Romano checks Linda into a private hotel. Romano and his bodyguards beat Chuck for abusing Linda, and for the $25,000 he owes.

Six years later, following her divorce from Chuck, Linda marries Larry Marchiano. They move to Long Island and have a son. She then takes a lie detector test before publishing her book Ordeal. The book details years of physical and sexual abuse from Chuck, and stealing of all her earnings. She later appears on Donahue. Her parents break down in tears while watching her. A few days later, the Marchianos go to Florida for Linda to make up with her parents.

Cast

 Amanda Seyfried as Linda
 Peter Sarsgaard as Chuck
 Sharon Stone as Dorothy Boreman
 Robert Patrick as John Boreman
 Juno Temple as Patsy
 Chris Noth as Anthony Romano
 Bobby Cannavale as Butchie Peraino
 Hank Azaria as Gerry Damiano
 Adam Brody as Harry Reems
 Chloë Sevigny as Feminist Journalist
 James Franco as Hugh Hefner
 Debi Mazar as Dolly
 Wes Bentley as Thomas - Photographer
 Eric Roberts as Nat Laurendi
 David Gueriera as Larry Marchiano

Reception
Lovelace got mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes rated the movie near 52% (in other words 52% of critics gave the movie a positive review). The movie also got a 51 rating from Metacritic.

References

2010s biographical movies
2013 drama movies
American biographical movies
American drama movies
American independent movies

Lovelace (movie)


Olof Kinnmark (29 March 1897 – 18 February 1970) was a Swedish chess master.

He won a tournament at Trollhättan 1925 (Swedish Chess Championship), took 3rd at Karlskrona 1932, and took 12th in Nordic Chess Championship at Copenhagen 1934 (Aron Nimzowitsch won). Kinnmark represented Sweden in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936 (+4 =3 –6).

During World War II, he participated in European Individual Chess Championship (Europameisterschaft, Wertungsturnier – Qualification Tournament, Gösta Danielsson won) at Munich 1942, and Swedish championships at Lidköping 1944 (Stig Lundholm won). After the war, he played at Helsinki 1947 (zonal, Gösta Stoltz and Eero Böök won).

References

External links

1897 births
1970 deaths
Swedish chess players
20th-century chess players

Olof Kinnmark


Artist-Led Initiatives Support Network, abbreviated ALISN, is a non-profit international support network for artists which provides exhibition spaces, strategic support, education, creative facilitation and artist-to-artist exchange. ALISN was founded in 2007 by designer Jordan Dalladay-Simpson (Goldsmiths Alumnus) and artist Iavor Lubomirov (Oxford University Alumnus). ALISN was previously known as AFMMXII (Artists for 2012), and was officially re-branded as ALISN in August 2009.

History
Artist-Led Initiatives Support Network began when Iavor Lubomirov and Jordan Dalladay-Simpson met in 2006 while organising a pop-up exhibition for art students and recent art graduates in a disused office building in London. At the time Lubomirov had recently left his art degree at University of East London and Dalladay-Simpson was an undergraduate studying design at Goldsmiths. Both founders were looking for ways of showing work and collaborating with other struggling artists to organise and promote art events. The show attracted over 300 visitors and laid the ground for future working relationships between the artists involved.

In November 2007, ALISN was officially launched under the name of Artists for 2012 (AF2012) and held a pilot show of 5 emerging artists at the 491 Gallery, east London.

ALISN's next project was facilitating the Goldsmiths/BAA Expo Award 08, which would see two large-scale sculptures installed in the departures lounge of the newly opened Heathrow Terminal 5. This project was done in collaboration with BAA and Goldsmiths students, with mentor-ship from Cathy de Monchaux and Andrew Shoben and oversight from the global communications company Imagination. The two winning teams built and installed Arc and Taking Place. Arc was by London-based art-collective Lobby, and Taking Place by Sally Hogarth and Emma Johnson.

At the start of 2009, ALISN aided the formation of the Hackney Transients Art Project (HTAP), which is an east London arts organisation founded by Lucy Tomlins and Marnie Baumer. HTAP went on to produce two collaborative events that year, the workshop-based Pattern-making for Beginners as part of the annual HackneyWICKed Art Festival and In/Flux exhibition on Kingsland Road, Hackney, London. They also produced an Oral History Archive containing ethnographic recordings the opinions of various Hackney residents regarding the area's 'transient nature'. The project was also featured on the British Community Channel.

In August 2008, ALISN embarked on a second independent collaborative arts exhibition, under the name Art in the Carpark. This event took place in October, in the CCP Cark Park, Liverpool, and was in collaboration with the underground arts organisation The Arts Organisation (TAO). The event featured a diverse range of artwork from 14 Artists, and was part of the Liverpool Independents Biennial.

In the summer of 2009, a decision was made by the founders to find a name more appropriate to the way the organisation had been working, as well as reflecting the models of creative facilitation it had developed, AF2012 was re-branded as ALISN in August 2009.

In 2009 ALISN started a working relationship with Goldsmiths Creative Enterprise Society, launching this indefinite partnership with a talk entitled In Conversation with ALISN followed by a series of art-film screenings. The screenings included David's Buchanan's feature-length musical The Last Babacus and Minou Norouzi's The Anatomy of Failure (HotDocs Selection 2008) with talks by the Film makers.

At the start of 2010 the ALISN founders were gifted a stable home by a philanthropic London property developer. The Magnificent Basement is in Farringdon, Central London.

Network
ALISN says its emphasis is not simply on showing art, but on bringing the artists themselves into contact with each other to accomplish development through cross-pollination of ideas, critical peer feedback, transfer of experience and networking. The organisation does this by maintaining a virtual community of artists and other individuals within the creative industries.

ALISN has a network of more than 500 international artists, which is managed by the founders with the assistance of the organisations fellows. Since its conception, they made use of online social networking platforms to support its network, maintaining the artist network through Facebook, Twitter and CargoCollective. ALISN also uses these channels to disseminate open calls for participation and promote events. The support network is maintained by the founders Dalladay-Simpson and Lubomirov, with the help of an organisational administrator.

Events, exhibitions and projects
 PUSH, Improvised Art Space, Wandsworth, London, UK. March 2005.
 AF2012 @ 491 Gallery, Leytonstone, London, UK. November 2007.
 Art in the Carpark, Liverpool, UK. October 2008.
 Fresh Air Machine, Calvert 22, London, UK. September 2008.
 BAA Expo, Heathrow Terminal 5, London, UK. September–December 2008.
 Pattern Making for Beginners (HTAP), Hackney Wicked Festival, London, UK. August 2009.
 Needle & Scalpel, Wandsworth, London, UK. July 2009.
 Room to Breathe, Wandsworth, London, UK. July 2009.
 In/Flux (HTAP), Hackney, London, UK. September 2009.
 Facilitating Collaboration in the Arts. HTAP Seminar Series on Collaboration. Hackney, London, UK. September 2009.
 Creative Enterprise Society Presents: In Conversation with ALISN, Goldsmiths, London, UK. November 2009.
 The Last Babacus (Screening, Talk and Q&A), Goldsmiths, London, UK. November 2009.
 The Anatomy of Failure & Hope For Pinok (Screening, Talk and Q&A), Goldsmiths, London, UK. December 2009.
 artINTERACT, Abu Dhabi, UAE. June 2010.
 Lubomirov & Batiste in The Magnificent Basement, Farringdon, London, UK. June 2010.
 Sharon Gal's Venus Rising in The Magnificent Basement, Farringdon, London, UK. July 2010.
 Daryl Brown – The Judo Series in The Magnificent Basement, Farringdon, London, UK. July 2010.
 Art Idol 2010 – Curated by Marsha Bradfield. London, UK. July 2010
 Off the Clock; Mile End Art Pavilion, London, UK; The Magnificent Basement, London, UK; 92YTribeca, New York City; Like The Spice Gallery, New York City; October – November 2010.
 Alison Gill's Fibonacci Rabbit Generator, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, UK. November 2010.
 Tower Hamlets Spring Open 2011, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, UK. April 2011.
 Conference for Emerging Art Organisers 2011, Goldsmiths, London, UK. November 2011.

Collaborators
 Stephan Bischof – Designer of the Wheelie bin urinal
 Lee Broughall – Jerwood Contemporary Painters Selection 2009
 Rebecca Court – Winner of the 4 New Sensations Channel 4 Prize 2009
 Sharon Gal – Founding Member of Resonance FM
 Sy Hackney – Founding Member of 491 Gallery
 Sally Hogarth – Winner of IdeasTap Fund 2009
 Cathy de Monchaux – Shortlisted for Turner Prize
 Minou Norouzi – Hot Docs Selection 2008
 Andrew Shoben – Founder of Greyworld
 Charlie Tweed – Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007

See also
 Artist-run initiative
 Creative Industries
 Arts administration
 Virtual community

References

Arts organisations based in the United Kingdom
Arts in England
Community websites

Artist-Led Initiatives Support Network


Quentin Tod (27 December 1884 – 5 May 1947), sometimes credited as Quentin Todd, was a British actor, dancer, choreographer, television pioneer, and a devotee of Meher Baba.

Biography

Tod's first credited performance in film was in the 1930 Monty Banks comedy The New Waiter, in which Tod played himself. He was the sole credited dancer in the first British televised version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1937 and was ballet choreographer on the 1937 British television pantomime performance of Dick Whittington and His Cat. The following year he devised Have You Brought Your Music? for BBC Television. The show featured music played by the now defunct BBC Television Orchestra.

Quentin Tod met the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba in London at the home of Helena Davy in 1931 and became a devoted follower for the remainder of his life. He spent time in Meher Baba's ashram in India near Ahmednagar and also traveled with him to the United States in 1932.

Tod died in 1947 of malnutrition in St. Stephen's Hospital in Chelsea, London at the age of 62.

References

External links

 Quentin Tod in group photo with Meher Baba

1884 births
1947 deaths
English male film actors
English choreographers
Followers of Meher Baba
20th-century English male actors

Quentin Tod


David Downs Hartman (born May 19, 1935) is an American journalist and media host who began his media career as an actor. He currently anchors and hosts documentary programs on History and PBS. Hartman is best known as the first host of ABC's Good Morning America, from 1975 to 1987. As an actor, he starred in the 1970s as a young resident, Dr. Paul Hunter, on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors and as a teacher in the series Lucas Tanner. He acted in the 1973 TV movie remake of Miracle on 34th Street.

Early life
Hartman was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the son of Fannie Rodman (Downs) and Cyril Baldwin Hartman. He is of part German descent. Hartman attended Mount Hermon School (now Northfield Mount Hermon) and was geared toward professional baseball in high school. However, he turned down a baseball scholarship to attend Duke University, where he majored in economics and became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity. After college, he served three years of active duty as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, Strategic Air Command. He was a supply officer at Dow AFB in Bangor, Maine, and acted in local musicals there, including Oklahoma!, in the role of Curly. David spent the summer of 1960 at the Surflight Summer Theatre in Beach Haven, New Jersey, and had lead roles in Mister Roberts, South Pacific, and Kismet.

Acting career (1964–1975)
Hartman appeared in two Broadway shows; the original Hello, Dolly! in 1964, and The Yearling (1965). After working in films such as the Doris Day comedyThe Ballad of Josie (1967), Nobody's Perfect (1968), and Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? (1968) with Phyllis Diller, he refocused on television. He appeared in The Virginian in 1969 and won attention as a dedicated doctor on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, earning a nomination for a Golden Globe award.  Hartman played a lead role alongside Hal Linden in the industrial musical Diesel Dazzle (1966).

Hartman also appeared as the character David Sutton in more than two dozen episodes of the television series The Virginian and guest-starred on several other popular TV series such as Marcus Welby, M.D.; The Name of the Game; Ironside; and The Carol Burnett Show. In 1970, Hartman appeared in the made-for-TV pilot film for San Francisco International as an embittered pilot whose wife was held hostage by criminals. In 1973 he starred in Miracle on 34th Street, a TV remake of the holiday classic, along with Jane Alexander and Sebastian Cabot. The next year he starred in the Disney movie The Island at the Top of the World as an archaeology professor.

On the 1974-75 NBC series Lucas Tanner, Hartman played a retired baseball player turned unconventional high-school teacher. The cancellation of this series marked the end of his acting career.

News and broadcasting career (1975–present)
On November 3, 1975, Hartman became the original male co-host of ABC's renamed morning news show, Good Morning America (1975–1987). During his 11 years as a co-host, GMA would often be the highest-rated morning news program on network television. Although Hartman did not have a journalism background, he professionally conducted more than 12,000 interviews during his time on the show.

Hartman usually closed each Good Morning America broadcast with the same benediction: "Make it a good day today." In a statement that Hartman prepared for the 30th anniversary GMA broadcast in 2005, he explained, "My daily sign-off line, 'Make it a good day today,' reflected 'GMA's' values and the belief that each of us can affect our lives in a positive way, that our program was, we hoped, a public service."

Hartman has been an anchor and host of a series of documentaries on the Discovery Channel and PBS member station WNET in New York City. Produced by James Nicoloro, the PBS documentaries are a series of "Walk Through" documentaries about various communities around New York City, which include A Walk Down 42nd Street (August 1998), A Walk Up Broadway (March 1999), A Walk Through Harlem (December 1999), A Walk Around Brooklyn with David Hartman and Historian Barry Lewis (2000), A Walk Through Greenwich Village (2001), A Walk Through Central Park (2001), A Walk Through Newark (2002), A Walk Through Hoboken (2003), A Walk Through Queens (2004), A Walk Through the Bronx (2005), and A Walk Around Staten Island (2007).

In North Carolina, Hartman is also heard on North Carolina Public Radio and WCPE-FM as host of the North Carolina Symphony radio broadcasts. For the television documentaries he has done, Hartman would win several Emmy and journalist awards.

Hartman was the 2017 recipient of the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award.

Personal life
Hartman was married to Maureen Downey from 1974 until her death on September 17, 1997. In 2001, he married Mary Clark Putman, a widowed homemaker. He has four children from his first marriage.

Filmography

References

External links

 David Hartman at Internet Off-Broadway Database

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Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare,  (16 June 1919 – 23 January 2005), was a Conservative politician, and from 1999 until his death, one of ninety-two elected hereditary peers in the British House of Lords. He was the eldest son of Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare, and Margaret Bethune Black, and succeeded to his father's title on the latter's death in 1957.

Education
Bruce was educated at Sandroyd School before heading to Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Career

In 1939 he joined the British Army, commissioned with the rank of lieutenant in the Welsh Guards; he would eventually reach the rank of captain, after having served in various staff positions with XII Corps, the 21st Army Group, and XXX Corps during and after World War II.

He joined the J. Arthur Rank Organisation in 1947, working there for two years before moving to the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he worked between 1949 and 1956. In 1970, he became Minister of State for the Department of Health and Social Security; in 1974, he was appointed to the Privy Council and became a Minister without Portfolio. Between 1976 and 1992, he served as Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, (Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords). In 1984, he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and he would serve various positions within the Order of St John of Jerusalem. After the House of Lords Act 1999 prevented hereditary peers from sitting in the Lords solely by virtue of their peerages, Lord Aberdare became one of the ninety-two hereditary peers elected to stay in the House of Lords.

On 24 August 1992, he officially opened Chester City's new football stadium, the Deva Stadium.

Lord Aberdare was a lifelong devotee of real tennis, winning the British amateur singles championship four times between 1953 and 1957, and the amateur doubles championship four times between 1954 and 1961. He served as president of the Tennis and Rackets Association from 1972 until 2004. During his tenure there was a significant expansion in both real tennis and rackets, and a number of new courts were built while several others were re-opened. His book, The JT Faber Book of Tennis and Rackets (London: Quiller Press, 2001. ), is the most comprehensive modern reference for these sports.

Lord Aberdare was President of the London Welsh Trust, which runs the London Welsh Centre, from 1959 until 1962, and from 1969 to 1970.

Family
In 1946 he married Maud Helen Sarah Dashwood, daughter of Sir John Lindsay Dashwood, 10th Baronet, and Helen Moira Eaton. They had four children:

 Alastair John Lyndhurst Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare (b. 2 May 1947)
 Hon. James Henry Morys Bruce (b. 28 Dec 1948), married and has issue
 Hon. Henry Adam Francis Bruce (b. 5 Feb 1962), married and has issue
 Hon. Charles Benjamin Bruce (b. 29 May 1965)

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Khalil Hawi (Arabic: خليل حاوي; Transliterated Khalīl Ḥāwī) (1919-1982) was one of the most famous Lebanese poets of the 20th century. In 1982, upon the Israeli invasion of Beirut in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War, Hawi committed suicide with a rifle in his apartment near the American University of Beirut. He was outraged by Lebanon's inability to stand up to the Israeli army when the latter invaded on 3 June 1982, and he deeply resented the other Arab governments' silence about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in what was dubbed Operation Peace of Galilee, led by former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

In his lifetime he wrote five anthologies of poetry and regularly contributed to literary magazines such as Majallat Shiʿr ("Poetry Magazine").

List of works
Khalil Hawi wrote five anthologies of poetry.
River of Ash (1957)
Flute and Wind (1961)
Threshing Floor's of Hunger (1965)
Wounded Thunder (1979)
From Hell's Comedy (1979)

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Downingia bella, also known as Hoover's calicoflower or Hoover's Downingia, is a member of the Bellflower Family (Campanulaceae). The genus is named after A.J. Downing (1815–1852) a noted American horticulturist and landscape architect.

This native annual herb is endemic to California and found in valley grassland communities. Its habitat is wetlands, generally vernal pools between 4600 and 5250 feet (1400 to 1600m). As approximately 20% of vernal pools in California have been lost, D. bella is uncommon. The range of D. bella is scattered from locations in Riverside County to areas in the Great Central Valley.

Description
Like all Downingia, the stem is decumbent to erect with leaves that are along the stem and often fall before the plant flowers.

The flowers are not sessile and in a spike inflorescence with individual flowers having a corolla length of 10 to 12 mm. The corolla is glabrous and has 2 distinct lips, the upper with 2 lobes and lower with 3 lobes. The upper lobes are narrowly triangular or elliptic in shape while the lower lobes are obtuse and abruptly toothed. The corolla is blue with the lower lip having a central white field which then has two yellow spots (can be joined) in its middle. At the throat D. bella has 2 raised nipples that generally have 3 alternating purple spots.

The 5 fused stamens have anthers that are included in the corolla tube and are angled less than 45 degrees to filaments. The inferior ovary is pedicel-like and is 2 chambered.

The fruits of D. bella are between 16 and 18 mm with tough lateral walls that are tardily dehiscent despite no noticeable translucent lines. The seeds within the fruit are longitudinally striate.

Some areas in northern Sutter County have D. bella with a minute corolla horn similar to D. ornatissima.

References

Jepson Manual Treatment
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www.calflora.org
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Downingia bella


Gun Birgitta Hellsvik (née Blomgren; 27 September 1942 – 14 November 2016) was a Swedish politician for the Moderate Party, who served as Minister for Justice from 1991-1994.

A lawyer by training, she worked as a civil law lecturer at Lund University before becoming a full-time politician.

She served as Municipal commissioner of Lund 1983-1991, Minister for Justice 1991-1994, member of the Riksdag, chairman of the Riksdag Committee on Justice 1994-2001, President of the Nordic Council 1999, Director General of the Swedish Patent and Registration Office 2001-2007, and chairman of the board of the University of Borås 2004-2007. Laila Freivalds was both her predecessor and successor to the office of Minister for Justice.

Hellsvik was known for her tough stance on drugs. She opposed dispensing clean needles to drug addicts, arguing that it would undermine people's confidence in the legal system. As Minister of Justice, she oversaw a legal change that made it a crime to be under the influence of an illicit drug, even in the absence of drug possession; she also authorised the police to forcibly obtain urine and blood samples from a suspected individual. She lauded the American war on drugs, claiming that "as so many times before, the United States, is showing us the right path". In a motion to parliament entitled "Strong measures against narcotics" (Krafttag mot narkotika;) she supported lifetime imprisonment for narcotics crimes, allowing the police the take urine and blood samples from small children to promote early detection of drug abuse and to authorise the police to routinely induce vomiting in individuals suspected of having swallowed narcotics, among other things; the proposals were voted down by parliament.

Hellsvik died from cancer on 14 November 2016, at the age of 74.

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Boules was on the Summer Olympic Games programme in 1900.  Boules events have generally not been classified as official, although the IOC has never decided which events were "Olympic" and which were not.  As with the sport of croquet, generally regarded as "official", boules satisfied three of four retrospective criteria — restriction to amateurs, open to all nations, open to all competitors and without handicapping. As with croquet, there were only French players. (All other "official" events met all four criteria.)

Results
Jeu Lyonnais: France 21, France 11

Partie de Berges: France 9, France 1

See also
 1900 Summer Olympics
 Boules

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Zahedan () is a city in Iran. It is the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in Southeastern Iran. As of 2016, Zahedan has over 600,000 people.

History
The demographics of the inhabiants of Zahedan are mixed with Balochis, and Persians. They speak Persian and Balochi. Zahedan is east of the Dasht-e Loot. Zahedan is part of Baluchestan, a historic region of Asia. Sunni Muslims live in Zahedan as well. Shaikh Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi is the main and most influential religious and Sunni and the Baloch people.

Geography
Zahedan is located in the southeastern part of Iran. It is 1,491 kilometers southeast of Tehran, 950 kilometers south of Mashhad, 1,189 kilometers southeast of Isfahan, 2,024 kilometers southeast of Tabriz, and 95 kilometers from the Iran-Pakistan border. It is also connected by rail to Pakistan and is near to Afghanistan. Zahedan is the Iranian city, which is the closest to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Demographics
As of 2016, Zahedan has 587,730 people. In the 1930s, Zahedan was a small village. In 1930, Zahedan's population reached 17,500. and increased more than fivefold to 93,000 by 1976. After 1980, large numbers of Iranians fleeing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan helped triple the population of Zahedan to more than 281,000 by 1986, a number which has since doubled again.

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Francesco Barberini (23 September 1597 – 10 December 1679) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal. The nephew of Pope Urban VIII (reigned 1623–1644), he benefited immensely from the nepotism practiced by his uncle.  He was given various roles within the Vatican administration but his personal cultural interests, particularly in literature and the arts, meant that he became a highly significant patron. His secretary was the antiquarian Cassiano dal Pozzo who was also a discerning patron of the arts. Francesco was the elder brother of Cardinal Antonio Barberini and Taddeo Barberini who became Prince of Palestrina.

Career
He was born in Florence to Carlo Barberini and Costanza Magalotti, and studied at the University of Pisa, graduating in canon and civil law in 1623. His uncle,  Maffeo Barberini, newly elected  as Pope Urban VIII, made him archpriest of S. Giovanni in Laterano, and two months later, cardinal deacon of Sant'Onofrio, which was exchanged the following year for Sant'Agata de' Goti. At the age of twenty six, he was appointed secretary of state and papal legate to Avignon.

In 1625, he went to Paris as special legate and from March to September, undertook various negotiations with Cardinal Richelieu including discussions in advance of the Treaty of Monçon. Overall, the negotiations were not a political success for the papacy but as a 'sweetener' he received a gift of six tapestries from King Louis XIII, designed by Peter Paul Rubens. In 1625 he travelled to Spain as papal legate and this mission was also unsuccessful. He returned to Rome the following year. From 1628 he effectively led the foreign diplomacy of the Papal States, showing a clear stance favoring France in the war of succession for the Marquisate of Montferrat and during the Thirty Years' War.

In July 1626 he was appointed Bibliothecarius of the Vatican Library, a position he held until December 1633. In 1632 he was named papal Vice-Chancellor. In 1627 he was named commendatory abbot of Farfa Abbey.

As the Grand Inquisitor of the Roman Inquisition, a post he held from 1633 until his death, he was part of the Inquisition tribunal investigating Galileo;  he was one of three members of the tribunal who refused to condemn Galileo.

Hostilities between the papacy and the Farnese Duchy of Parma and Piacenza resulted in the War of Castro in 1641, from which the papacy did not emerge well, and peace was only concluded months before the death of Urban in 1644. Once it had become clear that the Barberini candidate for his successor, Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti,  was not going to be elected by the papal conclave of 1644, Francesco and Antonio Barberini switched their vote to support Giovanni Battista Pamphili in the hope that he might look more favorably upon them. They were wrong. Pamphili, who took the name of  Innocent X (1644–1655) instigated investigation into their handling of the finances in the War of Castro forcing first Antonio to flee to Paris in 1645, to be followed by Francesco and his brother Taddeo Barberini in 1646. Here they remained under the protection of Cardinal Mazarin. Two years later, Francesco was pardoned by the pope who restored confiscated properties to him.

On his return to Rome, Francesco resumed his role as a patron of arts although on a reduced scale. The cardinal refused to meet with Bargrave (despite a number of requests over some 11 months) on the basis that he held letters of introduction addressed to cardinals Capponi and Panciroli but not to him, suggesting Bargrave had met with others first.

In 1666 he became Dean of the College of Cardinals, taking part in the conclaves of 1667, 1669–1670 and 1676. At the 1669 conclave, Barberini opposed the nomination of Cardinal Pietro Vidoni because his opinion about Vidoni's candidacy had not been solicited.

He died in Rome in 10 December 1679.

Patronage
"Barberini's vast income from his many benefices was estimated at 100,000 scudi, allowing him to fully indulge in his collecting passions." He was active as a patron of the arts both as a private patron and within broader spheres.  He was a member of several learned and literary associations, including the Accademia dei Lincei. In 1623 he became a member of the Conregazione della Reverenda Fabbrica di San Pietro and was able to secure altarpiece commissions for St Peter's by artists such as Giovanni Lanfranco, Andrea Sacchi, Pietro da Cortona, Nicolas Poussin, Simon Vouet and Valentin. Privately, he bought several paintings by Poussin during the artist's early years in Rome.

Palazzo Barberini
In 1625, he acquired the Sforza palace on the Quirinal Hill in Rome and a year later gave it to his brother Taddeo. After buying further land around the palace, the architect Carlo Maderno was engaged to transform the site into a much larger and grander palace which became the Palazzo Barberini  and effectively the family palace with Taddeo and his family living in one wing and Francesco in the other. Francesco and Urban were on hand to advise on its decoration. An iconographic programme celebrating the Barberini family, devised by the Tuscan poet Francesco Bracciolini for the vast coved vault of the main salone, was carried out by Pietro da Cortona in an exuberant display of illusionism, colour, movement and ornamentation that marked a new departure for secular Baroque interior decoration.

Also at the Palazzo Barberini,  Francesco established the Arazzia Barberini or Barberini Tapestry works in 1627 which remained open until 1679, Its production included six tapestries designed by Cortona on the theme of the 'Story of Constantine' to complement those the Cardinal had received from the French king in 1625, designed by Rubens. With Cortona busy with the Barberini vault, Francesco began to engage Cortona's pupil Giovan Francesco Romanelli to carry out other paintings and altarpieces, and also made him Supervisor of the Tapestry works

In February 1634, a revised version of Il Sant'Alessio, was performed at the Cardinal's private theater in the Palazzo. The Cardinal had written the libretto and Stefano Landi the music.

He founded a rich library at the Palazzo Barberini which included ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts, and he supported numerous European intellectuals, scholars, scientists and artists, including Athanasius Kircher, Jean Morin, Gabriel Naudé, Gerhard Johann Vossius, Heinsius and John Milton. Also at the Palazzo Barberini, he initiated a small natural science museum and botanical garden and his collections attested to his interests in ancient sculpture, numismatics and inscriptions. The  Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, sometimes referred to as the Codex Barberini, was named in his honour. The Palazzo Barberini now houses part of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica.

Churches
Cardinal Francesco Barberini contributed financially to churches in Rome. As protector of the Academy of Saint Luke, the artists guild in Rome, he dedicated funds for the construction of the Academy's church of Santi Luca e Martina, designed by Cortona. He built the church of San Bonaventura al Palatino, rebuilt San Giacomo alla Lungara and San Salvatore in Campo, restored the church of Santa Maria in Palmis (also called Domine Quo Vadis) and San Sebastiano al Palatino, had the choir of San Lorenzo in Damaso remodelled, and paid for the wooden ceiling of Sant'Agata dei Goti.

In 1627 Cardinal Barberini was named abbot in commendam of Grottaferrata, and subsequently commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to provide the high altar.
Although initially he made funds available for the construction of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane designed by Francesco Borromini, these were not sustained. He also commissioned various monuments for church interiors, including ones to G. Aleandro and B. Guglielmi who had been his teachers, in San Lorenzo fuori le Mura and designed by Cortona.

Episcopal succession

Notes

References

Combaluzier, F. "Sacres épiscopaux à Rome de 1565 à 1662. Analyse intégrale du Ms. «Miscellanea XIII, 33» des Archives Vaticanes" Sacris Eruduri, XVIII (1967–1968), p. 229.

Further reading
 Ketty Gottardo, 'Cardinal Francesco Barberini and the Specula Principum Tradition,' Print Quarterly, XXVIII, 2011, pp. 292–97

External links
Francesco Barberini seniore at The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: a digital resource created and produced by Salvador Miranda
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Frederick Victor Branford (1892–1941) was a British poet, known for verse of World War I and the years after.

Biography
Born Frederick Victor Rubens Branford Powell, the son of actors Mary Branford and Joynson Powell, he was given the second name of Mary's brother Victor Branford and was known in the family as 'Freddie' Powell. After the death of his mother he was brought up by his aunt Dorothy and after her separation from Lionel Branford, they lived in Ardgay, Scotland. (Alasdair Alpin MacGregor's The Goat Wife tells the evocative story of his hard working and resourceful Aunt Dorothy, who left a comfortable existence in Edinburgh for life as a solo crofter in the Easter Ross village of Ardgay (then known locally as "High Wind"). Branford appears in the book as "Victor".) He may have felt closer to the Branfords than to his father and published his poetry under the surname of Branford.

He was educated at Edinburgh University and Leiden University. Serving as a captain in the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I, Branford was very badly wounded at the Battle of the Somme, when he was shot down over the Belgian coast and swam ashore to the Netherlands, where he was interned. Most of his poems were written in a long period of recovery from his injuries, which left him totally disabled. He lived on a disability pension for the rest of his life.

Branford stopped writing poetry in 1923, disillusioned with the prospects for future peace. He remarried in 1937, his second wife was his cousin Margaret Branford, the playwright daughter of John Branford.

Works
Titans and Gods (1922)
Five Poems (1922)
The White Stallion (1924)

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