The Brno Conservatory, also Brno Conservatoire (), was established in Brno on 25 September 1919 by Moravian composer Leoš Janáček.

History
Leoš Janáček attempted to establish and improve high musical education in Brno from his early age. In 1881, he founded the Organ School, however, it was just the beginning of his efforts in this field. The conservatory was established by joining the Organ School, music school of Beseda brněnská, and music school of Vesna (women's educational association based in Brno). Initially, it was situated in a "greek villa", on the corner of the streets of Smetanova and Kounicova. It was the former seat of the Organ School (from 1907). Janáček was the first director of the conservatory, but the school gained its current seat only during the directorship of his successor, Jan Kunc. The building of the conservatory was designed in 1899 in the style of Neo-Renaissance by German Wanderley. It was the seat of the German Teachers Institute, founded by the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. The commemorate plaque at the building reads: "Kaiser Franz Josef I. widmete dieses Haus der Bildung von Volksschullehrern 1872." ("The Emperor Franz Josef I dedicated this house to build the public teaching 1872").

During the period of German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the school became an important centre of Czech and Moravian cultural tradition.

Jan Kunc remained the director until 1945. Other important directors include pianist and musicologist Ludvík Kundera and music theorist and composer Zdeněk Blažek.

From 1919 to 1928, Brno Conservatory had two masterclasses intended for composers and pianists. The official status of the school was lower than university level, however, the quality of the courses was reasonably good.

The dance department was a part of the conservatory from 1946. The department was separated and became independent in 1986.

As of 2011, Brno Conservatory has classes for all instruments of the standard symphony orchestra. Additionally, the school provides teaching of guitar, accordion, cimbalom, recorder, composition, conducting and singing.

Brno Conservatory regularly organizes concerts and theatre performances and collaborates with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra.

Faculty (past and present)
 Josef Blatný, composition
 Jan Kunc, composition
 Ludvík Kundera, piano
 Vilém Kurz, piano
 Jaroslav Kvapil, composition
 Vilém Petrželka, composition
 Jan Škrdlík, cello

Alumni
 Igor Ardašev, pianist
 Břetislav Bakala, conductor, pianist, composer
 Aleš Bárta, organist
 Josef Berg, composer
 Libuše Domanínská, soprano
 Rudolf Firkušný, pianist
 Michaela Fukačová, cellist
 Pavel Haas, composer
 Josef Horák, bass clarinetist
 František Jílek, conductor
 Vítězslava Kaprálová, composer, conductor
 Ctirad Kohoutek, composer
 Vlastimil Lejsek, composer, pianist
 Zdeněk Mácal, conductor
 Jan Novák, composer
 Ludvík Podéšť, composer
 Theodor Schaefer, composer
 Yngve Sköld, composer, pianist
 František Šolc, hornist
 Stanislav Vavřínek, flautist, conductor

References

External links
 Brno Conservatory official website

Education in Brno
Organizations based in Brno
Music schools in the Czech Republic
Educational institutions established in 1919
Buildings and structures in Brno
1919 establishments in Czechoslovakia

20th-century architecture in the Czech Republic

Brno Conservatory


Jenny Ebbing Skavlan (born 3 June 1986) is a Norwegian model, actress, television presenter, and author. She started her career by appearing in a television commercial for Pizza Grandiosa in 2007. She has since appeared in such films as Fatso, Dead Snow, Børning, and Tomme Tønner. In 2008 Skavlan participated as a celebrity dancer on Skal vi danse? on Norway's TV2. In 2012 she wrote a book, Sy om, about her passion for sewing.

Life and career
Skavlan grew up on the Bygdøy peninsula in the Frogner neighborhood in Oslo. Her father, Jørgen Skavlan, is a doctor and her mother is a costume designer and textile artist; she is the niece of the talk-show host Fredrik Skavlan. Skavlan studied at Fagerborg Upper Secondary School, where she played the lead role in the traditional Fagerborg revue show two years in a row. Skavlan later moved to Copenhagen, where she studied theatre at Borups Højskole.

Skavlan made her film début at the age of eight as Alveola in Body Troopers, after which she had several roles in commercials, including one for Gilde Norsk Kjøtt in 2002. She played a friend to the character of Malin in the film Fatso, based on Lars Ramslie's novel of the same name. She was featured as the character Chris in the zombie splatter film Dead Snow, which premiered in January 2009.  She played the character Gitte in the Swedish film Once Upon a Time in Phuket alongside Peter Magnusson and David Hellenius. She appeared in Tomme Tønner in 2010 and Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen in 2011. Promotionally, Dead Snow made much of a scene in which Skavlen's character has sex in an outhouse, while some publicity for Tomme Tønner highlighted her appearances in a bikini. After a clip from a blooper reel from Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen featuring Skavlen's top slipping down was used on the website of the tabloid VG, Skavlan admitted to feeling a little annoyed by movie promotions focusing on scenes in which she was scantily clad.

Skavlan was featured in commercials for the online auction site Tribber, filmed in Los Angeles. In the summer of 2008 she appeared in the music video for the song "Det E'kke Meg Det er Deg" with the rap group Erik & Kriss.

In 2007, Skavlan modelled for the T-shirt line Russ. In August 2009 she became a television presenter with Studio FEM on FEM, a Norwegian television channel aimed at young women. She is a co-host along with Kari Simonsen, Mina Hadjian, Karita Bekkemellem, and Eli Hagen.  In 2011 she presented the Norwegian version of Fort Boyard, alongside Daniel Franck. She also presented the first season of the cooking show Masterchef Norge. In 2012 she presented the talk show Tweet4Tweet. Later in 2012 she presented the extreme sports show Fritt fall. In 2021, she won the 3rd series of the comedy show Kongen Befaler (Norway's version of Taskmaster).

Along with  Erik Solbakken, she presented Melodi Grand Prix 2013 and 2014, the Norwegian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. Skavlan has appeared on Swedish television in the comedy series Halvvägs till himlen which was broadcast on TV4.

She met the musician Thomas Gullestad in 2008 and they married in 2014. Skavlan was married in a dress she designed and made herself.

Filmography

1996 – Body Troopers
2008 – Fatso
2009 – Dead Snow
2009 – Amor
2009 – Nummer
2010 – Tomme tønner
2010 – Påpp og Råkk
2010 – Erlend og Steinjo
2011 – Tomme Tønner 2
2011 – Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen
2012 – Once Upon a Time in Phuket (Swedish film)
2012 – Justice Is Served
2012 – Papegøye
2013 – Halvvägs till himlen
2014 – Børning
2016 – Børning 2
2021 – Kongen Befaler (contestant)

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
Actresses from Oslo
Norwegian expatriates in Denmark
Norwegian film actresses
Norwegian female models
Norwegian television presenters
21st-century Norwegian women writers
Norwegian women television presenters
Models from Oslo

Jenny Skavlan


Some Came Running is a novel by James Jones, published in 1958.  It was Jones's second published novel, following his award-winning debut From Here to Eternity. It is the story of a war veteran with literary aspirations who returns in 1948 to his hometown of Parkman, Illinois, after a failed writing career. It is a thinly disguised autobiographical novel of Jones's experiences in his hometown of Robinson, Illinois, immediately after returning from World War II. The title alludes to the lines in Chapter 10:17 of the Gospel of St. Mark, which author James Jones used as an epigraph before the beginning of the novel.

A film version starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine was released the same year and was nominated for five Academy Awards.

Plot
Dave Hirsh is a cynical Army veteran and an occasionally published but generally unsuccessful pre-war writer, who winds up in his hometown of Parkman, Illinois after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated.

Hirsh had left Parkman 19 years before when his older brother Frank placed him in a charity boarding school, and is still embittered. Frank has since married well, inherited a jewelry business from the father of his wife Agnes, and made their social status his highest priority. Dave's return threatens this, so Frank makes a fruitless stab at arranging respectability, introducing him to his friend Professor Bob French and his beautiful daughter Gwen, a schoolteacher (who are familiar with his writing). Dave, having planned to visit Parkman for only a week, impulsively decides to settle in Parkman to pursue Gwen romantically and attempt to write a novel with her help.

While Frank and Agnes are members at the local country club, Dave moves in different social circles. He befriends Bama Dillert, a hard-drinking southern gambler who has serendipitously settled in Parkman. Dave moves in with Bama, and they regularly gamble together, sometimes going on road trips to do so. Several young, aimless WWII veterans hang around Dave and Bama in Parkman's bars, joined by Wally Dennis, the boyfriend of Frank's daughter Dawn, and an aspiring writer himself. When Dawn marries another boy in town, Wally enlists in the Army after attending their wedding, even though he had been working with Gwen on his own novel. Three girls who work at the town brassiere plant, Rosalie, Mildred, and Ginnie, also hang around the local bars and are sexually available to Dave and his group of friends. Over the next year, while unsuccessfully trying to pursue a romance with Gwen (they have a meaningful connection but do not sleep together), Dave starts regularly sleeping with Ginnie, who is the least attractive of the trio, but easiest to persuade to go to bed with.

Frank is unfaithful to Agnes, carrying on affairs with the wife of his store manager, and then with his secretary, Edith. Agnes finds out both times and forces Frank to end the affairs. As Dawn leaves for college, they adopt a son named Walter. Frank schemes to buy farmland outside of town that will be used to build a highway bypass around Parkman, and fulfills plans to develop the land into a shopping center and motel. These succeed at making Frank wealthy (nearly a millionaire) and more respected in town, but he is miserable at home with Agnes. He occasionally walks around town at night trying to peep into people's windows.

Eventually Ginnie visits Gwen at the Frenches' house and begs Gwen to not take Dave away from her. Horrified to learn that Dave has been sleeping with Ginnie (regarded by many in town as "the biggest hore [sic] in Parkman"), Gwen decisively rejects Dave and leaves town. Saddened by Gwen's rejection and Bama's decline from alcoholism and diabetes, disgusted by Frank's hypocrisy and social climbing, and conflicted by his feelings for Ginnie, Dave nonetheless marries Ginnie and goes to work in a defense plant while continuing to work on his writing. As Dave tires of his work at the defense plant and Ginnie becomes more materialistic, their marriage goes downhill and Dave decides to leave town. As he walks through town at night during Parkman's Centennial Celebration, Ginnie's jealous, drunken ex-husband, who had followed her to Parkman, stalks and shoots Dave in the face, killing him. (In the 1958 film version, Ginnie's ex is a Chicago hoodlum, and Dave is only wounded, while Ginnie is shot in the back and killed after throwing herself in front of Dave.) Gwen and Bob finish the edits on Dave's manuscript (a "comic combat novel") and arrange for it to be published.

The book's plot, taking place in peacetime civilian life, is framed by two short war episodes printed in italics: the prologue depicting Hirsh's experiences in the Second World War, describing Germans attacking during the Battle of the Bulge ("They came running through the fog..."), and the epilogue having Wally Dennis fighting Chinese Communists ("They came running through the paddy fields...") and getting killed in the Korean War. Wally's last thought before being killed in a grenade explosion is of the manuscript he would never complete.

Critical reception
The book was savaged by the critics. Orville Prescott of The New York Times called it "a fictional disaster, clumsily written, crudely repetitious, ineptly unconvincing in many scenes, cheaply vulgar throughout. 'Some Came Running' is also so gamey and rancid in its concentration on sex that it seems like the work of an adolescent obsessed by the Kinsey reports. It is a very great pity."

Whitney Balliett of The New Yorker called the book "Twelve hundred and sixty-six pages of flawlessly sustained tedium." Robert Brustein in Commentary called it "a very bad book indeed, self-conscious, discursive, ineptly plotted, and clumsily written ... The reader is battered into helpless insensibility by Jones' analyses, explanations, theories, and opinions."

David Sanders of The Washington Post was somewhat more positive, writing that while "A 1266-page novel inevitably reveals a whole catalogue of the writer's weaknesses ... Jones' strengths are genuinely impressive nevertheless. He can make ordinary human beings seem extraordinarily important. He can give meaning to the most apparently trivial utterances ... Most important of all, he never loses sight of his scope, the large design which drives him to his writing."

The book was lavishly praised for its vividness, characterization and scope in the New York Herald Tribune.

Due to frequent "misspelled" words and punctuation errors, critics were generally harsh, not recognizing that such elements were a conscious style choice by Jones to evoke the provincialism of the novel's characters and setting.

Film adaptation
The book was adapted into a 1958 American film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine.

Notes

References

1958 American novels
American novels adapted into films
Charles Scribner's Sons books
Novels about writers
Novels set in Indiana
Novels set in the 1940s

Some Came Running (novel)


Timothy Meyers (August 31, 1945—March 14, 1989) was an American actor famous for originating the role of Kenickie in Grease and was a 1972 nominee for Tony Award Best Featured Actor in a Musical. His first stage role was in 1970 as Crookfinger Jake in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. His other stage roles include the 1980s musical Sidewalkin (Oscar), HotGrog (Blackbeard), The Foursome (Tim), No Place to be Somebody (Shanty), Rock Island (Wally),  The Sugar Bowl (Pinky), Romeo and Jeanette (Lucien), Jack the Ripper (Lusk), Wait Until Dark (Harry Roat), Cabaret (Ernst Ludwig), The Fantasticks (Henry), Terra Nova (Bowers), The Dresser (Geoffrey Thornton), True West (Saul Kimmer), Curse of the Starving Class (Weston), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Scanlon), Lady of the Diamond (Sportscaster), Write Me a Murder (Charles Sturrock), She Stoops to Conquer (Stingo), Ah, Wilderness! (David McComber), Loot (Meadows), Tartuffe (Damis), The Caretaker (Mick), Steambath (Morty), Comedians (Phil Murray), King Lear (Oswald), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck), Measure for Measure (Pompey), and The Greeks (Odysseus).

His film appearances include The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Night of the Juggler, I, the Jury, and To Smithereens. His television credit is the Kojak episode "Kojak's Days (1)". He also produced a play at the Lincoln Center Library in 1980 entitled Little Tips.

He was also a drama coach at the University of Pittsburgh.

On March 14, 1989, he died from complications of AIDS.

Partial filmography
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - Plumber
Night of the Juggler (1980) - Anderson
I, the Jury (1982) - Blake (final film role)

External links

References

1945 births
1989 deaths
University of Pittsburgh faculty
AIDS-related deaths in New York (state)
20th-century American male actors

Timothy Meyers


The Xiaomi Pocophone F1 (Xiaomi POCO F1 in India) is a smartphone developed by Xiaomi Inc, a Chinese electronics company based in Beijing. It was announced on 22 August 2018 in New Delhi, India. Though part of Xiaomi's line of mid-range devices, it is equipped with high-end specifications. The device is available globally in limited numbers, except for India where it enjoys wide availability. The Pocophone was often considered to be a flagship model of the Redmi line of 2019, although officially marketed as a separate and distinct model.

Specifications

Hardware

The Pocophone F1 runs on a Snapdragon 845 (10 nm) SoC with an Adreno 630 to handle graphics. It features a 6.18" IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen screen with an aspect ratio of 18.7:9 and a resolution of 1080 x 2246 pixels. The display also has a wide notch at the top. There is also the Gorilla Glass 3 protection. this phone has gone for a polycarbonate body. Another variant of the Pocophone F1, dubbed the Armoured Edition, had a kevlar finish on the back of the phone as opposed to the polycarbonate.

Camera

The Pocophone F1 has dual rear cameras based on Sony's Exmor RS (stacked CMOS) IMX363 1/2.55" sensor with 12 MP, ƒ/1.9 aperture and 1.4 µm pixel size. It has dual pixel Phase detection autofocus (PDAF). The secondary camera acts as a depth sensor with 5 MP, aperture ƒ/2.0 and pixel size of 1.12 µm and a dual-LED flash. The camera has HDR and panorama options. Video can be made in 2160p@60fps, 1080p@60fps (gyro-EIS), or 1080p@960fps mode. The camera has a manual mode as well; users can adjust white balance (presets and light temperature), set a shutter speed (1/1000s to 32s) and ISO (100-3200). There is also a manual focus with focus peaking. A software update in January 2019 added 960fps slo-mo video recording and night mode.

At the front, the device features a 20 MP selfie camera with ƒ/2.0 aperture and 0.9 µm pixel size, which has HDR software and analytic capabilities coupled with 2μm large pixel (4-in-1 Super Pixel) technology. Selfie software includes AI Beautify 4.0 and precise bokeh effects. Video can be recorded at 1080p@30fps. There is also an infrared light sensor and infrared camera for facial recognition.

Pictures can be taken in JPEG or RAW format (RAW in DNG format is available on the Open Camera application and Google Camera Ports). The camera app has an option of including watermarks in the picture.

Battery

The Pocophone F1 has a 4000 mAh Li-Po battery. The battery is 18W ″Quick Charge™ 3.0″  type developed by Qualcomm where the port (USB Type-C port) is vastly superior to standard USB. It has 94 h of endurance as tested by GSMarena.

Memory
The Pocophone F1 comes with internal storage options of 256GB/8GB RAM or 64/128 GB with 6 GB RAM; both have expandable memory through a microSD card up to 256 GB which uses up the second SIM slot.

Software
The Pocophone F1 runs on MIUI 11 based on Android 10. Since 4 March 2020, the software is upgradable to a stable version of Android 10.

There is a very active software modding community for the Poco F1 and there are a huge variety of aftermarket custom ROMs or operating systems for the end user to install as they wish (after the user unlocks their bootloader).

Sales

Since it was announced in August 2018, it instantly became Xiaomi's bestseller with 700,000 units sold until 6 December 2018. It was the top rated smartphone of Q3 2018 in India.

Issues

Early copies of the phone had screen bleeding issues. Some users of the international version of the phone reported issues related to an oversensitive screen.

Upon release, the device came with Google's Widevine L3 certification, but with a software update released in February 2019, the phone promptly received L1 certification. This allowed users to playback DRM-protected content without any restrictions.

The phone also allows HDR playback from the YouTube app even though the display does not have the feature, causing the videos to look washed out, grey and a bit darker compared to videos that aren't HDR.

The display on some units suffer from screen retention even after being replaced with a new and original display. The temporary solution some users found is to turn off the display for a few seconds to a minute and then turn it on again.

Reception

The Pocophone F1 received very positive reviews. Media outlets described the device as a flagship smartphone at a bargain price. Among the pros are a good camera and a strong battery.
The Pocophone F1 was the runner-up of MKBHD's blind smartphone camera test in 2018. It also received a score of 91 from DxOMark, placing it in between the iPhone 8 and the Google Pixel..The poco F1 phone was particularly popular in markets where it was sold due to its combination of high-end specifications and relatively low price point.

References

External links
 Official website

Xiaomi smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2018
Chinese brands
Mobile phones with multiple rear cameras
Mobile phones with 4K video recording
Discontinued flagship smartphones

Xiaomi Pocophone F1


Klonoa known in Japan as  is a platform video game series that began in 1997, titled Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. Player can play as Klonoa during gameplay, sets in diffrent worlds, ones are Phantomile and Lunatea it revolves aroun Klonoa, and how he, "The Dream Traveller", must save the world from Peril. Along the way he makes new friends and enemies of them becoming recurring characters. The game is an early of example of a side-scrolling 3D game environment. He can use a ring and "Wind Bullets" during gameplay to defeat the enemies. The player can solves the puzzle, while the adventures must solves together to clear the game.

Video game series

Klonoa


A theorem is a proven idea in mathematics. Theorems are proved using logic and other theorems that have already been proved. A minor theorem that one must prove to prove a major theorem is called a lemma. Theorems are made of two parts: hypotheses and conclusions.

Theorems use deduction, in contrast to theories which are empirical.

Some theorems are trivial, since they directly follow from the propositions. Other theorems are called "deep", because their proof is long and difficult. Sometimes, such proofs involve other areas of mathematics or show connections between different areas. A theorem might be simple to state and yet be deep. An excellent example is Fermat's Last Theorem, and there are many other examples of simple yet deep theorems in number theory and combinatorics (among other areas).

There are other theorems for which a proof is known, but cannot be easily written down. Among the best examples are the four color theorem and the Kepler conjecture. Both of these theorems are only known to be true by reducing them to a computational search which is then verified by a computer program. At first, many mathematicians did not accept this form of proof, but it has become more widely accepted over the years. The mathematician Doron Zeilberger has even gone so far as to claim that these are possibly the only nontrivial results that mathematicians have ever proved. Many mathematical theorems can be reduced to simpler computations, including polynomial identities, trigonometric identities and hypergeometric identities.

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The Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders are the official cheer squad for the Minnesota Vikings. The squad performs at every home game at the U.S. Bank Stadium, the home stadium of Minnesota. Before the squad's introduction in 1984, The Vi-Queens (1961–63) and the St. Louis Park High School Parkettes performed (1964-65, 67–83) Edina High School Hornettes and Minneapolis Roosevelt High School Rockettes in 1966. In 1984, the MVC were started.  The group currently has 35 members. The squad, like other groups in the league, releases a swimsuit calendar annually since 2001. The squad also makes off-field appearances at parades, schools, and charity events. Like other NFL cheerleading squads, the MVC also has a "Junior Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders" program, which has various divisions: Junior Angel Division is for girls aged 3–5, and Junior Cheerleader Division is for girls aged 6–14. The MVC also helps mentor the Junior Cheerleaders by enriching their interests.  In April, the MVC hosts tryouts at Winter Park. From when the division was founded in 2002 to 2016, when the Detroit Lions Cheerleaders were re established, the Vikings were the only team in the NFC North with a cheerleading squad.

Gallery

References

External links

 Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders official page
 MVC Facebook Page
 MVC Twitter Page

Minnesota Vikings
National Football League cheerleading squads
Women's sports in Minnesota

Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders


Sultan Mansur Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Muzaffar Shah (died 1477) was the sixth Sultan of Malacca from 1459 to 1477. He ascended the throne after the death of his father, Muzaffar Shah.

Expansions
Mansur Shah implemented a policy of expansionism during his rule. Many territories in Peninsular Malaysia and eastern Sumatra and the surrounding islands, such as Perak, Bernam, while Siak became Malacca's vassal. Several states unsuccessfully asserted their autonomy such as Pahang, Kampar and Inderagiri. This led one of Mansur's son to be leader of Pahang. Manjung, Rupat, Singapore, and Bintan, were under the control of Malacca during his rule.

Marriage alliances
Mansur Shah also used marriage alliances between princesses of Malacca and the rulers of conquered states, such as the marriage between the king of Siak to Mansur Shah's daughter, Princess Mahadewi, to strengthen Malacca's control over those states. Such alliances were a factor in Islam's expansion in maritime Southeast Asia. Siantan and Indragiri in Sumatra were also given to Malacca as dowry for his marriage to the princess of Majapahit.

According to historian Tomé Pires, Princess Hang Li Po, daughter of the Ming Dynasty Emperor Yongle (1403–1424), was sent over with her sizable entourage to marry Sultan Mansur Shah. Princess Hang Li Po remains a mystery/myth today because there are no records in Ming Dynasty sources with the surname of Hang or a princess named Li Po. Emperor Yongle had only 5 princesses, Princess Yong'an (永安公主; 1377–1417), Princess Ancheng (安成公主; 1384–1443), Princess Yongping (永平公主; 1379–1444), Princess Xianning (咸寧公主; 1385–1440) and Princess Changning (常寧公主; 1387–1408). During Sultan Mansur's reign of power, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was Emperor Yingzong (1457–1464), instead of Emperor Yongle.

Princesses of conquered states, such as Princess Wanang Seri of Pahang and Raden Galoh Candra Kirana, were also married to the Sultan of Malacca.

Economic policy
Mansur Shah reduced taxes on trade items during his reign, which increased the interest of merchants in trading through Malacca. A preferential tariff system was introduced whereby a 6% tax was levied on the trade of merchants from west of Malacca, such as Arabia and India, and a 3% tax was levied on the trade of merchants from Maritime Southeast Asia. Merchants from China, Japan and Java were not taxed at all. Malacca also offered the economic advantage of easy access to laborers.

Spread of Islam
Mansur Shah, who had an interest in Islam, encouraged scholarship in Islamic theological studies, and studied Sufism himself. He studied under Maulana Abu Bakar, who brought the Ab Darul Manzum scriptures to Malacca. He ordered the translation of the scripture to Malay by Makhdum Patakan. Mansur Shah referred to scholars from Pasai on religious issues due to their expertise.

References

1477 deaths
15th-century monarchs in Asia
History of Malacca
Sultans of Malacca

Mansur Shah of Malacca


The Dun Cow is a common motif in English folklore. "Dun" is a dull shade of brownish grey.

Dunsmore Heath
The Dun Cow was said to be a savage beast roaming Dunsmore Heath, an area west of Dunchurch, near Rugby in Warwickshire, which was reputedly slain by Guy of Warwick. A large narwhal tusk is still exhibited at Warwick Castle as one of the ribs of the Dun Cow. The fable held that the cow belonged to a giant, and was kept on Mitchell's Fold (middle fold), Shropshire. Its milk was inexhaustible; but one day an old witch who had filled her pail, wanted to fill her riddle (sieve) as well. This so enraged the animal that she broke loose from the fold and wandered to Dunsmore Heath, where she was slain by Guy of Warwick.

Isaac Taylor, in his Words and Places (p. 269), says the dun cow is a corruption of the Dena Gau (Danish region) in the neighbourhood of Warwick, with Gau in German meaning "region or country". If this explanation is correct, the great achievement of Guy of Warwick may have been a victory over the Danes, and taking from them their settlement near Warwick.

Whittingham
A similar legend applies to Dun Cow Rib Farm in Halfpenny Lane, Whittingham, Lancashire, just outside the town of Longridge. Embedded in its wall is a large rib, supposedly from a giant dun cow that gave milk freely to all comers, but died of shock when an old witch asked it to fill a riddle instead of a pail. An alternative legend claims that the giant cow's milk saved the local inhabitants from the Plague and that it was buried at nearby Cow Hill, near Grimsargh. It was also claimed that the cow would quench its thirst at "Nick's Water-Pot", a well on the summit of Parlick hill. In reality, the rib is probably from a whale or Bronze Age aurochs.

Durham

Local legend states that the city of Durham was founded in 995 AD by divine intervention. The 12th-century chronicler Symeon of Durham recounts in his Libellus de exordio atque procurso istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis that, after wandering in the north, Saint Cuthbert's bier came to a miraculous halt at the hill of Warden Law and, despite the effort of the congregation, would not move. Aldhun, Bishop of Chester-le-Street and leader of the order, decreed a holy fast of three days, accompanied by prayers to the saint. Bede recounts that during this fast Saint Cuthbert appeared to the monk Eadmer with instructions that the coffin should be taken to Dun Holm.

After Eadmer's revelation, Aldhun found that he was able to move the bier, but did not know where Dun Holm was. By chance later that day, the monks came across a milkmaid at Mount Joy who stated that she was seeking her lost dun cow which she had last seen at Dun Holm. The monks, realising that this was a sign from the saint, followed her. They settled at a "wooded hill-island formed by a tight gorge-like meander of the River Wear". When they arrived at the destination, they erected the vestiges of Durham Cathedral, a "modest building" none of which survives today, having been supplanted by the Norman structure. Symeon states that this was the first building in the city.

Bristol
A tourist guide from 1923 states that:
"In the glorious church of St Mary Redcliffe ... may still be seen the "Dun Cow" bone, the rib of a cow whale, now the only remaining trophy of Cabot's expedition of 1497, but for a considerable period regarded as part of the body of George of Warwick."

Public houses

There are many public houses in the United Kingdom called The Dun Cow, including one in Dunchurch.

A pub called The Dun Cow in Sedgefield, County Durham, was visited jointly by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and American President George W. Bush in 2003.

The Dun Cow, Shrewsbury, is one of the oldest pubs in the UK, built by Rodger De Montgomery, first Earl of Shrewsbury circa 1085 as a hostel for the skilled masons and master builders brought in to oversee the construction of St Peter and St Paul's (later known as Shrewsbury Abbey).

Songs
A British music hall song, "When the Old Dun Cow Caught Fire" (also known as "The Old Dun Cow"), refers to a pub named the Dun Cow, which catches on fire in the beginning of the song. The singer's friends, most notably a man named Brown, decide to raid the Dun Cow's cellar for alcohol and end up heavily intoxicated, partaking in shenanigans such as trying to prevent the firefighters (implied to also be seeking alcohol) from entering the cellar, washing their clothing in the port wine tub, and using their slacks to nail up a makeshift roof after the pub partially collapses.

See also
Auðumbla
Akabeko
Buwch Frech
Glas Gaibhnenn
The Book of the Dun Cow
Lebor na hUidre, The Book of the Dun Cow
Quinotaur

References

English folklore
Shropshire
History of Durham, England
Warwickshire
Northumbrian folklore
Northumbrian folkloric beings
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Ivory George Kimball (May 5, 1843 – May 15, 1916) was an American lawyer who served as a police court judge in Washington, D.C., for 19 years. He was also the primary advocate for the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia.

Early life
Kimball was born on May 5, 1843, on a farm near Jay, Maine. His parents were Wilbraham Kimball, Jr. and Anna L. Kimball ( Hatch). His ancestor, Richard Kimball, emigrated from Ipswich, Suffolk, England, to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving in America on April 10, 1674. The Kimballs moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in June 1846.  Ivory Kimball was educated in the city public schools, receiving a high school diploma at the age of 16. This qualified him to teach, which he did from 1860 to 1862.

Kimball enlisted as a private in Company E, 55th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, an infantry unit. He became seriously ill during his three-month enlistment, and his full recovery took nearly a year. He was denied readmission to the military. (The illness, dysentery with internal bleeding, recurred periodically throughout the rest of his life.) He relocated from Indiana to Washington, D.C., where he was employed by the United States Treasury Department. He received his law degree from Columbian College (now The George Washington University) in 1867 and entered the practice of law.

Judgeship

In 1891, President Benjamin Harrison unexpectedly appointed Kimball to serve as a judge in the Police Court of the District of Columbia. He was sworn in on April 1, 1891. He fell seriously ill in October 1895 and was forced to temporarily leave the bench to recuperate.

Kimball was a candidate for reappointment to the bench in 1898. At first, President William McKinley—not happy with Kimball's irascibility in court—was expected to appoint another man to the position. But McKinley surprised court observers by reappointing Kimball on January 11, 1898, and he was quickly confirmed again by the United States Senate.

There was opposition to Kimball's renomination when his second term expired in 1904. Kimball was renominated for the bench by President Theodore Roosevelt. Local physician W.A. Croffut and others made complaints to the Senate about Kimball's ethics and behavior on the bench. An ad hoc subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia was formed to investigate the charges (which were not specified in a public way) in executive session. The executive hearings lasted several days in December 1903. At first the ad hoc subcommittee was hesitant to recommend Kimball for reappointment, but their doubts dissipated and Kimball was confirmed unanimously in executive session by the entire Senate on December 19.

During his third term in office, Kimball opposed a plan to put magistrates in police stations. He supported a successful 1904 proposal to have Congress fund construction of a new police court building, which was occupied in January 1907. He fell seriously ill again in late July 1905, and was forced to leave the bench for seven weeks. In 1906, Judge Kimball asked that the city attorney be permitted to dismiss any police charge which, in that officer's opinion, was not a prima facie case. His request for a change in the law was denied by the city commissioners. Kimball fell seriously ill again on December 17, 1907, and once more needed several weeks of rest to recover.

In 1908, Kimball was seriously injured while vacationing.  He was traveling aboard a steamship to the West Indies and was struck by a door. He fell, and his leg and hip were injured. Kimball claimed he needed a cane to walk, and unsuccessfully sued for damages.

Kimball's third term expired in 1910. By this time, Kimball had made numerous enemies among attorneys in the city due to his behavior on the bench, and many of them suggested that he leave office (he was now 66 years old). He vigorously denied any intention of retiring. More than 112 local lawyers signed a petition asking President William Howard Taft to deny him reappointment on the basis of "temperamental unfitness" and incompetence. Taft hesitated on the appointment, and Kimball's term technically ended in January 1910. Still Taft made no appointment. Kimball, however, claimed he was still employed by the court, as he had a month's vacation due him which he had not taken.  Kimball left on his 31-day vacation on February 18. According to the Washington Post, Kimball's term on the police court bench ended on April 2, 1910.

Role in the GAR and in constructing Memorial Amphitheater
Kimball was a long-time and active member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), an organization for veterans who had served in the Union army during the Civil War.  In January 1902, Kimball ran for Commander of the Department of the Potomac, a highly influential chapter of the GAR. He won the position, and was installed on February 14, 1903. He served a single term, as usual for Commanders.

Kimball believed that not only should a new and larger amphitheater be built at Arlington National Cemetery, but also that the new amphitheater represent the dead of all wars in which the nation had fought. Kimball and the GAR began their push for a new amphitheater in 1903, and sketches for the amphitheater were drawn up in 1904 by Frederick D. Owen (a civilian engineer working for the United States Army Corps of Engineers). But legislation to construct an amphitheater failed to pass Congress in 1905 and again 1907. Legislation was enacted in 1908 authorizing the establishment of a commission to design an amphitheater, but it received only $5,000 in funding. Legislation to fully fund the commission and build an amphitheater was introduced in 1912 by Senator George Sutherland. Sutherland's bill proposed construction of the amphitheater Kimball wanted: a 5,000-seat structure with a small museum and an underground crypt (for the burial of famous individuals). This bill was successful. President Taft, in one of his last acts as president, signed the legislation into law on March 4, 1913.

The 1908 authorizing legislation established an Arlington Memorial Amphitheater Commission (AMAC) to oversee the design and construction of the structure. Its members included the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Superintendent of the U.S. Capitol, Judge Kimball (as a representative of the GAR), and Charles W. Newton (as a representative of the United Spanish War Veterans, a Spanish–American War veterans group).

Ground for Memorial Amphitheater was broken on March 1, 1915. President Woodrow Wilson laid its cornerstone in a ceremony on October 13, 1915. Kimball participated in the ground-breaking and cornerstone ceremonies, but did not live to see the amphitheater completed.

Personal life
Kimball married Anna Lovinia Ferris, a fellow teacher he met while teaching public school in Indiana. They were married on September 26, 1865. The couple had seven children: Ella Clara (1866), Wilbra (1868), Harry Gilbert (1870), Alice May (1873), Arthur Herbert (1875), Bertha Louise (1878), Edna Gertrude (1879), and Walter Ferris (1873). The boy Wilbra suffered from epilepsy, and died at the age of 20.

Anna Kimball died on March 23, 1914.

Death, burial and memberships
In retirement, Kimball was named president of Edmonston & Co., a boot manufacturing company.

Kimball fell ill in February 1916. He never regained his health. He became bedridden on May 12, and died suddenly at about noon on May 15. Funeral services were held at the Metropolitan Prebysterian Church, and he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Kimball was a deeply religious man, as were many of his forebears. For many years, he sat on the board of directors of the Central Union Mission, an outreach center for the poor in Washington.

Kimball was also very active in Freemasonry. He was a 32d Degree Scottish Rite Mason, and was active in a number of lodges and branches of Masonry, including:  Hiram Lodge No. 10, Free and Accepted Masons; Mount Vernon Chapter No. 3, Royal Arch Masonry; Washington Council No. 1, Royal and Select Masters; Columbia Commandery No. 2, Knights Templar; and Almas Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

References

Bibliography
 Arlington Memorial Amphitheater Commission. Final Report of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater Commission. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923.
 War Department Annual Reports, 1915. Volume 2: Report of the Chief of Engineers. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1915.

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WJSM  is a religious radio station serving the Altoona, Pennsylvania market, known as Victory Radio.  The radio station is an outlet for evangelists such as Dr. James Dobson and others.

History
WJSM Radio had its start many years ago by a man with a dream for South Central Pennsylvania to have its own Christian radio station.  He was Kenneth W. Ferry of Martinsburg, who owned a trucking firm, and while driving heard a western Centre County-based Christian Station, WPHB in Philipsburg, founded by Reverend William Emert.  That station programs country music and talk programming today, with religious programming reserved for Sundays.

Inspired by the experience, Ferry thought that the Martinsburg area needed a station like that and began by filing an application for an AM station in the early 1960s. After several applications and amendments to those applications, the FCC granted a construction permit for an FM station instead. WJSM-FM pioneered FM Christian Broadcasting with its first regular scheduled broadcast on April 19, 1965.  It was a challenge indeed, as back in the 1960s, FM broadcast frequencies were virtually unknown or hardly used and fewer people yet had home FM receivers, and even fewer people had FM compatible radios in their vehicles. WJSM finally came on the air on February 27, 1968, finally meeting the need of the majority of the station's audience in these pre-FM radio years.  A daytime-only station, WJSM was required to sign off at sunset, but WJSM-FM continued to broadcast during the evening hours.  The FM band finally became more popular by the early 1980s, and listenership grew.

The WJSM studios were first located adjacent to the founders' home in North Woodbury Township, Blair County.

The Ferry family owned the stations for 10 years. They were sold in 1975 to two part-time employees interested in seeing Christian Radio remain in South Central Pennsylvania. They were Sherwood B. Hawley of Bedford and Larry S. Walters of Hollidaysburg. Mr. Ferry died shortly after the stations were sold.  WJSM was one of the first 20 stations nationwide to broadcast the "Focus on the Family" program founded by Dr. James Dobson in 1977. The program started as a 25-minute weekly broadcast, and is today heard weekdays in a 30-minute format.

WJSM operated from a small 3-room apartment on South Locust Street in Martinsburg from 1976 until 1982. Offices and studios were then moved adjacent to the home of one of the owners, Larry Walters, approximately three miles east of Martinsburg.

The stations pioneered the use of satellite delivered programs by joining the Satellite Radio Network in the early 1980s.  The network delivered programs via satellite instead of on reel to reel tapes, a move that was ahead of its time and folded later, though satellite technology is a major source of programming for most Christian Radio stations today.

WJSM-FM brought the first 24-hour-a-day Christian programming to the region in the early 1980s. There were no Christian stations broadcasting during the nighttime hours at that point in time.

Sale to Martinsburg Broadcasting
The WJSM Stations were sold in 1989 to Martinsburg Broadcasting, Inc. from Sherwood Hawley and Larry Walters. Larry Walters was the President of the corporation, and remains as its President to date. Sherwood died on July 27, 1993. In 1994, the WJSM Broadcast Center was constructed along Rebecca Furnace Road in Huston Township, just outside Martinsburg. The Broadcast Center houses the WJSM main studio, two full production studios, an engineering department, an audio library, offices, with a conference and meeting room on the lower level.

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The Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts is a museum library in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Managed by Libraries Tasmania, it is located inside the State Library of Tasmania building. It represents one of the largest collections of Tasmanian colonial and pre-Colonial life, and also holds a collection of rare British and European porcelain, furniture and books. It was opened in 1972 and entrance is free to the public.

History
The Allport family settled in Tasmania in 1831. A respected family of British lawyers, their family seat of Cedar Court, in Aldridge is today a Grade II listed house. Joseph Allport was born as the youngest son of William Allport, and his wife Hannah Curzon, his second marriage. Hannah ran a school from the house, where John Glover was drawing teacher. In  1831, Joseph Allport emigrated to Tasmania and settled in Broadmarsh, Tasmania.

His last male descendant, Henry Allport, died in 1965 and left the family home of Cedar Court, Sandy Bay, his extensive personal collections and that of his family, and an endowment for the continued growth of the collection, and establishment of a library. In 1972 the collection was moved to an environment controlled storage inside the State Library of Tasmania's 11 story tower. It was officially opened on the 27th October 1972, by Lady Alexandra Hasluck, wife of the Governor-General.

Management
The Allport Library is managed by Libraries Tasmania, under a management committee consisting of two trustees of Henry Allport's will, one seat nominated by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, one seat reserved for an expert in rare art and books appointed by the Minister, and a representative of the Department of Education Tasmania. It is governed under the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts Agreement Act 1966

Collection
The Allport Library collection is extensive. It includes numerous notable or unusual items. In total, the collection includes an estimated 2000 photographs, 600 prints, 70 oil paintings and 1,700 watercolours and drawings, 400 pieces of China, 125 pieces of glassware, 350 items of silver, 200 pieces of colonial furniture, and six thousand books and other printed items.

These include a portrait of John Glover, by Mary Allport; a number of the earliest photographs taken in Tasmania; a collection of photographs by John Watt Beattie; sketches by Thomas Bock, and most famously, William Buelow Gould's Sketchbook of fishes, which is recognised as a UNESCO document of world significance.

A significant collection of paintings and sketches by John Glover are also included. These are accompanied by original watercolours by Richard Parkes Bonington, John Sell Cotman, Peter De Wint, David Roberts, J. M. W. Turner, and John Varley.

Henry Allport's wife, Claudine, collected fine British porcelain and her collection is also within the Allport Library. These include a Chelsea 'Goat and Bee' jug, perhaps the earliest example of English porcelain from 1745, and four plates from the Nantgarw China Works.

The collection also includes a number of rare books, with a particular focus on the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. These include Louis de Freycinet's Voyage autour du monde, and extensive collections of papers, pamphlets and records from historic Tasmanian institutions, such as the Bank of Van Diemen's Land.

In 2014, the Library acquired Margaret Hope's collection of Tasmanian wildflower watercolours

Most of the library collection is kept in blacked out storage on upper levels of the State Library building. A section of the collection is displayed in the form of a recreation of the rooms of the Allport family home, decorated in 16th to 19th century furniture, and with a display of art by family members or other contemporaries. A rotating art gallery of both contemporary and historic art is attached to this display. Past exhibitions have included the life and story of Jørgen Jørgensen and the history of Tasmanian cookery, including recipes on kangaroo brains.

See also
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The Prince of Wales's Division was a British Army command, training and administrative apparatus designated for all land force units in the West of England and Wales.  It merged with the Scottish Division, to form the Scottish, Welsh and Irish Division; at the same time the Mercian Regiment joined with the King's Division.

History

The Prince of Wales's Division was formed in 1968 with the union of the Mercian Brigade, Welsh Brigade and Wessex Brigade. The depot was established at Whittington Barracks in Staffordshire.

Under the restructuring announced in 2004, the Prince of Wales's Division lost the remaining Westcountry infantry regiments and was reorganised into two large regiments:
Royal Welsh - formed on 1 March 2006 by amalgamation of the 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) and the Royal Welsh Regiment.
Mercian Regiment - formed on 1 September 2007 by amalgamation of the 1st Battalion, 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment, 1st Battalion, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot), 1st Battalion, Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) and the West Midlands Regiment. In 2014 the Royal Irish Regiment joined the division. The Division comprised the following infantry battalions:
Regular Army Units
1st (Cheshire) Battalion, The Mercian Regiment
2nd (Worcestershire and Sherwood) Battalion, The Mercian Regiment
1st (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Battalion, the Royal Welsh
1st Battalion, the Royal Irish Regiment
Army Reserve Units
4th Battalion, the Mercian Regiment
3rd Battalion, the Royal Welsh
2nd Battalion, the Royal Irish Regiment

The Division maintained a regular army band, The Band of The Prince of Wales Division through the amalgamation of the two former divisional bands, the Clive Band and the Lucknow Band.

Under the Army 2020 reorganisation, the 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment (Staffords) and the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh (Royal Regiment of Wales) will both be disbanded, while the Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment) will be transferred to the administration of the Prince of Wales' Division.

In December 2016, the government announced changes to the administrative structure of the infantry as part of the continuing reorganization of the Army under "Army 2020". This saw the Mercian Regiment being moved to the King's Division, with the Royal Regiment of Scotland (which encompassed the entirety of the Scottish Division) transferred to a single administrative formation with the Royal Welsh and the Royal Irish Regiment. This new administrative formation became known as the Scottish, Welsh and Irish Division.

Past Units
Past units include:
1st Battalion, The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment - (1688-2007)
1st Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers - (1689-2006)
1st Battalion, The South Wales Borderers - (1689-1969)
1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment - (1881-1994)
1st Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment - (1881-1970)
1st Battalion, The Royal Hampshire Regiment - (1881-1992)
1st Battalion, The Welch Regiment - (1881-1969)
1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) - (1881-1970)
1st Battalion, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment - (1958-2005)
1st Battalion, The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) - (1959-1994)
1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) - (1959-2007)
1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) - (1969-2006)
1st Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) - (1970-2007)
1st Battalion, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - (1994-2005)
2nd Battalion, The Royal Welsh - (2006-2014)
3rd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment - (2007-2014)

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A Time for Loving is from an original screenplay by the French playwright Jean Anouilh, commissioned by the producer Anatole de Grunwald before he died in 1967, which was finally produced by his younger brother Dimitri de Grunwald with Christopher Miles directing in 1970. It is a bitter-sweet nostalgic look at Paris just before and during the second World War as seen by three couples, who over the years rent the same artist's studio in Montmartre.

Plot

At the same time as an English man, Geoff arranges a rendezvous with his first love, Patricia, to recapture their first affair in a Montmartre studio, the son of the concierge persuades his first love Simone to climb up to the same studio bedroom window thinking it would be empty for the night. Meanwhile Geoff finds Patricia has grown bitter over the years, and that the warmth has gone from their relationship, but when they disturb the two young lovers in the bedroom, the evening ends in a humorous and more light-hearted manner, as they are forced to crawl under the concierge's door in order to leave unseen.

Running late to school the concierge's son sees a young American girl, who is studying at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly, and who is having an affair with an older doctor. Not only must they keep the affair secret from the concierge, but also from the disapproving general public by having to meet in shady 'hôtels de passe'. However an escape to the seaside in Normandy brings matters to a head between them, as the second world war begins.

In occupied Paris, Marcel, the managing director of an important cement business, arrives at the studio which he is renting for his mistress Josette, and bumps into a German Oberleutnant on the landing. As it is Christmas eve, old enmities are put aside, but Marcel has to get his other Christmas presents home to his wife Hélioise and also to his mother, who lives the other side of Paris. All of whom offer Marcel the customary Christmas French dish of oysters, which are also given to him by his mistress for her party, along with her music teacher and her student Monsieur Grondin.

The only form of transport in Paris during those war years were velo-taxis, a type of bicycle rickshaws, which are unable to get the overweight Marcel to all of his women in time for their oyster dinners. These he has to consume in a hurry, one after the other, in order to be on time, albeit a bit green around the gills, for a secret meeting with the French Resistance. After the war all three men are reunited in the old studio.

Cast

Production

After the success of The Virgin and the Gypsy, Dimitri de Grunwald, who had arranged the finance through his European Consortium, teamed up with Christopher Miles again, who in gratitude agreed to direct 'A Time for Loving' as long as a meeting could be arranged with Jean Anouilh to discuss the screenplay. This de Grunwald arranged in the Hotel Provençal in the South of France near where Anouilh lived.

This 1930s hotel, in which the bar hosted Scott Fitzgerald where he wrote Tender is the night was to close the following year, and reflected that elusive bygone era which Anouilh was trying to capture. Anouilh agreed to meet Miles at the bar at 5pm the night of Bastille Day 1970 and see if it was possible for him to reconsider some aspects of the screenplay for the modern audience. Miles reports that at 5pm sharp a sixty year old moustached man with gold-rimmed spectacle and a twinkle in his eye shook him by the hand saying in French "Eh bien, I have reread my scenario and I find it enchanting" - so there was little else Miles could say to the great man, but to toast the project, and watch the fireworks from the hotel.

In fact Anouilh did help later with some rewriting by improving the interlocking dialogue for some of the sequences, which were needed in a hurry as shooting was to begin in Paris on Pont Alexandre III which had to be closed to the public for filming on the 4th August 1970, a studio built on an existing house in Rue Berthe, Montmartre, as well as it's interiors to be designed and built by Theo Meurisse at the Studio Boulogne, all to be co- ordinated by Miles' friend from their Paris film student days, Patrick Bureau.

Anouilh had set his script in Montparnasse, but by the 1970s the modern towers dominated the exteriors, so Miles moved the location to Montmartre which he knew well from his student days. This meant getting helpful co-operation from his old friends, the local vegetable market sellers, the butcher, the local artists and the poet Pierre Jacob and his wife Josia to play small roles and appear in the film.

Critical reception
Alexander Walker of the London Evening Standard wrote "Though one is surprised to see it done at all any longer, I have to admit it is done very well in Christopher Miles's romantic comedy...'Time for Loving' is one of the very few English films made in France that is worth the Channel crossing" and the style of the film appealed to Dilys Powell of the Sunday Times "... and it's amusing to see Michel Legrand, most prolific of film music composers, making a spirited appearance with a trombone: in my eyes Lila Kedrova never over-acts: one admires too, the re-creation of war-time Paris, streets empty of traffic except for bicycle-taxis" as it did to the Daily Telegraph: "The most striking quality of this handsome, erratic film, is its splendidly square sense of place....Christopher Miles accurately gauges the material things that give substance to an experience... really it is less a time for loving than time remembered". However for the London Evening News it was a rose among the West End weeds: "Directed with leisurely sophistication by Christopher Miles - reunited with his Virgin and Gypsy stars Joanna Shimkus and Mark Burns -... it's a rose among the West End weeds"  but Derek Malcolm of The Guardian wrote: "There is delicious Joanna Shimkus as a medical student in love with Mel Ferrer's middle-aged doctor, Susan Hampshire's icy rich lady failing to rekindle her affair with Mark Burns, and the estimable Philippe Noiret as a harassed business man trying to satisfy his wife, mistress and self-pitying mother". However he felt although the film looked nice, the French being the meanest, and most bourgeois, and least romantic nations on earth - it was a bit of a fake.

References

Bibliography
 Harper, Sue. British Film Culture in the 1970s. Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

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Hal Wissel (born February 8, 1939) is an American basketball coach who has worked at the professional and collegiate level in his career.

Wissel was an assistant coach for player development with the Golden State Warriors (2006–07), an assistant coach with the Memphis Grizzlies (2002–05), an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets (1996–99), and an assistant coach with the Atlanta Hawks (1976–77).

Wissel was also an advance scout with the Dallas Mavericks (2001–02), Director of Player Personnel with the New Jersey Nets (1995–96), and advance scout and special assignment coach with the Milwaukee Bucks (1990–95).

In addition to serving in the NBA, Wissel compiled more than 300 wins as a collegiate head coach. Wissel led Florida Southern College to four straight trips to the NCAA Division II Tournament and three straight trips to the Division II Final Four ('80, '81, and '82), winning the NCAA Division II National Championship in 1981. Wissel coached Division I Fordham University to the National Invitation Tournament in 1972. Fordham played the toughest schedule in the nation. Wissel coached Division I Lafayette College (1967–71), rebuilding team into conference champion in 1971. Wissel coached The College of New Jersey (1964–67), rebuilding team into conference champion and NAIA National Tournament team in 1967. Wissel coached University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1982–85) where he compiled a 22–62 record. Wissel was dismissed following the 1984–1985 season. He was head coach of the Westchester Golden Apples of the United States Basketball League in 1986.

Wissel's honors include being named Coach & Athlete magazine's Eastern Coach of the Year in 1972; Sunshine State Conference Coach of the Year ('79, '80, '81); and NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1980. Wissel has been inducted into the Florida Southern College Athletic Hall of Fame and the Sunshine State Conference Hall of Fame. In 1998, Wissel was named Sunshine State Conference Silver Anniversary Coach.

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