William Monteith, R.A., K.L.S., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. (22 June 1790 – 18 April 1864) was a British soldier, diplomatist and historian, associated with the East India Company.

Early life and career
William Monteith was born in the Abbey parish, Paisley, Renfrewshire, on 22 June 1790. On 18 March 1809 he was appointed a lieutenant in the Madras engineers, and became captain in that corps on 2 May 1817, lieutenant-colonel on 4 November 1824, colonel on 13 May 1839 (brevet on 18 June 1831).

Persian mission
Monteith accompanied Sir John Malcolm's embassy to Persia, and when at Tabriz, in February 1810, was sent to reconnoitre the Russian frontier-posts on the Aras, near Megeri, at the request of Abbas Mirza, the prince royal of Persia. When Malcolm's embassy quit Persia, Monteith was one of the officers left behind. During the Russo-Persian War, he went with Abbas Mirza to Erivan, and accompanied an expedition into Georgia, in which the Persians were unsuccessful. During the four succeeding campaigns against the Russians in 1810-13 Monteith was in command of a frontier force of cavalry with six guns, and of the garrison of Erivan. He was engaged in many skirmishes, and once was wounded. The war against Russia was supported by the British minister, Sir Harford Jones Brydges but Napoleon's retreat from Moscow brought about a reversal of British policy. When Henry Ellis and David Richard Morier concluded the treaty of Teheran between Great Britain and Persia, which was signed on 25 November 1814, and remained in force until the war of 1857, Monteith acted as secretary to Morier. He was still in Persia in 1819, and acted as aide-de-camp to Sir William Keir Grant, commanding the Bombay force sent against the Wahhabi pirates of the Persian Gulf, which destroyed their stronghold of Ras al-Khaimah. He was present with the Persians during the war with Turkey. He was then employed to ascertain the boundary between Persia and Turkey.

During the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), Monteith was present at the Persian headquarters. After the Treaty of Turkmenchay was signed in 1828, Monteith was appointed commissioner for the payment of the indemnity, exacted from Persia by Russia, part of which was conveyed by him personally into the Russian camp. He was thus brought into contact with the Russian commander, General Ivan Paskevich, which led to his presence at the Russian headquarters at Tiflis during the war between the Russians and Turks in 1828. He was ordered to remain in Persia until the settlement of the Russo-Persian boundary.

Service in India
Monteith left Persia in October 1829, and on his way home was present with the French army at the capture of Algiers in July 1830. He returned to India in July 1832, and was appointed chief engineer at Madras, but in January 1834 was superseded by the arrival of Colonel Gurnard. Monteith then became superintending engineer at the presidency, but on Gurnard's death, 2 September 1836, he again became chief engineer, and an ex officio member of the military board, a position he held to 18 July 1842. He became a major-general on 23 November 1841, retired from the service in 1847, and attained the honorary rank of lieutenant-general in 1854. He died at his residence, Upper Wigmore Street, London, on 18 April 1864, aged 73. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Geographical Society, a member of various foreign learned societies, and a knight of the Persian Order of the Lion and the Sun.

Works
Monteith wrote Kars and Erzeroum, with the Campaign of Prince Paskiewitch (London, 1856), an account of the Russian wars in the Caucasus, as well as several works on the geography of Persia and India. He also translated The Diplomatists of Europe by the French author Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue (London, 1845) and edited Narrative of the Conquest of Finland by the Russians in 1808-9 (London, 1854).

Family
Monteith married Maria Murdoch (1805-1873) at Trinity Church, St Marylebone, London 23 August 1831. She was the daughter of Thomas Murdoch IV and his wife, Charlotte Leacock, a Merchant of Madeira.  Monteith and his wife had the following children, born in India: Caroline Frederica (1832-1916), William Elphinstone (1835-1841) and Horator Murdoch (1838-1846)

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The Constitution (Twenty-fifth Amendment) Act, 2017 was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan which called for an increase in pension payments for the widows of judges. The amendment was approved by the standing committee of the National Assembly of Pakistan in February 2017. The bill was never adopted and never became part of Constitution of Pakistan as an amendment.

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Ernest McNeill Eller (23 January 1903 – 30 July 1992) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who served as Director of Naval History, Naval History Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from 1956 to 1970.

Early life and education
Ernest Eller was born on 23 January 1903 in Marion, Virginia.  The son of Edward E. Eller and Elizabeth McNeill Eller, he attended North Wilkesboro High School, North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, and North Carolina State College at Raleigh, North Carolina, before entering the United States Naval Academy in 1921. As a midshipman he was Managing Editor of The Log, President of the Trident Society, and editor of The Trident, graduating with the Class of 1925.  He received a Master of Arts degree in Psychology at George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1934.

Naval career
Graduated and commissioned an ensign on 4 June 1925, Eller rose to the rank of captain in 1944, to date from 20 July 1943, and served in the temporary rank of commodore from 30 September 1946 until 1 December 1947. On 1 April 1954 he was transferred to the Retired List of the US Navy as a Rear Admiral.

He served on  until 14 June 1926, when he reported to the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, for instruction. On 3 January 1927 he joined  and served on board that battleship until 28 May 1927. Following instruction in submarines at the Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut, he served successively from February 1928 to April 1932 in  and . For the next three years he had duty at the United States Naval Academy in the Department of English and History and the Executive Department.  During that period, he earned a Master of Arts degree in Psychology at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

During his next period of sea duty, he organized and conducted the Fleet Machine Gun School in , in which he served until May 1938. He then returned to the Naval Academy for duty in the Departments of English and History, and Ordnance and Gunnery. From September 1940 until May 1941 he served as Assistant Naval Attaché in London, England, and as Observer with the British Home Fleet for radar, anti-aircraft, and other wartime technical developments.

After brief duty in the Fleet Training Division and Bureau of Ordnance developing anti-aircraft training and weapons, he was ordered to  and served as her gunnery officer until May 1942. He was on board that aircraft carrier when she made her high-speed run from San Diego, California, to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, with urgently needed plane and pilot replacements immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was also on board when  was torpedoed in January 1942 while on her third operational foray into the Marshall Islands and Midway Island areas.

He served for the next three years on the staff Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC), as Assistant Gunnery and Anti-submarine Training Officer. In addition, he analyzed actions and wrote CINCPAC's war reports during the first part of this tour of duty.

He was awarded the Legion of Merit with Combat "V." The citation follows in part:
For exceptionally meritorious conduct…while attached to the staff of the Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, during operations against enemy Japanese forces in the Pacific War Area from May 1942 to April 1945. Analyzing war reports and developing, expanding and supervising all types of training, particularly anti-aircraft, anti-submarine, amphibious and shore bombardment, (he) participated in landings on Makin and Okinawa and in other combat operations which led to improved methods and development of new weapons. In his constant attention to improvements in weapons and armament of his ships and in his supervision of Fleet ammunition supply, he rendered vital service in developing and maintaining the combat readiness of the Fleet…

During the summer and fall of 1945, he commanded the attack transport , participating in three occupation moves into Japan and China. From late in December 1945 until March 1946, he served as District Public Information Officer, Twelfth Naval District, San Francisco, California. He reported in April 1946 to the Office of Public Information, Navy Department, Washington, D.C., to serve as Deputy Director and on 31 July 1946 assumed the duties of Director of Public Information. He was promoted to the temporary rank of Commodore on 30 September 1946. Eller also received Bronze Star Medal for his service in Pacific.

Selected to attend the course at the National War College, Washington, D.C., which convened on 30 August 1948, he completed the course and reported in June 1949 for duty in the Staff Planning Section of the Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this duty he accompanied the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the member countries of NATO establishing plans for the military structure of that organization. A year later, at the outbreak of the Korean War, he became Commander, Middle East Force, in the Persian Gulf – Indian Ocean area. He assumed command of  on 14 May 1951, and in April 1952 he was assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, International Affairs Division. Late in 1953 he was hospitalized and on 1 April 1954 was transferred to the Retired List of the Navy.

On 15 September 1956 he was recalled to active duty as Director of Naval History, Naval History Division and Curator of the Navy Department, Washington, DC, and served as such until relieved of active duty on 23 January 1970.

Admiral Eller died of a heart ailment on 30 July 1992 at his home in Annapolis, Maryland. He was 89.

Awards and decorations
In addition to the Legion of Merit with Combat "V," Rear Admiral Eller was awarded the American Defense Service Medal, Fleet Clasp; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; the American Campaign Medal; the World War II Victory Medal; the Navy Occupation Service Medal, Asia and Europe Clasps; the China Service Medal; and the National Defense Service Medal with bronze star.

  Legion of Merit with Combat "V"
  Bronze Star Medal
  American Defense Service Medal
  American Campaign Medal
  Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three service stars
  World War II Victory Medal
  Navy Occupation Service Medal, Asia and Europe Clasp
  China Service Medal
  National Defense Service Medal
  Philippine Liberation Medal

In 1967, he received the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement.

Publications

Books and Pamphlets

Notes on fire control, 1940, for U.S. Naval Reserve, prepared by E.M. Eller, under the direction of the head of the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery, U.S. Naval Academy. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1941
The Civil War at sea: "the nation notes and long remembers.", 1961
Salem; star and dawn, Foreword by J. Kenneth Pfohl. Winston-Salem, N.C., Woman's Fellowship, Moravian Church South, [1962].
Quiver: the class of 1925, U.S. Naval Academy: the 40th anniversary, editor-in-chief, Ernest M. Eller, managing editor, Thomas Burrowes, 1965.
Sea power and the battle of New Orleans, by E.M. Eller, William J. Morgan, and R. M. Basoco. [New Orleans, La.] : Battle of New Orleans, 150th Anniversary Committee of Louisiana, 1965
The Soviet sea challenge. Foreword by Arleigh Burke. [Chicago] Cowles Book Co. [1971]
Naval weapons of the American Revolution, 1775–1783, prepared by Ernest M. Eller. Washington: American Defense Preparedness Association, 1976.
Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution, Ernest McNeill Eller, editor. Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1981.
Reminiscences of Admiral Ernest M. Eller, United States Navy (Retired), interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. Annapolis, Maryland: U.S. Naval Institute, 1986

Major Contributions to the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings (USNIP)

1930, "Will to Win." USNIP 56, no. 5 (May): 371-378. [First Honorable Mention.].
1932, "Time is Life." USNIP 58, no. 4 (April): 493-505. [Prize.].
1936, "Sea Power in the American Revolution." USNIP 62, no. 6 (June): 777-789. [Honorable Mention.].
1936, "Courage is Not Enough." USNIP 62, no. 7 (July): 943-955. [Honorable Mention.].
1938, "Japan's Rising Sun." USNIP 64, no. 7 (July): 949-962. [Special Award.].
1938, "The Philippines and the Pacific." USNIP 64, no. 10 (October): 1467-1488. [Special Award. Plates, pp. 1481–1488.].
1942, "How Shall We Win?" USNIP 68, no. 4 (April): 465-476. [Prize.].
1946, "Against All Enemies." USNIP 72, no. 7 (July): 891-907.
1950, "Will We Need a Navy to Win?" USNIP 76, no. 3 (March): 237-247. [Prize.].
1955, "Soviet Bid for the Sea." USNIP 81, no. 6 (June): 619-635.
1956, "U.S. Destiny in the Middle East." USNIP 82, no. 11 (November): 1160-1169.

See also

Naval Historical Center
Ernest McNeill Eller Papers at East Carolina University

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Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser''' was a Star Wars-themed 2-night live-action/role-playing choose-your-own-adventure experience aboard a simulated cruise in outer space within the Star Wars galaxy. It opened on March 1, 2022, and closed on September 30, 2023. Starcruiser guests began their experience at the terminal next to Disney's Hollywood Studios, in the Epcot Resort Area of the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. The hotel accompanied the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge themed area in Disney's Hollywood Studios.

 History
In April 2017, Disney contracted the website Swagbucks to survey visitors in order to gauge interest in a possible Star Wars-themed hotel. As a result of the survey, Disney decided to approve such a hotel, with a visitor experience based on the Star Wars storyline. Plans for the Star Wars hotel were announced at D23 Expo 2017 in Anaheim, California, unveiled along with 22 other improvements and additions to Disney parks around the world. At D23 Expo 2019, it was revealed that the hotel would be called the Halcyon and would be a two-night immersive experience where all guests arrive and depart together, similar to a cruise line.

The planned 2021 opening of the Star Wars hotel was delayed to March 1, 2022, by the COVID-19 pandemic. The hotel received positive reviews from guests—according to CNBC, the hotel "earned some of the highest guest satisfaction ratings in the history of Walt Disney World"—but it was extremely expensive. Guests were only allowed to stay for two nights, and the minimum room rate was $4,800 for two people.

Bob Chapek, then-chairman of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, said the Star Wars hotel would be Disney's "most experiential concept ever". Chapek described the hotel as a "100% immersive" experience that "will culminate in a unique journey for every person who visits." Planned features included creatures and droids acting as certain hotel staff; guests wearing Star Wars costumes; and an ability to interact with features of the hotel as if visitors were really in the Star Wars universe. Visitors would also be able to have lightsaber training and duels (an extension of the Jedi Training Academy in Disney's Hollywood Studios); explore and pilot Star Wars spacecraft; and go on "secret missions" personalized toward the visitors' experience. These concepts were modified into droids participating as crew members, and lightsaber training solely on the ship for passengers. Instead of piloting the ship, passengers were able to partake in "Bridge Ops" training.

One writer for The Verge called the planned hotel a "Westworld for Star Wars fans," noting the hotel amenities that would facilitate the immersive-hotel experience. Mic compared the planned hotel to Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge and Universal Orlando's Cabana Bay Beach Resort, two hotels containing immersive experiences, though to a lesser extent.

In May 2023, Disney announced that Galactic Starcruiser would have its last two-day voyage on September 28, and then close for good. The Galactic Starcruiser officially closed at 10 a.m. on September 30, and the website is no longer operable.

 Description
Early renderings of the project in 2017 showed that the new hotel would be shaped like a Star Wars starship. The guest rooms contained full-size bunk beds and a queen-sized bed; some rooms also had a pull-down to sleep a fifth guest in the style of Star Wars bunkers. Renderings also showed a lobby in the style of a Star Wars spaceship interior.

On May 30, 2018, it was announced that the hotel would be located just south of Disney's Hollywood Studios, to the east of World Drive. Valet parking was available for guests arriving in personal vehicles (no self-parking), or guests could use other means, such as ride sharing or a taxi. A driveway connected the Starcruiser's main terminal to the Cast parking lot of Disney's Hollywood Studios.

The ship, named the Halcyon, was described as containing thirteen decks, with only four being "available" to passengers: 4, 5, 6, and 7. Deck 4 contained the Crown of Corellia Dining Room, the Lightsaber Training Pod, the Climate Simulator, the Transport Dock to Batuu, the Cargo Hold, the Brig, and the Engineering Room. Deck 6 contained the Atrium, which led to the Bridge, the Sublight Lounge, the Chandrila Collection (souvenir shop), and the Passenger Services' Desk. Decks 4, 5, and 7 hosted the guest cabins.

On their second day, guests at the hotel traveled directly to Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge by a "shuttle-pod transportation system" (a box van). The interior resembled a shuttle spacecraft that ferried guests between the hotel and the land while maintaining the illusion of traveling from space to the planet's surface and back. The hotel's direct entrance to Disney's Hollywood Studios was located between the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction and the First Order ship at Docking Bay 9 in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, though this entrance was for Starcruiser passengers only.

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Reception
Critical reception of Galactic Starcruiser focused on its high price for a generally less-than-luxurious experience. Early photos of the Halcyons small, windowless cabins went viral before the hotel opened to the public, with many commentators on Twitter complaining that they were not suitable luxury accommodation. One commentator said its high prices had kept many from visiting even once, while the lone storyline offered to guests dissuaded them from visiting twice.Polygon regarded Galactic Starcruiser as a form of participatory entertainment, requiring guests to put in effort to see and do everything they want during their brief stay, without spending much time in their cabin other than to sleep. "If you love Star Wars and want to commit to this experience in full by wearing costumes and interacting with characters and living your best Star Wars life, you'll enjoy yourself," wrote a reviewer for Nerdist''. CNBC reported that the price, about $1,200 per person per day, was "steep," but that the experience was worth the cost as long as guests were willing to engage with many of the activities on board, with very little downtime.

In November 2022, Galactic Starcruiser won a Thea Award from the Themed Entertainment Association for outstanding achievement in brand experience.

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Fluoroantimonic acid is a mixture of hydrogen fluoride and Antimony pentafluoride.
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The Superman curse refers to a series of supposedly related misfortunes that have plagued creative people involved in adaptations of the DC Comics character Superman in various media, particularly actors who have played the role of Superman on film and television. The "curse" is frequently associated with George Reeves, who starred in Adventures of Superman on television from 1952 to 1958, and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 45; and Christopher Reeve, the portrayer of the superhero in four theatrical films from 1978 to 1987, who was paralyzed in a 1995 horseback riding accident, and died nine years later at age 52 from heart failure.

The curse is often invoked whenever misfortune is experienced by actors and other personnel who work on Superman adaptations, so much so that some talent agents cite the curse as the reason for the difficulty in casting actors in the role in live-action feature films.

A more prosaic explanation for the alleged 'curse' is that given the high number of people involved in the many adaptations and treatments of the Superman story over the years, a number of significant misfortunes would inevitably occur, as they would do in any substantial sampling of random individuals.

Superman actors
The following actors who played Superman have sometimes been cited as victims of the "Superman curse".

Kirk Alyn
Kirk Alyn played Superman in two low-budget 1940s serials, but failed to find work afterward due to typecasting. As a result, he was relegated to voice roles, commercials, and uncredited screen roles. He later appeared as Lois Lane's father in the 1978 Superman film. Alyn had Alzheimer's disease later in his life and died in 1999 at the age of 88.

Lee Quigley
Lee Quigley, who played the infant Superman in the 1978 film, came from an unstable home and suffered schoolyard bullying. He died in 1991 at age 14 from inhalant abuse.

George Reeves
George Reeves played Superman in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men and the ensuing television series Adventures of Superman. Like Alyn, he was too closely associated with the role to find further work. On June 16, 1959, days before he was to be married, Reeves was found dead of a gunshot wound at his home with his Luger pistol near him. The death was ruled a suicide, but controversy surrounds the death, as Reeves's fingerprints were never found on the gun, and he had been having an affair with the wife of MGM exec Eddie Mannix. It was Reeves's death that inspired the conspiracy theories and the urban legend of a curse associated with the character.

Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeve played Clark Kent / Superman in the 1978–87 Superman film series: Superman: The Movie (1978), Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987). Subsequently, he was subject to typecasting and found difficulty acquiring roles, being relegated to Superman sequels and supporting roles. Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down after being thrown from his horse in a cross-country equestrian riding event on May 27, 1995. He died on October 10, 2004 15 days after his 52nd birthday. No official autopsy was performed, but both Reeve's wife Dana and his doctor John McDonald believed that an adverse reaction to a drug caused Reeve's death. In one of his last roles, Reeve portrayed supporting character Dr. Virgil Swann on the WB/CW television series Smallville.

Other alleged victims

Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, who played Jor-El in the 1978 film, is cited for the misfortune he suffered in his private life, such as his son Christian's shooting of his half-sister Cheyenne's boyfriend in 1990 and subsequent five-year imprisonment, Brando's own admission in court that he had failed his son and daughter, his daughter's 1995 suicide and his later reclusiveness. He died in July 2004, aged 80, three months before his Superman co-star Christopher Reeve. Footage of him would later be posthumously used in 2006's Superman Returns.

Margot Kidder
Margot Kidder, who played Superman's love interest Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve, had bipolar disorder. In April 1996, she went missing for several days and was found by police in a paranoid, delusional state.

Kidder dismissed the notion of a curse, remarking in a 2002 interview: "That is all newspaper-created rubbish. The idea cracks me up. What about the luck of Superman? When my car crashed this August, if I hadn't hit a telegraph pole after rolling three times, I would have dropped down a 50ft to 60ft ravine. Why don't people focus on that?"

Kidder died on May 13, 2018, in Livingston, Montana. A coroner ruled her death a suicide, stating that she had "died as a result of a self-inflicted drug and alcohol overdose."

Richard Pryor
Comedian Richard Pryor, who had previously had a drug addiction that led to a near-fatal suicide attempt, starred as Gus Gorman in Superman III. Three years later, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He died of a heart attack on December 10, 2005 at the age of 65.

Dana Reeve
The curse has been mentioned regarding the death of actress Dana Reeve (the widow of actor Christopher Reeve), who, despite being a non-smoker, died of lung cancer in 2006 at the age of 44.

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, sold the rights to their creation to DC Comics for a relatively small amount of money, in contrast to the amount of money the character has generated over the decades. Despite the repeated efforts over the course of the rest of their lives to recover legal ownership of Superman, and a share in the immense profits that the character brought for DC Comics, DC's copyright on the character was renewed. By the 1950s, Shuster's worsening eyesight prevented him from drawing, and he worked as a deliveryman in order to earn a living. Jerry Robinson claimed that Shuster had delivered a package to the DC building, embarrassing the employees. He was summoned to the CEO, given $100.00, and told to buy a new coat and find another job. By 1976, Shuster was almost blind and living in a California nursing home. In 1975, Siegel launched a publicity campaign, in which Shuster participated, protesting DC Comics' treatment of him and Shuster. In the face of a great deal of negative publicity over their handling of the affair (and with the Superman movie coming soon), DC's parent company Warner Communications reinstated the byline dropped more than 30 years earlier and granted the pair a lifetime pension of $20,000 a year, plus health benefits. The first issue with the restored credit was Superman (vol. 1) #302 (August 1976). Siegel died in 1996 and Shuster in 1992.

Max and Dave Fleischer
Brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer of Fleischer Studios, who produced the Paramount Superman cartoons began to quarrel with one another and their studio suffered financial disaster. After selling to Paramount Studios, the new owners fired the two brothers. Max died in poverty in a film industry charity hospital.

DVD crew of Superman Returns
The curse was invoked after three people involved in the creation of the Superman Returns DVD were injured. One of them fell down a flight of stairs, another was mugged and physically assaulted, and a third smashed into a glass window. Director Bryan Singer remarked: "My DVD crew absorbed the curse for us".

Allison Mack
Allison Mack, who played Chloe Sullivan on the TV series Smallville, was accused of sex trafficking and forced human labor and was arrested in April 2018 on those charges. An article on Fox News speculated whether this was related to the curse. In June 2021 she was sentenced to three years in prison.

Superman actors not generally believed to have become victims of the curse
The following actors have either portrayed Superman or voiced him in animated cartoons, but are not typically associated with the curse.

Dean Cain
Dean Cain became a household name in the early to mid-1990s for his portrayal of Superman/Clark Kent in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. He went on to have various roles in shows such as Frasier and Law & Order, as well as made-for-TV movies. He has also made guest appearances in two other Superman-related series: in an episode of Smallville as the villainous Dr. Curtis Knox, and a recurring role in Supergirl as the title character's foster father, Jeremiah Danvers.  ABC News correspondent Buck Wolf once commented, "(Cain) has yet to find the right role".

Bud Collyer
Bud Collyer voiced the first series of Superman cartoons from 1941–1943. He went on to enjoy a career in TV, hosting the game show To Tell the Truth. He returned to Superman by voicing The New Adventures of Superman for CBS in 1966. He died in 1969 of circulatory ailment at the age of 61. Voice actors have generally been considered not to be affected by the curse.

Brandon Routh
Actor Brandon Routh, who played Superman in the 2006 film Superman Returns, dismisses the notion of the curse. He stated that what occurs to one person or set of people will not necessarily occur to everyone, and that he does not live his life in fear. Routh eventually played Ray Palmer (the Atom) on other DC Comics-related projects, is a recurring character in Arrow and The Flash, and is a regular in the spin-off series Legends of Tomorrow (occasionally, his role as Superman is referenced in the Arrowverse). He revisited the role in the crossover storyline "Crisis on Infinite Earths".

Tom Welling
Tom Welling played Clark Kent in the series Smallville, which aired from 2001 to 2011. He told attendees at Fan Expo Canada that while he did have doubts about taking on the part of the character, they stemmed from the secrecy with which the producers initially withheld details about the production, and not the purported curse, to which he had not paid any mind. Welling explained that once he was given a script to read, his doubts were put to rest. He later reappears as Clark Kent in the 2019–2020 Arrowverse crossover storyline "Crisis on Infinite Earths", as a husband and father who has given up his powers, and is therefore immune to the kryptonite with which Lex Luthor attempts to kill him.

Bob Holiday
Bob Holiday played Superman on Broadway in the 1960s musical It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!. He called the idea of a Superman curse "silly" and stated that "nothing but good" came from his playing Superman.

Henry Cavill
Henry Cavill played Clark Kent / Superman in the films of the DC Extended Universe, spanning Man of Steel (2013) to  Black Adam (2022). He has said that he does not believe there is a Superman curse, and that incidents thought to be evidence of it are explained by bad luck.

Tyler Hoechlin
Tyler Hoechlin played Clark Kent / Superman in the Arrow-verse show SuperGirl, and in CW show Superman and Lois that has been airing since 2021. As far as our sources can tell, Hoechlin has not had any misfortune in life after playing the role.

See also
 Hollywoodland
 Poltergeist curse
 Kennedy curse
 Curse of Tippecanoe

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Marmot is an outdoor recreation clothing and sporting goods company founded in 1974 as "Marmot Mountain Works". The company was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by local resident Tom Boyce and two University of California, Santa Cruz students, David Huntley and Eric Reynolds, who shared the common goal of making their own mountaineering equipment. Two years prior to the founding of Marmot, Boyce secured an order for the climbing apparel used in the film The Eiger Sanction starring Clint Eastwood, and Huntley made the original prototype gear that Boyce was using on the Wolper Productions/National Geographic documentary Journey to the Outer Limits, about the Colorado Outward Bound School. It was during this documentary production that cameraman Mike Hoover, who later worked on Eiger Sanction, saw the equipment that Boyce was using during the portion filmed in Peru. Just prior to Christmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce and placed the order that led to the formation of the company in Grand Junction.

After Jarden was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid in 2016, Marmot was spun off from K2 and K2 Sports was sold to Kohlberg & Company in 2017. Marmot stayed with Newell.

History

In 1976, Marmot ventured on another new business opportunity when Eric Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a couple of weeks, Marmot had sewn prototype sleeping bags using the then-new Gore-Tex fabric for field testing. Reynolds and Huntley spent seven nights in a commercial frozen meat locker comparing bags with and without the Gore-Tex fabric, as well as testing the bags under fire sprinklers. They were impressed by what they saw and changed everything in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex fabrications.

Now based in Rohnert Park, California, Marmot is globally distributed and part of the Newell Brands.

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Regelia inops is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is  an upright but often spreading shrub with tiny wedge shaped leaves and small heads of pink flowers on the ends of its branches in the warmer months.

Description
Regelia inops is an upright, often spreading shrub which grows to a height of . The leaves are arranged in alternating pairs (decussate) so that they make four rows along the stems. They are egg-shaped or triangular, and  long with their lower part pressed against the stem.

The flowers are mauve and arranged in small heads on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also on small side branches. There are 5 sepals, 5 petals and 5 bundles of stamens. The stamens, which give the flowers their colour, are about  long and are joined for about half their length. Flowering occurs in the warmer months and is followed by fruit which are woody capsules, often in small, almost spherical clusters around the stem.

Taxonomy and naming
Regelia inops was first formally described in 1848 by J.C.Schauer in the journal Plantae Preissianae. He had previously given it the name Beaufortia inops. The specific epithet (inops) is a Latin word meaning "poor", "helpless" or "weak".

Distribution and habitat
This regelia is widely distributed in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions. It grows in sandy soils on sandplains and in areas that are wet in winter.

Conservation
Regelia inops is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.

Use in horticulture
The neat foliage and well displayed flowers make Regelia inops a suitable plant for gardens. It is easily propagated from seed or from cuttings.

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Myrtales of Australia
Plants described in 1848
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Regelia inops


Louis Golding (19 November 1895 – 9 August 1958) was an English writer, very famous in his time especially for his novels, though he is now largely neglected; he wrote also short stories, essays, fantasies, travel books, and poetry.

Life
Born in Manchester, Lancashire into a Ukrainian-Jewish family, Golding was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Queen's College, Oxford. He used his Manchester background (as 'Doomington') and Jewish themes in his novels, the first of which was published while he was still an undergraduate (his student time was interrupted by service in World War I). Golding described Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred, Lord Tennyson as influences on his poetry.

His novel Magnolia Street was a bestseller of 1932; it is based on the Hightown area of Manchester, as it was in the 1920s. It features, authentically enough, a street divided into 'gentile' and 'Jewish' sides. It was a 1939 play for Charles B. Cochran in an adaptation by Golding and A. E. Rawlinson, and was also filmed as Magnolia Street Story.

Golding described his politics as "strongly to the left". In 1932, the Hogarth Press published Golding's A Letter to Adolf Hitler, an attack on anti-Semitism and Nazism. In 1940, Golding also criticized the Soviet Invasion of Finland.

Boucher and McComas named Honey for the Ghost the best supernatural novel of 1949, saying it "begins with infinite leisure but builds to an incomparable climactic terror."

Film screenplays on which Golding collaborated included that of the Paul Robeson film The Proud Valley (1940); this work with Robeson may have led to his later visa problems with the U.S. authorities. He also was involved in the script of the 1944 film of his novel Mr. Emmanuel.

Golding employed Gillian Freeman as a literary secretary. Freeman later became a novelist and screenwriter, often using her time with Golding as inspiration for her work.

Works
Sorrow of War (1919) poems
Forward from Babylon (1920) novel
Shepherd Singing Ragtime: and other poems (1921)
Prophet and Fool (1923) poems
Seacoast Of Bohemia (1923)
Sunward (1924) travel
Sicilian Noon (1925) travel
Day of Atonement (1925) novel
Luigi of Catanzaro (1926)
The Miracle Boy (1927) novel
Store of Ladies (1927)
Those Ancient Lands Being a Journey to Palestine (1928) travel
The Prince or Somebody (1929)
Adventures in Living Dangerously (1930)
Give up Your Lovers (1930)
Magnolia Street (1932) novel
A letter to Adolf Hitler (1932)
James Joyce (1933) criticism
The Doomington Wanderer (1934) stories
Five Silver Daughters (1934) Tales of the Silver Sisters (1)
The Camberwell Beauty (1935) novel
The Pursuer (1936) novel
In the Steps of Moses the Lawgiver [1937]
The Jewish Problem (1938) non-fiction
Mr. Emmanuel (1939) Tales of the Silver Sisters (2)
Hitler through the Ages (1939) non-fiction
The World I Knew (1940) non-fiction
We Shall Eat and Drink Again (1944) with André Simon, essays on food and drink
The Vicar of Dunkerly Briggs (1944) novel
Who's There Within? (1944) novel
The Call of the Hand: And Other Stories (1944) stories
Pale Blue Nightgown: A Book of Tales (1944) stories
No News from Helen (1945) novel
The Glory of Elsie Silver (1945) Tales of the Silver Sisters (3)
The Dance Goes On (1947) novel
Bareknuckle Lover; and Other Stories (1947)
Three Jolly Gentlemen (1949) novel
Honey for the Ghost (1949) novel
The Dangerous Places (1951) Tales of the Silver Sisters (4)
To the Quayside (1954) (Ghostwritten by Emanuel Litvinoff)
The Bareknuckle Breed (1952)(Ghostwritten by Emanuel Litvinoff), published by Hutchinson & Co Ltd
The Loving Brothers (1953) novel
The Little Old Admiral (1958)
The Frightening Talent (1973) novel

References

Further reading

External links
 Encyclopædia Britannica

1895 births
1958 deaths
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The Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail (also known as the Warburton Trail) is a walking, cycling and horse-riding track in eastern Victoria, Australia.  It runs a distance of 38 km between Lilydale and Warburton, along the former Warburton railway line. A section between Corduroy Road in Yarra Junction and Warburton is also known as the Centenary Trail.

The trail begins at Lilydale and passes through the townships of Mount Evelyn, Wandin Nth, Seville, Seville East, Woori Yallock, Launching Place, Yarra Junction, Wesburn and Millgrove, ending at Warburton.

History
Since the closure of the Warburton railway line in July 1965 and the dismantling of the track in the early 1970's, the land had remained vacant. In 1984 and again in 1996 the state government investigated selling off the land, but withdrew these proposals in part due to community opposition.

Since its establishment in 1996 the trail has been continually developed and maintained by a combination of local volunteers, particularly the Friends of the Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail, as well the Local Council and State and Federal governments. Over several years a significant amount of effort went into clearing the land, restoring 13 bridges and surfacing of the trail. Negotiations were undertaken with neighbouring farmers who had previously occupied the reserve to erect fencing and gates where necessary.

By 1998 the trail was continuous from Maroondah Highway, Lilydale to the site of the former Warburton station, with only a relatively short section between Lilydale Station and Maroondah Highway remaining incomplete.

The remaining section of the trail, a bridge across the Maroondah Highway, was completed in early 2011. The next stage of improvements to the trail is a crossing at York Road in Mount Evelyn, which should be completed mid-2011.

Deviation
Although the trail is continuous from Lilydale to Warburton, it does not completely adhere to the former Warburton rail line's alignment. Some  from Lilydale station, just before a historic bridge where the original alignment of Anderson Street passed over the railway, the trail deviates around the north, east and south of Mount Lilydale Mercy College. The school currently leases the land formerly occupied by the railway, which connects the old school grounds south-west of the line with an extension on the north-east. The southern end of the deviation rises to meet the original alignment of the trail at a steep grade that makes it unsuitable for wheelchairs.

Gallery

See also
 Bicycle Trails in Victoria

References

Further reading
 Bike Paths Victoria 9th ed. (2014), Sabey & Assoc. Pty Ltd., pp66 – 74,

External links
 Rail Trails Australia's Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail Page
 Visit Victoria's Warburton Trail page

Historical Train Photos of Warburton D3 639; Electric E 1106 - WarburtonInfo.com

Rail trails in Victoria (state)
Proposed bridges in Australia
Yarra Valley
Transport in the Shire of Yarra Ranges

Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail


Can Yücel (; August 21, 1926 – August 12, 1999) was a Turkish poet noted for his use of colloquial language.

Biography
Can Yücel was the son of a former Minister of National Education, Hasan Âli Yücel, who left his mark on the history of education in Turkey, and a grandchild of an Ottoman sea captain who perished with the frigate Ertuğrul. He studied Latin and Ancient Greek at Ankara University and Cambridge. He later worked as a translator at several embassies and in the Turkish language section five years of the BBC in London. After his return to Turkey in 1958, he briefly worked as a tourist guide in Bodrum and Marmaris and then lived in Istanbul, where he worked as a freelance translator and started writing poetry.

Yucel was a poet with a keen political and social awareness. His poetry thrives on a strong combination of lyricism, jovial irony, and sarcasm. Because of his strongly critical poems, he was imprisoned several times. Yucel was certainly one of the most prominent and controversial translators in Turkey. His major poetry collections include Bir Siyasinin Şiirleri (Poems of a Political Prisoner / 1974), Sevgi Duvarı (Wall of Love / 1973), Ölüm ve Oğlum (Death and My Son / 1976), Gökyokuş (Steep Heaven / 1984), Canfeda (Life Offering / 1988), Çok Bi Çocuk (The Child Colors the Man / 1988), Mekânım Datça Olsun (Let Datça Be My Domicile / 1999) and Rengâhenk (Col'armony / 1991).

In his later years, he settled in the remote peninsular town of Datça in southwestern Turkey, where he died of throat cancer. His tomb is much visited. He had two daughters, Güzel and Su, and a son, Hasan, from his marriage to Güler Yücel.

Literary style
Can Yücel was known for using slang and vulgar language in his poems. However, even his critics agreed that his skill in using words in a simple and understandable way is worthy of praise and appreciation. The main themes and inspirational sources in his poems are nature, people, events, concepts, excitements, perceptions, and emotions. His family was of utmost importance to him and his loved ones are mentioned in many of his poems, such as "To my Little Daughter Su," "To Güzel," and "I Loved My Father the Most in Life."

Yücel also translated the works of Shakespeare, Lorca and Brecht into Turkish and his creative rendering of these authors are classics in their own right in Turkey.

Extract of Poem

References

External links

 Selected poems in English

A short biography
Hayatı Ve Şiirleri
Can Yücel
Şiirleri - Poems
Şiirleri - Poems

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Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that started in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.

The beginning of this period is usually located in 1798, with the publication of William Wordsworth's and Samuel Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads. The crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 is accepted as its end.

Romanticism arrived in other parts of the English-speaking world later. For example, it arrived around 1820 to the United States.

English literature

Romantic literature in English


Jeannette Morven Campbell (8 March 1916 – 15 January 2003) was a naturalized Argentine swimmer who won the silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was the first Argentine female to participate at the Olympic Games.

Early  life
She was born in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, when her parents were traveling through Europe.

Career
Her sister, Dorothy, was Argentina's 100 m freestyle champion. She followed her sister to become the Argentine record holder in 100 m in 1932, with a 1:18:6 time. In 1935, she became the South American record holder in the 100 m (1:08:0) and in the 400 m. During the 1936 Olympics, she broke the 100 m Olympic record in the semifinals with a 1:06:6 time. She finished second to Hendrika Mastenbroek in the final 100 meters swim, with a 1:06:4 time.

She was the flag bearer for Argentina at the opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Jeanette died in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2003. She was the wife of Roberto Peper and the mother of two girls, Inés and Susana, and a boy, Roberto Jr.

References

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2003 deaths
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Argentine people of American descent
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Olympic silver medalists for Argentina
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi  is a political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The party's vote base is mainly concentrated in the Kongu Nadu region of Tamil Nadu. It was a splinter party of Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam.On 21 March 2013, E. R. Eswaran launched new Party Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi, he also became the General Secretary of new party. He contested the May 2009 Loksabha elections as a Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in the Coimbatore constituency and came third, securing more than one lakh votes. He also came third in the 2009 by election for Thondamuthur Assembly Constituency.

Reference

Political parties in Tamil Nadu

Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi


Joseph Jacobus Maria "Youp" van 't Hek (born 28 February 1954) is a Dutch comedian, author, columnist, singer-songwriter, playwright, and critic.

Biography
Van 't Hek was born and raised in the Gooi, an upper-class region to the southeast of Amsterdam. In 1973 he changed his name from Joep to Youp. He was one of the founding members of Cabaret NAR (Cabaret Jester). In the early 1980s, Cabaret NAR's success declined and  moved on as a solo artist.
His big break came in 1983 on KRO's De alles is anders-show. His energetic performance made him a household name overnight.

In his 1989 "Oudejaarsconference" (end-of-year show), he ridiculed Buckler, a low-alcohol beer brewed by Heineken. As a result sales plummeted and the brand was eventually withdrawn from the market.  has often cited this as the best joke in his career and has subsequently referred to it in all his retrospective shows.

Van 't Hek is the brother of field hockey international Tom van 't Hek.

Theater performances

With Cabaret NAR
 Your Youp for you (1973)
 Meer geluk dan wijsheid (More luck than wisdom) (1973)
 Gele ellebogen (Yellow elbows) (1974)
 Blaffende honden (Barking dogs) (1975)
 Alles in Wonderland (Everything in Wonderland) (1976)
 Romantiek met mayonnaise (Romance with mayonnaise) (1977)
 Geen vakantie voor Youp en Jan (No holiday for Youp and Jan) (1978)
 Zat ik maar thuis met een goed boek (If only I were at home with a good book) (1979)
 Zonder twijfel (Without doubt) (1981)

Solo

 Man vermist (Man missing) (1982)
 Gebroken glas (Broken glass) (1983)
 Verlopen en verlaten (literally: Faded and abandoned, or more freely: Down and out) (1984)
 Tunnel zonder vluchtstrook (Tunnel without emergency lane) (1986) This is not a solo-show; he worked with (former) dutch actor Onno Molenkamp (Bukittinggi, 17 januari 1923 – Amsterdam, 11 juli 1990). It was Youp's only 2-men-show.
 Hond op het ijs (Dog on ice) (1987)
 Oudejaarsconference 1989 (New Year's Eve Show) (1989)
 Alles of nooit (All or never) (1991)
 Ergens in de verte (Somewhere in the distance) (1992)
 Spelen met je leven (Playing with your life) (1994)
 Oudejaarsconference 1995 (New Year's Eve Show) (1995)
 Scherven (Shards) (1996)
 De waker, de slaper & de dromer (The guard, the sleeper & the dreamer) (1998)
 Mond vol tanden (New Year's Eve Show) (1999)
 De wereld draait door (meaning both Life goes on and The world is going crazy) (2000)
 Youp speelt Youp (Youp playing Youp, New Year's'Eve Show) (2002)
 Prachtige paprika's (Wonderful sweet peppers) (2003)
 Het zelfmoordcommando (The suicide command) (2005)
 Schreeuwstorm (Shoutstorm) (2006)
 Troost (Comfort, New ear's Eve Show) (2008)
 Omdat de nacht (Because the night) (2009)
 De tweede viool (The second violin, New Year's Eve Show) (2011)
 Wigwam (2012)
 Mooie verhalen (Beautiful stories) (2014)
 Wat is de vraag? (What is the question?, New Year's Eve Show) (2014)
 Licht (Light) (2015–2017)
 Een vloek en een zucht (New Year's Eve Show) (2017)
 Met de kennis van nu (2018–2020)
 Korrel zout (New Year's Eve Show) (2020)

Music
Van 't Hek has worked with a changing group of musicians to supply the music to the songs in his shows. The constant factor in his musical backup during almost his entire career has been Ton Scherpenzeel (keyboardist of Kayak), who has composed almost all of his songs. In most of his shows he also worked with multi-instrumentalist Rens van der Zalm. The music to 's songs is mostly played on piano, accordion, violin and acoustic guitar, which reflects 's preference for classical music. One example of this is his rendition of the song Flappie, ostensibly about a Christmas he experienced in 1961. In 2020, the song was covered by Todd Rundgren.

Columns and books
Van 't Hek has written columns on sports and later on general topics for NRC Handelsblad since 1988. Several collections of these columns have been published by Thomas Rap publishing. This company was founded by a friend of , and has printed the texts of 's shows from the very first, unsuccessful days, when publishing them seemed a waste of money. Because of this,  never switched publishers. A list of the titles of his books that do not contain the texts of his shows:

Sports columns:
 Niks spel, knikkers ("Not the game, the marbles", it's the opposite of the saying: "It's not about the marbles, it's about the game", meaning that playing is more important than winning) (1989)
 Het hemd van de leeuw ("The undershirt of the lion", reference to a Dutch football song for their national team) (1990)
 Sportgek (Mad about sports) (1990)
 Floppie, Yourie en andere helden (Floppie, Yourie and other heroes) (1992)
 Eerst de man, dan de bal (First the player, then the ball) (1993)
 De selectie ("The selection"/"The squad", a compilation of his best sports columns) (1997)
General columns:
 Amah hoela (wordplay on Amah, a domestic servant, and a Dutch expression "Amehoela" or "Aan m'n hoela", meaning "no way" or "my ass") (1994)
 Ik schreeuwlelijk (I bigmouth, with bigmouth used as a verb) (1995)
 En het bleef nog lang onrustig in mijn hoofd (And my mind remained restless for a long time) (1996)
 Majesteit, (Majesty, ) (1997)
 Fax (Fax) (1998)
 Zaterdag (Saturday) (1999)
 Het zal me jeuken (literally: "it could itch me", meaning "I couldn't care less") (2000)
 Iedereen is in de war (Everybody is confused/crazy) (2001)
 166x Youp (a compilation of his best columns) (2001)
 Het platte land (literally: "The flat land", referring to the Netherlands, when written as "platteland" it means: "countryside") (2002)
 Liegangst (Fear of lying, wordplay on Fear of flying) (2003)
 Hartjeuk en zieleczeem (Hartitch and souleczema) (2004)
 Het leven is wél leuk (Life IS fun, with the emphasis of denying that "Life sucks") (2005)
 Oelikoeli en andere goden ("Oelikoeli and other gods", Oelikoeli is a god  made up.  is its only believer, because he says that as soon as a god has more than one believer, the believers start fighting each other) (2006)
 Youp is leuk? ("Youp is fun?", a compilation of his best columns) (2007)
 Iedereen is eigenaar van iets (Everybody is the owner of something) (2007)
 Bacteriën moeten ook leven (Bacteria have to live too) (2008)
 Omdat jij mijn beste vriend bent (Because you're my best friend) (2009)
Other books:
 Rijke meiden ("Rich girls", short stories) (1991)
 Liedjes van A tot Z ("Songs from A to Z", an alphabetically ordered collection of lyrics) (2003)
 Komen & gaan, een week scharrelen rond Gare du Nord ("Coming and going, a week of wandering around Gare du Nord", poetry) (2004)
 De wonderlijke broertjes Pim en Pietje ("The amazing brothers Pim and Pietje", children's book) (2004)
 Bob & Youp (photographs by Bob Bronshoff with  improvising a column on what just might be the story behind the picture) (2009)

References

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Simon James Pryce (born 7 March 1972) is an Australian children's entertainer, singer and actor. He is best known for his work as the Red Wiggle of The Wiggles since 2013, and also for the children's show The Kingdom of Paramithi.

Early life and education
Pryce, whose grandparents were opera singers, started performing at an early age. He studied drama at the University of Western Sydney.

Career

Theatre
He has performed in several musicals, including Cats as Old Deuteronomy, Masterpiece: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Witches of Eastwick, Villain of Flowers, South Pacific, Fidelio with Opera Australia, and The Sunshine Club with the Sydney Theatre Company. He also played the title role in a 2007-09 Australian production of Phantom of the Opera over 100 times. Pryce has appeared in numerous TV shows and films, including Water Rats, All Saints, Home and Away and Hunt Angels. In September 2020, Pryce was revealed to be the "Puppet" on The Masked Singer Australia, placing fourth on the second season of the show.

The Wiggles
Pryce joined the Wiggles organization in 2002, beginning as "one of their main voice artists" on several of their CDs. He joined their regular tour in 2009-10, as Ringo the Ringmaster and understudying for founding member Murray Cook. He also starred as King John in the Wiggles' production The Kingdom of Paramithi.  In August 2012, Pryce was slated to replace Greg Page as the Yellow Wiggle. However, Page's departure was delayed until the end of that year, after Cook and Purple Wiggle Jeff Fatt decided to retire from the group then, asking Page to extend his stay until then so he would leave alongside them.

Pryce ultimately replaced Cook in early 2013.

In 2016, the Wiggles released The Carnival of the Animals, its narration was written and performed by Pryce. The album, based on the piece by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns and performed by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, introduced children to classical music and instruments.

Personal life
Pryce has described himself as "always into fitness and health", but that the Wiggles' performance schedule demanded an even higher level. In early 2016, he described his workout routine and the group's competitive culture of fitness, especially among its male members, to ex-rugby league footballer Adam MacDougall.

In late 2015, Pryce became engaged to ex-gymnast and fitness professional Lauren Hannaford who created online fitness program FHIT. They met four years earlier, when she toured with the Wiggles. Pryce and Hannaford were married in Sydney, in January 2017. The couple have a son, born in January 2021.

Discography

References

External links

1972 births
Living people
Australian children's musicians
The Wiggles members
Australian baritones
Australian male actors
Australian male singers

Simon Pryce


The men's 105 kg competition of the weightlifting events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey, was held on June 26 at the Erdemli Sports Hall.

Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted. This weightlifting event was the lightest men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 105 kilograms of body mass.

Schedule
All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3).

Results
8 athletes from five countries will take part.

Snatch

Clean & Jerk

References

Weightlifting at the 2013 Mediterranean Games

Weightlifting at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's 105 kg


Morgins is a village in the municipality of Troistorrents in the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in southern Switzerland.

It is noted for skiing and is part of the Portes du Soleil ski resort. It is located at 1333 m in the Val de Morgins, a side valley of the Val d'Illiez in the Chablais Alps at the foot of the Dents du Midi.

The road up the Val de Morgins leads to the Pas de Morgins, the pass into France.

External links

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Burlington Street is a partially at grade and elevated roadway in Hamilton, Ontario, stretching along the south shore of Hamilton Harbour in Lake Ontario. Burlington Street has four different statuses along the route. In its western terminus, it is a collector route ending at Bay Street North. Upon the intersection at Wellington Street, the road becomes an arterial route with four lanes. The Street ends at Parkdale Avenue.  On October 14, 2015, city council approved the renaming of the upper portion of Burlington Street from 165 meters east of Ottawa St to the QEW to Nikola Tesla Boulevard.

Nikola Tesla Boulevard is the official exit #90 from QEW. The signage along the QEW for Burlington Street was eventually replaced between October 22-23, 2016 to reflect the name change. After this change, the westbound lanes of Burlington street begin from the first exit on Nikola Tesla Boulevard, heading westbound.

History

Burlington Street's original name was "Industrial Road". It derives its name from its proximity to Hamilton Harbour, which used to be called Burlington Bay. (Note: Still referred to as "Burlington Bay" in Burlington, Ontario) After World War II, when Hamilton was at its industrial peak, Burlington Street was the address of some of the city's most prestigious manufacturing companies. In the 1950s, the Canadian head offices of Stelco, Dofasco, Firestone, International Harvester, Procter & Gamble and Westinghouse were situated on or close to Burlington Street.

On August 25, 1898, the City of Hamilton received Power from the Decew Falls Power Generating  Station.  This station was built using Nikola Tesla's invention of the Alternating Current system of generators, transformers and motors.  The arrival of Power to Hamilton usher in a new age of innovation and industrial growth.  The city became known as the "Electric City". On Victoria Avenue, just south of Burlington Street, stand the first building to receive power in 1898.  The building even has part of the name of the Cataract Power still on it. On the corner of Burlington Street and Strathearne Ave, is the major Electrical transformer station that receives power from 3 sources, Niagara Falls, Decew Falls and the Pickering Nuclear Station. The power that arrives from Decew Falls travels down the original power line built in 1898 by the  Cataract Power, Light and Traction   owned by the "5 Johns". At the entrance of Nikola Tesla Boulevard, there are high voltage transmission towers on either side of the road, each one stands as a monument to Nikola Tesla as they bring Electricity, to power the city.

In 1902, Canadian Otis Elevator Company (1902–1987) is formed (August 22) on Victoria Avenue North. For many years Hamilton was home to the largest single elevator manufacturing facility in the world. The workers produced all kinds of elevators, escalators and later, forklifts. In 1969, the company took over the old Studebaker plant. It was a return home for Otis, which had built the  facility for wartime production of anti-aircraft guns and other military equipment.

International Harvester became the second major United States industry to locate in Hamilton, Ontario (1902). Originally known as Deering Harvester, the company plant sprawled along the Hamilton waterfront and claimed to be the "largest agricultural implement works in the British Empire." The plant was also involved in wartime production of specialized military items. The company started building heavy duty diesel trucks in Hamilton in 1959. The first to roll off the line was delivered to Dofasco, complete with a Rolls-Royce engine. Hamilton won over a number of Canadian cities when it successfully lured International Harvester. The reasons the company cited for its selection of Hamilton were as follows: it had waterside property that enabled the firm to control its own docks, its proximity to the steel industry, railway connections & the Cataract Power Company supplied them with cheap energy.

In 1913, Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company (based in Cincinnati) purchased  of land and  of water on the south side of Burlington Street between Depew and Ottawa Streets. This event marked the beginning of Procter & Gamble's operations outside of the United States. In 1914, Construction started on the Procter & Gamble Hamilton plant, which cost $1 million and consisted of seven buildings: the Crisco building, the boiler house, the gas plant, the soap building, the hardening plant, the kettle and glycerin house, and the machine shop. By 1915, Procter & Gamble officially opens Hamilton plant, employing 75 workers who made six different products.

On August 18, 1948, surrounded by more than 400 employees and a battery of reporters, the first vehicle, a blue Champion four-door sedan, rolls off the Studebaker assembly line. The company was located in the former Otis-Fenson military weapons factory off Burlington Street East, which was built in 1941. The Indiana-based Studebaker was looking for a Canadian site and settled on Hamilton because of its steel industry. The company was known for making automotive innovations and building solid distinctive cars. 1950 was its best year but the descent was quick. By 1954, Studebaker was in the red and merging with Packard, another falling car manufacturer. In 1963, the company moved its entire car operations to Hamilton. The Canadian car side had always been a money-maker and Studebaker was looking to curtail disastrous losses. That took the plant from a single to double shift - 48 to 96 cars daily. The last car to roll off the line was a turquoise Lark cruiser on March 4, 1966. Studebaker officially shuts down the next day on March 5, 1966 as its last car factory. It was terrible news for the 700 workers who had formed a true family at the company, known for its employee parties and day trips. It was a huge blow to the city, too. Studebaker was Hamilton's 10th largest employer at the time.

Today

The Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority, formerly known as Hamilton Harbour Commission, handles over 12 million metric tonnes of cargo through over 700 vessels each year. This ranks Hamilton as the busiest of all the ports of Canada's great lakes and 28% of all movements on the St. Lawrence Seaway System. In 2006 Total ships in and out of the harbour was 739; Domestic/U.S.: 577 (78%), International: 162 (22%) from countries including Malaysia, Philippines, Russia and Brazil. Percentage of Imports: 87%, Percentage of Exports: 13%. International arrivals at the port grew from 130 ships in 2005 to 162 ships in 2006. In 2006 most of the materials arriving at the port include raw materials including iron ore and coal for steelmaking at Stelco and Dofasco, as well as imported steel from Brazil. The port also accepted 24,000 litres (5,280 Imp gallons) of bulk Jamaican rum. The oddest new arrival was windmill blades (some more than  long) destined for wind farms in southern Ontario. This is the first year windmill parts have arrived in the port. Exports include 500,000 metric tonnes (550,000 short tons) of agricultural products including grain.

Lakeport Brewing Company is based in Hamilton and focused on producing value-priced quality beer for the Ontario take-home market.  Lakeport produces nine proprietary beer brands, two of which, Lakeport Honey Lager and Lakeport Pilsener, are two of the top ten selling brands in the province of Ontario. Lakeport has more than 200 employees at its production facility. It is one of the fastest-growing companies in the Hamilton region. Lakeport Brewing Company joined forces with the Hamilton Port Authority who will finance and construct a 35,000 square foot (3,250 m²) expansion to Lakeport's Hamilton harbour front facility. Lakeport Brewing Company is Canada's No.1 co-packer of beer, non-alcohol and spirit-based products. The company is also said to be North America's most modernized beverage alcohol production facility. On Monday May 8, Labatt Brewing Company made it official and announced that Lakeport, who they purchased earlier in the year, (March 29, 2007), for $200-million for rights to the income trust, which controlled the plant, will continue to operate in the City of Hamilton. It will continue to operate in Hamilton as they believe it is a "viable plant" and "the company is proud to integrate it with Labbat's." The operations employees continue to brew Lakeport in Hamilton but the marketing and sales jobs are now centralized at Labatt's head offices.

Bunge is an oilseed processing plant and Canada's largest canola processor. It has crushing facilities in Altona and Harrowby, Manitoba; Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta; and Nipawin, Saskatchewan in addition to the processing plant in Hamilton. The Hamilton plant serves food manufacturers, the biodiesel industry and farmers in Ontario & Quebec.

As the largest steel manufacturing city in Canada and home of the two Steel giants; Stelco and Dofasco where 60% of all the steel in Canada is produced. It is the steel and metals manufacturing Capital of Canada. In the last decade, Hamilton's heavy industry reached a stable level, Stelco has returned to profitability and on August 26, 2007 United States Steel Corporation acquired Stelco for $38.50 (Canadian) in cash per share, owning more than 76 percent of Stelco's outstanding shares. Dofasco in 1999 was the most profitable steel producer in North America and in 2000 it was the most profitable in Canada.  It currently has approximately 7,300 employees at its Hamilton plant and produces over four million tons of steel annually, representing about 30% of Canada's flat rolled sheet steel shipments. Dofasco was purchased by Arcelor Mittal in January 2006, and in addition to being one of North America's most profitable steel companies, Dofasco has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index seven years in a row.  Dofasco's wide range of steel products is sold to customers in the automotive, construction, energy, manufacturing, pipe and tube, appliance, packaging and steel distribution industries.

National Steel Car, North America's leader in freight and passenger train cars and equipment is based in Hamilton. They have been building rail transportation products since 1912. National Steel Car won a contract in January 2007 for 1,200 custom-made railcars for TransLoad America, a New Jersey-based waste transport firm.

Columbian Chemicals Ltd. on 755 Parkdale Avenue North, are manufacturers of carbon black - an agent used to reinforce and extend the life of products made with rubber, giving it durability and strength. This includes tires and hoses and plastics such as wire and cable coverings. Carbon black is also used in inks and coatings like copier and computer printer cartridges and paints. The Hamilton plant was built in 1961 and in 2007 employed 100 people.

Landmarks
Note: Listing of Landmarks from West to East.
Hamilton Waterfront Trail
Bayfront Park/ Pier 4 Park
Hamilton Harbour Commissioners Building
Eastwood Park/ Eastwood Arena
Hamilton Port Authority, Administration Office
Lakeport Brewing Company
BUNGE Processing plant (Canada's largest canola processor)
Liquid Air Ltd.
Otis Elevator Buildings (2), site of Otis Elevator Company, (1902–1987) and Studebaker of Canada, (1948–1966)  Currently used as a warehouse by Stelco and various other North End industries.
Stelco (steel company)
Dofasco (steel company)
National Steel Car (builders of railway cars)
 Canada Pipe Company Ltd.
 Proscor (scrap & waste management)
 Columbian Chemicals Canada Ltd.
 Parkdale Warehouse & Distribution
 Lakeshore Sand Company
 Orlick Industries Ltd. (headquarters)
 Museum of Steam & Technology

Communities
Note: List of neighbourhoods from North to South.
North End - Everything north of the Canadian National Railway tracks
Parkview West

Former Unique Road Status
Two way two lane collector route from Bay Street to Wellington Street; a four lane arterial route from Wellington Street to McKinstry Street. A two lane one-way arterial street from Sherman Avenue to Ottawa Street. Prior to the renaming of the upper level of the road, From just west of Ottawa Street on to the QEW, the  upper level of the road has been renamed to Nikola Tesla Boulevard, an expressway above Burlington Street (with speed limit of 60  km/h as you approach the Nikola Tesla Boulevard/QEW terminus) and the lower level an arterial road with a speed limit of 50 km/h.

Images

References

MapArt Golden Horseshoe Atlas - Page 647/648 - Grids E12, E13, E14, E15, E16, E17, E18, E19, E20

External links

North End Neighbours
Google Maps: Burlington Street (Hybrid)

Roads in Hamilton, Ontario

Burlington Street (Hamilton, Ontario)


Catherine Christer Hennix (also known as C.C. Hennix, born 1948) is a Swedish musician, poet, philosopher, mathematician and visual artist. As a musician, she has worked with figures such as Pandit Pran Nath, La Monte Young, and Henry Flynt. Several of her archival recordings have been released in the 21st century, most prominently The Electric Harpsichord (2010). Hennix was affiliated with MIT's AI Lab in the late 1970s and was later employed as research professor of mathematics at SUNY New Paltz; she also worked with mathematician Alexander Esenin-Volpin.

Biography
Catherine Christer Hennix grew up in a musical environment; her mother was a jazz composer who frequently invited well-known American jazz musicians such as Idrees Sulieman and Eric Dolphy around the house, and she saw John Coltrane and others perform. Hennix took up drums and performed with her brother. Later, Hennix studied with Stockhausen and was among the pioneers in Sweden experimenting with main-frame computer generated composite sound wave forms in the late 1960s. She studied bio-chemistry and then linguistics at university before settling on mathematical logic and philosophy.

In the 1970s, she connected with Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Allison Knowles in New York, and began collaborative relationships with figures such as La Monte Young and Henry Flynt. She pursued studies with raga master Pandit Pran Nath and led the just intonation live-electronic ensembles Hilbert Hotel and The Deontic Miracle. At the urging of Nath, she also pursued a career as a professor of mathematics and computer science, and assistant to and coauthor with Alexander Esenin-Volpin for which she was given the Centenary Prize Fellow Award by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. She was affiliated with MIT's AI Lab in the late 1970s and was later employed as research professor of mathematics at SUNY New Paltz. In the 1990s, she relocated to Paris to study psychoanalysis with students of Jacques Lacan.

Hennix's interest in drone music is crossed with her interests in jazz, Arabic music, Sufi Islamic art, and blues elements. In the 1970s and 1980s, she played with musicians such as Arthur Russell and Arthur Rhames. She also performed in Flynt's group Dharma Warriors. Archival recordings such as The Electric Harpsichord (2010) and Selected Early Keyboard Works (2018) saw release in the 21st century. In recent years, she has performed with her group the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. In 2019, many of her writings were published in the two-volume collection Poësy Matters and Other Matters.

Bibliography
"Notes on Toposes and Adjoints" (1976)
"Notes on Intuitionisitc Modal Music" (1976)
"Intensional Logics for Intransitive Experiences" (1979)
"Parmenides on Intensional Logics" (1979)
"Poetry as Philosophy, Poetry as Notation" (1985)
"Philosophy of Concept Art" [co-authored with Flynt] (1989)
"Hors-texte '68–'88; Finis Universatum: Philosophy as Art/ Philosophy as Notation, II" (1989)
"Grammatica tua sit tibi in periditionem" (1992)
"Seminarium över La Sinthome och Mathémkonstent genealogik" (1994)
"Beware of the Gödel-Wette Paradox" – [co-authored with Esenin-Volpin] (2001)
Poësy Matters and Other Matters (2019)

List of works

"The Hashigakari Chord" (1973–) [infinitary composite sound wave]
"Central Palace Music" (1976–) [two amplified renaissance oboes, amplified sheng, sine waves]
"Netori / Hashigakari" (1976–) [amplified renaissance oboe, amplified sheng, sine waves]
"Waves of the Blue Sea" (1976–) [two amplified renaissance oboes, sine waves]
"The Electric Harpsichord" (1976–) [well-tuned Yamaha keyboard. sine waves]
"Five Times Repeated Music" (1976–) [two amplified renaissance oboes, sine waves]
"Soliton(e) Star" (2003–) [infinitary composite sound wave]
"Blues Dhkir al-Salam (Blues al Maqam)" (2011–)
"Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis" (2013–) (well-tuned Yamaha keyboard, computer, sine waves]
"Blues Alif Lam Mim" (2015–)
"For Brass and Computer" (2017) [trumpet, French horn, trombone, microtonal tuba and computer ]

Discography
Releases credited to Hennix and her various groups.

Solo recordings
"Still Life, Q" (1969, Sveriges Radio)
The Electric Harpsichord (2010, Die Schachtel)
Live at Krems (2018, Important)
Selected Early Keyboard Works (2018, Blank Forms)
Unbegrenzt (2020, Blank Forms)
Solo for Tamburium (2023, Blank Forms)

The Deontic Miracle
Central Palace Music from 100 Model Subjects For Hegikan Roku (2016, Important)
Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku (2019, Blank Forms)

Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage
Live at the Grimm Museum, Volume One (2012, Important)
Live at Issue Project Room (2016, Important)

Born of Six
Svapiti (2013, Important)

Work with Henry Flynt
You Are My Everlovin / Celestial Power (1986, Hundertmark) – tambura
Dharma Warriors (2008, Locust) – Henry Flynt / C.C. Hennix
C Tune (2002, Locust)  – tambura
Purified by the Fire (2005, Locust) – tambura
Glissando No. 1 (2011) – piano

References

External links
Recordings of Hennix's work taken from an eight-day festival organized in Spring 1976 at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm
C.C. Hennix on Important Records
C.C. Hennix on Die Schachtel
"Beware of the Gödel-Wette Paradox"
"For the 50th anniversary of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme"

1948 births
Living people
American experimental musicians
20th-century classical composers
Experimental composers
Postmodern composers
American women classical composers
American classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Microtonal composers
Contemporary classical music performers
American people of Swedish descent
Pupils of Pran Nath (musician)
Pupils of La Monte Young
21st-century American composers
20th-century American women musicians
20th-century American composers
21st-century American women musicians
20th-century women composers
21st-century women composers

Catherine Christer Hennix


Sprent Arumogo Dabwido (16 September 1972 – 8 May 2019) was a Nauruan politician who served as President of Nauru between 2011 and 2013, and was also a weightlifter. The son of a parliamentarian, Dabwido was originally elected to the Meneng Constituency in the Parliament of Nauru at the 2004 elections. Having served as Minister for Telecommunications in Marcus Stephen's government from 2009, Dabwido joined the Nauruan opposition faction in November 2011 after Stephen's resignation, and, having passed a motion of no confidence against interim president Freddie Pitcher, was elected president four days later. In his role as president, Dabwido functioned as chairman of the Cabinet of Nauru, and held various portfolios in the Nauruan government.

Weightlifting career
Prior to entering politics, Dabwido was a weightlifter. He was the national champion of Nauru in weightlifting in 1995 and 1996. He also represented Nauru internationally winning a silver medal for his country at the 1995 Samoa Games and competed at the 1995 World Weightlifting Championships in the super heavyweight category.

Political career
The second son of former parliamentarian Audi Dabwido, Dabwido worked in public insurance before entering politics. He was a founding member of the Naoero Amo party, and was elected to the Parliament of Nauru at the 2004 elections, defeating Nimrod Botelanga to win the seat of Meneng. Re-elected at the 2007 and 2008 elections, he became a member of the parliamentary faction supporting President Marcus Stephen, and was made Minister for Telecommunications in Stephen's government in 2009 where he presided over the introduction of mobile phones to Nauru. Again re-elected at the 2010 elections, Dabwido joined the opposition faction in November 2011 when Stephen resigned as president to be succeeded by Freddie Pitcher.

President of Nauru
After a motion of no confidence against Pitcher, Dabwido was elected president by the parliament, with nine votes supporting his nomination and eight votes opposing.

Dabwido's first major international meeting as president was at the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, as a representative of the Pacific Islands grouping of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). In his speech during the opening plenary, he evaluated the potential problems faced by islands in the Pacific Ocean resulting from rising sea levels. Reiterating the SIDS objective for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent further global climate change, Dabwido called for the development of a legally binding protocol alongside the Kyoto Protocol, with reference to "mitigation actions for developing countries" and the Bali Action Plan.

He supported the re-opening of the Australian-tax-payer-funded asylum seeker processing centre in Nauru, which is supported by the opposition Liberal Party of Australia but opposed by the governing Australian Labor Party. In June 2012, Dabwido sacked his cabinet after seven months in office, citing difficulty in passing the Constitutional Amendment Parliamentary Amendments Bill, a proposed constitutional reform bill that would alter the number of members of parliament, introduce an Ombudsman Commission, and introduce a code of ethics for parliamentarians. In his new Cabinet, he held the additional positions of Minister for Public Service, Minister for Police & Emergency Services, Minister for Home Affairs, and Minister for Climate Change. On behalf of Nauru, Dabwido made his first address to the United Nations General Assembly during the general debate of its sixty-seventh session, in September 2012. During his speech, he urged the UN to address climate change more directly, as well as criticising the ineffectiveness of multilateralism.

Dabwido did not stand for re-election, and was replaced by Baron Waqa after the 2013 parliamentary elections.

Post-presidency
After his presidency, Dabwido returned to the parliament and became part of the opposition and alleged the Nauru government of corruption and abuse of power while the government has accused him and other opposition parliamentarians of spreading "lies about the country" as a response with speaking with journalists based outside Nauru. In 2015, Dabwido and others held anti-government protests in front of the parliament and they were charged with rioting. In the 2016 parliamentary election, Dabwido lost his seat after failing re-election. Those accused of rioting, including Dabwido, became involved in a court case known as "Nauru 19" and Dabwido were cleared of any wrongdoing in 2018 by the Supreme Court of Nauru.

In May 2018, Dabwido was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the Republic of Nauru Hospital. Dabwido left for Australia to undergo treatment for his condition and also seek political asylum, claiming that the Nauru government was preventing him from leaving Nauru for treatment overseas. The Nauru government has denied the claim, saying Dabwido was immediately accepted for fully funded overseas treatment for his condition.

In Australia, Dabwido rescinded his support for the Australian-funded asylum seeker processing center in Nauru and expressed his desire to have the facility cease operations; he also voiced support for the Medevac Bill.

Personal life
Dabwido was in a domestic partnership with a woman named Luci. They had been in a relationship for at least eight years. The two became engaged when Dabwido proposed to Luci in the hospital where he was diagnosed with cancer. The two participated in a commitment ceremony in Sydney in 2019.

Illness and death
In 2018, Dabwido was diagnosed with throat cancer. He died from the disease on 8 May 2019, aged 46.

See also
 Politics of Nauru

References

1972 births
Government ministers of Nauru
2019 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Nauru
Environment ministers of Nauru
Nauru First politicians
People from Meneng District
Presidents of Nauru
Nauruan male weightlifters
Nauruan sportsperson-politicians
Deaths from throat cancer
Deaths from cancer in New South Wales
21st-century Nauruan politicians

Sprent Dabwido


Goddess Gangamma Temple is in the outskirts of Dhenuva Konda, Garlapadu village in Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh, India. Sunday is preferable day to offer pooja in the temple.

Goddess Gangamma is a powerful figure to the Yadava community. They celebrate Jatara for her on the full moon in April. During Jatara, the temple is decorated with a huge set of lighting. Devotees visit and pray to the goddess for the whole day and night of that full moon day.

Location
Goddess Gangamma Temple is 1.5 km from Dhenuva Konda village and 1 km from Garlapadu village (new).

There is a temple for God Nagavendrudu, which is just beside this temple.

Goddess Kanaka Durga temple has been constructed on the middle of the hill. Devotees have to take a ghat road to the temple for about one kilometer.

Hindu temples in Prakasam district

Gangamma Temple, Dhenuvakonda


Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is an American family Christmas comedy movie. It is directed by Chris Columbus and produced by John Hughes. It was released on November 20, 1992. It is a sequel to the 1990 film Home Alone and is the second film in the Home Alone series.

Background
It once again stars Macaulay Culkin and features Daniel Stern, Joe Pesci, Catherine O'Hara, and John Heard. New cast includes Tim Curry, Rob Schneider, Brenda Fricker, and Eddie Bracken. The movie score was composed by John Williams. It was mostly filmed in Chicago, New York City, and Miami. Donald Trump made a cameo appearance in the movie.

Plot
The story is set about two years after the 1990 movie. At Christmas, the McCallister family go on vacation to Florida. At the airport, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) accidentally gets separated from his family. He gets on a plane to New York City and stays at a Plaza Hotel. In New York, Kevin faces the same two burglars who had robbed his house in the first film when his family were in France: the "Wet Bandits", Marv (Daniel Stern) and Harry (Joe Pesci). They are now called the "Sticky Bandits". Kevin tries to stop them from robbing an elderly man's toy store on Christmas Eve. He traps them in his uncle's house, which is being renovated. Harry and Marv later attempt to shoot Kevin at Central Park, but a homeless pigeon lady (Brenda Fricker) throws bird seed at them causing pigeons to attack them. The burglars are caught by the police and go back to jail once again. Meanwhile, the Miami security informs the McCallisters that Kevin is in New York after being able the track the credit card that Kevin used and they take a trip there and also stay at the hotel.

References

Other websites

 Movie Locations Guide.com - Maps and directions to Home Alone 2 Filming Locations

1990s family movies
1992 comedy movies
20th Century Fox movies
American family movies
American comedy movies
Christmas movies
Movies about children
Movies set in New York City
Movies set in Chicago
Movies set in Florida
Movies shot in Chicago
Movies composed by John Williams
Movies directed by Chris Columbus
English-language movies

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York


Matthew McDiarmid, full name Matthew Purdie McDiarmid (25 June 1914–12 February 1996) was a Scottish literary scholar, essayist, campaigning academic and poet. He was a founding member of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies (1970) and the first president of the Robert Henryson Society which he also helped to found in 1993.

Career

McDiarmid was one of the leading members of a pioneering generation of Scottish academics who laboured and campaigned for a proper place for Scotland's literature in Scottish universities. At the opening of his career, no Scottish university had a dedicated professor of Scottish literature; by the time of his death, there were six.

McDiarmid was born in Barrhead in the West of Scotland and educated at the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford. His teaching career began with a post as assistant lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen in 1939. This was interrupted in 1941 for military service in World War II as a cryptographer in North Africa and was resumed in Aberdeen in 1945.

For twelve years (1952–1964), McDiarmid lectured at Queen's University, Belfast. His teaching of literature, with its sensitivity to writers and traditions from all parts of the British Isles, was an important influence on the future Nobel Prize–winning poet Seamus Heaney, one of his students during that period. He returned to Aberdeen University in 1964 where he remained until retirement in 1982.

Works

McDiarmid edited major canonical texts for the Scottish Text Society: the works of Robert Fergusson (two volumes, 1954–1956) and Hary's Wallace (two volumes, 1968–1969), as well as producing the general introduction and full literary and historical notes for what is now the principal modern edition of Barbour's Bruce (three volumes, 1980–1985). He also produced a version of Sir David Lindsay's Satire of the Three Estates (1967) and wrote commentaries on the Scottish makars, in particular Robert Henryson. Audio recordings of appraisals of medieval Scottish literature he made for the Scotsoun archive also exist.

In the years of his retirement, Matthew McDiarmid produced two volumes of verse, Not in my Own Land (1984) and Love Tales of Early Japan and Early Scotland, and Other Poems (1991).

Notes

See also

Alexander Scott (20th century poet)
David Daiches
Douglas Gifford

1914 births
1996 deaths
Scottish essayists
Scottish scholars and academics
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Literary critics of English
Scottish literary critics
Academics of Queen's University Belfast
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
20th-century Scottish poets
Scottish male poets
20th-century British essayists
20th-century British male writers

Matthew McDiarmid


Miloslav Vlk (; 17 May 1932 – 18 March 2017) was a Czech prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Prague from 1991 to 2010. He was made a cardinal in 1994. He was also the President of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (1993–2001).

Early life
Vlk was born in Líšnice, a municipal part of the market town of Sepekov, in the Písek District of Southern Bohemia. He spent his childhood in Záluží near Chyšky, where he attended elementary school and experienced the hard labour of farm work.

At the age of 11, he first started thinking about the priesthood. This initial idea of a priestly vocation came to him because he felt particularly challenged by a poster hanging in his parish church that continued to attract his attention. The poster said: 'Wouldn't you like to become a priest?'. That goal seemed unattainable at the time, so he dreamed of becoming an aircraft pilot.

On 20 June 1952 he passed his final examination at Secondary School in České Budějovice, Southern Bohemia. In those years of Communist persecution theological studies were impossible, so from 1952 to 1953 he worked at the Motor Union automobile factory in České Budějovice and from 1953 to 1955 did military service in Karlovy Vary.

Despite the political situation, after being discharged he was able to study archival science at the Arts Faculty of the Charles University in Prague and received his degree in 1960. He worked in various archives in Southern Bohemia: at the Regional Archives of Třeboň in Jindřichův Hradec, and from December 1960 to 1964 at the Civic and District Archives of České Budějovice, where he served as director.

In this same period he published a series of articles in various scientific reviews. In 1964 he left this work in order to study at the Theology Faculty of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Litoměřice (1964–1968).

Priesthood

On 23 June 1968, during the 'Prague Spring', he was ordained a priest at the age of 36 and was immediately appointed secretary to Bishop Josef Hlouch of České Budějovice (1968–1971).

The state authorities, worried about his influence and pastoral activity, forced him in 1971 to leave České Budějovice and sent him to the parishes of Lažiště and Záblatí, isolated on the mountains of the Bohemian Forest in the Prachatice district. From 1 November 1972 he was parish priest in Rožmitál pod Třemšínem and at the same time in Bohutín and Drahenice, in the Příbram district. There in 1978, the state authorities, in collaboration with the local communists, revoked his state authorization to exercise his priestly ministry.

Citizen Vlk was thus forced to live underground in Prague from October 1978 to 31 December 1988.

From 1978 to 1986 he worked as a window-cleaner in downtown Prague. In this period he secretly carried out his pastoral activity with small groups of lay people. From 1986 to 1988 he was able to work in the district archives of the Czechoslovak State Bank in Prague.

On 1 January 1989, at the start of the 'turning point', he was permitted to exercise the priestly ministry for a 'trial' year. He became parish priest at Žihobce and Bukovník in the Klatovy region of Western Bohemia. Subsequently, on 1 September 1989, he began to work as a curate on the Bavarian (German) border: at Čachrov, Javorná, Železná Ruda, Běšiny and Stráž na Šumavě.

Episcopacy and Cardinalate

The "Velvet Revolution" changed the status of the church in Czechoslovakia and on 14 February 1990 Pope John Paul II appointed Vlk Bishop of České Budějovice and he was consecrated on 31 March 1990 from Bishop Antonín Liška.

On 27 March 1991 Pope John Paul II appointed Vlk Archbishop of Prague to succeed Cardinal František Tomášek. He was installed on 1 June 1991. He was made a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II in the Consistory of 26 November 1994, becoming the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.

In 1992 he was elected President of the Czech Episcopal Conference; a role that he held until 2001. From 16 April 1993 until 31 May 2001 Archbishop Vlk was President of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE), as the successor to Carlo Maria Martini, Archbishop of Milan, Italy. Special Secretary of the 1st Special Assembly for Europe of the Synod of Bishops (1991); and has taken part in the 9th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (1994) and in the 2nd Special Assembly for Europe (1999).

Between 1992 and 1993 he received three honorary degrees: one each from Illinois Benedictine College and the University of St. Thomas in the U.S., and a doctorate in theology from the Faculty of Passau. In addition to these academic awards he has also received various honorary citizenships.

Cardinal Vlk died, after a long illness on 18 March 2017.

Vlk was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI. Vlk reached age 80 on 17 May 2012 and lost the right to participate in any papal conclave and on the same day he ceased to hold his various Curial memberships. He was a member of the following dicasteries of the Roman Curia:

 Oriental Churches (congregation)
 Social Communications (council)
 Special Council for Europe of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops

Pope Benedict XVI accepted Cardinal Vlk's resignation as Archbishop of Prague on 13 February 2010 and nominated Dominik Duka to succeed him.

Vlk served for 18 years as Moderator of the Bishop-Friends of the Focolare Movement. On 10 August 2012, he was succeeded in this position by Monsignor Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovitvanit, the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bangkok in Bangkok, Thailand.

Views

Church properties in the Czech Republic
Vlk has fought a decade-long battle to work out a new legal framework for the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic, which would include resolution of some $6 billion in church property confiscated under the Communists and never returned. That includes almost a million acres (4,000 km²) of forest which formed the church's traditional economic base.

Political groups
Vlk has been sharply critical of the rise of far-right and xenophobic sentiment in Central Europe, joining Jewish protests in 2007 when right-wingers planned a march through Prague's Jewish quarter on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

On the 41st anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Cardinal Vlk called for the ban of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, which was then the third most popular political party in the Czech Republic according to opinion polls.

Conflict with Lefebvrites
In 2006, Vlk criticized a group of Lefebvrite traditionalists who held a conference in Prague, accusing them of sympathies for "anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism". Local organizers responded that Vlk showed "ill will to socially ostracize Catholics who point to the negative consequences of liberalization processes in the church."

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Miloslav Vlk