The Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve is a  certified conservation area on the North-Western slopes of the Andean mountain range and is located 52 km from the Ecuadorian capital city of Quito. The lodge itself comprises guest rooms, 10 km of walking trails and the four storey geodesic dome, which contains a restaurant, viewing platforms and further accommodation. The Reserve was first established in 1991 by a British/Colombian couple. The area won the Audubon Christmas Bird Count for the Americas in 2006, 2007, and 2008.

History
In 1991 the Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve was first founded by British/Colombian couple Richard and Gloria Parsons, with the purchase of a  area of cloud forest in the Tandayapa Valley region. Over the 19-year period since its purchase, the reserve has been added to with further purchases of land for conservation, expanding the reserve to .

In 1991 construction on the Eco-lodge began, starting with the central geodesic dome, designed by local architects and Richard Parsons. This proved to be difficult in construction due to the carefully measured glass panels and precise wood fittings required. Guesthouses have also been added to the reserve, examples being the 'German House', 'Trailhead House' and 'Glorias' Honeymoon House'.

During its time as a functioning lodge the Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve has been officially certified through Rainforest Alliance and Smart Voyager as an Eco-lodge. The Bellavista Reserve is also a founding member of the Network of Private Protected Forests of Ecuador

Geography

The Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve is located entirely within the Pichincha Province of Ecuador, and is itself located on the North-Western slopes of the Andean mountain range, situated at 2000 metres altitude. It is located approximately 52 km from Quito, the central plaza of which is at 2800 metres altitude. Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve is in the northern section of the Andes which runs through Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador and consists of two parallel ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental.

Wildlife and ecosystem

The cloud forests of Ecuador, also termed the pre-montane/subtropical rainforests, cover the slopes of the Andean mountains from about 900 meters to about 2500 meters. They are forests of high biodiversity, with a variety of little-studied wildlife and plants. The cloud forest is a cool and humid environment with frequent canopy level cloud cover.

The Bellavista Reserve is situated at the southern edge of the Chocó/Andean biodiversity hotspot areas which stretch from south western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. The existence of the hotspots lead to the Bellavista Reserve being declared part of the Mindo Area of International Importance for Birds, the first area so designated in South America, by Birdlife International in 1997.

The New York Botanical Gardens wrote that the diversity of epiphytes ("air plants" that grow on other plants) is higher in the cloud forests of Ecuador, Colombia and Peru than anywhere else on the planet.

Many orchid species are also found in the Bellavista Reserve. Orchids produce elegant shapes and many species are highly  fragranced and the coloured. Orchids belong to the famous family Orchidaceae. These plants grow in both east and west tropical and subtropical zones of Ecuador, and only a very few are able to grow in mild or cold zones.
The majority of orchids live on trees, as epiphytes, where they can comfortably receive heat, light and moist tropical air; others prefer rocks semi covered with moss, and other orchids grow only at ground level, as they grow under a tree's shade.
Within Ecuador 4200 species of orchid have been found, this is more than  10% of all orchid species worldwide.

The Bellavista Reserve is home to a huge variety of bird species. Hummingbirds are seen particularly often in and around the reserve, with sighted species including the lesser violetear, buff-tailed coronet, sparkling violetear, gorgeted sunangel, Andean emerald, purple-bibbed whitetip, speckled hummingbird, white-booted racket-tail, violet-tailed sylph and purple-throated woodstar. Species such as the tanager-finch, giant antpitta, swallow-tailed nightjar, plush-capped finch, beautiful jay, and white-faced nunbird are also seen, as well as the plate-billed mountain-toucan and toucan barbet. The Andean cock-of-the-rock is also frequently spotted at the nearby lek, where the males and females gather to breed.

Mammals seen in the reserve area include the endangered spectacled bear, as well as the puma, Andean coati and tayra.

Current research and conservation projects
The Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve has its own research station available for students and scientists to study all aspects of the cloud forest ecosystem. The Bellavista Reserve is currently used as an active research base for the Payamino Project, which was initiated in 2002, through a partnership between San Jose de Payamino (an Indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon), Zoos Go Wild and Aalborg Zoo, in order to protect the wildlife and culture of the area.
The project is supported by a number of high-profile universities, including Glasgow and Manchester in the UK and Aarhus and Aalborg in Denmark. These universities run expeditions and field courses and also have post-graduate students carrying out research. The number of studies taking place in the area has grown recently to now cover the birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects and mammals of the Payamino area.
Ornithological surveys have been conducted in the area since 2000 and have so far registered more than 260 bird species. To date, amphibian surveys have revealed that the area has at least 60 native species of frog. The Chairman of the project is Dr Richard Preziosi of The University of Manchester.

References

External links

 The website of Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve
 Birdlife.org website
 The website of The Payamino Project

Nature conservation in Ecuador
Forest reserves

Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve


A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set of one or more claims stated in a formal document, including necessary official forms and related correspondence. It is the combination of the document and its processing within the administrative and legal framework of the patent office.

To obtain the grant of a patent, a person, either legal or natural, must file an application at a patent office with the jurisdiction to grant a patent in the geographic area over which coverage is required. This is often a national patent office, but may be a regional body, such as the European Patent Office. Once the patent specification complies with the laws of the office concerned, a patent may be granted for the invention described and claimed by the specification.

The process of "negotiating" or "arguing" with a patent office for the grant of a patent, and interaction with a patent office with regard to a patent after its grant, is known as patent prosecution. Patent prosecution is distinct from patent litigation which relates to legal proceedings for infringement of a patent after it is granted.

Definition
The term patent application refers to the legal and administrative proceedings of requesting the issuance of a patent for an invention, as well as to the physical document and content of the description and claims of the invention, including its procedural paper work.

The first of those—the request for a legal privilege to which the applicant is entitled if the application is well founded—is temporal by its nature. It ceases to exist as soon as the application is withdrawn or refused, or a patent is granted. The informational content of the document as filed (or in other, prosaic words, the piece of paper), is a historical fact that persists and exists in perpetuity. The expression "application" is often employed without being conscious of its ambiguity. The expression is capable of misleading even experienced professionals.

Geographic scope
Depending upon the office at which a patent application is filed, that application could either be an application for a patent in a given country, or may be an application for a patent in a range of countries. The former are known as "national (patent) applications", and the latter as "regional (patent) applications".

National applications
National applications are generally filed at a national patent office, such as the United Kingdom Patent Office, to obtain a patent in the country of that office. The application may either be filed directly at that office, or may result from a regional application or from an international application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), once it enters the national phase.

Regional applications
A regional patent application is one which may have effect in a range of countries. The European Patent Office (EPO) is an example of a Regional patent office. The EPO grants patents which can take effect in some or all countries contracting to the European Patent Convention (EPC), following a single application process.

Filing and prosecuting an application at a regional granting office is advantageous as it allows patents in a number of countries to be obtained without having to prosecute applications in all of those countries. The cost and complexity of obtaining protection is therefore reduced.

International applications
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is operated by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and provides a centralised application process, but patents are not granted under the treaty.

The PCT system enables an applicant to file a single patent application in a single language. The application, called an international application, can, at a later date, lead to the grant of a patent in any of the states contracting to the PCT. WIPO, or more precisely the International Bureau of WIPO, performs many of the formalities of a patent application in a centralised manner, therefore avoiding the need to repeat the steps in all countries in which a patent may ultimately be granted. The WIPO coordinates searches performed by any one of the International Searching Authorities (ISA), publishes the international applications and coordinates preliminary examination performed by any one of the International Preliminary Examination Authorities (IPEA). Steps such as naming inventors and applicants, and filing certified copies of priority documents can also be done centrally, and need not be repeated.

The main advantage of proceeding via the PCT route is that the option of obtaining patents in a wide range of countries is retained, while the cost of a large number of applications is deferred. In most countries, if a national application succeeds, damages can be claimed from the date of the international application's publication.

Types
Patent offices may define a number of types of applications, each offering different benefits and being useful in different situations. Each office utilizes different names for the types of applications, but the general groups are detailed below.  Within each group there are specific type of applications, such as patents for inventions (also called "utility patents" in the U.S.), plant patents, and design patents, each of which can have their own substantive and procedural rules.

Standard application
A standard patent application is a patent application containing all of the necessary parts (e.g. a written description of the invention and claims) that are required for the grant of a patent.  A standard patent application may or may not result in the grant of a patent depending upon the outcome of an examination by the patent office it is filed in. In the U.S., a standard patent application is referred to as a "non-provisional" application.

Provisional application

Provisional patent applications can be filed with a small number of patent offices, particularly with the USPTO. In order for a US provisional application to establish a priority date for a future full (i.e. non-provisional) standard patent application, the disclosure in the provisional must be enabling. Claims are not required in a provisional application, although it is advised to have them, since claims may contribute to enabling disclosure.

The disclosure in a provisional application may, within a limited time (one year in the U.S.), be incorporated into a standard patent application, if a patent is to be pursued. Otherwise, the provisional application expires, does not get published, and does not become a prior art to other patent applications. No enforceable rights can be obtained solely through the filing of a provisional application. Full (non-provisional) application may have additional information added (i.e. experimental data), and for the purposed of prior art analysis (such as novelty and non-obviousness), the non-provisional application will have two priority dates.

Continuation application
In certain offices a patent application can be filed as a continuation of a previous application. Such an application is a convenient method of including material from a previous application in a new application when the priority year has expired and further refinement is needed. Various types of continuation application are possible, such as continuation and continuation-in-part.

Divisional application
A divisional patent application is one which has been "divided" from an existing application. A divisional application can only contain subject matter in the application from which it is divided (its parent), and retains the filing and priority date of the parent. Divisional applications are useful if a unity of invention objection is issued, in which case further inventions can be protected in divisional applications.

Preparation, filing, and prosecution

The process of obtaining the grant of a patent begins with the preparation of a specification describing the invention. That specification is filed at a patent office for examination and ultimately a patent for the invention described in the application is either granted or refused.

Patent specification
A patent specification is a document describing the invention for which a patent is sought and setting out the scope of the protection of the patent. As such, a specification generally contains a section detailing the background and overview of the invention, a description of the invention and embodiments of the invention and claims, which set out the scope of the protection. A specification may include figures to aid the description of the invention, gene sequences and references to biological deposits, or computer code, depending upon the subject matter of the application. Most patent offices also require that the application includes an abstract which provides a summary of the invention to aid searching. A title must also generally be provided for the application.

Each patent office has rules relating to the form of the specification, defining such things as paper size, font, layout, section ordering and headings. Such requirements vary between offices.

Since a description cannot generally be modified once it is filed (with narrow exceptions), it is important to have it done correctly the first time.

The patent application generally contains a description of the invention and at least one claim purporting to define it. A patent application may also include drawings to illustrate the invention. Furthermore, an abstract is generally required.

For example, an international (PCT) application "must contain the following elements:  request, description, claim or claims, one or more drawings (where drawings are necessary for the understanding of the invention), and abstract."  specifies what the description of an international application should contain in more details.

As another example, a European patent application consists of "a request for the grant of a European patent, a description of the invention, one or more claims, any drawings referred to in the description or claims, and an abstract."  specifies what the description of a European patent application should contain in more details.

Claims
The claims of a patent specification define the scope of protection granted by the patent. The claims describe the invention in a specific legal style, setting out the essential features of the invention in a manner to clearly define what would infringe the patent. Claims are often amended during prosecution to narrow or expand their scope.

The claims may contain one or more hierarchical sets of claims, each having one or more main, independent claim setting out the broadest protection, and a number of dependent claims which narrow that protection by defining more specific features of the invention.

In the U.S., claims can be amended after a patent is granted, but their scope cannot be broadened beyond what was originally disclosed in the specification.  No claim broadening is allowed more than two years after the patent issues.

Filing date
The filing date of an application sets a cutoff date after which any public disclosures cannot form prior art (but the priority date must also be considered), and also because, in most jurisdictions, the right to a patent for an invention lies with the first person to file an application for protection of that invention (See: first to file and first to invent). It is therefore generally beneficial to file an application as soon as possible.

To obtain a filing date, the documents filed must comply with the regulations of the patent office in which it was filed. A full specification complying with all rules may not be required to obtain a filing date. For example, in the U.K., claims and an abstract are not required to obtain a filing date, but can be added later. However, since no subject matter can be added to an application after the filing date, it is important that an application disclose all material relevant to the application at the time of filing. If the requirements for the award of a filing date are not met, the patent office notifies the applicant of the deficiencies. Depending upon the law of the patent office in question, correction may be possible without moving the filing date, or the application may be awarded a filing date adjusted to the date on which the requirements are completed. A filed application generally receives an application number.

Priority claim
A patent application may claim priority from one or more previously filed applications to take advantage of the filing date of these earlier applications (in respect of the information contained in these earlier applications). Claiming priority is desirable because the earlier effective filing date reduces the number of prior art disclosures, increasing the likelihood of obtaining a patent.

The priority system is useful in filing patent applications in many countries, as the cost of the filings can be delayed by up to a year, without any of the applications made earlier for the same invention counting against later applications.

The rules relating to priority claims are in accordance with the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, and countries which provide a priority system in conformity with the Paris Convention are said to be convention countries. These rules should not be confused with the rules under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), outlined above.

Security issues
Many national patent offices require that security clearance is given prior to the filing of a patent application in foreign countries. Such clearance is intended to protect national security by preventing the spread and publication of technologies related to (amongst others) warfare or nuclear arms.

The rules vary between patent offices, but in general all applications filed are reviewed and if they contain any relevant material, a secrecy order may be imposed. That order may prevent the publication of the application, and/or the foreign filing of patents relating to the invention.

Should it be desired to file an application in a country other than an inventor's country of residence, it may be necessary to obtain a foreign filing licence from the inventor's national patent office to permit filing abroad. Some offices, such as the USPTO, may grant an automatic license after a specified time (e.g., 6 months), if a secrecy order is not issued in that time.

Publication
Patent applications are generally published 18 months after the earliest priority date of the application. Prior to that publication the application is confidential to the patent office. After publication, depending upon local rules, certain parts of the application file may remain confidential, but it is common for all communications between an Applicant (or his agent) and the patent office to be publicly available.

The publication of a patent application marks the date at which it is publicly available and therefore at which it forms full prior art for other patent applications worldwide.

Patent pending
The expression patent pending is a warning that an alleged invention is the subject of a patent application. The term may be used to mark products containing the invention to alert a third party to the fact that the third party may be infringing a patent if the product is copied after the patent is granted. The rules on the use of the term to mark products vary among patent offices, as do the benefits of such marking. In general, it is permissible to apply the term patent pending to a product if there is, in fact, a patent pending for any invention implemented in the product.

Patentable subject matter

Patents are granted for the protection of an invention, but while an invention may occur in any field, patent laws have restrictions on the areas in which patents can be granted. Such restrictions are known as exclusions from patentability.

The scope of patentable subject is significantly larger in the U.S. than in Europe. For example, in Europe, things such as computer software or methods of performing mental acts are not patentable. The subject of what should be patentable is highly contentious, particularly as to software and business methods.

Search and examination

After filing, either systematically or, in some jurisdictions, upon request, a search is carried out for the patent application. The purpose of the search is to reveal prior art which may be relevant to the patentability of the alleged invention (that is, relevant to what is claimed, the "claimed subject-matter"). The search report is published, generally with the application 18 months after the priority date of the application, and as such is a public document. The search report is useful to the applicant to determine whether the application should be pursued or if there is prior art which prevents the grant of a useful patent, in which case the application may be abandoned before the applicant incurs further expense. The search report is also useful for the public and the competitors, so that they may have an idea of the scope of protection which may be granted to the pending patent application.

In some jurisdictions, including the U.S., a separate search is not conducted, but rather search and examination are combined. In such case, a separate search report is not issued, and it is not until the application is examined that the applicant is informed of prior art which the patent office examiner considers relevant.

Examination is the process of ensuring that an application complies with the requirements of the relevant patent laws. Examination is generally an iterative process, whereby the patent office notifies the applicant of its objection (see Office action). The applicant may respond with an argument or an amendment to overcome the objection.  The amendment and the argument may then be accepted or rejected, triggering further response, and so forth, until a patent is issued or the application is abandoned or refused. Because patent application examination may be a lengthy process, many patent offices including United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and other national patent offices have introduced several programs of prioritized examination. These programs targeted specific domains or small firms. Post-program studies have found that small firms (less than 500 employees) are almost 4 times more likely than large firms to apply for accelerated examination the prioritized patenting, moreover patents examined through the Track One Program at USPTO were up to 44% more likely to be cited.

Issue or grant
Once the patent application complies with the requirements of the relevant patent office, a patent is granted further official fees, and in some regional patent systems, such as the European patent system, validating the patent requires that the applicant provide translations of the application in the official languages of states in which they desire protection.

The date of issue effectively terminates prosecution of a specific application, after which continuing applications cannot be filed, and establishes the date upon which infringement may be charged.  Furthermore, an issue date for an application in the U.S. filed prior to 1995 also factors into the term of the patent, whereas the term of later filings is determined solely by the filing date.

Post-issue or grant
Many jurisdictions require periodic payment of maintenance fees to retain the validity of a patent after it is issued and during its term. Failure to timely pay the fees results in loss of the patent's protection.

The validity of an issued patent may also be subject to post-issue challenges of various types, some of which may cause the patent office to re-examine the application.

Patentees
The person to whom a patent is granted is known as the patentee, the owner of the patent, the patent proprietor, or the patent holder. Once a patent has been granted with respect to a particular country, anyone who wishes to exploit the invention commercially in that country must obtain the patentee's authorization. In principle, anyone who exploits a patented invention without the patentee's authorization commits an illegal act. Protection is granted for a limited period, generally 20 years. Once a patent expires, the protection ends, and the invention enters the public domain (also known as being "off patent"). The patentee no longer holds exclusive rights to the invention, which then becomes available for commercial exploitation by others.

Rights conferred by a patent
The rights conferred by a patent are described in the patent law of the country in which the patent is granted. The patent owner's exclusive rights generally consist of the following:

 in the case of a product patent, the right to prevent third parties from making, using, offering for sale or selling the product, or importing it for these purposes, without the owner's consent; and
 in the case of a process patent, the right to prevent third parties from using the process without the owner's consent; and to prevent third parties from using, offering for sale or selling the products obtained directly by that process, or importing them for these purposes, without the owner's consent.

The patentee is not given a statutory right to exploit the invention, but rather a statutory right to prevent others from commercially exploiting it. Patentees may give permission, or grant a license, to other parties to use their inventions on mutually agreed terms. They may also sell their patent rights to someone else, who then becomes the new patent owner. There are certain exceptions to the principle that a patented invention cannot legally be exploited without the authorization of the patent owner. These exceptions take into account the balance between the legitimate interests of the patent holder and those of competitors, consumers and others. For example, many patent laws allow a patented invention to be exploited without the patentee's authorization: private acts for non-commercial purposes; acts for experimental purposes or scientific research; and acts for obtaining regulatory approval for pharmaceuticals. In addition, many laws provide for various situations under which compulsory licenses may be granted and government's use of patented inventions without the authorization of the patent owner may be allowed in the wider public interest.

Trends in patents applications

In 2020, 3.3 million patent applications were filed worldwide. This represents an increase of 1.6% on 2019.

Note: World totals are WIPO estimates using data covering 161 patent offices. These totals include applications filed directly with national and regional offices and applications entering offices through the Patent Cooperation Treaty national phase (where applicable). China's pre-2017 data are not comparable due to a change in methodology. Due to this break in the data series, and to the high number of filings in China, it is not possible to report an accurate 2017 growth rate at world level.

In 2020, women accounted for 16.5% of all inventors listed in Patent Cooperation Treaty applications and men the remaining 83.5%. The proportion of women inventors has increased from 11.3% in 2006 to 16.5% in 2020. Moreover, the proportion of women inventors has grown in every region of the world over the past decade. About 33.7% of PCT applications named at least one woman as inventor in 2020, and 95.9% named at least one man as inventor. The share of PCT applications with at least one woman as inventor has risen from 22% in 2006 to 33.7% in 2020, while the share for those with at least one man as inventor has decreased within the same period, from 97.3% down to 95.9%.

The gender gap among PCT inventors varies considerably across countries. Within the top 20 origins, Spain (27.2%), China (22.4%) and the Republic of Korea (20.5%) had the largest proportion of inventors who were women in 2020. Conversely, Germany (10.8%), Japan (10.4%) and Austria (8.1%) had the smallest.

Fields of technology related to the life sciences had comparatively high shares of PCT applications with women inventors in 2020. Women represented more than one-quarter of inventors listed in published PCT applications in the fields of biotechnology (29.5%), food chemistry (29.4%), pharmaceuticals (28.6%), analysis of biological materials (25.9%) and organic fine chemistry (25.2%).

See also
 Backlog of unexamined patent applications
 INID codes
 Kokai
 Glossary of patent law terms
 List of patent offices
 Patent caveat, a type of provisional application used by the USPTO until 1909
 Patent model, a miniature model of an invention required by the USPTO until 1880
 Proof of concept
 United States Statutory Invention Registration

Notes

Sources

References

Further reading

 Eugenio Archontopoulos, Dominique Guellec, Niels Stevnsborg, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Nicolas van Zeebroeck, When small is beautiful: measuring the evolution and consequences of the voluminosity of patent applications at the EPO , 2006, No 06-019.RS, Working Papers CEB from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Business School, Centre Emile Bernheim (CEB) (pdf)

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Richard Paull Goldin (born January 5, 1965) is an American actor, producer, director and television personality. He is known for his roles in daytime drama as Jake Martin in ABC's All My Children.  In May 2013, Goldin joined the cast of the CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful.  Goldin also hosts the HGTV series Spontaneous Construction, which premiered on the network on February 15, 2013.

Early life
Goldin was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Paul Goldin, a London-born entertainer, behavioral psychologist and hypnotist who hosted in his own show in England, and Irish actress P.J. Goldin. Paul Goldin was born into a Jewish family, the son of a French father and English mother. Goldin has siblings: Sarah, David, Bobby and Katie-Jane. His uncle is British film director Jack Gold.

Goldin made his television debut at the age of three when he appeared in an episode of Romper Room.  The family returned to England the following year when Goldin was four years old. Goldin's parents divorced when he was seven. When Goldin was 13, the family returned to the United States and settled in New York City and ultimately Atlantic Beach, New York,  After appearing in approximately 150 television commercials as a teen, Goldin won a role in the Broadway production of On Golden Pond when he was 17.

Career

Television and films
In 1985, Goldin starred in the ABC sitcom, Hail to the Chief, playing the son of the first female President of the United States (played by Patty Duke). The series was canceled after one season. Goldin also had a recurring role on the 1980s sitcom Kate & Allie as Allie's daughter Jenny's boyfriend, Jason. In 1988 and 1989 he also appeared in two episodes of the sitcom television series ALF playing the character of Lynn Tanner's love interest, Danny Duckworth. In 1993, he hosted the short-lived, primetime reality dating show Street Match on ABC.

Goldin has appeared in several made-for-TV movies, including A Face to Die For in 1996 with Yasmine Bleeth. That same year, he also co-starred in Talk to Me, again with Yasmine Bleeth.  Among his movie credits, Goldin has had roles in Piranha II: The Spawning (1981), The Blob (1988) and Lambada (1990).

Soap opera roles
Goldin is best known for portraying Dean Frame on the NBC daytime drama Another World, a role he played from 1990 to 1993, from 1994 to 1995, and again briefly in 1998. He also appeared on the CBS top daytime drama The Young and the Restless as stalker Gary Dawson from 1999 to 2000.

In 2001, Goldin began portraying Gus Aitoro on the longest-running, but now canceled, soap opera Guiding Light on CBS. He portrayed the role from 2001 until his character was killed off on April 1, 2008. Goldin was twice nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actor for the role (in 2003 and 2007).  Goldin appeared in several promotions on behalf of Guiding Light. In 2005, fans voted Goldin and former co-star Beth Ehlers and their characters, Gus and Harley Cooper, as the top couple in "The Most Irresistible Combination" contest (which was partially sponsored by Procter & Gamble, the company that produced Guiding Light). Goldin appeared in a promotion for the product I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!, which is also promoted by Procter & Gamble.

On March 5, 2008, a week after he announced he would be leaving the role of Gus on Guiding Light, Goldin joined All My Children in the recast role of Dr. Joseph "Jake" Martin. In 2010, he was nominated for his third Daytime Emmy Award, his first for his work on All My Children, in the Outstanding Supporting Actor category. In 2011, he was nominated again, this time in the Outstanding Lead Actor category for All My Children.  Goldin remained with All My Children through to the final episode on September 23, 2011.  Goldin also hosted five Live from the Red Carpet Emmy shows for Disney/ABC. After All My Children ended in September 2011, Goldin was seen on the internet in an on-line advertising web series that was a joint venture between Kellogg's and Disney Family. He appeared in a parody of daytime drama entitled The Young and the Breakfast.

On March 18, 2013, it was announced that Goldin will be joining the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful on May 15, 2013 on a recurring status. In 2014, Goldin played Andrew Miller in the soap opera web series Beacon Hill. As a producer for the series, he was nominated for a 2015 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series.

Stage
At age 15, Goldin appeared in the Broadway production of On Golden Pond. In 1994, he returned to Broadway as Danny Zuko in the Broadway revival of the musical Grease.   He followed up with the starring role in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Pirates of Penzance in London and Dublin, Ireland. Goldin has also appeared in several off Broadway productions including Nest Of The Wood Grouse, Feathered Serpent, Happy Journey, Queens of France, Long Christmas Dinner, and Our Town.

Producing
Goldin began producing stage and television productions while in his 20s.  He and Gabe Sachs of Sachs/Judah and produced the reality dating show Street Match for ABC.  Goldin also partnered with Bruce Nash of Nash Enterprises for a TV pilot called Wired & Fired.

In 2001, he co-created and produced a variety show-style pilot for Viacom called FLY TV.  In 2003, Godlin spent time on location in Dubai producing ESPN2's The Celebrity Arabian Adventure, and the in-flight programming for Emirates Airlines. Goldin also created and produced Seeing VS Believing, a one-hour special premiered on TLC in May 2010.

Personal life
Goldin began dating actress Yasmine Bleeth in 1989. They became engaged in January 1995. Goldin and Bleeth ended their relationship later that year. Goldin was later engaged to actress and Playboy model Priscilla Taylor. In November 2001, Goldin married British television presenter Emma Ford.  They divorced in 2002.

Goldin began dating TV fashion personality Gretta Monahan in 2009.  Together, they have two sons — one born in October 2010 and a second in June 2017.

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Dan Birdwell (October 14, 1940 – February 14, 1978) was an American college and professional football player.  A defensive lineman, he played collegiately for the University of Houston and professionally for the Oakland Raiders of the American Football League (AFL) from 1962 to 1969.  He was the starting left defensive tackle with Tom Keating (American football) on the right side for the 1967 AFL Champion Raiders with their 13-1 win–loss record and on the losing side in the second AFL-NFL World Championship game. In that season, the front four of  Birdwell, Keating, Ike Lassiter, and Ben Davidson combined for impressive totals of 67 sacks and 666 yards lost.

Birdwell is credited with the following quote regarding the necessary mindset to play professional football:  "You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two by four."

Birdwell died of a massive heart attack at age 37 on February 14, 1978.

See also
List of American Football League players

References

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Catholicos Mashdotz I was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 897 and 898. He was a monk of Sevanavank monastery and regarded as a very holy man. While a monk, he was asked by sparapet Abas to assist in overthrowing the current Catholicos, George II, and was promised the Catholicosate throne in return. Mashdotz wrote a long letter in response, rejecting the offer to rebel against the Catholicos, and chided Abas for his attempt. The plot failed and Mashdotz continued to be respected for his piety. Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi reports that Mashdotz refused to even maintain a diet of bread and water, only eating vegetables. Upon the death of George II, King Smbat I and his associates elected Mashdotz the new Catholicos as they were impressed with him. He was known as a holy man and excellent teacher, but died after seven months as Catholicos. The same historian Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi was asked by the king to be his replacement.

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The Beach Erosion Board (BEB) was a federal board organized under the US Government's War Department (later, the Department of Defense), U.S. Army, and was a part of the civil works program of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.  The Board had seven members and a staff.  The life of the BEB spanned a period of 33 years, beginning with its establishment in July 1930. The BEB was abolished in November of 1963.

The functions of the BEB pertained to review of reports of investigations made concerning erosion of the shores of coastal and lake waters, and the protection of those shores.  Under its implementing legislation, Section 2 of Public Law 520, 7lst Congress, approved on July 3, 1930, the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, was given authority to make, in cooperation with the appropriate agencies of the various coastal States, investigations and studies aimed at devising effective means of presenting erosion of the shores of coastal and lake waters by waves and currents.   The funding provision for these investigations and studies was that no money should be expended under authority of the Act in any State which did not provide for cooperation with the agecies of the United States and contribute to the project such funds and/or services as the Secretary of War deemed appropriate and required.

In 1963, certain of the BEB's functions were transferred to the newly created Coastal Engineering Research Center, while others were transferred to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors.  Pursuant to the federal Water Resources Development Act of 1992, the duties and responsibilities of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors subsequently were transferred by the Secretary of the Army to other elements within the Department of the Army as the Secretary determined to be necessary.

Sources
 "The History of the Beach Erosion Board,U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, 1930-63," by Mary-Louise Quinn, MISCELLANEOUS REPORT NO. 77-9, AUGUST 1977

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An algal bloom is an accumulation of algae (typically microscopic) or a rapid increase in their amount in a body of water. Algal blooms may occur in fresh water as well as salt water. Algal bloom concentrations may reach millions of cells per milliliter of water. Algal blooms are often green, but they can also be other colors such as yellow-brown or red, depending on the species of algae. So-called algal blooms are often caused by Cyanobacteria such as Aphanizomenon flosaquae, which are no longer considered to be algae. Some kinds of algal blooms, such as red tides, are poisonous.

Algal blooms are often caused by eutrophication. Eutrophication occurs when abnormal amount of nutrients, especially phosphorous and nitrogen, enter a body of water. Algal blooms are a big problem to ecosystems because, like any sudden unnatural growth, it harms the other animals in that ecosystem, usually decreasing their numbers quickly. The abundance of algae in algal blooms causes layers of algae that are unable to get sunlight, and this causes the algae to die and start to decompose. The top layers of algae is able to photosynthesize and continue living. The lack of nutrients and dissolved oxygen in the water inhibits other life. Fish become unable to breathe and other aquatic vegetation cannot photosynthesize. All the organisms in the water start to die and decompose. The decomposition of the dead organisms use up most of the remaining dissolved oxygen in the water. Without a sufficient amount of nutrients and dissolved oxygen all living organisms in the water die which leads to a dead zone.

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Stroud & Swindon Building Society was the 10th largest building society in the United Kingdom, with headquarters in Stroud, Gloucestershire and total assets of £2.7 billion as at 31 December 2009. It was a member of the Building Societies Association until its merger with the Coventry Building Society in 2010.

Stroud & Swindon Building Society operated through a branch network of 22 offices and 22 agencies in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Monmouthshire, Devon and Cornwall complemented by a contact centre based in Gloucester. Stroud & Swindon was a provider of both mortgages and savings, as well as offering loans, credit cards and insurance.

History

Stroud and Swindon Building Society was originally established in 1850 as the Stroud Provident Benefit Building Society. The first head office was in Rowcroft in Stroud where the offices of Winterbothams solicitors are now and, indeed, Lyndsey Winterbotham was the first chairman. After transferring for a period to larger premises in Russell Street, the Society moved in 1990 to a purpose built head office, less than  away from the original location.

Over the years a series of acquisitions of other societies including the Bristol Permanent Building Society and the Frome and Selwood Building Society saw the Stroud Building Society develop and grow. Merger with the Swindon Permanent Building Society in 1986 led to the change of title of Stroud & Swindon.

Community Support
Stroud & Swindon supported non-profit events and voluntary groups located within its region. Donations or assistance tended to be on a one-off basis and in order to make its support as effective as possible it focused on projects in areas where it had branches and could make the most impact.

The Society had 22 branches based in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset and Monmouthshire and each branch nominated their own local charity to support for the year. It also supported a number of other local charities which met its overall criteria as well as some major national events such as BBC Children in Need and Comic Relief.

Stroud & Swindon also developed affinity savings accounts with Bath RFC, Forest Green Rovers F.C., The Willow Trust and The Cotswold Care Hospice.

Merger with the Coventry Building Society

The Stroud & Swindon merged with the Coventry Building Society on 1 September 2010 following an announcement on 23 March and the approval of members on 16 June.  The Stroud and Swindon name continued for a year as a separate and distinct brand.  However, the head office functions transferred to Coventry immediately. The former Stroud & Swindon Building Society is now fully integrated with the Coventry.

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The 1924–25 Serie A season was the first season of the Serie A, the top level of ice hockey in Italy. Two teams participated in the league, and Hockey Club Milano won the championship by defeating GSD Cortina in the final.

Final

 Hockey Club Milano - GSD Cortina 9:0  (Goals: Decio Trovati 3, Guido Botturi 3, Luigi Redaelli 2, Miletto Sancassani)

External links
 Season on hockeytime.net

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Superior Donuts is a play by American playwright Tracy Letts. Its world premiere was staged by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2008. It premiered on Broadway in 2009.

Synopsis
The play focuses on the relationship between despondent Arthur Przybyszewski, a former 1960s radical who owns a rundown donut shop in Chicago's Uptown, and Franco, his energetic but troubled young African American assistant, who wants to update the establishment with lively music and healthy menu options. Dialogue scenes are separated by soliloquies in which Arthur discusses his past and reminisces about the city as it was in his younger years.

Production history
The play, directed by Tina Landau, was performed at the Downstairs Theatre in Chicago by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company between June 19 and August 24, 2008.

Again directed by Landau and with the Steppenwolf cast intact, the Broadway production began previews at the Music Box Theatre on September 16, 2009 and officially opened on October 1, with Michael McKean as Arthur Przybyszewski and Jon Michael Hill as Franco. Also in the cast were Yasen Peyankov as Russian appliance dealer Max Tarasov, James Vincent Meredith as local beat cop James Hailey, Jane Alderman as wise-crazy alcoholic Lady Boyle, Kate Buddeke as Randy Osteen (a cop who takes a liking to Arthur), Cliff Chamberlain as thug Kevin MaGee, Michael Garvey as surprise visitor Kiril Ivakina, and Robert Maffia as loan shark Luther Flynn. The show closed on January 3, 2010.

Despite its limited run on Broadway, Superior Donuts was slated to be produced by many regional theatres in the 2010–11 season. Pittsburgh Public Theater, Arden Theatre Company (Philadelphia), Denver Center Theatre Company, The Studio Theatre (in Washington, DC), San Diego Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks (California) and Mad Cow Theatre (Florida), Artists Repertory Theatre (Portland, Oregon) all planned to produce Superior Donuts in 2010–11. The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Sacramento's Capital Stage, and Chicago's Mary-Arrchie Theatre planned to produce Superior Donuts in their 2011–12 season. The Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan, led off its 2012–13 season with Superior Donuts.

In May 2011, Superior Donuts was directed by Kate Powers and performed for an audience of prisoners and community guests by a cast of prisoners who participate in Rehabilitation Through the Arts at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. The Sing Sing cast was visited in rehearsal by Michael McKean, who shared his insight as Arthur Przybyszewski.

Critical reception

In his review of the original Chicago production, Charles Isherwood of the New York Times said the play "has a lot in common with the deep-fried breakfast food of the title. It's insubstantial and sweet, with virtually no nutritional value. Still, minor though this comedy is, it is also hard to dislike. Who doesn't hanker for a doughnut now and then?" In reviewing the Broadway production, Isherwood described the play as "a gentle comedy that unfolds like an extended episode of a 1970s sitcom" and "a warm bath of a play that will leave Broadway audiences with satisfied smiles rather than rattled nerves." He felt if the play "possesses the nostalgic appeal of a classic sitcom, it is also hampered by some of the genre's standard flaws. A subplot about Franco's gambling debts feels contrived, like one of those dubious byways cooked up by writers in the later seasons of a series, when inspiration flags and the characters' interactions have begun to go stale. The ancillary characters... might have come straight from the Sidekicks, Neighbors and Friends rack, although the excellent actors imbue them all with a sharp specificity. The relationship at the heart of the play, between Arthur and Franco, is also not without its formulaic aspects. Mr. Letts's depiction of this budding cross-racial, cross-generational friendship feels a little retrograde, as both Arthur and Franco reveal dimensions that confound each other but help ease the awkwardness between them... But Mr. Letts treads gently, underplaying the surrogate-son aspect of their dynamic."

Jon Michael Hill was nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his work in this play.

TV series

In January 2016, CBS ordered a television pilot based on the play, with Bob Daily as the showrunner. On February 9, 2016, it was reported that Jermaine Fowler will play Franco. On March 1, 2016, Brian d'Arcy James was cast as Arthur. On May 26, 2016, CBS ordered the series to be re-piloted for a mid-season premiere.

In September 2016, CBS ordered the TV series, which debuted on February 2, 2017. Judd Hirsch played the role of the shop owner. Other cast members include Jermaine Fowler, Katey Sagal, David Koechner, Maz Jobrani, Anna Baryshnikov, Darien Sills-Evans, and Rell Battle. On May 12, 2018, the series was cancelled after 2 seasons.

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Jonathan Smedley (1671–1729) was an Anglo-Irish churchman who became Dean of Clogher in 1724. He was an opportunist and satirical victim who engaged in a polemic with Jonathan Swift and the forces of the Tory party.

Life
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, received his MA from Trinity College in 1698 and served as a chaplain in the British Army before getting a parish in County Cork in 1709.  Despite having that office, he spent as much time as he could in Dublin and away from his parish.

When Jonathan Swift was made dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Smedley pinned derogatory verses on the cathedral door, denouncing Swift.  At that point, the Tory party was still in power in England, but the Whig party was ascendant.  In 1715, just after the first Jacobite rebellion, Smedley was chosen to preach in for the Protestants.  His sermon was full of invective for the High church position, and he accused the high churchmen of weakening the Church of England for an overthrow by the Roman Catholic Church, which was always scheming to take control.

In 1718, he again attacked high churchmen with A Rational and Historical Account of the Principles which Gave Birth to the Late Rebellion.  This prompted Swift to respond from the pulpit to a sermon preached by "that scoundrel Smedley."  Smedley again accused the high church of being in the Pope's service, and he further sees the great hope of England with only the House of Hanover and the dissenters (i.e. the remnants of the Puritan movement and the churches arising from it).  He was further spending as much time in London as he was able and lobbying to get further preferment in the church.  He did this by publishing nine of his sermons in 1719, and in 1721, 1723, and 1730 he published collections of his verses (at each juncture a time when Smedley was seeking preferment).

Richard Steele became one of Smedley's champions.  He argued that Smedley had suffered persecution for his Whig views before 1714 (and the death of Queen Anne) and his tirelessness in the righteous causes of Protestantism.  Smedley was given the deanery of Killala in western Ireland.  He may not have spent much time at his new cathedral, and he presented himself as often as possible to the public as an anti-Swift, as the real "Dean Jonathan."  In 1724 he resigned the cathedral of Killala for the cathedral at Clogher, which put him in the thick of the political life of Dublin and gave him easy shipping for London.  He apparently wished to exchange that cathedral for a position in England itself. He was Dean of Clogher from 1724 to 1727.

In 1728 Smedley was made one of the bad examples in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad.  Pope has Smedley among the muck-divers in Book II of the poem, where Smedley dives into the sewage and filth of Fleet Ditch and, though presumed dead, reemerges some 34 lines later with a lengthy tale of his exploits beneath the mud.  That year, Smedley attacked Swift again in Gulliveriana and also attempted to attack Pope.  Swift replied with The Duke's Answer.  During this time Smedley attempted to get subscriptions for a projected A Universal View of All the Eminent Writers on the Holy Scriptures, but this came to nought.

Smedley was unable or unwilling to live within his income, and he mortgaged part of his deanery in Clogher to Benjamin Hoadley, then a rising figure in the political side of the Church.  In 1729, Smedley resigned Clogher for the position of chaplain to Fort Madras in the British East India Company.  He died en route on 30 March 1729 and was buried at sea.  It later emerged that he had even sold his position of chaplain for £500 to someone in Madras.

Pope left Smedley in a position of infamy in the Dunciad B, and Swift, with Thomas Sheridan, attacked Smedley after his death in The Intelligencer #20 with "Dean Smedley Gone to Seek His Fortune", where he says that the man was "of Dullness, Pride, Conceit, a medley."

References

 Seccombe, Thomas and Toby Barnard.  "Jonathan Smedley".  In Matthew, H.C.G. and Brian Harrison, eds.  The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  vol. 50.  London: OUP, 2004.

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The Python bivittatus (or Burmese python) is one of the fifth largest snakes in the world. It is native to a large variation of tropic and subtropic areas of South and Southeast Asia. Until 2009 they were considered a subspecies of Python molurus. Now they are recognized as a distinct species.

Burmese pythons are dark-coloured snakes with many brown blotches, edged with black, down their back. It can grow up to 5 to 7 metres (16 to 23 ft) long, but some may only reach up to the length of 4 metres (13 feet). They usually weigh around 90 kg. The longest Burmese python ever recored was a female named "Baby" which lived in the Serpent Safari, Gurnee, Illinois and was 27 years old when she died. When "Baby" died she was 8.23 metres (27 ft) long, and weighed 183 kg

The Burmese python is found throughout Southern and Southeast Asia including Eastern India, Nepal, Western Bhutan, Southeast Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Northern Malaysia, far southern China, Indonesia, Southern Sulawesi, Bali and Sumbawa. It lives in grasslands, marshes, swamps, woodlands, river valleys, and jungles with open clearings.

The Burmese python, like all types of snakes, are carnivorous. They mainly eat birds and mammals like mice, rats, rabbits, pigs and goats. Some have been seen eating larger animals like alligators and deer.
Burmese Pythons are mainly nocturnal. Young Burmese Pythons usually live in trees and on ground but when they become older they live mainly on the ground. They are excellent swimmers and can stay underwater for around half an hour.
Burmese pythons breed in the early spring and females lay around 12-36 eggs in March or April. The female python then remains with the eggs until they have hatched. Once the hatchlings use their egg tooth to cut their way out of the eggs the mother then leaves. The babies often stay inside the eggs until they have completed their first shedding of their skin, after this they leave to hunt for their first meal. Burmese pythons live for around 20 to 27 years.

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The Order of the Companions of Honour is a British award given to citizens of the Commonwealth. It was founded by King George V in 1917, as a reward for outstanding achievements in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry or religion.

The order is limited to 65 Companions of Honour.  At first 45 members could be from the United Kingdom, 7 from Australia, 2 from New Zealand and 11 from other Commonwealth countries. Foreigners from outside the realm may be added as "honorary members". Membership of the order gives no title, or precedence, but recipients can put the post-nominal letters "CH" after their names.

The insignia of the Order consists of an oval medallion with an oak tree, a shield with the royal arms hanging from one branch, and on the left a mounted knight in armour.  The badge's clear blue border bears the motto IN ACTION FAITHFUL AND IN HONOUR CLEAR. Men wear the badge on a ribbon (red with golden border threads) around their necks, and women on a bow at the left shoulder.

Current members
Sovereign: Charles III
Members:
 The Lord Tebbit CH PC (1987)
 The Lord Baker of Dorking CH PC (1992)
 The Lord King of Bridgwater CH PC (1992)
 Dame Janet Baker CH DBE (1993)
 The Lord Owen CH PC (1994)
 The Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE PC (1995)
 Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FZS FSA (1996)
 The Lord Heseltine CH PC (1997)
 David Hockney OM CH RA (1997)
 Sir John Major KG CH PC (1998)
 The Lord Patten of Barnes KG CH PC (1998)
 Bridget Riley CH CBE (1998)
 John de Chastelain CH OC CMM CD (1999)
 The Lord Hannay of Chiswick GCMG CH (2003)
 Dan McKenzie CH FRS (2003)
 Dame Judi Dench CH DBE FRSA (2005)
 Sir Ian McKellen CH CBE (2008)
 The Lord Howard of Lympne CH PC KC (2011)
 The Lord Young of Cookham CH PC (2012)
 Peter Higgs CH FRS FRSE (2012)
 The Lord Coe CH KBE (2012)
 The Lord Strathclyde CH PC (2013)
 The Lord Campbell of Pittenweem CH CBE PC KC (2013)
 Sir Nicholas Serota CH (2013)
 The Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve CH CBE FRS (2013)
 Dame Maggie Smith CH DBE (2014)
 The Lord Clarke of Nottingham CH PC KC (2014)
 Lady Mary Peters LG CH DBE (2015)
 The Lord Woolf CH PC (2015)
 Sir Roy Strong CH FRSL (2016)
 The Lord Smith of Kelvin KT CH (2016)
 The Baroness Amos LG CH PC (2016)
 George Osborne CH PC (2016)
 Sir Richard Eyre CH CBE (2017)
 Dame Evelyn Glennie CH DBE (2017)
 Sir Alec Jeffreys CH FRS (2017)
 Sir Mark Elder CH CBE (2017)
 Sir Paul McCartney CH MBE (2017)
 J. K. Rowling CH OBE FRSL (2017)
 Dame Stephanie Shirley CH DBE (2017)
 Delia Smith CH CBE (2017)
 The Lord Stern of Brentford CH FRS FBA (2017)
 The Lord Bragg CH FRS FBA FRSL (2018)
 Lady Antonia Fraser CH DBE FRSL (2018)
 Margaret MacMillan OM CC CH FBA FRSL (2018)
 Richard Henderson CH FRS (2018)
 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ONZ CH DBE AC (2018)
 Margaret Atwood CC CH FRSL (2019)
 The Lord McLoughlin CH PC (2019)
 Sir Elton John CH CBE (2019)
 Sir Keith Thomas CH (2019)
 Sir Paul Smith CH CBE RDI (2020)
 Sir David Chipperfield CH CBE RDI RA (2021)
 Sir Paul Nurse OM CH FRS (2022)
 The Lord Field of Birkenhead CH PC (2022)
 Sir Quentin Blake CH CBE FRSL RDI (2022)
 Sir Salman Rushdie CH FRSL (2022)
 Dame Marina Warner CH DBE FBA FRSL (2022)
 Sir Michael Marmot CH FBA (2023)
 Sir John Bell GBE CH FRS (2023)
 Ian McEwan CH CBE FRSL (2023)
 Dame Anna Wintour CH DBE (2023)

Honorary Members:
 Amartya Sen CH FBA (2000)

Other websites
- Order of the Companions of Honour page

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Frances Elizabeth Anne Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave (4 January 1821 – 5 July 1879), was the daughter of John Braham, the singer, and a noted society heiress.

Life
Frances was born in London on 4 January 1821. She married, on 25 May 1839, John James Waldegrave (illegitimate son of John Waldegrave, 6th Earl Waldegrave) of Navestock, Essex, who died in the same year.

She married secondly, on 28 September 1840, his younger legitimate brother, George Edward, 7th Earl Waldegrave. After the marriage her husband was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for assault. During his detention she lived with him in the Queen's Bench prison, and on his release they retired into the country. On the death of Lord Waldegrave on 28 September 1846, she found herself possessed of the whole of the Waldegrave estates (including residences at Strawberry Hill, Chewton in Somerset, and Dudbrook in Essex), but with little knowledge of the world to guide her conduct.

In this position she entered for a third time into matrimony, marrying on 30 September 1847 George Granville Harcourt of Nuneham and Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. Her third husband, who was a widower and her senior by thirty-six years (being sixty-two at the date of the marriage, while she was only twenty-six), was the eldest son of Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York, and a follower of Peel, whom he supported in Parliament as member for Oxfordshire.

As Harcourt's wife, Lady Waldegrave first exhibited her rare capacity as a leader and hostess of society. Of her conduct to Harcourt, Sir William Gregory wrote in his Autobiography: "She was an excellent wife to him, and neither during her life with him nor previously was there ever a whisper of disparagement to her character. No great lady held her head higher or more rigorously ruled her society. Her home was always gay, and her parties at Nuneham were the liveliest of the time; but she never suffered the slightest indecorum, nor tolerated improprieties." She delighted in private theatricals, and her favourite piece, which she acted over and over again both at Nuneham and Woburn, was the Honeymoon, because it had some allusions to her own position. She always said she should have liked to act Lady Teazle, if it had not been that the references to the old husband were too pointed. The other pieces in which she performed were generally translations of French vaudevilles.

Some years before Harcourt's death she determined to reopen Strawberry Hill, which had been left to her by her second husband, whose father had inherited it from Horace Walpole. The mansion had been completely dismantled by Lord Waldegrave and denuded of all its treasures in 1842. She preserved Horace Walpole's house exactly as it stood, and restored to it many of its dispersed treasures. The stable wing was turned into a set of sleeping-rooms for guests, and she joined it to the main building by two large rooms. These contained two collections, the one of eighteenth-century pictures of members of the families of Walpole and Waldegrave, the other of portraits of her own friends and contemporaries. Strawberry Hill, when finished, became a still more convenient rendezvous for the political and diplomatic society of London than Nuneham had been.

Harcourt died on 19 December 1861, and then Strawberry Hill became her principal residence, although she occasionally resided at the Waldegrave mansions of Chewton in Somerset and Dudbrook in Essex, both of which she restored and enlarged. On 20 January 1863 she married Chichester Samuel Parkinson Fortescue (afterwards Lord Carlingford), and from that time until her death her abilities, as well as her fortune, were devoted to the success of his political career and of his Liberal Party. Her salon at Strawberry Hill or at her residence in London, 7 Carlton Gardens, was from the date of her fourth marriage until her death, sixteen years later, one of the chief meeting-places of the Liberal leaders.

La Bruyère described Lady Waldegrave as "a handsome woman with the virtues of an honest man," who united "in her own person the best qualities of both sexes." Her reward for the exercise of these virtues was the affectionate friendship with which she was regarded by all who knew her. In conversation she preferred to listen rather than to shine. Flashes of wit occasionally came from her lips without effort or preparation, but she forgot her epigrams as soon as she uttered them; indeed she was known on more than one occasion to repeat her own jests, forgetting their origin and attributing them to other people. Her friends among politicians and men of letters included the Duc d'Aumale, the Duke of Newcastle, Edward Lear, Lords Grey and Clarendon, M. Van de Weyer, Bishop Wilberforce, Abraham Hayward, and Bernal Osborne. Among her associates who were nearer her own age, Sir William Harcourt (the nephew of her third husband), Lord Dufferin and Lord Ampthill, Julian Fane, and Lord Alcester were perhaps the most noteworthy. On 10 July 1870 she and her (4th) husband dined with Queen Victoria who noted - perhaps a little sharply - in her Journal: "Ly Waldegrave & Mr Fortescue, the Van de Weyers & Ld Wrottesley dined. Ly Waldegrave is certainly a very clever woman. Mr Fortescue is her 4th Husband! "

Death and legacy
Lady Waldegrave died without issue at her residence, 7 Carlton Gardens, London, on 5 July 1879, and was buried at Chewton, where Lord Carlingford erected a monument to her memory. Portraits of Lady Waldegrave were painted by Dubufe, Tissot, James Rannie Swinton, and other artists. A full-length marble statue was executed by Matthew Noble. The road that passes Strawberry Hill, one of the main roads linking Twickenham with Teddington, is named Waldegrave Road after her.

Anthony Trollope was thought by many to have fictionalized Lady Waldegrave as Madame Max Goesler in his 1869 novel Phineas Finn.

See also
List of entertainers who married titled Britishers

Notes

Sources

Further reading
 Hewett, Osbert Wyndham. Strawberry Fair: A Biography of Frances, Countess Waldegrave, 1821-1879 (John Murray, 1956)

External links
 Pictures of Elizabeth Waldegrave at the National Portrait Gallery (London)

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"Night Out" is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of the American comedy television series The Office and the show's sixty-eighth episode overall. The episode was written by Mindy Kaling and directed by Ken Whittingham.  It first aired in the United States on April 24, 2008 on NBC. "Night Out" was viewed by a measured audience of over 7.5 million people, bringing in the lowest number of estimated viewers that The Office received among 12 episodes. "Night Out" received mixed reviews from critics.

In the episode, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) and Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) travel to New York City to party with Ryan Howard (B. J. Novak). Ryan starts acting erratically, and it is revealed that he is under the influence of drugs. Meanwhile, the remaining employees are going to be forced to work on a Saturday. Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) proposes that they work late on Friday, so they do not have to come in the next day. Once Jim and his co-workers finish working, they find that they are locked in, and everyone quickly places the blame on Jim.

Plot
Ryan Howard (B. J. Novak) arrives at the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company and is noticeably friendlier than on his previous visits. The employees, by now fed up with Ryan's new website, angrily ask him questions about the website and their clients. Ryan shows the staff at the branch the new Dunder Mifflin website, "Dunder Mifflin Infinity 2.0", the previous version of which was shut down because sexual predators had invaded the social networking component of the site. As Ryan leaves, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) asks him if he could set him up with any of the women he knows, and Ryan tells Michael of the women he meets in clubs in New York City. Michael and Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) decide to go to New York, locate Ryan, attend parties with him, and try to meet women while doing so.

In New York, Michael and Dwight visit the club Ryan frequents. Ryan is thrilled to see them but appears to be under the influence of drugs, though Michael and Dwight do not notice. Later, Michael, Dwight, Ryan and Ryan's colleague Troy Underbridge (Noel Petok) wait outside another club, which does not allow anyone in who does not have a date. Dwight pairs each of them with members of a women's basketball team who are waiting in line. Inside the club, Ryan's dancing becomes erratic, and he accidentally hits a girl, prompting her friends to attack him. Dwight and Michael escort him out of the club, and after Troy advises them not to take Ryan to a hospital, he runs off. Michael and Dwight bring Ryan back to his apartment, where he tells them that he thinks Troy has a drug problem, and asks what he should do about it. Michael, oblivious to the fact that Ryan is referring to his own drug addiction, gives him hypothetical advice involving a wiretap and snitching on a drug dealer.

Back in Scranton, the rest of the employees are going to be forced to work on a Saturday to record their own sales as the website's sales, which is, according to Ryan, "a temporary procedure to increase the legitimacy of the website." Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) suggests everyone stay in the office late instead of coming in for the Saturday. They all agree to the plan, but Jim forgets to tell the security guard they are staying late. After working until 9:00 pm, they find the parking lot gates locked, and are unable to return to the office because Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) locked the door from the inside, and Dwight has both the spare and master keys. Jim calls Hank the security guard (Hugh Dane), who puts off coming to let them out because Jim neglected to collect money for his last annual tip. Pam accidentally injures Meredith by hitting her head with a football that was found in the parking lot. Sitting in the lobby area waiting for the security guard to arrive, the employees vote by a show of hands that Andy and Angela are a better couple than Jim and Pam.

During a moment of levity, Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) reaches over and feels Pam's knee. After an awkward silence, Toby proclaims that he is moving to Costa Rica; he then climbs the parking lot fence and runs away. The cleaning staff arrives and lets the group out with help from Oscar, who speaks Spanish.

Hank is incredulous when he arrives at the office to find everyone but the cleaning staff is gone.

Production

"Night Out" was the seventh episode of the series directed by Ken Whittingham. It was written by Mindy Kaling, who also acts in the show as customer-service representative Kelly Kapoor. The episode was the eighth of the series to be written by Kaling. "Night Out" was the third new episode of The Office to be broadcast since the episode "The Deposition" on November 15, 2007, due to the effects of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Filming of The Office immediately halted on that date, because many members of the cast including Carell, Novak, Kaling, and Lieberstein are members of the WGA and refused to cross WGA picket lines. If not for the writers' strike, this episode would have most likely been filmed in November 2007.

Most of "Night Out" was shot during the night. The scene that has Toby putting his hand on Pam's knee was shot at 2:30 am on a Friday. The scene was shot about eight times because according to Kaling, "everyone kept breaking because Toby was so vulnerable and awkward." Kate Flannery did her stunts in the scene where Pam throws a football and hits Customer and Supplier Relations worker Meredith Palmer (Flannery) in the face. Flannery had a stunt double on the set, but she was never needed for the scene. Kate recalls that she "didn't get a scratch in all 14 takes that we shot." Lieberstein on the other hand used a stunt double for the scene in which Toby climbs over the fence. Although Lieberstein offered to do the stunt himself, executive producer and show runner Greg Daniels decided against it.

When casting "Tall Girl #1" (the woman who would kiss with Dwight), the show was looking for a girl 6'1" or taller. Actress Cassie Fliegel, who is 5'11", auditioned for the part anyway. After getting a callback, Fliegel went to a gym to work out, attempting to gain muscle to look more like a basketball player. On the day of the callbacks, Fliegel remembers being next to a girl who was 6'8". Despite her size, Fliegel, a former basketball player herself, was cast for the part. Initially, she did not know that her character was going to make out with Dwight. Fliegel recalls that when she first heard about kissing Dwight she "was like, I don't think so". However, after finding out that she had her own trailer, Fliegel warmed up to the idea. The music in the club was chosen by Novak, Kaling's then-boyfriend Benjamin Nugent, and Daniel Chun. When filming Ryan dancing in the club, the girl that Ryan hit was actually a stunt woman. Pads had been placed on the floor so Novak could fall down safely. The German lullaby that Dwight sang to Ryan was script supervisor Veda Semarne's idea. Semarne's Austrian grandmother sang the same song to her when she was a child.

Reception
"Night Out" received 4.0/10 in the ages 18–49 demographic in the Nielsen ratings. This means that four percent of all households with an 18- to 49-year-old living in it watched the episode, and ten percent had their televisions tuned to the channel at any point. The episode was watched by 7.56 million viewers. "Night Out" did not do as well as "Chair Model" did the week before, losing 20 percent of the previous episode's viewers. Some attribute the loss of viewers to a lack of Grey's Anatomy and a repeat of CSI the previous week. With 7.69 million, "Night Out" had fewer viewers than any other episode of The Office from the fourth season, except for "Job Fair", which garnered only 7.16 million viewers.

Reviews for "Night Out" were mixed. Zap2It's Rick Porter thought that although it wasn't "as sublime in its Needy Michael-ness as last week's [episode]" and "in some ways, though, it was maybe even a little sadder", "Night Out" was "still pretty darn funny". Porter went on to praise the acting work of both B. J. Novak and Paul Lieberstein, as well as the writing of Mindy Kaling. TV Squad's Jay Black said that Michael summed up "Night Out" perfectly when he said "Best. Night. Ever." Black went on to praise both of the storylines, and the ability of the show to achieve success both in as well as out of the Dunder Mifflin Scranton building. Similar to Black's statements, Gretchen Hansen of Entertainment Weekly stated that Best. Night. Ever.' Oh, so true, Michael." She also stated that "I guess I knew it was going to be a good episode of The Office when I had two pages of scribbled notes before the first commercial break." Hansen went on to praise both the acting and the writing of the episode as points that contributed to the success of the episode. Rachel Cericola, of TV Fodder, praised the writing of the episode by Mindy Kaling. She also praised the storyline of the episode that did not involve Michael and Dwight, saying "The second plotline was its usual funny filler. However, it was Toby's revelation that made it all worthwhile."

Travis Fickett of IGN said that the episode was "still satisfying, even when it's not one of the show's funnier episodes", but "it's a bit of a shame this episode wasn't a home run, because having Dwight and Michael hit the clubs is a funny idea." Fickett went on to praise the episode's awkward moment between Toby and Pam, when Toby placed his hand on Pam's leg, and Toby's subsequent escape by hopping the fence. Fickett stated that, for Toby's growing love of Pam, and growing envy of Jim, "this is pretty great pay off". Claire Zulkey, a writer for the Los Angeles Times, was not as pleased with the episode. Zulkey wrote "that when it's at its zaniest, The Office is at its worst", and the episode was "just too silly to be funny". Zulkey did say that "it was hilarious to see him [Toby] let his hand more-than-linger on her knee and then abruptly flee the premises by jumping over the fence and running home." In a poll done by Office fansite OfficeTally.com, viewers ranked "Night Out" as the 13th-most popular episode out of the 14 episodes of season four.

References

External links
"Night Out" at NBC.com

The Office (American season 4) episodes
2008 American television episodes
Television episodes written by Mindy Kaling

Night Out (The Office)


Bald Mountain (9150 feet, 2789 m) is a mountain in the western United States in south central Idaho, adjacent to the city of Ketchum in Blaine County. The mountain has one of the higher summits of the Smoky Mountains of Idaho, located in the Sawtooth National Forest. The forested Smoky Mountains were named for their propensity for summer forest fires.

Sun Valley skiing

It is the primary ski mountain of the Sun Valley ski resort, and renowned for its lengthy runs at a uniform gradient, at varying levels of difficulty, and with little wind.

In the Sun Valley's fourth year of operation (1939–40), Bald Mountain was opened for lift-served skiing, with a series of three (single-seat) chairlifts, unloading at an elevation of .

With a base elevation of  along the Big Wood River at River Run, Baldy's vertical drop is  along its northeast face. It is served by fourteen ski lifts (an eight-person gondola, seven high-speed quads, three triples, two doubles, and a surface); Baldy has more uphill capacity per skier than any other ski area. It has 75 runs with  of on-piste skiing,  of which have snowmaking.

The slope ratings are 36% easiest, 42% more difficult, and 22% most difficult. These ratings are relative, not absolute; much of the "easiest" terrain on Bald Mountain would be rated as "intermediate" at most ski areas, as the beginner areas are on the gentler and smaller Dollar Mountain.

Sun Valley's Bald Mountain is independent of the Bald Mountain Ski Area, a modest ski hill near Pierce in Clearwater County in north central Idaho.

Ski runs
Easiest (Green Circle Runs)
Lower River Run
Lower College
Olympic Ridge
Olympic Lane
42nd Street
Upper College
Broadway
Broadway Face
Lilly Marlane
Maiden Lane
Mid Warm Springs
Lower Warm Springs
Lower Greyhawk
Sunset Strip
Roundhouse Slope
Roundhouse Lane

More Difficult (Blue Square Runs)
Mid River Run
Flying Squirrel
Upper Canyon
Blue Grouse
Cutoff
Christmas Lane
Wolverton
Christmas Ridge
Upper Janss Pass
Upper French Dip
Upper Can-Can
Graduate
Lower Cozy
Lower Limelight
Warm Springs Face
Upper Warm Springs
Race Arena
Mid Hemingway
Mid Greyhawk
Mid Cozy
Lower Picabo's Street
Lower Hemingway
I-80
Brick's Island
Upper Canyon
Mid River Run
Lower Canyon
Lower Blue Grouse

Most Difficult (Black Diamond Runs)
Sleeping Bear
Exhibition
Inhibition
Olympic (Not to be confused with Olympic Lane or Olympic Ridge)
Fire Trail
Mayday Bowl
Lookout Bowl
Easter Bowl
Little Easter Bowl
Rock Garden
Upper Limelight
Upper Hemingway
Upper Picabo's Street
Upper Greyhawk
Upper Cozy
Mid Picabo's Street
Mid Limelight
International
Arnold's Run
Upper River Run
Upper Holiday
Mid Holiday
Lower Holiday

In media
In the NBC miniseries, 10.5: Apocalypse, this mountain is an extinct volcano that erupts with devastating force. An avalanche of hot gases and ash cascaded down the mountain and buried everything, including the mountain's ski areas, and the towns of Sun Valley, Ketchum, and Hailey. Multiple rescue teams arrived at the scene and dug through the debris caused by Bald Mountain's eruption, looking for any survivors.

References

External links

 Sun Valley.com - Bald Mountain - ski report
 Idaho Summits.com - photo of Bald Mountain from Proctor Mountain
 Ski Lifts.org – photos of Sun Valley's lifts
 Ski Map.org – vintage maps – Sun Valley (Bald Mtn)

Mountains of Idaho
Mountains of Blaine County, Idaho
Sawtooth National Forest
Ski areas and resorts in Idaho
Tourist attractions in Blaine County, Idaho
Sun Valley, Idaho

Bald Mountain (Idaho)


Wilhelm Kienzl (17 January 1857 – 3 October 1941) was an Austrian composer.

Biography
Kienzl was born in the small, picturesque Upper Austrian town of Waizenkirchen. His family moved to the Styrian capital of Graz in 1860, where he studied the violin under Ignaz Uhl, piano under Johann Buwa, and composition from 1872 under the Chopin scholar Louis Stanislaus Mortier de Fontaine. From 1874, he studied composition under Wilhelm Mayer (also known as W.A. Rémy), music aesthetics under Eduard Hanslick and music history under Friedrich von Hausegger. He was subsequently sent to the music conservatorium at Prague University to study under Josef Krejci, the director of the conservatorium. After that he went to Leipzig Conservatory in 1877, then to Weimar to study under Liszt, before completing doctoral studies at the University of Vienna.

While Kienzl was at Prague, Krejci took him to the Bayreuth Festival to hear the first performance of Wagner's Ring Cycle. It made a lasting impression on Kienzl, so much so that he founded the "Graz Richard Wagner Association" (now the "Austrian Richard Wagner Company, Graz Office") with Hausegger and with Friedrich Hofmann. Although he subsequently fell out with "The Wagnerites", he never lost his love for Wagner's music.

In 1879, Kienzl departed on a tour of Europe as a pianist and conductor. He became the director of the Deutsche Oper in Amsterdam during 1883, but he soon returned to Graz, where in 1886, he took over the leadership of the Steiermärkischen Musikvereins und Aufgaben am Konservatorium. He was engaged by the manager Bernhard Pollini as Kapellmeister at the Hamburg Stadttheater for the 1890–91 season, but was dismissed in mid-January 1891 because of the hostile reviews he received (his successor was Gustav Mahler). Later he conducted in Munich.

In 1894, he wrote his third and most famous opera, Der Evangelimann, but was unable to match its success with Don Quixote (1897). Only Der Kuhreigen (1911) reached a similar level of popularity, and that very briefly. In 1917, Kienzl moved to Vienna, where his first wife, the Wagnerian soprano Lili Hoke, died in 1919, and he married Henny Bauer, the librettist of his three most recent operas, in 1921.

After World War I, he composed the melody to a poem written by Karl Renner, Deutschösterreich, du herrliches Land (German Austria, you wonderful country), which became the unofficial national anthem of the first Austrian Republic until 1929. Aware of changes in the dynamics of modern music, he ceased to write large works after 1926, and abandoned composition altogether in 1936 due to bad health. As of 1933, Kienzl openly supported Hitler's regime in Germany.

Kienzl's first love was opera, then vocal music, and it was in these two genres that he made his name. For a while he was considered, along with Hugo Wolf, one of the finest composers of Lieder (art songs) since Schubert. His most famous work, Der Evangelimann, best known for its aria Selig sind, die Verfolgung leiden (Blessed are the persecuted), continues to be revived occasionally. It is a folk opera which has been compared to Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, and contains elements of verismo. After Humperdinck and Siegfried Wagner, the composers of fairy-tale operas, Kienzl is the most important opera composer of the romantic post-Wagner era. However, Kienzl's strengths actually lie in the depiction of everyday scenes. In his last years, his ample corpus of songs achieved prominence, though it has largely been neglected since then.

Despite the fact that opera came first in his life, Kienzl by no means ignored instrumental music. He wrote three string quartets and a piano trio.

Political views
Kienzl was an outspoken Nazi supporter. He praised Hitler before Austria's Anschluss in 1938 as an "imposing" and "impressive" character who is "entitled to command the peoples of the world".

Death
Kienzl died in Vienna and is buried in a grave of honor at the Vienna Central Cemetery. His death during the Nazi period explains his grave of honour, yet the honour has not been critically questioned since, in more than 70 years of democracy in Austria. Far from it, in 2007 the Republic of Austria issued a commemorative stamp in Kienzl's honour on the occasion of his 150th birthday.

See also
 List of compositions by Wilhelm Kienzl

References

External links

1857 births
1941 deaths
19th-century male musicians
20th-century male musicians
Austrian male classical composers
Austrian opera composers
Austrian Romantic composers
Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery
Composers from Graz
Male opera composers
People from Grieskirchen District
Prague Conservatory alumni
Pupils of Wilhelm Mayer (composer)
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni
University of Vienna alumni
Composers from Austria-Hungary

Wilhelm Kienzl


Yuri Goloubev (born 27 July 1972) is a jazz musician, composer and double bass player. He switched to jazz in 2004 after over a dozen years as a bass player in classical orchestras, and has achieved success in jazz also as a performer with "perfect pitch, flawless execution and an improviser's imagination". He is also praised for his arco playing. Ian Patterson, writing in All About Jazz wrote "There are few better exponents of arco, and his tone has the warm resonance of a cello."

Classical career
Yuri Goloubev won the First Prize in the All-Soviet-Union Students' Competition in 1990, then started work as the Principal Bass with the Moscow-based "Ensemble XXI" Chamber Orchestra (1990–1991). From 1991 until 1992 he also worked as a section bass with the Bolshoi Theatre. He studied classical composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and 1995 he received his master's degree in double bass as a soloist and chamber music performer. From 1992 til 2004 he was the Principal Bass with the Moscow Soloists directed by Yuri Bashmet. It was during this time that he performed with many artists such as Mario Brunello, Sarah Chang, James Galway, Lynn Harrell, Barbara Hendricks, Kim Kashkashian, Gidon Kremer, Shlomo Mintz, Thomas Quasthoff, Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Spivakov, Uto Ughi and Maxim Vengerov. He has performed at venues such as Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall, Gewandhaus, Concertgebouw, Salle Pleyel, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Palais des Beaux Arts, Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Megaro. He has also appeared at major festivals such as the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland), Hong Kong Festival of the Arts, Bath Music Festival (UK), Perth Festival (Australia), Casals Festival (Puerto Rico), Prestige de la Musique (France) and Omaggio a Roma (Italy).

Jazz career
In December 2004 Goloubev moved to Milan, dedicated himself solely to jazz and quickly gained the attention of many Italian musicians. He worked with such artists as Francesco Bearzatti, Fabrizio Bosso, Antonio Faraò, Giovanni Falzone, Claudio Fasoli, Paolo Fresu, Rosario Giuliani, Guido Manusardi, Massimo Manzi, Enrico Pieranunzi and Glauco Venier. He also worked with Bob James, Pablo Held, Till Brönner, Asaf Sirkis, Harvey Mason, Franco Ambrosetti, Kenny Werner, Klaus Gesing, John Law, Benjamin Henocq, Stan Sulzmann, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Julian Argüelles, Tim Garland, Rick Margitza, Manhu Roche, Gwilym Simcock, Chico Freeman, Jason Rebello, Daniele Di Bonaventura, Chihiro Yamanaka, Bill Smith and Billy Kilson. In 2007–2009 he taught at the jazz faculty of CPM Music Institute in Milan and in 2010 became the Jazz Double Bass Professor at The Conservatorio di Musica F.A. Bonporti, Trento. Currently (since 2015), he teaches at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, Wales.

Goloubev is also a composer and has released several albums as leader. His album Two Chevrons Apart received a 4-star review in DownBeat.

He has performed on over 100 recordings and two of his recent trio recordings have been selected as Critics Choice Top 10 Jazz Albums in Japan: Roberto Olzer Trio - Steppin' Out, #1 Best Jazz Album, 2013, Michele di Toro Trio - Play, #8 Best Jazz Album, 2014. Various albums with his participation have been featured in the inflight entertainment programs of such airlines as Air France, Lufthansa, British Airways, Swiss, Emirates.
He has received widespread acclaim for his partnership with the pianist Gwilym Simcock in two recordings released on ACT Music in 2014. Their album "Duo Art: Reverie at Schloss Elmau" received a number of 4 star reviews. The critic Dave Gelly wrote in The Observer "In Russian bassist Yuri Goloubev, Gwilym Simcock has obviously found a collaborator with the same expansive imagination and equal virtuosity. The interplay between the two is like musical telepathy." In JazzTimes H. Allen Williams wrote, "Goloubev's playing is a sound of beauty with impeccable technique and heartfelt feel."

Awards
 Awarded the title Honored Artist of Russia by President Putin in 2002

Discography

As leader
 Two Chevrons Apart - Yuri Goloubev (Basho, 2020)
 Duonomics - Michele Di Toro/Yuri Goloubev (Caligola 2018)
 Reverie at Schloss Elmau — Gwilym Simcock/Yuri Goloubev (ACT Music, 2014)
 Creating Magic — various artists (ACT Music, 2014)
 Standpoint — Just Music Trio (Caligola, 2012)
 Titanic for a Bike — Yuri Goloubev (feat. Julian Arguelles, Claudio Filippini, Asaf Sirkis) (Caligola, 2011)
 Metafore Semplici — Yuri Goloubev (feat. Klaus Gesing, Giovanni Falzone, Gwilym Simcock, Asaf Sirkis) (Universal, 2009)
 SGS Group, Inc, Presents — Gwilym Simcock, Yuri Goloubev, Asaf Sirkis (Music Center, 2008)
 Mulini a Vento — Bottos/Goloubev/Colussi (Jazzengine, 2008)
 Hommage à Duke — Glauco Venier, Yuri Goloubev, Asaf Sirkis (Caligola, 2007)
 Private Tales — Mario Zara, Yuri Goloubev, Marco Zanoli (Abeat, 2007)
 Intermezzo — Glauco Venier (Artesuono, 2004–2007)
 Tandem — Guido Manusardi, Yuri Goloubev ( Splasc(h), 2006)
 The Bridge — Yuri Goloubev/Andrey Kondalov (Landy Star, 2003)
 Toremar Island — (Landy Star, 2001)
 Rendering — Igor Bril/Yuri Goloubev (Cantabile, 1996)

As sideman
 Vienna Chamber Diaries - Johannes Berauer with Klaus Gesing, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Gwilym Simcock and others (Basho Records, 2022)
 Notturno - Roberto Olzer Trio with Strings (Atelier Sawano, 2021)
 On Vacation - Till Bronner / Bob James (Sony Music, 2020)
 Re:Focus - Tim Garland (Edition Records, 2020)
 Weather Walker - Tim Garland (Edition Records, 2018)
 Celeste - Roberto Olzer Trio (Atelier Sawano, 2018)
 The Moon and The Bonfires - Roberto Olzer Trio (Atelier Sawano, 2015)
 A Journey - Maciek Pysz, Daniele de Bonaventura, Yuri Goloubev & Asaf Sirkis (Dot Time Records, 2015)
 Magna Carta Suite - Alex Hutton, Liz Palmer, Liesbeth Allart, Neil Sparkes, Yuri Goloubev, Asaf Sirkis (F-Ire, 2015)
 Spring Thing  Marco Cortesi, Gianluca Di lenno, Yuri Goloubev, Asaf Sirkis (PBR Records, 2015)
 Fade Out  Mario Zara, Yuri Goloubev, Michele Salgarello (Abeat, 2015)
 Elisa Nel Paese delle Meraviglie -Elisa Marangon, Mauro Negri, Roberto Olzer, Yuri Goloubev (TRJ records, 2015)
 Glitterwoods -Fabienne Ambuehl, Yuri Goloubev, Asaf Sirkis (Traumton, 2015)
 Dafne - The Rest of Me - Dafne Franzoni, Paolo Filippi, Diego Zanoli, Antonio Leofreddi, Paolo Legramandi, Cisco Portone, Sergi Pescara, Massimo Moriconi, Yuri Goloubev (OMP Records, 2015)
 Still Chime - Marcella Carboni, Francesca Corrias, Max De Aloe, Yuri Goloubev, Francesco S'Auria (Abeat, 2014)
 These Skies In Which We Rust -John Law, Josh Arcoleo, Yuri Goloubev, Laurie Lowe, Holly Law (33Xtreme, 2014)
  Yumi Ito Quartet - Yumi Ito, Gabriel Dalvit, Yves Theiler, Yuri Goloubev (private production, 2014)
 Play — Michele di Toro, Yuri Goloubev, Marco Zanoli (Abeat, 2014)
 PrimaVera — Silvia Infascelli, feat. Silvia Infascelli, Frank Harrison, Yuri Goloubev (and arrangements), Asaf Sirkis (Caligola, 2014)
 Final Step — Matteo Finali feat. Matteo Finali, Max Pizio, Alessandro Ponti, Yuri Goloubev, Dario Milan, Silvano De Tomaso (Altrisuoni, 2014)
 Instrumation — Gwilym Simcock (ACT Music, 2014)
 Creating Magic — various artists (ACT Music, 2014)
 Perfect Equipoise — Davide Recchia (TRJ records, 2013)
 Insight — Maciek Pysz Trio (33 Jazz Records, 2013)
 Nadir – Daniele Di Bonaventura (Tuk Music, 2013)
 What's New Over the Rainbow – Lalo Conversano & Danilo Moccia "Brass Joy" (Brass Joy, 2012)
 Otto – Francesco Grillo (Universal, 2012)
 Steppin' Out – Roberto Olzer Trio (Abeat, 2012)
 Three Leaps of the Gazelle – John Law, (33 Jazz Records, 2012)
 While We're Young – Gianna Montecalvo (Dodicilune, 2012)
 Some Tales – Dafne (RNC Music, 2012)
 Legentis – Alex Hutton (F-IRE, 2011)
 Balkan Bop – Markelian Kapidani (Red Records, 2011)
 Say It With Style – Gwilym Simcock (Scoring House, 2011)
 Throw Me The Groove – Gwilym Simcock (Scoring House, 2011)
 Res Nova – Mattia Cigalini (My Favorite Records, 2011)
 Notturni – Carlo Magni (Music Center, 2011)
 You and the Night and the Music  – Guido Manusardi (Music Center, 2011)
 Bossa & Friends  – Alvaro Belloni (Music Center, 2010)
 Reflections – Claudio Fasoli Emerald Quartet (Blue Serge, 2010)
 Exit For Three – Dario Carnovale (Albore Jazz, 2010)
 Natura Morta con Flauto – Beppe Aliprandi Quartet (Ultrasound, 2010)
 Some Portraits – Carlo Morena Trio (Music Center, 2010)
 Brass Joy – Lalo Conversano/Danilo Moccia (Music Center, 2010)
 La Strada della Luna – Marco Fusi (2009)
 Blues Vignette – Gwilym Simcock ( Basho, 2009)
 Conduction 3  – Carlo Alberto Canevali (nBn, 2009)
 Stan-darts – ENS Live (TCB, 2009)
 The Night of the Storytellers – Enzo Favata (Isola dei Suoni, 2009)
 Venice Inside – Claudio Fasoli Emerald Quartet (Blue Serge, 2009)
 From The Sky  – Michele Di Toro (Music Center, 2009)
 The Sand – Guido Manusardi (MAP, 2009)
  Decantando – Federica Santi (Caligola, 2008)
 FPQ – Francesco Pinetti (Music Center, 2008)
 Glauco Venier suona Frank Zappa – Feat. Klaus Gesing (Music Center, 2008)
 Pollocksuite – Ferdinando Faraò (Music Center, 2007)
 A French Man in New York  – Kekko Fornarelli (WideSound, 2007)
 Il Gioco Delle Forme – Massimo Colombo (Splasc(h), 2007)
 Promenade – Claudio Fasoli Emerald Quartet (Comar23, 2007)
 Way Out – Europe Connection (Dodicilune, 2007)
 Il Passo Del Gatto  – Michele Di Toro Trio (Abeat, 2006)
 No More No Less – Guido Manusardi (SoundHills, 2006)
 Unquiet Serenade – Nicita/Di Rosa (Abeat, 2006)
 Heartluggage – Klaus Gesing (ATS, 2006)
 Леденец для дурочки – Aleksandr Laerstky (laertsky.com, 2004)
 Colours – Lorenzo Erra (Ultrasound, 2004)
 Голоса родных  – Alexander Laerstky (Elias, 2000)
 Sergei Prokofiev – Quintet – Russian String Quartet (Arte Nova, 2000)
 New Romantic Jazz – Vyacheslav Gorsky (I.F. & M., 1999)
 Brahms/Shostakovich – Moscow Soloists (Sony Classical, 1998)
 Haydn – Cello Concertos – Moscow Soloists (Auvidis, 1998)
 An Introduction to Faradj Karajev – Studio for New Music Ensemble (Megadisc, 1996)
 Canti – Partick De Clerck (Megadisc, 1996)
 An Introduction to Alexander Wustin  – Studio for New Music Ensemble (Megadisc, 1996)
 Schnittke/Berg – feat. Gidon Kremer (violin), Yuri Bashmet (viola), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Moscow Soloists (EMI Classics, 1996)
 Taneev/Glinka – Moscow Conservatory Quintet (Chant Du Monde, 1995)
 Tchaikovsky/Bartok – Ensemble XXI (Ensemblegram, 1992)
 Mozart/Dvoràk – Ensemble XXI (Ensemblegram, 1991)

References

External links

1972 births
Living people
Russian jazz composers
Russian double-bassists
Male double-bassists
21st-century double-bassists
21st-century Russian male musicians
ACT Music artists
Basho Records artists

Yuri Goloubev