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# Alfredo Bini

Alfredo Bini (12 December 1926 – 16 October 2010) was an Italian film producer. He produced 32 films between 1958 and 1979. He was born in Livorno, Italy.

## Selected filmography

* The Law Is the Law (1958)
* Il bell'Antonio (1960)
* La Viaccia (1961)
* Accattone (1961)
* Mamma Roma (1962)
* Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
* The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
* El Greco (1966)
* The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
* Oedipus Rex (1967)
* Satyricon (1969)
# Reino Sylvander

Reino Vilho (Wilhelm) Silvanto (until 1929 Sylvander; 21 February 1883 – 29 January 1943) was a Finnish diplomat and author from Helsinki. He used pen names such as R.W.S, Reino Silva, and Reino Silvala as he was a translator.
Silvano's parents were carpenter Karl Kristoffer Sylvander and Elviira Kallentytär. He graduated from Helsinki in 1903 and graduated from the University of Helsinki to Bachelor of Philosophy in 1908 and master's degree in 1910.
Silvanto was initially a teacher at various educational establishments in Helsinki, Forssa and Kotka. He was employed by the Finnish News Agency in 1918 and then served as a Head of the Department of the Sarkanen & Helmee's law firm from 1918 to 1920.
Silvanto served as Finland's representative in Latvia since 1920 and Envoy of Finland to Latvia in 1926–1927. Silvanto left for Foreign Affairs in 1929 and later worked as a writer and translator in Helsinki.
Silvanto translated Polish, Czech and Russian literature to Finnish (Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Maksim Gorky, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Władysław Reymont, Karel Čapek). He also wrote Sammatti's history and published two new Polish prose presenting anthologies: Young Poland (1916) and White Eagle (1937).
Silvanto married Olga Saastamoinen in 1912.
# Václav Zapletal

Václav Zapletal (born 30 August 1985) is a retired professional Czech football player who played in the Czech First League for FC Tescoma Zlín.
# Cayetano Apablasa

Cayetano Apablasa Blanco (or Apablaza; 1847–1889) was a 19th-century land owner and politician in Los Angeles, California. His holdings were on the south of the central Los Angeles Plaza, later the first site of the city's Chinatown and location of present-day Union Station.

## Personal

Apablasa was born April 13, 1847, in San Diego, California, the son of Juan Apablasa of Chile, who came to Mexican Alta California about 1839, and to Pueblo de Los Ángeles in 1843. His mother was María del Espíritu Santo Blanco. He had 7 siblings. Cayetano attended parochial schools.
He was married in Los Angeles to Concepcion. They had two sons and three daughters. The family home was in a seven-acre orchard near the Old Plaza.
He died on November 14, 1889, aged 42, several weeks after he was thrown from his horse in an accident. His widow married Ildefonso A. Sepulveda in 1892.

## Career

After he left school at age seventeen, he entered the Wilmington Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington and served there during the American Civil War, until 1869. After the war, he opened a blacksmithery or a wagon shop at 99 Alameda Street. His later activities involved the extensive real estate holdings of his family. In 1985 the Los Angeles Times noted that:
   The family built what was believed to be the city's first frame house but it was moved in 1933 to make room for what was then Union Passenger Terminal, the nation's newest train depot when it opened in 1937–38. The Apablasa family was also responsible for Los Angeles' first subdivision, when late in the last century it sold land to Chinese residents who built the first Chinatown. An "Apablasa Street" once ran through the Chinese quarter.

### Public service

Apablasa was elected to the Los Angeles Common Council on December 3, 1877, for a term ending in December 1878, representing the 1st Ward. He was a member of the police committee.
The Workingman's Party nominated him for the State Senate in 1880.
# Hazel De Nortúin

Hazel De Nortúin is an Irish politician who has served on Dublin City Council since 2016. She is a member of People Before Profit.

## Early life

De Nortúin is from Cherry Orchard. She attended Gaelscoil Inse Chór, an Irish language medium primary school in Islandbridge, and studied engineering at university.
A fluent Irish speaker, De Nortúin is an advocate for Irish-language education and became involved in politics when she sought to address the lack of local Irish-language schooling options after her child was unable to attend the gaelscoil De Nortúin had herself attended. This led to her co-founding Teanga Beo Naíonra, a non-for-profit Irish-language crèche in the area, with help from Bríd Smith. De Nortúin later opened an Irish-language café in Ballyfermot.

## Political career

De Nortúin was co-opted to Dublin City Council in 2016 to represent the local electoral area of Ballyfermot–Drimnagh in place of party colleague Bríd Smith, who was elected to the Dáil.
In her first election, De Nortúin retained her seat, placing second, at the 2019 Irish local elections and did so again at the 2024 Irish local elections.
De Nortúin has advocated for greater maternity provision for councillors after having a child while serving on the council.
In 2023, she made a criminal complaint against Taoiseach Leo Varadkar over his donation statements. A criminal case was not progressed by the Garda Síochána.
In 2024, De Nortúin was selected by People Before Profit to contest Dublin South-Central at the general election after Bríd Smith chose not to run again. De Nortúin was not elected.
# Commissionaire

In mainland Europe, a commissionaire is an attendant, messenger or subordinate employed in hotels, whose chief duty is to attend at railway stations, secure customers, take charge of their luggage, carry out the necessary formalities with respect to it and have it sent on to the hotel. They are also employed in Paris as street messengers, light porters, etc.
In Commonwealth countries, a commissionaire may refer to an employee of a Corps of Commissionaires who carries out security or reception duties.

## Law and taxation

In European civil law jurisdictions (e.g., France, Germany), a commissionaire is a person who acts in his or her own name for the account of a principal. The principal is contractually bound to deliver (through the commissionaire) the goods sold to the customer; the commissionaire is contractually bound to the principal to remit the price received to the principal. In addition, the commissionaire is contractually bound to the customer to deliver the goods sold on the terms agreed. No relationship is created between the customer and the principal. The commissionaire is remunerated by commission, and paid by the principal. The commissionaire does not take title to the goods.
A civil law commissionaire arrangement creates agency in common law countries, such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
For tax purposes in civil law jurisdictions, a commissionaire is not generally viewed as a dependent agent by virtue of the commissionaire status. Thus, the activities and place of business of a commissionaire are not attributed to the principal. Use of a commissionaire arrangement has historically been considered to prevent a seller of goods (the principal) from having a permanent establishment in the commissionaire's country if the principal has no other presence in that country. However, this view was unsuccessfully challenged by tax authorities in France, Norway and Italy.

## In popular culture

Commissionaire Peterson is a character in the 1892 Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle".
# Lucien Gélas

Lucien Gélas (1 January 1873 or 12 January 1873 – 5 June 1944) was a luthier, classical guitarist, and teacher.
Gélas was born in Menton, Alpes Maritimes. He composed for solo guitar and as well as works for voice and guitar set to his own texts. Gélas owned the complete historic works of Sor as published by Meissonnier (Paris 1820–1836) and Pacini (1830–1836). The works are now a part of the Spencer Collection at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

## Gélas Guitar (double-top guitar)

Gélas is well known for inventing and patenting a guitar design which uses a double top: It is often called a Gélas guitar, or a double-top guitar (or double-resonance-guitar) and was common in the first half of the 20th century.
Gélas was awarded a gold medal at the Bordeaux Exhibition in 1907 and a gold medal at the Brussels Exhibition in 1910 for his double-top instruments.
The two tops of the instruments have a resonating space between them. The inner top is not parallel to the outer one, such that the guitar can be observed to have a particular tilt. Also, the strings run through the bridge (which is on the inner top) and are attached at the bottom, in such a way that the plucked part of the string before the bridge is at an angle to the part of the string after the bridge. This is achieved by having the plucked part of the string slightly angled to the inner top (in conventional guitar it would be parallel), resulting in a raised tension in the inner top.
The patent was first filed in Paris in 1905; and the patent text is downloadable in French and English.
His guitars were played by numerous important artists, particularly in the first half of the 20th century. Heinrich Albert (1870–1950) obtained a Gélas guitar (from Gaudet in Paris) and ascribes his concert successes in a large part to the guitar, praising its carrying sound, ease of responsiveness, and tone-colour. Other players of Gélas guitars included Luise Walker (1910–1998) and Bruno Henze (1900–1978).
Gélas produced the instruments with the help of guitar-makers (following his patent), at first Théodore Gaudet and later Jean Roviès, Beuscher, Richard Jacob and others. The instruments included classical guitars, mandolins, jazz double-basses and Hawaiian guitars.
# Upper Browns Tract Pond

Upper Browns Tract Pond is located northeast of Inlet, New York. The inlet flows through a creek from Lower Browns Tract Pond. Fish species present in the lake are largemouth bass, black bullhead, yellow perch, and sunfish. There is a carry down in the campground off Browns Tract Pond Road. No motors are allowed on this lake.
# Albert Fenner Kercheval

Albert Fenner Kercheval (March 16, 1829 in Preble County, Ohio – January 24, 1893) was a fruit grower and poet in Los Angeles County, California, and a member of the Los Angeles Common Council during the 19th Century.

## Biography

Kercheval was born on 16 March 1829 in Preble County, Ohio; the family moved to Joliet in Will County, Illinois shortly after his birth. Kercheval, who was referred to as a "Will County boy" by one newspaper, crossed the continent with a group of American pioneers from Peoria, Illinois, leaving from St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 20, 1849. He settled in Los Angeles by 1870.
His wife, Sarah Adelaide Wilson Kercheval, died in the family residence on Lemon Street on April 13, 1892. They had three children, Rosalie Wilson Kercheval, Leland Nelson Kercheval and Venia Alice Kercheval.
Kercheval was a miner in the Mother Lode and in Arizona. He later became one of the leading horticulturalists in the Los Angeles area. He sold his orchard at Santa Fe and Ninth streets for subdividing in 1887.
Kercheval's poetry was published in the Los Angeles Times and was read at meetings of local organizations. His 532-page book, Dolores and Other Poems, was published in 1883 by A. L. Bancroft & Company of San Francisco. The book included poems by his daughter Rosalie.

## Public service

Kercheval was elected on December 3, 1877, to represent the 3rd Ward on the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city, for a one-year term, ending December 6, 1878.
In 1890, he was a member of the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commission and served as its president. Historian Ralph E. Shaffer wrote that: "To some growers he would come to represent a bureaucratic establishment that did not know what to do about the problem facing the industry yet dictated unreasonable solutions to which the growers must conform."
# Doug Girod

Douglas Allan Girod (born May 5, 1958) is an American educator, medical doctor, and the 18th University of Kansas chancellor. Prior to becoming chancellor, he was the University of Kansas Medical Center's executive vice chancellor, a position he had held since February 2013. Before being promoted to the executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Girod was the senior dean for the School of Medicine while dually serving as a surgeon at the University of Kansas Health System where he began his career in 1994. He is also a veteran of the United States Navy Reserve.

## Biography
### Education

Born and raised in Salem, Oregon, Girod graduated from the University of California, Davis, with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, followed by University of California, San Francisco, for his doctor of medicine, and completed his residency and an National Institute of Health research fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle.

### Career

Beginning in 1982, Girod began his 15-year career in the United States Navy Reserve where he worked at the Naval Hospital Oakland as a surgeon and the Director of Otolaryngology. In 1997, Girod was discharged from the military honorably, ending his career as a Lieutenant Commander. In 1994, Girod left California to become a surgeon at the KU Medical Center. During his time at the KU Medical Center, Girod was a professor, department chair, senior associate dean, interim executive dean, and his most recent post of executive vice chancellor.

### University of Kansas chancellor

On May 25, 2017, the Kansas Board of Regents announced Girod as the 18th chancellor of the University of Kansas. During his time as chancellor, Girod has increased the university's enrollment, established a partnership between Kansas Athletics, the University of Kansas Health System and Lawrence Memorial Health to create Kansas Team Health, a model that provides better care for student athletes and moved all healthcare professionals under the Kansas Health System's payroll.
A year into being chancellor, Girod fired athletic director Sheahon Zenger due to a lack of progress. Almost a month later, Girod hired Jeff Long as the new athletics director, tasking him to fix the football program. Long fired David Beaty at the end of the 2018 football season, ending with a 6–42 record at Kansas. Long then hired Les Miles to get the football program to become a championship program, however, he was fired on March 9, 2021, after accusations from women while he was at LSU. The next day, Girod fired Long as the athletics director.
In April 2021, Girod hired Travis Goff as the new athletics director, whose first task was to hire a new football coach. Almost a month later, Goff named Lance Leipold as the next football coach. Leipold, in just his second season, led the Jayhawks to a 5–0 start for the first time since 2008 and also coached the team to be bowl-eligible for the first time since 2008.

## Personal life

Girod is married to Susan Pirtle and they have three children. Girod and his wife live in Lawrence, Kansas.
# Faruk Aksoy

Faruk Aksoy (born 1964 in Istanbul) is a Turkish film director known for his film, the Fetih 1453 (2012).
# Ján Varga

Ján Varga (born 21 July 1990 in Levice) is a Slovak football player who currently plays for FK Slovan Levice. His former club was MFK Dubnica. He made his debut for MFK Dubnica against FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce on 30 April 2011.
# Allen Curtis

Allen Curtis (1877 – November 24, 1961), was an American film director of the silent era. He directed 278 films between 1913 and 1922. He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California.

## Selected filmography

* The Tramp Dentists (1913)
* Almost an Actress (1913)
* Poor Jake's Demise (1913)
# Mun Suk

Mun Suk (Korean: 문숙; Hanja: 文淑; born 10 May 1965) is a South Korean former cyclist. She competed in the women's road race event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
# Melos Caverna

Melos Caverna is a music album published by Lion Rampant for Ars Magica.

## Description

Melos Caverna is a cassette tape containing instrumental music to represent the sounds associated with adventuring underground.

## Publication history

Lion Rampant released Melos Caverna for Gen Con 1989. This was the first tape released by Lion Rampant for role-playing game mood music, and was followed by Bard's Song: Battle Cry in 1990.$^{:234}$

## Reception

Stewart Wieck reviewed Melos Caverna in White Wolf #19 (Feb./March, 1990), rating it a 4 out of 5 and stated that "I'm not a music expert so cannot comment on the organization of the music itself, but I can say that as a game aid the product succeeds."
# Ludvig Vibe

Frederik Ludvig Vibe (26 September 1803 – 21 June 1881) was a Norwegian classical philologist and educator. He was Professor of Greek language at the Royal Frederick University from 1838.
Vibe was born in Bergen as a son of County Governor, General War Commissioner and chamberlain Niels Andreas Vibe (1759–1814) and Margery Kierulff (1775–1852). He was a nephew of Johan Vibe and Ditlev Wibe, brother of Henriette Gislesen, brother-in-law of Heinrich Arnold Thaulow and second cousin of Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert. The family moved to Christiania in 1811.
Vibe took his examen artium in 1820, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.philol. degree in 1827. In 1829, he was hired as a Latin teacher at Christiania Cathedral School. Vibe was a lecturer in Greek at the University from 1830, and was promoted to professor in 1838. He is known for translating The Birds and Prometheus Bound, and also for a work on Spartan governance named Hvad var Spartas Ekklesi?. Vibe was, however, most interested in preserving the position of the classical languages in society. He was an advisor to politician Hans Riddervold in the late 1840s, and also chaired the public commission Skolekommisjonen av 1847. In 1848, Vibe started the conservative newspaper Christiania-Posten with Carl Arntzen, and also left the university to become principal of Christiania Cathedral School.
Vibe was a conservatist, whereas commission member Hartvig Nissen was a reformer; the third commission member was Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert. In general, Vibe was allied with Frederik Moltke Bugge, whereas other positions like Anton Martin Schweigaard and Herman Foss favored the natural sciences. Around 1850 natural sciences were introduced in secondary schools in Norway, except for Christiania, Trondhjem and Bergen Cathedral School. During Vibe's career as principal at Christiania Cathedral School, the number of students fell. He fell ill after 1870, and was substituted with Emil Schreiner. It became clear that he could not return, and he retired in 1872.
Vibe was married to Ferdinanda Augusta Wilhelmine Steensgaard (1812–1898) from December 1833. He was a great-grandfather of Inger Alver Gløersen and Gunnar Fougner Høst. Vibe died in June 1881 in Kristiania.
# George Gephard

George Gephard (c. 1830–1901) was an early settler in Nevada County, California, where he built a toll road, and later was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of that city. He was said to be responsible for getting together enough money to establish a state normal school in Los Angeles, the forerunner of the University of California branch in that city.

## Family

Gephard was born in Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of France, in about 1830 and was brought to America as a baby. He spent his boyhood in Western Pennsylvania.
He was married and left his widow and two daughters when he died in his residence at 238 North Grand Avenue on April 12, 1901, at the age of 71. One daughter, Frances, was the wife of J. J. Meyler and the other, Nettie Gephard, lived at the family home. Interment was at Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles.

## Vocation

Gephard came across the plains in 1850, taking up mining and lumbering in Nevada County. Eventually he built a toll road with one terminus at Rough and Ready and Grass Valley, California, and the other at Smartville and Nevada City.
In 1876 he moved to Los Angeles and invested in real estate.

## Public service

Gephard was elected on December 6, 1880. to represent the 3rd Ward on the Los Angeles Common Council, for a two-year term, but he resigned on November 12, 1881.
He also ran for county treasurer and came "within a few votes" of being elected.
He had a particular interest in the development of a branch normal school in Los Angeles, and "when a site was to be purchased [on Fifth Street where the central Los Angeles Public Library now stands], in order to get an appropriation for the building, he personally assumed charge of the matter and raised $8000 to buy the ground." The school he helped establish was moved in 1929 to Westwood and was eventually transformed into the University of California, Los Angeles.

## References and notes

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Another Pioneer Has Passed Away", Los Angeles Times, April 13, 1901, page A-1.
* 1 2 3 4 Mary Lou Loper, "L.A. First Century Families Celebrate City's Birthday", Los Angeles Times, November 9, 1980, page H-1.
* ↑ Location of the Gephard home on Mapping L.A.
* ↑ "Death Record", Los Angeles Times, April 13, 1901, page 12.
* ↑ Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials, 1850-1938, compiled under direction of Municipal Reference Library, City Hall, Los Angeles (March 1938, reprinted 1966). "Prepared ... as a report on Project No. SA 3123-5703-6077-8121-9900 conducted under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration."
Access to the Los Angeles Times links may require the use of a library card.
# Hermann Vorster

Hermann Vorster is an Australian politician who has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland since 2024, representing the district of Burleigh. Prior to entering the state parliament, he served as a prominent city councillor on the Gold Coast City Council between 2016 and 2024.

## Early life

Vorster was born in South Africa and raised in New Zealand, before moving to the Gold Coast at 15 years of age where he completed his secondary schooling at Somerset College. Following graduation, he enrolled at Bond University and completed his degree before pursuing a career in politics.

## Political career

Prior to his election to public office, Vorster had worked as the press secretary to Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate. He had also served as the president of the Young LNP.
In March 2016, Vorster stood for and was elected to the Gold Coast City Council, representing Division 11 (covering Robina and Varsity Lakes). He succeeded retiring councillor Jan Grew. Despite nominating as an independent candidate, The Australian reported in May 2016 that he had received "thousands of dollars worth" of free support from Liberal National Party members, organised by senior employees in the offices of Stuart Robert and Tate. The Gold Coast Bulletin also reported in May of the same year that he had established a residents' group, "Friends of Robina," with only three members, in order to advertise himself as the president of the group in campaign materials.
Vorster courted controversy during his council term by declaring that Chevron Island was "the home of drug labs" on the Gold Coast and "should be the subject of considered gentrification efforts." Vorster was the target of harassment from a number of hoon groups, after vocally working on efforts to reduce hooning in Robina.
Vorster is a supporter of the Gold Coast offshore cruise ship terminal proposal.
In October 2023, it was reported that Vorster would retire from the Gold Coast City Council at the 2024 council election, as he had been preselected by the Liberal National Party as their candidate for the Legislative Assembly seat of Burleigh, succeeding retiring incumbent Michael Hart.