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# Pure Colour

Pure Colour is a novel by Canadian author Sheila Heti. Published by Knopf Canada, the book won the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction.

## Synopsis

Pure Colour is a novel about art, love, death, and time from beginning to end. Heti tells the story of a girl named Mira, her relationship with her father and how she deals with his death, and her love for Annie, who she meets while studying to become an art critic.

## Reception

Pure Colour was generally well received in Canada and the United States. Dwight Garner, journalist for The New York Times writes, “Just like that, there’s magic", and "Heti owns a sharp axe. In Pure Colour the wood chips that fall are as interesting as the sculpture that gets made.” At The New Yorker, American journalist and author Douglas Preston adds "This book, so full of argument, feels weightless. I note this with wonder. . . Heti’s books aim to be vessels for the transformation of reader and writer.” In The Globe and Mail, Nicole Thompson from The Canadian Press calls the novel "a strange and meditative book".

## Awards

Pure Colour won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2022 Governor General's Awards, the Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature for fiction, and was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize.
| Year | Work | Prize | Result |
| 2022 | Pure Colour | Folio Prize for fiction | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Pure Colour | Giller Prize | Longlisted |
| 2022 | Pure Colour | Governor General's Award for English-language fiction | Won |
| 2023 | Pure Colour | vine awards for canadian jewish literature for fiction | Won |
# Niedzieliska, Lublin Voivodeship

Niedzieliska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szczebrzeszyn, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 11 km (7 mi) east of Szczebrzeszyn, 12 km (7 mi) west of Zamość, and 70 km (43 mi) south-east of the regional capital Lublin.
# Kenya National Theatre

Kenya National Theatre is part of the Kenya Cultural Centre, a Semi Autonomous Government Agency under the Ministry of State for National Heritage and Culture in Kenya. It is mandated to offer space for the rehearsal and staging of productions to both local and international repertoire. It is based in Nairobi along Harry Thuku Road and borders the University of Nairobi (UON), The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) and The Fairmont Norfolk Hotel.
The history of the building has viewed its location as a hurdle for an earnest identification with the local artistic performances. The cost of maintenance has meant higher booking fees for fledgling repertoires, eventually reserving itself for a corporate clientele. The Kenya National Theatre has also been a subject of scholarly criticism and a basis for formulating a cultural policy.
In 2004, Kenya Cultural Centre Ltd contracted Millicon's Ltd to undertake a three phase renovation of the facility. In October 2007, Kenya National Theatre was handed over and renamed "National Theatre" with a notable interior design of the first floor's "Wasanii Restaurant" by Terry Tabor.
The Kenya National Theatre ( KNT), Kenya Conservatoire of Music, Mugumo Courtyard, The Kona ya Wasanii, Cheche Gallery and Ukumbi Mdogo are currently a component of the Kenya Cultural Center spaces and platforms.

## History

Plans for the Kenya National Theatre begun in 1949 when a committee requested the colonial government to build a theatre. The government passed a law (Chapter 218 of 1951), and provided land on what is now Harry Thuku Road for the building. The choice of location was due to safety considerations, as this was at the beginning of the Mau Mau uprising and that area was away from the areas frequented by Africans. Once complete, the 450-seat theatre had a dilapidated orchestra pit in the basement, an auditorium with a curtained stage, and a balcony. It also included a bar and restaurant on the first floor.
The theatre underwent a multimillion shilling renovation, which was completed between March 2014 and March 2015.

## Notable productions

The most notable performance is Conrad Makeni's production of I Will Marry When I Want by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii, play with a cast of 500. which landed Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in trouble with authorities in the 1980s.
In May 2003 the South African musical Sarafina!, was produced at the Kenya National Theatre by Sterling Quality Entertainment Company. The producers of the show, Peter J. Oyier and Paul J. Oyier also hosted Mbongeni Ngema and Leleti Khumalo for the premiere of the show, which had an all-Kenyan cast and was praised by Ngema and Khumalo for its accurate and powerful portrayal of the world-acclaimed musical theatre piece.
In 2017, the theatre hosted award-winning musical Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as Too Early for Birds, an experimental theatre production that stages stories from Kenyan history.The Kenya Conservatoire of Music and KNT are currently a component of the Kenya Cultural Center.
# Roadstead of Lorient

The roadstead of Lorient (French: Rade de Lorient, Breton: Lenn-von an Oriant) is a roadstead located to the west of Morbihan in Brittany, France.

## Geography

The harbor of Lorient constitutes the mouths of the rivers Blavet, Scorff and the Ter in the Atlantic Ocean. It has several port facilities, including marinas but also the infrastructure of the Lorient Submarine Base. Oriented northeast-southwest, it has an island in its center, Île Saint-Michel, and communicates with the Atlantic Ocean to the south by two passes, the Passe du Sud and the Passe de l'Ouest, separated by reefs. Its northern part is more specifically called the harbor of Pen-Mané while that to the south is called the harbor of Port-Louis.
It is bordered to the west by the communes of Larmor-Plage, Lorient and Lanester and to the east by those of Kervignac, Locmiquélic, Port-Louis and Gâvres.

## Port facilities
### Lorient

* Lorient Submarine Base
* Keroman fishing harbour [fr]: the second-largest fishing port in France in tonnage and first in added value. 27,000 tons per year, 3,000 direct jobs including 700 on board and 130 boats registered in the port of Lorient.
* Port of Kergroise: second-largest port in Brittany, 2.6 million tonnes per year (as of 2021) including petroleum products, animal feed, sand, containers.
* Passenger port: more than 457,500 passages per year to the islands of Groix and Belle-Île-en-Mer.
* Naval base: nearly 3,800 soldiers work between the arsenal, the Naval Aeronautics Base of Lann-Bihoué [fr] as well as the staff of the maritime force of marine riflemen and commandos.
* Marina: 370 pontoon berths in the port of Lorient.

### Larmor-Plage

* Kernevel marina (1,000 berths)

### Locmiquélic

* Marinas Sainte-Catherine (457 berths) and Pen Mané (150 berths)
* Fishing port

### Port-Louis

* Marina (450 berths)
* Fishing port

### Gâvres

* Marina (57 berths)

## Wrecks

More than 350 wrecks are listed in the harbor, including that of the Isère [fr], the ship that transported the Statue of Liberty to New York.
# Wilhelm Szewczyk

Wilhelm Szewczyk (5 January 1916 – 8 June 1991) was a Polish writer, poet, literary critic, translator, activist of the National Radical Camp, communist, and member of parliament from the region of Silesia.
He was born in Czuchów (now part of Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Rybnik County) and was raised in familok in Czerwionka. Szewczyk attended State Liceum in Rybnik and after finishing it relocated to Katowice; and until 1939 worked in local radio station of Polskie Radio.
During World War II he was forced to join the German Army and in 1941-1942 stayed on the Western Front in Normandy and later on the Eastern Front in Soviet Union. In August 1941 was injured at the battle of Smolensk. When healed in Thuringia, he was sent to Alsace to the front. For his pacifist stances was arrested and in 1942 jailed in Katowice.
After the war Szewczyk returned to Katowice where he worked as editor of Odra weekly and in 1947-1951 was a literary director of Silesian Theatre. He then worked in several literary magazines.
Szewczyk was also a deputy in the Sejm (Parliament) in 1957-1965 and 1969-1980. He died on 8 June 1991 in Katowice and is buried in the local Protestant Cemetery.

## Works

* Posągi (1945) - poetry collection
* Portret Łużyczanki Mina Witkojc (1948) - about the Lower Sorbian poetress, journalist and patriot Mina Witkojc
* Skarb Donnersmarcków (1956)
* Z kraju Lompy (1957)
* Wyprzedaż samotności (1959)
* Literatura niemiecka w XX wieku (1962, 1964)
* Od wiosny do jesieni (1965)
* Kleszcze
* Czarne słońce
* Klara Krause – short stories collection
* Syndrom śląski (1985) - collection of essays
# Don't Wanna Fall in Love

"Don't Wanna Fall in Love" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Jane Child. Released in January 1990 as the second single from her first album, Jane Child, the single peaked at number two for three consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 from April 14 to April 28, 1990, kept from the top spot by "I'll Be Your Everything" by Tommy Page and Sinéad O'Connor's "'Nothing Compares 2 U". In addition, a new jack swing remix of the song was produced by Teddy Riley and reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart and number 11 on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart.
When released around Europe, it also became successful albeit more modestly. In the United Kingdom, the single reached number 22 on the UK Singles Chart. In April 1990, the single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipping 500,000 units.

## Writing and composition

Child wrote the song in Los Angeles, after moving from New York City. During the session she was playing bass with one hand and pads with the other while singing. While the groove was coming along, lyrics were following closely. She wrote the entire song in that session, except for the second verse later. The intention of the lyrics were not written as a happy love song, reflecting more so on the pleasure vs pain principle.
On the finished track, Child uses multi-tracking to sing all the parts, and to play every instrument (keyboards, synthesizer, synth bass, electric bass, drums, percussion, drum programming) except guitar, which is played by James Harrah.

## Music video

The music video was directed by cinematographer Derek M. Allen and shot in New York City at the request of Child, due to having written the song while living there. Shot in both black-and-white and color, the video shows Child walking through downtown Manhattan at night, alternating with scenes of the artist at work, singing into a studio microphone, laying down tracks on a Fairlight and mixing the results on a multitrack board. In several scenes, Child wears a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey, paying homage to her hometown.

## Track listings

All songs were written by Jane Child.

## Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| United States (RIAA) | Gold | 500,000$^^$ |
| $^^$ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |||

## Release history

| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) |
| United States | January 19, 1990 | 7-inch vinyl12-inch vinylCDcassette | Warner Bros. |
| Japan | April 10, 1990 | Mini-CD | Warner Bros. |
| United Kingdom | April 30, 1990 | 7-inch vinyl12-inch vinylCDcassette | Warner Bros. |
| Japan | July 25, 1990 | CD mini-album | Warner Bros. |
# Ashford railway station (Surrey)

Ashford railway station serves the town of Ashford, Surrey, in the borough of Spelthorne in South East England. It is 17 miles 40 chains (28.2 km) down the line from London Waterloo.
Although the station signage displays only Ashford, the station is referred to in timetables and is printed on railway tickets as Ashford (Surrey) in order to differentiate it from Ashford International railway station in Kent, which had been known as Ashford (Kent) until 1996.

## History

The station was opened in 1848 by the Windsor Staines and South Western Railway Company. Absorbed by the London and South Western Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail.
At the east end of the main station building is the station house (known as White Lodge), built in 1857 to accommodate Prince Albert on his visit to open the nearby Welsh School (now St. James' School for Senior Boys), although it is unclear whether he actually stayed there. The station also previously had a goods yard to the north which is now an aggregates yard and builders' merchant.
In 2015 the station was refurbished, and a ramp was installed to improve disability access to the ticket office and waiting room.

## Services

All services at Ashford are operated by South Western Railway.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
* 4 tph to London Waterloo (2 of these are stopping services via Hounslow and 2 are semi-fast via Richmond)
* 2 tph to Weybridge
* 2 tph to Windsor & Eton Riverside
Additional services, including trains to and from Camberley and Aldershot call at the station during the peak hours.
On Sundays, the stopping services between Weybridge and London Waterloo are reduced to hourly and westbound trains run to and from Woking instead of Weybridge.
| Preceding station | National Rail | National Rail | National Rail | Following station |
| Feltham | | South Western Railway Waterloo to Reading Line | | Staines |

## Gallery

* Station building (centre) and White Lodge (left)
* Looking towards London
* Looking towards Staines
* Platform signage
# Dowry Kalyanam

Dowry Kalyanam (transl. Dowry Marriage) is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film, directed by Visu and produced by S. Suseela. The film stars Visu, Vijayakanth, Srividya, S. Ve. Shekher and Viji. It is based on Visu's play Dowry Kalyana Vaibhogame. The films depicts the relationship between two best friends. One of them is financially struggling, and he increasingly depends financially on his friend. When an arranged marriage between his friend and his sister is proposed, the impoverished friend tries to collect the necessary dowry on his own. The film was released on 1 July 1983. It was remade in Kannada as Madhuve Madu Tamashe Nodu (1984).

## Plot

Ganeshan and Ethiraj are best friends and colleagues. Ethiraj is a widower and an alcoholic while Ganeshan is married and has a sister and a brother. Ganeshan does not earn enough and borrows from Ethiraj and Rowthar, a Muslim man who runs a grocery shop, frequently.
A misunderstanding arises when Ethiraj's mother proposes marriage between Ganeshan's sister and Ethiraj, leading to a rift in their friendship. He challenges that he would get his sister married in a pompous manner.
However, the groom's family is behind dowry. The mother of the groom runs the family tyrannically. How Ganeshan struggles to make ends meet with many subplots makes it an interesting movie to watch.
In the end, with help from many people, he gets his sister married, only for his own sister to ask him about the remainder of the dowry thereby denoting the cycle of dowry will forever continue.

## Cast

* Visu as Ganesan
* Vijayakanth as Ethiraj
* Srividya as Uma
* S. Ve. Shekher as Manggupathi
* Mucherla Aruna as Meena
* Viji as Gowri
* Kishmu as Acharapakkam Raja Kalavai
* Pushpalatha as Arcot Rushyendramani
* M. N. Nambiar as Rowthar
* Manorama as Seethalatchmi
* Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Karar Kandhasamy
* V. K. Ramasamy as Jalandhar Subbudu
* V. Gopalakrishnan as DIG Kuselan
* Delhi Ganesh as Kuselan
* Gundu Kalyanam as Kalyanam
* Omakuchi Narasimhan as Gundurao
* M. R. Rajamani as Neelaganda Sastrigal
* S. R. Janaki as Ganesan's grandmother
* R. Dilip as Thief
* T. P. Gajendran as villager (uncredited role)

## Production

The film was shot at a village near Tiruvallur.

## Soundtrack

The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan, with lyrics by Vaali.

## Release and reception

Dowry Kalyanam was released on 1 July 1983. Kalki praised the performances of Visu, Nambiar and Srividya while also praising Visu for his direction and avoiding the influence of making it look like a stage play but panned Viswanathan's music.

## Censorship controversies

Visu mentioned that the censor board wanted 87 cuts for the film as they were not impressed with the portrayal of the Rowther character speaking in Hindi mixed with Tamil because Rowthers speak pure Tamil. Visu then developed the scene where Rowther explains why he speaks like that, after which the film was cleared with no cuts.
# Driftwood (band)

Driftwood is an Americana/Folk-Rock band from Binghamton, New York that was formed in 2005. The group consists of Dan Forsyth (guitar, vocals), Joe Kollar (banjo, guitar, percussion, vocals), Claire Byrne (violin, vocals), Joey Arcuri (upright bass, vocals) and Sam Fishman (drums). Their music has been described variously as "fusing traditional Americana and with contemporary influences and timeless subject matter".

## Formation

Driftwood was formed by High School friends Dan Forsyth and Joe Kollar in 2006. The original lineup consisted of Forsyth, Kollar, Jon Doll (Bass), Chris Duddy (Mandolin) and Mike Torres (Drums). In 2008, as Duddy and Torres were leaving the band, violinist Claire Byrne was introduced to Forsyth and Kollar. Shortly thereafter, she joined. Original bassist Jonathan Doll left the band in late 2011 and Joey Arcuri joined Driftwood shortly after, completing the current and most definitive lineup.

## Career

The band has released five studio albums and two live albums.
Driftwood's debut album, the self-produced "Rally Day", was independently released in 2009. They released their second studio effort, "A Rock & Roll Heart", under the Old Boy Records label in 2011. In late 2013, they released "Driftwood", a fan-funded, self-produced and independently released album. Recorded with Grammy-winning engineer Robby Hunter, the album earned them spots on national radio shows including NPR's Mountain Stage and Music City Roots. The video for "The Sun's Going Down", a single cut from the album, was featured on CMT.com. In 2014, they released their first live album, "Live at Grassroots 2014". It was recorded at the 2014 Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance.

## Discography
### Albums

* Rally Day Release Date: 2009
* A Rock and Roll Heart Release Date: Nov. 2011 Label: Old Boy Records
* Driftwood Release Date: Dec. 2013
* Live at Grassroots 2014 Release Date: July 2015
* City Lights Release Date: November 4, 2016
* Live at The Purple Fiddle Release Date: Nov. 2018
* Tree of Shade Release Date: 2019
* December Last Call Release Date: March 2024

### Videos

* The Sun's Going Down Release Date: 2014 Director: James Domroe
# Sigurður Pálsson

Sigurður Pálsson (born Skinnastaður, 30 July 1948 – 19 September 2017) was an Icelandic poet, author and translator. He worked primarily in cinema and television, theatre, and university teaching. He is particularly noted, among Icelandic writers, for his close links with France.

## Biography

Sigurður grew up in the north-east of Iceland. He died of illness in 2017.

### Education

Sigurður graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1967, having been taught French by, amongst others, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir; and then, at the age of 19, proceeded to France. He studied French from 1967-68 in Paris and Toulouse, before taking a Diplôme universitaire d'études littéraires and the first part of an MA at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle and studying cinema at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français.
In 1978-82, Sigurður returned to the Sorbonne to complete his MA and take a DEA. He also studied film directing at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français.

### Artistic career

Sigurður was in France during the May 1968 revolts, which influenced his intellectual and literary evolution.
During the 1970s, Sigurður Pálsson was part of a group of young Icelandic poets, the Listaskáldin vondu, who worked to renew Icelandic literary language by combining colloquial language with traditional influences; the group also included Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, Pétur Gunnarsson and Þórarinn Eldjárn. In 1975, he published the collection Ljóð vega salt, which deployed autobiographical elements to probe contemporary life.
From the 1980s onwards, he published collections of poems, a number of novels, ten or so plays, and twenty or so translations, mostly from French.
He has also taught at the University of Iceland and the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

### Awards and honours

Sigurður was made a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 and of the Ordre du Mérite in 2007. He was artist in residence in Reykjavík in 1987–90.
In 2007 his memoirs, Minnisbók, won the Icelandic Literary Award.
He won the Jónas Hallgrímsson Award on Icelandic Language Day in 2016 and on New Year's Day 2017 he was made a knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon for his services to Icelandic literature and culture.

## Oevre

Among Sigurður's main works are:
* 1975: Ljóð vega salt
* 1980: Ljóð vega menn (Reykjavik: Mál og menning)
* 1982: Ljóð vega gerd (Reykjavik: Iðunn)
* 1990: Ljóð námu völd (Reykjavik: Forlagið)
* 1993: Ljóð línu (Reykjavik: Forlagið)
* 1995: Ljóðlínuskip (Reykjavik: Forlagið)
* 1996: Ljóð vega safn (Reykjavik: Mál og menning)
* 1997: Ljóðlínuspil (Reykjavik: Forlagið)
* 1998: Parísarhjól (Reykjavik: Forlagið)
* 2002: Næturstaður (Reykjavik: JPV)
* 2002: Tattu (Tattoo), a comedy.
* 2007: Minnisbók (Reykjavik: JPV)
* 2009: Ljóðorkuþörf (Reykjavik: JPV)
Translations into English include:
* 2014: Inside Voices Outside Light, trans. by Martin S. Regal (Todmorden: Arc)
His poetry was translated into Irish for the 2012 Irish Leaving Certificate.
# Mehdi Semsar

Mehdi Semsar (1929–2003) was a prominent Iranian journalist and translator.

## Life and career

Mehdi Semsar was born in 1929 in Bushehr a port of Persian Gulf. He passed his childhood and high school studies in Shiraz, the capital of Fars Province, in the south of Iran,and completed his university studies in Tehran University. At Tehran University, Mehdi Semsar entered the Faculty of Pharmacy and received his Ph.D. degree. Since he was extremely interested in journalism and because Kayhan Newspapers contracted him during his studies of pharmacology, he entered the Faculty of Journalism of Tehran University and received an M.A. in journalism. He continued his studies of journalism at the Institut Français de Press in Paris (1969-1970). He left the Institut with an M.A. degree and was then accepted at Toulouse University for a Ph.D. degree in History of Journalism. He prepared his doctorate dissertation under the title of "Iranian Press during the Second World War".
Mehdi Semsar's professional life in journalism began actually in 1949 when Kayhan contracted him as their parliamentary correspondent. In 1954 he became Head of foreign news, in 1958 he was the Managing Editor, in 1962 Deputy Editor and in 1967 he was named Editor in Chief of Kayhan and Editor of Kayhan International (English Edition). In 1972, he became Vice-President the Kayhan Group of Newspapers. He left Kayhan in 1974 due to political pressures. In 1976 he became Director and Editor in Chief of the newly created newspaper Rastakhiz (Resurgence Party).
Mehdi Semsar died in Paris on January 15, 2003, and was buried at Montparnasse Cemetery.

## Other activities

By translating approximately fifty historical, political and cultural books, Mehdi Semsar greatly contributed to younger Iranian generations' understanding of world affairs and Western civilization. The translation was initially a hobby and became a full-time activity at the end of his life. Most of these translations included a long preface written by himself and explaining the interest of the book, author, or historical period.

## Omid Journalism Award

In 2007, Guity Elahi established the Omid Journalism Prize in memory of her husband Mehdi Semsar. The awardees have included Masih Alinejad and Hadi Heidari.