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# Gemma Craven

Rita Gemma Craven (born 1 June 1950) is an Irish actress. She is best known for her role as Joan Parker, the frigid wife of Arthur (Bob Hoskins), in the BBC TV drama Pennies From Heaven (1978).

## Biography

Craven's family moved from Dublin to Britain in 1960, and she attended the same school as Helen Mirren, St Bernard's Convent High School for Girls in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex.
She appeared as Cinderella in the film The Slipper and the Rose (1976) opposite Richard Chamberlain. She was cast as an unknown, having been spotted by one of the producers while performing at the Bristol Old Vic in a production of The Threepenny Opera. The local press touted the event as her own "Cinderella" story.
In London's West End, she starred opposite Tom Conti in the musical They're Playing Our Song for which she won a Laurence Olivier Award (at the time known as the Society of West End Theatre Awards SWET) for her performance, the lead role in South Pacific, and in Noël Coward's Private Lives opposite Marc Sinden, Tony Anholt and Anholt's wife Tracey Childs which toured throughout 1991 and into 1992. She also played Josie in Boy George's Taboo and features on the OCR singing "Independent Woman".
She appeared as Joan Parker, the frigid wife of Arthur (Bob Hoskins), in the original television version of Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven (1978); she has since talked about the difficulty the role presented in undertaking a nude scene, which was seen as counter to her public image. She also made guest appearances on Robin of Sherwood (1985), The Bill, The Morecambe and Wise Show, The Two Ronnies, Father Ted (episode "And God Created Woman") and in the popular British drama Midsomer Murders episode, "Shot at Dawn" as Judy Hicks, the wife of Dave Hicks (Brian Capron). She co-starred in the acclaimed 1982 British TV version of East Lynne. On the same Victorian theme she also appeared on BBC TV's long running old time music hall show The Good Old Days.
Her most substantial film role was as Minna Wagner opposite Richard Burton's Richard Wagner, in the 1983 film Wagner. She also appeared in Why Not Stay for Breakfast? (1979), Double X: The Name of the Game (1992), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1993), Words Upon the Window Pane (1994) and The Hole (2001).
On radio, she played the part of Helen in the BBC Radio 4 comedy Clare in the Community.
She appeared on Irish television in the popular medical drama series The Clinic which ran weekly on RTÉ One.
In November/December 2008, Craven appeared in Hollyoaks Later as Erin "Ma" Fisher – Mother to Malachy, Kris and Bernadette.

## Personal life

Craven was married from 1981 to 1984 to actor Frazer Hines, and from 1990 to 1996 to financier David Beamish.
# State Normal School (disambiguation)

A normal school is an institution created to train high school graduates to be teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum.
State Normal School may also refer to:
* State Normal School (Athens, Georgia)
* State Normal School at Cheney
* Chico State Normal School
* State Normal School of Colorado
* State Normal School for Colored Persons
* Connecticut State Normal School
* Duluth State Normal School
* Durham State Normal School
* Eastern Illinois State Normal School
* Eastern Kentucky State Normal School
* Edinboro State Normal School
* Iowa State Normal School
* State Normal School at Los Angeles
* Mansfield State Normal School
* State Normal School of Marshall College
* Massachusetts State Normal School
* Michigan State Normal School
* Northern Illinois State Normal School
* State Normal School of Pennsylvania
* San Francisco State Normal School
* St. Cloud State Normal School
* State Normal School at Valley City Historic District
* Washington State Normal School at Bellingham
* Washington State Normal School at Cheney Historic District
* Western Kentucky State Normal School
* State Normal School at Whatcom
# Senshusei course

Senshusei course (専修生コース, senshūsei-kōsu) is an intensive, 11-month aikido training program conducted at Yoshinkan Aikido's honbu dojo (headquarters and main training hall) in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The course has received attention through Robert Twigger's book, Angry White Pyjamas (1997).

## Course

Course participants, themselves referred to as senshūsei, train from April 1 each year to March 1 in the following year. Training takes place from 7:30 AM to 2:00 PM, five days per week, for the duration of the course. The course starts from fundamentals, assuming very little about participants' initial knowledge of aikido, but a high level of physical ability is expected. Participants learn from the instructors of the honbu dojo. The first two months of the course are considered a trial period, and it is common for participants to drop out. In the year that Twigger participated, the number of foreign participants remained constant at 10 participants throughout the entire course. This is a rare occurrence, most courses have a higher drop out rate.

## History

The senshusei course was originally created in 1957 by Gozo Shioda, founder of Yoshinkan Aikido, to train the Tokyo riot police. The course has been available to non-police candidates since the 1980s, but was developed primarily for foreign students interested in becoming instructors starting in 1991. There are now two other versions of the course: a less-intensive version for participants aged 40 years or older, and a part-time version taking two years to complete.

## Former instructors

Then-9th dan Kyoichi Inoue, shihan, stopped teaching in the senshusei course when he resigned from the Yoshinkan in March 2006 following an internal dispute, later establishing his own branch, Aikido Shinwakan (合氣道親和館). Following Inoue's departure, Tsutomu Chida, 8th dan, and then-chief instructor of the Yoshinkan honbu-dōjō, also broke away, establishing Aikido Renshinkai (合気道錬身会) in 2008, thus ending his teaching in the course.
# Rasiah Ranjith Leon

Rasiah Ranjith Leon (born 6 February 1968) is a Sri Lankan-Norwegian entrepreneur who, with Ratheesan Yoganathan and Baskaran Kandiah, is best known as the co-founder of Lebara Group where he still is a Director and one of the controlling shareholders. Leon holds a BSc degree in physics.

## Career

In Sri Lanka Rasiah R Leon founded Pentag Asia Group at the age of 21, growing it to a successful company with more than 500 employees. Upon arriving in Norway and getting political asylum he start working as a cleaner and later as a sorter at the Norwegian Post. Starting first part-time as a seller for the calling card company Telesenter Scandinavia, he rapidly raised to the position of Sales Director for Norway.
In 2001, he made friends with two other Tamil colleagues, Ratheesan Yoganathan and Baskaran Kandiah, who eventually became his business partners creating Lebara Group.

## Business

In 2001, Rasiah Leon, Baskaran Kandiah and Ratheesan Yoganathan founded the Lebara Group, a company which they still own and operate successfully. The three partners have later ventured into other business areas with their mutually owned LBR Investments BV which again mainly invest in hotels and property.
Rasiah Leon's ownership in Lebara Group BV and LBR Investments BV is organised through the Norwegian investment company, Leon Holding AS.

## Charity

Rasiah Ranjith Leon, along with co-founders Ratheesan Yoganathan and Baskaran Kandiah started Lebara Foundation, a charitable venture in 2005, formally established in 2008. Lebara Foundation is currently involved in charitable projects helping vulnerable children and displaced communities in 13 countries on all continents. His next big ambition is to expand Lebara Foundation further. To fund continued development, he plans to donate half his wealth to the foundation. RBS has been asked to run a review, which it is hoped will lead to a sale at around £650m.
# Batfish

Batfish may refer to:

## Fish

* California batfish or bat ray (Myliobatis californicus), an eagle ray from the East Pacific
* Red lipped batfish or the galapagos batfish
* Ogcocephalidae, a family of anglerfish found in oceans worldwide
* Platax, a spadefish genus from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and sometimes kept in aquariums
* Freshwater batfish (Myxocyprinus asiaticus), better known as the Chinese high fin banded shark, a catostomid sometimes kept in aquariums and aquaculture
* Members of the genus Halieutaea

## Other uses

* The Batfish Boys, a UK rock group who later shortened their name to Batfish
* USS Batfish, two submarines of the US Navy
# S. L. Loney

Sydney Luxton Loney, M.A. (16 March 1860 – 16 May 1939) was a Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey, and a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, England. He authored a number of mathematics texts, some of which have been reprinted numerous times. He is known as an early influence on Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Loney was educated at Maidstone Grammar School, in Tonbridge and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a B.A. as 3rd Wrangler in 1882. His books on Plane Trigonometry and Coordinate Geometry are very popular among senior high school students in India who are preparing for engineering entrance exams like JEE Advanced.
# LeafChat

LeafChat is a free IRC client for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, licensed under the GNU GPL-3.0-or-later. A donation is requested.

## Features

Each channel is inside a tab which can be easily selected between while chatting. Most networks' servers are supported for connection; multiple networks can be connected to simultaneously. Users can add their own scripts and command shortcuts, and the software detects net splits.

## Reception

TUCOWS circa 2004 showed LeafChat with a popularity of about 1/4, but a rating of four (of five) stars. Beginning in 2004, IRCReviews gave the software five stars (of five), as an Editors's Choice, describing it as "powerful, good looking, and scriptable." In a 2010 review of version 2, LeafChat was described as "very well done", with a "killer" scripting API which was "convenient and easy", though the reviewer found some user-interface defaults "annoying", and ruled out using LeafChat due to perceived variable count limitations. In a 2011 summary of four popular IRC clients, Techbuzz India described LeafChat as "one of the best" open-source clients with a "clean and simple" interface, and noted its ability to connect to multiple servers simultaneously. The Simple Genetic Algorithm project at SourceForge suggested LeafChat (due to its zero cost) for its online IRC live developer support, and thoroughly outlined its setup.
# William McIlroy

William McIlroy may refer to:
* William McIlroy (department store), a group of department stores in England
* Bill McIlroy (footballer) (1883–1960), an Australian rules footballer
* William McIlroy (secularist) (1928–2013), a British secularist and atheist activist
# James's gerbil

James's gerbil (Dipodillus jamesi) is a species of rodent endemic to the eastern coast of Tunisia.
# Respendial

Respendial or Respindal was king of a group of Alans in western Europe in the early 5th century CE. After the Crossing of the Rhine in 405 or 406, Respendial's Alans invaded the Roman Empire. The other group of Alans was led by Goar, who joined the Romans.

## Biography
### Vandal–Frankish war

Respendial is mentioned in the Frigeridus fragment, embedded in Gregory of Tours's work, describing the Vandal–Frankish war that preceded the Crossing of the Rhine (the crossing was dated to 31 December 406 by Prosper of Aquitaine). According to Frigeridus, the Roman-allied Franks were inflicting heavy casualties on the Vandals over the course of probably several battles, killing 20,000 Vandal warriors and their king Godigisel. They were on the verge of exterminating the tribe. At that point – according to MacDowall (2016) probably in the summer or autumn of 406 – another Alan king, Respendial, came to the Vandals' rescue and defeated the Franks, "although Goar had gone over to the Romans."

### Into Gaul and Spain

After that, the Vandals and Respendial's Alans crossed the Rhine. It's unclear from Frigeridus' account what happened to Goar's Alans, but other sources make clear that they were eventually settled in Gaul near Orléans by the Romans. At the same time, the Vandals, Suebi, and Respendial's Alans continued into Spain. According to bishop Hydatius' chronicle, the Vandals (Silings and Asdings) were the first to arrive in Spain in September or October 409, while Gregory notes that Suebi and Alans (presumably those led by Respendial) followed them later.
Respendial's fate is unknown; by 418, he was no longer king. He had been succeeded by Attaces, who was killed when the Visigoths invaded Hispania. This group of Alans after that united with the Asding Vandals, with whom they crossed into Africa and established an independent kingdom.

## Note

* ↑ "Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus, whom we have already mentioned, in his story of the capture and destruction of Rome by the Goths, says: "Meantime when Goare had gone over to the Romans, Respendial, king of the Alamanni, turned the army of his people from the Rhine, since the Vandals were getting the worse of the war with the Franks, having lost their king Godegisil, and about 20,000 of the army, and all the Vandals would have been exterminated if the army of the Alamanni [note: Alamanni for Alani] had not come to their aid in time." It is surprising to us that when he [=Frigeridus] names the kings of the other nations he does not name the king of the Franks as well." – Gregory of Tours quoting Frigeridus (the Frigeridus fragment) in History of the Franks (Book II, Chapter 9).
# Senshin Buddhist Temple

The Senshin Buddhist Temple (formerly called the Senshin Buddhist Church) is a Buddhist temple in Los Angeles, California. An affiliate of the Buddhist Churches of America (BCA), the temple was built in 1951. It is known for its maintenance of traditional practices and for cultivating one of the earliest taiko groups appearing in the United States under the leadership of Masao Kodani.

## History

The temple was built in 1951 in Los Angeles. Originally called the Senshin Buddhist Church, the institution, like many others, had named itself so due to members wanting to be represented as equal counterparts to members of Christian churches. Its most recent leader, Masao Kodani, encouraged younger Japanese-Americans in the 1970s to explore their ethnic and religious roots through various events coordinated at the temple, such as its annual Obon festival.
The church also fostered one of the earliest taiko groups to appear in the United States, Kinnara Taiko, which formed under the leadership of Masao Kodani between 1968 and 1969 immediately after the celebration of an Obon festival by members. Third-generation Japanese-American members of the church played taiko drum for four hours during the festival. Reportedly, their hands were bleeding afterwards, and collectively, they formed the group known as Kinnara Taiko. Taiko continues to be a routine activity at the church, and some have suggested that it is effective at drawing in third- and fourth-generation Japanese-Americans into the Buddhist faith.
# Stokoe

Stokoe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bob Stokoe (1930–2004), English footballer and manager
* Dennis Stokoe (1925–2005), English footballer
* Elizabeth Stokoe, British academic
* Graham Stokoe (born 1975), English former footballer
* James Stokoe (born 1985), Canadian comic book artist
* Jimmy Stokoe, (1888–1970), English footballer
* John Stokoe (fl. late 19th century), Tyneside author and historian
* Matt Stokoe (born 1989), English actor
* Matthew Stokoe (born 1963), British writer and screenwriter
* T. H. Stokoe (1833–1903), English clergyman and headmaster
* William Stokoe (1919–2000), American sign language linguist
* William N. Stokoe (1892–1958), British organic chemist
# Gottfried Wagner

Gottfried Wagner (born 13 April 1947 in Bayreuth) is a multimedia director and publicist.
Gottfried Wagner is the son of Wolfgang Wagner and a great-grandchild of Richard Wagner. His PhD is about Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. He has concentrated on German culture and politics, as well as Jewish history of the 19th and 20th centuries in numerous publications. He is a member of the PEN-Club Liechtenstein and in 1992 was a co-founder of the Post-Holocaust Discussion Group.
He has been living in Italy since 1983, and has estranged himself from his father's family, openly criticising their involvement with the Nazi regime. His book Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy, an autobiography, queried the extent to which his father had extricated himself from the family's close connection to National Socialism, while he has also been critical of many aspects of the Bayreuth Festival. The British film director Tony Palmer has made a two-hour documentary film about the Wagner family in which Gottfried plays a key role.

## Publications

* Gottfried Wagner, Wer nicht mit dem Wolf heult. Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen eines Wagner-Urenkels. (He who does not howl with the wolf: Autobiographical Notes from a Wagner Great-Grandchild) Foreword by Ralph Giordano. Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997. ISBN 3-462-02622-4
* Gottfried Wagner, Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy, Picador, 1999. ISBN 0-312-26404-6 (English version of the above)
* Gottfried Wagner "Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben neben mir. Richard Wagner - Ein Minenfeld", Propyläen, 2013. ISBN 978-3-549-07441-1
# Leaf-and-dart

Leaf-and-dart (also known as rais-de-cœur and heart-and-dart) is an ornamental motif made up of heart-shaped leaves (or waterleaves inside hearts) alternating with spearheads (or darts). This motif was used in Ancient Greek and Roman architecture. It was taken up again during the Renaissance, abundantly in the 18th century, being used in the Louis XVI style.
The French word literally means "rays (beams of light) from heart[s]" (its Italian equivalent being raggi a cuori), as the "darts" can resemble triangular lightrays emerging from between the hearts. The singular equivalent (rai-de-cœur) is rarely used.

## Gallery

* Ancient Greek leaf-and-dart on an antefix fragment, 450-400 BC, unknown material, Museo archeologico nazionale di Crotone, Crotone, Italy
* Ancient Greek leaf-and-dart (right above the egg-and-dart) on the Erechtheion, Athens, Greece, unknown architect or sculptor, 421-405 BC
* Ancient Greek leaf-and-dart painted (right under the egg-and-dart lip) on the Pronomos Vase, c.410, ceramic, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy
* Ancient Greek leaf-and-dart on a gorytos, 400-336 BC, silver and gold, Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai, Vergina, Greece
* Roman leaf-and-dart of a portico of the Trajaneum from Pergamon, 115-130 AD, stone, Pergamon Museum, Berlin
* Roman leaf-and-dart on an altar of Mars and Venus, 124, marble, National Roman Museum of Palazzo Massimo, Rome
* Roman leaf-and-dart right above the rinceaux and under the dentils, on the Temple of Hadrianus, Ephesus, Turkey, unknown architect, 138
* Roman leaf-and-dart on an entablature of the Baths at Ostia, Ostia Antica, near modern Ostia, southwest of Rome, unknown architect, unknown date
* Roman leaf-and-dart on the entablature of the Temple of Vesta, Rome, unknown architect, unknown date
* Neoclassical leaf-and-dart under the Panthéon, Paris, unknown architect, unknown date
* Greek Revival leaf-and-dart, illustrations from Materials and Documents of Architecture and Sculpture, by R. Raguenet, 19th century
# William Leeming Harrison

Captain William Leeming Harrison MC was a Canadian fighter ace in the First World War. He was credited with twelve aerial victories.

## Enlistment information

William Leeming Harrison enlisted in the 220th Battalion (12th Regiment York Rangers), CEF of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 3 April 1916 in his home town of Toronto. He gave his birth date as 30 December 1897, although he may have provided a false age. He was a student living at home with his father, Doctor William Spencer Harrison. The military doctor noted the younger Harrison's age as 18 years 3 months, his appearance as fair, with brown eyes and dark hair. He was 5 feet 11 inches tall, and had a scar on his right thumb.

## First World War

Circumstances of Harrison's early service are still cloudy. There are two records of his becoming an officer. On 29 May 1917, Harrison was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Canterbury Mounted Rifles. Effective 17 June 1917, Harrison was commissioned as a probationary second lieutenant.
He finished pilot's training in summer 1917 and was assigned to fly a Nieuport in C Flight, 40 Squadron. On 9 August 1917, he destroyed a German observation balloon over Arras for his first victory. The squadron re-equipped with new Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5as, and Harrison used his new craft for his second victory, when he destroyed a Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke reconnaissance plane on 18 January 1918. On 26 February, he drove down an Albatros D.V out of control. Mid-day and late afternoon wins on 6 March made him an ace. He scored five more times in March, ending the month as a double ace. After destroying another German plane on 1 April, he was promoted to captain and transferred to 1 Squadron as a flight commander. He destroyed a Pfalz D.III on 11 April 1918, to round out his tally at a balloon and seven enemy airplanes destroyed, and four driven down out of control. He was then wounded and left combat duty. His Military Cross was awarded in May 1918, with a Bar in lieu of a second award following.

## Text of citation for Military Cross

2nd Lt. William Leeming Harrison, R.F.C., Spec. Res.
   For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in aerial fighting. He destroyed two enemy machines and drove down others out of control. He always showed a splendid spirit of dash, keenness and tenacity, coupled with determination and skill in attacking enemy aircraft.
Harrison was also awarded a Bar to his Military Cross in lieu of a second award.

## Post War

Harrison went on the unemployed list of the Royal Air Force on 29 September 1919.