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# Sheila Whitaker

Sheila Hazel Whitaker (1 April 1936 – 29 July 2013) was an English film programmer and writer.
Whitaker was born in Thornton Heath, south London and grew up in the north of the city, and Manchester, Cardiff and Birmingham after the Second World War. She was appointed to oversee the British Film Institute's stills, posters and designs collections in 1968, leaving in 1975 to study for her degree in Comparative European Literature at Warwick University. At a difficult time for the venue, in 1979 she became director of the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle, also running Tyneside Festival of Independent Cinema at the same time which she founded.
While head of programming of the National Film Theatre, a role she held from 1984–1990, Whitaker became director of the London Film Festival in 1987 in succession to Derek Malcolm. She remained as director until 1996, when her contract was not renewed by the BFI to Whitaker's disappointment. During her period as director, Whitaker continued the expansion of the festival started by Malcolm. By the end of her tenure as director, the LFF had grown to include screenings of over 200 films from around the world, more venues had been added and more tickets were sold to non-BFI members. She also began the festival's practice of including newly restored films from the National Film Archive and overseas institutions.
Whitaker was the director of International Programming for the Dubai International Film Festival from 2008; she had been a consultant for the event since 2004.
With others, she co-edited Life and Art: The New Iranian Cinema (1999), and An Argentine Passion, (2000) about the Argentinian film director María Luisa Bemberg.
Sheila Whitaker was a recipient of the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for services to French cinema in Britain, an award which coincided with the end of her time as director of the London Film Festival, and received honorary doctorates from Newcastle and Warwick Universities. She died in London after suffering from motor neuron disease.
# Shire of Donald

The Shire of Donald was a local government area about 140 kilometres (87 mi) west-northwest of Bendigo, in western Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 1,448 square kilometres (559.1 sq mi), and existed from 1861 until 1995.

## History

Donald was originally incorporated as the St Arnaud Road District on 25 June 1861, which became a shire on 22 November 1864. It was originally home to several other districts, which split away prior to 1900:
* 20 October 1884 - the East Riding became the Shire of Kara Kara;
* 30 January 1891 - the West Riding became the Shire of Borung, which later became the Shire of Warracknabeal;
* 27 April 1894 - the North Riding became the Shire of Wycheproof;
* 5 April 1895 - parts of the Central Riding became the Shire of Birchip;
* 31 May 1895 - parts of the South Riding joined with parts of other shires, to become the Shire of Charlton.
On 11 February 1897, it was officially renamed to the Shire of Donald, after the largest town which remained. It annexed territory from the Shire of Dunmunkle on 26 May 1916, and from the Shire of Kara Kara on 27 April 1920.
On 20 January 1995, the Shire of Donald was abolished, and along with the Shires of Birchip, Charlton and Wycheproof, and parts of the Shire of Kara Kara, was merged into the newly created Shire of Buloke.

## Wards

The Shire of Donald was divided into three wards, each of which elected three councillors:
* South Ward
* East Ward
* West Ward

## Towns and localities

* Banyenong
* Buloke
* Carron
* Chirrip
* Corack
* Corack East
* Donald*
* Laen East
* Laen North
* Lake Buloke
* Litchfield
* Massey
* Mount Jeffcott
* Watchem
* Council seat.

## Population

| Year | Population |
| 1954 | 2,864 |
| 1958 | 3,060* |
| 1961 | 2,921 |
| 1966 | 2,948 |
| 1971 | 2,639 |
| 1976 | 2,724 |
| 1981 | 2,597 |
| 1986 | 2,357 |
| 1991 | 2,385 |
* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.
# Sheldon Kurland

Sheldon "Shelly" Kurland (June 9, 1928 – January 6, 2010) was a violinist and musical arranger who worked as a session musician in Nashville and provided arrangements for a number of prominent country musicians.

## Life and career

Sheldon Kurland was a native of Brooklyn, New York, the son of Samuel and Beatrice Kurland and brother of Elaine Todd Koren. His parents were strong advocates of the arts and his father started teaching Sheldon the violin and Elaine the piano when they were five. Both children had great musical talent however Elaine enjoyed writing more and eventually became an accomplished author. Sheldon continued to be taught by his father, at the Henry Street Settlement and with Ivan Galamian until he entered Juilliard School in New York City, where he was trained as a classical musician. As a boy, he was a winner of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, a popular radio show in New York City. After receiving a master's degree, he began his professional career at Cornell University as a professor and touring with the Cornell University Trio. In 1964 he moved to Nashville to accept a faculty position at Peabody College.
After arriving in Nashville, Kurland began performing as a session musician for producers such as Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley who were creating a new "Nashville sound" that incorporated classical strings in place of the fiddle sound that had characterized country music. He was to play on tens of thousands of sessions, often as leader of a group credited as the Shelly Kurland Strings. In the late 1960s he resigned his teaching position to become a full-time musician.
Music writer Robert K. Oermann credits Kurland with playing a major role in the "sweetening of the sound" that gave Nashville recordings a "crossover appeal" during the 1970s, when "the Shelly Kurland Strings were on everything." The group was a perennial winner of annual "Super Picker Awards", recognizing the musicians who performed on the most number-one records in the previous year.
His credits as an arranger included "Half the Way" and "When I Dream" for Crystal Gayle and "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World" for Ronnie Milsap. Other names of musicians he worked with included Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, George Burns, Jimmy Buffett, Conway Twitty, Eddy Arnold, Amy Grant, Hank Snow, Bobby Bare, Kris Kristofferson, George Hamilton IV and Reba McEntire.
Kurland and his wife Barbara were parents to three children, including movie sound artist Peter Kurland, director of innovative school programs Wendy Kurland, and Bluebird Cafe owner Amy Kurland. One of his violins and other memorabilia are in the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. His music awards were among the music items that decorated the walls of the Bluebird Cafe.
Kurland retired from music in the 1980s. He died in Nashville on January 6, 2010, at age 81. His book, An Adult Guide to the Orchestra, was published posthumously.
# Grace Episcopal Church (Cuero, Texas)

Grace Episcopal Church is a historic church at 401 N. Esplanade in Cuero, Texas.
It was built in 1889 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
# Shiv Seeram

Shivnath "Shiv" Seeram (born 25 September 1963) is a former international cricketer who represented the Canadian national side between 1996 and 1998. He was born in Guyana, and before emigrating to Canada played first-class cricket for Demerara.
Seeram was born in Ogle, a village in Guyana's Demerara-Mahaica region. In November 1985, he represented Demerara against Berbice in the final of the Guystac Trophy, which at the time held first-class status. After emigrating to Canada, Seeram made his debut for the national team in October 1996, playing in the Shell/Sandals Trophy (a West Indian domestic competition in which Canada were competing as a guest team). At that tournament, he shared the wicket-keeping duties with Alex Glegg, although in all other matches for Canada he played solely as a batsman. The following year, Seeram played in the 1997 ICC Trophy in Malaysia, featuring in six of his team's seven matches. He had little success, however, scoring only 76 runs in six innings (with a best of 25 against Denmark). Seeram's final match for Canada came in the 1997–98 Red Stripe Bowl (the renamed Shell/Sandals Trophy), against his country of origin, Guyana.
# Grass Pond

Grass Pond may refer to:
* Grass Pond (Stillwater Mountain, New York)
* Grass Pond (Thendara, New York)
# Shiraito Falls (Yamagata)

Shiraito Falls (白糸の滝, Shiraito-no-taki) is a waterfall in the Furukuchi district of Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, on a branch of the Mogami River. It is one of "Japan’s Top 100 Waterfalls", in a listing published by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment in 1990.
The Mogami River passes through the Mogami Gorge, dropping from 500 meters to 300 meters in altitude with a series of 48 waterfalls, of which the Shiraito Falls is the largest. At the base of the falls is a small chapel dedicated to Fudo Myoo and the Kusanagi Hot Springs are located nearby.
The site has a long history in Japanese literature, being featured in writings such as the Gikeiki and Oku no Hosomichi.
# Shona Auerbach

Shona Auerbach is a British film director and cinematographer.

## Early career

Auerbach began her career as a stills photographer. She studied film at Manchester University and cinematography at Leeds before completing her Master of Arts at the Polish National Film School in Łódź. Her first directorial effort was the 1996 short subject Seven, which won her awards from the Munich International Festival of Film Schools, the Montecatini Filmvideo International Short Film Festival in Spain, and the Capalbio Cinema International Short Film Festival in Italy. She spent the next several years directing commercials while at the same time preparing her debut feature film, Dear Frankie, which was shown at numerous film festivals in 2004 and was released commercially in early 2005. She also served as cinematographer on both films.

## Awards and recognition

For Dear Frankie, Auerbach was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Director. She won the Heartland Film Festival Crystal Heart Award, the High Falls Film Festival Audience Award for Best Feature Film, the Jackson Hole Film Festival Cowboy Award for Best Feature Film, the Los Angeles IFP/West Film Festival Audience Award for Best International Feature Film, the Montreal World Film Festival Golden Zenith Award, the Seattle International Film Festival Women in Cinema Lena Sharpe Award, and the WinFemme Film Festival Award (part of Women's Image Network Awards) for Best Film or TV Show Directed by a Woman.

## Personal life

Auerbach is married to cinematographer Graeme Dunn.
# Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa

The Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa (グランドプリンスホテル高輪) is a complex of three hotels (Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa, Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa, and The Prince Sakura Tower Tokyo, Autograph Collection) designed by architect Togo Murano in 1982, and situated in the Takanawa district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The hotel was originally established as the Takanawa Prince Hotel in 1953.
The three hotels, effectively managed as one, are situated in a 10-acre (40,000 m$^2$) garden which formerly belonged to Takeda Palace of Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda, a member of the Japanese Imperial Family.
The hotels are the flagship properties of the Prince Hotels group which has a recently checkered history due to events at its corporate parent, Seibu Corporation, an affiliate of Seibu Railway and its former chairman Yoshiaki Tsutsumi.
35°37′53″N 139°44′06″E﻿ / ﻿35.6315°N 139.734997°E﻿ / 35.6315; 139.734997
# Graphoderus fascicollis

Graphoderus fascicollis is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America.
# Graphoderus perplexus

Graphoderus perplexus, the predacious diving beetle, is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Palearctic.
# Shop floor

The shop floor is the production area, such as in a factory or another working space and is the floor where workers produce goods. The term "shop floor" refers to the area of a factory where production takes place. The shop floor excludes the area used or designated for administrative activities.

## Shop stewards and Shop Stewards Movement

A shop steward is an employee of a company or organization who, as a labor union member and official, represents and defends the interests of their coworkers. During the First World War, the Shop Stewards Movement brought together shop stewards from across the United Kingdom. It began with the Clyde Workers Committee, Britain's first shop stewards committee, which organized in response to the imprisonment of three of their members in 1915.

## Shop floor control

Systems for managing the various components of the manufacturing process are known as shop floor control (SFC) systems.
Shop floor control is one of the functions of manufacturing control; it is the process of monitoring the production activities as they happen, such as when the product is being processed, assembled, inspected, etc. It is also concerned with the shop floor inventories—short and excessive inventories that may cause losses.

### Integrated shop floor management

The manufacturing industry is significantly impacted by technological advances such as the Internet, the Web, and intelligent agents. Changing shop floor environments and customer needs are sufficed with new kinds of shop floor control systems that are web-based shop floor control systems, also called e-shop floor or i-shop floor.
# Granitsa

Granitsa may refer to the following places:

## Bulgaria

* Granitsa, Kyustendil Province

## Greece

* Granitsa, Evrytania
* Granitsa, Ioannina
* Diakopi, formerly known as Granitsa, Phocis
* Nymfasia, formerly known as Granitsa, Arcadia
# Shot peen forming

Shot peen forming is a specialized application of shot peening for forming metal sheets into complex shapes. The compressive stresses induced by the impact of the shot can be used to change the shape of the component into a desired contour. Shot peen forming is a dieless process generally performed at room temperature. It was first used for forming the wing skins of airplanes at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation during the 1940s and was patented by that company as a "Method of cold forming sheets" in 1951. Today it is widely used in the aerospace industry for shaping wing skins and can also be used for forming aircraft fuselage skins and rocket tank panels.
# Shukrawar Peth, Pune

Shukrawar Peth is a peth located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Earlier known as Visapur, this was the first local peth, set up in 1734, and named by Bajirao I, as people began to reside in the area beginning with his era. It housed several military establishments of the time, which included a gun foundry, stables, infantry lines, a gymnasium, and military headquarters.
# Grasshopper (EP)

Grasshopper is an EP by British rock band Ride, released in November 1992.
It is compilation of two singles for the Japanese market. Tracks 1-3 are from the Leave Them All Behind single. Tracks 4-7 are from the Twisterella single.
In May 2019, Japanese game developer Goichi Suda revealed he was inspired to name his company Grasshopper Manufacture after the song.

## Track listing

* "Leave Them All Behind"
* "Chrome Waves"
* "Grasshopper"
* "Twisterella"
* "Going Blank Again"
* "Howard Hughes"
* "Stampede"
# Shrier

Shrier is a surname, an Americanized form of the German surname Schreier. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alvin Shrier, Canadian physiologist
* David Shrier, American futurist, author and entrepreneur
# Shyamlal

Shyamlal is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Shyamlal Gupta (1896–1977), Indian poet and lyricist
* Shyamal Sinha (Shyamlal Sinha, 1930–1963), Indian cricketer
* Shyamlal Yadav (1927–2005), Indian politician
# Great Grandson of Morris On

Great Grandson of Morris On, produced by Ashley Hutchings, and recorded and released in 2004, is the fourth volume in the series of Morris dance tunes. Spiers and Boden experienced a blaze of publicity shortly after recording their contribution to this album (track 3), which later appeared on the compilation album The Magic of Morris. There are more amateur musicians on this album than on the previous volumes in the series.

## Personnel

Roger Wilson (vocals, fiddle), Ken Nicol (guitars, vocals), Simon Care (melodeon, concertina), Ashley Hutchings (electric bass, voice), Guy Fletcher (fiddle, drums, vocal), Bryony Griffith (fiddle), John Spiers (melodeon) (track 3), Jon Boden (fiddle, stomp-box) (track 3), Neil Wayne (concertina), John Shepherd (electronic keyboards, sampling), Lawrence Wright (melodeon, spoken voice) (tracks 6, 7 & 19), Mark Rogers (melodeon) (tracks 7 & 19), Dogrose Morris (tracks 2 & 11) The Outside Capering Crew (morris bells & 'verbals') (tracks 7 & 19,) William Hampson (melodeon). "Occasional Brass" (on tracks 12 and 14)(consisting of Martin Battersby (conductor), Peter Broadbent (baritone), Darryl Jackson (trombone), Matthew Challender (flugel), Mark Wardle (cornet), James Pickering (tuba), Judy Dunlop (vocals) (track 13). Produced by Ashley Hutchings. Running time 55 minutes 12 seconds.

## Track listing

* "At the May Day celebrations (Tune: Trad/Words: Hutchings/Nicol)"
* "Swaggering Boney (instr) (Trad)"
* "Banbury Bill (Bampton)/Shepherd's Hey (Abingdon) (instr)(Trad)"
* "Winster Morris Reel (instr) (Trad)"
* "London Pride (instr) (Trad)"
* "Now mind you this (spoken) (Jinky Wells)"
* "Highland Mary (instr) (Trad)"
* "The field and the farm (Ashley Hutchings/Ken Nicol)"
* "The Devil's Details/ The Low Down (instr) (Ken Nicol)"
* "Comes the morris dancer in (spoken) (Text from 1667)"
* "Bonny Green garters (instr) (Trad)"
* "Every year when the Wakes come along (Tune: Trad/Words: Hutchings/K Nicol)"
* "First day at t'mill (Mabel F Harrison/Bernard Wrigley)"
* "The Godley Hill set (instr) (Trad)"
* "Happy the Age (spoken) (Text from 1654)"
* "The Rose (instr) (Trad)"
* "Jack-in-the-green on Saturday night (Tune: Trad/Words: Hutchings/K Nicol)"
* "Under the old myrtle tree/ Morning star/ Billy Boy/ Banks of the Dee (instr) (Trad)"
* "Washing day (instr) (Trad)"
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# Siagian

Siagian is one of Toba Batak clans originating in North Sumatra, Indonesia. People of this clan bear the clan's name as their surname. Notable people of this clan include:
* Bachtiar Siagian (1923-2002), Indonesian film director and scriptwriter
* Sabam Siagian (1932-2016), Indonesian journalist
# Shyroka Balka (disambiguation)

Shyroka Balka may refer to:
* Shyroka Balka, a settlement in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
* Shyroka Balka, Bilyayivka Raion, a village in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
# Sichuan Province (Yuan dynasty)

Sichuan Province was a province of the Yuan dynasty. It was established in 1294, after being split off from Shaanxi Province.
The area had previously been part of the Northern Song dynasty circuits Chengdufu, Zizhou, and Kuizhou.
The province was significantly smaller than today's Sichuan, although it includes portions of Chongqing Municipality, which would not be split off until 1997.
# Sichuan Provincial Library

Sichuan Provincial Library is the provincial public library of Sichuan, China, located in Qingyang, Chengdu. It is largest library in Western China and one of ten largest libraries in China. It was institutionally established in October 1912, being as the second earliest public libraries established in the country. The library building is currently adjacent to Tianfu Square, the geographic center of Chengdu City.

## History

Sichuan Provincial Library was planned in 1909. On 20 October 1912, it was officially established and open to the public in a small blue brick building west of Chengdu Shaocheng Park (now People's Park).
In August 1927, due to financial difficulties of the Sichuan provincial government, Deng Xihou (commander of the 28th Army of the National Revolutionary Army in Chengdu) ordered the Sichuan Provincial Library to be transferred to the Chengdu Municipal Governmental Office for management. The library was renamed "Chengdu Municipal Library" by the city government in October 1928.
In November 1929, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education sent a letter to the Chengdu Municipal Government, proposing to take over the Chengdu Municipal Library from the city government. The Chengdu Municipal Government replied and rejected this request.
In 1936, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education prepared to rebuild the Provincial Library. It hired 15 people, including Gu Jiegang, Jiang Fucong, and Shen Zurong, as standing members of the Provincial Library Preparatory Committee. On 10 April 1940, Sichuan Provincial Library was re-established. The library was located in the former Qing Chengshou Yamen on Chengdu Chengshou Street.
The library was renamed Western Sichuan Library in 1950, Western Sichuan People's Library in 1951, and Sichuan Provincial Library in 1952. The final name has been in use ever since.
In June 2019, Sichuan Provincial Library established the Zhang Daqian Documentation Centre.
On 11 October 2020, the Long Scroll of 100 Pictures of Giant Pandas Thangka debuted at the Sichuan Provincial Library.
# Sido, Mali

Sido is a commune in the Bougouni Cercle of southern Mali's Sikasso Region. In 1998, it had a population of 13,877.
# Sibynophis bivittatus

Sibynophis bivittatus, commonly known as the white-striped snake, is a nonvenomous species of colubrid snake found in the Philippines.