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James Scudamore (born 19 May 1976) is a British author.

Books
Scudamore's first novel The Amnesia Clinic won the 2007 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Glen Dimplex Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. It was described by Hilary Mantel as "A wonderful debut – witty, polished, fluent and effortlessly entertaining" and by the judges of the Costa Award  as a "delightful book ... full of tall tales and fantasy".

His second novel, Heliopolis, was published in 2009. Writing in The Guardian, Henry Shukman commented that "In his second novel, set in contemporary São Paulo, Scudamore does not embed a transplant from his own culture in foreign soil. Instead he takes the plunge and boldly invests himself in a first-person narrator. The novel is cleverly pitched to explore the two socioeconomic poles of modern urban Brazil. And the writing is exemplary: you feel the hand of a natural at work, one whose command of tone is strong, and who has an instinctive feel for handling a story." The novel was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

Following the publication in 2013 of his third novel, Wreaking, the BBC Today programme interviewed Scudamore inside the grounds of the derelict Severalls Hospital in Colchester, where he explained how visits to such sites, rendered defunct by the Care in the Community Act, had directly inspired the book. The novelist Alan Warner described Wreaking as "an immersion in the physical and psychic ruins of a contemporary Britain which enchants and disturbs, lures and repels".

English Monsters is Scudamore's fourth novel and was published in 2020. It depicts the effects of physical and sexual abuse at a boarding prep school on a group of friends over a thirty-year period. Edward Docx wrote of this "dark, tender, troubling novel" that "it is impossible to read these pages and not to think of the present blight of emotionally cauterised boarding-school politicians whose various pathologies, fantasies and defence mechanisms Britain must continue to endure."

Biography
Scudamore grew up in Japan, Brazil and the UK, and is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford and of the University of East Anglia. He is married to Rose Grimond, the granddaughter of the Liberal politician Jo Grimond. He has taught at the University of East Anglia and the City University of Hong Kong and is on the faculty of the International MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

External links
 Author website
 Today programme audio slideshow
 Author interview on Man Booker website
 Author interview at nthWORD Magazine
 Author interview with Michael Leonard

Footnotes 

1976 births
Living people
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
British writers
The Waialua Sugar Mill, formally known as the Chamberlain Plantation, was a sugarcane plantation and historical sugar mill, located in the town of Waialua on the North Shore of Oahu. It was in operation from 1865 until 1996.

History
In 1865, Levi and Warren Chamberlain started a sugarcane plantation in Waialua that ultimately failed, and Robert Halstead bought the Chamberlain plantation in 1875 under the partnership of Halstead & Gordon, for $25,000. Gordon died in 1888, and the plantation was managed by the Halstead Brothers, Robert and his two sons, Edgar and Frank.  In 1898, Castle & Cooke, one of Hawaii's Big Five trading and sugar industry management companies, formed the Waialua Agricultural Company and purchased the plantation from the Halstead Brothers.

By the end of 1898, a new mill was constructed, and the first crop harvested in 1899, producing 1,741 tons of sugar.  Castle & Cooke also expanded the acreage, built a railway system, and maximized ground and surface water storage and irrigation systems.  Between 1900 and 1906, four surface water collection systems were constructed, giving the Waialua sugar plantation the largest water storage capacity in the state of Hawaii.   As a result of these efforts, sugar production increased from less than 5000 to 20,000 tons from 1900-1905.  Mechanical loading of harvested cane began to replace manual labor using self-propelled machines in 1920.   Later, the Waialua plantation would co-generate electricity and sell it to local communities, contributing a small percentage to Hawaii's energy production.

By 1991, the mill was producing eight percent of sugar in Hawaii as the Waialua Sugar Company, a subsidiary of the Dole Food Company. However, the plantation was unable to increase the tons of sugar per acre yields.  The Waialua Sugar Mill finally closed in October, 1996 due to profit concerns and was the last sugarcane plantation on the island of Oahu to close.

By 1999, the site's sugar workers camp was still inhabited by former Filipino laborers.

The area currently serves as an industrial park for the North Shore of Oahu. In 2020, the 25 acres were put up for sale.

Notes

References

External links
Waialua Sugar Mill

Defunct agriculture companies of the United States
Buildings and structures in Honolulu County, Hawaii
Landmarks in Hawaii
Sugar plantations in Hawaii
Companies established in 1865
Companies disestablished in 1996
Ghost towns in Hawaii
Sugar refineries
Formarinsee is a lake in the Austrian Alps. It lies in the Bundesland of Vorarlberg and lends its name to the close by Formarinbach, one of the two source rivers of the River Lech.

As part of the ORF TV program "9 places, 9 treasures", the Formarinsee with the Rote Wand (2 km north of the lake) was voted Austria's most beautiful place on October 24th, 2015.

Photo gallery

References

Lakes of Vorarlberg
Thala may refer to:

Places 
 Thala Hills, Antarctica
 Thala Island, Antarctica
 Thala Rock, Antarctica
 Thala, Tunisia, a town in Kasserine Governorate

Other uses 

 Thala (gastropod), a genus of sea snails
 Ajith Kumar (born 1971), Indian actor known as Thala
 Battle of Thala, second century BC battle between Rome and Jugurtha of Numidia
 MS Dhoni (born 1981), Indian cricketer known as Thala

See also 
 Tala (disambiguation)
The Trondhjem–Støren Line () was Trøndelag's first railway. It opened in 1864, ten years after the Trunk Line between Oslo and Eidsvoll opened. The 49 kilometer long (later 51.1 km) railway line was narrow gauged () and went between Trondheim and the Støren village in Midtre Gauldal municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. The railway had its station, Trondhjem Kalvskinnet Station, in Prinsens gate, crossed the Nidelva river on a newly constructed railroad bridge to Elgeseter, the Elgeseter Bridge.

In 1877 the line was joined with the Røros Line, which went through the Østerdalen between Røros and Hamar. In 1884 the railway tracks were relocated to the west side of the Nidelva and joined with the Meråker Line and the new railway station at Brattøra, which had opened in 1882. This went through a tunnel at Nidareid to Brattøra. In 1918 new tracks were laid to Heimdal over Selsbakk.

Gauge conversion 

In 1921 the railway was converted to standard gauge and became a part of the Dovre Line.

See also 
 Rail transport in Norway
 List of gauge conversions
 Narrow gauge railways in Norway

References 

Railway lines in Trøndelag
Railway lines in Norway
Dovre Line
Røros Line
Railway lines opened in 1864
1864 establishments in Norway
Halesowen and Rowley Regis is a constituency in the West Midlands represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by James Morris, a Conservative.

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to boundary changes which will entail the loss of the town of Rowley Regis. Accordingly, it will be renamed Halesowen, to be first contested at the next general election.

Members of Parliament

Boundaries 

Halesowen and Rowley Regis straddles the borders of Dudley and Sandwell. It covers the south-east part of the Dudley borough.

2010–present: The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley wards of Belle Vale, Halesowen North, Halesowen South, and Hayley Green and Cradley South, and the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and Old Hill, and Rowley.

1997–2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley wards of Belle Vale and Hasbury, Halesowen North, Halesowen South, and Hayley Green, and the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and Old Hill, and Rowley.

History 
The constituency was formed for the 1997 general election, taking in the eastern part of the former Halesowen and Stourbridge constituency and the western part of the former Warley West seat. Halesowen and Stourbridge had been held by a Conservative but Labour candidates took its two replacements in 1997.

The area formerly in the Halesowen and Stourbridge constituency is in the Dudley borough, while the area formerly in Warley West is within the Sandwell borough (which in turn had formed part of the boroughs of Warley and originally Rowley Regis).

From 1997 until she stood down before the 2010 general election, the seat's MP was Sylvia Heal of the Labour Party. Heal held Mid Staffordshire from a 1990 by-election until she was defeated by the Conservatives in 1992. On becoming the MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis, she gained more than half of the votes in 1997 and 2001, before her popularity dipped slightly in 2005, still managing to hold on to the constituency comfortably.

James Morris of the Conservative Party won the seat in the 2010 general election. With approximately half of the constituency situated within Sandwell borough, it was the first time that any part of the borough had been represented by a Conservative MP since its creation in 1974. Morris was voted by the local party as Conservative candidate for the seat after previous candidate Nigel Hastilow stepped down in November 2007 following a public outcry over his claims that Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech had been proven correct.

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

See also 
 List of parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)

Notes

References

Sources
BBC (2005). Election 2005 - Halesowen & Rowley Regis. Retrieved May 9, 2005.

Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)
Politics of Dudley
Politics of Sandwell
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997
Carpococcyx is a genus of large terrestrial cuckoos in the family Cuculidae. They are restricted to humid forested regions in Southeast Asia. Despite their similarities, they are not closely related to the South American ground cuckoos of the genus Neomorphus.

Species
This genus contains three allopatric species; two of which until recently were considered conspecific under the name Sunda ground cuckoo:

References

 
Cuculidae
Bird genera
 
Taxa named by George Robert Gray
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Arnold Wilson may refer to:

 Arnold Wilson (1840–1940), British civil commissioner in Baghdad 1918–1920
 Arnold Muir Wilson (1857–1909), British solicitor and politician
 Arnold Manaaki Wilson (1928–2012), New Zealand artist and educator
Astra is a rock band from San Diego, California. Their sound is in the style of the 1970s progressive rock and psychedelic rock, and includes a variety of synthesizers, mellotron and long jams.

History
Astra was formed in San Diego in 2001 by Richard Vaughan (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Conor Riley (vocals, guitars, keyboards), and brothers Iain (drums, percussion) and Stuart Sclater (bass guitar) under the name 'Silver Sunshine'. Following the departure of Iain Sclater and the subsequent recruitment of guitarist Brian Ellis and drummer David Hurley to the line-up, the band underwent its name change to Astra. This line-up of the band went on to produce the band's first two albums, 2009's The Weirding and 2012's The Black Chord, both of which were released on Rise Above Records in the UK and on Metal Blade Records in the USA. A further line-up change occurred in 2013 with David Hurley departing to be replaced on drums by Radio Moscow drummer Paul Marrone. Due to some members focusing on other musical projects and some members relocating across the U.S., Astra is currently on an indefinite hiatus.

Personnel
Current members
 Richard Vaughan – vocals, guitars, keyboards (2001–present)
 Conor Riley – vocals, guitars, keyboards (2001–present)
 Stuart Sclater – bass guitar (2001–present)
 Brian Ellis – guitars, moog synthesizer (2006–present)

Past members
 Iain Sclater - drums, percussion (2001–2006)
 David Hurley – drums, percussion, flute (2006–2013)
 Paul Marrone – drums, percussion (2013–2016)

Discography

Albums
The Weirding (2009)
The Black Chord (2012)

References

External links
The official Astra website
2010 interview with Richard Vaughan and Brian Ellis on Prog-Sphere.com

Progressive rock musical groups from California
Psychedelic rock music groups from California
American space rock musical groups
Guy Norman Bee is an American television director, television producer and former Steadicam operator.

Selected filmography

Television director 
 ER
 Third Watch
 Harper's Island
 Criminal Minds
 Veronica Mars (Episode: "Like a Virgin")
 Tru Calling
 Las Vegas
 Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
 Alias
 Kyle XY
 The Unit
 Jericho
 Supernatural
 The Secret Circle
 Ringer
 Revolution
 Arrow
 Beyond (Episode: Last Action Hero)
 APB
 ICE
 Take Two (Episode: It Takes a Thief)
 Blood & Treasure

Steadicam work 
 Ghosts of Mars (2001)
 Magnolia (1999)
 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
 Deep Impact (1998)
 Titanic (1997)
 My Father the Hero (1994)

References

External links 

 

American television directors
American television producers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rudolf Raftl (7 February 1911, in Vienna – 5 September 1994) was an Austrian football goalkeeper.

He earned six caps for the Austria national football team and participated in the 1934 FIFA World Cup. After the annexation of Austria by Germany, he earned six caps for the Germany national football team, and participated in the 1938 FIFA World Cup.

Career
 Hertha Wien (1928–1929)
 SK Rapid Wien (1930–1945)
 First Vienna FC 1894 (1946–1948)

References

1911 births
1994 deaths
Footballers from Vienna
Men's association football goalkeepers
Austrian men's footballers
Austria men's international footballers
German men's footballers
Germany men's international footballers
SK Rapid Wien players
First Vienna FC players
1934 FIFA World Cup players
1938 FIFA World Cup players
Dual men's international footballers
Captain Kitt, Irish Whiteboys captain, fl. 1820.

Background

Kitt was a native of the parish of Ballymacward and was leader of the Whiteboys in the area. He usually convened the meetings, which were called The Ballinafad, held at his home in Corskeaghdaly. Membership dues were ten pence a year, and Kitt was known to enforce collection.

He had a reputation as a very stern disciplinarian, but it was acknowledged that this was at a time when agitation and evictions had made the county very disturbed.

Hampstead attack

One of his most famous exploits was an attack on Hampstead House while the owner was entertaining a large group of fellow land-lords. According to Martin Finnerty:

... in the midst of their carousing the house was attacked by ribbonmen under the command of Capt. Kitt. There can be no doubt but the attackers were in possession of heavy fire arms [because] until the big house was levelled by the Land Commission, the window stool of an upper window revealed the strength to some extent of the attackers. This stone stool was made into splinters in the middle and it was evident that nothing less than light cannon was in use. The occupants of the house returned the fire and the attackers were forced to retreat and some accounts reveal with the loss of one man.

Later life

Kitt's ultimate fate seems to be unknown. Kitt is a very rare surname, found only in parts of east Galway. Latter-day bearers of the name include politicians Michael F. Kitt, Snr (1914–1974) and Tony Kett (1951–2009). The Dublin-born singer-songwriter David Kitt (born 1975) is the grandson of Michael F. Kitt, Snr.

See also

 Neddy Lohan
 Thunderbolt Gibbons
 Anthony Daly (Whiteboy)
 Clann Taidg

References

 Punann Arsa, part I, Martin Finnerty, Galway Observer, 1951.
 The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, 1978.

People from County Galway
The Maharashtra International Education Board (MIEB) is an autonomous Board established by the State Education department of the Government of Maharashtra, that aims to run Schools across the state, providing high quality Education in Marathi equivalent to International Standards for children in Public Schools.
MIEB is the second board in the state after the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. The Board will prepare a syllabus for non-English medium schools, and will compete with the existing boards such as CBSE and ICSE.

See also
 Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

References

Education in Maharashtra
Heinrich Gran (; active 1489–1527 in Haguenau) was a German book printer of the incunabular era. Together with Johannes Mentelin and Heinrich Eggestein, he was one of the pioneers of book-printing in Alsace.

Little is known about Gran's life other than that he introduced printing to Haguenau, then a more important city than today. Between 1501 and 1527 he printed 213 works of mostly theological content. The municipal library of Haguenau owns a collection of about forty incunabula from his workshop, signed with the monogram HG, and showing sometimes the emblem of the city, the rose. He printed the Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum, among other works. One of Gran's most important clients was the pioneering publisher Johann Rynmann of Augsburg, who financed the printing of 174 out of the 213 works issued by his press between 1501 and 1527. Many of Gran's books were destined for Hungary. Gran also seems to have worked sometimes with his junior, Haguenau printer Thomas Anshelm.

References

External links
Heinrich (Henri) Gran on Patrimoine humaniste du Rhin supérieur 
Biography of Heinrich Gran 

15th-century births
16th-century deaths
People from Haguenau
Printers of incunabula
German printers
Alsatian-German people
Don't Blink – Robert Frank is a 2015 documentary film about the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank.

Synopsis
The film is a portrait of Frank's life and career. It covers the making of his book The Americans, his documentaries featuring friends such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and a film commissioned by The Rolling Stones.

Soundtrack
Music in the film includes songs performed by The Mekons, Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground, Charles Mingus, The Kills, Yo La Tengo, Johnny Thunders, Natalie MacMaster, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, New Order, The White Stripes, and Patti Smith.

Release

Critical response
Don't Blink – Robert Frank has received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 84%, based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 75 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

In a review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote that "[r]ather than being a film about an artist, it’s an attempt to show us what it's like to actually be an artist. [...] Don't Blink is directed by Laura Israel, Frank's film editor for more than 20 years, and includes generous selections from those works. Having a filmmaker that Frank is comfortable with in charge means that the photographer lets his guard down here more than he might have with a relative stranger." Writing for The New York Times, A. O. Scott stated that "[Laura Israel's] film is less like a full biography than like a magazine profile, which is as it should be. You leave with a vivid sense of the man’s living presence and a reasonably thorough account of his life, work and associations."

A review for Variety thought the "unconventional editorial style [...] involving rapid-fire collages [...] often leaves one feeling aesthetically pummeled to the point of exhaustion, and portends only limited commercial appeal for the project outside die-hard Frank aficionados."

Box office
As of 13 October 2016, the film has grossed $69,531 at the box office.

References

External links
 
 
 
 Don't Blink – Robert Frank at the distributor's site

2015 films
2015 documentary films
American documentary films
Films shot in New York City
Films shot in Nova Scotia
Documentary films about photographers
Documentary films about film directors and producers
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
Mount Fay is a mountain located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia on the Continental Divide in the Canadian Rockies. The mountain forms part of the backdrop to Moraine Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks of Banff National Park. It was named in 1902 by Charles E. Fay, an early explorer of the Canadian Rockies. He was a member of the party who attempted Mount Lefroy in 1896 when the first mountaineer to be killed in the Canadian Rockies occurred.

Notable ascents
 1904 First ascent by Gertrude Benham ahead of the mountain's namesake alpinist Charles E. Fay.
 1937 December 22 First winter ascent by E.R. Gibson, Doug Crosby, and Bob Hind
 1984 East Face (V/VI 5.8 WI5) FA by Barry Blanchard, David Cheesmond and Carl Tobin.  Repetition of the East Face and variation on the finish was done from 2–3 April 2019 by Brette Harrington, Luka Lindič and Ines Papert.

Geology
Like other mountains in Banff Park, Mount Fay is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.

Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Fay is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Winter temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.

See also
List of peaks on the Alberta–British Columbia border

References

Further reading
 
 

Three-thousanders of Alberta
Three-thousanders of British Columbia
Mountains of Banff National Park
Soroti–Amuria–Abim–Kotido Road is a road in the Eastern and Northern Regions of Uganda. The road  connects the towns of Soroti in Soroti District, to Amuria in Amuria District, Abim in Abim District, and Kotido, in Kotido District. Soroti and Amuria lie in the Teso sub-region, while Abim and Kotido are in the Karamoja sub-region.

Location
The road starts at Soroti and continues north through Amuria and Abim, to end at Kotido, a distance of approximately . The coordinates of the road near Abim are 2°43'38.0"N, 34°39'51.0"E (Latitude:2.727237; Longitude:33.664159).

Overview
The road is gravel surface and in poor physical state. It is prone to flooding, and, when it does, it adversely disrupts travel between Soroti and Kotido.

Upgrading to bitumen
During a campaign speech on 2 December 2015, President Yoweri Museveni stated that this road is among the next batch of roads to be considered for upgrading to grade II bitumen surface. No specific timetable has been set.

See also
 List of roads in Uganda

References

External links
 Uganda National Road Authority Homepage
 Ugandan Government Increases Road Network Funding

Roads in Uganda
Soroti District
Amuria District
Abim District
Kotido District
Eastern Region, Uganda
Northern Region, Uganda