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The St Magnus International Festival is an annual, week-long arts festival which takes place at midsummer on the islands of Orkney, off the north coast of mainland Scotland.

History and management

The festival was founded in 1977 by a group including the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who was a resident of Orkney, and the Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown. The artistic director is Alasdair Nicolson, who succeeded Glenys Hughes in 2010. The artistic programme consists mainly of music alongside drama, dance, literature and the visual arts, and is managed by a small staff and many local volunteers, who also offer accommodation for visiting artists.

Artists and repertoire
Artists who have appeared at the festival include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Nicola Benedetti, Colin Currie, Evelyn Glennie, John Harle, Angela Hewitt, Steven Isserlis, Paul Lewis, John Lill, Tasmin Little, Joanna MacGregor, Lisa Milne, Steven Osborne and Isaac Stern. Many orchestras and ensembles have visited the festival both from Scotland and England.

Festival poets have included Carol Ann Duffy, John Gallas, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Gwyneth Lewis, Liz Lochhead and Andrew Motion. The National Theatre of Scotland also appeared at the festival in 2007.

Commissions
The St Magnus Festival has commissioned music from composers including James MacMillan, Judith Weir, Simon Holt, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Thea Musgrave, Sally Beamish, Edward McGuire, William Sweeney, Gordon McPherson and David Horne. Premières of works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies have included works written in collaboration with or inspired by the work of the Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown.

Visual arts, drama and dance projects have also been commissioned for the festival, including a trio of original plays by Alan Plater.

Community participation and additional events
Education and community projects have included many residents of Orkney. The St Magnus Festival Chorus includes around 130 singers from all parts of the archipelago. The festival prides itself on its involvement with the local community and the support provided by local residents.

The Festival on Tour project has visited Orkney's outer islands to give workshops and performances for schools and communities. Beginning in 2006, a type of fringe festival called MagFest has included late-night shows, circus, cabaret, comedy, music and children's events. Orkney Conducting Course, St Magnus Composers' Course, a Writers' Course and, from 2012, a Singers' Course also run alongside the festival.

The conductors' and composers' courses were not held in 2016, the 40th anniversary of the festival. The director, Alasdair Nicolson, attributed this to a lack of funding.

References

External links
 St Magnus International Festival
 St Magnus International Festival on Facebook

Organisations based in Orkney
Music festivals in Scotland
1977 establishments in Scotland
Orcadian culture
Arts festivals in Scotland
St. Clair Bayfield (2 August 1875 – 19 May 1967) was an English stage actor, best known as the long-term companion and manager of amateur operatic soprano Florence Foster Jenkins.

Life and career
Bayfield was born John St. Clair Roberts in Cheltenham, England, the son of George Bayfield Roberts, an Oxford-educated country parson, and his wife Ida, the eldest of three illegitimate daughters of Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, a prominent politician and Governor-General of India in the years preceding the Indian Mutiny. St. Clair's maternal great-grandfather was Lord Chief Justice of England.  Little is known of Bayfield's early life in England, but as a young man he sailed to New Zealand, where he served as a sailor and soldier: at his 90th birthday party, he sang some of the sea shanties from that period of his life. While there, he tried farming.   

With a fine voice and physical presence, he became involved in amateur theatricals, leading eventually to his joining a professional company touring to Australia. His diary of time spent in Melbourne is included in the "Bayfield Archive" preserved at Lincoln Center, New York. He next acted with a company headed by the impresario William Ben Greet, who abandoned his cast to penury in a remote corner of the United States. That led to the establishment of Actor's Equity, of which Bayfield was a founding member.  His subsequent stage career involved regular appearances on Broadway for several decades, usually in works by British playwrights.  In 1909 he began a vague "common law" relationship with amateur operatic soprano Florence Foster Jenkins, seven years his senior, that lasted the remainder of her life.  The couple lived for many years in an apartment on 37th Street in Manhattan, New York.  Bayfield joined the Ben Greet Players in a revival of Twelfth Night that took the troupe to 56 Pennsylvania towns in 65 days during the summer of 1914. Also in the group was Sydney Greenstreet.

Bayfield lived with Jenkins and managed her career for 36 years.  After Jenkins' death in 1944, he married a piano teacher, Kathleen Weatherley, in 1945.  They lived in Larchmont, New York, where he died in 1967.

Achievements
The Actors' Equity Association bestows the annual St. Clair Bayfield Award upon an actor or actress in a non-featured role in a Shakespearean production.

Theatre credits
Bayfield's credits in Broadway theatre include:

In the media
Bayfield’s relationship with Jenkins was the basis for the biographical drama Florence Foster Jenkins, with Hugh Grant portraying Bayfield and Meryl Streep portraying Jenkins. The film, directed by Stephen Frears, premiered in London on 12 April 2016.

References

External links
 
 St. Clair Bayfield papers, 1898–1986, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
 New York Times obituary

1875 births
1967 deaths
Actors from Cheltenham
British emigrants to the United States
American people of English descent
American male Shakespearean actors
American male stage actors
St Clair
Male actors from New York City
Antonio Sáenz (June 6, 1780 – July 22, 1825) was an Argentine statesman, educator and cleric. He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán of July 9, 1816, which declared the Independence of Argentina. He was the first rector of the University of Buenos Aires.

Sáenz was born in Buenos Aires. He studied at the Real Colegio de San Carlos between 1794 and 1800, gained his degree in 1802, and became a doctor in law in Chuquisaca in 1804, having been ordained as a priest some years before. In 1804, he entered the Academia Carolina as a practising lawyer. He became shortly afterwards a teacher of theology, law and philosophy.

In 1805, Sáenz was appointed secretary of the church cabildo, which brought him into the public eye. His appointment was opposed by the Bishop of Buenos Aires, , and they fought publicly, culminating in Sáenz's imprisonment and trial. He was freed thanks to the intervention of the city's cabildo. He took part in the revolutionary events of May 1810 and represented San Luis Province in the 1813 Assembly. Thanks to his profile and links, he was also part of the Lautaro Lodge.

In 1812 it was Sáenz that found the dead body of Bishop Lue and suspicion was immediately placed on the younger priest, given the two men's history, an accusation he never shook off. The religious authorities sent him to Luján in a form of exile. He took no further part in church administration.

Sáenz was elected by Buenos Aires to the Congress of Tucumán and helped to write the declaration of independence in 1816, in his capacity as President of the Academy of Jurisprudence. In 1819 he was the Congress' President. He helped to found the University of Buenos Aires and became its first rector in 1821.

References
 Profile by the House of Tucumán

1780 births
1825 deaths
Members of the Congress of Tucumán
19th-century Argentine lawyers
Lawyers from Buenos Aires
Members of the Assembly of the Year XIII
People of the Argentine War of Independence
Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery
Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), located at Pilani, Jhunjhunu District, Rajasthan and Chennai, Tamil Nadu is a research institute in India and a constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR India), New Delhi. It was established in 1953 for advanced research and development in the field of Electronics.

Since its inception, it has been working for the growth of electronics in the country and has established the required infrastructure and well-experienced manpower for undertaking R&D in the following major areas :

 Cyber Physical Systems 
 Microwave Tubes
 Smart Sensors

The Chennai center focuses on process control instrumentation, automation, and machine vision technologies.

Notes

Research institutes in Chennai
Engineering research institutes
Research institutes in Rajasthan
Electronics industry in India
Research institutes in Tamil Nadu
1953 establishments in Madras State
Research institutes established in 1953
Peter MacNeill is a Canadian film and television actor and voice-over artist who has starred in numerous television series and films.

His film credits have included The Hanging Garden (for which MacNeill won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997), Geraldine's Fortune, Crash, Dog Park, Open Range, A History of Violence, and Regression.

On television, he has had roles in Queer as Folk (as Carl Horvath), Katts and Dog (as Sgt. Callahan), Traders (as Frank Larkin), The Eleventh Hour (as Warren Donohue), PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (as Ray Donahue) Call Me Fitz (as Ken Fitzpatrick), and The Good Witch series (as George O'Hanrahan). He is a two-time Gemini Award winner.

In January 2023, he was named the winner of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Earle Grey Award for lifetime achivement in acting at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards.

Selected filmography

Film

Television

Video games 

 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (2013) as Secretary of Defense

Awards and nominations
1994 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (nominated)
1997 Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor: The Hanging Garden (won)
1998 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program of Miniseries: Giant Mine (nominated)
2003 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: The Eleventh Hour (won)
2008 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program of Miniseries: Victor (won)
2011 Gemini Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role or Guest Role in a Comedic Series: Call Me Fitz (nominated)
2011 Gemini Award Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series: Call Me Fitz (nominated)
2015 Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role or Guest Role in a Comedic Series: Call Me Fitz (nominated)

References

External links

Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male voice actors
Best Supporting Actor Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Male actors from New Brunswick
20th-century Canadian male actors
21st-century Canadian male actors
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Canadian Screen Award winners
Best Supporting Actor in a Television Film or Miniseries Canadian Screen Award winners
Nova República (in English, "New Republic") is a district in the city of Santarém, Pará and is about 5 km to the South from the center. It is part of Grande Área da Nova República (English: Great Area of the New Republic), being the most populous and important.

References

External links
 http://www.chs.ubc.ca/consortia/outputs3/Brazil_Mapping_Report-2007-FINAL.pdf

Populated places in Pará
Pollenia margarita is a species of cluster fly in the family Polleniidae.

Distribution
P. margarita is distributed around Austria.

References

Polleniidae
Insects described in 2021
Diptera of Europe
Alejandro Ortiz (born 3 May 1952) is a Cuban former basketball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

References

1952 births
Living people
Cuban men's basketball players
1974 FIBA World Championship players
Olympic basketball players for Cuba
Basketball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1971 Pan American Games
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
Pan American Games medalists in basketball
Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games
Team UK may refer to:

 Team Britain, a former professional wrestling stable
 United Kingdom national quidditch team

See also
 Team GB, the British Olympic Association
Union (, Ittiḥād, ) is a rapid transit station on the Green and Red Lines of the Dubai Metro in Dubai. It is one of two transfer stations between lines, the other being BurJuman. Since it began service, over 16.224 million passengers have used Union station, making it the busiest station on the network.

History
Union station opened on 9 September 2009 (09-09-09) as part of the initial stretch of the Dubai Metro, with Red Line trains running from Rashidiya to Nakheel Harbour and Tower. Union was one of seven intermediate stations to begin service, with additional stations on the Red Line added intermittently over the next year. Exactly two years later, the Green Line began service. The area around the station is known for its extraordinary amount of stray cats.

Location
Located in Deira, Union station lies below Union Square. It is one of the closest metro stations to the central portion of Dubai Creek. As a result of its central location, nearby attractions and points of interest include numerous consulates, Dubai municipal government buildings, Al Ghurair City Mall and Maktoum Hospital. It is also close to Al Ghurair Centre, Dubai Creek, Twin Towers, and Union Square Bus Station (with buses to Ajman, Fujairah, and Sharjah).

Station layout
As one of two interchange points between the Green and Red Lines, Union station is one of the most complex stations of the Dubai Metro. Spanning , it is the largest underground station in the world. Both lines utilise a side platform setup with two tracks each; the Green Line tracks approach the station from the west below Al Maktoum Road and turn northwards underneath Omar Bin Al Khattab Road, while the Red Line crosses Dubai Creek and travels below Omar Bin Al Khattab Road before turning sharply eastward underneath Al Rigga Road.

Gallery

Platform layout

References

External links
 

Railway stations in the United Arab Emirates opened in 2009
Dubai Metro stations
Joseph M. Chamberlain (July 26, 1923 – November 28, 2011) was the chairman of Adler Planetarium.

Biography
Joseph M. Chamberlain was born on July 26, 1923, in Peoria, Illinois. He was hired as an assistant curator to the Rose Center for Earth and Space in 1952. In 1956, he became the chairman of the planetarium. The Adler Planetarium announced on December 11, 2011, that he died on November 28, of that year, at age 88 in Peoria, Illinois.

References

Further reading
 
 
 

1923 births
People from Peoria, Illinois
2011 deaths
Kellie Louise Lucas (born 31 March 1978) is an Australian badminton player. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's singles, doubles, and mixed doubles event. She participated at the three consecutive Commonwealth Games in 1998, 2002, and 2006, and winning a women's team bronze medal in 1998. Lucas was crowned Ballarat's Sportswoman of the Year for the fourth time in her sporting career.

Achievements

Oceania Championships
Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

IBF Grand Prix 
The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983.

Women's doubles

IBF International
Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

References

External links
 
 

1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ballarat
Australian female badminton players
Olympic badminton players for Australia
Badminton players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Badminton players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Badminton players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Badminton players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
The Yunnan lar gibbon (Hylobates lar yunnanensis), also known as the Yunnan white-handed gibbon, is a subspecies of the lar gibbon, a primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. This Chinese subspecies is thought to be extinct.

Taxonomy
This animal from Yunnan is listed as a distinct subspecies of the lar gibbon in recent taxonomic articles. However, there is still debate about the validity of this classification.

Appearance
This subspecies is distinguished from the other lar gibbon subspecies by its longer dorsal hair, shorter light hair-base, and red-brown or dark-brown pubic hair.

Status
The Nangunhe Nature Reserve in Southwest Yunnan has been the last stronghold of the Yunnan lar gibbon. During a survey from 4 to 18 November 2007, no evidence of the survival of the Yunnan lar gibbon could be found and the scientists of this survey tentatively concluded the lar gibbon has become extinct in China, and the Yunnan subspecies globally. The 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has listed this subspecies as data deficient "as its taxonomic and geographic limits are not well defined, but population sizes are by all accounts critical, and the remaining populations are near extinction."

References

External links
ARKive - images and movies of the white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar)
Gibbon Conservation Center
Thomas Geissmann's Gibbon Research Lab and Gibbon Network

Mammals of Southeast Asia
Hylobates
Fauna of Yunnan
Subspecies
Mammals described in 1986
Li Tournoiement as dames (The Ladies' Tournament) is part of a medieval German short story collection called Mären. This collection was written (or at least composed), by an anonymous author shortly before 1300. While scholars have featured it as a type of French fabliau (being contested due to the varying ownership of Alsace-Lorraine), it has stood out as a "unique" or "experimental" text for its time. It is studied as a text in German and French Medieval literature.

Plot

The characters in the story come from an elite/upper class status. Their society is composed of knights and is heavily involved in battle. Chivalry and honor are held in high regard. When their land is attacked the men are forced to leave for war, leaving the women behind in a community of their own. In this new society the women settle disputes by holding discussions among themselves, and leadership is won by developing the best rhetorical skills. During a debate on whether or not women gain or share the same honor as men a challenge is presented to the group, "the women are to put on the men's armor, mount the men's warhorses, and joust against each other in the pursuit of honor." In the battle the woman who wins is deemed the poorest among them, being forced to ride bearing the name of a famous knight, rather than a familial one. Once their victory story has traveled through the land and reached the famous knight, he comes to meet this poor maiden, pities her, gives her a dowry and marries her off to a rich man.

Scholarly importance

This text gives insight to the marriage system present in medieval central European society, and its closes tie with the importance of status. It also reveals to what degree women may have been involved in medieval french militancy.

References 

Medieval German literature
Medieval French literature
13th-century poems
CEPA may refer to:
 Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM states and the EU, concluded on 30 October 2008
 Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, as (CEPA between India and Republic of Korea, enforced on 1 January, 2010).
 Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Armenia
 Canadian Environmental Protection Act
 Center for Economic Policy Analysis at New School University, New York City
 Center for Education Policy Analysis
 Center for European Policy Analysis
 Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (disambiguation), between the Central Government of the People's Republic of China and its Special administrative regions (Hong Kong, Macau)
 Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)
 CEPA (Common Educational Proficiency Assessment)
CEPA in foreign languages
 Centro Ponceño de Autismo, Ponce, Puerto Rico

zh:CEPA
The Yogyakarta and Surakarta Offensive (Indonesian: Serangan Yogyakarta dan Surakarta) were two major offensives during the Indonesian National Revolution. The offensive started with General Offensive of 1 March 1949 and the Siege of Surakarta. Each proved a major boast for the morale of the TNI despite defeats in both actions.

General Offensive of 1 March 1949

In early 1949, Hamengkubuwono IX conceived the idea of a major offensive to be launched against Yogyakarta and the Dutch troops occupying it. The purpose of this offensive was to show to the world that Indonesia still existed and that it was not ready to surrender. The Offensive caught the Dutch by surprise. For his part, Hamengkubuwono IX allowed his palace to be used as a hide out for the troops. For 6 hours, the Indonesian troops had control of Yogyakarta before finally retreating. The offensive was a moral success, inspiring demoralized troops all around Indonesia. The battle contributed to the United Nations call for the release of Indonesian political prisoners under the Dutch and considerably successful in showing the world the Indonesian struggles still exist. In 29 June 1949, the Dutch later withdrew from Yogyakarta after pressure from the United Nations.

Surakarta insurgency

The Indonesian officers and Pakubuwono XII, strategically planned to use the opportunity before the ceasefire announced by Sudirman, to gain position and seize the enemy's position in Surakarta. The attack was directly supported by Pakubuwono XII by hiding several Indonesian troops in his palace. The planned attack was intended to let the Dutch know that Indonesia still had fangs. The Dutch were shocked by this attack, and ended with the failure of the Royal Dutch Army to defend Surakarta, shaking the confidence of the Dutch Parliament in the performance of its troops. This forced the Dutch prime minister to accommodate the demands of the Indonesian delegation as a condition before they were willing to attend the Round Table Conference.

Aftermath
This last battle of the RST showed again the qualitative superiority of the KST/RST on the Indonesian nationalist fighters.
The leader of the raid on Surakarta on August 7, 1949 was Lieutenant Colonel Slamet Riyadi. To commemorate this event, the main street of the city of Surakarta was renamed "Brigadier General Slamet Riyadi Street".

References

Conflicts in 1949
Indonesian National Revolution
1949 in Indonesia
Hamry (i.e. "hammer mills" in Czech) may refer to places in the Czech Republic:

Hamry (Chrudim District), a municipality and village in the Pardubice Region
Hamry (Klatovy District), a municipality and village in the Plzeň Region
Hamry, a village and part of Bystré (Svitavy District) in the Pardubice Region
Hamry, a village and part of Hradec (Havlíčkův Brod District) in the Vysočina Region
Hamry, a village and part of Plumlov in the Olomouc Region
Hamry nad Sázavou, a municipality and village in the Vysočina Region
Kryštofovy Hamry, a municipality and village in the Ústí nad Labem Region
Nové Hamry, a municipality and village in the Karlovy Vary Region
Staré Hamry, a municipality and village in the Moravian-Silesian Region
Velké Hamry, a town in the Liberec Region

See also
Hamr (disambiguation), similar name of several Czech locations