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Robert Jonathan Demme (February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker.
He was born in Baldwin, New York.
He was best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won an Academy Award.
He directed and co-produced Philadelphia and Rachel Getting Married.
Defensive tackles typically line up in the center of the defensive line.
As some of the largest players (in size) on the field, defensive tackles try to make it hard for the quarterback to throw the ball by blocking offensive linemen and tackles who protect the quarterback.
They rarely do anything else.
The capital is the city of Ōtsu.
Shiga used to be called Ōmi Province or Gōshū before Japan began using the prefectural system.
Shiga borders Fukui Prefecture in the north Gifu Prefecture  is in the east.
Mie Prefecture is in the southeast.
Kyoto Prefecture is in the west.
Lake Biwa is at the center of this prefecture.
The lake divides the prefecture into four areas:
, north of lake and centered at Nagahama
, west of lake and centered at Imazu
, east of lake and centered at Hikone
, south of lake and centered at Ōtsu
Ōtsu (capital)
Shiga University (Hikone and Otsu)
Shiga University of Medical Science (Otsu)
University of Shiga Prefecture (Hikone)
Shiga Junior College (Otsu)
Shiga Bunkyo Junior College (Nagahama)
Seian University of Art and Design (Otsu)
Seisen University (Hikone)
Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology (Nagahama)
Biwako-Gakuin University (Higashiomi)
Biwako-Gakuin College (Higashiomi)
Biwako Seikei Sport College (Otsu)
Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto and Kusatsu)
Ryukoku University (Kyoto and Otsu)
Sister states
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Michigan, USA
Hunan, People's Republic of China
Takebe jinja is the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
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Tokyo: Yamato Shobo.
Shiga Prefecture official page
go.biwako - Travel Guide of Shiga Prefecture, Japan (Biwako Visitors Bureau)
Shiga-ken.com
As of 2008, there were 87 , 89 public universities, and 580 private universities in Japan.
National universities tend to have a good reputation in higher education in Japan.
They are often more difficult to get into than private or public universities.
In 2004, the national university system changed.
National universities were no longer completely public public and more of a private.
Since 2004, every national university has become a special type of corporation.
They are called .
They now have more freedom and less control from the government.
Faculty and staff are no longer , and they do not work for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
The Government of Japan started The Open University of Japan and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.
It also supports them with money.
However, these two universities are not national universities; they are private universities.
The Japan Association of National Universities
Coffin Bay National Park is a large national park on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
It is  west of Port Lincoln.
The park protects a range of different coastal areas including high cliffs, surf beaches, quiet bays and huge sand dunes.
A large area of the park is on the Coffin Bay Peninsula.
Much of the park is only accessible by four-wheel drive vehicles or boat.
Aboriginal stories say a great fire came from the ocean.
Two men stopped the fire by dumping the sand dunes on top of it.
One of the trees found in the park is the Drooping Sheoak, Allocasuarina verticillata, and it is being replanted to restore some of the grassy woodlands.
Western Grey Kangaroos, lizards and emus can be found through the park.
Surface runoff is the excess water that flows over land when the soil below it is flooded.
This is a big part of the water cycle.
This a prime cause for soil erosion and degradation of soil.
Way Down East is a 1920 silent movie.
The movie stars Lillian Gish as Anna and Richard Barthelmess as David.
The movie is based on a 19th-century play by Lottie Blair Parker.
This movie is famous for its exciting climax.
Lillian Gish's character is rescued from certain death on an icy river.
Way Down East is the fourth highest grossing silent movie in movie history.
It brought in more than $4,500,000 at the box office in 1920.
Some parts of Way Down East were shot in an early Technicolor process.
Anna Moore, a poor country girl - Lillian Gish
David Bartlett, son of Squire Bartlett - Richard Barthelmess
Squire Bartlett, David's father - Burr McIntosh
Lennox Sanderson, father of Anna's baby - Lowell Sherman
Anna Moore is tricked into a fake marriage by the rich Lennox Sanderson.
She gets pregnant, and he leaves her.
She has the baby on her own.
The baby dies.
Anna wanders until she gets a job with Squire Bartlett.
His son David falls in love with her.
She rejects him because of her past.
Squire Bartlett learns of Anna's past.
He throws her out into a blizzard.
Anna becomes lost in the storm.
David leads a search party.
Anna floats down an icy river towards a steep waterfall.
She is rescued by David.
He marries her in the final scene.
Some modern critics like the movie, some do not.
Paul Brenner has written, "Many of Griffith's features suffer from sententious moralizing, a sense of God speaking to the masses, and outright racism.
But Way Down East highlights the greatness of Griffith without having to sit through the Sermon on the Mount or the Ride of The Klan.
In Way Down East, Griffith's psychotic nuttiness, for once, didn't get in the way of a good [movie]."
Critic Dennis Schwartz likes "the strong emotional performances of the diminutive Lillian Gish".
He decides that "this old-fashioned bucolic soap opera doesn't translate well to modern-times.
It's quintessential Griffith melodrama, a mix of opposing forces between those favoring Bible morality and the wealthy hedonists who mock God with their amorality ... [the movie] has an irritating moralistic Bible flavor in supporting monogamy ... The [movie]'s most exciting scene was made without any special effects, and is the only thing about the [movie] worth remembering."
Way Down East at SilentEra.com
Way Down East at The Greatest Films by Tim Dirks
Way Down East at YouTube
Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress.
She was born in Springfield, Ohio.
Gish came from a Episcopalian and Lutheran religious background.
She was a descendant of a colonial minister and a Revolutionary War hero.
Lillian was very young when her father abandoned his family.
She and her sister Dorothy joined the acting profession with their mother.
In 1912, their friend Mary Pickford introduced the sisters to D. W. Griffith.
They got contracts with Biograph Studios.
The sisters debuted in Griffith's short movie An Unseen Enemy in 1912.
Lillian starred in many of Griffith's most famous movies.
These included The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, and Orphans of the Storm.
One of the famous images of Gish's silent movie years is the climax of Way Down East.
Her character floats unconscious on an ice floe towards a waterfall, her long hair floating in the water.
She made "talkies" (movies with sound), too.
Her sound movie work was off and on.
She was in the controversial western Duel in the Sun and Night of the Hunter.
She did a lot of television work from the early 1950s until the 1980s.
At the end of her career she appeared with Bette Davis  in the 1987 movie The Whales of August.
She died in her sleep of natural causes on February 27, 1993.
She is buried next to her sister Dorothy at Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City.
Gish's career lasted 75 years, from 1912 to 1987.
She was given the nickname "The First Lady of American Cinema".
The American Film Institute (AFI) named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time.
She received an Honorary Academy Award in 1971.
In 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award.
Lillian Gish Film Festival in Springfield, Ohio
The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Film Theater
Extensive Lillian Gish gallery
Photographs and bibliography
Lillian Gish  photographed by Edward Steichen in November 1934
Maison 140
People from Springfield, Ohio
John Alexander Reina Newlands (26 November 1837– 29 July 1898) was an English chemist who worked on the discovery of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
He studied at the Royal College of Chemistry in London.
He arranged the chemical elements according to their atomic weight.
He noticed a pattern with every eighth element, which he compared to octaves in music.
He called this the Law of Octaves.
Gotham City is a fictional city which is the home of Batman, a DC Comics character.
The city is based on New York City and Chicago, and became Batman's home in 1941.
Gotham was a village in England, near Nottingham, where the people were all very foolish.
Author Washington Irving was the first person to describe New York as Gotham in his 1807 book, Salamagundi.
In Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight Gotham City is based in Chicago.
The Dark Knight Rises Gotham City is based in Pittsburgh, New York City, and Los Angeles.
Christopher Nolan based Gotham City on Chicago, New York City, and London.
When Bob Kane first thought of a city he wanted it to be like New York City, London, and Chicago.
Bill Finger was about to name the city "Civic City".
Mayors of Gotham City
The first Mayor of Gotham seen in the comics was not named.
He was drawn to look like Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was mayor of New York City.
Bruce Wayne was the Mayor of Gotham City for a week.
Mayor Hayes was introduced in Batman #207 (Dec. 1968).
His first name was not known.
Mayor Theodore Cobblepot was the great-grandfather of Penguin.
He had the longest time in office of all the mayors of Gotham City.
He is mentioned in Gotham Underground #9 (August 2008).
Mayor Thorndike appears in the flashbacks from the "Made of Wood" storyline (Detective Comics #784-786).
He was killed by the original Made of Wood Killer on July 17, 1948.
His first name was not given.
Mayor Wilson Klass was mayor during Batman's early years.
He first appeared in the "Prey" storyline from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight.
Mayor Hamilton Hill was a corrupt politician who became mayor through the dealings of Rupert Thorne.
He became mayor in Detective Comics #511 (February 1982).
During his early time in office, he helped in Thorne's attempts to identify and defeat Batman.
He fired Police Commissioner James Gordon and replaced him with one of Thorne's lieutenants, Peter Pauling.
Hill last appeared in Batman #381 (March 1985) in the Pre-Crisis DC universe.
Lloyd Bochner provides the voice of Mayor Hamilton Hill in Batman: The Animated Series.
In The Batman, he is voiced by Lex Lang.
He also briefly appears in the Young Justice episode "Alpha Male", in which he is voiced by Corey Burton.
Mayor Skowcroft appeared in Swamp Thing #53 (October 1986).
He tried to prevent panic when the city was under attack by Swamp Thing.
He is also mentioned in Batman #389 (November 1985) and appears in Detective Comics #553 (August 1985).
Mayor Julius Lieberman plays a major role in Batman Versus Predator #1 (1991) and also appears in Batman: Run, Riddler, Run #1-3 and Justice Society of America (vol.
2) #1.
Mayor Armand Krol first appeared in Detective Comics #647 (August 1992).
Like Hamilton Hill, he did not like Commissioner Gordon.
Krol also did not like Batman until the "Knightfall" series, during which Batman saved his life.
Krol died of the "Clench" virus released by Ra's al Ghul in the "Legacy" story arc (Detective Comics #699, July 1996).
Mayor Marion Grange was elected during the crisis caused by the Clench virus.
She replaced Krol, who was not doing a good job.
She re-appointed James Gordon as Police Commissioner (Robin #28, April 1996).
She remained mayor until Gotham was hit by an earthquake in the "No Man's Land" story arc.
She was killed by agents of Nick Scratch.
Grange appeared as a male in The Batman, and was voiced by Adam West.
The male version was also featured in the Beware the Batman episode "Broken".
Mayor Charles Chesterfield was killed by a strange biological disease that removed fat cells from the human body.
Mayor Daniel Danforth Dickerson III was mayor from the end of No Man's Land through the early 2000s.
He was a corrupt mayor.
He was killed by the Joker in Gotham Central #12.
Mayor David Hull was mayor through the mid-2000s.
Mayor Sebastian Hady was introduced in Batman as a very corrupt and mean politician.
He was taken hostage by Azrael (Michael Lane) during the events of "Judgement on Gotham", but was rescued by Red Robin.
Some of the mayors listed above also appeared in television series and movies about Batman.
There are some series and movies that have their own Mayors of Gotham City:
The 1960s television series Batman featured Mayor Linseed (played by Byron Keith).
His name was a reference to the name of the mayor of New York City at the time, John Lindsay.
The governor of "Gotham State" was named Stonefellow (a reference to Nelson Rockefeller who was governor of New York State during the same period).
The movie Batman (1989) featured Mayor William Borg, played by Lee Wallace.
Batman Forever (1995) featured an unnamed mayor (played by George Wallace).
Gotham Knight (2008) featured a Mayor Manning who was killed by Deadshot.
The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012) featured Mayor Anthony Garcia, played by Nestor Carbonell.
He was mayor during the Joker's reign of terror.
He survived an assassination attempt by the Joker thanks to James Gordon, who took the bullet for him and faked his own death to catch the Joker.
Because of his efforts in both situations, Garcia promotes Gordon to succeed Gillian B. Loeb as police commissioner after Loeb was killed.
After the death of Harvey Dent, he signs the "Dent Act", giving Commissioner Gordon enough police power to arrest every criminal in Gotham.
Garcia was killed during a Gotham Rogues football match at the start of the Gotham Revolution.
The television series Gotham (2014-2019) featured Mayor Aubrey James, played by Richard Kind.
Aubrey James is the long-term mayor of Gotham City.
He is a corrupt political figure, formerly under the control of Carmine Falcone and The Court of Owls.
The television series Gotham (2014-2019) featured Mayor Burke in Season 4, episode 19.
The Batman  (2022) features Mayor Mitchell, played by Rupert Penry-Jones.
In geology, a fracture is any kind of separation or break in a rock formation.
Examples are joints or faults.
These divides the rock into two or more pieces.
A fracture can sometimes form a deep, wide crack in the rock.
They are usually caused when the rock is not strong enough to hold up under too much stress.
This makes the rock crack along its weakest point.
Fractures can provide access for fluids, like water or hydrocarbons, to move into the rock.
In geology, a joint is a fracture dividing rock into two sections that moved away from each other.
A joint does not involve shear displacement, and forms when tensile stress breaches its threshold.
In other kinds of fracturing, like in a fault, the rock is parted by a visible crack that forms a gap in the rock.
Joints push out in various directions, usually vertically.
They can have smooth, clean surfaces, or they can be scarred from sliding against another joint.
Joints usually occur as sets, with each set made up of joints that are parallel to each other.
Joints become more and more obvious when the rock is weathered (eroded by the elements).
When water gets into the joints, this can lead to the formation of big caves and underground rivers.
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Pollyanna is a 1920 silent movie.
It stars Mary Pickford.
It was directed by Paul Powell.
It was based on Eleanor H. Porter's novel Pollyanna.
It was Pickford's first movie for United Artists.
It became a great success.
It would be regarded as one of the movies that defined Pickford's "little girl" movies.
She was 27, but played a 12 year old girl.
The movie made $1.1 million (that was about $10 million in 2008).
This was a lot of money at the time.
Movies directed by Paul Powell
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1923 silent movie based on Victor Hugo's novel.
It was directed by Wallace Worsley, produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg, and starred Lon Chaney, Sr.. The 1939 movie starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara.
It was Universal's "Super Jewel".
It was their most successful silent movie.
It had $3 million.
The movie is set in 15th century Paris.
Chaney's performance and spectacular make-up as the tortured bell-ringer of Notre Dame are famous.
The movie made Chaney a superstar.
It set a standard for horror movies including Chaney's own The Phantom of the Opera in 1925.
The capital is the city of Tottori.
It is the least populous prefecture in Japan.
The northern coastline of Tottori faces the Sea of Japan.
Its eastern border meets Hyōgo Prefecture.
The southern border meets Okayama Prefecture and Hiroshima Prefecture.
The western border meets Shimane Prefecture.
Tottori (capital)
Ubi jinjū and Shitori jinja are the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
Official Tottori Prefecture homepage
The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 silent movie.
It stars Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery.
This "swashbuckler" adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro.
It was based on the 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano" by Johnston McCulley.
This book introduced the masked hero, Zorro.
The screenplay was adapted from the book by Fairbanks (as "Elton Thomas") and Eugene Miller.
The movie was produced by Fairbanks for his own production company, Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation.
It was the first movie released through United Artists.
This company was formed by Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith.
The movie has been remade twice, once in 1940 (starring Tyrone Power) and again in 1974 (starring Frank Langella).
1920s adventure movies
Movies directed by Fred Niblo
Its capital is Yamagata.
The aboriginal  people once lived in the area now known as Yamagata.
This area was called "Yamagata" for the first time in Heian period.
However, different characters were used to write it.
The reason why this area was called Yamagata is not clear.
In Nanboku-chō period, Yamagata was written in same kanji that it is today.
Yamagata Prefecture is located in the southwest corner of Tōhoku.
It faces the Sea of Japan.
It borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture on the south, Miyagi Prefecture on the east, and Akita Prefecture on the north.
National parks cover about 17% of the total land area of the prefecture.
Ōmonoimia jinja is the main Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
Yamagata is a farming area.
It grows the most cherries and pears in the country.
Over 70 percent of cherries in Japan are grown in Yamagata.
Growing apples is important around the city of Yonezawa.
The safflower is a symbol of Yamagata Prefecture.
The number of farms growing safflower have steadily decreased since the 18th century.
Yonezawa beef is bred in Yonezawa city.
It is one of the most famous varieties of beef in Japan.
Yonezawa is also known for its soba noodles.
Shogi (chess) pieces are made in the city of Tendo.
The pieces are carved from wood.
Hanagasa festival has been held since 1963 and is one of the major festivals in Tohoku region.
At the festival, the dancers dance with "Hanagasa" that is a hat decorated with red flowers.
Uesugi snow lantern festival is held on the second weekend of February.
The candles in more than 300 snow lanterns and 3,000 snow lamps are lit up.
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Weather in Yamagata City
Yamagata Museum of Art
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Japan Guide
Swashbuckler movies are movies about rough, manly swordsmen.
A swashbuckling hero has high ideals.
He rescues damsels in distress.
His enemy is usually a dastardly villain.
Swashbucklers who combine outstanding courage, sword fighting skill, resourcefulness, chivalry, and a distinctive sense of honor and justice include The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Robin Hood, and Zorro.
Swashbuckler movies are one of the most flamboyant Hollywood genres.
These movies are unrealistic.
They are often set in the Renaissance, in Arabia, or on pirate ships.
Sets are elaborate.
Costumes are lavish.
Swashbuckler movies attract big audiences.
These audiences want to forget their boring everyday lives.
They can escape their lives in the adventure, romance, and daring stunts of the swashbuckler movie.
Famous actors who portrayed swashbucklers are Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks.
The stories came from romantic costume novels like those written by Alexandre Dumas, père and Rafael Sabatini.
Last but not least, thrilling music was an important part of the movie formula.
There were three great cycles of swashbuckler films: the Douglas Fairbanks period of 1920-1929, the Errol Flynn period of 1935-1941, and a period in the 1950s that included movies such as Ivanhoe.
The British television series The Adventures of Robin Hood made the genre even more popular.
The genre has been revived in the Pirates of the Caribbean series of movies.
They might also wear masculine-type clothes and play games and take part in activities which are often quite physical.
This type of thing is usually thought to be done more by boys.
West Point is a 1928 silent movie.
The story and screenplay were written by Raymond L. Schrock.
Titles were written by Joseph Farnham.
The movie was directed by Edward Sedgwick.
It was produced by Maj.
Raymond G. Moses.
The movie was shot on location at West Point and vicinity.
Photoplay gave the movie a nice review, commenting: "Bill Haines' starring vehicle ... treats everything in a humorous vein in the beginning, getting many laughs."
The same story was used for Dress Parade in 1927 starring William Boyd and Bessie Love.
The 1928 movie has been released to DVD.
Brice Wayne (played by Billy Haines) is an arrogant, impudent, and flippant West Point cadet.
He realizes that he does not have the proper school spirit.
He plays football, but is dismissed from the team shortly before the Army-Navy match.
Brice resigns from the Military Academy.
He retracts when his friends Tex McNeil (played by William Bakewell) and Betty Channing (played by Joan Crawford) encourage him to stay.
Restored to the team, Brice scores the big goal in the game against Navy.
Movies directed by Edward Sedgwick
Pope Victor I (189–199)
Pope Victor II (1055–1057)
Pope Victor III (1086–1087), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
Antipope Victor IV (1138)
Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)
Charles William "Billy" Haines (January 2, 1900 – December 26, 1973) was an American movie actor and interior designer.
He was a popular star of the silent movie era.
In 1933, MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer fired the gay actor because he did not want to enter into a marriage of convenience.
Haines never returned to movies.
Instead, he started a successful interior design business with his lifelong male partner Jimmie Shields.
Haines was born Charles William Haines on January 2, 1900 in Staunton, Virginia.
He sang in the choir of Trinity Episcopal Church.
He spent much time in the local movie theater.
Haines ran away from home at 14 with his boyfriend.
They opened a dance hall in Hopewell, Virginia.
The Haines family found their son.
He returned home to help support his sick father.
He found his way to New York City.
He joined the gay community in Greenwich Village.
He did some modelling.
He was discovered by a talent scout who sent him to Hollywood.
Haines played bit parts in silent movies.
His first good role was in Three Wise Fools in 1923.
The critics liked him.
MGM began promoting him as a future star.
He generally played arrogant young men who are humbled at the end of the movie.
He took a trip to New York in 1926.
He met James "Jimmie" Shields, probably as a pick-up on the street.
Haines convinced Shields to move to Los Angeles.
He promised to get Shields work as an extra.
The two were soon living together.
They viewed themselves as a committed couple.
In 1933 he was arrested in a YMCA with a sailor he had picked up in Los Angeles.
MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer told Haines to choose between a marriage with a woman or Jimmie Shields.
Haines chose Shields.
They stayed together for almost 50 years.
Mayer fired Haines and ended his contract.
Haines had many movie hits.
He was a top-five box office star from 1928 to 1932.
A 1930 survey of film exhibitors listed Haines as the top box office attraction in the country.
The Marines are Coming was his last movie.
It was made in a Poverty Row studio in 1934.
Haines was blacklisted in Hollywood for moral corruption.
Haines and Shields began careers as interior designers and antique dealers.
Hollywood celebrities went to their businesses.
In 1936, neighbors accused the two men of seeking sex with their son.
Members of the Ku Klux Klan dragged Haines and Shields from their home.
They were beaten.
Their close friends wanted them to prosecute.
Haines served in World War II.
The couple settled into the Hollywood community in Brentwood.
Their business made money and  they retired in the early 1970s.
Haines and Shields remained together for the rest of their lives.
Joan Crawford described them as "the happiest married couple in Hollywood."
Haines died from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California at the age of 73.
Soon afterward, Shields, who suffered from what many believe to have been Alzheimer's disease, put on Haines' pajamas, took an overdose of pills, and crawled into their bed to die.
They were buried side by side in Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery.
William Haines Designs is still in operation.
Its main offices are in West Hollywood with showrooms in New York, Denver, and Dallas.
Haines's life story is told in the 1998 biography Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star by William J. Mann.
Haines's designs are the subject of Peter Schifando and Haines associate Jean H. Mathison's 2005 book Class Act: William Haines Legendary Hollywood Decorator.
World of Wonder produced Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines It aired on HBO in 2001.
Haines has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7012 Hollywood Boulevard.
Martine McCutcheon (born Martine Kimberley Sherrie Ponting on 14 May 1976) is a British actress and singer.
She played Tiffany Mitchell in EastEnders from 1995-1998.
She played Natalie in Love Actually.
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy-drama movie.
The large majority of it is set in London, with parts of it set in Marseille, France and Wisconsin, United States.
It features several interlinked stories of love.
It was written and directed by Richard Curtis.
It stars Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Martine McCutcheon, Bill Nighy and Rowan Atkinson.
Saint-Cyr-l'École is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France.
It is 21.4 km (13.3 mi) from the center of Paris.
A floodplain is the flat area around a river that is covered in times of flood.
A floodplain is a very fertile area due to the rich alluvium (fine sediment) deposited by floodwaters.
This makes floodplains a good place for agriculture.
A build-up of alluvium on the banks of a river can create levees, which raise the river bank.
Satch Boogie is the fifth track from Joe Satriani's 1987 album Surfing With The Alien.
The piece is a hard driving rock boogie in shuffle time.
The solo is a mixture of A pentatonic blues and Dorian mode, the chord sequence is: A D F# A. The tapping solo uses Satriani's signature Pitch Axis Theory composition style, the central pitch in this case is A and the broken chords revolve around this note.
How to play Satch Boogie
A monomer is a single atom or molecule which is able to join with other monomers to make new substances called polymers.
The words come from the Greek language where mono means "one", poly means "many", and meros means "a part".
A feature of monomers is that they have two carbon atoms which are joined, called a carbon double bond.
The double bond allows the monomer to make the long chains of polymers.
There are thousands of different monomers.
Examples of monomers include monosaccharide which is simple sugar, glycerol, amino acid and nucleotide.
The most made monomer is ethylene
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Anne Tenney (born 1954 in Sydney) is an Australian movie and television actress.
She is best known for her role as Molly Jones in the television drama A Country Practice and as Sal Kerrigan in The Castle.
Tenney started her career with guest roles in several Australian drama series, before becoming a part of the cast of A Country Practice in 1981.
She left the program in 1985.
She then got roles in many other television series.
These include Police Rescue, Brides of Christ, E Street, Water Rats, Always Greener, All Saints and headLand.
She also appeared in 1997 movie The Castle.
She is married to actor Shane Withington.
He played her husband on A Country Practice.
Elio Di Rupo (born 18 July 1951) is a Belgian politician.
He served as the Prime Minister of Belgium from 2011 to 2014.
He was the leader of Parti socialiste.
He was born in Morlanwelz, Wallonia to Italian parents.
Di Rupo is openly gay.
Di Rupo is the first openly gay man to lead a sovereign state.
He was also the first openly gay man to win the position in his own right in an election.
Alderman of Belgium
Belgian atheists
Belgian LGBT people
Belgian mayors
MEPs for Belgium
Parti socialiste (Belgium) politicians
Walloon politicians
The capital is the city of Kyoto.
Kyoto Prefecture is almost in the center of Honshū and of Japan.
To the east, it faces Mie and Shiga Prefectures.
To the west, it faces Hyōgo Prefecture.
Kyoto University of Education
Kyoto Institute of Technology
Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Doshisha University
Kyoto Sangyo University (Kyoto Industrial University)
Ryukoku University
Bukkyo University
Otani University
Kyoto Gakuen University
Hanazono University
The Kamo Shrines (Kamigamo jinja and Shimogamo jinja) are the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
Official Kyoto Prefecture website (in English)
Kyoto Prefectural International Center
Kyoto Prefecture Daily Living Guide
Kyoto Tourism Federation
Kyoto Visitors Guide
Batik  is an Indonesian method of dyeing cloth and making it resistant using wax.
Such fabrics originally come from the island of Java.
Nowadays, batik also can be found worldwide, mainly in Asia and Africa.
History of batik
Batik is an ancient fabric wax-resist dyeing tradition of Java island (nowadays part of modern Indonesia).
In the Ramayana—ancient Sanskrit epics dated 500 BC—, the island of Java is recorded as the island that already had seven kingdoms long before the story of Ramayana created, and Batik is one of the regarded clothes that have glorious value that originally made by the manufacturers within the kingdoms' environment itself.
Batik is a part of an ancient Javanese tradition and has been taught for centuries, the art of batik is most highly developed in Java and some of the best batiks in the world still made there until today.
Due to the colonialism, batik also became popular in the Western countries, especially since the Dutch colonial era.
To make a batik, they use the cloth as the paper, and they just start drawing hot wax over the cloth.
And they said if we repeated the process, it will be more colorful.
For the first step, make sure the cloth is washed.
Batik patterns are drawn with pencil and later drawn again using a hot wax.
The very common thing that people use is the pen-like instrument called a tjanting.
After the cloth is dry, the areas keep their original color, and it also shows the pattern between the areas that have the color and do not have the color.
It gives them a pattern.
Then the artist repeats the process once for each color.
A very traditional type of batik, called written batik, is drawn using only a tjanting.
The cloth needs to be drawn on both sides and put in a color bath three or four times.
The process may take up to a year.
Payment protection insurance (commonly abbreviated PPI) is a special insurance.
People who get a loan  can get an insurance against dying, having an accident or becoming unemployed during the runtime of this loan.
If the person taking the loan dies, the rest of the loan is paid by the insurance company; if they become unable to work because of an accident, or because of unemployment, the insurance company will pay the installments.
was a Japanese political activist and assassin.
He killed the head of the Japanese Socialist Party (JCP).
On October 12, 1960, the killing was broadcast live by NHK television.
Yamaguchi was an assassin because he killed a politically active man.
His reasons for the murder were political.
Yamaguchi was a member of a radical group.
In 1960, he killed Inejiro Asanuma when he was at a public meeting.
Soon after, Yamaguchi killed himself in a juvenile center.
He wrote on the wall of the room in which he hung himself.
His last words were written using a paste made from tooth powder and water.
He wrote "Seven lives for my country ..." which was a reference to the last words of 14th century samurai Kusunoki Masashige.
Yasushi Nagao captured the assassination in a dramatic photograph.
The Japanese photographer was the first non-American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
The image won the 1960 World Press Photo award.
Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburō Ōe based his book Seventeen on Yamaguchi.
1960 World Press Photo by Yasushi Nagao
West Hollywood (nickname: WeHo) is a city of Los Angeles County, California.
It was made a city on November 29, 1984.
The population was 34,399 at the 2010 census.
According to a 2002 analysis, 41% of the city's population is made up of gays.
West Hollywood and the neighboring city of Beverly Hills are surrounded by the city of Los Angeles.
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Stephen L. "Steve" Reeves (21 January 1926 - 1 May 2000) was an American bodybuilder and actor.
He was born in Glasgow, Montana.
He moved to California with his mother at age 10.
He trained as a bodybuilder.
He joined the US Army and served in the Pacific during World War II.
After the war, he pursued bodybuilding.
In 1946, he won the title of Mr. Pacific Coast.
Within the next four years he won the world's most famous titles, including Mr. America, Mr. World, and Mr. Universe.
Reeves started acting.
In 1954, he had some small parts in movies and was on television.
In 1957, he made Hercules, a low budget movie based on the ancient Greek stories of the Golden Fleece.
It made $5 million in the United States.
From 1959 through 1964, Reeves starred in many low budget peplum movies.
In 1963, he married Aline Czarzawicz.
The couple retired to Southern California in 1969.
He wrote an exercise guide, Building the Classic Physique the Natural Way.
He bought a ranch and bred horses.
Reeves died from lymphoma in Escondido, California in 2000.
Athena (1954) Hollywood movie directed by Richard Thorpe
Jail Bait (1954) Hollywood movie directed by Ed Wood
Hercules (1957) (Le fatiche di Ercole / The Labors of Hercules) released in Italy in 1958, released in US in 1959
Hercules Unchained (1959) (Ercole e la regina di Lidia / Hercules and the Queen of Lydia) released in US in 1960
Goliath and the Barbarians (1959) (Il terrore dei barbari / Terror of the Barbarians)
The Giant of Marathon (1959) (La battaglia di Maratona / The Battle of Marathon)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei / The Last Days of Pompeii)
The White Warrior (1959) (Hadji Murad il Diavolo Bianco / Hadji Murad, The White Devil) directed by Riccardo Freda
Morgan, the Pirate (1960) (Morgan, il pirato)
The Thief of Baghdad  (1961) (Il Ladro di Bagdad / The Thief of Baghdad)
The Trojan Horse (1961) (The Trojan War)
Duel of the Titans (1961) (Romolo e Remo / Romulus And Remus)
The Slave (1962) (Il Figlio di Spartaco / Son of Spartacus)
The Avenger (1962) (La leggenda di Enea / The Legend Of Aeneas) this was a sequel to "The Trojan Horse" (aka The Last Glory of Troy or War of the Trojans)
Sandokan the Great (1964) (Sandokan, the Tiger of Mompracem) directed by Umberto Lenzi
Sandokan, the Pirate of Malaysia (1964) aka The Pirates of Malaysia, aka Pirates of the Seven Seas; this was a sequel to Sandokan the Great, directed by Umberto Lenzi
A Long Ride from Hell (1967) (I Live for Your Death!)
spaghetti western directed by Camillo Brazzoni, produced and co-written by Steve Reeves
An Interview with Steve Reeves by Roy Frumkes, from The Perfect Vision Magazine, Volume 6, Issue #22, July 1994
How Steve Reeves Trained by John Grimek, Muscular Development November 1964 , account of how Reeves trained to prepare for the 1950 Mr. Universe competition at the York Barbell Club gym
Feature Films: Hercules
Feature Films: Hercules Unchained
Steve Reeves Gallery
Hercules is a 1958 movie.
It is based on the Ancient Greek tales of Hercules, Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece.
Steve Reeves stars as Hercules.
A massive "saturation" promotional campaign was launched in the United States for the movie.
It opened in 175 theatres alone in the New York City area.
Hercules became a big hit as a result, and Steve Reeves became a big star.
Hercules paved the way for dozens of flicks starring oily bodybuilders as mythological heroes battling monsters, despots, and evil queens.
The movie had a sequel called Hercules Unchained.
It also starred Reeves.
New York Times Tribute to Steve Reeves
1950s epic movies
Peplum movies
Peplum movie (sometimes, sword and sandal movie) is a movie  genre.
Peplum movies have an ancient Greek, Roman, or Biblical setting. "
Peplum" refers to a garment worn by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
The central character in a peplum movie is usually a muscular hero like Hercules or Samson.
He wears a short peplum and battles monsters, despots, and evil queens.
This oil-slicked, nearly-nude hero is rewarded at the end of the movie with the cheers of his people, clan, or tribe  and the hand of a lovely princess.
Peplum movies were mostly made in Italy.
Italian moviemakers modelled peplum movies on the big budget Hollywood epics like Spartacus.
The genre was very important in Italian moviemaking from 1957 to 1965, but was shoved aside in 1965 by the "Spaghetti Western".
Critics thought peplum movies were pretty poor stuff.
They treated them with contempt.
Italian director Vittorio Cottafavi called the genre "Neo-Mythology".
Charlton Heston's Ben-Hur (1959) and Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra (1963) are generally considered big-budget sword and sandal movies that mark the end of the genre.
Muscular Christianity is a term for a movement originating during the Victorian era.
It stressed the need for active Christian activism and belief of vigorous masculinity.
It is most associated with the English writers Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes, and in Canada with Ralph Connor, though the name was bestowed by others.
Kingsley and Hughes promoted physical strength and health (at least for men) as well as an active pursuit of Christian ideals in personal life and politics.
Muscular Christianity has continued itself through organisations that combine physical and Christian spiritual development.
It is influential within both Catholicism and Protestantism.
''The Manly Christ: a New View".
Robert Warren Conant.
The Masculine Power of Christ; or, Christ Measured as a Man.
Jason Noble Pierce.
The List of Omiya Ardija players is evolving.
Omiya Ardija  is a Japanese professional football club in the Ōmiya ward of Saitama.
Sean Ali Stone (born 1984) is an American movie director, producer, cinematographer, screenwriter and actor.
He is the elder son of Oliver Stone.
Salvador (1986) as Boyle's Baby
Wall Street (1987) as Rudy Gekko
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) as Young Jimmy Kovic
JFK (1991) as Jasper Garrison
The Doors (1991) as Young Jim Morrison
Heaven & Earth (1993)Natural Born Killers (1994) as KevinNixon (1995) (1997) as Donald Nixon
U Turn (1997)
Fighting Against Time: Oliver Stone's Alexander (2005) himself as narrator
Resurrecting Alexander (2005) himself as narrator
Perfect Is the Enemy of Good (2005) himself as narrator
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Nevo (2011) as Stephan
Graystone (2011) as Sean
American Road (2011) as Jack Kerouac
Don't Pass Me By (2012) as Josh Malek
As director, producer, cinematographer, screenwriter
Fighting Against Time: Oliver Stone's Alexander (2005) (as qriter, producer, director, cinematographer)
The Death of Alexander (2005) (as producer, director, cinematographer)
Resurrecting Alexander (2005) (as producer, director, cinematographer)
Perfect Is the Enemy of Good (2005) (as producer, director, cinematographer)
Nuremberg: A Vision Restored (2007) (as producer, director, cinematographer)
Singularity (2008) (as writer, producer, director)
Graystone (2011) (as writer, director)
Machinima ( or ) is a type of animation and digital moviemaking style.
It is the use of 3D computer graphics with a 3D video game or computer game to create the 3D animation.
The creator who is making the video will record in-game animation and edit it with voice recordings.
Machinima can be script-driven, meaning the cameras, characters, and effects are scripted for playback in real time.
Unlike other types of animation, the scripting is driven by events and not keyframes.
Machinima limits the controls of other animation types.
This is according to Machinima.org.
For example, Machinima videos can be shot live or scripted in real time.
So it becomes much faster to produce than traditionally animated movies.
Machinima productions can remain close to their gaming roots and feature stunts or other portrayals of gameplay.
Popular genres include dance videos, comedy, and drama.
Alternatively, some filmmakers attempt to stretch the boundaries of the rendering engines or to mask the original 3-D context.
The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences (AMAS), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting machinima, recognizes exemplary productions through Mackie awards given at its annual Machinima Film Festival.
Some general film festivals accept machinima, and game companies, such as Epic Games, Blizzard Entertainment and Jagex, have sponsored contests involving it.\
The Making of Machinima
The AMAS defines machinima as "animated filmmaking within a real-time virtual 3-D environment".
In other 3-D animation methods, creators can control every frame and nuance of their characters but, in turn, must consider issues such as key frames and in-betweening.
Machinima creators leave many rendering details to their host environments, but may thus inherit those environments' limitations.
Because game animations focus on dramatic rather than casual actions, the range of character emotions is often limited.
However, Kelland, Morris, and Lloyd state that a small range of emotions is often sufficient, as in successful Japanese anime television series.
Another difference is that machinima is created in real time, but other animation is pre-rendered.
Real-time engines need to trade quality for speed and use simpler algorithms and models.
In the 2001 animated film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, every strand of hair on a character's head was independent; real-time needs would likely force them to be treated as a single unit.
Kelland, Morris, and Lloyd argue that improvement in consumer-grade graphics technology will allow more realism; For cut scenes in video games, issues other than visual fidelity arise.
Pre-rendered scenes can require more digital storage space, weaken suspension of disbelief through contrast with real-time animation of normal gameplay, and limit interaction.
Like live action, machinima is recorded in real-time, and real people can act and control the camera.
Filmmakers are often encouraged to follow traditional cinematic conventions, such as avoiding wide fields of view, the overuse of slow motion, and errors in visual continuity.
Unlike live action, machinima involves less expensive, digital special effects and sets, possibly with a science-fiction or historical theme.
Explosions and stunts can be tried and repeated without monetary cost and risk of injury, and the host environment may allow unrealistic physical constraints.
University of Cambridge experiments in 2002 and 2003 attempted to use machinima to re-create a scene from the 1942 live-action film Casablanca.
Machinima filming differed from traditional cinematography in that character expression was limited, but camera movements were more flexible and improvised.
Nitsche compared this experiment to an unpredictable Dogme 95 production.
Berkeley sees machinima as "a strangely hybrid form, looking forwards and backwards, cutting edge and conservative at the same time".
Machinima is a digital medium based on 3-D computer games, but most works have a linear narrative structure.
Some, such as Red vs. Blue and The Strangerhood, follow narrative conventions of television situational comedy.
Nitsche agrees that pre-recorded ("reel") machinima tends to be linear and offers limited interactive storytelling; he sees more opportunities in machinima performed live and with audience interaction.
In creating their improvisational comedy series On the Campaign Trail with Larry & Lenny Lumberjack and talk show Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will, the ILL Clan blended real and virtual performance by creating the works on-stage and interacting with a live audience.
In another combination of real and virtual worlds, Chris Burke's talk show This Spartan Life takes place in Halo 2s open multiplayer environment.
There, others playing in earnest may attack the host or his interviewee.
Although other virtual theatrical performances have taken place in chat rooms and multi-user dungeons, machinima adds "cinematic camera work".
Previously, such virtual cinematic performances with live audience interaction were confined to research labs which had powerful computers.
Machinima can be less expensive than other forms of filmmaking.
Strange Company produced its feature-length machinima film BloodSpell for less than £10,000.
Before using machinima, Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum of Rooster Teeth Productions spent US$9,000 to produce a live-action independent film; in contrast, the four Xbox game consoles used to make Red vs. Blue in 2005 cost $600.
The low cost caused a product manager for Electronic Arts to compare machinima to the low-budget independent film The Blair Witch Project, without the need for cameras and actors.
Because these are seen as low barriers to entry, machinima has been called a "democratization of filmmaking".
Berkeley weighs increased participation and a blurred line between producer and consumer against concerns that game copyrights limit commercialization and growth of machinima.
Comparatively, machinimists using pre-made virtual platforms like Second Life have indicated that their productions can be made quite successfully with no cost at all.
Creators like Dutch director Chantal Harvey, producer of the 48 Hour Film Project Machinima sector, have created upwards of 200 films using the platform.
Harvey's advocacy of the genre has resulted in the involvement of film director Peter Greenaway who was a juror for the Machinima category and gave a keynote speech during the event.
Character and camera control
From simple to advanced, these are: relying on the game's AI to control most actions, digital puppetry, recamming, and precise scripting of actions.
Although simple to produce, AI-dependent results are unpredictable, thus complicating the realization of a preconceived film script.
For example, when Rooster Teeth produced The Strangerhood using The Sims 2, a game that encourages the use of its AI, the group had to create multiple instances of each character to accommodate different moods.
Individual instances were selected at different times to produce appropriate actions.