Danieli Haloten

Danieli Haloten is a journalist, actress and lecturer especially noted for being the first blind actress in the world to play a major role in a Brazilian soap opera Caras & Bocas broadcast by the Globo Network.
Early years.
Haloten was born on February 21, 1980, in Curitiba the capital of Paraná, in the south of Brazil. Haloten was born with a sight deficiency, caused by glaucoma and lost the vision of her left eye during surgery, at the age of ten. Gradually, she began to lose the vision in her other eye and by the age of 17 had become blind.
Haloten majored in Journalism in PUCPR (Catholic Pontifice University of Parana), and Performing Arts in UFPR (Federal University of Parana). Even in TV Globo, she worked as a reporter in "Video show" and "Fantástico", with journalist Caco Barcellos. She has done internships on radio, for newspapers and government departments as a journalist. One of the newspapers was "Folha de S.Paulo", the biggest journal in Latin America.
Since Haloten was a child, she always performed in theater and dreamed of working on TV. Her first job in television was on a TV show where she presented live, on Commentary TV, in 1999. After this experience, she looked for sponsors and created, produced and presented "Danieli Multishow", on Band TV. It was a show with interviews and music, showing in 2000.
While Haloten studied Journalism, she created and presented "Faro": a TV Show where she sniffed around for news with her guide dog. The project, still unedited, won first place on the "Sangue novo" prize offered by Parana Journalists Association, competing with students from all the states in Brazil.
Breakthrough Role.
Haloten is perhaps best known for playing Anita in the soap opera titled "Caras & Bocas", written by Walcyr Carrasco and directed by Jorge Fernando, working with such renowned actors as Ary Fontoura and Beth Mendes. The TV show was broadcast in Brazil between April 2009 and January 2010, by TV Globo, a world leader in soap opera production. The show was also broadcast in many European and Latin countries, under the title: "Aquarela del Amor".
Anita began just as a minor role as the protagonist's sister, but with each episode, she became more popular with viewers and received critical acclaim. "Caras & Bocas" broke audience records in Brazil and Haloten enjoyed a starring role in a majority of the major scenes. The writers of the show noticed Haloten's talent for acting and as she continued to get a warm reception from the public, more importance was given to her character. In just one season in this soap opera she had opportunity to play a variety of scenes, achieving in such a short period what would normally take an entire career for most actors.
When Haloten starred in this major Brazilian Soap Opera, she became big news and was invited as a guest on almost every Brazilian talk show for such major networks as TV Globo and others such as "Programa da Hebe", on SBT, which is one of the most important Brazilian TV host programs. Haloten also wrote the plays "Visita indesejada" and "Direito de enxergar". When Haloten starred in a Soap-Opera, she became big news in every Brazilian broadcast.
Anita Batista da Silva.
At the beginning, Anita was a good girl, protected by her brother Gabriel, played by Mlvino Salvador. Throughout the story, she challenged her role in the family, seeking to have own her job, and also to start dating with Anselmo. At her engagement party, she discovered that her boyfriend had lied to her about everything. It was Anita's first big scene and also the first audience record of "Caras & Bocas". Another scene that caught the attention of the public was at Anita's honeymoon, when her husband had an accident in the forest, and Anita went there by herself, without a cane. While looking for help, she is walking by the river and is attacked by a serpent.
As the challenges went on, Anita became more mature, became the family's adviser, had a son and finally, had to deal with the kidnapping of her baby. People still talk about this scene and recognize her great work.
Raising Awareness.
In 2011, Haloten starred in her first comedy set called "Danieli Haloten: Nua e Crua", written by her. Haloten also wrote the plays "Visita indesejada" and "Direito de enxergar".
Nowadays, Haloten give speeches about inclusion of disabilities, motivation and career success and actively seeking for new opportunities to work on TV as a reporter, TV hostess or actress.
Nowadays, Haloten gives speeches about inclusion of disabilities, motivation and career success and is still looking for an opportunity to work on TV as a reporter, TV hostess or actress.
Haloten was born with sight deficiency, caused by Glaucoma and lose the vision of her left eye during surgery, when she was ten years old. After this, she began to lose the vision in her other eye and by the age of 17 had become blind.
It was Anita's first big scene and also the first audience record of "Caras & Bocas". Another scene that caught the attention of the public was at Anita's honeymoon, when her husband had an accident in the forest, and Anita went there by herself, without a cane. While looking for help, she is walking by the river and is attacked by a serpent. The challenges went on. Anita became more mature, became the family's adviser, had a son and finally, had to deal with the kidnapping of her baby. People still talk about this scene and recognize her great work.
Haloten majored in Journalism in PUCPR (Catholic Pontifice University of Parana), and Performing Arts in UFPR (Federal University of Parana). Even in TV Globo, she worked as a reporter in "Video show" and "Fantástico", with journalist Caco Barcellos.
She has done an internship on radio, for newspapers and government departments as a journalist. One of these papers was "Folha de S.Paulo", the biggest journal of Latin America. Haloten was born in 1980, February 21, in Curitiba the capital of Paraná, in the south of Brasil. While Haloten studied Journalism, she created and presented "Faro": a TV Show where she sniffed around for news with her guide dog. The project, still unedited, won first place on the "Sangue novo" prize offered by Parana Journalists Association, competing with students from all the states in Brazil.
Since Haloten was a child, she wished to work on TV. She always performed in theater. Her first job in television was on a TV show where she presented live, on Community TV, in 1999. After this experience, she looked for sponsors and created, produced and presented "Danieli Multishow", on Band TV. It was a show with interviews and music, showing in 2000. In 2011, Haloten starred in her first stand-up comedy set called "Danieli Haloten: Nua e Crua", written by her.


The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour

The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour are a television crossover specials trilogy set between the universes of the animated television series "The Fairly OddParents" and "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius" (one of the two spin-off TV series of the film ""). The saga consists of the three specials "The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour", "The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide", and "The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3: The Jerkinators". The specials premiered on Nickelodeon between 2004 and 2006, and were subsequently released to home video. The specials combine traditional animation and CGI.
Specials.
"The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour" (2004).
The first TV movie premiered on Nickelodeon on May 7, 2004.
Struggling with his science project, Timmy Turner wishes that he could be sent to the best laboratory in any universe. When his fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, fulfill this wish, Timmy is sent to Retroville, the fictional universe of child prodigy Jimmy Neutron, who's sent to Dimmsdale in Timmy's universe when he activates a magical transporter created by Cosmo and Wanda. As they attempt to return to their respective settings, the characters interact with the various side characters of each other's universe and Timmy becomes romantically involved with Jimmy's classmate, Cindy Vortex. But Timmy's meddling with Goddard, Jimmy's robotic dog, and the seizure of the magical transporter from Jimmy by Mr. Crocker, Timmy's fairy-obsessed teacher, both threaten each character's world in turn.
"The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide" (2006).
The second TV movie premiered on Nickelodeon on January 16, 2006.
Timmy and Jimmy enter each other's worlds for a second time, both wanting to ask Cindy out to their school dance celebrating Friday the 13th. In an attempt to gain Cindy's affections, the two engage in a battle of smarts that sends Jimmy and his friends to Dimmsdale. As Jimmy seeks to prove that Timmy is a fraudulent scientist, Cosmo and Wanda struggle to keep their existence a secret from the people of Retroville. Meanwhile, Professor Calamitous, who is of Jimmy's universe, unleashes a surge of anti-fairies from Fairy World that threatens the rotation of Timmy's Earth. Jorgen von Strangle, the muscular fairy supervisor and enforcer of "Da Rules", gets increasingly frustrated by Jimmy's and Timmy's friends and their manipulation of fairy magic.
"The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3: The Jerkinators" (2006).
The third and final TV movie premiered on Nickelodeon on July 21, 2006.
In their third and final encounter, Timmy and Jimmy make amends while trying to defeat the enemies from their own universes—including a monster that they concoct together—while accidentally rejecting their respective friends in the process, including Cindy. Initially, they are unable to make the monster evil enough to fight them properly, but when they succeed, he absorbs Cosmo and Wanda's magic and Jimmy's intelligence, and begins destroying both children's universes.
Production.
Each special in the "Jimmy Timmy Power Hour" series combines the 2D hand-drawn traditional animation of the "Fairly OddParents" and the 3D computer-generated imagery animation of "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius". This blending of animation techniques was a technical challenge for the studios responsible for both series, according to Keith Alcorn, co-founder of series producer DNA Productions.
Release and reception.
According to "Variety", the first special was seen by nearly five million viewers on its Nickelodeon premiere, on May 7, 2004. Terry Kelleher of "People" gave the first special three stars out of four, calling it a "blast of creativity" although hard to follow. "The Washington Post" similarly gave it praise. The network considered it a success. The second special, aired January 16, 2006, was seen by nearly 5.5 million viewers, according to "The New York Times". The third and final special aired July 21, 2006.


Alonso del Arco

Alonso del Arco (1635–1704) was a Spanish painter.
Life.
Born at Madrid in 1635, he was a disciple of Antonio de Pereda. He was deaf from birth and was called "El Sordillo de Pereda". He was an eminent painter, both of history and portraits. Several of his pictures are mentioned by Palomino, particularly the "Miraculous Conception", and the "Assumption of the Virgin", in the cloister of the Trinitarios Descalzos at Madrid, and in the church of San Salvador is a fine picture of Santa Teresa. Cean Bermudez enumerates a great number of his works in the churches at Madrid, and in other public buildings throughout Spain. He died at Madrid in 1704.
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Me to You Bears

Me to You Bears (also known as Tatty Teddies) is the brand name of a collection of teddy bears made by the Carte Blanche Greetings Ltd. They are often found in Clinton Cards. They were first created in 1987 and appeared in their current guise in 1995. A number of products are available related to Tatty Teddy including plush toys, figurines, cards, mugs, and wedding accessories.
Origin.
The beginnings of Me to You started in 1987 when Carte Blanche Greetings chairman and Founder, Stephen Haines, approached Mike Payne to create a group of 'cute' characters to appear on a series of greeting cards. This led to the creation of various cartoon animals called the Miranda gang, which notably included a brown bear with patches.
Deciding it was time for a refresh, in 1995 Carte Blanche gave the bear a new look. Drawn in charcoal pencil turning the bear from brown to grey, and with the addition of a bright blue nose, a few more patches and a story of his very own 'Tatty Teddy' and 'Me to You' were born.
Me to You is now a global brand and Tatty Teddy now appears on a wide range of Me to You products including greeting cards, plush, clothing, gifts, figurines, personalised products and confectionery. Over 75 million Me to You plush bears have been sold since 2000.
Availability.
First only available in the UK, it was announced in December 2011 that the Douglas Company received a license to sell the brand in the US and Canada.
Appearance.
The first generation of Tatty Teddy soft toys, produced in 2000, was based on the original greeting card design of 1995 consisting of a teddy bear with short grey fur, small black eyes, an off-white snout and a blue nose with a white reflective spot on the right hand side. They also have patches of a light grey colour which appear to have been sewn onto them, along with stitching repair work on the arms and head, hence the name 'tatty'. The words 'Me to You' are embroidered on the right rear paw. The very first Tatty Teddy was hand crafted by Linda Laverty of Worthing, West Sussex. The second generation Tatty Teddy, introduced in 2003, kept to the same overall design but with much finer fur. To coincide with the 2003 redesign, the 'Me to You' story was also published, describing how the teddy bear came to be in its current state. A third generation Tatty Teddy was introduced in May 2009. This bear has much longer fur in various shades of grey and a blue plastic nose, rather than the fabric nose on previous generations. The reflective spot has been removed since the new plastic nose has reflective qualities.
The bears come in many different sizes, ranging from 5 cm to in excess of 80 cm, and often come with accessories such as hearts, roses, T-shirts, wooly hats and scarves. Some have personalised messages from a simple "I Love You" to longer seasonal and event related messages. It is even possible for customers to personalise their bears. The bears are particularly popular amongst females in the 10–30 age group although they are also designed to be romantic gifts for people of all ages as they can be considered 'cute'. Due to this they are becoming collectors items, similar to Steiff and Beanie Baby toys. Indeed, there are even annual Tatty Teddy national collectors events.
Several special edition and limited edition bears have also been produced, enhancing the collectible nature of the toys, which see the bear dressed in different costumes including various animals and the four seasons (summer, winter etc.). Many of the limited and special edition releases are designed to tie in with events such as Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Christmas. The number of these limited edition bears produced is usually 9000, however this can range from 1500 to in excess of 10,000.
Regional variations of Tatty Teddy are also available, for example Scottish dress and London Beefeater. Versions of Tatty Teddy have also been made for the tourist market, usually wearing a T-shirt with an expressive message, for example 'I Love Cornwall'.
The makers of the teddies do not recommend that they are cleaned in washing machines but instead should be hand washed. This is because the dye in the clothes of the bears has not been tested to see if they are colorfast.
My Blue Nose Friends.
In the summer of 2008, "My Blue Nose Friends" were released – other animal toys in the same style as Tatty Teddy. The story given is that Tatty Teddy was lonely and dreamt of a wardrobe full of friends.
2008.
Set 1 – June 2008
Set 2 – August 2008
Set 3 – October 2008
Set 4 – December 2008
2009.
Set 5 – January 2009
Set 6 – May 2009
Limited Edition 1 – June 2009
Set 7 – August 2009
Limited Edition 2 – September 2009
Set 8 – November 2009
Limited Edition 3 – December 2009
2010.
Set 9 – January 2010
Limited Edition 4 – January 2010
Set 10 – March 2010
Set 11 – June 2010
Limited Edition 5 – July 2010
Set 12 – August 2010
Set 13 – November 2010
Limited Edition 6 – Christmas 2010
2011.
Set 14 – January 2011
Limited Edition 7 – Valentine's Day 2011
Set 15 – March 2011
Limited Edition 8 – June 2011
Set 16 – June 2011
Set 17 – August 2011
Limited Edition 9 – September 2011
Set 18 – November 2011
Limited Edition 10 – November 2011
2012.
Set 19 – January 2012
Limited Edition 11 – January 2012
Set 20 – March 2012
Limited Edition 12 – April 2012
Set 21 – May 2012
Set 22 – August 2012
Limited Edition 13 – November 2012
2013.
Set 23 – April 2013
Set 24 – June 2013
Set 25 – September 2013
Set 26 – November 2013
Set 27 – December 2013
2014.
Set 28 – March 2014
Set 29 – May 2014
Set 30 – September 2014
Set 31 – November 2014
2015.
Set 32 – January 2015
Set 33 – March 2015
Set 34 – June 2015
Set 35 – September 2015
Set 36 – November 2015
2016.
Set 37 – January 2016
Set 38 – March 2016
Set 39 – June 2016
Set 40 – September 2016
Set 41 – November 2016
2019.
7 new blue nose friends are set for release in September 2019. These include Toots the Elephant, Konker the Hedgehog, Legend the Unicorn, Blossom the Rabbit, Tiny the Mouse, Milkshake the Cow and Twiggy the Giraffe. It has not been confirmed if this is a continuation of the collection released prior to 2017, and at present, there are no details of names, but these new additions are on the Me To You online website for pre-order.They are very cute.
2020.
Set 42
Johan.
A 10" snowdear with a blue nose, this character is listed on the my blue nose friends page, although it isn't stated if this is actually a Blue Nose Friend.
Luna the Wolf.
To celebrate the launch of their 100th My Blue Nose Friends character, Ramble the Centipede, Carte Blanche launched a free-to-enter competition in June 2012. 100 fans had the chance to win a rare and exclusive 4" My Blue Nose Friends character, Luna the Wolf. The character is not available to buy anywhere in the world.


Brian Whelan

Brian Whelan (born 3 May 1957) is an Irish painter, author and playwright.
Early life.
Whelan was born in Ealing, West London, UK, of Irish Roman Catholic parents. His childhood was spent both in London and Ireland (Kilkenny Waterford and Dublin). After his training at Kingston Polytechnic College and the Royal Academy of Arts, he lived and worked for 30 years in various parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, England. These early years were spent painting, organizing various multi-disciplined art events and making films.
Career.
Whelan first came to the attention of the public and media in a fringe event connected to the Aldeburgh Festival in 2000 with an exhibition entitled "The Church Pub" with co artist Andrew Smith. Whelan's half of the exhibition went on to the Hammersmith Irish Art Centre in London (now called the Irish Cultural Centre). Over the next two years (2001-2), the exhibition was held at several other London venues including: St Benedict's Abbey in Ealing, Spotlight and Broadway Galleries in Lewisham, and Irish Club in Eaton Square.
Later years in England were devoted to exhibiting his works throughout England (St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Norwich Cathedral, St Benedict's Abbey) and internationally (Spain, China, United States) and writing books.
From 2013 - 2019, he and his American wife Wendy Roseberry had lived in the historic village of Waterford, Virginia, USA, where they had created a studio out of an old outbuilding.
Since 2020, they have lived in Connecticut, USA. The studio is in a former horse stable. Due to COVID-19, projects planned in Ireland, UK and Spain are on hold
Works and exhibitions.
Whelan joined fellow London Royal Academy of Art alumni in the 'Legacy' exhibition held at the Minories Galleries in Colchester, England, UK in 2019.
In 2018, the Green Curtain Theatre Company staged in London, Whelan's play "A Tragic Carmody" based on his experience with the late artist Daniel Carmody.
Also in 2018, art collector John Kohan profiled Whelan and Whelan's works that Kohan has purchased for his religious art collection.
Washington National Cathedral invited Whelan to again exhibit in 2016. Nine paintings on the subject of Holy City, a celebration of the three Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The installation placed in the north transept was to mark the 15th year since the 9/11 attacks.
Norwich Cathedral in Norfolk England commissioned Whelan to paint 14 panels of the spiritual life and death of International Red Cross nurse Edith Cavell in 2014. The panels on which the scenes of The Passion of Edith Cavell were painted, were first exhibited at Washington National Cathedral in the US to mark 100 years since the beginning of WW1. The paintings later in the following year traveled to Brussels Roman Catholic Cathedral and Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula (close to Schaerbeek, where Edith Cavell was executed) before continuing its journey to Norfolk for permanent installation of the 14 panels at Norwich Cathedral to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Cavell's execution, in October 2015.
Whelan's painting "The Martyrdom of St. Edmund" permanently hangs in the Lady Chapel of St. Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St. Edmund, England and "Holy City with Herald" at the Hostal dos Reis Catolicos in Santiago de Compostella.
His images are used on the cover and contents of The Popes 2009 CD "Outlaw Heaven" and 2012 CD "New Chuch" as well as five releases from London Irish punk folker Anto Morra since 2013 until present day.
In summer 2009, Whelan co-curated "The Quiet Men – London Irish Painters", the first major international tour (UK, Spain and US) of contemporary London Irish art. At the PM Gallery in Ealing, London Whelan first showed his large (2.7 m × 3.6 m) polyptych "Transmetropolitan" painting – an immigrants' joyride across the city of London and reference to the song of the same name by Shane MacGowen.In addition to Whelan's work, The Quiet Men tour included paintings by four other London Irish painters: Bernard Canavan, John Duffin,
Dermot Holland and the late Daniel Carmody. The book by the same name published by The "Irish World Newspaper" was launched in 2010 by the Irish Embassy in London.


Milk Money (film)

Milk Money is a 1994 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris. The film is about three suburban 11-year-old boys who find themselves behind in "the battle of the sexes," believing they would regain the upper hand if they could just see a real, live naked lady.
The film received generally negative reviews from critics.
Plot.
Three junior high school boys—Brad (Adam LaVorgna), Frank (Michael Patrick Carter) and Kevin (Brian Christopher)—travel from their bedroom suburb of Middletown to the city, bringing money with hopes of seeing a woman naked. They find a hooker named 'V' (Melanie Griffith) who is willing to show her breasts. However, when they decide to head home, they find their bikes have been stolen, leaving them broke and stuck in the city. V speaks with her drug dealing pimp named 'Cash' (Casey Siemaszko), and another hooker, Betty (Anne Heche). Cash has been skimming money that he sends to mob collector Waltzer (Malcolm McDowell), who in turn steals from his own boss, Jerry 'The Pope' (Philip Bosco). V notices the boys outside in the rain and offers them a ride back home in Cash's car.
After they arrive at Frank's house, V's car suddenly breaks down so she goes inside to use the phone. Tom (Ed Harris), Frank's father, comes home and is surprised to find a woman in the house. Unbeknownst to V, Frank tells Tom that V is a math tutor and that she's giving lessons to Brad. Tom offers to repair her car in a few days when he is free from his science classes at school. With no other option, she accepts Frank's offer to stay in his tree house without Tom's knowledge. Frank begins a close friendship with V, hoping to set her up with his father. He tells her Tom has no problem with her "job," meaning the tutoring ruse, but she thinks he means her prostitution.
V learns from television that Cash has been murdered by Waltzer. She phones Betty only to discover that Waltzer is looking for her - Cash told him that she stole the money. She realizes that he is overhearing the conversation and hangs up. With V's car still broken down, she gets Tom's old bike from the garage and rushes to find him. He is on a field trip to the town's wetlands, undeveloped natural land that he is attempting to save from development. He is unable to repair her car any sooner, but she realizes that she is probably safer in Middleton, since Waltzer doesn't know where she is.
At school, Frank flunks a biology test about sex education and must give his class an oral presentation. He decides to use V as a mannequin and through a ruse distracts his teacher long enough to draw a relatively accurate female reproductive system on her skin-colored bodysuit. Tom and V go out on a date and both realize they are developing feelings for each other. While walking through town on their date, Tom and V run into Kevin's family. V recognizes Kevin's father, who is a client, but he initially says she has him mixed up with someone else before admitting to remembering her and says she was a dance teacher. Tom is impressed with how busy V is being a tutor and dance teacher; V then realizes that Frank had actually lied about Tom knowing about her prostitution. V explains herself to Tom, and their relationship grows. She reveals that her real name is Eve, which she thought was too biblical so she removed the “e”s. Kevin's father unwittingly calls her home phone number, which he had in his pocket notebook, in an attempt to purchase her services again. He talks to Betty and Waltzer, who happens to be there also, learns from Betty about the trip to Middleton, thus finding out where V is hiding.
V is terrified that Waltzer will find her so she decides to leave town but attends a school dance to say goodbye to Frank. Waltzer shows up to spoil their fun. A chase ensues, with Waltzer finally being eliminated. Anxious about her status and afraid to return to her old job, V goes to Waltzer's boss and relates how he has been cheating him. She asks to be "forgotten" by them. The older crime boss succumbs to her charms and he tells her he'll take care of things and that she doesn't need to be afraid anymore, while also allowing her to walk away from prostitution for good. V finds the stolen money in a backpack and uses it to buy the wetlands in Tom's name; it is also revealed that she purchased the ice cream parlor in town, so she can carry on with her new relationship.
Production.
The screenplay written by John Mattson was sold to Paramount Pictures in 1992 for $1.1 million, a record for a romantic comedy spec script. Mattson was sued by Dino De Laurentiis (DDLC), the lawsuit alleged that Mattson's agent had made a verbal agreement to sell the script to DDLC for $1 million, before selling the script to Paramount for $1.1 million.
The film was originally set up with Joe Dante to direct and his frequent partner, Michael Finnell, to produce, but they left the project over disputes regarding the budget and their fees. Paramount had wanted Dante to work for less than his normal directing fee, and to shoot the film in Canada using a non-union crew with a budget of $14 million.
Shot in various locations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cincinnati and Lebanon, Ohio, the story is set in an Ohio suburb named "Middleton", outside of an unnamed city (for which Pittsburgh was used).
Reception.
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 12% based on reviews from 42 critics with the consensus: "Ill-conceived and cheap when it comes to cleverness, "Milk Money" is a more than a few cents short of a good time." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B" on scale of A to F.
Siskel & Ebert speculated that it may have been made by Hollywood executives with an affinity for hookers. In print, [[Roger Ebert]] opted not for a conventional negative review, but to portray it as the result of a fictional conversation between two studio executives. [[Janet Maslin]] of [[The New York Times]] gave it a negative review and suggested ""Milk Money" may be the first brainless American comedy that deserves to be remade by the French". Maslin said Griffith "brings a certain irrepressible gusto to her role" and "Harris manages to be improbably charming". Variety called it "a misguided comedy with Hall of Shame pedigree" and "The film is obvious, loud, mean-spirited and has its mind in the gutter."
At the [[15th Golden Raspberry Awards]], the film was nominated for [[Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay|Worst Screenplay]], but it lost to [[The Flintstones (film)|"The Flintstones"]].
Home media.
The film was released on [[VHS]] in March 1995 and [[DVD]] on September 9, 2003. It was presented in [[anamorphic widescreen]] in its original 1.85:1 [[aspect ratio (image)|aspect ratio]].
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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is a 1998 direct-to-video animated mystery comedy horror film based on Hanna-Barbera's "Scooby-Doo" Saturday-morning cartoons. In the film, Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, Velma, and Daphne reunite after a year-long hiatus from Mystery, Inc. to investigate a bayou island said to be haunted by the ghost of the pirate Morgan Moonscar. The film was directed by Jim Stenstrum, from a screenplay by Glenn Leopold.
Popularity for "Scooby-Doo" had grown in the 1990s due to reruns aired on Cartoon Network. The channel's parent company, Time Warner, suggested developing a direct-to-video (DTV) film on the property. The team at Hanna-Barbera consisted of many veteran artists and writers. Much of the original voice actors of the series were recast for the film, although Frank Welker returned to voice Fred Jones. It was also the first of four "Scooby-Doo" direct-to-video films to be animated overseas by Japanese animation studio Mook Animation. Rock bands Third Eye Blind and Skycycle contribute to the soundtrack.
"Zombie Island" contains a darker tone than most "Scooby-Doo" productions, and is notable for containing real supernatural creatures rather than people in costumes. The film was released on September 22, 1998, and received positive reviews from critics, who complimented its animation and story. The film is also notable for being the first Scooby production featuring the entire gang (sans Scrappy-Doo) since The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries episode "A Halloween Hassle in Dracula’s Castle", which premiered on ABC on October 27, 1984. The film was aided by a $50 million promotional campaign, and sponsorship deals with multiple companies. Sales of the film on VHS were high, and it became the first in a long-running series of DTV "Scooby-Doo" films.
Two decades after the film's release, Warner Bros Animation developed a sequel, "Return to Zombie Island", released in 2019.
Plot.
The five members of Mystery, Inc. go their separate ways after becoming bored of mystery solving because culprits are always people in costumes. Daphne Blake, along with Fred Jones, starts running a successful television series, determined to hunt down a real ghost rather than a fake one. Fred contacts Velma Dinkley, Shaggy Rogers and his dog Scooby-Doo, and the entire gang is brought back together for Daphne's birthday. They embark on a road trip scouting haunted locations across the U.S. for Daphne's show.
After encountering a lot of fake monsters, the gang arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana, fed up by this time. They are invited by a young woman named Lena Dupree to visit her workplace at Moonscar Island, an island allegedly haunted by the ghost of the pirate Morgan Moonscar. Although skeptical, the gang decides to go with Lena. On the island, they meet Lena's employer Simone Lenoir, who lives in a large Southern home on a pepper plantation. They also meet the ferryman Jacques and Simone's gardener Beau. Shaggy and Scooby encounter the ghost of Moonscar, who becomes a reanimated corpse, and the gang gets several ghostly warnings to leave. Despite this, they stay overnight, still skeptical. Shaggy sees another ghost, one of a Confederate colonel warning them to leave.
That night, Shaggy and Scooby are chased by a horde of zombies. Velma suspects Beau while Fred and Daphne capture a zombie. They believe it is a mask until Fred pulls its head off, revealing that the zombies are real. As the horde chases them, the gang gets split in the chaos and Daphne accidentally causes Fred to drop his video camera in the quicksand, losing film evidence for their show. In a cave, Shaggy and Scooby discover wax voodoo dolls resembling Fred, Velma, and Daphne. Playing with the dolls, they involuntarily control the gang's actions with the things they make the dolls do, leaving the gang confused. Shaggy and Scooby drop the dolls and flee when they disturb a nest of bats.
The rest of the gang and Beau discover a secret passageway in the house. Lena tells them that the zombies dragged Simone away. The passageway leads to a secret chamber for voodoo rituals, where Velma confronts Lena about her lie: the footprints in the passageway were Simone's, as she had walked to the chamber as opposed to being dragged away. After trapping the gang with the voodoo dolls, Simone and Lena reveal themselves, along with Jacques, to be evil werecats. Simone tells them that 200 years ago, she and Lena were part of a group of settlers on the island who worshiped a cat god. When Moonscar and his crew invaded the island, they chased the settlers into the bayou, leading them to be eaten alive by alligators, but Simone and Lena escaped the carnage. They prayed to their cat god to curse Moonscar. Their wish was granted and they were transformed into werecats. They killed the pirates, but later realized that invoking the cat god's power had also cursed them, so every harvest moon, they lure and exploit all victims by draining their lives to preserve their immortality. Jacques became their ferryman to bring them more victims as he wanted to have immortality. The zombies are actually their previous victims who awaken every harvest moon and try to scare people away in order to prevent them from suffering the same fate.
Shaggy and Scooby disrupt the werecats' draining ceremony. The gang free themselves but the werecats surround them. However, it is too late; the time for the ceremony has passed. The werecats crumble into dust, allowing the zombies' souls to finally rest in peace. Beau reveals himself to be an undercover police officer who was sent to investigate the numerous disappearances on the island. Daphne asks Beau to guest-star on her show, and they all leave the island in the morning.
Production.
Origins and story.
The "Scooby-Doo" franchise, which by the time of the film's release was nearing its 30-year mark, had entered into a period of diminishing returns in the early 1990s. After the conclusion of the sixth iteration of the series, "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo", the character became absent from Saturday-morning lineups. In 1991, Turner Broadcasting System purchased Hanna-Barbera, the animation studio behind "Scooby", largely to fill programming at a new, 24/7 cable channel centered on animated properties: Cartoon Network. The advent of cable gave the franchise renewed popularity: rapidly, "Scooby" reruns attracted top ratings. "Zombie Island" was not the first attempt at a feature-length "Scooby" adventure; several television films were produced in the late 1980s starring the character, such as "Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School". In 1996, Turner merged with Time Warner. Davis Doi, in charge at Hanna-Barbera, was tasked with developing projects based on the studio's existing property. Warner executives suggested "Scooby", given that the property held a high Q Score, and proposed it could be a direct-to-video feature film.
The team assembled to work on the production were veterans of the animation business, and had most recently worked on "" and "The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest". Screenwriter Glenn Leopold had been with the franchise since 1979's "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo". The film was directed by Jim Stenstrum, who had worked on "Scooby" projects beginning in 1983 "The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show". As the film was considered a one-off experiment by studio brass, the crew worked with little oversight and complete creative freedom. Doi and writer Glenn Leopold developed the film's story, with Leopold receiving sole credit for the screenplay. Much of the script is recycled from Leopold's script for the unfinished "SWAT Kats" episode, "The Curse of Kataluna". Jim Stenstrum, the film's director, suggested in early story meetings that the monsters in the film be real—previous "Scooby" outings were nearly always "bad guys" in rubber masks. Leopold disagreed, noting that throughout the franchise's history, it always remained a simple, solvable mystery. Stenstrum felt this worked for a half-hour television episode, but might grow tiresome over a feature film length. Lance Falk, who worked as model coordinator on the film, suggested they combine both ideas.
Casting.
Casey Kasem was originally set to reprise his role as Shaggy, but had recently gone vegan and demanded the character follow suit and cut all meat and dairy from his diet. The creative team found this absurd, given that eating anything and everything was a hallmark of the character for decades. In addition, they had already began production on "Zombie Island", which features Shaggy indulging in crawfish and more. The team decided to recast Shaggy with voice actor Billy West. They gave Kasem a last-minute reprieve before recording the film, noting that they could pay-or-play West, though Kasem still refused. Radio personality Scott Innes ended up voicing Scooby-Doo, as Don Messick, the character's original voice actor, retired in 1996 and died in 1997. Zombie Island was dedicated to him. Heather North was set to reprise her role as Daphne, but after a day of recording, Mary Kay Bergman replaced her, while B.J. Ward, who played Velma in a "Johnny Bravo" crossover episode, reprised her role for this film.
Frank Welker is the only actor from the original series to reprise his role, as Fred Jones. He had initially worried that the producers would replace him as well, given that the producers believed his voice had gone down an octave. The voice director kept requesting Welker perform the voice at a higher pitch. Welker insisted his voice was the same, as Fred's voice is close to his natural speaking voice. The team went back and viewed early "Scooby-Doo" episodes and found that Welker's impression was more or less the same. Bob Miller, of Animation World Network, suggested that the reruns of "Scooby-Doo" aired on Cartoon Network perhaps gave them a false idea of the character's voice, as the episodes were typically time-compressed (or sped-up) to allow more room for commercials, thus giving all of the show's soundtrack a higher pitch.
Animation.
Japanese animation studio Mook Animation were contracted to work on the film; Doi had a relationship with the team at Mook as they had previously collaborated on "Swat Kats" and "Jonny Quest". Hiroshi Aoyama and Kazumi Fukushima directed the film as well, but are not credited on the picture. The film was animated and is presented in standard full frame format. The team were allowed more time to work on the film, as there was no real set schedule—just delivery to the home video department upon completion. The American crew re-designed the series cast for the film, giving them an update fashion-wise. The team felt Fred and Daphne, with their ascots and his bell-bottoms, felt particularly out-of-date. They briefly changed Shaggy's shirt color to red and gave him sneakers, though they quickly relented, as they viewed his original outfit as more timeless.
The group were trusted by the studio's management as they had worked together for a long time, and all involved on the film had a real passion for the project. Drew Gentle was the main background designer for the project, with Falk contributing to the film's color key. Occasionally, the crew would hire freelance artists to contribute to ancillary designs. In addition, the group enlisted the assistance of Iwao Takamoto—the original designer of Scooby-Doo, still on salary at Hanna-Barbera—for advising on scenes. Takamoto called the film "a good solid mystery", and storyboarded several sequences of interplay between Shaggy and Scooby.
Music.
Composer Steven Bramson, who is known for "Tiny Toon Adventures", "JAG" and the "Lost in Space" film, scored and conducted the film. The soundtrack for the film features three songs composed specifically for the film. "The Ghost Is Here" and "It's Terror Time Again", both written by Glenn Leopold, were performed by Skycycle. The title track, "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!", was performed by Third Eye Blind.
Themes.
This and the following three films had a darker tone than the original animated series ("Scooby-Doo, Where are You!" and several spinoffs), and the marketing emphasized: "This time, the monsters are real." However, it's worth noting that "Scooby" writers had introduced real supernatural elements into the franchise back in 1980 with the second season of "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo", possibly to avoid some of the show's formulaic trappings. In the first segment, "A Close Encounter with a Strange Kind," the series takes its first delve into science fiction when Shaggy is abducted by real aliens. In the second segment, "A Fit Night Out for Bats," Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy spend the night in a castle with a real vampire and eventually escape from him. No attempt is made at an unmasking, and the characters do not comment on how unusual it is for them to meet a real monster.
Supernatural elements would continue to be incorporated through the remaining "Scrappy" series and through TV movies until "Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf" (1988). However, there are several notable differences between this production and earlier ones to feature real monsters. First, Fred, Daphne and Velma are all present; they had frequently been absent during the earlier adventures. Second, Scrappy is absent from this story, as he has been in all productions since 1988 (except for comical cameos). Third, this was the first storyline to focus on the gang's surprise at the monsters not being fake. So "Zombie Island" does at least feature some breaks with tradition.
Release.
The film was released on VHS on September 22, 1998, through Warner Home Video. Because of the cost of production, the tape retailed at $19.95, which was higher than other direct-to-video titles of that era. Sales for the film exceeded the studio's expectations, according to a 1999 "Billboard" article. It was released on DVD on March 6, 2001, and later re-released in 2008 as a double-feature on DVD alongside the third direct-to-video "Scooby" film, "Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders" (2000).
The film was aided by a reportedly $50 million promotional push, as advertisers believed the character's iconic nature would generate strong sales, and deserved "equal visibility to a theatrical release." Tie-ins included the Campbell Soup Company, SpaghettiOs, 1-800-COLLECT, Wendy's, LEGO, and Cartoon Network, who debuted the film on television on October 31, 1998, after a month themed after the series. It was also promoted as part of the network's "Wacky Racing" sponsorship deal with Melling Racing in 1998, as the third of four paint schemes featured on the NASCAR Winston Cup Series #9 Ford Taurus driven by then-rookie Jerry Nadeau. The paint scheme debuted at Richmond International Raceway in the Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400 on September 12, 1998, and was featured on the car through the Dura Lube Kmart 500 at Phoenix International Raceway on October 25, 1998, for a total of seven races out of the thirty-three race schedule. The promotional push was, at the time, the biggest marketing support in Warner Bros. Family Entertainment's history.
Reception.
The film received positive reviews from critics, and currently holds a "Fresh" rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Donald Liebenson of the "Chicago Tribune" described the film as "ambitious" and calls it "a nostalgic hoot [that] resurrects all the touchstones of the original cartoons." "Entertainment Weekly" Joe Neumaier praised the film as "Fast, fun, and filled with knowing winks, the mystery honors the show’s beloved structure, but writ large." A 1998 "New York Times" article by Peter M. Nichols complimented the film as "well-made." Lynne Heffley at the "Los Angeles Times" called the film "more entertaining than you'd expect, despite the familiar Saturday morning-type animation."
Later assessments of the film have been similarly positive. Michael Mallory at the "Los Angeles Times" credited it and its subsequent features for "[spinning] the characters into more modern treatments of action and horror, and toyed with [a] self-spoofing quality."
In 2011-12, British comedian Stewart Lee dedicated an extensive section of his live show "Carpet Remnant World" to the 'jungle canyon rope bridges' in "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island", linking what he described as the parlous state of such bridges with the neoliberal regime of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Sequel.
A direct sequel, titled "Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island," had its world premiere at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2019, followed by a digital release on September 3, 2019, and a DVD release on October 1, 2019.
External links.


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John Emms (artist)

John Emms (1844 – 1 November 1912) was an English artist.
Biography.
Emms was born in Blofield, Norfolk, the son of artist Henry William Emms. He became an avid hunter and became famous for his paintings of horses, and of dogs, particularly foxhounds and terriers. He exhibited at the Royal Academy several times, beginning in 1866. His paintings are signed “Jno Emms”.
He married Fanny Primmer of Lyndhurst, Hampshire, in 1880. The couple lived in London for a time but returned to Lyndhurst in 1881 and built a large house and studio named "The Firs", where Emms lived for the rest of his life. He died in Lyndhurst.
His painting of "Callum" a Dandie Dinmont Terrier hangs in the National Gallery of Scotland. In 1919, the owner of the dog, James Cowan Smith, donated £55,000 (£ in ) to the National Gallery of Scotland with a requirement that obliged them to display the painting on its walls in perpetuity.
Emms is considered a painter of great ability. According to the American Kennel Club, his painting "The New Forest Foxhounds" is valued at an estimated $800,000–$1.2 million.


City of Washington from Beyond the Navy Yard

The City of Washington from Beyond the Navy Yard is an 1833 oil painting by the American painter George Cooke.
The painting shows a view of Washington DC from Anacostia, across the Anacostia River. To the right of centre are the United States Capitol atop Capitol Hill, and the Washington Navy Yard, with two dry docks, in front of which is anchored a three-masted sailing vessel. To the left are the Washington Arsenal and White House, depicted larger than life to balance the Capitol building. The city around and between the main buildings is low rise, with two and three story houses. Further left is the Potomac River, and several smaller vessels are sailing on the two rivers. In the largely agricultural foreground are a few small buildings, a cart, a field with mounds of hay, and some sheep.
Since 1972, the painting has been in the White House collections and has subsequently been displayed in the Oval Office under various administrations. It was displayed under the then-current and the next two administrations - Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan. It was removed by George H. W. Bush but returned under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The painting remained on view in the Oval Office during the Obama administration.


Shrieker (film)

Shrieker is a 1998 American horror film directed by David DeCoteau and produced by Charles Band.
Plot.
Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at a University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrangements. All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker".
Release.
"Shrieker" was released on DVD by Wizard on March 3, 1998. It was later re-released in both 2003 and 2007 by Full Moon Home Video and Vision Films respectively.
Reception.
"The Tubi Tuesdays Podcast" stated in Episode 13 that "Shrieker" is a confusing mess of a film, with the sub-plot of students squatting in an abandoned hospital made no sense.


The Grand Highway

Le grand chemin is a 1987 French film directed by Jean-Loup Hubert. It was released in the U.S. as The Grand Highway, and was remade in 1991 as "Paradise".
It won the César Award for Best Actor and Best Actress.
Plot.
Louis, a timid nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she is having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year-old girl next door, and learns about life from her. His subsequent adventures run the gamut from delightful to terrifying, with a little "coming of age" (via a few glimpses of nudity) thrown in.
Production.
"Le grand chemin" was directed by Jean-Loup Hubert, and produced by Pascal Hommais and Jean Francois Lepetit. The film was released in the U.S. as "The Grand Highway", in French with English subtitles. Claude Lecomte served as director of photography, with camera operator Jean Paul Meurisse and film editor Raymonde Guyot. The musical score was composed by Georges Granier; the original soundtrack music was reissued in 2013 by Canadian label Disques Cinemusique.
Reception.
Richard Bohringer and Anémone won César Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of the year by the U.S. National Board of Review.


Little Criminals (film)

Little Criminals is a 1995 Canadian film. It was directed by Stephen Surjik. The film was shot in Vancouver in the spring of 1995. The camerawork is mostly done hand-held and at eye level for a more realistic feeling.
Plot.
Eleven-year-old Des and his friends engage in a variety of illegal activities including vandalism, stealing, lighting fires, mugging people and using drugs. In Canada the age of criminal responsibility is twelve. Des takes advantage of this law because he knows that the police cannot charge him until he reaches that age.
Des meets Cory on the schoolyard when the latter gets into a fight. Impressed with Cory standing up to a bully in the playground, the two become friends and start a crime spree together. After breaking into a home and ransacking it with Cory's toddler sister, Nannie in tow, the two are arrested.
After being taken to the police station, where Cory is detained. Cory's mother and stepfather try to keep him away from Des, but despite their best attempts, Cory continues to meet with him.
Des, who lives in squalor comes home to find a police officer and a social worker in the kitchen, talking to his mother about his behavior in the wake of his recent arrest, which she doesn't take seriously. Following an incident where Des gets stabbed by his mother, he ends up in an assessment centre for troubled children. In the centre he meets Rita, a psychologist who tries to understand Des's motivations, and over time gets some positive results on his behaviour.
Des's mother relinquishes custody of him, which he has a hard time accepting. Rita informs Des that they are trying to find him a foster home, Des takes the news with disgust and flees as soon as Cory visits him.
They both want to get out of the city and plan to rob Chet, the local dealer. During the robbery, Cory confesses to stealing an item, which prompts Chet to attack him. After hesitation, Des shoots and kills Chet with a stolen firearm.
Following the killing, Cory becomes afraid of Des and wants nothing to do with him, going as far as asking his stepfather to protect him. As Des approaches the vehicle, he is confronted by the school police officer who reminds him he will be 12 years old in a month's time. Hearing that, Des opts to flee the schoolyard.
Des, who is still on the run because of his escape from the assessment centre, goes to his home where he sees his mother passed out and intoxicated in the bedroom with a boyfriend, oblivious to his presence.
Not wanting to be in foster care or arrested when he turns twelve years old, Des sets the house on fire and conceals himself in the closet, falling asleep as the house slowly engulfs in flames.


The Anonymous Venetian (film)

Anonimo Veneziano () is a 1970 Italian drama film written and directed by the famous Italian actor Enrico Maria Salerno in his debut as a film director. It starred American actor Tony Musante and Brazilian actress Florinda Bolkan.
The film is especially notable for its romantic musical score, composed by Stelvio Cipriani. In the movie's musical score there is also an Adagio, erroneously attributed to the Baroque Venetian composer Benedetto Marcello (31 July or 1 August 1686 – 24 July 1739). In reality, the author of the D concerto for oboe and orchestra was his older brother Alessandro (1 February 1673 – 19 June 1747). In 1970, Frida Boccara recorded the song "Venise Va Mourir", the main theme of the film (French version, lyrics by Eddy Marnay), later performing it at the Cannes Film Festival. Tony Renis recorded it as "Anonimo veneziano" (English and Italian versions, 1970) and "Venise Va Mourir" (1971, French version). Singers Sergio Denis (1971), Fred Bongusto (1971), Ornella Vanoni (1971), and Nana Mouskouri (as "To Be the One You Love", 1973), also performed the piece.
Plot.
A Venetian musician is affected by an incurable disease. He arranges to meet his wife, who is now living with another man in another city, but does not tell her about his condition. They walk through the streets and channels of Venice. They remember the happy times when they lived together, she in blissful ignorance of his terminal illness. He has to play a classic concert piece, recently discovered, but with no known composer, the 'Anonymous Venetian', in a recording studio. She finally realizes that she is still in love with him.


Cannon Rock (painting)

Cannon Rock is an 1895 oil painting by Winslow Homer. It is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.
Description.
"Cannon Rock" is an 1895 oil painting depicting an offshore wave breaking over a submerged shelf, with water surging into an inlet created by rocks in the foreground. The work is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.
Reception.
"The New York Times" Geraldine Fabricant said the painting is not a literal representation and "bears little resemblance to the actual place". She writes, "In reality, the offshore wave would break only at low tide, but the wave fills the inlet only at high tide." In his "Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout's Neck Observed", Homer expert Philip Beam noted the artist's rearranging of the horizontal ledges of rock into a triangular shape so that "it rivets attention on his main motive".


Leda and the Swan (Tintoretto)

Leda and the Swan is a c.1550-1560 oil on canvas painting by Jacopo Tintoretto. Doubts on its autograph status were quelled by its restorations in 1988 and 1994. Art historians do not agree on its dating, though most now place it in the 1550s, the same period as his "Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan" (Alte Pinakothek) and "Joseph and Potiphar's Wife" (Museo del Prado). "Judith and Holofernes" (Prado) was also previously dated to that decade but has now been downgraded to a studio work.
In the late 18th century the work was in the Orleans Collection in Paris, before being purchased in London by the Duke of Bridgewater, then in 1857 by Paul Norton, and finally being donated by Arturo De Noè Walker in 1895 to its present owner, the Uffizi in Florence. Another version from Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi's collection is also owned by the Uffizi, from which the servant was later cut-off - this version was probably the prototype for the Orleans Collection work.


Star Vehicle (film)

Star Vehicle (re-titled in North America as Bleading Lady) is a 2010 horror film directed by Ryan Nicholson and starring Dan Ellis, Sindy Faraguna, Nathan Durec and Nick Windebank.
Premise.
The film tells the tale of frustrated Teamster driver Don Cardini, abused by spoiled stars and arrogant students, who becomes a ticking time-bomb of revenge. As Don goes on the rampage, his favourite scream queen, Riversa Red, finds herself up for a new role in the greatest gorefest of all: real life.
Production.
Ryan Nicholson produced "Star Vehicle" / "Bleading Lady" via Plotdigger Films company. Michelle Grady and Nicholson produce the flick for New Image Entertainment.
Soundtrack.
Zombi's Steve Moore scored the soundtrack for the film under the pseudonym Gianni Rossi. This is the second Moore soundtrack for a Nicholson film, the first being Gutterballs
Release.
"Star Vehicle" was released in censored form in Europe in the fall of 2010. An uncut North American release under the title "Bleading Lady" is scheduled for March 2011.


Come and Find Me

Come and Find Me is a 2016 American drama film directed and written by Zack Whedon in his feature debut. The film stars Aaron Paul, Annabelle Wallis, Enver Gjokaj and Garret Dillahunt.
The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on November 11, 2016, by Saban Films.
Plot.
When two people, David and Claire, leave a bus at the same stop, David follows Claire. She accuses him of stalking her. It is soon revealed that they are role playing and that they live together as boyfriend and girlfriend. One day, Claire suddenly disappears. After contacting her friends and workplace, David goes to the police. Detective Sloane can offer little hope beyond posting missing person flyers.
A year later, Claire's friend Buck shows up. While they are out discussing Claire, David drunkenly insists Buck dare him to jump from a ledge. The next morning, Buck says he must make a flight that afternoon, and David allows Buck to stay at his apartment while he runs errands. Instead, David rides the bus through the city, reminiscing about Claire. The bus driver forces him off the bus at the last stop, and David returns home early. David surprises Buck, who has trashed the apartment while searching for something. Buck knocks David unconscious and leaves.
After contacting the police, Detective Sloan agrees to look into Buck and Claire. Looking for clues Buck may have missed, David finds a hidden cache of pictures, which leads him to a junkyard. While exploring it and questioning employees, he draws the attention of a man in a back room. Although initially friendly, he demands to know why David has come to his store to look for a missing person. When David does not answer to his satisfaction, the man tortures him with an electric prod. Finally satisfied, the man releases David and says he may not like what he finds.
That night, a man named Aleksandr breaks into David's home. After subduing Aleksandr, David learns he is a mobster based at the junkyard, who has been dispatched to learn more about David. Aleksandr says Claire killed his brother, and he intends to kill her if he finds her. Before David can finish interrogating Aleksandr, Detective Sloan comes to David's door. Sloan says his investigation into Claire and Buck has revealed that neither are who they say they are, having found no evidence to corroborate the backstories that they had told David. Sloan suggests Claire is troubled and advises David to forget about her.
Questioning Aleksandr further leads David to search Vancouver for clues, though Aleksandr says the mob will be looking for him now. In Vancouver, David questions a businessman's widow after finding his face among Claire's pictures. It turns up nothing, but a car begins following David, who panics and flees into the woods. A man chases him on foot, and David launches a surprise attack on him, crippling him. The SUV stops him before he can flee further and takes him to see Hall, who introduces himself as a U.S. government official. He tells David that Claire was an assassin for his organization and that she was killed shortly after she disappeared from David's life. Hall presents photographic evidence of Claire's death and asks David to stop researching her, saying the businessman's death was an assassination by Claire, and exposing her past could endanger David.
David initially agrees to stop but becomes suspicious of Hall. Catching on, Hall announces he can no longer allow David to leave. David causes the SUV
to crash and escapes. In the police station, David spots a missing person photo of Claire under a different name and contacts a man who leads him to Buck, who is now going under the name Kyle. David leads Buck, Alexandr, and Hall all to the same meeting spot. While Hall's and Alexandr's men fight, David abducts Buck and demands he and Hall leave him alone. Buck rejects his demands, saying that David does not understand what kind of mess he has gotten himself into.
Hall immediately afterward takes him hostage. While David is being tortured for the location of Claire's pictures, someone breaks into Hall's warehouse and kills the guards. The assailant is revealed to be Claire. Claire and David return to their house to retrieve Claire's pictures, which she explains is evidence that Hall is a double agent. Before they can leave, however, Alexandr and Hall arrive outside. Both of them surround the house with armed attackers. Realizing that the situation is hopeless, David and Claire resign themselves to going out in a blaze of glory. They start a countdown for their final assault, then a flashback of happier times as a couple is shown.
Production.
Zack Whedon's script "Come and Find Me" appeared on the 2012 Black List of un-produced scripts. On June 18, 2015, it was announced that Aaron Paul would next star as David in the drama which Whedon would be making his directorial debut. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones would produce through Automatik Entertainment along with Chris Ferguson via Oddfellows Entertainment. Motion Picture Capital would finance the film, while it's Leon Clarance would also be the producer. On June 22, 2015, Annabelle Wallis joined the film to play the role of Claire. On July 22, 2015, Garret Dillahunt also signed on to star in the film to play the girl's former handler with the government.
Principal photography on the film began on July 27, 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Filming ended on August 28, 2015.
Release.
In May 2016, Saban Films acquired U.S distribution rights to the film. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on November 11, 2016.
Reception.
Box office.
"Come and Find Me" grossed $4,052 worldwide, and $25,513 with home video sales.
Critical response.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 62%, based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 5.32/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 46 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".


Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Raphael)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. In the painting, Catherine of Alexandria is looking upward in ecstasy and leaning on a wheel, an allusion to the breaking wheel (or Catherine wheel) of her martyrdom.
It was painted "c." 1507-1509, towards the end of Raphael's sojourn in Florence, and shows the young artist in a transitional phase. The depiction of religious passion in the painting is still reminiscent of Pietro Perugino, but the graceful contrapposto of Catherine's pose is typical of the influence of Leonardo da Vinci on Raphael, and is believed to be an echo of Leonardo's lost painting "Leda and the Swan".
Painting materials.
Raphael employed the usual Renaissance pigments such as natural ultramarine, madder lake, ochres and lead-tin yellow. He also mixed a special kind of finely powdered glass into several pigments to speed up the drying of the oil paints.
This picture was partially used on the cover of The Smashing Pumpkins album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness".


Gayer-Anderson cat

The Gayer-Anderson Cat is an ancient Egyptian statue of a cat, which dates from the Late Period (around 664–332 BC). It is made of bronze, with gold ornaments.
Style and detail.
The sculpture is known as the Gayer-Anderson cat after Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson who, together with Mary Stout Shaw, donated it to the British Museum. The statue is a representation of the female cat deity Bastet. The cat wears jewellery and a protective wadjet amulet. The earrings and nose ring on the statue may not have always belonged to the cat. A scarab appears on the head and a winged scarab is shown on the chest. The statue is 42 cm high and 13 cm wide. A copy of the statue is kept in the Gayer-Anderson Museum, located in Cairo.
Construction.
The statue is not as well preserved as it appears. X-rays taken of the sculpture reveal that there are cracks that extend almost completely around the centre of the cat's body, and only an internal system of strengthening prevents the cat's head from falling off. The repairs to the cat were carried out by Major Gayer-Anderson, who was a keen restorer of antiquities in the 1930s. When he bought it, the surface of the cat was "covered with a heavy coating of crystalline verdigris and crisp flakes of red patina" which he carefully chipped away.
The cat was manufactured by the lost wax method, where a wax model is covered with clay and fired in a kiln until the wax flows out, and the hollow mould is refilled with molten metal. In this case the metal was 85% copper, 13% tin, 2% arsenic with a 0.2% trace of lead. The remains of the pins that held the wax core can still be seen using X-rays. The original metalworkers would have been able to create a range of colours on a bronze casting and the stripes on the tail are due to metal of a differing composition. It is also considered likely that the eyes contained stone or glass decorations.


The Genius of Marian

The Genius of Marian is a 2013 American documentary that was directed by Banker White and his wife Anna Fitch. The film focuses on White's mother Pam, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The film's title refers to a book that Pam had intended to write about her mother, Marian, who also had Alzheimer's.
The film had its world premiere on April 18, 2013 at the Tribecca Film Festival, and aired on PBS on September 8, 2014.
Synopsis.
The film documents the lives of both Pamela "Pam" Steel White and her mother, Marian Steele White. It follows Pam as she and her son Banker White go about their daily lives while discussing the life of Marian, an accomplished artist.
Marian attended the Trenton School of Industrial Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, after which point she traveled to Europe to further her studies, funded by winning the Charles Toppan Prize. Once she returned home to the United States she began studying and painting at the Albert C. Barnes Foundation. Marian was commissioned to paint various celebrities and sports figures such as Mohammed Ali, Mario Andretti, and Joe Namath and was a part of organizations such as the Guild of Boston Artists and the Rockport Art Association. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's related dementia in the late 1990s and died on February 8, 2001, at the age of eighty-nine.
The film intersperses this with information about Pam, who held many careers throughout her life that included being a professional model, educator, and social worker. She expressed interest many times about writing a novel about her mother, but was unable to work on the book due to her being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. In lieu of the novel Pam and her son Banker White created the documentary to cover not only Marian's life but also Pam's.
Reception.
"The Genius of Marian" has received favorable reviews. John Anderson wrote in IndieWire that the film was "remarkable" and "a starkly intimate and
revealing picture of woman at her most vulnerable". David Wiegand writes in "The San Francisco Chronicle" that you "can almost feel" the characters "in a figurative tug o' war" that he says may break your heart. In "The Washingtonian", critic Douglas Bair describes the documentary as a "cohesive film" that has a "fluid and compellingly visual storyline". "The Arts Fuse" reviewed "The Genius of Marian", stating that "While the film offers an intimate look at the family’s background, the bonds forged through its struggles, and a fair amount of information about Marian, the documentary does not supply the well-rounded picture of a traditional biographical narrative." "The Villager" gave a favorable review, praising a contrast made in the film between Pam in her youth and when she was suffering from Alzheimer's.


Meadowland (film)

Meadowland is an American drama film written by Chris Rossi and directed by Reed Morano in her feature debut. The film stars Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson, Juno Temple, Elisabeth Moss, Giovanni Ribisi, John Leguizamo, and Ty Simpkins.
The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, 2015. The film was released in a limited release on October 16, 2015, prior to being released on video on demand on October 23, 2015, by Cinedigm.
Plot.
Sarah and Phil are on a roadtrip with their son, Jessie. They stop at a gas station to buy snacks and so their son can go to the bathroom; however, in the time it takes for them to make their purchases they find that their son is missing.
Sarah, who is a teacher, deals with her grief by obsessing over one of her students, Adam, who has Asperger's. He is ostracized by the other kids and treated poorly by his foster mother, Shannon. Phil meanwhile begins to attend a support group for parents who have lost their children.
Despite claiming that she knows their son is still alive, in the hazy aftermath of this loss, Sarah begins a downward spiral. Phil, a New York City cop, starts to lose sight of his morals as Sarah puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations.
Production.
On February 11, 2014, it was announced that Olivia Wilde would star in and executive-produce the dramatic film "Meadowland", which Reed Morano would direct and shoot from a script by Chris Rossi. On July 30, Luke Wilson, Natasha Lyonne, Elisabeth Moss and Eden Duncan-Smith joined the cast. On August 18, Giovanni Ribisi, Ty Simpkins, Juno Temple, Scott Mescudi, Mark Feuerstein, and Kevin Corrigan were added to the cast.
Filming.
Principal photography began on August 18, 2014, in New York City.
Release.
The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, 2015. On June 24, 2015 it was announced that Cinedigm had acquired distribution rights to the film and planned an October 2015 theatrical release. The film had a limited release on October 16, 2015, prior to being released through video on demand on October 23, 2015.
Reception.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 96%, based on reviews from 24 critics, with an average rating of 7/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 67 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Jordan Hoffman of "The Guardian" gave the film four stars out of five, and said, "What Meadowland refuses to do, to its great credit, is conform to expectations." "Chicago Sun-Times" critic Richard Roeper gave the film three out of four stars, and wrote that "The filmmaking is sure-handed, the performances authentic." Chuck Bowen from "Slant Magazine" gave the film three out of four stars, and also praised the performances: "Both Olivia Wilde and Luke Wilson understand the greatest pain of loss to be rooted in its searing inexpressibility."


Flag and coat of arms of Normandy

The flag and coat of arms of Normandy are symbols of Normandy, a region in northern France.
Normandy.
The traditional provincial flag, "gules, two lions passant or", is used in both former regions of France: Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. It is based on the design of arms which had been attributed by medieval heralds to William the Conqueror, ultimately related to the 12th-century coat of arms of the House of Anjou.
The red flag with two leopards is nicknamed "les p'tits cats" "the little cats" in Norman. The three-leopards version (known in the Norman language as "les treis cats", "the three cats") may also be seen, which is based on the coat of arms of Richard I of England. The arms "De gueules aux deux léopards d'or, armés et lampassés d'azur, passant l'un sur l'autre" (Gules two leopards passant gardant in pale or armed and langued azure) was described by Jacques Meurgey in 1941.
In 1939 Jean Adigard des Gautries created the "flag of Saint Olaf", a Nordic cross flag inspired by the Papal Cross borne on a standard by William the Conqueror. The "Le Mouvement Normand" adopted this flag in the 1970s, and it is used unofficially by some associations and individuals, especially those with an interest in the Viking origins of the Normans, although the Normans are also of Celtic (Belgae and Gauls) and Continental Germanic (Franks) origins. A flag combining the Saint-Olaf and the P'tit Cats, called the Croix de Falaise (Falaise cross) can sometimes be seen.
Channel Islands.
The three-leopard is used by some associations and individuals, especially those who support reunification of the regions. Jersey and Guernsey use three leopards in their national symbols.
Ireland.
Norman symbols have limited use in Ireland through the influence of Anglo-Norman noble families who settled in Ireland in the 12th and 13th centuries, following the Norman Invasion of Ireland.


Fishing Boats, Key West

Fishing Boats, Key West is a 1903 watercolor and graphite drawing by Winslow Homer. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Early history and creation.
Homer executed a quick pencil sketch of the dimensions and layout of the image, over which he used watercolor to fully develop the forms of the clouds, sea, and boats. The highlights of the image are untouched areas of the paper.
Description and interpretation.
The work depicts fishing boats in the water off Key West, Florida.


Innocent Sinners

Innocent Sinners is a 1958 British film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Flora Robson.
It was based on the 1955 novel "An Episode of Sparrows" by Rumer Godden.
Plot.
Lovejoy (June Archer) is a neglected young girl in post-war London who finds solace in the secret garden she creates on the site of a bombed-out church with the help of a friend.


Andromeda Chained to the Rocks

Andromeda Chained to the Rocks (1630) is a 34 x 25 oil on panel painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt. It is now in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. Andromeda represents Rembrandt's first full length mythological female nude history painting and is taken from a story in Ovid's "Metamorphoses".
Mythology.
In Metamorphoses, Andromeda (mythology) is the daughter of an Ethiopian king and queen, Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia was very boastful about her beauty, and asserted that she was more beautiful than Juno, the queen of the gods and the Nereids. Insulted by Cassiopeia's assertions, Neptune sent a sea monster to the Ethiopian coast. Neptune then could only be appeased upon the sacrifice of Andromeda, the kings beautiful virgin daughter, to the sea monster. Andromeda was chained naked to rocks by the coast, awaiting the sea monster. Perseus, passing by, had noticed the beautiful girl and made a deal with her parents that he would save her, should he be allowed to have her hand in marriage. The king and queen agree and Andromeda was spared.
Damsel in distress.
This painting depicts a classic example of the damsel in distress. In this theme a beautiful young woman is placed in a perilous situation, usually involving a monster or being trapped in captivity. The damsel can then only be rescued by a hero, whom of which she usually ends up marrying. In this painting, Andromeda has a distressed look on her face as she is completely shackled and unable to move. Although Perseus does not make an appearance in this painting, in similar works we can see Perseus being portrayed in a heroic and graceful light, shown through the use of warm colors and heroic poses.
Depiction of beauty.
Many artists such as Titian have depicted this story by showing Andromeda, her rescuer Perseus, and the sea monster all in the same composition. Her beauty as described in her source material can be seen in some of these other works, along with Perseus' role as her rescuer. In this work, Rembrandt shies away from classical conventions by showing her not as a glamorous beauty but as a frightened naturalistic looking girl. No other figure is included, but her alarmed look out of the picture space to the right creates narrative tension. The painting is an example of Rembrandt's rejection of idealized beauty. Since he did not believe true beauty existed naturally, he painted women as he saw them; naturally imperfect and flawed.
Rembrandt's subsequent nude mythological paintings from this period "Diana Bathing" and "Danaë" show his evolving portrayal of the nude.


The Dancing Class

The Dancing Class is an oil painting by Edgar Degas. It was painted about 1870. It was the first of Degas's "ballet pictures". The painting depicts a dancing class at the Paris Opéra. The dancer in the center is Joséphine Gaujelin (or Gozelin).

Career.
He was a minister in Denbigh of the Independent congregation from 1693 until his death. During that time, he also filled in as needed at the Bala and Wrexham churches. Baddy was an author, translator, and wrote hymns, considered "the earliest known attempts at hymnody among Welsh Dissenters." A series was published in 1703 and "Caniad Salomon" was published in 1725. He translated "Christian's Passover" ("Pasc y Cristion") and "A Work by T. Wadswoth" (1713) into Welsh.
Personal life.
Baddy, who was well-off financially, married Anne Salusbury of Galltfaenan, Denbighshire and they had a daughter who married a man with the surname Pugh and another who married Rev. James Jardine, who was also an Independent minister in Denbigh. He died in June 1729.


George Riashi

George Riashi (Qaa el Reem, near Zahlé, Lebanon on November 25, 1933 – October 28, 2012) was the Greek Melkite Catholic bishop of Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tripoli and all North Lebanon.
Life.
George Riashi was one of nine children of Khattar and Zahia Riashi. Until 1948 he attended the local school and then moved to the Saint John's Basilian Seminary. Until 1953, he remained in the Basilian seminary and made his temporal vows. His religious name was Athanasius, according to Athanasius of Alexandria. Riashi started his religious studies to become a priest in 1955 in the Basilian Chouerite Order's Mar Yohanna Seminary in Khenchara and later in Saint Joseph University in Beirut in the American University of Beirut. From 1958 to 1965 Riashi studied philosophy, theology, computer science and mathematics. In 1962 he became a subdeacon and 1963 was ordained deacon. Riashi was ordained to the priesthood on 4 April 1965, but took off his name Athanasius and bore the name of George, being a member of the Basilian Chouerite Order. In France he continued his studies, receiving a scholarship at the Institut Catholique de Paris. Then Riashi went back to Lebanon and taught for the next five years at the Basilian Saint John Seminary. At the same time he devoted himself to work in the Scout movement and was the Chaplain-General of them in Lebanon. and until 1969 was the head of Choueriot Seminary. He was appointed principal of Saint Antoine Secondary School in Kfarshima, Lebanon for a year, before serving in the United States from 1970 until 1987. On December 1, 1971 Riachi came to Detroit sent and supported there by Archimandrite Agabios in his office. He took over in 1978 pastoral work to Melkites in Detroit and was named Archimandrite on 21 July 1981 by Patriarch Maximos V Hakim.
Episcopal dignity.
In 1987, he was elected by the Holy Synod of the Melkite Church as first Bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Saint Michael Archangel in Sydney. The Patriarch of Antioch Maximos V Hakim was his consecrator and his co-consecrators were Archbishop Joseph Tawil of Newton and Archbishop Jean Mansour, SMSP, Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch, and his episcopal ordination was performed on 19 July 1987. In 1995 the Melkite Synod elected him Bishop of Tripoli and all the North. In this office, Riashi was a participant in the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (Catholic) on the Middle East. In 2010 the Melkite Synod accepted his age-related withdrawal.
Death.
On 28 October 2012, Riashi died.


Raphael Hess

Raphael Hess is an Anglican bishop: since 2006 he has been the inaugural Bishop of Saldanha Bay.


Life of Columba


Gaspar del Bufalo

Gaspar Melchior Balthazar del Bufalo (January 6, 1786 – December 28, 1837), also known as Gaspare del Bufalo, was a Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Canonised in 1954 he is liturgically commemorated the 21 October.
Life.
Gaspar del Bufalo was born in Rome on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 1786. He was baptized that same day and given the name Gaspar Melchior Balthazar, the traditional names of the magi who visited the child Jesus. The son of Annunziata and Antonio del Bufalo, he grew up in the city of Rome, in the servants' quarters of a noble family, where his father worked as chef.
His father was a failed entrepreneur who had dabbled in the theater and in professional soccer before taking a position as a cook in the household of the Altieri family, whose palace was across from the Church of the Gesù in Rome.
Because of his delicate health, his pious mother had him confirmed at the age of one and a half years. As he was suffering from an incurable malady of the eyes, which threatened to leave him blind, prayers were offered to St. Francis Xavier for his recovery. Through the influence of his mother he became greatly devoted to St. Francis Xavier, whose relic is prominently displayed on an altar of the Gesù. In 1787, he was recovered and cherished in later life a special devotion to the Apostle of India, and selected him as the special patron of the congregation which he later founded.
St. Gaspar was also active in several ministries. He visited the sick and the poor often and founded a young persons’ religious organization whose members prayed and did charitable work together. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in the diocese of Rome in 1808. Soon after Gaspar formed an evening society for the laborers and farm workers who came into Rome from the countryside to sell their wares. He provided catechism for orphans and children of the poor and set up a night shelter for the homeless.
Along with other clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1809 after the deportation of Pope Pius VII, he was sent into exile to northern Italy and imprisoned for four years. Upon his return to Rome in 1814, he considered joining the Jesuits, who had recently been reestablished. However, in view of the needs of the time and at the request of Pius VII, he engaged in the ministry of preaching missions to the people in order to reestablish some order in the midst of the chaos of the time.
Missionaries of the Precious Blood.
Despite facing considerable difficulties, in 1815 he founded a society of priests, the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, at the abbey of San Felice in Giano, Umbria. With the help of local people, Gaspar worked to repair the abandoned 10th century monastery.
The year 1821 was a time of great lawlessness in the Papal States and many towns were out of the control of the civil authorities. Bandits controlled many of the towns in the coastal provinces. Cardinal Cristaldi, papal treasurer and advisor to Pope Pius VII, suggested that Gaspar and his new band of missionaries go into the towns and provinces where the bandits lived and establish mission houses. There they were to preach the Word, establish churches and chapels, and see to the continued instruction of the people. Between 1821 and 1823 six new mission houses were opened. Gaspar and his companions went out and preached the merits of the Precious Blood. They called the people to repentance and to return to faithfulness. They would preach on the street corners at night. They instructed the children. Armed with only the crucifix, they went into the hills, where Gaspar negotiated a peace with the banditi.
Although Gaspar was very popular in his native city, he was not without enemies. His activity in converting the "briganti", who came in crowds and laid their guns at his feet after he had preached to them in their mountain hiding-places, excited the ire of the officials who profited from brigandage through bribes and in other ways. These enemies almost induced Leo XII to suspend del Bufalo.
He also faced ecclesiastical opposition. One major objection to the new society was that its name, The Society of the Precious Blood, was considered unecclesiastical. Gaspar was accused of disregarding canon law and the mission cross and chain that the members wore was completely untraditional. This opposition began under the reign of Pope Pius VII (around 1820) who had been a strong support of the society at its founding in 1815. This opposition became so strong that the successor to Pius VII, Leo XII, was positively adverse to the community. It is noted that this was at a time when Gaspar was being more and more open in his criticism of abuses in the Church and the government of the Papal States. St. Gaspar felt that this opposition was more of a personal attack on himself and so he offered to step down as moderator of the community so that things could be smoothed over. Fortunately, this was not needed as the situation with Leo XII was resolved after a meeting between the two of them.
His missionary efforts were extremely dramatic. One contemporary, the Passionist priest and bishop St. Vincent Strambi, described his preaching as being "like a spiritual earthquake." He was also a friend of St. Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pallotines, who assisted at Gaspar's deathbed. He is particularly known for his devotion to the Precious Blood of Christ and for spreading this devotion during his lifetime.
Until his death on December 28, 1837, he worked tirelessly to re-evangelize central Italy, especially the Papal States. He was well known for his eloquence in preaching, his devotion to the poor (especially the Santa Galla Hospice in Rome), and his work with the brigands of southern Lazio.
In 1836, his strength began to fail. He had given his last mission in Rome at the Chiesa Nuova in 1837. Although fatally ill, he hastened to Rome, where the cholera was raging, to administer to the spiritual wants of the plague-stricken. He returned to Albano but went again to Rome at the suggestion of Cardinal Franzoni, the cardinal protector of the Congregation, in December 1837. It proved too much for him, and he succumbed in the midst of his labours on December 28, 1837.
His funeral was held in Rome at the church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria, near the Teatro di Marcello, and he was buried in Albano. Later, his body was transferred to the house of the Missionaries on the Via dei Crociferi in Rome (Santa Maria in Trivio), where it remains today.
The titles accorded to him by his contemporaries:"II Santo", "Apostle of Rome", "Il martello dei Carbonari" (Hammer of Italian Freemasonry).
Veneration.
Saint Gaspar del Bufalo was beatified by Pope Pius X in 1904, and canonized by Pope Pius XII on June 12, 1954. His feast day, as indicated in the Roman Martyrology, is on the day of his death, December 28, but has not been included in the General Roman Calendar. Currently Saint Gaspar del Bufalo's feast day is celebrated on October 21.
Legacy.
He had a significant influence on St. Maria De Mattias, foundress of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ (A.S.C.), although it was Venerable Giovanni Merlini C.PP.S. who was most directly associated with St. Maria in establishing her congregation.


Leslie Stradling

Leslie Edward Stradling (11 February 19088 January 1998) was an Anglican bishop in three separate African dioceses during the mid-20th century.
Born on 11 February 1908 and educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield and The Queen's College, Oxford; he was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1933 (11 June) and ordained a priest the next Trinity Sunday (27 May 1934) — both times by Richard Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral. After a curacy at St Paul's, Lorrimore Square he was Vicar of "St Luke's, Camberwell" and then of "St Anne's, Wandsworth" before being appointed the Church's youngest bishop in 1945. He was consecrated a bishop on St James's Day 1945 (25 July), by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. Translated from Masasi to be the first Bishop of South-West Tanganyika in 1952, his final post was as Bishop of Johannesburg.
He died in 1998 in Cape Town.


Gabriel Lam

Gabriel Lam Cheuk-wai (, born 13 November 1933) is a Roman Catholic priest for the Diocese of Hong Kong. He was the Vicar Capitular of that diocese from 23 July 1974 to 25 July 1975. After that, he remained as the vicar general until 1992. As a former Vicar Capitular and Vicar General, he is entitled to be styled as "The Right Reverend".
Biography.
Lam was among 200 guests from Hong Kong to be invited by the Chinese government for the 35th anniversary of the People's Republic of China in 1984. Thus, he reportedly became the first Catholic official from Hong Kong to be invited by to mainland China since the establishment of the PRC in 1949. The invitation was originally intended to be for Cardinal John Baptist Wu, the bishop of Hong Kong, but due to his prior commitments in Europe, the diocese recommended Lam as the alternative.
Lam served as sole vicar general from 1975 onwards, and alongside John Baptist Tsang starting in 1985. Both Lam and Tsang ceased to be vicars general in 1992, when they were assigned to the newly-formed positions of Episcopal Vicar for Religious and Episcopal Vicar for Social Services, respectively. They were succeeded by Dominic Chan and John Tong Hon.


John Aruakpor

John Usiwoma Aruakpor (born 10 February 1960, at Owhelogbo, to Isoko parents in Delta State, Nigeria) is the Bishop of Oleh Diocese in the Anglican Communion. He has been married to Peace Aruakpor and has children and grandchildren.
He was consecrated Bishop of Oleh in 2012.


William Andrew (priest)

William Shaw Andrew MC (6 February 1884 – 19 July 1963) was an Anglican priest in the mid 20th Century.
He was born on 6 February 1884 and educated at Sheffield Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford. Ordained in 1909, he held curacies at St Luke the Evangelist, Walton-on-the-Hill and St Michael, Beccles. He was a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces during World War I. Later he held incumbencies at Boxford and St Andrews. before becoming Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
He died on 19 July 1963.


Jean-Baptiste Delaveyne

Dom Jean-Baptiste Delaveyne, O.S.B., (1653-1719) was a French Benedictine monk and priest, who founded a religious institute which continues to serve throughout the world.
Delaveyne was born in the village of Saint-Saulge in 1653, in the ancient province of Nivernais. As a teenager, he went to the city of Autun to start his education. After studying with the Society of Jesus, in 1669 he entered the Abbey of St. Martin in that city, at about the age of 16. He was soon sent to Paris, spending the following seven years studying there. He made his religious profession there in 1670. While there, he was drawn into the artistic and literary circles of the elite of Parisian society. After his ordination in 1676, he was sent to his hometown to serve as its pastor, continuing to lead a life mostly focused on the intellectual pursuits of the literary life.
Two years later, a chance remark by the pastor of a neighboring village contrasting his way of life to that of St. Benedict re-ignited the religious fervor of Delaveyne's youth. He returned to his monastery in Autun for a spiritual retreat, in order to find again the focus of his life. From this experience he returned to his parish a changed man.
In his re-found religious mindset, Delaveyne began to see the misery of the poor of the parish, especially those in the countryside. He started to work to relieve their physical as well as their spiritual needs.
Out of these efforts, in 1680 Delaveyne invited a group of young women of the parish to organize to care for the needs of women and children. He advised them:
In this way, Delaveyne founded the religious congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, which has operated hundred of convents and schools throughout France since its founding, with its motherhouse still in Nevers. The most famous member of the congregation is St. Bernadette Soubirous, the visionary of Lourdes.
Delaveyne died in Nevers in 1719.


Peter Harrison (priest)

Peter Reginald Wallace Harrison (born 22 June 1939) was Archdeacon of the East Riding from 1999 until 2006.
He was educated at Charterhouse, Selwyn College Cambridge and Ridley Hall Cambridge; and ordained in 1965. After a curacy in Barton Hill he was involved in Youth Work within the Church of England. He was in London from 1969 to 1977; and then at Mirfield from 1977 to 1984. After this he was Team Rector of the Drypool Ministry, a post he held until 1999.


Morris Bidwell

Morris Bidwell was a 17th-century Puritan preacher. He is known to have lived for some years in Swansea, where he held an appointment at St. Mary's, and held an interest in the Puritan School.
He is believed to have died before the year 1660, and to be buried at St. Mary's.


The Old House, Milverton

The Old House in Milverton in Somerset, England is a Grade II* listed building dating from the late 14th and early 15th century, although there may also be remains of an earlier building on the site.
The house is built of red sandstone with Hamstone dressings. It was built as a residence for the archdeacon of Taunton and was the home of Thomas Cranmer, in the 1530s while he held the post. It was only sold by the church in the mid 20th century.
While the house was being renovated in the early 21st century, a Tudor wall painting of Henry VIII was discovered underneath the plaster as it was being removed. It is the only one of its kind in a domestic dwelling. It has been speculated that there is a secret message in the image., which has been dated to around 1541.


William Avenya

William Amove Avenya (born 21 June 1955) from Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gboko in the Ecclesiastical province of Abuja in Nigeria. Avenya is the first Bishop of the diocese since its creation on 29 December 2012. He also serves as Secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN).
Religious life.
He was Ordained a Priest on 30 May 1981. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Makurdi, Nigeria on 28 Nov 2008. He was appointed Titular Bishop of Thucca in Mauretania on 28 Nov 2008 and Ordained a Bishop on 24 Jan 2009. He was appointed Bishop of Gboko, Nigeria on 29 Dec 2012 and Installed on 24 Feb 2013.


Cathrew Fisher

Thomas Cathrew Fisher (7 January 1871 – 8 November 1929) was an Anglican bishop.
Fisher was born in Kempston and was educated at Uppingham School, Trinity College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was ordained deacon in 1895 and priest in 1896. His first position was as an assistant curate at St John the Divine's Kennington. Later he was the Assistant Diocesan Inspector of Schools in the Diocese of Rochester and then the General Diocesan Inspector of Schools in the Diocese of Oxford. In 1910 he became the Bishop of Nyasaland, until his death in a motor accident in 1929.


Carmelo Morelos

Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos (December 12, 1930 – September 17, 2016) was a Filipino Roman Catholic archbishop.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1954, Morelos was appointed as the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Butuan in the Philippines in 1967 serving the diocese until 1994 when he transferred to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zamboanga. He served as the archdiocese's bishop until his retirement in 2006.
Morelos also served at the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines as its president from 1991 to 1995 and was named the chairman of the Mindanao-Sulu Pastoral Conference twice. He was also one of the reported candidates to succeed then retiring Manila Archbishop Jaime Sin who was then set to vacate his post on August 2003.
He died of age-related illness in September 17, 2016.