Zimbabwe Institute of Management

Zimbabwe Institute of Management is a membership based and non-profit making management organisation founded in 1957 with the main goal of promoting and developing best practices in management and leadership. The Institute's membership is categorised into individual, corporate and student members. Its range of products include executive diplomas in Business Leadership, General Management, Applied Strategy, Sports Management as well as diplomas in Business Administration, Project Management, Environmental Health & Safety Management, Supervisory Management and Security Management. The Institute also offers certificate courses in various fields of management in addition to customised in-house programmes to corporate clients.
Awards.
The Zimbabwe Institute of Management Awards were established in 1978 by the organisation to recognise, develop and promote management leadership excellence at all managerial levels. The awards are held annually. The 1978 awards were made possible by a donation from Kurt Kuhn, an ex-repatriate managing director at Zisco Steel. The first recipient of the award was J Fraser, the 10th general manager of Bata Shoe Company.
The award categories are
The manager of the year award is the most prestigious award and is judged on profitability, growth, human resources development, quality of social responsibility, economic development of their organisation as well as personal development of the nominated individual.
The awards kick off as regional awards and after the regional awards, national awards are held. Regional awards are held in the following regions:
Nomination Process.
Any one serving in a leadership role is eligible to be in the running for the awards through nominations invited during the first quarter of each year through press adverts as well as through the institutes' database of members and managers from both the private and public sectors. Adverts are also placed in the local newspapers calling for nominations and once nominations are received, the nominee is advised of this nomination and then invited to make a submission following a set criteria that is used by the adjudication panel.
Once submissions are received, the process commences with adjudication taking centre stage. An independent adjudication panel set up by the Council of the Institute adjudicates on nominees‘ submissions.
The awards are available for presentation each year to personalities who, in the opinion of the Institute have made outstanding contribution to management in Zimbabwe.
Nominee Requirements and Assessments.
The requirements for a nominee are company profile, resume, organisation's history, organisational structure, details of personal development and details of social responsibility and three referees who can be business partners, employers, suppliers or immediate superiors.Assessment depend on this supplied information and include non statistical factors such as management of people, tasks, processes, macro-environment fundamentals, recognition by internal and external stake-holders, quality of social responsibilities, human resources development and leadership.


Madhav Singh Solanki

Madhavsinh Singh Solanki (30 July 1927 – 9 January 2021) was a leader of Indian National Congress party who served as External Affairs minister of India. He served also as the Chief Minister of Gujarat three times. He was known for KHAM theory by which he came to power in Gujarat in 1980s.
Early life.
Madhav was born on 30 July 1927 in a Koli family of Gujarat. His eldest son, Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki, is also a politician.
Career.
In 1981, the Government of Gujarat headed by the chief minister Solanki, introduced the reservation for socially and economically backward classes based on recommendations of Bakshi Commission. It resulted in anti-reservation agitation across the state which spilled over in riots resulting in more than hundred deaths. Solanki resigned in 1985 but later returned to power winning 149 out of 182 assembly seats. He was supported by Kshatriya, Harijan, Adivasi and Muslims; called collectively as KHAM formula. It resulted in other communities losing the political influence.
Bofors.
According to the CBI, Solanki visited Davos in Switzerland in 1992 to attend the World Economic Conference where he allegedly met the Swiss foreign minister Rene Felber and told him that "inquiries conducted into the scam in India had failed to produce any result and that the request for mutual assistance was based on political considerations".


Gerard Tickle

Gerard William Tickle (2 November 1909 – 14 September 1994) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of the Forces from 1963 to 1978.
Born in Birkenhead in 1909, he was ordained to the priesthood on 28 October 1934. He served as Vice-Rector of the English College, Rome 1946-52 and Rector 1952-63. He was appointed the Bishop of the Forces and Titular Bishop of Bela by the Holy See on 12 October 1963. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 1 December 1963, the principal consecrator was Cardinal William Theodore Heard, and the principal co-consecrators were Cardinal John Carmel Heenan and Bishop William Eric Grasar. He participated in the third and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council, held in 1964 and 1965.
Bishop Tickle was the target of an assassination attempt by an Irish republican bomber, Shane Paul O'Doherty, after, O'Doherty later claimed, he had read "... a newspaper story quoting Tickle as saying British soldiers did nothing wrong on Bloody Sunday. The bomb, stuffed into a hollowed-out Bible, failed to detonate."
Tickle resigned as Bishop of the Forces on 24 April 1978, at age 68, but continued as Titular Bishop of Bela until his death on 14 September 1994, aged 84.


Culinary specialist (United States Navy)

Culinary specialist (abbreviated CS) is a United States Navy occupational rating. It was formerly the mess management specialist (MS) rating until January 15, 2004, and commissaryman (CS) and steward (SD) prior to 1975.
History.
Food service ratings in the U.S. Navy were historically divided into two broad groupings until the merger of commissaryman and steward ratings to mess management specialist on January 1, 1975. Before 1975, stewards prepared and served meals to the officers, maintained their quarters and took care of their uniforms. They served officers in the flag mess for admirals, the cabin mess for the ship's captain and the wardroom mess for all other officers. Until the merger, the steward rating, and its predecessor ratings were largely segregated. Sailors of African, Filipino and Asian descent largely performed these functions.
Commissarymen prepared meals for enlisted sailors in galleys on the ship and shore bases in the general mess. They purchased food from approved sources, stored food stuffs and distributed to the galleys for preparation and kept accountability records.
With the consolidation, sailors in the new rating became "responsible for food preparation and food service for both enlisted and officer messes." To accommodate the change, officers were now required to assume some of the upkeep of their staterooms and personal uniforms. Other cleaning duties became the responsibility of rotational pool of enlisted personnel from the ship. This arrangement continues with the current culinary specialist rating.
Duties.
Culinary specialists operate and manage U.S. Navy messes and living quarters in addition to many other duties as follows:
Navy culinary specialists operate messes for the President of the United States in the White House and at Camp David.


John Cecil Masterman

Sir John Cecil Masterman OBE (12 January 1891 – 6 June 1977) was a noted academic, sportsman and author. His highest-profile role was as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, but he was also well-known as chairman of the Twenty Committee, which during the Second World War ran the Double-Cross System, controlling double agents in Britain.
Academic background.
Masterman was born in Kingston upon Thames, and educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Dartmouth, then at Worcester College, Oxford, where he read modern history. In 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, he was an exchange lecturer at the University of Freiburg, and as a result spent four years interned as an enemy alien in the Ruhleben internment camp. During his internment, Masterman took the opportunity to further polish his German.
After his return from captivity, Masterman became a tutor in Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was also censor (senior tutor) from 1920 to 1926. In the 1920s he became notable as a player of cricket, tennis, and hockey, participating in international competitions, and in 1931 toured Canada with the Marylebone Cricket Club; in Stephen Potter's book "Gamesmanship" he was acknowledged as a master gamesman.
After the Second World War Masterman returned to Oxford, becoming Provost of Worcester College (1946–61), where Ann Mitchell was his secretary until 1949. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford during 1957 and 1958. In 1959 he was knighted for his services to education.
Two Oxford mysteries.
"An Oxford Tragedy".
In 1933, he wrote a murder mystery novel entitled "An Oxford Tragedy", set in the fictional Oxford college of St. Thomas's. It was written in the point of view of an Oxford don named Francis Wheatley Winn, who was Senior Tutor at St. Thomas'. He served as Watson to the novel's Sherlock Holmes, an amateur sleuth named Ernst Brendel, a Viennese lawyer "of European reputation".
In the novel, Brendel delivers a series of lectures to the Law Faculty. He had a good reputation as a detective with the quality of "a man to whom secrets will be confided". When an unpopular tutor was found shot in the Dean's rooms, he took it upon himself to solve the crime. He of course solved the case, and the murderer thus exposed committed suicide.
The novel itself was quite unusual for its time in providing an account of how murder affects the tranquil existence of Oxford dons. While it was a variation of the old theme of evil deeds done in a tranquil setting, it did establish the tradition of Oxford-based crime fiction, notably in the works of Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin.
"The Case of the Four Friends".
Despite the acclaim that "An Oxford Tragedy" had garnered, Masterman did not publish a follow-up until 1957. The novel, again starring Ernst Brendel, was called "The Case of the Four Friends", which is "a diversion in pre-detection".
In the novel, Brendel is persuaded by a group of friends to relate a story of how he "pre-constructed" a crime, rather than reconstructing it as in the conventional manner. As he says, "To work out the crime before it is committed, to foresee how it will be arranged, and then to prevent it! That's a triumph indeed, and is worth more than all the convictions in the world".
His tale then was about four men, each of them either a potential victim or potential murderer. The pacing of the story is quite slow and the narrative is interrupted from time to time by discussion between Brendel and his listeners. Even so, the novel maintains its interest on the reader throughout, partly because of the originality of its approach.
This novel was the last of his crime stories and he wrote no more works of fiction. However, his best known work was still to come, and it would involve his wartime experiences as part of the Twenty Committee.
The Twenty Committee.
When World War II broke out, Masterman was drafted into the Intelligence Corps. After investigating and producing a report into the evacuation of Dunkirk, Masterman was appointed as a Civil Assistant in MI5. Within MI5 he was the chairman of the Twenty Committee, which was a group of British intelligence officials, including wartime amateurs, who held the key to the Double Cross System, which turned German spies into double agents working for the British. The Committee's name was a pun based on the Roman numeral XX and its double-cross purpose.
Strictly speaking, the Committee was responsible for providing information for the agents to be transmitted to the Abwehr and other German intelligence agencies, deceiving them of Allied intentions and war plans. It was Section B1(a) of MI5, established by Lt. Col. T. A. Robertson, who had the task of finding, turning and handling the agents themselves.
Masterman became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in June 1944. Robertson was also appointed an OBE in the same London Gazette. They are both listed as Civil Assistant, War Office. In November 1945 at the Savoy Hotel in London, Masterman and a select few of B1 (a) section were awarded the Order of the Yugoslav Crown by the exiled King Peter II.
Although Masterman ran the system, he credited MI5 with originating the idea. It is widely assumed that the writer Ian Fleming, himself involved in wartime intelligence, adapted Masterman's name for the (female) character of Jill Masterson in his James Bond novel "Goldfinger" (1959).
Revelations.
Information about the double-cross system remained secret after the war. In 1958 Masterman began pressing the British intelligence establishment for permission to publish a book about it. Roger Hollis, the head of MI5 at that time, refused to authorize publication, as did Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
However, Masterman was not to be deterred. Revelations about the Cambridge Spy Ring in the 1960s resulted in low morale throughout the intelligence community, and Masterman felt that the publication of a book about the double-cross system would restore public confidence. He pressed his suit once again on the matter.
Masterman also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1966.
In April 1970, when the government again refused, he decided to have it published in the United States, where he felt he would be out of reach of the Official Secrets Act. He was supported by Norman Holmes Pearson, a member of the Yale University faculty, who nominated Yale University Press as publisher. Pearson was more than happy to help Masterman because he also served in the Twenty Committee (though not a member) as the wartime head of the counterintelligence division of the Office of Strategic Services. Yale had contributed many scholars and students to the OSS, and Chester B. Kerr, director of the press, saw the importance of the book historically and commercially.
For a time British authorities threatened Masterman with legal action, but in the end bowed to the inevitable and allowed publication, with the proviso that sixty passages in the manuscript be deleted. Kerr would only acquiesce to a dozen. The book, "The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939–45", was finally published in February 1972, with a foreword by Pearson, who guardedly did not refer to his work in the Committee. Masterman himself wrote the book without revealing anything about Ultra, still highly secret, that greatly aided the double-cross system. The ban on Ultra would be lifted in 1974.


Diocese of Masvingo (Anglican)

The Anglican Diocese of Harare is the fifth and newest diocese in Zimbabwe within the Church of the Province of Central Africa: the current bishop is Godfrey Tawonezvi.


Jonathan Higgins

Jonathan Quayle Higgins III, VC is a fictional character in the 1980–1988 comedy and crime television series, "Magnum, P.I." portrayed by actor John Hillerman. Hillerman won an Emmy for the role in 1987.
The character of Higgins appeared in crossover episodes of two other television shows: "Simon & Simon" in 1982, and "Murder, She Wrote" in 1986.
Origin.
Although the character is English, actor John Hillerman was born in Texas and served in the U.S. Air Force. Hillerman practiced the English accent in onstage productions in Ohio before taking the accent to Hollywood. The character widely known as Jonathan Higgins began life as Simon Brimmer in the 1975 TV movie "Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects" and the 1975–1976 TV series "Ellery Queen". Brimmer was an arrogant and self-assured character who used these personality traits as a foil to Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton). Hillerman said that playing a snob came easily to him.
Fictional character biography.
The character Higgins was born sometime in the year 1920. In the episode "Echoes of the Mind" he reveals that he is the second son of the Duke of Perth. a retired senior British Army officer, and Baron of Perth in his own right, though he rarely uses the title. He went to school at Eton College and Sandhurst Military College, but was "sent down" from the latter after another officer cadet allowed him to take the blame for a prank that had resulted in the serious injury of a third cadet. Higgins obeyed an honour code among the cadets by not revealing the true identity of the culprit at the cost of being himself being rejected by Sandhurst for an officer's commission. Unable to face his father, he enlisted into the ranks of the West Yorkshire Regiment and he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
Higgins has three half brothers, portrayed on the show by Hillerman. The first was a Texan, Elmo Ziller. The second was an Irish priest, Father Paddy McGuinness. The third was Don Luis Mongueo. A fourth named Soo Ling is mentioned but never seen.
The character served for 37 years in the British military in the Second World War, the Indochina War (assisting the French), New Guinea, India, and Kenya, among others. Higgins carried the discipline of his military background into his civilian life. Higgins earned the rank of sergeant major in the British Army, and was in MI6 of the British Secret Service.
The character holds a 1947 doctorate in mathematics from University of Cambridge. This is revealed when he tells a pregnant woman (correctly, though misleadingly) that he is "a doctor". He owns two highly trained and extremely intelligent Doberman Pinschers, Zeus and Apollo (to whom he often refers as "The Lads").
Higgins is well versed in combat techniques, both armed and unarmed (kung fu) combat. He expresses fondness for older British Army weaponry such as the Sten and Sterling submachine guns, although he is more than capable of using modern weaponry such as the Heckler & Koch MP5. There is a small collection of weaponry (mostly pistols and shotguns) at the estate for him and Magnum to use as needed. Occasional episodes show Higgins utilizing less common weapons, such as a 19th-century brass cannon and a samurai sword. Like Magnum, he does not make a habit of carrying a gun all the time.
In regard to his personal life, Higgins once was nearly engaged to be married; years later his old flame visits him in Hawaii. He described her as being built like the Prince Albert Memorial.
Higgins is the estate manager for Robin Masters's beachfront estate on Oahu, called "Robin's Nest". The rich, eccentric (and perpetually travelling) Masters was a largely offstage character on the show, though frequently referred to. After Orson Welles (who voiced Robin Masters) died, the show's writers decided to have Thomas Magnum, a private investigator and Head of Security for Robin's Nest, begin to suspect Higgins "is" Robin Masters. This took some retconning, as Higgins had been shown alone in a room conversing on a speakerphone with Robin Masters. As well, there were numerous other examples of Masters being a different person from Higgins ... but Magnum came to suspect these were staged with the help of an actor hired by Higgins to portray "Masters". The idea that Higgins could secretly be Masters became a long running gag in the series after Thomas told his friends Theodore "T.C." Calvin, and Orville "Rick" Wright about his idea.
In the final episode of the series, Higgins tells Magnum that he "really is" Robin Masters. However, Higgins later recants at Rick's wedding.
Character.
Higgins plays Magnum's foil. Higgins has been described as representing "the pomposity, elitism, and stuffiness of the Old Guard (literally and figuratively)". John Hillerman has stated, "Higgins in any situation thinks he's the only sane person around while everyone else is raving mad." Despite this, all four main protagonists formed close friendships, although there were the constant squabbles.
In one episode, a rabbi recounts an encounter with a young Higgins. He describes how in 1946 Higgins refused a standing order to fire on Jewish refugees trying to reach Palestine. When asked how he could disobey, Higgins replied, "I was obeying a higher law that does not permit me to shoot unarmed refugees looking for a home."
Higgins is known for his tendency to ramble when someone asks him a question. He usually manages to relate it to a story in either Korea or World War II, but sometimes other events. In one episode, when he is being robbed by people in costume, he says, "I believe I've been in a situation much like this ... actually, no, this is a first ... but I read about something like this once."
Crossover with "Murder, She Wrote".
Higgins is revealed to be a fan of Jessica Fletcher in the crossover episode with "Murder, She Wrote" and helped her free Magnum from prison in the "Murder, She Wrote" episode "Magnum On Ice". "Magnum On Ice" is the conclusion of the "Magnum P.I." episode "Novel Connection", which had a crossover with "Murder, She Wrote".
2018 reboot.
For the 2018 reboot, Higgins was re-written as a woman, named Juliet Higgins, portrayed by Perdita Weeks.
In the reboot, Higgins has a more active past in British military intelligence, having been a field operative (Magnum's CIA ex-fiance Hannah identifies her as "the first woman to infiltrate the Russian Secret Police"). She was also "widowed" in the field when her fiance, a fellow operative, was murdered by a contract killer she later unmasked as her mentor. It is also implied that she may be related to Robin Masters; in the reboot, Magnum describes Masters as having been "embedded with the troops", making this the first instance that either Magnum or Higgins has actually met Masters. Unlike the original Higgins, Juliet is more taciturn and curt and does not ramble. She retains the "lads" (Zeus and Apollo, two highly trained Doberman Pinschers) of the original Higgins, but enjoys setting them on Magnum in retaliation for his using the "privileges" of Robin's Nest more than the original one. This Higgins is more involved in Magnum's cases than the original, to the point that she is considered a member of Magnum's squad: he requests that she formally partner up with him in the second season, and she eventually accepts. In episode 17 Juliet says she has trouble with her visa, Thomas asks her to marry him to get her green card. She refuses at first, but later in the episode when she finds out that her lawyer can’t do anything about she accepts Magnum’s proposal, although she breaks the engagement three episodes later. Robin agrees to let her become the owner of Robin's Nest, which allows her to stay in the country.


Huang Da

Huang Da (; born February 22, 1925) is a Chinese economist and was the President of Renmin University of China. He is regarded as founder of modern financial research in China.
Career.
Huang Da was born in Tianjin to an intellectual family in 1925. He was educated at Huabei Union University (华北联合大学), later Renmin University of China. He was the President of Renmin University of China from 1991 to 1994. He was founding member of Monetary Policy Commission of People's Bank of China, serving from 1997 to 1999.
Huang is especially known for his "four textbooks" in finance - "On Socialist Financial Questions" (1981, 社会主义财政金融问题), "An Introduction to General Finance-Credit Balance" (1984, 财政信贷综合平衡导论), "Economics of Money and Banking" (1992, 货币银行学) and "Finance" (2004, 金融学).


Government Girl

Government Girl is a 1943 American romantic-comedy film, produced and directed by Dudley Nichols and starring Olivia de Havilland and Sonny Tufts. Based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, and written by Dudley Nichols and Budd Schulberg, the film is about a secretary working in a factory during World War II who helps her boss navigate the complex political machinations of government in an effort to build bomber aircraft for the war effort.
Plot.
Automobile engineer Ed Browne (Sonny Tufts) comes to Washington to appear in front of the War Construction Board. His mission is to supervise the building of bomber aircraft for the war. But when he arrives at the crowded hotel he is supposed to stay at, there are no rooms available. A friendly clerk at the hotel recognizes him from the paper and offers him room 2A.
Ed is unaware that the same room is reserved by Elizabeth "Smokey" Allard (Olivia de Havilland), for her friend May (Anne Shirley) who will marry an army sergeant, Joe Bates (James Dunn), that very night. The wedding takes place in the hotel lobby, but the groom has lost his ring, and Smokey borrows one from Ed, which leads him to believe that Smokey is the woman getting married. A series of unfortunate events that night leads to Joe being arrested by M.P.s, and he leaves a borrowed motorcycle behind in the hands of Smokey.
Smokey tries to find someone who can return the bike, and Ed happens to pass by on his way to the War Construction Board. When Smokey tells him she works at the board, he agrees to drive her there. It turns out Ed is Smokey's new boss. He learns that she is dating a man named Dana McGuire (Jess Barker), who is an adviser to Senator MacVickers (Harry Davenport). Dana soon proves to be too egoistical and ambitious for Smokey's taste.
When Ed announces his plan to make the aircraft factories more effective, producing double the amount of bombers each year, Smokey warns him not to stray too far off government recommendations. He ignores her warning, and goes ahead with his efficiency plan. When six months have passed, Ed has reached his goal, but he has also made enemies. One of them is C. L. Harvester (Paul Stanton), who has become a thorn in his side because of the way Ed has ignored government procedures, and cutting into Harvester's business earnings. The two men become bitter enemies.
Harvester soon teams up with Dana, the senator, and powerful Washington socialite Adele Wright (Agnes Moorehead), threatening Ed with a Senate investigation. Ed has enough trouble with personal issues, realizing that he has fallen for Smokey, while she has already received a proposal from Dana.
Smokey, however, by burning the information Harvester has brought to Dana, saves Ed's career. When her friend May sees this, she claims that Smokey has fallen in love with Ed. The two women then are recruited by the government to expose Count Bodinski (George Givot) as a spy. The mission is successful, with the files that Ed was suspected of stealing being returned to Dana the following day by Smokey. She also testifies on Ed's behalf at the hearing. Ed is off the hook, and follows Smokey home to propose to her.
Cast.
As appearing in "Government Girl", (main roles and screen credits identified):
Production.
While in pre-production, "Government Girl" went through numerous changes in casting and production personnel. Joseph Cotten was originally slated for the male lead, with Gladys George to play "Mrs. Wright." Both Barbara Stanwyck and Ginger Rogers turned down the role of Elizabeth, and Olivia de Havilland was cast. David Hempstead was initially scheduled to produce the film, but when he had to bow out because of scheduling conflicts, Dudley Nichols stepped in, in his first film where he was both director and producer.
Sonny Tufts, borrowed from Paramount to star, was paired with Olivia de Havilland, who had run into studio politics at Warner Bros. on her last feature, "Princess O'Rourke" (1943) that had resulted in first, her suspension, and subsequent "assignment" by studio boss Jack L. Warner to producer David O. Selznick in return for Ingrid Bergman, whom Warner cast in "Casablanca" (1942). Selznick, in turn, loaned de Havilland to RKO.
Considering her ongoing lawsuit against her studio was the reason for her being punished with her assignment to "Government Girl", she was vociferous that she did not enjoy the experience.
Principal photography on "Government Girl" took place between mid-June to August 4, 1943, with retakes on August 11–18. Although the film was basically a studio production, second unit director Russell Metty filmed backgrounds in Washington, D.C.
Reception.
Despite reservations by de Havilland, "Government Girl" was a moderate success, making a profit of $700,000.
Critical reviews, however, were quick to point out that other wartime Washington-themed films were better. Bosley Crowther in "The New York Times" praised Nichols as a "first-class screen-writer" but as a director, "In some spots, his film is amusing. In long stretches, it is hopelessly dull." He also found, "the plot takes such sudden twists and sideslips, the pace is so uneven, the styles are so jumbled and the story, by and large, is so topically stale that the film has the look of an effort of a directorial amateur."


Leatherneck (G.I. Joe)

Leatherneck is a fictional character from the toyline, comic books and animated series. He is a Marine with the G.I. Joe Team and debuted in 1986.
Profile.
His real name is Wendell A. Metzger, and his rank is that of gunnery sergeant (E-7). Leatherneck was born in Stromsburg, Nebraska.
Leatherneck's primary military specialty is infantry, and his secondary military specialty is drill instructor. Before joining the G.I. Joe Team, Leatherneck was a corporal in Gitmo, a tech sergeant in the 1st Recon Bn in Vietnam, a drill instructor on Parris Island, and a gunny at Camp Lejeune. He earned a reputation for toughness in all of these places, and while he may not come off as likable, he has proven himself trustworthy.
As a drill instructor, Leatherneck assumes the role of an enemy when training Joes, turning himself into an insurmountable obstacle. He's proof that you don't need to like your fellow soldiers in order to fight beside them. Leatherneck is ill tempered, obnoxious, and holds irrational grudges against those who don't fit his definition of "worthy". The only teammate he seems to connect with is Wet Suit, and according to rumor, the two can't stand each other. Their rivalry stems from the tradition of competition between the Navy and the Marine Corps, but their constant bickering conceals a shared respect.
Toys.
Leatherneck was first released as an action figure in 1986.
A new version of Leatherneck was released in 1993 as part of the Battle Corps line.
Comics.
In the Marvel comics "" series, he first appeared in issue #49. He is a featured supporting character in the next issue, as the focus of an assault team going through the Cobra held-town of Springfield. His squad battles holding-forces led by the newly created Serpentor. Leatherneck is one of the ground troops storming Cobra Island beaches in the second Cobra civil war.
Animated series.
Sunbow.
He first appeared in the Sunbow/Marvel "" second-season episode "Arise, Serpentor, Arise!: Part I". He was often arguing with fellow Joe Wet-Suit (who was a Navy Seal). He was known for being uncouth loud and hot headed. Leatherneck was voiced by Chuck McCann.
Leatherneck played a part in the episode "Let's Play Soldier," where he has an encounter with street orphans in an Asian town, at the same time that Doctor Mindbender and the Dreadnoks are harvesting a special sap, which causes anyone who comes in contact with it to act like mindless zombies. Doctor Mindbender tries twice to offer Leatherneck a piece of gum, which contained the sap as one of the ingredients. Once Doctor Mindbender's plot is thwarted, Leatherneck is able to get the local innkeeper to take the street orphans in as fellow workers much to the objection of the other Joes (who wanted the street orphans to end up in American foster care).
In the episode "The Rotten Egg," it is shown in flashbacks that Leatherneck worked at the CEC Military Academy, where he had problems with a tough cadet named Buck McCann. For instance, when the drill instructor witnessed him injuring a fellow cadet with sadistic glee, Leatherneck immediately punished him by withdrawing his recommendation for him for Officer Candidate School. One night, Leatherneck caught Buck and two men smuggling weapons, but was knocked out during the conflict. Some years later, Leatherneck returns to the military academy only to discover that Buck has taken over the CEC Military Academy (renaming its acronym to Cobra Elite Corps) and has allied himself with Serpentor with Buck being served by cadets Mike P. Randall and Sheila McDermott. Leatherneck is trapped following a hunt on him (where he was knocked out by Sheila McDermott despite rescuing her from the river) and Buck leads the cadets to attack the Parris Island Military Academy. Leatherneck escapes and manages to borrow one of the Dreadnoks' motorcycles. Upon claiming an outfit from one of Buck McCann's soldiers, Leatherneck helps the Joes fight the soldiers which ends with Leatherneck defeating Buck McCann. Buck and his soldiers are then arrested by G.I. Joe with Mike P. Randall ripping off the CEC patch from his shoulder and Sheila McDermott still claiming that Cobra will be victorious.
Leatherneck was featured in a PSA where he explains to two girls the horrors of not applying suntan lotion when at the beach.
G.I. Joe: The Movie.
Leatherneck also appeared briefly in the 1987 animated film "".
Other works.
Leatherneck's figure is briefly featured in the fiction novel "6 Sick Hipsters". In the story, the character Paul Achting spent four years collecting G.I. Joe figures to set up a battle scene between the Joes and Cobra. As he imagined the characters in his head, he described four of the Joes on front lines of the battle: Hawk, Leatherneck, Wet Suit, and Sci-Fi "stood in procession, weapons raised, adrenaline pumping feverishly. Anxious for another victory over the dreaded Cobra." He described how Leatherneck, "always the traditional soldier, stood just behind Hawk, his gray rifle at his side".


Military Ordinariate of Italy

The Military Ordinariate in Italy () is a military ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church. Immediately subject to the Holy See, it provides pastoral care to Roman Catholics serving in the Italian Armed Forces and their families.
History.
It was established as a military vicariate on 6 March 1925, but the first military vicar was not appointed until 23 April 1929. It was elevated to a military ordinariate on 21 July 1986. The Episcopal seat is located at the Church of St. Catharine of Siena in Magnanapoli ("Chiesa Principale di Santa Catarina da Siena a Magnanapoli") in Rome, Italy.


John Kreese

John Kreese is a fictional character who appears in "The Karate Kid" franchise created by Robert Mark Kamen. He serves as the main antagonist in "The Karate Kid" and as the secondary antagonist in "The Karate Kid Part III". He also appears in the opening scenes of "The Karate Kid Part II". He has returned as an antagonist in the "Cobra Kai" streaming television series. He is played by Martin Kove in most appearances.
Fictional biography.
Kreese was born on October 2, 1946 and worked as a diner employee as a teen. His mother committed suicide during his youth and thus he was troubled and picked on by other kids.
One day in 1965, when Kreese is working as a busboy at a diner, David, a college football star, his girlfriend Betsy, and another friend of David's show up. After making eye contact with Betsy, Kreese gets chastised by her boyfriend and apologizes. Later, when Kreese is taking out some trash, he witnesses David hitting his girlfriend. Kreese intervenes, causing a brawl to ensue between him, David, and the football player's friend. Kreese ends up winning not only the brawl but also the heart of Betsy.
After arriving in Vietnam in 1968, Kreese and Terry "Twig" Silver get selected by a cruel captain, George Turner, to form a special forces team that conducts direct action missions in North Vietnam. However, during a mission to blow up a North Vietnamese stronghold, things go south when Silver's radio crackles loudly. Kreese has a choice to detonate the explosives and consequently kill Ponytail, another soldier who has volunteered to lay the explosives, and then escape, but the former refuses out of compassion. Consequently, every soldier in Kreese's squad gets captured by North Vietnamese soldiers. Captain Turner rebukes Kreese for hesitating, and continues to chastise him even right after the North Vietnamese captors execute Ponytail. The remaining American soldiers are held captive until 1969, when they are forced to participate in one-on-one death matches on top of a snake pit arena for survival. At one point, Silver is chosen by the Vietnamese to fight Captain Turner. Feeling sorry for Silver, Kreese volunteers himself to fight Turner instead. Before participating in the match, Turner tries to demoralize Kreese and thus score an easy victory by revealing that Betsy died in a car accident not long after he arrived in Vietnam and hid the truth from him to maintain his focus. When the fight begins, the captain, who is well-trained in martial arts, easily knocks Kreese to the floor of the bridge that is suspended over the snake pit. Turner verbally abuses Kreese for his inability to "shed his humanity" and is about to throw him into the pit, but the latter avoids his impending death by stabbing Turner in the leg with a broken piece of bamboo. Kreese punches Turner off the bridge, but the latter manages to hold on. After a U.S. airstrike neutralizes the spectating North Vietnamese soldiers, Turner orders Kreese to lift him up, but Kreese finally learns to follow Turner's advice of "kill or be killed" by kicking him off the bridge and causing him to fall to his demise in the snake pit. Kreese’s experience with Turner earns him Silver’s undying loyalty and caused him to become the ruthless and merciless man that he is in the present day.
Kreese goes on to join the Green Berets of the Army Special Forces and earns a field commission. He is discharged from the army at the rank of captain, having held the title of Army Karate Champion from 1970-1972.
After his military career, sometime prior to 1979, Kreese founds the Cobra Kai dojo in California, with Silver’s financial backing, to train local kids in Tang Soo Do under the more marketable label of “Karate.”
"The Karate Kid".
As a sensei, Kreese instructs his students to have no mercy towards their opponents.
In 1984, Kreese's best student, Johnny Lawrence, has a conflict with Daniel LaRusso. In response, Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel karate. When Daniel and Miyagi go to the Cobra Kai dojo, Miyagi proposes that Daniel should enter the All Valley Under-18 Karate Championships tournament, where he will face the Cobra Kai students and demands that the conflict will cease while Daniel trains. Kreese agrees to the idea, but threatens to allow his students to continue their harassment if neither show up at the tournament. At the tournament, Daniel reaches the semi-finals while Johnny advances to the finals after defeating a highly skilled opponent. Kreese instructs Bobby Brown, one of his more compassionate students and the least vicious of Daniel's tormentors, to disable Daniel with an illegal attack on the knee. Bobby reluctantly does so, getting disqualified in the process. However, Daniel recovers and ultimately defeats Johnny, becoming the new champion.
"The Karate Kid Part II".
Shortly after Daniel's victory in the tournament, Kreese attacks Johnny for losing the tournament, but is approached by Miyagi, who humiliates Kreese by making him punch car windows, leaving the latter with bloody fists. Miyagi subdues Kreese by honking his nose and the Cobra Kai students eventually abandon him. During his final battle with Chozen, Daniel remembers how Miyagi defeated Kreese to save Johnny and honks Chozen's nose to defeat him and save Kumiko.
"The Karate Kid Part III".
Six months after the tournament, Kreese is now broke and destitute as he returns to the Cobra Kai dojo, which has been closed since Kreese lost all of his students due to his assault against Johnny Lawrence. Desperate to resurrect his career, Kreese visits his Vietnam War comrade, Terry Silver, who has become a wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business and offers to help Kreese gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi and re-establish Cobra Kai. Silver sends Kreese to Tahiti on vacation to regain while he hires Mike Barnes, the current under-18 national karate tournament champion, to harass Daniel and beat him in the next upcoming tournament. As Silver trains an unknowing Daniel, both of them are at the dojo one night, where Kreese make his way back in the fray with Barnes by his side to attack Daniel. Miyagi intervenes and escorts Daniel out of the dojo before any further chaos can occur. During the tournament, Daniel defeats Barnes, prompting Kreese and Silver to leave the scene. This implies that Cobra Kai is finished for good due to Barnes's, Kreese's, and Silver's behavior getting the dojo banned from sports.
"Cobra Kai".
Season 1 and 2.
Though he does not reappear until the season 1 finale, Kreese’s actions in the original films are shown to have a profound effect on the main characters as seen when Johnny Lawrence harbors resentment towards Daniel LaRusso due to Kreese choking Johnny as punishment for his loss against Daniel in the 1984 tournament (from "The Karate Kid Part II") and when a lifetime ban prevents Cobra Kai from competing due to the ruthless and unethical actions of Kreese, Terry Silver, and Mike Barnes during the 1985 tournament until Johnny manages to successfully convince the committee to lift the ban and allow Cobra Kai to compete in the 2018 tournament. When Johnny's reestablished Cobra Kai wins the 2018 All-Valley Karate Championship with Miguel Diaz, Kreese returns to the dojo. He ostensibly asks Johnny for forgiveness for attacking him after the 1984 tournament, in which Johnny placed second. He states that after the original dojo closed down, he re-enlisted in the Army to train Special Forces soldiers and run strikes during the Gulf War and the War in Afghanistan, though he now feels lost as the world has changed around him. Though Johnny rebuffs him for this apology, Kreese maintains that he never tried to kill Johnny and has repaired his second-place trophy to make amends which cools down the animosity between them; Johnny allows Kreese to attend Cobra Kai classes as an observer. Johnny and Kreese encounter Daniel, who realizes that Kreese has faked his death once again.
As Kreese regales the Cobra Kai students with stories of his military past, Miguel notices inconsistencies in his tales, and voices his concerns to Johnny. Johnny follows his former sensei to a homeless shelter. Kreese admits that he flunked a psychological test when he attempted to re-enlist in the Army, and that his stories about wars after his Vietnam experience were lies. Feeling bad for Kreese, Johnny decides to put his full trust in Kreese, believing that he wants to change for the better. However, Kreese quickly becomes a negative influence on Johnny's students, seeking out the most resentful and angry students to drive a wedge between the group under the guise of individual tutoring and advanced classes. He later abuses his influence, even going so far as to encourage some of them, particularly a vengeful Hawk, to vandalize the Miyagi-Do dojo, an act that costs Cobra Kai a bunch of its students after Daniel confronts Johnny about the matter in the middle of a class. After seeing the ruthless tactics used by his students during a training exercise at Coyote Creek particularly when Miguel aggressively delivers a finishing kick to Hawk, Johnny discovers that Kreese has been teaching the old ways of Cobra Kai behind his back and expels him from the dojo. Johnny attempts to teach his students to show mercy and honor with good judgment to correct them after Kreese corrupted them with his negative influence. However, after Miguel is severely injured during his fight with Robby at school when the former lets his guard down while showing mercy and apologizing to the latter, most of the students lose faith in Johnny and side with Kreese, who reveals to Johnny that he convinced strip-mall landlord Armand Zakarian to take the dojo away from him (while Johnny was visiting his dying friend Tommy). Hawk defends Kreese by openly blaming Johnny for Miguel being crippled by Robby. Now being its sole sensei, Kreese hopes to return Cobra Kai to the ruthless organization it once was, using the remnants of Johnny's most disaffected students as his core.
Season 3.
Kreese suffers the least fallout in the aftermath of the school rumble, only losing Aisha and Stingray as students (Aisha due to her parents withdrawing her and transferring her to a private school to recover from the aftermath of the school brawl, and Stingray due to being arrested for assaulting Miyagi-Do students during the school brawl and placed on probation, meaning he can no longer be around minors). Needing to bolster numbers with Miyagi-Do and Johnny out of the picture, Kreese actively brings Tory back to the dojo by offering free tuition and intimidating her seedy and unscrupulous landlord. His management of Cobra Kai sows seeds of division within his students’ ranks, most notably with Hawk, who disapproves of Kreese's recruitment of Kyler, Brucks and Robby Keene (Kyler and Brucks due to being two of the bullies whose actions against Miguel, Demetri and Hawk led to Cobra Kai's resurrection in the first place, Robby due to being the one who injured Miguel during the school brawl), as well as his decision to remove a group of students who object to feeding a live hamster to a snake. Most of the expelled students get recruited by Miguel into Johnny's new dojo Eagle Fang, Hawk’s loyalty to Cobra Kai is put to question, while Kreese views Tory and Robby as his star pupils.
Kreese’s machinations land him squarely in the sights of the LaRussos and Johnny. When Demetri's right arm is broken by Hawk in a fight with the Miyagi-Dos, an enraged Amanda storms into the dojo and slaps Kreese, who retaliates by taking out a restraining order against her. Amanda and Daniel attempt to strike back by having Armand Zakarian evict Kreese, but Kreese beats up Armand's nephews, and makes a declaration of war to the LaRussos by planting a live cobra in a car on the showroom floor of their dealership. During a town hall meeting to discuss whether or not to let the All Valley tournament continue, Kreese manages to ingratiate himself to the council members by claiming to promote strength and discipline through karate, all while painting Miyagi-Do as the aggressors, a position that is backed up by the vocal protests of Amanda, Daniel and Johnny. Due to the outburst, the council are inclined to cancel the tournament, though reconsider after Miguel gives the assembled audience an impromptu speech advocating for the tournament, with the help of Daniel's daughter Samantha.
Noticing the visible connection between Miguel and Samantha (between their romantic relationship and them being Johnny's and Daniel's star pupils), Kreese realizes they are likely to create an alliance between their dojos and decides to take action. He exploits Tory's vendetta against Samantha to get her to lead the Cobra Kais in an all-out brawl against the Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang students at the LaRussos' home. The attack fails, as Hawk defects to the Miyagi-Dos midway through the fight, and all of the Cobra Kai fighters are defeated. When Johnny finds out what happened, he storms into Cobra Kai to confront Kreese, and is horrified when he finds Kreese training Robby. Johnny viciously beats Kreese and at one point grabs a sai, but is interrupted when Robby intervenes. Refusing to fight, Johnny accidentally knocks Robby out by pushing him into a locker while evading his attacks. While Johnny is concerned with his son's well-being, Kreese uses it as the opportunity to strangle him.
Before Kreese can finish Johnny off, Daniel arrives, and has an even match with him. Even with Kreese using glass shards as an improvised weapon, Daniel immobilizes Kreese using the pressure point techniques that Chozen taught him. Samantha and Miguel arrive just as Daniel is about to deal the finishing blow with Johnny's approval, convincing the senseis to spare Kreese. Kreese agrees to cease hostilities with Daniel and Johnny until the upcoming All-Valley tournament before retreating into the battered dojo with Robby and giving Silver a phone call.
Commentary.
The character was based on Robert Mark Kamen's friend Ed McGrath. Martin Kove got the role by being verbally abusive towards the director. An often recited rumor is that the character of John Kreese was originally written for Chuck Norris, but he turned down the role because he thought it would give karate a negative image. Norris along with director John G. Avildsen have refuted this, but Norris has said if he had been offered the role, he would have turned it down for those very reasons.
The character has had a mostly positive reception from critics and is viewed as a quintessential 1980s villain.
Martin Kove appeared as Kreese in at least two instances outside the main Karate Kid franchise. In 2011, Kove played Kreese on the "Tosh.0" episode “Board Breaker.” He also appeared in an episode of "The Goldbergs" entitled “The Kara-te Kid” playing a character named Master John, a clear reference to the character John Kreese from the Karate Kid franchise.


Sandra Nyaira

Sandra Nyaira is a Zimbabwean investigative journalist and communications and public information officer at the United Nations headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Nyaira worked for Voice Of America (VOA) in Washington D C and her work also featured in the "London Times, The Guardian" and "The British Journalism Review". Nyaira rose to fame after she became the first woman in Zimbabwe to take a leadershio role in the newsroom at the age of 26 and also became more popular after she got arrested for exposing corrupt officials through an article she published.
In April 2001 she wrote articles accusing Robert Mugabe and the then parliamentary speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa of corruption, and again she was charged with criminal defamation that year.
Nyaira has been a Shorenstein fellow at Harvard University.


National Assembly of Zimbabwe

The National Assembly of Zimbabwe, previously the House of Assembly until 2013, is the lower house of the Parliament of Zimbabwe. Between 1989, when the Senate was abolished and 2005, when it was reestablished, the House of Assembly was the sole chamber, but it was one of two chambers from independence in 1980 until 1989 and has been so again since 2005.
Since the 2013 election, the National Assembly has had 270 members. Of these, 210 are elected in single-member constituencies. The last 60 seats are reserved for women, and are elected by proportional representation in 10 six-seat constituencies based on the country's provinces. On election day, each voter casts a single ballot, and this is used to assign seats to the parties for both types of seat.
Jacob Mudenda has been Speaker of the National Assembly since September 2013.
History.
Under the 1980 Constitution, 20 of the 100 seats in the House of Assembly were reserved for the country's white minority, although whites and other ethnic minorities made up only 5% of the population at the time. These seats were abolished by constitutional amendment in 1987.
This size of 100 seats was used for two elections, the 1980 election held immediately before independence and the 1985 election. The 1990 election was the first election after the abolition of the white-reserved seats, and also expanded the House of Assembly to 120 seats, a size which was retained for the 1995 and 2000 elections.
With the 2005 election, the House of Assembly was expanded to 150 members. 120 members were directly elected in single member constituencies using the plurality (or first-past-the-post) system. The President appointed twelve additional members and eight provincial governors who held reserved seats in the House. The remaining ten seats were held by traditional chiefs who were chosen by their peers. All members served five-year terms.
A 2007 law, to take effect after the 2008 election, expanded the House of Assembly to 210 seats and made it a fully elected body. The appointed and "ex officio" members were transferred to the Senate. The Seventh House of Assembly was opened on August 26, 2008. The additional system of 60 seats reserved for women was established for the 2013 election.


National Resources Commission

The National Resources Commission () was a powerful organ of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China that existed from 1932 to 1952 and was responsible for industrial development and the management of public enterprises. It was staffed entirely by technocrats who reported directly to the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. The significance of the National Resources Commission stemmed from the leading role it played in industrial development during the two decades of Kuomintang "tutelage" over China.
The National Resources Commission was secretly formed as the National Defense Planning Commission (國防設計委員會) in 1932 in Nanjing with a staff of fifty technical experts to plan industrial mobilization in preparation for the Second Sino-Japanese War. The immediate catalyst for the formation of the National Defense Planning Commission was the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Its immediate goal was to design and implement defense-related industries to make China self-sufficient in impending war with Japan.
The National Defense Planning Commission was renamed the National Resources Commission in 1935 to reflect its role beyond defense-related industries. It soon grew into a large bureaucracy that was involved in managing a large state-owned industrial sector and in coordinating foreign trade. By 1947, it had a staff of 33,000 who supervised 230,000 workers, mostly in public enterprises. Due mainly to the nationalization major industries by the Nationalist Government, the NRC would gain control of 70% of Chinese industry.
The National Resources Commission was particularly interested in surveying and exploiting natural minerals and ores, and succeeded in importing entire industrial plants and sending its personnel to train abroad. The engineers of the National Resources Commission were influenced by Sun Yat-sen's "Industrial Development" and tied the need for economic "reconstruction" with national defense. The NRC successfully moved major industries into the Chinese interior when the Nationalist Government under Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Chongqing. To supply the government-controlled areas with electricity, the NRC proposed to build the Three Gorges Dam (the National Defense Planning Commission had made the first ever engineering survey of the site in 1932), though the project would not come to fruition until the 1990s.
At the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the staff of the NRC was split. A portion of the NRC stayed in mainland China to work under the new People's Republic of China, while the rest fled to Taiwan with the KMT. A number of former NRC engineers rose to top government posts in Taiwan, including one premier (Sun Yun-suan) and eight ministers of economic affairs. In contrast, many NRC leaders who stayed behind in mainland China later found themselves persecuted during the Anti-Rightist Campaign and the Cultural Revolution for having been a part of the old order.
The Republic of China government on Taiwan abolished the NRC in 1952. It functions were overtaken by the Council on U.S. Aid and the Industrial Development Commission.


Served Like a Girl

Served Like a Girl is a 2017 documentary film about the lives of female US Military Veterans as they compete for the crown of Ms. Veteran America, directed by Lysa Heslov. The film was produced by Seth Gordon.
Soundtrack.
The film's soundtrack was produced by Linda Perry and Kerry Brown featuring songs from Pat Benatar, Christina Aguilera, Pink, Gwen Stefani. Natasha Bedingfield and Little Mix.


List of people killed by and disappeared during the Brazilian military dictatorship

This is a list of the killed and politically disappeared people during the Brazilian military dictatorship. It brings together the political dead and disappeared in the Brazilian military dictatorship of 1964. The murders and disappearances of opponents of the military regime in Brazil were investigated by the National Truth Commission (CNV), by state truth commissions, by human rights entities and by victims' own relatives. In these various investigations, there is a discrepancy in the numbers of deaths and missing persons computed. The CNV, in its final report, recognized 434 political deaths and disappearances between 1946 and 1988, of which the majority occurred during the dictatorship.
Included in the list are cases found by:


Liberator village

The Liberator Village was the government housing area for employees of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation aircraft manufacturing plant which was constructed after 18 April 1942 next to the Army Air Force (AAF) Base Tarrant Field Airdrome, and an AAF aircraft plant NO. 4 was built just west of Fort Worth, Texas along the south side of Lake Worth. The Consolidated Vultee Bomber Plant workers would build the B-24 "Liberator" heavy bomber. Later, they would build the B-32 Dominator bomber that made it to the war for only a short time. The plant begun production less than a year later while much of its workforce was accommodated in the 1500 prefabricated dwelling units located around the south gate of the bomber plant which housed men and women that built the B-24 bomber near Fort Worth, Texas during World War II.
The war had caused a shortage of housing in the area, therefore, the government decided to build a complex within walking distance to the plant. It would be named Liberator Village after the name of the B-24 bomber.
The employees worked in difficult living conditions with the housing described as "ricky-ticky houses and open sewers". However, this is disputed by Lambert. The village was built in three parts. The first was the part just across the road from the plant. It was built in the shape of barracks buildings. The next two parts were built about a mile away and were the built as "brick" buildings and small housing units with asbestos siding. One is still in existence and being used as a newspaper office.
The village was operated by the Federal Public Housing Authority, later to be called the Fort Worth Housing Authority, which was directed by Mr. Lealand Hunter. The tenants called it the Village Housing Authority (VHA). The VHA director was Mr. P. F. Miller. The building site was in the White Settlement area just south of the aircraft plant. The apartments were constructed in four stages at a cost of three and a half million dollars giving six thousand people from all over the United States a place to live near the new plant.
Many families that moved into these units had never had indoor plumbing, water, or electricity. All bills were paid for only $35.00 to $40.00 rent per month.
The Village caused a large problem for the small school district that had only one building with four classrooms. Soon, with government aid, several more buildings were added to the school. Even with the new buildings the students still had to go to class in shifts. A large strip mall was built nearby with a drug, grocery, clothing stores, post office and other small shops.
In May 1949 the Village was inundated by a flood, but largely escaped damage with a small area north of the Village washed out by Farmers Creek. A few trailer houses were damaged, and one boy was killed. The Village became a part of the White Settlement in 1954 and finally closed in 1955. It is now a suburb of Fort Worth famous for its longest factory building in the World operated by Lockheed Martin, and its proximity to the Fort Worth Naval Air Station.
The plant would continue to build the even larger B-36 bomber, but the Village would fade away during the mid-1950s. The aircraft plant, its workers and the village are commemorated by the White Settlement Historical Museum.


Mahn Nyein Maung

P'doh Mahn Nyein Maung (, b. 1947) is a former Karen rebel leader and member of Myanmar's State Administration Council.
Career.
1960s–2020: Activism.
After the 1962 Burmese coup d'état, Mahn Nyein Maung became involved in underground political activism. He was arrested in July 1967 and imprisoned in the Coco Islands. He escaped in 1970. He was recaptured and imprisoned until April 1973, under a general amnesty. During his time in jail, he became acquainted with Mahn Aung Kyi, the secretary of the All Burma Karen Organization, who would become his political mentor.
In 2000, he published a memoir entitled "Against the Storm, Across the Sea", describing his prison break from Coco Islands in the 1970s, a feat that earned him the nickname "Burma's Papillon." In December 2011, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for "unlawful association" after being deported by China due to visa issues. In March 2012, he was sentenced to life in prison by for participating in acts of war against the ruling government, but was released on 19 March via presidential amnesty. Mahn Nyein Maung became an admirer of Thein Sein, who had pardoned him. Mahn Nyein Maung participated in negotiating the landmark Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, which was signed by KNU on 15 October 2015.
2020–present: Entry into politics.
He resigned from the central executive committee of the Karen National Union in July 2020, in order to contest a Pyithu Hluttaw seat in his hometown of Pantanaw, Ayeyarwady Region in the 2020 Myanmar general election, representing the Kayin People's Party. He lost the election, placing third, with 8.83% of the votes. Nyunt Thein, representing the National League for Democracy, won the race with 58.01% of the votes.
He was appointed as a member of the State Administration Council on 2 February 2021, in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. Following his appointment, the KNU distanced itself from Mahn Nyein Maung, and reiterated its opposition to the military coup.


Li Hengde

Li Hengde (; 30 June 1921 – 28 May 2019) was a Chinese nuclear physicist and materials scientist who established China's first nuclear materials program at Tsinghua University. He was a founding academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE), and a Fellow of the Materials Research Society. He served as President of the Chinese Materials Research Society from 1991 to 1999 and as President of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) from 1999 to 2000.
Early life.
Li was born on 30 June 1921 in Luoyang, Henan, Republic of China. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he studied mining and metallurgy at the temporary National Northwestern Engineering Institute. After graduating with a B.S. degree in 1942, he worked in a steel plant and an aircraft manufacturer for the remainder of the war.
Studies and detention in the United States.
After the end of World War II, Li went to the United States in 1946 to further his studies. He earned his master's degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1947 and worked at the University of Notre Dame for a year under Paul Beck. He subsequently entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1953 under the supervision of R. M. Brick.
With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, the US and the newly established People's Republic of China became openly hostile. The US government forbade Chinese students in the country from going home and confiscated Li's passport. In 1952, he met with 14 other students in New Jersey and organized a secret network of students trying to return to China; they wrote several letters to Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, which were delivered through various channels. When their detention was publicized by American newspapers in March 1954, the students appealed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the US Senate, the United Nations, and the American Civil Liberties Union for their right to return home.
Following protracted negotiations during and after the 1954 Geneva Conference, the US agreed to lift the restraining order on the Chinese students in exchange for the release of American prisoners in China. Li finally returned to China on the SS "President Wilson" in November, and the aerospace engineer Qian Xuesen was "deported" by the US in 1955. However, many of the students had established families and careers in the US in the intervening years, and decided to stay.
Career in China.
Back in China, Li was appointed an associate professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and later promoted to full professor. In 1956, he established China's first nuclear materials program at Tsinghua. He later served as Director of the Institute of Materials of Research of Tsinghua University from 1979 to 1987, and as Chair of the Department of Engineering Physics from 1982 to 1986.
Outside of Tsinghua University, he served as the inaugural Director of Materials and Engineering Sciences at the National Natural Science Foundation of China from 1986 to 1994. He was elected President of the Chinese Materials Research Society for two terms, serving from 1991 to 1999. He served as First Vice President of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) from 1997 to 1998 and as President from 1999 to 2000.
Li died on 28 May 2019 in Beijing, at the age of 97.
Contributions and honours.
Li's research areas included nuclear materials, material modification with ion beams, bioceramics and biomimetics. In the late 1940s, Li was one of the first scientists to work with beryllium and studied the plastic deformation of beryllium crystals. He also studied uranium dioxide and zirconium hydrides. After the Cultural Revolution, he began studying modification of metals with ion beams and published more than 100 papers in the field. His works were highly cited and he received the ISI Citation Classic Award in 2000.
In 1994, Li was elected a founding member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was elected a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) in 2000 and a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2009.
Li was awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology Achievement in 1998. In addition, he received more than ten national science prizes of China.


Military Ordinariate of the Dominican Republic

The Military Bishopric of the Dominican Republic () is a military ordinariate (quasi-diocese) of the Roman Catholic Church.
It is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province.
Statistics.
As per 2014 it provides pastoral care to Roman Catholics serving in the Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic and their families in 47 (garrison?) parishes with 64 priests (62 diocesan, 2 religious) and 2 lay religious brothers.


First Strike Ration

The First Strike Ration (FSR) is a compact, eat-on-the move ration concept from the United States Army, designed to be consumed during the first 72 hours of conflict, created by the United States Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts. The Army said the FSR substantially reduces weight and load and is intended to enhance a consumer's physical performance, mental acuity, and mobility.
Features.
The FSR is a new assault ration developed to provide mobile soldiers with a variety of foods that are lightweight, calorically dense, familiar, and which are more "easy to consume" than intermediate moisture foods.
A current Menu 1 ration contains:


RCAF Blackouts

The RCAF Blackouts were a Canadian World War II entertainment group that performed at airbases in Canada and internationally.


Military Vicariate of Indonesia


Jim Rockford (television character)

James Scott Rockford is a fictional character on the television series "The Rockford Files". The character, played by James Garner, is a struggling private investigator operating in the greater Los Angeles area. Rockford is the principal character of the series, and Garner was the only actor to appear in every episode of the series.
Character background and investigation agency.
Unlike many other fictional "private eyes", he is an ex-convict, albeit one who was falsely imprisoned (at San Quentin Prison) and later fully pardoned. One episode tells that because of the carelessness of his parole officer, Rockford had to hire an attorney to be free of parole requirements. Although he was innocent of the charge for which he was imprisoned, in several episodes it is suggested that Rockford had at one time been a mostly successful con artist. Except when being specifically threatened by hoods he gets along amicably with them, better than he does with high ranking police officers, who almost without exception despise him.
Rockford operates a small private investigation service out of his beachside mobile home in Malibu, California. The trailer was parked in the lot for "Paradise Cove" next to a restaurant. To avoid confrontations with the LAPD, he will not take on open police cases. He also refuses to do domestic cases. He specializes instead in cold cases, missing person cases and small-time insurance scams. At one time, in addition to other clients, he worked on a retainer basis for a major insurance company, but the company scrapped the deal when a case went sour, and Rockford lost the annual income. He charges a flat rate of $200 a day plus expenses for each case, which, in a running gag, he seldom actually receives. Over the years he was involved in several cases for which his investigative efforts should have gained him significant bonuses, but he was never able to collect them. He is consistently shown to be short on money, or trying to keep creditors at bay; he typically wears sport coats and low-priced off-the-rack suits and his lone indulgences are an answering machine (the source of another running gag at the beginning of each episode) and the latest gold colored Pontiac Firebird Esprit automobile, traded in each year of the series for the newest model. (Garner did not like the look and handling of the 1979 model, so the 1978 was reused for the final season in 1979–80; this was an apparent use of product placement in the series.) Rockford is an outstanding driver, on several occasions getting out of tricky situations when being followed merely by skillfully maneuvering his vehicle away.
Rockford’s investigative style is to use his wits and a good measure of deception to get useful information from those he interviews. In one episode he is derisively described by a rival private investigator as “the con bull artist”. In addition to posing as insurance investigators and government officials, he sometimes invents preposterous characters and scenarios to confuse people, which usually gets them to reveal some valuable information. He has a portable printing press, which he keeps in his car and uses to prepare business cards that lend credibility to his guises. He is adept at using a lockpick, illegal to possess.
His contact inside the police department is his friend, detective (later lieutenant) Dennis Becker, who will on occasion, albeit grudgingly, run car license plates and do criminal record checks for him. Rockford in return gives information on criminal activity he digs up to Becker, allowing him to get the credit for any arrests that follow.
Rockford shared many personality traits with the lead characters of two of Garner's previous series, "Maverick's" Bret Maverick and "Nichols's" Frank Nichols. Rockford was usually unarmed (he occasionally carried an unlicensed pistol – which he kept in a cookie jar in his home – but hardly ever used it) and, despite trying to avoid trouble and use reason and negotiation to solve problems, would sometimes be pressed into a fistfight as a last resort.
Military service.
During the series, it is also revealed that Rockford was wounded in action and awarded a Silver Star while serving in the Korean War with the 24th Infantry Division. After being busted to Private he was promoted to Sergeant after conning the North Koreans to exchange a tank for 400 cases of K rations so his encircled unit could escape; however he was soon busted back to PFC when it was discovered he was running a string of pool halls in Busan and stealing a Major General's car. He also forgot to return his service pistol and gets a call from the army about it after 23 years. A running gag is that, whenever Rockford gets involved with cases connected to members of his old Division, Jim is usually in trouble. (The reference to the 24th Division is an inside reference to James Garner's real-life service; Garner actually served in the 5th Infantry Regiment (United States) of the 24th Infantry Division, a.k.a. "Taro Division" during the Korean War.)
Personal life.
Jim Rockford maintains a close relationship with his father Joseph "Rocky" Rockford, and his closest friend is LAPD Sgt. (later Lt.) Dennis Becker (who also serves as his LAPD contact). He remains in contact with a number of ex-cons whom he met in San Quentin, most prominently Evelyn "Angel" Martin (Stuart Margolin), who provides comic relief in many episodes; a running gag is that Angel's hare-brained schemes and con jobs invariably land Jim in some kind of trouble, often without his knowledge.
Jim enjoys fishing, and would rather spend time doing that than almost anything else. He is a fan of the basketball Lakers, but when he makes plans to attend a game something usually happens and he has to give up his tickets. His musical tastes run to classic jazz (he has tapes of Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie), though he also appears to appreciate country music, having attended and enjoyed a Barbara Mandrell concert. He is frequently seen eating tacos and sometimes has them for breakfast. During the run of the original series, Jim lives in and works out of a single wide mobile home on the beach at Paradise Cove, Malibu; though its exterior is decidedly ramshackle and something of an eyesore, inside it is relatively comfortable and homey. In the "Rockford Files" TV movies filmed and set in the 1990s, Jim still lives in the same location, but owns a newer and much larger trailer that is nicer and well-appointed compared to his trailer of the 1970s.
Though Jim is generally reluctant to engage in potentially dangerous situations and often describes himself as "chicken", when there is a need to act heroically, his actions often speak otherwise.
Jim dated many women during the course of "The Rockford Files", with most relationships not appearing to last longer than a single episode, although there were a few exceptions. The most notable was the on/off relationship with his lawyer, Beth Davenport, whom Jim was said to have dated seriously before the series began, and appeared to casually date on several occasions during her appearance on the show (1974 through 1978). Later in the show's run, during 1978 and 1979, he had an open but still serious relationship with psychiatrist Megan Daughtery (Kathryn Harrold); Jim was quietly devastated when she announced she was marrying someone else.
At some time between the end of the series proper (1980) and the first of the "Rockford Files" television-movies, "The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A." (filmed in 1994, but set in 1992 and '93), Jim married attorney Halley "Kit" Kittredge (Joanna Cassidy), who appeared in this TV movie. In a conversation about their relationship, Kit alludes to the idea that the marriage ended because both Jim and Kit were very independent and stubborn people. In later TV movies, it is established that they were a couple by 1985 at the latest, and that Kit left the marriage in 1987. However, it is unknown when they were married, or for exactly how long. They had no children.
Reception.
In 1999, "TV Guide" ranked him # 25 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. AOL TV named him one of TV's Smartest Detectives.
References in other media.
The detective story writer Stuart M. Kaminsky has written two books with Jim Rockford as the main character, entitled "The Green Bottle" and "The Devil on My Doorstep".
In "Ruskie Business", an episode of the television series "Veronica Mars", Logan Echolls calls the titular character "Rockford", referencing Jim Rockford.


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Kalle Viljamaa

Kalle Albinus Viljamaa (15 March 1885 – 28 March 1918) was a Finnish wrestler. He competed in the heavyweight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Viljamaa died of White Guard artillery shelling during the Finnish Civil War Battle of Tampere.


Amos Chapman

Amos Chapman (1839–1925) was a civilian scout who was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry while in service of the United States Army during the Indian Wars. His medal was later revoked before he died as he was a civilian, but was reinstated in 1989. He was of mixed white and Native American ancestry, and married Mary Longneck, a Cheyenne woman, maintaining Native American customs throughout his life. In 2012, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame.
Biography.
Chapman was born in 1837 in Michigan, to white and Native American parents. He began acting as a scout for the U.S. Army and settlers in the 1860s. In 1868 he moved to Oklahoma, and was attached to the Seventh Cavalry during General Alfred Sully's actions against the Cheyenne out of Fort Dodge. Subsequently, Camp Supply was set up and Chapman worked there as an interpreter.
He married Mary Longneck, the daughter of the Cheyenne Chief Stone Calf, and had six children with her. He lived for a time with her tribe. In July 1874, he volunteered to scout for the U.S. Army once more, and scouted for Lt. Frank Baldwin. On September 12, he was involved in an action which would earn him a Medal of Honor. Chapman, fellow civilian Billy Dixon and four soldiers were confronted with a force of over a hundred Comanches and Kiowas. At Battle of Buffalo wallow, as it became known, the small group made its way to a defensive position in a buffalo wallow, where it held out until the weather caused the Native American force to break off their attack. What happened during the battle is disputed. At one point either Dixon or Chapman was injured and stranded outside of the wallow and the other ventured out to retrieve his fellow scout. Chapman's story goes that he pulled Dixon up onto his back, and had to stop on his return several times to eliminate the Native Americans who were attempting to shoot him and Dixon. With a quarter of a mile to go before they reached the wallow, Chapman was shot in shin on his right leg, which shattered the bone. He continued to drag himself and Dixon the rest of the way back to the wallow, whilst under fire. However, Dixon's story is that Chapman was already injured and Dixon retrieved him and pulled him back to the wallow. Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles would later say of Chapman's actions that they were "one of the bravest deeds in the annals of the army." Chapman's leg was amputated by a surgeon at Camp Supply, and all the survivors were awarded a Medal of Honor.
Chapman subsequently wore a prosthetic leg, and continued to serve as camp interpreter during the commotion following the Dull Knife Fight in 1879. The Native Americans referred to him as Tam-e-yukh-tah, which translated as "the man with the cut off leg". He later retired from service and settled with his wife and family near Seiling, Oklahoma. He reportedly still slept on occasion in a teepee. Chapman would visit Miles annually in Washington. He died on July 18, 1925 as a result of injuries suffered from a wagon accident. He was due to speak as part of the lyceum circuit at the time of his death. He was buried in Brumfield Cemetery, Dewey County, Oklahoma.
Medal of Honor and legacy.
Chapman's medal was revoked in a review in 1916–17, along with several other awards made to civilian scouts. It was restored in 1989. His citation reads "The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Civilian Scout Amos Chapman, a United States Civilian, for gallantry in action on 12 September 1874, while serving as an Indian Scout with the 6th U.S. Cavalry, at Washita River, Texas." He was admitted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame as one of the 2012 inductees.
External links.
First Burial = 2 1/2 miles East of Seiling


Zhao Jiuzhang

Zhao Jiuzhang (; 15 October 1907 – 26 October 1968), also known as Jeou Jang Jaw, was a Chinese meteorologist and physicist. He was a pioneer of Chinese space technology and is considered as a founding father of China's satellite program.
Life.
Born in Kaifeng, Henan Province on 15 October 1907. From 1925 to 1927, he studied electrical engineering at Zhejiang Industrial School (now Zhejiang University) in Hangzhou. He then transferred to Tsinghua University in Beijing. He graduated from the Department of Physics, Tsinghua in 1933. In 1935, he went to the University of Berlin; in 1938, he obtained his PhD.
He was a professor of Tsinghua University, National Central University (now Nanjing University), and National Southwestern Associated University.
During the Cultural Revolution, he was persecuted by the Red Guards and committed suicide in October 1968.


Krishna Sen

Krishna Sen (Ichhuk) (19 October 1956 – 27 May 2002) was a Nepalese journalist.
He was killed in police custody during the Maoist insurgency in Nepal.
Sen was the editor of Janadesh, a pro-Maoist vernacular weekly newspaper. He was arrested by police on May 20, 2002, under the provisions of a sweeping anti-terrorism ordinance introduced in November 2001 that criminalized any contact with or support for Maoist rebels.
Local human rights group Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has reported that Sen was held for approximately one week and died after being tortured at the Mahendra Police Club in Kathmandu. His body has never been found.
Krishna Sen was arrested in Battisputali, Kathmandu, by the Nepalese security personnel. He was reportedly detained incommunicado at an unknown location following his arrest and subjected to torture, which reportedly led to his death while in detention.
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has established its online news portal in memory of Krishna Sen as Krishnasen Online.


Ye Win Oo

Lieutenant-General Ye Win Oo (; born 21 February 1966) is a Burmese military officer who is currently serving as Joint Secretary of State Administration Council of Myanmar. He was appointed on 2 February 2021, in aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
Sanctions.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on "Ye Win Oo" since 11 February 2021, pursuant to Executive Order 14014, in response to the Burmese military’s coup against the democratically elected civilian government of Burma. The US sanctions include freezing of assets under the US and ban on transactions with US person.
The Government of Canada has imposed sanctions on him since 18 February 2021, pursuant to Special Economic Measures Act and Special Economic Measures (Burma) Regulations, in response to the gravity of the human rights and humanitarian situation in Myanmar (formerly Burma). Canadian sanctions include freezing of assets under Canada and ban on transactions with Canadian person.
HM Treasury and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom have imposed sanctions on him since 25 February 2021, for his responsibility for serious human rights violations in Burma. The UK sanctions include freezing of assets under the UK and ban on traveling or transiting to the UK.
Furthermore, the Council of the European Union has imposed sanctions on him since 22 March 2021, pursuant to Council Regulation (EU) 2021/479 and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/480 which amended Council Regulation (EU) No 401/2013, for his responsibility for the military coup and the subsequent military and police repression against peaceful demonstrators. The EU sanctions include freezing of assets under member countries of the EU and ban on traveling or transiting to the countries.


In the Meantime, Darling

In the Meantime, Darling is a 1944 American drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Arthur Kober and Michael Uris focuses on a wealthy war bride (Jeanne Crain) who is forced to adjust to living in spartan conditions in military housing during World War II.
Plot.
Due to limited wartime housing, Army lieutenant Danny Ferguson (Frank Latimore) and fiancée Maggie Preston (Jeanne Crain) must postpone their wedding until a room in the Craig Hotel, where married officers stationed at nearby Camp Fielding live with their wives, becomes available. When their accommodations are ready, Maggie arrives with her wealthy parents Henry and Vera (Eugene Pallette and Mary Nash), who are unhappy about the living conditions their daughter will be forced to endure. Initially Maggie is too happy to care, but once the newlywed is left alone during the day while her husband is on the base, she begins to become disenchanted with her surroundings and the lack of service her privileged background has groomed her to expect.
Unaware of what is expected of her in her new capacity of army wife, Maggie quickly becomes an outcast among the other women. Not helping her situation is an obvious lack of any domestic skills that would allow her to assist in the daily routine at the hotel. Increasingly upset with her situation, she lashes out at hotel manager Mrs. Jerry Armstrong (Jane Randolph). Her mood softens when she learns Jerry's husband was killed in battle overseas and she has remained at the hotel to honor his memory.
Maggie's attitude changes and she befriends some of the other wives, particularly Shirley (Gale Robbins), who is married to Danny's best friend Lt. Red Pianatowski (Stanley Prager). When Danny finds himself the target of snide remarks made by his fellow officers, he discovers Maggie asked her father to use his influence to keep his son-in-law based in the States instead of being shipped overseas. Infuriated by her interference, he angrily storms out of their room, and Maggie prepares to return to her parents in Philadelphia.
When Danny returns with Philip, they discover a book about infant care Maggie had purchased to help her assist the expectant mothers, and he assumes she is pregnant. Rushing to the train station, he begs her to return. That night, at a dance honoring a visiting general, Red tells Shirley that Maggie is expecting a baby. As Maggie tries to tell her husband the truth, he receives word his company is being sent overseas. Danny is disappointed to learn he is not going to be a father after all, but Maggie reassures him she will be anxious to start a family as soon as he returns. After Danny and Red ship out, Maggie and Shirley decide to find jobs in the defense industry and do what they can to support their husbands and the rest of the troops.
Production.
The initial draft of the screenplay, entitled "Paris, Tennessee", was completed in July 1943, and 20th Century Fox executive Darryl F. Zanuck assigned the project to Archie Mayo. The script underwent numerous revisions and was retitled "Army Wife" before going into production as "I Married a Soldier" in December. By then Zanuck agreed to allow Preminger to direct as well as produce the film. It marked the screen debut of Frank Latimore and Gale Robbins and the first time Jeanne Crain would receive top billing. The cast also included future director Blake Edwards in a small, uncredited supporting role.
The screenplay continued to undergo extensive changes as filming progressed, and on February 4, 1944, the "Los Angeles Examiner" reported the project was in trouble. Joseph Breen, who headed the Production Code Administration, was certain the British Board of Film Censors would object to a scene showing the newlywed couple in bed and recommended Preminger restage it, although the shot remained in both the US and UK releases. It was the first film to show a married couple in bed since the Motion Picture Production Code was established in 1934, a fact that greatly pleased Preminger.
During filming, the director realized Eugene Pallette, cast as Maggie's father, was "an admirer of Hitler [and] was convinced that Germany would win the war." Preminger also discovered the actor was a racist when he refused to sit next to African American cast member Clarence Muse and used a racial slur to refer to him. Infuriated, the director immediately fired Pallette and, although he remains in scenes he already had filmed, the remainder of his role not yet shot was eliminated from the script.
After principal photography was completed, the screenplay underwent more revisions in order to enhance the screen presence of Jeanne Crain. After these additional scenes were filmed in late March 1944, the film's title was changed yet again to "In the Meantime, Darling".
The song "How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You," performed by Gale Robbins during the dance sequence, was written by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson.


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Death of a Soldier

Death of a Soldier is a 1986 Australian film based on the life of American serial killer Eddie Leonski. The film was shot using locations around Melbourne, Victoria.
The film is directed by Philippe Mora and stars James Coburn, Bill Hunter and Reb Brown.
Production.
The idea of making the film came from William Nagle, who wrote a screenplay to produce himself; David Hannay came on board as co-producer. Dick Richards was originally meant to direct but then Philippe Mora became involved. Mora and the producers wanted to import Americans to play three roles: Leonski, his best friend Gallo and lawyer Danneberg; Actors Equity only agreed to two.
At one stage it was announced that the movie would be called "Leonski" and be shot in August 1981 with Don Lane as a US Army major.
The budget was originally meant to be $3 million but this was found to be inadequate during shooting and additional funds had to be raised. To save money the shooting schedule was reduced; some of the crew complained to the Australian Theatrical and Amusement Employees' Association, which put a black ban on the film. This meant it was a year before the film was released in Australia.
Production.
James Coburn later said " “It wasn’t very good. There were a lot of problems with the picture. For one thing we had an auteur producer. He was also the screenwriter. He wrote it too much like a comic strip. We also had a lot of auteurs working on the fucking thing. The director didn t have enough time to prepare it I was very disappointed by the way it turned out It was a hellava good story. It’s too bad.”


Liberty Ma Mya Yin

Liberty Mya Yin (; 21 April 1904 – 29 April 1945) was a Burmese anyeint dancer and singer, best known during the pre-World War II period. She gained the moniker "Liberty" from college fans who advocated Burmese independence.
A bronze bust of Mya Yin stands before the National Theatre of Mandalay.
Life.
Mya Yin was born to Po Thit and Nyanyon, who were both traditional dancers, on 21 April, 1904 at Shwepalagan village, Thazi Township (now Wundwin Township), British Burma. She started dancing at age 15. Awba Thaung was one of her contemporaries.
She was secretly married to Mahn Nyut U Maung Galay, a wealthy businessman and MP in the Legislative Council of Burma.
Later career.
Mya Yin's popularity was universal, including the general public, government officials and the elite. At one point her anyeint had to be booked and partially paid for a year in advance, and donors needed to choose their days depending on when she was free. Among her admirers were Sir Joseph Augustus Maung Gyi and U Thant.
She performed hundreds of songs; some of the best known were "Tone Kyaw Ma", "U Thawun Kyaung", "Ahlushin" and "Shwe Pyi Soe". She also produced gramophone records, including "Moonlight Glory", "Padonma Shwekyar", "Khint Thabaw", "Maung Maung's Shwekye", "Htin Thalone" and "Okay, Sait Taku Yote Koze".
Death and legacy.
Mya Yin died on 29 April 1945 of malaria while fleeing conflict in Burma during World War II.
In recognition of her prominence as a Burmese artist, a bronze statue of her stands before the National Theatre of Mandalay.


Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli

Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli is a baroque church dedicated to St. Catherine of Siena on Largo Magnanapoli on the slopes of the Quirinal Hill in Rome.
History.
A group of Dominican tertiary nuns, living in a small house in via Santa Chiara where St. Catherine had died, were looking for larger premises. Lead by Porzia Massimo whose late husband was a Conti, from 1574 they successively acquired parts of properties belonging to the Conti family at Magnanapoli to establish their convent there, financially assisted by Pope Gregory XIII. The originally small community thrived and quickly expanded from 27 nuns in 1574 to 108 in 1626, many of whom from important noble families.
The construction of a church began in 1608, initially at expense of Cardinal Scipione Borghese to a design by Carlo Maderno, but stopped in 1613. Meanwhile, the monastery acquired the Torre delle Milizie in 1619.
In 1628, the building of the current church was begun to a design by Giovanni Battista Soria. In 1631 the chancel and two adjacent chapels were completed. Building then came to a halt until the final portion of the church took shape from 1636 and concluded with the facade in 1641. The consecration of the church by cardinal Alessandro Cesarini took place in 1640.
Another Dominican nuns' convent, Santi Domenico e Sisto, is just a stone's throw away.
When the Via Nazionale was laid out in the 19th century, the street level was lowered. This raised the church entrance to a considerable height above the street. To allow access, a double staircase leading to the portico was built. Under the stairs is the entrance to the "Crypt of the Fallen", constructed in 1934 and dedicated to the priests who were killed in the First World War. The crypt contains a bronze crucifix by Romano Romanelli.
Most of the convent was demolished in 1924. The Military Ordinariate, whose headquarters are adjacent to the church, took over the church, and it is now served by diocesan clergy. A restoration occurred in 1992.
Interior.
The interior is a single nave with a barrel vault and three chapels on each side. The rich decoration, although carried out over a long period of time, appears very homogeneous.
Chancel.
Main altar.
The massive main altar's architecture to the design of the Maltese sculptor Melchiorre Cafà is shaped similar to church facades. It creates an elaborate frame for the large marble relief, also by Cafà and finished by the time of his untimely death in 1667, aged only 31.
The relief, "St Catherine in Ecstasy", shows the saint in a very indeterminate stance on a cloud pushed by an angel and some putti, all in white marble (some of the flattest parts of the cloud are in plaster). The scene is embedded in an smooth, polychrome background which forms a concave curve through which it underlines the protagonist's statuesque appearance, seemingly detached from it. Its pieces of differently coloured marble are arranged in such a way that they suggest dematerialised dark clouds opening up to let St. Catherine ascend to heaven. With her floatingly light posture and upwards gaze this ascend seems inevitable, she seems to be drawn heavenwards.
Cafà's work is something new in Roman baroque sculpture. It incorporates lessons learned from Bernini, in particular his "Memorial to Maria Raggi" (1647) and the "Ecstasy of St Theresa" (ca. 1652) as well as the use of a polychrome marble background at the relic balconies in the pillars of the crossing of Saint Peter's (1630s). In addition, Cafà pulls together recently finished or contemporary solutions from within the workshop of Ercole Ferrata of which he himself was an essential part, in particular the "Statue of St. Catherine" for Siena Cathedral, "St. Agnes on a Pyre" and the concave shaped relief "Martyrdom of Sant'Emerenziana" (both in Sant'Agnese in Agone). From these ingredients and his own artistic power, Cafà produces a highly emotive pictorial solution unseen before, neither neatly definable as a relief nor as a statue nor as a picture.
Other works.
In the chancel's dome are four medallions depicting Dominican saints surrounded by a multitude of putti, all possibly also by Cafà, and the fresco "The Glory of the Eternal Father" by Francesco Rosa in the lantern.
The decoration of the chancel was completed in the 18th century with the marble reliefs of St Rose of Lima and St Agnes of Montepulciano by Pietro Bracci on the side walls (1755).
The tabernacle in the shape of a ciborium, made from lapis lazuli, agate, and gilded bronze, and the high altar on which it sits was designed in 1785 by the architect Carlo Marchionni.
Nave and chapels.
The nave's ceiling fresco, "Glory of St. Catherine", one of the masterpieces of Luigi Garzi, shows St. Catherine arriving in heaven and concludes the narrative started by Cafà. It was first mentioned in 1713 and is retained by some scholars to be from around that period while others date it considerably earlier.
Garzi had already painted an altarpiece with the subject "All Saints" in 1674 for the second chapel on the right.
This second chapel on the right was decorated in fresco from 1700-1703 by Giuseppe Passeri who also painted two other altar paintings, "Three Archangels" as well as "Madonna of the Rosary".
The latter, one of Passeri's best works, is in the third chapel on the left which also contains the tomb monuments to "Giuseppe Bonanni" (1648) and "Virginia Primi Bonanni" (1650) by Giuliano Finelli.
In the first chapel on the right, Benedetto Luti painted a fresco of "Putti" in the ceiling and carried out its altarpiece, "Communion of St. Mary Magdalen" (1706-1708).
Corridor.
In the corridor leading to the sacristy are remains of frescoes by Antoniazzo Romano which came from the original house of the nuns in via St. Chiara. Some time after 1637 they became part of the room of St. Catherine in the Magnanapoli convent. When this was demolished the frescoes were relocated to this corridor. Among the saints shown are St Bridget of Sweden and St Catherine of Alexandria.