title: The Piano Tuner

abstract: The Piano Tuner is a historical novel by Daniel Mason, set in British India and Burma. It was first published in 2002 when Mason was 26 and was his first novel. The Piano Tuner was the basis for a 2004 opera of the same name and is also due to be released as a film directed by Charlie Stratton. The film is to be produced by Mulberry Films LLC, Latitude Media & BCDF.

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# The Piano Tuner

***The Piano Tuner*** is a historical novel by Daniel Mason, set in British India and Burma. It was first published in 2002 when Mason was 26 and was his first novel.

*The Piano Tuner* was the basis for a 2004 opera of the same name (composed by Nigel Osborne to a libretto by Amanda Holden) and is also due to be released as a film directed by Charlie Stratton. The film is to be produced by Mulberry Films LLC, Latitude Media & BCDF.

## Synopsis

The novel is set in 1886, in the jungles of Burma. The protagonist, a middle-aged man by the name of Edgar Drake, is commissioned by the British War Office to repair a rare Erard grand piano belonging to a Doctor Anthony Carroll. Carroll, who is the root of many myths, had the piano shipped to him as a means to bring peace and union amongst the princes in Burma in order to further the expansion of the British Empire. The extreme humidity of the tropical climate soon rendered it useless and horribly out of tune. Drake's "mission" thus becomes vital to the Crown's strategic interests. In a series of sub-plots and intrigue the surgeon-major (who?) is charged with treason. When the piano tuner goes to meet the surgeon-major against the wishes of the military staff, he finds himself suddenly surrounded.

## Reception

The book has been thematically compared with Conrad's *Heart of Darkness*. Andrea Barrett, in *The New York Times*, called the book "thoroughly engaging" and said that the character of Drake was its greatest achievement, though both she, as well as Hermoine Lee in *The Guardian*, said that the historical digressions in the book were "clumsy" or "sat stiffly".

## Adaptations

The novel was adapted into an opera by Nigel Osborne, to a libretto by Amanda Holden, which premiered at the Linbury Studio of the Royal Opera House in 2004.

## InfoBox

The Piano Tuner
| First edition | |
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| Author | Daniel Mason |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Published | 2002 Alfred A. Knopf |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 368 pp (hardcover) <br>336 pp (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1-4000-3038-2 |
| OCLC | 53051198 |


title: Don White (racing driver)

abstract: Donald O. H. "Don" White was an American racing driver known for his stock car career. He is best known for competing in United States Auto Club (USAC) sanctioned events; during the 1960s, White was twice the USAC Stock Car National Champion. He retired as the series' winningest driver. White had 24 starts in the NASCAR Grand National / Winston Cup series between 1954 and 1972 with 12 top-ten and 7 top-five finishes. Earlier in his career, White won three International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) championships: 1954, 1955 and 1958.

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# Don White (racing driver)

**Donald O. H. "Don" White** (June 24, 1928 – April 29, 2016) was an American racing driver known for his stock car career. He is best known for competing in United States Auto Club (USAC) sanctioned events; during the 1960s, White was twice the USAC Stock Car National Champion. He retired as the series' winningest driver.

White had 24 starts in the NASCAR Grand National / Winston Cup series between 1954 and 1972 with 12 top-ten and 7 top-five finishes. Earlier in his career, White won three International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) championships: 1954, 1955 and 1958.

## Driving career

White started his first national race in 1949. This IMCA race happened at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; he was second place before retiring because of mechanical problems. White won IMCA championships in 1954, 1955, and 1958. By the time that he ended IMCA racing in 1958, he had won at every track on the circuit. White's biggest competitor in IMCA was his brother-in-law Ernie Derr.

He moved to the USAC Stock Car series in 1959. His national racing career ended at a USAC Stock Car race at Milwaukee on August 28, 1983.

White won the most races in USAC Stock Car history. He had 53 wins and A. J. Foyt was second with 41. In a mid-2015 interview for the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) website, White said "I think I liked Milwaukee as well as any place. Won 14 or 15 there, so I'd say that was my favorite. The *Milwaukee Journal Sentinel* cited in his obituary that he was the winningest driver in major races at the track.

## Death

White died on April 29, 2016 at age 89. Foyt reacted to his death by saying, "Don White was a good racer, real fair because he never did anything dirty, and real smooth. He always had beautiful equipment and his cars handled real well. He was a super guy."

## Awards and honors

White has been inducted into the following halls of fame:

* Don White driver statistics at Racing-Reference

## InfoBox

| Don White | |
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| Born | Donald O. H. White
(1928-06-24)June 24, 1928
Monmouth, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | April 29, 2016(2016-04-29) (aged 87)
Keokuk, Iowa, U.S. |
| Championship titles | |
| USAC Stock Car (1963, 1967) | |
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| AAA/USAC Stock Car career | |
| Years active | 1956–1957, 1960–1981, 1983 |
| Championships | 2 |
| Best finish | 1st in 1963, 1967 |
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| NASCAR Cup Series career | |
| 24 races run over 9 years | |
| Best finish | 79th (1955) |
| First race | 1954 Race 2 (Daytona Beach) |
| Last race | 1972 Miller High Life 500 (Ontario) |
| Wins Top tens Poles  0 12 0 | |
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title: Doridostoma

abstract: Doridostoma is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae.

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# Doridostoma

***Doridostoma*** is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae.

## Species

* Razowski, J. & M. Krüger, 2013: An illustrated catalogue of the specimens of Tortricidae in the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). *Shilap Revista de Lepidopterologia* **41** (162): 213–240.

## InfoBox

| *Doridostoma* | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Tribe: | Schoenotenini |
| Genus: | *Doridostoma*<br>Diakonoff, 1973 |
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title: Don Marostica

abstract: Don Marostica is a real estate developer and former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado, currently serving as director of the state's Office of Economic Development and International Trade. Raised in Colorado, Marostica is an Army veteran, former high school teacher, and most recently a prominent real estate developer in northern Colorado. After several years serving on the Loveland, Colorado city council, Marostica was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006, represented House District 51, which encompasses the city of Loveland. Marostica, regarded as a moderate Republican, focused heavily on fiscal issues as a legislator, including transparency and loosening budgetary restrictions, and sat on the legislature's Joint Budget Committee during the 2009 session. In July 2009, Marostica resigned from the legislature to accept the post of economic development director in the cabinet of Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter, where he has focused on attracting and growing business in the state of Colorado during the ongoing recession.

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# Don Marostica

**Don Marostica** (born March 7, 1948) is a real estate developer and former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado, currently serving as director of the state's Office of Economic Development and International Trade.

Raised in Colorado, Marostica is an Army veteran, former high school teacher, and most recently a prominent real estate developer in northern Colorado. After several years serving on the Loveland, Colorado city council, Marostica was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006, represented House District 51, which encompasses the city of Loveland.

Marostica, regarded as a moderate Republican, focused heavily on fiscal issues as a legislator, including transparency and loosening budgetary restrictions, and sat on the legislature's Joint Budget Committee during the 2009 session. In July 2009, Marostica resigned from the legislature to accept the post of economic development director in the cabinet of Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter, where he has focused on attracting and growing business in the state of Colorado during the ongoing recession.

## Early career

Marostica was born in Sterling, Colorado and graduated from Roosevelt High School in Johnstown. He attended Colorado State University on football and wrestling scholarships, graduating in 1970 with a degree in physical science and geology. In 1975, he earned a master's degree in secondary school administration from the University of Northern Colorado

Have been commissioned through the ROTC program at Colorado State, Marostica served in the United States Army and the Colorado Army National Guard, leaving the service at the rank of captain in 1979. After leaving the army, Marostica taught and coached wrestling at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins. Marostica currently resides in Loveland, Colorado with his wife, Carol.

Marostica entered the real estate industry in 1977 and is currently a partner in Loveland Commercial, LLC. In 1982, during a downturn in the real estate market, Marostica declared bankruptcy and had judgements from creditors filed against him. He also had tax liens filed against him both in the early 1980s and in the mid-1990s, and has since paid all back taxes. Marostica became financially successful in real estate, and, together with other partners in Loveland Commercial, has donated extensively to local causes, including endowing a chair in the business department of Colorado State University. As a developer, Marostica specialized in commercial real estate, spearheading five Planned Unit Developments in Loveland and Milliken, Colorado.

Marostica was elected to the Loveland City Council in 2001, serving for three years, including a span as mayor *pro tem*, before resigning in 2004 because of professional conflicts of interest. During his 2006 legislative campaign, he was criticized for, as a city council member, voting to award city money to his company for a development contract; the city council had to authorize a special exception to its conflict of interest rules to approve the contract.

Marostica has served on over 60 boards and commissions in the Loveland area, with an emphasis on transportation-related issues (Loveland Transportation Finance Committee, Loveland East-West Mobility Study Committee, Loveland Eisenhower Boulevard Alignment Analysis Committee, Fort Collins-Loveland Airport Master Plan Update Committee). He has also served as the chair of the board of directors of the Poudre Valley Health System Foundation and the Medical Center of the Rockies Foundation, and on the bond oversight committee for the Thompson School District. He is also an avid motorcyclist and regularly participates in the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Ride to the Wall, a cross-county ride ending at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

## Legislative career

### 2006 election

In seeking the 51st House district state house seat, representing Loveland, Marostica first faced a challenge from Kevan McNaught in the Republican primary. McNaught was endorsed by the Colorado Club for Growth, who criticized Marostica for his support of higher taxes and his use of eminent domain when he was a member the Loveland city council. Marostica edged out McNaught in the Republican primary by about 250 votes, or 5% of voters. In contrast with McNaught's conservative credentials, Marostica was considered by observers on both the left and the right to be a moderate Republican; he supported Colorado's 2005 Referendum C, a loosening of state spending restrictions under the state's Taxpayer Bill of Rights.

In the general election, Marostica defeated Democrat Jodi Radke in the general election with 56% of the vote. Marostica raised and spent roughly $350,000, of which $220,000 — almost least two-thirds of the money his campaign spent — was donated by Marostica himself, to win the contested primary and general elections.

### 2007 legislative session

For the 2007 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Marostica was assigned to seats on the House Finance Committee and the House Transportation and Energy Committee, while expressing an interest in eventually serving on the powerful Joint Budget Committee. Following the legislative session, Marostica sat on the interim Transportation Legislation Review Committee.

Although a Republican serving in a legislature controlled by Democrats, Marostica was relatively successful at passing legislation. During his first session, Marostica sponsored bills to streamline the issuance of search warrants, to give volunteer reserve peace officers the same status as regular peace officers, and to require that powersports vehicles be sold only by licensed motor vehicle dealers. Marostica, an avid motorcyclist, was among the prominent opponents of a bill that would have required minors to wear motorcycle helmets while riding, even wearing his own motorcycle helmet to a committee hearing at which the bill was debated.

Marostica failed to win legislative approval what he described as his "most important" proposal — the "Taxpayer Transparency Act," which would have required that government expenditures larger than $300 be reported on a searchable government website. Although supported by Republican House leadership, the bill died in committee; however, Marostica saw his transparency proposal implemented in 2009 by an executive order of Gov. Bill Ritter.

### 2008 legislative session

In the 2008 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Marostica sat on the House Health and Human Services Committee, the House Transportation and Energy Committee, and the Joint Capital Development Committee.

Marostica declared his "favorite bill" among those he sponsored during the session to be a measure to exempt owners from property tax on buildings leased to public universities, an idea Marostica attributed to a local developer. Marostica also sponsored legislation signed into law to allow statutory counties, cities, and towns to spend money on marketing in addition to advertising, in response to a lawsuit challenging the town of Estes Park's ability to engage in marketing.

### 2008 election

Marostica announced his bid for re-election to the legislature in January 2008; Marostica's campaign raised about five times as much money as that of Democratic opponent Kenneth Bennett, bringing in over $80,000 by mid-October, of which $10,000 was contributed by Marostica personally; His re-election bid was endorsed by the *Denver Post*, Marostica ultimately won with 58 percent of the vote.

In the contested 2008 Republican presidential primaries, Marostica supported former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, helping to organize a November 2007 fundraiser for Giuliani's campaign that was reported to net over $60,000. After John McCain secured the Republican nomination, Marostica supported the McCain-Palin ticket, including kicking off a Sarah Palin rally in Loveland in October.

### 2009 legislative session

For the 2009 legislative session, Marostica was named to a seat on the legislature's Joint Budget Committee, and a seat on the House Appropriations Committee as the ranking Republican member. During hearings before the beginning of the legislative session, Marostica supported withdrawing all state funding from public research universities, a move opposed by university leaders, but which was discussed more seriously after poor economic forecasts. Marostica also helped to lead an effort to allow the state to tap the financial reserves of Pinnacol Assurance, a quasi-governmental worker's compensation insurer, in order to balance the state budget. Following the legislative session, Marostica served on Colorado's Long-Term Fiscal Stability Commission, a panel created by legislation during the 2009 General Assembly to consider changes to constitutional constraints on the state budget.

In February, Marostica was the only Republican who announced plans to support legislation to repeal Colorado's Arveschoug-Bird limit, which capped the growth of general fund expenditures at 6 percent per year. Marostica faced pressure from prominent Republicans, including Independence Institute President Jon Caldara and former state treasurer Mark Hillman, to drop his support; in response, he referred to Hillman and Caldera as "has-beens" and "losers," earning him additional criticism from House Republicans; Marostica later promised to apologize to Hillman and Caldera. Marostica was the prime sponsor of the bill in the House, where, after surviving an attempted Republican filibuster in the Senate, it was ratified, and later signed into law. Marostica also broke with other Republicans as the only member of his party to vote in support of a failed effort to repeal Colorado's death penalty; the proposal passed the Colorado House by one vote, but was defeated in the Senate.

Marostica also sponsored bills to allow golf carts, scooters, and small electric vehicles to travel on some public roads, to allow state veterans organizations to provide burial for unclaimed remains of Colorado military personnel, and to allow building inspectors from other municipalities to assess structural damage to properties, a proposal stemming from a May 2008 tornado in Windsor, Colorado. to enable increased state funding for online education, and to keep Colorado's tobacco litigation settlement cash fund open for one additional year. Marostica announced plans to introduce legislation to expand the definition of cigar bars to increase the number of establishments exempt from Colorado's indoor smoking ban, but withdrew the legislation after facing opposition from Democrats; that same week, he denounced as "inappropriate and offensive" a British National Health Service flyer distributed by a lobbyist linking smoking to erectile dysfunction, calling for an ethics investigation into the flyer.

## Director of Economic Development

In July 2009, Democratic governor Bill Ritter named Marostica, a Republican, to the post of executive director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, replacing Don Elliman, who Ritter had tapped as Colorado's chief operating officer. Marostica resigned his House seat to take the position, and handed control of his development company to his partner and son in order to avoid conflicts of interest, Marostica named opening Asian markets to Colorado exports as a priority for his time in the new position, in addition to encouraging new venture capital investment and retaining existing major employers despite the late-2000s recession. Marostica was replaced in the House by small business owner Brian DelGrosso, and on the legislature's Joint Budget Committee by the more conservative Rep. Kent Lambert.

During Marostica's first months in the position, he helped lead Colorado's effort to keep Frontier Airlines jobs in Denver following its merger with Republic Airways; ultimately, Frontier moved several hundred jobs, and Frontier's headquarters, to Wisconsin and Indiana, which offered greater tax and economic incentives. When legislators proposed eliminating business tax credits in late 2009 to help balance the states budget, Marostica publicly defended many of those credits, but he did support limited cuts to tax credits in Governor Ritter's proposed 2010–2011 budget.

In late 2009, Marostica was also involved in attracting a wind turbine parts supplier to Colorado, announcing a renewed emphasis on natural gas development on Colorado's Western Slope, and pushing to speed the permitting process for oil and gas operations. In 2010, Marostica pushed for additional incentives for the "creative industry," including arts, media, and film, in Colorado.

## InfoBox

| Don Marostica | |
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| Member of the Colorado House of Representatives
from the 51st district | |
| **In office**
January 10, 2007  July 23, 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Jim Welker |
| Succeeded by | Brian DelGrosso |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | (1948-03-07) March 7, 1948
Sterling, Colorado, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Carol |
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title: Dorothy Hood

abstract: Dorothy Hood was an American painter in the Modernist tradition. Her work is held in private collections and at several museums, most notably the Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her preferred mediums were oil paint and ink.

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# Dorothy Hood

**Dorothy Hood** (August 22, 1918 – October 28, 2000) was an American painter in the Modernist tradition. Her work is held in private collections and at several museums, most notably the Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her preferred mediums were oil paint and ink.

## Early life

Hood was born in Bryan, Texas and raised in Houston. She was an only child. Hood was of German and Swedish descent, and experienced a strict, Episcopalian upbringing. Her father was a banker who often traveled out of town on business. Hood's mother encouraged Dorothy to pursue her artistic talents, but Dorothy was raised mainly by household servants due to her mother's mental illness that resulted in long sanitarium stays. Hood would visit her mother at the sanitarium on school breaks. Hood's mother held Victorian ideals of womanhood, yet had an unconventional side which led Hood to wonder about which side was her true mother. As a child, she experienced a lingering feeling of isolation. During the time in which she grew up, children were expected to remain out of the way of adults; without siblings, Hood was often left on her own. She often spent her vacations at vacation spas, an activity usually reserved for adults. Her parents' subsequent divorce led Hood to take "refuge in drawing."

## Education and early career

In high school, an art teacher submitted her work to a competition and she won a National Scholastic Scholarship. Hood went to the Rhode Island School of Design on this four-year scholarship in the early 1930s. Afterwards, she took classes at the Art Students League of New York, and earned money working as a model. Her time as a model influenced her to enjoy wearing fanciful clothing and to carry herself with poise, which she was later known for. She did not feel that her formal education was sufficient for her development as an artist other than providing her with an introduction to great art and other students.

Hood went to Mexico on what was intended to be a short vacation. She immediately fell in love with the country and its intellectual climate and aesthetic, and ended up spending twenty years in Mexico (1941-1961). There, she befriended many European and Mexican artists and intellectuals. They adopted her into their circle, and Hood, for the first time, developed the types of friendships she had longed for as a child. During this time, she was part of a group of intellectuals who were interested in critiquing the world around them. Her friends and acquaintances at the time included novelist Ramon Sender, playwright Sophie Treadwell, and painters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington. She was considered to be good friends with Treadwell. She also associated with writer Luis Buñuel and artists Miguel Covarrubias, Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo. Hood stayed for a time with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and had a spat with them because of a dispute that Sophie Treadwell had with Rivera, although Hood later regretted not trying to reach out to Rivera more. It was in Mexico that Hood began her career as an artist. She lived in meager conditions in Mexico, and her works were small in size, due in part to her small studio space. She experimented with anti-war drawings during the Spanish Civil War. Mayan and Aztec hieroglyphs were central to Hood's art in her early career. In Mexico, Hood was met with more respect as a woman artist, and her drawings were sought after.

> As Orozco said to me in moral tones of integrity 'tell the truth, Dorothy, no matter what the cost.'
>
> So the truth was myself, recognizing myself should the results be beautiful or ugly, dark or light, assertive or peaceful.

—Dorothy Hood

Hood exhibited in 1941 at the Gama Gallery in Mexico City, which was commemorated in a poem written by Pablo Neruda, who introduced Hood to the artist and her ultimate mentor, José Clemente Orozco. This exhibition reflected the influence Mexico had on her art and featured oil and gouache paintings of animals, children, and portraits. Hood returned to New York for a year's study in 1945. This trip also provided her with the opportunity to visit with some of her Mexican friends who had more knowledgeable cultural backgrounds than she did. While in New York, Hood was gifted a copy of *After Picasso*, a book by James Thrall Soby, an author, critic, and patron, by a Texan neighbor of Soby's. John McAndrews, the curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art and a friend of Hood's, showed one of her drawings to Soby. Soby displayed the drawing in his office, and included it in a traveling exhibition. In 1950, Hood was awarded a solo show at the Willard Gallery in New York. Hoping to break into the New York art world, Hood rented a room near the Columbia University campus, where she invited curators and gallery owners to view her art. Marian Willard visited Hood's showroom on the last day and was impressed with Hood's art, winning Hood the solo show at the Willard Gallery. Willard proved to be an invaluable connection, and introduced Hood to Mark Tobey, a painter, collector, and patron who Hood admired. Tobey invited Hood to show at the Ahrensberg Atelier, of which he was the director. There she met European artists and art dealers.

## Career

Hood was considered a "pioneer modernist." Her work was a historical link between Mexican synthetic surrealism and the American Color Field School. Hood was one of the first abstract surrealists. Her paintings, which often refer to natural events, are noted by their large color areas. Her art also references her Texan roots with expansive imagery and sweeps of color indicative of the southwest. Hood was influenced by mythology, science and spirituality. Her work was particularly inspired by Taoism and the Yogi of Sri Aurobinda, as well asl by space exploration and outer space, which is reflected in her later works. She has cited the influence of Max Ernst on her work. Gorky, Brancusi, Ensor, Matisse, and Rendon, along with studies of science, nature, myths, and spirituality have all been referenced by Hood as influences. Travel also influenced her work, as she traveled between Latin America, New York, Europe, Africa, and Houston throughout her life.

Her first exhibition took place in Mexico City at the Gama Gallery in 1941. Her work consisted of realist portraits and depictions of animals. Hood had a one-person show at the Marian Williard Gallery in New York City. One of her drawings featured in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1945. Throughout the 1950s, Hood's art evolved from its realist and surrealist roots into modern, abstract patterns of color. Her style was called "abstract surrealism." In 1957, *Art in America* named her one of the year's new talents. Hood had a solo show at the Duveen-Graham Gallery in New York in 1958, and showed at the Philadelphia Art Alliance that same year.

By 1961, many of her friends had either died or moved away, and Mexico no longer felt the same for Hood. Upon her return to Houston that year, she showed at the Atelier Chapman Kelley in Dallas. Starting in 1961, she taught at the School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She mentored painter Ibsen Espada, who worked in her studio as a personal assistant. Hood focused her teaching efforts on meeting the needs of her students, something she felt was lacking from her formal art education. One year after her return to Houston, she began to show her work in the Meredith Long Gallery. She also taught at the Museum of Fine Arts until 1976. In 1976, she taught at Colorado State University.

The 1970s saw Hood's career take off. In 1970, an exhibition of her work was held at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas. Rice University featured Hood's work in a 1971 exhibition. She had five one-person shows in major Texas museums by 1971 and won the Childe Hassam Award in 1973. The following year, a retrospective of her work traveled the United States, which exposed her work to a greater audience of collectors and clients. This 1974 exhibition was arranged by the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York. In 1975, Hood was tasked with creating the sets for "Allen's Landing" for the bicentennial celebration of the Houston Ballet. That same year, Hood showed at the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi. In 1976, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto commissioned Hood to create the sets for their showing of "Royal Hunt of the Sun". A Toronto gallery, The Marianne Friedland Gallery, showed Hood's work at the time she was commissioned by the Royal Ontario Museum. That same year, Hood's work was exhibited at the Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf. In 1978, the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio held a showing of Hood's work.

Hood wrote a piece for *Art Journal* in 1980. Titled *Sighting the Invisible Frontiers*, it focused on the concept of the void. Hood also expressed that she felt that narrative paintings, in their adherence to time frames, miss the essence of the subject. In the same piece, she praised Mark Rothko and Georgia O'Keeffe amongst others as they "bravely crossed invisible frontiers that have seldom been spoken of among formalists." Hood praised O'Keeffe in particular for including the void and nature together in her works. In 1982, she was included in a documentary about women artists called *From the Heart*. In 1983, Hood's work was exhibited in the Kunstverein in Salzburg. In 1985, an award-winning documentary about her work, *The Color of Life*, was produced by Carolyn Farb, who was a longtime friend and supporter of Hood. That same year, Hood's work traveled to Kenya where it was shown at the UN Focus International Exhibition. Her work was highlighted at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and at the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin in 1989. In 1990, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design.

### Paintings

Hood's mature technique consists of poured paint in contrast with sharp, geometric figures. These mature paintings had a mythical aura, and foreshadowed later concerns about abstract art. The combination of automatic painting and pouring lent to Hood's unique aesthetic. Signatures of Hood's work are color, texture, form, line, and scale. Brushstrokes are rarely evident in Hood's paintings, rather, the movement of paint created the images. Her sense of color evolved over time. She started with a limited palette and later began to experiment with vivid juxtapositions of color. Hood was a traveler, both physically and spiritually. As a result, her art included mysterious and sweeping gestures. These reference natural phenomena. Hood was drawn to a sense of place and the people who live in that place which help inform her choice of colors and imagery. She called her work "landscapes of my psyche." It was important to Hood that her art make viewers "feel what she felt." Hood's paintings evoke a "psychic void of space" and her later work, notably after the death of her husband, was focused on the void. In the 1960s Hood's paintings became larger and more vibrant, qualities which were heightened in the 1970s. In Houston, Hood's studio was larger than her studio in Mexico which allowed her to create larger works. In the 1980s, her work was notably inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey and space travel. The void became increasingly important to Hood, and works such as *Centrifugal Orbit* included black voids in contrast to white.

### Drawings

Hood was also known for her drawings. Her drawings were thought to "reflect profound intimacy of \[Hood's\] spiritual and emotional growth over 30 years." Linear elements and organic symbols were employed in Hood's drawings to create multidimensional space. From 1941 to 1948, Hood's drawings mostly featured self portraits with an imaginative element, her family, children, and animals. Some depicted unhappy and impoverished children in Mexico. Hood was empathetic towards lonely youth as she identified with them after her own lonely upbringing. Neither her parents, nor her training at the Rhode Island School of Design had any long-term influence on her drawings. The influence of both José Clemente Orozco and Edvard Munch can be seen in the linear figure groupings of her drawings from this period. Mexico and surrealism were also major influences on Hood's drawings. From 1949 to 1960, Hood's drawings included more nature, depicting plants and animals, and became increasingly abstract with complex spatial arrangements. These drawings were less Western and referenced ancient and spiritual Native American traditions.

### Collages

Hood began collaging in 1983, 40 years into her art career. Much like Hood's drawings featured a multidimensional spatial framework, Her collages employed unique depictions of space and dimensions. Hood's collages focus on the space age and cybernetics, which Hood felt left a vast field of information with no room for humans. Through harmony, and Christianity and Hinduism, Hood sought to remedy humans with cybernetics. Using stationery, book and magazine illustrations, her paintings, maps, wrapping paper, and newspaper, Hood explored the mind and human psyche by delineating reality and illusion in her collages.

### Legacy

In 2015, Texas A&M curated an exhibit intended to be the first in-depth overview of Hood's art and life. The exhibit includes 65 paintings, and 35 drawings and collages. Susie Kalil, an art historian focused on modern Texan art, is writing the first book on Hood. In late 2016, the Art Museum of South Texas turned over the bulk of the museum to an exhibition of her works: Dorothy Hood: The Color of Being/El Color Del Sur.

Hood created a collection of collages, such as those shown at the "Dorothy Hood Collages: Connecting Change" exhibition at the Wallace Wentworth Gallery in 1988. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Women's Caucus for Art in 1988.

Hood became one of Texas' most famous artists, notable as Texas had been known prior for paintings depicting prairies and cowboys.

## Later years and death

In the late 1990s Hood discovered that she had breast cancer and died in October 2000. Much of her art and ephemera was given to the Art Museum of South Texas in 2000. The Dorothy Hood Papers are held at the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections in Houston, Texas. Many of her papers, including eight scrapbooks and numerous documents of her career, are also on microfilm at the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. Many correspondences have been discovered in her belongings, including letters exchanged with Meredith Long who discovered Hood in Mexico, and Clement Greenberg. An artist file documenting her career is held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum / National Portrait Gallery Library of the Smithsonian Libraries.

## Personal life

Hood was married to Bolivian composer, José María Velasco Maidana in 1946. They traveled together following Maidana's conducting jobs between Mexico City, New York City and Houston until the early 1960s. Maidana deeply enriched Hood's knowledge of Native and Latin American cultures through travel. Around that time her husband began to show symptoms of Parkinson's disease and could no longer conduct. They chose to move to Houston where they would have access to better medical care. Houston also provided Hood with an art market better suited to earning a living. Hood supported herself and her husband until his death in 1989. After Maidana's death, Hood missed her husband, and took to painting "the void" with fervor.

## Collections

Work by the artist is represented in major museum collections, including:

| External media | |
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| Images | |
| Slideshow of Dorothy Hood's works, Art Museum of South Texas | |
| Video | |
| *Dorothy Hood: The Color of Life*, documentary | |

## InfoBox

| Dorothy Rose Hood | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | (1918-08-22)August 22, 1918
Bryan, Texas, US |
| Died | October 28, 2000(2000-10-28) (aged 81)
Houston, Texas, US |
| Education |  |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Movement | Modernism |
| Spouse | José María Velasco Maidana |
| Awards |  |


title: The Pendulum Swings

abstract: "The Pendulum Swings" is the sixth episode of the American drama television series The Morning Show, inspired by Brian Stelter's 2013 book Top of the Morning. The episode was written by producer Kristen Layden, and directed by Tucker Gates. It was released on Apple TV+ on November 22, 2019. The series follows the characters and culture behind a network broadcast morning news program, The Morning Show. After allegations of sexual misconduct, the male co-anchor of the program, Mitch Kessler, is forced off the show. It follows Mitch's co-host, Alex Levy, and a conservative reporter Bradley Jackson, who attracts the attention of the show's producers after a viral video. In the episode, the staff goes to California to report wildfires engulfing the state, while Alex struggles when her husband asks for the divorce. The episode received positive reviews from critics, with Jennifer Aniston receiving high praise for her performance.

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# The Pendulum Swings

"**The Pendulum Swings**" is the sixth episode of the American drama television series *The Morning Show*, inspired by Brian Stelter's 2013 book *Top of the Morning*. The episode was written by producer Kristen Layden, and directed by Tucker Gates. It was released on Apple TV+ on November 22, 2019.

The series follows the characters and culture behind a network broadcast morning news program, *The Morning Show*. After allegations of sexual misconduct, the male co-anchor of the program, Mitch Kessler, is forced off the show. It follows Mitch's co-host, Alex Levy, and a conservative reporter Bradley Jackson, who attracts the attention of the show's producers after a viral video. In the episode, the staff goes to California to report wildfires engulfing the state, while Alex struggles when her husband asks for the divorce.

The episode received positive reviews from critics, with Jennifer Aniston receiving high praise for her performance.

## Plot

Wildfires occur in California, prompting Fred (Tom Irwin) to get *The Morning Show* to report it, in an attempt to move past the scandal. As Alex (Jennifer Aniston) wakes up, she is visited by Jason (Jack Davenport). He is fed up with her narcissism, and wants to officially divorce.

In California, Alex's crisis continues affecting her job, and she is still at odds with Bradley (Reese Witherspoon). This feud begins to affect the show, as it interferes with the reports. Claire (Bel Powley) tells Bradley that she found information about wealthy people paying private firefighters for protection, and while Bradley wants to report it, Chip (Mark Duplass) dismisses it. Nevertheless, Hannah (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) helps Claire in securing a survivor for the show. Chip is worried about his job, expressing his concern to Cory (Billy Crudup), as he will be fired if anything damages the network's image. Chip suggests he could be an ally in helping Cory take over from Fred (Tom Irwin), leading Cory to suggest that Chip should come to him when he has real dirt on Fred.

Alex and Bradley interview a man who saved dogs from the wildfires, but Alex becomes emotional and ends up crying on live television. Afterwards, Alex goes to her trailer, refusing Bradley's help in comforting her. Chip tells Bradley they cannot run the private firefighters story as Fred is one of those who hired them, but eventually allows her to do it anyway. Later, Alex finally explains to Bradley that her concerns are due to the divorce, as she fears her daughter will blame her. This prompts Bradley to reveal her relationship with her father is complicated after he accidentally killed a kid while driving under the influence. That night, Claire visits Yanko (Néstor Carbonell) at his hotel room to celebrate. This is seen by Hannah, who subsequently starts using pills. As she is about to go to sleep, Bradley receives an e-mail from Mitch, who wants to meet with her to discuss something.

## Development

### Production

The episode was written by producer Kristen Layden, and directed by Tucker Gates. This was Layden's first writing credit, and Gates' first directing credit.

## Critical reviews

"The Pendulum Swings" received positive reviews from critics. Maggie Fremont of *Vulture* gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "Truth be told, *The Morning Show* has always been about burning it all to the ground, and in “The Pendulum Swings,” the show takes that metaphor a little more literally, as *TMS* and its two leading ladies head to Los Angeles to cover the raging wildfires, currently destroying lives."

Jodi Walker of *Entertainment Weekly* wrote, "We're suddenly halfway into *The Morning Show*'s first season, and the series is leaning in hard on the dysfunctional family aspect of its show-within-a-show. Family are generally the people in your life you're most vulnerable to, the ones who know you best and can use that knowledge to comfort you — or hurt you — like no one else can. But the weird thing about this new *Morning Show* family is that they've been forced into that vulnerability before they even really know each other. And this week, they're going on a good old-fashioned family road trip, where good will goes to die."

Bethonie Butler of *The Washington Post* praised Aniston's performance, "After decades in an industry known for limiting opportunities for women, especially as they age, Aniston undoubtedly knows how it feels to be underestimated. But refreshingly, she embraces all of her roles — even the one that threatened to render her typecast per an all-too-familiar Hollywood tradition." Morgan Baila of *Refinery29* wrote, "All this is to say: Alex is not safe in her marriage, in her job, or in her new relationship with Bradley. And until they all get out of the path of the fires, she's not safe from Mother Nature's blazing wrath either."

Esme Mazzeo of *Telltale TV* gave the episode a 4.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "Jennifer Aniston is brilliant throughout the entire breakdown. It's hard to watch, but that's because it's real and physical. In our lives, we don't usually accompany breakdowns with monologues." Veronique Englebert of *The Review Geek* gave the episode a 3.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "*The Morning Show* remains an enjoyable drama with enough interesting characterisation and plot twists to keep you coming back for more."

## InfoBox

| "**The Pendulum Swings**" | |
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| *The Morning Show* episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1<br>Episode 6 |
| Directed by | Tucker Gates |
| Written by | Kristen Layden |
| Cinematography by | Michael Grady |
| Editing by | Vikash Patel |
| Original release date | November 22, 2019 (2019-11-22) |
| Running time | 56 minutes |
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title: The Pendragon Legend (film)

abstract: The Pendragon Legend is a 1974 Hungarian thriller film directed by György Révész and starring Zoltán Latinovits, Iván Darvas and Teri Tordai. It is based on the 1934 novel The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb. It was shot at the Hunnia Studios in Budapest.

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# The Pendragon Legend (film)

***The Pendragon Legend*** (Hungarian: ***A Pendragon legenda***) is a 1974 Hungarian thriller film directed by György Révész and starring Zoltán Latinovits, Iván Darvas and Teri Tordai. It is based on the 1934 novel *The Pendragon Legend* by Antal Szerb. It was shot at the Hunnia Studios in Budapest.

## Cast

## InfoBox

| The Pendragon Legend | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Directed by | György Révész |
| Written by |  |
| Starring |  |
| Cinematography | György Illés |
| Edited by | Mrs. Zoltán Kerényi |
| Music by | György Ránki |
| Production<br>company | MAFILM Budapest Filmstúdiói |
| Release date | * 12 September 1974 (1974-09-12) |
| Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Hungary |
| Language | Hungarian |


abstract: The Reunion: An Eraserheads Tribute Album is the second tribute album to the Philippine alternative rock band Eraserheads. It was released on March 15, 2012 by Star Music as the official soundtrack to the Star Cinema film The Reunion. The album features covers of Eraserheads songs as performed by Filipino artists.

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# The Reunion: An Eraserheads Tribute Album

***The Reunion: An Eraserheads Tribute Album*** is the second tribute album to the Philippine alternative rock band Eraserheads. It was released on March 15, 2012 by Star Music as the official soundtrack to the Star Cinema film *The Reunion*. The album features covers of Eraserheads songs as performed by Filipino artists.

## Track listing

| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
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| 1. | "Ligaya" | Mayonnaise | 3:38 |
| 2. | "Maling Akala" | Itchyworms | 4:13 |
| 3. | "With a Smile" | Aiza Seguerra feat. Mike Villegas | 3:47 |
| 4. | "Minsan" | Callalily | 5:04 |
| 5. | "Kaliwete" | Hilera | 3:51 |
| 6. | "Pare Ko" | Johnoy Danao | 4:48 |
| 7. | "Kailan" | Ney Dimaculangan and Yeng Constantino | 4:03 |
| 8. | "Overdrive" | Vin Dancel | 4:36 |
| 9. | "Magasin" | Chicosci | 4:26 |
| 10. | "Hey, Jay" | Tanya Markova | 4:46 |
| 11. | "Alapaap" | 6cyclemind feat. Eunice of Gracenote | 4:46 |
| 12. | "Superproxy" | Razorback feat. Gloc-9 | 5:43 |
| 13. | "Ang Huling El Bimbo" | Jay Durias | 6:51 |
| 14. | "Fine Time" | Marc Abaya of Kjwan | 6:31 |
| Total length: | | | 1:07:30 |

## InfoBox

| The Reunion: An Eraserheads Tribute Album | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Compilation album by Various Artists | |
| Released | March 15, 2012 |
| Recorded | 2012 |
| Genre |  |
| Length | 1:07:30 |
| Label | Star Records |


abstract: Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust runs Dorset County Hospital, an NHS district general hospital in the town of Dorchester, Dorset, England. The hospital is the hub of the district's inpatient facilities but community hospitals, formerly owned by the North and South West Dorset primary care groups are situated in the surrounding major towns and provide the 'spokes' to the central unit. Dorset County Hospital has 500 beds.

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# Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

**Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust** runs Dorset County Hospital, an NHS district general hospital in the town of Dorchester, Dorset, England. The hospital is the hub of the district's inpatient facilities but community hospitals, formerly owned by the North and South West Dorset primary care groups are situated in the surrounding major towns and provide the 'spokes' to the central unit. Dorset County Hospital has 500 beds.

## Performance

In the *Sunday Times* Good Hospital Guide 2004, West Dorset's patient satisfaction rating is bettered by only one trust in England  and it scores well with respect to most of the other performance indicators. The mortality rate is 8% below the expected level and is among the best 30 nationally. The trust is just one of five in England where all inpatients are admitted within six months of referral and the proportion of outpatients seen by a consultant within 13 weeks of referral is among the 30 highest. The trust's facilities are also very clean: it is ranked in the top ten in England for the high standards of cleanliness in the A&E department and in outpatients' toilets.

In 2005, the hospital was awarded three-star status in the NHS's performance ratings.

Proposals to transfer the pathology department to a private provider were rejected in October 2014 after 11,000 people signed a petition protesting against the plan.

## Services

The trust's clinical services are organised into four directorates and provide the following services centralised on the Dorset County Hospital Site.

### Emergency and medical services

### Planned and surgical services

### Family services

The trust has a special care baby unit but this is not suitable for babies requiring intensive care. Babies born before 32 weeks have to be transferred to other hospitals in the Thames Valley and Wessex Neonatal Network.

### Diagnostic services

The hospital is also recognised as a cancer unit for the provision of services for patients with gynaecological, breast, colorectal, urological, upper gastrointestinal, lung and haematological malignancies. While most chemotherapy is given locally, the radiotherapy centre is in the Cancer Centre at Poole Hospital.

## InfoBox

| Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | |
| --- | --- |
| Type | NHS foundation trust |
| Headquarters | Williams Avenue
Dorchester
DT1 2JY |
| Hospitals | Dorset County Hospital |
| Staff | 2,697 (2019/20) |
| Website | www.dchft.nhs.uk |


title: The Riders of German East Africa

abstract: The Riders of German East Africa is a 1934 German war film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Sepp Rist, Ilse Stobrawa and Rudolf Klicks. It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin and on location at the sand dunes at Marienhöhe in the capital, a former quarry which stood in for Africa. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert A. Dietrich and Bruno Lutz. It was based on the novel Kwa Heri by Marie Luise Droop. Although produced as an anti-British propaganda film, it was later banned by the Nazi authorities after the outbreak of the Second World War for not being hostile enough to Britain, while it was also subsequently banned by the Allies in the post-war era for its promotion of militarism.

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# The Riders of German East Africa

***The Riders of German East Africa*** (German: ***Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika***) is a 1934 German war film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Sepp Rist, Ilse Stobrawa and Rudolf Klicks. It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin and on location at the sand dunes at Marienhöhe in the capital, a former quarry which stood in for Africa. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert A. Dietrich and Bruno Lutz. It was based on the novel *Kwa Heri* by Marie Luise Droop. Although produced as an anti-British propaganda film, it was later banned by the Nazi authorities after the outbreak of the Second World War for not being hostile enough to Britain, while it was also subsequently banned by the Allies in the post-war era for its promotion of militarism.

## Plot summary

Sepp Rist plays the role of Hellhoff, a German farmer in German East Africa, who is conscripted into the *Schutztruppe* (German armed colonial force) at the beginning of the First World War. His wife Gerda and the young volunteer Klix manage the plantation while he is away. In 1916, the plantation is occupied by a British unit. The commander, Major Cresswell, knows Gerda is secretly supplying Hellhoff and his comrades who are concealed in the bush. He tries to use his old friendship with the Hellhoffs put a stop to her activities. In order to carry out his duty as a British officer, he has his troops occupy the area's water supply to force the German soldiers to surrender. As Hellhoff's wife and Klix are trying to clandestinely supply water to Hellhoff, she is arrested and the boy shot. He still manages to bring the canteen to the soldiers before he dies. Hellhoff and his men liberate Gerda, who was to be taken away for trial by a British military court, and make off with water and horses. On their way to join up with Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's East African *Schutztruppe* command, they stop at Klix's grave. Hellhoff promises the dead boy he will come back sooner or later — an allusion to the recovery of the lost colony through German victory in the Second World War.

## Cast

## Release

The film was approved by the censors on 17 October 1934, and premiered on 19 October.

## Works cited

* Welch, David (1983). *Propaganda and the German Cinema: 1933-1945*. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781860645204.

## Bibliography

* Gheorghiu-Cernat, Manuela. *Arms and the Film: War-and-peace in European Films*. Meridiane, 1983.
* Hull, David Stewart. *Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933-1945*. University of California Press, 1969.
* Richards, Jeffrey. *Visions of Yesterday*. Routledge, 1973.

## InfoBox

| The Riders of German East Africa | |
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| Directed by | Herbert Selpin |
| Written by | Wilhelm Stöppler |
| Based on | *Kwa Heri* by Marie Luise Droop |
| Produced by | Walter Zeiske |
| Starring | Sepp Rist
Ilse Stobrawa
Rudolf Klicks |
| Cinematography | Emil Schünemann |
| Edited by | Lena Neumann |
| Music by | Herbert Windt |
| Production
company | Terra Film |
| Distributed by | Terra Film |
| Release date | * 19 October 1934 (1934-10-19) |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |


title: The Rider of the King Log

abstract: The Rider of the King Log is a lost 1921 American silent action film directed by Harry O. Hoyt and starring Frank Sheridan, Irene Boyle, and Richard Travers. The film was the first feature shot entirely in Maine. It was originally set to be directed by and star Edgar Jones with Edna May Sperl as the leading lady. A rift between Jones and writer Holman Day led to the departure of Jones and Sperl from the project.

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# The Rider of the King Log

***The Rider of the King Log*** is a lost 1921 American silent action film directed by Harry O. Hoyt and starring Frank Sheridan, Irene Boyle, and Richard Travers. The film was the first feature shot entirely in Maine. It was originally set to be directed by and star Edgar Jones with Edna May Sperl as the leading lady. A rift between Jones and writer Holman Day led to the departure of Jones and Sperl from the project.

## Plot

## Cast

## Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. *The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film*. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

## InfoBox

| The Rider of the King Log | |
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| Directed by | Harry O. Hoyt |
| Written by | Holman Francis Day |
| Produced by | Edgar Jones |
| Starring | Frank Sheridan
Irene Boyle
Richard Travers |
| Cinematography | Eugene French |
| Production
company | Associated Exhibitors |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange
 |
| Release date | * May 1921 (1921-05) |
| Running time | 7 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |


title: The Rider of Death Valley

abstract: The Rider of Death Valley is a 1932 American Western film directed by Albert S. Rogell and written by Jack Cunningham. The film stars Tom Mix, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Forrest Stanley, Edith Fellows and Willard Robertson. The film was released on April 24, 1932, by Universal Pictures.

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# The Rider of Death Valley

***The Rider of Death Valley*** is a 1932 American Western film directed by Albert S. Rogell and written by Jack Cunningham. The film stars Tom Mix, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Forrest Stanley, Edith Fellows and Willard Robertson. The film was released on April 24, 1932, by Universal Pictures.

## Cast

## InfoBox

| The Rider of Death Valley | |
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|  | |
| Directed by | Albert S. Rogell |
| Screenplay by | Jack Cunningham |
| Produced by | Carl Laemmle, Jr.
Stanley Bergerman |
| Starring | Tom Mix
Lois Wilson
Fred Kohler
Forrest Stanley
Edith Fellows
Willard Robertson |
| Cinematography | Daniel B. Clark |
| Edited by | Robert Carlisle |
| Production
company | Universal Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date | * April 24, 1932 (1932-04-24) |
| Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |


title: The Rider of the Law

abstract: The Rider of the Law is a 1935 American Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury.

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# The Rider of the Law

***The Rider of the Law*** is a 1935 American Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury.

## Plot

## Cast

## InfoBox

| The Rider of the Law | |
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|  | |
| Directed by | Robert N. Bradbury |
| Written by |  |
| Produced by | A.W. Hackel (producer) |
| Starring | Bob Steele<br>Gertrude Messinger |
| Cinematography | Gus Peterson |
| Edited by | S. Roy Luby |
| Release date | * 1935 (1935) |
| Running time | 59 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |


abstract: The Royal Lancers & Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum traces the history of three old and famous cavalry regiments, the Royal Lancers, the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry and the South Nottinghamshire Hussars. It is located at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire.

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# The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum

**The Royal Lancers & Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum** traces the history of three old and famous cavalry regiments, the Royal Lancers, the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry and the South Nottinghamshire Hussars. It is located at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire.

## History

The collection has its origins in the Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum which was established at Belvoir Castle in 1964. After the lease at Belvoir Castle expired in October 2007, the trustees of the collection sought funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to finance a move to Thoresby Hall where the Stonebridge Trust, which manages the courtyard there, offered a 25 year lease. Princess Alexandra opened The Queen's Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry museum at Thoresby Hall in July 2011.

In November 2023, thieves stole a haul of "priceless" silver military antiques by cutting through the museum's floor. Among the items stolen from the museum are a distinctive parcel and gilt rosewater dish - said to be the sister piece to the Wimbledon women's singles trophy.

## Collection

The collection focusses on the role the local regiments played in warfare over the last 300 years. A highlight of the collection is the bugle which was used at the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.

## InfoBox

The Royal Lancers & Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum
|  | |
| --- | --- |
| Shown in Nottinghamshire | |
| Established | 2011 |
| Coordinates | 53°14′06″N 1°02′42″W / 53.2349°N 1.0451°W / 53.2349; -1.0451 |
| Type | Military Museum |
| Curator | Captain Mick Holtby |
| Website | www.qrlnymuseum.co.uk |


title: The Revisionaries (novel)

abstract: The Revisionaries is a 2019 science fiction novel by A. R. Moxon.

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# The Revisionaries (novel)

***The Revisionaries*** is a 2019 science fiction novel by A. R. Moxon.

## Synopsis

On a Loony Island, crime and poverty are common. Father Julius goes around the island providing aid to people in need.

## Reception

*The Revisionaries* received generally positive reviews from critics. Amal El-Mohtar of NPR said: "I'm almost irritated by how much I enjoyed it". Ron Charles of *The Washington Post* said: "I was baffled, dazzled, angered and awed. In between bouts of hating it, I adored it. *The Revisionaries* is a self-indulgent muddle; it's a modern-day classic". Sergio De La Pava of *The New York Times* said: "\[i\]n a novel of expertly rendered horrors, the relative shallowness also disturbs, and thereby detracts. And maybe it's unfair to ask that an author this skilled at invention, character and style also exhibit proficiency in philosophy and theology".

## InfoBox

The Revisionaries
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| Author | A. R. Moxon |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Melville House Publishing |
| Publication date | December 3, 2019 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 608 |
| ISBN | 978-1-612-19798-2 |


title: The Riverboat Song

abstract: "The Riverboat Song" is a song by British band Ocean Colour Scene. It is heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin's "Four Sticks", from which it takes its main riff and a number of lyrics. The song is written in ⁶4 time. The single was popularised by Radio 1 DJ Chris Evans, who played it frequently on his radio shows and to introduce guests on his television programme TFI Friday. As a result, having been released in February 1996, it reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart, paving the way for the success of the next two singles, "You've Got It Bad" and "The Day We Caught the Train", as well as their album Moseley Shoals. It also became a moderate hit in New Zealand, where it peaked at number 37.

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# The Riverboat Song

"**The Riverboat Song**" is a song by British band Ocean Colour Scene. It is heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin's "Four Sticks", from which it takes its main riff and a number of lyrics. The song is written in **6**
**4** time.

The single was popularised by Radio 1 DJ Chris Evans, who played it frequently on his radio shows and to introduce guests on his television programme *TFI Friday*. As a result, having been released in February 1996, it reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart, paving the way for the success of the next two singles, "You've Got It Bad" and "The Day We Caught the Train", as well as their album *Moseley Shoals*. It also became a moderate hit in New Zealand, where it peaked at number 37.

## Track listings

**UK and Japanese CD single**

1. "The Riverboat Song"
2. "So Sad"
3. "Charlie Brown Says"

**UK 7-inch and cassette single**

1. "The Riverboat Song"
2. "So Sad"

## Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from the *Moseley Shoals* album booklet.

**Studios**

* Recorded and mixed at Moseley Shoals (Birmingham, England)
* Mastered at the Powerplant (London, England)

**Personnel**

## Charts

| Chart (1996) | Peak
position |
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| Europe (Eurochart Hot 100) | 40 |
| New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) | 37 |
| Scotland (OCC) | 13 |
| UK Singles (OCC) | 15 |

## Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom (BPI) | Gold | 400,000 |
| Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
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## Release history

| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 5 February 1996 | * 7-inch vinyl * CD * cassette | MCA |  |
| Japan | 22 May 1996 | | CD |  |

## InfoBox

| "The Riverboat Song" | |
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| Single by Ocean Colour Scene | |
| from the album  *Moseley Shoals* | |
| B-side | * "So Sad" * "Charlie Brown Says" |
| Released | 5 February 1996 (1996-02-05) |
| Studio | Moseley Shoals (Birmingham, England) |
| Length | 4:58 |
| Label | MCA |
| Songwriter(s) | Ocean Colour Scene |
| Producer(s) |  |
| Ocean Colour Scene singles chronology | |
| "Do Yourself a Favour"
(1992) "**The Riverboat Song**"
(1996) "You've Got It Bad"
(1996) | |


title: The Royal Victoria Hotel

abstract: The Royal Victoria Hotel is a former hotel situated in Newport, Shropshire. It dates back to 1830 and gains its name from Queen Victoria, who as Princess Victoria of Kent visited the hotel in 1832 and who gifted the hotel with a pair of tortoise shells to commemorate the visit. The building has been extended over time and operated as a hotel, bar and restaurant before it finally closed in 2015.

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# The Royal Victoria Hotel

**The Royal Victoria Hotel** is a former hotel situated in Newport, Shropshire. It dates back to 1830 and gains its name from Queen Victoria, who as Princess Victoria of Kent visited the hotel in 1832 and who gifted the hotel with a pair of tortoise shells to commemorate the visit. The building has been extended over time and operated as a hotel, bar and restaurant before it finally closed in 2015.

## History

It was originally called the Union, and built on the site of the Bear Inn. Local people subscribed to the building project of the new Union, which was to be the principal hotel in the town, built with the fashionable five bays and two and a half storeys surmounted by a very shallow pediment of the period. The first manager was William Liddle who came from the Red Lion in Winchester. It was renamed in 1832 after the Princess Victoria visited it and she herself declared that it would now be called 'The Royal Victoria Hotel'.

The hotel grew to the rear after the demolition of the factories and workhouses, which were built along the back of the hotel.

The hotel grew further with the building of a ballroom and cocktail bar in 1910. A second entrance from Water Lane was created for the use of people coming from the canal area, with Newport being on the main route to North Wales and Ireland. Many notable people stayed in the hotel over the years, but a fire in 1974 destroyed most of the photographs and memorabilia; however, it is believed that among the names to stay in the hotel were James Hain Friswell, Oliver Lodge and Charles Stewart Parnell.

The hotel closed in 2014, briefly reopened in 2015 before closing again. In 2017 permission was sought to redevelop the building as flats, retaining the facade while demolishing the rear extension. However work did not proceed as promised with delays blamed on legal issues and the Covid pandemic. The owners obtained further planning permission to develop it as 17 apartments in 2021. It was still undeveloped, shorn up by scaffolding and complained of as an "eyesore" in February 2023 when a director of the property firm told BBC Radio Shropshire the building needed to be demolished, a route not allowed by the local authority Telford and Wrekin District Council, who reportedly did not want the building de-listed and demolished. Subsequently, the owners did not comply with orders to repair by the council who twice intervened to make safe repairs and in December 2023 had decided to compulsorily purchase the building.

## Architectural

The hotel is in stuccoed stone with a rusticated ground floor and quoins, above which is a frieze and a cornice. At the top is a moulded eaves cornice, and the roof is tiled. There are three storeys and five bays that are separated by pilasters with decorative capitals, and above the middle three bays is a pediment. The central doorway has a Tuscan porch, and the windows are sashes. In front of the hotel are forecourt railings. It is a Grade II Listed Building.

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## InfoBox

| The Royal Victoria Hotel | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
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| General information | |
| Location | St Marys street Newport, Shropshire |
| Opening | 1832 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 3 |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 25 |
| Number of restaurants | 2 |
| Parking | yes |
| Website | |
| http://home.btconnect.com/theroyalvictoriahotel/ | |
| Built in the Regency style | |


title: The Royal Treatment (film)

abstract: The Royal Treatment is a 2022 American romance film directed by Rick Jacobson and written by Holly Hester. It stars Laura Marano as Manhattan hairdresser Izzy, who is given an opportunity to work at the wedding of Prince Thomas, played by Mena Massoud. After its release on January 20, 2022, on Netflix, The Royal Treatment became the week's most-watched film on the streaming service. However, it received negative reviews from critics. With the exception of Massoud, Marano, Jay Simon and Paul Norell, the majority of the cast is from New Zealand which is where the movie was filmed.

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# The Royal Treatment (film)

***The Royal Treatment*** is a 2022 American romance film directed by Rick Jacobson and written by Holly Hester. It stars Laura Marano as Manhattan hairdresser Izzy, who is given an opportunity to work at the wedding of Prince Thomas, played by Mena Massoud.

After its release on January 20, 2022, on Netflix, *The Royal Treatment* became the week's most-watched film on the streaming service. However, it received negative reviews from critics. With the exception of Massoud, Marano, Jay Simon and Paul Norell, the majority of the cast is from New Zealand which is where the movie was filmed.

## Plot

Isabella, who goes by Izzy, is a hairdresser. One day, the microwave in her salon causes a fire. The assistant of the salon's landlord, Doug, asks Izzy to pay for the damage caused, so she gives the money she had saved for traveling the world.

The prince of Lavania, Prince Thomas, asks his assistant Walter to schedule a haircut. Walter mistakenly calls up Izzy's salon, telling her that she will be paid $500 for the haircut. Izzy agrees. When she meets the prince and starts cutting his hair, a housekeeper comes with tea and accidentally drops it. Izzy is upset at how badly the housekeeper is treated and leaves without finishing the Prince's haircut. She returns to the salon, where Thomas comes in to finish the haircut. Afterward, Izzy agrees to walk the prince back to the metro and the two share a fun night.

The next day Thomas, his fiancée Lauren, and her mother discuss who to hire as the makeup artists for the wedding. Walter recommends Izzy's salon. Lauren and her mother agree and Izzy and her friends travel to Lavania. They'll get $50,000 as payment for the royal wedding. Another assistant, Madam Fabre, tests their makeup skills. Izzy passes but her coworkers don't so Madam Fabre trains them. Izzy goes to see the province and Thomas accompanies her. They have fun at the Uber de glares which is considered by the royals as a 'dangerous' part of town.

The next day, Thomas states to his family that he wants to do more for the locals. Izzy encourages the locals to donate to the less fortunate children by leaving items at the castle gate. Lauren tells Thomas that she wants part of their new estate to be for her work studio. Thomas finds the guard house full of donated toys for the children. He also decides to donate some royal furniture that the queen threw out. Izzy and Thomas drive the toys and some royal furniture to the orphanage.

Lauren's mother observes that Thomas and Izzy are getting too close. Lauren is not concerned, commenting that she would rather focus on her business ideas than marry someone she barely knows. When a photo of them ends up in the papers, Izzy is asked to leave. It is revealed that the reason why the King and Queen want Thomas to marry Lauren is because her family could help them get out of debt.

On the wedding day, Walter tells Thomas that he knows Thomas is in love with Izzy. Thomas tells Lauren he can't marry her. She is relieved as she also does not want to get married. Izzy returns to find that there was a major fire in the salon. When Doug visits asking for money, she tells him that she had spoken with the owner, who had expected Doug to rewire the property last year. The family makes plans to refurbish the salon but Izzy tells them she doesn't want to work at the salon anymore, instead choosing to be director of a local community center.

As Izzy gazes at the road from her house fire exit, she hears horse hooves. Prince Thomas rides to Izzy's house on horseback and confesses his feelings for her. They kiss. The movie ends with them going to get gelato on horseback.

## Cast

## Production

The film was originally to start production in Europe in early 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming later began in both Dunedin and Oamaru in New Zealand in February 2021. Film production involved 30 actors, 100 extras, and a sizeable film crew. Notable film locations included Vogel Street (which stood in for New York City), Fable Dunedin Hotel, Larnach Castle, and Olveston Historic Home (the latter two of which stood in for the Lavania royal palace), the Otago Peninsula, the University of Otago Registry Building, and Oamaru's Victorian precinct.

The film was released on January 20, 2022, on Netflix. It reached the number 1 spot on Netflix the week of its release.

## Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 35% of 17 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.20/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 36 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

Courtney Howard of *Variety* gave the film a positive review and wrote that it "takes expected genre trappings and infuses them with unexpected delights, creating an enlightened, enchanting and entertaining feature."

Lindsey Bahr of the Associated Press awarded the film one and a half stars out of four and wrote, "Like a drug store chocolate bar, it just is. It might not be good for you, but it’ll go down shockingly easy, give you a minor sugar high (and possible headache) and disappear from your memory just as quickly..."

James Croot of Stuff described the film as a "flimsy, forgettable rom-com farce." He also criticised Holly Hester's script, likening it to an early treatment rather than a "fully formed" screenplay. Croot described Marano's character Izzy as one-dimensional and noted the New Zealand accents of the non-royal Lavanian characters.

## InfoBox

| The Royal Treatment | |
| --- | --- |
| Official poster | |
| Directed by | Rick Jacobson |
| Written by | Holly Hester |
| Produced by |  |
| Starring |  |
| Cinematography | John Cavill |
| Edited by | Luke Haigh |
| Music by | John R. Graham |
| Production<br>company | Calabrian Rhode Productions |
| Distributed by | Netflix |
| Release date | * January 20, 2022 (2022-01-20) |
| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |


title: Douglas Spencer-Nairn

abstract: Lt-Colonel Sir Douglas Leslie Spencer Spencer-Nairn, 2nd Baronet was a British Unionist politician in Scotland. Spencer-Nairn was educated at Shrewsbury and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1955, he was elected Member of Parliament for Central Ayrshire, defeating the Labour incumbent Archie Manuel. Spencer-Nairn held the seat until 1959, when it was regained by Manuel against the national trend. He was the grandfather of Canadian actress Tara Spencer-Nairn through his younger son John Chaloner Spencer-Nairn.

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# Douglas Spencer-Nairn

Lt-Colonel **Sir Douglas Leslie Spencer Spencer-Nairn, 2nd Baronet** (24 February 1906 – 8 November 1970) was a British Unionist politician in Scotland.

Spencer-Nairn was educated at Shrewsbury and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1955, he was elected Member of Parliament for Central Ayrshire, defeating the Labour incumbent Archie Manuel. Spencer-Nairn held the seat until 1959, when it was regained by Manuel against the national trend.

He was the grandfather of Canadian actress Tara Spencer-Nairn through his younger son John Chaloner Spencer-Nairn.


title: Dorothy L. Devereux

abstract: Dorothy Louise Devereux was an American politician from the state of Hawaii. She was one of the first women elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives after statehood in 1959. Devereux was a native of Spokane, Washington, the daughter of John and Olive Nelson. A registered nurse by profession, she received her nursing education at the California Lutheran School of Nursing in Los Angeles and also did postgraduate work at Chicago Lying-in Hospital. She resided in Chicago, working in the public health sector until the around 1935, when she moved to Hawaii. She married John William Devereux in 1934 and had four children. After moving to Hawaii, she served on the Governor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, Conference on Education, Hawaii School Survey, as president of the Hawaii Parent-Teacher's Congress and on the Governor's Advisory Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation. In 1958, Devereux was elected to the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives as a Republican. She was elected once again after statehood in 1959 to represent the 15th district, Manoa-Waikiki. Alongside Eureka Forbes, she was one of the first two women to be elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives after statehood in 1995. She served until 1972. Later, Devereux was also a founding member of the Hawaii Crippled Children's Society as well as the Sultan Foundation Nursery School. Devereux died at a hospital in Honolulu on January 15, 1994. Her husband predeceased her in 1968.

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# Dorothy L. Devereux

**Dorothy Louise Devereux** (née **Nelson**; November 9, 1911 – January 15, 1994) was an American politician from the state of Hawaii. She was one of the first women elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives after statehood in 1959.

Devereux was a native of Spokane, Washington, the daughter of John and Olive (née Davis) Nelson. A registered nurse by profession, she received her nursing education at the California Lutheran School of Nursing in Los Angeles and also did postgraduate work at Chicago Lying-in Hospital. She resided in Chicago, working in the public health sector until the around 1935, when she moved to Hawaii. She married John William Devereux in 1934 and had four children. After moving to Hawaii, she served on the Governor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, Conference on Education, Hawaii School Survey, as president of the Hawaii Parent-Teacher's Congress and on the Governor's Advisory Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation.

In 1958, Devereux was elected to the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives as a Republican. She was elected once again after statehood in 1959 to represent the 15th district, Manoa-Waikiki. Alongside Eureka Forbes, she was one of the first two women to be elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives after statehood in 1995. She served until 1972. Later, Devereux was also a founding member of the Hawaii Crippled Children's Society as well as the Sultan Foundation Nursery School. Devereux died at a hospital in Honolulu on January 15, 1994. Her husband predeceased her in 1968.

## InfoBox

| Dorothy L. Devereux | |
| --- | --- |
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| Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives for the 15th district | |
| **In office**
1958–1972 | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Dorothy Louise Nelson
(1911-11-09)November 9, 1911
Spokane, Washington, U.S. |
| Died | January 15, 1994(1994-01-15) (aged 82)
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | John W. Devereux  (m. 1934; died 1968) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | California Lutheran School of Nursing |
| Profession | Nurse |
|  | |


title: The Richards Group

abstract: The Richards Group, now known as TRG, is an advertising agency in Dallas, Texas. The company was recognized as an Adweek Agency of the Year in 1988, 1990, 1994, and 2002. TRG’s “We’ll leave the light on for you” radio campaign for Motel 6 was named one of the “Top 100 Ad Campaigns in American History” by Ad Age magazine before the agency lost the business due to a racism scandal. Its “Farmer” TV ad for Ram Trucks was one of the highest-scoring Super Bowl spots in USA Today’s 2013 “Ad Meter” ranking. The Chick-fil-A cows created by TRG were inducted into the Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame in 2007. In October 2020, following racist comments made by the agency's founder, Stan Richards, the company lost two of its longtime clients, Motel 6 and Home Depot; other clients also decided to leave the firm, including Keurig Dr Pepper, the brewers of Shiner Bock beer and grocery chain H-E-B. Richards resigned from the firm soon thereafter. The agency handled advertising, public relations, and promotions for clients, in addition to sports/entertainment marketing for colleges and universities. In 2022, the agency changed its name to TRG in an attempt to distance itself from Stan Richards, and to signal a change in direction. The agency moved after Stan Richards and Scot Dykema, the manager of a partnership called SBR Holdings, which owned the building, sold it to a group of commercial real estate investors.

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# The Richards Group

**The Richards Group**, now known as **TRG**, is an advertising agency in Dallas, Texas. The company was recognized as an Adweek Agency of the Year in 1988, 1990, 1994, and 2002. TRG’s “We’ll leave the light on for you” radio campaign for Motel 6 was named one of the “Top 100 Ad Campaigns in American History” by Ad Age magazine before the agency lost the business due to a racism scandal. Its “Farmer” TV ad for Ram Trucks was one of the highest-scoring Super Bowl spots in USA Today’s 2013 “Ad Meter” ranking. The Chick-fil-A cows created by TRG were inducted into the Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame in 2007.

In October 2020, following racist comments made by the agency's founder, Stan Richards, the company lost two of its longtime clients, Motel 6 (34 years) and Home Depot (25 years); other clients also decided to leave the firm, including Keurig Dr Pepper, the brewers of Shiner Bock beer and grocery chain H-E-B. Richards (who had recently delegated most day-to-day management of the firm to his senior creative directors as part of a previously announced succession plan) resigned from the firm soon thereafter.

The agency handled advertising, public relations, and promotions for clients, in addition to sports/entertainment marketing for colleges and universities.

In 2022, the agency changed its name to TRG in an attempt to distance itself from Stan Richards, and to signal a change in direction. The agency moved after Stan Richards and Scot Dykema, the manager of a partnership called SBR Holdings, which owned the building, sold it to a group of commercial real estate investors.

## History

In 1953, Stan Richards began doing freelance design work in Dallas.

The company became a full-service advertising agency in 1976 and in 1986, Motel 6 was signed as a client.

In 2016, The Richards Group took AOR (agency of record) for Blue Bell Creameries. In 2018, Dish Network selected The Richards Group as its creative agency of record.

In 2020, The Richards Group and Motel 6 ended their relationship over racist remarks by the agency founder. Home Depot also dropped The Richards Group following the founder's racist remarks. Several other clients left The Richards Group after the racist comments.

In 2020, Stan Richards resigned from The Richards Group and Glenn Dady took over as the CEO. TRG projected an ad for Choctaw Casinos onto the Leaning Tower of Dallas.

In 2021, TRG hired Sue Batterton as the first Chief Creative Officer and Nikki Wilson as Chief Talent and Cultural Officer.

In 2022, The Richards Group rebranded to TRG relocated its headquarters from Uptown to The Stack, Hines’ office/retail project at 2700 Commerce in Deep Ellum. TRG hired a new chief financial officer, Michelle Gardner, to oversee the firm’s accounting team and worked with actor Ken Jeong to create a campaign for Thermacare.

In 2023, TRG created new spots for Dave’s Killer Bread, supporting second chance for incarcerated employees, and for Choctaw Casinos featuring former Dallas sports stars.

## InfoBox

The Richards Group
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| Trade name | TRG |
| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Advertising |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Founder | Stan Richards |
| Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Number of employees | 200+ |
| Website | trg.agency |


title: Douzelage

abstract: Douzelage is a town twinning association with one town from each of the member states of the European Union and the United Kingdom.

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# Douzelage

**Douzelage** is a town twinning association with one town from each of the member states of the European Union and the United Kingdom.

## Name

The name is a portmanteau of the French words "douze" for twelve and "jumelage" for twinning and stands for the twelve founder members, one for each European Union member state in 1991, when the Douzelage Charter was signed in Granville, France. Although the membership of the EU, and of the association, has grown, the name Douzelage has been kept unchanged.

## Aims and organisation

The aims of the Douzelage are to promote and foster the spirit of Europe and to establish among others educational, economic, tourist, sporting and cultural links between the towns for the mutual benefit of the inhabitants thereof. Douzelage is chaired by a president and two vice-presidents, all elected for a period of three years. The official language used is English, partially also French.

The Douzelage movement received European recognition in 1993 when it was honoured by the European Commission with the "Golden Stars of Twinning".

Following Brexit in 2020, the English town of Sherborne is no longer situated in an EU-member state. However, a 2018 Douzelage document states that the town "must not have any consequences related to the Brexit and continue as a member of Douzelage European Town Twinning", and as such has remained a member.

### Douzelage Youth

Douzelage Youth is a program that brings together young people from Douzelage member cities with a similar purpose to the main Douzelage organization.

## Members

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Founder member (1991)
Current member (joined 1997–2018)

Former member

The original 12 founding members were:

Towns that joined later are:

In a first step of further expansion, five new towns joined the Douzelage in harmony with the European enlargement process:

Since 2007, eight further towns have joined the organisation:

In 2016, Finland changed its member:

In 2018, Lithuania changed its member:


abstract: The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the original soundtrack album to the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, an adaptation of the 1973 musical The Rocky Horror Show. The 1975 soundtrack album was released by Ode Records and produced by Richard Hartley.

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# The Rocky Horror Picture Show (soundtrack)

***The Rocky Horror Picture Show*** is the original soundtrack album to the 1975 film *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*, an adaptation of the 1973 musical *The Rocky Horror Show*. The 1975 soundtrack album was released by Ode Records and produced by Richard Hartley.

## Release and reception

Professional ratings
| Review scores | |
| --- | --- |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  |

The album peaked at No. 49 on the *Billboard* 200 in 1978. It reached No. 12 on the Australian albums chart and No. 11 on the New Zealand albums chart. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic gave the album a retrospective star rating of five stars out of five and described it as the "definitive version of the \[*Rocky Horror*\] score". This version of the soundtrack was certified Gold by the RIAA on 23 February 1981.

Following its initial release, the album was not successful, and was deleted everywhere but in Canada. Marty Scott, co-founder of Jem Records, obtained a licensing agreement from Ode Records owner Lou Adler, which enabled the album to be imported to the United States. Scott also obtained a production and distribution license from Adler, which resulted in renewed interest in the album.

## Omitted songs

The original soundtrack release omits two songs sung in the film: Rocky's "The Sword of Damocles" and the Frank-N-Furter-led "Planet, Schmanet, Janet" (often referred to as "Wise Up, Janet Weiss"). Also omitted was "Once in a While", which was filmed but later cut.

All three songs were restored for the 25th anniversary release of the album (*25 Years of Absolute Pleasure*) however "Planet, Schmanet, Janet" lacks the final verse ("don't get hot and flustered") and they are in mono and ported directly from the film itself and so include all the sound effects and dialogue that would normally be omitted from a soundtrack album.

In 2011 these three songs were released, as MP3 format only, in their stereo, studio mixes on the download-only release *The Rocky Horror Picture Show Complete Soundtrack: Absolute Treasures 2011 Special Edition*. The 2011 album was later issued on double red vinyl for the film's 40th anniversary. However, incidental music and cues are not included and "The Sword of Damocles" features Brian Engel in place of Trevor White. The latter is included with Trevor White's vocals as a bonus track for the iTunes edition; this is the same version found on the "25 Years of Absolute Pleasure" release, albeit in stereo and contains the dialogue and sound effects from the film.

## Track listing

### Original 1975 release

All tracks are written by Richard O'Brien

Side one
| No. | Title | Performer | Length |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | "Science Fiction/Double Feature" | Richard O'Brien | 4:30 |
| 2. | "Dammit Janet" | Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon | 2:51 |
| 3. | "Over at the Frankenstein Place" | Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, Richard O'Brien | 2:37 |
| 4. | "Time Warp" | Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell | 3:15 |
| 5. | "Sweet Transvestite" | Tim Curry | 3:21 |
| 6. | "I Can Make You a Man" | Tim Curry | 2:07 |
| 7. | "Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul" | Meat Loaf | 3:00 |
| 8. | "I Can Make You a Man (Reprise)" | Tim Curry | 1:44 |

Side two
| No. | Title | Performer | Length |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" | Susan Sarandon, Little Nell, Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Brian Engel | 2:27 |
| 2. | "Eddie" | Jonathan Adams, Little Nell, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry | 2:44 |
| 3. | "Rose Tint My World":
a. "Floor Show"
b. "Fanfare/Don't Dream It"
c. "Wild and Untamed Thing" | Little Nell, Brian Engel, Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry, Jonathan Adams | 8:13 |
| 4. | "I'm Going Home" | Tim Curry | 2:48 |
| 5. | "Super Heroes" | Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, Charles Gray | 2:45 |
| 6. | "Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise)" | Richard O'Brien | 1:26 |

### Bonus tracks (1989 CD release)

1. "The Time Warp (Remix 1989 Extended Version)"
2. "The Time Warp (Music − 1 = Background Track + U Mix)"

### 25 Years of Absolute Pleasure (2000)

| No. | Title | Length |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | "Science Fiction/Double Feature" | 4:27 |
| 2. | "Dammit Janet" | 3:22 |
| 3. | "Over at the Frankenstein Place" | 3:59 |
| 4. | "Time Warp" | 4:29 |
| 5. | "Sweet Transvestite" | 4:06 |
| 6. | "Sword of Damocles" | 3:38 |
| 7. | "I Can Make You a Man" | 3:15 |
| 8. | "Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul" | 3:21 |
| 9. | "I Can Make You a Man (Reprise)" | 1:59 |
| 10. | "Once in a While" | 3:45 |
| 11. | "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" | 2:59 |
| 12. | "Eddie's Teddy" | 2:47 |
| 13. | "Planet, Schmanet, Janet" | 2:36 |
| 14. | "Rose Tint My World" | 2:51 |
| 15. | "Don't Dream It, Be It" | 3:36 |
| 16. | "Wild and Untamed Thing" | 1:51 |
| 17. | "I'm Going Home" | 2:57 |
| 18. | "Super Heroes" | 5:20 |
| 19. | "Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise)" | 1:30 |

### Absolute Treasures: 40th Anniversary Re-Mastered Edition (2015)

| No. | Title | Length |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | "Science Fiction/Double Feature" | 4:27 |
| 2. | "Dammit Janet" | 3:22 |
| 3. | "Over at the Frankenstein Place" | 3:59 |
| 4. | "Time Warp" | 4:29 |
| 5. | "Sweet Transvestite" | 4:06 |
| 6. | "Sword of Damocles" | 3:38 |
| 7. | "I Can Make You a Man" | 3:15 |
| 8. | "Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul" | 3:21 |
| 9. | "I Can Make You a Man (Reprise)" | 1:59 |
| 10. | "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" | 2:59 |
| 11. | "Once in a While" | 3:45 |
| 12. | "Eddie" | 2:47 |
| 13. | "Planet, Schmanet, Janet" | 2:36 |
| 14. | "Planet Hot Dog" | 0:40 |
| 15. | "Rose Tint My World" | 2:51 |
| 16. | "Fanfare/ Don't Dream It, Be It" | 3:36 |
| 17. | "Wild and Untamed Thing" | 1:51 |
| 18. | "I'm Going Home" | 2:57 |
| 19. | "Super Heroes" | 5:20 |
| 20. | "Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise)" | 1:30 |

## Personnel

### Cast

* Tim Curry \- lead vocals (5, 7, 9, 13, 16, 18), co-lead vocals (12), spoken word (11)
* Richard O'Brien \- lead vocals (1, 4,) co-lead vocals (3), backing vocals (2, 5, 12), spoken word (11)
* Patricia Quinn \- co-lead vocals (4, 11), backing vocals (2, 5, 11), spoken word (11)
* Barry Bostwick \- vocals (2, 3, 10, 14, 15), spoken word (5, 10, 13), backing vocals (11, 16)
* Susan Sarandon \- vocals (2, 3, 9, 11, 15) backing vocals (12, 16), screaming (13)
* Little Nell \- co-lead vocals (4, 10, 12, 15), backing vocals (5)
* Trevor White \- dubbed vocals (6), dubbed co-lead vocals (15), backing vocals (12), spoken word (11)
* Charles Gray \- spoken word (4, 12, 13)
* Meat Loaf \- lead vocals (8), spoken word (11)
* Peter Hinwood \- lip-synced lead vocals (6), lip-synced co-lead vocals (15), lip-synced spoken word (11) (film version)
* Jonathan Adams \- spoken words (12, 13, 16), vocals (12, 14)

### Musicians

As announced by video game developer/publisher Activision in a press release on 12 October 2010, "Time Warp", "Sweet Transvestite", and "Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul" were released for the game *Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock* as downloadable content on 26 October.

## Charts

The album initially charted in the US in 1978; however, in 2010, following the "Rocky Horror Glee Show" episode of *Glee*, the album re-entered the *Billboard* 200 at number 55.

| Chart (1976–1986) | Peak
position |
| --- | --- |
| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) | 12 |
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) | 8 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) | 11 |
| US *Billboard* 200 | 49 |
| Chart (2010) | Peak
position |
| US *Billboard* 200 | 55 |
| US *Billboard* Top Soundtracks | 4 |
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## Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia (ARIA) | Gold | 35,000^ |
| ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
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## InfoBox

| The Rocky Horror Picture Show | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Soundtrack album by various artists | |
| Released | 1975 |
| Genre |  |
| Length | 45:04 |
| Label | Ode |
| Producer | Richard Hartley |
| *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* soundtracks chronology | |
| ***The Rocky Horror Picture Show***
(1975) *The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again*
(2016) | |