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1600213 | Genkernel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genkernel | Genkernel
have to configure and build your own kernel during the installation of Gentoo, this can be a problem for new Linux users. Experienced Linux users generally prefer to configure and build their kernel manually, because genkernel tries to configure the kernel as safely as possible which causes the kernel to grow... | 25,300 |
1600213 | Genkernel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genkernel | Genkernel
ely as possible which causes the kernel to grow very large. However, one can choose to use a custom kernel configuration and use genkernel to compile it, and still benefit from other features such as the initramfs builder.
# Genkernel modes.
- "all" - Build kernel, all modules, and create the initramfs.
- ... | 25,301 |
1600241 | Prisoners' rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prisoners'%20rights | Prisoners' rights
Prisoners' rights
The rights of civilian and military prisoners are governed by both national and international law. International conventions include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the United Nations' Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, the European Committee for... | 25,302 |
1600241 | Prisoners' rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prisoners'%20rights | Prisoners' rights
all possibly executive means of reform before filing for litigation, restricts the normal procedure of having the losing defendant pay legal fees (thus making fewer lawyers willing to represent a prisoner), allows for the courts to dismiss cases as "frivolous" or "malicious", and requires prisoners to... | 25,303 |
1600241 | Prisoners' rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prisoners'%20rights | Prisoners' rights
tional
- Death in custody
- LGBT people in prison
- November Coalition
- Penal Reform International
- Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP)
- Prisoners' Union
- Prison abolition movement
- Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
- Sentencing disparity
- Prisoners' righ... | 25,304 |
1600230 | Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liberalism%20Is%20a%20Mental%20Disorder | Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions is the 20th book written by conservative radio personality Michael Savage.
In the book, Michael Savage accuses liberals and leftists of making political moves that undermine the basic tenets of American l... | 25,305 |
1600230 | Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liberalism%20Is%20a%20Mental%20Disorder | Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
its release on April 12, 2005.
# Overview (categorized by chapter).
- 1. Savage first discusses George W. Bush’s actions in the War in Iraq. He suggests that, the U.S. could free Iraq and move out. Savage uses a comparison to George S. Patton for his plan. He concludes that with the wa... | 25,306 |
1600230 | Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liberalism%20Is%20a%20Mental%20Disorder | Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
Islamists Islamofascists, and points out that they have indeed become a large threat in recent years.
- 3. The author then addresses illegal immigration. According to his estimates, over 12 million people entered the United States illegally each year for the past several years. Even in ... | 25,307 |
1600230 | Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liberalism%20Is%20a%20Mental%20Disorder | Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
in the U.S. are unnecessary. One of his examples is "Seong Sil Kim v. NYCTA", in which Seong Sil Kim was awarded $9.9 million because she stood in front of a train to commit suicide and injured her hand in doing so. Savage alleges that approximately 80% of doctors order unneeded tests an... | 25,308 |
1600230 | Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liberalism%20Is%20a%20Mental%20Disorder | Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
criticizes Arafat's posthumous media profile as "innovative" and "freedom fighter'". Savage also criticizes Arafat for reportedly hiding away billions of dollars that came from different countries that was to help the Palestinian people.
- 6. Savage criticizes groups such as the ACLU (A... | 25,309 |
1600224 | Team Love Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Team%20Love%20Records | Team Love Records
Team Love Records
Team Love is an independent record label based in New Paltz, New York, founded by Conor Oberst and Nate Krenkel in 2003. It has released albums by musicians including Tilly and the Wall, Jenny Lewis, David Dondero, Craig Wedren, Capgun Coup, Gruff Rhys, A Weather, Mars Black, Shudde... | 25,310 |
1600224 | Team Love Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Team%20Love%20Records | Team Love Records
tactic of Team Love has been complete albums for download in unprotected mp3 format at no cost on their website in addition to traditional record and CD sales. This practice evolved into what is now known as The Team Love Library.
# History.
## Formation.
The label was founded in 2003 in part due t... | 25,311 |
1600224 | Team Love Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Team%20Love%20Records | Team Love Records
Alliance.
## Early years.
Team Love's first release was Tilly and the Wall's "Wild Like Children" on June 22, 2004. In 2006, Team Love released Jenny Lewis' solo debut with The Watson Twins and later the Tilly and the Wall follow-up "Bottoms of Barrels". The year before, it put out records by David ... | 25,312 |
1600224 | Team Love Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Team%20Love%20Records | Team Love Records
Team Love released Candylion by Super Furry Animals', frontman Gruff Rhys, a live album by art-rock band Shudder To Think, and a remix EP for the Tilly and the Wall single Love Riot, taken from the band's 4th studio album Heavy Mood (2012) which included remixes by Cycad and Distal.
## Relocation (20... | 25,313 |
1600224 | Team Love Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Team%20Love%20Records | Team Love Records
2012 the label released the four band compilation album Die Pfalz which featured local artists from the Hudson Valley including Breakfast In Fur, Shana Falana, Bloodletters and electronic artist Cycad.
Also notably, Krenkel was a former A&R representative for 8 years with Sony/ATV Publishing before l... | 25,314 |
1600224 | Team Love Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Team%20Love%20Records | Team Love Records
ve. He was responsible for signing singer/songwriter Jesse Harris to Sony ATV Music Publishing, who was the main songwriter for Norah Jones' debut album "Come Away with Me", winning a Grammy for Song of the Year for her first hit Don't Know Why. In 2012 Krenkel acquired Full ownership of Team Love.
T... | 25,315 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston
Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor, producer, director, screenwriter, and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Walter White on the AMC series "Breaking Bad" (2008–2013), Hal on the Fox sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle" (2000–2006), and Dr. Tim Whatley on the ... | 25,316 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
Spy" during the 1960s. After becoming a producer of the show in 2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice. He was previously nominated three times for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in "Malcolm in the Middle". "Breaking Bad" earned Cranston five Gold... | 25,317 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Howard Beale in "Network" at London's National Theatre, later winning his second Tony Award for playing the role on Broadway. For the film "Trumbo" (2015), he received widespread acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.... | 25,318 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
crime drama "Sneaky Pete".
# Early life.
Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956, in Hollywood, California, the second of three children born to Annalisa (née Sell; 1923–2004), a radio actress, and Joseph Louis Cranston (1924–2014), an actor and former amateur boxer. His father was of Austrian-Jew... | 25,319 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
did not see each other again until a 22-year-old Cranston and his brother Kyle decided to track him down. He then maintained a relationship with his father until his father's death in 2014.
Cranston has claimed that he based his portrayal of Walter White on his own father, who had a slumped posture "lik... | 25,320 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
horses with his cousin at the Spahn Ranch. This happened about a year before Manson ordered the Tate-LaBianca murders. Cranston graduated from Canoga Park High School, where he was a member of the school's chemistry club, and earned an associate's degree in police science from Los Angeles Valley College ... | 25,321 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
by the Universal Life Church, and performed weddings for $150 a service to help with his income. He also worked as a waiter, night-shift security guard at the gates of a private LA community, truck loader, camera operator for a video dating service, and CCTV security guard at a supermarket. He started wo... | 25,322 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
including "Macross Plus" and "Armitage III: Poly-Matrix", and most notably, "" as Fei-Long, and the children's series "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers". Cranston did voice work for the 1993-94 first season of that series, playing characters such as Twin Man and Snizzard, for which he was paid about $50 an h... | 25,323 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
"That Thing You Do!"
In 1997, he played a supporting role in the Michael Dudikoff action vehicle, the air hijack picture "Strategic Command," with alongside Richard Norton, Paul Winfield, and Stephen Quadros. Later that year he had a small role in "Babylon 5" as Ericsson, a starship captain who sacrific... | 25,324 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
King of Queens", playing Doug Heffernan's neighbor, Tim Sacksky.
In 1998, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan", as one-armed War Department Colonel I.W. Bryce, who reported to General George Marshall that Private Ryan was the last survivor of his brothers, and his assumed location. Hi... | 25,325 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
ended up directing several episodes of the show and received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performance. Cranston reprised his role in a cutaway gag during the "Family Guy" episode "I Take Thee Quagmire", killing Lois (his wife on "Malcolm in the Middle") with a refrigerator door, and in ... | 25,326 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
sonar waves in "The X-Files" episode "Drive". He also had a guest role in late 2006 on the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", playing Ted Mosby's obnoxious co-worker and former boss Hammond Druthers. He played Lucifer in the ABC Family miniseries "Fallen" and appeared as Nick Wrigley, an irresponsible u... | 25,327 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
narrated a pre-teen adventure/fantasy audiobook called "Adventures with Kazmir the Flying Camel".
## "Breaking Bad" to the present.
From 2008 to 2013, Cranston starred in the AMC series "Breaking Bad", created by Vince Gilligan, in which he played Walter White, a high-school chemistry teacher who is di... | 25,328 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
seasons and being nominated in 2012 and 2013 for seasons four and five (winning again in 2014 for the second half of season 5). Cranston and Bill Cosby are the only actors to have won the award three consecutive times. Cranston was also a producer for the fourth and fifth seasons of the series, and direc... | 25,329 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
also lent his voice to several episodes of the animated series "Robot Chicken". In 2012, he starred in the remake of the 1990 film "Total Recall", as Chancellor Vilos Cohaagen, the corrupted president of a fictional war-ravaged United Federation of Britain. In the same year, he made a guest appearance as... | 25,330 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
in a Play for the role. He also played scientist Joe Brody in the 2014 reboot of "Godzilla".
Cranston has produced an instructional DVD called "KidSmartz", which is designed to teach families how to stay safe from child abductors and Internet predators. "KidSmartz" raises money for the National Center f... | 25,331 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
producer on the series.
On July 16, 2014, it was announced that Cranston would star in an HBO adaptation of his hit play "All the Way". Steven Spielberg was set to be an executive producer on the film. Following the film's premiere on May 21, 2016, Cranston's performance was widely praised by critics, g... | 25,332 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
Cranston's memoir, "A Life in Parts", was published on October 11, 2016, became a "New York Times" bestseller, and received positive reviews. In 2017, he voiced Zordon in Lionsgate's "Power Rangers", which marked his return to the franchise after providing voices for the series' first season.
Cranston s... | 25,333 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
best lead actor in a play.
In 2017, he acted the role of Phillip Lacasse, a wealthy paraplegic in the movie "The Upside" along with Kevin Hart and Nicole Kidman. The film had scheduled a release in 2018, but was delayed because of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations scandal. It was eventually ... | 25,334 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
in season 10 of NBC's "Will & Grace" along with David Schwimmer and Courteney Cox.
Starting in October 2018, Cranston became the voice for a new series of Ford commercials featuring the tagline 'Built Ford Proud'.
# Charity work.
In April 2014, Cranston presented at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS E... | 25,335 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
he held at gunpoint. Their daughter, Taylor Dearden Cranston (born February 12, 1993), is a theatre studies student at the University of Southern California and played an extra in the "Breaking Bad" episode "No Más", directed by her father. She played Ophelia Mayer in "Sweet/Vicious".
Cranston played ba... | 25,336 |
1600208 | Bryan Cranston | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bryan%20Cranston | Bryan Cranston
ch house in Ventura County, California, which Cranston designed. While filming "Breaking Bad", Cranston lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was a co-owner of the former independent theater Cinemas Palme d'Or in Palm Desert, California.
To commemorate the final episode of "Breaking Bad", Cranston and ca... | 25,337 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
The Royal Opera
The Royal Opera is a company based in central London, resident at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Along with the English National Opera, it is one of the two principal opera companies in London. Founded in 1946 as the Covent Garden Opera Company, it was known by that title until 1... | 25,338 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
original language. From the outset, performers have comprised a mixture of British and Commonwealth singers and international guest stars, but fostering the careers of singers from within the company was a consistent policy of the early years. Among the many guest performers have been Maria Callas, Plác... | 25,339 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
by the grant of the title "The Royal Opera" in 1968. Under Webster's successor, John Tooley, appointed in 1970, The Royal Opera prospered, but after his retirement in 1988, there followed a period of instability and the closure of the Royal Opera House for rebuilding and restoration between 1997 and 199... | 25,340 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
Opera company. After a fire, the new building opened in 1858 with The Royal English Opera company, which moved there from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. From the 1860s until the Second World War, various syndicates or individual impresarios presented short seasons of opera at the Royal Opera House (so n... | 25,341 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
publishers Boosey and Hawkes to see if they were interested in taking a lease of the building and staging opera (and ballet) once more. Boosey and Hawkes took a lease, and granted a sub-lease at generous terms to a not-for-profit charitable trust established to run the operation. The chairman of the tru... | 25,342 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
opera all year round, in English with a resident company. It was widely assumed that this aim would be met by inviting the existing Sadler's Wells Opera Company to become resident at the Royal Opera House. Webster successfully extended just such an invitation to the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, but he... | 25,343 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
from scratch. He negotiated with Bruno Walter and Eugene Goossens, but neither of those conductors was willing to consider an opera company with no leading international stars. Webster appointed a little-known Austrian, Karl Rankl, to the post. Before the war, Rankl had acquired considerable experience ... | 25,344 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
1946. The first production by the opera company alone was "Carmen", on 14 January 1947. Reviews were favourable. "The Times" said:
All the members of the cast for the production were from Britain or the Commonwealth. Later in the season, one of England's few pre-war international opera stars, Eva Turne... | 25,345 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
even as early as 1948, the opera in English policy was weakening; the company was obliged to present some Wagner performances in German to recruit leading exponents of the main roles. At first Rankl conducted all the productions; he was dismayed when eminent guest conductors including Beecham, Clemens K... | 25,346 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
performance at two shillings and sixpence. In addition to the standard operatic repertory, the company presented operas by living composers such as Britten, Vaughan Williams, Bliss, and, later, Walton. The young stage director Peter Brook was put in charge of productions, bringing a fresh and sometimes ... | 25,347 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
Kubelík. Kubelík announced immediately that he was in favour of continuing the policy of singing in the vernacular: "Everything that the composer has written should be understood by the audience; and that is not possible if the opera is sung in a language with which they are not familiar". This provoked... | 25,348 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
much sought after by overseas opera houses. Among them were Joan Carlyle, Marie Collier, Geraint Evans, Michael Langdon, Elsie Morison, Amy Shuard, Joan Sutherland, Josephine Veasey and Jon Vickers. Nevertheless, as Lords Goodman and Harewood put it in a 1969 report for the Arts Council, "[A]s time went... | 25,349 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
and Birgit Nilsson. Kubelík introduced Janáček's "Jenůfa" to British audiences, sung in English by a mostly British cast.
The verdict of the public on whether operas should be given in translation or the original was clear. In 1959, the opera house stated in its annual report, "[T]he percentage attenda... | 25,350 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
the genius of British institutions for undisturbed change: it continued to pay lip service to a policy that it increasingly ignored".
By the end of the 1950s, Covent Garden was generally regarded as approaching the excellence of the world's greatest opera companies. Its sister ballet company had achiev... | 25,351 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
and conducted by Kubelík. "The Times" commented, "It has never been a success; but it is now". In 1958 the present theatre's centenary was marked by Luchino Visconti's production of Verdi's "Don Carlos", with Vickers, Gobbi, Christoff, Gré Brouwenstijn and Fedora Barbieri, conducted by Carlo Maria Giuli... | 25,352 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
musical director from the 1961 season onwards. With his previous experience in charge of the Munich and Frankfurt opera houses, he was at first uncertain that Covent Garden, not yet consistently reaching the top international level, was a post he wanted. Bruno Walter persuaded him otherwise, and he took... | 25,353 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
artists. Among those who came to prominence during the decade were Gwyneth Jones and Peter Glossop. Solti demonstrated his belief in vernacular opera with a triple bill in English of "L'heure espagnole", "Erwartung" and "Gianni Schicchi". Nevertheless, Solti and Webster had to take into account the comp... | 25,354 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
system of scheduling performances, rather than the traditional repertory system. By 1967, "The Times" said, "Patrons of Covent Garden today automatically expect any new production, and indeed any revival, to be as strongly cast as anything at the Met in New York, and as carefully presented as anything i... | 25,355 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
the opera house then as now), and works by Gluck ("Iphigénie en Tauride"), Poulenc ("The Carmelites"), Ravel ("L'heure espagnole") and Tippett ("King Priam"). There was also a celebrated production of Schoenberg's "Moses and Aaron" in the 1965–66 and 1966–67 seasons. In the mainstream repertoire, a high... | 25,356 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
away from the Royal Opera House. Touring within Britain was limited to centres with large enough theatres to accommodate the company's productions, but in 1964 the company gave a concert performance of "Otello" at the Proms in London. Thereafter an annual appearance at the Proms was a regular feature of... | 25,357 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
James Callaghan, the Queen conferred the title "The Royal Opera" on the company. It was the third stage company in the UK to be so honoured, following the Royal Ballet and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
## 1970 to 1986.
Webster retired in June 1970. The music critic Charles Osborne wrote, "When he ret... | 25,358 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
advance that Davis would work in tandem with Peter Hall, appointed director of productions. Peter Brook had briefly held that title in the company's early days, but in general the managerial structure of the opera company differed markedly from that of the ballet. The latter had always had its own direc... | 25,359 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
going instead to run the National Theatre. His defection, and the departure to Australian Opera of the staff conductor Edward Downes, a noted Verdi expert, left the company weakened on both production and musical sides.
Like his predecessors, Davis experienced hostility from sections of the audience in... | 25,360 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
by its chairman, Lord Drogheda. Davis's Mozart was generally admired; he received much praise for reviving the little-known "La clemenza di Tito" in 1974. Among his other successes were "The Trojans" and "Benvenuto Cellini".
Under Davis, the opera house introduced promenade performances, giving, as Ber... | 25,361 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
for new productions". Unlike Rankl, and like Solti, Davis wanted the world's best conductors to come to Covent Garden. He ceded the baton to guests for new productions including "Der Rosenkavalier", "Rigoletto" and "Aida". In "The Times", John Higgins wrote, "One of the hallmarks of the Davis regime was... | 25,362 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
Abbado conducting "Un ballo in maschera" (1975), starring Plácido Domingo and Katia Ricciarelli.
In addition to the standard repertoire, Davis conducted such operas as Berg's "Lulu" and "Wozzeck", Tippett's "The Knot Garden" and "The Ice Break", and Alexander Zemlinsky's "Der Zwerg" and "Eine florentin... | 25,363 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
history, closed in July 1986 not with a gala, but, at his insistence, with a promenade performance of "Fidelio" with cheap admission prices.
## 1987 to 2002.
To succeed Davis, the Covent Garden board chose Bernard Haitink, who was then the musical director of the Glyndebourne Festival. He was highly r... | 25,364 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
with the Russian director Yuri Lyubimov could not be completed, a substitute staging of the cycle directed by Götz Friedrich was well received. Musically and dramatically the company prospered into the 1990s. A 1993 production of "Die Meistersinger", conducted by Haitink and starring John Tomlinson, Tho... | 25,365 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
executive Jeremy Isaacs. Tooley later forsook his customary reticence and pronounced the Isaacs period a disaster, citing poor management that failed to control inflated manning levels with a consequent steep rise in costs and ticket prices. The uneasy relations between Isaacs and his colleagues, notabl... | 25,366 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
and the running of the theatre. "The Daily Telegraph" commented, "For years, the Opera House was a byword for mismanagement and chaos. Its innermost workings were exposed to public ridicule by the BBC fly-on-the-wall series "The House"".
In 1995, The Royal Opera announced a "Verdi Festival", of which t... | 25,367 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
The festival did not manage to stage a complete Verdi cycle; the closure of the opera house disrupted many plans, but as "The Guardian" put it, "Downes still managed to introduce, either under his own baton or that of others, most of the major works and many of the minor ones by the Italian master."
Th... | 25,368 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
door to the opera house, pinning his hopes on a proposed new temporary building on London's South Bank. That scheme was refused planning permission, leaving the opera and ballet companies homeless. Isaacs resigned in December 1996, nine months before the expiry of his contract. Haitink, dismayed by even... | 25,369 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
managerial instability, with three chief executives in three years. Isaacs's successor, Genista McIntosh, resigned in May 1997 after five months, citing ill-health. Her post was filled by Mary Allen, who moved into the job from the Arts Council. Allen's selection did not comply with the Council's rules ... | 25,370 |
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the opera house. He was widely regarded as a success, and there was some surprise when he left in June 2000 after less than two years to run the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
The last operatic music to be heard in the old house had been the finale of "Falstaff", conducted by Solti with the singers... | 25,371 |
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appointment in May 2001 of a new chief executive, Tony Hall, formerly a senior executive at the BBC. The following year Antonio Pappano succeeded Haitink as music director of The Royal Opera. Following the redevelopment, a second, smaller auditorium, the Linbury Studio Theatre has been made available fo... | 25,372 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
opera.
In addition to the standard works of the operatic repertoire, The Royal Opera has presented many less well known pieces since 2002, including Cilea's "Adriana Lecouvreur", Massenet's "Cendrillon", Prokofiev's "The Gambler", Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tsar's Bride", Rossini's "Il turco in Italia", St... | 25,373 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
begun in 2004 and staged as a complete tetralogy in 2007, was praised like Haitink's before it for its musical excellence; it was staged in a production described by Richard Morrison in "The Times" as "much derided for mixing the homely … the wacky and the cosmic". During Pappano's tenure, his predecess... | 25,374 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager and Gerald Finley.
The company visited Japan in 2010, presenting a new production of "Manon" and the Eyre production of "La traviata". While the main company was abroad, a smaller company remained in London, presenting "Niobe", "Così fan tutte" and "Don Pasquale" at C... | 25,375 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
its counterpart in Munich.
In the latter part of the 2000s The Royal Opera gave an average of 150 performances each season, lasting from September to July, of about 20 operas, nearly half of which were new productions. Productions in the 2011–12 season included a new opera ("Miss Fortune") by Judith We... | 25,376 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
House, was closed. Responsibility for contemporary programming was split between the Studio programmes of The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet.
Since the start of the 2012–13 season The Royal Opera has continued to mount around 20 productions and around seven new productions each season. The 2012–13 se... | 25,377 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
world premiere of David Bruce's "The Firework-Maker's Daughter" (inspired by Philip Pullman's novel of the same name), directed by Fulljames, and the UK stage premiere of Gerald Barry's "The Importance of Being Earnest", directed by Ramin Gray.
New productions in the 2013–14 season included "Les vêpres... | 25,378 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
also saw the first production of a three-year collaboration between The Royal Opera and Welsh National Opera, staging "Moses und Aron" in 2014, Richard Ayre's "Peter Pan" in 2015 and a new commission in 2016 to celebrate WNO's 70th anniversary. Other events this season included The Royal Opera's first c... | 25,379 |
1600199 | The Royal Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Royal%20Opera | The Royal Opera
on of a three-year collaboration between The Royal Opera and Welsh National Opera, staging "Moses und Aron" in 2014, Richard Ayre's "Peter Pan" in 2015 and a new commission in 2016 to celebrate WNO's 70th anniversary. Other events this season included The Royal Opera's first collaboration with Shakespea... | 25,380 |
1600248 | Crewman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crewman | Crewman
Crewman
Crewman is a generic term for a crew member serving in the operation of an aircraft, naval vessel, or train. The term may also refer to individuals serving in a military capacity on weapon system platforms, such as those operating a tank.
In some science fiction (most notably "Star Trek"), crewman is ... | 25,381 |
1600249 | Samuel Merritt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel%20Merritt | Samuel Merritt
Samuel Merritt
Dr. Samuel Merritt (1822–1890) was a San Francisco physician and also the 13th mayor of Oakland, California, from 1867–69.
Merritt was originally from Maine and moved to California. He bought land in what is now the city of Oakland in 1852 and moved there in 1863.
In 1867, he donated 15... | 25,382 |
1600249 | Samuel Merritt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel%20Merritt | Samuel Merritt
. He bought land in what is now the city of Oakland in 1852 and moved there in 1863.
In 1867, he donated 155 acres (627,000 m) of dammed tidal water from the headwaters of Indian Slough, which became known first as "Merritt's Lake" and later known as Lake Merritt.
He left plans for a hospital and nursi... | 25,383 |
1600260 | California State Route 261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%20261 | California State Route 261
California State Route 261
State Route 261 (SR 261) is state highway in the U.S. state of California that is part of the Eastern Transportation Corridor toll road system in Orange County. It runs from Walnut Avenue and Jamboree Road in Irvine to State Route 241, another highway of the Easter... | 25,384 |
1600260 | California State Route 261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%20261 | California State Route 261
border of Irvine and Tustin, before going through a toll plaza after the Irvine Boulevard interchange. Following this is the Portola Parkway exit, after which SR 261 briefly enters the city of Orange and has an interchange with Santiago Canyon Road (CR S18). In the middle of this interchange,... | 25,385 |
1600260 | California State Route 261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%20261 | California State Route 261
1988; it was a route from I-5 around the Tustin–Irvine boundary to SR 91. In 1991, the Legislature renumbered part of SR 231 to be SR 261. Five years later, SR 231 was renumbered to SR 241, and the southern terminus with I-5 was changed to become Walnut Avenue.
# Tolls.
SR 261 employs a bar... | 25,386 |
1600260 | California State Route 261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%20261 | California State Route 261
toll collection system. Patrons paying by cash are charged a more expensive rate.
Since May 13, 2014, the road has been using an all-electronic, open road tolling system; cash is no longer being accepted. Drivers may pay using the FasTrak electronic toll collection system, license plate toll... | 25,387 |
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olling (under Transportation Corridor Agencies's brand name "ExpressAccount"), or via a one time payment online. Those using FasTrak are charged a lower toll than those using the other two methods. Drivers must pay within 5 days after their trip on the toll road or they will be assessed a tol... | 25,388 |
1600253 | FM Consolidated line | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FM%20Consolidated%20line | FM Consolidated line
FM Consolidated line
The Consolidated line, or C-line, was a series of diesel-electric railway locomotive designs produced by Fairbanks-Morse and its Canadian licensee, the Canadian Locomotive Company. Individual locomotives in this series were commonly referred to as “C-liners”. A combined total ... | 25,389 |
1600253 | FM Consolidated line | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FM%20Consolidated%20line | FM Consolidated line
Road, and a few other lines. Additionally, two of the 5 × 6s were placed in an experimental center cab switcher locomotive under development by the Reading Railroad (road #87, built in 1939 by the St. Louis Car Company, or SLCC, and scrapped in 1953). A 5 x 6 powered the plant switcher at F-M's Bel... | 25,390 |
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had yet to produce a railroad road locomotive, or any locomotive prior to the 1944 switcher which was built several years after its conception; all other locomotive producers, except for General Motors (and a few others who manufactured small industrial locomotives), were forced by the government t... | 25,391 |
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aging steam locomotives and sought to replace them with state-of-the-art diesel locomotives at an ever-increasing rate due to the impossible economics of steam propulsion. Fairbanks-Morse, along with its competing firms, sought to capitalize on this new market opportunity.
In December 1945 F-M pro... | 25,392 |
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retained the services of renowned industrial designer Raymond Loewy to create a visually impressive carbody for the Erie-built. The line was only moderately successful, as a total of 82 cab and 28 booster units was sold through 1949, when production was ended. A nine-month strike by the Beloit, WI ... | 25,393 |
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on a common carbody, but the customer could choose cab or booster units equipped with , , or opposed piston engine prime movers. Each option was also offered in both passenger and freight configurations.
All freight units, and the CLC-built Model CPA/B-16-4 were designed with a B-B wheel arrangeme... | 25,394 |
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(CPA-16-5 #6700–6705 and CPB-16-5 #6800–6805) had General Electric equipment and lacked dynamic brakes.
# Failure in the marketplace.
Orders for the C-liners were initially received from the New York Central, followed by the Long Island Rail Road, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Milwaukee Road and... | 25,395 |
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usually due to cooling problems, and proved difficult to maintain. Moreover, railroads were quickly moving away from cab unit designs, and standardizing on road-switcher designs, as offered by the competition in the form of the EMD GP7 or the ALCO RS-3 and even the Baldwin DRS-4-4-1500.
By 1952, o... | 25,396 |
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equipment market, in part because of the generator reliability issues in the F-M units. This development made continuing production of the C-liners impractical without a redesign, and since marketplace acceptance was already marginal, the decision was made to end production.
With the Train Master ... | 25,397 |
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d Fairbanks-Morse departed the locomotive market.
# Units produced by Fairbanks-Morse (1950–1953).
## Passenger units.
### CPA-20-5 (cabs).
LIRR numbers 2001-2008
# References.
## Bibliography.
- Boudreau, Bob. (1999). "Building a C-Liner in HO Scale." "Model Railroader" 66 (4) 76–79.
- Mor... | 25,398 |
1600286 | Interstate 305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interstate%20305 | Interstate 305
Interstate 305
Interstate 305 may refer to:
- Interstate 305 (California), an unsigned designation for U.S. Route 50 and Interstate 80 Business in West Sacramento and Sacramento, California
- Interstate 305 (Oregon), an unbuilt auxiliary designation for Oregon Route 99E Business in Salem, Oregon | 25,399 |
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