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He went to St Martin’s School of Art in London, but dropped out. He then gained a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1960 but said he had been so hungry, he could hardly deliver his lines. |
It was not until 1978 that Hurt was recognised as one of cinema’s best character actors, gaining an Oscar nomination for his performance as a heroin addict in Alan Parker’s Midnight Express. |
In 1979, he then starred as Kane in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror Alien. in The death of his character has often been voted as one of cinema’s most memorable moments. |
The film critic and historian Geoff Andrew once asked Hurt how he managed to regularly turn in such memorable performances. |
“The only way I can describe it is that I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine,” he said. |
“How that process happens, I’m sorry to tell you I can’t describe.” |
Read more about Sir John Hurt’s life here |
Sir John was also known for his off-screen antics, with his drinking splashed across newspapers. |
He once even lunged at a pack of paparazzi at a Bafta awards ceremony. |
But he said that age had mellowed him and he admitted to being happier sitting with his painting easels than being out on the town. |
Media captionJohn Hurt told Desert Island Discs about how he discovered his love of acting. He was speaking to Roy Plomley in 1984. |
Sir John was married four times. His first marriage to actress Annette Robertson lasted two years in the 1960s. In 1968 he started a relationship with the “love of his life” Marie Lise Volpeliere-Porrot – it ended 15 years later when she was killed in a riding accident. |
The following year he married US actress Donna Peacock but the couple divorced four years later, although they remained good friends. He married his third wife Jo Dalton in 1990 and they had two sons. They divorced in 1995. |
In 2005, he wed Anwen Rees-Myers, a former actress and classical pianist, who was with him until his death. |
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Image caption Sir John with his fourth wife Anwen and his two sons, Nicholas and Alexander, from a previous marriage |
Sir John was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama. |
After his cancer diagnosis the same year, he told the Radio Times: “I can’t say I worry about mortality, but it’s impossible to get to my age and not have a little contemplation of it. |
“We’re all just passing time, and occupy our chair very briefly.” |
In 2013, he appeared in Doctor Who as the War Doctor, a hitherto unseen incarnation of the character. |
He was still working up until his death, starring in Jackie Kennedy biopic Jackie, thriller Damascus Cover and the upcoming biopic of boxer Lenny McLean, My Name Is Lenny. |
He was also filming Darkest Hour, in which he starred as Neville Chamberlain opposite Gary Oldman’s Winston Churchill, scheduled to be released in December.<eot>Are modifications to asynchronous cache stores coalesced or aggregated? - Infinispan 5.1 - Project Documentation Editor for your Wiki! |
Are modifications to asynchronous cache stores coalesced or aggregated? |
Before 4.0.0.Beta1, cache store modifications were queued in such way that a modification processor thread would empty the modification queue and apply each modification individually. This implementation was not able to detect multiple changes for the same key within the queue which meant that if the queue contained 10 modifications for the same key, it would apply all 10 modifications individually. |
Since 4.0.0.Beta1 (ISPN-116), modifications are coalesced or aggregated for the interval that the modification processor thread is currently applying. This means that while changes are being queued, if multiple modifications are made to the same key, only the key's last state will be applied, hence reducing the number of calls to the cache store.<eot>I Miss My Biffy | Hazelnut Pie |
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I miss my boyfriend very much. He balances me. He comforts me. He is the person I need in my life. He is not perfect, but he is still the perfect person for me. I cannot imagine a better match. Sometimes you have that one person whom you know you need more than anyone else. |
Anyway, I read this little article "11 Gross Signs You've Reached Peak Comfort Levels in Your Relationship," and I was reminded of my precious relationship with my person. Funny gross stuff aside, over the past three years, he has seen me at my absolute worst and most disgusting. I mean, he helped me walk to the bathroom every five minutes when I went septic from an effing urinary tract infection. He still thinks I'm attractive after seeing me in a hospital gown, with oxygen tubes in my nose, having gone a week without showering. I wouldn't even look at myself in the mirror at that point. |
But really I just wanted to share the last part of the article because of how perfectly accurate it is: |
"Ten minutes ago, your boyfriend literally Dutch-ovened you with his farts, and now your bra is off and you're ready to pounce him. How is this possible? |
This truly must be what love is." |
Posted in Melancholy, Romanticism | Tagged Love, Poetry, Relationship, Romance, Sadness, Sonnet, Urinary Tract Infection<eot>EXPERT INSIGHTS INTO COMBATTING THE PULL OF AUCKLAND AND GETTING THE REGIONS HUMMINGLoss of jobs, loss of young people, the ageing demographic, the apparently irresistible magnet of Auckland ...the economic fortunes of New Zealand's regions are of great concern to politicians, the business community, schools, employers - and indeed most citizens. What is the dynamic at work here? Is there a remedy? Is there a silver lining? What works? What doesn't? What are the smart regions doing that shows promise? This collection of expert articles addresses the issues facing our regions and investigates the reasons for population loss. Often those solutions involve facing up to the fact that decline is inevitable and unavoidable - and then coming up with smart new plans and policies that accept that the end of growth does not have to mean the end of prosperity.Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley is one of New Zealand's leading academics and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He joined the Massey staff in 1979 and was, until becoming Pro Vice-Chancellor in October 2013, the College's Research Director and Auckland Regional Director. |
He has led numerous externally funded research programmes, including the Ministry of Science and Innovation's $3.2 million Integration of Immigrants and the $800,000 Nga Tangata Oho Mairangi. He has written or edited 25 books and is a regular commentator in the news media.In 2010, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of California Berkeley and in 2013, a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen. He was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand Science and Technology medal in 2009 in recognition of his academic scholarship, leadership and public contribution to cultural understanding. In 2011, his contribution to Sociology was acknowledged with the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand's scholarship for exceptional service to New Zealand sociology. In 2013, he was given the title of Distinguished Professor, Massey University's highest academic title.<eot>Coulloch Name Meaning, Family History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms |
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Coulloch History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms |
The Strathclyde clans of the Scottish/English Borderlands were the first people to use the name Coulloch. It is derived from the Gaelic personal name Cullach, meaning boar. |
Early Origins of the Coulloch family |
The surname Coulloch was first found in Wigtownshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Bhaile na h-Uige), formerly a county in southwestern Scotland, now part of the Council Area of Dumfries and Galloway where one of the first on record was Andrew MacCulloch who served King William the Lion of Scotland and received the lands of Myretoun (now Monreith near Whitehorn in Wigtown). However ancient records show the Clan as being mentioned in the year 743 in that area. |
Early History of the Coulloch family |
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Coulloch research. |
Another 143 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1296, 1354, 1640, 1697, 1470 and are included under the topic Early Coulloch History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. |
Coulloch Spelling Variations |
Spelling and translation were hardly exact sciences in Medieval Scotland. Sound, rather than any set of rules, was the basis for spellings, so one name was often spelled different ways even within a single document. Spelling variations are thus an extremely common occurrence in Medieval Scottish names. Coulloch has been spelled MacCulloch, MacCullagh, MacCully, MacCullough, MacCulley, MacCullaugh, MacCullock, MacCullie, MacLulich and many more. |
Early Notables of the Coulloch family (pre 1700) |
Another 53 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Coulloch Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.<eot>AJM publishes studies performed by multi-center groups in the various disciplines of medicine, including clinical trials and cohort studies from large patient populations, specifically: |
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Hi Chad, in addition to recorded programs continuing not showing on the apps recordings , I am now unable to watch the recordings that are there. The message says " playback issue 500 the system is reporting an unrecoverable error" . Do you think this is a hardware or software issue ? How can I resolve this ? Thanks ... View more |
Yes , Chad these are some. There are also ones that where there before that are not . I have four Episodes of rectify on my DVR only one showing on the app. This is a relatively new problem. Do you know why these are not uploading to the cloud? Thanks Chad ... View more |
I was hoping I can get some help. More then half of my recorded shows from my x1 DVR are not showing on the X1 app. This has been going on for over a week. I tried deleting and reinstalling the app but , still the same. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ... View more<eot>SNP MP Blackford toasts payday from £45m telecoms sale | Business News | Sky News |
Fresh from retaining his seat at Westminster, Ian Blackford is about to share the spoils of a £45m takeover, Sky News learns |
Friday 13 December 2019 19:55, UK |
Image: Ian Blackford |
First, he retained his Ross, Skye and Lochaber seat with a majority of nearly 9500 votes - while his colleagues came close to sweeping the board across Scotland's 59 constituencies. |
Now, Sky News can reveal that Mr Blackford is about to toast a payday from the estimated £45m sale of a telecoms company he chairs. |
Sources said on Friday that the businessman-turned-MP was in line for a windfall from the takeover of Commsworld by LDC, the private equity division of Lloyds Banking Group, Britain's biggest high street lender. |
The deal, which could be finalised early next week, is understood to have been put on hold during the general election campaign after the Labour Party announced that it would provide free fast broadband to British homes and businesses. |
"He's probably the only SNP MP who has reason to be grateful for a Tory majority," said a Whitehall insider. |
Commsworld, which is based in Edinburgh, employs more than 100 people and has offices in cities including Aberdeen and London. |
The company supplies telecoms networks and internet services to customers including The City of Edinburgh Council and Glenmorangie, the spirits producer. |
It is one of a pack of successful telecoms infrastructure businesses set up to capitalise on growing corporate demand for cloud-based services and more reliable communications networks. |
The spectre of Labour's plans to nationalise Openreach, the part of BT Group which is responsible for Britain's broadband infrastructure, has hung over the telecoms sector in recent weeks. |
Sky News revealed last month that a £200m deal for CityFibre Holdings to acquire a division of TalkTalk Telecoms Group had been put on hold within minutes of John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, announcing the nationalisation plan. |
When contacted by Sky News, Mr Blackford declined to comment on the size of his shareholding in Commsworld but denied a suggestion that it was as high as 6%. |
In the register of MPs' interests, Mr Blackford discloses only that his stake in Commsworld is worth more than £70,000. |
He recorded recently that he works eight hours per quarter for the company, and receives £1000-a-month for his role there. |
A former investment banker, the SNP MP is also a director and part-owner of First Seer, a strategic and financial consultancy. |
In the new parliament, Mr Blackford is set to press Boris Johnson, the newly re-elected prime minister, for a second Scottish independence referendum. |
One source pointed out on Friday that a break-up of the Union would pose a financial and practical headache for Lloyds, the owner of Commsworld's new backer.<eot>Hominin land. Ancient DNA suggests that three species of ancient humans occupied Russia's Altai Mountains at about the same time. |
DNA from a 40,000-year-old human finger bone found in a Siberian cave points to a new lineage of ancient human, researchers report today. The find—the first made with genetic, not fossil evidence—suggests that Central Asia was occupied at that time not only by Neandertals and Homo sapiens but also by a third, previously unknown hominin lineage. "This is the most exciting discovery to come from the ancient DNA field so far," says Chris Tyler-Smith, a geneticist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, United Kingdom. |
The work complicates the human story once again, much as the discovery of the controversial H. floresiensis—a.k.a. the hobbit—has upset earlier and simpler views of early human migrations around the globe. If four early humans including the hobbit were alive about 40,000 years ago, "the amount of [human] biodiversity ... was pretty remarkable," says geneticist Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania. |
A team led by archaeologists Michael Shunkov and Anatoli Derevianko of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk found the finger bone in 2008 at Denisova Cave in Russia's Altai Mountains. The cave, which has many archaeological layers spanning 100,000 years, has yielded both Neandertal and modern human stone tools and a small collection of hominin bones too fragmentary to be identified. The finger bone came from a layer radiocarbon dated to between 48,000 and 30,000 years ago. Evolutionary geneticists Svante Pääbo, Johannes Krause, and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, ground up a 30-milligram sample and extracted and sequenced all of the 16,569 base pairs of its mtDNA genome, using new techniques Pääbo's group has successfully employed to sequence both Neandertal and prehistoric modern human DNA. The researchers compared the new mtDNA sequence with that of 54 living people from around the world, a roughly 30,000-year-old modern human from another Russian site, and six Neandertals. |
They got a big surprise: Although Neandertals differ from modern humans at an average of 202 nucleotide positions in the mitochondrial genome, the Denisova hominin differed at an average of 385 positions from modern humans and 376 from Neandertals, the team reports online today in Nature. When mtDNA from chimpanzees and bonobos was added to the mix, the researchers were able to estimate that the new hominin had shared a common ancestor with Neandertals and modern humans about 1 million years ago. |
But who was this mystery hominin? The team says the date is too late for Asian H. erectus, which first migrated out of Africa about 1.8 million years ago. And it's too early for H. heidelbergensis, which arose in Africa and Europe about 650,000 years ago and is thought by many researchers to be the common ancestor of humans and Neandertals. There's "no evidence" that these or other known species "persisted that late" in mainland Asia, says paleoanthropologist Russell Ciochon of the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, says the new species could represent "a pre-heidelbergensis, post-erectus dispersal" out of Africa "that we haven't picked up yet." |
For now, Pääbo's team is not giving the new lineage a species name, at least until they know more about it. Next, the researchers plan to try to sequence nuclear DNA from the finger bone. If they succeed, they might discover the secret identity of Hominin X. |
Its 0130 hours and you are abruptly pulled from your sweet dream land when your cot is kicked by your Team Leader, “Get up, lets go”. You know the mission, you’ve been briefed, shown the map locations, given the op-order, and conducted rehearsals; its go time. |
This is a regular occurrence in the Airborne Infantry and any special ops world. During the day time hours we are at a disadvantage, we carry on average 100 lbs of equipment which makes us slower and fatigues us quicker, the 110-130 degree heat saps our strength, the enemy can more easily see us and maneuver quicker through the terrain, and the civilians are going through their daily routines making it easier for the enemy blend in and disappear like a ghost. But at night enemy beware, for; we are masters of the night. The air is cool allowing us to use full strength and the civilians are asleep, but most importantly, we can see while the enemy can’t. |
Extensive grueling training goes into perfecting night time operations. Our technology allows us to see in the darkest conditions with clarity, either by enhancing the light available or by generating thermal imagery from the heat given from the environment as well as people and animals. Now, don’t believe what you saw in the old Predator movies where the thermal images were some skewed rainbow type blob in the general shape of a human. The technology the Military uses shows crisp thermal imaging usually in black and white, but the colors can also be changed to red or green. The AN/PAS-23 Thermal monocular attaches to the helmet and can be worn over one eye, which is very convenient in comparison to the older models such as the PAS-13D which were large and cumbersome. |
The night vision generally used is the PVS 14, another monocular that can be attached to the helmet for convenience. Looking through the night vision takes a while to get used to, everything is green and since it goes over one eye you end up losing a lot of your depth perception. Through all of the training Infantry and special ops go through, looking through night vision becomes second nature and they learn how to adapt. |
One of the most vital pieces of equipment for a stalker of the night is the infrared laser used for aiming ones weapon at night. The PEQ-15 is an infrared laser which mounts to your weapon, you can have a pressure switch plugged into it and attach it to your cool guy pistol grip which allows you to turn your laser on and off with a little squeeze. Not only are these lasers used for aiming, but they have a flood light setting as well to illuminate areas that are dark even with your night vision. The best part about all of this is…. the enemy can’t see ANY of it! Well…as long as they don’t have night vision… |
Now that you are decked out with your thermal, your night vision, and your infrared laser with a pressure switch, you are ready to go stalk through the empty night time streets and abandoned fields on the search for terrorists. In case any of you were wondering, yes you can buy all of this equipment, it will cost you around $24,000 all together, but you can buy it. Woe be to the night time intruder in your house. |
For a junior high school science fair, I once embarked on filling a poster sized periodic table equipped with pouches with a sample of each element, accompanied with a rather thick write up containing elemental properties and electron configurations and usage. After the science fair was over, I noticed someone had snitched the droplet of mercury, some antimony and some arsenic. No idea why they nipped those particular ones. Eventually, I lost interest in collecting them, but usage still fascinates. Thanks! |
It doesn't really "sniff" out fire however. It just creates a closed circuit with alpha particles and an alpha particle detector. When that circuit is interrupted by smoke an alarm goes off. |
Curium is the last element with any practical use (so far). Curium was used to power a satellite that wasn't going to be coming back into Earth's orbit so elements 97-118 are just curiosities at this point. |
Gallium is interesting in that it is one of the few materials that expand upon cooling. It is liquid at some room temperatures. If you store it in a glass vial, the vial will break when it cools due to the expanding. |
I too find this an interesting subject. For fun I learned all of the elements and then bought a book which told several main uses for each element. |
Dysprosium, Praseodymium, Technetium, Astatine...I'll bet there might be a few more that don't roll off your tongue all that often. |
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Abhinav Bindra the Indian shooter specializing in the 10 m Air Rifle event, became the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games and first gold medal since 1980 for India by winning the gold in the 10 m Air Rifle event. Apart from being a shooter, Abhinav Bindra holds an M.B.A. He is the CEO of Abhinav Futuristics, a PC games peripherals distributor based in ChandigarhCongratulations Abinav Bindra.<eot>"The Better of Kenny Rogers: By the Years" Album, No. 1 on the Charts – paledivineband.com |
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