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189_15 | The city of Natchez and Adams County operate one public school system, the Natchez-Adams School District. The district comprises ten schools. They are Susie B. West, Morgantown, Gilmer McLaurin, Joseph F. Frazier, Robert Lewis Magnet School, Natchez Freshman Academy, Natchez Early College@Co-Lin, Central Alternative School, Natchez High School, and Fallin Career and Technology Center.
In Natchez, there are a number of private and parochial schools.
Adams County Christian School (ACCS) is also a PK-12 school in the city. Adams County Christian School was founded as a segregation academy and is a member of the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools (MAIS). Cathedral School is also a PK-12 school in the city. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic St. Mary Basilica. Holy Family Catholic School, founded in 1890, is a PK-3 school affiliated with Holy Family Catholic Church.
Media
A list of media in the Natchez metropolitan area (collectively known as the "Miss-Lou"):
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189_16 | Infrastructure
Transportation
Highways
U.S. 61 runs north–south, parallel to the Mississippi River, linking Natchez with Port Gibson, Woodville, Mississippi and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
U.S. 84 runs east–west and bridges the Mississippi, connecting it with Vidalia, Louisiana and Brookhaven, Mississippi.
U.S. 425 runs north from Natchez after crossing the Mississippi, connecting Ferriday with Clayton, at which point U.S. 65 follows the west bank of the Mississippi, connecting to Waterproof north to St. Joseph, Newellton, and Tallulah, Louisiana.
U.S. 98 runs east from Natchez towards Bude and McComb, Mississippi.
Mississippi 555 runs north from the center of Natchez to where it joins Mississippi Highway 554.
Mississippi 554 runs from the north side of the city to where it joins Highway 61, northeast of town.
Rail
Natchez is served by the Natchez Railway, which interchanges with Norfolk Southern. |
189_17 | Air
Natchez is served by the Natchez-Adams County Airport, a general aviation facility. The nearest airports with commercial service are Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, to the south via US 61 and Alexandria International Airport, to the west via US 84 to LA-28W. |
189_18 | Notable people
Robert H. Adams, former United States senator from Mississippi
William Wirt Adams, Confederate States Army officer, grew up in Natchez
Philip Alston, prominent plantation owner and early American outlaw
Glen Ballard, five-time Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer
Pierre A. Barker, former Mayor of Buffalo, New York
Campbell Brown, Emmy Award-winning journalist, political anchor for CNN; grew up in Natchez and attended both Trinity Episcopal and Cathedral High School
John J. Chanche, first Roman Catholic bishop of Natchez, buried on the grounds of St. Mary Basilica, Natchez
George Henry Clinton, member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature in the first quarter of the 20th century, born in Natchez in the late 1860s
Charles C. Cordill, Louisiana state senator from Concordia and Tensas parishes, interred at Natchez City Cemetery
Charles G. Dahlgren, Confederate brigadier general during American Civil War
Olu Dara, musician and father of rapper Nas |
189_19 | Varina Howell Davis, first lady of the Confederate States of America; born, reared, and married in Natchez
Bob Dearing, longtime member of the Mississippi State Senate
Ellen Douglas, novelist, author of Black Cloud, White Cloud and Apostles of Light, nominated for the National Book Award
A. W. Dumas (1876-1945), physician
Stephen Duncan (1787-1867), planter and banker
Robert C. Farrell (born 1936), journalist and member of the Los Angeles City Council, 1974–91
Je'Kel Foster, basketball player
Terry W. Gee, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980 to 1992 from suburban New Orleans; born in Natchez in 1940, died in Baton Rouge in 2014
Jimmie Giles, NFL Tight End & four-time Pro Bowl selection in the 1980s while with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Mickey Gilley, country music singer, born in Natchez
Hugh Green, All-American defensive end at the University of Pittsburgh, two-time Pro Bowler, Heisman runner-up |
189_20 | Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, noted black concert singer and Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame inductee, was born in Natchez in 1824.
Cedric Griffin, Minnesota Vikings cornerback born in Natchez but raised in San Antonio, Texas
Bishop Gunn, rock and roll band whose members were born in Natchez and hold 'The Bishop Gunn Crawfish Boil' in the city every May.
Abijah Hunt, merchant during the Territorial Period who owned a chain of stores and public cotton gins along the Natchez Trace
Von Hutchins, former NFL football player for the Indianapolis Colts 2004-2005 Houston Texans 2006-2007Atlanta Falcons 2008
Greg Iles, raised in Natchez and a best-selling author of many novels set in the city
Rosa Vertner Jeffrey (1828-1894), poet and novelist
William Johnson, "The Barber of Natchez", freed slave and prominent businessman
Nook Logan, former Major League Baseball player for the Washington Nationals |
189_21 | John R. Lynch, the first African-American Speaker of the House in Mississippi and one of the earliest African-American members of Congress
Samuel Abraham Marx, architect, was born in Natchez
George Mathews, former governor of Georgia, lived in Natchez in the late 1790s.
Lynda Lee Mead, Miss Mississippi in 1959 and Miss America in 1960. A Natchez city street, Lynda Lee Drive, is named in her honor.
Marion Montgomery, singer
Anne Moody, civil rights activist and author of Coming of Age in Mississippi, attended Natchez Junior College
Alexander O'Neal, R&B singer
Col. John Joseph "Jack" Pitchford, USAF Ret. Among the first USAF "Wild Weasel" combat pilots, imprisoned 7 years in Vietnam returning home in 1973.
General John Anthony Quitman, Mexican War hero, plantation owner, governor of Mississippi, owner of Monmouth Plantation
Clyde V. Ratcliff, member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1944 to 1948, lived in Natchez
Rico Richardson, NFL player |
189_22 | Stevan Ridley, NFL running back for the Denver Broncos
Pierre Adolphe Rost, a member of the Mississippi State Senate and commissioner to Europe for the Confederate States, immigrated to Natchez from France
Billy Shaw, Pro Football Hall of Fame member, born in Natchez
Chris Shivers, two-time PBR world champion bull rider, born in Natchez
Carter Smith, film director and fashion photographer
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, African nobleman sold into slavery and sent to work a plantation in Natchez, Mississippi for thirty-eight years before being freed at the request of Abd al-Rahman, the Sultan of Morocco
Hound Dog Taylor, blues singer and slide guitar player
Fred Toliver, former pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and the Minnesota Twins
Don José Vidal, Spanish governor of the Natchez District, buried in the Natchez City Cemetery
Joanna Fox Waddill, Civil War nurse known as the "Florence Nightingale of the Confederacy"
Samuel Washington Weis (1870–1956), painter |
189_23 | Marie Selika Williams, first black artist to perform at the White House
Richard Wright, novelist, author of Black Boy and Native Son, born on Rucker plantation in Roxie, twenty-two miles east of Natchez; lived in Natchez as a child |
189_24 | In popular culture
Various movies have been shot here, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), Crossroads (1986), Raintree County (1957), Horse Soldiers (1959), Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1981),
The Ladykillers (2004), Get On Up (2014) and Ma (film) (2019).
Historic sites
Post-classical thru Early modern periods
Anna Site
Grand Village of the Natchez
Antebellum period
Commercial Bank and Banker's House
First Presbyterian Church of Natchez
Great Natchez Tornado
Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture
Natchez National Cemetery
Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District
Selma Plantation
St. Mary Basilica, Natchez
United States Courthouse (Natchez, Mississippi)
Pre-Civil War homes |
189_25 | Airlie (Natchez)
Arlington (Natchez, Mississippi)
Auburn (Natchez, Mississippi)
Brandon Hall (Washington, Mississippi)
The Briars (Natchez, Mississippi)
The Burn (Natchez, Mississippi)
Concord (Natchez, Mississippi)
Cottage Gardens
D'Evereux
Dunleith
Elgin (Natchez, Mississippi)
The Elms (Natchez, Mississippi)
Elms Court
Glenfield Plantation
Gloucester (Natchez, Mississippi)
Hawthorne Place
Homewood Plantation (Natchez, Mississippi)
Lansdowne (Natchez, Mississippi)
Linden (Natchez, Mississippi)
Longwood (Natchez, Mississippi)
Magnolia Hill (Natchez, Mississippi)
Melrose (Natchez, Mississippi)
Monmouth (Natchez, Mississippi)
Montaigne (Natchez, Mississippi)
Ravenna (Natchez, Mississippi)
Richmond (Natchez, Mississippi)
Routhland
Town houses |
189_26 | Choctaw
Green Leaves
House on Ellicott's Hill
King's Tavern
The Presbyterian Manse
Magnolia Hall (Natchez, Mississippi)
Rosalie Mansion
Smith-Bontura-Evans House
Stanton Hall
William Johnson House (Natchez, Mississippi)
Winchester House (Natchez, Mississippi)
Footnotes
Further reading |
189_27 | Anderson, Aaron D. Builders of a New South: Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865-1914. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Boler, Jaime Elizabeth. City under Siege: Resistance and Power in Natchez, Mississippi, 1719–1857, PhD. U. of Southern Mississippi, Dissertation Abstracts International 2006 67(3): 1061-A. DA3209667, 393p.
Brazy, Martha Jane. An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York, Louisiana State U. Press, 2006. 232 pp.
Broussard, Joyce L. "Occupied Natchez, Elite Women, and the Feminization of the Civil War," Journal of Mississippi History, 2008 70(2): 179–207.
Broussard, Joyce L. Stepping Lively in Place: The Not-Married, Free Women of Civil War-Era Natchez, Mississippi. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016.
Cox, James L. The Mississippi Almanac. New York: Computer Search & Research, 2001. . |
189_28 | Davis, Jack E. Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Davis, Ronald L. F. Good and Faithful Labor: from Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District 1860-1890, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Dolensky, Suzanne T. "Natchez in 1920: On the Threshold of Modernity." Journal of Mississippi History 72#2 (2011): 95-137 online
Gandy, Thomas H. and Evelyn. The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs: Natchez to New Orleans, 1870–1920. New York: Dover Publications, 1987.
Gower, Herschel. Charles Dahlgren of Natchez: The Civil War and Dynastic Decline Brassey's, 2002. 293 pp.
Inglis, G. Douglas. "Searching for Free People of Color in Colonial Natchez," Southern Quarterly 2006 43(2): 97–112
James, Dorris Clayton. Ante-Bellum Natchez (1968), the standard scholarly study |
189_29 | Libby, David J. Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720–1835, U. Press of Mississippi, 2004. 163 pp. focus on Natchez
Nguyen, Julia Huston. "Useful and Ornamental: Female Education in Antebellum Natchez," Journal of Mississippi History 2005 67(4): 291–309
Nolan, Charles E. St. Mary's of Natchez: The History of a Southern Catholic Congregation, 1716–1988 (2 vol 1992)
Umoja, Akinyele Omowale. "'We Will Shoot Back': The Natchez Model and Paramilitary Organization in the Mississippi Freedom Movement"], Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Jan., 2002), pp. 271–294. In JSTOR
Way, Frederick. Way's Packet Dictionary, 1848–1994: Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America. 2nd ed. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1994.
Wayne, Michael. The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880 (1983). |
189_30 | External links
City of Natchez official website
Populated places established in 1716
Cities in Adams County, Mississippi
Cities in Mississippi
Cities in Natchez micropolitan area
Mississippi populated places on the Mississippi River
Mississippi
County seats in Mississippi
French-American culture in Mississippi
Natchez Trace |
190_0 | Yevgeny Vladmirovich Kuyvashev (Russian: Евгений Владимирович Куйвашев; born on 16 March 1971) is a Russian statesman who is currently the governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast since 29 May 2012. He was the acting governor on 14 May 2012 to May 29, and again in 17 April until 18 September 2017.
Kuyvashev previously served as the 3rd Plenipotentiary Representative of the Ural Federal District from 2011 to 2012. He held in offices such as the Head of the Administration of Tyumen from 2007 to 2011, and Tobolsk from 2005 to 2007.
Biography
Yevgeny Kuyvashev was born on 16 March 1971 in the village of Lugovskoy, in Khanty-Mansiysk District, of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, of the Tyumen Oblast.
From 1989 to 1991, Kuyvashev served in the military service of the Soviet Army.
From 1991 to 1993, he studied at the Tobolsk Medical School named after Volodya Soldatov, specializing in "dentist-orthodontist". |
190_1 | Labor activity
After graduating from high school, he worked for some time as a mechanic in the "Surgutremstroy" trust.
After serving in the army in 1991, he worked for a short time as a physical education methodologist at the Department of Technological Transport in Surgut..
After receiving his education, he worked in the Poikovsky village of the Nefteyugansk region of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, first as a dental technician, then as a deputy head of the branch of the Union of Afghan Veterans on commercial issues, a concrete mixer driver, a high-altitude installer, and a legal adviser.
Administrative work
In 1997, Kuyvashev moved to the Administration of the Poikovsky village, where he worked first as an assistant to the head Eduard Khudainatov, then as his deputy, and after Khudainatov moved to work in the Presidential Administration in 2000, he took his place. |
190_2 | In 1999, he went the Moscow Military Institute of the Federal Border Service of the Russia with a degree in lawyer, in a correspondence course.
In parallel with his work in the administration, Kuyvashev taught the theory of state and law, municipal law at the Poikovsky branch of Tyumen State University.
From 2004 to 2005, he was the deputy head of the department of bailiffs in Moscow.
On 30 November 2005, Kuyvashev was unanimously approved by the deputies of the Tobolsk City Duma by the head of the Tobolsk administration.
On 14 June 2007, Kuyvashev applied for a competition to fill the post of head of the Tyumen administration after the resignation of the former mayor, Sergey Smetanyuk, and on 5 July 2007, he was elected to this position by Tyumen City Duma.
In 2010, he initiated professional retraining at Tyumen State University under the program "State and Municipal Administration". |
190_3 | Many media outlets also report that in 2002, Kuyvashev graduated from Yale University with a degree in management. At the same time, Kuyvashev himself in the media commented on the information about his studies at Yale University as follows: "I did not study at Yale - I just listened to lectures there. I did not study, I have no diploma.".
On 29 January 2011, Kuyvashev was the deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the Urals Federal District. From 6 September 2011 to 14 May 14, 2012, Kuyvashev was promoted to the Plenipotentiary Representative Urals Federal District.
From 14 September 2011 to 14 May 2012, he was the Member of the Security Council of the Russia.
Governor of Sverdlovsk Region
On 14 May 2012, Kuyvashev became the acting Governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast. |
190_4 | On 24 May 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Oblast the candidacy of Yevgeny Kuyvashev to empower the governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast. The candidacy was supported by a majority of votes of the members of parliaments of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Oblast, and on May 29, 2012, Kuyvashev officially took office as the regional governor.
From 28 July 2012 to 22 February 2013 and from 10 November 2015 to 6 April 2016, he was the member of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russia. |
190_5 | During the governorship of Kuyvashev, the system of government bodies of the Sverdlovsk Oblast was changed, repeatedly making amendments to the Charter of the region. In July 2012, on the initiative of Kuyvashev, the post of vice-governor was introduced, but already in December of the next year, this post was abolished. In 2016, the post of regional prime minister was abolished with the assignment of his duties to the governor. Thus, by the beginning of 2017, Kuyvashev became both the governor and the head of the regional government. |
190_6 | In 2012, at the suggestion of Kuyvashev, he sent to the Administration of the President of Russia, a working group was created in the Ministry of Health to consider the issue of compulsory licensing of the activities of all organizations involved in the rehabilitation of drug addicts. In his opinion, such licensing is a matter of citizens' safety. At this time, on his behalf in the region, a state rehabilitation center "Ural without drugs" was created. The decree on its creation was signed on 3 July 2012.
On 18 September 2016, Kuyvashev took part in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Oblats, heading the list of the United Russia party. After the elections, he gave up his deputy mandate, without starting to act as a deputy. |
190_7 | At the end of 2016, the film director Nikita Mikhalkov criticized the Yeltsin Center, which opened in November 2015, with the financial support of the authorities of the Sverdlovsk Oblast. Kuyvashev said that he was proud to have taken part in the creation of the Yeltsin Center, and said that he was ready to personally lead Mikhalkov on a tour of it.
At the end of March 2017, Kuyvashev found advantages in the decision of the Federal Minister Denis Manturov to transfer the international arms exhibition Russia Arms Expo from Nizhny Tagil to the Patriot park in Moscow Oblast.
According to the governor, this event "will become an incentive for the implementation of new breakthrough initiatives in the Urals". The former governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Eduard Rossel (on whose initiative this exhibition was founded in 1999) has of a different opinion, who asked to keep the Russia Arms Expo in Nizhny Tagil and turned to Kuyvashev about the exhibition. |
190_8 | In April 2017, Kuyvashev supported the need to reform public transport in Yekaterinburg (in particular, to eliminate "duplicate" routes) in accordance with the decision of the city manager of Yekaterinburg, Aleksander Yakob, which was adopted in April of the same year.
On 17 April 2017, Kuyvashev resigned at his own request. On the same day, by the decree of the President of Russia, he was appointed acting Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region "until the person elected as the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast takes office." He won the elections on 10 September 2017 with 62.16% of the vote.
On 8 December 2018, on the basis of the decision taken by the delegates of the XVIII Congress of the United Russia party, Kuyvashev was introduced to the Supreme Council of the party. |
190_9 | Criticism
Information appeared in the press about Kuyvashev's informal connection with energy businessmen Artyom Bikov and Alexei Bobrov, who were called his sponsors. However, Kuyvashev himself denies this connection: "It is not my fault that they have assets in all regions where I worked. Wherever you start working, Bikov and Bobrov are already there.".
Aksana Panova, the former editor-in-chief of the Ural Internet agency Ura.ru, who was accused at one time in a number of criminal cases, called Kuyvashev the "customer" of her prosecution. |
190_10 | Znak.com noted in 2013 that Kuyvashev, despite the regional budget cuts and economic difficulties, increased funding for "PR": in 2013, 1.136 billion rubles were allocated to the media from the budget (of which 0.5 billion was for the purchase of an unfinished television tower in Yekaterinburg), while in 2012 only 368 million rubles were spent for these purposes. Критику издания вызвал также тот факт, что значительная часть трат на СМИ из бюджета области непрозрачна. The publication was also criticized by the fact that a significant part of the expenditures on the media from the regional budget is not transparent. In October 2013, opposition deputies criticized the authorities of the Sverdlovsk Oblast for the fact that the bulk of media spending from the budget of the Sverdlovsk region goes to the "Regional newspaper" and the OTV television channel. The private media also get some. For example, by order of Kuyvashev, 20 million rubles were transferred to the Malina project. |
190_11 | Welfare
In 2011, the income of Kuyvashev, who worked as the plenipotentiary of the President, amounted to 3.7 million rubles, the income of his, Natalya, with 3.1 million rubles.
According to Vyacheslav Tselishchev, a specialist at one of the Yekaterinburg watch salons, Kuyvashev has the Swiss watch of the Jaeger Le Coultre Master Control brand, which costed 700 thousand rubles in 2012. |
190_12 | At the end of 2016, while working in the government of the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Kuyvashev earned 3,333,627.89 rubles. As of 31 December 2016, he owned an apartment of 144 sq.m. in Yekaterinburg and 1/3 share in an apartment of 131.7 sq.m. in the Tyumen Oblast, a jet ski VX700 and a MZSA trailer 2006 release. The data on the spouse's income for this period differ: the website of the governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast indicates the amount of 9,967,789.03 rubles,ile the information posted by the Election Commission of the Sverdlovsk region during the election of the governor indicated the amount of 2,920,271.03 rubles, the source of income were LLC "Lelya", IE Kuyvasheva N.S., JSC "TsVMIR" SIBERIA "".
After becoming the governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Kuyvashev bought an apartment in Yekaterinburg worth about 13.5-16.5 million rubles. |
190_13 | Family
Natalia (born 1974) is an entrepreneur. She is the director and co-owner of Lelya LLC, which owns the Three Glasses chain of elite wine stores located in Tyumen and Tobolsk.
The Kuyvashev family has 2 children, with daughter Yelizaveta (born in 1997) and a son, Dmitry.
Hobbies
Kuyvashev is fond of sports, goes in for biathlon and hockey, takes part in all-star matches. A passionate fan: he is a fan of the hockey team "Avtomobilist" and the football club "Ural".
In music he prefers Russian rock, which is familiar with the veterans of the Sverdlovsk rock club, is friends with Alexander Pantykin.
He is also good at painting.
References
1971 births
Living people
Mayors of Tyumen
People from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Governors of Sverdlovsk Oblast
United Russia politicians |
191_0 | Road to Nowhere is a 2010 American romance thriller independent film directed by Monte Hellman, written by Steven Gaydos, and starring Cliff De Young, Waylon Payne, Shannyn Sossamon, Tygh Runyan, and Dominique Swain. It was Hellman's first feature film in 21 years, as well as his final feature film before his death in April 2021.
Road to Nowhere was shot in western North Carolina from July to August 2009, before moving to Europe. The film premiered on September 10, 2010 at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Lion, but won Jury Award Special Lion for Career Achievement. The film was given a limited release in New York on June 10, 2011 and in Los Angeles on June 17, 2011. |
191_1 | Plot
A promising young filmmaker named Mitchell Haven invites Laurel Graham, an unknown actress, to play Velma Duran, a person involved in a financial scandal that made headlines, in his new film. The director falls in love with his muse, and the sordid criminal affair on which the film is based resurfaces.
Cast
Shannyn Sossamon as Laurel Graham/Velma Duran
Dominique Swain as Nathalie Post
Cliff De Young as Cary Stewart/Rafe Taschen
Tygh Runyan as Mitchell Haven
Fabio Testi as Nestor Duran
John Diehl as Bobby Billings
Waylon Payne as Bruno Brotherton
Rob Kolar as Steve Gates
Bonnie Pointer as herself
Michael Bigham as Joe Watts
Lathan McKay as Erik
Nic Paul as Jeremy Laidlaw
Peter Bart has a cameo in the film playing himself
Production |
191_2 | Development
Road to Nowhere was Monte Hellman's first feature film in 21 years. The film was written by Variety executive editor Steven Gaydos. Shannyn Sossamon was the first actor to be cast after Gaydos saw her in a restaurant rehearsing a scene with another person. Reluctantly, Gaydos gave Sossamon his card saying, "I don't do this often, but I wonder if you or your agent would contact Monte Hellman." Hellman told the Los Angeles Times that he dedicated the film to Laurie Bird, with whom Hellman fell in love while directing her in Two-Lane Blacktop. |
191_3 | Filming
On a budget of under $5 million, principal photography was almost entirely in western North Carolina (where the film is also set) between July and August 2009. Hellman shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, which recorded 12 minutes at a time on a flash card (as opposed to 10 minutes with a 35mm film). Scenes were shot at the Balsam Mountain Inn in Balsam for four to five weeks. Several other scenes were shot in the Boyd Mountain Log Cabins in Waynesville. Still other scenes were shot at Doc Holliday's bar in Maggie Valley, at the Fontana Dam, and at the Jackson County Airport. Students from University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Western Carolina University were hired as production assistants and also served as extras. Other shooting locations were done in Los Angeles. |
191_4 | Jim Rowell, a Cullowhee resident got a deal with the filmmakers that allowed him to make a fuel pump repair at the airport in exchange for flying his 1966 Piper Cherokee four-passenger plane as a stuntman. Rowell did eight to nine passes over the lake, flying 300 to 500 feet above the water. In post-production, film editors cut the shots back and forth of Rowell flying near the dam and the actual actor sitting in Rowell's plane pretending to fly in front of a green screen and crashing the plane into the Fontana Dam. Natasha Senjanovic of The Hollywood Reporter called the plane crash one of "cinema's top plane crashes" and remarked that, "[it] is beautifully shot and comes as a total surprise". |
191_5 | Hellman still needed to shoot some scenes in Europe, but was over budget. His daughter, co-producer Melissa Hellman, raised more money through private equity. Hellman shot in the streets of London and traveled to Italy to shoot at Lake Garda. Other scenes were shot in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, and in front of Michelangelo's Moses and the tomb of Pope Julius II in Rome.
Release
In January 2011, Monterey Media bought the United States distribution rights from Entertainment One. The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian hosted a tribute to Hellman which culminated on May 14, 2011, with a special premiere screening of Road to Nowhere. On June 8, 2011, the Film Society of Lincoln Center hosted an evening with Hellman, which included a special presentation of Road to Nowhere and a screening of Hellman's adaptation of Cockfighter. |
191_6 | Festivals
Road to Nowhere was selected to screen at the following film festivals:
2010 Whistler Film Festival
2010 Venice Film Festival
2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival
2010 South by Southwest
2011 Nashville Film Festival
2011 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2011 Filmfest Oldenburg |
191_7 | Limited theatrical run
Road to Nowhere was given a limited release in New York City on June 10, 2011 and in Los Angeles on June 17, 2011. In New York the film opened in one theater and grossed $2,521 for its opening weekend. It grossed a total of $4,984 in its first week. In Los Angeles the film opened in six theaters and grossed $6,051—$864 per theater for its opening weekend, a 140% increase in tickets. In its third week it grossed $3,936—$984 per theater, a 35% decrease in ticket sales from the previous week. It was removed from three theaters. In its fourth weekend, a four-day weekend, the film made $3,113—$778 per theater. By its fifth weekend it was removed from two theaters and had a 67% percent drop in tickets making $846–$423 per theater. By its sixth weekend the film was playing in three theaters making $877–$292 per theater. For its seventh weekend, it gained $3,609—$722 per theater in five theaters, an increase of 247.4% from the previous weekend. |
191_8 | The film grossed $83,496 in France and $37,829 in Portugal. Road to Nowhere earned $40,294 in theatrical release in the United States and $121,325 in other markets, for a worldwide total of $161,619.
Home media
Road to Nowhere was released to DVD and Blu-ray on . Features include a 15-min behind the scenes (making of the film) video and a 14-min Q&A with Hellman and Gaydos at the Nashville Film Festival. |
191_9 | Critical reception
The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics, with many critics praising the performance of Shannyn Sossamon. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 79% of 24 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average of 6.7 out of 10. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 59 based on 17 reviews.
Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote a positive review saying, "In its masterful use of evocative imagery and music, Road to Nowhere is flawless". After an interview with Hellman, John Anderson from The New York Times said positive things about the film saying "Road may also be as significant to the indie feature as Avatar is to the popcorn movie". Road to Nowhere was also included in Roger Corman's Legendary Films Blog. |
191_10 | Nick Dawson wrote a positive review after it screened at South by Southwest Film Festival. Lou Lumenick of the New York Post gave a negative review saying, "[Road to Nowhere] has a great setup but not much in the way of a payoff". He went on to say "While there are some giggles in the film-within-the-film, the artsy-fartsy direction and flat-as-a-pancake acting invites invidious comparisons to Mulholland Drive". Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars criticizing the story's film within a film narrative. He said, "Road to Nowhere is not a failure in that it sets out to do exactly what it does, and does it. The question remains of why it should have been done. Hellman's skill is evident everywhere in precise framing and deliberate editing. Each scene works within itself on its own terms. But there is no whole here. I've rarely seen a narrative film that seemed so reluctant to flow. Nor perhaps one with a more accurate title".
Awards
References
Further reading |
191_11 | External links
2010 films
2010 independent films
2010 romance films
American films
American independent films
American romance films
English-language films
Films directed by Monte Hellman
Films set in North Carolina
Films shot in North Carolina
Films shot in London
Films shot in Rome
Films shot in Italy
Films shot in Los Angeles
Films about filmmaking |
192_0 | S. V. Petersen (1914–1987) was an Afrikaans-language South African poet and author, educator and founding principal of the Athlone High School, Silvertown
[Athlone]], Cape Town. He was the first person of colour whose poetry and prose were published in South Africa. |
192_1 | Life and Work |
192_2 | Sydney Vernon Petersen was born on 22 June 1914 in Riversdale, a town in the south of the Western Cape Province of South Africa. He was the second child in a family of five children, of which all five later became teachers. His father was a saddler and harness maker, his mother a homemaker. Motivated mainly by their mother all of the children obtained, at least, their degree in Education. Petersen visited the local Berlin Mission School until 1926, completing his schooling in Cape Town at the Trafalgar High School. He excelled in athletics and sports throughout his student days. During his final year in high school a pastor, Reverend Kohl of the Lutheran Mission Church, he felt, had a particularly good influence on his personal development. At this time there were very limited opportunities for children of colour to obtain a proper schooling (in 1929 only around 600 children were enrolled in high school within the Union of South Africa) and it was a great achievement, despite these |
192_3 | limitations, for him to obtain such results, made possible through his strong personal drive and the support of his parents and people like Reverend Kohl. As a young child, he made daily deliveries of bread and as a teenager did manual labour for a living and contribute to its training costs. |
192_4 | On completing school, he studied at the Battswood Training College, Wynberg, where he qualified as a teacher in 1933. His first teaching post was in Ladismith in the Cape Province. Two years later he was back in Cape Town teaching at the Berlin Mission School in Searle Street District Six. He began attending evening classes at the University of Cape Town for his bachelor's degree with majors in Afrikaans, English and Mathematics, befriending the Afrikaans poet I.D. du Plessis. On graduating in 1940 he obtained the University Medal for Afrikaans. Later he obtained a BEd degree from the same university. As a teacher, he served from 1939 as an assistant in the secondary school Battswood, while lecturing in the Training College Battswood and from 1945 as head of the same institution's primary school. In January 1947, he founded the Athlone High School where he remained principal until his retirement in 1974. After his retirement, he accepted a temporary post in the Department of Education |
192_5 | at the Hewat Education College in Crawford and in 1981 he lectured at the Teacher Training College in Bellville, where he was employed until 1983. His wife, Mavis, was also a teacher and the couple had a son, Sydney, named after his father. |
192_6 | In 1959 Petersen was appointed a member of the US – SA leadership program and travelled with his family to America, where he lectured at several university colleges in New York and Chicago. His hosts noticed he was writing his reports by hand, so the bought him a typewriter, with which he wrote for the rest of his life. He travelled to Ghana, Israel, Greece and Turkey. In April 1960, he spent a year abroad as a guest of the Dutch-South African Society. From 1969 on he was also invited by the governments of Germany and the Netherlands to visit educational centres in these countries. In 1982 he was appointed to the advisory board of the SABC He died of kidney failure in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town on 30 October 1987. |
192_7 | The Writer
Already in primary school he started to write prose in addition to poetry. After 1940, short stories and sketches appeared in ‘’Naweek’’, ’’Suid-Afrika’’, ’’Die Huisgenoot’’ and Tydskrif vir Letterkunde. His short stories Repos ailleurs and Kaapstad are included in the volume Geseënd is julle (Blessed Are You), edited by S. J. Malan and W.H. Vos. The short story Verbode vrugte (Forbidden Fruit), was published in 1943 in Die Naweek and included by Daniel Hugo in his collection Tydskrif 2. Its theme of racially mixed marriage, dealt with in rather more jovial than confrontational fashion, was daring for the time. |
192_8 | From the same period dates the novel As die Son Ondergaan (When the Sun Goes Down), a story about the demise of a young brown man (Frans) in the city. The gifted young man, unable to realise his ambition to become a teacher, left his home in the countryside for city, hoping to get a paying job. He is swallowed up in the urban industrial machine and makes friends with the wrong crowd of people. His morality undermined by drinking and sex, he marries a flighty young woman, Karolien. Deserted by his so-called friends and his wife, he is given over to drink. Then his parents come for him. By returning to his old, familiar environment he can at last, overcome his spiritual crisis. For the first time in African literature, the race issue is here addressed from the point of view of people of colour, the emotional impact emphasised. This problem, however, remains largely in the background, the destruction and preservation of the protagonist representing not a symbolic example of the coloured |
192_9 | people's struggle, but rather a more universally human development. The novel shows a far more nuanced characterization than the stereotyping of so many previous writers. |
192_10 | In 1946 As die Son Ondergaan was awarded the prize in a nationwide contest of prose writing offered by the magazine Kern a part of the Unie-Volkspers. Along with PJ Philander he authored school textbooks for geography and history. |
192_11 | However, it is his poems that make the greatest contribution to Afrikaans literature. In his work, the brown people, with their varied feelings of resistance and resignation, receive for the first time, their own voice in African literature. His writing style initially draws more on the older poets and their national type of verse, rather than the Dertigers or Viertigers (Afrikaans poets of the thirties and forties) with their more personal issues. Many verses in his early collections are impressive in their simplicity and dramatic impact through the use of dialogue. In tone wry and bitter and filled with deep emotion, presented however, in a naturally sober and direct manner. Yet the technique in these poems still largely stems from the generation before the thirties. |
192_12 | Die Enkeling (The individual) makes its impact more through the authenticity of feeling about the suffering of coloured people, than the quality of the poems, which technically, are not yet truly poetry. It is especially the poignant poem Bede (Prayer) that revolts against "the accursed penalty of a dark skin" and concludes with the speaker praying for the fortitude to accept his fate, should this indeed be God's will. Opstand (Revolt) describes far more how difficult it is to acquiesce and be silent. In Roepende stemme (Calling voices) a chorus cries out, questioning how long the oppression will continue, each commentator responding by placing the calls within a greater reality. Die arbeider (The labourer) is a largely successful portrayal of a human character. A poem like Die vreemde (The stranger) is typifies the protest and resentment caused by the inferior position coloured people hold within society, while the theme of Drinklied (Drinking song) speaks of trying to escape reality |
192_13 | through alcohol. In a second edition, he omits a number of his more youthful verses – Worsteling, Vergewe... Vergeet? , Elegie and Die winterwind – but makes no further changes. |
192_14 | Die stil kind (The quiet child) evinces considerable artistic progress, with the tone of the poems less harsh. As its title states, the dreaming child is portrayed as a lonely individual, while verses describe with deep emotion the ravaged victims of poverty. Riversdal shows nine women who wash white people's clothes by the river, with word and rhythm used to great effect. ‘’Voorteken’’ (Pre-ordained) outlines the loneliness of the coloured people, knowing that their life is doomed to heavy labour and unfulfilment. ‘’Motorrit (Road trip) expresses the sense of release when the narrator in his car leaves the city behind him, free in the speed of the car and the presence of nature, while Rondebosch likewise depicts the freedom of nature. Die loper (The runner) portrays the struggle of the intellectual coloured man, and Slotsom (Conclusion) concludes that, in death, no difference between the races exists. |
192_15 | After a long hiatus, Petersen began publishing again after 1960 with Die kinders van Kain (The Children of Cain), Suiderkruis (Southern Cross), Nag is verby (Night is over) and Laat kom dan die wind (Late the Wind Then Comes). The finest verses in these collections wittily portray city types, while those of resistance against racial discrimination resound far more powerfully. |
192_16 | The title Die kinders van Kain immediately points to those excluded from the rest of society. The collection reflects the progress of his first two books and in depicting the provocation, the melancholy and loneliness of the brown people and can be seen as an important milestone in African poetry. The statement of most of the poems is sober and less desperate, while a larger number a number contain a transcendent purity. Beautiful poems include Kinders van Kain (where the fate of those kicked out is contrasted with the promise of the New Day); Die drumpel (The threshold), in which the harsh manner in which coloured people are treated is challenged by an accusation that, as a racial group, they originated from the immoral behaviour of white pioneers; Kinderland (Childhood), with its melancholy about the utterly lost dreams of childhood; and Die veles (The many) follows the path of common people through life in rather a witty manner. Bergies (Mountain dwellers) is also noteworthy, with |
192_17 | its witty imagery of this marginalised sector of society, while Windermere touches the social needs of the people. Kaapse naweek describes the superficial lifestyle of revellers. Die toring Babel (The Tower of Babel) makes of discrimination not simply a local but a universal issue, while Kamee (Cameo) portrays the cheerfulness of the brown woman in the midst of her suffering.Suiderkruis, in two sections, contains poems about of the memories of a youth in the rural areas. on the one hand and events within the contemporary urban environment on the other. Each section ends with a suite of five poems, Ballade – a series about the "platteland", the countryside, and one on the "Confession of the city dweller" showing the contrasts in the feeling of freedom. Memories of country life find expression in poignant poetic memoirs such as Tuiskoms (Homecoming) and Sekelgat, where former joys are played off against the sadness of remembrance. Well portrayed are also the marginalised of the city, |
192_18 | Koerante-verkopertjie (News vendor) and Die doofstomme (The deaf-mute).Alleenstryd ("Single combat" or "the lonely struggle") is a label he himself finds appropriate for poetry up to that point. It fits the loneliness and the life struggles to which his poems give voice, characterised in the progression from rural nature verses to the more realistically-oriented poems of city life.Nag is verby, dedicated to I.D. du Plessis deals with how the question of skin colour can dominate one's judgements on the value and dignity of the human being, and the search for one's own identity in trying to find the sense of security that was present in the parental home. . The collection includes poems of resistance, landscape poetry, poems of remembrance and travel, the latter inspired by journeys both at home and abroad. The title reflects a optimistic outlook, a move away from a situation of frustration to one of greater hope and equality, which is also reflected in the content of the poems. The |
192_19 | title poem develops a prophetic vision of human freedom. Noteworthy poems are Stadsmens (City dweller), depicting the hand-to-mouth existence of this group; Kaapse Vlak (Cape Flats) about the violent death of a young boy; and Landelik (Rural), beautiful images from this carefree and simple world. There are also several memory verses, the best of them, Drie dromertjies (Three little drummers), Die witborskraai (The pied crow) and Sekelmaan (The sickle moon). |
192_20 | His last collectionLaat kom dan die wind, received generally negative criticism. It includes poems of travel, childhood memories, longings for a bygone way of life and images of city personages.
In 1962 he published in the Netherlands a collection of English verses or aphorisms, Meditations on the brink: dedicated with reverence to the life-work of Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven, based largely on the anthroposophical theories of Rudolf Steiner. It is his only such publication in English, speaks of his meeting with Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven and describes insights he gained through him. This he re-published under his own name in South Africa in 1980. |
192_21 | In 1967, Dr. W.H. Vos compiled a volume, Keurverse (Selected poems) from the poetry of Petersen and PJ Philander. His poems are included in several anthologies, including Groot verseboek, Die Afrikaanse poësie in ’n duisend en enkele gedigte, Digterstemme, Afrikaanse verse, Uit ons digkuns, Uit ons letterkunde, Digters en digkuns, Die junior digbundel, Woordpaljas, My Afrikaanse verseboek, Die goue vreugde, Voorspraak en Junior verseboek, also providing a poem for the collection Verse vir Opperman. He also published poems in magazines such as Standpunte en Tydskrif vir Letterkunde. |
192_22 | Tributes |
192_23 | In 1950 the SABC dedicated an episode of Ons skrywers en digters aan die woord (Our writers and poets of the word) to his work. The South African Academy for Science and Art in 1959 awarded him a medal of honour for his contribution to Afrikaans culture and he received the Crown Medal for his educational work. In 1977, he was proposed for membership of the South African Academy for Science and Art, but the Academy took so long to come to a decision that seven members resigned in protest. When the Academy finally approached him to become a member, he turned this down due to ill health. In 1982 the State President awarded him the Decoration for Meritorious Service and in 1986 he was elected a member of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden in the Netherlands. Shortly after his death, he was declared honorary citizen of his native village Riversdale, together with Alba Bouwer and Dalene Matthee. A radio play about him was compiled by Chris Swanepoel under the title Kind van die dal |
192_24 | (Child of the valley) and broadcast on the South African Broadcasting Corporation's Afrikaans Service in 1989. The composer Hendrik Hofmeyr set to music two of his poems in 1997, Kinderland and Die veles from the volume Die kinders van Kain and in 2005 further songs set to music by Hofmeyr were sung at the "Woordfees "(Festival of the Word) in Stellenbosch. |
192_25 | Works by SV Petersen
Poetry
1944 – Die Enkeling Unie-Volkspers Bpk Port Elizabeth, Cape Town
1948 – Die stil kind Maskew Miller Cape Town
1960 – Die kinders van Kain Nasionale Boekhandel Bpk Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg
1965 – Suiderkruis Nasionale Boekhandel Bpk Cape Town
1979 – AlleenstrydTafelberg Kaapstad
1980 – Nag is verby Tafelberg Cape Town
1985 – Laat kom dan die wind Perskor Cape Town, Johannesburg
Other works
1945 – As die son ondergaan Unie-Volkspers Bpk Port Elizabeth, Cape Town
1946? – ‘’Lewensbesonderhede’’ (manuscript) Bloemfontein: NALN
1956? ‘’Afrikaans – Language of my emotions’’ S.A. Panorama, [?]
1962 – Meditations on the brink – Dedicated with reverence to the life and work of Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven.'' With 12 illustrations by Adelbert Zeylmans, Zeist 1962
1980 ‘’Meditations on the brink’’ Own publication Rondebosch |
192_26 | Books about or containing works by SV Petersen
Antonissen, Rob "Die Afrikaanse letterkunde van aanvang tot hede" Nasou Beperk Elsiesrivier Derde hersiene uitgawe Tweede druk 1964
Antonissen, Rob "Kern en tooi" Nasou Beperk Eerste uitgawe Eerste druk Elsiesrivier 1963
APB-Komitee vir Skoolboeke "Die junior digbundel" Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel Johannesburg Sesde druk 1963
Askes, H. en Landman, J.N. (samestellers) "Voorspraak" Tafelberg-Uitgewers Beperk Kaapstad Eerste uitgawe Tiende druk 1994
Beukes, Gerhard J. en Lategan, F.V. "Skrywers en rigtings" J.L. van Schaik Bpk. Pretoria Eerste uitgawe 1952
Botha, Danie "Die helder dae" Tafelberg-Uitgewers Beperk Kaapstad Eerste uitgawe 2014
Buning, Tj. "Uit ons digkuns" J.L. van Schaik Bpk. Pretoria Nuwe omgewerkte druk 1960
Dekker, G. "Afrikaanse Literatuurgeskiedenis" Nasou Beperk Kaapstad Elfde druk 1970
Grové, A.P. "Letterkundige sakwoordeboek vir Afrikaans" Nasou Beperk Vyfde uitgawe Eerste druk 1988 |
192_27 | Kannemeyer, J.C. "Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse literatuur 1" Academica, Pretoria en Kaapstad Tweede druk 1984
Kannemeyer, J.C. "Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse literatuur 2" Academica, Pretoria, Kaapstad en Johannesburg Eerste uitgawe Eerste druk 1983
Kannemeyer, J.C. "Verse vir die vraestel" Tafelberg-Uitgewers Beperk Eerste uitgawe 1998
Kannemeyer, J.C. "Die Afrikaanse literatuur 1652–2004" Human & Rousseau Kaapstad en Pretoria Eerste uitgawe 2005
Lindenberg, E. (red.) "Inleiding tot die Afrikaanse letterkunde" Academica Pretoria en Kaapstad Vierde uitgawe Eerste druk 1973
Nienaber, C.J.M. "Oor literatuur 2" Academica Pretoria en Kaapstad Eerste uitgawe 1977
Nienaber, P.J., Roodt, P.H. en Snyman, N.J. (samestellers) "Digters en digkuns" Perskor-Uitgewers Kaapstad Vyfde uitgawe Sewende druk 2007
Nienaber, P.J. "Hier is ons skrywers!" Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel Johannesburg Eerste uitgawe 1949 |
192_28 | Nienaber, P.J,; Senekal, J.H en Bothma, T.C. "Mylpale in die geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse letterkunde" Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel Tweede hersiene uitgawe 1963
Nienaber, P.J. et al. "Perspektief en Profiel" Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel Johannesburg Derde hersiene uitgawe 1969
Nienaber, P.J.; Erasmus, M.C.; Du Plessis, W.K. en Du Plooy, J.L. "Uit ons letterkunde" Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel Sewende druk 1968
Opperman, D.J. "Junior verseboek" Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk Kaapstad Agste druk 1960
Pheiffer, R.H. "Woordpaljas" Human & Rousseau Kaapstad en Johannesburg Derde uitgawe Derde druk 1993
Van Coller, H.P. (red.) "Perspektief en Profiel Deel I" J.L. van Schaik-Uitgewers Pretoria Eerste uitgawe 1998
Van Coller, H.P. (red.) "Perspektief en Profiel Deel 2" J.L. van Schaik-Uitgewers Pretoria Eerste uitgawe 1999
Willemse, Hein "Aan die ander kant" Protea Boekhuis Pretoria Eerste uitgawe Eerste druk 2007
Newspapers and Periodicals |
192_29 | Anoniem "S.V. Petersen op 73 in Kaapstad oorlede" "Die Burger" 31 Oktober 1987
Ester, Hans "Sydney Vernon Petersen" "Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde te Leiden, 1999–2000”
Jansen, Valda "Op soek na S.V. Petersen" "Rapport" 5 December 2010
Toerien, Barend J. "Dwars moet ek wees om reguit te wees" "Die Burger" 4 November 1987
Watermeyer, G.A. "Die digterskap van S.V. Petersen" "Helikon" Jaargang 3 no. 13 Oktober 1953
Internet
Die Burger: http://152.111.1.87/argief/berigte/dieburger/1987/10/31/3/2.html
Die Burger: http://152.111.1.87/argief/berigte/dieburger/1987/11/03/15/11.html
Die Burger: http://152.111.1.87/argief/berigte/dieburger/1987/12/10/16/3.html
Digitale Bibliotheek voor Nederlandse letteren: http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=pete028
Esaach: http://www.esaach.org.za/index.php?title=Petersen,_Sydney_Vernon
LitNet ATKV-Skrywersalbum 15. December 2008: www.litnet.co.za |
192_30 | Van Wyk, Steward LitNet: http://www.litnet.co.za/sv-petersen-se-tydskrifverhale/
Willemse, Hein Archived public website: http://archivedpublicwebsite.up.ac.za/sitefiles/file/46/349/Verwantskap%20SV%20Petersen%20-%20Hein%20Willemse.pdf
Worldcat: http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2002095267/ |
192_31 | External links
S.V Petersen in dialoog met sy intellektuele en sosiale omgewing, deur Hein Willemse
“Net domastrant vir spite”. Grepe uit die lewensgeskiedenis van S.V. Petersen, deur Steward van Wyk
‘’Afrikaans Continues to Flourish in my Thoughts’’ Adam Small Ret: 30.05.2018
References
20th-century South African poets
Afrikaans-language writers
1914 births
1987 deaths
South African male poets
20th-century South African male writers
Alumni of Trafalgar High School (Cape Town) |
193_0 | Herz (Heart) is the ninth studio album by German pop duo Rosenstolz, containing songs representing the different sides of love. Released in 2004 by Island Records, the album reached triple platinum status in Germany. It also yielded four top 20 hits in the German singles chart.
Composition
Herz deals with the various aspects of love, including happiness, sex and partnership ("Liebe ist alles"), pain ("Die Liebe ist tot"), loss, sorrow and hope ("Gib mir mehr Himmel"), and jealousy ("Das gelbe Monster"). Speaking in an interview before the release of Herz, Rosenstolz described the new album as being the band's most personal to date. The band had not originally intended to make such an album, but after having written the first two songs, "Die Liebe ist tot" and "Ich will mich verlieben", felt that both songs were of such a personal nature that it would not have been appropriate to complete the album with less personal songs. |
193_1 | A range of song styles can be found in Herz, from ballads ("Liebe ist alles" or "Gib mir mehr Himmel") to pop ("Ich komm an dir nicht weiter") and rock ("Eine Frage des Lichts"). Speaking in an interview, musician Peter Plate of Rosenstolz revealed that English singer Beth Gibbons of English band Portishead and French singer Benjamin Biolay were a major influence on Herz and that the album was generally influenced by French pop music. In a later interview in 2008, Plate remarked that Herz was the start of the second phase of Rosenstolz, forming a trilogy with Das große Leben (2006), the band's tenth studio album, and Die Suche geht weiter (2008), the band's eleventh studio album.
Release
Herz was released on 22 March 2004, and this was followed on 8 November 2004 by an expanded edition of the album containing five bonus songs. In addition, two limited edition albums were released, the first on 22 March 2004 and the second on 18 November 2005. |
193_2 | Four songs from Herz were released as singles: "Liebe ist alles", "Ich will mich verlieben", "Willkommen" and "Ich komm an dir nicht weiter". They reached No. 6, No. 8, No. 8 and No. 14, respectively, in the German singles chart.
Video album
A video edition of Herz was also made, featuring a short film for each of the 12 songs of the album. The films were produced by Berlin production company Hans & Grete and starred Rosenstolz as well as German actors Nora Tschirner, Anna Bertheau, Franz Dinda and Axel Schreiber. The album was released on DVD on 19 April 2004 and was later certified gold in Germany. |
193_3 | Concert tour and live album
At the same time as the release of Herz, Rosenstolz went on a two-month concert tour, which started on 15 April 2004 in the Columbiahalle (Columbia Hall) in Berlin and ended on 12 June 2004 at Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide, an open-air venue in Berlin. The tour covered various cities in Germany as well as Vienna and Zurich. The last concert at Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide was recorded and released on DVD as the live video album Willkommen in unserer Welt (2004). Later in 2004, Rosenstolz went on a second tour in November and December. |
193_4 | Critical reception
In his review of Herz, Linus Schwanke of German music magazine laut.de complimented Rosenstolz on always being able to come up with something new and praised the band's creativity, self-will and positive energy. The editorial team at German women's magazine AVIVA-Berlin were unanimous in their opinion that Herz was Rosenstolz's best and most personal album to date. Johannes Mihram of German music magazine bloom commented that Herz was both the most rocking and most intimate album by Rosenstolz. |
193_5 | Notable songs
"Willkommen", one of the songs from Herz, was used as the title song for the 2004 German film Sommersturm (Summer Storm). Scenes from the film can be seen in the music video for "Willkommen".
"Liebe ist alles", another song from Herz, was covered by French singer Grégory Lemarchal. His cover version is titled "Je Deviens Moi" and it appears in his 2005 album of the same name.
In 2011, Plate co-produced Melanie C's cover version of "Liebe ist alles". The English singer's cover version is titled "Let There Be Love" and can be found in her 2011 album The Sea (German, Swiss, Austrian, East European & Scandinavian edition).
Track listing
All songs were written by Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer and AnNa R., except where indicated. |
193_6 | "Willkommen" – 4:19
"Liebe ist alles" – 3:29
"Ausgesperrt" – 4:06
"Eine Frage des Lichts" – 3:47
"Das gelbe Monster" – 2:22
"Die Liebe ist tot" – 3:41
"Ich will mich verlieben" – 4:38
"In den Sand gesetzt" – 2:34
"Ich komm an dir nicht weiter" – 4:40
"Das Beste im Leben" – 5:27
"Gib mir mehr Himmel" – 4:34
"Augenblick (Dezember)" – 4:15
Bonus songs
"Der größte Trick" – 4:46
"Alles über uns" (co-writer: Ralf Lübke) – 3:27
"Ohne dich" (Christian Neander, Jan Plewka) – 4:47
"Ausgesperrt bei Nacht" – 4:21
"Als ich fortging" (Dirk Michaelis, Gisela Steineckert) – 2:36
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
External links
Herz at official Rosenstolz website
Music videos for singles from Herz (Adobe Flash) at Universal Music Group website (streamed copy where licensed)
2004 albums
German-language albums
Rosenstolz albums |
194_0 | The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Expeditionary Unit is a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) with a strength of about 2,200 personnel. The MEU consists of a Command Element, a Ground Combat Element based on a reinforced infantry battalion, an Aviation Combat Element based on a reinforced tiltrotor squadron, and a Logistics Command Element based on a Combat Logistics Battalion. The 24th MEU is currently based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Its stated mission is to provide geographic combatant commanders with a forward-deployed, rapid-response force capable of conducting conventional amphibious and selected maritime special operations at night or under adverse weather conditions from the sea, by surface and/or by air while under communications and electronics restrictions. |
194_1 | Current subordinate units
Ground Combat Element: 1st Battalion 8th Marines
Aviation Combat Element: VMM-162 (Rein)
Logistics Combat Element: Combat Logistics Battalion 24
History
Early years
What is today the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) was activated at various times as the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) in the 1960s and 1970s to participate in exercises and operations in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean.
In May 1982, it was redesignated the 24th MAU and served twice as part of the multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon (October 1982 through February 1983, and May through November 1983). The 24th MAU lost 241 personnel in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.
It continued to make routine six-month deployments to the Mediterranean during the next six years while also providing forces for operations in the Persian Gulf.
The 24th MAU was redesignated the 24th MEU in February 1988. |
194_2 | 1990s
On 16 April 1991, following Operation Desert Storm, elements of the 24th MEU, along with other U.S. and allied forces, were mobilized to complete a mission of mercy on behalf of the Kurdish people in Turkey and northern Iraq. During Operation Provide Comfort, the MEU delivered food, supplies and medicine and transported Kurds to "safe havens" and temporary tent cities.
The 24th MEU SOC (Special Operations Capable) took part in Operation Restore Hope and Operation Continue Hope, in Somalia during March and April 1994. The MEU provided humanitarian aid to the Somalis by transporting food and aid to many remote areas of the country.
The MEU then turned eastward, entering the Adriatic Sea, where from May to June 1994, it served in support of Operation Provide Promise and Operation Deny Flight in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
194_3 | Immediately upon returning from its six-month deployment, the 24th MEU redeployed to the waters of the Caribbean, off the coast of Haiti. The MEU served there from July to August 1994 as part of Operation Support Democracy.
In June 1995, elements of the 24th MEU launched a daring, daylight Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel mission to rescue Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady, who had been shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina six days earlier.
In 1996, the MEU served as a contingency force in the Adriatic Sea in support of Operation Decisive Endeavor. Near the end of October 1996, units from the MEU assisted U.S. Army and allied engineers with the construction of a bridge across the Drina River in Bosnia. |
194_4 | In March 1998, the MEU conducted 34 battlefield air interdiction missions as part of the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia, attacking with its AV-8B Harrier IIs from the Adriatic Sea. Also during 1998, the MEU was diverted from its regular deployment schedule to provide a forward presence in the Persian Gulf as the United States 5th Fleet landing force in support of Operation Desert Thunder. In addition, the MEU used its aviation assets to enforce the Iraqi no-fly-zone in support of Operation Southern Watch.
During November and December 1998, Marines from the 24th MEU were called upon to provide security for the American embassy in Tirana, Albania.
From 1999 to 2001, the 24th MEU participated in numerous multinational military exercises and conducted peace support operations in Kosovo. |
194_5 | Global War on Terror
On September 11, 2001, while the 24th MEU was on deployment in the Mediterranean Sea not too far from the coast of Cyprus, United Airlines Flight 93 and American Airlines Flight 11 crash into the World Trade Center in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. Prior to the events of September 11, 2001, the 24th MEU was scheduled to be relieved by the 26th MEU in October of 2001.
In August 2002, the 24th MEU departed Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. During its nine-month deployment, the MEU participated in Operation Dynamic Response in Kosovo and Operation Iraqi Freedom before returning home in May 2003. |
194_6 | In July 2004, the MEU departed for Iraq again. The deployment marked the first time in recent history that an MEU did not deploy as part of an Amphibious Ready Group. Arriving in Iraq by plane and cargo ships, the MEU served as part of the 1st Marine Division. The MEU was responsible for stability and security in northern Babil and southern Baghdad provinces, reported safe havens for insurgents. The 24th MEU also helped secure the "Triangle of Death" for the first free Iraqi elections.
On 18 July 2006, it was announced that the MEU, along with the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group, would be directed to Lebanon, to assist in the evacuation of U.S. nationals in Lebanon. U.S. nationals had become trapped in Lebanon, following a series of Israeli strikes which made the Beirut International Airport nonoperational, and similarly destroyed a number of major roads out of the country. |
194_7 | In February 2008, the 24th MEU began deploying its Marines to Kandahar, Afghanistan. They began their combat operations in April 2008. Marines of the 24th MEU flooded into the Taliban-held town of Garmsir 29 April 2008, in Helmand province, in the first major American operation in the region in years. By 1 June 2008, the Taliban were pushed out of Garmser. By mid-July, after a month and a half of heavy combat, the Marines were reporting that they had killed over 400 Taliban fighters in the Garmser area.
As the war in Afghanistan shifts from the expulsion of the Taliban to the stabilization of the country, the role for the MEU also shifts to a mission of winning hearts and minds. This involves close coordination with local Afghan leaders and roles as peace makers instead of just soldiers. |
194_8 | 2010 Haiti earthquake
After the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake on 12 January, the 24th MEU was diverted from its scheduled Middle East deployment to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to Haiti, as part of Operation Unified Response. Having sailed from its homeport Naval Station Norfolk on 18 January, 's amphibious ready group (which included Nassau, , and ) was diverted on 20 January, bringing with it the first V-22 Ospreys to be used for a humanitarian mission. On the 23rd, it joined the 22nd MEU, which departed Camp Lejeune on 15 January with the ARG and remained until it was ordered to depart for its original deployment on 8 February. |
194_9 | 2012 Deployment as Expeditionary Crisis Response Force
From 27 March to 20 December 2012, the 24th MEU deployed as an expeditionary crisis response force and theater reserve with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, which consisted of the amphibious assault ships , , and . They sailed throughout the Navy's 5th Fleet and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility, conducting training operations and planning for real-world crisis response. The MEU took part in two major multilateral events; Exercise African Lion 12 in Morocco and Exercise Eager Lion 12 in Jordan.
The majority of the MEU also conducted extensive training packages in Kuwait and Djibouti, Africa, while smaller Travelling Contact Teams dispersed throughout Africa to share experiences with militaries in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda. The MEU was scheduled to return from deployment around Thanksgiving but was extended until the middle of December in order to support potential crisis response missions. |
194_10 | Exercise African Lion 12
African Lion 12 was the first operational event for the 24th MEU. It took place from 7–18 April 2012 and focused on the sharing of tactics, procedures, and cultures between each military. The 24th MEU was involved in several significant events with the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, including an amphibious raid, and an intensive intelligence workshop, which included instruction and a demonstration of an RQ-11B Raven, one of the 24th MEU's organic unmanned aerial systems.
On 11 April 2012, a 24th MEU MV-22B Osprey crashed near Agadir, Morocco while training during African Lion. Cpls. Robby Reyes and Derek Kerns, both from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (Reinforced) were killed and two others seriously injured. A Marine Corps investigation concluded that pilot error was the cause of the accident.
Exercise Eager Lion 12 |
194_11 | From 8–30 May 2012, the 24th MEU took part in Exercise Eager Lion 12, the largest recurring, annual exercise in U.S. Central Command, designed to strengthen military-to-military relationships through a joint, whole-of-government, multinational approach. Eager Lion 12 consisted of over 11,000 personnel from 19 countries. The 24th MEU took part in a vast range of events including a simulated non-combatant evacuation operation and scenario-based training between the 24th MEU's CBRN defense team and Jordan's incident response force. The MEU's Battalion Landing Team, organized around 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines worked alongside Lebanese, Italian, and Saudi Arabian Forces while the MEU's air combat element, VMM-261, flew partnered flights alongside Jordanian pilots. |
194_12 | Expeditionary Crisis Response Force
The last half of the 24th MEU's 2012 deployment focused on their duties as an expeditionary crisis response force. After the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, the MEU began extensive planning for potential missions to aid and/or evacuate U.S. citizens throughout the region in a number of countries that included Sudan, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Syria and Pakistan. The threat of regional unrest resulted in an extension in the 5th Fleet area of responsibility. The MEU was later extended in November to continue serving as a ready, crisis response force throughout the Mediterranean region in 6th Fleet. This second extension led to the MEU returning home a month later than originally scheduled. They returned to North Carolina on 20 December 2012 |
194_13 | The 24th MEU's inherent task organization and flexibility allowed them to adapt to an ever-changing security environment and generate concurrent mission plans. The MEU/ARG even prepared to conduct disaggregated operations so the ships and staffs could be separated physically but still execute missions with "Alpha" and "Bravo" command and control elements, therefore maximizing efficiency and economy of MEU organic assets. |
194_14 | The crisis response mission was the hallmark of the 24th MEU deployment. The MEU commander, Colonel Francis L. Donovan, spent his post-deployment months briefing military and civilian leaders—including members of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Congress, Department of the Navy, and Headquarters of the Marine Corps— about the capabilities of the Marine Expeditionary Unit as America's premier crisis response force. During more than 30 separate briefings, Donovan presented details that explained how a MEU is best organized to take on crisis response missions, especially now that physical distance is no longer a serious limiting factor since MEUs have the extended range advantage of MV-22B Ospreys and the refueling assets of KC-130J Hercules, both aircraft organic to a MEU. |
194_15 | Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response
On 21 March 2013, Col. Scott F. Benedict took over command of the 24th MEU from Col. Frank L. Donovan. Less than four months later, in July, the 24th MEU command element deployed to Moron Air Base, Spain, to take over command and control functions of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Africa. Col. Benedict took over command of the Marine Corps' newest unit and brought along the 24th MEU executive officer, sergeant major, and other key staff members to comprise the SP-MAGTF Crisis Response command element. |
194_16 | 2015 Deployment
The MEU deployed from Dec 2014 to July 2015 to U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet. Highlights of the deployment included support to contingency efforts in Yemen, augment of security on U.S. Navy Mine Counter Measure ships, and support to Maritime Interdiction Operations. During the 221-day deployment, the ARG/MEU supported two Military Assisted Departures; participated in over 30 joint operations, activities, and actions; and conducted nine Theater Security Cooperation engagements. The USS Iwo Jima spent 155 days underway in U.S. 5th Fleet, at one time steaming for 84 consecutive days between ports, in order to provide critical support to Gulf Cooperation Council nations after the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen and departure of President Hadi from Yemen. The MEU supported the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group's presence operations during 160 overt Bab al-Mandeb Strait transits. |
194_17 | The MEU composited as a full Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) 26 May 2014, and began their Pre-deployment Training Program for their 2015 deployment. During the PTP, the MEU took part in Realistic Urban Training (RUT), PHIBRON/MEU Integration (PMINT), ARG/MEU Exercise (ARG/MEU Ex), Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), and Bold Alligator 15 before setting sail on their deployment in the middle of December.
The MEU entered the U.S. 6th Fleet on 20 December and the three ships of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group—USS Iwo Jima, USS New York, and —steamed into the Mediterranean, each conducting separate port visits in Italy, Spain, and Israel. The Marines from USS New York took part in Amphibious Landing Exercise East with Israeli Defense Forces. |
194_18 | On 10 January, the ARG/MEU entered U.S. 5th Fleet and assumed alert postures in response to declining conditions in Yemen. On 13 February, as the security situation in Yemen continued to deteriorate, the ARG/MEU supported the evacuation of U.S. citizens from Yemen at the request of the Department of State. Primarily, ARG/MEU assets were on alert to conduct contingency missions during the departure, including a quick reaction force, casualty evacuation, and recovery assets in case of a Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel. The ARG/MEU also provided significant planning and Command and Control capabilities to the contingency support effort. |
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