The Chaser (newspaper)

The Chaser was a fortnightly satirical newspaper, published in Australia from 1999 to 2005. The masthead continued as a digital publication from 2005, as well as a short-lived app for the Apple iPad in 2010, before resuming print publication as a quarterly journal in 2015. The paper is best known for lending its name to the Australian comedy troupe The Chaser, made up of former contributors to the paper, who have gone on to produce a wide range of media under the Chaser brand.

History

The newspaper was first published on 9 May 1999, and quickly made a name for the Chaser team as cutting edge satirists. In particular, the publication gained notoriety after publishing Australian Prime Minister John Howard's private, unlisted home phone number on their front page, prompting readers to phone him with any grievances they had about the government's policies. The writers later claimed that the phone number was sent to them via an anonymous SMS and it was only later published in response to John Howard ignoring anti-war protests. Before this time The Chaser had a limited fan base, but the popularity of the paper was greatly increased as a result of being shown as a lead story in all major Australian news broadcasts.

Another notable stunt by The Chaser newspaper involved the award ceremony for Australian television, the Logies. The top award presented - the Gold Logie - is decided by a popular vote. Due to the small level of voting (restricted only to readers of the magazine TV Week), the Chaser team encouraged all their readers to vote for little known SBS news reader Anton Enus for the award, and only narrowly missed out on achieving the required number of votes.

Move away from print

In 2005, production of the paper was wound down due to lack of profitability, as well as to ease the demands on the writers who had become involved with other projects, including the Chaser's various media ventures. Although the final run of the original paper was published in February 2005,  the masthead and stories continued to be updated online via the Chaser website and a short-lived iPad app. These stories were also featured in a number of annual print publications released at the end of the year.

In 2015 the Australian National Archives undertook a project to digitize the entire print run of the Chaser newspaper, in recognition of its importance in the Australian media and political landscape. As a result, copies of the paper are now available online for free via Trove, the National Archive's digital resource.

Return to print

In 2015 the Chaser successfully crowd-sourced over $50,000 to re-launch the paper as a glossy journal, published four times a year. This publication is titled "The Chaser Quarterly" and has retained many of the original writers, as well as including new contributors from the Chaser's TV and radio shows.

See also

References

External links
 The Chaser

 The Chaser Sunday 9 May 1999 (first issue)

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Custines

Custines is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

History
The town was called Condé until 1719.

See also
 Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department

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Hronov

Hronov () is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 6,500 inhabitants. It is located near the Polish border.

The Jiráskův Hronov festival of amateur theatre takes place here every year. The festival is named after the famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek, who was born here.

Geography
Villages Malá Čermná, Rokytník, Velký Dřevíč, Žabokrky and Zbečník are administrative parts of Hronov. In Hronov are sources of water Hronovka and Regnerka.

History

Until 1918, the Hronow - Hronov town was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), in the Nachod (Náchod) district, one of the 94 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Bohemia.

A post office was opened in 1865.

Notable people
 Alois Jirásek (1851–1930), writer, author of historical novels and plays
 Helena Čapková (1886–1961), writer
 Josef Čapek (1887–1945), painter, writer, poet, inventor of the word robot
 Egon Hostovský (1908–1973), writer, editor and journalist
 Josef Lamka (1931–2009), animator, screenwriter and director

Twin towns — sister cities

Hronov is twinned with:
 Bielawa, Poland
 Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
 Warrington, United Kingdom

References

External links

 Hronov Municipal office official website

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Novo Selo, Želino

Novo Selo (, ) is a village in the municipality of Želino, North Macedonia.

Demographics
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 667 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:

Albanians 663
Bosniaks 1
Others 3

References

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Plistonax inopinatus

Plistonax inopinatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Lane in 1960.

References

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (The Generators album)

Volume 7, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is the seventh full-length album by The Generators. Released in 2009 by People Like You/Concrete Jungle in Europe and Japan. Recorded throughout March and May 2009 at The Mouse House in Altadena, Ca. by Rich Mouser.  The first Generator's full-length without original drummer Dirty Ernie Berru and the last to feature original guitarist and songwriter Sir Doosky. The band brought in Derek O'Brien of Social Distortion fame to fill in on drums.

Track listing
All songs by Dagger/Doosky unless otherwise noted.

 "The Devil's Lament" (Dagger/Doosky/Mouser)
 "Sound Off the Alarms"
 "Every Waking Moment" (Dagger/Lutz/Doosky)
 "Smoke and Mirrors"
 "Day of Reckoning"
 "World's Apart"
 "Same Old Day"
 "Southern Nights" (Dagger/Danny Damned)
 "Somewhere In the Rain"
 "Trainwreck"
 "Right Beside You" (Dagger/Danny Damned)
 "Lonely Boulevard" (Dagger/Doosky/Danny Damned)

Credits
Doug Dagger – lead vocals
Sir Doosky – lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals
Ace Von Johnson - rhythm guitar on "Sound Off the Alarms", "Smoke and Mirrors", "Day of Reckoning", and "Trainwreck"
Brandon Lutz - bass, backing vocals
Derek O'Brien – drums

Additional musicians
Rich Mouser – Hammond Organ, backing vocals and additional guitars on "World's Apart",  "Southern Nights", and "The Devil's Lament"
 Danny Damned - piano on "Sound Off the Alarms", "World's Apart", "Southern Nights", and "Right Beside You"

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May Thirtieth Movement Monument

The May Thirtieth Movement Monument is an outdoor sculpture and memorial commemorating to the May Thirtieth movement, installed at People's Park in Shanghai, China.

Description and history

The steel sculpture was installed just south of Nanjing Road in the 1990s. It depicts a flame and the two characters for 五 and 卅. Behind the sculpture is a bas relief explaining, in Chinese, the events that took place in 1925.

Reception
In 2008, Shanghaiist wrote, "we wouldn't recommend it. The city's homeless population apparently fails to grasp the monument's historical richness and instead tend to use its relative seclusion to literally take a piss on their shared heritage. But, in the spirit of the monument, it's kind of fitting the way underclasses are making their voices heard. Power to the people, right on."

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Anthropological Forum

Anthropological Forum (AF) is a scientific journal in anthropology and comparative sociology. It was founded in 1963 by Ronald Berndt: at the University of Western Australia and is sponsored by the Berndt Museum of Anthropology in Perth. In its early years of existence, it published widely on Aboriginal Australian issues, but has since developed to include anthropological studies of all cultural and geographical areas as well as on a wide range of theoretical issues.

Successive editors were Ronald Berndt (1963–1985), followed by John Gordon (1988–2000) and Robert Tonkinson (2000–2011). The current editors are , Katie Glaskin and Nicholas Harney. In addition, the journal has Mitchell Low as Associate Editor and Sean Martin-Iverson as Book Review Editor.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.000, ranking 38 out of 85 in the category "Anthropology". According to SJR (Scimago Journal & Country Rank), it has a H Index of 17.

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Lewis J. Feldman

Lewis Jeffrey Feldman (born October 10, 1945) is a professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley and is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Natural Resources. He is in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. Feldman has taught at Berkeley since 1978. He received Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1996. Feldman's research focuses on regulation of development in meristems/stem cells, root gravitropism, and redox regulation of plant development.

After graduating in 1963 from Sunset High School in Hayward, California, Feldman attended the University of California, Davis, earning a B.S. in 1967, then an M.S., both in Botany. He received a Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University in 1975.

Feldman is a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.

Honors and awards
 The Jeanette Siron Pelton Award - 1980
 CNR Teaching Award - College of Natural Resources - 1992
 Distinguished Teaching Award - University of California, Berkeley - 1996
 Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors - 1999

Selected research papers

Other writings
  (An abstract for a presentation)

Notes

References
  Feldman is quoted extensively in this article.

External links

 Feldman's profile on his department's website
 Plant & Microbial Biology Department, UC Berkeley
 College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley

Online videos
  Lectures from UC Berkeley's Biology 1B course, Spring 2012. Most of these videos are about 50 minutes long.

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Edward A. Diebolt House

Edward A. Diebolt House is a historic home located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York.  It is a Colonial Revival style frame house built in 1922-1923. It is representative of the standardized floor plan home constructed in the immediate post-World War I period and retains complete integrity.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.  It is located in the University Park Historic District.

References

External links
Diebolt, Edward A., House - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

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Nielsburg, California

Nielsburg (formerly, Nielsburgh and Niellsburgh) is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. Nielsburg is located  north-northeast of Auburn.  It lies at an elevation of 1539 feet (469 m).

The Nielsburgh post office operated from 1855 to 1866. The name honors the first postmaster, Arthur C. Neill.

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William McLaren Bristol

William McLaren Bristol (1860–1935) was one of the two co-founders  of Bristol-Myers, now part of Bristol-Myers Squibb.  Myers and Bristol founded the company that would evolve into an international pharmaceutical giant in Bristol's hometown of Clinton, New York in 1887.  Bristol graduated from Hamilton College in 1887.

Shortly after graduating from college, Bristol had partnered with his college contemporary, John Ripley Myers, and purchased a pharmaceutical company that was located in upstate New York. The company found its first success with the embracing of a mineral salt laxative, Sal Hepatica, that helped with dyspepsia. This medicinal product proved immensely profitable for the young entrepreneurs. Myers died in 1899. Bristol who would continue with the partnership posthumously. By the time of his death in 1935, it had become an international pharmaceutical conglomerate.

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Vorbach (Tauber, Weikersheim)

Vorbach  is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Tauber at Weikersheim.

See also
List of rivers of Baden-Württemberg

References

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Austrapoda seres

Austrapoda seres is a species of moth of the family Limacodidae. It is found in China (Chekiang and Shaanxi) on an altitudes of 1,600 meters.

The wingspan is 24–27 mm. The forewings are elongate with a distinct tornus and a basal white patch.  There is a hooklike pattern on the forewings, with black proximal and paler (almost white) distal margins. The hindwings are pale brown. Adults have been recorded in June and July.

Etymology
The species name, seres refers to the ancient Greek and Roman name for the inhabitants of the north-western part of modern China.

References

External links
 The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)

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Capture of Chusan

The First Capture of Chusan by British forces in China occurred on 5–6 July 1840 during the First Opium War. The British captured Chusan (Zhoushan), the largest island of an archipelago of that name.

Background
The Kangxi Emperor established an administration in the Chusan (Zhoushan) archipelago after the wars against the Zhengs in Taiwan and Geng Jingzhong during the Revolt of the Three Feudatories. The civil administration of Dinghai County was based in Chusan Island, the largest of the archipelago. The Dinghai regional command (zhen) covered a military garrison with a biao of three water force brigades and a total of 2,600 troops. They also controlled a water force (xie) based in Xiangshan and two water force brigades based in Shipu and Zhenhai. In 1684, Kangxi lifted the early Qing maritime trade ban (haijin), and Ningbo was designated as a foreign trading port. In 1698, port authorities established the "Red Hair House" at Dinghai, where they could receive British traders. The Qianlong Emperor banned the British from Ningbo in 1757 and Dinghai was closed to foreign trade. The British remained familiar with the place and continued to view it with profitable trading potential.

On 4July 1840, the Wellesley, Conway, Alligator, and Rattlesnake arrived in the anchorage off Chusan harbour. In the afternoon, Captain John Vernon Fletcher of the Wellesley, Lord Robert Jocelyn, and interpreter Karl Gützlaff were sent on board the junk of a Chinese admiral, who was also governor of the Chusan islands. They delivered a written message from Commodore James Bremer, commander-in-chief of the British naval forces, and Brigadier George Burrell, commander-in-chief of the land forces, to surrender the island of Chusan. Bremer and Burrell claimed the occupation was necessary after the "insulting and unwarrantable conduct" of the Canton high officers Lin Zexu and Deng Tingzhen last year towards Chief Superintendent Charles Elliot and British subjects. Part of the message stated:

After an hour, Chinese admiral and other officials accompanied the British on board the Wellesley. The Chinese objected to being made answerable for actions at Canton, saying, "those are the people you should make war upon, and not upon us who never injured you; we see your strength, and know that opposition will be madness, but we must perform our duty if we fall in so doing." They were informed that hostilities would commence if submission was not made before daylight the next day. Their last words before departing at 8:00 pm were: "If you do not hear from us before sunrise, the consequences be upon our own heads." Bremer wrote that "gongs and other warlike demonstrations were audible" throughout the evening.

Battle

On the morning of 5July, a large number of Chinese troops occupied the hill and shore. British seamen from the masthead of the ships observed the city walls of Dinghai, which were 1 mile (1.6 km) from the beach, also lined with troops. At about 2:00 pm, the brigs Cruiser and Algerine got into position, and the signal was given to land. The first division comprised the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, Royal Marines, the 26th Regiment, and two 9-pounder guns. The second division comprised the 49th Regiment, Madras Sappers and Miners, and Bengal Volunteers. The British squadron consisted of the warships Wellesley, Conway, Alligator, Cruiser, and Algerine, the steamers Atlanta and Queen, and 10 gun-brigs or transport ships including the Rattlesnake. According to Chinese accounts, 1,540 troops were stationed at Dinghai: 940 on board 21 war junks with a total of 170 cannon, while 600 were on shore with 20 cannon. At 2:30 pm, the Wellesley fired at the Chinese fort resembling a Martello tower. The Chinese immediately returned fire from the shore and junks. The British cannonade lasted 7–8 minutes before the Chinese troops fled to the city walls behind the suburbs.

The British landed unopposed on a deserted beach, which Lord Jocelyn described as having "a few dead bodies, bows and arrows, broken spears and guns". By 4:00 pm, British troops placed two 9-pounders within 400 yards (370 m) of the city walls. Six more 9-pounders, two howitzers, and two mortars were later added to the arsenal. Burrell waited until the next day before ordering a resumption of operations. The next morning, he sent a party to reconnoitre the city. Although there were thousands of inhabitants during the evening, the city was now largely abandoned. The gate was found strongly barricaded by large sacks of grain. A company of the 49th regiment took possession of the main gate of the city, where the British flag was hoisted. The British, who only had one wounded, captured 91 pieces of ordnance and estimated the Chinese losses at 25 killed, with Admiral Zhang said to be among the wounded. According to Imperial Commissioner Yukien, the Chinese casualties were 13 killed and 13 wounded, with Zhang having died from his wounds. Lord Jocelyn wrote that Zhang was taken to Ningbo, opposite of the island, and "although honours were heaped upon him for his gallant, but unavailing defence", he died a few days later. Zhang's costume was displayed at the National Museum of Scotland in 2017.

Lord Jocelyn described his account of the city:

Aftermath

On 8July, Rear-Admiral George Elliot, joint plenipotentiary with his cousin Captain Charles Elliot, issued a proclamation from HMS Melville. He declared, among other things, that Chinese natives shall continue to be governed under Chinese laws (excluding torture), and that the "civil, fiscal, and judicial administration" of the Chinese government shall be exercised under the British officer in chief command of the land forces. Brigadier Burrell became governor of Chusan, Gützlaff was made chief magistrate, and Lord Jocelyn was appointed military secretary to the admiral.

Widespread sickness and mortality affected the troops who were in unsanitary conditions. Men were placed in tents pitched on low paddy fields surrounded by stagnant water. These moist, mosquito-ridden environments and lack of proper drainage helped spread malaria. Performing duties in a hot climate while wearing a coatee caused troops to become fatigued. Bad provisions, low spirits, and despondency led them to drink samshu, which increased their liability to disease. On 22 October, only 2,036 out of 3,650 troops were fit for duty, the rest being sick or dead. From 13 July to 31 December, there were 5,329 hospital admissions (including re-admissions) and 448 deaths. Half the admissions were for intermittent fever and two-thirds of the deaths were from diarrhoea and dysentery. William Lockhart of the Medical Missionary Society established a hospital in Chusan, operating from 13 September to 22 February 1841.

On 23January 1841, Captain Elliot dispatched the Columbine to Chusan, with instructions to evacuate it for Hong Kong Island. He declared the cession of Hong Kong to the United Kingdom after a tentative agreement with Chinese Imperial Commissioner Qishan a few days earlier.

Notes

References
The Annual Register, or a View of the History, and Politics, of the Year 1840. London: J. G. F. & J. Rivington. 1841.
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia. Volume 33. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co. 1840.
Bernard, W. D.; Hall, W. H. (1845). Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843 (2nd ed.). London: Henry Colburn.
Bingham, John Elliot (1843). Narrative of the Expedition to China, from the Commencement of the War to Its Termination in 1842 (2nd ed.). Volume 1. London: Henry Colburn.
The Chinese Repository. Volume 9. Canton. 1840.
The Chinese Repository. Volume 10. Canton. 1841.
"Chronicle: February". The Annual Register, or a View of the History, and Politics, of the Year 1841. London: J. G. F. & J. Rivington. 1842.
Jocelyn, Robert (1841). Six Months with the Chinese Expedition; or, Leaves from a Soldier's Note-book (2nd ed.). London: John Murray.
MacPherson, Duncan (1843). Two Years in China (2nd ed.). London: Saunders and Otley.
Mao, Haijian (2016). The Qing Empire and the Opium War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .
Ouchterlony, John (1841). A Statistical Sketch of the Island of Chusan, with a Brief Note on the Geology of China. London: Pelham Richardson.
Ouchterlony, John (1844). The Chinese War. London: Saunders and Otley.

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Athletics at the 1989 Summer Universiade – Men's decathlon

The men's decathlon event at the 1989 Summer Universiade was held at the Wedaustadion in Duisburg on 26 and 27 August 1989.

Results

References

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Virtual Pool: Tournament Edition

Virtual Pool: Tournament Edition is a sports simulation video game developed by Celeris and published by Global Star Software as an entry in the Virtual Pool franchise, a spin-off sequel to Virtual Pool 3. The game was initially released on Xbox with a planned PlayStation 2 version which was later cancelled.

Gameplay
Virtual Pool: Tournament Edition features many of the same gameplay modes that were in the release of Virtual Pool 3, including 18 game modes. These modes include Snooker, 8-ball and 9-ball pool; but range to games like Honolulu and Bowliards.

The career game mode is the same one that would appear in Virtual Pool 4 as the "hustle career" mode, and also in Virtual Pool Mobile. This features a series of bar rooms where the player plays against the AI for money. Winning against each of the bosses in turn wins opens up the next room, where the player can eventually challenge "Curly", the games end boss. Curly is introduced in game with a series of videos taunting the player between rooms.

Reception

Virtual Pool: Tournament Edition received mixed to average review scores from critics. Critic aggregator websites Metacritic and GameRankings scored the game at 62% and 61% respectively. with the biggest complaint of the game being its cost in comparison to the amount of in-game variety. Despite the variety of 18 game modes, some were not implemented to full potential.

Alex Navarro of GameSpot reviewed the game, stating that the Trick Shot mode, whilst fun, left them with "no explanation of how you're supposed to pull them off". The review also suggested the game was in need of a dedicated multiplayer mode. The ended by stating that "Virtual Pool is still a tough game to recommend."

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Charles Holcomb

Charles Ruford Holcomb (born 1933) is a retired Texas judge who served on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals from 2001 to 2010.

He attended Lee College in Baytown and Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, for his undergraduate education. He served in the United States Air Force Reserve from 1951 to 1953; he then graduated in 1958 from South Texas College of Law.

From 1959 to 1966, he was the city attorney, first for Deer Park and then for Orange in far southeastern Texas. In 1967, he was elected to the County Court at Law of Orange County and served until 1972. During the school term of 1970-1971, he was also adjunct professor of Government at the Lamar University extension campus in Orange.

From 1972 to 1981, he was in private practice with Cox, Holcomb & Sinclair, contemporaneously serving Cherokee County as county attorney from 1974 until 1981, when he was elected district attorney for the same county, a position he retained until 1991.

In 1992, he was elected as a Democrat for the position of Justice of the Twelfth Court of Appeals, a post he held 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he sat by assignment in trial and appellate courts as a senior judge. Judge Holcomb was elected to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2000 as a Republican. His term on the Court of Criminal Appeals began in 2001. Holcomb, then seventy-one, was required by law not to serve as an active judge after he turned seventy-five in September 2008.

He faced two challengers for re-election in the Republican primary election in 2006, Judge Robert Francis of Dallas, and then State Representative Terry Keel of Austin.  Keel challenged both Holcomb and Francis for technical flaws in their applications to be on the ballot.  Holcomb's candidacy was affirmed by the Texas Supreme Court and he won re-nomination and reelection. After his re-election, the Texas Constitution was amended to allow judges who turn seventy-five during their term to serve-out a four-year term, meaning Holcomb could serve four years of his six-year term. Holcomb retired from the Court of Criminal Appeals in 2010 and decided to run for the Senate election in 2012, but the nomination instead went to Ted Cruz, who won the party runoff election against David Dewhurst.

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Suran, Hama Governorate

Suran () is a Syrian city administratively belonging to the Hama Governorate. In the 2004 census, Suran had a population of 29,100. Its inhabitants are predominantly Syrian Arabs of Sunni Muslims

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Next Is the E

"Next Is the E" (alternately known as "I Feel It") is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released in October 1992 as the third single from his self-titled debut album.

Release
"Next Is the E" was released on October 28, 1992. The single peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. It was featured on the soundtrack of the 1992 film Cool World.

In the United Kingdom, the track was renamed "I Feel It", due to Moby's record company's concerns over what appeared to be a drug reference in the original title. Released as a double A-side single with "Thousand", it peaked at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart.

Track listing

Charts

References

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Paul Ryan (boxer)

Paul "Scrap Iron" Ryan (born , Kent) is an English professional light welter/welter/light middleweight boxer of the 1990s who won the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Inter-Continental light welterweight title, British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British light welterweight title, and Commonwealth light welterweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British welterweight title against Geoff McCreesh, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. light welterweight to , i.e. light middleweight.

References

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List of special state routes in Georgia (U.S. state)

The State Routes in the U.S. state of Georgia (typically abbreviated SR) are maintained by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). Routes from 400 to 499 are mostly unsigned internal designations for Interstate Highways. Some of the Governor's Road Improvement Program (GRIP) corridors are numbered from 500 to 599.

Special routes

See also

References

External links
 Georgia Roads - The Unofficial Georgia State Highways Web Site
 Georgia State Highway Ends

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Renewable energy in Ukraine

In Ukraine, the share of renewables within the total energy mix is still very small, but is growing fast. Total installed capacity of renewable energy installations more than doubled in 2011 and  stands at 397 MW. In 2011 several large solar power stations were opened in Ukraine, among them Europe's largest solar park in Perovo, (Crimea). Ukrainian State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Conservation forecasts that combined installed capacity of wind and solar power plants in Ukraine could increase by another 600 MW in 2012. According to Macquarie Research, by 2016 Ukraine will construct and commission new solar power stations with a total capacity of 1.8 GW, almost equivalent to the capacity of two nuclear reactors.

The Economic Bank for Reconstruction and Development estimates that Ukraine has great renewable energy potential: the technical potential for wind energy is estimated at 40 TWh/year, small hydropower stations at 8.3 TWh/year, biomass at 120 TWh/year, and solar energy at 50 TWh/year. In 2011, Ukraine's Energy Ministry predicted that the installed capacity of generation from alternative and renewable energy sources would increase to 9% (about 6 GW) of the total electricity production in the country.

It is envisaged to increase the share of renewable energy in the total balance of installed capacities to the level of about 20 percent by 2020, which in the baseline scenario is 12.1 GW (including large hydroelectric power plants), for which the volume of electricity production would be 25 TWh.

Progress towards targets

Renewable energy use in Ukraine started from a relatively low base in 2016 but its use is growing in all sectors. Overall in 2017 Ukraine 6.67% of total energy consumption in the country was provided by renewable energy sources. This broke down into 7.56% in the heating and cooling sector, 8.64% in the electricity sector and 2.44% in the transport sector. Renewable energy use has been growing particularly strongly in the electricity sector since 2018 with a large rise in solar power installations as well as smaller rises in wind power and other sources.

History

 87,8 MWp WPP, 407,9 MWp SPP - is in the occupied territory of the Crimea  138 MWp WPP in occupied part of Donbas. In total, 633.7 MW of green energy capacities are occupied by Russia.

At the end of the first half of 2014, the total electrical capacity of renewable energy facilities operating in the green tariff in Ukraine amounted to 1419 MW, of which the total capacity of wind farms is 497 MW, solar power stations - 819 MW, small hydropower plants - 77 MW, of electricity generation from biomass and biogas - 26 MW. Installed capacity of facilities producing thermal energy from renewable energy sources exceeded 1070 MW.

In 2017, the total capacity of renewable energy facilities increased by more than 10% - up to 1.5 GW. For the whole of 2017, the growth of the "green" generation was 260 MW. Climate News Network reported in 2017 that Chinese companies plan to spend $1bn in a solar power park in the nuclear disaster area in Ukraine.

According to NKREKP, for the 9 months of 2018, an additional 430 MW of power plant production of electricity from solar energy, wind, biomass, and small hydroelectric power plants were introduced. 83% of growth is SPP, 13% - WPP, 4% - biomass power plants. The share of renewable energy in the total electricity generation in Ukraine is 1.8%, and the share in value is 8.3%. In 2018, the accelerated development of Ukrainian "green" energy was recorded. Thus, during the year, 813 MW of new capacities generating power from renewable sources were installed. This is almost 3 times more than the volume of capacity introduced in 2017, namely, about 300 MW.

In particular, in 2018, the following additional capacities were introduced:

 646 MW solar power plants (SPP);
 70 MW SPP of private households (for 9 months);
 68 MW of wind power plants;
 13 MW biomass electricity generation plants;
 12 MW of electricity generating from biogas;
 4 MW of small hydropower plants.

Over 730 million euros were invested in the installation of 813 MW of renewable energy facilities.

Overall, by the beginning of 2019, Ukraine had 2,240 MW of power generating "clean" electricity, which was 1.5 times more than at the end of 2017 (about 1500 MW).

2019
In the first quarter of 2019, power plants producing electricity from renewable sources, with a total capacity of 862 MW, were commissioned in Ukraine, more than the whole of 2018.  The highest number of new solar power installations ever were recorded for the first quarter - 648 MW. Wind power plants expanded by 173 MW. The rest of the "green" power plants put into operation included biogas and small hydroelectric power stations.

installations in the 1st quarter:
 684 MW of SPP;
 173 MW of WPP;
 5 MW biogas plants;
 0.1 MW of small hydropower plants.

The Energy Efficiency Fund has estimated that since the beginning of the year, 730 million euro of investment has been received by Ukraine's alternative energy sector. At the same time, in 2019, an alternative source energy sector in Ukraine plans to attract 4 billion euros of investment. In the second quarter of 2019 six times more power plants that produce energy from renewable energy sources than in the same period in 2018, were commissioned in Ukraine . Generally, in April-June period in Ukraine were commissioned "green" power plants with a total capacity of 656 MW. The most active was introduction of solar power plants as 568.3 MW. Wind power plants were introduced at 71 MW. In addition, in the second quarter there are 16 MW of biogas power plants.

installations in the 2nd quarter:

 568.3 MW of SPP;
 71 MW of WPP;
 16 MW biogas plants;
 0.8 MW of small hydropower plants.

The regional leader in the number of commissioned capacities was Zaporizhia Oblast (152 MW) followed by: Mykolaiv (132 MW), Kyiv (76.3 MW), Dnipropetrovsk (49.1 MW), Vinnytsia (40.2 MW) and other Oblasts. In the first quarter of this year, objects of alternative energy produced 1.9 billion kWh of electricity. Currently, about 12,000 households use solar panels in Ukraine. In Q2, solar panels was installed by more than 3,000 households with a total capacity of more than 85 MW, which is more than 2 times more than in the first quarter of 2019. Since Q3 2015, the number of households installing solar panels has increased by almost 100 times. The total installed capacity of the installed solar plants and households is 280 MW, and the investment of households in solar energy amounted to EUR 240 million. The largest amount of SPP was installed in households in Dnipropetrovsk, Ternopil and Kyiv oblasts (including Kyiv). These three regions account for more than a third of all households using solar energy.

During Q3, 955.5 MW of new generating capacity was introduced, of which 97.8% was wind and solar. Most of the facilities were built in the Dnipropetrovsk region - 388.5 MW. It is followed by Zaporizhzhia region - 166.9 MW, and Mykolaiv region - 144.2 MW.

installations in the 3rd quarter:
 780.5 MW of SPP;
 154.8 MW of WPP;
 3.3 MW biogas plants;
 3.9 MW biomass plants;
 11.7 MW of small hydropower plants.

About 3,000 households installed solar panels with a total capacity of nearly 70 MW in Q3 2019. These SPP projects are being implemented nationwide. The total number increased to 14790 stations and capacity increased to 345 MW by 69 MW. TOP-3 areas with the highest number of households SPP are:
 1982 (≈ 50 MW) - Dnipropetrovsk;
 1369 (≈ 37 MW) - Ternopilska;
 1345 (≈ 27 MW) - Kyiv.

Solar energy

Wind power

Bio Energy

On the territory of the Forestry Gorenivka OTG of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast, a straw plant will be built and will generate 130 MW of thermal power (46.4 MW of electric power). As fuel in the future power plant, straw of different types will be used in Heston bundles - about 270 thousand tons per year. The main equipment of the power plant and technology will be supplied by Danish company Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor, BWSC. The project of the station was published by Khmelnitskyi Biofuel Power Plant LLC, which owns a land plot of 16 hectares. The area of the building will be 5 hectares.

Geothermal power

Ukraine has a certain potential for the development of geothermal energy. This is due to thermogeological features of the relief and features of the geothermal resources of the country. However, at present, scientific, geological, exploratory and practical work in Ukraine is concentrated only on the geothermal resources that are represented by thermal waters. According to various estimates, the economically expedient energy resource of thermal waters of Ukraine is up to 8.4 million tons of oil equivalent per year.

Practical development of thermal waters in Ukraine was carried out in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, where 11 geothermal circulating systems were constructed, which correspond to modern technologies for the extraction of geothermal heat of the earth. All geothermal installations worked at the research and industrial stage.

Large reserves of thermal waters were also found on the territory of Chernihiv, Poltava, Kharkiv, Lugansk and Sumy regions. Hundreds of wells that have discovered thermal water and are in conservation can be restored for their further exploitation as a system for extracting geothermal heat.

In calculating the amount of possible consumption of low-temperature geothermal resources in the geoclimatic conditions of different regions of Ukraine, it should be taken into account that their intense exploitation can lead to a decrease in the temperature of the soil massif and its rapid depletion. It is necessary to support such a level of use of geothermal energy, which would allow exploiting the source of energy resources without harming the environment. For each region of Ukraine there is a certain maximum intensity of extraction of geothermal energy, which can be sustained for a long time.

According to the November 2011 National Renewable Energy Action Plans, the amount of energy produced by geothermal plants should increase significantly by 2020, with an expected volume of heat production of 2 630.7 thousand tp, with an intermediate target in 1 348,1 thousand t.p. in 2015. To achieve the goals, significant investments in production and heating networks are required. Thus, the question of the policy of stimulation to give clear advantages to geothermal heat in front of heat from fossil fuels is actual, that is, the policy should work ahead.

Hydroelectricity

Hydrogen power

In May 2019, the innovations in hydrogen energy and the prospects for their implementation in Ukraine were considered by the Head of State Department for Energy Efficiency Sergey Savchuk with representatives of the powerful Japanese company Asahi Kasei and the  Energy Association. The meeting was the continuation of the negotiations launched with the company in April 2019 at the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Europe Hydrogen and Energy Show in Europe in Hanover, Germany.

See also
 Growth of photovoltaics
 Energy in Ukraine
 List of renewable energy topics by country
 Renewable energy in Poland
 Renewable energy in France
 Renewable energy in the United Kingdom

Notes

References

Sources
 TRANSITION OF UKRAINE TO THE RENEWABLE ENERGY BY 2050 // Heinrich Boell Foundation Regional Office in Ukraine, 2017


1948 World Fencing Championships

The 1948 World Fencing Championships were held in The Hague, Netherlands. The championships were for non-Olympic events only.

Medal table

Medal summary

Women's events

References

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Japan Air Transport

was the national airline of the Empire of Japan from 1928 to 1938.

History
Commercial aviation began in Japan with the privately held Japan Air Transport Institute, which pioneered passenger service between Sakai, Osaka and Tokushima on Shikoku island on 3 November 1922.

On 30 October 1928, the Japanese government established the Japan Air Transport Corporation (JAT) as the national flag carrier under the Ministry of Communications. JAT absorbed the Japan Air Transport Institute and two other small companies and began scheduled passenger services in 1929. It initially used the Imperial Japanese Army air base at Tachikawa as its terminal in Tokyo. JAT later moved to Haneda Airport, which was completed in August 1931.

JAT was heavily subsidized by the Japanese government, receiving the equivalent of $1 billion in today's currency prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. During the early 1930s, its aircraft were often chartered (for free) by the military for missions in Asia, especially during the 1931 invasion of Manchuria.

This role declined as military transport missions in China were taken over by three new carriers that JAT helped to establish: Manchukuo National Airways in 1932, Huitong Airways in 1936 and China Airways in 1938. These subsidiary companies were joint ventures between JAT and the puppet governments of Manchukuo and the Provisional Government of the Republic of China.

JAT shifted its focus to the civilian passenger market and began using new 14-passenger Douglas DC-2s on new, more commercially profitable routes between Japan and Manchukuo in 1936. With the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, JAT benefited from a resurgence in military passenger traffic.

In 1938, JAT carried nearly 70,000 passengers, representing 2.6 percent of the world's passenger traffic.

In December 1938, the government established a new airline, Imperial Japanese Airways, as a monopoly for all civil aviation and Japan Air Transport Corporation was merged into the new company.

Aircraft

Fokker Trimotor (1929-1938)
Fokker Super Universal
Nakajima Super Universal (1929-1938)
Douglas DC-2 (1936-1938)
Nakajima AT-2 (1937-1938)

Accidents and incidents
24 August 1938 Nakajima Super Universal (J-BJDO) collided in mid-air with a Mitsubishi Ki-1 (J-BIDH) over Omori, Tokyo, killing all five on board both aircraft and 55 on the ground.

References

External links
Early Japanese Civil Aviation at Century of Flight
JAT Timetable, 1929 20th Century Timetable Museum
JAT Passenger Boarding Ticket, 1936 JCAL

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Escape from Broadmoor

Escape from Broadmoor is a 1948 British short film featuring John Le Mesurier, in one of his earliest screen appearances. He plays Pendicost, a man escaped from an asylum, who police are hunting down. The title is a reference to Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire. It was the last film appearance of Victoria Hopper who had been a prominent leading lady in the 1930s.

Plot
An insane killer escapes from Broadmoor Hospital, and returns to the scene of a decade old crime, where the ghost of a servant girl he killed is bent on revenge.

Cast
 John Stuart as Inspector Thornton
 Victoria Hopper as Susan
 John Le Mesurier as Pendicost
 Frank Hawkins as Roger Trent
 Tony Doonan as Jenkins
 Gillie Fenwick as Sandy

References

External links

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Welch Island

Welch Island may refer to:

 Welch Island (Antarctica)
 Welch Island (British Columbia) in British Columbia, Canada
 Welch Island (New Hampshire) in New Hampshire, United States
 Welch Island (Nevada) in Nevada, United States
 Welch Island (Oregon) in Oregon, United States


Frank Scrine

Frank Scrine  (9 January 1925 – 5 October 2001) was a Welsh international footballer forward. He was part of the Wales national football team between 1949 and 1950, playing 2 matches. He played his first match on 15 October 1949 against England and his last match on 8 March 1950 against Ireland. At club level, he played for Swansea Town between 1947 and 1954, playing 142 matches, scoring 45 goals. He moved to Oldham Athletic and was the topscorer for the team in the 1953–54 season with 9 goals.

After leaving the English football league he played in the Welsh Football League with Llanelli, Ammanford, Milford United, Haverfordwest County and Bettws. He was a foreman at AWCO in Swansea, then a caretaker in the St David's Centre in Swansea and died on 5 October 2001.

See also
 List of Wales international footballers (alphabetical)

References

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Tom Peters (footballer)

Thomas James Peters (12 December 1920–2010) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Accrington Stanley, Bury and Mansfield Town.

References

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Eva Giganti

Eva Giganti (born 29 May 1976) is an Italian weightlifter. She competed in the women's flyweight event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Vanathavilluwa Divisional Secretariat

Vanathavilluwa Divisional Secretariat is a  Divisional Secretariat  of Puttalam District, of North Western Province, Sri Lanka.

References
 Divisional Secretariats Portal

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Kälin

Kälin or Kaelin is a surname, and may refer to:

 Alfred Kälin (born 1949), Swiss cross country skier
 Alois Kälin (born 1939), Swiss Nordic skier
 Carolyn Kaelin (1961–2015), American surgeon
 Charles S. Kaelin (1858-1929), American painter
 Christian Kälin, Swiss lawyer and businessman
 Karl Kälin (born 1943), Swiss psychologist
 Kato Kaelin (born 1959), American actor
 Urs Kälin (born 1966), Swiss alpine skier
 Walter Kälin (born 1951), Swiss humanitarian and lawyer

 See also
 Kalin (disambiguation)


Sergio Corbucci

Sergio Corbucci (; 6 December 1926 – 1 December 1990) was an Italian film director. He is best known both for his very violent spaghetti westerns and bloodless Bud Spencer and Terence Hill action comedies.

He is the older brother of screenwriter and film director Bruno Corbucci.

Biography

Early career

Corbucci was born in Rome.

He started his career by directing mostly low-budget sword and sandal movies. Among his first spaghetti westerns were the films Grand Canyon Massacre (1964) (which he co-directed under the pseudonym, Stanley Corbett with Albert Band), as well as Minnesota Clay (1965), his first solo directed spaghetti western. Corbucci's first commercial success was with the cult spaghetti western Django, starring Franco Nero, the leading man in many of his movies. He would later collaborate with Franco Nero on two other spaghetti westerns, Il Mercenario or The Mercenary (a.k.a. A Professional Gun) (1968) - where Nero played Sergei Kowalski, a Polish mercenary and the film also starring Tony Musante, Jack Palance and Giovanna Ralli - as well as Compañeros (1970) a.k.a. Vamos a matar, Companeros, which also starred Tomas Milian and Jack Palance. The last film of the "Mexican Revolution" trilogy - The Mercenary and Compañeros being the first two in the installment - was What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? (1972).

After Django, Corbucci made many other spaghetti westerns, which made him the most successful Italian western director after Sergio Leone and one of Italy's most productive and prolific directors. His most famous of these pictures was The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzio), a dark and gruesome western starring a mute action hero and a psychopathic bad guy. The film was banned in some countries for its excessive display of violence.

Corbucci also directed Navajo Joe (1966), starring Burt Reynolds as the title character, a Navajo Indian opposing a group of bandits that killed his tribe, as well as The Hellbenders (1966), and Johnny Oro (1966) a.k.a. Ringo and his Golden Pistol starring Mark Damon. Other spaghetti westerns he directed include Gli specialisti (Drop Them or I'll Shoot, 1969), La Banda J.S.: Cronaca criminale del Far West (Sonny and Jed, 1972), with Tomas Milian and The White the Yellow and the Black (1975), with Tomas Milian and Eli Wallach.

Spaghetti westerns
Corbucci's westerns were dark and brutal, with the characters portrayed as sadistic anti heroes. His films featured very high body counts and scenes of mutilation. Django especially is considered to have set a new level for violence in westerns.

Later career and legacy

In the 1970s and 1980s Corbucci mostly directed comedies, often starring Adriano Celentano. Many of these comedies were huge successes at the Italian box-office, they found wide distribution in European countries like Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland, but were barely released overseas.

His movies were rarely taken seriously by contemporary critics and he was considered an exploitation director, but Corbucci has managed to attain a cult reputation.

He died in Rome in 1990, five days before his 64th birthday, of a heart attack.

Filmography

Writer

Supreme Confession (1956)
Who Hesitates is Lost (1960)
An American in Toledo (1960)
The Son of Spartacus (1962)
Minnesota Clay (1965)
Django (1966)
Ringo and his Golden Pistol (1966)
Navajo Joe (1966)
Death on the Run (1967)
The Hellbenders (1967)
The Mercenary (A Professional Gun, 1968)
The Great Silence (1968)
Gli specialisti (Drop Them or I'll Shoot, 1969)
Compañeros (1970)
La Banda J.S.: Cronaca criminale del Far West (Sonny and Jed, 1972)
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? (1972)
Il Bestione (1974)
Di che segno sei? (1975)
The White the Yellow and the Black (1975)
The Con Artists (1976)
Il signor Robinson (1975)
Odds and Evens (1978)
Neapolitan Mystery (1979)
Super Fuzz (1980)
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)
Days of Inspector Ambrosio (1988)

Actor
Suonno d'ammore (1955) - Bank customer (uncredited)
Who Hesitates Is Lost (1960) - Billiard Player (uncredited)
Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita (1961) - Signore in coda al telefono (uncredited)
Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962) - Man waiting for Minister (uncredited)
Gli onorevoli (1963) - Albergatore di Roccasecca (uncredited) (final film role)

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John D'Auban

Frederick John D'Auban (1842 – 15 April 1922) was an English dancer, choreographer and actor of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.  Famous during his lifetime as the ballet-master at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, he is best remembered as the choreographer of many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

After performing as a child with his family, D'Auban continued a career as a comic dancer in music hall and pantomime.  He also served as dance master for the Alhambra Theatre, the Gaiety Theatre, London, and, for decades, Drury Lane.  In 1868, he began a long association with W. S. Gilbert, staging the dances for most of the original productions of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, including H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) and The Mikado (1885), as well as many other Savoy operas.  Between the 1860s and 1909, D'Auban choreographed more than 150 productions, including pantomimes, burlesques, musical comedies and comic operas.  He also taught dance to many who became famous performers.

Biography

Early years
As a child, D'Auban appeared with his sister, Marie, as Madame D'Auban's "celebrated infant dancers", from 1850 onwards, and continued to appear as part of the D'Auban family song and dance act throughout his childhood. As adults, he and his sister appeared together in a comic dance double act at the Crystal Palace in 1863. They appeared together in a Harlequinade at the opening of the Surrey Theatre, as Harlequin and Columbine, which ran during the Christmas season that year. They repeated their Harlequinade with variations during the Christmas seasons of 1868, 1869 and 1871.

Burlesque, pantomime and other early work

D'Auban quickly became popular as a grotesque dancer and "star-trap" performer in London music halls early in his career.  From 1865 to 1868, he danced in many of the Alhambra Theatre burlesques and pantomimes under director John Hollingshead.  He made a sensation in Paris in 1866, introducing that city to the star-trap.  According to Hollingshead, D'Auban was the champion of star-trap jumpers, able to spring through the trap, from below the stage, high up in the air in sight of the audience.

D'Auban began his forty-year association with W. S. Gilbert in 1868 by appearing in the bill at the opening of Hollingshead's Gaiety Theatre, London, including as one of two mysterious fiddlers in Gilbert's burlesque Robert the Devil.  The other was John Warde, elder brother of Willie Warde.  D'Auban and John Warde were billed as the theatre's "principal grotesque dancers and pantomimists". D'Auban then acted as ballet-master at the Gaiety, choreographing its famous burlesques, until 1891. In 1870 and in 1875 at the Gaiety, D'Auban choreographed Charles Dibdin's musical farce, The Waterman.  From 1868 to 1909, D'Auban arranged the dances for more than 150 productions in the West End, at 30 different theatres.

D'Auban married Warde's sister, Emma, in 1871, with whom he also performed. In the 1871 Christmas season, in the Harlequinade section of the pantomime Nip Van Winkle at the Pavilion Theatre, D'Auban played Harlequin, Emma was the "Harlequin à la Watteau", D'Auban's sister Marie was Columbine, and John Warde was Clown. The next Christmas, D'Auban and Warde appeared together as the eponymous Valentine and Orson at the Elephant and Castle Theatre. At the Gaiety, D'Auban appeared in and choreographed Fiz-Gig, "a new pantomimic ballet" in 1874.

Comic opera; Drury Lane
In 1876, D'Auban arranged the dances for the Gilbert and Frederic Clay comic opera Princess Toto, starring Kate Santley. In 1877, D'Auban began working with Richard D'Oyly Carte, Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan by arranging the dances for their comic opera The Sorcerer. In 1878, D'Auban trained Gilbert in his dances as Harlequin for the Harlequinade section of The Forty Thieves. D'Auban arranged the dances for the next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, H.M.S. Pinafore, which became extraordinarily successful. For the Christmas season in 1879, he choreographed the extravaganza burlesque of Gulliver's Travels by H. J. Byron at the Gaiety.

In 1880, D'Auban choreographed and appeared with his wife and sister in E. L. Blanchard's pantomime of Mother Goose at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.  Thereafter, until at least 1909, he was ballet-master and director at Drury Lane, especially of the pantomimes, where he also continued to perform in the Christmas pantomimes.  His son, Ernest Henry D'Auban (1874–1941), became the stage manager at Drury Lane for many years.  In 1881, D'Auban appeared in and arranged the dances for Robinson Crusoe, followed in subsequent years by such Drury Lane pantomimes as Sinbad The Sailor, Cinderella and Aladdin. In 1880, he choreographed Billee Taylor at the Imperial Theatre, Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio for H. B. Farnie, The Vicar of Bray at the Globe Theatre, and Rip van Winkle by Henri Meilhac, Phillipe Gille and Farnie, both at the Comedy Theatre.

In 1886, D'Auban choreographed Vetah, a comic opera with a libretto by Kate Santley and music by Firmin Bernicat and Georges Jacobi, which toured the British provinces in 1886. He played Demonico in Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim in 1887 at the Gaiety and arranged the dances. He also choreographed Faust up to date by Meyer Lutz, including his famous ballet music, a Pas de Quatre (1888), that became very popular and is still available today on CD. In 1889, he choreographed Cinderella; Or, Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly Away Home at Her Majesty's Theatre and both choreographed and appeared in Aladdin, and the Wonderful Lamp; or, The Willow Pattern plate and the Flying Crystal Palace at the Crystal Palace. Other later Gaiety burlesques choreographed by D'Auban included Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué (1889) and Carmen Up to Data (1890).

D'Auban continued to choreograph most of the Gilbert and Sullivan and other Savoy Theatre pieces throughout the 1880s and 1890s.  These included Iolanthe (1882),Princess Ida (1884), The Mikado (1885) (D'Auban is played by Andy Serkis in the 1999 film Topsy-Turvy concerning the making of The Mikado), Ruddigore (1887), The Yeomen of the Guard (1888), The Vicar of Bray (1892), Captain Billy (1892), Haddon Hall (1892), Jane Annie (1892), Utopia Limited (1893), The Chieftain (1894), The Grand Duke (1896), His Majesty (1897), The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (1897), The Beauty Stone (1898) and The Emerald Isle (1901).

1890s and 1900s
[[File:D'Auban-Denny-Haddon-Hall.jpg|thumb|right|300px|D'Auban rehearsing W. H. Denny for Haddon Hall]]
The 1890s were D'Auban's most prolific decade as a choreographer, with more than 70 productions in the West End, in some of which he also danced. In addition to the many comic operas that he choreographed at the Savoy in the 1990s, he choreographed a series of musical pieces at the Lyric Theatre, beginning with The Red Hussar (1889), and including La Cigale (1890), Little Christopher Columbus (1893) and others.  In 1890, D'Auban played the Beast in the Drury Lane's Christmas pantomime of Beauty and the Beast, and he both performed in and choreographed Humpty Dumpty or, Harlequin the Yellow Dwarf, and the Fair One with the Golden Locks (1891). He and his wife danced in a revised version of The Golden Web, libretto by Frederick Corder and B. C. Stephenson, music by Arthur Goring Thomas at the Lyric in 1893. He was the resident choreographer at the Adelphi Theatre in 1892 to 1893.

His other choreographic work during this period embraced pantomime, comic opera and musical comedy, including a revival of the hit comic opera Dorothy by B. C. Stephenson and Alfred Cellier at the Trafalgar Square Theatre (1892), Gilbert's The Mountebanks at the Lyric (1892), The Black Domino by George R. Sims and Robert Buchanan at the Adelphi Theatre (1893) and Gilbert's His Excellency at the Lyric (1894). At the beginning of the transition of British musical theatre from comic opera and burlesque to Edwardian musical comedy, he choreographed An Artist's Model at Daly's Theatre for George Edwardes in 1895. In 1896, he choreographed a revised version of a musical, The New Barmaid, followed by A Man About Town and The Mermaids at the Avenue Theatre, Aladdin at Drury Lane, in which his son Ernest appeared with Decima Moore, Dan Leno and Paul Cinquevalli and Black-ey'ed Susan at the Adelphi. He then choreographed the British production of Lost, Strayed or Stolen (1897) a musical comedy by J. Cheever Goodwin, Woolson Morse and Leslie Stuart at the Duke of York's Theatre and Babes in the Wood at Drury Lane (1898). In 1897, he was also back at Her Majesty's Theatre with Rip Van Winkle, Hansel and Gretel and The 'Prentice Pillar and at the Shaftesbury Theatre choreographing The Yashmak and The Wizard of the Nile.

In 1900 and 1901, D'Auban returned to the Globe Theatre with The Gay Pretenders, A Little Supper and Sweet Nell of Old Drury.  Also in 1900, he was at the Haymarket Theatre with Sweet Nell of Old Drury and The School for Scandal.  In 1903, he choreographed Monsieur Beaucaire at the Imperial, also choreographing many revivals of this piece in London throughout the decade. He choreographed W. S. Gilbert's Harlequin and the Fairy's Dilemma at the Garrick Theatre (1904). In 1905, he first choreographed The Scarlet Pimpernel at the New Theatre, a work that he saw through several revivals.  He then choreographed revivals of The Yeomen of the Guard (1906) and The Gondoliers (1907) at the Savoy for Helen Carte. His final productions were Gilbert's last opera, Fallen Fairies (1909) and another Aladdin at Drury Lane, both in December 1909.

Dance teacher and last years
D'Auban became so famous as a dance teacher that his teaching style became known as the "D'Auban school".  Among his dance students were Alice Lethbridge, Sylvia Grey, Mabel Love, Margaret Morris, Lillie Langtry, Mary Anderson and Letty Lind.  He partly inspired the art of skirt dancing.

The humour magazine Punch honoured D'Auban in the following verse:
See Mr. Johnny D'Auban,
He's so quick and nimble,
He'd dance on a thimble,
He's more like an elf than a man.

D'Auban died at his home in Maida Vale, London at the age of 80.

Notes

References
Gänzl Kurt. The British Musical Theatre'', vol. 1, Macmillan Press, 1986

External links
1892 Variety performance choreographed by D'Auban
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Category:English choreographers
Category:People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan
Category:1842 births
Category:1922 deaths
Category:19th-century English male actors