Appearance
🎉 your bitcoin🥳
"Sheila Osborne is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She represented the district of St. John's West in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1997 to 2011, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Osborne announced in June 2011, that she would not seek re-election in October's provincial election. Osborne was first elected to the Newfoundland assembly in a 1997 by-election held after Liberal Rex Gibbons resigned his seat. Her son Tom was also a member of the Newfoundland assembly. References Category:21st-century Canadian politicians Category:21st- century Canadian women politicians Category:Living people Category:Politicians from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador MHAs Category:Women MHAs in Newfoundland and Labrador Category:Year of birth missing (living people) "
"Alex Finlayson, 1983. Alex Finlayson is an American playwright whose sly irreverent plays found more success on the English stage than in the United States. After winning Finlayson a Mobil Oil International Playwriting Prize, Winding the Ball was produced by The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, which also commissioned and produced Finlayson's Misfits (1996) and Tobaccoland (1999). All three plays starred American stage and film actress Lisa Eichhorn and were directed by Greg Hersov. Hersov has written that Finlayson creates "vivid and authentic worlds underpinned by a fiercely personal moral vision. She deals with the most private sides of our lives but sees them in terms of the history and culture of her country." Plays by Alex Finlayson (Foreword by Greg Hersov). London: Oberon Books, 1998. . Reviewing Tobaccoland,Alex Finlayson, Tobaccoland. London: Oberon Books, 1999. . Stephen Gallagher says that Finlayson “fuses the epic and the intimate to deliver a play that should propel her into that category of American dramatists once dominated by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.” Gallagher, Stephen. "In Manchester", Plays International, July/August 1999. Finlayson's play Winding the Ball was praised for being "gripping, luridly funny" Peter, John. The Sunday Times, 5 November 1989. and "splendidly assured, with wit and perception that bespeak a major talent. Even [its] symbolism-- that Achilles heel of much American drama- packs a powerful punch." Hoyle, Martin. "A Shot Let Loose on the Town," Financial Times, 28 October 1989 It won actor David Schofield a Best Actor award from the Manchester Evening News.Ken McCreddie Associates Finlayson's most controversial play is Misfits, inspired by Arthur Miller's autobiography Timebends.Greg Hersov, REMEMBERING ARTHUR MILLER edited by Christopher Bigsby Finlayson was intrigued by Miller's account of the 1961 film The Misfits as a "valentine" for his wife Marilyn Monroe. Her play Misfits portrays the film's historic box office and artistic failure as the casual fault of screenwriter Miller, director John Huston, and producer Frank Taylor, and not its star, Marilyn Monroe, who is most often blamed for the film disaster. Misfits received mixed reviews, with some critics attacking Finlayson for daring to put Miller onstage as a character. However, The Times proclaimed the play "riveting" and "inventive."Kingston, Jeremy. "A Hit at Long Last," The Times, 13 May 1996. Perhaps not surprising, given Miller's stature, U.S. theaters steered clear of Misfits. But in a dramatic twist worthy of the stage, Arthur Miller may have had the final word. His last play, Finishing the Picture (Goodman Theatre, Chicago 2004), presented his version of Marilyn Monroe and the making of The Misfits (film) eleven years after Finlayson’s Misfits debuted.Don't Mess With Arthur Miller, Chicago Reader Alex Finlayson was born and grew up in East Texas the daughter of an actor. After a brief career as a New York advertising copywriter, she taught herself to write plays by moving to a remote cabin in the Appalachian Mountains and studying the work of playwrights she admired. Finlayson was an early protege of Julia Miles and the Women's Project.Introduction; WomensWork: Five New Plays from the Women's Project By Julia Miles Her first play, Ladies' Side, was produced by the Source Theatre, Washington D.C. and received a Helen Hayes nomination for Best New Play.Helen Hayes Awards and Nominees 1986 Another early play World of Beauty won the Texas Playwrights Festival (1988)at Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston while Ted Swindley was Artistic Director. References External links * Triangle Regional Playwrights: A Brief History by Byron Woods * Misfits explores Myth of Marilyn Monroe in Courageous Fashion, Style Weekly * Don't Mess with Arthur Miller, Chicago Reader * Misfits review, Financial Times * Tobaccoland review, The Guardian * Stages Revives Texas Salon Comedy, Houston Chronicle * Helen Hayes Awards * North Carolina Artists Grant Award * No Shushing in This Library, San Diego Reader * I Was A High School Teacher Dropout,San Diego Reader * I'm King of This Alley,San Diego Reader Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:People from Tyler, Texas Category:Wellesley College alumni Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights "
"Ramzi Albert Irani (Arabic: رمزي عيراني) (June 1966 - 20 May 2002) born in Lebanon was a well-known Lebanese Forces (LF) student representative at Lebanese University in Beirut. He was abducted and later found dead in 2002, following a series of events marking the eighth anniversary of the imprisonment of Lebanese Forces party leader Samir Geagea. Early life Irani was born in Hazmieh on 21 June 1966 to a Maronite family. He attended Sisters of Ibrin School, Collège de la Salle in Clémenceau and Collège Mont- la-Salle in Ain Saadeh. He studied engineering at the Lebanese University Faculty of Engineering in Roumieh where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1992. He worked in Total Liban in Beirut from 1993 until his death. Political background Irani was a well-known outspoken critic of the Syrian-occupied government in Lebanon. He led the Lebanese Forces in Lebanon's Order of Engineers elections to win a seat on the order's board for the first time, defeating Pro-Syrian and Hezbollah candidates. In 2000, Lebanese authorities briefly arrested Irani and he was released a short while later with broken ribs. After being released, Irani organized peaceful protests against the Syrian-occupied government of Lebanon and faced continuous harassment from Lebanese authorities. On 21 April 2002, he gave his last speech in public, during the celebration of the eighth anniversary of the imprisonment of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea at the Lebanese University Faculty of Law in Jal el Dib. Personal life In 1996, he married Jocelyne El Khoury and had two children, Yasmine (born 1997) and Jad (born 1999) . Abduction and murder On 7 May 2002, Irani was walking down the popular Hamra Street on his way to celebrate the birthday of his 5-year-old daughter, Yasmina when he was kidnapped without a trace. His lack of resistance suggested that he knew who his kidnappers were. On 9 May 2002, Amnesty International issued a statement to express the fear that Irani could be detained incommunicado and subjected to torture.Lebanon: Possible "disappearance"/fear of torture Ramzi Irani (m), aged 35. Amnesty International report, 9 May 2002. Retrieved on 28 May 2008 Starting 8 May 2002, Ramzi's friends began to receive brief anonymous phone calls during which callers would say that Ramzi's car was seen in Beirut.Ramzi Irani: Youth Martyr (in Arabic). The Lebanese Forces official website, 13 September 2008. Retrieved on 13 September 2008 After alerting the Police and visiting the places mentioned by the callers, it appeared that the claims were false. Irani's rotting corpse was found on May 21 in the back of his car.Missing LF man found dead in capital, Lebanonwire (from The Daily Star), 21 May 2002. Retrieved on 2008-12-07.Lebanon: Further information Possible "disappearance"/fear of torture Ramzi Irani (m), aged 35. Amnesty International report, 21 May 2002. Retrieved on 28 May 2008 The official cause of death was a bullet piercing to the heart. His body was discovered seven hours after the assassination of Jihad Jibril, son of PFLP-GC leader Ahmed Jibril in Beirut.Double murder in Beirut: Who's shaking Lebanon's security ?, Media Monitors Network, 10 September 2002. Retrieved on 2008-01-25. The two assassinations being clearly unlinked, some think that the kidnappers dumped Irani's corpse in the aftermath of Jibril's assassination for diversion purposes. A newsportal, Al Qanat, revealed they had received a report saying that Irani had been murdered because they feared he would speak out about his abductors and that it would have created a "big political crisis." Ramzi Irani's murder is still a cold case like many other brutal assassinations which have occurred against opponents of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon during the recent years. Many people in Lebanon point the finger at Syria and their agents inside Lebanon. Legacy Irani's involvement in the Engineers Section of the Lebanese Forces led to the establishment of the Ramzi Irani Memorial Award, awarded to the three students of the Faculty of Engineering in Roumieh who have received the highest grades in mechanical engineering, civil engineering and electronic and computer engineering departments. Since 2003, the LF students of the Faculty of Engineering in Roumieh have been holding a commemorative mass for Irani during May of each year. Also, the LF party celebrates the annual requiem mass in the Maronite Cathedral of St. Georges in the center of Beirut. See also *Syrian occupation of Lebanon *Lebanese Forces External links *Ramzi Irani Biography + Video - Arabic - *The Kidnapping and Assassination of Ramzi Irani * *Ramzi Irani photo album =Videos= *A documentary film about Ramzi Irani This film was produced by the Engineers Section of the Lebanese Forces. References Category:Lebanese Maronites Category:2002 deaths Category:1966 births Category:Lebanese University alumni "