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The Williamses returned to New York in October 1859. On October 17, 1859, they appeared at Niblo’s Garden playing in Born to Good Luck, An Hour in Seville, and in Latest from New York. This engagement lasted 36 nights. |
The two starred in annual tours throughout most of the 1860s before Williams was given the opportunity to manage (1867–1868) Wallack's Broadway Theatre. In the 1860s they most performed in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and New York. By 1863 they were playing in Washington, D.C., performing "The Fairy Circle" in Grover Theatre in February. On February 26 they performed at Grover’s for Abraham Lincoln. In October 1863 Barney performed for the Union troops of the 47th New York Infantry Volunteer |
Infantry as they sailed down the Hudson, as mentioned by Private Miles O’Reilly. Barney and Maria appeared at Niblo’s Garden in New York in "Irish and Yankee Life" and "The Connie Soogah", December 1864. Barney may have sung "The Bowld Soldier Song" for the Irish Brigade of the 63rd New York Volunteers in 1864. |
Maria debuted on French stage, April 23, 1867; she appeared in the French Theatre in New York acting the part of Caesarine Clapier in the vaudeville of "Le Marly dans du Coon". Barney and Maria appeared in The Emerald Ring at the Broadway Theatre in New York, April 5, 1869. On April 28, 1869, Barney played the last night the theatre was open in "Ireland As It Was" as Ragged Pat. Barney and Maria began an engagement in "Connie Soogah, or the Jolly Peddler" on September 21, 1874, at Booth’s Theatre in New York. In December 1875 Barney performed – perhaps for last time – at Booth’s theatre, "The Coonie Soogah" and "The Fairy Circle". |
Barney died in New York City as a result of a stroke while in his 51st year (1876). Over his career Williams’ success was such that he became one of the wealthiest actors of his day, leaving behind an estate considered to be in the neighborhood of $400,000. |
Williams’ funeral service was held at St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic Church on the morning of April 28, 1876. Listed among his pallbearers were General John C. Frémont, Judge John R. Brady and actors Lester Wallack and John Brougham. Williams’ remains were interred at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. He was survived by his wife, daughter Marie and three sisters. |
"Over on the other side of the cemetery, on Battle Hill, from which the bay and the city can be viewed, sleeps Barney Williams, almost the first actor in the line of Irish comedy. His monument is a rich and costly one, of the Gothic order. It is adorned with a marble bust of the comedian. On the base of the monument is the name "Bernard Flaherty," which was the real name of Barney Williams. This plot is kept in splendid order by the actor's widow, still a handsome woman, whose snowy hair seems like a crown upon her shapely head. Historic Long Island, 1902, Rufus Rockwell Wilson" |
Maria's last performance was in 1877, performing a week's engagement at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. Maria Pray Williams died in 1911 in New York City. |
= = = Panteleimonas, Pieria = = = |
Panteleimonas () is a community of the Dio-Olympos municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of East Olympos, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 911 inhabitants in the community. |
The community of Panteleimonas comprises the villages of Neos Panteleimonas (810 residents as of 2011), Palaios Panteleimonas (11 residents as of 2011) and Paralia Panteleimonos (90 residents as of 2011). |
= = = Swan District Hospital = = = |
Swan District Hospital was a general public hospital in Middle Swan, in Perth's north-eastern suburbs. The hospital had an emergency department, 193 beds, and also provided outpatient services. It closed on 24 November 2015 following the opening of the Midland Health Campus. |
The construction of the Swan District Hospital was being considered in 1951. |
It was opened on 22 September 1954 by the Minister for Health, Emil Nulsen, as a 25-bed maternity hospital. A hospital in the Midland area had previously been requested in the 1930s. The hospital expanded with the addition of a 40-bed general wing that opened 18 October 1963. A second general wing, that also included new X-ray facilities and a nursing aide training school, opened on 20 August 1971. The Swan Valley Centre, a 25-bed mental health unit, opened in early 2001. |
Swan District Hospital closed following the opening of the new Midland Health Campus on 24 November 2015. In September 2015, it was reported that all health services at the site except the dental clinic would cease when the main hospital closed. Kim Hames, then the state Health Minister, stated that the hospital site may be sold to pay down state debt. The site was handed to the Department of Lands in March 2016. |
= = = Love and Summer = = = |
Love and Summer is a novel written by William Trevor, first published in 2009 and long-listed for the Booker prize. The story takes place in the fictitious town of Rathmoye in Ireland during the 1950s. It concerns the illicit love between a photographer and the young married wife of a farmer. |
Ellie and her farmer husband Dillahan live a quiet life near the town of Rathmoye. She is a foundling who was raised in an orphanage by Catholic nuns and is the second wife of Dillahan, who earlier had killed his first wife and child in an accident. |
During the funeral of Mrs Connulty at Rathmoye a stranger, Florian Kilderry, asks Ellie for direction to the burned down cinema, and their brief conversation is noticed by Miss Connulty, Mrs Connulty's spinster daughter, who determines that the two have struck out a love relationship based on this tenuous encounter. Florian, a photographer, and Ellie begin to notice each other and soon a love affair spanning the languid summer takes place, as the couple remember their lives lived up to that point. |
= = = Clark Tobin = = = |
Clark W. Tobin (January 1, 1887January 25, 1952) was an American football player and coach. |
Tobin played college football at Dartmouth College in 1909 and 1910. He was the captain of the 1909 Dartmouth Big Green football team and was selected as a first-team All-American at the guard position in 1909. Tobin also served as the head football coach at Tufts College in 1911. |
Tobin was a native of South Boston. During World War I, he served as a captain in the infantry of the United States Reserves at Camp Meade. He later served as an executive vice president and sales manager for Propper-McCallum Hostery Company, Inc., in New York. Tobin died in 1952 at age 65. |
= = = Arthur Goss = = = |
Arthur S. Goss was the City of Toronto′s first official photographer. |
William Arthur Scott Goss was born in London, Ontario on 4 March 1881. He moved to Toronto in 1883, where his father, John Goss, worked in the newspaper and publishing industries. When his father died, Goss, age 10, began work as an office boy in the city engineer's office. He was promoted to clerk of street repairs in 1899 and worked as a clerk and a draughtsman for nearly twenty years. Then, in 1911, he was promoted to head of the photography and blueprinting section and became the city of Toronto's first official photographer. |
Working until his death in 1940, Goss made photographs for a range of municipal departments. Some of his best-known images were taken for the Works and Health Departments. For the Works Department, he photographed street cleaning, the construction of new roads, and major infrastructure projects, such as the city's new hydroelectric system and the Bloor Viaduct. His photographs of street grading and widening, bridge, underpass, and sewer construction, street cleaning, and garbage disposal were used as records to assist with the routine business of the Works Department, which, at the time, was focused on improving the physical environment of the city. |
Medical Health Officer Dr. Charles Hastings enlisted Goss's help in his crusade to improve public health. Goss photographed unsanitary and overcrowded conditions for the Health Department, and Hastings used Goss's photographs as evidence in his 1911 report on slum conditions. Many of Goss's photographs for the Health Department were never published, but were used internally to identify problems, to track the progress of particular projects, or to report on new technologies and methods for carrying out the Department's work. With Goss as the city photographer, photographs quickly became an important resource in many aspects of Toronto's municipal government. |
Goss was a member of the Toronto Camera Club and an active member of the pictorialist movement. He explored customary pictorialist subject matter, such as portraits and landscapes, and experimented with the characteristic soft-focus style of pictorialism. Like others associated with the movement, Goss aimed to produce aesthetically pleasing images and viewed his artistic practice as a form of personal expression. He organized exhibitions of art photography and won awards for his own photographs, which were shown at exhibitions in Canada and England. |
There are approximately 26,000 negatives in the Arthur Goss collection at the City of Toronto Archives. These negatives were found in the attic of old City Hall and were catalogued by city archivists in the 1960s. |
Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje relied on Goss′s photographs when researching his novel In the Skin of a Lion about the immigrant and working class experience in early 20th Century Toronto. |
Ondaatje decided to include Goss as a character in this novel. |
Following the interest in Goss, following the publication of Ondaatje′s novel, the City of Toronto Archives developed a special lecture and tour, tailored for students, addressing the role of Goss′s photos in Ondaatje's book. |
Goss's duties included providing a visual record of the health and social problems posed by urban poverty. |
Scholars have compared Goss's photographs of urban poverty to those of Jacob A. Riis and Lewis W. Hine. |
Decades after his death, his work is celebrated, in several books collecting his photographs, and in magazine profiles. |
= = = Kalaya = = = |
Kalaya () is a town in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (now part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) of Pakistan. It is located at 33°44'44"N 70°57'35"E with an altitude of 1645 meters. It is currently the winter administrative capital of Orakzai Agency, and is located in Lower Orakzai Tehsil. The summer administrative capital is Ghiljo Bazar. |
= = = 2013 Dasmariñas local elections = = = |
Local elections will be held in the city of Dasmariñas on 13 May 2013 together with the National and the provincial level elections. Since Dasmariñas is a first class city in terms of income and the 2nd largest city in southern Luzon in terms of population, however it still an ordinary component city, it means it still elect a provincial official, despite of its own representation in the congress. |
Since 1998 Barzagas have dominated in the elections. Their allies have also won several positions in the city/municipal council. In 2010, the Barzagas were members of Lakas Kampi supporting Gilbert Teodoro, who lost to Benigno S. Aquino III of the Liberal Party. When the 15 Congress started, Pidi became a member of the majority group of Feliciano Belmonte. The following year his faction from Lakas-Kampi established the new party, National Unity Party. |
This 2013, Pidi Barzaga and his wife Jenny is running for their last term for congressman and mayor, respectively, together with Vice Mayor Valeriano "Vale" Encabo. Although they are running under the National Unity Party, they are also nominated by the Liberal Party due to electoral alliance with Rep. Ayong Maliksi, the alliance called as Team Dasma. |
Meanwhile, last term Councilor Gavino "Gabby" Mercado, former Barzaga's allied, are still with the Lakas party, and in alliance with Gov. Jonvic Remulla and Jolo Revilla, is running for mayor along with Miguelito "Mike" Ilano who was lost for board member of 4th district in 2010, is running for congressman. The Mercado group known as the Amazing 16 which included Remulla and Revilla in the coalition. |
Elpidio "Pidi" Barzaga is the incumbent. Although he is running under the National Unity Party, he also nominated by the Liberal Party. |
Although Dasmariñas is a large city not only in CALABARZON region but also in the entire Southern Luzon in terms of income and population, however, it is still not an independent city, and is still in the jurisdiction of the Province of Cavite (4th district) thus it can allow its people to run in and elect to the provincial positions. Incumbent Board Members Teofilo Rudy Lara and Raul Rex Mangubat, both from NUP and Liberal Party are the two candidates to the post of provincial board members. No other opponents are running. |
Jenny Barzaga is the incumbent, running against incumbent City Councilor Gavino "Gabby" Mercado, who is in his last term. |
National Unity Party (Philippines) |
Valeriano "Vale" Encabo is the incumbent. He will oppose Liga ng mga Barangay President and Brgy. Fatima III Chairman Antonio "Damo" Ferrer (namesake of Cavite Rep. Antonio Ferrer, who is running for Mayor of neighboring Gen. Trias, Cavite). |
National Unity Party (Philippines) |
Election in the city council is at large at 12 seats on the line. Some candidates from Lakas-CMD are considered as independent because they did not submit their certificate of nomination from their party. 28 people are running, 8 of them are incumbent, all from Team Dasma (NUP/LP) coalition. All 12 candidates of Team Dasma are won. |
Term limited candidates are the following: |
Notes |
= = = 2013 Campeonato Carioca = = = |
The 2013 Campeonato Estadual da Serie A de Profissionais do Rio de Janeiro was the 112th season of the top tier football of FFERJ (Federação de Futebol do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, or Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation). The competition began on 19 January and ended on 19 May. Botafogo won. |
The sixteen clubs were divided into two groups that played in two tournaments. In the first tournament, the Taça Guanabara, the teams played a match with each teams in the other group in a single round-robin format. The two best teams from each group advanced to the playoffs. In the second tournament, the Taça Rio, the teams from one group will played within their group in a single round-robin tournament. The two best teams from each group advanced to the playoffs. The winner of both the Taça Guanabara and Taça Rio played for the state championship. If the same team won both tournament, they were automatically declared the champion. |
The best four teams not qualified to 2014 Copa Libertadores qualified for 2014 Copa do Brasil. The best team not playing in Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, B, or C qualified for 2013 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D |
The 2013 Taça Guanabara began on January 19 and ended on March 10. |
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The Torneio Super Clássicos concerned all regular games between the four "big" clubs: Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco da Gama. |
= = = Koh Poh Koon = = = |
Koh Poh Koon (, born 16 March 1972) is a Singaporean politician and colorectal surgeon. A member of the governing People's Action Party, Koh has been serving as a Member of Parliament (MP) since September 2015, representing Ang Mo Kio GRC. Since January 2016, he is also a Minister of State in the Ministry of National Development and the Ministry of Trade and Industry. He is also the current Deputy Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress. |
Koh comes from a local Teochew family and spent the early years of his life living in Punggol, where his family lived in a farmhouse at Lorong Cheng Lim. The family then moved to a four-room HDB flat in Toa Payoh. His father was a bus driver who drove the cross-island public bus service 82. Koh was the oldest child in his family and often worked odd jobs when he was young to support the family. |
Koh had his early education at the now-defunct MacRitchie Primary School, before going on to study at Maris Stella High School and Hwa Chong Junior College. He then studied medicine at the National University of Singapore, graduating with an MBBS degree in 1996. He subsequently obtained an MMed (Surgery) from the National University of Singapore as well as fellowships from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medicine in Singapore. He also received Health Manpower Development Programme Scholarships from Singapore's Ministry of Health for advanced training in the surgical treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases in Edinburgh and at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. |
Koh is the founding director of the Colorectal Cancer Genomic Health Service at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). Prior to his appointment as a Minister of State, Koh was the medical director and consultant colorectal surgeon at a private practice at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, as well as a consultant surgeon at both SGH and Changi General Hospital. |
Koh had also served as a clinical lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and as an adjunct assistant professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. His interest in medical research has also led him to serve as an adjunct clinician scientist with the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). |
Koh officially entered Singapore politics in January 2013, when he contested in his first parliamentary election at the Punggol East SMC by-election as the PAP's candidate. He was defeated by the candidate of the Workers' Party, Lee Li Lian. |
In 2015, Koh contested in the general elections as a part of the six-member PAP team in Ang Mo Kio GRC in which the team won and Koh was elected into parliament. |
On 23 April 2018, Koh joined the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and was appointed as NTUC's Deputy Secretary-General. |
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the previous Member of Parliament for the ward, the PAP's Michael Palmer (who served as the Speaker of Parliament from 2011 to 2012), who stepped down after he revealed that he had an extra-marital affair. |
It was reported that Koh had initially turned down Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's invitation to be the PAP's candidate in the election as he was worried that he may not be able to serve the residents well. However, after further discussions, he accepted the offer. |
In the by-election, Koh faced two candidates who had stood against Palmer in the 2011 general election – Lee Li Lian of the Workers' Party (WP) (who won 41.01% of the votes in the constituency in 2011) and Desmond Lim of the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) (who won 4.45% of the votes in 2011). A fourth candidate, Kenneth Jeyaretnam of the Reform Party (RP), also joined the by-election contest, making it a four-way fight. |
During his campaign trail, he made a gaffe which became a central focus in his campaign. Speaking to a media query about his family owning two cars, he remarked: "everybody has a car, we have two... We are professionals, we need to travel". He was subsequently perceived as out of touch with the average worker against Worker's Party candidate Lee, who campaigned as a working mother. |
On polling day on 26 January 2013, Koh was defeated by Lee. He garnered 12,856 votes (43.71%) compared to Lee's 16,038 votes (54.52%). Kenneth Jeyaretnam took 353 votes (1.20%), with Desmond Lim taking 168 votes (0.57%). |
On 15 August 2015, the People's Action Party (PAP) announced that Koh would be part of a six-member PAP team contesting in Ang Mo Kio GRC led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the 2015 general election. Following the results of the election, Koh was elected into Parliament when the six-member PAP team won and clinched 78.64% of the electorate's valid votes in the constituency. |
Koh is married to a doctor. They have two daughters and two cars. |
= = = Buzdyak = = = |