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The institute has been planning a joint application with Waterford IT for the formation of a technological university for the south east region since the mid-2010s. |
A vision document, "Technological University for the South East" (TUSE) was published in 2015, and a memorandum of understanding was signed in 2017. |
At the launch of TU Dublin in July 2018, the Taoiseach expressed regret that this TUSE bid had not progressed sufficiently following the "Technological Universities Act 2018". |
List of rivers of Florida |
This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of Florida. |
The term "river of grass" has been used to describe the vast complex of waterways that make up the Everglades but the state has many ordinary rivers as well. |
Rivers are listed as they enter the ocean from north to south. |
Tributaries are listed as they enter their main stem from downstream to upstream. |
Water enters Paynes Prairie Basin from a number of sources. |
Historically it drained only into Alachua Sink. |
Once underground, the water flows northwest towards the Santa Fe River Basin. |
In 1927, Camps Canal was built, which linked the basin to the Orange Lake through the River Styx and ultimately to the Atlantic Ocean. |
Lake Okeechobee drains into the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lucie River, the West Palm Beach Canal, the Hillsboro Canal, the North New River Canal, and the Miami Canal, and into the Gulf of Mexico via the Caloosahatchee Canal which connects to the head of the Caloosahatchee River. |
The major input of water into Lake Okeechobee comes from the north, via the Kissimmee River. |
Rivers are listed as they enter Lake Okeechobee from west to east. |
Tributaries are listed as they enter their main stem from downstream to upstream. |
Rivers are listed as they enter the gulf from south to north, then west. |
Tributaries are listed as they enter their main stem from downstream to upstream. |
Beriz Belkić |
Beriz Belkić (born 8 September 1946) is a former Member and Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Belkić graduated from the faculty of economics with the University of Sarajevo, in his hometown. |
He served on various administrative positions, on municipal, cantonal and state level. |
Following the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belkić was elected as a parliament member in the Bosnia-Herzegovina House of Representatives. |
On 30 March 2001, he was elected by the Parliament to replace Halid Genjac as substitute member of the Presidency, following the withdrawal of Alija Izetbegović. |
Following the elections in 2006, Belkić served as Chairman of the House of Representatives from 11 January to 11 September 2007. |
He was a founding member of the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Man of Steel |
Man of Steel may refer to: |
List of rivers of North Carolina |
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of North Carolina. |
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries alphabetically indented under each larger stream's name. |
Obrad Piljak |
Obrad Piljak (); 1933 – 7 April 2013) was a Bosnian politician and former Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from April 1989 to December 1990. |
He was the last nominated (non-elected) member of the Communist party of Bosnia and Herzegovina to serve as Presidency chairman, before the first multi-party elections were held in 1990 and Alija Izetbegović replaced him in his post. |
Obrad Piljak was born in 1933 in Petrovo Vrelo, Glamoč. |
He holds a Ph.D. degree in economics. |
When not in politics, he was involved with banking and worked at the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Piljak was on the Advisory Board of the Federal Banking Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
He was also an associate professor at the Faculty of economics in the University of Sarajevo. |
Piljak died in 2013, aged 80. |
William Bendix |
William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters. |
He is best remembered in films for the title role in "The Babe Ruth Story". |
He also portrayed the clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in both the radio and television versions of "The Life of Riley". |
He received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for "Wake Island" (1942). |
Bendix, named William after his paternal German grandfather, was born in Manhattan, the only child of Oscar and Hilda (Carnell) Bendix. |
His uncle was composer, conductor, and violinist Max Bendix. |
In the early 1920s, Bendix was a batboy for the New York Yankees and said he saw Babe Ruth hit more than 100 home runs at Yankee Stadium. |
However, he was fired after fulfilling Ruth's request for a large order of hot dogs and soda before a game, which resulted in Ruth being unable to play that day. |
In 1927, Bendix married Theresa Stefanotti. |
He worked as a grocer until the Great Depression. |
Bendix began his acting career at age 30 in the New Jersey Federal Theatre Project. |
He made his film debut in 1942. |
He played in supporting roles in dozens of Hollywood films, usually as a warm-hearted gangster, detective or serviceman. |
He began with appearances in film noir, including a supporting role in "The Glass Key" (1942), which featured Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in the leads. |
He soon gained attention after appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" (1944) as Gus, a wounded and dying American sailor. |
Bendix's other well-known movie roles include his portrayal of Babe Ruth in "The Babe Ruth Story" (1948) – a film roundly considered one of the worst sports biopics in film history and Sir Sagramore opposite Bing Crosby in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1949), in which he took part in the trio, "Busy Doing Nothing". |
He played Nick the bartender in the film version of William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life" (1948) starring James Cagney. |
Bendix had appeared in the stage version, but in the role of Officer Krupp (a role played on film by Broderick Crawford). |
He was cast in "The Blue Dahlia" (1946), appearing for the second time alongside Ladd and Lake. |
Bendix starred in a film adaptation of his radio program "The Life of Riley" (1949). |
It was Bendix's appearance in the Hal Roach-produced film "The McGuerins from Brooklyn" (1942), playing a rugged blue-collar man, that led to his best remembered role. |
Producer and creator Irving Brecher saw Bendix as the perfect personification of Chester A. Riley, giving a second chance to a show whose audition failed when the sponsor spurned Groucho Marx for the lead. |
With Bendix stumbling, bumbling, and skating almost perpetually on thin ice, stretching the patience of his otherwise loving wife and children, "The Life of Riley" was a radio hit from 1944 through 1951, and Bendix brought an adaptation of the film version to "Lux Radio Theatre". |
The show began as a proposed Groucho Marx radio series, "The Flotsam Family", but the sponsor balked at what would have been essentially a straight head-of-household role for the comedian. |
Then creator and producer Irving Brecher saw Bendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in "The McGuerins from Brooklyn". |
Brecher stated, "He was a Brooklyn guy and there was something about him. |
I thought, This guy could play it. |
He'd made a few films, like "Lifeboat", but he was not a name. |
So I took "The Flotsam Family" script, revised it, made it a Brooklyn Family, took out the flippancies and made it more meat-and-potatoes, and thought of a new title, "The Life of Riley". |
Bendix's delivery and the spin he put on his lines made it work." |
The reworked script cast Bendix as blundering Chester A. Riley, a wing riveter at the fictional Cunningham Aircraft plant in California. |
His frequent exclamation of indignation—"What a revoltin' development this is! |
"—became one of the catchphrases of the 1940s. |
It was later reused by Benjamin J. Grimm of the Fantastic Four. |
Bendix was not able to play the role on television because of a contracted film commitment. |
The part instead went to Jackie Gleason and aired a single season beginning in October 1949. |
Despite winning an Emmy award, the show was cancelled, in part because Gleason was less acceptable as Riley, since Bendix had been so identified with the part on radio. |
In 1953, Bendix became available for a new television version, and this time the show was a hit. |
The second television version of "The Life of Riley" ran from 1953 to 1958, long enough for Riley to become a grandfather. |
On the 1952 television program "This Is Your Life", hosted by Ralph Edwards, Bendix was claimed to be a descendant of the 19th-century composer Felix Mendelssohn. |
Bendix played the lead in Rod Serling's "The Time Element" (1958), a time-travel adventure episode about a man who travels back to 1941 and unsuccessfully tries to warn everyone in Honolulu about the impending attack on Pearl Harbor. |
Bendix also appeared on "The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford" (also 1958). |
He returned for a second appearance on October 1, 1959, the fourth-season premiere of the series, in which he and Tennessee Ernie performed a comedy skit about a safari. |
In NBC's "Wagon Train" ("Around the Horn", 1958), Bendix played the captain of a sailing cargo ship who shanghaied Major Adams (Ward Bond), Bill Hawks (Terry Wilson) and Charlie Wooster (Frank McGrath), forcing them to work on his ship. |
On November 16, 1959, Bendix appeared on NBC's color broadcast of "The Steve Allen Plymouth Show" with Jack Kerouac. |
A color videotape of the broadcast survives. |
Bendix starred in all 17 episodes of the NBC western series "Overland Trail" (1960) in the role of Frederick Thomas "Fred" Kelly, the crusty superintendent of the Overland Stage Company. |
Doug McClure, later Trampas on "The Virginian," co-starred as his young understudy, Frank "Flip" Flippen. |
He guest-starred in an episode of "Mister Ed" ("Pine Lake Lodge", 1961) which served as a back door pilot for a proposed sitcom that was not picked up. |
In Fall 1964, an American situation comedy starring Bendix and Martha Raye was scheduled to air on CBS, but due to Bendix's shaky health, the network decided not to air the program. |
This action resulted in a lawsuit from Bendix for $2.658 million in May, with the actor stating that the decision hurt his career and that he was in excellent health and could perform all of the requirements of the agreement. |
The case was settled out of court. |
Bendix died on December 14, 1964 from pneumonia complications. |
Bendix was a Republican. |
In the 1944 presidential election, for instance, he attended the massive rally organized by David O. Selznick in the Los Angeles Coliseum in support of the Dewey-Bricker ticket as well as Governor Earl Warren of California, who became Dewey's running mate in 1948 and later the Chief Justice of the United States. |
The gathering drew 93,000, with Cecil B. DeMille as the master of ceremonies and with short speeches by Hedda Hopper and Walt Disney. |
Among the others in attendance were Ann Sothern, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Adolphe Menjou, Gary Cooper, Edward Arnold, Lionel Barrymore, Leo Carrillo, and Walter Pidgeon. |
Bendix died in Los Angeles at age 58 in 1964, the result of a chronic stomach ailment that brought on malnutrition and ultimately lobar pneumonia. |
He was interred at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles. |
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