See ARTV (disambiguation) for another meanings.

ARTV is a Canadian French language Category A specialty channel specializing in the arts and culture; including music, dance, theatre, visual arts as well as films and scripted television series.

History[link]

ARTV was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) as la Télé des Arts as a joint venture between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Télé-Québec, Bell Globemedia, Arte and L’Équipe Spectra. The channel launched on September 1, 2001 as ARTV.

In Fall 2007, L’Équipe Spectra sold their 7 per cent interest in the service to the CBC. CTVglobemedia also announced that it intended to sell its interest in the service to the CBC as well,^[1] the CRTC approved the transaction on June 20, 2008. In late 2010, Télé-Québec sold its interest to the CBC, bringing its total interest to 85%.

Distribution[link]

Although most licensed analogue specialty services are not mandatory carriage on analogue cable systems and can be carried on digital cable, in all French language markets, ARTV is mandatory carriage on analogue cable that receives the highest number of subscribers. In English language markets, this condition does not apply. In regard to satellite providers, ARTV must be offered in a package that contains the greatest number of French language services.

These conditions were applied by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to ensure the success of the service and that it has the ability to produce programs to fulfill its mandate as an arts and culture service.

Noted programs[link]

• Elles (The L Word)
• L'Actors Studio
• Chic^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• Visite libre
• Anne… La maison aux pignons verts
• Callas et Onassis
• Design
• La Vie, la vie
• Portraits
• Toute une soirée…
• Slings and Arrows

ARTV HD[link]

On May 3, 2008, ARTV launched a high-definition simulcast of itself called ARTV HD.

Logos[link]

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See also[link]

• List of Canadian television channels

References[link]

External links[link]

• ARTV (French)

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Eugene Morrison Stoner (November 22, 1922 - April 24, 1997) is the man most associated with the design of the AR-15, which was adopted by the US military as the M16. He is regarded by most historians, along with John Browning and John Garand, as one of the United States’ most successful military firearms designers of the 20th century.

Eugene Stoner attended high school in Long Beach and afterwards worked for the Vega Aircraft Company installing armament. During World War II, he enlisted for Aviation Ordnance in the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the South Pacific and northern China.

In late 1945 he began working in the machine shop for Whittaker, an aircraft equipment company, and ultimately became a Design Engineer. In 1954 he came to work as chief engineer for ArmaLite, a division of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation. While at ArmaLite, he designed a series of prototype small arms, including the AR-3, AR-9, AR-11, AR-12, none of which saw significant production. Their only real success during this period was the AR-5 survival rifle, which was adopted by the United States Air Force.

In 1955, Stoner completed initial design work on the revolutionary AR-10, a lightweight (7.25 lbs.) selective-fire infantry rifle in 7.62 x 51 mm NATO caliber. The AR-10 was submitted for rifle evaluation trials to the US Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground late in 1956. In comparison with competing rifle designs previously submitted for evaluation, the AR-10 was smaller, easier to fire in automatic, and much lighter. However it arrived very late in the testing cycle, and the army rejected the AR-10 in favor of the more conventional T44, which would become the M14. The AR-10's design was later licensed to the Dutch firm of Artillerie Inrichtingen, who produced the AR-10 until 1960 for sale to various foreign military forces.^[1]

The AR-15 rifle, designed by Stoner.

At the request of the U.S. military, Stoner's chief assistant, Robert Fremont and Jim Sullivan designed the AR-15 from the basic AR-10 design, scaling it down to fire the small-caliber .223 Remington cartridge. The AR-15 was later adopted by United States military forces as the M16 rifle.^[1]

After ArmaLite sold the rights to the AR-15 to Colt, Stoner turned his attention to the AR-16 design. This was another advanced 7.62 mm rifle but used a more conventional piston and a number of stamped parts to reduce cost. This weapon saw only prototype development but adaptation to .223 resulted in the somewhat successful and often imitated Armalite AR-18.^[1]

Stoner left ArmaLite in 1961 to serve as a consultant for Colt. He eventually accepted a position with Cadillac Gage where he designed the Stoner 63 Weapons System. This was a modular weapons system that could be reconfigured to be a standard automatic rifle, a light machine gun, a medium machine gun, or a solenoid-fired fixed machine gun. The Stoner Weapons System used a piston-operated gas impingement system, though Stoner himself believed direct gas operation was the ideal method for firearms. Once again, Robert Fremont and Jim Sullivan would take a Stoner design and redesign it for the .223 Remington cartridge, to create the Stoner 63 Weapons System.

Stoner also did work for TRW by designing the TRW 6425 25 mm Bushmaster auto cannon, which was later manufactured by Oerlikon as the KBA.

He co-founded ARES Incorporated of Port Clinton, Ohio, in 1972, but left the company in 1989, after designing the Ares Light Machine Gun, sometimes known as the Stoner 86. It was an evolved version of the Stoner 63. At Ares, he also designed the Future Assault Rifle Concept (FARC).

In 1990, he joined Knight's Armament Company (KAC) to create the Stoner Rifle-25 (SR-25), which currently sees military service as the United States Navy Mark 11 Mod 0 Sniper Weapon System. While at KAC, he also worked on yet another version of the Stoner Weapons System, called the Stoner 96. Among his last designs was the SR-50 rifle.

Weapon designs[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• M16 Development

Antonio Skármeta (born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic) is a Chilean writer, born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He was born to Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, region of Dalmatia.

His 1985 novel and film^[1] Ardiente paciencia ("Ardent Patience") inspired the 1994 Academy Award-winning movie, Il Postino (The Postman). Subsequent editions of the book bore the title El cartero de Neruda (Neruda's Postman). His fiction has since received dozens of awards and has been translated into nearly thirty languages worldwide.

Skármeta studied philosophy and literature both in Chile and at Columbia University in New York. From 1967 to 1973, the year he left Chile (first to Buenos Aires and later to West Berlin), he taught literature at the University of Chile.

In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

In 1989, after the end of Pinochet’s military dictatorship, the writer returned to Chile in order "to create political space for freedom". He hosted a television program on literature and the arts, which regularly attracted over a million viewers.

From 2000 to 2003 he served as the Chilean ambassador in Germany.

He teaches classes at Colorado College both in Santiago, and Colorado Springs.

In 2011 his novel Los días del arco iris won the prestigious Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa, one of the richest literary prizes in the world worth $200,000.^[3]

Works[link]

• El entusiasmo, 1967.
• Desnudo en el tejado, 1969.
• Tiro libre, 1973.
• Soñé que la nieve ardía, 1975.
• Novios solitarios, 1975.
• No paso nada, 1980.
• La insurrección, 1982.
• El cartero de Neruda, 1985.
• Matchball, 1989.
• La composición, 1998.
• La boda del poeta, 1999.
• La chica del trombón, 2001.
• El baile de la victoria, 2003.
• Los días del arco iris, 2010.

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• "Skarmeta, Antonio 1940–". Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. 80. Gale Research. 1999. pp. 398–400. ISBN 0-7876-3090-X. 

External links[link]

• Antonio Skármeta

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Nuno Paulo de Sousa Arrobas Crato (born in Lisbon, 1952) is a Portuguese university professor, researcher, mathematician, economist, and writer. For many years, Crato was a researcher and professor in the United States. Back in Portugal, he taught mathematics and statistics in the ISEG/Technical University of Lisbon. He published works and participated in events related to the fields of science divulgation and history of science. In June 2011, he was appointed Minister of Education, Higher Education and Science, in the cabinet of the Portuguese Government led by Pedro Passos Coelho.

Early years[link]

Nuno Crato was born in Lisbon on March 9, 1952. Crato studied for a while at the Faculdade de Ciências/University of Lisbon before changing his mind and graduate in economics at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão/Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG/UTL). In addition, he was awarded a masters' degree in mathematical methods for business management by ISEG/UTL.

Career[link]

He taught at the University of the Azores, Stevens Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was awarded a doctorate in mathematics by an American educational institution.^[1] Since 2000 Crato has been professor of mathematics and statistics at ISEG/UTL. He was also appointed pro-Rector of the Technical University of Lisbon.

He has several general works published in the fields of science divulgation and history of science, and myriad academic works and papers in mathematics-related subfields. He has been appointed president of the Portuguese Mathematical Society and the Taguspark science park in Oeiras Municipality, Lisbon Region. He has appeared in several television programs including 7 vezes ciência for RTP and Mário Crespo's Plano Inclinado for SIC Notícias.^[1] In June 2011, he was appointed Minister of Education, Higher Education and Science, in the cabinet of the Portuguese Government led by Pedro Passos Coelho. He served in this capacity as an independent.

References[link]