As a result of the success of these experiments, Ian Wilmut, who helped create the first cloned animal Dolly the Sheep, has announced that he will abandon somatic cell nuclear transfer as an avenue of research.

** Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith warns that Rhodesia will resist a trade embargo by neighboring countries with force.

The Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were created by British writers Steve Jackson ( not to be confused with the US-based game designer of the same name ) and Ian Livingstone, co-founders of Games Workshop, and provide an original twist on traditional fiction in that the reader takes control of the story's protagonist, being required to make choices that will affect the outcome.

Ian Barritt will play the title role.

For the forthcoming film The Hobbit, also directed by Jackson, the young Bilbo is portrayed by Martin Freeman while Ian Holm will reprise his role as an older Bilbo.

These same fans will be on the mailing list of the " Loyal Order of Chivalry & Sorcery ", created in September 1996 at the instigation of Wilf Backhaus, mailing list that will, for many years ( until 2005, when the creation of the first forum of LOCS, posted by Ian Plumb ), stimulate debate about C & S3 then C & S4, most players lamenting the disappearance of the medieval flavor and realism of the first two editions.

Three collaborations were also confirmed on the band's website later that day: Duff McKagan would appear on " A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun ", Ian McCulloch will add guest vocals to " Some Kind of Nothingness " and John Cale will feature on " Auto-Intoxication ".

On the border of Moseley is Edgbaston Cricket Ground scene of an heroic Ian Botham performance in 1981 and home of Warwickshire County Cricket Club for whom Brian Lara scored 501 not out in the 1994 County Championship ; a record in First Class Cricket which stands to this day, and will most likely never be broken.

In May 2011, they will be curating their own ‘ Beethoven & Schubert: Final Years ’ project with concerts in Aldeburgh, the Gulbenkian Grand Auditorium and Philharmonie Luxembourg, collaborating with Imogen Cooper, Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Julius Drake and Valentin Erben.

He is to portray the wizard Radagast, alongside fellow King Lear actor Ian McKellen who will be reprising his role as Gandalf.

A common sketch will start up with a set-up of the scene ( e. g. a Schwarzenegger-esque action hero battling armed men in an action film ), then McKellen will burst onto the screen in an electric wheelchair and mock the protagonist of the sketch ( often he opens with the line: " I'm Ian McKellen aka Doctor Death!

" I have enjoyed my time with Jake, Ian and Steve and will miss them.

After his audition, Marcia Hines praised Shannon and told him that she had just discovered " a voice " and Ian Dickson informed Shannon that "... Australia will love you "

David Ian, who will produce the musical, has been receiving the stage rights from Costner, a producer of the film as well as its star, and Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote it, reports Baz Bamigboye.

Fearing that Barbara and Ian will give away the secret of the TARDIS and make life impossible for him in London, he takes the machine to the Stone Age.

It was announced on 11 October 2011 that Sir Gus would retire at the end of 2011, and following this the three roles currently performed by the Cabinet Secretary will be split: the Cabinet Secretary will provide policy advice to the Prime Minister and Cabinet ; the Head of the Home Civil Service will provide leadership for the whole Civil Service ; and the Permanent Secretary will oversee the Cabinet Office. It was announced later that the occupiers would be: Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood ; Head of the Home Civil Service, Sir Bob Kerslake, the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government ; and lastly, Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office, Ian Watmore.

" On the other hand, Ian Nathan from Empire magazine only awarded the film 2 stars out of a possible 5, stating that " The presence of the sublime Depp will be enough to get Secret Window noticed, but even his latest set of rattling eccentricities is not enough to energise this deadbeat parlour trick.

He and his trusty horse, Liane, set off with five miners, Shannon Wilson Bell ( Ian Hardin ), James Humphrey ( Matt Stone ), Frank Miller ( Jason McHugh ), George Noon ( Dian Bachar ), and Israel Swan ( John Hegel ), on what Packer estimates will be a three-week journey.

* Game or No Game in which Little Noely ( a parody of Noel Edmonds played by Ian Kirkby who appeared in the Bungalow on two occasions ) presents a parody of Deal or No Deal in order to determine whether or not a game will be shown or not.

It is worth noting Ian Woods advice that although Gregory provides the fullest information for this period, where it touches Merovingian affairs, he often " allowed his religious bias to determine his interpretation of the events.

Edinburgh has also become associated with the crime novels of Ian Rankin, and the work of Irvine Welsh, whose novels are mostly set in the city and are often written in colloquial Scots.

Ian Peddie argues that they were "... loud, powerful and often heavy, but their music was also humorous, self-reflective and extremely subtle ".

Between 1977 and 1980, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner were members of the post-punk band Joy Division, often featuring heavy production input from producer Martin Hannett.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Twain also began taking singing lessons from Toronto-based coach Ian Garrett and would often clean his house in payment for her lessons.

Editorship of The Spectator has often been part of a route to high office in the Conservative Party in the UK ; past editors include Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, all of whom became cabinet minister or a springboard for a greater role in public affairs, as with Boris Johnson ( 1999 to 2005 ), the Conservative Mayor of London.

William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL ( 28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999 ), often known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.

Ian Ayres, Fredrick E. Vars & Nasser Zakariya published a paper suggesting that tipping contributed to racial prejudice, since ethnic minorities would often be less able to pay a large tip.

Their producer, Ian Carmichael, often played keyboards on their records.

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

These feats are often tied to charitable fundraising and are undertaken by celebrities such as Sir Jimmy Savile and Ian Botham as well as by others.

* 2001: Ian Denis Johnson, Wall Street Journal, " for his revealing stories about victims of the Chinese government's often brutal suppression of the Falun Gong movement and the implications of that campaign for the future.

Erica herself would face an uphill struggle with untenable directives from her superiors at the Department of Corrective Services, represented by bigwig Ted Douglas ( Ian Smith ; who was also the show's script editor for most of its run and often contributed scripts ).

Another running gag is a satire on the fact that Ian McKellen, Alan Rickman and Brian Blessed are often typecast as over-the-top, melodramatic or camp stock villains in films and TV shows.

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull has often alluded to an anti-modern, pre-industrial, agrarian vision of England in his songs ( the band's namesake was himself an agrarian, the inventor of the seed drill ).

Ian Buruma would cast light on culture, revealing nuances the region ’ s elite often preferred leaving unsaid.

Their musical style was defined by Ian Crichton's staccato guitar riffs, often in harmony with a synthesizer, and complex keyboard arrangements, frequently featuring three players.

Ian Paice often joins on stage Italian guitarist Tolo Marton, with whom he has performed on many occasions over the last decade.

Ian Cohen of Pitchfork Media called the band's writing ability " far down the list of what N. E. R. D is actually good at ", where Williams is often criticized for being excessively sexual.

He often used the aphorism ( perhaps originally coined by Ian Fleming in Diamonds are Forever ) " Nothing propinks like propinquity ," later dubbed the Ball Rule of Power.

Smith-Dorrien, along with Lord Roberts, Sir Ian Hamilton and others, doubted that cavalry could often be used as cavalry, i. e. that they should still be trained to charge with sword and lance, instead thinking they would be more often deployed as mounted infantry, i. e. using horses for mobility but dismounting to fight.

Among these are Willie Johnston, who could often be seen playing for Lochore before going on to play for Rangers and Scotland and Ian Porterfield, whose greatest moment of glory was scoring the winning goal for Sunderland in the FA Cup final.