She was a goodwill ambassador for the UNESCO World Water Day for 2006, supporting that year's theme of " Water and Culture " by declaring her support for Powerstock, a sustainable electronic music festival that proposes a " water-consciousness " for youth culture and seeks to make sustainability an integral part of mainstream culture.

It was originally known as ' Poorstock ' but this was changed to ' Powerstock ' when the Bridport Railway was built in 1857, possibly to avoid connotations of ' poor ( rolling ) stock ' Powerstock railway station ( and the entire Bridport branch line ) closed on 5 May 1975.

Television reporter Jemima Shore is an old school friend of Sister Miriam, who was also known as Rosabelle Powerstock and was heiress to " the Powers fortune ", one of the largest fortunes in Britain.

Powerstock is a village in south west Dorset, England, situated in a steep valley on the edge of the Dorset Downs, five miles ( 8 km ) north east of the market town of Bridport.

Powerstock village, December 2010

Just over a mile to the east of the village lies the nature reserve of Powerstock Common.

A number of military events took place in Dorset during The Anarchy of the 12th century, and this gave rise to the defensive castles at Corfe Castle, Powerstock, Wareham and Shaftesbury.

It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

The governor was not used to having his integrity questioned, and he promptly passed the charges on to Woodruff, demanding that Woodruff answer them.

His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

He had ridden hard from Boston, and he was not used to horseback.

It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

A wall-stabilized high-current arc source was constructed and used to study transition probabilities of atomic hydrogen and oxygen.

It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.

The Pictish village which was constructed at Fox Point was used on most days of the filming.

Much damage was done to the hillside during the filming.

* " The Final Cut " of Blade Runner removed all reference to a sixth replicant, as it was normally considered a filming goof.

The filming of the series was highly ambitious, with a large cast and much location shooting.

He claimed he was romantically involved with Deborah Kerr during the filming of From Here to Eternity in 1953.

During the filming of his tenth picture he clashed with director Mabel Normand, and was almost released from his contract.

Love was ordered urine tests under the supervision of Columbia Pictures while filming the movie, and passed all of them.

He played Bobbly Wobbly in The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure ; filming was completed in late 2009 and is awaiting release.

Some of Flaherty's staging, such as building a roofless igloo for interior shots, was done to accommodate the filming technology of the time.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

Arnaz was told that it would be impossible to allow an audience onto a sound stage, but he worked with Freund to design a set that would accommodate an audience, allow filming, and also adhere to fire and safety codes.

John Mark Byers, the adoptive father of victim Christopher Byers, gave a knife to cameraman Doug Cooper, who was working with documentary makers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky while they were filming the first Paradise Lost feature.

John Mark Byers agreed to, and subsequently passed, a polygraph test during the filming of Paradise Lost 2: Revelations in regard to the murders, but the documentary indicated that Byers was under the influence of several psychoactive prescription medications that could have affected the test results.

His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary moviemaking and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical filmmaking cooperative which was active in the 1960s.

This mould was used to cast silicone gel masks which were more responsive than the hard latex used in the original series, which had to be discarded after each day's filming.

In 1953 he was cast as Angelo Maggio in the film From Here to Eternity, but was abruptly replaced by Frank Sinatra before filming began.

It was during filming that Wallach accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had carelessly placed next to his soda bottle.

This happened entirely when they were filming exterior scenes, where there was no problem about shooting past the edge of the studio set.

Some of this reputation was founded on the core of talent brought together for the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) who subsequently worked together on series and feature films for Gerry Anderson.

General responsibilities include arriving first at the location to allow the Set Dressers into the set for preparation ; maintaining the cleanliness of the location areas during filming ; fielding complaints from neighbors ; and ultimately, at the end of the filming, making sure it seems as though the film crew was never there.