In 1925, the British government asked Lord Weir, a Glaswegian industrialist, to solve the problem of Britain's inefficient and fragmented electricity supply industry.

During the First World War in March 1917 Weir was asked to report on the commercial organization of the supply branches of the army.

In the concert documentary film, released in 2003, Danko can be seen intoxicated participating in a drunken jam session with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Joplin while singing " Ain't No More Cane.

The music itself would be re-used in other films ( most notably the track " L ' Enfant " in The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ) by Peter Weir ; the melody of same ( in marching band format ) can also be heard at the beginning of the 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies scene in the film Chariots of Fire ) and television commercials ( the track " Hymne ", used in Barilla pasta commercials in Italy and Ernest & Julio Gallo wine ads in the US ).

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

Child star Lukas Haas received wide praise for his debut film performance ; Witness also earned Weir his first Oscar nomination as Best Director, and was his first of several films to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

The book tells the ( fictional ) story of the rise to fame of Dan Weir (' Weird '), a bass guitar player in a rock and roll band called Frozen Gold, and of his struggles to be happy now that he is rich and famous.

It's pretty to look at and it contains a number of good performances, but there is something exhausting about its neat balancing of opposing manners and values ... One might be made to care about all this if the direction by the talented Australian film maker, Peter Weir ... were less perfunctory and if the screenplay ... did not seem so strangely familiar.

The centenary of Britten ’ s birth will be held between November 2012 and November 2013, and the 2013 Festival, the 66th, will feature a new production by Tim Albery of Britten ’ s opera, Peter Grimes, the complete Church Parables in Orford Church and new works by Harrison Birtwistle, Wolfgang Rihm, Judith Weir, Magnus Lindberg and Richard Rodney Bennett.

The Archaean granites and gneisses of the Yilgarn Craton form the high ground of the Perth Hills and can be observed in road cuts, with good examples in the Mundaring Weir area.

His assistant Ed Weir replaced Schulte and won five addition indoor conference titles before moving on to be the assistant athletic director.

In August 2010, Martin Bashir left Nightline to be an anchor on NBC and MSNBC, he was subsequently replaced by Bill Weir.

The new Air Minister, Sir William Weir, under pressure to find a position for Trenchard, offered him command of the yet to be formed Independent Air Force which was to conduct long-range bombing operations against Germany.

Screenwriters David Arata, D. B. Weiss, and Weir co-wrote the screenplay but in May 2007, Gibson commented on his personal blog that he believed Weir would not be proceeding with the project.

John McGlashan resigned to be replaced by Jim Weir who after a mixed start eventually rallied the team to a spirited last few weeks of the season.

This is alluded to in two sketches ; once when he rants that a position should be created in the UK Government for an ' All Round Good Guy ' which should be awarded to the " Hibs player Mickey Weir ", and also when he reads the news and takes a moment to celebrate a Hibernian victory over their great city rivals, Heart of Midlothian FC.

However, David Michael Kotz and Fred Weir, authors of Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System, argue that militarisation cannot be the prime cause for the economic stagnation, as military spending had historically been high ( 17 % of GNP in 1950 ) and had increased on par with economic growth without previously destabilising the economy.

Weir will be performing with the original cast from The Fast Show ( with the exception of Mark Williams ) in six online-only episodes due to launch on the 10th of November sponsored by the Fosters brand.

The Auber and Weir references in the poem may be to two contemporaries of Poe: Daniel François Esprit Auber, a composer of sad operatic tunes, and Robert Walter Weir, a painter of the Hudson River School famous for his landscapes.

Weir consulted Merz, and the result was the Electricity ( Supply ) Act 1926, which recommended that a " national gridiron " supply system be created.

The 2008 / 09 pre-season was very quiet and few new signings were made ; rumblings of discontent and rumours of behind the scenes fighting were proved to be true as boss Jim Weir was sacked by the Board after a 2 – 1 defeat to Cowdenbeath with six months still to run on his contract.

However, fellow cast members Aries Spears and Paul Vogt would leave as well, and Ron Pederson would be let go by Fox due to budget cuts, so in order for the viewers to feel a sense of continuity, Weir was persuaded to stay on the show until half way through season 11.

with back in Batdorf & Rodney, and I joined the Bob Weir band .... With Bobby, at first, I'd say to him,

* Alison Weir, " The Wars of the Roses ", Ballantine Books, Trade Paper back edition July 1996, p. 147 ISBN 0-345-40433-5

No sooner had the English captain started the ball than Herriot, Weir and Lawrie, by neat passing sent it back, and after the backs and half backs had shown good play, the two M ' Neills brought it along the left side, and passing it to Lawrie, the latter made a shot for goal, but the ball passed just outside the goal post.

The Ancient scientist Janus developed time travel technology, leading to Elizabeth Weir using it to travel back to Atlantis 10, 000 years previously, and to a column containing a history of future events on the Milky Way planet ruled by Harry Maybourne.

It then moves inland for a short distance, until rejoining the river back close to Fforest Farm, to continue along the river past Radyr Weir and under the M4 motorway.

Weir, the only survivor, travels back 10, 000 years in a puddle jumper she found fitted with a time machine.

He attempts to take Weir back with him as a hostage, but Sheppard shoots him in the shoulder and he falls into the Stargate without her.

After securing Atlantis, the Daedalus took Sheppard, Weir, McKay and Carson Beckett back to Earth to report on the status of the Atlantis expedition.

When General O ' Neill sent a message to Stargate Command telling them that the Asurans have taken control of Atlantis, Sheppard, Weir, McKay and Beckett hijacked a puddle jumper and travel back to the Pegasus via the Gate Bridge.

Weir is informed by Zelenka that the self-destruct of the city wouldn't destroy enough of the city that the Wraith couldn't trace them back to Earth.

Most of the water collected in the Pipehead Dam is pumped back into Mundaring Weir.

The layout conforms to that of a typical market town with long narrow burgage plot gardens extending back from the narrow frontages, and served by two rear access lanes ( Back Lane and Weir Lane ).

Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Ron " Pigpen " McKernan were in Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions before forming The Warlocks, which evolved into Grateful Dead.

The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1975 by director Peter Weir.

It was made into a 1975 feature film by producers Patricia Lovell, Hal and Jim McElroy, and director Peter Weir.

In 1903, after the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-Road ( Mkt ) bought the line, known as the Katy, most area residents moved into the town of Weir, officially established that same year.

Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann were added and the band evolved into The Warlocks.

Works to move the Civil Engineering departments out of the Colville and into the James Weir Building were largely completed by 2011.

The overall look was influenced by television images, particularly commercials: Many shots have characters leaning into the lens with their eyeballs wide open, and the interior scenes are heavily lit, because Weir wanted to remind viewers that " in this world, everything was for sale.

Starting in 1979, Saiyūki was dubbed into English ( BBC production ), and subsequently broadcasted in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and by ABC Television in Australia under the name Monkey, with dialogue written by David Weir.

Charter 88 was the brain child of New Statesman editor Stuart Weir and came into existence as a direct response to Thatcherism in Britain in the 1980s.

In 1904 the Bow River Weir was constructed close to Calgary's downtown core in order to divert water into the Western Irrigation District.

In the season 7 finale " Lost City ", newly inaugurated President Henry Hayes is pressured into replacing General Hammond with Dr. Elizabeth Weir for a three-month review process of the SGC.

The novel provided much of the overall plot-structure for the 2003 Peter Weir film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, though the fictional USS Norfolk morphed into the fictional American-built French privateer Acheron, and episodes also migrated from other books in the series, including Master and Commander and HMS Surprise.

Gibson sneaks into Replacement Technologies and finds Dr. Griffin Weir, the scientist behind Drucker's human-cloning technology.

Rolfe ), Aldous Huxley, Samuel Beckett, the famous ' unfinished ' novel Weir of Hermiston ( 1896 ) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the first translation into English of Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche du temps perdu ( Remembrance of Things Past, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1922 ), amongst others.

For example, in a lengthy account the Scotsman newspaper makes no mention of passing or combination by the Scottish team and specifically describes the Scottish attacks in terms of dribbling: " The Scotch now came away with a great rush, Leckie and others dribbling the ball so smartly that the English lines were closely besieged and the ball was soon behind " and " Weir now had a splendid run for Scotland into the heart of his opponents ' territory.

The section of the river that runs from the Salmon Weir through Galway city and out into Galway Bay is known as the Lower Corrib.

Eustacia does not appear ; instead, she falls or throws herself into nearby Shadwater Weir.

Weir won the League and Cup double in season 2008 – 09 with Rangers and signed a further one-year contract extension which saw playing into his forties.

Soon afterwards, Weir agreed another one-year contract which saw him play on into his forties.

On 26 May 2011, it was announced that Weir was to be inducted into the Rangers F. C.

Facilities of Weir Hall were assimilated gradually into the college ; the building was not given over entirely until the 2008 renovations.

The highway heads to the northwest, passing through the western fringe of Weir Creek Park before descending into a cut and proceeding into Throggs Neck.

Weirton Steel Corporation was an integrated steel mill founded in 1909 by Ernest T. Weir, who built Weirton Steel into one of the world's leading steel producers.