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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tori%20Freestone

Tori Freestone

Victoria ("Tori") Freestone is a British saxophonist, flautist, violinist and composer. She has performed British jazz since 2009 as a band leader and sidewoman, known for her robust tenor sound and melodic invention. Her "Trio" albums, released in 2014 and 2016, were awarded at least 4 stars. The Guardian critic John Fordham described her first album "In The Chop House" as "an imposingly original sound". In 2017 Freestone was shortlisted for a Fellowship in Jazz Composition supported by PRS for Music Foundation, UK Arts Foundation. That year Freestone was also nominated in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2017 in the Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year category. Career Freestone started performing in folk clubs at the age of seven. She joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra when she was 17 and then went on to study jazz flute at Leeds College of Music, then progressed to the saxophone when she was 26. Freestone likes to compose for unusual instrumentation that challenges traditional composition and improvisational techniques, most notably in her trio she explores the avenues of composing for a group that is led without a harmony instrument. Freestone features in many UK bands such as the Andre Canniere Sextet and Ivo Neame Quintet, but her main focus is on three projects: The Tori Freestone Trio, the Tori Freestone/ Alcyona Mick Duo and the sextet 'Solstice'. She has appeared at a number of UK Jazz Festivals including Manchester Jazz Festival in 2015 with a project with trumpeter Neil Yates and her duo with pianist Alcyona Mick. More recently she appeared at The Barbican, London as part of a larger ensemble all-star band with Hermeto Pascoal. She also performs on tour with the Julian Siegel Big Band. Recordings Freestone's debut album with her Trio was In the Chop House, released in 2014 on Whirlwind Recordings. This album featured Freestone on tenor saxophone, Dave Manington on double bass and Tim Giles on drums. The Guardian gave the album 4 stars and said: "In being supported by only bass and drums (Dave Manington and Tim Giles), Freestone goes for one of a saxophonist's toughest options, but she is more than up to it."All About Jazz placed this album in their top 10 albums of 2014 and gave it four and a half stars. Her second album, with the same trio, El Barranco, again released on Whirlwind Recordings, garnered similarly excellent 4-star reviews. John Fordham wrote "...fascinating once again for the ways in which an exceptional improviser can spin new yarns from the most deliberately restricted of resources – just an unbugged sax, bass and drums. Freestone has an arresting Coltrane-inflected sound..." In 2018 her duo album with pianist Alcyona Mick entitled Criss Cross received many 4 star reviews including one in All About Jazz "This is elegant, engaging and original music, played with magnificent panache." In 2019, her third Trio album El Mar de Nubes received 4 stars from John Fordham "...this impressive trio shows formidable range, balancing free-jazz delicacy and bite". Discography As leader 2019: El Mar de Nubes (Whirlwind Recordings) with Tori Freestone Trio 2016: El Barranco (Whirlwind Recordings) with Tori Freestone Trio 2014: In The Chop House (Whirlwind Recordings) with Tori Freestone Trio As co-leader 2018: Criss Cross (Whirlwind Recordings) with Alcyona Mick As sideman 2016: Alimentation (Two Rivers Records) with Solstice 2016: The Darkening Blue (Whirlwind Recordings) with Andre Canniere 2015: Strata (Edition Records) with Ivo Neame Quintet 2013: Ichthyology (Groove Laboratory Productions) with Jamil Sheriff Big Band 2013: Entertaining Tyrants (Jellymould Jazz) with Compassionate Dictatorship 2013: Clocca (Loop Collective) with Fringe Magnetic 2012: Yatra (Edition Records) with Ivo Neame Octet 2011: Things Will Be (Impossible Ark Records) with Riaan Visloo Examples of Twelves 2011: Twistic (Loop Collective) with Fringe Magnestic 2010: Cash Cows (FMR) with Compassionate Dictatorship 2009: Empty Spaces (Loop Collective) with Fridge Magnetic 2008: Club Rouge (Deep Touch Records) with Levan J 2007: Coup d'Etat (FMR) with Compassionate Dictatorship 2005: Sunday Morning (Deep Touch Records) with Levan J 2004: Cool Day (Deep Touch Records) with Levan J References External links Official website British jazz saxophonists British jazz flautists Living people 21st-century saxophonists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century flautists Whirlwind Recordings artists

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Bentley

Phil Bentley

Phillip Keague Bentley (born 14 January 1959) is a British businessman. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Mitie, and formerly the CEO of Cable & Wireless Communications. and the managing director of British Gas, the British retail arm of the energy company Centrica. Early and personal life Bentley was brought up in Bradford, and attended Woodhouse Grove School in Apperley Bridge. He holds a master's degree from Pembroke College, Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Bentley is married and has two children. Career Bentley joined BP's graduate recruitment scheme in 1982, training as a management accountant. He worked in China from 1983 to 1985, and then Egypt and the US, before returning to the UK as head of capital markets. He joined Grand Metropolitan in 1995, which became Diageo in 1997; from 1 July 1999 until 2000 he was finance director of UDV Guinness. Centrica Bentley was group finance director of Centrica from 2000 to February 2007. and was also managing director, Europe from July 2004 to September 2006. On 19 September 2006 it was announced that Bentley would become the managing director of British Gas, part of the Centrica group, taking over from Mark Clare from March 2007. Bentley's stewardship was often controversial, as the company raised residential energy prices several times during his reign; protests at company premises were not unusual. Bentley frequently appeared in the media defending the company's decisions. The controversy was fuelled by the rise in profits during Bentley's stewardship – profits from the residential energy division of British Gas increased by 24% in one year alone. Bentley repeatedly claimed that price rises were beyond the company's control, and that they were not increased to raise profits. Bentley said that the reason for the price increase was that average domestic gas consumption had increased by 12 per cent compared to the warmer previous year. Throughout his time at the company Bentley's salary (£681,000 in 2013) was the subject of frequent criticism. As managing director for seven-years, Bentley did have commercial success at Centrica, increasing turnover by nearly £4 billion. He was credited with improving the company’s customer services and rolling out new technologies such as smart meters. On 27 February 2013, Centrica announced that Bentley would step down from his role at British Gas, from the Centrica board on 30 June 2013, and leave the company's employment on 31 December 2013. Bentley was replaced by the managing director of Direct Energy (also part of the Centrica group) Chris Weston. Cable and Wireless On 17 October 2013 it was announced that Bentley would succeed Tony Rice as CEO of Cable & Wireless Communications from 1 January 2014, coinciding with the relocation of the company headquarters from London to Miami, Florida. On 6 January 2014, C&WC announced that Bentley had purchased 4.3 million shares in the company, at a value of around 3 times his basic salary of £800,000. He demitted office after the acquisition of CWC by Liberty Global on 16 May 2016. Mitie In October 2016, it was announced that he would succeed Ruby McGregor-Smith as CEO of Mitie, which he duly did on 13 December 2016. Under Bentley’s leadership, Mitie has become the biggest FM operator in the UK, partly because of their acquisition of Interserve in late 2020. Since the start of the COVID pandemic, Bentley has overseen Mitie’s work delivering a wide range of services, including running Covid-19 testing sites, cleaning offices and major transport services, and providing security for new quarantine hotels. He has also attempted to use the pandemic to redefine the traditional image of cleaning by introducing UVC robots and units. current basic salary of £900,000 – As the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of MITIE Plc, the total compensation of Phil Bentley at MITIE Plc is £2,648,470. There are no executives at MITIE Plc getting paid more. Other positions Between 2002 and 2010 he was a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Kingfisher plc. On 1 October 2012 Bentley was apportioned non-executive director of global engineering group IMI, and also joined the audit committee and nominations committee. References 1959 births Living people British chief executives in the energy industry Businesspeople from Bradford Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford INSEAD alumni Centrica people

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20%28hydrology%29

Routing (hydrology)

In hydrology, routing is a technique used to predict the changes in shape of a hydrograph as water moves through a river channel or a reservoir. In flood forecasting, hydrologists may want to know how a short burst of intense rain in an area upstream of a city will change as it reaches the city. Routing can be used to determine whether the pulse of rain reaches the city as a deluge or a trickle. Routing also can be used to predict the hydrograph shape (and thus lowland flooding potential) subsequent to multiple rainfall events in different sub-catchments of the watershed. Timing and duration of the rainfall events, as well as factors such as antecedent moisture conditions, overall watershed shape, along with subcatchment-area shapes, land slopes (topography/physiography), geology/hydrogeology (i.e. forests and aquifers can serve as giant sponges that absorb rainfall and slowly release it over subsequent weeks and months), and stream-reach lengths all play a role here. The result can be an additive effect (i.e. a large flood if each subcatchment's respective hydrograph peak arrives at the watershed mouth at the same point in time, thereby effectively causing a "stacking" of the hydrograph peaks), or a more distributed-in-time effect (i.e. a lengthy but relatively modest flood, effectively attenuated in time, as the individual subcatchment peaks arrive at the mouth of the main watershed channel in orderly succession). Other uses of routing include reservoir and channel design, floodplain studies and watershed simulations. If the water flow at a particular point, A, in a stream is measured over time with a flow gauge, this information can be used to create a hydrograph. A short period of intense rain, normally called a flood event, can cause a bulge in the graph, as the increased water travels down the river, reaches the flow gauge at A, and passes along it. If another flow gauge at B, downstream of A is set up, one would expect the graph's bulge (or floodwave) to have the same shape. However, the shape of the river and flow resistance within a river (from the river bed, for example) can affect the shape of the floodwave. Oftentimes, the floodwave will be attenuated (have a reduced peak flow). Routing techniques can be broadly classified as hydraulic (or distributed) routing, hydrologic (or lumped) routing or semi-distributed routing. In general, based on the available field data and goals of the project, one of routing procedures is selected. Hydraulic (or distributed) routing Hydraulic routing is based on the solution of partial differential equations of unsteady open-channel flow. The equations used are the Saint-Venant equations or the associated dynamic wave equations. The hydraulic models (e.g. dynamic and diffusion wave models) require the gathering of a lot of data related to river geometry and morphology and consume a lot of computer resources in order to solve the equations numerically. Hydrologic (or lumped) routing Hydrologic routing uses the continuity equation for hydrology. In its simplest form, inflow to the river reach is equal to the outflow of the river reach plus the change of storage: , where I is average inflow to the reach during O is average outflow from the reach during ; and S is the water currently in the reach (known as storage) The hydrologic models (e.g. linear and nonlinear Muskingum models) need to estimate hydrologic parameters using recorded data in both upstream and downstream sections of rivers and/or by applying robust optimization techniques to solve the one-dimensional conservation of mass and storage-continuity equation. Semi-distributed routing Semi-distributed models such as Muskingum–Cunge family procedures are also available. Simple physical concepts and common river characteristics such as channel geometry, reach length, roughness coefficient, and slope are used to estimate the model parameters without complex and expensive numerical solutions. Flood routing Flood routing is a procedure to determine the time and magnitude of flow (i.e., the flow hydrograph) at a point on a watercourse from known or assumed hydrographs at one or more points upstream. The procedure is specifically known as Flood routing, if the flow is a flood. After Routing, the peak gets attenuated & a time lag is introduced. In order to determine the change in shape of a hydrograph of a flood as it travels through a natural river or artificial channel, different flood simulation techniques can be used. Traditionally, the hydraulic (e.g. dynamic and diffusion wave models) and hydrologic (e.g. linear and nonlinear Muskingum models) routing procedures that are well known as distributed and lumped ways to hydraulic and hydrologic practitioners, respectively, can be utilized. The hydrologic models need to estimate hydrologic parameters using recorded data in both upstream and downstream sections of rivers and/or by applying robust optimization techniques to solve the one-dimensional conservation of mass and storage-continuity equation. On the other hand, hydraulic models require the gathering of a lot of data related to river geometry and morphology and consume a lot of computer resources in order to solve the equations numerically. However, semi-distributed models such as Muskingum–Cunge family procedures are also available. Simple physical concepts and common river characteristic consisting of channel geometry, reach length, roughness coefficient, and slope are used to estimate the model parameters without complex and expensive numerical solutions. In general, based on the available field data and goals of a project, one of these approaches is utilized for the simulation of flooding in rivers and channels. Runoff Routing Runoff routing is a procedure to calculate a surface runoff hydrograph from rainfall. Losses are removed from rainfall to determine the rainfall excess which is then converted to a hydrograph and routed through conceptual storages that represent the storage discharge behaviour of overland and channel flow. See also Hydrograph One-dimensional Saint-Venant equations References Hydrology Soil mechanics Soil physics Water

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Gross%20%28politician%29

Al Gross (politician)

Alan Stuart Gross (born April 13, 1962) is an American politician, orthopedic surgeon and a commercial fisherman who, running as an independent candidate, was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 United States Senate election in Alaska. He lost the race to incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan. Early life and education Gross was born in Juneau in 1962. He is the son of former Alaska Attorney General Avrum and Shari Gross, the first Executive Director of the United Fishermen of Alaska, who also founded the League of Women Voters-Alaska. As a child, he was part of the small Jewish community in Alaska, and had the first bar mitzvah in Southeast Alaska. While attending Douglas High School in Juneau, Gross developed an interest in fishing, both sport and commercial. When he was 14, he bought his first commercial fishing boat with a bank loan. He commercially gillnet fished for salmon in the summer to pay his way through college and medical school. Gross attended Douglas High School in Juneau before enrolling at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in neuroscience. He studied medicine at the University of Washington’s WWAMI Regional Medical Education Program, graduating in 1989. Medical career After graduating from medical school, Gross served as the president of the Bartlett Regional Hospital medical staff. In 2006, he founded and served as the president of the Juneau Bone and Joint Center. Gross retired from full-time orthopedic surgery in 2013, but continues to work part time for the Petersburg Medical Center, and volunteers at a training hospital in Cambodia every year. Gross practiced as an orthopedic surgeon in Juneau, beginning in 1994. In 2013, Gross left his practice, along with his wife Monica Gross, to study health care economics, earning a master's of public health at University of California, Los Angeles. He has said that he grew uncomfortable with the high costs of healthcare, and pursued his MPH degree to study solutions. Political career After earning his MPH, Gross returned to Alaska and began his advocacy for healthcare reform. In 2017, he co-sponsored two ballot initiatives in Alaska. The Quality Health Insurance for Alaskans Act sought to add certain provisions from the Affordable Care Act into state law, including protection against discrimination based on preexisting conditions, mandatory coverage for prenatal and maternal care, and provisions that children could remain covered by their parents' insurance until age 26. The Healthcare for Alaskans Act would codify the Medicaid expansion, already in effect due to an executive order by Governor Bill Walker. Both initiatives were withdrawn from the ballot in December 2017. Supporters cited uncertainty in healthcare policy at the federal level as the reason for the withdrawal. 2020 U.S. Senate campaign On July 2, 2019, Gross announced he would run as an independent in the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Alaska. He won the August Democratic primary against Democrat Edgar Blatchford and Independent Chris Cumings, gaining the nomination of the Alaska Democratic Party, which had endorsed him before the filing deadline. Gross ran as an independent against Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan. He had the support of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and The Lincoln Project. Gross said, "I stepped up to do this because the Alaska economy has been failing, we’ve been losing Alaskans to the Lower 48 for the past few years, and despite that labor loss, we had the highest unemployment in the country." The Daily Beast argued that Alaska "flirts with purple-state status" in part due to Gross's candidacy. There was speculation that the political fallout of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination could dampen support for incumbent Sullivan and benefit Gross's campaign. More than a week after the election, Sullivan's reelection in what was expected to be a close race was affirmed. In October 2021, Gross ran for Hospital Board in Petersburg, Alaska and finished fourth. 2022 U.S. House campaign On March 28, 2022, Gross announced he would run as an independent candidate for Alaska's at-large congressional seat that was vacated upon the death of Congressman Don Young. Although he won third place and the opportunity to compete in the general election, he withdrew on June 20, 2022. Political positions Despite receiving the Alaska Democratic Party's endorsement, Gross is an independent politician and says he is closer to Republicans on "issues like guns and immigration". Gross supports an overhaul of Medicare, including the addition of a public option. He also supports raising the minimum wage, defending collective bargaining rights for workers and unions, efforts to make college more affordable and accessible, and earlier tracking into trade schools. Citing his background in science, Gross supports policies that address climate change, including the growth of renewable energy and opposition to the Pebble Mine project. He also supports ending Citizens United and fixing political corruption. Gross fully supports instant-runoff voting. He is neutral on Universal Basic Income (UBI), which resembles the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF), saying, "The UBI check here in Alaska has been a great program, but any program like that, you have to be careful you don't disincentivize going back to the workforce." Environmental and energy policy Gross opposes the proposed Pebble Mine, which threatens to harm the ecosystem of Bristol Bay. His campaign could have benefited from reports of Sullivan's inconsistency on this issue, and secretly recorded tapes in which corporate executives indicate that Sullivan could switch his position on the mine after the election. Gross accepts the scientific consensus on climate change and its impacts on Alaska. He supports diversification of Alaska's economy and its energy supply, including renewable energy. Like Sullivan, he supports oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Gross opposes the Green New Deal. Foreign policy Gross has said that Russian and Chinese interest in the Arctic must be counterbalanced by a strong U.S. military. He has said that he would be a "staunch defender" of Israel. Gun policy Gross has said that he is a "strong proponent of the Second Amendment" and "will vote against banning any guns." He has stated support for background checks on military assault weapons. Health care As a physician, Gross has supported initiatives to lower health care costs. His campaign endorsed a public health care option for individuals and small businesses. In 2017, he wrote in support of single-payer, but he did not include single-payer as part of his senatorial campaign and his radio, social media and television ads initially opposed the idea. In 2020, he said he supports federal legalization of cannabis to help small businesses and others. Social policy Gross was endorsed by Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign. Electoral history 2020 References External links Campaign website 1962 births 20th-century American physicians 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American physicians 21st-century American politicians Alaska Independents Amherst College alumni Candidates in the 2020 United States Senate elections Jewish American people in Alaska politics Jewish physicians Living people Politicians from Juneau, Alaska University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of Washington alumni Candidates in the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Doeringer

Eric Doeringer

Eric Doeringer (born July 1, 1974) is an artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Brown University in 1996 with a B.A. and received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999. "Bootleg" paintings {{Quote box |quoted=true |bgcolor=#FFFFF0 |salign=center | align = left| width = 33% | quote =[Doeringer] has come under some opposition for his stance on [copying pictures] and has received more than one cease-and-desist order from galleries and artists, but has also received praise for his activities with purchases from a few of the artists he appropriated. Viewers seem to be split, calling him either a pirate or a virtuoso.| source = Reading Eagle, April 13, 2008}} Eric Doeringer's "Bootlegs" are small copies of work by eminent contemporary artists including Richard Prince and Lisa Yuskavage. Doeringer reproduces the artworks using "collage, digital photography, paint and varnish". Doeringer can make between six and fifteen paintings each day and told The New York Times in a 2005 interview that his process is "like an assembly line". On Saturdays beginning in 2001, he set up a vending table in Chelsea, Manhattan on West 24th Street. Small canvases reproducing contemporary paintings lined the table. Paintings by the original artists (sold within a short walking distance from Doeringer's stand) cost tens of thousands of dollars, while Doeringer's copies sold for less than $100. His total profit in a day of selling paintings has sometimes reached $1500. Time Out stated that Doeringer is "famous for bootlegging art on the streets of New York". According to Doeringer, the majority of the artists he copies do not mind, while others have sent him cease-and-desist letters. Richard Prince was a "fan" of his work, while Takashi Murakami put a stop to his copies. Doeringer states that his work is fair use because he "culled the pictures from the public domain of the Internet". In 2005, Chelsea art dealer Mike Weiss called the police to remove Doeringer's Bootleg stand from 24th Street. Weiss told The New York Times that "he did so for reasons that might be condemned in the art world but that made perfect sense for any businessman like himself who has to pay a huge rent" and claimed Doeringer was "an opportunist and that he just wants his 15 minutes". In 2007, Doeringer sold his wares in the Geisai Art Fair in Miami. For the fair, he crafted 42-cent stamps decorated with pictures of celebrities. The stamps, which cost $1, were legally usable as postage and were decorated with photographs of eminent people in the art world. Over his booth, Doeringer placed orange and neon signs that proclaimed "Best Art Deals in Miami" and "Nothing Over $250!" The New York Sun deemed his decorations "a pitch-perfect metamockery of the art fair's commercialism". Conceptual art recreations In 2008, Doeringer began making larger, more faithful recreations of works of Conceptual art by artists like Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Edward Ruscha, and On Kawara. New York magazine called a 2009 exhibition of Doeringer's Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings "perfectly executed" and "a genuine aesthetic experience, not just a knowing scold." In 2011, Doeringer exhibited his work at Another Year in L.A.; he titled his exhibition "Eastern Standard Time". In one piece, Doeringer copied Charles Ray's 1973 avant-garde photograph panorama All My Clothes. Titled All My Clothes (After Charles Ray), Doeringer's photographs each contain himself standing in front of a white background attired in various clothes. In an interview with the LA Weekly, he said he adapted Ray's general ideas for the artwork, adding that the key distinction between their works is the "East Coast-West Coast divide". Whereas Ray's figure is garbed in a single winter outfit, Doeringer's wears much toastier clothing. Other pieces Doeringer copied and showcased at the Los Angeles exhibition were John Baldessari's Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line, On Kawara's I Went, Richard Prince's Cowboy photographs, and several of Edward Ruscha's books. In 2012, The New York Times art critic Ken Johnson reviewed Doeringer's solo exhibition at the Mulherin + Pollard gallery titled "The Rematerialization of the Art Object". In the front room, Doeringer displayed "well-made simulations" of Damien Hirst's spot paintings and Richard Prince's Marlboro cowboy advertisements. In the back room, Doeringer presented imitations of three artists: Edward Ruscha (counterfeit books), Charles Ray (16 photographs of himself wearing various clothes in imitation of Ray's All My Clothes), and Andy Warhol (a film mimicking Warhol's Empire by recording the Empire State Building). Johnson wrote that Doeringer's "distinction is his focus not on canonical works of Modernism but on famous Conceptualist pieces that are themselves art about art". In 2013, the Toronto Stars Murray Whyte reviewed Doeringer's Survey'', "a series of his exacting knock-offs of the late 20th century's greatest art hits". In addition to containing imitations of works by Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, and Andy Warhol, the exhibition also contained imitations of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings and Lawrence Weiner's spray paintings. Art critic Murray Whyte wrote that Doeringer is "less heretic than prophet, putting the towering genius of a previous generation to its own test". References External links Official website 1974 births Living people Artists from New York (state) American conceptual artists Brown University alumni Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urszula%20Kozio%C5%82

Urszula Kozioł

Urszula Kozioł (born 20 June 1931) is a Polish poet. In 2011, she was a recipient of the Silesius Poetry Award. Biography Kozioł was born in Rakówka, a village in Poland. She attended high school in Zamość and graduated from the University of Wroclaw in 1953. Her debut poetry collection was Gumowe klocki ("Blocks of rubber", 1957), but her second, W rytmie korzeni ("In the Rhythm of the Roots", 1963), is considered her breakthrough. Of her 1963 poem "Recipe for the Meat Course", translator Karen Kovacik writes that it "functions simultaneously as an ars poetica and an ironic riposte to those who believed a woman's place was in the kitchen" and "depict[s] housework or domestic life through motifs of violence and estrangement." Her novel Postoje pamięci ("Stations of Memory", 1965) focuses on Mirka, the daughter of a teacher, growing up in a small village during World War II. In his survey of Polish literature, Czesław Miłosz wrote that it was "One of the most authentic testimonies on the village". She began editing the magazine Odra in 1968. She has also written stage and radio dramas for adults and children. Bibliography Poetry Gumowe klocki (Związek Literatów Polskich, Oddział we Wrocławiu, 1957) W rytmie korzeni (Ossolineum, 1963) Smuga i promień (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1965) Lista obecności (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1967) Poezje wybrane (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1969) W rytmie słońca (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1974) Wybór wierszy (Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik", 1976) Poezje wybrane (II) (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1985; ) Wybór wierszy (Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik", 1986; ) Żalnik (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1989; , ) Dziesięć lat przed końcem wieku (nakładem autorki; maszynopis powielany, brak daty i miejsca wydania; ok. 1990) Postoje słowa (Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 1994) Wielka pauza (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1996; ) W płynnym stanie (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1998; ) Wiersze niektóre (Bis, 1997, 1998; ) Stany nieoczywistości (Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1999; ) Supliki (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2005; ) Przelotem (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2007; ) Horrendum (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2010; ) Fuga (1955-2010) (Biuro Literackie, 2011; ) Klangor (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2014; ) Ucieczki (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2016; ) Prose Postoje pamięci (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza, 1964, 1973, 1977; Atut-Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe 2004, ). Ptaki dla myśli (Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza 1971; wyd. 2 poprawione i rozszerzone: Wydawnictwo Literackie 1984, ) Noli me tangere (Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy 1984; ) Essays Z poczekalni oraz Osobnego sny i przypowieści (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1978) Osobnego sny i przypowieści (Okis, 1997; Biblioteka Wrocławskiego Oddziału Stowarzyszenia Pisarzy Polskich; ) Drama Gonitwy (Prapremiera: Zespół Teatralny przy Wyższej Szkole Inżynieryjskiej, Rzeszów 1972) Kobieta niezależna („Scena” 12/1976) Biało i duszno (układ dramatyczny) („Scena” 10/1977) Król malowany (na motywach baśni J. Ch. Andersena pt. Nowe szaty króla 1978; druk: Zjednoczone Przedsiębiorstwa Rozrywkowe, Ośrodek Teatru Otwartego „Kalambur”, 1986) Narada familijna („Teatr Polskiego Radia” 2/1978) Przerwany wykład („Scena” 12/1978) Weekend ("Opole" nr 1/1981 i nr 2/1981) Spartolino, czyli jak Rzempoła ze szwagrem Pitołą stracha przydybali (Prapremiera: Wrocławski Ośrodek Teatru Otwartego „Kalambur” 1982) Trzy Światy (Czytelnik, 1982; ) Podwórkowcy (Prapremiera: Teatr Dramatyczny im. J. Szaniawskiego, Wałbrzych 1983; spektakl TV 1984) Psujony ("Scena" 1/1985) Magiczne imię (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1985; ) References Living people Writers from Wrocław Polish women poets University of Wrocław alumni Polish women dramatists and playwrights Polish women editors Polish essayists Polish women essayists Polish women novelists 1931 births 20th-century Polish dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Polish novelists 20th-century Polish non-fiction writers 21st-century Polish dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Polish novelists 21st-century Polish poets 21st-century Polish women writers 20th-century Polish women writers

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cum%20shot

Cum shot

A cum shot is the depiction of human ejaculation, especially onto another person. The term is usually applied to depictions occurring in pornographic films, photographs, and magazines. Unlike ejaculation in non-pornographic sex, cum shots typically involve ejeculation outside the receiver's body, allowing the viewer to see the ejaculation in progress. Facial cum shots (or "facials") are regularly portrayed in pornographic films and videos, often as a way to close a scene. Cum shots may also depict ejaculation onto another performer's body, such as on the genitals, buttocks, chest or tongue. The term is typically used by the cinematographer within the narrative framework of a pornographic film, and, since the 1970s, it has become a leitmotif of the hardcore genre. Two exceptions are softcore pornography, in which penetration is not explicitly shown, and "couples erotica", which may involve penetration but is typically filmed in a more discreet manner intended to be romantic or educational rather than graphic. Softcore pornography that does not contain ejaculation sequences is produced both to respond to a demand by some consumers for less-explicit pornographic material and to comply with government regulations or cable company rules that may disallow depictions of ejaculation. Cum shots typically do not appear in "girl-girl" scenes (female ejaculation scenes exist, but are relatively rare); orgasm is instead implied by utterances, cinematic conventions, or body movement. Cum shots have become the object of fetish genres like bukkake, in which the cum shot replaces the sex act completely. Terminology A cum shot may also be called a cumshot, come shot, cum blast, pop shot or money shot. Originally, in general film-making usage the term money shot was a reference to the scene that cost the most money to produce; in addition, the inclusion of this expensive special effect sequence is being counted on to become a selling point for the film. For example, in an action thriller, an expensive special effects sequence of an explosion might be called the "money shot" of the film. The use of money shot to denote the ejaculation scene in pornographic films is attributed to producers paying the male actors extra for it. The meaning of the term money shot has sometimes been borrowed back from pornography by the film and TV industry with a meaning closer to that used in pornographic films. For example, in TV talk shows, the term, borrowed from pornography, denotes a highly emotional scene, expressed in visible bodily terms. Origin and features Although earlier pornographic films occasionally contained footage of ejaculation, it was not until the advent of hard-core pornography in the 1970s that the stereotypical cum shot scene became a standard feature—displaying ejaculation with maximum visibility. The 1972 film Behind the Green Door featured a seven-minute-long sequence described by Linda Williams, professor of film studies, as "optically printed, psychedelically colored doublings of the ejaculating penis". Steven Ziplow's The Film Maker's Guide to Pornography (1977) states: Cum shot scenes may involve the female actor calling for the shot to be directed at some specific part of her body. Cultural analysis researcher Murat Aydemir considers this one of the three quintessential aspects of the cum shot scene, alongside the emphasis on visible ejaculation and the timing of the cum shot, which usually concludes a hard-core scene. As a possible alternative explanation for the rise of the cum shot in hardcore pornography, Joseph Slade, professor at Ohio University and author of Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide notes that pornography actresses in the 1960s and 1970s did not trust birth control methods, and that more than one actress of the period told him that ejaculation inside her body was deemed inconsiderate if not rude. Health risks Transmission of disease Any sexual activity that involves contact with the bodily fluids of another person contains the risk of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. Semen is in itself generally harmless on the skin or if swallowed. However, semen can be the vehicle for many sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV and hepatitis. The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration categorizes semen as "other potentially infectious material" or OPIM. Aside from other sexual activity that may have occurred prior to performing a facial, the risks incurred by the giving and receiving partner are drastically different. For the ejaculating partner, there is almost no risk of contracting an STD. For the receiving partner, the risk is higher. Since potentially infected semen could come into contact with broken skin or sensitive mucous membranes (eyes, lips, mouth), there is a risk of contracting an infectious disease. Allergic reactions In rare cases, people have been known to experience allergic reactions to seminal fluids, known as human seminal plasma hypersensitivity. Symptoms can be either localized or systemic, and may include itching, redness, swelling, or blisters within 30 minutes of contact. They may also include hives and even difficulty breathing. Options for prevention of semen allergy include avoiding exposure to seminal fluid by use of condoms and attempting desensitization. Treatment options include diphenhydramine and/or an injection of epinephrine. Criticisms and responses One critic of "cum shot" scenes in heterosexual pornography was the US porn star–turned–writer, director and producer Candida Royalle. She produced pornography films aimed at women and their partners that avoid the "misogynous predictability" and depiction of sex in "...as grotesque and graphic [a way] as possible." Royalle also criticizes the male-centredness of the typical pornography film, in which scenes end when the male actor ejaculates. Women's activist Beatrice Faust argued, "since ejaculating into blank space is not much fun, ejaculating over a person who responds with enjoyment sustains a lighthearted mood as well as a degree of realism. This occurs in both homosexual and pornography so that ejaculation cannot be interpreted as an expression of contempt for women only." She goes on to say "Logically, if sex is natural and wholesome and semen is as healthy as sweat, there is no reason to interpret ejaculation as a hostile gesture." Sexologist Peter Sándor Gardos argues that his research suggests that "... the men who get most turned on by watching cum shots are the ones who have positive attitudes toward women" (at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex in 1992). Later, at the World Pornography Conference in 1998, he reported a similar conclusion, namely that "no pornographic image is interpretable outside of its historical and social context. Harm or degradation does not reside in the image itself." Cindy Patton, activist and scholar on human sexuality, argues that, in western culture, male sexual fulfillment is synonymous with orgasm and that the male orgasm is an essential punctuation of the sexual narrative. No orgasm, no sexual pleasure. No cum shot, no narrative closure. The cum shot is the period at the end of the sentence. In her essay "Visualizing Safe Sex: When Pedagogy and Pornography Collide", Patton reached the conclusion that critics have devoted too little space to discovering the meaning that viewers attach to specific acts such as cum shots. See also Notes Pornography terminology Ejaculation Sexual acts

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Oath of Allegiance (New Zealand)

The New Zealand Oath of Allegiance is defined by the Oaths and Declarations Act 1957. All Oaths can be taken in either Māori or English form. It is possible to take an affirmation, which has the same legal effect as an Oath. Oath The Oath, in its present form, is: In Māori, this is: A modified version, with the added phrase "and I will obey the laws of New Zealand and fulfil my duties as a New Zealand citizen" is used as New Zealand's Oath of Citizenship. Affirmation An affirmation begins with "I, [name], solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm", and continues with the words of the oath prescribed by law, omitting any reference to God. Other New Zealand Oaths The chief justice administers the following oaths of office at the swearing-in of various government officials. For simplification, the oaths set out below take the form they would have if used today in English. Governor-General's Oath Executive Council Oath House of Representatives Oath The Constitution Act 1986 requires that, before being permitted to sit or vote in the House of Representatives, members of Parliament must take the Oath of Allegiance. Parliamentary Under-Secretaries Oath Judicial Oath Armed forces Oath Police Oath Alteration and augmentation of oaths In May 2004, the Minister of Justice, Phil Goff, announced a review of New Zealand's oaths and affirmations stating that "This review also offers a chance for people to express a view on whether our oaths accurately reflect the values and beliefs that are important to New Zealanders in the 21st century". The Ministry of Justice reported in a discussion paper on oaths and affirmations that many were either out of date (such as the teachers' oath or the Queen's Counsel oath) or used arcane language. The review suggested that New Zealand could follow the experience of Australia by removing references to the Queen from the oaths. The Monarchist League called the change "republicanism by stealth" and commented that "[a] declaration of allegiance to New Zealand, or to the Prime Minister, would be a poor substitute [for the Queen]". In response, the Republican Movement argued that removing references to the Queen was not "republicanism by stealth" but simply reflected the contemporary values of New Zealanders. The Republican Movement also submitted that "[t]he Australians have already updated their oath of citizenship so that there is no mention of the Queen, while maintaining the exact same constitutional monarchy as New Zealand". To this day the oath remains, with relevant personnel (e.g. military) swearing allegiance to the King, either in a traditional oath or a non-religious affirmation. Oaths Modernisation Bill One year after the review was announced, Phil Goff released the new forms the oaths were to take. The references to the Queen were retained, and the Oaths Modernisation Bill was introduced in Parliament. The Bill would have made the following changes: It amends the parliamentary oath to include loyalty to New Zealand and respect for the democratic values of New Zealand and respect for the rights and freedoms of its people; It amends the citizenship oath to include loyalty to New Zealand, and respect for the democratic values of New Zealand and respect for the rights and freedoms of its people; It provides a Māori version of each oath. The Act provides that using a Māori equivalent of any of the oaths set out in that Act shall have full legal effect; It amends the Act to prescribe a Māori language version of the words with which an affirmation must begin. The Monarchist League was pleased with this outcome, stating, "While it may be questioned what 'loyalty to New Zealand', and 'respect for its democratic values' actually mean, it is heartening that no attempt was made to remove the oath of allegiance to the Queen." The Republican Movement stated that "[t]he best thing about the new oaths is that they can easily be changed when we become a republic". After passing the first reading and going to the Government Administration Committee, the Bill had its second reading discharged on 1 June 2010, meaning it will not proceed. Hone Harawira amendment In 2007, then Māori Party MP Hone Harawira put up an amendment (in the form of a supplementary order paper) to the Oaths Modernisation Bill inserting references to the oaths and affirmations to "uphold the Treaty of Waitangi". Harawira eventually split from the Māori Party and resigned from parliament to re-contest his seat as leader of the Mana Party. He won the subsequent by-election. On 14 July 2011, Harawira was removed from the chamber by the Speaker of the House, Lockwood Smith, for not pledging the oath of allegiance as required by law. See also Republicanism in New Zealand Oath of Allegiance Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom) Oath of Allegiance (Australia) Oath of Allegiance (Canada) References External links Oaths and Declarations Act 1957 Oaths Modernisation Bill New Zealand Government of New Zealand Monarchy in New Zealand

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Randolph, Nebraska

Randolph is a city in Cedar County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 881 at the 2020 census. It refers to itself as "The Honey Capital of the Nation" due to the per-capita number of bee keeping families. History Randolph got its start in the year 1886, following construction of the railroad through the territory. It was named for Lord Randolph Churchill, a British statesman. Randolph was incorporated on May 7, 1889. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. U.S. Route 20 serves the community, and U.S. Route 81 passes just west of the city. Demographics 2010 census At the 2010 census there were 944 people in 402 households, including 258 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 453 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.4% White, 0.3% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 1.7% from other races, and 0.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.2%. Of the 402 households 24.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.2% were married couples living together, 6.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 35.8% were non-families. 33.1% of households were one person and 18.4% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.84. The median age was 47.5 years. 22.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 18.4% were from 25 to 44; 25.1% were from 45 to 64; and 28.2% were 65 or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.2% male and 52.8% female. 2000 census At the 2000 census there were 955 people in 409 households, including 265 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 447 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.95% White, 0.10% African American, 0.31% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 0.21% from other races, and 0.10% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.21%. Of the 409 households 27.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.5% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.0% were non-families. 33.0% of households were one person and 21.8% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.83. The age distribution was 22.7% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 22.8% from 25 to 44, 18.3% from 45 to 64, and 31.1% 65 or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.0 males. The median household income was $30,486, and the median family income was $40,000. Males had a median income of $28,125 versus $13,500 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,343. About 4.9% of families and 7.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.8% of those under age 18 and 9.7% of those age 65 or over. Education Randolph Public Schools are part of the Randolph Public School District. The district includes an elementary school and high school. Students attend Randolph High School. References External links Randolph Nebraska Website Randolph Public Schools City-Data.com Cities in Cedar County, Nebraska Cities in Nebraska

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Third Orbán Government

The third government of Viktor Orbán was the Government of Hungary between 6 June 2014 and 18 May 2018. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán formed his third cabinet after his party-alliance, Fidesz and its coalition partner, Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) altogether won a qualified majority in the 2014 parliamentary election. Policy Immigration During the 2015 European migrant crisis the government initiated the erection of the Hungary-Serbia barrier to block entry of illegal immigrants. Just like the other Visegrád Group leaders, the government was against any compulsory EU long-term quota on redistribution of migrants. On 24 February 2016 the prime minister announced that the government would hold a Referendum on whether to accept the European Union's proposed mandatory quotas for relocating migrants. He also said it is "no secret that the Hungarian government refuses migrant quotas" and that they will be campaigning for "no" votes. Orbán argued that the quota system would "redraw Hungary's and Europe's ethnic, cultural and religious identity, which no EU organ has the right to do". On 5 May, after examining the legal challenges, the Supreme Court (Kúria) allowed the holding of the referendum. In the autumn of that year the no vote won with 3,362,224 votes or 98.36% of the total number of votes. Free Sunday Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary) has supported the restriction on Sunday shopping ("free Sunday", as they called) for a long time, citing Christian values. Parliament voted on the issue on December 14, 2014 and the law came into effect on March 15, 2015 (a Sunday on which shops would have been closed anyway, the day being a public holiday in Hungary). Public opinion was predominantly against the decision. Three polls done in the spring of 2015 registered an opposition of 64% (Szonda Ipsos), 62% (Medián) 59% (Tárki). By the end of May, according to a poll by Medián, 72% of those polled disliked the new law, even the majority of Fidesz-KDNP voters were against it. Opposition parties and private persons tried to start a public referendum several times. By November 2015 there were 16 such attempts, but none of them were approved, for various bureaucratic reasons, until in early 2016 one of these attempts, initiated by the Hungarian Socialist Party, was finally successful. The government, rather than being forced to hold the referendum (which could have been interpreted as a huge success for the opposition party, even though the law was opposed by the majority of Fidesz voters too) lifted the ban in April 2016. NGO Law On 13 June 2017, The Hungarian Parliament Passed a Law Targeting Foreign-Funded NGOs. The law requires civil groups receiving foreign donations above a certain threshold to register as organizations funded from abroad. The law was passed 130 to 44, with 25 abstaining. Party breakdown Beginning of term Party breakdown of cabinet ministers in the beginning of term: End of term Party breakdown of cabinet ministers in the end of term: Members of the Cabinet Composition Following the 2014 parliamentary election, Fidesz–KDNP gained 133 seats in the National Assembly. The government majority of the parliament elected Viktor Orbán as a fully-fledged prime minister on 10 May, but his third cabinet formed only 6 June. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transformed into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, while the Ministry of Rural Development and the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice were renamed to Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Justice, respectively. On 17 October 2015, the Ministry of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office was established. Two ministers without portfolio were appointed in May 2017 and October 2017. References General 2014 establishments in Hungary 2018 disestablishments in Hungary Cabinets established in 2014 Cabinets disestablished in 2018 Hungarian governments Government 3

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The General (1998 film)

The General is an Irish crime film written and directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who undertook several daring heists in the early 1980s and attracted the attention of the Garda Síochána, IRA and Ulster Volunteer Force. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998. Brendan Gleeson plays Cahill, Adrian Dunbar plays his friend Noel Curley, and Jon Voight plays Inspector Ned Kenny. Plot The story of Dubliner Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies but came into conflict with members of his gang and attracted attention from the police and the IRA, and whose dealings with the UVF ultimately led to his downfall. Cast Brendan Gleeson as Martin Cahill Adrian Dunbar as Noel Curley Sean McGinley as Gary Maria Doyle Kennedy as Frances Angeline Ball as Tina Jon Voight as Inspector Ned Kenny Eanna MacLiam as Jimmy Tom Murphy as Willie Byrne Paul Hickey as Anthony Tommy O'Neill as Paddy John O'Toole as Shea Ciarán Fitzgerald as Tommy Ned Dennehy as Gay Vinny Murphy as Harry (as Vinnie Murphy) Roxanna Williams as Orla Production The film is based on the book of the same name by Irish journalist Paul Williams, who is "Special Correspondent" for the Irish Independent. The director, John Boorman was one of Cahill's burglary victims. This event is dramatised in a scene in which Cahill breaks into a home, stealing a gold record and pilfering a watch from the wrist of a sleeping woman. The gold record, which Cahill later breaks in disgust after discovering it is not made of gold, was awarded for the score of Deliverance, Boorman's best-known film. Filming was at various locations around Dublin, including South Lotts and Ranelagh. Although shot in colour, the theatrical release of the film was presented in black-and-white for artistic reasons, while an alternate version of the desaturated original colour print was subsequently made available for television broadcast and home video. Asked why he chose to depict Cahill's life in black-and-white, Boorman said I love black-and-white, and since I was making the film independently — I borrowed the money from the bank — there was no one to tell me I couldn't. If I had made [The General] for a studio, they wouldn't let me do that. The other reason, the main reason, was because it was about recent events and people who were still alive. I wanted to give it a little distance. Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious. I wanted it to have this mythic level because I felt this character was an archetype. All throughout history, you find this rebel, this violent, funny, brilliant kind of character. I wanted to make that kind of connection, and black-and-white film helps. Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really. Reception The General holds an approval rating of 82% based on 49 reviews on website Rotten Tomatoes. The film grossed £1.6 million in the UK and Ireland, the second highest-grossing Irish film of the year, behind The Butcher Boy. In the United States and Canada it grossed $1.2 million for a worldwide estimated total of $3.8 million. The film garnered multiple awards for Gleeson's performance and Boorman's directing, with some critics speculating the former would earn an Academy Award nomination. Boorman won the award for Best Director at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Though Gleeson was not nominated for an Oscar, his performance was awarded by the Boston Society of Film Critics, the London Film Critics' Circle, and the Irish Film and Television Academy. Awards and nominations See also List of films featuring diabetes References External links 1998 films 1998 crime drama films 1990s heist films Irish crime drama films Irish heist films British crime drama films British heist films English-language Irish films Biographical films about criminals Biographical films about gangsters Films about The Troubles (Northern Ireland) Films about the Irish Republican Army Films about organised crime in Ireland Films based on biographies Films set in Dublin (city) Films shot in Dublin (city) Films directed by John Boorman Sony Pictures Classics films 1998 independent films 1990s English-language films 1990s British films

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Dangerous

Dangerous may refer to: Film and television Dangerous (1935 film), an American film starring Bette Davis Dangerous: The Short Films, a 1993 collection of music videos by Michael Jackson Dangerous (2021 film), a Canadian-American action thriller Dangerous (TV series), a 2007 Australian drama Dangerous (web series), a 2020 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller Music Dangerous!, an Australian punk band Dangerous World Tour, Michael Jackson's 1992–93 world concert tour Dangerous Records, a British record label associated with Sawmills Studios Albums Dangerous (Andy Taylor album), 1990 Dangerous (The Bar Kays album) or the title song, 1984 Dangerous (Michael Jackson album) or the title song (see below), 1991 Dangerous (Natalie Cole album) or the title song, 1985 Dangerous (SpeXial album) or the title song, 2015 Dangerous (Yandel album), 2015 Dangerous: The Double Album, by Morgan Wallen, or the title song, 2021 Dangerous, by DecembeRadio, or the title song, 2005 Dangerous, by KJ-52, or the title song, 2012 Songs "Dangerous" (Big Data song), 2013 "Dangerous" (Busta Rhymes song), 1997 "Dangerous" (Cascada song), 2009 "Dangerous" (David Guetta song), 2014 "Dangerous" (The Doobie Brothers song), 1991 "Dangerous" (James Blunt song), 2011 "Dangerous" (Kardinal Offishall song), 2008 "Dangerous" (Loverboy song), 1985 "Dangerous" (M. Pokora song), 2008 "Dangerous" (Meek Mill song), 2018 "Dangerous" (Michael Jackson song), 1991 "Dangerous" (Penny Ford song), 1985 "Dangerous" (Roxette song), 1989 "Dangerous" (Rumer song), 2014 "Dangerous" (S-X song), 2020 "Dangerous" (Seether song), 2020 "Dangerous" (Within Temptation song), 2013 "Dangerous" (Ying Yang Twins song), 2006 "Dangerous", by Before You Exit, 2014 "Dangerous", by Comethazine from Bawskee 3.5, 2019 "Dangerous", by Def Leppard from Def Leppard, 2015 "Dangerous", by Depeche Mode, B-side of "Personal Jesus", 1989 "Dangerous", by Ella Mai from Ella Mai, 2018 "Dangerous", by Groove Coverage from Riot on the Dancefloor, 2012 "Dangerous", by Group 1 Crew from Fearless, 2012 "Dangerous", by Jennifer Hudson from JHUD, 2014 "Dangerous", by Jessie J from R.O.S.E., 2018 "Dangerous", by Ladyhawke from Wild Things, 2016 "Dangerous", by My American Heart Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather, 2007 "Dangerous", by NEFFEX, 2018 "Dangerous", by Nick Jonas from Spaceman, 2021 "Dangerous", by Schoolboy Q from Crash Talk, 2019 "Dangerous", by Shinee from The Misconceptions of Us, 2013 "Dangerous", by Shaman's Harvest from Smokin' Hearts & Broken Guns, 2014 "Dangerous", by the Who, B-side of "It's Hard", 1982 "Dangerous", by the xx from I See You, 2017 "Dangerous" by Madison Beer, 2022 Other uses Chris Dangerous (born 1978), Swedish musician Dangerous (Bill Hicks album), a comedy album, 1990 Dangerous (book), a 2017 autobiography by Milo Yiannopoulos Dangerous (horse) (foaled 1830), a British Thoroughbred racehorse Dangerous Reef, in Spencer Gulf, South Australia See also , pages beginning with Dangerous in quotes Danger (disambiguation) Dangerously (disambiguation)

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Cabaret Red Light

Cabaret Red Light was a theater group based in Philadelphia that performed vaudeville, burlesque, spoken word and puppet theater, set to original music by The Blazing Cherries. In their first season, between November 2008 and July 2009, Cabaret Red Light staged the series "The Seven Deadly Sins". Their second and third series ("The Experiment", about a cabaret that builds a time machine, and "The Seven Deadly Seas", a pirate and gypsy-jazz show aboard the barquentine Gazela) began in 2010, and they recently performed the premiere of their ballet-and-burlesque version of The Nutcracker based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's original Gothic short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King." Cabaret Red Light's shows have been described as a blend of Agitprop and burlesque, an unlikely combination that earned them the title “The Best Marxist Girlie Show in Hell.” In their third show in the Seven Sins series, WRATH!, the group handed out pamphlets announcing the emergence worldwide of “pornographic socialism.” In the finale of their fifth show, GLUTTONY!, they immersed a showgirl (Annie A-Bomb) in liquid chocolate and invited members of the audience to lick it off. When Holly Otterbein of Philadelphia City Paper asked co-director Peter Gaffney about the politics of the show, he responded, "The common ways in which we entertain ourselves — TV, movies, the Internet — involve sitting in a room by yourself. Compare that to the licking scene. It's the opposite. It's real people in a room experimenting with themselves and testing out their own limits." In other interviews, however, Gaffney has denied that Cabaret Red Light has any overtly political agenda. "We think that theater has no business being in politics," he stated in an interview with Emily Orrson of The Daily Pennsylvanian, "and neither does the government." Cast members Regular members of the Cabaret Red Light cast include co-directors Anna Frangiosa and Peter Gaffney, Annie A-Bomb, Chris Aschman, Jim Boyle, Mike Corso, Kimberlie Cruse, Jay Davidson, Christine Fisler, Melissa Forgione (a.k.a. Melissa Bang-Bang), Rolf Lakaemper, Andrew Morris, Shoshanna Hill, Angela Schleinkofer (a.k.a. Satangela) and Evan Smoker. Previous members, technical engineers and guest performers include Josh Anderson, Ryan Berg, Jess Conda, Andy Cowles, Alexandra Cutler-Fetkewicz, Nick Gilette, Biz Goldhammer, Toni Guinyard, Mike Harkness, Heather Henderson, Brian Hopely, Nicki Jaine, Julie-Françoise Kruidenier, Lindsay Ouellette, Gina Pickton, Kaveh Saidi, Timaree Schmit, Michael Schupp, Benjamin Shwartz (as The Ringer), Jeff Smith (a.k.a. Calvin the Jester), James Stapleford, Monsieur Thujone, Owen Timoney, Nick Troy, Koofreh Umoren, Marina Vishnyakova, Randi Warhol, and Kim Zelnicker (a.k.a. Svedka von Schotz). History Peter Gaffney and Anna Frangiosa created Cabaret Red Light in 2008 in order to challenge the common perception that burlesque is not serious theater, and that politically engaged theater, on the other hand, is serious to a fault. Their influences include Anita Berber, NSK (the Neue Slowenische Kunst political art collective), Georges Brassens, Kurt Weill, Bulat Okudzawa, Bertolt Brecht, Aristophanes and Wilhelm Reich, as well as more contemporary artists and performance groups such as Julie Atlas Muz, Les Yeux Noirs, Frank Zappa, Bread and Puppet Theater, Tom Waits, the Yes Men and The Yard Dogs Road Show. In November 2008 they performed their first show, "Vanity" as part of " The Seven Deadly Sins" series at L'Etage Cabaret in Philadelphia. Beginning in November, 2009, Plays and Players Theatre began presenting Cabaret Red Light's shows derived from their cabaret material. These shows were called "The Takeover", "The Occupation", and "Lust". These elaborately staged productions have included such things as an army of showgirls armed with feathers and weapon props, and a 20-foot octopus puppet. In the summers of 2010 and 2011 the company produced four shows in the series, "The Seven Deadly Seas". The shows were about pirates as corporate/capitalist figures and featured swordplay and burlesque. They premiered on the Gazela, a historic three masted tall ship. Shows were performed in Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore. Their original production of Nutcracker premiered in December 2010 at Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia. The show featured an original adaptation of the original E. T. A. Hoffmann story by Peter Gaffney and Anna Frangiosa. Music by Rolf Lakamper. Choreography by Christine Fisler. The adaptation was for adults and featured ballet, shadow puppetry, burlesque, and a seven piece orchestra. The production was re-mounted in December 2011 and sold out all performances. In October 2011 Cabaret Red Light produced an original musical play inspired by Mae West titled, "Looking Pretty and Saying Cute Things". Written by Anna Frangiosa and Peter Gaffney. Music direction by Chris Ashman. Inspired by Mae West's early brushes with the law over obscenity, her imprisonment for eight days after an "obscenity conviction", and her censuring by the Hays Code. Cabaret Red Light produced no shows in 2012. The company's website had not been updated since 2011. See also Anna Frangiosa The Cabaret Administration Jubilee! Peepshow Sirens of TI Absinthe Moulin Rouge Le Lido Folies Bergère Casino de Paris Paradis Latin Tropicana Club References External links Marty Moss Coane of WHYY's Radio Times interviews the co-founders and directors of Cabaret Red Light on their new production of NUTCRACKER New York Times article on Cabaret Red Light's The Seven Deadly Seas aboard the Tall Ship Gazela "Cabaret Red Light stages burlesque NUTCRACKER at the Painted Bride in Philadelphia" by Molly Eichel of Philadelphia Daily News Article on Cabaret Red Light's series The Experiment in Philadelphia City Paper Article on Cabaret Red Light's series The Seven Deadly Sins in Philadelphia City Paper Article on Anna Frangiosa in Philadelphia City Paper CBS News on Annie A-Bomb's Burlesque class with Cabaret Red Light footage Culture of Philadelphia Theatres in Pennsylvania

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Greek lyric

Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek. It is primarily associated with the early 7th to the early 5th centuries BC, sometimes called the "Lyric Age of Greece", but continued to be written into the Hellenistic and Imperial periods. Background Lyric is one of three broad categories of poetry in classical antiquity, along with drama and epic, according to the scheme of the "natural forms of poetry" developed by Goethe in the early nineteenth century. (Drama is considered a form of poetry here because both tragedy and comedy were written in verse in ancient Greece.) Culturally, Greek lyric is the product of the political, social and intellectual milieu of the Greek polis ("city-state"). Much of Greek lyric is occasional poetry, composed for public or private performance by a soloist or chorus to mark particular occasions. The symposium ("drinking party") was one setting in which lyric poems were performed. "Lyric" was sometimes sung to the accompaniment of either a string instrument (particularly the lyre or kithara) or a wind instrument (most often the reed pipe called aulos). Whether the accompaniment was a string or wind instrument, the term for such accompanied lyric was melic poetry (from the Greek word for "song" melos). Lyric could also be sung without any instrumental accompaniment. This latter form is called meter and it is recited rather than sung, strictly speaking. Modern surveys of "Greek lyric" often include relatively short poems composed for similar purposes or circumstances that were not strictly "song lyrics" in the modern sense, such as elegies and iambics. The Greeks themselves did not include elegies nor iambus within melic poetry, since they had different metres and different musical instruments. The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome offers the following clarification: "'melic' is a musical definition, 'elegy' is a metrical definition, whereas 'iambus' refers to a genre and its characteristics subject matter. (...) The fact that these categories are artificial and potentially misleading should prompt us to approach Greek lyric poetry with an open mind, without preconceptions about what 'type' of poetry we are reading." Greek lyric poems celebrate athletic victories (epinikia), commemorate the dead, exhort soldiers to valor, and offer religious devotion in the forms of hymns, paeans, and dithyrambs. Partheneia, "maiden-songs," were sung by choruses of maidens at festivals. Love poems praise the beloved, express unfulfilled desire, proffer seductions, or blame the former lover for a breakup. In this last mood, love poetry might blur into invective, a poetic attack aimed at insulting or shaming a personal enemy, an art at which Archilochus, the earliest known Greek lyric poet, excelled. The themes of Greek lyric include "politics, war, sports, drinking, money, youth, old age, death, the heroic past, the gods," and hetero- and homosexual love. In the 3rd century BC, the encyclopedic movement at Alexandria produced a canon of the nine melic poets: Alcaeus, Alcman, Anacreon, Bacchylides, Ibycus, Pindar, Sappho, Simonides, and Stesichorus. Only a small sampling of lyric poetry from Archaic Greece, the period when it first flourished, survives. For example, the poems of Sappho are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the Library of Alexandria, with the first book alone containing more than 1,300 lines of verse. Today, only one of Sappho's poems exists intact, with fragments from other sources that would scarcely fill a chapbook. Meters Greek poetry meters are based on patterns of long and short syllables (in contrast to English verse, which is determined by stress), and lyric poetry is characterized by a great variety of metrical forms. Apart from the shift between long and short syllables, stress must be considered when reading Greek poetry. The interplay between the metric "shifts", the stressed syllables and caesuras is an integral part of the poetry. It allows the poet to stress certain words and shape the meaning of the poem. There are two main divisions within the meters of ancient Greek poetry: lyric and non-lyric meters. "Lyric meters (literally, meters sung to a lyre) are usually less regular than non-lyric meters. The lines are made up of feet of different kinds, and can be of varying lengths. Some lyric meters were used for monody (solo songs), such as some of the poems of Sappho and Alcaeus; others were used for choral dances, such as the choruses of tragedies and the victory odes of Pindar." The lyric meters' families are the Ionic, the Aeolic (based on the choriamb, which can generate varied kinds of verse, such as the glyconian or the Sapphic stanza), and the Dactylo-epitrite. The Doric choral songs were composed in complex triadic forms of strophe, antistrophe, and epode, with the first two parts of the triad having the same metrical pattern, and the epode a different form. Bibliography Translations Anthologies . . . Loeb Classical Library . . . . . . . Critical editions Lyric . . . . . Elegy and Iambus . . Scholarship . . .  — translated from the French original of 1977 by D. Collins & J. Orion. . da Cunha Corrêa, P. (2009 [1998]). Armas e Varões; A Guerra na Lírica de Arquíloco. 2nd ed. São Paulo: Editora da UNESP . . . . . . . References Ancient Greek poetry

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Jean Miruho

Jean Miruho was a Congolese politician who served as President of Kivu Province. Biography Jean Miruho was born in Kabare, Belgian Congo. He was a Catholic and worked as a cashier at the Banque du Congo Belge. He was a member of the Centre du Regroupement Africain (CEREA), a political party based in Kivu Province, and organised a chapter of the organisation in Goma and the surrounding area. The party later divided and he became leader of a moderate splinter faction based in North Kivu. In January 1960 he assisted an association of Baptist Congolese in their unsuccessful attempt to gain official recognition from the Belgian colonial authorities. In the May 1960 elections Miruho won a seat in the Kivu Provincial Assembly, representing the Kabare constituency. His CEREA faction secured an additional number of seats in the assembly, and he subsequently organised a coalition with independents and smaller parties. The assembly then elected him President of Kivu Province. His government was formed on 30 June. Upon assuming office, Miruho encouraged the local population to welcome and co-operate with the Europeans residing in the region "on the condition that they do not get involved in politics". On 5 July 1960 men of the Force Publique in Léopoldville and Thysville mutinied against their Belgian officers. Unrest spread throughout the Lower Congo, and European civilians began to flee the country en masse. In an attempt to resolve the situation, the Congolese government under Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba announced that the Force Publique officer corps was to be Africanised. Miruho co-ordinated well with the Belgian officers in Kivu, ensuring that they handed over power to the Congolese soldiers without incident. The large departure of Europeans deprived Kivu's administration of essential personnel, and Miruho attempted to fill vacant leadership positions according to the seniority and competence of those considered for promotions. On 13 July Lumumba announced that Miruho's appointments would be nullified, generating hostility between the provincial government and the central government. The political situation continued to deteriorate over the following months. Katanga Province seceded from the Congo and Lumumba was removed from power. By November Lumumba's supporters had begun consolidating their position in Orientale Province and sparring with the central government in Léopoldville. Miruho's government distanced itself from both factions while also refusing to lead its province into secession. Lumumba's supporters in Orientale shortly thereafter assumed local control and openly challenged the authority of the central government. On 24 December, troops from Orientale occupied Bukavu, the capital of Kivu, and arrested the local army commander. The next day Miruho tried to intervene and secure his release, but he too was arrested by the soldiers and sent to Stanleyville along with the Bukavu army commander. Anicet Kashamura was installed as his replacement. Despite rumours of abuse and torture, Miruho was not mistreated while in their custody. In January 1961 Lumumba was killed, and ethnic tensions dramatically rose throughout Kivu in February, paralysing Adrien Omari's government and facilitating Miruho's return to power when Cyrille Adoula became Prime Minister in August. Nevertheless, his new government was threatened by rebellious troops and had to remain under the constant protection of peacekeeping units of the United Nations Operation in the Congo. At his request, the troublesome officers and units were transferred out of the province in December. Miruho remained in power until May 1962, when the central government suspended the powers of the provincial authorities and assumed direct control over Kivu. In September Miruho published a letter to Adoula, demanding that he respect the authority of the provincial government. In response, Adoula's government placed Miruho and his family under house arrest and subsequently accused him of planning to ally Kivu with Katanga's secession. Miruho was opposed to Kivu's division into smaller provinces. On 5 July 1968, President Joseph-Désiré Mobutu announced Miruho's appointment to the Political Bureau of the Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution, the state political party. Notes Citations References People from Goma People of the Congo Crisis Possibly living people Year of birth missing Governors of provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Governors of Kivu Province

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Alberto Castillo (catcher)

Alberto Terrero Castillo (born February 10, 1970) is a Dominican former professional baseball catcher. Castillo was born in San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic. Between and , Castillo played for the New York Mets (1995–), St. Louis Cardinals (), Toronto Blue Jays (–), San Francisco Giants (), Kansas City Royals (–), Oakland Athletics (2005), and Baltimore Orioles (). He batted and threw right-handed. In a twelve-season career, Castillo posted a .220 batting average with 12 home runs and 101 RBI in 418 games played. Career During his time with the Mets, Castillo helped end one of the longest scoreless opening day games in MLB history. On March 31, 1998, he hit a full-count, two-out, pinch-hit single to right with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 14th inning to help the Mets beat their division rival Philadelphia Phillies 1–0 at Shea Stadium. Signed by the Washington Nationals on December 13, 2005, Castillo played the 2006 season with the Triple-A New Orleans Zephyrs. He finished his 2006 season with the Zephyrs with a .268 batting average and 30 RBI. Castillo was a catcher for the first Dominican team in the inaugural 2006 World Baseball Classic. The Boston Red Sox organization signed him to a minor league contract on December 20, 2006, and invited him to participate in the Red Sox' 2007 spring training. On March 27, 2007, the Red Sox traded him to the Baltimore Orioles for minor league outfielder Cory Keylor. He was used in the 2007 season by the Orioles to fill in for injured catcher Ramón Hernández twice and was designated for assignment twice after Hernandez's return. Castillo became a minor league free agent after the season. Castillo was the captain for the Dominican Team in the 2007 Caribbean Series. On February 14, 2008, Castillo signed a minor league contract with the Houston Astros and was invited to spring training. After spending spring training with the Astros, Castillo was demoted on March 24 to the minors and later released. Confusingly, the Orioles signed a pitcher named Alberto Castillo at the beginning of the 2008 season. On July 3, 2008, Castillo signed with the Camden Riversharks of the Atlantic League. In 2009, he played for the Newark Bears before being traded to the rival Long Island Ducks on July 6. He is currently the catching instructor of the Dominican Summer League Mets. See also Rule 5 draft results References External links Baseball Library 1970 births Living people Águilas Cibaeñas players Baltimore Orioles players Binghamton Mets players Columbia Mets players Columbus Clippers players Dominican Republic baseball coaches Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Canada Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Mexico Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States Fresno Grizzlies players Gigantes del Cibao players Gulf Coast Mets players Kansas City Royals players Kingsport Mets players Long Island Ducks players Major League Baseball catchers Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic Mexican League baseball catchers Minor league baseball managers New Orleans Zephyrs players New York Mets players New York Yankees players Newark Bears players Norfolk Tides players Oakland Athletics players Omaha Royals players People from San Juan de la Maguana Pittsfield Mets players Sacramento River Cats players San Francisco Giants players St. Louis Cardinals players St. Lucie Mets players Sultanes de Monterrey players Toronto Blue Jays players Toros del Este players Vaqueros Laguna players World Baseball Classic players of the Dominican Republic 2006 World Baseball Classic players 2009 World Baseball Classic players

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Ornate wobbegong

The ornate wobbegong (Orectolobus ornatus) is a species of carpet shark that lives in Australia and possibly other countries in the Western Pacific Ocean. It is coloured golden brown, yellow-green and blueish-grey, and it grows to maximum . Described by Charles Walter De Vis in 1883, it is similar in appearance to other Australian wobbegongs and has previously been classified as the same species as the Gulf wobbegong. It is a nocturnal species, hunting at night, and it can bite humans when disturbed. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed it as a least-concern species. Taxonomy The ornate wobbegong was described by Charles Walter De Vis in 1883. It was previously assumed to be the juvenile form of the Gulf wobbegong (Orectolobus halei), due to similarities between the two species. However, there are multiple differences: for example, the ornate wobbegong is smaller, has a smaller head relative to its body, and is less freckled. "Banded wobbegong" is an alternative common name for the ornate wobbegong; however, it is also used for the Gulf wobbegong. Description The ornate wobbegong's upperside is golden brown in colour with blueish-grey areas, and it is yellow-green on its underside. It has two dorsal fins, a large flat head, and small eyes. Its mouth and lower head are covered with flaps of skin. Juveniles are in total length and sexual maturity is reached at . For adults, the maximum reported size is . The ornate wobbegong is similar in appearance to the gulf wobbegong and the spotted wobbegong (Orectolobus maculatus). However, it is smaller than the former and it does not have the distinctive O-shaped spots of the latter. The ornate wobbegong also has markings with black edges, further differentiating it from the spotted wobbegong. Its distinct colour pattern provides good camouflage: it is barely discernible when amidst plants on the sea floor. As specimens grow older, however, this pattern becomes less prominent. Ecology The ornate wobbegong is a nocturnal species, with most activity and feeding taking place in the nighttime. In the daytime, it has occasionally been known to hunt for food, but generally it is in a "somewhat sleepy state", resting out in the open or under caves and ledges, often on sand or weed bottoms. Habitats include algae-covered sea floors, coral reefs, or bays. The species usually lives in clearer waters than the spotted wobbegong. Its prey consists of crustaceans, fish, and octopuses. A study of the diet of specimens in Port Jackson showed that fish, primarily luderick, moray eels, and snappers, composed 86.5% of the species' diet, and cephalopods composed 13.5% of it. Reproduction is ovoviviparous and over 12 pups are born at a time. Gestation takes almost a year, with young hatching in September or October. A one-day-old specimen was observed by Neville Coleman to have a full set of teeth and be able to defend itself. The ornate wobbegong is usually not hostile towards humans, but it can bite when disturbed. It uses its sharp anterior teeth to inflict "shallow but painful wounds". Because it camouflages so well, divers often fail to see it even when they are close, and some are bitten. It has bitten people who go into tide pools, including fishers and waders. It sometimes swims towards nearby divers, possibly with hostile intent. The International Shark Attack File has recorded 32 attacks by wobbegongs species in general because it is difficult to do an accurate identification of wobbegongs. Distribution The ornate wobbegong lives in tropical and warm temperate waters no deeper than . It is native to eastern Australia, in the western Pacific Ocean. Reports have been confirmed at Port Stephens and Sydney. Although it has also been reported to live in Indonesia, Japan, and Papua New Guinea, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) states that these reports probably misidentified other fish for this species, which would make the ornate wobbegong endemic to Australia. However, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History, it does live in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. This report has to be verified. The ornate wobbegong's population is not known, nor whether it is increasing or decreasing. Its main threat in eastern Australia is commercial fishing. A survey from May 2000 to April 2001 concluded that 5,174 total wobbegongs (including other species) were fished and kept in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia. Its flesh is edible, which makes it a target for human consumption, and its skin has previously been utilised for decoration. It is not threatened currently, as it is only caught in parts of its range and not often. As of 20 February 2015, it is listed as a least-concern species on the IUCN Red List, after two assessments as near threatened in 2003 and 2009. References External links Banded Wobbegong @ Fishes of Australia ornate wobbegong Marine fish of Eastern Australia ornate wobbegong Taxa named by Charles Walter De Vis

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Cylisticus

Cylisticus is a genus of woodlice in the family Cylisticidae. There are at least 70 described species in Cylisticus. Species These 70 species belong to the genus Cylisticus: Cylisticus albomaculatus Borutzkii, 1957 Cylisticus anatolicus Verhoeff, 1949 Cylisticus annulicornis Verhoeff, 1908 Cylisticus anophthalmus Silvestri, 1897 Cylisticus aprutianus Taiti & Manicastri, 1980 Cylisticus armenicus Borutzkii, 1961 Cylisticus arnoldi Borutzkii, 1961 Cylisticus arnoldii Borutzky, 1961 Cylisticus bergomatius Verhoeff, 1928 Cylisticus biellensis Verhoeff, 1930 Cylisticus birsteini Borutzkii, 1961 Cylisticus brachyurus Radu, 1951 Cylisticus caprariae Ferrara & Taiti, 1978 Cylisticus carinatus Budde-Lund, 1885? Cylisticus caucasius Verhoeff, 1917 Cylisticus cavernicola Racovitza, 1907 Cylisticus cavernicolus Racovitza, 1907 Cylisticus ciscaucasius Borutzkii, 1961 Cylisticus convexus (De Geer, 1778) (curly woodlouse) Cylisticus cretaceus Borutzkii, 1957 Cylisticus dentifrons Budde-Lund, 1885 Cylisticus desertorum Borutzkii, 1957 Cylisticus discolor Verhoeff, 1949 Cylisticus dobati Strouhal, 1971 Cylisticus esterelanus Verhoeff, 1917 Cylisticus estest Verhoeff, 1931 Cylisticus giljarovi Borutzkii, 1977 Cylisticus gracilipennis Budde-Lund, 1879 Cylisticus igiliensis Taiti & Ferrara, 1980 Cylisticus iners Budde-Lund, 1880 Cylisticus inferus Verhoeff, 1917 Cylisticus kosswigi Strouhal, 1953 Cylisticus lencoranensis Borutzkii, 1977 Cylisticus ligurinus Verhoeff, 1936 Cylisticus littoralis Ferrara & Taiti, 1978 Cylisticus lobatus Ferrara & Taiti, 1985 Cylisticus lobulatus Strouhal, 1953 Cylisticus major Radu, 1951 Cylisticus masalicus Kashani, 2016 Cylisticus mechthildae Strouhal, 1971 Cylisticus mitis Budde-Lund, 1885 Cylisticus montanus Vandel, 1980 Cylisticus montivagus Verhoeff, 1949 Cylisticus mrovdaghensis Borutzkii, 1961 Cylisticus nasatus Verhoeff, 1931 Cylisticus nasutus Verhoeff, 1931 Cylisticus nivicomes Verhoeff, 1949 Cylisticus opacus Arcangeli, 1939 Cylisticus orientalis Borutzkii, 1939 Cylisticus ormeanus Verhoeff, 1930 Cylisticus pallidus Verhoeff, 1928 Cylisticus pierantonii Arcangeli, 1923 Cylisticus pontremolensis Verhoeff, 1936 Cylisticus pugionifer Verhoeff, 1943 Cylisticus racovitzai Vandel, 1957 Cylisticus rotabilis Budde-Lund, 1885 Cylisticus rotundifrons Schmalfuss, 1986 Cylisticus sarmaticus Borutzkii, 1977 Cylisticus silsilesii (Vandel, 1980) Cylisticus silvestris Borutzkii, 1957 Cylisticus strouhali Borutzkii, 1977 Cylisticus suberorum Verhoeff, 1931 Cylisticus transsilvanicus Verhoeff, 1908 Cylisticus transsilvaticus Verhoeff, 1908 Cylisticus transsylvanicus Verhoeff, 1908 Cylisticus uncinatus Taiti & Ferrara, 1996 Cylisticus urartuensis Borutzkii, 1961 Cylisticus urgonis Taiti & Ferrara, 1980 Cylisticus vandeli Taiti & Ferrara, 1980 Cylisticus zangezuricus Borutzkii, 1961 References External links Isopoda Articles created by Qbugbot

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Website wireframe

A website wireframe, also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint, is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website. The term wireframe is taken from other fields that use a skeletal framework to represent 3 dimensional shape and volume. Wireframes are created for the purpose of arranging elements to best accomplish a particular purpose. The purpose is usually driven by a business objective and a creative idea. The wireframe depicts the page layout or arrangement of the website's content, including interface elements and navigational systems, and how they work together. The wireframe usually lacks typographic style, color, or graphics, since the main focus lies in functionality, behavior, and priority of content. In other words, it focuses on what a screen does, not what it looks like. Wireframes can be pencil drawings or sketches on a whiteboard, or they can be produced by means of a broad array of free or commercial software applications. Wireframes are generally created by business analysts, user experience designers, developers, visual designers, and by those with expertise in interaction design, information architecture and user research. Wireframes focus on: The range of functions available The relative priorities of the information and functions The rules for displaying certain kinds of information The effect of different scenarios on the display The website wireframe connects the underlying conceptual structure, or information architecture, to the surface, or visual design of the website. Wireframes help establish functionality and the relationships between different screen templates of a website. An iterative process, creating wireframes is an effective way to make rapid prototypes of pages, while measuring the practicality of a design concept. Wireframing typically begins between “high-level structural work—like flowcharts or site maps—and screen designs.” Within the process of building a website, wireframing is where thinking becomes tangible. Wireframes are also utilized for the prototyping of mobile sites, computer applications, or other screen-based products that involve human-computer interaction. Uses of wireframes Wireframes may be utilized by different disciplines. Developers use wireframes to get a more tangible grasp of the site's functionality, while designers use them to push the user interface (UI) process. User experience designers and information architects use wireframes to show navigation paths between pages. Business Analysts use wireframes to visually support the business rules and interaction requirements for a screen. Business stakeholders review wireframes to ensure that requirements and objectives are met through the design. Professionals who create wireframes include business analysts, information architects, interaction designers, user experience designers, graphic designers, programmers, and product managers. Working with wireframes may be a collaborative effort since it bridges the information architecture to the visual design. Due to overlaps in these professional roles, conflicts may occur, making wireframing a controversial part of the design process. Since wireframes signify a “bare bones” aesthetic, it is difficult for designers to assess how closely the wireframe needs to depict actual screen layouts. To avoid conflicts it is recommended that business analysts who understand the user requirements, create a basic wire frame and then work with designers to further improve the wireframes. Another difficulty with wireframes is that they don't effectively display interactive details because they are static representations. Modern UI design incorporates various devices such as expanding panels, hover effects, and carousels that pose a challenge for 2-D diagrams. The main benefit of wireframes is that they can be used to iterate on any interface in an agile manner. This happens through a process oftentimes referred to as usability tests, where users are provided with an opportunity to interact with the interface and either think aloud about their thought process or answer more structured questions throughout. After each trial with a user, a user experience researcher can identify common interactions with the interface, synthesize the data, and redesign accordingly. Due to the generally lower-fidelity nature of wireframe, it is very easy and cost-efficient to make changes. The point of a wireframe is to capture the design of the fundamental structure, high-level interaction pattern within an interface, otherwise known as the critical points, so it really allows a designer to work quickly, perfect for an agile environment where group members work collaboratively to "sprint" to the next iteration. Wireframes may have different levels of detail and can be broken up into two categories in terms of fidelity, or how closely they resemble the end product. Low-fidelity Resembling a rough sketch or a quick mock-up, low-fidelity wireframes can be quickly produced. These wireframes help a project team communicate ideas and collaborate more effectively since they are more abstract, using rectangles and labeling to represent content. Dummy content, Latin filler text (lorem ipsum), sample or symbolic content are used to represent data when real content is not available. For example, instead of using actual images, a placeholder rectangle can be used. Low-fidelity wireframes can be used to facilitate team communication on a project and is used in the early stages of a project. High-fidelity High-fidelity wireframes are often used for documenting because they incorporate a level of detail that more closely matches the design of the actual webpage, thus taking longer to create. For simple or low-fidelity drawings, paper prototyping is a common technique. Since these sketches are just representations, annotations—adjacent notes to explain behavior—are useful. For more complex projects, rendering wireframes using computer software is popular. Some tools allow the incorporation of interactivity including Flash animation, and front-end web technologies such as, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. High fidelity wireframes include more real content, specific typography choices, and information on image dimensions. Unlike low fidelity wireframes, high fidelity wireframes can include actual images. Color choices are not included, but different values in color can be represented in grayscale. Elements of wireframes The skeleton plan of a website can be broken down into three components: information design, navigation design, and interface design. Page layout is where these components come together, while wireframing is what depicts the relationship between these components. Information design Information design is the presentation—placement and prioritization of information in a way that facilitates understanding. Information design is an area of user experience design, meant to display information effectively for clear communication. For websites, information elements should be arranged in a way that reflects the goals and tasks of the user. Navigation design The navigation system provides a set of screen elements that allow the user to move page to page through the website. The navigation design should communicate the relationship between the links it contains so that users understand the options they have for navigating the site. Often, websites contain multiple navigation systems, such as a global navigation, local navigation, supplementary navigation, contextual navigation, and courtesy navigation. Interface design User interface design includes selecting and arranging interface elements to enable users to interact with the functionality of the system. The goal is to facilitate usability and efficiency as much as possible. Common elements found in interface design are action buttons, text fields, check boxes, radio buttons and drop-down menus. See also Blueprint Comprehensive layout Graphic design Information architecture Interaction design User experience design User interface design Web design References Web design

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The Bulleteers

The Bulleteers (1942) is the fifth of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster. This animated short was created by Fleischer Studios. The story runs about nine minutes and covers Superman's adventures as he defends the city against a villainous gang called "The Bulleteers", who are equipped with a bullet-shaped rocket car. It was originally released on March 27, 1942. Plot The story begins as the clock strikes midnight. A strange, bullet-shaped rocket car blows right through the police department, leaving an explosion in its wake. The paper the next day reports the destruction of the building and the bafflement of the police. Perry White calls Lois Lane and Clark Kent into his office. Just as he is explaining the report, the sound of a loudspeaker comes in through the window. The leader of the "Bulleteers", as Lois later calls them, is shown announcing from his hideout atop a mountain outside of town, the demands of his gang. Over the speaker, Clark, Lois, Perry, and the rest of the town hear it: "Turn over the city treasury or other municipal buildings will be next as their last warning!" Later that day, Lois asks the mayor what he is doing about the problem. The mayor announces that he will not be swayed by criminals. At the same time, policemen all over town set up sandbag fortifications for their machine guns and searchlights in preparation for the Bulleteers. At midnight, the gang strikes again, first destroying the town's power plant, bullets from defending policemen bouncing harmlessly off the bullet car's sleek surface. Lights in the Daily Planet flicker on and off, and Lois takes off in a car to get closer to the scene, leaving Clark behind. Clark takes the opportunity to enter a nearby phone booth and don his Superman costume. The Bulleteers take aim now at the city's treasury building, but Superman steps in front of them and knocks the rocket car off course. As they struggle to regain control, he leaps in the air and grabs its front trying again to force it off-course, but the Bulleteers, through wild maneuvering, manage to shake him off the car to the ground below. Superman lunges to keep them from the treasury, only to arrive too late. Piles of rubble from the explosion bury him. Lois Lane arrives at the scene in time to see the gang throwing bags of money into their car. She sneaks into its cockpit and tries to smash the controls with a wrench, but the gang returns, taking off with her. Superman, meanwhile, emerges from the rubble and chases after the car, grasping it by one of its retractable wings, and then by its tail fins to throw it off course. As it spirals downward, he claws his way to the cockpit, rips it open, and pulls Lois and the three gangsters out. The car crashes to the ground far below. The newspaper on the next day reports Superman's heroic feat and the gangsters' arrest for their rampage. Reading it, Clark remarks, "Nice going, Lois. Another great scoop for you". Lois replies, "It was easy, thanks to Superman". Cast Bud Collyer as Clark Kent/Superman, Bulleteer, Police Officer, Printer Joan Alexander as Lois Lane Julian Noa as Perry White, Mayor Jackson Beck as the Narrator Appearances In Superman: Doomsday, the restored bullet car appears as one of Superman's trophies in his Fortress of Solitude. The line "We won't be intimidated by criminal threats" has been used in various promos for the action cartoon block Toonami. References External links The Bulleteers at the Internet Archive The Bulleteers at the Internet Movie Database 1942 short films 1942 animated films 1940s American animated films 1940s animated short films 1940s animated superhero films Superman animated shorts Fleischer Studios short films Short films directed by Dave Fleischer Flying cars in fiction Paramount Pictures short films Rotoscoped films 1940s English-language films American animated short films

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Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov

Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov (1946–2013) was an Israeli international relations and conflict resolution scholar. Biography Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov received a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern studies and Political Science, as well as a master's degree and a Doctorate in International Relations, all from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Academic career He was the Giancarlo Elia Valori Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he held the "Chair for the Study of Peace and Regional Cooperation". He was also the Director of the "Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution" at the Hebrew University, and the Head of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. A recipient of the Israeli Association for International Studies' Lifetime Achievement Award, Professor Bar-Siman-Tov was a noted expert in the fields of management and resolution of international conflicts; negotiation; decision-making; and the Arab–Israeli conflict. He was also a member of the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Advisory Board at Yale University Press; member of the "Global Faculty of Education for Peace" at the "International Education for Peace Institute"; and an Associate Partner at the "Jerusalem Peace Academy". He is listed in Who's Who in Academia, and in Who's Who in International Organizations. In 2000, Bar-Siman-Tov founded the Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution at the Hebrew University, the first center for the study of conflict resolution in Israel. He has been serving as the Swiss Center's Director ever since. Since 2003, he has also been the Head of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, an independent, non-partisan, think-tank which provides data, policy papers, and professional analyses for a variety of governmental bodies, public institutions, civil organizations, decision-makers, researchers, and the general public. He also held several additional senior academic positions at the Hebrew University, including "Chair of the International Relations Department" (1993–1996); "Chair of the Social Sciences Faculty Teaching Committee" (1996–1997); and "Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations" (1997–2003). Published works Bar-Siman-Tov has written extensively in the fields of international relations, negotiation, decision-making, and the Arab Israeli conflict. Since the 1990s, his research primarily has focused on conflict resolution, and on management and resolution of international conflicts. He is the author of seven books: The Israeli-Egyptian War of Attrition 1969-1970: A Case Study of Limited Local War (Columbia University Press, 1980). It won the "Landau Prize" for the best book on Middle East studies for the year 1982. Linkage Politics in the Middle East: Syria Between Domestic and External Conflict, 1961-1970 (Westview Press, 1983) Israel the Superpowers and the War in the Middle East (Praeger, 1987) Israel and the Peace Process, 1977-1982: In Search of Legitimacy for Peace (SUNY Press, 1994) The Transition from War to Peace: The Complexity of Decisionmaking - The Israeli Case (The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, 1996) The Disengagement from the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria: Evacuation, Compensation and Legitimization (The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2007; with Keren Tamir) Justice and Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Routledge, 2015) He is also the editor of several books, including: The Yom Kippur War: A New Perspective (The Leonard Davis Institute, 1999; with Chaim Ophaz) Stable Peace Among Nations (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; with Arie M. Kacowicz, Ole Elgstrom, and Magnus Jerneck) From Conflict Resolution to Reconciliation (Oxford University Press, 2004) As the Generals See It: The Collapse of the Oslo Process and the Violent Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, 2004) The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Peace Process to a Violent Confrontation: 2000-2005 (Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2006) It won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for the best book in military studies for the year of 2006. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Conflict Resolution to Conflict Management (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007) Forty Years in Jerusalem1967-2007 (The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2009; with Ora Ahimeir) ''The Disengagement Plan - An Idea Shattered(The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2009) Barriers to Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2010) References 1946 births 2013 deaths Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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James Laxer

James Robert Laxer (22 December 1941 – 23 February 2018), also known as Jim Laxer, was a Canadian political economist, historian, public intellectual, and political activist who served as a professor at York University. Best known as co-founder of the Waffle, on whose behalf he ran for the leadership of the New Democratic Party in 1971, he was the author of more than two dozen books, mostly on Canadian political economy and history. Early life and family Laxer was born in Montreal, Quebec, on 22 December 1941 and was the son of Edna May (née Quentin) and Robert Laxer, a psychologist, professor, author, and political activist. His father was Jewish and his mother was from a Protestant family. Both were members of the Communist Party of Canada and its public face, the Labor-Progressive Party, with Robert Laxer being a national organizer for the party. The Laxers left the party, along with many other members, following Khrushchev's Secret Speech revealing Joseph Stalin's crimes, and the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary. James Laxer wrote about his experiences growing up during this period in his memoir Red Diaper Baby: A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism. His father came to serve as a significant influence on his political worldview. His paternal grandfather was a rabbi and his maternal grandfather was a minister and Christian missionary to China, where Laxer's mother was born. His brother, Gordon Laxer, became a political economist, author, and founder of the Parkland Institute. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and Master of Arts (following approval of his thesis French-Canadian Newspapers and Imperial Defence, 1899–1914 in 1967) and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Queen's University. He was an active student journalist both at The Varsity at the University of Toronto and later at the Queen's Journal and was elected president of Canadian University Press in 1965. Laxer married three times. He married Diane Taylor in 1965, from whom he was divorced in 1969. He married Krista Mäeots in 1969 with whom he had two children: Michael and Katherine (known as "Kate"). They were separated at the time of her death in 1978. Laxer married Sandra Price in 1979 with whom he had two more children: Emily and Jonathan. Political career In 1969, Laxer, along with his father Robert Laxer, Mel Watkins, and others, founded the Waffle, a left-wing group influenced by the New Left, the anti–Vietnam War movement, and Canadian economic nationalism, that tried to influence the direction of the New Democratic Party (NDP). Laxer was a principal author of their Manifesto for an Independent Socialist Canada in 1969 alongside Ed Broadbent and Gerald Caplan. The manifesto was debated at the 1969 federal NDP convention and was rejected by the delegates in favour of a more moderate declaration. In 1971, Laxer ran for the leadership of the federal NDP and shocked the convention by winning one-third of the vote on the fourth and final ballot against party stalwart David Lewis. The Waffle was ultimately forced out of the NDP and briefly became a political party under the name Movement for an Independent Socialist Canada. Laxer and other Wafflers unsuccessfully ran for Parliament in 1974. This electoral failure led to the Waffle's demise, and Laxer concentrated on his work at York University, where he was a professor of political science for 47 years, and in broadcasting. In 1981, he was hired as director of research for the federal NDP, but left in controversy in 1983 when he published a report critiquing the party's economic policy as being "out of date". Academic, writer, and broadcaster Laxer hosted The Real Story, a nightly half-hour current affairs program on TVOntario in the early 1980s. He also variously wrote a column and op-ed pieces for the Toronto Star from the 1980s until shortly before his death, as well as op-ed pieces for The Globe and Mail. He also played "Talleyrand", a mock political insider, on CBC Radio's Morningside in the 1980s. Laxer co-wrote and presented the five-part National Film Board documentary series Reckoning: The Political Economy of Canada in 1986, which examined Canada's economic and political relationships with the United States and Canada's place in the changing global economy. Laxer and his co-writer won a Gemini Award in 1988 for Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series for episode one of Reckoning titled "In Bed with an Elephant". The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation refused to air the series due to its critical view of free trade with the United States, which was being negotiated at the time, and it aired instead on TVOntario and other educational channels in Canada as well as a number of PBS stations in the United States. A democratic socialist, Laxer believed that Canadian economic nationalism was a progressive force against the United States and American imperialism. He wrote extensively about the influence of American multinational corporations in the Canadian economy, particularly in the oil and gas industry, and his agitation helped lead to the creation of Petro-Canada. The creation of the Foreign Investment Review Agency, and the Canadian Development Corporation in the 1970s is also attributed in part to the work of Laxer, Watkins, and the Waffle. In the 1980s he strongly opposed the adoption of the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement, though he still believed that free trade agreements were capable of being used to the advantage of the political left through the entrenchment of social charters. Laxer died suddenly and unexpectedly in Paris of heart-related problems on 23 February 2018 while in Europe researching a book on Canada's role in the Second World War. Selected works See also Canadian Dimension References Citations Works cited External links James Laxer blog James Laxer at rabble.ca James Laxer's profile at York University 1941 births 2018 deaths 20th-century Canadian historians 21st-century Canadian historians Canadian Broadcasting Corporation people Canadian columnists Canadian economists Canadian nationalists Canadian political scientists Canadian radio personalities Canadian socialists Canadian television hosts Canadian Screen Award winners Historians of Canada Independent candidates in the 1974 Canadian federal election Jewish Canadian politicians Jewish socialists Journalists from Montreal New Democratic Party people Canadian democratic socialists Politicians from Montreal Politicians from Toronto Post-Keynesian economists Queen's University at Kingston alumni Toronto Star people University of Toronto alumni Writers about globalization Writers from Montreal Writers from Toronto Academic staff of York University Jewish Canadian journalists Jewish Canadian filmmakers

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RuPaul's Drag Race (season 14)

The fourteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race premiered on January 7, 2022. The reality competition series, broadcast on VH1 in the United States, showcases 14 new queens competing for the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar". Casting calls for season 14 were opened in November 2020, and the cast was officially revealed by season 13 winner Symone on VH1 on December 2, 2021. The season premiere received 738,000 viewers, making it the most-watched premiere since Season 10. The season was won by Willow Pill, who became the first transgender contestant to win the main franchise of RuPaul's Drag Race, and the fourth transgender contestant to win overall, with Lady Camden as the runner-up. Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté was named Miss Congeniality, who became the first transgender contestant to win the title. The season welcomed Maddy Morphosis, the show's first heterosexual, cisgender male contestant. The season notably also featured five transgender contestants: Kerri Colby and Kornbread "The Snack" Jeté (both of whom entered the competition openly trans), Jasmine Kennedie (who came out as a trans woman during filming of the show), Bosco (who came out as a trans woman as the season aired), and Willow Pill (who came out as trans femme as the season aired). The season featured a "Chocolate Bar Twist" which was introduced in the third episode, which featured each of the contestants being given a chocolate bar, one of which contained a golden bar. After losing a lip sync, each contestant must unwrap their chocolate bar, and the contestant whose bar contains the golden bar is saved from elimination. The twist lasted until episode 12, when Bosco was revealed to have the golden chocolate bar. This season had a final five going to the grand finale, a first in the show’s history. Additionally, the winning queen received a cash prize of $150,000, the highest in the show's history up to that point. The runner up won a $50,000 cash prize, also a series first. It is also the first series in which a single queen had to lip sync for their life five times; Jorgeous survived four lip syncs and was sent home on the fifth. Contestants Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming. Notes: Contestant progress Lip syncs Legend: Notes: Guest judges Lizzo, singer and songwriter Alicia Keys, singer and songwriter Christine Chiu, businesswoman, philanthropist and television personality Loni Love, comedian and television host Ava Max, singer Taraji P. Henson, actress and singer Ts Madison, television and internet personality, LGBTQ+ activist Alec Mapa, actor Nicole Byer, comedian and actress Dove Cameron, actress and singer Andra Day, singer and actress Dulcé Sloan, comedian Special guests Guests who appeared in episodes, but did not judge on the main stage. Episodes 1 and 2 Albert Sanchez, photographer Episode 4 Jennifer Lopez, singer, actress, dancer Episode 5 Jaymes Mansfield, contestant on season nine Kahmora Hall, contestant on season thirteen Tempest DuJour, contestant on season seven Sarah McLachlan, singer and songwriter Episode 8 David Benjamin Steinberg, songwriter and music producer Episode 10 Raven, runner-up of season two and of All Stars season one Episode 12 Leland, producer Leslie Jordan, actor Miguel Zarate, choreographer Episode 13 Norvina, president of Anastasia Beverly Hills Episode 15 LaLa Ri, contestant on season thirteen Derrick Barry, contestant on season eight and All Stars season five Kahanna Montrese, contestant on season eleven Alexis Mateo, contestant on season three and All Stars season one and five Episode 16 Jaida Essence Hall, winner of season twelve Kameron Michaels, contestant on season ten Trinity K. Bonet, contestant on season six and All Stars season six Naomi Smalls, contestant on season eight and All Stars season four Derrick Barry, contestant on season eight and All Stars season five Kahanna Montrese, contestant on season eleven Hot Chocolate, entertainer and drag queen Symone, winner of season thirteen LaLa Ri, contestant on and Miss Congeniality of season thirteen Episodes Ratings References 2022 American television seasons 2022 in LGBT history RuPaul's Drag Race seasons

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Protestantism in Albania

Evangelical Protestantism is one of five officially recognized faiths in Albania. It is a Christian faith that views Jesus Christ as its founder and head, and the Bible (especially the New Testament) as its written authority. The US International Religious Freedom Report of 2022 noted that 38% of the population (just over a million people) have a Christian background. There are 95 Christian groups in the country, 174 of which are evangelical. The number of Evangelical Protestants in Albania has risen from approximately 8000 in 1998, to approximately 14,000 in the early 2020s. However, in the 2011 census, 70% of respondents refused to declare belief in any of the listed faiths. Unlike other official religions in Albania, Evangelical Protestants are not organized under a hierarchy with an official head, but operate autonomously in separate churches or organizations bearing different denominational or non-denominational names. Most, but not all Evangelical/Protestant groups are members of the Albania's Evangelical Brotherhood (VUSH), a cooperative organization which views itself as existing as "an instrument of blessing … with the purpose of promoting unity amongst the churches, representing every local church with dignity, and promoting evangelism." Protestant denominations include Baptist, Lutheran and Anglican. History On August 26, 1816, Robert Pinkerton wrote the British and Foreign and Bible Society to encourage them to translate the New Testament into Albanian. Cyrus Hamlin reported in 1857 that Albanians were applying to his Protestant seminary. The first documented Albanian Protestant was Kostandin Kristoforidhi, who left his native Orthodox faith and converted to Protestantism on his own while comparing Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant theological texts. He joined the Protestant Church of Smyrna in 1856 or 1857, and was sent to Istanbul for theological training. In Monastir, Gjerasim Qiriazi also converted to Protestantism ca. 1876-1877, and united with the multi-ethnic Protestant church there. The first two known Albanian Protestant-Evangelical churches were both established by Gjerasim Qiriazi, first in Monastir in 1884 and later in Korça in 1890 (both cities then part of the Ottoman Empire). In April 1890, Gjerasim Qiriazi was ordained as the first Albanian evangelist and preacher by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the board's annual meeting help in Monastir. The second church among Albanians was opened in Korça. Qiriazi was also the head of one of the first national societies within Albania, named “The Evangelical Brotherhood”. As a result, Gjerasim Qiriazi is considered as the father of the Albanian Protestant Church. During the Communist regime of the late 20th century, Albania was declared as the world’s first atheist country. Over 2,000 religious institutions were closed. Several religious leaders and preachers were arrested, imprisoned and executed. It was against the law to buy a Bible at that time. When the regime ended in 1991, there were less than 20 Evangelical Christians in the country. In July, 1991 an international consortium of eleven mission agencies calling themselves the Albanian Encouragement Project (AEP) secured government permission to hold an evangelical gathering in Tirana. The AEP grew to 45 agencies and continued their work there for several years. Freedom of religion In 2023, the constitution provides for freedom of religion and conscience. It states that there is no official religion, but officially recognises Sunni Albanian Muslims, Bektashi Muslims, Roman Catholics, Albanian Autocephalous Orthodox and VUSH. In 2022, Albania scored 4 out of 4 for religious freedom. See also Religion in Albania Christianity in Albania Roman Catholicism in Albania Orthodoxy in Albania Irreligion in Albania Freedom of religion in Albania References Further reading Hosaflook, David. Lëvizja protestante te shqiptarët, 1816-1908. Skopje: ITSHKSH, 2019. Young, David. Lëvizja protestante midis shqiptarëve, 1908-1991. Prishtina: TENDA, 2011. External links (dedicated to the study and research of Protestantism in Albania).

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Steven Fine

Steven Fine is a historian of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World and a professor at Yeshiva University. Education Fine received a BA in Religious Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979, an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California in 1984, and a PhD in Jewish History from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1993. Career Fine worked as an intern in the Departments of Jewish Art and Jewish Folklore at the Israel Museum (1977-8, 1980–81), in the Department of Indian Art of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1982-3, under the tutelage of Pratapaditya Pal), and then as curator of the USC Archaeological Research Collection (1983-87 under the tutelage of Bruce Zuckerman). After completing his doctorate in Jerusalem, Fine served as assistant and associate professor at Baltimore Hebrew College (1994-2000), and then as Jewish Foundation Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati from 2000 to 2005. Steven Fine joined the faculty of Yeshiva University in 2005 as Professor of Jewish History, and served as chair of the Department of Jewish History at Yeshiva College. In 2015 he was awarded the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Chair in Jewish History at Yeshiva University. He is the Founding Director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and the Arch of Titus Project. Arch of Titus Fine is the head of the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project. The team discovered original yellow ochre paint that was originally on the menorah at the arch. Some of his work, including his class on the Arch of Titus, has been dedicated to debunking the myth that the ancient menorah from the Temple in Jerusalem is in the Vatican. Books This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New "Jewish Archaeology, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Second revised edition, 2010, Joshua Schnitzer Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies (2009) Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World, editor and author of the major essay. New York: Oxford University Press and Yeshiva University Museum, 1996, best book in its category, Society of Architectural Historians. Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue: Cultural Interaction During the Greco-Roman Period, Proceedings of a conference organized by Baltimore Hebrew University, May, 1997, edited by S. Fine, London: Routledge Press, 1999. Finalist, 1999 National Jewish Book Award, Charles H. Revson Foundation Award in Jewish-Christian Relations. A Crown for a King: Studies in Memory of Prof. Stephen S. Kayser, edited by S. Fine, W. Kramer, S. Sabar, Berkeley: Magnes Museum Press and Jerusalem: Gefen, 2000. Liturgy in the Life of the Synagogue: Studies in the History of Jewish Public Prayer, edited by Steven Fine and Ruth Langer. Duke Judaic Studies Series. Series editor, E. M. Meyers. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2005. The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah: In Honor of Professor Louis H. Feldman.' Boston: Brill, 2011. Puzzling Out the Past: Studies in Near Eastern Epigraphy and Archaeology in Honor of Bruce Zuckerman. Eds. S. Fine, M. Lundberg, D. Pardee, Boston: Brill Academic Press, 2012. Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity. Boston: Brill Academic Press, 2012. The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Notes External links Steven Fine's website contains his full curriculum vitae,'' articles, links and videos https://yeshiva.academia.edu/StevenFine/About/ Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies: http://www.yu.edu/cis/ Yeshiva University faculty Historians of Jews and Judaism Jewish historians 1958 births Living people Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni University of Southern California alumni University of California, Santa Barbara alumni

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Have Quick

[[File:Arc-164-rt.jpg|thumb|200px|UHF-Aircraft station AN/ARC-164 HAVE QUICK II]] HAVE QUICK (also HAVEQUICK, short HQ) is an ECM-resistant frequency-hopping system used to protect military aeronautical mobile (OR) radio traffic. Since the end of World War II, U.S. and Allied military aircraft have used AM radios in the NATO harmonised 225–400 MHz UHF band (part of NATO B band) for short range air-to-air and ground-to-air communications. During development and the procurement of UHF radios, military planners did not require features to secure communications for aircraft and helicopters from jamming until the post-Vietnam War era. Progress in electronics in the 1970s reached a point where anyone with an inexpensive radio frequency scanner or receiver set could intercept military communications. Once the target frequencies were identified, radio frequency jamming could easily be employed to degrade or completely disable communications. The HAVE QUICK program was a response to this problem. Engineers recognized that newer aircraft radios already included all-channel frequency synthesizers along with keyboards and displays for data entry. The only other system requirements to achieve the desired anti-jam functionality were an accurate clock (for timed synchronization) and a microprocessor to add frequency hopping to existing radios. Aircraft and ground radios that employ HAVE QUICK must be initialized with accurate time of day (TOD; usually from a GPS receiver), a word of the day (WOD), and a net identifier (providing mode selection and multiple networks to use the same word of the day). A word of the day is a transmission security variable that consists of six segments of six digits each. The word of the day is loaded into the radio or its control unit to key the HAVE QUICK system to the proper hopping pattern, rate, and dwell time. The word of the day, time of day and net identifier are input to a cryptographic pseudorandom number generator that controls the frequency changes. HAVE QUICK is not an encryption system, though many HAVE QUICK radios can be used with encryption; e.g. the KY-58 VINSON system. HAVE QUICK is not compatible with SINCGARS, the VHF - FM radios used by ground forces, which operate in a different radio band and use a different frequency hopping method; however some newer radios support both. Particularities A national Air Force operates generally in a closed common user group. However, deviation to this regulation existed on German territory until 1990. E.g. the HQ-user of the German Air Force in the North of Germany, operational subordinated to 2nd Allied Tactical Air Force used HQ net-group 1, whereas the southern units, subordinated to 4th Allied Tactical Air Force, used HQ net-group 2. The co-ordination of HQ radio frequency channels in the NATO-harmonised UHF-band, the design of the so-called HQ hop-sets, is provided in NATO-Europe in responsibility of the NATO Allied Radio Frequency Agency (ARFA) in Brussels. For training and exercises, HQ operates in peacetime mode with limited frequency access. Four net-numbers may be used overlapping in net-group 1 and 2. However, in tactical operation mode this limitation might be lifted. Some HQ-features are compatible to encryption hardware; e.g. to the KY-58 VINSON-family. Utilization in the US and NATO HAVE QUICK was well adopted, and as of 2007 is used on nearly all U.S. military and NATO aircraft. Improvements include HAVE QUICK II Phase 2, and a "Second generation Anti-Jam Tactical UHF Radio for NATO" called SATURN''. The latter features more complex frequency hopping. See also AN/PRC-152 AN/ARC-164 AN/PRC-117F AN/ARC-182 AN/ARC-210 B band (NATO) Combat-net radio Spread spectrum References External links AN/ARC-164 HAVE QUICK II Software Enables Radio Family Ties Airscene HAVE QUICK II Military radio systems Military radio systems of the United States Military electronics of the United States

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Neo Destour

The New Constitutional Liberal Party (, ; French: Nouveau Parti libéral constitutionnel), most commonly known as Neo Destour, was a Tunisian political party founded in 1934 in Dar Ayed, the house of independence activist Ahmed Ayed, by a group of Tunisian nationalist politicians during the French protectorate. It originated from a split with the Destour party. Led by Habib Bourguiba, Neo Destour became the ruling party upon Tunisian independence in 1956. In 1964, it was renamed the Socialist Destourian Party. History The party was formed as a result of a split from the pre-existing Destour party in 1934, during the Ksar Hellal Congress of March 2. Several leaders were particularly prominent during the party's early years before World War II: Habib Bourguiba, Mahmoud El Materi, Tahar Sfar, Bahri Guiga, and Salah ben Youssef. Prior to the split, a younger group of Destour members had alarmed the party elders by appealing directly to the populace through their more radical newspaper L'Action Tunisienne. The younger group, many from the provinces, seemed more in tune with a wider spectrum of the country-wide Tunisian people, while the party elders represented a more established constituency in the capital city of Tunis; yet both groups were proponents of change, either autonomy or independence. The rupture came at the Destour party congress of 1934. World War II At the outbreak of war in 1939, Neo-Destour leaders, though still untried, were deported to France. However, they were released by the Nazis in 1942 following the German occupation of Vichy France. Hitler then handed them over to the Mussolini's fascist government in Rome. There the leaders were treated with deference, the fascists hoping to gain support for the Axis. Bourguiba steadily refused to cooperate. But Hussein Triki worked with the Nazis under Neo-Destour. After allies' advance, victory in El Alamein, he escaped to Europe, there he worked for The Mahgreb, a North African Arabic organization working for the Nazis' war machine against the allies and has collaborated with Hitler's ally Mufti of Palestine. The Neo-Destour Party was one of the Arab factions that the Nazi Germans hoped to win over to the Axis side . As majority of its leaders imprisoned by the French, Eitel Friedrich Moellhausen, Rahn's deputy, argued that the Arabs could be incited to action “against Jews and Anglo-Saxons” through the release of the prisoners in Marseille, without the Germans having to provide specific assurances concerning independence. Post WWII Eventually the Neo Destour led the Tunisian independence movement after the tumultuous period during World War II. Then Bourguiba was imprisoned and after the war in Egypt, while Ben Salih was the local, hands-on party leader. A significant break within the party ranks occurred in the final year of the independence struggle. In April, 1955, Salah ben Yusuf openly challenged Habib Bourguiba over his gradualist tactics during his autonomy negotiations with the French. Also Ben Yusuf, who cultivated support at al-Zaytuna Mosque and took a pan-Arab political line, disputed Bourguiba's more liberal, secular, pro-Western approach. The party's labor leader Ahmad Ben Salah kept the Tunisian General Labor Union in Bourguiba's camp. The Neo Destour party expelled Ben Yusuf that October; in November 1955 he mounted a large street demonstration but to no avail. Ben Yusuf then left for Nasser's Egypt where he was welcomed. Independence of Tunisia from France was negotiated largely by the Neo Destour's Bourguiba. The effective date was March 20, 1956. The next year the Republic of Tunisia was constituted, which replaced the Beylical form of government. The Neo Destour became the ruling party under Prime Minister and later President Habib Bourguiba. In 1963, the Neo Destour was proclaimed the only legally permitted party in Tunisia, though for all intents and purposes the country had been a one-party state since independence. Later the Neo Destour party was renamed the Socialist Destourian Party (PSD in its French acronym) in 1964, to signal the government's commitment to a socialist phase of political-economic development. This phase failed to fulfill expectations, however, and was discontinued in 1969 with the dismissal of Ahmad ben Salah as economics minister by President Bourguiba. In 1988, under President Ben Ali, the party was again renamed, to become the Rassemblement Constitutionel Démocratique (RCD). The RCD continued as the Tunisian ruling party under President Ben Ali, who became increasingly corrupt and dictatorial. Early in 2011 he was forced out of office and his regime and the ruling party abolished, as a result of the liberal Tunisian Revolution. Similar subsequent events of popular regime change, which had spread to other Arab countries, became known as the Arab Spring. Electoral history Presidential elections Chamber of Deputies elections Notable people Hédi Saidi See also Destour Socialist Destourian Party (PSD) Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) Reference notes 1934 establishments in Tunisia 1964 disestablishments in Tunisia Political parties established in 1934 Political parties disestablished in 1964 Destourian parties Defunct political parties in Tunisia Parties of one-party systems

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Ace of Clubs (musical)

Ace of Clubs is a musical written, composed and directed by Noël Coward. The show is set in a 1949 London nightclub called "Ace of Clubs". Nightclub singer Pinkie Leroy falls in love with a sailor. Pinkie and her lover get mixed up with gangsters, a lost package and a missing diamond necklace. In the end, the police arrest the perpetrators, and Pinkie gets her man. The musical premiered at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on 16 May 1950, followed by more tryouts at the Liverpool Empire Theatre and the Birmingham Alhambra Theatre. It transferred to the Cambridge Theatre, London, on 7 July 1950, where it ran for 211 performances until 6 January 1951. The cast included Pat Kirkwood, Sylvia Cecil, Graham Payn, Jean Carson and Myles Eason. Mantovani was the musical director. Stage and costume designs were by Gladys Calthrop. Despite its modest run, Ace of Clubs contained several songs that survived independently, in Coward's later cabaret acts and elsewhere, including "Sail Away" and "I Like America". A CD of the original London cast recording was released in 2004. Background After the Second World War Coward strove for a time to regain his pre-war popularity. His 1945 revue Sigh No More ran for only 213 performances in the West End, and the failure of his musical Pacific 1860 in 1946–47 was in contrast to the success of the show that followed it at Drury Lane, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, which ran for more than ten times as long. Ace of Clubs was one of several other less successful Coward works of the period. Cast Elaine – Bubbly Rogers Rita Marbury – Sylvia Cecil Benny Lucas – Raymond Young Sammy Blake – Robb Stewart Felix Fulton – Myles Eason Ace of Clubs Girls: Dawn O'Hara – Sylvia Verney Doreen Harvey – Margaret Miles Sunny Claire – June Whitfield Ruby Fowler – Erica Yorke Greta Hughes – Pamela Devis Betty Clements – Lorna Drewes Mimi Joshua – Vivien Merchant June April – Lisbeth Kearns Baby Belgrave – Jean Carson Hercules Brothers – Victor Harman, Ronald Francis, Stanley Howlett Joseph Snyder – Elwyn Brook-Jones Gus – Patrick Westwood Pinkie Leroy – Pat Kirkwood Harry Hornby – Graham Payn Clarice – Eileen Tatler Eva – Renee Hill Yvonne Hall – Jean Inglis Mavis Dean – Gail Kendall Detective-Inspector Warrilove – Jack Lambert Policeman – Michael Darbyshire Mr Price – Philip Rose Mrs Price – Stella White Juvenile delinquents – Peter Tuddenham, Colin Kemball, Norman Warwick First plain-clothes Man – Manfred Priestley Second plain-clothes Man – Christopher Calthrop Drummer – Don Fitz Stanford Waiters – George Selfe, Richard Gill, Jacques Gautier Night club habitués and visitors Source: Theatrical Companion to Coward. Synopsis Benny runs the Soho nightclub "The Ace of Clubs" for the owner, Rita. Felix, the compère, introduces the club's girls, who perform their opening number. Benny plans the pickup of a parcel with a gangster, Smiling Snyder. The parcel is in the cloakroom wrapped in a raincoat. When Snyder forcibly steals a kiss from Pinkie Leroy, the club's star, in the middle of her act, a sailor named Harry punches Snyder, who draws his gun and fires. Pinkie takes the raincoat to cover her skimpy costume and escapes with Harry. Harry and Pinkie discover the parcel in the raincoat, but it falls out and Harry finds it after Pinkie goes back to the club. Benny is already looking for the missing parcel, and Rita, who is in love with him, realises that Benny is involved with the gangsters. At rehearsal the next afternoon, Harry comes by to see Pinkie. Detective-lnspector Warrilove arrives to investigate a jewel robbery and shooting. He suspects Snyder. Benny discourages Pinkie from becoming involved with Harry. That evening Snyder and his associate, Guy, kidnap Harry during the show, but he escapes. Pinkie, afraid for Harry's safety, promises Benny that she will get the parcel. Harry is hidden, and after Benny leaves, he and Pinkie meet. The next day, Harry return with the parcel, suggesting that they give it to the police. Pinkie disagrees, and they argue. That evening, one of the girls mistakes the parcel for her birthday present and opens it, finding the purloined necklace. Snyder and Gus pick up the parcel in exchange for cash. Rita hears that the stolen necklace has been traced to the club. She asks the gangsters to leave. In the club, Warrilove notices the necklace, which the birthday girl is wearing, and he follows her. Snyder and Gus open the parcel to find the birthday present, a pair of falsies. They return to the club, and Warrilove catches them. All ends happily for Benny and Rita as well as Pinkie and Harry. Musical numbers Act 1 "Top of the Morning" – Baby and Ace of Clubs Girls "My Kind of Man" – Pinkie "This Could be True" – Pinkie and Harry "Nothing Can Last For Ever" – Rita "Something About a Sailor" – Harry "I'd Never, Never Know" – Pinkie "Three Juvenile Delinquents" – Juvenile Delinquents "Sail Away" – Harry "Josephine" – Pinkie Reprise: "My Kind of Man" – Pinkie "Would You Like to Stick a Pin in my Balloon?" – Ace of Clubs Girls Act 2 "In a Boat on a Lake with My Darling" – Sextet "I Like America" – Harry and Ace of Clubs Girls "Why Does Love Get in the Way?" – Pinkie "Three Juvenile Delinquents" Juvenile Delinquents "Evening in Summer" – Rita Reprise: "Sail Away" – Harry *Time for Baby's Bottle" – Baby, Yvonne, Mavis "Chase Me, Charlie" – Pinkie Reprise: "Nothing Can Last For Ever" – Rita Reprise: "My Kind of Man" – Pinkie Source: Theatrical Companion to Coward. Critical reaction The Times thought that Coward had striven too hard for popular success with his score: "In spite of the mixed reception it is possible that Ace of Clubs, for all its crudity and its slightly old-fashioned air, will give a great many people what they consider lively entertainment. But Mr Coward’s usual public will feel that he has temporarily deserted them." The Manchester Guardian was more favourable, calling the show "essentially a good-tempered frolic ... unlikely to knock spots off Oklahoma but it is in essence not only more genial, but more intelligent." It praised Coward's protégé Graham Payn, who "dances with consummate grace ... singularly fresh and boyish", adding, whether innocently or not, "Benevolent Uncle Noel has found a first-class nephew". Notes, references and sources Notes References Sources 1950 musicals British musicals Musicals by Noël Coward Musicals set in London Musicals set in the 1940s

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Emile Doo's Chemist Shop

Emile Doo's Chemist Shop is an exhibition at the Black Country Living Museum in England. It was originally situated at 358 Halesowen Road, Netherton, before being rebuilt on the museum site. History Before the National Health Service was formed, local chemist shops like Doo's played an important part in the health of the local community. They offered services such as free medical advice, basic First Aid and weekly weighing of babies. Doo's was originally built in 1886 as a tailor's shop. James Emile Doo traded from 1882 in a building across the road from 358, the business being taken over by his newly qualified son Harold Emile Doo, in about 1918. In 1929 Harold moved trading to their new premises at 358. The move was so carefully planned that dispensing was carried out until 10:00 p.m. on Saturday night in the old premises, and then started trading in the new premises the next morning at 9:00 a.m. Harold traded as a chemist until ill health forced his retirement in May 1968. Exhibition The shop lay untouched from 1968 to 1973, when the fittings and stock were donated to The Black Country Living Museum. The shop now located in The Black Country Living Museum is built using bricks reclaimed from two houses which were demolished in Pearson Street, Old Hill. The original shop front was also rescued and forms part of the exhibit today. The shop exhibition is much tidier than the shop would have been in real life. It would have been cluttered with hampers full of deliveries often leaving little room for customers. With guidance from Emile Doo's daughter Betty, the shop has been laid out as it was shortly after the move across the road in 1929. Items on display Wafer machine This was used for making thin soluble wafers for customers who needed medication dissolved in water. The prescribed ingredients were mixed to a paste with a binding agent and milk sugar. The mixture was then smeared over the top plate, which was flipped up so the wafers would slide into the bottom tray and could be dispensed via the extended section at the corner. Paper folder Before pills and tablets became widespread, prescribed medicine was mainly dispensed in the form of powders. The practice continued in this century for things such as headache powders and infant teething powders. The ingredients were mixed together in a mortar and then individually wrapped in separate doses. The paper squares in which the powders were folded all had to be folded to the same dimensions so that they would fit neatly together into a box for the customer. The width of the paper could be adjusted using the ratchet mechanism on the side. The dose of powder was placed in the middle of a rectangular piece of white demi paper. The two edges were folded over to the width of the box, and then the paper strip was pressed over the folder to form two sharp creases. The two ends were brought together and one end pushed into the other forming a secure package. The folded doses were then put in a box or tied together to form a neat bundle. Suppository mould The ingredients for the suppositories were melted into a base of cocoa butter or glycerine, and the mixture was brought to the boil and poured into the moulds. When the preparation was set (after about 30 minutes in cool weather) the two halves were unscrewed to release the suppositories. Emile Doo Known locally as Jack, he was a well-known figure in Netherton, both through his work at The Chemist, and also for his involvement in amateur theatricals. He was a member of The 'Blue and Whites', a Pierrot troupe and did make up for other groups. In the main, his life was dominated by the shop which was a focal point for local residents who needed minor treatment but could not afford doctors' fees. He had a considerable reputation for his own remedies. People came from far and wide to visit the shop. If you lived too far away to visit the shop, you could have your medicine delivered by post. He kept a book with all his remedies listed in, which his daughter still keeps today. He qualified as a pharmacist in 1908. When he took the exam there were 133 candidates. 95 failed, with only 38 candidates achieving a pass. His certificate, and his father's, are on display. Mr Doo suffered badly from arthritis, so could not move around easily. This may help explain why there was so much untouched stock in the cellar of the shop. Locals who remember him, described him as a white haired gentleman who whistled constantly through his teeth as he worked in the shop. His dog Pip was a character too. The dog would come along to visit him during opening hours, having travelled alone by tram from Kinver to reach the shop. References Black Country Living Museum Relocated buildings and structures in the United Kingdom

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%20Willemse

Herman Willemse

Herman "Flying Dutchman" Willemse (22 May 1934 – 7 July 2021) was a Dutch long-distance and marathon swimmer. In 2008, he was inducted to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Willemse started his career as a freestyle swimmer, winning 13 national titles and setting 19 national records in the 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m events between 1952 and 1958. In 1959, he switched to marathon swimming and became the second Dutchman to cross the English Channel, with a time of 12h49. Later in the 1960s he dominated the world marathon swimming. For three years after 1964, when the point system was introduced, he was ranked world number two, after Abo Heif. His clean sweep of the Around-the-Island Marathon Swim in 1960–1964 brought the organizers to a problem that spectators lost interest in the race. The race was discontinued in 1965. A school teacher by profession, Willemse was known for his academic approach to swimming. He would often travel around the place before the competition and measure the water temperature, to optimize his racing strategy, or even withdraw from a potentially disastrous race if the temperature was too low. He retired from competitive swimming around 1970 and published a book titled Marathonzwemmen (Marathon Swimming). International competitions St. John Lake Swim (1961, Canada, 30 km) – 1st place, 10h 7min St. John Lake Swim (1962, Canada, 30 km) – 1st place, 9h 3min St. John Lake Swim (1963, Canada, 30 km) – 1st place, 8h 32min Around-the-Island Marathon Swim (1960, Atlantic City, USA, 36 km) – 1st place, 10h 30min Around-the-Island Marathon Swim (1961, Atlantic City, USA, 36 km) – 1st place, 11h 14min Around-the-Island Marathon Swim (1962, Atlantic City, USA, 36 km) – 1st place, 11h 35min Around-the-Island Marathon Swim (1963, Atlantic City, USA, 36 km) – 1st place, 10h 31min Around-the-Island Marathon Swim (1964, Atlantic City, USA, 36 km) – 1st place, 10h 08min National Exhibition race (1961, Canada, 24 km) – 1st place, 6h 54min National Exhibition race (1962, Canada, 24 km) – 1st place, 6h 38min la Descente ou remontée du Saguenay (1966, 37 km) – 1st place, 6h 15min Tois Riviere (1961–1963 and 1965, Canada, 16 km) – 1st place (4 times) Santa Fe-Coronda (1963, Argentina, 58 km) – 1st place Santa Fe-Coronda (1964, Argentina, 58 km) – 3rd place Santa Fe-Coronda (1966, Argentina, 58 km) – 3rd place Hernandaras-Parana (Argentina, 88 km) – 1st place See also List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame References Bibliography 1934 births 2021 deaths Dutch male freestyle swimmers Dutch male long-distance swimmers English Channel swimmers Sportspeople from Utrecht (city) 20th-century Dutch people

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Maurice Heenan

Maurice Heenan (8 October 1912 – 26 September 2000) was a New Zealand-born barrister and solicitor, who served as Attorney General of Hong Kong and as a senior lawyer for the United Nations. Early life Born to David Donnoghue Heenan (died 1942), and Ann Heenan (née Frame; died 1976), Heenan attended Ashburton High School and then the Canterbury College, University of New Zealand, earning an LLB. Heenan was a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand from 1937 through 1939. From 1940 to 1946 he was a major in the 2nd NZEF and saw active service in the Western Desert, Libya, Cyrenaica and Italy and was mentioned in dispatches. In 1944, he was selected to attend Staff College, Camberley in the UK where he was awarded the Staff College Award. It was in London that he met his future wife, Claire Gabriela Stephanie (née Ciho), daughter of Emil Ciho (died 1975) and Irene (née Rotbauer; died 1950) of Trenčín, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Claire Ciho, who was attending a summer course for foreign students at Oxford, was one of the first students permitted by the Czechoslovakian government to attend a foreign college after the war. . The couple wed in 1951; they had two daughters. Overseas legal career In 1946, Heenan was appointed to British Overseas Civil Service and was Crown Counsel for the Palestine Mandate in Jerusalem until 1948. He was transferred to Hong Kong in 1948 and in 1952 was appointed Senior Crown Counsel. He acted as Solicitor General of Hong Kong and Attorney General of Hong Kong at various times. In 1961 he was appointed, first Solicitor General of Hong Kong and then, two months later, Attorney General of Hong Kong. He served as Attorney General until 1966. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1962 while serving as Attorney General. In 1966, he became the Deputy Director of the General Legal Division (United Nations Office of Legal Affairs), Offices of the Secretary General, United Nations. On his departure from Hong Kong Michael Gass, the Acting Governor, thanked Heenan for his service at the last meeting of the Legislative Council he attended. Heenan served as Deputy Director of the General Legal Division until 1973, when he was named General Counsel for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian Refugees in Beirut, Lebanon. Awards In 1966 he was inducted into the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) at Buckingham Palace in London. Clubs and recreations In Hong Kong, he was a member of the Hong Kong Club, the Hong Kong Cricket Club and Hong Kong Lawn Tennis Association. He was also a voting member of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. He was a member of the Country Club of New Canaan in America. His recreations included rugby, tennis, squash, skiing and golf. Last years and death In 1977, he retired to his home in New Canaan, Connecticut. He died in 2000, aged 87, and was survived by his wife, two daughters and several grandchildren. References Sources Debrett's Distinguished People of Today; edited by David Williamson & Patricia Ellis. Debrett's Peerage Ltd.: 1988, p. 497 Who's Who U.K.–An Annual Biographical Dictionary published annually since 1849. A & C Black: London, England, 2000, p. 928 Encyclopedia of New Zealand 1966; site visited 2 August 2009. Who is Who in the United Nations and Related Agencies. Arno Press/A New York Times Company: New York, U.S., 1975, p. 247; site visited 2 August 2009 Debrett's Handbook (eds Suzanne Duke, Dawn Henderson, Antonia Gaisford-St. Lawrence), Debrett's Peerage Ltd.: London, England, 1984, p. 904 1912 births 2000 deaths New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George 20th-century New Zealand lawyers British officials of the United Nations New Zealand Army personnel New Zealand emigrants to the United States New Zealand people of World War II University of Canterbury alumni Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley Hong Kong civil servants Attorneys General of Hong Kong Hong Kong Queen's Counsel People from Wyndham, New Zealand People educated at Ashburton College New Zealand officials of the United Nations Solicitors General of Hong Kong

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S-IVB

The S-IVB (pronounced "S-four-B") was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, it had one J-2 rocket engine. For lunar missions it was fired twice: first for Earth orbit insertion after second stage cutoff, and then for translunar injection (TLI). History The S-IVB evolved from the upper stage of the Saturn I rocket (the S-IV) and was the first stage of the Saturn V to be designed. The S-IV used a cluster of six RL-10 engines but used the same fuels as the S-IVB – liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. It was also originally meant to be the fourth stage of a planned rocket called the C-4, hence the name S-IV. Eleven companies submitted proposals for being the lead contractor on the stage by the deadline of 29 February 1960. NASA administrator T. Keith Glennan decided on 19 April that Douglas Aircraft Company would be awarded the contract. Convair had come in a close second but Glennan did not want to monopolize the liquid hydrogen-fueled rocket market as Convair was already building the Centaur stage of the Atlas-Centaur rocket. In the end, the Marshall Space Flight Center decided to use the C-5 rocket (later called the Saturn V), which had three stages and would be topped with an uprated S-IV called the S-IVB featuring a single J-2 engine, as opposed to the cluster of 6 RL-10 engines on the S-IV. Douglas was awarded the contract for the S-IVB because of the similarities between it and the S-IV. At the same time, it was decided to create the C-IB rocket (Saturn IB) that would also use the S-IVB as its second stage and could be used for testing the Apollo spacecraft in low Earth orbit. 12 200-series and 16 500-series S-IVB stages were built, alongside 3 test stages. NASA was working on acquiring 4 additional 200-series stages (as part of 4 new Saturn IB rockets, SA-213 to 216), but funding never materialized and the order was canceled in August 1968 before S-IVB hardware was assembled. Similarly, an order for two additional 500-series stages (for Saturn V rockets 516 and 517) was canceled around the same time. Configuration Douglas built two distinct versions of the S-IVB, the 200 series and the 500 series. The 200 series was used by the Saturn IB and differed from the 500 in that it did not have a flared interstage and it had less helium pressurization on board since it did not have to be restarted. In the 500 series, the interstage needed to flare out to match the larger diameter of the S-IC and S-II stages of the Saturn V. The 200 series also had three solid rockets for separating the S-IVB stage from the S-IB stage during launch. On the 500 series this was reduced to two, and two small Auxiliary Propulsion System (APS) thruster modules were added as ullage motors for restarting the J-2 engine and to provide attitude control during coast phases of flight. The S-IVB carried of liquid oxygen (LOX), massing . It carried of liquid hydrogen (LH2), massing . Empty mass was Auxiliary Propulsion System Attitude control was provided by J-2 engine gimbaling during powered flight and by the two APS modules during coast. APS modules were used for three-axis control during coast phases, roll control during J-2 firings, and ullage for the second ignition of the J-2 engine. Each APS module contained two thrusters providing thrust for roll and pitch, another thruster for yaw, and one thruster for ullage. Each module contained its own propellant tanks of dinitrogen tetroxide and monomethyl hydrazine as well as compressed helium to pressurize its propellants. Uses A surplus S-IVB tank, serial number 212, was converted into the hull for Skylab, the first American space station. Skylab was launched on a Saturn V on May 14, 1973, and it eventually reentered the atmosphere on July 11, 1979. A second S-IVB, serial number 515, was also converted into a backup Skylab, but this one never flew. During the missions of Apollo 13, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17, the S-IVB stages were crashed into the Moon to perform seismic measurements used for characterizing the lunar interior. Stages built (* See List of artificial objects on the Moon for location.) Derivatives The second stage of the Ares I rocket and the proposed Earth Departure Stage (EDS) would have had some of the characteristics of the S-IVB stage, as both would have had an uprated J-2 engine, called the J-2X, with the latter performing the same functions as that of the Series 500 version of the stage (placing the payload into orbit, and later firing the spacecraft into trans-lunar space). The MS-IVB was a proposed modification of the S-IVB that would have been used on a Mars flyby, but it was never produced. See also S-IC S-II S-IV Saturn IB Saturn V Apollo (spacecraft) List of artificial objects on the Moon References Marshall Space Flight Center, Apollo Systems Description Volume II - Saturn Launch Vehicles, 1 February 1964. (Archived copy, pdf) External links NASA New Reference: Saturn third stage Apollo program Rocket stages Impactor spacecraft

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chi%20Psi%20members

List of Chi Psi members

Following is a list of Chi Psi members that includes notable initiates of Chi Psi. Academics and museums Stephen Ambrose, historian, author, and professor of history at the University of New Orleans William Miller Collier, President of George Washington University, United States Ambassador to Spain, United States Ambassador to Chile Kirk Johnson, paleontologist, author, curator, museum administrator, and Sant Director of Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Art and architecture Temple Hoyne Buell, architect Charles Luckman, architect of Madison Square Garden, among other projects Business James Ford Bell, founder of General Mills Mark Bingham, public relations executive and one of the members of Flight 93 credited with trying to thwart September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by overpowering the hijackers. Clarence Birdseye, inventor of frozen food products Daniel Burke, former President and Chairman of the RT French Company (i.e., "French's Mustard" Steve Culbertson, President and CEO, Youth Service America Robert Hugh Daniel, founder of Daniel International Corporation David Gardner, founder of The Motley Fool Richard Jenrette, founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. – Former President of S.C. Johnson & Son Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr. – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of S.C. Johnson & Son from 1967 – 1988. Herbert Fisk Johnson III – Current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of S.C. Johnson & Son Edmund C. Lynch, Jr., son to co-founder of financial services firm Merrill Lynch Paul Mellon, banker, philanthropist, and thoroughbred racehorse owner Charles Edward Merrill, co-founder of financial services firm Merrill Lynch Hubertus van der Vaart, Rhodes Scholar, and co-founder/Chairman of SEAF (Small Enterprise Assistance Funds) Kemmons Wilson, founder of the Holiday Inn chain of hotels Clergy Joshua Young, D.D. (1823–1904), Unitarian minister of national renown, abolitionist Entertainment Eddie Albert, actor known for his role on Green Acres Buddy Ebsen, actor known for The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones John Gavin, actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild, and United States Ambassador to Mexico Allan Jones, movie producer Paul Lieberstein, actor best known for his role on the American version of The Office Jerry Mathers, actor best known for his role on Leave It To Beaver Steve Miller, musician known for the Steve Miller Band Boz Scaggs, musician Fred Weller, movie, television, and stage actor Government Nicholas F. Brady, United States Secretary of the Treasury Richard Helms, 8th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Stansfield Turner, 12th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and United States Navy Admiral Law Albert S. Bard, lawyer and civic activist, 4th president of Chi Psi Melville Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States William Henry Gates, Sr., attorney, philanthropist, and father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates Elbridge Thomas Gerry, lawyer, reformer, and second president of Chi Psi Randolph D. Moss, former United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel; established the legal justification for the targeted killing of terrorist leaders in foreign lands. Thomas Tongue, Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court Military Captain Morris Brown, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient James Chatham Duane, United States Army Brigadier General, one of Chi Psi's national founders; US Army Corps of Engineers Chief of Engineers from October 1886, to June 1888 Ross T. Dwyer, United States Marine Corps Major General Daniel W. Hand, U.S. Army brigadier general Robert E. Kelley, United States Air Force General and former Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy Henry Martyn Porter, Colonel in the Vermont Infantry and Provost Marshal for the city of New Orleans Philip Spencer, a Chi Psi's national founder and the center of the alleged incident of mutiny aboard the USS Somers; hanged at sea without a court-martial. Stansfield Turner, United States Navy Admiral and director of the Central Intelligence Agency Politics Albert II, Prince of Monaco Horatio C. Burchard, United States Congressman from Illinois, 13th Director of the United States Mint, and father of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Arne Carlson, 37th Governor of Minnesota Sean Casten, United States Congressman from Illinois William Miller Collier, United States Ambassador to Spain, United States Ambassador to Chile, and the president of George Washington University. Roy A. Cooper, North Carolina Attorney General and later Governor of North Carolina Jim Cooper, United States Congressman from Tennessee Orville Freeman, 29th Governor of Minnesota John Gavin, United States Ambassador to Mexico, actor, and president of the Screen Actors Guild H. John Heinz III, United States Senator from Pennsylvania John Newton Hungerford, United States Congressman from New York Richard Lamm, Governor of Colorado John S. Pillsbury, 8th Governor of Minnesota William Proxmire, United States Senator from Wisconsin Thomas Brackett Reed, 36th and 38th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives William Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania and 38th United States Ambassador to the United Nations Edward S. Walker, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the UAE; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Sports Bill Belichick, National Football League Head Coach, New England Patriots Buzz Calkins, IRL driver Russ Francis, National Football League tight end, New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers, 3-time Pro-Bowler Buckshot Jones, NASCAR driver Eric Mangini, National Football League Head Coach, Cleveland Browns Waite Hoyt, New York Yankees pitcher, Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Hugh McElhenny, NFL running back, Hall of Famer Rob Oppenheim, PGA TOUR Professional Golfer Augie Pabst III, race car driver Vic Seixas, professional tennis player, Davis Cup winner Jeff Torborg, Major League Baseball catcher and manager Van Earl Wright, sportscaster Riley Davis, college basketball writer Paul Arthur Sorg, famous horseman of the early 1900s, multi-millionaire, banker, paper mfg. Edwin W. Lee, college football player and coach, attorney, state court judge Literature and journalism Stephen Ambrose, historian, author, and professor of history at the University of New Orleans Taylor Branch, magazine editor and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Lee Hawkins, author, journalist, musician Kenneth Roberts, historical novelist Clinton Scollard, poet and writer of fiction in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Richard Wilbur, poet, two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry References Lists of members of North American Interfraternity Conference members by society Chi Psi

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Kotoshōhō Yoshinari

is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kashiwa, Chiba. He made his debut in November 2017 and reached the top makuuchi division in May 2020. He wrestles for Sadogatake stable. His highest rank has been maegashira 3. He was runner-up in the January 2023 tournament, also winning the Fighting Spirit prize. Career He began sumo in the first grade of elementary school, and won the national junior high school championship in his third year of junior high. He went to Saitama Sakae High School, famous for its sumo program, and was classmates with Naya and Tsukahara. After graduating from high school he joined Sadogatake stable, recruited by ex-sekiwake Kotonowaka, to whom he had a connection as Kotonowaka's eldest son was a fellow member of Kashiwa City's boys sumo club. He made his professional debut in November 2017, using the shikona of , based on his own name. In his first tournament on the banzuke in January 2018 he took part in a playoff with Tsukahara for the jonokuchi division championship after both finished with a 6–1 record. He reached the makushita division in September 2018 and although he was unable to secure a winning record he returned to makushita in January 2019 and five straight winning records saw him reach elite sekitori status after the September 2019 tournament. To mark the occasion he changed his shikona to Kotoshōhō Yoshinari. Kotoshōhō won the jūryō division yūshō or championship with a 12–3 record in March 2020, only his third tournament in the division, and this earned him promotion to the top division for the Natsu tournament scheduled for May 2020. He has been praised by commentators for his calm demeanour and his maturity in the dohyō despite being only 20 years of age at the time of his promotion. Three further winning records brought him to the joi-jin rank of maegashira 3 for the January 2021 tournament, where he managed only two wins facing top-ranked opposition. He missed several days of the March 2021 tournament due to injury, only managing to record one win, and he was demoted back to jūryō for the May 2021 tournament. He won his second jūryō division championship in January 2022 with an 11–4 record, and returned to the top division for the March 2022 tournament. He secured a winning record of 9–6 there, but then had losing records in the next four tournaments. From the rank of maegashira 13 in January 2023, he entered the final day level with ōzeki Takakeishō on 11–3, and fought him for the championship in the final match of the tournament, the first maegashira to be in such a position since 15-day tournaments were established in 1949. Although he was defeated and missed out on the Outstanding Performance award, he did receive the Fighting Spirit award for his 11–4 performance, the best of his career. Kotoshōhō withdrew on Day 10 of the May 2023 tournament due to a patellar subluxation in his left knee, after having suffered eight consecutive defeats. He also had sprained his right ankle during the spring jungyō. He nevertheless expressed his desire to return to the competition and was later scheduled to return on Day fourteen. Fighting style According to his Japan Sumo Association profile, Kotoshoho prefers a migi-yotsu (left hand outside, right hand inside grip on his opponent’s mawashi and his most common winning kimarite are yori-kiri (force out) and oshi dashi (push out). Personal life Kotoshōhō has a younger brother who also wrestles as a professional in the same stable under the ring name Kototebakari, a shikona inspired by both brothers' real surname. In June 2023, Kotoshōhō held a press conference at Ryōgoku Kokugikan to announce his engagement to a woman of the same age, living in Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, to whom he proposed after the May 2023 tournament. Although he and his wife don't plan to live together until August of the same year, it was announced in July that the couple were expecting their first child, a boy. Career record See also List of active sumo wrestlers List of sumo tournament top division runners-up List of sumo second division tournament champions Glossary of sumo terms References External links 1999 births Living people Japanese sumo wrestlers Sumo people from Chiba Prefecture Sadogatake stable sumo wrestlers

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Michigan Supreme Court

The Michigan Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is Michigan's court of last resort and consists of seven justices. The Court is located in the Michigan Hall of Justice at 925 Ottawa Street in Lansing, the state capital. Operations Each year, the Court receives approximately 2,000 new case filings. In most cases, the litigants seek review of Michigan Court of Appeals decisions, but the Supreme Court also hears cases of attorney misconduct (through a bifurcated disciplinary system comprising an investigation and prosecution agency – the Attorney Grievance Commission – and a separate adjudicative agency – the Attorney Discipline Board), judicial misconduct (through the Judicial Tenure Commission), as well as a small number of matters over which the Court has original jurisdiction. The Court issues a decision by order or opinion in all cases filed with it. Opinions and orders of the Court are reported in an official publication, Michigan Reports, as well as in Thomson West's privately published North Western Reporter. Administration of the courts The Court's other duties include overseeing the operations of all state trial courts. It is assisted in this endeavor by the State Court Administrative Office, one of its agencies. The Court's responsibilities also include a public comment process for changes to court rules, rules of evidence and other administrative matters. The court has broad superintending control power over all the state courts in Michigan. Article 6, Section 30 of the Michigan Constitution creates the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission. This is an agency within the judiciary, having jurisdiction over allegations of judicial misconduct, misbehavior, and infirmity. The Supreme Court is given original, superintending control power, and appellate jurisdiction over the issue of penalty (up to and including removal of judges from office). History The Michigan Supreme Court can be dated back to the Supreme Court of Michigan Territory, established in 1805 with three justices. These justices served for indefinite terms. In 1823, the terms of justices were limited to four years. The Michigan Supreme Court was the only court created by the first Michigan constitution in 1835. It had three members and each also oversaw one of the three judicial circuits, located in Detroit, Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo. The court needed a quorum of two to operate and members were appointed to seven-year terms by the governor with the consent of the senate. In 1838, Justice William A. Fletcher proposed a new plan for the court that the legislature approved. This increased the number of circuits to four and thus expanded the bench to four justices, but left the quorum at two. In 1848, the court was expanded to five justices and the 1850 Michigan constitution provided that they be elected for six-year terms. In 1858, the Circuit Courts were split from the Supreme Court, so justices now only served on the Michigan Supreme Court and reduced its size to only four justices, one of whom was the Chief Justice. In 1887, the court was expanded to five justices each serving for ten years. The court was again expanded in 1903 to eight justices serving terms of eight years. In 1964, the new state constitution provided that the next justice to leave the court would not be replaced to reduce the court to seven members, which was achieved when Justice Theodore Souris declined to run for re-election in 1968, leaving the court with seven members since January 1, 1969. Composition The Supreme Court consists of seven justices who are elected to eight-year terms. Candidates are nominated by political parties and are elected on a nonpartisan ballot. Supreme Court candidates must be qualified electors, licensed to practice law in Michigan for at least five years, and under 70 years of age at the time of election. Vacancies are filled by appointment of the Governor until the next general election. Every two years, the justices elect a member of the Court to serve as Chief Justice. The Michigan Constitution allows vacancies on the state Supreme Court to be initially filled by the Governor, with that appointee serving until the next general election, at which time the elected winner is seated to fill the remaining portion of the vacated term. Current justices Following the 2012 election, the court had a 4–3 conservative Republican majority, with Robert P. Young Jr. serving as Chief Justice. After the resignation of Justice Diane Hathaway and appointment of David Viviano in 2013, there was a 5–2 Republican majority. After the 2018 election, the court reverted to a 4–3 conservative Republican majority with the election of Megan Cavanagh. In 2020, Bridget Mary McCormack was re-elected as Chief Justice and Elizabeth M. Welch was elected as Justice, giving the Democrats a 4–3 majority on the court starting January 1, 2021. This also made the court majority female for the fourth time in state history. The current justices of the Michigan Supreme Court are: See also Judiciary of Michigan References Further reading External links Michigan Supreme Court Michigan Supreme Court Commentary Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society Michigan state courts Buildings and structures in Lansing, Michigan 1837 establishments in Michigan Legal history of Michigan Michigan Courts and tribunals established in 1837

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Ward No. 24, Kolkata Municipal Corporation

Ward No. 24, Kolkata Municipal Corporation is an administrative division of Kolkata Municipal Corporation in Borough No. 4, covering parts of Jorabagan and Pathuriaghata neighbourhoods in North Kolkata, in the Indian state of West Bengal. History Attempts were made to establish a municipal corporation at Kolkata from the middle of the 19th century. The electoral system was introduced for the first time in 1847, and 4 of the 7 board members were elected by the rate payers. In 1852 the board was replaced by a new one and in 1863 a new body was formed. As per old records, in 1872 there were 25 wards in Kolkata (spellings as in use at that time) – 1. Shyampukur, 2. Kumartuli, 3. Bartala, 4. Sukea Street, 5. Jorabagan, 6. Jorasanko, 7. Barabazar, 8. Kolutola, 9. Muchipara, 10. Boubazar, 11. Padmapukur, 12. Waterloo Street, 13. Fenwick Bazar, 14. Taltala, 15. Kalinga, 16. Park Street, 17. Victoria Terrace, 18. Hastings, 19. Entali, 20. Beniapukur, 21. Baliganj-Tollyganj, 22. Bhabanipur, 23. Alipur, 24.Ekbalpur and 25. Watganj. A new municipal corporation was created in 1876, wherein 48 commissioners were elected and 24 were appointed by the government. With the implementation of the Municipal Consolidation Act of 1888 the area under the jurisdiction of the municipal corporation was enlarged. Certain areas were already there but more parts of them were added (current spellings) - Entally, Manicktala, Beliaghata, Ultadanga, Chitpur, Cossipore, Beniapukur, Ballygunge, Watganj and Ekbalpur, and Garden Reach and Tollygunj. The Calcutta Municipal Act of 1923 brought about important changes. It liberalised the constitution along democratic lines. The state government superseded the Corporation in 1948 and the Calcutta Municipal Act of 1951 came into force. Adult franchise was introduced in municipal elections in 1962. With the addition of certain areas in the southern parts of the city, the number of wards increased from 75 to 144. Geography Ward No. 24 is bordered on the north by Nimtala Ghat Street; on the east by Rabindra Sarani; on the south by Kalikrishna Tagore Road; and on the west by Baisnab Sett Street, Prasanta Kumar Tagore, Jadulal Mallick Road. The ward is served by Jorabagan police station of Kolkata Police. Amherst Street Women police station covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the North and North Suburban division of Kolkata Police, i.e. Amherst Street, Jorabagan, Shyampukur, Cossipore, Chitpur, Sinthi, Burtolla and Tala. Demographics As per 2011 Census of India Ward No. 24, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, had a total population of 19,824, of which 12,264 (62%) were males and 7,560 (38%) were females. Population below 6 years was 1,073. The total number of literates in Ward No. 24 was 13,719 (73.16% of the population over 6 years). Kolkata is the second most literate district in West Bengal. The literacy rate of Kolkata district has increased from 53.0% in 1951 to 86.3% in the 2011 census. See also – List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate Census data about mother tongue and religion is not available at the ward level. For district level information see Kolkata district. According to the District Census Handbook Kolkata 2011, 141 wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation formed Kolkata district. (3 wards were added later). Election highlights The ward forms a city municipal corporation council electoral constituency and is a part of Shyampukur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). References Municipal wards of Kolkata

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Wallace

Margaret Wallace

Margaret Wallace (born May 30, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, gaming and media professional. In 2009, she co-founded Playmatics with Nicholas Fortugno in New York, New York. The company focuses on bringing new kinds of immersive experiences to casual gamers. In 2006, she was named one of the hundred most influential women in the game industry. Education While in high school, Wallace participated in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship, which allows students to study a year abroad in Germany. Under the scholarship, she attended a one-month language and cultural preparation course at The Experiment in International Living (now World Learning) in Brattleboro, Vermont and spent her final year of high school at the Gymnasium Mellendorf in Mellendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany. As an undergraduate, she attended Boston University, where she studied Communication and Philosophy and received a Bachelor of Science with Distinction in 1989. Wallace subsequently studied Communication and Cultural Theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning an MA in 1996. Career After Boston, Wallace moved to San Francisco, California, where she became professionally involved in the Internet and gaming, particularly casual games. PF.Magic In 1996, Wallace joined PF Magic, a video game developer founded in 1991 and located in San Francisco, CA. Though it developed other types of video games, PF.Magic was arguably best known for its virtual pet games, such as Dogz, Catz, and Oddballz; Wallace participated in the development of: Catz II: Your Virtual Petz (1997) Dogz 2: Your Virtual Petz (1997) Oddballz: Your Wacky Computer Petz (1996) The Petz Web Fun Pack Mindscape After Mindscape, Inc.’s acquisition of PF.Magic in early 1998, Wallace continued employment with the company’s online content group. The Learning Company (TLC) acquired Mindscape, Inc. in March 1998 for $150 million. Mattel soon purchased TLC in 1999 for $3.8 billion, renaming it "Mattel Interactive". The copyright on the Petz, Oddballz and Babyz titles was eventually acquired by Ubisoft. Currently, Petz is Ubisoft's number six top-selling brand, having sold over thirteen million units to date. Shockwave.com In 1999, Wallace joined Shockwave.com—then operating under its early name, Shockrave.com. There she produced some of the company's most popular titles, including Shockwave Tetris, Blix, Shockwave Jigsaw Puzzles, and content for Photo Greetings and Jigsaw Puzzle Maker. For the 2000 Shockwave Tetris game, Wallace worked closely with Blue Planet Software on staying true to the Tetris brand. She also incorporated a techno soundtrack to this version of Tetris, having a techno version of the Tetris theme song composed. She also worked with Astralwerks Records who provided a track from Q-Burns Abstract Message called "Feng Shui" for the game. Beatnik, Inc. was the primary music provider for this version of Tetris. The game had a unique sonified accompaniment that is customized to a player's individual gameplay and skill level. Skunk Studios In 2001, Wallace went on to Co-Found and become chief executive officer of Skunk Studios. Formed by all former employees of Shockwave.com, Skunk Studios was one of the first to call itself a casual game company. Skunk Studios is best known for titles including: Varmintz QBeez QBeez 2 Gutterball Gutterball 2 Tennis Titans Tennis Titans 2 Mah Jong Adventures Spelvin Word Up Sveerz Tamale Loco: Rumble in the Desert II Rebel Monkey In 2007, Wallace cofounded and become chief executive officer of Rebel Monkey Inc., a New York City-based entertainment company focused on providing new kinds of real-time immersive play for casual gamers. The company was cofounded with Nicholas Fortugno, lead designer behind the original Diner Dash game brand. In October 2007, the company secured an initial round of investment from Redpoint Ventures. In early 2009, Rebel Monkey announced the launch of casual Massively multiplayer online game CampFu and the Monkey Wrench gaming platform on which it is built. CampFu CampFu is an online virtual world with a summer camp theme. Emphasizing collaborative team play and aimed at the teenaged demographic, CampFu officially launched on March 17, 2009, after a beta stage that began in February of the same year. CampFu is free to play, but users can access premium content by purchasing in-world currency called FuCash and/or a VIP membership subscription. Users can also earn Tickets, which can be exchanged for clothing items, by playing CampFu games. Games currently playable include: Veg-Out WordMob Fungeez Critter Smackdown Rebel Monkey Inc. closed permanently after it failed to secure subsequent funding during the economic downturn in Summer 2009. Playmatics In September 2009, Wallace and Nick Fortugno started a new company focused on game design and development called Playmatics, LLC. In 2010, Playmatics created the Fortugno-designed interactive comic "The Interrogation" for the television series Breaking Bad. The game went on to be recognized for a CableFAX Best of the Web award. Other titles by Playmatics include Disney's The Kingdom Keepers "Race to Save the Magic." Shadow Government, Inc. In 2011, Wallace and Fortugno co-founded Shadow Government, Inc along with Philippe Trawnika. Shadow Government, Inc. is dedicated to bringing new forms of social gaming based on gamifying real countries, systems, and worldwide events. Public speaking Wallace is a frequent speaker on the state of the industry, business and casual and online games at conferences such as the Game Developers Conference/San Francisco, GC Developers Conference (Leipzig), Casual Connect, The Austin Game Conference, and the LA and NY Games Conference. She delivered a keynote on gamification at nextMedia Toronto. She was also a keynote speaker at the ICEC 2006. In print Co-Editor, IGDA Casual Games White Paper 2006 Data Collection, The Social and Cultural Aspects of VCR Use Interviewee, Creating Casual Games for Profit and Fun Memberships and affiliations Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences Steering Committee member for the International Game Developers Association Casual Game Special Interest Group (2005–2008) Adjunct Faculty of Parsons the New School of Design Screen Burn Advisory Committee External links Playmatics Shadow Government, Inc. Rebel Monkey, Inc. CampFu Rebel Monkey raises $1M Investment More details on Rebel Monkey project as it hires CTO Gamasutra's coverage of Wallace's talk at the Austin Game Developers' Conference 2008—"If You Build It, Will They Come?" Margaret Wallace interviewed in Gamasutra Interview with Margaret Wallace in Business Week Radio Interview with Margaret Wallace for National Association for Women in Technology Radio Interview with Margaret Wallace on Shift Radio Interview in Edge Online Interview with Margaret Wallace in Edge Online References Video game businesspeople 1967 births Living people

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Corrigin, Western Australia

Corrigin is a town in the central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, east-southeast of the state capital, Perth, Western Australia, along State Route 40. It is mostly a farming community focused on crops and sheep, and holds the world record of "the most dogs in a ute". History The name "Corrigin", of Noongar Aboriginal origin, was first recorded in 1877 relating to a well in the area. The meaning of the name is unknown. Before 1908 Corrigin's only connection with the rest of the state was the railway track that ran to Merredin and it was difficult to get anyone to take up land near the rabbit proof fence. Most of the land was once held by George Walton on a pastoral lease, which he ran from his homestead at Wogerlin rock. The first settlers to the area were Mr A. W. Goyder (the son of the South Australian Surveyor General), who took up the area on which the town now stands. He was followed by Jack Crossland then by Messrs Gayfer and Jose Bros. In 1909, the Government planned to build a railway from Brookton on the Great Southern Railway to the town of Kunjin, 17 km west of Corrigin. Some time after, a line from Wickepin was also proposed, and the Government decided to locate the crossing point at Corrigin. A storm swept through the area in 1913 lashing the area with hailstones over in diameter. The town was also deluged with over of rain in a few hours. Standing crops were flattened, fences in low-lying areas were washed away and most of the town was submerged under at least of water. In 1913, a railway siding was built, and named "Dondakin" by railway authorities due to conflict with the name elsewhere. However, after much local protest, the siding was renamed Corrigin and gazetted on 15 May 1914. The railway line from Wickepin, Western Australia opened a month later, and the main office of the local Road Board moved to the town. In 1915, a school was built. In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia announced that the town would have two grain elevators, each fitted with an engine, installed at the railway siding. The bulk handling facility had been installed by November the following year and the first trial load of wheat was satisfactorily loaded. By 1937 the town boasted a hall that cost £8,000 to build, a large state hotel, commercial buildings, bowling green, tennis course, golf course and one of the best showgrounds in the state. The town still had no adequate water scheme, there was no lack of well water but the water drawn was very hard. The wheatbelt was struck by drought for much of 1939 and nearly all of 1940, described at the time as "the worst in the states history" until heavy rains arrived in December of that year. Corrigin received of drought-breaking rain over a couple of days. The town was lashed by a violent storm on New Year's Day in 2013. Destructive winds and of rain tore through over the course of an hour leaving behind fallen powerlines, uprooted trees, sheds torn apart and roofs ripped from homes. Present day Corrigin has a population of 903 and is a key agricultural centre for a district focused mainly on wheat and sheep farming. It is the location of a CBH management zone office, and in 1973 was the location of a "type B" wheat bin. It contains a district high school (originally opened 1915 as a primary school), National Australia Bank branch, shopping facilities, accommodation (hotel, motel, caravan park), council offices and a telecentre. Each year, it hosts an agricultural show. The town is a stop on the Transwa bus service to Esperance via Kulin/Hyden. A large rocky outcrop just to the east of town is Corrigin Rock. About 5 km west of town is the Corrigin dog cemetery, containing over 80 buried dogs. In popular culture Corrigan, the fictional town in which the 2009 Craig Silvey novel Jasper Jones and the subsequent film are set, derives its name from Corrigin. Climate References External links Shire of Corrigin Dog in a Ute – includes photos and history of the event. Corrigin dog cemetery Towns in Western Australia Wheatbelt (Western Australia) Grain receival points of Western Australia

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Dive briefing

A dive briefing or pre-dive briefing is a meeting of the diving team or dive group before the dive to allow the supervisor, dive leader or dive boat skipper to inform the attendees of the dive plan, contingency plans and emergency plans for the dive. The amount of detail presented should be appropriate to the dive, but there are several topics which are considered standard components of a dive briefing. The topics may vary depending on context. On some occasions an expert or specialist may present part of the dive briefing, particularly aspects relating to specialised tasks, or vessel safety and procedures, but the overall responsibility is with the person responsible for the safety of the group. Purpose Each member of the dive team needs to understand the objectives of the dive, and their and the other members of the dive team's roles in the dive. The dive briefing allows exchange of this information. A competent professional diver already knows how to dive and carry out the routine and standard emergency diving procedures for the equipment and conditions in which they been trained. The divers may not be familiar with the dive site environmental details or the dive boat in use, or specific details of the objective of the dive, and the specific contingency and emergency response plans for the dive, so the briefing is an opportunity to inform them of relevant information they may not already know which might affect their safety and successful completion of the objectives of the dive. The briefing usually ends by soliciting questions to ensure understanding of task and assignments, and clarification of any uncertainty. Recreational divers may not be familiar with each other, or with local procedural details, such as the method of keeping track of who is in the water or back on the boat, buddy separation procedures, conditions for terminating the dive, recall signals, where to sit, water entry and exit procedures specific to the boat or site, how to stow their gear, and where the on-board safety equipment is kept, so this information forms part of the briefing, along with a description of the dive site, known local hazards, local rules and regulations, environmental concerns and the planned route if the dive is to be guided. In some cases allocation of buddy pairs is included in the briefing. Audience The dive briefing targets all personnel involved with the safety of the dive and particularly the divers. Topics As a general rule the topics of a dive briefing are those things the team members need to know to carry out the planned dive safely and effectively, at the specific site, using the equipment provided, in the conditions as they appear to be on the day of the dive. It is not a necessary part of a dive briefing to inform the team of things that they are expected to know already as competent and qualified divers. A dive briefing for a training dive may include more skill, background and review information, but the briefing should be restricted to information that is likely to be necessary or useful on that specific dive. Additional information can be counterproductive if it distracts attention from the core material, or reduces the likelihood of the important information being remembered and used correctly during the diving operation. Scientific diving example: Standard topics: Objectives of the dive Responsibilities of the dive team members – for a professional diving team this generally means their job designation for the dive Review of specific underwater tasks for the dive Planned dive profile – Maximum depths and bottom times for the dive Geographical extent and features of the dive site Review of communications: hand or line signals relevant to the planned dive and foreseeable contingencies. The presence and location of emergency equipment Diver recall signals available and the procedures to be followed. Buddy separation procedures Contingency plans in case conditions become unfavourable Any known hazards specific to the dive site Significant risks and safety issues identified in the risk assessment Other topics that may be relevant in some cases: Planned and alternative methods of entry and exit into the water Use of emergency signalling equipment Use of special tools or equipment Lost diver and diver rescue procedures appropriate for the site and dive plan Procedures for reducing the risk of developing decompression illness. The PADI checklist for dive briefings for recreational diving lists 10 points: The name of the dive site A description of the dive site. This should cover the layout and topography, points of interest and how to navigate between them, hazards specific to the site, sea conditions, general and maximum depth. The role of the divemaster in the planned dive. How the divers can recognize the dive leader underwater, where the divemaster will be relative to the group during the dive and also what they will do to attract attention. Entry and exit techniques to be used for the dive The planned procedures for the dive. This includes the suggested course, avoiding problems that may be caused by site hazards and sea conditions, recommendations for safety stops and air reserves, and the planned control of the group. Emergency procedures, which should include local protocols, buddy and group separation, low on air and out of air procedures, diver recall and surface signaling devices. Review of signals, in case some of the divers do not know the standard signals, and to inform them of local variations. Roster and buddy check. Orientation on the local environment. This includes informing the divers about the importance of not touching corals and other marine life and to be aware of their proximity to fragile organisms and their buoyancy and trim. Pre-dive safety check Some of these cover things every trained diver should know, but experience has shown that entry level divers who only dive a few times a year tend to lose their knowledge and skills due to lack of practice, and need to be reminded. Legal status A dive briefing may be required in terms of statutory law, regulation, code of practice or organisational operations manual, for diving where there is a duty of care to employees or customers, or it may be merely recommended. In jurisdictions where recreational diving is unregulated, private recreational divers are generally not required to conduct or attend a briefing when they are diving solo or in independent buddy pairs and taking responsibility for their own safety and dive planning. Clubs will often provide a briefing for groups on club outings by an experienced diver who knows the area relatively well. References Underwater diving procedures Underwater diving safety

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Index of infrared articles

This is a list of infrared topics. A ADONIS: ADaptive Optics Near Infrared System ALICE (accelerator) Accretion disc Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System Afocal system Air-to-air missile Anti-ship missile Applied spectroscopy Atmospheric Infrared Sounder B Bipolar outflow Blackbody infrared radiative dissociation Black silicon Blue Sky navigation pod C Calorescence Camera trap Capnography Carbon dioxide sensor Ceramic heater Charge-coupled device Chemical imaging Chemical laser Circular dichroism Circumstellar dust Civil Aircraft Missile Protection System Cloud albedo Cloud feedback Cold shield Color confinement Combat Identification Panel Common Infrared Countermeasures program Computed tomography laser mammography Conveyor belt furnace Cooled infrared detector Coreshine Cosmic background radiation Cosmic dust Cutoff (physics), infrared cutoff D Dangerously irrelevant operator Dark nebula Dazzler (weapon) Dichroic filter Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment Digital ICE Digital infrared thermal imaging in health care Disco ball Draper point Driver's vision enhancer Driver Monitoring System E Electric eye Electromagnetic spectrum Electro-optical MASINT Event-related optical signal Exozodiacal dust F Fast INfrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey Explorer Femtolab Fiber focus infrared soldering Filter (optics) Forward looking infrared Free-space optical communication Functional near-infrared imaging G Galileo (spacecraft) Gamma-Ray Burst Optical/Near-Infrared Detector Gas detector Gas laser Glow stick Greenhouse Greenhouse effect H H band (infrared) HDRi (data format) Headlamp Heat therapy Hot mirror I Infra-red search and track Infrared Infrared Astronomy Infrared beam Infrared blaster Infrared camera Infrared cirrus Infrared cleaning Infrared countermeasure Infrared cut-off filter Infrared dark cloud Infrared Data Association Infrared Data Transmission Infrared decoy flare Infrared detector Infrared divergence Infrared dye Infrared excess Infrared fixed point Infrared gas analyzer Infrared grill Infrared heater Infrared homing Infrared horizon-scanning Infrared interactance Infrared lamp Infrared laser Infrared light Infrared mammography] Infrared microscopy Infrared multiphoton dissociation Infrared open-path detector Infrared photography Infrared Physics and Technology Infrared point sensor Infrared Processing and Analysis Center Infrared reflective coating Infrared remote sensing Infrared sauna Infrared sensing in snakes Infrared sensing in vampire bats Infrared sensor Infrared Sightings Infrared signature Infrared slavery Infrared smoke Infrared soldering Infrared sources Infrared spectroscopy Infrared spectroscopy correlation table Infrared stealth Infrared telescope Infrared Telescope in Space Infrared vision Infrared window Interlock (engineering) Interplanetary dust cloud Intervalence charge transfer Ionic crystal Iris recognition J J band (infrared) K K band (infrared) Kodak High-Speed Infrared L L band (infrared) LaserSoft Imaging Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization Laser pointer Lazer Tag LIDAR detector Light gun Linux infrared remote control List of largest infrared telescopes List of astronomical interferometers at visible and infrared wavelengths Littoral Airborne Sensor/Hyperspectral Loreal pit Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night Luminous infrared galaxy Lyman-break galaxy M MPB mine Man-portable air-defense systems Mercury cadmium telluride Metamaterial cloaking #Invisibility cloaking at infrared frequencies Meteosat visible and infrared imager Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser Minimum resolvable temperature difference Mistral (missile) Mobile Infrared Transmitter Modulation transfer function (infrared imaging) Molecular cloud Molecular vibration N Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Nanoshell Near Field Infrared Experiment Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer Near-infrared signature management technology Near-infrared spectroscopy Near-infrared window in biological tissue Negative luminescence Net radiometer Non-ionizing radiation Nondispersive infrared sensor O OH-Suppressing Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) Optical properties of water and ice Optical window Opto-isolator Outgoing longwave radiation P PASS device Photometer Photon upconversion Photosynthetically active radiation Photothermal therapy Planetary Fourier Spectrometer Polariton Projection keyboard Q Quantum cascade laser R RAPTOR Radiative flux Raman spectroscopy Reststrahlen effect RG equipment RIAS (Remote Infrared Audible Signage) Roboraptor S Shiva laser Signal transfer function Slide projector Soft-collinear effective theory Solar gain Space-Based Infrared System Space-Based Infrared Systems Wing Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey SPRITE infrared detector Stratoscope Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Structured light Super Scope Super black Surface plasmon polaritons Susceptor T Tail-chase engagement Television Infrared Observation Satellite The Infra-Red Traffic Logger Thermal Emission Spectrometer Thermal emittance Thermal imaging camera (firefighting) Thermal infrared spectroscopy Thermofax Thermographic camera Thermophotovoltaic Thermopile TrackIR Transferability (chemistry) Transparency and translucency Trombe wall Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy Two-Micron Sky Survey U UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Unidentified Infrared Emission (UIE) V Van der Waals molecule Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting-laser Vibrational circular dichroism Vibronic transition Visible and near-infrared Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy VS-17 W Wood's glass X Y Z Infrared technology Infrared Infrared

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Kazakhstan men's national ice hockey team

The Kazakhstan men's national ice hockey team is controlled by Kazakhstan Ice Hockey Federation. Kazakhstan is ranked 16th in the world as of 2022. They have competed at the Winter Olympics twice, in 1998 and 2006. The national team joined the IIHF in 1992 and first played internationally at the 1993 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. The team has frequently played at the elite division of the World Championship, often moving between there and the Division I level. History Kazakhstan joined the IIHF in 1992, applying as a separate member with six other former Soviet republics. They played their first IIHF tournament at the 1993 World Championship; as a new member they had to play in Group C, the lowest level. They reached the elite division for the first time in 1998, and have played at the elite level eleven times (1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021, 2022 and 2023). The national team has appeared at the Winter Olympics twice, in 1998 and 2006. In their debut in 1998, the Kazakhs were able to win their preliminary group, surprising many, and would finish the tournament in 8th place. They returned for the 2006 Winter Olympics, and finished ninth overall. The team is the most successful team at the Asian Games, winning it four times, and are the current highest ranked Asian team. Tournament record Olympic Games 1998 – Finished in 8th place 2006 – Finished in 9th place World Championships 1953–1991 As part of / Kazakh SSR 1993 – Finished in 23rd place (3rd in Pool C) 1994 – Finished in 24th place (4th in Pool C) 1995 – Finished in 22nd place (2nd in Pool C) 1996 – Finished in 21st place (1st in Pool C) 1997 – Finished in 14th place (2nd in Pool B) 1998 – Finished in 16th place 1999 – Finished in 19th place (3rd in Pool B) 2000 – Finished in 18th place (2nd in Pool B) 2001 – Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I, Group B) 2002 – Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I, Group A) 2003 – Finished in 17th place (1st in Division I, Group A) 2004 – Finished in 13th place 2005 – Finished in 12th place 2006 – Finished in 15th place 2007 – Finished in 21st place (3rd in Division I, Group A) 2008 – Finished in 20th place (2nd in Division I, Group A) 2009 – Finished in 17th place (1st in Division I, Group A) 2010 – Finished in 16th place 2011 – Finished in 17th place (1st in Division I, Group B) 2012 – Finished in 16th place 2013 – Finished in 17th place (1st in Division IA) 2014 – Finished in 16th place 2015 – Finished in 17th place (1st in Division IA) 2016 – Finished in 16th place 2017 – Finished in 19th place (3rd in Division IA) 2018 – Finished in 19th place (3rd in Division IA) 2019 – Finished in 17th place (1st in Division IA) 2020 – Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic 2021 – Finished in 10th place 2022 – Finished in 14th place 2023 – Finished in 11th place Asian Winter Games 1996 – 1st place 1999 – 1st place 2003 – 2nd place 2007 – 2nd place 2011 – 1st place 2017 – 1st place Winter Universiade 1993 – 2nd place 1995 – 1st place 2007 – 3rd place 2013 – 2nd place 2015 – 2nd place 2017 – 2nd place Team Current roster Roster for the 2023 IIHF World Championship. Head coach: Galym Mambetaliyev List of head coaches Vladimir Goltze 1993–94 Vladimir Koptsov 1994–95 Boris Alexandrov 1996–02 Nikolay Myshagin 2003–06 Anatoli Kartayev 2007 Yerlan Sagymbayev 2007–09 Andrei Shayanov 2009–10 Andrei Khomutov 2010–11 Andrei Shayanov 2011–12 Vladimir Krikunov 2012–13 Ari-Pekka Selin 2013–14 Andrei Nazarov 2014–2016 Eduard Zankovets 2016–2017 Galym Mambetaliyev 2017–2018 Andrei Skabelka 2018–2020 Yuri Mikhailis 2020– Head-to-head record Record correct as of 22 May 2023. Teams named in italics are no longer active. References External links IIHF profile National ice hockey teams in Asia National ice hockey teams in Europe

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The Merri Soul Sessions

The Merri Soul Sessions or Paul Kelly Presents: The Merri Soul Sessions is the twentieth studio album by Australian musician, Paul Kelly, which was issued on 12 December 2014 on his own label, Gawdaggie Records, and distributed by Universal Music Australia. Kelly provided lead vocals on two of its eleven tracks, the rest featured vocals by either Clairy Browne, sisters Vika and Linda Bull, Kira Puru, or Dan Sultan. The album debuted at No. 17 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Background The Merri Soul Sessions is the twentieth studio album by Australian musician, Paul Kelly, which was issued on 12 December 2014 on his own label, Gawdaggie Records, and distributed by Universal Music Australia. Kelly had developed the concept after hearing Vika Bull sing lead vocals on her live version of his song, "Sweet Guy" – originally released as a single in June 1989 – during touring as a backing singer in his group. For the album Kelly provided lead vocals on two tracks and invited various vocalists to sing lead on the other nine of eleven tracks. Tracks feature lead vocals by Vika Bull, Linda Bull (Vika's sister), Clairy Browne, Kira Puru or Dan Sultan. The album was recorded live-in-the-studio in Northcote, with Kelly co-producing with Steve Schram (Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes), alongside the Merri Creek, which gave the album its name. Kelly explained his concept to Australian Musicians junocreative, "I started to imagine a soul revue type record performed live in the studio with a variety of singers and the one band." Prior to the album's appearance Kelly released four double A-sided 7" vinyl singles, "The Merri Soul Singles, Volume 1" (July 2014), "The Merri Soul Singles, Volume 2" (August), "The Merri Soul Singles, Volume 3" (October) and "The Merri Soul Singles, Volume 4" (November). Kelly promoted the album with a national tour from January to February 2015. He was supported by Hiatus Kaiyote, a neo-soul quartet from Melbourne. Reception On the ARIA Albums Chart, The Merri Soul Sessions peaked at No. 17. Noel Mengel of News Limited's website, news.com.au, rated the album as four out of five stars and felt "[i]t's one of those records where you feel the spirit start to finish, nothing too fussed over, no one going through the motions. There's desperation in the lyrics and a lot of joy in the delivery. And all the best soul music has those two essential ingredients." Michael Dwyer of The Age praised Browne's vocals on "Keep on Coming Back for More", which had been performed live by Kelly four years earlier on The A – Z Recordings (September 2010, as "I Keep on Coming Back for More"), as a track that was "waiting for Browne's extraordinary voice to send it up in flames." Kelly's nephew, Dan Kelly, was "firing jolts of electric guitar across the bow" while "Kelly rocks back and holds down the tense rhythm. Despite the modest tools at hand, it seems less likely the song will fall apart than that Browne will blow it inside out." Kelly agreed that some of his songs were better when sung by other vocalists. Charles Pitter of PopMatters was of the view that "the band and vocal performances show off the breadth of Australia's talent and the songs are of consistently high standard". Track listing Personnel Musicians Clairy Browne – lead vocals, backing vocals Cameron Bruce – keyboards Linda Bull – lead vocals, backing vocals Vika Bull – lead vocals, backing vocals Dan Kelly – guitar Paul Kelly – rhythm guitar, vocals Peter Luscombe – drums, percussion Bill McDonald – bass guitar Ashley Naylor – guitar Kira Puru – lead vocals, backing vocals Dan Sultan – lead vocals, backing vocals Recording details Paul Kelly – producer Bruce Lucey – mastering Steven Schram – engineer, mixing, producer Artwork Andy Doherty – booklet Jeff Fasano – cover art Paul Kelly – liner notes Mark Roper – cover art Peter Salmon-Lomas – artwork, design Chart performance References 2014 albums Paul Kelly (Australian musician) albums

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Air One

Air One S.p.A. was an Italian low-cost airline which operated as Air One "Smart Carrier". It operated as Alitalia's low-cost subsidiary with operating bases located in Catania, Palermo, Pisa, Venice and Verona; while Tirana was a focus city. "Air One" is a portmanteau of the English meaning Air One and the Italian word 'airone', pronounced IPA [ai'rone], meaning heron (the bird depicted in the airline's logo), which was also the airline's callsign. Before the merger with Alitalia, Air One was a competitor, the second largest airline in Italy, with a network to 36 destinations in Italy, Europe and North America. Its main bases were Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Linate Airport in Milan and Turin Airport. Air One ceased operations on 30 October 2014 as part of the new concept of its parent company Alitalia based on its new partnership with Etihad Airways. All routes were either cancelled or taken over by Alitalia itself. History First years On 27 April 1995 Aliadriatica began scheduled flights between Milan (Linate) and Brindisi and Reggio Calabria and Lamezia Terme. In the year 2000, Air One announced a partnership with Lufthansa and nearly all Air One flights became code-shared with Lufthansa. As of June 2006, regional destinations were served under the name Air One CityLiner with the brand new fleet of Bombardier CRJ-900s. In 2007, Air One carried approximately 5.5 million passengers (scheduled and charter), thus becoming the second largest Italian airline in terms of passenger traffic. 2007 revenues totaled EUR750 million with a net profit of EUR6.8 million. Merger with Alitalia In August 2008, it was announced that Air One was to be merged with Alitalia. Air One was almost bankrupt in 2008, and the merger with Alitalia-CAI was the only viable solution to save it. On 13 January 2009, Air One officially became part of Alitalia, though the two airlines were to be combined into one over time. A detailed integration plan was at that time yet to be announced. On 28 March 2009, due to the merger with Alitalia, the cooperation between Lufthansa's Miles & More and Air One ended. On 28 June 2009, also due to the Alitalia merger, the partnerships with United Airlines' Mileage Plus program and Air Canada's Aeroplan program ended. Later in 2009, the Alitalia and Air One booking procedures were unified so that the airlines effectively became the same. Air One "Smart Carrier" - low cost subsidiary On 28 March 2010, Air One Smart Carrier as a separate brand from Alitalia began operating low-cost flights out of Milan Malpensa Airport. Nine domestic and five international destinations were initially served, using five Airbus A320s painted in the Air One livery and formatted to 180 seats. In its first full quarter of operations, Air One Smart Carrier transported 320 000 passengers, with an on-time performance of 89%. On 2 February 2011, Air One Smart Carrier announced that, in the summer 2011 season, it would expand its operations at Milan Malpensa and also open a new base at Pisa Airport. The base opened on 1 July 2011. Air One Smart Carrier predicted it would carry 1,6 million passengers in 2011, compared to 0,9 million in 2010, and a new website was also launched. On 21 December 2011, Air One Smart Carrier announced a new base at Venice Marco Polo Airport, with flights starting in May 2012. On 1 October 2012, operations commenced at Air One Smart Carrier's new base in Catania Fontanarossa Airport, the fourth base. In September 2013 the opening of a fifth base at Palermo Falcone-Borsellino Airport was announced with flights to commence in March 2014. Including a new route to London Gatwick Airport, a destination not served by Air One since the ending of flights from Milan Malpensa Airport. On 26 October 2013, Air One closed its operating base in Milan Malpensa Airport and announced a new base at Palermo Falcone–Borsellino Airport. The flights from Palermo started in March 2014. Closure On 26 August 2014, it was announced that parent-company Alitalia would shut down Air One by autumn 2014. All remaining routes were terminated by 30 October 2014 with some base operations and routes already closed by 30 September. Some routes, especially within Italy, have been taken over by Alitalia itself as well as the former Air One fleet. Fleet history Air One operated the following aircraft types over its lifetime: The Air One fleet progression over the years: In January 2006, the airline signed a contract with Airbus for 30 Airbus A320s and 60 options, to replace the carrier's leased fleet of Boeing 737-400s. In May 2007, the airline announced the conversion of options and purchase rights for 50 Airbus A320s into firm orders, bringing its commitment to the type to 90 aircraft. In June 2008, the airline ordered 24 aircraft from Airbus for 4.8 billion dollars. Air One also had an option to buy another 20 aircraft for 3.8 billion dollars. The order included 12 Airbus A330s and 12 A350s. The order was transferred to Alitalia when Air One ceased operations. See also List of defunct airlines of Italy References External links Official website Official website of Air One Executive Defunct airlines of Italy Airlines established in 1983 Airlines disestablished in 2014 Alitalia Italian companies established in 1983 Italian companies disestablished in 2014

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Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani

Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani (;‎ 1854 – 1896/97) was an Iranian intellectual reformer, a Babi, and son-in-law of Subh-i-Azal. In his writings, he advocates for political, social, and religious reform characteristic of his generation of intellectuals whose reformist ideas and engagement with sociopolitical themes set the stage for the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, and the political and literary changes that were to follow. Kermani was also a literary critic and like many of his contemporaries an advocate of simpler, more accessible prose. He believed that meaning as opposed to the mode of expression exerts real influence on the reader. He thus discouraged the destruction of the natural clarity of language by means of complicated metaphors, difficult words, long sentences, and complex expressions. Life Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani was born in 1854 in Kerman into a family with a proper position on the socio-economic ladder. There, he was schooled in mathematics, natural science, and theology (ḥekmat-i ilāhī) and also learned some French and English. He was influenced by Voltaire. At age 32, because of hardship he faced from the governor of Kerman, he moved to Isfahan and then Tehran where he taught Qur'anic interpretation (tafsīr). Eventually, he ended up in Istanbul where many Iranian intellectuals resided. There, he wrote letters to the ulema and statesmen of Iran and elsewhere calling for Islamic unity and attacked Nasir al-Din Shah and his court, including prime minister Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Soltan. These attacks motivated the prime minister to seek Kermani’s blood, instructing the Iranian ambassador to Istanbul to convince the Ottomans that Kermani had played a role in the Armenian riots two years earlier. Eventually, the Ottomans turned Kermani over to Iranian authorities and he was executed. Three Essays (Se maktūb) Of his most influential texts advocating for reform is Three Essays (Se maktūb). Like many of his contemporaries, Kermani has an idealized image of pre-Islamic Iran. He thus praises pre-Islamic Iran for the geographic vastness of her lands, the virtues and mercy of her kings aided by wise court advisers and Zoroastrian clergy, the order of her fighting men, and the all-encompassing rule of law that governed her lands. This pre-Islamic Iran is then contrasted with the current state of affairs under the Qajar kings. Kermani devotes his energies to the critique of the Shah, though no names are mentioned, and men in court service. Their mismanagement, Kermani tells us compels many talented men to leave Iran for India, Istanbul, and Europe. In addition to political actors, social groupings are also subject to Kermani’s critical pen: merchants are criticized for their immoral trade practices, young men are scorned for their laziness and uselessness, and agents of handicrafts are condemned for their lack of skills. Kermani is distressed over social customs regarding women and marriage. Women’s isolation, he asserts, causes men to pursue sexual acts with children (bache bāzī) while causing depression for women. Moreover, arranged marriages are a problem as they bond two people who have never met—a prescription for disaster and a life replete with discord, Kermani believes. The utopic pre-Islamic Iran is thus contrasted with the current Iran, which suffers from unjust rulers and a problem-riddled society. This, Kermani claims, is caused by two phenomena: the Arab invasions of the seventh century and the corruption of Islam by ulema, Sufis, and popular superstition. According to Kermani, barbaric Arabs who considered themselves superior imposed unprecedented suffering on Iran and instituted unjust rule, for instance executing men for prostrating before their kings. The ulema corroborated Iran’s destruction at the hand of Arabs by deviating from original Islam of Muhammad—which God had sent to civilize Arab tribes—they introduced plenty of gibberish and minor issues such as rules of ritual purity. Ritual washing before prayer made sense for unhygienic Arabs, Kermani asserts, but should be of little concern to Iran’s princes who bathe frequently. However, the ulema are preoccupied with such minor issues even when the social context makes their application irrelevant and have moved far away from the simple Shariah of original Islam. Muslims themselves are to blame too. They have invented sects and are caught up in superstitions believing in non-nonsensical stories of the ulema. Kermani gives the example of the Safavid-era jurists like Muhammad Baqir Majlisi and Mir damad declaring as ludicrous their detailed accounts of life after death, for example that of believers after death turning into melodious birds while polytheists turn into black crows. Selected works Āyīnah-i sekandarī (Alexandrian Mirror), Nashr-i Chashmah Fann-i guftan va nivishtan (Art of Speaking and Writing) Hasht Bihisht (Eight Heavens) Jang-i haftād va du mellat (War of Seventy-Two Nations) Nāmah-i bāstān (Book of Ancient Times) Nāmah-i sukhanvārān (Book of Eloquent Speakers), also under the title of Āyīn-i sokhanvārī (Rules of eloquence) Sad khaţābah (One Hundred Lectures), Shirkat-i Kitāb Sih maktūb (Three Essays) Takvīn va tashrīʿ (Creation and Lawmaking) See also Literary criticism in Iran History of Iran Intellectual movements in Iran Literary criticism in Iran References Further reading External links Iranian literary critics Iranian nationalists 19th-century Iranian writers Date of birth missing Date of death missing Place of birth missing Place of death missing 1854 births 1896 deaths 1897 deaths People of Qajar Iran 19th-century Persian-language writers

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Carriers (film)

Carriers is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic film written and directed by Àlex and David Pastor. It stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, and Emily VanCamp as four survivors of a viral pandemic attempting to stay alive amid the looming threat of becoming infected. Filmed in 2006, it received a limited release in the United States on September 4, 2009, following Pine's breakout performance in Star Trek earlier that year. It received positive reviews from critics and grossed $5.8 million. Plot A highly infectious virus, known as "The World Ender Virus", has spread worldwide, killing most of the population. Brothers Brian and Danny, along with Brian's girlfriend Bobby and Danny's friend Kate, plot a trip to take shelter at Turtle Beach, Texas, the brothers' childhood vacation home. To help them survive, they follow a set of rules created by Brian. On their way to the beach, the group encounter survivor Frank and his infected daughter Jodie, whose vehicle has run out of fuel. The four escape from Frank when he attacks them, but after their car breaks down, they are forced to help Frank and Jodie to use his vehicle. At Frank's insistence, they travel to a nearby high school where a serum for the pandemic is rumored to have been developed. Upon arriving, Frank, Brian, Danny, and Kate discover that the serum does not work and the last remaining doctor is preparing to euthanize a group of infected children and himself. Meanwhile, Bobby catches the virus from Jodie, which she hides from the others. Frank is later forced to bring Jodie to a portable toilet, giving Brian the opportunity to leave them behind and take their vehicle. The group stops at a hotel, unaware that it is occupied by armed survivalists. When the survivalists return, they force the women to accompany them until they uncover Bobby's infection and order the group away. Brian subsequently forces Bobby to leave the group. As the group runs low on fuel, Brian kills two women to siphon their vehicle, but suffers a gunshot wound. While treating his brother's injury, Danny discovers that Brian is infected. Danny attempts to leave Brian behind that night, but Brian takes the keys to their vehicle. Refusing to surrender the keys, Brian goads Danny into killing him so he will not die alone from the virus. Danny and Kate arrive at Turtle Beach the next morning, but Danny realizes that without his brother, the place that seemed special to them as children is now desolate. Cast Lou Taylor Pucci as Danny Chris Pine as Brian Piper Perabo as Bobby Emily VanCamp as Kate Christopher Meloni as Frank Kiernan Shipka as Jodie Mark Moses as Doctor Additionally, Josh Berry, Tim D. Janis, Dale Malley, and Dylan Kenin portray the survivalists. LeAnne Lynch and Jan Cunningham play the women who encounter the group while low on fuel. Production Filmed in New Mexico and Texas in late 2006, Carriers was not released by Paramount Vantage until September 2009, following the success of Pine's appearance as James T. Kirk in Star Trek, released earlier in 2009. Release Carriers was released on September 4, 2009, in United States cinemas. The DVD followed on December 29, 2009. Box office It grossed $908,000 in the United States and $5,802,422 worldwide. Reception Carriers received mixed to positive reviews and holds a 66% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 38 reviews. The film was praised for its story, theme and acting performances, with criticism focused towards its ending. Rob Nelson of Variety wrote, "Put into extremely limited release by Paramount Vantage after spending years in studio lockdown, Carriers has moments of genuinely communicable horror and thus deserves better than a de facto theatrical quarantine." Paul Chambers from CNN Radio said, "A little more realistic than a zombie flick. Some renegade virus could make the world a 'survival of the fittest' ordeal. A very interesting story with some nice reveals". Charles Cassady from Common Sense Media said: "Gloom, not thrills, in sci-fi drama of worldwide plague." During the COVID-19 pandemic, the film received a positive retrospective analysis from Chris Sawin of Screen Rant. Awards and nominations Kiernan Shipka was nominated for 'Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actress' at the Young Artist Awards (2010). References External links Carriers at Yahoo! Movies Interview with David and Alex Pastor at Twitchfilm 2009 films 2009 horror films 2000s science fiction thriller films American science fiction thriller films American body horror films Films about viral outbreaks Films set in New Mexico Films shot in New Mexico Films shot in Texas Paramount Vantage films American post-apocalyptic films American road movies 2000s road movies Films directed by Àlex and David Pastor 2000s English-language films 2000s American films

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Colette Bryce

Colette Bryce is a poet, freelance writer, and editor. She was a Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee from 2003 to 2005, and a North East Literary Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 2005 to 2007. She was the Poetry Editor of Poetry London from 2009 to 2013. In 2019 Bryce succeeded Eavan Boland as editor of Poetry Ireland Review. Early life Bryce was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where she was educated at Thornhill College. Bryce lived in London until 2002 when she moved to Scotland. She moved to the North East of England in 2005. Works Bryce's first published work was included in the 1995 volume Anvil New Poets, ed. Carol Ann Duffy, which also introduced the work of poets Kate Clanchy and Alice Oswald, among others. That year she won an Eric Gregory Award. Her poetry appears in the recent anthologies Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe), and The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe), Forward Book of Poetry 2009 (Forward), Hand in Hand (Faber) and the Penguin Book of Irish Poetry (Penguin, 2010). Her first collection The Heel of Bernadette, published in 2000 by Picador, won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and the Strong Award (now known as the Strong/Shine Award) for new Irish poets. In 2003, Bryce won the National Poetry Competition for her poem, The Full Indian Rope Trick, which became the title-poem of her 2004 collection, short-listed for the TS Eliot Award the following year. A pamphlet, The Observations of Aleksandr Svetlov, appeared from Donut Press in 2007. Her third collection Self-Portrait in the Dark was published in 2008 and shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award in 2009. It includes the poem Self-Portrait in a Broken Wing-Mirror that won the Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 2007. In 2010, she received a Cholmondely Award for poets from the Society of Authors. A pamphlet ″Ballasting the Ark″, written in response to a Leverhulme fellowship at Dove Marine Laboratory in Cullercoats, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry in 2012. Her 2014 collection ″The Whole & Rain-domed Universe″, which draws on the author's experience of growing up in Derry during the Troubles, was awarded a special Christopher Ewart-Biggs Award in memory of Seamus Heaney. The book was also short-listed for Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection, The Costa Poetry Award, and The Roehampton Poetry Prize. “Selected Poems” was awarded the Pigott Prize for Irish poetry in 2017. Her collection “The M Pages” was published by Picador in 2020. Bibliography The Heel of Bernadette (Picador 2000) The Full Indian Rope Trick (Picador 2004) The Observations of Aleksandr Svetlov (pamphlet Donut 2007) Ink on Paper: Poetry and Art (ed. Mudfog 2007) Self-Portrait in the Dark (Picador 2008) "Ballasting the Ark" (pamphlet NCLA 2012) "The Whole & Rain-domed Universe" (Picador 2014) Selected Poems (Picador 2017) The M pages (Picador 2020) References External links Colette Bryce reads on PoetCasting Colette Bryce's Poems Reviews 20th-century British women writers 20th-century Irish women writers 20th-century Irish writers 20th-century poets from Northern Ireland 21st-century British poets 21st-century British women writers 21st-century Irish poets 21st-century Irish women writers 21st-century Irish writers 21st-century writers from Northern Ireland British LGBT poets Living people Writers from Derry (city) Women poets from Northern Ireland 21st-century women writers from Northern Ireland 20th-century women writers from Northern Ireland 21st-century LGBT people from Northern Ireland Year of birth missing (living people) People educated at Thornhill College Academics of the University of Dundee Academics of Newcastle University

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Blondie (film series)

The Blondie film series is an American comedy film series based on the comic strip of the same name, created by Chic Young. The series featured Penny Singleton as Blondie Bumstead and Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumstead. Concurrently the film adventures were continued, with the same cast reprising their roles, in the Blondie radio series. Columbia Pictures produced the films from 1938 to 1943, and popular demand brought them back in 1945. Columbia later reissued the Blondie features, beginning with the first film in the series. Columbia used the series to showcase many of its contract players. Rita Hayworth was featured in Blondie on a Budget; Glenn Ford in Blondie Plays Cupid, Larry Parks and Janet Blair in Blondie Goes to College, Shemp Howard in Blondie Knows Best, and Adele Jergens in Blondie's Anniversary. Other roles were taken by Columbia contractees Doris Houck, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, Ann Doran, Stanley Brown, Richard Fiske, Bud Jamison, Eddie Laughton, John Tyrrell, Alyn Lockwood, Jimmy Lloyd, Gay Nelson, and Ross Ford. Faithfulness to the comic strip was a major concern of the creators of the movie series. Little touches were added that were iconic to the strip, like the appearance of Dagwood's famous sandwiches - and the running gag of Dagwood colliding with the mailman amid a flurry of letters, (which preceded the title sequence in almost every film). The films were typical of family-fare situational comedies of the period, and are endearingly funny in a low-key way. As the series progressed, the Bumstead children grew from toddlers to young adults onscreen. Larry Simms as Baby Dumpling (later known as Alexander) reprised his role in all the films. Daughter Cookie was played by three different child actresses, beginning in 1942 with her first appearance (as an infant) in Blondie's Blessed Event, the eleventh entry in the series. Daisy had pups in the twelfth episode, Blondie for Victory (1942). Rounding out the regular supporting cast, character actor Jonathan Hale played Dagwood's irascible boss, J.C. Dithers. The Bumsteads' neighbors, the Woodleys, were oddly missing from the series. The Woodleys were in the last film, Beware of Blondie. Films Twenty-eight films were produced by Columbia Pictures between 1938 and 1950: Blondie (1938) Blondie Meets the Boss (1939) Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939) Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939) Blondie on a Budget (1940) Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940) Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) Blondie Goes Latin (1941) Blondie in Society (1941) Blondie Goes to College (1942) Blondie's Blessed Event (1942) Blondie for Victory (1942) It's a Great Life (1943) Footlight Glamour (1943) Leave It to Blondie (1945) Life with Blondie (1945) Blondie's Lucky Day (1946) Blondie Knows Best (1946) Blondie's Big Moment (1947) Blondie's Holiday (1947) Blondie in the Dough (1947) Blondie's Anniversary (1947) Blondie's Reward (1948) Blondie's Secret (1948) Blondie's Big Deal (1949) Blondie Hits the Jackpot (1949) Blondie's Hero (1950) Beware of Blondie (1950) References Further reading Blondie Goes to Hollywood, by Carol Lynn Scherling. Albany, 2010. BearManor Media. . American film series Comedy film series Films based on American comics Films based on comic strips Live-action films based on comics

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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is a 1969 American Western film based on the true story of a Chemehuevi–Paiute Native American named Willie Boy and his run-in with the law in 1909 in Banning, California, United States. The film is an adaptation of the 1960 book Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt by Harry Lawton. The film was written and directed by the once blacklisted Abraham Polonsky, who, due to his blacklisting, had not directed a film since Force of Evil in 1948. Plot The film's story revolves around the Paiute Native American outlaw Willie Boy (Robert Blake), who escapes with his lover, Lola (Katharine Ross), after killing her father in self defense. According to tribal custom Willie can then claim Lola as his wife. According to the law, Deputy Sheriff Cooper (Robert Redford) is required to charge him with murder. Willie Boy and Lola are hunted for several days by a posse led by Cooper. Cooper is forced to turn back to work security for President Taft. Willie manages to repel the posse's advance when he ambushes them from the top of Ruby Mountain. He only tries to shoot their horses, but ends up accidentally killing a bounty hunter, resulting in another murder charge. Days later, as the posse closes in, Lola dies by a gunshot wound to the chest. It is left deliberately ambiguous whether Lola shot herself so that she wouldn't slow Willie down or whether Willie killed her to keep her out of the posse's hands. Cooper is inclined to believe the latter and then goes off ahead of the posse to bring in Willie dead or alive. As soon as Cooper catches up, he comes under fire from Willie, who is positioned at the top of Ruby Mountain. Cooper narrowly avoids being shot on several occasions. In the film's climax, Cooper maneuvers behind Willie, who has donned a ghost shirt, and tells him he can turn around if he wants to, which he does. The two pause before Willie raises his rifle at Cooper, who beats him to the draw and shoots him. Fatally struck in the chest, Willie tumbles down the hillside. Cooper picks up Willie's gun and finds that it wasn't even loaded, making it apparent that Willie deliberately chose death over capture. Abashed, Cooper carries the slain outlaw the rest of the way down Ruby Mountain and delivers him to other Paiutes, who carry the corpse away and burn the remains. When confronted by the county sheriff, Cooper is told that the burning of Willie's body will ruin the people's chance to see Willie in the (now-dead) flesh, denying them the ability "to see something". Cooper retorts: "Tell them we're all out of souvenirs". Cast Robert Redford as Cooper Katharine Ross as Lola Robert Blake as Willie Susan Clark as Liz Barry Sullivan as Calvert John Vernon as Hacker Charles Aidman as Benby Charles McGraw as Wilson Shelly Novack as Finney Robert Lipton as Newcombe Lloyd Gough as Dexter Ned Romero as Tom John Wheeler as Newman Erik Holland as Digger (as Eric Holland) Garry Walberg as Dr. Mills Jerry Velasco as Chino George Tyne as Le Marie Lee de Broux as Meathead (as Lee De Broux) Wayne Sutherlin as Harry Jerome Raphael as Salesman (as Jerome Raphel) Lou Frizzell as Station Agent History As depicted in the movie, Willie Boy and Lola (her actual name was Carlota, though she was also called Isoleta and Lolita in various accounts) did run through the Morongo Valley. Carlota was found shot in the back in an area known as The Pipes in northwest Yucca Valley. Willie Boy was blamed for her death, but a 1994 book detailing Carlota's autopsy proved that the bullet had been shot from a long distance away, implicating the posse. Willie Boy did ambush the posse at Ruby Mountain, killing several horses and accidentally wounding a posse member. He ended his 'last stand' by suicide on the flanks of Ruby Mountain west of the current site of Landers, California. Willie Boy's grave monument can be found at . The monument itself bears the inscription “The West’s Last Famous Manhunt”, alluding to the notion that this was the last effort of its type before the use of a posse was generally replaced by modern, 'fully' staffed and empowered law enforcement agencies. Awards See also List of American films of 1969 Gilman Ranch References Further reading External links Pictures of Willie Boy's monument and a map to the monument location 1969 films 1969 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films 1960s English-language films 1960s chase films Films about Native Americans Films based on non-fiction books Films set in Riverside County, California Films shot in California Banning, California Universal Pictures films Films scored by Dave Grusin Revisionist Western (genre) films 1960s American films

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Dutch Fashion Awards

The Dutch Fashion Awards is an annual awards ceremony first organised by the Dutch Fashion Foundation in 2007. Jury An international jury of professionals representing a cross-section of the international fashion industry decide objectively which upcoming Dutch fashion designer they expect is most likely to bring his/her label onto the international market. Nominations Designers eligible to be nominated for the Dutch Fashion Awards need to match the following criteria: The designer: Graduated from a recognised (inter-)national fashion academy. Owns the Dutch nationality, or has been living and working in the Netherlands for at least 5 years. Runs his or her own registered enterprise. Has developed at least five collections under his or her own label. Shows a striking talent creating a fashion label with distinguished style and knows to present this convincingly. Is nominated by at least 3 members of the Academy of Dutch Fashion Design. Has already taken strategic steps onto the international fashion market. Academy of Dutch Fashion Design In order to guarantee an objective and independent vote, the Dutch Fashion Foundation invited a select group of national decision makers and key-players in fashion to serve on the Academy of Dutch Fashion Design. The members of the Academy of Dutch Fashion Design, including the winners of all previous editions of the Dutch Fashion Awards, each listed their individual top 10 of upcoming Dutch fashion designers, resulting in a pre-selection. The members of the Academy of Dutch Fashion Design are: Amsterdam International Fashion Week, Arnhem Fashion Biennale, Dutch Fashion Foundation, Fonds BKVB, HTNK, Intres, Klavers van Engelen, Modefabriek, Modint, Monique van Heist, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Sjaak Hullekes and the World Fashion Centre. From an international point of view the honorary member of the international jury then chooses the finalists who will present themselves and their label to the full international jury on the day of the event. Editions Dutch Fashion Awards 2010 The fourth edition of the Dutch Fashion Awards took place at the Grote Kerk in The Hague on 5 November 2010. Nominees: Bas Kosters, Claes Iversen, Conny Groenewegen, Iris van Herpen, Marcha Hüskes Jury members: Beppe Angiolini, Donald Potard, Mandi Lennard, Mauro Galligari, Mauro Marcos Fabbri Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards 2009 The third edition of the Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards took place at the Grote Kerk in The Hague on 6 November 2009. Nominees: Jeroen van Tuyl, Iris van Herpen, Sjaak Hullekes, Mada van Gaans, Bas Kosters Jury members: Beppe Angiolini, Valentina Maggi, Jean Jacques Picart, Marc Gysemans, Wilbert Das Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards 2008 The second edition of the Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards took place at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on 7 November 2008. Nominees: Francisco van Benthum, G+N, Percy Irausquin, Jeroen van Tuyl, Monique van Heist, Mada van Gaans, Joline Jolink Jury members: Christine Ellis, Terron Schaefer, Franck Jacquard, Paul Helbers, Andreina Longhi, Beppe Angiolini Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards 2007 The first edition of the Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards took place at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on 1 November 2007. Nominees: Francisco van Benthum, Spijkers en Spijkers, Mada van Gaans, Klavers van Engelen, Jeroen van Tuyl, Jan Taminiau, Daryl van Wouw Jury members: Maria Luisa Poumaillou, Valentina Maggi, Bernadette Whitmann, Christine Ellis, Cecilia Jesi Ferrari, Barbara Franchin See also List of fashion awards Sources 2007-09-01, Reclameweek, ‘Mercedes is haute couture’ 2007-11-02, NRC Handelsbald, ‘Duo wint Dutch Fashion Award’, Georgette Koning 2007-11-02, Het Parool, ‘Prijs Mercedes voor mode’ 2008-09-13, Algemeen Dagblad, ‘Samenwerking ter promotie Nederlands modetalent’, Judith Kloppenburg 2008-11-11, Style.com, ‘Multiple Viktors, Rolfs at Dutch Fashion Awards’, Gudrun Wilcocks, http://www.style.com/stylefile/2008/11/multiple-viktors-rolfs-at-dutch-fashion-awards 2008-12-01, MOOD magazine, ‘Dutch Fashion Awards help Young designers’ 2009-11-08, De Telegraaf, ‘Creaties Hullekes vallen in de smaak’, Michou Basu 2009-12-01, INDIE magazine, ‘A touch of Dutch’, Claudia Hubmann 2010-01-05, Het Parool, ‘Hulp voor starters in de mode’ 2010-11-09, Vogue.com UK, ‘One to watch’, Lauren Milligan, https://web.archive.org/web/20110612024835/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/101109-iris-van-herpen-wins-award.aspx 2010-11-16, Milano Finanza, ‘Van Herpen vince l’edizione 2010 del Dutch Fashion Award’, Michela Zio Further reading/ viewing Dutch Fashion Awards website, http://www.dutchfashionawards.com YouTube: ‘Dutch Fashion Foundation – Dutch Fashion Awards 2010’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Pt1YVC2GI YouTube: ‘Dutch Fashion Foundation – Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards 2009’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CND2nCmv1U0 YouTube: ‘Dutch Fashion Foundation – Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards 2008’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0mvODvq-QM YouTube: ‘Dutch Fashion Foundation – Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards 2007’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rEYC4AoTk4 Fashion awards 2007 establishments in the Netherlands Recurring events established in 2007 Dutch awards Dutch fashion

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The Very Best of Japan

The Very Best of Japan is a compilation album by the British band Japan, released worldwide in 2006 by EMI Music. Although not the first Japan compilation to collect recordings from the band's career on both Hansa Records and Virgin Records, it is certainly the most comprehensive and includes all nine of their UK top 40 hit singles as well as two other singles that made the top 50, released between the years 1981 and 1983; "The Art of Parties" (#48, 1981), "Quiet Life"(#19, 1981), "Visions of China" (#32, 1981), "European Son (Remix)" (#31, 1981), "Ghosts" (#5, 1982), "Cantonese Boy" (#24, 1982), "I Second That Emotion (Remix)" (#9, 1982), "Life in Tokyo (Remix)" (#28, 1982), "Nightporter (Remix)" (#29, 1982), "All Tomorrow's Parties (Remix)" (#38, 1983) and "Canton" (Live) (#42, 1983). The Very Best of Japan includes both the single and album versions of their biggest commercial hit "Ghosts", the 12" mix of "The Art of Parties" as well as the Steve Nye remix of "Taking Islands in Africa", originally released as the B-side of the "Visions of China" 7" single in 1981. The album was accompanied by a DVD release, which includes seven promo videos as well as the Oil on Canvas concert recorded in 1982. Track listing All tracks written by David Sylvian unless otherwise noted. "Ghosts" (Single Version) - 3:59 "I Second That Emotion" (Single Mix) (Cleveland, Robinson) - 3:47 "Quiet Life" (7" Version) - 3:54 "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" - 7:08 "The Art of Parties" (Single Version) - 6:46 "Visions of China" (Jansen, Sylvian) - 3:41 "Taking Islands in Africa" (Steve Nye Remix) (Sakamoto, Sylvian) - 4:57 "European Son" (Single Mix) - 3:40 "Cantonese Boy" - 3:49 "Life in Tokyo" - Part 1 (Special Remix) (Moroder, Sylvian) - 4:03 "Nightporter" - 7:01 "Methods of Dance" - 6:57 "All Tomorrow's Parties" (7" Version) (Reed) - 3:35 "Canton" (Live) (Jansen, Sylvian) - 5:30 "Ghosts" (Album Version) - 4:39 Notes The original album version of "Ghosts" is available on the album Tin Drum. "I Second That Emotion" was first released in the UK on the compilation album Assemblage. The original version of "Quiet Life" is available on the album Quiet Life. "Gentlemen Take Polaroids is taken from the album Gentlemen Take Polaroids. "The Art of Parties" is mistitled. The version included here is the extended 12" single version. The original version was released as a single only 7"/12". A rerecorded version is available on the album Tin Drum. "Visions of China" is taken from the album Tin Drum. The original version of "Taking Islands in Africa" is available on the album Gentlemen Take Polaroids. This version of "European Son" was first released in the UK on the album Assemblage. "Cantonese Boy" is taken from the album Tin Drum. This version of "Life in Tokyo" was first released in the UK on the album Assemblage. "Nightporter" and "Methods of Dance" are taken from the album Gentlemen Take Polaroids. The original version of "All Tomorrow's Parties" is available on the album Quiet Life. "Canton" (Live) is taken from the album Oil on Canvas. The original studio version is available on the album Tin Drum. DVD Promo videos: "Life In Tokyo" "Quiet Life" "I Second That Emotion" "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" "Swing" "Visions Of China" "Nightporter" Oil on Canvas - live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1982: Overture ("Burning Bridges") "Sons Of Pioneers" "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" "Swing" "Cantonese Boy" "Visions Of China" "Canton" "Ghosts" "Methods Of Dance" "Still Life In Mobile Homes" "The Art Of Parties" "Voices Raised In Welcome, Hands Held In Prayer" References Japan (band) albums 2006 greatest hits albums 2006 video albums 2006 live albums Live video albums Music video compilation albums

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Lucien Falize

Lucien Falize (Paris 4 August 1839 – Paris 4 September 1897) was a French jeweller and writer in France who was responsible for pioneering and driving the Art Nouveau movement with his firm, Falize. He is known for his breathtaking and innovative designs for both public and private sales. Early years Lucien was a serious and diligent child who planned to attend the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures before his father, Alexis, announced he was to become a future partner in his relatively young firm, Falize. In 1856, Lucien began an apprenticeship with his father, where he quickly learnt enough to supervise the design and manufacture of the pieces created in the workshop. His studies continued quickly, as Lucien found his passion, and in 1869 at the exhibition held by the Union Centrale des Beaux Arts appliqués à l’Industrie, he was awarded a first class medal as a coopérateur. Two years later, at the age of 32, he was made a full partner and took over the firm in 1876. Marriage and children The same year he was made a partner, Lucien married Louise Clémentine Poulard (1850–1914), with whom he had three sons: André Alexis Eugène (1872–1936), Jean Henri Lucien (1874–1948), and Pierre Isidore (1875–1953). Although there is little evidence of tenderness and passion between Lucien and Clémentine – it is thought his parents instigated the match – he was a devoted father, designing and making individual silver watches for each of his children's first communion. Artistic career Lucien Falize was heavily influenced by his visits to London in 1861 and 1862, where he went to the National Gallery, Westminster Abbey, and the Crystal Palace. He was struck by the Chinese, Indian, Assyrian, and Egyptian exhibits, and at the International Exhibition he was impressed by the Oriental lacquers, enamels, bronzes, prints, and earthenware taken from the collection of Sir Rutherford Alcock. Due to his ties to the firm, Falize was unable to travel to Japan, but his passion for the East began to manifest through his designs. Pendants, bracelets, necklaces, and brooches with a distinct Oriental effect began to emerge. These were enamelled and filled with bold, opaque colours with delicate scenes of nature and animals. Lucien also visited the Campana collection at the Louvre, where he viewed a number of items, being influenced by the treasure trove of medieval, Renaissance, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Byzantine objects. Until his death by a stroke in 1897, Lucien continued to create breathtaking designs for public sale and private commissions. He was determined to make the jewellery house Falize a commercial success, collaborating with other established designers like Germain Bapst, with whom he was partnered from 1880 to 1892. He was a prolific writer and reviewer and often published under his pseudonym, ‘Monsieur Josse’ in the decorative arts journals of the day. Lucien Falize was also deeply involved in the Union Centrale throughout his career. He firmly believed in the importance of providing proper training to future designers, and he submitted plans for technical exhibitions and donated working prototypes of chatelaines and electrotypes of bracelets. Lucien also entered his firm into a number of competitions and Expositions Universelles and was awarded countless honours and honorary positions throughout his career. Often frustrated by the need to be a commercial success as well as a critical one, Lucien said in a letter to his son André in April 1896 “a big firm cannot survive on works of art alone.” His friend, jeweller and collector Henri Vever, said about Lucien: How he would have loved to have lived…at the time of the Medici, freed from heavy commercial burdens and only preoccupied by the creation of beautiful works. Exhibitions and awards 1869: Union Centrale des Beaux arts appliqués à l’Industrie Awarded a first class medal as a coopérateur 1876: Union Centrale des Beaux arts appliqués à l’Industrie As he was a jury member and official reporter, Lucien was excluded from the awards 1877: Amsterdam Exhibition Represented France with Alfred Darcel 1878: Exposition Universelle, Paris Awarded a Grand Prix; granted a Legion d’Honneur 1880: ‘Les Arts du Métal’ at the Union Centrale 1889: Exposition Universelle, Paris Official reporter on the goldsmith’s section, and was therefore unable to be awarded any prizes. Received public recognition by being decorated Officer de la Légion d’Honneur 1896: Salon des Champs-Elysées Lucien’s gold enamelled ‘hanap’ (lidded goblet) hailed as a technical masterpiece Commissions Alfred Morrison (1821 – 1897): second son of James Morrison (founder of firm Morrison, Dillon & Co which was to become the Fore Street Limited Liability Company) Gaston de Galard de Béarn, Prince de Viana (1840 – 1893): one of Lucien's most eminent patrons The Pereire brothers: Emile and Isaac, prominent property developers and financiers La Marquise Arconati-Visconti (1840 – 1923): daughter of Alphonse Peyrat Eduord Corroyer (1837 – 1904): architect and pupil of Viollet-le-Duc Princess Loetitia Bonaparte: great-niece of Napoleon I Tsar Nicholas II (1868 – 1918) and his wife, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1872 – 1918) Queen Marie (1875 – 1938) and King Ferdinand I (1865 – 1927) of Romania Prince Alfred (1844 – 1900), Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha: son of Queen Victoria Several sporting clubs in France enlisted Falize in creating sculptures, barometers, and clocks: The Jockey Club, the Société du Yacht-Club, Société des Steeple-Chases Gallery References French jewellers 19th-century French people 1839 births 1897 deaths

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Louisa Zecha

Francisca Louisa Zecha (1848–1939), usually known as Louisa Zecha, was a prominent, colonial Indonesian community leader and the Indo-Bohemian matriarch of the Lauw-Sim-Zecha family, part of the 'Cabang Atas' gentry of the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia). She attracted significant attention due to her controversial interracial marriages to two Peranakan Chinese magnates, Lauw Tek Lok, Luitenant der Chinezen of Bekasi and Sim Keng Koen, Kapitein der Chinezen of Sukabumi. The posts of Kapitein and Luitenant der Chinezen were high-ranking civil administration positions in the Dutch colonial bureaucracy. Zecha's community leadership, philanthropy, personal bravery and longevity earned her widespread respect and admiration in colonial society by the time she died in 1939. Biography Born in 1848 in Batavia, Java, Francisca Louisa Zecha was the daughter of a Bohemian engraver and adventurer, Josef Zecha. Her first husband, Lauw Tek Lok, was a prominent and wealthy landlord who served as the Luitenant der Chinezen of Bekasi for 28 years from 1854 until his death in 1882. The couple had five children: Christian Tjeng Soey Lauw-Zecha, Maximiliaan Theodoor Tjeng Kiet Lauw-Zecha, Louis Tjeng Bie Lauw-Zecha, Emilia Joe Nio Lauw-Zecha and Cornelia Sebastiana Gobang Nio Lauw-Zecha. After her first husband's death, Zecha married his former private secretary, Sim Keng Koen, who – after his secretarial employment – had carved out a successful bureaucratic career, having been appointed Luitenant der Chinezen of the Kong Koan (Chinese Council) of Batavia in 1880. They had four children: Sim Tjeng Bouw, Betsy Lembor Nio Sim-Zecha, Piet Tjeng Ho Sim-Zecha and Chester Tjeng Soan Lauw-Sim-Zecha. Zecha's second husband was promoted to the rank of Kapitein in 1887, and kept his post until 1889. In 1892, with the couple having settled in Sukabumi, West Java, the former Kapitein Sim Keng Koen was appointed the first Hoofd der Chinezen of Sukabumi with the rank of Kapitein-titulair der Chinezen. According to the sociologist Mely G. Tan, the Lauw-Sim-Zecha family lived as Sukabumi's premier Chinese family; Tan attributes a great part of the Kapitein's high profile and influence to Zecha's personality. At the end of the nineteenth century, in the face of a violent uprising in Tamboen and in the absence of any Dutch military response, Zecha showed great personal courage. Accompanied by her husband, she rode on horseback to meet directly with the insurgents, whom she addressed in person and talked into surrendering. Zecha subsequently rode on her own to Meester Cornelis to notify the authorities of the surrender, and that no military action was needed. She was well known for her philanthropy. In 1916, she initiated the installation of a statue of the god Kongco Han Tan Kong at Sukabumi's main Chinese temple, Wihara Widhi Sakti, in order to provide a moral inspiration to the town's Chinese community during an ongoing and persistent cholera epidemic. She also spearheaded more practical measures to address the epidemic at her own expense: she personally led a team of hundreds to prepare ammonia drinks, and had the Great Post Road and the road to Pelabuhan Ratu disinfected with oil. Zecha also raised funds and supplies for outbreaks of famines in China in the early twentieth century, for which she was honoured by the Qing Dynasty authorities. Zecha died in 1939. The historian Theodore Friend relates: 'When the grand dame was dying, she had a gramophone put on the table next to her bed and ordered "You don't cry, you play me my favorite Viennese waltzes." Her family kept her body in state over ice for weeks, until friends from all over the world could come to final services.' Zecha's descendants from both of her marriages have maintained their prominence, despite the Revolution of 1945-1950, in Indonesia and the region to this day. Her great-grandson, the hotelier Adrian Lauw-Zecha, is the founder of Aman Resorts, while her granddaughter, the ballerina Che Engku Chesterina, is a princess by marriage of Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia. References 1848 births 1939 deaths Lauw-Sim-Zecha family Cabang Atas Indonesian people of Czech descent Indo people People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies

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William Thomas White

Sir William Thomas White, GCMG, PC (UK), PC (Can) (November 13, 1866February 11, 1955), was a Canadian politician and Cabinet minister. He served as minister of finance from 1911 to 1919 under Prime Minister Robert Borden. As finance minister, White introduced the income tax to help fund Canada's World War I efforts. Early life White worked as a reporter for the Toronto Evening Telegram in 1890, and subsequently worked for Toronto's Assessment Department. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1895, and a law degree from Osgoode Law School in 1899. White did not practice law after his graduation, but instead worked as a Managing Director for the National Trust Company, Ltd., becoming its Vice-President in 1911. National Trust was incorporated in 1898 by Senator George Albertus Cox and Edward Rogers Wood. National Trust Company, Ltd. became part of Bank of Nova Scotia as Scotia Trust in 1997. Political career and finance minister White was initially a Liberal party member, but his views diverged from the party's policies on some key matters. He was a supporter of British imperialism, and joined Clifford Sifton and other Liberals in signing an anti - reciprocity manifesto in 1911. Although he had few allies in the Conservative Party, White was respected by party leader Robert Borden, who recognized that White's presence would bring some disaffected Liberals to the party. After winning the general election of 1911, Borden appointed White as his Minister of Finance. White did not hold a seat in the House of Commons of Canada at the time, and in fact had never campaigned for public office before. Nevertheless, he was elected by acclamation in a by-election in the eastern Ontario riding of Leeds, after another Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) was convinced to resign. White was responsible for managing Canada's finances during World War I. His approach was conservative, and he was reluctant to interfere with private enterprise or even to raise taxes in the early period of the war. Although he eventually made some interventions (including fixed profit margins and regulated food supplies), he continued to reject fundamental changes in the nation's finances. One exception was the introduction in 1917 of an income tax of 4% on all income of single men over $2,000; for Canadians with annual incomes of more than $6,000, the tax rate ranged from 2 to 25 per cent. Though it was intended as a temporary war measure and despite White's recommendation that "a year or two after the war is over, the measure should be reviewed by the minister of finance of the day, with a view of judging whether it is suitable to the conditions which then prevail," income tax became a permanent feature of Canadian life. In 1919, he approved the use of naval warships to suppress post-war labour radicalism in British Columbia. White served as Finance Minister until August 1, 1919. From November 1918 to May 1919, he also served as Acting Prime Minister while Borden was in Europe. Several members of Borden's Unionist government (a wartime coalition of the Conservative Party and some Liberals) called on White to replace Borden as Prime Minister in 1920, but he declined. In the 1920 New Year Honours, as a reward for his service as Acting Prime Minister, White was appointed to the Imperial Privy Council, allowing him to use the honorific "The Right Honourable". He remained a Member of Parliament until the 1921 election when he retired from politics. Later in the year, he published a pamphlet entitled The Story of Canada's War Finances, defending his management of the wartime economy. Later life White did not consider himself as a "career politician". His tenure as Finance Minister was very stressful, and he seems to have welcomed the opportunity to leave political life after the war's end. There is no indication that he entertained a return to politics in later years. In 1933, he served as a member of the Royal Commission on Banking and Currency. He opposed the creation of the Bank of Canada. Archives There is a Sir William Thomas White fonds at Library and Archives Canada. Footnotes External links 1866 births 1955 deaths Canadian Ministers of Finance Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs Canadian Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Canadian members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada Lawyers in Ontario University of Toronto alumni

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Gareth Penn

Gareth Sewell Penn (born January 1, 1941) is an American true crime author and amateur detective known for being among the first non-journalists to write about the Zodiac Killer case. He published a theory about the killer's motives, publicly accused a noted UC Berkeley public policy professor of the crimes, and labeled himself a one-time suspect. Reviewing the 2007 David Fincher film Zodiac for the Las Vegas Weekly, Mike D'Angelo wrote, "I think the movie erred in selecting author Robert Graysmith as its source and nominal protagonist. Zodiac buffs know well that the true obsessive is a fellow named Gareth Penn." Early life Penn graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Germanic languages and again in 1965 with a Master of Arts (MA) in Medieval Germanic languages. He received a Master of Library Science (MLS) from U.C. Berkeley in 1971. In 1965, Penn entered the United States Army in Berlin, Germany and received basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He received artillery survey training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he became an Artillery Surveyor Instructor. He received the National Defense Service Medal and the designation of Expert Rifle Marksman. In 1967, Penn moved back to Berkeley, California, where he was transferred to the Army reserves. He was honorably discharged in 1971. Career Writing Penn's writing, mostly focused on the Zodiac case, was largely published in The Ecphorizer, the newsletter of the San Francisco chapter of Mensa International, which had a peak readership of 700 and was published between 1981 and 1995 A 1972 piece he wrote while attending UC Berkeley, Gottfried von Strassburg and the Invisible Art was published in the peer-reviewed journal of Germanic studies Colloquia Germanica. The piece is a reflection on the legend of Tristan, a 12th-century hero of Celtic folklore. Penn says his father, Hugh Scott Penn, who had been a U.S. Army cryptographer during World War II, introduced him to the Zodiac case while he was working for the California Department of Justice. Penn wrote two self-published books: Times 17: The Amazing Story of the Zodiac Murders in California and Massachusetts, 1966-1981 released in 1987; and The Second Power: A Mathematical Analysis of the letters attributed to the Zodiac murderer and supplement to Times 17 in 1999. Zodiac Killer Gareth Penn started writing about the Zodiac case in a 1981 article for California Magazine entitled Portrait of the Artist as a Mass Murderer. In Portrait, Penn theorized that the Zodiac crime scenes were selected by the killer in order to create a geometric shape over the surface of the San Francisco Bay Area as a sort of "murderous art project." Part of Penn's commentary about that theory included the observation that, "Other artists had sought to remove their work from the ordinary human perspective. Zodiac trumped them all." Penn then spent the better part of two decades publicly accusing University of California, Berkeley public policy professor Michael O'Hare of the Zodiac murders. Accusation against Michael O'Hare Starting around 1981, Penn began publicly accusing University of California, Berkeley public policy professor Michael O'Hare of the Zodiac murders in amateur newsletters and self-published books. Penn openly accused O'Hare on at least two occasions. The basis for these accusations was Penn's cryptographic analysis of a Zodiac letter, which he claimed yielded the name "Mike O." He also accused O'Hare of the murder of Joan Webster, a graduate architecture student at Harvard who disappeared in 1981 and whose remains were found near Boston in 1990. Penn argued that a "geometric design" yielded similarities between the Webster murder and the Zodiac killings in California. On that basis, he accused O'Hare of murdering Webster. O'Hare denied being involved in any murder, and has written about his strange experience. O'Hare filed an FBI complaint against Penn and in May 1981, the Bureau investigated Penn for possible extortion. According to FBI memos, an agent "contacted Penn by telephone and told him that if he was responsible for the correspondence to [O'Hare] he should immediately cease and desist, pointing out that it could jeopardize any investigation and he could possibly be subject to both civil and criminal penalties." In a May 1981 meeting with FBI agents, Penn "freely admitted sending material to [O'Hare] but stated he had no intent to extort anything. Cryptography Blog Penn continues writing about the case, maintaining a narrative blog entitled D550. Books “Times 17” “The Second Power” References External links Jake Wark at This is the Zodiac Speaking website Gareth Penn: American non-fiction crime writers 1941 births Living people United States Army soldiers Mensans Zodiac Killer People from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California American conspiracy theorists

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Minore Mafia clan

The Minore Mafia clan was a historical Sicilian Mafia clan originating from the city of Castellammare del Golfo on Sicily's west coast. It was probably founded sometime at the start of the 20th century, it later came to control the city of Trapani and held considerable influence throughout the entire province, and also in Palermo and Catania. They historically maintained good relations with the Buccellato Mafia clan, which also hailed from Castellammare del Golfo. History and notable members The first recorded mention of the clan is from the 1910s, when Salvatore Minore, nicknamed "Don Totò", was named as a powerful mafioso in the city. Minore's sister Elisabetta married Salvatore Maranzano, who would later emigrate to the United States and become an important figure within the American Mafia. The best known members of the clan, however, are the Minore brothers and cousins who took control of the city of Trapani in the 1950s, taking over from Andrea Fazio. The boss thus became Antonio Salvatore Minore, commonly known as Totò Minore, who controlled the city and held great sway over the province together with his brothers Giovanni, Calogero, Giuseppe and Giacomo. Totò Minore, who was already well known to law enforcement and was banished as part of the "soggiorno obbligato" measure to the island of Ustica in 1948 for five years. Calogero Minore was considered the peacemaker of the family for his ability to mediate disputes in the region, and was tied to Mazara boss Leonardo Bonafede. The Minore clan went on to form a very strong alliance with the Buccellato Mafia clan, which like the Minores hailed from Castellammare del Golfo, and eventually came to control that city. Totò Minore was one of the mafiosi present at the 1957 Palermo Mafia summit with American crime boss Joe Bonanno. In 1966, Totò Minore emigrated to the United States and linked up to the Gambino family, opening up a series of pizzerias that were used as a front for narcotics trafficking. He also traveled to Libya, Brazil (where he owned a hotel) and Argentina (once with future Mafia pentito Tommaso Buscetta), and was involved in a large money laundering operation in mainland Italy and in the province of Trapani itself. Totò Minore developed very close ties to the province of Catania. In 1960, he was the godfather at the baptism of the son of Giuseppe Calderone, the Mafia boss of Catania. Minore was also in business relations with Carmelo Costanzo, dubbed one of "the four horsemen of the Mafia apocalypse" by journalist Pippo Fava. According to pentito Antonino Calderone, Minore was a family friend of Carmelo Costanzo and his other relatives, and some "men of honor" who were forced to leave the province of Trapani due to police attention were employed at the Costanzo facilities under Minore's direction. Both Totò and Calogero Minore came to own two hundred hectares of land each near Trapani, which were frequently used for Mafia summits and hiding fugitives, and they owned many businesses in and around the city, including tourism facilities, vehicle dealerships, cooperatives, and most importantly the city's banks. Both the Minore and Buccellato clan developed a fierce rivalry with the Rimi Mafia clan over the course of the 1970s, and in turn with the Mafia family of Cinisi headed by Gaetano Badalamenti, who was related to the Rimis by marriage. The Minore and Buccellato clans resented the Rimis' strong links with the Palermitan families, and when Badalamenti was in power he even warned Minore against going to the province of Palermo under the threat of death. The emerging Corleonesi Mafia clan at this point backed the Minores and Buccellatos against the Rimis and Badalamentis in their quest to isolate the Palermo families. But while such threats of violence and other acts of hostility abounded, the rivalry never developed into a proper war. The Minore clan was involved in a controversy in the late 1970s with the prosecutor of Trapani, Giangiacomo Ciaccio Montalto. Montalto was investigating Mafia activities in the city and province and scrutinized the Minore's many illegal dealings, including several kidnappings in the area such as the fake kidnapping of the businessman Rodittis and the kidnapping and murder of Luigi Corleo, the father-in-law of Nino Salvo. Montalto even ordered an exhumation of the elder brother Giovanni, who had died of natural causes, something which caused great resentment against him by the clan. Montalto issued an arrest warrant for Totò Minore in 1979 for weapons trafficking, and from then on the boss of Trapani and his brother lived as fugitives. Ciaccio Montalto would eventually be murdered in January 1983, and for a long time police suspected Totò Minore of being the organizer, although it later came to light that the murder was carried out by the Corleonesi and saw no involvement from the Minore clan. Decline The Minore and Buccellato clans had been close to the Corleonesi clan of Totò Riina prior to the outbreak of the Second Mafia War. Nevertheless, as the war began, Riina saw them as unreliable due to their insistence on being neutral and most importantly, he was eager to weaken the two clans to reward his main allies in the province: Francesco Messina Denaro from Castelvetrano, Mariano Agate from Mazara del Vallo and Vincenzo Virga from Trapani. On 20 November 1982, Totò Minore, Nicolò Miceli, Martino Buccellato from Castellammare del Golfo and Vincenzo Palazzolo from Cinisi were summoned to a meeting in Palermo by the boss of Partanna-Mondello, Rosario Riccobono. There, on the orders of Totò Riina, the four were strangled and their bodies made to disappear, a practice colloquially known as lupara bianca. News of the massacre did not emerge in mainstream media until 1998, when Calogero Ganci, son of Raffaele Ganci and one of the killers of Totò Minore, confessed to police. Underworld legend goes that Totò Minore's severed head, on Riina's orders, was delivered to his relatives as a warning. Ironically, this would be Rosario Riccobono's last betrayal on behalf of the Corleonesi, as the boss of Partanna-Mondello himself would be murdered in similar circumstances only ten days later, on 30 November. Totò Minore's brother Calogero remained a fugitive until 1986, when he was arrested while hiding in a house in Trapani. He died of natural causes in 1998, before any of his trials had concluded. Many other associates of the Minores were either murdered or forced to step down during the war, and the clan lost all of the power it had accumulated over decades in Sicily, as did the Buccellatos and many other "old guard" Mafia clans defeated by the Corleonesi. References External links Sicilian Mafia clans

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Ralph A. Worley Observatory

Ralph A. Worley Observatory is an astronomical observatory currently under lease to Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society. It was built in 1964 by the Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society and later donated to the Caddo Parish School System. It is located 8 miles south of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. History In 1959 when the Worley family of Shreveport attended an astronomy convention in Colorado. Enthusiastic about astronomy, an organizational meeting for a club was held on October 10, 1959. The first public meeting of the club was held on November 14, 1959 at Centenary College. Sara Worley was the first President. At that time, the name of the club was the Shreveport Junior Astronomical Society. Only those members under the age of 16 could vote or hold office. Dues for regular members were $5.00 a year including a subscription to Sky and Telescope magazine. Two of the main goals of the members were to build an observatory and secure a planetarium for the Shreveport area. Star parties were held for the public to view through telescopes in order to raise money for the observatory. A fee of thirty cents per person was charged. The club estimated that approximately $10,000 was needed to build an observatory and an additional $10,000 for the telescope, eyepieces, and other equipment. The members looked for a site to build the observatory. Land was offered by a farmer—Mr. L. S. "Scrib" Frierson, but it was found that the access road through the cotton field to the selected site had a small culvert which would not support a concrete truck. Mr. Frierson directed the club members to another part of the cotton plantation where they came across an abandoned corn crib that had been burned and abandoned. The architect, Joseph Schirer, said he could redraw the original plans to convert the corn crib into an observatory building. Construction was started in September 1963 for the observatory that is still present. United Gas Pipeline Corporation designed and built the mount and drive for a 16 1/2" telescope. It was estimated that it would weigh between 2,000 and 3,000 pounds and was nicknamed "The Monster." The members took turns working on the grinding of the telescope mirror. After much work by the members and companies involved, the Shreveport Observatory was dedicated and officially opened on April 18, 1964. The estimated value was $55,000 and was 15 miles from the city of Shreveport. Today, the observatory is less than 8 miles from the city and being encroached upon by the lights of not only the city and highway, but also lights from oil and gas wells. The Society having met its major goal of bringing an observatory to the Shreveport area went on to help promote the City of Shreveport in building a planetarium which was later funded and built by the City of Shreveport. In 1967 Lockheed donated a solar filter to the Society. At that time, it was said to be only one in five in use in the United States. The members of the Society worked hard to build a building to house a telescope to be used with this filter. The building was dedicated in 1969. The observatory ownership was transferred to the Caddo Parish School Board in November 1969. Today, the Society has an agreement for use of the observatory. The club reorganized itself in April 1971 by becoming an adult club. Younger members could be members, but only those 16 years or older could be an officer. On March 27, 1975 the Society became the one that it is today. Incorporation papers were signed on that day and a board of directors was created. Later, the Society added "Bossier" to its name to become the Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society, Inc. See also List of observatories References External links Ralph A. Worley Observatory Clear Sky Clock Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society Astronomical observatories in Louisiana Buildings and structures in Shreveport, Louisiana Education in Shreveport, Louisiana 1964 establishments in Louisiana

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Killer in the backseat

The killer in the backseat (also known as High Beams) is an urban legend from the United States and United Kingdom. It was first noted by folklorist Carlos Drake in 1968 in texts collected by Indiana University students. Legend The legend involves a woman who is driving and being followed by a car or truck. The mysterious pursuer flashes his high beams, tailgates her, and sometimes even rams her vehicle. When she finally makes it home, she realizes that the driver was trying to warn her that there was a man (a murderer, or escaped mental patient) hiding in her back seat. Each time the man sat up to attack her, the driver behind had used his high beams to scare the killer, causing him to duck back down. In some versions, the woman stops for gas, and the attendant asks her to come inside to sort out a problem with her credit card. Inside the station, he asks if she knows there's a man in her back seat. (An example of this rendition can be seen in the 1998 episode of Millennium, "The Pest House".) In another, she sees a doll on the road in the moors, stops, and then the man gets in the back. In another version, the woman gets into her car and then a crazed person leaps out from nowhere and starts shouting gibberish and slamming their hands on the car. The woman quickly manages to escape from them but no matter how far or which direction she drives, every time she stops, the same crazy person appears and attacks the car. The woman then arrives at a police station and tells the police about the crazed person. The police calm her down and offer to drive her back to her house (or a safe place in other versions). But when they go with her to get her things from the car, they find the killer hiding behind the driver's seat. As it turns out, the crazed person that was chasing the woman was the ghost of one of the killer's victims, trying to either warn the woman or get at the killer. Origin The story has been identified as circulating at least as early as the late 1960s, and may have gained more widespread recognition after appearing in a letter to advice columnist Ann Landers in 1982. It has been speculated, including by Snopes founder David Mikkelson, that the legend may have been inspired by a vaguely similar case which took place in 1964, in which an escaped murderer hid in the backseat of a car, only to end up shot by the car's owner, a police detective. Other somewhat similar, though not identical, cases have since been noted, including by folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand. Interpretations The story is often told with a moral. The attendant is often a lumberjack, a trucker, or a scary-looking man: someone the driver mistrusts without reason. She assumes it is the attendant who wants to do her harm, when in reality it is he who saves her life. In popular culture The Twilight Zone episode "Perchance to Dream" is notable for its protagonist's allusions to 'that woman who was killed by a psychopath hiding in the back seat of her car', in an episode first broadcast around eight or nine years before the story is believed to have entered into urban legend. It is unknown if this is pure coincidence or deliberately referencing some otherwise unrecorded 'proto-myth', or even perhaps helped to inspire the legend. John Carpenter's 1978 film Halloween has the character Annie Brackett killed when she enters the car and the killer Michael Myers sneaks up from behind the back seat and slashes her throat. A version of the story by author Alvin Schwartz appears in the 1981 collection of short horror stories for children Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Terror in Topanga, the first segment of the 1983 anthology film Nightmares, is a depiction of this legend. The story is featured in a 1992 an episode of The Simpsons when Otto tells Lisa the legend as a bedtime story. In his version, the victim is chased by another car that keeps ramming her vehicle, and she drives off the road into the woods and loses the other car. She is then killed by an axe-wielding maniac who had been hiding in her backseat. He then reveals himself to be said maniac. The 1998 film Urban Legend begins with this scenario. In a 1998 episode of Millennium, "The Pest House", Frank Black chases a doctor from a mental hospital after one of its patients escapes into the back of her car and tries to kill her. When she pulls over at a gas station, the attendant saves her by taking her inside. The story is featured in a 1998 episode of the television show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction under the title "Bright Lights". A 2003 episode of the detective series Jonathan Creek, "The Coonskin Cap", begins with a version of this legend, except that instead of a killer inside the car, the pursuing driver is trying to alert the woman that there is a body tied to the back of her car. The 2003 Tamil film from India, Whistle, begins with this scenario. In the 2009 film Zombieland, Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) explains to Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) that Rule #10 of surviving a zombie apocalypse is to check the backseat for hidden dangers, such as re-animated zombies. Later on in the film, after getting robbed at gunpoint again, Tallahassee admits to Columbus that Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) got the drop on him and Tallahassee because he (Tallahassee) didn't check the backseat. In the 2013 film Curse of Chucky, Nica Pierce is sent to a psychiatric hospital, suspected of a set of killings committed by Chucky. As the arresting officer gets into his car, Tiffany Valentine, who had been hiding in the back seat, slits his throat with a nail file. In the 2015 episode of Scream Queens, "Ghost Stories", Chanel #5 (played by Abigail Breslin) is driving and a truck starts honking at her and using his high beams. When she pulls over at a petrol station, he tells her about the Red-Devil (the murderer), lurking in her back seat but then he is stabbed by it while #5 makes her escape. The 2022 episode of American Horror Stories, "Drive", Marci (played by Bella Thorne) is driving home from a night club and a jeep starts flashing its high beams at her. Marci loses the jeep and hides behind a car wash. Her friend Piper tells Marci of the legend. Later, it's revealed the driver of the jeep really did see someone in the backseat, but it wasn't a killer, it was actually someone Marci kidnapped herself, subverting the legend. See also Balete Drive White Lady References Entry at Snopes Info at About.com Brunvand, Jan Harold. Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. 2001. Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Choking Doberman. 1984. Urban legends

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William Paterson (explorer)

Colonel William Paterson, FRS (17 August 1755 – 21 June 1810) was a Scottish soldier, explorer, Lieutenant Governor and botanist best known for leading early settlement at Port Dalrymple in Tasmania. In 1795, Paterson gave an order that resulted in the massacre of a number of men, women and children, members of the Bediagal tribe. Early years A native of Montrose, Scotland, Paterson was interested in botany as a boy and trained in horticulture at Syon in London. Paterson was sent to the Cape Colony by the wealthy and eccentric Countess of Strathmore to collect plants, he arrived in Table Bay on board the "Houghton" in May 1777. He made four trips into the interior between May 1777 and March 1780, when he departed. In 1789 Paterson published Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria, which he dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks. Career Paterson was originally commissioned as an ensign in the 98th Regiment of Foot and served in India. He later transferred to the 73rd Regiment of Foot after the 98th's disbandment in 1787. In 1789, he was promoted to captain in the New South Wales Corps, serving under Major Francis Grose. After some time spent recruiting, he arrived in Sydney in October 1791. From November 1791 until March 1793 he served in command on Norfolk Island. Whilst there he collected botanical, geological and insect specimens and sent them to Banks. He also provided seed to the Lee and Kennedy and Colvill nurseries. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1798. In 1794 he served for a year as Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales. In 1800 he was re-appointed to the post and served a second term until 1808. In May 1795, following the alleged killing of two settlers Paterson ordered two officers and 66 soldiers to: destroy as many (Aboriginal Australians) as they could meet with ... in the hope of striking terror, to erect gibbets in different places, whereon the bodies of all they might kill were to be hung ... Seven or eight Bediagal people were killed. A crippled man, some children and five women (one being heavily pregnant) were taken to Sydney as prisoners. One of the women and her baby had serious gunshot wounds. The child died not long after as did the newborn baby of the pregnant woman. In 1801, Paterson fought a duel with John Macarthur and was wounded in the shoulder. He led an expedition to the Hunter Region in 1801 and up the Paterson River (later named in his honour by Governor King). The expedition discovered coal in the area that would later become the vast South Maitland Coalfields; it was a discovery of great economic significance. In 1804, he led an expedition to Port Dalrymple, in what is now Tasmania, exploring the Tamar River and going up the North Esk River farther than European had previously gone. Between 1804 and 1808 Paterson was also appointed Commandant at Port Dalrymple, the administrator of the colony in the north of Van Diemen's Land. In 1806, Paterson's duties as commander of the New South Wales Corps required him to return to Sydney, but he went back to Van Diemen's Land in 1807, and stayed until December 1808. During this time he corresponded regularly with the eminent naturalist Sir Joseph Banks, sending a number of specimens. The New South Wales Corps selected Paterson as acting Governor of New South Wales on 1 January 1809 after the deposition of Governor Captain William Bligh in the so-called "Rum Rebellion." He was replaced by the newly arrived Lachlan Macquarie by the end of the year. He left Sydney for England on 12 May 1810, but died on board HMS Dromedary while off Cape Horn just a few weeks later. His widow Elizabeth married Francis Grose, Paterson's predecessor as Lieutenant Governor, in April 1814, but Grose died a month later. Elizabeth died in Liverpool, England in 1839. References Bibliography Further reading Alexander, Alison (editor) (2005), The Companion to Tasmanian History, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart. . Vernon S. Forbes and John Rourke (1980), Paterson's Cape Travels, 1777 to 1779, Johannesburg, Brenthurst Press. Leonard Guelke and Jeanne K. Guelke (2004), 'Imperial eyes on South Africa: reassessing travel narratives', Journal of Historical Geography. Robson, L.L. (1983) A history of Tasmania. Volume 1. Van Diemen's Land from the earliest times to 1855, Melbourne, Oxford University Press. Anne-Maree Whitaker (2004), 'Mrs Paterson's keepsakes: the provenance of some significant colonial documents and paintings', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Brendan Whiting (2004), Victims of Tyranny: The Story of the Fitzgerald Convict Brothers, Harbour Publishing. External links Short biography from the Australian National Botanic Gardens 1755 births 1810 deaths 18th-century explorers 19th-century explorers People from Montrose, Angus Botanists with author abbreviations 73rd Regiment of Foot officers Botanists active in Australia Explorers of Australia Lieutenant-Governors of New South Wales Governors of Tasmania People who died at sea 18th-century Scottish botanists 19th-century Scottish botanists Scottish explorers Fellows of the Royal Society Colony of New South Wales people Explorers of Africa Australian duellists

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Nazime Sultan

Nazime Sultan (; "clouds" or "poetic"; 25 February 1867 – 9 November 1947) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz and Hayranidil Kadın. Early life Nazime Sultan was born on 25 February 1867 in at the Dolmabahçe Palace. Her father was Sultan Abdulaziz, and her mother was Hayranidil Kadın. She was the second daughter of her father and the first child of her mother. She was the elder full sister of the future Caliph Abdulmejid II. She was the granddaughter of Mahmud II and Pertevniyal Sultan. Her father, Abdulaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876, his nephew Murad V became the Sultan. He was transferred to Feriye Palace the next day. Her mother, and other women of Abdulaziz's entourage didn't want to leave the Dolmabahçe Palace. So they were grabbed by hand and were send out to the Feriye Palace. In the process, they were searched from head to toe and everything of value was taken from them. On 4 June 1876, Abdulaziz died under mysterious circumstances. Nazime Sultan, a ten-year-old girl, continued to live in the Feriye Palace with her mother and eight-year-old brother. Recounting the event in an interview to Adil Sulh Bey years later, Nazime said: Marriage In 1889 Sultan Abdul Hamid II arranged her trousseaux and marriage together with her two sisters, princesses Saliha Sultan and Esma Sultan, as well his own daughter Zekiye Sultan. She married Ali Halid Pasha, the son of Ibrahim Derviş Pasha on 20 April 1889 in the Yıldız Palace. The couple were given a palace located at Kuruçeşme, known as Nazime Sultan Palace, as their residence. Here she had performers of religious music. She did not have any children. Philanthropy Müdafaa-i Milliye Hanımlar Cemiyeti (Woman’s Chapter of the Society of National Defense), an organization was established in September 1912 and went to Istanbul to take care of people wounded in the Balkan Wars. Upon its establishment in February 1913, the Women's Chapter of the Society of National Defense organized two meetings at the Darülfünun Lecture Hall under the auspices of Nazime and Nimet Mukhtar, daughter of Khedive Isma'il Pasha, which were led by Selma Hanım, sister of Ahmed Rıza Bey, a prominent CUP member and the head of the parliament. In 1912, the "Hilal-i Ahmer Centre for Women" was organized within the "Ottoman Hilal-i Ahmer Association", a foundation established in 1877 to provide medical care in Istanbul and surrounding communities. In May 1915, during the Gallipoli Campaign, as the member of this organization, Nazime donated 50 Turkish liras to a hospital to purchase beds and other goods for soldiers. Exile Following the imperial family was sent to exile in 1924, Nazime and her husband settled in Jounieh, Lebanon. Here the two lived in a large mansion surrounded by garden. When Dürrüşehvar Sultan married Prince Azam Jah, the eldest son and heir of the last Nizam of Hyderabad State, Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII in 1932, Nazime Sultan gave her a diamond tiara. To Neslişah Sultan, she offered a beautiful bracelet embossed with three diamonds, when she married Prince Mohamed Abdel Moneim, son of Egypt's last khedive Abbas Hilmi II in 1940. According to Neslişah Sultan, she was tiny, rather ugly, with large lips like her father's, but quite impressive. Death Nazime died on 9 November 1947 in Jounieh, Lebanon. She was the last surviving child of Abdulaziz. She was buried in the cemetery of the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, Damascus, Syria. Her husband outlived by one year, and died in 1948 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Honours Order of the House of Osman Order of the Medjidie, Jeweled Order of Charity, 1st Class Ancestry See also List of Ottoman princesses References Sources 1867 births 1947 deaths Royalty from Istanbul 19th-century Ottoman princesses 20th-century Ottoman princesses Burials in the cemetery of the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20Rowing%20Society%20International

Ocean Rowing Society International

Ocean Rowing Society International (ORSI) (prior to 2006 known as ORS), is the governing body for international ocean rowing and official adjudicator of ocean rowing records for Guinness World Records. ORSI was founded in 1983 in California by ocean rower Peter Bird and Kenneth F.Crutchlow FRGS. Current coordinators of ORSI are Tatiana Rezvaya-Crutchlow and Chris Martin, and Fiann Paul. History The Ocean Rowing Society (from 2006 – International) was founded in 1983 by Kenneth Frank Crutchlow, with support of an ocean rower Peter Bird. The reason, that urged them to do it, was a letter from a French journalist, asking if there existed a list of British ocean rowers. He was writing about the row of French Gerard d'Aboville and wondered how to compare it to the achievements of the other ocean rowers. The main goal of the Society was and still is to keep record of all attempts to row across the oceans. In 1983, after almost 90 years since the first ocean row in history, there had been only 32 attempts to row an ocean, and only 14 of them had been successful. The Ocean Rowing Society completed full and accurate information about all and each of them, to verify and to classify every row in the pre-Internet era. And since then, ORS has been the only body that keeps records of all events in the field of ocean rowing activity. The Ocean Rowing Society Int. is an official adjudicator of ocean rowing records for the Guinness World Records. D. H. Clarke from Guinness World Records in 1964 pioneered recording of ocean rows. He handed over to Kenneth Crutchlow all his notes that laid the basis for the statistics. And ocean rowers Geoff Allum and Mike Nestor, who provided ORS with their records and numerous cuttings from press articles, and helped with the compiling of the first list of the statistics. In 2000 Tom Lynch, an American Director of ORS, handed over the maintenance of the website to Ukrainian Theodore Rezvoy, who has designed website's current interface and created logo of ORS, placing there a saying in Latin. It expresses the inner motto of this extreme adventure: "Nosce Te Ipsum" – Know Thyself. "Know yourself, test yourself, challenge yourself and succeed – the greatest victory for an individual, that's what all this is about." In 2001 Tatiana Rezvaya-Crutchlow, became and still is the Editor-in-Chief of the ORS website. She is in charge of maintaining and updating the general statistics, as well as compiling its various options, selected by the aspect of the route, category, class, age, gender, country, duration, etc. In 1980 Kenneth for the first time used ARGOS satellite beacons to track the row of Peter Bird across the Pacific Ocean from Russian Far East to San Francisco; and hence, after launching the website, ORS became the first to start monitoring and tracking rowers at sea, listing positions, plotting charts and posting them – along with the press articles, news and other information about and from rowers at sea, – making it available to public. ORS has coordinated dozens of rows of individuals and in 2004 organized the first race with Solos and Four entrees (besides traditional Teams of Two – that had been the only class of entrees in races 1997, 2001 and 2003). It was then, that ORS introduced a convenient way of tracking numerous boats on one chart on the webpage, by marking them as dots of different colors – the way adopted later by organizers of other races. ORS has been one of the first contacts in the list of the Coast Guards, when it goes about rescue at sea of independent rowers. It assists by providing/confirming the necessary data, positions, contacts, etc. Kenneth F.Crutchlow was the first to organize a resupply of an ocean rower on route (Peter Bird, Pacific Ocean 1983) and then organized and participated in several resupplies of rowers and teams at sea – sailing and flying, or coordinating a meeting with a vessel or even another rowboat. ORSI organized the first meeting of entries in the 1997 race and in 2002 – meeting with all women-ocean rowers, at the Royal Geographical Society in London. It also organized lunches for ocean rowers with representatives of Guinness World Records on the occasions of awarding Guinness certificates to ocean rowers. In 2000 ORS formed a committee of ocean rowers who prepared "guidelines" for those who might themselves want to accept the Challenge of an Ocean Row. There was established a record "Blue Riband Trophy of Ocean Rowing", to be presented to the holders of the record "The fastest row across the Atlantic East to West along the "Trade Winds I", – the most popular and rowed route of all in the world oceans. In 2017 Blue Riband Trophy was divided into two classes: classic and open. In 2003 ORS came up with an idea of organizing free seminars, where ocean rowers, coast guard helicopter pilots, psychologists, specialists in survival at sea shared their experience with those who were planning or about to go to sea. ORS sees as its task to keep alive and honor names of the past ocean rowers. A number of ocean rowboats related to the pioneers of ocean rowing have been saved from destruction, exhibited at several boat shows and finally presented to the relevant museums and organizations. In 2006 ORS became ORSI. In 2021 Fiann Paul developed a geodatabase that documents and processes the entire history of human-power ocean-exploration, dubbed by Guinness World Records “The first real adventure database”. This database became the new ORSI website. Coordinators ORSI is led by coordinators. The following list gives main coordinators since 1983: 1983 – 2016: Kenneth F. Crutchlow 2016 – present: Tatiana Rezvaya-Crutchlow 2016 – present: Chris Martin 2019 – present: Fiann Paul See also International Rowing Federation Human-powered watercraft World Sailing References Sports organizations established in 1983 Ocean rowing

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating%20calipers

Rotating calipers

In computational geometry, the method of rotating calipers is an algorithm design technique that can be used to solve optimization problems including finding the width or diameter of a set of points. The method is so named because the idea is analogous to rotating a spring-loaded vernier caliper around the outside of a convex polygon. Every time one blade of the caliper lies flat against an edge of the polygon, it forms an antipodal pair with the point or edge touching the opposite blade. The complete "rotation" of the caliper around the polygon detects all antipodal pairs; the set of all pairs, viewed as a graph, forms a thrackle. The method of rotating calipers can be interpreted as the projective dual of a sweep line algorithm in which the sweep is across slopes of lines rather than across - or -coordinates of points. History The rotating calipers method was first used in the dissertation of Michael Shamos in 1978. Shamos used this method to generate all antipodal pairs of points on a convex polygon and to compute the diameter of a convex polygon in time. Godfried Toussaint coined the phrase "rotating calipers" and demonstrated that the method was applicable in solving many other computational geometry problems. Shamos's algorithm Shamos gave the following algorithm in his dissertation (pp. 77–82) for the rotating calipers method, which generated all antipodal pairs of vertices on a convex polygon: /* p[] is in standard form, ie, counter clockwise order, distinct vertices, no collinear vertices. ANGLE(m, n) is a procedure that returns the clockwise angle swept out by a ray as it rotates from a position parallel to the directed segment Pm,Pm+1 to a position parallel to Pn, Pn+1 We assume all indices are reduced to mod N (so that N+1 = 1). */ GetAllAntiPodalPairs(p[1..n]) // Find first anti-podal pair by locating vertex opposite P1 i = 1 j = 2 while angle(i, j) < pi j++ yield i, j /* Now proceed around the polygon taking account of possibly parallel edges. Line L passes through Pi, Pi+1 and M passes through Pj, Pj+1 */ // Loop on j until all of P has been scanned current = i while j != n if angle(current, i + 1) <= angle(current, j + 1) j++ current = j else i++ current = i yield i, j // Now take care of parallel edges if angle(current, i + 1) = angle(current, j + 1) yield i + 1, j yield i, j + 1 yield i + 1, j + 1 if current = i j++ else i++ Another version of this algorithm appeared in the text by Preparata and Shamos in 1985 that avoided calculation of angles: GetAllAntiPodalPairs(p[1..n]) i0 = n i = 1 j = i + 1 while (Area(i, i + 1, j + 1) > Area(i, i + 1, j)) j = j + 1 j0 = j while (i != j0) i = i + 1 yield i, j while (Area(i, i + 1, j + 1) > Area(i, i + 1, j)) j = j + 1 if ((i, j) != (j0, i0)) yield i, j else return if (Area(j, i + 1, j + 1) = Area(i, i + 1, j)) if ((i, j) != (j0, i0)) yield i, j + 1 else yield i + 1, j Applications Pirzadeh describes various applications of rotating calipers method. Distances Diameter (maximum width) of a convex polygon Width (minimum width) of a convex polygon Maximum distance between two convex polygons Minimum distance between two convex polygons Widest empty (or separating) strip between two convex polygons (a simplified low-dimensional variant of a problem arising in support vector machine based machine learning) Grenander distance between two convex polygons Optimal strip separation (used in medical imaging and solid modeling) Bounding boxes Minimum area oriented bounding box Minimum perimeter oriented bounding box Triangulations Onion triangulations Spiral triangulations Quadrangulation Nice triangulation Art gallery problem Wedge placement optimization problem Multi-polygon operations Union of two convex polygons Common tangents to two convex polygons Intersection of two convex polygons Critical support lines of two convex polygons Vector sums (or Minkowski sum) of two convex polygons Convex hull of two convex polygons Traversals Shortest transversals Thinnest-strip transversals Others Non parametric decision rules for machine learned classification Aperture angle optimizations for visibility problems in computer vision Finding longest cells in millions of biological cells Comparing precision of two people at firing range Classify sections of brain from scan images See also Convex polygon Convex hull Smallest enclosing box References Geometric algorithms Convex geometry

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerville%20%28surname%29

Somerville (surname)

Somerville is a Scottish surname of Norman origin. Derivation Also for years the origin of the name was quoted from the book of surnames of Scotland, a copy did exist in the library of the University of Abertay in Dundee, stating the name originating from Caen or possibly from the commune of Sémerville (Semervilla 1209), near Évreux, that is 141 miles from Caen. However, there are other possibilities, first of all a disappeared place name of Cotentin Sumelleville (Summerleevilla ab 1210) closer to Caen. Other hypothesis like Sommervieu (Sommerveium 1241), 18,5 miles from Caen, were proposed. History In 1066 the Lord of Somerville, Sir Gaultier / Walter de Somerville joined William the conqueror on his invasion of England, for his support Sir Gaultier de Somerville was given land in the North of England. By the twelfth century, the Somervilles were granted land and title of lord in Scotland and were at one time among the noble families of Scotland. Alternatively, Somerville can also be a Scottish clan surname. The Irish House of Somerville began when William Somerville came to Ireland in 1690. William was an Episcopalian minister forced to flee from his manse when it was attacked by Covenanters. William brought his sons William and Thomas with him to Ireland. While the younger William returned to Scotland, his brother Thomas stayed in Ireland. Thomas would be educated at Trinity College in Dublin eventually earning a BA in 1711. He entered the church of his father and was ordained a minister at Cloyne Cathedral in 1715. It was in 1732 that Thomas was made the rector of Myross and Castlehaven. It was his son Thomas who by becoming a very successful merchant with Newfoundland and the West Indies was able to build up the Irish house of Somerville to the ranks of landed gentry a class out of which the Somerville clan had dropped for five generations. People The following people have the surname Somerville (or the variant Somervile): Amanda Somerville (b. 1979), American pop, metal singer Annis Somerville, New Zealand judge Alexander Somerville (1811–1885), Scottish journalist and soldier Alexander Neill Somerville, Scottish minister and evangelist Annesley Somerville (1858–1942), British politician Bonnie Somerville (b. 1974), American actress Carla Somerville (b. 1973), Canadian field hockey player Daniel Somerville (1879–1938), British politician Dave Somerville (1933–2015), Canadian singer Ed Somerville (1853–1877), American baseball player Edith Anna Somerville (1858–1949), Irish novelist Geraldine Somerville (b. 1967), Irish-born British actress Greg Somerville, NZ rugby player Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville (1863–1936), brother of Edith, sailor, antiquarian, anthropologist, killed by the IRA James Somerville (Bruce County politician) (1826–1898), Canadian businessperson, notary and Member of Parliament (Bruce West electoral district) James Somerville (Wentworth County, Ontario politician) (1834–1916), Canadian journalist, editor and Member of Parliament (Brant North, Wentworth North and Brant electoral districts) James Somerville (admiral) (1882–1949), British admiral during World War II James Dugald Somerville, best known as J. D. Somerville, Scottish-Australian historian Jason Somerville, American professional poker player Jimmy Somerville (b. 1961), Scottish pop singer John Somerville (1939–1984), Australian rules footballer with Essendon (1960–1967) John Somerville, Scottish football player and manager Julia Somerville (b. 1947), ITN newsreader Lord Somerville, any of a family of Scottish peers Margaret Somerville (b. 1942), Canadian ethicist Mary Somerville (1780–1872), Scottish scientific writer, after whom Somerville College is named Peggy Somerville (1918–1975), British Impressionist painter Peter Somerville (b. 1968), Australian rules footballer Phyllis Somerville (1943–2020), American actress Reginald Somerville 1867–1948, English composer and actor Richard Somerville (b. 1941), American climatologist Robert Somerville (b. 1940), American historian of Christianity Robert Brown Somerville (1812–1904), Scottish-born merchant and politician in Quebec Ross Somerville (1903–1991), Canadian golfer Shirley-Anne Somerville (b. 1974), Scottish politician Wesley Somerville (c.1941–1975), Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary Thomas David Somerville (b. 1915), former Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster William Lyon Somerville (1886–1965), Canadian architect William Somervile (1675–1742), English poet (Somerville is alternate surname spelling) William Somerville (disambiguation), several people See also Somerville (disambiguation) Sommerville (disambiguation) References Scottish surnames de:Somerville eo:Somerville fr:Somerville

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Angelus ad virginem

"" (Latin for "The angel came to the virgin", also known by its English title, "Gabriel, from Heven King Was to the Maide Sende") is a medieval carol whose text is a poetic version of the Hail Mary and the Annunciation by the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary. Background Probably Franciscan in origin, it was brought to Britain by French friars in the 13th century. It is said to have originally consisted of 27 stanzas, with each following stanza beginning with the consecutive letter of the alphabet. Surviving manuscripts may be found in a Dublin Troper (a music book for use at Mass) and a 13th or 14th century vellum sequentiale that may have been connected with the Church of Addle, Yorkshire. Its lyrics also appear in the works of John Audelay in a group of four Marian poems. It is also mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale" (), where the scholar Nicholas sings it in Latin to the accompaniment of his psaltery. Lyrics Angelus ad virginem, Subintrans in conclave, Virginis formidinem Demulcens, inquit "Ave! Ave, regina virginum: Coeli terraeque dominum Concipies et paries intacta Salutem hominum; Tu porta coeli facta, Medela criminum." "Quomodo conciperem, Quae virum non cognovi? Qualiter infringerem, Quae firma mente vovi?" "Spiritus sancti gratia Perficiet haec omnia. Ne timeas, sed gaudeas Secura, quod castimonia Manebit in te pura Dei potentia." Ad haec, virgo nobilis Respondens inquit ei, "Ancilla sum humilis Omnipotentis Dei. Tibi coelesti nuntio, Tanti secreti conscio, Consentiens et cupiens videre Factum quod audio, Parata sum parere Dei consilio." Angelus disparuit Et statim puellaris Uterus intumuit Vi partus salutaris. Qui, circumdatus utero Novem mensium numero, Hinc exiit et iniit conflictum, Affigens humero Crucem, qua dedit ictum Hosti mortifero. Eia Mater Domini, Quae pacem reddidisti Angelis et homini Cum Christum genuisti! Tuum exora filium Ut se nobis propitium Exhibeat, et deleat peccata, Praestans auxilium Vita frui beata Post hoc exsilium. The angel came to the Virgin, entering secretly into her room; the Virgin's fear calming, he said, "Hail! Hail, queen of virgins: you will conceive the Lord of heaven and earth and bear him, still a virgin, to be the salvation of mankind; you will be made the gate of heaven, the cure of sins." "How can I conceive, When I have never known a man? How can I transgress resolutions that I have vowed with a firm mind?" "The grace of the Holy Spirit shall do all this. Do not be afraid, but rejoice without a care, since your chastity will remain in you unspoilt through the power of God." To this, the noble Virgin, replying, said to him, "I am the humble maidservant of almighty God. To you, heavenly messenger, and bearer of such a great secret, I give my consent, and wishing to see done what I hear, I am ready to obey the will of God." The angel vanished, and at once the girl's womb swelled with the force of the pregnancy of salvation. He, protected by the womb for nine months in number, left it and began the struggle, fixing to his shoulder a cross, with which he dealt the blow to the deadly Enemy. Hail, Mother of our Lord, who brought peace back to angels and men when you bore Christ! Pray your son that he may show favor to us and blot out our sins, giving us help to enjoy a blessed life after this exile. Middle English version A 14th middle-English version begins: Gabriel fram Heven-King / Sent to the Maide sweete, Broute hir blisful tiding / And fair he gan hir greete: "Heil be thu, ful of grace aright! / For Godes Son, this Heven Light, For mannes love / Will man bicome / And take / Fles of thee, Maide bright, / Manken free for to make / Of sen and devles might." Music This is the music of the carol, as it is known today, with the first verse of the Latin words: See also List of Christmas carols References Sources "Angelus ad virginem", hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com Christmas carols Marian hymns Advent songs 14th-century hymns

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Roubaix, South Dakota

Roubaix (), formerly known as Perry or Lewisville, is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. It is not monitored by the U.S. Census Bureau. Naming Roubaix was originally called Lewisville, but it was changed to Perry when the town gained a post office. When the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad began building into the Black Hills, the town again changed its name to avoid confusion with Terry, which was nearby. Roubaix was chosen in honor of the hometown of local Frenchman Pierre Wibaux, who was one of the Uncle Sam Mine's main investors. History Founding and growth The mining camp was first settled in 1876. It was first a placer mining camp, with the primary source of gold being nearby Elk Creek. The town nearly disappeared after the Uncle Sam Mine was shut down in 1880, and a forest fire destroyed a large portion of the town. The grand reopening of Roubaix and its official recognition as a town was marked by a celebration in August 1885 at a beer hall, complete with a dance. In the years following 1891, due to failed mining activity, the town nearly became abandoned. In 1899, Roubaix had 500 residents, a post office, several stores, a hospital, boarding houses, a newspaper, a barber shop, a few churches, and its own city hall. There was once a typhoid fever epidemic in the area. The town was home to several organizations, including a tennis club, literature group, whist club, and a miners' union. Before the early 1900s, there was no designated school building, and classes were held in various buildings around camp. Local mining operations Roubaix relied heavily on the Uncle Sam Mine, which was discovered in 1878 and produced gold. Quartz was later harvested in a one-stamp mill that made $50,000. By 1880, the new mine had closed and was flooded. In 1885, more stamps for the stamp mills were brought from Tigerville, and a 60-stamp mill was brought from Esmeralda. By October 1886, after a change in management, the mine began to have trouble with its water pumps. The resulting drop in activity nearly caused Roubaix to become abandoned. In 1898, the Clover Leaf Gold Mining Company arrived, headed by Pierre Wibaux. They bought the mine and repaired the 60-stamp mill, fixed the buildings, brought in a sawmill, and had electricity installed. From 1889 to 1905, Wibaux mined $900,000 worth of gold. Most of the ore was pure, and simple mercury amalgamation allowed for 90% of the ore to be recovered. This new activity revived the town. However, Wibaux's fellow miners began stealing the ore, causing him to lose profits. On June 4, 1905, the fires were pulled to clean the boilers, and the 7th-level sill floor caved in. The water blocked the pumps and caused them to burn out. Pressure from the boiler caused the dam to break and flood the lower levels. A fissure in Elk Creek was supposed, and plans were made to build a diversion dam, but it was never executed. The mine was forced to be abandoned. The destruction of the mine caused the town of Roubaix to decline. In 1934, the mine reopened but closed again in 1935, when the Anaconda Gold Mining and Milling Company only mined $10,000 in gold. The land was sold to a private owner in 1937. Later history and today The post office continued operation until the 1940s. The shaft house at the mine was destroyed during a windstorm in 1953, and the school was torn down in the 1960s. Today, there are only a few of the old houses left standing. The foundations of the mine can still be seen. The only remnants of the mills are a couple of bullwheels. However, the town still has a very small population. There are no businesses in the town. Geography Roubaix is in the Black Hills of western Lawrence County, at the coordinates . It is located on the east side of U.S. Route 385 along Elk Creek and is approximately seven miles south of Pluma. Climate References See also Pierre Wibaux Roubaix External links Unincorporated communities in South Dakota Unincorporated communities in Lawrence County, South Dakota Mining communities in South Dakota

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%20Library

Blackstone Library

T. B. Blackstone Memorial Library is a building that is part of the Chicago Public Library System and is named after Timothy Blackstone. The building was designed by Chicago architect Solon S. Beman. It is now known as the Chicago Public Library – Blackstone Branch and commonly referred to as Blackstone Library, or Blackstone Branch and sometimes Blackstone for short. The Concord Granite building's two-year construction started in 1902, and it was dedicated on January 8, 1904. Blackstone Library marks the beginning of the Chicago Branch Library System as the first dedicated branch in the system. Blackstone is also the only branch of the 79-branch Chicago Public Library branch system that was constructed using private funding. The Blackstone Library was designated as a Chicago Landmark. The building is located in Chicago's Kenwood community area in Cook County, Illinois, United States and serves the Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Oakland community areas. The branch celebrated its 100th anniversary of service in 2004. Today, the library has bronze and mahogany furnishings and has themed paintings on the rotunda ceiling. The library is equipped with custom-designed furniture and makes public Wi-Fi access available to its patrons. History The library was dedicated to the memory of Timothy Beach Blackstone, President of the Chicago and Alton Railroad from 1864 to 1899, a period longer than any of his contemporaries. Blackstone, who had died on May 26, 1900, was also the founding president of the Union Stock Yards. He had owned the property on which the Blackstone Library now stands, and he donated this tract for the construction of the library after his death. The library was built on the tract through a codicil in his will, carried out by his wife, Isabella Norton Blackstone (1838–1928), after his death. Blackstone Library was his contribution to the city where he had made his fortune and stands as a monument to his generosity. Blackstone is and its original cost was $250,000 ($ today). Although the Blackstones lived downtown, they maintained numerous close friendships in the affluent Hyde Park and Kenwood neighborhoods. Prior to the donation of the Blackstone Library, the Chicago Public Library System had been renting reading room spaces around the city and had been seeking stand alone branches. On January 8, 1904, Isabella Blackstone handed the keys and deed to the Timothy B. Blackstone Library to the city's Library Board members. Blackstone Library became the first branch library in the Chicago Public Library System. The building retains a Lake Park Avenue address although the neighboring section of Lake Park was moved about a half a block east several decades ago. At least three renovations have occurred, which have expanded, renovated and updated the library. From 1938 to 1939 the new children's room annex, a Works Progress Administration project, was added at a cost of $68,400 ($). During this annexation one of a set of Howard Van Doren Shaw townhouses was razed. From 1977 to 1980 a major restorative renovation occurred. Blackstone was rededicated on November 18, 1980, in recognition of completion of the three years of work. There was also a 2004 renovation for the centennial. Blackstone donated a larger James Blackstone Memorial Library (1891, opened 1893), in his father's memory to Branford, Connecticut, Blackstone's birthplace. In addition to the James Blackstone Library in Branford, there is a library named "Blackstone Library" in Blackstone, MA. The architect for both the Branford and Chicago libraries was Solon S. Beman. The Blackstone Library was designated as a Chicago Landmark by the City of Chicago on December 8, 2010. Service As one of the 79 Chicago Public Library branch libraries, Blackstone Library serves the Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Oakland community areas. These communities include 17 elementary schools and 4 high schools. The 2000 census service area population was 50,084. In 2003, the "Friends of Blackstone Branch Library" was formed, making the Blackstone Branch one of approximately 34 branches to have such a support group. The volunteer support group attempts to "serve as an advisory council for Chicago's first branch library, promote use and improvement of the library, and provide volunteer and fundraising services for Blackstone". The Blackstone Library participates in most Chicago Public Library programs and partnerships, including Great Kids Museum Passport Program, the Monthly Adult Book Club Discussion as well as many annual events and activities. The branch also partners with neighborhood institutions such as the Hyde Park Art Center and the Smart Museum for programs and workshops. Like all branches, the library provides both free Wi-Fi access and free terminals with both internet access and printing facilities. Blackstone has 5 internet terminals requiring reservations for each session of up to one hour and 1 express terminal that does not require reservations for sessions of up to 15 minutes. Currently, patrons can use the terminals for up to two free internet sessions per day and print for a small charge per page anywhere in the Chicago Public Library system. Design The building was designed by the architect Solon S. Beman and modeled after Beman's Merchant Tailors Building, the domed temple facing the lagoon in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and the Erechtheum at the Athenian Acropolis. Greek Mythology teaches that Demeter, the goddess, bestowed agriculture and civilization upon the world during Erechtheus's reign. The library's rotunda murals have thematic titles: "Labor", "Literature", "Art" and "Science". The following is a summary of the building's features: Tiffany style dome; Marble column and walls in the rotunda and foyer; 4 overhead rotunda murals painted by Oliver Dennett Grover, mural painter for the World Columbian Exposition; square Italian marble mosaic flooring; glass-floored mezzanine; bronze plate, solid copper core outer front doors; 2 lbs. bronze and glass inner doors; thick granite walls; and ionic columns. The building's adult reading room is equipped with mahogany furniture specifically designed for the space. It also contains matching built-in shelving and custom-made bronze lamps. The circulation desk area has two-tiered bronze-trimmed book stacks. The mezzanine floor is composed of glass blocks. Related structures and ways Although parts of South Blackstone Avenue south of 53rd Street accommodate two-way traffic, near the library it is a northbound street that accommodates one-way traffic running north along the 1436 east block and ending immediately to the west of (behind) the Blackstone Library at 4900 south (see Kenwood map in external links below and picture to the right). The street was also named after Timothy Blackstone well after the library was built. The Blackstone Library does not bear a Blackstone Avenue address, despite its proximity. Blackstone Hotel and adjacent Blackstone Theatre (now the Merle Reskin Theatre) would also be named after Timothy Blackstone, whose mansion had stood on their site. Gallery Notes External links Timothy Beach Blackstone biography and genealogy Chicago Public Library – Blackstone Branch (official website) Official City of Chicago Building information Official City of Chicago Kenwood Community Map Chicago Landmarks Library buildings completed in 1904 Public libraries in Chicago Solon Spencer Beman buildings Works Progress Administration in Illinois Libraries established in 1904

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Howard DGA-4

The Howard DGA-4 a.k.a. Mike, and DGA-5 a.k.a. Ike and "Miss Chevrolet" was the next in a series of racers from Ben Howard. He built two examples, "Mike" and "Ike", each with a different landing gear design. Design and development In 1932 work started on a larger follow-on racer to Howard's "Pete" racer. Both aircraft were built to ATC design requirements for ATC racing that never came about. The DGA-4 was a low-wing, wire braced monoplane. Ventilation came from 30 holes drilled into the windscreen. Operational history 1932 National Air Races - "Ike" flown by Howard finished with two firsts and one second-place finish. Pilot Bill Ong flew "Mike" to one second, one fourth and two fifth-place finishes. 1932 Thompson Trophy race - Bill Ong placed seventh in "Ike". 1932 Women's Free for all - Gladys O'Donnell piloted "Ike". 1933 American Air Races - Pilot Harold Neumann flew "Ike" with the tandem wheels converted back to a single wheel configuration. Howard placed third in one event, then went on to fly the Folkerts SK-1 for the remainder of the races. 1933 National Air Races - Pilot Roy Minor won four firsts, two seconds, two thirds and one fourth place in "Mike". 1933 John H. Livingston crashed his Cessna CR-3, and flew "Mike" around the country as part of the Curtiss Candy Company "Baby Ruth" airshow team. 1933 International Air Races - Roy Minor won four firsts and one third place at 199.87 mph, racing against Gordon Israel, "Mike's" own designer. 1934 National Air Races - Pilot Roy Hunt won two fifth places in "Mike". Harold Neumann won two fourths in "Ike". 1935 National Air Races - Nicknamed the "Benny Howard National Air Races" due to the number of victories. Harold Neumann finished with three firsts in "Mike". "Ike" was sponsored by Chevrolet and was renamed "Miss Chevrolet". "Ike"s fuel system was modified to win the World's fastest inverted speed record. Pilot Neumann missed the race, after the gear collapsed on "Ike", but won the Thompson Trophy in Howard's DGA-6, "Mr. Mulligan. 1936 National Air Races - Harold Neumann flew "Mike" to on a speed dash. Pilot Jacobsen flew "Mike" in the Greve race, nosing over on landing. 1937 National Air Races - Both "Mike" and "Ike" could not fly due to engine trouble. "Ike" continued to fly as part of Fordon-Brown Air Shows. 1939 National Air Races - "Mike" and "Ike" were sold and repainted yellow, but not raced again. "Ike" and "Mike" are currently undergoing restoration in Hinckley, Ohio by P & K Airmotive, INC> . Variants Howard DGA-4 "Mike" - Mike and Ike were virtually identical, except that Mike had a super charged Menasco B-6S and a slightly different landing gear structure. Mike featured more cooling louvers and a cowling designed for a spinner. In 1933, many of the louvers were closed in, and smaller wheels were used. Howard DGA-5 "Ike" - Ike featured a unique landing gear with two small wheels spaced one behind the other, with a wheel pant covering both. This landing gear was replaced with a single wheel configuration in 1933. Ike also used a higher octane fuel in races and had a Menasco B-6 (S/N 6008) rated at 160 HP at 1975 RPM. Aircraft on display The Port Townsend Aero Museum in Port Townsend, Washington has a replica of "Mike" on display Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Flight museum has a replica of "Ike" on display Specifications (Howard DGA-4) References External links The Port Townsend Aero Museum replica Racing aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft 1930s United States civil aircraft DGA-04 Low-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1932

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20of%20Wales%20School%20%28Freetown%2C%20Sierra%20Leone%29

Prince of Wales School (Freetown, Sierra Leone)

Prince of Wales School is an all-boys secondary school in Freetown, Sierra Leone . The school was established on April 6, 1925, with an emphasis on fostering science education and modern languages studies. School history Prince of Wales School was inaugurated by His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, on April 6, 1925. It is one of Sierra Leone's top schools. The Prince of Wales School was formally established in Freetown, Sierra Leone on April 6, 1925, with a purposeful insistence on fostering science education, and studies in modern languages. The school marked a turning point in secondary education in Sierra Leone, as its inception ushered the period in which the Sierra Leone government actively sought to control wasteful multiplication, religious bigotry, and denominational rivalry in secondary school. Since its inauguration, the Prince of Wales School has demonstrated, with consistency, an affinity for Excellence in Education by relentlessly providing a model for a Balanced and High Quality Education at the secondary level in Sierra Leone. Its graduates have also occupied prominent positions of trust, altruism, and responsibility in Sierra Leone as well as in the international community. The Prince of Wales Alumni Association-Georgia Branch was founded in 2002 by a cohort of former Students of the Prince of Wales Secondary School residing in the United States who not only saw the need for substantial financial, material and infra-structural support to their alma mater but also were prepared to make the necessary sacrifices destined to improve the quality of teaching and learning at the Prince of Wales School in Sierra Leone. Their patriotic zeal coupled with their conviction that they could make a difference in improving the human condition as well as positively influence posterity gave birth to the Prince Of Wales Alumni Association - Georgia Branch, U.S.A. Francis Nicol, Ph. D. Francis Thompson, Esq School song The school song was introduced by the late principal, William J. Davies, MBE in 1936 1. Come swell the chorus one and all and join the ranks with me; Prosperity to the Prince's boys upstanding three times three. Dear as of old and dear as now and despite any storm Long live for many a thousand years our Prince of Wales, Kingtom CHORUS: For searching Sierra Leone far and wide, no school can well be found; That sends forth truer gentlemen, or stands on firmer ground.(2X) 2. T'is not alone in science lore her manly sons excel; The cricket and the athletic grounds their tale of triumph tell. The Church, the State, the Camp and Bar, with varied voice attest, That whereso'er bright honour calls, her sons are with the best. 3. As on her walls we read the names renowned in former days, With beating hearts we vow to match their daring and their praise; For who would care through time to drift with dull and drowsy face, Unworthy of his faith and name, his father and his race. 4. Though scattered far we seldom meet the friends our boyhood knew, Old joys and griefs in memory dwell, toned down to sober hue, And as some well remembered name grows great, we glow with pride, To think that in our youthful days, we struggled at his side. 5. And when at last old age is ours and manhood's strength has fled, And young ambition's fire is cold and earthly hopes lie dead; We feel our boyhood's thrill once more and think its just life's morn, And keep a niche within our hearts for Prince of Wales, Kingtom. External links https://web.archive.org/web/20031214053728/http://www.oldprincewaleans.com/ http://www.powaa.org/index.asp?action=page&name=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20070930045600/http://www.opwa-usa.org/home.htm http://www.globalprincewalean.org Secondary schools in Sierra Leone Educational institutions established in 1925 Schools in Freetown 1925 establishments in Sierra Leone

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarCry%20Network

WarCry Network

WarCry Network (or WarCry.com per the URL) was a web portal centered on the MMO (massively multiplayer online) genre of video games. It boasted a large community of professional web sites and databases for these games. One of the regular features at WarCry.com were exclusive interviews with game developers and game company executives. Previously associated closely with its sister site The Escapist, WarCry was deactivated in late 2018 during the liquidation of its owner, Defy Media. History The company known as WarCry Corp. was started in 1997 by Alexander Macris. Originally a developer and publisher of online games, in 2001 WarCry acquired the assets of Crossroads Gaming Network (also known as XRGaming) in an undisclosed private transaction. The merged company took the WarCry name, but dropped the online gaming angle to concentrate on more coverage of games, particularly massively multiplayer which had been XRGaming's stock in trade. Whilst popular, XRGaming had been suffering in the midst of the dot-com bust and WarCry's funding enabled both to survive. Themis Group Macris and Thomas Kurz founded Themis Group in August 2001 as a consulting firm for MMOG developers. Initially, Themis and WarCry were considered separate by Macris, who had sold his stake in WarCry. On July 12, 2005, Themis launched The Escapist, a weekly online magazine with Macris taking the role of publisher. By 2007, WarCry and The Escapist began using the same web software and similar layouts throughout their parallel life cycle. During this time, the company was split into two divisions: TAP Interactive, a continuation of the consulting firm; and Themis Media, an umbrella division for the websites. On October 6, 2008, Themis Group announced they would be consolidating TAP Interactive into Themis Media, thus putting all their efforts into WarCry and The Escapist. Acquisition and Decline Themis Group was purchased by Alloy Digital (later Defy Media) in 2012. While The Escapist was purchased by Enthusiast Gaming in July 2018, the deal did not include WarCry. With the closure of Defy Media in November 2018, WarCry was taken offline. Coverage The WarCry Network specialized in covering numerous popular MMOGs. The network itself had numerous daughter sites dedicated to covering almost all aspects of the games it covers. It has specific database pages for no less than 29 different online games, including extremely popular games such as World of Warcraft, Everquest 2, Lineage II, City of Heroes and even the aging Dark Age of Camelot. The WarCry network now covers games, movies, anime, comics and other parts of the entertainment industry, supplied by a network of contributors and user-submitted content. Similar to many print gaming magazines, the WarCry network conducted its own "Editor's Choice Awards" in 2006. Some of their contemporaries included TenTonHammer.com, IGN's Vault Network, Stratics and the Coldfront Gaming Network. Impact Many gaming news sites index and/or link to articles that were originally published on WarCry. Some of the editorials published on the network have been used as sources by other articles as well. Many of their interviews with game developers have been referenced to by other online news sites. Some official game websites have considered the network significant enough so as to reference them on their official websites. For example, Lineage II's news site stated that WarCry had exclusive coverage of their "Lineage II Battle Tournament". Paris-based NEVRAX, makers of the massively-multiplayer online game The Saga of Ryzom, has also mentioned the WarCry Network in an official press release, alongside notable industry news sources such as GameSpy and Computer Gaming World. In light of their 2006 Editor's Choice Awards, many game developers have also acknowledged the network on their own official websites. Cryptic Studios, makers of the massively multiplayer City of Heroes and Marvel Universe Online games referenced their Editor's Choice Award on their official news site. Another major MMOG, EVE Online, acknowledged WarCry for naming their Revelations expansion, "Expansion of the Year" on their front page. References External links Warcry Network Official Site Video game fansites Internet properties established in 1997 Internet properties disestablished in 2018 de:WarCry

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davaro

Davaro

Davaro is a 1981 Turkish adventure film directed by Kartal Tibet. Plot The story begins with Memo, who comes back from Germany to his village in south-east Turkey in the 1980s. Memo has collected all the money he needs, to marry the woman he loves (Cano). Unfortunately the whole village (especially his mother, Cano, and the leader of the village called Ağa) want him to kill the murderer of his father, but the man is still in jail. Memo persuades the village by saying, that if the murderer of his father comes out of jail, then he will fulfill his duty. At the day of the wedding, the murderer of Memo´s father (Sülo) comes out of jail. Now the villages is waiting for Memo to kill his enemy and revenge his father, yet Memo does not want to kill a human being, even if he had killed his father. Memo and Sülo decide to scam the village, by staging Sülo's death. Unfortunately this ends in Memo being charged by murder, because everyone believed, that Sülo died of Memo's hand. On the way to jail, Memo and Sülo are on the same bus, which is later on stopped and robbed by bandits. The leader of the bandits (Bekiro) recognises Memo and takes him to their hiding place in the mountains, so that he don´t have to go to jail. Also does Bekiro take Sülo, because Memo pities him. As time goes by Memo develops into a real bandit, while Sülo only does the dishes and receives no money, gold or other valuable objects. One day, Memo sees Bekiro who puts money into an almost full vase in between bushes and says it to Sülo, who tries to persuade him into stealing the vase and getting rich. Yet Memo does not want to betray his old friend. After a while Bekiro cannot stand the loneliness and sadness of Memo due to his separation (the police taking him away) with his wife and decides to infiltrate the village and to bring Memo and Cano together. At that day, the whole bandit group is killed by the police, who found out, that the bandit´s came down to the village, except Memo. He is taken away again by the police, for the "murder" of Sülo. While Memo is in jail, Sülo tries to get him out of there, so that Memo can show him where the Bekiro´s vase full with money an other valuable items is. Sülö´s plan works, he smuggles Memo out of jail and they get the vase. The next step is to go to İstanbul, because Memo is still wanted in his village and around. After they get there suspiciousness evolves between Memo and Sülo, because of the money. However Sülo accomplishes to steal the whole money from Memo and runs away. Memo now has to work hard to live, while Sülo is spending the money on expensive evenings with food and women. Afterwards Memo finds Sülo in an establishment and takes him with the money to his hotel room to punish him. Later Memo gets a letter in which Cano has written, that the Ağa will marry Sülo´s wife, who technically is a widow, because of Sülo´s "death". Sülo cannot stand the idea of his wife marrying another man. He decides to go to the village and kidnap his wife, but Memo is against it, because then the whole village will find out, that he was not man enough to kill his father´s murderer. Still. Sülo manages to get through Memo to the village. At the village, Sülo tries to kidnap his wife but he fails. Right at that point, Memo comes and finds out, that the only reason why the Ağa said, that he has to kill his father´s murderer is, because he wanted to marry his wife. Yet Memo is furious and wants to kill his enemy until Sülo´s wife tells him, that she is pregnant. Memo empathises with her and her unborn child, due to himself being only brought up by his mother. Instead Memo decides to pay every debt of the villagers with the money he has to the Ağa, so that they are not controlled by him anymore. At the end Memo goes back to the mountains, but this time together with his wife. Cast Kemal Sunal – Memo Davaro Şener Şen – Süleyman Hiyarto – Cano Ayşen Gruda – Ayso Adile Naşit – Hamo İhsan Yüce – Aga References External links 1981 films 1981 comedy films 1980s Western (genre) comedy films 1980s adventure comedy films 1980s buddy comedy films Films set in Turkey Films shot in Turkey Turkish Western (genre) comedy films Turkish adventure comedy films

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Real Betis Baloncesto

Real Betis Baloncesto S.A.D., simply known as Real Betis, is a professional basketball team based in Seville, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. It plays its home games at San Pablo. History Club Deportivo de Baloncesto Sevilla was founded in 1987 when the team bought the seat of Dribling de Madrid in the second division, in that time called Primera División B. In 1989, the team promoted to Liga ACB for the first time ever. In 1996 and 1999 the club finished the league as runner-up being defeated both times in the finals 0–3 by FC Barcelona. In 2011, Sevilla lost the 2010–11 Eurocup final, played in Treviso, Italy, against Unics Kazan. On 21 July 2016, Baloncesto Sevilla and Real Betis agreed a collaboration agreement for helping the football squad to solve the financial problems of the basketball team. The team would be called Real Betis Energía Plus as a result of the agreement and a new sponsor. On 31 December 2016, Real Betis agreed the buy of the 99.99% of the shares of the club and implemented it on 12 January 2017. In 2017 the club relegated from Liga ACB for the first time in its history, but remained in the league in application of the precautionary measures issued by the judicial demand of the Andalusian club after the change of the requirements to join the ACB during the pre-season. However, the club was relegated again in the next season after a very poor performance with only seven wins in 34 matches, finishing in the last position of the league table. On 6 September 2018, the club unanimously approved to take the necessary steps to obtain the pertinent authorization from the Spanish royal house to change its name to Real Betis Baloncesto S.A.D. This change was finally approved on 15 December 2018. During the 2018–19 season, their first ever in LEB Oro, Real Betis beat the record of biggest winning streak with 17, thus meaning they beat all their league opponents consecutively. The club quickly came back to the top tier after winning the championship with four rounds left. Sponsorship naming From 1987 to 2014, the club was sponsored by Caja San Fernando, renamed in 2007 as Cajasol and merged in Banca Cívica years later. Caja San Fernando (1987–2007) Cajasol (2007–10) Cajasol Banca Cívica (2010–2011) Banca Cívica (2011–2012) Cajasol (2012–2014) Baloncesto Sevilla (2014–2016) Real Betis Energía Plus (2016–2019) Coosur Real Betis (2019–2022) Logos Players Retired numbers Current roster Depth chart Head coaches José Alberto Pesquera 1990–1995, 1998 Aleksandar Petrović 1995–1997 Salva Maldonado 1997–1998 Javier Imbroda 1998–2001 Javier Fijo 2001, 2005 Marco Crespi 2001–2002 Gustavo Aranzana 2002–2004 Velimir Perasović 2004–2005 Óscar Quintana 2005 Manel Comas 2005–2007, 2008 Moncho López 2007 Rubén Magnano 2007–2008 Ángel Jareño 2008 Pedro Martínez 2008–2009 Joan Plaza 2009–2012 Aíto García Reneses 2012–2014 Scott Roth 2014–2015 Luis Casimiro 2015–2016 Žan Tabak 2016–2017 Alejandro Martínez 2017 Óscar Quintana 2017–2018 Javier Carrasco 2018 Curro Segura 2018–2020 Joan Plaza 2020–present Season by season Records and awards Records 29 seasons in ACB 3 seasons in the second tier: 2 in Primera División B 1 in LEB Oro Trophies LEB Oro: (1) 2018–19 Copa Princesa de Asturias: (1) 2019 Andalusia Cup: (5) 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2009 Individual awards ACB Most Valuable Player Michael Anderson – 1996 ACB Three Point Shootout Champion Raúl Pérez – 2003 ACB Slam Dunk Champion Tomáš Satoranský – 2010 EuroCup Rising Star Award Kristaps Porziņģis – 2015 All-EuroCup First Team Tariq Kirksay – 2011 All-EuroCup Second Team Paul Davis – 2011 Notable players References External links Official website CB Sevilla at FEB.es Basketball teams in Andalusia Liga ACB teams Former LEB Oro teams Basketball teams established in 1987 1987 establishments in Spain

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Operation Boptrot

Operation Boptrot, also referred to as Boptrot, was an investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into corruption among the Kentucky General Assembly, the Commonwealth's legislature. The operation was highly successful, with the investigation culminating in several indictments in 1992, leading to the conviction of more than a dozen legislators between 1992 and 1995. The investigation also led to reform legislation being passed in 1993. Operation The sting, dubbed Operation Boptrot, involved legislators who accepted bribes and other illegal inducements to support horse-racing legislation in Kentucky. The FBI's original targets were the Business, Organization, and Professions Committees (the "BOP" in Boptrot) in the Kentucky House of Representatives and the Kentucky Senate. Those two committees oversaw state laws regulating horse racing (the "trot"). The exposé was especially notable for revealing how cheaply the legislators were willing to sell their votes. Convictions Legislators convicted as a result of Operation Boptrot included: House Speaker Don Blandford (D) was convicted after a trial on charges of extortion, racketeering and lying. He was sentenced to 64 months in prison and was fined $10,000. Buel Guy (D) aide to Don Blandford and former legislator pled guilty to lying to the FBI. Bruce Wilkinson, the nephew of then-Governor Wallace Wilkinson (D), who was serving as the governor's appointments secretary, was convicted of conspiracy to commit extortion and sentenced to three years' imprisonment and fined of $20,000, the amount of a bribe he was convicted of taking. Governor Wilkinson was investigated, but not charged. Representative Jerry Bronger (D) was indicted in 1992 and later pleaded guilty to charges that he accepted $2,000 in exchange for blocking legislation that would hurt harness racing. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison. Senator Helen Garrett (D) was charged in 1992 with taking a $2,000 bribe from a track in exchange for helping pass legislation. She pleaded guilty and received four years' probation. Senator John Hall pleaded guilty to conspiracy and other charges. Representative Ronny Layman (R) was indicted in 1992 on charges of conspiracy to commit extortion and making false statements to the FBI. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months of home detention and community service. Senator David LeMaster (D) was indicted in 1993, and acquitted of extortion and racketeering, but convicted of lying. He was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $30,000, but served just one day after resigning from the legislature. Representative Bill McBee of Boone County, was sentenced to a 15-month prison term for bribery and corruption in the Bobtrot investigation. Senator Virgil Pearman pleaded guilty after 1993 indictment charging that he took an illegal $3,000 campaign contribution. He was sentenced to three months in a halfway house, probation and was fined $5,000. Senator John Rogers (R), then the Minority Leader in the Kentucky Senate, was sentenced in 1994 to 42 months in prison after conviction on charges of extortion, conspiracy, attempted extortion, mail fraud and lying to the FBI. Senator Landon Sexton (R) pleaded guilty after 1994 indictment charging that he took an illegal $5,000 cash campaign contribution. He was sentenced to 15 consecutive weekends in jail, home detention for two months and probation for two years. In addition he was fined $5,000. Representative Bill Strong pleaded guilty after 1993 indictment charges that he took an illegal $3,000 campaign contribution and did not deposit the money into his campaign fund. He was sentenced to three months in a halfway house, probation and was fined $3,000. Representative Richard Turner (R) pleaded guilty to a 1993 charge that he filed a false campaign finance report. Senator Patti Weaver (D) pleaded guilty after 1993 indictment charging that she was promised help finding a job in exchange for support of legislation. She was sentenced to weekend incarceration, probation and community service and was fined $10,000. Richard Turner (R) State Representative from the 22nd District, pled guilty to a charge that he filed a false campaign finance report in 1993. Art Schmidt (R) State Senator from the 11th District, pleaded guilty to a 1993 indictment for withholding the fact that he took a cash payment from another senator tied to Operation BopTrot. He was sentenced to probation and fined $2,500. Clay Crupper (D) State Representative from the 61st District, pleaded guilty to charges of interstate travel in aid of racketeering and resigned. He was fined $10,000 in 1992. Lobbyist John W. "Jay" Spurrier, the "dean of the Frankfort lobbyist corps" References Sources 1990s in the United States 1992 in Kentucky Federal Bureau of Investigation operations History of Kentucky Kentucky General Assembly Political corruption investigations in the United States Political scandals in Kentucky

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Alicia Vergel

Erlinda Gaerlan Asturias-Aguilar (June 7, 1927 – May 20, 1992), popularity known as Alicia Vergel, was a Filipino actress, film producer, entrepreneur and politician. She was known for playing fiesty, strong-willed characters and was famous for her portrayals in films of varying genres. She was the first recipient of FAMAS Award for Best Actress and Maria Clara Award for Best Supporting Actress. Early career Vergel's film credits include Diwani opposite César Ramirez, MN with Carmen Rosales as her arch-enemy, Balisong with Ramon Revilla and Madame X with Gloria Romero as her daughter. She participated in the unfinished movie Bibingka'y masarap under Sampaguita Pictures in the late 40s. Her performance as Orang in Basahang Ginto won Vergel the first FAMAS Award for Best Actress in 1952. In 1977, she starred as the widowed and retired principal and teacher coping up with the demands of aging in Lotus Productions' "Inay" directed by Lino Brocka. The film was an entry in the Metro-Manila Film festival and earned her an acting nomination for lead actress. In 1987, she was seen in "Saan Nagtatago ang Pag-ibig?" and essayed the role of Señora Pacing as Ricky Davao's aristocratic and strict grandmother. Personal life Vegrel had a child, Tomas Aguilar, known as "Boy Vergel" who was killed in a notorious street fight in 1962. She then married Sampaguita Pictures leading man César Ramirez. They had two children: Ace Vergel (known as "The Original Bad Boy of Philippine Movies"), and Beverly Vergel, actress, acting teacher and currently director of the ABS-CBN Center for Communication Arts, Inc. Vergel and Ramirez separated; Vergel married another man and had another child, Mike. During the late 80s until the early 90s, Mommy Alice as she was called was Barangay Captain in Barangay Manresa, Quezon City. Death Vergel died of natural causes in 1992. Legacy She was posthumously inducted to the Eastwood City Walk Of Fame Philippines in December 2006. Filmography 1937 - Teniente Rosario 1949 - Bibingka'y Masarap (Sampaguita Pictures) (unreleased) 1949 - Milagro ng Birhen ng mga Rosas (Sampaguita Pictures) 1949 - Teniente Ramirez (Sampaguita Pictures) 1950 - Huling Patak ng Dugo (Sampaguita Pictures) 1950 - Mapuputing Kamay (Sampaguita Pictures) 1951 - Bernardo Carpio as Luningning (Sampaguita Pictures) 1952 - Basahang Ginto as Orang (Sampaguita Pictures) 1952 - Hiram na Mukha (Sampaguita Pictures) 1952 - Madame X (Sampaguita Pictures) 1953 - Diwani (Sampaguita Pictures) 1954 - Aristokrata as Marieta Solomon (Sampaguita Pictures) 1954 - Eskandalosa 1954 - MN as Ada (Sampaguita Pictures) 1954 - Ukala: Ang Walang Suko (Sampaguita Pictures) 1955 - Artista (Sampaguita Pictures) 1955 - Balisong (Sampaguita Pictures) 1955 - Kuripot (Sampaguita Pictures) 1955 - Lupang Kayumanggi (Sampaguita Pictures) 1955 - Mambo-Dyambo (Sampaguita Pictures) 1956 - Taong Putik 1957 - Kahariang Bato 1957 - Maskara 1958 - Anak ng Lasengga 1958 - Cavalry Command as Laura 1958 - Obra Maestra (segment "Macao") 1960 - Kadenang Putik 1961 - Konsiyerto ng Kamatayan (segment "Noche Azul") 1965 - Tagani 1976 - Tatlong Kasalanan 1977 - Inay as the title character 1985 - Jandro Nakpil: Halang ang Kaluluwa 1985 - Victor Lopez Jr. 1987 - Saan Nagtatago ang Pag-Ibig? 1988 - Isusumbong Kita sa Diyos 1989 - Bakit Iisa Lamang ang Puso? 1990 - Mundo Man ay Magunaw References External links 1927 births 1992 deaths Filipino people of Spanish descent People from Ermita Actresses from Manila 20th-century Filipino actresses

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Pollokshaws F.C.

Pollokshaws Football Club was a Scottish football team, based in Pollokshaws, now part of Glasgow (at the time a separate burgh). History The club was founded on 18 April 1884, at a meeting at the town hall, as a merger between the Pollok and Sir John Maxwell clubs; William M'Neil, the match secretary of the Maxwell, was kept on as match secretary for the new club. The club was the second club with the Pollokshaws name, the original club lasting from 1876 to 1878. The new club entered the Scottish Cup and the Renfrewshire Cup for the 1884–85 season. In the former competition, the club received a bye in the first round, and after two draws against Southern of Greenock in the second, the club (in accordance with the competition's rules) was given a third-round place. The club's run ended with a 4–0 defeat at Thornliebank. One week after the Thornliebank defeat, Pollokshaws gained a measure of comfort with its equal biggest-ever win in competitive football, beating Houston Athletic 14–0 in the Renfrewshire Cup, but the club lost in the second round to Olympic of Paisley. For some reason the club did not enter the 1885–86 Scottish Cup, only the Renfrewshire, losing again to Thornliebank. Its best run in the Renfrewshire came in 1886–87, two wins (one of which was a splendid 5–3 win at St Mirren, coming from 3–2 down at half-time, despite injury reducing the side to 10 men, and having to play into a stiff wind) and a bye taking it into the quarter-finals, where the club took Abercorn to a replay; Abercorn went on to win the competition. The club had some fervid support at the time - at Christmas 1886, after Abercorn had beaten Pollokshaws in the Renfrewshire Cup replay, two ironworkers were accused of assaulting a tramway car conductor who had "made a disparaging remark" about the club, and one was sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment. The club only won two ties in the main rounds of the Scottish Cup - another 14–0 win, this time against Carlton of Greenock, in 1888–89, and 3–1 against Dykebar the following year - and did not win through to the main rounds after the introduction of qualifying rounds in 1891–92, falling one round short in 1892–93. Indeed, in the first qualifying round in 1891–92 the club suffered its biggest Cup defeat, 12–0 at Ayr, ten goals coming in the second half as the 'Shaws had to face an "incessant downpour". From 1889 to 1890, the club moved from the Renfrewshire FA to the Glasgow Football Association and started to enter the Glasgow Cup instead, but in seven entries only won one tie, 3–1 at Rutherglen in 1890–91 - the third 'Shaws goal provoking a "free fight" in the crowd, which "did not interfere with the progress of the game". The lack of success meant that the club was overlooked for membership in either the Scottish League or the Scottish Football Alliance. The club, therefore, got together with a number of others to found the Scottish Football Federation in 1891. The competition lasted for two seasons, Pollokshaws finishing mid-table in both, recording three double-digit wins - 13–3 win over Burnbank Swifts in March 1892, 14–1 over Clydebank in November 1892, and 10–2 over Falkirk in January 1893 - but the Federation closed at the end of the 1892–93 season. The Federation had proved to be a financial drain, given the distances involved and the £5 guarantee for visiting sides, and the clubs agreed to dissolve the Federation to start a new, smaller, competition, for ten clubs, to be called the Scottish Football Combination; Pollokshaws was one of the seven clubs accepted. However the Combination never started, as, after the Scottish League absorbed many of the Alliance members in its new Second Division, four of the six Combination clubs (Albion Rovers, Wishaw Thistle, Arthurlie, and Royal Albert) joined the Alliance instead. A fifth club - Motherwell - joined the League itself. Without a league competition, Pollokshaws withered. The club's last recorded competitive match, against Rangers in the 1893–94 Glasgow Cup, ended in an 11–0 defeat; its last recorded friendly match, at Vale of Leven in April 1894, ended in a 7–0 defeat. Pollokshaws entered both the Scottish Cup and Glasgow Cup in 1894–95 but withdrew from both before playing a tie, and the club was formally struck off before the 1895–96 season. Colours The club originally wore red jerseys and white knickerbockers, with a black and white hose. In 1889 the club changed to red and white vertical stripes, with blue knickers. Grounds The club originally played at Broom Park, Cowglen. In 1889 the club moved to Maxwell Park. Nickname The media referred to the club as the 'Shaws, but also as the Queer Folk, taken from the nickname given to Flemish weavers who came to the area in the 17th century. External links Scottish Cup results (NB: 1877–78 fixture relates to the earlier Pollokshaws club; also does not include the club's 1886–87 entry, which resulted in a first round walkover against Woodvale, and a 4–0 defeat to Johnstone in the second round) Scottish Federation results Renfrewshire Cup results Glasgow Cup results References Pollokshaws Pollokshaws Football clubs in Glasgow Association football clubs established in 1884 Association football clubs disestablished in 1895 1884 establishments in Scotland 1895 disestablishments in Scotland Football in Renfrewshire

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Hatfield War Memorial

The Hatfield War Memorial is a war memorial beside the Great North Road in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. It was one of 24 war memorials in England designed by Sir Herbert Baker, that were designated as a national collection by Historic England in 2017. The memorial is located near the gates of Hatfield House, and close to Hatfield railway station. It was unveiled in 1921, to commemorate 139 men from Hatfield killed on service during the First World War. A brick pavilion records the names of the dead, with further names added after the Second World War. The memorial comprises a Portland stone memorial cross, standing within a garden surrounded by brick walls to the north, west and south sides, and a yew hedge to the east, with an entrance gate in the wall to the south. Portland stone tablets with dedications listing the names of the dead are located in a brick shelter pavilion to the north side of the garden. The memorial cross is a typical Baker design, with an octagonal cross section, standing on an octagonal base. Baker had proposed a similar design of memorial cross to the Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission), but a different design by Sir Reginald Blomfield was selected instead: the Cross of Sacrifice familiar at many CWGC cemeteries. Baker used versions of his cross in many of the municipal war memorials that he was commissioned to design after the First World War. He was also responsible for the design of 113 cemeteries on the Western Front, including Tyne Cot, Delville Wood South African National Memorial and Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial. The central wheel-headed Latin cross is decorated with roses and lilies representing England and France. It stands on an octagonal shaft and simple octagonal plinth, surrounded by a small octagonal pavement, in the centre of a grass lawn. A rectangular pavilion constructed of red brick stands to the north side of the garden, with three round-headed arches facing towards the cross in the south; the arches were later closed by metal railings. The hipped roof of the pavilion is covered with clay tiles, and the brick floor is laid in a herringbone pattern. The solid side and rear walls bear stone plaques with dedications and lists of names. Baker used similar brick shelters at other memorials, including some for the CWGC on the Western Front. The Portland stone plaques commemorate the 139 servicemen from Hatfield killed during the First World War. The names of a further 58 men and women were added after the Second World War, along with 34 civilians killed in the 503 bombing raids that affected the area, many targeting the de Havilland aircraft factory nearby . The memorial was built on land to the east of the Great North Road, near the gates leading to Hatfield House. The site was donated by James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury. Construction cost £1,500. The memorial was unveiled on 12 June 1921 by Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden (the Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, who had commanded a battalion of the Hertfordshire Regiment) and dedicated by the Bishop of Exeter Lord William Cecil (the younger brother of the 4th Marquess). The names of the dead were read out at the ceremony by Lord Salisbury. The names of a further 58 men and women were added after the Second World War, along with the names of 34 civilians killed in the 503 bombing raids in the district. Two further names were added in 2014. The memorial was repaired in 1998. The main column was heavily weathered by 2013, and it was replaced in 2015. The memorial became a Grade II* listed building in May 2017. Nearby are the Grade II listed gates leading to the Grade I listed Hatfield House and its Grade I listed park, and a Grade II listed statue of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times. See also Grade II* listed war memorials in England Grade II* listed buildings in Hertfordshire References Hatfield War Memorial, National Heritage List for England, Historic England Hatfield WW1 And WW2 memorial, Imperial War Museum Hatfield War Memorial, War Memorials Online War memorial, hatfield-herts.co.uk Hatfield War Memorial, Hatfield Town Council Hatfield War Memorial given special listed status, Hatfield Town Council, 23 May 2017 Two Names have been added to the Hatfield WW1 War Memorial, Our Hatfield, 8 November 2013 Buildings and structures completed in 1921 Military history of Hertfordshire Monuments and memorials in Hertfordshire Stone monuments and memorials Grade II* listed buildings in Hertfordshire Grade II* listed monuments and memorials World War I memorials in England World War II memorials in England

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Old Master Q

Old Master Q (; Wong's romanization: Lo Fu Gee) is a Hong Kong manhua created by Alfonso Wong. The cartoon first appeared in the newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong on 3 February 1962, and later serialised in 1964. The comic is still in publication today, and is the oldest Asian comic series in publication. The comic is copyrighted by WangZ Inc, a company established by Joseph Wong Chak (Alfonso Wong's eldest son) in Taipei, Taiwan. Joseph Wong still continues to create new volumes. Name Alfonso Wong explained that ("Lo") means "old", is "a rather ordinary, but respectable title" over two-thousand-year old which denotes a "learned one" "who can become a teacher ('Fu Gee') or, or one who has studied a lot"; the English title "Old Master Q" "sort of" translates the Chinese title, with Q being abbreviated from earlier "Cute". Wong additionally noted the similarity between his main character's English title "Old Master Q" & the name Ah Q of Lu Xun's character, whom Wong considered to be "rather and satirical". Characters The series' cast is led by Old Master Q (), an elderly, lanky man dressed in a distinctive traditional Chinese attire. The character is created to satire Asian cultures in particularly backward conservatism, hubris, showing-off attitude, ungratefulness, rash, irresponsibility, weak-will, and even delusion. Most of the time, he is depicted as a person who keep living in the past in the ever-changing and brutally unfair world where money is the absolute power. To highlight this, Q is depicted in many short stories to mostly gets his rewards for being a good person in the form of being backstabbed; wrongfully accuse of wrongdoings as well as being hated for no apparent reasons. Kelvin Chan of the South China Morning Post described Q as "eccentric". Supporting characters include: Big Potato () Old Master Q's identically-dressed friend with a stumpy, big-headed build. Mr. Chin (, 'ordinary Joe' character, good friend with Old Master Q and Potato. Miss Chan (), Old Master Q's love interest. Vain and gold-digging, she always see herself as the most beautiful woman alive and has a tendency to ditch W every time she gets her hands on some rich individuals. Mr. Chiu (), main antagonist to Old Master Q, often pranking each other). He often depicted as an arrogant rich individual who looks down on people as well as being incredibly petty. Format and themes The overall theme of the comics centres around humour, with characters usually portrayed in a variety of social statuses, professions and time periods, ranging from beggars and office workers to actors and ancient warriors, which allows for a wide variety of scenarios to explore. More outlandish situations incorporate surrealism, close encounters with aliens, ghost sightings, and the afterlife. While each comic is typically produced as short strips of four, six or twelve panels, longer comics have been produced revolving around lengthier adventures of the main cast pitted again gangsters in modern Hong Kong or warriors in a wuxia setting. While Old Master Q comics primarily focuses on humour, it also reflects changing social trends, particularly from the 1960s to the 1980s. The comics would sometimes feature societal problems in urban life, such as poverty, petty thefts and secret societies. It also poked fun at fashion, contemporary art and rock music. The comic strips sometimes also bemoan the decline of ethical or moral values in modern-day living. Characters often display acts of selfishness or misery, although the comics occasionally display good values like filial piety. The language barrier between the Chinese language and the English language is also depicted in some comic strips, illustrated with Old Master Q's difficulty communicating with foreigners, especially Westerners. The comics have, on some occasions, expressed complexity in the plots and serious views on major political changes taking place in Hong Kong during the 1960s-1980s. It had previously criticised overly Westernised Chinese, who were often shown in the comic strips kowtowing to Western interests over the local Chinese interests. The run-up to the handover of Hong Kong to China following the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984 also became a point of interest, as a few comic strips were published through the late 1980s and early 1990s expressing the characters' fears of handover, frequently represented in a numeral of the year it would take place: 1997. Some of these comic strips also depict direct assault of representations of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, occasionally in the form of caricatured depictions of Deng Xiaoping. The handover was later depicted in more a positive light in the years leading to the actual event, possibly representing a changing perspective from the author. Films The comic series was made into many Cantonese and Mandarin cartoon animations, one of which combined live actors and advanced CGI graphics. The list of Old Master Q films is as follows, in chronological order: Other actors in OMQ movies include: Hong Wei (紅薇), Connie Chan, Nancy Sit, Chu Yau-ko (朱由高), Fen Ni (芬妮) Other lyricists/singers include: Wong Jim, Joseph Koo, Leslie Cheung Spin-off A spin-off series called Q Master Q (Q夫子) shows young versions of the characters with similar clothing as their adult counterparts. Each of their names also are related to their counterparts: Plagiarism dispute Some cartoonists and readers claim that the idea of Old Master Q was actually created by Peng Di (朋弟) in the late 1930s and not Alfonso Wong, as some of whom were mostly professional Mainland cartoonists alleged that Peng Di's ideas were stolen by Alfonso Wong. They claimed that the cartoons first appeared in the newspapers and magazines in Beijing (Peking) and Tianjin (Tientsin). The character created by Peng Di was claimed to slightly resemble Old Master Q which is currently being copyrighted by OMQ ZMedia Ltd. The character by Peng Di wore similar clothing and had a little similarity in personality to that of Old Master Q. However, the formats, themes, and contents of the stories were different as Old Master Q was not heavy with dialogue making it easy for foreigners around the world to immerse themselves in the story. A writer from Tianjin published a book in 2001 containing samples of work by Peng Di, which displayed the similarities between Peng Di and Alfonso Wong's works. The result of this dispute remains unclear as WangZ Inc. has denied all plagiarism accusations. References External links Official English Old Master Q site Official Chinese Old Master Q site Hong Kong comics titles Manhua titles Hong Kong comics Chinese animation 1962 comics debuts Comics characters introduced in 1962 Humor comics Satirical comics Gag-a-day comics Pantomime comics Text comics Fictional Hong Kong people Comics set in China Manhua adapted into films Comics adapted into animated series Manhua adapted into television series

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JEDI

JEDI (Jupiter Energetic-particle Detector Instrument) is an instrument on the Juno spacecraft orbiting planet Jupiter. JEDI coordinates with the several other space physics instruments on the Juno spacecraft to characterize and understand the space environment of Jupiter's polar regions, and specifically to understand the generation of Jupiter's powerful aurora. It is part of a suite of instruments to study the magnetosphere of Jupiter. JEDI consists of three identical detectors that use microchannel plates and foil layers to detect the energy, angle, and types of ion within a certain range. It can detect electrons between 40 and 500 keV (Kilo electron-volts), and hydrogen and oxygen from a few tens of keV to less than 1000 keV (1 MeV). JEDI uses radiation hardened Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)s. JEDI was turned on in January 2016 while still en route to Jupiter to also study interplanetary space. JEDI uses solid state detectors (SSD's) to measure the total energy (E) of both the ions and the electrons. The MCP anodes and the SSD arrays are configured to determine the directions of arrivals of the incoming charged particles. The instruments also use fast triple coincidence and optimum shielding to suppress penetrating background radiation and incoming UV foreground. JEDI is designed to collect data on "energy, spectra, mass species (H, He, O, S), and angular distributions"; the plan is to study the energies and distribution of charged particles. It can detect them at between 30 keV and 1 GeV, whereas JADE, another instrument on the spacecraft, is designed to observe below 30 keV. One of the concepts being studied is that energy from Jupiter's rotation is being converted into its atmosphere and magnetosphere. It is radiation hardened to collect in situ data on the planet's auroral magnetic field lines, the equatorial magnetosphere, and the polar ionosphere It was built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). One of the goals is to understand the aurora, and how particles are accelerated to such high speeds. One of the mysteries of Jupiter is that X-rays are emitted from the poles, but do not seem to come from the auroral ring. Each detector has a field of view of 120 degree by 12 degrees, and they are positioned to provide a 360 degree (a full circle) view of the sky along that axis. The Juno spacecraft travels very rapidly in the close vicinity of Jupiter (up to 50 km/s) and also spins very slowly (2 RPM). JEDI can detected particles from 30 to 1000 keV including: Electrons Proton (hydrogen) ions Helium ions Sulfur ions Oxygen ions Energetic neutral atoms (ENA's) In relation to other space missions, an instrument on the Earth-orbiting Van Allen Probes (launched 2012), called RBSPICE, is nearly identical to JEDI. This type of instrument is also similar to the PEPSSI instrument on New Horizons (Pluto/Kupiter probe). JEDI in combination with data from UVIS detected electrical potentials of 400,000 electron volts (400 keV), 20–30 times higher than Earth, driving charged particles into the polar regions of Jupiter. A scientific paper Juno observations of energetic charged particles over Jupiter's polar regions: Analysis of monodirectional and bidirectional electron beams included results from a close pass over Jupiter's poles in August 2016 for electrons (25–800 keV) and protons (10–1500 keV). The paper analyzed electron angular beams in the auroral regions. See also Gravity Science IS☉IS (energetic particle detector on Parker Solar Probe) Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) JunoCam (Visible-light camera on Juno orbiter) Magnetometer (Juno) (MAG) Microwave Radiometer (Juno) Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation SWAP (New Horizons), measures the Solar Wind on the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond SWEAP (measures ions and electrons on the Parker Solar Probe) UVS (Juno) Waves (Juno) (Radio and Plasma wave instrument) References External links The Jupiter Energetic Particle Detector Instrument (JEDI) Investigation for the Juno Mission (abstract link) Juno (spacecraft) Spacecraft instruments

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Pensacola%20%281707%29

Siege of Pensacola (1707)

The siege of Pensacola included two separate attempts in 1707 by English-supported Creek Indians to capture the town and fortress of Pensacola, one of two major settlements (the other was St. Augustine) in Spanish Florida. The attacks, part of Queen Anne's War (the North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession), resulted in the burning of the town, and caused most of its Indian population to flee, although the fort withstood repeated attacks. The battles were primarily fought in the nighttime hours due to the excessive heat of the day. The first siege, in August, resulted in the destruction of the town, but Fort San Carlos de Austria successfully resisted the onslaught. In late November, a second expedition arrived, and made unsuccessful attacks on three consecutive nights before withdrawing. Pensacola's governor, Don Sebastián de Moscoso, whose garrison was depleted by disease, recruited convicted criminals to assist in the fort's defense. Background English and Spanish colonies in southeastern North America began coming into conflict as early as the middle of the 17th century. The Spanish population of Florida at the time was fairly small. Since its founding in the 16th century, the Spanish had set up a network of missions whose primary purpose was to pacify the local Indian population and convert them to Roman Catholicism. The founding by English colonists of 1670 of Charles Town (present-day Charleston, South Carolina) in the recently established (1663) Province of Carolina heightened tensions. By the early 18th century, Carolina traders like Anthony Dodsworth and Thomas Nairne had established alliances with Creek Indians in the upper watersheds of rivers draining into the Gulf of Mexico, who they supplied with arms and from whom they purchased slaves and animal pelts. These traders penetrated into Spanish Florida, leading to raiding and reprisal expeditions on both sides. In 1700, Carolina's governor, Joseph Blake, threatened the Spanish that English claims to Pensacola, established by the Spanish in 1698, would be enforced. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, the French founder of Mobile, in January 1702, warned the Spanish commander at Pensacola that he should properly arm the Apalachee Indians and engage in a vigorous defense against potential English incursions into Spanish territory. D'Iberville even offered equipment and supplies for that purpose. However, an attempt at a punitive expedition against the Creek resulted in a rout of the Spanish and their Apalachee allies in October, shortly before news of war declarations bringing the English government into the War of the Spanish Succession arrived. After a failed Carolinian assault on St. Augustine, Spanish mission towns were severely reduced by numerous raids by combined Creek-Carolina raids against the Spanish mission network from 1703 to 1706. A French-organized 1706 expedition against Charles Town was a failure but motivated Carolina authorities to again target the Spanish at Pensacola and the French at Mobile. Nairne proposed a major expedition after the attack on Charles Town, intending to recruit as many as 1,500 Indians to capture Mobile, but political divisions in Carolina prevented execution of the plan. First siege In 1707, Pensacola was under the command of Don Sebastián de Moscoso. The exact size of his garrison in 1707 is not known. The authorized strength of the garrison was 220, but it rarely reached that strength owing to the difficulty in recruiting soldiers, for what was viewed as a highly undesirable posting, and a fairly high rate of desertion. Moscoso reported in 1708 that the garrison numbered about 100, having been reduced by the events of 1707. The garrison was housed in Fort San Carlos de Austria, a wooden stockade fort built in 1698. Extant records do not describe the composition of the forces that attacked Pensacola in August beyond "several hundred Tallapoosas and a few South Carolina traders". The siege began on 12 August with the arrival of a band of 20 to 30 Indians, who began terrorizing the Indians living in the town outside the fort. They took prisoners (including some women and children) and began burning houses. Governor Moscoso fired one of the fort's cannons, scattering the attackers; some of their captives managed to escape to the fort in the confusion. Two days later, ten men sent out of the fort to do laundry disappeared. On 14 August an estimated 300 Indians appeared before the fort and engaged it in a battle lasting several hours. The next day the attack resumed, as did the pillaging of the town. Activity quieted down until 18 August, when an English flag was raised over a house near the fort. This prompted Moscoso to open fire from the fort, beginning a battle that raged until dark. That day, the attackers burned down the rest of the town, and Moscoso's men had to work to prevent the fort from burning as well. While the Spanish inspected the rubble, one of them was taken prisoner on 19 August and a second person was captured the next day. This marked the end of active assaults on the fort. However, the area beyond the range of the fort's guns was unsafe for at least the next month; a number of people also disappeared after they ventured too far from its vicinity. Second siege The second siege began with the arrival on 27 November of a contingent of about 20 Carolina traders and 300 Creeks, primarily Tallapoosas and Alabamas. On that day, a Carolinian (unidentified in Spanish reports, but possibly Thomas Nairne) brought a demand for surrender written in English. Since none of the Spaniards could read it, he was sent away, and the demand was eventually transmitted orally by a French Huguenot. Moscoso rejected the demand, even though his garrison was depleted by disease. The besiegers began an ineffectual attack on the fort around midnight which lasted until daybreak, at which point they delivered a final surrender demand which Moscoso again refused. In order to supplement his forces, he successfully recruited convicts being held in the fort's guardhouse to participate in the defense, offering them freedom and money for their service. During each of the next two nights the besiegers renewed their attacks on the fort, without significant effect. During the night of 29/30 November, one of the leading Creek chiefs was killed. This apparently broke the besiegers' morale, for the siege was lifted the following morning. The attackers were reported to have suffered significant casualties. Word of the attacking force had reached the French at Mobile on 24 November. Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville raised a force of 100 Frenchmen and 400 Indians. They reached Pensacola on 8 December, only to learn that the siege had been lifted a week earlier. Aftermath These attacks were the last major assaults on Pensacola in the war, although there continued to be minor skirmishes and kidnappings. Most of the Indians that fled during the sieges never returned, reducing Pensacola to little more than its garrison. Governor Bienville learned from a Spaniard who had escaped English captivity that Mobile was also being targeted for attack. He improved Mobile's defenses in 1708, but the outpost was never attacked; a village of Mobile Indians was attacked in May 1709, however. A French force from Mobile captured Pensacola from the Spanish in 1719, during the War of the Quadruple Alliance, but it was returned to Spain after the war. The location of Fort San Carlos de Austria is now occupied by Fort Barrancas, a National Historic Landmark whose construction began late in the 18th century. Notes References Further reading 1707 in North America Pensacola 1707 Battles of the War of the Spanish Succession Conflicts in 1707 History of Pensacola, Florida Queen Anne's War Battles in Florida Sieges involving Great Britain Sieges involving Spain Sieges of the War of the Spanish Succession Spanish Florida

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Dave Sands

Dave Sands (born David Ritchie; 4 February 1926 – 11 August 1952) was an Indigenous Australian boxer. The man the Americans called the "boxer with the educated left hand" received his due when he was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998 at a ceremony held in Los Angeles, recognised as one of the greatest boxers never to have won a world title. Dave was the 2009 Inductee for the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame Veterans category. Early life Born at Burnt Bridge Mission Kempsey, New South Wales, fifth of eight children of George Ritchie, a rodeo-rider and timber-cutter of mixed Aboriginal and European descent, and his Aboriginal wife Mabel, née Russell. Sands' brothers Clement, Percival, George, Alfred and Russell also boxed, emulating their father and their maternal great-uncle Bailey Russell, a noted bare-knuckle fighter. In 1939 Percy travelled to Newcastle to train with Tom Maguire, At the age of 15 Sands joined Percy training with Maguire and both lived at Maguire's gym. Dave and his five brothers took on the Sands name, taken off a train guard "Snowy" Sands who helped Percy Ritchie, travel to fight fare free in 1940. Career Without Maguire's knowledge, Dave fought a four-round preliminary bout in August 1941 at Newcastle Stadium, swinging his way to victory in the first round. Maguire disapproved, but quickly transformed him into a skilled boxer. By the end of 1942 he had knocked out a dozen opponents at Newcastle. On 11 August 1945 he married 18-year-old Bessie Emma Burns at St Paul's Church of England, Stockton, New South Wales. Sands was soon boxing in twelve-round matches before excited crowds of up to ten thousand people in Brisbane and Sydney. In May 1946 he defeated Jack Kirkham for the Australian middleweight title. Three months later he knocked out Jack Johnson in four rounds to become national light-heavyweight champion. The rematches were even more one-sided: Kirkham was defeated in five rounds and Johnson fell after 2½ minutes of furious punching. By 1948 Sands had beaten all his local opponents and most American 'imports'. His mauling of a French fighter Tony Toniolo in less than two minutes in February 1949 led the English promoter Jack Solomons to take an interest in him. Despite an enthusiastic reception from the British press, Sands began his campaign for a world title disastrously. In London on 4 April 1949, while suffering from a swollen, recently vaccinated arm, he was outpointed by Tommy Yarosz. Fifteen days later Sands won, dismally, against a spoiler, Lucien Caboche. Maguire then moved him to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where friendly locals and a promoter Joe Shepherd restored his confidence. After two solid victories, he returned to London and in July thrashed the much fancied Robert Villemain in the 'fight of the year'. On 6 September Sands demolished Dick Turpin in 2 minutes 35 seconds for the British Empire middleweight title. Shortly after his triumphal return to Australia in November 1949, Sands survived a serious accident when the steering on his motorcar failed and the vehicle somersaulted into a creek. Over the next eighteen months he contested and won nine fights, one of them a fifteen-rounder in September 1950 in which he took the Australian heavyweight championship from Alf Gallagher. Sands had become a leading contender for the world middleweight title and Maguire vainly sought to arrange a bout with the American champion Sugar Ray Robinson. In the tricky maze of international boxing promotion, his efforts were marked by a paper chase of offers and counter-offers. Sands defeated Mel Brown in London in July 1951 in a preliminary to a title fight between Robinson and another contender Randolph Turpin. Had Maguire's negotiations succeeded, Sands would have been in Turpin's place and probably would have beaten an unfit Robinson, as did Turpin. In October 1951, Sands won two fights in the United States. Back home, he hoped for a world title-bout, but he was estranged from Maguire. A new manager Bede Kerr reopened discussions with Robinson's connections, but the chance never came. Death On 11 August 1952, the truck Sands was driving with 15 passengers overturned at roadworks near Dungog, New South Wales. Sands died of head and internal injuries that evening in the local hospital and was buried at Sandgate Cemetery, near Newcastle, New South Wales. His wife, and their son and two daughters survived him; their third daughter was born in November. Sands had earned about £30,000, but it went on manager's fees, travel costs, tax, family expenses and generosity to his kin. A public appeal raised more than £2500, sufficient to pay off his Stockton home and create a trust fund for his family. Professional boxing record Titles References Sources Pictures held and digitised as part of the Arnold Thomas boxing collection by the National Library of Australia Dave Sands, Empire and Australian Middleweight Champion and Tom Maguire, trainer British Empire title bout, Dave Sands, 11 st. 5 lb., K.O. Dick Turpin, 11 st. 3¾ lb., in the first round at Harringay Arena, England, 6 September 1949 Dave Sands (left), 11 st. 7¾ lb. v. Henry Brimm, 11 st. 5½ lb., at Rushcutter's Bay Stadium, 8 August 1950 External links 1926 births 1952 deaths Indigenous Australian boxers Middleweight boxers People from Kempsey, New South Wales Australian male boxers Road incident deaths in New South Wales Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit%20Phone

Spirit Phone

Spirit Phone is the seventh studio album by Lemon Demon, a musical project created by American musician Neil Cicierega. Released in 2016, the album was Lemon Demon's first full-length album in eight years. The album was released digitally through Bandcamp on February 29, 2016, and other streaming services the following day. On July 10, 2018, independent label Needlejuice Records announced vinyl, CD and cassette releases, which shipped on October 21, 2018. All tracks were written, performed and recorded by Neil Cicierega. The album's cover art was created by Cicierega's wife, comic book artist Ming Doyle. The song "Sweet Bod" features a guitar solo by Dave Kitsberg of Time Lord rock group Time Crash. The album received generally positive reception and was largely successful, with the track "Touch-Tone Telephone" being the second most played track on Spotify, with over 64 million streams, and surpassing "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny". History Shortly after the release of Lemon Demon's 2008 album View-Monster, Cicierega began work on the next Lemon Demon album which would be released eight years later as Spirit Phone. In July 2009, "Eighth Wonder", a song about the cryptid Gef, was made available as an mp3 download on lemondemon.com, followed by a music video for the song posted to his Youtube channel in November of that year. This release was nearly identical to the version heard on Spirit Phone. A demo produced during this time titled "Ivanushka" would later be adapted into Spirit Phone track "Touch-Tone Telephone". The original version was eventually released to Neil Cicierega's Patreon in January 2018. Between 2010 and 2016, Cicierega would tease more early versions of tracks that would eventually appear on Spirit Phone, released online as demos or performed live. In April 2012, an early version of "Reaganomics" was uploaded to Neil's second channel, along with a video accompaniment intended for live shows, edited from clips of Ronald Reagan in his final film role The Killers. "Reaganomics" would be performed live at the anime convention Youmacon 2012, along with early versions of "As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It", "Ancient Aliens", and "Cabinet Man". In July 2012, Cicierega posted two unused opening themes for the animated television series Gravity Falls to his Tumblr blog, elements of which would become Spirit Phone bonus tracks "Gravitron", and "Moon's Request" respectively (the latter being a remix of the original opening theme Cicierega made for Gravity Falls that removes any mentions of the show). In October 2014, "When He Died" was released on Patreon. The album was released digitally on February 29, 2016, followed by a remastered physical release on vinyl, CD, and cassette in October 2018 by Needlejuice Records, followed by 8-track and minidisc releases in 2019 and 2020. Reception Mashable included "Touch-Tone Telephone" and "Eighth Wonder" on their official 2019 Halloween playlist, calling "Touch-Tone Telephone" one of many "real gems". Cultured Vultures called the horror-themed Spirit Phone "one of the wildest pop albums of the year". The album was the best-selling album on Bandcamp for the first week of its release. "Cabinet Man", a song about a man who turns himself into a half-human arcade machine, would later inspire the indie game Neon Nemesis, featured at the 2019 Alt.Ctrl.GDC Exhibition. The game is played by up to four racers, against a fifth player, the "nemesis" who controls their character out of sight of the others, from inside the game cabinet itself. Track listing All tracks are written, performed and recorded by Neil Cicierega, except where noted. Bonus tracks The album also contains 13 bonus tracks; consisting of demos, cut songs, and additional music. The following is the track listing of the deluxe bonus CD. On digital services these tracks are arranged in alphabetical order and all subtitled "(Bonus Track)"; and "Sweet Bod (Demo)" is simply named "Sweet Bod". The vinyl and cassette releases contain the bonus tracks "Crisis Actors", "Redesign Your Logo", "Pizza Heroes", "You're at the Party" and "Angry People". The bonus track "Kubrick and the Beast" was added to the vinyl and cassette releases starting with 2022 pressings. All physical releases also include a download card for the full album, along with album commentary by Cicierega, except for the CD release which already has the full album and commentary. Personnel Musicians Neil Cicierega – vocals, instruments, programming, engineering, production Dave Kitsberg – electric guitar (track 6) Artwork Ming Doyle – cover artwork, picture disc artwork Production Mark Kramer – remastering (Needlejuice pressings 2018-2021) Angel Marcloid – remastering (Needlejuice pressings beginning in 2022) References External links Official website 2016 albums Neil Cicierega albums Synth-pop albums by American artists Needlejuice Records albums

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renville%20County%2C%20North%20Dakota

Renville County, North Dakota

Renville County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,282. Its county seat is Mohall. Renville County is part of the Minot, ND Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is located south of the Canada–United States border with Saskatchewan. History The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on January 4, 1873. It was named for Joseph Renville, an influential fur trader, interpreter, translator, and important figure in dealings between white men and the Sioux. The county was not organized at that time, nor was it attached to another county for administrative or judicial purposes. The proposed county boundaries were altered in 1883, in 1885, and 1887, and on November 8, 1892, the county was dissolved and absorbed into Bottineau and Ward counties due to a lack of settlement. The general election held November 3, 1908 included a question asking whether a portion of Ward County should be partitioned off and named Renville County (covering a different area than the original county). This question reportedly failed to pass, but it was promptly contested in court, resulting in a ruling by the state Supreme Court ruled on June 3, 1910, that the split should be carried out. The state governor proclaimed the result in a July 12 proclamation, and the county government was organized on July 20 of that year, with Mohall as the county seat. Geography Renville County lies on the north line of North Dakota; its north boundary line abuts the south boundary line of Canada. The Souris River flows southeasterly through the county on its way to Hudson Bay. The county terrain consists of rolling hills, largely devoted to agriculture. The terrain slopes to the south and east; its highest point is its SW corner, at ASL. The county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.8%) is water. Major highways U.S. Highway 52 U.S. Highway 83 North Dakota Highway 5 North Dakota Highway 28 Adjacent counties and rural municipalities Mount Pleasant No. 2, Saskatchewan - northwest Argyle No. 1, Saskatchewan - northeast Bottineau County - east McHenry County - southeast Ward County - south Burke County - west Protected areas Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge (part) Upper Souris Wildlife Refuge Lakes Lake Darling (part) Demographics 2020 census As of the census of 2020, there were 2,282 people. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 2,470 people, 1,061 households, and 685 families in the county. The population density was . There were 1,386 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 97.9% white, 0.4% American Indian, 0.2% Asian, 0.1% black or African American, 0.2% from other races, and 1.2% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 1.0% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 39.5% were German, 39.1% were Norwegian, 11.6% were Irish, 9.7% were English, 9.5% were Swedish, and 2.3% were American. Of the 1,061 households, 25.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.7% were married couples living together, 5.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 35.4% were non-families, and 30.9% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.85. The median age was 45.4 years. The median income for a household in the county was $49,583 and the median income for a family was $63,068. Males had a median income of $39,950 versus $25,469 for females. The per capita income for the county was $26,856. About 3.8% of families and 5.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.9% of those under age 18 and 9.6% of those age 65 or over. Population by decade Communities Cities Glenburn Grano Loraine Mohall (county seat) Sherwood Tolley Unincorporated communities Chola Greene Grover Norma Rockford White Ash Townships Brandon Callahan Clay Colquhoun Eden Valley Ensign Fairbanks Grassland Grover Hamerly Hamlet Hurley Ivanhoe Lockwood McKinney Muskego Plain Prescott Prosperity Rockford Roosevelt Stafford Van Buren White Ash Politics Renville County voters have voted Republican in every national election since 1976 (as of 2020). See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Renville County, North Dakota References External links Renville County official website Renville County North Dakota History website Renville County maps, Sheet 1 (northern) and Sheet 2 (southern), North Dakota DOT Minot, North Dakota micropolitan area 1910 establishments in North Dakota Populated places established in 1910

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20Warrior

Wolf Warrior

Wolf Warrior () is a 2015 Chinese war film written and directed by Wu Jing. It stars Wu Jing along with Scott Adkins, Yu Nan and Kevin Lee. It was released on 2 April 2015. A sequel, titled Wolf Warrior 2, was released in China in 2017 and became the all-time highest-grossing film in China. Plot In 2008, a combined task group of People's Liberation Army Special Operations Forces and Chinese police raid a drug smuggling operation in an abandoned chemical facility in southern China. The leader of the smuggling operation, Wu Ji, holds one of his own men hostage while taking cover behind a section of the facility's reinforced wall. Leng Feng, a skilled PLA sniper, ignores orders to stand down and fires three shots at a weak section of the wall, penetrating through on the third shot and killing Wu Ji. Leng Feng is sent to solitary confinement as punishment, but is approached by Long Xiaoyun, the female commander of the legendary 'Wolf Warriors', an elite unit within the PLA tasked with simulating foreign tactics for the PLA to train against. Long Xiaoyun offers Leng Feng a place in the Wolf Warriors. Meanwhile, in the Philippines, crime lord Min Deng, the older brother of Wu Ji, hires ex-US Navy SEAL “Tom Cat” (Scott Adkins) and his group to assassinate Leng Feng and avenge his brother. The Wolf Warriors participate in a training exercise in a remote and uninhabited forested region on China's southern border. During the exercise, Tom Cat and his mercenaries ambush a Wolf Warrior squad, killing one of Leng Feng's comrades. Subsequently, the PLA and the Wolf Warriors are tasked with hunting down Tom Cat‘s squad to restore their honor. The combined infantry force move into the forest but are delayed by multiple traps set by Tom Cat and pinned down by sniper fire until Leng Feng manages to kill the shooter. Afterwards, the rest of the PLA force engages Tom Cat's other mercenaries, who stage a fighting retreat but are eventually overwhelmed and killed one by one. Meanwhile, Long Xiaoyun and the other PLA commanders deduce that Ming Deng himself is also in the training area to take possession of a smuggled cache of biotechnology, which could allow the creation of a genetic weapon that could target Chinese people exclusively. Leng Feng eventually catches Tom Cat just before China's southern border. Leng Feng is nearly defeated, but manages to kill Tom Cat with his own knife. Medical personnel from a PLA relief force arrive, but Leng Feng recognises the wrist tattoo of the medic that approaches him and realizes that they are Min Deng's men in PLA uniforms. He attacks them, eventually holding Min Deng himself at bayonet point on the very edge of the Chinese border. Min Deng's paramilitary force approaches from the other side of the border, but so do the rest of the Wolf Warriors and PLA soldiers. Min Deng's force retreats, leaving him to be arrested. Cast Wu Jing as Leng Feng (), a marksman in the People's Liberation Army who was initially court martialled and reprimanded for failing to obey a direct order during an operation. He is later recruited into a Chinese Special Forces Unit called "War Wolf" after Long Xiaoyun takes an interest in him. Yu Nan as Lieutenant Colonel Long Xiaoyun (), Commander of the Chinese Special Forces Unit "War Wolf" Ni Dahong as Ming Deng, a drug lord who hires a group of foreign mercenaries to avenge his brother's death at the hands of Leng Feng. Scott Adkins as "Tom Cat," a former US Navy SEAL turned mercenary, who is hired by Meng Deng to kill Leng Feng Kevin Lee as "Mad Cow" Shi Zhaoqi Zhou Xiaoou Fang Zibin Guo Guangping Ru Ping Hong Wei Wang Sen Zhuang Xiaolong Chris Collins Production The script went through 14 drafts over seven years. In order to portray more realistic combat scenes, the movie used five missiles (each at a value of one million yuan), more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition, and a variety of Chinese active military aircraft, including the Chengdu J-10, Harbin Z-9, and CAIC Z-10. In one large battle scene, 32 active tanks appeared in the same shot, including a Type 96 tank. In order to prepare for the film, with the support of Chinese PLA Nanjing Military Region, Wu Jing trained for 18 months at a camp in Nanjing Military Region. On the first day of shooting, it was the hottest summer in Nanjing's history. The temperature was up to 49.8 °C, making 5 extra actors suffer from shock. Most of the film was made on location in Jiangsu province, at sites including Nanjing and Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. Box office As of 25 May 2015, it has earned US$89.11 million in China. In China, it opened on 2 April 2015, earning US$33.32 million in its 4-day opening weekend topping the Chinese box office. In its second weekend, it fell to number two, earning US$36.19 million (behind Furious 7). Critical response The film had an overall rating of 6.8 on the Chinese review site Douban as of August 2017. Variety magazine wrote: "To a layperson's eyes, the military exercise does look authentic, and the cross-country skirmishes are ruggedly watchable on an acrobatic level. Yet it's impossible to overlook the inanity of the plotting". Awards International influence Wolf Warrior and its sequel, Wolf Warrior 2, are the namesake of China's aggressive 'wolf warrior diplomacy' under Xi Jinping's administration. References External links Wolf Warrior at Douban (in Chinese) 2015 3D films 2015 action thriller films 2010s war films Chinese 3D films Chinese action thriller films Chinese war films Films about military personnel Films about the People's Liberation Army 2010s Mandarin-language films 2010s English-language films Films shot in Nanjing Films directed by Wu Jing (actor) Works about Chinese military personnel

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Shor

Dan Shor

Daniel Shor (born November 16, 1956) is an American actor, director, writer, and acting teacher with a career spanning over 40 years. His most recognized roles include Enoch Emery in John Huston's Wise Blood (1979), Ram in Tron (1982), and Billy the Kid in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). Early life Shor was born and raised in New York City. He attended McBurney School from the 6th through the 8th grade. His mother, an actress, died when he was 14. He graduated from Elisabeth Irwin High School (June 1974) and began at Northwestern University that fall. He returned to New York, where he landed the lead role of Alan Strang in the first national company of Equus. Acting Shor's studies continued at the Davis Center for Performing Arts at the City College of New York and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in England. While in London, he appeared with Nigel Planer in Ann Jellicoe's punk rock musical play The Sport Of My Mad Mad Mother at The Roundabout Theater. After leaving London for Los Angeles (due to his casting in the title role in the ABC mini-series Studs Lonigan), he produced and reprised his role in his own version of Jellicoe's play, changing the setting from London to New York. Three months later, the set from the production was used in Billy Idol's classic music video for the song "Dancing With Myself". Shor's acting credits include Air Force One, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Tron, Red Rock West, and John Huston's Wise Blood. Television films and mini-series include Friendly Fire, Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story and The Blue and the Gray (for which Shor won a People's Choice Award). He was a series regular on Cagney and Lacey and several other television series as well as numerous guest star appearances including a Ferengi doctor on Star Trek: The Next Generation, a role he reprised seven years later on Star Trek: Voyager. In 1983, he starred in the band Kansas' music video "Fight Fire with Fire" and made appearances in their "Everybody's My Friend" video. Shor's stage performances in Los Angeles and San Diego have brought him eight Drama-Logue and LA Weekly performance awards. Shor recently returned to the continental U.S. after living and working in the Northern Mariana Islands of the Western Pacific since 2003. In addition to running his production company, ShodaVision, he remains active in New York theater and was recently involved (as an actor) with the experimental conversational play "Outpost". He has continued with stage work at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. Writing, directing In 1995, Shor directed for the LA Diversified Theater Company, a multi-cultural theater alliance. He directed the Ovation Award winning production of He Who Gets Slapped starring Bud Cort at the Hudson Theater, as well as productions at the LA Theater Center, Company of Angels, Court, Zephyr, Two Roads and LA Jewish theaters. His productions have received more than 30 Dramalogue, Ovation and LA Weekly awards. Shor's credits include two screenplays co-written with Czech film director Jiri Weiss. Shor has worked in videos and shows including "Life On Film: Rock", "Ecomaniacs", "State of Liberty", "Fish Out of Water" and over 30 short videos for the Saipan and Guam Visitors Channels. His recent work includes Bigfoot Entertainment and Fashion TV's reality show Screen Test. He has also taught acting at the International Academy of Film and Television in Cebu, Philippines. Filmography Acting 1979 Friendly Fire (TV Movie) as Unknown 1979 Wise Blood as Enoch Emory 1980 If Things Were Different (TV Movie) as Eric 1981 Back Roads as Spivey 1981 Strange Behavior as Pete Brady 1982 Tron as Roy Kleinberg / Ram 1983 Strange Invaders as Teen Boy (Prologue) 1983 Strangers Kiss as Farris, The Producer 1983 This Girl for Hire (TV Movie) as Punk 1984 Talk to Me as Julian Howard 1984 My Mother's Secret Life (TV Movie) as Jack Camaras 1984 Mike's Murder as Richard 1986 Mesmerized as George 1986 Black Moon Rising as Billy Lyons 1988 Daddy's Boys as 'Hawk' 1989 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure as Billy The Kid 1990 Solar Crisis as Harvard 1990 Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College as Professor 1993 Doppelganger as Stanley White 1993 Red Rock West as Deputy Bowman 1997 Air Force One as Notre Dame Aide 1999 Night Train as Jones 2004 Wild Roomies as Bartender 2009 Passing Strangers (Short) as Photographer 2011 Tron: The Next Day (Short) as Roy Kleinberg / Ram 2017 Crown Heights as District Attorney Snyder Directing 2011 My Angel My Hero Television Directing Journeys (2003) State of Liberty (2007) Acting Once Upon a Classic episode, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1978) - Clarence / Sir Paragraph Studs Lonigan (1979) - Young Studs A Rumor of War (1980) (Step One) (Knots Landing TV Series) (1980) - Manhole The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980, TV Movie) - Art Collins The Blue and the Gray (1982) - Luke Geyser Cagney & Lacey (1985-1986) - Det. Jonah Newman Murder, She Wrote (1988) - Pierce Beauty and the Beast (1989) - Bernie Spirko thirtysomething (1989) - Kit Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989) - Dr. Arridor Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story (1993, TV Movie) - Jass Star Trek: Voyager (1996) - Arridor Judging Amy (2000) - D.A. Daniel Boyd The X Files (2002) - 2nd ER Nurse References External links June 2003 Tron-Sector Q&A with Dan Shor (RAM) ShodaVision Official Site Article concerning Shor's production company in Saipan "Principal photography wraps up on State" Times Square Article: "Dan Shor is Cool as Hell" 1956 births Living people Male actors from New York City American male film actors American male television actors Northern Mariana Islands culture Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art McBurney School alumni Little Red School House alumni

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RatSat

RatSat or DemoSat was an aluminum mass simulator on the fourth flight of the Falcon 1 rocket, launched on 28 September 2008. Ratsat remained bolted to the second stage of the carrier rocket after reaching low Earth orbit. It is an aluminium alloy chamber in hexagonal prism shape with 1.5 m (5 ft) length. The Falcon 1 launch that carried Ratsat to orbit was the first successful orbital launch of any privately funded and developed, liquid-propellant carrier rocket, the SpaceX Falcon 1, something only six nations had successfully accomplished previously. The launch, identified as Falcon 1 Flight 4, was conducted by SpaceX, and also marked the first time the Falcon 1 rocket successfully achieved orbit, after three consecutive failures on the three previous launch attempts. Background Three consecutive flights of the Falcon 1 rocket had ended in failure. In particular, during the third launch of the Falcon 1 in August 2008, the first stage of the rocket after stage separation have residual thrust and slammed into its second stage, resulting in catastrophic damage to the second stage's Kestrel engine. Though the fix for the problem is simple – add a time delay between main engine cut off and stage separation – SpaceX was running out of money and there was much uncertainty that there will be a fourth flight for the company. As for SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk, he was in immense stress financially and personally, as both of his ventures, SpaceX and Tesla Inc., were at risk of bankruptcy due to a series of failures. He was also recently divorced with Justine Musk which after property settlement made him homeless, and also lost their first son due to SIDS. Preparation Shipping to Omelek Right after the third launch failure, Musk made an encouraging speech for the SpaceX employees and told them to launch another rocket in six weeks. According to Musk, this tight schedule was necessary or else the company would be in bankruptcy. The rocket was built out of spare parts laying around in the factory. The fourth launch of the Falcon 1 was supposed to deliver the Malaysian government's RazakSAT satellite, but the Malaysian government has backed out and no other customer was willing to launch on a thrice-failed rocket. Therefore, the SpaceX team had to make a non-functional aluminum boilerplate to simulate the rocket's payload. The boilerplate weighed and named "RatSat" after the last names of Jeff Richichi, Ray Amador and Chris Thompson, who were part of the company's structures team. The design for RatSat's logo was inspired by Ed Roth t-shirts, whom Thompson admired. Normally, Falcon 1's first stage would be shipped by a container to Omelek Island, Kwajalein Atoll, U.S. (where SpaceX launched the rocket) and Falcon 1's second stage would fly out to the island using the Douglas DC-8 aircraft. The first stage was too big to be flown out using a DC-8. However, the tight schedule mandated the first stage to be shipped over air, so after scrambling with military contacts, a SpaceX employee was able to book a flight on the U.S. Air Force's Boeing C-17 Globemaster III with a price of $500,000. Being much larger than the DC-8, the C-17 can easily fit the rocket's first stage (which its dry mass weighs compared to the C-17 carrying capacity of ) and twenty supporting employees.On 3 September, the C-17 landed at the Los Angeles International Airport near SpaceX's headquarters, loaded up, and took off without issues. An intentional small opening in the Falcon 1's oxygen tank fuel pressurization line was made to equalize the rocket's internal pressure with the surroundings. This approach worked well enough for the rocket tanks to slowly release its pressure while the plane was ascending. However, when it was time for the plane to descend to Hawaii and the cabin depressurized, the small opening did not allow air to pass into the rocket tanks fast enough. Thus, the Falcon 1 imploded, right next to the supporting crew. Had the SpaceX crews were not onboard the flight, the Falcon 1 would be ditched to the sea. With only 30 minutes of fuel left and the rocket continued to crumble, the crew cut the shrink wraps with their knives and took the wrench in the toolbox. One of the crews crawled inside the Falcon 1's interstage (piece that connects the first and second stage of the rocket) with the wrench and detached a pressurization line inside, allowing air to pass inside. The crumbling oxygen tank was inflated back to shape, though it had sustained damages to its structure. The C-17 landed at the Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii at midnight; the SpaceX crews slept here because they forgot to book a proper resting location. The next morning, the crews and rocket took off from Hawaii and landed on an airstrip in the Kwajalein Atoll. A barge then carried the first stage of the rocket to the Omelek Island. Rocket fixes and tests Using a borescope, a slosh baffle was found detached from the tank body, and it was clear that the Falcon 1 needed a total disassembly. A 'proper' six-weeks long fixing procedure was proposed, but it was promptly rejected because by then, SpaceX would not have any funds and would be bankrupted. Another solution suggesting shipping back the rocket to the headquarters was also not viable for the same reason. The only viable option was to disassemble the rocket on the island itself, within one week. As the engineers were working on the rocket, a crew sen The Falcon 1 rocket was successfully test-fired on 20 September. Launch preparations on 23 September led the ground crew to replace part of a pipeline supplying liquid oxygen to the second stage Kestrel engine. This work delayed the launch to 28 September. Launch The launch occurred from Omelek Island, part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Liftoff occurred at 23:15 UTC on 28 September, 15 minutes into a five-hour launch window. If the launch had been scrubbed, it could have been conducted during the same window until 1 October. Nine minutes and 31 seconds after launch, the second stage engine shut down, after the vehicle reached orbit. The initial orbit was reported to be approximately . Following a coast period, the second stage restarted, and performed a successful second burn, resulting in a final orbit of at 9.35° inclination. It was Falcon 1's first successful launch, and the first successful orbital launch of any privately funded and developed, liquid-propellant carrier rocket. The rocket followed the same trajectory as the previous flight, which had failed to place the Trailblazer, NanoSail-D, PRESat and Celestis Explorers spacecraft into orbit. No major changes were made to the rocket, other than increasing the time between first stage burnout and second stage separation. This minor change addressed the failure seen on the previous flight, recontact between the first and second stages, by dissipating residual thrust in the enhanced first stage engine in vacuum before separation. Although SpaceX was working on concepts to recover the first stage of Falcon 1 launch vehicles, as of this launch, they had not yet succeeded in doing so. Stage recovery was a non-primary goal of the early flights. SpaceX utilized an incremental development process to iterate the design issues of booster stage recovery. CEO Elon Musk stated that the probability of a successful recovery would increase with subsequent flights, however the Falcon 1 was subsequently retired from service after its fifth launch, with first stage recovery never having been accomplished successfully. The first stage of the successor rocket, the Falcon 9, became reusable. See also 2008 in spaceflight References Further reading Photo section, page i-1 – i-16, at Spacecraft launched by Falcon rockets Derelict satellites orbiting Earth Spacecraft launched in 2008 Test spaceflights

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A. J. Sass

Andrew "A. J." Sass is an American author of children's and young adult fiction, best known for his middle grade contemporary novel, Ana on the Edge, and his Time op-ed discussing transgender and non-binary character representation in youth literature. Personal life Sass grew up in the Midwestern and Southern United States and began training in figure skating as a child. He passed his U.S. Figure Skating Senior Moves in the Field test while in law school, then worked as a technical writer and legal editor while writing creatively on the side. His debut middle grade novel, Ana on the Edge, was purchased by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. At the age of 33, Sass passed the U.S. Figure Skating Senior Free Skate test, then went on to compete as a member of the Masters synchronized skating team, IceSymmetrics. IceSymmetrics won the bronze medal at the 2018 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships and the silver medal at the 2019 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships. Sass also holds test judge appointments with U.S. Figure Skating in Gold Singles and Bronze Ice Dance. Sass is Jewish and autistic. He describes himself as gay, transmasculine and non-binary, and uses he/him and they/them pronouns. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Selected works Ana on the Edge Sass' debut novel follows twelve-year-old Ana-Marie Jin, the reigning U.S. Juvenile figure skating champion, as Ana navigates old and new friendships, the financial hardships of elite figure skating, and a newly discovered non-binary gender identity. It was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers on October 20, 2020, and received a starred review from Booklist. Ana on the Edge went on to be named a Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2020 selection, an American Library Association 2021 Rainbow List Top 10 for Young Readers title, a selection in the Chicago Review of Books Notable List of Debut Books by Trans, Non-binary, and Gender Non-conforming Authors, and was named to the New York Public Library's "Favorite Trans, Nonbinary, and GNC Titles of 2020. It also received a favorable review in The New York Times Book Review. Ellen Outside the Lines Sass' second novel features Ellen Katz, an autistic thirteen-year-old, who is attempting to regain a long-time friendship on a class trip to Barcelona, Spain. It explores Spanish and Catalan culture, as well as queer and Jewish identity. Ellen Outside the Lines released on March 22, 2022, from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Camp QUILTBAG* Co-authored with Nicole Melleby, Camp QUILTBAG* is a story about twelve-year-old Abigail Rabb and thirteen-year-old Kai Lindquist, who are attending a summer camp for queer youth for vastly different reasons. They make a pact to help themselves settle in at camp, all while navigating their queer identities and a competition pitting cabin against cabin. It is scheduled to be released by Algonquin Young Readers in spring 2023. Bibliography Novels Ana on the Edge (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2020) Ellen Outside the Lines (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2022) Camp QUILTBAG* (Algonquin Young Readers, 2023; co-authored with Nicole Melleby) Essays "This Is What It Feels Like" in Allies: Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again (DK/Penguin Random House, 2021) Short stories "Balancing Acts" in This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2021) Op eds "I'm a Nonbinary Writer of Youth Literature. J.K. Rowling's Comments on Gender Identity Reinforced My Commitment to Better Representation" (Time, 2020) References American children's writers LGBT figure skaters Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American LGBT people 21st-century American writers American non-binary writers American gay writers People on the autism spectrum Gay Jews Transgender Jews Jewish American novelists American writers with disabilities

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Relax (Deetah song)

"Relax" is a song by Chilean-Swedish singer-songwriter Deetah, co-written by Deetah and Anders Bagge. The song contains a prominent sample of "Why Worry" by British rock band Dire Straits, so Mark Knopfler also received a writing credit. Produced by Bagge and Bloodshy, "Relax" was included on Deetah's first studio album, Deadly Cha Cha (1999), and was released through FFRR Records as her debut single on 14 September 1998. Upon its release, the song became a top-20 hit in Iceland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. In the UK, it entered the top 10 on both the Scottish Singles Chart and the UK R&B Singles Chart. Background and release "Relax" was written by Anders Bagge and Deetah under her real name, Claudia Ogalde. The track's composition heavily samples the Dire Straits' 1985 song "Why Worry", so Mark Knopfler is also credited as a writer. Bagge, as "Bag", produced the song alongside Swedish DJ Bloodshy. Additional personnel who worked on the song include Mark "Spike" Stent, who mixed the track, and Arnthor, who engineered it. FFRR Records issued "Relax" as a single in the United Kingdom on 14 September 1998 across various formats. These releases contain "Take Mines" and various remixes of "Relax" as B-sides. CD singles were also issued in Sweden, Germany, South Africa, and Australasia. The song was included as the fourth track on Deetah's 1999 debut album, Deadly Cha Cha, and also appeared on the soundtrack to the 1998 slasher film I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Critical reception Before the song's release, British trade paper Music Week reviewed "Relax" on 29 August 1998, giving the song a "side-thumb" rating and noting that the "Why Worry" sample caused an "ill effect". Ziad from Record Mirror gave a positive review for the song's Bump 'n' Flex and M-Dub remixes, calling them "excellent" and giving them a five-out-of-five rating. British columnist James Masterton wrote that the song is a "great example of commercial garage with enough hooks to help it cross over to a pop audience", retrospectively calling its "Why Worry" sample "groundbreaking". Chart performance "Relax" debuted at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart on the week beginning 20 September 1998, which would become its peak. It is Deetah's highest- and longest-charting UK single, spending eight weeks in the top 100. On the Scottish Singles Chart, the single entered the top 10, peaking at number 10 on 4 October. It was also a top-10 hit on the UK R&B Singles Chart, reaching number four for two weeks. The single's UK sales alone registered on the Eurochart Hot 100, where it debuted and peaked at number 47 on the chart dated 3 October. Outside the UK, "Relax" became a top-20 hit in Sweden and Iceland. In Sweden, it debuted at number 39 on the Hitlistan chart on 15 October 1998. Over the next three weeks, the song rose and fell within the top 30, then it jumped to its peak of number 20 on 12 November, becoming Deetah's first of three top-50 hits in Sweden. It remained on the ranking for five more weeks, logging 10 weeks in the top 60 altogether. On Iceland's Íslenski Listinn Topp 40 chart, "Relax" first appeared at number 37 on 9 October 1998. The following week, it rose to its peak of number 13, where it spent two weeks. It remained on the listing for five weeks in total, making its last appearance on 6 November. Track listings Swedish CD single "Relax" – 3:48 "Relax" (Blacksmith R&B rub—12-inch mix) – 5:11 German and South African CD single "Relax" "Relax" (Blacksmith R&B rub—radio mix) "Relax" (Stargate remix) "Relax" (Bloodshy remix) "Relax" (Blacksmith club mix) UK 12-inch single 1 A1. "Relax" – 3:48 A2. "Relax" (Bump 'n' Flex mix) – 5:17 B1. "Relax" (Blacksmith R&B rub—12-inch mix) – 5:11 B2. "Relax" (Blacksmith club mix) – 5:37 UK 12-inch single 2 A. "Relax" (Bump 'n' Flex Full Flava Groove) B. "Relax" (M-Dub Breakbeat mix) UK CD1 and Australasian CD single "Relax" – 3:48 "Relax" (Blacksmith R&B rub—radio mix) – 4:50 "Take Mines" – 3:34 UK CD2 "Relax" – 3:48 "Relax" (Bump 'n' Flex mix) – 5:17 "Relax" (Blacksmith club mix) – 5:37 UK cassette single "Relax" – 3:48 "Take Mines" – 3:34 Charts References 1998 songs 1998 debut singles FFRR Records singles Songs written by Anders Bagge Songs written by Mark Knopfler UK garage songs

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Fukche

Fukche Advanced Landing Ground is an airfield in the Demchok sector of the union territory of Ladakh, India. It was built shortly before the 1962 Sino-Indian War and was revived in 2008. It is located adjacent to Koyul, 34 km northwest of Demchok. Location The Fukche Landing Ground is in the Koyul Lungpa river valley, close to the confluence of the river with the Indus River (called "Sengge Zangbo" locally). The Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, which runs along the Indus River, is only 2.5 kilometres away. Beyond the LAC is Chinese-controlled Demchok sector up to the Chang La pass (also called Xingong La). There is a regular highway from Fukche to Dungti and beyond (leading to Leh and Chushul), and an unmetalled road to Demchok, 34 km southeast at the southern tip of the Indian-controlled Demchok sector. China runs a "Sengge Zangbo highway" adjacent to the LAC and a "Kigunaru highway" going to Chang La and beyond. History The landing ground was first prepared in 1961 in advance of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. It was the sixth such landing ground to be prepared in Ladakh, starting with Leh in 1948 (which was in the midst of the First Kashmir War). According to a retired Army officer, "The Landing Grounds were built on grounds that were hard, barren and sandwiched between almost a range of parallel running mountains. At most places it was a question of removing boulders, filling potholes and generally leveling the ground. The good old infantry equipment of a pick axe, shovel and crow bar came in very handy." After the 1962 Sino-Indian war, the airstrip fell out of use. It was reopened on 4 November 2008 by the Indian Air Force, when an AN-32 transport aircraft was successfully landed there. The reactivation of the landing ground, along with another reactivation of the Daulat Beg Oldi airstrip earlier in May of the same year, allows Indian forces to deploy faster and in greater numbers, which China is believed to have taken as a threat. During the 2013 Depsang standoff, China demanded the bunkers being constructed at Fukche be stopped. But the Indians pointed out the constant upgrading of the Chinese infrastructure on their side of the LAC. In the end, the Chinese disengaged at Despang without insisting on concessions regarding Fukche. Facilities The airfield has an unpaved gravelly runway of 2 miles length. It accommodates small transport aircraft, meant for inducting or recycling troops at the border. Road connectivity "Chushul-Dungti-Fukche-Demchok Highway" (CDFD road), along the southern bank of Indus river which marks the LAC, will be converted to a single-lane 7.45 m wide 135 km long national highway with paved shoulder by 31 March 2025. Chushul and Fukche Airstrips lie along this highway. It will also provide faster access to the Nyoma airbase. "Likaru-Mig La-Fukche Road" (LMLF Road), through 19,400 ft Mig La, commencement of construction was announced by the BRO on 15th August 2023. After the completion, it will overtake the "Chisumle-Demchok Road" (via Umling La, 19,300 ft) to become the highest motorable road in the world. Road via Umling La already passes at a height higher than the base camp of world's tallest mountain, the Mount Everest. See also List of Indian ALGs India-China military deployment on LAC India-China Border Roads References Bibliography Further reading Air Marshal K. K. Nohwar, Pace of Infrastructure Development in Border Areas: Adequate?, Centre for Air Power Studies, 13 March 2018 External links IAF's ALG Indian Air Force bases Buildings and structures in Ladakh Transport in Leh

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabralism

Cabralism

Cabralism is the period from 1842 to 1846 when António Bernardo da Costa Cabral dominated Portuguese politics. Cabralism was characterized by the adoption of the constitutional doctrine contained in the restored Constitutional Charter of 1826, which was taken as a dogma to be scrupulously respected, thus creating a stable framework that was exploited by the government. The government was characterized by being a strong executive, decisively supported by the royal powers enshrined in the Charter, especially the reserve power vested in the sovereign. History With the express support of Queen Maria II, of whom Costa Cabral was considered a valedictorian, the government's parliamentary front was secured by an obedient majority, congregated in an exclusivist party and committed to maintaining, against the onslaughts of the left and the remnants of Miguelism, the order deemed necessary for the country's development. One of the first reforms of Cabralism was administrative centralization, approving the Administrative Code of 1842. This was followed by the reform of Portugal's National Guards, one of the previous factors of instability, the resumption of relations with the Holy See and the control of foreign debt and the government deficit. Cabralism attempted to launch an ambitious public works program, creating public-private partnerships with the creation of state creditor companies. On the social front, it legislated on public education and health, trying to modernize these sectors. Having to take out a loan of 2400 escudos, an astronomical sum at the time, he was forced into a tax reform aimed at increasing state revenue, which began a rapid process of erosion of the popular support base for the government. In a clear show of favor, Queen Maria II appointed Costa Cabral an effective Councillor of State (1843), a Peer of the Realm (1844) and elevated him to Count of Tomar (1845), for two lives. However, the rapid enrichment of Costa Cabral, who, from the position of a modest lawyer, in a few years became the holder of a considerable fortune, which included a palace capable of hosting the Queen, as well as the nepotism of which he was accused, since his brother José Bernardo da Silva Cabral, also made 1st Count of Tomar, was also accused of nepotism. Silva Cabral, who also became the 1st Count of Cabral, was one of the government's supporters (hence the name government of the Cabral), making Costa Cabral a figure hated by vast swathes of the population. When his other brother and his father also entered parliament, accusations of nepotism, clientelism and concussion in public tenders grew. When, in January 1846, the unstoppable increase in public spending and the consequent state deficit led to the state's credit being cut off, making bankruptcy imminent, Cabralism fell into agony. Thus, despite having completed the legislature, and having been the first government of Portuguese liberalism to achieve this feat, popular discontent was such that the slightest agitation threatened to result in an uprising. This is what happened in the spring of 1846 with the Maria da Fonte Revolution. The end of Cabralism Faced with the spread of the popular uprising, the Queen was forced to dismiss Costa Cabral, who went into exile to Madrid. That was the end of Cabralism. Despite all its shortcomings and corruption, in the end Cabralism was a necessary stage in Portuguese liberalism. Costa Cabral consolidated the liberal state, based on strong centralization and a complex bureaucracy. Based on the army, freemasonry, of which Costa Cabral was Grand Master of the Lusitanian Grand Orient, and clientele who benefited from the economic and financial policy, based on public works and development, Cabralism laid the foundations of the current Portuguese state, and many of its features have survived to the present day. References Bibliography Bonifácio, Maria de Fátima, História da Guerra Civil da Patuleia 1846-1847, Editorial Estampa, Lisboa, 1993 (ISBN 9723309270) Capela, José Viriato; Borralheiro, Rogério, A Revolução do Minho de 1846 e as reformas da administração. In: CONGRESSO DA MARIA DA FONTE, 150 ANOS, Póvoa de Lanhoso, 1996, História da Coragem Feita com Coração: Actas. Póvoa de Lanhoso, Câmara Municipal, 1996, pp. 169–184. Castelo Branco, Camilo, Maria da Fonte, Lisboa, Ulmeiro, 1986 (Com prefácio de Hélia Correia. Desta obra existem múltiplas edições). Coelho, José Abílio, Algumas notas sobre a revolução das mulheres de Fontarcada. In: CONGRESSO DA MARIA DA FONTE, 150 ANOS, Póvoa de Lanhoso, 1996, História da Coragem Feita com Coração: Actas. Póvoa de Lanhoso, Câmara Municipal, 1996, pp. 263–269. Gomes, João Augusto Marques, História da Revolução da Maria da Fonte, na colecção Biblioteca do Povo e das Escolas, (n.º 167), Lisboa. Vieira, Casimiro José, Apontamentos para a história da Revolução do Minho em 1846 ou da Maria da Fonte, Braga, Typographia Lusitana, 1883; Lisboa, Rolim, 1987 (edição facsimile da edição de 1883 com prefácio de José Manuel Sobral). Manuel Joaquim Pinheiro Chagas e José Barbosa Colen (editores), Historia de Portugal popular e illustrada, Lisboa, 1899-1909; Maria Filomena Mónica (coordenadora), Dicionário Biográfico Parlamentar (1834-1910) (volume I, pp. 491–494), Assembleia da República, Lisboa, 2005; M. M. T. Ribeiro, A restauração da Carta Constitucional: cabralismo e anticabralismo, in L. R. Torgal e J. L. Roque (editores), História de Portugal (5.º volume, pp. 107–119), Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1993; Albano da Silveira Pinto e Augusto Romano Sanches de Baena (1.º visconde de Sanches de Baena), Resenha das Famílias Titulares e Grandes de Portugal, volume II, pp. 653 e seguintes. External links Descrição do Cabralismo em CEPP-ISCSP O cabralismo no Portal da História O Cabralismo no Semiramis (arquive) O Cabralismo Biografia da Maria da Fonte A reforma educativa do Cabralismo See also António Bernardo da Costa Cabral José Bernardo da Silva Cabral Maria da Fonte Revolution Setembrismo September Revolution

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Prix de l'essai

The Prix de l'essai is an annual French essay prize awarded by the Académie française. It was created in 1971 by the Fondation Broquette-Gonin. It is awarded for an individual essay or for the collected works of an essayist. The prize sum was 1000 euros in 2015. Laureates The following have received the prize: 1971: Roger Judrin, Journal d'une monade et autres essais. 1972: Paul Veyne, Writing History (Comment on écrit l'histoire). 1973: Marthe Robert, Origins of the Novel (Roman des origines et origines du roman). 1974: Étiemble, Essais de littérature (vraiment) générale. 1975: Jules Monnerot, Inquisitions. 1976: Pierre Flottes, Histoire de la poésie politique et sociale en France de 1815 à 1939. 1977: André Glucksmann, The Master Thinkers (Les Maîtres penseurs). 1978: Alain de Benoist, Vu de droite. Anthologie critique des idées contemporaines. 1979: Georges Elgozy, De l'humour. 1980: Bertrand d'Astorg, Les noces orientales. 1981: Alain Besançon, Ensemble de son œuvre. 1982: Pierre Andreu, Vie et mort de Max Jacob. 1983: François George, Histoire personnelle de la France. 1984: Myriam Cendrars, Blaise Cendrars. 1985: Jean-Marie Rouart, Ils ont choisi la nuit. 1986: René Pomeau, D'Arouet à Voltaire. 1987: Paule Constant, Un monde à l'usage des demoiselles. 1988: Claude Arnaud, Chamfort, a Biography (Chamfort). 1989: Pierre Assouline, Albert Londres, vie et mort d'un grand reporter. 1990: Jean Cazeneuve, Les Hasards d'une vie, Des Primitifs aux téléspectateurs. 1991: Luc Fraisse, L'Œuvre cathédrale, Proust et l'architecture médiévale. 1992: Marc Fumaroli, L'État culturel, essai sur une religion moderne. 1993: Alain Etchegoyen, La Démocratie malade du mensonge. 1994: Richard Millet, Le Sentiment de la langue. 1995: Alain Duhamel, La Politique imaginaire. 1995: Claude Imbert, Par Bonheur. 1996: Éric Roussel, Jean Monnet. 1997: Alain-Gérard Slama, La Régression démocratique. 1998: Mona Ozouf, La Muse démocratique. Henry James ou les pouvoirs du roman. 1999: Philippe Berthier, La Vie quotidienne dans la Comédie humaine de Balzac. 2000: Florence Delay, Dit Nerval. 2001: Belinda Cannone, L'Écriture du désir. 2002: Pierre Schneider, Petite Histoire de l'infini en peinture. 2003: Jean Clair, Court Traité des sensations, et Du surréalisme considéré dans ses rapports au totalitarisme et aux tables tournantes. 2004: Pierre Lepape, Le Pays de la Littérature. 2005: Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, Les Traites négrières. 2006: Charles Dantzig, Dictionnaire égoïste de la littérature française. 2007: Philippe Barthelet, Baraliptons. 2008: Claude Delay, Giacometti, Alberto et Diego. L'histoire cachée. 2009: André Tubeuf, Ludwig van Beethoven. 2010: Alain Finkielkraut, Un cœur intelligent. 2011: Marie-Claude Chaudonneret and Sébastien Allard, Le Suicide de Gros. 2012: Alain Bonfand, Le Cinéma d'Akira Kurosawa and for his collected works as an essayist. 2013: Jacques de Saint Victor, Un pouvoir invisible. Les mafias et la société démocratique (XIXe–XXIe siècle). 2014: Chantal Thomas, Un air de liberté. Variations sur l'esprit du XVIIIe siècle et l'ensemble de ses écrits sur le XVIIIe siècle 2015: Christiane Rancé, La Passion de Thérèse d'Avila 2016: Alain de Vulpian, Éloge de la métamorphose 2016: Francis Kaplan, complete works 2017: Jacques Henric, Boxe 2018: Georges Corm, La Nouvelle Question d’Orient References 1971 establishments in France Awards established in 1971 Essay awards French literary awards Académie Française awards

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Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion is the second novel by American author Ken Kesey, published in 1964. While One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is more famous, many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey's magnum opus. The story involves an Oregon family of gyppo loggers who cut trees for a local mill in opposition to unionized workers who are on strike. Kesey took the title from the song "Goodnight, Irene", popularized by Lead Belly. Sometimes I lives in the country Sometimes I lives in the town Sometimes I haves a great notion To jump into the river an' drown Plot The story centers on the Stamper family, a hard-headed logging clan in the coastal town of Wakonda, on the Oregon coast, in the early 1960s. The union loggers in Wakonda go on strike to demand the same pay for shorter hours in response to the decreasing need for labor. The Stampers, however, own and operate a small family business independent of the unions and decide to continue working to supply the regionally owned mill with all the timber the laborers would have supplied had the strike not occurred. The rest of the town is outraged. This decision and its surrounding details are examined alongside the complex histories, relationships, and rivalries of the members of the Stamper family: Henry Stamper, the elderly, politically and socially conservative patriarch of the family, whose motto "Never Give a Inch!" has defined the nature of the family and its dynamic with the rest of the town; Hank, the older son of Henry, whose indefatigable will and stubborn personality make him a natural leader but whose subtle insecurities threaten the stability of his family; Leland, the younger son of Henry and half-brother of Hank, who as a child left Wakonda for the East Coast with his mother, but whose eccentric behavior and desire for revenge against Hank lead him back to Oregon when his mother dies; and Viv, whose love for her husband Hank fades as she realizes her subordinate place in the Stamper household. The Stamper house itself, on an isolated bank of the Wakonda Auga River, manifests the physical obstinacy of the Stamper family. As the nearby river slowly widens and erodes the surrounding land, all the other houses on the river have either been consumed or wrecked by the waters or been rebuilt further from the bank, except the Stamper house, which stands on a precarious peninsula struggling to maintain every inch of land with the help of an arsenal of boards, sandbags, cables, and other miscellaneous items brandished by Henry Stamper in his fight against the encroaching river. Reception In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe, who had traveled with Kesey and his companions on the bus Furthur, noted that initial reviews of the book varied widely. Commenting in the Saturday Review in a 1964 piece entitled "Beatnik in Lumberjack Country", critic Granville Hicks wrote: "In his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey demonstrated that he was a forceful, inventive and ambitious writer. All of these qualities are exhibited, in even higher degree, in Sometimes a Great Notion. Here he has told a fascinating story in a fascinating way." Also in the Saturday Review, John Barkham wrote: "A novelist of unusual talent and imagination ... a huge, turbulent tale ..." In Wolfe's old paper, the New York Herald Tribune, Maurice Dolbier wrote: "In the fiction wilderness, this is a towering redwood." In his introduction to the Penguin edition, Charles Bowden called it "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." In 1997, a panel of writers from the Pacific Northwest voted it number one in a list of "12 Essential Northwest Works". One critic described it as "...what may well be the quintessential Northwest novel". Wolfe and others compared it to William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! in both form and content. Wolfe also noted, however, that Time characterized it as "a big novel—but that it was overwritten and had failed." Adaptations In 1970, the novel was adapted into a film, which was retitled Never Give an Inch for television. The film was directed by Paul Newman, who starred alongside Henry Fonda. It was nominated for two Oscars. A stage adaptation, written and directed by Aaron Posner, premiered in Portland, Oregon, at Portland Center Stage on April 4, 2008. References Citations General and cited sources 1964 American novels American novels adapted into films American novels adapted into plays Novels set in forests Novels set in Oregon Viking Press books Works by Ken Kesey

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Corte de' Frati

Corte de' Frati (Cremunés: ) is a municipality (comune) in the province of Cremona, in the Lombardy Italian region. History The main history of Corte de' Frati is related to the establishment of the Court of Alfiano. In fact, the original name of the municipality was Court of Alfiano, a name referring to a patrician family who owned these lands. 10th century After the extinction of the Carolingian and the Saxon dynasty, the 10th century was the era of castles and fortress, and the population had to face wars provoked by the Counts. From 950 to 1000, the Bresciani and Cremonesi Counts fought among the lands of the river Oglio, near Bordolano and Canneto, because the Bresciani imposed taxes on the Cremonesi's lands. During this period, the castle of Corte De' Frati was born, but now it does not exist anymore. On 1004, Henry II conquered Brescia and the Court of Alfiano belonged to the Santa Giulia Monastery in Brescia. 13th century During the 13th century, a bridge was built by the Cremonesi people near Grumone, a frazione of the nowadays Corte de' Frati, in order not to pay the toll bridge enforced by the Bresciani on the bridge of Pontevico. This new project gave life to a war between the two dynasties: in 1213 the Bresciani ordered to the Cremonesi that the bridge was to be destroyed because it was built on the Brescian territory. The bridge, however, was not destroyed until 1228, when Alfiano was assaulted by an armed conflict between Bresciani and Cremonesi, during which the majority of warriors died and those who survived were imprisoned. Afterwards, the two dynasties did not resume their hostilities for a long time because in 1237 the territory was occupied by Frederick II, who used the contested bridge to move easily around Cremonese territory. In the first half of the 13th century, under the pontificate of Pope Innocent III, the Italian religious order of Humiliati was born and in 1246 they held the Saint Abbondio Church in Cremona. The Humiliati also took possession of Alfiano, whose name was transformed into Corte de' Frati. 14th century During the 14th century, the raids by the Bresciani on the territory started again, and the Cremonesi's raids were mostly done in Pontevico. The city of Cremona strengthened the cities near the Oglio river to avoid new conflicts. In 1324, Louis IV reconfirmed to the Cremonesi all the privileges and rights previously granted by their predecessors. This event led to new hostilities and disagreements with the Bresciani. Facing a rivalry that was never going to end, the archbishop of Milan Giovanni Visconti issued a law stating that the toll fee of Pontevico's bridge was unmodifiable. 15th century The beginning of the 15th century faced a new armed conflict between the lord of Brescia Pandolfo Malatesta, and the lord of Cremona Cabrino Fondulo. Pandolfo came to the Cremonese territory with an army and took possession of Robecco, Alfiano, Corte de' Frati and other villages near the Oglio river. In 1413 a peace treaty was signed and the Cremonesi reclaimed their lands. At the end of the century, however, the Republic of Venice conquered Brescia and Cremona. 17th century After the suppression of the Humiliati at the beginning of the 17th century, in 1614 the pope Paul V ordered the establishment of the Perpetual Vicar. In this period the world was facing the bubonic plague, and in 1630 Corte de' Frati registered 253 deaths, which was a high number considering that the inhabitants were only 1,000. Facing a high number of deaths, the parish decided to build a new cemetery, because the bodies used to be buried near to the church. In 1648, a trench called "Trincerone" was built by the Marquis Caracena, governor of Milan, to avoid the siege of Cremona by the French. It started from Cremona and ended in Grumone, and it was 10 miles long. In the same year, however, the Cremonesi managed to free the city from the French siege. The municipality of Pontevico persisted with the toll bridge, and this inevitably led people coming from the Cremonese territory to use the river from Alfiano to avoid the tax fee. In April 1671 the city of Brescia issued a proclamation suspending the use of the river as a way to avoid the Pontevico's bridge. In 1683 the present-day church of Corte de' Frati was built above the old castle's foundation. 18th century At the beginning of the 18th century, the municipality was hit by a very high mortality rate of bovine animals. Meanwhile, the lands of Grumone, Corte de' Frati and Robecco were continuously damaged by the raids. From 1777 to 1780 there was a high rate of famine, and the century ended again with an epizootic. 19th century The 19th century started with the French conquering Cremona and its territories, and they also took refuge on Corte de' Frati for three months. In 1802 an earthquake hit the municipality and the church was damaged. During these period, thanks to Napoleon, the streets were fixed and a postal service was activated. Corte de' Frati, Alfiano, and Aspice relied on the municipality of Robecco. In 1816 there was a high rate of drought that led to famine, and the following year the petechial typhus was spreading through the peasants. This disease was probably caused by the previously mentioned famine, and the deaths were almost 150. In 1867 a cholera outbreak was registered once again. In the same year, the rail line Cremona-Brescia was built, and the river Oglio lost his main function of trade exchange. Economy The local economy is mostly based on agriculture and industrial activities. The territory is well known for its dairy farms and for its metal industry. Food is related to the city of Cremona, including salted meat, Grana Padano and different types of local fruits and vegetables coming from the local farms. Transport Corte de' Frati is linked both to the city of Cremona and to the city of Brescia, thanks to the bus service offered in the area. Government Notes 1. Bresciani and Cremonesi are two demonyms identifying people living in the province of Brescia or Cremona. References Bibliography Cities and towns in Lombardy

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Michael Brewster (artist)

Michael Leslie Brewster (August 15, 1946June 19, 2016) was an American artist, recognized for coining the term “acoustic sculpture.” He worked with sound to create sonic environments beginning in the 1970s until 2016. His works were shown across the United States and Europe, and are in permanent collections, notably the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, the Fondo per Arte Italiano, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the Giuseppe Panza Collection. Life Brewster was born in Eugene, Oregon in 1946. He spent a majority of his youth in São Paulo, Brazil as an expatriate between 1950 and 1964. In high school, he became fluent in Portuguese and developed an interest in theater and set design. Brewster returned to the United States in 1964 to attend Pomona College, in Claremont, California. After graduating in 1968 with a B.A in Sculpture, he continued on to Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University) to receive his M.F.A in 1970. Brewster taught nontraditional sculpture at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. He moved back to the West Coast to instruct in sculpture and painting at La Verne and Pomona Colleges. In 1973, Brewster began teaching at Claremont Graduate University, where he remained for forty-one years, building the studio art program, chairing the department, and expanding the school's reputation nationally. He was awarded the first Roland Reiss Endowed Chair in Art. Brewster died on June 19, 2016, at the age of 69. Artistic work Lights In the late 1960s, Brewster built a set of 25 light units he named “Flashers.” These were used in various outdoor installations in the Mojave Desert. Starting in the mid-1970s, he redesigned them to float in water, produced them in a larger quantity, and called them “Floating Flashers.” They were shown in the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, Groningen, Holland, and Gumsluk Bay, Turkey. Sound Brewster explained his sonic sculptures: “My means is sound, especially its effects; but my issues are sculptural, not musical. Sculpture, in its most expanded sense, is the mode of experience that I find truest. I like to think about what an expanded sculptural experience could be: a full bodied bunch of sensation around being here, in the realm of the actual, the physical, in this multi-dimensional world. I’m trying to expand the sculptural experience by addressing, if not celebrating, our own existence as spatial, physical entities inhabiting all our dimensions. Sculpture should be a category of experience, not just a category of physical objects for us to stand back and behold.” Brewster's two major bodies of works are his Acoustic Sculptures and his Sonic Drawings. Brewster describes these works as follows: "A typical Acoustic Sculpture is a mix of electronic tones emitted into a bare room by a single loudspeaker. The sounds echoing through each other produce a field of sound populated by places of differing loudness and tonal content. To see an Acoustic Sculpture, we must shift our sculpture viewing habits from the "stand and look" behavior to an exploratory "move and listen" approach; slowly walking our ears, instead of moving our eyes, through the elaborate spaces of "the room.” “A Sonic Drawing uses devices that emit sounds at intervals. This work relies on the coincidence of intervals to draw ‘holes’ in the activity, producing moments when, through a union of all elements, nothing happens." Brewster conceived of Sonic Drawings in the late 1960s while attending Pomona College in Claremont. He debuted them for his Master of Fine Arts Exhibition in 1969. This body of work has two forms: “Clickers” and “Whistlers.” Clickers are hidden in the gallery walls while Whistlers are visible, and require the gallery visitor to activate them. The Clickers were exhibited in New York, Dallas, and were collected by Helene Winer, Pomona College, and Merry Norris, among others. The Acoustic Sculptures came from Brewster's study of sound waves. Learning about the phenomenon of standing waves in the early 1970s, Brewster constructed his first Acoustic Sculpture Fixed Frequency at F Space (an artist-run space in Santa Ana) in 1971. Originally, these pieces used one single tone. However, during the 1980s and 1990s, they became more complex. They began using multiple sounds and activation switches that give someone the ability to activate the piece thus making them participatory. These pieces generated scholarship by the sound theorist Brandon LaBelle and are in the permanent collection of the MOCA LA and The Guggenheim in New York. Selected exhibitions Throughout his career, his work was exhibited at Artists Space, New York; Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy; the Marum Overpass- Kw IX A, Groningen, the Netherlands; MoMA PS1, New York; San Francisco Art Institute and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Michael Brewster participated in the 1981 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. That same year, he was a part of Art in Los Angeles: The Museum as Site, Sixteen Projects at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The following year, he collaborated with Mowry Baden at the outdoor exhibition, Artpark, in Lewiston, New York. In 1985, he was a part of New Music America, at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and COLA, at Barnsdall Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles in 1998. In 2002, “‘See Hear Now:’ a sonic drawing and five acoustic sculptures,” a retrospective exhibition of Brewster’s work was shown at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and in 2012, he participated in “It Happened at Pomona Part 3: Pacific Standard Time”, sponsored by the Getty Foundation at Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA. Public collections Brewster's work is held in permanent public and private collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fondo per l' Ambiente Italiano, Varese, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Orange County Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California; University Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts. Recognition In April 1988, Brewster was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He was the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist's Fellowship Grant in the years 1976, 1978, 1984, and 1990. In 1996, Brewster received an Individual Artists Grant from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. References 1946 births 2016 deaths Artists from Eugene, Oregon Pomona College alumni Claremont Graduate University alumni Claremont Graduate University faculty 20th-century American artists American sound artists American multimedia artists

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Powerplay (cricket)

A powerplay is the name for the fielding restrictions in limited overs cricket. It was first introduced in 1980-81 Australian season. Fielding Restrictions has been a rule in ODI cricket since 1992. It was renamed as Powerplay by ICC in 2005. Unlike Test cricket, the fielders are spread out to save runs in limited overs cricket. The powerplay rules along with a number of other factors, has contributed to the big scores in modern One Day Internationals since 1992. Rules One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 differ in terms of the number of overs where mandatory powerplay rules apply. The rules below apply only when a match is uninterrupted. ODI During the first 10 overs of an innings, a maximum of two fielders are allowed outside the 30-yard circle (27 metres). This is called the 1st powerplay. Between overs 11 and 40, a maximum of four fielders are allowed outside the 30-yard circle. In the final 10 overs (41–50), a maximum of five fielders will be allowed to field outside the 30-yard circle. Twenty20 In most domestic leagues and international Twenty20 cricket, the first six overs of an innings will be a mandatory powerplay, with only two fielders allowed outside the 30-yard circle. Beginning with the seventh over, no more than five fielders will be allowed outside the 30-yard circle. However, in the Big Bash League the Powerplay is only the first 4 overs, with the batters choosing when the same restrictions apply for 2 overs in the second half of the innings, in a period called a Powersurge. 100-ball cricket The powerplay restrictions are active during the first 25 legal balls of the innings, with only two fielders allowed outside the 30-yard circle. History Fielding restrictions evolved through the 1970s, notably in World Series Cricket, and were first introduced in ODIs in 1980 in Australia. The most common rule was for only two fielders to be allowed outside the circle in the first fifteen overs, then five fielders allowed outside the circle for the remaining overs. The powerplay nomenclature was introduced by the International Cricket Council in 2005, when the fielding restrictions were split into 3 blocks: the mandatory ten overs at the start of the innings and two further five-over powerplays with the bowling team being able to choose the timing of both. In practice though, both were generally taken as soon as possible, effectively leading to a single block of 20 overs of fielding restrictions. To counter this, in 2008, the batting team was given discretion for the timing of one of the two powerplays. From 1 October 2011, the ICC brought additional changes to the bowling and batting powerplays. Under the new rules, in a 50-over match, neither of the two five-over powerplays may be taken before the start of the 16th over and both must be completed before the commencement of the 41st over, so overs 11 to 15 and 41 to 50 cannot be powerplay overs. Should either or both teams choose not to exercise their discretion, their powerplay overs will automatically commence at the latest available point in the innings (e.g. in a 50-over innings with one unclaimed powerplay, it will begin at the start of the 36th over). On 29 October 2012, the ICC made further amendments on powerplays, reducing the number of blocks of powerplays from three to two. From 1992 to 2012, during non-powerplay overs a total of five fielders were allowed outside the circle. This was changed to four in October 2012. Moreover, from 1992 to 2005, two fielders were required in catching positions in the first fifteen overs. This was reduced to the first ten overs in July 2005. From 5 July 2015, the ICC further amended the rules, making the whole innings as a composition of 3 powerplays, thus removing the batting powerplay previously introduced. Furthermore, the restriction of two catching fielders on the first powerplay was relaxed. References Cricket terminology

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List of people from Suwałki

Over the centuries Suwałki has produced a number of persons who have provided unique contributions to the fields of science, language, politics, religion, sports, visual arts and performing arts. A list of recent notable persons includes, but is not limited to: Jacob ben Moses Bachrach (1824-1896) - noted apologist of Rabbinic Judaism Marian Borzęcki (1889-1942) - lawyer, politician, lawyer, Chief of the State Police (Policja Państwowa) Jerzy Dąbrowski - Polish Army lieutenant colonel of cavalry, "Zagonczyk". Władysław Dąbrowski - a major in the cavalry of the Polish Army, "Zagonczyk" partisan commander in Vilnius in 1919-1920 Zalman Gradowski (1910–1944), secret diarist at Auschwitz-Birkenau Josef Hassid (1923–1950), violinist Edmund Kessler - Colonel in the General Staff of the Army of the Russian Empire and the Polish Army Adam Koc (1891–1969), soldier, politician and journalist Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910), a poet, a novelist, a writer for children and youth, a translator, journalist and critic Mieczysław Mackiewicz (1880–1954), general Henryk Minkiewicz (1880–1940), General of the Polish Army, killed in the Katyn Massacre a Polish socialist politician and a General of the Polish Army. Member of the Medical Faculty of the Jagiellonian University and, simultaneously, Faculty of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. Former commander of the Border Defence Corps, he was among the Polish officers murdered in the Katyń massacre. Leszek Aleksander Moczulski (1938-) – Poet Marion Mushkat (1909–1995), lawyer, colonel, judge, professor/specialist of international public law, military law and international affairs Aleksandra Piłsudska (1882–1963), wife of Józef Piłsudski and the Polish first lady Zygmunt Podhorski (1891–1960), general, cavalry commander Aleksander Putra (1888-1962) – social and political activist, member of Parliament Legislators in the Second Polish Republic, related to Krzysztof Putra Zvi Yosef Resnick (1841–1912), Rosh yeshiva (Dean of a rabbinical academy) Samuel Rosenthal (1837 - 1902), Jewish chess master and journalist Pinchas Sapir (1906–1975), Israeli politician, Minister of Finance Avraham Stern (1907-1942) – a Jewish paramilitary leader who founded and led Lehi (the "Stern Gang") Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005), economist and the last Polish Prime Minister in Exile () As an Officer (and eventually Major) in the Polish Army, he served with distinction in the Fifth Polish Artillery Regiment - notably in the battles of Monte Cassino, Ancona, and Bologna. In 1945 he received the Cross of the Valorous, and the following year was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit with Swords. He received a PhD in Economics in 1956 from the LSE. On April 7, 1986 he was chosen the successor of Kazimierz Sabbat to be the next Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic in-exile (). He was awarded the title of Doctor of Economic Science – Honoris Causa in 1995 by the Warsaw School of Economics. Andrzej Wajda (1926-), film director Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School" (active circa 1955 to 1963). He is known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation (1954), Kanał (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958). Four of his movies have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: The Promised Land (1975), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyń (2007). Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski (1849-1915) – painter of the Munich school, one of the most popular among Jozef Brandt and Władysław Czachórski Marcin Wojciechowski - Presenter and Journalist on Radio ZET References People from Suwałki Suwałki

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Tornel

Tornel or Hulera Tornel is a Mexican enterprise and only surviving Mexican tire manufacturer in Mexico, dedicated to making tires and other automotive industry-related products. Founded in 1933 by Mexican businessman Armando Tornel, who in October 2006 entered the Worldwide Tire Industry Hall of Fame. Hulera Tornel is the top Latin American tire manufacturer, and one of the largest tire manufacturers currently active in the world. History Compañía Hulera Tornel is a Mexican tire manufacturer currently part of JK Tyre group of India. Compañía Hulera Tornel was originally founded by the Tornel family, one of the oldest families in Mexico, renown in the Mexican industry and society. The company was founded by Isauro Tornel Toriz and his eldest son, Armando Tornel Murillo, native from El Salto de Juanacatlán, Jalisco, Mexico. Armando entered the tire business when he was only 15 years old, while working as a tire seller at the same time he was studying in the night school of San Indelfonso in Mexico City. Years later, his father Mr. Isauro Tornel Toriz decided to send Armando to the United States, where he pursued a technical career in Tire Engineering at Smithers Laboratories, and rubber technology at Vanderbilt Laboratories, gaining technical and practical experience at Goodyear and Mohawk, both in Akron, Ohio. Upon Armando´s return to Mexico during 1933, he partnered with his father and his younger brothers Salvador and Raúl, and together they opened a tire-sale business with 27 employees, at a store located at Hidalgo Avenue number 91, in the historic downtown area of Mexico City. In 1937, the Tornel family business was formalized via incorporation of Compañía Hulera El Centenario, company that manufactures and marketed at the time tires under the America and All States brands. In 1940 the Tornel family associated with Firestone through a joint venture, changing the name of the company to "Cía. Hulera Firestone Centenario". Some years later, the Tornel family decided to sell their stock to Firestone, and independently pursued continuity in the tire business on their own by incorporating the wholly owned Compañía Hulera Tornel (Tornel Rubber Company), manufacturing tires as well as rubber and supplies for tire repair. Under Compañía Hulera Tornel, Armando assumed the position of Chair of the company’s board, while his brothers Raul and Salvador occupied other key positions as senior members of the company's Board of Directors until their deaths. In the 1950s Compañía Hulera Tornel entered other sectors and started manufacturing bicycle tubes and also devised new manufacturing techniques. In 1968 it expanded to manufacturing bicycle tires as well. Compañía Hulera Tornel remained in the Tornel family for 4 generations. Development, consolidation and sale to the JK Group In the 1970s the company started to grow dramatically within the closed economy then existing in Mexico, and also began to compete with other national tire companies like General Popo, Euzkadi, and the oldest of all, Hercules. At this time Compañía Hulera Tornel began to launch most of its modern products such as the tire tubes manufactured with point technology and dabbled in making tires for trucks and buses. The 1980s brought a crisis to the Mexican economy due to devaluations that caused the closing of Tornel's competitors: General Popo, Euzkadi and Hercules. When the company saw these closings, they paid attention and steered the business toward specializing in the retail vehicle and truck sales niche. This move allowed them to adapt and later thrive in the market. The closing of these competitor factories allowed Tornel free rein in the market but not for long since soon after competition began from foreign tire manufacturers which would turn out to be aggressive commercial rivals, such as Goodyear, Bridgestone, Michelin, Firestone, and BFGoodrich. However, despite the incursion of foreign companies, the market position and Tornel prestige was not diminished. After four generations of members of the Tornel family running the company, in 2008 Compañía Hulera Tornel was acquired by JK Tyre of India. Today In May 2008, Tornel was purchased by India-based JK Tyre for $68 million. JK Tyre is an Indian tyre manufacturer that is about the 23rd largest in the world. It intends to use Tornel as the base for its approach to the North American market taking advantage of the NAFTA, and is investing in molds to manufacture tires under both the Tornel and JK brands. Tornel has a total of three manufacturing facilities, all within the metropolitan area of Mexico City. Before the sale of the company, the Tornel family assisted to the ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada where Armando Tornel was granted a place in the Tire Industry Association Hall of Fame in October 2006. References External links Official site Tire manufacturers of Mexico Mexican brands Manufacturing companies established in 1933 Mexican companies established in 1933

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NextSense

NextSense, formerly the Royal Institute for Deaf & Blind Children, in Sydney provides a range of educational services for students with vision and/or hearing impairment, including specialist schools for signing Deaf students, oral deaf students, and students with sensory and intellectual disabilities. NextSense offers additional services such as therapy and braille text production, a children's audiology centre, and also conducts research and professional development through its RIDBC Renwick Centre. Historically it is an important centre of Deaf culture in Australia. NextSense was opened on the 22 October 1860 by deaf Scottish immigrant Thomas Pattison, who was the school's first teacher. Located at 152 Liverpool St Sydney, the school was originally named the "Deaf and Dumb Institution of New South Wales". From its early days it was open to all deaf children, though many were turned away for lack of resources. Sydney was still a young city at the time, with only 80,000 inhabitants; the University of Sydney had been established a mere ten years prior and public education was in its infancy. The school began to take in blind students in 1869, and added the word "blind" to its name. It was predominantly a boarding school, and moved many times within central Sydney to accommodate more students as the school grew, including stints in Paddington and Newtown, before finding its present home in North Rocks in 1962. It currently operates several educational centres on New South Wales and offers some national services. David Hunter, a former student of the school who had been blind from age 6, was elected as member of the NSW parliament (for Ashfield) when he was 35 and served there for 35 years (1940–1976). He was responsible for the passing of an Act in 1944 to make the education of blind and deaf children compulsory. Another well-known student was Alice Betteridge, the first Australian deafblind child to receive an education. She enrolled in 1908 at the age of seven where she learned to read and write, graduating as dux in 1920. Schools within RIDBC Today there are three specialist schools within RIDBC: The RIDBC Alice Betteridge School, for children with sensory and intellectual disabilities (renamed from "The Special School for Multi-handicapped Blind Students" in 1990). The RIDBC Garfield Barwick School, for "oral" deaf children who communicate using speech and assisted hearing. Opened in 1988 as a primary school to prepare deaf students for a mainstream high school. The RIDBC Thomas Pattison School, which provides education in Auslan, Australia's Deaf sign language. Established in 1992 as the "Thomas Pattison Annexe", renamed as a school in 1997. Children's services that RIDBC provide RIDBC also runs a number of early childhood services. These include home based, centre based and remote early education programs for children up to 5 years who have sensory disabilities, as well as five special preschools (RIDBC Hunter Preschool, RIDBC Nepean Preschool, RIDBC VisionEd Preschool, RIDBC Roberta Reid Preschool, RIDBC Rockie Woofit Preschool) and support for children with sensory disabilities enrolled in mainstream preschools. In 1997 RIDBC was pleased to announce a new program known as RIDBC Teleschool, which combines the existing Remote Early Learning Programs for vision impairment and hearing impairment. In addition to its direct services, RIDBC aims to help as many deaf and blind children as possible through its RIDBC Renwick Centre, for research and professional education of those educating children with sensory disability. The RIDBC Renwick Centre is conducted in conjunction with the Macquarie University and offers a range of post-graduate courses (including a Master of Special Education in Sensory Disability) and continuing education activities. The RIDBC Renwick Centre attracts students from across Australia and internationally. Community Support RIDBC is a major Australian charity but relies heavily on Government subsidy and community support to continue its services. In 2010, RIDBC celebrated its 150th Anniversary. Ambassadors Reuben Mourad - Australian TV personality, former national anchor, and weather presenter Michael Parkinson - English broadcaster, journalist, author, and chat show legend Tara Moss - Former model and international best-selling author Graham Ross - Host of TV gardening show Better Homes & Gardens and radio presenter on 2GB Justin Norris - Australian Olympic swimmer (butterfly and individual medley) Names 1860 - Deaf and Dumb Institution of New South Wales 1868 - New South Wales Deaf and Dumb Institution 1869 - New South Wales Deaf Dumb and Blind Institution 1957 - Royal NSW Institution for Deaf and Blind Children 1962 - The institution provides the premises for two state schools operated by the NSW Department of Education: North Rocks School for Deaf Children and North Rocks School for Blind Children 1974 - Royal NSW Institute for Deaf and Blind Children. 1997 - Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children. See also Deaf education Blindness and education Notes and references Further reading Crickmore, Barbara Lee (2000), An Historical Perspective on the Academic Education of Deaf Children in New South Wales 1860s-1990s, PhD thesis, University of Newcastle. Available for download. External links [https:// www.nextsense.org.au] NextSense website] Blindness organisations in Australia Public schools in Sydney Schools for the deaf in Australia Special schools in Australia The Hills Shire 1860 establishments in Australia Educational institutions established in 1860

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Neverwinter Nights

Neverwinter Nights is a series of video games developed by BioWare and Obsidian Entertainment, based on the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Aside from also being set around the city Neverwinter, it is unrelated to both the 1991 Neverwinter Nights online game and the 2013 online game called Neverwinter. Overview The Neverwinter Nights series take place primarily in the city of Neverwinter, located in the Sword Coast region of the fictional land of Faerûn. Also commonly referred to as the City of Skilled Hands, Neverwinter grew from a multi-racial settlement named Eigersstor founded several hundred years prior to the start of Neverwinter Nights. At the time the first game takes place, the city of Neverwinter was beset by a magical plague named the Wailing Death, whereas in the second game the city is threatened by an invasion from its ancient enemy named the King of Shadows. Gameplay The Neverwinter Nights series is a franchise of role-playing games with a third-person isometric perspective. The systems of the games are based on the rules of Dungeons & Dragons, a table-top role-playing game originally developed by TSR, Inc. Both Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 contain three game modes: a default campaign, a multiplayer mode, and custom contents. Campaign Both Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 include a default campaign, which focus on the development of the player character through a series of distinct acts. In addition to the main story, the player also has the opportunity to undertake a variety of side quests, some of which form storylines that span the entire game. The player has the ability to make key choices in specific quests can affect combat encounters, key plot points, and the outcome of the overarching story. Before the player can begin the campaign, they must first create a new character through the game's character creation interface. The player may customize a new character from scratch, or select one of the pre-set characters provided by the games. If the player chooses to create a new character, they are then guided through a series of choices about their character, including race, class, appearance etc.. Some of the choices such as gender and appearance are purely cosmetic, whereas others such as race and class affect how the player character fights and what abilities they have access to. Custom content In addition to the base campaign and the multiplayer mode, both Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 also included sets of software development tools which allow the players to create custom campaigns which they can then share with other players. Neverwinter Nights shipped with the Aurora Toolset, while Neverwinter Nights 2 shipped with the Electron Toolset, which was completely rewritten by Bioware using the programming language C#. Reception The first instalment in the series, Neverwinter Nights, was generally well received according to review aggregator Metacritic, which gave it a score of 91/100 based on 34 critic reviews and a score of 8.1/10 based on 608 user reviews. Greg Kasavin of GameSpot praised the game's accessibility, calling it "one of those exceedingly rare games that has a lot to offer virtually everyone, even if they aren't already into RPGs". Gamezone appreciated the game's graphic and sound design, and that "the musical score foreshadows game action (the music picks up in intensity when combat looms), and is well done". Allgame reviewer Mark Hoogland commended the Aurora toolset shipped with Neverwinter Nights, calling the breadth of level, story, environment, and module creation options "impressive". Eurogamer reviewer Gestalt was less convinced, criticising the single-player campaign's emphasis on combat encounters over "actual roleplaying", but was optimistic that the game's mod support will give it longevity. Legacy The Neverwinter Nights series has been adopted by a number of educators for use in the classroom. University of Alberta's Professor Mike Carbonara and colleagues made use of the Aurora Toolset to develop an "economics game" aimed at teaching the concepts of fixed price commerce, mark up, and supply and demand. Squire & Jenkins at MIT Education Arcade created the multiplayer game Revolution, which allows players to roleplay characters with different dispositions and political views in 1770s colonial Williamsburg, with an aim to improve the student's understanding of the American Revolution. In 2005, researchers Nora Paul and Kathleen A. Hansen designed a custom module for journalism students; players took on the role of a journalist investigating a train derailment in the fictional American town named Harperville, during which they must investigate and analyse multiple sources. Games A "premium module" is a small-scale, stand-alone adventure. An "adventure pack" is similar to the first game's premium modules. References Video game franchises introduced in 2002

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Tërbaç

Tërbaç is a community in the Vlorë County, southwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Himarë. Location The village is located at the foothills of the Ceraunian Mountains and is adjacent to the village of Dukat, Brataj, Mesaplik, Vranisht, Palasë, Dhërmi. The area is rugged and mountainous, and is host to many streams and passes. History The origins of the village are tied to the Qafa e Shengjergjit, which was used in ancient times as a caravan route between the ancient city of Orikum and more inland cities, where we can mention Hora, Cerje, Amantia, etc. In the Tërbaç river, there are found the legs of the ancient bridge 2500–3000 years old of Bogdan. But there are also toponyms in Tërbaç like "Pellazg Tomb" or "Elim's Neck", which shed light on the idea that it has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Between the two mountain ranges, Akrokeraune and Lungarë, where the Akrokeraune are hit by the Karaburun mountain range, lies the divine village of Tërbaç. From the data found in the village of Tërbaç, from some excavations from 1969, they showed a settlement of the 4th century BC and earlier. There were earthenware vessels, a bronze atelier figure, bronze coins with Zeus-bolt and Zeus-snake. This Information was taken by An archaeological look at the Shushica valley (Damian Komata). The coins found in Tërbaç are unique and together with the coins found in Amantia, are the main and only coins of the period of Amants. The bronze atelier found in Tërbaç means that the inhabitants of this great place were civilised since the beginnings of civilization. Tërbaç is also known about its unique kind of dog in the world, the strongest dog "Molos", ore Tërbaç dog. This kind of dog was used by Aleksandër the Great. It is also known for its fauna and flora and for the many contrasts of weather, relief, geology, etc. This territory is known from prehistoric dates till nowadays for bravery, wisdom, hospitality, trust and a lot of other virtues. In the Middle Ages, in Shengjergj, there was a great civilization, verified by ceramics in every corner of the village, by toponyms and other archaeological evidence. Eventually the trail of Qafa e Shengjergjit was forgotten by merchants and now it is only used by sheepherders in contemporary times and by tourists sometimes. In 1537, in the anti-Ottoman uprising of Labëria, a discourse was recorded, expressing the bravery of the people of this village and their victory over the forces of the Great Empire. Turkish dominance over the area was minuscule, but taxes in the form of herds and other commodities were taken by the local Ottoman administration. Villagers often ignored the taxes that the local Sanjak in Vlorë requested, thus in around the 1820s an Ottoman expeditionary force skirmished with the villagers and stole their goods as compensation for neglect of taxes. Another rare act of bravery is that of the brave Miro Strati Tërbaçi, an orphaned girl, who, in revenge for her brother who was treacherously killed by the Ottomans, got up and went to the barber and told him to shave her like a boy. After that, she took a horse and went to the Pasha of Berat and gave him two bullets, one in the chest and one in the forehead, and fought with those who followed her to save herself. The event took place in 1828. She died many years later. Tërbaç was part of the battlefield of the battle of Gjorm, where Albanian resistance units defeated and routed the troops of the Kingdom of Italy. During World War II the German army was still very active in the area, even as the allies pushed up into northern Italy. Meanwhile, Partisans also were fighting against the Germans and Balli Kombëtar. In Bramyshnjë-Tërbaç is the Olympian monolith of "Brigada e V-të Sulmuese", the bravest and most accomplished brigade of the Second World War, in terms of Albania, which fought from Tërbaçi to Novisad and back to Saranda. The eventual Communist victory led to the village being part of the Albanian Communist state for over fifty years, however after the fall of Hoxhaism, the village has seen a massive drop in population as people emigrate to different areas of the world, and migrate in Albania itself. Tërbaç is also known for its unique mountain of Çikë, the highest point in the seaside and for its unique Akrokeraunian ridge, where the phenomenon of lightning occurs. Nowadays, Tërbaç has a perspective on tourism and livestock and more work has to be done, to promote the values of this noble village. Notable people Hysni Kapo, military commander and leading member of the Party of Labour of Albania. Miro Tërbaçe, Semi-legendary heroin who slew the Sanjak of Vlora in retaliation for the treatment of the village, a statue of her is still in Tërbaç. Sources Studime Populated places in Himara Villages in Vlorë County

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Sheriff of Stirling

The Sheriff of Stirling was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order in Stirling, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis. From that date, following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, the hereditary sheriffs were replaced by salaried sheriff-deputes, qualified advocates who were members of the Scottish Bar. Following mergers of the Scottish sheriffdoms the office became the Sheriff of Stirling & Dumbarton in 1871 and the Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton & Clackmannan in 1881. The sheriffdom was dissolved in 1975 when the current sheriffdoms of North Strathclyde and Tayside, Central and Fife were created. Sheriffs of Stirling William Fitz Thorald (c.1130) Dufoter (1153) William de Stirling (1165) Gilbert de Stirling (1170) Alexander de Stirling (1189, 1195–1198, 1219) Muireadhach II, Earl of Menteith (1226) John de Stirling (1230) Bernard Fraser (1226-1233) Alexander de Stirling (1235) John de Stirling (1241) Gilbert Fraser (1258) John Lamberton (1265-1266) Patrick de Graham (1288-1289) Andrew Fraser (1291-1293) David Grant (1295-1296) Richard Waldgrave (1296) Alexander Livingstone (1304) William Bisset (1304-1305) Alexander Fraser (1328) Richard Lachlan - 1328 - Deputy Richard Lachlan (1329) Robert Erskine (1360) Andrew Murray (1367) Thomas Erskine (1367) Walter Oliphant (1368) Thomas, Earl of Mar (1368) Robert de Normanville (1373) John Stewart (1407) John Seton, 2nd Lord Seton (1436) Malcolm Fleming (1470) Alexander Bruce - 1470 - Deputy Janes Schaw of Sanchie (1473) Alexander Seton (1488) Sheriffs-Depute of Stirling and Clackmannan (1748) David Walker, 1748–1761 Robert Bruce, 1761–1764 George Cockburn (later Haldane), 1764–1770 Alexander Abercromby, Lord Abercromby, 1770–1780 John Pringle, 1780–1790 William Tait, 1790–1797 David Williamson, 1797–1807 Sheriffs-Depute of Stirling (1807) 1807 - Stirling separated from Clackmannan David Williamson, 1807–1811 Ranald Macdonald of Staffa, 1811–1838 John Shaw Stewart, 1839–1840 Robert Handyside, 1840–1853 Charles Baillie, 1853–1858 George Moir, 1858–1868 Robert Bogle Blackburn, 1868–1871 Sheriffs of Stirling and Dumbarton (1871) Robert Bogle Blackburn, 1871–1875 Sheriffs of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannan (1881) James Muirhead, 1885–1889 Alexander Blair, 1889–1891 John Mckie Lees, 1891–1917 James Robert Nicolson Macphail, 1917–1933 Sir Archibald Campbell Black, 1933–1937 (Sheriff of Lanark, 1937) John Charles Fenton, 1937–1942 (Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles, 1942) Sir Robert Henry Maconochie, 1942–1961 Francis Clifford Watt, QC, 1961–1971 Robert Richardson Taylor, 1971–1975 (Sheriff Principal of Tayside, Central and Fife, 1975) In 1975 the sheriffdom was largely merged into the current sheriffdom of Tayside, Central and Fife. See also Historical development of Scottish sheriffdoms References Stirling (city)

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The Force Awakens from Its Nap

Maggie Simpson in "The Force Awakens from Its Nap" is an animated short film based on the television series The Simpsons. The short was released on May 4, 2021, on Disney+ in celebration of Star Wars Day. It is the third short film featuring Maggie Simpson, following The Longest Daycare (2012) and Playdate with Destiny (2020). In 2023, another short film was released with Maggie Simpson celebrating Star Wars Day called Rogue Not Quite One. The promotional short is the first of several from The Simpsons that Disney+ released since 2021, to tie in with the service's marquee brands and titles. Plot Marge drives Maggie to The Ayn Rand School for Tots daycare, but Maggie refuses, so she takes her to the Jabba's Hut Jedi Preschool, entering through the Sky toddlers door. In there, they see a Jedi prepare sandwiches with the use of a lightsaber and the force, while Ahsoka Tano puts a baby in carbonite for being bad. Marge takes her to General Grievous that was changing a kid's diaper next to R2-D2, using it as a trash bin. The cyborg takes the pacifier and throws it away. Maggie panics and is approached by BB-8, which wants to help her retrieve the pacifier, so Maggie gives it her bow tie. BB-8 starts running toward the next room but finds itself trapped in the middle of many other BB-8s. Maggie tries to reach it but the other BB-8 attack and damage it. BB-8 managed to find and give Maggie the pacifier before Baby Gerald, dressed as Darth Maul, stabs it in the back. Maggie and Gerald start fighting, Maggie using a prolonged pacifier, and when she reaches a "new improved Death Star guaranteed unexplodable" she hits it, making it explode on Gerald. However, he is not stopped and makes her lose the pacifier. Maggie retrieves it and makes him lose his diaper. Gerald uses the Force to crush her under a wardrobe. BB-8, still alive, arrives at the scene, and Maggie emerges from the wardrobe, alive, with Yoda ears. BB-8 wonders how she's alive and she shows it how in the Star Wars rules, beloved characters never really die. In the end, Maggie and a restored BB-8 watch the twin suns of Tatooine set. Production The idea behind a Star Wars short starring Maggie Simpson came up in January 2021. As the Disney+ Simpsons library was well received, executive producer James L. Brooks proposed to do a series of shorts where the show interacted with other franchises available in the streaming service. Showrunner Al Jean, a long-time Star Wars fan, pitched the idea of making a Star Wars-centric short in which Maggie is sent to a Jedi preschool. Two shorts starring Maggie, The Longest Daycare and Playdate with Destiny, had been previously produced in 2012 and 2020. Both Lucasfilm and Disney+ showed enthusiasm for the idea, and asked the Simpsons crew to have the short ready for May 4, 2021, given how "Star Wars Day" is celebrated on that date. Jean wrote the script along with Joel Cohen and Mike Price and the Simpsons director David Silverman directed the short. The first draft for the short was ready by January 18. They worked closely with Lucasfilm throughout the short's development, providing suggestions and making sure that the Simpsons crew used the full universe of their characters. Among the characters included in the short as a "Darth Maul Baby" and BB-8, but Grogu (better known as "Baby Yoda") was only referenced yet not included, as Jean felt that the character is probably the most sought-after of Disney, so they did not want him to be overexposed. The Lucasfilm team also helped them to transliterate the chalkboard writing to Aurebesh. The short was finished on April 30, four days before its release date. Reception Critical reception Rich Knight of CinemaBlend ranked Maggie Simpson in "The Force Awakens from Its Nap" third in their top of The Simpsons Short, acknowledged the references to the Star Wars franchise, and praised the humor and the gags of the animated short film, despite stating that The Force Awakens from Its Nap does not offer much of a story. Eden Arnold of Bleeding Cool found the short film to be an endearing celebration of Star Wars Day, while saying it shows off Disney's properties. Raul Velasquez of TheGamer.com complimented the humor of the short film, stating it manages to be a cheerful and carefree short that is funny enough to entertain Star Wars fans, and claimed that the crossover manages to capture the humor of The Simpsons franchise at the same time. Accolades Followups In 2023, another short film was released with Maggie Simpson celebrating Star Wars Day called Rogue Not Quite One. References External links 2020s American animated films 2021 animated films 2021 films 2021 short films American animated short films American comedy short films Animated films based on animated series Animated films without speech Disney+ original films Films based on television series Films directed by David Silverman Films set in the United States Parody films based on Star Wars The Simpsons short films 20th Century Studios short films Gracie Films films 2020s Disney animated short films Films produced by James L. Brooks Films produced by Matt Groening Films produced by Richard Sakai

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Alleged Libyan financing in the 2007 French presidential election

Libya allegedly bankrolled the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy with up to €50 million in pay-outs. Sarkozy has denied wrongdoing and rejected suggestions he was a Libyan agent of influence during his tenure as president of France. He has since officially been convicted of corruption in 2021. Background 2007 election In May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of France in a six-point victory over Ségolène Royal. Sarkozy officially spent €21 million on his campaign. The size of the campaign spend, relative to those seen in United States elections, prompted French scholar Sophie Meunier to later declare that "French politicians are, therefore, not enslaved to special interests or Super-PACs as they are in the U.S." During the 2007 French election, candidates were limited to spending no more than €21 million, and no single person could donate in excess of €7500 to a candidate. In addition, the sources of donations had to be publicly declared and contributions from foreign nationals were prohibited. Libyan détente and later reversal In December 2007, following Sarkozy's inauguration as President of France, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi visited the country on Sarkozy's invitation, over the objections of both the political opposition and members of Sarkozy's government. Gaddafi's visit to France was his first in over 35 years; during the trip, France agreed to sell Libya 21 Airbus aircraft, and the two countries signed a nuclear cooperation agreement. Negotiations for the sale of over a dozen French Dassault Rafale fighter jets, plus military helicopters, were also initiated during Gaddafi's visit. In 2011, France, under Sarkozy, voted for international military intervention in the Libyan Civil War against the Gaddafi government in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 and, subsequently, attacked Libyan government forces in Opération Harmattan, in support of the National Transitional Council. France stated the move was to protect Libyan civilians. Allegations The same month that French forces were committed to the Libyan conflict, Saif-al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of Muammar Gaddafi, gave an interview to Euronews in which he first publicly claimed that the Libyan state had donated €50 million to Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign in exchange for access and favours by Sarkozy. He was quoted as saying: "We funded it and we have all the details and are ready to reveal everything. The first thing we want this clown to do is to give the money back to the Libyan people. He was given assistance so that he could help them. But he's disappointed us: give us back our money." Sarkozy rejected the claim by Gaddafi. The following October, the claim that Libya had funded Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign was repeated by former Libyan prime minister Baghdadi Mahmudi. Investigative website Mediapart subsequently published several documents appearing to prove payment of €50 million and also published a claim by Ziad Takieddine that he had personally handed three briefcases full of cash to Sarkozy. French magistrates later acquired the diaries of former Libyan oil minister Shukri Ghanem in which payments to Sarkozy were mentioned. Shortly thereafter, however, Ghanem was found dead, floating in the Danube in Austria and thereby preventing his corroboration of the diaries. In 2014, television station France 3 released an audio recording made by Delphine Minoui on March 16, 2011, during which Minoui interviewed Muammar Gaddafi. In the recording, Gaddafi told Minoui that Sarkozy had approached him seeking funds for his presidential election campaign while still serving as French interior minister. In February 2018, the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted a source alleging that Sarkozy had promised Libyan representatives improved relations between France and Libya should he be elected president and that he would wrap up the matter of the bombing of UTA Flight 772. As recently as 2018, Saif al-Islam reiterated his 2011 claim, and since also added that a former officer of the Libyan intelligence service was at that time in possession of a recording of a meeting between Muammar Gaddafi and Sarkozy that occurred in Tripoli in 2007, during which payments were discussed. Investigation In 2013 the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) officially opened an investigation into the allegations of Libyan funding of Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign. In March 2018, Sarkozy-era interior minister Brice Hortefeux voluntarily appeared before French police for questioning. Several arrests have been made in relation to the inquiry. Arrests and charges Reaction Sarkozy's political party, The Republicans, issued a statement following his arrest in which it said the former president had the party's full support. Spokesman Christian Jacob later suggested that the accusations against Sarkozy were politically motivated. Following Sarkozy's arrest, Eric Ciotti expressed confidence the former president would be exonerated. On 1 March 2021, Sarkozy was convicted of different corruption charges, after investigators looking into the Libyan finance allegations wiretapped conversations between Sarkozy and his lawyer, Thierry Herzog. On 17 May 2023 this conviction was confirmed by The Paris Court of Appeals as was the sentence of three years in jail: two of them suspended and one to be served as house arrest wearing an electronic tag. Sarkozy said he would appeal the verdict to the Court of Cassation, France's top court. On October 6, 2023, Nicolas Sarkozy was indicted for “concealment of witness tampering” and “participation in a criminal association with a view to committing the offense of fraud in judgment in an organized gang” and was also placed under arrest. status of assisted witness for “participation in a criminal conspiracy with a view to committing the offense of active corruption of foreign judicial personnel” in Lebanon as part of the investigation into the retraction of witness Ziad Takieddine. See also Bettencourt affair France–Libya relations London School of Economics Gaddafi links Notes References 2018 in French politics 2018 scandals Foreign electoral intervention France–Libya relations 2007 French presidential election Muammar Gaddafi Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy Political scandals in France March 2018 events in France Allegations