[{"text": "Jean Kathleen (Trainum) McKay (born February 3, 1924 \u2013 November 7, 2016) was a captain in the United States Air Force who served as the staff dietitian in the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General and as the dietitian for the Mercury Project. Career. Prior to her assignment to Project Mercury in April 1961, McKay was assigned to the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General. At NASA, McKay was responsible for planning specific menus, purchasing the food and supervising preparation and serving, and conducting nutritional analysis and reporting to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). A collection of material related to McKay, including the feeding plans and papers on nutrition that she developed, are held in the National Air and Space Museum Archives. Personal life. Jean Kathleen Trainum was born in Missouri. She married William McKay, an Air Force pilot from Elgin, Nebraska. In her retirement, until her death in 2016, McKay served as a volunteer docent at the San Diego Air and Space Museum for nearly two decades."}, {"text": "Tongpang Oz\u00fck\u00fcm (born 1980) is an Indian politician from Nagaland. He is a two time member of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly from Angetyongpang Assembly constituency. He was a minister of Housing and Mechanical in Fourth Neiphiu Rio ministry from 2018. In 2023, he was appointed adviser to Water Resources Department. Early life and education. Ozukum is from Angetyongpang, Mokokchung District, Nagaland. He is the son of late Temsulepden. He completed his Bachelor's degree in arts in 2003 at Kohima College, which is affiliated with Nagaland University. His wife is in the government service in the education department. Career. Ozukum first became an MLA winning the 2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election as an independent candidate from Angetyongpang Assembly constituency. He polled 4,607 and defeated his nearest rival, Alemtemshi Jamir of NDPP, by a margin of 450 votes. In 2023, he joined Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party and retained the seat in the 2023 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election representing NDPP. In 2023, he polled 8,046 votes and defeated his nearest rival, K. Wati, an independent candidate, by a margin of 2,220 votes."}, {"text": "Karavayevo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 190 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Karavayevo is located 32 km north of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kalinino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2020 Chengdu Hunters season was the second season of Chengdu Hunters's existence in the Overwatch League and the team's first without head coach Wang \"RUI\" Xingrui. The Hunters planned to host two back-to-back homestand weekends at the Wuliangye Chengdu Performing Arts Centre, but all homestand events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Preceding offseason. Organizational changes. On November 16, head coach Wang \"RUI\" Xingrui announced that he would be stepping down from his position due to health issues. On January 14, the team announced that Hunters' assistant coach Chang \"Ray\" Chia-Hua and LGE.Huya head coach Wu \"Dokkaebi\" Xiuqing would serve as the Hunters' co-head coaches. Additionally, former Hunters support player Li \"Garry\" Guan was added as an assistant coach. Roster changes. The Hunters enter the new season with all ten of their players under contract. The OWL's deadline to exercise a team option is November 11, after which any players not retained will become a free agent. Free agency officially began on October 7. The Hunters' first offseason change was announced on December 27 with the departures of DPS Zhihao \"YangXiaoLong\" Zhang and main tank Yansong \"Jiqiren\" Wei. On January 14, the Hunters revealed the signing of main"}, {"text": "tank player Chen \"ATing\" Shao-Hua and promotions of support players He \"Molly\" Chengzhi and Chen \"Lengsa\" Jingyi from their academy team LGE.Huya."}, {"text": "Kibiryovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 197 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Kibiryovo is located 7 km north of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gribovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nicolai Kornum Geertsen (; born 19 June 1991) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. A versatile and opportunistic defender, Geertsen played at different levels in both Denmark and Norway. He captained Sandnes Ulf and Lyngby. Career. BSV. Geertsen signed with amateur club BK S\u00f8ller\u00f8d Vedb\u00e6k (BSV) after moving from Br\u00f8ndby IF's U19-team in August 2010. Before coming to Br\u00f8ndby, he had risen through the ranks of the Lyngby Boldklub academy. Prior to signing with BSV, he had trialled in friendly matches during the summer, where he had left a good impression. HB K\u00f8ge. In August 2013, after three years at S\u00f8ller\u00f8d-Vedb\u00e6k, Geertsen signed a six-month contract with HB K\u00f8ge. He made his official debut for the club on 27 August as a starter in a 3\u20131 Danish Cup away win over Led\u00f8je-Sm\u00f8rum, with Geertsen scoring the second goal for HB K\u00f8ge. Geertsen was benched during the first four league matches of the regular season, but finally made his Danish second tier debut on 9 September as a 86th-minute substitute for Thobias Ndungu Skovgaard in a 2\u20131 loss to Hobro IK. He made a total of eight appearances during his first sixth months at HB K\u00f8ge,"}, {"text": "and signed a six-month contract extension. During the spring season of 2014, Geertsen made nine league appearances. His contract was not extended after its expiration. Egersunds IK. On 11 July 2014, Norwegian third tier club Egersunds IK announced that they had signed a contract with Geertsen after a successful trial. He played 11 matches and scored one goal during the 2014 season. Sandnes Ulf. After his contract with the club expired, he had a trial with FC Helsing\u00f8r, without this amounting to a contract offer. Instead, Geertsen continued his career in Norway, signing with Sandnes Ulf in January 2015, a club which had recently been relegated from the Eliteserien and therefore competed in the second tier. He made his official debut in the second round of the 2015 second tier season, starting in a 1\u20131 away draw against Ranheim IL. In the summer of 2015, Geertsen signed a two-and-a-half-year contract extension, keeping him a part of Sandnes Ulf until December 2017. During his time for the club, he became a regular starter and eventually also club captain. As his contract expired in December 2017, Geertsen declined a contract extension with Sandnes Ulf, citing a desire to return to Denmark. He"}, {"text": "made a total of 79 appearances scoring four goals during his three years at the club. Hiller\u00f8d. A free agent, Geertsen received a number of offers from clubs in Denmark and Norway, including Bod\u00f8/Glimt and Troms\u00f8, but he also had a trial at Nyk\u00f8bing FC, who he ended up not signing with due to its long distance to Copenhagen. In March 2018, he signed with Danish third tier club Hiller\u00f8d, making his first start only days after joining, in a 2\u20132 away draw against VSK Aarhus. Lyngby. Geertsen signed a contract with Lyngby Boldklub from the second-tier 1st Division in July 2018 after having trained with their first team, marking a return to the club from his youth. He made his debut in the first round of competition on 29 July, starting in the centre of defense in a 1\u20131 home draw against Hvidovre IF. Geertsen reached promotion to the Danish Superliga during his first season at the club, in which he made 16 total appearances scoring three goals. During Martin \u00d8rnskov's absence due to a concussion, Geertsen has emerged as club captain. On 12 November 2020, Geertsen scored a scissor kick where his first attempt clanged off the crossbar"}, {"text": "and bounced right back to him, then he struck the ball with a second scissor kick, this one squeezing between the goalkeeper's outstretched arms and a defender standing on the goal line. The goal became viral. Helsing\u00f8r. On 22 January 2021, Geertsen signed a one-and-a-half-year deal with 1st Division club FC Helsing\u00f8r. He made his debut on 12 February in a 2\u20130 away win over Kolding IF, also scoring his first goal for the club to secure the final score in the 65th minute. Hvidovre. On 19 June 2023, Geertsen joined newly promoted Danish Superliga club Hvidovre on a two-year deal. He announced his retirement from football on 16 January 2024, citing persistent injuries."}, {"text": "Vera Simons (1920\u20132012) was an inventor, artist, and balloonist. She became known in the 1950s and 1960s as a leader in high altitude gas balloon development and exploration, belonging to a group of pioneers known as the \"Pre-Astronauts.\" Career. In 1949, Simons co-founded one of the world's first plastic balloon companies called Winzen Research, Inc. with her then-husband Otto C. Winzen. To launch the company, she borrowed money from her parents and held two-thirds ownership in the endeavor. She became vice president and provided the needed management skills to launch the company and ensure its success. She worked at Winzen Research for a decade, during which time she secured four patents for her work improving construction techniques and envelope redesign. She also developed new systems that would ensure consistent quality across the Winzen line of products. At Winzen Research, Simons trained a number of women\u2014who were known as the \"balloon girls\"\u2014to handle polyethylene and build giant balloons. Whenever a balloon was launched, Simons made sure that the team of women who worked on the balloon could watch. In an interview with Craig Ryan, Simons noted: \"To see what you've made come alive, that's pretty damned exciting.\" Simons and her balloon"}, {"text": "girls worked on a number of high-profile balloon projects for the United States government. Their high-flying balloons were used to transport scientific equipment to high altitudes. During the 1950s and 1960s, Winzen Research was hired to engineer balloons capable of carrying humans for the United States Navy projects Helios, Skyhook, and Strato-Lab; for the United States Air Force, they worked on Project Manhigh. \"Manhigh\" took advantage of Simons's thin polyethylene balloons, which were notably more flexible than the cloth balloons that predated them, allowing pilots to more effectively control their elevation. The \"Manhigh\" missions enabled the Air Force to understand the effects of high-altitude flights on humans. Simons became a central figure in the planning and execution of those research flights. Simons earned her gas-balloon pilot's license in 1957 and became an accomplished balloonist. In 1957, she represented the United States in Holland at the 30th Annual International Gas Balloon Races, where she received a gold medal recognizing her contributions to gas balloon research. In 1958, Simons divorced Otto C. Winzen, and subsequently sold her interest in Winzen Research. Prior to meeting Winzen, she had studied art formally at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art, so"}, {"text": "after the divorce she returned to the world of art, enrolling in the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C., and in 1960, she moved to Texas, launching her career as an artist. By the 1960s, Simons became internationally recognized as an artist, showing her work in San Antonio, Houston, Mexico City, San Francisco, and New York, and later showed her work in Brazil, Venezuela, and Australia. Several of her pieces drew from her expertise as a balloonist and engineer. In 1971, she exhibited her work at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Holland, and the museum commissioned her to fly a gas balloon launched from the museum's grounds, a project she called \"Drift Amsterdam\". Later that year, she showed a project called \"Sky Structure\" at Milwaukee's Lake Front Festival of the Arts. The project consisted of 150 5-foot tetrahedrons linked together and filled with helium that flew above the festival. In the 1970s, she conceived of the project \"Da Vinci,\" a series of four manned helium balloon flights that would bridge her love of art and ballooning. The endeavor was sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), General Electric, NASA, and the National Geographic. She"}, {"text": "collaborated with meteorologist and NOAA researcher Rudolf J. Englemann to perform in-flight experiments on atmospheric pollution. Over the course of two years, Simons designed and supervised the construction of a polyethylene balloon and a double-decker fiberglass gondola lift. The first flight launched in 1974 over New Mexico and the second and third launched over St. Louis in June and July 1976. The final flight, which launched on September 26, 1979, over Tillamook, Oregon, was called the \"Da Vinci Transamerica.\" The flight set a \"Comit\u00e9 International d\u2019A\u00e9rostation\" (or FAI Ballooning Commission) world record for the Longest Flight for a Female Pilot when it landed near Lima, Ohio, on October 1, 1979, after flying for 133 hours and 45 minutes. During the flight, Simons dropped small balloons, which carried Douglas fir seedlings, into cleared areas. She also took time-lapse photos, made sound recordings, and used mirrors to create lighting effects for spectators watching her journey from the ground. 1984 marked her final project in ballooning and the arts, with the flight \"Project Aerolus.\" Three interlinked balloons, which were lit from within, were launched into the night sky over New Mexico. Each balloon was piloted by a famous balloonist: Joe Kittinger, Ben Abruzzo"}, {"text": "(co-piloted by Simons), and Larry Newman. Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. Personal life. Simons was born on November 23, 1920, in Heidenheim, Germany, to parents Max and Maja Habrecht. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1923, where she was raised in Detroit, Michigan. There, she attended Cass Technical High School, graduating in 1939. She met her first husband, Otto C. Winzen, who was studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Detroit; the aeronaut Jean Piccard introduced the couple. They were married on February 1, 1941, in Detroit. The couple later divorced in 1958 and, two years later, Simons remarried a physician-turned-balloonist David G. Simons, with whom she worked on Project Manhigh. The couple later divorced on May 5, 1969. On May 26, 1975, she married Clifford Charles La Plante in Arlington, Virginia. Simons died on July 31, 2012, in Austin, Texas, where she had lived for 22 years."}, {"text": "Kirzhach () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 138 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Kirzhach is located 30 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zadneye Pole is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Klyazmensky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 169 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. The village is located 7 km south from Petushki."}, {"text": "Hildegard Gertrud Helen Korf Kallmann-Bijl (September 18, 1908 \u2013 November 7, 1968) was a German-born physicist with Jewish roots who emigrated to the United States where she founded and was the first chair of Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) in Brussels, Belgium. She has been described as \"one of the most active pioneers in her examination of the physics of high atmosphere for the flight calculations of satellites.\" Biography. Hildegard Korf was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 1908 and raised in the Catholic faith. She studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, metallurgy at Technische Hochschule, and physics at University of California, Los Angeles (BS, 1945; MS, 1947, Ph.D., 1955). Her dissertation was titled \"A Study of the Structure of the Ionosphere\". Kallmann-Bijl was employed by RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California (1953\u20131964), was a guest professor of the observatory at the University of Utrecht (1964) and served as a consultant to the United States Air Force and NASA. In time, she became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Kallmann-Bijl's publications focused on models of molecular composition of the Earth's atmosphere. She is best known for her theoretical extrapolation of a model of the atmosphere which gave physicists a"}, {"text": "way to calculate the lifespan of satellite using the \"Kallmann Atmosphere\" (the international reference atmosphere). Her models were detailed enough to include atmospheric ranges and Diurnal variation and could also be used to accurately forecast the landing spot of astronauts and cosmonauts. Between 1949 and 1963, Kallmann-Bijl authored more than 35 papers on a variety of atmospheric subjects including ionospheric research, meteor research, high altitude research, solid propellant research, national space research and international space studies. A searchable collection of her professional files and papers is held at the Smithsonian Institutions (NASM.1989.0042). Some of her correspondence in German and English is held by Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History (identifier AR 4692). Jewish connection. Although Hildegard was raised Catholic, \"Under the Nuremberg Laws, Hildegard and her brother K. Frank Korf were considered 'Mischlinge zweiten Grades [mixed race],' with their Jewish ancestry from the Mossner family on their mother's side.\" Although their ancestry was officially described as three quarters \"Aryan\" and one quarter \"non-Aryan,\" the Korfs were denied full political freedom in Germany by the 1930's. Personal life. She was married twice, first to Curt Kallmann (divorce, 1957), whom she helped flee Germany to Stockholm, Sweden, in 1939"}, {"text": "from persecution for his Jewish faith. Her second husband was concentration camp survivor and Vice-President of Fokker Aviation, Jan Bijl who died in 1963. Kallmann-Bijl died of a heart attack in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 1968."}, {"text": "Kobyaki () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Kobyaki is located on the Laska River, 19 km north of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yermolino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kolobrodovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Kolobrodovo is located on the Kuchebishch River, 28 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zhary is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kostino () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 909 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Kostino is located 18 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Popinovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Maksim Sergeyevich Maksimov (; born 4 November 1995) is a Russian football player who plays as a centre-forward. Club career. He started his professional career in Lithuania with Atlantas. After moving to Riteriai (known as FK Trakai at the time), he scored 7 goals in 6 games in the Europa League qualifiers, helping his club eliminate Scottish club St Johnstone and Swedish IFK Norrk\u00f6ping. Shortly after he transferred to Macedonian club Vardar. After a long investigation, on 27 May 2019 FIFA banned Maksimov from playing for 4 months and Vardar from acquiring new players for two transfer windows due to irregularities with his transfer. On 28 August 2019 he signed a 2-year contract with Russian Football National League club Torpedo Moscow. He made his professional debut in the Russian Football National League for Torpedo on 29 September 2019 in a game against Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. He started the game and was substituted at half-time. He scored his first Torpedo goal on 12 October 2019, a late winning goal in a 3\u20132 victory over Spartak-2 Moscow. On 26 November 2019, his contract was dissolved by mutual consent. On 21 August 2020, he was on trials with Serbian SuperLiga side Napredak Kru\u0161evac. Maksimov"}, {"text": "made his Russian Premier League debut for Fakel Voronezh on 17 July 2022 against Krasnodar. On 30 May 2024, Maksimov left Fakel as his contract expired."}, {"text": "Ann Merchant Boesgaard (n\u00e9e Merchant; born March 21, 1939) is an American astronomer and professor emerita known for her work on the structure and evolution of stars. The minor planet 7804 Boesgaard was named after her in 1998, and in 2019, she received the American Astronomical Society's highest award, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship. Early life. Ann Merchant grew up in Rochester, New York. After her father left when she was five, she and her sister, Carolyn, were raised by their mother, Elizabeth Barnes Merchant. To make ends meet, the family moved in with Ann's grandmother, Estelle Barnes Davis, and great-aunt, Aurelia Huntington. Elizabeth Merchant had studied mathematics at Vassar College for two years before she was married, which enabled her to get a job in the accounting department at Eastman Kodak after the divorce to support daughters Ann and Carolyn. She taught Ann the constellations from a young age, and Ann's first Girl Scouts badge was in astronomy. Ann wanted to be an astronaut, but her gender, poor eyesight, and lack of test pilot experience made that dream impossible. Education and Career. Boesgaard received her bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1961 from Mount Holyoke College. She wrote her"}, {"text": "final thesis on solar rotation with Dr. Robert F. Howard from the University of Massachusetts. In the summer of 1961, she moved to California to work for Dr. Jesse Greenfield at CalTech before starting her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, where she conducted her thesis research on lithium (Li) in red giants and supergiants with George Herbig. She graduated in 1966. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Boesgaard applied for a post doctoral Carnegie Fellowship to work at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories in Southern California, but she was denied. Instead, she returned to work with Dr. Greenfield at CalTech. In September 1966, she became the first woman to have a telescope assigned in her name at the Mount Wilson Observatory. The next year, in 1967, she moved to Hawai'i and became a professor of astronomy at the newly created Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa. She continued her own research while working with undergraduate and graduate researchers and the university. Over the next several decades, Boesgaard broke gender barriers in her field and gained recognition and acclaim for her work. She was the first woman awarded a tenure-track faculty position in astronomy at"}, {"text": "the University of Hawai'i. In 1977, she became the first woman to be elected president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a post she held until 1979. She concurrently served on the American Astronomical Society Council from 1978-1981. In 1998, the minor planet 7804 Boesgaard was named after her, as proposed by Dutch astronomers C.J. van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld. Boesgaard retired from teaching in 2006, a couple of years after her husband, Hans Boesgaard, suffered a heart attack. She retired fully and became professor emerita in 2009, although she continues to use the Keck telescope for observation. In 2020, she was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society. Research. Boesgaard's research focuses on the light element content - lithium, beryllium, and boron - of stars and the atmospheres of giant stars. She discovered that as galaxies age, the amount of heavy elements increases, thereby allowing astronomers to date stars based on their metal content. She has published more than 160 academic papers. Personal life. Merchant met her husband, Hans Boesgaard, an engineer who works on telescopes, while working at the Lick Observatory in Mount Hamilton, California, with George Herbig. They married in 1966. At first,"}, {"text": "the two rarely lived in the same place due to their jobs, so they had to look for ways to see each other during overlapping projects. They eventually settled together in Hawai'i."}, {"text": "Krasny Luch () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 36 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Krasny Luch is located on the Kirzhach River, 39 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vetchi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Krutovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 271 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Krutovo is located on the Klyazma River, 10 km south of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Petushki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kryuki () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. Kryuki is located 43 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novoye Stenino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kuzyayevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Kuzyayevo is located 27 km north of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nazarovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kukushkino () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 26 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Kukushkino is located 20 km east of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kosteryovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lakibrovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Lakibrovo is located on the Sheredar River, 37 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malye Gorki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Larionovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 161 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Larionovo is located on the right bank of the Peksha River, 28 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Andreyevskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mark Jonathan Easton (born 24 May 1963) is a former male track and field athlete who competed for England in the walking events. Biography. Easton became the British 10,000 metres walk champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1989 AAA Championships and the 1990 AAA Championships. Easton represented at four consecutive Commonwealth Games; he represented England in the 30Km walk event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. Four years later he competed once again in the 30 Km walk, representing England at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. At his third Games he stepped up in distance to 50 Km and represented England, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His fourth and final appearance was at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester."}, {"text": "Daniel Obbekj\u00e6r (born 16 July 2002) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Besta deild karla club Brei\u00f0ablik. Early life. Obbekj\u00e6r started playing football at the age of 4 in N\u00e6sby Boldklub, before joining Odense Boldklub 10 years later. Club career. OB. In January 2019, Obbekj\u00e6r went on training camp in Turkey with the OB first team. On 1 April 2019 it was confirmed, that 16-year old Obbekj\u00e6r had signed his first professional contract until the summer 2021 and was promoted permanently to the first team squad. At the end of the month, Obbekj\u00e6r got his professional debut for OB against F.C. Copenhagen. Obbekj\u00e6r started on the bench but replaced Mathias Greve in the 64th minute which made him the third youngest debutant in the club's history. In October 2019, Obbekj\u00e6r became the youngest Danish Superliga starter in OB's history at the age of 17 years and 94 days. In January 2020, 17-year old Obbekj\u00e6r went on a trial at Premier League klub Brighton & Hove Albion after being scouted by the club. On 22 January 2021, Obbekj\u00e6r joined Italian Serie B side S.P.A.L. on loan for the rest of the season, with an option to"}, {"text": "buy. He was registered for the clubs Primavera (U19) team. After returning to OB, Obbekj\u00e6r didn't feature on OB's first team list. In July 2021, he went on a trial at Hobro IK, however, he returned without being offered a contract. With Obbekj\u00e6r's contract with OB expiring at the end of 2021, he was sent to the U19, as he was not registered for the first team. York United. On 5 January 2022, Obbekj\u00e6r signed a two-year contract with Canadian Premier League side York United, with options until 2025. 07 Vestur. In June 2022, he joined 07 Vestur in the Faroe Islands. After a good time in Vestur, where he became the club's captain while also making the team of the year in the 2023 season, Obbekj\u00e6r left the club when his contract expired at the end of October 2023. Brei\u00f0ablik. After a short trial period with Finnish club VPS, including one played Finnish League Cup match, in March 2024, Obbekjaer joined Icelandic Besta deild karla club Brei\u00f0ablik on a contract until 2025."}, {"text": "This article contains lists of the United States men's national water polo team rosters at the Summer Olympics. The lists are updated as of March 30, 2020. Rosters by tournament. Men's water polo tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1900. The United States has participated in 22 of 27 tournaments."}, {"text": "Savage Gringo () is a 1966 Western film starring Ken Clark. The film is about a drifter who protects a rancher couple from a ruthless landowner. Under its Italian title, \"Savage Gringo\" was one of numerous Spaghetti Westerns retitled to take advantage of the success of Duccio Tessari's successful \"Ringo\" duology (\"A Pistol for Ringo\" and \"The Return of Ringo\"). Stories from people involved with the production have discussed whether or not Mario Bava directed the film. Actor Renato Rossini stated he did not recall Bava ever being on set. Bava's son Lamberto, who served as an assistant director on the film, recalled that his father was brought in only to create matte paintings for the film. Bava's biographer Tim Lucas has debated the matter based on these recollections, while film historian Troy Howarth went so far as to state that Bava directed 99% of the film and edited it as well. Production. Background. Following the financial success of \"A Fistful of Dollars\" in Italy, several scripts that had been written to capitalize on the popularity of Westerns made by Karl May, but had initially been shelved, were put into production. These films, which featured characters like Django, Ringo and"}, {"text": "Sartana, would form the Italian Western. With the success of Duccio Tessari's \"Ringo\" films in 1965 (\"A Pistol for Ringo\" and \"The Return of Ringo\"), a wave of films with the name \"Ringo\" in the title were released, with nearly 30 made between 1965 and 1972, such as \"100.000 dollari per Ringo\" and \"Ringo and His Golden Pistol\". These films rarely had anything to do with the original two films, and were so named to take advantage of their popularity. \"Savage Gringo\" was among these films, as its original Italian title was \"Ringo del Nebraska\"; the protagonist's name was changed from \"Nebraska\" to \"Ringo\" through post-production dubbing. Directorial credit dispute. The film was originally set to be directed by Antonio Rom\u00e1n under the title of \"Nebraska il pistolero\", but after a few days of shooting in La Pedriza in Spain, producer Fulvio Lucisano felt the director \"wasn't working out\" and halted production. On returning to Rome, Lucisano met with Mario Bava (with whom he had made Bava's most recent film, \"Planet of the Vampires\"), who agreed to finish the film, leading to it being completed at Elios Film Studios in Rome. The onscreen credits still include the originally-contracted cast and"}, {"text": "crew, although Lucisano stated that Bava directed most of the film. In an interview with the Italian magazine \"Nocturno\", actor Renato Rossini stated \"I know this film very well, but I really can't remember Mario Bava involved in it. The director was a Spaniard, Antonio Rom\u00e1n, a rather old man, a tall one. [...] We shot it almost entirely in Spain. I was on the set from the first day to the last day, but I really can't remember Mario Bava there.\" Bava biographer Tim Lucas has suggested that Rossini only had a small role in the film, which would not have required him to be on-set every day. Mario Bava's son Lamberto Bava was an assistant director on the film, and recalled that Lucisano called his father to do some work on the film, such as matte paintings. Lamberto also noted that he and his father often laughed between themselves at Rom\u00e1n's directorial style, as he would always use the first take of each scene. Lamberto Bava's recollections of Rom\u00e1n's working methods would have resulted in Lucisano getting Bava to direct. Lucas also notes that Lamberto Bava would not have served as an assistant director if the film had"}, {"text": "been entirely shot in Spain. In his study of Spaghetti Westerns, filmmaker Alex Cox considers Anthony Rom\u00e1n to be the film's primary director and that Bava served as its second unit director. Film historian Troy Howarth declared that Bava directed about 99% of the film and supervised the editing process as well after the producer fired Antonio Roman. Release. \"Savage Gringo\" was first released in Rome on March 18, 1966. On its initial Italian release, the film grossed 143 million Italian lire. It was released in Germany as \"Nebraska Jim\" on June 12, 1966, and in Spain as \"El Rancho Maldito\" () on February 12, 1968. In 1970, the film was later reissued in Italy with a new title, \"Preparatti a morire Ringo del Nebraska c'e Sartana\" (). In the United States, the film was packaged for broadcast syndication on television by AIP-TV under the title \"Savage Gringo\"."}, {"text": "Paul Powless Tegahsweangalolis (\"Saw Mill\") (c. 1758 - 1847) was a warrior and chief of the Oneida people and hereditary sachem of the Bear clan. Like many of his people, he joined the American side during the Revolutionary War and served as a spy and messenger. Encounter with Joseph Brant. During the Siege of Fort Stanwix, the about 17-year-old Powless came upon Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, who was allied with the British forces of the St. Leger Expedition. Brant tried to convince the Oneida to surrender.Brant insinuatingly offered him a large reward, and a plenty as long as he should live, if he would only join the King\u2019s side, and induce other Oneidas to do so, and help the British to take Fort Stanwix. Powless firmly rejected any such blandishments, saying he and his brother Oneidas had joined their fortunes with those of the Americans and should share with them whatever good or ill might come. Brant portrayed the great and resistless power of the King, and profess[ed] to deplore the ruin of the Oneidas if they should foolishly and recklessly persist in their determination. Powless replied that he and the Oneidas would persevere, if need be, till all were"}, {"text": "annihilated; and that was all he had to say, when each retired his own way.The two parted without conflict and Powless continued to Fort Stanwix, sneaking into the besieged fort before carrying word to Schenectady on horseback. They later fought on opposing sides during the Battle of Orsikany."}, {"text": "Lauren Halsey (b. 1987 Los Angeles, California) is a contemporary American artist. Halsey uses architecture and installation art to demonstrate the realities of urban neighborhoods like South Central, Los Angeles. Early life and education. Halsey was born in 1987 in Los Angeles, California. She initially wanted to be a professional basketball player. Halsey graduated in 2005 from the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies. For five years she attended El Camino Community College in Torrance, California. She later studied at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) \u2013 where her teachers included Charles Gaines \u2013 from 2008 to 2012, earning a BFA, and then Yale University from 2012 to 2014, earning an MFA. Work. Halsey counts among her greatest influences the artists Betye Saar, Overton Loyd, Mike Kelley, Dominique Moody and Mark Bradford. She describes her work as an attempt to \"summon a world suffused with an ethos of funk.\" She mentions that a common theme of her art is to represent her community of South Central LA and representations of her family. From 2012-2014, Halsey worked with colleagues on a project titled \"Harlem Postcards\", which was presented at The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. It was during this time."}, {"text": "that Halsey completed her thesis exhibition at the California Institute of the Arts and began the program at Yale University. In 2015 Halsey was included in the \"United,\" exhibition at Coney Island Art Walls. The same year she was included in the exhibition \" Everything, Everyday\" at the Studio Museum along with fellow Artists -in-Residence Sadie Barnette (also a CalArts alum) and Eric Mack. In 2016, she made a float for the Kingdom Day Parade in Los Angeles. In 2018 Halsey was involved in a solo exhibition at Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris. Also in 2018, she participated in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Her work was at the Hammer Museum. New to the L.A. art scene, Halsey was awarded the Mohn Award in 2018. She won the Frieze Artist Award in 2019. Halsey was included in the 2019 traveling exhibition \"Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art\". In July 2020, Halsey collaborated with Korina Matyas, a childhood friend and environmentalist to start Summaeverythang, an initiative to bring organic produce to underserved neighborhoods in L.A. Summaeverythang donated an average of 600 boxes of organic produce every week throughout the 2020 season. Halsey"}, {"text": "was commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2022 as the tenth artist to design an outdoor work for the museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor roof garden. The planned exhibition was postponed to 2023 due to residual logistics delays from the COVID-19 pandemic. Halsey designed \"the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I)\" (2022-2023), an open-air cubic pavilion inspired by Egyptian architecture, surrounded by four sphinx statues and several free-standing columns. The white walls of the pavilion and columns were extensively etched with phrases, names, drawings, logos, and historical references from and about black culture, with many specifically referencing Halsey's community in South Central, Los Angeles. The sphinx sculptures and other busts of people featured throughout the pavilion were based on Halsey's friends and family, including her mother Glenda. The installation was on display from April to October 2023; following the exhibition, Halsey has said she plans to permanently relocate the work to South Central. Writing in \"The New York Times\", critic Holland Cotter described the piece as \"a kind of space station/sanctuary,\" calling it \"one of the best\" of the museum's roof garden commissions. In 2024 Halsey created an outdoor installation for the 60th"}, {"text": "Venice Biennale's main exhibition \"Foreigners Everywhere\". Similar to her previous architectural works, Halsey's installation \"keepers of the krown\" (2024) featured several tall white columns decorated with faces and extensive etched drawings and text referencing people and places in Halsey's community. The columns were installed with three similarly decorated white benches outside the main Arsenale building. Other activities. Nike. In 2019, Halsey collaborated with Nike. making a customer Air Force Sneaker in her \"Summaeverything\" aesthetic with the design. This makes her one of the few artists that have ever designed a Nike sneaker According to the cited ART News Interview, Halsey's collection for Nike, which was available starting December 7th of 2019, consisted of sneakers, socks, and t-shirts. The shoes are a remixed version of the brand\u2019s Air Force 1 High style. Community initiatives. Part of Halsey's practice has entailed contributing back to the neighborhood. In 2020, Halsey facilitated the \"Summaeverythang Community Center\", a community initiative which, during the COVID-19 pandemic, provided organic fruits, vegetables and other resources to locals in need. Halsey funded the initiative through personal savings and donations on the Summaeverythang website. Awards. California Institute of Arts awarded Halsey The Beutner Family Award of Excellence in the Arts"}, {"text": "in 2011. Halsey was awarded the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture scholarship for emerging artist in 2014. In 2014-15, Halsey was part of the Studio Museum in Harlem's Artist-in-Residence program. She was recognized for transforming the Mezzanine Gallery with a site-specific installation for her exhibition titled \"Everything, Everyday.\" Halsey is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist grant, 2015. She received the William H. Johnson Price in 2017. Also in 2017, she was awarded the Edge Award from the Los Angeles Design Festival. In 2018, Halsey received $100,000 for the Mohn Award to honor her artistic excellence. In 2019, Lauren Halsey was named the winner of the Frieze Art, for which she will receive $25,000, funded by Luma Foundation, to create a new work for the upcoming edition of Frieze New York art fair. Also in 2019, Halsey was recipient of the 2019 Painter and Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York. In 2021 Halsey received the Gwendolyn Knight | Jacob Lawrence Prize from the Seattle Art Museum. Art market. Halsey has been represented by Gagosian Gallery (since 2023) and David Kordansky Gallery (since 2018)."}, {"text": "Phoebe Gertrude Stabler (n\u00e9e McLeish, 1879\u20131955) was an English artist working across many mediums including metalwork, pottery, enamel and wood in the late nineteenth and early-mid twentieth centuries. \"Although Stabler is best known for her pottery figures, during the 1920s and 1930s she was also well known for her stone carvings and was an important contributor to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, 1924.\" Biography. Stabler was born in Birmingham, but grew up in Liverpool, where both her parents originated. Stabler was one of five or more children, with her two sisters also following creative careers as jewellery designers. Stabler first studied at the Liverpool School of Art in the 1890s, where two of her sisters also attended. During this time she was awarded the City Scholarship and Travelling Scholarship. She went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London. Artwork. In 1906, she married Harold Stabler. From 1912, Stabler and her husband, had a kiln in Hammersmith, London, where they worked collaboratively as well as Stabler producing garden ornaments. She created richly glazed pottery figures which were produced by both the Royal Worcester and Royal Doulton and Poole Pottery. For Poole Pottery, she collaborated with her"}, {"text": "husband to design the ceramics for The Cenotaph in Durban. Stabler also designed works for Ashtead Potters, a pottery that employed ex-servicemen after the First World War. Stabler created the World's Land-Speed Trophy that was awarded to Sir Henry Segrave. In 2018, \"The Light of Knowledge\" (1927) ceramic tile panel was put on display at the Rugby Art Gallery & Museum following a fundraising effort to have it restored. Selected exhibitions. Stabler's work was exhibited widely, including at the following institutes,"}, {"text": "Naresh Chandra Chaki was an Indian politician belonging to All India Trinamool Congress. He was elected as a legislator in West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Ranaghat Dakshin in 1972 and from Chakdaha in 2011. He died of cancer on 24 February 2014 at the age of 79."}, {"text": "Both the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has hosted Fleet Reviews on a regular basis in Sagami Bay since 1956. The fleet review continues the tradition of triennial fleet reviews held by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1868 to 1940. History. The Imperial Japanese Navy first hosted a fleet review in 1869. The 1940 Fleet Review, the largest in Japanese history, was held on the Yokohama coast and involved nearly 100 vessels and more than 500 aircraft. In 1957 the JMSDF resumed fleet reviews which are held about once every three years in Sagami Bay to commemorate the anniversary of its founding. Nearly 50 warships participated in the 2006 Fleet Review which also featured live-fire missile volleys by the JMSDF. Another Fleet Review was held in 2009, and again in 2012, which featured 45 ships, including three foreign navy vessels. 2015 JMSDF Fleet Review. In addition to the JMSDF, the 2015 Fleet Review saw participation from the United States Navy, the French Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, the Republic of Korea Navy, and the Indian Navy. This marked the first attendance of a South Korean vessel since the 2002 review. Prime Minister of Japan"}, {"text": "Shinzo Abe served as Chief Inspector of the 2015 Fleet Review and led the battle line from the bridge of the Japanese destroyer JDS \"Kurama\". Following the review, Abe helicoptered to USS \"Ronald Reagan\" to become the first serving Japanese prime minister to board a United States Navy aircraft carrier. 2018 JCG Fleet Review. The JCG's 2018 fleet review saw 37 ships and 15 aircraft participating in a parade along with anti-terrorism and life-saving rescue demonstrations. They were joined by vessels from various regional police and fire departments, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Alex Haley (WMEC-39), and the JMSDF Hatakaze (DDG-171). The parade was led by the 6,500 ton Akitsushima (PLH-32) and included flyovers by the JCG's Dassault Falcon 900 and Gulfstream V aircraft. Princess Takamado and Princess Ayako represented the Royal Family, joining Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Transportation Minister Keiichi Ishii aboard Japanese patrol vessel Yashima (PLH-22) to review the fleet. The JCG typically held annual reviews, however the volume of grey-zone challenges around the Senkaku Islands has stretched the JCG's resources as they bulked up their presence in Okinawa. Following a greater emphasis of the JCG mission in recent years, Japan returned to the tradition of holding"}, {"text": "a fleet review after 6 years without in honor of the JCG's 70th anniversary. 2019 JMSDF Fleet Review. The Fleet Review of 2019 was scheduled for October 14 and was to mark the first-ever participation of a Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy vessel. Participation from the United States Navy, the Indian Navy, and the Royal Australian Navy was also planned. South Korea was not invited to participate in the 2019 Fleet Review, a decision Admiral Hiroshi Yamamura said was intentional and due to the deteriorating state of Korean-Japanese relations. The previous year, Japan declined an invitation to attend South Korea's own review since it was contingent on a JMSDF warship not raising the \"Kyokujitsu-ki\" during the review, a condition with which Japan said it could not comply. In the hours prior to the landfall of Typhoon Hagibis, American naval forces in Japan were ordered to sortie. The JMSDF ultimately canceled the 2019 Fleet Review due to widespread damage and flooding in the Tokyo area."}, {"text": "Valentine Mathilde Am\u00e9lie Thomson (3 June 1881 \u2013 15 January 1944) was an influential French journalist, playwright and editor, who was active both in Europe and the United States. Daughter of the left-wing politician Gaston Thomson, in 1919 she was a delegate at the Inter-Allied Women's Conference which sought to introduce women's issues to the peace process following the end of the First World War. In Paris, in collaboration with her husband, the journalist and screenwriter Andr\u00e9 Jaeger-Schmidt (1884\u20131940), she wrote plays which were staged in Paris and the provinces. In the late 1920s she moved to the United States where she wrote about international politics for a variety of papers including the \"New York Times\" and \"Harper's Magazine\". She was also known for the \"salons\" she held with prominent figures of her times. Early life. Valentine Mathilde Am\u00e9lie Thomson was born on 3 June 1881 in Paris to Henriette Mathilde Elmire (n\u00e9e Peign\u00e9) and Gaston Arnold Marie Thomson. Her father was a French politician, serving as a cabinet minister for several years. At one point he served as Minister of the Marine and during World War I was the Minister of Commerce. Thomson's paternal family were natives of Charleston,"}, {"text": "South Carolina, who migrated to France in the 18th century. Their ship was involved in an accident at sea and the only survivor from her family was a two-year-old boy, Peter Johnson Thompson. Thompson was raised by an aunt in France and eventually gained French citizenship. On her mother's side, she was a great-grandchild of Adolphe Cr\u00e9mieux, a brilliant lawyer and government minister. She was also a cousin of Marcel Proust. From the time that she was young, Thomson was exposed to politicians and officials and became interested in politics. She also developed solid friendships with celebrated literary figures including Pierre Loti and Anatole France. When she was 20, she began to publish essays and historical studies inspired by her frequent trips around Europe. Career. Thomson began her career as a journalist, working for Paris papers and periodicals, including \"Femina\", \"Excelsior\" and \"L'Homme libre\". She became the director of \"La Vie Feminine\" and \"Pandora\", two feminist journals, and was very interested in women's rights. From 1916, she operated the \"Ecole Hoteliaire\" to train women and girls to work in the hospitality industry. The school offered a three-month training period where students learned how to arrange flowers, keep inventories of supplies,"}, {"text": "perform general housekeeping, serve a meal, set a table, spread a bed, and wash and repair linen. They also had instruction in bookkeeping and courses in English, French and Russian languages. After completing the course, the students were given a six-month internship at a hotel, after which time, they had an examination and the opportunity to earn a diploma. Thomson met fellow journalist Andr\u00e9 Jaeger-Schmidt before the beginning of the war and the two were married. In 1919, she led a delegation of 80 women to meet with President Woodrow Wilson to ask for the inclusion of women in the deliberations of the Paris Peace Conference. Just over a week later, when the Inter-Allied Women's Conference opened, she began serving as an editor and translator for the conference delegates. The conference lasted from 10 February to 10 April, and at its conclusion Thomson began a tour of the U.S. with Alice Masaryk. The women were part of a lecture conference series directed by the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor and were to speak on the impacts of war on children's education, health and welfare. After she returned to France, Thomson and Jaeger-Schmidt traveled, working as journalists"}, {"text": "and visiting Bucharest, Russia and Turkey. Upon returning to Paris, they wrote six plays together, after which he turned to filmmaking, and she returned to the political sphere. In the 1930s, she began making annual trips to the United States to foster good relations between the two countries. As the hostess of a diplomatic salon, she was an influential political actor and as a journalist she interviewed people of interest, like Engelbert Dollfuss, Hitler, and Mussolini, on whom she spoke in the United States. In the early 1930s, she began publishing political biographies in English, including one on Aristide Briand, \"Briand\u2014Man of Peace\" (1930), based on a series of interviews with the subject and one on John Paul Jones, \"Knight of the Seas\" (1939), based on material from French archival records. She also published a novel, a study of European politics and politicians, and a magazine article on Proust. Death and legacy. Thomson died on 15 January 1944 at her home 33 rue Barbet-de-Jouy. Her funeral was held on the 19 January at Saint-Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Church and on the 10th anniversary of her death the church held a memorial service for her."}, {"text": "Helen Elleker (born 21 March 1956) is a former female track and field athlete who competed for England in the walking events. Biography. Elleker finished third behind Canadian Ann Peel in the 5,000m walk event at the 1983 WAAA Championships. The following year Elleker became the British 10,000 metres walk champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1984 WAAA Championships and would go on to win it again at the 1985 WAAA Championships and the 1986 WAAA Championships, in addition to becoming the 5,000 metres champion in 1986. Elleker represented England in the 10,000 metres walk event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand."}, {"text": "Admiral International Films was an Italian film studio set in Rome and whose director was Mario Maggi. It produced \"Veinte pasos para la muerte\" (1970), by Manuel Esteba, and \"Aquel maldito d\u00eda\" (1971)."}, {"text": "Barbara Peebles was a Scottish Presbyterian, visionary and prophet known to have been active in the 1660s. Visions and prophesies. Peebles' visions began in 1660 during an illness when she expected to die. She described the power going from her body and a temporary loss of speech. On 20 July 1660, she prophesied martyrdoms and persecution, and God sanctioned to her the Presbyterian form of church government; she is thought to have been a member of a praying circle that was focussed around a radical Presbyterian minister. In December 1666, she wrote in a letter that she had seen Christ weep tears of blood because of the King, Charles II. In one of her visions, Peebles said she had visited heaven. As a Presbyterian visionary, she was cautious to describe her visions within the context of theology appropriate to her creed. It has been noted that \"Her visions fit the biblical role model of Hulda, the prophetess who served an Old Testament covenanted king\": in this, she may have seen her role as eventually speaking personally to Charles, persuading him to take on the new Covenant. Writing. Peebles wrote an autobiography, dated 20 July 1660, titled \"The Exercise of a"}, {"text": "Private Christian, or Barbara Peebles' Trance.\" This was copied and circulated, probably amongst fellow Presbyterians, and three copies survive. This recording of her own visions, rather than the transcription being undertaken by a man, was more unusual for a woman visionary and may explain why Peebles used God as a defence for her move to manifest her visions to the ministry. Records of Peebles' visions are collected in the Wodrow MSS. Historical context. Peebles' work as a prophet may be part of a larger context of prophecy by women in her era's religious discussions and events. Scottish Presbyterians were persecuted during the Commonwealth rule and then following Charles II's Restoration in 1660. Yeoman notes that Peebles' July 1660 visions and prophesies were two months after the restoration to the throne of Charles, and that her December 1666 vision was very shortly after the defeat in battle at Rullion Green of the Presbyterians. In this sense, they act as a commentary on and explanation of crises. Birthdate, family life, and death. Peebles' birthdate and date of death are not known although she may be the Barbara Peebles who died in Edinburgh in 1670. Details in some of Peebles' writings show that"}, {"text": "she was married."}, {"text": "HMS \"Spey\" is a Batch 2 offshore patrol vessel of the Royal Navy. Named after the River Spey in Scotland, she is the eighth Royal Navy ship to be named \"Spey\" and is the fifth Batch 2 River-class vessel to commission and is forward deployed long-term to the Indo-Pacific region with her sister ship . Construction. On 6 November 2013 it was announced that the Royal Navy had signed an Agreement in Principle to build three new offshore patrol vessels, based on the River-class design, at a fixed price of \u00a3348 million including spares and support. In August 2014, BAE Systems signed the contract to build the ships on the Clyde. The Ministry of Defence stated that the Batch 2 ships are capable of being used for constabulary duties such as \"counter-terrorism, counter-piracy and anti-smuggling operations\". According to BAE Systems, the vessels are designed to deploy globally, conducting anti-piracy, counter-terrorism and anti-smuggling tasks currently conducted by frigates and destroyers. A \u00a3287m order, for two further ships, and \"Spey\", and support for all five Batch 2 ships, was announced on 8 December 2016. Batch 2 ships such as \"Spey\" include some 29 modifications and enhancements over the built by BAE Systems"}, {"text": "for the Brazilian Navy. \"Tamar\" and \"Spey\" have further modifications such as carbon dioxide reducing catalytic converters. \"Spey\" was formally named on 3 October 2019. In September 2020, \"Spey\" began the contractor sea trials, and after they were completed, left the Clyde on 28 October for the delivery voyage to Portsmouth. Operational history. On 7 January 2021, HMS \"Spey\" was handed over to the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. In late spring 2021, \"Spey\" received \"dazzle\" camouflage in Falmouth in preparation for deploying to the Indo-Pacific region with . \"Spey\" was commissioned into the Royal Navy at her affiliated town, Invergordon on 18 June 2021. On 7 September, \"Spey\" and \"Tamar\" departed Portsmouth to be forward deployed to the Indo-Pacific region for a minimum of five years. On 21 January 2022, \"Spey\" was deployed to Tonga as relief aid due to the 2022 Hunga Tonga\u2013Hunga Ha'apai eruption and tsunami. In March a survey by the ship revealed that Henderson Island - part of the Pitcairn chain in the south Pacific had been mislocated in a survey in 1937 by . In 2023, \"Spey\" was deployed to Australia. In 2024 \"HMS Spey\" made her inaugural visit to India following in the wake"}, {"text": "of \"HMS Tamar\" and anchored in Port Blair, a strategic port in the Andaman and Nicobar Island groups following exercises conducted with Indian Navy Patrol boats. In April, the ship embarked a Puma unmanned air vehicle team from 700 Naval Air Squadron for operations in the East China Sea. In June 2025, HMS Spey transited the Taiwan strait."}, {"text": "Smile Afua Gavua Dzisi was born on 18 June 1971, to Rev. Eusebius Kofi Gavua and Mrs Rebecca Dzandu Gavua from Wusuta in the Volta Region of Ghana. She was the first female to be appointed rector in the history of the Koforidua Polytechnic now Koforidua Technical University. She is the current interim vice chancellor of the Koforidua Technical University. Early life. Professor Smile Dzisi was born 18 June 1971 in Wusuta, in the Volta Region of Ghana. She had her basic education at Saviefe Agorkpo, a rural community near Ho in the Volta Region. After her basic education, she got admitted at Mawuli School and obtained her GCE \u2018O\u2019 Level and GCE \u2018A\u2019 Level certificates. Smile later furthered her education at the Kwame Nkrumah University of science and Technology where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She also received a Master of Public Administration degree from University of Ghana, Legon In 2005 she studied for a Doctor of Philosophy in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia Career. Dzisi began her career as a teacher at St. Roses Secondary School at Akwatia. In 1999,"}, {"text": "she was appointed a Lecturer at Koforidua Polytechnic now Koforidua Technical University. On 1 August 2015, she became the first ever female in the history of Koforidua Technical University to become a rector. She later became the Vice Chancellor of the school and now the Interim Vice Chancellor of Koforidua Technical University. She has also held some positions in the school including Head of Marketing, Campus Coordinator, Director of Research and New Programmes, and Acting Deputy Registrar (Academic), Head of Department of Purchasing and Supply. She is a member of the International Society for Professional Innovation Management, and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. Dzisi is currently the vice chairperson of the Commonwealth Association of Technical Universities and Polytechnics, comprising Cameroun, Nigeria, Ghana, The Gambia and Sierra Leone. Honours. Some of the honours received include the Name in Science and Education Award by the Academic Union and the Club of Rectors of Europe, United Kingdom, the 4th Ghana Women of Excellence Award, the Daasebre Silver Jubilee Award for Excellence in Higher Education Management She was appointed as the Vice Chairperson of the Commonwealth Association of Technical Universities and Polytechnics at its recently held 52nd meeting in Kenya Personal life."}, {"text": "Professor Dzisi is married to Dr. Stephen Yao Dzisi a medical practitioner with three children."}, {"text": "Javier Enrique C\u00e1rdenas Escalona (Maracay, Venezuela, August 2, 1988), better known as Javicoro, is a Venezuelan YouTuber, blogger, reporter, podcaster and activist for the rights of immigrants, goodwill Ambassador for International Organization for Migration (IOM). and member of the Non-profit Civil Association. \"Alliance for Venezuela\" He is dedicated to creating content for social media aimed at migrants and refugees. Since 2014. he lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Since he has Argentine citizenship as well) He is host of Raices en Movimiento, a podcast in collaboration with the IOM recorded in Radio Capital. Frequently gives conferences in different universities such as University of Palermo, National University of Lomas de Zamora and National University of La Matanza. Biography. Born in Venezuela in 1988, he started his career on social media at the age of 26 and quickly gained popularity in his home country thanks to his humor and charisma. In 2016, due to the difficult political and economic situation in Venezuela, decided to move to Argentina in search of new opportunities. In this country, he continued his work on social media, documenting his life on his YouTube channel and his profiles on Instagram and Youtube. He has also stood out for his"}, {"text": "work in helping immigrants and refugees, organizing clothing and food donation campaigns, and collaborating with non-governmental organizations that work in support of this population. Thanks to his social commitment and popularity on social media, has been recognized on several occasions for his work, receiving awards and accolades for his humanitarian aid work and promotion of immigrant integration in Argentina. Currently, continues to work on his career as a YouTuber and influencer, but always maintaining his commitment to the community and his work in helping those in need. In 2017 and 2022 he was appointed ambassador of the IOM (International Organization for Migration) for a UN campaign against racism and xenophobia. He has over 1 million followers on TikTok and more than 300,000 on YouTube. He participated in an event organized in collaboration with the Argentine National Directorate of Migration, where the National Director, Sebasti\u00e1n Seoane, and his team were present. The event also included more than 20 Venezuelan civil society organizations in Argentina, the Chamber of Venezuelan Entrepreneurs and Businesspeople in Argentina, and key figures from the Venezuelan community across the country. Recently, Javicoro gained significant attention in Chile after a video in which he explores the Santiago Metro went"}, {"text": "viral, making him a trending topic in the country."}, {"text": "Wesley Frazan Bernardo (born 5 June 1996), simply known as Frazan, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a central defender for Ituano."}, {"text": "Judy Sullivan (born 1943) is an American retired biomedical engineer who worked for NASA during the Apollo 11, Apollo 10, Apollo 9, Apollo 8, and Gemini 12 missions. She was the lead biomedical engineer for the Apollo 9 and Apollo 11 missions. Sullivan was the only woman in her department, and one of only a relative few women working for NASA in a technical role at that time. She was the first woman engineer hired by NASA for spacecraft testing. Early life and education. Sullivan (then Shanaberger) attended high school in Alabama, where she graduated as valedictorian. She attended Jacksonville State College in Jacksonville, Alabama, where she majored in biology and minored in chemistry and math and graduated second in her class. She chose to study math and science after hearing a speech by then U.S. president John F. Kennedy encouraging more scholars to study engineering, science, and math. In 2019, she said she would have preferred to attend medical school, but did not have the money to afford it. Career. High school teacher. After graduating from college, Sullivan started her career as a high school math and science teacher in Cocoa Beach, Florida. In 1966, she applied for employment"}, {"text": "at NASA, and was hired as an aerospace technologist and engineer. NASA. Sullivan was not recruited by NASA or even applying for a full-time job, but first applied for a summer job with NASA. Sullivan was hired at NASA in 1966 as the first woman engineer in Spacecraft Operations. In the 1960s, 17 percent of the staff at NASA were women, and most of those women were secretaries. She was lead biomedical engineer for the Apollo 11 mission and was the only woman to help Neil Armstrong in the suit lab prior to Apollo 11's launch. Sullivan was in the control room for the 1969 launch, keeping track of the biomedical systems; while she could not see the launch, she said, \"My seat rumbled and you knew something powerful was going on\". As a biomedical engineer, Sullivan was responsible for maintaining the medical telemetry devices worn by the astronauts, and monitoring the telemetry from those instruments prior to and during the launch process. Sullivan checked the functioning of the medical telemetry instruments shortly after they were attached to the astronauts during the suit-up process. Later in the flight, responsibility for that telemetry was shifted to the Houston center. Sullivan was"}, {"text": "quoted in a news story at the time, saying: The astronauts wear our sensors which are attached to their bodies during major spacecraft tests and during flight. These sensors monitor their heart beat, take electrocardiograms, and monitor respiration rates and depths. During spacecraft testing and live launches at KSC, a resident doctor and I, as biomed engineer, sit at the consoles and monitor the biomedical data coming from the spacecraft. The doctor evaluates the crewman's physical condition, and I, the performance of the biomedical system. Sullivan notes that hers was the only female voice on the voice channels, so if she made any error, everyone would know who was responsible, while a male voice might not be recognized. Sullivan did not have an engineering degree, but NASA policy at that time allowed her to be so classified as one based on her academic record in college, where she graduated in the top 20% of her class with a heavy focus on mathematics. Acting. Sullivan was respected at NASA for her work with the Apollo 11 spacecraft, but parted ways with NASA following the mission's completion. After NASA, Sullivan's only son moved out and she started to experience empty nest syndrome."}, {"text": "Sullivan explored modeling, meeting with the Philadelphia Casting Company, but decided not to pursue it as a career after shooting one commercial. She had a first lead role in a film about a soldier in Vietnam who finds a doctor's diary. After Apollo 11, Sullivan moved to Ithaca, New York with her husband Marshall Sullivan and taught middle school while her husband attended Cornell University. The couple later moved their family to Pennsylvania, where she worked as a teacher and a food technologist for Kraft. Today Sullivan is proud of her accomplishments with NASA and continues to encourage young women to go into the fields of science, math, and engineering. On July 19, 2019, \"Our Daily Planet\" declared Sullivan its \"Hero of the Week\" for her role at NASA and for her encouragement of young women to pursue careers in technology and science. Personal life. While in training for NASA in St. Louis, Missouri, Sullivan (then Shanaberger) met Marshall Sullivan, and the two began dating. He was later transferred to Florida, and they were married. After the Apollo 11 mission, he pursued an MBA at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and she resumed teaching. They later moved to the"}, {"text": "Lower Macungie Township in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, where they raised a family."}, {"text": "Jean Gordon (c. 1670 to 1746) was born into one of the Gypsy tribes of Kirk Yetholm. She died in Carlisle in 1746. Biography. Gordon, who was 6 feet tall, was said to be the inspiration for Sir Walter Scott's character Meg Merrilies in his novel Guy Mannering. In 1732, aged 62, she was charged at Jedburgh Court for 'being an Egyptian' and plea bargained to leave Scotland. Gordon was drowned in Carlisle, by an angry mob, for the support she voiced for the Jacobite cause and Bonnie Prince Charlie."}, {"text": "Wajib Ali is an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He was elected to the 15th Rajasthan Assembly from the Nagar constituency under the Bahujan Samaj Party in 2018."}, {"text": "Abubakar Mahmud Gumi Market, also known as Kaduna Central Market, is the biggest marketplace located in the centre of Kaduna the capital of Kaduna State, Nigeria. It is bordered by Kaduna North to the northeast and Kaduna South to the southwest. The market is one of the largest economic hubs in the northern Nigeria region, and one of the busiest transportation yards, Ahmadu Bello Way, is the major expressway that links to various parts of the market. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo once visited the market to empower traders. He was accompanied by the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai. History. The original name of the market was Kaduna Central Market, but in 1994 it was renamed after a prominent scholar of Sunni Muslim, the late Sheik Abubakar Gumi. It is the center of commerce in Kaduna State and it is owned by the State government. People of different ethnic groups are present in the market; there are Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and other Nigerian ethnic groups who share their trading experience as one entity. 2000 fire. On March 16, 2000, a devastating fire broke out in the Sheik Abubakar Mahmud Gumi Market in Kaduna State, causing significant damage to"}, {"text": "the traders' shops and resulting in the loss of stalls, money, and goods worth millions of Nigerian naira. The fire occurred in the middle of the night, leaving hundreds of traders shocked and dismayed when they discovered the extent of the damage the following morning. This incident marked the second time within recent years that such a catastrophic event had taken place in the market, with a previous incident occurring several years before. The Sheik Abubakar Mahmud Gumi Market has been plagued by unscrupulous elements who have transformed it into a profitable real estate venture. Despite the challenges faced by the market, it continues to hold immense significance in the economic and social lives of the people of Kaduna State. Following the fire in 2000, the government took initiative and rebuilt the market, highlighting its central role in supporting local businesses and providing a platform for economic activities in the region. 2019 fire. On Wednesday, October 20, 2019, a destructive fire razed down several shops at Sheikh Gumi Market, located near Bakin Dogo (railway). This was the third fire at the market. It destroyed over 31 shops, including food worth millions of Naira. The fire started around 2 o'clock in"}, {"text": "the morning, a time when most shop owners were at home. The only individuals present at the market were the local guards. While the cause of the fire could not be determined, the shop owners believed it was due to poor electrical wiring."}, {"text": "Amarjeet Singh Marwa (born 14 November 1947) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He debuted internationally on 20 November 1966, against Pakistan, representing his country until 1976. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the brother of a Kenyan hockey international Harvinder Singh Marwa."}, {"text": "Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone is a nonfiction book by Satya Nadella and co-authors Jill Tracie Nichols and Greg Shaw, with a foreword by Bill Gates, published in 2017. Nadella announced that the profits from the book would go to Microsoft Philanthropies and through that to nonprofit organizations. \"Hit Refresh\" entered the New York Times Bestseller List in the nonfiction category at #5 and reached #4. A special annotated version of the book was given to each Microsoft employee. Summary. In \"Hit Refresh\", Nadella interweaves his story of growing up in India and moving to the United States, his experiences at Microsoft before becoming CEO, and his ideas for changing the corporate culture. He often illustrates his statements with anecdotes about cricket and the challenges he has personally faced with his son's medical problems. Nadella includes three areas of future interest for Microsoft: artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and mixed reality. Reception. \"Forbes\" said \"\"Hit Refresh\" is optimistic about ways that tech will augment humans, grow the number of mid-tech jobs, and lead to social surplus.\" \"The Register\" described the book as \"a sanitised rather than revelatory account of change"}, {"text": "at Microsoft\". The reviewer at the \"Star Tribune\" notes \"He is cautious in his storytelling but does delve into some of the decisionmaking, including buying Minecraft and repairing the company\u2019s relationship with Samsung.\" The \"Washington Post\" characterizes it as \"Part memoir, part leadership guide, part futurist vision of technology\". \"Publishers Weekly\" says \"Unpretentious and stirring, this well-written book provides surprising and welcome insights into a corporate giant.\" \"Kirkus Reviews\" says \"Hit Refresh\" is a \"valuable blueprint for techies and others in a culture-change state of mind\"."}, {"text": "Susan Catherine Koerner Wright ( Koerner; April 30, 1831 \u2013 July 4, 1889) was the mother of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright and suffragettist Katharine Wright Haskell, and the wife of bishop Milton Wright. She gave birth to seven children, and fostered in them an interest in carpentry and mechanics with her deep skills in those areas. Early life. Susan Wright was born on April 30, 1831, to Catherine Freyer (or Fry) Koerner and John (Johann) Gottlieb Koerner, and lived in the family home, the Brown-Koerner House of Hillsboro, Virginia, for the first year of her life. Her mother, Catherine, was the tenth of twelve children born in Loudoun County, Virginia. Catherine married John in Loudoun on April 10, 1820. John was a wagon and carriage maker by trade, having apprenticed in Saxony, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1817 or 1818 where he continued as a carriage maker, first in Baltimore, Maryland, then in Hillsboro where he moved with his wife's family. After Susan's birth, the family moved to Union County, Indiana. Susan's father, John, had been a Presbyterian but converted to the Church of the United Brethren in Christ after arriving in Indiana. In 1845,"}, {"text": "Susan was baptized in the faith as well. She loved to read and excelled in mathematics and science, and spent time in her father's workshop developing skills working with tools and solving mechanical problems. In 1853, her father decided to send her to college. Susan attended Hartville College in Indiana, a United Brethren School. While it was unusual at the time for women to attend college, United Brethren was rather progressive for the time. At Hartville, Wright studied literature and continued her studies in science and mathematics. In 1853, she met Milton Wright, who had been appointed as supervisor of the preparatory department. Milton asked her to marry and accompany him on assignment to a church in Oregon, but she declined and agreed to marry him when he returned. Susan and Milton married in 1859; she was 28 and he was 31. Milton had joined the church in 1847, and was ordained in 1856. Susan supported Milton's calling as a clergyman and devoted her life to maintaining their home and children. Children. Susan gave birth to seven children, but only five survived past infancy. Due to Milton's occupation, the family moved 12 times, living in several places in Indiana. Their"}, {"text": "first son, Reuchlin Wright, was born on their Grant County farm near Fairmount, Indiana, in 1861. Lorin Wright, their second son, was born in 1862 on Dan Wright's (Milton's father) farm in Orange Township, Fayette County, Indiana, and Wilbur Wright was born on April 16, 1867, on their farm in Millville, Indiana. The family then moved to Dayton, Ohio, where they purchased a place under construction at 7 Hawthorn Street which would serve as their home base. On February 25, 1870, Susan gave birth to twins, Otis and Ida, but they died shortly thereafter. Orville and Katharine Wright were born at their 7 Hawthorne Street home, on August 19, 1871, and 1874, respectively. The family then moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Richmond, Indiana, finally settling back at their Dayton home in 1884. None of the Wright children were given middle names: instead, their father opted to give them distinctive first names; Wilbur and Orville were named after clergymen Milton admired. As a bishop, Milton was well known within the communities in which they lived, and in Dayton the neighbors knew the children as the \"Bishop's kids\". Milton and Susan kept tight familial bonds and instilled in their children that"}, {"text": "close family bonds could combat the pressures of the world; Milton admonished the children that only family was safe, reliable, and sustaining. Despite Milton's consistent travel as a bishop, both he and Susan had major impacts on their children. During his absences Susan would occasionally work as a dress maker and maintained their family and household while supporting the lessons and beliefs her husband worked to teach their children. Unlike him, Susan had a mechanical aptitude which resulted in toys for the kids, such as a sled, which was a favorite of theirs. She also created simple appliances for herself and, as children, Wilbur and Orville consulted her when they needed mechanical assistance or advice. They kept two libraries in their family homes: books of theology in the bishop's study, and a large and diverse collection kept on the first floor, including two full encyclopedias, histories of England and France, works of Robert Ingresoll and Sir Walter Scott, and popular works of science, such as those of Charles Darwin; despite their religious convictions, Susan and Milton desired to maintain intellectual curiosity. The family corresponded with each other extensively; during the Bishop's absence, he wrote not only to Susan, but to"}, {"text": "each of the children in order to stay up-to-date and involved in their day-to-day lives. He also brought home presents: notably, a toy for Orville and Wilbur (then ages 7 and 11) in 1878\u2014made of cork, bamboo, paper, and twin blades twirled by a rubber band\u2014based on an invention by French aeronautical pioneer Alphonse P\u00e9naud. The boys would later identify the toy as being what sparked their interest in flight. Death and legacy. In 1883, while they were living near Richmond, Indiana, Susan began to show signs of tuberculosis. Even prior to this illness, she was often in poor health, suffering from malaria, rheumatism, and other maladies during adulthood. The next year, the family returned to their Dayton home and remained there so that Milton could be close to the center of the Church of the United Brethren. Around 1885/1886, Wilbur was injured during an ice skating game with friends, resulting in the loss of his front teeth. Though he had been athletic and vigorous, and his injuries did not seem severe, he subsequently became withdrawn. He would forego attending Yale, remaining mostly home-bound for the next few years while taking care of Susan and reading extensively from the family"}, {"text": "library. During this time, Milton was part of the conservative side of a split within the United Brethren. In order to limit his influence in the disagreement, he was re-elected bishop and put in charge of the west coast conferences in California. He refused to move, but was still required to spend a great deal of time out of town. During Milton's absence, Wilbur cared for his mother and kept tabs on the committee rewriting the church constitution for his father. By 1886, Susan was completely invalid, requiring constant care. In June 1889, Milton returned home to find his wife's condition at its worst. On July 4, 1889, she died; Milton wrote in his diary, \"...and thus went out the light of my home.\" Milton continued to acknowledge her death in his diaries throughout the rest of his life, calling her \"the sweetest spirit Earth ever knew.\" On July 6, Susan was buried in what would become the family plot in Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. Looking back on his childhood, Orville was later quoted as saying that he and Wilbur had \"special advantages... we were lucky enough to grow up in a home environment where there was always much encouragement"}, {"text": "to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate whatever aroused their curiosity.\""}, {"text": "Shella is one of the 60 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Meghalaya state in India. It is part of East Khasi Hills district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Tribes. It falls under Shillong Lok Sabha constituency."}, {"text": "Jagmel Singh Rooprai (born 13 September 1944) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Stranger Than Fanfiction is a young adult novel written by author Chris Colfer. It was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers on February 28, 2017, and is Colfer's second young adult novel. \"Stranger Than Fanfiction\" explores themes of race, friendship, and fame, as well as LGBT themes. It has received widespread press coverage and numerous reviews, and has been featured on several awards lists. Background. Chris Colfer, author of \"Stranger Than Fanfiction,\" notes that although the novel is not an autobiography, it is inspired by his own experience with fame; the author formerly portrayed Kurt Hummel on the television show \"Glee.\" At the show's peak, Colfer was a teenager; as a result, he had his coming-of-age experience in the public spotlight. Recognizing the uniqueness of his adolescent experience, Chris Colfer wrote \"Stranger Than Fanfiction\", as he felt that it would add a new and \"hilarious\" perspective to the world of YA literature. According to the author, each of the five protagonists in \"Stranger Than Fanfiction\" represents some aspect of his teenage experience. For example, Colfer likens Cash Carter's fear of disapproval to his own fear of rejection after publicly coming out as gay on national television. Consequently, Cash"}, {"text": "develops agoraphobia, an experience that mirrors the author's own agoraphobic feelings during his time on \"Glee\". Additionally, the author includes plot lines that although aren't personal, he deems worthy of discussion. Although he has stated that he has not experienced issues with gender identity himself, Colfer conducted extensive research on GLAAD websites, consulted friends, and hired sensitivity readers while writing the character Sam Gibson, a transgender protagonist in the novel. The author explains that one of the central messages underlying \"Stranger Than Fanfiction\" is that \u201cthere's nothing wrong with trying to be a better, more authentic version of yourself\u201d. Synopsis. \"Stranger Than Fanfiction\" features five main characters: Topher Collins, Joey Davis, Sam Gibson, Moriko Ishikawa, and Cash Carter. The first is described as intelligent and as having a close, but stifling relationship with his mother and his brother, the latter of whom has cerebral palsy. Joey Davis is an African-American aspiring actor; he struggles with coming out to his homophobic dad, a prominent Catholic preacher in the town. Sam Gibson is a closeted transgender character; his friends repeatedly misgender him through the novel. Sam experiences difficulty with coming out to his mom, a beauty queen, and his friend Topher, who"}, {"text": "is in love with him. Mo Ishikawa is a Japanese-American creative writer and aims to become a published author. Finally, Cash Carter is described as a \u201crough-around-the-edges\u201d actor who has starred on the \"Wiz Kids\" show since he was twelve years old. He's a good-looking celebrity who grew up in the spotlight, but yearns for autonomy. All of the characters, excluding Cash Carter, are high school seniors who are united by their love for the show \"Wiz Kids\". Each dreams of escaping the small, mundane suburb of Downers Grove, Illinois, but before they head off to college, the four decide to go on a final road trip together. Topher jokingly sends an invitation to their favorite actor Cash Carter. The actor, wanting a little adventure in his life, takes the students by surprise and accepts their invitation. The entirety of the book centers on their road-trip adventures as they drive from Illinois to California. Along the way, they run into some scuffles, reveal some dark secrets, and form strong friendships. Analysis. LGBTQ topics are discussed at great length in \"Stranger Than Fanfiction\". Multiple characters identify as members of the community, including Joey Davis, who is gay, and Sam Gibson, who"}, {"text": "is both gay and transgender. These characters are in the closet and struggle with coming out; more so, they fear the implications of such revelations on familial and friendship dynamics. Another prevailing theme is fame; Colfer describes both the good and the bad that comes with being a celebrity, mainly through the plot line of Cash Carter. In the book, Cash laments the loss of privacy as paparazzi chase him everywhere. He also is caught in an identity crisis; although Cash's fans see him as his \"Wiz Kids\" character, a nerdy physicist, the actor is a completely different person in real life and struggles to convey this reality to his fans. This conflict, according to Colfer, represents the author's own issues with identity development during his time on \"Glee\". Colfer also notes that one of the central themes of the book is that our heroes are human. According to the author, fans have a tendency to idolize celebrities, but they fail to recognize that celebrities themselves are imperfect. In fact, they deal with many of the same struggles that \"everyone\" deals with. On the other hand, the author celebrates the concept of \"fandom\", a term which refers to a celebrity's"}, {"text": "fanbase. In the book, Cash receives numerous letters from fans around the world. This scene is meant to represent Colfer's own experience with his fans. According to the author, he wanted to \"celebrate the symbiosis between the fans and the celebrity\" and to show that the fans can have just as much of a positive impact on a celebrity as a celebrity can have on his own fans. The author also briefly touches upon two additional themes: race and disability. Racial representation is mainly limited to two characters: Mo is Japanese-American and Joey is African-American. In particular, there is one scene in the book when the teenagers have an encounter with a racist gas station owner. Disability is discussed from Topher's perspective, as his brother has cerebral palsy. This storyline stems from Colfer's own family: his sister, Hannah Colfer, has epilepsy. Publication history. \"Stranger Than Fanfiction\" was first published on February 28, 2017, in hardback and e-book formats by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. An unabridged audiobook adaptation narrated by Colfer was also released by the publisher on the same day. The following year on May 29, 2018, a trade paperback was issued. Reception. Colfer has largely been praised"}, {"text": "for giving representation to the LGBTQ+ community, and for approaching relevant topics such as gender identity, sexuality, and self-worth that are considered controversial in modern times. A reviewer for \"Booklist\" wrote a favorable review, writing that \"Colfer has a flair for combining poignancy and hilarity so that readers find themselves laughing even as their hearts break a little bit\". Melanie Ramdarshan Bold has described \"Stranger Than Fanfiction\" as part of a larger popular trend of celebrities capitalizing on the increasing popularity of YA literature in order to touch upon sensitive subjects such as race and sexuality. The book was placed on several recommended reading lists by outlets such as the Hollywood Reporter and Bustle, and was placed on the \"New York Times\" Bestseller List for Young Adult Hardcover Books during the week of March 19, 2017."}, {"text": "Surjit Singh Rihal (born 14 November 1948) is a Kenyan field hockey player. Olympics. He was a member of the Kenya field hockey team that participated in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was captain of the Kenya field hockey team that went to participate in men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics. However, Kenya along with other African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympics for political reasons at the eleventh hour. World Cup. Rihal was a member of Kenya field hockey team that participated in 1971 Men's Hockey World Cup held at Barcelona, Spain. Kenya stood fourth in this tournament. He was captain of the Kenya field hockey team that participated in 1973 Men's Hockey World Cup held at Amstelveen, Netherlands."}, {"text": "Jeff Abraham is an American publicist, comedy historian, and author. His only book\u2014\"The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage\"\u2014was written with Burt Kearns, and it was published on September 3, 2019, by Chicago Review Press. Career. As a publicist, Abraham has represented many comedy projects and comedians, including George Carlin and David Brenner. He has been a research consultant to authors and documentarians, and his Abraham Comedy Archives, a voluminous comedy album collection, has been a resource to writers and filmmakers alike. He is a prolific podcast and radio guest, and in 2022, he was featured in the Emmy award-winning HBO documentary series,\"George Carlin's American Dream\". Abraham has conducted interviews for The Archive of American Television and worked closely with the Paley Center for Media. He is on the advisory board of the National Comedy Center. As an author and comedy historian, he is completing the first authorized biography of The Ritz Brothers."}, {"text": "Bostock v. Clayton County, , is a landmark United States Supreme Court civil rights decision in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The plaintiff, Gerald Bostock, was fired from his county job after he expressed interest in a gay softball league at work. The lower courts followed the Eleventh Circuit's past precedent that Title VII did not cover employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. The case was consolidated with \"Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda\", a similar case of apparent discrimination due to sexual orientation from the Second Circuit, but which had added to a circuit split. Oral arguments were heard on October 8, 2019, alongside \"R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission\", a similar question of Title VII discrimination relating to transgender persons. On June 15, 2020, the Court ruled in a 6\u20133 decision covering all three cases that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is necessarily also discrimination \"because of sex\" as prohibited by Title VII. According to Justice Neil Gorsuch's majority opinion, that is so because employers discriminating"}, {"text": "against gay or transgender employees accept a certain conduct (e.g., attraction to women) in employees of one sex but not in employees of the other sex. The ruling has been hailed as one of the most important legal decisions regarding LGBT rights in the United States, along with \"Lawrence v. Texas\" (2003) and \"Obergefell v. Hodges\" (2015). Many legal analysts claimed that the case defined Gorsuch as a textualist in statutory interpretation. Background. Legislation and prior case law. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed into law amid the civil rights movement. It had been proposed by President John F. Kennedy as a means to combat racial discrimination and racial segregation in the aftermath of the Birmingham campaign. After Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, his successor Lyndon B. Johnson advocated passage of the Civil Rights Act in the following year. Among several provisions in the law is Title VII, which covers equal employment opportunities. Its key provision, codified at , states that it is illegal to discriminate in any hiring or employment practices based on an \"individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin\". To enforce this requirement, Title VII established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal"}, {"text": "agency based on an office Kennedy had established with Executive Order 10925, to help oversee any reported employment discrimination and file lawsuits against entities that the EEOC believes have discriminated in the employment context. In addition, the EEOC may make its own determination on cases rather than taking these to court. These decisions do not carry the weight of case law, but the Supreme Court does consider the weight of the EEOC opinions as the EEOC \"constitute[s] a body of experience and informed judgment to which courts and litigants may properly resort for guidance\". The nature of protected classes under \u00a7 2000e-2(a)(1) have been refined through case law over the years. Three key Supreme Court cases prior to \"Bostock\" had considered the aspect of \"sex\" in the context of the statute: LGBT employment protections. Until \"Bostock\", whether the Civil Rights Act gave federal protection against employment discrimination to the class of LGBT people was in dispute. Individual states since 1973 acted on their own accord to extend employment discrimination protections to explicitly cover LGBT employees, and before the \"Bostock\" decision, 21 states had included LGBT as a protected class against employment discrimination, while other states offered some but less extensive"}, {"text": "protections in their laws. States with such protections often have a state-level board that performs functions equivalent to the EEOC, and which will work with the EEOC to unify employment discrimination regulations. Numerous local governments passed similar LGBT employment discrimination statutes as well. Since 1994, members of the Democratic Party in the U.S. Congress have introduced some form of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in nearly every two-year term, which would have amended the Civil Rights Act to include both sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes under Title VII at the federal level and thus applying across the entire country. Passage of these bills has generally failed because lack of support among Republicans, especially in the House of Representatives. More recently, the Equality Act, expanding the non-discrimination protections to include housing, education, and other areas, was introduced in 2015 and similarly introduced each term, failing to pass due to declining support for LGBT rights (and particularly transgender rights) among Republicans since 2013. The EEOC has used past case law and its evaluation of discrimination cases brought before it to establish that LGBT discrimination is unlawful under the context of the Civil Rights Act. In 2012, the EEOC ruled in"}, {"text": "\"Macy v. Holder\" that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is a form of sex stereotyping, and thus prohibited in employment as a form of discrimination on the basis of sex under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 2015, the EEOC ruled in \"Baldwin v. Foxx\" that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is also prohibited in employment under Title VII, on the exact same basis as in \"Macy\". The following year, the EEOC filed its first pair of test cases in federal court arguing that sexual orientation is protected by Title VII. Case background. Gerald Bostock was an employee of Clayton County, within the Atlanta metropolitan area, as an official for its juvenile court system since 2003, with good performance records through the years. In early 2013, he joined a gay softball league and promoted it at work for volunteerism. In April 2013, Clayton County conducted an audit of funds controlled by Bostock and fired him for \"conduct unbecoming a county employee\". Georgia had no law protecting LGBT people from employment discrimination at the time. Bostock believed that the county used the claim of misspent funds as a pretext for firing him for"}, {"text": "being gay, and sought legal recourse for workplace discrimination in 2016 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The county sought to dismiss the claim of prohibited discrimination\u2014the District Court agreed to dismiss, on the basis of the precedent established in the 2017 case \"Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital\" decided by the Eleventh Circuit (of which the District is part), which held that the Civil Rights Act's Title VII does not include protection against discrimination towards sexual orientation. Circuit split. Bostock appealed to the Eleventh Circuit, where the three-judge panel affirmed the District Court's ruling in 2018. The Eleventh Circuit relied on two prior cases: its previous ruling in \"Evans\", and \"Blum v. Gulf Oil Corp.\" from the Fifth Circuit in 1976. In upholding the ruling, the Eleventh Circuit pointed to their ruling in \"Evans\" that dismissed the Supreme Court's precedent against sex discrimination set by \"Price Waterhouse\" and \"Oncale\". The Eleventh Circuit's ruling in \"Evans\" furthered a circuit split, as it conflicted with that of the Seventh Circuit in \"Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana\" (2017) in which, by an 8\u20133 decision, the Circuit found that discrimination in employment on the basis"}, {"text": "of sexual orientation violated Title VII. The Second Circuit came to the same conclusion in \"Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc.\" (2018) (\"Altitude Express\") by a 10\u20133 vote en banc. Thus the Eleventh Circuit, on the one hand, and the Second and Seventh Circuits, on the other, were divided on the question of the interpretation of Title VII. These cases and a related case, \"R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission\", (\"Harris Funeral Homes\"), in which the Sixth Circuit found Title VII also covered transgender employment discrimination, set the stage for the Supreme Court's decision in \"Bostock\". Supreme Court. Bostock petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of \"certiorari\" on the question of whether sexual orientation is covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The Supreme Court granted the petition in April 2019, and consolidated the case with \"Altitude Express\". Between these cases, as well as prior Circuit court decisions, there had been a split of opinions on whether sexual orientation discrimination is covered by Title VII. The combined \"Bostock\" and \"Altitude Express\" cases drew numerous \"amicus curiae\" briefs. Over thirty-six briefs were filed in support of Bostock and the estate of Zarda, including"}, {"text": "one signed by over 200 major corporations such as Amazon, the Walt Disney Company, and Coca-Cola, that asserted that it would not be \"unreasonably costly or burdensome\" for them to accept sexual orientation as a protected class under Title VII. Over 25 briefs were filed to support Clayton County and Altitude Express; among them, the U.S. Department of Justice argued that sexual orientation was not covered, but asserted, \"Congress of course remains free to legislate in this area; and employers, including governmental employers, remain free to offer greater protections to their workers than Title VII requires.\" Oral arguments in the consolidated cases were heard on October 8, 2019, alongside the arguments in \"Harris Funeral Homes\", the case related to Title VII protections for transgender individuals. Just prior to the hearings, police from the District of Columbia had discovered two suspicious packages near the Supreme Court building and temporarily cleared the plaza of arriving supporters to remove the packages. In oral arguments, the statutory claims centered on the discrimination \"because of ... sex\" language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Andr\u00e9e Sophia Blumstein, the Solicitor General of Tennessee, predicted that the Supreme Court would make a consequential decision in this"}, {"text": "case because of the sensitivity of the issue and the Constitutional implications. In an article before oral arguments, Blumstein stated that the decision would determine whether the Supreme Court would remain solely as the \"expositor of the law\" or become the policymakers alongside Congress. Decision. Majority opinion. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the Court in this case on June 15, 2020. In a 6\u20133 decision, the Court held that Title VII protections pursuant to \u00a7 2000e-2(a)(1) did extend to cover sexual orientation and gender identity. The decision then involved the statutory interpretation of Title VII (specifically the original meaning of \"sex\"), not constitutional law as in other recent landmark cases involving the rights of LGBT individuals such as \"Obergefell v. Hodges\". The Court further held that Title VII protections against sex discrimination in the employment context apply to discrimination against particular individuals on the basis of sex, as opposed to discrimination against groups. Thus, Title VII provides a remedy to individuals who experience discrimination on the basis of sex even if an employer's policy on the whole does not involve discrimination. Gorsuch wrote: In his opinion, Gorsuch wrote, \"it is irrelevant what an employer might call its discriminatory"}, {"text": "practice, how others might label it, or what else might motivate it.\" He referenced \"Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp.\", in which a company refused to hire women with young children; and \"City of L.A. Dep't of Water & Power v. Manhart\", in which an employer required women to make larger pension fund contributions than did men, on the premise that women on average live longer than men do. Both cases violated Title VII, and Gorsuch wrote, \"just as labels and additional intentions or motivations didn't make a difference in \"Manhart\" or \"Phillips\", they cannot make a difference here.\" Gorsuch's decision also alluded to concerns that the judgment may set a sweeping precedent that would force gender equality on traditional practices. \"They say sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes will prove unsustainable after our decision today but none of these other laws are before us; we have not had the benefit of adversarial testing about the meaning of their terms, and we do not prejudge any such question today.\" Dissents. Justice Samuel Alito wrote a dissent, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas. In his dissent, Alito asserted that at the time of the crafting of the Civil Rights Act in 1964"}, {"text": "the concepts of sexual orientation and transgender identity would have been unknown, and thus Congress's language should not be implied to cover these facets. Alito wrote, \"Many will applaud today's decision because they agree on policy grounds with the Court's updating of Title VII. But the question in these cases is not whether discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity should be outlawed. The question is whether Congress did that in 1964. It indisputably did not.\" Alito further stated that \"even if discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity could be squeezed into some arcane understanding of sex discrimination, the context in which Title VII was enacted would tell us that this is not what the statute's terms were understood to mean at that time.\" Alito was critical of the majority decision: Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a separate dissent, arguing that the Court could not add sexual orientation or gender identity to Title VII due to the separation of powers, leaving this responsibility to Congress. He concluded by acknowledging that Reactions. The Supreme Court ruling was seen as a major victory by proponents of LGBT rights. Sarah Kate Ellis, the CEO of GLAAD, stated that the \"Court's historic"}, {"text": "decision affirms what shouldn't have even been a debate: LGBT Americans should be able to work without fear of losing jobs because of who they are\". The Human Rights Campaign praised the decision, with the HRC President, Alphonso David, stating: \"This is a landmark victory for LGBT equality. No one should be denied a job or fired simply because of who they are or whom they love. For the past two decades, federal courts have determined that discrimination on the basis of LGBT status is unlawful discrimination under federal law. Today's historic ruling by the Supreme Court affirms that view, but there is still work left to be done. In many aspects of the public square, LGBT people still lack non-discrimination protections, which is why it is crucial that Congress pass the Equality Act to address the significant gaps in federal civil rights laws and improve protections for everyone\". Torie Osborn stated that the decision in \"Bostock\" represented a more significant advance than same-sex marriage, calling it a \"watershed\". Ken Mehlman took the decision as evidence that conservatism is not inconsistent with support for LGBT rights. Legal scholars saw the ruling as having an impact beyond employment, extending to areas"}, {"text": "such as education, health care, housing and financial credit. Attorney Paul Smith, who argued \"Lawrence v. Texas\" (2003), said, \"[a]ny law, and I think there are dozens, that says you can't discriminate because of sex is going to have a reckoning with this ruling\"; indeed, Alito's dissent in \"Bostock\" notes that \"[o]ver 100 federal statutes prohibit discrimination because of sex\". American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Joshua Block said, \"[a]ll of the Trump administration's actions ['curtailing protections for transgender Americans'] have been built around this assertion that Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act] and Title IX [of the Education Amendments of 1972] provide no protections to LGBTQ people ... [i]t's an Achilles' heel that's been built into every single thing they've done.\" Some Christian conservatives, including Russell D. Moore and Franklin Graham, expressed concern that the decision would impact religious freedoms and affect faith-based employment, but Gorsuch's opinion said that the scope of how this decision intersects with past precedent for religious freedom would likely be the subject of future cases at the Court. Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Horacio G\u00f3mez, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (which had filed an amicus brief (friend of the court) against Bostock), called"}, {"text": "the ruling an \"injustice\" and said he was \"deeply concerned that the U.S. Supreme Court has effectively redefined the legal meaning of 'sex' in our nation's civil rights law\". Franklin Graham said it was \"a very sad day\". Dan McLaughlin of the \"National Review\" postulated that Dixiecrat Howard W. Smith's insertion of the word \"sex\" in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had inadvertently protected sexual orientation and gender identity from employment discrimination. Gerald Bostock, the only surviving plaintiff from all three cases, stated that he was \"proud to take part in a role to get us to this historic moment\". The Supreme Court decision remanded his case to be reheard at the District Court. Some legal scholars have expressed disappointment that the Supreme Court did not define the terms \"transgender\" or \"gay\" in its ruling, leaving doubt about who is covered by them. In the \"Connecticut Law Review\", Mercer University law professor Pamela Wilkins wrote that the Court's decision regarding transgender people uses only examples in which someone identified as male or female and \"does not address whether Title VII protects transgender non-binary individuals who identify as something other than exclusively male and female.\" Legal scholars"}, {"text": "have also debated whether the term \"gay\" in Title VII includes bisexual people. Political. Many politicians across the political spectrum praised the ruling. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the ruling \"secures critical protections for LGBT Americans across the country\". Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio stated that the ruling was \"a big deal\" and emphasized that people should not be fired simply because of their sexual orientation. Some politicians, however, were critical of the ruling, such as Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, who argued that the ruling was simply \"policymaking\". President Donald Trump neither praised nor criticized the ruling, and stated in response to the decision that \"some people were surprised\" but said that the court had \"ruled and we live with their decision\". He called the decision \"very powerful\". Gorsuch and textualism. There was some surprise that Gorsuch, a conservative-leaning Trump appointee, wrote the majority opinion supporting LGBT employment rights. Some commentators claimed that his opinion was consistent with his textualism in statutory interpretation of the plain meaning of laws in general, while others asserted otherwise. Gorsuch wrote much on textualism in his book \"A Republic, If You Can Keep It\", published in mid-2019, and some of his questioning at"}, {"text": "the oral hearings drew on using textual interpretation of the law. Alito's dissent fundamentally denied that Gorsuch's opinion employed textualism. He argued that the majority opinion went beyond the plain language of the law to claim that its intent in 1964 covered sexual orientation and gender identity as part of the meaning of \"sex\" in the statute. Alito called the majority's decision a \"pirate ship\", in that \"It sails under a textualist flag, but what it actually represents is a theory of statutory interpretation that Justice Scalia excoriated\u2014the theory that courts should 'update' old statutes so that they better reflect the current values of society.\" In a \"Slate\" article, Mark Joseph Stern wrote that Gorsuch's argument \"rests on textualism\" and described it as \"remarkably dismissive\" of Alito's dissenting opinion. Stern agreed with Gorsuch, writing, \"Alito does not want the court to stretch Title VII beyond its application\u2014as expected by Congress in 1964\u2014and that approach is not textualism\", adding that Alito's opinion \"elevates the alleged mental processes of long-dead lawmakers over the ordinary meaning of words\". Michael D. Shear, a White House correspondent for \"The New York Times\", wrote, \"Justice Gorsuch employed a fundamentally conservative principle\u2014a literal reading of the words"}, {"text": "of a statute\u2014to reach a decision that contrasts sharply with the conclusions of the other conservative justices on the court\". Carrie Severino, the president of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network and a former law clerk of Justice Thomas, said, \"Justice Scalia would be disappointed that his successor has bungled textualism so badly today, for the sake of appealing to college campuses and editorial boards\". The religious journal \"First Things\" editor R. R. Reno called the opinion unworkable sophistry, comparing it to \"Dred Scott v. Sandford\": \"Historians may look back and judge Bostock the twenty-first-century analogue to \"Dred Scott\", the Supreme Court decision that imposed the Southern slave regime on the entire country and contributed to the intolerable contradictions that led to the Civil War. Gorsuch's majority opinion leaves no wiggle room. It ties affirmations of homosexuality and transgenderism to our most basic conceptions of equality. And it does so by denying that there are any moral, legal, or even metaphysical differences between men and women.\" Jonathan Skrmetti, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Tennessee (which, with a number of other states, had filed an amicus brief on behalf of the employers in \"Bostock\"), observed that all three opinions in \"Bostock\" adopted"}, {"text": "a textualist approach. Echoing a comment made by Justice Elena Kagan in memorializing Scalia, Skrmetti argued that \"Bostock\" shows \"we really are all textualists now\". He characterized Gorsuch's majority opinion in \"Bostock\" as \"glorifying textualism in its narrowest literalist conception\". Gorsuch's majority opinion, Skrmetti argues, means that this \"narrow\" form of textualism\u2014which, on Skrmetti's view, does not look to legislative history or other potential sources of the meaning of the statute\u2014is now ascendant. But Skrmetti notes that where a statute is ambiguous, such tools might still be available to judges in interpreting statutes. Aftermath. On January 20, 2021, after his inauguration as president, Joe Biden issued Executive Order 13988, which built on \"Bostock\" by requiring the federal government to interpret Title VII as protecting against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation also required that federal agencies include discrimination on the basis of sexuality and gender if a federal anti-discrimination statute covers sex discrimination. In April 2024, the EEOC amended its rules defining workplace harassment to include harassment of LGBQT people, including transgender people over pronoun preference or using the"}, {"text": "bathroom aligned with their gender. On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term as president, Trump rescinded the order and issued Executive Order 14168, which instructs the federal government to recognize only \"sex\", not gender, defined as an immutable male-female binary assigned at conception, and prohibits promotion or funding of \"gender ideology\". The order also instructs the Attorney General to reevaluate \"Bostock\", arguing that it was misapplied. The EEOC sought to reverse its April 2024 rule change to comply with this new executive order, but, as Trump had fired the EEOC's two Democratic commissioners in January 2025, the EEOC lacked a quorum to do so. In August 2024, the state of Texas and the Heritage Foundation filed a lawsuit challenging the rules on the basis that they forced businesses to recognize transgender people and override state mandates on respecting their stance on biological sexes. Federal district judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas ruled in favor of the state in May 2025, saying that the EEOC exceeded its statutory authority in creating the new rules. Kacsmaryk read \"Bostock\" narrowly, writing that it \"firmly refused to expand the definition of 'sex' beyond the biological binary\""}, {"text": "and thus could be used to prevent discrimination only when firing transgender people; per Kacsmaryk, \"Bostock\" did not cover aspects like preferred gender, bathroom use, or dress codes."}, {"text": "Lokalavisen Favrskov is a newspaper published in Hadsten, Denmark. It was established in 2018. It covers the municipality of Favrskov in the Central Denmark Region. The newspaper is published once a week. In 2019, it had a circulation of 28,418. The newspaper is owned by Politikens Lokalaviser and JP/Politikens Hus."}, {"text": "Resham Singh Baines (born 17 October 1944) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Jagjeet Singh Kular (16 April 1942 \u2013 12 June 2017) was a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Brajinder Singh Daved (born 25 January 1953) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 IP Superliga e Basketbollit was the 26th season of the Kosovo Basketball Superleague. It started on 28 September 2019. On 1 April 2020, the board of the Kosovo Basketball Federation (FBK) ended the season prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No champion was named. Regular season. League table. </onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "Tarlochan Singh Chana (born 10 July 1949) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Rasmus Carstensen (born 10 November 2000) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Danish Superliga club AGF, on loan from German club 1. FC K\u00f6ln. Club career. Silkeborg. Born in Virklund, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of Silkeborg, Central Jutland, Carstensen initially played youth football at local club Virklund IF, before moving to the Silkeborg IF youth academy at age 13. After practicing with the first team, he signed a one-year contract on 6 February 2019, and made his debut on 20 March at the age of 19 in a 2\u20130 away loss to Lyngby Boldklub in the second-tier Danish 1st Division. With Silkeborg, Carstensen won promotion to the top-tier Danish Superliga at the end of the season, where he initially remained on the bench before finally emerging in the starting lineup in the relegation round. However, with Carstensen in the starting lineup, Silkeborg could not prevent relegation back to the 1st Division. After the contract had meanwhile been extended to 2021, he signed another contract extension on 24 July 2020, keeping him part of the club until 2024. Genk. On 9 August 2022, it was confirmed that Carstensen had joined Belgian First Division A side"}, {"text": "Genk on a deal until 2026. K\u00f6ln. On 3 August 2023, Carstensen moved to Bundesliga club 1. FC K\u00f6ln on a season-long loan. He later joined the club on a permanent basis. Loan to Lech Pozna\u0144. On 16 January 2024, Carstensen was sent on loan to Polish Ekstraklasa club Lech Pozna\u0144 for the remainder of the season. On 24 May 2025, in a title-deciding match against Piast Gliwice, he provided the assist to Afonso Sousa, who scored in the 39th minute to give Lech their ninth league title. Loan to AGF. On 7 July 2025, Carstensen returned to Denmark, joining AGF on a season-long loan with an option to buy. International career. On 4 September 2020, Carstensen made his debut for the Denmark under-21 team in a 1\u20131 draw in the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Ukraine in Aalborg. Honours. Silkeborg Lech Pozna\u0144"}, {"text": "Philip D'Souza (born 30 October 1935) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Jack Babuscio (1937\u20131990) was an American journalist and activist who primarily lived in England. Early life. Jack Babuscio was born in New York, NY. His mother and father were Irish and Italian, respectively. Career. In the 1960s, after completing an undergraduate degree in history from Rutgers University. Babuscio moved to London to complete his master's and PhD in history. During the 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a film critic and a gay counselor. He was simultaneously a full-time teacher at the Kingsway-Princeton College in London lecturing on topics related to history and film. In 1974, he began to write for the publication \"Gay News\", which is where he published most of his film reviews. Babuscio's reviews were some of the first to take films by John Waters and other similar directors seriously. He would remain with the publication until its closure in 1983. Afterwards, he continued to write for the \"Gay Times\". He is best known for his work \"Camp and the Gay Sensibility\", an influential piece that provided an overview of cinematic camp. It posited an idea that camp is a \"nexus of irony, aestheticism, theatricality and humor\" and that it is specifically a \"gay sensibility\". Babuscio also"}, {"text": "edited an influential work called \"We Speak for Ourselves\". \"Camp and the Gay Sensibility\". Originally published in 1977, this highly influential work, often cited and republished, attempts to define the gay sensibility and to describe camp. Babuscio asserts that the gay sensibility is a creative energy that is formed out an awareness of the world based on social oppression. Given this fact, he believes that the gay sensibility responds to society's need to label and subsequently polarize people, which has resulted in camp. Despite acknowledging a difficulty in defining camp, given it can be subject to one's own view and tastes, he does emphasize consistent features that are basic to camp such as irony aestheticism, theatricality, and humor. Babuscio's essay addresses each feature individually, providing an understanding of the typical elements of camp, and then goes on to illustrate these concepts by including examples wherein he analyzes camp as it relates to Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, the films of Josef von Sternberg, and the films based on Tennessee Williams' work. \"We Speak for Ourselves\". This work represents Babuscio's experiences in counseling, gathering transcripts and case histories. This work \"represents a landmark contribution to gay"}, {"text": "self-understanding and acceptance\" and is regarded as an important piece, both politically and in regards to its impact as a resource for other counselors The book received the 1977 \"Gay News\" Book Award. Additionally, \"New Society\" described the work as \"a mosaic of self-told case histories\" that \"speaks very powerfully as the authentic voice of an oppressed minority\", and goes on to add that Babuscio \"presents his testimony with great intelligence and subtlety\". Another reviewer believed the book proved a \"useful primer\" for those interested in gay peer-counseling and as an interesting \"panoramic presentation of the issues\" people face regularly. \"European Political Facts 1648\u20131789\". With his partner, Richard Dunn, Babuscio published \"European Political Facts 1648\u20131789\". This book derived from Babuscio and Dunn's academic background in history, and it included information on heads of state, key ministers, political chronology, and other historical facts of the period. Personal life. During his time in London, Babuscio met fellow American Richard Dunn, a teacher from Mississippi. The two considered themselves 'Anglophiles' and first met at the British Museum. The couple lived together in England for twenty years. January 11, 1990, Jack Babuscio died at the age of 52. Both Babuscio and Dunn wanted it"}, {"text": "known that Babuscio passed away from Kaposi's sarcoma and internal hemorrhaging as a result of AIDS with the intent of lessening the stigma around the disease."}, {"text": "Reanard O\u2019Keith \"K. J.\" Hill Jr. (born September 15, 1997) is an American professional football wide receiver. He played high school football at North Little Rock High School in North Little Rock, Arkansas. He played college football at Ohio State. He is the second all-time leading receiver for the Buckeyes with 201 career receptions. Early life. Playing at North Little Rock High School, Hill committed to Ohio State on February 4, 2015, choosing the Buckeyes over Alabama and Arkansas, among others. Hill had verbally committed to Arkansas in August 2014, but changed his commitment following the departure of Arkansas\u2019 offensive coordinator Jim Chaney. Coming out of high school, Hill was a consensus 4-star receiver who was named a U.S. Army All-American. Hill was the No. 1 player in the state of Arkansas, and received a No. 16 rating by ESPN and 247Sports and a No. 18 rating by Rivals for receivers. Additionally, Hill was a highly regarded basketball player. College career. In his first year at Ohio State, Hill redshirted, making him eligible for a fifth-year. After redshirting the 2015 season, Hill had 18 catches for more than 250 yards and one touchdown in 2016. Hill led Ohio State receivers"}, {"text": "(10 or more catches) with a 14.6 yards-per-reception average. He played in 11 of 13 games in 2016, missing two with an ankle injury. During his sophomore season in 2017, he led the team in receptions with 56 and was second in yards with 549. During the game against Penn State, Hill had a career-best 12 receptions, which was the fourth-highest total in school history. Throughout the season, Hill also served as the team's primary punt returner with 26 returns for 144 yards (5.5 average). The 2018 season was award-winning for Hill, where he was named as an all-Big Ten Conference Honorable Mention for his 70-catch, 885-yard, six-touchdown season. In a win over Minnesota, Hill set a career high with 187 receiving yards, the eighth-highest total in school history, and two touchdowns, off nine receptions. Hill had played in 39 games and caught passes in 34 consecutive games. Following his junior year, there was speculation that Hill would declare for the NFL Draft. On January 8, 2019, Hill announced on Twitter that he would return saying, \u201cWith the guidance and mentorship of Cris Carter and my family, I have decided to take one last ride with my brothers, my coaches,"}, {"text": "and you, Buckeye Nation!\u201d Professional career. Los Angeles Chargers. Hill was selected by the Los Angeles Chargers in the seventh round with the 220th overall pick of the 2020 NFL draft. In Week 3 of the 2020 season, against the Carolina Panthers, he made his first professional reception in the 21\u201316 loss. On October 21, 2021, Hill was waived by the Chargers and re-signed to the practice squad. His practice squad contract expired upon the end of the 2021 regular season. Winnipeg Blue Bombers. On February 27, 2024, Hill signed with signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL). On May 17, 2024, Hill was released in early round of cuts at Blue Bombers training camp."}, {"text": "Harvinder Pal Singh Sibia (born 18 May 1953) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Villeda is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Silvester Ashioya (born 11 June 1948) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Constantine Lyngdoh was an Indian politician of the Hill State People's Democratic Party from Meghalaya. He was elected in Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election in 1993 from Nongpoh constituency as candidate of Hill State People's Democratic Party where he defeated Chief Minister of Meghalaya D. D. Lapang."}, {"text": "Andreas Heimer Hansen (born 10 December 1997) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Danish 1st Division club B.93. Career. B.93. Heimer started playing football at , better known as FB, before joining KB for a short period and later B.93 at the age of 14. Heimer made his first-team debut for B.93 on 6 June 2015 at the age of 17 years, 5 months and 27 days, making him one of the youngest debutants in the club's history. After over 70 first team games for B.93, Heimer left the club to join Thisted FC in January 2018. Silkeborg. After a year at Danish 1st Division club Thisted FC, Silkeborg IF announced on 30 January 2019, that Heimer had joined the club on a contract for the rest of the season. N\u00e6stved. After leaving Silkeborg IF in December 2019, Heimer signed with N\u00e6stved BK on 22 January 2020 on a free agent. Heimer confirmed on 26 July 2020, that his contract with N\u00e6stved had been terminated. Return to B.93. After being released by N\u00e6stved, Heimer returned to B.93. His contract with the club was extended in October 2022."}, {"text": "Ranjit Singh Sehmi (born 10 February 1949) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Valance Nambishi (born 30 November 1997) is a Zambian professional footballer. Career. Nambishi was born in Lusaka, Zambia, but is of Congolese background. He came with his mother to Denmark, an grew up in Hammel. He began playing football at \u00c5strup/Hammelev Fodbold before moving to the youth academy of Silkeborg IF. On 15 January 2021 it was confirmed, that Nambishi would join FC Fredericia on 1 July 2021, when his contract with Silkeborg expired. He left the club at the end of the 2022\u201323 season. Honours. Silkeborg"}, {"text": "Baerbel K\u00f6sters Lucchitta (October 2, 1938, M\u00fcnster, Germany) is a scientist emeritus at the Astrogeology Science Center at the USGS and one of the first women in the field of Astrogeology. She was one of the people responsible of making lunar maps for the Apollo 11 mission. During her career, she was dedicated to mapping the Moon, Mars, Europa and the Galilean Satellites, and Antarctica. The Lucchitta Glacier is named after her work in Antarctica, and the Asteroid 4569 Baerbel is named after her work in planetary geology. Life and career. She was born before the beginning of World War II, and her family had to move around out of fear of the war. Her father was a conscript soldier and later a war prisoner. He gathered back in M\u00fcnster with his family in 1947 after being released in England. Baerbel attended a Catholic all-girl, public high school in Germany. After she graduated from school, she went to study Geology. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and moved into Kent State University in Ohio, where she earned a B.S. degree in Geology in 1961. She earned an assistantship position at Pennsylvania State University, and she received a M.S. degree in"}, {"text": "1963 and in 1966 earned a Ph.D. in structural geology. She then moved to Flagstaff, and from 1967 to her retirement in 1995 she worked at the USGS. In 1995 she was named Scientist Emerita at the USGS. From 1995 to 2003 she was an Adjunct faculty member at Northern Arizona University. She is known for her work in mapping and the use of satellite imagery for geological and glaciological studies. She is also known for her theories on the influence of ice in the geology of Mars. She married geologist Ivo Lucchitta in 1964 with whom she has a daughter."}, {"text": "Oyesade \"Sade\" Olatoye (born 25 January 1997) is an athlete competing in the shot put and hammer throw. Born in the United States, she represents Nigeria internationally. She competed for her country of birth in 2016 at the IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She switched allegiance from the United States to Nigeria in 2019. She represented Nigeria in the shot put at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Earlier that year, she won two medals at the 2019 African Games. Personal bests. Outdoor Indoor Personal. Born to Oye and Ade Olatoye. Her parents are Nigerians from Ekiti State. She has three older siblings, Bisi, Femi And Deji Olatoye. Sade grew up in Ohio but visited Nigeria very frequently, during her childhood, to see her family. Coming from an athletically and academically gifted family, Olatoye excelled throughout her entire collegiate career on and off the field. She graduated from the School of Health and Rehabilitation sciences at the Ohio State University in Spring 2020 with a BSc in health and rehabilitation sciences. She pursued her master's degree at Ohio State during her last collegiate year of athletics, with a degree in bioethics through the College of Medicine. She"}, {"text": "completed her master's degree in the spring of 2023. Early life and development. Olatoye grew up in University Heights, Ohio a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, concentrating mainly on basketball, only starting to participate in track and field in the seventh grade. She starred in both sports at Dublin Coffman High School. Though sidelined for 1/2 of her senior year by a torn ACL, she was an all-state basketball player while scoring and having over 1000 points and rebounds in her career. She holds her high school records in the shot put and discus and won 4 state individual championships in track and field. Olatoye was a scholarship athlete at the Ohio State University (OSU), starting her college career in 2016 as a track and field athlete. Career. Pre-collegiate. Olatoye attended Dublin Coffman High School in Dublin, Ohio. Olatoye was district champion several times and a three-time OHSAA Division I state outdoor champion (shot put, 2014\u201315 and discus, 2014), 2015 state runner-up in the discus, runner-up in the shot put at the 2013 OHSAA Championships and third as a freshman in 2012, fourth place in the discus and 14th in the shot put at the 2015 New Balance Outdoor Nationals, Ranked"}, {"text": "No. 7 in US in the girl's discus and No. 8 in the shot put as a senior in 2015."}, {"text": "Mads Kaalund Larsen (born 16 August 1996) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Danish 1st Division club Hvidovre. Career. Lyngby. Kaalund started his career with Lyngby. He made his professional debut on 26 March 2015, starting in a 0\u20130 draw against Br\u00f8nsh\u00f8j in the Danish 1st Division. Nyk\u00f8bing. On 14 July 2016, Lyngby announced Kaalund's departure as he opted to join newly promoted Danish 1st Division club Nyk\u00f8bing. In June 2018, he extended his contract with Nyk\u00f8bing until 2019 after two successful seasons at the club, during which he made his breakthrough. Silkeborg. On 1 July 2019, Kaalund made the move to Silkeborg from Nyk\u00f8bing, shortly after Silkeborg's promotion to the Danish Superliga. The agreement with the technically skilled central midfielder had been finalised six months earlier. He terminated his contract with Silkeborg by mutual consent on 29 June 2023. During his four seasons at the club, he had scored five goals in 89 total appearances. Hvidovre. On 29 June 2023, the same day he terminated his contract with Silkeborg, Kaalund joined newly promoted Superliga club Hvidovre."}, {"text": "Ayodele Olofintuade is a Nigerian writer, journalist, and feminist. She identifies as queer and non-binary in Nigeria, which is an anti-LGBTQ country. Biography. Born in Ibadan, Nigeria, Olofintuade grew up between Lagos, Ibadan and Abeokuta. They are a self-supporting, full-time writer whose works are focused primarily on feminism in Africa, Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 spirituality (cutting across Africa and the Diaspora) the Nigerian LGBTQ community, and gender non-conforming persons in Nigeria. Olofintuade has two children.{ Writing. Their first major work of literature was \"Eno's Story\" (2010), a children's story published by Cassava Republic Press and shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2011. It addressed the issue of child-trafficking that has been plaguing Nigeria for a long time. Their first major article on LGBTQ persons in Nigeria, \"The A-B-C of Sexuality\" (2014) on NigeriansTalk, was published immediately after the passage of the Same Sex Marriage Act of 2013 as part of the advocacy tools for the promulgation of the law. It was around this same time they also published their first major serialised novella, \"Adunni: The Beautiful Ones Have not yet Died\" (2014) on \"Brittle Paper\", in which some of the characters were queer. Olofintuade writes both for adults and children, especially"}, {"text": "children from disadvantaged areas. She is also an activist. Her first book, in 2011, was shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature. She has had her work published in numerous magazines and journals in Nigeria, including \"NigeriansTalk\" and \"Anathema\". Olofintuade is also the managing director of a website about the negative impact of inequality. In 2019, Olofintuade published her fiction titled Lakiroboto Chronicles, the book was later re-published in 2023 by Cypher press. Olofintuade's deep knowledge of Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 spirituality and culture means that they are an important go-to for younger artists. With Laipo Read, they provide educational support for children from basic to secondary-school level."}, {"text": "Paul Frederick Runge (born January 28, 1970) is an American serial killer, sex offender, and arsonist. He had been on parole for a rape he committed as a teenager when he murdered at least seven women and girls between 1995 and 1997 in northern Illinois. Initially sentenced to death, his sentence was commuted by Governor Pat Quinn in 2011, when capital punishment was abolished in the state. Early life and first conviction. Little is known about Runge's early life. He was born in Oak Forest, and since childhood has exhibited sexual sadism. This only worsened upon his mother's death, which occurred when he was 17. Later that year, Runge kidnapped, raped and beat up a 14-year-old girl in Oak Forest, only to later turn himself in to the authorities. He was given a 14-year sentence for this crime, but was paroled in May 1994. During that time, he married a woman named Charlene, got a job as a shoe salesman and later a truck driver, and resettled in three different cities prior to his eventual rearrest in May 1997 for violating the conditions of the parole. Murders. When searching for a victim, Runge would cruise around the area and look"}, {"text": "for ways to acquaint himself with the potential victim. For some victims, he achieved this by pretending to be interested in a property that they were selling or renting and would ask if he could check the inside of the building. When he earned her trust, he would proceed to rape the victim before either strangling, slashing or beating her to death. In some instances, he disposed of the body by dismembering and dumping it in garbage cans, and in four cases, he burned the victim's home down. Stacy Frobel. The first victim was an acquaintance of Runge's wife: 25-year-old Carol Stream resident Stacy Frobel. On either January 3 or 4, 1995, Frobel had gone to visit Charlene in the couple's Streamwood home, but was never seen alive after that. Approximately two weeks later, on January 16, a German Shepherd named Friendly brought a severed leg to its owner's home, which it had found in a field near the border with southern Wisconsin. Five days later, the dog also found the other leg. DNA tests concluded that it was indeed Stacy Frobel, who was last seen entering the Runge household. When she was inside the house, Runge had struck her"}, {"text": "with a dumbbell, killing Frobel on the spot. He then proceeded to place the body in the bathtub, where he dismembered her using a saw, before scattering the remains around northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. For days after the murder, he called in sick at his job at Foot Locker, before eventually quitting. D\u017eeneta and Amela Pa\u0161anbegovi\u0107. The Pa\u0161anbegovi\u0107 sisters (22 and 20, respectively) were Bosnian refugees who had come to live in the US with their uncle in Hanover Park, six months prior to their murders. They were last seen on July 11, 1995, when they were offered a house cleaning job by the Runges through a mutual acquaintance. At the time, the couple had moved to Glendale Heights, where Runge had begun work for a Honey Baked Ham store in the mall, while Charlene was planning to start a cleaning business. It is presumed that they were enticed by Charlene into the house, where they were subsequently handcuffed, bludgeoned, raped, tortured, and strangled to death by Runge. In order to get rid of their bodies, he dismembered both sisters' corpses, placed the remains in plastic bags and discarded them in garbage bins. The day after he killed the"}, {"text": "sisters, Runge again called in sick, before quitting this job as well. Dorota Dziubak. In January 1997, the 30-year-old Dziubak was raped and subsequently strangled in Chicago's Northwest Side. Runge came across her after responding to an ad for selling a house. Her burned body was later located by firefighters extinguishing a fire in her home. Yolanda Gutierrez and Jessica Muniz. On February 3, 1997, Runge entered 45-year-old Gutierrez's Northwest Side apartment in response to a for-sale sign for some sport equipment. Inside, he bound both her and her 10-year-old daughter Jessica, raping and torturing them for hours on a bed. Eventually, Runge cut their throats and set their home on fire before escaping. Kazimiera Paruch. Similarly to Dziubak, the 43-year-old Kazimiera Paruch encountered Runge when he expressed interest in buying her condominium in March 1997. She was also raped and strangled, with her burned body also found by firefighters after they extinguished a fire in her home. Investigation, trial and imprisonment. Between 1995 and early 1996, Chicago's FBI unit were searching for any possible evidence which could connect the Runges to the disappearances of Frobel and the Pasanbegovic sisters. To do this, they kept tabs on the couple, traced"}, {"text": "calls from payphones, wiretapped the phones and sifted through the garbage. On March 8, 1996, with the help of two other law enforcement agencies, the FBI conducted a search of the Runge household, which Paul Runge shared with his wife and his father, Richard Runge. More than 200 items were seized, including a book about Charles Albright, a guide to police radio traffic, a crossbow, a stun gun and a knife. Initially, they were not able to arrest him, but in May 1997, he was detained for possession of a weapon, a violation of his parole. In 1999, as authorities were fighting in court to keep Runge in prison under the Sexually Violent Persons Act, citing his lack of remorse for the 1987 rape, DNA analysis linked him to the Gutierrez-Muniz murders. Runge then confessed to the other five slayings; however, he is suspected of being responsible for many more. He has confessed to killing a prostitute, whose body he later dismembered and disposed of and has been charged with three of the murders to which he had confessed. In 2000, while he was being driven to a Cook County court hearing, Runge overpowered the corrections officer with the help"}, {"text": "of two other inmates during a routine stop in Plainfield. However, the trio were quickly recaptured by local police. In January 2006, Runge was convicted of the Gutierrez-Muniz murders and was sentenced to death. The prosecutors, who named him as the \"face of the death penalty,\" expressed their hope that his case could help sway opinion in favor against the 2000 moratorium on the death penalty in the state. However, in 2011, capital punishment was abolished under Governor Pat Quinn, resulting in the commutation of Paul Runge's death sentence. Later in August, the DuPage County State's Attorney, Robert Berlin, decided to drop the charges against Runge concerning the Pasanbegovic sisters, citing that it would be a waste of time, as he had already been sentenced to the highest punishment available in the state."}, {"text": "Miss World USA 1975 was the 14th edition of the Miss World USA pageant and it was held in Springfield, Massachusetts and was won by Annelise Ilschenko of Ohio. She was crowned by outgoing titleholder, Terry Browning of Florida. Ilschenko went on to represent the United States at the Miss World 1975 Pageant in London later that year. She did not place at Miss World. Delegates. The Miss World USA 1975 delegates were: Crossovers. Contestants who competed in other beauty pageants:"}, {"text": "Dee Castle was a 15th-century castle, about east of Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and south of the River Dee. It may be known alternatively as Kinacoul Castle. History. Dee Castle is thought to be the ancient residence of the Gordons. It may have been erected as early as the mid-15th century, although another view is that it was built about 1602, burned in 1641, and allowed to fall into disrepair. Structure. A small portion of the castle may have been incorporated in a Roman Catholic chapel dated 1797, in its north-west angle. The chapel was out of use by 1898. It has since been converted into a private dwelling and it is thought that the west wall, which is thick, may have been part of the castle."}, {"text": "Andrea Dupree is a senior astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. She is a Past-President of the American Astronomical Society, and served as the associate director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Dupree also served as Head of the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division. Early life. Andrea Kundsin Dupree was born September 17, 1939, to parents Edwin and Ruth. She is the oldest sibling with a younger brother, Dennis Edwin Kundsin. Education and career. Dupree attended Wellesley College and graduated with her bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts in 1956. She knew she wanted to go in to the sciences, and her favorite subjects were Geology and Astronomy. In a 2007 interview, Dupree said, \"I\u2019m sure I would\u2019ve been a geologist if the coin had ended up heads instead of tails.\" After graduating from Wellesley, Dupree briefly studied at University of California, Berkeley, before enrolling in graduate school at Radcliffe in 1961. The Radcliffe Graduate School merged with Harvard University in 1963, and Dupree graduated with her PhD in astrophysics from Harvard in 1968. Her graduate thesis was titled \"Analysis of Emission Lines from the Solar Corona.\" Dupree has worked as an astrophysicist"}, {"text": "at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian since 1968. In 1980, she became the first woman and youngest person to serve as the associate director of the Center for Astrophysics. From 1996 to 1998, she served as the President of the American Astronomical Society. Dupree is an internationally recognized leader in stellar physics and the bulk of her research is on stars like our own Sun. Dupree recorded an oral history with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in 2007. She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 Awards and honors. She received the Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award in 2019 and 2020."}, {"text": "Rubye Berau (1931-1977) was a pilot and member of \"The Squadron of Death,\" (S.O.D.) an all-female group of student fliers based at Akron Airport in Ohio that performed in the 1930s. By 1934, the squadron would have 13 members who would always fly on the second Friday of each month, and, if possible, on a Friday the 13th. The squad's lucky number was 13, their insignia was a skull-and-crossbones, and their mascot was a black crow named \"Soddie.\" They also wore helmets, goggles and white jumpsuits, and some stories recount that they even wore high heels while in the air. Berau got her pilot's license in 1932 and owned a Travelair three-place open biplane, powered by a Wright G6 whirlwind, which was capable of 135 mph. The squad was also involved in parachuting, and Berau's main partner was Babe Smith. They would perform almost daily at the Akron air races, making over 200 jumps together."}, {"text": "Margaret W. \"Hap\" Brennecke (1911 \u2013 2008) was an American metallurgist and the first female welding engineer to work in the Materials and Processes Laboratory at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where she contributed to the Saturn V rocket program. Early life and education. Brennecke was born in 1911 in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. She earned a chemistry degree from Ohio State University and later studied metallurgy at Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, and University of California, Los Angeles. Career. ALCOA. She worked for Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) for 22 years as a research metallurgist, identifying materials for military vehicles and engineering projects used in World War II. \"Over these years, Brennecke also embraced a love of travel, spending time in Russia in 1958 and taking trips aboard freighters traveling to and from bauxite mines on the Caribbean island of Trinidad\", NASA History wrote in 2019. To assist the World War II effort, Brennecke sharpened her focus from general chemistry and specialized in welding and alloy fabrication. As part of that work, she chose the alloys and joining methods used for aircraft, railroad equipment, bridges, pontoons, and landing craft, including those used during the Normandy invasion (known as Operation"}, {"text": "Overlord) in 1944. Like other women of that era, Brennecke experienced gender discrimination throughout her career, which inspired her to choose a neutral nickname \u2018Hap\u2019 to disguise her gender in written reports and other correspondence that was passed beyond the laboratory. She said the nickname was a \"middle ground between the courtesy of the times and the informality of the NASA engineering team.\" NASA. In 1961, Brennecke joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where she worked on the Saturn V program as a welding expert, contributing expertise focused on gas tungsten arc welding and metal inert gas welding processes. Brennecke's responsibilities included selecting materials and techniques for building space rockets, especially cryogenic fuel tanks. Later in her career, she played a similar role in choosing materials and techniques for Spacelab and booster rockets on the Space Shuttle program. She was a member of the NASA committee that rewrote Military Handbook 5, \"Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures\", in 1974. Brennecke helped establish \"the most authoritative source for aerospace metals and alloys data\", NASA History wrote in 2019. Brennecke's supervisor recommended her for an award from the Society of Women Engineers, citing her \u201coutstanding accomplishments vital to the success"}, {"text": "and timeliness of the Saturn Space Vehicle and other NASA programs.\u201d Death. Brennecke died in 2008."}, {"text": "The Garden State Initiative (GSI) is a Morristown, New Jersey\u2013based research and educational organization. GSI conducts original research and provides regular analysis and commentary on issues and events impacting the state. It is a regular member of State Policy Network. Leadership and founding. Founded in 2017, GSI is \u201cdevoted to providing research-based answers to fiscal and economic issues\u201d facing the state of New Jersey. GSI's founder and current president is Regina M. Egea, who, after a 30-year career in the private sector, served in several high-level positions in the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, including as chief of staff. Purpose and mission. GSI is focused on finding policy solutions that would \u201cbuild a sustainable and effective economic infrastructure that supports jobs and retains valued workers,\u201d according to \"New Jersey Monthly\" magazine. It also studies issues related to the state's workforce, such as how to attract and retain young professional workers, how to address high tuition rates at New Jersey colleges and universities, and how to use the state's Transportation Trust Fund to ultimately grow the state's economy. The group believes that the state of New Jersey must change the fundamentals of its economic policies, specifically by addressing tax"}, {"text": "policy, for example. GSI works with other business organizations in the state, such as the New Jersey Business & Industry Association and the Commerce & Industry Association of New Jersey. However, GSI is careful to clarify that it \u201cdoes not advocate for business,\u201d according to Egea, and does not accept donations from private companies. Policy advocacy. Central to GSI's campaign for reforms in New Jersey's tax and economic policies is the argument that the state is performing poorly on key economic indicators, according to Egea. For example, between March and August 2019, the state with the highest number of job losses in the finance industry was New Jersey, which lost 7,700 full-time jobs. In a September 2019 op-ed in \"The Star-Ledger\", Egea wrote: \u201cA leading indicator of the lagging state of New Jersey\u2019s economy was the July release of Q1 2019 Gross Domestic Product data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. While the national economy reported a strong 3.1% rate, New Jersey reported a rate of 1.8% placing us tied for dead last among mainland U.S. states. And versus our near-neighbors? We trailed far behind other states in the region including less than half the growth rate of Delaware"}, {"text": "(3.9%) and New York (3.8%). And Pennsylvania at 2.9% was more than 1% above New Jersey\u2019s performance.\u201d History. In October 2017, the organization issued its first research report \"Connecticut's Fiscal Crisis Is a Cautionary Tale for New Jersey\" in collaboration with Manhattan Institute. The report was the basis for an op-ed that Egea co-authored with Stephen Eide of the Manhattan Institute that appeared in \"The Wall Street Journal\". In the spring of 2018, GSI issued its second research report, \"New Jersey's Business Tax Competitiveness: Modelling the Prospects for Growth\" with research by Ernst & Young which headlined the group's first ever Economic Policy Forum, which featured a bipartisan lineup including famed economist Dr. Arthur Laffer, James Freeman of the \"Wall Street Journal\" editorial board and former New York State Tax Commissioner Dr. James Wetzler discussion the state of the U.S. economy and a second panel focused on New Jersey's economic outlook which featured Senator Steve Oroho (R), Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald (D), former State Democratic Party and New Jersey State Investment Council Chairman Tom Byrne and Dan Geltrude, CPA. In the spring of 2018, GSI issued its second research report, \"New Jersey's Business Tax Competitiveness: Modeling the Prospects for"}, {"text": "Growth,\" with research by Ernst & Young which headlined the group's first economic policy forum, which featured a bipartisan lineup of current and former public officials and thought leaders. GSI holds its economic policy forum every year. While there are more Republican lawmakers in the state who are aligned with GSI than there are Democrats, GSI's goals are shared by some state Democratic leaders. For example, at its second annual forum in May 2019 (moderated by PBS-NJTV), the Democratic leader of the state Senate, Steve Sweeney, was a guest speaker, who spoke in support of reducing state taxes and regulations. In January 2019, GSI published and released a report called \u201cAdding It All Up.\u201d GSI found, obtained, analyzed, and then added up the budgets of over 1,000 government agencies inside New Jersey. As a result, the report indicated that \u201cgovernments in New Jersey are raising more than $86 billion annually from taxes, fees and other revenues\u201d (excluding the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and some other bi-state agencies). \"Spotlight New Jersey\" summed it up like this:\u201cThe group\u2019s first report issued late last month, offered a first-of-its-kind calculation of all the revenue being collected in New Jersey by"}, {"text": "governments at every level. (The total is $121 billion, according to GSI.)\u201dSubsequent reports focused on the potential to save $200 million annually on the cost of student transportation and a pathway to $2 billion in savings on the cost of the state's roads and bridges. GSI joined the group Fair Property Taxes for All New Jersey (FPTFANJ) in hosting a public town hall in September 2019 that focused on affordability issues, property taxes, and the state's economy. In November 2019, GSI teamed with Fairleigh Dickinson University's School of Public & Global Affairs to commission a public opinion survey to ask New Jersey residents about whether they were considering leaving the state and what the key drivers of the decision would be. The poll found that 44% of New Jersey residents are considering leaving the state in the not so distant future with more than 1 in 4 (28%) planning to depart the Garden State within five years. Property Taxes and the overall Cost of Living were cited as the main drivers."}, {"text": "Caunt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "In computer vision, the Birchfield\u2013Tomasi dissimilarity is a pixelwise image dissimilarity measure that is robust with respect to sampling effects. In the comparison of two image elements, it fits the intensity of one pixel to the linearly interpolated intensity around a corresponding pixel on the other image. It is used as a dissimilarity measure in stereo matching, where one-dimensional search for correspondences is performed to recover a dense disparity map from a stereo image pair. Description. When performing pixelwise image matching, the measure of dissimilarity between pairs of pixels from different images is affected by differences in image acquisition such as illumination bias and noise. Even when assuming no difference in these aspects between an image pair, additional inconsistencies are introduced by the pixel sampling process, because each pixel is a sample obtained integrating the continuous light signal over a finite region of space, and two pixels matching the same feature of the image content may correspond to slightly different regions of the real object that can reflect light differently and can be subject to partial occlusion, depth discontinuity, or different lens defocus, thus generating different intensity signals. The Birchfield\u2013Tomasi measure compensates for the sampling effect by considering the linear"}, {"text": "interpolation of the samples. Pixel similarity is then determined by finding the best match between the intensity of a pixel sample in one image and the interpolated function in an interval around a location in the other image. Considering the stereo matching problem for a rectified stereo pair, where the search for correspondences is performed in one dimension, given two columns formula_1 and formula_2 along the same scanline for the left and right image respectively, it is possible to define two symmetric functions formula_3 where formula_4 and formula_5 are the linear interpolation functions of the left and right image intensity formula_6 and formula_7 along the scanline. The Birchfield\u2013Tomasi dissimilarity can then be defined as formula_8 In practice the measure can be computed with only a small and constant overhead with respect to the calculation of the simple intensity difference, because it is not necessary to reconstruct the interpolant function. Given that the interpolant is linear within each unit interval centred around a pixel, its minimum is located in one of its extremities. Therefore, formula_9 can be written as formula_10 where formula_11 denoting with formula_12 and formula_13 the values of the interpolated intensities at the rightmost and leftmost extremities of a"}, {"text": "one-pixel interval centred around formula_2 formula_15 The other function formula_16 can be similarly rewritten, completing the expression for formula_17."}, {"text": "Fernyhough is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Colombatto is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Gisela Karina L\u00f3pez Rivas (born 1968) is a Bolivian journalist and politician who served as minister of communication from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Movement for Socialism, she previously served as vice minister of municipal and departmental autonomies from 2013 to 2015. Biography. Gisela L\u00f3pez was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 1968. She began her education in 1974, completing a baccalaureate in her hometown in 1985. In 1986, she entered the Evangelical Bolivian University to study social communication, graduating as a journalist in 1991. Over ten years, L\u00f3pez dedicated herself to print media. In 2004, she received the National Journalism Award for her report \"Etnias en extinci\u00f3n\". The Evangelical Bolivian University also presented her with a career recognition award in 2017. L\u00f3pez ventured into television and radio, carrying out critical and investigative journalism. Vice Minister of Autonomy (2013\u20132015). On 18 June 2013, the Minister of Autonomy, , named Gisela L\u00f3pez as her vice minister. L\u00f3pez held the position until 2 February 2015, when she was replaced by Emilio Rodas. Minister of Communications of Bolivia (2017\u20132019). On 23 January 2017, President Evo Morales appointed L\u00f3pez , replacing Marianela Paco. She remained in charge of the ministry"}, {"text": "for two years, until she was succeeded as minister by on 23 January 2019."}, {"text": "Alena Vasile\u016dna Pasechnik (; born 17 April 1995) is a Belarusian athlete specialising in the shot put. She represented her country at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without reaching the final. Her personal bests in the event are 18.01 metres outdoors (Minsk 2019) and 17.44 metres indoors (Mogilyov 2018)."}, {"text": "Ernesto Barreiros (born 24 February 1950) is an Argentine field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The 2017 North Las Vegas mayoral election was held on April 4, 2017, to elect the mayor of North Las Vegas, Nevada. It saw the re-election of John Jay Lee."}, {"text": "Julio C\u00e9sar Cufre (born 13 March 1951) is an Argentine field hockey player. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Flavio de Giacomi (born 11 April 1950) is an Argentine field hockey player. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Mohammad Haroon Rashid is a Janata Dal (United) politician from Bihar. He is Deputy Chairman of Bihar Legislative Council. He was elected unanimously after post fell vacant after incumbent Deputy Chairman Salim Parvez lost the council election. Rashid was part of 1974 JP Movement."}, {"text": "Gynogenesis, a form of parthenogenesis, is a system of asexual reproduction that requires the presence of sperm without the actual contribution of its DNA for completion. The paternal DNA dissolves or is destroyed before it can fuse with the egg. The egg cell of the organism is able to develop, unfertilized, into an adult using only maternal genetic material. Gynogenesis is often termed \"sperm parasitism\" in reference to the somewhat pointless role of male gametes. Gynogenetic species, \"gynogens\" for short, are unisexual, meaning they must mate with males from a closely related bisexual species that normally reproduces sexually. Gynogenesis is a disadvantageous mating system for males, as they are unable to pass on their DNA. The question as to why this reproductive mode exists, given that it appears to combine the disadvantages of both asexual and sexual reproduction, remains unsolved in the field of evolutionary biology. The male equivalent to this process is androgenesis where the father is the sole contributor of DNA. Taxonomic range. Most gynogenetic species are fishes or amphibians. Among the fishes, Amazon mollies (\"Poecilia formosa\") require the sperm of closely related male \"Poecilia latipinna\" to engage in gynogenesis. \"P. latipinna\" males prefer to mate with females"}, {"text": "of their own species. This presents a problem for \"P. formosa\", as they must compete for males who do not favour them. However, those \"P. formosa\" successful in finding a mate make up the deficit by producing twice as many female offspring as their competitors. Among salamanders, the \"Ambystoma platineum\", a unisexual mole salamander, is hybrid of sexually reproducing \"A. jeffersonianum\" and \"A. laterale\". \"A. platineum\" individuals normally live in proximity to either of these parent species, so as to access their sperm. Gynogenesis with haplodiploidy. The ant \"Myrmecia impaternata\" is a hybrid of \"M. banksi\" and \"M. pilosula\". In ants, sex is determined by the haplodiploidy system: unfertilized eggs result in haploid males, while fertilized eggs result in diploid females. In this species \u2013 its specific epithet \"impaternata\" meaning 'fatherless' \u2013 the queen reproduces through sexual interaction, yet not fertilization, with gynogenetically produced females, and males reared from fatherless eggs. Since these males are haploid, they are genetically identical to one of the two parent species, but are produced by a queen of \"M. impaternata\". The queens therefore have no need to mate parasitically with males of either parent species. This situation is unique. Evolutionary origin. Two evolutionary pathways"}, {"text": "may be considered to explain how and why gynogenesis evolved. The single-step pathway involves multiple changes taking place simultaneously: meiosis must be interrupted, one gender's gametes eradicated, and a unisexual gender formation must arise. The second option involves multiple steps: a sexual generation is formed with a strongly biased sex ratio, and because of Haldane's rule the species evolves towards loss of sexuality, with selection preferential towards the gynogen. Experimenters who attempted unsuccessfully to induce \"P. formosa\" by hybridizing its genetic ancestors concluded that the evolutionary origin of \"P. formosa\" was not from the simple hybridization of two specific genomes, but the movement of certain alleles."}, {"text": "was a South Korean-Japanese idol girl group formed by R & C Ltd. in 2002. The group consists of Marina Takahashi and Choi Soo-young. History. In December 2001, \"Asayan\" held the Japanese-Korean Ultra Idol Duo Audition, which was broadcast on TV Tokyo. Out of 15,000 applicants, Marina Takahashi was chosen as the Japanese representative, while Choi Soo-young was chosen as the Korean representative. Route 0 released \"Start\" as their first single on April 26, 2002, which was used as the opening theme song to \"Hamaraja\". The song was produced by Ryuichi Kawamura. They also appeared on \"Oha Suta\" for a 3-day television feature, as well as exclusive models for the junior fashion brand Chubbygang and the magazine \"Melon\". \"Waku Waku It's Love\" was released on November 9, 2002, as the ending theme song to \"Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ\" for the month of November 2002. On July 23, 2003, Route 0 released \"Painting\" as their third single, which was the ending theme song to \"Downtown DX\". On the same day, a video single version of \"Painting\" was also released. After 2003, Route 0 ended activities together. Takahashi retired from entertainment, while Soo-young would later go on to become a member"}, {"text": "of South Korean girl group Girls' Generation in 2007 and would also become an actress."}, {"text": "Horacio Rognoni (born 17 December 1942) is an Argentine field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Austin Anthony Vetter (born September 13, 1967) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Helena in Montana since 2019. Biography. Early life. Austin Vetter was born on September 13, 1967, in Linton, North Dakota. He attended primary and secondary schools in the Linton Public School System. Vetter entered North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1985. After deciding to become a priest, Vetter left North Dakota State in 1986 to enroll at Cardinal Muench Seminary in Fargo, North Dakota. In 1989, he went to Rome to continue his formation at the Pontifical North American College. He received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in 1992. Priesthood. On June 29, 1993, Vetter was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Bismarck at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Bismarck, North Dakota, by Bishop John Kinney. The diocese assigned Vetter to pastoral positions at the following parishes in North Dakota: In 1999, Vetter was appointed as episcopal vicar for the permanent diaconate as well as pastor of St. Patrick's Parish in Dickinson, North Dakota. He left St. Patrick's"}, {"text": "in 2008 after being named pastor of St. Leo the Great Parish in Minot, North Dakota, and director of continuing education for clergy. Vetter returned to the Pontifical North American College in July 2012 after its oversight board appointed him as Director of Spiritual Formation. He would hold this position for the next six years. In 2018, Bishop David D. Kagan named him Rector of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Bismarck. Bishop of Helena. Pope Francis appointed Vetter as the eleventh bishop of Helena on October 8, 2019. Vetter was consecrated by Archbishop Alexander Sample on November 20, 2019, at Saint Helena Cathedral, with Bishops James F. Checchio and David Kagan serving as co-consecrators. In February 2022, in response to Pope Francis motu proprio \"Traditionis custodes\" Vetter announced the suppression of all Tridentine Masses within the diocese, despite, originally allowing the continuation of them, months before. Interim Co-President of Carroll College. On June 25, 2025, Carroll College announced that Bishop Austin Vetter, Bishop of the Diocese of Helena, and Dr. Jennifer Glowienka, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, would jointly assume the role of as Interim Co-Presidents of Carroll College for the 2025-26 academic year."}, {"text": "The 1903\u201304 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season."}, {"text": "Julio Segolini (born 20 August 1952) is an Argentine field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Alberto Enrique Sabbione Glerean (born 16 April 1948) is an Argentine field hockey player. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Synthetic media (also known as AI-generated media, media produced by generative AI, personalized media, personalized content, and colloquially as deepfakes) is a catch-all term for the artificial production, manipulation, and modification of data and media by automated means, especially through the use of artificial intelligence algorithms, such as for the purpose of producing automated content or producing cultural works (e.g. text, image, sound or video) within a set of human prompted parameters automatically. Synthetic media as a field has grown rapidly since the creation of generative adversarial networks, primarily through the rise of deepfakes as well as music synthesis, text generation, human image synthesis, speech synthesis, and more. Though experts use the term \"synthetic media,\" individual methods such as deepfakes and text synthesis are sometimes not referred to as such by the media but instead by their respective terminology (and often use \"deepfakes\" as a euphemism, e.g. \"deepfakes for text\" for natural-language generation; \"deepfakes for voices\" for neural voice cloning, etc.) Significant attention arose towards the field of synthetic media starting in 2017 when \"Motherboard\" reported on the emergence of AI altered pornographic videos to insert the faces of famous actresses. Potential hazards of synthetic media include the spread of"}, {"text": "misinformation, further loss of trust in institutions such as media and government, the mass automation of creative and journalistic jobs and a retreat into AI-generated fantasy worlds. Synthetic media is an applied form of artificial imagination. History. Pre-1950s. The idea of automated art dates back to the automata of ancient Greek civilization. Nearly 2000 years ago, the engineer Hero of Alexandria described statues that could move and mechanical theatrical devices. Over the centuries, mechanical artworks drew crowds throughout Europe, China, India, and so on. Other automated novelties such as Johann Philipp Kirnberger's \"Musikalisches W\u00fcrfelspiel\" (Musical Dice Game) 1757 also amused audiences. Despite the technical capabilities of these machines, however, none were capable of generating original content and were entirely dependent upon their mechanical designs. Rise of artificial intelligence. The field of AI research was born at a workshop at Dartmouth College in 1956, begetting the rise of digital computing used as a medium of art as well as the rise of generative art. Initial experiments in AI-generated art included the \"Illiac Suite\", a 1957 composition for string quartet which is generally agreed to be the first score composed by an electronic computer. Lejaren Hiller, in collaboration with Leonard Issacson, programmed"}, {"text": "the ILLIAC I computer at the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign (where both composers were professors) to generate compositional material for his String Quartet No. 4. In 1960, Russian researcher R.Kh.Zaripov published worldwide first paper on algorithmic music composing using the \"Ural-1\" computer. In 1965, inventor Ray Kurzweil premiered a piano piece created by a computer that was capable of pattern recognition in various compositions. The computer was then able to analyze and use these patterns to create novel melodies. The computer was debuted on Steve Allen's I've Got a Secret program, and stumped the hosts until film star Harry Morgan guessed Ray's secret. Before 1989, artificial neural networks have been used to model certain aspects of creativity. Peter Todd (1989) first trained a neural network to reproduce musical melodies from a training set of musical pieces. Then he used a change algorithm to modify the network's input parameters. The network was able to randomly generate new music in a highly uncontrolled manner. In 2014, Ian Goodfellow and his colleagues developed a new class of machine learning systems: generative adversarial networks (GAN). Two neural networks contest with each other in a game (in the sense of game theory, often but"}, {"text": "not always in the form of a zero-sum game). Given a training set, this technique learns to generate new data with the same statistics as the training set. For example, a GAN trained on photographs can generate new photographs that look at least superficially authentic to human observers, having many realistic characteristics. Though originally proposed as a form of generative model for unsupervised learning, GANs have also proven useful for semi-supervised learning, fully supervised learning, and reinforcement learning. In a 2016 seminar, Yann LeCun described GANs as \"the coolest idea in machine learning in the last twenty years\". In 2017, Google unveiled transformers, a new type of neural network architecture specialized for language modeling that enabled for rapid advancements in natural language processing. Transformers proved capable of high levels of generalization, allowing networks such as GPT-3 and Jukebox from OpenAI to synthesize text and music respectively at a level approaching humanlike ability. There have been some attempts to use GPT-3 and GPT-2 for screenplay writing, resulting in both dramatic (the Italian short film \"Frammenti di Anime Meccaniche\"\",\" written by GPT-2) and comedic narratives (the short film \"Solicitors\" by YouTube Creator \"Calamity A\"I written by GPT-3). Branches of synthetic media. Deepfakes."}, {"text": "Deepfakes (a portmanteau of \"deep learning\" and \"fake\") are the most prominent form of synthetic media. Deepfakes are media productions that uses a an existing image or video and replaces the subject with someone else's likeness using artificial neural networks. They often combine and superimpose existing media onto source media using machine learning techniques known as autoencoders and generative adversarial networks (GANs). Deepfakes have garnered widespread attention for their uses in celebrity pornographic videos, revenge porn, fake news, hoaxes, and financial fraud. This has elicited responses from both industry and government to detect and limit their use. The term deepfakes originated around the end of 2017 from a Reddit user named \"deepfakes\". He, as well as others in the Reddit community r/deepfakes, shared deepfakes they created; many videos involved celebrities' faces swapped onto the bodies of actresses in pornographic videos, while non-pornographic content included many videos with actor Nicolas Cage's face swapped into various movies. In December 2017, Samantha Cole published an article about r/deepfakes in \"Vice\" that drew the first mainstream attention to deepfakes being shared in online communities. Six weeks later, Cole wrote in a follow-up article about the large increase in AI-assisted fake pornography. In February 2018,"}, {"text": "r/deepfakes was banned by Reddit for sharing involuntary pornography. Other websites have also banned the use of deepfakes for involuntary pornography, including the social media platform Twitter and the pornography site Pornhub. However, some websites have not yet banned Deepfake content, including 4chan and 8chan. Non-pornographic deepfake content continues to grow in popularity with videos from YouTube creators such as Ctrl Shift Face and Shamook. A mobile application, Impressions, was launched for iOS in March 2020. The app provides a platform for users to deepfake celebrity faces into videos in a matter of minutes. Image synthesis. Image synthesis is the artificial production of visual media, especially through algorithmic means. In the emerging world of synthetic media, the work of digital-image creation\u2014once the domain of highly skilled programmers and Hollywood special-effects artists\u2014could be automated by expert systems capable of producing realism on a vast scale. One subfield of this includes human image synthesis, which is the use of neural networks to make believable and even photorealistic renditions of human-likenesses, moving or still. It has effectively existed since the early 2000s. Many films using computer generated imagery have featured synthetic images of human-like characters digitally composited onto the real or other simulated"}, {"text": "film material. Towards the end of the 2010s deep learning artificial intelligence has been applied to synthesize images and video that look like humans, without need for human assistance, once the training phase has been completed, whereas the old school 7D-route required massive amounts of human work. The website This Person Does Not Exist showcases fully automated human image synthesis by endlessly generating images that look like facial portraits of human faces. Audio synthesis. Beyond deepfakes and image synthesis, audio is another area where AI is used to create synthetic media. Synthesized audio will be capable of generating any conceivable sound that can be achieved through audio waveform manipulation, which might conceivably be used to generate stock audio of sound effects or simulate audio of currently imaginary things. AI art. Music generation. The capacity to generate music through autonomous, non-programmable means has long been sought after since the days of Antiquity, and with developments in artificial intelligence, two particular domains have arisen: Speech synthesis. Speech synthesis has been identified as a popular branch of synthetic media and is defined as the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech computer or speech"}, {"text": "synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech. Synthesized speech can be created by concatenating pieces of recorded speech that are stored in a database. Systems differ in the size of the stored speech units; a system that stores phones or diphones provides the largest output range, but may lack clarity. For specific usage domains, the storage of entire words or sentences allows for high-quality output. Alternatively, a synthesizer can incorporate a model of the vocal tract and other human voice characteristics to create a completely \"synthetic\" voice output. Virtual assistants such as Siri and Alexa have the ability to turn text into audio and synthesize speech. In 2016, Google DeepMind unveiled WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms that could learn to understand which waveforms best resembled human speech as well as musical instrumentation. Some projects offer real-time generations of synthetic speech using deep learning, such as 15.ai, a web application text-to-speech tool developed by an MIT research scientist. Natural-language generation. Natural-language generation (NLG, sometimes synonymous with text synthesis) is a software process that"}, {"text": "transforms structured data into natural language. It can be used to produce long form content for organizations to automate custom reports, as well as produce custom content for a web or mobile application. It can also be used to generate short blurbs of text in interactive conversations (a chatbot) which might even be read out by a text-to-speech system. Interest in natural-language generation increased in 2019 after OpenAI unveiled GPT2, an AI system that generates text matching its input in subject and tone. GPT2 is a transformer, a deep machine learning model introduced in 2017 used primarily in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Interactive media synthesis. AI-generated media can be used to develop a hybrid graphics system that could be used in video games, movies, and virtual reality, as well as text-based games such as AI Dungeon 2, which uses either GPT-2 or GPT-3 to allow for near-infinite possibilities that are otherwise impossible to create through traditional game development methods. Computer hardware company Nvidia has also worked on developed AI-generated video game demos, such as a model that can generate an interactive game based on non-interactive videos. Concerns and controversies. Apart from organizational attack, political organizations and leaders"}, {"text": "are more suffered from such deep fake videos. In 2022, a deep fake was released where Ukraine president was calling for a surrender the fight against Russia. The video shows Ukrainian president telling his soldiers to lay down their arms and surrender. Deepfakes have been used to misrepresent well-known politicians in videos. In separate videos, the face of the Argentine President Mauricio Macri has been replaced by the face of Adolf Hitler, and Angela Merkel's face has been replaced with Donald Trump's. In June 2019, a downloadable Windows and Linux application called DeepNude was released which used neural networks, specifically generative adversarial networks, to remove clothing from images of women. The app had both a paid and unpaid version, the paid version costing $50. On June 27 the creators removed the application and refunded consumers. The US Congress held a senate meeting discussing the widespread impacts of synthetic media, including deepfakes, describing it as having the \"potential to be used to undermine national security, erode public trust in our democracy and other nefarious reasons.\" In 2019, voice cloning technology was used to successfully impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of \u20ac220,000. The case raised concerns about"}, {"text": "the lack of encryption methods over telephones as well as the unconditional trust often given to voice and to media in general. Starting in November 2019, multiple social media networks began banning synthetic media used for purposes of manipulation in the lead-up to the 2020 United States presidential election. In 2024, Elon Musk shared a parody without clarifying that it\u2019s a satire but raised his voice against AI in politics. The shared contains Kamala Harris saying things she never said in real life. A few lines from the video transcription include, \u201cI, Kamala Harris, am your Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility at the debate,\u201d The voice then says that Kamala is a \u201cDiversity hire\u201d, and that she has no idea about \u201cthe first thing about running the country\u201d. These are some examples of synthetic media potentially affecting the public reaction to celebrities, political party or organizations, business or MNCs. The potential to harm their image and reputation is concerning. It may also erode social trust in public and private institutions, and it will be harder to maintain a belief in their ability to verify or authenticate \"true\" over \"fake\" content. Citron (2019) lists the"}, {"text": "public officials who may be most affected are, \u201celected officials, appointed officials, judges, juries, legislators, staffers, and agencies.\u201d Even private institutions will have to develop an awareness and policy responses to this new media form, particularly if they have a wider impact on society. Citron (2019) further states, \u201creligious institutions are an obvious target, as are politically engaged entities ranging from Planned Parenthood to the NRA. \u201d Indeed, researchers are concerned that synthetic media may deepen and extend social hierarchy or class differences which gave rise to them in the first place. The major concern tends to revolve around synthetic media is that it isn\u2019t only a matter of proving something that is wrong, it\u2019s also a concern of proving that something is original. For example, a recent study shows that two out three cyber security professionals noticed that deepfakes used as part of disinformation against business in 2022, which is apparently a 13% increase in number from the previous year. Potential uses and impacts. Synthetic media techniques involve generating, manipulating, and altering data to emulate creative processes on a much faster and more accurate scale. As a result, the potential uses are as wide as human creativity itself, ranging"}, {"text": "from revolutionizing the entertainment industry to accelerating the research and production of academia. The initial application has been to synchronize lip-movements to increase the engagement of normal dubbing that is growing fast with the rise of OTTs. News organizations have explored ways to use video synthesis and other synthetic media technologies to become more efficient and engaging. Potential future hazards include the use of a combination of different subfields to generate fake news, natural-language bot swarms generating trends and memes, false evidence being generated, and potentially addiction to personalized content and a retreat into AI-generated fantasy worlds within virtual reality. Advanced text-generating bots could potentially be used to manipulate social media platforms through tactics such as astroturfing. Deep reinforcement learning-based natural-language generators could potentially be used to create advanced chatbots that could imitate natural human speech. One use case for natural-language generation is to generate or assist with writing novels and short stories, while other potential developments are that of stylistic editors to emulate professional writers. Image synthesis tools may be able to streamline or even completely automate the creation of certain aspects of visual illustrations, such as animated cartoons, comic books, and political cartoons. Because the automation process takes"}, {"text": "away the need for teams of designers, artists, and others involved in the making of entertainment, costs could plunge to virtually nothing and allow for the creation of \"bedroom multimedia franchises\" where singular people can generate results indistinguishable from the highest budget productions for little more than the cost of running their computer. Character and scene creation tools will no longer be based on premade assets, thematic limitations, or personal skill but instead based on tweaking certain parameters and giving enough input. A combination of speech synthesis and deepfakes has been used to automatically redub an actor's speech into multiple languages without the need for reshoots or language classes. It can also be used by companies for employee onboarding, eLearning, explainer and how-to videos. An increase in cyberattacks has also been feared due to methods of phishing, catfishing, and social hacking being more easily automated by new technological methods. Natural-language generation bots mixed with image synthesis networks may theoretically be used to clog search results, filling search engines with trillions of otherwise useless but legitimate-seeming blogs, websites, and marketing spam. There has been speculation about deepfakes being used for creating digital actors for future films. Digitally constructed/altered humans have already"}, {"text": "been used in films before, and deepfakes could contribute new developments in the near future. Amateur deepfake technology has already been used to insert faces into existing films, such as the insertion of Harrison Ford's young face onto Han Solo's face in \"\", and techniques similar to those used by deepfakes were used for the acting of Princess Leia in \"Rogue One.\" GANs can be used to create photos of imaginary fashion models, with no need to hire a model, photographer, makeup artist, or pay for a studio and transportation. GANs can be used to create fashion advertising campaigns including more diverse groups of models, which may increase intent to buy among people resembling the models or family members. GANs can also be used to create portraits, landscapes and album covers. The ability for GANs to generate photorealistic human bodies presents a challenge to industries such as fashion modeling, which may be at heightened risk of being automated. In 2019, Dadabots unveiled an AI-generated stream of death metal which remains ongoing with no pauses. Musical artists and their respective brands may also conceivably be generated from scratch, including AI-generated music, videos, interviews, and promotional material. Conversely, existing music can be"}, {"text": "completely altered at will, such as changing lyrics, singers, instrumentation, and composition. In 2018, using a process by WaveNet for timbre musical transfer, researchers were able to shift entire genres from one to another. Through the use of artificial intelligence, old bands and artists may be \"revived\" to release new material without pause, which may even include \"live\" concerts and promotional images. Neural network-powered photo manipulation also has the potential to support problematic behavior of various state actors, not just totalitarian and absolutist regimes. A sufficiently technically competent government or community may use synthetic media to engage in a rewrite of history using various synthetic technologies, fabricating history and personalities as well as changing ways of thinking \u2013 a form of potential epistemicide. Even in otherwise rational and democratic societies, certain social and political groups may use synthetic media to craft cultural, political, and scientific filter-bubbles that greatly reduce or even altogether undermine the ability of the public to agree on basic objective facts. Conversely, the existence of synthetic media may be used to discredit factual news sources and scientific facts as \"potentially fabricated.\""}, {"text": "The 2013 North Las Vegas mayoral election was held on April 2, 2013, to elect the mayor of North Las Vegas, Nevada. It saw the election of John Jay Lee, who defeated incumbent mayor Shari Buck."}, {"text": "Ovidio Sodor (born 5 January 1947) is an Argentine field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Timoth\u00e9e Guillimin (born 19 February 1996) is a French professional rugby union player. He plays as a fly half for the New England Free Jacks in Major League Rugby (MLR). Guillimin was educated College Capouchin\u00e9 and Lyc\u00e9e Jean Moulin before attending UFR STAPS Montpellier and DUT GACO Agen. He previously played for the Austin Elite (MLR) and SU Agen professionally. In March 2021, he signed with New Orleans Gold. In January 2022, he became a business developer for RC N\u00eemes."}, {"text": "Elshad Akhadov (; 4 March 1968, T\u0259z\u0259 Alvad\u0131, Masally District, Azerbaijan SSR \u2013 11 December 1992, Aghdash Upland, Azerbaijan) was the National Hero of Azerbaijan and warrior during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Early life and education. Elshad Akhadov was born on 4 March 1968 in Taza Alvady village of Masally District in Azerbaijan SSR. He graduated from the secondary school therein. Then he attended Jamshid Nakhchivanski Military Lyceum. Akhadov was a graduate of Kamianets-Podilskyi High Commanders School. In 1989 he was appointed the commander of one of the Volgograd military units. First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Returning to his homeland, Elshad worked at first as a company commander in the Guzdak settlement of Baku and then in the Lankaran district. When the Armenian offensive started he fought in battles around F\u00fczuli, A\u015fa\u011f\u0131 Veys\u0259lli, Shishkaya and in other war zones. His last battle was for the Aghdash Upland, and on December 11, 1993, he lost his life heroically in that battle. He was buried in Taza Alvady. Personal life. He was married and had two children. Honors. Elshad Akhadov was posthumously awarded the Azerbaijani Flag Order under Presidential Decree dated 14 December 1993 and the title of the \"National Hero of Azerbaijan\" under"}, {"text": "Presidential Decree No. 203 dated 16 September 1994. Taza Alvady village high school and park therein are named after him."}, {"text": "Elly Kitamireke (born 12 August 1931) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Sangeeta Puri (born 4 December 1979) is a former swimmer who competed for India in the Olympic Games and Trinidad and Tobago at the Pan American Games. She was the first female swimmer to represent India in the Olympics, breaking the glass ceiling for future female swimmers in India to compete at that level. Puri was world ranked (top 25 in the world) in the 100m Backstroke with a time of 1:04.68, which was a national record for Trinidad and Tobago for over 23 years. She held long-standing nationals records in multiple events in both India as well as Trinidad and Tobago. She competed in international games, including Pan American Games, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, World Games, and the Olympic Games. Career. Puri represented Trinidad and Tobago in the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games and won a gold medal in the 100m backstroke and a silver medal in the 200m backstroke. She competed in the 1994 Commonwealth Games in the 50m freestyle, 100m backstroke and 100m butterfly. Puri represented India at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in the 50m freestyle and finished 48th with a time of 28.02. She attended Palisades Charter High School and set records in the"}, {"text": "100-yard butterfly and 100-yard backstroke at the City Section swimming finals. Puri then swam for Princeton, and helped her tiger team win multiple Ivy League titles and break Princeton records. After retiring from swimming and graduating from Princeton University, Puri went on to work for the International Rescue Committee in Tanzania as a Princeton in Africa fellow. She then returned to the United States and pursued her Juris Doctor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Once she graduated from Law School, she worked for the United Nations in Guatemala. Puri now enjoys a quiet life with her family. She continues to love swimming."}, {"text": "Joseph Kagimu (born 5 June 1945) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Ajaip Singh Matharu (born 11 March 1938) is an Indian-born Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "George Moraes (born 5 August 1943) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Herbert Kajumba (born 21 January 1950) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "William \"Willie\" Lobo (born 20 January 1937) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Doug Lind is an American mathematician specializing in ergodic theory and dynamical systems. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington. Lind was named as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society in 2013. He is a board member of Spectra, an association for LGBT mathematicians. Education. Lind received his PhD from Stanford University in 1973. His advisor was Donald Samuel Ornstein and the title of his dissertation was \"Locally Compact Measure Preserving Flows\"."}, {"text": "The 1896\u201397 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1896\u201397 college men's basketball season."}, {"text": "Mich\u00e8le Raynaud (born Mich\u00e8le Chaumartin; ) is a French mathematician, who works on algebraic geometry and who worked with Alexandre Grothendieck in Paris in the 1960s at the Institut des hautes \u00e9tudes scientifiques (IH\u00c9S). Biography. Raynaud was a member of the s\u00e9minaire de g\u00e9om\u00e9trie alg\u00e9brique du Bois Marie (SGA) 1 and 2 and obtained her doctorate in 1972, supervised by Grothendieck at Paris Diderot University. Her thesis was entitled \"Th\u00e9or\u00e8mes de Lefschetz en cohomologie coh\u00e9rente et en cohomologie \u00e9tale\". Grothendieck wrote about her doctoral thesis in (p.168 Chapitre 8.1.) describing it as original, entirely independent, and a major work. Mich\u00e8le Raynaud was married to the mathematician Michel Raynaud who was also a member of the Grothendieck school."}, {"text": "Jagdish Singh Kapoor (born 12 September 1947) is an Indian-born Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the brother of Ugandan hockey international player Upkar Singh Kapoor."}, {"text": "Marion Lee Johnson is an American mathematician whose work was crucial to the landing of the Apollo 11 mission. She was a mathematician on the Boeing/NASA team, where she worked in preparing data for the vehicle impact trajectories. Her perfect score over 20 successful missions earned her a place on the Apollo/Saturn V Roll of Honor. After completion of the project, she worked for Pfizer for 26 years. She currently lives in New Jersey. Life and career. She was born in a working-class family in Savannah, Georgia, with three sisters and a brother. She attended school at Moses Jackson, in a segregated neighborhood. Very early, she fell in love with mathematics, and credits this love to her 7th grade maths teacher, Walter B. Simmons. She graduated class valedictorian from high school at Thompkins High School in 1963. In 1967, she was granted a scholarship at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, to study mathematics, and assumed that her degree would lead her to become a teacher. After losing her scholarship because her grades had slipped, Johnson took out a loan to continue her degree, and prioritised her studies in order to requalify for the scholarship. After graduation, at the age of"}, {"text": "21, she went to work as an associate engineer at Boeing Company in Huntsville, Alabama. She was assigned to the Launch Systems branch of the Boeing/NASA team at the Marshall Space Flight Centre to prepare the landing of the Apollo 11 mission. At the time, very few women worked at the Space Flight Centre. Johnson worked under the supervision of Arthur Rudolph and rocket designer Wernher von Braun, on the calculations to simulate vehicle piece impact trajectories (where the booster rockets would fall). According to Lee, Boeing was a diverse place. In an interview for 1010 WINS' with Larry Mullins in 2018, she said: \"You had a lot of people there - a lot of people from all different cultures - and we all worked together.\" According to Johnson, it was only after seeing the 2016 movie Hidden Figures that she realised how important her own contributions were to NASA. After two years working for Boeing/NASA, Johnson then went to work at Pfizer, Inc., where she became Project Leader for the Corporate Information Technology Division. She retired from Pfizer after 26 years. A resident of Union County, New Jersey, she recently retired from Branford Hall Career Institute as a Computer"}, {"text": "Networking and Security Instructor. The city of Plainfield awarded Johnson the key to the city, and designated two days to honor her legacy. She is married to J. Frank Johnson, the owner of an accounting, tax, audit, and advisory services company, with whom she has three children."}, {"text": "Upkar Singh Kapoor (born 12 September 1937) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the brother of Ugandan hockey international player Jagdish Singh Kapoor."}, {"text": "A patented track crane is a crane with a bottom flange of hardened steel and a raised tread to improve rolling. History. In 1867, William Louden was issued a patent for a hay carrier. Rerolled from old car rails, this system handled loads of approximately and was suspended by hairpin-shaped hanger rods nailed to the exposed barn rafters. There were a few industrial applications of this product during World War I, but Louden Machinery did not pursue the industrial applications after the war. Earl T. Bennington, an electric motor salesman, had installed some of the Louden systems during World War I. Realizing the sales potential of motor propelled systems, he convinced Cleveland Electric Tramrail to enter the industry. Two years later, a line of underhung cranes and monorails were developed and marketed by Cleveland Electric Tramrail. The company's rapid success in the industry caused Louden to re-enter the market they had created and previously abandoned. In 1925, two Louden executives, J. P. Lawrence and Frank Harris, resigned from the company to form American Monorail Company. From 1923 to 1948, these three companies\u2014Louden, Tramrail, and American\u2014held a virtual oligopoly in the market of underhung cranes and monorails. In 1947, Spencer and"}, {"text": "Morris, Cleveland Tramrail's Southern California representative, was acquired by the Whiting Corporation. S&M had been Cleveland Tramrail's representative for 23 years, but had begun to manufacture equipment identical to Cleveland Tramrail's during World War II. Soon after in 1950, Spanmaster was created as a product of Angelus Engineering Corporation in South Gate, California. In the late 1920s, Vern G. Ellen Company was formed as a dealer and installer of American Monorail Company Equipment. After the death of Ellen in 1957, the company was purchased by Frank Griswold, who ran the company in its purchased form until 1958, when he lost access to the American Monorail product line. On May 1, 1959, the Twin City Monorail Company was formed. In 1968, the assets of Twin City Monorail were sold to Dyson-Kissner Corporation, which operated Twin City Monorail until 1971, when they were acquired by Robbins & Myers. They were later purchased in March 1982 by Lague Enterprises, Inc. (LEI). In 1990, TC/American Monorail was formed by the merger of Twin City Monorail and American Monorail under the ownership of LEI. In October 1990, Spanmaster, a division of the Jervis B. Webb Company, was acquired and became part of TC/American Monorail. Characteristics."}, {"text": "Patented track rails are engineered specifically for overhead cranes and monorails. Unlike a symmetrical structural rail, the material in a patented track rail is placed where it is most effective allowing for a significant reduction in weight. The rails are engineered to be twice as strong as typical A-36 structural beams and have a hardened, raised tread track, providing a longer life and reduced wear on the wheels. Utilizing patented track rails also significantly eases the installation process. The rails are inspected and straightened in factories, which reduces the need to manipulate the beams during installation and startup. In most cases, there is no welding involved in the installation process. All splices are joined with bolted splice joints. Also, rails are cut with a slight taper on the ends, which allows for tight joints at the bottom of a splice allowing for a smooth transition between beams. Patented track rails were also designed specifically to be supported from the building. Not requiring a duplicate structure or columns allows for increased flexibility when maneuvering material. Applications. Due to the strength, versatility, reliability, and prolonged life of the patented track rail, there are many applications where patented track rails are preferred over"}, {"text": "structural beams."}, {"text": "Latin diacritics may refer to:"}, {"text": "Nicolai Frimodt Vallys (; born 4 September 1996) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Danish Superliga club Br\u00f8ndby, and the Denmark national team. Club career. Early years. Vallys grew up in the \u00d8sterbro district of Copenhagen. He started playing football at BK Skjold, where he made his senior debut in 2015 in the sixth-tier Copenhagen Series. In 2016, he made a move to Skovshoved, a team competing in the fourth-tier Denmark Series. His debut for the club occurred on 10 August 2016, during a Danish Cup first-round match against BSF. In an impressive start, he scored a brace, securing a 4\u20131 victory for his team. He made his league debut on 10 September, coming on as a substitute in the 77th minute in a 1\u20131 home draw against B 1908. On 24 September, he scored his first league goal for the club, as Skovshoved lost 3\u20132 at home to AB T\u00e5rnby. As a midfielder, Vallys played a significant role, contributing to the team's promotion to the 2nd Division. Across two seasons at Skovshoved, he showcased his talent, scoring 28 goals in 52 appearances. In June 2018, his skills caught the attention of"}, {"text": "FC Roskilde, leading to a two-year deal with the club. Transitioning to the second-tier 1st Division, he maintained his impressive performance, scoring seven goals in 29 league appearances. Silkeborg. On 1 July 2019, Vallys signed a two-year contract with newly promoted Superliga club Silkeborg, continuing his rapid rise through the Danish divisions. He made his debut for the club, as well as his debut in the highest Danish division, on 14 July 2019 in a 3\u20130 away loss to Br\u00f8ndby IF, coming on as a substitute in the 72nd minute for Marc Rochester S\u00f8rensen. He finished his first season with Silkeborg with 34 total appearances in which he scored six goals, as the club suffered relegation to the 1st Division. During the summer of 2020, he suffered an injury while training with a friend, sidelining him for 2\u20133 months. On 1 September 2020, he signed a contract extension with Silkeborg until December 2023. He returned to the pitch in October 2020, and played a key role as Silkeborg won promotion back to the Superliga in May 2021. Br\u00f8ndby. On 31 August 2022, it was confirmed that Vallys had joined Br\u00f8ndby IF on a deal until June 2026. Br\u00f8ndby reportedly paid"}, {"text": "DKK 22.5 million (\u20ac3 million). The move was regarded as controversial by some Br\u00f8ndby supporters, as he had supported bitter rivals FC Copenhagen as a youth and hails from their home district of \u00d8sterbro. After Vallys' received threatening messages, director of sports Carsten V. Jensen, head coach Niels Frederiksen, and club captain Andreas Maxs\u00f8 publicly criticised some fans' behaviour regarding the transfer. Vallys made his competitive debut for Br\u00f8ndby on 4 September in a 2\u20130 league win away against AC Horsens at CASA Arena. He scored his first goal for the club in the following league game against Randers FC, his home debut at Br\u00f8ndby Stadium, slotting home the 2\u20131 lead in an eventual 2\u20132 draw. On 19 February 2023, Vallys scored a hat-trick in Br\u00f8ndby's spring opener against Horsens, which ended in a 5\u20132 victory. On 2 December 2023, Vallys was honoured with the Br\u00f8ndby Player of the Year 2023 award. This recognition came after his remarkable performances throughout 2023, contributing 13 goals and five assists in 31 appearances and earning his first cap for the Denmark national team. International career. In August 2023, Vallys received his first call-up to the Denmark national team by head coach Kasper Hjulmand,"}, {"text": "as a substitute for injured Mikkel Damsgaard, for two UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying matches against San Marino and Finland. Honours. Individual"}, {"text": "State Route 245 (SR 245) is an long north-south state highway in southern Middle Tennessee. It connects the community of Campbellsville with the city of Columbia. Route description. SR 245 begins as Yokley Creek Road in Giles County at an intersection with SR 166 just north of Campbellsville. It winds its way north through hilly terrain for several miles to cross into Maury County, becoming Campbellsville Pike, before passing through farmland. The highway then enters the city of Columbia and winds its way northeast through neighborhoods before coming to an end at an intersection with SR 50. The entire route of SR 245 is a two-lane highway."}, {"text": "Anne L. Kinney is an American space scientist and educator. Kinney is currently the Deputy Center Director at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Previously, she held positions as the head of the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Chief Scientist of the W.M. Keck Observatory, Director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Director of the Origins Program at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Director of the Universe Division at NASA Headquarters. She earned a bachelor's degree in astronomy and physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctorate in astrophysics from New York University, and has published more than 80 papers on extragalactic astronomy. She was an instrument scientist for the Faint Object Spectrograph that flew on the Hubble Space Telescope. Throughout her career, she has overseen numerous space missions, including the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS), and two Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Her work has earned her the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service, the NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership, and several NASA Group"}, {"text": "Achievement Awards for the Keck Observatory Archive, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (now known as Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope), and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter. Kinney is a science educator, serving on the Council of the American Astronomical Society, is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and has sat on the editorial board of Astronomy Magazine since 1997. While serving at Keck Observatory, she piloted the Keck Visitor Scholars Program, which gives graduate students and post-doctoral fellows hands-on experience in observational astronomy. She did public outreach for the Hubble Space Telescope, forming the Space Telescope Science Institute education group, and created Amazing Space, a website for children to learn science, math, and astronomy."}, {"text": "The murder of Sir William de Cantilupe, who was born around 1345, by members of his household, took place in Scotton, Lincolnshire, in March 1375. The family was a long-established and influential one in the county; de Cantilupes traditionally provided officials to the Crown both in central government and at the local level. Among William de Cantilupe's ancestors were royal councillors, bodyguards and, distantly, Saint Thomas de Cantilupe. De Cantilupe's death by multiple stab wounds was a . The chief suspects were two neighbours\u2014a local knight, Ralph Paynel; and the sheriff, Sir Thomas Kydale\u2014as well as de Cantilupe's entire household, particularly his wife Maud, the cook and a squire. The staff were probably paid either to carry out or to cover up the crime, while Paynel had been in dispute with the de Cantilupes for many years; it is possible that Maud was conducting an affair with Kydale, during her husband's frequent absences on service in France during the Hundred Years' War. The Treason Act 1351 laid down that the murder of a husband by his wife or servants was to be deemed petty treason. De Cantilupe's murder was the first to come within the purview of the Act, as"}, {"text": "were the subsequent trials of Maud and several members of her staff. Many people were indicted for the crime, although only two were convicted and, in the end, executed for it. Others were also summoned but, as they never appeared, were outlawed instead. Other influential local figures, such as the sheriff, were accused of aiding and abetting the criminals. The last trial and acquittal was in 1378, although the case had long-term consequences. No motive has been established for de Cantilupe's killing; historians consider it most likely that responsibility rested with de Cantilupe's wife, her lover, the cook and their neighbour, with a mix of motives including love and revenge. Background. The de Cantilupes were a long-established Lincolnshire family based at Scotton in the northeast of the county. They were also major landholders in the Midlands, with estates in Greasley, Ilkeston and Withcall. The family had traditionally played an important role in both local society and central government with a history of loyal and diligent service to the crown. Not only were they lords of the realm\u2014\"one of the richest and most influential families in fourteenth-century England\", suggests the scholar Frederik Pedersen\u2014but the family possessed Saint Thomas de Cantilupe in"}, {"text": "its ancestry, and considered themselves to be under his special protection. William de Cantilupe, 30 years old at the time of his death, was a \"knight of some stature\" in the region, notes the historian J. G. Bellamy, and by then had been retained by John of Gaunt. Family tree. The relationships between de Cantilupe, Paynel and Kydale were: Household. Although the de Cantilupe family's main residence was Greasley Castle, Nottinghamshire, in the spring of 1375 William was staying at the manor of Scotton. This estate had come to him through his marriage to Maud Nevil, daughter of Sir Philip Nevil of Scotton. The household, as named in later indictments, comprised: William de Cantilupe and his wife Maud; Maud's maid, Agatha Lovel; Richard Gyse, squire; Roger Cooke, the cook (who may also have been the butler or \"botiller\"); Robert de Cletham, the seneschal; Augustine Morpath; John Barneby de Beckingham; John de Barnaby, the household chamberlain; William Chaumberleyn; John Chaumberleyn; Walter de Hole; Henry Taskare; Augustine Forster; Augustine Warner and John Astyn. Gyse and Cooke may have been impoverished, suggests Pedersen, and so ripe for recruitment as de Cantilupe's killers. Death of de Cantilupe. A later jury established that de Cantilupe"}, {"text": "was \"at peace with God and the lord king\", and Pedersen has taken this to indicate that he had prayed, and, therefore, was about to retire for the night. In a premeditated and minutely planned attack, de Cantilupe was stabbed to death with many blows. The precise date of the crime is unknown; the juries that heard the indictments offered dates varying from 13 February to 11 April 1375. Pedersen has suggested the evening of Friday, 23 March or the following Friday, as most probable. Five of the seven quarter sessions juries which subsequently sat suggested the latter, the other two decided it was the former date. It was probably the maid, Lovel, who gave Cooke and Gyse access to de Cantilupe's room. Having killed him, according to the later court records, they washed his corpse \"with heated-up water so that they not be discredited by the effusion of the blood of his wounds\". The hot water cauterised de Cantilupe's wounds and (it has been suggested) made his body easier to transport; it also, suggests Pedersen, implies that they had assistance from the house's domestic staff, and, by extension, that the \"entire household was involved in aiding and abetting the"}, {"text": "murder\". He argues that The corpse was placed in a sack, and the killers transported it to the east, dumping it near Grayingham. Here they dressed the corpse in \"fine garments\", including a belt and spurs. Pedersen speculates that this was to present the appearance of an attack by highwaymen or footpads. The body was discovered by passers-by, who reported that, in their view, he had been killed on the road. The discovery may not have occurred for some time though, or at least not have been reported, argues Bellamy, which may account for the number of possible dates on which the crime could have been committed. Escape. Immediately after the murder, it appears that the entire house was closed up and its staff dispersed. Pedersen suggests this was what originally indicated to the authorities that something was amiss. Four members of the household were later alleged to have sought refuge with Sir Ralph Paynel, whose manor was south of Scotton. Those who apparently escaped to Paynel's house were Maud, Lovel, Gyse and Cooke. Paynel was an important figure in Lincolnshire society, and had been a retainer of King Edward III, although Pedersen describes him as something of a \"loose"}, {"text": "cannon\", due to Paynel's having been summoned several times to answer allegations of excess. Indictments, trials and convictions. Although most of the household were later indicted for de Cantilupe's killing, it is not known who was in charge of the operation. The medievalist Rosamund Sillem has identified Paynel as the conspiracy's mastermind, for example, while Pedersen has argued that \"there is a strong circumstantial case to be made that they were acting under the direction of William's wife, Maud Nevil\". Sessions of the Peace. The case came before the commission of county coroners, headed by the sheriff, Thomas Kydale of South Ferriby, on 25 June 1375. Several charges were presented and many suspects arraigned. Maud was named as a party, although in these early proceedings there was some uncertainty as to the role she had played, some juries naming her as an instigator and others as an accessory. Her seneschal, Robert de Cletham, was charged with aiding and abetting her. Ten juries investigated over a period of some weeks. This may indicate a greater than usual effort by the Crown to establish the facts, and perhaps reflects the degree of complexity investigators encountered. The juries presenting to the justices believed"}, {"text": "the crime was committed around the Feast of the Annunciation. They established few details of the crime, but were the first juries to level charges against the whole household. Maud accuses. As well as being named a suspect, Maud also lodged her own accusations against 16 men and women. Pedersen argues that, \"given her almost certain complicity in the murder it must have come as a surprise to the two assassins, William\u2019s squire, Richard Gyse, and Roger Cooke, that Maud named them as the murderers\". Bellamy suggests that an accusation of this nature would have been expected of any woman who was in the house and on the scene when her husband was killed. It would not necessarily have implied complicity to her contemporaries, although it may also have been, says Pedersen, an attempt at diverting suspicion. The historian Paul Strohm has argued that, \"like other women raising a hue ... she then found herself under suspicion and indictment for complicity\". King's Bench sessions. The Court of King's Bench convened in Lincoln on 29 September 1375. Once more Kydale presided. Usually in medieval indictments the accused ranged from \"unknown felons [to] notorious robbers\"; the accusations against 15 members of de"}, {"text": "Cantilupe's household, Maud herself and an important local figure such as Sir Ralph Paynel were exceptional. Both the indictments of the peace sessions and Maud's June allegations were presented to the bench, and Gyse and Cooke were arraigned. Whereas the juries which presented their conclusions to the peace commission believed the crime was committed around the Feast of the Annunciation, it is with the juries presenting to the bench that a dating disparity is introduced. The King's Bench juries suggested, between them, 10 different dates spread over two months. Sillem suggests that this may be explained by the fact that, by the time they came to consider the evidence, they could only rely on memories to an event which occurred at least six months previously. When the case was eventually heard, it was not as murder, but as petty treason, since it involved either household servants rebelling against their master, or a wife against her husband, and was the first time the 1351 Treason Act had been used against members of a household in the death of their master. The King's Bench juries deliberately used the language of treason rather than felony: : treason, lies and sedition, seditious aforethought. All"}, {"text": "of which, argues Sillem, suggested to observers this \"conveyed that most heinous of crimes, treachery to the lord\". Maud withdrew her allegations\u2014paying a fine (having made them) for doing so\u2014and Gyse and Cooke were therefore acquitted on her charges. The jury indictments remained, however. Most of those she had accused in June had never presented themselves to court\u2014they seem to have disappeared\u2014and apart from Cooke and Gyse, only she and her husband's seneschal stood trial. De Cletham had been charged only with aiding and abetting by the peace sessions juries but, at the bench, he was also charged with murder, as Maud had been. They were acquitted on both that charge and one of aiding and abetting Gyse and Cooke. Maud and de Cletham were released on a bond of mainprise on the charges of aiding and abetting those other principals who had failed to appear. Paynel was charged with harbouring Maud, Lovel, Gyse and Cooke on his Caythorpe manor, and also released on mainprise until Michaelmas the following year. The only accused to be found guilty before the bench were Gyse and Cooke. Westminster sessions. The case moved to the King's Bench at Westminster in September 1376. Members of"}, {"text": "the de Cantilupe household who had failed to appear in court were outlawed as felons. Maud and the seneschal, though, were acquitted on the charge of having aided and abetted them. Paynel was again indicted for harbouring criminals. Kydale, Paynel and Lovel. The sheriff, Kydale, was also suspected of complicity in the crime due to his standing surety for Maud during her appearances. He was already associated with Paynel, and this may have hardened suspicions against him. One of Kydale's duties as sheriff was to select the juries that sat on the case, and by extension, that would decide Maud's guilt or innocence. The longest trial to take place was that of Paynel. Indicted at Lincoln in 1375, he was released on mainprise until September. He was then not tried for another six months. At the Easter term King's Bench sessions held at Westminster in 1376 he was released \"nisi prius\". Kydale was the sheriff who appointed the jury that released Paynel on mainprise, but Kydale's term ended in September 1375. As Paynel had been appointed sheriff in September 1376, he was in charge of overseeing the transfer of his own case to London. In the event, Paynel was acquitted"}, {"text": "in the last few months of his shrieval term, which expired in October. Paynel was replaced as sheriff by Kydale, whose second term of office lasted until 1378. Sillem says that \"a certain amount of mystery surrounds Agatha\" the maid. Both she and Maud had been accused as both principals and accomplices\u2014court records describe her as \"notoriously suspect\" in the crime\u2014but \"like so many of the accused, she failed to appear in court\". Nothing is known of her as a person outside the de Cantilupe case, and her surname alternates in the documents between Lovel and Frere. In her case, though\u2014unlike so many of her comrades\u2014her reason for not appearing has been established. On Monday 27 August 1375 she escaped the immediate dispensing of justice by bribing her gaolers in Lincoln Castle, where she had been imprisoned awaiting trial. The castle bailiffs, Thomas Thornhaugh and John Bate, were later arrested and tried for allowing Agatha to escape justice. Thornhaugh produced witnesses who swore he was innocent of the offence; he was acquitted of felony but fined for dereliction of duty. Pedersen reports that Bate \"provided a somewhat more unusual defence\". Accused in July 1377 of accepting \u00a310 to allow Agatha"}, {"text": "to flee, he produced a pardon from the new king, Richard II, absolving Bate from any malfeasance of office, and a second pardon, dated the 8th of the same month, from the late king Edward III. Cooke and Gyse. Cooke and Gyse were charged of having with (\"sedition aforethought ... killed and murdered\") their master. As such, they were tried and subsequently convicted of petty treason. No motive was ever established for their role in the killings. The archivist Graham Platts notes that \"the affair was so complicated that no convictions for murder were made\". Although they had disappeared following their escape to Paynel's, in 1377 they were apprehended for the murder and executed for the crime (by being drawn and hanged). It is possible that they expected protection that never came. Pedersen suggests they may have been promised a form of insurance by their social betters against capture and conviction, or that if that occurred, they would be treated leniently and their families \"looked after in case [Gyse and Cooke] were not able to flee the country\". Motive. Although no motive was established by the courts for the killing, historians have generally considered that Maud was romantically involved with"}, {"text": "Kydale and that they had de Cantilupe killed to facilitate their marriage. Sillem noted the close connection between Kydale and Paynel\u2014between 1375 and 1378, she says, they \"must have practically controlled the affairs of Lincolnshire\" \u2014and argues that they both had a motive for de Cantilupe's death. Kydale's, she suggests, was that he wanted to marry Maud while Paynel wanted revenge for his perceived previous ill-treatment at the hands of the de Cantilupe family. De Cantilupe had been serving abroad in the years before his death, and it is possible that Maud and Kydale had begun a relationship in his absence. But the others' motives are more obscure, argues Pedersen. Regarding Ralph Paynel, for example: Paynel \"was no doubt acutely aware of the multitude of insults he had received at the hands of the de Cantilupes\", which went back to at least 1368. In that year de Cantilupe's elder brother, Nicholas, accused Paynel and his chamberlain of leading an armed force and attacking the de Cantilupe \"caput baroniae\" at Greasley Castle. He further accused Paynel of raping Nicholas's wife, Katherine. She, however, was Paynel's daughter, and far from ravishing her, notes Pedersen, Paynel was rescuing her: de Cantilupe had imprisoned"}, {"text": "his wife in the castle after she launched an annulment suit against him. This was on the grounds of impotence, and was heard before the Archbishop of York. Nicholas died in Avignon a few months later while lobbying Pope Urban V to annul his wife's case and William inherited his brother's property. Nicholas's death was deemed suspicious, and William was arrested on suspicion of poisoning his brother with arsenic. William was on royal service in Aquitaine at the time, and Pedersen notes that \"the suspicion had clearly been strong enough for the King to provide an expensive armed guard to ensure that William answered for his alleged crime in London\". He was held in the Tower of London during the council's investigation, which seems to have concluded that Nicholas's death was from natural causes. William took livery of his lands in September 1370. In December he also successfully claimed three manors from Paynel that had originally been Katherine's dower. This, combined with the insult to his daughter, may have been sufficient cause for Paynel to plot against William as he had his brother. Later events. Cooke and Gyse have been described as \"remorseless\" in the planning of the killing and"}, {"text": "its execution. They were the only individuals to suffer punishment in connection with de Cantilupe's murder. Others escaped, either through complicated manipulation of the law and jury rigging\u2014for example Maud, Kydale and Ralph\u2014or simpler, more traditional methods, such as Agatha's prison break. In the case of most of the household, no information survives on their fate or sentence. William de Hole, for example, is never mentioned on any subsequent extant court or legal document. For most of those outlawed, it is unknown whether they ever appealed their outlawry, were captured or subsequently pardoned. Although they probably remained outlawed for their absence from court, all\u2014including Paynel\u2014were acquitted in 1377 of harbouring criminals. Bellamy suggests that the reason the household workers ran away in the first place was probably down to the infamy the case had engendered, as a direct result of which, he says, \"juries were more likely than usual to find the accused guilty\". Paynel eventually joined John of Gaunt's retinue and became a valued servant to Richard II. The case was a of its day. Not only had it effectively ended a family which, in Sillem's words, had \"played a considerable part in English history\", but the killing of"}, {"text": "a man by either his servants or his wife\u2014or both\u2014\"was regarded as particularly heinous by all ranks of society\". On his death de Cantilupe was the last of his line, and the family died out. There being no remaining male heirs, the de Cantilupe estates were broken up between two senior branches of the family, represented by the de Cantilupe brothers' cousins, William, Lord de la Zouche and John Hastings, who was then a minor. Kydale married Maud\u2014by now \"notorious\"\u2014after her acquittal. Their marriage was to be short-lived, as he was dead by November 1381. The following year Maud married Sir John Bussy. She was now a wealthy woman, bringing both large estates in her own right as well as dowers from her previous husbands. The medievalist Carol Rawcliffe suggests that \"whatever apprehensions Bussy may have felt in following the short-lived Kydale as her third husband were clearly overcome by the prospect of a greatly increased rent-roll\". Maud\u2014whom Rawcliffe described as \"in her own way, as colourful a character as Bussy himself\"\u2014died in 1386. The murder cast a long shadow for her and William's staff. In what Sillem calls a \"curious exception\" to the unknown fates of most of those"}, {"text": "who had been outlawed, at the supplication of Queen Anne in 1387, King Richard pardoned John Tailour of Barneby, Cantilupe's steward. Sillem believes that this pardon, \"so many years after the event and to apparently only one of the outlaws adds yet another element of mystery\". Historiography. Sillem's analysis of the Lincolnshire plea rolls in 1936 was the first major study of de Cantilupe's murder. She highlighted how the case not only demonstrated contemporary approaches to crime and petty treason but also provided a wealth of information on the more mundane aspects of society, such as the organisation of a late-14th century magnatial household. Her conclusion\u2014that the murder was planned by Maud and Kydale with Paynel's assistance\u2014led her to propose a pre-existing romantic connection between the first two, but she was unable to establish a motive for Paynel's involvement. Sillem's analysis has mostly been followed by historians of the later-20th century, although the lack of evidence as to most of the individuals' roles means that there are variations upon the theme. Rawcliffe, for example, suggests that Maud's lover was within the household\u2014and so not Kydale\u2014and that: The case was \"notorious\", says Bellamy, as an example of carefully planned premeditated murder,"}, {"text": "planned with sufficient subtlety to thoroughly hinder the crown's ability to investigate. Platts has compared the killing of de Cantilupe to the \"kind of plotting in which Shakespeare's audiences revelled\" two and a half centuries later, while Bellamy suggests it \"contained elements of the modern murder drama\". Not least, argues Bellamy, because of the transporting of the corpse and the attempt at blaming highwaymen, elements of crime which \"are rarely found in medieval records\". Strohm has highlighted the role of Maud in public perception, noting how it fed into the popular perception of women generally and Maud specifically being \"schemers and unworthy daughters of Eve working through gullible male accomplices seem to underlie many of the household treason narratives\". He also notes that of the numerous cases in which women are executed for killing their husbands in the latter half of the 14th century, there is only one surviving example of a wife acting on her own, without the assistance of either neighbours, family or household. Pedersen has described the manipulation of the legal machinery as near \"virtuosic\", and wondered whether Maud\u2014assuming she was a guilty party\u2014double crossed her accomplices. Perhaps, he queries, Gyse and Cooke being \"neither wealthy nor"}, {"text": "influential had something to do with it\". Pedersen suggests that not only was de Cantilupe's murder cleverly planned over a long period, \"it also bears all the hallmarks of ... having been put on hold until everybody was in positions of power where they could cover for each other.\" Apart from Gyse and Cooke, he comments, everybody else involved \"got away with murder\"."}, {"text": "The 1897\u201398 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1897\u201398 college men's basketball season. The head coach was James Zink, coaching in his first season with the team."}, {"text": "Rajinder Singh Sandhu (born 21 February 1945) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the brother of Ugandan hockey international player Amarjit Singh Sandhu."}, {"text": "Vice-Admiral John Lyons (1 September 1787December 1872) was an eminent British Admiral and Foreign Ambassador of the Royal Navy. Family. Lyons was born on 1 September 1787 and was baptized at Lyndhurst in Hampshire in autumn-winter 1788. He was the eldest son and third of fifteen children of Captain John Lyons of Antigua (20 October 1760 \u2013 6 February 1816), who was a British owner of extensive sugar plantations, of in total, in Antigua, and whose English residence was St. Austens, Lymington, Hampshire. His mother was Catherine Walrond, who was the daughter of the 5th Marquis de Vallado and Sarah Lyons (1731\u20131764). His paternal grandfather was John Lyons (1731\u20131775), who had succeeded to the 563 acre Lyons Estate in Antigua in 1748 and served as a member of the Council of Antigua from 1764 to 1775. His great-grandfather and 2nd-great-grandfather had also been members of the council. His brothers included Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons (1790\u20131858); Lieutenant Maine Walrond Lyons (1798\u20131827), a lieutenant in the navy who was killed at Battle of Navarino; and Humphrey Lyons (1802\u20131873), a lieutenant-general in the Indian (Bombay) Army. His nephews included the diplomat Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons (1817\u20131887); Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons,"}, {"text": "Admiral of the Fleet (1833\u20131908); and Richard Lyons Pearson, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1831\u20131890). Career. John entered the Royal Navy on 20 September 1798 as midshipman on , a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line commanded by Captain John Holloway that was attached to the Channel Fleet. The other captains of the ship included Sampson Edwards, Henry Nichols, and William Grenville Lobb. The ship also bore the flag of Admiral Lord Nelson and Admiral Charles Morice Pole. The ship was involved in the blockade of Toulon, and, with Captain Thomas Hardy on board, at the Battle of Copenhagen. In April 1801, Lyons served under the flag of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, and during the Peace of Amiens during 1801\u20131803, on the West India Station and the Home Station, in the 74-gun and the 14-carriage-gun brig-sloop . Lyons also served with Captain Delafons on the 38-gun , which had been captured from the French in 1801, and with Captain Thomas Manby. In 1803, Lyons joined the 74-gun , which struck rocks off Brest on 25 March 1804 whilst blockading the French. Lyons then joined the 100-gun , which had been a French ship of the line captured at the"}, {"text": "Battle of the Nile, for three months until he joined , then Nelson's flagship, on which he was present at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. Lyons then moved to Admiral Lord Collingwood's 98-gun for the blockade of Cadiz, and then to the 74-gun of Captain Charles Rowley, on which he was present for the taking of the island of Capri from Napoleon in May 1806. In 1807 Lyons was transferred to the 74-gun , on which he was involved in the evacuation of the Messina Straits in the winter of 1807. He was involved in the assault on the Castle of Santa Maura on the Greek island of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea. He married Caroline Bowen (b.1789), who was the daughter of Major Bowen R. A., in 1810 at St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral in Malta. Lyons subsequently served on the 74-gun and the 74-gun during the blockade of Toulon until May 1813, and on the , before he became ill and missed the ship's departure from Lisbon which ended in its loss with the loss of all crew. Lyons subsequently joined the 110-gun in January 1814, and was promoted to commander on 27 June 1815, as"}, {"text": "which he served at the Cape of Good Hope between 1828 and 1830 onboard , a 18-gun brig-sloop involved with anti-slave operations between Mauritius and Madagascar. He was promoted to captain in 1830. Between 1839 and 1840 Lyons was employed as an ambassador to the Ottoman states by the Egyptian Government between Cairo and Alexandria and Syria. He introduced to the Ottoman pasha and the Egyptian landmarks dignitaries who travelled between Bombay, Suez, and Britain. The overland journey to India by this passage took two months. In 1851 Lyons had retired to Hampshire in England. In 1861 he was living in Surrey. He was promoted to vice-admiral in 1866. His first wife died in August 1864, and he married in 1865, at Hove, Sussex, Anna Maria Ferguson, a widow of Colonel John L. Mowatt of the Bengal Horse Artillery, with whom he was living at Worthing in 1871. He died in December 1872 when aged 85."}, {"text": "Emil Frost Holten (born 8 August 1996) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Eliteserien club Fredrikstad, on loan from IF Elfsborg. Honours. Esbjerg fB"}, {"text": "Kuldip Singh Bhogal (born 4 March 1950) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the brother of Ugandan hockey international player Ajit Singh Bhogal."}, {"text": "Wictor Petersson (born 1 May 1998) is a Swedish athlete specialising in the shot put. He represented his country at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without reaching the final. Earlier that year he won a bronze medal at the European U23 Championships. His personal bests in the event are 20.70 metres outdoors (Azusa 2019) and 19.78 metres indoors (Malm\u00f6 2019)."}, {"text": "Ajit Singh Bhogal (born 5 November 1942) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the brother of Ugandan hockey international player Kuldip Singh Bhogal."}, {"text": "Oscar Thore Hedvall (born 9 August 1998) is a Danish professional footballer who plays for Viborg FF."}, {"text": "Malkit Singh Sondh (born 5 February 1948) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Nurses (Spanish: Enfermeras) is a Colombian medical drama television series produced by Ana Mar\u00eda P\u00e9rez that aired on RCN Televisi\u00f3n from 23 October 2019 to 12 August 2022. The series focuses on the lives of several nurses, specifically focusing on the life of Mar\u00eda Clara Gonz\u00e1lez (Diana Hoyos). Plot. Mar\u00eda Clara Gonz\u00e1lez (Diana Hoyos) works as the head of nurses in one of the most recognized hospitals in the city: the Santa Rosa. Life would seem to smile at her were it not for the monotony into which her marriage with Rom\u00e1n has fallen, with whom she has two children. On the day of her anniversary, Mar\u00eda Clara makes the decision to win her husband back and reserves a hotel room to spend the night with him. However, Rom\u00e1n suffers a heart attack at the scene and is transferred to an emergency to receive medical help. Mar\u00eda Clara spends the night at his side. The next day, a woman named Paula arrives, accompanied by her young son, and tells the nurse that it is Rom\u00e1n's first-born son. From there, Maria Clara becomes increasingly disillusioned with her husband, to the point of planning their divorce. On the other hand, a young"}, {"text": "resident of internal medicine arrives at the hospital, Dr. Carlos P\u00e9rez (Sebasti\u00e1n Carvajal), who immediately has a special connection with Mar\u00eda Clara, later becoming more than a friend. However, their relationship will be clouded by multiple obstacles, when Maritza and Valeriano, Carlos's wife and father, respectively, find out what happens between them. In addition, Mar\u00eda Clara's enmity with boss Gloria, her children's opposition to her new love, the turbulent business that occurs within the hospital on behalf of Manuel Castro (Lucho Velasco), its scientific director, and the appearance of a new person in Dr. P\u00e9rez's life will make their lives take different directions. Production. The series has a format similar to \"La ley del coraz\u00f3n\" where in each episode there will be a different case, which will resolve in the same episode. In addition, the series has a team of scriptwriters who are: Patricia Ram\u00edrez, Carolina L\u00f3pez, Catalina Palomino, Juliana Lema, Rodrigo Holgu\u00edn, Carolina Becerra, Jorge Rib\u00f3n, Andr\u00e9s Guevara, Catalina Coy, Diego Ch\u00e1lela, Johanna Guti\u00e9rrez, and as scene directors are: V\u00edctor Cantillo and Luis Sierra. Also is stipulated to have 100 episodes of one hour, it was presented at the 2019 MIPCOM, along with other series such as \"El man"}, {"text": "es Germ\u00e1n\", Episodes. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia, RCN Televisi\u00f3n temporarily suspended the telenovela, broadcasting the last episode on 20 March 2020. New episodes resumed on 12 January 2021."}, {"text": "Trent is a surname and a male given name, and means \"the flooder\". It is generally associated with the River Trent, a river in Britain. It may also be a short form of the given name Trenton."}, {"text": "Amarjit Singh Sandhu (born 18 December 1954) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the brother of Ugandan hockey international player Rajinder Singh Sandhu."}, {"text": "Frederik Alves Ibsen (born 8 November 1999) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Danish Superliga club Br\u00f8ndby. Alves also played for Denmark in youth levels, most recently national U21 team. Club career. Youth career. Due to Alves' Brazilian background, he travelled to visit some family in Brazil. Alves played with his cousins and took part in a few training matches, before he was spotted by an agent, which he made a deal with. The agent then brought 15-year old Alves to Coritiba. Alves returned to Denmark after two years in Brazil and joined Silkeborg. Silkeborg. In the summer 2018, 19-year old Alves signed a one-year trainee-contract with Silkeborg which meant, that he was going to train with the first team but play with the U19s. On 26 September 2018, Alves got his official debut for Silkeborg in a Danish Cup game against N\u00e6stved BK, where he was among the 11 starting players. On 1 November 2018, he signed a new deal until the end of 2020. Except for the following two games, Alves played all of the remaining games for Silkeborg and helped the team promoting to the Danish Superliga which also gained him a"}, {"text": "spot on the Danish U-20 national team. On 1 June 2019, Alves signed a new contract until the summer 2024. West Ham United. On 4 November 2020, Silkeborg announced that they had sold Alves to an unnamed club, believed to be English Premier League club West Ham United. On 22 December 2020, West Ham announced the signing of Alves for an undisclosed fee, on a three-and-a-half-year contract commencing on 2 January 2021. Loan to Sunderland. Alves joined Sunderland on a season-long loan for the 2021\u201322 EFL League One season on 13 August 2021. He made his Sunderland debut, in the EFL Cup on 24 August, in a 3\u20132 win against Blackpool. On 14 January 2022, Alves' loan to Sunderland was cut short and he returned to West Ham United. During his loan period \"disciplinary issues\" occurred forcing him to be omitted from the team. He also suffered lack of game time as he could not force his way into the team ahead of Callum Doyle, Tom Flanagan and Bailey Wright. He played 10 games in all competitions during his loan at Sunderland. Br\u00f8ndby. On 31 January 2022, Alves returned to Denmark, joining then Danish champions Br\u00f8ndby, signing a four-and-a-half-year contract"}, {"text": "with the club. He made his competitive debut coming off the bench in injury time for Mathias Kvistgaarden in a 1\u20130 league win over his former club Silkeborg. Style of play. Alves has described his playing style as \"a defender who likes to play with the ball at my feet, but I also like defending and am good in my duels\", drawing inspiration from German international defender J\u00e9r\u00f4me Boateng. \"The Athletic\" has praised Alves' versatility, owing to his ability to use both feet and being able to operate at right-back. Upon signing for Br\u00f8ndby, director of football Carsten V. Jensen labelled Alves as \"calm on the ball\" with \"great physical qualities\". Personal life. Alves' mother is Brazilian, while his father is Danish. For this reason, Alves has dual citizenship although he was born and raised in Hvidovre, Denmark. Honours. Individual"}, {"text": "Gian Carlo Michelini, M.I. (; born 7 July 1935) is an Italian-Taiwanese Roman Catholic priest. He moved to Taiwan in 1964, where he founded the Lanyang Dance Troupe. In 1996, Michelini helped establish the Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival. Early life and arrival in Taiwan. A native of Bologna, Italy, Michelini was born on 7 July 1935. He first learned about the Chinese language and culture through his uncle, who had served as a missionary in China. Inspired by his uncle's experiences, Michelini became a priest. He settled in Taiwan in 1964, aged 29, and adopted the Chinese name Mi Ke-ling (). Sponsored by the Camillian Order, Michelini spent the first two years of his life in Taiwan studying Mandarin in Hsinchu. While in Hsinchu, Michelini watched Chinese films to learn the language, and also viewed performances of Chinese opera and glove puppetry. Lanyang Dance Troupe. Soon after he moved to Luodong, Yilan, Michelini founded the Lanyang Dance Troupe in 1966, which expanded into the Lanyang Youth Catholic Center. Both organizations were named for the Lanyang Plain. Choreographer Lin Mei-hong was a member of the Lanyang Dance Troupe's inaugural class and formally joined the troupe around the age"}, {"text": "of ten. The Lanyang Dance Troupe made its international debut in 1974, with a three-month long tour throughout Michelini's home country of Italy. Only 32 people saw the troupe's first Italian performance, because the show had not been adequately advertised. Despite the tour's inauspicious start, the troupe's reputation grew, and a performance for Pope Paul VI was booked. The Lanyang Dance Troupe then became the first performing arts company to perform for a pope in the Vatican. The troupe returned to Europe for another tour in 1975, followed by a South American tour from 1977 to 1978. As the troupe prepared for their return to Taiwan from South America, they were invited to stage the first Chinese cultural performance at the Disneyland Resort. The troupe subsequently toured in Central America. In the early 1980s, the Lanyang Dance Troupe worked with Henry Yu, a student of Tsai Jui-yueh's, on the Graham technique. In 1986, the Lanyang Dance Troupe began working with choreographers from Hong Kong. Lin Mei-hong returned to the troupe as choreographer in 1990, and has also served as director. Though the troupe began with an emphasis on Chinese court dances and folk dances, it later incorporated modern dance styles."}, {"text": "In 1990, Michelini attended a conference convened by the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts. Taiwan joined the international non-governmental organization in 1994, with Michelini's dance troupe serving as point of contact. Later work. Michelini helped establish the Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival in 1996, and served as general secretary of the Folklore Festival Association of the ROC. In 2011, the name of Michelini and other foreign aid workers were commemorated by Liu Po-chun on a metal tree sculpture. The art piece was donated to the Council for Cultural Affairs by the Foundation of Taiwan Organizations of Philanthropic Education. The next year, Michelini was a recipient of the National Cultural Heritage Conservation Award. In 2013, Michelini donated photographs of the Lanyang Dance Troupe to the Yilan County Government. In 2015, the Order of Brilliant Star with Violet Grand Cordon was conferred upon Michelini. On 6 July 2017, Michelini was naturalized as a citizen of the Republic of China, and became the first person to hold naturalized dual citizenship under the revised Nationality Law provision for special contributions to art and culture. At his naturalization ceremony, Michelini stated, \"This is the best birthday gift. I"}, {"text": "want to do many more things for Taiwan!\""}, {"text": "Anders Hagelskj\u00e6r (born 16 February 1997) is a Danish professional footballer who plays for EFL League One Club Wycombe Wanderers. Career. On 9 January 2025, Hagelskj\u00e6r signed for EFL League One side Wycombe Wanderers. Honours. Silkeborg Molde"}, {"text": "Lungi is a 2019 Indian Kannada romantic love story directed by Arjun Lewis and Akshith Shetty. The film has been bankrolled by Mukesh Hegde under the Khara Entertainment banner. The film stars newbie Pranav Hegde opposite Ahalya Suresh and Radhika Rao, while Prakash Thuminadu, Vj Vineeth, Karthik Varadaraju, Deepak Rai Panaji, and Roopa Vorkady appear in supporting roles. This film also marks the foray of popular Tulu film producer Mukesh Hegde to Sandalwood. Mukesh has earlier produced Tulu films such as Barsa and Are Marler. While Rijo P John has worked as the cinematographer for his movie, Prasad K Shetty has composed the music for Lungi. \"Lungi\" follows the life of Rakshit as he achieves all his dreams and finds the love of his life through the Lungi. Plot. The movie is all about Rakshit's journey, how he finds the purpose of his life and love through the Lungi. Rakshit is your quintessential boy next door who wants what everyone wants, to be happy and to make his parents happy. In an unexpected turn, the father of the love of his life inspires him and helps him find a way to achieve all his dreams. Release. The film was released"}, {"text": "on 11 October 2019."}, {"text": "Joe D. Phelps (born August 18, 1949) is the Founder and Chairman of the Getting Better Foundation, a 501(c)3 charity focused on media literacy and its portrayal of positive evolutionary human behavior. Education and early career. Phelps earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from University of Arkansas in 1972, and spent most of his early career in the music industry. After a fire destroyed his recording studio in 1975 that he started his marketing career, first at Grey Advertising and then at N. W. Ayer. Dissatisfied with the way advertising agencies of the day were structured into strict hierarchies, Phelps started his own agency in 1981. The Phelps Group was an early proponent of two schools of thought: a team-based organizational structure, and integrated marketing communications. Phelps synthesized them into a company composed of self-managed people, organized into client-centric teams. Similar to the concept of holacracy, Phelps detailed his approach in his 2003 book, \"Pyramids are Tombs.\" Later life. In 2015, Phelps changed his focus to helping people accurately consume media communications. Based on his view that sensationalism was presenting an inaccurate and overly negative view off the world, Phelps established the Getting Better Foundation to educate people about what"}, {"text": "he considered to be positive evolutionary changes in human behavior, enlisting the help of Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, British journalist and businessman Matthew White Ridley, and neuroeconomist Paul J. Zak."}, {"text": "Nijbari railway station is a railway station on Katihar\u2013Siliguri branch of Howrah\u2013New Jalpaiguri line in the Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. It is situated beside Fulbari Ghoshpukur Bypass, Mahipal at Nijbari of Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal."}, {"text": "The Homophiles of Penn State, also known as HOPS, was a student organization founded in 1971 at Pennsylvania State University on the University Park Campus. The club aimed to \"change attitudes on homosexuality through legal reform, public education and individual counseling.\" They wanted to tackle issues on campus, like \"lack of information available in the library and classroom, hostile attitudes of the psychiatric clinic and discriminatory administration policies.\" HOPS planned meeting activities included \"speakers, movies, poetry readings, short plays, tapes, etc,\" as well as \"dances and picnics\". History. Campus gay scene. Before the conception of queer organizations on campus, there were not many places for homosexuals to meet or gather. For those of age, the bar scene was one option, yet most felt that such a location was too public, while some others were simply not interested in such a place. Many wanted a place outside the bar scene to gather. The Free University Organization. In the fall of 1970, one such student approached the university chaplain, who pointed him to a discussion group which had met the previous spring. They agreed to meet again, but this time wanted to be more public. They approached The Free University Organization, an"}, {"text": "organization of students, faculty, and community members, and offered classes which were open to everyone. They offered a class entitled \"Homosexuality: A Growing Subculture\", which grew from a handful of attendants to around 50 after a few sessions. It was in these meetings that discussed the need to create a group sanctioned by the university. They then created a steering committee to work on the creation of the club. They submitted their constitution on March 17, 1971, with the name The Other Vision: Homophiles of Penn State. They were granted a charter for the 1971\u20131972 school year on April 20, 1971. Membership. Membership was not limited to Penn State students\u2014people in the surrounding area were encouraged to join the organization. HOPS also welcomed members of all sexualities \u2014 they were open to homosexuals and allies alike. They state that the word homophile means \"anyone ... who advocates the end of discrimation against homosexuals.\" Charter Controversy. HOPS' legality questioned. Shortly after admittance of the charter, members of the Penn State administration expressed concerns with the admittance of a charter for the group. Vice president for student affairs, Raymond O. Murphy, stated that they wanted to look into the \"legalities of this"}, {"text": "type of organization on a state-related campus.\" On May 7, 1971, the club's charter was suspended while they could review the legality of the organization. HOPS fights back. In February, students of Penn State filed a civil action against the university in Common Pleas Court of Centre County for revoking the charter. It was based on the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968. Campus support. HOPS was not alone in its struggle against the university. They found support across campus. One such place was in the New University Conference, \"a group of radical faculty and graduate students\". The group condemned the revoking of the charter, stating that it \"blatantly violated civil liberties of all Pennsylvanians, especially of students and faculty at University Park.\" Acanfora Case. One of the students plaintiffs was Penn State education major Joe Acanfora. During the case, Acanfora was student teaching, and when word got out about both his involvement in the case and his homosexuality, he was removed. He was later reinstated. Campus response. Acanfora received support from a variety of sources on campus, one of which was faculty. In the spring of 1972, professor Ursula Mueller quit due to Acanfora's removal. Mueller, assistant professor"}, {"text": "of mathematics, was the advisor of HOPS. She stated that she was \"appalled by the blatant repressive tactics used by the administration in preventing homosexuals from expressing their full humanity.\" He also received support from HOPS. In February 1972 they held a rally for Acanfora. Since their charter was still not reinstated at the time, though, the rally had to be formally sponsored by Women's Liberation. News coverage. The issue was widely covered in various papers, including campus publications like the \"Daily Collegian\" and those belonging to wider areas like \"The Pennsylvania Mirror\". These newspapers followed the issue closely, offering daily updates, rocketing this issue into the spotlight. The club, because of their charter issue and Acanfora's removal, gained publicity and visibility."}, {"text": "WCLR was a radio station that broadcast on 88.3 FM in Arlington Heights, Illinois. It was owned by the Educational Media Foundation and broadcast its Air1 Contemporary Christian network. Throughout its existence, WCLR shared the 88.3 frequency with Palatine-based WHCM at William Rainey Harper College, broadcasting on weekends and when the college was not in session. Pursuant to an agreement with the college, the WCLR license was canceled in 2017 to allow WHCM to broadcast full-time on 88.3. History. On April 14, 1993, the Church of Christian Liberty filed an application for a construction permit for a new FM radio station on 88.3 FM. The application was granted November 6, 2000, and the WCLR call letters were assigned in 2001. (The call letters were historic in Chicago radio at 850 AM and 101.9 FM, but had been used in Ohio throughout the 1990s.) The time-share agreement would put WCLR on the air on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays and during Harper College breaks from December 16 to January 15, March 25\u201331, and May 21 to August 14. In 2002, pastor Paul D. Lindstrom, who founded CCL, died. While Lindstrom had envisioned WCLR as an extension of the church and its affiliated"}, {"text": "Christian Liberty Academy, the church opted to sell the permit to an experienced Christian radio operator. On June 17, 2003, the Church of Christian Liberty assigned the construction permit to the Educational Media Foundation for $25,000. EMF applied for program test authority in November 2003 and was granted it in April 2004. It joined EMF's Christian rock network Air1. On May 17, 2017, EMF and Harper College reached an agreement in 2017 by which EMF would surrender the license for WCLR to allow WHCM to go full-time on 88.3 MHz. Harper College paid $13,600, representing EMF's outstanding obligation on the WCLR tower lease, and up to $5,000 in EMF's legal fees. The call letters on the WCLR license were changed to WHCD in advance of the closure, with the WCLR call letters being placed on the K-Love transmitter in Butler, Alabama, before returning to Illinois on EMF's 92.5 DeKalb. WHCM went full-time on June 29, 2017."}, {"text": "Emdadul Haque Bhuiyan is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former member of parliament for Narayanganj-2. Career. Bhuiyan was elected to parliament from Narayanganj-2 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1996."}, {"text": "Kansanshi Dynamos Football Club is a Zambian football club based in Solwezi. It plays in the first division of Zambian football. Its home stadium is Solwezi Independence Stadium."}, {"text": "Brendan William Teys (born 22 February 1990) is an Australian professional basketball player for the South West Metro Pirates of the NBL1 North. Professional career. Early career (2008\u20132013). Following a junior basketball career with the South West Metro Pirates of the Queensland Basketball League, Teys signed with his hometown Brisbane Bullets of the NBL as a development player in 2008 but the club folded before the season commenced. He followed former Bullets coach Joey Wright to the Gold Coast Blaze, where he played sparingly over three seasons. After the Blaze folded before the start of the 2012\u201313 NBL season, Teys played with the Townsville Crocodiles for two games in 2012. Adelaide 36ers (2013\u20132021). Teys was encouraged by Wright to sign with the Adelaide 36ers following the latter's appointment as head coach for the 2013\u201314 NBL season. He scored a career-high 23 points in a November 2014 game against the New Zealand Breakers. On 9 July 2015, the 36ers re-signed Teys on a three-year deal. Teys was named captain of the 36ers for the 2017\u201318 NBL season. On 1 August 2018, he re-signed with the 36ers on a one-year deal. Teys re-signed with the 36ers on a two-year deal in the"}, {"text": "2019 off-season. He was appointed 36ers co-captain alongside Kevin White for the 2019\u201320 NBL season. Teys was chosen as a 36ers co-captain alongside teammates Daniel Johnson and Daniel Dillon for the 2020\u201321 NBL season. South West Metro Pirates (2022\u2013present). Teys played for the South West Metro Pirates of the NBL1 North during the 2022 season. He averaged 19.0 points, 6.1 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game. Teys rejoined the Pirates for the 2023 NBL1 Central season. Personal life. Teys has two daughters with his wife, Lori, who is an Indigenous Australian."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 NWHL season was the fifth season of the National Women's Hockey League. All five teams from the previous season returned: the Boston Pride, Buffalo Beauts, Connecticut Whale, Metropolitan Riveters, and the Minnesota Whitecaps. The NWHL completed the semifinal round of the 2020 Isobel Cup playoffs, but had to postpone the championship game between Boston and Minnesota originally scheduled for March 13, 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. On May 15, the final was cancelled and the Isobel Cup was not awarded. League changes. 2019 offseason events. Following the 2018\u201319 season, the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) ceased operations citing the fragmentation of corporate sponsors between the CWHL and NWHL caused their league to be financially infeasible. The NWHL then announced it was pursuing adding two CWHL markets to the league, Montreal and Toronto, if the NWHL found financial backers for the teams. On May 2, 2019, over 200 players from both the CWHL and NWHL released a joint statement announcing their intent to not participate in any North American professional league for the 2019\u201320 season citing their dissatisfaction in the operations of both leagues in that neither provided health insurance or a livable salary. The NWHL responded"}, {"text": "with that they were pursuing many more sponsors than in previous years and hoped to increase player salaries. and agreed to give players a 50 percent split of revenue on league sponsorship and media deals. On May 20, 2019, the players formed a worker's union called the Professional Women's Hockey Player Association (PWHPA) to further push for their stated goals of a league that provides financial and infrastructure resources to players, health insurance, and support to training programs for young female players. With a large number of North American players boycotting the league, more than half of the signed players on opening rosters were new to the league. On May 8, 2019, Pegula Sports and Entertainment (PSE), the owners of the Buffalo Beauts, relinquished ownership and operations of the team back to the NWHL, but continued to claim rights to the Beauts name as part of the turnover. The Beauts then changed their home venue from the PSE-owned Harborcenter to the Northtown Center in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst. On May 17, 2019, the New Jersey Devils ended their partnership with the Metropolitan Riveters. The Riveters then changed their home venue from the Devils' practice rink to ProSkate Ice Arena"}, {"text": "in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, and returned to their original jersey colors. With the player strike, loss of support from the NHL teams, and lack of additional investors, the NWHL announced they would not be able to increase to full-time salaries or provide players with health insurance outside of the typical worker's compensation for injuries, but had come to an agreement to a 50 percent revenue split on all league-wide sponsorship and media deals. In addition, the league also stated they would not add Montreal and Toronto for the 2019\u201320 season. The league announced a longer 2019\u201320 season for the teams, going from 16 to 24 games. Also during the offseason, the Connecticut Whale relocated to Danbury, Connecticut, and the Boston Pride were purchased by a group of investors led by Miles Arnone. All-Star Game. The 2020 NWHL All-Star Game and its weekend festivities took place on February 8\u20139, 2020, at Warrior Ice Arena, the Boston Pride's home arena. The teams were captained by Jillian Dempsey of the Boston Pride and Madison Packer of the Metropolitan Riveters, who drafted their rosters from the selected all-star players in a draft. The skills challenge took place on February 8. Team Packer won"}, {"text": "the fastest skater (Grace Kleinbach of Connecticut) and hardest shot (Kaleigh Fratkin of Boston), while Team Dempsey won fastest goalie (Mariah Fujimagari of Buffalo), shooting accuracy (Jillian Dempsey), and the team relay. Team Packer ultimately won the skills competition via the team shootout competition. On February 11, the league awarded fastest skater to Team Dempsey's Allie Thunstrom of the Minnesota Whitecaps following a review and a timing error. The All-Star Game took place the following day on February 9. The game was a four-on-four format with Team Dempsey winning 5\u20132. The game was sold out in the 800-seat arena and had about 10,000 viewers watching the game live on Twitch."}, {"text": "Helen Grace James (born January 30, 1927) is an American physical therapist and military veteran. She served in the United States Air Force, where she achieved the rank of Airman Second Class. She was discharged from the military as \"undesirable\" during the Lavender Scare campaign to remove lesbian and gay people from government employment in links with the anti-communist campaign. In 1960, she was able to upgrade her status from \"undesirable\" to \"General Discharge under Honorable Conditions\". In 2018, she successfully sued the U.S. Air Force to upgrade her discharge to \"honorable,\u201d which allowed her to receive full veteran benefits that were previously unavailable to her. Early life. Helen Grace James was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on January 30, 1927. She was heavily inspired by her World War I veteran father, which ultimately led to her joining the United States Air Force at age 25 after concurrently enlisting in the Air Force Reserves. James also received a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Education at East Stroudsburg State College and taught for several years before enlisting. Life and career. Helen G. James enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1952. She started as a radio operator and was later"}, {"text": "promoted to crew chief. Eventually she achieved the rank of Airman Second Class. In 1955, the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) started following and spying on her work and personal life during the Lavender Scare campaign to remove lesbian and gay people from government employment as communism began to increase and become an immediate risk in the United States. They placed James under arrest and began interrogation which lasted hours, threatening to disclose her sexuality to her relations and friends if she did not sign discharge papers from the Air Force. James received \"undesirable\" discharge from the US Air Force on the 3rd March, 1955. James was also stripped of her commission in the Air Force Reserves in August 1955, with another \"undesirable\" discharge. After that, she moved to California, where she got an advanced degree in physical therapy from Stanford University. She has been a physical therapist ever since. From 1972 she was a member of the faculty at California State University, Fresno, until she went into private practice in 1989. On the 8th April, 1960, she applied to upgrade her status from \"undesirable\" to \"General Discharge under Honorable Conditions.\" However, the National Personal Records Center notified James that"}, {"text": "her military records were unable to be retrieved. This change was later made but the newfound status did not allow her to have access to basic services other veterans could receive, such as healthcare or banking benefits from the USAA. In 2018 she successfully sued the US Air Force to change her status to \u201chonorable\u201d, making her eligible for all veterans benefits, including access to healthcare from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and burial in a national cemetery. In January 2018, she decided to donate her album of photographs to the Smithsonian, to be featured in the National Air and Space Museum."}, {"text": "Avtar Singh Bhurji (15 December 1944 \u2013 26 January 2025) was an Indian-born Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics for Uganda. After the Games, Bhurji continued playing hockey until 1991 until a health condition forced him to retire. He also coached hockey teams for several decades and became a field hockey photographer. Early life. Bhurji was born in Bika, a village in Jalandhar, India on 15 December 1944. The same year he moved to Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, along with his father, who owned a construction company. He attended Demonstration Primary School and Kololo Senior Secondary School in Uganda before spending time In England where he attended Kingston University in London. Career. As a member of Uganda's burgeoning Asian population, Bhurji took up field hockey. While attending university in England, Bhurji played for Spencer Hockey Club, London Indians and Middlesex Under-21st. He returned to Uganda in 1969, joining Sikh Union Kampala. It was at the club that he was eventually selected for Uganda's squad for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany by coach Randhir Singh Gentle. The squad contained six players from Bhurji's secondary school. At the"}, {"text": "Games, Uganda finished bottom of its group; in its seven matches, the team lost four and drew three, recording a surprise draw with eventual gold medal winners West Germany. Bhurji featured in six of the side's fixtures, missing only the first match with Malaysia. While Bhurji was at the Olympic Games, Ugandan leader Idi Amin had authorised the seizure of property from Asians living in the country and their deportation. Bhurji returned home but his father soon decided to flee the country in 1973, rebuilding his company in Nairobi, Kenya. The family eventually settled in London where Bhurji began playing for Blackheath Hockey Club. With Blackheath, he won the National Indoor Championships in 1976. Later life and death. Bhurji remained heavily involved with hockey, coaching in London for more than two decades and being employed as a professional photographer at hockey matches. He eventually retired from playing in 1991 after spending two weeks in a coma due to a blockage in his portal vein. In 1996, Bhurji suffered a gunshot wound to the leg after he was robbed along with a group of friends while coaching hockey in Nairobi. He is also a qualified civil engineer. Bhurji died in Esher,"}, {"text": "Surrey, England on 26 January 2025, at the age of 80."}, {"text": "2004 Do\u011fubayaz\u0131t earthquake was a 5.1 Mw or 5.2 Mw earthquake that rocked Do\u011fubayaz\u0131t, A\u011fr\u0131, Turkey on 2 July 2004 at 01.30 local time. Eighteen people were killed and 32 were injured. The greatest damage was at Y\u0131\u011f\u0131n\u00e7al village, while Kutlubulak and Sa\u011fl\u0131ksuyu villages were also affected. Kandilli Observatory stated that around 1000 buildings were damaged. The earthquake was felt from A\u011fr\u0131, I\u011fd\u0131r, Kars, and areas near Iran-Turkey border. The intensity of the shock was reported as VII, while the depth was reported as 5 km. The earthquake happened during the local mountain pasture season where villagers were in the mountains, which prevented a higher number of casualties. Various organizations sent relief to the area. Three ministers of Turkish government visited the area, Greece offered help and France sent messages of solidarity. Impact and damage. Although moderate in magnitude, the Do\u011fubayaz\u0131t earthquake of 2 July 2004 had a devastating effect on local masonry construction. Striking at 01:30 local time with a Richter magnitude of 5.1 about 22 km north-north-west of Do\u011fubayaz\u0131t, it caused 18 deaths, 25 injuries and damage to roughly 1,000 predominantly unreinforced stone buildings, many of which collapsed or were rendered uninhabitable. Post-event surveys showed that most failures"}, {"text": "resulted from traditional random-rubble walls bound with clay-rich or weak sand\u2013cement mortars, often containing internal cavities that lowered shear strength. Roofs comprised successive layers of compacted earth atop wooden logs\u2014a practice intended to prevent leaks\u2014which greatly increased mass and lateral inertia during shaking. Rotting timber supports further undermined roof stability. Common damage patterns included flexural cracks across wall faces, corner separations of 1\u20135 cm, and fracturing around window openings. Only a few buildings, erected with better materials and workmanship, withstood the ground motions. Owners were subsequently urged to replace vulnerable dwellings with new construction conforming to Turkish seismic codes."}, {"text": "Liberate Hong Kong is a simulation video game developed by Hong Kong-based activists during the 2019\u20132020 Hong Kong protests. The game simulates a protest environment in Hong Kong, and the protagonist is an unarmed and unnamed protester. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in November 2019, and supports virtual reality devices such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Gameplay. Played from first-person perspective, police attack the protesters with a variety of weapons, but the protesters, being completely unarmed, cannot return fire. Playing as one of the protesters, the player must dodge police attacks and keep protesting without getting arrested. The game does not end until the player gets arrested or shot by the police. Development. \"Liberate Hong Kong\" was developed by a group of activists in under a week and takes approximately 10 minutes to play. The developers recorded chants heard and spray-painted text seen on the streets of Hong Kong. Reception. South China Morning Post's Abacus described that the developers see it as part of the protest movement while then game has limited gameplay elements. Agence France-Presse analyzed that the player cannot engage in violent actions, instead discarding incoming projectiles like tear gas rounds. It"}, {"text": "was livestreamed by \"Hearthstone\" streamer Blitzchung, the subject of the Blitzchung controversy in October 2019. In December 2019, the developers wrote an open letter to game distribution service Steam, accusing the storefront of censoring the game."}, {"text": "AFM Nazmul Huda was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and member of parliament for Mymensingh-3. Career. Huda was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979 and 1996. He also served as the President of Mymensingh Bar Association for a number of terms. Death. Huda died on 31 December 2015."}, {"text": "Sir George Auchinleck, Lord Balmanno MP (c.1560\u2013c.1640) was a 16th/17th century Scottish politician, judge and Senator of the College of Justice. Life. He was the son of William Auchinleck, Laird of Balmanno Castle, son of George Auchinleck, and his wife, Elizabeth. George senior acquired the estate of Alexander Balmanno and built the castle around 1570. In 1574 he also inherited the estate of Polgony, from a childless uncle. On the death of his father in 1596, George (as eldest son) inherited both estates. In 1617 he sat as the Shire Commissioner representing Perthshire in the Parliament of Scotland and sat on the Committee for Revising Laws. He was admitted as an Ordinary Lord in the Scottish courts in the same year. In February 1626 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice (Lord of Session) in place of Viscount Lauderdale who was forced to stand down following a ban on \"noblemen\" in this role. In September 1631 he was elected as a Burgess of Dundee. He retired due to infirmity in 1638 and died prior to March 1639. Family. He married his first wife, Isabel Melville, in 1588. She died in 1593. He secondly married Elizabeth Wemyss. They"}, {"text": "had one daughter Jean Auchinleck who married James Lockart 9th Laird of Lee and was grandmother to the courtier James Lockhart of Lee. It is unclear if Sir William Auchinkleck (d.1648) was his younger brother or son, but William inherited the Balmanno estate. given the timescales involved Elizabeth Wemyss must have married him in 1593 or 1594 but was dead by 1597, and there was little time for two children. In 1597 George married a third time, this time to Sarah Douglas, widow of Robert Strachan of Thornton, and daughter of William Douglas, 9th Earl of Angus. They had one daughter Margaret Auchinleck."}, {"text": "Rangapani railway station is a railway station on Katihar\u2013Siliguri branch of Howrah\u2013New Jalpaiguri line in the Katihar railway division of Northeast Frontier Railway zone. It is situated beside Fulbari Ghoshpukur Canal Road, Rangapani in Siliguri of Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Trains. Few trains have stoppages in this station."}, {"text": "Polycarp Pereira (born 26 January 1932) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Isaac Chirwa (born 24 April 1952) is a Ugandan field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Adrian Georg Iselin Jr. (October 14, 1846 \u2013 January 29, 1935) was an American banker. Early life. Iselin was born on October 14, 1846, in New York City. He was the eldest of seven children born to Adrian Georg Iselin (1818\u20131905) and Eleanora (n\u00e9e O'Donnell) Iselin (1821\u20131897). His younger siblings included William Emil Iselin; Eleanora Iselin (wife of DeLancey Astor Kane); Columbus O'Donnell Iselin (husband of Edith Colford Jones); Charles Oliver Iselin; Georgine Iselin, who was made a Papal Countess in 1912 and did not marry; Emilie Eleanora Iselin (wife of John George Beresford, a grandson of Henry Beresford, 2nd Marquess of Waterford). in 1898. \"From his boyhood, Adrian had accompanied his father on his travels throughout the various mining towns, and later made such journeys alone or joined by his wife and children.\" Career. Beginning in 1868, he was engaged in the banking business founded by his father, with Adrian Jr. later serving as the senior member of the investment banking firm of A. Iselin & Co., which was located at 40 Wall Street. He also served as president and a director of the Iselin Corporation, the City and Suburban Homes Co., the Astor Trust Company, among others. He"}, {"text": "controlled the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company, which established Adrian Mines and Yatesboro, Pennsylvania. Iselin owned a significant number of shares of the New York Dock Company, which he sold to Gregori Benenson in 1923. \"Two years previously he formed the protective committee representing holders of first and second preferred shares in a proposed plan of reorganization of the Reading Company\" and formerly was a director of the Southern Railway and was a member of the finance committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York. Philanthropy. In October 1914, Iselin presented the Indiana County's General Hospital to the people of Indiana in memory of his first wife, Louise Caylus Iselin, who died in 1909. Personal life. On April 4, 1872, Iselin was married to Louise Caylus (1848\u20131909). Louisa and Adrian lived in New York City and maintained a residence at Davenport Neck, a peninsula in New Rochelle, and together were the parents of: After Louise's death on December 4, 1909, he remarried to Sarah Gracie King Bronson (1850\u20131931) at St. Patrick's Cathedral on February 18, 1914. Sarah, the widow of Frederic Bronson, was the daughter of Archibald Gracie King and Elizabeth Denning (n\u00e9e Duer)"}, {"text": "King, and the granddaughter of U.S. Representative James Gore King and William Alexander Duer. She was also the sister of May Denning King, who married John King Van Rensselaer, son of Henry Bell Van Rensselaer and grandson of Stephen Van Rensselaer III, the patroon of Rensselaerwyck. From her first marriage, Sarah was the mother of Elizabeth Duer Bronson, who was married to Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, the United States Ambassador to Italy, before her death in 1914. Iselin was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a member of the Order of the Knights of Malta, the Downtown Association, the Luncheon Club of Wall Street, the Knickerbocker Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Union Club, the Piping Rock Club, the Turf and Field Club, the Riding Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Larchmont Yacht Club, the New Rochelle Yacht Club, and the Genesee Valley Club of Rochester. His widow died in her sleep on 1931. Iselin died on January 29, 1935, at his home, 820 Park Avenue in New York City. After a funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral, he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx."}, {"text": "Kahlee Jacoby Hamler (born July 8, 1999) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions. Early life. Hamler moved from his hometown, Pontiac, Michigan, to Florida to play his final year of high school football as a senior at IMG Academy. Before his first career game at IMG Academy, he tore his ACL. Prior to transferring to IMG Academy, Hamler was a two year letterman at St. Mary's Preparatory School in Orchard Lake, Michigan. He was rated as a four-star prospect by ESPN, Rivals and Scout and a three star prospect by 247Sports. He also ran track for two seasons. College career. 2017 season. Hamler redshirted as a freshman at Penn State due to suffering a torn ACL the previous year. 2018 season. In the first game of his collegiate career against Appalachian State, Hamler returned a kickoff 52 yards with less than two minutes on the clock to help spark Penn State's game-tying drive. He capped the drive off with a 15-yard touchdown reception with under a minute remaining, ending the game with 3 catches for 67 yards and a"}, {"text": "touchdown. Against Ohio State, Hamler was awarded Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week honors after recording four receptions for 138 yards, including a 93-yard touchdown. Through five games, Hamler recorded 13 receptions for 308 yards and four touchdowns in his first season as a collegiate athlete. 2019 season. In the 2019 season, Hamler recorded 56 receptions for 904 receiving yards and eight receiving touchdowns. Professional career. Denver Broncos. 2020 season. Hamler was selected by the Denver Broncos with the 46th overall pick in the second round of the 2020 NFL draft. In Week 2, Hamler made his NFL debut and recorded three receptions for 48 receiving yards in a 26\u201321 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. In Week 8 against the Los Angeles Chargers, Hamler recorded his first career touchdown catch with no time remaining on the clock to help the Broncos win the game 31\u201330. In Week 14 against the Carolina Panthers, Hamler recorded two receptions for 86 yards and two touchdowns during the 32\u201327 victory. On January 2, 2021, Hamler was placed on injured reserve due to a hamstring injury. He finished his rookie season with 30 catches for 381 yards and three touchdowns. 2021 season. Trying to"}, {"text": "shake off the hamstring issues that plagued his rookie season, Hamler began training camp of his sophomore season in a crowded receiving corps. He shone early in preseason, catching a touchdown from Drew Lock during the Broncos' first preseason game against the Minnesota Vikings. He suffered a torn ACL in Week 3 and was placed on season-ending injured reserve on September 28, 2021. 2022 season. On December 3, 2022, Hamler was placed on injured reserve with a hamstring injury. He played in seven games and recorded seven receptions for 165 yards in the 2022 season. On March 23, 2023, Hamler was ruled out for 4\u20136 months after undergoing surgery to repair a partially torn pectoral muscle he suffered while training on his own. On July 31, 2023, Hamler announced he was diagnosed with pericarditis. Hamler was then waived by the Denver Broncos with a non-football illness designation. Indianapolis Colts. Hamler signed with the practice squad of the Indianapolis Colts on September 30, 2023. He was not signed to a reserve/future contract after the season and thus became a free agent upon the expiration of his practice squad contract. Buffalo Bills. Hamler signed a reserve/future contract with the Buffalo Bills on"}, {"text": "January 20, 2024. He was released as part of final roster cuts on August 27 and signed back to the practice squad the following day. He signed a reserve/future contract on January 28, 2025."}, {"text": "Ajit Singh (born 2 March 1952) is an Indian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Ajit Singh is the brother of Harmik Singh, and the father of Gagan Ajit Singh."}, {"text": "Simon Courcoul (born 28 December 1995) is a French professional rugby union player. He plays as a prop for the New England Free Jacks in Major League Rugby, previously playing for the Austin Elite, RC Narbonne and Aviron Bayonnais professionally."}, {"text": "Ross Patrick Denny (born 1955) is a British diplomat who has been the British Ambassador to Costa Rica and Nicaragua since 2015. He was appointed as ambassador on 3 February 2015 and succeeded Sharon Campbell and Chris Campbell in September that year. Pre-consular career. Before joining the Foreign Service, Denny served in the Royal Navy from 1972 until 1979. Consular career. Denny joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1979 and first worked in the West Indies and Atlantic Department. In 1980, he was moved to be an Accountant for the British Embassy in Santiago, Chile and stayed there for three years. He was then moved to the British Embassy in Doha, Qatar to be an Assistant Management Officer. In 1985, Denny was posted to Warsaw as Vice Consul and from 1988 to 1990 he was a Desk Officer in the Personnel Department of the FCO. He then became Desk Officer for the Papua New Guinea and South West Pacific Department and in 1992 was sent to the Hague as a Second Secretary. Denny was made Deputy Head of Mission in Luanda, Angola under Ambassador John Thompson from 2002 to 2005. In 2008, he was appointed the Administrator of"}, {"text": "Ascension. He remained in the post for three years before he was made United Kingdom Ambassador to Bolivia. He stayed as Bolivian ambassador until 2015 when he was made Ambassador to Costa Rica and Non-Resident Ambassador to Nicaragua. In 2018, Denny said that he was \"deeply concerned\" about the violence of the 2018 Nicaraguan protests and called on the government to \"uphold ... the human rights of all Nicaraguans\". Personal life. Denny has a wife and four children, two sons and two daughters."}, {"text": "S/2004 S 31 is a natural satellite of Saturn and a member of the Inuit group. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 8, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and March 22, 2007. S/2004 S 31 is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 17.568 Gm in 869.65 days, at an inclination of 48.8\u00b0 to the ecliptic, with an eccentricity of 0.240. The satellite is affected by the Kozai mechanism, and is noted to be the first known moon whose argument of periapsis oscillates around 270\u00b0."}, {"text": "Gunnlod (Saturn LXII), provisionally known as S/2004 S 32, is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 8, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and January 19, 2007. It was given its permanent designation in August 2021. On 24 August 2022, it was officially named after Gunnl\u01eb\u00f0, a j\u00f6tunn from Norse mythology. She is the daughter of Suttungr and guarded the mead of poetry for him. But Odin in the form of a snake gained access to the chamber in Hnitbjorg where the mead was kept, seduced Gunnl\u01eb\u00f0, and slept with her for three nights. In return Gunnl\u01eb\u00f0 allowed Odin three drinks of the mead, and he then immediately flew out of the cavern in the form of an eagle. Gunnlod is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 21.214 Gm in 1153.96 days, at an inclination of 159\u00b0 to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.251."}, {"text": "Thiazzi (Saturn LXIII), provisionally known as S/2004 S 33, is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 8, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and March 22, 2007. It was given its permanent designation in August 2021. On 24 August 2022, it was officially named after \u00dejazi, a j\u00f6tunn from Norse mythology. He is a son of Alvaldi and kidnapped the goddess I\u00f0unn, who guarded the apples of the gods. Thiazzi is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 24.168 Gm in 1403.18 days, at an inclination of 160\u00b0 to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.399."}, {"text": "Saturn LXIV, provisionally known as S/2004 S 34, is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 8, 2019, from observations taken between December 12, 2004, and March 21, 2007. It was given its permanent designation in August 2021. Saturn LXIV is about 3 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 24.299 Gm in 1,414.59 days, at an inclination of 166\u00b0 to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction, and with an eccentricity of 0.235."}, {"text": "Alvaldi (Saturn LXV), provisionally known as S/2004 S 35, is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 8, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and February 25, 2006. It was given its permanent designation in August 2021. On 24 August 2022, it was officially named after Alvaldi, a j\u00f6tunn from Norse mythology. He was very rich in gold, and when he died his sons divided his inheritance by taking a mouthful each. Alvaldi is about 5 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 22.412 Gm in 1253.08 days, at an inclination of 177\u00b0 to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.194."}, {"text": "S/2004 S 36 is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 8, 2019, from observations taken between December 12, 2004, and February 1, 2006. S/2004 S 36 is about 3 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 23.192 Gm in 1319.07 days, at an inclination of 155\u00b0 to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.748, the highest of any of Saturn's moons."}, {"text": "S/2004 S 37 is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 8, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and February 2, 2006. S/2004 S 37 is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 15.892 Gm in 748.18 days, at an inclination of 163\u00b0 to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.497."}, {"text": "John Charles Edward \"Carlos\" Pamintuan Celdran (November 10, 1972 \u2013 October 13, 2019) was a Filipino artist, tour guide, segment TV host and cultural activist. He was known for \"Walk This Way\", a guided tour of the Manila districts of Intramuros, Binondo, and Quiapo using a combination of music, visuals, and history lectures to immerse tourists into what life was like during the Spanish and American colonization periods of the Philippines. He was also known for engaging in a controversial protest, known colloquially as his \"Damaso stunt\", in the Manila Cathedral in September 2010, leading to his arrest for \"offending religious feelings\" as per Article 133 of the Revised Penal Code. In January 2019, the conviction forced Celdran to go on self-exile in Madrid, Spain, where he died of cardiac arrest on October 13 of that year. Early life and education. Celdran was born as John Charles Edward Pamintuan Celdran, was raised in Dasmari\u00f1as Village in Makati. He was a self-identified Roman Catholic educated by priests when he was a boy. Celdran graduated from high school at Colegio San Agustin \u2013 Makati. He graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a fine arts degree, and from the Rhode"}, {"text": "Island School of Design with honors and a performance art degree in the 1990s, during which time he also worked various jobs \"from cheese-counter boy to fish-station boy, from production assistant of a performance group, to technical director of a dance company\". Career. Celdran began his career as a cartoonist. At age 14, he worked under cartoonist Nonoy Marcelo and would deliver Marcelo's works by hand to the offices where Marcelo worked in: the \"Business Day\" and \"Manila Chronicle\". He secured the stint through the connections of the husband of Patis Tesoro, who is Celdran's aunt. Carlos Celdran joined the Samahang Kartunista ng Pilipinas, a guild of Filipino cartoonists, and became its youngest member. His stint as a cartoonist lasted until he moved to the United States for his college education. Upon his return to the Philippines, Celdran worked as a tour guide. His well-known and longest-running tour, \"If These Walls Could Talk\", ran 17 years. As part of the guided tour in the Spanish-Era walled area of the Manila district of Intramuros, Celdran would sing, dance, and discuss the history of the place clad in costume. Another work of Celdran was the one-man show \"Livin' La Vida Imelda\" that"}, {"text": "centered on the lavish lifestyle of Imelda Marcos, the wife of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled as a dictator. The show was produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company, directed by Ralph Pe\u00f1a at Theater Row's Clurman Theater in New York City and other places outside the Philippines such as Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Penang, Malaysia. After moving to Madrid, he started the \"Jose Rizal Walking Tour of Madrid\", which took tourists to places where Filipino writer and revolutionary hero Jos\u00e9 Rizal had frequently visited during his study in the Spanish capital, and provided insights on how Rizal's experience is linked to the Philippine Revolution. In 2018, Celdran directed and produced the first Manila Biennale in Intramuros, which featured local and international artists. Activism. \"Damaso stunt\". Celdran made national headlines after he interrupted an ecumenical meeting that was held in the Manila Cathedral in September 2010, in protest of the Philippine Catholic Church's perceived interference with the passage of the enacted Reproductive Health Bill. He had worn a Jos\u00e9 Rizal outfit, raised a placard that read \"Damaso\" at the altar, and is quoted as saying \"Stop getting involved in politics!\" Celdran's stunt, known colloquially as his \"Damaso stunt\","}, {"text": "led to his arrest for \"offending religious feelings\" as per Article 133 of the Revised Penal Code. In January 2019, Celdran went into political exile in Madrid, Spain where he subsequently resided until his death. In October 2019, Albay Representative Edcel Lagman (who was the author of the RH Bill) filed House Bill No. 5170 (or the \"Carlos Celdran Bill\") in Congress, which seeks to repeal Article 133 and, according to Lagman, would uphold the right to freedom of speech and expression (which are guaranteed in the Philippine Constitution) and separation of church and state in the Catholic-majority country of the Philippines. A petition was also launched at Change.org to push the bill's ratification. Other. Celdran also opposed the construction of the Torre de Manila because it obstructed the line of sight behind the Rizal Monument. Death. Celdran died of cardiac arrest on October 13, 2019, in Madrid, Spain. His widow, Tesa Celdran, confirmed the death."}, {"text": "Geirrod (Saturn LXVI), provisionally known as S/2004 S 38, is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 8, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and March 22, 2007. It was given its permanent designation in August 2021. On 24 August 2022, it was officially named after Geirr\u00f6\u00f0r, a j\u00f6tunn from Norse mythology. He is an enemy of Thor and is killed by him. Geirrod is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 21.908 Gm in 1,211.02 days, at an inclination of 154\u00b0 to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.437."}, {"text": "S/2004 S 39 is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 8, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and March 21, 2007. S/2004 S 39 is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 23.575 Gm in 1351.83 days, at an inclination of 167\u00b0 to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.080."}, {"text": "Rodrigo Garcia (born 10 May 1974) is a Brazilian lawyer, businessman and politician, who was affiliated with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). He was state deputy elected for three consecutive legislatures, 1999\u20132002, 2003\u20132006 and 2007\u20132010, and president of the Legislative Assembly of S\u00e3o Paulo from 15 March 2005 to 15 March 2007. He had served as Governor of S\u00e3o Paulo from April to December 2022. Career. Born in Tanabi, he left the position of deputy to head the Municipal Secretariat for Modernization, Management and Debureaucratization of the City Hall of S\u00e3o Paulo, from 2008 to 2010. In April 2010, he returned to the Legislative Assembly to continue his work as a state deputy for the Democrats. He was national vice president of DEM and secretary general of the party in the State of S\u00e3o Paulo. In May 2011, he was invited by the governor of the State of S\u00e3o Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin, to assume the role of Secretary of State for Social Development. On May 28, 2013, again by the invitation of Governor Geraldo Alckmin, he took over the role of Secretary of Economic Development, Science and Technology of the State of S\u00e3o Paulo, which later became the Secretary"}, {"text": "of Development of the State of S\u00e3o Paulo. On April 3, 2014, he left the command of the Secretariat to return to the Federal Chamber. In the 2014 elections for the 55th legislature (2015-2019), Rodrigo was the fifth most voted federal deputy in the State of S\u00e3o Paulo, obtaining 336,151 votes. On February 1, 2015, he took up his fifth term. Afterwards, on March 19, 2015, he resigned from the position to assume the Secretary of State for Housing in the new government of Geraldo Alckmin. He voted in favor of impeaching Dilma Rousseff. In the 2018 elections, he ran as vice governor on Jo\u00e3o Doria's ticket, for which he was elected in the second round. As Secretary of Government, Rodrigo Garcia coordinates all the strategic actions of the state: vaccines, concessions, public investments, public-private partnerships and all the major management programs of the other secretariats. In the 2022 elections, Garcia tried to run as Governor of S\u00e3o Paulo for a full term, but he placed third and was eliminated in the first round, thus marking the end of the 28-year rule of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party in S\u00e3o Paulo. Garcia left office on 31 December 2022, being succeeded"}, {"text": "by eventual winner Tarc\u00edsio de Freitas."}, {"text": "Janet Olson is a Silicon Valley technology executive and leading contributor to the field of semiconductor Electronic Design Automation (EDA). For over 30 years, she was Vice President of Engineering at the world's top two semiconductor EDA companies - first Synopsys and then Cadence Design Systems. She holds 9 U.S. patents. With a focus on logic synthesis, Olson published numerous papers and presented at international EDA conferences, such as the International Symposium on Physical Design, the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, and Design Automation and Test in Europe. She is on the Board of Equal Opportunity Schools, and chairs its Technology Governance Committee. Olson obtained her BS in electrical engineering and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University."}, {"text": "Rose Bascom also known as Texas Rose Bascom (January 25, 1922 \u2013 September 23, 1993) is a 1981 National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame trick rider inductee. Life. Rose Bascom was born Ethel Rose Flynt on January 25, 1922, near Mount Olive, Mississippi, in Covington County, Mississippi. Bascom was of Cherokee-Choctaw Native American descent. Career. Bascom lived in Arm, Mississippi. She learned fancy trick roping from her brother-in-law, Earl Bascom. After learning to trick ride and rope from Pearl Elder, Rose performed for the first time at the Columbia Rodeo in 1937 becoming known as the \"Queen of the Mississippi Cowgirls.\" Rose became so adept at trick roping she later toured throughout the world and became known as the \"World's Greatest Female Trick Roper\". She is the only known female trick roper to master the skill of spinning three ropes at the same time\u2014twirling a rope in each hand and a third one in her mouth (teeth or toes). In 1937, Rose married Weldon Bascom, a professional rodeo competitor. Soon she became known by the monicker, \"World's Greatest Female Trick Roper\". The newspaper press dubbed her act \"the most beautiful stage performance in the world\". She toured with the"}, {"text": "USO. In 1938, Rose and her husband moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where he worked for the Fort Worth Stock Yards. In 1939, Rose and Weldon moved to Rock Springs, Wyoming, where Weldon worked in the coal mines. During her career, Texas Rose Bascom was a professional trick roper, trick rider, and movie actress. She became known as \"Queen of the Trick Ropers\". Texas Rose joined the United Service Organizations entertainment troupe to tour around the world. She developed a fluorescent trick rope act which was billed \"The Most Beautiful Stage Performance in the World\". Bascom and her husband retired to the Rush Lake Ranch near St. George, Utah. She died at the age of 71 on September 23, 1993."}, {"text": "The National Association of Rudimental Drummers (N.A.R.D. or NARD) is an organization created to encourage the study of rudimental drumming. NARD is responsible for the creation of the Standard 26 American Rudiments. History. The National Association of Rudimental Drummers was formed at the American Legion National Convention of 1932. According to the official NARD website: \"It is the purpose, aim and object of the N.A.R.D. to standardize drum rudiments and to encourage their adoption by all earnest students of drums; also to dispel the erroneous idea that the rudiments are only for the drum corps drummer.\" The founding members of NARD included William F. Ludwig, Sr., George Lawrence Stone, Harry Thompson, George A. Robertson, William M. Flowers, Heinie Gerlac, W.W. Kieffer, J. Burns Moore, W. F. Hammond, Joe A. Hathaway, Billy Miller, Edward B. Straight, and Roy C. Knapp. These original 13 members decided upon \"The 13 Essential Rudiments,\" published in 1933, for American drumming in their first meeting. Potential members of NARD are expected to play the 13 essential rudiments in front of an existing NARD member in order to join the organization. William F. Ludwig said of that first meeting, \"We talked and played the rudiments six hours"}, {"text": "well into the morning. But we felt that we had saved the drum rudiments by adopting a practical set of rudiments without deviation from any of the then recognized and established methods.\" Many of the founders had studied with Civil War veterans and felt that traditional rudimental drumming was becoming endangered. There was also a perceived discrepancy between the way that the rudiments were taught between the most popular rudimental books of the day, Bruce and Emmett's \"Guide\" and Gardiner A. Strube's \"Instructor\". The chief concern with some of the rudiments was the placement of the accents, particularly on the double stroke roll. NARD followed their \"Essential 13\" rudiments with \"The 13 Rudiments to Complete the 26 Standard American Drum Rudiments\" in 1936, after polling their 246 members to see which rudiment should be included. These two sheets of rudiments, totaling just 26, are the only American rudiments recognized by NARD. Despite this, founding member William Ludwig later included 30 rudiments in his book \"WFL Complete Drum Instructor\" in 1942. The 26 NARD rudiments correspond exactly the 25 Lessons found in Gardiner A. Strube's \"Drum and Fife Instructor\" of 1870 with the single addition of The Single Stroke Roll. Frank"}, {"text": "Arsenault, president of NARD from 1954-1966 and eventual Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame inductee, made a recording of the 26 NARD rudiments and selected solos from the NARD solo book in the 1950s. NARD officially closed in 1977, though its rudiments continued to be the American standard until 1984 with the Percussive Arts Society's publication of the PAS 40 International Drum Rudiments. 31 years later, in 2008, NARD was reformed under president Mark Beecher, with the support of William F. Ludwig II and the Ludwig Drums Company."}, {"text": "Gloria Kisch (1941\u20132014) was an American artist and sculptor known especially for her early post-Minimalist paintings and wall sculptures, and her later large-scale work in metal. Early life and education. Born in New York City in 1941 to the German immigrants Max and Hilda Stern, Gloria initially completed an undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College in 1963, before leaving for California, where she would spend the next two and a half decades of her life. Time in California. In 1963, Kisch enrolled at the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, where she studied alongside artists such as Bas Jan Ader and Barry Le Va, earning a BFA and completing her MFA in 1969. While at Otis she embarked on a series of hard-edge paintings, described by the critic Naomi Baker in the \"San Diego Evening Tribune\" as \"geometric paintings, vivid and sharply defined with color areas and shapes.\" Beginning in 1971, while living in Venice Beach, Kisch's work became increasingly sculptural, described by the critic Melinda Terbell Wortz in \"Artweek\" in 1974 as \"more like wall sculptures than paintings.\" Her early sculptures were in a post-Minimalist vein and were compared to works by her contemporaries Eva Hesse and"}, {"text": "Bruce Nauman. In the 1970s, Kisch taught and exhibited her work at the newly founded cooperative gallery Womanspace in the non-profit arts and education center The Woman\u2019s Building established by artist Judy Chicago, designer Sheila Levant de Bretteville, and critic Arlene Raven at Otis College in Los Angeles. There, Kisch\u2019s work was included in the exhibitions \"Open Invitational\" and \"Female Sexuality,\" and in 1977\",\" she led an extension program in sculpture. In 1973, Suzanne Saxe Gallery in San Francisco presented a solo exhibition of Kisch's work in which she displayed hanging, leaning, or suspended groups and pairings of \u201ctotems\u201d, bamboo segments she had wrapped and coated in silicone, plaster, sand, paint and other substances which suggested the \"powerful presence of ritualistic objects.\" That same year, she debuted \"'Wall Pieces\"' at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now the Orange County Museum of Art). During this period, Kisch\u2019s work was also shown at various college and university art galleries in California, including Santa Monica College where she exhibited alongside Betye Saar, Judy Chicago, Claire Falkenstein, and Ynez Johnston, and at the University of California Irvine where Kisch installed her first large-scale outdoor sculpture, \u2018\"Double Zero\".\u2019 In 1977, Kisch created an environmental installation"}, {"text": "for her solo exhibition, \u2018\"The Tomb\"\u2019, organized by the gallery at California State University, Los Angeles. Beginning in 1975, Kisch began showing regularly at Cirrus gallery, an influential gallery and print publishing workshop in Los Angeles. In 1977, Kisch produced prints with the workshop\u2019s master printmaker Jean Milant, which were exhibited in \u2018Made in LA; The Prints of Cirrus Editions\u2019 at LACMA. These prints are in the collections of museums throughout the U.S. In 1976, she had her first international solo show in Paris at Stevenson Palluel and was a participant in the Biennale of Sydney. In 1978 Kisch was included in a landmark group exhibition organized by \"Southern Exposure\" at San Francisco's Stephen Wirtz Gallery. Among the other artists shown were John McCracken, Judy Chicago, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Kenneth Price, Richard Diebenkorn, and Edward Kienholz. That same year, she also had a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art titled \"'Zeu\".' She had her first New York solo show, of The Chimes Series (originally presented at Janus Gallery in Venice, California) at the Touchstone Gallery in 1979. These large-scale as well as tabletop sculptures were formed from rocks Kisch gathered and affixed to the tops"}, {"text": "of vertical steel rods arranged to suggest the rocks\u2019 potential to create sound, highlighting the energy latent in their form. Curated by Alanna Heiss, in 1980 Kisch\u2019s work was included in a Special Projects Exhibition at New York's Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1 (now MoMA PS1). Kisch was named a leading artist in the 1980 ARTnews article covering the Venice California art scene, and was featured in the film \"Contemporary Artists At Work: Sculptors\", a Harcourt Brace and Jovanich film alongside John Chamberlain, Fred Eversley, and John McCracken. Return to New York. In 1981, Kisch returned to New York City, working briefly on Leonard Street before relocating to Broadway, where she was among the artists moving into converted Soho lofts. She built a studio on the first floor \"because of the need to use heavy and bulky material.\" This same year, The Milwaukee Art Museum exhibited \"The Leonard Street Series\", a group of sixteen large drawings made in oil stick and white gesso inspired by New York City. Following her Milwaukee exhibition, in 1983 Kisch presented \"The Gateway Series\" at the Queens Museum and at 55 Mercer Street. Functional sculpture. Kisch began sculpting almost exclusively with metal in"}, {"text": "the early 1980s, due in part because metal would give her art a \u201clonger life.\u201d Kisch embarked on \"functional sculptures,\" objects and furnishings that blurred the line between art and design. She exhibited these works at the pioneering Soho gallery Art et Industrie. Of her approach to making functional sculpture, Kisch said, \u201cI have eased into functional art, its duality offers a resolution for some of my ideas. Wrapping my fantasies around a preconceived utilitarian object is the basis for this dichotomy.\u201d The art critic Rose Slivka noted that Kisch\u2019s furniture forms \u2018look as if they are gloating with the secret of their own utility.' In 1988, Kisch\u2019s figurative sculpture \u2018Comrades\u2019 was included in the exhibition \"The Legacy of Surrealism in Contemporary Art\" at the Ben Shahn Galleries at William Paterson College. In 1991, Kisch began residing on Long Island. In 2000, she constructed a studio with metalworking and welding workshops on a 40-acre converted duck farm in Flanders, Riverhead, Long Island that she called Three Ponds. Here Kisch began to incorporate elements of nature into her sculpture. \u201cI live by nature and I am inspired by nature.\u201d She began a series of large-scale steel sculptures evoking pond reeds, and"}, {"text": "later, her well-known free-standing as well as wall-mounted metal flower forms emerged. During this period, Kisch also began her \u2018\"Bells\"\u2019, stainless steel mobiles conjuring temple bells, chandeliers, and wind chimes, some emitting sound if struck or moved. She worked prolifically at Three Ponds until her death in 2014. Kisch was included in the 1993 exhibition \"Art and Application\" at Turbulence Gallery in New York along with artists such as Vito Acconci, John Chamberlain, Richard Artschwager, Michele Oka Doner, Dennis Oppenheim, and Haim Steinbach among others. In 2007, she had a notable two-person show with sculptor Dale Chihuly at the Vered Gallery in East Hampton, NY, where she exhibited her \"Flowers\" series. In 2009, American Image Books published the monograph \"Gloria Kisch: Fusion of Opposites\", showcasing her sculptural work and in 2010 her work was presented in a solo exhibition at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY. In 2014, Kisch\u2019s flower sculptures were included in an exhibition at the Nassau County Museum of Art. Public art. Kisch's large scale sculptural work has been featured in sites for public art. In 1987, Kisch's sculpture \"Big Apple Christmas Tree\" was installed in the Robert Moses Plaza at Lincoln Center. Her monumental steel sculpture"}, {"text": "\"Octopus II\" was exhibited in 2002 in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, followed by a presentation of her sculpture \"Copper Fusion\" in 2010\u201311; both installations were organized by the City of New York and the Department of Parks and Recreation. In 2008, Kisch installed \u2018\"Nagas\u2019\" on the rooftop terrace of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. Kisch's views on art. Throughout her life, Kisch traveled and read widely, and was inspired by various cultural traditions, religious art and objects. As she stated to Barbara Wilson in an interview in \"Current Magazine\" in 1975\u201376: \"I'm interested in the esthetic quality of eternal timelessness, in ancient art\u2014Greek, Egyptian, and Indian\u2014that seems never outdated.\" She considered her art to be \u201cspiritual in content,\u201d noting that through the dissonance and harmony present in her sculptures, \u201cI strive to create a place to elate the spirit.\u201d She professed an interest in the curative power of art, stating \"For a society which has lost its connection with the reasons for human existence, Art serves to reinstate what is important...Art acts as a reminder of eternal values which have served mankind always. Therefore, Art today acts as a curing agent. When we are convinced by Art our values"}, {"text": "are set straight again. Art cures by reinforcing the importance of our individual songs.\" Personal life. Kisch had two children and two grandchildren. Posthumous reception. Following Kisch's death in 2014, there has been renewed interest in her work. A catalogue of her sculptures, \"Immortal Flowers\", was published by dieFirma and bookdummypress in 2019 in conjunction with an exhibition of her work at dieFirma's New York gallery. Since 2021, Kisch's work has been presented by Salon 94. Public collections. Kisch's works are in the collections of many institutions in the U.S. and abroad: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California Downey Museum Of Art, Downey, California Centrum Sztuki Wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej, Warsaw, Poland Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York Bergen Museum of Art, Paramus, New Jersey Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, Australia Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas The Jewish Museum, New York, New York The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois The Frances Lehman Loeb"}, {"text": "Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York"}, {"text": "Marcelin L. Lahaie DSO, CD was a Canadian officer who served in the Royal Canadian Artillery during the Second World War. He also served as the first commandant of the Royal Military College Saint-Jean and also the commandant of CFB Valcartier. Education. Marcelin L. Lahaie was born in 1913 in Buckingham, Quebec. In 1932, he began his studies at MCGill University in engineering, until 1935. He then studied for a small period of time at the University of Montr\u00e9al. Military career. Lahaie joined the Canadian Army in October 1940 as a second lieutenant. He was trained until 1942, when he was deployed overseas as a captain in the Artillery. In 1944, as a major, he commanded a battery in the 4th Medium Regiment, RCA until 1945. After the war, he also served as the commander of the 79th Field Artillery Regiment, which in 1951 became part of the NATO force present in Germany Lahaie then opened a new military college in Canada, becoming the first commandant of the Royal Military College Saint-Jean when it opened in 1952. Royal Military College Saint-Jean. The Government of Canada, under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, decided to create a bilingual military college in the"}, {"text": "province of Quebec. Newly promoted Colonel Lahaie was entrusted with the opening of the new military college with the first Officer Cadets set to enter the college November 15, 1952. The college opened early on 15 September 1952, and was granted a 3-year program composed of one preparatory year and two university years from the Canadian government due to the efforts of Lahaie. The Lahaie Pavilion, named in his honour, was built at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in 1972. The Lahaie Pavilion houses the college library, offices, computer labs, and some classrooms."}, {"text": "Conrad Alexander Fabritius (8 August 1731 - 13 September 1805), ennobled by letters patent under the name Fabritius de Tengnagel in 1778, was a Danish merchant, shipowner and patron of the arts. He owned Enrum at Vedb\u00e6k from 1776. Early life and education. Conrad Fabritius was born on 8 August 1731 in Copenhagen, the son of Michael Fabritius (1697\u20131746) and Anna Maria K\u00f6ster (1705\u20131775). His father was a co-founder of Fabritius & Wewer, a leading trading house in Copenhagen, but died when Conrad Fabritius was 15 years old. His mother was later married to her late husband's business partner, Johan Friederich Wewer, who continued Fabritius & Wewer. Conrad Fabritius and his brother Michael Fabritius were both educated in the company. Career. Conrad and Michael Fabritius continued Fabritius & Wewer after Wewer 's death. In 1772, Fabritius de Tengnagel was elected as one of the directors of the Danish Asia Company. The company had just lost its monopoly on trade on the far east and he also traded on India with his own fleet of merchant ships. He resigned from his position as director of the Danish Asia Company in 1776 after his double role had resulted in criticism from the"}, {"text": "other participants in the enterprise but was again elected as director in 1778. Conrad and Michael Fabritius were on 4 May that same year ennobled by letters patent under the name Fabritius de Tengnagel. In 1784, he was again forced to resign in connection with a scandal where a group of high-ranking employees had embezzled the company for close to DKK 500,000. The other shareholders in the company were outraged and wanted the directors to be held accountable. In the end Fabritius de Tengnagel had to pay 10,000 Danish rigsdaler in compensation to the company. Personal life. Fabritius de Tengnagel married Debora Kloppenburg (29 June 1739 - 2 November 1814), a daughter of Peter Kloppenburg and Johanne Marie van Laban-Ehelieden, on 27 April 1758 in Vreeland. They had two sons, Michael Peter Fabritius de Tengnagel (1 March 1759 \u2013 1810) and Carl Frederik Fabritius de Tengnagel (11 April 1762 \u2013 7 February 1824). The family lived at Holmens Kanal 2\u20134 in 1770 \u2013 1772, then at Amaliegade 2 in 1773 \u2013 1775 and finally at Slotsholmsgade 12 in 1776 \u2013 1805. All three buildings have later been demolished. In 1775, Fabritius de Tengnagel inherited the country house Enrum at Vedb\u00e6k."}, {"text": "He undertook a comprehensive renovation of the house and created a number of monuments and other features in the garden, including columns, artificial ponds and a miniature fortification with cannons that saluted at festive occasions. He died on 13 September 1805 in Copenhagen and is buried at the Cemetery of Holmen."}, {"text": "Hayatur Rahman Khan is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Mymensingh-2. Career. Khan was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-2 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008. His nomination triggered protests by Awami League activists who wanted Sharif Ahmed to be nominated."}, {"text": "The 2019 Kerry Senior Football Championship was the 118th edition of Kerry GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for senior teams in County Kerry, Ireland. The tournament consists of 17 teams (8 club teams and 9 divisional teams), with the winners representing Kerry in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship if they are a club team. If the winners are a divisional team the winners of the Kerry Club Football Championship represent the county. The championship has a back-door format for the first two rounds before proceeding to a knock-out format. Generally, any team to lose two matches will be knocked out of the championship. This was Kilcummin's return to the senior ranks after only a one year absence, meaning they will no longer provide players to the East Kerry District panel for this season. An Ghaeltacht (who were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2019) will provide the West Kerry Divisional side with players for the S.F.C. Dr. Crokes were the 2018 champions after they defeated Dingle in the final. Rathmore lost their 20-year senior club championship status after a surprising no show in the second half against neighbours Kilcummin. Rathmore\u2019s exit is all the more surprising in a season where"}, {"text": "they had beaten Dr. Croke's in the Senior Club Championship and topped Division 1 of the County League. However All-Ireland Intermediate champions Kilcummin had no desire to join the band of clubs who went up to senior only to come back straight down the following season. Format Structure Change. 8 club teams and 9 divisional teams (17 in total) will take part in this year's S.F.C. It was decided that only 8 divisional sides would take part in the competition proper so the 2 lowest ranked divisional sides from the previous 5 years would play off in a qualification match with the winner entering the draw for the 2019 County Championship proper. Relegation (See below): The club team to be relegated from the Senior County Championship will be the same team to be relegated from the Senior Club Championship (The 8 senior clubs play off against each other in two pools in the Club Championship. The two teams that finished bottom of the Group Pools enter a relegation final. This loser will be relegated to the I.F.C. for 2020. Should a club reach the final of the County championship they will be exempt from the Relegation process in the Club"}, {"text": "championship). The winner of the 2019 I.F.C. will be promoted to the 2020 Senior County and Club Championships. Team Changes. The following teams have changed division since the 2018 championship season. To S.F.C.. Promoted from 2018 I.F.C. From S.F.C.. Relegated to 2019 I.F.C. Participating teams. The teams taking part in the 2019 Kerry Senior Football Championship are: Championship Qualifier. It was decided that only 8 of the 9 Divisional Teams would play in the Senior Championship proper. To determine which team would be excluded, all divisional teams placed into an open draw. Two of these divisional sides were drawn to play in a Qualifying Round. The winner would proceed to Round 1 of the championship proper while the loser would exit the championship until the following year. The ranking system of previous years was abolished. Rounds 1 to 3. Round 1. The sixteen remaining teams play in eight matches in Round 1. The winners proceed to Round 2A while the losers play in Round 2B. Round 2. Round 2A. The eight winners from Round 1 play each other in this round. The winners proceed to the knock-out quarter finals while the losers play in Round 3. Round 2B. The eight"}, {"text": "losers from Round 1 play each other in this round. The winners proceed to Round 3 while the losers are eliminated from the championship having lost two games. Round 3. The four Round 2A losers (who won a game and lost a game) play the four Round 2B winners (who lost a game and won a game) in this round. The four winners progress to the knock-out quarter finals while the losers are eliminated from the championship. Knock-Out Stage. Quarter-finals. The four Round 2A winners play the four Round 3 winners in the quarter-finals. Relegation. The club team to be relegated from the Senior County Championship will be the same team to be relegated from the Senior Club Championship. The 8 senior clubs are placed into two groups containing four teams during the Club Championship. The teams to finish bottom of both groups will face off in the Relegation Final, with the loser being relegated to the I.F.C. for 2020. Should a club reach the final of the County championship they will be exempt from the Relegation process in the Club championship."}, {"text": "A Takeoff Acceleration Monitoring System automates the pilot monitoring of Distance to Go (DTG), \"to sense, in a timely fashion the development of insufficient acceleration, which would extend the takeoff roll, perhaps precipitously\". Over the years, recommendations have been made to develop a Take Off Performance Management System. The NLR and NASA developed TOPMS prototypes. However, these systems were never operationally introduced. EASA established two working groups (WGs) to address this issue. WG-88 focussed on the specification and standardization of On-Board Weight and Balance Systems (OBWBS), an ongoing effort for what is considered to be a feasible option. WG-94 focussed on standards and operational conditions for a TOPMS; it WG-94 was concluded early 2017, considering that TOPMS was not feasible, in particular due to limitations in technology and data availability. A version suitable for detecting gross errors, which can be integrated in existing avionics, has been proposed by National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), KLM, and Martinair. A 2019 research paper explores the cause of a July 2017 serious incident, caused by erroneous data entry, where such system could have been useful. It \"summarises a basic takeoff acceleration monitoring system and the effect this would have had on the July 2017 event\"."}, {"text": "The opera trilogy I, Claudius and Claudius the God is the work of composer Igor Escudero. The trilogy. The three parts, or chapters, that form \"I, Claudius and Claudius the God\" are titled \"Livia\", \"Caligula\" and \"Claudius the God\", and have been conceived to be performed not only sequentially, but also separately. Part 1: Livia. Augustus, first emperor and head of the Julio-Claudian family, has led Rome to an era of wide expansion and social and economic growth. Livia, his wife, controls him and runs Rome from the shadows. Through the years she has been slowly getting rid of anyone who dared escape her control, no matter if family or not. It's been foretold that the Julio-Claudian family will rule Rome for decades. This dynasty has a black sheep, young Claudius, a weak and crippled boy who has a stutter. Despite his kindness and honesty, Claudius is repudiated by almost everyone, including his mother. His brother Germanicus and his friend Postumus, who are both candidates to succeed Augustus as the leaders of Rome, are the only ones who love him. Livia manipulates Augustus to name her son Tiberius as heir to the throne. Part 2: Caligula. Following Livia's death, Tiberius's"}, {"text": "depravity is out of control. Rome sinks into a Dark Age, marked by corruption and non-stop executions of citizens. Tiberius's life is close to an end, and Caligula has been chosen to succeed him. Claudius knows that his nephew, Caligula, shares nothing of his father's virtuous nature. After just a few months of being on the throne, the people of Rome grow tired of Caligula's excesses and eccentricities. Rome plunges into a reign of terror, even worse than that of Tiberius. Part 3: Claudius the God. Caligula has been murdered by his captain of the Guard, Cassius. His death has left a power vacuum in Rome that the Senate, devoid of any ability to govern on its own after decades of humiliations and the submission, tries to fill by naming Claudius as emperor. Claudius proves wrong everyone who thought him a fool. He devotes himself to work tirelessly to rebuild everything that his predecessors destroyed. He undertakes social and economic reforms and public works. Leading an army on the battlefield for the first time in his life, Claudius manages to annex and pacify Britain, making it a new Roman province. Claudius faces challenges. In Jerusalem, Herod, who believes himself the"}, {"text": "incarnation of the messiah, plans a general uprising in the East. And at home, Claudius doesn't realise that the person he trusts the most is the one who most likely will betray him: his own wife Messalina."}, {"text": "Miloslav Mach\u00e1lek (born 20 July 1961) is a Czech professional football manager who last managed Czech First League club Zbrojovka Brno. Early life and career. Mach\u00e1lek grew up in Slov\u00e1cko region village of Slavkov, where he began his career in youth categories. From the age of 18 he often suffered from knee and cruciate ligament injuries that limited him in his career. After returning from the military service he played together with his brother in the Star\u00e9 M\u011bsto, Vy\u0161kov and in lower Austrian competitions. He ended his career in his home club. Managerial career. Mach\u00e1lek's first club as manager was SK LeRK Prost\u011bjov, whom he started coaching in 1999 in 1999\u20132000 Czech 2. Liga and finished on 12th place. He subsequently worked for FC Vyso\u010dina Jihlava and 1. HFK Olomouc, managing both sides in the Czech 2. league. In the following year he was appointed as an interim manager of 1. FC Synot, when the manager Radek Rabu\u0161ic was sacked after only 4 rounds in the 2002\u201303 Czech First League. During the 2003\u201304 Czech 2. Liga he was named manager of Prague based club SC Xaverov, but failed to avoid relegation to the Bohemian Football League (\u010cFL), the third tier"}, {"text": "of Czech football. In the same year he joined Moravian\u2013Silesian Football League (MSFL) local side SK Uni\u010dov and reached 3rd and 6th place in the third tier division. After that he worked as an academy manager and youth coach at SK Sigma Olomouc, leading U-15 team. In 2009 and 2010 he spent a brief spell at Sokol Konice and MFK Vy\u0161kov, both playing Czech Fourth Division. He joined MSFL side SK Uni\u010dov for the second time in 2010 on a 3-year spell, reaching 6th and 5th place respectively. He resigned from his position in September 2012 after poor performance in the beginning of 2012\u201313 season. In the winter break of 2012-13 Divize D he took charge of MFK Vy\u0161kov, which was last in the competition at the time. He helped the club to avoid relegation and finished in 9th place. Following season, he achieved with his team promotion to MSFL. In the next two years in MSFL, he reached 12th and 6th place in the third tier of Czech football. L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148. In January 2017 Mach\u00e1lek signed for MSFL side SK L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148, located on the outskirts of the South Moravian capital Brno. In the second half of the season, Mach\u00e1lek guided"}, {"text": "the club to avoid relegation and helping them finish 12th in the 2016\u201317 MSFL season. In the following season SK L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148 surprisingly reached 3rd place in MSFL, with 16 points loss on the advancing team 1. SK Prost\u011bjov, Mach\u00e1lek's former club. Before 2018-19 MSFL season, L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148 took advantage of cooperation with the second Brno club Zbrojovka and brought on loan Jakub \u010cern\u00edn and Jakub P\u0159ichystal, who scored 13 goals in 15 games in the first half of 2018-19 MSFL season, meaning that L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148 was half-season champion. Despite the fall in form in the second half of the season, L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148 secured promotion to 2019\u201320 Czech National Football League for the first time in club history, thanks to 2\u20131 victory in the last round at FK Hodon\u00edn. In the premiere season in Czech 2. league, L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148 presented with spontaneous and lively football under the guidance of Mach\u00e1lek and was the biggest surprise of the competition. He was determining offensive football tactics, mainly using 4\u20133\u20133 formation. After 11 rounds L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148 had 13 points and reached 9th place in the competition. Zbrojovka Brno. On 7 October 2019, rival team FC Zbrojovka Brno hired Mach\u00e1lek as their new coach, replacing Pavel \u0160ustr. He led Zbrojovka"}, {"text": "for the first time on 10 October 2019 in the friendly game against Sigma Olomouc that took place at the legendary Stadion Za Lu\u017e\u00e1nkami, reaching 2\u20130 win. On 18 October 2019, Mach\u00e1lek reached his first regular season win in the home match against Varnsdorf, that ended 4\u20131. In the next round, Zbrojovka lost in the game against FK Viktoria \u017di\u017ekov, mainly due to the absence of several key players. By the end of the first half of the season, Zbrojovka managed to win all 3 matches. In the second part of the season, which was interrupted after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Zbrojovka held 14 matches unbeaten run. This resulted in the 2nd place of the table and ensuring participation in promotion play-offs. On 17 July, the League football association of the Czech Republic had a meeting on COVID-19 break and decided that the promotion play-offs will be canceled due to irregularity and tense deadline of the competition, and Zbrojovka will be promoted administratively to 2020\u201321 Czech First League. Style of management. Mach\u00e1lek is known for approaching a football philosophy clearly based on lively, quick and attacking play. His teams are well known for their fast, aggressive,"}, {"text": "and offensive style of play, as well as their ability to score many goals, but also for the corresponding tendency to concede them. He is influenced by the approach of Karel Br\u00fcckner, Petr Uli\u010dn\u00fd and Milan Bok\u0161a. Personal life. Mach\u00e1lek's son Tom\u00e1\u0161 plays for SK L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148. They worked together in several clubs in the past, such as in Konice, Uni\u010dov, Vy\u0161kov or L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148. Another son, Jan, is a football referee currently officiating in Fortuna liga. While managing SK L\u00ed\u0161e\u0148, Mach\u00e1lek also worked for Zbrojovka Brno as a scout and consultant as well as an official at the Regional Authority of the Olomouc Region. During his spell in Xaverov, he met Jind\u0159ich Trpi\u0161ovsk\u00fd in his early stages of coaching career, cited being Trpi\u0161ovsk\u00fd's mentor. He mentions Karel Br\u00fcckner as his greatest coaching role model."}, {"text": "National Iranian Congress (NIC) () is a U.S.-based political organization founded in 2013. Led by Amir Abbas Fakhravar as an offshoot of his Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS), it is a proponent of regime change in Iran and has drafted a constitution for the future regime. It is cofounded by Arzhang Davoodi. Amir Abbas Fakhravar visited Knesset of Israel in 2012. Proposed Draft Constitution of Iran. \"We the People of Iran, for the purpose of forming a better society and establishing liberty, security, peace and justice for ourselves and our future generations, have penned this Constitution as the basis upon which a government worthy of the Iranian people can be founded.\" Article I. The vote of the majority of the Iranian people, which is a reflection of their universal wisdom, shall be the utmost authority on all decision-making processes and no person, group, religion or ideology, whether earthly or celestial, has precedence over it under any circumstances. The people of Iran shall have equal rights regardless of gender, ethnicity or religious affiliation and have equal rights to directly participate in national affairs. The right to live, to exercise free speech, to guard one's reputation and to have a fair trial"}, {"text": "are fundamental rights that shall not be usurped or violated by popular vote or legislation. Legislators shall be prohibited from enacting laws that extend preference to any religion or ideology or prohibit the practice of any religion or ideology. Freedom of the press, political party activism, non-governmental organization participation and the right to protest peacefully against the government shall be rights protected by law. Capital punishment, torture of any kind and solitary confinement under any circumstances shall be strictly prohibited. Article II. The form of Iranian government, Republic or Constitutional Monarchy, shall be determined through a referendum by a majority vote of the Iranian people. Iran's government shall consist of three branches: executive, legislative and judicial. While working in unison, each branch shall maintain its independence and the principle of separation of powers shall be consistently observed. The Head of the Executive Branch and all members of the Judicial Branch are elected directly by Iranian voters. Article III. Current provincial boundaries shall be complied with. Iran has thirty three provinces:East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan, Ardebil, Isfahan, Alborz, Ilam, Baluchestan, Bushehr, Persepolis, Tehran, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Khorasan Razavi, Southern Khorasan, North Khorasan, Khuzestan, Zanjan, Semnan, Sistan, Shiraz, Qazvin, Qom, Kurdistan , Kerman,"}, {"text": "Kermanshah, Kohgiluyeh and Boyerahmad, Golestan, Gilan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, Central, Hormozgan, Hamedan and Yazd. Each Province shall elect a Provincial Parliament, Provincial Governor, and Provincial Judiciary within the framework of this Constitution. However, the right to form an army and to communicate with other countries shall remain exclusive to the national government. Article IV. Section 1. The sole institution that shall have the power to legislate is the Congress which consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Congressional hearings will be open to the public, subject to the priority of protecting national security information. The venue for congressional meetings will only be in the official congress building. Hearings shall be convened with the presence of at least one more than half the members. Congress shall not enact laws that are inconsistent with the principles of this Constitution. In cases of dispute, the Supreme Court shall be responsible for settling the issue. Being a member of Congress is a position that belongs to an elected official and shall not be transferable to another person. Congress shall not concede its legislative powers to another individual or group. Section 2: The Iran House of Representatives shall have 300 members. Each of the"}, {"text": "33 provinces has representatives relative to the population of that province. These representatives are elected by direct vote of people for a term of three years. All Iranian citizens above the age of 18 are eligible to vote and all Iranian citizens above the age of 25 are eligible to become candidates for the House of Representatives. Elections of each term shall be held before the end of the previous term to avoid lapses in Congressional activities. The House Speaker and other Congressional leaders will be elected according to the rules specified in the internal regulations. If a Representative fails to complete his/her term for any reason (illness, resignation, death or discharge from duty), early elections shall be held for that constituency. The newly elected representative shall complete the remainder of the term or longer, subject to re-election. Section 3: Congressional Representatives shall include the House of Representatives members and the Senators. Each shall swear and sign the oath of office at their first session in Congress, as follows: \u201cI, swear in the presence of the people of Iran to protect the Constitution of Iran, to defend national interests and to always serve the Iranian people while fulfilling my duties"}, {"text": "as their elected Representative.\u201d Representatives may take the oath of office by putting their hand on their own Holy Book if they so choose. Representatives who do not attend the first session upon being elected shall take the oath of office at the first session they attend. Section 4: The House of Representatives is the only branch that shall have the power to commence impeachment proceedings of the Head of the Executive Branch or the Head of the Judicial Branch. Impeachment of the Head of the Executive Branch requires the approval of two-thirds and that of the Judiciary Head requires the vote of three-fourths of the House. Upon passing, the House shall notify the Senate. Section 5: The Senate shall consist of 100 Senators. Each of the 33 Provinces shall have three Senators. All Iranian citizens above the age of 18 are eligible to vote and all Iranian citizens above the age of 30 are eligible to become candidates for the Senate. Senators shall be elected for a nine-year term. Exceptionally, in the first Senate election after the adoption of this Constitution, the term for the candidate with the lowest number of votes from each province shall be three years;"}, {"text": "the second highest, six years; and, the candidate with the highest vote, nine years. The Provincial Governor shall appoint a person as Senator if an elected Senator from that Province fails to complete his/her term for any reason. This person shall hold the position until the next three-year election. The elected Senator in this election shall only hold this position until the end of the previous Senator's term. The Vice President, who has been indirectly elected by the Iranian people along with the President, shall also act as the one hundredth Senator. His/her term shall be three years and he/she shall also act as the President of the Senate. He/she shall manage the prioritization of projects and bills and shall communicate with other branches of government along with the Senate leadership who are elected from Senators in each term. Section 6: Approval or dismissal of appointments made by the President, including ministers, political, economic, judicial, security and military directors, shall be within the authority of the Senate and shall require 50% plus one vote of the Senate. If the House passes a resolution to impeach the Head of the Executive Branch or the Head of the Judicial Branch, the Senate"}, {"text": "shall have the sole power to try the impeachment. It is possible to remove the Head of State by A two-thirds majority vote of the Senate shall be required to remove the Head of the Executive Branch and a three-fourths majority vote of the Senate shall be required to remove the Head of the Judicial Branch. The Senate shall only exonerate or, in case of conviction, remove the charged individual from office. It shall not impose penalties on the individual or the affiliated party. Section 7: The Provincial Legislature shall decide the time, place and manner of holding the Senate and House of Representatives elections in each Province. These elections shall be held under the supervision of the National Electoral Commission. Section 8: The National Electoral Commission shall have seven official members and thirty three observer members. Official members of the National Electoral Commission are nominated by the President for a five-year term. They shall start their work only after receiving Senate approval. Each Province shall have one member in the National Electoral Commission's Observers Council. They shall be appointed by Provincial Governors to the National Electoral Commission for a five-year term. The law shall specify the duties of the"}, {"text": "National Electoral Commission and its procedures. Each official or observer member of the National Electoral Commission shall serve one non-renewable term. Observer members shall not vote in this Commission. Section 9: The House of Representatives and Senate sessions shall be open to the public and these hearings shall be broadcast through the national media to inform the public. Proposed legislation shall pass only if approved by more than half the total members. In urgent circumstances related to national security, closed sessions may be held upon the request of the President, or nine members of the Senate, or 30 members of the House of Representatives. Legislation arising from closed sessions requires the approval of three-quarters of the Representatives. After the national security issues are resolved and upon such determination by two-thirds of Congress, minutes of these hearings and the resulting legislation shall be published for public consumption. Section 10: In the performance of their duties, each member of the House of Representatives and the Senate shall be free to vote on issues and comment on them either in Congressional session or outside it. They shall not be subject to legal prosecution for their votes or comments as a member of Congress"}, {"text": "either during or after their term of office. Section 11: Congress shall have the power to investigate all matters of the country and the actions of the government and the judiciary. Section 12: Congress shall have the power to refer for the people's direct vote in a referendum, economic, political, social and cultural issues. A referendum may be requested by the President, or one-third of the House of Representatives, or one-third of the Senate, or one-thirtieth of the eligible voters and shall be conducted if approved by half of the House of Representatives. Section 13: Congress shall legislate in all matters of the country within the limits prescribed in the Constitution. Setting the government's budget, imposing taxes, receiving domestic and foreign loans, allocating resources for public defense and public assistance shall be within the scope of the legislative authority of the Congress. Bills proposed by the government shall be submitted to the House of Representatives for consideration. Legislative bills shall be proposed by at least 15 members of the House for consideration. The time of the review for each proposed government bill shall be announced to the related ministry and a representative of that ministry shall appear before the House"}, {"text": "for advisory purposes during the review. Further requirements shall be determined by law. Proposed legislation and amendments that reduce public income or increase public expenditures shall be accompanied by practical solutions for funding them. All proposals and bills approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate shall be signed by the President to become law. Congress may vote again on legislation that has not been approved by the President and if more than two-thirds of the House and the Senate vote to pass the legislation, it shall no longer require the President's signature and shall become enforceable law. The government may return the legislation to Congress with a conditional approval subject to specified amendments. Upon the approval of Congress, the amended legislation shall become law. The President shall have nine days after receiving legislative proposals from Congress to decide on rejection, confirmation or requesting amendments. Section 14: Treaties, conventions, protocols, contracts and international agreements shall be approved by two-thirds of the House followed by two-thirds of the Senate. Receiving domestic or foreign loans or offering domestic or foreign aid shall be approved by two-thirds of House members and shall be publicly announced. Changes to national boundaries are prohibited except"}, {"text": "for minor amendments considered in the national interest and preserving the territorial integrity of the country. Additionally, these amendments shall be approved by four-fifths of the House and four-fifths of the Senate. Section 15:. Provincial Parliaments shall be formed to provide for the direct participation of people in supervising the implementation of programs and monitoring the rapid progress of social, economic, developmental, health, cultural, educational and welfare programs. The members of these Provincial Parliaments shall be directly elected by the people of the same Province. The requirements for voters and elected members, their scope of responsibility and supervisory authority and the election proceedings shall comply with the principles of national unity and territorial integrity of the country and shall remain within the framework of this Constitution. The set of laws passed by Provincial Parliaments shall not be out of the Constitution's boundary or be contrary to legislation passed by Congress. The impact of laws passed by Provincial Parliaments shall not be out of the geographical and judicial scope of that Province. Moreover, Provincial Parliaments shall not have the power to ratify any bill, proposal, or plan that directly or indirectly sets the grounds for the separation of one or more"}, {"text": "Provinces or parts of Provinces from Iran. Provincial Parliaments shall be dissolved in the event of such an action and the national government shall control the Province until new Provincial Parliamentary elections are held. Section 16: None of Iran's thirty-three Provinces shall have the power to establish an army or to declare war on other Provinces or any foreign countries. Signing international treaties and regulating imports and exports shall be within the exclusive bounds of the authority of the Congress of Iran and outside the scope of the Provincial Parliament's authority. Provincial Parliaments shall act only within the framework provided by the Constitution to facilitate the export and import affairs in each Province and shall only do so with direct permission and direct monitoring of Congress. Section 17: The Supreme Court shall interpret the Constitution and determine the existence of any conflict between passed legislation and the Constitution. Requests for interpretation of the Constitution shall be sent to the Supreme Court by the President or the leadership of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Section 18: Proposing an amendment or amendments removing, adding, or editing parts of this Constitution shall require a majority of four-fifths of both the House"}, {"text": "of Representatives and the Senate. These changes, after approval of the Congress, shall require a majority of fifty percent plus one vote in a national referendum for an amendment to the Constitution to come into force. Article V. Section 1: The Executive branch shall be the only branch that has the responsibility for executive power, and the President shall be the head of this branch. The President and Vice President shall be elected by direct vote for a term of three years, and the President's re-election is only possible just for another three-year term. Serving as President for more than two terms is strictly prohibited. Section 2: All Iranian-born people who have Iranian citizenship shall be eligible to become presidential candidates as long as they are at least thirty-five years of age. All candidates shall officially declare their candidacy before the start of the election by registering with the National Electoral Commission. Each presidential candidate shall nominate a candidate for vice president who meets the requirements listed above for presidential candidacy to the National Electoral Commission. The law shall determine the procedures governing the conduct of presidential elections. The President and Vice President are elected by at least 51% of"}, {"text": "the votes cast. If none of the candidates attains such a majority in the first round, a second round of voting shall occur two weeks later. In the second round, only the two presidential candidates who obtained the most votes in the first round shall run. The candidate with the most votes cast in this second round shall be elected President. If one of the two candidates withdraws during the time between the first round and the second round, the remaining candidate in the electoral campaign shall be President with the Vice President. The election of a new President shall be concluded two months before the end of the preceding presidential term. At no time shall the country have two presidents. The incumbent president shall remain in office until the time of the swearing in of the President-Elect. The President-Elect shall be sworn in with the attendance of members of the House and Senate, and the Head of the Judicial Branch and shall sign the oath of office as follows: \u201cI, as the President of Iran, swear to the people of Iran, to be the implementer, guardian, and defender of the Constitution of Iran and to always be in the"}, {"text": "service of the Iranian people while performing my presidential duties.\u201d The President- Elect may take the oath of office by putting his/her hand on his/her Holy Book if he/she so chooses. Section 3: The President shall be answerable to the people and the Congress within the limits of the powers and responsibilities that the Constitution and the related laws have afforded him/her. The President shall present congressional legislation that he has signed or the outcome of referendums to the proper authorities for implementation. The Vice President, who is elected by indirect vote, shall be the President of the Senate and shall assume the role of President if for any reason (illness, resignation, death or dismissal) the President is not able to complete his/her three-year term, for the remainder of the term after being sworn in. If for any reason, the Vice-President is unable to continue his/her term, the head of the House of Representatives shall be responsible for his/her duties. The President nominates the Cabinet of Ministers and submits them to the Senate for approval. All Ministers shall be approved by the Senate before assuming their official roles. Section 4: The President shall be responsible for foreign affairs and communication"}, {"text": "with other countries and international organizations as the official representative of the people of Iran. The President shall be in charge of the country's short-term plans, budget and the government's administrative and employment affairs, and he/she can delegate these authorities. The President or his/her legal representative shall sign agreements relating to international unions, protocols, treaties, Iranian government and any of its ministries\u2019 contracts with other governments or the private sector after Congressional approval. In special cases and if circumstances necessitate it, the President may appoint Special Representatives with specified authorities. Under these conditions, the Special Representatives\u2019 decisions will be deemed as those of the President. Ambassadors are nominated by the Foreign Minister and shall be approved by the President. The President signs the credentials of the Ambassadors and accepts the credentials of the Ambassadors of other countries. In addition to the duties assigned to the President by the principles of this law and ordinary laws, the following duties also shall be the responsibility of the President and he/she shall not delegate them to another person: The President may appoint an Administrator for up to three months for ministries that do not have a Senate-confirmed Minister. Each of the Ministers shall"}, {"text": "be answerable for his/her specific duties to the President and Congress. Section 5: The President, Vice-President, Ministers, and employees of the executive branch shall not hold concurrent positions in government. They also shall not hold any other concurrent positions at the time of their government service including positions in institutions that are partially or wholly funded by the government or public foundations and institutions. They shall not concurrently assume any positions in the legislative or judicial branch, nor sit on the board of or serve as legal advisor at any private or public institution. Criminal charges against the President, Vice President and any of the Ministers that are unrelated to their government position will be prosecuted in public courts. Congress shall review the assets of the President, Vice President and their Cabinet and each of these individual's spouse and children at the start and finish of their term and shall investigate any irregularities. Section 6: The Governor of each Province shall be elected by the direct vote of the people of that Province for a term of three years. Provincial Governors shall serve no more than two terms. Provincial Governors shall be responsible for the conduct of affairs within their"}, {"text": "respective Provincial borders, but their decisions shall not be in conflict with the national government. If the President of Iran does not agree with a decision made by a Provincial Governor, the President shall have the power to veto the decision of any Provincial Governor. The President also shall have the authority to request that the Senate remove a Provincial Governor if he/she determines that the Provincial Governor's decision violates national law. Article VI. Section 1: The Judicial Branch shall be established to serve justice and includes the Supreme Court, Appeals Court, Trial Court and the office of the Attorney General. The Judiciary shall conduct trials in criminal or civil proceedings, prevention and discovery of criminal activity, prosecution of criminals within the legal confines of statute of limitations and the proportionality of crime and punishment. Trials shall be public. Supervision of the Executive and Legislative Branch, monitoring proper implementation of the law in general and preparation of judicial bills and introducing them to Congress for approval also shall be within the scope of the Judicial Branch's responsibilities. Section2: The Head of the Judicial Branch, Chief Justice under a Republic or King under a Constitutional Monarchy, shall be elected by the"}, {"text": "Iranian people for a term of twelve years and may run for reelection. The Head of the Judicial Branch shall have the following responsibilities: administering the court system and all institutions and offices required by the Judicial Branch in its legal, administrative and executive affairs, preparation and submission of judicial bills to Congress, nomination of Attorney General to the President and the Senate for confirmation, preparation and submission of the judicial budget to the House for approval, appointment and dismissal of Judges and local Attorneys General in accordance with related laws. If, for any reason (illness, death, or dismissal) the Head of the Judicial Branch is not able to fulfill his term in office, elections shall be held for a new Head of the Judicial Branch. Monitoring the appropriate implementation of the law, monitoring the actions of the government and the Congress shall also be within the scope of the responsibilities of the Head of the Judicial Branch. Section 3: The Attorney General is nominated by the Head of the Judicial Branch and the nomination is presented to the President. If approved by the President, his/her nomination shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation. If the Head of the"}, {"text": "Judicial Branch and the President cannot agree on a nominee within three months, the President shall submit his/her nominee to the Senate for confirmation. The Attorney General shall be responsible for appointing local prosecutors and supervising criminal and civil cases with the cooperation of police forces. Only the Senate shall have the power to impeach the Attorney General and his/ her dismissal shall require 50% plus one votes. Section 4: The Supreme Court shall be the highest judicial authority in the country. The Supreme Court shall also be the highest court of appeal. The following duties shall be assigned to the Supreme Court: The Supreme Court shall consist of thirty-three members, each of whom shall represent one Province and shall be selected from the senior Justices of that Province. The term of service for members shall be unlimited and each member shall be nominated by the Governor of that Province and shall be confirmed by the Senate. If for any reason (illness, death, dismissal) the member is unable to carry on his/ her duties, another senior Judge shall replace him/ her following the same procedures as mentioned above. Only the House shall initiate impeachment proceedings against a Supreme Court Justice"}, {"text": "and the case shall be tried in the Senate only if the articles of impeachment are approved by four-fifths of the House members. The Supreme Court Justice shall be dismissed from office if 50% plus one members vote to convict. Section 5: The organization of the court system, including district courts, superior courts, trial courts and courts of appeal, and the scope of their jurisdiction shall be determined by the laws and regulations of the Judicial Branch. Judges shall preside over hearings and trials. Judges shall be licensed lawyers and shall be chosen according to their expertise in relevant areas. A judge shall not be temporarily dismissed or relocated absent conviction of criminal or civil charges. Section 6: Double jeopardy shall apply to criminal prosecutions. Trials shall be held in public unless the law requires closed hearings. Court rulings shall be based on the written law and religious, philosophical and ideological doctrines shall not be the basis for any ruling issued by the courts. Section 7: Personal freedom and citizens\u2019 privacy and personal property shall be protected by law from being violated, usurped or confiscated without lawful cause. A search warrant signed by a Judge based on probable cause shall"}, {"text": "be obtained by the police force before conducting any searches. Moreover, an officer shall recite the defendant's right to remain silent and to an attorney at the time of arrest. A speedy trial and an impartial jury shall be basic rights of the defendant. Warrantless arrests shall be prohibited and there shall be probable cause for an arrest warrant based on evidence beyond mere suspicion. Any kind of confession under duress shall not be admissible against defendants in court. Article VII. The media shall be free to act within the framework of the law. None of the three branches of government shall allocate a budget for the media as a tool to justify their actions. Government funded media shall only cover factual news about government actions, Congressional representatives, and government agencies, so all people may easily access the details of the negotiations between the Government and Congress. Any form of biased reporting for or against any person or organization in government-funded media shall be strictly prohibited and shall have legal consequences for violators."}, {"text": "Jessica Gao is an American television writer and producer who was creator and head writer of the TV series '. She also worked on the third season of \"Rick and Morty\", writing the episode \"Pickle Rick\" and co-creating the reoccurring character of Dr. Wong, and wrote for \"Silicon Valley\", \"Robot Chicken\", \"The Mighty B!\", \"Back at the Barnyard\", \"Star Wars: Detours\", and '. Career. After winning the Nickelodeon Writers Fellowship in 2006, Gao began her career writing for the network's shows like \"The Mighty B!\", \"Back at the Barnyard\", \"Big Time Rush\" and \"\", before leaving to freelance on other shows such as Adult Swim's \"Robot Chicken\", Cartoon Network's \"The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange\", and Disney XD's \"Lab Rats\". Gao has also written for HBO's \"Silicon Valley\", the French series \"Zip Zip\", Seeso/Pluto TV's \"Bajillion Dollar Propertie$\", and Comedy Central's \"Corporate\". She joined the writing room for the third season of \"Rick and Morty\", acting as story editor on six episodes and writing the episode \"Pickle Rick\". For writing \"Pickle Rick\", Gao won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program at the 2018 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. While working on the show, Gao and the other female"}, {"text": "writers were subject to sexual harassment by members of the fanbase that were upset about the show hiring women in the writing room. Gao and \"Rick and Morty\" co-creator, Dan Harmon, collaborated on a podcast series entitled \"Whiting Wongs\" that discussed race and privilege in Hollywood. Gao also wrote and co-executive produced the second season of the show \"Take My Wife\". Gao left \"Rick and Morty\" after the third season to develop a sitcom for ABC, which landed a pilot episode order in 2019, directed by Jude Weng. The show revolved around a Chinese-American woman's relationship with her family. ABC passed on the sitcom, but the series was being shopped to other networks. In July 2019, she was chosen to write the script for the upcoming movie based on \"Sweet Valley High\". In November 2019, she was hired as the lead writer for the Disney+ show \"\". Personal life. Gao is engaged to Truck Torrence, who is known for creating emojis of Marvel characters under the name 100 Soft."}, {"text": "Naba Kumar Chatterjee was an Indian politician belonging to All India Trinamool Congress. He was elected as a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Memari in 1972. He joined All India Trinamool Congress from Indian National Congress on 14 March 2015. He died on 22 August 2015 at the age of 71."}, {"text": "Jurica Vrucina (born 31 October 1989 in Croatia) is a Croatian footballer who plays for NK Me\u0111imurec Dunjkovec-Pretetinec. Career. Vrucina started his senior career with NK Slaven Belupo. In 2012, he signed for Albanian Superliga club FK Tomori Berat, where he made four appearances and scored zero goals. After that, he played for Croatian clubs NK Me\u0111imurje and NK Nedeli\u0161\u0107e and Austrian clubs SC Kemeten, SVH Waldbach, M\u00f6nichkirchen, SV M\u00fchldorf, and Union Gro\u00dfsteinbach."}, {"text": "Margaret (; 1364 in Casale Monferrato \u2013 1420 in Saragosa, Urgell) from the House of Palaeologus-Montferrat, was daughter of the marquess of Montferrat and lady of Acqui. By her marriage, she became countess of Urgell. Biography. She was daughter of John II (), Lord of Asti and Novara and imperial vicar, and Isabel of Majorca. Her father was son of Theodore I, marquess of Montferrat and Argentina Spinola; her mother was daughter of James III of Majorca and his first wife Constance of Aragon. Margaret was the only daughter of her father; her siblings were the marquesses Secondotto (, John III ( and Theodore II (). Her son James II was appointed by the king of Aragon as governor-general (viceroy), i.e. heir, but failed to succeed. His great-grandchild John II of Aviz became king of Portugal. Family and issue. Margaret married in 1375/6 to her mother's first cousin Peter II (1340-1408), count of Urgell, viscount of \u00c0ger, baron of Enten\u00e7a and Antill\u00f3n, who ruled from 1347 to 1408. He was son of James I, Count of Urgell; Margaret was his second wife. They had issue:"}, {"text": "Corradino Campisi is a professor at the and chief editor of the European Journal of Lymphology and Related Problems. He is also a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Lymphology and Related Problems He is also a member of the editorial board of Vascular Medicine. Early life and education. Campisi was born in 1948 in Italy. He graduated with a degree in Medicine and Surgery (MD), with Honours from the School of Medicine, University of Genoa. In 1976, he did specialty degree in Vascular Surgery, with Honours from University of Genoa. In 1981, he completed a degree in General Surgery, with Honours from the University of Genoa. In 1986, he completed a specialty degree in Trauma surgery and First Aid, with Honours from the University of Modena. Career. Campisi joined University of Genoa as an associate professor in 1980. In 2005, he became a professor at the University of Genoa. Later, he joined as a professor in the department of surgery, Operative Unit of Lymphatic surgery. At the same time, he joined as a consultant in charge of the department, National Institute For Cancer Research under IRCCS University Hospital San Martino. From 1994 to 1998, Campisi"}, {"text": "served as the Assistant Editor of the European Journal of Lymphology and Related Problems (EJLRP) and in 1999, he became Editor-in-chief of the journal. In 1997, he founded \"Clinica Chirurgica e Microchirurgia \u2013 Clinical and Investigative Microsurgery\", Multispecialty Microsurgery Journal (Turin, Milan). From 2001 to 2012, he served as the Coordinator of the International Scientific Committee of the Journal \"Linfologia Oggi\" and, later, of \"La Linfologia Italiana\". Campisi was a member of the editorial board for the Journal \"Angeiologie\", the official journal of the French Angiology Society. He is also a member of the editorial board for the \"Annals of Plastic Surgery\" and \"International Angiology\", the official Journal of the International Union of Angiology. Campisi's teaching career includes Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California where he was a member of the International Research Advisory Board of the San Diego Microsurgical Institute & Training Center. From 1999 to 2017, he served as a Professor H.C. in Medicine and Surgery, School of Medicine, Valen\u00e7a, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He also served as an external consultant in Phlebology and Lymphology at the Argentinian university of John Fitzgerald Kennedy- Escuela de Graduados, Buenos Aires, Argentina."}, {"text": "The Ballerina Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Hastings Racecourse, Vancouver, British Columbia. Held in late September or early October, it is open to fillies and mares, age three and older. The race was first contested in 1969 and is run over nine furlongs on dirt. Records. Speed record: Most wins: Most wins by a trainer:"}, {"text": "Anne Cirkel is an electronic design automation industry executive, who is currently Senior Director for Technology Marketing at Mentor, a Siemens Business. Annie Cirkel was born in Eschweiler, Germany and earned degrees in metallurgy, economics and business administration from Aachen University. Her EDA career started with a position at Viewlogic in their field office in Munich, Germany (Viewlogic was acquired by Synopsys in 1997.) In 1999, she moved to Portland, Oregon, to work for Analogy (now part of Synopsys) and the same year she was offered a job at Mentor's Wilsonville, Oregon headquarters. Cirkel served as general chair of the 2015 Design Automation Conference"}, {"text": "Mala Santa (English: \"Bad Saint\") is the debut studio and first Spanish-language album by American singer-songwriter Becky G. It was released on October 17, 2019, through Kemosabe Records, RCA Records and Sony Music Latin. \"Mala Santa\" is a latin pop and reggaeton record, incorporating elements of latin hip hop and urbano. Background. Since being signed to a joint-deal with Kemosabe and RCA Records in late 2011, Gomez began work on her then-English debut album. After collaborations with Australian singer Cody Simpson, British singer Cher Lloyd, and American rapper will.i.am in 2012, Gomez released her official debut single \"Becky from the Block\" (a cover of American singer-actress Jennifer Lopez's song \"Jenny from the Block\"), followed by her pop rap debut extended play \"Play It Again\" in July 2013. In April 2014, Gomez began releasing singles (including her first hit \"Shower\") from her pop English debut album, which was to be released either later that year, or sometime in 2015. In April 2016, in an interview with \"Teen Vogue\", Gomez first spoke about the possibility of releasing an album. However, it was not until 2019 that she went forward with the project. On March 22, 2019, it was reported that the singer"}, {"text": "was working on two studio albums simultaneously, one to be released in English and the other one in Spanish. As of March 2019, it was unclear if any of the songs she had released up until this point would appear on a future album. In July, she stated that her album was expected to be released later that year. On October 8, 2019, Gomez took to social media to reveal the release date and the cover art of her upcoming debut studio album. The album became available for pre-order on October 11, 2019. Commercial performance. The album debuted at number 85 on the US \"Billboard\" 200, including number 3 on the Top Latin Albums and number 3 on the Latin Rhythm Albums charts with first week sales of 8,000. Track listing. Track listing adapted from Apple Music."}, {"text": "Adrianus Hoecken, SJ (Tilburg, 1815 \u2013 Milwaukee, 1897) was a Jesuit missionary of Dutch origin who worked among different Native American tribes in the United States. He was a younger brother of fellow Jesuit Christian Hoecken and one of the first travel companions of fellow Jesuit Pierre-Jean De Smet. Early years. Adrian (Adrianus, Adriaan) Hoecken, son of Jacobus Hoeken and Johanna Vermeer, was born in the city of Tilburg in The Netherlands, March 18, 1815. He was the fourth child in a family of six children (three boys, three girls). The Hoeckens had a grocery store, were relatively well off and very religious. Adrian was educated at two dutch catholic seminaries in the (nowadays) southern province North Brabant, namely \"Beekvliet\" (1830) and \"Herlaar\" (1835). He was consecrated to deacon in Roosendaal, March 24, 1839. Shortly after his consecration Hoecken followed his older brother Christian as a missionary and was sent to New York. Like his brother and many others at the time he was destined to work among the 'Indians' in America and 'strengthen the young catholic church overseas'. Adrian started his noviciate at St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, Missouri, on December 2, 1839. His brother was already there, to"}, {"text": "accompany him, until the end of March 1840. Among the nations. In 1842, after his priesthood ordination in the Cathedral of St. Louis in May 1842, Fr. Hoecken was sent to the Potawatomi Mission on the Osage River in Kansas, led by Christian. In a letter to his parents (July 5, 1842) he asked them to send over 1000 dutch guilders to build a mill. In 1844 Hoecken was sent to the Rocky Mountains and the Oregon Country Mission that Pierre-Jean De Smet started in 1840. Hoecken first worked among the Kalispel in the Kalispel valley. Later he had missionary excursions to other Indian tribes in modern-day Montana, Washington and Oregon. Most of his time was given to the tribes within or adjacent to what later was to become the Flathead Reservation. Hoecken lived and worked among the native American nations for nineteen years (1842\u20131861), particularly the Flathead, Blackfoot and Miniconjou. There was a period of six years in which he recollected he \"didn't see a single white man, except for one brother\" (lay brother Daniel Lyon). Adrian was more adventurous than his brother Christian, but his manner of speaking was more introverted, with a generous use of First Nations"}, {"text": "expressions. He scarcely reported to the clerical authorities (who may have wondered if he were still alive), and his writings had less religious referrals. Along with De Smet, Hoecken founded the St. Ignatius Mission for the Flathead Indians, and moved with this mission to its present location in St. Ignatius, Montana, in 1854. Hoecken stayed attached to this mission until 1861 (the current church was built there between 1891 and 1893). During this time St. Ignatius was known to be the most \"civilised and advanced\" of all Indian missions. In 1855, upon request by Washington Territory Governor Isaac Stevens, Fr. Hoecken served as interpreter at the Hellgate treaty negotiations in western Montana. The negotiations with the Bitterroot Salish, Kalispel, and Kootenai tribes suffered huge cross-cultural miscommunications. Hoecken stated that the translations were so poor that \"not a tenth of what was said was understood by either side\". Hoecken informed De Smet in a letter about the chief of the Kalispel, Etsowish-simmegee-itshin (Grizzly Bear Standing), who was already baptized in 1843. In 1859 Fr. Hoecken and Br. Vincent Magri set up St. Peters Mission at Priest Butte on the Teton River, on a site just southeast of the current town of"}, {"text": "Choteau, Montana. They built three log cabins, and were soon joined by father Camillus Imoda. However they had to abandon this site in 1860 and moved their mission to the Sun River, about upriver from Fort Shaw, near what is now Simms, Montana. Subsequent years. In November 1860 Fr. Hoecken, fatigued from strenuous years of service, took a few months break at the Jesuit college of Santa Clara in California. In a homesick letter to his family in The Netherlands (that is, to his two brothers and two sisters; his parents had already died, as well as his brother Christian in 1851) he wrote: \"Everything looks new to me here, the white faces, their clothes, their language, the brick houses, their storerooms filled with things new in every aspect. Everything still seems so strange, as if I came from another world. Here I see apples and pears that I haven't seen for the last eighteen years.\" Returning east, Hoecken occupied different posts. First he was appointed to the Osages in Kansas. In 1865 he was sent to the Jesuit St. Xavier College in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hoecken also served as pastor for St. Ann's Church, founded in 1866 to serve African-Americans"}, {"text": "in Cincinnati. He procured for the church a painting of St. Benedict The Moor, a patron saint of people with African heritage. Hoecken also paid regular visits to the prisons in Ohio. To perform lighter duties Fr. Hoecken was transferred to St. Charles, Missouri, in 1880. Three years later he went to Parsons, Kansas, and in 1886 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he served St. Gall's Church. At the age of 82 Hoecken died at Marquette College, Milwaukee, on April 19, 1897. His grave is in Calvary Cemetery in Milwaukee."}, {"text": "The Finchley Road bombings occurred on 2 October 1993, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated three time bombs on Finchley Road in north London, England. Telephoned warnings were sent six minutes beforehand, at approximately 00:26 UTC, but five people were injured from falling glass as a result of the blasts, and damage was caused to some shops and flats in the surrounding area. The three bombs were planted outside a Domino's Pizza restaurant, a travel agent, and offices of the St. Pancras Building Society. Later, anti-terrorist officers discovered and subsequently safely detonated a fourth bomb in a controlled environment, north of the initial bombings, in Golders Green. Two days later, on 4 October, the IRA detonated four more bombs in north London, two in Tottenham Lane and two more in Archway Road resulting in four injuries. The bombings were branded as \"cowardly\" by Home Secretary Michael Howard. They were the first IRA bombings in the capital for over five months. Following the bombings, the IRA phoned a Dublin radio station claiming responsibility for the attack. Background. The IRA had carried out many bomb attacks on military and civilian targets in England since the beginning of its campaign in"}, {"text": "the 1970s. These attacks were carried out with a goal of putting pressure on the British government to withdraw from Northern Ireland. In early 1993, the Northern Ireland peace process was at a delicate stage, with attempts to broker an IRA ceasefire ongoing. In 1994, talks were continuing between the two largest Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland; John Hume of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and Gerry Adams of Sinn F\u00e9in (SF). There was a high risk of IRA attacks in London in light of the refusal of political talks between the British prime minister, John Major and Sinn F\u00e9in, and all British police forces were told to remain prepared for further attacks. In the week after the attack, the Conservative Party was due to host their annual conference. Just over seven months earlier, on 27 February 1993, the IRA detonated a similar bomb in Camden Town, injuring 18 people. Prior to the bombings, there had not been any IRA attacks in London since the 1993 Bishopsgate bombing just over five months earlier. Bombings. At 00:20 UTC on 2 October 1993, a telephone warning was sent to a Domino's Pizza on Finchley Road, a major dual carriageway in"}, {"text": "north London. Six minutes later, at 00:26, one bomb was detonated outside the Domino's Pizza restaurant. At 00:30, another bomb was detonated outside a travel agency and the final bomb was detonated outside the offices of the St. Pancras Building Society. The three blasts injured four men and one woman in their twenties, with all injuries caused by from falling glass. Police sealed off Finchley Road from Swiss Cottage to West End Lane. A fourth bomb was then found and subsequently defused by anti-terrorism officers a mile north of Finchley Road in Golders Green. All of the bombs had been placed in doorways. As a result of the blasts, dozens of shops were damaged. Following the bombing, the IRA phoned a Dublin radio station and claimed responsibility for the attacks. Investigation and aftermath. Home Secretary Michael Howard branded the attacks as \"cowardly and contemptible\". Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Tony Buchanan called the attack \"murderous\", citing that there had been \"no opportunity whatever to effect an evacuation\". He also condemned the telephone warnings as \"totally inadequate\" claiming that there was \"every possibility a large number of people could've been seriously injured\". The five people injured were sent to the"}, {"text": "Royal Free Hospital, and discharged the next day. The IRA said the bombings had been carried out by a number of active service units. On 2 October, police confirmed the locations of the bombings, and also noted that the effects of the bombings could have been much worse had it not been for a bus arriving early to collect passengers. On 4 October, police issued an artist's impression of a suspect for the blast, who was said to be wearing a duffel coat-type garment with distinctive yellow bands around it."}, {"text": "Kimberly A. With is an American ecologist. She is a Full Professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University. Career. Between 1988 and 1992, With served as associate editor for the journal \"Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology,\" published by the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. She simultaneously earned her PhD in biology from Colorado State University. After receiving her PhD, With sat on the executive committee of the Theoretical Ecology Section as a secretary officer for the Ecological Society of America from 1995\u20131997. During this time, her paper \"Critical thresholds in species' responses to landscape structure\" earned her the Award for Outstanding Paper published in the discipline of Landscape Ecology by the U. S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. She also led an investigation with fellow Bowling Green State University professor Daniel Pavuk to examine the effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity and Trophic Linkages in Experimental Fractal Landscapes. In 2000, she left Bowling Green State University to become an assistant professor at Kansas State University. She also joined the Konza Prairie LTER, a program designed to address long-term research questions relevant to tallgrass prairie ecosystems, and the science of ecology"}, {"text": "in general. In 2002, With was again the recipient of the Award for Outstanding Paper, making her the only person to be awarded this distinction twice. In 2009, With led a study which found that birds were not breeding successfully in the Flint Hills and more than 80 percent of nests were destroyed by predators. The results of her study was published in the journal \"Biological Conservation\". She then took a sabbatical leave during the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2013, With was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Biology. In 2016, With was the recipient of the Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award from the U.S.-International Association for Landscape Ecology. Three years later, she received a Faculty Development Awards from Kansas State University to fund future research endeavorments. On August 29, 2019, With published \"Essentials of Landscape Ecology\" through the Oxford University Press."}, {"text": "Zigrasite is a phosphate mineral with the chemical formula of . Zigrasite was discovered and is only known to occur in the Dunton Quarry at Oxford County, Maine. Zigrasite was specifically found in the giant 1972 gem tourmaline-bearing pocket at the Dunton Quarry. Zigrasite is named after James Zigras who originally discovered and brought the mineral to attention. Occurrence. Zigrasite is found in association with tourmaline, microcline, quartz, albite, beryl, amblygonite-montebrasite, childrenite-eosphorite, and apatite. It is crystallized as one of the last minerals during pocket formation. The crystals themselves were found perched on a crystal of tourmaline from the giant 1972 pocket at the Dunton Quarry. The quarry itself is located in a complex rare-element granitic pegmatite that has produced large quantities of gem tourmaline as well as many other rare phosphate species. Physical properties. Zigrasite is an offwhite to pale yellow or light tan in color. Zigrasite exhibits a vitreous luster, and a white streak. The Mohs hardness is 3. The measured (Berman Balance) and calculated densities are 2.76(4) and 2.66 g/cm3 respectively. Zigrasite exhibits imperfect cleavage in two directions, parallel to (010) and (001), it shows no parting, is brittle and has hackly fracture. In transmitted light zigrasite"}, {"text": "is colorless and non-pleochroic, biaxial negative with indices of refraction \u03b1 1.597(1) \u03b2 1.622 (1), \u03b3 1.635 (1). Zigrasite is translucent and shows a light blue to pale yellow cathodoluminescence. Crystal structure. Zigrasite's atomic coordination consists of two phosphorus sites which are solely occupied by phosphorus and tetrahedrally coordinated by four oxygen anions with distances of 1.532 and 1.533 \u00c5. There are also two magnesium, both of which are occupied solely by Mg and are octahedrally coordinated by two oxygen anions and four () groups with <Mg-O> distances of 2.064 and 2.075 \u00c5. There is a single zircon site solely occupied by zircon and octahedrally coordinated by six oxygen anions with a <Zr-O> distance of 2.065 \u00c5. The zircon octahedron shares corners with six () tetrahedra to form a pinwheel cluster. This cluster forms a fragment of a sheet which is parallel to the (001) direction. Alternating tetrahedra point up and down relative to the plane of the sheet. Isolated octahedra are arranged in layers parallel to (001). These layers are intercalated between the sheets linking through the apical vertices of the () tetrahedra. This structure is formally a heteropolyhedral framework with linkage weaker in the c direction accounting for"}, {"text": "cleavage. Chemical properties. Zigrasite is one of three compositional variations in zircon phosphate grains from the giant 1972 tourmaline pocket, representing the magnesium phase with malhmoodite representing the iron phase and an as of yet unnamed calcium-analogue. Zigrasite can be considered to be the magnesium end member for the zircon phosphate grains found in the giant 1972 pocket. Zigrasite exhibits hydrogen bonding which increases linkage within the layer of magnesium octahedra. X-ray crystallography. The powder-diffraction pattern was recorded with Cu-Ka X-radiation on a DebyeScherrer camera with a diameter of114.6 mm and a Gandolfi attachment. Refinement of the unit-cell parameters gave the following values: a = 5.321(7) \u00c5 , b = 9.360(10) \u00c5 , c = 9.660(8)\u00c5 , a = 97.38(10)\u00ba, b = 91.29(9)\u00ba, g = 90.58(9)\u00ba, V = 477.0(5) \u00c5 3 . Unit-cell dimensions were also determined on a Bruker single-crystal diffractometer using graphite-monochromated Mo-Ka Xradiation and the resulting values (a = 5.3049(2) \u00c5 , b = 9.3372(4) \u00c5, c = 9.6282(5) \u00c5, a = 97.348(1)\u00ba, b = 91.534(1)\u00ba, g = 90.512(4)\u00ba) are in close agreement with those determined by powder diffraction. See also. List of MineralsList of minerals named after people"}, {"text": "Nandita or Nanditha is an Indian feminine given name.It is a North Indian name."}, {"text": "The End of the Game is a 1970 album by Peter Green. The End of the Game may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Mark Cochran is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represents District 23 in the Tennessee House of Representatives. He was elected as part of the 111th general assembly in November 2018. He was preceded by Republican representative John W. Forgety. District 23 encompasses McMinn County and parts of Monroe County. Cochran began serving as the treasurer for the Tennessee State House of Representatives in 2019. Early life. Cochran's family roots in the town of Englewood, Tennessee date back seven generations to the 1850s when his ancestors established a small farm. He grew up tending cattle and bagging groceries in his parents' store. He is a devout Christian and conservative. From 2004-2008, Cochran attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he earned a Masters Degree in Public Administration with a grade point average of 4.0. Following this, he remained at the University of Tennessee for one more year, to 2009, to earn a Bachelors in Broadcast Journalism, continuing to maintain a 4.0 GPA. Career. In 2010, Cochran worked as a staff assistant in the office of former senator Bob Corker who held office from 2007-2019. Also starting in 2010, he became an assistant to the McMinn"}, {"text": "County Mayor's Office. In 2015 he served as the campaign manager for Jason Zachary who ran for state representative for District 14, and defeated Scott Hacker with 72.9% or the vote. As of 2015 Cochran also served as a board member on the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers. In 2023, Cochran supported a resolution to expel three Democratic lawmakers from the legislature for violating decorum rules. The expulsion was widely characterized as unprecedented. 2018 Election. In the general election for District 23 of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Mark Cochran (R) defeated Brad Hartley (D). Preceding the general election, on August 2, 2018, Cochran won the Republican primary election against Donald Winder III for Tennessee House of Representatives District 23. Committees. Cochran presently is a member on the following legislative committees: Education, Curriculum (Testing, and Innovation Subcommittees), Consumer and Human Resource Committee, (Consumer Subcommittee)."}, {"text": "Addi Walka is a \"tabia\" or municipality in the Dogu'a Tembien district of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. The \"tabia\" centre is in Kelkele village, located approximately 16 km northeast of the \"woreda\" town Hagere Selam. Geography. The \"tabia\" stretches down from Dogu'a Tembien's northern ridges towards the Agefet valley. The highest place is the cliff under Arebay (2,500 m.a.s.l.) and the lowest place along Agefet River (1,728 m.a.s.l.). Geology. From the higher to the lower locations, the following geological formations are present: Climate. The rainfall pattern shows a very high seasonality with 70 to 80% of the annual rain falling in July and August. Mean temperature in Kelkele is 18.8 \u00b0C, oscillating between average daily minimum of 10.5 \u00b0C and maximum of 26.7 \u00b0C. The contrasts between day and night air temperatures are much larger than seasonal contrasts. Springs. As there are no permanent rivers, the presence of springs is of utmost importance for the local people. The main springs in the \"tabia\" are: Reservoirs. In this area with rains that last only for a couple of months per year, reservoirs of different sizes allow harvesting runoff from the rainy season for further use in the dry season. Traditional"}, {"text": "surface water harvesting ponds, particularly in places without permanent springs, are called \"rahaya\". \"Horoyo\", household ponds, have been recently constructed through campaigns. Settlements. The \"tabia\" centre Kelkele holds a few administrative offices, a health post, a primary school, and some small shops. There are a few more primary schools across the \"tabia\". The main other populated places are: Agriculture and livelihood. The population lives essentially from crop farming, supplemented with off-season work in nearby towns. The land is dominated by farmlands which are clearly demarcated and are cropped every year. Hence the agricultural system is a permanent upland farming system. The farmers have adapted their cropping systems to the spatio-temporal variability in rainfall. History and culture. History. The history of the \"tabia\" is strongly confounded with the history of Tembien. Religion and churches. Most inhabitants are Orthodox Christians. The following churches are located in the \"tabia\": \"Inda Siwa\". In the main villages, there are traditional beer houses (\"Inda Siwa\"), often in unique settings, which are a good place for resting and chatting with the local people. Most renown in the \"tabia\" is Tkun Asgedom at Bet Moka'e. Roads and communication. The main road Mekelle \u2013 Hagere Selam \u2013 Abiy Addi"}, {"text": "runs some 7\u201312 km south of the \"tabia\". People have the choice to walk to Ala'isa or Tsigereda to find bus services to the towns. A rural access road (sometimes disused) links Addi Walka to the main asphalt road. Tourism. Its mountainous nature and proximity to Mekelle makes the \"tabia\" fit for tourism. Geotouristic sites. The high variability of geological formations and the rugged topography invites for geological and geographic tourism or \"geotourism\". Geosites in the \"tabia\" include especially the dissected, Grand Canyon-like landscapes. Trekking routes. A trekking route has been established in this \"tabia\". The track of Gh1, from south to north across the \"tabia\", is not marked on the ground but can be followed using downloaded .GPX files. Accommodation and facilities. The facilities are very basic. One may be invited to spend the night in a rural homestead or ask permission to pitch a tent. Hotels are available in Hagere Selam and Mekelle."}, {"text": "Jethalal Champaklal Gada, also known as Jetha or Jethiya, is a fictional character from the television series \"Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah\". He is a businessman who runs an electronic shop known as \"Gada Electronics\". Gada lives with his wife, Daya, their son Tipendra, affectionately known as Tapu and his father Champaklal Jayantilal Gada. The character was created by Asit Kumarr Modi and portrayed by Dilip Joshi. Jethalal Champaklal Gada, portrayed by Dilip Joshi is a lovable businessman known for his unique quirks. His character emphasis community values and is known as a dutiful son. Gada's friendship with Tarak Mehta (played by Shailesh Lodha), and humorous interactions, especially with Babitaji (played by Munmun Dutta), Iyer (played by Tanuj Mahashabde) and Bhide (played by Mandar Chandwadkar), is a source of entertainment and comic relieve. Jethalal has become a popular character on Indian television. Development. Dilip Joshi known for his supporting parts in films and television series was cast as the Gujarati businessman, Jethalal Champaklal Gada. Dilip Joshi was originally considered for the role of Champaklal. The character of Jethalal was first offered to Jatin Kanakia, who also gave the idea for \"Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma\" to the show's producer, Asit"}, {"text": "Modi. However, after Jatin Kanakia's death from cancer in 1999, the show's development was put on hold. Afterward, Asit Modi approached several actors, including Rajpal Yadav, Ali Asgar, Yogesh Tripathi and Ahsaan Qureshi, before finalising Joshi. Characterization. Jethalal is shown as a Gujarati businessman who loves his family and respects his father. His relationship with his wife Daya, is a husband and wife's relationship filled with love, friendship and humour. Jethalal also shares a deep friendship with author Taarak Mehta, whom he calls his \"fire brigade\" because whenever he has a problem, he goes to him for a solution. He is a foodie and the Gujarati dishes like jalebi\u2013fafda are his favourite. Jethalal always gets himself in many problems and troubles, ending up in comical circumstances. Legacy and influence. Joshi's portrayal of Jethalal has garnered significant acclaim, establishing him as a beloved character in Indian television. His performance has contributed to the show's longevity, making Jethalal one of the iconic characters in Indian sitcom history. Several publications like \"Zee News\", \"Mid Day\" and \"Times Now\" term Jethalal among the \"most iconic characters\" of Indian television. Critic Vineeta Kumar noted, \"Jethalal is relatable, funny, interesting and curious \u2013 everything a character"}, {"text": "needs to ensures entertainment. Though he is a successful businessman and has a happy loving family, what intrigues is his vulnerability to get into trouble.\" Joshi's on-screen pairing with Disha Vakani has also contributed to the character's popularity. In November 2023, the character was emerged as the \"most popular fictional character on Hindi television\" in Ormax Characters India Loves list. \"Pinkvilla\" placed the character first in its list of TV's 7 most iconic characters, with \"Pinkvilla\" describing Jethalal as one of the most relatable characters in the history of Indian television. The popularity of the show and the character has established Joshi among the highest paid and most popular actors of Hindi television. In other media. In 2023 Neela Films, the production house of the show, launched \"Run Jetha Run\", a mobile game based on the character Jethalal Champaklal Gada, after investing a noteworthy sum of \u20b924 crore into the gaming platform. The game surpassed one million downloads on Google Play and the Apple App Store and features Jethalal as a plucky hero who must navigate treacherous terrain, avoid obstacles, and collect coins to unlock new levels and characters."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team represented the University of Oregon during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Ducks, led by 10th-year head coach Dana Altman, played their home games at Matthew Knight Arena as members of the Pac\u201312 Conference. They finished the season 24\u20137, 13\u20135 in Pac-12 play to win the regular season Pac-12 championship. They were set to take on rival Oregon State in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 tournament. However, the Pac-12 Tournament, along with all postseason tournaments, was cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous season. The Ducks finished the season with a 25\u201313 record, 10\u20138 in conference play, and finished tied for fourth in the Pac-12. As the 6 seed in the Pac-12 tournament, Oregon upset No. 3-seeded Utah, No. 2-seeded Arizona State, and No. 1-seeded Washington to win the tournament championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Oregon entered the NCAA Tournament as a No. 12 seed and upset the No. 5 seed Wisconsin in the first round. Oregon made it to the Sweet Sixteen where they lost to Virginia, who would eventually become National Champions. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=12 style=| Pac-12"}, {"text": "regular season !colspan=12 style=| Pac-12 tournament"}, {"text": "Mike Wendling is a BBC journalist, with the job title US National Digital Reporter, and author of the book \"Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House\". He is a former editor of BBC Trending and was part of the team which covered the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In 2016, Wendling wrote about subjects including American right-wing social media star Tomi Lahren and a factory that was the first to outsource jobs away from the United States. He was also contacted by the American terrorist Joshua Ryne Goldberg, and interviewed antifa activists and Proud Boys members in Portland, Oregon. He is based in Chicago and is originally from western New York State."}, {"text": "The Nuffield Professorship of Clinical Medicine is a chair at the University of Oxford. Created by the endowment of William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, it was established in 1937. The chair is associated with a fellowship of Magdalen College, Oxford."}, {"text": "M\u00e1t\u00e9 Balogh (born 9 November 1990 in Gy\u0151r) is a Hungarian composer and university lecturer at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He studied composition at the Liszt Academy with Zolt\u00e1n Jeney and the Consevatorio di Trieste with Fabio Nieder. He was a mentee of P\u00e9ter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s. His pieces has been performed all over the world, including Europe, Turkey, Taiwan, China, Japan and the United States. He was awarded the Junior Prima Prize and Artisjus Prize. He is the composer of Zs\u00f3fia Szil\u00e1gyi's film entitled \"One day\", which was awarded the Fipresci Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2018."}, {"text": "Rebecca Julia Shipley FRSA is a British mathematician and expert in healthcare engineering and innovation. She is Professor of healthcare engineering at University College London (UCL) and Chief Research Officer at UCLPartners. During 2018-2024 she was Director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Vice Dean (Health) for the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. She has co-led multidisciplinary research iniatives at UCL including the Centre for Nerve Engineering, Centre for Computational Medicine and UCL CHIMERA Research Hub. She was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2021 for pandemic response work and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Early life and education. Shipley grew up in Buckinghamshire, where she attended Dr Challoner's High School for Girls. She graduated with an MMath in Mathematics from St Hugh's College, University of Oxford and was awarded a doctorate from the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford in 2008 for her thesis \"\"Multiscale Modelling of Fluid and Drug Transport in Vascular Tumours\".\" Research career. Her first postdoctoral position was a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, University of Oxford to develop mathematical and computational models that describe biomechanical and biochemical stimulation"}, {"text": "of tissues. She also held two concurrent Visiting Research Fellowships at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Bath, and Tissue Repair and Engineering Centre, UCL during that time. In 2012, Shipley moved from mathematics into healthcare engineering, taking up a Lectureship in UCL Mechanical Engineering. Her research focuses on mathematical and computational modelling to better understand how diseased and damaged tissues function and repair, including in cancer and nerve injury, as well as data-driven models in physiology and digital health technologies. Within the field of tumour blood flow and therapy prediction, she is developing new bioengineering platforms which combine computational modelling with \"in vivo\" and \"ex vivo\" imaging data to better understand and interrogate cancer therapies. Her work advancing cancer therapies has been recognised in the national press. Within nervous system tissue engineering, she has developed an interdisciplinary programme spanning bioengineering, computational modelling and tissue engineering to characterise the response of repairing nerves to chemical and mechanical stimuli, and integrate these data to design and test repair constructs. This is complemented by her work using computational modelling to understand the role of biochemical and biophysical stimuli, and define operating parameters, in tissue engineering development. Shipley has been a strong advocate for"}, {"text": "healthcare engineering and the translation of scientific discoveries into practice, working in particular across UCL and partner hospitals. She co-founded the UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering to bring together engineering and physical sciences with the life and clinical sciences to tackle translational nerve engineering problem. During 2018-2024 she led the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering which acts as an interface between engineering, computating and healthcare research at UCL. In March 2020, Shipley co-led the UCL Ventura CPAP program across UCL / UCL Hospitals NHS Trust / Mercedes F1. The team reverse engineered and manufactured 10,000 non-invasive ventilators (continuous positive airways pressure devices) and associated devices and consumables which were distributed across the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic. The designs and manufacturing instructions was made available globally through an zero cost license with over 2,000 downloads across 105 countries, and the team supported extensive international donations. The devices were used to treat patients in over 30 countries. Public outreach and engagement. Shipley is active in bringing mathematics, engineering and their intersection with healthcare, to wider audiences. Her outreach activities include:"}, {"text": "The 1988 Harlow District Council election took place on 5 May 1988 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council. Election result. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1984 election."}, {"text": "Peter (, ; died 1192) was a Hungarian prelate in the twelfth century, who served as Archbishop of Split (Spalato) from 1185 to 1190, then briefly Archbishop of Kalocsa from 1190 until his death. Ancestry. Peter was born into a wealthy and influential Hungarian kindred as the son of a certain Chitelen or Chitlen ( or \"Csetl\u00e9ny\"), according to Thomas the Archdeacon's \"Historia Salonitana\". Historian Gyula V\u00e1rosy claimed Peter originated from the Sikl\u00f3s branch of the \"gens\" (clan) K\u00e1n. He argued King B\u00e9la III referred to him as patron of the monastery of Holy Trinity near P\u00e9cs in 1183, which right of benefice later belonged to the Sikl\u00f3si family, descending from the K\u00e1n kindred, in 1283 and 1303. Historians Gyula Pauler and B\u00e1lint H\u00f3man accepted the argument. Contrary to this, J\u00e1nos Kar\u00e1csonyi noted the Sikl\u00f3sis' right of patronage a century later could be result of a later royal donation or purchase. Historian M\u00f3r Wertner connected his person to the \"gens\" (clan) Szal\u00f3k. The 1183 diploma says Paul Z\u00e1h, died without male heirs, left his land of T\u00f6tt\u00f6s to the monasteries of Holy Trinity and \u00d3kor. Simultaneously, he requested their patrons, Archbishop Peter of Split and Baja Szal\u00f3k, respectively, to confirm"}, {"text": "the donation. By 1346, both monasteries and T\u00f6tt\u00f6s belonged to the property of the Szal\u00f3k kindred, thus Peter was also a member of the clan, according to Wertner. Scholar J\u00f3zsef Udvardy, similarly to Kar\u00e1csonyi, emphasized that there is no direct connection between the two sources, and the ownership of T\u00f6tt\u00f6s could be a later development too. Archbishop. Peter started his career as a physician of King B\u00e9la III. After the death of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos on 24 September 1180, the Hungarian monarch had restored his suzerainty in Dalmatia within months. The citizens of Split \"returned to Hungarian lordship\" soon after Manuel's death, according to the 13th-century Thomas the Archdeacon. The chronicler narrates, B\u00e9la III wished the burghers of Split to elect a Hungarian national as archbishop of Split in order to fill the dignity, which remained vacant since the death of Christian martyr Saint Raynerius, who was stoned to death in a dispute on 4 August 1180. However, the citizens refused to elect the king's protegee Peter and petitioned to the Holy See. In 1181, Pope Alexander III urged B\u00e9la III to respect the burghers of Split's privilege to free elect of their archbishop. Under the pressure of"}, {"text": "the Hungarians, despite the intervention of the Roman Curia, Peter was elected Archbishop of Split by the local citizens in 1185. Nevertheless, Peter already acted as \"de facto\" prelate in the previous years, and royal charters in Hungary styled him as Archbishop of Split since 1180. For instance, Peter donated the St. George church near Senj to the Knights Templar in 1183. As an elected and confirmed archbishop, Peter convened a provincial synod and reorganized the administration of the archdiocese of Split in 1185. Among others, he established the bishopric of Krbava (Corbavia), which became a new suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Split. The new bishopric lasted until the second half of the 15th century, when it was collapsed due to the Ottoman advance in Dalmatia. Peter consecrated its first bishop, Matthew still in that year. The aforementioned provincial synod under the chairmanship of Peter also subordinated the actual and titular bishoprics in Dalmatia and the surrounding Hungarian-dominated areas in the territory of present-day Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina \u2013 Makarska, Duvno, Bosnia, Narona and Szt\u00f3n \u2013 to the Archdiocese of Split and determined its borders, elevating the numbers of suffragans to twelve; Knin (Tinnin), Senj, Nona, Trogir, Skradin"}, {"text": "and Fara already belonged to it. Pope Clement III confirmed the resolutions of the synod in 1191. Peter had various conflicts of interest with the cathedral chapter of Split, according to Thomas the Archdeacon. Following the death of Paul, Peter was transferred to the Archdiocese of Kalocsa around 1190. According to a non-authentic charter, Peter already held the dignity in 1190. Peter's namesake successor, who was abbot of Pannonhalma prior to that, in the Archdiocese of Split already appears in 1191. Peter was first referred to as Archbishop of Kalocsa by an authentic document in 1192. He died soon, as Saul Gy\u0151r succeeded him still in that year."}, {"text": "Melita Lorkovi\u0107 (25 November 1907 \u2013 1 November 1987), was a Croatian female pianist and music pedagogue. Family. She was born 1907 in \u017dupanja. Her brother, Mladen Pozaji\u0107 was also a pianist, composer, music pedagogue, conductor (of choir and orchestra) and publicist. Melita was educated as a pianist at the Zagreb Music Academy, mainly by Svetislav Stan\u010di\u0107, and later in courses with Alfred Cortot, Lazare L\u00e9vy, Yvonne Lefebure, Wanda Landowska in Paris and Eduard Steuermann in Salzburg. She was introduced to her future husband Radoslav Lorkovi\u0107, a chemical engineer, by her friend Vlasta Lorkovi\u0107, a fellow pianist who was later also a professor at the Music Academy of Sarajevo and a concert pianist. Radoslav was killed by the communists in 1945 in Zagreb, and Melita was forced to stop her concert activity from 1943-48 by the Usta\u0161a as well as the SFRJ regime, but she later launched a second career performing the great Piano concerti across Europe, including all five by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, both Brahms, Liszt, Rachmanjinow, and modern Croatian composers. Until the end of her life she extended her wide repertory ranging from early Barock to Berg and Rolf Liebermann. Melita had two sons: Hrvoje, (1930-2018) who was"}, {"text": "a physiologist and professor in T\u00fcbingen, London, Minneapolis and Ulm, and Radovan (b. 1932), a concert violinist, educated by Vaclav Huml in Zagreb and later by Max Rostal in London and Bern, whose assistant he was in 1960-65. He published a monography of his mother in Zagreb in 2007. Work. After her concert tours in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Italy, as well as out of Europe, she was compared with the greatest pianists of that time, including Emil von Sauer, Myra Hess, Teresa Carre\u00f1o and Dinu Lipatti. She was a university professor at the Music Academy in Zagreb (1929-1945), at the Music Academy in Belgrade (1948-1960), and in Cairo (1960-1972). Her students were Milko Kelemen and Milan Horvat. She was appreciated for her interpretations of Beethoven's sonatas, Schumann's \"Carnival\" and \"Kreislariane\", Brahms, Chopin's miniatures, Listz's \"Sonata in h-minor\", Tschaikovsky, Debussy, Rahmaninov and Bartok as well as sonatas of Boris Papandopulo, Kunc's \"Nokturno\", Moussorgsky's \"Images\", Dora Peja\u010devi\u0107's opus et al."}, {"text": "Ratanarat is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Seligmann Kantor (6 December 1857, Sob\u011bdruhy \u2013 21 March 1903, Sob\u011bdruhy) was a Bohemian-born, German-speaking mathematician of Jewish origin in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He is known for the M\u00f6bius\u2013Kantor configuration and the M\u00f6bius-Kantor graph. Biography. Kantor studied mathematics and physics at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, then studied in 1878 in Rome with Luigi Cremona, in Strasbourg, and in 1880 in Paris. In 1881, he received his Habilitation at the K. K. Deutsche Technische Hochschule (DTH) in Prague. He was appointed there in 1883 a Privatdozent for mathematics and continued in that academic post until 1888. He was considered for a professorship in Vienna, but anti-Semitic political agitation prevented his appointment."}, {"text": "Ruffin Golson Pleasant (June 2, 1871 \u2013 September 12, 1937) was the 36th Governor of Louisiana, from 1916 to 1920, who is remembered for having mobilized his state for World War I. Prior to his governorship, Pleasant was the Louisiana attorney general from 1912 to 1916, and the city attorney of Shreveport from 1902 to 1908. He was also LSU's first band director of the 11-cadet band in 1893 as was founder of the band with Wylie M. Barrow. Early years and education. Pleasant was born in the community of Shiloh in Union Parish in north Louisiana to Benjamin Franklin Pleasant and the former Martha Washington Duty. An earlier governor, William Wright Heard, who served from 1900 to 1904, was also born near Shiloh. His parents' names hence evoked the spirit of patriotism that Pleasant extolled in his public life. He was educated at the former Ruston College in Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish, from 1885 to 1886. He then attended Mount Lebanon College, the forerunner of Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College from 1887 to 1889. In 1890 he began school at the Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, where he became a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. In 1893"}, {"text": "he was chosen as captain of the LSU football squad and played in LSU's first match against Tulane. He graduated in 1894. Thereafter, he studied law at both Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. He was admitted to the bar in 1899. Pleasant served in the Spanish\u2013American War in 1898 as a lieutenant-colonel of the First Louisiana Regiment of Infantry. After the war, he launched his law practice in Shreveport, a large city by Louisiana standards which is the seat of Caddo Parish in the northwestern corner of the state. On Valentine's Day 1906, Pleasant married the former Anne Ector, the daughter of Matthew Duncan Ector and the former Sarah \"Sallie\" Parish Chew. Moving up the political ladder. Pleasant was first city attorney in Shreveport, then state attorney general, and finally governor. In the 1916 general election, Pleasant, as the Democratic nominee, faced the Progressive Party's John M. Parker. Pleasant prevailed with 80,807 votes (62.5 percent) to Parker's 37.2 percent. Parker, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt's until their political split in 1916, thereafter returned to the Democratic Party and won the 1920 gubernatorial election with Pleasant's support. At the time Louisiana governors could serve"}, {"text": "only one four-year term and could not seek a second term until four years had lapsed since the end of a previous term. As governor, Pleasant encouraged volunteers and contributions for the war effort. Louisiana's support for the war was considered to have been among the strongest in the nation. He named Lee Emmett Thomas, a banker and a former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, as the chairman of the Louisiana Tax Commission and then the state banking examiner. Thomas thereafter served as mayor of Shreveport from 1922 to 1930. Oddly, Thomas was born in Marion, Louisiana, and educated in Union Parish at Pleasant's birthplace of Shiloh. In 1917, Pleasant signed into law a measure by the freshman state senator, Norris C. Williamson of East Carroll Parish, which authorized state funding for the eradication of the cattle tick pest. When Pleasant was elected governor, voters also chose Harry D. Wilson, a former state representative from Tangipahoa Parish, who began a 32-year tenure (1916-1948) as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry. Pleasant named the cotton farmer C. C. McCrory of Ascension Parish as the adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard. Later McCrory's son, Sidney McCrory, served a"}, {"text": "term as the state agriculture commissioner. After leaving the governorship, Pleasant resumed his law practice in Shreveport. He soon broke with his successor, John M. Parker, over tax policy and supported Huey Pierce Long Jr. Not long afterward, he broke with Long too and became a leading spokesman for the anti-Long faction of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Pleasant was elected as a member of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1921. That particular constitution produced by the delegates was superseded in 1974 by a newer governing document. Pleasant was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1916, which renominated Woodrow Wilson for president and Thomas Marshall of Indiana for vice president. He was also a delegate to the Democratic convention in 1924, which took 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis of West Virginia as the party's compromise presidential nominee. The later years. Anne Ector Pleasant died in 1934 after accidentally drinking a poisonous antiseptic in a dark bathroom in their Shreveport home. She was the founder and headmistress of Pleasant Hall, a coed private school in Shreveport. She had sued then U.S. Senator Huey Long for having caused her to be arrested on false charges and for having demeaned"}, {"text": "her as a \"drunken cursing woman\" when she sought to examine state public records in the Capitol in Baton Rouge. Pleasant died in Shreveport four years later. He was Presbyterian. The couple is interred at Forest Park Cemetery off St. Vincent Avenue in Shreveport."}, {"text": "Ardakhshir II (also spelled Artaxerxes II) was king of Persis in the 1st century BC, a vassal state of the Parthian Empire. An inscription written in Middle Persian on a silver cup bears his name. He was succeeded by Wahsir."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Milwaukee Panthers men's basketball team represented the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Panthers, led by third-year head coach Pat Baldwin, played their home games at the UW\u2013Milwaukee Panther Arena and the Klotsche Center as members of the Horizon League. They finished the season 12\u201319, 7\u201311 in Horizon League play to finish in a tie for seventh place. They lost in the first round of the Horizon League tournament to Youngstown State. Previous season. The Panthers finished the 2018\u201319 season 9\u201322, 4\u201314 in Horizon League play to finish in last place. They failed to qualify for the Horizon League tournament. Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Horizon League regular season !colspan=9 style=|Horizon League tournament Source"}, {"text": "Unit 29155 is a Russian military intelligence (GRU) unit associated with foreign assassinations and other activities apparently aimed at destabilizing European countries. The unit is thought to have operated in secret since at least 2008, though its existence only became publicly known in 2019. Organization and method. The Unit is commanded by Maj. Gen. and based at the headquarters of the 161st Special Purpose Specialist Training Center in eastern Moscow. Its membership has included veterans from Russian wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Ukraine, identified as Denis Sergeev (aka Sergei Fedotov), Alexander Mishkin (aka Alexander Petrov), Anatoliy Chepiga (aka Ruslan Boshirov, a Hero of the Russian Federation, Russia's highest honor), Sergey Lyutenkov (aka Sergey Pavlov), Eduard Shishmakov (aka Eduard Shirokov), Vladimir Moiseev (aka Vladimir Popov), Ivan Terentyev (aka Ivan Lebedev), Nikolay Ezhov (aka Nikolay Kononikhin), Alexey Kalinin (aka Alexei Nikitin), and Danil Kapralov (aka Danil Stepanov). \"Le Monde\" reported in December 2019, citing French intelligence contacts, that 15 agents connected with Unit 29155 visited the Haute-Savoie region of the French Alps between 2014 and 2018 including Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov who are believed to be responsible for the Skripal poisoning. High-ranking GRU officer Denis Vyacheslavovich Sergeev (alias Sergei Fedotov) has"}, {"text": "been identified by British authorities as the commander of the team that poisoned Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent for the British intelligence agencies, and his daughter Yulia Skripal. Anatoliy Chepiga, one of the suspected Skripal attackers, was photographed at Averyanov's daughter's wedding in 2017. The unit's operations were described as sloppy by security officials since it has been linked to many operations that were unsuccessful. Several actions had to be broken off without success, such as the attempted coup in Montenegro in 2016, which was staged before the country joined NATO. In several cases, enough evidence was left behind to enable the perpetrators to be identified. Security experts wondered whether this method was chosen to signal that all opponents of the Russian regime were possible targets, no matter their location. Eerik-Niiles Kross, a former intelligence chief in Estonia, says this type of intelligence operation has become part of psychological warfare. In August 2024, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) posted a $10,000,000 reward for information leading to the locations of Vladislav Yevgenyevich Borovkov, Denis Igorevich Denisenko, Yuriy Fedorovich Denisov, Dmitriy Yuryevich Goloshubov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Korchagin, and Amin Timovich Stigal. Activities. Unit 29155 was linked \u2014"}, {"text": "by the investigative Bellingcat website using OSINT (open-source intelligence) \u2014 to the attempted assassinations of Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev in April 2015 and the former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal in March 2018, both possibly overseen by the same agent. According to Ben Macintyre in the London \"Times\" in December 2019, the unit is believed to be responsible for a destabilisation campaign in Moldova and a failed pro-Serbian coup plot in Montenegro in 2016 including an attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister Milo \u0110ukanovi\u0107 and occupy the parliament building by force. Russia has denied all accusations. The men mentioned by Czech police in relation to 2014 Vrb\u011btice ammunition warehouses explosions were the same men identified by Bellingcat in the Skripal poisoning case. 2014 Vrb\u011btice ammunition warehouses explosions. Andrej Babi\u0161, the prime minister of Czechia, announced on 17 April 2021 that Unit 29155 was behind the 2014 Vrb\u011btice ammunition warehouses explosions, which resulted in the death of two Czech citizens and damage exceeding CZK 1 billion. Czech police was seeking information from the public on two suspects: Alexander Mishkin (aka Alexander Petrov), Anatoliy Chepiga (aka Ruslan Boshirov). On April, 29 2024 Police of the Czech Republic announced the completion of the"}, {"text": "investigation of explosions, stating that it considered it proven that the explosions were carried out by GRU. In May 2024, the commander of Unit 29155, Averyanov, was declared wanted by the Czech Police. Alleged bounty program and arms smuggling. In 2020, a CIA assessment reported that Unit 29155 operated a Russian bounty program that offered cash rewards to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and other coalition soldiers in Afghanistan. The assessment said several US military personnel died as a result of a bounty program. According to the New York Times, on 1 July, the National Intelligence Council produced a document in which various intelligence agencies assessed the credibility of the existence of a bounty program based on the available evidence, gleaned in part from interrogations of captured Islamist militants by Afghanistan's government. Anonymous officials who had seen the memo said that the \"C.I.A. and the National Counterterrorism Center had assessed with medium confidence\u2014meaning credibly sourced and plausible, but falling short of near certainty\"\u2014that bounties had been offered. Other parts of the intelligence community, including the National Security Agency, said they \"did not have information to support that conclusion at the same level\", and so had lower confidence in the conclusion."}, {"text": "Both Russia and the Taliban have denied the existence of a program. In July 2020, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that General Kenneth McKenzie and General Scott Miller, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, did not think \"the reports were credible as they dug into them.\" General Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, said that he found no \"causative link\" between reported bounties to actual U.S. military deaths. In April 2021, \"The Daily Beast\" and \"NBC News\" reported that the U.S. intelligence community only had \"low to moderate confidence\" in the bounty program allegations. On 8 January 2025, \"The Insider\", with assistance from \"Der Spiegel\", published the results of a new investigation into the GRU-Taliban program alleging that the program also included the transfer of arms and munitions used in attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan. Alleged connection to Havana syndrome. In April 2024, \"60 Minutes\", \"Der Spiegel\" and \"The Insider\" published a joint investigation which alleges that Unit 29155 is connected to cases of \"Havana syndrome\", where U.S. employees or their family members have experienced symptoms in the range from pain and ringing in the ears to cognitive dysfunction. Among the core findings of the year-long"}, {"text": "collaboration of Roman Dobrokhotov, Christo Grozev and Michael Weiss were that senior members of the unit received awards and political promotions for work related to the development of non-lethal acoustic weapons; and that members of the unit have been geolocated to places around the world just before or at the time of reported incidents. The Kremlin Press Secretary dismissed the report as \"nothing more than baseless, unfounded accusations by the media.\" In response to the report, the White House Press Secretary continued to back a March 2023 report by the National Intelligence Council that an enemy adversary was unlikely. Russo-Ukrainian War. Beginning in 2020, to support Russia's efforts in the Russo-Ukrainian War, many cyber attacks on Ukraine and the countries of NATO allegedly were conducted by GRU 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155), which is responsible for computer network operations against global targets for the purposes of espionage, sabotage, and reputational harm since at least 2020, that often used multiple families of destructive wiper malware including \"WhisperGate.\" The United States Justice Department indicted six individuals associated with GRU Unit 29155: five GRU officers (Vladislav Borovkov (), Denis Igorevich Denisenko (), Yuriy Denisov (), Dmitry Yuryevich Goloshubov (), and Nikolay Aleksandrovich"}, {"text": "Korchagin ()) and one civilian (Amin Timovich Stigal (; born 10 January 2002, Grozny)). Also, the United States Department of State Diplomatic Security Service Rewards for Justice offers up to $10 million in reward for information about these six individuals."}, {"text": "Elaine Fox (born 1963) is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN) at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the science of emotion and what makes some people more resilient than others. As of 2019 Fox serves as the Mental Health Networks Impact and Engagement Coordinator for United Kingdom Research and Innovation. Early life and education. Fox grew up in Dublin. She studied neuroscience and psychology at the University College Dublin and remained there as a research associate until 1988. She worked in Dublin's St. James's Hospital. In 1988, Fox was appointed as a lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She returned to the University College Dublin in 1993, where she worked as a Senior Lecturer for one year. Research and career. Fox moved to work at the University of Essex, where she was made a Professor in 2000. In 2007, she was elected Head of the Department of Psychology and the Centre for Brain Science. In 2013, Fox joined the University of Oxford. Here she directs the Oxford Centre for Emotions & Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN). She was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award"}, {"text": "to study emotional vulnerability, resilience and optimism. In particular, she evaluates why people respond differently to adversity and success. She leads the Cog-BIAS project that looks at what makes particular people vulnerable to developing anxiety disorders. This involves evaluating at how biases in information processing (for example in attention, interpretation) impact emotions. She showed that using Attention Bias Modification (ABM) can be used to modify biased attention to develop emotional resilience. The origins of this bias modification are in the variation of serotonin transporter polymorphism. She found that people who worry more are less likely to be able to control their attention. Fox identified that the people who inherit two copies of the \"long\" variant of the 5-HTTLPR gene avoid negative imagery. She concluded that these people were ready to seek out positive events \u2013 an optimistic streak, whilst people with the \"short\" variant of the 5-HTTLPR gene are more prone to negative experiences and anxiety. Her work was confirmed by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, who identified that having two copies of the \"long\" variant of the 5-HTTLPR gene correlates with happiness in teenagers. In October 2019, Fox was appointed the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) Mental Health Networks Impact"}, {"text": "and Engagement Coordinator. In this capacity she will facilitate engagement between the UKRI's mental health networks. She has been personally been awarded \u00a3450,000 funding to support these activities. The group will progress themes such as inequalities in accessing care, social isolation, student mental health and the value of local communities. Her research has received significant media coverage, including on ABC News and BBC Horizon, as well as in The New York Times and The Economist. As part of her public engagement around psychology, Fox taught Michael Mosley to be more optimistic. During the experiment, Fox scanned Mosley's brain, and attributed his pessimism to the activity in his right front cortex. She has discussed the power of positivity and mental health with Claudia Hammond. Selected publications. Her publications include:"}, {"text": "Kravasaras or Kravassaras () is the former, Ottoman-era name of the following Greek settlements:"}, {"text": "The 2019 season was Sarpsborg 08's eighth season in Eliteserien, following their return to the top level in 2012. Transfers announced on the above dates and finalised on 1 January 2019."}, {"text": "Mar\u00eda Valentina Mart\u00ednez Ferro (born 1976) is a Spanish politician of the People's Party (PP) who has been a member of the 10th, 12th and 13th terms of the Congress of Deputies. Early life and education. Born on 21 June 1976 in Santiago de Compostela (province of A Coru\u00f1a), Mart\u00ednez Ferro earned a licentiate degree in Political and Administration Sciences. She later obtained a master's degree in European studies at the Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain. Political career. Early beginnings. Specialised in international relations, Mart\u00ednez Ferro was part of the Secretariat of International Relations of the People's Party (PP) between 2002 and 2012. Mart\u00ednez Ferro was included in the 28th slot of the PP list in Madrid for the 2011 general election. She was not elected then and was appointed Chief of Staff of Jorge Moragas (Mariano Rajoy's Chief of Staff). Member of Parliament, 2014\u2013present. Mart\u00ednez Ferro obtained a parliamentary seat in the Congress of Deputies in October 2014, covering the vacant left by Alberto Ruiz-Gallard\u00f3n. During the 10th term of the Lower House, she served as Spokesperson in the Committee of International Development Cooperation and as member of the committees of Foreign Affairs and Budget. Mart\u00ednez Ferro ran 17th in"}, {"text": "the PP list in Madrid for the 2016 general election, but she was not elected this time either. In June 2018, she again obtained her seat covering a vacant post, this time the vacant seat left by Mariano Rajoy. Mart\u00ednez Ferro ran as candidate to a deputy seat 3rd the PP list for A Coru\u00f1a (3rd place) vis-\u00e0-vis the April 2019 general election. Elected MP, she became a member of the committees on Foreign Affairs, Ecological Transition, International Development Cooperation and the Joint Congress-Senate Committee for the European Union. She replaced as PP's Secretary on International Relations in July 2019. In addition to her committee assignments, Mart\u00ednez Ferro has been a member of the Spanish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2022. In the Assembly, she has served on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 2020); the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 2021); the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (2019\u20132020); the Sub-Committee on Human Rights (2020\u20132021); and the Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (2020\u20132021)."}, {"text": "9MA is the only release by Brazilian alternative rock band Nove Mil Anjos. It came out in 2008 through the band's own label, 9MA Music, and distributed by Sky Blue Music. Produced in Los Angeles by Sebastian Krys, who previously worked with drummer Junior Lima's former group Sandy & Junior, the album spawned the singles \"Chuva Agora\" (made available for listening in advance through the band's official Myspace page) and \"Vision\u00e1rio\". Upon its release \"9MA\" received mostly positive reviews, with the music video for \"Chuva Agora\" being at one point one of the most viewed at the website of now-defunct MTV Brasil. Conversely, music critic Amauri Stamboroski Jr., writing for website G1, gave the album a scathing review, calling it a \"disastrous\" and \"unoriginal\" output and comparing it unfavorably to the sonority of bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine and Nirvana. He then proceeded to give the album a rating of 1 out of a possible 10."}, {"text": "Eva Kirchmayer-Bili\u0107 (born 1971), is a Croatian pianist, organist, university professor at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, journalist and publicist. She graduated (1992) and received her master's degree at the Academy of Music in Zagreb in the class of the professor Stjepan Radi\u0107. She also studied organ at the Institute of the liturgical music \"Albe Vidakovi\u0107\" (1985\u20131990) in the class of Imakulata Malinka and later, thanks to the DAAD scholarship, at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main in the class of the professor Andreas Meyer-Hermann. She attended seminars by Melita Lorkovi\u0107, Rudolf Kehrer, Vladimir Krpan, Charles Spencer, Jurica Murai et al. She organised a concert tour of piano-vocal duos, performing with Hartmut H\u00f6ll, Marciej Pikulski, Peter Schreier, Valentina Fija\u010dko, Kristina Beck-Kukav\u010di\u0107 in Belgium, Croatia, (Germany), Poland as a part of Masterclass for duo voice & piano 2010/11 season. She performed with musical ensembles (Collegium pro musica sacra), choirs (Zagreba\u010dki dje\u010daci), Croatian Armed Forces Band, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Zagreb Soloists in Slovenia, Italy, Austria, (Germany), Ireland, Ukraine and Egypt, United States (Wisconsin). She is and editor of the musical section in \"Hrvatsko slovo\". She writes for \"Glas Koncila\" and \"Saint Cecilia\". She was a co-author"}, {"text": "of the several musical textbooks, member of Croatian society of musicians and of the Senate of the Academy of Music in Zagreb (since 2013). She actively participated in the Second Sinode of the Archdiocese of Zagreb."}, {"text": "Loups Marins River (, Seal River) is a river in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Location. The Loups Marins River rises on the Canadian Shield and flows south to the Saint Lawrence. The course of the river is dictated by fractures in the bedrock. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Sept-\u00celes of the Sept-Rivi\u00e8res Regional County Municipality. The name was made official on 5 December 1968. Its origin is not known. The river's estuary is west of the Pointe \u00e0 la Perche. It gives boats shelter from west winds. A wooden cross standing on the rocks marks the western entrance to the river's estuary, which has about of water. Basin. The river basin cover . It lies between the basins of the Matamec River to the west and the Pigou River to the east. The basin is partly in the unorganized territory of Rivi\u00e8re-Nipissis and partly in the municipality of Sept-\u00celes. Environment. A map of the ecological regions of Quebec shows the river in sub-regions 6j-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. The hoary bat (\"Lasiurus cinereus\"), suspected of being threatened or vulnerable in the province,"}, {"text": "was observed between 1999 and 2000 in a forest of firs and alders on the west side of the Loups Marins River. The Waterfowl concentration area of Rivi\u00e8re aux Loups Marins, \u00cele de la Grande Anse, designated an IUCN Category IV Water fowl gathering area in 1998, covers the east part of the river's estuary and the coastline east to the \u00cele de la Grande Anse."}, {"text": "Sarah Barbara Benett (1850 \u2013 8 February 1924) was a suffragette, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and Treasurer of the Women's Freedom League (WFL). She was one of the \"Brown Women\" who walked from Edinburgh to London in 1912 and went on hunger strike during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison for which she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal and Holloway brooch. Early life. Sarah Benett was born in St Pancras in London in 1850, one of nine children born to William Morgan Benett (1813\u20131891), a solicitor, and Barbara Sarah Waring (1819\u20131894). Before Sarah Benett became involved in fighting for women's suffrage she was active in social reform. She founded a co-operative society in the village she grew up in, in the New Forest in Hampshire. After the death of her mother in 1894 Benett moved to Burslem in Staffordshire where she started another co-operative society and a general store in nearby Hanley, which she managed. She campaigned in the Staffordshire Potteries to improve the health and working conditions of workers by trying to ban the use of lead in pottery glaze. Activism. In 1907 after attending a meeting where the speaker was Flora Drummond"}, {"text": "Bennet immediately realised that this important cause was where she needed to put her efforts and at the age of 57 joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the newly formed Women's Freedom League (WFL). Later that year, she was arrested for joining a WSPU deputation to the House of Commons. She refused to pay a 20s fine for which she received 14 days' imprisonment. In July 1907 Christabel Pankhurst stayed with her while campaigning in the Potteries. Bennet was present at the founding of the Women's Tax Resistance League becoming a tax resister herself and in 1908 was a WFL delegate to the Amsterdam conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Benett joined the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage (NCSWS) and was Treasurer of the Women's Freedom League from 1909 until her resignation in 1910 from which time she devoted her efforts to the more militant Women's Social and Political Union. She was one of 120 women arrested for demonstrating outside the House of Commons on 'Black Friday' in 1910 when many women were seriously assaulted by the police. Benett took part in the WSPU's window smashing campaigns of 1911 and 1912 and was released early"}, {"text": "from her three-month jail sentence in Holloway Prison in 1912 after going on hunger strike, for which action she received the Hunger Strike Medal and Holloway brooch from the WSPU. The application by the elderly Benett (she was 62 in 1912) for skipping ropes and balls for the suffragette prisoners to keep fit in Holloway Prison caused some amusement in the Home Office. A fellow inmate at this time was Kate Williams Evans on whose release Benett wrote a note to her maid Jane which reads: 'Miss Evans will be my guest till she is a little stronger. She has been starving so treat her as an invalid...' Benett's pencilled signature is included in an autograph book collected by Evans in Holloway which also contains the signatures of suffragettes Emily Davison and Emmeline Pankhurst. Benett became a friend of Emily Davison for whom she arranged to smuggle a watch into HM Prison Holloway. In 1916 she organised the annual pilgrimage to Davison's grave in the churchyard of St. Mary's church at Morpeth. The march. When Florence Gertrude de Fonblanque decided to mount a march from Edinburgh to London to draw attention to the women's suffrage cause she initially thought that"}, {"text": "walking to Edinburgh would be a good idea but it was decided to march from Edinburgh so that the march could end its publicity in London. Only six women including Fonblanque, Agnes Brown and Benett set off on 21 October 1912. As they and Fonblanque traveled from Scotland to London they gathered signatures on a petition and coverage in the newspapers. Fonblanque ensured that they were dressed in brown with rosettes and bright green cockades and they were known as the \"Brown Women\". They followed the route of the A1 and were joined by dignitaries along the way. On one day near Berwick they walked over 30 miles before the now seven marchers were welcomed by the local Member of Parliament. Their numbers swelled slowly \u2013 when they passed through Grantham in November there were twelve walkers. Finally they got to London on 16 November 1912 when they went by tube to Trafalgar Square where the walkers entered to music. Benett later recalled that she \"had walked her shoes off trying to get signatures to petition\". Later years. For her part in the smashing of windows at Selfridges department store in 1913 in protest over the government's withdrawal of the"}, {"text": "Franchise Bill Benett received a six-month prison sentence. Until her death in 1924 she was involved in the Women's Tax Resistance League. In her later years Benett lived in Finchley in North London. She died in February 1924 having never married. Dr Elizabeth Wilks was an executor to her will. Her biography \"Rebel With a Cause: The Life and Times of Sarah Benett, 1850-1924, Social Reformer and Suffragette\" by Iain Gordon was published in 2018."}, {"text": "Victor Carin (1 October 1933 \u2013 2 January 1981) was a Scottish actor, director, and translator, who wrote for radio, television, film, and the stage. Carin was born in Aberdeen and grew up in Stonehaven in Kincardineshire. His mother was Scottish and his father was Italian. He took the stage name \"Carin\" from his birth name Zaccarini. Carin wrote in 1974 that he lived for a time in Italy \"just after the war\" and that part of his education included translating the works of Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni, as well as French plays, including works by Moli\u00e8re. He trained as an actor in London and returned to Scotland in 1958. He joined the Gateway Theatre Company in 1961 as an actor, giving strong performances as Pantites in Ada F. Kay's \"The Man from Thermopylae\" (1961) and in George Bernard Shaw's \"Pygmalion\" (1962). He became the company's director of productions in 1963 and remained in that role until the Gateway closed in 1965. His television acting roles include Chief Inspector Menzies in \"Sutherland's Law\", Inspector Mackenzie in \"Raffles\", and Baron Lamond in the 1980 series \"Doom Castle\". He portrayed Virgil Earp in the 1966 \"Doctor Who\" episode \"The O.K. Corral\". He"}, {"text": "appeared in the critically acclaimed 1971 BBC television adaptation of the novel \"Sunset Song\" as Chae Strachan. Carin performed in multiple BBC radio productions, such as the 1963 radio play \"The Hammers of Fingal\" by Angus MacVicar, the 1964 serial \"Sanctuary Isle\" by Bill Knox, and the 1980 Radio Scotland production \"Smoke Screen\" by John Lawson. Carin translated four plays into Scots. His first translation, \"The Hypochondriack\" (a translation of Moli\u00e8re's \"The Imaginary Invalid\") was first presented at the Gateway Theatre in 1963. It was also produced at the Perth Theatre in 1977 and the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 1991. Carin changed the names in the play to Scottish names. His second translation, \"The Servant o' Twa Maisters\" (translated from Carlo Goldoni's \"The Servant of Two Masters\") was the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company's debut production in 1965. It was produced there again the following year and in 1977, and at the Perth Theatre in 1983. In 2009, it was produced at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Carin's version of the play is set in Edinburgh. Carin's 1968 translation \"The Chippit Chantie\" (a translation of Heinrich von Kleist's \"The Broken Jug\") debuted at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in 1968. It was produced"}, {"text": "at the Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1974 and the Perth Theatre in 1989. It was also presented in 2003 at St Serf's Hall, Goldenacre. Carin used an English intermediary text to create his version of the play and adapted it to take place in Scotland. In 1976, his translation \"A Muckle Steer\" (a translation of Ludvig Holberg's \"The Fidget\") was produced at the Perth Theatre. Carin also used an English intermediary text for this translation and adapted the setting to Scotland. Although Carin's native Scots was that of Kincardineshire and northeast Scotland, the language in his translation \"The Servant o' Twa Maisters\" is for the most part a standard central Scots, with older words and expressions appropriate for a late-eighteenth-century setting. In his book \"Scottish Literature's Debt to Italy\", R. D. S. Jack noted that Carin's \"The Servant o' Twa Maisters\" changes the play to have Scottish character and place names, and that some conversations and pieces of stage business are added to the play to help convey the play's humour, but the basic plot is kept the same. Jack also stated that \"Carin's Scots is pungent, snappy and heavily idiomatic. As a result his work is much less sophisticated"}, {"text": "than Goldoni's but if he loses some of the subtler moments of wit in the Italian original, there are plenty of forceful Scots idioms and exclamations to replace it. [...] Goldoni would have been much more appreciative of \"The Servant o' Twa Maisters\" for all its alterations and innovations than the much more timid English translations, which are usually the non-Italian speaker's introduction to this fine play.\" Mr. Carin died of pancreatic cancer early in 1981. He is survived by a son, daughter and other family."}, {"text": "Steven Sherlock (born 28 March 1997) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Cork Senior Championship club St Finbarr's and is a former member of the Cork senior football team. He usually lines out as a left corner-forward. Career. Sherlock first came to Gaelic football prominence at juvenile and underage levels with the St Finbarr's club. After making his senior team debut in 2015, he was part of the club's Munster Club Championship-winning team in 2022. Sherlock first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the Cork minor football team in 2015 before later lining out in the 2016 All-Ireland under-21 final defeat by Mayo. He played League and Championship for the Cork senior football team across 2018 and 2019, but was among a small cohort of players cut from then manager Ronan McCarthy's squad at the end of the latter season."}, {"text": "PSR J0740+6620 is a neutron star in a binary system with a white dwarf, located 4,600 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 2019, by astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, U.S., and confirmed as a rapidly rotating millisecond pulsar. It is among the most massive neutron stars ever observed \u2013 with placing it near the boundary of the theoretical maximum. Its mass was calculated via the Shapiro delay of its white dwarf companion as it passed edge-on to Earth. It was the record holder for the heaviest NS until July 2022 when the title was taken by PSR J0952\u20130607 with a reported mass of . PSR J0740+6620 is estimated to measure ()."}, {"text": "Daniela Iacobelli (born November 27, 1987) is an American professional golfer who has played on the Epson Tour and LPGA Tour. Early life and education. Iacobelli was born in Detroit, Michigan. She played college golf at Florida Institute of Technology where she won eight times including the 2007 NCAA Division II Championship. She graduated in 2009. Professional career. Iacobelli turned professional in 2010 and has played mainly on the Symetra Tour, winning three times: 2012 Daytona Beach Invitational, 2015 Tullymore Classic, and 2019 Island Resort Championship. She played on the LPGA Tour in 2013, 2016, and 2018 with a best finish of 9th at the 2018 Lotte Championship. She later won twice on the Epson Tour."}, {"text": "Soar Welsh Independent Chapel was an Independent (Congregationalist) chapel in Marsh Street, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Services at Soar were conducted in the Welsh language. The chapel was established in the 1880s after a split at the neighbouring Ebenezer church. Ebenezer's minister, Trefor Davies, together with a large proportion of the members, left to form Soar after a dispute that was reported upon but not explained fully in the local press. Trefor Davies remained minister at Soar until his death in 1933. E. D. Morgan became minister in 1961 and remained at Soar for thirty years. Huw Edwards suggests that it was Morgan's efforts that enabled Soar to stay open as long as it did. After a period of decline and a failure to form a united ministry with other churches, Soar closed in 2005. As of 2019 the building is in use as a children's nursery."}, {"text": "Ed Massey is an American artist who creates sculptures of social critique, paints large-scale public-art, and designs murals to support environmental awareness. His artworks have been exhibited internationally. Massey is also the artist and creator of Portraits of Hope (POH), a non-profit specializing in large-scale, public-art projects that revitalize under-served areas. Copyrighted designs have covered lifeguard stations, New York City taxi cabs, and air traffic control towers, among others. Early life and career. Massey graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1987) and Columbia University (M.F.A., 1990). Massey was originally a sociology major at university, but switched to art for his graduate work. Public work. Sculptures. Massey's sculptures have appeared in print media including in \"The Wall Street Journal\", and \"Fortune Magazine\". The Wedding Dress (1998) was created for Massey's bride, Dawn Harris, a sculpted dress with a five-foot train and 1,060 roses draped on a steel mesh form. The Los Angeles Times called it \"wildly romantic\"; and is displayed at the Skirball Cultural Center. Corporate Ladder (1990), a 19 foot creation displayed in Columbia, Maryland, seeks to confront the inequities within company cultures. Stereotypical corporate employees were sculpted aggressively scaling the corporate ladder, or \"greasy pole\". A"}, {"text": "successful white male is precariously perched atop the ladder at the expense of minorities, including women clambering to break through the proverbial glass-ceiling. The exhibit drew much disagreement as to what it takes to get to the top with some arguing it was \"a slap in the face to businesses\". The \"Wall Street Journal\" noted that \u201cThey could give some thought to installing it (Corporate Ladder) bottom end up.\u201d Checkmate (1992), a.k.a. \"\u014cte\" in Japanese, continued Massey's social critiques. Sculpted on a gilded chessboard, on one side are disparate Americans including lazy students, a jobless man, in-fighting employees, and scrambling scientists who are \"losing to the disciplined and homogeneous Japanese,\" posed as the opposing threat. A stereotypical sentiment of the era, Massey's creation moved the dialog needle forward in a Tokyo Broadcast System 2-Part Special. Morality/Mortality (1994) is a controversial sculpture offering a graphic window into rape. This was Massey's first national campaign exhibition. A simultaneous, 5-city showing, \"Morality/Mortality\" garnered national headlines, affecting traffic on street-corners in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, and Miami. Each installation included a confrontational artist's note, \u201cThe frequent and undeniable horror of sexual assault dictates that the sculpture be exhibited boldly, forthrightly and"}, {"text": "without apology. ... Few people outside law enforcement officers ever see the immediate aftermath of a sexual assault.\u201d The Los Angeles Times captioned \"Morality/Mortality\", \u201cA Public Forum for a Private Horror.\u201d Los Angeles Times' Suzanne Muchnic editorialized, \"Artist Ed Massey and feminist activist Peg Yorkin have joined forces to provoke a coast-to-coast discussion,\" and \"Massey is a veteran of socially critical art.\" In the Image (2019) is a 7-foot sculpture of a homeless man draped in baggy clothes that was displayed in Santa Monica, California. The statue is for the public to, \"contemplate their view and elevate their discourse on the issue.\" John Phillips of KABC/AM790 editorialized in the Los Angeles Daily News that, \"The sculpture is actually the perfect monument to the \"slactivism\" exhibited by our local leaders.\" Paintings. Syncopation (2004) is a 7,500 square foot, 11-section mural that beautified the Culver City Gateway community outside of Sony Pictures Studios and Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles, California from 2004 to 2012. Called a \u201csignature visual landmark\u201d by The San Francisco Gate, \"Syncopation\" was created using mops as paintbrushes. When the mural was scheduled for demolition by property redevelopment, the Westside Neighborhood School won the bid to carefully relocate"}, {"text": "the mural to their new educational facility in Del Rey, California. Inertia in Motion on Sunset Boulevard (2011) injects color and dimension to the Chabad-Lubavitch Community Center. Located in Pacific Palisades, California, Massey's 120 foot-long mural adorns the building's entrance. The San Francisco Chronicle said the mural \u201cunleash[es] a new hip look\u201d to the former Getty-Trust property, \u201ca colorburst on the Sunset Boulevard fa\u00e7ade to greet drivers, joggers, walkers, and Chabad visitors.\u201d Portraits of Hope. Portraits of Hope (POH) (1995), co-founded by the Massey brothers, began as a volunteer-driven, non-profit, creative art-therapy program for children in pediatric facilities. A collaborative effort for social good, \"Portraits of Hope\" started with hospital visits and grew to an ongoing, large-scale, social-art experience. \"Portraits of Hope\" has completed over 15 projects including 1997's \"Tower of Hope\" and \"Summer of Color\". 2019 projects include the \"Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center\" mural for a suicide crisis facility, and \"Shaping LA\". Massey holds several patented and/or patent-pending art brushes developed to enable painting for children who have difficulty using a hand-held paintbrush. Massey's 1995 children's book, \"Milton,\" deals with youthful imagination and creativity. This book, along with his second publication, \"Jedlo: Defender of the Deep\", were the"}, {"text": "impetuses for Portraits of Hope. Personal life. In 1998 Massey married Dawn Harris. The couple have two children."}, {"text": "The 1900\u201301 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1900\u201301 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Walter Kelly, coaching in his second season with the Christians."}, {"text": "The 1901\u201302 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1901\u201302 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Walter Kelly, coaching in his third season with the Christians."}, {"text": "The 2012 FA Challenge Cup was the 45th edition of the FA Challenge Cup, Botswana's premier football knockout tournament. It was sponsored by Coca-Cola and was known as the Coca-Cola Cup for sponsorship reasons. It started with the extra preliminary round on 24 March 2012 and concluded with the final on 5 August 2012. The winner qualified for the 2013 CAF Confederation Cup. Botswana Premier League side Extension Gunners were the defending champions but were eliminated by BDF XI in the round of 16. Gaborone United went on to win the title for a sixth time, matching Township Rollers's record for most FA Cup wins."}, {"text": "Chari Wanda Hawkins (born May 21, 1991) is an American track and field athlete who competes in combined events. She won the 2022 U.S. Indoor Pentathlon title and has represented the U.S. in the heptathlon at the 2019 World Championships, finishing 12th, and at the 2023 World Championships, finishing 8th. Early life and education. Hawkins is from Rexburg, Idaho. She attended Madison High School. She studied family consumer science at Utah State. On a Santander scholarship, she completed a Master of Arts in International Education and Globalisation at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom in 2018. Athletics career. University. Utah State. After leaving high school in 2010, Hawkins joined the Utah State University Aggies track and field, where she would compete from 2011 to 2015. While at Utah State, she qualified for three NCAA Outdoor Championships in the heptathlon placing 11th in 2013, 9th in 2014, and 14th in 2015. She also competed at two NCAA Indoor Championships in the pentathlon, placing 14th in 2014 and 9th in 2015. Bath. While pursuing her Masters degree, Hawkins represented TeamBath in British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) competitions, winning long jump gold and 100m hurdles silver. She broke a 30-year"}, {"text": "record when she won the heptathlon title at the 2018 England Athletics Combined Events Championships. Professional. 2016. In April 2016, Hawkins set a heptathlon personal best of 5878 at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, California. Later that year, she competed at the US Olympic Trials, placing 15th. 2019. With a third place finish of 6230 at the 2019 USATF Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, Hawkins qualified for the 2019 World Championships in Doha, where she would go on to place 12th. 2022. At the 2022 USATF Indoor Championships, she won her first national title, setting a Pentathlon personal best of 4492 and qualifying for the World Indoor Championships. At World Indoors in Belgrade, she recorded a no mark in the long jump and did not complete the pentathlon. In June, she earned recognition by USATF for Athlete of the Week for her first-place finish in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold event held in Arona, Spain where she achieved a personal best with 6,243 points. 2023. In 2023, she made her return to the global championships with an 8th place finish in the Heptathlon at the World Championships in Budapest. 2024. In March 2024, Hawkins"}, {"text": "placed 7th at the World Indoor Championships. At the US Olympic Trials she achieved a personal best in three events, and a new overall best score of 6,456 points, to place 2nd. During the second event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, in the High jump, Hawkins failed to clear her first height of 1.71 metres, and scored zero points, putting her out of contention for a Heptathlon medal. She ended up finishing 21st, which was last of all the athletes who completed the seven events. 2025. In 2025 Chari ran the London Marathon, changing course after a rough Olympic run. She ran the course in 4:14:30, placing 6670 within the female field and 22142 overall. Personal bests. Outdoor Indoor"}, {"text": "Haddinnet, also transliterated as Hadnet, is a \"tabia\" or municipality in the Dogu'a Tembien district of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. The \"tabia\" centre is in Addi Idaga village, located approximately 6.5 km to the northeast of the \"woreda\" town Hagere Selam. Geography. The \"tabia\" is located on the southern and northern slopes of the Tsili ridge in the northern part of Dogu'a Tembien. The highest peak is Dabba Selama (2630 m a.s.l.) (not to be confounded with the homonymous monastery) and the lowest place along Agefet River (1720 m a.s.l.). Geology. From the higher to the lower locations, the following geological formations are present: Climate. The rainfall pattern shows a very high seasonality with 70 to 80% of the annual rain falling in July and August. Mean temperature in Addi Idaga is 20.4 \u00b0C, oscillating between average daily minimum of 11.5 \u00b0C and maximum of 28.9 \u00b0C. The contrasts between day and night air temperatures are much larger than seasonal contrasts. Springs. As there is very poor baseflow in the permanent rivers, the presence of springs is of utmost importance for the local people. The main springs in the \"tabia\" are: Reservoirs. In this area with rains that last"}, {"text": "only for a couple of months per year, reservoirs of different sizes allow harvesting runoff from the rainy season for further use in the dry season. Overall they suffer from siltation. Yet, they strongly contribute to greening the landscape, either through irrigation or seepage water. Main reservoirs are: Vegetation and exclosures. The \"tabia\" holds several exclosures, areas that are set aside for regreening. Wood harvesting and livestock range are not allowed there. Besides effects on biodiversity, water infiltration, protection from flooding, sediment deposition, carbon sequestration, people commonly have economic benefits from these exclosures through grass harvesting, beekeeping and other non-timber forest products. The local inhabitants also consider it as \u201cland set aside for future generations\u201d. Settlements. The \"tabia\" centre Addi Idaga holds a few administrative offices, a health post, a primary school, and some small shops. Saturday is the market day. There are a few more primary schools across the \"tabia\". The main other populated places are: Agriculture and livelihood. The population lives essentially from crop farming, supplemented with off-season work in nearby towns. The land is dominated by farmlands which are clearly demarcated and are cropped every year. Hence the agricultural system is a permanent upland farming system. The"}, {"text": "farmers have adapted their cropping systems to the spatio-temporal variability in rainfall. Large irrigated lands have been established in Addi Idaga. The youngsters of the \"tabia\" have established wide grasslands on mountain ridges; the grass is mainly sold for thatching. History and culture. History. The history of the \"tabia\" is strongly confounded with the history of Tembien. In the 1930s, during the Italian invasion, Ksad Azef () was an important battlefield during the First Battle of Tembien. It is a place through which the Tembien highlands could relatively easily be accessed when coming from the Gheralta lowlands. The Italians called it Passo Abaro. Italian \"Blackshirt\" soldiers left a memorial stone on top of the nearby Mount Dabba Selama. Religion and churches. Most inhabitants are Orthodox Christians. The following churches are located in the \"tabia\": \"Inda Siwa\", the local beer houses. In the main villages, there are traditional beer houses (\"Inda Siwa\"), often in unique settings, which are a good place for resting and chatting with the local people. The most renown in the \"tabia\" are all located in the \"tabia\" centre Addi Idaga: Roads and communication. The main road Mekelle \u2013 Hagere Selam \u2013 Abiy Addi runs 5\u201310 km south"}, {"text": "of the \"tabia\". People need to walk long distances to catch a bus. Further, a rural access road links most villages to the main asphalt road. Tourism. Its mountainous nature and proximity to Mekelle makes the \"tabia\" fit for tourism. Geotouristic sites. The high variability of geological formations and the rugged topography invites for geological and geographic tourism or \"geotourism\". Geosites in the \"tabia\" include: Birdwatching. Birdwatching (for the species, see the main Dogu'a Tembien page) can be done particularly in exclosures and forests. The Wehabit Sillasie church forest bird-watching site is particularly interesting. Trekking routes. Trekking routes have been established in this \"tabia\". The tracks are not marked on the ground but can be followed using downloaded .GPX files. Accommodation and facilities. The facilities are very basic. One may be invited to spend the night in a rural homestead or ask permission to pitch a tent. Hotels are available in Hagere Selam and Mekelle. More detailed information. For more details on environment, agriculture, rural sociology, hydrology, ecology, culture, etc., see the overall page on the Dogu'a Tembien district."}, {"text": "The 1990 Harlow District Council election took place on 3 May 1990 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since the council's creation in 1973. Election result. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1986 election."}, {"text": "Red Bluff Lake or Red Buff Reservoir is a reservoir in Pecos, Texas. Red Bluff Lake may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Mary Ann Dyer Goodnight (September 12, 1839 \u2013 April 11, 1926) was an American cattlewoman, conservationist, and educator married to prominent Texas rancher and cattleman Charles Goodnight. She was a 1991 inductee of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. Mary Ann is credited with saving the Southern Plains Bison from extinction. Life. Mary Ann (Molly) Goodnight was born Mary Ann Dyer on September 12, 1839, in Madison County, Tennessee. Mary Ann's father, Joel Henry Dyer, fought in the Battle of New Orleans and was the attorney general of West Tennessee. Mary Ann's mother, Susan Lynch Miller, was the granddaughter of William Blount, the first territorial governor of Tennessee. Mary Ann did not have a formal education, as there were no formal schools while growing up in Tennessee. However, Mary Ann was taught by her parents from a young age and knew how to read and write. In 1854, when she was 14, Mary Ann's parents brought her to Belknap, Texas. Not soon after her parents died, then she had to care for her three youngest brothers. Around 1864, she met Charles Goodnight at Fort Belknap. In the 1860s, she taught in Weatherford, Texas. While Mary Ann taught, her"}, {"text": "soon to be husband, Charles, and his cattle partner Oliver Loving created the Goodnight-Loving Trail, which was a cattle drive in the late 1860s for the movement of large herds of Texas Longhorns from Texas to Southern Wyoming. Mary Ann married Charles Goodnight in Hickman, Kentucky at N.P. Harness' home on July 26, 1870. The preacher that officiated the marriage was Rev. N.N. Cowgill of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The Goodnight's went straight from Hickman, KY, to Pueblo, CO to live at the recently established Rock Canon Ranch. Upon their arrival in Pueblo, Mary Ann witnessed two cattle rustlers hung from a telegraph pole by the command of her new husband, Charles. This upset Mary Ann but she persisted and eventually grew fond of her new found home by playing an active role in the community. A devout Methodist, Mary Ann established the first Southern Methodist Church in Pueblo. Ranching. The Goodnight's had a seven-year try at ranching in Pueblo, CO, but soon moved back to Texas after the financial crisis of 1873. Mary Ann was sent to live with relatives in California while Charles plotted his next moves. In 1876, Charles established a partnership with wealthy businessman John George"}, {"text": "Adair. Charles' partnership enabled him to co-found the famous JA Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle in 1876. Mary Ann Goodnight took on several roles while at the JA Ranch. She acted as the ranch manager when Charles was away on business, nursed cowboys back to health with folk medicine, acted as a spiritual advisor for those in troubled times, and patched the cowboys outfits. Beyond her regular chores, Mary Ann convinced her husband Charles to bring her bison calves left behind by buffalo hunters, soon establishing the Goodnight Bison Herd. The Goodnight Bison Herd and its descendants are the last vestige of Southern Plains Bison. They can be found at Caprock Canyon State Park and are known as the Texas State Bison Herd. In 1887, Mary Ann and Charles moved to Armstrong County, Texas. Mary Ann would spend the next 38 years of her life living in the community aptly named for her husband, Goodnight, TX. Death and legacy. In 1888, the Goodnights built the Goodnight Ranch House in Goodnight, Texas. Mary Ann Goodnight assisted in establishing Goodnight College in 1898. Charles and Mary Ann funded 3 million dollars which was used to construct all of"}, {"text": "the buildings on campus. Additionally, Mary Ann advocated for temperance and was against alcohol consumption. In Mary Ann's final years, she suffered from dementia and would often be found wandering the property. Shortly before she died, Mary Ann advocated for Palo Duro Canyon to become a National Park. While this did not happen, the Northern section of the canyon became Palo Duro Canyon State Park. Mary Ann Goodnight died at the Goodnight Ranch on April 11, 1926, in Goodnight, Texas. Charles and Mary Ann's house is located in Armstrong County, Texas, at US 287 and 5000 Block County Road 25. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. Today, their home is known as Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight Ranch State Historic Site and can be toured for a minimal fee."}, {"text": "Tales from the Dark Multiverse is an American superhero/anthology comic book limited series published by DC Comics, beginning on October 16, 2019. The series takes some of the most famous events in the DC Universe and puts a twist on them. Plot. Following the Source Wall being shattered at the end of \"\", the mysterious watcher known as Tempus Fuginaut (introduced in \"Sideways\") begins trying to recruit several \"heroes\" from across the Dark Multiverse in the wake of . \"Batman: Knightfall\". Azrael/Jean-Paul Valley refuses to give back the mantle of Batman to Bruce Wayne and defeats him and the Bat-Family, ruling Gotham City as Saint Batman for 30 years. Bruce, referred to as the Broken, is kept alive, dissected, and tortured as he is forced to watch what Jean-Paul has done to Gotham. With Saint Batman's body failing due to his Venom addiction, Bruce is rescued by the Son of Bane and Lady Shiva and turned into a cyborg. The latter two defeat Saint Batman but Bruce/the Broken, his perception of Gotham warped, kills the two and takes over as Gotham City's new ruler. \"The Death of Superman\". Lois Lane becomes enraged and bitter after the death of her fianc\u00e9"}, {"text": "Superman by Doomsday's hands, believing the world failed him. After meeting the Eradicator, who failed to bring Superman back to life, Lois proposes that the two merge, turning Lois into the Eradicator. Taking extreme measures to 'make the world a better place', along with killing Lex Luthor, the Joker and Batman (as he was about to kill her for being a threat) among others, Lois goes against Cyborg Superman after he kills Superboy and Steel. When the real but now-weaker Superman returns and sees people's fear for Lois, Cyborg Superman prepare to kill the now-reunited couple with a kryptonite cannon. Lois kills the cyborg to protect Superman but the resulting impact unleashes kryptonite gas into the atmosphere which kills Superman. Mourning and guilt-ridden for Superman's death, Lois continues her role as Earth's \"savior\". \"Blackest Night\". Sinestro never had the powers of the White Lantern taken away, leading to Nekron and the Black Lanterns consuming most of the universe. Sinestro, now a Black/White Lantern hybrid called the Limbo Lantern, teams up with Dove, Lobo, and Mister Miracle, the last mortal beings in the universe, in order to recreate the universe with Dove as a template for the new universe. However, when"}, {"text": "Miracle realises that their efforts will just create a new universe and Barda will still be destroyed, he betrays them and Dove is killed, leaving Sinestro to use Lobo as the template instead after Lobo kills Miracle in revenge. However, the result is no better, leaving Sinestro to try and find a way to recreate the universe again, as the one he is in has been taken over by new lifeforms who worship Lobo. Eventually, Sinestro decides to leave that universe to reside in the current universe. Tempus Fuginaut, not wanting that universe to pollute the main universe, uses his powers to leave Sinestro presumably trapped in that universe forever. \"Infinite Crisis\". Ted Kord was not killed by Maxwell Lord and managed to kill the latter instead. Taking control of Brother Eye and Checkmate, Kord tries to bring peace to the universe, with methods deemed questionable by his long-time friend Booster Gold and Batman. Alexander Luthor of Earth-3 tries to get Kord to ally with him and destroy multiple Earths to create a single perfect one, but Kord refuses, resulting in Luthor killing the Earth-2 Superman and Lois Lane when they discover the truth, but then being killed himself by"}, {"text": "Superboy-Prime. Kord teams up with Superboy-Prime and realizes that the only way to bring true peace is to convert everyone into OMACs. Donning a Blue Beetle/Anti-Monitor hybrid armor and turning himself into an OMAC-inspired cybernetically-enhanced entity with Brother Eye installed into the system, Kord, now dubbing himself as OBAC (One-Beetle-Army-Corps), achieves his plans, at the cost of the lives of several Teen Titan members and Booster Gold. \"Teen Titans: The Judas Contract\". On the night Dick Grayson gives up being Robin, he has a private discussion with Terra and empathizes with her. He tells her that having a mentor can sometimes limit one's ability to forge their own path. Terra reports to Deathstroke shortly afterwards, who reprimands her for opening up to Dick. Inspired by Dick to become more independent, she murders Deathstroke in retaliation and forces Wintergreen to inject her with the same serum that gave Deathstroke his powers. Now calling herself Gaia and viewing herself as a goddess, Terra uses her heightened abilities to murder the Teen Titans, reduce their headquarters to rubble and destroy most of the world by destabilizing Earth's core. Robin and Kid Flash keep Gaia at bay long enough for Superman to arrive, but"}, {"text": "even the Man of Steel is no match for her, thanks to Gaia's control over kryptonite. After killing Changeling, the last person to care about her, Gaia rules over the broken Earth and forces the survivors to live in constant fear. \"Batman: Hush\". The Elliots are the ones who raise Bruce Wayne instead of Alfred Pennyworth after Bruce's parents are killed. When Thomas Elliot's parents die in a car crash, he grows up to become a senator and the CEO of Wayne Enterprises thanks to connections from his girlfriend, Talia al Ghul, the head of the League of Assassins. With the help of Gotham's other elites, they turn Gotham into a militaristic city-state, leading Barbara Gordon to form a rebellion group called the Outsiders after the corrupt police force murdered her father. He also had Bruce committed to Arkham Asylum with help from the facility's lead scientist, Jonathan Crane. During the midst of a power struggle between the League of Assassins and the Court of Owls in the city, Crane and several other members of Gotham's elite are attacked and kidnapped by a man in a bat costume covered in bandages. Thomas initially receives protection from President Lincoln March's head"}, {"text": "of security from the Court of Owls, Richard Grayson, but the latter turns on him after realizing he and the Batman are connected and that Thomas was making a play for the Wayne family's fortune and presidency. The two are then captured by the Batman, who takes them to an underground prison with Gotham's other elite. Thomas is attacked by the masked man, known as the Silenced, who is revealed to be an insane Bruce Wayne. With Alfred's help, Bruce found out that Thomas had orchestrated the deaths of both of their parents as well as Jim Gordon's. Bruce and Alfred planted a handyman named Jack Napier in Arkham to fake Bruce's death and give him access to several inmates that taught him how to be a skilled warrior. He keeps Thomas and the rest of Gotham's elite in cages that are monitored by Jack and the now-delusional Alfred, who is set to inherit Wayne Industries. Talia begins dating March, and the Silenced sets his sights on taking down the Court of Owls and League of Assassins next. \"War of the Gods\". After the War of the Gods, Wonder Woman is possessed by the magic goddess Hecate, but manages to"}, {"text": "trap her in her subconsciousness. Phobos, a servant of Hecate, orchestrates an attack on Themyscira and the deaths of Diana's loved ones, causing an emotional response that allows Hecate to take over. Under Hecate's control, she declares war on both the Gods of Olympus and humanity's new gods: superheroes. Diana is eventually defeated by Earth's magic users, but remains under Hecate's control, imprisoned under Themyscira, while, as a respond because of the latter, women around the globe are turned into second-class citizens and slaves, and the US government begins a manhunt for the remaining superheroes. \"Flashpoint\". When Barry Allen attempts to restore his powers to undo the Flashpoint timeline, he dies in the process and Eobard Thawne takes his place and begins to reshape the world as he desires. After he blackmails the President to grant him authority by killing Aquaman to end the war, Thawne is nearly defeated by 'Superman', only for Superman to be killed by Batman so that Thawne may someday bring Bruce back to life. When Wonder Woman reappears with the New Gods of Apokolips as her gods, Thawne runs back in time to save the Waynes as a deal with Thomas, and then turns his"}, {"text": "attention to trying to reconstruct reality to make himself the hero. \"Crisis on Infinite Earths\". After the Anti-Monitor\u2019s defeat, the Justice League are trapped fighting in Ragnar\u00f6k. The Justice Society and All-Star Squadron come in to rescue the team, but are outmatched by Surtur. Alan Scott sacrifices himself by becoming the pawn of Surtur known as the Dread Lantern, leading Surtur to other worlds in exchange for sparing Earth. \"Dark Nights: Metal\". When the Justice League band together with Element X, the energy corrupts them and they become the Dragons of Barbatos. Barbatos then conquers the multiverse, leaving only Duke Thomas alive. Thomas assembles a new Justice League, consisting of Detective Chimp, Barry Allen/Flash, Hawkgirl, Hawkman, Nightwing, and the Joker. They band together and defeat the Dragons of Barbatos. Thomas absorbs the deathwave energy, becoming the Last Knight, and confronts Tempus Fuginaut. Critical reception. The entire crossover received generally positive reviews and received an average score of 7.5 out of 10 based on 147 reviews."}, {"text": "Tsigaba may refer to:"}, {"text": "Annissa Essaibi George (born December 12, 1973) is an American politician who served as an at-large member of the Boston City Council. First elected in 2015, she served on the council from 2016 to 2022. She was a candidate in the 2021 Boston mayoral election. She placed second in the nonpartisan primary, but was defeated in the general election by fellow city councilor Michelle Wu. Since November 2022, Essaibi George has served as the president of the Board of Directors of the nonprofit organization Big Sister Boston. Born and raised in Boston, Essaibi George began her career as a student services liaison at the Boston Private Industry Council. After receiving a master's in education, she later entered the field of education and worked as a social studies teacher at East Boston High School. A Democrat, Essaibi George entered electoral politics by running unsuccessfully for an at-large seat on the Boston City Council in 2013. Two years later, she won election to an at-large seat in the 2015 Boston City Council election. She was reelected to the Boston City Council in both 2017 and 2019. On the Boston City Council, she was regarded to be an ally of Mayor Marty Walsh,"}, {"text": "who had been an acquaintance of Essaibi George dating back to their childhoods. Having been first elected on a social services-centered platform, Essaibi George undertook work in that realm. She founded the Boston City Council's Homelessness, Mental Health, and Recovery Committee in 2016, which was later disestablished by in 2020 during the council presidency of Kim Janey to the disagreement of Essaibi George. Essaibi George organized needle clean-up drives. She opposed the idea of the city establishing supervised consumption sites (in the mold of supervised injection sites) as a response to public safety concerns regarding drug use. Martin J. Valencia of \"The Boston Globe\" partially credited Essaibi George's advocacy as a city councilor as contributing to the city acting to supply each of the city's public schools with a full-time social worker and a full-time nurse. In January 2021, Essaibi George announced her candidacy in that year's election for mayor of Boston. Her candidacy was considered centrist in comparison to that of the other leading candidates. She placed second in the election's nonpartisan primary, outperforming then-acting mayor Kim Janey and other candidates including Andrea Campbell and John Barros. She faced Michelle Wu in the general election, and was defeated by"}, {"text": "Wu by a landslide. Early life. Annissa Essaibi George was born on December 12, 1973, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents met while studying in Paris. Her mother was born to Polish parents in a displaced persons camp in Germany but grew up in Boston. Her father, Ezzeddine, was from Tunisia. They relocated to the United States in 1972, settling in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. Essaibi George and her three siblings were raised Catholic while her father was a practicing Muslim. After graduating from Boston Technical High School (now the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics & Science), Essaibi George attended Bentley College, a business school in Waltham, Mass., for two years, before transferring to Boston University, where she was a political science major. While in college, she interned in the Washington, D.C., office of Max Baucus. After graduating from B.U., she worked as the student services liaison at the Boston Private Industry Council. She continued her education by earning a master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, later teaching social studies electives at East Boston High School from 2001 to 2014. Unsuccessful 2013 city council campaign. Essaibi George is affiliated with the Democratic Party. She first ran"}, {"text": "unsuccessfully for Boston City Council in the 2013 election for at-large seats. The editorial board of \"The Boston Globe\" opted not to endorse her 2013 candidacy, instead endorsing incumbent councilor Ayanna Pressley, former councilor Michael F. Flaherty, and first-time candidates Michelle Wu and Jack Kelly. The editorial board opined on her, City council tenure. Essaibi George became an at-large member of the Boston City Council in January 2016 after she was elected in the 2015 election. She was re-elected in both November 2017 and November 2019. While on the City Council, Essaibi George was considered an ally of then-Mayor Marty Walsh, whom she has known since childhood. Essaibi George chaired committees, including both the Committee on Education and the Committee on Homelessness, Mental Health, and Recovery. Essaibi George's successful 2015 campaign, which first elected her to the Boston City Council, focused on social services, including mental health counseling and services for the homeless. In 2016, she established the council's Homelessness, Mental Health, and Recovery committee. She was critical of Kim Janey's move in 2020, as city council president, to disestablish this committee. For several years, Essaibi George proposed ordinances requiring pharmacies to provide safe sharps waste disposal. An ordinance sponsored"}, {"text": "by Essaibi George that requires pharmacy chains with more than three locations in the city to do so was passed unanimously by the City Council in October 2020. Essaibi George also organized needle clean-up drives. In 2019, Essaibi George expressed her disapproval for the prospect of creating supervised consumption sites (in the mold of supervised injection sites) in response to drug use in the city. In 2019, Essaibi George advocated for the city to place a full-time social worker and a full-time nurse in every public school. The city, ultimately, implemented this, with Martin J. Valencia of \"The Boston Globe\" later attributing this, in part, to her advocacy on the matter. In 2016, Essaibi George pressed the city to lessen the amount of geese in city parks, expressing concern over the amount of feces geese were leaving. Essaibi George was an early supporter of Ayanna Pressley's successful 2018 Democratic primary election challenge to incumbent U.S. Congressman Mike Capuano. During the Democratic primary election of Massachusetts' 2020 United States Senate election, Essaibi George endorsed incumbent Ed Markey's ultimately successful reelection campaign over the candidacy of challenger Joe Kennedy III. Essaibi George was involved in efforts to have the city hire additional"}, {"text": "licensed social workers to work alongside first responders in addressing 911 calls related to mental health problems and similar matters. In 2021, she voted against legislation that was passed by the City Council to restrict the use of rubber bullets, tear gas, and pepper spray by the Boston Police Department. In early 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she partnered with fellow city councilor Michelle Wu to propose a measure that would provide paid leave to municipal employees that feel ill after receiving the vaccine. In July 2021, amid her mayoral campaign, Essaibi George denied allegations made in an investigative article published in \"The Boston Globe\" that she had used her office to try to prevent the construction of a building that would block the views of a building owned by her husband, a real estate developer. If the allegations are true, they pose a potential violation of a state conflict of interest law. In September 2021, a resolution authored by Councilor Lydia Edwards and co-sponsored by Essaibi George and Michelle Wu was passed by the City Council. The ordinance extends paid child leave for municipal employees to all forms of pregnancy loss, including abortion. The ordinance was signed into law"}, {"text": "by Acting Mayor Kim Janey soon after. Mayoral campaign. On January 27, 2021, Essaibi George confirmed that she would run in the 2021 Boston mayoral election, considered a \"wide open\" race due to the then-expected confirmation of Mayor Walsh as United States Secretary of Labor; Walsh was confirmed to his Cabinet post in March. Essaibi George was often described as a \"centrist\" or \"moderate\" candidate in comparison to the other candidates. Among her endorsers is former Boston police chief William G. Gross, who is also heading one of the two super PACs that backed her candidacy in the nonpartisan primary. That super PAC received $495,000 from New Balance owner and longtime Republican donor Jim Davis, who in 2016 contributed nearly $400,000 to the Trump Victory PAC. Her ties to pro-Trump groups resulted in some of her critics characterizing her as aligned with Trump or Republicans, characterizations which Essaibi George repudiated. In the preliminary election on September 14, her campaign placed second with 22.4% of the vote, outperforming acting mayor Kim Janey and several other challengers to advance to the general election with first-place winner Michelle Wu, who earned 33.4% of the vote. While Walsh did not endorse a candidate, Essaibi"}, {"text": "George was regarded to be closely aligned with the popular former mayor's brand of political ideology. Her platform was more in line with those Walsh had twice won election on, being more moderate than Wu's. Promoting herself as being a pragmatic centrist, Essaibi George criticized Wu's policy approach as \"abstract\" and \"academic\". Essaibi George also sought to appeal towards trade union-aligned voters, who had played a major role in Walsh's electoral victories. During her campaign, she often touted her experience as an educator. Essaibi George was often described as a police-friendly candidate compared to her opponents. On public safety and law enforcement, Essaibi George supported police reform. However, she was the only one of the election's five major candidates to oppose cutting the Boston Police Department's budget. She expressed her belief that the city needed to increase the size of its police force. Her public safety platform also touted community policing as being a means to address shortcomings in the city. Essaibi George's campaign platform described gun violence as a \"racial justice issue, a public health issue and a public safety issue\". Ellen Barry of \"The New York Times\" described Essaibi George as promising \"more harmonious dealings\" with real estate"}, {"text": "developers than her opponents. Barry described Essaibi George's stances on development as one of the two greatest contrasts between her and her general election opponent Wu, who took stances on development and housing (such as Wu's support of rent control and dissolving the Boston Planning & Development Agency) that Essaibi George had criticized as strongly detrimental to development in the city. The other greatest contrast between Essaibi George and Wu, per Barry's opinion, was their aforementioned differences on whether to make cuts to police funding. On September 21, Essaibi George publicly urged super PACs to refrain from involvement in the general election. Her opponent Wu, the following day, made public remarks that only urged super PACs to refrain from \"negative\" campaigning. Essaibi George's public demand for super PACs to avoid involvement in the election came in the aftermath of the \"Dorchester Reporter\" revealing Jim Davis' contributions to one of the super PACs supporting her candidacy. In the general election, Essaibi George placed emphasis on the fact that she is a native Bostonian. Her opponent, Wu, was originally from Chicago. During a radio interview, Essaibi George declared her belief that it was \"relevant\" that she was a native Bostonian. After these"}, {"text": "remarks, some analysts pointed out that, per the United States Census Bureau, 57% of Bostonians were born outside of the state of Massachusetts. In addition, Essaibi George touted herself as having a different leadership style than her opponent, claiming that she makes herself more available to residents and community leaders. However, an early September 2021 poll had shown that more of the primary election's likely voters recalled having personally met Wu than had recalled having personally met Essaibi George. Essaibi George embarked on a \"listen and learn\" tour of various Boston neighborhoods, which she claimed would inform her \"equity, inclusion and justice agenda\". She released the resulting agenda on October 8. Essaibi George faced a landslide defeat by Wu in the general election. In her victory speech, Wu praised Essaibi George as having been \"incredibly gracious\" when conceding defeat, and expressed her hope that Essaibi George would, \"continue to be a strong partner\" in her efforts for Bostonians. Post-City Council career. In 2022, Essaibi George returned to her roots of teaching, working as a substitute teacher in Boston's public schools. She did so amid a shortage of substitute teachers in the city's schools. In April 2022, amid the 2022 Russian"}, {"text": "invasion of Ukraine, Essaibi George made a humanitarian trip to Poland to provide supplies to refugees near the Polish-Ukrainian border. In October 2022, Essaibi George was appointed president and chief operating officer of Big Sister Boston by the nonprofit's board of directors. She began her tenure on November 28, 2022. Personal life. Essaibi George is the founder and owner of a retail store in Dorchester called Stitch House, which sells yarn and fabrics and offers classes in knitting, sewing, quilting and crochet. She is married to Doug George, a real estate developer. She and her husband have four sons, including a set of triplets. Electoral history. City council. write-in votes"}, {"text": "Jaime Reyes is a goofy-footed American skateboarder from Hawaii. Reyes is a pioneer in women's street skating. As of 2020, Reyes is one of only three women to grace the cover of Thrasher Magazine and has been inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. Skateboarding. Early life. Growing up in Hawaii in the early 1990s, Reyes was an avid surfer. At age 13, Reyes cut class one day to go to the beach to surf; however, there were no waves, so Reyes wandered around and ran into a group of skateboarders. Amazed by the skateboarding, Reyes befriended the skaters. She rode a skateboard for the first time that day. Skateboarding career. Reyes' first competition was hosted by the Real skateboard team at A'Ala Park. Reyes, the only girl at the event, won first place for her age group. After the event, Real began flowing Reyes boards. During her early competitive career, Reyes was often one of few women competing alongside Elissa Steamer and Lauren Mollica. Reyes got the cover of Thrasher in April 1994. In the years that came, Reyes obtained many nationwide sponsorship deals throughout her career including Real Skateboards, Alphanumeric, Rookie, Evian Water, Bones Swiss Bearings, Supreme, In4mation,"}, {"text": "Globe and Venture. In 2019, Reyes released a signature deck with the skate company \"Together Together.\" The \u201cchosen ohana\u201d model features artwork by Mark Oblow. Reyes was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in May, 2025. Thrasher magazine cover. Jaime Reyes graced the cover of the April 1994 issue of Thrasher magazine. She was the second woman after Cara-Beth Burnside and also the first person of color and the first street skater to appear on the cover of Thrasher. The cover was her first time being published in a skate magazine. Jim Thiebaud, Tommy Guerrero, and Ruben Orkin set her up with a photographer. Reyes cut class to shoot with the photographer. Two months later, the photo was published on the cover of Thrasher. A copy of her cover is in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History collection. Coaching. Reyes works with Max Pfannebecker and Triangle Skateboard Alliance teaching young children how to skateboard. Reyes has been a visiting professional at Camp Woodward in Pennsylvania."}, {"text": "Rose Thurgood (born ) was an English religious writer, known as the author of one of the earliest English conversion narratives, \"A Lecture of Repentance\" (1637/8). \"A Lecture of Repentance\" follows Thurgood's fall from a member of the king's court, to a woman in financial destitution, through the financial tumult of her \"bad husband\", and the following religious awakening. Presented in an epistolary and autobiographical format, the \"Lecture\" exhibits how Thurgood reacted to her change in fortune within her religion: opening with a revitalisation in religious zeal, she subsequently begins to \"rage & swell\" at God's judgement of her, then fearing herself damned for her \"debt bill\" of sins. During this despair, she encounters the religious dissenters, John Bull and Richard Farnham who preach the lack of agency of man on his fate, before God's divine grace and judgement. Initially outraged at their opinions, Thurgood comes to accept them. With her financial troubles continuing, and struck with a \"burning fever\", Thurgood finds herself receiving a revelation from God, pronouncing her one of his chosen few. The \"Lecture\" then concludes, with her poverty unrelieved but content in her knowledge that, though she has little, God \"hath [...] given mee Christ\". The"}, {"text": "\"Lecture\" has been the subject of some scholarship, much from Naomi Baker. It status as a \"unique opportunity to hear the voice of a seventeenth-century woman living in extreme poverty\", has been examined. With this, he accompanying evidence of the lives of lower-class Puritans has been discussed: referring to the way these dissenters would have read the Bible, understood Calvinist theories of agency, and reconciled their femininity within religion. Biography. Rose Thurgood was born around 1602, as one of seven children. She later associated with the Colchester prophets Richard Farnham and John Bull, perhaps suggesting an origin in the Essex town. With no less than three elder sisters, she learned fine needlework while young and took an interest in contemporary fashion. She apparently associated with the king's court, socialising with its \"Knights and Ladies, of great account\". After her marriage, and the birth of at least four children (the eldest, named Mary), Thurgood's high social status decayed, as she and her family began to regress into \"extreame povertie and want\". The precise cause or timing of this bereavement is not given, with Thurgood blaming it on her \"bad husband\", but the turbulent economic climate of the early-17th-century would have made"}, {"text": "such financial fluctuations typical. She was forced into work as her husband sold off his \"land and living\", leaving her and her children hungry. This extreme turn in fortune made her question God's benevolence or existence, leading a personal experience with radical Nonconformist preachers, and later self-proclaimed prophets, John Bull and Richard Farnham. Thurgood eventually reconciled her faith with an ascetic view towards her material privation. Thurgood later, in her \"Lecture\", pointed to a \"sweet flash\" on 4 November 1635/6 as the turning point of her faith, likely upon prompting from millenarian preachers to identify such a divine revelation. By 1636/7 she composed the \"Lecture of Repentance\", which she is now best known for, and is the main source of her life. After this point, nothing is known of her life. \"A Lecture of Repentance\" (1636/7). Content. \"A Lecture of Repentance\" is Thurgood's only surviving work, presented as a conversion narrative in an epistolary form. The \"Lecture\" is introduced as a letter from Thurgood to her mother, who she had not seen for ten years, later adding to this address, her \"sisters & friends or whatsoever thou art\". The \"Lecture\" was transcribed by an 'E. A.' (possibly Elizabeth Addington, wife"}, {"text": "of John Bull, Thurgood's spiritual advisor.) in a volume of transcriptions, now preserved in John Rylands Library, Manchester. This volume also contains another early Puritan conversion narrative, by Cicely Johnson, and several petitions of Richard Farnham. According to early modern literature scholar, Abigail Shinn, \"Thurgood may have been somewhat restricted from publishing due to their gender and [...] social class\". Thurgood's narrative is one of the earliest surviving examples of an English conversion narrative. The narrative of the \"Lecture\" concerns Thurgood's fall into poverty, loss of faith, and subsequent Puritan awakening and reconciliation. She briefly touches on a time in London, where she \"worke fine workes with [her] needle\" and mingled \"not with people of themeaner sort, but with them, that belonged to the kings court\", \"knights and Ladies of great account\". The narrative is thereon predominated by her \"bad husband\", who unwisely sells off his land, leaving her family in poverty, and how \"the poorer hee was the worse hee was\". Living in \"extreame povertie and want\", Thurgood declined into requiring her own \"poore labours\" to feed her, now malnourished, young children, dreading their starvation. She begins by \"goe[ing] to Church oftner than I was wont to doe\" but"}, {"text": "eventually, this despair is realised in frustration with God: Thurgood, heaped upon with financial calamity, begins to see \"a garison of Devills gaping with open mouth for mee\", believing her fated damnation, as the \"Devill came with my debt bill, and my whole debt was to paye\", with her fortune as recompense for her sins. She records that, after this, and two years before she composed the narrative, she came across the religious dissenters, Bull and Farnham, who preached a radical Calvinist doctrine of the believer as powerless before God, with God solely responsible for their fate and conversion, and allowing \"noe doubting\" of God. They told Thurgood: Thurgood's immediate response was outrage at these Nonconformist teachings but she eventually came to internalise them: \"Theise and such words would they saye when I talked with them, but now I cared not what they said to mee, though I were angry before with them: for now my desire was to understand and knowe the Grounds of Religion\". This despair continued for a year after her exposure to this radical doctrine, going as far to threatening to \"goe from my husband\" to an incredulous neighbour. Thurgood recalls one particular episode where she"}, {"text": "lay in bed with a \"burning fever\", tormented by the cries of her malnourished family, and feeling as if she could 'not abide this life any longer'. However, at 8 AM, on 4 November 1635/6, she experienced a revelation, as she \"felt a sweet Flash coming over my heart, and suddenly withall theise words were pronounced in my heart: Thy name is written in the booke of Life: Thou hast that white stone, and a newe name\" - indicating her status as one of the chosen few of God. The \"Lecture\" concludes with Thurgood content, though without material improvement. She summarises that: \"though God hath taken from mee my wealth and sent mee povertie; yet hath hee given mee Christ and through him I receive all fulns [fullness]\". She thanks those who have given her financial support, in feeding the \"hard & hungrie stomaks\" of her family. Scholarship. The exceptionally low social status of a surviving English author has been remarked upon. According to Naomi Baker, a major scholar of Thurgood's work, Rose Thurgood's narrative is remarkable in giving \"a rare and fascinating glimpse into the lives of puritan women in the early decades of the seventeenth century\", \"particularly significant"}, {"text": "as an almost unique opportunity to hear the voice of a seventeenth-century woman living in extreme poverty\"; \"economic desperation was by no means an exceptional experience in England in the first decades of the seventeenth century, yet texts articulating the agony of a woman who 'could not abide this life any longer' because she 'would not live to see [her] children starve' are extremely rare from this period\". Baker has published several critical analyses of Thurgood's \"Lecture of Repentance\", often alongside Cicely Johnson's similar conversion narrative. Baker cites Thurgood's concurrent use of the Geneva Bible and King James Bible as evidence of \"a somewhat more complicated picture of the use of the two versions of the Bible by English Puritans\" than had previously been considered. Baker also discusses the \"teleological structure\" Thurgood presents of her life, autobiography allowing her to \"impose an artificial coherence onto material events\", with its structure pivoted on her divine revelation, and all prior narration leading up to it. In a 2004 paper, Baker examines the \"concepts of agency\" in Thurgood's work, seeing it through the lens of Calvinism and the concomitant \"death of the self\", with Thurgood's ideas testifying \"that historically constrained subjectivities, even those"}, {"text": "structured around the 'death' of the self, are not synonymous with a lack of agency\"."}, {"text": "Cassandra Khaw (born 31 August 1984) is a Malaysian writer of horror and science fiction. They also create video games and tabletop games, and formerly wrote about them as a games and tech journalist. Biography. Cassandra Khaw was born in Malaysia on 31 August 1984 as Zoe Khaw Joo Ee. They work as a horror and science fiction writer for video games, tabletop RPGs, short stories and novels. Their articles and stories have been published in such magazines as Tor.com, \"Clarkesworld\", \"Fireside Fiction\", \"Uncanny Magazine\", and \"Nature\". Their video game writing appears in \"Eurogamer\", \"Ars Technica\", \"The Verge\" and \"Engadget\". Khaw works for Ubisoft as a scriptwriter. Khaw has stated they use they/them pronouns."}, {"text": "The Prince J\u00f3zef Poniatowski Park in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a (Polish: \"Park im. ksi\u0119cia J\u00f3zefa Poniatowskiego w \u0141odzi\") is a park in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland located between \u017beromskiego, Mickiewicza, Jana Paw\u0142a II and Parkowa Streets. The area of the park is . It was named in honour of Polish general and statesman Prince J\u00f3zef Poniatowski (1763\u20131813). History. It was created in 1910 on the initiative of the city authorities, in the areas of the former city forests, reaching much further north than the current park (they included, among others, the areas of the current hospital, church, and film studio). The old name was \"Garden on Pa\u0144ska Street\". From 1917 the park was named after Prince Poniatowski. The area of the park has decreased over the years. First, a military hospital was established on the corner of Anna (now Mickiewicza) and Pa\u0144ska (ul. \u017beromskiego), and in 1925 the construction of the Church of Our Lady of Victory began at the intersection of \u0141\u0105kowa and Anna streets. In the 1970s, the park was trimmed with a wide strip of present Mickiewicza Avenue and currently has a shape similar to a rectangle. The southern border is marked out by Parkowa and Radwa\u0144ska streets. From the west, Jana"}, {"text": "Paw\u0142a II Avenue, and from the east \u017beromskiego Street. The latter is also where the most representative entrance to the park is located. There are two war cemeteries in the park. The park has an original spatial plan, symmetrical and regular, with alleys, corners, and lawns. The plan of the park combined elements of a natural English park and a French park shaped by the gardener's hand. The interior on the east-west axis remains an open space with low greenery. The remaining one is overgrown by the stand, which is partly a remnant of the city forests. To fulfill the designer's idea, one and a half thousand coniferous trees were cut down in a few years and nearly 100,000 trees and shrubs planted in their place. Garden at Pa\u0144ska (former name of \u017beromskiego Street) was unlucky from the beginning, in 1910 the plague of wild rabbits caused great damage, then the park was fenced. During World War I it was open to the public. At the time, because of hunger, potatoes were grown instead of flowers. In subsequent years, playgrounds were built, and children's leisure activities were organized, including slide and sledging, a pond was dug and a hill was"}, {"text": "dug out of the excavated soil. At the end of the 1920s, a residential villa was built for the city president, in the following years a bridge and gazebo by the pond, as well as a Jordanian garden. In 1938, a monument to Stanis\u0142aw Moniuszko was erected on the main axis of the park, unfortunately, destroyed by the Germans a year later. During World War II, the Germans closed the park for Poles and Jews, and most of the conifers that remained from the city forests were cut down, the perennial garden was also liquidated, and tennis courts were built in its place (currently the Municipal Tennis Club). During the war, the bottom of the pond was also destroyed, which was not rebuilt until 1957. A reminder of the war are two cemeteries of Soviet soldiers killed in January 1945. On 18th of November 1945 the new communist authorities erected monument of gratitude to the Red Army on the site of an earlier monument of Moniuszko. The monument was eventually demolished in 1993 after several coffins which were underneath had been transferred in November 1992 to a small military cemetery in the park."}, {"text": "Italy was set to be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. The winner of the \" section of the 70th Sanremo Festival, Diodato with \", would have represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, which was planned to be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. However, the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Background. Prior to the 2020 Contest, Italy had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty-five times since its first entry during the inaugural contest in 1956. Since then, Italy has won the contest on two occasions: in 1964 with the song \" performed by Gigliola Cinquetti and in 1990 with the song \" performed by Toto Cutugno. Italy has withdrawn from the Eurovision Song Contest a number of times with their most recent absence spanning from 1998 until 2010. Their return in 2011 with the song \"Madness of Love\", performed by Raphael Gualazzi, placed second\u2014their highest result, to this point, since their victory in 1990. In the 2019 edition, Mahmood represented Italy with the song \", placing second with 472 points. Between 2011 and 2013, the broadcaster used the Sanremo Music Festival as an artist selection pool where a special committee would select one"}, {"text": "of the competing artist, independent of the results in the competition, as the Eurovision entrant. The selected entrant was then responsible for selecting the song they would compete with. For 2014, RAI forwent using the Sanremo Music Festival artist lineup and internally selected their entry. Since 2015, the winning artist of the Sanremo Music Festival is rewarded with the opportunity to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, although in 2016 the winner declined and the broadcaster appointed the runner-up as the Italian entrant. Before Eurovision. Sanremo Music Festival 2020. Italian broadcaster RAI confirmed that the performer that would represent Italy at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest would be selected from the competing artists at the Sanremo Music Festival 2020. According to the rules of Sanremo 2020, the winner of the festival earns the right to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, but in case the artist is not available or refuses the offer, the organisers of the event reserve the right to choose another participant via their own criteria. The competition took place between 4 and 8 February 2020 with the winner being selected on the last day of the festival. Twenty four artists competed in Sanremo 2020."}, {"text": "Among the competing artists were former Eurovision Song Contest entrants Raphael Gualazzi and Francesco Gabbani, who represented Italy in 2011 and 2017 respectively. Additionally, Elodie's song was co-written by Mahmood, who represented Italy in 2019. On 7 February, Bugo and Morgan were disqualified for failing to deliver their performance during the fourth evening. Final. The 23 Big Artists each performed their entry again for a final time on 8 February 2020. A combination of public televoting (34%), press jury voting (33%) and expert jury voting (33%) selected the top three to face a superfinal vote, then the winner of Sanremo 2020 was decided. Diodato was declared the winner of the contest with the song \". At Eurovision. The Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was to take place at Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands and consists of two semi-finals on 12 and 14 May and the final on 16 May 2020. According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the \"Big Five\" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the"}, {"text": "final. As a member of the \"Big 5\", Italy automatically qualifies to compete in the final. In addition to their participation in the final, Italy is also required to broadcast and vote in one of the two semi-finals. However, the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic."}, {"text": "Ada Poon is a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. She is the principal investigator of Stanford Integrated Biomedical Systems Lab. Education, Career and Research. Ada Poon completed her undergraduate study in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Hong Kong. She completed her M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees from the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by Robert W. Brodersen. In 2005, she joined her advisor's startup company, SiBeam Inc. In 2006, she joined the faculty of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has been faculty at Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering since 2008. Dr. Poon's research is in integrated biomedical systems. Her research is focused on discovering ways to extremely miniaturize electronic devices such pacemaker, neuromodulators, and artificial pancreas so that they can be seamlessly implanted into patients with minimal invasiveness to provide targeted therapy for individuals. As of July 2019, Ada Poon has been granted approximately 11 patents."}, {"text": "Rock Branch is a long 1st order tributary to the Haw River, in Guilford County, North Carolina. Course. Rock Branch rises in a pond on the divide between Rock Branch and Kings Creek at Kings Crossroads, North Carolina in Guilford County. Rock Branch then flows southeast meet the Haw River about 1.5 miles east of Kings Crossroads. Watershed. Rock Branch drains of area, receives about 45.9 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 405.25 and is about 37% forested. Natural History. The Natural Areas Inventory Guilford County, North Carolina and a later addition in 1995 recognized one location of natural significance in the Rock Branch watershed. The Rock Branch site contains a mature Mesic Mixed Hardwood Forest."}, {"text": "Private credit is an asset defined by non-bank lending where the debt is not issued or traded on the public markets. \"Private credit\" can also be referred to as \"direct lending\" or \"private lending\". It is a subset of \"alternative credit\". Estimations of the global private credit industry's size vary; as of April 2024, the International Monetary Fund claims it is just over $2 trillion, while JPMorgan claims it to be $3.14 trillion. The private credit market has shifted away from banks in recent decades. In 1994, U.S. bank underwriting covered over 70 percent of middle market loans. By 2020, U.S. banks issued/held around 10 percent of middle market loans. The direct lending market expanded rapidly after the 2008 financial crisis, when the SEC tightened restrictions and capital requirements on public banks. As banks decreased their lending activity, nonbank lenders took their place to address the continued demand for debt financing from corporate borrowers. Private credit has been one of the fastest-growing asset classes. By 2017, private debt fundraising exceeded $100B. One factor for the rapid growth has been investor demand. As of 2018, returns were averaging 8.1% IRR across all private credit strategies with some strategies yielding as high"}, {"text": "as 14% IRR. At the same time, supply increased as companies turned to non-bank lenders after the 2008 financial crisis due to stricter lending requirements. Private credit investment rose in emerging and developing markets by 89% to US$10.8 billion in 2022. One recent trend has been the rise of covenant-lite loans (which is also an issue for publicly traded investment grade and high yield debt). This has been driven by investor demand for the relatively high yield compared to alternatives and a willingness to accept less protections. This has resulted in fewer company restrictions and fewer investors' rights if the company struggles. That being said, for the investment firms, covenant-lite loans can also be helpful because of the negative optics if a portfolio company goes into default, and fewer restrictions means fewer ways a company can go into default. Role of BDCs. In addition to private funds, much of the capital for private debt comes from business development companies (BDCs). BDCs were created by Congress in 1980 as closed-end funds regulated under the Investment Company Act of 1940 to provide small and growing companies access to capital and to enable private equity funds to access public capital markets. Under the"}, {"text": "legislation, a BDC must invest at least 70% of its assets in nonpublic US companies with market value less than $250M. Moreover, like REITs, as long as 90% or more of the BDC's income was distributed to investors, the BDC would not be taxed at the corporate level. While BDCs are allowed to invest anywhere in the capital structure, the vast majority of the investment has been debt because BDCs typically lever their equity with debt (up to 2X their equity), and fixed income investing supports their debt obligations. With regards to size of the market, as of June 2021, BDC assets totaled $156 billion from 79 funds. Public equity investing in private credit. Over 70% of the investor capital for private credit comes from institutional investors. For non-institutional investors looking to invest in private capital, few options exist because most of the investment vehicles are private and limited to qualified investors ($5M or more liquid net worth). As of June 2021, 57% of the BDC market was publicly traded BDCs where retail investors can invest. Concerns. In a letter, Senators Sherrod Brown and Jack Reed raised concerns over a lack of oversight and transparency in the industry."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season is Pistoia Basket's 20th in existence and the club's 8th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian basketball. Overview. The 2019-20 season was hit by the coronavirus pandemic that compelled the federation to suspend and later cancel the competition without assigning the title to anyone. Pistoia ended the championship in 15th position. The management did not renew the participation to the Serie A for the season 2020-21 and the team was demoted to the Serie A2. Kit. Supplier: Erre\u00e0 / Sponsor: Oriora Players. Current roster. <section begin=roster/> <section end=roster/> Depth chart. <section begin=depthchart/> <section end=depthchart/>"}, {"text": "The 2020 Chicago Fire FC season was the club's 22nd year of existence, as well as their 23rd in Major League Soccer. This was the Fire's first full year under the ownership of Joe Mansueto following his purchase of the club on September 13, 2019. This was also the Fire's first season back in city limits, playing in Soldier Field for the first time since 2005. The Fire faced Atlanta United FC in their first home match. The team also announced a rebrand on November 21, 2019. They became known as Chicago Fire Football Club (Chicago Fire FC) and changed their logo. The change was met with large amounts of negative reaction on social media. The Fire failed to advance out of the group stage of the MLS is Back Tournament. After finishing 11th in the Eastern Conference, the team did not qualify for the MLS Cup Playoffs. Player movement. Unsigned trialists and draftees. The Fire also had several academy players in the camp- Chris Brady (G), Javier Casas (M), Brian Gutierrez (M), Alex Monis (F), and Allan Rodriguez (M). Match results. Major League Soccer. Due to changes in the schedule, this will be the first season where the Fire"}, {"text": "don't face every club in the league (three clubs in the Western Conference). They did not compete against Real Salt Lake. Squad statistics. Goalscoring and assisting record. MLS Regular Season Open Cup MLS regular season Cards. MLS Regular Season Open Cup Totals Note: \"Italics\" indicates a player who left during the season Player awards. Fire awards. Man of the Match awards Note: \"Italics\" indicates player left after his first call up National team call-ups. <br>Francisco Calvo <br>Elliot Collier <br>\"Cristian Mart\u00ednez\" <br>Przemys\u0142aw Frankowski <br>Michael Azira United States<br>U-23 Team<br>Djordje Mihailovic U-20 Team<br>Andre Reynolds II U-17 Team<br>Gabriel Slonina U-16 Team<br>Gabriel Slonina Note: \"Italics\" indicates player left after his first call up"}, {"text": "Johann De Villiers 'Div' Visser (born 26 November 1958 in Cape Town, South Africa is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Visser played for Western Province in the South African Currie Cup competition. Visser made his debut for the Springboks during the 1981 tour of New Zealand in the second test on 29 August 1981 at Athletic Park, Wellington, New Zealand. He also played in the Springboks' first ever test against the USA on 20 September 1981 at the Owl Creek Polo ground in Glenville, New York. Visser also played in 10 tour matches for the Springboks, in which he scored four tries."}, {"text": "The 1905\u201306 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1905\u201306 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Walter Kelly, coaching in his second season with the Christians."}, {"text": "Hilary Kpatcha (born 5 May 1998 in Lom\u00e9) is a Togolese-born French athlete specialising in the long jump. She represented her country at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without reaching the final. Earlier that year she won a gold medal at the European U23 Championships in G\u00e4vle. Her personal bests in the event are 6.88 metres outdoors (-0.7 m/s, Rome 2019) and 6.47 metres indoors (Miramas 2019)."}, {"text": "Sentinel Peak is a mountain summit located in the Olympic Mountains, in Jefferson County of Washington state. Rising in the center of Olympic National Park, its nearest higher neighbor is Mount Fromme, to the northwest. \"Sentinels Sister\" is a lower companion summit situated to the southwest. The two peaks stand as sentinels above the Dosewalips Valley and Hayden Pass, and were possibly named by an early expedition of the Seattle Mountaineers. Precipitation runoff from the peak drains to Hood Canal via the Dosewallips River. Climate. Based on the K\u00f6ppen climate classification, Sentinel Peak is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America. Weather fronts originating in the Pacific Ocean travel northeast toward the Olympic Mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snow. As a result, the Olympics experience high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. Because of maritime influence, snow tends to be wet and heavy, resulting in avalanche danger. During winter months weather is usually cloudy, but due to high pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer months, there"}, {"text": "is often little or no cloud cover during the summer. The months of July through September offer the most favorable weather for viewing or climbing this peak. Geology. The Olympic Mountains are composed of obducted clastic wedge material and oceanic crust, primarily Eocene sandstone, turbidite, and basaltic oceanic crust. The mountains were sculpted during the Pleistocene era by erosion and glaciers advancing and retreating multiple times."}, {"text": "Eben-Haeser Jansen (born 5 June 1954 in Griekwastad, Northern Cape, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Jansen played for the Free State in the South African Currie Cup competition. He made his test debut for the Springboks during the 1981 tour of New Zealand in the first test on 15 August 1981 at Lancaster Park in Christchurch. He did not play in any further tests, but represented the Springboks in 10 tour matches and scored four tries."}, {"text": "Henning Jonathan van Aswegen (born 11 February 1955 in Okahandja, South West Africa (now Namibia) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Van Aswegen played for the Free State, Western Province and Transvaal in the South African Currie Cup competition. He was appointed captain of Western Province for the 1985 Currie Cup season and led his team to the Currie Cup title. Van Aswegen made his debut for the Springboks during the 1981 tour of New Zealand in the first test on 15 August 1981 at Lancaster Park in Christchurch. He played his second and last test match for the Springboks against the South American Jaguars on 3 April 1982 at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein when he replaced his provincial teammate, Hempies du Toit after 27 minutes in the second half. Van Aswegen also played in eight tour matches for the Springboks."}, {"text": "Survivors' Park () is a park in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a commemorating people who survived the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Ghetto, which was created and operated by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The park was officially opened on 30 August 2004, the 60th anniversary of the liquidation of the ghetto. The park is located in the former territory of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Ghetto, between Wojska Polskiego Street and allotment gardens at Sporna Street in the valley of the Lodz River, in the area adjacent to the borders of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto during the war in Smugowa Street (it was originally to be located at Stalowa Street). The park was designed by Gra\u017cyna Ojrzy\u0144ska. Overview. The originator of the park was Halina Elczewska, who survived the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a ghetto (she was transported from the ghetto to Auschwitz and then to Ravensbr\u00fcck). She was also the first to plant her \"tree of memory\". A monumenta boulder (found in the park) commemorating the tragic events of 1940-1944 was unveiled under one of the two monumental pedunculate oaks. It has inscriptions in four languages: Polish, English, Hebrew and Yiddish. 418 Holocaust survivors who managed to reach \u0141\u00f3d\u017a planted their individual trees: oaks, maples, lindens, birches, hornbeams, beeches, pines, spruces and larches. The trees"}, {"text": "were numbered and entered into the register, and the survivors received certificates with the name and number of the tree. Along the Arnold Mostowicz Avenue there are plaques with the surnames and number of the survivor's tree. In total, 450 trees were planted throughout the park on an area of one and a half hectares. The target area of the park is 8.5 hectares, in this area there is a water reservoir on the \u0141\u00f3dka River. Alleys and squares with gravel-clay surface and granite cubes were also created. The alley connects two main elements of the park: Monument to Poles Saving Jews during World War II and Memorial Mound. The monument, built according to the design of , contains symbols of two nations: the statue of the White Eagle and the Star of David, formed from boards with the names of Poles honored with the title \"Righteous Among the Nations\". The 10-meter Memorial Mound, built at the other end of the park, is a viewpoint of the area. At the top of the mound there is a monument-bench of Jan Karski. The construction of the park, as a long-term investment task, was approved by the City Council. Work began in"}, {"text": "autumn 2005 with clearing the area and demolition of ruins. The monument was unveiled in 2009. The park has the seat of the Dialogue Center named after Marek Edelman, where conferences and educational activities take place."}, {"text": "The 1991 Volvo Tennis Indoor was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts that was part of the Championship Series of the 1991 ATP Tour. It was the 21st edition of the tournament and tt took place in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, from February 18 through February 24, 1991. First-seeded Ivan Lendl, who entered on a wildcard, won the singles title and earned $99,000 first-prize money. Finals. Singles. Ivan Lendl defeated Michael Stich, 7\u20135, 6\u20133 Doubles. Udo Riglewski / Michael Stich defeated John Fitzgerald / Laurie Warder, 7\u20135, 6\u20133"}, {"text": "The 1906\u201307 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1906\u201307 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Art Guedel, coaching in his second season with the Christians."}, {"text": "Cyclopentadienyltungsten tricarbonyl dimer is the organotungsten compound with the formula Cp2W2(CO)6, where Cp is C5H5. A dark red crystalline solid, it is the subject of research, although it has no or few practical uses. Structure and synthesis. The molecule exists in two rotamers, gauche and anti. The six CO ligands are terminal, and the W-W bond distance is 3.222 \u00c5. The compound is prepared by treatment of tungsten hexacarbonyl with sodium cyclopentadienide followed by oxidation of the resulting NaW(CO)3(C5H5)."}, {"text": "The 1903\u201304 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1903\u201304 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Ralph Jones, coaching in his second season with the Christians."}, {"text": "Henrietta Stewart (1573\u20131642) was a Scottish courtier. She was the influential favourite of the queen of Scotland, Anne of Denmark. Life. Henrietta Stewart was the daughter of Esm\u00e9 Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, favourite of James VI of Scotland, and Catherine de Balsac. On 16 June 1581 the king gave Henrietta the right to award the marriage of the Earl of Huntly, which was forfeited to the crown. Their marriage contract was made in 1586, while she was in France, and James VI granted the Duke of Lennox 5000 merks to organise her transport from France. Henrietta, her sister Marie and her brother Ludovic came back to Scotland from France in November 1583 with their mother to see James VI. The two sisters returned in June 1588 and were lodged in Edinburgh at the town's expense. Marriage and masque. On 21 July 1588, Henrietta married George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, at Holyroodhouse. Before the wedding the couple were made to declare their (Protestant) faith, without which the minister John Craig would not declare the banns. According to a letter of George Dundas, the Archbishop of St Andrews gave a sermon in French and the assembled nobility were dressed in French"}, {"text": "style. James VI of Scotland wrote a masque to be performed at the wedding celebrations. The king sent requests to lairds, like Robert Murray of Abercairny, for \"venison, wild fowls, fed capons\" for the feasts. The celebrations involving \"plays and masquerades\" lasted two or three days. Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell gave her a chain of pearls and hair garnishings, and wore several jewels himself which Dundas called \"mirrors\". There was \"great triumph, mirth, and pastime\", and James VI may have written the leading role in his masque to perform himself in person. As was customary in Scotland, after her marriage she did not change her name, but continued to sign letters and documents as \"Henriette Stuart\". Her sister, Marie Stewart, became a lady-in-waiting in the household of Anne of Denmark in December 1590 at Henrietta's request, which increased Henrietta's access at court. She married the Earl of Mar in December 1592. Their younger sister Gabrielle was a nun in France at Glatigny, but a scheme for her to marry Hugh Montgomerie, 5th Earl of Eglinton in 1598 came to nothing. After the murder of the Earl of Moray by the Clan Gordon at Donibristle in February 1592, James"}, {"text": "VI allowed her to stay at court, and gave her and her followers legal protection. In February 1593 King James came north to punish and subdue the earls of Huntly, Angus, and Erroll for plotting on behalf of the Catholic faith but they went into hiding. Henrietta and Elizabeth Douglas, Countess of Erroll came to him at Aberdeen and he allowed them to keep their houses and estates. She was at court in May 1593 with a \"greater train and busier heads than are thought fit\" according to the English diplomat Robert Bowes. He and some of the Privy Council tried to persuade James VI to send her away. On 31 May she accompanied the queen and her sister the Countess of Mar to Leith to inspect the ship of the Danish ambassadors Niels Krag and Steen Bille at Leith. In June 1593 Robert Bowes argued the king should send her from court. A Scottish ambassador Sir Robert Melville sent to London would be able report this action to Queen Elizabeth, who would approve of it. Henrietta Stewart went to Leith and intended to go north to Carneborough near Strathbogie. However, she came back to court in September 1593 at"}, {"text": "the invitation of the queen, first to Falkland Palace, and it was supposed Anne of Denmark had invited her to please the king. Henrietta Stewart was pregnant at this time. Henrietta came to be a favourite of the queen, Anna of Denmark, and exerted an influence over her which became controversial. Henrietta was known to be a fervent Catholic, and the friendship between her and Anne was politically sensitive and developed into a cause for conflict between the king and the queen. It also brought Queen Anne negative publicity and exposed her to criticism from the Scottish church. Henrietta Stewart is speculated to have played a part in Queen Anne's rumoured secret Catholic conversion. When she parted from the court in April 1594, the disapproving English ambassador Robert Bowes wrote that the queen gave her gifts that were \"liberal and exceeding the common order and proportion used here.\" Seeking audience at court. Henrietta was able to further her husband's cause at court even when he was forfeited, except in June 1594 when James expressly forbade her attendance. She defied his order, and came to Leith and visited Anne of Denmark at Holyroodhouse in \"base array\", disguised as a servant, on"}, {"text": "a day when the king had gone to Stirling Castle to see the building work on the new Chapel Royal. James VI told the English ambassador Robert Bowes that \"by evil advice the Queen was drawn lately to give over-great countenance to the Countess of Huntly\". The king suggested that problems were partly caused by friction between some members of his Privy Council and the council appointed to manage the queen's estates. Bowes realised that Huntly and his factions depended on the Countess interceding for them. She was able to give the king and Privy Council a petition for the restoration of the Huntly lands. The Queen helped, and when it was refused asked for the lands to be given to her. Bowes was able to search the registers to check that such a document had not been issued. James VI comes to Huntly Castle. On 6 July 1594 James VI ordered Robert Melville to tell her to leave Edinburgh, and she went to Seton Palace and took a ship to Aberdeen. At Huntly Castle, the Earl was confidently building a new hall and gallery. At the end of October 1594 James VI came to Huntly Castle to demolish or"}, {"text": "slight the building. David Foulis wrote to Anthony Bacon that the Countess of Huntly watched the demolition and was not allowed to have an audience with the king to plead her case. The kirk minister Andrew Melville was present and urged James VI to blow the castle up. The king placed the castle and estates in the hands of Sir John Gordon of Pitlurg, but on 9 November 1594 he requested that Pitlurg should not take up her rental incomes. Her brother, the Duke of Lennox, was the left as the king's lieutenant at Elgin, declared that she was his enemy because her husband had not left Scotland, and she would not get her \"living\" or landed income unless she came south. Lord Gordon at Court. The ministers of the Kirk of Scotland petitioned the king in March 1595 that she and the Countess of Erroll should be forced to live in or near Edinburgh. They also requested that her son, Lord Gordon, should be kept by the king. In October 1596 pressure was exerted on her and her husband to convert from Catholicism by taking away her eldest son Lord Gordon. He was delivered to Anna of Denmark to"}, {"text": "be brought up at court and sent to the University of Edinburgh as a pupil of Robert Rollock. Anna of Denmark bought him clothes including a velvet coat and a belt with a little dagger. David Moysie wrote that Henrietta's representations to a Convention of the Estates were twice rejected. On 19 October 1596 Henrietta's representatives presented her signed seven-point offer to the Synod of the Presbyteries of Moray at Elgin on behalf of her husband, undertaking to assist the Protestant ministry and to eject Jesuits from his company. In favour again. Henrietta was a godmother to Princess Elizabeth at her christening on 28 November 1596. She attended the birth of Princess Margaret at Dalkeith Palace in December 1598 and Anne of Denmark gave her a jewel set with diamonds worth 1,500 crowns. She held Prince Charles at his christening in 1600. It was noted in November 1600 that she was \"chiefest\" in favour with Anna of Denmark. At the ceremony of the Riding of the Parliament in Edinburgh in January 1598, she and Anna of Denmark and the Countess of Erroll rode to Mercat Cross and watched the symbolic restoration of the forfeited earls of Angus, Erroll and Huntly,"}, {"text": "by the Lyon King of Arms to the sound of trumpets. It was said that the queen had so much favour to Henrietta and the Countess of Erroll that sometimes she shared a bed with one or the other. In April 1601 two male servants of the Marquess of Huntly were banished from Edinburgh for life for hearing the mass, and Henrietta Stewart was requested to remove from her company two female servants Margaret Wood and Barclay who had heard mass. She was at Stirling Castle on 24 December 1602 seeing Prince Henry and her sister, the Countess of Mar, and both sisters travelled to Holyrood Palace the next day. In March 1609 the Venetian ambassador in London, Marc' Antonio Correr heard that she had written to Anne of Denmark to intercede with King James for her husband, who was imprisoned in Scotland as a Catholic. James replied to Henrietta that Anne would not interfere with royal orders. She died on 2 September 1642 in Paris. She was buried at Lyon where her mother was buried. Her name is carved in stone across the upper storey of Huntly Castle in 20-inch letters, in equal prominence to her husband's. Surgundo and"}, {"text": "Cherina. An anonymous author of the late 1590s composed an epic poem 'Surgundo: The Valiant Christian' which features George Gordon and Henrietta as Surgundo and Cherina. Many names in the poem are simple anagrams, her father, the Duke of Lennox, was Prince Exonill, Thulyne is Huntly, and so on. Verses in praise of Henrietta include:But O Cherina, dare I be so boldTo aim at thy perfections yet untoldWhen as Apollo, father of the artsUpon a time to try his daughter's partsSets the nine maids of memory at strifeTo paint pure virtue's picture to the life...Cherina, O, Cherina is my theme. Family. It was reported that she had a son in February 1590. Her children included:"}, {"text": "The 1991 Harlow District Council election took place on 2 May 1991 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since the council's creation in 1973. Election result. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1987 election."}, {"text": "Gaby Vallejo Canedo (24 September 1941 \u2013 20 January 2024) was a Bolivian writer. With over 40 published works, she dabbled in narrative genres such as novels and children's literature. Biography. Gaby Vallejo Canedo was born in Cochabamba on 24 September 1941. She studied at the Normal Catholic Institute of Cochabamba, obtaining the title of Professor of Literature, and earned a licentiate in Education Sciences at the University of San Sim\u00f3n. She completed a diploma in Latin American Literature at the Caro and Cuervo Institute in Bogot\u00e1. Vallejo taught at the University of San Sim\u00f3n for 18 years. Vallejo Canedo was a member of the Academia Boliviana de la Lengua from 27 July 2001, occupying its \"H\" chair. Vallejo Canedo died from a heart attack on 20 January 2024, at the age of 82. Works. Vallejo's narrative style has been defined as that of literary realism. Her novel \"\u00a1Hijo de opa!\" was adapted into the 1984 film \"Los Hermanos Cartagena\", directed by Paolo Agazzi. In 2017, her literary output was analyzed by Willy Oscar Mu\u00f1oz, and the result was published in the book \"La Narrativa Contestataria y Social de Gaby Vallejo Canedo\" ()."}, {"text": "Karla Johanna Jaramillo Navarrate (born 21 January 1997) is an Ecuadorian racewalking athlete. She won a gold medal in 20 km walk at the 2019 South American Championships in Athletics, setting Ecuadorian record and South American record in 20 km track walk. She placed eighth in women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2019 Pan American Games. Representing Ecuador at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, she placed 18th in the women's 20 kilometres walk. She represented Ecuador at the 2020 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Abu Mansour al-Maghribi is a Moroccan citizen, former electrical engineer and self-claimed unofficial \"ambassador of ISIS in Turkey\". He claimed that he has been in charge of setting up border collaboration between ISIS and Turkey, mainly relative to migrations to ISIS territories, border security, and healthcare support to injured ISIS soldiers. With internal ISIS divisions and the first ISIS terror attack on Turkey, the relationship soured. Al-Maghribi was captured by SDF troops, and testified his action to various foreign journalists. However, some of what he says may likely be exaggeration. He has also claimed that ISIS received financial aid from Qatar and Israel and that he was communicating with several Israeli officials who allowed ISIS to use their hospitals for emergencies."}, {"text": "The 1904\u201305 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1904\u201305 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Edgar Wingard, coaching in his first season with the Christians."}, {"text": "Debbie Harry is an American singer and actress who first came to prominence as the lead vocalist of the rock band Blondie in the late 1970s. She subsequently began appearing in art films for Amos Poe, like \"The Foreigner\", before having her first leading role in the neo-noir film \"Union City\" (1980). She next starred opposite James Woods in David Cronenberg's body horror film \"Videodrome\" (1983), and had a supporting role in \"Forever, Lulu\" (1987). She garnered further notice for her role as Velma Von Tussle in John Waters's satirical dance film \"Hairspray\" (1988). In the 1990s, Harry occasionally starred in independent films, including two films directed by James Mangold, \"Heavy\" (1995) and \"Cop Land\" (1997). In the 2000s, Harry continued to appear in supporting roles in independent features, with roles in \"Deuces Wild\", \"Spun\" (both 2002), and \"My Life Without Me\" (2003). In 2008, she appeared in a minor part in \"Elegy\". In addition to film, Harry has appeared in several television series, including \"Tales from the Darkside\" (1987), \"The Adventures of Pete & Pete\" (1992), the animated series \"Phantom 2040\" (1994\u20131995), and \"Sabrina the Teenage Witch\" (1996)."}, {"text": "Act Surprised is the ninth studio album by American indie rock band Sebadoh. It is the band's first album in six years. The album was released on May 24, 2019. The album has seven songs each by Lou Barlow and Jason Loewenstein and one by Bob D\u2019Amico. Personnel. Sebadoh"}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season is New Basket Brindisi's 28th in existence and the club's 9th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian basketball. Brindisi. The 2019-20 season was hit by the coronavirus pandemic that compelled the federation to suspend and later cancel the competition without assigning the title to anyone. Brindisi ended the championship in 5th position. Kit. Supplier: Adidas / Sponsor: Happy Casa Players. Current roster. <section begin=roster/> <section end=roster/> Depth chart. Brindisi starts the season with the 5+5 format, but in January they pay the so called \"luxury tax\" of 40 thousand euros, that moves the team to the 6+6 format. In this new format the team can play with one foreign player more, a total of six, in the Italian championship. <section begin=depthchart/> <section end=depthchart/> Competitions. SuperCup. Brindisi took part in the 25th edition of the Italian Basketball Supercup as the 2019 Italian Basketball Cup runner-up. They lost the competition at the semifinal against Reyer Venezia. Italian Cup. Brindisi qualified to the 2020 Italian Basketball Cup having ended the first half of the season in 7th place. They lost in the finals against Umana Reyer Venezia."}, {"text": "Petra Be\u00e1ta Farkas (born 30 April 1999) is a Hungarian athlete specialising in the long jump. She represented her country at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without reaching the final. Earlier that year she won a silver medal at the European U23 Championships in G\u00e4vle. Her personal bests in the event are 6.72 metres outdoors (+1.9 m/s, Budapest 2019) and 6.41 metres indoors (Budapest 2018)."}, {"text": "Mar\u00eda Antonella Ferradans Cayetano (born 2 May 2001), known as Antonella Ferradans, is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a left-back for Campeonato de F\u00fatbol Femenino club and the Uruguay national team. International career. Ferradans represented Uruguay at the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. She made her senior debut on 23 May 2019."}, {"text": "The 1907\u201308 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented Butler University during the 1907\u201308 college men's basketball season. The head coach was John McKay, coaching in his first season with the Christians."}, {"text": "The People's Police () is the national civilian police force of the People's Republic of China. Roles. Police in China have a variety of roles in addition to enforcing the law. They are also responsible for the maintenance of social stability (), and in this sense perform not just a law enforcement function but a political function as well. The majority of national police forces are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS). Over the years, the power of the police has gradually been expanded to border control, under the auspices of the China Immigration Inspection (CII), household registration, issuance of the National ID card (see: Resident Identity Card) and cybersecurity (under the 11th Bureau of the MPS), network security and website registration. Title. In mainland China, \"People's Police\" refers to the identity of law enforcement officers, while \"Public Security\" or \"the\" \"police\" denotes a specific government agency, namely the \"public security organ\". Although prison police, judicial police, and other such units also fall under the police system, due to the special nature of their work, they are generally not referred to as \"the\" \"police\". Before the turn of the 21st century, public security officers often used"}, {"text": "\"Public Security\" as their designation and term of address, rather than the broader term \"the\" \"police\". Additionally, public security officers, who handle the majority of public order and criminal cases, are the most frequently encountered police force by the public. These factors have led some people, especially those in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities, to inaccurately refer to mainland China's police officers as \"Public Security.\" The uniforms and vehicle liveries of the People's Police generally maintain a consistent style, with their primary distinctions being the inscriptions indicating the departments to which various police forces belong, namely \"Public Security\", \"Justice\", \"State Security\", \"Court\", and \"Procuratorate\". History. Founded in October 1949 with the inception of the People's Republic of China, and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China's major national police force operates under the Ministry of Public Security (MPS). The influence of the Soviet Union was paramount in the early years of the People's Republic, and guided the Chinese approach to policing. During the Cultural Revolution (1966\u201376), the powers of the police were both strengthened and weakened; on the one hand, they were given control over much of the judicial system, since People's Courts and People's Procuratorates basically"}, {"text": "collapsed, meaning that local directors of public security bureaus could easily arrest and convict almost any person they chose; on the other hand, the top leadership of the police was almost totally purged and persecuted, and political commissars from the PLA (most of them hand-picked by the Cultural Revolution Group) were brought in to take control over the largest and most important public security bureaus, including those of Beijing and Shanghai. The current structure and mission of the People's Police was formalized in the People's Police Law of the People's Republic of China (February 1995), which states: Branches. According to the People's Police Law of the People's Republic of China (1995), the People's Police comprises five components: Public Security Police. The Public Security Police handle routine law enforcement tasks such as maintaining public order, conducting criminal investigations, and managing border control. This constitutes the majority of China's police force and falls under the jurisdiction of the MPS. State Security Police. The State Security Police are responsible for intelligence collection and analysis, counter-espionage, political security, and also partially participate in domestic security affairs. These officers operate under the MSS. They generally perform secret police duties and help maintain social stability and"}, {"text": "preserve the power of the ruling Chinese Communist Party. They should not be confused with the 1st Bureau of the MPS (described above in the Public Security Police section), despite sometimes similar duties and overlapping missions. Judicial Administrative Police. The Judicial Administrative Police consists mainly of police officers stationed in prisons and drug rehabilitation centers. Prison Police oversee prison security, carry out prison guard duties, and aid in prison administration, similar to correctional officers in other nations. Drug Rehabilitation Police handle the enforcement of isolation and drug rehabilitation efforts for drug addicts, along with corrective measures for minor offenders. They should not be confused with the judicial police of the courts and procuratorates. Court Judicial Police. The Court Judicial Police are responsible for the security of People's Courts at the provincial, municipal and county levels. They belong to the judicial system and maintain order and security in courthouses and assist judges in judicial investigations. Procuratorate Judicial Police. The Procuratorate Judicial Police are responsible for the security of People's Procuratorates at the provincial, municipal and county levels. They belong to the judicial system and have the following roles: Ranks. The is as follows: In the People's Police, ranks are separate from"}, {"text": "position, and according to Article 8 of the \"People's Republic of China's Law on People's Police Ranks\", the following positions require an officer with the following ranks: Auxiliary Police. (\u516c\u5b89\u673a\u5173\u8b66\u52a1\u8f85\u52a9\u4eba\u5458), better known as Auxiliary Police (\u8f85\u8b66) are often hired by local public security bureaus. According to the Guangdong provincial government's 2016 \"Law on the management of Ministry of Public Security Auxiliary Personnel\", article 5 states that they are not part of the People's Police (Meaning they are not Sworn officers) but are instead managed by People's Police personnel. Article 8 of the Guangdong Provincial law on the management of ministry of public security auxiliary personnel states that Auxiliary Duty Officers have the following duties: Article 9 states that Auxiliary Civilian Employees have the following duties: Article 10 states that Auxiliary Police are prohibited from the following duties: The following are not allowed to be auxiliary police, per article 17: Auxiliary officer ranks. The ranks of auxiliary officers are as follows in Sichuan province:"}, {"text": "The 1992 Harlow District Council election took place on 7 May 1992 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since the council's creation in 1973. Election result. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1988 election."}, {"text": "Anela Choy is an American biological oceanographer, who is assistant professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. She is most noted for her discovery that the stomachs of deep sea fish (living at an average depth of ) contain bottle caps, trash bags, and microplastics. She also led a team that designed a remote-operated device that was released in Monterey Bay to track pollution of microplastics. A native Hawaiian, she is a member of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and vocal advocate for women in science. Awards and recognition. In 2018 she won the L\u2019Or\u00e9al-UNESCO for Women in Science Award for her work, which focuses on how human activity, such as fishing and plastic pollution, shapes deep ocean food webs. In 2021, Choy was awarded a Sloan Fellowship as an early career researcher."}, {"text": "Y2K FM (standing for \"Yours 2 Keep\") was a Pirate Radio Station based in London. It was known to broadcast a variety of music relating to UK underground music, such as garage music. It began broadcasting in the early 2000s on the 90.6 frequency modulation which was formerly occupied by Pulse FM. History. London-based Y2K FM (standing for \"Yours 2 Keep\") began broadcasting in the early 2000s on the 90.6 frequency modulation which was formerly occupied by Pulse FM (jungle music), Chicago FM (house and garage), Cyndicut FM (drum and bass) and its predecessor Mission FM. The station transmitted from North London as a pirate radio station to inner London city and the Greater London area. They won joint first place for \"The Best Radio Station\" with Freek FM in the UK Garage Awards 2000, at Camden Palace. The station played a wide range of UK underground music, with broadcasts primarily covering UK garage music, while also showcasing DJs, MCs and performers from the UK hip-hop, dancehall, and jungle drum and bass scenes. The Heartless Crew also had station airtime, alongside DJ Naughty, Scotti Dee, DJ Tiny, LJ Influence, MC Skanker, DJ Steady, Donae'o, Super Raggo Crew, Outlaws, DJ Pioneer,"}, {"text": "Tony TNT and Tj and Bass Inject Crew."}, {"text": "The 25th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 2003 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 2002. \"Pinocchio\" received the most nominations with nine. All nominees and winners, with respective percentages of votes for each category, are listed below. Dishonourable mentions are also featured for Worst Picture (56 total). Films with multiple wins and nominations. The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple wins:"}, {"text": "Konar is a surname. It may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 2019 Ecuadorian protests were a series of protests and riots against austerity measures including the cancellation of fuel subsidies, adopted by President of Ecuador Len\u00edn Moreno and his administration. Organized protests ceased after indigenous groups and the Ecuadorian government reached a deal to reverse the austerity measures, beginning a collaboration on how to combat overspending and public debt. Background. Beginning in 2007, President Rafael Correa established The Citizens' Revolution, a movement following left-wing policies, which some analysts described as populist. Correa was able to utilize the 2000s commodities boom to fund his policies, utilizing China's need for raw materials. Through China, Correa accepted loans that had few requirements, as opposed to firm limits set by other lenders. With this funding, Ecuador was able to invest in social welfare programs, reduce poverty and increase the average standard of living in Ecuador, while at the same time growing Ecuador's economy. Such policies resulted in a popular base of support for Correa, who was re-elected to the presidency twice between 2007 and 2013. Correa also utilized his popular support to increase power for himself and his 'citizen's revolution', drawing criticism that such acts were an entrenchment of power. As the Ecuadorian economy"}, {"text": "began to decline in 2014, Correa decided not to run for a fourth term and by 2015, protests occurred against Correa following the introduction of austerity measures and an increase of inheritance taxes. Instead, Len\u00edn Moreno, who was at the time a staunch Correa loyalist and had served as his vice-president for over six years, was expected to continue with Correa's legacy and the implementation of 21st century socialism in the country, running on a broadly left-wing platform with significant similarities to Correa's. In the weeks after his election, Moreno distanced himself from Correa's policies and shifted the left-wing PAIS Alliance's away from the left-wing politics and towards the center. Despite these policy shifts, Moreno continued to identify himself as social democrat. Moreno then led the 2018 Ecuadorian referendum, which reinstated presidential term limits that were removed by Correa, essentially barring Correa from having a fourth presidential term in the future. At the time, Moreno enjoyed an approval rating of 80 percent. Moreno's distancing from his predecessor's policies and his electoral campaign's platform, however, alienated both former President Correa and a large percentage of his own party's supporters. In July 2018, a warrant for Correa's arrest was issued after facing"}, {"text": "29 charges for corruption, for acts allegedly performed while he was in office. Due to increased borrowing by Correa's administration, which he had used to fund his welfare projects, as well as the 2010s oil glut, public debt tripled in a five-year period and with Ecuador eventually coming to use of the Central Bank of Ecuador's reserves for funds. In total, Ecuador was left $64 billion in debt and was losing $10 billion annually. On August 21, 2018, Moreno announced economic austerity measures to reduce public spending and deficit. Moreno stated that the measures aimed to save $1 billion and included a reduction of fuel subsidies, eliminating subsidies for gasoline and diesel, and the removal or merging of several public entities, a move denounced by the groups representing the nation's indigenous groups, as well as trade unions. By mid-2019, analysts stated that Moreno's overturning of Correa's policies, as well as the implementation of austerity measures and his turn towards centrism cost him political support, with his approval ratings dropping to about 30%. In the months leading up to the protests, other sporadic demonstrations began to occur against Moreno's government as well. Events. Economic measures. The night of 1 October 2019,"}, {"text": "Len\u00edn Moreno announced 6 economic measures and 13 restructuring proposals in order to stimulate the country's economy. It started with a speech declaring that there would not be an increase in taxes, Moreno mentioned he would do the following: Moreno's government stated that the fuel subsidies had cost the country $1.4 billion annually and had been in place for 40 years. The cut of fuel subsidies resulted in diesel fuel prices doubling and regular fuel prices increasing 30 percent, angering transportation unions and businesses who started the protest movement. Businesses also panicked, leading to speculation, with a range of everyday costs spiking rapidly shortly after the decision. Indigenous groups have further stated that the IMF deal increased austerity and would promote inequality in Ecuador. The end of fuel subsidies was approved as the Decree 883. New prices took effect on October 3 . Protests begin. On October 2, 2019, the union central Frente Unitario de los Trabajadores (FUT), the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), the Popular Front and the student union Federation of University Students of Ecuador (FEUE) announced national protests against the government measures. that same day, the national Federation of Carriers (FENACOTIP) announced the paralysis of"}, {"text": "labour for October 3, day in which the decree 883 took effect and eliminated gas subsidies. The protests began on October 3, 2019, as taxi, bus and truck drivers came out in protest against the planned abolition of the fuel subsidies. President Moreno declared a state of emergency the following day on 4 October 2019 four hours before protests began. The protests had crippled the country's transport network with all major roads and bridges blocked in the capital Quito. After reaching a deal with the government, a planned strike was cancelled by the groups. Indigenous peoples' groups began protests shortly thereafter, along with university students and labour unions. The protesters declared their intention to hold an indefinite general strike, which would last until the government overturned its decision. Moreno refused to discuss a potential reversal, saying that he would \"not negotiate with criminals\", sparking clashes between the National Police and protesters, who were attempting to break into the Carondelet Palace in Quito. The Armed Forces were deployed by the government on 7 October to force protesters to release over 50 servicemen, who were being held captive by protesting indigenous groups. Relocation of government. On 8 October, President Moreno relocated his"}, {"text": "government to the coastal city of Guayaquil after anti-government protesters had overrun Quito, including the Carondelet Palace. On the same day, Moreno accused his predecessor Rafael Correa of orchestrating a coup against the government with the aid of Venezuela's Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Correa called for early presidential elections from his residence in Belgium and denied plotting a coup against Moreno with the help of Maduro. Correa admitted that he was employed as a consultant by President Maduro at the time. Later that day, the authorities shut down oil production at the Sacha oil field, which produces 10% of the nation's oil, after it was occupied by protesters. Two more oil fields were captured by protesters shortly thereafter. Demonstrators also captured repeater antennas, forcing State TV and radio offline in parts of the country. Indigenous protesters blocked most of Ecuador's main roads, completely cutting the transport routes to the city of Cuenca. Former president Correa stated that President Moreno was \"finished\" and called for early elections from his home in Europe. The National Police raided the Pichincha Universal radio station as part of a public prosecutor investigation for allegedly \"inciting to discord among citizens\". On 9 October, protesters managed to briefly burst"}, {"text": "into and occupy the National Assembly, before being driven out by police using tear gas. Violent clashes erupted between demonstrators and police forces as the protests spread further. Moreno declared that he would refuse to resign under any circumstance and imposed a night-time curfew on the nation. National paralysis. On 10 October, Ecuador remained paralyzed as thousands of demonstrators marched and chanted demands for the return of the fuel subsidy and the resignation of President Moreno. Indigenous groups established headquarters at a cultural center in Quito. Demonstrators captured 10 police officers, making them take off their riot gear and carry the coffin of a dead indigenous protester before releasing them shortly thereafter. At the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, where protesters made their headquarters, the captured authorities were paraded in public. While initially peaceful, violence erupted after the demonstrators were met by police, who attempted to disperse them using tear gas. Demonstrators responded by throwing stones, molotov cocktails and tube-launched fireworks at the mounted riot police officers sent to disperse them. The Energy Ministry reported that the country's main oil pipeline had ceased operating after being seized by indigenous protesters. Indigenous protesters accused the nation's private media of ignoring reports"}, {"text": "of police brutality and demanded that they broadcast a statement made by the demonstrators on live television. At least three private broadcasters complied and aired the live declaration, in which protest leader Jamie Vargas called for more protests during the weekend and threatened to \"radicalise the protests with more force\" if the nation's president continued to \"play\" with the nation's indigenous population. Seventeen Venezuelans were arrested at the Quito airport. According to military officials, they had maps of planned anti-government marches and information about Moreno's personal security arrangements. On 11 October, fifteen were released due to lack of evidence, while the remaining two were prohibited to exit the country. Call for negotiations. CONAIE listed three demands in order to begin dialogue with Moreno: the dismissal of the ministers of government and defense, the repeal of the gas subsidies decree, and finally the request for the government to \"take responsibility\" for the deaths that occurred during the protests. On 11 October, Moreno announced, \"The country must recover its calm, ... Let\u2019s sit down and talk.\" In a response, CONAIE dropped the demand for the return of oil subsidies as a requirement for dialogue. By 12 October, CONAIE had announced that they"}, {"text": "would participate in dialogue with the Ecuadorian government. However, violent protests intensified in Quito, with the national auditor office\u2013which contained evidence surrounding corruption cases\u2013being set ablaze, and two media facilities being attacked by demonstrators: the offices of Teleamazonas and \"El Comercio\". While masked protesters broke into the facilities, press workers were left trapped. By 3:00pm, Moreno had decreed a national curfew and deployed the Ecuadorian army, stating \"We are going to restore order in all of Ecuador\" and explaining that the violent protesters were not related to organized indigenous groups, such as CONAIE, instead blaming drug traffickers, organised crime, and Correa supporters. In the few streets of Quito that were not blocked, taxi cabs formed a caravan that rolled through the city, honking and displaying anti-Moreno signs. On 13 October, Ecuador's government stated that it had arrested 30 people accused of being involved in the previous day's burning of the auditor's office. Across the nation's capital, demonstrators set fire to car tires in order to block streets from the entry of Ecuador's military and police forces. CONAIE, the umbrella organization representing indigenous groups nationwide, stated that it would agree to enter into negotiations with Moreno's government after the latter declared"}, {"text": "a readiness to issue concessions, but added that it would continue to protest, despite the curfew declaration. The nation's military retook control of the park and streets leading to the National Assembly building and the torched auditor's office. Return of fuel subsidies. During the late-night hours of 13 October, the Ecuadorian government and CONAIE reached an agreement during a televised negotiation. Both parties agreed to collaborate on new economic measures to combat overspending and debt. The government agreed to end the austerity measures at the center of the controversy and the protesters in turn agreed to end the two-week-long series of demonstrations. President Moreno agreed to withdraw Decree 883, an IMF-backed plan that caused a significant rise in fuel costs. Following the announcement of the deal, demonstrators were seen celebrating in Quito. After occupying the city center for weeks during the demonstrations, the protesters conducted a community clean-up project, traditionally known as \"minga\", as they left the area. While they returned makeshift barricades they had constructed from materials commandeered from construction sites, city employees removed trash in a concerted effort to restore the area. On October 14, Moreno signed Decree 894 returning fuel subsidies to previous levels. He also promised"}, {"text": "to form a special commission, consisting of indigenous leaders and other social organisations, which will be tasked with proposing new measures to curb Ecuador's current budget deficit. On 16 October 2019, the ombudsman Freddy Carri\u00f3n announced the creation of a committee of the \"Defensor\u00eda del Pueblo\" to investigate human rights violations committed during the protests between 2 and 13 October. On 17 October, the Frente Unitario de los Trabajadores (FUT) denounced the labor reforms announced by Len\u00edn Moreno and called for protests to continue on 30 October. Opposition prosecution. The government has blamed the chaos during the protests on former president Rafael Correa and the Citizen Revolution Movement (MRC). Len\u00edn Moreno said that Correa was organizing an indigenous rebellion with the support of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, an allegation denied by Correa. Since the protests started on 2 October, various MRC leaders have been arrested. On 7 October, MRC assemblyman Yofre Poma and Sucumb\u00edos prefect Amado Ch\u00e1vez were arrested, accused of trying to paralyze public services, and a court ordered pre-trial imprisonment for Poma on 9 October. On 12 October assemblywoman Gabriela Rivadeneira requested protection in the Mexican embassy in Quito, fearing detention for her criticism of the Moreno government. The Mexican"}, {"text": "Foreign Ministry also reported that opposition legislators Luis Fernando Molina, Soledad Buend\u00eda and Carlos Viteri as well as Le\u00f3nidas An\u00edbal Moreno Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez from the Pichincha Province, had also taken refuge at the Mexican embassy. On the morning of 13 October, the police arrested former Dur\u00e1n mayor Alexandra Arce and raided her home as part of an ongoing investigation. Her digital devices were searched for messages in connection to the protests. After the dialogue session of the government and CONAIE finished, on the morning of 14 October Paola Pab\u00f3n, Christian Gonz\u00e1lez Narv\u00e1ez, and Pablo del Hierro were also arrested in connection to the protests. Hours later the police searched the house of former assemblyman Virgilio Hern\u00e1ndez, whose whereabouts were then unknown. On 22 October Ecuador's state prosecutors' office opened an investigation into Jaime Vargas, head of CONAIE, after Vargas said that CONAIE would create its \"own army\". CONAIE said Vargas was referring to a \"communal guard\" to protect its territory in accordance with the Ecuador constitution. The Indigenous group said that its leaders were being persecuted by the government since the anti-austerity protests had stopped. As a result, CONAIE paused talks with the government. Reactions. International. Solidarity protests. During the weekend"}, {"text": "of 12\u201313 October 2019, Ecuadorian citizens held demonstrations in support of the protesters in Madrid (Spain) and Paris (France)."}, {"text": "Pischke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Ali Sulieman Ibrahim (born 12 September 2000) is an Eritrean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ethiopian Premier League club Hawassa City and the Eritrea national team. Early life. Sulieman was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Eritrean parents who fled the country. The family returned to Eritrea when Sulieman was four months old. Club career. Red Sea. Domestically Sulieman played for Red Sea FC of the Eritrean Premier League. He was spotted by the club at age 16 when he was competing in a zonal tournament in Asmara. He joined the club which was competing with at least three others to sign the striker. He was top scorer in the Premier League two times. Bahir Dar Kenema. In July 2021 he joined Ethiopian Premier League club Bahir Dar Kenema on a two-year deal, becoming the second Eritrean player in the league, along with Robel Teklemichael. The player was spotted by the club in Eritrea's matches against Ethiopia in the 2021 CECAFA U-23 Challenge Cup held in Bahir Dar. Sulieman made his competitive debut for the club on 27 September 2021 in a 3\u20130 victory over Adama City in the 2021 Addis Ababa City Cup. He was named"}, {"text": "Man of the Match for his performance which included his first goal and assist for the club. Three days later he was injured in a victory over Jimma Aba Jifar which saw Bahir Dar reach the final of the tournament. He was expected to miss the final match as he was to be sidelined at least twenty days. During the 2021\u201322 season he made twenty six league appearances, scoring five goals. Hawassa City. In July 2022 at the conclusion of the season, it was announced that Suleiman had signed for fellow Ethiopian Premier League club Hawassa City. International career. Sulieman made his senior international debut on 4 September 2019 in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Namibia. He also scored his first goal in the eventual 2\u20131 defeat. Later that month he was part of Eritrea\u2019s squad for the 2019 CECAFA U-20 Championship. He scored in Group Stage matches against Sudan and Djibouti. He added a brace against Zanzibar in the quarter-finals as part of the 5\u20130 victory. Eritrea went on to win the bronze medal in the tournament. In July 2021 he was part of Eritrea's squad that competed at the 2021 CECAFA U-23 Challenge Cup. He"}, {"text": "scored a hat-trick in the nation's opening match against Ethiopia, earning a 3\u20133 draw. He later scored in a 1\u20131 rematch draw against Ethiopia in the classification round. His second-half goal forced penalty kicks, during which Sulieman converted as Eritrea eventually won the match. Following the tournament he received the top scorer award with four goals. \"Scores and results list Eritrea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sulieman goal.\""}, {"text": "Erik James Olson (born January 4, 1977) is an American former professional football defensive back in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was selected in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL draft. He played college football at Colorado State University."}, {"text": "Tissanna Hanson (born 7 January 1998) is a Jamaican athlete specialising in the long jump. She represented her country at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without reaching the final. Earlier that year she won a bronze medal at the 2019 Pan American Games. She has qualified to represent Jamaica at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Her personal best in the event is 6.82 metres (+1.7 m/s) set in Kingston in 2019)."}, {"text": "Maria F\u00e1tima Barone Mora (born 17 September 1999), known as F\u00e1tima Barone, is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a centre back for Montevideo Wanderers Futbol Club and the Uruguay women's national team. She has previously played field hockey in Argentina. International career. Barone made her senior debut for Uruguay on 6 October 2019. Personal life. Barone's father, Deivis Barone, is a former footballer. Her brother, Faustino Barone, is also a footballer, and currently plays for River Plate Montevideo."}, {"text": "Ben Sanchez is a regular-footed American skateboarder from San Francisco, California. Skateboarding. After skating the Embarcadero daily for years, Sanchez was sponsored briefly by Blind, before joining the Chocolate team in 1994. Skate videos. Sanchez has appeared in several Girl Distribution skate films. Sponsors. Life, Blind, Chocolate Post-Skateboarding. Sanchez had a short, but memorable, career. First sponsored in 1994, Sanchez retired from skating by 1997. He transitioned to a career as an auto mechanic, in order to better support his child."}, {"text": "The 1908\u201309 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented the Butler University during the 1908\u201309 college men's basketball season."}, {"text": "is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Arina Tanemura. \"Neko to Watashi no Kiny\u014dbi\" was serialized in the monthly manga magazine \"Margaret\" from 2013 to 2015. Plot. Ai Tachibana is a high school student who is excited to visit the library every Friday just to see Mia Serizawa, an upperclassmen she is in love with. One day, she is asked to tutor her 5th grade cousin, Nekota Honjo. Nekota startles Ai by confessing that he is in love with her. While Ai dismisses him at first, she slowly begins to see him differently. Ai is a first year high school student who loves chocolate. Indecisive and unconfident, she is in love with Serizawa at the start of the story, but she slowly finds herself becoming attracted to Nekota after he persistently pursues her. Nekota is Ai's 11-year-old cousin who is in the 5th grade. He has been in love with Ai ever since she helped him when he collapsed a year ago and struggles for her to take him seriously as a love interest. Serizawa is a third year high school student who works with the library committee. He is friendly and is popular with his classmates, but unbeknownst"}, {"text": "to them, he is the illegitimate son of the actress Ran Selena, and because of this, he wants to have a normal life. Initially, he is in love with Ai because of her normalcy, but after noticing she is falling in love with Nekota, he suggests they break up. Afterwards, he begins dating Mosko when he realizes she is in love with him. Near the end of the series, Serizawa debuts in the idol boy band Valentine, who also appears in \"Idol Dreams\". Mosko is Ai's best friend. Her real name is , but she is nicknamed \"Mosko\" because she loves eating at MOS Burger. Mosko is uncomfortable around boys after being bullied over her weight as a child, but she soon falls in love with Serizawa and begins dating him after he and Ai break up. Nicknamed , he is Ai's childhood friend a year her senior and a genius pianist from Germany. Kanade is Nekota's classmate and one of five siblings in his family. His older brother is Hibiki Maido from \"Idol Dreams\". Ren is Ai's little sister. Media. Manga. \"Neko to Watashi no Kiny\u014dbi\" is written and illustrated by Arina Tanemura. It was serialized in the monthly"}, {"text": "manga magazine \"Margaret\" from February 5, 2013 to November 20, 2015. The chapters were later released in 11 bound volumes by Shueisha under the Margaret Comics imprint. A drama CD adaptation was released with the limited edition of volume 8. A second drama CD was released as a magazine gift in the February 2015 issue of \"Margaret\". Reception. Volume 1 debuted at #15 on Oricon and sold 48,246 copies in its first week. Volume 2 debuted at #13 on Oricon and sold 47,987 copies in its first week, with 68,313 copies sold overall. Volume 3 debuted at #28 on Oricon and sold 47,427 copies in its first week. Volume 4 debuted at #14 on Oricon and sold 57,668 copies in its first week. Volume 5 debuted at #17 on Oricon and sold 51,135 copies in its first week, with 71,666 copies sold overall. Volume 6 debuted at #18 on Oricon and sold 45,611 copies in its first week, with 67,604 copies sold overall. Volume 7 debuted at #34 on Oricon and sold 45,871 copies in its first week. Volume 9 debuted at #26 on Oricon and sold 39,272 copies in its first week. \"Kono Manga ga Sugoi!\" listed Nekota's confession"}, {"text": "to Ai as #1 in their top 10 list of Most Desired Love Confessions in 2015. Shigemi Fujisaki from \"Kono Manga ga Sugoi!\" reviewed volume 6 favorably, saying it was full of ideal love scenarios for high school girls."}, {"text": "William M. Kantor (born September 19, 1944) is an American mathematician who works in finite group theory and finite geometries, particularly in computational aspects of these subjects. Education and career. Kantor graduated with a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College in 1964. He went on to graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, receiving his PhD in 1968 under the supervision of Peter Dembowski and R. H. Bruck. He then worked at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1968 to 1971 before moving in 1971 to the University of Oregon, where he remained for the rest of his career. Kantor's research mostly involves finite groups, often in relation to finite geometries and computation. Algorithms developed by him have found use, for example, in the GAP computer algebra system. Kantor has written over 170 papers, and has advised 7 PhD students."}, {"text": "Nigel Peake (born 1981) is an Irish architect who is known for his unique drawing style. He has collaborated with well-known companies such as The New York Times, Herm\u00e8s and Flos. Peake's artwork has been exhibited in Paris, Tokyo, London, and New York. Peake studied architecture at the University of Edinburgh. In 2005, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) awarded his thesis project a \"silver medal commendation\" in their annual President's Medal Exhibition. Peake's drawings have been collected in several volumes published by Princeton Architectural Press and Yvon Lambert."}, {"text": "Udod (Cyrillic: \u0423\u0434\u043e\u0434) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The 1909\u201310 Butler Christians men's basketball team represented the Butler University during the 1909\u201310 college men's basketball season. The head coach was Walter Gipe, coaching his first season with the Christians."}, {"text": "Grete Unrein (n\u00e9e Grete Abbe, 18 November 1872\u20145 November 1945) was a German politician from Jena active during the Weimar Republic, with a particular interest in social services. With her husband Otto Unrein she established the Jena Lyceum in 1912, now the Grete Unrein Comprehensive School (\"Integrierte Gesamtschule \"Grete Unrein\"\"). Biography. The eldest daughter of wealthy industrialist Ernst Abbe, Grete Unrein had a long history of work with charitable institutions in Jena. Since the founding of the Jena Children's Hospital she endeavoured to improve its economic situation, and was also head of the Jena maternity home, a board member and chairwoman of the women's union of the Red Cross, and a patron and board member of the reading hall club (\"Lesehallenverein\"). One of her most important efforts was in providing girls and young women with equal opportunities for training and in establishing their own professions. It is thanks to Unrein's tireless work that the city of Jena took on this goal and built a \"higher school for girls\", the Jena Lyceum. Together with her husband Otto Unrein, the Lyceum's first rector, she worked to expand the Lyceum until it offered education to the Abitur level. In 1919 she ran a"}, {"text": "successful campaign for Jena city council as a member of the German Democratic Party, and was especially active on the committee for youth services. In 1932 she was elected the deputy chairperson of the city council and was granted honorary citizenship of Jena, \"in honour of her services to the common good, especially in the field of social welfare, on her 60th birthday\". As a gesture of protest, she refused along with her fellow councillors from the SPD and the Communist Party to participate in the city council meeting of 9 March 1933, when the Nazi Party seized control of the Jena city administration. During the Nazi era she often had to endure political and personal persecution. During these years, she campaigned for the rights of Jewish citizens persecuted by the Nazi regime, providing personal and financial assistance. She was the sole heir to Clara Rosenthal, a Jewish artist driven to suicide in 1941, whose family had been close with her father. After the end of World War II, she was one of the first members of the newly founded Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a successor to the Democratic Party. Her health deteriorated rapidly and she died at her home"}, {"text": "on Johann-Friedrich-Strasse 3 in Jena on 5 November 1945. She is buried in the North Cemetery (\"Nordfriedhof\") in Jena. Grete-Unrein Prize. Since 2005, the Young Liberals of Jena-Weimar have given an annual award titled the \"Grete Unrein Prize\" for \"special honorary commitment in the field of youth work\". The prize is endowed with a total of \u20ac700: a first-place award of \u20ac500 and two second-place awards of \u20ac100."}, {"text": "Salima Ziani (Tifinagh: \u2d59\u2d30\u2d4d\u2d49\u2d4e\u2d30, ; born in 1994) also known as Silya is a Moroccan singer-songwriter, human rights activist, feminist, and ex-political prisoner. She was born and grew up in the Afzar neighborhood of Al Hoceima. She later moved to Imzouren, in the Rif Region, where she's originally from. She is the youngest of six siblings: four sisters and two brothers. Studies. She enrolled at Mohammed First University in Oujda, majoring in Amazigh studies. Music. Ziani specializes in \"izran\", a traditional form of poetry performed by women, popular throughout the Rif. Political activism. Ziani is quoted in an article by Ali Jaouate in al-Aoual saying: \"I try, despite the difficulties in this patriarchal society, to constantly establish myself as well as my presence in the Hirak, so that the Rifi woman is present.\" At 23 years old, Ziani was arrested after the 20 February 2017 Al Hoceima protests, part of the Hirak Rif. She was later given a royal pardon by King Mohammed VI on July 23, 2017\u2014the 18th anniversary of his ascension to the throne. She was released on July 29, 2017."}, {"text": "The 1994 Harlow District Council election took place on 5 May 1994 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council, which it had held continuously since the council's creation in 1973. Election result. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1990 election."}, {"text": "Krishnamoorthy (1963/1964 \u2013 7 October 2019) was a comedian in the Tamil film industry in India. Career. Krishnamoorthy moved from his home town Tiruvannamalai to Madras (now Chennai) in 1983, hoping to become an actor in films. Despite being initially unsuccessful, he joined the crew of the film \"Kuzhandhai Yesu\" (1984) as an office boy, and by the end of production, he was assigned the role of production manager. He subsequently went on to work on several films and adverts as a member of the crew. As a result, he was initially credited in films as Manager Krishnamoorthy. Krishnamoorthy made a breakthrough as a comedy actor through his role in \"Thavasi\" (2001), where he notably appeared in a scene where his character asks Vadivelu's character for directions to Osama bin Laden's and George W. Bush's residences in order to forge a peace treaty between both of them. He subsequently worked on several films in the 2000s as a comedian, often appearing in scenes alongside Vadivelu. He later won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Murugan, a middle manager in a human trafficking group in Bala's \"Naan Kadavul\" (2009) and as a corrupt police constable in \"Mouna Guru\" (2011). Regarding his"}, {"text": "role in \"Yaanai Mel Kuthirai Sawaari\", a critic noted that \"there is an ice-cream seller played by Krishnamurthy who probably has got the meatiest role of his career\". Death. He died in the early morning of 7 October 2019 of a heart attack in Kumily in Kerala, where he was shooting for the film \"Pei Mama\" directed by Sakthi Chidambaram. He was survived by his wife and two children."}, {"text": "All Assam Minorities Students' Union (AAMSU) is a student organization from the religious and linguistic minorities communities of Assam. It was formed in 1980, on the eve of Assam movement, to safeguard the interest of the minorities social rights and their strangle and held rallies in Barpeta and shouting slogs of jay Aay Asom . It claims fighting for the minorities people facing prosecution at the hands of government. History. The union was formed on 31 March 1980. A convention took place at Jaleswar, Goalpara from 29\u201330 March. Two Assamese leaders of Congress (I), Lolit Doley and Dhrubanaryan Barua, addressed the convention. Abdul Hai Nagori and Azghar Ali were the first President and Secretary of the union, respectively. Mukshed Ali, advocate drafted its constitution."}, {"text": "Carolina Osorio is a full professor in Decision Sciences at HEC Montreal. Her work is focused on operations research applied to urban transportation. Early life and education. Osorio was born in Colombia. She studied in France and in the United Kingdom before earning a PhD in 2010 from \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne in Switzerland under the supervision of Michel Bierlaire. Professional accomplishments. Osorio was included in the MIT Technology Review's prestigious Innovators Under 35 list in 2015. She has created an algorithmic system that analyzes transit systems and is capable of proposing improvements to optimize traffic through evaluations and forecasts. The algorithms recreate traffic simulations using data captured by a network of urban sensors and cameras. This analysis is able to reduce traffic jams as well as emissions, and can also inform drivers of how their movements affect traffic, how much energy they consume, and the amount of emissions they produce. Her work leverages multimodal data sources including individual travelers and vehicles to analyze and optimize the performance of transportation systems at the scale of entire metropolitan areas. Awards. According to Cornell Engineering, She was recognized as one of the outstanding early-career engineers in the U.S. by the National"}, {"text": "Academy of Engineering's EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, and is the recipient of a US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an MIT CEE Maseeh Excellence in Teaching Award, an MIT Technology Review EmTech Colombia TR35 Award, an IBM Faculty Award and a European Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO) Doctoral Dissertation Award."}, {"text": "Mohamed Ezat (born 29 July 1978) is an Egyptian chess player. Career. Ezat has represented Egypt at multiple Chess Olympiads, including 2006, 2008 and 2010, He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2009, where he was defeated by Teimour Radjabov the first round."}, {"text": "Isaiah Stewart (January 6, 1966) is an American jazz-funk drummer, composer, producer and recording artist. Biography. Stewart has released six albums, the most recent featuring Randy Brecker, Eumir Deodato, Tom Scott, and Jamie Glaser with additional engineering and production by Jason Miles. His song \"Summer Girl\" was nominated for \"Best Jazz Composition\" by the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in 2018. Stewart's highest selling album to date \"Thrill Ride,\" featuring Glaser, remained in ReverbNation's top ten worldwide rankings for eight consecutive weeks. He studied musical composition and arrangement at the Berklee College of Music and drumming with Steve Gadd, Billy Cobham, Tony Williams, Dave Weckl, Mike Portnoy, and Virgil Donati. Stewart resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. Discography. 2000: Life Games (Fortress Hill) 2005: Urban Playground (Fortress Hill) 2010: Won World (Fortress Hill) 2010: Groove Garden (Fortress Hill) 2015: Thrill Ride (Fortress Hill) 2018: Summer Beat (Fortress Hill)"}, {"text": "Wendell & Wild is a 2022 American gothic stop motion-animated comedy horror film directed by Henry Selick from a screenplay written by Selick and Jordan Peele (who are also producers), based on Selick's and Clay McLeod Chapman's unpublished book of the same name. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as the titular characters with Angela Bassett, Lyric Ross, James Hong, and Ving Rhames in supporting roles. This was Selick's first feature film since \"Coraline\" (2009). Selick began developing his stop-motion animation feature with Key and Peele set to star in November 2015. The distribution rights were picked up by Netflix in March 2018. Other voice cast were confirmed in March 2022. Production was done remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, with filming taking place in Portland, Oregon. It premiered at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2022, was released in select cinemas on October 21, 2022, and made its streaming release in Netflix on October 28, 2022. It received generally positive reviews from critics who welcomed Selick's return and praised its stop-motion animation and characters, but criticized its screenplay. The film is dedicated to Mark Musumeci, an electricity consultant who worked on almost all of Selick's previous"}, {"text": "stop-motion features since \"The Nightmare Before Christmas\", who died during production. Plot. Eight-year-old Katherine \"Kat\" Elliot lives with her parents Delroy and Wilma, who own a root beer brewery in the town of Rust Bank. On their way home, Kat's parents were killed in a car crash. In the underworld, demon brothers Wendell and Wild spend their days putting rejuvenating hair cream on their balding father, Buffalo Belzer, dreaming to build an amusement park rivalling his. They taste the cream, causing them to hallucinate of Kat, also discovering it can resurrect the dead. Five years later, Kat becomes a juvenile delinquent who blames herself for her parents' deaths. She is enrolled in Rust Bank's all-girls Catholic school, headed by Father Bests. Kat saves Siobhan Klaxon, whose parents Lane and Irmgard's private prison company Klax Korp back the school and took over the town, her from a falling brick through premonition, earning her respect. Meanwhile, Marianna Cocolotl investigates the burning of the brewery and is convinced that the Klaxons purposely burned it with its workers. The Klaxons murder Bests, the last witness to the brewery arson, when he decides to not fund the school anymore. During a class from Sister Helley,"}, {"text": "Kat receives a skull-like marking on her hand, being told to hide and tell no one. This alerts Wendell and Wild, identifying Kat as their \"hell maiden\", and appear to her in a dream, falsely promising to revive her parents if she summons them to the living world. Kat steals a teddy bear, Bearzebub, from Helley's desk and goes to her parents' grave with Ra\u00fal, Marianna's transgender son, serving as her witness. But by taking the wrong way, the brothers appear in a different part of the cemetery, where Kat believes she has been stood up. Wendell and Wild test the cream on Bests, resurrecting him. Bests convinces the Klaxons to pay him and the brothers to revive the deceased members of the town council to give the Klaxons the votes needed to demolish Rust Bank and expand their prisons, on the condition that nobody else is revived. The brothers force Kat to serve them, lying of her parents' resurrection. Forced to exhume the council members, whom the brothers revive, Ra\u00fal steals the cream, reviving Delroy and Wilma himself. Reunited with her parents, Kat helps Ra\u00fal escape the brothers. After the zombie council approves the Klaxons' plans, paying Bests and"}, {"text": "the brothers, Siobhan discovers her parents' lies about their prisons' conditions. Helley and Manberg make Kat undergo \"soul binding\", confronting her memories, severing her allegiance with the brothers, making her acknowledge her parents' death was not her fault. The ritual grants Kat control of her precognition, which Helley reveals are from her hell maiden powers. Learning their resurrection, Bests and the brothers kidnap Kat's parents and take them to the cemetery to kill them, though Kat's group intervene. Siobhan, who followed her pygmy goat Gabby Goat to the cemetery, reveals that her parents paid Bests and the brothers worthless company money. Belzer discovers the brothers' deception, but a mural by Ra\u00fal painted on the roof of Rust Bank's houses convinces him to make up with his sons. Learning they are Belzer's children, Manberg releases his collection of jarred demons in exchange for Kat's group. Belzer apologizes to Wendell and Wild, approving their plans for their Dream Fair. Bests dies again, leading to Belzer stating that the cream's effects are impermanent. Helley tells a worried Kat that her powers can help change Rust Bank. Recalling that Ra\u00fal needed a witness to prove the Klaxons guilty, Kat tells him to use the"}, {"text": "last bits of cream to revive as many deceased brewery workers as possible. The group fend off the bulldozers conducted by the council to demolish the town while Ra\u00fal revives three brewery workers to testify to the Klaxons' crimes, resulting in their arrest. The cream's effects wear off on Kat's parents, but before they die, Kat shows them a glimpse of the future where Rust Bank is revived; Wendell and Wild offer them VIP passes to their afterlife fair. Kat makes peace with her life, considering everyone her friends, even Wendell and Wild themselves. Production. Development. On November 3, 2015, it was reported that Henry Selick was developing \"Wendell & Wild\", a new stop-motion feature with Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, based on an original story by Selick. On March 14, 2018, the film was picked up by Netflix. In a July 2019 interview, Key described the voice acting process, where \"Jordan and I came in and did a session against static at recording booths, sitting looking across at Jordan and it's lots of ideas flowing, cutting each other off to keep that organic feeling. That usually ends up on the cutting room floor as you find the voices and"}, {"text": "you want a little refinement\u2013some rhythm. We spent a good deal of time with an initial scene that Henry wrote discovering the characters and the framework of the scene. And then he uses that as inspiration to keep writing\". Pablo Lobato served as lead designer on the stop-motion puppets. On March 14, 2022, the cast was revealed by Netflix on YouTube. Animation. As of June 15, 2020, production was being done remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lead writer and voice actor Peele stated that he \"had an absolute blast working with Henry Selick and the crew for \"Wendell & Wild\". I cannot wait for you to discover this film\". In an October 8, 2020 interview with \"The Hollywood Reporter\", the film's producer, Gotham Group CEO Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, elaborated on the project: \"We're mid-production in Portland, Oregon, where the crew has suffered through fires, most recently, COVID and a lot of political and social unrest. It's been a very challenging movie.\" Editing was done by Robert Anich, and Peter Sorg was cinematographer. By February 2021, production was ongoing in Portland. After \"Coraline\", Selick felt stop-motion animation had become so smooth it had become indistinguishable from computer animation, defeating some of the"}, {"text": "purpose of stop-motion. He decided to allow flaws, such as keeping the seam lines on replacement faces visible, and shooting fewer frames per second in some scenes. Except for a stop-motion software called Dragonframe, he used more or less the same types of tools and techniques he used in \"Coraline\" more than a decade earlier. Part of the film was done as cutout animation to make the puppets look more two-dimensional. They were made of tin coated with silicone. Inspired by the shadow-puppet animation in \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 1\", and an idea originally intended for Selick's yet-to-be-made stop-motion film \"The Shadow King\", some of \"Wendell & Wild\" was done as silhouette animation, utilizing a combination of physical cutouts and CGI, with CGI used when cutouts were too limiting. Music. On June 4, 2020, Bruno Coulais was confirmed as the composer. Its soundtrack has been noted for its emphasis on Afro-punk bands, and includes the songs \"Ma and Pa\" by Fishbone; \"Germfree Adolescents\" and \"I Am a Poseur\" by X-Ray Spex; \"Ghost Town\" by the Specials; \"River\" by Ibeyi; \"The Wolf\" by the Brat; \"You Sexy Thing\" by Hot Chocolate; \"Young, Gifted, Black, in Leather\" by"}, {"text": "Special Interest; \"Freakin' Out\" by Death; \"Fall Asleep\" by Big Joanie; \"Cult of Personality\" by Living Colour; \"Wolf Like Me\" by TV on the Radio; \"Boot\" by Tamar-kali; and \"Raising the Dead\" and \"Scream Faire\" by Coulais. Speaking about the film's soundtrack, Selick stated: Before Afro-punk, there was Fishbone. There was actually several black punk bands. Fishbone was punk, ska, funk. But I ended up meeting those guys, who are still performing, and we have one of their songs in the film. They're still performing now, but I met them in the 1980s. And I wrote and directed a music video of one of their songs called \"Party at Ground Zero\"... And then there's all these other pioneers of the time that, some are forgotten, some are remembered, especially with the Afro-punk movement, they're remembered. But there was bands, you know, Death, Pure Hell. The Brat, which was a Chicano band, actually, in L.A. Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex. Bad Brains. Fishbone. Producer Win Rosenfeld suggested the use of Fishbone's \"Ma and Pa\" as a means of \"building that bridge, sonically\" between the characters of Kat and her parents. Release. \"Wendell & Wild\" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival"}, {"text": "on September 11, 2022 and was released in select theaters on October 21, 2022, before its release on Netflix on October 28, 2022. On November 6, 2018, Netflix announced that it would be available for streaming in 2021. On July 18, 2019, Key announced the film was planned to be released in late 2020. On January 14, 2021, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos revealed that the release would be moved to \"2022 or later\" to meet Netflix's criteria of releasing six animated features per year. Simon & Schuster would adapt the screenplay to novel form, to tie into the film's release. Reception. Critical reception. Chase Hutchinson of \"Collider\", gave a positive review, saying, \"when it all comes together, \"Wendell & Wild\" ends up feeling liberating, both artistically and thematically, with top work from all involved.\" Sarah Bea Milner, of \"/Film\", also gave a positive review, writing, \"move over \"The Nightmare Before Christmas\" \u2014 there's a new stop-motion horror flick in town.\" Michael Rechtshaffen, of \"The Hollywood Reporter\", further praised the film for being \"a fresh, highly original concoction of playful Grand Guignol proportions.\" Radheyan Simonpillai, of \"The Guardian\", wrote \"the more characters Selick has to work with, the more room there"}, {"text": "is for his deliciously strange and comic visual craft.\" In a positive review, for \"RogerEbert.com\", Brian Tallerico wrote \"there's no denying that this is a world that animation fans will just want to explore, to live in, to savor. It's been too long since we got a window into Henry Selick's brain and it's still an amazing view.\" Meagan Navarro, of \"Bloody Disgusting\", gave a lukewarm review, writing, \"it's an entertaining, if a bit overstuffed, romp through hell and back, with memorable characters and amusingly macabre hijinks.\" Esther Zuckerman, writing for \"Vanity Fair\", said the film \"is slightly too convoluted with some world-building short-changed, but it twists and turns to a place of genuine emotion and a rousing call to take down the ghouls of the real world rather than the demons of the underworld.\" \"The Playlist\"'s Jason Bailey praised the characters and stop-motion animation, assigning the film a grade of \"B-\" but ultimately concluding: \"If it were a might tighter (it runs a rather flabby 105 minutes), or more rapidly paced, they might've really had something here; the highs are high, but Selick struggles to keep its narrative momentum going\"."}, {"text": "Delaney Lyn Spaulding (born May 9, 1995) is an American, former collegiate All-American, medal-winning Olympian, softball shortstop. Spaulding played college softball for the UCLA Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference from 2014 to 2017. She represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal. Career. Spaulding has been named a Second Team and three-time First Team All-Pac-12 player. She was also chosen twice as a National Fastpitch Coaches Association Second Team All-American. Personal life. Delaney has a sister who also played college softball at North Carolina, Danielle Spaulding. International career. Delaney has played for Team USA since 2016 and competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal. During the tournament, she recorded a double and four walks for the team. During the gold medal game against Team Japan, Spaulding recorded one walk in a 2\u20130 loss."}, {"text": "Alissa Marie Chavez is an American inventor and entrepreneur. She is known for her invention \"Hot Seat\", an alarm for child car seats being left occupied, which she invented as a teenager. She is the founder and CEO of the company Assila. Early life. Chavez was born in 1997 and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by her single mother, a childcare owner. She has always had a passion for working with children. The children she has worked with have been her inspiration behind her children's products. Invention. At age 14, Chavez conceived the Hot Seat alarm as a science fair project, after hearing that many babies died from being left in cars. She later refined the idea and patented it, helping people with newborn care. The invention by Alissa Chavez aims to reduce the chance that a child will die in an overheated car. Alissa worked with engineers to perfect the hot seat and raised money on a site named \"Indiegogo\" to develop a prototype so it could be manufactured. The hot seat consists of a pad that can sense if a child is in the car and communicates wirelessly with a fob attached to a parent's key chain. If"}, {"text": "the parent walks more than 10 meters away without the child, it will trigger the fob, the parent's smartphone through the app, and the car itself. Alissa raised enough money on \"Indiegogo\" to build a prototype that manufacturers can use to mass produce the product. The reason Chavez wanted to create this product to help kids is because her mother runs a home daycare, so she was affected by stories about children dying in hot vehicles after being forgotten by accident. Alissa released her second product in the spring of 2019. In 2019 she announced a new invention, a baby bottle that stores water and dried formula separately, for mixing when needed. Alissa started her own company called Asilla LLC. Assila is her name backward, which was inspired by Oprah's \"Harpo.\" She started her company at age 14 after hearing the many tragic stories of children dying from being accidentally left in hot vehicles. Accomplishments. Following the invention of the hot seat, Alissa gained a lot of media attention appearing on national and international TV and radio shows including, the Today Show, Ryan Seacrest Radio Show, NBC News, ABC News, Fox and Friends, Huffington Post, Washington Post, and USA Today."}, {"text": "She was also named one of Glamour Magazine's \"Woman of the Year: Hometown Heroes.\" She has also spoken at TEDx events, Microsoft digital camp, school events, and fundraisers. Alissa Chavez has multiple other accomplishments such as being featured in the book \"Girls Think of Everything\" by Catherine Thimmesh. She's also won many awards: Future Founders U. Pitch 3rd Place Winner, Future Founders U. Pitch Semifinalist, Univision Premios Juventud, 40 Under 40 Albuquerque Business First, University of New Mexico Rainforest Pitch Competition Winner, Gold American Business Award, Tech Startup of the Year, Silver American Business Award, Tech Startup of the Year, Hardware, Bronze American Business Award, Tech Startup of the Year, Software, New Mexico Small Business Success Story presented by Sandia National Labs, Innovation New Mexico Honoree, Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Tech Heroes, Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Hometown Heroes, Good Samaritan Award from Mayor Richard Berry of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Excellence Award\u201d Albuquerque Public School District. Education. Alissa Chavez also attended The University of New Mexico. She graduated with a bachelor's degree of Arts - BA, Communication receiving this degree in May 2020. She also received a master's degree in Public Administration in the year 2022. With"}, {"text": "these years of education, Alissa was also able to get 21 endorsements under Management and another 21 endorsements under Project Management to help get her inventions into mass production to produce as many as possible. She was also able to gain skills in strategic planning, Microsoft Office, social media, photoshop, marketing, customer service, patents, television, radio, advertising, and lastly, graphic design."}, {"text": "Ntokozo Siboniso Mamba (born 24 February 1991) is a Liswati football player who plays for the Eswatini national team. He debuted on 4 September 2019 in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification, and scored his first goal for Eswatini against Djibouti in a 2\u20131 defeat. \"Scores and result list Eswatini's goal tally first.\""}, {"text": "This article documents statistics from the 2003 Rugby World Cup, held in Australia from 10 October to 22 November. Team statistics. The following table shows the team's results in major statistical categories. No teams were shown a red card during the tournament. Hat-tricks. Unless otherwise noted, players in this list scored a hat-trick of tries. Stadiums. Attendances. Top 10 highest attendances."}, {"text": "Lutz G\u00f6tz (1891 \u2013 1958) was a German stage and film actor."}, {"text": "John Marino (born May 21, 1997) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman for the Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers, 154th overall, in the 2015 NHL entry draft. Personal life. Marino was the second of two sons born on May 21, 1997, in Easton, Massachusetts, U.S., to parents Jen and Paul II. Both Marino and his twin brother Paul III weighed over seven pounds, leading doctors to believe one of them would be born with a condition. After Paul III was born with bowed legs, a doctor at Boston Children's Hospital suggested their parents enroll him in hockey lessons. This was because the stride needed for hockey could allow a natural process for his legs to straighten. Jen and Paul II thus decided to enroll both of their sons in hockey lessons at nearly two years old. Playing career. Amateur. Marino played junior hockey with the South Shore Kings in the United States Premier Hockey League before he was selected in the fifth-round, 154th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. After a single season with the Tri-City Storm in the United States Hockey League (USHL),"}, {"text": "he committed to a collegiate career with Harvard University of the ECAC. Marino played college hockey at Harvard from 2016 to 2019. He scored his first collegiate goal on October 28, 2016 against Arizona State. In 2016\u201317, Marino was named Second Team All-Ivy League. Professional (2019\u2013present). Pittsburgh Penguins. On July 26, 2019, Marino was acquired by the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a sixth round pick. On August 8, 2019, he left the college ranks as he was signed to a two-year, entry-level contract with the Penguins. Marino made his NHL debut on October 8, 2019, in Pittsburgh's game against the Winnipeg Jets. He scored his first NHL goal on November 4, against Jaroslav Halak of the Boston Bruins. On February 6, 2020, in a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Marino sustained a broken cheekbone after getting hit in the face by a puck from a slapshot by Lightning\u2019 captain Steven Stamkos. This injury would cause Marino to miss the next 11 games. Prior to the start of the 2021\u201322 season, Marino trained with Brian Dumoulin in Boston. Together, they would skate before working out at the home gym in Dumoulin's garage in Charlestown. On January 3, 2021, Marino"}, {"text": "signed a six-year, $26.4 million contract extension with the Penguins. New Jersey Devils. On July 16, 2022, Marino was traded by the Penguins to the New Jersey Devils in return for Ty Smith and a 2023 third-round pick. Utah Hockey Club. On June 29, 2024, the Devils traded Marino and a 2024 fifth-round pick to the Utah Hockey Club in exchange for a 2024 second-round pick, and a 2025 second-round pick."}, {"text": "Dora Altbir (born 21 February 1961) is a Chilean physicist in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. She was awarded the National Prize for Exact Sciences (Chile) in 2019 for her work in the theoretical study of magnetic nanostructures. She is currently a professor at the University of Santiago, Chile. Altbir is director of the Center for the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CEDENNA) and director of the \"Direcci\u00f3n de Investigaci\u00f3n Cient\u00edfica y Tecnol\u00f3gica\" (DICYT) at University of Santiago, Chile. She is a corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences."}, {"text": "Junqiao Wu is a Chancellor's professor and Department Chair of materials science at the University of California, Berkeley. Wu's materials science research focuses on semiconductors, electronic materials and thermal energy transport. Wu's research in semiconductors has led to major discoveries in the field, such as indium gallium nitride alloys have bandgaps spanning the entire near infrared to ultraviolet spectrum, electrons in vanadium dioxide conduct energy without conducting heat, a temperature adaptive radiative coating that automatically switches thermal emissivity, as well as a range of applications in solar cells, infrared imaging, photonics, and thermoelectrics. He received a BS degree from Fudan University, a MS degree from Peking University, and a PhD degree under Prof. Eugene Haller from UC Berkeley. He received postdoctoral training under Prof. Hongkun Park from Harvard University. His honors include the Berkeley Fellowship, the 29th Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award, the U.C. Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Berkeley Presidential Chair Fellowship, the US-NSF Career Award, the US-DOE Early Career Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House, the Outstanding Alumni Award from Peking University China, the Bakar Faculty Fellows Award, elected Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) and the 2023"}, {"text": "John Bardeen Award from the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). He is currently on the Chair Line of the Division of Materials Physics at the American Physical Society (APS), and holds joint appointment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."}, {"text": "Kelsey Stewart-Hunter (born August 15, 1994) is an American professional softball player for the Volts of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL). She won two softball National Championships with Florida Gators softball and has been named a Second Team and two-time First Team All-SEC player, including being named 2015 SEC Player of the Year. She was also chosen a National Fastpitch Coaches Association First Team All-American in 2014\u201315. She graduated as a member of the select 300 hits, 200 runs, 100 stolen bases club. She has been of the United States women's national softball team since 2014. She was a member of the national softball team that won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She later played in the Athletes Unlimited Softball and in 2021 was the third best individual points leader for the league. Early life. Stewart grew up in Wichita, Kansas. She graduated from Maize High School in 2012. Career. Stewart played college softball at Florida. During her senior year in 2016, she was one of two active players in the country with 300-plus hits, 200-plus runs and 100-plus stolen bases. She is Florida's all-time leader in hits runs scored (259), total bases (509), hits (357),"}, {"text": "triples (29), stolen bases (113), batting average (.393) and on-base percentage (.458). On January 29, 2025, Stewart was drafted thirty-six overall by the Volts in the inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball League draft. National team. Stewart represented the United States women's national softball team at the 2020 Summer Olympics. During the tournament she had two hits, including the only home run for Team USA. Stewart and Team USA lost in the gold medal game to Team Japan."}, {"text": "A statue of Horace Mann by Emma Stebbins is installed outside the Massachusetts State House, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Description and history. The bronze sculpture depicts Mann holding a book, and rests on a granite base. It was designed in 1863 and cast in 1865. The artwork was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1997. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, police closed the gates to the State House lawn, cutting off public access to several of the statues, including Mann, Anne Hutchinson, John F. Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge and Daniel Webster. These statues are still visible at a distance from the Beacon Street sidewalk, through a fence. Only the equestrian statue of Joseph Hooker and the statue of Mary Dyer remained open to close public inspection, as they are located in the pedestrian plaza of the building's main public entrance. \"I understand why the gates are shut, and I'm not going to question any security measures,\" said Susan Greendyke Lachevre, art collections manager for the Massachusetts Art Commission at the State House, in \"The Boston Globe\" in 2006. \"But the monuments were made for the public. It is a shame that"}, {"text": "the public can't get any closer to them.\" Public access to the Kennedy statue was restored in 2015, by allowing State House visitors, after clearing the security checkpoint, to exit the building at a nearby door staffed by security officers. This access is limited to weekdays during business hours in spring and summer. Visitors are still not allowed full access to the State House lawn and the other statues."}, {"text": "The Cave (known in Thai as Nang Non, ) is a 2019 Thai action-drama film about the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, written and directed by Tom Waller and co-produced by Waller and Allen Liu. The story is written from the points of view of several individuals involved in the rescue operation, and features cave diver Jim Warny and others as themselves. The film premiered at the 2019 Busan International Film Festival, and was released in Thailand on 21 November. It had a re-edited release in 2022 as Cave Rescue. Summary. The film covers events of the 2018 cave rescue, focusing in turn on several individuals who contributed to the rescue effort, including water pump manufacturer Nopadol Niyomka, retired Thai Navy SEAL Saman Kunan, and especially, Ireland-based cave diver Jim Warny. Production. The film was produced by Waller's Bangkok-based De Warrenne Pictures. Waller began working on the film soon after the actual events of June\u2013July 2018, and decided on the story after meeting Warny in Ireland. He co-wrote the script with Don Linder and Katrina Grose, focusing on \"the unsung heroes\u2014how they first heard what was happening, how they reacted and dropped everything to help.\""}, {"text": "Several individuals involved in the effort portrayed themselves in the film. Most of the filming took place from October 2018 to January 2019, but it was not until February that Waller was allowed to film at the Tham Luang Nang Non cave. The majority of cave scenes were filmed in other caves in Thailand as well as on a set built over a swimming pool. The film was the first about the rescue to be released, while exclusive rights over the boys' stories had been sold to Netflix. Release and reception. The film premiered at the Busan International Film Festival on 5 October 2019, and was shown at the Vancouver International the BFI London film festivals before its release in Thailand on 21 November. It made 1.1 million baht (US$36,000) on its opening day, and was the second-largest opening that week, following \"Frozen 2\", which earned $9.92 million. Critical reception to the film was mostly muted. Writing for \"The Hollywood Reporter\", Elizabeth Kerr described the film as \"a technically proficient but unemotional rescue drama.\" Wendy Ide wrote in \"Screen International\", \"Like the cave rescue itself, the film isn't the disaster it easily could have been. But it's far from achieving"}, {"text": "an equivalent triumph.\" According to the \"Bangkok Post\" Kong Rithdee, the story \"feels thin and depthless at times,\" but ultimately, the film \"justifies its existence quite sufficiently.\" In Thailand, a minor plot point, where pump manufacturer Nopadol's efforts were initially hampered by bureaucratic requirements, generated heated online discussion. Also, Governor Narongsak Osottanakorn, who led the rescue operation, criticized Waller for not representing the entire operation, as well as for making \"jokes that attack the works of Thai civil servants\". Waller countered that the Governor should not have criticized without first seeing the film. A re-edited version of the film, under the title \"Cave Rescue\", received a limited theatrical and digital release by Lionsgate on 5 August 2022."}, {"text": "Eduard Kubat (1891\u20131976) was a German film producer, who also directed two films. During the Nazi era he was employed by Terra Film, but following the Second World War he went to work for DEFA, the state-controlled company of East Germany."}, {"text": "Bridesmaid are an instrumental stoner rock band from Columbus, Ohio consisting of two bass players and two drummers. History. Founded in 2010, the band was initially a trio. The original members were Bob Brinkman and Scott Hyatt on bass guitars and Cory Barnt on drums. Barnt eventually moved and during the transition period both Ricky Thompson and Barnt were drummers and the larger sound inspired Brinkman and Hyatt to keep two drummers. Adam Boehm was added when Barnt left. Eventually, Thompson left and Barnt returned maintaining the two bass and two drums lineup."}, {"text": "A statue of author, historian, and minister Edward Everett Hale by Bela Pratt is installed in Boston's Public Garden, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The bronze sculpture was dedicated on March 3, 1913. It was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993."}, {"text": "Motel Beds are an indie rock band from Dayton, Ohio. History. The band was initially formed in the early 2000s by singer P.J. Paslosky, guitarist Tommy Cooper and drummer Ian Kaplan. The band went on hiatus soon after but reformed in 2008. Their first release with Misra Records was \"These Are the Days Gone By\", a collection of previously released tracks which were remastered by Carl Saff along with two unreleased tracks. The album features \"Tropics of the Sand\" with Kelley Deal of The Breeders and a cover of Matthew Sweet's \"I've Been Waiting\". After leaving Misra, they recorded \"Mind Glitter\" for Anyway Records an album PopMatters called \"their best album to date.\" After the release of \"Mind Glitter\", the band quietly went on hiatus partially thanks to the move of bassist Tod Weidner across the country, until a reunion show in Dayton was announced to be performed July 19, 2024."}, {"text": "Isabel Cristina Chinchilla Soto is a researcher in environmental science, agronomy and agricultural plant science who works at the Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n en Contaminaci\u00f3n Ambiental (CICA). In 2011, she was selected as a fellow for the Women in Science International Fellows in Ecology for Costa Rica. She is an author of articles published in the Central American repository for research, known as the SIIDCA-CSUCA. She is listed as one of the \"Outstanding women scientists to receive 2011 L\u2019OR\u00c9AL-UNESCO Awards (3 March) and Fellowships (2 March)\". She is an instructor at the University of Costa Rica. She studied pollution and contamination of the environment."}, {"text": "The Stampa are a well-known family of old Italian nobility that rose to prominence in the 15th century. They were Grandees of Spain, members the Order of the Golden Fleece and owned many estates throughout the Italian Peninsula, including a Castle in Soncino, a Palace in Milan, and countless others in Muggi\u00f2, Melzo, Gorgonzola, Rivolta d'Adda, Ferentino and Rome. They are related to some of the most important Italian noble houses, such as the Doria, Sforza, Gonzaga, Borromeo and Visconti. Early history. The Stampa trace their ancestry back to Carlo Lanfranco of the dukes of \u00c9tampes, later governor of Milan under Charles the Great. His descendants settled in Milan and Gravedona, and ruled over the Val Bregaglia. The best evidence for this is the city of Stampa, named so by the family in honour of its ancestors. However, historians such as the Count Pompeo Litta do not believe these sources, arguing that it was very common for aristocratic families to trace their ancestry back to France. One of the earliest documents Litta could find dates to 1277, when the Archbishop Ottone Visconti became Lord of Milan: it consists in a register compiled by Ottone himself, granting several privileges to the"}, {"text": "most influential families of the city, including the Stampa and their progeny. The Stampa decided the destiny of Milan on more than one occasion. The first time was in 1450, when they helped Francesco I Sforza become Duke of Milan. In February the Venetians had sent an ambassador, Leonardo Venieri, to negotiate the city's surrender and help them defeat Sforza. Giovanni Stampa marched onto Milan with his army and killed Venieri on the stairs of Palazzo Reale, forcing the Milanese to surrender. The Duke was naturally obliged to the family, and rewarded them with many honours. Stampa di Soncino. The branch of Soncino, arguably the most important of all, originated with the emblematic figure of Massimiliano I Stampa, son of count Pietro Martire Stampa and countess Barbara Crivelli. Massimiliano was a loyal courtier of Francesco II Sforza and castellan of the Sforza Castle from 1531. The Duke held him in high regard, and in 1534 was appointed to accompany the future duchess Christina of Denmark on her first trip to Milan. He also hosted a reception for her in his Cusago Castle, which he bought that same year. After the death of Francesco II in 1535 the city was about"}, {"text": "to plunge into chaos, just as it happened when Filippo Maria Visconti died. To avoid disorders, Massimiliano took charge of an embassy and offered Milan to Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In recognition, Massimiliano was created 1st Marquess of Soncino and granted an allowance of 50.000 scudi. The family ruled over Milan until 1876, and the city flourished immensely under their guidance. Massimiliano Cesare Stampa, the last Marquess of Soncino, died without children and donated his castle to the municipality. His assets were acquired by the Casati family, thus creating a new branch called Casati Stampa di Soncino. \"After Massimiliano IX Giovanni's death, the Casati inherited the title of Marquess of Soncino, which was held unofficially by Camillo Casati Stampa from 1876 to 1892\" Stampa di Ferentino. In the early years of the 18th century Carlo Gaetano Stampa moved to central Italy and acquired a palace near the Vatican, Palazzo Capponi Stampa. A few years later his cousin Pietro Antonio Stampa inherited the palace, settling in Rome and marrying a local noblewoman, who had a dowry of estates in Ferentino and Alatri. In 1779, with the consent of Pope Pius VI, Pietro Antonio's youngest son Angelo joined"}, {"text": "the council of the 15 noble families of Ferentino. He and his older brother Filippo were loyal servants of the papacy, so much that in 1770 Pope Clement XIV appointed them state administrators of the Duchy of Castro. There is still a plaque in his memory at the entrance of Ferentino\u2019s town hall: \"Count Filippo Stampa (1710\u20131789), scholar and administrator, lived here. A.D. 2001\" Among the other commercial activities which the Stampa administered on behalf of the Holy See, there were several iron mines in Elba. The family also had the wood cutting rights in the area of Canino. It was a very lucrative business, but when Lucien Bonaparte was confined to the Papal States, he claimed part of those estates. After Napoleon's exile to Saint Helena, Pope Pius VII offered Angelo Stampa's first born Pietro an important job within the Papal States to compensate him for the financial damage. The relationship between the family and the Holy See continued with succeeding generations. Cardinal Mastai Ferretti, later Pope Pius IX, ensured that Domenico Stampa contracted a good marriage with Paolina Vinciguerra, last heir of the counts Antonini di Alatri. The family continues to exist in Rome and Milan."}, {"text": "Den\u00ed Ram\u00edrez Mac\u00edas (also known as Den\u00ed Ram\u00edrez) is a Mexican marine biologist, ocean scientist, conservationist, and has been the director of Whale Shark M\u00e9xico (Tiburon Ballena Mexico) since 2003. She leads the \"Giants of Peru\" project of the Save Our Seas Foundation. Ecology Project International lists Ram\u00edrez among \"women scientists who are saving the planet\", and \"one of the few experts on whale shark genetics in the world\"; she helped the Mexican government develop management plans for whale shark tourism and conservation. Ram\u00edrez helped form the nonprofit Hawai\u2018i Uncharted Research Collective, which she encouraged to collect whale shark sightings in the Hawaii region to help complete the picture of their lives. Ram\u00edrez founded Conexiones TerraMar which promotes science, conservation and education. Biography. Den\u00ed Ram\u00edrez-Mac\u00edas was born on May 9th 1978 in Mexico city; however, she spent two years in the Netherlands as a baby, returning to Mexico City at the age of three. Den\u00ed Ram\u00edrez-Mac\u00edas spent her teens years in Cuernavaca and Tepoztl\u00e1n. Ram\u00edrez fell in love with diving at the early age of 7 while in Chankanaab, Cozumel. This experience inspired her to complete a Doctor of Science in Biology specializing in whale shark population genetics. Career. Prior"}, {"text": "to her academic career, Ram\u00edrez created a non-profit organization that focused on environmental education, ConCiencia Mexico, with a group of friends. This NGO was initially inspired by Ram\u00edrez and her friends while cleaning beaches. This mentality of environmental education inspired Ram\u00edrez to pursue a career in academics, specifically marine biology. She continued her career in academics by focusing on her love for the ocean which brought her to work with large marine species such as whale sharks and manta rays. Ram\u00edrez has received grants from organizations such as WWF, Save our Seas Foundation, and Rufford foundation to fund her research. Den\u00ed Ram\u00edrez-Mac\u00edas completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Biology at University of La Paz, Mexico, her Master of Science with Honours in Marine Science through the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Sciences in La Paz, Mexico and her Doctor of Science in Biology through the Northwest Biology Research Centre in La Paz Mexico. Her research has allowed her to travel to the Gulf of California to complete the first study in the world on whale shark population genetics. The field work for her PhD was completed in the Philippines where she collaborated with whale shark experts around the world"}, {"text": "investigating the whale shark population structure and abundance in the Gulf of California and Holbox Island. Her research continues to focus on the migratory patterns of whale sharks in the Gulf of California and surrounding areas, whale shark behaviour and contaminants. Ram\u00edrez has become a whale shark expert, like those she worked with in her PhD. She is now the Director of Whale Shark Mexico and has been active on the scientific committee for the last 2 International Whale Shark Conference in Australia. Additionally, she has been advising for whale sharks projects in Honduras, Hawaii and Venezuela. In 2016 she commenced a project in Peru working with EcOceanica, a Peruvian NGO, in addition to Save our Seas Foundation, to conserve whale sharks and their habitat. Her team is composed solely of females with a passion for marine animals and conservation. Recently, she founded a second non-profit organization, Conexiones TerraMar which promotes science, conservation and education. Den\u00ed Ram\u00edrez-Mac\u00edas\u2019 passion extends beyond whale sharks into manta rays, which she has been studying in Archipelago of Revillagigedo since 2006. She performed ultrasounds to observe the pregnancy of the mantas in Ecuador in collaboration with Marine Megafauna Foundation of Ecuador and on Mobula munkiana"}, {"text": "from Isla Espiritu Santo in collaboration with Pelagios Kakunj\u00e1. Ram\u00edrez-Mac\u00edas\u2019s research has also been used in conservation of other marine species in addition to the creation of protected areas for whale sharks and their management.Ram\u00edrez helped form the nonprofit Hawai\u2018i Uncharted Research Collective, which she encouraged to collect whale shark sightings in the Hawaii region to help complete the picture of their lives."}, {"text": "Jane was launched in 1813 at Fort Gloucester, Calcutta. She transferred her registry to Britain and sailed between Britain and India or Batavia. She was last mentioned in 1820, though the registers continued to carry her until 1826. Career. \"Jane\", Maughan, master, was off Portsmouth on 10 May 1815, having come from Bengal and Saint Helena. \"Jane\" arrived at Gravesend on 13 May. In 1813 the EIC had lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain. British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a license from the EIC. \"Jane\"s owners sold her in England, and she proceeded to trade from London to India and South-East Asia. Her owners applied for a licence on 3 July 1815 and received it the next day. \"Jane\" first appeared in \"Lloyd's Register\" (\"LR\") in the volume for 1815. Although \"LR\" listed \"Jane\" as sailing to India, she sailed between Great Britain and Bengal or Sumatra. On 16 February 1818 as \"Jane\" was returning to Greenock from Bengal, she encountered a severe gale between the Azores and the Newfoundland Banks. She was towed into Cork on 20 March, the storm having dismasted her and almost turned"}, {"text": "her into a complete wreck. Seven lascars of her crew died of frostbite. T.Maughan sailed for Bencoolen on 20 August 1818. \"Jane\" returned to service and from 1821 to 1826 both \"LR\" and the \"Register of Shipping\" (\"RS\") showed her with Maughan, master, Maitland, owner, and trade London\u2013Batavia. They did not, however, carry any indications of repairs. In a list of licensed ships, \"LR\" for 1821 showed \"Jane\", Maughan, master, and Maitland, ship's husband, sailing for Batavia from London on 21 February 1820. SAD data in \"LL\" showed \"Jane\", Maughan, master, sailing from Gravesend for Batavia on 7 February 1820. A few days later she was at Deal. Thereafter there is no mention of \"Jane\", Maughan, master, in \"LL\", either in the news or in the SAD data. There is one last press mention. On 28 March 1821 she was reported to have been at Siam. She was one of several vessels that the Dutch Government had chartered to carry salt from Siam to Batavia. Fate. \"Jane\" was last listed in 1826."}, {"text": "For the Girls is the seventh album and sixth studio album of actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth. Overview. On August 13, 2019, Chenoweth announced via her social media that she would release her next studio album in the fall of 2019. The album would be her most personal cover album yet, paying tribute to many strong female artists who inspired her, including Dolly Parton, Barbra Streisand, Doris Day, Judy Garland, Carole King, and others. She also revealed that the album would include duets with artists such as Parton and Reba McEntire, along with her former \"Hairspray Live\" co-stars Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson. The lyric video for \"You Don't Own Me\", a duet with Ariana Grande, was released the same day as the album on September 27, 2019. In support of the album, Chenoweth announced she would return to Broadway with her second Broadway concert residency of the , consisting of eight performances at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre."}, {"text": "Louisiana's 20th State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Republican Mike Fesi since 2020, succeeding fellow Republican Norby Chabert. Geography. District 20 is located in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes along the Gulf of Mexico, including some or all of Thibodaux, Lockport, Cut Off, Golden Meadow, Houma, Dulac, and Chauvin. The district overlaps with Louisiana's 1st and 6th congressional districts, and with the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, and 55th districts of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Recent election results. Louisiana uses a jungle primary system. If no candidate receives 50% in the first round of voting, when all candidates appear on the same ballot regardless of party, the top-two finishers advance to a runoff election."}, {"text": "Prann Records was a record label founded by musician Ike Turner in 1963. Turner used this label to release singles by artist he was producing outside of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Records on Prann were distributed by CIRCA distributing firm. CIRCA (Consolidated International Record Company of America) was formed in 1962 to operate as a releasing company for independent labels by working with various distributors around the US. Artists. Singer-songwriter George Jackson released his first single on Prann Jackson started writing songs while in his teens, and in 1963 introduced himself to Ike Turner at a concert. Turner took him to Cosimo Matassa's studios in New Orleans to record for Prann. Singer Fontella Bass recorded for Prann early in her career when she was a member of Oliver Sain's band. Turner also recorded for Prann under his alias Little Bones."}, {"text": "Yukiko Ogawa () is a materials science researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Ogawa's research focuses on next-generation structural materials \u2014 particularly lightweight ones such as magnesium alloys \u2014 that show promising potential to improve fuel efficiency in vehicles, make electronic devices more portable and open up new possibilities in medical devices. The use of magnesium alloys has been limited as they are difficult to shape into new forms. But Ogawa succeeded in controlling the microstructure and mechanical properties of magnesium by heat treatment, which had previously been considered impossible. Ogawa grew up in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture and studied engineering at Tohoku University in Sendai. In her spare time, Ogawa enjoys reading novels, sewing, embroidery and painting. She also travels with her husband and family and visits hot springs. Awards. For her efforts in creating the next generation of smart materials, Ogawa was recognized in 2018 with both the L'Or\u00e9al-UNESCO For Women in Science International Rising Talent and the 28th Young Researcher Award, Japan Institute of Metals and Materials. The following year, she became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the \"Asian Scientist\"."}, {"text": "A statue of Quaker religious martyr Mary Dyer by Sylvia Shaw Judson is installed outside the Massachusetts State House, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Description and history. The bronze sculpture was commissioned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and dedicated on July 9, 1959. It depicts Dyer sitting on a bench and wearing Quaker clothing. The artist used Anna Cox Brinton as the model for the face of the statue, which rests on a stone base. It was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993. The Dyer statue, along with the nearby equestrian statue of Joseph Hooker, remained open to the public even after the September 11 attacks in 2001 prompted state authorities to close the gates to the State House lawn, limiting access to statues of Anne Hutchinson, John F. Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge, Horace Mann and Daniel Webster. Identical castings stand before the Friends Center, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, and Stout Meetinghouse at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana."}, {"text": "Bonnie Kathaleen Land (21 November 1918 - 7 October 2012) was a computer and mathematician at NASA's Langley facility. The 2016 movie \"Hidden Figures\", which brought awareness to this early success within the NASA space program, was written by Land's former Sunday school student, and Land served as one of the first interviewees during research for the novel. Land was called the \"inspiration behind, catalyst for, and gateway to\" the creation of \"Hidden Figures\". She was married to Stanley Land and had three daughters. She died on 7 October 2012. Biography. Bonnie Kathaleen Pleasants was born on 21 November 1918 in Bridgewater, Virginia. She married Stanley Land on 1 December 1941 in Newport News, Virginia, and they had three daughters. She worked as a human computer and mathematician at NASA's Langley Research Center facility. When Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of \"Hidden Figures\", was a child, Land taught her in Sunday school following Land's retirement from NASA. Land was one of the first people Shetterly interviewed when she began researching for the \"Hidden Figures\" book, and Land provided several of the names of the human computers who were featured in the book and film. She is described as \"the inspiration"}, {"text": "behind, catalyst for, and gateway to \"Hidden Figures\"\". Land died on 7 October 2012 in Hampton, Virginia."}, {"text": "Protest of the Sioux, also known as The Protest, is a 1904 equestrian statue by Cyrus Dallin. It was the third of four important statues of indigenous people on horseback commonly known as \"The Epic of the Indian\", which also includes \"A Signal of Peace\" (1890), \"The Medicine Man\" (1899), and \"Appeal to the Great Spirit\" (1908). The statue depicts a mounted Sioux warrior wearing a war bonnet defiantly shaking his right fist. According to Rell G. Francis, it depicts \"a Sioux chief vigorously protesting the confiscation of his lands and buffalo by the white man\". A monumental version made of staff was exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904, where it won a gold medal. The temporary statue was retained after the exhibition, but rapidly deteriorated. Unlike the three other statues in the series, \"Protest of the Sioux\" was never cast as a full-size bronze, so it survives only in statuette form. Bronzes high were cast by Gorham Manufacturing Company in the early 1900s, and a similar bronze is at the Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah. It was cast in 1986 from a bronze version made by Dallin in 1903 which"}, {"text": "is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. An example of the bronze statuette was sold at Christie's in 2006 for US$36,000."}, {"text": "Foweles in the frith is a short, five-line Middle English poem. It is found in a manuscript from the thirteenth century (Douce 139) containing mostly legal writings, and is accompanied by a musical score for two voices. The poem, which features both rhyme and alliteration, is one of a relatively small number of lyric poems from that century, and the only one with music. It is not entirely clear whether the poem is complete, or just the refrain of a longer poem: there are no other poems in the manuscript that provide any context. While it may well be a secular love song, there is no consensus on whether it is secular or religious. Text. <poem></poem> Interpretations. According to Thomas Moser, most critics until the 1960s read the poem as a secular love poem, reading the last two lines as \"I walk with much sorrow because of a woman who is the best of bone and blood\". But then more allegorical readings were proposed, specifically by Edmund Reiss, who provided a religious reading for the poem, with a focus on the word \"beste\" in the last line: an Old Testament-inspired meaning sees \"beste\" as \"beast\", meaning that humankind after the"}, {"text": "Fall of man suffers \"sulch sorw\", and a New Testament-reading pointing to Christ as the \"\"best\" of living beings\". Reiss's religious interpretation was convincing to James I. Wimsatt, but not to John Huber or to R. T. Davies, who found it unbelievable. Moser sees the \"beast/best\" reference as a pun. In Middle English, both could be written as \"best\": Modern English \"best\" was earlier written as \"betst\" but had lost the medial -t- by the thirteenth century; Modern English \"beast\" was [beste] in Middle English, pronounced /best/ with a long vowel, but scribes did not usually mark vowel length. In other words, both words could easily be spelled identically in the thirteenth century. Reiss saw another dual meaning in the word \"wod\", in the third line, usually read as the Middle English word for \"mad\". It also, Reiss argues, continues the list of natural environments listed in the first two lines--\"frith\" (\"forest, game preserve\") and \"flod\" (\"flood\"). Reiss sees that series also in the first nouns of these three lines: \"fowles\", \"fisses\", and \"I\". \"Wod\", however, in its double meaning, indicates man's estrangement from nature after the Fall. R. T. Davies was not impressed with Reiss's reading of \"wod\". Thomas"}, {"text": "Moser details the various Old and New Testament readings at length. The Old Testament reading, which is mostly concerned with Creation and fallen man's role in it, hinges on the multiple uses of \"fish and fowl\" in scripture (the words do not occur together in the New Testament), which typically indicate \"the totality of the created world\". A New Testament reading can take the imagery of spring, a frequent occurrence in Middle English religious poetry, as a reference to Easter. In that reading, which has plenty of complications, the \"foweles\" might be a reference to Christ's words in the \"Foxes have holes\" passage of Matthew 8:18\u201320. In the end, however, Moser contends that nothing should stand in the way of a purely secular reading: the \"nature opening\" is conventional for love poems, as is the reference to \"blood and bone\" in love poetry, which Moser points out occurs also in \"The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale\" and in \"Blow Northern Wind\" (both in the Harley Lyrics). Stephanie Thumpsen Lundeen argues that the poem resembles \"The Clerk and the Girl\", a secular love poem from the Harley Lyrics, where the speaker, in love and miserable, also fears going mad. Musical score and"}, {"text": "performances. The poem is one of eight medieval lyrics that comprise Benjamin Britten's \"Sacred and Profane\" (1975)."}, {"text": "Cooper Magisterial District is one of ten magisterial districts in Mason County, West Virginia, United States. The district was originally established as a civil township in 1863, and converted into a magisterial district in 1872. In 2020, Cooper District was home to 1,700 people. Geography. Cooper District is located in the northern portion of Mason County, between the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. To the north, Cooper is bounded by Graham District, to the northeast by the Ohio, to the east by Cologne District, to the south by the Kanawha, and to the west by Lewis and Robinson Districts. Arbuckle District lies across the Kanawha to the south, and to the northeast, on the far side of the Ohio is Letart Township, in Meigs County, Ohio. The district includes Letart Island, a half-mile long island near the southernmost point of the Great Bend of the Ohio River, just above Letart Falls, a former rapid, now submerged, lying between Letart, West Virginia and Letart Falls, Ohio. At nearly fifty-three square miles, Cooper District ranks fifth in size out of Mason County's ten magisterial districts, following Clendenin, Arbuckle, Union, and Hannan. Most of the district is covered by hills and ridges, separated by"}, {"text": "narrow valleys, except for a relatively small proportion of bottom lands located along the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. At a height of thirteen hundred feet, Fenley's Peak, in the center of Cooper District, is the highest point in Mason County. Fertile soil characterizes both the hills and valleys. The main streams flowing into the Kanawha River from Cooper District are Rockcastle Creek, which flows southwest and enters the river at Ambrosia; Eightmile Creek, which flows out of the hills behind Brighton, and Kanawha Tenmile Creek, which forms the boundary between Cooper and Cologne Districts for most of its length. The Lick Fork and Kings Branch of Kanawha Tenmile, along with the latter's tributary, Shade Fork, lie within Cooper District; the Cooper Fork is in Cologne. In the central portion of the district are the headwaters of Threemile Creek, which flows westward into Lewis District before entering the Kanawha; the upper course of Oldtown Creek, which flows westward through Robinson District, before turning south and entering the Ohio River in Lewis District north of Point Pleasant; the Fallentimber Branch and Trace Fork of Oldtown Creek, along with the upper part of another tributary, Rayburn Creek; the upper course of Robinson Run,"}, {"text": "which flows westward into Robinson District, before joining Oldtown Creek; and the upper part of the Wolfpen Branch of Robinson Run. Flowing northward into the Ohio are Tombleson Run, and its tributary, Claylick Run, which enter the river above Letart Island; Mud Run, which joins the Ohio at Letart; and Brinker Run, which enters the river above the Racine Locks and Dam. There are no incorporated towns in Cooper District, but there are several unincorporated villages, including Ambrosia, Ash, Board, Brighton, Debby, Flat Rock, Greer, Harmony, Letart, Oak Grove, and Santown. Two highways run through Cooper District. West Virginia Route 2, locally known as the Clarksburg Road, passes through the district from west to east, between Point Pleasant, at the mouth of the Kanawha, and Ravenswood, in Jackson County. West Virginia Route 62 follows the Kanawha River to Point Pleasant along the southern part of Cooper District, locally known as Charleston Road, then follows the course of the Ohio River north, passing through the northwestern part of the district, where it is known as Graham Station Road. Other important routes include Sand Hill Road, which runs through the middle of the county between Point Pleasant and Letart. The Racine Locks"}, {"text": "and Dam is located in the Ohio River off Route 62 below Letart. The Kanawha River Railroad travels through the Kanawha Valley in the southern part of Cooper District. Leasing its lines from Norfolk Southern, the railway carries freight from southeastern West Virginia to central Ohio. This line was originally part of the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad. A second line, originally part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and now part of CSX, follows the course of the Ohio River for the length of the county, traveling through the northern part of Cooper District on its way from Huntington to Parkersburg. Until the early twentieth century, a ferry carried passengers across the Ohio between Letart and Letart Falls; another operated on the Kanawha River between Debby and Beech Hill. History. The first European settler in Cooper District was Leonard Cooper, who in 1792 built a blockhouse near the mouth of Eightmile Creek for protection against the Indians. At the time, there were no other fortifications between Point Pleasant and the Coal River. Other settlers soon followed. The first schoolhouse was built near the headwaters of Threemile Creek about 1806. The district's first post office was established at Letart Falls about"}, {"text": "1840, followed by those at Flat Rock and Brighton. After West Virginia gained its independence from Virginia in 1863, the legislature enacted a law requiring the counties to be divided into civil townships. Mason County was divided into ten townships, each of which was named after a pioneer settler of Mason County. Like the other townships, Cooper was converted into a magisterial district in 1872. It is the only Cooper District in the state. Communities. The village of Letart, occasionally referred to as Letart Falls, like the village on the opposite side of the river, developed at the mouth of Mud Run, near the rapids that gave both settlements their name. The falls, in turn, are said to have been named after a young man who drowned in the Ohio at an early date. For a number of years, Letart was the site of several boat yards, where flat boats and barges were constructed, earning the village the nickname of \"Chiselburg\". Located on the headwaters of Robinson Run, about a mile and a quarter southeast of White Church, the community of Board takes its name from Oldtown-Board Baptist Church, itself named after Andrew Board, who came to Mason County from"}, {"text": "Wirt County after the Civil War, and helped establish a church in the little valley below Upper Flats. Board preferred the name \"Oldtown\" after Oldtown Creek, of which Robinson Run is a tributary, but over his objections the congregation insisted on adding his name to the church. Debby, on the Kanawha River below Tenmile Creek, was the site of a post office, and the Beech Hill station of the Kanawha & Michigan Railway, opposite Beech Hill in Arbuckle District. Flat Rock was built along the Clarksburg Road, now West Virginia 2, on the upper waters of Oldtown Creek, eight miles east of Point Pleasant. Adolph Hess built the first store there in 1867, and other settlers soon followed, with a post office established in 1873."}, {"text": "Bradford Lance Costello (born December 24, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was a punter in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans and Boston University Terriers. Professionally, he played for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL) and the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe."}, {"text": "Mariama Colley is a radio personality, human rights activist and actress from The Gambia. Mariama is best known for her support to society through volunteering and as the lead character in \"Hand of Fate\". Career. She is a radio personality and an actress, she all has passion for social work through volunteerism Awards. Mariama Colley was awarded The National Certificate of Merit as Youth of the Month by The Gambian Ministry of Youths and Sports, in collaboration with the Balance Group, for her contribution to national development, nominated for African Oscars as result of the female lead role she played in the movie Hand of Fate."}, {"text": "Joaqu\u00edn Ignacio de Freitas (born 21 April 1978) is a former Uruguayan rugby union player. He played as a centre. He played for Champagnat Rugby Club in the Campeonato Uruguayo de Rugby. He had 21 caps for Uruguay, from 2000 to 2006, scoring 1 conversion and 2 penalties, 8 points in aggregate. He had his first game at the 23-12 win over Namibia, at 22 September 2000, in Montevideo, in a tour. He was called for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, where he played in two games, one as substitute, but did not score. He had his last cap at the 33-7 loss to the United States, at 7 October 2006, in Stanford, for the 2007 Rugby World Cup qualifyings."}, {"text": "The Good House is a 2021 American drama film directed by Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky, who wrote the screenplay with Thomas Bezucha. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ann Leary. It is the final Amblin Partners film to be produced under the Participant label for social justice content (since Participant terminated its equity stake in Amblin Partners, ending its relationship with the company on November 30, 2020 and also ceased operations due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes on April 16, 2024). Plot. Hildy Good, once the most prosperous realtor in Wendover, has fallen on hard times following her divorce and her family's insistence she go to rehab for alcoholism. Her former assistant, Wendy, also stole her clients while she was in rehab, adding to her problems. Hildy attempts to aid a local family with an autistic child sell their home, so they can move and enroll him in a special school by getting her former boyfriend, Frank, to renovate their home. She renews her relationship with Frank, but the home sale falls through, and she finds out her former clients yet again are stolen by Wendy. Hildy befriends a woman, Rebecca, who she"}, {"text": "sold a house to her and her husband and is then drawn into her life. She discovers Rebecca and the local psychiatrist, Peter, are having an affair, but she promises she won't reveal their secret. Hildy continues to drink in solitude instead of in the open, justifying her drinking by saying she just needs to take the edge off and that she doesn't \"need\" to drink. Peter approaches her about selling his home, but says it's not set in stone and not to speak of it; Hildy assumes this means he will be asking his wife for a divorce. Hildy decides not to drink anymore after one night when she is cornered in the cellar and drinks two bottles of wine. She avoids alcohol for quite a while, and then finds out that Peter is selling his home and using Wendy as a realtor instead of her. She confronts him and says he will destroy her career if he gives this sale to Wendy, so she threatens him with the information she has about him and Rebecca. Hildy is able to sell the house of her friends after all when a couple from New York suddenly purchases it sight unseen."}, {"text": "She then uses that sale to snag the large estate the Santorelli brothers built in Wendover. She celebrates with the Santorelli brothers in a bar, taking her first sip of alcohol in a while, and then can't stop. She drives drunk to Frank's house, telling him they need to celebrate, and Frank takes her keys and offers to drive her home. She gets angry and refuses, saying she'd rather walk. The next day, she is awakened by Frank, and he shows her the car in her driveway with a damaged front end; she had walked back to his house after getting the spare key and driven back home. Jake, the autistic son of her friends is missing, and they fear the worst. Frank hides her car, then leaves to help with the search, while Hildy goes to the kitchen to take a drink when Peter walks in dripping wet. They have a conversation where he says the missing boy is fine, but she needs to get herself under control. Suddenly, he disappears and Hildy hears her oldest daughter in the house, so they go to help with the search. The police find a body in the water, but it ends"}, {"text": "up being Peter, meaning Hildy had hallucinated her talk with him, and she collapses, begging for help. Jake is found safe by Rebecca while horseback riding (and unaware of Jake being missing or Peter being dead) and is led home. Frank shows Hildy his boat, having found it in a salvage yard after his Army stint. Hildy willingly goes into rehab this time and accepts that she does have a drinking problem, and the movie closes with her and Frank sailing on the boat he made for her when they were young. Production. It was announced on September 23, 2019, that filming had begun in Canada on the project. Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky were directing the film in addition to writing the screenplay, and Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline cast to star. Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Beverly D'Angelo, David Rasche, and Rebecca Henderson were added to the cast the next month. On November 5, 2019, Kelly AuCoin and Kathryn Erbe joined the cast of the film. Release. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on September 15, 2021. Originally, Universal Pictures was set to distribute in the United States and some other international"}, {"text": "territories, but the film's U.S. rights were later said to be on sale. On June 13, 2022, days before the film's premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 18, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions acquired North American rights to the film. Following the film's premiere at Tribeca, it was released on September 30 the same year. The film was released for VOD on October 18, 2022, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on November 22, 2022. Reception. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, \"The Good House\" holds an approval rating of 73% based on 78 reviews with an average of 6.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads: \"\"The Good House\" creaks in spots, but with Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver providing load-bearing performances, it's far from a fixer-upper.\" On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film has a score of 62 out 100 based on 16 reviews, indicating \"generally positive reviews\"."}, {"text": "Benjamin Franklin Scott (1922\u20132000) was an American chemist and one of the African American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project, working at the University of Chicago. Early life and education. Scott was born in Florence, South Carolina, on October 19, 1922, the son of Benny and Viola Scott. He had two older sisters, Mary and Rosa. Scott earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College, an HBCU (historically black college university), in 1942, where he later became president of the Alumni Club. In 1950, he earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Chicago. Career. During World War II from 1943 to 1946, Scott worked at the Met Lab, metallurgical laboratory, at the University of Chicago, as part of the instrumentation and measurements section; likely working on isotope isolation and fission, although records have been unclear. He was one of fifteen African-American scientists who contributed to the development the Manhattan Project, which was authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on December 28, 1942, the year Scott graduated from Morehouse. The year before, President Roosevelt outlawed racial discrimination in the defense industries, \"Executive Order 8802 of 1941\". Scott described the project to the \"Chicago Daily Tribune\" as"}, {"text": "a \"not only a successful experiment in physical science, but also in sociology\". He added that working alongside white people maintained a fair spirit. While getting his master's degree after the war, he also worked as a subcontractor and manufacturer of Geiger counters, instruments that are used to detect radiation, from 1946 to 1950. From 1949 to 1963, he served as a radiochemist and then chief chemist for the Nuclear Instrument Company (which was renamed to the Nuclear-Chicago Corporation). In 1963, Scott began working as a Technical Director for the New England Nuclear (NEN) Assay Corporation (Boston, MA). While there, he published several peer-reviewed journal articles, in journals such as \"Analytical Chemistry\" and \"Journal of Radioanalytical Chemistry,\" which is a top-tier journal in the chemistry field, as well as Atomic Energy Commission reports. Scott published his research efforts in the Journal of Radioanalytical Chemistry and several reports published by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1952, 1959, and 1961 focusing on radiometric methods and emission by uranium-235. Uranium-235 is used as a primary element used to power nuclear reactions and embodies many chemical structures. Following his scientific career, Scott became the executive director of United Mortgage Bankers of America, the trade"}, {"text": "association of black mortgage bankers in the United States. Following his time there, he returned to Sumter, SC in 1979 to teach at the University of South Carolina, briefly teaching Sumter High School and Hillcrest Middle School in 1985. In 1969, Scott published his first book, \"The Coming of The Black Man.\" Personal. Scott married Bessie Joyce Sampson, of South Carolina, and had one son, Christopher Jehu Scott, in 1950. He later had a daughter, Joyce Scott Burton-Edwards. He died on October 16, 2000, at the age of 77, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter, South Carolina."}, {"text": "Anastasia Nikolaevna Agafonova (; born 4 August 2003) is a Russian artistic gymnast. She was part of the Russian team that won silver at the 2019 World Championships. Career. Agafonova trains at the Vladimir Oblast Specialized Children's and Youth Sports School for the Olympic Reserve in Artistic Gymnastics. Junior career: 2016-2018. Agafonova competed at the 2016 Russian Espoir Championships where she finished 4th in the all-around and won the silver medal on the uneven bars behind Ksenia Klimenko. She competed at the 2017 City of Jesolo Trophy with Klimenko, Valeria Saifulina, and Varvara Zubova, and they won the bronze medal in the team competition behind the United States and Italy. At the 2017 Russian Junior Championships, she won the silver medal in the individual all-around, the bronze medal on the uneven bars and the silver medal on the balance beam. Agafonova missed 2018 season due to injury. Senior career: 2019-present. In March, Agafonova competed at the senior Russian Championships, winning team and bars silver and placing ninth in the individual all-around. In late May, Agafonova won the uneven bars at the World Challenge Cup event in Osijek, Croatia. She also competed at the World Challenge Cup in Paris where she"}, {"text": "won the gold medal on the balance beam as well as the silver medal on the uneven bars behind Melanie de Jesus dos Santos. Agafonova was part of the Russian team that competed at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart. Alongside her, the team included Angelina Melnikova, Lilia Akhaimova, Aleksandra Shchekoldina, Daria Spiridonova, and Maria Paseka (alternate), and they won silver in the team final. She then competed at the FIG World Cup in Cottbus where she won the silver medal on the uneven bars behind Fan Yilin. Her last event of the season was the Voronin Cup, and she won the gold medal on the uneven bars."}, {"text": "More Like Me may refer to:"}, {"text": "Gwendolyne Elizabeth Cowart (April 24, 1920 \u2013 February 28, 2003) was an American pilot who served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II. Early life. Gwendolyne Elizabeth Cowart was born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1920, the daughter of James Monroe Cowart and Louie Leonie Lester Cowart. Her father was a locomotive engineer; her parents were divorced in 1928. She was raised by her mother in Georgia, and as a young woman performed on roller skates in shows. She attended Mount de Sales Academy in Macon, Georgia. Career. Cowart was \"the youngest girl in the South to get a commercial flying license,\" and was an officer in Atlanta's Southeastern Aviatrix Association in 1940. That year, she made news for landing a plane in a cow pasture after it ran out of fuel. During World War II, Cowart first served as an assistant instrument instructor for the U.S. Navy at Camp Gordon, before she became a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP). She trained to fly pursuit fighter aircraft at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, and was assigned to New Castle Army Air Base in Delaware. She was a member of the Women's Flight Training Detachment headed by"}, {"text": "Jacqueline Cochran. She ferried P-38s and P-47s across the United States. \"You know, you can pick up a nice 350 miles an hour in those ships,\" she told an interviewer in 1944. Later in life, she worked as an artist for the Corpus Christi Independent School District. Personal life. Cowart married fellow pilot James Hickerson. She had a son, Gary Hickerson. She died in 2003, in Houston, Texas, aged 82 years. She was named in the listing of WASPs awarded a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal in 2009."}, {"text": "Mount Desire Dyke is designated place of geological significance. It is located north-east of Hawker in South Australia, on the edge of the Flinders Ranges. The dyke (or dike) is a rock structure where mobile material, being a breccia of rock salt and rubble (as in 'salt diapirs') has intruded into cracks in folded Adelaidean sediments in the geological past The site was added to the South Australian Heritage Register on 30 March 1998. Its significance is described as follows: This site contains a number of features of considerable importance to research and debate concerning the nature and origin of the Mt Desire Dyke and other diapirs of the Flinders Ranges, including: typical dolomitic-vanished evaporite breccia and dolostone/metasediment xenoclasts (to km in size) of probable Willouran origin; sharp irregular and distinctive contacts with early Cambrian units such as the Mernmerna Formation, Oraparinna Shale, and Wilkawillina Limestones, including a particularly important apophysis interpreted as an intrusive re-entrant; and significant brecciation in, and metamorphic incongruence between, the material of the dyke and the adjacent Cambrian limestones."}, {"text": "The Supreme Court of Brunei Darussalam is, in theory, the highest court of Brunei Darussalam, though its decisions are subject to appeal in civil cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The Chief Justice and other Judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the Sultan of Brunei to sit in judgment of the most acrimonious contentions in the country. Supreme Court Building. The Supreme Court of Sarawak, North Borneo, and Brunei was replaced by the Supreme Court of Brunei Darussalam in 1963. The High Court and Court of Appeal that make up the new Supreme Court have the same authority as the previous Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Building has had several locations since it was founded, including Kuala Belait. Both the former Secretariat Building and the old Lapau Building were partially occupied by it. The new Supreme Court Building was the subject of an architectural competition that the government held in 1978. Sungai Kedayan to the east and Jalan Tutong to the north border the building's chosen location. The building's construction started in February 1981 and was finished in 1983. The structure cost B$20 million to construct and has a 96,500 square foot floor space. The"}, {"text": "Supreme Court Building's ribbon-cutting event took place on 15 March 1984. Judges. Judges of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong were granted permission by the government of Hong Kong to serve as Judges of the Supreme Court of Brunei Darussalam. It was standard procedure to appoint Supreme Court of Hong Kong judges as Judicial Commissioners of the Supreme Court of Brunei Darussalam for a three-year term. In 1993, this long-standing legal agreement with Hong Kong came to an end. When it comes to filling vacancies on the Brunei Supreme Court, Brunei have still continued to use the services of former Hong Kong justices. The Chief Justice of Hong Kong would frequently be named as the Chief Justice of Brunei Darussalam. Although Sir Denys Tudor Emil Roberts, the previous Chief Justice of Hong Kong, retired from his position as Chief Justice of Hong Kong with effect from 15 March 1988, he continued to serve as Chief Justice of Brunei Darussalam. On 24 May 1988, Yang Ti-liang, the Chief Justice of Hong Kong, was chosen to lead the Court of Appeals. Until May 16th, 1993, he served as the Court of Appeals' President. Kutlu Tekin Fuad, a retired judge from the Hong"}, {"text": "Kong Court of Appeal, was chosen to lead the Court of Appeal on 17 May."}, {"text": "Phyllis Griffiths (1905 \u2013 1978) was a Canadian sports journalist. She was posthumously inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in 1978. Early life. Griffiths was born to parents Henry Griffiths and Alice Elizabeth Dalton in 1905. The family immigrated to Canada when Griffiths was five years old and she grew up in Toronto, Ontario. Career. After finishing high school at Parkdale Collegiate Institute, Griffiths was hired by the Toronto Telegram as a journalist. In 1928, she earned her own sports column entitled \"The Girl and The Game\" which she wrote for 14 years on women's sports at every level. While working for the Telegram, Griffiths attended the University of Toronto, where she played basketball while earning her degree. She spent four seasons with the University of Toronto women's basketball team, where she led the Varsity Blues to three Championships and was captain for one season. Her journalist gig eventually earned her the role as the first woman photo editor at a Canadian newspaper. Despite this, she continued to coach the Toronto Varsity Blues Women's Basketball Team and led them to back-to-back championships in 1929 and 1930. This was a result of McGill University's efforts to promote"}, {"text": "equality in sports. The Montreal university threatened to pull-out from inter-collegiate competitions unless every university hired a female coach. Griffiths retired from journalism in 1967 and subsequently died in 1978. She was posthumously inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in 1978. She was also inducted into the University of Toronto Hall of Fame in 1987."}, {"text": "Alexis SueAnn (born 6 February 1995) is a Malaysian model, fashion blogger, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Malaysia 2019. She represented Malaysia at Miss World 2019, where she placed in the Top 40. Personal life. Alexis is a Malaysian Chinese hailed from Selangor. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology. In 2015, she became the youngest female weekday radio announcer at Hitz, after winning the Hitz Announcer Search. She also used to be a rover host for some of 8TV's \"Quickie\" segments. She is eloquent in Bahasa Melayu, English, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. Career. Pageantry. In 2018, she competed in the Miss Universe Malaysia 2018 and was named as the first runner-up of the pageant. Alexis was crowned Miss World Malaysia 2019 as well as winning the Miss Talent, People's Choice and Beauty with a Purpose subsidiary awards at the Mega Star Arena, in Kuala Lumpur on 6 October 2019. She succeeded outgoing Miss World Malaysia 2018, Larissa Ping. In the final question and answer round, Alexis was asked what would something that she wish to change about the world. She answered: As Miss World Malaysia 2019, she represented Malaysia at Miss World 2019, which was"}, {"text": "held at ExCeL London, London, United Kingdom in December 2019, where she advanced into the top 40 quarter-finalists. She automatically advanced to the top 40 after her \"Beauty with a Purpose\" project was placed amongst the top 10. Besides, she was also placed in the top 27 for Miss World Talent and she was also one of the favorite to win the Multimedia Award via Miss World website as she placed in the top 10. At the end of the pageant, Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica was crowned as Miss World 2019. Humanitarian works. Alexis passion in humanitarian works started when she was young. Since twelve years old, she would follow her mother who worked for a foundation to old folks' and children's home regularly. When she was sixteen, she together with her mother and other volunteers, including Thanuja Ananthan, Miss World Malaysia 2009 participated in the \"Climb of Hope\", an expedition to scale Mount Kinabalu and successfully raised RM 50,000 for the National Cancer Society of Malaysia (NCSM). As her Beauty with a Purpose project, she initiated a project of her own, #Chance4Change. The project, a collaboration with Orphancare Foundation, aims to focus on providing awareness and education on baby"}, {"text": "dumping, and sexual grooming for youths in colleges as well as sustainable income solution for teen and single mothers."}, {"text": "Khidr Bey or Khidr Beg (; ) was an Ottoman Sunni Hanafi-Maturidi scholar and poet of the 9th/15th century, and the first kadi (qadi) of Istanbul. The unique source for his biography is the Arabic original of \"al-Shaqa'iq al-Nu'maniyya\" by Tash-Kopru-Zade. Biography. He was born in Sivrihisar, where his father, Jalal al-Din, was kadi \u2014 though the fact that the latter was, also. He completed his studies in Bursa under the famous scholar Molla Yegan, whose daughter he married, and is then said to have returned to Sivrihisar as a teacher. He acquired such a reputation for learning that he was appointed to the madrasa of Murad II in Bursa with an increase in stipend, and certain of his pupils here were subsequently to become scholars of great eminence. Next he taught at the madrasa of Bayezid I in Bursa, again with an increased stipend, and in addition was appointed kadi of \u0130neg\u00f6l. From here he moved to the newest of the two madrasas in the \u00dc\u00e7 \u015eerefeli Mosque in Edirne, and thence to Yanbolu (in present-day Bulgaria) as kadi. His three sons, Ya'kub Pasha, Mufti Ahmad Pasha and Sinan Pasha, were also notable scholars, the latter being the author"}, {"text": "of the famous Tadarru'dt. Death. After the conquest of Istanbul in 857/1453, he was appointed its first kadi, in which post he remained until his death in 863/1458-9. He is buried in the Zeyrek quarter of Istanbul, where he also built the mosque later attributed to a certain Hadjdji Kadin. He was buried next to the tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (Ey\u00fcp Cemetery), the companion of Muhammad who died during the First Arab Siege of Constantinople (674\u2013678 CE). Works. Although Khidr Beg is reputed to have introduced the versified chronogram into Ottoman literature, very few of his Turkish poems have survived and his reputation rests on three poems in Arabic. The first, a didactic qasida in the basit metre on the creed, is known as the Nuniyya and has been the subject of several commentaries, most notably that by his pupil al-Khayali. Another qasida, also a Nuniyya, also called Jawahir al-'Aqa'id (), dealing with the creed, but in the wafir metre, is usually known as 'Ujalat layla aw laylatayn (), is paid special attention in Ottoman period by writing many commentaries. Finally, there is a Mustazad, in a Persian variety of the hazadj metre, which was greatly admired and attracted"}, {"text": "imitations for over a century. Bursali Mehmed Tahir mentions a translation into Persian of the Mafdli' which he made at the request of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, the work in question probably being the \"Matali' al-Anwar\", on logic, by Siraj al-Din Urmavi (d. 1283)."}, {"text": "Leonovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 453 as of 2010. There are 13 streets. Geography. Leonovo is located 6 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novoye Annino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Techera is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Letovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Letovo is located 27 km north of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Svintsovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lipna () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 704 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Lipna is located on the Bolshaya Lipnya River, 15 km east of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Trud is the nearest rural locality. The Klyazma and the Oka are the most important rivers in the oblast. The Klyazma River flows from north to south and is the largest tributary of the Oka River, which flows through the oblast from southwest to northeast. These rivers are used for irrigation, transportation, and hydroelectric power generation. There are also approximately three hundred lakes in the oblast."}, {"text": "Logintsevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Logintsevo is located on the Somsha River, 38 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ankudinovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Lugovoy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 162 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Lugovoy is located 25 km southwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pokrofskogo torfouchastka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Malye Gorki () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010. Geography. Malye Gorki is located 35 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bolshiye Gorki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "FM4 is an Austrian national radio station. FM4 may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Markovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 133 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Markovo is located on the Verkhulka River, 29 km southwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pokrov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Markovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. The village is located on the Peksha River, 25 km north from Peksha, 32 km north-east from Petushki."}, {"text": "Marochkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010. Geography. Marochkovo is located 16 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yemelyantsevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Maslyanye Gorochki () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Maslyanye Gorochki is located 23 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Aniskino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "A statue of Alexander Hamilton by William Rimmer is installed along Commonwealth Avenue, between Arlington and Berkeley Streets, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Description. The 1864\u20131865 granite statue measures approximately 10 ft. x 3 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 4 in., and rests on a granite base measuring 8 ft. 5 in. x 5 ft. 4 in. x 5 ft. 4 in. The base has three relief portrait busts depicting Hamilton, John Jay, and George Washington. History. The artwork was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1993. Reception. The statue was widely regarded as a failure by nineteenth-century commentators. The critic George B. Woods stated that Hamilton appeared to be \"swathed like an infant or a mummy.\" William H. Downes wrote that it \"suggested a snow image which had partly melted.\" Lincoln Kirstein, writing in 1961, offered a more favorable assessment, commenting that \"the mass and its drapery are powerfully suggestive, anticipating Rodin's \"Balzac\" in the looming treatment of the rising form.\""}, {"text": "Vicki Chen is an Australian engineer. She is a former Executive Dean for the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology at the University of Queensland, and former Provost and Senior Vice-President of the University of Technology Sydney.[10] In 2020 she was elected as the Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. Chen was inspired to pursue engineering by her father, who also worked as a chemical engineer, viewing a path in engineering as \"a career that could take [her] around the world and allow [her] to work in a wide variety of industries.\" Chen received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from MIT, and went on to undertake her PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in the area of surfactant self-assembly, including early work on microemulsion systems. In recent years, Chen's research has focused on membrane science and engineering, with specific focus on nanocomposite membranes, fouling and advanced separations. This has facilitated a number of industry collaborations with partners including BASF, Dairy Innovation Australia, Australian Low Emission Coal R&D, Bluescope Steel, Coal Innovation NSW, Beijing OriginWater Technology, Printed Energy, and Sydney Water. Chen is a prolific and highly cited engineer, having published more than 175 papers"}, {"text": "that have been cited >14,000 times, giving her an H-index of 64. Chen spent nearly 30 years at UNSW in Sydney, Australia, going on to hold a number of senior administrative positions in research and higher education. She has been a full Professor since 2008, and acted as Head of the School of Chemical Engineering from 2014 to 2018. She was previously director of the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology, at UNSW from 2006 to 2014. Between August 2018 and November 2022, Chen was the Executive Dean for the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology at the University of Queensland, where she claimed to foster \"a culture and ecosystem where our researchers and academics can flourish and contribute to the global thought leadership of their disciplines as well as translating the outcomes of their work to the wider community.\" During this time she was a driving force behind a Major Change proposal in the School of Architecture, that led to the disestablishment of all continuing academic appointments in the school, and the departure of seven senior architecture academics. In November 2022 Professor Chen commenced her position as the Provost and Senior Vice-President of the University of Technology"}, {"text": "Sydney. Her departure from this role was announced in April 2025."}, {"text": "The Nutty Professor franchise consists of American science fiction-slapstick comedies, including three theatrical films, one straight-to-home video release, and a musical stage play. Based on an original story by Jerry Lewis, inspired loosely by \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson. The plot of each installment centers around individuals with genius-level Intelligence, yet awkward and nerdy social skills. Upon meeting beautiful women, they develop potions that transform them into attractive, confident, albeit villainous alternate personalities who attempt to take over their original counterparts. The series explores the concept of self worth. The original film was a success both critically and financially, and has earned the status of being regarded as a comedy classic. It was ranked #99 by the American Film Institute on its \"100 Years...100 Laughs\" list. A direct-sequel was eventually released in 2008, albeit an animated straight-to-home video release. Lewis reprised his role, though the movie centered around his grandson instead. Lewis continued involvement with the franchise as executive producer for the remake film and its sequel and then later served as director of a musical stage production in 2012. The remake starring Eddie Murphy and released in 1996, was a success"}, {"text": "at the box office and received positive reviews from critics. A sequel was released in 2000 to mixed critical reception. Though it fared well financially, it was far from the success of its predecessor. A reboot is in development, from Project X Entertainment. Film. \"The Nutty Professor\" (1963). Professor Julius Kelp is a brilliant science teacher, at a university. However, he has a problem with attracting women due to his clumsy, awkward, inarticulate nature. Women deem him as unattractive. Kelp becomes obsessed with impressing a beautiful student named Stella. With his background in chemistry, Kelp decides to develop a potion that will change him into a different person. His new suave alter ego named Buddy Love, is challenged with winning Stella's affections before his short-supply of potion is depleted. Film historians regard \"The Nutty Professor\" as the most memorable film of Lewis\u2019 long career. In 2004, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.\" \"The Nutty Professor\" (1996). Brilliant and obese scientist Sherman Klump invents a miraculous weight-loss solution. After a date with chemistry student Carla Purty goes badly, a depressed Klump tries the solution"}, {"text": "on himself. Upon taking the potion, Klump instantly loses 250 pounds. The side effects, besides becoming physically fit include a second personality who calls himself Buddy Love and is obnoxiously self-assertive, conceited alternate personality. Buddy proves to be more popular than Sherman, but his arrogance and bad behavior quickly spiral out of control. During these series of events, Klump must decide whether he enjoys popularity, or values self-respect. \"Nutty Professor II: The Klumps\" (2000). After choosing to love himself, over his popular and assertive alternate personality, Professor Sherman Klump has found love in a beautiful and kind woman named Denise. In preparations for their wedding, his undesired alter-ego named Buddy Love begins taking over. Though Klump has ceased taking his self-improving potion, Love continues to present himself and is determined to stay. After a number of appearances, Klump extracts his alternate personality's genes and decides rid the world of his pesky partner, at the risk of his own psychological decline. A laboratory incident including the accidental combination of the genes with dog hair, result in Buddy Love taking on his own existence outside of Klump's body. Unaware of the Love's new existence, the engaged couple begin to perfect a new"}, {"text": "rejuvenation formula and their fortune seems assured, until Love appears and steals it. Professor Klump's cognitive abilities continue to decline. In a final effort to defeat Buddy Love, the Professor develops a new and more potent formula that will degenerate the villain back to his state of genetic material. Using Love's canine DNA against him, he defeats him with the use of a tennis ball covered in the new potion. As Klump slips away, Denise helps him drink the genetic matter, restoring his genius intellect and resetting everything back to normal. The pair continue to prepare for their wedding, and are married. \"The Nutty Professor: Facing the Fear\" (2008). As a CGI animation film, it serves as a legacy-sequel to the original film, and follows the workings of Julius Kelp's grandson. Harold Kelp is an aspiring inventor, who struggles to perfect his experiments. Intimidated by his grandfather's legacy, Harold has dreams of his failure taking the form of a giant monster. After coming into conflict with a group of angry individuals involved in one of his demonstrations, Harold decides to attend a science academy run by his grandfather, Professor Julius Kelp. Upon arriving at the school, Harold meets a beautiful"}, {"text": "woman named Polly McGreggor, with whom he becomes infatuated. Determined to win her affection, Harold finds and takes his grandfather's secret potion. The elixir unleashes Harold's confident, self-loving alternate personality that calls himself Jack. Though initially popular with the fellow students, Jack's outrageous behavior gets out of control and causes more mischief than Harold had anticipated. Due to Harold's continued time evolving into Jack, his grades begin slipping. Learning of Harold's actions, Julius once again takes the potion to become Buddy Love. In his alternate form as Buddy Love, Julius teaches his grandson to appreciate who he is and to be comfortable in his own skin. Harold's anxieties are accidentally unleashed by one of Professor Kelp's inventions, as the visionary monster from his nightmares. Harold bravely faces his fears, and defeats the creature. In doing so, Harold says goodbye to Jack once and for all before sharing a kiss with Polly. Reboot. In August 2020, it was announced that a reboot of \"The Nutty Professor\" franchise was in development. James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein serve as producers, while the search for additional talent is ongoing. The movie is under development from Project X Entertainment. Stage. A musical comedy"}, {"text": "adaptation ran on Broadway after a tryout production that opened at the Nashville Tennessee Performing Arts Center from July to August 2012. Lewis directed the musical, with choreography by Joann M. Hunter. The musical has a book and lyrics written by Rupert Holmes and music composed by Marvin Hamlisch, with scenery by David Gallo and costumes by Ann Hould-Ward. Michael Andrew was cast in the lead role as Professor Julius Kelp. The plot closely follows the original film. The production received positive reviews for its choreography, songs, cast, set, and story. Novelization. The accompanying novel written by the author of the musical's script, Rupert Holmes, received praise for its use of comedy as well as for the meaningful underlying message."}, {"text": "Peter Wayne Gladigau (born 23 May 1965) is a former cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for South Australia from 1985-86 to 1992-93. Peter Gladigau was an opening bowler. In his best season, 1987-88, he was one of the leading bowlers in the Sheffield Shield, taking 38 wickets at an average of 29.05, including his best career figures of 7 for 85 against Victoria. He works as a police officer in Adelaide. He represented Glenelg in the Adelaide cricket competition. He was awarded life membership of the club and is now its Cricket Operations Manager."}, {"text": "Mashinostroitel () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 72 as of 2010. Geography. Mashinostroitel is located 21 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ivanovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "FM7 may refer to:"}, {"text": "Metenino () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 221 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Metenino is located 29 km east of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Naputnovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Curtis Weaver (born August 3, 1998) is an American former professional football linebacker. He played college football at Boise State. Early life. Weaver attended St. Anthony High School in Long Beach, California. He committed to Boise State University to play college football. College career. After redshirting his first year at Boise State in 2016, Weaver played in all 14 games in 2017, recording 33 tackles, 11 sacks and one interception. As a redshirt sophomore in 2018, he had 43 tackles and 9.5 sacks. During his redshirt junior year in 2019, he set the Mountain West Conference record for career sacks. After this season, Weaver announced that he would forgo his final year of eligibility and enter the 2020 NFL draft. Professional career. Miami Dolphins. Weaver was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the fifth round (164th overall) of the 2020 NFL draft. He was waived/injured by the team on August 24, 2020. Cleveland Browns. Weaver was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Browns on August 25, 2020. The Browns placed Weaver on injured reserve on August 27, 2020. Weaver was waived by the Browns on August 31, 2021. Weaver was re-signed to the Browns' practice squad on September 1, 2021."}, {"text": "Weaver was elevated to the Browns' active roster as a COVID-19 replacement player on December 24, 2021. Weaver made his NFL debut on January 9, 2022, against the Cincinnati Bengals, logging a tackle in the 21\u201316 victory. The Browns re-signed Weaver to a reserve/futures contract on January 10, 2022. He was waived by the Browns on August 29, 2022. He was re-signed to the practice squad on September 27, 2022. He was released on October 4, 2022. Minnesota Vikings. On January 18, 2023, Weaver signed a reserve/future contract with the Minnesota Vikings. He was waived on August 21, 2023. Birmingham Stallions. On October 6, 2023, Weaver signed with the Birmingham Stallions of the United States Football League (USFL). He was released on March 10, 2024. Ottawa Redblacks. On April 3, 2024, Weaver signed with the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was listed as a defensive lineman with the Redblacks. He retired on May 8, 2024."}, {"text": "Mikheytsevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 37 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Mikheytsevo is located 17 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Lipna is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Molodilovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 83 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Molodilovo is located 5 km east of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Petushki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Hanchar (), sometimes transliterated Ganchar, is a Belarusian-language occupational surname, literally meaning \"potter\". Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Molodino () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 81 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Molodino is located 34 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorodishchi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Myshlino () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Myshlino is located 35 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Markovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Myachikovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2010. Geography. Myachikovo is located 40 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Abrosovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Nagorny () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 807 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Nagorny is located 17 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pokrov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2019 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship was the ninth Oceania Women's Sevens tournament. It served as the regional qualifier for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Sevens and was held at ANZ Stadium in Suva, Fiji on 7\u20139 November. Australia won the tournament to claim their fifth Oceania Championship, defeating Fiji by 24\u201312 in the final. Runners-up Fiji, as the highest-placed side not already qualified, won the Oceania berth at the 2020 Olympic Sevens in Tokyo. Papua New Guinea and Samoa finished fourth and fifth respectively and, as the second and third highest-placed sides not already qualified, won entry to the 2020 Final Olympic Qualifier as well as the 2020 Hong Kong Women's Sevens qualifying tournament for the 2020\u201321 World Women's Sevens Series. Teams. The following nations competed at the 2019 tournament, including two invited teams \u2013 the Canadian development team (Maple Leafs) and a development side from Japan: Format. Teams were seeded into three pools of four. To allow a clear run for countries competing for qualification to the 2020 Olympic Sevens, the two Oceania nations already qualified, Australia and New Zealand, were placed in Pool A together with the invited development sides (not eligible for Oceania berths) from Canada and"}, {"text": "Japan. The remaining teams were seeded into Pool B and Pool C. A knockout competition involving the two top teams of Pool B and two top teams of Pool C decided the Olympic qualifying berth. Knockout stage. Lower classification. Eleventh place"}, {"text": "Nazarovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Nazarovo is located 31 km north of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kuzyayevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 20-pounder Parrott rifle, Model 1861 was a cast iron muzzle-loading rifled cannon that was adopted by the United States Army in 1861 and employed in field artillery units during the American Civil War. As with other Parrott rifles, the gun breech was reinforced by a distinctive wrought iron reinforcing band. The gun fired a projectile to a distance of at an elevation of 5\u00b0. The 20-pounder Parrott rifle could fire shell, shrapnel shell (case shot), canister shot, and more rarely solid shot. In spite of the reinforcing band, the 20-pounder earned a dubious reputation for bursting without warning, killing or injuring gunners. The Confederate States of America also manufactured copies of the gun. Background. Robert Parker Parrott was an ordnance officer in the US Army who inspected cannons manufactured at the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, New York. In 1836, president of the company Gouverneur Kemble persuaded Parrott to resign from the Army and join his firm. Several years before the American Civil War, gun founders grappled with the problem of rifling cannons. Bronze smoothbore cannons had windage \u2013 or space \u2013 between the round shot and the barrel. Windage caused the propellant gases from the gunpowder explosion"}, {"text": "to leak out, but it also put less stress on the gun barrel. With rifled cannon, the ammunition was designed to expand the shell so that there was no windage between the projectile and the gun barrel. This meant that a smaller gunpowder charge could throw a rifled projectile farther, but it also meant that the gun barrel was put under greater stress. Bronze cannons infrequently burst because the metal was flexible. Cast iron was stronger than bronze, but it was also more rigid. This made cast iron guns more prone to burst at the breech or muzzle. Bronze was too soft a metal for rifled guns. Cast iron was hard enough to take rifling but it was too brittle. Parrott's solution to this puzzle was a cast iron rifled cannon that had a wrought iron reinforcing band wrapped around the breech. When banded guns were manufactured, gravity acted on the bands as they cooled, making an uneven fit around the gun barrel. Parrott overcame the problem by slowly rotating the gun barrel while it was being cooled. The Parrott rifle was first developed in 1859\u20131860. Parrott later noted of his invention, \"I do not profess to think that they"}, {"text": "are the best gun in the world, but I think they were the best practical thing that could be got at the time\". The U.S. government bought the first ten 10-pounder Parrott rifles on 23 May 1861. The U.S. Ordnance Department trusted Robert Parrott to such a degree that he was allowed to be the inspecting officer until the end of 1862. This was a unique arrangement since Parrott was also the manufacturer. Manufacture. The West Point Foundry produced about 300 20-pounder Parrott rifles between September 1861 and July 1864. The gun barrels weighted between and . The rifling consisted of five lands and grooves of right-hand gaining twist (increasing toward the muzzle) and the caliber (bore diameter) was . The 20-pounder Parrott had a reinforcing band long and thick. The Register of Inspections recorded numbers 1 through 284. However, there were gaps in the record and surviving guns have been found with numbers in the gaps. Also, there is a gun at Gettysburg National Military Park with registry number 296, so it is likely that the real number of guns produced is at least 296. The cost per gun was approximately $380. A number of the guns were designed"}, {"text": "for Navy use and had a block and pin that fitted over the cascabel (end knob). Only 15 Federal-made guns are known to have survived to the present day. The Tredegar Iron Works in the Confederacy produced 45 20-pounder Parrott rifles between August 1862 and December 1864. Like the Federal version, the guns were rifled with five grooves in a right-hand twist. The Confederate pattern differed from the Federal gun by having a reinforcing band long and thick. This resulted in the guns averaging each, which is more than the heaviest Federal pieces. The Noble Brothers & Company of Rome, Georgia contracted to manufacture 20-pounder Parrott rifles for the Confederacy, but it is not known if they were produced and none have survived. There are 14 surviving Confederate-made 20-pounder Parrott rifles of which two have markings from the Macon Arsenal and the others were made at Tredegar. The two Macon Arsenal guns have weights averaging . Specifications. The 20-pounder Parrott rifle had a bore (caliber) with a diameter of and fired a projectile weighing . Its gun barrel was long and weighed about . The gunpowder charge weighed and fired the projectile with a muzzle velocity of to a distance"}, {"text": "of at 5\u00b0 elevation. A smoothbore cannon's projectile usually retained only one-third of its muzzle velocity at and its round shot could be seen in the air. At the same distance, a rifled projectile often retained two-thirds of its muzzle velocity and was not visible while in flight. A rifled projectile only became visible if it started to tumble out of control. Tumbling occurred when the shell failed to take the grooves inside the gun barrel or when the spin wore off in flight. Rifling allowed elongated/heavier rounds to be fired. For example, smoothbore cannons of the same 3.67 caliber as the 20-pounder Parrott fired only 6 pound round shot. For example the M1841 6-pounder field gun. The 20-pounder Parrott rifle was mounted on the carriage for the M1841 12-pounder field gun. The 20-pounder Parrott rifle fired case shot (shrapnel), shell, and canister shot. The use of bolts (solid shot) was rare and it was usually not provided in the ammunition chests. Firing a shell without a fuse would achieve the same result as firing a solid shot from a rifled gun. Parrott ammunition was designed to be used. The Parrott rifles could also fire Hotchkiss ammunition, but gunners were"}, {"text": "not allowed to use Schenkl ammunition. One flaw in Parrott ammunition was the position of the sabot was at the shell's base. This meant that the final impulse on the projectile as it left the gun was on its base, possibly causing the shell to wobble in flight. When firing Canister shot rifled guns were not as effective as canister fired from a 12-pounder Napoleon or a M1841 12-pounder howitzer. First, the rifled gun's 3.67-inch bore was narrower than the 12-pounder's bore and thus could fire fewer canister balls. Second, the gun's rifling caused the canister to be thrown in an irregular pattern. Union General Henry Jackson Hunt asserted that rifled guns had a canister range only half the effective range of canister fired from the 12-pounder Napoleon. Early in the war, many Union batteries were organized with six guns of identical type. However, as will be noted, batteries armed with 20-pounder Parrott rifles often had four guns. Each gun required two 6-horse teams. The first team pulled the gun and its limber and the second team pulled the caisson (ammunition wagon). Each caisson carried two ammunition chests and the limber carried one additional ammunition chest. In addition to its"}, {"text": "guns, limbers, and caissons, each battery had two additional vehicles, a supply wagon and a portable forge. The 20-pounder Parrott rifle's great weight made it difficult for a 6-horse team to pull. The guns were among the heaviest pieces that could be classified as field artillery, so few were taken along with the field armies. The 10-pounder Parrott rifle was more frequently utilized. Under normal conditions, infantry could be expected to march in six hours, while it would take an artillery battery 10 hours to march . History. At the Battle of Antietam on 17 September 1862, the Federal Army of the Potomac employed 22 20-pounder Parrott rifles while the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia had none. The 5th New York Independent Light Artillery (Taft's) and 1st New York Light Artillery Battalion, Batteries A (Wever's), B (von Kleiser's), and C (Langner's) were all 4-gun 20-pounder Parrott batteries belonging to the V Corps. Simmonds' Battery Kentucky Light Artillery had two 20-pounder Parrott rifles, three 10-pounder Parrott rifles, and one iron 12-pounder howitzer. Simmonds' Battery and the 4-gun 20-pounder Parrott armed 2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery E (Benjamin's) served in the IX Corps. During the Battle of Fredericksburg on 13 December 1862, the"}, {"text": "5th New York Battery and Batteries A, B, and C of the New York Battalion served in the Artillery Reserve. The Artillery Reserve was posted on the east bank of the Rappahannock River on Stafford Heights, opposite the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Before the Second Battle of Corinth on 3\u20134 October 1862, William Rosecrans built several lunettes to defend the west side of Corinth, Mississippi. Battery Phillips was north of Corona Female College, Battery Williams was northeast of Phillips, and Battery Robinett was north of Williams and west of Corinth. Battery Williams contained 30-pounder Parrott rifles while Battery Robinett was armed with three 20-pounder Parrott rifles and manned by Company C of the 1st U.S. Infantry Regiment. On the first day, Captain Henry Richardson's Battery D, 1st Missouri Light Artillery helped repel two Confederate attacks but lost one gun. On the second day, the Confederate division led by Martin E. Green routed the division of Thomas Alfred Davies in the Union right-center, but not before the Union guns in Battery Powell inflicted serious casualties. Guarding the north side of Corinth, Battery Powell was defended by three 20-pounder Parrott rifles of Richardson's battery and two M1841 24-pounder howitzers. These guns were"}, {"text": "overrun. However, the tide turned and Federal troops recaptured the position, re-manned the guns, and fired on the retreating Confederates. In the center, Dabney H. Maury's Confederate division launched an assault on David S. Stanley's Federal division. Stanley's position was buttressed by Battery Robinett which became the focus of gallant but unsuccessful Confederate attacks. Losses on both sides were heavy. Union General Quincy Adams Gillmore believed that Parrott rifles were as good as the best artillery despite their \"unequal endurance\". He wrote that the Parrotts were easy for gun crews to operate. Nevertheless, the 20-pounder Parrott rifles had many critics. Confederate General J. Johnston Pettigrew complained that a battery of four 20-pounder Parrotts proved to be worthless. He wrote that half their shells exploded almost as soon as they left the gun and many of the others wobbled in flight. Finally, one of the guns burst, killing one gunner and injuring two others. Confederate Major John Haskell wanted the 20-pounder Parrotts taken away from the Macon Light Artillery to spare its men possible injury. Union General Hunt protested that the 20-pounder Parrotts were \"very unsatisfactory\" because the shells were unreliable and dangerous to Federal troops. He noted that two of"}, {"text": "the guns burst at Antietam and one at Fredericksburg. Hunt tried to suppress the use of the 20-pounders in the Army of the Potomac. One of the guns of Taft's Battery (5th New York) burst at Gettysburg. Parrott rifles were not employed again after the Civil War."}, {"text": "Harry E. \"Hek\" Clark was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, in Sewanee, Tennessee, from 1931 to 1939."}, {"text": "Naputnovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 26 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Naputnovo is located on the Peksha River, 25 km east of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Abbakumovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yarella Daniela Torres Cisternas (born 7 January 1992) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a defender for CD Arturo Fern\u00e1ndez Vial and the Chile women's national team. Club career. Torres played the 2010 Copa Libertadores Femenina for Everton de Vi\u00f1a del Mar. She remained with the club until 2012. From 2013 to 2018, she played for Santiago Wanderers. In 2019, she joined CD Palestino. On 9 September 2020, Torres signed with CD Arturo Fern\u00e1ndez Vial. International career. Torres made her senior debut for Chile on 8 October 2019."}, {"text": "Reinis Zusters (15 October 1919 \u2013 1999) was a Latvian-born Australian artist. Zusters was a prolific painter, working predominantly in oils, painting many large landscapes, including triptychs of the Blue Mountains. Zusters drew much of his inspiration from the Australian countryside, depicting the colour and form of nature as a rich and vibrant panorama. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections in Australia and abroad. His work can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T\u0101maki. He won numerous prestigious awards in Australia, Japan and United States and was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1994. He was born to Latvian parents in Odesa, Ukraine, and died in his studio in Wentworth Falls, Australia in 1999. Early life in Europe. Reinis Zusters was born 15 October 1919 in Odesa, Ukraine, of Latvian parents, Janis and Kristina, in the early years of the Russian Revolution. Zusters' father was a postmaster in Odesa, but died before he was two years old. His mother sought work in Riga, having put both Reinis and his sister Mirdze into separate orphanages from"}, {"text": "an early age. Mirdze's daughter, also Mirdze, later studied to be an artist in Moscow. Zusters studied Art and Architecture at the Riga Technical College, Latvia, from 1935 to 1940 and took a one year course in anatomy at Riga University. He was influenced by his Latvian cultural heritage and admired the artist Voldemars Tone (1892-1958). He set up a business in Riga designing and making furniture while concentrating on painting and athletics in his spare time. He married Aldija Kapteinis and they had a daughter, Rudita (born 1942 in Riga). During World War II, Zusters was conscripted into the German army and worked as a war artist from 1942 to 1945, in a group of four men, that included a journalist and photographer, who were sent to document battles and important developments in the war. He and the group spent weeks digging out and burying bodies after the bombing of Dresden. He also survived being torpedoed on a ship in the Baltic Sea. After World War II, when Russia invaded Latvia, the Zusters family became refugees, living in Oldenburg and Krefeld Displaced Persons camps in Germany for 7 years. He studied art part-time and took the opportunity to visit"}, {"text": "galleries and museums to study German art. Early life in Australia. Zusters, his wife Aldija and daughter Rudita arrived in Australia as Latvian displaced persons in 1950. About 25,000 Latvian refugees migrated to Australia between 1948 and 1951. On landing in Fremantle on 5 January 1950, the family was sent to Northam Migrant Camp and Zusters' first action was to visit the bush with easel and paints. His first trip into the Australian bush was a turning point. It was a marked difference to the landscapes of Europe that his eye was familiar with. Unlike many migrants, he immediately saw the Australian bush as beautiful, rather than harsh. He remained excited and inspired by the wildness of the Australian bush and geology for the rest of his life and they were to be a continuing subject of his explorations. Zusters stayed in Western Australia for six months, then the family was sent to Cowra Migrant Camp, where his wife and daughter stayed, while he moved to Canberra and became an architectural draughtsman with the Department of Works and Housing in Canberra. He also worked in a timber yard and painted portraits at the nearby Duntroon Royal Military College, painting late"}, {"text": "into the night after work. In 1951, he held his first solo show in Canberra, with the Art Society of Canberra. He had a second show in Canberra in 1956. In 1952, Zusters moved with his second wife, Arija Bikse, from Canberra to Pennant Hills in Sydney to help her family build their first home in Australia. Arija's father Karlis Bikse had been a prominent architect in Riga, Latvia and was an inspiration to Reinis. Their daughter Laura was born in Sydney in 1956. Zusters studied art for two years in the early 1950s at East Sydney Technical College and painted many large portraits including Winston Churchill's gardener John Price Strange, which was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1952, as well as small informal portrait-drawings of friends. Some early portraits are held by the Latvian Society in Strathfield. Early career in Sydney. Through his design work, Zusters was appointed Chief Designer with the Australian-American architectural firm Austin-Anderson, at St. Leonards, Sydney, which provided him with the opportunity to travel abroad. In 1960, he designed a new waterfront family home in Arabella St Longueville, on Woodford Bay in Sydney Harbour. In 1963, Zusters was one of"}, {"text": "four outstanding local artists appointed to the Lane Cove Art Panel, alongside Lloyd Rees, Bill Pigeon and Guy Warren. The Lane Cove Art Society was formed in 1965 and Zusters was an enthusiastic member for many years until he moved to the Blue Mountains. From 1968, Zusters quit his job and practised as a full-time professional artist. His cityscapes featured a rich paint surface and sharp-edged thickness of oil paint applied with a palette knife in layers. He painted urban scenes of Sydney, inland Australia and portraits. His usual signature was \"Zusters\". Two of his early portraits are in the National Portrait Gallery's collection \u2013 Sir Edgar Coles (1962) and Terry Clune (1960)]. In 1970, Zusters moved to Greenwich. Over the ensuing decades he exhibited regularly in Australia and overseas, holding one man shows at Artarmon Galleries, Darlinghurst Galleries and the South Yarra Gallery. At the Sobot Gallery in Toronto in 1968, he was the first Australian to have a solo exhibition in Canada. He also had a solo exhibition at Gallery Schauman in Essen, Germany in 1965 and at Christchurch New Zealand in 1974. In the introduction to the catalogue 'Reinis Zusters', published in Sydney in 1971, artist Lloyd"}, {"text": "Rees wrote of his friend's zest for living and 'complete freedom of emotional expression', expressed in work where 'nature's forms and colours undergo a magic change and emerge as vital and highly individualistic paintings.' Blue Mountains. In 1976, Zusters married his third wife, artist Venita Salnajs, who is also Latvian born, and they moved to Wentworth Falls. Inspired by the mountains, he embarked on a much freer style of richly painted, spattered landscapes and details, capturing the essence and spirit of the Australian landscape and sky. He often prepared the canvasses for his mountain landscapes in batches, laid out on the grass, splattering backgrounds in the manner of Jackson Pollock and completing with washes and pale glazes of colour. His paintings often featured skies in his distinctive vibrant blue. He said at the time, \"The Blue Mountains lure me. The close-focus and long-range aspects of the landscape present a magical ambiguity and this, coupled with its logs, lichen and moss and perpetual blue sky, totally absorb me.\" While living in the Blue Mountains and exhibiting at the Holdsworth Galleries, the coffee table book 'Spiral Vision \u2013 Reinis Zusters' was published in 1981 to showcase his work. Zusters exhibited at the"}, {"text": "Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery and Ozartspace Katoomba, among many others. Blue Mountains City Council purchased several of his works and architect Nigel Bell designed the Conservation Hut in Wentworth Falls, which was built to house and display several of his larger paintings. Zusters remained in the Blue Mountains for the rest of his life, living in his home 'Jamieson', near the Falls and Darwin's Walk. He died on 8 October 1999 in his favourite painting chair in his studio at Wentworth Falls, one week short of his 80th birthday. He was buried in the Latvian section of Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney. Honors and awards. Zusters' work is represented in numerous public and private collections in Australia and overseas. He won several prestigious awards in Australia, United States and Japan, the latter being the Bronze Prize in the 1990 Osaka Triennale'90 and the Special Prize at the Osaka Triennale'93 in 1993. He achieved his win from over 29,000 artists competing from 81 countries. He won the Daily Telegraph Art Prize in 1957 and the Hunters Hill prize in 1958 and 1959. In 1959, Zusters took the Wynne Prize for Landscape, then the Rockdale Prize in 1962, the Crouch Prize, Bendigo"}, {"text": "Art Gallery in 1963 and the Mosman Art Prize, 1971. His portrait of potter Peter Rushforth was exhibited in Portraits of Australia: The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Collection in 1988. In 1994, he was honored with the Order of Australia Medal. \"Birth of a Nation\" and other murals. For the Australian Bicentenary in 1988, Zusters completed his grandest work \u2013 a series of massive epic panels entitled \"The Birth of a Nation.\" Thirteen huge paintings consisted of 42 smaller and 34 large panels, depicting his interpretation of Australia's development since the Aborigines first encountered white men in 1788. His wife Venita described them as \"a kind of psalm-devotional and a hymn of praise to everything Australian\". \"Birth of a Nation\" was exhibited at the newly opened Parramatta Cultural Centre, now called the Riverside Theatre. The Centre still holds some of these panels. His other murals include \"Man's Struggle for Identity\" in Trans City House, Sydney and a World War II memorial in Christchurch Cathedral, Newcastle, after winning the competition to paint it."}, {"text": "\"Meanwhile\" is a song written by Justin Hayward that was released on the Moody Blues 1981 album \"Long Distance Voyager\". Although never released as a single, it reached #11 on the \"Billboard\" Mainstream Rock chart. Recording. \"Meanwhile\" was one of the first songs recorded for \"Long Distance Voyager\", in February and March 1980. Hayward originally prepared the basic track in his home studio. According to Hayward: According to producer Pip Williams, \"This was a serious happening track from Day One...There is something very seductive \u2013 musically \u2013 about songs that comprise any form of suspended chord structure of 'hanging in the air' feeling.\" Lyrics and music. The lyrics of the song are about the singer coming to terms with having \"let love slip through my fingers.\" Music journalist Geoffrey Freakes described \"Meanwhile\" as \"a breezy acoustic guitar and electric piano-led tune that recalls Gerry Rafferty's \"Get It Right Next Time\". Freakes praised the \"simple but effective\" drums and bass guitar, as well as the electric guitar bridge but felt that the music of the \"jaunty chorus\" was inconsistent with the resignation of the lyrics. Hayward plays both a 6-string and 12-string acoustic guitar on the song, as well as a"}, {"text": "Gibson 335 electric guitar, and a mandolin for the refrains. Pat Moraz plays an electric piano for most of the song, but also added a \"swelling backwards piano chord\" in the final verse, and plays what Williams described as \"an Emerson, Lake and Palmer-type MiniMoog synthesizer\" in the refrain. John Lodge plays bass and Graeme Edge plays drums. Allmusic critic Dave Connolley described \"Meanwhile\" as a \"pop-oriented, beat-driven romantic ballad\". Reception. \"Fort Lauderdale News\" critic Cameron Cohick regarded \"Meanwhile\" as the best song on \"Long Distance Voyager\". \"The Daily Record\" critic Jim Bohen praised it as being \"bouncy and tuneful\" and one of the best songs on the album. \"Columbia Record\" critic Tom Priddy also found it to be one of the best songs on the album, and said it \"could have come directly from [the Moody Blues 1960s classic album] \"Days of Future Past\".\" \"Billboard\"s review of the album listed \"Meanwhile\" as one of the \"best cuts\". \"Billboard\" contributor Ed Harrison also described it as a \"mid-tempo track punctuated with intriguing lyrics and an uncluttered arrangement.\" \"Sacramento Bee\" critic Bob Sylva praised its \"bluesy piano beat.\" \"Detroit Free Press\" critic Bruce Britt called it \"an uncompromising assessment of love"}, {"text": "gone sour.\" \"The Star Press\" critic Kim Teverbaugh described it as a \"love lost song.\" \"The Age\" writer Mike Daly called it a \"pulsing medium-rock ballad, with Hayward's vocals and multiple acoustic guitars.\" \"Atlanta Constitution\" writer Bill King found \"Meanwhile\" to be \"less memorable\" than other ballads on \"Long Distance Voyager\". Although \"Meanwhile\" was not released as a single, it received significant play on album-oriented rock radio stations in the U.S. and reached #11 on the \"Billboard\" Mainstream Rock chart on 12 September 1981. Hayward had wanted \"Meanwhile to be released as the lead single from \"Long Distance Voyager\" but the record executives chose to release \"Gemini Dream\" because they felt a feistier song would make a better lead single. After \"The Voice\" was released as the album's second single, Hayward and Kip Krones, who was the British liaison for the Moody Blues manager Jerry Weintraub, wanted to release \"Meanwhile\" as the third single from \"Long Distance Voyager\" but \"Talking Out of Turn\" was released instead. Hayward said \"Kip always said it should have been the single, but nobody else saw it like that. It was also my choice...although various factors altered that decision.\" Live. The Moody Blues played \"Meanwhile\""}, {"text": "live on their \"Long Distance Voyager\" tour and then brought back into their setlist for their 2011 tour."}, {"text": "Nerazh () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Nerazh is located on the Nergel River, 38 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gospodinovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2020 St Kilda Football Club season was the 124th in the club's history. Coached by Brett Ratten and captained by Jarryn Geary, they competed in the AFL's 2020 Toyota Premiership Season. 2019 off-season list changes. Trades. The Saints began the 2019 trade period with a significant amount of work to do, following at least four players requesting to join the club. Bradley Hill (Fremantle), Paddy Ryder (Port Adelaide), Dougal Howard (Port Adelaide) and Zak Jones (Sydney) all told their respective clubs of their desire to be traded to the Saints at the end of the 2019 season. The Saints also discussed at trading out four-time best and fairest winner Jack Steven, widely rumoured to desire a move to Geelong for personal reasons, while many in the media reported that Josh Bruce was interested in a trade to the Western Bulldogs. Richmond's Dan Butler and Port Adelaide's Sam Gray have also expressed interest in being traded to the Saints. The Saints began the trade period holding picks 6, 59, 76 and 82. Free agents. On 22 November 2019, the Saints acquired former Geelong ruckman Ryan Abbott as a delisted free-agent. Draft. At the 2019 National Draft on 28 November 2019,"}, {"text": "the Saints selected Ryan Byrnes (pick 52) and Leo Connolly (Pick 64). At the 2019 Rookie Draft St Kilda used pick five to draft Jack Bell. 2020 squad change summary. In: Out: Pre-season. The Saints secured the opportunity to hold opening game of the pre-season Marsh Community Series by hosting the first senior game in more than 25 years at their spiritual home of Moorabbin Oval (currently known as RSEA Park due to naming sponsorship). The Saints' played a practice game a week later, also again the Hawks. The Saints' second pre-season series game saw the team travel to the regional town of Morwell in the La Trobe Valley of East Gippsland in south-eastern Victoria. Regular season. The Saints were scheduled to play a match in Shanghai in June against Port Adelaide, however, ahead of the 2020 season the AFL announced that the game had been moved to Melbourne due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The fixture change will see the Saints play the Power at Docklands Stadium in Round 12 on 7 June, as opposed to in Shanghai in Round 11. As the coronavirus situation deteriorated in early March, the AFL determined that no spectators would be permitted to attend"}, {"text": "games until further notice. On 22 March, at the conclusion of Round 1, the AFL determined to suspend the remainder season until further notice due to the coronavirus situation. In mid-May, the AFL announced that the resumption of the 2020 season would begin on 11 June, with non-contact training to be permitted from the 18th and contact training to be permissible from 25 May. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the AFL announced that the 2020 fixture would be reduced from 23 rounds to 17. The first five rounds of the revised 2020 AFL fixture were announced by the AFL on 25 May. Due to COVID-19, players are required to follow strict guidelines and avoid contact with the wider public as part of the conditions set by the government and AFL to allow resumption of the competition. Rounds six and seven are expected to be announced following the conclusion of Round three. On 29 June the AFL announced that the Saints' round 5 game with Carlton was rescheduled from Saturday 4th (at the MCG) to Thursday 2 June (at Docklands). This was due to additional restrictions being placed on Victorian teams flying to Queensland following a spike in Coronavirus cases in"}, {"text": "Victoria in late June, resulting in the need to again adjust the fixture. On 3 July the AFL announced a significant fixture change along with a relocation of the Saints to a 'hub' in the Queensland region of Noosa, possibly for the remainder of the season. This was due to a deteriorating COVID-19 situation in Victoria. The Saints' revised round six and seven fixtures (against Geelong at the Docklands on the 9th and Port Adelaide on the 19th also at Docklands) were replaced with matches against Fremantle and Adelaide in Queensland and South Australia respectively. The change in fixture coincided with the relocation of all 10 Victorian teams to 'hubs' in Sydney and south-east Queensland. Due to the status of the Saints of a relatively young side, with few players having spouses or children, it was theorised that the temporary relocation would give them an edge over older sides, whose players had been demoralised as a result of having to leave their families behind In order to continue playing. On Monday 13 July, the AFL announced the Round 8 fixture. On 24 July the Saints announced that veteran defender Nathan Brown would leave the team's Queensland hub to return to"}, {"text": "Melbourne for family reasons. Brown's decision was fully supported by the club with Simon Lethlean saying that \"he is such a respected member of our team and the spiritual leader of the connection, culture and standards that we are building here at the Saints. The players and staff love the big fella and we will miss him \u2013 but he has made the right call for him and his family, and we are very proud of him for that.\" Revised 2020 AFL fixture. Notes: aFrom round 1 to round 5, all matches were played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 Finals Series. The Saints qualified for finals having finished the regular season in 6th place on the premiership ladder. The ladder position also allowed the Saints to 'host' the Second Elimination Final, with the Saints negotiating to play at the Gabba despite reports of a league desire to play the game at the Adelaide Oval. \"We have played a lot footy at the Gabba this season and, given where we are currently based in Noosa, it was certainly our preference. Saying that, we were prepared to play wherever the game was fixtured and I know internally with"}, {"text": "the discussions I have had with players and coaches, that was certainly the mindset of the group,\" CEO Matt Finnis stated. Teams who finish the regular season in positions five to eight on the ladder compete in a 'sudden death' elimination final. The Saints won the Second Elimination Final against the Western Bulldogs, qualifying for a Semi-final place. Although kicking 2 goals, tapping 20 hit-outs and being involved in seven scoring attempts in a best-on-ground performance, Paddy Ryder injured his hamstring in the dying minutes of the game; the injury was deemed severe enough to rule Ryder out for the remainder of the year in a serious blow for the Saints. The Saints will face Richmond in the semi-final after the Tigers lost to Brisbane in their Qualifying Final. As Richmond finished in third place on the ladder, the Tigers had the right to select the Queensland-based venue for their 'home' final and chose Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast. Defender Jake Carlisle left the Saints' quarantine hub on 5 October to be present for the birth of his third child. Carlisle had been one of his side's best players in the win over the Bulldogs. Of Carlisle's departure (which"}, {"text": "will rule him out for he remainder of the season), Chief Operating Officer Simon Lethlean said the club was fully supportive of the decision: \"we thank Jake for staying as long as he possibly could before heading to NSW to be with Mel for the birth. He has been away from his young family for a number of months now and we thank him for making that sacrifice. We support him in this decision and wish Jake, Mel, Nash and Layker all the best in the coming weeks.\" Following the win against the Western Bulldogs, defender Ben Long was charged with 'Engaging in Rough Conduct' against the Bulldogs' Jack Macrae by the Match Review Panel who assessed the incident as Careless Conduct, Medium Impact and High Contact and was offered a one match suspension. The Saints appealed the ruling, however, it was upheld by the AFL Tribunal. The Saints appealed again to the AFL Appeals Board, however despite a two-hour hearing and 30-minute deliberation this also failed with Long ultimately handed a one-match sanction. As a result of the three forced changes, Shane Savage, Josh Battle and Jonathan Marsh were added to the squad for the semi-final against Richmond. The"}, {"text": "Saints were ultimately defeated by Richmond by 31-points who dominated scores from stoppages and centre clearances, normally not a trait of 2019 premiers. Post-Season Awards and Accolades. Hunter Clark (half back), Nick Coffield (interchange) and Max King (full forward) were selected for the AFL Players' Association 22Under22 side which recognises the best players aged 22 and under throughout the course of the season. Coffield took a team-high 100 marks from his 16 games, completing the season as one of only five players \u2013 and the youngest \u2013 to make 100. Coffield topped St Kilda's total intercepts (86) and intercept marks (34), finished equal-second for rebound-50s (47) alongside Dougal Howard and overall second for effective disposals (202). Clark finished top-three for his side's disposals (274) and ground-ball gets (85) and was also voted in over 80 per cent of the total fan-submitted 22Under22 teams. King finished runner-up in the Saints\u2019 goalkicking (20) and outright first for marks inside-50 (26) and earned a Rising Star nomination in round 12 against Essendon. Jack Steele finished equal third (with Melbourne's Christian Petracca) in the Brownlow Medal after polling votes in nine games and earning best on ground in the matches against Carlton, Adelaide, Port"}, {"text": "Adelaide and Gold Coast. Players and staff. <noinclude>"}, {"text": "Novinki () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 32 as of 2010. Geography. Novinki is located 19 km east of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kosteryovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novoye Annino () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 601 as of 2010. There are 18 streets. Geography. Novoye Annino is located 11 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Leonovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novye Omutishchi () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Novye Omutishchi is located 10 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Staroye Semenkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Novy Spas () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Novy Spas is located on the left bank of the Slezikha River, 20 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kostino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Alex Ngeno Kipngetich (born 17 August 2000) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. He represented his country at the 2019 World Championships, advancing to the semifinals. In addition, he won a silver medal at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships. Personal bests. Outdoor Indoor"}, {"text": "The 2019 Montgomery mayoral election took place on August 28 and October 8, 2019, to elect the Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama. Incumbent Republican Mayor Todd Strange, who had been elected to a partial term and two full terms as mayor, did not seek re-election to a fourth full term in office. The election was officially nonpartisan. With no candidate receiving a majority of the vote, a runoff election was held between the top two candidates. Two candidates, Montgomery County Probate Judge Steven Reed and businessman David Woods, made it to the October 8 runoff, with Reed winning the runoff. Reed then became the city's first African-American mayor after being sworn in on November 12, 2019."}, {"text": "Mount Fricaba is a double summit mountain located in the Olympic Mountains, in Jefferson County of Washington state. It is situated on the shared border of Olympic National Park with Buckhorn Wilderness, and is the highest point in that wilderness, as well as the Olympic National Forest. Its nearest higher peak is Hal Foss Peak, to the southwest. Precipitation runoff from the peak drains east into headwaters of the Dungeness River, or west into Deception Creek which is a tributary of the Dosewallips River. The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1961 by the United States Board on Geographic Names based on usage by The Mountaineers since 1907, and inclusion in Fred Beckey's \"Climber's Guide to the Cascade and Olympic Mountains of Washington\" published in 1949. The first ascent of the mountain was made in 1957 by Don Bechlem and Jack Newman. Climate. Mount Fricaba is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America. Weather fronts originating in the Pacific Ocean travel northeast toward the Olympic Mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snow. As a result, the"}, {"text": "Olympics experience high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. Because of maritime influence, snow tends to be wet and heavy, resulting in avalanche danger. During winter months weather is usually cloudy, but due to high pressure systems over the Pacific Ocean that intensify during summer months, there is often little or no cloud cover during the summer. The months July through September offer the most favorable weather for climbing Mount Fricaba. Geology. The Olympic Mountains are composed of obducted clastic wedge material and oceanic crust, primarily Eocene sandstone, turbidite, and basaltic oceanic crust. The mountains were sculpted during the Pleistocene era by erosion and glaciers advancing and retreating multiple times."}, {"text": "George M. Farley was an American football player and collegiate football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach (1935\u20131936, 1941\u20131942) and head men's basketball coach (1933\u20131937, 1940\u20131943) at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. Farley played college football at the University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln, lettering from 1927 to 1929 as a halfback."}, {"text": "Katharina Stemberger-Eder (born 28 December 1968) is an Austrian actress. Early life. Stemberger studied cello at the conservatories in Vienna and Salzburg. After graduating in 1988, she began her acting training with Eva Zilcher. In 1996 she attended a three-month acting training at the Hollywood Acting Workshop in Los Angeles. Private. Stemberger-Eder is married to cinematographer and has a daughter. She and her sister Julia Stemberger are the daughters of the tropical medicine Heinrich Stemberger and the actress Christa Schwertsik, who is married to the composer Kurt Schwertsik. Through her husband Fabian, Stemberger is the daughter-in-law of Bibiana Zeller (1928\u20132023) and Otto Anton Eder (1930\u20132004). The couple Schwertsik and the Stemberger sisters make common theater, such. For example, with The Mikado, an operetta performed in the Volkstheater since 2008. As a UNESCO ambassador she campaigns for the vaccine against papillomaviruses."}, {"text": "Pesadelo na Cozinha () is a Brazilian reality television show broadcast on Band network based on the British reality \"Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares\". The TV show, commanded by French-Brazilian chef \u00c9rick Jacquin, has the objective to help restaurants which are going bankrupt. On 27 July 2017, a second season was confirmed to premiere in 2018, which was later delayed to 2019. In October 2019, a third season was confirmed to 2020. After the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the production was suspended for undetermined time, but Band confirmed that the first 4 episodes would be released on 30 March 2021. Criticism. Before its premiere, the choice of \u00c9rick Jacquin to present the TV show was criticized by Danielle Dahoui, chef and presenter of the fourth season of \"\". In an interview to UOL, she criticized Jacquin's attitude and what he represents: \"But how does a person [...] who has millions of labour lawsuits, will present a show like this?\" Writing to Observat\u00f3rio da Televis\u00e3o, Endrigo Annyston said that the \"main problem of Pesadelo na Cozinha is being fake in excess [...] it doesn't show the truth. If the TV shows \"Casos de Fam\u00edlia\" and \"Jo\u00e3o Kl\u00e9ber Show\" raise doubts about the veracity"}, {"text": "of the cases presented, the reality show appears to be extremely rehearsed. [...] This is common in televisive attractions, not everything is improvised. The problem is to make the acting so obvious.\" Two years after the airing of \"Hero's Burger\" episode, chef Marco Ungaro stated in an interview that his participation was rigged. According to him, Band didn't know, but the purpose of his participation was to boost the image of the burger shop and, to do that, the restaurant team made a deal to show a negative side of Marco, so his participation wouldn't affect the show."}, {"text": "Norkino () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Norkino is located on the Bolshaya Lipnya River, 21 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kobyaki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ostrovishchi () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Ostrovishchi is located 34 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gnezdino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pavlovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Pavlovo is located 46 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Aleksino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Panfilovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 131 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Panfilovo is located on the Sheredar River, 32 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zabolotye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pakhomovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 205 as of 2010. Geography. Pakhomovo is located on the Nergel River, 33 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Denisovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Theresa Thibodeau (born June 9, 1975) is an American politician who served as a member of the Nebraska Legislature from 2017 to 2019. In November 2021, Thibodeau entered the Republican primary for Governor of Nebraska. Early life and career. Thibodeau was born Theresa Sanderson on June 9, 1975, in Kansas City, Missouri. She attended Capistrano Valley High School and graduated in 1993. She attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha from 1996 to 1998, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Political career. Nebraska State Legislature. Thibodeau was appointed to represent District 6, in Omaha, by Governor Pete Ricketts in October 2017. The seat became vacant following the resignation of the incumbent Republican, Joni Craighead. Thibodeau was encouraged by Pete Rickets to submit her name for the position, which she did on October 13, two weeks after the deadline to submit on September 29. Thibodeau was defeated by Democrat Machaela Cavanaugh in the 2018 midterm elections held in November 2018. Thibodeau unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor in the 2022 Nebraska gubernatorial election. She came in fourth place with 6.05% of the vote, behind Jim Pillen (33.75%), Charles Herbster (30.13%), and Brett Lindstrom (25.68%). Personal life. Thibodeau is"}, {"text": "a Catholic. She and her husband, Joseph Thibodeau, live in Nebraska with their three children, two daughters and a son."}, {"text": "The Game of Votes: Visual Media Politics and Elections in the Digital Era is a 2019 non-fiction book by Indian photographer Farhat Basir Khan, and faculty member at the AJK Mass Communication and Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. The book has a foreword by former President of India Pranab Mukherjee, which \"The Times of India\" called \"incisive\". \"The Game of Votes\" is centred on the changing trends in elections and examines what Khan sees as the paradigm shift in political campaigning most evident in the campaigns of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Narendra Modi. The book was published by SAGE in August 2019."}, {"text": "General San Mart\u00edn is a city and the capital of the Albard\u00f3n Department of San Juan Province, Argentina."}, {"text": "The 2020 American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament was a postseason tournament that was held March 6\u20139, 2020, in the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. UConn won the tournament, their seventh consecutively, and earned an automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. Seeds. All the teams in the American Athletic Conference will qualify for the tournament. Teams are seeded based on conference record, and then a tiebreaker system will be used. Teams seeded 5\u201312 play in the opening round, and teams seeded 1\u20134 received a bye to the quarterfinals. Schedule. All tournament games are nationally televised on an ESPN network:"}, {"text": "Garrett Edward Johnson (born December 31, 1975) is an American former professional football defensive tackle. He played college football at Illinois. Johnson played for the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe and the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Early life and college. Johnson was born in Belleville, Illinois and graduated from Belleville East High School, where he lettered in football, basketball, and track. Johnson attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and played at defensive tackle for the Illinois Fighting Illini from 1995 to 1998; his father Herschel played on the defensive line for Illinois in the late 1960s. A speech communications major, Johnson played in 39 games with 32 starts, recording 182 total tackles including 8.5 sacks and 22 tackles for loss, four fumble recoveries, and one forced fumble. Professional career. Following the 1999 NFL draft, Johnson first signed as an undrafted free agent with the New England Patriots. He spent the 1999 season on the practice squad. In the spring of 2000, Johnson played in 10 games for the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe, recording 21 tackles, one forced fumble, one pass deflected, and 4.0 sacks. In the 2000 NFL season, Johnson played in eight"}, {"text": "games with two starts for the New England Patriots, recording 11 tackles and a fumble recovery. He was cut by the Patriots on September 2, 2001 after the preseason. On January 22, 2002, he signed with the Denver Broncos. The Broncos waived Johnson on final cuts on September 1. The San Francisco 49ers claimed Johnson off waivers the next day but waived him on September 16."}, {"text": "Peksha () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 907 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Peksha is located on the Peksha River, 19 km east of Petushki (the district's administrative centre), by road. Cherkasovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pernovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Pernovo is located 25 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zheludyevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Plotavtsevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. There are 9 streets. Geography. Plotavtsevo is located 43 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Rodionovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Acacia courtii, commonly known as Northern Brother wattle or North Brother wattle, is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae that is native to eastern Australia. It is currently listed as endangered by the \"Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\". Description. The tree typically grows to over to a maximum height of and has slender, brittle and pendulous branchlets with caducous and deltate stipules that have a length that is mostly less than . Like most species of \"Acacia\" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glaucous, evergreen and flexible phyllodes have a linear shape and straight with a small hook at the end. They have a length of and a width of and have one prominent vein with several others. It blooms between November and January producing inflorescences with paired or solitary flower-spikes that have cylindrical shape with a length of with loosely packed golden coloured flowers. After flowering straight woody seed pods form that have a linear shape. The shiny brown seeds inside have an oblong-elliptic shape and a length of with a filiform funicle that is folded four to eight times and a small oblique aril. Taxonomy. The specific epithet honours the botanist Arthur"}, {"text": "Bertram Court who was once the assistant director of the Australian National Botanic Gardens. It is closely related to \"Acacia orites\". Distribution. It is endemic to a small area in mid north coast region of New South Wales around Laurieton, Kendall and Kew where it is mostly situated on rocky hillsides among the coastal ranges in three small locations where it is a part of dry forests and woodland communities. Six main populations are known mostly in the Kerewong State Forest and around North Brother Mountain and Mid Brother Mountain. It is often associated with species of \"Eucalyptus\" including; \"Eucalyptus acmenoides\", \"Eucalyptus gummifera\", \"Eucalyptus intermedia\", \"Eucalyptus siderophloia\" and \"Eucalyptus umbra\". Other species commonly found in its habitat include; \"Allocasuarina torulosa\", \"Helichrysum elatum\", \"Imperata cylindrica\", \"Syncarpia glomulifera\" and \"Themeda australis\"."}, {"text": "Tube system may refer to:"}, {"text": "Podvyaznovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 36 as of 2010. Geography. Podvyaznovo is located 33 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pakhomovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pokrovskogo lesouchastka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 105 as of 2010. Geography. The settlement is located 23 km southwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Staroye Perepechino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Polomy () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Polomy is located on the Somsha River, 39 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Filatovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Popinovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Popinovo is located 17 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chupriyanovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Posyolok Pokrovskogo torfouchastka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 244 as of 2010. Geography. The settlement is located 24 km southwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pokrovskogo lesouchastka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Repikhovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Repikhovo is located 26 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Molodino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rodionovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Rodionovo is located 42 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Plotavtsevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rozhdestvo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 53 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Rozhdestvo is located on the Bolshaya Lipnya River, 26 km north of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Veselovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Philip Adolphe Klier (c. 1845 \u2013 27 March 1911), also known as Philip Klier, was a German photographer, who arrived in Burma as a young man around 1865 and spent the rest of his life there. Mainly working as self-trained photographer and businessman, Klier took hundreds of photographs at the end of the 19th century during the British colonial period in Burma. His photographs, taken both in his studio as well as on location, were mainly sold as picture postcards for foreign visitors. They have also been published in several books and collected in public archives. Among a small number of other photographers, Klier is considered as one of the earliest professional photographers in the history of today's Myanmar. Life and work. Beginnings in Moulmein. After having emigrated from Germany, Klier first settled in Moulmein (now Mawlamyine, Mon State), the first capital of British Burma, in 1865, and started to work as a watchmaker in a small community of German watchmakers, opticians and photographers. Having acquired the technical skills of photography under the given climatic conditions, he set up his first studio in Moulmein. Expanding business in Rangoon. After 1880, Klier and his family moved to the capital Rangoon, where"}, {"text": "he operated from his studio in Signal Pagoda Road. There, he found better chances for selling his photographs used on mailable postcards that he had printed in Germany with the inscription \u201cCopyright\u2019 P. Klier, Rangoon\u201d. The customers were mainly British and other foreign officers, businessmen and visitors. For five years after 1885, Klier temporarily entered a partnership with J. Jackson, an established British studio photographer, but after that, he continued working on his own. After 1906, some of Klier's photographs were copied by the company D. A. Ahuja, (or T. N. Ahuja, Rangoon), and sometimes sold as hand-coloured postcards. In 1907, P. Klier & Co sold photographic supplies to the growing demand by photographers and advertised \u2018[t]he largest selection of views of Burma and pictorial postcards\u2019 in Thacker's Indian Directory. The 1908 edition of Thomas Cook & Sons \"Burma. Information for travellers landing at Rangoon\" printed eight out of a total of fifteen photographs by \"Messrs. P. Klier & Co\", whose studio was conveniently located in a building next to Thomas Cook's travel agency. After Klier's death, his company continued working at different locations in Rangoon. In 1912, Klier & Co. started to include Burmese curio sales of silverware, wood,"}, {"text": "and ivory carvings. The company was listed in commercial archives until 1920. Portraits and scenes of everyday life. The wide range of Klier's images documents his strong interest in both colonial British as well as Burmese life and culture. Many of his photographs were printed as albumen prints, the most popular photographic printing technique of the late 19th century. As the aesthetic styles of portrait photography developed, he changed his approach to presenting the subjects of his portraits: the two early portraits of young English ladies in the style of cabinet cards, taken around 1894 and archived at the National Portrait Gallery in London, or the portrait of an unknown man archived together with Klier's business card attest to the portrait style of the late 1890s. They stand in contrast with his later portraits, such as the picture of a Burmese lady on a hand-colored photoprint on postcard after an original albumen print of 1907, with a blurred background and crisp details of her person, clothes and jewellery in the foreground. Apart from photographic portraits of Europeans and scenes of busy areas of Rangoon, Klier also carefully staged and recorded portraits of Burmese people in traditional attire, such as a"}, {"text": "princess and her following or a chief from the princely Shan States in eastern Burma shown below. Besides studio portraits for individual customers, Klier showed an interest in everyday street photography, as by documenting traditional musicians or audiences watching the popular Burmese puppet shows (Yoke th\u00e9) of the times. Other scenes show Burmese at work, such as elephants and their keepers at work in timber yards or on paddy boats carrying rice. Klier also took photographs of famous buildings, including Burma's most important religious monument, the Shwedagon Pagoda or the great mosque in Rangoon. Critical reception. In his book on the history of photography in Burma, art historian Noel Francis Singer characterized Klier's approach as follows: \"Klier had an eye for the unusual and many religious buildings which would have been ignored by another were fortunately immortalized by him.\" In the introduction to the 2018 photo-book \"REPRODUCED, rethinking P.A. Klier & D.A. Ahuja,\" published by Myanmar Photo Archive, art historian Carm\u00edn Berchiolly examined some of Klier's portraits of Burmese women from a contemporary perspective. Analyzing two postcards showing the same young woman, one of them titled \"A Burmese Village Girl\" and the other \"A Burmese lady\", Berchiolly notes an unusual"}, {"text": "exposure of bare shoulders and arms of the village girl, and in the reclining lady a \"composition that belongs in the Odalisque type, as popularized in French Orientalist painting and which promoted the freedom of the male gaze.\" Many of Klier's photographs have been archived and digitized by the British Library and the National Archives in the United Kingdom as well as by the Smithsonian Institution and Getty Images in the United States. Among others, his work has also been published as part of the photographic collection of the Guimet Museum of Asian Arts in Paris, France, the Ethnological Museum of Berlin, Germany, and in the online collection of the Nederlands Photo Museum Rotterdam. In a 2009 auction by Bonhams in London, an album of 37 albumen prints by Klier with views and portraits of Burma was sold for US-$1,760. See also. Other notable photographers of 19th-century Burma:"}, {"text": "Roshchino () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2010. Geography. Roshchino is located 34 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Volkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rusanovo () is a rural locality in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Rusanovo is located 41 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Iroshnikovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Claire Pontlevoy (; born 17 November 2003) is a retired French artistic gymnast. She was part of the French team at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She retired in February 2023 after struggling since January 2020 with constant injuries preventing her of training properly and competing."}, {"text": "Sanino () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 155 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Sanino is located 44 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Saninskogo DOKa is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Saninskogo DOKa () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 518 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Saninskogo DOKa is located 45 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sanino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Aline Friess (born 5 July 2003) is a French artistic gymnast. She competed with the French teams at the 2019 World Championships, the 2020 Summer Olympics, the 2022 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the 2022 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships where she won bronze on vault. Early life. Friess was born on 5 July 2003 in Obernai. She began gymnastics in 2009 after she accompanied a friend to a training session. In 2016, she moved from her club in Obernai to a national training centre in Saint-\u00c9tienne (Pole France de Saint-Etienne) and joined the French national team. In 2023, she moved to INSEP in Paris because she needed some changes after a complicated year. Junior career. Friess made her international debut at the 2016 \u00c9lite Gym Massilia where she finished fourth with her team and twenty-fourth in the all-around. 2017. At the Saint\u00e9 Gym Cup, Friess helped the French team win the gold medal, and she won the silver medal in the all-around. She then won the gold medal in the all-around at the International GymSport in Sangalhos, Portugal, and she won the bronze medal on the balance beam and the floor exercise. Then at the French Championships, she won"}, {"text": "the silver medal in the all-around behind C\u00e9lia Serber. She also placed eighth on the uneven bars and seventh on the floor exercise. She helped the French team win the silver medal behind Italy at the FIT Challenge and placed eleventh in the all-around. She competed at the European Youth Olympic Festival but on vault, she was injured and had two fractures in her foot. She missed the rest of the season and did not return to training until March 2018. 2018. Friess returned to competition in May at the French Championships where she competed on the vault, uneven bars, and floor exercise but did not qualify for any finals. In July, she competed at the Pieve di Soligo Friendly in Italy and finished sixteenth in the all-around and helped the French team placed second behind Italy. She was chosen as the alternate for the European Championships. However, when Julia Forestier had to withdraw due to an injury, Friess was put on the team. She competed on the uneven bars with a score of 12.900 and balance beam with a score of 10.933, helping the team finish fifth. In November, she competed at \u00c9lite Gym Massilia where she won the"}, {"text": "team gold medal and finished twelfth in the all-around, fourth on vault, and she won a bronze medal on balance beam. Senior career. 2019. Friess became age-eligible for senior competition in 2019. She made her senior debut at the EnBW DTB-Pokal Team Challenge in Stuttgart where France placed fourth in the team final. Then at the French Championships, she finished fourth in the all-around and on the floor exercise. She was selected to compete at the European Games alongside Lorette Charpy and Carolann H\u00e9duit. She finished fourth in the all-around final, just less than a tenth away from making the podium with a score of 52.699. She then competed at the Worms Friendly where the French team finished third behind Germany and Belgium, and she won the silver medal in the all-around behind Elisabeth Seitz. She was named to the World Championships team alongside Marine Boyer, Lorette Charpy, Melanie de Jesus dos Santos, and Claire Pontlevoy. The team finished fifth in the team final and qualified France for a team spot at the 2020 Olympic Games. Friess qualified for the all-around final where she finished eleventh with a score of 54.798. 2020. In late January, it was announced that Friess"}, {"text": "would compete at the Stuttgart World Cup taking place in March. The Stuttgart World Cup was later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. She injured her knee in October and had surgery, causing her to miss the rest of the season. 2021. Friess returned to competition at the Ukraine International Cup and won gold medals in the all-around and on the floor exercise. She proceeded to compete at the FIT Challenge and helped the French team win the gold medal. Individually, Friess won the silver medal in the all-around behind M\u00e9lanie de Jesus dos Santos, and she placed fifth on the uneven bars and eighth on the balance beam. On 14 June, she was selected to represent France at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside M\u00e9lanie de Jesus dos Santos, Marine Boyer, and Carolann H\u00e9duit. At the Olympics, she helped France qualify to the team final where they finished sixth. 2022. In May, Friess competed at the Varna World Challenge Cup in Bulgaria, where she qualified to all four event finals. During the finals, she won three gold medals on vault, uneven bars and floor exercise, and also picked up a bronze on balance beam. In August Friess competed"}, {"text": "at the European Championships in Munich, where France finished sixth in the team final. Individually, she qualified to the vault final, where she won the bronze medal behind Zs\u00f3fia Kov\u00e1cs and Asia D'Amato. In October Friess was named to the team to compete at the World Championships in Liverpool alongside Marine Boyer, M\u00e9lanie de Jesus dos Santos, Coline Devillard, and Carolann H\u00e9duit. Personal life. Friess speaks French and some English. Outside of gymnastics, she also plays ping-pong and badminton. She is currently studying at Emlyon Business School."}, {"text": "Sitnikovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Sitnikovo is located 20 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Antushovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sosnovy Bor () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 179 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Sosnovy Bor is located on the Sheredar River, 36 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gostets is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "TM7x, also known as Nanosynbacter lyticus type strain TM7x HMT 952. is a phylotype of one of the most enigmatic phyla, Candidatus Saccharibacteria, formerly candidate phylum TM7. It is the only member of the candidate phylum that has been cultivated successfully from the human oral cavity, and stably maintained in vitro. and serves as a crucial paradigm. of the newly described Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR). The cultivated oral taxon is designated as Saccharibacteria oral taxon TM7x (NCBI taxonomy ID: 1476577). TM7x has a unique lifestyle in comparison to other bacteria that are associated with humans. It is an obligate epibiont parasite, or an \"epiparasite\", growing on the surface of its host bacterial species \"Actinomyces odontolyticus\" subspecies actinosynbacter strain XH001, which is referred to as the \"basibiont\". Actinomyces species are one of the early microbial colonizers in the oral cavity. Together, they exhibit parasitic epibiont symbiosis. The TM7 phylum was named with reference to the Torf, mittlere Schicht (or peat, middle layer) in which it was first detected in a German peat bog. The TM7 phylum correlates positively with various human inflammatory mucosal diseases. such as periodontitis. and particularly those conditions associated with a mature anaerobic biofilm. This is probably by"}, {"text": "modifying growth conditions for competing bacterial populations. The Saccharibacteria phylum has a cosmopolitan existence, devoid of any cultivable representative for more than 2 decades since the first RNA sequence was recovered. (except the recently cultivated oral taxon TM7x) and has thus been referred to as \"microbial dark matter\". Saccharibacteria are part of CPR which is a recently described expansion of the tree of life encompassing more than 15% of the bacterial domain, due to shared genomic characteristics with other novel genomes in the domain Bacteria. They display reduced metabolic capabilities and a parasitic lifestyle. along with their ability to promote biofilm formation capability of the host. Morphology. TM7x are ultra-small bacteria, with a tiny cell size. They are in the form of small spherical cocci, having a diameter of about 0.2-0.3 \u03bcm. and cell volume of approximately 0.009 \u03bcm3. The TM7x bacteria belong to the TM7 phylum which consist of members that are gram positive in nature. The TM7 organisms have extensive cell wall or cell peptidoglycan metabolism since several cell wall components have high producibility metrics such as peptidoglycan, bactoprenyl diphosphate, and nine different types of teichoic acids. TM7x is an obligate epibiotic parasite, which means that it lives"}, {"text": "on the surface of another micro-organism, called the basibiont or bacterial host. Due to its parasitic nature, it disrupts the host cell eventually causing cell death, on which it is dependent for metabolic functions, instead of living as free bacteria. The TM7x cells are host specific, and are physically bound to their host, Actinomyces odontolyticus strain XH001 which are rod shaped. When associated with the host in a co-culture, the epibiont forms a \"grape on a vine\" structure. Microscopic examinations have revealed that both TM7x and XH001 display extensive morphological changes during symbiotic growth. Different morphologies of TM7x include cocci, filamentous cell bodies, short rods as well as elongated cells. Based on their morphology, the individual TM7x cells that are attached to XH001 can be classified into cocci, cocci with various tail lengths, two connected cocci, or two slightly separated cocci. The morphologies are observed during all growth phases and resemble budding bacteria thus suggesting that TM7x cells undergo bud formation while attached to XH001, and thus divide by budding. The different morphologies may reflect different budding stages. TM7x also do not have flagella or pili and this suggests that TM7x cells adhere in a directional manner using the cell"}, {"text": "surface or membrane proteins. During the lag, exponential and stationary phase, TM7x cells present in the co-culture appear as cocci, although slightly elongated forms are also seen. During the death phase, the TM7x cells show greater elongation, in addition to cocci and short rod morphologies. Physiology. Physiology. TM7x, just like most microbes, has an optimum temperature of 37 \u00b0C and requires anaerobic conditions, and studies suggest that an increase in oxygen negatively impacts its growth. These cells are recalcitrant to cultivation due to auxotrophy which is a result of its reduced genome. The cells lack certain metabolic pathways, which means they do not have the ability to synthesize amino acids that are essential for life. Due to this, the TM7x cells are completely dependent on their host to survive. However, the TM7x cells that are unattached to the host are viable. and can re-establish the association with the host when it is available. TM7x is sensitive to components such as hydrogen peroxide, as well as high concentrations of sodium chloride and potassium chloride. On the other hand, growth of TM7x is apparent when fetal bovine serum is present, however it hampers the growth of its host. It has also been"}, {"text": "seen that heat shocks of about 42 \u00b0C does not alter the balance between the host and TM7x in co-cultures. Due to the attachment between TM7x and XH001, carbon dioxide can also be considered as a necessary component for the growth of TM7x cells, since it is an essential to the host XH001. Studies conducted on 16S RNA have revealed that TM7x cells are resistant to streptomycin due to certain mutations in their genes. Cultivation. A stable co-culture of the TM7x and XH001 can be obtained by using a medium, which has been developed to resemble the saliva, called the SHI medium, on solid agar plates, which is an oral culture medium. It is a combination of the critical ingredients of 3 media, namely PYG (peptone-yeast extract-glucose medium), BMM (basal medium mucin) and sheep blood supplemented NAM (N-acetyl muramic acid) to base ingredients such as peptone and yeast extracts. This is a targeted enrichment approach, since the medium is also supplemented with streptomycin. This allows selection of streptomycin resistant strains. For best results, the culture is incubated at 37 \u00b0C under anaerobic conditions (85% N2, 10% H2 and 5% CO2). One thing to note, however is that TM7x cells associate"}, {"text": "with XH001 with the highest abundance, under microaerophilic conditions (2.6% oxygen, 5% CO2). Subcultures with increasing concentrations of streptomycin can be carried out. SHI media is superior in cultivating saliva derived oral bacteria since it contains mucin, which is the principle glycoprotein of saliva and is an important growth limiting substrate, haemin and NAM which stimulate the growth. Isolation. To isolate TM7 from the co-culture, various physical as well as chemical treatments can be used, which involves disrupting the attachment between TM7x and XH001. The co-culture can be passed through a 28-gauge needle, after which it can be filtered using a 0.22 \u03bcm filter. Using the medium enrichment technique can reduce the TM7x containing cultures from a complex community to a dual species co culture. Identification. TM7x cells can be observed using microscopic techniques such as light microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), which can be used to describe the microbial cell envelope, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), which helped characterize the interactions between as XH001 and TM7x, and con-focal laser scanning microscope that distinguishes between the host and TM7x cells. Genetic approaches, such as complete DNA sequencing or whole genome sequencing. and 16S RNA sequencing. define the microbiome, as well as"}, {"text": "the relationship between TM7x and its host. The TM7x cells can also been observed using microfluidic devices. Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) can be used to observe cell separation. and single cells can be acquired using flow cytometry. to conduct genetic analysis. These methods, in conjunction with well-established sample preparation, staining techniques and co-culturing using enrichment techniques, will allow proper cultivation and sequencing of TM7x cells. Microscopy coupled with recent advances in hardware and software make these methods indispensable. Ecology. Interactions with specific host A. odontolyticus XH001. The two micro-organisms exhibit dynamic interactions, since TM7x is obligately and exclusively physically associated with its host Actinomyces odontolyticus strain XH001, with various phases that include co-existence, induction of lysis in addition to exospore formation. This is an example of parasitic ectosymbiosis. and it represents a novel inter-species interaction in the oral microbiota. Due to the inability to produce its own amino acids, it is apparent that the epibiont is fully dependent on A. odontolyticus XH001 for its nutrients. However, under certain conditions, TM7x can become parasitic, thus killing its host, which is an unusual interaction for oral micro-organisms. Association of TM7x and XH001. Studies suggest that physical attachment of TM7x with XH001"}, {"text": "has both positive and negative effects on the XH001 cells. Life cycle patterns. The association between TM7x and XH001 shifts from biotrophic (under nutrient replete conditions) to necrotrophic (under starvation or late nutrient deplete conditions). Both TM7x and XH001 show reciprocal changes under varying nutritional conditions: Under nutritionally replete environments Under normal conditions, TM7x is an obligate epibiont, and co-exists well. TM7x cells cause slight elongation and branching in XH001 cells, by keeping them healthy, which provides the epibiont with a larger surface area to grow. Under starvation conditions Under conditions of starvation, the TM7x cells remain vital and multiply. However, the host cells (XH001) lose their viability, due to disrupted or compromised cell membranes, when associated with TM7x, and some develop exospore-like structures, which result in the drastic reduction the TM7x cells. This negative impact on viability of host cells due to the obligate surface attachment indicates the parasitic nature of TM7x. The TM7x cells display a transformation from small cocci to elongated cells (which may be due to stress response) and induce a variety of severe changes in cell morphologies of XH001, such as swollen cell bodies, clubbed ends, and lysis. Interactions with other organisms. When TM7x cells"}, {"text": "are co-cultured with other micro-organisms, related to its specific host, such as \"A. naeslundii, A. viscosus, A. meyeri\", amongst others, no physical association is established. This suggests that TM7x and XH001 might have evolved together during their establishment in the mouth. Genomics. The TM7x genome is completely sequenced. and has a more streamlined genome than the other phylotypes, which may be due to its specific human microbiome habitat. The genome is highly reduced (probably due to its dependence on the host). and has a relatively small size of 705 kb (approx. 705,138 bp). It ranks among the smallest bacteria found on the human body or in nature. It reveals a limited metabolic repertoire (complete deficiency in amino acid synthetic capacity), which may explain its dependency on the host and the necessity to parasitize it. It has been postulated that the dependence of TM7x cells on the host has allowed further genome reduction, in comparison to the other TM7 phylotypes. The genome consists of about 711 genes, of which there are 46 RNA genes, (43 tRNAs and 3 rRNAs), and a protein count of 693. It has a coding density of 93%. and is very dense in the production of toxins"}, {"text": "as well as virulent molecules, such as cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1, haemolysin toxin protein as well as type III secretion protein. The GC content of the genome is 44.5%. A list of all the core genes, shared by all genomes of Saccharibacteria as well as the unique genes possessed by the TM7x, has been published. A strikingly highly conserved gene synteny has been sustained between a huge fraction of the TM7x genome and the aquifer- and sludge bioreactor-associated TM7. The TM7x genome contains a high number of genes that encode proteins with transmembrane domains, to obtain nutrients from its host XH001, but contains a low gene percentage that encodes proteins with signal peptides. Various hypotheses are proposed to describe the reductive genomic evolution, which is observed in these host-dependent bacterial lineages, such as the streamlining hypothesis, the black queen hypothesis and the increase of protein multifunctionality. Endosymbiont metabolisms follow inverse evolutionary pathways during genome reduction where some enzymes have relaxed specificity to compensate for gene number reduction. Transcriptomics and metabolomics. Transcriptomic data allows analysis and comparisons of gene expressions, profiles of secreted molecules, gene functions and products which are important for successfully establishing a symbiotic relationship. Transcriptomic data shows that"}, {"text": "about 340 genes in XH001 are differentially regulated under coculture conditions. Approximately 70 genes belonging to XH001 genes are up-regulated when XH001 is physically associated with TM7x. These include genes that encode functions related to general stress related responses such as stress related proteins and transcriptional regulators, induced turgor stress-related response, a ribosomal subunit interface protein that binds to machinery of the ribosomes, inhibiting protein biosynthesis, Cys-tRNA-Pro deacylase which prevents addition of amino acids to the tRNA molecule, inhibiting protein translation, TA-encoding systems which include toxin component GNAT family, prevent-host death family protein, YefM TA system and addiction module toxin-RelE family; potassium efflux system KefA homolog, biosynthesis of essential amino acids and transporters. Apart from this, studies also suggest that when TM7x is associated with XH001, the gene encoding the \"lsr\"B ortholog which functions as a receptor for the AI-2 signalling molecule is highly upregulated. Comparatively, the genes encoding potassium uptake, putative membrane proteins, and ompA expression, known to encode an immunogenic protein were down-regulated. The TM7x cells are capable of several common metabolic processes, such as glycolysis, the TCA cycle, nucleotide biosynthesis and some amino acid biosynthesis and salvage pathways. Genes coding for glycosyl hydrolase family enzymes have been"}, {"text": "observed, suggesting that these cells may use oligosaccharides as growth substrates, as well as Arginine, which is another potential growth substrate (arginine deiminase pathway). Genes for ABC transporters are also identified that are likely to be responsible for oligopeptide uptake, indicating that TM7 cells are capable of using other amino acids also. There is evidence of a base substitution in the 16S rRNA genes, which is highly atypical, and is associated with antibiotic resistance against streptomycin. On the consensus 16S rRNA, on position 912, C is substituted with U and this is linked to resistance against streptomycin. Pathogenesis. When periodontal disease is initiated due to the pathogens present in microbial biofilms, certain harmful by-products and enzymes are produced that break down the collagen or host cell membranes to allow invasion. Certain inflammatory cytokines induce inflammation when the macrophages detect pathogens as part of its defence mechanism, such as the tumour necrosis factor (\u03b1-TNF). TM7x can be considered a potential pathogen since it is associated with inflammatory mucosal disease and detected more frequently at these sites. Studies conducted on J2 immortalized bone marrow macrophages (BMMs) have shown that the host XH001 induces the \u03b1-TNF gene expression, however when associated with TM7x"}, {"text": "cells, this expression is greatly reduced. This indicates that TM7x can suppress the \u03b1-TNF gene expression in the macrophages or prevent the detection of its host by macrophages. TM7x is established as an organism that produces toxins and virulence factors, and encodes membrane associated virulence proteins such as OmpA and LemA, type IV secretion systems, and proteins that bind choline. It is also capable of inducing resistance to streptomycin in its host XH001 and thus pose potential threat to humans, as they are involved in various human systemic diseases. including but not limited to vaginal diseases and chronic inflammation in the digestive tract. Actinomyces species are one of the early microbial colonizers in the oral cavity and the relationship between XH001 with TM7x may influence the composition and pathogenesis of oral microbiota, since a homeostatic balance must be maintained between the host and bacteria. The TM7x genome contains several open reading frames that encode an abortive infection protein homolog that limits replication of the phage within a bacterial population, also promoting cell death and also encode predicted proteins with toxin-antitoxin (TA) domains, such as VapB, VapC, and xenobiotic response element. These proteins may play roles in the maintenance of the"}, {"text": "parasitic status of TM7x against XH001."}, {"text": "Stanovtsovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 in 2010. Geography. Stanovtsovo is located on the Laska River, north of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yermolino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staroye Annino () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 92 as of 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Staroye Annino is located 12 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novoye Annino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staroye Perepechino () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 363 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Staroye Perepechino is located 23 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pokrov is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staroye Seltso () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Staroye Seltso is located 44 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Barskovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staroye Semyonkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Staroye Semyonkovo is located 12 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novye Omutishchi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Staroye Stenino () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Staroye Stenino is located 23 km north of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vospushka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Starye Omutishchi () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 274 in 2010. There are 17 streets. Geography. Starye Omutishchi is located 12 km west of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novye Omutishchi is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shah Shahid Sarwar is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Mymensingh-2. Career. Sarwar was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. The Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission sued him on 10 November 2008 for concealing information about his wealth."}, {"text": "Starye Petushki () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 445 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Starye Petushki is located 5 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Petushki is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rahul Subhashrao Kul (born 1977) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is a three time member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from 2014 representing Daund Assembly constituency in Pune District. He won in 2014, 2019 and 2024. Early life and education. Kul is from Rahu, Daund, Pune. His late father Subhash Baburao Kul was three time MLA from Daund while his mother Ranjana Kul is also a former MLA from Daund. He completed his L.L.B. in 2000 at ILS Law College, which is affiliated with Pune University. Career. Kul succeeded his mother and became an MLA for the first time representing Rashtriya Samaj Paksha, winning the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election defeating NCP's Ramesh Thorat by a margin of 11,345 votes. Later, he shifted to the Bharatiya Janata Party and retained the seat winning the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election on the BJP ticket. He polled 103,664 votes and again defeated Thorat of NCP, but by a narrow margin of 746 votes. He won for the third time, contesting on the BJP ticket and winning the 2024 Assembly election, Rameshappa Kishanrao Thorat of the NCP (SP), by a margin of 13,889 votes."}, {"text": "Stepanovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. Geography. The village is located on the Muliga River, 13 km south-east from Peksha, 28 km south-east from Petushki."}, {"text": "Sukovatovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Sukovatovo is located 31 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bliznetsy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "John Charles Huddleston (born April 10, 1954) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Oakland Raiders. He played college football at the University of Utah."}, {"text": "Sushnevo-1 () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 220 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Sushnevo-1 is located on the Peksha River, 27 km east of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zheltukhino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sushnevo-2 () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 94 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Sushnevo-2 is located, 28 km east of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Boldino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Salix helvetica, the Swiss willow, is a scrubby willow species found in the Alps (from 1,700 to 2,700m) and the Tatras portion of the western Carpathians (from 1,600 to 2,000m). It is a naturally dwarf, erect shrub, growing to tall and broad, with silvery undersides on the leaves, and silvery catkins appearing with the leaves. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit."}, {"text": "Richard Whitley is an American screenwriter, producer, lyricist, and actor best known for his work on \"Rock 'n' Roll High School\". Career. Richard Whitley was born in Elmhurst, Illinois, to Marian and Edward F. Whitley. He had an older half-brother, John Hill, who was a game designer. Whitley began his career by writing the script for Roger Corman's \"Rock 'n' Roll High School\" (1979). His work on \"Rock 'n' Roll High School\" led to writing for several TV shows, including \"Delta House\", \"Homefront\", \"TV Nation\", \"\", \"Roseanne\", \"Millennium\", \"Recess\", \"Roswell\", \"The Others\", \"Lloyd in Space\", \"Canterbury's Law\", and \"Pound Puppies\". On July 31, 2008, it was announced that actor/writer Alex Winter had been hired to script a remake of \"Rock 'n' Roll High School\" for Howard Stern's production company."}, {"text": "Taratino () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Taratino is located on the Peksha River, 25 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yeliseykovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Teleshovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Teleshovo is located on the Voleshka River, 41 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stepanovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Cockroach is a satirical novella by the author Ian McEwan, published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape, inspired by Kafka's \"The Metamorphosis\" and loosely based on the ramifications of Brexit. Background. McEwan on the \"Today Programme\", declined an invitation to say something conciliatory about Leave voters. \"Let\u2019s stop pretending that there are two sides to this argument,\" he says. \"There aren't. I'm sorry. When I'm abroad and people say, 'What the f*** are you doing?' I say, 'I don't know. I wish I could give you some arguments for it.\" McEwan doubts \"The Cockroach\" will be his last word on the subject. \"I think I will get back to it. I probably have to get back to it.\u201d He hopes readers find the novella \u201ctherapeutic\u201d but doesn't expect it to change any minds. \"I\u2019m afraid the people who like it will probably be Remainers and the people who loathe it will be Brexiters. That's the world we have now. No one\u2019s going to say, \u2018I\u2019ve just read \"The Cockroach\" and I\u2019m becoming a Remainer.' If only! So I don\u2019t flatter myself that I'm going to have any impact on this process.\" Plot. A cockroach takes over the body of the"}, {"text": "prime minister of the UK and finds itself in 10 Downing Street. All of his cabinet except the foreign secretary are also cockroaches in 'superficial human form'. Instead of Brexit is the theory of Reversalism in which the flow of money is reversed. Workers pay money to their employers, and in turn are paid to shop. Trade functions by exporters giving Britain money to take their goods; Britain will in turn pay other countries to import its products and services. Reception. Fintan O'Toole in \"The Guardian\" praises the novella \"It is written to comfort and entertain those who already believe that the Brexit project is deranged. And even in that McEwan faces a formidable challenge. Brexit has such a camp, knowing, performative quality that it is almost impossible to inflate it any further. How do you make a show of people who are doing such a fabulous job of making a show of themselves? McEwan manages to do so with great style and comic panache...McEwan elaborates this great scheme in prose so finely wrought that the plan seems to have some genuine gravity. And this in turn makes it very funny. He cannot hope to laugh the terrible reality of"}, {"text": "Brexit out of existence, but McEwan\u2019s comic parable at least provides some relief from a political farce that has long gone beyond a joke.\" Erik Martiny also praises the novel in \"The London Magazine\", \"With politics the main focus of his attention, McEwan gives it all the pizzazz he possesses and with hilarious results. His mastery of free indirect speech allows you to enter the cockroach\u2019s mind in startlingly funny ways.\" and \"a refreshing and imaginative contribution to the genre of magic realism.\" Dwight Garner has the opposite view, writing in \"The New York Times\": \"\"The Cockroach\" is so toothless and wan that it may drive his readers away in long apocalyptic caravans. The young McEwan, the author of blacker-than-black little novels, the man who acquired the nickname \u201cIan Macabre,\u201d would rather have gnawed off his own fingers than written it. At dark political and social moments, we need better, rougher magic than this...Once McEwan has established his premise, however, \"The Cockroach\" stalls. It devolves into self-satisfied, fish-in-barrel commentary about topics like Twitter and the tabloid press...The idea of writing \"The Cockroach\" probably seemed, in the shower one morning, like a good one. Later, after coffee, it might have occurred"}, {"text": "to McEwan that suggesting your opponents are cockroaches might be to drop down to their carpet level. Robert Shrimsley writing in \"Financial Times\" explains \"By the end of this short, occasionally elegant and no doubt cathartic fictional essay, McEwan has inadvertently given readers a fresh insight into the arrogance and contempt that liberal society feels towards those who have dared to defy it by voting for Brexit. For all the flourishes one would expect from a novelist of McEwan\u2019s brilliance, this falls way short of his usual standard...This is the McEwan we expect; playful, inventive and clever. The descriptions of physical transformation are unsurprisingly excellent though he is not the first author to riff on Kafka\u2019s classic. But as soon as he returns to the pure politics, the intelligence gives way to unfiltered and uninquisitive rage. What a shame. A cold-headed, forensic McEwan on Brexit would have been worth reading."}, {"text": "Trud () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 860 as of 2010. There are 12 streets. Geography. Trud is located on the Bolshaya Lipnya River, 17 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Antushovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tuykovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Tuykovo is located on the Peksha River, 30 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vypolzovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Desiree Carofiglio (born 11 March 2000) is an Italian artistic gymnast. She was part of the Italian team that won bronze at the 2019 World Championships. Personal life. Carofiglio was born in Casarile on 11 March 2000. Gymnastics career. Junior. 2014\u201315. Carofiglio made her international debut at the 2014 City of Jesolo Trophy where she placed sixteenth in the all-around, eighth on vault, and sixth on balance beam. She later competed at a friendly competition in Munich where she placed thirteenth. In May she competed at the European Championships where she helped Italy place fifth in the team final and individually she placed seventh in the vault final. She later competed at the Italy National Championships where she placed seventeenth in the all-around and fifth on vault. In September Carofiglio competed at the Golden League where she won bronze on vault. In 2015 Carofiglio competed at the Golden League, winning bronze in the team final and placing tenth in the all-around. At the Italian National Championships she placed eleventh in the all-around, third on vault, and seventh on balance beam. Senior. 2016. Carofiglio turned senior in 2016. She competed at the 1st Italian Serie A where she placed third in"}, {"text": "the all-around behind Giorgia Villa and Carlotta Ferlito and fourth in the team competition. She made her international senior debut at the 2016 City of Jesolo Trophy where she helped Italy finish third and individually she placed 22nd in the all-around, fifth on vault, and eighth on floor exercise. 2017. Carofiglio competed at the first Italian Serie A where her club placed third and individually she placed fourth in the all-around. She next competed at the 2017 City of Jesolo Trophy where she placed 21st in the all-around, fourth on vault, and fifth in the team final. At the second Italian Serie A she placed third in the all-around behind Martina Maggio and Asia D'Amato. Carofiglio competed at the Italian Gold Championships in May where she won silver in the all-around and on vault behind Maggio, fifth on uneven bars and balance beam, and won gold on floor exercise. In June she competed at the FIT Challenge where she placed 12th in the all-around and helped Italy win gold. At the Italian National Championships Carofiglio placed sixth in the all-around, second on vault behind D'Amato, and fourth on floor exercise. In October Carofiglio competed at the 2017 World Championships but"}, {"text": "did not qualify for any event finals. 2018. Carofiglio competed at the first Italian Serie A where she placed fourth in the all-around behind Giorgia Villa, Asia D'Amato, and Alice D'Amato. In April she competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy where she helped Italy win bronze and individually she placed fifteenth in the all-around, sixth on vault, and won bronze on floor exercise, tied with Grace McCallum. In June Carofiglio had surgery on her knee and was out for the remainder of the season. 2019. Carofiglio competed at the 2019 City of Jesolo Trophy where she helped Italy place third and individually she placed tenth in the all-around, second on vault, and fifth on floor exercise. She later competed at a friendly competition in Heerenveen where she helped Italy place first and individually she placed sixth in the all-around. At the Italian National Championships Carofiglio placed second in the all-around behind Asia D'Amato, fourth on vault, uneven bars, and balance beam, and won gold on floor exercise. On September 4 Carofiglio was named to the team to compete at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany alongside D'Amato, Alice D'Amato, Giorgia Villa, and Elisa Iorio. During qualifications at the"}, {"text": "World Championships Carofiglio helped Italy qualify to the team final in eighth place; as a result Italy also qualified to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. In the team final, Carofiglio helped Italy win the bronze medal \u2013 Italy's first team medal since the 1950 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. They ended up finishing behind the United States and Russia but ahead of China, who originally qualified to the final in second place. 2020. Carofiglio was selected to represent Italy at the Birmingham World Cup taking place in March. However the Birmingham World Cup was later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. In October Carofiglio injured her Achilles tendon. 2021. Carofiglio returned to competition at the 2021 Italian national championships where she only competed on balance beam and uneven bars. Although she was not sufficiently recovered enough to be selected to represent Italy at the Olympic Games, she was selected to compete at the 2021 World Championships."}, {"text": "Filimonovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010. There are 5 streets. Geography. Filimonovo is located 24 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Volginsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tsepnino () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. Tsepnino is located 36 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Barskovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chashcha () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was three as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Chashcha is located southwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Borok is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Cherkasovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 37 as of 2010. Geography. Cherkasovo is located on the left bank of the Peksha River, 23 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peksha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chupriyanovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Petushinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Chupriyanovo is located 18 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Popinovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Callie duPerier (born March 17, 1993) is an American professional rodeo cowgirl who specializes in barrel racing. In December 2015, she won the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) barrel racing world championship at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Life. Callie duPerier was born on March 17, 1993, in San Antonio, Texas. She currently resides in Boerne, Texas. She attended Schreiner University (Kerriville). duPerier grew up in Bandera, Texas. She married Kaleb Apffel in May 2016. Career. duPerier joined the Women's Professional Rodeo Association in 1993. 2014 and earlier seasons. In 2014, she finished the season ranked 25th in the year with $44, 804. In 2010, she won the WPRA Junior World title with $14.476 aboard Makearocket Buzz \"Fuzzy\". duPere received an invitation to The American Rodeo more than once. She also has been competing in barrel racing since she was 12 years old. 2015 season. In 2015, she won the World Barrel Racing Championship at the NFR on her horse Dillion. She finished the season with $303,846 in earnings. She also won the NFR Average with a total time of 140.41 seconds on 10 runs. She made qualified runs in 6 out of 10 runs to"}, {"text": "win $126,923 total at the NFR. Other rodeos she won this season include the Champions Challenge Finale in Omaha, Nebraska; the Yellowstone River Round-Up in Billings, Montana; the Champions Challenge in Pueblo, Colorado; the Molalla, Oregon, Buckaroo Rodeo; the St. Paul, Oregon, Rodeo where she set a new record; the Jasper, Texas, Lions Benefit Rodeo; and the Champions Challenge in Kissimmee, Florida. She finished second at the New Mexico State Fair and Rodeo in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and at the Farm City Pro Rodeo in Hermiston, Oregon. 2016 season. In 2016, she finished the season with $4,773. Horses. In 2015, her horse, registered name Rare Dillion, nicknamed Dillion, was awarded the WPRA Horse with the Most Heart. In 2017, Dillion was a 17-year-old buckskin gelding by Firecracker and out of Rare Class, who is a daughter of Dash Ta Diamonds. Dash Ta Diamonds is nicknamed Arson and is an 11-year-old sorrel gelding as of 2019. He is by Dash Ta Fame out of The Millennium Star."}, {"text": "Shibotovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Nagornoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Shibotovo is located on the Dogadka Lake, 46 km northwest of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sanino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Dangojeon () refers to the 5 mun denomination of the (\u5e38\u5e73\u901a\u5bf6) Korean cash coins introduced in February 1883 following the disastrous introduction of the earlier \"Dangbaekjeon\" (\u7576\u767e\u9322) two decades earlier. The \"Dangojeon\" had a nominal value (or \"face value\") that was five times higher than that of the regular \"yeopjeon\", but its purchasing power was just twice as high, like the previous series of high denomination \"Sangpyeong Tongbo\" cash coins, this would prove to be a major cause of inflation and disrupted the Korean economy. It was cast in order to pay for the expenditures of the state, the casting of the \"dangojeon\" was led by the German adviser Paul Georg von M\u00f6llendorff. These cash coins would remain in circulation until July 1894. Background. When the \"Dangbaekjeon\" (\u7576\u767e\u9322), or 100 mun denomination \"Sangpyeong Tongbo\" cash coin, was introduced in 1866 by regent Heungseon Daewongun to finance the state's military expenditures to strengthen Korea's military power to be able to compete with that of the Western powers which were forming an ever growing threat, as well as to rebuild the Gyeongbok Palace. After its introduction the mun started to suffer from inflation, this was because the intrinsic value of the"}, {"text": "100 mun coin was only five to six times as much as 5 mun coins, leading to the consumer price of e.g. rice to expand sixfold within 2 years. This eventually lead to traders preferring silver foreign currency such as the Mexican peso, Japanese yen, Russian ruble, and Chinese sycees. As a result of Some people started to melt smaller \"Sangpyeong Tongbo\" cash coins down to make counterfeit money. People who had lower denomination \"Sangpyeong Tongbo\" avoided to exchange with the value 100 cash coins, so they didn't put their \"Sangpyeong Tongbo\" on the market. The new series would be discontinued in April of the year 1867 after being produced only for 172 days. Despite them no longer being produced the government of Joseon continued distributing them onto the Korean market until an appeal from Choe Ik-hyeon convinced the government that these coins had an adverse effect on every class of Korean society. The introduction of the 100 mun coin happened concurrent with the \"Tenp\u014d Ts\u016bh\u014d\" 100 mon coin issued by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1835 (in reaction to government deficit), the 100 w\u00e9n coin by the Qing dynasty in 1853 (in reaction to the Taiping rebellion), the Ryukyuan 100"}, {"text": "mon and half Shu cash coins, and the large denomination T\u1ef1 \u0110\u1ee9c B\u1ea3o Sao cash coins in Vietnam. All of these large denomination cash coins also caused inflation on comparable levels. Following the prohibition of the circulation of the \"Dangbaekjeon\" cash coins the government started receiving huge losses. Hence, to secure another source of revenue and to cover its losses, the Joseon government legalise the use of Qing Chinese money in Korea in June 1867. In the 11th year of the reign of King Gojong (1874), in January of that year that Joseon banned the circulation of Chinese cash coins within their borders, since the Chinese money accelerated price hikes. History. Following the abolition of the \"Dangbaekjeon\", the Korean government introduced the \"Dangojeon\" (\u7576\u4e94\u9322, \ub2f9\uc624\uc804) in 1883, like the earlier \"Dangbaekjeon\" this denomination also caused a sharp decline in the value of coinage which brought a lot of turmoil to the Korean economy. The \"Dangojeon\" cash coins were only slightly larger than \"value two\" \"Sangpyeong Tongbo\" cash coins. The effects that the \"Dangojeon\" had caused were not as bad as those that were caused by the gross overvaluing of the \"Danbaekjeon\" cash coins, but the effects were nevertheless not beneficial"}, {"text": "for both the Korean economy and the Korean currency system. Both the \"Danbaekjeon\" and the \"Dangojeon\" cash coins were symptoms of the considerable turmoil that were occurring within the royal family and its advisers during the reign of King Gojong. From this point onwards, Japanese currency began to flood the Korean market and the Korean mun began to lose its power. The Korean government was under severe fiscal pressures due to chronic financial difficulties, and new fiscal expenditures such as the costs of dispatching overseas missions, the costs of opening port cities like Busan, Wonsan, and Incheon, and the installation of new military facilities since the opening of Korea in the year 1876. In order to overcome these financial hardships, the Korean government temporarily manufactured the Dae Dong silver coinage in 1882. However, more aggressive monetary reforms were needed to offset rising expenditures since the opening of Korea to foreign trade. The new \"Dangojeon\" coin, which was first circulated by the Korean government between the years 1883 and 1884, was partially to blame for a major increase in the inflation as its nominal value was 5 times that of an average \"yeopjeon\", while in reality its true purchasing power was"}, {"text": "only twice as much due to the fact that the market accepted the coinage based on it intrinsic value rather than its nominal one. In the period from January of the year 1886 until January of the year 1888, the prices of all commodities in Korea would tremendously increase. Imported cotton cloth was sold at 11 mun a piece, this price was almost twice as much as it had cost in October of the year 1884. The price of domestically produced cotton cloth would also increase during this same period of time from 2 mun to 7.8 mun, and that of silk cloth would increase from 5 mun to 10.7 mun, between October of the year 1884 and January of the year 1886. A similar inflationary trend occurred with the price of rice, it was observed that rice was sold in the range of 9 mun and 23.7 mun between January of the year 1886 and January of the year 1888. This ineffective currency reform that was the introduction of the \"dangojeon\" had caused a steep inflation in commodity prices throughout Korea. One of the demands of the peasant armies of the Donghak Peasant Revolution was the banning of the"}, {"text": "\"Dangojeon\" because of its inflationary effects which severely affected Korea's peasant population. Machine-struck \"Dangojeon\" cash coins. During the 1890s the Central Government Mint (\u5178\u571c\u5c40, \uc804\uc6d0\uad6d) created a machine-struck brass \"Sangpyeong Tongbo\" cash coin with a round centre hole. At least three different sets of dies were cut for machine-struck 5 mun \"Sangpyeong Tongbo\" cash coins, these designs resembled the 1883 issue 5 mun cast \"yeopjeon\" versions of the coins. Only one of these three sets is known to have actually been engraved. In the year 1891 the chief engraver of the Osaka Mint in Japan, Masuda, created this design. Only one of these three designs ever saw (very limited) circulation. As the Mint's machinery was not well suited for punching centre holes in coins the old-style designs were eventually dropped. Abolition. After King Gojong established the Jeonwanguk mint in 1883 in Incheon in order to adopt a currency more akin to international standards leading the copper \"Sangpyeong Tongbo\" coins to eventually be phased out in favour of the silver yang following the adoption of the silver standard. Design. The design of the \"Dangojeon\" had the same obverse inscription as other \"Sangpyeong Tongbo\" (\u5e38\u5e73\u901a\u5bf6) cash coins, but contained the Hanja characters"}, {"text": "\"\u7576\" (\ub2f9, \"dang\") on the right side of its reverse, and the character \"\u4e94\" (\uc624, \"o\") on its left. As it was minted by various mints it contains different mint marks above the square centre hole on its reverse, and a \"furnace designator\" or \"series number\" below the hole."}, {"text": "Chaika is an Australian band. Originally formed as Di Khupe Heybners they play a mix of styles including folk, jazz, chamber music and they sing in Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Romanie and English. Their third album, \"Arrow\", was nominated for the 2019 ARIA Award for Best World Music Album. Awards and nominations. ARIA Music Awards. The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987."}, {"text": "Tyler Cameron (born January 31, 1993) is an American television personality, model and general contractor. Cameron received national attention as a contestant on season fifteen of \"The Bachelorette\", starring Hannah Brown, in which Cameron was the season's runner-up. He works as a model with Soul Artist Management in New York City and Next Management Miami. Early life and education. Cameron was born in Jupiter, Florida, to parents Jeff Cameron and Andrea Hermann Cameron; his mother worked as a realtor in South Florida. Cameron is the eldest of three sons. During the Great Recession, the family suffered economically, resulting in them losing their home and Cameron's parents divorcing. After graduating from Jupiter Community High School, where he was teammates with Cody Parkey, Matthew Vankeuren, Phillip Benson, and Matthew Cornwell, Cameron attended Wake Forest University, where he was the backup quarterback for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team. After graduating with his bachelor's degree, Cameron enrolled in the Florida Atlantic University College of Business and received a Master of Business Administration degree in 2018. Professional football. Cameron had initially planned to play football professionally and had been signed as an undrafted free agent by the Baltimore Ravens, but was forced to"}, {"text": "end his football career after a shoulder injury. Career. Cameron began his career as a model while a college student, after having been discovered through Instagram. He ultimately went on to sign modeling contracts with Soul Artist Management in New York City and Next Management Miami. In 2019, Cameron was cast in season fifteen of \"The Bachelorette\", starring former Miss Alabama USA Hannah Brown. Filming took place throughout the spring of 2019. His occupation was listed as a general contractor on the show, although he did not receive his building contractor license until December that year. Cameron was later revealed as a contestant by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on May 7, 2019. Cameron went on to place as the runner-up, being eliminated by Brown during the finale episode, aired on July 30, 2019, and filmed in Crete. During the reunion aired the same night, Brown revealed that she had broken up with winner Jed Wyatt after it arose that he was in a relationship with another woman just prior to and during filming. Brown then asked Cameron on a date, to which he accepted, although they ultimately did not end up resuming their relationship. During his tenure on the"}, {"text": "show, Cameron received widespread media attention for his multiple feminist statements, and for often coming to the defense of Brown after she was the victim of acts of alleged sexism by contestants such as Luke Parker. After the conclusion of the season, fans of the show and the media alike called on Cameron to be announced as the lead for the upcoming season of \"The Bachelor\". Host Chris Harrison stated that he believed Cameron wouldn't be a suitable choice following media reports of him dating fashion model Gigi Hadid, and Cameron later revealed in an interview that he was in talks to become the Bachelor, but rejected the offer. Ultimately, Peter Weber was chosen as the lead for the twenty-fourth season. In 2020, following the death of his mother, Cameron moved back to Jupiter, Florida, where he began a home construction/renovation company. In 2024 he starred in an Amazon Prime \"hybrid reality-docuseries,\" \"Going Home with Tyler Cameron\", that follows his business as well as his renovation of his mother's house. In July 2025 the show was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Instructional/How-To Program."}, {"text": "The Recording Studio is a 2019 Australian TV series broadcast nationally by the ABC. Narrated by Megan Washington it brings everyday Australians into a professional recording studio to record a song. The music from the series won the 2019 ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album."}, {"text": "Yuchmer () is a rural locality (a village) in Pekshinskoye Rural Settlement, Petushinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 78 as of 2010. There are 7 streets. Geography. Yuchmer is located 13 km northeast of Petushki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sitnikovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Mohan Phad also known as Mohan Phad or Phad is a BJP politician from Parbhani District, Maharashtra. He was a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing the Pathri Assembly Constituency. Political career. Phad has been elected in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election in 2014 from Pathri constituency as Independent candidate and later joined BJP. In Maharashtra assembly election 2019, he contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and lost to the INC candidate from Pathri (Vidhan Sabha constituency). He is working for near about 50 thousand patients of Pathri constituency and these peoples were to get government health services at Mumbai and new Mumbai, Pune with the help of Mr Mohan Phad. He is very prominent leader and works for peoples of Parbhani because he is known as Arogyasevak. Other work done by him are roads of Pathri constituency as well in his era and some roads done by his personal money in Pathri constituency."}, {"text": "Hamish is an Australian band made up of singer Hamish Cowan (Cordrazine) and producer Bryan St James. Their single \"Life Song\" reached the top 100 on Australia's ARIA singles chart. They released their debut album, \"Homesick\", in 2002 to mixed reviews. Writing in the Sunday Herald Sun Graeme Hammond called it \"a record of exquisite harmony and balance\". Emma Chalmers of the Courier Mail gave it 3 stars calling it \"a quite delicate album that beautifully combines emotional melody with techno beats\". The Herald Sun's Peter Holmes gave it 7/10 writing \"At times the wispy electronic arrangements sit perfectly, yet elsewhere they lack the required drama.\" Annika Priest of Perth's Sunday Times called it \"Slightly morbid, often wishy-washy\"."}, {"text": "Janz were an Australian funk, pop band formed by David Janz (or Jaanz) on lead vocals in 1988. Other original members were David Carr on guitar, Debbie Lavell on backing vocals, Phil Martin on bass guitar, Robert Parde on keyboards and Miles Stewart-Howie on drums. They won the 1988 Yamaha International Rock Music Competition in Japan for \"Crime\", which was co-written by Janz and Parde. The group supported Womack & Womack on the Australian leg of their Celebrate the World tour in May 1989. \"The Australian Jewish News\" Lahra Carey caught their performance at Melbourne's Metro Club and felt the support act were \"far more uplifting\" by presenting \"energy and ap peal.\" \"Crime\" was issued as Janz' debut single in June and reached No. 40 on Australian singles chart. In October they issued their second single, \"Picture\", with the line-up of Janz, Martin, Stewart-Howie and Vinnie Denmore on guitar. After disbanding the group's lead singer operated the David Jaanz School of Singing as a vocal coach. Parde continued as a songwriter and co-wrote Vanessa Amorosi's \"Shine\" and Tina Arena's \"Wasn't It Good\". Phil Martin continued writing music and later had a solo project Phil Martin\u2019s Drive. Martin worked with David"}, {"text": "Carr in Carr\u2019s studio, Rangemaster. Together they co-produced Martin's songs. Martin was signed to Melodic Records. By 2009 Jaanz worked with Michael Parisi to form Dream Incorporation as a talent management and artist development business, which ran workshops for aspiring musical artists. Jaanz released a gospel album, \"My Child\", in April 2020."}, {"text": "William Dawson Grubb was a Tasmanian politician, lawyer, and investor in timber and mining ventures. Grubb was born on 16 October 1817, in London, England. He first came to Van Diemen's Land in 1832, but returned to England to complete his legal qualifications. While in England, he married Marianne Beaumont. After he returned to Tasmania in 1842, he was admitted as a barrister and solicitor to the Supreme Court of Tasmania. He was the member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for the electorate of Tamar from 14 July 1869 to February 1879. In addition to his successful legal practice, Grubb's main business ventures were in timber and mining. His most successful investments were in the \"New Native Youth\" and \"Tasmania\" gold mines. The \"Tasmania\" mine at Beaconsfield had paid dividends of over \u00a3700,000 by 1900, and it was one of the deepest and richest mines in Australia, by the time it closed in 1914. One of the three original shafts of the mine, commenced in 1879, was named for Grubb. In December 1877, he was one of the buyers of the land, plant and mining lease of the Tamar Hematite Iron Company. The buyers, four wealthy Tasmanian politicians and a"}, {"text": "Launceston merchant, were then able to obtain a valuable gold mining lease adjacent to the \"Tasmania\" lease, for a small outlay. They did that under the provisions of new mining legislation, upon which the politicians had just voted. Certainly a conflict of interest, today it would be seen as corruption. William Grubb died at Launceston, Tasmania, on 8 February 1879. He was survived by three sons and two daughters. His eldest son was Frederick William Grubb, who became the member for Tamar following his father's death. His name was given to a colonial-era timber tramway in which he was involved, Grubb's Tramway (Mowbray). Another later colonial-era tramway, Grubb's Tramway (Zeehan), was named after his eldest son."}, {"text": "Alice Anna Weiller (n\u00e9e Javal; 10 October 1869 \u2013 7 September 1943) was a French art collector murdered at Auschwitz due to her Jewish heritage. The wife of Lazare Weiller, she was awarded the Legion of Honour. During the Second World War, she was interned at Drancy and deported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered. She was the mother of the aviator and industrialist Paul-Louis Weiller. Life. The Javal family, who had made their fortune in Alsace, were Jewish mill owners, merchants, and bankers who settled in Paris, where Alice was born. She was the daughter of Louis \u00c9mile Javal (1839-1907), a well-known ophthalmologist and collector of Japanese art, and his wife Maria Anna Ellissen (1847-1933), and was one of five children, all given a liberal education. Her sister Jeanne married Paul Weiss and was the mother of Louise Weiss, a journalist and campaigner for women's rights and Jenny Aubry, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. On 12 August 1889, Alice married Lazare Weiller (1858\u20131928), industrialist and regional senator, as his second wife, his first having died. They met through a family called Ellissen, her relations, investors in one of his companies. The witnesses at the wedding were Eug\u00e8ne Spuller, the poet"}, {"text": "Sully Prudhomme, and Adolphe Carnot, brother of the President of France. The Weillers had four children, Jean-Pierre (1890), Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se (1890), Georges-Andr\u00e9 (1892) and Paul-Louis (1893\u20131993). In 1908, Alice Weiller began to take a keen interest in aviation, after her husband had offered a prize of $10,000 for the first powered flight in France. She met the Wright brothers, who took the prize, and on 9 October 1908 made an early flight in their biplane, two days after \u00c9dith Berg. She did not herself become a pilot, as sometimes suggested, but her son Paul-Louis eventually did. In 1932, Alice Weiller became vice-chairman of a committee of the Alsace-Lorraine Society promoting holiday camps for the working classes and subsequently was appointed as a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. During the Second World War, she was one of the French Jews interned at the Drancy internment camp near Paris. On 2 September 1943 she was deported to German concentration camps in Poland and was murdered at Auschwitz on 7 September."}, {"text": "Carofiglio is an Italian family name meaning \"dear son\"."}, {"text": "Fabio Arcella (died 1560) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Capua (1549\u20131560), Bishop of Policastro (1537\u20131542), Bishop of Bisignano (1530\u20131535), and Apostolic Nuncio to Naples (1529\u20131530 and 1535\u20131537). Biography. Fabio Arcella was born in Naples, Italy towards the end of the 15th century. In 1528, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VII as Apostolic Nuncio to Naples. On 24 Jan 1530, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VII as Bishop of Bisignano. In 1535, he was recalled to Rome and again named Apostolic Nuncio to Naples. On 5 Mar 1537, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul III as Bishop of Policastro. He resigned in 1542 and returned to Naples where he again represented the Vatican although without the formal designation as Nuncio. On 18 Jan 1549, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul III as Archbishop of Capua. He served as Archbishop of Capua until his death in 1560."}, {"text": "Dave Mills (20 August 1935 \u2013 14 May 2014) was an English-Australian singer. Mills was born in Bedlington, England and moved to Australia in 1961. He soon relocated to South Africa for six years where he started getting chart success. He move back to Australia in early 1972. He had an international hit with \"Love is a Beautiful Song\". which went gold in Australia. Other charting singles in South Africa include \"Theresa\", \"All The Tears In The World\", \"Home\", \"I Can't Go Home To Mary\", \"Tomorrow is Over\" and \"Mexico\". All these songs were written by Terry Dempsey who won the SARI for best song for \"Home\". In 1970 he won the SARI awards for best male singer and Country and Western singer. By 1973 he had moved to Australia. Mills died on 14 May 2014, at the age of 78."}, {"text": "Bhavana Balakrishnan (born 25 May 1985) is an Indian television anchor, cricket commentator, video jockey, playback singer and dancer. She is one of the most popular sports journalists in India after Mayanti Langer. She currently works as a broadcaster for Star Sports and has hosted several programmes for the channel. Balakrishnan was one of the women to commentate during the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Bhavana mostly does her hosting and presenting work in Tamil, while also being fluent in Hindi. Career. Balakrishnan began her career as a radio jockey for a brief period and ventured into television. She joined Raj TV as a host, and the first television show she hosted was \"Beach Girls Show\". She later joined Star Vijay channel and became a full-time anchor with the channel in 2011. Her first programme with Vijay TV was \"Super Singer Junior\", and she also hosted \"Airtel Super Singer\" until 2017. She has hosted other shows with the channel including the \"Fun Unlimited\" season of \"Jodi Number One\". In 2017, she joined Star Sports as a sports journalist and hosted broadcasts of for the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Pro Kabaddi League. She served as a commentator for Star Sports Tamil"}, {"text": "during the 2018 IPL season and was one of just two female presenters during the 2018 Indian Premier League. In 2019, she hosted the Tamil version of Indian celebrity talk show \"Famously Filmfare.\" Balakrishnan made her debut as singer in 2018 and released her first single \"The MashUp Series by BB\". Personal life. She married Mumbai based businessman Nikhil Ramesh and currently resides in Mumbai."}, {"text": "Azikovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Tolpukhovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Azikovo is located 32 km north of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krutoy Ovrag is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Genetic saturation is the result of multiple substitutions at the same site in a sequence, or identical substitutions in different sequences, such that the apparent sequence divergence rate is lower than the actual divergence that has occurred. When comparing two or more genetic sequences consisting of single nucleotides, differences in sequence observed are only differences in the final state of the nucleotide sequence. Single nucleotides that undergoing genetic saturation change multiple times, sometimes back to their original nucleotide or to a nucleotide common to the compared genetic sequence. Without genetic information from intermediate taxa, it is difficult to know how much, or if any saturation has occurred on an observed sequence. Genetic saturation occurs most rapidly on fast-evolving sequences, such as the hypervariable region of mitochondrial DNA, or in short tandem repeats such as on the Y-chromosome. In phylogenetics, saturation effects result in long branch attraction, where the most distant lineages have misleadingly short branch lengths. It also decreases phylogenetic information contained in the sequences. Phylogenetic saturation. Multiple substitutions. Multiple substitutions take place when single nucleotides undergo multiple changes before reaching their final nucleotide identity. A sequence is said to be saturated because mutation has acted multiple times upon nucleotides"}, {"text": "and observed change in sequence is, in fact, less than the historical change in sequence. Detection. It is possible to estimate the amount of saturation that a sequence might have undergone by estimating the substitution rate of a genetic sequence and how much time has passed since divergence. Divergence rates are estimated from a variety of sources including ancestral DNA, fossil records and biographical events. This use of molecular clocks to determine divergence is controversial because of its potential for inaccuracy and assumptions made in the model (such as consistent mutation rate for all branches) and is used mostly as an estimation tool. Genetic saturation can also be estimated by comparing the number of observed differences in nucleotide sequences between multiple pairs of species. The number of observed substitutions between sequences of different species can be compared to the number of inferred substitutions based on branch length to find the approximate point where the number of inferred substitutions surpasses the number of observed substitutions. This method can give researchers an idea of the level of saturation of a particular gene but is thought to underestimate the amount of saturation, especially for very large branch lengths. Impact on phylogenetics. In the"}, {"text": "field of molecular phylogenetics, the distances and relationships between species are investigated by looking at the DNA, RNA or amino acid sequences of an organism. When phylogenetic trees are constructed without considering possible saturation, the possibility of multiple substitutions can cause the distance between taxa to appear much smaller than the true distance. Multiple sequence alignment, a common technique to construct phylogenies, relies on the comparison of homologous sequences. It can easily be confounded by genetic saturation because the homologous loci under investigation show no indication whether or not more than one substitution on each nucleotide separates the taxa being described. Substitution decreases the amount of phylogenetic information that can be contained in sequences, especially when deep branches are involved. This is particularly evident in studies examining arthropod groups. Furthermore, saturation effects can lead to a gross underestimation of divergence time. This is mainly attributed to the randomization of the phylogenetic signal with the number of observed sequence mutations and substitutions. The effects of saturation can mask the true amount of divergence time leading to inaccurate phylogenetic trees. The principle of parsimony in genetic saturation analysis. Parsimony plays a fundamental role in genetic saturation analysis. This principle gives preference to"}, {"text": "the simplest explanation that can explain the data. In regards to genetic saturation, parsimony means that the hypothesized relationship is one that has the smallest number of character changes. Using parsimony to analyze genetic saturation can lead to conflict when creating a phylogenetic tree. When only sequence data is used, it is possible to come up with numerous phylogenetic trees with the same amount of parsimony. Long branch attraction. Genetic saturation contributes to long-branch attraction in its ability to greatly mix up genetic code without easily observable associated phenotypic changes. Long branch attraction occurs when two relatively outgrouped taxa are seemingly closely linked. The more substitution mutations, the more likely it is for previously dissimilar sequences to share nucleotides and as a result, show homology in phylogenetic tree calculations. Long-branch attraction due to saturation has been proposed to be the cause of links in ancient phylogenies and puts into question even some of the earliest relationships between eukaryotes, archaea, and eubacteria. Other uses of \"Saturation\" in genetics. Gene site saturation mutagenesis. Gene site saturation mutagenesis (GSSM) is mutagenesis technique of one or more codons in a gene to create a library of variants covering all other codons at that position."}, {"text": "It is used in biochemistry and protein engineering to explore the functions and characteristics of specific amino acid sequences. This systemic identification of amino acid substitutions allows researchers to look at every possible variant of each position. This will provide crucial structural information about the protein of interest and will identify amino acid sequences that are more vital to the function of the protein. Researchers often lean towards using a one-step PCR-based to explore the specific effects of different variations in an amino acid of interest within a protein with GSSM. With a one-step PCR-based approached, researchers create a primer that has a corresponding sequence to the protein of interest at its two ends. Only one codon of a three codon amino acid sequence is substituted. The type of codon set, will determine the number of sequences that can be derived from GSSM. To determine which codon set to use, researchers will need to check the library quality on the DNA level, which means that massive sequence data is needed. If all 3 positions can be substituted for each of the four different nucleotides, researchers can code for all 20 amino acids. Although it\u2019s possible to code for all 20"}, {"text": "amino acids, this is not the most efficient method. The most efficient method is to use an NNK codon degeneracy, also known as a limited codon set. This method, will result in only 32 codons rather than 64. Advantages of GSSM. In comparison to other techniques, GSSM is able to offer unique advantages such as: GSSM was able to open up a whole frontier in genetic research, as it revolutionized fundamental beliefs about DNA. Before GSSM, researchers mutated DNA through radiation or with various chemicals. Both of these methods are imprecise."}, {"text": "Peter Campbell \"Troy\" Davies (1959\u20132007), sometimes known as Ecco Homo or Vanessa, was an Australian artist, singer, and musician. Career. Under the stage name Ecco Homo, he signed a record deal with RooArt. He released two singles, \"Motorcycle Baby\" and \"New York, New York\". The video clip of the former featured Michael Hutchence, and the latter featured Bono and The Edge. Producers and musicians who worked on the singles include Ollie Olsen, Gus Till, Michael Sheridan, Bill McDonald (all from Max Q) and Big Pig's Sherine Abeyratne. In 2015 the film \"Ecco Homo\", directed by Richard Lowenstein and Lynn-Maree Milburn, was released. It documented Davies' life and career. The film features interviews with people who knew him including Bono, Hutchence and Kriv Stenders."}, {"text": "Alepino () is a rural locality (a selo) in Rozhdestvenskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Alepino is located 40 km northwest of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Astanikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Anfimikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Bereznikovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. Anfimikha is located 29 km southeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Korobovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Antsiferovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kurilovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Antsiferovo is located 35 km northwest of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Glukhovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "House Party is an adventure video game developed and published by American studio Eek! Games, LLC on digital distribution platforms for Microsoft Windows. The game became available under early access in June 2017 and was officially released with it leaving early access on July 15, 2022. \"House Party\" became a commercial success with high sales, although its strong sexual content and themes have led it to be banned by the Twitch platform. Gameplay and setting. The game begins with an introductory cutscene showing the player character receiving a text from either their friend Derek or Brittney, depending on the gender of the player character chosen, with an invitation to a house party that their friend is currently attending. After arriving to the party by a ridesharing app, the player stumbles and drops their phone, cracking its screen and effectively breaking it. They then pick up their phone and enter through the front door of the house, in which the party is in progress. Upon entering, the player is able to converse with any of the party guests using a drop down conversation menu to select a dialogue option or action. The player may receive opportunities from these guests, which involve"}, {"text": "objectives in which the player can solve by picking up, talking to, or using items on a variety of other objects and people in the game. Completing these objectives will either positively or negatively affect your disposition with the guests it involves. Some opportunities are similar in vein to a quest line, with which completing one will give the player access to a new one that will allow them to further increase their disposition with the character giving the opportunity. Upon completing an opportunity chain for a particular character, the player may be able to engage in explicit sexual activities with said character. Due to the branching nature of these opportunities that may cut off opportunities with other characters, not all of them can be completed in a singular playthrough of the game, encouraging replayability. Additionally, Eek! Games offer tools on their website to craft a custom story including full dialogues, interactions, and logic dictating how the player's night goes and import it into the game. Development. In July 2018, the game was removed from sale on Steam after a number of complaints over the game's content. \"House Party\" is now available in two different versions, the base game is"}, {"text": "rated \"Mature\" via Steam in which sex scenes are censored with black censor bars. There is an Explicit Content Add-On DLC rated \"Adult Only\u201d, (\"satisfying Steam's terms of service agreement\") that removes the censorship. In 2018, Eek! Games held a competition to invite members of the public to audition to be included as part of the game with the gaming community to vote for their favorite. Of the entrants, two winners would be selected, one from the male entrants and other from the female entrants. On November 2, 2018, it was announced that streamer and influencer \"Lety Does Stuff\" and the members of \"Game Grumps\", Arin Hanson and Dan Avidan, were selected as the winners. On April 11, 2019, Eek! Games announced the winners of their indie music artist contest. Popskyy and his song \"FUNKBOX\" were the winner, along with special mentions to Fokushi with the song \"Dreamer\", Treclar with the song \"Whip-its\", Kitanic Demon with the song \"Chillax with KitanicDemon\" and Fletnyx with the song \"Chocolate Chip Cookies\". In March 2022, it was announced that the game would finally be coming out of early access, alongside the option to play as a female character and the addition of the"}, {"text": "singer Doja Cat as a new guest in the game. Release. The game's early access launch was a success; according to the developer, the game sold over 30,000 copies in the first few weeks, and 300,000 total sales during the first year. As of February 2023, the game has sold over 800,000 copies worldwide. Due to its strong sexual content and themes, Twitch blocked users from streaming gameplay footage of the title, regardless of which version of the game was being played. Reception. Because of the controversial nature of the game, it was quickly popularized by gaming streamers and influencers such as the \"Game Grumps\", PewDiePie, Jacksepticeye, NerdCubed, and others. The game so far has few reviews by critics, John Walker of \"Rock, Paper, Shotgun\" named the game as \"Worst Game of the Year\" for 2017, criticizing its portrayal of women as misogynistic. Mark Steighner of \"DarkStation\" criticized the game as being \"a juvenile take on sexuality, liberal profanity, and objectification of women\"."}, {"text": "Arbuzovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Aserkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 146 as of 2010. Geography. Arbuzovo is located 9 km east of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pushnino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Artyushino () is a rural locality (a village) in Aserkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2010. Geography. Artyushino is located 21 km east of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Meshchera is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Aserkhovo () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Aserkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 788 as of 2010. There are 16 streets. Geography. Aserkhovo is located 20 km southeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Voshilovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Astafyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vorshinskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010. Geography. Astafyevo is located 27 km northeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yerosovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Afanasyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vorshinskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010. Geography. Afanasyevo is located 20 km northeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Khryastovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Babayevo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Vorshinskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 604 as of 2010. There are 23 streets. Geography. Babayevo is located 25 km northeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yerosovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Baranniki () is a rural locality (a village) in Kolokshanskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Baranniki is located 27 km northeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ivlevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Batyushkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vorshinskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010. Geography. Batyushkovo is located 28 km northeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nazarovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bezvodnoye () is a rural locality (a village) in Tolpukhovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2010. Geography. Bezvodnoye is located north of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Luchinskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "\"Rest in Pieces\" is the eighth episode of the of the anthology television series \"American Horror Story\". It aired on November 6, 2019, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Adam Penn, and directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton. Plot. Shortly before Halloween, Bruce recovers and drives to Camp Redwood, interrupting a fight between Ramirez and Richter's ghost in the process. Ramirez enlists him to help eliminate Richter, eventually learning Richter is a ghost. Donna and Brooke are approached by Stacy, a tabloid writer who knows their identities, and they take her with them to Camp Redwood. Brooke promises to reveal the true story to Stacy, secretly planning to kill her, but Donna stops her and convinces her to focus on Margaret. Stacy flees, only to be killed by Bruce, Ramirez, and Margaret. Margaret reveals to Bruce and Ramirez her plan: inspired by places like Jim Morrison's grave, the Dakota and Graceland, she plans to murder the rest of the bands (except Billy Idol at Ramirez's insistence) at her festival, turning Camp Redwood into a memorial shrine for the deceased musicians and rake in a fortune from the people flocking to pay their respects. Trevor declares his love to"}, {"text": "Montana's ghost and plans to kill himself to join her, but she pushes him away, guilty and distraught about her relationship with Ramirez, having learned of what he had done from Richter. The dead counselors, enraged at Richter's past murder spree, tie him up and refuse to allow him to escape to kill Ramirez, intending to kill him over and over for the rest of his afterlife. Bobby's ghost appears and drags Richter into the lake; he awakens next to Bobby and Lavinia (the latter of whom has had a change of heart) and who convince him to stay with them. Reception. \"Rest in Pieces\" was watched by 1.05 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.5 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode had the fewest viewers of any episode in the entire series. The episode received mostly positive reviews. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, \"Rest in Pieces\" holds a 62% approval rating, based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 7/10. Ron Hogan of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4/5, saying, \"That's a big milestone; the change-over from one decade to another always seems like a big deal to people, and"}, {"text": "in a lot of ways to the characters on American Horror Story: 1984, the end of the Reagan era is also the end of their era of relevance. It's been a common retrain in the later portions of the season. Their time is ending, and they'll all soon be forgotten, but never is it more explicitly stated than in this week's episode, with multiple people eulogizing the good and ill of Reagan's America in long rhapsodies.\" He also praised the directing of the episode, commenting that \"In the hands of director Gwyneth Horder-Payton, it's easy to see how afterlife in Redwood could be as beautiful as spending the afterlife anywhere else.\" Finally, he concluded his review with \"Things are building to a head at Camp Redwood, and the season finale promises to be a huge blow-out battle between serial killers with a lot of innocent people trapped in between the two stabbing, slashing, shooting sides.\" Kat Rosenfield of \"Entertainment Weekly\" gave the episode a B rating. She enjoyed Bruce's return, and thought his first scene of the episode was \"amusing\". She also commented \"the endless cycle of murder, ghost drama, and more murder\" at Camp Redwood, especially the confusing relationship"}, {"text": "between the ghosts. She compared that part of the episode to the first season of MTV's \"The Real World\". She also added that Richter's revelation about Montana and Ramirez \"just makes everything that much more awkward\". Additionally, Rosenfield was puzzled about Margaret's plan, describing it as \"'the day the music died,' except with way more feathered bangs and synth beats.\" However, she enjoyed the final scenes of Richter in this episode and, like she did in her previous reviews, she compared them to \"Friday the 13th\". Overall, she was globally satisfied with the episode, commenting that \"And just like the slasher films that inspired it, this season is setting up for a super-serial showdown that combines every trope in the blood\u2019n\u2019guts box.\""}, {"text": "Kusum Tete is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Odisha. She has been elected in Odisha Legislative Assembly election in 2019 from Sundargarh constituency as candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party."}, {"text": "Berezniki () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Bereznikovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, RSFSR. Russia. The population was 466 as of 2010. There are 21 streets. Geography. Berezniki is located 20 km south of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Konnovo is the nearest rural locality. ICBM area."}, {"text": "Bokovino () is a rural locality (a village) in Aserkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2010. Geography. Bokovino is located 14 km east of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mosyagino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Razia Sheikh is an Indian former track and field athlete, who competed in javelin throw. She was the first Indian woman to cross the barrier of 50 metres, which she did at the 1987 South Asian Games. She represented India at two editions of the Asian Games (1982 Delhi and 1986 Seoul). Career. Sheikh broke the national record for a best throw by an Indian female javelin thrower when she broke Elizabeth Davenport's 21-year-old record in 1986 with a throw of 47.70 metres at the Playmakers' athletics meet in Delhi. At the 1987 South Asian Games in Kolkata, Sheikh threw 50.38 metres setting a new Games and national record bettering her mark of 47.80 metres. She won gold at the event."}, {"text": "Bolgary () is a rural locality (a village) in Aserkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2010. Geography. Bolgary is located on the Klyazma River, 8 km east of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Arbuzovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bolshiye Ostrova () is a rural locality (a village) in Bereznikovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2010. Geography. Bolshiye Ostrova is located 34 km southeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malye Ostrova is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bolshoye Ivankovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kolokshanskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 68 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Bolshoye Ivankovo is located 27 km northeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ustye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2020 Dallas Fuel season was the third season of the Dallas Fuel's existence in the Overwatch League. The Fuel planned to host a league-high five homestand weekends in the 2020 season at Esports Stadium Arlington, Toyota Music Factory, the Allen Event Center, and two more undetermined locations. While the first homestand at Esports Stadium Arlington took place, all other homestands were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After a 7\u201310 start to the season and failure to make it past the quarterfinals in any of the three midseason tournaments, the Fuel released head coach Aaron \"Aero\" Atkins on August 3 and announced that assistant coach Kim Yong-jin served would as the interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Dallas finished the season with a 9\u201312 record, marking their third consecutive season with a losing regular season record. A 0\u20133 loss to the Washington Justice on September 4 in the North America play-ins tournament took the Fuel out of postseason contention. Preceding offseason. Organizational changes. On November 15, assistant coach Justin \"Jayne\" Conroy announced that he would be stepping down from his position to move to a content creation role within Envy Gaming. Weeks later, on December 5,"}, {"text": "the Fuel mutually parted ways with assistance coach Julien \"daemoN\" Ducros. The Fuel finalized their coaching staff heading into the 2020 season on December 9, announcing the return of head coach Aaron \"Aero\" Atkins, the return of Louis \"Tikatee\" Lebel-Wong and Kang \"Vol\u2019Jin\" Min-gyu as assistant coaches, and the signing of former Element Mystic assistant coach Kim \"Yong\" Yong-Jin as an assistant coach. Roster changes. Heading into the 2020 season, the Fuel's only free agent is only off-tank Lucas \"NotE\" Meissner, who was traded from the Boston Uprising to Dallas the previous season. Free agency officially began on October 7. NotE was re-signed to the Fuel on October 30. The Fuel's first transaction of the offseason took place on October 29, when they traded main tank Son \"OGE\" Min-seok to the Los Angeles Gladiators in exchange for flex DPS Jang \"Decay\" Gui-un. In OGE's replacement, the team announced the signing of former Shanghai Dragons main tank Noh \"Gamsu\" Young-jin on November 4. A week later, the team signed Element Mystic DPS Kim \"Doha\" Dong-ha. On January 8, the team sent DPS Timo \"Taimou\" Kettunen down to their academy team Team Envy. The Fuel parted way with tank player Pongphop \"Micke\""}, {"text": "Rattanasangchod just under two weeks before the beginning of the season; Micke moved to a content creator role for Envy Gaming. On February 3, Dallas announced their full roster, which included the promotion of support player William \"Crimzo\" Hernandez from Team Envy. Roster. Transactions. Transactions of/for players on the roster during the 2020 regular season:"}, {"text": "Bratilovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Aserkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Bratilovo is located 11 km southeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Litovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Paul Domero \"Bucky\" Greeley (born July 30, 1972) is a former American football center. He played for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1996 to 1998. He played college football at Penn State. While at Penn State he won a Rose Bowl when Penn State beat Oregon with a final score of 38-20."}, {"text": "Bratonezh () is a rural locality (a village) in Kopninskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2010. Geography. Bratonezh is located 8 km west from Zarechnoye, 27 km southwest of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Fedotovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Buzakovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vorshinskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2010. Geography. Buzakovo is located on the Kolochka River, 29 km northeast of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yakovlevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bulanovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Aserkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010. Geography. Bulanovo is located 20 km east of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Meshchera is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Burykino () is a rural locality (a village) in Rozhdestvenskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Burykino is located 6 km east from Rozhdestveno, 40 km north of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Taratinka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bukholovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Tolpukhovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 33 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Bukholovo is located 42 km north of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pavlovskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Vaganovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kurilovskoye Rural Settlement, Sobinsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 23 as of 2010. Geography. Vaganovo is located on the Vezhbolovka River, 19 km north of Sobinka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yurovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Eduardo Ortega y Gasset (1882\u20131965) was a Spanish politician, journalist and lawyer. Biography. Born in Madrid on 11 April 1882. He was the older brother of philosopher Jos\u00e9 Ortega y Gasset. He became a member of the Congress of Deputies after the 1910 general election, in representation of the electoral district of Co\u00edn (province of M\u00e1laga). He joined the Liberal fraction. He renovated his seat at the 1914, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1923 elections. He joined the Freemasonry in 1922. During the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, Ortega y Gasset self-exiled to Paris; he became there a close acquaintance of Miguel de Unamuno, collaborating along the latter and Blasco Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez in the \"Espa\u00f1a con Honra\" magazine. He was one of the founders of the Radical Socialist Republican Party (PRRS) in 1929. He was among the signatories of the Pact of San Sebasti\u00e1n on 17 August 1930. On 15 April 1931, immediately after the proclamation of the Second Republic, he was appointed Civil Governor of the Province of Madrid. In June 1931, he was replaced as civil governor by Emilio Palomo Aguado. He ran as candidate for the 1931 Constituent election in the constituencies of Ciudad Real, Guadalajara and Granada;"}, {"text": "elected in the three constituencies, he chose to remain as legislator representing the first constituency. He was expelled from the PRRS in 1932 along , chiefly on the basis of having repeatedly broke party discipline. They formed then the \"\" (\"Radical Socialist Left\"). By that time he was Master of the Logia Luis Simarro No. 3 in Madrid. A target of right-wing terrorist groups, he suffered an attempt on his life on 7 April 1936, when a bomb hidden in a basket of eggs exploded in his residence at the calle de Rafael Calvo 12. He was appointed Attorney General of the Republic in December 1936. Exiled to Venezuela after the end of the Spanish Civil War, he died on 25 February 1965 in Caracas."}, {"text": "Malgorzata (\"Margaret\") Marek-Sadowska is a Polish-American electronics engineer known for her research in VLSI circuit design. She is a professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a member of the university's Institute for Energy Efficiency, and the director of the VLSI CAD Lab at the university. Education. Marek-Sadowska attained a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology. Career. Marek-Sadowska was an assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology from 1976 until 1982. In 1979, she began a visiting position at the University of California, Berkeley, continued at Berkeley as a researcher, and moved to Santa Barbara in 1990. She was editor-in-chief of \"IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems\" from 1993 to 1997, and in 1997, she was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE. She retired in 2017."}]