[{"text": "Jagat Guru Nanak Dev Punjab State Open University (JGND-PSOU) is a distance learning Public State University established through Punjab Act No. 19 of 2019, located in Patiala in the Indian state of Punjab. History. As part of the state government's commemoration of the 550th Prakash Purb of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji, the Punjab Cabinet on 24 October 2019 (Thursday) okayed the establishment of the public Jagat Guru Nanak Dev Punjab State Open University at Patiala, Punjab, India. The university has started functioning from temporary campus at official residence of Principal, Government Mohindra College, Patiala."}, {"text": "Mr. Freeze is a comic book character appearing in DC Comics. Mr. Freeze may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Episake Kahatoka (born 14 May 1996) is a Fijian netball player who plays for Fiji in the positions of goal defense or goal keeper. She has featured in two World Cup tournaments representing Fiji in 2015 and in 2019. She also represented Fiji at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, her maiden appearance at a Commonwealth Games event."}, {"text": "Women's League for Israel (WLI; Hebrew: \u05dc\u05d9\u05d2\u05ea \u05e0\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd \u05dc\u05de\u05e2\u05df \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc), is a volunteer organization dedicated to social welfare, education and Aliyah in Israel. History. Women's League for Israel was established in 1928 in New-York as a nonprofit organization by a group of Jewish zionist women. The organization's goals were to aid the Yishuv in handling the social, educational and Aliyah challenges. WLI funded \u201cpioneering homes\u201d (in Hebrew: \u05d1\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d7\u05dc\u05d5\u05e6\u05d5\u05ea) for new immigrant women who came to Israel on their own without professional training and without knowledge of the Hebrew language. They worked and earned a living, learned the new language, life skills, the history of Jewish life and general culture. The first \u201cpioneering home\u201d was built in 1932 in Haifa. The second opened in Tel-Aviv four years later and was enlarged soon after its completion. In 1943 the Jerusalem home was established in Rehavia. After the state of Israel was established, a new pioneering home was built in Netanya (1950). In the Netanya compound, WLI and the Ministry of Labor and Welfare have established the \u2018Ora\u2019 workshop \u2013 a protected hand weaving workshop for blind women, which won the Kaplan prize in 1959. After the great waves of Aliyah subsided,"}, {"text": "WLI changed its focus to social welfare: helping needy students, troubled families, abused women and children and more. The pioneering homes were renamed, accordingly, to \u201cWLI homes\u201d. In the 1950s Women's League pioneered a partnership with The Hebrew University in Jerusalem on projects to improve the welfare of the students. WLI endowed a Chair in Sociology and built the first dormitories for female students on the Givat Ram campus. WLI also built a student cafeteria and a three-building student center. As a result of the 1967 Six-Day War, Jerusalem was reunited. Jews could once again pray at the Western Wall, and Mount Scopus \u2013 the original site of Hebrew University \u2013 was again accessible. WLI responded to the call that Mount Scopus be rebuilt, by building a three-winged dormitory on this campus. Later on, WLI was asked by the Israeli Government to help the Aliyah from the USSR. WLI initiated a National Rehabilitation and Vocational Training Center in the Netanya home. This home offered courses, ranging from a four-year vocation high school, a school for dental technicians and assistants, and another one for cooking and culinary arts. Also in Netanya, WLI offered after-school programs for elementary school children and volunteers"}, {"text": "for Meals on Wheels. In 1978, a street was named after WLI's name in Haifa. WLI also established Family Therapy Center and Domestic Abuse Intervention Center with social workers in Haifa, Holon, and Tira, counseling abused women and children. WLI pioneered The Meeting Place for Troubled Families, originally set up in Haifa and expanded to Tel Aviv and Netanya. Children of divorced parents met with the noncustodial parent under the supervision of a social worker. In 2001, after the privatization of the service, WLI started running the \u201cFoster Care in the center\u201d, which operated in 3 locations: Tel Aviv, Netanya and Bnei Brak, and helped hundreds of children find a foster family. Today. The Pioneer Home in Tel Aviv serves as a dormitory for students and young Jews from around the world, who come to Israel through \u201cThe Israeli Experience\u201d and Taglit sponsored by the Jewish Agency. The building in Haifa was sold, and the one in Jerusalem was handed over to Yad Ben Zvi. WLI continues to contribute to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem through its student scholarship fund. In 2008, WLI founded a 1.5 million dollar fund to award scholarships to outstanding BA students. In 2017, WLI founded"}, {"text": "another 1.4 million dollar fund to award scholarships to outstanding graduate students. Each year, WLI grants approximately 40 full scholarships to students. After the second Lebanon war WLI has been collaborating with Haifa Rambam Medical Center in establishing a Trauma ER Centre for Children, and donated 1.5 million dollars for this purpose. The current WLI president is Att. Jan Schechter and Att. Etti Pilpel Paz is the Director General."}, {"text": "Jacobus Marthinus 'Kobus' Burger (born 31 March 1964) is a South African former rugby union player that played two tests for the Springboks. Playing career. Burger matriculated at Paarl Gymnasium in 1981 and represented the Western Province Schools team at the annual Craven Week tournament in 1980 and 1981. In 1980 his older brother, Schalk was also part of the Western Province team. Burger was selected for the South African Schools team in 1980 and 1981 and in 1980 he was the youngest player in history to be selected for the South African Schools team. Burger enrolled at Stellenbosch University in 1982 and was selected for the Western Province under\u201320 team and the South Africa Universities under\u201320 team. He made his senior provincial debut for Western Province in 1985 and once again his brother was part of the team. The brothers were also part of the Western Province team that won the Currie Cup in 1985. Also in the team were two other players with the surname Burger, the wing Niel Burger and the lock, Schalk Burger Snr. Burger made his test debut for the Springboks against the World XV on 26 August 1989 at his home ground, Newlands in"}, {"text": "Cape Town. He also played in the second test against the World XV. Accolades. In 1988, Burger was one of the five Young Players of the Year, along with Christian Stewart, Jacques du Plessis, Andre Joubert and JJ van der Walt."}, {"text": "Marc Stephan Jongen (born 23 May 1968 in Merano) is a German politician (AfD). From 2003 to 2017 he was a research assistant for philosophy at the Staatliche Hochschule f\u00fcr Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Jongen is regarded as a \"party philosopher\" of the right-wing AfD, having been called \"chief ideologue\" or \"thought leader\". He was the chairman of AfD Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg from March 2017 to February 2019 and has been its Deputy State leader ever since. With relatively high ranks on the AfD BW state list of candidates, he got elected to the Bundestag for the first time in the 2017 federal election, again in 2021, and to the European Parliament in 2024. His seat in the Bundestag was taken by Volker M\u00fcnz. Biography. Origins. Jongen grew up in Lana, South Tyrol. He had Dutch nationality through his father and the Italian one through his mother. Education. He studied economics from 1987 to 1988 at the University of Vienna. Subsequently and until 1995, he studied philosophy, indology, German history, and philosophy of science. After three months in India, he writes a master's thesis in 1996 entitled \"The essence of spiritual knowledge from the Advaita Vedanta Shri Shakaracharyas\", which was published by Eugen Diederichs"}, {"text": "in 1998. Between 1996 and 1999, he wrote for the Neue S\u00fcdtiroler Tageszeitung in Bolzano, and worked on a \"Philosophy of Astrology\". In 1999, he started a PhD at the State University for Design (HfG) of Karlsruhe under Peter Sloterdijk, supported by the foundation. From 2001 to 2003, he was supported by the state of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. In 2009, he obtained his PhD in philosophy and in 2011, received German citizenship. Ideology. Stuttgarter Zeitung noted that Jongen has failed to adequately distance himself from the far-right Fl\u00fcgel faction of the party, led by Bj\u00f6rn H\u00f6cke. Jongen also said that there are \"differences in mentality between East and West Germany\"."}, {"text": "Pounding is a ritual in Christianity in which a new priest or minister is given gifts by members of the congregation of that church at which he is assigned to preach. The practice can be traced back to at least the 19th century, when communicants of a church visited the parsonage and dropped off a pound of an item of food, such as \"coffee, sugar, flour or honey.\" When dropping off items to help the new clergyman out, congregants would spend time with him, also getting to know his family in cases of Christian denominations that permit married clerics. The practice of pounding takes place across Christendom, in the countries of Africa as well as those of North America. It is done throughout many Christian denominations, including the Methodist, United Brethren, and Quaker traditions, among others. Poundings are also commonly held for newlyweds or couples moving into a new home."}, {"text": "The 2002 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 2001\u201302 FAI Cup, a knock-out association football competition contested annually by clubs affiliated with the Football Association of Ireland. It took place on Sunday 7 April 2002 at Tolka Park in Dublin, and was contested by Dundalk and Bohemians. The competition was sponsored by Carlsberg. Dundalk won the match 2\u20131 to win the cup for the ninth time. Background. The two sides' three previous meetings that season had been in the League, with Dundalk winning the first match in Oriel Park, and the next two matches being draws. The final was played seven days after Dundalk had been relegated from the League of Ireland Premier Division, having finished 10th. To reach the final, they had defeated Galway United (1\u20130 in a replay after a 1\u20131 draw), Kilkenny City (3\u20132), Finn Harps (2\u20130 in a replay following a 1\u20131 draw) and Shamrock Rovers (4\u20130). Bohemians were the cup holders, having won the League and Cup Double the year before. A poor start to the season had seen them finish fourth in the League in 2001\u201302, missing out on Europe via the League in the process. They had overcome Longford Town,"}, {"text": "Bray Wanderers and Derry City to reach the final. The winners of the final would qualify for the 2002\u201303 UEFA Cup qualifying round. The match was broadcast live on RT\u00c9 One in Ireland with commentary from George Hamilton. Highlights of the match were broadcast that evening on Sky Sports in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Match. Summary. Despite failing to beat Dundalk in three league matches, Bohemians (managed by future Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny) were the pre-match favourites. After an evenly contested opening half hour, they took control of the match and opened the scoring through right-back Tony O'Connor in the 40th minute. Garry Haylock then equalised for Dundalk, turning and firing home from a David Hoey cross a minute before half-time. Haylock then scored his second goal from a corner, four minutes after half-time, to give Dundalk a 2\u20131 lead. Simon Webb of Bohemians was sent off in the 74th minute for committing a professional foul after he brought down Martin Reilly as Dundalk were trying to counterattack. Dundalk controlled the remainder of the match to win the club's ninth FAI Cup - their first since 1988."}, {"text": "The Alazeya Plateau () is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The area is named after river Alazeya, which has its source in the plateau. There are kigilyakhs in the Alazeya Plateau. The particularity of the kigilyakhs found in this location is that their lower part (corresponding to the legs) is thinner than the upper part. Geography. The Alazeya Plateau is located in eastern Sakha Republic, between the Indigirka, Kolyma, Alazeya and Ozhogina rivers. The average height of the plateau surface is around . There are slightly higher tableland type elevations cutting across the plateau area; the highest point is a high unnamed summit. The plateau is limited by the Yana-Indigirka Lowland, including the Aby Lowland, to the west, with rivers Yana and Indigirka, the Ozhogina to the south, and the Kolyma Lowland with the Kolyma to the east and northeast. Besides the Alazeya, the Sededema and the Shangina also have their sources in the plateau. There are forests of larch in the lower areas and mountain tundra in the higher altitudes."}, {"text": "Kaitlyn Fisher (born 7 June 2000) is an Australian-based Fijian netball player who plays for Fiji in the positions of goal attack, wing attack or center. She was included in the Fijian squad for the 2019 Netball World Cup which was also her maiden appearance at a Netball World Cup."}, {"text": "USP 800 (Hazardous Drugs\u2014Handling in Healthcare Settings) is a guideline created by the United States Pharmacopeia Convention (USP), as one of their General Chapters through which the USP \"sets quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements and food ingredients\". USP 800 provides guidance about the handling of hazardous drugs (HDs) in the healthcare setting. It was published on February 1, 2016, and originally planned for implementation in December 2019; however, implementation has been delayed. Scope. USP 800 describes practice and quality standards for the handling of HDs involving but not limited to the receipt, storage, compounding, dispensing, administration, and disposal of sterile and non-sterile products. This chapter applies to any personnel who may be exposed to HDs. Personnel likely to be exposed may include pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, nurses, physician assistants, home healthcare workers, veterinarians, and veterinary technicians. Requirements. Facilities that handle HDs must follow the standards outlined in USP 800. At minimum the facilities's management system must include: List of hazardous drugs. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) maintains a list of antineoplastic and HDs that are used in healthcare settings. The site must maintain a list of any drugs they use that are on the NIOSH list"}, {"text": "and it must be updated every 12 months. If the facility begins using a new medication on the NIOSH list it must be added to their HD list. Responsibilities of people handling hazardous drugs. Each facility must have a designated person who develops, implements, and maintains USP 800 compliance. This person is also responsible for overseeing the training of personnel and reporting hazardous situations to the management team. All personnel who handle HDs must be trained on the fundamental practices and precautions to contain HDs. Facilities and engineering controls. HDs must be handled in ways to limit contamination. HD storage areas must be separated from break rooms and refreshment areas. Designated areas must be available for: Receipt. Antineoplastic HDs and all HD active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) must be unpacked in an area that is neutral/normal or negative pressure. Storage. HDs must be stored properly to prevent spillage or breakage. HDs should not be stored on the floor or areas prone to natural disaster such as earthquakes. Antineoplastic HDs that require further manipulation other than repackaging or counting must be stored separately from non-HDs. Sterile and non-sterile HDs must not be stored together. Refrigerated HDs must be stored in a dedicated"}, {"text": "refrigerator located in a negative pressure area."}, {"text": "\"Tegridy Farms Halloween Special\" is the fifth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series \"South Park\". The 302nd episode overall of the series, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on October 30, 2019. The episode centers upon marijuana farmer Randy Marsh's attempts to address his daughter Shelly's \"marijuana problem\", which is tied into the issue of Randy's relationship with the Chinese government, a recurring storyline during the season. A subplot concerns a surprise that awaits Butters Stotch after his visit to an exhibit of Egyptian artifacts at a Denver Museum. Plot. Marijuana farmer Randy Marsh, owner of Tegridy Farms, announces a Halloween special promotion to his family. However, his daughter, Shelly, has a \"marijuana problem\". She believes it smells bad and makes people \"dumber than they already are.\" Randy tries to convince her of the positive benefits of marijuana, but the obstinate Shelly wishes it were illegal again. Randy takes Shelly to an exhibit of ancient Egyptian artifacts at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, having promised her a father-daughter outing during which they could bond, but when he attempts to draw attention to the fact that the ancient Egyptians used hemp"}, {"text": "rope, she is angered to realize that the trip was another attempt to bring her to his way of thinking about marijuana. Meanwhile, fourth grader Butters Stotch tours the same exhibit as part of his efforts to complete the exhibit's accompanying sticker stamp book. When he comes to the mummy of Egyptian royal Took-Tan-ra, an elderly museum employee warns him that this mummy harbors an \"ancient love curse\", and urges him not to put Took-Tan-ra's stamp in his book. Butters ignores the warning, after which the undead mummy of Took-Tan-ra visits Butters in his bedroom one night. Initially horrified at the rampaging monster, Butters then sees that he merely wants to hug Butters and give him a FitBit device as a gift. The grateful Butters informs Took-Tan-ra that he already has one, and will give this new one to a friend, but Took-Tan-ra is enraged and storms out. After the mummy's rampage results in five deaths and property damage, the police visit Butters and relate that the mummy told them about the \"argument\" he had with Butters. Butters is astounded that the mummy spoke to the police, who admonish Butters for his \"hurtful\" conduct toward Took-Tan-ra. When Butters tells them"}, {"text": "that he may have been cursed by the mummy, but the police say that Took-Tan-ra told them the reverse. They also inform Butters that he must share in the damages caused by the mummy's rampage, and issue him a summons, advising him and the mummy to stay away from each other. Following more attacks by the mummy, Butters meets with the school counselor, Mr. Mackey, but is incredulous to learn that undead being has also spoken to Mackey, who expresses a sympathetic view of the creature. Butters later meets with his classmates at a fast food restaurant, and tells them that he needs to end the curse, pointing to the endless texts and selfies that Took-Tan-ra sends him, but his classmates, like everyone else, speak as if the fault lies with Butters, and advise him to break things off with him, even as the mummy shows up there to continue his campaign of harassment. Shelly cooks a witch's brew, and recites an accompanying incantation that will grant her revenge on her father. She dumps the brew onto the Halloween Special marijuana, horrifying Randy and his business partner, Towelie. This turns out to be an enhanced growth formula that increases Randy's"}, {"text": "yield. However, when he refuses to drive Shelly to a book fair on Halloween night, she destroys the packaged Halloween special, prompting Randy to ask the police to put her in jail for the night. She is placed in a cell with Butters, who has been imprisoned because he, not the mummy, \"manipulates the mummy with his passive-aggressive selfishness\". At Randy's party, the revelers who smoke the Halloween Special mutate into monsters. Randy is then confronted by an undead Winnie the Pooh, whom Randy murdered in the episode \"Band in China\". Other monsters follow, including an unseen Harvey Weinstein, who rapes Randy during his emergency phone call to the police. The police race to Tegridy Farms with Butters, in the hopes that he can use his powers of manipulation to stop the mummy, who they believe is causing the attacks there. However, the horrors Randy experiences are revealed to be a hallucination caused by the mutated marijuana. Shelly ends these hallucinations by brewing an antidote that she throws at Randy. The ranking policeman there, Sergeant Harrison Yates, informs Butters that the mummy was not to blame for the emergency, prompting Butters to apologize to the mummy. The mummy resolves to"}, {"text": "leave for good, but before doing so, gives Butters a note written in hieroglyphics that translates as \"I hope you can get the help you need. I can't fix you.\" Randy awakens three days later, and when his wife, Sharon says he was the only one who enjoyed the Halloween special, he says that he was pretty much the target audience anyway. He is also relieved that he did not really have anal sex with Harvey Weinstein, though he and the family are shocked to find a used condom that gives cause for them to question this. Reception. John Hugar with \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a rating of C+, calling it \"uneven.\" He stated that the episode had strong potential but ultimately felt rushed. Joe Matar, writing in Den of Geek, gave the episode a rating of 2 out of 5 stars. He criticized the Tegridy Farms story, which he felt had already been explored in the episode, \"Shots!!!,\" and thought that the overall plot was \"boring.\""}, {"text": "Tonda is a Czech masculine given name that is a diminutive form of Anton\u00edn used in the Czech Republic. Notable people with this name include the following:"}, {"text": "Edith Espie (1903 \u2013 1983) was a Western Arrernte foster mother and lay social worker in Alice Springs, Australia. Biography. Born at Jay Creek, near Alice Springs, Australia, Espie lived at The Bungalow, an institution for Aboriginal children. According to local historian Jay Petrick, Espie was a kind child and helped care for the other children by helping teacher and matron Ida Standley. A jockey in her teen years, Espie rode, in colours, at the local races. Espie worked variously making pies and pasties for Snow Kenna's Walk-in Picture Show (later known as Pioneer Theatre), was the barmaid at the Stuart Arms Hotel, and did ironing for single men. Espie had seven children with Victor Lawrence Cook, a labourer from South Australia. Espie worked as a housemaid at Huckitta Station, north-east of Alice Springs, from where one of her sons remembered leaving in 1941, aged six, to attend Hartley Street School in Alice Springs. Cook left Espie to start a \"new \u2013 white \u2013 family 'down south'\". Her son Bill Espie, to whom she gave birth in a tent outside the town hospital, later received a Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct. In addition to raising her biological children, Espie fostered"}, {"text": "several children and, according to Petrick, \"had a high moral code, stressing the importance of modesty\". Gloria Lee, a Chinese-American Alice Springs resident, recalled that Espie took care of her after Lee's mother died. After suffering from cancer for years, she died on 8 March 1983 and was buried at the Garden Cemetery in Alice Springs. Legacy. Espie Street in Alice Springs is named for her."}, {"text": "Kristian Kersting (born November 28, 1973, in Cuxhaven, Germany) is a German computer scientist. He is Professor of Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science at the Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt, Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab (AIML) and Co-Director of hessian.AI, the . He is known for his research on statistical relational artificial intelligence, probabilistic programming, and deep probabilistic learning. Life. Kersting studied computer science at the University of Freiburg, where he received his Ph.D. in 2006. At the university he attended a course on artificial intelligence given by Bernhard Nebel and became interested in the topic. He was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the KU Leuven and a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His advisor at MIT was Leslie Pack Kaelbling. From 2008 to 2012, he led a research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS. He then became a Juniorprofessor at the University of Bonn and associate Professor at the computer science department of the Technical University of Dortmund. From 2017 to 2019, he was professor of machine Learning and since 2019 professor of artificial intelligence and machine learning at the department"}, {"text": "of computer science of the Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt. He is also a researcher at ATHENE, the largest research institute for IT security in Europe and leads a research department at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Kristian Kersting is the co-spokesperson of Cluster of Excellence \"Reasonable Artificial Intelligence\", RAI (2026-32). Awards. In 2006, he received the AI Dissertation Award of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. In 2008, he received the Fraunhofer Attract research grant with a budget of 2.5 million euros over five years. He was appointed Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) in 2019. In 2019 he received the \"Deutscher KI-Preis\" (\"German AI Award\"), endowed with 100,000 euros, for his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of artificial intelligence. He was elected an AAAI Fellow in 2024."}, {"text": "The 2020 season is Geylang International's 25th consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the Singapore Premier League. Along with the Singapore Premier League, the club will also compete in the Singapore Cup. Transfers. Pre-season transfers. In. \"Note 1: Gilson Varela left the club before season start due to personal reason.\""}, {"text": "Ann West Bignall (died 1805) was an American stage actress. Biography. Born in the late 1760s, she was the daughter of actors Thomas Wade West and Margaretta Sully West. She was married to actor John Bignall (d. 1794) and in 1795 to actor James West. Career. She emigrated with her family to the United States in 1790 and was engaged with them in the Old American Company until her father founded the Virginia Company (also called Virginia Comedians and South Carolina Company), which toured the Southern States of Virginia and the Carolinas. After this, she was active within the company of her parents until her death. The company virtually had a monopoly in Virginia and the Carolinas, and she was the leading lady and one of the star attractions. In 1804, Aaron Burr called her \"the best female actress in America\". After her death, the \"Richmond Enquirer\" often compared other actresses to Bignall as a role model."}, {"text": "Bj\u00f6rn Lekman (born 11 October 1944) is a Swedish speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Kim Zin-hook (born 1 March 1940) is a North Korean speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Pekka Lattunen (born 26 June 1938) is a Finnish speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "D'Antona, D'antona, d'Antona or Dantona may refer to the following:"}, {"text": "Simo Rinne (2 August 1941 \u2013 28 September 2015) was a Finnish speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Raymond Fonvieille (born 16 October 1942) is a French speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Will Eaves (born 1967) is a British writer, poet and professor at the University of Warwick. Early life. Eaves was born in Bath, Somerset. He was educated at Beechen Cliff School before going up to King's College, Cambridge to read English. Career. Will Eaves was the Arts Editor at \"The Times Literary Supplement\" from 1995 to 2011. His most recent novel \"Murmur\" \u2013 a book about the inner workings of Alan Turing \u2013 brought him much critical acclaim. For \"Murmur\", Eaves was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and won the Wellcome Book Prize. It was only the third novel to win the award for science-related writing. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021."}, {"text": "Brina Cattell Kessel (November 20, 1925 \u2013 March 1, 2016) was an American ornithologist. Early life and family. Brina Kessel was born November 20, 1925, in Ithaca, New York, to Quinta Cattell and Marcel Hartwig Kessel, one of five children. Both of her parents encouraged her interest in birds and natural history at an early age. She counted among her grandparents James McKeen Cattell, an influential psychologist and academic. She was raised in Storrs, Connecticut, and attended elementary and high school there. Kessel was graduated from Cornell University in 1947 with a Bachelor of Science degree. She then went to the University of Wisconsin to study with Aldo Leopold. Unfortunately, Leopold died fighting a fire on his property in 1948. She also learned that the university did not accept women into its doctoral program in wildlife management. She received a master's degree from Wisconsin in 1949 and returned to Cornell to resume her studies with Arthur Augustus Allen. Kessel collected some of the first recordings of bird vocalization at Cornell. With her dissertation on the European starling, she received her PhD in 1951. Brina Kessel married Raymond Roof. Roof was on the faculty of the University of Alaska. At the"}, {"text": "time of his death, May 9, 1968, he was a design engineer at the university's Geophysical Institute. Career. Brina Kessel joined the faculty of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) as an instructor in zoology in the summer of 1951. (At that time, Fairbanks was the only campus for the university.) She advanced quickly to professorship. She served as head of the Department of Biological Sciences from 1957 through 1966 and as dean of the College of Biological Sciences and Renewable Resources from 1961 to 1972. For the University of Alaska Museum, she was curator of terrestrial vertebrates from 1972 to 1990 and curator of ornithology from 1990 until her retirement in 1997. Brina Kessel conducted research on many aspects of Alaska's bird life over a span of more than 55 years. A particular interest was birds of the taiga and tundra. Her early research in the 1950s explored the lands of Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 4 on Alaska's North Slope; however, in those days the Department of Defense did not permit women to conduct fieldwork on the property. Thus, Tom Cade and George Schaller worked in the field, while Kessel wrote up results as principal investigator. A few years"}, {"text": "later, Kessel worked in the Brooks Range with Margaret Murie and her husband Olaus Murie. Kessel worked in the field for many years studying the avifauna of the Seward Peninsula. Kessel's research culminated in publications that include \"Birds of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska\" (1989) and \"Habitat Characteristics of Some Passerine Birds in Western North American Taiga\" (1998). Kessel brought her scientific expertise to several projects in the realm of Alaskan economic development. In the early 1980s, she performed fieldwork in the upper valley of the Susitna River in anticipation of a hydroelectric dam project. From 1959 to 1963, she was the project director for ecological investigations for Project Chariot, a proposal by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to create an artificial harbor by detonating a suite of nuclear devices, the proposal subsequently abandoned. UAF researchers working on the project, among them Leslie Viereck and William O. Pruitt, objected to the way that the university's client, the AEC, had characterized findings in their progress reports; Kessel presented these objections to the university's president, William Ransom Wood in a meeting in October 1960. However, when Viereck, Pruitt, and others presented a \"minority report\" critical of Project Chariot in an issue of the"}, {"text": "\"News Bulletin\" of the Alaska Conservation Society in March 1961, Kessel considered their report biased and ethically flawed. Pruitt's research contribution to the overall project report, on the ecology of certain terrestrial mammals in the study area, was submitted to Kessel in December 1961. Kessel's edits of Pruitt's draft became a point of contention, and the final report appeared in April 1962 under William Pruitt's name, \"as modified by\" Brina Kessel. Two months before the final report, Kessel received correspondence from John N. Wolfe of the AEC; he wrote that Pruitt's version of the draft was \"not highly satisfactory\" and that the AEC's final payment to the university was \"contingent upon the receipt of a satisfactory [final] report.\" The degree to which Wolfe had an influence on the final report is not certain. Later life and death. Brina Kessel was awarded emeritus status at UAF as dean, professor, and curator of ornithology in 1999. She died on March 1, 2016, in Fairbanks. Legacy and recognition. Brina Kessel, through her estate, made a large gift to the University of Alaska to fund the Birds of Alaska project and to establish the Kessel Ornithology Endowment Fund. Brina Kessel was named a fellow"}, {"text": "of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1960. In 1973, she became one of the first women to be named a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU); she served the AOU as president from 1992 to 1994. The AOU, now the American Ornithological Society, established the Brina C. Kessel Award to recognize an outstanding recent article published in \"The Auk: Ornithological Advances\". Kessel was elected to fellowship in the Arctic Institute of North America in 1978. From the University of Alaska, she received its President's Distinguished Service Award in 1981. The Brina Kessel Medal for Excellence in Science is granted annually to an undergraduate student at UAF. Kessel Pond at Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge in Fairbanks was named in her honor."}, {"text": "Alfred Edward Maitland (8 October 1895 \u2013 1981) was a Scottish professional footballer who made over 330 appearances in the Football League for Newcastle United, South Shields and Middlesbrough as a full back. Personal life. Maitland served in the Royal Air Force during the First World War. Honours. Newcastle United"}, {"text": "Ingrid Bodsch (born 22 January 1953) is an Austrian historian and faculty at the Stadtmuseum Bonn (Bonn city museum). Biography. After graduating from gymnasium at the and from the University of Graz with a degree in history and art, Bodsch continued her studies at the University of Bonn. She completed a Master of Arts there in 1977. From 1977 to 1981, Bodsch was a research associate at the University of Bonn for professors and Eugen Ewig. From 1981 to 1985, Bodsch was an assistant researcher at the Schn\u00fctgen Museum in Cologne under . Bodsch married molecular biologist Wolfram Bodsch in 1977 and accompanied him on his research trips to the United States, where she would find herself working at the Getty Museum from 1986 to 1988 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bodsch completed her doctorate in 1988 at the University of Bonn, and was then commissioned to plan and execute the 2000th anniversary of the founding of J\u00fclich. Since its reestablishment in 1989, Bodsch has been the part of the management staff of the Stadtmuseum Bonn. From 2003 to 2007, Bodsch was the spokesperson of the . In 2005, she was assigned the directorship of the Schumann Network by"}, {"text": "the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Bernd Neumann. In 2010, she coordinated the Schumann Year Celebrations to commemorate Robert Schumann's 200th birthday."}, {"text": "Toyofumi Aruga (born 16 November 1942) is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Joacim \u00d8deg\u00e5rd Bj\u00f8reng (born 14 December 1995) is a Norwegian ski jumper. At the 2015 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships he finished seventh in the normal hill and won a gold medal in the team competition. He made his Continental Cup debut with a fourth place in December 2014 in Engelberg, and has won two events on the summer circuit; in August 2015 in Wisla and September 2016 in Lillehammer. He made his FIS Ski Jumping World Cup debut in February 2015 in Vikersund, recording a 36th place, and collected his first World Cup points a year later in the same event with a 28th place. He represents the sports club R\u00f8ykenhopp."}, {"text": "Erich Korbel (7 July 1941 \u2013 4 January 2023) was an Austrian speed skater. He competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Governor Bannerman may refer to:"}, {"text": "Robert Calvin Armstrong is the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering. He has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1973, and served as head of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1996 to 2007. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for conducting outstanding research on non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, co-authoring landmark textbooks, and providing leadership in chemical engineering education. In 2020, he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Armstrong finished a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering Degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, also in Chemical Engineering."}, {"text": "Atle Lie McGrath (born 21 April 2000) is a Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer, a member of the Norwegian Alpine Ski Team. He gained his first World Cup podium in December 2020 in a giant slalom at Alta Badia, Italy, and his first win in March 2022 in slalom at Flachau, Austria. Skiing career. McGrath competed at the Junior World Championships in 2018 and 2019; he raced all of the events (DH, SG, AC, GS, and SL) both years. In 2018, he was the best U18 skier in three events; in 2019, he was the silver medalist in the combined. McGrath was also fourth in the downhill, just 0.01 second from the podium. Personal life. Born in the United States in Vermont, McGrath moved to Oslo when he was two years old. His father, American Felix McGrath, raced for the U.S. Ski Team on the World Cup circuit from 1984 through 1990. His mother, Selma Lie, was a cross-country ski racer in Norway and on the NCAA circuit for the University of Vermont; he has a younger brother named Leo. McGrath grew up as a multisport athlete, also racing cross-country skiing until age 12 and playing football until age"}, {"text": "15. He represents the sports club B\u00e6rums SK."}, {"text": "Bhura Singh Ghuman (born 1954) is an Indian academic and academic administrator who served as Vice-Chancellor of Punjabi University, Patiala since 14 August 2017. He resigned from post of VC on 18 November 2020. Biography. Bhura Singh Ghuman was born on 15 June 1954 at village Arkwas, (near Lehragaga) and did his early schooling at the local village school. He did his graduation from Shaheed Udham Singh Government College, Sunam and M.A. in Public administration from Punjabi University, Patiala. He completed his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from GNDU in year 1979 and 1985 respectively. Prof. Ghuman held several notable academic positions: He served as a Professor of Public Administration at Panjab University, Chandigarh for thirty eight years. Ghuman is editor of many renowned research journals and published 73 papers and 3 books. He was also a member of academic bodies of various universities. Besides this, he was also a member of fifth Pay Commission, Punjab from 2007 to 2009 and Punjab Governance Reforms Commission. Awards & honors. He is an internationally respected and renowned researcher and has recently received Paul H. Appleby award for contribution in the field of public administration. He is also recipient of many other awards. Stint at"}, {"text": "Punjabi University. Prof. Ghuman has taken a keen interest in overall development of university and carried out various initiatives such as improving research standards, starting the new academic programmes and specialized centres, MoU signing with foreign universities, securing increased grants from Punjab government and MHRD besides curbing wasteful expenditure. He has taken many initiatives to uplift the university in all spheres. University has been growing by leaps and bounds under his able leadership. Prof. Ghuman has been given an extension of three years due to his excellent work and efficient handling of university affairs by Chancellor and Governor of Punjab."}, {"text": "Choi Nam-yeon (born 17 January 1943) is a South Korean speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Castle and Barony of Gadgirth was held by the Chalmer family, originally De Camera, with successive castles and a mansion house overlooking the River Ayr at the border of the Parish of Coylton, the old district of Kyle, now part of South Ayrshire, Scotland. History. The Barons of Gadgirth. Reginaldus de Camera, later Chalmer, is recorded to have held the Barony of Gadgirth as a hereditary possession, during the reign of William the Lion (1165\u20131214). The family continued in residence until circa 1761 and in 1800 Colonel Joseph Burnett, retired from the East India Company, purchased part of the old barony, including Gadgirth and the Old Ha' Castles. The name 'Chalmer' derives from the post of Lord or Great Chamberlain of Scotland, \"Camerarius Regii\" a position held by Herbert de Camera from 1124 to 1153, a member of the family who were of Saxon or Norman descent. In 1357 the 'Farthing Land of Gadgard (sic) is recorded its tithe and 50s as the assessed rent. The lands of Gaitgirth (sic) and Culreath were joined to form one Barony in 1468. In 1424 John Chalmer of Gadgirth fought for King Charles VII of France against the English at the Battle"}, {"text": "of Vernuie and was awarded the right to use the \"Fleur de Lis\" in recognition of his gallantry. He is thought to have died at the Battle of Herrings in 1429. Sir John Chalmer's wife Elizabeth was charged before the King's Council in 1494 as an adherent to the Lollard's, a heretical doctrine promulgated by John Wycliffe. The charge was dismissed by King James IV. James Chalmer of Gadgirth was a great supporter of the Scottish Reformation and was regarded by Archbishop Spottiswood and John Knox as one of the boldest of the leaders of the movement. In 1558, Mary of Guise, the Queen Regent, a supporter of the Catholic Church, was meeting with the Catholic bishops, when a delegation of reformers entered the privy chamber and James Chalmer addressed her, saying (in updated English) \"Madam you know of the malice of the jail birds and that bastard that stands beside you (the bishop of St. Andrews). We swear to God we shall make a fight of it. They oppress us and our tenants, for feeding their idle bellies. They trouble our preachers, and intend to murder them and us. Shall we not put up with this any longer.\u201d The"}, {"text": "reformers then put on their helmets as if they were about to use force. Mary quickly compromised with the reformers. Annabelle Cunningham was the wife of James Chalmer and when she died in 1569 her will stated that \"I do commend my spirit to Jesus Christ my onlie saviour and redeemer, in quhome and by quhome I luke for eternaljoy and felicite.\" The laird of Gadgirth is recorded as having great misgivings relating to the economic control that the clergy had upon him and his tenants. In 1696 Captain John Chalmers inherited the barony as a minor from his father John, however almost all of the lands had passed into others hands as a result of debts incurred as a result of the Chalmer family supporting King Charles I. John managed to restore some of the barony lands to Chalmer ownership however he died circa 1750 without a male heir and the property passed to his sisters Mary, Anna and Elizabeth. Mary left her portion to her husband, John Steel of Gadgirth and his daughter by a second marriage, married Lieut-Colonel Joseph Burnett of the Bengal Artillery who purchased his sister-in-laws portion of the barony. James Muir, Elizabeth's eldest son,"}, {"text": "changed his name to Chalmer and inherited his aunt, Anna Chalmer's, portion of the barony. Joseph Burnett died in 1833 and his son John Joseph Burnett inherited however he never married and the barony passed to his brother Lieut-Colonel Francis Claude Burnett of the Bengal Artillery who died on August 19, 1897. He was buried with his wife Mary in the family mausoleum at the Coylton Kirk cemetery. The Chalmer's were connected through marriage with many families in Ayrshire and elsewhere, such as the Campbells of Loudoun, Hamiltons of Cadzow, Cuninghames of Caprington, Wallace of Ellerslie, Craufurd of Craufurdland, Fergusson of Craigdarroch, Farquhar of Gilmilnscroft, etc. The Chalmer of Gadgirth coat of arms is \"Argent, a demi-lion rampant, Sable, issuing out of a Fess, and in base, a Fleur-de-Lis: all within a border, Gules. Crest - a falcon, belled, proper. Motto - Non Praeda sed Victoria (Not spoiled by victory).\" The Burnett of Gadgirth coat of arms is \"Argent. Crest - A Holly Branch, green, with red berries. Shield - Three holly leaves on a white ground in the upper division; on the lower, a Hunting Horn. Motto - Nec Fluctu, nec Flatu (Neither by Wave nor Wind).\". Gadgirth Castle."}, {"text": "The castle, probably a typical 14th century tower castle, replaced the earlier Gadgirth Old Ha' that stood around 500 metres or a quarter of a mile downstream on the same southern side of the River Ayr, abandoned when the new castle was built. Gadgirth Castle was itself demolished in 1808 when a new mansion house was built on its footprint by Colonel Joseph Burnett who had retired from his post with the East India Company. Joseph had intended to retain the castle however it proved to be unsuitable for modification with walls six feet thick. Extensive woodlands and a pale or fence are shown on Timothy Pont's map of the early 17th century indicating a deer park. A dwelling is shown on the 1775 Armstrong map that appears to indicate a house rather than a castle with planted woodlands and open parkland, with a road running to it via Enterkine and with a bridge across the River Ayr as confirmed by the dwelling named Bridgend. A print of 1892 by the artist Robert Bryden shows a castle that has been given some Georgian features such as regular windows and ornamental bartizan towers. It not known what source was used to"}, {"text": "create the print and therefore the accuracy of the image is unknown. John Knox is known to have preached here dispensed the sacrament and Mary Queen of Scots is said to have stayed here for one night. Gadgirth Old Ha'. As stated, the first castle, Gadgirth Old Ha', also lay on the southern side of the River Ayr near the B742 road that crosses the River Ayr at Gadgirth Bridge and runs up to Annbank. The castle jutted into the river on a rocky promontory with an islet located within the river at this point. The historian John Smith in the 1890s visited the site and recorded that even at that date only a short stretch of wall could be traced. Gadgirth House. Built in 1808 on a prominent position overlooking the River Ayr and Gadgirth Holm it was purchased in 1949 by the council became a children's home. It was demolished in 1968. It had been built on the site of Gadgirth Castle. As stated, the 1775 William Armstrong map appears to indicate a house rather than a castle with a road running to it via Enterkine and with a bridge across the River Ayr as confirmed by the"}, {"text": "name Bridgend. In 1828 the mansion house is clearly shown with a network of roads. Gadgirth House is shown on photographs and prints as a mansion with similarities to Logan House near Cumnock and probably designed by the same architect. It had \"an advanced, eliptical, bowed projection on the centre of both main fronts, the projection on the garden front being further advanced than that on the entrance front\". In 1903 alterations were carried out that were designed by the architects Honeyman, Keppie and Mackintosh. Gadgirth Holm Cottages - Dated 1906 on their monogram, a terrace of eight estate cottages in Arts and Crafts style were built just downstream from Gadgirth Bridge. The 1906 cottages replaced an earlier set cottages, a miner's row, on the site as shown on OS maps with two coal pits nearby. Gadgirth Mains This was the home farm and was built circa 1807. A courtyard design, it has a central arched entrance with a small dovecot above. An advert in 1807 refers to a set of farm offices that were to be built in the summer of 1808. On the 1750s map by William Roy a 'Gath Gard Mains' is already shown. A gasometer was"}, {"text": "located here to hold the coal gas made on site. Estate features - A walled garden survives which once had several greenhouses and other buildings associated with it. The OS maps also record a monument or obelisk built in the centre of one of two old 18th century wooded roundel features on top of the hill that lies above Gadgirth Mains. The monument bore no inscription and given the fashion of early 19th century memorials to Horatio Nelson, the Battle of Trafalgar or the Battle of Waterloo it may relate to one of these or a family linked origin. John Thomson's map of 1828 indicates an ornamental lake in front of Gadgirth House in the Byre Burn Glen, however this is no longer shown in 1908. In 1908 a sundial was shown on the OS in front of the mansion house. Gadgirth Cottage and Bankfoot Cottages were once situated on the lane to Knockshoggle Holm. The Kennels Cottage also survives as do the gates. Gadgirth Viaduct. Also known as the Enterkine Viaduct this wrought iron bridge on stone pillars originally carried the old G&SWR line from Ayr to Cronberry over the River Ayr, latterly it was used to carry coal"}, {"text": "trains to the Killoch washery. It was still in service in 2009. Etymology. The name 'Gadgirth' is also variously written as 'Gadgard', 'Gaitgirth', 'Galdgirth'. and may either refer to an archaic Scots unit of land measurement or even the personal name 'Galdus', recorded as an ancient King of Scots commemorated at Wigton. 'Garth' or 'Girth' refers to an enclosure. The name is given as 'Gaidyant' on Timothy Pont's map of the early 17th century. The same spelling is given in 1745. 'Gath Gard' is the spelling shown on William Roy's map of the 1750s. Armstrongs map of 1775 uses the spelling 'Gadgirth'. Industry. The ancient Privick Mills are located on the opposite bank of the River Ayr from the castles and mansion house sites with at one time extensive stone weir and lade carrying the water to the mill's wheel. It is marked as 'Preuik Mil' on Timothy Pont's early 17th century map and may have been associated with Privick House, later known as Annbank House, renamed after Lady Ann Montgomery but demolished in the 1970s. A charter of 1359 does refer to a mill and grannary belonging to the lands of Gadgirth. At least two coal pits are recorded,"}, {"text": "one lying above Gadgirth Mains with some ruins remaining and the other with an engine house in the Byre Burn Glen. In 1875 one miner was killed and a second mortally injured. William Kerr, aged around 50, was working in the No. 1 Gadgirth Pit, Annbank Colliery and had been excavating a wedge-hole when a one ton block of coal fell on him. Taken out of the adit and carried home he died shortly afterwards, leaving a widow and ten offspring. Only two hours later a similar accident happened to a David M'Crorie, a younger man. His left arm was amputated, but his other injuries were so serious that he is not thought to have pulled through. Chalmerhouses, Irvine. The Chalmer family in 1558 held 52 acres of lands at Thornlibank also known as Chalmerhouses located at the east end of the burgh of Irvine. The burial place of the Chalmers of Chalmerhouses was at the wall of the old churchyard, on the left-hand side when walking towards the church from the Kirkgate. References. Notes;"}, {"text": "\"Chapter 5\" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. The episode was written by co-executive producer Peter Calloway and directed by Tim Mielants. It originally aired on FX on March 8, 2017. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency. In the episode, David sets out to save Amy from Division 3, although his motivations are pushed by Lenny. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.795 million household viewers and gained a 0.4 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received critical acclaim, with critics praising the cinematography, character development, performances (particularly Dan Stevens) and ending. Plot. Kerry (Amber Midthunder) is taken to Summerland, where Cary (Bill Irwin) takes care of her wound until she wakes up. David (Dan Stevens) shows Syd (Rachel Keller) that he created an illusion where both can spend time together and not worry"}, {"text": "about her powers, thanks to his knowledge of the astral plane. David tells Melanie (Jean Smart) that he intends to leave the next day to save his sister, also telling her that he met Oliver in the astral plane. Melanie explains that Oliver has spent 21 years in the plane, and asks David to help him return to the real world. Motivated by Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), David leaves for Division 3 earlier and alone. Syd asks the team to help her, although Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris) does not see the point but Melanie reaffirms that they will help David. The team arrives at Division 3, where the soldiers have been massacred and the compound has been raided. The team finds a dying Brubaker (David Selby), who tells them that David left with Amy (Katie Aselton). Through security footage, they watch in horror as David brutally kills the soldiers at the compound. The footage also displays the Devil with Yellow Eyes, which Cary interprets as a parasite that lurked into David's mind and feed off David's powers. Syd is suddenly teleported to their astral room before departing once again for the real world. She deduces that David is at his childhood home."}, {"text": "As they leave, Walter (Mackenzie Gray), the only survivor of the massacre, follows them. At their childhood home, Amy is tormented by Lenny while David asks to know about his past. Amy reveals that David was adopted, but doesn't know who his real parents are. The team enters the house, which appears to remove sound as they wander through the house. Syd eventually finds Amy, but is confronted by Lenny, who restores sound and taunts her before disappearing. Walter enters and shoots at David, prompting him and Amy to vanish to their astral room. David feels powerless and unable to think. The Devil in Yellow Eyes appears and attacks Syd. In order to save her, David wills himself, the whole team and Walter to another astral plane where they are patients at Clockworks. Their psychiatrist is revealed to be Lenny. Production. Development. In February 2017, it was reported that the fifth episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 5\", and was to be directed by Tim Mielants and written by co-executive producer Peter Calloway. This was Calloway's second writing credit, and Mielants' first directing credit. Filming. The episode featured a sequence where David played \"Rainbow Connection\" on a banjo."}, {"text": "Dan Stevens was required to play the instrument, despite having never done so before. He considered the episode to be one of his favorites, also praising director Tim Mielants as someone \"who was just the right amount of crazy for our show. And there's some incredibly ambitious camerawork in that episode.\" Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 5\" was seen by an estimated 0.795 million household viewers and gained a 0.4 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.4 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 6% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.750 million viewers with a 0.4 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 5\" received critical acclaim. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 8.6/10 for the episode, based on 16 reviews. The site's consensus states: \"The terrifying 'Chapter 5' sends \"Legion\" spinning upside down while thrillingly weaving threads of horror into the show's comics-inspired canvas.\" Scott Collura of \"IGN\" gave the episode an \"amazing\" 9 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, \"As the final 10 minutes"}, {"text": "of \"Legion\"s 'Chapter 5' kicked in and things amped up with the conceit of all sound (aside from some music cues) being temporarily dispersed by David/Lenny, the episode proved itself to be another excellent installment that mixes style with intrigue. One supposes that Cary's magic collar will come to the rescue at some point, but for now it seems the more pressing issue is for our heroes to find their way back to reality... if they even exist at all, that is.\" Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode an \"A-\" grade and wrote, \"Everyone in \"Legion\" believes in someone or something for different reasons, but they're all driven by that same hope, of finding what they want to see.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Uproxx\" wrote, \"This was, like last week, \"Legion\" using every tool it had in service of a particular tone and narrative goal. Last time, it was a kind of baffling whimsy that ultimately gave us a much better handle on what David and the other characters can do, and what Melanie's goal in all of this is. Here, it was an increasingly dark and disturbing revelation of what David is really capable of, and what"}, {"text": "he and/or Lenny appear to truly be. Great. Terrifying. More, please.\" Kevin P. Sullivan of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"\"Legion\" does a lot of things well... but I think it's worth talking about more specifically after an episode like 'Chapter 5'. That is to say, after a startling, great episode of television like \"Chapter 5.\"\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"\"Legion\" is by no means a realistic or nuanced interpretation of schizophrenia, but the way it ties the main villain to the illness is fascinating.\" Sean T. Collins of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"It's not just superheroes and horror that coexist on the show and among David's multiple personalities: The good show and the shaky one share a head space as well - ours.\" Ron Gilmer of \"TV Fanatic\" gave the episode a perfect 5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"I loved this episode! The story is barreling forward, and the plot is much easier to follow. I can't wait to see how they escape Clockworks, and if the contraption Loudermilk came up with can help David regain control.\" Katherine Siegel of \"Paste\" gave the episode a"}, {"text": "8 rating out of 10 and wrote, \"Is David losing his innocence? Is everything he knows and loves being corrupted by the malevolent presence inside? Is that presence taking the pure, wholesome, positive parts of his childhood away from him? Guess what, audience, \"Legion\" needs to take something pure, wholesome and innocent from you, too. It's going to have to be The Muppets, I'm afraid, because no one wants to lose faith in the rainbow connection \u2014 not David, and definitely not you.\" Accolades. \"TVLine\" named Dan Stevens as an honorable mention as the \"Performer of the Week\" for the week of March 11, 2017, for his performance in the episode. The site wrote, \"As \"Legion\"s conflicted mutant David Haller, Dan Stevens has been stuck in his own mind (literally) most of the season. But this week, in 'Chapter 5', Stevens got to take David's massive telekinetic powers out for a spin \u2014 and have a little fun for once! Wearing a sly smile, David stormed through Division 3 laying waste to enemy soldiers, and Stevens made the mutant's newfound cockiness positively unnerving.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 9\" is the first episode of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 9th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern and directed by Tim Mielants. It originally aired on FX on April 3, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency. In the episode, David is found by Division 3 and Summerland, with both facilities working together in finding Farouk, who possessed Oliver's body. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.669 million household viewers and gained a 0.3 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received critical acclaim, with critics praising the writing, performances, visual style and originality. Plot. Oliver (Jemaine Clement) and Lenny (Aubrey Plaza) are relaxing in a pool, recognizing that they are trapped. They are revealed to be inside the mind of Amahl"}, {"text": "Farouk (Navid Negahban), who in turn has taken over Oliver's body in the real world. Division 3 has retrieved David (Dan Stevens) and placed him on a quarantine. Cary (Bill Irwin) manages to get him to wake up from his coma. While eating with Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris), David is told that Summerland now works with Division 3 in capturing Farouk, having convinced that most mutants aren't a threat. Their boss is Admiral Fukyama (Marc Oka), who has a basket placed over his head. He also reconciles with Syd (Rachel Keller), who informs him that he was missing for almost an entire year. Unknown to the others, David hears many versions of himself speaking in his head. For the past year, Division 3 has tried to locate Farouk, recognizing that he possessed Oliver's body. However, with each encounter, the team finds that Farouk infects people with a psychic \"virus\", the Catalyst, that paralyses their bodies but causes their teeth to continuously chatter. After talking with Clark (Hamish Linklater), David talks with Admiral Fukyama, realizing that he is unable to read his mind. Fukyama instructs David to meet with Cary, who created an amplification chamber that will help him relive his memories"}, {"text": "and try to find Farouk, who wants to find his original body to unleash his powers. Inside the chamber, David finds himself at a nightclub, meeting Lenny and Oliver. He relives a memory of a monk and then engaging in a dance battle with Lenny and Oliver. After leaving the chamber and meeting with Syd, he gives her a compass that will always lead her to him, promising to not keep any secrets between them. It is revealed that after David was trapped by the orb, he met a future version of Syd, who can't talk. Using a light wand, she explains that Farouk wants to find his body and David must help him. This confuses David just as Syd disappears. In the present, David's mind goes back to the nightclub, where he meets again with Lenny and Oliver. Throughout the episode, a Narrator (Jon Hamm) explains many concepts. The first involves leading the viewer into imagining a maze, and how its imagination becomes an idea. The Narrator then talks about Zhuang Zhou, a man who dreamt that he was a butterfly, to the point that he forgot about his real identity. He then compares an idea to an egg,"}, {"text": "where a rational idea hatches a chick while a delusion hatches a dark creature. He uses the example of Albert A, where he started thinking that his right leg didn't belong to him. As the delusion consumes him, he ends up sawing it off. The dark creature then eats the chick, with the Narrator noting that delusions grew stronger as rationality dies. Production. Development. In March 2018, it was reported that the first episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 9\", and was to be directed by Tim Mielants and written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern. This was Hawley's fourth writing credit, Halpern's third writing credit, and Mielants' second directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 9\" was seen by an estimated 0.669 million household viewers and gained a 0.3 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.3 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 18% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.812 million viewers with a 0.4 in the 18-49 demographics. With DVR factored in, the episode was watched by 1.50 million viewers"}, {"text": "with a 0.7 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 9\" received critical acclaim. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 8.2/10 for the episode, based on 16 reviews. The site's consensus states: \"'Chapter 9' starts \"Legion\"s sophomore season with a deeper, more substantial arc while still retaining the show's splendid visuals and trippy narrative flourishes.\" Ryan Matsunaga of \"IGN\" gave the episode an \"amazing\" 9.1 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, \"Viewers will likely spend most of 'Chapter 9' feeling more than a little confused, but that's arguably part of \"Legion\"s appeal at this point. A lot will depend on how well the rest of the season pays off the big mysteries set up here, but for now, it's looking like a hell of a ride.\" Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode an \"A-\" grade and wrote, \"\"Legion\"s weird and wondrous universe is just as visually dazzling and elliptically enigmatic as ever.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Uproxx\" wrote, \"A broad smile crosses [this critics'] face upon thinking about the animated tale of the man who dreamed he was a butterfly (or vice versa), and how that"}, {"text": "led into more disturbing explanations of how an innocuous thought can lead to madness.\" Evan Lewis of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"As season 2 progresses and it becomes clearer which mysteries are solvable and which are merely David's delusions, Hawley could invert all the soapy, pulpy clich\u00e9s to deliver something awe-inspiring to an audience that thinks it knows what\u2019s coming.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"The stylistic flourishes give these character interactions deeper substance, and ideally \"Legion\" will maintain this dynamic as it moves forward.\" Ben Travers of \"IndieWire\" gave the episode an \"A-\" grade and wrote, \"Hawley expertly controls the chaos to a point where finding our way out is a fun challenge, not an exhausting burden.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 3.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"If \"Legion\" can keep an emotional throughline up amongst all of the topsy-turvy trippiness, it has potential to be one of the most memorable comic book adaptations ever attempted and proof of concept that these stories can continue to feel fresh. The show just needs to avoid getting too enamored with its own inventiveness"}, {"text": "but based on David's witty observations about the regular insanity that he encounters, there's a healthy amount of self-awareness in there somewhere. Hopefully that's one of the many voices in David and Noah Hawley's heads that they listen to.\" Josh Jackson of \"Paste\" gave the episode a 9 rating out of 10 and wrote, \"It's work to follow the convoluted plots and it takes an openness to the most outr\u00e9 imaginings. But the rewards of this beautiful, original, clever, funny, well-written and well-acted show are, well, legion. I'm thankful for a new mystery and the myriad of WTF moments to come. Long live bat-shit crazy television.\""}, {"text": "Josef Reisinger (13 February 1940 \u2013 26 April 2003) was an Austrian speed skater. He competed in the men's 1500 metres event at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "\"Chapter 10\" is the second episode of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 10th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. It originally aired on FX on April 10, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. In the episode, David agrees to helping Farouk in finding his original body, although it still unleashes unfortunate events. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.439 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances, character development, cinematography, and Amirpour's directing. Plot. Talking with Lenny (Aubrey Plaza) and Oliver"}, {"text": "(Jemaine Clement) inside his mind, David (Dan Stevens) informs Farouk that he will help him find his body as long as he doesn't hurt anyone. At night, David leads some of his team into the desert to meet with Farouk inside Oliver's body. However, this is part of Farouk's plan, who infiltrates Division 3 with minimal security and kills many soldiers. He traps Cary (Bill Irwin) in a room where he is haunted by Lenny, while he incapacitates Kerry (Amber Midthunder). When the team returns, they find that Farouk trapped Cary inside Kerry's body. The team concludes that Farouk was looking for a monk member of the Mi-Go order, whom he believes is responsible for hiding his original body. Admiral Fukyama's bodyguards, the Vermillion, suspect that David may be responsible for leading Farouk into Division 3, which is rebuffed by Syd (Rachel Keller) and Melanie (Jean Smart). Disturbed by the deaths, David asks Cary and Kerry for help in trying to meet with the future version of Syd again. Using the amplification chamber, David meets with Syd, who tells him that he will kill Farouk within a week, but then a plague will kill all the humans on the planet,"}, {"text": "which can be prevented if Farouk recovers his body. David then confronts Farouk in his original form (Navid Negahban), and both engage in a wrestling match, which evolves into a mind battle. Farouk then promises to stop killing, as long as David continues helping him in finding his body. David leaves the desert, while Lenny fails to convince Farouk from letting her go. Cary manages to exit Kerry, although the process is not complete, with both noting that Kerry is now aging. David talks with Melanie, who tells him that he must \"save himself\". Based on this, David tells Syd about meeting her future self and working to help Farouk. Syd understands his position, and tells him they must do what the future Syd said by finding the monk. The monk is revealed to be in the room guarding people infected with the Catalyst, although he is not infected. Throughout the episode, the Narrator (Jon Hamm) explains the concept of umwelt, creatures' perception of the world. He also states how humans can change the meaning behind their ideas. As an example, a boy is taught by Oliver that \"red\" is green colored and \"green\" is red colored, with \"green\" symbolizing"}, {"text": "\"go\". As a result, the kid walks into a red light, causing him to get hit by a car. Production. Development. In March 2018, it was reported that the second episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 10\", and was to be directed by Ana Lily Amirpour and written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern. This was Hawley's fifth writing credit, Halpern's fourth writing credit, and Amirpour's first directing credit. Filming. The episode was Amirpour's first directorial credit for a scripted series. She was concerned that she would have to abandon her trademarks and style for the conventional television landscape, but Hawley assured her that she would keep her style. Amirpour said, \"I want to make sure that I have Noah's back and the writers' backs and the show\u2019s needs met. It was a true collaboration. The show is so psychedelic and non-linear that you just trust in each moment in a way.\" The original opening scene involved David, Lenny and Oliver in an \"infinity elevator\", but it was changed as the production didn't have enough time to build the set. Amirpour then suggested using a carousel, deeming it \"the perfect personification of going around"}, {"text": "and around in your mind and trying to look for answers.\" Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 10\" was seen by an estimated 0.439 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.2 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 35% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.669 million viewers with a 0.3 in the 18-49 demographics. With DVR factored in, the episode was watched by 1.03 million viewers with a 0.5 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 10\" received mostly positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 8.1/10 for the episode, based on 14 reviews. Ryan Matsunaga of \"IGN\" gave the episode a \"great\" 8.5 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, \"Season 2 feels like it's slowing down a bit to set up some important elements, but there's still plenty for us to dig into and ponder in the meantime. With so many new ideas being introduced, we just have to hope that it will all come together"}, {"text": "in time for a satisfying conclusion.\" Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B\" grade and wrote, \"The show is playing coy with these questions, which is fine: Especially after an episode so structured toward providing explanations and answers, keeping a few things in the dark isn't an issue.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Uproxx\" wrote, \"Farouk can do anything, particularly in the mental realm and both fight scenes are a reminder of the threat he poses, which raises the question of just how dangerous the threat from Future Syd's timeline is, and how difficult it will be for even the combined forces of David and Farouk to stop it. But I bet however it goes down, it'll be very cool to watch.\" Evan Lewis of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"\"Legion\" is constantly juggling the competing impulses for exposition and counter-exposition. One episode will give the information necessary to bring the story into focus, and the next will introduce new elements to obfuscate the truth.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"Ana Lily Amirpour made a big impression with her feature film debut, \"A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night\","}, {"text": "and that film's bold visual sensibility and surreal subject matter make her a strong directorial fit for \"Legion\".\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"As long as this attention to character is continually shown, \"Legion\" has the potential to top last season, with Noah Hawley almost singly focused on dreaming up eye candy now that \"Fargo\" is on hiatus. With a cooperative Shadow King, the new dynamic could power \"Legion\" beyond its style over substance leanings, which would be truly the most mind-bending feat.\" Josh Jackson of \"Paste\" gave the episode a 9.5 rating out of 10 and wrote, \"It only causes us to trust what we're watching even less. The plot seems almost straight forward at this point compared to Season One, but everything hinges on the word of future Syd. A show that has reveled in playing with reality is now playing with the concept of time. And there's no more playful show on TV right now.\""}, {"text": "The 2020 Cork Premier Senior Football Championship was the inaugural staging of the Cork Premier Senior Football Championship and the 132nd staging overall of a championship for the top-ranking Gaelic football teams in Cork. The draw for the group stage placings took place on 19 November 2019. The championship was scheduled to begin in April 2020, however, it was postponed indefinitely due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games. The championship eventually began on 24 July 2020 and, after being suspended once again on 5 October 2020, and eventually ended on 29 August 2021. Nemo Rangers were the defending champions. The final was played on 29 August 2021 at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh in Cork, between Castlehaven and Nemo Rangers, in what was their third final meeting and their first in six years. Nemo Rangers won the match by 3-07 to 0-13 to claim their 22nd championship title overall and a second title in succession. Steven Sherlock from the St. Finbarr's club was the championship's top scorer with 3-36. Format change. On 26 March 2019, three championship proposals were circulated to Cork club delegates. A core element running through all three proposals, put together by the Cork GAA"}, {"text": "games workgroup, was that there be a group stage of 12 teams, straight relegation, and one team from the divisions/colleges section to enter at the preliminary quarter-final stage. On 2 April 2019, a majority of 136 club delegates voted for Option A which would see one round of games played in April and two more in August \u2013 all with county players available. Participating teams. Clubs. The club rankings were based on a championship performance 'points' system over the previous four seasons."}, {"text": "\"Chapter 11\" is the third episode of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 11th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern and directed by Sarah Adina Smith. It originally aired on FX on April 17, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. In the episode, the Mi-Go monk has infected most of Division 3 with the Catalyst, prompting David and Cary to release them. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.380 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received positive reviews from critics, who praised the character development and performances, although some expressed criticism for its pacing and lack"}, {"text": "of progress in the main storyline. Plot. In the past, the Mi-Go monks retrieve Farouk's body after his defeat. They bury it in a part of its monastery, although the monks are haunted by noises coming from the body. Division 3 soldiers discover that the monk was in the same room as the people infected with the Catalyst and then walked through the building. As such, the installation is placed in a lockdown. Looking for answers, David (Dan Stevens) visits Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), which gets him to Farouk (Navid Negahban). Farouk states that the monk was an asymptomatic carrier and even signals that the future version of Syd (Rachel Keller) will stop existing if he changes the future. When David goes back to the real world, he finds that the monk has infected everyone, except for Cary (Bill Irwin). Discovering an infected Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris), David and Cary enter his mind. His mind consists of a maze: which consists of the person experiencing his deepest desire. They manage to convince him to wake up, freeing him from the virus. They encounter an infected Melanie (Jean Smart) and they enter her mind, which consists of a black room with a computer"}, {"text": "system. After interacting with her, they manage to get her to the real world. However, the monk finds David and takes him to experience his memories at the monastery. David finds that through Farouk's body, the monks were all infected by the Catalyst, driving some of them to suicide. The monk has incapacitated Admiral Fukyama and uses the Vermillion to communicate his intentions: he wants \"the weapon\" to kill Farouk. Melanie deduces that the weapon is David, who walks into the room. Before the monk reveals that David works with Farouk, David teleports him and himself to the roof of the building. While David tries to excuse his reasoning, the monk does not intend to help Farouk. He then jumps off the building to his death, rather than change his mind. David then encounters an infected Syd and enters her mind, where David walks through a snowstorm towards an igloo. At the beginning of the episode, the Narrator (Jon Hamm) explains the Nocebo effect, where the human body experiences a negative reaction to harm. He also states that this could lead to a contagious case of mass hysteria, highlighting the dancing plague of 1518, the Tanganyika laughter epidemic, and the"}, {"text": "Ganesha drinking milk miracle. He describes it as a conversion disorder, where the body will respond to the idea of an illness as the real illness, which by itself could be contagious. Production. Development. In March 2018, it was reported that the third episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 11\", and was to be directed by Sarah Adina Smith and written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern. This was Hawley's sixth writing credit, Halpern's fifth writing credit, and Smith's first directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 11\" was seen by an estimated 0.380 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.2 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 14% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.439 million viewers with a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 11\" received mostly positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 80% approval rating with an average rating of 7.9/10 for the episode, based on 15 reviews. The site's consensus states: \"The third episode"}, {"text": "of \"Legion\"s second season proves to be a visually stunning - if occasionally inconsistent - dose of surrealism.\" Ryan Matsunaga of \"IGN\" gave the episode a \"great\" 8.3 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, \"\"Legion\" is promising some big things to come, but despite being three episodes deep into the season, its biggest questions feel no closer to being answered. For most other shows, this would be a major hindrance to enjoying it week to week. \"Legion\" however manages to keep things interesting, despite an ever more complicated narrative. All of the ingredients feel present for a mindblowing finale, we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed that it'll all feel worth it in the end.\" Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode an \"A-\" grade and wrote, \"The series is trying to get at the ways in which we all construct our own realities, once more attempting to close the gap between David's immense power and the rest of us.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Uproxx\" wrote, \"It's another visually inventive episode that feels a bit low in calories, particularly when we get to the obligatory sequence where David travels into the minds of his friends to"}, {"text": "free them from the monk's spell. This is familiar genre stuff, the kind every show like this eventually tries because it's a more interesting way to delve into the psyches of the characters than to, say, put them in therapy for an hour.\" Evan Lewis of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"The resurfacing of some horror elements is a good look for \"Legion\", although the show hasn't quite made it back to season 1's levels of psychological spookiness. Part of that difference stems from how powerful David has become.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 2 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"There's so much rich material to explore here, especially in regards to how people emotionally process trauma, but that's all getting lost in the larger Shadow King narrative.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"There's so much to like in this episode, even if it ultimately just shows us the whereabouts and background story of Farouk's body and really nothing more, save for Ptonomy being infected by that little gooey madness creature. With Syd roaming the hallways of Division 3 as a cat, another electric"}, {"text": "Aubrey Plaza showcase, and the striking images of the monk stuck on the wall, Future Syd's spelling, and that damn minotaur again, this episode's smoke is so engrossing, it doesn\u2019t matter that we're lacking some more fire.\" Josh Jackson of \"Paste\" gave the episode a 8.8 rating out of 10 and wrote, \"Of course, this being \"Legion\", even reality is filled with the stuff of dreams.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 12\" is the fourth episode of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 12th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern and directed by Ellen Kuras. It originally aired on FX on April 24, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. In the episode, David enters Syd's mind to release her, discovering part of her life. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.434 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received positive reviews from critics, who praised Keller's performance and character development, although some criticized the writing and pacing. Plot. Inside the igloo, Syd (Rachel Keller) experiences some of"}, {"text": "her childhood memories, which include disliking people touching her. This also caused her to become a victim of bullying, which also led to self-harm. David (Dan Stevens) meets with Syd inside her mind, but she is dismissive of his intentions. David struggles in finding her deepest desire, as she is not even interested in touching people without worrying about her powers. Syd's power began to surface when a boy kissed her and caused the body swap, and then used the boy's body to hit her bullies and face no consequences. It is also revealed that she swapped bodies with her mother and then had sex with her boyfriend. However, she accidentally swapped back into her real body before finishing, leading to the man's arrest. Back in the real world, Division 3 is cured of the Catalyst, with Clark (Hamish Linklater) deducing that the monk's death may have something to do with it. In Syd's mind, David constantly fails in realizing Syd's deepest desire, which would get him to relive her entire life again. Eventually, Syd explains that her desire involves recognizing that love is not going to save them, but pain can give them the strength for love. This convinces"}, {"text": "her to finally wake up with David in the real world. In the real world, David and Syd find that Division 3 has retrieved a person: Lenny (Aubrey Plaza). Production. Development. In March 2018, it was reported that the fourth episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 12\", and was to be directed by Ellen Kuras and written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern. This was Hawley's seventh writing credit, Halpern's sixth writing credit, and Kuras' first directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 12\" was seen by an estimated 0.434 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.2 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 14% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.380 million viewers with a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 12\" received mostly positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 90% approval rating with an average rating of 8.1/10 for the episode, based on 10 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode an \"A-\""}, {"text": "grade and wrote, \"The \"Groundhog Day\" shenanigans ultimately come across like a scolding lecture staged for our benefit, not for David's. He's just happy it's over.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Uproxx\" wrote, \"But where I can often just accept \"Legion\"s stylistic flourishes as something superficially impressive that doesn't withstand closer scrutiny, 'Chapter 12' put in the real work of placing us inside Syd's head, experiencing her life the way she has, feeling the same hurt and alienation she's suffered. It's less action-packed than the series can be, but on the whole this is one of my favorite episodes of either season.\" Evan Lewis of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"As a deep character dive on Syd, who often tends to feel aloof and underdeveloped, this episode is a welcome change of pace, and it brings the scale of the stakes from global catastrophe to personal development in a way the season has desperately needed.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"'Chapter 12' delivers exactly what I was asking for in last episode's recap, using the mental-maze conceit to explore a character's accumulated trauma and create a satisfying arc where they push through the"}, {"text": "pain to become a stronger person.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"For the first time this season, it feels like David and Syd are back on the same wavelength. The episode ends with Lenny showing up at Division 3, perplexingly in the flesh, but after the dazzling, emotional 43-minute journey we've been on through Syd's memories, the cliffhanger doesn't hit as hard as it maybe should. That's a credit to the truly moving, sublime nature of 'Chapter 12'. Hopefully there are more standalone gems like this ahead in the show's future.\" Josh Jackson of \"Paste\" gave the episode a 8.7 rating out of 10 and wrote, \"It's a breathless episode and a massive shift in tone. Are we to trust Future Syd when she tells David to help Farouk, the Season One villain who was basically a parasite inside David's mind? Does she have David's best interest in mind? Or humanity's? The show has made the rest of Division 3 seem like villains at times and reluctant allies at others, but is David now working against the greater good?\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 13\" is the fifth episode of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 13th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern and directed by Tim Mielants. It originally aired on FX on May 1, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. In the episode, Division 3 questions Lenny, who suddenly appeared despite her death, suspected of working with Farouk. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.456 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised Plaza's performances, character development and twist ending, although the pacing received criticism. Plot. Clark (Hamish Linklater) questions Lenny"}, {"text": "(Aubrey Plaza), who denies being controlled by Farouk (Navid Negahban) and wants to talk with David (Dan Stevens), as Farouk knows the location of his body. Somewhere, Farouk, possessing Oliver (Jemaine Clement), locates his body, which is revealed to be a woman's body, from which he takes a tissue sample. Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris) attempts to read Lenny's mind, but finds that her memories have been disrupted, and sees a vision of Admiral Fukyama. David decides to enter her mind, where he discovers that Farouk sent her. He blocks Farouk's influence over her, from which she states that she is unsure on how she could have a new body after she died, claiming that the new body belonged to someone else. Somewhere, Amy (Katie Aselton) tells her husband that she had a dream where she had a mustache while serving a man with a basket over his head, referring to the Vermillion. She is then visited by Oliver, who claims will take her to David. David then tells Lenny where they buried her body: the desert. Lenny then realizes that Farouk didn't find his body in the desert, he found hers. Farouk, in Oliver's body, located Amy in her hidden location"}, {"text": "by Division 3. He then killed her in order to infuse her body with Lenny's DNA, which caused the body to materialize as Lenny's. Lenny was returned to the desert, where after waking up, was sent by a horse to Division 3. A devastated David then cries in the arms of Lenny, saying that he is coming for Farouk. In the episode, the Narrator (Jon Hamm) explores the concept of pareidolia, from which humans can perceive their surroundings as different implications. It is through the perception and pattern recognition that a person could identify either an optimistic or pessimistic view, as well as a person viewing coincidences as \"conspiracy\". Production. Development. In April 2018, it was reported that the fifth episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 13\", and was to be directed by Tim Mielants and written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern. This was Hawley's eighth writing credit, Halpern's seventh writing credit, and Mielants' third directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 13\" was seen by an estimated 0.456 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that"}, {"text": "0.2 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 5% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.434 million viewers with a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 13\" received mostly positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 7.2/10 for the episode, based on 9 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B+\" grade and wrote, \"The idea that our world is defined by what's missing as much as what's there helps illuminate \"Legion\"s theme of loss dictating identity.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Uproxx\" wrote, \"'Chapter 13' as a whole really pushed the limits of how much the series' remarkable technical design can compensate for weaknesses in other storytelling areas.\" Evan Lewis of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"Another moderately-paced episode, 'Chapter 13' eschews last week's character development angle to instead build up to a thriller-esque reveal.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"There are scenes in this episode that have me second-guessing the reality of this season, and when everything is so unstable and malleable,"}, {"text": "it's hard to know what reality even means within the loose confines of this universe.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"There\u2019s plenty left in this episode to scratch your head at, like the fact that ol'basket head may be a giant chicken creature (?) or that Oliver plans on bringing down the Shadow King with something as simple as '1 +1.' The creature in Ptonomy's ear appears to finally start doing some damage too. Regardless, when you strip away all of the signature \"Legion\"-oddness, you're left with an episode absolutely anchored by a knockout Aubrey Plaza performance, and that's worth watching in any context.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 14\" is the sixth episode of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 14th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and directed by executive producer John Cameron. It originally aired on FX on May 8, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. In the episode, David's grief leads him to different versions of himself in alternate universes. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.353 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received positive reviews from critics, who praised the episode's originality and Dan Stevens' performance; however, some expressed criticism with the nature of the episode, with many feeling it didn't properly explore its"}, {"text": "scenarios nor advance the plot. Plot. After his sister's death, David (Dan Stevens) starts experiencing many different lives of himself, all of which involve taking different directions. In one of these, David works in a company and is astounded when he can hear people's thoughts. He tells one of the workers, Laura Mercer (Molly Hagan) that her co-workers are not being fully honest with their deals, earning her respect. David eventually becomes the richest man in the world, to the point that Laura now works for him. In another life, David is homeless and is avoided by the crowds. One day, he is attacked by a group of men, which inadvertently unleashes his powers to kill them off. He is pursued by Division 3, but he easily fends them off, although he is killed by Kerry (Amber Midthunder). In another life, David works as a warehouse employee, tended by Amy and still taking medication. While walking, he sees the Devil with Yellow Eyes, disturbing him. A police cruiser passing by stops David, who is behaving erratically. The officers begin to arrest him just as Amy arrives, and throw Amy to the ground when she attempts to explain the situation, prompting"}, {"text": "David to unleash his powers and kill the officers. More officers arrive, who then shoot and kill David, who destroys everything in the vicinity while sparing Amy. Many other lives depicted include David living in a luxurious house; becoming a drug addict that discusses the multiverse; working as a teacher; happily married and becoming a father; working in an office; and an elderly version cared for by Amy. In one scenario, David attempts suicide, and he dies this time, with Amy visiting his grave. At another point, Amy convinces David to seek help by taking him to Clockworks Psychiatric Hospital, which he agrees to do. As Farouk (Navid Negahban) said, David can only live with the life he can truly imagine. This gets David back to the real world, accepting it. Production. Development. In April 2018, it was reported that the sixth episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 14\", and was to be directed by executive producer John Cameron and written by series creator Noah Hawley. This was Hawley's ninth writing credit, and Cameron's first directing credit. Writing. Noah Hawley came up with the concept after concluding that he didn't have to progress the main storyline at all"}, {"text": "during the episode. He said, \"I just need to take this concept of all the alternate realities in which David did not go to Clockworks, and see all the roads that he could have taken.\" Due to the nature of the episode, there were talks on what episode order it would go. Hawley initially wanted the episode to be the season premiere, but deemed it unsuitable due to the unconventional narrative of the series, which would further confuse the audience. He decided that the episode after Amy's death was more suitable, also claiming he was proud of the episode. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 14\" was seen by an estimated 0.353 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This was a 23% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.456 million viewers with a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 14\" received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 82% approval rating with an average rating of 8.5/10 for the episode, based on 11 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode an"}, {"text": "\"A\" grade and wrote, \"Even without meth-head David frantically explaining multiverse theory as a sop to audience clarification, 'Chapter 14' comes together marvelously, a meditation on grief, regret, and pain that builds slowly, but earns every second of its cathartic conclusion.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Uproxx\" wrote, \"A character like David, with his vast and diverse power set, and who has lived his whole life with other voices in his head, would seem to lend himself particularly well to What If? scenarios. But 'Chapter 14' doesn't take the idea far enough. It's almost all set-up and no story, and even the larger emotional point it's making about the importance of Amy to David's life gets lost in the jumping from one reality to another.\" Evan Lewis of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"The conceit of 'Chapter 14' is a multiverse exploration that \"Legion\", usually so proudly self-aware in its outlandishness, plays with misplaced earnestness.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a perfect 5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"This is the first episode of the season written solely by Noah Hawley, and it's a strange, ambitious chapter that takes a dynamic approach to the idea of multiple realities all existing"}, {"text": "at the same time.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"So even though 'Chapter 14' decided not to move forward, it looked backward, sideways, adjacent, and down another track in spectacular fashion. I may get upset when \"Legion\" decides to kill time, but this episode, which felt more like a short film, only killed the complacency I was starting to feel from the show. Exploring the chaos theory is fun. Now show me a timeline where this show leads to a satisfying conclusion at the end of this season.\" Josh Jackson of \"Paste\" gave the episode an 8 rating out of 10 and wrote, \"\"Legion\"s second season has been Great Television. 'Chapter 14' is Pretty Great Television. The sense of risk-taking and rule-breaking is still there. And yet, I miss the playfulness of the first few episodes. I miss the Jon Hamm interludes. And I desperately want to see where this is all heading.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 15\" is the seventh episode of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 15th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern and directed by Charlie McDowell. It originally aired on FX on May 15, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. In the episode, David confronts Farouk on Amy's death, prompting the latter to find out why he is helping him. Meanwhile, the team gets infected by delusions created by Farouk, leading an attack on Division 3. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.451 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised"}, {"text": "the character development and performances, but criticized the pacing, lack of progress and rehashed concepts. Plot. David (Dan Stevens) meets with Farouk (Navid Negahban), confronting him on Amy's death. Farouk insists that she was setting him back on his potential by admitting him into Clockworks. After feeling disturbed by a hallucination of Amy (Katie Aselton), David leaves the meeting. Farouk then transports his mind to the future, to meet with Syd (Rachel Keller) and find why David is helping him. Future Syd reveals that the apocalypse was caused by David himself, and hopes that Farouk can stop it. Farouk is delighted by the reveal and even suggests they could team up to save the world. Later, David also meets with future Syd, explaining that he can't help Farouk since he was responsible for Amy's death. Syd says she understands, which culminates with a kiss. Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris) is haunted by visions of Admiral Fukyama, a result of the delusions caused by the dark creature. This also leads him to inadvertently plant the delusions inside Clark (Hamish Linklater), Syd, Cary (Bill Irwin), and Kerry (Amber Midthunder). Everyone is now convinced that Fukyama is conspiring against them. This prompts them to lead"}, {"text": "an attack, incapacitating the Vermillion. Syd and Clark reach Fukyama, forcing him to take off his basket, revealing he is disfigured. As they project a dark creature inside their minds, Clark is about to kill him until David appears. David removes the delusions from Syd and Clark. However, a larger delusion breaks free from Ptonomy's body, breaking his spine. The Vermillion save Ptonomy by taking him into the \"mainframe\", which makes up Fukyama's mind. David confronts the delusion, transporting both of them to a red room where David kills it. At the beginning of the episode, the Narrator (Jon Hamm) addresses moral panic, which showcases how rational fear could become irrational fear. Using as an example the witch trials in the early modern period, the Narrator wonders which one of either fear or frightened is more terrifying. After the events of the episode, the Narrator concludes that ideas can be contagious, which can lead to irrational fear. Production. Development. In April 2018, it was reported that the seventh episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 15\", and was to be directed by Charlie McDowell and written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern. This was Hawley's"}, {"text": "tenth writing credit, Halpern's eighth writing credit, and McDowell's first directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 15\" was seen by an estimated 0.451 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.2 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 27% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.353 million viewers with a 0.1 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 15\" received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 73% approval rating with an average rating of 6.7/10 for the episode, based on 11 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B+\" grade and wrote, \"Just as \"Legion\" itself plays coy with the nature of its reality, so too do its characters bob and feint between truth and fiction.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Uproxx\" wrote, \"In terms of the larger arc of this season, insanity taking on a physical form and attacking David's friends wasn\u2019t great timing. But in terms of the series bouncing back after a couple of off episodes, its timing was very"}, {"text": "welcome indeed.\" Evan Lewis of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"After three weeks of hit-or-miss diversions, 'Chapter 15' of \"Legion\" finds the season's lost plot, to the extent that anyone could, and gets things moving with some shifting alliances and long-gestating revelations.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 2 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"I've grown very tired of watching David and Farouk stare each other down in the astral plane, and changing the surroundings doesn't make these interactions any fresher.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"So though 'Chapter 15' makes some choices that are, ahem, insane, it still manages to be worthwhile by playing on David's strongest relationships: his relationship with the Shadow King and Syd, in the present and future. After so much stalling, I have to assume that the race will officially be on for Farouk's body next week, but it's looking like future Syd may present more harm to David's life at the moment than a newly physical Shadow King.\" Josh Jackson of \"Paste\" gave the episode a 8 rating out of 10 and wrote, \"The A plot of \"Legion\"s second"}, {"text": "season develops so slowly, it's a good thing that everything surrounding it is so imaginative, visually interesting and wonderfully strange.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 16\" is the eighth episode of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 16th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and Jordan Crair and directed by Jeremy Webb. It originally aired on FX on May 22, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. In the episode, David discovers the location of Farouk's body and hurries to find it, although he is one day behind Farouk. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.409 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received positive reviews from critics, who praised the cinematography, visual style and character development, although the pacing and lack of progress received criticism. Plot."}, {"text": "Inside the Mainframe, Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris) is shown Fukyama's past. When he was a teenager, he was contacted by Division 3 in acting as a keeper from secrets, with his brain surgery serving as some sort of machine that would prevent telepaths from reading minds and discovering vital information. Hacking into the Mainframe, Ptonomy contacts David (Dan Stevens) through a Vermillion, saying that he has found the location of Farouk's (Navid Negahban) body in a desert known as \"Le D\u00e9sol\u00e9\". David leaves for the desert without informing Division 3, but tells Lenny (Aubrey Plaza) about his intentions. After he leaves, he has Lenny released from her cell and she leaves on a motorcycle. Farouk is also pursuing the location, following advice from his old caretaker. Guided by Clark (Hamish Linklater), Syd (Rachel Keller) leaves for the desert as well. The desert turns out to be a constantly changing location where time and logic do not apply, with Farouk one day ahead of David. Syd catches up with David, but both struggle passing a storm in the desert. They find a tent with their future skeleton selves. David says he has a plan and telepathically communicates with Clark, telling him to"}, {"text": "find \"the clock\". However, Clark is knocked unconscious by Melanie (Jean Smart), revealing that she is under Farouk's control. Back in the desert, Farouk summons a minotaur to help with his mission. In the middle of the episode, the Narrator (Jon Hamm) talks about narcissism and the idea that people don't matter, which could be the most alarming delusion in existence. He views it as people struggling with seeing the real world outside their \"shadow\", noting that if everyone lived in a cave, nothing would be real. Production. Development. In May 2018, it was reported that the eighth episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 16\", and was to be directed by Jeremy Webb and written by series creator Noah Hawley and Jordan Crair. This was Hawley's eleventh writing credit, Crair's first writing credit, and Webb's first directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 16\" was seen by an estimated 0.409 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.2 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 10% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched"}, {"text": "by 0.451 million viewers with a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographics. With DVR factored in, the episode was watched by 0.80 million viewers with a 0.4 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 16\" received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 7.4/10 for the episode, based on 9 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B\" grade and wrote, \"The show is kicking into high gear, and it's unspooling in a bracingly engaging and effective manner. Well, except for those damn lessons.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Uproxx\" wrote, \"'Chapter 16' is a weird episode even by \"Legion\" standards. Or maybe it's jut weird in a different way from how \"Legion\" is usually weird. No matter how bizarre, or how good, an episode is, it tends to feel all of a piece, where 'Chapter 16' feels more like a bunch of ideas Noah Hawley and company had that wound up in the same hour because there was no other good place to put them.\" Evan Lewis of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"'Chapter 16', like \"Legion\" in general, doesn't quite stick every landing in terms of"}, {"text": "tone, but it's a routine with so many tricks at such a high degree of difficulty that it's easy to overlook a little sidestep here and there.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"Can \"Legion\" hurry up and find Farouk's body already?\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"'Chapter 16' is successful because of all of these character developments, but it's as always bolstered by \"Legion\"s impeccable sense of style. Those dissected frames, pushing each other in and out are immediately alluring, as are the vast desert shots of Farouk and Oliver raising toward the body and the binary-obscured view from inside the mainframe. \"Legion\" has been more uneven than its first season, but when its working, it's still the most arresting show on television.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 17\" is the ninth episode of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 17th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern and directed by Hawley. It originally aired on FX on May 29, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. In the episode, Melanie's background during the season is revealed, including how Farouk influenced her decisions. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.362 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances, although it also received criticism for its pacing, narrative and its exploration on certain themes. Plot. Thirteen days prior"}, {"text": "to the events of the previous episode, Melanie (Jean Smart) uses drugs to cope with losing Oliver (Jemaine Clement) again. Oliver appears in her mind, showing their life when they were younger in an attempt to make her forget about her feelings whenever he left. Farouk (Navid Negahban) starts manipulating Melanie's perception of reality, making her reveal any important plan from David (Dan Stevens). David, meanwhile, communicates with Cary (Bill Irwin) and Kerry (Amber Midthunder) in retrieving an important weapon from Division 3 and leaving it in a Chinese restaurant parking lot. Back in Division 3, David asks Clark (Hamish Linklater) for help in retrieving \"the clock\", only to be knocked unconscious by Melanie, on Farouk's orders. Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), now free from Division 3, returns to her old house where she starts using drugs again with her old friends. However, she is still haunted by Amy (Katie Aselton), who manifests in her consciousness and reprimands her for wasting her body just on drugs. Motivated by Amy and the vision she experienced earlier, Lenny leaves her house to help David. She arrives at the parking lot and enters the car, which vanishes in front of Cary and Kerry. The car"}, {"text": "transports her to the desert before bursting in flames. Lenny retrieves the weapon and starts walking. With a GPS tracking unit installed in the weapon, Cary and Kerry also set out for the desert. Production. Development. In May 2018, it was reported that the ninth episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 17\", and was to be directed by series creator Noah Hawley and written by Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern. This was Hawley's twelfth writing credit, Halpern's ninth writing credit, and Hawley's second directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 17\" was seen by an estimated 0.362 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.2 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 12% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.409 million viewers with a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 17\" received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 86% approval rating with an average rating of 6.8/10 for the episode, based on 7 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave"}, {"text": "the episode a \"B+\" grade and wrote, \"One of the more purely enjoyable elements of 'Chapter 17' is the opportunity to finally spend some quality time with the Loudermilks.\" Evan Lewis of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"With only two episodes left, \"Legion\" still has plenty to sort out, but there should be enough time to work up to a satisfying conclusion if the show starts playing the game instead of adding more pieces to the gameboard.\" Beth Elderkin of \"Gizmodo\" wrote, \"It's unclear if the latest episode of \"Legion\" is positioning itself as social commentary, a 'come to Jesus' moment, or just another hour of prep for that final battle we've been waiting for all season. But after almost two seasons of this show, what is clear is that \"Legion\"s female characters are trapped. By love, by 'our men.' And I'm ready for them to break free.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 2 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"'Chapter 17' draws attention to \"Legion\"s difficulty bringing dimension to its supporting ensemble.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 3.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"So while David's plan only inches along"}, {"text": "incrementally, there are some fun developments in the season's shortest episode to date. We were also spared a delusion PowerPoint presentation, so that was a plus too. All and all a solid, if not outstanding, episode. Next week was supposed to be the season finale, let's hope we still get something with some oomph.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 18\" is the tenth episode of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 18th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern and directed by Dana Gonzales. It originally aired on FX on June 5, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. In the episode, the team arrives at the desert, with everyone having different goals, but David sets out to find and kill Farouk. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.467 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances and character development, although some viewed the episode as a needless"}, {"text": "two-parter season finale while the pacing was also criticized. Plot. At the desert, Syd (Rachel Keller) exits her tent, discovering a giant plughole in the desert ground. Suddenly, she is hit with a rope and dragged down the hole, while David (Dan Stevens) wonders where she went. Syd reaches the bottom of the hole, ending in a room with Melanie (Jean Smart). Melanie attempts to convince Syd that she should not trust David, indicating that he may not love her. In the desert, David reaches the Mi-Go monastery, where he finds Farouk in the body of Oliver (Jemaine Clement). Using his powers, he starts to torture Oliver so he can reveal Syd's location, which he refuses to disclose. All of this is watched by Syd and Melanie, who wants to show him that David is a monster. With Syd still believing in David's intentions, Melanie then attempts to showcase how David constantly met with her future self. She also shows her that David is the reason for the incoming apocalypse. Unaware to Syd, Melanie is possessed by Farouk (Navid Negahban), and sends the minotaur to kill David. In the desert, Cary (Bill Irwin) and Kerry (Amber Midthunder) arrive with Division"}, {"text": "3 operatives at the plughole. From inside the plughole, monks emerge and emit a high-pitched frequency that fends them off. Kerry overcomes the frequency and subdues the monks, until more monks emerge from the plughole. With Farouk leaving Oliver's body, he finally gives up on the torture and reveals that Syd was with Farouk. Clark (Hamish Linklater), the Vermillion and more operatives arrive at the monastery with a giant tuning fork named \"The Choke\". However, Farouk has located his body and abandons Melanie's, finally accomplishing his goal. Back in the plughole, a monk takes Cary inside and Kerry decides to go after him while Lenny (Aubrey Plaza) stays above, having retrieved the weapon: a paintball gun. As the Vermillion fight the minotaur, Cary escapes. Kerry encounters the minotaur, and fights it with Syd's help. Cary discovers David in a throne room, having recognized to torturing Oliver and acknowledging that Farouk may have found his body already. David's behavior seems to have changed, who now seems intent on killing Farouk. Back in the monastery, Clark and the Vermillion try to activate the Choke, which can dampen mutant abilities. Farouk arrives, knocking out Clark and causing the Vermillion to retreat. He uses"}, {"text": "his powers to throw away the Choke and marvel at his full power. David suddenly arrives, reciting \"The World's Angriest Boy in the World\". Production. Development. In May 2018, it was reported that the tenth episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 18\", and was to be directed by Dana Gonzales and written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern. This was Hawley's thirteenth writing credit, Halpern's tenth writing credit, and Gonzales' first directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 18\" was seen by an estimated 0.467 million household viewers and gained a 0.2 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.2 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 29% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.362 million viewers with a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 18\" received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 7.2/10 for the episode, based on 7 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B\" grade and wrote, \"\"Legion\" wants"}, {"text": "us to root for our characters, but also against them. It encourages empathy, then holds us at arms' length while warning us getting attached might be a bad idea.\" Evan Lewis of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"Knowing \"Legion\", most of the world-altering events of this penultimate episode could easily be undone in the finale, but even if the reality of 'Chapter 18' is completely different from where the season ends, these events could have lasting consequences.\" Beth Elderkin of \"Gizmodo\" wrote, \"This week was supposed to be the \"Legion\" season finale, at least until an extra episode was tacked on last month. I'd heard rumors this meant they were ending the series, but given how FX just renewed \"Legion\" for a third season, clearly that\u2019s not the case. So, I'm guessing this episode was the bonus content \u2014 or at least it helped stretch out the season finale into a two-parter. The result is a deeper character dive without a lot of action. And a clip show to boot.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"This story is more compelling when the threat comes from within David rather than an outside"}, {"text": "force.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 3.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"As I said, strip away a lot of \"Legion\"s off-kilter imagery and some transparent attempts to infuse a little action into 'Chapter 18' and this episode is mainly used to for Syd and Melanie's back-and-forth and David\u2019s dark turn, but those moments are genuinely gripping, well-acted stuff. Hopefully the finale, 'Chapter 19' can wrap a semblance of a bow on this largely uneven season.\" Accolades. \"TVLine\" named Jean Smart as an honorable mention as the \"Performer of the Week\" for the week of June 9, 2018, for her performance in the episode. The site wrote, \"Amid its surreal swirl of psychedelic visuals, FX's \"Legion\" delivers some powerhouse performances, too, and it was Jean Smart's turn to wow us this week, showing us a terrifyingly dark side to Melanie Bird. Possessed by the Shadow King, Melanie served as a seductive devil on Syd\u2019s shoulder, making her doubt her relationship with David and showing her the horrible things her mutant boyfriend is capable of. Smart expertly transformed Melanie's own heartbreak over Oliver into a biting bitterness, calmly declaring that all men were not"}, {"text": "to be trusted \u2014 including David. It may not have been the real Melanie talking, but we were still delighted to see Smart break bad for once.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 19\" is the eleventh episode and season finale of the second season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 19th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and directed by Keith Gordon. It originally aired on FX on June 12, 2018. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. In the episode, David finally has his battle against Farouk, all while Syd seeks to stop David from becoming evil. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.315 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received mixed reviews from critics. Critics praised the performances, narrative and visual style. David's actions, however, drew polarized reactions; some found it bold with potential scenarios,"}, {"text": "while others derided it as character assassination. Plot. David (Dan Stevens) and Farouk (Navid Negahban) fight a mental battle, where Farouk seems to overpower David. However, in the distance, Lenny (Aubrey Plaza) uses the paintball weapon to hit the Choke, which emits a frequency that hits Farouk and David. The scene then is interrupted by a three-year time jump, with a glimpse of Oliver (Jemaine Clement) and Melanie (Jean Smart), who now live in the ice cube, with both noting that Syd (Rachel Keller) was betrayed by David. Back to the present, and without their powers, David brutally attacks Farouk. As David is about to kill him, Syd arrives at the scene, having escaped from the underground. Syd confronts David on his perceived dark nature and how he seemed to enjoy killing many of his enemies. She then pulls out a gun and despite David's pleas, she shoots him. The scene then jumps to a dream sequence where David winds up in his childhood bedroom, with a Narrator (Jon Hamm) explaining certain concepts on a television. An alternate version of David suggests that the delusion is that David believes himself to be a good person, claiming he isn't. Returning to"}, {"text": "the desert, Syd's bullet is hit by Lenny's bullet, causing her to fall back and lose consciousness. David alters her memories, while Division 3 agents arrive at the scene to retrieve them, capturing Farouk by placing him a device to stop his powers. Lenny is also placed under custody, as she escaped from Division 3. The team returns to Division 3, where David and Syd remain committed in their relationship and both have sex, with David not revealing anything about the events nor her memories. Unknown to them, Admiral Fukyama watches them. Meanwhile, Cary (Bill Irwin) creates a device that allows him to see the events at the desert, where he sees David changing Syd's memories. David visits Farouk in his cell, who is awaiting execution. Farouk is aware of David manipulating Syd's memories, mocking him for his hypocrisy. After he leaves, Farouk's powers slightly manifest, and he restores Syd's memories. The next day, David arrives at Farouk's trial, but actually is part of a trap set by Division 3 and is caged in a force field, with even Farouk present. The Vermillion accuse him of his future crimes for the potential apocalypse he will cause, as well as the"}, {"text": "fact that David sexually assaulted Syd by erasing her memories and having sex with her. They want him to take treatment at a psychiatric hospital, or he will be killed. As alternate versions of David mock him inside his mind, David proclaims that he is a good person and deserves love. Giving up on his attempts to convince them, David uses his powers to destroy the force field and vanish. He then appears in Lenny's cell, who happily joins him. As soldiers arrive, they vanish. When Syd asks Clark (Hamish Linklater) what should they do now, Clark states they must \"pray now\". Production. Development. In May 2018, it was reported that the eleventh and final episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 19\", and was to be directed by Keith Gordon and written by series creator Noah Hawley. This was Hawley's fourteenth writing credit, and Gordon's first directing credit. Originally, the season would end with its tenth episode. But in early May 2018, an additional episode was ordered. According to Hawley, part of the reason involved in avoiding an over-crowded season finale. The additional episode allowed the writers to spread more storylines throughout the previous episodes. Writing. David turning"}, {"text": "into a villain was an idea that intrigued Noah Hawley, who always thought of the question \"what would happen if Walter White was a supervillain?\" Hawley wanted the series to evolve to the point that the audience would stop believing that David is the hero, and that Syd is the actual hero. He further added, \"On the level that it's their story, I think she should always be front and center, and I think we went a long way this year towards expanding your understanding of her.\" Regarding David's sexual assault on Syd, Hawley commented, \"I mean, look, it's controversial. I don't know what the conversation will be, but I think it's worth having the conversation about consent and about the fact that there is no justification for acting without another person's consent. And, as she said, 'I'm the hero and you're just another villain' On some level, that's the story of the show. The question is, is there any redemption for him coming out of that? And where do we go next?\" Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 19\" was seen by an estimated 0.315 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged"}, {"text": "18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.1 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 33% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.467 million viewers with a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 19\" received mixed reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 57% approval rating with an average rating of 7.1/10 for the episode, based on 14 reviews. The site's consensus states: \"'Chapter 19' defies expectations for \"Legion\"s complicated characters, although the series' ability to continue weaving the web it's spun seems uncertain.\" Ryan Matsunaga of \"IGN\" gave the episode an \"amazing\" 9.4 out of 10 and wrote in his verdict, \"If the first season of \"Legion\" was the story of a hero coming into his powers, the second turned out to be a compelling look at a villain discovering his destiny. While little in the way of closure is provided, the finale does give us some of the show's best scenes to date, and a remarkable new direction for the next season.\" Oliver Sava of \"Vulture\" gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"I applaud"}, {"text": "\"Legion\"s willingness to commit to this heel turn for David.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"The fracturing of David and Syd and the deterioration of David's mental state, his warped view of his relationship, easily made this the most gripping episode of the season. Though many parts of Season 2 didn't coalesce into a coherent whole, this aspect of the season was allowed to build until it reached its heart-wrenching conclusion. \"Legion\" will be back for Season 3 and David will more closely resemble his traditional villainous comic book counterpart, a new status quo could do this show wonders. It felt like Legion had lost its ability to surprise me, but 'Chapter 19' had me pleasantly shocked that David actually turned. Hopefully there's little looking back.\" Other reviews were more negative. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"C\" grade and wrote, \"This is upsetting, disturbing stuff, and for the first time since I began watching this weird and often wonderful show, I'm not convinced \"Legion\" is capable of telling the story it just waded into. To understand why is to pull at the"}, {"text": "messy threads of narrative convention. I spoke at length in last week's review about what has made this such a polarizing season of television. \"Legion\" has been shedding viewers, and I think it has a lot to do with the willfully alienating nature of the story. It became positively Brechtian in its refusal to allow the audience a point of identification, or a way to trust the show. Not just in the sense that we couldn't necessarily trust our own eyes, but in not providing us with protagonists in whom we can believe. We can't trust David, we can't really trust anyone, not with delusion creatures roaming free.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Rolling Stone\" wrote, \"The climax isn't an exact unintentional metaphor for \"Legion\" Season Two itself \u2013 but it's close. The series isn't evil so much as it is fairly drunk on its own creative powers, where trying to be even slightly easier and cleaner might do it and its audience a world of good.\" Ben Travers of \"IndieWire\" gave the episode a \"B\" grade but criticized David's actions, writing, \"It involves the very concept Noah Hawley is putting under the microscope: how audiences can be so ready to identify"}, {"text": "with a hero, they're willing to root for him when he stops doing good. Though that idea is one worthy of exploring, the execution lurched from scene to scene as David's transformation from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde never smoothed out.\" Darren Franich of \"Entertainment Weekly\" gave the episode a \"B-\" grade and wrote, \"Predictably, everyone who went to the desert wound up getting lost \u2014 or, in a sight gag that really emphasized the 'gag', getting pulled around on a rickshaw. And, at one point the finale, after finally shooting her sniper rifle, Lenny smoked a cloud of something smoky out of a golden alligator pipe. Appropriate: This show got very high on its own supply.\" Beth Elderkin of \"Gizmodo\" wrote, \"That sums up the second season in a nutshell, a lot of style relishing in its own unearned brilliance. And while the season finale was both stylistically and narratively great, even brilliant at times, it also did something unforgivable.\" Emily St. James of \"Vox\" wrote, \"\"Legion\"s season two finale had the worst of both worlds. Its long-planned reveal, staged as a twist, was so heavily foreshadowed that it was easy to predict, but it also happened so perfunctorily"}, {"text": "that it felt like the show had thrown it together at the last minute.\" Accolades. \"TVLine\" named Dan Stevens as the \"Performer of the Week\" for the week of June 16, 2018, for his performance in the episode. The site wrote, \"As the star of FX's trippy superhero drama, Stevens has raised the bar for all comic-book TV performances, with his troubled mutant David Haller struggling to harness his formidable powers while battling a devastating mental illness. This week's Season 2 finale found David at the very height of his powers \u2014 and Stevens, too, as David realized his best move might be to embrace his dark side.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 20\" is the first episode of the third season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 20th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern and directed by Andrew Stanton. It originally aired on FX on June 24, 2019. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. While Farouk was captured, David is now labeled as a threat and hunted down, prompting him to escape. In the episode, a young girl with the power of time travel joins a cult led by David and Lenny. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.377 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics,"}, {"text": "who praised the narrative, character development, performances and pacing. Plot. A young girl named Jia-yi (Lauren Tsai) lives a sophisticated life, all while listening to Mandarin lessons on time travel in her headphones. Throughout the day, she finds symbols that refer to time travel and \"beware the basket\". While investigating the symbols, she catches a radio signal from Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), inviting \"them\" to join them. She also hears the voice of David (Dan Stevens) telling her to \"follow the yellow bus\". As she walks in the street, she finds a red double-decker bus with yellow lights inside. She follows the bus, which leads her to a door in an alley. Inside the door, after passing a maze of clothing, eventually passes through a secret passageway and enters a hippie community. Her guide, Salmon (Vanessa Dubasso), shows her the place, which turns out to be a cult that uses psychedelic drugs. One of the members, Squirrel (Wally Rudolph), tells Jia-yi that her name will now be referred to as Switch. She is then led to a room where the leader will come to visit her. Unwilling to wait, she reveals her mutant powers by accelerating time. Lenny enters the room"}, {"text": "to invite her, although she wants to talk with David. Switch visits David, who has accepted his powers and is now more relaxed in nature. David was interested in finding a time traveler, planning to save his friends. Suddenly, Division 3 agents raid the compound, killing some of its members. Kerry (Amber Midthunder) arrives and chops off David's right arm, prompting David to evaporate her and some of the agents. Syd (Rachel Keller) arrives and kills David by shooting him in the chest. In her shock, Switch escapes through a doorway, reversing time by one hour. Despite Switch's pleas, David stubbornly stays in the cult and fends off some of the agents, only to be distracted by the presence of Farouk (Navid Negahban) and getting killed by Syd again. Switch once again reverses time, now by two hours. However, she finds herself in the astral plane with Farouk, who is aware of her powers. He tells her about David's dangerous nature and offers her a chance to join them in catching him. Switch refuses and escapes through another doorway. Farouk then heads back to the Division 3 headquarters, which are now set in an aircraft. He informs Clark (Hamish Linklater)"}, {"text": "about David working with a time traveler, concluding that they must kill her too. During this, Cary (Bill Irwin) creates an android version of Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris), consisting of the mainframe. As Division 3 prepares for the raid, Farouk informs Syd. Farouk tries to persuade her to not participate in the raid, but she refuses. Division 3 arrives at the compound, ready for another operation. However, a blast from the compound ruins the mission. As the team stares, they find that the compound has been teleported. Production. Development. In May 2019, it was reported that the first episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 20\", and was to be directed by Andrew Stanton and written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern. This was Hawley's fifteenth writing credit, Halpern's eleventh writing credit, and Stanton's first directing credit. Casting. In January 2019, it was announced that Lauren Tsai would join the series in the role of Switch, described as \"a young mutant whose secret ability serves as the key to executing David Haller's plan.\" Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 20\" was seen by an estimated 0.377 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings"}, {"text": "share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.1 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 19% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.315 million viewers with a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 20\" received mostly positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 8.5/10 for the episode, based on 7 reviews. Alicia Lutes of \"IGN\" gave the episode a \"good\" 7.3 out of 10 and wrote in her verdict, \"\"Legion\"s third season premiere is as quirky and whimsical as you want it to be. Lauren Tsai, the latest addition to the cast, is fantastic in her first-ever acting role, and Rachel Keller and Aubrey Plaza still feel like the beating heart of the show. The acting continues to delight in its weird and wonderful nature (Navid Negahban needs to be a movie star). But as the series continues its inevitable roll towards villainy (with a chance of redemption) for David, the path towards a resolution feels hollow, often thanks to Hawley's overreliance on music to do the emotional heavy-lifting"}, {"text": "for him. What we're left with is something that feels more derivative \u2014 and less special \u2014 than the \"Legion\" we previously knew and loved. But hey, maybe they'll go back and do it all over again in the final two minutes, and we'll change our mind about everything we just watched.\" Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B+\" grade and wrote, \"The smartest move that this first episode makes is to transfer the audience into the perspective of a brand-new character, essentially using Switch's mutant power to rescue the story, the series, and the characters from the dour fate it created.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"Though \"Legion\"s whacky ways could be grating last year, the Season 3 premiere successfully splits the difference between psychedelic eye-candy and intriguing story developments. The episode is table-setting of the highest order, and it looks like the main course will be just as unconventional as we've come to expect.\" Kevin Lever of \"Tell Tale TV\" wrote, \"Coupled with Switch and a strong visual command, the show is confident heading towards its end, Noah Hawley & Nathaniel"}, {"text": "Halpern's clever writing setting a stage of completely open possibilities.\" Accolades. \"TVLine\" named Dan Stevens as an honorable mention for the \"Performer of the Week\" for the week of June 29, 2019, for his performance in the episode. The site wrote, \"\"Legion\"s final season finds telekinetic mutant David Haller as the leader of a far-out hippie commune, and Dan Stevens was hilariously blissed out in this week's premiere as he welcomed time traveler Switch into his flock. Clad in flowing scarves and beaming with quiet serenity, this New Age-y David was a far cry from the frantic, tortured David we're used to seeing, and Stevens' laid-back delivery added a nice comedic punch, like when he calmly told Switch he tried trusting people, but 'it's better to read people's minds.' Stevens also showed off his action chops, storming through a couple of high-intensity fight scenes that set up the major battle ahead \u2014 but honestly, we'd be happy just sipping tea and listening to the Zen wisdom of the Magic Man.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 21\" is the second episode of the third season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 21st overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley, co-executive producer Olivia Dufault, and co-producer Kate Thulin and directed by Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada. It originally aired on FX on July 1, 2019. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. While Farouk was captured, David is now labeled as a threat and hunted down, prompting him to escape. In the episode, David finds that Switch's powers won't allow him to pass the barrier to time travel, prompting him to get help from Cary. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.381 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged"}, {"text": "18\u201349. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised the character development, performances and directing. Plot. After teleporting the compound, David (Dan Stevens) talks with Switch (Lauren Tsai) about her time travel powers. She opens a doorway to show it, but David is unable to enter, despite Switch attempting to get him inside. At the aircraft, Clark (Hamish Linklater) interrogates a member of David's cult about his whereabouts. When he refuses to elaborate, he is dropped from the aircraft with a parachute. He is picked up by Lenny (Aubrey Plaza), unaware that Clark planted a tracking unit on him. Meanwhile, David and Syd (Rachel Keller) communicate through astral projections. David states the community is used to help more people in trouble, something that Syd rebuffs. He claims he will use time travel to fix everything, but Syd proclaims that he is the problem who fails to acknowledge that he will end the world. This affects David, whose emotions are the source of drugs that the cult uses, causing them to become aggressive. Lenny takes the member to a tea party in the woods, which is inspired by \"Alice in Wonderland\", to drug him. Division 3 agents arrive and"}, {"text": "capture the members, but find no trace of Lenny. Lenny sneaks in and steals one of the cars, locking Cary (Bill Irwin) inside. Cary is taken to the compound, where he escapes his containment room by fooling a stoned member and encounters David. David states that he wants Cary to create a device that will allow Switch to increase her power and allow David to time travel. Cary is drugged by Lenny and is subsequently aligned with David in a process similar to him and Kerry (Amber Midthunder). Cary accepts to help Switch, being given a new lab to start working. David, through Cary, states that this will allow him to save the world. Production. Development. In June 2019, it was reported that the second episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 21\", and was to be directed by Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada and written by series creator Noah Hawley, co-executive producer Olivia Dufault, and co-producer Kate Thulin. This was Hawley's sixteenth writing credit, Dufault's first writing credit, Thulin's first writing credit, and Estrada's first directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 21\" was seen by an estimated 0.381 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings"}, {"text": "share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.1 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a slight increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.377 million viewers with a 0.1 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 21\" received mostly positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 7.7/10 for the episode, based on 5 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B\" grade and wrote, \"The hunt is on, and with it, \"Legion\" is delivering some of the most straightforward plotting since the first half of season one. But the darkness remains, and if there were any uncertainty on that front, Amahl Farouk is here to make sure it sticks. He's trying to convince Syd to operate as a sort of emotional Trojan Horse \u2014 to pretend to become intimately involved with David again, the better to slide a knife between his shoulder blades. It's bleak, disturbing stuff, and Syd knows it. But considering the Shadow King is walking around Division like he owns the place, it's anyone's guess"}, {"text": "how much his powers have already worked their magic. Maybe everyone there should take a listen to Switch's lessons about time travel, chapter 20: 'Consider the consequences of your actions.' They don\u2019t always go as planned.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"Though it's a shorter episode, 'Chapter 21' does a good job of piggybacking on last week's episode to set the stage for the remainder of the season. David is set on trying to 'save the world' while Division 3 looks for a way to get to David that circumvents Switch's abilities. The only thing that I miss this week is the use of Switch as the POV character, but I suppose there's time for that device to return down the line.\" Kevin Lever of \"Tell Tale TV\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"'Chapter 21' comes as the great settling of the dust, an episode where the lay of the land and what's to come is more distinguishable. There's likely to be some surprises along the way, what with time travel and all, but it's setting up for a large-scale"}, {"text": "endgame of David and Syd trying to find their own peace. With how this show goes, though, there will surely be some side effects to finding that peace.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 22\" is the third episode of the third season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 22nd overall episode of the series and was written by co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern and directed by executive producer John Cameron. It originally aired on FX on July 8, 2019. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. While Farouk was captured, David is now labeled as a threat and hunted down, prompting him to escape. In the episode, the background behind David's biological parents, and Charles Xavier is explored. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.370 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received extremely positive reviews from critics, who praised the character development, the introduction to Xavier,"}, {"text": "performances, cinematography and pacing. Plot. Thirty years prior to the events of the series, (Stephanie Corneliussen) cares for her son David in a mansion, while her husband Charles Xavier (Harry Lloyd) constantly leaves for an important trip. Charles is a mutant, able to read peoples' minds. A World War II veteran, he met Gabrielle at an asylum, a Holocaust survivor who suffered from catatonia. As her condition improved, they fell in love and married, having David as their only child. Charles is working on a prototype Cerebro, which allows him to detect mutants. One of these mutants turns out to be Farouk (Navid Negahban), and Charles sets off to Morocco to find him. Alone in the mansion, Gabrielle starts experiencing delusions as well as to hearing voices, which turn out to be from the future versions of David (Dan Stevens) and Switch (Lauren Tsai). Despite managing to travel too far in the past, they are unable to properly communicate. Gabrielle's sanity worsens, feeling that the house is haunted by the voices. To complicate matters, a shadow has been lurking over her and the baby David. She is later called by a panicked Charles, who states that meeting Farouk was a"}, {"text": "mistake and is coming home. The delusions worsen for Gabrielle, who is tormented by Farouk and David's attempts to hit back at his tricks. In a desperate attempt, David appears as a ghost projection, causing her to faint. Charles arrives, sees David's ghosts and telepathically expels him and Switch back to the present day. David wants to go back, but Switch is physically and mentally drained from such extreme time travel. She loses consciousness while a desperate David asks her to wake up. Back in the mansion, Xavier tries to comfort Gabrielle, realizing that she reverted to her catatonic state, devastating him. Unaware to him, Farouk has entered David's mind, effectively possessing him. Production. Development. In June 2019, it was reported that the third episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 22\", and was to be directed by executive producer John Cameron and written by co-executive producer Nathaniel Halpern. This was Halpern's twelfth writing credit, and Cameron's second directing credit. Casting. Since the series' inception, Noah Hawley intended to explore David's relationship with his father, Charles Xavier / Professor X, indicating that the character may appear in the series. During an appearance at \"The Late Late Show with James"}, {"text": "Corden\", Dan Stevens invited Patrick Stewart to reprise his role from the \"X-Men\" film franchise, with Stewart affirming that he would absolute reprise it. In February 2019, it was announced that Harry Lloyd would play Xavier, making his debut with the third episode of the season. Hawley felt that the character was essential in forming the origin story of David, explaining \"David is an adopted boy who needs to know who he really is, so we're definitely going to tell that story.\" Lloyd described his version of the character as a more ambiguous figure, explaining, \"The way we play that leading scene he kind of abandons his wife. And that was very purposely done so you don't think Charles is the hero. Because we know the fallout out of the battle is terrible, and he ruins the life of a young baby.\" Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 22\" was seen by an estimated 0.370 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.1 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a slight decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which"}, {"text": "was watched by 0.381 million viewers with a 0.1 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 22\" received extremely positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 9.0/10 for the episode, based on 6 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B+\" grade and wrote, \"'Chapter 22' occasionally achieves a kind of tone-poem beauty, a finely textured character study of the sort that made for the high points of seasons one and two.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" wrote, \"'Chapter 22' is a fine reintroduction to Charles Xavier, but an even better episode of \"Legion\". It's able to tell a compelling love story while working in some patented psychedelic and disconcerting imagery. Utilizing non-linear storytelling, we're able to watch as Charles makes the mistake of engaging a monster and how that monster takes away all that is truly important to him. I also love the cinematography in the episode and how \"Legion\" is always changing up its look based on the tone or setting of the story. As someone who has been annoyed with this show at times in the past, an episode"}, {"text": "like 'Chapter 22' reminds me why I fell for this series in the first place.\" Kevin Lever of \"Tell Tale TV\" gave the episode a perfect 5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"The portrayal of time travel, of the longing in David's pleas for his mother's attention throughout the timeline and the mess he may cause himself, is some of the most compelling work the show has done. Coupled with the human and touching story of Charles and Gabrielle falling in love, 'Chapter 22' finds itself as one of the very best of \"Legion\", and one well worth revisiting to uncover its secrets.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 23\" is the fourth episode of the third season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 23rd overall episode of the series and was written by co-executive producer Olivia Dufault and co-producer Charles Yu and directed by Daniel Kwan. It originally aired on FX on July 15, 2019. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. While Farouk was captured, David is now labeled as a threat and hunted down, prompting him to escape. In the episode, the time travel caused by David and Switch start disrupting time itself in the real world, also unleashing time demons to haunt everyone. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.277 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received"}, {"text": "extremely positive reviews from critics, who praised Kwan's directing, originality, visual style, performances and atmosphere. Plot. At the Division 3 aircraft, Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris) malfunctions with data loss. Kerry (Amber Midthunder) also experiences severe time jumps. Syd (Rachel Keller) deduces that the time glitches are a result of the time travel provoked by David (Dan Stevens). While watching footage, they experience a time loop that causes a demon to almost get inside the aircraft, until Farouk (Navid Negahban) chops off its arm. David and Switch (Lauren Tsai) are now experiencing time loops, which also affect the time and space in the rest of the world. Switch suggests that they are pursued by Time Demons, beings living in space that can enter the real world through a glitch, which is done as Switch is traveling too far back in time. David, Switch and Lenny (Aubrey Plaza) are then approached by the demons. Switch and Lenny escape the room while David unsuccessfully fights them. He ends up in a concentration camp, where he finds that the cellmate next to him is his mother (Stephanie Corneliussen). The time glitches continue affecting the real world, including interrupting the series for an episode of \"The"}, {"text": "Shield\". Farouk explains that the demons are known as Time Eaters, which feed on time through any anomaly. Syd then experiences hallucinations of meeting her younger self, allowing her to drink alcohol. Cary also discovers the demons, which causes him to break free from David's hypnosis. He finds Switch as they avoid the demons. Back in the cell, David realizes that this is an illusion. He then destroys the setting and confronts the demons, realizing that he is stuck in a loop and he cannot stop them. Farouk, Kerry and Clark (Hamish Linklater) arrive at \"the time between time\", a place where time does not exist, for which the motion pictures do not move. As they explore the area, they are attacked by demons. After escaping the compound, Cary and Switch use a phone booth to communicate with Division 3. Realizing the time error, Cary uses a specific code to transport both himself and Switch to the aircraft. Back in the compound, Lenny is tormented by the demons, who make her hallucinate the birth and death of her daughter with Salmon (Vanessa Dubasso). Syd is also victim of the demons, who attack her as she waves goodbye to her younger"}, {"text": "self. Fed up with the time loop, David uses his powers to show his dominance, killing one of the demons by immolating him. He warns the other demon to stop and go back to their home, threatening to kill every single demon. All demons banish from their spots, restoring time and space to the real world. David returns to the compound, finding a traumatized Lenny and realizes that Switch left with Cary. An angered David proclaims, \"war\". Production. Development. In June 2019, it was reported that the fourth episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 23\", and was to be directed by Daniel Kwan and written by co-executive producer Olivia Dufault and co-producer Charles Yu. This was Dufault's second writing credit, Yu's first writing credit, and Kwan's first directing credit. Writing. During the episode, the series passed from its original storyline and broadcast part of an episode of \"The Shield\". Noah Hawley explained that as the theme of the episode involved messing with time, he also wanted the audience to experience the same. He said, \"I think it's really interesting to see how the characters are dealing with time travel, but I also wanted to give the audience the"}, {"text": "experience of time travel. When we go back to the show, it's literally like you've traveled through time in a way that makes it much more visceral.\" Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 23\" was seen by an estimated 0.277 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.1 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 26% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.370 million viewers with a 0.1 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 23\" received extremely positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 8.3/10 for the episode, based on 5 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode an \"A-\" grade and wrote, \"There's a lot going on in 'Chapter 23', but first, let's just take a moment and appreciate the truly unsettling creation of the Time Eaters. These villains, with their too-large smiles, blurred-out bodies, and time-glitching movements, are some of the creepiest innovations the show has ever concocted, and the struggle against their efforts to"}, {"text": "consume time itself makes this episode the closest the show has ever come to becoming an out-and-out horror story.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 3.5 star rating out of 5 wrote, \"While certain aspects of 'Chapter 23' felt silly, other moments, like Kerry lamenting the fact that the 'fun' is gone and everyone has changed, land perfectly. \"Legion\" still indulges itself a little too much, but as long as there are solid moments like that to keep the balance, I'll allow it.\" Kevin Lever of \"Tell Tale TV\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"'Chapter 23' uses the side threat of time demons to strike the ultimate blow to David's plans. It's through a lot of style, but provides the substance through a surprising turn for Aubrey Plaza's Lenny, and through David now having to face Division 3 in full force. This is a fun and effective episode.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 24\" is the fifth episode of the third season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 24th overall episode of the series and was written by co-executive producer Olivia Dufault and producer Ben H. Winters and directed by Arkasha Stevenson. It originally aired on FX on July 22, 2019. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. While Farouk was captured, David is now labeled as a threat and hunted down, prompting him to escape. In the episode, David sets out to find Switch in the airship, no matter how many people he has to kill to do so. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.288 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received extremely"}, {"text": "positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances, pacing, narrative and conflicting nature of the characters. Plot. Daniel Debussy (Keir O'Donnell) is traveling in a van, protected by Vermillion. The van is intercepted by David (Dan Stevens), who kills the Vermillion and confronts him, restoring all of his lost memories to reveal the location of Switch (Lauren Tsai). After Daniel confirms that she is on an airship, David erases all of Daniel's memories. David returns to his cult, killing many when he can't find Lenny (Aubrey Plaza). Lenny, affected by the time demons, claims that David is to blame for the death of her girlfriend and unborn child as well as everything wrong with her. She refuses to hear to David's plans to change the past, and stabs herself in the neck, dying after blood loss. At the airship, Switch is given a hibernation chamber to avoid David. However, Division 3 is still concerned that David could teleport to their airship. Ptonomy (Jeremie Harris) then decides to elevate the airship and send it to outer space, where David cannot reach them. Despite Farouk (Navid Negahban) opposing the decision, Division 3 order the airship to reach space. Alone, Farouk telepathically communicates"}, {"text": "with David, provoking him into finding their location. With his cultists, David infiltrates the airship, killing most of the soldiers. David finds Clark (Hamish Linklater) and throws him into the space, killing him. He then finds Syd (Rachel Keller) in her bedroom, telling her that Farouk informed him and that he plans to change the past. Syd acknowledges that they were manipulated by Farouk and claims she still loves him. She touches him, swapping bodies. Now in David's body, Syd distracts some of the cultists so Kerry (Amber Midthunder) can kill them. However, David's alternate versions in his mind torment Syd, proclaiming themselves as \"Legion\". They take control of the body, wipe Syd's memories and bring David back to his body. David finds Switch in her chamber, but is stopped by Farouk, who mocks him. David manages to get Switch to wake up, and she sends Farouk through a doorway, sending him to \"the time between the time\". Switch is disturbed by David's nature of killing, but he convinces her to join him in his new plan to undo everything, telling her that he has a new plan in mind. Production. Development. In June 2019, it was reported that the"}, {"text": "fifth episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 24\", and was to be directed by Arkasha Stevenson and written by co-executive producer Olivia Dufault and producer Ben H. Winters. This was Dufault's third writing credit, Winters' first writing credit, and Stevenson's first directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 24\" was seen by an estimated 0.288 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.1 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a slight increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.277 million viewers with a 0.1 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 24\" received extremely positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 8/10 for the episode, based on 5 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B\" grade and wrote, \"Switch's allegiance is fascinating to watch unfold. She seems to understand the people of Division are trying to do the right thing, but they also have the Shadow King.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave"}, {"text": "the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 wrote, \"'Chapter 24' may have left me worrying about how time travel could be used to help the show cheat its way to a convenient ending, and whether I'm supposed to feel these losses or expect things all to be wiped clean, but I have to give Noah Hawley more credit than that. He's not going to bright side this one or cut corners, he knows this is all more complicated than that.\" Kevin Lever of \"Tell Tale TV\" gave the episode a 4.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"'Chapter 24' strategically ends almost every thread so that what comes next is completely in the air. It's a bold move that really makes the sky the limit. With David and Switch taking off back into time, and the time demons likely out for vengeance against David, the sky truly is the limit on what can possibly come next. That's the sign of a great drama, and with this episode and this season, \"Legion\" is making a strong case for being one of the true greats.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 25\" is the sixth episode of the third season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 25th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and directed by executive producer John Cameron. It originally aired on FX on July 29, 2019. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. While Farouk was captured, David is now labeled as a threat and hunted down, prompting him to escape. In the episode, Syd's mind has manifested as a baby in the astral plane, where she is adopted by Oliver and Melanie Bird. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.332 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received generally positive reviews from critics,"}, {"text": "who praised the character development and the rap battle sequence, although some expressed criticism for the pacing and lack of progress with the previous episodes. Plot. In the astral plane, Oliver (Jemaine Clement) and Melanie (Jean Smart) live in a hut. One day, Oliver finds a baby in the fields and they both decide to adopt her, naming her Sydney. They are also often disturbed by a man named Jerome (Jason Mantzoukas), also known as The Wolf, a person whose presence seem to annoy everyone, who also found a woman named Cynthia (Samantha Cormier). Oliver and Melanie decide to adopt Cynthia to help her lost \"innocence\". As time passes, the baby grows into a child, with both her and Cynthia constantly being tempted by The Wolf. Cynthia succumbs to his tricks and walks away with him. The child is constantly haunted by nightmares, result of the real world's influence. To avoid the Wolf, they move into the city, although Cynthia has fallen for The Wolf. The child now becomes the teenage version of Syd, who is struggling to find her place in the world. She runs into Cynthia, who tries to get her to join The Wolf. Syd refuses and"}, {"text": "tells Oliver and Melanie that she wants to save Cynthia. Syd and Oliver go to the Wolf's lair, where they take Cynthia to their house. However, The Wolf has followed them, prompting Oliver and The Wolf to engage in a rap battle. Oliver wins the rap battle, although Cynthia still willingly goes with The Wolf, much to Syd's disappointment. Oliver and Melanie tell Syd that they prepared her for this life, encouraging to return to the real world, just as she grows into her adult version (Rachel Keller). She awakens in the airship, finding that Switch's doorway is malfunctioning, although she is unable to enter. Syd meets with Cary (Bill Irwin) and Kerry (Amber Midthunder), telling them she can stop David and Switch. Cary creates bracelets for each other, which will allow them to enter the doorway. Before entering, Kerry asks Cary to transfer her wounds to him so she can fight, which he does at great cost. As the time demons appear, Syd, Cary and Kerry enter the doorway, which finally closes. Production. Development. In July 2019, it was reported that the sixth episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 25\", and was to be directed by executive"}, {"text": "producer John Cameron and written by series creator Noah Hawley. This was Hawley's seventeenth writing credit, and Cameron's third directing credit. Filming. The episode featured a rap battle sequence, where Oliver and The Wolf performed at a night club dream sequence. The idea wasn't originally planned by Hawley while writing the script, although he commented that \"I would be depriving his [Jemaine] fans and my audience of a golden opportunity if I didn't take this seriously.\" Hawley wrote the rap lyrics as a placeholder, assuming that they would later change them, but Clement liked it enough, \"But he did it, happily, and had no real complaints. I said if you want to re-write this at all, feel free. He changed very little, we filmed it, and it's one of my favorite things ever.\" Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 25\" was seen by an estimated 0.332 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.1 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 15% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.288 million viewers with a 0.1"}, {"text": "in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 25\" received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 80% approval rating with an average rating of 7.8/10 for the episode, based on 5 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B+\" grade and wrote, \"The rap battle between Oliver and Jerome is maybe the single silliest thing \"Legion\" has ever done. Sillier than a lip-synching mouse, sillier than any droll witticism or stomping on a previously enormous delusion creature or any of it. On an episode already experimenting with a far lighter and more playful tone than just about every episode that's preceded it, it pushed the series into a downright goofy realm. But circumstances aside, if you can't enjoy a ridiculous rap battle between Jemaine Clement and Jason Mantzoukas, I'm not sure I want to know you.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 2.5 star rating out of 5 wrote, \"'Chapter 25' is going to make a certain type of \"Legion\" fan very happy, just not this one. One person's delightful experiment is another's fanciful slog. To each their own. I thought 'Chapter 24' turned the action"}, {"text": "and urgency of the season up to 11, and this episode halted that momentum dead in its tracks with a self-satisfied detour filled with metaphor and little else. At least like the foot looks to be back on the pedal next week.\" Kevin Lever of \"Tell Tale TV\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"'Chapter 25 provides Syd the answer she's been seeking this whole time. It does so with a fantastic hour of self-discovery told with returning characters long missed.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 26\" is the seventh episode of the third season of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the 26th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Olivia Dufault and directed by Dana Gonzales. It originally aired on FX on August 5, 2019. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. While Farouk was captured, David is now labeled as a threat and hunted down, prompting him to escape. In the episode, David travels thirty years in the past to directly meet his father and help in fighting Farouk. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.288 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349. The episode received positive reviews from critics, who"}, {"text": "praised the interaction between David and his father and cinematography, although some expressed criticism for its rushed pacing. Plot. Having sensed him through Cerebro, Charles Xavier (Harry Lloyd) flies to Morocco to find Farouk (Navid Negahban). Farouk actually expected him, and has a chauffeur pick him up at the airport. At the time hallway, David (Dan Stevens) and Switch (Lauren Tsai) find that time is becoming unstable, with a door trapping David in a loop of previous events. Charles arrives at Farouk's monastery, who welcomes him and invites him for dinner. During dinner, Farouk shows the astral plane to Xavier, teaching him how to use it. Meanwhile, Syd (Rachel Keller), Cary (Bill Irwin) and Kerry (Amber Midthunder) arrive at Charles' mansion, finding (Stephanie Corneliussen) with her baby. Syd talks with her, until she realizes that the baby is David himself. Kerry suggests killing him, but Syd is conflicting in doing so, claiming they can still save David through time. While experiencing visions, Charles is visited by David. After confirming his identity, he takes Charles inside his mind to talk. He then projects to Charles everything that happened in his life, surprising Charles. Later, Charles and David meet with Farouk, as"}, {"text": "the meeting is a trap so David can kill Farouk. However, Switch starts feeling the side effects of time travel, causing them to constantly jump through many places. During this, Charles discovers the alternate versions of David inside his mind, disturbing him. Syd talks with Gabrielle about properly raising David, warning her that David could become evil in the future if she does not love him enough. However, the time demons appear and stalk them through the house. While visiting Farouk, Charles discovers that his \"children\" are just vessels that contain his victims. Concluding that he won't stop his nature, Charles reunites with David, with both intending to fight him. Present day Farouk manages to escape from \"the time between time\", manifesting in the monastery and meeting his past self. Production. Development. In July 2019, it was reported that the seventh episode of the season would be titled \"Chapter 26\", and was to be directed by Dana Gonzales and written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Olivia Dufault. This was Hawley's eighteenth writing credit, Dufault's fourth writing credit, and Gonzales' second directing credit. Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 26\" was seen by an estimated 0.288"}, {"text": "million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.1 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 14% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.332 million viewers with a 0.1 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 26\" received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 7/10 for the episode, based on 5 reviews. Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B-\" grade and wrote, \"It's enervating stuff, but the road to that setup was messy. There's an oddness to the way this episode tells the story of Xavier traveling to meet Farouk for the first time, and how their encounter played out\u2014and not 'odd' in the sense of, 'Hey, it's \"Legion\", everything's a little odd.' In part, it stems from the way Xavier and Gabrielle occupy central parts of the narrative as the show rushes to its conclusion.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" wrote, \"\"Legion\"s series finale, 'Chapter 27' then appears like it will be a showdown, father and son"}, {"text": "vs two versions of Amahl Farouk. I'm excited to see how Hawley represents this conflict, as he always eschews traditional battles in the astral plane for something more impressionistic and unexpected. However, the thing I'm most anxious to see in the finale will be how they resolve the story between David and Syd, which has always been the beating heart of the series. If David changes his past, will it just fix everything that's come before? It can't be that neat, can it?\" Kevin Lever of \"Tell Tale TV\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"'Chapter 26' does some intricate storytelling by keeping a heavy episode a little light in its heart. What other show would blast Captain Sensible's 'Wot' as a defense mechanism in a character's mind? The fate of the world is in the balance, but it's never been more entertaining and fun to watch.\""}, {"text": "\"Chapter 27\" is the series finale of the American cable television series \"Legion\", based on the Marvel Comics character David Haller, and connected to the \"X-Men\" film series. It is the eighth episode of the third season and is the 27th overall episode of the series. The episode was written by series creator Noah Hawley and co-executive producer Olivia Dufault and directed by Hawley and executive producer John Cameron. It originally aired on FX on August 12, 2019. The series follows David Haller, a \"mutant\" diagnosed with schizophrenia at a young age. Struggling to differentiate reality from fantasy, Haller tries to control his mutant powers and the sinister forces trying to control them while evading a government agency, Division 3. Summerland and Division 3 eventually team up in order to catch Amahl Farouk from finding his original body. While Farouk was captured, David is now labeled as a threat and hunted down, prompting him to escape. In the final episode, David and his father Charles Xavier set out to destroy Farouk once and for all. According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.365 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged"}, {"text": "18\u201349. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. While some expressed criticism for its rushed story and its reliance on style over substance, there was praise for the closure, performances, cinematography and themes. Plot. David (Dan Stevens) tells a weakened Switch (Lauren Tsai) that he will change everything, and sets out with Charles (Harry Lloyd) to meet with past Farouk (Navid Negahban). They intercept Farouk, and start a fight inside David's mind. At the mansion, (Stephanie Corneliussen), Syd (Rachel Keller), Cary (Bill Irwin) and Kerry (Amber Midthunder) are attacked by time demons. To fend them off, Cary and Kerry merge to fight alongside Syd. Back in David's mind, past Farouk manages to fend off David's alternate versions and traps David, mockingly accusing him of being a bad person. Recalling his mother's love for him, David breaks free and strangles the past Farouk. Switch is found by time demons, and despite fighting, she decides to surrender herself. Her father (Ben Wang) suddenly appears, who elevates her to a higher level of existence, revealing both he and Switch have the ability to control the time demons (who merely function to guard the tributaries of time). Charles confronts the present Farouk in"}, {"text": "the astral plane, who claims that he traveled back in time to save David. They travel to David's mind as he is about to kill the past Farouk, with Charles taking him to the astral plane. He states that his condition is because of his own fault, so he made a deal with Farouk to allow them to peacefully live as long as they leave him alone, apologizing for failing him. Present Farouk convinces past Farouk to accept the terms, by showing everything that will happen. Switch stops the demons from attacking Syd, Gabrielle, Cary/Kerry and baby David. She states that now that the past events will be changed, they will disappear and create new versions of themselves. In the monastery, David and Farouk shake hands, signifying the end of their fight. As the new timeline is about to begin, Syd waves goodbye to Cary and Kerry, with both finally separated and embracing. Charles returns home, reconciling with Gabrielle and saying that things will be fine. David goes to his old room, where Syd is looking at baby David. They acknowledge that as the timeline will be different, they will never meet at Clockworks. They both expect better things for"}, {"text": "each other, and they vanish in front of baby David. Production. Development. In June 2018, the series was renewed for a third season. In February 2019, it was announced that the third season would premiere in June 2019, and will serve as the final season of the series. Hawley's plan had always been for three seasons, he stated, \"I think endings are what give stories meaning. I always thought about this as a complete story, and it felt like three acts of a story.\" In July 2019, it was reported that the series finale would be titled \"Chapter 27\", and was to be directed by series creator Noah Hawley and executive producer John Cameron, and written by Hawley and co-executive producer Olivia Dufault. This was Hawley's nineteenth writing credit, Dufault's fifth writing credit, Hawley's third directing credit, and Cameron's fourth directing credit. Originally, Hawley wasn't going to direct the episode, citing scheduling conflicts while writing the fourth season of \"Fargo\" and working on the post-production for his film \"Lucy in the Sky\". Daniel Sackheim was scheduled to direct the episode, but left after two days after contracting pneumonia. Hawley then directed the episode with the help of executive producer John"}, {"text": "Cameron. Writing. When describing the series finale, Noah Hawley said, \"I just wanted to deliver a conclusion to the story that felt both as playful and inventive as the rest of the series, while still delivering a meaningful and human ending to this story.\" The final scene depicts baby David, which was also the first scene of the series. Hawley stated that he felt after the second season, the last image of the series would involve the first image. For the scene, the series used \"Happy Jack\" by The Who, with Hawley describing it as \"It's complete in that it's all starting all over again, so who knows what will happen the second time around.\" Regarding the outcome of the new timeline, Hawley explained \"We live in a world where this nature versus nurture question is yet to be resolved. And it's probably both. But my sense of the timeline is that Xavier and Gabrielle are going to remember what happened, and so they'll be able to raise David quite deliberately knowing the path that he ended up on, and wanting to avoid that for him. And that may involve for his mother getting some help for herself in order"}, {"text": "to be a better role model for him, et cetera. So the great thing about it ending on that kind of loop is that [idea of] 'press the button and watch again, maybe something different will happen.'\" Hawley also rejected the idea that the finale would set up possible storylines for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying \"given my level of being occupied, I wasn't really up for a lot of tangential conversations about things, and I'm not in the inner circle for the reinvention, or the Disney-fication, of what the X-Men is likely to be.\" Reception. Viewers. In its original American broadcast, \"Chapter 27\" was seen by an estimated 0.365 million household viewers and gained a 0.1 ratings share among adults aged 18\u201349, according to Nielsen Media Research. This means that 0.1 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 26% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.288 million viewers with a 0.1 in the 18-49 demographics. Critical reviews. \"Chapter 27\" received mostly positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 7.8/10 for the episode, based on 6 reviews."}, {"text": "Alicia Lutes of \"IGN\" gave the episode a \"good\" 7.1 out of 10 and wrote in her verdict, \"\"Legion\" took big risks and it resulted in some big rewards over the course of its three seasons. In its series finale, everyone came face-to-face with the future and the past, and they were all forced to work separately, but together, in order to uncover a potential, new future. True to form, the Hawley series did not go quietly into that good night, chockablock with terror and humor and musical whimsy oozing out of every pore. Whether or not that worked is a matter of opinion, but it was undeniably unique in its construct and execution, making it trippily worth your time. Though we wish it did more to avoid taking the 'easy' route, \"Legion\" ended on a hopeful note, which is truly surprising if you've watched the series at all up to this point.\" Alex McLevy of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a \"B\" grade and wrote, \"The sense of uplift and moral simplicity argued for by the ending is so genuine, it feels churlish to point out the ways in which it might be compromised. And yet the world"}, {"text": "created by \"Legion\" has been so murky and full of messy ambiguities, so touched by the very notion that nothing as simple as 'a clear answer' could ever sufficiently account for any philosophical or existential question about what it means to live a good life, that to suddenly end on a note that tries to sweep the board clean and say 'Let's do it all over, but better' with hardly an implication of the too-broad generalities implied comes across as rushed, at best.\" Alan Sepinwall of \"Rolling Stone\" wrote, \"\"Legion\" creator Noah Hawley treated these three deeply strange, often riveting, occasionally indecipherable seasons as his arena of infinite promise. Coherence \u2014 both narrative and emotional \u2014 always came across as secondary to presenting the wildest and most memorable imagery possible. Why fight with a knife when you can transform into a samurai, or a tank, instead? Why explain things when you can stage a rap battle? Bigger, more colorful, and more bizarre was always the order of the day, particularly as the series' facility with digital effects increased over time to make the powers of title character David Haller (Dan Stevens) appear disturbingly casual and real.\" Angelica Jade Basti\u00e9n of"}, {"text": "\"Vulture\" wrote, \"The message \"Legion\" lands on in its closing moments \u2014 a hopeful one that suggests that we can remake ourselves and even the world into something better \u2014 is perhaps its boldest gambit. Ultimately, \"Legion\" is a series of bristling enchantment and wonder, even when it failed to live up to the fascinating threads of family and mental illness that it wove into its story of superhero power.\" Nick Harley of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 wrote, \"The final episode of \"Legion\" isn't flawless, but flawless isn't how \"Legion\" lived. Still, the series was breathtaking in its visuals, thrillingly off-kilter in its risks (like devoting so much of its runtime to musical interludes), and oddly poignant in its quiet moments. There's no telling if or when we'll get another superhero series as refreshingly different as \"Legion\", so instead of nitpicking its final choices, I'd rather sing the praises of its singular vision and ambition.\" Kevin Lever of \"Tell Tale TV\" gave the episode a 3.5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, \"'Chapter 27' ends a series that for a superhero series, is a complete arthouse experiment. It's downright shocking"}, {"text": "that FX allowed all of this, because the show takes risk after risk to tell a story in an unorthodox way and becomes something memorable and endlessly unique. Ending a show like that is a feat, and it ended positively and with a key focus on character.\""}, {"text": "Gerald Koning (born 28 March 1933) also called Gerry or Jerry is a Canadian speed skater. Born in the Netherlands, he emigrated in 1954 and then lived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In January 1962, Gerry competed in the Canadian Speed Skating Championships, held in Broadview Park in Calgary, where he won the 10,000m race, finishing second in the overall competition. In December 1962, he went to Europe as part of the national team composing of eight Canadian speed skaters, for a six-week training project in Davos, Switzerland. In 1963, Gerry competed in the Eastern Division National Championships in St.Catharines, Ontario, and in the Canadian Championships in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In December 1963 Gerry was named to the Olympic team, and he competed in two events (1500m with a time of 2:24.8, and 5000m with a time of 8:26.9) at the 1964 Winter Olympics. Gerry continued to speed skate afterwards, notably at the1965 Canadian Speed Skating Championships in Winnipeg. His winning time in the 10000m race was 18:06, and his time in the 5000m race was 8:44.9."}, {"text": "Marte Monsen (born 27 January 2000) is a Norwegian alpine skier. Career. She competed at the 2017, 2018 and 2019 World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships, and of the twelve events in total, her best outing was the 2018 giant slalom event where she finished fifth. She made her FIS Alpine Ski World Cup debut in December 2018 in Courchevel, but was disqualified, and failed to finish her next race as well as the 2019\u20132020 season opener in S\u00f6lden. She collected her first World Cup points with a 26th place in the giant slalom in January 2020 in Sestriere. She represents the sports club Aron SK. She is a younger sister of Marcus Monsen. Europa Cup results. Monsen has won an overall Europa Cup and one specialty standings."}, {"text": "The Alliance for Progressives is a social-liberal political party in Botswana. History. In July 2017 the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) president Ndaba Gaolathe and five other members of the party's executive were expelled from the party. As a result, Gaolathe set up a new leadership committee, which was later transformed into a breakaway party, the Alliance for Progressives. The new party was formally established on 28 October 2017 with Gaolathe as leader and Wynter Mmolotsi as deputy president. Six sitting MPs joined the party, although Haskins Nkaigwa later returned to the UDC, leaving it with five seats going into the 2019 general elections. The elections saw the party receive 5% of the vote, finishing third behind the Botswana Democratic Party and the Umbrella for Democratic Change in terms of popular vote share. However, it only retained a single seat, with Mmolotsi winning in the Francistown South constituency. The party joined the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) alliance ahead of the 2024 general elections. Although the party only marginally increased its vote share to 6%, it won six seats, with the UDC securing a majority in the National Assembly."}, {"text": "Anthony Francis \"Tony\" Bullen (2 August 1931 \u2013 9 December 2014) was a British speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Charles Murdoch was a Scottish footballer who played in the Scottish League for St Bernard's as a right half. Personal life. Murdoch served in the British Army during the First World War."}, {"text": "Ruedi Uster (born 4 September 1941) is a Swiss speed skater. He competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Aneta Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 (born 29 April 1991 in Prague) is a Czech actress, known mainly for her role in the TV soap opera Ulice. Personal life. In 2017, Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 got engaged to her partner Ond\u0159ej Ran\u010d\u00e1k. They had a son Ben in September 2018 and daughter Antonia in April 2020."}, {"text": "Buddy Campbell (born May 14, 1943) is an American speed skater. He competed in the men's 1500 metres events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Seppo H\u00e4nninen (born 11 July 1943) is a Finnish speed skater. He competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics, the 1968 Winter Olympics and the 1972 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "London Spitfire is a British esports team founded in 2017 that competes in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Spitfire began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2018 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance."}, {"text": "Hugh Wishart was an American silversmith, active in New York City from 1793-1824. He had shops at 62 Wall Street, 98 Market Street, 319 Pearl Street (1797), 5 Rector Street (1808), and 66 Maiden Lane (1810). In 1806 he served as a fireman in Company 16. His work is collected in the Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art."}, {"text": "Nata de pi\u00f1a (\"cream of pineapple\" in Spanish), also marketed as pineapple gel or pineapple gelatin, is a chewy, translucent, jelly-like food produced by the fermentation of pineapple juice. It is a traditional dessert in the Philippines, produced since the 18th century using waste pineapple juices from the pi\u00f1a fiber industry in Pagsanjan, Laguna. It has a sweet-sour taste and is popularly used in fruit salads, jams, ice creams, candies, and various other dishes. \"Nata de pi\u00f1a\" production is not as widespread as \"nata de coco\", a variant that uses coconut water, largely because of the seasonal nature of pineapple farming. Commercially produced \"nata de pi\u00f1a\" is generally made from extracts of discarded pulp and pineapple skin. The gelling is the result of the production of microbial cellulose by \"Komagataeibacter xylinus\"."}, {"text": "Jouko Launonen (born 3 June 1939) is a Finnish speed skater. He competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Turffontein Reformed Church was a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) in southern Johannesburg, Transvaal. It was founded in 1906 and for years had a large membership, at times exceeding 3,000. 88 years after its foundation and 44 years after that of the Johannesburg South Reformed Church (NGK), however, the two congregations would merge to form the Deo Gloria Reformed Church on April 24, 1994. This was due in part to the emigration of Afrikaners toward more affluent neighborhoods as well as the burning down of the neglected Turffontein Church, which the congregation could not afford to rebuild, in March 1992. The merger ended the oldest congregation in southern downtown Johannesburg, from which sprang all others in the area. Background. When the Johannesburg East Reformed Church (NGK) and the Jeppestown Reformed Church seceded from the oldest NGK church on the Rand, the Johannesburg Reformed Church (NGK), on July 8, 1897, Casey's Town (later known as Turffontein) became part of the Jeppestown congregation. Even before then, Johannesburg pastors Rev. J.N. Martins and Pieter Gerhardus Jacobus Meiring held services in a small meeting hall in Casey's Town. Serving the southern areas of Jeppestown proved especially challenging, since"}, {"text": "Rev. Paul Nel could only spare two Sundays a month to preach there. The Rev. Meiring (since then having moved to the Johannesburg East Reformed Church (NGK)) and Rev. Dani\u00ebl Theron of the Fordsburg Reformed Church helped out at first, but had to be replaced by a missionary, brother MacLean, who himself remained there only a few months. Turffontein church hall. The Jeppestown congregation building committee, on the recommendation of the church council, decided in June 1903 to replace the cramped, dilapidated local meeting hall with a new building and rent out the old one to schools after renovation. Several months later, T.D. Hannecke won the \u00a31,509 bid for construction, and on Saturday, July 30, 1904, Rev. Meiring laid the cornerstone. Speaking of the occasion, Rev. Nel said \u201cthat it will not be long before an independent congregation would be founded in Turffontein\u201d (quoted in the August 1904 issue of the Transvaal NGK magazine \"De Vereeniging\"). It is not clear exactly when the building was finished and inaugurated. Hannecke's work was clearly done by mid-November, when the council decided at its meeting to wait to dedicate the building until after it was furnished. That August, the Jeppestown council accepted a"}, {"text": "separate \u00a3400 bid for furniture and a pulpit from the Van Hoogstraten brothers. Whatever delayed delivery and thus the opening, the church was in operation before 1904 was out. Leadup to secession. The August 26, 1903 issue of \"De Vereeniging\" told of the need for a new congregation to serve the suburbs south of the \u201cReef\u201d (the main gold vein). Of these, Ophirton and Booysens were part of Johannesburg East, and Turffontein and La Rochelle belonged to Jeppestown. The two congregations agreed to hire a curate to prepare the area for secession, an idea endorsed by both Dr. Hendrik Adriaan Lamprecht (Rev. Meiring's successor at Johannesburg East) and Rev. Nel at the August 1905 Jeppestown council meeting. The two congregations requested and received the help of Rev. J.D. de Villiers, at the time a curate for Jeppestown, to handle the task. For a little over two months, Rev. De Villiers worked among the members in the southern suburbs, some of whom submitted petitions for secession to their respective councils. In Early October 1905, the Ophirton and Booysens wards resolved at congregation meetings to submit secession petitions to the Johannesburg East council, which adopted by unanimous vote on the 10th the"}, {"text": "following motion: \u201cthe church council takes great notice of the meeting in Ophirton and the decision taken there, and is willing to entertain the request provided legal requirements are met.\u201d The Turffontein ward members came to this conclusion as well around the same time. Within a week of Johannesburg East's above reply, Turffontein petitioned the Jeppestown council, asking \u201cfor the founding of a new church south of the Reef and funds to build a parsonage and maintain public services,\u201d according to the council meeting notes. The council referred the issue to the Ring but declined to provide the money until similar contributions could be obtained from Johannesburg East. Several weeks later, Rev. Nel and two of the Jeppestown elders attended the Johannesburg East council meeting. After they pledged to deed property worth \u00a33,800 to the new congregation, namely several plots of land in Turffontein and La Rochelle where the local church halls were, the Johannesburg East council granted property worth \u00a31,600 in Ophirton and a stipend of \u00a3250 a year for the first four years. Thus, the new congregation would start with three halls (including a new and well-furnished one in Turffontein) and \u00a31,000 in seed money. Secession. With the"}, {"text": "foundation thus set, the Potchefstroom Ring Committee met on the morning of Wednesday, February 28, 1906 in the Turffontein church to officially declare the secession. That night, a congregation meeting elected the first council members in the same building. Two weeks later, the March 8 \"De Vereeniging\" reported on the foundation of \u201ca new congregation south of the Reef, named the La Rochelle Dutch Reformed Church.\u201d The reported announced that a Jeppestown representative would serve as consulent and clarified the new congregation's boundaries. Etymology of La Rochelle. Its name would spring from the local suburb of La Rochelle, which Ring Committee member Rev. Louw of Heidelberg compared to \u201cThe Rock Christ.\u201d The name of the suburb, of course, came from La Rochelle, France, the last fortress of the Huguenots of whom so many came to South Africa. Early years. The congregation's first pastor were Revs. C.F. Mynhardt (1907\u201310) and S.W. van Niekerk (1911\u201321). The third, Rev. T.A. Broodrijk, was invested on October 29, 1921, and under him the parsonage was built and the congregation decided to build a church, which would be dedicated on September 4, 1925, though the organ would not be used until September 3, 1927. A 1929"}, {"text": "tornado destroyed the hall alongside the new church, which would be replaced by a new one that opened in May 1930. The Rev. Broodrijk was assisted by proponent J.H. van Loggerenberg from December 1929 to September 1930. On May 17, 1932, the pastor reported to the council that all debts were paid, but he died on August 17 and would be buried in the churchyard. His wife and two children left the area on December 4, 1932, his gravestone emblazoned with the words \u201che did what he could.\u201d The Rev. T.C. Esterhuysen served for the first nine months after Rev. Broodryk's death. Meanwhile, the council saw the need for further secession and therefore bought eight plots worth \u00a31,600 in Rosettenville. \u00a311,000 had been raised over the 11 years leading up to 1932 for the purpose. La Rochelle becomes Turffontein. Rev. A.H. Stander (May 1933-April 1948) and J. de Jager (1948\u201358) saw tenures marked by heavy secessions. In 1938, the Rosettenville Reformed Church seceded, prompting the mother church to be renamed to Turffontein given La Rochelle belonging to the new Rosettenville territory. In August 1947, another congregation seceded, the Forest Hill Reformed Church. Within the first year of the Rev. and"}, {"text": "Mrs. De Jager's arrival as the fifth pastoral couple in the congregation, the Reverend warned the council of yet more departures. The secession of the Johannesburg South Reformed Church (NGK), officially finalized on November 15, 1950 in the Booysens police station cafeteria, was the third in eleven years and left Turffontein an urban congregation with around 980 members. \u00a33,000 in endowments were raised within a short time to improve Johannesburg South's buildings. Merger with Johannesburg South. An additional factor in the April 24, 1994 merger with Johannesburg South as Deo Gloria, besides the March 1992 fire that destroyed Turffontein's church, was the retirement of Rev. J.L. Coetzee, second and final pastor of Johannesburg South from 1955 to 1994. According to the final NGK Yearbook, Turffontein in 1994 had 90 baptized members and 346 confirmed ones while Johannesburg South had respective figures of 62 and 252. The Johannesburg South church on the corner of Alamein and Faunce Roads in Robertsham is home to Deo Gloria, whose 58 baptized and 367 confirmed members of 2010 have been served by Rev. A.D.P. de Villiers since 1999."}, {"text": "Ennai Paar Yogam Varum () is a 2007 Indian Tamil language action comedy film directed by M. Jameen Raj. The film stars Mansoor Ali Khan and newcomer Manju, with Kandeepan, Kutty, Priyanka Shailu, R. Sundarrajan, Anuradha, Abhinayashree, Ponnambalam and Manikka Vinayagam playing supporting roles. The film, produced by Mansoor Ali Khan, was released on 6 July 2007 after many delays. Plot. The lovers Meena and Jeeva elope and they decide to get married at the registrar's office. Meena's father Anandaraman orders the rowdy Jaga to bring him his daughter back and to put Jeeva in jail. At the registrar's office, Jaga and his sidekicks break the arm of the deputy tehsildar Krishnamoorthy and the forges his signature on a marriage document. Jaga tracks down the lovers in a police station and he blames Jeeva for kidnapping Meena and for signature forgery. Jeeva is then put in police lockup and Jaga forcefully brings Meena to her father. Kandeepan falls in love with Jagadeeshwari and he makes his mother Seethamangalam Muthamma, a greedy and corrupt politician, accepts for the marriage. Krishnamoorthy decides to get VRS and puts all his savings to arrange his daughter's wedding. Thereafter, Muthamma makes a deal with a"}, {"text": "political leader: fixing the marriage between Kandeepan and the political leader's granddaughter. Muthamma then delegates Jaga the mission of stopping the wedding between her son and Jagadeeshwari. On the day of the marriage, Jaga wreaked havoc in the wedding hall and stops the marriage. Krishnamoorthy who felt humiliated and distraught of losing all his savings dies of a heart attack on the spot. Jagadeeshwari vows to take revenge on Jaga. Later, Jagadeeshwari files a false rape complaint against Jaga and he is arrested by the police but he then comes out of jail thanks to his lawyer. Meanwhile, Jeeva, who is now in a wheelchair after a suicide attempt, and Meena meet Jagadeeshwari, and Jagadeeshwari promises them to arrange their marriage. Jaga feels guilty for Jeeva's accident and he himself arranges their marriage while Anandaraman genuinely accepts Jeeva as his son-in-law. Jaga later learns about Muthamma's true face and saves Jagadeeshwari from her. The film ends with Jaga and Jagadeeshwari falling in love with each other. Production. After producing three films under his own banner, actor Mansoor Ali Khan returned with \"Ennai Paar Yogam Varum\". Politician-turned-actor Thol. Thirumavalavan appeared in a song in the film. Mansoor Ali Khan said that"}, {"text": "the film is a low budget film with comedy track. Soundtrack. The soundtrack was composed by A. K. Vasagan. The soundtrack, released in 2007, features 6 tracks with lyrics written by Thiruvalluvar, Avvaiyar, Mansoor Ali Khan and A. K. Vasagan. Release and reception. On 4 June 2007, an advertisement for the film featured in a newspaper had attracted the attention of many. Mansoor Ali Khan had comically pleaded for a good theatre for his film. The film was originally slated for release on 15 June 2007 alongside the big-budget film \"\" but due to shortage of theatres in Chennai city, Mansoor Ali Khan postponed the release of his film. It was finally released on 6 July 2007. A week after the film's release, another ad for his film had attracted the attention of the public with mentioning the film \"Kireedam\" (2007). Malini Mannath of \"Chennai Online\" wrote, \"It's a film that one goes to without any expectation. So there's not much disappointment either\"."}, {"text": "William Leonard Espie (25 June 1935 \u2013 22 September 2011) was the highest ranking Aboriginal person to serve on any Australian police force; he was, at one point the Chief Inspector in the NSW Police Force. He is remembered as a \"Centralian hero\". Early life. Espie was born in Alice Springs, one of several children of Edith Espie, an Arrernte woman, and Victor Cook, who soon left to \"start a new - white - family down south\". His family home is described as a good one and that his mother did their best for them; his mother Edith was always helping other people in the community and often took foster children in to their home. In his early teens Espie came into contact with Anglican priest, Father Percy Smith, who arranged for him, and a number of other Aboriginal boys to go to St Francis House in Adelaide alongside the now prominent names of Charles Perkins, Gordon Briscoe and Brian Butler. This was supported by his mother, who wanted her children to have a better chance at life. In 1955 Espie joined the Australian Army, as a saper in the engineers and, later, was appointed a field engineer before leaving"}, {"text": "in 1961. On 14 August 1961 he started his training with the NSW Police Force where he worked to become Chief Inspector, the highest position ever held by an Aboriginal person. Espie was well respected in the police force and, in March 1965, received a lot of attention for his bravery when he rescued two trapped men, from separate burning cars. He retired from the police force, after 30 years of serve, in April 1991. During this time he received the following awards: Later life. Espie died on September 22, 2011, in the Concord Repatriation Hospital in Sydney and his ashes were placed at the Alice Springs Garden Cemetery. Legacy. There is a memorial to Espie at the Hartley Street School in Alice Springs, which is now operating as a museum. Much of Espie's memorabilia is on permanent display at the NSW Police Academy in Goulburn."}, {"text": "Fennel is a species of plant, \"Foeniculum vulgare\". Fennel may also refer to:"}, {"text": "James Ridley (born 1889; date of death unknown) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest as an outside left. Personal life. Ridley served as a corporal in the Royal Engineers during the First World War."}, {"text": "Erin Blanchfield (born May 4, 1999) is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the women's Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She is a former Eddie Bravo Invitational champion. As of May 13, 2025, she is #4 in the UFC women's flyweight rankings, and as of June 10, 2025, she is #8 in the UFC women's pound-for-pound rankings. Background. A native of Elmwood Park, New Jersey, Blanchfield started training jiu-jitsu at the age of seven. Two years later, she started competing in kickboxing and grappling tournaments. By the age of 12, she decided she wanted to be a professional fighter. Mixed martial arts career. Early career. Blanchfield fought under Fighting Championships and amassed a record of 1\u20130 prior to being signed by Invicta Fighting Championships. Invicta Fighting Championships. Blanchfield made her Invicta debut on March 17, 2018, against Brittney Cloudy at . She won the fight by split decision. Her next fight came on November 16, 2018, facing Kay Hansen at . She won the fight via majority decision. On February 15, 2019, Blanchfield faced Tracy Cortez at . She lost the fight via split decision. Blanchfield faced Gabriella Gulfin on June 4, 2019 at Cage"}, {"text": "Fury Fighting Championships 76. She won the fight via submission in round one. On February 7, 2020, Blanchfield returned to Invicta, facing Victoria Leonardo at . In the second round Blanchfield dropped Leonardo with a head kick, finishing off the technical knockout victory with punches. Ultimate Fighting Championship. Blanchfield was expected to make her UFC debut as a short notice replacement for Bea Malecki against Norma Dumont on April 10, 2021 at in a Bantamweight bout. In turn, the bout was pulled from the card by after Dumont missed weight by 3.5lbs. Blanchfield faced Sarah Alpar on September 18, 2021 at . She won the fight via unanimous decision. Blanchfield was expected to face Maycee Barber, replacing Montana De La Rosa, on December 11, 2021 at UFC 269. However, Barber withdrew in early November due to undisclosed reasons, and she was replaced by Miranda Maverick. Blanchfield won the fight by unanimous decision. She furthermore set the women's flyweight single-fight takedown record, with eight total takedowns. Blanchfield faced JJ Aldrich on June 4, 2022 at UFC Fight Night 207. She won the bout via guillotine choke in the second round. Blanchfield faced Molly McCann on November 12, 2022 at UFC 281."}, {"text": "She won the fight via a kimura submission in the first round. Blanchfield was scheduled to face Taila Santos on February 18, 2023 at UFC Fight Night 219. When the main event fight between Cory Sandhagen and Marlon Vera was rescheduled for another event, Blanchfield's fight against Santos was moved up to serve as the main event. Santos dropped out of the bout after her cornermen were denied visas into the United States, and was replaced by former UFC Women's Strawweight Champion J\u00e9ssica Andrade. Blanchfield won the fight via submission in round two. This win earned her the \"Performance of the Night \"award. The match with Taila Santos was rebooked and took place on August 26, 2023, at UFC Fight Night 225. Blanchfield won the bout via unanimous decision. Blanchfield faced Manon Fiorot on March 30, 2024, at UFC on ESPN 54. She lost the fight via unanimous decision. Blanchfield faced former two-time UFC Women's Strawweight Champion Rose Namajunas on November 2, 2024 in the main event at UFC Fight Night 246. The bout was later shifted to the co-main event but remained five rounds. She won the fight by unanimous decision. Blanchfield was scheduled to face Maycee Barber in"}, {"text": "the main event on May 31, 2025 at UFC on ESPN 68. At the weigh-ins, Barber weighed in at 126.5 pounds, half a pound over the women's flyweight non-title fight limit. The bout was set to be at catchweight and Barber was to be fined 20 percent of her purse which was to go to Blanchfield. However, minutes before the walkouts were to take place, Barber had to withdraw due to a medical issue involving a seizure and the bout was cancelled. Personal life. Until 2021, Blanchfield was studying Television and Digital Media with a concentration in sports media at Montclair State University, with an aim to becoming a commentator. Blanchfield is the daughter of George and Betsy Blanchfield, and has one brother, Brendan, who is also a mixed martial artist."}, {"text": "The 2007 Tucson mayoral election occurred on November 6, 2007, to elect the mayor of Tucson, Arizona, USA, and coincided with the elections to the Tucson City Council wards 1, 2 and 4. The incumbent Mayor, Bob Walkup, was re-elected. Nominations. Primaries were held for the Democratic Green, and Republican parties on September 11, 2007. Democratic primary. For the Democratic Party, Michael Toney, a write-in candidate won 1,147 votes, or 22.96% of the vote. This was insufficient to capture the nomination. The party did not ultimately have a candidate in the general election. General election. As there was no Democratic nominee, Walkup's main challenger was the Green Party nominee Dave Croteau, who he had also previously faced in the 1999 mayoral election when Croteau ran as a write-in candidate."}, {"text": "Mitragynine is an indole-based alkaloid and is one of the main psychoactive constituents in the Southeast Asian plant \"Mitragyna speciosa\", commonly known as kratom. It is an atypical opioid that is typically consumed as a part of kratom for its pain-relieving and euphoric effects. It has also been researched for its use to potentially manage symptoms of opioid withdrawal. Mitragynine is the most abundant active alkaloid in kratom. In Thai varieties of kratom, mitragynine is the most abundant component (up to 66% of total alkaloids), while 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) is a minor constituent (up to 2% of total alkaloid content). In Malaysian kratom varieties, mitragynine is present at lower concentration (12% of total alkaloids). Total alkaloid concentration in dried leaves ranges from 0.5 to 1.5%. Such preparations are orally consumed and typically involve dried kratom leaves which are brewed into tea or ground and placed into capsules. Uses. Medical. , the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had stated that there were no approved clinical uses for kratom, and that there was no evidence that kratom was safe or effective for treating any condition. This reiterated the conclusion of an earlier report by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug"}, {"text": "Addiction (EMCDDA): , mitragynine had not been approved for any medical use. , the FDA had noted, in particular, that there had been no clinical trials to study safety and efficacy of kratom in the treatment of opioid addiction. Pain. Mitragynine-containing kratom extracts, with their accompanying array of alkaloids and other natural products, have been used for their perceived pain-mitigation properties for at least a century. In Southeast Asia, the consumption of mitragynine from whole leaf kratom preparations is common among laborers who report utilizing kratom's mild stimulant and perceived analgesic properties to increase endurance and ease pain while working. In one laboratory study in a rat model in 2016, alkaloid-containing extracts of kratom gave evidence of inducing naloxone-reversible antinociceptive effects in hotplate and tail-flick tests to a level comparable to oxycodone. Chronic pain. Kratom is commonly used in the United States as self-medication for pain. A 2019 review of existing literature suggested the potential of kratom as substitution therapy for chronic pain. Opioid withdrawal. As early as the 19th century, kratom was in use for the treatment of opioid addiction and withdrawal. , a review of mental health aspects of kratom use mentioned opioid replacement and withdrawal as primary"}, {"text": "motivations for kratom use: almost 50% of the approximately 8,000 kratom users surveyed indicated kratom use that resulted in reduced or discontinued use of opioids. Some animal models of opioid withdrawal suggest mitragynine can suppress and ameliorate withdrawal from other opioid agonists (e.g., after chronic administration of morphine in zebra fish). Recreational. Mitragynine and its metabolite 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) are thought to underlie the effects of kratom. Consumption of dried kratom leaves yields different responses depending on the dose consumed. At low doses, kratom is reported to induce a mild stimulating effect, while larger doses are reported to produce sedation and analgesia typical of opioids. The concentration of mitragynine and other alkaloids in kratom has been found to vary between particular \"strains\" of the plant, thus indicating \"strain-specific\" effects from consumption, as well. Kratom extracts are often mixed with other easily attainable psychoactive compounds such as those found in over-the-counter cough medicines to potentiate the effects of the concentrated levels of mitragynine. Effects of mitragynine-containing preparations from \"M. speciosa\" include analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antidepressant, and muscle relaxant properties; adverse effects include a negative impact on cognition; in animal studies the potential for misuse has been found, including through the use of the"}, {"text": "conditioned place preference (CPP) test, which indicated a distinct reward effect for 7-hydroxymitragynine. Adverse effects. Dependence and withdrawal. Due at least in part to the activity on opioid receptors, mitragynine can result in dependence and lead to withdrawal symptoms when discontinued. After discontinuing kratom regular users reported withdrawal symptoms such as pain, muscle spasms, insomnia, nausea, diarrhea, restlessness, anxiety, and anger, all of which are characteristic of opioid withdrawal. In one study, symptoms of withdrawal lasted less than three days for most subjects. In an animal study, mitragynine withdrawal symptoms were observed following 14 days of mitragynine intraperitoneal injections in mice and included displays of anxiety, teeth chattering, and piloerection, all of which are characteristic signs of opioid withdrawal in mice and are comparable to morphine withdrawal symptoms. Chemistry. Solubility. The solubility of mitragynine from kratom in neutral-pH and alkaline water is very low (0.0187 mg/ml at pH 9). The solubility of mitragynine in acidic water is higher (3.5 mg/ml at pH 4), however, this alkaloid can become unstable, so certain products, such as low-pH beverages, have a very short shelf life. Many vendors offer concentrated kratom products with claims of improved mitragynine solubility, however, those products are often formulated"}, {"text": "with solvents such as propylene glycol, which can make products unpleasant. Pharmacology. Pharmacodynamics. Mitragynine acts on a variety of receptors in the central nervous system (CNS), most notably the mu, delta, and kappa opioid receptors. The nature of mitragynine's interaction with opioid receptors has yet to be fully classified, with some reports suggesting partial agonist activity at the mu-opioid receptor and others suggesting full agonist activity. Additionally, mitragynine is known to interact with delta and kappa opioid receptors as well, but these interactions remain ambiguous, with some reports indicating mitragynine as a delta and kappa opioid receptor competitive antagonist and others as a full agonist of these receptors. In either case, mitragynine is reported to have lower affinity to delta and kappa opioid receptors compared to mu opioid receptors. Mitragynine is also known to interact with dopamine D2, adenosine, serotonin, and alpha-2 adrenergic receptors, though the significance of these interactions is not fully understood. Additionally, several reports of mitragynine pharmacology indicate potential biased agonism activity favoring G protein signaling pathways independent of beta arrestin recruitment, which was originally thought to be a primary component in reducing opioid-induced respiratory depression. However, recent evidence suggests that low intrinsic efficacy at the mu-opioid"}, {"text": "receptor is responsible for the improved side effect profile of mitragynine, as opposed to G protein bias. Pharmacokinetics. Pharmacokinetic analysis has largely taken place in live rodents as well as in rodent and human microsomes. Owing to the heterogeneity of analysis and paucity of human experiments conducted thus far, the pharmacokinetic profile of mitragynine is not complete. However, initial pharmacokinetic studies in humans have yielded preliminary information. In a study of 10 healthy volunteers taking orally administered mitragynine from whole leaf preparations, mitragynine appeared to have a much longer half-life than typical opioid agonists (7\u201339 hours) and reached peak plasma concentration (Tmax) within 1 hour of administration. However, another study involving a Kratom tea preparation reported a much shorter half-life of 3 hours. Mitragynine is estimated to have a bioavailability of 21%. Metabolism. Mitragynine is primarily metabolized in the liver, producing many metabolites during both phase I and phase II. Phase I. During phase I metabolism, mitragynine undergoes hydrolysis of the methylester group on C16 as well as o-demethylation of both methoxy groups on positions 9 and 17. Following this step, oxidation and reduction reactions convert aldehyde intermediates into alcohols and carboxylic acids. P450 metabolic enzymes are known to facilitate"}, {"text": "the phase I metabolism of mitragynine which reportedly has an inhibitory effect on multiple P450 enzymes, raising the possibility of adverse drug interactions. Phase II. During phase II metabolism, phase I metabolites undergo glucuronidation and sulfation to form multiple glucuronide and sulfate conjugates, which are then excreted via urine. History. Mitragynine consumption for medicinal and recreational purposes dates back centuries, although early use was primarily limited to Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia and Thailand, where the plant grows indigenously. Recently, mitragynine use has spread throughout Europe and the Americas as both a recreational and medicinal drug. While research into the effects of kratom have begun to emerge, investigations on the active compound mitragynine are less common. Legality. In the United States, kratom and its active ingredients are not scheduled under DEA guidelines. Despite the current legal status of the plant and its constituents, the legality of kratom has been turbulent in recent years. In August 2016, the DEA issued a report of intent stating that mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine would undergo emergency scheduling and be placed under Schedule I classification until further notice, making kratom strictly illegal and thus hindering research on its active constituents. Following this report, the DEA"}, {"text": "faced significant public and administrative opposition in the form of a White House petition signed by 140,000 citizens and a letter to the DEA administrator backed by 51 members of the House of Representatives resisting the proposed scheduling. This opposition led the DEA to withdraw its report of intent in October 2016, allowing for unencumbered research into the potential benefits and health risks associated with mitragynine and other alkaloids in the kratom plant. Kratom and its active constituents are unscheduled and legally sold in stores and online in the United States except for a small number of states. As of June 2019, the FDA continues to warn consumers not to use kratom, while advocating for more research for a better understanding of kratom's safety profile. Research. Research limitations. Inconsistencies in dosing, purity, and concomitant drug use makes evaluating the effects of mitragynine in humans difficult. Conversely, animal studies control for such variability, but offer limited translatable information relevant to humans. Experimental limitations aside, mitragynine has been found to interact with a variety of receptors, although the nature and extent of receptor interactions has yet to be fully characterized. Additionally, the toxicity of mitragynine and associated kratom alkaloids has yet to"}, {"text": "be fully determined in humans, nor has the risk of overdose. More studies are necessary to assess safety and potential therapeutic utility. Toxicology. Mitragynine toxicity in humans is largely unknown, as animal studies show significant species-specific differences in mitragynine tolerance. Mitragynine toxicity in humans is rarely reported although specific examples of seizures and liver toxicity in kratom consumers have been reported. Due to cytochrome P450 enzyme inhibition, the combination of mitragynine with other drugs poses concern for adverse reactions to mitragynine. Fatalities involving mitragynine tend to include its use in combination with opioids and some cough suppressants. Post-mortem toxicology screens indicate a wide range of mitragynine blood concentrations ranging from 10 \u03bcg/L to 4800 \u03bcg/L, making it difficult to calculate what constitutes a toxic dose in humans. These variations are suggested to result from differences in the toxicology assays used, and how long after death the assays were conducted."}, {"text": "Super V is an Indian animated television series loosely based on Virat Kohli and was created by Harman Baweja for Star India. It was launched on multiple Star Network and Disney India's channels from 5 November 2019. Plot. Impulsive14-year-old teenager Virat, on the cusp of childhood and adulthood, is trying to find his identity between his aspirations, his father's expectations, and other pressures. Virat lives with his parents and sister in New Delhi. His lawyer father, Ashok, is known for strict honesty, and his mother, Gogi is a homemaker, a supermom who always manages to ground the situation no matter how volatile the relationship between Virat and Ashok gets. Ashok wants Virat to be responsible, mature, and disciplined; Virat wants to be left alone to be himself, a teenager for a few more years. Virat wants to become the best batsman in the world. His coach, his teacher, and even his father know that Virat is a cricket prodigy, and is held back by his anger. Another problem is Virat's nemesis, the school bully, Sooraj, the captain of the under-19 Indian team. Sooraj is from a rich, influential background and is a very good bowler. He does his best to"}, {"text": "create problems for Virat's cricket. Virat doesn't talk to everyone, but with his best friends Jo, Bunny, and Amara, he talks non-stop. Virat is tongue-tied whenever his crush, Shazia, is around. On Virat's 15th birthday his grandfather comes to him in a dream and reveals that his family are superheroes. He realizes that he can use the powers of the heirloom, a kada (bracelet) for good, but the rule of the universe is that if there is good then there must also be evil. As the Superhero rises, so does the Supervillain, Navar, who has a plan to take over the world. Virat must balance his home life with his friends, his love interest, saving the world, and must still find it within himself to win the world cup for India! Release. The series premiered simultaneously on 5 November 2019 across five Star India owned networks - Disney Channel India, Marvel HQ, Star Sports and Star Plus as well as streaming service Hotstar. In North America it was streamed exclusively on Hotstar USA, and in the United Kingdom the series was aired on Star Plus UK. The series is dubbed into Bengali and broadcast on Star Jalsha."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Purdue Boilermakers women's basketball team represented Purdue University during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. Boilermakers, led by 14th year head coach Sharon Versyp, played their home games at Mackey Arena and were a members of the Big Ten Conference. Schedule. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Big Ten conference season !colspan=9 style=| Big Ten Women's Tournament See also. 2019\u201320 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team"}, {"text": "Dragi\u0161a Blagojevi\u0107 (born 1 January 1966) is a Montenegrin chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (GM) (2004), six-times Montenegrin Chess Championship winner (2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009), Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (2008). Biography. Dragi\u0161a Blagojevi\u0107 made his first success in international chess tournaments in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1988, he placed 2nd in the International Chess Tournament in Prague. Dragi\u0161a Blagojevi\u0107 won the International Chess Tournament in Tuzla in 1990, but in 1991 he was awarded the 4th place in the Yugoslav Chess Championship. In 1996, in Podgorica Dragi\u0161a Blagojevi\u0107 won 2nd place in the Montenegrin Chess Championship, but in recent years has won six times this tournament: in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009. In 2002, he was 2nd in Yugoslav Chess Championship. In 2004, in Zenica Dragi\u0161a Blagojevi\u0107 placed 2nd in the International Chess Tournament. In 2005, in Bijelo Polje he placed 2nd in the International Chess Tournament. Dragi\u0161a Blagojevi\u0107 played for Montenegro in the Chess Olympiads: Dragi\u0161a Blagojevi\u0107 played for Montenegro in the European Team Chess Championships: In 1988, Dragi\u0161a Blagojevi\u0107 was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title and in 2004 he received the title of FIDE Grandmaster"}, {"text": "(GM). Private. His daughter Tijana Mandura (born in 1997), is a chess master."}, {"text": "The 2003 Tucson mayoral election occurred on November 4, 2003, to elect the mayor of Tucson, and occurred coinciding with the elections to the Tucson City Council wards 1, 2 and 4. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Bob Walkup. Nominations. Primaries were held for the Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican parties on September 9, 2003. Democratic primary. The Democratic Party saw former mayor Thomas Volgy win 10,365 votes, or 97.67% of the vote. He was originally challenged by Paul Wallace for the nomination, but Wallace formally withdrew his candidacy. Other. Patricia Irish unsuccessfully sought to run with no party affiliation, but did not garner enough signatures."}, {"text": "Yoshihiro Kawano (born 4 October 1943) is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Land War was a period of agrarian unrest in Ireland in the late 19th century. Land War may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Gerhard Strutz (2 April 1943 \u2013 3 November 1998) was an Austrian speed skater. He competed in the men's 5000 metres event at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Patricia Fortini Brown (born 16 November 1936) is Professor Emerita of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. Venice and its empire, from the late middle ages through the early modern period, has been the primary site of her scholarly research, with a focus on how works of art and architecture can materialize and sum up significant aspects of the culture in which they were produced. Her recent work has focused on Venetian territories in the Mediterranean and the Terraferma, particularly the Friuli. Life and career. Brown was born and raised in Oakland, California, where she graduated from Fremont High School (1954). After attending Brigham Young University, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with an A.B. in Political Science (1959). Brown was active as a studio artist for 17 years and raised two sons before beginning graduate work. Returning to Berkeley in 1976, she earned an M.A. (1978) and PhD (1983) in the History of Art. Brown taught at Princeton for 27 years (1983-2010), where she was the first woman to be promoted to tenure (1989) in the Department of Art & Archaeology and served as department chair for six years (1999 -2005). Brown was Slade Professor of Fine"}, {"text": "Arts at the University of Cambridge (2000-2001). She served as president of the Renaissance Society of America (2000-2002), and was a member of the Board of Advisors for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (2004-7). She serves on an Advisory committee for \u201cMediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities,\" a Getty-funded research project (with research trips with the MCities group to Nicosia, Cordoba, Granada, Rhodes, and Thessaloniki), 2018-20, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Save Venice since 2004. In recognition of her retirement in 2010, Brown was honored with eight sessions at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Venice, as well as with a symposium at Princeton University: \"Giorgione and His Times: Confronting Alternate Realities\" on the 500th anniversary of the death of Giorgione. Selected papers from the two symposia were published in a Festschrift edited by Blake de Maria and Mary E. Frank, \"Reflections on Renaissance Venice: a celebration of Patricia Fortini Brown\" (Milan: 5 Continents Editions; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2013) (Winner of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Book Prize in 2015 from the Renaissance Society of America)."}, {"text": "Peter B\u00fcttner (born 26 July 1938) is a Swiss speed skater. He competed in the men's 5000 metres event at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Fuhrmannhaus is the oldest surviving house in the west of Vienna, Austria. It is part of the 14th borough Penzing. History. The history of the Fuhrmannhaus can be sourced back to the 17th century by a stair railing from the year 1687. This railing is part of the reconstruction after the Second Viennese Ottoman siege in 1683. At the site of the house, however, there is also evidence of a Roman watchtower and a medieval settlement, where today's \"Linzer Stra\u00dfe\" (\"Linzer Street\") applies as an important transport road to Linz since the 12th century. Furthermore, a barred tiny window from the time before 1500 is still preserved in the courtyard of the building. The Fuhrmannhaus has an art-historically valuable small hall with frescoes from the late 17th century. This hall is currently used for cultural events such as classical concerts and readings. Furthermore, the building accommodates a traditional Viennese wine tavern. In the courtyard art exhibitions and different markets are held, such as farmers' and Christmas markets. In the course of its more than three hundred years of history, the Fuhrmannhaus changed hands several times. Around 1680 it was acquired by the Barnabites who used the building as a farmyard"}, {"text": "as well as summer quarters for members of the monastery. In 1840, Franz Xaver Fuhrmann bought the house and operated a wagon company for several decades. Since then it remained in the possession of the heirs of the family Fuhrmann and thus received its present name."}, {"text": "Stan Fail (born June 11, 1936) is an American speed skater. He competed in the men's 5000 metres event at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Actinopyga lecanora, commonly known as the white-bottomed sea cucumber or stonefish, is a species of sea cucumber in the family Holothuriidae. It is native to the tropical Western Indo-Pacific region and is harvested for food. Description. \"Actinopyga lecanora\" grows to a length of about . The top and bottom of the sea cucumber is a mottled tan-orange colour, and the anus is surrounded with a white ring, lending the sea cucumber its common name. Distribution and habitat. \"Actinopyga lecanora\" is found off the coasts of Asia and East Africa, in the tropical Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Its range extends from Kenya and Madagascar to the west, to Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and other island groups in the western Pacific. It is considered rare in the Taiping Islands and Taiwan. It is nocturnal and typically found on forereef slopes, at depths between , and prefers microhabitat with complex topography. Status. This species is harvested commercially for food and traditional medicine in some parts of its range, and is of medium commercial importance. It is used in the production of b\u00eache-de-mer in 13 different countries in the Western Central Pacific. In Papua New Guinea, it is subject"}, {"text": "to a minimum size limit of if fresh and if dry, as well as a designated fishing season between January 16 and September 30 to prevent overfishing. The IUCN lists its conservation status as data deficient. Aquaculture and early development. This species has not been cultured at industrial scales, but a technique to produce its juvenile has been developed. This species has large ovary over 300 \u03bcm in diameter and lecithotrophic. Its planktonic larva rapidly settles into the benthic phase in 4-8 days after fertilization."}, {"text": "Reinhold Seeb\u00f6ck (born 15 April 1943) is an Austrian speed skater. He competed in the men's 5000 metres event at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Ian McGrane (born November 22, 1995) is an American soccer player who playing for Union Omaha in USL League One as a goalkeeper. Career. College & Amateur. McGrane began playing college soccer at Monroe College in 2014. He transferred to the University of Wisconsin\u2013Green Bay, but didn't appear for them during his time there. In 2016, McGrane transferred again, this time to the University of South Carolina. While in college, McGrane had spells with NPSL side FC Miami City in 2016, as well as with USL PDL side SC United Bantams in both 2017 and 2018. McGrane returned to the NPSL in 2019, playing with AFC Ann Arbor. Professional. In September 2019, McGrane signed for NISA side Stumptown Athletic ahead of the league's inaugural season. McGrane signed with the Tampa Bay Rowdies of USLC on January 31, 2020. Following the 2021 season it was announced that McGrane would leave the Rowdies. In May 2022, McGrane moved to MLS Next Pro side St. Louis City SC 2. McGrane's contract option was declined in November 2022."}, {"text": "The 1988 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 1987\u201388 FAI Cup, a knock-out association football competition contested annually by clubs affiliated with the Football Association of Ireland. It took place on Sunday 1 May 1988 at Dalymount Park in Dublin, and was contested by Dundalk and Derry City. Dundalk won the match 1\u20130 to win the cup for the eighth time, and, in so doing, won their second League and Cup Double. Background. The two sides' three previous meetings that season had been in the League, with Dundalk winning both matches in Oriel Park and Derry winning the match in the Brandywell. Dundalk had already been confirmed League of Ireland Champions for 1987\u201388, and they were chasing their second League and Cup Double. They had lost the previous season's final and hadn't won the Cup since 1981. To reach the final they had defeated Sligo Rovers (3\u20132 in a replay after a 1\u20131 draw), Bray Wanderers (2\u20130), Cork City (1\u20130 in a replay after a 0\u20130 draw), and St Patrick's Athletic (4\u20130 on aggregate in a two-leg semi-final). Derry City had joined the League in 1985\u201386, and been promoted in 1986\u201387. They finished eighth in the Premier"}, {"text": "Division in their first season, and were playing in their first FAI Cup final, but had already qualified for the 1988\u201389 European Cup Winners' Cup due to Dundalk qualifying for the 1988\u201389 European Cup. They had overcome non-league St Joseph's Boys (6\u20130), Bohemians (4\u20131 in a replay after a 0\u20130 draw), Home Farm (3\u20130), and Longford Town (6\u20132 on aggregate in a two-leg semi-final) to reach the final. The match was broadcast live on RT\u00c9 Two in Ireland with commentary from George Hamilton. Match. Summary. The match, spoiled somewhat by a strong blustery wind and a cut-up pitch, was settled by a controversial 20th-minute penalty, scored by John Cleary. Derry's Martin Bayly had been harshly adjudged to have fouled Dundalk's Larry Wyse by referee Spillane, when Bayly pushed Wyse on the right-hand side of the penalty area but not with enough force to knock him over. Derry City had two claims for penalties of their own waved away in the second half, but on the balance of play Dundalk were considered to have been the better team, generally snuffing out Derry City's attacking play and creating a number of good chances of their own. Dundalk's victory meant that they had"}, {"text": "secured their second League and Cup Double, the first having been won in 1978\u201379."}, {"text": "The LFG Ph\u00f6nix, also known as LFG Segelflugboot Ph\u00f6nix, LFG Boot-Ph\u00f6nix and Ph\u00f6nix 3, was a single seat flying boat glider built in Germany in the early 1920s. Design and development. The Ph\u00f6nix flying boat glider was built, like other Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft (LFG) boats, at their Stralsund works. It was designed by G. Baatz and first flew in 1922. Its cantilever shoulder wing was built around a single one piece plywood box spar. In plan the wings were straight-tapered and had long, semi-elliptical tips. They were thick in section and strongly cambered at the root, thinning steadily outboard, and had 8\u00b0 of dihedral. Short but broad ailerons, mounted on the rear of the spar, extended to the tips. The Ph\u00f6nix's rectangular section hull had a single step on its planing surface. Externally the hull was covered with ply protected by waterproof canvas. Stability on the water was provided by totally enclosed underwing, stepless floats out from the hull. Internally the hull was divided into a series of watertight compartments, with sealable doors in them for access. The pilot sat in an open cockpit between the wing leading edge and the nose, where an upward-opening towing hook, easily released from the cockpit,"}, {"text": "was mounted. Its fixed tail surfaces were generous and broad, with a swept, straight-edged, round topped fin and a roughly rectangular tailplane mounted on top of ihe fuselage. The rudder was flat and broad at its top but narrowed downwards. In contrast, a general arrangement (g/a) diagram shows very small elevators. Operational history. In 1922-3 the Ph\u00f6nix was flight tested at Stralsund and at Rossiten, one base of the RRG and a home of German gliding in the 1920s. Some of these take-offs were made under wind power alone, with the Ph\u00f6nix moored to a buoy on a long, down-wind cable and rising like a kite. Others were made under motor-boat tow. In 1923 \"Flight\" referred to it as the Ph\u00f6nix 3 but nothing is known specifically about earlier models, though there are some differences between the g/a diagram and images, particularly for the rudder profile."}, {"text": "Kim Choon-bong (born 15 March 1941) is a North Korean speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Museum of Literature Ireland (), branded MoLI in an homage to Molly Bloom, is a literary museum in Dublin, Ireland. It opened in September 2019. The museum is a partnership between the National Library of Ireland and University College Dublin (UCD). It is located in UCD's Newman House in St Stephen's Green. It holds a permanent collection of James Joyce\u2013related material, including his \"Copy No. 1\" of \"Ulysses\", and revolving exhibitions on other Irish literary figures. With a range of audio and immersive displays, it has been nominated for and won a number of awards for design and architecture. History. The idea of a literary centre at Newman House began with a discussion between Eamonn Ceannt, Bursar / Vice-President for Capital Development of University College Dublin, and a representative of the National Library of Ireland, at Bewley's Caf\u00e9. Originally, it was planned as a new cultural institution focusing on James Joyce. The charitable foundation of Martin Naughton and his wife funded an initial study, and after discussion with Failte Ireland, which offered to provide funding to the tune of 2.5 million euro, the concept was expanded to take in Irish literature in general. In formulating a name for the"}, {"text": "expanded project, a Joycean link was deemed important, so a name was devised, the acronym of which would relate to his work \u2013 hence MoLI (pronounced \"Molly\") in homage to Molly Bloom. The museum architectural project began in 2012, and design was worked on from 2014, based on a conversion of the Newman House complex, the original home of University College Dublin, on St Stephen's Green. The exhibition design was developed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, with the architectural design by Scott Tallon Walker. Emphasis was placed on auditory material and potential for visitor interaction. The construction project budget was just over 10 million euro, for a floor area of , of which about was new building, including a mezzanine addition. A major part of the work was the development of a museum-grade central stairway, a lift and modern fire escape provisions. The museum's first director is Simon O'Connor, who previously worked as part of the founding team of The Little Museum of Dublin. Originally planned to open in the spring of 2019, MoLI was launched with an evening opening on Culture Night, 20 September 2019, with general opening from the following day. Admission is paid. Experience and holdings. Newman House"}, {"text": "is a complex of two Georgian houses and the original university \"Aula Maxima\" (Great Hall), and all of this space, with some new \"insertions\", is used for the museum. MoLI is laid out over three floors, each with a theme. The ground floor is themed \"place\" and contains immersive displays, the first \"voice\" and the second \"inspiration\", which includes an area for visitors to produce their own work. MoLI is able to draw on the collections of the National Library, and the Special Collections of UCD Library. Two central elements of the exhibitions are Joyce's \"Copy No. 1\" of \"Ulysses\", which he inscribed to a patron, Harriet Weaver, and the \"Riverrun of Language\", named from the first word of Joyce's \"Finnegans Wake\", which responds to visitor movements with \"sound showers of spoken literature and folklore\". Exhibitions. The first of MoLI's revolving exhibitions, in place for the opening, was on Kate O'Brien, and this was followed by one on Nuala O'Faolain. Also in place for the launch was a section on Young Adult Fiction, including general fiction, science fiction and fantasy. In March 2023, for the 100th anniversary of Brendan Behan's birth, MoLI, in collaboration with novelist Patrick McCabe, opened \"The"}, {"text": "Holy Hour\", an audiovisual installation reframing Behan's life and work. Education. The museum planned from before opening for both a specialist research library and outreach programmes for adults and school children. Garden and ancillary facilities. Ancillary public facilities are on the lower ground floor, while offices are on a closed third floor. The museum's \"Readers Garden\", which is also accessible from the Iveagh Gardens public park, contains a courtyard aspect of the caf\u00e9 and places to read. Operation of the museum caf\u00e9, The Commons, on the lower ground floor, and planned to have direct access from the street and Iveagh Gardens, is contracted to Peaches and Domini Kemp. The museum shop is in the interior of the lower floor. Governance and operations. The museum premises are owned by UCD, and it is a collaboration between the university and the National Library of Ireland. It is operated by a UCD company, Newman House Literary Centre, CLG, which has a board of up to seven members, all unpaid: up to four delegates of UCD, two of the National Library, and an independent chair (appointed by UCD). Recognition. The design received an Honourable Mention from \"Creative Review\" magazine. It also won a MUSE"}, {"text": "Design Award for Interior Design in 2020, and a Good Design (Environments) Award from The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies. The adaptation work on the building was a shortlisted nominee for the Public Choice Award of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland 2020. Media. The design, building and launch of the museum were presented in a documentary, \"Making a Museum: The Story of MoLI\", by Luke McManus, broadcast on RT\u00c9 Television on Bloomsday 2020. The museum has had a digital radio station, RadioMoLI, from before its opening, and a dedicated broadcasting room was planned. For its reopening after COVID-19 pandemic closure, it produced a short film, primarily of its garden, based around a reading of a short piece from \"Time and the Gods\" by the Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany."}, {"text": "Bak Sung-wun (born 18 November 1940) is a North Korean speed skater. He competed in the men's 5000 metres event at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Kalervo Hietala (born 24 February 1938) is a Finnish speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Muzakhid Khabibulin (born 2 September 1933) is a Soviet speed skater. He competed in the men's 5000 metres event at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Brenda Zara Seligman ( Salaman; 26 June 1883 \u2013 2 January 1965) was a British anthropologist. She was awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal in 1933 for five years of fieldwork. She married fellow ethnologist Charles Seligman. After he died in 1940, she continued to extend their private museum collections. She rose to be vice-president of the Royal Anthropological Institute and to leave vast collections to leading British museums. Life. Seligman was born in London in 1883. She was educated at home before attending Roedean and then she took pre-medical studies at Bedford College. She married pathologist and anthropologist Charles Seligman in 1905, and helped write up his notes from his visit to New Guinea. The British government was commissioning ethnographic surveys and the two of them undertook that work in Sri Lanka in 1907/8 studying aboriginal culture there. They published a jointly-authored book on this work, \"The Veddas\", in 1911. In 1909 they were undertaking anthropological work in Sudan and archaeological work in Egypt. They returned to Sudan in 1911/12 and 1921/22 where Brenda learnt Arabic. They returned to Egypt in 1913/14. She would sort out genealogies and wider relationships including particularly women and children where she could gain access"}, {"text": "denied to men. She and Charles took a joint interest in psychology, magic and beliefs. She tended to leave the study of less abstract aspects to Charles. She was the winner of Rivers Memorial Medal in 1933 for her work over five years in the field. Her husband had won the medal a few years earlier. He was better known, although their books were issued under both names. In 1932 they published \"Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan\" which documented work they did together. He died in 1940. In 1958 she worked with the American born anthropologist, Marian Smith, to create the Royal Anthropological Institute's endowment fund. The fund was able to fund various symposiums including ones on the artist in tribal society, the domestication of cattle and race relations. Brenda Seligman died in Kensington in 1965. The papers of the Seligmans are held at the London School of Economics."}, {"text": "Pantomime is a 1996 five-song EP by Minneapolis alternative rock band Polara, released shortly before their second full-length \"C'est la Vie\", their major-label debut for Interscope Records. Though bandleader Ed Ackerson produced most of \"Pantomime\" and \"C'est La Vie\" himself, the band also worked with Alan Moulder (Smashing Pumpkins), Sean Slade, and Paul Q. Kolderie on several tracks. Completing \"C'est La Vie\" took longer than anticipated, so the band released an EP, \"Pantomime\", in November 1996 before the full-length album which was ready the following April. Reception. The EP was well-received by critics. The \"Los Angeles Times\" pop-music critic Robert Hilburn said that \"the music filters '90s sensibilities with all sorts of classic rock elements\u2014from Beatles and Stones to R.E.M.\u2014in the manner of Oasis and the Smashing Pumpkins. Polara serves warning in this EP that it has the vision and command to be a major player.\" Jenny Eliscu of \"CMJ New Music Monthly\" said that \"the real meat of each Polara song is a sharp, shining hook, a bouncy rhythm and an immediately accessible vocal melody. But since Ackerson's looked at sound boards from both sides now, there are always plenty of sound effects to act as the dressing on"}, {"text": "these tunes\u2014a bit of Moog or Farfisa, some low-grade feedback or an unidentifiable drone.\" Bryan Carroll of AllMusic said that the EP combined electronica, \"a progressive political sensibility, and a love of cavernously huge-sounding production with the conventions of alternative rock,\" but felt that the music \"sounds flat and half-baked.\""}, {"text": "General Hendrik Abraham Alberts (7 April 1855 in Hoeko, near Ladismith, Cape Colony \u2013 8 September 1906 in Honingfontein Farm) was a South African military commander, author, and businessman of Afrikaner descent Alberton and Albertville are named after Alberts, along with the Alberts Farm conservation area near Greymont. The General Alberts Primary School in Alberton is also named after him. Background and youth. Alberts was the oldest son of Hendrik Abraham Alberts and Martha Magdalena Claassen of Heidelberg, Western Cape. He grew up on his father's farm; little is known of his education other than that he was home-schooled by his mother at least sometimes. Later briefs and war correspondence show a high level of literacy. After marrying 17-year-old Petronella Johanna Oosthuizen of Ladismith when he was 19, the couple moved to near the other Heidelberg in South African Republic (ZAR), where he would become a wealthy farmer by the outbreak of the Second Boer War. Second Boer War. With the outbreak of war in October 1899, Alberts enlisted in the Heidelberg commandos and was deployed to the Natal front. At the Battle of Spion Kop, Alberts served as acting field cornet. After the occupation of Pretoria by British Army"}, {"text": "troops in June 1900, he retreated with the Heidelberg commandos to Machadodorp. Alberts served as commandant in place of Cmdt. Cornelis Johannes Spruyt, who had been promoted to general. He served in Spruyt's place at the Battle of Lake Chrissie (6 February 1901). When Spruyt was killed in action in July 1901, Alberts was promoted in his stead. Alberts became General Louis Botha's right-hand man in East Transvaal, such as in the Battle of Bakenlaagte. Alberts was then deployed with several Transvaal commandos to the Orange Free State, fighting over a wide area with Gen. Christiaan de Wet. At the Battle of Kalkkrans, in February 1902, he and the other Boer Republic forces were routed by the British lines, and he had to retreat with General De Wet into the Drakensberg. Afterwards, Alberts returned to East Transvaal to harass British supply lines, in order to relieve pressure on Gen. Botha's forces. In May 1902, Alberts attended the signing ceremony of the Peace of Vereeniging, where he spoke in favor of accepting the British peace proposal. When the commandos laid down their arms, on 5 June 1902 at Kraal Station, he handed a letter of thanks to his officers. Postwar. After"}, {"text": "the war, Alberts returned to work on his farm, but he needed to rebuild his house and barn from scratch. In time, thanks to several profitable real estate transactions, he restored his finances. He remained a fervent supporter of Botha and an active participant in local politics, including the foundation of the Het Volk Party . Alberts also led a syndicate that purchased the ground where the city of Alberton would be built. In 1905, he began to experience the heart disease that would soon end his life. A.P.J. van Rensburg wrote of him in the \"Suid-Afrikaanse Biografiese Woordeboek\": \"fatherlander par excellence, deeply pious, friendly, and approachable, he won a lasting place among the heroes of South Africa.\" He was survived by three biological sons, two biological daughters, and an adopted son. Albert's Farm. In the 1890s, according to tradition, Alberts leased 114 acres of the old farm of Waterval to its owner. The original homestead is long gone, but the fenced family graveyard remains. In 1946, Albert's descendants sold 45,000 m\u00b2 for \u00a318,500 to the city council for public use."}, {"text": "Friedrich Strindberg, also Friedrich Strindberg-Wedekind, pseudonym Fredrik Uhlson, (21 August 1897 in Vienna \u2013 30 March 1978 in Italy) was a Swedish-Austrian journalist and author. He was the second child of Frida Uhl and the grandson of . Frank Wedekind was his biological father. His mother was at the time still married to August Strindberg, who juridically accepted the boy as his son. He was born and brought up in Austria. Early years. Friedrich Strindberg grew up with his grandmother in Schloss Dornach, Saxen, Upper Austria. After volunteering in the Austrian army in the First World War, he returned to his birth town Vienna, where he in 1923 married the writer and playwright Maria Lazar. The couple had a daughter, Judith, born in 1924. Their marriage was dissolved in 1927. Strindberg worked as a freelance journalist for the Ullstein publishing house and for various newspapers. He reported from both Mussolini\u00b4s Abyssinian campaign and the Spanish Civil War. Fleeing to Sweden. Friedrich Strindberg was an active anti-Nazi and had to flee to Sweden in 1943. August Strindberg's Swedish heirs wanted to prevent this and tried to revoke his Swedish citizenship. This could have ended fatally for Friedrich Strindberg, as his biological"}, {"text": "father Frank Wedekind incorrectly had been declared \"half-Jewish\" by the Nuremberg laws in Nazi Germany. Work in Exile. Reportedly Friedrich Strindberg was one of the first journalists who knew of Hitler's deportations to Concentration camps and the gas chambers. In Sweden he started writing \"Under jorden i Berlin\" (Under ground in Berlin). The novel was released under the pseudonym Fredrik Uhlson in February 1945, making it the first published fictional work about the Holocaust. The heroes of the novel are a subsidiary rabbi and his girlfriend, who at the very last moment learn the Gestapo wants to contain them, and immediately go underground. The role models of these characters are Herbert and Lotte Strauss, who themselves covered their experiences in the Third Reich in their memoir volumes. Friedrich Strindberg appears in their works as a Swedish photographer who informs the pair about the atrocities of the Nazis. Life in West Germany and Italy. In 1949 Friedrich Strindberg left Sweden and re-settled in Germany. In 1957 he was head of the text editorial office of Weltbild, in 1961 of Quick. In the mid 1960s on retirement from full-time work he moved to Italy, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for"}, {"text": "Quick and wrote the novel \"Wenn die Birnen Reifen\" which came out the year before his death. Legacy. Friedrich Strindberg is together with his second wife Utje posthumously honored as Righteous Among the Nations. His name is also immortalized on the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel."}, {"text": "The 1999 Tucson mayoral election occurred on November 2, 1999, to elect the mayor of Tucson, and occurred coinciding with the elections to the Tucson City Council wards 1, 2 and 4. It saw the election of Bob Walkup. Incumbent mayor George Miller did not seek reelection to a third term. Nominations. Primaries were held for the Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican parties on September 7, 1999. Democratic primary. Originally also running in the Democratic primary was Emily Machala, who formally withdrew, and Michael Fleishman, who was removed from the ballot by a court ruling. Libertarian primary. Originally also running in the Libertarian primary was Elizabeth Strong-Anderson, who was removed from the ballot by court order. General election. In the general election, McKasson suffered and Walkup benefited from a fracture in the Democratic Party. Walkup became the city's first Republican mayor since Lew Murphy left office in 1987."}, {"text": "The Midden Halt is a request stop on the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway which serves a camp site."}, {"text": "Bert Chandler may refer to:"}, {"text": "Recitationes were a literary practice of ancient Rome that involved one or more public readings (\"recitatio\", pl \"recitationes\") of a text. Some of these occurred in public places (theaters and baths), and even in the Roman Forum. History. Before this public performance, authors would simply be known by their texts. These would be copied on scrolls by copyists, often freedmen of Greek origin, and were intended to be sold by these book publishers to wealthy people. Starting towards the end of the Republic, the recitations developed substantially under the Empire, especially under the reign of Augustus, thanks to the poet and politician Gaius Asinius Pollio, who became well known because of the fashion for this new entertainment. The purpose of reading aloud in public was to make themselves known to an audience in order to obtain social and monetary protection; the recitations took place, for the most part, within privileged closed circles. Each person reciting was the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of a patron. The purpose of a reader was to secure his career by being the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the wealthiest of patrons. The patron, a politician or wealthy public figure, paid his artist and commissioned works in which the patron was thanked;"}, {"text": "the latter could even appear as one of the characters in the text read. The orders were often intended to reproduce Greek works in Latin and in the Roman fashion of the moment. This Latinization of Greek literature was explicit: most Roman citizens, and at least all those who attended the recitations, were bilingual and knew Greek perfectly, a language of commerce and literature. Thus, in the \"Eclogues\", Virgil takes up the Greek topos of the dialogue between shepherds of Arcadia and builds from there a poem in Latin meter. Horace, Virgil and Propertius were all famous authors of recitations. Some famous verses of the \"Odes\" of Horace make clear the stake of a \"recitatio\": to erect an artistic monument as did the Greeks and by taking again the elements of their literature; to remain for posterity as one who will have settled in Rome a Latin literature reproducing the Greek literature."}, {"text": "Justice Humphreys may refer to:"}, {"text": "Bridget Patricia Byrne (n\u00e9e Murphy; born 1950) is an Irish writer of narrative nonfiction. Two of her books deal with historical events in nineteenth-century Achill Island. Biography. Byrne was born in the townland of Greenwood, in the parish of Bekan, County Mayo, in 1950. She attended Bekan National School and St Louis Secondary School in Balla, County Mayo. She holds a BA from Maynooth University. She worked as a civil servant in the Irish public service in Dublin. She moved to Limerick in 1980 and worked as an enterprise development executive, and later as an executive director, with Shannon Development - a regional economic development agency for the Mid-West region of Ireland. She was awarded a Master\u2019s in Business Studies by the University of Limerick in 1996. She also holds an MA from NUI Galway. Works. Byrne has published three books, two in the narrative nonfiction genre based on historical events on Achill Island. Her book \"The Preacher and The Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland\" published by Merrion Press in 2018 recounts the story of Edward Nangle and his nineteenth century Achill Mission Colony. The narrative traces the evolution of Edward Nangle\u2019s"}, {"text": "vision for an evangelising colony from his days as a young clergyman in Cavan at the time of the Second Reformation, through the charges of souperism against his Achill colony in the Great Famine years, on to the period when the Achill Mission became the largest landlord on Achill Island. \"The Veiled Woman of Achill: Island Outrage and A Playboy Drama\" (Collins Press, 2012) recounts the story of an infamous crime on Achill Island in 1894, when James Lynchehaun attacked the English landlord, Agnes MacDonnell, causing facial disfigurement, and burnt her home - the Valley House. (The Valley House is located in the north east of Achill Island in a townland known as \"The Valley\" or \"T\u00f3in an tSeanbhaile\"). The narrative relates how James Lynchehaun attracted notoriety following two spectacular escapes from custody and became an Irish folklore figure. There is an account of the ground breaking legal case in the United States in 1903 when Lynchehaun successfully resisted extradition. Following the Abbey Theatre riots of 1907 around the performance of The Playboy of the Western World, the writer John Millington Synge admitted that Lynchehaun and the \u2018Aran case\u2019 of O M\u00e1ille had influenced him in writing the play. Byrne\u2019s"}, {"text": "poetry collection \"Unstable Time\" was published by Lapwing Press in 2009. Awards. Byrne\u2019s essay \"Milk Bottles in Limerick\" was named as one of the \"Notable Essays of the Year\" in The Best American Essays 2017. She won the Dromineer Poetry Prize (2007) and was shortlisted for a CUIRT annual award (2007). She was a prize winner in the Unbound Press First Chapters competition (2010)."}, {"text": "The Los Angeles Gladiators are an American esports team founded in 2017 that competes in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Gladiators began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2018 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance."}, {"text": "J\u00fcrgen Traub (born 17 May 1943) is a German speed skater. He competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Igor Ostashov (3 May 1937 - 1 April 1998) was a Soviet speed skater. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres event at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Yetunde Barnabas () is a Nigerian model, beauty queen, actress and film producer. She initially gained recognition as the winner of \"The Most Beautiful Girl in Abuja\" pageant in 2017 and was crowned \"Miss Tourism Nigeria\" in 2019. She is best known for her role as Miss Pepeiye on Nigeria's long-running sitcom, Papa Ajasco and Company, as well as several leading roles in the Yoruba movie industry. She is married to Nigerian footballer Peter Olayinka. Early life. Yetunde Barnabas was born on August 30, 1990, in Ilorin, Kwara state, though her family is originally from Kogi State. Barnabas grew up in Abuja, and after her secondary school education at the Kings of Kings Secondary School, she attended Seriki Olopolo Production and Royal Arts Academy where she honed her acting skills. Career. Yetunde Barnabas began her modeling career when she registered for the \"Miss Olokun\" beauty pageant in 2013, a competition, which she went on to win. She also competed in other smaller pageants, including the \"Miss Live Your Dream\" in 2014, but it was her participation in the \"Most Beautiful Girl in Abuja\" pageant that gained her notoriety. In 2016, Barnabas registered for the 2017 Most Beautiful Girl in Abuja"}, {"text": "competition, which she won and as a result, she a national endorsement deal with Multichoice/DSTV. She was also made a brand ambassador for an Abuja-based estate management firm. Barnabas leveraged on her newfound fame and auditioned for and was chosen for the role of Ms Pepeiye, an iconic character on one of Nigeria's longest-running television sitcoms, \"Papa Ajasco & Company\". Since then she has featured in leading roles in several Nollywood film productions, including \"Erin Folami\", \"Dagogo\", \"Omo Iya Osun\" and \"Elegbenla\", a film she featured alongside Niyi Johnson and Akin Olaiya. Barnabas has also produced a few movie productions to her credit including the 2018 film, \"Omo Iya Osun\", which had positive reviews. Awards and recognition. In 2019, Yetunde Barnabas was nominated for the \"Most Promising Actress of the Year\" at the \"Nigerian Achiever's Awards\" in recognition of her various television and film roles within the year in review. Barnabas was also nominated for \"Model of the Year\" at the \"Scream Awards 2019\" as well as \"Beauty Queen of the Year\" at the \"Africa Choice Awards\". In August 2019, Barnabas was selected, alongside other African models by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), as part of a new beauty campaign"}, {"text": "tagged \"Ewatomi\". Personal life. In March 2021 she married Nigerian football player Peter Olayinka."}, {"text": "Alexei Anatolyevich Savin (; 15 May 1986 \u2014 18 June 2007) was a Belarusian professional forward ice hockey player. A naturalised Belarusian, Savin played for Yunost Minsk and was one of the most promising young player of the country. He played in the 2005 and 2006 World Championships, as well as in the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in 2005 and 2006. Savin was killed in a road accident on 18 June 2007 in Chelyabinsk, Russia when his bicycle was run down by a car, at age 21."}, {"text": "Paul Wheeler may refer to:"}, {"text": "Dating Game Killer, also known as The Dating Game Killer, is a 2017 biographical television film about serial killer Rodney Alcala. It was directed by Peter Medak and broadcast on Investigation Discovery. Plot. The film tells the story of Rodney Alcala, a convicted serial killer believed to be responsible for over 130 murders. In 1971, he is caught after having raped and beaten 8-year-old Rosie Hoffman, but because her parents move her to Mexico, she does not testify at Alcala's trial, and he is charged only with assault. He is repeatedly charged with abusing girls, but his good behavior and kind manners gain him preferable treatment and light sentences. He is repeatedly declared reformed, enabling him to commit more murders. In 1978 he appeared on the television show \"The Dating Game\" in the midst of his killing spree. Alcala is ultimately identified by a park ranger who saw him walking with a murder victim named Tammy Jensen days before her body was discovered at the same location. This eyewitness account provides police with the evidence they need to finally arrest Alcala. In his Seattle storage locker they find the earrings Tammy Jensen was wearing when she disappeared, and he is"}, {"text": "sentenced to death. This conviction is overturned in 1984 due to the prosecution's reference to Alcala's previous crimes causing bias in the jury, but he is retried and sentenced to death again in 1986. A change in the law allows his DNA to be collected in 2002, connecting him to further murders. In 2013, Alcala represents himself at trial, calling on himself for testimony and answering his own questions. Rosie Hoffman returns 42 years after her attack to finally testify against her attacker, and her testimony as well as the testimony of Tammy Jensen's mother Carol help sentence Alcala to death for five counts of abduction, murder, and special circumstances. In 2012 he pleaded guilty to two more murders in New York. In 2016 he was charged with the 1977 murder of a woman in Wyoming. Production. This was the first original scripted film produced by Investigation Discovery. Reception. In a positive review for \"HuffPost\", reviewer JR gave the film an A\u2212, writing, \"There was clearly a lot of time, discussion, and development about how to execute and deliver the story and it shows in the finished product right from the start.\" The reviewer went on to praise the acting,"}, {"text": "writing, \"Guillermo Diaz and Carrie Preston deliver career best performances. Their courtroom scenes are so good, as a viewer you want to hit rewind and watch them again (I did three times). Carrie Preston should win the Emmy next September for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries. Guillermo should be recognized as well come Emmy time.\""}, {"text": "The 1995 Tucson mayoral election occurred on November 7, 1995, to elect the mayor of Tucson, and occurred coinciding with the elections to the Tucson City Council wards 1, 2 and 4. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor George Miller. Nominations. Primaries were held for the Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican parties on September 7, 1999. Libertarian primary. Originally also running in the Libertarian primary was Elizabeth Strong-Anderson, who was removed from the ballot by court order. Republican primary. Originally also running in the Libertarian primary was Elizabeth Strong-Anderson, who was removed from the ballot by court order."}, {"text": "Notker (died 15 December 975) was the abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 971 to 975. Notker was recommended for the office of abbot by his predecessor Purchart I. His election occurred on 18 May 971. He was the nephew of Abbot Thieto and Abbot Craloh as well as of Notker the Physician. Under Notker, the abbey's economy recovered. A testament of this recovery is the completion of the city walls that were commenced by his predecessor Anno. In order to improve the abbey's discipline and economy, Notker fell back on the constitution of Hartmut as well as on that of Abbot Kerbodo of Lorsch, the visiting abbot from the time of his predecessor Purchart. His severity knew limits however, wherefore he was named \"abba benignus\" (\"gentle abbot\"). The first testimony of Saint Gall's ministerials can also be ascribed to Notker's reign. Notker reportedly established a small zoological garden to go along with the abbey's herb garden and orchard."}, {"text": "John R. Norton III (April 10, 1929 \u2013 April 17, 2016) was an American farmer and politician who served as United States deputy secretary of agriculture in the Reagan administration. Early life and career. Norton was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Stanford University for one year and graduated in 1950 from the University of Arizona with a degree in agriculture. Norton served as a First lieutenant in the United States Air Force from 1953 to 1955. After serving in the military, Norton founded the J.R. Norton Company, which operated cattle ranches and farms in California and Arizona. During this period, Norton served on the boards of the Western Growers Association and United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association. After the 1980 United States presidential election, Norton worked on the transition team of President-elect of the United States Ronald Reagan. In 1985, Norton was appointed by President Reagan to serve as deputy secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture. He was responsible for the Trust provision reforms to the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. Norton later served on the boards of the Goldwater Institute, Hoover Institution, Smithsonian Institution, and Phoenix Art Museum. Philanthropy. The Norton family endowed the Norton"}, {"text": "Gallery at the Phoenix Art Museum and the John and Doris Norton Healing Garden at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix. Norton endowed a Chair at the University of Phoenix in the School for Fathers, Parenting and Families with the John Norton Endowed Chair for Prostate Cancer Research. He also established the Norton Scholarship Endowment Fund at Creighton University School of Medicine. In 2014, Norton's gift to the St. Joseph's Foundation established the John and Doris Norton Cardiothoracic and Transplantation Institute. The Norton family also established the Norton Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization."}, {"text": "Gunvor Smolan (8 July 1926 \u2013 12 September 1993) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Bergen during the term 1969\u20131973. In total she met during 2 days of parliamentary session."}, {"text": "Morupule Wanderers Football Club is a football club based in Palapye. Wanderers is also known as Bafana ba Magala or Wandy-Wandy. At the end of the 2018\u201319 season, the club was promoted to the Botswana Premier League by beating First Division South runners up Jwaneng Fighters in the Botswana Premier League playoffs, ending a 46-year First Division North stay. In 2024, the club received a vehicle from Morupule Coal Mine."}, {"text": "Else Kollerud Furre, n\u00e9e Saxegaard (12 August 1922 \u2013 5 August 2019) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Akershus during the term 1958\u20131961. In total she met during 4 days of parliamentary session. Born at Hemnes Municipality, she was the first woman elected to the municipal council for S\u00f8ndre H\u00f8land Municipality. She was married three times."}, {"text": "The 2020 Portland Timbers season was the 34th season in their existence and the 10th season for the Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-flight professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. Season review by month. Off season. On October 29, Portland re-signed midfielder Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco to a multiyear contract where he will remain a Designated Player. On October 31, forward Jeremy Ebobisse was called up to the U.S. Men's National Team pre-camp. On November 6, Andy Polo was called up by Peru for friendlies against Colombia and Chile. Renzo Zambrano was called up by Venezuela for a friendly against Japan on November 19. Bill Tuiloma was called up by New Zealand for friendlies against the Republic of Ireland on November 14 and Lithuania on November 17. Jorge Moreira was called up for Paraguay for friendlies against Bulgaria on November 14 and Saudi Arabia on November 19. On November 15, MLS cut Portland forward, Brian Fern\u00e1ndez, since he failed to comply with the league's Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health (SABH) Program. On November 19, Nashville SC selected left-back Zarek Valentin as the fourth overall pick in the 2019 MLS Expansion Draft. Portland will receive $50,000 in"}, {"text": "General Allocation Money for the selection. On November 20, Portland signed Croatian center-back Dario \u017dupari\u0107 from Prva HNL side, HNK Rijeka. He will occupy an international slot on the Timbers roster. On November 21, Portland announced its 2020 initial roster changes. Portland declined options on goalkeeper Kendall McIntosh, defender Modou Jadama and forward Foster Langsdorf. Claude Dielna is out of contract. Portland also did not exercise the 2020 contract option for midfielder Diego Valeri; however, remain in discussions with him. On December 6, midfielder Marvin Lor\u00eda was called up by the Costa Rica U-23. The team will play two friendly matches against Costa Rica First Division teams in preparation for the 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship. On December 9, Portland announced they would re-sign Edgar \"RCTID_Thiago\" Guerrer for the 2020 eMLS season. This marks his third year with the club, participating in all eMLS competitions since its inauguration in 2018. On December 10, forward Jeremy Ebobisse underwent a minor procedure to repair a meniscus tear that was sustained last month while on duty with the U.S. U-23 Men's National Team. He is expected to return to action in time for the start of preseason. On December 16, Portland announced"}, {"text": "the multiyear contract extension for Argentine midfielder, Diego Valeri. He was signed using Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) and will no longer use a Designated Player (DP) slot. On December 19, MLS reviled the full MLS season schedule. Later that day, Portland announced the contract extension of Bill Tuiloma. On December 20, Portland goalkeeper Steve Clark signed a new contract with the club. On January 2, Portland announced the signing of Colombian right winger, Yimmi Char\u00e1. He will occupy a Designated Player and International Roster Slot. He is the younger brother of center defensive midfielder, Diego Char\u00e1. On January 9, Portland selected Irish midfielder, Aaron Molloy from Penn State as the 16th overall 2020 MLS Super Draft pick. Portland traded their second round pick to D.C. United on January 23, 2019. Later that day, Edgar \"RCTID_Thiago\" Guerrero finished in 12th place out of the 25 single team table. He was unable to qualify for the playoffs. His 2020 eMLS League Series One record was 4-5-3 (15 points). On January 13, Portland selected American defender, Zachery McGraw from Army as the 68th overall 2020 MLS Super Draft pick. Shortly after, Portland selected Norwegian defender, Joergen Oland from Fordham. He was the 94th"}, {"text": "overall pick for the 2020 MLS Super Draft. Preseason. On January 20, players reported for their first day of training for the upcoming 2020 MLS campaign. On January 21, Portland announced the details of their Costa Rica preseason travel. Portland will face Saprissa on Saturday, February 1, Municipal Grecia on Wednesday, February 5, and C.S. Herediano on Sunday, February 9. On January 22, Portland midfielder Andr\u00e9s Flores underwent surgery to repair medial meniscus tear. He is expected to return in 4 to 6 weeks. On January 23, Portland signed midfielder Blake Bodily as a Homegrown Player for the 2020 season. On January 30, Portland signed Polish striker Jaros\u0142aw Niezgoda from Polish Ekstraklasa side Legia Warsaw. He will occupy a Designated Player and International Roster Slot. On January 31, Portland signed Chilean striker Felipe Mora on loan for one year from Liga MX side Pumas UNAM. He will occupy an International Roster Slot. On February 1, Portland defeated Saprissa 2\u20131 in Costa Rica. Goals were scored by Diego Valeri in the 9th minute and Timbers 2 newcomer, Ken Krolicki in the 77th minute. On February 5, Portland defeated Municipal Grecia 3\u20131 in Costa Rica. Felipe Mora (assisted by: Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco) scored"}, {"text": "in the 17th minute while Eryk Williamson captured a brace with goals in the 59th and 65th minute. Later that day, Portland released their 2020\u201321 secondary kit. On February 6, Portland announced the completed transfer of Cristhian Paredes who was on loan to the Timbers from Liga MX side, Club Am\u00e9rica. On February 9, Portland defeated Herediano 3\u20130 in Costa Rica in four 30 minute sessions. Goals were scored by Felipe Mora (assisted by: Diego Valeri and Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco) in the 58th minute, Dairon Asprilla (assisted by: Renzo Zambrano) in the 103rd minute, and an own goal in the 118th minute by an unnamed player. This finishes Portland's preseason campaign in Costa Rica. On February 11, Portland received $150,000 in General Allocation Money (GAM) from the Montreal Impact in exchange for a 2020 international roster slot. On February 16, Portland started their 2020 home preseason tournament with a victory against Vancouver Whitecaps FC. The final score was 2\u20131 with goals scored by Diego Valeri (penalty kick) in the 34th minute and Andy Polo (assisted by: Diego Valeri) in the 46th minute. On February 19, Portland was defeated by Minnesota United FC with a final score of 2\u20134. Goals for Portland"}, {"text": "were scored by Dairon Asprilla (assisted by: Tom\u00e1s Conechny) in the 29th minute and Ken Krolicki in the 85th minute. Ken Krolicki plays for Timbers 2. On February 22, Portland finished their final home and preseason match with a defeat against New England Revolution with a final score of 1\u20133. The lone scorer was Diego Char\u00e1 in the 29th minute. During the same day, Portland acquired $165,000 in General Allocation Money from Vancouver Whitecaps FC in exchange for a 2020 international roster slot. On February 25, Portland signed right back Chris Duvall. On February 26, Portland announced that they signed forward, Jeremy Ebobisse to a multi-year contract extension. February. On February 29, the 2020 MLS Season officially began. March. On March 1, Portland began their 2020 MLS campaign by hosting Minnesota United FC. The Timbers Army raised their \"Legends of Goose Hollow\" tifo. Portland lost with a final score of 1\u20133 with Diego Valeri successfully converting a penalty in the 56th minute. On March 7, Taylor Twellman reported Portland right-back Jorge Moreira sustained a leg injury that will likely require surgery. On March 8, Portland captured their first victory of the season by defeating Nashville SC with a final score"}, {"text": "of 1\u20130. The lone scorer was Diego Valeri (assisted by: Andy Polo) in the 12th minute. Steve Clark captured his first clean sheet of the season. On March 9, Portland forward Jeremy Ebobisse was selected on the United States Under-23 national team roster for 2020 Olympic qualifying which will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico from March 20 \u2013 April 1. Dario \u017dupari\u0107 and Steve Clark were awarded a spot on MLS Team of the Week: Week 2. On March 12, Major League Soccer announced a 30-day suspension of the league in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 19, Major League Soccer extended the league suspension until at least May 19, 2020 in accordance with CDC guidance on COVID-19. April. On April 17, Major League Soccer further extended the league suspension due to COVID-19 until at least June 8, 2020. May. On May 1, Major League Soccer announced that players are cleared to start voluntary individual workouts beginning on May 6. On May 19, Major League Soccer announced the cancellation of the MLS All-Star Game, Leagues Cup, and Campeones Cup for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to this decision, Portland will not take part in the Leagues Cup"}, {"text": "this year. On May 20, midfielder Dairon Asprilla undergoes successful arthroscopic meniscus repair procedure. He is expected to be out for five to six months. On May 30, Major League Soccer announced that clubs can begin voluntary small group training sessions. June. On June 4, Major League Soccer announced that clubs can return to full team training. On June 10, Major League Soccer announced the start of play again, starting with a World Cup style tournament with wins that will count toward the regular season, which will begin after the tournament. On June 11, Portland was drawn into Group F of the MLS is Back tournament, along with Los Angeles FC, LA Galaxy, and Houston Dynamo. On June 18, Portland declined a permanent transfer option included in the loan agreement on right-back Jorge Moreira. He will return to Superliga Argentina side River Plate as his loan is now over. Shortly after, Portland announced the signing of Venezuelan right back Pablo Bonilla from its USL Championship affiliate Portland Timbers 2. On June 22, Portland signed defender Zac McGraw who was selected by the Timbers as the 68th overall 2020 SuperDraft pick earlier this year. On June 28, Edgar \"RCTID Thiago\" Guerrero,"}, {"text": "Portland Timbers' eMLS competitor, lost a 2-1 battle to the LA Galaxy's Giuseppe \"Godfather\" Guastella Sunday in the Knockout Round of the 2020 eMLS Cup. July. On July 6, Major League Soccer announced the revised 2020 transfer windows due to the impact of COVID-19. A two-day transfer window from July 6 through July 7 and a secondary transfer window from August 12 \u2013 October 29. On July 8, the MLS is Back Tournament officially began. On July 9, Portland acquired a later MLS SuperDraft pick from Real Salt Lake in exchange for Portland Timber 2 forward Ryan Sierakowski. The draft pick is Real Salt Lake's 2023 fourth-round selection unless Sierakowski signs an MLS contract with Real Salt Lake. In that case, the pick is conveyed as Real Salt Lake's second-round pick in the subsequent season of his signing. On July 13, Portland defeated LA Galaxy 2\u20131. The goal scorers were Jeremy Ebobisse in the 59th minute (assisted by: Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco and Diego Valeri) and Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco in the 66th minute. This puts Portland first in Group F at the end of the first round. On July 18, Portland defeated Houston Dynamo with a final score of 2\u20131. The goal scorers"}, {"text": "were Jeremy Ebobisse (assisted by: Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco) in the 35th minute and Diego Valeri (assisted by: Eryk Williamson and Larrys Mabiala) in the 61st minute. With this win, Portland is guaranteed to advance to the Round of 16. On July 23, Portland drew Los Angeles FC to a final result of 2\u20132. The goal scorers were Jaros\u0142aw Niezgoda (assisted by: Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco and Marvin Lor\u00eda) in the 7th minute. This marks his first goal for the club and MLS. The final goal was scored by Jeremy Ebobisse (assisted by: Bill Tuiloma) in the 81st minute. With LA Galaxy and Houston Dynamo also ending with a draw, Portland claims first place in Group F and will face Group E second place club FC Cincinnati on July 28. On July 28, Portland drew with FC Cincinnati 1\u20131. Portland won 4\u20132 on penalties. The lone goalscorer was Jaroslaw Niezgoda (assisted by: Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco) in the 67th minute. Portland will face New York City FC in the quarterfinals on August 1. August. On August 1, Portland defeated New York City FC in the quarterfinals 3\u20131. The goal scorers are Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco in the 43rd minute, Diego Valeri (assisted by: Jaroslaw Niezgoda) in the 65th"}, {"text": "minute, and Andy Polo (assisted by: Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco) in the 76th minute. Portland now advance to the semi-finals where they take on Philadelphia Union on August 5. This match also marks the 300th appearance for defensive midfielder, Diego Char\u00e1; Portland's longest signed player since signing with the club at the start of MLS play in 2011. On August 5, Portland defeated Philadelphia Union in the semifinals 2\u20131. The goal scorers are Jeremy Ebobisse (assisted by: Diego Valeri) in the 13th minute and Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco (assisted by: Dario \u017dupari\u0107 and Dario \u017dupari\u0107) in the 70th minute. Portland advances to the final to play Orlando City SC on August 11. On August 8, Major League Soccer announced the first re-opening league schedules for all clubs. On August 11, Portland won the MLS is Back Tournament with a final score of 2\u20131. The goal scorers were Larrys Mabiala (assisted by: Diego Valeri) in the 27th minute and Dario \u017dupari\u0107 (assisted by: Jeremy Ebobisse, Eryk Williamson) in the 66th minute. With this win, Portland secures a berth in the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League. On August 13, Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco was awarded Player of the Tournament for MLS is Back Tournament. He took home 40.86 percent"}, {"text": "of the weighted media and fan vote, narrowly edging out Orlando City captain Nani's 37.54 percent. Later that day, Major League Soccer announced the tournament's Best XI. Included in the XI were Portland's Jeremy Ebobisse, Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco, Larrys Mabiala, and Diego Char\u00e1. On August 14, goalkeeper Steve Clark won MLS is Back Tournament's Save of the Tournament while midfielder Andy Polo won MLS is Back Tournament's Goal of the Tournament. U.S. Soccer announced the official cancellation of the 2020 U.S. Open Cup. On August 23, Portland resumed regular season play against rival Seattle Sounders FC. Portland was defeated with a final score of 0\u20133. On August 29, Portland drew Real Salt Lake at home with a final score of 4\u20134. The goal scorers were Diego Char\u00e1 in the 6th minute. Jaros\u0142aw Niezgoda (assisted by: Diego Valeri) in the 21st minute. Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco (assisted by: Jeremy Ebobisse) in the 70th minute. Felipe Mora (assisted by: Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco) in the 85th minute. September. On September 2, Portland lost at home to LA Galaxy with a final score of 2\u20133. The goal scorers were Felipe Mora in the 67th minute and Diego Valeri (assisted by: Yimmi Char\u00e1, Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco) in the 90th +2"}, {"text": "On September 6, Portland defeated Seattle Sounders FC at CenturyLink Field with a final score of 2\u20131. The goal scorers were Eryk Williamson (assisted by: Diego Valeri) in the 9th minute and Felipe Mora (assisted by: Eryk Williamson) in the 83rd minute. On September 8, Portland announced that Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco will miss the remainder of the season due to torn ACL. On September 11, Portland announced more matches for the month of September. On September 13 Portland lost on the road to Los Angeles FC with a final score of 4\u20132. The goal scorers were Eryk Williamson (assisted by: Felipe Mora and Diego Valeri) in the 25th minute and Jeremy Ebobisse (assisted by: Jorge Villafa\u00f1a) in the 45+2 minute. On September 16, Portland drew San Jose Earthquakes away with a final score of 1\u20131. The lone goal scorer was Yimmi Char\u00e1 (assisted by: Diego Char\u00e1) in the 33rd minute. This is the first time in club history that brothers were able to do an assist and a goal. On September 19, Portland secured a dominated win over San Jose Earthquakes away with a final score of 6\u20131. The goal scorers were Diego Valeri (penalty kick) in the 25th minute. Jeremy"}, {"text": "Ebobisse (assisted by: Jorge Villafa\u00f1a) in the 27th minute. Diego Valeri (assisted by: Diego Char\u00e1) in the 57th minute. Yimmi Char\u00e1 in the 70th minute. Julio Cascante (assisted by: Diego Valeri) in the 85th minute. Finally, Jaroslaw Niezgoda (assisted by: Diego Char\u00e1) in the 87th minute. On September 21, Diego Valeri was named Player of the Week for Week 12. On September 22, Major League Soccer reviled the remaining matches for all teams for the 2020 season. On September 23, Portland defeated their rival, Seattle Sounders FC to a final score of 2\u20131 at home. The lone goalscorer was Yimmi Char\u00e1 (assisted by: Jeremy Ebobisse) in the 13th minute. On September 27, Portland played Vancouver Whitecaps at Providence Park but due to the border issues caused by COVID-19, Portland acted as the away team. Portland won with a final score of 1\u20130 with the lone goal scorer being Felipe Mora (assisted by: Eryk Williamson) in the 5th minute. October. On October 3, Portland's match against Colorado Rapids was suspended due to Colorado players and staff reporting cases of COVID-19. Team kits. Supplier: Adidas / Sponsor: Alaska Air"}, {"text": "The 1991 Tucson mayoral election occurred on November 5, 1991, to elect the mayor of Tucson, and occurred coinciding with the elections to the Tucson City Council wards 1, 2 and 4. It saw the election of George Miller. Incumbent mayor Thomas Volgy did not seek reelection. Nominations. Primaries were held for the Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican parties on September 7, 1999."}, {"text": "Catriona Ida Macleod (born 11 April 1964) is a South African researcher. She is a distinguished professor of psychology, SARChI Chair of Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction, and previous Head of the Psychology Department at Rhodes University. Her research focuses on sexual and reproductive health and feminist theory in psychology. Her book \"\"Adolescence\", Pregnancy, and Abortion: Constructing a threat of degeneration\" received the Distinguished Publication Award by the Association for Women in Psychology. Since 2013, she has been editor-in-chief of the international journal \"Feminism & Psychology\". Early life and education. In 1984, Macleod earned a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in mathematics and psychology at the University of Natal. In 1990, she earned a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honors) in psychology from the University of Cape Town. In 1993, she earned her master's degree in educational psychology from the University of Cape Town. In 1996, she entered a doctoral program at the University of Natal, where three years later she received her PhD. Her doctoral thesis, \"The governmentality of teenage pregnancy: Scientific literature and professional practice in South Africa\", focused on the laws related to teenage pregnancy in South Africa. Research. Macleod's research focuses on sexual and reproductive health"}, {"text": "and feminist theory in psychology. Her work has dealt with issues of sexuality, such as abortion, sex education, and teenage pregnancy, and she was a co-founder of the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition. She has also written about critical health, feminist, and theoretical psychologies, as well as produced works on post colonialism. Editorial positions and publications. Over the years, Macleod held many editorial positions at different institutions. In 2014, Macleod became the associate editor of the journal \"Feminism & Psychology\". She also served on the \"South African Journal of Psychology\" editorial board. She has served as associate editor of \"Psychology in Society\". She was a co-editor for \"Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology\". Her book entitled \"\u2018Adolescence\u2019, pregnancy and abortion: constructing a threat of degeneration\" (2010, Routledge) discusses central issues in the global debate concerning teenage pregnancy and abortion. In 2015, in collaboration with Tracy Morison, Macleod published the book \"Men's Pathways to Parenthood: Silence and Heterosexual Gendered Norms\". In addition to publications in academic journals, she has written in the popular press, including \"Why sexuality education in schools needs a major overhaul\" for \"The Conversation\"."}, {"text": "Reclaim Tuen Mun Park may refer to:"}, {"text": "Alma Maria Katarina Sundquist (1872\u20131940) was a Swedish physician and a pioneering female specialist in the treatment of venereal diseases. A committed women's rights activist, she campaigned for better working conditions for women, addressed problems associated with unhygienic homes and prostitution, and promoted the need for sexual education for girls. She fought for women's suffrage, contributing to the inaugural meeting of the Swedish Association for Women's Suffrage (FKPR) in June 1902. Internationally, in 1919 she represented Sweden at the founding of the Medical Women's International Association in New York and attended the First International Congress of Working Women in Washington, D.C. In the early 1930s, on behalf of the League of Nations, she was one of the three contributors to a report on the slave trade in women and children in the countries of Asia. Early life and education. Born on 23 March 1872 in Torp, Medelpad, Alma Maria Katarina Sundquist was the youngest of the three daughters of the postmaster Johan Erik Sundquist and Katharina Kristina Holmer. After her father died, she moved with her mother and two sisters to Sundsvall. When their house was destroyed by the great fire of 1888, they moved to Stockholm where she graduated"}, {"text": "from the Wallinska high school in 1891. She then attended Uppsala University where she undertook preparatory studies for medicine and philosophy. During her schooling, she met fellow student, Ada Nilsson. The two women became friends as well as colleagues and in 1892 joined founder Lydia Wahlstr\u00f6m as a member of the Uppsala Women's Student Association, along with Ad\u00e8le Philipson, Gulli Rossander, Signe Trygger, among others. Despite medical practice regulations which barred women from working in public hospitals, she went on to study medicine at the male-dominated Karolinska Institute. While in medical school, Sundquist and Nilsson experienced discrimination from faculty members who refused to give them higher marks than male students. Graduating in 1900, the following January, Nilsson and Sundquist wrote a plea, signed by almost every woman doctor in the country, as well as many female medical students, protesting their inability to work even as paediatricians or on behalf of women patients, except in private practices. Sundquist pointed out that the Royal letter of 1873, which accredited the degree programmes for \"candidates of medicine\" at the Karolinska Institute, contained no such restrictions. Since women had been admitted to study there in 1870, she demanded the right to work in public"}, {"text": "facilities. Career. Early career (1901-1918). In 1901, Sundquist opened a private practice in Stockholm which she ran until 1939. Specializing in gynaecology, venereal diseases and dermatology, she taught hygiene in girls' schools and lectured on sexual education throughout the country. She was instrumental in providing access to contraception via physicians' prescriptions and furthered research on venereal diseases. Simultaneously, from 1902 to 1918, she served as the physician at the private girls' and in 1903 began working at the Stockholm City Polyclinic specializing in sexually transmitted diseases. At the clinic, she treated patients who lived in extreme poverty in unsanitary conditions, many of them prostitutes. She saw first hand the damage that prostitution regulations caused for them, and supported reformers like , who called for the sex trade to be decriminalized and regulation to cease. Sundquist's medical experiences led to her commitment to social reforms addressing the issues women encountered. She was a pioneering campaigner for women's suffrage, joining the board at the inaugural meeting of the Society for Woman Suffrage () in June 1902, though she resigned the following year. From the end of 1903 until early 1904, she worked on the regulatory Committee for the Prevention of Infectious Sexually"}, {"text": "Transmitted Diseases and in 1904, was elected to membership of the newly established Dermatological Society. The law barring women physicians from working in public facilities was overturned by new legislation in 1909. In 1910, Sundquist joined the board of the recently formed Swedish Society for Racial Hygiene (SSR), an organization founded on the principles of the European Eugenics Movement, but after one year, she was no longer listed on the board. That year, wanting both to control immoral behaviour and address the declining birth rate in the country, the Riksdag passed a contraception law (Criminal Code, Chapter 18. \u00a7 13, commonly known as \"\" after Hinke Bergegren, the first person prosecuted under it). The law provided that those disseminating public information on contraceptives or involved in their sale could receive sentences of up to two years in prison. Sundquist was very critical of the Contraception Act and began writing various articles about the spread of venereal diseases, as well as on improving working conditions for women and granting suffrage. She was a co-founder of the Swedish Association for Parental Protection and Sexual Reform, established in 1911, where she campaigned against prostitution. In 1916, Sundquist participated in two conferences for women"}, {"text": "physicians and medical students, which were spearheaded by Wahlstr\u00f6m. They led to the establishment of the Women Doctors' Permanent Committee () which aimed to press for changes to laws which prevented women from working as professionals in the medical field, and to assist other women academics in similar endeavours. Among those involved were Nilsson, Andrea Andreen, Elin Odencrants, and Nanna Svartz. One of their first acts was to write to the National Medical Board and press for more supervisory positions for women. In the attached report, they documented that the majority of medical candidates were women, that women were equally capable of treating male patients and that of the 49 licensed women physicians, 20 had already individually been granted supervisory rights when no male doctors were able to take the post. Later career (1919-1939). In March 1919, Sundquist announced to audiences in the United States that women's suffrage had been granted by the first chamber of the Riksdag to all women over age 23. She noted that the property restrictions for voting had been removed and that approval by the second chamber, which would include the right to stand for office, was imminent. In May, full suffrage was granted and"}, {"text": "Sundquist made plans to attend several conferences in the United States in the fall. She arrived on 17 September to attend the International Conference of Women Physicians, sponsored by the YWCA. During the conference, she argued in favour of sex education in schools, which had recently passed in Sweden. Though American physicians agreed that education was needed, they advocated for home instruction on the subject. On 21 October, a dinner was held for women physicians attending the conference and they decided to form the Medical Women's International Association. Sundquist was elected to serve on the Committee of Twelve to organize the association, whose purpose was to work together internationally to advocate for women to be granted full citizenship and to create a progressive programme to promote public health. Moving on to Washington, D.C., in late October, Sundquist attended the First International Congress of Working Women, as a member of its executive committee. The purpose of the conference was to ensure that labour reform addressing rights and standards for both women and men that included the abolition of child labour, compulsory education, equal opportunity for employment, equal pay for equal work, and the establishment of minimum wages and maximum hours was"}, {"text": "adopted by the newly formed International Labour Organization. In a presentation on labour conditions in Sweden, she reported that children of 14 and over could work if a physical examination proved they were able. She also noted that women had been pushed out of jobs that they had performed during the war and were seeking the right to continue in them. Sundquist participated in the 1922 Constitutive Assembly of the Medical Women's International Association held in Geneva and was later elected president of the organization, serving from 1934 to 1937. She continued to press for economic reforms. The passage of the opened civil service careers to women. In 1926, she assisted in the reorganization of the Women's Doctors Permanent Committee to the Women's Physicians' Club, to which she was elected chair in 1929. In 1930, along with Bascomb Johnson, an American writer, and , a Polish diplomat, Sundquist was appointed by the League of Nations to prepare a report on the slave trade in women and children in Asia. When the report was completed in 1932, the three were appointed to a travelling commission and charged with compiling information of a more international nature, since the first report focused on"}, {"text": "national statistics. They began in Japan and from there travelled to China, Indochina, Indonesia and India, before moving on to Tehran, Bushehr, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Haifa, and worked cooperatively with various government officials to obtain information. In 1938, the Contraception Act she had opposed for so long was abolished. She continued her private practice until 1939. Death and legacy. Alma Sundquist died in Stockholm on 7 January 1940. She is remembered as one of Sweden's most prominent pioneering venereologists in the first half of the twentieth century, actively engaged in solving social and political challenges faced by women. Through her work, she brought the consequences of sexually transmitted diseases to the Swedish authorities and consulted on developing policy for prevention and treatment of them. She was committed to changing laws to improve conditions for women, as well as eradicating protective legislation which treated people differently based on gender."}, {"text": "Trump administration farmer bailouts are a series of United States bailout programs introduced during Donald Trump's first presidency as part of his \"America First\" economic policy to help US farmers suffering due to the China\u2013US trade war and trade disputes with European Union, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and others. China and respectively European reconcilable tariffs imposed on peanut butter, soybeans, orange juice, and other agriculture products had hit hard, especially swing states, such as Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Introduction. The Donald Trump administration prioritized unilateral trade in the attempts to alleviate the US from alleged unethical trade practices by China. The Trump Administration pushed for strict protectionist policies in the form of raised tariffs and restructuring existing trade deals. The US left NAFTA and the USMCA was created using US protectionist policy. In 2018, the Donald Trump administration introduced an updated set of increased tariffs on foreign goods targeted mainly on China, but later expanding to tariffs on European, Japanese, Canadian, and Mexican products as well. In the new economic trade war, US farmers lost access to import markets in China, which represented the second largest market for US agriculture export in 2017. The Trump Administration initiated the trade war with"}, {"text": "China when it imposed tariffs on solar cells and large residential washers in 2017. After retaliatory tariffs hit the US, the Trump Administration imposed tariffs on steel, aluminum, and auto parts. Retaliatory tariffs by China targeted US agriculture, specifically soybeans, which required the United States government to aid domestic farmers. To improve trade competitiveness, the Trump administration revealed a plan to help US farmers in the form of state aid., with a planned bailout program of $12 billion state aid to US farmers suffering from the China\u2013US trade war. In 2018 Trump administration introduced $16 billion (~$ in ) of new trade aid. In 2019, the Donald Trump administration increased the bailout to $16 billion (~$ in ). Problems. US farmers who earned less than $900,000 a year and produced one of the agriculture products suffering from the China\u2013US trade war could apply for the state's program. The bailout program had several problems, such as abusing the program and delays in payment to the farmers. Donald Trump stated that China\u2013US trade war could last indefinitely despite problems among US farmers. The bailout's limit of support for a single farmer is $125,000 per person or legal entity. US citizens owning partial"}, {"text": "shares of a land but not profiting directly from farming could apply for state aid as well. Farmers could apply if they completed the harvest leading to farmers having to wait to complete their crops, making their situation much more uncertain. Public health officials reported a rising number of suicide caused by unpredictable financial conditions among, especially young farmers. The US government obliged to buy $1.4 billion of products as well and place these products to food banks or programs for schools. Another part of the bailout is a $100 million program to find new markets for US Farmers. History. In 1979, US President Jimmy Carter issued an embargo on the export of wheat to the Soviet Union as a response to the Soviet\u2013Afghan War. But the embargo did not bring any positive effect to the USA. The Soviet Union eluded the embargo by increasing its domestic wheat production and importing from other countries. The Reagan administration lifted the embargo in 1981, but US farmers suffered financially, leading the US government to introduce bailout programs to the dairy industry. Bailouts helped the dairy industry to increase production however the US government had to buy all oversupply. Later the Reagan administration"}, {"text": "spent $100 million annually to store and transport all dairy oversupply worth $3 billion from the previous administration. Domestic Aid. The United States Department of Agriculture has distributed up to $12 billion in financial aid to agricultural producers most affected by China's retaliatory tariffs. The USDA's aid came in the form of direct cash payments to producers of corn, cotton, soybeans, sorghum, wheat, dairy, and certain meat products. Soybean producers received more payments than any other agricultural producers because of the devastating impact on US soybean exports. Soybean producers received $7.3 billion in payments from the USDA. Since farmers' exports comprise 20% of income, the USDA found it necessary to compensate agricultural producers in response to the decrease in exports. Bank Sector. Bank sectors serving US farmers reported an increase in late payments. According to the Federal Bank of Minneapolis, the share of bankruptcies had risen by 30%. US farmers' profit decreased by 11% since 2010. Soybean Sector. US farmers lost access to the critical Chinese market due to China\u2013US trade war. Chinese import of soybean is worth 110 million tons of soybeans in 2017, and it is mainly used to feed animals. Chinese demand for soybean caused massive growth"}, {"text": "of US soybean production. In the 1990s, soybeans consist of 450,000 acres of land, and by 2017 the amount rose to 6.4 million. Annual export was worth $26 billion (~$ in ) annually before 2017. US farmers contributed to funding an organization dedicated to research about the prosperity of US soybeans in China. The export of soybean to China fell by 94% in 2017. China increased tariffs on US soybeans to 27%, causing issues as China was the largest importer of American soybeans in 2017. From January to October in 2018, US soybean exports were 63% lower than in the same months of 2017, eventually stopping by November 2018. Relationships with other countries. China. China had been one of the leading importers of US agricultural products. In 2017 China imported goods worth $19.1 billion, but due to tariffs imposed by China on agriculture products the number of imported goods fell to $9.1 billion. China purchased 14.3 million tonnes of US soybean, which is the lowest number in 11 years. Before China\u2013US trade war, China imported 32.9 million tonnes of US soybean. An outbreak of African Swine Fever in eastern Asia starting in 2018 led to a lower production of pork"}, {"text": "products creating substantial import demand, however 62% retaliatory tariffs greatly limited sales from the United States. China, as a member of BRICS, was able to replace US imports with pork imports from other countries, such as Brazil. China-Brazil bilateral trade rose in 2018 to a record $100 billion (~$ in ). Canada. The Canadian tariffs have been historically limited by quotas, which ensures price stability and farmers' income stability. Canada imposed high tariffs on dairy products. But dairy product trade business between Canada and the USA is just a small fraction of total trade. The entire trade exchange of goods between the USA and Canada is $620 billion, and the dairy sector consists of only $750 million. Donald Trump wanted to renegotiate these terms as part of renegotiating NAFTA agreement, but Canadian farmers are afraid that this new deal will cost them a lot of money. During negotiating Trans-Pacific Partnership, New Zealand blocked Canada access due to high tariffs on agriculture products, so Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper decided to scrap the tariffs in exchange for Trans-Pacific Partnership accession. But when the USA withdrew from Trans-Pacific Partnership, Canada withdrew as well. But Canada has recently signed Comprehensive Economic and Trade"}, {"text": "Agreement with the European Union, which allows Canadian farmers access without tariffs to the entire European market. European Union. As part of his \"America First\" Trump targeted the European Union as well. European Union responded with its list of tariffs, which risked escalating into another trade war, howeverJean-Claude Juncker and Donald Trump agreed to stop escalating. Japan. With the China\u2013US trade war, renegotiating of NAFTA, and US\u2013European trade relationships, the US looked to Japan for new markets for agriculture products. In 2019 Donald Trump and Shinzo Abe agreed to a trade deal between Japan and the US that would open up markets to an additional $7 billion (~$ in ) of products, the deal involved Japan buying excess US corn after Japanese crops were damaged by insect pests. United Kingdom. Due to Brexit the United Kingdom would no longer have free European trade, possibly to a new market for US food imports. The Trump administration looked to open up trade deals with the UK, however differences in agricultural practices posed challenges to possible deals."}, {"text": "The 2019 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election took place on Thursday 2 May 2019. That was the same day as other United Kingdom local elections in order to elect members of Windsor and Maidenhead Council in Berkshire, England. The whole council was up for election. Before the election, the composition of the council was: Background. The Independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England carried out an electoral review of the Royal Borough with the view to change electoral arrangements from May 2019. The Commission announced the number of councillors was to reduce and also looked into the number of wards, their names and boundaries. This reduced the number of councillors from 57 to 41. Before the election, the composition of the council was: After the election, the composition of the council became:"}, {"text": "Werner Resel (born 22 June 1935) is a German cellist. From 1987 to 1997, he was chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic. Life. Born in Essen, from 1949 Resel studied cello with Richard Krotschak at the Vienna Music Academy. From 1955 to 1959, he was solo cellist of the Tonk\u00fcnstler Orchestra. In 1959, Walter Weller, Josef Kondor, Helmut Weis and Resel founded the \"Weller Quartet\". In 1959, Resel became a member of the Vienna State Opera and in 1962 a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he was its managing director from 1982 to 1986. In 1987, he succeeded Alfred Altenburger (born 1927) as Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic, being replaced in this role by Clemens Hellsberg in 1997. In 2006, he retired as cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic. Resel is vice president of the \"Johann Strauss-Gesellschaft Wien\". In 1995, he was a guest on the ORF show \"\"."}, {"text": "Jonathan Grey (born January 13, 1992) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Bi\u00f1an Tatak Gel of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) and Pilipinas Super League (PSL). He played for the Benilde Blazers of the NCAA when he was in college and previously played in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) for the Meralco Bolts and NorthPort Batang Pier. College career. Grey played for the Benilde Blazers as early as Season 87. In Season 90, he was one of the notable snubs from the NCAA All-Star Game, despite averaging 11.8 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 1.9 steals. Still, he was chosen to participate in the Slam Dunk Contest. He scored 19 points in a win over the Perpetual Altas to end the first round of eliminations. Unfortunately, the Blazers didn't make the Final Four due to a loss to the Letran Knights. In Season 91, Grey became the leader for the Blazers after Mark Romero and Paolo Taha turned pro. In a win against the San Sebastian Stags, he had 29 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals, and 2 blocks. That season, he was able to win the All-Star Game MVP. In a win against the EAC"}, {"text": "Generals, he had a near triple-double, with 12 points, 9 rebounds, and 10 assists. After that season, he applied for the PBA Draft. PBA career. Grey applied for the 2015 PBA Draft, but his application was voided for not meeting the minimum requirement of D-League games played. He then applied for the 2016 Draft, where he was taken with the 7th pick by the Meralco Bolts. Meralco Bolts. In his PBA debut, he had 11 points and 4 rebounds in a loss to the Blackwater Elite. He then had a PBA career-high of 24 points against the Phoenix Fuelmasters. He was able to play in the All-Star Game as a member of Gilas, leading them with 19 points against the Luzon All-Stars. His time with Meralco ended when he was traded to Globalport. Globalport/NorthPort Batang Pier. Grey was among seven players involved in a trade with Meralco, the NLEX Road Warriors, the TNT Katropa, and the GlobalPort Batang Pier. In his second season, Grey got to start for the Batang Pier when Terrence Romeo was injured, and scored 13 points in a loss to NLEX during the 2017-18 PBA Philippine Cup. He tied his career-high in points against his former"}, {"text": "team. In the Commissioner's Cup, he scored a conference high of 16 points in a win over the Columbian Dyip. In Game 1 of their quarterfinals series against the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters, he scored 22 points, including a game-winning three from the corner. However, they were eliminated the next game as he only scored 10 points. They didn't make the playoffs for the Governors' Cup, despite making the quarterfinals the previous two conferences. In the 2019 season, he suffered a torn patellar tendon on his left knee, causing him to miss the rest of that season and the 2020 Philippine Cup. Grey was able to play in the 2021 season before injuring his other patellar tendon. PBA career statistics. \"As of the end of the 2021 season\""}, {"text": "Ymmo (died 30 October 984) was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 976 to 984. Life. Ymmo succeeded Ekkehart I as dean in 973. Around the middle of January 976, he was elected abbot and invested by Emperor Otto II. In the records, he is mentioned three times as abbot: in 976, on 29 October 980 and in 981. He took sides with Emperor Otto II when he came in conflict with the Bavarian Duke Henry II. Works. Like his predecessor Notker, Ymmo was regarded as a gentle abbot. However, he is also described as a strict follower of the Rule of Saint Benedict (Latin: \"Regula Benedicti\"). Ymmo succeeded in initiating an economic revival for the abbey and also managed to recover or acquire new property. The Church treasure accreted under his rule, wherefore he was able to let new frescos be painted in the churches of Gallus and Othmar. Furthermore, he built the chapel for the holy grave with a crypt dedicated to Saint Ulrich."}, {"text": "Richardo \"Chardo\" Israel (born 9 September 1991) is a Jamaican footballer who plays as a defender for Stumptown Athletic in the NISA. Career. College & Amateur. Israel began playing college soccer at the University of Cincinnati in 2012, where he played for three seasons. Following college, Israel appeared for USL PDL sides GPS Portland Phoenix and the Ocean City Nor'easters. Professional. In September 2019, Israel signed for NISA side Stumptown Athletic ahead of the league's inaugural season."}, {"text": "Ulrich (died 27 January 990) was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 984 to 990. Life. Not much is known about Ulrich. In 956/57, he possibly held the office of Hospitarius. He became abbot of Saint Gall in November 984. He is not mentioned in any records. Works. Ulrich is supposed to have completed the construction and interior works commenced by his predecessor Ymmo."}, {"text": "Dennis Hauger (; born 17 March 2003) is a Norwegian racing driver who competes in the 2025 Indy NXT with Andretti Global, having previously competed in Formula 2 from to . He was a member of the Red Bull Junior Team and is the 2021 FIA Formula 3 champion. He also won the 2019 Italian F4 Championship with Van Amersfoort Racing. Career. Karting. Hauger was born in Oslo and raised in Aurskog. His parents bought him a quad bike when he was two, and he started driving cross bikes at the age of four. He began his karting career at the age of five, winning his first race at the age of eight. After finishing 62 out of 70 national races on the podium the Norwegian moved into international competition in 2014. That year Hauger claimed the ROK International title in the Mini category and followed it up the following year by claiming Mini category titles in the Vega Winter Trophy, the Italian CSAI Karting Championship and the WSK Champions Cup and Super Masters championships. In 2017, Hauger became the youngest ever champion to claim the DKM junior title and repeated this feat the following year to become the youngest"}, {"text": "DKM champion, until Harry Thompson claimed the title in 2018. Lower formulae. In October 2017, Hauger and fellow Red Bull junior Jack Doohan were signed by the TRS Arden Junior Team to contest the 2018 F4 British Championship. Claiming four victories, Hauger ended the season fourth in the overall standings, but missed out on the Junior Championship to Doohan. The following year, Hauger remained at Formula 4 level, but switched to Van Amersfoort Racing to contest the ADAC and Italian F4 championships. In the ADAC championship, Hauger claimed six victories, including one at the Formula One support race at the Hockenheimring, and finished as championship runner-up to Th\u00e9o Pourchaire by only seven points. Over in the Italian championship, Hauger scored twelve victories, including a weekend grand slam in the season finale at Monza, and sealed the title with a round to spare, being over 130 points ahead of fellow F1 junior drivers Gianluca Petecof of Ferrari and Paul Aron of Mercedes. His performances also helped Van Amersfoort Racing to win the team championship. Euroformula Open Championship. In August 2019, Motopark announced Hauger would make his debut in the championship at Silverstone replacing Liam Lawson, having had to wait a round"}, {"text": "due to clashes with ADAC Formula 4 at the Red Bull Ring. The race weekend saw Hauger take a sixth-place finish in the first race and a fifth-place finish in the second race. FIA Formula 3 Championship. 2020. In October 2019, Hauger partook in the second and third days of post-season testing in Valencia with Hitech Grand Prix. In January 2020, Red Bull confirmed Hauger would race with the British outfit in the upcoming season together with fellow Red Bull junior Liam Lawson and Renault junior Max Fewtrell. Hauger's first FIA Formula 3 points came at the Hungaroring, where he finished eighth in the first race. This put him on reverse-grid pole position for the second race. He led much of the race but dropped back when the track began to dry, finishing third to claim his maiden FIA Formula 3 podium finish. Despite this result, Hauger would fail to score points at any of the remaining races, eventually finishing 17th in the championship with 14 points. In the post-season test at Catalunya, Hauger joined reigning team champions Prema Racing and consistently ran in the top ten across both testing days with a best placed finish of third in both"}, {"text": "afternoon sessions. Later that month, the Italian outfit once again fielded Hauger in the second post-season test at Jerez. 2021. In December, Prema confirmed Hauger would race with them in the 2021 season, partnering Olli Caldwell and Ferrari Driver Academy member Arthur Leclerc. He scored his first pole position in the category at the first weekend in Barcelona, beating former British F4 rival Jack Doohan. Hauger fought for the lead of Race 2 with Matteo Nannini, however the two collided, breaking Hauger's front wing and dropping him to the back. He led the entirety of Race 3 to claim his first FIA Formula 3 race victory, and ended the first round leading the championship by two points over teammate Caldwell. Hauger took consecutive second-place finishes at the Circuit Paul Ricard before taking pole position at the Red Bull Ring and finishing all three races on the podium, including a victory in Race 1 after starting 12th. After the third round, his championship lead had extended to a margin of 41 points, and Hauger extended that gap to 63 points after winning a wet-weather race at the Hungaroring. Following a round at Spa-Francorchamps in which the Norwegian only scored six points"}, {"text": "however, his title rival Jack Doohan was able to bridge the gap between the two going into the penultimate round of the season. Hauger lost a chance at a podium finish three laps from the end of race two at Zandvoort due to a collision with Ido Cohen, but he was able to bounce back in the final race, extending his gap once again with his fourth win of the year. In the first race of the final round at the Sochi Autodrom, the Norwegian came up from fourth on the grid to take second, thus becoming the 2021 Formula 3 Champion with two races to spare. After the race, he stated that he had \"started questioning [himself]\" the previous season, but that his doubts were eradicated following his move to Prema. Following the season finale, Hauger drove an F3 development car in a tyre test in Barcelona, completing 123 laps on a dry track, with the goals of the session being to make racing in F3 more demanding, as well as developing the tyres to help the teams for the following season. FIA Formula 2 Championship. 2022. Having tested with the team at the end of 2021, Hauger announced"}, {"text": "on 14 January that he would be partnering Jehan Daruvala at Prema Racing in Formula 2. He had a shaky start in the first round in Bahrain, finishing just out of the points in 9th place in the Sprint Race. In the Feature Race, he was running in 9th place before retiring following a pit stop blunder which caused his front left tire to detach and roll down the pit lane. In Jeddah's Sprint Race, Hauger started on reverse grid pole before a Safety Car communication confusion saw him served a 10-second stop-and-go penalty. He finished in 16th place. For the Feature Race, he scored his first points of the season after finishing sixth. Hauger's Imola weekend was bittersweet; he scored his maiden Formula 2 podium after finishing 3rd in the Sprint Race, but was involved in an early collision with Jack Doohan that saw his Feature Race over after 3 turns. His weekend in Barcelona was uneventful; he qualified 14th and finished 12th in the Sprint Race and 13th in the Feature Race. He bounced back for a strong showing in Monaco. He qualified 9th after several grid penalties being applied for other drivers. He started second on reverse"}, {"text": "grid for the Sprint Race and led from start to finish to score his maiden F2 victory. In the Feature Race, he made up 4 places at the start to 5th position. His race was slightly compromised by a Safety Car and he finished in 7th. Hauger secured his best qualifying yet in Baku with third position. He crashed out of the Sprint Race when he suffered a huge lock up and ran nose first into the wall, but he redeemed himself by winning his first Feature Race the next day. He qualified 12th in Silverstone and finished in 15th place in the Sprint Race. He retired in the Feature Race after a collision with Roy Nissany. In Austria, he qualified in 15th position, but managed to finish 9th in the Sprint Race. He began the Feature Race on slick tyres which saw him pass multiple drivers who were on wets as the track dried; he eventually finished fourth after a string of drivers received penalties. Hauger's qualifying woes continued in France when a fuel pump failure prevented him from putting in more laps, as a result, he qualified 18th. He finished 12th and 16th in the Sprint and Feature"}, {"text": "races respectively. He qualified eighth in Hungary which saw him start third on reverse grid for the Sprint Race, but was involved in a collision with Logan Sargeant which saw his race over at Turn 1. He finished 19th in the Feature Race after massive tyre degradation which saw him pit twice. In Spa, his practice was cut short after an oil leak. He later qualified 11th. During the Sprint Race, he took a gamble to pit for soft tyres during a Safety Car and finished 10th. After he incurred two five-second penalties, he classified as 12th in the Feature Race. Hauger had a successful weekend at Zandvoort, where he qualified seventh and finished third and fourth in the Sprint and Feature Races respectively. He had a poor qualifying in Monza, but had the pace to make up 10 places to finish ninth, as well as earn a fastest lap in the Sprint Race. In the Feature Race, he made up 15 places to finish fourth in an incident-packed race. He also had to serve a drive-through penalty in the early part of the race for his team's failure to fit his wheels at the three minute signal before the"}, {"text": "start. In the final race weekend of the season in Abu Dhabi, he put on a strong showing by qualifying seventh on the grid. He finished fourth in the Sprint and Feature Races respectively, and ended the 2022 season in 10th place overall. 2023. Hauger moved to MP Motorsport for the 2023 Formula 2 Championship, still having Daruvala as his teammate. Qualifying fourth for the opening Bahrain round, he made an electric charge in the sprint race, mastering tyre wear and taking second place. An engine issue in the feature race saw Hauger lapped by the field, before ultimately retiring on lap 16. In Jeddah, Hauger qualified 14th, but moved his way up to eighth and a single point in the sprint race. He had a better feature race, securing fifth. In Melbourne, Hauger qualified tenth due to a red flag. However, he claimed victory during the sprint race from reverse pole under overcast conditions. The Norwegian was set for another podium finish on Sunday, but was punted from behind by Victor Martins during a late safety car restart. Hauger qualified fifth in Baku. He stormed into the lead of the sprint race until a late safety car restart, where"}, {"text": "on cold tyres, he crashed out at turn 1 with a handful of laps remaining. In the feature race, Hauger finished in sixth place. A red flag in qualifying left Hauger in 17th for Monaco, and he finished 15th in the sprint race. During the feature race still yet to pit, whilst running seventh, a timed red flag from a crash allowed him to switch tyres, he would cross the line in fifth place, continuing his record of scoring in every round. Hauger qualified in sixth for Spain. He managed to secure fourth place in a wet sprint race, losing the final podium spot to Th\u00e9o Pourchaire late in the race. In the feature race, Hauger lost out to some rivals on the alternate strategy, but secured an eighth place. In Austria, Hauger finished in sixth place, scoring his only points of the weekend. Silverstone was the first round where he failed to score any points, being involved in safety car restart incident during the feature race. Looking to rebound from a difficult double header, Hauger qualified ninth in Hungary. He passed reverse polesitter Kush Maini and controlled for his second win of the year. In the feature race, Hauger"}, {"text": "made up more positions and finished in seventh. In Spa-Francorchamps, he qualified in sixth, and from there he would move up to fourth in the sprint race. However, second-placed Richard Verschoor was disqualified, promoting Hauger to the podium places. In the feature race, Hauger had a slow start, before his race was ruined after he was collected by Ayumu Iwasa spinning. He retired, but was later disqualified due to illegally bump starting his car as he ran for several more laps. Hauger qualified on the front row in Zandvoort. In the feature race, he was unlucky to pit before the safety car, in which he lost positions and finished in fifth place. In Monza, a mistake in the sprint race from eighth costed him points as he dropped to 12th. Despite that, Hauger was able to finish fifth in the feature race in a dramatic race. In Yas Marina, he ended his sophomore campaign positively, passing Isack Hadjar for fourth on the last lap in the sprint, and seventh place in the feature. Hauger ended the year eighth in the drivers' standings with 113 points, two wins and two podiums. 2023 Macau Grand Prix In November, Hauger replaced an injured"}, {"text": "Franco Colapinto at MP Motorsport for the Macau Grand Prix. Despite his late call-up, Hauger impressed brilliantly, finishing in second during the main race. 2024. Hauger remains in Formula 2 for a third successive season in 2024, continuing his relationship with MP Motorsport alongside Williams Driver Academy member Franco Colapinto. Ahead of the Qatar round, Hauger opted to leave Formula 2 to focus on his Indy NXT preparation for 2025, and was replaced by Richard Verschoor. Formula One. In September 2017, Hauger was named as one of four new signings to the Red Bull Junior Team. He was announced as one of four reserve drivers for the Red Bull Racing Formula One team in 2023. In October 2023, Hauger announced that he would split with Red Bull following the end of 2023 after six years with the team. Speaking about his departure, Hauger revealed that he would not be retained as early as July and accepted \"the brutal nature of such decisions\". Formula E. Hauger drove for the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team during the 2024 Formula E Berlin rookie test, thus making his debut in Formula E machinery. Indy NXT. In 2025, Hauger switched to racing in America"}, {"text": "in the Indy NXT with Andretti Global, after spending three years in Formula 2. Speaking about his move to the States, Hauger revealed that he had offers to stay in F2 but it \"didn\u2019t really make sense to do another year\". Hauger had a dominant start to his campaign in St. Petersburg where he took pole in his maiden race, before controlling the race as he secured a first lights-to-flag victory. He would continue his form in race two at Barber, qualifying on pole for a second race in a row. Hauger would once again lead the race from start to finish, grabbing his second win in the series. Exiting Barber, Hauger built a championship lead of 30 points ahead of his teammate Lochie Hughes in second. Going into the next two races at Indianapolis, Hauger looked to continue his form, topping the times of the only practice session of the weekend. In qualifying, he was beaten by teammate Hughes to pole by just 0.0695 of a second, ending Hauger's run of pole positions. At the start of race one, Hauger entered turn one three wide and made contact with Callum Hedge into the corner. Hauger ultimately had to take"}, {"text": "the escape road and fell down to last in the field. For the rest of the race, he would make his way back up the pack, to tenth, before a caution was displayed for a crash in front of him. James Roe made contact with the wall in the final corner and collected ninth place runner Nikita Johnson. Both drivers later retired, and Hauger inherited those two positions which moved him up to eighth place. Following the restart, Hauger attempted to gain more positions, but to no avail, and would finish the race in eighth. Teammate Hughes had won the race from pole, and his result narrowed the points gap between the two to just three points advantage Hauger. However, Hauger returned to form in the second race. He passed Hughes for the lead after an early caution and went on to take his third win, extending the points gap to fifteen. Personal life. Hauger has carried a lucky amulet, which he received from his grandmother, around his neck since he started competing in international karting competitions. Racing record. Racing career summary. \u2020 As Hauger was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.<br> Complete F4 British Championship results."}, {"text": "() (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in \"italics\" indicate fastest lap) Complete Italian F4 Championship results. () (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in \"italics\" indicate fastest lap) Complete ADAC Formula 4 Championship results. () (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in \"italics\" indicate fastest lap) Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship results. \u2020 Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance. Complete Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia results. \u2020 As Hauger was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points. Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results. \u2020 Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance. American open\u2013wheel racing results. Indy NXT. Season still in progress."}, {"text": "Mohamad Ali Jinnah is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Chittagong-1. Career. Jinnah was elected to parliament from Chittagong-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1996 and 2001. He joined the Liberal Democratic Party in 2006."}, {"text": "James Kitchenman (November 19, 1825 \u2013 December 25, 1909) was an English-American textile manufacturer who owned the Kitchenman & Neal carpet manufacturing operations in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Early life. Kitchenman was born in Barnsley, England, on November 19, 1825, to Richard Kitchenman and Phoebe Foster Kitchenman. He traveled as a child with his parents to America. His financial resources were very limited and he took a job as a youth in a dye shop. Career. Dyes. He worked in a dye house and became familiar with the business. He was determined to engage in the same line some day with his own company. He established a successful dyeing business which he operated for many years. Carpets. He engaged in the manufacture of carpets with Samuel Horner and his brother at Amber and Letterly streets. After the dissolution of that partnership he turned his attention to the manufacture of ingrain carpets and woolen and worsted yarns, having a large plant at Huntingdon and Jasper streets. He was joined in a partnership by George M. Neal in the manufacture of body Brussels and Axminster carpets, under the company name of Kitchenman & Neal. With the growth of the business"}, {"text": "he kept increasing his facilities, adding to his mill until he had one of the largest and finest manufacturing enterprises in Kensington. He used the Markland loom of 1868, and later the more efficient Crompton & Knowles ingrain looms. Hosiery. He also took up the manufacture of hosiery, which he carried on a large scale at Amber and Letterly streets. The attractiveness of design and the excellence of quality in all of his manufactured products brought him substantial success, his sales annually increased until he became recognized as one of the most prominent manufacturers of eastern Pennsylvania. About fifteen years prior to his death he retired from active business, although he still retained his mill at Jasper and Huntingdon streets. Family. Kitchenman was married in Philadelphia in the 1850s to Miss Margaret Crawford, a daughter of William Crawford, who was an early resident of this city. Among their descendants are the artist Elizabeth Kitchenman Coyne and Republican former member of the U.S. House of Representatives James K. Coyne III. Kitchenman was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and attended the Bethel Presbyterian church in North Philadelphia. His political allegiance was given to the Democratic party. In 1885,"}, {"text": "he was proposed as a candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, by a committee from the Knights of Labor, who applauded him as a Democrat, businessman, and \"friend of labor\" who sought to protect workingmen's rights to fair wages. He was a public-spirited citizen and supported various projects and movements for the general good. His last years were spent in retirement from business in a home at 1024 West Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia, where he remained until his death, which occurred on Christmas Day of 1909. He is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Hexamer General Surveys. The Hexamer General Surveys document the floor plans for a number of Kitchenman's factories over time."}, {"text": "The Central Bookstore () is a bookstore in Central District, Taichung, Taiwan. History. Empire of Japan. The bookstore was originally opened on 3 January 1927 by Taiwanese Cultural Association as a meeting venue for pro-democracy and self-rule movement as a branch of the Central Club. The first and second floor housed selected Mainland Chinese, Japanese and Western books. It also served as the venue for the public to learn about writer Lu Xun and Ba Jin after the May Fourth Movement on 4 May 1919 in Peking. Later the shop caught attention of the government and it was then placed under heavy surveillance. Republic of China. After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, the shop finally resumed to its normal operation. In the same year, it was later moved to its current building on Taiwan Boulevard which it was used to be used as the store dormitory and warehouse. In 1998, the store was closed due to financial difficulties. Since then, it had been used as wedding dress shop, convenience store and motorcycle helmet store. In 2016, the rights to use the building was obtained by Shang Shan Human Culture Foundation. Since then,"}, {"text": "the building was renovated and restored as a bookstore again with a cost of NT$20 million. The bookshop was reopened for trial in November 2019 and on 18 October 2020, it was officially reopened in a ceremony attended by Culture Minister Lee Yung-te Architecture. The bookstore is housed in a 3-story building with a circular shape. Transportation. The bookstore is accessible within walking distance northeast of Taichung Station of Taiwan Railways."}, {"text": "The 3rd Battalion Massachusetts Rifles was an infantry unit created at the start of the American Civil War and activated for federal service in the Union army for a term of ninety days. It consisted of three companies of prewar militia and one newly recruited company together organized under the command of Major (later Brevet Major General) Charles Devens. The term \"rifles\" was a designation frequently given to antebellum militia companies which trained in the use of rifled muskets\u2014a relatively new innovation at the time\u2014as opposed to smoothbore muskets. Only minor differences in training and tactics differentiated such units from a typical infantry company of the time. During the 1840s, \"rifle\" companies were often expected to train and serve as skirmishers in open order, however by the Civil War, United States army tactics manuals made no distinction between a company of \"rifles\" and a typical infantry company. The organization of the battalion began on April 19, 1861 in response to Abraham Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteer troops at the start of the war. When they departed, the 3rd Battalion completed the required quota from Massachusetts under that initial call. For most of its term, the battalion served garrison duty at"}, {"text": "Fort McHenry in Baltimore. They did not see combat. The unit returned to Massachusetts and was mustered out on August 3, 1861. Two of its members died of disease. Unit organization. At the start of the Civil War, the 3rd Battalion consisted of three militia companies headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts. On April 19, 1861, one week after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, Major Devens ordered his battalion to assemble in Worcester to prepare for active service. On April 20, the three companies formed up in front of Worcester City Hall. The same day, Devens received orders from Governor John Andrew to depart for Washington, D.C. The \"Worcester City Guards\" made up Company A of the battalion. The unit was formed in 1840 as part of the Massachusetts militia. The circumstances leading to its creation arose from local political tensions arising out of the election of 1840 as the older Worcester Light Infantry company split along party lines. Those who belonged to the Whig Party left the older group to form the Worcester City Guards. At the start of the Civil War, the company was commanded by Captain Augustus R. B. Sprague. The \"Holden Rifles\" of Holden, Massachusetts formed Company"}, {"text": "B. The unit was established in 1856 and at the start of the war was commanded by Captain Joseph H. Gleason. The \"Emmett Guards\" of Worcester formed Company C. The unit was organized in 1858 and commanded by Captain Michael McConville. Company D was recruited in Boston beginning on April 19, 1861. In a single day, the company had enough volunteers to fill out its roster. Captain Albert Dodd, who oversaw the recruiting, served as the company commander and the company became known as \"Dodd's Rifles.\" The three Worcester County companies departed by train from Worcester on April 20. They arrived at Annapolis, Maryland on April 24 and remained there until May 2 when they were transferred to Fort McHenry. The Boston company departed on May 2 aboard the steamship \"Cambridge\" and arrived in Washington via the Potomac River. It was the first troop transport ship to reach Washington via the Potomac in response to Lincoln's call for troops. The company spent twelve days in Washington and then joined the rest of the battalion at Fort McHenry. The battalion was then mustered into United States service at Fort McHenry on May 9. Wartime service. While serving garrison during at Fort"}, {"text": "McHenry, the battalion drilled in infantry maneuvers and trained to operate the heavy artillery of the fort. Men of the 3rd Battalion also periodically took part in patrols down the Chesapeake Bay. Their duty was described as heavy and the men suffered from overwork. Though they never took part in combat, the unit also suffered greatly from illness, particularly during July. Two members of the battalion died of disease. At the close of the 90-day term, the battalion was asked by Major General John Adams Dix to remain at Fort McHenry for another two weeks due to a shortage of garrison troops. Though twelve men decided to return home at the end of their term, the great majority of the battalion remained another two weeks at Fort McHenry as requested. They departed for home on July 29 via railroad and arrived in Worcester on August 2. They were mustered out of service on August 3, 1861."}, {"text": "The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation (Susy Utzinger Stiftung f\u00fcr Tierschutz \"SUST\") is a Swiss non-profit organisation that was founded by Susy Utzinger on September 7, 2000. The organisation is based in Kollbrunn in the Canton of Z\u00fcrich. The mission of the foundation is to improve the quality of animal shelters and animal welfare projects, to prevent animal suffering and to promote animal welfare at the national and international level. Activities. The SUST's activities take place on both national and international level and consist of emergency aid and the four areas: shelter support, neutering campaigns, information to the public and training of specialists. Emergency aid. Emergency aid ensures the survival of animals in Switzerland and other countries Animal shelter support. The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation supports animal shelters and animal protection projects. The SUST aims at species-appropriate animal husbandry, adequate veterinary treatment and professional care. During work assignments, teams of animal welfare workers evaluate organisational and structural problems and reorganise processes in order to optimise animal shelters. They carry out construction work, commission craftsmen and provide veterinary first aid. In addition, the foundation supplies building materials, animal equipment and fodder. Animal utensils can be donated to animal shelters and"}, {"text": "animal welfare projects via the Foundation's online animal welfare marketplace. Neutering campaigns. Large-scale neutering campaigns are intended to reduce the overpopulation of street animals, who often live under difficult conditions. The Foundation cooperates with veterinarians in Switzerland and abroad and regularly carries out spay-and-neuter missions on site. The organisation sponsors campaigns focusing on feral cats and dogs and those living on farms, finances feeding stations and supplies material for castration campaigns, such as dog traps. In the SUST Orphan Animal Hospitals in Romania, Egypt and Peru, castrations are also carried out regularly. Posters, leaflets and brochures inform the public and sensitise them to the topic. In 2020, about 14370 cats and dogs were neutered in Switzerland and abroad. Information to the public. Media reports, information campaigns, public lectures and free distribution of brochures and flyers inform the public about current issues and problems in animal welfare, husbandry and protection. School visits, webinars for children and the delivery of booklets in different languages sensitise children in Switzerland and abroad to animal welfare. Education and training. The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation Academy offers courses on the handling and care of animals and on the management of animal shelters and animal welfare"}, {"text": "projects. The seminars and lectures target veterinarians, animal keepers, dog trainers, volunteers and animal friends. A trainee programme prepares young Swiss veterinarians for animal welfare missions and neutering campaigns. By co-founding the \u201eSwiss Association for Animal Welfare Work\u201c (Verband Arbeitswelt Tierschutz Schweiz), the organisation promotes a new profession \"Animal Welfare Expert\". In cooperation with partner projects in different countries, the foundation supports animal welfare seminars on site and veterinary trainings on population control, effective neutering and anesthesia techniques. Organisation. Founding board. The Board of the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation is the strategic management body and controls and guides the organisation on the medium and long term. The Board and its meetings are chaired by the Foundation President, which since 28.01.2019 is Philippe Sami Kayasseh. Staff. The foundation operates out of Kollbrunn with managing director Susy Utzinger and seven part-time employees. The organisation cooperates with numerous partner projects worldwide. Financing and support. Financing. The Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation is financed by donations and bequests. In 2020, around 39146 individuals donated almost 3.2 million Swiss francs to the Susy Utzinger Foundation. In 2018, 36 percent of the funds went to projects in Switzerland, 64 percent were used for measures in"}, {"text": "other countries. The Foundation is under the supervision of the Federal Government. The annual accounts and the activity report are audited annually by the Federal Department of Home Affairs within the framework of the statutory supervisory obligation. Animal welfare volunteers. In 2020, 244 volunteers and veterinarians contributed in their spare time to the work and activities of the Susy Utzinger Animal Welfare Foundation or supported the administrative development of the Foundation."}, {"text": "Hedwig Porsch\u00fctz (; ; 10 June 1900 \u2013 26 March 1977) was active in the German resistance to Nazism. She was recognised posthumously as Righteous Among the Nations for aiding and rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. Life. Hedwig V\u00f6lker was born in 1900 in Berlin-Sch\u00f6neberg. In 1926 she married Walter Porsch\u00fctz, who was then a chauffeur and would later be conscripted into the Wehrmacht. During the Great Depression she became a prostitute, and in 1934 she was accused of blackmail and sentenced to ten months in prison. World War II. From 1940, Porsch\u00fctz worked in Otto Weidt's workshop for the blind as a stockroom worker and later stenotypist. They were in close contact, and she significantly assisted Weidt's effort to protect his employees by hiding Jewish women in her home and illegally trading for supplies. The twins Marianne and Anneliese Bernstein stayed in Porsch\u00fctz' apartment for six months starting from January 1943. In March they were joined by Grete Seelig and Lucie Ballhorn. Occasionally prostitutes would use the apartment \u2013 then the occupants would have to wait outside until the clients were gone. When the situation ultimately became too dangerous, due to police raiding another apartment in the same building"}, {"text": "in mid-1943, the Bernstein twins relocated to Wilmersdorf while Porsch\u00fctz' mother sheltered the other two women. Three of the four would survive the Holocaust. Goods Porsch\u00fctz bought on the black market would be given to persecuted Jews and used to bribe Gestapo officers. Otto Weidt's group sent more than 150 food parcels to Theresienstadt Ghetto to supply at least 25 people imprisoned there. Porsch\u00fctz also procured forged documents for Inge Deutschkron. Due to her black market trade, Porsch\u00fctz was sentenced to 18 months in prison in October 1944 by a Nazi Sondergericht. For a time she was imprisoned in Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Later life. After the war, her activities went unrecognised for many years. Her requests to be compensated for political persecution and to be titled an \"Unsung Heroine\" were rejected by West Berlin authorities in 1959. Authorities at the time did not consider helping Jews an act of resistance. Due to her prior work as a prostitute Porsch\u00fctz was regarded as an immoral and dishonourable person. The 1944 judgment, despite having been delivered by a political court, was used against her. She died poor in 1977; no known photos of her exist. Legacy. It took"}, {"text": "until November 2010 for Porsch\u00fctz to be honoured by the city of Berlin with a memorial plaque, which was later placed at her former address (\"Feurigstra\u00dfe 43\"). By 2011 the 1944 judgement was repealed on the basis that the Nazi court made political judgements to execute the \"F\u00fchrer's will\". Yad Vashem recognised her as Righteous Among the Nations in 2012, a commemoration ceremony was held three years later. A street in Berlin-Mitte was named in her honour in 2018 (\"Hedwig-Porsch\u00fctz-Stra\u00dfe\")."}, {"text": "Erik Stoffelshaus (born 14 December 1970) is a German professional football official. Most recently he was the Sporting Director of the Russian Premier League club Lokomotiv Moscow. Career. Youth trainer and education. Prior to his footballing career, he worked as Industrial Management Assistant at Thyssen Stahl AG. After passing his exams in Sports Science at the Ruhr University Bochum, Erik Stoffelshaus became trainer of the Under-11-/ Under-12-team of FC Schalke 04. Management Schalke 04. On 1 July 2000, he switched from the Schalke 04 training staff to the club management. In his position, he supported Bodo Menze, manager of the club's youth teams. During this time, the Schalke's youth teams won two championships and two cups. In 2002, Stoffelshaus acquired the UEFA A Licence for football trainers. In July 2006, Stoffelshaus became Manager of Player Development and Assistant Manager to Andreas M\u00fcller. He was involved in the signing of the players Heiko Westermann, Ivan Rakitic, Jermaine Jones and Jefferson Farfan. His time with Schalke ended on 26 May 2009. Technical director in Canada. In November 2013, Stoffelshaus became technical director of West Ottawa Soccer Club in Canada. In March 2015, he became technical director of the Football Association of the"}, {"text": "region York in Toronto. Sporting director of Locomotive Moscow. On 22 January 2017, Stoffelshaus was presented as new director of football of the Russian-Premier-League-club Locomotive Moscow. Only a few months later, Stoffelshaus won his first trophy with Locomotive. On 2 May 2017, the club won the Russian Cup for the seventh time in the club history. Because of this victory, Locomotive qualified for the UEFA Europa League the following season. Locomotive reached the round of sixteen, in which it was defeated by Atletico Madrid who went on to win the Europa League Championship. In his second season, Stoffelshaus won his second trophy. On 5 May 2018, the club won the Russian Premier League Championship for the third time in club history. Stoffelshaus resigned as Sport Director of Locomotive Moscow on 31 December 2018. Other. After his time at Schalke, Stoffelshaus earned a certificate as a teacher of sports. In 2018, he completed his Masters of Business Administration in sports management at the Universidad Europea de Madrid."}, {"text": "Kerhart (or Gerhart; died 22 May 1001) was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 990 to 1001. Life. Before he was elected abbot, Kerhart is reported to have been the companion of his brother Kunibert, the former abbot of Niederaltaich Abbey, when he died on one of his travels. Kerhart's reign began after 27 January 990. It is possible that he signed a hymn, furnished with neumes, by Pope Gregory I. Kerhart might have been his scribe or composer. Works. In Saint Gall's historiography, Kerhart comes out badly: His squandering of abbey property and the ruining of its breed is said to have caused a divide in the convent. One party, consisting of older conventuals who closely followed the rules, subsequently complained about Kerhart to Emperor Otto. A certain Duke Muozo had to come to his rescue and prevent the trial. Afterwards, Kerhart apparently ruled even worse than before."}, {"text": "Jamaica's fourteen parishes are subdivided into sixty-three constituencies, which in turn are subdivided into electoral divisions. Electoral divisions as of 2019. The following is the list of electoral divisions (as at April 2019) in each constituency."}, {"text": "Harry Orme (May 1826-9 June 1864) was a boxer from the bare-knuckle fighting era who was a candidate for heavyweight champion of England in the mid 19th century. Early life. Harry Orme was born near Bow near the East End of London in May 1826. Boxing career. Amongst other bouts, Orme fought and beat Nat Langham on the 6 May 1851, this being Langham's only career loss. Orme fought a championship bout against Harry Broome on 18 April 1853. After retirement. Orme kept the pub \"Jane Shore\" in Shoreditch for many years until his death on 6 June 1864."}, {"text": "The women's shot put event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 23 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland."}, {"text": "New York Excelsior is an American esports team founded in 2017 that competes in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Excelsior began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2018 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance."}, {"text": "HMCS \"Moose was an armed yacht of the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. The vessel, originally the yacht Cleopatra constructed in 1930 in Massachusetts, was acquired for port defence in 1940. Following the war, \"Moose\" was sold into private ownership and reconverted to a pleasure yacht. Still in service, the vessel has been named Fraternit\u00e9, Ottelia, Shogun, Naroma, Eretria, Candida A and as of 2019, Uthingo\". Description. In Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) service, \"Moose\" had a displacement of , was long with a beam o f and a draught of . They vessel had a maximum speed of and a complement of 5 officers and 35 ratings. The ship was armed with one QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun forward and depth charge racks. As of 2019, the yacht \"Uhtingo\", which was refitted in 2001, is measured at and . The yacht is long overall and between perpendiculars with a beam and a maximum draught of . The vessel is propelled by two propellers powered by two General Motors 16V 71N diesel engines rated at a combined with a maximum speed of and a range of at . \"Uhtingo\"s deck is teak and the yacht requires a crew"}, {"text": "of 7 and has space for 11 guests. Service history. The yacht was constructed by George Lawley & Sons at their yard in Neponset, Massachusetts in 1930. Named \"Cleopatra\", the vessel was ordered for A. C. Murphy of New York. With the onset of World War II in 1939, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) intended to augment the local sea defences of coastal ports. The Royal Canadian Navy sought large, steel-hulled yachts to requisition. However, a significant lack of capable vessels were owned by Canadians. Canada turned to its southern neighbour for suitable ships, finding several that met the navy's requirements. However, US neutrality laws prevented their sale to belligerents in the war. In order to circumvent these laws, the RCN requisitioned the yachts of prominent Canadian yachtsmen and then sent them to the US to purchase the yachts that had been identified by the navy without the US government knowing they were working for the navy. The money to acquire the vessels was provided by the Canadian government through bank loans. Ralph P. Bell was a shipping operator, owner of several offshore companies and past secretary of the Halifax Relief Commission along with being a member of the Royal"}, {"text": "Nova Scotia Yacht Club. Bell was among those selected by the RCN to be sent south to acquire new yachts. Bell was directed to purchase \"Cleopatra\" and dealt with yacht brokers in New York City to acquire the vessel. The yacht sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia on 3 June 1940 along with for conversion to an armed yacht at Quebec City, Quebec. Conversion to an armed yacht involved removing most of the luxurious finery and installing naval hardware. On top of the installation of armament, \"Moose\" required further alterations, including the fitting of bilge keels to improve stability and modifying the stern, to accommodate the depth charge rails. The ship was commissioned into the RCN on 8 September at Quebec City and was then assigned to the Halifax Local Defence Force. \"Moose\" remained with this unit until May 1942, when the yacht was reassigned to Sydney, Nova Scotia. The main gun was removed due to a lack of surface threat for Allied merchant shipping in the region, but the depth charges were kept. In May 1943, \"Moose\" was taken off frontline service and sent to the training establishment and used as a training ship and examination vessel. Additionally, the armed"}, {"text": "yachts stationed at \"Cornwallis\" would escort the ferry \"Princess Helen\" on run between Saint John, New Brunswick and Digby, Nova Scotia after the sinking of the ferry . \"Moose\" was paid off on 20 July 1945. In 1946, the ship was sold to Marine Industries Ltd. and was renamed \"Fraternit\u00e9\". The vessel was reconverted into a pleasure yacht for Joseph Simard, president of Marine Industries. In 1956, the ship was sold to W. E. Pennick of New Orleans, Louisiana and renamed \"Ottelia\". \"Ottelia\"s ownership was then transferred to A. H. Schaupeter who utilised the yacht in the Gulf of Mexico until 1974. That year, Schaupeter sold the vessel to the Gibraltar firm, Green Seas. \"Ottelia\" was re-registered to Southampton, England and home ported in Monaco. The yacht, still in service, has seen several further ownership and name changes, including \"Shogun\", \"Naroma\", \"Eretria\", \"Candida A\" and \"Uthingo\"."}, {"text": "Oliver Dvojakovski (born January 26, 1997) in Berovo is a Macedonian professional basketball player who plays for MZT Skopje of the Macedonian First League. Standing at , he primarily plays at the power forward position, but he can also play at the small forward position. Career. He started his youth basketball career in Spain. He played for the youth categories of Real Betis. From 2015 to 2018 he played in L Alfas - P.N. Serra Gelada and Santo Domingo Betanzos in Liga EBA. He has also played for the youth categories of Macedonia national team. In 2018 he returns to Macedonia and continues his career in AV Ohrid. In the 2019/2020 season he played for Kumanovo. In November 2020 he signed a contract with Akademija FMP. From July 2022 he is a new basketball player of Pelister. After Pelister, in summer 2023 he joined EuroNickel 2005."}, {"text": "The 1912\u201313 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team (variously \"North Carolina\", \"Carolina\" or \"Tar Heels\") was the third varsity college basketball team to represent the University of North Carolina. In September, Lenoir Chambers was announced team captain. North Carolina, along with several other schools from the state, met in Raleigh, North Carolina and formed the North Carolina Intercollegiate Basketball Association that would establish a state championship where each school in the league would play two games against all other members and the team with the best record was the champion. However, the league did not come to fruition partially because Trinity College's professors did not want to have athletic contests with North Carolina. Student\u2013run newspaper \"The Tar Heel\" published several pieces where they stated the prior season's poor performance was because the team did not start practicing until after Christmas. Try-outs started in early December, but over time participating students dwindled and scrimmaging became difficult, which prompted Chambers to publish in ad in the student newspaper asking for taller players to come by regardless of their experience. In January, after exams, the season opened with a four\u2013game home stand. Following an opening one\u2013point loss to the Durham Y.M.C.A., the"}, {"text": "Tar Heels won back\u2013to\u2013back games by large margins against Davidson College and Elon College. With Redmon out due to an ankle injury, the team faced Emory and Henry College and lost 20\u201317. The Tar Heels played their next three games on the road, two of which took place at the Raleigh Auditorium, and lost all three games. In one of those losses, the Tar Heels took Wake Forest to overtime, but were outscored 2\u20131 and lost the match. Carolina snapped their four-game losing streak against Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (V.P.I.) in a game where Carolina won handily 29\u20139. The Tar Heels dropped their next two against Guilford College, who was regarded as the state's premier team that season, and a rematch against Elon where \"The Tar Heel\" commented the team played its \"weakest game.\" Carolina ended their season with a rematch against Wake Forest where the Tar Heels led for the entire game and won 19\u201315. Pre-season. In late September 1912, it was announced that guard Lenoir Chambers was voted to be team captain for the upcoming season. In addition, it was announced baskets would be placed that week on outside tennis courts and hopefully practice"}, {"text": "would begin in the fall. However, the goals had not been placed by mid\u2013October. In early November, \"The Tar Heel\" published a column where it credited the team's poor performance the previous year due to starting practice after Christmas, stating successful programs practiced in October. The writer commented that at this point captain Chambers had the players \"report\" and the team managers had not organized a try\u2013out. The writer further mentioned that several students had been playing on the outdoor courts that were set\u2013up and would provide good opportunities to find new members as well as good competition. On Monday December 2 at 8 PM local time, the try\u2013outs started. Several men showed up including returning players Tillett, Carrington, and Smith returned from the previous year, along with Meb Long who played two years ago. At this point, the schedule was rumored to feature 18 to 20 games, including six at home and a road trip into Virginia for several contests against the likes of Randolph\u2013Macon College, University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University, and more. In early January, another schedule was released with eleven games, but there were hopes to add home contests against NC A&M and Wake Forest."}, {"text": "Of the scheduled games listed, a home game against Guilford on March 8 was not played. A home game was scheduled against Wake Forest on March 4, while the NC A&M home game did not materialize. Practice resumed following Christmas break and Chambers led practices each night while coach Nathaniel Cartmell was on temporary leave. The team was thought to have enough tall players and often the team had at most fifteen men, which made scrimmaging difficult. The first game was to happen after exams were finished. \"The Tar Heel\" stated the returning players would help the team be stronger than the previous year. With regards to the new players, it was noted that Ransom was \"scrappier than ever.\" Guard Redman was thought to replace Erwin's void from the year prior. Chambers published an ad in the January 10, 1913 edition of \"The Tar Heel\" where he opened saying \"We need more men out for the basketball team and we need them badly.\" Chambers cited a tough schedule and the need for more than just the roughly fifteen candidates for the team to improve and beat Virginia, NC A&M, and Wake Forest. Chambers requested \"Tall men of the football type\""}, {"text": "and encouraged those without experience to try out. State\u2013wide basketball league. In late October, it was announced that Carolina, along with other in\u2013state schools including Elon College, Guilford College, North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (NC A&M), Trinity College, and Wake Forest, formed a basketball association, the North Carolina Intercollegiate Basketball Association. Representatives from each school met in Raleigh, North Carolina's Yarborough Hotel where they elected officers including North Carolina's manager R. O. Hufmann, who became president. Eligibility rules were agreed upon\u2014which were stricter due to Trinity's concurrent membership of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association\u2014and it was decided that no player would be allowed to participate if they had been in college for longer than four years or participated in any professional sporting events or teams. The scheduling of basketball games was the primary topic covered at the first meeting as it was hoped that each team in attendance would play two games against each other team represented at the meeting. The state championship would then be awarded to the team that had the best record against the conference members, but if a tie happened there would be a series of games in Raleigh's city auditorium. Huffman officially"}, {"text": "scheduled a game with NC A&M for February 22 in Raleigh, with hopes for a home game during the season. More rules and organization related topics were to be decided upon at later meetings. This was viewed as a positive development because students at North Carolina had been hoping to have competitive engagements with NC A&M and Trinity in basketball and football. In mid\u2013December, it was reported that the North Carolina Intercollegiate Basketball Association had fallen through, in part, because Trinity faculty did not wish to have any athletic contests with North Carolina, while the students did. A reporter wrote that a rivalry between Trinity and North Carolina would \"probably outstrip anything that has ever been seen in this state in any kind of athletics.\" Roster and schedule. !colspan=6 style=\"background:#4B9CD3; color:#FFFFFF;\"| Regular season Regular season. North Carolina opened their season with a home game against the Durham Y.M.C.A. After teams traded baskets in the first half, Durham led by a single point going into the half, 11\u201310. The Tar Heels opened the second half scoring six points unanswered before a scoreless period. Durham managed to score eight points to Carolina's three, to retake the lead. Carolina's Redman then made a"}, {"text": "basket to take the lead. In the closing seconds, following a jump ball, Durham made a basket and time expired shortly after, giving Durham the win 23\u201322. Carolina was thought to have had poor teamwork and \"weak\" passing, while missing ten of sixteen free throw attempts hurt the team as well. \"The Tar Heel\" commented that the crowd for the game was \"rude\" and \"semi\u2013civilized,\" expressing desire to show visiting teams more respect in the future. Davidson College came next to Chapel Hill for a game on February 3. North Carolina shut out Davidson in the first half as they scored 16 points. The Tar Heels were led by Long and Carrington, who made the majority of the scores on their way to a 42\u20138 victory. Two days later, North Carolina faced Elon in a fast-paced match. The Tar Heels outscored the visitors by double digits each half on their way to a 41\u201311 win. Emory and Henry College entered Chapel Hill two days later to face a Carolina team missing Redmon, who was absent due to an ankle injury. Emory scored quickly and then due to \"wild and erratic\" play, no team scored for a couple minutes until Homewood"}, {"text": "leveled the score. The teams improved their play and each scored a couple times before Emory took control and went into halftime with a 11\u20136 lead. Emory continued shooting well in the second half and increased their advantage. Carolina closed the score, but time expired and Emory won 20\u201317. Twelve hundred spectators packed the Raleigh Auditorium to see North Carolina take on Virginia. Virginia's offense in the first half was dribbling heavy and allowed them to get an early 8\u20133 lead, while North Carolina rallied with long shots to level the score at 13 for the half. Carolina's Redmon was disqualified for \"rough playing\" and the crowd yelled furiously at the referee, which stalled the game ten minutes. Homewood replaced Redmon for Carolina, but without Redmon \u2013 who had been playing great defense on Virginia's best player \u2013 Carolina fouled Virginia several times and their forward Gill converted several attempts. Virginia closed the game out to win 30\u201319. After the game, \"The Tar Heel\" wrote that the team played its best ball of the season in the first half. The Tar Heels went on the road and faced Wake Forest in what \"The Tar Heel\" referred to as a \"fine"}, {"text": "exhibition\" where both teams played \"hard and rough.\" The Baptists led entering the half at 14\u20138. In the second half, North Carolina made a comeback primarily through foul shots, of which Long made 9 of 12 for the game. The second half expired with the teams level at 20, which meant the teams would play a five-minute overtime period. Wake Forest's Holding made one shot in the period, while Carolina's Long made a foul shot. Holding carried Wake Forest to the win behind 20 points. In advance of the matchup against NC A&M, Carolina students who had season tickets were announced to have gotten free admission to the game in Raleigh on February 22. This likely contributed to what was reported as the largest crowd to attend a basketball game in North Carolina at 2,500 people. This was the first contest between the schools, aside from track meets, in seven years. The teams played slowly and each played tight defense in the first half, which resulted in a 9\u20136 score in favor of NC A&M. Each team's play intensified in the second half and several shots were made from long distance. The Farmers' Sumner made a long shot with a"}, {"text": "backwards throw over his head en route to a 26\u201318 victory. Three days later, back in Chapel Hill, V.P.I. and North Carolina squared off and went scoreless for the first five minutes, before Carolina's Long made a foul shot. Carolina then scored nine more points while shutting out V.P.I. V.P.I. managed to only score five points in the first half and four in the second, unable to counter the Tar Heels' offense, the final score was 29\u20139 in favor of Carolina. \"The Tar Heel\" praised the North Carolina squad's teamwork in the game. Guilford, regarded as the best team in the state, were led by forward Benbow who proceeded to score 32 of the team's 44 points as they beat the Tar Heels. Carolina's next game was a rematch against Elon on March 1. Carolina won the first half 12\u20139, but Elon overcame that deficit and took the lead and won the game behind a great performance from Johnson. \"The Tar Heel\" wrote that this was Carolina's \"weakest game of the season.\" The final game of the season was a rematch against Wake Forest. Carolina led the whole game and won the game 19\u201315. Carrington was the game's leading scorer"}, {"text": "with three field goals."}, {"text": "Penicillium excelsum is a species of fungus of the genus \"Penicillium\". The fungus was first detected on Brazil nuts (from \"Bertholletia excelsa\" in 2016, closely following on the heels of \"Aspergillus bertholletius\" also found in Brazil nuts, described in 2012. \"P. glabrum\" and \"P. citrinum\" were also isolated from the Brazil-nut tree."}, {"text": "Governor Cameron may refer to:"}, {"text": "Michael Raeburn (22 January 1943 or 1948) is a Zimbabwean filmmaker. Life. Raeburn's mother was partly Egyptian and his father was British. Born in Cairo, Egypt, Raeburn lived in Rhodesia from the age of three. He studied at the University of Rhodesia, University of London and University of Aix-en-Provence. After making his satirical 1969 film \"Rhodesia Countdown\" (Directors' Fortnight, Cannes), he was declared a prohibited immigrant in Rhodesia, and spent twelve years in exile. Living in London, England, Raeburn met James Baldwin in 1974. The pair became friends, and on-off lovers, and in 1977 began working together on a movie adaptation of Baldwin's novel \"Giovanni's Room\". Marlon Brando agreed to play the part of Guillaume, and Robert De Niro also showed interest in the project. At Baldwin's 53rd birthday in 1977, guests were told that the film was going to be made. However, Raeburn eventually gave up the project, frustrated at financial demands made by Baldwin's agent."}, {"text": "\"It Might Be Time\" is a song by Tame Impala, the musical project of the Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker. It was released through Modular Recordings and Island Records Australia on 28 October 2019, as the second single from the project's fourth studio album, \"The Slow Rush\" (2020). Parker wrote and produced the song while performing all the instruments and vocals. Predominantly led by drums, piano, and guitar, it was described by \"Pitchfork\" as a psychedelic rock and art pop song, with elements of electronic music. Lyrically, it focuses on the passage of time and the feeling of getting older. Upon its release, \"It Might Be Time\" was well-received by critics and was ranked at number 43 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019. It was also shortlisted for Song of the Year at the APRA Music Awards of 2021. Commercially, the track reached secondary charts in the Flanders region of Belgium and in the United States, while receiving a gold certification by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Background and release. \"It Might Be Time\" was one of the first tracks that Kevin Parker worked on for the Tame Impala music project after the release of the 2015 album"}, {"text": "\"Currents\" and collaborating with several musicians, including Travis Scott and Lady Gaga. He solely wrote, produced, performed, and mixed \"The Slow Rush\" (2020), including \"It Might Be Time\". \"It Might Be Time\" was released on 28 October 2019 as the second single from \"The Slow Rush\", which was announced three days before. A \"self-isolation\" version of \"It Might Be Time\" was shared on 30 March 2020 as part of a remixed edition of the album, subtitled \"An Imaginary Place\". On 22 April 2020, Parker appeared on the music podcast \"Song Exploder\" to explain the origins of \"It Might Be Time\". He discussed the song's meaning with the host Hrishikesh Hirway, while sharing early isolated versions of the track. Composition. Musically, \"It Might Be Time\" is a psychedelic rock and art pop song with elements of electronic music. The groovy production of the track predominantly contains drum beats, piano, and guitar riffs. \"Billboard\" Lars Brandle described it as \"dreamy\". Parker compared its result to \"something N.E.R.D. would do\". Lyrically, \"It Might Be Time\" describes the feeling of getting older and losing youth, focusing on the passage of time. Parker believed that anyone of any age could relate to the song, citing"}, {"text": "the lyric \"You ain't as cool as you used to be\". He stated that the hook was made in order to sound \"like your own subconscious teasing you\". Critics drew several comparisons between \"It Might Be Time\" and the works of other musicians. Naming the rock influences present on the album, Patrick Lyons of \"Billboard\" likened the song to \"Breakfast in America\" (1979), the sixth studio album by the English band Supertramp. Mike Greenhaus of \"Relix\" compared the post-punk elements to the theme song of the American television series \"Stranger Things\". \"Consequence\" Christopher Thiessen opined that the song has a \"jaunty Hall & Oates-like bounce\". \"Stereogum\" Chris Deville perceived similarities between \"It Might Be Time\" with the British-American band Foreigner and \"The Soft Bulletin\" (1999), the ninth studio album by the American band the Flaming Lips. Al Newstead of Australian Broadcasting Corporation named \"It Might Be Time\" as one of \"The Slow Rush\" closest songs to \"festival sing-alongs\". Reception. \"Rolling Stone Australia\" Tyler Jenke described \"It Might Be Time\" as one of the best tracks on the album. It was ranked at number 43 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019, by the Australian radio station Triple J. At"}, {"text": "the APRA Music Awards of 2021, the song was shortlisted for Song of the Year; another song from the album, \"Lost in Yesterday\", received a nomination. Commercially, \"It Might Be Time\" charted on three secondary charts. It peaked at number 7 on the Ultratip Bubbling Under in the Flanders region of Belgium, and appeared on the US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Adult Alternative Airplay charts at number 8 and 39, respectively. In 2021, the song was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)."}, {"text": "The following is a list of events affecting radio broadcasting in 2020. Events listed include radio program debuts, finales, cancellations, and station launches, closures and format changes, as well as information about controversies."}, {"text": "Gran Idrettslag is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Gran, Oppland. It has sections for association football, volleyball, basketball, badminton, tennis, gymnastics, swimming, climbing, and Nordic skiing. The club was founded on 10 June 1945. There had been two previous clubs, \"Gran UIL\" from 1933 and the AIF club \"Gran AIL\", but Gran IL regards both of these as having gone defunct before the foundation of Gran IL. The men's football team plays in the 4. divisjon, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. It had stints in the 3. divisjon as late as 2010, 2014 and 2016, but were relegated on every occasion."}, {"text": "Onyinye Ough is a Nigerian author, speaker and political activist. She is the executive director of Step up for Social Development and Empowerment in Nigeria, an anti corruption non-governmental organization using storytelling to educate young Nigerians on different types of corruption and its impact on society. In her book, \"Emeka's Money\", the character Emeka, is depicted as a decent man attempting to do beneficial things for the people around him. He neglects to acknowledge from the start that his \"pleasant actions\" to his friends can cause harm to the development of his community. The book draws interfaces between various parts of corruption and the real damage they cause. The book has been adapted as an animated short movie. In July 2019, Onyinye Ough joined other civil society organizations to appeal to the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Federal Audit Service Commission Bill passed by the eighth National Assembly seven months earlier into law. Onyinye Ough continues to make efforts to develop creative ways to tackle corruption in Nigeria, she created the first virtual reality film to showcase the consequences of corruption in the education sector in Nigeria through the eyes of a schoolgirl."}, {"text": "L\u00f8ten Fotballklubb is a Norwegian association football club from L\u00f8ten in L\u00f8ten Municipality, Innlandet county. The club was founded in 23 November 1964. The men's football team plays in the 4. divisjon, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. It had stints in the 3. divisjon as late as 2006\u20132010 and a single season in 2018."}, {"text": "The contrade of Legnano are the eight historical subdivisions into which the city of Legnano, in Lombardy, in Italy, is divided. They participate annually in the Palio di Legnano. Generality. The active contrade. The eight contrade of Legnano, whose mottos were introduced in 1955, are: The antagonism and the competition between the contrade are very much felt, with a strong collegiate component and particularly in the period of the year in which the Palio is organized, without prejudice to the mutual respect that leads to mutual aid in the organization of the event as in the case, for example, of the frequent exchanges of the material used in the parade. To avoid the pranks, which are frequent near the date of the Palio, the horses participating in the horse race, the night before the latter, are hidden in a secret place and cared for by the Contrada members. There are two contrade in Milan that have an additional title in the name; San Magno also has the term \"noble\" in its name, which derives from the territory of the contrada, which includes the historic center of Legnano, and from the fact that since ancient times, within the confines of the"}, {"text": "contrada, there are several families of noble lineage, while La Flora has as title \"sovereign\", attribution that was officially granted by the House of Savoy, ruling dynasty in Italy from 1861 to 1946. The contrade suppressed. In the first years in which the Palio of Legnano was disputed there were also the Contrada Ponzella and the Contrada Olmina, which were incorporated, respectively, by San Bernardino and La Flora (in 1936), and by Legnarello (in 1937); they were merged in the 1930s because at the time the neighborhoods to which they referred were not very inhabited, and therefore had difficulty in financially supporting the participation in the Palio. The banners of the two suppressed contrade still participate in the historical parade of the Palio of Legnano; in particular, they follow the banner of the contrade to which they have been annexed, supplies of their armed escort. The two suppressed contrade had no motto: the latter were in fact introduced in 1955, three years after the suppression of these contrade. The manors. The contrade are located in the so-called \"manors\"; sometimes the manors, which are the property of the contrade, are housed in ancient Lombard courts, that is to say in buildings"}, {"text": "particularly linked to the territory, especially to that of the historical contrada of which they are the seat. At the center of the contrada there is the hall of honor, which is furnished in medieval style. The manors are places open to all that host the meetings and activities of the contrada. The various rooms preserve the costumes of the past and present, while weapons and flags are placed in the racks installed on the walls; the display cases instead house the jewels and ornaments during the parade, as well as the gifts received by the contrade over time. Inside the contrada there is also the documentary archive of the contrada. The contrade are often the destination for school trips, during which students can immerse themselves in the medieval atmosphere. The organization and the regency. Each of the eight contrade of Legnano has a regency formed by a \"captain\", a \"great prior\" and a \"chatelaine\". The captain of the contrada is the one who represents the contrada on all official occasions and has the task of choosing the jockey and the horse participating in the horse race. In all official ceremonies he wears a white cloak and as a distinctive"}, {"text": "sign he has a patent parchment. The captain, depending on the contrada, can be elected by the general assembly or by its members. The function of grand prior, which was established in 1971, has the function of assisting the captain in his duties. He is also the legal representative of the contrada and checks that the status of the contrada is applied. The grand prior, in all official ceremonies, wears a black cloak, while as a distinctive sign he has a shield with cross-shaped features and a parchment. Next to the great prior is his deputy, who takes his place in his absence. The chatelaine, like the captain and the great prior, has a representative role in official ceremonies and has the task of participating in the organization of the contests in the contrada. The chatelaine, who are helped in their job by the great ladies, are united in the association \"Oratorio delle castellane\", which also unites the most non-regent chatelaine. The chatelaine, in all official ceremonies, wears a red cloak, while as a distinctive sign she has a medal and a parchment. Another important office of the contrada is the squire, who helps the captain in the performance of"}, {"text": "his duties. The squire can also supply the captain in the events organized by the contrada and as a distinctive sign he has a shield with cross-shaped features. All the official ceremonies of the Palio are organized and cared for by the masters of ceremonies of the College of captains and contrade. The captains are gathered in the College of captains and contrade, whose function is to coordinate the activities, actions and intentions of the same. This College was born in 1955, is located inside the Visconteo Castle of Legnano and is presided over by the grand master of the captains' college, who is elected every two years. On the occasion of the elections, which take place in a social assembly called \"session\", his deputy, the directors of the executive, the auditors and the arbitrators are also voted. Other functions of the college of captains are the preservation of the traditions of Legnano and its contrade. The college has as its official banner a white-red banner (colors of the municipal coat of arms of Legnano) bearing the cross of Aribert and the coats of arms of the contrade. The activities. During the year the contrade organize parties, cultural and historical"}, {"text": "events, as well as folklore and charity events. In the first decades of existence of the event, the manors were frequented only during the month preceding the Palio, but with the passing of the years the activities of the contrade experienced a constant phase of growth that led the historical contrade to diversify the initiatives, with the organization of the latter taking place throughout the year. The contrade have often been protagonists, even financially, in the restoration of historic buildings in the contrada, such as the churches to which the contrade refer. The activities of the contrade are manifold. They range from periodicals to publications, to the preparation of popular festivals such as the grape festival, horse, bread, etc., as well as the organization of antique markets, dance classes, embroidery, ceramics, painting and preparation of ski competitions, soccer and table football tournaments. Conferences and evenings are then organized focusing on history, poetry, dance and music, as well as concerts and charity events. The contrade of Legnano also operate in the social context, helping the disabled, families in difficulty and the elderly hospitalized in the centers of the area, to which they also provide moral support by making periodic visits. Of"}, {"text": "great attraction is the propitiatory dinner on the eve, which is organized the evening before the Palio and which is greeted by the contrada decked out for a party, attended by hundreds of Contrada members and the jockey who will race the horse race. In the first editions of the event the dinner on the eve was the prerogative of the jockey and the elders of the contrada: only later was it decided to open the participation to all the volunteers that revolve around the contrada; the latter, on the eve of dinner, wear scarves from their own contrada. Sometimes at the dinner on the eve there is also, in an enclosure, also the horse that will race the next horse race. The eight contrade. La Flora. It has a total of 9 victories in the Palio di Legnano. It is located in the \"Oltre Stazione\" area (i.e. west of the Domodossola\u2013Milan railway), to the north-west of the city. Legend has it that the contrada owes its name to the joyful exultation of the women of the neighborhood after the battle of Legnano. After the victory, with the passage of the Lombard League, the contradaiole of La Flora would have"}, {"text": "thrown flowers at the feet of the soldiers, hence the name of the contrada. According to this tradition, the red color symbolizes the blood of Lombard soldiers while the blue one symbolizes military glory. The meaning that today is associated with the colors of the contrada is instead the following: red indicates courage, ardor, strength and tenacity, while blue chivalrous loyalty. Another popular legend tells that Frederick Barbarossa was defeated in the battle of Legnano due to a glittering cross shown by the goddess Flora, who frightened the emperor and forced him to flee. The goddess Flora is very present in the popular beliefs of the place: according to tradition this mythological figure appeared every year in early spring to scatter flowers on the fields of the contrada. On one occasion it appeared late and spread, on the lawns of the contrada, blue cornflowers and red poppies, whose flowers bloom in summer. These colors then became representative of the contrada. Legnarello. It has a total of 11 victories in the Palio di Legnano. It is located in the area beyond the \"strada statale del Sempione\", to the north-east of the city. Legnarello's colors and banner are linked to a legend"}, {"text": "and a historical fact. Both explanations can be traced back to the Spanish rule over the Duchy of Milan, during which Legnanello became a noble quarter inhabited by Spanish nobles. Red and yellow, in addition to the colors of Legnarello, are also the Spanish national colors. The legend tells that the \"hidalgo\" don Pedro de Torquemada, living in Legnarello, used to wear half-red and half-yellow clothes in combat. Despite the high visibility of the garments, his enemies never managed to hit him and so the Spanish nobleman decided to hoist a red flag with a yellow sun on his house, symbols that were then taken over by the Legnarello contrada. The historical fact is instead connected to Donna Consuelo of the Melzi D'Eril; the Spanish noblewoman died of plague in 1621, and as a legacy she established that in her home in Legnanello the yellow-red banners of the governor of C\u00f3rdoba, Spain, should have been kept. These signs then became the symbol of the Contrada Legnarello. San Bernardino. It has a total of 9 victories in the Palio di Legnano. It is located in the area \"Oltre Stazione\" (that is to the west of the Domodossola-Milan railway), to the south-west"}, {"text": "of the city, it is one of the largest contrade. There are two legends that explain the colors of the contrada. The first tells of a master-at-arms who wanted to sentence a girl to death for rejecting his love. This master-at-arms would have pardoned the young woman only if the bells of the little church of San Bernardino had resonated without human intervention. Immediately after the first swing shaken by the aggressor, the bells began to ring by themselves and this attracted the attention of some passing knights, who intervened by rescuing the girl. The second legend tells instead of an aggression suffered by a girl in the countryside of the contrada by a bear. At his request for help, the inhabitants made the bells of the church of San Bernardino ring. Their sound was heard by some passing knights, who saved the young woman. In both legends the tunics of the girls soiled by blood became the flag of the contrada, where the white of the dress indicates the purity of the girl, while the red of the blood her regality of mind. The contrada proposes in its banner, in addition to the white and red colors, the reference"}, {"text": "to a radiant eight-pointed sun and a trigram with Gothic characters bearing the writing (Latin abbreviation corresponding to \"Noster Bernardinus Sanctus\"; in English it is translated as \"our saint Bernardino\"). This coat of arms is connected to the tablet that St. Bernardino presented to believers after his homilies. San Domenico. It has a total of 7 victories in the Palio di Legnano. It is the only contrada that does not border on any other municipality, and it is the historical contrada that won the first edition of the Palio (1935). There are two legends that explain the colors of the contrada. The first tells of a dog that found two tibiae in the fields of the contrada that belonged to warriors who had died in the battle of Legnano. The dog, after giving the bones to the inhabitants of the contrada, went with them, with a torch lit in the mouth, to a place where they could be buried honorably. Wanting to tie the colors of the contrada to this legend, the green symbolizes the shade of the fields, while the white the bones of the soldiers perished in the battle. Another legend tells that once, in Legnano, there were"}, {"text": "two convents. These monasteries, at a certain point, merged into a single religious institute. The two convents were connected by a secret tunnel that was haunted by a ghost. This ghost, during the night, scares the inhabitants of the neighborhood with infernal noises caused by the creeping of its chains. The guardian father of the monastery, Fra' Bonino, decided to remedy the problem by awaiting the ghost at one of the two entrances to the tunnel. At a certain point, during the night, the ghost appeared, which explained to the friar that he was the Germanic soldier Rudolf Himmer, who was left buried by the battle of Legnano. The ghost told the friar that he would no longer disturb the sleep of the inhabitants of the neighborhood if the friar had given a proper burial to his bones, which were scattered in the tunnel. The friar granted the wish of the ghost but, not remembering the soldier's name, he placed on his grave a green flag and two white bones. This composition then became the emblem of the Contrada San Domenico. The symbol of the contrada, that is a dog with a torch in its mouth, as well as being"}, {"text": "connected to the first narrated legend, also has a religious explanation: it derives from the order of the Dominicans, who were called the \"greyhounds of the Lord\", that is to say the bearers of the light of faith. San Magno. It has a total of 11 victories in the Palio di Legnano. It is located in the central-southern area of the city. The most famous and well-known legend, among those that narrate the origin of the colors of the contrada, tells that an Austrian oak was erected long ago in today's Piazza San Magno. On the day of the patron saint, on November 5, a farmer began to contemplate the tree admiring its ability to withstand frost and snow. Thus the peasant expressed the desire to be able to resist life's difficulties in the same way. At that moment Saint Magnus appeared, who offered to satisfy man's desire by giving him the strength, the recklessness and the power of a lion. The Saint ordered the farmer to kill a rabbit and advance on the ground, covered in snow, where the animal's blood had been spilled. The farmer carried out the orders and then Saint Magnus granted his dream turning it"}, {"text": "into a lion. Once the prodigy was completed, the Saint suddenly disappeared without satisfying the farmer who asked him to return as a man, thus punishing his pride. The white of the snow and the red of the blood of the rabbit became the symbol of the contrada. These colors, the tree and the lion were also included in the coat of arms and gonfalon of the city of Legnano. According to another legend, white and red are associated with the blood left on the snow by saints Sebastian and Roch, who had gone to Legnano to contemplate the frescoes in the basilica of San Magno. In the emblem of the contrada there is, above the red field on the left, the miter of Saint Magnus. In the center, above the white color, are depicted his episcopal umbrella and his provostural keys, while his crosier is represented above the red field on the right. San Martino. It has a total of 5 victories in the Palio di Legnano . It is located in the north-central area of the city, towards the border with the municipalities of Castellanza and Busto Arsizio. There are two legends that explain the colors of the"}, {"text": "contrada. The first tells of a noble vassal of Charlemagne who was lost in the fields of San Martino while he was training with horses. The vassal, at a certain point, met a woodsman, to whom he asked the way to follow to find his way home; the woodcutter, after having indicated a cross-shaped cloud formation, told him that if he followed it he would find the right direction. The nobleman, to thank him, allowed the woodcutter to use the white cross in a blue field as a symbol of his family: subsequently the vassal had the emperor's ratification ratified. The white cross on a blue field then became the symbol of the contrada. A second legend tells of a young shepherd who lost himself in the countryside around the ancient church of San Martino, later replaced by the homonymous religious building. The little shepherd, not finding his way home, at one point began to cry and pleaded with God asking him for help. Suddenly a luminous cross appeared in the sky that showed him the way back home. According to these legends the blue of the emblem of the contrada is associated with the sky, while white is the"}, {"text": "divine color. The banner instead recalls the religious iconography of Saint Martin, who shows the saint in the act of cutting his cloak to give it to a poor man. Sant'Ambrogio. It has a total of 6 victories in the Palio di Legnano. It is located in the central-southern area of the city. The colors of the contrada are explained by a legend and by a historical fact that actually happened. Legend has it that once a year, in a February night, a yellow-skinned demon used to wander the streets of the neighborhood dressed in an old greenish tunic, with the intention of going to the church of Sant'Ambrogio to carry out thefts. The raids lasted until the pastor, tired of these disappearances, put a rosary crown in the lock of the entrance door: in this way the demon found his keys blocked and put his fingers to free the hole, but touching the sacred object deflated and died, leaving its yellowish skin and its green cloak on the churchyard. The following morning the faithful, going to church, found these remains and adopted these colors as symbols of the contrada. Another explanation, this time of an historical nature, comes from"}, {"text": "the discovery of the body of the Archbishop of Milan Leone da Perego, who died in Legnano in 1257 in the homonymous palace, under the portico of the church of Sant'Ambrogio; this finding occurred in 1650 during the enlargement of the religious building. According to two mediaeval chroniclers, the body of Leone da Perego was buried in the church of San Salvatore in Legnano. Still according to the accounts of Agostino Pozzo, to find his treasure, which was believed buried in the church of Sant'Ambrogio and which was said to be composed of gold and bronze objects, he continued to dig, but in vain. After his discovery, the body of Leone da Perego disappeared without leaving a trace. Considering the historical event linked to the discovery of the archbishop's body, the meaning of yellow and green is connected, respectively, to the gold and bronze of the treasure of Leone da Perego. On the banner of the contrada is instead depicted the staff of St. Ambrose. Sant'Erasmo. It has a total of 13 victories in the Palio di Legnano. It is situated to the south-east and borders with the municipalities of San Vittore Olona and Cerro Maggiore. The crow, symbol of"}, {"text": "the contrada, originates from a legend linked to the Legnanese ancient convent of Santa Caterina and located chronologically just before the battle of Legnano, around the year 1000. It is said that from this monastery, at some point, food began to disappear, and therefore the abbot, Bernardo Paletta, decided to establish a guard service to control the pantry. The following morning the friar on guard, Fra' Camillo, saw a crow in the window come in such a black and shiny plumage that it looked bluish. The animal, at one point, stole bread and cheese from the pantry, and flew out the window. The friars followed the crow and saw the animal heading towards a group of three elders who were grouped around a white tablecloth. At this point the animal came down from the three and gave them food. To thank God for the miracle, the friars decided to build a shelter, the aforementioned St. Erasmus hospice. This shelter building was later dedicated to Saint Erasmus because near the place where the elders consumed the meal there was a small chapel dedicated to this saint. For this reason the blue of the emblem of the contrada symbolizes heaven and charity,"}, {"text": "while white love and wisdom. The banner instead recalls the crow, its bluish plumage and the white tablecloth of the three elders."}, {"text": "Sylvestre F. L. Gallot (born January 29, 1948, in Bazoches-l\u00e8s-Bray) is a French mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. He is an emeritus professor at the Institut Fourier of the Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes, in the Geometry and Topology section. Education and career. Sylvestre Gallot received his doctorate from Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) with thesis under the direction of Marcel Berger. Gallot worked during the early 1980s at the University of Savoie, then at the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon and the University of Grenoble (Institut Fourier). His research deals with isoperimetric inequalities in Riemann geometry, rigidity issues, and the Laplace operator spectrum on Riemannian manifolds. With G\u00e9rard Besson and Pierre B\u00e9rard, he discovered, in 1985, a form of isoperimetric inequality in Riemannian manifolds with a lower bound involving the diameter and Ricci curvature. In 1995, he discovered with G\u00e9rard Besson and Gilles Courtois, a Chebyshev inequality for the minimal entropy of locally symmetrical spaces of negative curvature; the inequality gives a new and simpler proof of the Mostow rigidity theorem. The result of Besson, Courtois, and Gallo is called \"minimal entropy rigidity\". In 1998 he was an invited speaker with talk \"Curvature decreasing maps are volume decreasing\" at the International"}, {"text": "Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin."}, {"text": "Visintini is an Italian surname from Friuli\u2013Venezia Giulia, derived from Venetian or Friulian (), or from the Istrian town of Vi\u017eintini (present-day Croatia). Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The Revolt of Salar-al-Daulah was a revolt against the government of the Sublime State of Persia in the 1910s. It began in 1911. It was led by Salar-al-Daulah, a brother of a former shah, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. By 17 July, he had occupied Senneh. Salar attempted to advance on Tehran from Kermanshah, but was defeated. After the formation of a new Persian cabinet on 26 July 1911, the Persian government deployed Bakhtiari troops against Salar-al-Daulah in western Persia. The Bakhtiari offensive was marked by widespread looting. The revolt was finally quelled in 1913."}, {"text": "Governor Carpenter may refer to:"}, {"text": "Aurora is a compilation album by the American rock band Breaking Benjamin, released on January 24, 2020. The album is a collection of reimagined versions of previously released songs, plus one new song. This is their final album with Hollywood Records. Background. Details of the album were first reported in October 2019, that it would contain reworked versions of some of the band's biggest hits over the years. It also includes one new song, the lead single \"Far Away\" featuring Scooter Ward from Cold, which was released on December 6, 2019. The album also includes guest appearances from Lacey Sturm (formerly of Flyleaf), Michael Barnes of Red, Adam Gontier of Saint Asonia and Three Days Grace, and Spencer Chamberlain of Underoath. Composition. \"Aurora\" makes use of acoustic guitars, orchestral strings and piano, resulting in an acoustic rock and symphonic rock sound. The album is also described as post-grunge and retains hard rock elements on \"So Cold\", \"Failure\", \"Red Cold River\", \"Tourniquet\", \"Never Again\", and \"Torn in Two\". \"Dance with the Devil\" is noted for \"sounding more folky\", and \"Tourniquet\" retains Benjamin Burnley's \"aggressive growl\" during the chorus. Personnel. Credits adapted from album's liner notes. Breaking Benjamin Guest artists Additional musicians"}, {"text": "Technical"}, {"text": "Zakan-Yurt (, , \"Zaki-Evla\") is a rural locality (a \"selo\") in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status. Municipally, Zakan-Yurt is incorporated as Zakan-Yurtovskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it. Geography. Zakan-Yurt is located on the southern slope of the Sunzhensky Ridge, opposite from the confluence of the Assa River into the Sunzha River. It is located north-east of the town of Achkhoy-Martan and south-west of the city of Grozny. The nearest settlements to Zakan-Yurt are Alkhan-Kala in the east, Khambi-Irze in the south-east, Shaami-Yurt in the south-west, and Samashki in the north-west. History. The village was first founded in 1851 or 1853, according to different sources, with the name of Zakan-Yurtovskaya (from 1913-1924 - called Romanovskaya) as a part of the Sunzhensky Cossack line. Later, on Order number 01721, the entire Cossack population of the village was evicted. The empty village was then handed to Chechen control. It was populated by Chechens and renamed to Zakan-Yurt at this time. In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Zakan-Yurt was renamed to Prigorodnoye, and"}, {"text": "settled by people from other ethnic groups. From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Novoselsky District of Grozny Oblast. In 1958, after the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old name, Zaki-Evla. On 1 January 2020, the territory of the Samashki Forestry was transferred from Samashki to Zakan-Yurt, and became known as Zakan-Yurt Forestry. Population. According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Zakan-Yurt were ethnic Chechens. Infrastructure. Zakan-Yurt hosts two secondary schools, a kindergarten, and a state farm."}, {"text": "The Seven Wonders of the Waterways is a list of landmarks on the navigable waterways of the United Kingdom. The list was originally compiled in 1946 by Robert Aickman, co-founder of the Inland Waterways Association (IWA), at a time when the waterways network was largely derelict. Today, the Canal & River Trust\u2014formerly British Waterways\u2014has jurisdiction over (and responsibility for) all of the sites except for the Barton Swing Aqueduct, which is owned and operated by the Bridgewater Canal Company. Background. In 1946, the Inland Waterways Association was formed to campaign for the conservation of navigable waterways in the United Kingdom. Robert Aickman, one of the co-founders of the association, proposed the list in his book \"Know Your Waterways\" as a method of highlighting significant feats of engineering on the canal network, as well as bringing attention to those at risk of becoming derelict. At the time of the list's publication, six of the locations were navigable. The London Midland and Scottish Railway Company Act of 1944 formally closed the Llangollen Canal, although the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct remained in use as a water feeder for the wider Shropshire Union Canal network. Aickman successfully passed through the Standedge Tunnel in Yorkshire with L."}, {"text": "T. C. Rolt in 1948, at a time when it was closed to all other traffic and awaiting restoration from its state of disrepair. The Caen Hill Locks in Wiltshire became derelict shortly after the list's publication, with the last boat passage before restoration occurring in 1948. The Anderton Boat Lift only became inoperational for a sixteen-year period beginning in the 1980s, and the Barton Swing Aqueduct, the Bingley Five Rise Locks, and the Burnley Embankment have always\u2014except for general maintenance\u2014been navigable. List. The original list comprises two aqueducts, two lock systems, one tunnel, one boat lift and one embankment. All but two of the sites date from around the Canal Mania period: Additional wonders. A number of other canal locations have been proposed to expand or amend the list. In 2002, British Waterways published an alternative list based on the results of a poll, which removed the Burnley Embankment and the Barton Swing Aqueduct. This list saw the first inclusion of a Scottish location, the Falkirk Wheel: A list published by canal multimedia production company Videoactive proposed the \"New Seven Wonders of the Waterways\", replacing the Caen Hill Locks, Standedge Tunnel and Burnley Embankment and introducing the only non-navigable"}, {"text": "location: In 2015, the Canal & River Trust ran a competition to establish the Lost Wonders of the Waterways World. The resultant list highlighted three locations where canal restoration schemes are planned or underway:"}, {"text": "was a torpedo bomber pilot officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. He was the commander of torpedo bombers in the Attack on Pearl Harbor that crippled several United States Navy (USN) battleships and during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands that resulted in the sinking of carrier \"Hornet\". He was killed in action during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Early career. Shigeharu Murata entered Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in April 1927 and graduated from the 58th class in November 1930. In April 1932, he completed the navy pilot training program at Kasumigaura Air Group and was commissioned as ensign. He was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade in November 1933. In July 1934, he was assigned to Tateyama Air Group and in October 1935 to carrier \"Kaga\". In October 1936, he served as an instructor at Kasumigaura Air Group near Tokyo and was promoted to full lieutenant in December. In 1937, he was transferred to the 13th Air Group and flew a Yokosuka B4Y bomber. He participated in the early stages of Second Sino-Japanese War and was also involved in USS Panay incident on 12 December 1937. In March 1938, Lieutenant Murata was"}, {"text": "transferred to 12th Air Group and assigned as one of the flight division leaders (Buntaich\u014d). There he participated in strikes on Hankou in Central China. In December, he was transferred to carrier \"Akagi\" and became flight division leader (Buntaich\u014d) in the torpedo bomber squadron. In June 1939, he was assigned to Usa Air Group in \u014cita Prefecture on Kyushu and in October he began an advanced training course for torpedo attack specialization at Yokosuka Air Group. In November 1940, he was appointed as an instructor at the same Air Group and conducted research on torpedo attack techniques in shallow waters. Pacific War. In September 1941, Lieutenant Murata was transferred back to \"Akagi\". He was assigned as the torpedo squadron leader (as Hik\u014dtaich\u014d) and was promoted to lieutenant commander. He participated in the Attack on Pearl Harbor, where he commanded the torpedo bombers that crippled Battleship Row. After that, he participated in the Indian Ocean Raid and subsequently in the Battle of Midway. He was on board \"Akagi\" when the bomb released by Lieutenant Dick Best hit the carrier and set it afire. In July 1942, Lieutenant Commander Murata was transferred to the carrier \"Sh\u014dkaku\" and was assigned as its torpedo"}, {"text": "bomber squadron leader (as Hik\u014dtaich\u014d). In late August 1942, he participated in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, however, he did not see any action. For this battle, Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo had decided to hold the Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers in reserve, while allocating two waves of Aichi D3A dive bombers to soften up the enemy fleet beforehand. The dive bomber strikes, under Lieutenant Commander Mamoru Seki (\"Sh\u014dkaku\") and Lieutenant Sadamu Takahashi (\"Zuikaku\") respectively, were launched late in the afternoon, leaving little possibility of launching the torpedo bombers. In late October 1942, Lieutenant Commander Murata participated in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, where he commanded the first strike wave that consisted of 21 D3A dive bombers, 20 B5N torpedo bombers and 21 A6M Zero fighters. The dive bombers were led by Lieutenant Sadamu Takahashi from \"Zuikaku\", while four escorting \"Sh\u014dkaku\" fighters were led by Lieutenant Hisayoshi Miyajima, eight from \"Zuikaku\" by Lieutenant Ayao Shirane and nine from \"Zuih\u014d\" by Lieutenant Moriyasu Hidaka. On the way, the IJN strike force encountered a USN strike force on a reciprocal course. At that point, Lieutenant Hidaka and his nine Zeros abandoned the escort duty and attacked the USN aircraft. When"}, {"text": "the rest of the strike force approached the USN fleet, Murata led an extremely well-coordinated torpedo and dive-bombing attack that achieved three bomb and two torpedo hits on the carrier \"Hornet\". The torpedo released by Murata appeared to have been among the two that hit the carrier. However, during the attack, Murata's B5N was hit by anti-aircraft artillery and went down in flames. He was one of the many experienced carrier pilots lost in the battle; these included his academy classmate, Lieutenant Commander Mamoru Seki, who led the second wave strike that severely damaged \"Enterprise\". He was posthumously promoted by two ranks to captain and received a special individual citation from the IJN. Portrayal in media. Shigeharu Murata appeared in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora! and was portrayed by Japanese actor Toshio Hosokawa (\u7d30\u5ddd \u4fca\u592b)."}, {"text": "Sander Idrettslag is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Sander in S\u00f8r-Odal Municipality in Innlandet county. It has sections for association football and Nordic skiing. The club was founded in 1920. The men's football team plays in the 4. divisjon, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. It was a mainstay in the 3. divisjon from 1998 to 2010 and later had two shorter stints in 2012\u20132014 and 2016. Sander's proximity to the city of Kongsvinger meant that several players featured for Sander before or after playing for Kongsvinger IL, including Norway international Martin Linnes."}, {"text": "Ridabu Idrettslag is a Norwegian association football from Ridabu, Hamar, Innlandet. The men's football team plays in the 4. divisjon, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. In 2023, the team won promotion to the 2024 Norwegian Fourth Division. They subsequently signed Aleksander Melgalvis, then-captain of the largest team in the city, Hamarkameratene. Ridabu then started 2024 by progressing to the first round of the Norwegian Football Cup for the first time in its history. In the first round, Ridabu was drawn against Hamarkameratene."}, {"text": "Sauchie railway station served the town of Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland from 1873 to 1930 on the Devon Valley Railway. History. The station opened in October 1873 by the Devon Valley Railway. To the north was Auchinbaird Siding which gave access to the pits nearby. The station closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 22 September 1930."}, {"text": "By-elections for all three elected seats in the Legislative Council were held in Papua and New Guinea on 12 September 1959. The incumbent MLCs had resigned due to the imposition of income tax in the territory by the Australian government. All three seats were won by candidates supported by the Taxpayers' Association (which opposed the new tax). The three new MLCs all resigned by 1 October. Background. On 22 June 1959 the three elected members of the Legislative Council \u2013 Ian Downs, Ernest James and Dudley Jones \u2013 resigned from the Council, issuing a joint statement saying that the income tax legislation had been introduced without an inquiry they had demanded, that the public did not have adequate representation on the Council and that the proposed legislation was too complicated and contained several anomalies. The three also stated that they would not run for re-election unless the council was made more representative. Campaign. Despite threats to boycott the elections, by the time nominations closed on 4 August, both the New Guinea Islands and Papua constituencies had two candidates, and only the New Guinea Mainland constituency had no nominations, although Sydney Barker's nomination for the seat arrived four minutes late. When"}, {"text": "nominations re-opened on 1 September, Barker submitted his application and became the sole contestant. New Guinea Islands was contested by John Chipper, a contractor in Rabaul, and William Thomas, a planter in Kokopo. Papua was contested by Stephenson Fox, an accountant, and Vincent Sanders, a contractor. Chipper and Sanders were both backed by the Taxpayers' Association and pledged to resign if requested. Barker also pledged to resign if required. Aftermath. All three elected members resigned shortly after the elections; Chipper and Sanders resigned on 29 September and Barker two days later."}, {"text": "Furnes Fotball is a Norwegian association football club from Ringsaker, Hedmark. The Nordic skiing club Furnes SF was founded on 24 January 1892. A football section was added to that club on 4 August 1932. In 1945 \"Furnes SF\" merged with the AIF club \"Furnes AIL\" to form Furnes IL. Handball was added as a sport in 1946, and at that time the club also had sections for athletics and orienteering. Later, the different sport codes were demerged, forming Furnes Fotball, Furnes H\u00e5ndball and reinvigorating Furnes SF. Furnes Fotball counts 1932 as its foundation year. The three clubs' logos are variations of the old Furnes SF logo. The men's football team plays in the 4. divisjon, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. It had stints in the 3. divisjon from 2003, 2004 and 2006."}, {"text": "Jos\u00e9 Demetrio Jim\u00e9nez S\u00e1nchez-Mariscal (8 October 1963 \u2013 23 October 2019) was an Argentine Roman Catholic bishop. Jim\u00e9nez-Mariscal was born in the Spanish municipality of Los Cerralbos. He professed as a Member of Order of St. Augustine on 6 September 1981, aged 17. On 11 October 1986, he made solemn vows as a Member of the Order of St. Augustine. He was ordained to the priesthood on 23 June 1988. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Cafayate, Argentina from 2014 until his death in 2019."}, {"text": "Saberah Malik is a textile artist and sculptor living in Warwick, Rhode Island. Early life and education. Malik grew up in Pakistan. Malik came to the United States in 1975. She is the granddaughter of Abdul Majeed Khwaja and the niece of Jamal Khwaja. Work. Malik's work has been featured in galleries and exhibitions in Rhode Island and internationally, including installations at the TF Green Airport Gallery in Warwick, Rhode Island, Hera Gallery in Wakefield, Rhode Island, the Three Rivers Art Festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Islamic Art Revival Series in Irving, Texas. She has also been on the teaching faculty of the textile department at the Penland School of Crafts. Technique. Much of Malik's work stems from her training in shibori dyeing techniques. In addition to dyeing textiles, Malik molds textiles onto natural and man-made forms to create sculptures. She also creates what she calls \"written paintings,\" two dimensional painted sculptures inspired by Islamic calligraphy. Her calligraphy appears in Daniyal Mueenuddin's short story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders."}, {"text": "Mark J Constable (born 1976) is a retired male badminton player who has represented England and Jersey. He won the English National Badminton Championships men's singles title in 2002 and represented Team England 27 times in various team events spreading over Sudirman Cup, Thomas Cup, Commonwealth Games and other international matches. Biography. Constable represented England and won a bronze medal in the men's team event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Four years later he competed in the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester where he helped Team England to win the Gold Medal. Mark retired shortly after the Manchester Games due to a severe knee injury and moved to the Channel Islands in 2003. He became the Jersey Island coach on a part-time basis and coached during the Melbourne 2006 CWG but returned in 2014 as a competitor to represent Team Jersey at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He represented Jersey at the Island Games 2015 where he won the men's singles and team gold medal titles. He followed on two years later to defend his title at the NatWest Island Games to again win individual gold in the men's singles event and also helped in securing the"}, {"text": "team silver medal. Mark was Jersey's Badminton Development Officer from 2014 until 2018."}, {"text": "Glenfoot railway station was a temporary terminus that served the town of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, Scotland in 1851 on the Devon Valley Railway. History. The station opened on 3 June 1851 by the Devon Valley Railway. It was a short-lived terminus, closing on 22 December of the same year when the Tillicoultry Viaduct opened."}, {"text": "Furnes Skil\u00f8perforening is a Norwegian skiing club from Ringsaker, Hedmark. The club was founded on 24 January 1892. It was a founding member of the Norwegian Ski Federation in 1908 and a leading club in Norway at the time, with Albert Larsen winning the King's Cup in Holmenkollen in 1908; Lars H\u00f8gvold the Ladies' Cup and the Holmenkollen Medal. Several summer sport codes were added; football in 1932, handball in 1946 and also athletics and orienteering. In 1945 Furnes SF merged with the AIF club \"Furnes AIL\" to form Furnes IL. The various sport codes were later demerged and Furnes SF was reformed."}, {"text": "The West Pullman Elementary School is a historic school building at 11941 S. Parnell Avenue in the West Pullman neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The school was built in 1894 to support the growing neighborhood; while West Pullman was not the most populous neighborhood in need of a new school, its land had been donated to the school district, reducing the school's cost enough for it to be feasible. School board architect W. August Fiedler designed the Romanesque Revival school, which features a red brick exterior, rounded arched windows, and ornamental brickwork. A 1900 addition to the school doubled its capacity; William Bryce Mundie, the architect for the addition, introduced Classical Revival elements such as terra cotta decorations and a bracketed cornice. A third addition in 1923, designed by John C. Christensen, largely matched the design of the original two sections. The school served students in West Pullman until it closed in 2013 as part of a wave of Chicago public school closings. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 27, 2018."}, {"text": "Johan Peter Mikael Rangmar (10 November 1956 \u2013 25 May 1997) was a Swedish comedian, actor, baritone, writer and television personality who was best known as a member of Galenskaparna och After Shave. Biography. Born in Annelund, Rangmar attended the Chalmers University of Technology where he majored in mechanical engineering. After completing his education, he became one of the primary founders of the barbershop quartet along with Jan Rippe, Knut Agnred and Per Fritzell. In 1982, the group merged with the comedy group , becoming Galenskaparna och After Shave. They appeared in the television show \"Macken\". As an actor, Rangmar often portrayed temperamental or nervous characters. He has starred in several films alongside Galenskaparna och After Shave such as \"Leif\" and \"The Shark Who Knew Too Much\". As a voice actor, Rangmar provided the voice of Timon in the Swedish-Language version of the animated film \"The Lion King\". One of his last major film performances was in \"The Little J\u00f6nsson Gang and the Cornflakes Heist\". Death. In 1994, Rangmar was diagnosed with melanoma, and kept the details about his illness fairly subtle, and received treatment. He was set to be the host of Melodifestivalen 1997, but Janne Jingryd hosted instead."}, {"text": "Rangmar did not succumb to the disease until 25 May 1997, at the age of 40."}, {"text": "William Gibb (1839\u20131929) was a 19th/20th century Scottish landscape artist, book illustrator and lithographer. He was elder brother to the artist Robert Gibb. Life. He was born on 13 February 1839 in a cottage on James Street in Laurieston near Falkirk, south-east of Stirling in central Scotland, the son of Alexander Gibb, a builder. and his wife, Christian Morrison. The family moved to Edinburgh around 1844, living at 28 Greenside Street. In 1855, they moved to an impressive Georgian townhouse: 5 Regent Terrace on Calton Hill. Showing an artistic talent he was sent to train under Robert Scott Lauder. He was then sent to London to learn lithography with \"Day & Son\". In London he met John Phillip who helped develop his style. However, Gibb lacked confidence in his own skills and remained firmly of the belief that he should only pursue commissioned works, rather than risk speculative work. These commissions often linked to entire series to illustrate a reference book. His clients included Sir David Cameron and Sir John Reid. He specialised in creating lithographs of whole collections of relics, artefacts etc. and was in demand as an accurate draughtsman. His works are found in most British galleries and"}, {"text": "museums and in the homes of many of the landed gentry. He died on 12 June 1929. He is buried in Warriston Cemetery in north Edinburgh, slightly to the east of his mentor Robert Scott Lauder off the westmost path. Having no other family the grave was presumably purchased (and stone erected) by his brother, Robert Gibb, who died three years later. Family. Gibb is thought to have been unmarried."}, {"text": "The Henry M. Hinsdill House, at 662 Norfolk St. in Park City, Utah, was probably built around 1893. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is a one-story variant of a hall and parlor plan house, with a gable roof. Unlike the typically symmetric facade of a hall and parlor house, this has two windows on one side of the front door and one on the other, with the latter set at an angle in the northwest corner of the house. A porch across the front wraps around this corner. Original porch balustrade and piers have been replaced. Norfolk Street is no longer open for automobile traffic along its full original length; south of 8th Street it becomes closed to traffic and appears to descend as a walkway on a diagonal down to Woodside Avenue, and then further down to Park Avenue. The Hinsdill House may be the house located at ."}, {"text": "The Kap He Chom Khrueang Khao Wan (, ; ) is a Thai poem in the form of \"kap he ruea\" (royal barge procession song), written by King Rama II in 1800, when he was Prince Itsarasunthon. It consists of four segments, the first three of which contain praises of several savoury dishes, fruits, and desserts, while the fourth mentions annual festivities. The style of the first three sections is that of the \"nirat\", a travel lament in which the poet makes allusions to his love and pain of parting. The poem is probably Rama II's expression of love for Princess Bunrot, his lover at the time, alluded to through the food items. It is also valuable as a contemporary source on historical Thai cuisine."}, {"text": "The 1998 Belgian Supercup was a football match between the winners of the previous season's Belgian First Division and Belgian Cup competitions. The match was contested by Cup winners Genk, and 1997\u201398 Belgian First Division champions, Club Brugge on 8 August 1998 at the ground of the league winners Club Brugge, the Jan Breydel Stadium. Club Brugge won the match, holding on to their lead despite a late consolation goal by Souleymane Oular\u00e9."}, {"text": "HSH Shafi Khan Qajar () was a prince of Persia's Qajar dynasty and a decorated Imperial Russian commander, having the rank of Major-General. Early life. He was born on 19 March 1853 to Jalal ud-din Mirza Qajar (second son of Bahman Mirza)and Nawbahar Khanum in Shusha (then part of Shamakhi Governorate of Russian Empire). He was home-schooled and graduated from the Officer Cavalry School course. He started the military service as a cornet in the cavalry on 12 April 1874 and on July 7, 1874, he was already rose to second-in-command of the 13th Yerevan Grenadier Regiment. Military career. He joined to the army in Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 between 12 April and 17 November 1877. He participated in various battles and skirmishes, including the bombardment of Ardahan and the assault on the Gelaverdi Heights (4 May), the Capture of Ardahan (5 May), the repulsion of the Turks from Kars and the affair at Melin-Key (28 May), the repulsion of the Turks from the northern forts of Kars (May 30), the bombardment of the northeastern forts of Kars-Arab, Karadag and Mukhlis (4 June), the affair at Kizil-Gul (September 19), the battle with the Turkish army on the Alacada\u011f heights and"}, {"text": "at the mountains of Lesser and Greater Yahni (20-22 September), taking advanced Turkish positions from the villages of Hac\u0131veli and Subatan, cavalry charge at Mount \u0130nahtepesi (27 September), etc. He was promoted to poruchik rank on 1 August 1877 after several battles. He also took part in Battle of Geok Tepe from 22 July 1880 to 25 May 1881, for which he was awarded silver medals and promoted to staff captain. After being promoted to rittmeister on 6 August 1891, he was again sent to the Officer Cavalry School for a two-year course. He served in 49th Arkhangelsk Dragoon Regiment, 55th Finland Dragoon Regiment, and 46th Pereyaslavl Dragoon Regiment later in life. He was sent to Copenhagen as the deputy of Russian delegation during the burial ceremony of Christian IX - from 27 January to 11 February 1906. Eventually, he was promoted to Major General on 31 December 1908 and was sent to pension. Death. He was accused with embezzlement of public money 1909. He shot himself on 2 January 1909 in St. Petersburg, considering this to be a stain on honor. He was buried in the Muslim cemetery of St. Petersburg (now in the territory of the Novo-Volkovsky cemetery)."}, {"text": "His funeral ceremony was attended by Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski, Aleksander Mirza Qajar as well as staff of Persian embassy. Family. His wife's name is unknown, but he was already widowed by 1886, according to military records. His only son was Feyzullah Mirza Qajar, who, like his father, served in the Imperial Russian army (and later in that of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic)."}, {"text": "Yerkes 41-inch reflector is a 40-inch aperture (101.6 cm) reflecting telescope at the Yerkes Observatory, that was completed in 1968. It is known as the 41 inch to avoid confusion with a 40-inch refractor at the observatory. Optically it is a Ritchey\u2013Chr\u00e9tien design, and the main mirror uses low expansion glass. The telescope was used as a testbed for an adaptive optics system in the 1990s. History. In the late 1960s a 40-inch reflecting telescope was added, often called the \"41 inch\" reflector, and in 2002 it was given a new dome over it. The 41 inch was finished by 1968, with overall installation completed by December 1967 and the optics in 1968. The telescope had a clear aperture of 40 inches, but was often called the \"41 inch\" so it would not be confused with the Yerkes 40 inch refractor. Also, the physical diameter of the mirror was 41 inches, even though optical clear aperture was smaller. The 40 inch reflector was of the Ritchey\u2013Chr\u00e9tien optical design. It systems and the figuring of the glass was mostly completed at the Optical workshop of the Yerkes Observatory. However, the mirror was completed by Tinsley Laboratories, because the person (A graduate"}, {"text": "student) working on the mirror died unexpectedly. The mirror had a physical diameter of 104 cm and was made from Cer-Vit low-expansion glass. In the 21st century, the 41 inch was placed on the robotic Skynet telescope network, along with a 24-inch telescope at Yerkes. The telescope is one of three major instruments at the Observatory in the late 20th and 21st century, along with 40-inch refractor and 24-inch reflector; these three telescopes occupy the 3 main telescope domes of the building. The 41 inch was installed in the southern dome, replacing the old 24-inch (2 foot ) reflecting telescope that dated to the turn of the century. The northern dome housed the new 24 inch, which replaced the Kenwood 12-inch refractor. Both of these domes are on the eastern side of the building along with the meridian transit room. The south-east dome has a diameter of about 30 feet, and was originally designed for 14-inch refractor in the 1890s. Instruments. The launch instruments for the 41 inch reflector included: The telescope was often used as a testbed for a device known as the \"Wavefront Control Experiment\" in the 1990s. This was an adaptive optics system that used a deformable"}, {"text": "mirror to reduce the blurring caused by disturbances in the atmosphere of Earth. One application was the study of combining adoptive optics with fiber optics for high-accuracy spectrographs. That type of data, given enough accuracy can be used to detect exoplanets by doppler shift."}, {"text": "William Gibb may refer to:"}, {"text": "Chronis can be a first name. Notable people with the first name include: Chronis can be a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Just Me and You () is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers and released in 2019. The film centres on eight-year-old Eva and her father going on a Montreal to Mexico road trip aboard an 18-wheeler. Awards. The film premiered at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film (\"Kplus\"). It won several awards at other film festivals, including the Best Narrative Short award at the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Grand National Prize at Regard film festival in Saguenay, and the award for Best Editing at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival. The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, and won the Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards."}, {"text": "Hertsenberg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "East India Company v Sandys (1684) 10 St Tr 371 is a UK company law and competition law case, concerning monopolies and the East India Company. Facts. Thomas Sandys was an English merchant. Sandys traded in India, returning with a shipload of cloth which arrived in the English Channel in January 1682. When the ship sailed up the River Thames, officials of the East India Company, which held a monopoly on trading in the East Indies, seized the ship and attempted to levy a fine. The case was heard in 1683. Judgment. Lord Chief Justice Lord Jeffreys held that the East India Company was entitled to levy the fine, citing the Statute of Monopolies of 1624. He held that Sandys and the other interloping merchants had never been possession of the East India trade, and they had suffered no loss of freedom or restraint of liberty. He upheld the East India Company charter, and the royal prerogative over foreign trade."}, {"text": "Sami El Gueddari (born 1 February 1984) is a French wheelchair racer and competitive swimmer who participated in the Paralympic Games of 2008 and 2012. He was a bronze medalist at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships. He is a specialist of 50 meter and 100-meter freestyle. Biography. Sami El Gueddari suffers from congenital agenesis in the left leg, which stops at the tibia. Retired since 2013, he is now sporting director of the swimming disability program within the French Federation Handisport. In 2019, he was a contestant in the tenth season of French version of \"Dancing with the Stars\" with partner Fauve Hautot. They won the competition, receiving 62% of the votes."}, {"text": "The \"Ching Chiang\" class () is a class of patrol ships/corvettes built by CSBC for the Republic of China Navy. Overview. Named after the Jinjiang river in Guangdong, China, this class of vessels were initially equipped with the HF-1 anti-ship missile, one 40 mm anti-aircraft gun, and one 20 mm gun. Beginning in 2012 the ROCN began upgrading the \"Ching Chiang\" class to counter the increasing capabilities of the PRC. The primary improvements were the fitting of four HF-3 supersonic anti-ship missile launchers and the fitting of the OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun in place of the 40 mm gun on certain vessels. Operational history. In 2020 one of the \"Ching Chiang\"-class patrol ships outfitted with special electronic warfare equipment was used to interfere with the signals collection of Chinese spy ships during the annual Han Kuang Exercise. The lead ship of the class, \"Ching Chiang\" (PGG-603), was retired on 1 February 2021. HF-3 misfire. In 2016 \"Jin Chiang\" (PGG-610) accidentally launched an HF-3 missile during a dockside drill. While the warhead of the missile was unarmed the missile hit a fishing vessel and did considerable damage. The ship's captain was killed and three crew members were injured."}, {"text": "The 1913\u201314 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team (variously \"North Carolina\", \"Carolina\" or \"Tar Heels\") was the fourth varsity college basketball team to represent the University of North Carolina. Roster and schedule. Practice for the upcoming season, along with try-outs, was scheduled to start in November. Meb Long was announced as captain for the team. \"The Tar Heel\" reported that practices typically last around two hours, including time for dressing and showering. Long put together a preliminary schedule that was published by \"The Tar Heel\" on December 11. The schedule included fourteen games, three of which were to happen before the new year. The schedule included a game in Raleigh against University of Georgia, Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (V.P.I.), and the University of Virginia, among others. In advance of the first game, the team was practicing every day. A writer for \"The Tar Heel\" that the talent for the upcoming season was the best there had been since basketball started in 1910\u201311. Coach Nathaniel Cartmell felt that the team would \"clean up everybody\" the team faced. !colspan=6 style=\"background:#4B9CD3; color:#FFFFFF;\"| Regular season"}, {"text": "Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill is a chain of fast casual Tex Mex restaurants in the United States serving Mexican-style cuisine. Restaurant service consists of: dine-in, take-out, online ordering, 3rd Party Delivery with some locations offering Drive Thru options. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and operates over 80 company-owned and franchised restaurants throughout United States. History. The chain was founded in 2000 by Bruce Willette. It was purchased by Phil Friedman in 2011. Friedman has rapidly expanded the number of Salsarita's, claiming that to achieve success, \"It's finding the best operations person and then together growing and increasing same-store sales.\" Friedman has stated that he wants to grow Salsarita's into a super regional chain. Menu. Salsarita's menu consists of six core items: burritos, bowls, quesoritos (A burrito stuffed with the customer's favorite fillings and covered with Salsarita\u2019s Creamy Queso), tacos, quesadillas, and salads. The price of each item is based on the choice of Grilled Chicken, Ground Beef, Grilled Steak, Shredded Pork, Saut\u00e9ed Shrimp, and Fajita Vegetables. There are seven made fresh daily salsas: Mild Salsa, Hot Salsa, Medium Salsa, Pico de Gallo, Tomatillo Salsa Verde, and Pueblo Corn Salsa, and Creamy Cholula Corn. Additional optional, fresh toppings"}, {"text": "are offered including rice, beans, shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, diced onions, cilantro, black olives, diced jalapenos, pickled jalapenos, shredded cheese, sour cream, creamy Queso, and house made fresh guacamole. Most Salsarita's locations offer a variety of beer and wine, with a few having full-sized bars. In 2014, the chain worked with PuckerButt Pepper of South Carolina to create the \"World's Hottest Burrito\" using Carolina Reaper peppers. Catering. Most Salsarita's locations offer Catering that can either be delivered or picked up. Catering options include Taco Bars, Fajita Bars, Taco Salad Bars, Nacho Bars, Burrito Boxed Lunches, Taco Salad Boxed Lunches and Salsarita's signature Fiesta Packs."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Clemson Tigers women's basketball team represented Clemson University during the 2019\u201320 college basketball season. The Tigers were led by second year head coach Amanda Butler. The Tigers, members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, played their home games at Littlejohn Coliseum. The Tigers finished the season 8\u201323 and 3\u201315 in ACC play to finish in fourteenth place. As the fourteenth seed in the ACC tournament, they defeated Miami in the First Round before losing to Boston College in the Second Round. The NCAA tournament and WNIT were cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Following the conclusion of the 2019\u201320 season, senior Kobi Thornton was drafted in the third round of the WNBA draft (27th overall) by the Atlanta Dream. Previous season. The Tigers finished the 2018\u201319 season 20\u201313, 9\u20137 in ACC play to finish in seventh place. They lost to Louisville in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA women's tournament\u2014which was their first trip since 2002\u2014where they defeated South Dakota in the first round before losing to Mississippi State in the second round. Offseason. 2019 recruiting class. Source: Roster. Source: Schedule. Source: !colspan=9 style=\"background:#522D80; color:#F66733;\"| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=\"background:#522D80; color:#F66733;\"| Regular Season"}, {"text": "!colspan=9 style=\"background:#522D80; color:#F66733;\"| ACC Women's Tournament"}, {"text": "The 1981 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 1980\u201381 FAI Cup, a knock-out association football competition contested annually by clubs affiliated with the Football Association of Ireland. It took place on Sunday 26 April 1981 at Dalymount Park in Dublin, and was contested by Dundalk and Sligo Rovers. The competition was sponsored by Mitre. Dundalk won the match 2\u20130 to win the cup for the seventh time. Background. The two sides' two previous meetings that season had been in the League, with Dundalk winning both matches \u2013 including a 3\u20130 victory in The Showgrounds in Sligo two weeks earlier. Dundalk had finished as runners-up in the 1980\u201381 League of Ireland, and had already won that season's League Cup. To reach the final they had defeated non-League Hammond Lane (1\u20130), St Patrick's Athletic (2\u20130 in a replay following a 1\u20131 draw), Drogheda United (1\u20130 in a replay following a 0\u20130 draw), and Finn Harps (1\u20130). Sligo Rovers were the underdogs, having finished 11th in the League, and were playing in their fifth FAI Cup final. They had lost in all four of their previous appearances, most recently in 1978. They had overcome UCD (2\u20131 in a replay following"}, {"text": "a 1\u20131 draw), Home Farm (3\u20130), and Waterford (1\u20130 in a replay following a 2\u20132 draw) to reach the final. The match was not broadcast live. Highlights were shown that evening on the RT\u00c9 show \"Sports Scene\", with commentary from Jimmy Magee. Match. Summary. Dundalk were made heavy favourites going into the match, which both managers sought to use as motivation for their players. The match, described in press reports as \"wind-spoiled\", had an undistinguished first half, but seven minutes into the second half a corner taken by John Archbold sailed straight into the net without being touched by anyone. Sligo subsequently pressed hard for an equaliser, but were well-marshalled by the experienced Dundalk defence. In the 78th minute, one such Sligo attack broke down, and Mick Fairclough latched onto a long clearance by Sean Byrne to race through and score Dundalk's second to seal the win. The victory gave Dundalk their only FAI Cup and League Cup Double."}, {"text": "Francois 'Faffa' Knoetze (born 18 January 1963) is a former South African rugby union player that played two tests for the Springboks. Playing career. After finishing school, Knoetze furthered his studies at Stellenbosch University. At university he played for the Maties under\u201320 side and was selected for the Western Province under\u201320 team and the South Africa Universities under\u201320 team. His first match for the Western Province senior team was in 1984 against South Western Districts. Knoetze was part of the Western Province team that won the Currie Cup in 1985 and in 1986. He played 110 matches for Western Province, scoring 43 tries. Knoetze made his test debut for the Springboks against the World XV on 26 August 1989 at his home ground, Newlands in Cape Town. He also played in the second test against the World XV and toured with the Springboks to England and France in 1992. He played in six tour matches for the Springboks and scored two tries. Accolades. In 1985, Knoetze was one of the five Young Players of the Year, along with Schalk Burger (born 1963), Deon Coetzee, Christo Ferreira and Giepie Nel."}, {"text": "The Houston Outlaws are an American esports team founded in 2017 that competes in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Outlaws began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2018 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance."}, {"text": "The 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards () ceremony was held on November 21, 2019, at Paradise City, Incheon. Organized by Sports Chosun (a sister brand of Chosun Ilbo), the annual award show honored the best in Korean language films that were released from October 12, 2018 to October 10, 2019. It was broadcast live on SBS. Nominations and winners. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ()."}, {"text": "Creagh National School () is a primary school in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland. Originally founded in 1939, it is a Catholic boys and girls national school located on the outskirts of Ballinasloe in the civil parish of Creagh. As of 2019, the school had 415 pupils and approximately thirty staff, making it the largest national school (by number of pupils) in the Ballinasloe catchment area. History and development. Creagh National School was opened in 1939 in Creagh outside Ballinasloe, initially with just two teachers and 87 pupils. First opened down the Creagh Road, the school was moved to the current location in 1939. Later developments include the \"two million construction project\", which involved the development or extension of six mainstream classrooms, five tutorial rooms, an extension to the school hall and a library. Begun in 2009, the school marked the official opening of the extensions in September 2012. A new astro-turf pitch was opened to coincide with the school's 75th anniversary celebrations in 2014. In June 2023, a funding allocation of almost \u20ac700,000 was approved in order to provide two new modular classrooms at the school, including their first ever special education class. The classrooms were completed in November and"}, {"text": "opened by the Minister of State for Special Education Josepha Madigan. As of 2021, \u00c1ine N\u00ed Choller\u00e1in (Bleahene) was the acting principal of Creagh National School. Events and fundraising. A St Brigid's cross fundraiser is held on 1 February, St Brigid's Day, every year. Other fundraising events include Christmas singalong, cake sale, and confirmation fundraisers, with much of the money raised going to causes in Tanzania. With pupils from 27 different cultural backgrounds, the school participates in the Yellow Flag diversity programme, and celebrated two \"intercultural days\" in 2019."}, {"text": "A limnological tower is a structure constructed in a body of water to facilitate the study of aquatic ecosystems (limnology). They play an important role in drinking water infrastructure by allowing the prediction of algal blooms which can block filters and affect the taste of the water. Purpose. Limnological towers provide a fixed structure to which sensors and sampling devices can be affixed. The depth of the structure below water level allows for study of the various layers of water in the lake or reservoir. The management of limnological conditions can be important in reservoirs used to supply drinking water treatment plants. In certain conditions algal blooms can occur which can block filters, change the pH of the water and cause taste and odour problems. If the sensors extend to the bed level the tower can also be used to monitor the hypolimnion (lowest layer of water) which in some conditions can become anoxic (of low oxygen content) which may affect the lake ecology. Limnological towers have been constructed in reservoirs used to supply drinking water in the United Kingdom since algal blooms began causing problems with water quality. By providing data on water conditions and algae levels the towers"}, {"text": "can predict the behaviour of the algae and allow managers to make decisions to alter conditions to prevent algal blooms. These decisions may include altering water inflows (particularly where nutrient-rich intakes are considered), activating water jets to promote the mixing of different layers of water and altering the depth from which water is abstracted. These decisions can affect the behaviour of the reservoir over a period from a few hours to a few years. Examples. North America. Six combined limnological and meteorological observation towers were established in the Great Lakes on the US-Canadian border in 1961. Three were installed in Lake Huron, two in Lake Ontario and one in Lake Erie by the Great Lakes Institute. These were innovative in design and cheap to construct, being built largely from water pipe. Constructed in water depths of the towers provided measurements of wind speed, air temperature and rainfall as well as water temperature and current flows at different depth. The shorter towers (in water less than of depth) were attached directly to the bed, towers in greater depths of water were floating units, with a submerged ballast tank, that were anchored to the lake bed by means of cables and weights."}, {"text": "A further two limnological towers were constructed near Douglas Point in Lake Huron in the 1960s. One, high was built offshore in 1961 and a second high in 1969. They are poles anchored to the lake bed by means of a gimbal and braced by tensioned cables and anchor guys. They featured a mobile thermistor sensor that could be moved to any depth on the tower as well as fixed thermometers at various depths and were intended to monitor the temperatures of different water layers in the lake. United Kingdom. A concrete limnological tower was installed at Rutland Water, England's largest reservoir by surface area, when it was built in the early 1970s. The design of the tower was influenced by consultation with the Water Research Centre and was intended to provide the best possible tools to monitor the ecological conditions of the reservoir so that it could be best managed by its operator (the Anglian Water Authority). The tower monitors water temperature, dissolved oxygen levels and water fluorescence (which is a measure of algal content) at 2m depth intervals. The tower also has the ability to draw water samples for further testing from the various depths and also mounts"}, {"text": "an automatic weather station. The data is continuous and displayed visually in real-time at the reservoir control centre, situated at the dam. The site of the tower was chosen to best suit the needs of the operator. The reservoir consists of two arms \u2013 northern and southern \u2013 and has been designed such that all nutrient-rich water enters the southern arm. The intention being that nutrients will be depleted before the water is abstracted for use at the eastern end of the site. The northern-arm is fed by nutrient-poor sources and should be relatively unaffected by algal blooms. A secondary outlet is available that draws solely from the northern arm, in cases that the southern arm is affected by algal growth. Additionally the operators are able to draw directly from the River Nene if the reservoir water is unusable. The Queen Mother Reservoir near London also has a limnological tower."}, {"text": "The 4th Moscow Jewish Film Festival is an annual international film festival, which aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems. The festival was held in Moscow from 22 to 30 May 2018, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Documentary Film Center, cinema GUM, KARO 11 cinema Oktyabr, Moskino Zvezda and Garage Screen Summer Cinema. Opening film. Opening film of the festival was \"Denial\" directed by Mick Jackson. The welcome speech at the Opening ceremony was held by the President of Jury Alexander Rodnyansky and famous American director and producer Brett Ratner. The ceremony was held in cinema Oktyabr which gathered about 1,600 spectators. Public Council. A public council, created in 2017, continued its work and included the following filmmakers and leaders of the Jewish community: Program. Education. In addition to film screenings educational program was organized in the framework of the festival. A discussion \u201cOdessa as creative Klondike\u201d dedicated to the film \u201cInto_nation of Big Odessa\u201d took place at Oktyabr Cinema. Following the screening of the documentary \u201cBobbi Jene\u201d about the woman who dances, fights for her independence and bravely faces"}, {"text": "its consequences, the guests of the Festival had an opportunity to attend the unusual dancing workshop \u201cLiving an artistic image through the body\u201d by Toma Nuevo. A discussion \u201cFrom patriotism to nationalism. Where the boundaries are?\u201d led by public figure Alexander Kargin and TV-presenters Kirill and Andrey Eykhfus, following the screening of the documentary film \u201cForever Pure\u201d took place at the Documentary film center. The festival also held the screening of the documentary \u201cInk of Yam\u201d and the lecture \u201cInk of Yam. Signs on the skin: social and symbolic functions of tattoos\u201d, where Dr.Oxana Moroz and tattoo master Sergey Pavlov (Mysh) discuss the social, aesthetic and symbolical functions of tattoos in modern society. As a part of the Special screenings program Austrian director Ruth Beckermann had a Q&A session about her past works and future plans. The Jewish Museum and Tolerance center hosted the screening of Nathan the Wise with musical accompaniment by the \u201cSpeedball trio\u201d band and arranged theatre director Vladimir Mirzoev\u2019s workshop \u201cModern directing at the intersection of feature, documentary and digital filmmaking.\u201d Events. The 4th Moscow Jewish Film Festival opened with the screening of 'Denial directed by Mick Jackson. The welcome speech at the Opening ceremony was"}, {"text": "held by the President of Jury Alexander Rodnyansky and famous American filmmaker Brett Ratner. The closing ceremony of the 4th Moscow Jewish Film Festival was held in the Documentary film center. The jurors presented awards in each of the four competition categories and one special prize. Moreover, within the festival the Honorable prize for outstanding contribution to the development of Jewish cinema in Russia was presented to Vladimir Mashkov for his film \u201cPapa\u201d. This year Yakov Kaller award for the best Russian Jewish film of 2018 was given to Sobibor by Konstantin Khabensky. Sofia Aleksandrovna, Yakov Kaller\u2019s sister, presented the award to producer of \u201cSobibor\u201d Ilya Vasilyev."}, {"text": "Kukur Tihar (also called Narak Chaturdashi, ) is an annual Hindu festival originating from Nepal which falls on the second day of the festival of Tihar (around October or November). The second day of Tihar, called Kukur Tihar, is dedicated to the worship of dogs. On this day, people worship dogs to please Yama, the god of death, as they are considered to be his messengers. Dogs are decorated with tilaka and wear flower garlands around their necks. Worshippers offer them various foods including meat, milk, eggs, and dog food. It is considered a sin if someone acts disrespectfully to a dog on this day. Kukur Tihar is also celebrated worldwide by the Nepalese diaspora. Background. Tihar is a five-day-long Hindu festival originating from Nepal; it is the second-largest festival in the country, after Dashain. Kukur Tihar is celebrated on the second day of Tihar. During the festival of Tihar, many animals including cows and crows are also worshipped. In the ancient Sanskrit epic \"Mahabharata\", the five Pandavas on their way to heaven are accompanied by a dog. The five Pandavas with their wife Draupadi and brothers climb the Himalayas; all of them except Yudhishthira and his dog perishing along"}, {"text": "the way. Then Yudhishthira meets Indra, King of the gods, who welcomes him to heaven but tells him he has to leave his dog behind. Yudhishthira refuses to enter heaven without his dog and says he will go back to earth. The dog disappears and it is replaced by Yama, the god of death; Indra is impressed by his actions and then his righteousness opens the gates of heaven for Yudhishthira. In Hindu mythology, Yama has two dogs\u2014Shyama and Sharvara\u2014who guard the door of hell. Nepali Hindus believe that by worshipping dogs they start to see death positively, because a dog follows them in their final journey. They hope that dogs will guard them against the torture in hell. Dogs are considered to be a companion of Yama and to please him, dogs are worshipped. According to ABC Science, dogs might have been first domesticated in Nepal and Mongolia. Celebrations. Tihar is celebrated around October or November every year. During the festival, dogs are worshipped, bathed, and decorated with tilaka, which is made from kumkuma or gulal powders with rice and yoghurt. Flower garlands are draped around their necks and they are offered food including meat, milk, eggs, and dog"}, {"text": "food. Police dogs and stray dogs are also honoured. Kukur Tihar also celebrates the relationship between dogs and humans. It is considered a sin if someone behaves disrespectfully to a dog on this day. Reception. Kukur Tihar festival is now adopted in the USA. The first Kukur Tihar- Day of the Dog Celebration \u00a7 happened October 27 th, 2024 at James Long Park, Haymarket, VA. Speaking at the event organizer Jewan Tiwari said they will be celebrating Kukur Tihar Annually the last Sunday in October in the US. After the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, Animal Nepal used the occasion of the festival to promote awareness about dogs who became homeless. \"The Kathmandu Post\" reported that people were buying foreign breeds of dogs which left the local dogs in the streets. Kukur Tihar spread around Mexico in 2016 to make people aware of respecting animals. Special Broadcasting Service reported that many Nepalis in Australia were also celebrating the festival. In 2008. Asian Art in London celebrated the festival by creating a dog walk charity event. Also in 2016, Kathmandu Metropolitan City with the help of Humane Society International and Jane Goodall Institute Nepal created a program to \"humanely manage urban dog"}, {"text": "population\". An educational assessment done by International Companion Animal Management Coalition (ICAM Coalition) found that dogs in the capital of Nepal were \"generally healthy and accepted by the community\". In 2018, a dog named Kushal was named \"The Best Dog of the Year\" by the Nepal Police on the occasion of the festival after the dog helped discover the murderer of a 10-year-old girl. After the Chinese Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, in which festival-goers eat dog meat and lychees, garnered international outrage, \"One Green Planet\" described Kukur Tihar as \"[it] will restore your faith in humanity\". People on social media contrasted the Chinese festival with Kukur Tihar and \"The Dodo\" reported that \"[it gave] heartbroken dog lovers a reason to feel hopeful again\". In a 2016 newspaper article, the President of Animal Nepal appealed to Nepalis \"to take a pledge this Kukur Tihar, to not just worship your pets on this day but to do the right thing for them all year round. Unchain and uncage your dogs, learn to interact with them, take them for walks, understand their feelings, \u2026\" A 2007 BBC photo essay also pointed out the need to improve the treatment of Nepali dogs which,"}, {"text": "\"during the rest of the year, are not generally well treated...\""}, {"text": "The 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Slovakia in the 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2003 were eligible to participate. Originally, the qualifying competition would use a new format with teams split into three different leagues with promotion and relegation, with the draw of the first round under the new format already held in December 2019. However, on 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the introduction of the new format had been postponed to the next edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and qualification for this edition would use the previous format involving two rounds only. Apart from Slovakia, 53 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition, where the original format consisted of a qualifying round that took place in autumn 2021, and an elite round that took place in spring and summer 2022. Format. The qualifying competition consisted of the following two rounds: The schedule of each group was as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04): Tiebreakers. In the qualifying round and elite"}, {"text": "round, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02): To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.02): Qualifying round. Draw. The draw for the qualifying round was held on 3 December 2019, 10:00 CET (), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following: Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn in the same group: Spain and Gibraltar, Ukraine and Russia, Serbia and Kosovo, Russia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. Groups. The qualifying round was originally scheduled to be played by 17 November 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in"}, {"text": "Europe, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the qualifying round would be delayed to March 2021. Times up to 27 March 2022 are CET (), thereafter times are CEST (), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses). Group 1. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 2. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 3. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 4. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 5. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 6. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 7. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 8. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 9. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 10. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 11. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 12. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Group 13. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Ranking of third-placed teams. To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round which advanced to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group were taken into account. Elite round. Draw. The draw for the elite round was held on 8 December 2021, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The teams were seeded according to their positions and then results (i.e. group winners were seeded higher than second-placed teams, the best third-placed team was seeded at the bottom) in the qualifying round. Portugal, which received a bye to the elite round, was automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group"}, {"text": "contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group. Groups. The elite round group stage was completed on 23, 26 and 29 March 2022, and 1, 4 and 7 June 2022. Qualified teams. The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. \"Italic\" indicates hosts for that year. 2 As Serbia and Montenegro Goalscorers. In the qualifying round, In the elite round, In total,"}, {"text": "The talker helmet or phone-talker helmet is a combat helmet used by the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard. It was originally designed in 1942 as a special-purpose naval helmet for deck crews that could fit additional equipment the contemporary M1 helmet was incompatible with, such as a sound-powered telephone headset. The original talker helmet, the Mark II, was produced and used during World War II. An improved successor model, the Mark 4, was introduced in 1981 and remains in limited service. History. In 1941, the U.S. military had adopted the new M1 helmet for their combat and support personnel. The M1 helmet was designed primarily for infantry and lacked space and compatibility with specific equipment like telephone headsets, which, while less of a concern for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, was relevant to the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, which needed a helmet to protect sailors posted above deck, such as anti-aircraft gunners and communications personnel tasked with transmitting orders by sound-powered telephone (\"talkers\"). In September 1941, the Navy contracted the McCord Radiator Company to design and produce a new special-purpose helmet to protect sailors' heads from shrapnel and debris while also providing sufficient space to"}, {"text": "accommodate a telephone headset, a gas mask, and binoculars. The helmet was made of non-magnetic Hadefield manganese steel and was designed to be non-reflective to avoid making personnel visible, while the liner was made by from cotton and later new padding materials such as Foamex, Velon, and Koroseal. Prototypes were tested in late 1941 and, following the American entry into World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the helmet entered production in February 1942. The new helmet, designated the \"Mark II\" or \"Mark 2\", was quickly issued for wartime service and was recorded to have effectively entered active service by May 1942, being used by U.S. Navy deck crews alongside the M1 helmet throughout the war. McCord produced an estimated 400,000 Mark II talker helmets between February 1942 and June 1945 in olive green, deck blue, and gray. Refurbished examples remained in U.S. Navy service until the 1980s and 1990s at the latest. In 1981, the Mark 4 talker helmet was introduced as a modernized replacement for the aging Mark II, which proved to be particularly vulnerable to rust due to its steel construction. The Mark 4 was produced by Gentex and featured Kevlar construction (predating the PASGT"}, {"text": "helmet by roughly two years) and memory foam-padded liners, but otherwise had a similar purpose and design to the Mark II. An improved variant designed by Gentex was tested in 1985 but ultimately not adopted. Most Mark 4 talker helmets have since been retired due to age and technological advances allowing headsets to fit most modern combat helmets, though some remain in service, particularly with the Coast Guard. In popular culture. The Mark II talker helmet is known for being one of the inspirations for the Rebel Alliance helmets in the 1977 film \"Star Wars\" and the greater \"Star Wars\" franchise, with early examples being assembled from surplus helmets."}, {"text": "The following is a list of songs that have been the subject of plagiarism disputes. In several of the disputes the artists have stated that the copying of melody or chord progression was unconscious. In some cases the song was sampled or covered. Some cases are still awaiting litigation."}, {"text": "The Miniature Altarpiece (or Miniature Altarpiece: Anna Selbdritt) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is a small, 9.3 cm-high, Gothic boxwood miniature triptych completed in the Netherlands c. 1500\u20131520. The central carving is made from boxwood and shows a relief of the Virgin and Child attended by two saints, thought to be Anne (who is shown with wings and holding a large crucifix) and James the Great (who wears a hat and holds a staff). The outer semi-circular wings and shell are lined with silver and decorated with foliate designs. It stands on a silver plinth with pierced quatrefoils, and topped by a cherub's head and a statuette of God the Father. It is thought that the silver-work was added between 1550 and 1570. Two lay figures keel at prayer desks before the saints; presumably these are the object's donors or commissioners.The man on the viewer's left is presented by Saint James; the woman is on our right and is presented by Saint Michael. The sculpture's dimensions are . It has the accession number 225-1866, having been acquired for \u00a314 at the Le Charpentier sale at the H\u00f4tel Drouot on 23 May 1866. There is no record of its"}, {"text": "provenance before this point. It is not currently on display."}, {"text": "The Anglican Church of St Mary at Bibury in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 11th century. It is a grade I listed building. History. The first church in Bibury was established in 899. The Anglo-Saxon church was built in the middle to late 11th century with further work in subsequent centuries. The church was the property of Osney Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries. A Victorian restoration was undertaken in 1863 by George Gilbert Scott with further restoration later in the 19th century. The organ was moved to the south aisle in 1920. The parish is part of the South Cotswold benefice within the Diocese of Gloucester. Architecture. The limestone building has a stone slate roof. It consists of a nave with north and south aisles and a clerestory, chancel and a south porch. The tower arises from the north west corner, supported by buttresses and contains a 15th-century belfry. A Saxon stone grave slab has been incorporated into the north wall. Four similar Saxon slabs were given to the British Museum. The north doorway was constructed around 1180. The interior furnishings include a 13th-century font and memorials from several centuries. Unusually the font"}, {"text": "is square, with the sides carved with arches. The oldest of the stained glass is from the 13th century with more recent work by Thomas Willement and William Wailes. Glass by Karl Parsons installed in 1927 was used on a 1992 Christmas stamp."}, {"text": "The 2019 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game was a college football game played on December 7, 2019, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, to determine the 2019 champion of the American Athletic Conference. The conference's 5th championship game featured the champion of its East Division, the Cincinnati Bearcats, against the West Division champion, the Memphis Tigers. The game was televised on ABC. The game is hosted by the divisional champion with the better winning percentage in conference games. Memphis claimed hosting rights with a 34\u201324 home win over Cincinnati to close out the regular season on November 29. This left both teams with a 7\u20131 conference record, with Memphis holding the tiebreaker due to the Tigers' head-to-head win. Navy ultimately tied Memphis for the West Division crown, but the Tigers also held that tiebreaker due to a head-to-head win. Teams. Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Bearcats clinched the AAC East, and a berth in the Championship Game, with a win over Temple on November 23. This is Cincinnati's first Championship Game appearance. Memphis. Memphis clinched at least a share of the West Division title with their November 29 win over Cincinnati, and also claimed hosting rights by virtue of"}, {"text": "holding all possible tiebreakers."}, {"text": "Fedor Stepanovich Chispiyakov(Russian cyrillic: \"\u0424\u0451\u0434\u043e\u0440 \u0421\u0442\u0435\u043f\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0427\u0438\u0441\u043f\u0438\u044f\u043a\u043e\u0432\", Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast, 1906\u20131978) was a Soviet writer. He is described as the father of the Shor language literature in the books \"\u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u041a\u0443\u0437\u0431\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0430\" (\"History of Kuzbass\") and \"\u0421\u043a\u0430\u0437\u043a\u0438 \u0421\u0438\u0431\u0438\u0440\u0438 \u0438 \u0421\u0435\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0430\" (\"Tales of Siberia and the North\"). He studied in Moscow and came back to Siberia to work as a teacher."}, {"text": "The Great Alaskan Race is a 2019 American action adventure drama film written and directed by Brian Presley. Synopsis. The film opens in 1917 Alaska with Leonhard Seppala winning the Sweepstakes Race for the third time in a row. Things change for Leonhard when his wife Kiana dies after giving birth to their daughter Sigrid, leaving everything up to him. In 1925, in Nome, Alaska a child begins to cough during a ceremony in the village church. This passes without being noticed by Dr. Welch, but when other children start coughing as well, he realizes something is wrong and decides to visit some of them. When he realizes it's diphtheria, he immediately looks for the antitoxin, but in vain. Welch then decides to warn the mayor of the town and so a quarantine is triggered for the town. All the neighboring towns try to send the serum to Nome, but the snowstorm prevents the planes from flying and the frozen sea does not allow the ships to leave. The mayor then calls all the mushers and tells them that in Nenana, the nearest town to Nome, they have the serum but that it will be necessary to create a transfer"}, {"text": "with which to get the antitoxin. Seppala initially doesn't want to leave, because Sigrid has only him in the world, but then Constance, one of the nurses at the hospital and a very important figure for Sigrid, convinces him to leave. After an extreme effort, the antitoxin finally reaches Nome, but Leonhard has no more strength and is about to die. In a dream, he has a vision of Kiana who tells him not to give up and to return to his daughter. Leonhard wakes up in his bed at home, ready to start living his life again and spend it with Sigrid and Constance. Historical accuracies between the film and actual events. In the film, Leonhard Seppala's wife and Sigrid's mother is an Inuk native woman named Kiana, whereas in reality, Seppala's wife and Sigrid's mother was really Constance. The film portrays Constance as the church director of the children's choir, one of the nurses in Nome's small hospital, and Dr. Curtis Welch's daughter, as well as becoming Seppala's second wife and Sigrid's stepmother at the end of the film. Kiana was a fictional character made up in the film. Just as portrayed in the film, Leonhard Seppala and"}, {"text": "his friend Gunnar Kaasen both worked for the gold-mining company in Nome, as well as the fact that Seppala raised a large kennel of Siberian huskies on the sideline. Both the film and real events portray Togo as Leonhard's favorite lead dog. Balto and Togo are portrayed differently in the film than in real life. In the film, Togo is a gray-and-white Siberian husky and Balto is a large black-and-white Alaskan Malamute. In reality, Togo was a mixture of black, gray, and brown in color, while Balto was a black Siberian husky with a white bib on his chest, a long white sock on his right leg, and a short white sock on his left leg. In the film, only two children, two Inuit girls named Mary and Akina, died from the diphtheria epidemic before the antitoxin arrived. In reality, seven children died from diphtheria before the epidemic was lifted, including seven-year-old Alaskan Eskimo girl Margaret Eide, three-year-old Billy Barnett, and six-year-old Inuk native girl Bessie Stanley. Just like in the film, the relay of 20 mushers and their sled dogs delivered 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in six days. However, the antitoxin supply was a small amount"}, {"text": "and could only keep the epidemic at bay until a larger shipment arrived. What the film doesn't mention is that another 1,100,000 units of serum were gathered and shipped to Alaska, where a second relay of dog mushers and their teams picked it up and delivered it to Nome in another six days. The diphtheria epidemic was not immediately averted as is portrayed in the film, but it was lifted by February 15, 1925, four weeks after the epidemic had begun. \"Wild Bill\" Shannon was the first musher in the first relay to pick up the serum in Nenana, but he did not arrive in Whiskey Creek as the film portrays. He passed the life-saving serum to Edgar Kalland in Tolovana after travelling more than 50 miles through a freezing Arctic storm and losing four of his nine sled dogs in the process. Edgar Kalland drove his team of sled dogs from Tolovana to Manley Hot Springs, where he passed the antitoxin off to the third musher in the relay, Dan Green. Charlie Evans, the twelfth musher in the relay, received the serum in Bishop Mountain from the previous musher George Nollner and carried it thirty miles down to Nulato,"}, {"text": "losing his two lead dogs in the process to the bitter cold. Leonhard Seppala and Gunnar Kaasen did not meet the last fifty miles of the journey nor did Seppala pass the serum over to Kaasen. After carrying the life-saving serum more than ninety miles from Shaktoolik and crossing the treacherous Norton Sound, Seppala arrived in Ungalik and passed the antitoxin over to Charlie Olsen, who carried it twenty miles from Ungalik to Bluff. Charlie then passed the medicine over to Gunnar Kaasen, who carried it the last fifty-three miles from Bluff to Nome. In the film, Leonhard Seppala's team of dogs consisted of seven dogs and Gunnar Kaasen's team numbered eight dogs. In reality, Seppala's team numbered twenty Siberian huskies with Togo as the lead dog and a second dog, Fritz, as co-leader alongside Togo. Kaasen's team numbered thirteen huskies from Seppala's kennel and his lead dogs were Balto and a brown-and-gray husky named Fox. The film omitted two important events in Kaasen's and Balto's journey from Bluff to Nome. At the start of the journey, Kaasen's sled tipped over against the strong Arctic winds and dumped the serum into a deep drift of snow. Kaasen dug through the"}, {"text": "snow, retrieved the serum, and reattached it to the sled again before continuing on his way. The second event occurred when Kaasen and his dog team arrived in Point Safety, where the serum was supposed to be handed over to the last musher of the relay, Ed Rohn. Ed Rohn, believing that Kaasen and his team had stopped at Solomon to wait out the blizzard, had fallen asleep and left his dogs unharnessed and locked up in the barn. Kaasen made the decision to continue on his journey to Nome, possibly aware of the acclaim that would greet the person who completed the final relay. At 5:30 am on February 1, he and his dogs arrived in Nome with the life-saving serum. Release. The film was released in theaters on October 25, 2019. Reception. Tara McNamara of Common Sense Media awarded the film two stars out of five. Bobby LePire of \"Film Threat\" gave it a five out of ten."}, {"text": "The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019 (WFRCC) was the first world championship in Fischer random chess officially recognized by the international chess federation FIDE. Previous unofficial championships had been held, with the most recent winner being Magnus Carlsen in 2018. The competition started on April 28, 2019, with the first qualifying tournaments, which took place online and were open to all interested participants; and continued with further rounds up to the quarter-finals, which were also online. The semi-finals and final were played over the board between October 27 to November 2, 2019, in the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in B\u00e6rum, Norway. The winner of the final was Wesley So, defeating Magnus Carlsen 13.5\u20132.5, to become the first FIDE world champion in Fischer random chess. Over the course of the competition, various time controls were applied, with longer games being weighted more heavily. Rounds. The championship included several rounds with different time controls, organizational forms and access requirements. First qualifying round. The first qualifying round was open to all interested chess players without a title and was played online via the chess server Chess.com. Each of the 32 groups played a Swiss-system tournament with 9 rounds and a time control"}, {"text": "of 10 minutes for the entire game plus an increment of 2 seconds per move. The top 5 players from each group qualified for the second qualifying round, for a total of 160 players. Second qualifying round. The second qualifying round was open to the 160 qualifiers from the first qualifying round as well as all FIDE title holders. Each of 12 groups played a Swiss-system tournament with 9 rounds, also with a time control of 10 minutes plus 2 seconds increment. The top 7 players from each group qualified for the third qualifying round, for a total of 84 players. Third qualifying round. The 84 qualifiers from the second qualifying round were divided into 6 groups of 14 players each. Each group was supplemented by two invited chess players. Each group of 16 players played a single-elimination tournament. In each round of the tournament, the two players played a \"minimatch\" consisting of two games with opposite color assignments. In case of a tie, another minimatch with shorter time control was played, and another one with even shorter time control if the tie persisted. If there was still no decisive result after the third minimatch, the pairing was decided by"}, {"text": "an Armageddon game. While the first two qualifying rounds brought a number of surprises, the winners of the third qualifying round were all near the top of the FIDE world rankings in standard chess. Nevertheless, some prominent players were knocked out, including Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Sergey Karjakin, Alexander Grischuk and Leinier Dom\u00ednguez. The following 6 players qualified for the quarterfinals: Two more players were seeded directly into the quarterfinals: The runner-up in the World Chess Championship 2018 in standard chess, Fabiano Caruana, and the runner-up in the unofficial Fischer Random world championship match 2018, Hikaru Nakamura. Quarterfinals. The quarterfinals were played online from October 4 to 6 2019. They can be viewed on Chess.com. The first day saw matches between pairs of players. On the second day, the four losers played each other in pairs in a sort of repechage. On the third day, the winners of the first two days played each other in pairs. The three winners qualified for the semifinals: Caruana, Wesley So, and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Each match of the quarterfinals consisted of two \"slow\" rapid games (45 minutes for 40 moves plus 15 minutes for the rest, without increment), two \"fast\" rapid games (15 minutes plus 2"}, {"text": "seconds increment), and 2 blitz games (3 minutes plus 2 seconds increment). The games were weighted differently: 3 points for each slow rapid game, 2 points for each fast rapid game, and 1 point for each blitz game. This way, a player who lost all the slow rapid games of a match could catch up by and only by winning all the remaining (fast rapid & blitz) games to decide the match by Armageddon. Semifinals and finals. The semifinals and the finals took place from October 27 to November 2. In the semifinals, the three qualifiers from the quarterfinals were joined by the world champion in standard chess and the unofficial world champion in Chess960, Magnus Carlsen. The schedule was as follows: Unlike the quarterfinals, none of the matches were tied in the slow rapid portions. But as with the quarterfinals, every match in the semifinals & finals was won by the winner of the slow rapid portion. Semifinals. So won the semifinal match against Nepomniachtchi by reaching a score of 13\u20135 in the third fast rapid game. Carlsen won the semifinal match against Caruana by reaching a score of 12\u00bd-7\u00bd in the last fast rapid game. Thus, So and"}, {"text": "Carlsen qualified for the final, while Nepomniachtchi and Caruana played for third place. Finals and third-place match. The bracket below shows the first-place match between Carlsen and So as well as the third-place match between Nepomniachtchi and Caruana. The matches took place concurrently. So won the championship, defeating Carlsen 13\u00bd-2\u00bd. Leonard Barden observed that the score unadjusted for time controls would be 5-1 and compared this \"crushing\" defeat to Bobby Fischer's double 6-0 victories in the 1971 Candidates. Barden also reported that Carlsen was \"deeply ashamed\". Nepomniachtchi beat Caruana 12\u00bd-5\u00bd to take third place. Thus, Nepomniachtchi actually scored higher than Carlsen both in the slow rapid (10.5/24 vs 9/24) and in the fast rapid portions (7/12 vs 6/12) and thus overall (17.5/36 vs 15/36)."}, {"text": "Joel Martin Rubin (born April 8, 1971) is an American politician and media commentator on domestic political and Middle East affairs. He served as a member of the Chevy Chase Town Council from 2017 to 2023, and previously worked as a senior State Department official in the Obama administration. In 2020, Rubin also directed Jewish outreach for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. Early life and education. Rubin was born on April 8, 1971, and raised in a Conservative Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Brandeis University for his undergraduate education, where he received a bachelor's degree in politics. He went on to study Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, where he received an M.S. in public policy and management with a minor in business administration. Career. Advocacy. Rubin served in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica. Rubin was the founding Political Director of J Street, a liberal organization dedicated to promoting the two state solution and secular left wing values; Rubin worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senators Tom Harkin of Iowa and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, both Democrats. Media. Rubin appears as a political commentator on American networks such as MSNBC and Fox News; and"}, {"text": "on international networks such as i24, China Global Television Network, and Al-Jazeera. He also writes political and national security commentary for Axios, The Forward, Washington Jewish Week, and The Hill. Rubin has also appeared in Jewish magazines for his political work. Executive Branch. Rubin worked for three U.S. government agencies in the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama \u2013 the Department of Energy, USAID, and State Department. In January 2015, when he served in the State Department as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for House Affairs in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, he was an official government witness and testified to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Rubin left the U.S. State Department in July 2015. Political involvement. Rubin was a founding board member of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, established in 2017 in the wake of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2020, he joined Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign as head of Jewish outreach, and worked as a policy volunteer for the Joe Biden's presidential campaign following the Democratic primaries. From 2020 to 2022, Rubin worked as an executive director for the American Jewish Congress advocacy group. Rubin was a"}, {"text": "surrogate for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign; an advocate for the Iran nuclear deal as the Policy Director for Ploughshares Fund; and as a commentator on the 2012 Benghazi attack. Following the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting at his hometown synagogue, Tree of Life \u2013 Or L'Simcha Congregation, Joel appeared on Fox News and MSNBC to discuss the attack, later commenting as well on the rise of antisemitism in America after the 2019 Poway synagogue shooting. Rubin frequently comments on foreign policy and congressional politics for networks such as Fox News, MSNBC, BBC, Al Jazeera. Elections. Rubin ran for Congress in 2016 in Maryland's 8th congressional district, in what was the most expensive Congressional primary in American history at the time. He was defeated in the Democratic primary, placing second to last with 1.1 percent of the vote. Rubin was elected to the Chevy Chase Town Council in 2017, and was subsequently re-elected in 2019 and 2021. In 2018, Rubin unsuccessfully ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 18, seeking to succeed outgoing state delegates Jeff Waldstreicher and Ana Sol Gutierrez. He received endorsements from the Montgomery County Education Association and NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland during his campaign, but"}, {"text": "was defeated in the Democratic primary, placing fifth with 11.2 percent of the vote. In 2022, Rubin applied to run for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 18, seeking to replace state delegate Al Carr on the ballot after Carr withdrew his candidacy hours before the candidate filing deadline on April 15 to run for the county council, and no candidates were able to file to run in his place before the deadline. The Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee nominated one of its members, Aaron Kaufman, to fill vacancy on April 20, 2022. On July 24, 2023, Rubin announced that he would run for Congress in Maryland's 6th congressional district in 2024, seeking to succeed outgoing U.S. Representative David Trone. During the Democratic primary, he ran on a platform that included national and foreign policy issues. Rubin dropped out of the race on March 6, 2024, and endorsed former National Telecommunications and Information Administration deputy administrator April McClain Delaney. Political positions. During his tenure at the U.S. State Department, Rubin worked to prevent Congress from passing a resolution of disapproval of the Iran Nuclear Deal with a veto-proof majority. During his 2016 congressional campaign, Rubin said he supported raising"}, {"text": "the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, increasing infrastructure spending, and strengthening Social Security and Medicare by removing the cap on payroll taxes. He also spoke against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, citing concerns over protections for workers at home and abroad, and said he supported moving funding away from the U.S. Department of Defense and toward education. In October 2017, Rubin voted to approve a $50,000 grant to the Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail, a trail group that was suing to prevent the construction of the Purple Line, saying that the companies contracted to build the transit line were not following commitments to ease the impact to the town. The grant was rejected by the Chevy Chase Town Council by a 4\u20131 vote. Rubin has criticized the use of the term \"apartheid\" towards Israel as antisemitic. During his 2024 congressional campaign, he described himself as a \"defender of Israel\", but said he opposed the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed judicial reforms. In October 2023, amid the Gaza war, Rubin said he supported providing additional air missile defense systems for the Iron Dome, supporting humanitarian efforts in Palestine,"}, {"text": "and preventing escalation from Hezbollah and Iran. Personal life. Rubin is married to his wife, Nilmini (n\u00e9e Gunaratne), whom he met at a going-away party for his college roommate in the spring of 2000. She is a Sri Lankan-American who works as a senior policy advisor for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and is a registered Republican. Together, they have three daughters and have lived in Montgomery County, Maryland since 2006. He is Jewish and a member of the Adas Israel Congregation."}, {"text": "Formless/Functional is a 1998 album by Minneapolis alternative rock band Polara, their third full-length album and their last for Interscope Records. Despite a generally warm reception by critics, the album received little support from its record label. Corporate mergers involving Interscope soon led the label to drop many bands, including Polara. Reception. \"Trouser Press\" writer Ira Robbins described the album as \"frisky electro-dance\" that moved Polara's sound \"into the rhythmatic post-guitar realm of synthesizers, loops and samples,\" and noted that Jurgens' contributions to the band were especially prominent. Although he felt that \"the album goes on a bit too long,\" Robbins called it \"stylish and sophisticated\" and said that songwriter and producer Ed Ackerson's \"creativity is no less colorful or effective in this realm.\" Jason Anderson of \"Allmusic\" wrote that Ackerson's \"ability to completely ignore stylistic boundaries is admirable,\" but felt that the album did not have a cohesive theme and \"sounds thrown together and random.\" A reviewer for the online magazine \"babysue\" praised the album's mix of introspective pop and electronic production, calling it \"completely cool\" and \"absolutely beautiful.\""}, {"text": "David Shribman is an American journalist and author, with a career spanning many well-known newspapers. He has since turned to teaching. Shribman won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. At the time, he served as the Boston Globe's Washington bureau chief, as well as a columnist. His first job was at the city desk of the Buffalo Evening News. Subsequently, he served in national news and politics capacities at the same paper and at the Washington Star, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe. In 2002, he was hired as executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he remained for 16 years. He had planned on retiring in 2019, but the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting caused him to leave earlier; he made the globally-recognized decision to publish a front-page, full-width headline, in Hebrew-Aramaic, of the opening of the Jewish mourner's prayer the Friday following the massacre. Post-newspaper-career, he spent a period at Carnegie Mellon University, and is now on a longer term appointment as professor at McGill University, with plans to return to Carnegie Mellon. While at the Post-Gazette, Shribman spearheaded the formation of Spotlight PA, a state politics reporting nonprofit serving"}, {"text": "multiple newspapers. Shribman was born in Salem, son of Norma and Richard Shribman. He attended Dartmouth, his father's alma mater, and did graduate work at Cambridge. He married Cindy Skrzycki in 1978. They have two adult daughters, Elizabeth and Natalie. His wife was also a journalist before switching to university teaching. She had been a business columnist for the Washington Post, a senior English department lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, and joined the McGill faculty in 2019. He has citizenship in both the United States and Canada. , daughter Natalie Shribman was studying rabbinics at Reform Judaism's Hebrew Union College, and daughter Elizabeth Shribman was an Associate Director of the San Francisco Symphony orchestra; Elizabeth was subsequently promoted to Chief of Staff. He served as a trustee of Dartmouth, produced a history of the college, and sits on the board of a number of presidential libraries and journalism organizations. Shribman wrote \"I Remember My Teacher\", reminiscences about America's greatest educators, in the formal and informal sense."}, {"text": "The Asem dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 1984 and located in Asir region."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Hokies were led by first-year head coach Mike Young and played their home games at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Virginia as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Hokies finished the season 16\u201316, and 7\u201313 in ACC play. They lost to North Carolina in the first round of the ACC tournament. The tournament was cancelled before the Quarterfinals due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The NCAA tournament and NIT were also cancelled due to the pandemic. Previous season. They finished the 2018\u201319 season 26\u20139, 12\u20136 in ACC play to finish in fifth place. They defeated Miami (FL) in the second round of the ACC tournament before losing to Florida State. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament where they defeated Saint Louis and Liberty to advanced to the sweet sixteen for the first time since 1965 where they lost to fellow ACC member Duke. Schedule and results. Source: !colspan=12 style=| Regular season !colspan=12 style=| ACC tournament"}, {"text": "The Arda dam, also known as the Wadi Arda dam, is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 1984 and located in Tayif city of Mecca region. The main purpose of the dam is flood control. The estimated cost of the dam is SR140 million (US 37,33 million)."}, {"text": "The Ashran dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 1985 and located in Asir region. The main purpose of the dam is flood control."}, {"text": "Hangzhou Spark is a Chinese esports team founded in 2018 that competes in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Spark began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2019 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance."}, {"text": "Partido Alto is a 1982 Brazilian short documentary film directed by Leon Hirszman. Produced by now-defunct Brazilian state film production company Embrafilme, the film details the history of Partido alto, a musical subgenre of Samba focused on the drumming style of Bahia. The documentary presents partido alto as a blend of freestyle rapping, rhyming and improvisational chorus."}, {"text": "The Beda dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 1985 and located in Al Baha region."}, {"text": "The Baniqayis dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 2005 and located in Asir region."}, {"text": "The Assadir dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 1982 and located in Al Baha region. The main purpose of the dam is irrigation."}, {"text": "This article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the state of Vermont in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in Vermont and any other surviving structures from the eighteenth century period or the oldest of its type. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records, other dates are based on dendrochronology. All entries should include citation with reference to: architectural features; a report by an architectural historian; or dendrochronology."}, {"text": "Governor Taylor may refer to:"}, {"text": "Fran\u00e7ois Perrenoud (born 21 November 1949) is a French speed skater. He competed in four events at the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Snow Museum of Natural History was a natural history museum located in Oakland, California, on the shore of Lake Merritt. It was founded in 1922 by naturalist Henry A. Snow, displaying his collections of taxidermy specimens, pelts, bird eggs, and living animals. The Snow Museum collections formed the basis of both the Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Zoo. History. In 1919, Oakland resident Henry A. Snow returned from a major hunting expedition in Kenya. He offered to donate his collected specimens to the city, under the condition that a museum building be constructed to house them. The City of Oakland provided a 30-room mansion near Lake Merritt to temporarily house the collection, and the Snow Museum opened in this building in 1922. The museum's collections were expanded by the Snow family through the 1920s, over multiple hunts in Africa, North America, and the Arctic. Several of these expeditions were filmed, and were edited into feature films such as 1922's \"Hunting Big Game in Africa with Gun and Camera\". When the Snow Museum opened, the property was home to living animals, cared for by Snow's son Sidney. Due to noise and space concerns, these animals were moved to"}, {"text": "a larger property in Durant Park. This facility, the Oakland Zoo, opened in 1939. Although Snow intended to have a permanent museum building completed, this did not come to fruition. Snow died on July 28, 1927, and his daughter Nydine took over operation of the museum. The Snow Museum closed in 1967. The majority of its collections from outside North America were auctioned off, and its egg and nest collections were transferred to the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in 1976. The remaining specimens were combined with the collections of two other small museums, the Oakland Public Museum and the Oakland Art Museum, to form the Oakland Museum (now the Oakland Museum of California) in 1969. The museum building was demolished in 1970, and the site is now occupied by Snow Park."}, {"text": "David George \"Dave\" Bodington (born 30 July 1947) is a British speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "\"Sunny Day\" is an animated children's television series produced by Silvergate Media. The following is a list of episodes. Series overview. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Episodes. Season 2 (2019\u20132020). Silvergate renewed \"Sunny Day\" for a second season. According to \"The Hollywood Reporter\", the second season will feature a new vehicle, Groom and Vroom, which was designed only on pets, in addition to the Glam Van. In addition, Lacey and KC will also join Sunny, Doodle, Rox, and Blair to help out for the joint. Style Files. \"Style Files\" are a series of live-action tutorials provided by Sunny that involve the hairstyle featured at the end of every episode."}, {"text": "An African Millionaire is a 1904 play by the British writer Edgar Wallace, then a journalist working for the \"Daily Mail\". It was his first play, and proved to be a major flop, running for only six performances in a Cape Town theatre, before being withdrawn after a very poor reception from critics. Wallace had previously spent several years in South Africa working as a journalist, and modelled the story on the life of Cecil Rhodes. His expectations that the play would be a hit and then transfer to London and other cities of the Empire provided unfounded. Wallace's popular thriller novel \"The Four Just Men\" was published the following year launching his career as a fiction author."}, {"text": "Michel Th\u00e9p\u00e9nier (born 6 January 1945) is a French speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Salaga is a 2021 Indian Kannada-language action thriller film directed by Duniya Vijay in his directorial debut and produced by KP Srikanth. It features Duniya Vijay himself along with Sanjana Anand, Daali Dhananjay, and Nagabhushan in prominent roles. The film was released on 14 October 2021. Plot. In Bangalore, \"Slum\" Shetty is a gangster, who along with former gangster-turned BBMP corporator Indra and \"Juttu\" Seena are controlling the Bangalore underworld. Shetty learns that a person named \"Thyagaraja\" Ramanna is smuggling illegal arms from Mangalore Port for Salaga, who is operating from prison. Shetty sends Suri \"Anna\" to \"deal with him\". Learning about Ramanna's attack, Salaga hires a cold-blooded gang named \"Batsman\" boys and kills Suri at a bar. Suri's brother Kenda is enraged and vows to kill Salaga. The trio, along with Kenda, learns that Salaga is released from prison, where they attempt to kill him, but Salaga escapes and kills Kenda, with the help of Batsman boys. Salaga's childhood girlfriend Sanjana pursues Salaga to accept her love proposal, but he refuses where after much insistence, Salaga agrees. After increase in crime rates, The city commissioner appoints ACP Samrat to deal with the underworld. Salaga tracks Seena at the market,"}, {"text": "where he along with the Batsman boys kill him. With a person named Savithri's help, Samrat tracks down the Batsman boys and kills them. Due to Seena's death, Shetty gets scared of his gang and family members, where he gets into a road accident and admitted to a hospital. Salaga reaches the hospital and kills him, where he discreetly escapes with Sanjana and surrenders at the court. Samrat interrogates Salaga who reveals his real name as Vijay Kumar and reveals his past. Past: Vijay Kumar hails from Uttar Karnataka, and he arrives in Bangalore with his headmaster father and mother for his education. Vijay's father learns that their village people are also working as labourers in the city. He teaches their children in the city in order for them to be educated, but is ridiculed by Indra, Shetty, Seena and SI Ashwath, who makes the labourers believe their false statements about doing good for them. One day, Vijay thrashes Naga as he harassed Sanjana's friend Kavya. Vijay gets arrested by Ashwath in charges of killing Naga, where he tries to prove his innocence to his father and mother, but to no avail. After facing the embarrassment by their people, Vijay's"}, {"text": "father and mother commits suicide, leaving Vijay devastated. Vijay is sent to a remand home where he learns that Naga was actually killed by Slum Shetty, Seena and Indra upon the request of Ashwath as he suspects Vijay to be Kavya's (Ashwath's daughter) boyfriend and also wants to embarrass Vijay's father. After his release from remand home, Vijay kills Ashwath. He is arrested again and sentenced to prison. Present: After revealing his past to Samrat, Salaga escapes by shooting himself in his leg and blames Samrat for encounter-killing him. After the enquiry at the court, Salaga is released due to lack of evidence. Salaga tracks down Indra at a temple festival and kills him, thus avenging his parents' death. Salaga surrenders himself and is taken to prison. Production. Filming started in Bangalore in June 2019. In October 2019, it was reported that the film was in its last leg of production. Soundtrack. The film's background score was composed by Charan Raj, with songs composed by Naveen Sajju. Box office. The film collected \u20b915.31 crores on first week and end up grossing over \u20b922 crores at Box-office. \"Pinkvilla\" reported that the film had collected in 25 days and became a commercial"}, {"text": "success at the box office."}, {"text": "The Forum is a historic event venue at 318-328 E. 43rd Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois. Chicago alderman William Kent and his father Albert had the venue built in 1897, intending it to be a social and political meeting hall. Architect Samuel Atwater Treat gave the building a Late Classical Revival design with Georgian Revival features. In its first decades, the Forum hosted speeches and rallies from politicians of all major parties and various community events. Following the Great Migration of the 1920s, Bronzeville became a predominantly African-American neighborhood, but the Forum continued to serve as a community center. Several civil rights organizations met in the Forum, including the National Negro Congress' Chicago council; the Chicago Scottsboro Defense Conference, a group organized to defend the Scottsboro Boys; movements that petitioned to racially integrate Major League Baseball; and a meeting of the Freedom Riders. The Forum was also a major jazz venue, and Chicago musicians such as Nat King Cole and Tiny Parham played the venue often. In the 1940s, the building became the headquarters of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, a black fraternal organization formed"}, {"text": "in response to the white-only Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 2019."}, {"text": "Robert Stanley Hodges (30 December 1943 \u2013 16 April 2021) was a Canadian speed skater and scientist. He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics and the 1972 Winter Olympics. He later became a scientist, earning his PhD from the University of Alberta, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher under Robert Bruce Merrifield at Rockefeller University. He became a professor at the University of Alberta and later at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He died at his home in Saskatoon on 16 April 2021."}, {"text": "\"Joker\" is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed by Todd Phillips, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Silver. The film was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Films, and Joint Effort Productions, in association with Bron Creative and Village Roadshow Pictures. It follows Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian whose descent into mental illness, nihilism and crime inspires a violent countercultural revolution against the wealthy in a decaying Gotham City during the early 1980s recession. The film is loosely based on DC Comics characters and stars Joaquin Phoenix as Fleck (the Joker), with Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Leigh Gill, Bill Camp and Shea Whigham in supporting roles. \"Joker\" premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2019, where it received an eight-minute standing ovation and won the Golden Lion. It was released theatrically in several markets on October 3, and in the United States and United Kingdom on October 4. Produced on a budget of $55 million, the film grossed $1.079 billion worldwide, becoming the highest grossing R-rated film of all time, the first R-rated film to surpass $1 billion at the box office, and the sixth-highest-grossing film of"}, {"text": "2019. Critical reception was polarized, with praise for the screenplay, musical score, cinematography and Phoenix's performance, and some criticism directed at its dark tone, portrayal of mental illness and depiction of violence. The latter also drew concerns of inspiring real-life violence. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews. \"Joker\" garnered awards and nominations in various categories, with particular recognition for Phoenix's performance, Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir's musical score, Phillips's screenplay, and Lawrence Sher's cinematography. At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film earned 11 nominations, the most of any film at the ceremony, and won Best Actor (Phoenix) and Best Original Score (Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir). It received a further 11 nominations at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, winning Best Actor in a Leading Role (Phoenix), Best Original Music (Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir) and Best Casting. Phoenix and Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir also won Best Actor and Best Score at the 25th Critics' Choice Awards, where the film earned seven nominations, as well as Best Actor in a Motion Picture \u2013 Drama and Best Original Score at the 77th Golden Globe Awards, where the film received four nominations. At the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir was nominated for Best Arrangement, Instrumental"}, {"text": "or A Cappella and won Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. In addition, \"Joker\" was selected as one of the Top 10 Films of 2019 by the American Film Institute."}, {"text": "Mooar-Wright House (also known as the Defoe-Mooar-Wright House) is a historic house in Pownal, Vermont that is one of the oldest in Vermont. The house was built in .) and is possibly the oldest house in Vermont. Some believe that the house was built by the Dutch, and others believe that it was built by John Defoe, a British loyalist imprisoned there. The construction date has not yet been verified with dendrochronology."}, {"text": "Alicia Thornton or Alicia Meynel (1780s \u2013 1800s) was a British horsewoman. She has been called the \"first female jockey\" after she took part in a horse race at what is now York Racecourse in Knavesmire in 1804. Life. Thornton's father may have made watches in Norwich or have owned land in Essex and nothing is known of her mother. She came to notice in 1804 when she challenged a man to a horse race. Some called her Alice Meynell but others Alice Thornton as it was said she was married to Colonel Thomas Thornton and he was keen on sports, horses and gambling. Others referred to her as Colonel Thonton's lady. She challenged her sister's partner (brother-in-law) and neighbour Captain Flint to a horse race. Her husband offered her his horse and placed a bet on her victory. The prize was said to be either 500 guineas or 1,500 guineas. Thornton later said he believed it was 500 guineas and he had only claimed the 1,500 figure to attract a crowd. She was a skilled horsewoman as she rode with the hounds when they were hunting. She rode side saddle but her expertise was known to her friends. The"}, {"text": "meeting took place on 25 August 1804 with her \" and Flint rode his horse \". She has been called the \"first female jockey\" after she took part in a horse race at what is now York Racecourse in Knavesmire. It was said that was 100,000 people watching as she held the lead for most of the four mile race. Captain Flint eventually won the race but she won the backing of the crowd with her spirited performance, attire and demeanor."}, {"text": "Olavi Hjellman (born 22 February 1945) is a Finnish speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Ramsagar railway station is a railway station on Kharagpur\u2013Bankura\u2013Adra line in Adra railway division of South Eastern Railway zone. It is situated beside Ramsagar\u2013Nakaijuri Road at Bar Magura, Ramsagar of Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History. In 1901, the Kharagpur\u2013Midnapur branch line was opened. The Midnapore\u2013Jharia extension of the Bengal Nagpur Railway, passing through Bankura district was opened in 1903\u201304. The Adra\u2013Bheduasol sector was electrified in 1997\u201398 and the Bheduasol\u2013Salboni sector in 1998\u201399."}, {"text": "Gy\u00f6rgy Martos (born 15 October 1943) is a Hungarian speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Bdwah dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia that was opened in 2002 and is located in the Asir region. The main purpose of the dam is flood control."}, {"text": "Pete Williamson (1 August 1946 \u2013 7 July 1991) was a Canadian speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Conor McCormack may refer to:"}, {"text": "Tamio Dejima (born 21 February 1947) is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres event at the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Geoffrey Robert \"Geoff\" Stockdale (born 21 March 1944) is a British speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Otmar Braunecker (born 4 April 1943) is an Austrian speed skater. He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics and the 1972 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Kimmo Koskinen (born 11 March 1948) is a Finnish speed skater. He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics and the 1972 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Candy Tsa Mandebele Mokwena (born June 19, 1970) is a South African singer, songwriter, actress. Born and raised in Limpopo, she began singing in her mother's community traditional group, Sekgapa, at the age of 14. Mandebele began her career in 1993 as a songwriter, prior to joining group Shaka Bundu Girls in 1995. Mandebele is also well known for singing in Khelobedu language, which is a dialect of Northern Sotho language. In 2016, her debut solo album \"Siki (Five Cents)\" was released through Sony Music, The album was a critical success and generated the single \"Baile\". Life and career. 1970\u20131993: Early life and beginnings. Candy Tsa Mandebele Mokwena was born in July 19, 1970, in the province of Limpopo. Mandebele has three siblings, At the age of 14 Mokwena started performing as a soloist in her Mother's community traditional group Sekgapa choir (her mother was the group leader and also played the drum for the group), in the village of Ga- Sedibeni. Mandebele grew up without her biological father Mandebele also attended public school in Limpopo, she did not receive formal schooling, she dropped out of school at grade nine. Candy launched her professional music career in 1993 as songwriter"}, {"text": "on Peter Teanet's double multi-platinum album, \"Nwa'yingwani\". 1994\u20132007: Career beginnings, Shaka Bundu Girls, and Disband. In 1994, Candy and her friend Nurse Matlala moved to the city of Johannesburg to pursue music career, In late 1994, they met Papa Penny Penny, who helped them sign a record deal with Gallo Records, the duo co-wrote penny hit single \"Shichangani-Lshilungu\", while they were working on their debut single. In 1995, they launched their career as Shaka Bundu Girls, The group scored a hit with their single \"Hona Mo SOO\" which was later certified Platinum by RISA, Singles such as gold certified single \"One Day\" (1996) and \"Hi July\" in (1997) kept the band in the spotlight. In 1999, after leaving Gallo Records, they started to freelance as session musician. In 2004, they joined Kalawa Jazmee Records, Oskido renamed the group to CandyNurse. While at Kalawa Records the duo helped in composition of some of the tracks in BOP's \"Life Iskorokoro\" album, they also provided backing vocals for the album. In 2007 the duo disbanded. 2009\u20132017: \"Siki (Five Cents)\" and career breakthrough. In September 2010, her debut solo album, \"Siki (Five Cents)\", was released, it was released to positive reviews from music critics,"}, {"text": "and spawned the hit \" Baile\". The single earned Mandebele one nominations at the 2000 South African Music Awards. Throughout the years, Mandebele performed guest verses on several song, including \"Nkatanga\" by Selaelo Selota and Malatji, \"Boloba Thaba\" with Revolution, DJ Lucky, Lacosta's \"Diteki\" and \"Khoma jive\", Uhuru's \"Nkirikiri\", Dr Malinga's \"Moshito\" and Black Motion's \"Maghoro\". After a four-year hiatus, On October 13, 2013, Mandebele released \"Tsa Mandebele\" song featuring Oskido and an accompanying music video on YouTube. The song became a 2013 hit and signature song for Tsa Mandebele. 2017: \"Hupenyu Unenge Viri\". In 2018, under her own label, Mandebele released \"Nathinga\" a single from her \"Hupenyu Unenge Viri\" (2018) album through Universal Music South Africa. The Xitsonga house track was written by Mandebele and produced by Molefi Modikoe. In an interview when she was asked about what the song was about, she said \"The song was about a fictional person called Nathinga, who is eligible to and will get married in spite of the concern that people seem to have about her betrothal. The \"Hupenyu Unenge Viri\" album won two awards at the 2019 Limpopo Music Awards (LMA), Best Music Video (for song Nathinga) and Best Female. On"}, {"text": "March 19, 2019, Mandebele starred in South Africa's first Xitsonga telenovela drama series on SABC 2, which tells the story about two families locked in a bitter, decades-long squabble over a banana plantation which was recently given to the people of Risinga. She played the role of a flamboyant village shebeen queen Mhani Dayina in the telenovela, Her portrayal of Mhani received positive reviews, and she made history by becoming the first person to speak Khelobedu in a television series. The show ended on November 26, 2019. Candy received four nominations at the 15th Annual South African Traditional Music Awards for Best Traditional Collaboration Song, Best Traditional Music Artist /Group Of The Year, Best Traditional House Music Song, Best Female Artist/Group. Personal life. Mandebele was a mother of one son Lesley. She became pregnant at the age of 17, and had to drop out of school, she then went to work at a tea farmer to support her son. In 2011, Candy lost her son Lesley Mokwena (1987\u20132011) in a car accident. In 2017, Mandebele was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes"}, {"text": "is a Japanese speed skater. He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics, the 1972 Winter Olympics and the 1976 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team represent Kansas State University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, their 117 basketball season. Their head coach is Bruce Weber in his eighth year at the helm of the Wildcats. The team plays its home games in Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kansas as members of the Big 12 Conference. They are the defending Big 12 regular season Co-Champions. Previous season. The Wildcats finished the 2018\u201319 season 25\u20139, 14\u20134 in Big 12 play and were the 2018-19 Big 12 Regular Season Co-Champions. They defeated TCU in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 tournament before losing to Iowa State in the semifinals. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 4 seed in the South region. There they lost to UC Irvine. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=|Exhibition !colspan=12 style=\"|Regular season !colspan=12 style=| Big 12 tournament"}, {"text": "John Wurster (born January 12, 1948) is an American speed skater. He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics and the 1972 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "David Johnston (or Johnstone) (3 January 1724 \u2013 12 January 1809) was an American merchant and politician of Scottish descent who served as the president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York. Early life. Johnston was born on 3 January 1724 at Perth Amboy in the Province of New Jersey, which was then a part of British America. He was the second son of John Johnston Jr., a major in the British Army, and the former Elizabeth Jamison. His elder brother, John Johnston, married their cousin, Euphemia Johnston (daughter of Andrew Johnston), and was Colonel of the New Jersey Provincial troops at the capture of Fort Niagara during the French and Indian War in 1758. His paternal grandparents were Eupham (n\u00e9e Scot) Johnston (only daughter of George Scot, Laird of Pitlochie) and Dr. John Johnstone of Edinburgh, who emigrated to the United States in 1685 and served as Mayor of New York City from 1714 to 1718. Through his father, he was a member of the Border Reiver Scottish clan Johnstone and, reportedly, in \"middle life he was called upon to receive the title and estate of Marquis of Annandale,\" a title in the Peerage of"}, {"text": "Scotland, \"but declined on the ground that he was an American and unwilling to give up his birthright for a life in England, but later, at the coming of age of his eldest son, regretted his refusal.\" His maternal grandfather, David Jamison, was one of the so-called Nine Partners who purchased a large tract of land in the Province of New York in 1697. Jamison served as Secretary of the State of the Colony of New York, Warden of Trinity Church, Chief Justice of the Colony of New Jersey in 1711, and Attorney General of the Colony of New York in 1720. Career. At a young age, he entered business as a wine merchant, trading directly with the Netherlands using his own ship. He worked as a merchant until the death of his mother when he inherited his share of the Nine Partners Tract, which by then was worth a substantial amount, and required his considerable attention as his land and estates were extensive. By 1800, Johnston owned 15 slaves at his estate in the Hudson Valley. Political career. In February 1761, he was elected to the New York General Assembly and was registered a Freeman of the City on"}, {"text": "21 August 1770 as \"David Johnston, Gentleman.\" On 19 May 1774, he was chosen as one of the Committee of Correspondence, and \"subsequently chosen as one of a Committee of Observation elected by a poll held at the City Hall by order of the Committee of Correspondence. He was also one of a Committee of One Hundred selected at the agitation to the War of Independence.\" On 26 April 1775, he was one of the signers of a call for a New York Provincial Congress. Personal life. On 27 May 1753, Johnston was married to Magdalen Walton. Magdalen was a daughter of William Walton and Mary (n\u00e9e Beekman) Walton (a daughter of Dr. Gerardus Beekman, acting Governor of the Province of New York). Magdalen's sister Mary Walton was the wife of Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence. In New York City, he had a mansion on the east side of Bowling Green (which was burned during the Revolutionary War), a farm in Greenwich Village, a farm in Perth Amboy (which was burned by the Hessians when the British Army occupied New Jersey), and in the Hudson Valley, he owned a large country estate and residence known as Annandale"}, {"text": "in Lithgow (a hamlet within Washington, New York Johnston named after Linlithgow, the ancestral home of his maternal grandfather) where he permanently moved to after the War. Together, they were the parents of three sons and seven daughters, including: He served two terms, first from 1774 to 1775 and secondly from 1784 to 1785, as president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, a charitable organization founded in 1756 that focuses on helping Scots in the New York community. Johnston died on 12 January 1809 at his country residence, Annandale."}, {"text": "The 2019 Oracle Challenger Series \u2013 Houston was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. This tournament was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2019 WTA 125K series. The second edition took place at the George R. Brown Tennis Center from November 10 to 17, 2019 in Houston, United States. Men's singles main-draw entrants. Other entrants. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Women's singles main-draw entrants. Other entrants. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following player received entry into the singles main draw through protected ranking: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The following player received entry into the main draw as lucky loser: Women's doubles main-draw entrants. Other entrants. The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:"}, {"text": "The men's discus throw event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 21 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland."}, {"text": "Rosemary J. Coombe is a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies. Previously, she was a full professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Education. Coombe earned her J.S.D. from Stanford University. Career. She was a faculty member at the University of Toronto (UofT) for 12 years before accepting a position at York University in 2001 as their Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies. Before leaving UofT, she published \"\"The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law\" through the Duke University Press. Three years later, she accepted an Ida Beam Visiting Professorship from the University of Iowa. Coombe was renewed as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies in 2009. In 2013, Coombe co-edited \"Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online\"\" through the University of Toronto Press. She was again renewed as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in 2016. That year, she was also recognized by York as a Research Leader. Two years later, she was a T. C. Bierne"}, {"text": "Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland's TC Beirne School of Law. Coombe is also part of the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage research team. Selected publications. The following is a list of selected publications: Rosemary J. Coombe has written about many important elements within the realm of intellectual property law. In her writing, Coombe focuses on the social and cultural implications of intellectual property law and its constraints. Coombe has written many articles addressing these topics. For example, Coombe wrote \"Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics: Intellectual Property Laws and Democratic Dialogue\", 69 Tex. L. Rev. 1853 (1991). This article highlighted the relationship between democratic freedoms, copyright concepts, and the subsequent effects that stifle cultural expression."}, {"text": "Social Right may refer to:"}, {"text": "An electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is a variety of VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft that uses electric power to hover, take off, and land vertically. This technology came about owing to major advances in electric propulsion (motors, batteries, fuel cells, electronic controllers) and the emerging need for new aerial vehicles for Advanced Air Mobility and Urban Air Mobility that can enable greener and quieter flights. Electric and hybrid propulsion systems (EHPS) have also the potential of lowering the operating costs of aircraft. Original eVTOL aircraft designs are being developed by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that include legacy manufacturers such as Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota, as well as several start-up companies including Archer Aviation, EHang, Joby Aviation, Overair, and Volocopter. This ecosystem of firms developing eVTOLs includes also spin-off of legacy aircraft manufacturers, such as Eve Air Mobility that emerged from the EmbraerX division of Embraer, as well as partnerships, such as Wisk Aero that was launched as a joint venture between Boeing and Larry Page's Kitty Hawk. History. The concept of eVTOL aircraft emerged in 2009 when a video of the NASA Puffin eVTOL concept went viral on November 11, 2009, showcasing a"}, {"text": "single person concept rendering of the technology, and concept in flight. Following this, the first Puffin paper at the VFS Specialists Conference on Aeromechanics, on January 9, 2010. This concept utilized a new technology developed at NASA called Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP). Additional Puffin papers were published on September 13 at the 10th AIAA ATIO Conference, NASA Puffin Electric Tailsitter VTOL Concept and Puffin Redundant Electric Powertrain System. This was fast followed in 2011 by several industry efforts, namely the AugustaWestland Project Zero (Italy), the Volocopter VC1 (Germany) and the Opener BlackFly (US). It was officially introduced by the Vertical Flight Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in 2014 during the \"Transformative Vertical Flight Concepts Joint Workshop on Enabling New Flight Concepts through Novel Propulsion and Energy Architectures\" held in Virginia. Since then, there has been a significant increase in interest among aircraft manufacturers for eVTOLs, and companies such as Boeing, Airbus and Bell have also worked on the technology: In addition to these major aircraft manufacturers, startups have been playing an important role in the development of these air vehicles and had sometimes been leaders in technological advances. Uber published a paper on a project"}, {"text": "called Elevate co-authored by Jeff Holden, Nikhil Goel, and Mark Moore. The paper outlined the feasibility of an on-demand aviation transportation system. That document, along with subsequent annual Elevate summits the company hosted from 2017 to 2019, helped advance the concepts of eVTOL aircraft and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) from a science-fiction concept to a potential aerospace sector pursued by dozens of development projects. In December, 2020, Uber's Elevate was acquired by Joby Aviation. Upon acquisition, Joby CEO JoeBen Bivert said, \"The team at Uber Elevate has not only played an important role in our industry, they have also developed a remarkable set of software tools that build on more than a decade of experience enabling on-demand mobility.\" In 2020, Tetra Aviation won the \"disruptor award\" at the GoFly personal flight contest for its single-seat eVTOL. In 2021, the company announced its Mk5 personal eVTOL that it expects to deliver in 2022. It incorporates 32 vertical lift rotors distributed across long, thin front and rear wings, along with a rear pusher prop for cruising. It uses a mostly aluminum frame, with carbon-fiber/aramid-reinforced polymer bodywork. The craft is wide, long and high. The battery pack holds 13.5-kWh. Empty weight is and"}, {"text": "hosts an up to pilot. The vehicle features at least three flight controllers, driving 32 vertical propellers in the case of motor or flight controller failure, with a parachute in the event of total failure. The plane is to be sold as an experimental kit aircraft that requires only a private pilot license. In October 2020 with a $60 million investment in Joby Aviation, a business building an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft intended to provide air cab service, Delta joined the list of airlines funding EV technology startups. In 2021, Urban eVTOL announced the Leo, a 3-seat, , vehicle. It hosts 16 40-cm diameter, 10-kw ducted fans for vertical lift, and 6 28 cm diameter, turbine-bladed rear engines for horizontal thrust. The wing is a double box-wing design. The intent is that it be small enough to park in a standard automobile space. The split battery system holds 66-kWh. A ballistic parachute is included. It has yet to fly. In 2021, Volocopter conducted South Korea's first crewed eVTOL flight. In November 2021, the National Academy of Sciences published a study by Shashank Sripad and Venkat Viswanathan of Carnegie Mellon University that showed eVTOL aircraft could have an"}, {"text": "energy efficiency that is comparable to or higher than terrestrial electric vehicles. The study also assigned a high technological readiness level for battery-powered eVTOLs. On 19 April 2024, U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing announced plans to enter the eVTOL business in Asia by 2030, anticipating demand for fast short-distance travel that the vehicles could provide in the region's traffic-choked cities. The company is developing electric vertical take-off and landing craft, which will incorporate autonomous technology, at subsidiary Wisk Aero. Agility Prime. Four American companies have military airworthiness contracts through the US military's Agility Prime program: Joby Aviation, Beta Technologies, Lift Aircraft, and most recently Kitty Hawk, whose Heaviside aircraft was accepted in July 2021. SPACs. Archer, Joby, Lilium, and Vertical joined special-purpose acquisition companies (SPAC) to go public. The first was Archer Aviation, who simultaneously announced a $1,000,000,000 order of 200+ aircraft from United Airlines in February 2021. Archer was also the first to publicly reveal its Maker aircraft in-person that year. Orders. Archer Aviation announced on November 7, 2024 that Japan Airlines and Sumitomo Group's joint venture company, Soracle, have reached agreement on an intended purchase of up to $500m of electric aircraft from Archer Aviation. Taking their total indicative"}, {"text": "order book value to over US$6 billion. Vertical Aerospace announced pre-orders for 1,000 eVTOLs in June 2021, including from American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and aircraft lessor, Avalon Holdings. As of March 2024, Embraer had signed contracts with twenty-eight companies for 2,850 orders of eVTOLs, valued at US$8 billion from 30 customers in 13 countries. Technology. Flight mechanisms. Many designs operate without wings. Multicopters typically use radial arms to host the motors/propellers, such as the Volcopter 2X or the Jetson One. Vectored thrust designs change the direction of thrust, vectoring thrust vertically for takeoff/landing and horizontally while cruising. The entire wing (tilt-wing) can pivot to or just the rotors (tilt-rotor). The Archer Maker, Lilium Jet, Joby S4, Vertical Aerospace VA-X4, and Zuri 2.0 are tilt-rotor craft. The AMSL Aero Vertiia uses a hybrid that pivots the rotor-holding part of its otherwise fixed box wing design. Another approach to thrust vectoring is to use flaps to divert air coming from a horizontal motor downward to create lift. Craft Aero is notable for its box wing that is attached to the bottom of the fuselage in the front and the top of the fuselage in the back, presenting a diamond shape when viewed"}, {"text": "from above. The design includes a turbine generator for increased range. Odys Aviation vectors thrust from its 16 motors by extending flaps that direct the backward-traveling air downward at take-off and landing. Tilt-wing configurations pivot the frocio wing along with its attached motors like Dufour Aerospace. Lift and cruise systems use one set of motors for vertical flight and another set for cruising, such as Beta Alia, Airbus, Eve, and eMagic. PteroDynamics uses a folding wing design that allows easy storage land transport of the vehicle. Takeoff occurs with the wings in the folded position, with an in-flight transition to fully extended. Hybrid designs employ some fixed and some tilting motors, as shown by Archer Maker, Vertical Aerospace VA-1X, and Wisk Cora. Wing design. Typical multicopters do not use wings, relying exclusively on the turning blades for lift though they may incorporate them to varying degrees. Tandem wing designs use front and rear wings, optionally attached to each other at the wing tips. Box wing or closed wing designs also use two wings, but the wings are connected in such a way that the wingtips are eliminated. The wings may be vertically stacked or arranged front and rear as in"}, {"text": "tandem designs. Ducted wing designs open to expose the lift-off fans, and close around them for faster higher-speed cruising. Fan-in-wing designs site fans within the wing for use in take-off and landing, while providing forward motion via e.g., a pusher prop. The fans may be hidden in forward flight to increase efficiency. Power. Most current designs are powered by batteries, although some designs use hydrogen fuel cells. Currently, batteries suffer from low specific energy (causing range and thus safety issues). Fuel cells have previously suffered from lower specific power (which could be too low for vertical takeoff/landing), but newer designs claim to have solved this problem with much higher specific power. There are also proposals to use batteries for takeoff/landing, and hydrogen fuel cells for cruising. Use cases. On-demand passenger services. Many eVTOL concept models are designed for air taxi applications. For instance, Pipistrel, an Uber Elevate partner, is working on the Pipistrel 801, a 5 seats air taxi. Another example is Volocopter, which proposed its air taxi service called VoloCity, based on the Volocopter 2X. Parcels and deliveries. The Google-owned company Wing has been offering an eVTOL UAV delivery service since 2020. Their drones are able to fly up"}, {"text": "to 100 km and carry up to 1.5 kg. Amazon Prime Air and UPS are two others companies using drone delivery. A German aerospace company called Wingcopter in collaboration with UNICEF has also delivered vaccines in Vanuatu in 2018. In 2020 wingcopter eVTOL drone was used to deliver COVID-19 test kits to Isle of Mull. Air cargo. Heavy-lift unmanned air vehicles included companies such as Sabrewing Aircraft Company Sabrewing Rhaegal, Elroy Elroy Air Chaparral and Pipistrel have unveiled heavy-lift uncrewed cargo aircraft, with the Sabrewing aircraft having a capacity to carry a payload of up to 5,400 pounds in a vertical take off scenario. Volocopter has also developed a cargo eVTOL aircraft, the VoloDrone, that can carry up to 200 kg with a maximum range of 40 km. Agriculture. eVTOL systems have multiple applications in agriculture, particularly in the areas of crop protection and cover cropping. Guardian Agriculture offers a heavy-lift unmanned aerial platform, the SC1, capable of carrying over 100 kg. In 2023 Guardian Agriculture's SC1 became the first eVTOL system to be approved by the FAA for nationwide operation. Emergency medical services (EMS). In 2020, JumpAero announced it was working on a small, one-seater eVTOL aircraft to allow"}, {"text": "the rapid deployment of emergency services. This type of vehicle is not a replacement for land vehicles or helicopters, but a new tool that, thanks to the electric motor, is faster than the others. In 2020, the Canadian Advanced Air Mobility (CAAM) consortium studied the benefits of eVTOL for direct hospital-to-hospital transportation of patients, organs and drugs. Recreational, racing, and personal flights. eVTOL aircraft have been created to introduce electric flight into recreational or sporting aviation, such as racing series Airspeeder. The single seat Jetson One octo-rotored eVTOL is noted for its use of software to make it easier to fly. Flying LuftCar super-jeepney. In 2024, LuftCar signed a Memorandum of understanding with eFrancisco Motor Corporation in the Philippines, to develop, integrate, deploy, brand and market a series of Pinoy flying LuftCar super-jeepney (hydrogen Jeepney van eVTOL built around eFrancisco's vehicle chassis for island hopping). Military applications. In April 2020, the USAF announced $25 million-worth funding of eVTOL projects for development in 2021. On August 20, 2020, United States Air Force (USAF) held a demonstration flight of an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas. It was the first time that a manned eVTOL aircraft"}, {"text": "took flight under USAF \"Agility Prime\" programme. On 12 December 2021, Embraer and BAE Systems announced plans to embark on a joint study to explore the development of Eve's vehicle for the defence and security market. Certification. Europe. Since 2018, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has been working on the certification of such aircraft. In July 2019, they published the SC-VTOL-01 : \"Special Condition for VTOL aircraft.\" This document established the safety and design objectives for VTOL aircraft. It includes a special section for eVTOL. United States. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a study in 2009 on general aviation recommendations for the next 20 years. In particular \"Part 23-Amendment 64\" includes eVTOL."}, {"text": "The Prix Ernest-Cormier is an award by the Government of Quebec that is part of the Prix du Qu\u00e9bec, given to individuals for an outstanding career in Quebec architecture. It was first awarded in 2014. It is named in honour of Ernest Cormier."}, {"text": "St James' Church is a former Church of England church in East Cranmore, Somerset, England. Designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt, it was built in 1846 to replace an earlier church on the same site and closed in 1958. The church, now a private residence, is a Grade II listed building. History. St James was built to replace an earlier church of Saxon origin that had been rebuilt in the early 18th-century. Owing to its dilapidated condition, the church was demolished in April 1845 to make way for a new, larger one designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt of London. The new St James was consecrated by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Right Rev. Richard Bagot, on 18 August 1846. The church's spire suffered bomb damage during World War II and the church had to temporarily close in 1946 following further damage from gales. Repairs allowed the church to reopen on 9 February 1947. The church closed in 1958 and was declared redundant by the Church Commissioners in 1971. It was subsequently sold to a private owner and planning was approved for a conversion scheme in 1975. Another conversion scheme for the former church was approved in 1988. Architecture. St"}, {"text": "James is built of Doulting freestone, with slate roofs, in the Early Decorated style. It is made up of a five-bay nave, chancel, south transept, north vestry, and south tower, with porch underneath and broach spire above. The church was designed to seat 130 persons. Many of the church's original fittings were carved from oak, including the open hammer-beam roof, open sittings, communion table, reading desk and pulpit."}, {"text": "The women's discus throw event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 18 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland."}, {"text": "R. Scott Hawley (1953-2025) was an American geneticist and investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, a member of the US National Academy of sciences and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a past President of the Genetics Society of America, and led a research team focused on the molecular mechanisms that regulate chromosome behavior during meiosis. Early life and education. Hawley was born in the US Naval Hospital in Naples, Italy. He graduated from high school in Castro Valley, California. He attended the University of California, Riverside as an undergraduate from 1971 to 1975, and graduated with a degree in biology. Hawley's scientific research as an undergraduate working in the lab of Dean Parker, which culminated in his first scientific publication in 1975. Hawley did doctoral work with Larry Sandler at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, where he began his career-long interest in chromosome pairing. After finishing his PhD in 1979, Hawley secured a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship to study with Kenneth Tartof at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Career. Hawley's was appointed in 1982 as an assistant professor in the Departments"}, {"text": "of Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He was granted tenure and promoted to an associate professor in 1988. In 1991 he moved his lab to the University of California, Davis as professor. In 2001 he accepted a position as investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri. In conjunction with this position, he is also a professor of physiology with tenure at the University of Kansas Medical School in Kansas City, Kansas and an adjunct professor of biology at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Missouri. From 2011 to 2019 Hawley served as the dean of the Graduate School of the Stowers Institute and later held the title of founding dean emeritus. Scholarship. Using the model organism Drosophila melanogaster, Hawley's research was focused on understanding how homologous chromosomes recognize one another, pair, and ultimately segregate from one another during meiosis \u2013 the cell division that produces sperm or eggs. His work sought to gain a deeper mechanistic understanding of the synaptonemal complex (SC), a larger protein structure that assembles between the chromosomes during meiosis Contributions to higher education. Hawley trained over 45 postdoctoral associates and graduate"}, {"text": "students. In 1989 he was elected to the Davidow Society at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine for excellence in teaching. In 2008 he was the recipient of the Genetics Society of America's Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Teaching Excellence . In 2012 Hawley founded a new graduate school within the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and later served as its Dean Emeritus. Published works. In addition to over 169 research publications, Hawley co-authored the following books: Honors. In 1984 Hawley was awarded a Searle Scholarship for his research into chromosome pairing and recombination. In 2001 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2006 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his research on the role of heterochromatin in chromosome pairing. In 2009 and 2010 he served as the vice president and president respectively, of the Genetics Society of America. In 2011 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2013 Hawley was honored with the Genetics Society of America's George W. Beadle Award for his service to the community of genetics researchers."}, {"text": "The Prix Guy-Mauffette is an award by the Government of Quebec that is part of the Prix du Qu\u00e9bec, given to individuals for an outstanding career in the radio and television arts in Quebec. It was first awarded in 2011. It is named in honour of Guy Mauffette (1915\u20132005). Guy Mauffette was a pioneer director and radio host in Quebec."}, {"text": "Aapticheilichthys is a monotypic genus of killifish from the family Poeciliidae, the sole member being \"Aapticheilichthys websteri\". \"A. websteri\" was found by the American fish breeder Kent Webster after which the species was named. The type locality was Akaka Camp on the western coastal plain of Gabon. \"A. websteri\" was collected from a river that was less than 10m wide on the night of the Asian tsunami, though it is not clear what effect of the tsunami may have had on the local ecosystem."}, {"text": "An election to Kerry County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 27 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This term was extended for a further year, to 1991."}, {"text": "Pieter Heinrich Rodgers (born 23 June 1962) is a South African former rugby union player. Playing career. Rodgers went to school in Harrismith in the Free State and represented Eastern Free State at the annual Craven Week tournament in 1980. After finishing school, Rodgers moved to Pretoria to study at the University of Pretoria. He made his provincial debut for Northern Transvaal in 1984. Rodgers also played for Transvaal, but finished his career with Northern Transvaal. Although he was known as a specialist loosehead prop, he could also pack down on the tighthead side. Rodgers made his test debut for the Springboks against the World XV on 26 August 1989 at Newlands in Cape Town. He also played in the second test against the World XV as well as the 1992 match against the All Blacks. Rodgers toured with the Springboks to England and France in 1992, playing in the two test matches against France. He also played in seven tour matches for the Springboks."}, {"text": "Sevaio Mook (born in Amsterdam on 5 October 1996), better known by the stage name Sevn Alias, is a former Dutch rapper. The son of a Surinamese father and a Surinamese-Antillean mother, he grew up in Amsterdam-West among North African youth and was affected by their music. He was signed to Rotterdam Airlines label releasing mixtapes and albums. In 2018, he had a supporting role in video series Mocro Maffia. A fan of AFC Ajax, he released the single \"Herres\" as promotion for AFC Ajax's success in the Champions League."}, {"text": "Philip Johan Freriks (born 27 July 1944) is a Dutch journalist, columnist and television presenter. He is known as newsreader of the \"NOS Journaal\" from 1996 until 2009. He presented multiple television shows, including the quiz show \"De slimste mens\" and the spelling test \"Groot Dictee der Nederlandse Taal\". Career. At a young age, Freriks worked for the newspaper \"Nieuw Utrechts Dagblad\", the Utrecht edition of \"Het Parool\". He studied at the \"Hogere Burgerschool\" (HBS) in Utrecht and he studied political science in Paris, France. Freriks moved to Paris in 1965. Between 1971 and 1993, he worked as correspondent in France for several media outlets, including \"Het Parool\", \"De Volkskrant\" and NOS. He also worked as correspondent in the Netherlands for the French newspaper \"Le Monde\". He is known for presenting the \"NOS Journaal\" from 1996 until 2009. Charles Groenhuijsen was planned to be his successor at the \"NOS Journaal\" in 2006 but Groenhuijsen was fired after a conflict with NOS. Rob Trip became his successor in January 2010. Freriks also presented the \"Groot Dictee der Nederlandse Taal\", a televised spelling test for adults, from 1990 until 2016. Since 2018, the event is held via radio. Freriks dictated the text"}, {"text": "of the 2018 edition and Frits Spits presented the show. Since 2019, retired politician Gerdi Verbeet dictates the text of the \"Groot Dictee der Nederlandse Taal\". Freriks and Mieke van der Weij presented the 2004 quiz show \"De Grote Bijbelquiz\" with questions about the Bible. In 2008, Freriks presented the segment \"Le Tour de Fifi\" as part of \"De Avondetappe\", a television show about the Tour de France presented by Mart Smeets. In the same year, Philip Freriks, Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal and Eva Jinek presented the show \"NOS Amerika Kiest\" ('NOS America Chooses') from Washington about the United States presidential election. He was the narrator in the 2012 edition of \"The Passion\", a Dutch Passion Play held every Maundy Thursday since 2011. In 2014, Freriks and weather reporter Erwin Kroll presented \"Lekker Weertje\", a six-part series about the weather and the influence it has on society. They presented a second season of the show in 2015. He presented the 2018 television show \"Een Hollander in Parijs\" which looks at six 19th-century Dutch painters living and working in Paris. Freriks presented multiple television series about historic events or time periods. In 2021, he presented the six-part television series \"In de"}, {"text": "voetsporen van de wederopbouw\" which looks at rebuilding the Netherlands from 1945 onwards after World War II. He presented \"In de voetsporen van D-Day\" (2019), about the Normandy landings (D-Day), \"In de voetsporen van de jaren 60\" (2023), about the 1960s, and \"In de voetsporen van de jaren 70\" (2024), about the 1970s. He also presented \"In de voetsporen van de bevrijding\" (2020) about the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of World War II. Freriks is known as presenter of the television quiz show \"De slimste mens\". He first presented the show in 2012. In September 2023, he announced that he would stop presenting the quiz show in 2025. In December 2024, he was decorated Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau on the day of filming his last episode of \"De slimste mens\". He received the award from mayor of Hilversum Gerhard van den Top. The last episode of the show with Philip Freriks as presenter and Maarten van Rossem as jury member aired in January 2025. Herman van der Zandt succeeds him as presenter of the show. Van der Zandt was also a contestant and he won the 24th season of the show. Author and cabaret performer"}, {"text": "Paulien Cornelisse succeeds Maarten van Rossem as jury member. Freriks appears in the 2024 film \"Opa Cor\". He provided the Dutch voice for the character \"Nitwit\" in the 2025 film \"A Minecraft Movie\" directed by Jared Hess. On 4 May 2025, Freriks held the \"4 mei-voordracht\" in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam as part of the Remembrance of the Dead events and ceremonies. In June 2025, he presented \"Oorlogsalbums\", a two-part television series about photo albums of unknown soldiers. Personal life. His brother Jan was killed at a young age on 14 April 1945 during the Battle of Groningen. He published the book \"Jantje\" about his brother. Freriks is married and lives with his wife in France. They have a son."}, {"text": "Muhammad Mohassib (1843\u2013 April 6, 1928) was an Egyptian antiquities dealer in Luxor, Egypt. He began working as a young donkey boy to Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon and learned English from her. There may be a photo of him, or his son, in Margaret Benson's book \"Temple of Mut in Asher\". He opened an antiquities shop in Luxor in the early 1880s and became well known among especially British and French archaeologists and dealers. A lot of important collections in museums in Europe and the US were partly bought from Mohassib. For example, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US) purchased a \"Head of a King\" from Mohassib in 1904. Americans Theodore M. Davis and Emma Andrews bought a number of pieces from Mohassib the entire time they were travelling through Egypt (1889-1913). For example, in March 1898, Davis bought mummified remains from Mohassib, that had come from Nagada with the intention of donating them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. E. A. Wallis Budge of the British Museum corresponded with Mohassib, who would regularly arrange to purchase items from him. As with any antiquities dealers in this period, Mohassib frequently sold items stolen from \"inadequately supervised excavations\" around Luxor, and"}, {"text": "Davis and Andrews were reasonably certain they regularly bought back items from their own sites. Because of this, it is difficult to ascertain the provenance of many items coming from his shop. Upon his death on April 6, 1928, in Luxor, Percy Newberry memorialized him in the \"Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.\" Newberry wrote of him, \"He was a man of fine character, generous, beloved by all who knew him, especially the poor of his native village.\""}, {"text": "M\u00f6ttuls saga or Skikkju saga (The saga of the cloak) is an Old Norse translation of \"Le lai du cort mantel\" (also known as \"Le mantel mautailli\u00e9\"), a French fabliau dating to the beginning of the 13th century. The saga tells the story of a chastity-testing cloak brought to the court of King Arthur. It was translated, along with other chivalric sagas, under the patronage of Haakon IV of Norway. Its risqu\u00e9 content suggests that it was translated by clerks rather than in a religious context. \"M\u00f6ttuls saga\" formed the basis for a later set of Icelandic r\u00edmur called \"Skikkjur\u00edmur\". Complete texts of the saga date from the 17th century. However, there are indications that \"M\u00f6ttuls saga\" may have been one of the earliest Arthurian texts translated into Old Norse. The saga begins with an extended introductory section, not present in the French text, that describes King Arthur. Such an introduction would have been necessary for an audience unfamiliar with the Arthur legend. The saga also misnames certain well-known characters which may also indicate unfamiliarity with the material. The earliest medieval fragments of the saga date from the 14th century. These represent two reactions of the saga. The first survives"}, {"text": "in a single leaf, AM 598 I\u03b2 4to. The other is represented by Stock. Perg. 4to nr 6 and the fragment AM 598 I\u03b1 4to which originally belonged to the same codex. Only two leaves of this codex are preserved. Kalinke's edition of the saga is based on a 17th-century copy of the manuscript (AM 179 fol). The author of \"Samsons saga fagra\", which gives a history of the cloak before it reaches Arthur's court, knew \"M\u00f6ttuls saga\" and refers to it as \"Skikkju saga\"."}, {"text": "This article details the Bradford Bulls rugby league football club's 2020 season. This is the Bulls second season in the Championship after narrowly missing out on the playoffs in the previous season. Season review. August 2019. Preparations for the 2020 season started with the announcement from chairman Andrew Chalmers that the Bulls would move away from Odsal Stadium for the upcoming season due to the high rent and maintenance costs, with Dewsbury Rams home ground Crown Flatt hosting Bradford's home games. Following this news the Rugby Football League placed the Bulls under 'special measures' over concerns of the club's finances and budgets for 2020 which also prevented Bradford from making signings during this period. Loose forward George Milton and second-row Colton Roche left the club sometime during the season. September 2019. Academy product and prolific try-scorer Ethan Ryan signed a two-year deal with Super League side Hull Kingston Rovers. Following Ryan's departure head coach John Kear announced that Matt Garside, Matty Wildie, Ashley Gibson, Callum Bustin and James Green would not be offered new contracts at the club and were released. Garside subsequently signed for local rivals Halifax R.L.F.C. whilst Green signed for York City Knights. Hooker Wildie signed for"}, {"text": "Leigh Centurions and prop Bustin switched codes to play rugby union for Yorkshire Carnegie. October 2019. As fears grew over the financial stability of the club it was announced that a senior player evoked a termination of his contract relating to issues revolving around pension payments. Throughout the month there were numerous reports that the Bulls were going to be sold to a 'UK investor group' spearheaded by former Wakefield Trinity owner Chris Brereton. Prop forward Jon Magrin signed a one-year deal to play at Dewsbury Rams. Popular hard hitting centre Jake Webster signed a two-year deal with League 1 side Keighley Cougars combining a playing contract alongside a role working with the community. Potential new owner Brereton revealed that the clubs had debts of up to \u00a3500,000 and that he would work towards getting Bradford debt free in two years. The exodus continued at the Bulls as fan favourite, Bradford born Ross Peltier signed for Doncaster R.L.F.C. Chris Brereton pulled out of the consortium attempting to buy the Bulls. However the following day it was revealed that former head of RFL Nigel Wood and Dewsbury chairman Mark Sawyer had appointed former Toronto Wolfpack CEO Eric Perez as the chairman"}, {"text": "to take over the consortium's bid to buy the Bulls, this brought the club out of special measures. Following the news that the club had been lifted out of special measures it was announced that academy product Ross Oakes had signed a new two-year deal with the club. However in order to raise some capital for the club playmaker Joe Keyes, young second rower Matthew Storton, second rower Elliot Minchella, halfback Rowan Milnes and academy player Anesu Mudoti all signed three year deals at Hull Kingston Rovers for an undisclosed fee with Milnes coming back to Bradford on loan for 2020. Young winger Josh Rickett signed for League 1 side Doncaster R.L.F.C. The Bulls retained the services of Welsh centre Rhys Evans, experienced hooker George Flanagan and hooker Sam Hallas all on one year deals. Winger Jy Hitchcox was released by the club so that he could take up a playing contract with Toulouse Olympique. Prop Liam Kirk and winger David Foggin-Johnston were given one year contracts to keep them at the Bulls for the 2020 season. November 2019. The Bulls announced two pre-season friendlies for the upcoming season, the first will be against Castleford Tigers on Boxing Day and"}, {"text": "the second will be against Dewsbury Rams on 19 January. The first new signing for the 2020 season came in the form of Super League winger Greg Johnson on a one-year deal from Grand Finalists Salford City Reds. Bradford will face arch rivals Leeds Rhinos in a testimonial match for long serving Leeds player Jamie Jones-Buchanan in January 2020. Furthermore a final friendly was added to the pre-season schedule as the Bulls will face Championship rivals York City Knights. Hooker Sam Hallas was named as vice captain for the 2020 season whilst Steve Crossley retains the captaincy. Film actor and former rugby league footballer; Adam Fogerty, became a shareholder at Bradford Bulls. On 17 November the 2020 fixtures were released with the Bulls hosting London Broncos in the first week, in addition to this Bradford would play their 'away' game against Dewsbury Rams at Headingley Stadium in a double header which will see Leeds Rhinos face off against Wakefield Trinity. The Bulls made their second new signing as they announced Wakefield Trinity prop forward Anthony England on a one-year deal. Meanwhile captain Steve Crossley signed a one-year extension keeping him at the Bulls until 2021. Former Bulls player Ashley Gibson"}, {"text": "and loose forward Mikey Wood joined League 1 side Newcastle Thunder. A final pre-season match was announced with the Bulls travelling to Hunslet R.L.F.C. on 5 January 2020. December 2019. After a four year ban from the game it was announced that former Leigh Centurions prop forward Sam Barlow signed for the Bulls for the 2020 season. Following this news it was revealed that Hull Kingston Rovers had let young second-row forward Adam Rooks join the Bulls on a season long loan. A further signing was made to the Bulls roster as Racing Club Albi XIII prop Levy Nzoungou signed a one-year deal. The Bulls rounded off the year with a 20\u201314 victory over Super League side Castleford Tigers. January 2020. The start of 2020 saw experienced centre Rhys Evans join Super League side Leeds Rhinos on a season long loan deal. A young Bradford side traveled to Hunslet R.L.F.C. for the second pre-season friendly and lost a close match 18\u201326 with Murphy Smith, Harry Shackleton and Matthew Race all scoring for the Bulls. The Bulls announced the capture of former academy product Dan Waite-Pullan on a one-year deal from the Leeds Rhinos. Bradford faced arch rivals Leeds in a"}, {"text": "pre-season friendly for Jamie Jones-Buchanan's testimonial. However former Leeds player Rob Burrow was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) so the match was also used to raise funds to combat MND. The Bulls lost 34\u201310 in front of a 19,700 sell out crowd at Headingley Stadium with Ross Oakes and Thomas Doyle scoring for the Bulls. Former Bulls players and legends such as Wayne Godwin, Matty Blythe, Rob Parker, Nathan McAvoy, Robbie Hunter-Paul and Stuart Fielden also featured in the final 10 minutes of the match in support of Rob Burrow. Super League side Hull F.C. revealed that they would partner up with the Bulls on dual registration for the 2020 season. The 2020 black away shirt was released and the 2020 squad numbers were also revealed for the Bulls with new signings Anthony England, Adam Rooks, Dan Waite-Pullan and Sam Barlow taking the 8, 11, 20 and 27 shirts respectively. Another pre-season defeat followed this with a 25\u201312 loss to Dewsbury Rams. The Bulls announced the signing of Hull F.C. winger Matty Dawson-Jones on a one-year deal. In the final pre-season match the Bulls faced rivals York City Knights and came away with a hard-fought 6\u20134 win before the"}, {"text": "match was abandoned ten minutes before the final whistle. February 2020. The season commenced with a 14\u201318 loss to newly relegated side London Broncos, new recruit Matty Dawson-Jones crossed for two tries on his debut whilst young hooker Thomas Doyle also scored for the home side. The Round 2 match against York City Knights was postponed due to bad weather due to the effects of Storm Ciara. The draw for the 2020 Challenge Cup fourth round revealed that the Bulls would face amateur side Underbank Rangers. A narrow 22\u201330 loss to promotion favourites Featherstone Rovers the following weekend saw the Bulls enter the season with back to back losses, Dawson-Jones was on the scoreboard along with Doyle, Brandon Pickersgill and Jordan Lilley. The Bulls progressed through to the 5th Round of the Challenge Cup with an uncompromising 22\u20130 win over amateurs Underbank Rangers, following this victory the Bulls were drawn away to Super League side Wakefield Trinity. Centre Rhys Evans signed a permanent contract with his loan club Leeds Rhinos, however he was then loaned back to Bradford for the rest of the season. March 2020. March started positively for the Bulls as they overcame Oldham R.L.F.C. 26\u201312 to gain"}, {"text": "the first victory in the league, new loan signing Joe Cator led the way scoring the opening try of the game with Steve Crossley, Sam Hallas and Brandon Pickersgill also scoring tries. The Bulls bolstered their squad by signing former Featherstone Rovers hooker Danny Maskill who had been on trial in the Bulls reserve team. Bradford followed up their first Championship win with a solid 28\u20130 victory over Sheffield Eagles, young academy product opened up his senior try scoring account with a brace of tries whilst Jordan Lilley, Matty Dawson-Jones and Pickersgill also scored. The Bulls 2020 Challenge Cup run came to an end in a hard fought 14\u201317 loss to Super League side Wakefield Trinity, the Bulls were ahead with tries from Jordan Lilley and Rowan Milnes before Wakefield secured their place in the next round with a late try. During this month all of rugby league including Super League and the RFL Championship was suspended indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. April 2020. There was no rugby played throughout April due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At the start of the month the Bradford Bulls announced that the majority of their staff would be"}, {"text": "placed on furlough meaning that the government would cover 80% of employees salaries in accordance to the COVID-19 job retention scheme set out by the government. May 2020. There was no rugby played throughout May due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The RFL announced that the Challenge Cup and 1895 Cup finals would be postponed to a later date in 2020 subject to government guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic. June 2020. There was no rugby played throughout June due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The first piece of good news for the Bulls during the ongoing pandemic was the announcement that coach John Kear had signed a two-year extension to stay at the club until the end of the 2022 season. In a major coup for the club it was announced that veteran Super League halfback Danny Brough would join the Bulls in 2021 on a two-year deal from Wakefield Trinity. July 2020. There was no rugby played throughout July due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Vice captain Sam Hallas signed a one-year deal to stay at the club for the 2021 season. During this month the Rugby Football League announced that the RFL Championship and RFL League 1"}, {"text": "would not be able to continue the 2020 season, however an autumn tournament would be announced with a \u00a3250,000 prize fund to honor the 125th anniversary of the RFL. Homegrown fullback Brandon Pickersgill put pen to paper on a new one-year deal to stay with the club for the 2021 season. Winger Joe Brown also signed an extension to stay with the Bulls. August 2020. Due to the reserves being suspended until 2022 young halfback Cobi Green signed for Swinton Lions. Soon after Green's departure the Bulls announced the re-signing of second-row forwards Brad Gallagher and Ebon Scurr, Gallagher signed a two-year extension whilst Scurr signed for one year. Prop Levy Nzoungou also signed an extension with the Bulls. Young hooker Thomas Doyle was the next player to sign an extension with the Bulls, signing on for another season. Pre-season friendlies. Bulls score is first. Player appearances. = Injured = Suspended Table. Standings at the time of abandonment. Fixtures and results. 2020 Championship Player appearances. = Injured = Suspended"}, {"text": "The Stari Han () is a former caravanserai in Kremna, U\u017eice municipality, southwestern Serbia. It was listed as a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance. History. The Stari Han was established in the first two decades of the 19th century. It belonged to the Moljkovi\u0107 family from Herzegovina. At that time, it was located on the trade route between U\u017eice and Vi\u0161egrad, one of the two major links between Bosnia and Serbia. Architecture. The Han was built on a rectangular base on a sloping land. The lower floor hosts a stone warehouse, while the upper floor has several rooms for accommodating the travellers. Opposite the entrance hall, the building has a corbelled prominent part of typical Blakan architecture. The four-sided roof is covered with wood shingles."}, {"text": "Old Lions Still Roar is the first solo album by Welsh guitarist Phil Campbell (second if counting albums by his band the Bastard Sons). It was released on 25 October 2019 on Nuclear Blast. Development. Since 1999, long-time Mot\u00f6rhead guitarist Phil Campbell had been planning a solo album. However, this never came about due to the tight schedule of his former band. Only when Mot\u00f6rhead was dissolved after the death of singer Lemmy Kilmister did Campbell find the time to put his ideas into practice. At the beginning of the 2010s he had set up a recording studio in his house and collected riffs and licks over the years. Around 2016, the recordings began, now without time pressure. Phil Campbell insisted on writing ten different-sounding songs that have nothing to do with his old band Mot\u00f6rhead. Campbell then sent the finished song ideas to various musicians whom he wanted to have as guests on his album. He received many pledges. In addition to his three sons, who join him in the band Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, the album features many stars of the metal and hard rock scene such as Rob Halford of Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, Dee"}, {"text": "Snider of Twisted Sister, Danko Jones or Whitfield Crane of Ugly Kid Joe, and more diverse musicians like Mark King of Level 42. Campbell's lyrics have been performed by various singers. Leon Stanford interviewed Campbell and wrote the song \"Rocking Chair\" about his early days in the music business. Dee Snider wrote \"These Old Boots\" about all the old musicians involved in the project who are still in business after many years. The album was produced by Todd Campbell, while Soren Anderson mixed the album. The album title goes back to one of Phil Campbell's sons, who suggested \"Old Lions Still Roar\" as a song title. According to Phil Campbell, the title would fit perfectly with the solo album, as \"many old bags\" would be there. An animated music video was released for the song \"These Old Boots\". The song \"Swing It\" appeared as a lyric video."}, {"text": "Freriks is a Dutch surname. Notable people with this surname include:"}, {"text": "Los Angeles Valiant is an American esports team founded in 2017 that competed in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Valiant began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2018 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance."}, {"text": "Rebeca Melissa Fern\u00e1ndez Valiente (born 1 December 1991) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Chilean club Universidad de Chile and the Paraguay women's national team. She has previously also played for the national under-17 team. International career. Fern\u00e1ndez represented Paraguay at the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. At senior level, she played two Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina editions (2010 and 2014). International goals. \"Scores and results list Paraguay's goal tally first\" Honours. Cerro Porte\u00f1o Universidad de Chile Individual"}, {"text": "Ilja Rukober (; born 10 October 1993), known by his ring name Ilja Dragunov (), is a Russian-born, German-naturalised professional wrestler. As of January 2019, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand, but is currently inactive due to a torn ACL. He formerly competed on the NXT UK and NXT brands, where he won each brand's main title: the NXT United Kingdom Championship and the NXT Championship. He is the first non-kayfabe Russian-born male wrestler to compete and win a championship in the WWE. Before signing with WWE, Rukober competed on the European independent circuit and is also known for his time with Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), where he is a former Unified World Wrestling Champion, three-time wXw World Tag Team Champion and two-time wXw Shotgun Champion. He is also best known for his inter-promotional rivalry with Walter, which spans from wXw, when, notably, Dragunov won the 2017 16 Carat Gold tournament and the Unified World Wrestling Championship against him the next year, to the NXT UK and NXT brands, when Dragunov and Walter had two \"Wrestling Observer Newsletter\" rated five-plus-star matches for the NXT United Kingdom Championship, the second of which Dragunov won at"}, {"text": "NXT TakeOver 36. Early life. Ilya Rukober was born in Moscow, Russia, and migrated to Berlin, Germany with his mother when he was five years old. During this move, neither he nor his mother could speak the German language. Prior to entering wrestling, Rukober worked various jobs from a young age to help provide for his family, including working at a pizza parlor and a gas station. Professional wrestling career. Early career (2012\u20132018). Rukober started his professional wrestling training at the German Wrestling Federation (GWF) training school under veterans Axel Tischer (who wrestled for WWE under the ring name Alexander Wolfe) and Rick Baxxter. He made his in-ring debut in 2012. A year later, he became a regular with wXw and would remain there until signing with WWE. Progress Wrestling (2018\u20132022). On 14 May 2018 at Super Strong Style 16, wXw general manager Christian Michael Jakobi arrived in Progress Wrestling, and challenged Pete Dunne to a match with Dragunov at an undetermined date. At \"Chapter 69\", Dragunov appeared in the promotion for the first time, squaring off with Dunne, much to Jakobi's delight. At \"Chapter 72\", Dunne accepted the challenge and the match would be set at Progress' upcoming event"}, {"text": "at Wembley Arena. At \"Chapter 75\", Jakobi continued to insult Dunne, to which he would drag Jakobi to the ring to attack him, before Dragunov made the save and the two faced off again. During Progress' tour of Germany, at the Oberhausen show, Dunne called out Dragunov, following British Strong Style's win over Rise (Ivan Kiev, Lucky Kid and Pete Bouncer). Once again, the two had a scuffle which had to be broken up by the officials. On 1 October, Dragunov's debut match for Progress ended in defeat, when Dunne trapped Dragunov's arm and then manipulated his hand to force the submission. Dragunov began 2019 with a win over Timothy Thatcher at \"Chapter 83\", but did not appear for the promotion until Super Strong Style 16. On night one, Dragunov defeated Chris Brookes in the first round. On night two, he quickly defeated Trevor Lee in the quarter-final, and on night three, he was in a three-way elimination match in the semi-final with David Starr and Travis Banks. Dragunov was the first wrestler to be eliminated when Banks defeated him by pinfall. At \"Chapter 91\", he defeated Jordan Devlin in a number one contender match for the Unified World Championship,"}, {"text": "but the following day, at \"Chapter 92\", he was defeated by Walter. At \"Chapter 95\", Dragunov took part in a rumble match for the Proteus Championship, which replaced the Atlas Championship. Dragunov entered in at number two in the match, and eliminated Niwa, TK Cooper and Chuck Mambo, before he and William Eaver simultaneously eliminated each other. From October to December, he was involved in a series of matches with Cara Noir. Having traded wins over each other at \"Chapter 96\" and \"Chapter 97\", the feud was ended at \"Chapter 99\" in a two out of three falls match, in which Dragunov lost. WWE (2019\u2013present). Early beginnings (2019\u20132021). During January 2019, it was reported that Rukober would be signing with WWE, with the intention of performing for the promotion's NXT UK brand. He previously had a tryout for the promotion in November 2013, but suffered a skull injury which kept him out for almost a year. He had a second tryout in Cologne during WWE's European tour in November 2018, where he was said to have \"turned heads\". On 27 February 2019, WWE officially announced his signing. On the 15 May episode of \"NXT UK\" (taped 19 April), Dragunov made"}, {"text": "his debut for the brand as a face, defeating Jack Starz. He then began a short undefeated streak, defeating Joseph Conners on the 12 June episode (taped 20 April), and Ashton Smith on 10 July episode (taped 16 June). However, this ended on 15 August episode (taped 19 July), when Dragunov was defeated by Kassius Ohno. On 31 August, at , Dragunov answered Cesaro's open challenge in a losing effort. On 17 October episode of \"NXT UK\" (taped 4 October), Dragunov defeated Saxon Huxley under the watchful eye of Alexander Wolfe. Following the win, Wolfe applauded Dragunov, which turned into a brief staredown with the Russian when Marcel Barthel and Fabian Aichner joined him. However, it did not turn into a fight, as Barthel and Aichner walked past Dragunov for their match against The Hunt (Primate and Wild Boar), while Wolfe took him to the back, presumably to convince him to join Imperium. On 11 November episode of \"NXT UK\" (taped 5 October), Dragunov seemingly joined Imperium in their ongoing feud with Gallus (Joe Coffey, Mark Coffey and Wolfgang), before allying himself with the Scotsmen, who then proceeded to have a brawl in the ring as the show went off"}, {"text": "the air. On 21 November episode of \"NXT UK\" (taped 15 November), Dragunov was defeated by Wolfe, and after the match, was beaten down by the other members of Imperium before Gallus made the save. On 28 November episode of \"NXT UK\" (taped 15 November), Dragunov alongside Gallus, fought Imperium to a double countout. Although he got some offence in on Wolfe, he was mostly overpowered by the other members of Imperium, including a call back to the 2017 wXw 16 Carat Gold final with its leader Walter. On 5 December episode of \"NXT UK\" (taped 15 November), Dragunov appeared during the main event negotiation segment between Walter and Joe Coffey, for their title match at . Walter wanted Dragunov to face Wolfe in a no disqualification match at a future date, but Coffey refused, since Dragunov was not a member of Gallus. Walter then said \"No Ilja, no deal\", to which Dragunov came out from the back and told Coffey to make the agreement. Following the negotiations, Walter told Dragunov that he had made a really bad decision, and the Russian was ambushed by the other members of Imperium before being powerbombed by Wolfe through a table. On 2"}, {"text": "January 2020, episode of \"NXT UK\" (taped 16 November 2019), Dragunov defeated Wolfe in the no disqualification match. In retaliation, he was beaten down by Barthel and Aichner after the match. On 12 January, during the main event title match between Walter and Coffey, Wolfe interfered in the match attacking the latter, leading to Dragunov coming out and hitting the \"Torpedo Moscow\" on Wolfe, which caused him to accidentally fall on Coffey's left knee, exacerbating the injury. On 13 February episode of \"NXT UK\" (taped 18 January), after Gallus had retained the NXT UK Tag Team Championship over Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch, Dragunov came out to confront Gallus, but was outnumbered and suffered a beat down. This was due to Coffey earlier stating that Dragunov owed \"the Gallus firm\" a debt, and it led to a match between the two men on 20 February episode of \"NXT UK\" (taped 18 January), resulting in Dragunov defeating Coffey. After the match, the other two members of Gallus appeared in order to commit a post-match assault on the Russian, but Coffey stopped them and informed Dragunov that he had paid his debt and that matters were now settled. Parallel to the Coffey"}, {"text": "storyline on \"NXT UK\", Dragunov also appeared on \"NXT\" programming in promos with Finn B\u00e1lor. He accepted Balor's challenge to a singles match at Worlds Collide on 25 January, where he was defeated. On 2 April episode of \"NXT UK\" (taped 7 March), Dragunov won a 20-man battle royal to become the #1 contender for the NXT United Kingdom Championship, last eliminating Tyler Bate. Due to the United Kingdom's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, NXT UK was put on hold and was relaunched in September, being filmed behind closed doors at Here East. On 17 September episode of \"NXT UK\", after Dragunov defeated Noam Dar, he was confronted by Walter and their feud was reignited. On 1 October episode of \"NXT UK\", Dragunov made the save on guest referee Pete Dunne, who was being beat down by Walter and Wolfe, following the latter's loss to Dar in the NXT UK Heritage Cup first round. This led to a tag team match between the four men on 15 October episode of \"NXT UK\", in which Dragunov and Dunne were victorious. On 22 October episode of \"NXT UK\", during the contract signing segment, Dragunov was stopped from finishing his catchphrase as he"}, {"text": "was struck in the face by Walter, who then tore his shirt off and started chopping him. He escaped but withstood more damage as Walter chopped him in mid-air, hit a powerbomb to him on the ring apron, followed by more chops. However, it was not enough to put him down, as he ran at Walter through the railings. On 29 October episode of \"NXT UK\", he was defeated by Walter by referee stoppage, due to him passing out after being put in a rear naked choke. Dragunov returned to the brand in January 2021. Haunted by the loss to Walter, he struggled to keep his emotions in check, resulting in his matches ending by referee stoppage. He then had a short feud with Sam Gradwell, who kept trash talking him throughout his match with Tyson T-Bone. On 4 March episode of \"NXT UK\", their first match initially ended by referee stoppage and was changed to a win for Gradwell by disqualification, as Dragunov kept attacking him after the bell. On 25 March episode of \"NXT UK\", the second match (a no disqualification match) ended by referee's decision, after Dragunov forced Gradwell to tap out following several ground-and-pound strikes to"}, {"text": "the Englishman. On 6 May episode of \"NXT UK\", Dragunov faced Dave Mastiff, who had offered to fight him the previous week. The bout was cut short due to referee stoppage, but this was legitimate instead of scripted, as Mastiff actually had his nose broken, and the storyline of Dragunov's matches ending in this way was scrapped. NXT United Kingdom Champion (2021\u20132022). On 3 June episode of \"NXT UK\", Dragunov defeated Dar in a singles match, following an altercation the two had on \"Supernova Sessions\". He later appeared after the main event, staring down Joe Coffey and Rampage Brown. On 24 June episode of \"NXT UK\", Dragunov defeated Coffey and Brown in a triple threat match to again become the #1 contender for the NXT United Kingdom Championship. Afterwards, Walter held Dragunov in a sleeper hold until he passed out. On 15 July episode of \"NXT UK\", during the in-ring press conference segment, Walter berated and belittled Dragunov. In turn, he told Walter that while he once respected him, he no longer did and all that is left is hate. It was revealed that Walter had an injured hand and was unable to defend the title on 22 July. Triple"}, {"text": "H, Michaels and Regal announced that the match would happen a month later, at NXT TakeOver 36. Dragunov made his debut for NXT on 10 August episode of \"NXT\", where he addressed the crowd but was interrupted by Dunne (who, by this point, had turned heel since their brief alliance in \"NXT UK\"). In the main event, Dragunov was distracted by Walter turning up, leading to him being defeated by Dunne, who countered the \"Torpedo Moscow\" with a forearm, followed by \"The Bitter End\". On 17 August episode of \"NXT\", Dragunov answered Roderick Strong's open challenge in a winning effort. On 22 August, at NXT TakeOver 36, Dragunov defeated Walter by submission, ending the Austrian's two-year hold on the NXT United Kingdom Championship. On an episode of \"NXT UK\", Dragunov defeated A-Kid to retain his NXT UK Championship. On 27 January 2022 episode of \"NXT UK\" Dragunov made another successful title defense against Jordan Devlin in an empty arena match. On another episode of \"NXT UK,\" Dragunov would successfully defend the NXT United Kingdom Championship against Roderick Strong. After back and forth verbal shots with Jordan Devlin, another match for Dragunov's NXT UK championship was made, under the stipulation that"}, {"text": "the loser leaves NXT UK. The match would take place on the 200th episode of \"NXT UK\" where Dragunov retained his title, and Devlin had to leave (kayfabe) NXT UK. He was forced to vacate the title on 7 July 2022 after having suffered a leg injury, ending his title reign at 319 days, although WWE recognizes the reign as lasting for 346 days due to the episode airing on tape delay. NXT Champion (2022\u20132024). On the 20 September 2022 episode of \"NXT\", Dragunov made his return from injury, interrupting a segment between NXT Champion Bron Breakker and number one contender JD McDonagh. On 22 October, Dragunov fought Breakker and McDonagh in a triple threat for the NXT Championship at Halloween Havoc, but was unsuccessful. At Stand & Deliver on 1 April 2023, he would take part in a fatal five-way match for the NXT North American Championship, but was pinned by reigning champion Wes Lee in a match that also featured JD McDonagh, Axiom, and Dragon Lee. At NXT Battleground on 28 May, he defeated Dijak in a Last Man Standing match. On the 14 July episode of \"NXT,\" Dragunov defeated Breakker to earn an NXT Championship match against"}, {"text": "Carmelo Hayes at , but failed to win the title. On the 12 September episode of \"NXT,\" Dragunov defeated Wes Lee to earn another shot at Hayes' NXT Championship. On 30 September, Dragunov defeated Hayes at NXT No Mercy to win the NXT Championship for the first time in his career, becoming the first person to have won the NXT and NXT United Kingdom Championships. On Night 2 of \"NXT\": Halloween Havoc on 31 October, Dragunov defeated Hayes in a rematch to retain his title, but was attacked by Baron Corbin after the match. At NXT Deadline, Dragunov successfully defended his title against Corbin. On 19 December episode of \"NXT\", Dragunov was challenged to a title match by a returning Ridge Holland, who was trying to find himself after leaving his tag team partner Butch and to re-write his history, which Dragunov accepted. During the match, Holland dropped Dragunov on his head, where Dragunov kayfabe injured his neck and had to be stretchered off. Despite Dragunov signing the title match contract to face Trick Williams, who had won the Men's Iron Survivor Challenge at NXT Deadline for an NXT Championship match at on 2 January 2024, it was later announced"}, {"text": "that Dragunov was not medically cleared to wrestle and the title match was rescheduled to NXT Vengeance Day, where Dragunov defeated Williams to retain the title. On the following episode of \"NXT\", Dragunov called out Carmelo Hayes for attacking Williams after their match at NXT Vengeance Day, only to have Dijak come out, leading to a brawl between the two. The two would have a match later that night, in which Dragunov defeated Dijak after interference from Joe Gacy. After the match, Hayes came out and attacked Dragunov. At \"NXT\": Roadblock, it was made official that Dragunov was going to defend the NXT Championship against D\u2019Angelo at NXT Stand & Deliver on 6 April 2024, where Dragunov successfully defended the title. On the 8 April edition of \"Raw\", Dragunov made his main roster in-ring debut defeating Shinsuke Nakamura. The following day on \"NXT\", Dragunov was called out by Williams for a title shot. Dragunov agreed to a title match at \"Spring Breakin\" on the condition that Williams leave NXT if he loses, which Williams accepted. At Week 1 of \"Spring Breakin\" on 23 April, Dragunov lost the title to Williams, ending his reign at 206 days in what would be"}, {"text": "his final match in NXT. Raw (2024\u2013present). At Night 2 of the 2024 WWE Draft, Dragunov was promoted to the Raw brand. Dragunov entered the King of the Ring tournament where he defeated then-Speed Champion Ricochet in the first round but lost to Jey Uso in the quarterfinals. On the 15 July episode of \"Raw\", Dragunov fought Sami Zayn for the Intercontinental Championship to a no-contest after Bron Breakker's interference. Two days later on \"Speed\", Dragunov and Carmelo Hayes fought to the first time limit draw in their Speed Championship #1 Contender's Tournament semi-final match. It was decided that both men were eliminated from the tournament and the winner of the other semi-final, Baron Corbin, will have a bye to the tournament final to face Speed Champion Andrade for the title. On 30 September, it was announced that Dragunov had suffered a torn ACL during a live event over the weekend and will be side-lined for 6 to 9 months. Other media. Rukober made his video game debut in the \"Most Wanted Pack\" DLC for \"WWE 2K22\". He is also a playable character in \"WWE 2K23\", WWE 2K24\", WWE 2K25\"."}, {"text": "The Ayacucho Theatre or Teatro Ayacucho is a cinema located in central Caracas, specifically in the Libertador Municipality parish in the west of the Caracas metropolitan district. Established on 19 December 1925, it is the second oldest cinema in Caracas and Venezuela after the Teatro Rialto (inaugurated in 1917). Its design is the work of Venezuelan architect Alejandro Chataing. The space also currently houses a small commercial center, but its main function is still to show films. It was declared a national historical monument in 1994."}, {"text": "Bharat Bhushan Goswami (born 1955) is an Indian sarangi player. Early life. Goswami was born in 1955 in Brindaban. He is one of the few sarangi players, which are not from a musical family. He first learned devotional music from his grandfather Amolchandra Goswami. Career. Goswami learned sarangi first from Kanhaiyalal Mishra of Varanasi. He continued then under the renowned sarangi player Hanuman Prasad Mishra. He has accompanied many vocalists and has performed on many festivals such as Sarangi Mahotsav and Tansen Samaroh."}, {"text": "Kate Ho is the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the industrial organization of the medical care market. Education. Ho obtained a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Master of Arts (M.A.) in Mathematics from Cambridge University in June 1993. and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 2005. Career. Before starting her career in academia, Ho served as a Chief of Staff to the Minister of State for Health, for the UK Government Department of Health. She then worked at McKinsey & Company, Inc, for two years before beginning her graduate studies. She joined Columbia University's Department of Economics as an assistant professor in 2005 and was tenured in 2013. She moved to Princeton University in 2018. Ho is currently a co-editor at Econometrica. She was previously an editor at the RAND Journal of Economics and a co-editor at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. From 2018 to 2024 she was co-director (with Janet Currie) of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing. Awards and recognition. Ho is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She gave"}, {"text": "the Fisher-Schultz Lecture of the Econometric Society in Copenhagen in 2021. In 2006, Ho received the Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics for her paper, \"The Welfare Effects of Restricted Hospital Choice in the US Medical Care Market\". Her paper \u201cInsurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market\u201d received the Arrow Award for Best Health Economics Paper in 2010 from the International Health Economics Association (iHEA). In 2020 Kate Ho and Robin Lee won the Frisch Medal from the Econometric Society for their paper \"Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets\u201d."}, {"text": "The 1933 DePauw Tigers football team was an American football team that represented DePauw University as a member of the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference (IIC) during the 1933 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Ray \"Gaumy\" Neal, the team compiled a 7\u20130 record, did not allow its opponents to score a point, and outscored opponents by a total of 136 to 0. The team played its six home games at Blackstock Field in Greencastle, Indiana."}, {"text": "Leslie Gilliat (29 May 191713 July 2013) was a British film producer and production manager. He was the younger brother of director Sidney Gilliat, with whom he worked on a number of films for British Lion Films."}, {"text": "Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education at the University of Birmingham. Her work explores the achievements and experiences of minority ethnic groups in education with a focus on how processes of racism, exclusion and marginalisation operate in predominantly White spaces. Early life and education. Bhopal was born in England and is of Indian descent. She studied sociology in her undergraduate degree, before completing a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in further education. She then completed an MSc in sociology at the London School of Economics before completing her doctoral degree at the University of Bristol. She worked as a research associate at the UCL Institute of Education. Here she conducted research on the educational experiences of UK Gypsy and Travellers During her early career she claims to have experienced both subtle and overt racism. Research and career. Bhopal worked at the School of Education, University of Southampton, from 2006 where she served as Professor of Education and Social Justice. In 2015 she was appointed Equality and Diversity Champion for the University of Southampton Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences. Here she researched the considerable effort that"}, {"text": "black and ethnic minority staff have to make to reach higher levels of academia and the educational experiences of other underrepresented groups including Gypsies and Travellers. She studied how the everyday aspects of teaching and learning serve to marginalise certain groups of students. A result of this work was the creation of recommendations for how race, diversity and inclusion should be taught in postgraduate education courses. She joined the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2017, where she spent two years as a visiting professor. That year she moved from the University of Southampton to the University of Birmingham. At Birmingham she was appointed Professorial Research Fellow and deputy director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education. In January 2020 she was appointed Director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education. Bhopal was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to race equality in education. Bhopal has investigated race inequality and racism in UK academia. She claims that racism is present in academia in various ways; including the marginalisation of black and minority ethnic staff, their exclusion from decision-making, frequent micro-aggressions, implicit bias and open"}, {"text": "prejudice. She argues that dealing with racism is currently not a priority for UK universities. In a 2016 report from the University and College Union, almost three-quarters of black and minority ethnic staff reported that they had experienced racial harassment and bullying from managers. The same research has claimed that UK academia has racist recruitment and promotion practises and a considerable ethnic pay gap. Bhopal argues that radical change is needed to support black and minority ethnic students. She has argued that universities work towards equality in general terms, without confronting uncomfortable practises, and ultimately perpetuating white privilege. Bhopal has called for more financial investment in the Equality Challenge Unit Race Equality Charter, so that universities recognise that it is as important as Athena SWAN. She has claimed that diversity initiatives in the United Kingdom mainly benefit white middle-class women, and that whilst most universities view gender as a universal issue race is largely ignored. Selected publications. Her publications include: Bhopal is editor-in-chief of Women's Studies International Forum, executive editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, and serves on various editorial boards including the journal Race Ethnicity and Education. She has also written for The Conversation and Times"}, {"text": "Higher Education."}, {"text": "The Los Angeles Soccer League was a regional soccer league consisting of clubs based in and around Los Angeles. Established as the California Football Association, the league was founded in 1902 and it is one of the oldest soccer leagues in the United States (alongside the Cosmopolitan Soccer League and the Chicago League). The California Football Association changed, the south split off the San Francisco Soccer Football League and the Greater Los Angeles Soccer League was formed in 1951. In 1963, Spanish club Real Madrid came to LA to face Los Angeles United at the LA Coliseum. Stars like Paco Gento and Ferenc Puskas gave a great show thrashing the United by 9-0. Months after the game the historical LA United folded. Maccabee Los Angeles would be the team to dominate the league in the 1970s. Nowadays, semi-professional and amateur leagues in and around Los Angeles are affiliated with the United States Adult Soccer Association region IV (California Soccer Association-South)."}, {"text": "The Lottie Sleigh was a sailing barque built in 1852. She was transporting of gunpowder on the River Mersey when she exploded on 15 January 1864. There were no deaths but the explosion caused extensive damage to Birkenhead and its effects were felt across Liverpool. The noise of the explosion could be heard from away. The \"Lottie Sleigh\" was severely damaged and was sold for scrap on 27 January. Discussions over insurance liability for the property damage led to a court decision that is important in insurance case law. Ship. The \"Lottie Sleigh\" was built in 1852 at Prince Edward Island (modern-day Canada) as a barque merchant ship. She was named after the wife of Colonel Sleigh, a major landowner of the island who owned the land upon which the shipyard stood. The ship's figurehead, a three-quarter length depiction of a woman with blonde hair, a white bodice and blue dress, is believed to represent Mrs Sleigh. The ship's owners were Mr Hatton and Mr Cookson who intended to use her for trading with Africa. Explosion. On 15 January 1864 the vessel was at anchor on the River Mersey near Birkenhead when a steward knocked over a can of oil"}, {"text": "whilst trimming a lamp. The fire spread quickly and the crew successfully abandoned ship onto a passing ferry. The \"Lottie Sleigh\"'s cargo of of gunpowder subsequently exploded. No deaths were caused but much damage was caused to Birkenhead and thousands of window panes across Liverpool were shattered. Locked doors were reported to have been blown open and most of the gas street lamps in Liverpool extinguished by the shock wave. Reportedly the trunk of the ancient Allerton Oak was cracked by the force of the blast. It is said that the noise of the explosion could be heard from away; indeed the authorities in Chester telegraphed Liverpool to investigate the cause of the noise. The ship's figurehead, now held in the collection of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, was recovered intact some miles away from the ship. The wreck of the vessel was beached at New Ferry and was sold on 27 January for scrap. Insurance law. The \"Lottie Sleigh\" is a famous case in insurance law. Around 80 of the properties damaged by the explosion were insured with the same company, which paid out an average of \u00a312-13 to each claimant. The company directors were sued by some of the"}, {"text": "shareholders for paying out unnecessary claims as the policies contained the statement \"that the company should not be responsible for any loss or damage by explosion, except such as might arise from explosion by gas\". The directors argued that the cause of the damage was the original fire and not the explosion. The court agreed with this, despite the general insurance principle of \"Causa Proxima Non Remota Spectatur\" (\"the proximate and not the remote cause must be looked into\") which would hold that the fire was a remote cause and the proximate, or immediate cause, of the damage was the explosion. The case also led to a definition of the term \"by gas\" in the policy. The vice-chancellor of England decided that it should not be broadly construed as all explosions were caused by ignition of gas and that \"gas\" in this context meant only \"coal gas\", which was then supplied to domestic premises for heating and lighting purposes."}, {"text": "Frances Fitzgerald Elmes (23 April 1867 \u2013 7 February 1919) was a British-Australian feminist writer and columnist based in Melbourne and London. Her columns, short stories, two books and a play appeared under a variety of pen names, including F. F. Elmes, Frances Fitzgerald, F. F., and Frances Fitzgerald Fawkner. Biography. Frances Fitzgerald Elmes was born in Somerset, England, 23 April 1867. She emigrated to Australia with her family and was raised in Berwick, Victoria, where her father was a medical practitioner. She became a journalist and wrote for \"The Australasian\", \"The Argus\" and, after returning to England in 1905, the \"British Australasian\". In London, Elmes established a relationship with the \"British Australasian\"s editor, Charles Henry Chomley (who was married to her close friend Ethel Chomley), during which she is reported to have had two children, a son in 1906 and a daughter in 1908. The relationship was apparently accepted by Chomley's wife and mother. Elmes died in Hammersmith, London on 7 February 1919 during the Spanish flu epidemic. After her death, her children were brought up by their father and his wife."}, {"text": "The New Zealand Times was a New Zealand daily newspaper published in Wellington from 1874 to 1927. Background. The newspaper was founded by Julius Vogel, who had had involvement with newspapers as an editor or owner since his goldfield days in Dunolly, Victoria, in 1856. Vogel was a correspondent for \"The Melbourne Argus\" before he edited the \"Dunolly Advertiser\", which became the \"Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser\". He then founded the \"Inglewood and Sandy Creek Advertiser\". When the Victorian gold rush lost its momentum and after an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Victorian Parliament in the Avoca district in August 1861, Vogel moved to Dunedin. There, he worked for the \"Otago Colonist\" but within a short time, he co-founded the \"Otago Daily Times\". Vogel owned the newspaper until 1866 when it was taken over by a company, but stayed on as editor for another two years. When he lost the editorship, he set up a competing newspaper, the \"New Zealand Sun\". This newspaper failed within a few months, and Vogel became editor and general manager of the \"Daily Southern Cross\" in Auckland in April 1869. His family moved from Dunedin in May 1869. In October 1873, Vogel set up The New"}, {"text": "Zealand Times Newspaper Company Ltd. His co-directors were Joseph Dransfield, George Hunter, Walter Woods Johnston, Fredrich August Krull (German Consul), and Edward William Mills). Later that year, this company bought \"The Wellington Independent\". History. The first issue of \"The New Zealand Times\" was published on 1 June 1874. In its editorial and via the newspaper's masthead, it was announced that this publication would now incorporate \"The Wellington Independent\". Like its predecessor, it was a daily morning paper. Vogel's idea was to establish a national newspaper, but this did not happen. Chantrey Harris bought the newspaper in 1880 and owned it until 1890, when he sold to William Baldwin. When Baldwin decided to retire to Australia the Liberal Party purchased the newspaper from him. Both John Ballance and William Pember Reeves were directors during that time. Competition arrived in 1907 with The Dominion, another morning newspaper but conservative-leaning. William Geddis bought the newspaper in 1912. \"The Dominion\" won the market and its parent company, the Wellington Publishing Company, bought \"The New Zealand Times\" and shut it down. The last edition was published on Saturday, 29 January 1927. Contributors. Notable contributors to \"The New Zealand Times\" include:"}, {"text": "Major General Per \u00c5ke Nilsson Kellin (17 September 1903 \u2013 31 March 1973) was a Swedish Army officer. He served as Chief of Home Guard from 1955 to 1968 Early life. Kellin was born on 17 September 1903 in Svea Life Guards Parish (\"Svea Livgardes f\u00f6rsamling\") in Stockholm, Sweden, as the son of captain Nils Adolf Kellin and his wife Thyra Charlotta Hermansson. He passed \"studentexamen\" at in Stockholm in the spring of 1922. Career. Kellin was commissioned as an officer in 1924 with the rank of second lieutenant and was assigned to S\u00f6dermanland Regiment (I 10) the same year. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1928 and later as captain in the General Staff Corps. In 1939, Kellin participated in a course in the French Army. He served as a teacher at the Royal Swedish Naval Staff College from 1940 to 1942 when he was promoted to major. During this time, Kellin was also military contributor in Radiotj\u00e4nst (1941\u20131945), \"Arbetet\" (1941\u20131944) and in \"Svenska Dagbladet\" (1941\u20131947). Kellin served as Vice Chief of the Military Office of the Land Defence (\"Lantf\u00f6rsvarets kommandoexpedition\") in 1944 and as Chief of the Army Section in the Military Office of the Minister of Defence"}, {"text": "from 1945 to 1947. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the General Staff Corps in 1946 and he served in the \u00c4lvsborg Regiment (I 15) in 1947. Kellin was promoted to colonel in the General Staff Corps in 1950 and he was appointed Section Chief in the Army Staff. In 1952, Kellin was promoted to colonel in the Swedish Army Service Troops and in 1952 he was appointed commanding officer of the Scanian Logistic Regiment in H\u00e4ssleholm. On 1 October 1955, Kellin assumed the position of Chief of Home Guard and became a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Board of the National [Swedish] Rifle Clubs (\"Skyttef\u00f6rbundens \u00f6verstyrelse\"). He was promoted to major general in 1959. He held the Chief of Home Guard position until 30 September 1968 when he retired from active service. Personal life. Kellin married on 7 October 1930 in Frustuna, S\u00f6dermanland County to Selma Birgitta (Britta) Jernbergh (born 8 August 1906 in Eskilstuna), the daughter of kronokass\u00f6ren JK Carl Laurentius (Lars) Jernbergh and Selma Christina Lovisa Henschen."}, {"text": "Paris Eternal is a French esports team founded in 2018 that competes in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Eternal began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2019 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance."}, {"text": "Isamaya Ffrench (born 9 April 1989) is a British make-up artist and creator of wearable art. She has worked on fashion editorials for several major publications, including \"Vogue\", \"Dazed\", \"W\" magazine and \"Love\". Her subjects have included musicians Bj\u00f6rk and Rihanna, and models Kendall and Kylie Jenner. Her principal focus is on facial art and decoration that challenges beauty norms. Early life and education. Born and raised in Cambridge, England, she became interested in physical arts from a young age and moved to London to study 3D design at the Chelsea College of Arts, then product and industrial design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She also joined the Theo Adams Company in 2010. She was inspired by Kevyn Aucoin's \"The Art of Makeup, Making Faces\", which she saw at age seven, but did not focus on make-up in her youth, being more interested in other physical art, springboard diving, and ballet. While studying in London she decided to learn face painting to earn money part-time. She started face painting at children's parties and her skill at the craft resulted in her doing the job for children from London high society. Career. She moved into painting adults"}, {"text": "faces soon after, and worked on the 2011 spring/summer menswear show for fellow Central Saint Martins alumnus Christopher Shannon. After doing an all-body tiger body painting for a friend, a fellow dancer in her company suggested her to \"i-D\" magazine, which resulted in Ffrench's first fashion photography shoot in mid-2011 doing body painting and clay sculpture for Matthew Stone and Alek Wek. She worked alongside a professional make-up artist during the shoot, which led her to purchase her own kit and move towards face decoration. Having come from a physical arts background, she was less interested in beauty conventions and more interested in face decoration as a form of identity construction and working with the structure of the face. She broadened into window dressing with a display for Liberty's for London Fashion Week in 2013. She continued to work for \"I-D\" and became the magazine's beauty editor in April 2014. She also uses nature themes for her facial art, such as landscapes and forests. Ffrench left \"I-D\" in 2015 and became ambassador for YSL Beaut\u00e9, Yves Saint Laurent's cosmetics range that same year. She was appointed Creative Artist Consultant for Tom Ford Beauty in October 2016, where she created the"}, {"text": "\"Extr\u00eame\" line including metallic coloured lip lacquers and eye shadow. In 2018 Ffrench became creative director for the newly launched Dazed Beauty section of \"Dazed\" magazine. In 2020 she was named Creative director of Byredo Makeup where she created and developed the line for the brand. In 2021 she was made Global beauty director of Burberry. In 2019 she expressed an interest in the intersection of beauty and genetics, particularly the impact of racial diversity and gender diversity upon beauty norms, and physical health as a status symbol. In 2020, she was a featured vocalist on two songs, \"Control\" by God Colony and the \"Feel\" cover by Sega Bodega from his new album titled Reestablishing Connection. She formed the experimental music project Alto Arc in 2021, alongside George Clarke of Deafheaven, Danny L Harle, and Trayer Tryon of Hundred Waters. They released their debut EP in February 2022. She additionally collaborated with Sega Bodega again on his 2021 \"Romeo\" album. She released a collaborative album with English composer Sam Thomas in 2023 titled \"Mantle\". In June 2022, Isamaya launched her own line of makeup products, Isamaya Beauty. The first collection featured kink-inspired imagery. In 2024, Nike designed in collaboration with"}, {"text": "Isamaya Ffrench, a special edition of the Air Max Dn that takes inspiration from women athletes and their influence on the fashion world. Ffrench used the unique design of the upper to play with textures and materials. It also features the Dynamic Air unit system of dual-pressure tubes, which creates a responsive sensation with every step. This results in a fashion-forward design that's comfortable enough to wear from day to night. Podcast guest. On 4 August 2023, Ffrench attended the 100 Club in London to discuss her life and career on \"How Long Gone\" , a Glendale, California-based podcast hosted by Jason Stewart and Chris Black, sponsored by J.Crew."}, {"text": "The (VGN; Transport Association Region Nuremberg) is the transit authority of the city of Nuremberg, the second largest city of the German state of Bavaria. Its jurisdiction covers the city and its surrounding area, responsible for the Nuremberg S-Bahn commuter trains, the Nuremberg U-Bahn, the Nuremberg tramway and buses. While not co-extensive with the wider Nuremberg Metropolitan Region, it covers most of it with the exception of several smaller towns and rural areas on the periphery, as well as Sonneberg in the neighboring state of Thuringia. The VGN coordinates transport and fares in area comprising the city of Nuremberg, F\u00fcrth, Erlangen, Schwabach, Bayreuth, Bamberg, Coburg, Ansbach, Amberg, Hof and 21 surrounding districts. It is jointly owned by the state of Bavaria, by the city of Nuremberg, F\u00fcrth, Erlangen, Schwabach, Bayreuth, Bamberg, Coburg, Ansbach, Amberg, Hof and the 21 surrounding districts, which are: There are some districts, which are also in some regions part of the VGN, they are: Transport services are provided by over 10 companies. These include the Deutsche Bahn that also operates the S-Bahn, the Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft N\u00fcrnberg (VAG) that operates the U-Bahn, tramway and city buses, together with multiple operators of regional trains and buses."}, {"text": "Sujit Sivasundaram is a British Sri Lankan historian and academic. He is currently professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. Early life. Sivasundaram was born in Sri Lanka. He is the great grand son of Lawrie Muthu Krishna, editor of the \"Ceylonese\" newspaper and founder of The Polytechnic vocational school. He is the grandson of Mano Muthu Krishna-Candappa, journalist and advocate for women's advancement in Sri Lanka. Sivasundaram was educated at S. Thomas' Preparatory School and the Colombo International School. After school he joined the University of Cambridge on a scholarship in 1994 to study engineering but later switched to history and graduated in 1997 with a BA degree. He also has MPhil (1998) and PhD (2001) degrees from Cambridge. Career. Sivasundaram joined Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 2001 as a research fellow before becoming a lecturer. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore and the University of Sydney. He taught south Asian and imperial history at the London School of Economics between 2008 and 2010. Between 2015 and"}, {"text": "2017 he was Sackler Caird Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He was director of the Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge and director of graduate studies at the Faculty of History, Cambridge. He is currently a fellow and professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College. He supervises MPhil and PhD students of world and imperial history. Sivasundaram was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for medieval, early modern and modern history in 2012. He was a fellow and council member of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). He delivered the 2019 RHS Prothero Lecture. He was co-editor of \"The Historical Journal\" and was associate editor of the \"Journal of British Studies\". He is on the editorial boards of \"History Australia\", \"The International History Review\" and \"Medical History\". He won the 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for \"Waves Across the South\". His prize citation noted that the book was 'a riot of ingenuity, a truly powerful and new history of revolutions and empires, re-imagined through the environmental lens of the sea.' He is a member of the Editorial Board for \"Past & Present\". He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023. Works."}, {"text": "Sivasundaram has written numerous books and articles including:"}, {"text": "Pinnick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Sycamore is a transmon superconducting quantum processor created by Google's Artificial Intelligence division. It has 53 qubits. In 2019, Sycamore completed a task in 200 seconds that Google claimed, in a \"Nature\" paper, would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer 10,000 years to finish. Thus, Google claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy. To estimate the time that would be taken by a classical supercomputer, Google ran portions of the quantum circuit simulation on Summit, one of the most powerful classical computers in the world. Later, IBM made a counter-argument, claiming that the task would take only 2.5 days on a classical system like Summit. If Google's claims are upheld, then it would represent a huge leap in computing power. In August 2020, quantum engineers working for Google reported the largest chemical simulation on a quantum computer \u2013 a Hartree\u2013Fock approximation with Sycamore paired with a classical computer that analyzed results to provide new parameters for the 12-qubit system. In April 2021, researchers working with Sycamore reported that they were able to realize the ground state of the toric code, a topologically ordered state, with 31 qubits. They showed long-range entanglement properties of the state by measuring non-zero topological entropy, simulating anyon interferometry"}, {"text": "and their braiding statistics, and preparing a topological quantum error correcting code with one logical qubit. In July 2021, a collaboration consisting of Google and multiple universities reported the observation of a discrete time crystal on the Sycamore processor. The chip of 20 qubits was used to obtain a many-body localization configuration of up and down spins. The configuration was stimulated with a laser to achieve a periodically driven \"Floquet\" system where all up spins are flipped for down and vice versa in periodic cycles which are multiples of the laser's cycles. No energy was absorbed from the laser so the system remained in a protected eigenstate order. In 2022, the Sycamore processor was used to simulate traversable wormhole dynamics. For a discussion of the Sycamore processor\u2019s role in recent quantum gravity and holographic wormhole experiments, see Galina Weinstein, Einstein\u2019s Legacy: From General Relativity to Black Hole Mysteries (Springer, 2025) The German Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich cooperated with Google in developing the Sycamore quantum computer, and it will be home to the first universal quantum computer developed in Europe as part of the OpenSuperQ project."}, {"text": "Dora Beatriz Barrancos (born 15 August 1940) is an Argentine researcher, sociologist, historian, feminist, and politician. She was part of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) board of directors until May 2019, when she resigned in protest over a budget reduction that severely affected the institution. Biography. Dora Barrancos was born in Jacinto Ar\u00e1uz on 15 August 1940. Her father was a teacher and school director, and her mother \u2013 surnamed Bonjour \u2013 was a housewife. The family moved from La Pampa Province to Buenos Aires Province, and Dora attended high school in the town of Laprida. In September 1955, a coup d'\u00e9tat took place, overthrowing the constitutional government of Juan Per\u00f3n and beginning a military dictatorship, the self-styled Revoluci\u00f3n Libertadora. In 1957, Dora Barrancos enrolled in the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). In those years she was active in \"avant-garde socialism\". However, she ended up approaching the Justicialist Party, and joined the Peronist Youth. In 1960, her father died, and she had to start working as a teacher to support her family. She abandoned the study of law and switched to sociology at UBA's Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. In 1968, she graduated"}, {"text": "with a licentiate in sociology. After the coup d'\u00e9tat of 24 March 1976 overthrew the constitutional government of Isabel Per\u00f3n, Barrancos immediately lost her job as a sociologist at the Comprehensive Medical Attention Program (PAMI). Under the civil-military dictatorship, she received death threats, and several of her classmates and fellow teachers began to \"disappear\". However, she could not go into exile because she had two very young daughters from her first marriage, and she had to wait for a judge's decision to give her permission to travel with the girls. In May 1977, a friend told her that a Peronist Youth colleague had been kidnapped for about three days, tortured, and subjected to mock executions. When she was released, she managed to send a warning that she had explicitly mentioned Barrancos in the interrogation. That day, Barrancos and her second husband Eduardo decided to leave the girls in their father's care and escape to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where he had acquaintances. There, Barrancos came into contact with the feminist movement and other social movements that were positioned against the dictatorship. She also had her first contact with the French philosopher Michel Foucault, and entered the field of historiography. In 1984,"}, {"text": "she returned to Argentina and resigned from the Justicialist Party, considering Peronism a conservative movement - she had been a member of the Peronist Youth, the most left-wing of the Peronist factions. She began to study the political history of Argentina, publishing several studies on socialist and anarchist movements. In 1985, she presented her thesis to obtain a master's degree in education at the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte. In 1986, she obtained the position of researcher at CONICET, and was later promoted to principal researcher. In 1993, she earned a doctorate in history at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences of the University of Campinas. In 1994, when the first Buenos Aires City Legislature was created (after Buenos Aires ceased to be a municipality and became an autonomous city), Barrancos was elected as a member for the Broad Front. She became a full professor of the Latin American Social History Chair at UBA's Faculty of Social Sciences. She coordinated the master's degree program in social and cultural studies at the National University of La Pampa's Faculty of Humanities. From 2000 to 2009, she was the director of the Interdisciplinary Institute"}, {"text": "for Gender Studies (IIEGE) at UBA's Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She currently directs the master's and doctorate programs in social sciences and humanities at the National University of Quilmes. In May 2010 \u2013 by a vote of the scientific community \u2013 she became director of CONICET on behalf of social and human sciences. She resigned in May 2019 in protest of a budget reduction affecting the institution. In 2016, she received the Konex Award Diploma of Merit in the Humanities. As a historian, Dora Barrancos has dedicated herself to studying the development of feminism in Argentina, the social movements of the early 20th century, the revolutions carried out by women, socialist and anarchist movements, and the role of education in Argentine history. During 2018, she participated in debates about the legalization of abortion and expressed support for the bill in Senate hearings. She previously supported the Gender Identity Law, and considered it one of the most progressive in the world. In the 2010s she had a rapprochement with Peronism after a series of civilist measures: the adoption law, the legitimacy of the absolute equality of legitimate and illegitimate children, as well as divorce. Barrancos believes \"that liberal governments did"}, {"text": "not deal with this and instead Peronism advances on civil rights.\" In the 2019 general election, she was a candidate to the Argentine Senate in the Frente de Todos coalition list, but ultimately was not elected. Personal life. Dora Barrancos is married and has three daughters. Considered a feminist, she has worked towards the empowerment of women, favoring policies promoted by L\u00e1zaro Cardenas in Mexico, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and Ra\u00fal Alfons\u00edn and Cristina F\u00e9rnandez in Argentina. She has criticized political figures such as Gabriela Michetti and Mar\u00eda Eugenia Vidal for their conservative positions, being critical of the scant participation of women in radicalism. She has also rehabilitated the historical figures of Eva and Juan Per\u00f3n for legislating women's suffrage and rights, as well as the Eva Per\u00f3n Foundation's actions on behalf of women and children. She has expressed support for abortion rights and the Me Too movement."}, {"text": "This is a season-by-season list of records compiled by St. Cloud State in men's ice hockey. St. Cloud State has made 15 appearances in the NCAA Tournament Reaching the Frozen Four in both 2013 & 2021. Season-by-season results. \"Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties\""}, {"text": "Adam Norrie (February 13, 1796 \u2013 June 6, 1882) was a Scottish-American iron merchant who was a founder of St. Luke's Hospital and who served as the president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York. Early life. Norrie was born on February 13, 1796, in Montrose, Angus, Scotland. He was a son of John Norrie and the former Margaret Smith. He received his education in Montrose. Career. At nineteen years old, Norrie went to Gottenburg, Sweden, where he spent nine years working for a large iron manufacturing firm. In 1823, he went to the United States as representative of the Swedish iron manufacturers to look into building up the iron trade between the two countries. Once in the U.S. Norrie entered into a partnership with James Boorman and John Johnston, known as Boorman, Johnston & Co. to principally transact in Swedish iron. He was admitted as a partner in 1828. Their office was located on Greenwich near Cedar Street. After Boorman and Johnston died, Johnston's son, James Boorman Johnston, became Norrie's partner and they ran the firm from an office on Broadway and Wall Street (over the Bank of the Republic) until Norrie's retirement in 1875."}, {"text": "Norrie later became one of the original stockholders of the canal between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior and one of the largest stockholders of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad. He also served as vice president of the Bank of Savings and a director of the Bank of Commerce from its inception. He was also a trustee of the Royal Insurance Company and served as the chairman of its Finance Committee. He was also a founder of St. Luke's Hospital. Norrie joined the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York in 1827, qualifying as a life member in 1867. He served as Manager from 1838 to 1840, second vice-president from 1843 to 1851, and president from 1851 to 1862. Personal life. On May 16, 1827, Norrie was married to Mary Johanna Van Horne (1799\u20131873) at Trinity Church in Manhattan. Mary was a daughter of Garett Van Horne and Ann Margaret (n\u00e9e Clarkson) Van Horn. Together, Mary and Adam were the parents of: Norrie died on June 6, 1882, at 303 Fifth Avenue, his residence in New York City. Descendants. Through his daughter Margaret, he was a grandfather of George Edward Moke Norrie (1858\u20131920) and great-grandfather of Charles"}, {"text": "Willoughby Moke Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie (1893\u20131977), who served as Governor of South Australia and Governor-General of New Zealand. Through his son Gordon, he was a grandfather of Ambrose Lanfear Norrie (who married Ethel Lynde Barbey, a daughter of Mary Lorillard Barbey and granddaughter of tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard III), Mary Lanfear Norrie, Dr. Van Horne Norrie, Sara Goodhue Norrie, Adam Gordon Norrie (who married Margaret Lewis Morgan, sister of Geraldine Livingston Morgan), Emily Lanfear Norrie, who died unmarried in 1936. Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Norrie Sellar, a prominent cotton broker who married Sybil Katherine Sherman (the daughter of William Watts Sherman)."}, {"text": "Tokens is a Canadian comedy web series created by Winnifred Jong and produced along with Trinni Franke. The series premiered on Facebook and YouTube on May 6, 2019. It also stayed on \"Binge Networks\" for the first season and was later sold to Urbanflix TV. \"Tokens\" follows the lives of the actors of an \"on call\" casting agency who are dispatched to productions in order to fulfill diversity quotas. The series stars Connie Wang, Ryan Allen and Shelley Thompson. As of October 2019, \"Tokens\" has amassed more than 500,000 combined views across Facebook and YouTube. Plot. The series follows the actors of On Call Casting, a fictional agency designed to help busy production companies meet their mandated diversity quotas. Dispatcher Betty sends out whoever is on call, with the actors often finding themselves cast in the roles they least expect. Production. The first season of \"Tokens\" was funded through the Telefilm Talent-To-Watch program and the Bell Fund. The series received additional funding through sponsorships from William F. White International and Grand\u00e9 Camera (formerly Dazmo Camera). Principal photography took place in November 2018 in Toronto. In February 2019, \"Tokens\" creator Winnifred Jong and producer Trinni Franke participated in the Prime Time"}, {"text": "Throwdown pitch competition at the 2019 Prime Time in Ottawa conference, where they were awarded in-kind marketing services to support the release of the first season. The series premiered to a sold-out audience at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on May 6, 2019, the same day the first season was released worldwide on Facebook and YouTube. Reception. \"Tokens\" has received praise for its satirical depiction of the issues of tokenism and representation in the entertainment industry. Critics have noted the cultural relevance of the show's themes, with Greg David of \"TV, Eh?\" writing \"\"Tokens\" couldn\u2019t be more timely. Or scathingly on point.\" In a Calgary Herald review, Melissa Hank remarked that the series \"tackles Hollywood diversity with grace and humour.\" Spring Marie Cullen of \"Starry Constellation Magazine\" wrote \"it's smart, it's funny and it takes a unique look at the entertainment industry,\" concluding that \"anyone who considers themselves a dreamer, no matter what career avenue they're headed down, will find enjoyment in this series.\" Writing for \"The TV Junkies\", Bridget Liszewski described \"Tokens\" as \"a funny, bold, tongue-in-cheek look at issues of diversity, inclusion, and representation.\" As of July 2020, the first season of \"Tokens\" has been selected to screen at"}, {"text": "T.O. WebFest, Minnesota WebFest, NYC Web Fest, Bilbao Seriesland, NZ Web Fest, the Asia Web Awards, Santa Monica Webfest, Bogot\u00e1 Web Fest, Apulia Web Fest, Miami Web Fest, Copenhagen Web Fest, New Jersey Web Fest, Santa Monica Webfest, DC Web Fest, Seoul Webfest, and Oakville Film Festival. It boldly became the first short form series to be nominated as Best Ensemble at the 2020 ACTRA Awards, competing with \"Kim's Convenience\", \"Baroness von Sketch\", \"Anne with an E\" and the eventual winner, \"Schitt's Creek\". It was nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, where Winnifred Jong won for Best Direction, Web Program or Series."}, {"text": "The 2024 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the U.S. Senate to represent the state of Maine. Incumbent independent Senator Angus King won re-election to a third term, defeating Democratic nominee David Costello, Republican nominee Demitroula Kouzounas, and independent Jason Cherry. Primary elections took place on June 11, 2024. This election coincided with five referendum questions, including a referendum to change the state flag, as well as the presidential election, U.S. House elections for the state's two congressional districts, and various other state, county and local elections. King won re-election to a third term in office with 52.06% of the vote. General election. By congressional district. King won both congressional districts, which both elected Democrats. Notes. Partisan clients External links. Official campaign websites"}, {"text": "Susan Elizabeth Pearson (October 1, 1935 \u2013 March 13, 1966) was an American heiress who went missing under mysterious circumstances in Missoula, Montana. A native of Portland, Oregon, Pearson was a graduate student and instructor at the University of Montana (UM) at the time of her disappearance. She disappeared days before she was scheduled to submit her doctoral thesis, as well as administer an exam for a business course she was teaching. Searches for Pearson proved unsuccessful, and her apartment was undisturbed. Her car was discovered abandoned in a business district of Missoula with her purse, keys, and other belongings inside. In 1970, bones were recovered in a rural area south of Missoula and initially suspected to be potentially be those of Pearson, but were subsequently determined to be animal bones. Pearson's disappearance is among the oldest cold cases in the state of Montana. Background. Pearson was born October 1, 1935, in Portland, Oregon, the daughter of David and Agatha Pearson. Her father was a prominent insurance agent in Portland. She was the granddaughter of Democratic state senator Walter Pearson. She had one younger brother, David, and younger sister, Virginia. In 1966, then-30-year-old Pearson was working as a part-time instructor"}, {"text": "at the University of Montana (UM) in Missoula, Montana, and was working toward completing her doctoral thesis through the University of Oregon. Disappearance. Pearson was last seen March 13, 1966 by friends on the UM campus. She was scheduled to administer a business administration exam that day but failed to arrive. At the time of her disappearance, Pearson had been last seen wearing slacks, a green car coat with plaid lining, and two diamond rings. Susan King, a nightclub singer and friend of Pearson, told law enforcement that Pearson had visited her on March 12, the night before she disappeared, and stated that she seemed to be in a nervous, agitated, and depressed state. \"It was just a different Sue,\" King recalled. King also alleged that Pearson had told her in the past that she had considered leaving and starting a new life. On March 17, Pearson's vehicle was found abandoned in a business district of Missoula, with her purse, car keys, and identification inside. Pearson was reported missing the following day, March 18. It was reported that Pearson was also scheduled to turn in her doctoral thesis, though her father later stated it was an anthropology essay that was"}, {"text": "due. Two cheques for Pearson totaling $1,200 were left unclaimed. They were never cashed, which contributed to the theory that she didn't leave of her own accord. Investigation. Upon inspection, Pearson's apartment at 160 Strand Avenue was found undisturbed, though her brother, David, stated that it appeared to him as though his sister had left in a hurry, as a teakettle had been left boiling on the stove and an exterior porch light\u2014which Pearson had typically left on in the evenings\u2014had been turned off. King told law enforcement that \"one or two boys\" who had received poor grades in one of the courses Pearson was teaching had \"threatened to wreck her car.\" On March 31, local police officers investigated a claim that Pearson had been sighted at the top of Lolo Pass, but found no evidence she had been there. In May 1966, Pearson's family hired Burleigh Allen, a former FBI agent and private detective from Billings, to investigate Pearson's disappearance. On October 29, 1970, bones from an arm and hand were discovered in the Blue Mountain region south of Missoula by several UM students. The sheriff who examined the bones at the scene suspected they may have been \"four"}, {"text": "or five years old.\" Investigators initially suspected the bones belonged to Pearson. However, it was reported that pathologists believed the bones were not human, and instead belonged to a bear. Dr. Buchanan, a pathologist examining them, stated: \"Just looking at the bones, we thought the wrist bones were too large in comparison to the length of the fingers.\" Missoula County Attorney Harold J. Pinsoneault stated after the discovery of the bones that it had been suspected that Pearson may have been murdered in the Blue Mountain area, though no suspect had been formally named. In 2017, it was reported that Pearson's disappearance was one of the oldest cold cases in the state of Montana."}, {"text": "Martine Cond\u00e9 Ilboudo (born 1948) is a Burkinab\u00e9 film director. Life. Martine Cond\u00e9 Ilboudo was born in Saint-Alexis, Siguiri, Guinea. She has a masters in communication from the University of Ottawa. After studying communication, she became one of the first to establish a production company in Burkina Faso. Martine Cond\u00e9 Ilboudo was appointed President of the National Council of Communication (CNC). In December 2017 she was decorated by the government as Commander of the Order of Merit for Arts, Letters and Communication."}, {"text": "Bengt Peter Cederwall (born 26 June 1954) is a Swedish curler. He is a . Personal life. His father is Swedish curler Bengt Cederwall, he played for Sweden on ."}, {"text": "Philadelphia Fusion is an American esports team founded in 2017 that competes in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Fusion began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2018 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance."}, {"text": "United Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Inc. (UPC Insurance) is an American property and casualty insurance company with headquarters in Florida. It writes commercial, residential, homeowners\u2019, and flood insurance policies in several coastal states. , UPC Insurance had about 159,170 active policies, accounting for just over 2.5 percent market share. History. UPC Insurance was founded in 1999 in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 2012, John Forney was named CEO. Forney is a former U.S. Army infantry officer and graduate of Ranger School. Before joining UPC Insurance, he served in several capacities at Raymond James Financial. In 2014, UPC Insurance purchased the AAA Auto South building, which had been owned by the Peninsula Motor Club Inc. since 1987, as its new headquarters. The company tried to acquire Family Security Holdings LLC but never completed the $9 million deal. Also in 2014, Judy Copechal, Chief Underwriting Officer at UPC Insurance, was named as one of the Top 10 Women in Insurance Leadership by Insurance Networking News. In 2015, UPC Insurance acquired Interboro Insurance Company, a property and casualty insurance company authorized in New York, Alabama, South Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Louisiana, from Interboro, LLC for $57 million. The company also participated in the"}, {"text": "Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) Depopulation Program. In 2017, UPC Insurance merged with American Coastal Insurance Co. Journey Insurance Company offers homeowners and commercial residential property insurance through independent agents and brokers in Florida, South Carolina, and Texas. It received an \u201cA\u2212\u201c Financial Strength Rating and \u201ca-\u201c Issuer Credit Rating from A.M. Best. In 2018, UPC Insurance announced plans to build another new headquarters in downtown St. Petersburg, the first new office construction in the area since the Duke Energy Florida headquarters in 2007. The company also collaborated with R.J. Kiln & Co., a subsidiary of Tokio Marine Kiln, to form a property and casualty insurance subsidiary called Journey Insurance Company. In 2019, UPC Insurance reported first-quarter catastrophe losses of $13 million after-tax due to several catastrophic events, including the Brevard County hailstorm, as well as possible loss creep from Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Michael. UPC announced in August 2022 that they would leave the Florida Property Insurance market with a plan to cancel all remaining policies May 31, 2023 before the start of the hurricane season on June 1. Hurricane Ian struck Florida the following month near Fort Myers. UPC policies were concentrated in Southwest Florida and the company"}, {"text": "experienced 25,000 claims. The company initially projected losses of $660 million but by the end of 2022, losses were revised to $864 million. When UPC notified Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation of their dire financial situation, the Insurance Commissioner sent a letter to CFO Jimmy Patronis to seek court approval to place UPC into receivership. In early February 2023 Slide Insurance assumed 72,000 of the 135,000 UPC policies. Less than a week later, UPC was declared insolvent. Subsidiaries. UPC Insurance has five subsidiaries."}, {"text": "Colby John Parkinson (born January 8, 1999) is an American professional football tight end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal and was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 2020 NFL draft. Early life. Parkinson attended Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, California, where he played varsity football and basketball. In 2015, his junior football season, he caught 24 passes for 289 yards and four touchdowns. In December of the same year he committed to play college football at Stanford University. During his senior year he played in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. College career. In 2017, Parkinson's freshman year at Stanford, he appeared in all 14 of Stanford's games, catching ten passes for 97 yards and four touchdowns. As a sophomore in 2018, Parkinson played in 13 games (nine starts), catching 29 passes for 485 yards and seven touchdowns. On November 10, in a game versus Oregon State, Parkinson had six catches for 166 yards and four touchdowns, tying the Stanford record for most touchdowns in a single game for a tight end. He earned All-Pac-12 Conference honorable mention. After his 2019"}, {"text": "junior season where he had 48 catches for 589 yards and one touchdown, Parkinson announced that he would forgo his senior season and enter the 2020 NFL draft. Professional career. Seattle Seahawks. In the 2020 NFL draft, Parkinson was selected in the fourth round with the 133rd overall pick by the Seattle Seahawks. He was placed on the active/non-football injury list at the start of training camp on August 3, 2020. He was moved to the reserve/non-football injury list at the start of the regular season on September 5, 2020. He was activated on October 31. He appeared in six games as a rookie. On September 7, 2021, Parkinson was placed on injured reserve with a broken foot. He returned to the roster on October 2, 2021. He appeared in 14 games and started one in the 2021 season. Parkinson scored his first NFL touchdown in Week 1 of the 2022 season against the Denver Broncos. He finished the 2022 season with 25 receptions for 322 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns in 17 games and two starts. In the 2023 season, he finished with 25 receptions for 247 yards and two touchdowns. Los Angeles Rams. On March 14, 2024,"}, {"text": "Parkinson signed a three-year contract with the Los Angeles Rams worth up to $22.5 million. In the 2024 season, he finished with 30 receptions for 294 yard and one touchdown. In the Divisional Round loss to the Eagles, he had a receiving touchdown."}, {"text": "Armand F\u00e9lix Marie Jobb\u00e9-Duval (17 July 1821 \u2013 2 April 1889) was a French painter and politician of Breton origin. He became known for his severely classical compositions, which included the ceiling decorations of many churches and public buildings. He was a committed Republican and secularist, and participated in the French revolutions of 1848 and 1870\u201371. Family. Armand F\u00e9lix Marie Jobb\u00e9-Duval was born on 17 July 1821 in Carhaix, where his father Thomas F\u00e9lix Jobb\u00e9-Duval (1787\u20131860), was an engineer and chief surveyor for the cadastre (land registry) of Finist\u00e8re, Brittany. He was the youngest of four children of Thomas F\u00e9lix Jobb\u00e9-Duval and Charlotte Le Tournoux de Villegeorges (1791-1828), both from Rennes, who had married on 28 November 1811. He married Marie Louise Sophie Jacquemart (1831\u20131917) in the \u00c9glise Saint-Laurent, Paris, and they had four children between 1850 and 1865. Artistic career. Jobb\u00e9-Duval studied at the Tour d\u2019Auvergne college in Quimper, where he showed artistic qualities and talents in sketching. He obtained a grant from the General Council of Finist\u00e8re to attend the School of Fine Arts in Paris, which he entered on 1 April 1840. His first teacher was the painter Paul Delaroche (1797\u20131856), then in 1843 he joined the"}, {"text": "studio of Charles Gleyre (1806\u20131874). He was allowed to compete for the Prix de Rome five times between 1842 and 1847, and developed a rigorous style to meet academic requirements. Jobb\u00e9-Duval joined the Salon des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais and was part of the salon's jury from 1861. He was acquainted with many artists, including the landscape artists Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet (1814\u20131875) and Charles-Fran\u00e7ois Daubigny (1817\u20131878). With Paul Gauguin (1848\u20131903) he discovered the famous Pension Gloanec in Pont-Aven. His religious and historical paintings contain many references to the moral and political issues being discussed during the Second French Empire and French Third Republic. Jobb\u00e9-Duval established his reputation with a series of monumental decorative paintings in the churches of Saint-S\u00e9verin and Saint-Sulpice in Paris, working at the same time as Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix (1798\u20131863). During his career he received many commissions from the Church and the state. He decorated other churches of Paris such as La Trinit\u00e9 and St-Gervais-et-St-Protais, as well as public buildings such as the Commercial Court of Paris and Lyon City Hall. In 1867 he was invited to decorate the ceiling of the Third Chamber of Correctional Appeals in the southwestern pavilion of the Parlement of Rennes in Rennes. His composition represented"}, {"text": "Truth, in the form of a strongly-built nude woman, surrounded by Justice, Innocence and Law. At their feet are Crimes, with dark and muscular bodies. The composition shows the influence of Jean Jouvenet, Ingres, Michelangelo and this master Paul Delaroche. Political activity. Jobb\u00e9-Duval was a militant Republican. He participated in demonstrations during February Revolution in which the July Monarchy was overthrown, and was part of the Government of National Defense during the Paris Commune in 1871. He was elected to the municipal council of the 15th arrondissement of Paris on 30 July 1871, and was reelected on 29 November 1874, 6 January 1878, 16 January 1881 and 4 May 1884. He resigned on 29 April 1887. He was a Freemason, Fourierist and committed secularist. He initiated establishing an institution for incurable young children, and municipal lay orphanages. Jobb\u00e9-Duval died in Paris on 2 April 1889. A street in the 15th arrondissement is named in his honor. His nephew, F\u00e9lix Jobb\u00e9-Duval (1879\u20131961), became well-known as an illustrator for children's books and magazines. In 2017 the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts acquired a collection of over 250 drawings by Jobb\u00e9-Duval. These include studies of the figures and drapery used in most of"}, {"text": "the artist's major public decorations."}, {"text": "\"Les Nuits sans soleil\" is the debut single by French band Ivanov. They released it in 1989. The song debuted at number 47 in France during the week of 9 September 1989, climbing all the way to number seven, where it spent two non-consecutive weeks in November and December."}, {"text": "Kami\u010dak Castle ([Kamichak]; , in old sources Kamichech, Kamichach, Kamichack, Camichach) is a ruined medieval fortified structure on a rock at the top of the hill above the Krka River in the Krka National Park, Croatia. It is situated not far from the Bri\u0161tane village in the administrative area of the Town of Drni\u0161, \u0160ibenik-Knin County. Located between the Visovac Lake and Ro\u0161ki Slap waterfall, it perks up like an eagle in unreachable eagle's nest on the edge of a cliff. Once property of the powerful Nelipi\u0107 noble family, the castle was captured and destroyed in 1522/23 by the Ottoman invaders, never to be rebuilt. History. Kami\u010dak was first mentioned in 1345 in a document issued by the Croato-Hungarian king Ludovik I of Angevin to confirm the property of the castle to Ivan II Nelipi\u0107, whose family possessed it at least from the 11th century. According to oral tradition, it is assumed that Petar Sna\u010di\u0107, the last king of the independent Kingdom of Croatia, killed in the battle of Gvozd Mountain in 1097, was born in Kami\u010dak, since the Nelipi\u0107 family descended from the Sna\u010di\u0107 tribe. The last male member of the Nelipi\u0107 family was Ivani\u0161 (\u20201434), who gave the"}, {"text": "castle to his son-in-law Ivan VI An\u017e Frankopan. The king Sigismund of Luxemburg however did not recognize it and gave the castle to Talovac noble family. In 1445 Kami\u010dak was given to Grgur/Gregory Utje\u0161inovi\u0107, who donated the island of Visovac to the members of Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena. His son, the influential Cardinal Juraj/George Utje\u0161inovi\u0107 was born in the castle in 1482. That is why the local people until today call Kami\u010dak the \u201eCastle of Utje\u0161inovi\u0107\u201c or \u201eTown of Utje\u0161inovi\u0107\u201c (Utje\u0161inovi\u0107a grad). There are some other people who originate from Kami\u010dak area, for instance Marko Mi\u0161ljenovi\u0107, Ban (Viceroy) of Croatia, who ruled 1506\u20131507. A couple of years later, the castle belonged to the Halapi\u0107 brothers, who were present at the election of Croato-Hungarian king Vladislaus II Jagelovi\u0107 in 1490. After conquering Kingdom of Bosnia in 1463, the Ottoman forces increased pressure on Croatian borders all the time, which lead to fall of Kami\u010dak in 1522/1523. The ruined castle had no importance for the Turks and was abandoned, never to be rebuilt."}, {"text": "Shauna Richardson is a Norfolk-based artist who makes sculptures using crochet, a process she calls \"crochetdermy\". Her work has been exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery, The Natural History Museum and Victoria & Albert London. Richardson studied fine art at De Montfort University Leicester. A large bear was the first piece she created in 2007 and took about 8 months to make. Between 2010 and 2012 Richardson created the largest single-handed crochet sculpture in the world, three 25 ft lions for the Lionheart Project commissioned by the 2012 Cultural Olympiad to mark the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2014 her \"BOJO\" portrait of Boris Johnson as a gorilla was displayed at the Chelsea Flower Show. Her work sells for up to \u00a320,000."}, {"text": "V\u00edctor G\u00f3mez Perea (born 1 April 2000) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Primeira Liga club Braga. Club career. Born in Olesa de Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, G\u00f3mez started his career at hometown side EF EFO 87, and subsequently represented RCD Espanyol, FC Barcelona and CF Damm before returning to the \"Pericos\" in 2015. He made his senior debut with the reserves on 25 March 2017 at the age of just 16, coming on as a second-half substitute for Carles Soria in a 0\u20132 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n B home loss against Villarreal CF B. G\u00f3mez was regularly used during the 2017\u201318 campaign, as his side achieved promotion from Tercera Divisi\u00f3n, and scored his first senior goal on 13 May 2018 by netting the game's only in a home success over CF Pobla de Mafumet. On 3 August of that year, he extended his contract until 2025. G\u00f3mez made his first team \u2013 and La Liga \u2013 debut on 20 October 2019, starting in a 0\u20131 home loss against Villarreal CF. He finished the campaign with 21 appearances overall, as his side suffered relegation. On 10 September 2020, G\u00f3mez was loaned to CD Mirand\u00e9s of the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n"}, {"text": "for the 2020\u201321 season. He scored his first professional goal on 10 October, concluding a 2\u20130 away defeat of CE Sabadell FC. The following 20 August, he moved to M\u00e1laga CF in the same division on a one-year loan deal, reuniting with former Mirand\u00e9s manager Jos\u00e9 Alberto. G\u00f3mez moved to Primeira Liga side S.C. Braga also in a temporary deal on 29 June 2022, with the option of a \u20ac2 million transfer and a five-year contract. He made his debut on 8 August as the season opened with a 3\u20133 home draw against Sporting CP, in which he suffered a right thigh injury and was taken off before half time. Honours. Braga Spain U17 Spain U18 Spain U19 Spain U21 Individual"}, {"text": "The 2020 Liga 2 season was the 75th edition of the second tier of Federaci\u00f3n Peruana de Futbol. The season's play started on October 27, 2020 and ended on December 27, 2020. Teams. Promotion and relegation (pre-season). A total of 10 teams contested the league, including 7 sides from the 2019 season, two relegated from the 2019 Liga 1, and one promoted from the 2019 Copa Per\u00fa. Teams promoted to Liga 1. On 11 November 2019, Cienciano were the first team to be promoted to Liga 1, ending a four-year run in the Peruvian Segunda Divisi\u00f3n/Liga 2, after defeating Santos by 4\u22122. The second team to earn promotion to Liga 1 was play-offs winner Atl\u00e9tico Grau, after a goal-less draw against Sport Chavelines on 11 December 2019. This marked the end to a two-year run in the second division. Teams relegated from Liga 1. The first team to be relegated from Liga 1 were Pirata. Their relegation was ensured on 1 November 2019, after Sport Boys beat Melgar 4\u22122, suffering an immediate relegation from the debut season in the first division. The second team to be relegated were Uni\u00f3n Comercio, who were relegated on 22 November 2019 after they were"}, {"text": "deducted 3 points for submitting fraudulent paperwork regarding the team doctor during a game against Universidad San Mart\u00edn. Teams relegated from Liga 2. The first team to be relegated from Liga 2 were Sport Victoria, expelled on 9 August 2019, due to their failure to pay their players. This ended a seven-year spell in Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. The second team to be relegated were Los Caimanes, who were relegated on 20 October 2019 after losing 3\u22121 against Juan Aurich, ending a five-year run in the second division. The third and final relegated club was Sport Loreto, after a walk-over win over Sport Victoria on 25 October 2019 ending a four-year spell in the second division. Teams promoted to Liga 2. The first and only team to achieve promotion was Sport Chavelines after a 1\u22121 draw against Sport Estrella during the 2019 Copa Per\u00fa's final group stage on 1 December 2019. Stadia and locations. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole tournament was played in two stadiums: Estadio Monumental \"U\", Estadio Alberto Gallardo, Estadio Miguel Grau were also used for matchday 9 during which all matches were played simultaneously. Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The leaders of the clubs playing in Liga"}, {"text": "2 originally proposed to begin playing the tournament on 2 May before the government announced a nation-wide lockdown on 15 March. The tournament was then indefinitely postponed. On 2 June, the Peruvian government through its Ministry of Health and the Instituto Peruano del Deporte (IPD) approved the biosecurity protocol presented by the Peruvian Football Federation to allow the resumption of the sports competitions, authorizing clubs to resume training sessions. On 2 September, the FPF and the Liga de F\u00fatbol Profesional announced that the league would begin play on 26 October, with training sessions to resume on 28 September. It was also announced that the whole season would be played in Lima to avoid the constant travel between cities that clubs must do under normal circumstances. The FPF also awarded US$60,000 to each club as a pandemic-related financial relief. Liga 2 awards. The Liga 2 awards ceremony was held on 4 May 2021, 12:00 local time at the Villa Deportiva Nacional (VIDENA). The winners were chosen based on voting by coaches and captains of 2020 Liga 2 teams and local sports journalists."}, {"text": "Superman & Lois is an American superhero drama television series developed for The CW by Todd Helbing and Greg Berlanti, based on the DC Comics characters Superman and Lois Lane, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch star as the title characters Clark Kent / Superman and Lois Lane, respectively. Jordan Elsass and Alex Garfin portray the couple's twin sons Jonathan and Jordan Kent, with Michael Bishop replacing the former in the third season. The series also stars Erik Valdez, Inde Navarrette, Wol\u00e9 Parks, Adam Rayner, Dylan Walsh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Tayler Buck, Sofia Hasmik, Chad L. Coleman, and Michael Cudlitz. The series was originally part of the Arrowverse's Earth-Prime in its first season, developed as a spin-off of \"Supergirl\", with Hoechlin and Tulloch respectively reprising their roles from \"Supergirl\" and \"The Flash\", and the conclusion of the \"Crisis on Infinite Earths\" crossover event serving as a backdoor pilot. As the series went on, following the cancellation of planned crossovers with \"Supergirl\" and \"Batwoman\" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, showrunner Todd Helbing and Warner Bros. decided to keep the show separate, with the series instead set in its own separate continuity; taking place on a different"}, {"text": "Earth to Earth-Prime, which was confirmed in the second season finale. \"Superman & Lois\" was announced as a pilot in October 2019 and was ordered to series in January 2020. The series aired on The CW for four seasons, from February 23, 2021 to December 2, 2024. Premise. In the first season, Clark Kent / Superman and Lois Lane return to Smallville with their sons Jonathan and Jordan, where they are reacquainted with Lana Lang, her husband Kyle Cushing, and their daughter Sarah. Their idyllic lives are upended by the Stranger's entrance, as well as by the secret experiments of Morgan Edge. In the second season, Superman's painful visions lead him to an encounter with Bizarro while also butting heads with Lt. General Mitch Anderson. Meanwhile, Lois deals with the Inverse Method cult led by Ally Allston, who swayed Lucy Lane to her side and has made an enemy of Bizarro for her supposed conquering of his world. In the third season, Superman contends with the plots of Intergang, as Lois suffers from stage three inflammatory breast cancer. Following the death of Peia Mannheim and the surrender of Bruno Mannheim, Lex Luthor is released from prison when the Mannheim's frame-up"}, {"text": "of him killing Boss Moxie is exposed. He proceeds to plan his revenge on Superman and Lois that involves a resurrected Bizarro. In the fourth and final season, Superman continues his fight with the mutated Bizarro, now known as Doomsday, as Luthor begins his next plot that involves setting up a new base where the Manning Farm is. Things go worse for the Kent family when Doomsday gives Superman's heart to Luthor as he ordered. Production. Development. The series was announced in October 2019 with Todd Helbing, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Geoff Johns executive producing, and Helbing penning the script. On January 14, 2020, The CW officially ordered \"Superman & Lois\" to series. The first season consisted of 15 episodes. The series \"Everwood\" and \"Friday Night Lights\" served as inspirations for the show, given they were also family dramas. Helbing explained many aspects of \"Superman & Lois\" were approached as if it were a feature film, such as the aspect ratio, cinematography, and production design, saying \"We are competing with shows on cable and streamers...we wanted to be able to do that and offer audiences something of equal quality\". In March 2021, The CW renewed the series for a"}, {"text": "second season which premiered on January 11, 2022. In March 2022, it renewed the series for a third season. In January 2023, DC Studios CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran said they expected the show to continue for \"one to two more seasons\". Brad Schwartz, President of Entertainment at The CW, stated in May 2023 that the business model of the show was no longer feasible for the network due to the show being expensive to produce, adding that it did not directly generate any profits and The CW did not have the rights to previous seasons. In June 2023, The CW renewed the series for a fourth season consisting of ten episodes. Under the renewal agreement, the series reduced the number of its regular cast members and writers, in addition to reducing action scenes and gearing more towards a family-focused drama, in an effort to reduce production costs. Production was however delayed due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes. On November 2, 2023, it was announced that the fourth season would be the series' last. Schwartz stated in an interview that the decision to end the show was made by Warner Bros. Discovery to avoid"}, {"text": "competition with the upcoming DC Universe (DCU) film \"Superman\" (2025). Casting. Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch were signed on to reprise their roles as Clark Kent and Lois Lane from \"Supergirl\". In February 2020, Jordan Elsass and Alex Garfin were cast as Clark and Lois' sons Jonathan Kent and Jordan Kent, respectively. In April, Dylan Walsh was cast as Samuel Lane. Walsh replaces Glenn Morshower, who previously recurred in the role on \"Supergirl\". Emmanuelle Chriqui was also cast as Lana Lang, along with Erik Valdez as Kyle Cushing. The next month, Wol\u00e9 Parks was cast as \"The Stranger\" while Inde Navarrette was cast as Sarah Cushing. Additionally, Adam Rayner portrays Morgan Edge, who was previously portrayed by Adrian Pasdar in \"Supergirl\". In October 2020, Sofia Hasmik and Stacey Farber were cast in the recurring roles of Chrissy Beppo and Leslie Larr, respectively. In December 2020, David Ramsey was revealed to be reprising his \"Arrow\" role of John Diggle in addition to directing at least one episode in the series. In June 2021, Hasmik was promoted to a series regular for the second season. In August 2021, Tayler Buck, who guest starred in the first season, was promoted to a series"}, {"text": "regular for the second season. In October 2021, Ian Bohen was cast in a recurring role as Lt. Mitch Anderson for the second season. Jenna Dewan, who previously played Lucy Lane on \"Supergirl\" reprised her role in the second season. In August 2022, Elsass departed the series ahead of the third season for personal reasons. The following month, his role was recast to Michael Bishop and Chad L. Coleman was cast as Bruno Mannheim. Lex Luthor appears in the show where he is now portrayed by Michael Cudlitz instead of a reprisal from Jon Cryer, who played his doppelg\u00e4nger on Earth-Prime. Seven of the twelve cast members were cut as series regulars following the renewal of the show for the fourth and final season. These included Dylan Walsh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Erik Valdez, Inde Navarrette, Wol\u00e9 Parks, Tayler Buck and Sofia Hasmik. Michael Cudlitz joins as a main cast member following his guest appearances in the previous season, receiving \"special appearance by\" credit. Navarrette confirmed in July 2023 that she would return as a guest star for at least three episodes. Ultimately, each member of the supporting cast that appeared in the previous season reprised their role and retained main cast"}, {"text": "billing for the episodes that they appeared in. Filming. Production on the pilot was expected to begin on March 23, 2020, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and conclude on May 14. However, on March 13, 2020, plans to shoot a pilot were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to either June or July of that year. In late July 2020, Warner Bros. Television planned for the Vancouver-based production to restart in late August. Filming of season 1 began on October 21, 2020, and concluded on July 2, 2021. The series is filmed on location in Surrey, British Columbia. The second season began filming on September 15, 2021, and concluded on May 5, 2022. Filming of the third season began on September 6, 2022 in Vancouver, and concluded on March 14, 2023. Filming for the fourth season began on January 11, 2024 and concluded on April 24, 2024 with Hoechlin receiving a supportive letter from upcoming Superman actor David Corenswet as production wrapped up. The cast and crew held a wrap party on April 25, 2024 to celebrate the conclusion of four seasons of filming. Writing. In November 2020, series writer Nadria Tucker announced she was fired from the show, claiming it"}, {"text": "was for \"pushing back on racist and sexist storylines.\" She also claimed she worked on all 15 episodes of the first season, but was only paid for 13 of them. In a statement, WBTV claimed that \"Warner Bros. Television did not exercise its option to extend her [contract] for additional episodes\" and that \"WBTV was transparent and told her why it was not picking up her option.\" Connection to the Arrowverse. Speaking of the lack of greater Arrowverse connections in the first season, showrunner Todd Helbing felt that there was \"this weird set of circumstances where, because of production or timing or COVID, everything in the show that was related to the Arrowverse has gotten pulled out\". He added that, as development progressed further away from the \"Crisis on Infinite Earths\" crossover, \"it felt like we were opening a can of worms every time we had to explain the connection\", though he was hopeful more connections or proper crossovers could occur in the second season. Though the multiverse, Oliver Queen and the Arrowverse's version of the League were mentioned in the first season, the second season finale establishes that the series takes place adjacent to Earth-Prime, with different iterations of"}, {"text": "the characters compared to their Earth-Prime counterparts and a different continuity with Superman being that Earth's only hero, though the change of setting itself is never fully explained. Helbing later revealed that the show's setting was separate from Earth-Prime, a decision he and DC Entertainment made. He further added that the Superman, Lois Lane, Lucy Lane and John Diggle in the series are doppelgangers of the ones on Earth-Prime. Release. Broadcast. \"Superman & Lois\" premiered on The CW on February 23, 2021. After a delay in production caused by COVID-19, the series went on hiatus after the fifth episode, during which the sixth season of \"Supergirl\" took over the series' timeslot. The second season premiered on January 11, 2022. The third season premiered on March 14, 2023. The fourth and final season premiered on October 7, 2024. CTV Sci-Fi Channel aired the series in Canada. The BBC acquired the UK broadcast rights to the show. The series premiered on BBC One on December 4, 2021, and was made available to stream on BBC iPlayer. Home media. Beginning March 5, 2021, extended versions of episodes of \"Superman & Lois\" started streaming on The CW's app and website a day after the"}, {"text": "release of an episode. The entire first season became available on HBO Max on September 17, 2021. The second season was made available on July 29, 2022. The third season was released on the rebranded Max streaming service on July 28, 2023. The fourth season was released on January 1, 2025. Season one of the series was released on Blu-ray and DVD in the U.S. on October 19, 2021. Season two was released on September 27, 2022. The third season was released on June 11, 2024. The fourth season as well as the complete series was released on April 1, 2025. Reception. Critical response. On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 88%. The website's critical consensus reads \"Though it may be a bit too grounded for some viewers, \"Superman & Lois\" draws strength from unexpected placeswithout skimping on the actionto carve its own path in a crowded superhero universe.\" On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100 based on 16 reviews, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". Comic book tie-ins. DC Comics published \"Earth-Prime\", a six-issue comic event set entirely in the universe of DC's superhero shows. Each of the first five issues spotlight"}, {"text": "a different CW/DC superhero series, with the sixth issue serving as a crossover finale. The comic series is considered part of the superhero television shows' canon. \"Earth-Prime\" #2 features \"Superman & Lois\", written by Adam Mallinger, Jai Jamison and Andrew Wong with art by Tom Grummett and Norm Rapmund and was released on April 19, 2022. The comic includes Clark and Lois trying to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, Clark remembering his father Jonathan on Father's Day, and the origin story of the Superman from John Henry Irons's unnamed Earth. By the sixth issue, the Superman from Irons' unnamed Earth was used by Magog to help attack Earth-Prime's heroes while Earth-Prime's Superman was seen in the final story with the Justice League."}, {"text": "Alexandrovskoye () is a rural locality (a village) in Spasskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Alexandrovskoye is located 56 km southwest of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dovodchikovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Alexeyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vysokovskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Alexeyevo is located 29 km northwest of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Selyunino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Alexeyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kubenskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2002. Geography. Alexeyevo is located 29 km northwest of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Selyunino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Alexeyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Staroselskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Alexeyevo is located 48 km southwest of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kozhino and Yangosar are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Tibor V\u00e1rnagy (Budapest, 25 April 1957) is known as a Hungarian fine artist, gallery director, curator and critic. Career. From the 1980s he has been a representative of the so-called alternative artistic endeavors. He also plays an active role in the experimental application of photography as fine art. In addition to this he draws, occasionally paints and creates collages or objects for different installations. V\u00e1rnagy is a founding member of the \"Substitute Thirsters\" artist group and participated in their exhibitions between 1984 and 1990. From 1991 to 1994 he worked with \u00c1gnes Eperjesi, and later organized occasional exhibitions with Gyula V\u00e1rnai, Zolt\u00e1n \u00c1d\u00e1m, Dezs\u0151 Tandori, Andrea Hajagos. His activity has been characterized by experimentation and, since the 1990s, social sensitivity. He edited the (quasi) periodical \"Manaps\u00e1g\" between 2001 and 2004. An alternative version of this, \"Manamana\" was published on the occasion of the \"Service\" exhibition at M\u0171csarnok (Kunsthalle) Budapest. The critical, activist publication and project was edited and organised in association with Mikl\u00f3s Erhardt. Several artists took part in it (Dominik Hislop, Andreas Fogarasi, R\u00f3za El Hassan, Toma S\u00edk etc. as well as numerous artworks were given to the publication by G\u00e1bor Bakos, Tibor Horv\u00e1th, etc.). V\u00e1rnagy has had a"}, {"text": "photoblog since 2006 and a video blog since 2009. As a critic and art writer, he deals with contemporary art and regularly publishes in the periodical Balkon and other art magazines. V\u00e1rnagy has been the director of the Liget Gallery in Budapest since its foundation in 1983. As a gallery director, curator and cultural organizer, he implements an exhibition program focusing on progressive experimental genres (performance, experimental photography, intermedia, new wave). It features innovative, interdisciplinary exhibitions and events other than the mainstream, including politically and socially radical activist works and projects. It is decisive both for his own curatorial activities and for the Liget Gallery as well that he has established direct collaborations and exhibition exchanges with foreign partners since the mid-1980s. This process was initiated by the II. Portfolio of Eastern European Artists project (curated by John P. Jacob, 1986) which has established long-term cooperation with the American curator in the form of exhibitions not only in Hungary and the US but also in Germany and China. There has been a continuous working relationship with the Ma\u0142a Gallery in Warsaw, the Fotogalerie Wien and the Projektf\u00f6rderunk Bildende Kunst led by Monika Wucher and Christoph Rauch in Hamburg, as well"}, {"text": "as occasional collaborations with many artists, curators and institutions. Awards. 1991\u20131994: Derkovits Art Scholarship; 1987: Studio Award (Substitute Thirsters); 1988: KISZ Award (Substitute Thirsters); Locus Signi \u2013 award of Laza Lapok (Loose Pages) for Liget Gallery, as a consistent representative of progressive and free thinking; 1993: Award of the Ministry of Culture and Education (with \u00c1gnes Eperjesi); 1996: Award of Sz\u00e9p Magyar K\u00f6nyv (Dezs\u0151 Tandori: A semmi k\u00e9z, volume cover); 2000: For the cultural education of the district: Zugl\u00f3 / XIV. District Municipality (as director of the Liget Gallery); 2008: Award of the Municipality of Budapest at the Rig-Rigatar / K\u00f6zelk\u00e9p (Close-up) exhibition (Manamana project); 2010: Kataliz\u00e1tor-d\u00edj (Catalyst Award), Engine Category; 2017: Parallel Culture Award - Mediawave Festival Selected solo exhibitions. 1985 H.Sz.2. Bercs\u00e9nyi Klub, Budapest 1986 A Helyettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k tudatfelszabad\u00edt\u00f3 hadm\u0171veletei/The Consciousness Liberation Operations of Substitute Thirsters - Kom\u00e1romi Kisgal\u00e9ria, Kom\u00e1rom 1987 A Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k fali\u00fajs\u00e1gki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1sa David Thomas koncertj\u00e9n (Exhibition of Substitute Thirsters at David Thomas\u2019 concert), Pest Megyei M\u0171vel\u0151d\u00e9si K\u00f6zpont (Pest County Cultural Centre), Szentendre Fluxus, Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k (Fluxus, Substitute Thirsters), GAMF, Kecskem\u00e9t 1988 A v\u00e1za (The Vase), L\u00e1gym\u00e1nyos K\u00f6z\u00f6ss\u00e9gi H\u00e1z (L\u00e1gym\u00e1nyos Community Centre), Budapest 1989 Strand (Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k/Beach. Substitute Thirsters) - FMK (Young Artists' Club), Budapest Frakci\u00f3k"}, {"text": "(Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k/Fractions, Substitute Thirsters), St\u00fadi\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria Stellvertretende Durstende, K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Three Hungarian Photographers - Istv\u00e1n Halas, Zsuzsanna Ujj, Tibor V\u00e1rnagy, Houston Center for Photography, Houston Tibor V\u00e1rnagy, Jennifer Sloan - Photographic Resource Center, Boston K\u00f6z\u00f6s \u00fajabb k\u00e9pek (Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k/ Common New Pictures, Substitute Thirsters), Szakmunk\u00e1s Gal\u00e9ria, Miskolc Spragnieni zastepcy (Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k/ Substitute Thirsters), Galeria Wschodnia, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a 1990 Fotokokt\u00e9l, Bercs\u00e9nyi Klub, Budapest A Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k szenved\u00e9lyes \u00e9lete (Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k)/The Passionate Life of Substitute Thirsters (Substitute Thirsters)\",\" Istv\u00e1n Kir\u00e1ly M\u00fazeum\",\" Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r Egy deci v\u00f6r\u00f6s (k\u00e9tszer)/One glass of red wine (twice), FMK (Young Artists' Club), Budapest \u00c9lni vesz\u00e9lyes/Living is dangerous (with Viktor Lois), Y Gal\u00e9ria, Uitz Terem, Duna\u00fajv\u00e1ros 1992 Przeplatane zdjecia Tavate, Ma\u0142a Galeria, Warsaw Magvas ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1s (with \u00c1gnes Eperjesi), St\u00fadi\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest Der Kern einer Austellung (with \u00c1gnes Eperjesi), K\u00fcnstlerhaus, Hamburg 1993 Con spirito (with Andreas Old\u00f6rp and \u00c1gnes Eperjesi), T\u0171zolt\u00f3 utca 72., Budapest Padl\u00f3p\u00e9ld\u00e1zatok II./Floor Parables II. - Tanulm\u00e1nyok a kr\u00e9tak\u00f6rh\u00f6z /Studies for the Chulk Circle, Budapesti Tan\u00edt\u00f3k\u00e9pz\u0151 F\u0151iskola /Teacher Training College, Vizu\u00e1lis Tansz\u00e9k/Visual Department (in the frames of SCCA Polif\u00f3nia public art project), Budapest 1994 Padl\u00f3p\u00e9ld\u00e1zatok III./Floor Parables III. - B\u00e9kekoncert/Peace Concert (with \u00c1gnes Eperjesi), Gallery by Night, St\u00fadi\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest S\u00fclt k\u00e9pek \u00e9s Mandala (with \u00c1gnes Eperjesi) /"}, {"text": "Baked Pictures and Mandala, Szegedi Ifj\u00fas\u00e1gi H\u00e1z, Szeged 1995 El\u0151jelek \u00e9s Komment\u00e1r/Omens and Commentary (with \u00c1gnes Eperjesi), Goethe Institute, Budapest 1996 \u00d6r\u00f6k Talaj - Padl\u00f3p\u00e9ld\u00e1zatok IV./Eternal Soil - Floor Parables IV. (with Dezs\u0151 Tandori), Gallery by Night, St\u00fadi\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 1997 Lassan V\u00e1ltozik/It is Slowly Changing (with Gyula V\u00e1rnai), Bart\u00f3k 32 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest A szeg\u00e9nys\u00e9g nem t\u00f6rv\u00e9nytelen: EXISTENTIA /Poor is Not Illegal: EXISTENTIA, Bolt Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest Slides, video-dokumente/Ausstellungen, Konzepte und K\u00fcnstler aus Budapeste, Westwerk, Hamburg 1998 TAK, TAK, Ma\u0142a Galeria, Warsaw IGEN, IGEN: AMN\u00c9ZIA! Liget Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 1999 Tiszta h\u00e1bor\u00fa/fali\u00fajs\u00e1gprojekt/Clean War, Notice Board Exhibition, Liget Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2000 \u00c1d\u00e1m Zolt\u00e1n \u00e9s V\u00e1rnagy Tibor ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1sa /Exhibition of Zolt\u00e1n \u00c1d\u00e1m and Tibor V\u00e1rnagy, Budapest Gal\u00e9ria Ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00f3terme /Budapest Gallery Exhibition Hall, Budapest 2002 M\u00falt Sz\u00e1zad /The Last Century, KKMK, Budapest MANAfEST (with Mikl\u00f3s Erdardt) M-Mobil, Cipo Galeria, M\u0171csarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest 2009 A part alatt (with Dezs\u0151 Tandori and Andrea Hajagos), 2B Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2010 A part alatt (with Dezs\u0151 Tandori and Andrea Hajagos), 2B Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2016 Tavate k\u00e9pei: Eperjesi \u00c1gnes \u00e9s V\u00e1rnagy Tibor 1991\u201392-ben k\u00e9sz\u00fclt k\u00f6z\u00f6s m\u0171vei /Tavate's Pictures: Joint works of \u00c1gnes Eperjesi and Tibor V\u00e1rnagy between 1991-92, Inda Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2017 R\u00fcgyfakad\u00e1s / A Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k korai korszaka (1984\u20131987) /Budburst."}, {"text": "The Early Period of Substitute Thirsters (1984\u20131987), \u00daj Budapest Gal\u00e9ria /New Budapest Gallery Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k: A kop\u00e1r sz\u00edk sarja (1987\u20131992)/Substitute Thirsters: Sparse Alkali Flats (1987\u20131992), Ludwig M\u00fazeum /Ludwig Museum, Budapest 2018 1989, Neon Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2019 T\u00e9v\u00e9, T\u0171z, Malevics/TV, Fire, Malevich, acb Attachment, Budapest Selected group exhibitions. 1984 Helyettes hull\u00e1m /Substitute Wave, Kis\u00f6rspuszta East European Exhibition, No Se No Gallery, New York 1986 R\u00f6viden - a Cseresorozat esem\u00e9nysorozata /In Short- Events of Exchange Series, Gal\u00e9ria 11, Budapest L\u00e1thatatlan m\u0171v\u00e9szet/Invisible Art, Kavics utca, Budapest II. Nemzetk\u00f6zi Portfolio /2nd International Portfolio, Liget Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest St\u00fadi\u00f3 '86, Budapesti T\u00f6rt\u00e9neti M\u00fazeum (Budapest History Museum), Budapest 1987 Out of East-Europe: Private Photography, List Visual Arts Center, Grey Art Gallery Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas Art Space, San Francisco, California Painted Bride Art Center Baxter Gallery, Portland A mos\u00f3n\u0151k kor\u00e1n aktok, Vajda Lajos St\u00fadi\u00f3, Szentendre ...Meglepet\u00e9s...olvas\u00f3ink r\u00e9sz\u00e9re/...Surprise...for our readers, Istv\u00e1n Kir\u00e1ly M\u00fazeum, Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r Deutsch - Ungarischer K\u00fcnstlertreff, Kulturzentrum Hardtberg, Bonn St\u00fadi\u00f3'87, Ernst M\u00fazeum W\u0119gierska Sztuka M\u0142odych, Galeria Studio, Warsaw 1988 \u00daj szerzem\u00e9nyek/New Acquisitions, Istv\u00e1n Kir\u00e1ly M\u00fazeum, Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r W\u0119gierska Sztuka M\u0142odych, Galeria PSEP, Wroc\u0142aw Junge K\u00fcnstler der DDR und Ungarn, Neue Berliner Galerie, Berlin Junge Ungarische Fotografen, Galerie Treptow, Berlin Zeitgen\u00f6ssische Ungarische Fotografie, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna Dadaista"}, {"text": "k\u00e9pz\u0151m\u0171v\u00e9szet a kort\u00e1rs magyar m\u0171v\u00e9szetben, ELTE (E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lorand University), Budapest VI. Esztergomi Fot\u00f3bienn\u00e1l\u00e9/6th Photobiennial Esztergom, Rondella Gal\u00e9ria, Esztergom St\u00fadi\u00f3 '88, Ernst M\u00fazeum, Budapest Zeitgen\u00f6ssische Fotografie aus Ungarn, Fotohof, Salzburg 1989 Fiatal k\u00e9pz\u0151m\u0171v\u00e9szek az NDK-b\u00f3l \u00e9s Magyarorsz\u00e1gr\u00f3l/Young Artists from the GDR and Hungary, Ernst M\u00fazeum, Budapest K\u00e9k Ac\u00e9l/Blue Steel, Budapest Gal\u00e9ria Lajos utcai ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00f3terme/Budapest Gallery Exhibition Space at Lajos Street, Budapest Szimmetria \u00e9s aszimmetria/Symmetry and Asymmetry, Magyar Nemzeti Gal\u00e9ria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest The Metamorphic Medium: New Photography from Hungary, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin M\u00e1s-k\u00e9p, Ernst M\u00fazeum, Budapest Foto-modell, Szombathelyi K\u00e9pt\u00e1r, Szombathely St\u00fadi\u00f3 '89, Ernst M\u00fazeum, Budapest K\u00e9k Iron, Duna Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 1990 K\u00e9k-V\u00f6r\u00f6s/Blue-Red, Uitz Terem, Duna\u00fajv\u00e1ros Inspiration : Sommer Atelier, Messe Gelende, Hannover Hidden Story, Franklin Furnace, New York A Negyedik - a FFS ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1sa/The Fourth-exhibition of the Young Photographers' Studio, Ernst M\u00fazeum, Budapest Arck\u00e9p \u00e9s \u00f6narck\u00e9p/Portrait and Selfportrait, VII. Esztergomi Fot\u00f3bienn\u00e1l\u00e9 /7 Photobiennial Esztergom, V\u00e1rm\u00fazeum, Esztergom Farbe \u00dcbertrag, East Side Gallery GDR, Berlin Schnelle Bilder-Aktuelle Fotokunst im Gesprach, K\u00fcnstlerhaus, Vienna Fotoanarchiv - Nowa fotografia z Austrii i W\u0119gier, Centrum Sztuki Wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej, Warsaw St\u00fadi\u00f3 '90, Ernst M\u00fazeum, Budapest 1991 Fotoanarch\u00edv II., Szombathelyi K\u00e9pt\u00e1r, Szombathely New Spaces in Photography, Muzeum Architektury, Wroc\u0142aw St\u00fadi\u00f3 '91, Magyar Nemzeti Gal\u00e9ria (Hungarian National Gallery),"}, {"text": "Budapest Eastern Academy of Photography - Workshop and exhibition, WUK, Vienna 1992 Aritmia/Arrythmia, Uitz Terem, Duna\u00fajv\u00e1ros Sz\u00ednezett fotogr\u00e1fi\u00e1k/Coloured Photographs, VIII. Esztergomi Fot\u00f3bienn\u00e1l\u00e9 /8th Photobiennial Esztergom, Rondella Gal\u00e9ria, Esztergom Derkovits \u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjasok besz\u00e1mol\u00f3 ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1sa/ Reporting exhibition of the fine arts scholarship awardees, M\u0171csarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest St\u00fadi\u00f3 '92, Ernst M\u00fazeum, Budapest Anal\u00f3g/Analogue, Budapest Gal\u00e9ria Lajos utcai ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00f3terme/Budapest Gallery Exhibition Space at Lajos Street, Budapest 1993 Derkovits \u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjasok besz\u00e1mol\u00f3 ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1sa/Reporting exhibition of the fine arts scholarship awardees, M\u0171csarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest Vari\u00e1ci\u00f3k a Pop Art-ra - Fejezetek a magyar m\u0171v\u00e9szetb\u0151l 1950\u20131990/variations on Pop art. Chapters in the history of Hungarian art between 1950 and 1990, Ernst M\u00fazeum, Budapest Zweite Zeitgen\u00f6ssische Ungarische Epigonen Ausstelllung, KX Kampnagel, Hamburg 1994 Nem eg\u00e9szen harmadik Kort\u00e1rs Magyar Epigonki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1s/Almost the Third Contemporary Hungarian Epigon Exhibition, Liget Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest \u00dajabb meglepet\u00e9s olvas\u00f3ink r\u00e9sz\u00e9re/Another Surprise for our Readers, Szent Istv\u00e1n Kir\u00e1ly M\u00fazeum, Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r Alag\u00fat / Tunnel, Pr\u00e1gai Magyar Kultur\u00e1lis Int\u00e9zet (Institute of Hungarian Culture in Prague), Prague Balzsam / Ember embernek balzsama / Man/ Man is Man's Balm, St\u00fadi\u00f3 \u201994, Ernst M\u00fazeum, Budapest Els\u0151 ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1s/First Exhibition, Bolt Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest Csoportk\u00e9p/Group Picture, Vigad\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest Derkovits \u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjasok besz\u00e1mol\u00f3 ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1sa/Reporting exhibition of the fine arts scholarship awardees, M\u0171csarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest Budapest Art Expo / Pajta"}, {"text": "Gal\u00e9ria, BAE, Budapest Fotogram/Photogram, IX. Esztergomi Fot\u00f3bienn\u00e1l\u00e9 / 9th Photobiennial Esztergom, Balassa M\u00fazeum, Esztergom Dobbin Books, HarperCollins Exhibition Space, New York Foto-modell II., Uitz Terem, Duna\u00fajv\u00e1ros Derkovits \u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjasok 1955\u201393/Derkovits awardees 1955\u20131993, Szombathelyi K\u00e9pt\u00e1r, Szombathely 1995 Gallery by Night (on the evenings of Eszter Babarczy, Katalin T\u00edm\u00e1r and Edit Andr\u00e1s), St\u00fadi\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest T\u00e1jk\u00e9pek 1./Landscapes I., Budapest Gal\u00e9ria Lajos utcai ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00f3h\u00e1za/Budapest Gallery Exhibition Space at Lajos Street, Budapest Sarajevo, Ostrom\u00e1llapot/State of Siege, M\u0171csarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest St\u00fadi\u00f3 \u201895, Vigad\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 1996 Poszt a Posztban/Post in Post, F\u00e9szek Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest H\u00edmnem, n\u0151nem/Feminine, Masculine, Bart\u00f3k 32 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest S\u00facasn\u00e1 madarska fotografia / Month of Photography 1996, Umeleck\u00e1 Beseda Slovenska, Bratislava Viszontl\u00e1t\u00e1sra! (Marcell Duchamp magyarorsz\u00e1gi hat\u00e1sai)/Goodbye! (Marcel Duchamp's impact in Hungary), Budapest Gal\u00e9ria Lajos utcai ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00f3h\u00e1z/Budapest Gallery Exhibition Space at Lajos Street, Budapest VIII. Orsz\u00e1gos Rajzbienn\u00e1l\u00e9 /8th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Salg\u00f3tarj\u00e1n Moving Modern, Barcsay Terem, Budapest 1997 Public Utility, Kombirama, Z\u00fcrich P\u00e1ros, p\u00e1ratlan/even, Odd, \u00d3budai Pincegal\u00e9ria, Budapest Valigia in Hungary, Nyugati p\u00e1lyaudvar/Western Railway Station, Budapest Feketemosogat\u00f3/Potwasher, K\u00e9k Ac\u00e9l \u00c9tterem/Blue Steel Restaurant, \u00d3zd 1998 K\u00e9p \u00e9s Sz\u00f6veg/Image and Text, Bolt Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest Gallery by slides, Bart\u00f3k 32 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest Zsebt\u00e9v\u00e9/Pocket TV, C3, Budapest-Linz 1999 P\u00e9nzki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1s \u00e9s \u00e1rver\u00e9s/Money exhibition and Auction, Kom\u00e9dium Sz\u00ednh\u00e1z/Kom\u00e9dium Theatre, Budapest"}, {"text": "Szubjekt\u00edv / Fot\u00f3 a L\u00e1tv\u00e1nyt\u00e1rban 1./Subjective. Photo at L\u00e1tv\u00e1nyt\u00e1r I., Els\u0151 Magyar L\u00e1tv\u00e1nyt\u00e1r, Diszel KAMERA N\u00c9LK\u00dcL/NO KAMERA, Vintage Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2000 Millenium rizik\u00f3 / Millenium Risk, Traf\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest M\u00e9dia Modell/interim\u00e9dia-\u00faj k\u00e9pfajt\u00e1k-interakt\u00edv technik\u00e1k/Media Modell. Intermedia-New Images, Interactive Techniques, M\u0171csarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest Id\u0151h\u00edd 2000/Mesterek \u00e9s tan\u00edtv\u00e1nyok/Time bridge. Masters and Students, M\u0171v\u00e9szetMalom, Szentendre Artsiders / K-vonal, \u00d3budai T\u00e1rsask\u00f6r \u00e9s Pincegal\u00e9ria, Budapest Mimi nem felejt / az FKSE \u00e9ves ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1sa /Mimi doesn't forget / Annual exhibition of Young Artists\u2019 Studio, Traf\u00f3, Budapest 2001 Szerviz, M\u0171csarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest Szabad nap: 20 \u00e9ves a Besz\u00e9l\u0151, Zr\u00ednyi Nyomda, Budapest 2002 Budapest Box: Rejtett szc\u00e9na a 90-es \u00e9vekben/Budapest Boksz: Hidden Scene in the 1990s, Ludwig M\u00fazeum/Ludwig Museum, Budapest 2004 Elhallgatott Holocaust / The Hidden Holocaust, M\u0171csarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest Waldsee 1944, Nemzetk\u00f6zi Levelez\u0151lap Ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1s/International Postcard Exhibition, 2B Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2005 \u00d6narck\u00e9pek/Selfportraits, 2B Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest On Difference #2: Grenzwertig, W\u00fcrttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 2006 Sz\u00edv-\u00fcgyek, M\u0171v\u00e9szetMalom, Szentendre 2007 Bart\u00f3k bogarai/Bart\u00f3k's Bugs, 2B Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2008 RIG-RIGATAR / K\u00d6ZELK\u00c9P (Closeup), 2B Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2009 Eml\u00e9km\u0171 | Tolvaly Ern\u0151re eml\u00e9kez\u00fcnk/Monument (Remembering Erd\u0151 Tolvaly), eMK\u00e1 Gal\u00e9ria, P\u00e9cs 2011 Crosstalk Video Art Festival 2011, Gozsdu, B&C udvar, Budapest Neh\u00e9z Ipar/Heavy Industry, ICA-D, Duna\u00fajv\u00e1ros 2013 Konceptualizmus ma: Konceptu\u00e1lis m\u0171v\u00e9szet Magyarorsz\u00e1gon a kilencvenes \u00e9vek elej\u00e9t\u0151l /Conceptualism"}, {"text": "today \u2013 Conceptualist art in Hungary from the beginning of the 1990s, Paksi K\u00e9pt\u00e1r, Paks Malevics visszan\u00e9z/Malevich Looks Back, MAM\u0170 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2014 \u00c1trendezett val\u00f3s\u00e1g: Alkot\u00f3i strat\u00e9gi\u00e1k a magyar m\u0171v\u00e9szetben a dada \u00e9s a sz\u00fcrrealizmus vonz\u00e1s\u00e1ban, a Dada \u00e9s sz\u00fcrrealizmus c\u00edm\u0171 ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1s keret\u00e9ben (a Hejettes Szomjaz\u00f3kkal) / In the frames of the exhibition Rearranged Reality: Creative Strategies in Hungarian art under the spell of dada and Surrealism (accompanying exhibition of Dada and Surrealism- Magritte, Duchamp, man Ray, Mir\u00f3, Dali), with Substitute Thirsters, Magyar Nemzeti Gal\u00e9ria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest B\u0151r\u00f6d\u00f6n viseled: T\u00e1rsadalmi konstrukci\u00f3k vizu\u00e1lis k\u00f3djai/Second Skin. Visual Codes of Social Constructions, Robert Capa Kort\u00e1rs Fotogr\u00e1fiai K\u00f6zpont, Budapest Forradalom. Anarchia. Ut\u00f3pia (a Hejettes Szomjaz\u00f3kkal) /Anarchy. Utopia. Revolution (with Substitute Thirsters), Ludwig M\u00fazeum, Budapest 2017 Gazd\u00e1lkodj okosan! A m\u0171v\u00e9szet \u00e9s a gazdas\u00e1g kapcsolat\u00e1r\u00f3l /Economize! On the Relationship of Art and Economy, Ludwig M\u00fazeum, Budapest L\u00e1tk\u00e9p \u2013 Az elm\u00falt f\u00e9l\u00e9vsz\u00e1zad magyar fotogr\u00e1fi\u00e1ja 1967-2017/ Viewfinders-Hungarian Photography from the past half century 1967-2017, Robert Capa Kort\u00e1rs Fotogr\u00e1fiai K\u00f6zpont/Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest 2018 Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary, Wende Museum, Culver City, California A Z\u00f3na / A m\u0171v\u00e9sz m\u0171v\u00e9sze/The Zone. The Artist's Artist, Inda Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest 2019 Aj\u00e1nd\u00e9k/Gift, Budapest"}, {"text": "Gal\u00e9ria Lajos utcai Ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00f3h\u00e1za /Budapest Gallery, Budapest A fotogr\u00e1fia anat\u00f3mi\u00e1ja/Anatomy of Photography, R\u00f3mer Fl\u00f3ris M\u0171v\u00e9szeti \u00e9s T\u00f6rt\u00e9neti M\u00fazeum /R\u00f3mer Fl\u00f3ris Art and History Museum, Gy\u0151r Works in public collections. Artpool, Budapest Els\u0151 Magyar L\u00e1tv\u00e1nyt\u00e1r (First Hungarian Spectacle Collection), Diszel Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles The John P. Jacob / Riding Beggar Press Collection at the Beinecke Rare Bookand Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven 2B Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest Kiscelli M\u00fazeum, Budapest Ludwig M\u00fazeum, Budapest Magyar Fotogr\u00e1fiai M\u00fazeum (Hungarian Photography Museum), Kecskem\u00e9t Magyar Nemzeti Gal\u00e9ria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest Ma\u0142a Galeria, Warsaw Modern M\u0171v\u00e9szet\u00e9rt Alap\u00edtv\u00e1ny (Foundation for Modern Arts), Duna\u00fajv\u00e1ros Obala Art Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina Szent Istv\u00e1n Kir\u00e1ly M\u00fazeum (King St. Stephen's Museum), Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r Galeria Wymiany, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Catalogues, books. Helyettes Szomjaz\u00f3k (Substitute Thirsters)- St\u00fadi\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria, Budapest, 1988. Tibor V\u00e1rnagy: A v\u00e1za (The Vase) - L\u00e1gym\u00e1nyosi K\u00f6z\u00f6ss\u00e9gi H\u00e1z (L\u00e1gym\u00e1nyos Community Centre), Budapest, 1987. A Hejettes Szomjaz\u00f3k Szenved\u00e9lyes \u00c9lete (The Passionate Life of the Substitute Thirsters)- Az Istv\u00e1n Kir\u00e1ly M\u00fazeum K\u00f6zlem\u00e9nyei, D. series 197., May 1990. Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r Hidden Story (with John P. Jacob) Franklin Furnace, New York, 1990. Blinde Passagiere / Potyautasok - K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 1990. \u00c1gnes Eperjesi - Tibor V\u00e1rnagy: Przeplatane Zdjecia Tavate, Ma\u0142a Galeria, ZPAF, Warsaw, 1992. Eperjesi - V\u00e1rnagy: Egy"}, {"text": "K\u00f6nyv / Ein Buch - PBK, St\u00fadi\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria, K\u00fcnstlerhaus Hamburg, 1993. Eperjesi - V\u00e1rnagy: El\u0151jelek / Omens - MNKA, Goethe Institute, Pelik\u00e1n Kiad\u00f3 Budapest, 1995. EXISTENTIA, Bolt Gal\u00e9ria, 1997. V\u00e1rnai-V\u00e1rnagy: Lassan V\u00e1ltozik /It is slowly changing, Bart\u00f3k 32 Gal\u00e9ria, 1998. Manaps\u00e1g \u2013 on the occasion of the exhibition of Zolt\u00e1n \u00c1d\u00e1m and Tibor V\u00e1rnagy, Budapest Gal\u00e9ria, 2000. Manamana (Manaps\u00e1g 2, 3) \u2013 in the frames of Szerviz /Service, M\u0171csarnok/Kunsthalle, August/September 2001. Manamana (Manaps\u00e1g 4) \u2013 in the frames of the Budapest Box exhibition, Ludwig Museum, aug. 2002. Manamana (Manaps\u00e1g 5) \u2013 in the frames of M-Mobil, M\u0171csarnok, September 2002. Sustainable Development 2018/3 - Hejettes Szomjaz\u00f3k / Substitute Thiersters: Burgyingo, acb ResearchLab, Budapest, 2018. Tibor V\u00e1rnagy - F\u00e9nyk\u00e9pek kamera n\u00e9lk\u00fcl 1985\u20131993 (Cameraless Photography 1985\u20131993). ed. Fenyvesi \u00c1ron, V\u00e1rnagy Tibor. 2019, acb RESEARCHLAB (texts by John P. Jacob and Kata Bal\u00e1zs) Essays, studies on Tibor V\u00e1rnagy, the Substitute Thirsters, the Eperjesi-V\u00e1rnagy collaboration (selection). Istv\u00e1n Antal: A ront\u00e1s vir\u00e1gai - V.T. k\u00e9peir\u0151l, Foto 34/11., November 1987. Kata Bal\u00e1zs: Rekonstrukci\u00f3 \u00e9s \u00f6nir\u00f3nia / R\u00fcgyfakad\u00e1s A Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k korai korszaka (1984\u20131987) (Reconstruction and Self-Irony. Budburst. The Early Period of Substitute Thirsters (1984\u20131987)- Balkon, 2017/5. Kata Bal\u00e1zs: Csodav\u00e1r\u00e1s / V\u00e1rnagy Tibor: 1989 (Waiting for a Miracle."}, {"text": "Tibor V\u00e1rnagy: 1989) - Balkon, 2018/5. Kata Bal\u00e1zs: Besz\u00e9lget\u00e9s V\u00e1rnagy Tibor k\u00e9pz\u0151m\u0171v\u00e9sszel I. (Conversation with Tibor V\u00e1rnagy I.), Balkon, 2019/3. Kata Bal\u00e1zs: Besz\u00e9lget\u00e9s V\u00e1rnagy Tibor k\u00e9pz\u0151m\u0171v\u00e9sszel II. (Conversation with Tibor V\u00e1rnagy II.), Balkon, 2019/5. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Bihari: Protokoll\u00e1ris vagy kort\u00e1rs m\u0171v\u00e9szet? - Besz\u00e9lget\u00e9s V\u00e1rnagy Tiborral (Protocol or Contemporary Art? Conversation with Tibor V\u00e1rnagy), Magyar H\u00edrlap, 2/10/1999. Andrea Bord\u00e1cs: A nemek harca az igennel - \u00daj M\u0171v\u00e9szet, 1996/11. G\u00e9za Boros: Hejettem Szomlyaz\u00f3k - \u00daj M\u0171v\u00e9szet, 1990/1. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Darvasi: S\u00fclt k\u00e9pek \u00e9s mandal\u00e1k, D\u00e9lmagyarorsz\u00e1g, 13/05/1994. Csillag De\u00e1k \u2013Lajos K\u00f6l\u00fcs: Egy triangulum hangjai - \u00daj M\u0171v\u00e9szet, 2014/11. EWA: Niech zyje! - Gazeta Wyborcza, 8 kwietnia 1998. Viola Farkas: V\u00e1rnagy Tibor munk\u00e1ihoz (For the Works of Tibor V\u00e1rnagy) - \u00c9let \u00e9s Irodalom, 4 March 2016 G.A: Helysz\u00ednel\u00e9s - A H.Sz. Szenved\u00e9lyes \u00e9lete, Film, Sz\u00ednh\u00e1z, Muzsika, 34/38. September 1990. J\u00faliusz H\u00fath: Helyettes nyolcvanas \u00e9vek - Artportal, 2017. \u00c9va Ibos: V\u00e9rtelen forradalom/Bloodless Revolution (Anarchia. Ut\u00f3pia. Forradalom. / Ludwig M\u00fazeum /Anarchy, Utopia. Revolution, Ludwig Museum) - Revizor, 04/12/2014. Katalin Izinger - Ferenc Czinki: \u00c1trendezett Segesv\u00e1r - szikmblog, 2014. John P. Jacob: The Enigma of Meaning: Transforming Reality in Hungarian Photography \u2013 The Metamorphic Medium: New Photography from Hungary \u2013 The Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College, Oberlin"}, {"text": "(Ohio), 1989. John P. Jacob: Recalling Hajas / Nightmare Works: Tibor Hajas \u2013 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 90-83304, 1990. Judit Jank\u00f3: Egyszer\u0171en \u00e9lt\u00fcnk a szabads\u00e1gban (\u00c1gnes Eperjesi, Tibor V\u00e1rnagy) - Artportal, 2016. Judit Jank\u00f3: Ki szomjazik, \u00e9s mit helyettes\u00edt? (Besz\u00e9lget\u00e9s V\u00e1rnagy Tiborral) (Who is Thirsty and what does he substitute? Conversation with Tibor V\u00e1rnagy)- \u00daj M\u0171v\u00e9szet, 2017/8. Kangiszer D\u00f3ra: Az int\u00e9zm\u00e9nyes\u00fcl\u00e9s form\u00e1it\u00f3l tart\u00f3zkodni igyekeznek (HSZ tudatfelszabad\u00edt\u00f3 hadm\u0171veletek) - Tranzitblog, 2017. Elfi Kreis: Trauergelant und Nonsensgebimmel, Der Tagesspiegel, 23/05/1989, Berlin Emese K\u00fcrti: Kicsit elveszett (Neh\u00e9z Ipar) /A Little Lost (Heavy Industry) - Magyar Narancs, 2011. J\u00f3zsef Lad\u00e1nyi: Anya(g / + mater(ia, A Helyettes Szomjaz\u00f3k szenved\u00e9lyes \u00e9lete, Az Istv\u00e1n Kir\u00e1ly M\u00fazeum K\u00f6zlem\u00e9nyei, D. series, 197., May 1990. Fanni Magyar: H\u00fclye, aki elolvassa (Besz\u00e9lget\u00e9s a Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3kkal) - M\u0171\u00e9rt\u0151, July\u2013August 2017. J\u00f3zsef M\u00e9lyi: Zseni\u00e1lis dillet\u00e1nsok (Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k) - Magyar Narancs, 2017/31. Zsolt M\u00e9sz\u00e1ros: Kop\u00e1r sz\u00edk - Artkartell, 2017. (m-i): Helyettem Szomjaz\u00f3k, Hitel, 3/10, May 1990. (nagy): Egy \u00fat van el\u0151ttem, melyiken induljak - Motolla, 1989/2, M\u00fcnchen Lu Nanxi: Substitute Thirsters- Art World #329 issue 2017 July Gergely Nagy: Kl\u00edmaszerv\u00edz / esem\u00e9ny \u00e9s hat\u00e1s k\u00f6z\u00f6tt: besz\u00e9lget\u00e9s VT-ral \u2013 M\u0171\u00e9rt\u0151, October 2001. Ern\u0151 P. Szab\u00f3: Tudat-felszabad\u00edt\u00f3 hadm\u0171veletek (A"}, {"text": "Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k ki\u00e1ll\u00edt\u00e1sai) - \u00daj M\u0171v\u00e9szet, 2017/8. G\u00e1bor Rieder: R\u00fcgyfakad\u00e1s - Artkartell, 2017. Mih\u00e1ly Simon: \u00d6sszehasonl\u00edt\u00f3 magyar fot\u00f3t\u00f6rt\u00e9net, Magyar Fotogr\u00e1fiai M\u00fazeum (Hungarian Museum of Photography), Kecskem\u00e9t Hajo Schiff: Gulasch mit Himbeeren - Eine Ausstellung des Ungarischen Duos Agnes Eperjesi und Tibor V\u00e1rnagy, TAZ HAMBURG, 7.10.92 Szilvia Seres: \u201e\u0150r\u00fclten ment el\u0151re a technika, amit nagyon lehetett \u00e9lvezni.\u201d - Digitkult, 2017. 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A Szerk.: A Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k helyetted is szomjaznak - Librarius, 07/08/2017 Online sources, external links. Varnagy(last accessed: 28 October 2019) curatorcv(last accessed: 28 October 2019) V\u00e1rnagy Tibor (last accessed: 28 October 2019) 46A(last accessed: 28 October 2019) Tibor V\u00e1rnagy (last accessed: 28 October 2019) Substitute Thirsters (Hejettes Szomlyaz\u00f3k) (last accessed: 28 October 2019)"}, {"text": "Alexeyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Novlenskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was three as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vologda is 76 km, to Novlenskoye is 8 km. Oleshkovo, Avdeyevo, Kelebardovo, Zhukovo, Kobelevo, Sazonovo are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Alexino () is a rural locality (a village) in Semyonkovskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vologda is 9 km, to Semyonkovo is 1 km. 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Pogost Voskresenye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Andrakovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Staroselskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Andrakovo is located 45 km southwest of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Duplino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Andreyevskoye () is a rural locality (a village) in Podlesnoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Andreyevskoye is located 9 km southeast of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yarilovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Surf MC's were an American hip hop group from California. They were signed to Profile Records in 1987 and released their only album, \"Surf or Die\", the same year. The album was a mix of rock, punk and hip hop and had one single, \"Surf or Die,\" which peaked at number 90 on the US \"Billboard\" R&B chart. They performed with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More on The Uplift Mofo Party Tour."}, {"text": "The Brexit 50p coin is a commemorative fifty-pence British coin that was originally struck to mark the planned withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 31 October 2019. The minting of the Brexit coin was ordered by Sajid Javid. A total of 10 million Brexit coins, each stamped with the date 31 October 2019, were planned to be minted. In late October 2019, with increasing doubts that Brexit would actually happen on that date, the minting of the coins was \"paused\". In late October 2019 it was announced that the coins would be recycled as the United Kingdom would not in fact leave the European Union as planned on 31 October 2019. A Treasury spokesman said that a coin to mark Brexit will still be produced but that it would enter circulation after the UK has left the EU. Relaunch. In December 2019 a new Brexit 50p coin was announced after the Conservative Party victory in the general election. Gold and silver versions of the coins were announced for collectors. In January 2020 Downing Street announced that the coins would start entering circulation on 31 January 2020. The coin is inscribed with the slogan \"Peace, prosperity and"}, {"text": "friendship with all nations\", inspired by Thomas Jefferson's first presidential inaugural address. The quotation proved controversial for non-Brexit-related reasons, such as the lack of an Oxford comma, over which Philip Pullman called for a boycott of the coin."}, {"text": "Tim R\u00f6nning (born 15 February 1999) is a Swedish footballer who plays for Halmstads BK. R\u00f6nning appeared for all Swedish youth national teams up until Sweden U19, and was included on the bench four times for Sweden U21 without playing."}, {"text": "Khaled Fahad Al-Atwi (; born 13 April 1977) is a Saudi professional football manager and former player, who is the currently manager of Saudi Pro League club Damac. Al-Atwi began his coaching career as the manager of Al-Oyoon. A year later he joined Al-Nojoom and led them to the First Division. In 2016, he was appointed as the manager of Saudi Arabia U20 national team. In 2019, Al-Atwi became the manager of Pro League side Al-Ettifaq. Managerial career. Al-Atwi began his coaching career in the youth teams of Al-Oyoon in 2008. He then became the assistant manager of Al-Fateh's youth team before rejoining Al-Oyoon to become the first team manager in 2009. In 2011, Al-Atwi was appointed as the first team manager of Al-Nojoom. In his 5 seasons at the club, Al-Atwi led Al-Nojoom to promotion to the Second Division and the First Division respectively. On June 14 2016, Al-Atwi was appointed as the manager of the Saudi Arabia U20 national team. He led the young Green Falcons to a first-place finish in the 2018 AFC U-19 Championship, Saudi Arabia's third title in this age level. He was also the manager during the disastrous 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup where"}, {"text": "Saudi Arabia exited from the group stage with a catastrophic performance, losing all three games in their group. By doing so, Al-Atwi became the youngest Saudi manager to lead the national team to continental glory, and also the one with an infamous record as the worst manager of Saudi U-20 team in FIFA U-20 World Cup since the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship. On 17 June 2019, Al-Atwi resigned from his post as the manager of the U20 national team after 3 years after the disaster in Poland. Later that day, he was announced as the manager of Pro League club Al-Ettifaq. On 14 October 2021, it was announced that Al-Atwi and Al-Ettifaq agreed to end their contract mutually and he would take charge of his last match on 16 October against Al-Ahli. On 18 June 2022, it was announced that Al-Atwi was appointed as the new manager of First Division League side Al-Qadsiah. On 22 September 2022, Al-Atwi was sacked after 5 matches, he drew twice and lost three times. Personal life. Al-Atwi was born in Dammam but moved to Al-Oyoon, located in the Al-Ahsa Governorate, during his childhood. He is married and has four sons; Fahad, Saud, Mohammed,"}, {"text": "and Sattam. Al-Atwi graduated from King Faisal University and has a bachelor's degree in sociology. He used to work as a history teacher in a school in Urayrah. He later became a principal of a school in Al Kulabiyah."}, {"text": "Social Atl\u00e9tico Televisi\u00f3n, commonly known as SAT, is an Argentine sports club situated in Moreno, Buenos Aires Province. Its women's football team is currently playing their debut season in the Campeonato Femenino. Other sports hosted at the club are men's football, cycling, archery, Taekwondo, rugby union, and volleyball. History. The men's team was formed in 2017 and affiliated with the Liga Lujanense de F\u00fatbol. That same year they became champion of the First Division and qualified for the Torneo Federal C. In Federal C. On January 28, 2018, he made his debut in Federal C and in the AFA, winning 2-0 on his visit to Poland, with 2 goals from Frangipane. He would be able to complete Zone 11 of the Northern Pampas Region in second place. In the Round of 16, they beat Hurlingham Cathedral 2-0 and, after losing 3-2, advanced. In the Quarterfinals, they tied 1 to 1 against Col\u00f3n, but managed to win 2 to 1 in Chivilcoy. In the semifinals, after two 1-1 draws, they lost on penalties to Fernando C\u00e1ceres. In the Regional Federal Amateur. In mid-2018, the AFA eliminated Federal B and Federal C, being replaced by the new Torneo Regional Federal Amateur, which"}, {"text": "began to occupy the fourth category and at the same time became the route for the introduction of clubs in the regional leagues. In the inaugural edition of 2019, it competed in Zone 6 of the Northern Pampas Region. On January 27 he made his debut in the tournament, drawing 0-0 in Chivilcoy with Independiente. On March 23, on the penultimate date, they lost 1 to 0 against Monterrey, being condemned to fourth place in the zone, due to the away goals scored by Monterrey in SAT's 5 to 4 victory in the first round. He said goodbye to the tournament by beating Fernando C\u00e1ceres 3 to 2. In the 2021/22 tournament, he competed in Zone 3 of the Northern Pampas Region, finishing just in second place. In the Round of 16, they defeated Compa\u00f1\u00eda General on penalties, after drawing 0-0 in both games. In the Quarterfinals, they lost 1 to 0 against Mariano Moreno and after equalizing 1 to 1, they were eliminated. In the 2022/23 tournament, he competed in Zone 10 of the Northern Pampas Region. They reached the last date equal in points with Las Mandarinas in the obligation to win, since they had lost at home"}, {"text": "against them by 1 to 0, but on their visit they tied 1 to 1 with Las Mandarinas and came second in the Zone; Even so, he managed to advance to the next stage among the best seconds. In the Round of 16, they lost to Hurac\u00e1n de Chivilcoy by 1 to 0 and 2 to 1, being eliminated. Present. In November 2023, the AFA raised the possibility of creating a new tournament for clubs that were not affiliated. The club was included among the 14 invited to the new Amateur Promotional Tournament, a competition that takes the place of the eliminated Primera D. At the beginning of January 2024, the club's delegates participated in a meeting at the AFA headquarters. On February 23, 2024, they made their debut in the tournament, hosting Everton and losing 2 to 1. Women's football. The women's team was formed in 2017 and competed in Primera B (the second tier of women's football in Argentina) until their promotion at the end of the 2018-19. SAT are playing their first season in the Campeonato Femenino in 2019-20. In September 2019, SAT \u2013 for the first time \u2013 signed players on professional contracts. The squad currently"}, {"text": "consists of 26 players, eight of whom are on professional contracts."}, {"text": "The 2019 Africa Movie Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday 27 October 2019 at the Landmark Event Centre in Lagos, Nigeria. The ceremony recognized and honored excellence among directors, actors, and writers in the film industry. The awards night was hosted by Kemi Lala Akindoju, Lorenzo Menakaya and Funnybone. After receiving up to 700 film entries submitted between 21 October 2018 and 26 January 2019, the organizers of the ceremony announced the nominees on 19 September 2019. \"The Delivery Boy\" and \"Sew the Winter to My Skin\" led with 13 nominations each while \"The Burial of Kojo\" and \"Redemption\" followed with 10 each. \"The Mercy of the Jungle\" won in the categories Best Film, Achievement in Costume Design, Achievement in Makeup and Best Actor in a Leading Role. Political thriller \"King of Boys\" took home three awards on that same night, including awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role, as well as Best Nigerian Film. Awards. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface."}, {"text": "Manasse Kusu (born 22 December 2001) is a Swedish footballer who plays for Veikkausliiga club FF Jaro, on loan from Mj\u00e4llby. Club career. After playing for \u00d6ster on loan in the second half of the 2021 season, Kusu signed a three-year contract with the club on 24 January 2022. At the end of March 2025, he was sent on loan to newly promoted Veikkausliiga club FF Jaro until the end of June. Personal life. Kusu is born in Congo, but moved with his mother to Sweden at age 12."}, {"text": "The Bayonne mosque shooting was an attack carried out on 28 October 2019. An 84-year-old man attacked a mosque in the southwestern French town of Bayonne. He seriously injured two people by gunfire. The police arrested the suspect. He is said to have taken part in the 2015 regional elections as a candidate for the far-right Front National (today the Rassemblement National). According to the French police, the man is said to have tried to lay a kind of incendiary in front of the mosque at around 15:20 local time. He was disturbed by two men and then fired several shots at them. The two men were seriously injured. He then set fire to a car and fled. Police found a gas canister and a handgun in the car of the suspect. Police later arrested the 84-year-old suspect, who was locally known as Claude Sink\u00e9 at his home in Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx. He is also accused of trying to burn down the mosque. Sink\u00e9 died in prison on 26 February 2020, aged 84."}, {"text": "Andr\u00e9 \u00d6sterholm (born 17 June 1996) is a Swedish footballer. Besides Sweden, he has played in Spain, Finland and Greece. Club career. On 9 February 2022, \u00d6sterholm signed a two-year contract with \u00d6stersund. \u00d6sterholm scored three goals and made one assist in 29 league games in his last season for the club, before it was confirmed in December 2023, that he would leave \u00d6stersund at the end of the month, as his contract expired. On April 13, 2024, Danish 1st Division club N\u00e6stved Boldklub confirmed that \u00d6sterholm, after training with the club for some time, had signed a deal with N\u00e6stved. However, the club did not say how long a deal the Swede had signed. He left N\u00e6stved at the end of the season, which ended with relegation to the 2024-25 Danish 2nd Division. On October 2, 2024, \u00d6sterholm signed with Greek side Asteras Petriti in Gamma Ethniki. His versatility from defense to midfield and attack proved vital for the club, amassing 10 appearances and scoring 1 goal against Aiginiakos. However, in late December of the same year, his contract was terminated prematurely, due to the club's withdrawal from the division due to economic reasons."}, {"text": "\"U.S.S.R.\" is the debut single by English singer Eddy Huntington, released in 1986, under the label Esquire Records. The single was featured on his debut studio album, \"Bang Bang Baby\" (1989). A. \"U.S.S.R.\" \u2013 3:24 B. \"You (Excess) Are\" \u2013 3:43 A. \"U.S.S.R.\" \u2013 5:53 B. \"You (Excess) Are\" \u2013 5:20 Credits and personnel. Credits and personnel adapted from the \"Bang Bang Baby\" album and 7-inch single liner notes."}, {"text": "Moussa Kemoko Diakit\u00e9 (born 1940) is a Guinean cinematographer and film director. Life. Moussa Kemoko Diakit\u00e9 was born in Mamou, and studied drama in Germany. He started by making short documentaries, and his 1970 documentary won second prize at the 1972 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. In 1982 Diakit\u00e9 directed a feature film, \"Naitou\", featuring the Guinean national ballet company. Filmography. Director Photography Camera Producer"}, {"text": "James Tildesley (7 October 1881 \u2013 January 1963) was an English professional footballer who played as a right back in the Football League for Middlesbrough, Newcastle United and Leeds City. Personal life. Tildesley served as a private in the Army Service Corps during the First World War."}, {"text": "The Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial, also known as the Inwood Monument, is a World War I (WWI) monument sculpted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, with a base by Albert Randolph Ross. It is located at the intersection of Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue between 167th and 168th Streets in Mitchel Square Park, Manhattan, New York City. Context. The Inwood Monument was dedicated on Memorial Day, May 30, 1922. It honors men \"from the adjacent communities in northern Manhattan of Washington Heights and Inwood\" who fought and died during WWI. The monument commemorates servicemen from three distinct branches of the military: the Navy, the Army, and the Marine Corps. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. The monument\u2019s sculptor, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, traveled to France during WWI to start a hospital in Juilly and dedicate her time to aiding the injured. Unlike other war memorials, her figures depict the realities of war, illustrating the experiences of average servicemen at war. Whitney portrayed these men realistically, deriving inspiration from her original sketches while in France, as seen in her memorial sculptures, including the Inwood Monument and \"Victory Arch\". Whitney spent her life as both an arts patron and an artist, although for the majority of her time"}, {"text": "she only received recognition for her patronage. The lack of commendation for her artistic achievements resulted largely from gender stereotypes and the impact of her immense wealth on others\u2019 views of her persona. The interplay of Whitney\u2019s two roles spurred her entrance into sculpting public monuments, such as the Inwood Monument, which depict themes from WWI and Whitney\u2019s own wartime experiences. The monuments gave her a socially-accepted venue for self-expression. Design. The Inwood Monument\u2019s three-figure sculpture originated from a wartime sketch, and began as a clay sculpture of two figures. The third figure was added later in Whitney's design process, comprising her final product. Whitney initially created an interplay of two figures, a sculpture entitled \"His Bunkie\", which was modeled between 1916 and 1919 and cast in bronze upon its completion in 1919. It represents a standing and a kneeling serviceman. After Whitney\u2019s commission for the monument, she added a third figure to \"His Bunkie\" which kneels beneath the original two, as they support their third, fallen companion. She also created a smaller scale version of the Inwood monument, fashioned between 1921 and 1922, and cast in bronze in 1922; Whitney used this version as a model for the final"}, {"text": "structure displaying the soldier, the sailor, and the marine. The inscription on the granite pedestal of the monument reads, \u201cErected by the people of Washington Heights and Inwood in commemoration of the men who gave their lives in the World War\u201d. There are 20 star-shaped plaques made of bronze and set into a \u201ctwo-colored flagstone paving,\u201d surrounding the monument and its base. The plaques symbolize fatalities of 357 men local to the Manhattan area surrounding Mitchel Square Park. An overarching theme expressed by the Inwood Monument is the honoring of the common soldier in wounded condition, which differentiates Whitney's monument from war memorials which glorify war or well-known generals. Construction. The sculpture of the three servicemen was first modeled between 1921 and 1922, and later cast in bronze by the Roman Bronze Company of Greenpoint in 1922. The figures are supported by a plinth on an octagonal base made of white marble, topped by a circular, Deer Isle granite pedestal with twenty plaques, all of which were constructed by Alfred Randolph Ross of the firm Delano and Aldrich. The Inwood Monument was commissioned as a public monument by the Washington Heights and Inwood Memorial Association. Whitney was commissioned to sculpt"}, {"text": "the monument, and her contract was drafted in July 1921. It took a total of ten months for her to finalize the monument, and it was completed May 26, 1922, only days before its dedication on Memorial Day of the same year. Dedication. The Inwood Monument\u2019s dedication ceremony took place on May 30, 1922, Memorial Day, to coincide with \u201cthe parades and military demonstrations throughout the five boroughs\u201d. Several citizens and war veterans, along with Colonel William Hayward, marched through Mitchel Square Park, leading up to the dedication service. They, along with Mayor Hylan of New York, members of both the Washington Heights and Inwood Memorial Association and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and various clergymen and politicians were in attendance at the ceremony. The dedication also notably occurred on the same day that Mitchel Square Park was given in honor of Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, who died during air service training for the Army Aviation Corps of WWI. Restoration and conservation. The Inwood Monument was fully restored in 1998 through a conservation effort funded by citizen contributions and a grant from the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission. A significant contributor to the funding was former New York City"}, {"text": "Council Member Guillermo Linares. The endeavor was spearheaded by Rudolph L. Leibel, a professor at Columbia University and veteran of the U.S. Army Medical Corps, who felt a personal connection to the monument after years of passing by it every day. The New York City Parks Department assembled a team which accomplished various repairs, including a replica of the vandalized bayonet from the Army soldier\u2019s rifle, cast by the Bedi-Makky Art Foundry in Brooklyn. The bayonet was stolen upwards of two times, sparking Leibel\u2019s motivation to launch a conservation undertaking. Beyond the bayonet replica, this conservation included repointing of the stone masonry and application of protective wax coating to all bronze elements of the monument. Most recently, a ceremony was held in the park on November 7, 2018, to commemorate both the restoration of the monument and the centennial of the end of WWI, at which Professor Leibel gave a speech."}, {"text": "Dan Albert John Koehl is a French-Swedish zookeeper, elephant trainer, and stablemaster. An author of the \"Elephant Encyclopedia\", he has been described as \"one of Europe's most renowned experts on elephants\". Early years. Dan Koehl was born 28 October 1959 in Stockholm, Sweden, the fifth child of parents G\u00f6sta K\u00f6hl (1916\u20131996), Swedish engineer and Margot Nordholm (1922\u20132006). Koehl grew up in Mountain View, California, United States, and on \u00d6stermalm in Stockholm. He studied zookeeping at , besides higher education at Stockholm University and . Koehl began his career in aquarium and zoo-shops, and as commissioned shepherd for the Royal Herd of Sheep at G\u00e4rdet in Stockholm. He carried out apprenticeship as elephant-keeper at in Stockholm under elephant trainer , as mahout in Sri Lanka and India, and in traditional German elephant management at Hanover Zoo and Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg, Germany, by elephant chief trainer Karl Kock. Professional career. Since the late 1970s, Dan Koehl has served as head elephant keeper, stable master (equerry) and consultant at zoos, circuses and ranches around the world. European locations have included Skansen, , Hellabrunn Zoo (Munich), Bor\u00e5s Wildlife Park, Tiergarten Sch\u00f6nbrunn, Dresden Zoo, Zoolandia. Parco Natura Viva, Kolm\u00e5rden Wildlife Park, Circus Krone, Tiergarten"}, {"text": "Walding, Karlsruhe Zoo and Prague Zoo. While at Skansen, pending the departure of the stable's elephants \"Nika\" and \"Shiva\" to inferior living conditions abroad, he figured in a campaign that sparked nationwide debate over \"Stockholm's beloved elephants\". Despite described by Cynthia Moss in \"Elephant Memories\" as \"among the best-cared-for and happiest I had ever seen in captivity\", after much controversy, Skansen's elephants were shipped to Cricket Park, England, only to face premature death. At Tiergarten Sch\u00f6nbrunn in Vienna 1998, Koehl assisted Director Dr Helmut Pechlaner in elephants retraining and staff management when the zoo was induced to establish a new team of elephant keepers, facing a critical campaign concerning its keeping of elephants. Likewise he assisted Director Dr Herbert L\u00fccker with elephant training and staff coaching in Dresden Zoo 1999, when the zoo was under criticism by members of animal rights organisations. At Kolm\u00e5rden Wildlife Park, Koehl was commissioned \"royal head groom\" for the management of the elephants \"Boa\" and \"Saonoi\" donated to King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden by King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. Since the 1990s worldwide locations have included Elephant Experience and Sondelani Game Lodge in Zimbabwe, Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka, and Airavata Elephant Foundation"}, {"text": "and the elephant Sanctuary Kulen Elephant Forest, both latter ones in Cambodia. Dan Koehl has contributed to various animals and wildlife care and preservation foundations related especially to elephants, including Asian elephant victims of war at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. and has since early nineties been a contributing Professional member to the Elephant Managers Association, as Deputy of the Executive Secretary for the European Elephant Keepers and Managers Association (EEKMA) 1998\u20132008, he co-worked out the \"Elephant management safety guidelines\" (2002). Koehl has served as board of director for Elefanten-Schutz Europa, as Chairperson for the Swedish organisation Defend the elephants and the Swedish National Union of Aquaristic Societies (SARF), and as Web developer created websites for enterprises like Tropicarium Kolm\u00e5rden, and ImageWare Austria. Since 2023 he is advisor to leaders in elephant venue auditing, Asian Captive Elephant Standards (ACES), as part of a program coordinated by Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Pacific Asia Travel Association. Koehl has resided in Siem Reap, Cambodia since 2019, being responsible for care and management of elephants and mahouts as elephant trainer, manager, and welfare director at Kulen Elephant Forest. He founded the \"Elephant Encyclopedia\" in 1995, one of the first online encyclopedias in"}, {"text": "the world."}, {"text": "Leyrer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Entwisleia is a monotypic genus in the red algae family, Entwisleiaceae. There is just one species (the type species) in this genus, Entwisleia bella, from south-eastern Tasmania and represents both a new family and a new order (Entwisleiales) in the Nemaliophycidae. It is a marine species found in the Derwent River estuary. It grows at depths between 5.0 and 9.0 m and is found scattered on mudstone reef flats dusted or shallowly covered by sand. The site at which it was found is subject to episodic high-rainfall events throughout the year and heavy swells in winter. It is a feathery dioecious seaweed, very like the freshwater red algae, \"Batrachospermum,\" but from DNA sequencing, appears to be quite unrelated. Scott \"et al.\"'s (2013) study shows it as a sister clade of the Colaconematales. The genus was named to honour Tim Entwisle, was circumscribed by Fiona Jean Scott and Gerald Thompson Kraft in Eur. J. Phycol. Vol.48 (Issue 4) on page 402 in 2013."}, {"text": "The 1965 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. In their sixth season under head coach Bill Weeks, the Lobos compiled a 3\u20137 record (2\u20133 against WAC opponents) and were outscored, 226 to 127. Quarterback Stan Quintana and Dave Hettema were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included Quintana with 444 passing yards, Carl Jackson with 665 rushing yards and 60 points scored, and Woody Dame with 198 receiving yards."}, {"text": "Ong Ewe Chye (born 1 June 1965) is a former badminton player from Malaysia. He is the elder brother of Ong Ewe Hock. Achievements. Asian Championships. \"Men's doubles\" Asian Cup. \"Mixed doubles\" Southeast Asian Games. \"Men's doubles\" \"Mixed doubles\" IBF World Grand Prix. The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) from 1983 to 2006. \"Men's doubles\""}, {"text": "James H. Wilson was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Newcastle United as a goalkeeper. Personal life. Wilson served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War."}, {"text": "The Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup, previously called Iraq Central FA Altruism Cup (Arabic: \u0643\u0623\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u064a\u062b\u0627\u0631, \"Al-Ithar Cup\"), was an annual Iraqi football match contested at the end of the season between the champions and the runners-up of the Iraq Central FA Premier League, the top-level division of football in Baghdad and its neighbouring cities between 1948 and 1973. The lower divisions in the region each also had their own Perseverance Cup match. Only five editions of the tournament were played before it was stopped, and the Iraq Football Association later decided to replace regional tournaments with national tournaments, with the Iraqi Perseverance Cup (now known as Iraqi Super Cup) becoming the nation's super cup tournament."}, {"text": "Charles Raynor Dawson (20 December 1866 \u2013 16 July 1921) was an English champion player of English billiards. He held the world professional title in billiards in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1903, when it was held on a challenge basis. Biography. Dawson was born in Huddersfield in 1866. He worked in the weaving trade before becoming manager of the George and Dragon Hotel in Huddersfield in 1887, where he learnt to play billiards to a high standard He played matches for money before challenging for the world championship title. Dawson won the billiards title against John North in 1899, but the match attracted little attention as leading player John Roberts Jr. was not involved. In 1900, H. W. Stevenson and Edward Diggle challenged Dawson for the Billiards Association title. Stevenson beat Diggle in the preliminary round, compiling a break of 648 in the match, but lost 6,775\u20139,000 to Dawson. In January 1901, Stevenson beat Dawson to win the title, but Dawson then won it back in April. Following the April match, Stevenson challenged Dawson again. The match was due to be played within three months of the challenge being made, but both players agreed to a postponement until November. Although"}, {"text": "Dawson was aware that the match was due to be played in November, he organised an exhibition match with Diggle in Glasgow for that month and was unavailable for the championship match. Stevenson refused a further extension, and was awarded the title. Dawson and Stevenson contested the title again in 1903, with Dawson winning a close match 9,000\u20138,700. Following this, the championship was not contested for several years. In 1908, the Billiards Association declared Melbourne Inman the champion. In 1904, Dawson published a book called \"Practical Billiards,\" which included player biographies. He won the snooker competition of the 1908 American Tournament at Burroughes Hall. His highest break at billiards, excluding the anchor stroke, was 823. He retired from playing in 1909, due to failing eyesight, and later died in Storthes Hall Asylum, Huddersfield on 16 July 1921."}, {"text": "The Miniature Altarpiece (OA 5612) is a Gothic boxwood miniature in the form of a small altarpiece, made in the Netherlands c. 1520\u20131530, probably by the workshop of Adam Dircksz (also known as Adam Theodrici), about whom almost nothing is known. It has been held by the Louvre (catalogue number OA 5612) since 1901, but is not on public display. It was displayed with other boxwood miniatures in 2016\u201317 in an exhibition that visited the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rijksmuseum. It was acquired by the Louvre in 1901 from the estate of Baron Adolph Carl von Rothschild; previously, it was in the collection of Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Glossop. Description. The object is made from intricately carved boxwood. It comprises two main registers of carvings depicting Biblical scenes, each with a door that opens to reveal an interior triptych with further carvings of Biblical scenes, all standing on predella supported by tetramorph carvings of symbols representing the Four Evangelists (ox, eagle, angel, lion) on a wooden plinth. With the doors closed, the outside surfaces of the doors are elaborately decorated in Gothic style, with the upper pair of doors depicting Jesus"}, {"text": "at the Mount of Olives on the left, and the Kiss of Judas on the right, while the lower doors depict the Holy Kinship on the left, and Mary with her parents St Anne and St Joachim and a lamb on the right. It is held in the Louvre, Paris. With the doors opened, it measures . Inside, the upper register has a central carving of the Crucifixion with donor portraits with coats of arms and patron saints, flanked by the Christ Carrying the Cross on the left wing and the Descent from the Cross and Resurrection on the right wing. The lower register has a central carving of the Nativity of Jesus, with the Annunciation to the Shepherds in the background and the Adoration of the Shepherds on the lower left side, flanked to the left by an Annunciation, with Anne and Joachim at the Golden Gate in the background, and by the Adoration of the Magi to the right. The rear is plain and undecorated, suggesting it was intended to be displayed against a wall. The original tooled and stamped leather case survives, decorated with the Tree of Jesse, and bearing an inscription down the sides: \"\" (Latin:"}, {"text": "\"O mother of God, remember me\"; and French: \"nothing without bread\"). It shares similarities with a similar boxwood altar in the British Museum, bequeathed by Rothschild's cousin Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1898. and which may or may not be also by Adam Dircksz. Both works share very a similar architectural five level structure, with an upper Crucifixion triptych. Both works contain highly stylized figures, which resemble a third example in the Charlottenborg Palace, in Copenhagen, Denmark."}, {"text": "Leroy Person (1907\u20131985) was an American sculptor and wood carver from a remote region in northeastern North Carolina. Person's sculptures, and later, drawings, are recognized for their particular sensitivity to color and surface markings. Life. Leroy Person was born, raised, and lived out his entire life near the Albemare Sound at the edge of a swamp called Occhineechee Neck in northeast North Carolina. He was raised by a family of sharecroppers and continued the farm until he began working at a sawmill. He received partial schooling as a child and was para-literate. According to Roger Manley, director of the Gregg Museum of Art and Design at North Carolina State University, Person wrote and operated under his own numerals and alphabet that he and a few other family members could decipher. Person married twice \u2013 once to Rosemary Person and then to Frances Person. Frances was an accomplished quilter and artist herself. After Person was hospitalized in 1982 for acute asthma, without access to his tools or his strength for carving, he began drawing with crayon on paper and cardboard. Although his oeuvre of drawings is not as prolific as his sculptures, he made a significant body of work before dying"}, {"text": "in 1985 from respiratory disease. Career. Leroy Person worked for the sawmill his entire adult life, until work-related respiratory problems forced his retirement in the mid 1960s. After his retirement, with little else to occupy his time, Person he began carving and etching into his fence and the siding of his house. His decorations went unnoticed or unappreciated by family, and feeling discouraged, Person disposed of his first works. After much encouragement from his neighbor, Ozette Bell, Person picked up carving again on free-standing wood pieces and began to carve what is now recognized as a cohesive body of sculptures and furniture. Although none were photographed, art historians note that Person also weaved meticulous baskets. This is an indication that other members of his family were skilled crafts-people because the intricate skills of basketry are rarely self-taught. Subject and inspiration. Person's works frequently employ images of trees, animals, his tools, and circles (which often resemble saw blades), letters and numerals of his own creation. His work has often been compared to Sub-Saharan African sculpture for its dense geometric patterns. William Arnett likened his freestanding sculptures to that of the Dogon people of Mali while Colin Rhodes compared his furniture to"}, {"text": "the Bambara people of the African Niger River region. Despite these comparisons, Person's works are sui generis. They are simultaneously a product of centuries of African culture in America and his life spent virtual isolation in Ochineechee Neck. Person often colored his wooden sculptures and furniture with crayons, which created a dichotomy between his very delicate color palette and the bold weight of his material. Some of Person's patterns of color and etching mimic his wife, Frances's, quilting patterns, although no one photographed her quilts to make a formal comparison. The similarities were even more apparent after Person switched from sculpture to drawing while hospitalized during the last three years of his life. Most of his drawings comprised squares and rectangles filled with contrasting colors, which distinctly resemble improvisational African American quilts of the southeast. Exhibitions and permanent collections. Leroy Person's work has been shown in the following exhibitions: Person's work exists in the following permanent collections:"}, {"text": "Andrzej Przy\u0142\u0119bski (born 14 May 1958) is a Polish philosopher and the author of six books on Neo-Kantianism and hermeneutics. He served as an informer S\u0142u\u017cba Bezpiecze\u0144stwa informer (under the codename TW Wolfgang) and as ambassador to Germany from 2016 to 2022 Life. Przy\u0142\u0119bski finished high school in Ko\u0142o. He has been attending piano and accordion classes as well. In 1978, he became student of philosophy and social sciences at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144 (AMU). He graduated five years later (cum laude). In October 1983, he began scientific carrier at the AMU Institute of Philosophy. In 1987, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on Emil Lask's Logic of Philosophy. Between 1978 and 1980 Przy\u0142\u0119bski was TW Wolfgang, an informant of S\u0142u\u017cba Bezpiecze\u0144stwa, the communist security services. Thanks to scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, from 1991 to 1993 Przy\u0142\u0119bski spent in Heidelberg, preparing his post-doctoral thesis (habilitation) on the Baden School of Neo-Kantianism, with advice of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Reiner Wiehl. In 1993, he returned from Germany and became the deputy director of the AMU Philosophical Institute. Between 1996 and 2001, he worked as a scientific representative at the Polish diplomatic missions in Cologne and Berlin. Since 2002,"}, {"text": "Przy\u0142\u0119bski was AMU associate professor. In 2009, he became Full Professor. Przy\u0142\u0119bski has been guest lecturer at the Universities of Cologne, Erlangen, Freiburg, Siegen, Szczecin. Since 2003, he has been a member of the Committee for Philosophical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Since 2004, he has been vicepresident of the International Hegel-Society, Berlin. In 2003, he became the editor-in-chief of \"Fenomenologia\" scientific journal. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of three another journals: \"Principia\" (Krak\u00f3w), \"Przegl\u0105d Filozoficzny\" (Warsaw) and \"Analiza i Egzystencja\" (Szczecin), as well as the Co-Editor of Hegel-Forschungen and Hegel-Jahrb\u00fccher. Przy\u0142\u0119bski has also been a member of the Council of the Edith-Stein Research Centre in Pozna\u0144, and the President Lech Kaczynski Civic Academic Club in Pozna\u0144. He was the director of the AMU Florian Znaniecki Centre. In July 2016, he was nominated Polish ambassador to Germany, and presented his letter of credence to the President Joachim Gauck. He ended his term on 31 January 2022. He is married to Julia Przy\u0142\u0119bska, President of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland. They have two sons."}, {"text": "Mathias Sorgho (born 11 September 1987) is a Burkinab\u00e9 road cyclist. 1st Overall Tour du B\u00e9nin 1st Stage 2 3rd Overall Tour du Faso 1st Overall Tour du Togo 1st Stage 2 1st Overall Tour du B\u00e9nin 1st Stage 1 Tour du Faso 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 1st Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Overall Tour du B\u00e9nin 1st Stage 1 3rd Overall Tour du Faso 1st Overall Tour du Faso 1st Stage 4 3rd Overall Tour de C\u00f4te d'Ivoire 3rd Overall Tour of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1st Stage 5 1st Stage 2 Tour du Faso 1st Stage 3 Tour of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2nd Overall Tour de C\u00f4te d'Ivoire 1st Stage 7 10th Road race, African Road Championships 9th Overall Grand Prix Chantal Biya"}, {"text": "2020 in animation is an overview of notable events, including notable awards, list of films released, television show debuts and endings, and notable deaths."}, {"text": "The Granite LDS Ward Chapel-Avard Fairbanks Studio is a historic building in Sandy, Utah. It was built in 1903-1905 as a meeting house for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and designed in the Romanesque Revival architectural style. It was acquired by sculptor Avard T. Fairbanks in 1966, and remodelled as his art studio. The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 30, 2005."}, {"text": "Ren\u00e9 De Feyter (193023 March 2011) was a Belgian politician, the managing director of the VEV from 1971 to 1993. Biography. From 1956 to 1960, Ren\u00e9 de Feyter worked as a state official in Belgian Congo. In 1961, he started to work on the development project of the Port of Antwerp. In 1968, he launched the financial newspapers \"De Tijd\", and remained publishing director for 3 years. From 1971 to 1993, Ren\u00e9 de Feyter was the managing director of the VEV, and the first director of the VEV's history. He was known for defying the Belgian economics establishment. In 1972, he lobbied for the implementation of Regional Economic Councils in the Flanders regions. From 1993 to 2000, he was chairman of the board of directors of \"De Tijd\". He died on 23 March, 2011 at the age of 81."}, {"text": "The 1962 Iraq Central FA Altruism Cup was the 1st edition of the Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup. The match was contested between the winners and runners-up of the 1961\u201362 edition of the Iraq Central FA Premier League, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya respectively. Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya won the game 4\u20132."}, {"text": "Amapiano is a genre of music from South Africa that became popular in mid-2012 with an earlier regular occurrence on South African radio stations in the early 2000s. It is a hybrid of kwaito, deep house, gqom, jazz, soul, and lounge music characterized by synths and wide, percussive basslines. The word \"amapiano\" derives from the IsiZulu word for \"pianos\". Origins. There is ambiguity and debate concerning its origin, with various accounts of the musical styles in the Johannesburg townships. Because it has some similarities with bacardi house, some people assert the genre began in Pretoria but it remains uncertain. Various accounts of who formed the popular genre make it impossible to accurately pinpoint its origin. The word \"amapiano\" is a Zulu word that can be loosely translated to \"pianos.\" The genre is mostly sung in one of South Africa's 12 official languages such as IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, SiSwati, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana, English, Xitsonga, Tshivenda, Afrikaans, or IsiNdebele. Description. Amapiano is distinguished by piano melodies, deep house, soul, kwaito and log drum basslines. The genre's sample packs often incorporate sounds sourced from gqom music. Bacardi, is often misperceived either as a subgenre of amapiano or having emerged in the 2020s. A popular"}, {"text": "element of the genre is the use of the log drum (an electronic version of the West African originating log drum), a wide percussive bassline, which was popularized in amapiano music by several producers such as MDU aka TRP. According to one of the amapiano pioneers, Kabza De Small, he asserts that: \"I don't know what happened. I don't know how he figured out the log drum. Amapiano music has always been there, but he's the one who came up with the log drum sound. These boys like experimenting. They always check out new plug-ins. So when MDU figured it out, he ran with it.\" The use of an electronic or the log drum sound in African music predates amapiano although the contrary is often misperceived, and was possibly developed from the traditional or acoustic West African log drum by kwaito pioneer M'du (also known as Mdu Masilela). Subgenres and fusion. Afropiano. Afropiano also referred to as Nigerian amapiano, a blend of afrobeats and amapiano, gained prominence in the early 2020s as a popular variant of afrobeats. Pioneers of the genre include Clemzy and L.A.X. Bique. Bique employs a prominently undulated log drum sound and derives its name from the"}, {"text": "Southeastern African country, Mozambique. Notable illustrations of bique are \"Ize (Bique Mix)\" by ZanTen and DJ SOL K, FOI and Jay Music's \"Bique (Deep Groove)\", songs. Bongopiano. Bongopiano is a fusion genre that blends bongo flava music and amapiano, emerging in Tanzania during the 2020s. In the 2020s, numerous prominent Tanzanian musical artists including Diamond Platnumz, Marioo, Harmonize, Nandy, Jux, Mbosso and Zuchu released notable bongopiano songs. Gqom 2.0. In the mid-2010s circa early 2020s, Gqom 2.0 emerged as a subgenre of gqom, alongside other gqom variants for instance 3-Step and sgubhu. Gqom 2.0 is distinguished by a slowed-down tempo fused with elements of amapiano, afrohouse and afrotech. New Age Bacardi. New Age Bacardi denotes the fusion of bacardi with amapiano that emerged circa mid-2021 illustrated by the Mellow & Sleazy track \"Trust Fund\" which featured Kabza De Small, Mpura, Focalistic and DJ Maphorisa. DJ Maphorisa highlighted that Pretoria-based record producers played a key role in merging the musical styles and that the pace of new age bacardi had been slowed-down from the original fast-paced bacardi tempos. Ojapiano. Ojapiano is a fusion of the traditional Igbo instrument \u1eccj\u00e0 and subgenre of amapiano which emerged in Nigeria in the early 2020s."}, {"text": "The term was coined by Kcee in the 2020s. There have been several pioneers of the genre since its emergence including Kcee, Snazzy the Optimist, Oxlade and renowned American pop rock band OneRepublic. Popiano. Popiano blends pop with amapiano. A notable illustration is the 2021 single \"Overdue\" by record producers Kooldrink, DJ Lag and singer, Tyla which showcased a fusion of popiano and gqom. Since popiano's inception Tyla has been deemed \"The Queen of Popiano\". Private school piano. Private school piano also known as soulful amapiano is distinguished by its use of shakers, mellow log drum sounds and progressive chord sequences. Private school piano is primarily credited by DJ Jaivane. The genre frequently incorporates live instrumentation, including the guitar, saxophone, violin and trumpet. Quantum Sound. Quantum sound is a genre characterized by re-edits, fundamentally rooted in and influenced by gqom, particularly the taxi kick style. The genre is attributed to several record producers including RealShaunMusiq, Sizwe Nineteen and Nandipha808. Popularity. In 2019, the genre experienced increased popularity across the African continent, with noted increases in digital streams and chart successes in countries far from its South African origin. In 2021, an awards ceremony was created that was dedicated to the"}, {"text": "genre, the South Africa Amapiano Music Awards. In 2022, the American online music store Beatport added the genre to its platform with its own dedicated charts and playlists. The genre was popular amongst young people on social media platforms, where videos using amapiano music were uploaded, which fueled the dancing scene in South Africa. Amapiano music has always been dominated mainly by men. Social media users in South Africa are constantly fighting to change the narratives about how they helped the country advance. In October 2023, the afrobeats and amapiano fusion song \"Water\" by Tyla gained international prominence following a viral bacardi house dance challenge on social media. It became the first song by a South African soloist to enter the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 55 years, and was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden and New Zealand, where it reached number one. International artists. South Korean girl group Le Sserafim took inspiration from amapiano for their track \"Smart\" off of their third EP, \"Easy\". Chinese rapper Vinida Weng blended amapiano with Fujianese rap for her track \"Waiya!\"."}, {"text": "The 1964 Iraq Central FA Altruism Cup was the 3rd edition of the Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup. The match was contested between the winners and runners-up of the 1963\u201364 edition of the Iraq Central FA Premier League, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha respectively. Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya won the game 3\u20130."}, {"text": "Ystumllyn is a Grade II* listed house in Criccieth, Wales. Founded in the late-16th-century, and significantly expanded in the early-18th-century, it is remarkable as an \"important example\" of the vernacular architecture of both periods. History. The house was apparently built at the end of the 16th century by Ellis ap Cadwaladr (d. 1597), a member of the Welsh Ellis family, which claimed to trace its lineage back to Gollwyn ap Tangno, founder of one of the Fifteen Tribes of Wales. Ellis obtained the property from the Crown, and is the first member of the family to be described as \"of Ystumllyn\". When it was first built, the house was likely one of the earliest storied buildings in the region. Before 20th-century renovations, the house bore two dated inscriptions of 1720 and 1729 giving a likely date for the extensive 18th-century remodeling and extensions. The owner in this period was Rev. Humphrey Wynn (d. 1724), whose initials are featured on the earlier of these inscriptions. By 1725, it was in possession of Ellis Wynn (d. 1759) who held in until his death. In 1824, the estate passed to philologist Rowland Jones. The roof was raised and the fenestration was remodeled in"}, {"text": "the 19th century. In , J. Egbert Griffiths of Porthmadog carried out several minor alterations, adding some extra windows and rearranging the internal room structure. On 12 December 1994, the building was designated a Grade II* listed building, a listing reserved for \"particularly important buildings of more than special interest\". The house was home to several local notables throughout its history. The Welsh poet Gruffydd Phylip (d. 1666) composed several poems addressed to the Ellis family, including a poem directly referencing the house, \"\" (\"The Bard's Longing for Ystumllyn\"). John Ystumllyn (d. 1786), who took his name from the household, was employed by the Wynn family at this estate as a gardener and survived as the first well-recorded black person of North Wales. He was of uncertain origins, and was possibly kidnapped from Africa by the Wynn family, but lived out a happy life in Ystumllyn, eventually running away with and marrying a local woman. Architecture. Ystumllyn is a rubble-built house of two stories, composed of two blocks arranged into a T-shaped plan. The east-facing block is the earliest part of the building, dating to the late 16th century, while the north-facing block (which bisects the east block) was constructed"}, {"text": "in the early 18th century. The building has been described as historically remarkable in the \"British Listed Buildings\" rationale for registering it as a Grade II* listed building; its original component \"incorporates an important example\" of 16th-century architecture, while its 18th-century additions \"represent high quality vernacular work of the period\"."}, {"text": "The J. Leo Fairbanks House is a historic house in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was built in 1908 for artist J. Leo Fairbanks, whose father was painter John Fairbanks and whose brother was sculptor Avard Fairbanks. The house was designed in the Colonial Revival architectural style, and it was used as an artist studio by Fairbanks, his father and brother. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 26, 1984."}, {"text": "Alexander Semyon Vindman (born Aleksandr Semyonovich Vindman, June 6, 1975) is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel who was the Director of European Affairs for the United States National Security Council (NSC) until he was reassigned on February 7, 2020. Vindman is currently the director of the think tank Institute for Informed American Leadership (IIAL). Vindman came to national attention in October 2019 as a key witness before the United States Congress regarding the Trump\u2013Ukraine scandal. His testimony revealed that he triggered the House inquiry, and provided evidence that resulted in a charge of abuse of power in the first impeachment of Donald Trump. Commissioned in 1999 as an infantry officer, Vindman received a Purple Heart medal for wounds he received from an IED attack in the Iraq War in 2004. Vindman became a foreign area officer specializing in Eurasia in 2008 and assumed the position of Director of European Affairs with the NSC in 2018. In July 2020, Vindman retired after 21 years in the military after his promotion to Colonel was delayed, citing vengeful behavior, retaliation, and bullying by President Trump and administration officials after he complied with a subpoena to testify in front of Congress during"}, {"text": "Trump's impeachment hearings. At the time of his retirement, Vindman's promotion to the rank of colonel had been abnormally stalled and the promotion of hundreds of his peers delayed by the administration. In February 2022, he unsuccessfully sued several Trump allies, with the case being dismissed early in the proceedings due to the broad protections afforded to the defendants as a result of their service in the Trump Administration. Vindman alleged that the defendants had intimidated and retaliated against him because he testified in Congress. Early life and education. Alexander Semyon Vindman (born Aleksandr Semyonovich Vindman) and his identical twin brother Yevgeny were born in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, to a Jewish family. After the death of their mother, the three-year-old twins and their older brother, Leonid, were brought to New York City in December 1979 by their father, Semyon (Simon). They grew up in the Brighton Beach neighborhood in Brooklyn. The twins appear briefly with their maternal grandmother in the Ken Burns documentary, \"The Statue of Liberty\". Vindman speaks Ukrainian and Russian fluently. He graduated from Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in 1993. In 1998, Vindman graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton"}, {"text": "with a bachelor of arts degree in history. He completed a Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Cornell University and received a second lieutenant's commission in the Army's Infantry Branch in December 1998. He later received a master of arts degree from Harvard University in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian studies. After departing from the National Security Council in 2020, Vindman pursued post-graduate studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and he received both a master's degree in International Affairs in 2021 and his Doctor of International Affairs degree in 2022. He continues to be a senior fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute. Vindman's doctoral dissertation focused on U.S. Foreign Policy toward Russia and Ukraine from 1991 to 2004. In 2020, Vindman was appointed as the first Pritzker Military Fellow of the Pritzker Military Foundation. For two years, this fellowship supported Vindman's research, writing, and public discourse on subjects including national security, defense, civil-military relations, and public service. In 2021, Vindman served as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s foreign policy center, Perry World House. Starting in 2023, Vindman took on roles as a Hauser Leader and Senior Fellow at the Harvard"}, {"text": "Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership. Career. Vindman completed the Infantry Officer Basic Course (IOBC) at Fort Benning in 1999. The next year he was sent to South Korea, where he led an anti-armor platoons. In addition to overseas assignments to South Korea and Germany, Vindman is a combat veteran of the Iraq War, having served in Iraq from September 2004 to September 2005. In October 2004, he sustained an injury from a roadside bomb in Iraq, for which he received a Purple Heart. He was promoted to the rank of major in 2008, and to lieutenant colonel in September 2015. During his Army career, Vindman earned the Ranger Tab, Combat Infantryman Badge, Expert Infantryman Badge, and Parachutist Badge, as well as four Army Commendation Medals, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, and two Legions of Merit awards. Beginning in 2008, Vindman became a Foreign Area Officer specializing in Eurasia. In this capacity he served in the U.S. embassies in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Moscow, Russia. Returning to Washington, D.C. he was then appointed a politico-military affairs officer focused on Russia for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Vindman was on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon from September 2015"}, {"text": "to July 2018. National Security Council. In July 2018, Vindman accepted an appointment with the National Security Council. In his role on the NSC, Vindman became part of the U.S. delegation at the inauguration of Ukraine's newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The five-member delegation, led by Rick Perry, United States Secretary of Energy, also included Kurt Volker, then U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations; Gordon Sondland, United States Ambassador to the European Union, and Joseph Pennington, then acting charg\u00e9 d'affaires. Vindman was subpoenaed to testify before Congressional investigators on October 29, 2019, as part of the U.S. House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. He was the first White House official to testify who was on a July 25, 2019, telephone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which Trump asked Zelenskyy to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, while his father was campaigning for president. Based on his opening statement, obtained in advance by \"The New York Times\", Vindman's testimony corroborates previous testimony from Fiona Hill, his former supervisor, and William B. Taylor Jr., acting Ambassador to Ukraine. On October 28, 2019, Vindman's opening statement to the House Intelligence Committee, House Foreign"}, {"text": "Affairs Committee, and House Oversight Committee was released, ahead of his testimony on the following day. Vindman testified that: \"In Spring of 2019, I became aware of outside influencers promoting a false and alternative narrative of Ukraine inconsistent with the consensus views of the interagency\", which was \"harmful to U.S. national security\" and also \"undermined U.S. Government efforts to expand cooperation with Ukraine\". He also stated regarding U.S.-Ukraine relations: \"Our partnership is rooted in the idea that free citizens should be able to exercise their democratic rights, choose their own destiny, and live in peace,\" and that \"it has been a great honor to serve the American people and a privilege to work in the White House and on the National Security Council\". Vindman stated additionally that he was concerned by two events, both of which he objected to with senior officials in real time, and which he reported to the National Security Council's lead attorney. The first event occurred at a July 10 meeting between Ukraine's then Secretary of National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Danylyuk, and then US National Security Advisor John Bolton, at which Ambassadors Volker and Sondland, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry were in attendance, and"}, {"text": "at which Sondland asked Ukraine to launch investigations into the Bidens in order to get a meeting with President Trump. Vindman states that Bolton cut the meeting short, and that both Vindman and Hill told Ambassador Sondland that his comments were inappropriate and reported their concerns to the lead counsel of the NSC. The second event occurred on a July 25 telephone call between Presidents Trump and Zelenskyy. Vindman states, \"I was concerned by the call. I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. Government's support of Ukraine. I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained. This would all undermine U.S. national security.\" Vindman also stated that he reported his concern to the NSC's lead counsel, John Eisenberg. Vindman later testified in person before the US House of Representatives on November 19, 2019. In his testimony, Vindman stated that in the course of his official duties and standard NSC coordination obligations, he"}, {"text": "provided a summary of the call via classified means to two core members of his policy committee, one of whom was an intelligence official, concluding that the President's \"demand\" for an investigation was \"improper\". Because of his testimony, Vindman was denounced by Trump and repeatedly attacked by Republican lawmakers and television commentators. As a result, he reached out to the Army regarding his and his family's safety. In his opening statement, Vindman assured his father that he had made the right decision in emigrating from the Soviet Union to the United States. Vindman stated, \"In Russia, my act of ... offering public testimony involving the President would surely cost me my life. I am grateful for my father's brave act of hope 40 years ago and for the privilege of being an American citizen and public servant, where I can live free of fear for mine and my family's safety. Dad, my sitting here today, in the U.S. Capitol talking to our elected officials is proof that you made the right decision forty years ago to leave the Soviet Union and come here to United States of America in search of a better life for our family. Do not worry,"}, {"text": "I will be fine for telling the truth.\" On February 7, 2020, Vindman told NSC colleagues he expected to leave the White House's National Security Council to return to the Department of Defense months ahead of his scheduled return to the Army in the summer of 2020. Trump had earlier implied he might remove Vindman from his post. According to his attorney, later that day Vindman was fired and escorted out of the White House. At the same time, his twin brother, Lieutenant Colonel Yevgeny Vindman, also was escorted off the White House grounds. Both had been slated for reassignment within the Army. Subsequent news reports indicated that Vindman had been chosen to attend the in-residence course at the United States Army War College during its 2020\u20132021 session and for promotion to Colonel. On February 10, 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sent a letter in an apparent response to the removal of the two brothers that requested federal Inspectors General investigate possible retaliation against \"anyone who has made, or in the future makes, protected disclosures of presidential misconduct\". On February 13, Trump's former chief of staff, retired Marine General John Kelly, defended Vindman's actions and testimony. \"He did"}, {"text": "exactly what we teach them to do from cradle to grave. He went and told his boss what he just heard\", Kelly said. During a panel discussion held on February 11, 2020, at the Atlantic Council, the president's National Security Advisor, Robert C. O'Brien said that it was his decision to transfer both Vindman brothers back to the Army for re-assignment and he denied that the move was ordered by Trump in retaliation for Vindman's testimony. \"I can absolutely tell you that they were not retaliated against\", O'Brien told the panel. O'Brien also disputed the move as being characterized as \"fired\" since both brothers remained on active duty. O'Brien noted that their transfer was part of a larger NSA staff reduction. He was contradicted by Trump, who tweeted that he had ousted Vindman for insubordination and for doing \"a lot of bad things\". Retirement and post-military career. On July 2, 2020, Senator Tammy Duckworth announced her intention to block Senate confirmation of more than one thousand military promotions unless defense secretary Mark Esper provided written confirmation that the Trump administration would not continue to block Vindman's promotion to colonel. Less than a week later, in order to avoid a mandatory"}, {"text": "three-year additional duty service obligation (ADSO), with the continued delay in promotion of hundreds of his peers, along with the knowledge that the White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had compelled a highly irregular Army investigation into Vindman and berated the Secretaries of the Defense and the Army for considering his promotion, Vindman announced through his attorney that he would be retiring from the U.S. military. Vindman's attorney, David Pressman, described \"a campaign of bullying, intimidation, and retaliation\" by the Trump administration as the reason for his client's retirement. On August 1, 2020, Vindman authored an opinion piece in the \"Washington Post\" addressing his retirement. In 2021, Vindman published a memoir entitled \"Here, Right Matters\" that quickly reached #2 on the \"New York Times\" Best Seller list. In his memoir, Vindman elucidates his role as a primary witness in Donald Trump\u2019s first impeachment trial. He accentuates that speaking out about the July 25 call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy was not merely a decision, but a duty rooted in his citizenship and service in the armed forces. In February 2022, Vindman filed a lawsuit alleging that the defendants disseminated false allegations about him, including claims that he was"}, {"text": "a spy for Ukraine, leaked classified data to damage his reputation, falsely charged him with perjury, and orchestrated the dismissal of both him and his twin brother Eugene from their positions at the White House. The defendants in the lawsuit were Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, former White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, and former White House deputy communications director Julia Hahn. On November 8, 2022, the lawsuit was dismissed by Federal Judge James E. Boasberg, noting that \"political hackery alone\" isn't a violation of the law.<ref name=\"NYT 2022/11/08\"></ref> In November 2020, Vindman joined the staff of the national security blog \"Lawfare\" as the Pritzker Military Fellow of the Pritzker Military Foundation. Along with pursuing a Doctor of International Affairs degree at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in 2021, Vindman assumed the position of an executive board member of the Renew Democracy Initiative. After January 2022, Vindman served as a senior advisor for VoteVets and started directing the Vet Voice Foundation\u2019s national security and defense think tank, the Institute for Informed American Leadership (IIAL). Following Russia's full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, Vindman repeatedly expressed support for effectively countering Russian malign"}, {"text": "influence and Russia's military aggression by fully supporting Ukraine. He also conducted lectures on the Russo-Ukrainian War at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Ford School at the University of Michigan, and the University of Alberta. In 2022, with Daniel Lubetzky, Alexander Vindman became the co-chair of the Global Democracy Ambassador Scholarship, which helps Ukrainian students who pursue their undergraduate degrees in the United States and abroad. The objective of the scholarship is to help Ukrainians continue their studies and educate their global peers on the fragility and importance of democracy. The program granted $1 million to support an initial group of Ukrainian scholars. In March 2023, the Vindman brothers launched the project Trident Support, whose primary objective is to establish a weapon maintenance and training facility within Ukraine. Through Trident Support, the Vindman brothers hope to recruit 100\u2013200 skilled Western contractors to work alongside Ukrainian troops near the front lines in providing training on how to repair battle-damaged equipment donated by Western nations. The goal of the project is to improve Ukraine\u2019s defense capacity and accelerate the repair of military equipment so it no longer has to be taken from Ukraine to Poland or other NATO countries for major"}, {"text": "repairs. In 2021 and 2024, Vindman appeared in the 11th season finale, \"The Mormon Advantage\", and later the series finale, \"No Lessons Learned\", of \"Curb Your Enthusiasm\". Vindman is a senior fellow at the Kettering Foundation, an American non-partisan research foundation. In a June 2025 Twitter post, Vindman referred to Secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem as a \"fascist bitch\" and told her to \"fuck-off\". Personal life. Vindman is married to Rachel Vindman, n\u00e9e Cartmill. In 2020, Vindman and his wife Rachel appeared in an advertisement created by The Lincoln Project and VoteVets supporting Joe Biden's presidential campaign. The couple have one daughter, born in 2011. His identical twin brother, Yevgeny S. \"Eugene\" Vindman, is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and Judge Advocate General's Corps officer who was assigned as an attorney on the National Security Council staff handling ethics issues, until he was dismissed from that post on February 7, 2020, at the same time as Alexander was removed from his NSC post; The Army promoted Yevgeny to colonel on March 16, 2021. The Defense Department inspector general found in May 2022 that the Trump administration unlawfully retaliated against Yevgeny for his role in revealing the Trump-Ukraine scandal. Their"}, {"text": "older brother, Leonid Vindman, also served in the Army. Military awards. At his retirement, Vindman received two Legions of Merit. Vindman's additional awards and decorations include the Purple Heart; Defense Meritorious Service Medal with bronze oak leaf cluster (2nd award); Meritorious Service Medal; Army Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters (4th award); Army Achievement Medal with two oak leaf clusters (3rd award); National Defense Service Medal; Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Korea Defense Service Medal; Army Service Ribbon; Overseas Service Ribbon (4th award); Valorous Unit Award; Joint Meritorious Unit Award; Navy Unit Commendation; National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation; and Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation. He is a recipient of the Combat Infantryman Badge; Expert Infantryman Badge; Ranger Tab; Basic Parachutist Badge; the Presidential Service Badge; and Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge."}, {"text": "The 2001 Heineken Trophy women's doubles tennis tournament was won by Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie and Nadia Petrova. They defeated Kim Clijsters and Miriam Oremans 7\u20136(7\u20135), 6\u20137(5\u20137), 6\u20134 in the final. Erika deLone and Nicole Pratt were the defending champions, but deLone did not compete that year. Pratt partnered with Rachel McQuillan and they lost in the quarterfinals to Ilie and Petrova."}, {"text": "Loumanagh, or Lamanaugh (Irish: \"An Lom\u00e1nach\" meaning \"the bare marsh\") is a townland situated in the west of Boherbue in north County Cork, Ireland. It is divided between Loumanagh North and Loumanagh South. History. The road, which divides Loumanagh into north and south, was built in the 17th century to connect Kanturk to Killarney. Ancient and historical monuments in the townlands of Loumanagh North and Loumanagh South, as listed in the Record of Monuments and Places, include several ringforts, fulacht fiadh, and a burial ground. Location. Loumanagh is located on a hillock west of Boherbue village towards Knocknagree. The townlands with which it shares borders are Gneeves and Derryleigh to the east, Ruhill to the north, Islandbrack to the west, and to the south is Knocknageeha and Lisheenafeela. Boherbue Presbytery is located on the eastern edge of Lamanaugh."}, {"text": "John Leo Fairbanks (1878-1946) was an American art educator, painter and sculptor. Born in Utah, educated at Brigham Young University and trained in Paris, he headed the art department of the Salt Lake City School District until he joined Oregon State University as the chair of its department of art and architecture in 1923. He designed a sculptural frieze in the Laie Hawaii Temple."}, {"text": "Khurshid Qajar n\u00e9e Nakhchivanskaya () was an Azerbaijani opera singer. Biography. She was born in 1894, Nakhchivan to Rahim Khan Nakhchivanski, an elder brother of Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski and a member of Nakhchivanski family. She got her first education at Boarding School of Saint Nina at Baku. Being admitted to Moscow Conservatory in 1915, she was one of the first Azerbaijani women to get educated abroad. Her teacher at Conservatory was Umberto Masetti, Italian vocal pedagogue and Sergey Obukov, Russian opera singer of Bolshoi Theatre. After completing her education, she lived in Saint Petersburg for a while and later worked for Azerbaijan State Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1919-1934. She was a director of a small opera course functioning under Opera Theater in 1935. She was known for her portrayals of Gulzar (in Shah Ismail opera by Muslum Magomayev); Khurshidbanu, Asya and Gulnaz (respectively in \"Shah Abbas and Khurshid Banu\" (1912), \"Arshin Mal Alan\" (1913) and \"If Not That One, Then This One\" (1910) - all by Uzeyir Hajibeyov) and Mica\u00ebla (Carmen by Georges Bizet). She later worked for musical publications in Azernashr starting from 1935, simultaneously setting up a studio inside Azerbaijan State Opera and Ballet Theatre and preparing"}, {"text": "\"The Demon\" by Anton Rubinstein and \"The Tsar's Bride\" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for Azerbaijani stage with her students. In the 30s, by the order of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, she instructed at that time still young composers Tofig Guliyev and Zakir Bagirov to record the notes of mugham maqams \"Rast\", \"Zabul-Segah\" and \"Dugah\" while Mirza Mansur Mansurov played them on tar. She died in summer of 1963, Baku. Family. She was married to Feyzullah Mirza Qajar until 1920. Her second husband was Count Nikolai Nikolaievich Khudyakov. She had a son from her first marriage - Shafi, named after Shafi Khan Qajar, she had adoptive children from second marriage Nadir Aliyev-Khudyakov, Adelia Aliyeva-Khudyakova and Marina Khudyakova."}, {"text": "The 1965 Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup was the 4th edition of the Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup, and the first since the competition's name was changed from \"Altruism Cup\" to \"Perseverance Cup\". The match was contested between the winners and runners-up of the 1964\u201365 edition of the Iraq Central FA Premier League, Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab and Aliyat Al-Shorta respectively. Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab won the game 1\u20130 with an extra-time goal by Qais Hameed to win the cup for the first time in their history."}, {"text": "Harish Raghavan (born May 19, 1982) is an Indian American jazz bassist. His music combines aspects of Indian classical music and jazz. The first instrument he picked up was the mridangam, but he switched to the upright bass at the age of 16. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California, under the tutelage of John Clayton, Dave Carpenter and Robert Hurst. He finished as a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk Institute's International Jazz Bass Competition in 2009. After 12 years playing professionally, Raghavan released his debut album as a leader \"Calls for Action\" in 2019, teaming up with the group on Joel Ross's \"KingMaker\" album. Discography. As sideman. With Ambrose Akinmusire With Walter Smith III With others"}, {"text": "Antoine Val\u00e9rio (born 11 December 1999) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Career. A youth product of B\u00e9glais, Val\u00e9rio lived in the United States for five years in his youth before returning to B\u00e9glais to finish his development and moved to Stade Bordelais in 2017. He made his professional debut with N\u00eemes in a 1\u20131 Ligue 1 tie with Amiens SC on 19 October 2019. On 28 October 2019, signed his first professional contract with N\u00eemes, agreeing to a three-year deal. On 2 June 2022, Val\u00e9rio signed a three-year contract with Rodez."}, {"text": "Richard Lachlan Keddie is an Australian producer, writer and director. He is best known for his work on biopics of Australian Prime Ministers Bob Hawke (\"Hawke\") and John Curtin (\"Curtin\"), feature films \"Little Fish\", \"Oddball\" and \"Ride Like a Girl\", and television miniseries \"After the Deluge\". Career. Documentaries. As writer, producer and director. Keddie began his career in filmmaking writing, producing and directing documentaries. These include the eight-part \"On Borrowed Time\" (1990), for which he was shortlisted as the IBM Australian Conservationist of the Year and awarded the Landcare Media Award and a Penguin Award for Best Documentary. This was followed by \"Farming A Sunburnt Country\" (1994) for the National Climate Centre and \"Chinchilla Dry\" (1996), a social commentary on farming and drought. He was awarded the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Prize for \"Rite of Passage\" (1997), about a group of troubled young people on a bushwalk in the Australian wilderness. \"Outnumbered\", an observational documentary on Victoria's Leader of the Opposition John Brumby during the 1996 Victorian State Election followed in 1998. As producer. Keddie produced documentary \"Wonder Boy\" (2001), a portrayal of family life and the complexity of supporting a child with special needs in 2001,"}, {"text": "\"The Last Great Amateurs\" about the Melbourne Phoenix Netball Club in 2004, \"Musica Surfica\" featuring violinist and Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra Richard Tognetti in 2008, and \"Alias Ruby Blade\", concerning the independence movement in Timor-Leste in 2012. \"Alias Ruby Blade\" was awarded the Peace Award for most Valuable Documentary at the Berlin Film Festival. Advertisements and political campaigns. Keddie wrote and directed advertisements for the 'Your Rights at Work' campaign against the Howard government's 2006 WorkChoices legislation, federal election campaigns for the Australian Labor Party, and environmental justice advertisements including for the WWF and the fight to save the Great Barrier Reef, the Coorong and the Murray-Darling Basin. Television films. Television films produced by Keddie include \"Waiting at the Royal\" (2000), the story of four women sharing a maternity ward, \"My Brother Jack\" (2001), an adaptation of the 1964 novel by George Johnston, and \"After the Deluge\" (2003) starring David Wenham and Hugo Weaving. Keddie produced biopics of former Australian Labor Party Prime Ministers John Curtin (William McInnes) and Bob Hawke (Richard Roxburgh) in 2007 and 2010. \"Curtin\" won the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama Series, and \"My Brother Jack\", \"After the Deluge\" and \"Hawke\" the AACTA"}, {"text": "Award for Best Telefeature, Mini Series or Short Run Series. Feature films. Keddie has produced five feature films: \"Little Fish\" (2005, directed by Rowan Woods and starring Cate Blanchett), \"Matching Jack\" (2010, directed by Nadia Tass and starring Jacinda Barrett and James Nesbitt), \"Goddess\" (2013, directed by Mark Lamprell and starring Laura Michelle Kelly and Ronan Keating), \"Oddball\" (2015, directed by Stuart McDonald and starring Shane Jacobson) and \"Ride Like a Girl\", (2019, about Michelle Payne, the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup in 2015, directed by Rachel Griffiths and starring Teresa Palmer and Sam Neill). \"Little Fish\" won five AFI Awards and grossed the highest Australian box office of the year. \"Oddball\" become the 28th highest grossing film of all-time at the Australian box office, and \"Ride Like a Girl\" the highest grossing Australian film of 2019. It has been nominated for three awards at the 9th AACTA Awards: Best Film, Best Actress (Teresa Palmer), and Best Original Music Score (David Hirschfelder). Boards and governance. Keddie has served on boards including the Federal Government Board of Screen Australia, St Michael's Grammar School, and Film Victoria."}, {"text": "James Potter may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 1966 Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup was the 5th and final edition of the Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup. The match was contested between the winners and runners-up of the 1965\u201366 edition of the Iraq Central FA Premier League, Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya respectively. Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha won the game 1\u20130 with a goal by Gorgis Ismail to win the cup for the second time in their history. During the match, the ball went outside the field and was lost. A worker was sent to fetch a new ball from the Iraq Football Association's storage which led to a mid-game delay of half an hour."}, {"text": "Lewis \"Lew\" Dauber (April 27, 1949 \u2013 October 3, 2019) was an American character actor. He was best known for his frequent casting as a clergyman, appearing as such in various productions over more than two decades. Early life and career. Although born in New York City, Dauber earned his bachelor's degree in California from the University of California, Berkeley, where he performed as building inspector Henri Cotte (Henri Paillardin in the original), in the school's 1969 production of \"Hotel Paradiso\". After graduation, he became an employee of Citibank, where he sold traveler's checks, though he soon quit to pursue a career in show business. While he managed to land some small commercial parts, it was his appearance on a second-season episode of \"The Fall Guy\", alongside Lee Majors and Tony Curtis, that earned him his first credited acting role. Despite having steady work most of his career, Dauber found time to return to school later in life, earning his master's degree at Mount St. Mary's University. Following his graduation, he would return to teach in the university's department of film, media and social justice. Additionally, he served on the SAG-AFTRA credit union board of directors. Personal life and death."}, {"text": "On May 25, 1986, Dauber married Paulette Levin, a publicist for the Walt Disney Company whose credits also include \"\", \"Rent\", \"Unaccompanied Minors\" and \"Mars Needs Moms\". Together, the couple had two sons, Jeff and Zach. Dauber died of liver cancer on October 3, 2019, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 70."}, {"text": "Malik Harrison (born March 5, 1998) is an American professional football linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the third round of the 2020 NFL draft. Early life. Harrison attended Walnut Ridge High School in Columbus, Ohio, where he played football and basketball. On the football field, he switched between quarterback, wide receiver, running back, linebacker, and safety. In 2015, his senior season, he rushed for 897 yards and 15 touchdowns while passing for 1,161 yards and eight touchdowns alongside compiling five sacks and forty tackles. He committed to play college football at Ohio State University following his senior season. College career. In 2016, Harrison's freshman year at Ohio State, he appeared in 12 games. As a sophomore in 2017, he appeared in all 14 of Ohio State's games, compiling 36 tackles and two sacks. In 2018, Harrison's junior season, he became a starter, and was tied for first on the team in tackles with 81 alongside adding 8.5 tackles for loss. He earned All-Big Ten Conference honorable mention. Professional career. Baltimore Ravens. Harrison was selected by the Baltimore"}, {"text": "Ravens in the third round (98th overall) of the 2020 NFL draft. He signed his four-year rookie contract with the team on July 13, 2020. He was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list by the team on November 3, 2020, and activated four days later. Harrison suffered a non-life-threatening injury after being shot in the left calf during a gathering in Cleveland on October 31, 2021. He was placed on the reserve/non-football injury list the following day. He was activated on November 27, 2021. On March 13, 2024, Harrison signed a one-year contract extension with the Ravens. Pittsburgh Steelers. On March 13, 2025, Harrison signed a two-year, $10 million contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers."}, {"text": "The term Diet of Mainz may refer to any medieval \"Hoftag\" (high day) or early modern \"Reichstag\" (imperial diet) held in the city of Mainz. The following is an incomplete list of such diets by year and emperor:"}, {"text": "The Pretty on the Inside Tour was the first international concert tour by American alternative rock band Hole in promotion of their debut album, \"Pretty on the Inside\". The tour began in the summer of 1991, and concluded in December of that year. The tour largely had Hole as a supporting act, with them performing as an opener for Mudhoney's European tour, as well as The Smashing Pumpkins in the United States. Overview. In anticipation of the release of Hole's debut studio album, \"Pretty on the Inside\" (1991), the group embarked on an international concert tour in promotion of the record. The tour began in July 1991 in Los Angeles. For the first European leg of the tour, Hole was a supporting act for Mudhoney. The band returned to North America in the fall and toured in the United States and Canada before returning to Europe in November 1991. The band opened for Nirvana at several European dates, including in Ghent, Belgium and Nijmegen, Netherlands. During this time, frontwoman Courtney Love became romantically involved with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain; the two had previously been acquainted in May 1991. The band returned to the United States in mid-December 1991, appearing as"}, {"text": "a supporting act for the West Coast tour of The Smashing Pumpkins, supporting their debut album, \"Gish\". Reception. Sam Batra of \"The Guardian\" wrote of the band's London date in December 1991: \"There's no pretending that [Love] is in control. This is the sound of living on the edge and consequently working it out in splurges of furious noise seems to be the only articulation that has any authenticity,\" adding that \"it's as if every flurry of noise unravels itself, breaks down as it struggles within the confines of a genre that is predominately male. Hole will burn themselves out. See them before they lose it willfully.\" Adam Sweeting, reviewing the University of London Union performance, noted that the band's songs seem to be \"teetering on the edge of collapse, [while] Love pouts, whispers, and shrieks... the volume of the voice is startling.\" Richard Cromelin of the \"Los Angeles Times\" observed of the band's supporting performance at a Los Angeles Smashing Pumpkins concert that the crowd \"didn\u2019t take to Courtney Love\u2019s powerful howls of anguish.\" At the end of the show, Love \"ordered the band to a halt and hurled her guitar to the ground,\" after which guitarist Eric Erlandson"}, {"text": "demolished his guitar by smashing it against the floor. Other acts. Supporting Supported"}, {"text": "First and Only is a military science fiction novel by Dan Abnett, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Published in 1999, it is the first novel in the \"Gaunt's Ghosts\" series, which, as of 2019, consists of 16 novels and multiple short stories, as well as two spin-off novels (\"Titanicus\" and \"Double Eagle\") and a companion book that acts as a mock history of the military campaign which forms the setting of the series. The work is Abnett's first published novel, and was also the first novel published under Games Workshop's Black Library imprint. Prior to then, Games Workshop published short stories in its magazine \"Inferno!\", and a limited number of novels, including Ian Watson's novel \"Space Marine\" and \"Inquisition War\" trilogy, under the label \"Heretic Tomes.\" As of 2006, it remained Black Library's best-selling title. Publication history. Abnett first wrote a set of loosely connected short stories which appeared in \"Inferno!\" magazine (issues 4, 8, and 30). The next story, entitled \"Vermilion Level\", was written out to novel length as \"First and Only\" and published in 1999. The earlier-published short stories were subsequently incorporated as flashback-style chapters of \"Ghostmaker\", the second volume of the series. The first three novels"}, {"text": "of the series, \"First and Only\", \"Ghostmaker\", and \"Necropolis\" were collected, along with the short story \"In Remembrance\", into the omnibus \"The Founding\", published by Black Library in 2007. In 2013, \"First and Only\" was re-published as one of Black Library's three earliest-published and most influential novels, along with Graham McNeill's \"Nightbringer\" (also taking place in the Warhammer 40,000 universe), and William King's \"Trollslayer\" (the inaugural novel of the \"Gotrek and Felix\" series taking place in the Warhammer Fantasy universe). In 2019, Black Library announced a limited edition hardcover re-publication to commemorate the novel's 20th anniversary. Synopsis. In the 41st Millennium, the Tanith First light infantry regiment of the Imperial Guard is part of the massive Imperial force fighting to retake the Sabbat Worlds from the forces of Chaos. The regiment is informally called the \"First And Only\" (because it was actually formed from the survivors of three regiments raised just before their homeworld of Tanith was destroyed by the enemy), or sometimes \"Gaunt's Ghosts\", after their commanding officer, Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, and their superlative skills at stealth and infiltration tactics. During their latest combat theatre, the Ghosts are instrumental in re-taking the world of Fortis Binary from the enemy,"}, {"text": "partnered with the Vitrian Dragoons regiment, while another regiment, the Jantine Patricians, feel cheated of glory. Granted temporary R&R on Pyrites, the Ghosts escape a trap laid for them by the Patricians. Gaunt is contacted by an old friend, Fereyd, who warns him that the army's superior, Lord General Dravere, is conspiring to supplant Warmaster Macaroth as supreme commander of the campaign, and something hidden on the campaign's next target world, Menazoid Epsilon, is vital to the conspiracy. While en route to Menazoid Epsilon, Gaunt's subordinate, Major Rawne, is abducted by Patrician soldiers and brutally interrogated by Inquisitor Heldane, who is assisting General Dravere's plans. The Ghosts rescue Rawne, and Heldane is badly wounded. In the midst of the fighting on Menazoid Epsilon, Fereyd rendezvous with Gaunt, who leads him to an underground bunker containing an incredible find from mankind's \"Dark Age of Technology\": an intact Standard Template Constructor, an automated factory capable of mass-producing \"Men of Iron\" (self-aware robots). Dravere and Heldane's agents discovered evidence of the factory and realized they could build an army loyal to themselves that was powerful enough for any purpose. Dravere, aware now that the Ghosts are working against his plans, declares them traitors"}, {"text": "and orders the Jantine Patricians to wipe them out. The small picket force of 50 Ghosts that Gaunt left behind to guard their rear is killed to the last man by the Patricians, but not before inflicting over seven-to-one casualties on their attackers, which further enrages the Patricians' commander, Colonel Flense. To Fereyd's surprise, Gaunt insists that the factory must be destroyed immediately. Fereyd is actually a puppet, being controlled by Heldane's psychic powers from his sickbed inside Dravere's headquarters vehicle. Heldane panics and orders Fereyd to kill Gaunt, but Major Rawne (who Gaunt suspected of being brainwashed by Heldane in captivity) saves Gaunt's life by shooting Fereyd in the head. This causes a massive feedback in Heldane's psychic energies that explodes, destroying Dravere's headquarters and killing both conspirators. The novel is intercut with a series of flashbacks: the young Ibram Gaunt is orphaned when his father is killed in action, and sent to a Military School by his father's commanding officer, General Aldo Dercius. But during his first campaign as a Commissar, Gaunt is approached by an enemy prisoner, a rogue psychic, who tells him the truth: his father died when Dercius fled the battle and left the elder"}, {"text": "Gaunt to die. Using his ostensible authority to punish cowardice, Gaunt confronts his \"Uncle\" Dercius and kills him in a chainsword duel. After blowing up the factory, Gaunt and his small entourage are confronted by Colonel Flense, who reveals that he is General Dercius's son, and was forced to change his name and restart his career from scratch after the family disgrace. Flense tries to kill Gaunt, but Gaunt gains the upper hand and kills him instead. When the Ghosts emerge from the bunker, they are confronted by the remaining Patricians, who are themselves ambushed and slaughtered by the Vitrian Dragoons, coming to the Ghosts' aid. With Dravere dead, there is no record of his orders declaring the Ghosts renegades, and the Patricians are posthumously disgraced and permanently disbanded. Before he died, Fereyd tried to convince Gaunt that the Men of Iron could have been used to aid the Imperial forces as much as the Chaos forces. Remembering this, Major Rawne asks Gaunt why he decided to destroy them instead. Gaunt confides that the same psychic who told him the truth about his father's death also predicted his dilemma, years later, on Menazoid Epsilon, and warned him that leaving the"}, {"text": "Men of Iron intact would lead to nothing but disaster. Reception. In a review of \"First & Only\" in \"Black Gate\", Sean Stiennon said \"\"First and Only\" is primarily about infighting among the various regiments of the Guard, with the broader conflict against Chaos legions serving as the backdrop. Each regiment of the Imperial guard calls a different world home, and so they have their own cultures, their own warrior traditions, their own combat doctrines under the broad umbrella of Imperium dogma. When the Ghosts reach open battle with the elite Jantine Patricians, there's a tangible sense of the stakes \u2014 on both sides.\""}, {"text": "El Castillo del Terror (2019) (Spanish for \"The Tower of Terror\") iwas a major professional wrestling event, the eleventh annual \"El Castillo del Terror\" event, scripted and produced by the International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) that took place on October 31, 2019. IWRG has held their \"Castillo del Terror\" show since 2005, usually late in the year. As with the majority of the IWRG shows it will take place at Arena Naucalpan in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, the home of IWRG. The main event is the eponymous \"Castillo del Terror\" Steel cage match where the last person eliminated would be forced to unmasked per the \"Lucha de Apuestas\", or \"bet match\", stipulation. In the main event, 12 men (Ave Rex, Drag\u00f3n Bane, Imposible, El Hijo de Canis Lupus, Dinamic Black, Toxin, Aramis, Rel\u00e1mpago, Capo del Norte, Tortuga Leo, \u00c1ngel Tormenta and Death Metal) risked their mask in a steel cage match where the last wrestler remaining will be forced to unmask. In the end \u00c1ngel Tormenta was the last man in the cage as El Hijo de Canis Lupus climbed out. \u00c1ngel Tormenta unmasked afterwards and revealed that his real name was Jorge Alberto Flores Perez and he had been"}, {"text": "a professional wrestler for three years at that point. The show also featured a \"Super Libre\" match between \"Los Traumas\" (Trauma I and Trauma II) and \"Los Lucha Brothers\" (Penta el 0M (Rey F\u00e9nix), in which \"Los Lucha Brothers\" won by disqualification. Production. Background. Starting as far back as at least 2002, the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; Sometimes referred to as \"Grupo Internacional Revoluci\u00f3n\" in Spanish) has held several annual events where the main event was a multi-man steel cage match where the last wrestler left in the cage would be forced to either remove their wrestling mask or have their hair shaved off under \"Lucha de Apuestas\", or \"bet match\", rules. From 2005 IWRG has promoted a fall show, around the Mexican Day of the Death, under the name \"El Castillo del Terror\" (\"The Tower of Terror\"), to distinguish it from other Steel cage matches held throughout the year such as the \"IWRG Guerra del Golfo\" (\"Gulf War\"), \"IWRG Guerra de Sexos\" (\"War of the Sexes\"), or \"IWRG Prisi\u00f3n Fatal\" (\"Deadly Prison\") shows. The \"Castillo del Terror\" shows, as well as the majority of the IWRG shows in general, are held in \"Arena Naucalpan\", owned"}, {"text": "by the promoters of IWRG and their main arena. The 2019 \"Castillo del Terror\" show will be the 15th year in a row that IWRG has promoted a show under that name. Storylines. The El Castillo del Terror event featured six professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed themselves as either heels (referred to as \"rudos\" in Mexico, those that portray the \"bad guys\") or faces (\"t\u00e9cnicos\" in Mexico, the \"good guy\" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in wrestling matches."}, {"text": "Lost Wisdom pt. 2 is the second collaborative studio album by Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron. It was released on November 8, 2019. Like the previous two Mount Eerie albums, it concerns the death of Genevi\u00e8ve Castr\u00e9e, the first wife of Mount Eerie's principal member Phil Elverum, as well as his recent divorce from Michelle Williams. The album is a sequel to the 2008 collaborative album \"Lost Wisdom\". Background and composition. In 2015, four months after the birth of their first child, Phil Elverum's wife, Canadian cartoonist and musician Genevi\u00e8ve Castr\u00e9e, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She died at their home in Anacortes, Washington, on July 9, 2016. In 2018 he married actress Michelle Williams. Around the same time, Elverum moved from his longtime residence in Anacortes to Williams' home in Brooklyn. The couple separated in January 2019, and filed for divorce in April 2019. Following the split, Elverum moved back to Washington state, after having lived in New York for about nine months. By November 2019, it was reported that they were no longer married. Recording took place between May 26 and June 1, 2019. Due to Elverum recording the album with the door open, natural sounds such as"}, {"text": "breaths, birds, jackhammering and night air are featured throughout the album. The majority of the album was written in the space of the three weeks before recording. When it came to the writing of the album Phil Elverum was quoted as saying The entirety of the lyrics were Elverum's creation as were a majority of the melodies. Doiron wrote all the melodies performed by her. By the time of Doiron's inclusion all the songs were nearing completion. Their collaboration was the result of touring together and years of discussion. Elverum knew that he wanted to make the record with Doiron and enlisted her help before he had created any of the songs and so quickly created first drafts before her arrival. Release and promotion. Two singles were released ahead of the album. \"Love Without Possession\" was released on September 25, 2019, with \"Pitchfork\" writing that \"it is a calm, clear-eyed meditation on love as a word, a mythology, and a natural event with the power to devastate and heal\". The second single \"Belief pt. 2\" was released on October 22, 2019. In a press statement, Phil Elverum was quoted as saying \"'Belief pt. 2' is the last song on the"}, {"text": "album. It comes at the end of a meandering path through uncertainty, devotion, sad reminiscence, hopeful idealism; songs coursing over uneven terrain.\" Reception. \"Lost Wisdom Pt. 2\" received generally positive reviews upon release. Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album has received an average score of 79 based on 12 critics, indicating \"generally favourable reviews\". Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave \"Lost Wisdom pt.2\" 7.9 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. Laura Snapes of \"The Guardian\" called the album \"A set of disconcertingly painful songs\" and that \"it may be the rare album that works better on paper\". Patrick Clarke of \"NME\" stated that \"Elverum shares a complicated and conflicted headspace with masterful simplicity, conveying a mood that sways from calmness to anxiety, from warm nostalgia to stinging regret.\" Heather Phares of Allmusic stated that \"its songs have stretched out a bit to encompass more grief and more hope. As Elverum bridges the gap between the in-the-moment confessions of \"A Crow Looked at Me\" and \"Now Only\".\" Matthew Neale of \"Consequence of Sound\" found that \"In spite of those fleeting moments of discord, \"Lost Wisdom Pt. 2\" is an"}, {"text": "extraordinarily rewarding listen\" with particular praise to the track \"Widows\" stating that \"\u201cWidows\u201d is superb, the only moment on the record when cymbals crash and guitars churn, a reminder that the Mount Eerie project is still capable of producing moments of exhilaration with the most basic building blocks\" although did admit that its presence on the album was jarring. In regards to the best aspect of the album, Eric Hill of \"Exclaim\" wrote that it was \"how Elverum manages to merge his recent more plainspoken diary-style with the elegiac and alchemical metaphors of his early voice\"; he also praised the exploration of the theme of love on the album. Harry Todd of \"Paste\" noted how the album \"harkens back to his earlier work\", he also said that it \"feels like a quiet revelation... which finds Elverum reckoning with a reinvigorated loneliness.\" Grayson Haver Currin of Pitchfork described the album as \"a moment of astounding grace for a world always in need of more.\" Jonathan Bernstein of \"Rolling Stone\" wrote that \"Elverum is still meditating on grief and grace with poignancy on this hyper-literal album\", he also praised the chemistry of Elverum and Doiron writing that \"Elverum and Doiron work together"}, {"text": "with an intimacy that conveys a lifetime of collaboration and creation.\" Daniel Bromfield of \"Spectrum Culture\" called the album \"a portrait of a mind in flux\" and that \"it's a treat to hear Elverum up to his old hijinks again.\" The inclusion of Doiron had a generally positive reception. Heather Phares of AllMusic complimented Doiron's inclusion saying that \"Doiron helps him convey how layered his loss is.\" As did Harry Todd of \"Paste\", stating that \"Doiron comments like a Greek chorus... just as much as she sounds like a cathartic unconscious. Drifting in and out of spectral harmonizing on each of the album's eight tracks, Doiron's simmering soprano always adds impactful texture while still knowing when to let Elverum sing alone\". Grayson Haver Currin of \"Pitchfork\" shared similar feelings writing that \"Doiron's presence is a welcome balm, warming these cold realizations and offering Elverum a steadying hand for some of the most difficult moments.\" Matthew Neale of \"Consequence of Sound\" on the other hand while liking her vocals in some moments also felt like her inclusion could feel \"intrusive\" and \"frequently sound awkward and uneven.\" Personnel. Production"}, {"text": "The 1914\u201315 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team (variously \"North Carolina\", \"Carolina\" or \"Tar Heels\") was the fifth varsity college basketball team to represent the University of North Carolina. Roster and schedule. !colspan=6 style=\"background:#4B9CD3; color:#FFFFFF;\"| Regular season"}, {"text": "The Virgin and Child with Two Angels is a panel painting by the Italian artist Cimabue in egg tempera on a poplar panel, dated to c. 1280. It has been held by the National Gallery in London since 2000. The painting measures . It depicts the Virgin and Child seated together on a throne, accompanied by two angels with long feathered wings. The composition is based on Byzantine models, but modified for a Western European audience: the throne has become three-dimensional, and the figures of the Virgin and Child are more human and less stylised than similar traditional Byzantine icons such as the Hodegetria. The panel was rediscovered at Benacre Hall near Lowestoft in Suffolk in 2000, after the death of Sir John Gooch, 12th Baronet, as the contents of the house were being prepared for an auction sale. It may have been acquired in Florence in the early 19th century by his ancestor, Sir Edward Gooch, 6th Baronet, and survived a fire at the house in the 1920s. It is one of three known panels from a polyptych depicting the Passion of Christ. From its physical characteristics, it was the top left of four panels on the left leaf"}, {"text": "of a diptych, and it quickly became apparent from its size, style and method that it was almost identical to a panel held by the Frick Collection in New York since 1950, \"The Flagellation of Christ\". The discovery of this panel encouraged a change in the attribution of the Frick panel from Duccio to Cimabue. A third panel, \"The Mocking of Christ\", was found in France in 2019, and auctioned for 24 million euros. The panel was put up for sale and was expected to sell for \u00a310 million, but before it was sold it was accepted in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Gallery. The heirs were granted a \u00a36.5 million tax exemption, and a donation from Sir John Paul Getty Jr. allowed the gallery to pay a further \u00a3700,000. The other contents of the hall were sold in May 2000 for \u00a38.3 million, a record for a country house sale in the UK."}, {"text": "Hsu Szu-chien () is a Taiwanese political scientist who has served as the Deputy Secretary-General of Taiwan's National Security Council since 11 June 2020. Education. Hsu obtained a B.A. in political science from National Taiwan University in 1985, then completed advanced studies in the United States, where he earned a M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1990, 1995, and 1997, respectively. His doctoral dissertation was titled, \"The Impact of Rural Industrialization on Bureaucratic Rationalization of Local Government in Rural China\". Career. Upon returning from the United States after completing his PhD, Hsu became an assistant professor in the Institute of Mainland China Studies of Chinese Culture University in 1997\u20131998. He then became the assistant research fellow of the 3rd Research Center of the Institute of International Relations of National Chengchi University in 1998\u20132003. He then joined Academia Sinica and became the assistant research fellow of the Preparatory Office for the Institute of Political Science in 2003-2012 and of the Institute of Political Science in 2012\u20132017. In 2003, he joined National Tsing Hua University to become assistant professor of the Master Program of China Studies until 2017."}, {"text": "\"L'\u00e9cole est finie\" (English translation: \"School is out\") is a song by French singer Sheila. She released it in 1962, at the age of 16. Written, published and produced by young , the song sold over 1 million copies and effectively kick-started his career in the music business. Lyrics. The song reflected contempt for studying among young people and the wantings of enjoying a fun summer vacation break instead."}, {"text": "Governor Clifford may refer to:"}, {"text": "A flexible work arrangement (FWA) empowers an employee to choose what time they begin to work, where to work, and when they will stop work. The idea is to help manage work-life balance and benefits of FWA can include reduced employee stress and increased overall job satisfaction. On the contrary, some refrain from using their FWA as they fear the lack of visibility can negatively affect their career. Overall, this type of arrangement has a positive effect on incompatible work/family responsibilities, which can be seen as work affecting family responsibilities or family affecting work responsibilities. FWA is also helpful to those who have a medical condition or an intensive care-giving responsibility, where without FWA, part-time work would be the only option. History. The concept was first proposed in 1960 by Christel Kammerer, a German management consultant in West Germany. It was first implemented by the German aerospace firm Messarschmilt-Boklow-Blohm in 1967. It was not until the 1970s that FWA practices were first implemented in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Beneficiaries. Employer: Employee: Gender role theory and access to FWA. Gender role theory. According to gender role theory, society places different roles on women and men simply based"}, {"text": "on their biological sex (gender-stereotyping). Given the competing forces working-women face between their jobs and home, FWA are made very appealing. FWA also has the ability to encourage men to play a care-giving role as they have equal access to the program. Over the past few years, more women than men using FWA (58% compared with 42%). Access considerations. FWA tend to favour those in full-time, salaried positions and male-dominated workplaces or industries. While in the male-dominated workplace, there seems to be equitable access, in female-dominated workplaces, both the women and men are less likely to have schedule control. It is argued this is due to female-dominated workplaces having low-paying roles and unfavourable working conditions. Policy implications. -Based on the access considerations, it is argued that the group whom most needs FWA, may not be able to get access to it. -FWA is important as it is attributed as a variable to help close the Gender pay gap and can assist in maintaining a women's labour market position after giving birth. -Further research is being conducted by the European Commission (2017), which seeks to identify why an employer may reject a request for a FWA. -Flexibility can be seen as"}, {"text": "a substitute as compensation."}, {"text": "Union (Horse with Two Discs) is a bronze sculpture by Christopher Le Brun, made in 1999\u20132000 in an edition of three large casts. It depicts a horse standing square on four legs, flanked on either side by a large disc. The sculpture measures . One cast has been displayed on the highwalk at London Wall, beside the entrance to the Museum of London, since 2005. A second cast is held in a private collection, but it has been exhibited in the gardens of at D\u00f6rentrup, in Germany. The third and final cast is displayed at the New Art Centre, at Roche Court in Wiltshire."}, {"text": "Passey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "\"I Believe in Nashville\" (also, \"I Believe in Nashville Mural\" ) is a series of painted murals started in 2012 by the artist Adrien Saporiti, a Nashville native. The mural, which started in one location, has since been replicated on several walls throughout the city of Nashville. It has become a popular tourist destination and scene to pose for Instagram photos, having appeared on the photo-sharing platform over one million times. History and creation. The first instance of the mural went up in the 12 South neighborhood of Nashville in March 2012. The piece is simple and described as \"minimal... (with) three bold colors and four simple words.\" Part of the artwork's meaning is conveyed through its simplicity, which makes the message of Nashville pride very apparent while also drawing on the colors and tristar of the Tennessee State Flag. Prior to the creation of the mural, Nashville suffered historic flooding during the 2010 Tennessee floods. The mural has been described as a monument to the city's resilience in the aftermath of flood damage and its transformation into one of the \"It Cities\" of the United States. Vandalism. Because of the mural's popularity, it has become a high-profile target for"}, {"text": "vandalism. The mural is known to have been vandalized at least three times. The first vandalization involved black tar being dumped on top of the mural in March 2017, shortly before the mural's fifth year anniversary. The second vandalization occurred just over four months later in July 2017. This time, a globe was painted over the center tristar, while the words \"Global Warming\" were painted over the word \"Nashville,\" resulting in the mural saying \"I Believe in Global Warming,\" in an apparent desire to draw attention to climate change. Three people were later charged for the defacement. The third instance of vandalism occurred in August 2018, where the word \"Nashville\" was changed to \"rack,\" likely in reference to either the slang term of money or women's breasts since the vandalism was performed by a teenage boy. Locations. Murals have a tradition of using their location and presence to send messages, often political, to passersby. While Saporiti claims he was not trying to send any sort of political message other \"than to maybe bring people together,\" the mural locations are deliberately placed on brick buildings reminiscent of \"old\" Nashville in parts of the city that are undergoing rapid growth and transformation,"}, {"text": "such as 12 South or East Nashville. Three official versions of the mural have been created. The original is located on the Howell's Alley building at 2700 12th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37204. Later versions, created by Saporiti's DCXV Industries, include a wider version at Marathon Music Works (1402 Clinton St., Nashville, TN 37203) and a smaller version at the music venue Basement East in East Nashville at 917 Woodland St., Nashville, TN 37206. The latter mural survived the Basement East's substantial destruction in the Tornado outbreak of March 2\u20133, 2020. Cultural influence. Because of the nature of murals as an art form being painted on buildings and walls, murals often can transcend their mediums and represent shared social beliefs. The mural has quickly become one of the most iconic symbols of Nashville. Its pop-culture references include the newspaper the \"Wall Street Journal\", the magazine \"GQ\", a music video from artist Hayden Panettiere, a Pepsi commercial, and the TV show \"American Pickers\". Additionally, famous celebrities such as Brett Eldredge and Miranda Lambert have worn merchandise depicting the mural, which has spawned its own website and brand. The \"I Believe in Nashville\" mural is part of a greater trend of increasingly"}, {"text": "visible street art appearing in Nashville, which is often sponsored by businesses who see the murals as a way of branding their company or creating buzz around their space. The Mural has become one of Nashville's standout murals in a city where street art has become part of the culture. Reproductions and Philanthropic contributions. The original version is sold on different hats, mugs, shirts, and other memorabilia by the I Believe in Nashville company. Because of its simplicity, the design of the mural lends itself not only to reproduction but to be changed and copied to fit different promotional causes. These changes typically occur through changing the color scheme, the symbol in the middle of the design, and the word along the bottom. An interpretation of the mural can be found on Bridgestone Arena building, home of the Nashville Predators hockey team called \"I Believe in Smashville,\" which combines the overall layout of the original with the color scheme of the Nashville Predators. In 2020 a devastating tornado tore through Middle Tennessee. Affecting Nashville's 12 South area, the tornado caused severe damage to the murals The Basement East location, while the mural itself was left standing. Through the sale of"}, {"text": "\"I Believe in Nashville\" t-shirt proceeds, Richard Egan( Owner of IBIN brand) and Tim Gerst, were able to raise and donate over $1 millions dollars in disaster relief funds. Artist Brantley Gilbert collaborated with the I Believe in Nashville team, to promote the sales of \"I Believe in Heroism\" t-shirts, meant to benefit James Shaw Jr., hero of the Nashville Waffle House shooting. An \"I Believe in California\" version was created and sold on t-shirts to benefit victims of the 2018 California wildfires."}, {"text": "Cluff Apartments, also known as Bennett Apartments and Hillview Apartments, is a historic building in northeastern Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, that is located within the University Neighborhood Historic District, but is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Description. The building was constructed in 1911 for the Cluff Investment Company by W.C.A. Vissing, \"one of the most active developers of apartment buildings in Salt Lake City during the pre-World War I period\", and designed in the Colonial Revival and Classical Revival styles. It was renamed Bennett Apartments in 1936, twelve years after it was acquired by William H. Bennett and his wife Jennie, and Hillview Apartments in 1947. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 20, 1989. Vissing also was involved with the Cornell Apartments, which are also National Register-listed."}, {"text": "Prajakt Prasadrao Tanpure (born 13 September 1976) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. Prajakt Tanpure is elected as member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in Vidhan Sabha Elections 2019. He represents the Rahuri-Nagar- Pathardi constituency."}, {"text": "Weggeland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Marty Small Sr. (born March 25, 1974) is an American politician who has served as mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, since 2019. He was appointed by an 8\u20130 vote of the Atlantic City City Council after previous mayor Frank Gilliam. He was elected outright in 2020 to a partial term, and was re-elected the following year to a full term. Background. Small was first elected to the Atlantic City City Council as the 2nd Ward councilman in 2003. In 2006 Small was charged with election fraud regarding an alleged absentee ballot scheme. Again, in 2011, he was charged with election fraud concerning the 2009 Atlantic City mayoral election along with five other Democrats. He was acquitted on both charges. Small claims that the election-related arrests were politically motivated. Small's tenure in the City Council ran from January 1, 2004, to October 3, 2019, when the acting mayor Frank Gilliam resigned, making Small the mayor of the city. In 2017, Small narrowly lost to Frank Gilliam in the Democratic primary for Atlantic City mayor. Following the resignation of previous Atlantic City mayor Frank Gilliam, the city council voted to appoint Small as mayor. He served for an unexpired term through"}, {"text": "December 31, 2020, pending a special election in November 2020. In November 2020, he was re-elected for an additional one-year term and in November 2021, he won his first four-year term as mayor. Personal life. Small attended Atlantic City High School, where he played basketball. He received a Bachelor of Arts in communications from Stockton University in New Jersey. He and his wife La'Quetta Small, superintendent of the Atlantic City School District, have two children. On April 15, 2024, Small was charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, third-degree terroristic threats, third-degree aggravated assault and disorderly persons simple assault. The alleged victim is Small's teenage daughter. On September 17, 2024, Small was indicted on second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, third-degree charges of terroristic threats, and aggravated assault."}, {"text": "Lourdes Elizabeth Ortiz Vallejos (born 1 July 1987) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward. She was a member of the Paraguay women's national team and of the national U20 squad. International career. Ortiz represented Paraguay at the 2006 South American U-20 Women's Championship. At senior level, she played in three Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina editions (2006, 2010 and 2014). International goals. \"Scores and results list Paraguay's goal tally first\""}, {"text": "Possible Cube is an album by Chicago Underground Trio which was recorded in 1999 and released on the Delmark label. Reception. In his review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos states: \"the trio weaves in and out of improvisations and written passages quite effectively and holds a certain degree of interest if one pays close attention. ... This second recording from the Trio shows no lack of imagination or resolve, though the pure musical content might leave some creative music listeners wanting for the third, hopefully breakthrough effort that must come from these talented, challenged sonic explorers\". Adam Shatz of \"The New York Times\" wrote: \"This graceful collage of free jazz and art rock has refreshingly little in common with the electric jazz of Miles Davis, whose ghost tends to hover over such experiments. Instead of looking to funk for inspiration, the trio delves into the ethereal textures of modern electronica. And the astonishing thing is that the record doesn't sound like an experiment. Where most jazz-rock fusions feel awkwardly hyphenated, this one is naturally hybrid.\" \"The Wire\" included the album in their \"1999 Rewind\" listing the 50 best albums of the year. Track listing. All compositions by Rob Mazurek except"}, {"text": "where noted"}, {"text": "Shuaibu Isa Lau (born 27 November 1960) is a Nigerian Politician who has served as the senator representing the Taraba North senatorial district since 2017. He is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Early life and education. Shuaibu Isa Lau was born in Lau in present-day Taraba State on 27 November 1960 into the family of Alhaji Isa Ali and Hajji Zainab Isa Ali. He started his educational journey at Local Education Authority Primary School Lau, from 1969 and 1975 and then General Murtala Muhammed College, Yola for his Ordinary Level School Certificate between 1975 and 1980. Thereafter, he proceeded to the School of Basic Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1980, and later to the faculty of Engineering where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Engineering in 1984. Political career. In 2015, Lau joined politics by contesting for the Taraba North senatorial seat under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party but Abubakar Sani Danladi maneuvered for the seat and was declared winner. He later sought redress in the court and won on 23 June 2017 to become a member of 8th assembly in the Senate until June 2019. He was re-elected under the same political party,"}, {"text": "Peoples Democratic Party on 28 March 2019 where he polled 113, 580 votes to defeat his closest rival, Ahmed Yusuf (Gamaliya) of the All Progressives Congress who scored 111,412 votes to represent Taraba North for another four years. He was the Chairman of Senate Committee on Public Procurement at the 9th National Assembly of the Nigerian Senate. He was re-elected senator in 2023. Personal life. Lau is married to Hajia Fati Ibrahim Hassan Lau and blessed with children."}, {"text": "Governor Reynolds may refer to:"}, {"text": "Demba Steven Camara van Leeuwen (born 19 October 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Cypriot club Elia Lythrodonta. Born in the Netherlands, van Leeuwen represents the Mali national football team. Career. In September 2020, van Leeuwen joined Cypriot side APEA Akrotiri. International career. Van Leeuwen was born in the Netherlands to a Malian father and Dutch mother. He made his debut for the Mali national football team in a friendly 1\u20132 loss over South Africa on 13 October 2019."}]