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43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
the means by which organs may be harvested and/or transplanted. For example, Jehovah's Witnesses require that organs be drained of any blood due to their interpretation of the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament as prohibiting blood transfusion, and Muslims require that the donor have provided written c... | 32,600 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
permitted in the case of irreversible cardiac rhythm cessation. In some cases, rabbinic authorities believe that organ donation may be mandatory, whereas a minority opinion considers any donation of a live organ as forbidden.
# Organ shortfall.
The demand for organs significantly surpasses the number o... | 32,601 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
prevalence of high blood pressure and diabetes in a society, the need especially for kidneys rises every year.
, about 121,600 people in the United States are on the waiting list, although about a third of those patients are inactive and could not receive a donated organ. Wait times and success rates fo... | 32,602 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
and 18–24 months for a pancreas because demand for these organs substantially outstrips supply.
In Australia, there are 10.8 transplants per million people, about a third of the Spanish rate. The Lions Eye Institute, in Western Australia, houses the Lions Eye Bank. The Bank was established in 1986 and c... | 32,603 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
to addressing this shortfall include:
- Donor registries and "primary consent" laws, to remove the burden of the donation decision from the legal next-of-kin. Illinois adopted a policy of "mandated choice" in 2006, which requires driver's license registrants to answer the question "Do you want to be an ... | 32,604 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
'monetary incentives would increase the supply of organs for transplant sufficiently to eliminate the very large queues in organ markets, and the suffering and deaths of many of those waiting, without increasing the total cost of transplant surgery by more than 12 percent.'" Iran allows the sale of kidne... | 32,605 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
arbitrarily, or through market forces, diminishes human dignity."
- An opt-out system ("dissent solution"), in which a potential donor or his/her relatives must take specific action to be excluded from organ donation, rather than specific action to be included. This model is used in several European cou... | 32,606 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
document giving preferred access to their organs. "The proposal [for an organ mutual insurance pool] can be easily summarized: An individual would receive priority for any needed transplant if that individual agrees that his or her organs will be available to other members of the insurance pool in the ev... | 32,607 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
or organ-preserving drugs (such as blood pressure drugs) to keep potential donors' organs viable until their suitability for transplants can be determined and family consent (if needed) can be obtained. This practice increases transplant efficiency, as potential donors who are unsuitable due to infection... | 32,608 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
the Iranian kidney procurement system in order to better inform the debate over solving the organ shortfall in the United States.
# Distribution.
The United States has two agencies that govern organ procurement and distribution within the country. The United Network for Organ Sharing and the Organ Proc... | 32,609 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
developed a computer program that automatically generates donor specific match lists for suitable recipients based on the criteria that the patient was listed with. OPO coordinators enter donor information into the program and run the respective lists. Organ offers to potential recipients are made to tra... | 32,610 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
the donor hospital, blood type, medical urgency, wait time, donor size and tissue typing. For heart recipients medical urgency is denoted by a recipients "Status" (Status 1A, 1B and status 2). Lungs are allocated based on a recipients Lung Allocation Score (LAS) that is determined based on the urgency of... | 32,611 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
the donor HLA the match is said to be a 0 ABDR mismatch or zero antigen mismatch. A zero mismatch organ has a low rate of rejection and allows a recipient to be on lower doses of immunosuppressive drugs. Since zero mismatches have such high graft survival these recipients are afforded priority regardless... | 32,612 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
(ischemia). Each organ tolerates different ischemic times. Hearts and lungs need to be transplanted within 4–6 hours from recovery, liver about 8–10 hours and pancreas about 15 hours; kidneys are the most resilient to ischemia. Kidneys packaged on ice can be successfully transplanted 24–36 hours after re... | 32,613 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
distances procurement teams may travel to recover an organ.
# Suicide.
People committing suicide have a higher rate of donating organs than average. One reason is lower negative response or refusal rate by the family and relatives, but the explanation for this remains to be clarified. In addition, dona... | 32,614 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
providing optimal opportunities for organ transplantation.
# Controversies.
In 2008, California transplant surgeon Hootan Roozrokh was charged with dependent adult abuse for prescribing what prosecutors alleged were excessive doses of morphine and sedatives to hasten the death of a man with adrenal leu... | 32,615 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
organization representative pressed her to declare a patient brain-dead before the appropriate tests had been done. In September 1999, eBay blocked an auction for "one functional human kidney" which had reached a highest bid of $5.7 million. Under United States federal laws, eBay was obligated to dismiss... | 32,616 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
trading is banned in Singapore and in many other countries to prevent the exploitation of "poor and socially disadvantaged donors who are unable to make informed choices and suffer potential medical risks." Toni, 27, the other accused, donated a kidney to an Indonesian patient in March, alleging he was t... | 32,617 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
perceive their freedom threatened and will react to restore the freedom. According to Ashley Anker, the use of transportation theory has a positive effect on target reactions by marketing attempts. When public service announcements use recipient-focused messages, targets were more transported. Individual... | 32,618 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
By starting with promoting college students’ awareness of organ donation and moving to increasing social support for organ donation, the more likely people will be to register as organ donors.
The United States Department of Health funded a study by the University of Wisconsin Hospital to increase effor... | 32,619 |
43846 | Organ donation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Organ%20donation | Organ donation
ase efforts to increase awareness and the amount of registered donors by pursuing members of the university and their family and friends through social media. The results of the study showed a 20% increase in organ donation by creating support and awareness through social media.
# External links.
- Nat... | 32,620 |
2507271 | Roger Blin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Blin | Roger Blin
Roger Blin
Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director notable for staging world premieres of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" in 1953 and "Endgame" in 1957.
# Biography.
Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his... | 32,621 |
2507271 | Roger Blin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Blin | Roger Blin
film and theatre has been largely defined by his work and relationship with Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. In addition to being a close friend and confidant of Artaud during the latter's nine years of internment, he directed the first performances of Beckett's "Waiting For Godot", "Happy Days" and "E... | 32,622 |
2507271 | Roger Blin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Blin | Roger Blin
and "Catastrophe" is for Václav Havel.
# Selected filmography.
- "Street Without a Name" (1934)
- "The Citadel of Silence" (1937)
- "The Alibi" (1937)
- "The Curtain Rises" (1938)
- "The Lafarge Case" (1938)
- "Rasputin" (1938) - Young peasant
- "Adrienne Lecouvreur" (1938) - l'alchimiste
- "The Tru... | 32,623 |
2507271 | Roger Blin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Blin | Roger Blin
- "Street Without a Name" (1934)
- "The Citadel of Silence" (1937)
- "The Alibi" (1937)
- "The Curtain Rises" (1938)
- "The Lafarge Case" (1938)
- "Rasputin" (1938) - Young peasant
- "Adrienne Lecouvreur" (1938) - l'alchimiste
- "The Trump Card" (1942)
- "Colonel Chabert" (1943) - Un Clerc
- "Le Cor... | 32,624 |
2507283 | X/Open XA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X/Open%20XA | X/Open XA
X/Open XA
In computing, the X/Open XA standard (short for "eXtended Architecture") is a specification released in 1991 by X/Open (which later merged with The Open Group) for distributed transaction processing (DTP).
# Goals.
The goal of XA is to guarantee atomicity in "global transactions" that are execute... | 32,625 |
2507283 | X/Open XA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X/Open%20XA | X/Open XA
or do not ("roll back"), i.e., "atomically".
# Architecture.
Specifically, XA describes the interface between a global transaction manager and a specific application. An application that wants to use XA engages an XA transaction manager using a library or separate service. The transaction manager tracks the... | 32,626 |
2507283 | X/Open XA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X/Open%20XA | X/Open XA
support XA (meaning the software can participate in XA transactions), including a variety of relational databases and message brokers.
# Advantages and Disadvantages.
Since XA uses two-phase commit, the advantages and disadvantages of that protocol generally apply to XA. The main advantage is that XA (using... | 32,627 |
2507283 | X/Open XA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X/Open%20XA | X/Open XA
manager to issue a decision about whether to commit or abort each transaction. If the transaction manager goes offline while transactions are waiting for its final decision, they will be stuck and hold their database locks until the transaction manager comes online again and issues its decision. This extended... | 32,628 |
2507283 | X/Open XA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X/Open%20XA | X/Open XA
decide whether to commit or abort (without waiting to hear from the transaction manager), but this risks violating the atomicity guarantee and is therefore reserved for emergencies.
# Specification.
The XA specification describes what a resource manager must do to support transactional access. Resource mana... | 32,629 |
2507283 | X/Open XA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X/Open%20XA | X/Open XA
commit or abort (without waiting to hear from the transaction manager), but this risks violating the atomicity guarantee and is therefore reserved for emergencies.
# Specification.
The XA specification describes what a resource manager must do to support transactional access. Resource managers that follow t... | 32,630 |
2507277 | 1928 New Zealand general election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1928%20New%20Zealand%20general%20election | 1928 New Zealand general election
1928 New Zealand general election
The New Zealand general election of 1928 was held on 13 and 14 November in the Māori and European electorates, respectively, to elect 80 MPs to the 23rd session of the New Zealand Parliament.
1928 was the year postal voting was introduced for certain... | 32,631 |
2507277 | 1928 New Zealand general election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1928%20New%20Zealand%20general%20election | 1928 New Zealand general election
80 electorates were contested. 47 and 29 electorates were in the North Island and South Island, respectively, plus the 4 Māori electorates.
In 1927, a faction of the decaying Liberal Party formed a new organisation, which was eventually named the United Party. In 1928, to the consider... | 32,632 |
2507277 | 1928 New Zealand general election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1928%20New%20Zealand%20general%20election | 1928 New Zealand general election
and one favoured neither.
The electorate went to Harold Rushworth of the Country Party after a recount of the votes, but the election was declared void January 1929. Rushworth won the resulting by-election. This marked the Country Party's first entry into Parliament, where it would re... | 32,633 |
2507277 | 1928 New Zealand general election | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1928%20New%20Zealand%20general%20election | 1928 New Zealand general election
were assembled yesterday in Wellington when Sir Joseph Ward accepted the leadership of the party. It had previously been decided, by unanimous resolution, that the party should go to the polls as "The United Party"...
"The Evening Post" newspaper reported on the same day that:
The Rt... | 32,634 |
2507295 | Schanzenfeld | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schanzenfeld | Schanzenfeld
Schanzenfeld
Schanzenfeld is a small community about 1 km south of Winkler, Manitoba, Canada. It is located in the Rural Municipality of Stanley. Largely a Mennonite community, its close vicinity to Winkler has made it a suburb of the much larger City of Winkler. The village was named after Jacob Yost Sha... | 32,635 |
2507295 | Schanzenfeld | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schanzenfeld | Schanzenfeld
81. It opened a post office ion 21-2-4W in 1884 but it was soon moved to Winkler on 4-3-4W. The community was on 16-2-4W and 21-2-4W while the school district was located at SW22-2-4W.
# Divide.
The community has two parts to it, "New Germany" and "Old Schanzenfeld", because of all the German immigrants ... | 32,636 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
Lake-effect snow
Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water. The lower layer of air, heated up by the lake water, picks up water vapor from the lake and rises up through the colder air above; the vapor then fre... | 32,637 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
many inches of snow each hour, often resulting in a large amount of total snowfall.
The areas affected by lake-effect snow are called snowbelts. These include areas east of the Great Lakes, the west coasts of northern Japan, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, and areas near the Great Salt Lake, Black ... | 32,638 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
is low enough to keep the precipitation frozen, it falls as lake-effect snow. If not, then it falls as lake-effect rain. For lake-effect rain or snow to form, the air moving across the lake must be significantly cooler than the surface air (which is likely to be near the temperature of the water surfac... | 32,639 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
Formation.
There are some key elements that are required to form lake-effect precipitation and which determine its characteristics: instability, fetch, wind shear, upstream moisture, upwind lakes, synoptic (large)-scale forcing, orography/topography, and snow or ice cover.
## Instability.
A temperat... | 32,640 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
synoptic environment; a deeper convective depth with increasingly steep lapse rates and a suitable moisture level will allow for thicker, taller lake effect precipitation clouds and naturally a much greater precipitation rate.
## Fetch.
The distance that an air mass travels over a body of water is ca... | 32,641 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
move from the water to the air. As the air mass reaches the other side of the lake, the engine of rising and cooling water vapor pans itself out in the form of condensation and falls as snow, usually within of the lake but sometimes up to about 100 miles.
## Wind shear.
Directional shear is one of th... | 32,642 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
the body of water and the vertical height at which the pressure measures is between 30 and 60 degrees, weak lake-effect bands are possible. In environments where the shear is less than 30 degrees, strong, well organized bands can be expected.
Speed shear is less critical, but should be relatively unif... | 32,643 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
lower upstream relative humidity will make it more difficult and time consuming for lake effect condensation, clouds and precipitation to form. The opposite is true if the upstream moisture has a high relative humidity, allowing lake effect condensation, cloud and precipitation to form more readily and... | 32,644 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
mixing and the convective depth, while cold air advection lowers the temperature and increases instability.
## Orography and topography.
Typically lake-effect precipitation will increase with elevation to the lee of the lake as topographic forcing squeezes out precipitation and dries out the squall m... | 32,645 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
a complete freeze is often not necessary.
Even when precipitation is not produced, cold air passing over warmer water may produce cloud cover. Fast moving mid-latitude cyclones, known as Alberta clippers, often cross the Great Lakes. After the passage of a cold front, winds tend to switch to the north... | 32,646 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
are almost constantly overcast, leading to the use of the term "The Great Gray Funk" as a synonym for winter. These areas allegedly contain populations that suffer from high rates of seasonal affective disorder, a type of psychological depression thought to be caused by lack of light.
# Great Lakes re... | 32,647 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
affected areas include the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Central New York, Western New York, Northwestern Pennsylvania, Northeastern Ohio, southwestern Ontario and central Ontario, Northeastern Illinois (along the shoreline of Lake Michigan), northwestern and north central Indiana (mostly between Gary a... | 32,648 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
the United States. Tug Hill receives, on average, over of snow each winter. In February 2007, a prolonged lake-effect snow event left of snow on the Tug Hill Plateau. Syracuse, New York, directly south of the Tug Hill Plateau, receives significant lake-effect snow from Lake Ontario, and averages of sno... | 32,649 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
stretching from the eastern suburbs of Cleveland through Erie to Buffalo. Remnants of lake-effect snows from Lake Erie have been observed to reach as far south as Garrett County, Maryland and as far east as Geneva, New York. Because it's not as deep as the other lakes, Erie warms rapidly in the spring ... | 32,650 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
in the United States exists on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, near the cities of Houghton, Marquette, and Munising. These areas average of snow each season. For comparison, on the western shore, Duluth, Minnesota receives per season. Lake Superior and Lake Huron rarely freeze because of their size an... | 32,651 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
many communities in this area. The Keweenaw Peninsula averages more snowfall than almost anywhere in the United States—more than anywhere east of the Mississippi River and the most of all non-mountainous regions of the continental United States. Because of the howling storms across Lake Superior, which... | 32,652 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
County, Michigan collects unofficial data in a community called Delaware, and it strictly follows the guidelines set forth by the National Weather Service. This station averages over per season. Even farther north, a ski resort called Mount Bohemia receives an unofficial annual average of . Herman, Mic... | 32,653 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
significantly before Lansing or Fort Wayne, Indiana. When winds become northerly, or aligned between 330 and 390 degrees, a single band of lake-effect snow may form, which extends down the length of Lake Michigan. This long fetch often produces a very intense, yet localized, area of heavy snowfall, aff... | 32,654 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
the lake as it travels west, creating a phenomenon called lake-enhanced precipitation.
## Ontario, Canada.
Because Southwestern Ontario is surrounded by water on three sides, many parts of Southwestern and Central Ontario get a large part of their winter snow from lake-effect snow. This region is not... | 32,655 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
Huron and Georgian Bay. So long as the Great Lakes are not frozen over, the only time the Bruce Peninsula does not get lake-effect snow is when the wind is directly from the south.
Toronto and Hamilton are usually spared lake-effect squalls because they are not on the leeward side of Lake Ontario duri... | 32,656 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
south of the Great Lakes.
When the wind is from the north, the snowbelt runs north-south from Grand Bend to Sarnia and London. Areas such as Lucan and Kincardine have experienced some of the heaviest snowsqualls from Lake Huron in this region. When the wind is slightly more westerly, the snowbelt runs... | 32,657 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
Barrie, and Orillia, and may even reach as far south and east as York Region in the Greater Toronto Area. When the wind is from the southwest, lake-effect streamers from Lake Huron and Georgian Bay run from Noelville to Sudbury, Gravenhurst, and Algonquin Provincial Park. Winds from this same direction... | 32,658 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
primarily affect the Niagara Peninsula. Local lake-effect snowsqualls can occasionally occur downwind of Lake Simcoe when the lake is unfrozen, usually in early winter or late fall.
Lake Superior has its own independent snowbelts, affecting Wawa, Sault Ste. Marie, Marathon, the Keweenaw Peninsula in U... | 32,659 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
The lake effect largely contributes to the annual snowfall amounts recorded south and east of the lake, and in average snowfall reaching in the Wasatch Range. The snow, which is often very light and dry because of the semi-arid climate, is referred to as "The Greatest Snow on Earth" in the mountains. L... | 32,660 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
occasions along Long Island.
The Finger Lakes of New York are long enough for lake-effect precipitation.
The Texas twin cities of Sherman and Denison are known, in rare instances, to have experienced lake-effect snow from nearby Lake Texoma due to the lake's size (it is the third-largest lake in Texa... | 32,661 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
snowfall as a result of lake effect from Lake Tahoe. Recent severe examples of this phenomenon have occurred as recently as 2004, dumping several feet of snow in the normally dry region.
The West Coast occasionally experiences ocean-effect showers, usually in the form of rain at lower elevations south... | 32,662 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
slopes of the Olympic Mountains, producing heavy, localized snow between Port Angeles and Sequim, as well as areas in Kitsap County and the Puget Sound region.
While snow of any type is very rare in Florida, the phenomenon of gulf-effect snow has been observed along the northern coast of the Gulf of M... | 32,663 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
snow as early as late October, and it is common throughout early to mid November. Towards the end of November the lakes sufficiently cool and begin to freeze ending the lake effect snow. A brief period of lake-effect snow is also common near Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territo... | 32,664 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
Reservoir, a man-made lake located in Labrador has on occasion generated lake-effect snow.
The Canadian Maritimes, specifically Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, are often affected by such snow squalls when an Arctic winter airmass moves over unfrozen waters. In PEI, sea-effect snow is often gener... | 32,665 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
to its extreme tidal currents.
The east coast of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, experiences occasional episodes of sea-effect snow during winter months due to cold easterly outflow winds from the British Columbia interior, typically through the Fraser Valley, crossing the always open wat... | 32,666 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
Sea of Japan.
Because the southern Black Sea is relatively warm (around 13 °C or 55 °F at the beginning of winter, typically 10 to 6 °C or 50 to 43 °F by the end), sufficiently cold air aloft can create significant snowfalls in a relatively short period of time. Due to its location on a peninsula betw... | 32,667 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
strong winds (lake-effect blizzard) left of snow in Istanbul. The snowfall in the eastern regions of the Black Sea is amplified by the orographic effect of the nearby Caucasus Mountains, often resulting in snowfall of several meters, especially at higher elevations.
In Northern Europe, cold, dry air m... | 32,668 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
Sea of Japan, other parts of Japan, as well as Korea and Scandinavia, experience these same conditions.
Because the Aegean Sea (Greece), is warm in the winter, when cold air masses from Siberia advance in the area, they pick up lots of moisture, resulting in heavy snowfalls in eastern Central Greece, ... | 32,669 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
Several blizzards have been reported in this region during the last decades. in Feb 2014 heavy snowfall reached two meters in the coast line in Gilan and Mazandaran provinces of Iran. The heaviest snowfall was reported in Abkenar village near Anzali Lagoon
# United Kingdom.
In the United Kingdom, eas... | 32,670 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
white Christmas of 2004 in the area, and most recently the heavy snowfall of 8 December 2017 and 30 January 2019. A similar phenomenon can affect the city of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, where cold north east winds cause heavy snow to form in the Moray Firth; this was the case with the White Ho... | 32,671 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
the beginning of winter, typically by the end), sufficiently cold air aloft can create significant snowfalls in a relatively short period of time. The best-known example occurred in January 1987, when record-breaking cold air (associated with an upper low) moved across the North Sea towards the UK. The... | 32,672 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
northern winds blowing across the relatively warm waters of the English Channel during cold spells can bring significant snowfall to the French region of Normandy, where snow drifts exceeding ten feet (3 m) were measured in March 2013.
# See also.
- Horizontal convective rolls
- Ontario Winter Lake ... | 32,673 |
43864 | Lake-effect snow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake-effect%20snow | Lake-effect snow
can bring significant snowfall to the French region of Normandy, where snow drifts exceeding ten feet (3 m) were measured in March 2013.
# See also.
- Horizontal convective rolls
- Ontario Winter Lake effect Systems (OWLeS)
- Planetary boundary layer
- Sea smoke
Warnings about lake-effect snow:
... | 32,674 |
2507281 | The King Is Dead (Family Guy) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20King%20Is%20Dead%20(Family%20Guy) | The King Is Dead (Family Guy)
The King Is Dead (Family Guy)
"The King Is Dead" is the seventh episode of the second season of the FOX animated series "Family Guy". It is the 14th episode of "Family Guy" to be aired. It was the last episode produced for season one but aired in season two.
# Plot summary.
Lois is name... | 32,675 |
2507281 | The King Is Dead (Family Guy) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20King%20Is%20Dead%20(Family%20Guy) | The King Is Dead (Family Guy)
Diane Simmons as Anna Leonowens, trying his best to make the play perfect for Lois and him.
Peter also adds material inspired by "The Jerry Springer Show" and "Flashdance". Later Lois finds everyone discussing on a "brilliant" idea Peter has had, the Siamese children (being children from ... | 32,676 |
2507281 | The King Is Dead (Family Guy) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20King%20Is%20Dead%20(Family%20Guy) | The King Is Dead (Family Guy)
fish and undone eggs). Peter's constant changes frustrate Diane into quitting, so he plays Anna himself.
Peter’s version of "The King and I" depicts a post-apocalyptic future set in the ruined world of 2015 after the ninth nuclear world war ("Akira" reference). The world "is a grim future... | 32,677 |
2507281 | The King Is Dead (Family Guy) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20King%20Is%20Dead%20(Family%20Guy) | The King Is Dead (Family Guy)
of America.
Lois attends the premiere, but to her surprise, the show is a hit. She then scolds the audience for applauding the show, claiming that the show is an example of pure trash. She seemingly embarrasses Peter, but Peter then lets out an astonishingly long fart on stage that everyo... | 32,678 |
2507281 | The King Is Dead (Family Guy) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20King%20Is%20Dead%20(Family%20Guy) | The King Is Dead (Family Guy)
she was not supportive of Peter's work, and also admits that the show must have been good in the way that people found it entertaining. Peter is touched by her words and promises to get her the job as director again next year, then immediately asks, "Hey, were you there when I farted?"
# ... | 32,679 |
2507281 | The King Is Dead (Family Guy) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20King%20Is%20Dead%20(Family%20Guy) | The King Is Dead (Family Guy)
show must have been good in the way that people found it entertaining. Peter is touched by her words and promises to get her the job as director again next year, then immediately asks, "Hey, were you there when I farted?"
# Reception.
In his 2008 review, Ahsan Haque of IGN, rating the ep... | 32,680 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli
Gian Franco Corsi "Franco" Zeffirelli (; 12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019) was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 till 2001 for the Italian centre-right "Forza Italia" party.
Some of his operatic designs and productions ... | 32,681 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
and international acclaim and is still frequently shown on Christmas and Easter in many countries.
A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977, Zeffirelli also received an honorary British knighthood in 2004 when he was created a KBE. He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the c... | 32,682 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
breezes" mentioned in Mozart's opera "Idomeneo", of which she was quite fond. However, it was misspelled in the register and became Zeffirelli. When he was six years old, his mother died and he subsequently grew up under the auspices of the English expatriate community and was particularly involved wi... | 32,683 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
University of Florence to study art and architecture. After World War II broke out, he fought as a partisan, before he met up with British soldiers of the 1st Scots Guards and became their interpreter. After the war, he re-entered the University of Florence to continue his studies, but when he saw Lau... | 32,684 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
and Roberto Rossellini. In the 1960s, he made his name designing and directing his own plays in London and New York City and soon transferred his ideas to cinema.
# Career.
## Film.
Zeffirelli's first film as director was a version of "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967), originally intended for Sophia... | 32,685 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
raise funds for the disaster appeal.
Zeffirelli's major breakthrough came the year after, when he presented two teenagers as "Romeo and Juliet" (1968). The movie is still immensely popular and was for many years the standard adaptation of the play shown to students. It also made Zeffirelli a househol... | 32,686 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
ever made".
After two successful film adaptations of Shakespeare, Zeffirelli went on to religious themes, first with a film about the life of St. Francis of Assisi titled "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" (1972), then his extended mini-series "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977) with an all-star cast. The latter was ... | 32,687 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
He returned to Shakespeare with "Hamlet" (1990), casting the then–action hero Mel Gibson in the lead role. His 1996 adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel "Jane Eyre" was a critical success.
Zeffirelli frequently cast unknown actors in major roles; however, his male leads have rarely gone on to sta... | 32,688 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
productions from the 1950s on in Italy and elsewhere in Europe as well as the United States. He began his career in the theatre as assistant to Luchino Visconti. Then he tried his hand at scenography. His first work as a director was buffo operas by Giacomo Rossini. He became a friend of Maria Callas ... | 32,689 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
Over the years he created several productions for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, including "La bohème", "Tosca", "Turandot" and "Don Giovanni".
# Honours.
In 1996, he was awarded an honorary degree for services to the arts by the University of Kent at a graduation ceremony held in Canterbury Ca... | 32,690 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
Zeffirelli roused accusations of antisemitism for describing Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" as a product of "that Jewish cultural scum of Los Angeles which is always spoiling for a chance to attack the Christian world."
Zeffirelli was a highly conservative Roman Catholic, and serve... | 32,691 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
again when he told a newspaper in 2006 that he had not suffered any harm from sexual abuse by a priest as a child.
# Personal life.
In 1996, Zeffirelli came out as gay, but thereafter preferred to be discreet about his personal life. Zeffirelli said that he considered himself "homosexual" rather tha... | 32,692 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
he based the lecherous character of Uncle Monty in the film "Withnail and I" on Zeffirelli.
In 2018, actor Johnathon Schaech alleged that Zeffirelli sexually assaulted him during the filming of "Storia di una capinera". Zeffirelli's son Giuseppe "Pippo" issued a statement at the time denying the alle... | 32,693 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
(1978) with Tatiana Troyanos and Plácido Domingo (live Metropolitan Opera House – stage director)
- "Pagliacci" (1978) with Teresa Stratas, Sherrill Milnes and Plácido Domingo (live Metropolitan Opera House – stage director)
- "Endless Love" (1981)
- "Cavalleria Rusticana" (1982) with Plácido Domin... | 32,694 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
foreign language film; with Plácido Domingo and Katia Ricciarelli
- "Young Toscanini" (1988)
- "Hamlet" (1990)
- "Don Giovanni" (live Metropolitan Opera – stage director)
- "Don Carlo" with Luciano Pavarotti and Daniela Dessi (live La Scala – stage director)
- "Storia di una capinera" (also known... | 32,695 |
43876 | Franco Zeffirelli | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franco%20Zeffirelli | Franco Zeffirelli
nd Daniela Dessi (live La Scala – stage director)
- "Storia di una capinera" (also known as "Sparrow"; 1993) with Sheherazade Ventura
- "Jane Eyre" (1996)
- "Tea with Mussolini" (1999)
- "Callas Forever" (2002)
# Bibliography.
- Zeffirelli, Franco; John Tooley (interviews by Anna Tims), "How we ... | 32,696 |
2507284 | Faina Ranevskaya | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faina%20Ranevskaya | Faina Ranevskaya
Faina Ranevskaya
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, - 19 July 1984), is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms.
She acted in plays by Anton Chekhov, Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Krylov, ... | 32,697 |
2507284 | Faina Ranevskaya | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faina%20Ranevskaya | Faina Ranevskaya
her performance in such films as "Pyshka" ("Boule de Suif"), "The Man in a Shell", "Mechta" ("Dream"), "Vesna" ("Spring"), "Cinderella", "Elephant and String" and many more.
# Biography.
She was born as Faina Feldman (Фельдман) to a wealthy Jewish family in the city of Taganrog. Her father, Girsch Ha... | 32,698 |
2507284 | Faina Ranevskaya | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faina%20Ranevskaya | Faina Ranevskaya
children in the family - two brothers and an older sister named Bella.
Faina Feldman attended the elementary school classes at the Mariinskaya Gymnasium for Girls, and then received regular home education. She was given music, singing, foreign languages lessons. Faina loved reading.
Her passion for t... | 32,699 |
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