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# Vonray
## Abstract
Vonray was an American alternative rock band from Orlando, Florida. Originally composed of brothers Vaughan and Dave Rhea, they went on to release three studio albums under the name VonRa and one major-label record as Vonray. The group disbanded in 2003 after being dropped from Elektra Records.
## Career
The group formed around singer-songwriter and guitarist Vaughan Rhea, originally from Tennessee, who had come to Orlando playing as an acoustic coffee shop act with his brother and co-lyricist Dave, on bass. Inspired by grunge music, the brothers put together a band and began playing somewhat harder-sounding tunes, though still acoustic-based. Soon after, the band was opening locally for national acts as they toured through Orlando venues such as Hard Rock Live and House of Blues. They released an independent debut album, Panes, as VonRa, in 1997. A second independent release, VonRa, followed in 1999, and a third, Fame, in 2001.
As major-label attention increased, the band scored a high-profile slot opening for fellow Florida-based rockers Creed, in the summer of 2002. The band was signed to Elektra Records in late 2002 and, under the moniker Vonray, saw their first major label release in early 2003. They charted a single hit in the US in 2002, with the song "Inside Out", which was featured on WB Network 's television show Smallville, on which the band made an appearance, as well as its soundtrack. "Inside Out" subsequently peaked at no. 31 on Billboard 's US Top 40 Mainstream chart and no. 32 on Billboard ' s US Hot Adult Top 40 chart. A second single, "I'll Show You", followed but received little promotion from the label and failed to chart. Due to Elektra then merging with Atlantic Records, promotion for the band all but ceased, and they were dropped from the label soon after. Rhea and the band went on hiatus in October 2003.
Due to the success of an online petition, a fan-demanded reunion show happened in September 2007 at Hard Rock Live Orlando.
## Band members
- Vaughan Rhea – vocals, guitar
- Dave Rhea – bass, backing vocals
- Todd Hackenburg – guitar
- Garrett Coleman – guitar, backing vocals
- Jeff Irizarry – drums
## Discography
Studio albums
EPs
- Live at Sapphire Supper Club (as VonRa, 1998)
Singles
Music videos
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DJ Arafat
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# DJ Arafat
## Abstract
Ange Didier Houon (26 January 1986 – 12 August 2019), known professionally as DJ Arafat and various other stage names, was an Ivorian disc jockey and singer who made music in the Coupé-Décalé genre. "Jonathan", "202", "Dosabado", "Kpangor", "Zoropoto" and "Enfant Beni" were some of his major hits. He was popular in French-speaking countries in Africa, and won Best Artist of the Year at both the 2016 and 2017 Coupé-Decalé Awards. He died in a motorcycle accident on 12 August 2019.
## Life and career
Arafat was born as Ange Didier Houon on 26 January 1986. He was the son of Tina Glamour, a popular singer, and the deceased musician and sound engineer Pierre Houon. He has an older brother well known as DJ TV3. Ange Didier started his music career in the early 2000s as a DJ when he was only 14 years old in Yopougon, a night-life district in Abidjan. He left for France to improve his career and even overstayed his visa. In 2005, he spent a month in detention as an undocumented migrant.
The stage name Arafat refers to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; he stated that Lebanese friends in the Ivory Coast gave him the nickname because he was “hardcore”.
He was considered one of the most popular African artists in Francophone countries around the world. He became a star of his genre around 2009.
He released 11 music albums primarily in the popular " Coupé-Décalé " dance music style, in his career that spanned fifteen years. BBC described him as the "king" of Coupé-Décalé, which means "cut and run", in Ivorian slang it means "to cheat someone and run away" and it began in the early 2000s during Ivory Coast's civil war. The music incorporates fast percussion, deep bass and hip-hop-style vocals. Arafat became the symbol of the flashy well-dressed lifestyle which is associated with the music. His song Dosabado is one of his most popular hits. He liked motorcycles and also featured them in his recent hit 'Moto Moto' released in May 2019. He had multiple motorcycle accidents, one of which in 2009, was serious. Arafat's motorcycle accident in 2019 was fatal.
Arafat later became popular in the Europe and the United States when some of the sports personalities popularized the dance steps of coupé-décalé genre. "Dosabado", "Kpangor", "Zoropoto", "Enfant Beni" and "Moto, Moto" were some of his major hits.
## Death
On 12 August 2019, Arafat died in Abidjan Hospital after a motorcycle accident in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. His motorcycle was said to have collided with a car in the Angre neighborhood on Sunday, 11 August 2019. He was subsequently admitted to a hospital in Abidjan for a skull fracture before eventually dying at around 8:00 a.m. UTC on 12 August 2019.
After the news of his death spread, on 12 August 2019, around 1,000 of his fans assembled in Cocody suburb near the hospital where he died, and mourned his death chanting "Arafat cannot die". After his burial, some fans exhumed his grave after a rumor sufficed that his body was given to cult members. Police struggled to manage the crowd gathered in the area. A crowd of his fans also gathered around his house singing some of his hits. Maurice Kouakou Bandaman, the Ivorian Culture Minister, condoled his death and a tribute was held in his honour.
## Awards
He was awarded the "Best Artist of the Year" at the Coupé-Decalé Awards in 2016 and 2017. He also won two WatsUp TV Africa Music Video Awards in 2016.
### WatsUp TV Africa Music Video Awards
## Selected discography
### Singles (partial)
- Kpangor
- Zropoto
- Boudha
- Djessimidjeka
- Agbangnan
- 2017 : "Enfant béni"
- 2018 : "Dosabado"
- 2019 : "Moto Moto"
- 2019 : "Kong"
- 2019 : "Cader" Ft Messi King Dj
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List of awards and nominations received by the Veronicas
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# List of awards and nominations received by the Veronicas
## Abstract
The Veronicas are an Australian pop music duo. Formed in Brisbane in 2005, the group consists of twin sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso. The Veronicas have released three studio albums, The Secret Life Of... (2005), Hook Me Up (2007) and The Veronicas (2014).
The Veronicas have won and been nominated for numerous music awards. They include two ARIA Music Award, two Channel V Oz Artist of the Year awards and three MTV Australia Awards. In 2008 The Veronicas received an ARIA No.1 Award for their single, " Hook Me Up ", reaching number-one on the Australian Singles Chart in 2007. Additionally they have been nominated for seven ARIA Music Awards, an APRA Award and an MTV Europe Music Award.
## APRA Awards
The APRA Awards were established by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 1982 to honour the achievements of songwriters and music composers, and to recognise their songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance, by its members annually. The Veronicas have been nominated twice: once in 2009 for Most Played Australian Work for their single " Untouched ", which was written by Jessica, Lisa Origliasso and Tobias Gad; in 2015 " You Ruin Me " (co-written by the duo along with Anthony Egizii and David Musumeci) was nominated for Song of the Year.
## ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards have been presented by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) since 1987. These awards recognise excellence in Australian music across different genres. The Veronicas have been nominated ten times for two wins: Best Pop Release in 2006 for their debut album The Secret Life Of... and Best Video for " You Ruin Me " – directed by Matt Sharp and Daniel James – in 2015.
## ARIA No.1 Chart Awards
The ARIA No.1 Chart awards were established in 2002, by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), to recognise Australian artists who achieved a number-one single, album or music DVD on the Australian music charts. The Veronicas have won two ARIA No.1 Awards: one in 2008 for their single " Hook Me Up ", which peaked at number-one on the Australian Singles Chart on 18 November 2007; and in 2014 for " You Ruin Me " which debuted atop the chart on 5 October 2014.
## Channel V
The Oz Artist of the Year Award honours the "finest artists for valour, excellence and innovation" and is chosen by the Australian public. It is presented annually at the ARIA Awards.
## Dolly Teen Choice Awards
The Dolly Teen Choice Awards were established in 2006 by Dolly Magazine o honour achievements in music, fashion, sport, television and media personalities. The nominees are chosen by the magazine, and the winner is selected by public vote. The Veronicas have won two Dolly Teen Choice Awards from three nominations.
## MTV Awards
### Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica
The Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica were established in 2002 by MTV Networks Latin America (MTVNLA). These awards celebrate the years best music videos in Latin America and the world. The Veronicas have received two nominations at the Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2009 awards.
### MTV Australia Awards
The MTV Australia Awards (MTVAA) is an annual awards ceremony established in 2005 by MTV Australia. The Veronicas have won three awards from seven nominations, including the 'Video of the Year' award in 2006 for " 4ever ".
### MTV Europe Music Awards
The MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe to celebrate the most popular music in Europe. The Veronicas have been nominated once in 2009 for ' Best Push Act '.
## Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards
The Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards is an annual awards show, established in 2003 by Nickelodeon Australia. The awards honour the best in film, television, music, books and personalities as voted by young people. The Veronicas have received three awards out of seven nominations, including the 'Fave Band' award which they won in 2007 and 2008.
## Premios Oye!
Premios Oye! are presented annually by the Academia Nacional de la Música en México for outstanding achievements in Mexican record industry. The Veronicas have received one nomination.
## Queensland Music Awards
The Queensland Music Awards (previously known as Q Song Awards) are annual awards celebrating Queensland, Australia 's brightest emerging artists and established legends. They commenced in 2006.
## Rolling Stone Awards (Australia)
The Rolling Stone Australia Awards are awarded annually by Rolling Stone Australia magazine since 2010 for outstanding contributions to music and popular culture in the previous year. The Veronicas have been nominated once.
## TMF Awards
The TMF awards were established in 1995 by The Music Factory (TMF) in Belgium to recognise achievements in music. The Veronicas have received one award from one nomination in 2006 for the Best International New Artist.
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2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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# 2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
## Abstract
The 2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 117th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Mayo were hoping to bridge a gap that stretched back to their All-Ireland football title winning team of 1951. They failed, though less miserably than in 2006. Mayo lost their fourth final in a row; in the end Kerry only won by eight points. Dara Ó Cinnéide was the winning captain, while manager Jack O'Connor won the title in his first season in charge. The match was shown live in Ireland on RTÉ2 as part of The Sunday Game with match commentary from Ger Canning and Martin Carney.
Largely regarded as one of the most disappointing All-Ireland football finals for many years, Mayo's capitulation drove spectators from the stadium in their thousands with Kerry leading by 1-12 to 1-4 at half time. Kerry racked up a total of 1-20, the highest team score in an All-Ireland football final since the time of 'Bomber' Liston and the 5-11 that decimated Dublin in 1978. Mayo returned to the final two years later, to be torn apart by Kerry all over again in a final when Kerry surpassed the score they achieved in 2004.
In 2022, Martin Breheny listed it among "five of the worst" All-Ireland SFC finals since 1972.
## Match details
References:
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Turbonilla houseri
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# Turbonilla houseri
## Abstract
Turbonilla houseri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
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Nowy Klępsk
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# Nowy Klępsk
## Abstract
Nowy Klępsk is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sulechów, within Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-east of Sulechów and 26 km (16 mi) north-east of Zielona Góra.
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William McGregor Paxton
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# William McGregor Paxton
## Abstract
William McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American painter and instructor who embraced the Boston School paradigm and was a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists. He taught briefly while a student at Cowles Art School, where he met his wife Elizabeth Okie Paxton, and at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston. Paxton is known for his portraits, including those of two presidents— Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge —and interior scenes with women, including his wife. His works are in many museums in the United States.
## Early life
He was born on June 22, 1869, in Baltimore to James and Rose Doherty Paxton. William's father moved the Paxton family and established a catering business in Newton Corner, Massachusetts, in the mid-1870s.
## Education
Paxton attended Cowles Art School on a scholarship he attained at the age of 18. He studied with Dennis Miller Bunker and Cowles and then went to Paris to study under Jean-Léon Gérôme, at École des Beaux-Arts. Maryhill Museum of Art said he also studied at Académie Julian in Paris. He returned to Cowles and studied with Joseph DeCamp, who also taught Elizabeth Vaughan Okie. She became Paxton's student and then his wife.
## Marriage
Paxton became engaged in 1896 to Elizabeth Vaughan Okie, and they married on January 3, 1899. They traveled to Europe together and often spent their summers on Cape Cod and Cape Ann. They lived in Newton, Massachusetts, first on Elmwood Street with his parents. About 1916 they resided or had a studio on Ipswich Street in Fenway Studios in Boston. They later purchased a house in Newton Center on Montvale Road.
Paxton's wife managed his career and modeled for many of his works, like the painting in which she was dressed for the ball. "William McGregor Paxton... benefited from an art-savvy wife who supported his career, using her energy in the bet that his offered the more secure future," said author and art historian Rena Tobey. The couple had no children.
## Career
Paxton taught from 1906 to 1913 at the Museum of Fine Arts School and painted briefly at Fenway Studios in Boston. He worked at the Harcourt Street Studios in Boston and when it burned in 1904 he lost close to 100 paintings. He then went to the Fenway Studios for a brief period but then moved on to the Riverway Studios, also in Boston. He is primarily known for his portraits and painted both Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge. Maryhill Museum of Art says of his artistry, "Paxton was well known for the attention he gave to the effects of light and detail in flesh and fabric. His works often present idealized views of women, such as this portrait (The Red Fan) of his wife Elizabeth", like Henry James 's portrayal of women in his novels The Portrait of a Lady (1881) or The American (1877). His models, often daughters and wives of his patrons, were depicted as refined, cultured women of "conspicuous leisure", and equated with the "precious aesthetic objects surround them", like the women of Thorstein Veblen 's Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) who reflect the wealth of their husbands or fathers. He crafted elaborate compositions with models in his studio, using props that appear in several paintings.
Paxton and several other Bostonian artists were inspired by Johannes Vermeer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art says of Paxton's Tea Leaves (1909) in their collection:
In a windowless parlor permeated by soft light, a dreamy atmosphere, and the sounds of silence, two elegant women pass the time by doing very little or nothing at all. Paxton hints at a narrative, but he asks that the viewer invent it, recapitulating the ambiguity of Vermeer's paintings, which he admired.
Paxton employed a technique where only one area in his compositions was entirely in focus, while the rest was somewhat blurred, something he called "binocular vision" and credited to Vermeer. He began to employ this system in his own work, including The New Necklace, where only the gold beads are sharply defined while the rest of the objects in the composition have softer, blurrier edges.
Paxton is one of the key figures in the Boston School of painting and a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists with Frank Weston Benson and Edmund Charles Tarbell. Between 1926 and 1927, he was interviewed by Dewitt Lockman with 85 other artists and architects associated with the National Academy of Design. Records from the interview are held at the New York Historical Society and the Archives of American Art. Paxton was made a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1928.
Paxton died of a heart attack when he was painting his wife in their Montvale Road living room. He was 72 years of age. An exhibition was held in his memory at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from November 19 through December 14, 1941. His papers—including sketches, correspondence, and photographs—are held at the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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Chatti pathiri
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# Chatti pathiri
## Abstract
Chatti pathiri is a layered pastry made in the Malabar region, of Kerala, India. It uses pastry sheets or pancakes made with flour, egg, oil and water. The filling can be sweet, made with sweetened seasoned beaten eggs, nuts and raisins, or savoury, with the traditional meat filling used in samosas or savoury puffs. The flour is kneaded into soft dough and rolled into thin pancakes which are softened in milk and arranged in layers with filling between them and baked.
It is considered an essential part of any festival, pre- and post-wedding events, and Iftar. This dish is popular during the Ramadan Fasting period.
## Similar dishes
Similar dishes available in Malabar cuisine include:
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Stubborn Love (song)
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# Stubborn Love (song)
## Abstract
" Stubborn Love " is a song by American folk rock band the Lumineers. It was released in 2012 as the second single from their debut self-titled studio album.
## Music video
There are 2 music videos for "Stubborn Love". The first one released on October 3, 2012 is a collection of live performances and behind the scenes footage shot between April and August 2012 during the Lumineers Big Parade 2012 tour. The 2nd one released on February 7, 2013 centers around a young daughter who is going with her mother as a result of her parents divorcing. As situations in their road trip go from gray and stormy to bright and sunny, the girl rolls down her window and smiles in the end of the video. The Lumineers themselves make a brief appearance as street performers.
## Charts
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Conference pear
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# Conference pear
## Abstract
A Conference pear is a variety of pear. It is an autumn cultivar (cultivated variety) of the European pear (Pyrus communis). The variety was developed in Britain by Thomas Francis Rivers from his Rivers Nursery in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. Its name derives from the National British Pear Conference in London in 1885, where it won first prize.
## Description
A medium-sized pear with an elongated bottle shape, the Conference pear is similar in appearance to the ' Bosc pear '. A table pear, it is suitable for fresh-cut processing. The fruit skin is thick greenish-brown, becoming pale yellow when ripe. The flesh is white, but turns pale yellow when the pear is ripe. The texture is very fine and soft, and the flavour is sweet. The brown part of the skin is called russet or russetting; it is more or less apparent depending on weather conditions.
## Cultivation and production
The Conference pear adapts to a variety of conditions, and is widely grown in Europe. It thrives on land that is sunny, rich and not too chalky. In France, the production areas of this variety are mostly in the north (Loire, North Picardy) and the Alps (Savoie and the little Southern Alps). It is grown commercially in many areas of the United Kingdom.
Production will be enhanced by the nearby presence of pollinating varieties such as the Williams pear.It is a particularly resistant fruit, especially against scab. The Conference pear can be eaten until January if kept cool in a refrigerator or cellar ventilated.
There is strong sales competition in Europe from neighbouring countries (in order: Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Italy). The flavour of Conference pears grown in Savoie, was recognized in 1996 by a PGI (a Protected Geographical Indication) in the European Union, and 2012 it was the only PGI obtained by a pear in France.
## Mutants
Some mutants of the Conference pear are grown commercially as club varieties. These include:
- Corina, a mutant of Conference, which is suited to earlier picking, although with smaller fruit size.
- Red Conference, a red color mutation with growing popularity.
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We Had Him
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# We Had Him
## Abstract
" We Had Him " is a poem written by Maya Angelou about Michael Jackson. The poem was written for Jackson's memorial service on July 7, 2009, and read there by Queen Latifah in front of the approximately 2.5 to 3 billion worldwide viewers watching the memorial service.
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Tommerup Stationsby
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# Tommerup Stationsby
## Abstract
Tommerup Stationsby is a town on the island of Funen, Denmark. Its population numbered 2,462 as of January 2024.
## Economy
Most villagers work in the more urbanised areas. Cattle are raised. Tommerup is home to a stone factory. Because of clay shortages, this factory mainly produces specialized ceramic products, such as a vase, five metres high, which was exhibited at the World's Fair in Sevilla, in 1992.
## History
In 1996, Tommerup Stationsby declared itself Cultural Village of Europe. In 1999, it became part of the European network known as Cultural Villages of Europe.
## Transport
A train station in Tommerup, run by DSB offers departures once an hour for Fredericia, and on to cities such as Aalborg and Aarhus.
One departure/hour travels to the third biggest city in Denmark, Odense, which offers service to Copenhagen.
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WaveRunner
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# WaveRunner
## Abstract
WaveRunner is a trademarked name and type of personal water craft (PWC) produced by the Yamaha Motor Company. Unique to the WaveRunner among PWCs is the spout of water that shoots into the air from the rear of the vehicle, a visual brand identifier that exists as a trademark of Yamaha.
## History
The first personal watercraft was designed and built in the 1960s by an American motorcycle enthusiast banker, Clayton Jacobson II, and produced and marketed by Bombardier in a licensing agreement. In 1971 Jacobson transferred the license to Kawasaki, resulting in the Jet Ski. Other manufacturers began making similar vehicles in the 1980s, including Yamaha, which had been building watercraft since the '60s, and with whose water vehicle division Jacobson signed on a consultant in 1986. First produced that year, the WaveRunner (then called Marine Jet 500T) was the world's first saddle watercraft, a model which today dominates the market.
In 1987, the handlebars mounted on an articulated arm, characteristic of hand watercraft, were replaced by a fixed handlebar on the WaveJammer 500 (Marine Jet 500S). In 1990, the WaveRunner III 650 (Marine Jet 650TL) was the first personal watercraft to offer a three-person seat and reverse. The same year, Yamaha released the SuperJet 650, its first personal watercraft. Yamaha then diversified its offer into various categories, ranging from models for beginners to those intended for competition listed below:
- 1986 WaveRunner 500 (Marine Jet 500T)
- 1987 WaveJammer 500 (Marine Jet 500S)
- 1990 WaveRunner III 650 (Marine Jet 650TL)
- 1990 Super Jet 650
- 1992 WaveRunner VXR650 (Marine Jet 650TX)
- 1993 WaveRunner Pro VXR700
- 1993 WaveBlaster 700 (Marine Jet 700TZ)
- 1994 WaveRaider 700 (Marine Jet 700RA)
- 1994 WaveRunner 3 GP (701 cc)
- 1995 WaveRaider 1100
- 1995 WaveVenture 700 (Marine Jet 700VN)
- 1996 WaveBlaster II
- 1996 WaveVenture 1100
- 1997 WaveRunner GP 1200
- 1998 WaveRunner XL 1200
- 1999 WaveRunner SUV 1200
- 1999 WaveRunner XL 1200 Ltd.
- 2000 WaveRunner GP 1200R
- 2001 WaveRunner XLT 1200
- 2002 WaveRunner FX140
- 2003 WaveRunner GP 1300R
- 2005 WaveRunner VX Deluxe
- 2006 WaveRunner FX Cruiser High Output
- 2008 WaveRunner FX Cruiser SHO
- 2009 WaveRunner FZR
- 2011 WaveRunner VXR
- 2014 WaveRunner FX Cruiser SVHO
- 2016 WaveRunner VX Limited
- 2017 WaveRunner GP 1800
- 2018 WaveRunner FX Limited SVHO
- 2019 WaveRunner EXR
- 2019 WaveRunner GP 1800R
## Models
Retired products in the WaveRunner line include the Yamaha WaveBlaster, Yamaha WaveRaider, Yamaha WaveVenture, Yamaha XL Series, Yamaha GP Series (Two-Stroke) and the Yamaha WaveJammer.
The Yamaha Motor Company currently produces five different series of WaveRunners. They are:
- EX Series
- VX Series
- FX Series
- Performance Race Series
- SuperJet
## Video game
WaveRunner is a Sega racing arcade game developed and released in 1996. The game was built on the Sega Model 2 arcade hardware. The game is based on the water craft of the same name by Yamaha, which Sega consulted with when making the game. The game was reviewed by Hyper magazine and rated 4 out of 5 stars.
WaveRunner was designed in a cabinet that resembled an actual WaveRunner model. The game features three courses: "Novice", "Intermediate", and "Expert". Players can do tricks on ramps. Players steer by either turning the handlebars or using their weight to make the WaveRunner model lean in the direction of a turn. Up to four cabinets can be linked together for multiplayer racing.
WaveRunner wasn't ported to any home systems. This game is emulated on the Model 2 Emulator by ELSemi.
A sequel, WaveRunner GP, was released in 2001 and used the NAOMI hardware and was available on standard cabinet and deluxe cabinet, which is the same cabinet as the first game. However, The standard cabinet was actually a cabinet of Arctic Thunder, which released by Midway a year earlier in 2000.
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Julie M. Harris
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# Julie M. Harris
## Abstract
Julie Marie Harris (born 1967) has been Director of Research in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience (2011–21) and a Professor of Vision Science at the University of St Andrews. Her research investigates visual systems and camouflage.
## Early life and education
Harris was born in Wolverhampton. She initially studied physics at Imperial College London and graduated in 1988. She moved to the University of Oxford for her doctoral studies and earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree under the supervision of Andrew J. Parker in 1992. Her doctoral research investigated the efficiency of binocular stereopsis. To do this she added binocular disparity noise to a stereogram and compared judgements of depths made by a human with those made by an ideal detector with the correct disparity. She demonstrated that human efficiency was low, particularly when depth profiles were not smooth.
## Career and research
Harris joined the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco in 1992, where she worked as a postdoctoral fellow for three years.
In 1995 Harris was appointed a lecturer in neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh. She moved to Newcastle University in 1998 where she was made an associate professor. In 2005 she joined the University of St Andrews as a Professor of Psychology.
Harris studies visual systems; and in particular what environmental information a given visual system can process and how it makes use of the information. As part of this research Harris uses psychophysical, computational and behavioural approaches, which allow her to understand the processes that underlie human vision and how they connect to motor action. Her early work considered the accuracy of binocular judgements of the direction of motion. Through her work Harris looks to uncover countershading, a means by which animal species disrupt shape perception, how the brain perceives motion, shape and depth and different eye movements. Her studies of animal camouflage have included monitoring the three-dimensional camouflage of the caterpillar. In 2019 Harris and co-workers uncovered how the brain processes three-dimensional information; establishing that the brain separated motion signals into two distinct pathways as they move from the eye to the brain. These signals – of which one arrives quickly and the other slowly – allow for information to be extracted simultaneously from each pathway, and alert the visual system that there is a three-dimensional object. She has shown that people with lazy eye syndrome may be able to process fast three-dimensional motion. Harris looks to apply this understanding to situations where visual communication goes wrong.
Alongside her work on animal camouflage and three-dimensional vision, Harris has investigate the relationship between visual sensory and visuo-motor behaviour during the training of elite athletes. In 2019 she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust grant to study how unusual patterns in complex visual environments may specifically stimulate the visual system.
### Selected publications
Her publications include;
- Guidance of locomotion on foot uses perceived target location rather than optic flow
- Speed discrimination of motion-in-depth using binocular cues
- Binocular vision and motion-in-depth
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Turbonilla heterolopha
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# Turbonilla heterolopha
## Abstract
Turbonilla heterolopha is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
## Description
The shell is small and slender. Its length measures 5.5 mm. Its color is chestnut brown with a wax yellow apex The 2½ whorls of the protoconch form a depressed helicoid spire. Its axis is at right angles to that of the succeeding turns, in the first of which it is one-fourth immersed. The seven whorls of the teleoconch are flat. They are appressed at the summit but not constricted at the periphery. They form a spire of almost a straight, uninterrupted outline. The axial sculpture consists of very broad, low, rounded, retractive axial ribs. These ribs are absent on the first turn. But 20 ribs occur upon the second to fourth, 28 upon the fifth and penultimate turn. The intercostal spaces are very narrow. They are marked by six spiral lines of pits. The sutures are poorly defined. The periphery and the base of the body whorl are well rounded. They are marked by the feeble continuations of the axial ribs and seven equally spaced, incised spiral lines. The aperture is oval. The posterior angle is acute. The outer lip is thin, showing the external markings within. It is reinforced on the inside by four or five slender, equally spaced, spiral cords. The columella is strong and somewhat twisted.
## Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California and Baja California.
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Spare Me the Details
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# Spare Me the Details
## Abstract
" Spare Me the Details " is a song by American punk rock band the Offspring. The song is featured as the tenth track from their seventh studio album, Splinter (2003), and was released as a single in 2004 in Australia and New Zealand only. Dexter Holland wrote the song inspired by a friend who was unsettled at a vivid account of his girlfriend cheating on him, and asked the person telling him 'Please! Spare me the details!'
The song saw heavy rotation on Australian rock radio station Triple M
## Track listing
## Personnel
### The Offspring
- Dexter Holland – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar
- Noodles – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Greg K. – bass, backing vocals
### Additional musicians
- Josh Freese – drums
- Brendan O'Brien – piano
## Greatest Hits
The song was included as the fifteenth track on the Australian version of the band's Greatest Hits (2005).
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Tilak Shekar
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# Tilak Shekar
## Abstract
Tilak Shekar (born March 1982), mononymously known as Tilak, is an Indian actor who appears mainly in Kannada -language films. He is a model-turned-actor and is known for his negative roles in Kannada movies. He was one of the 13 housemates in the first season of Bigg Boss Kannada aired in April 2013. Thilak is appreciated for his act in the movie Ugramm. He played the lead role in the horror thriller Karvva (2016).
## Filmography
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Ali Azam (Comilla politician)
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# Ali Azam (Comilla politician)
## Abstract
Ali Azam is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament from Comilla-3 in the first Jatiya Sangshad.
## Birth and early life
Ali Azam was born in Comilla district. He was elected a Member of Parliament from Comilla-3 constituency in the first parliamentary elections of 1973 on the nomination of Bangladesh Awami League.
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Shots Fired (song)
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# Shots Fired (song)
## Abstract
" Shots Fired " is a song by American rapper Megan Thee Stallion. It was released as the first track from Megan's debut studio album, Good News, on November 20, 2020. A diss track, the song recounts Megan's 2020 shooting incident, mocking the shooter, rapper Tory Lanez. The song includes a sample of the Notorious B.I.G. 's 1995 track " Who Shot Ya? ".
"Shots Fired" was universally lauded by critics, who praised Megan's response to Lanez's 2020 album Daystar, which also referenced the shooting.
## Background
On July 15, 2020, internet tabloid TMZ posted video footage appearing to show an injured Megan Thee Stallion in an incident involving the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). After initial reports that the injury had been caused by broken glass on the floor of the car in which she was riding, Megan issued a statement clarifying that she "suffered gunshot wounds, as a result of a crime that was committed against me and done with the intention to physically harm me". The following month, Megan named Tory Lanez as her shooter, and said that she did not immediately name him out of fear of the police, especially in light of the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests. Megan later revealed that Lanez and his team offered her money in exchange for silence on the matter.
On September 25, 2020, Lanez released his fifth studio album, Daystar, in which he repeatedly denied shooting Megan. Daystar received widespread criticism from music journalists, many of whom refused to review the album. Andre Gee of Complex referred to the album as "a project too contemptible to be evaluated on any musical scale", while Chris Murphy of Vulture released a headline saying, "For the Love of God, Do Not Listen to Tory Lanez's Album DAYSTAR ". Fellow rapper Rick Ross took to social media to rebuke Lanez for his album, saying "That ain't how you address the accusations you facing with the sister. That was a poor choice, homie. You ain't getting no money with that shit". Highsnobiety announced that they would refuse to cover Lanez after he dropped "the most toxic album of the year".
## Writing and composition
"Shots Fired" is a rap track, that samples The Notorious B.I.G. 's 1995 hip hop track " Who Shot Ya? " The track was written by Megan (under her birth name of Megan Pete), Buddah Bless (under his birth name of Tyron Douglas), Herb Magidson, and Allie Wrubel, and was produced by Bless. The track references specific elements of the shooting, including the pellet and.22 caliber with which she was shot, her decision not to tell the police, and the money she and her friend were offered in exchange for their silence. Megan chooses never to name the subject of the track in the song, but instead makes a reference to the shooting of Breonna Taylor.
## Release
Megan Thee Stallion announced the name and release date of her debut studio album, Good News on November 12, 2020. On November 17, three days before the album release, Megan released the album's track list, with "Shots Fired" as the first track. This led to media and fan speculation that the song would address the Lanez incident. Good News was released on November 20, 2020.
Megan revealed in an interview with WQHT Hot 97 that the song was "ready to go the next day" after being shot, but that she held off on releasing the song until she decided that, "at the end of the day, I just can't keep letting people walk all over me". In a subsequent interview with Radio.com, Megan said that she had no interest in continuing to address the incident, and that she felt "like I said enough" on "Shots Fired".
## Reception
"Shots Fired" was released to wide acclaim from music critics, who praised Megan's response to the shooting incident. Justin Curto of Vulture said that the song is "a perfect reminder that past the point of having to prove herself, or anything, to anyone", and called it "a diss track in line with a long lineage of greats". Teen Vogue said that the track "feels cathartic in allowing her to take the space to fully tell her side of the story". Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone praised "Shots Fired" as "catty and cutting, and most vicious of all, backed up by the evidence", and compared the song to Noname 's " Song 33 ", a diss track against J. Cole.
Writing for NME, Kyann-Sian Williams referred to "Shots Fired" as "a signal that Megan is not messing around", and that the song "suggests she's done with having her kindness taken for weakness". Steffanee Wang of Nylon said that "Megan's storytelling ability, clear-eyed delivery, and general charisma as a rapper as she tells her side of the story take center stage", and that "Megan's got the last word" between her and Lanez. In a review for Stereogum, Tom Breihan said that Megan "just atomizes this motherfucker, clowning him for everything from his shallow social-media self-aggrandizement to his choice of weaponry".
"Shots Fired" also had a strong fan and commercial showing, with many Twitter users praising the track upon its release. In the United States, "Shots Fired" debuted at number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100, and at number 23 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart. Elsewhere, the song spent one week at number 25 on the Recorded Music NZ charts, and entered the Billboard Global 200 at number 162.
## Personnel
- Megan Thee Stallion – singer, songwriter
- Buddah Bless – producer, songwriter
- Herb Magidson – songwriter
- Allie Wrubel – songwriter
- Shawn "Source" Jarrett – recording engineer
- Mike Dean – mixing engineer, mastering
- Sage Skolfield – assistant mixer
- Sean Solymar – assistant mixer
- Jonah Rappaport – A&R administration
- Selim Bouab – A&R direction
Credits adapted from Tidal.
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List of water parks
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# List of water parks
## Abstract
The following is a list of notable water parks in the world sorted by region. A water park or waterpark is an amusement park that features water play areas, such as water slides, splash pads, spraygrounds (water playgrounds), lazy rivers, wave pools, or other recreational bathing, swimming, and barefooting environments.
## Defunct water parks
### Canada
- Wild Rapids Waterslide Park, Sylvan Lake, Alberta – closed in 2016
- Froster Soak City at Ontario Place, Toronto, Ontario – closed in 2012
- Wild Waters in Edmonton, Alberta - closed in 2012
- Bonzai Waterslide Park in Calgary, Alberta - closed in mid-1990s
- Surf City near Chestermere Lake, Alberta - closed in mid-1990s
- Riverside Amusement Parks in Medicine Hat, Alberta - closes in 2007
### Japan
- Seagaia Ocean Dome, Miyazaki – closed as of 2007
- Sports World Izunagaoka, Shizuoka - Closed in 1996
- Wild Blue Yokohama, Yokohama - Closed on August 31, 2001
### Lithuania
Trasalis, Trakai - Closed on January 15, 2020
### Netherlands
- Nationaal Zwemcentrum de Tongelreep, Eindhoven – the recreational part has been closed since September 2016
### Palestinian territories
- Crazy Water Park, Gaza Strip – burned down in arson attack
### Russia
- Transvaal Park, Moscow – in 2004, 28 people were killed when a roof collapsed
### United Kingdom
- Fantaseas, Dartford, Kent and Chingford, London - Both closed in 1992
- Leith Waterworld, Edinburgh - Closed in January 2012
- Wet N Wild (North Shields), North Shields - Closed in 2020
### United States
- Big Surf, Tempe - Closed in 2019
- CoCo Key Water Resort, Omaha
- Disney's River Country, Lake Buena Vista, Florida - Closed in 2001
- Fort Rapids, Columbus, Ohio
- Heritage USA, Fort Mill, South Carolina - Closed in 1989
- Key Lime Cove, Gurnee, Illinois; now named Great Wolf Lodge - Closed in 2017 (Key Lime Dove)
- Lake Dolores Waterpark, Newberry Springs, California
- Manteca Waterslides, Manteca, California
- Maui Sands Resort & Indoor Water Park, Sandusky
- Pleasure Island, Muskegon, Michigan
- Schlitterbahn Waterpark Kansas City, Kansas City, Kansas - Closed in 2018
- Six Flags Atlantis, Hollywood, Florida
- Splash Amarillo Waterpark, Amarillo, Texas
- Splash Down Dunes, Porter, Indiana
- Splash Kingdom Waterpark, Redlands
- Splashtown San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
- Water Park of America, Bloomington, Minnesota
- Wet 'n Wild, Garland, Texas
- Wet 'n Wild Orlando, Orlando, Florida
- Wild Waters, Ocala, Florida
- Wildwater Kingdom, Aurora, Ohio
### Vietnam
- Hồ Thủy Tiên - Closed in the early 2000's, re-opened in 2006 and re-closed in 2011
- Saigon Water Park, Ho Chi Minh City - Closed in 2006
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Georgia Engelhard
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# Georgia Engelhard
## Abstract
Georgia E. Engelhard Cromwell (November 19, 1906 – September 14, 1986) was an American mountaineer in the Canadian Rockies and the Selkirk and Purcell ranges. She was the first female climber to ascend many of the peaks in the Rockies and was the leading female amateur climber of her day. She was also an accomplished painter and photographer.
## Early life
Engelhard was born in Manhattan on November 19, 1906, the first child of George Engelhard, a lawyer, and Agnes Stieglitz. She was a niece of Alfred Stieglitz, an American photographer and modern art promoter, and his wife, Georgia O'Keeffe, an American artist considered by many to be the "Mother of American modernism". To avoid confusion of names between the two "Georgias", Engelhard was usually referred to as "The Kid" or "Georgia Minor". She occasionally posed for photographs by Stieglitz, including nudes. Stieglitz was a close confidant and mentor to Engelhard, and the two corresponded vigorously from the time she was twelve into her early twenties.
Engelhard took up art at an early age and showed considerable talent. Stieglitz sponsored a month-long exhibition of her water colors and drawings at his famous gallery, 291, in 1916, when she was just 10 years old.
Engelhard studied art at Vassar College, graduating with a BA in 1927. Later in life, she abandoned painting and turned to photography.
In her early 20s, she won prizes for her equestrian skills at the National Horse Show in New York.
## Mountain climbing
Engelhard had visited the European Alps in her teens. In 1926, she climbed in the Mount Rainier area with her father. That same year, her family visited the Canadian Rockies, where she climbed Pinnacle Mountain with Edward Feuz, Jr. assisting as her guide. She returned to the Rockies for 15 summers during the next 25 years.
In 1929, Engelhard climbed nine peaks in the Canadian Rockies: Mount Lefroy, the traverse of the two Pope's Peaks, the traverse of Haddo Peak and Mount Aberdeen, Mount Hungabee, Mount Huber, Mount Victoria, and Mount Biddle.
In 1931, she climbed a total of 38 peaks in the Canadian Rockies, Selkirks, and Purcells. She reached the summit of Mount Victoria eight times that summer, with seven of the trips made as a part of the filming of the movie She Climbs to Conquer (1932), which was directed by William J. Oliver, the famed Calgary-based film maker. The film was sponsored by Parks Canada, the parks branch of the Canadian national government, and was instrumental in drawing increased tourism to the Canadian Rockies. Engelhard appears in the film as an unnamed female climbing along with her guide Edward Feuz.
Engelhard completed 32 first ascents in the Rockies and Selkirks.
She climbed several of the US Rocky Mountains in Colorado and most of the Cascade Volcanoes.
In 1935 she climbed the European Alps for the first time, joining Oliver Eaton (Tony) Cromwell, Jr., who became a member of the 1939 failed German-American expedition up the Pakistani peak of K2. Cromwell was a veteran mountaineer and he and Engelhard married in 1947 after the two had climbed together for several years, mostly in the Canadian Rockies. The marriage was Cromwell's third and Engelhard's first. The couple later moved to Switzerland. Engelhard never returned to the Canadian Rockies after 1946.
Engelhard considered the best compliment of her climbing skill to be that offered by her guide Feuz after she and Cromwell had climbed Victoria, Collier, and Pope's Peak Traverse. Feuz said in his heavy Swiss accent: "Dat Chorcha, she vants to do too much." He added that Engelhard "climbed so fast she often had us guides puffing to keep up."
Engelhard was one of the first women to wear pants as opposed to the customary ankle-length skirt when climbing, as was dictated by Victorian female fashion conventions of the early 20th century.
## Painting and photography
Her aunt Georgia O'Keeffe mentored Engelhard as a painter. The two artists frequently painted together at O'Keeffe and Stieglitz's summer house on Lake George and occasionally took excursions together, sometimes walking without clothes for miles through the dense forests.
Engelhard's paintings reflected O'Keeffe's influence. Their two styles, in fact, became so similar that late in life O'Keeffe received a letter from an art collector, enclosing a photo of a painting, asking if the particular painting had, in fact, been painted by O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe was not sure and wrote to Engelhard in Switzerland enclosing the photograph of the painting. Engelhard replied that it was she, in fact, who had done the painting.
In 1938, when Engelhard began living with Cromwell, she stopped painting and together the couple pursued photography. Their photographs were mainly ordinary scenes of the Swiss Alps and alpine villages. Many of the photographs were sold to postcard companies or used in promotional tourism advertising.
## Later life
Engelhard died on September 14, 1986, two months before she turned 80, in Interlaken, Switzerland, where she and her husband had lived for 30 years. She was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
## Peaks named after Engelhard
- Mount Engelhard
- Engelhard Tower
Mount Cromwell and Cromwell Tower are named after Engelhard's husband, Tony Cromwell.
## Additional sources
- Smith, Cyndi. Off the Beaten Track: Women Adventurers and Mountaineers in Western Canada. Coyote Books, 1989. ISBN 9780969245728.
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Khondakar Harun-ur-Rashid
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# Khondakar Harun-ur-Rashid
## Abstract
Khondakar Harun-ur-Rashid is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Dhaka-10.
## Career
Harun-ur-Rashid was elected to parliament from Dhaka-10 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973.
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Paul H. Lysaker
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# Paul H. Lysaker
## Abstract
Paul H. Lysaker (February 15, 1960 - July 25, 2023) was an American clinical psychologist and Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine. He is known for his work on developing and disseminating metacognitively oriented psychotherapy for individuals with psychosis.
Paul H. Lysaker was the developer of Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT), a metacognitively oriented treatment for persons diagnosed with psychosis.
## Books
- A Dimensional Approach to Schizotypy. Conceptualization and Treatment, with Simone Cheli (Springer, 2023).
- Recovery, Meaning-Making, and Severe Mental Illness, with Reid E. Klion (Routledge, 2017)
- Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self, with John Lysaker (Oxford, 2008)
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We wunt be druv
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# We wunt be druv
## Abstract
"We wunt be druv" is the unofficial county motto of Sussex in southern England. It is a Sussex dialect phrase meaning "we will not be driven". The motto asserts that people from the English county of Sussex have minds of their own, and cannot be forced against their will or told what to do. It is used as a motto of the people of Sussex and the Sussex Bonfire Societies. Since 2016 it has been used as a strapline, part of the re-branding of Harvey's Brewery of Lewes.
## Origins
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, "Sussex won't be druv" is a local proverbial saying dating from the early 20th century. In 1875 the Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect stated "I wunt be druv" as a "favourite maxim with Sussex people". Although used all over Sussex, the phrase probably originates from the Weald, and there is evidence that in Wealden areas common people were freer from manorial control than in the rest of Sussex. Twice in the late Middle Ages Wealden peasants rose in revolt: once in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, under the leadership of Wat Tyler and the radical priest John Ball, and again in the 1450 rebellion led by Jack Cade, who was pursued and fatally wounded at Old Heathfield, where he had connections. The phrase "I wunt be druv" is mentioned in E. V. Lucas 's 1904 book Highways and Byways in Sussex (1904).
## Usage
In his 1924 tale The Cricket Match, Hugh de Sélincourt wrote: " ' Well, we'd better be going, I suppose,' Gauvinier announced – well aware that 'Sussex won't be druv'." In David Frome's Mr. Pinkerton at the Old Angel, "The sudden weariness in her frail face testified to years of patient leading. Mr. Pinkerton thought of the boast of the men of Sussex. They too couldn't be druv, they said."
According to linguist Richard Coates, an organisation called The Men of Sussex had as its motto Non cogemur, a Latin translation of the motto.
The phrase was also used in poetry:
You may push and you may shov But I'm hemmed if I'll be druv
And a longer version:
And you may pook And you may shove But a Sussex pig He wunt be druv
In Sussex, pigs are respected for their independent spirit and are associated with the motto. In the 19th century, some Sussex potteries produced earthenware flasks in the shape of pigs with "wunt be druv" incised or impressed on the pig's neck.
W Victor Cook wrote a poem in Sussex dialect, published in 1914:
Sussex Won't be Druv Some folks as come to Sussex, They reckons as they know – A durn sight better what to do Than simple folks, like me and you, Could possibly suppose. But them as comes to Sussex, They mustn't push and shove, For Sussex will be Sussex, And Sussex won't be druv! Mus Wilfred come to Sussex, Us heaved a stone at he, Because he reckoned he could teach Our Sussex fishers how to reach The fishes in the sea. But when he dwelt among us, Us gave un land and luv, For Sussex will be Sussex, And Sussex won't be druv! All folks as come to Sussex Must follow Sussex ways – And when they've larned to know us well, There's no place else they'll wish to dwell In all their blessed days – There ant no place like Sussex, Until ye goos above, For Sussex will be Sussex, And Sussex won't be druv. W Victor Cook 1914
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2009 swine flu pandemic in Venezuela
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# 2009 swine flu pandemic in Venezuela
## Abstract
The Influenza A (H1N1), also known as the swine flu, was detected in Venezuela on 28 May. The first infected person was a 22-year-old man in San Antonio de Los Altos, Miranda State. He was participating on a meeting in Panamá, and returned to Venezuela carrying the virus
## Timeline
### May
May 28: The disease was first detected in Venezuela, when a man from San Antonio de Los Altos, Miranda returned infected from Panamá. "This citizen traveled to Panamá on an activity of the Rotary Club, which was held on a hotel, which was attended by 150 people from seven countries" declared the minister. According to the Bolivarian News Agency and health authorities, the patient was perfectly fine, He was not critical and was in isolation, to prevent him from spreading the disease to others.
May 29: The second case was confirmed. It was a couple who had traveled with him to Panamá.
May 31: The third case confirmed, his mother was infected.
### June
June 3: A new case confirmed, making it the fourth in the country. The infected person was a young man, who came from Brazil, detected on the Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía Simón Bolívar.
June 7: 8 new cases confirmed. They were from Colombia, Panamá, France and the United States.
June 9: First case detected on Táchira State, coming from a 50-year-old woman, who had recently come from the United States. The number of cases rose to 14.
June 10: 25 cases confirmed in total. Two girls from 4 and 11 years old are reported on the Vargas State.
June 12: The number of cases rose to 37. 5 of them are from Anzoátegui, 1 on Zulia, 1 on Aragua and another one on the Miranda State.
June 13: By this day, the number of cases was of 40, even although the Ministry of Health had announced the day before that the total number of cases was of 37,he had omitted 2 cases.
June 14: 44 cases confirmed up to date. 4 cases were confirmed on Nueva Esparta, Aragua, Mérida State and Miranda (One case per state).
June 15: A new case confirmed on Aragua.
June 16: 52 total cases in Venezuela. 7 new cases, 4 of them are located on Aragua, and the remaining 3 on Miranda.
June 17: The health authorities placed an ocean cruiser on quarantine with more than 1.300 persons on board on Isla Margarita, since 3 persons were positive on the A (H1N1) virus exam. 8 new cases confirmed, increasing the total to 60, 4 on Miranda, 2 on Carabobo, 1 on Aragua and 1 on Anzoátegui.
June 20: For this date, the number of cases was 92, distributed in these regions: Anzoátegui: 17, Apure: 1, Aragua: 13, Bolivar: 2, Capital District: 2, Carabobo: 3, Guarico: 1, Lara: 1, Mérida: 6, Miranda: 29, Nueva Esparta: 3, Táchira: 6, Vargas: 2 and Zulia: 6. Portal-Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud-Venezuela – Content
## Reaction
Due to the increasing number cases on the neighbour countries, the president of the National Institute of Hygiene, Jesús Querales, assured last June 4, that the Venezuelan authorities would keep their efforts on the epidemiological surveillance in order to prevent the propagation of the virus. According to the president, he said that the country has the necessary resources to fight the virus.
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Nice & Slow
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# Nice & Slow
## Abstract
" Nice & Slow " is a song from American singer-songwriter Usher 's second album, My Way (1997). Released on January 6, 1998 by LaFace and Arista, the song became Usher's first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1998. The song was written by Usher, Brian Casey of the R&B group Jagged Edge, Manuel Seal Jr., and Jermaine Dupri.
## Background and composition
"Nice & Slow" was written by Usher, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal, and Brian Casey, with Dupri producing the tune and Seal serving as co-producer and responsible for the guitar work. Jagged Edge provided background vocals in the record. "Nice & Slow" was recorded by Phil Tan at the Somewhere in College Park studio in College Park, Georgia. Tan and Dupri mixed the record with assistance from John and Brian Frye at Studio LaCoCo, in Atlanta, Georgia. Dupri recalled telling Usher he needed a ballad to "knock out the world". The beat was created first, and the lyrics were fitted to it. The composition and recording of "Nice & Slow" took four hours, according to Dupri.
"Nice & Slow" is a slow R&B and soul ballad with hip hop influences. Musicologist Richard J. Ripani wrote that "Nice & Slow" is an example of the typical "R&B ballad style that became widely popular" in the late 1990s. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Universal Music Publishing Group, "Nice & Slow" is written in common time with a slow tempo of sixty-eight beats per minute. Set in the key of A ♭ major, it follows the basic chord progression of Fm – Cm – D ♭ maj – E ♭. Usher's voice spans from the low note of E ♭ to the high note of A ♭. "Nice & Slow" features a spoken introduction, while in the middle of the song Usher performs a melodic rap, which Billboard ' s Shawnee Smith compared to the syle of Do or Die. Usher said to Time that "Nice & Slow" is "somewhat of an intimate story between a man and a woman."
## Release
"Nice & Slow" was released via CD single and cassette single in the United States on January 6, 1998. On February 3, 1998, it was serviced to US contemporary hit radio. A maxi single was released on March 2, 1998, and a remixes CD was made available on March 9, 1998. In the United Kingdom, "Nice & Slow" was issued as CD single, a 12-inch single, and a cassette single on April 20, 1998.
## Critical reception
A writer for the Daily News complimented the song as "warmly engaging". A writer for Jet praised Usher's "tender" vocals on the "sensuous ballad", stating that he displayed romance on the song. British magazine Music Week wrote, "More ultra-smooth R&B from the crown prince of hip-hop soul, "Nice & Slow" is a superbly mellow, seductive tune which has Usher showing off his unhurried rapping skills." In 2016, Complex ranked the song number seven on their list of the 25 greatest Usher songs, and in 2021, American Songwriter ranked the song number eight on their list of the 10 greatest Usher songs.
## Chart performance
"Nice & Slow" debuted at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated January 24, 1998, as " You Make Me Wanna... ", the first single from My Way slipped from number seven to number ten. On February 2, 1998, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded the song a gold certification, following up with a platinum one on February 12. "Nice & Slow" continued to ascend the Hot 100, reaching number one on February 14, succeeding " Together Again " by Janet Jackson. It remained atop the chart on February 21, but on February 28 it was replaced by Celine Dion 's " My Heart Will Go On ". On the UK Singles Chart, "Nice & Slow" reached number 24.
## Music video
The music video for the song was directed by Hype Williams and shot in Paris in February 1998. Kimora Lee Simmons plays Usher's love interest. The video opens with the caption "4:00 pm Paris" as Usher gets out of an airplane. He is shown shirtless in a hotel room having a telephone conversation with his love interest, consisting of the song's spoken intro. Usher and Simmons prepare for their date and meet each other before sightseeing around Paris in a convertible. Interspersed are low-angle shots of Usher dancing on a sidewalk. As the day becomes night, Usher is seen wearing sunglasses playing the guitar and dancing shirtless in front of the Eiffel Tower. Usher and Simmons drive across a bridge, and midway they are confronted by several gangsters, who kidnap and cage Simmons and beat Usher. Usher appeals to the police, who are apparently of no help, and proceeds to locate the gangsters' lair himself. He offers a briefcase to the gangsters, which explodes after being opened and a grenade starts to blow. Usher and the gangsters then engage in hand-to-hand combat. Usher and Simmons are together riding escape away on a motorbike as the windows of the building behind them explode. They are then seen relaxing on a sofa in triumphant before she saw a computer zoomed in, which features the song's title written over and over on a word processor. The music video on YouTube has received over 80 million views as of May 2024.
## Track listing
- US CD and cassette
- "Nice & Slow"
- "Nice & Slow" (instrumental)
- US 12-inch vinyl and CD-maxi
- "Nice & Slow" (Live Mix)
- "Nice & Slow" (B-Rock's Basement Mix)
- "Nice & Slow"
- " You Make Me Wanna... " (T & J Classic Garage Mix)
- UK CD1
- "Nice & Slow"
- "Nice & Slow" (CD-Rom Video Element)
- "You Make Me Wanna..." / "Just Like Me" / "My Way" (Snippets)
- Remixes CD
- "Nice & Slow" (Radio Version)
- "Nice & Slow" (Live Version)
- "Nice & Slow" (B-Rock's Basement Mix)
- "Nice & Slow" (Suli & Stef's Club Class Mix – UK Mix)
## Charts
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Sevilla (restaurant)
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# Sevilla (restaurant)
## Abstract
Sevilla is a restaurant in New York City. In 2015 it was designated as an America's Classic by the James Beard Foundation.
## History
The restaurant was opened as an Irish pub in 1923 and in 1941 was changed by Luis Fernandez and Alfonso Uchipi to a Spanish restaurant in what was then New York's Little Spain in the West Village. In 1962 José Lloves purchased the restaurant. In 1972 Lloves' brother, half-brother, Bienvenido Alvarez, became a partner. In 1984 the owners purchased the building.
When the Beard Foundation called to inform them of the America's Classic award, Lloves, "having no idea what the James Beard Foundation was...had his son, Tony, return the call". Tony Lloves "thought at first it was a scam".
The restaurant seats 91. It is the oldest Spanish restaurant in the city.
## Menu
The restaurant focusses on Spanish staples such as shellfish, paella, empanadillas, and veal and serves sangria and classic cocktails. The menu is largely unchanged from when the restaurant opened.
## Recognition
In 2015 the restaurant was designated an America's Classic by the James Beard Foundation.
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David Baron (comics)
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# David Baron (comics)
## Abstract
David Baron is an American comic book colorist from San Diego.
## Career
Baron began his career at the age of 15, working for the coloring house InColor. He was subsequently hired by Wildstorm FX. After several years there, he left to pursue a freelance career. His work has primarily appeared in books published by WildStorm and DC Comics. Notably, he was the primary colorist on The Authority during the Mark Millar and Frank Quitely era, spent several years coloring JLA, and has recently colored several issues of DC Comics's weekly series, 52.
David Baron was under contract with DC Comics until July 2009.
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Naru Shinoya
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# Naru Shinoya
## Abstract
Naru Shinoya (篠谷 菜留, Shinoya Naru, born 18 March 1994) is a Japanese badminton player. She is affiliated with the NTT East team.
## Career
### 2021
Shinoya, together with her partner Kyohei Yamashita, won the mixed doubles bronze medal at the 2021 World Championships after losing in the semifinals to compatriots Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino, 13–21, 8–21.
### 2024
On April 15, 2024, Naru Shinoya announced her retirement from the national team and international competition. She will still play in local tournaments.
## Achievements
### BWF World Championships
Mixed doubles
### BWF World Tour (2 runners-up)
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
### BWF Grand Prix (3 runners-up)
The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.
Women's doubles
### BWF International Challenge/Series (7 titles, 5 runners-up)
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
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St. Louis Freight Tunnel
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# St. Louis Freight Tunnel
## Abstract
The St. Louis Freight Tunnel is a historic railroad tunnel beneath Washington Avenue and Eighth Street in downtown St. Louis. Completed in 1874, it carried freight and passenger trains between the Eads Bridge and the rail yards in the Mill Creek Valley, bypassing busy downtown streets. It fell into disuse after 1974 and sat dormant for nearly two decades before being refurbished by 1993 for use by MetroLink, the light rail system in Greater St. Louis.
## History
City leaders had wanted a wagon bridge to the heart of the city to highlight downtown St. Louis. However, economics required that it be a railroad bridge, but there was no space for railroads on downtown streets. Therefore, a tunnel was authorized to connect the Eads Bridge to the Missouri Pacific Railroad to the south (and later to Union Station).
The designer of the Eads Bridge, James B. Eads, worked out the specifications for the tunnel. It would be a cut-and-cover tunnel 4,880 feet (1,490 m) long and 30 feet (9.1 m) below street level. A smokestack with a fan that pulled exhaust from the tunnel was built near St. Charles Street (it has since been demolished). Several problems arose during construction of the bridge and tunnel including design changes, inflated land and labor costs, and renegotiated contracts that escalated construction costs 46% over initial estimates. The tunnel structure was completed by June 24, 1874, and the bridge would open less than a month later on July 4.
When it first opened, the tunnel had few users and had already been spun off as the St. Louis Tunnel Railroad Company led by William Taussig. At the time, many railroads did not have licenses to operate in Missouri and by 1875, the company defaulted on its debts and a federal court appointed J.P. Morgan and Solon Humphreys as receivers. Also in 1875, Taussig would supervise the opening of the first Union Depot on Poplar Street, between 11th and 12th streets near the mouth of the tunnel. In 1878, the newly formed St. Louis Bridge Company purchased the bridge and tunnel out of bankruptcy for $2 million, about a third of its original cost, then transferred it in 1880 to interests controlled by Jay Gould. In 1889, Gould would be instrumental in the creation of the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA). He died in 1892, but his involvement in the TRRA led to the construction of Union Station in 1894.
In 1974, due to the increasing dimensions of railroad cars, the tunnel saw its last train; an Amtrak passenger train. Passenger and freight rail traffic then switched to the Merchants and MacArthur bridges.
### MetroLink
In 1971, regional transit planners identified the Airport/Central Corridor alignment as the region's primary target for further study. In the 1987 draft environmental impact statement, light rail was selected as the region's preferred mode alternative. In 1989, after it was determined the downtown portion would use the Eads Bridge and existing tunnel for light rail, the city of St. Louis swapped the MacArthur Bridge for the Eads Bridge with the Terminal Railroad Association. In 1991, rehabilitation began on the subway tunnel for MetroLink usage with it reopening in 1993. In 1992, just east of the present day Convention Center station, a portion of the tunnel beneath Washington Avenue and Broadway collapsed, injuring no one.
### Architecture
The tunnel is notable for its brick and stone construction. Its foundations are made up primarily of Aux Vases sandstone while the upper portion of the tunnel is constructed of brick barrel vaults. In the subway stations that were cut into the tunnel, the ends of the platforms are met with brick archways that complement the arch motif used throughout the MetroLink system.
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Who Do You Love Now?
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# Who Do You Love Now?
## Abstract
" Who Do You Love Now? " is a song performed by Australian singer Dannii Minogue and Dutch DJs Zki & Dobre, performing under the group name Riva. The track began originally as an instrumental-only called " Stringer ", which soon became a club hit. The record was released on 19 November 2001 through the Double F Double R label. It was later adapted into a vocal version for Minogue, written by Victoria Horn. For the Canadian market, Minogue recorded a French-language version of the song called "Est-ce que tu m'aimes encore?". The single was cancelled in Canada but was later released in France as the B-side to " I Begin to Wonder ". Initially released as a stand-alone single, the song was later included on Minogue's 2003 album Neon Nights.
"Who Do You Love Now?" was produced by Riva and reached number three in the United Kingdom and remaining on the charts for 15 weeks—Minogue's longest stay on the UK Singles Chart for any of her singles. It reached the top 20 in Australia and Canada and the top 30 in Sweden. In the United States, "Who Do You Love Now?" was successful on the Billboard dance charts, where it reached the top position on the Dance Club Play chart. "Who Do You Love Now?" also received a New Zealand release and had solid airplay on radio by the request of fans. The single was also played heavily in gay clubs around Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The song marked a turning point for Minogue, who was once again going through contractual changes, and was a bridging point between her previous work and the then upcoming Neon Nights album. The single would be the first of a string of consecutive Top 20 hits in her home country, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
## Formats and track listings
## Charts
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Index Fungorum
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# Index Fungorum
## Abstract
Index Fungorum is an international project to index all formal names (scientific names) in the fungus kingdom. As of 2015 the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partners along with Landcare Research and the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
It is somewhat comparable to the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), in which the Royal Botanic Gardens is also involved. A difference is that where IPNI does not indicate correct names, the Index Fungorum does indicate the status of a name. In the returns from the search page a currently correct name is indicated in green, while others are in blue (a few, aberrant usages of names are indicated in red). All names are linked to pages giving the correct name, with lists of synonyms.
Index Fungorum is one of three nomenclatural repositories recognized by the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi; the others are MycoBank and Fungal Names.
## Current names in Index Fungorum (Species Fungorum)
The main part of Index Fungorum is intended to be a global list of all fungal names which have ever been validly defined, but many of them are conflicting or no longer used. Species Fungorum is a closely related project based at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew supported by CABI to decide a consistent subset of the Index Fungorum names which can be recommended as currently valid. It is possible to search in either the Index Fungorum or the Species Fungorum list separately and the Index Fungorum results also give a cross-reference to Species Fungorum where an entry is available - names without such a reference are generally only of historical interest and should not be considered reliable for present use.
## Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs)
Index Fungorum provides Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) for records in its database.
## Services
Index Fungorum provides a SOAP protocol web service for searching its database and retrieving records. A WSDL file describing the services is available.
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Straight Up (Badfinger album)
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# Straight Up (Badfinger album)
## Abstract
Straight Up is the fourth studio album by the Welsh rock band Badfinger, released in December 1971 in the United States and February 1972 in Britain. Issued on the Beatles ' Apple record label, it includes the hit singles " Day After Day " and " Baby Blue ", and the similarly popular " Name of the Game ", all of which were written by singer and guitarist Pete Ham. The album marked a departure from the more rock-oriented sound of Badfinger's previous releases, partly as a result of intervention by Apple Records regarding the band's musical direction.
Production on what became Straight Up lasted nine months, at the start of which the group made an album's worth of recordings with producer Geoff Emerick, in between their touring commitments. Once Apple had decided to shelve these recordings, George Harrison took over production, only for him to become indisposed with events associated with the Concert for Bangladesh, at which Badfinger also performed. Harrison then handed the project to American producer Todd Rundgren, who oversaw recording for most of the album.
Although Straight Up received a mixed response from critics on release, many reviewers now regard it as the band's best album. Rolling Stone critic David Fricke has referred to it as "Badfinger's power-pop apex". The album was reissued on CD in 1993, with bonus tracks, and remastered again in 2010.
## Background
Badfinger preceded the recording of their third album, Straight Up, with the well-received No Dice (1970), and a series of acclaimed shows at Urgano's in New York that helped establish the group in America. Out of appreciation for the band's contributions to his first post- Beatles solo album, All Things Must Pass, George Harrison introduced Badfinger on their opening night at Urgano's, about which Janis Schacht of Circus reported: "For a while, most people watched George Harrison watching Badfinger, then everyone noticed how good Badfinger were – good enough to draw attention away from a former Beatle."
While attractive to American audiences, the association with the Beatles, partly through Badfinger being an Apple Records act, continued to hinder the band's attempts to forge their own identity. Having already tired of playing their debut hit song, the Paul McCartney -written " Come and Get It ", Badfinger would experience similar artistic compromises during the production of Straight Up. In other areas of the group's operation, all four members signed a management deal with American agent Stan Polley in November 1970, and the band hired part of Clearwell Castle in Gloucestershire as a base for songwriting and rehearsing.
## Recording
### Rejected recordings with Geoff Emerick
Initial sessions for the new album began in January 1971 at London's Abbey Road Studios, under the direction of Geoff Emerick, who had produced the bulk of No Dice. The band also worked at Command Studios in central London and at AIR Studios, the facility owned by former Beatles producer George Martin. Twelve tracks from these Emerick-produced sessions were completed by March, with the band rushing to finish the untitled album before reluctantly leaving for a two-month US tour that Polley had booked.
The Pete Ham -written " Name of the Game " was scheduled for release as a single – only for Phil Spector, as de facto head of A&R at Apple, to cancel the release. According to author Richard Williams, Spector deemed the track an inadequate follow-up to the band's hit single off No Dice, " No Matter What ". Although Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland has said that Harrison was responsible for the Emerick recordings being rejected, the band's biographer, Dan Matovina, writes that the rejection had in fact come from Allan Steckler, head of Apple's US operation, where most of the record label's decisions were now made. Spector and Harrison submitted a remixed version of "Name of the Game" on 23 April, which also met with disapproval from Steckler. While the band were in New York during the tour, they attended a session at Bell Studio, where Al Kooper overdubbed piano and organ onto the track; Kooper's subsequent mix of the song was similarly unsuccessful.
Knowing that Harrison rated the band highly, Steckler asked him to work with the group. Apple thereby shelved the Emerick-produced album, six songs from which Badfinger would re-record for the eventual release. In a January 1972 interview with Disc and Music Echo, Ham reflected that the band had realised after this 1971 tour that they were unhappy with the initial sessions, saying: "we tried to do an album and we didn't have enough time."
### Sessions with George Harrison and the Concert for Bangladesh
Harrison was keen to see the band create a more mature work in the style of the Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road, a vision that Ham shared. From 30 May, Badfinger worked with their new producer at Abbey Road, taping four of the twelve songs eventually issued on Straight Up. The tracks were new versions of "Name of the Game" and "Suitcase", the latter written by Molland and also previously recorded with Emerick; " Day After Day ", a new love song by Ham; and the Molland composition "I'd Die Babe".
Molland later recalled that Harrison virtually "joined the band", by contributing on guitar during these sessions. Harrison was particularly drawn to "Day After Day", on which he performed a slide guitar duet with Ham. Later, he added a piano overdub by Leon Russell, whom Badfinger had supported on their recent US tour. Harrison played acoustic and electric guitars on "I'd Die Babe", and provided the musical arrangement for "Suitcase". Another outside musician, Klaus Voormann, contributed the electric piano part on "Suitcase", which featured Russell playing guitar.
The band took a break from recording late in June, as Harrison worked in Los Angeles with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, producing the soundtrack to Raga. At Shankar's urgent request, Harrison agreed to stage the Concert for Bangladesh in New York, and so flew back to London on 12 July to explain to Badfinger that he would be unable to complete his work on Straight Up, while inviting them to play at the benefit concerts on 1 August. Reprising their roles from the All Things Must Pass sessions, Ham, Tom Evans and Molland performed as acoustic rhythm guitarists at the shows and Mike Gibbins played percussion. In addition, despite having had no rehearsal beforehand, Ham duetted with Harrison on an acoustic version of " Here Comes the Sun ".
### Sessions with Todd Rundgren and album completion
During September 1971, with Harrison embroiled in preparing the Bangladesh live album and concert film for release, Apple hired Todd Rundgren to finish Badfinger's album. According to Ham, Rundgren had met Harrison in New York and expressed interest in working with the group.
In addition to working with Rundgren in London on some more recent compositions, the band re-recorded two songs from the Emerick sessions: "Money", written by Evans, and Ham's "Perfection". Two tracks were holdovers from the Geoff Emerick sessions: Rundgren re-mixed and sped up "Flying", while "Sweet Tuesday Morning", Molland's love song to his wife Kathie, was overdubbed and remixed. All these tracks appeared on the released album, as did the new songs "Take It All", Ham's reflection on performing at the Concert for Bangladesh, and the opening track to Straight Up; "Sometimes", by Molland; and "It's Over", Evans' tribute to the band's American fans. The other new recording was " Baby Blue ", written by Ham and likewise inspired by the recent US tour. Rundgren worked quickly on the project, completing the recordings in two weeks. Rather than an easy collaboration, however, the sessions with Rundgren created what Terry Staunton of Record Collector describes as "studio friction between the American and his charges".
Rundgren did the final mix for the whole album. He was upset not to receive a co-production credit for any of the Harrison-produced tracks, later telling author Peter Doggett: " didn't finish any of the songs, though he was perfectly willing to take the credit for the songs that I finished." Although admiring of Rundgren's technical abilities in the studio, Badfinger were vocal in their opposition to his working methods; Matovina wrote in a 1979 article for Trouser Press: "According to the band, he was totally domineering and had little respect for their ideas. Todd made the album slick and simple, and an abundance of the group’s natural energy was lost." While Ham was especially positive about working with Harrison, and Molland described it as "a great experience, he was a master in the studio … very encouraging and co-operative", Molland has also rued the band's loss of creative control, such that the result was far from their original vision.
## Release
Apple released Straight Up on 13 December 1971 in America (with Apple catalogue number SW 3387) and on 11 February 1972 in Britain (as Apple SAPCOR 19). The album's lead single, "Day After Day" backed with "Money", was issued on 10 November 1971 in the United States, but the single was delayed until 14 January in the UK, where the B-side was "Sweet Tuesday Morning". The album's art design was credited to Gene Mahon and Richard DiLello, the last of whom took the group photographs used on the front and rear of the cover. A note on the sleeve offered "special thanks" to Geoff Emerick. The front cover portrait encouraged further comparison with the Beatles, as one commentator described the album as Badfinger for Sale in reference to the similarly titled 1964 release by the Beatles.
In America, Straight Up peaked at number 31 during a 32-week run on Billboard ' s Top 200 LPs, while it placed inside the top twenty on albums charts in Canada and Australia. "Day After Day" became Badfinger's highest-charting single on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 4, and was certified gold by the RIAA on 4 March. Although the album failed to place on the UK's top 40 albums chart, "Day After Day" was the band's third top-ten hit there, peaking at number 10.
As the follow-up single, "Baby Blue" peaked at number 14 on the Hot 100, and "Name of the Game" became another popular track on US radio. The album's success was marred by a lack of promotion by Apple, which had scheduled "Baby Blue" as a single in the United Kingdom but then cancelled the release.
## Reissue
### 1993
The album was remastered by Ron Furmanek at Abbey Road in March 1992 and released on CD in June 1993. As bonus tracks, this reissue included the original, Emerick-produced recordings of "Name of the Game", "Suitcase", "Money", "Flying" and "Perfection". Record Collector contributor Andy Davis supplied a liner note essay for the release, with research provided by Matovina.
Among the differences in musical arrangements between the bonus tracks and the 1971-issued versions, "Name of the Game" features horns and orchestration not found on Harrison's later production, and "Money" and "Flying" similarly have orchestral parts, arranged by George Martin. The lyrics of "Suitcase" include the mention of "pusher" that Harrison had asked Molland to change (in favour of the word "butcher"), to ensure that the song received radio play. "Perfection" features instrumentation such as synthesizer and harmonica, but not the percussion parts found on the Rundgren-produced version. The final bonus track on the 1993 reissue was the US single mix of "Baby Blue", the main difference being the addition of extra reverberation on Gibbins' snare drum.
### 2010
In October 2010, Straight Up was remastered again for inclusion in the 17-disc Apple Box Set. As in 1993, the reissue added the discarded version of "Name of the Game" and the alternate mix of "Baby Blue". The remaining bonus tracks were all from the January–March 1971 sessions with Emerick. One song had previously appeared on the 1992 No Dice CD: "I'll Be the One", written by all four members of the group, and rejected as a possible single after Harrison had deemed it "too Beatley". The other bonus tracks were all previously unreleased: "Baby, Please", a collaboration between Ham, Molland and Gibbins; and the Evans compositions "No Good at All" and "Sing for the Song". In the CD's liner notes, again written by Davis, Molland recalls that Emerick and "No Matter What" producer Mal Evans were among the many chorus singers on "Sing for the Song".
The versions of "Suitcase", "Money", "Flying" and "Perfection" from the 1993 reissue appeared in the Apple Box Set on a separate bonus disc, comprising 20 rare Badfinger recordings, and were also made available for digital download. Also available in these latter formats were three more tracks from the album that Apple had rejected in 1971: an early version of "Sweet Tuesday Morning", along with "Mean, Mean Jemima" and "Loving You". The last two songs were written by Molland and Gibbins, respectively, and originally appeared on No Dice in 1992. With this 2010 reissue, all of the Emerick-produced tracks have now been officially released.
## Reception
### Contemporary reviews
On release in 1971, Straight Up was much maligned in Rolling Stone. The magazine's reviewer, Mike Saunders, previously a champion of the band, called it "a barely decent album, one which is the poorest of Badfinger's three LPs and by far the least likeable". Saunders derided the songwriting and production, and lamented that the group had abandoned its previous "unabashed rock and roll energy", adding: "With Straight Up, Badfinger seem to have already reached the Beatles' Revolver stage: a stultifying self-conscious artiness, a loss of previous essential virtues, and far too much general farting around."
Writing in Disc and Music Echo, Caroline Boucher opined: "Badfinger's sound is that of the Beatles in the Rubber Soul era without the Beatles magic exuberance … The album, overall, doesn't have enough light and shade." Alan Niester of Creem described the Harrison-produced tracks as "without exception the stronger" beside Rundgren's "more common and forgettable" work, but found the band's new sound "a curiously bland and unremarkable blend of guitars, drums, and nubile voices that really doesn’t go anywhere or in much of a blaze of hurry". While admitting his fondness for the group's previous "Beatle rip-offs", Niester opined: "Badfinger would be better off doing twelve of the Beatles' greatest hits and doing them without all this pretension of originality."
Other contemporary reviews compared Straight Up to past works by the Beatles in a more favourable light. Beat Instrumental described the album as "a good 'un", and Jim Girard of Scene recognised "Perfection" and "Sometimes" as possible singles and said that Badfinger's "importance lies in their unpretentiousness and commercial potency". In the December 1972 issue of Hit Parader, Frank Maier praised the album while comparing it to No Dice, saying, "The progress is unbelievable and very enjoyable … It holds simplicity and yet has enough complication to keep it from being boring", and highlighted Harrison's "beautiful slide work" on "Day After Day".
In his 1979 article on the band in Trouser Press, Dan Matovina bemoaned Harrison's reworking of "Day After Day" into "a distinct copy of his own sound", from the point of view of Badfinger's career, while describing the song and "Baby Blue" as "dazzling hits". Matovina concluded of Straight Up: "What came out was a great album due to the tremendous songs, but one which lacked overall vitality. Also, in the process of the recording, many brilliant tracks were discarded... All the songs are top rate, it's a wholly consistent well-done record, only not exactly what the group desired."
### Retrospective reviews and legacy
After its mixed reception on release, Straight Up has come to be recognised by many critics as Badfinger's best album. Reviewing the 1993 CD release, Q magazine described Straight Up as "brimming with mature melodies and bracing verse/chorus interplay", and "More complete than their other long-play selections and resplendent with previously unheard gems". The NME deemed it " stone cold beauty of an album" and advised: "Love it like your mother …" In a five-star review for the album, William Hanson of MusicHound opined that while No Dice "established Ham as a versatile rock vocalist and imaginative songwriter", Straight Up "assured a spot in pop history" thanks to its "unforgettable" singles.
AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine writes: "Frankly, the increased production is for the best, since Badfinger sounds best when there's as much craft in the production as there is in the writing. Here, there's absolutely no filler and everybody is in top form. Pete Ham's 'Baby Blue' is textbook power-pop – irresistibly catchy fuzz riffs and sighing melodies – and with its Harrison-esque slide guitars, 'Day After Day' is so gorgeous it practically aches." While also highlighting Evans' "It's Over" and particularly Molland's "emergence as a songwriter", Erlewine concludes: "This fine songwriting, combined with sharp performances and exquisite studio craft, make Straight Up one of the cornerstones of power pop, a record that proved that it was possible to make classic guitar-pop after its golden era had passed." Todd Totale of the website Glorious Noise describes Straight Up as "impeccably sequenced" and the group's "best album", adding that it "stands tall against even the Beatles' solo efforts while reaching for band's lofty mid-period gems".
Reviewing the 2010 reissues of Badfinger's Apple output, Joe Marchese of The Second Disc writes of their third album: " Straight Up might just be Badfinger's masterpiece, and its consistency is remarkable considering the three diverse, and strong-willed, producers involved." David Fricke of Rolling Stone lists Straight Up first among his top five non-Beatle Apple albums, describing it as "Badfinger's power-pop apex, despite its difficult birth". In his review for Blogcritics, Glen Boyd opines that "with Straight Up, Badfinger delivered one of the first power pop records of the post-Beatles era, and perhaps one of the best of all time", and admires the remastering of the original album.
## Track listing
### Original release
### 1993 CD release
Tracks 1–12 per sides one and two of the original album, with the following bonus tracks:
- "Money" (Evans) – 4:20
- "Flying" (Evans, Molland) – 2:25
- "Name of the Game" (Ham) – 4:27
- "Suitcase" (Molland) – 3:20
- "Perfection" (Ham) – 4:41
- "Baby Blue" (Ham) – 3:35
### 2010 remaster
Tracks 1–12 per sides one and two of the original album, with the following bonus tracks:
- "I'll Be the One" (Evans, Mike Gibbins, Ham, Molland) – 2:57
- "Name of the Game" (Ham) – 4:24
- "Baby Blue" (Ham) – 3:36
- "Baby, Please" (Ham, Gibbins, Molland) – 3:05
- "No Good at All" (Evans) – 2:10
- "Sing for the Song" (Evans) – 3:20
- "Money" (Evans) – 4:21
- "Flying" (Molland, Evans) – 2:24
- "Perfection" (Ham) – 4:40
- "Suitcase" (Molland) – 3:18
- "Sweet Tuesday Morning" (Molland) – 2:33
- "Mean, Mean Jemima" (Molland) – 3:42
- "Loving You" (Gibbins) – 2:52
## Personnel
Badfinger
- Pete Ham – vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, piano, organ on "Take It All", harmonica on "Perfection", slide guitar on "Suitcase"
- Tom Evans – vocals, bass guitar, twelve string guitar on "Sweet Tuesday Morning" and "Perfection"
- Joey Molland – vocals, rhythm and lead guitar
- Mike Gibbins – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
- George Harrison – slide guitar on "Day After Day", guitar on "I'd Die Babe"
- Leon Russell – piano on "Day After Day", guitar on "Suitcase"
- Bobby Diebold – bass guitar on "Suitcase"
- Keith H - bass guitar session assistant
- Klaus Voormann – electric piano on "Suitcase"
- Gary Wright - piano on "Name of the Game" (unconfirmed)
- Al Kooper - piano on "Name of the Game" (earlier version)
- Bill Collins – accordion on "Sweet Tuesday Morning"
Production and technical staff
- Todd Rundgren – producer (tracks 1–4, 8, 10–12)
- George Harrison – producer (tracks 5–7, 9)
- Gene Mahon – design
- Richard DiLello – design, photography
- Peter Mew – engineer
- Mike Jarratt – engineer
- Marcia McGovern – pre-production director
- Roberta Ballard – production manager
CD reissue supplementary credits
- Geoff Emerick – producer (bonus tracks only)
- Andy Davis – liner notes
- Ron Furmanek – mastering, research
## Charts
## Sources
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Ren Jingyu
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# Ren Jingyu
## Abstract
Ren Jingyu (Chinese: 任景玉; pinyin: Rèn Jǐngyù) is a diplomat of the People's Republic of China.
## Career
In 1996, he succeeded Chen Jiuchang as the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Peru. In 2000, he was succeeded by Mai Guoyan, and was reassigned as the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Chile. In 2003, he succeeded Li Jinzhang as the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Mexico.
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Aaron Young (footballer)
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# Aaron Young (footballer)
## Abstract
Aaron Young (born 6 December 1992) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was originally drafted by the Port Adelaide Football Club with pick number 36 in the 2010 national draft, having previously played for the Eastern Ranges in the TAC Cup. He made his debut in round 5, 2012, against Adelaide at Football Park in Showdown XXXII.
Early in his career, Young was used heavily as a substitute player. Already difficult to match up on due to his height and pace, Young would come on as a substitute later in the game and take advantage of his speed and fresh legs. Young started 21 of his first 42 games wearing the green substitute vest, the most starts as substitute for any player. The substitute rule was scrapped in 2016 and that same year Young had a breakout season playing 21 games and kicking 37 goals; one goal less than Port's leading goal kicker Chad Wingard.
Young struggled to get a regular game in 2017, and at the end of that season was traded to the Gold Coast Football Club. Young played 22 games and kicked 20 goals in his first season at the Suns. An injury plagued season in 2019 saw Young delisted. In 2020 Young joined the Aspley Football Club in the NEAFL.
In November 2020, Young signed with SANFL club North Adelaide and has been a standout in the Roosters' midfield.
In 2022, Young won the Magarey Medal as the Best & Fairest player overall in the SANFL. He finished on 23 votes, 1 vote ahead of the next best.
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New Amsterdam (song)
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# New Amsterdam (song)
## Abstract
" New Amsterdam " is a song written and performed by new wave musician Elvis Costello on his 1980 album, Get Happy!! Written about the New World and New York, the recording of the song that appears on Get Happy!! was a demo that Costello had recorded in Pimlico.
The song was released as an EP single, reaching number 36 in the United Kingdom. The song has since been lauded by critics and included on compilation albums.
## Background
"New Amsterdam" began as one of many demos produced by Costello after Armed Forces. During this period, Costello recorded demos alone and played all the instruments himself; in this case, he recorded "New Amsterdam" at a "fifteen quid-an-hour demo studio" in Pimlico. Costello recalled, "As you might guess I didn't use a metronome but I did employ the owner's exotic equipment; vibes! a fretless bass! a very nasty synth! even God forbid, DRUMS!!!" This demo version would ultimately be the performance that appeared on the final release of Get Happy!!, as Costello was unsatisfied with attempts made with the Attractions to "re-create the mood". Production of the released track was credited to Nick Lowe, even though the demo session was entirely the work of Costello as both artist and producer.
Lyrically, Costello described "New Amsterdam" as "a song about a bewildered new arrival in the New World ". Costello also characterized it as "A bewildered lad, alone in New York, except for his rhyming dictionary". The song's title comes from the name of the Dutch settlement where New York would be established. Musically, the song's softer and slower arrangement contrasted with much of the more energetic material on the album.
## Release
"New Amsterdam" was the third release from Get Happy!!, following " I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down " and " High Fidelity ", though, unlike these previous singles, "New Amsterdam" was released as part of an EP. The song was chosen to show Costello's stylistic diversity. The other songs included on the EP were "Dr. Luther's Assistant" (a leftover from This Year's Model), "Ghost Train" (which originated from a lyric Costello wrote in 1972), and "Just a Memory" (which was written for Dusty Springfield). A picture disc EP and a two track 7" single in a different sleeve were also issued. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 47 and peaked at number 36 the following week in a six week chart run. A music video for the song was also produced.
In addition to its release on Get Happy!!, "New Amsterdam" has appeared on Costello compilations Girls Girls Girls, The Very Best of Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1977–86, and The Very Best of Elvis Costello. The rejected version of the song performed with the Attractions has appeared as a bonus track on later editions of Get Happy!!
## Reception
"New Amsterdam" has seen critical acclaim since its release. Tom Carson of Rolling Stone praised the song's melody as "one of the loveliest Costello’s ever written" and wrote that the song "evokes all the melancholy, tenderness and regret of a seemingly hopeless situation". AllMusic 's Stephen Thomas Erlewine named it a "full-fledged masterpiece", while the same site's Stewart Mason characterized it as a "simple but beautifully effective song". Cash Box said that " acoustic guitar strumming clicks over the thick keyboard texture." Record World called it a "stark and powerful ballad" in which "Costello doesn't waste a word or an emotion."
Jim Beviglia of American Songwriter named the song Costello's fifteenth best, praising its "dreamy, melancholic vibe" and noting that "anyone who has ever felt like they have no connection to the comforts of home can appreciate 'New Amsterdam,' a lovely place to visit vicariously via Elvis' pretty song even though you would never want to live there". The Daily Telegraph ' s Martin Chilton ranked the song number ten on his top 40 list of best Costello songs, stating that Costello "does wordplay so well" on the track.
## Live history
"New Amsterdam" has remained a live favorite for Costello, who has performed the song over 250 times. Beginning with the tour supporting his 1989 album Spike, Costello has sometimes performed "New Amsterdam" in a medley with a cover of the Beatles ' " You've Got to Hide Your Love Away ". He performed an acoustic version of this medley at Woodstock '99.
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List of schools in Illawarra and the South East
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# List of schools in Illawarra and the South East
## Abstract
This is a list of schools in the Illawarra, South Coast, Southern Highlands, Southern Tablelands, Monaro and Snowy Mountains regions of the Australian state of New South Wales. The New South Wales education system traditionally consists of primary schools, which accommodate students from Kindergarten to Year 6 (ages 5–12), and high schools, which accommodate students from Years 7 to 12 (ages 12–18).
## Public schools
### High schools
In New South Wales, a high school generally covers Years 7 to 12 in the education system, and a central or community school, intended to provide comprehensive education in a rural district, covers Kindergarten to Year 12. An additional class of high schools has emerged in recent years as a result of amalgamations which have produced multi-campus colleges consisting of Junior and Senior campuses.
While most schools are comprehensive and take in all students of high school age living within the defined school boundaries, some schools are either specialist in a given Key Learning Area, or selective in that they set examinations or other performance criteria for entrance. In the Illawarra and South East regions, Karabar (in Queanbeyan) and Smith's Hill (in Wollongong) are selective, whilst Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts and Illawarra Sports High School are specialist.
Approximately 2,000 New South Wales students attend schools in the Australian Capital Territory. The Territory has its own education system separate from the New South Wales system. Students who take this option may still apply to enrol in a New South Wales university through the University Admissions Centre upon completing year 12.
### Special schools
Special schools are public schools designed for children or youth with chronic disabilities or who for other reasons cannot be accommodated in the comprehensive school system.
## Private schools
### Catholic primary schools
In New South Wales, Catholic primary schools are usually (but not always) linked to a parish. Prior to the 1970s, most schools were founded by religious institutes, but with the decrease in membership of these institutes, together with major reforms inside the church, lay teachers and administrators began to take over the schools, a process which completed by approximately 1995. The Catholic Education Office (CEO), located in the Canberra-Goulburn and Broken Bay dioceses of the Church, is responsible for coordinating administration, curriculum and policy across the Catholic school system. Preference for enrolment is given to Catholic students from the parish or local area, although non-Catholic students are admitted if room is available.
### Special-purpose private schools
The Government of New South Wales recognises a registration category of schools known as "Prescribed Non-Government Schools" which serve the same purposes as Special Schools but are privately operated.
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Vladimir Bolotin
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# Vladimir Bolotin
## Abstract
Vladimir Vasilyevich Bolotin (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Болотин; March 29, 1926 in Tambov – May 28, 2008 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian physicist in the field of solid mechanics, Doctor of Sciences, Distinguished Professor at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1992), Academician of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (since 1993), Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, Foreign Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (since 1996). Laureate of the 1985 USSR State Prize and of the 2000 State Prize of the Russian Federation.
He graduated from the Russian University of Transport in 1948. In 1950, he defended his Candidate 's Dissertation. In 1952, he defended his doctoral dissertation.
He started working at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1953. From 1958 to 1996, Vladimir Bolotin headed the Department of Dynamics and Durability of Machines.
He was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1974.
He was awarded the Order of Lenin. In 1999, he was awarded the Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal (American Society of Civil Engineers).
Bolotin is the author of over 350 published scientific papers, including 25 monographs.
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Shut Up (DaBaby song)
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# Shut Up (DaBaby song)
## Abstract
" Shut Up " (stylized in all-caps) is a song by American rapper DaBaby, released as a single on February 6, 2020.
## Background
The song talks about DaBaby's haters talking bad about him, which is resulting in him telling them to shut up in the song. It brings up his lawsuits as well. He brings up the fact where he was seen "assaulting" a hotel worker after recording him with his two-year-old daughter without their permission, even after DaBaby denied it and respectfully explained to him that it would compromise the safety of his child.
The song is produced by DJ K.i.D, who also produced DaBaby's " Intro ". A line in the first verse makes a reference to American rapper Kevin Gates, who was featured on DaBaby's "Pop Star" from his second studio album, Kirk (2019).
## Release
Although the song was released on February 6, 2020, on DaBaby's YouTube channel, the track was officially uploaded to all streaming services on February 12, 2020, but was listed under the release date as being released on February 6, 2020.
## Critical reception
Mitch Findlay of HotNewHipHop said that the track was a "banger", and that DaBaby "goes off".
## Music video
The music video was released on February 6, 2020. It shows DaBaby hanging out on Super Bowl weekend for Super Bowl LIV, and features clips with American rappers Diddy and Kanye West "to help him celebrate DaBaby's success. The video, directed by Reel Goats, was shot in Miami, Florida, where Super Bowl LIV, the 54th Super Bowl, was played by the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers.
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Ha Young (actress)
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# Ha Young (actress)
## Abstract
Ahn Ha-young (Korean: 안하영; born August 11, 1993), known mononymously as Ha Young, is a South Korean actress and model, who made her acting debut in Doctor Prisoner (2019) and is best known for her role in the drama Doona! (2023).
## Biography and career
She was born on August 11, 1993, in South Korea. She attended Ewha Womans University to study art. After she graduated from Ewha Womans University, she joined Bistus Entertainment, she first did modeling for various promotional videos of motor vehicles and commercials of skincare products.
## Filmography
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Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
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# Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
## Abstract
Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (5 December 1825 – 27 May 1911) was the ninth of the ten children of Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel. He was named after his ancestor John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.
## Biography
As per the wishes of his cousin King Christian VIII, Prince Johann first enlisted in the Prussian military in 1842 and upon his graduation was appointed second lieutenant of the 27th Prussian Infantry Regiment in Magdeburg. He studied at the University of Bonn before joining the Dragoon Guards Regiments in Berlin. He participated in the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and the First Schleswig War against Denmark; this conflict of loyalties between Prussia and Denmark prompted him to request exemption from service. He went on to serve in various departments and was promoted to Rittmeister in 1854. The following year he was appointed Major à la suite and went to Denmark, settling down in Copenhagen.
When the Second Schleswig War broke out in 1864, Johann resigned from the Prussian army, and on 29 February his brother — now King Christian IX of Denmark — appointed him Lieutenant Colonel à la suite in the Danish Army. He went on to represent Denmark on diplomatic visits abroad, and was present in London during the baptism of the Prince of Wales ' son, Johann's great-nephew, the future King George V of the United Kingdom. He was promoted to colonel in 1865, and further to major-general in 1867.
From March to November 1867 he served as regent for his nephew, King George I of Greece during the Cretan uprising, when the latter was away on a tour of Europe in search of a bride; he soon grew popular among the people.
Johann died unmarried in 1911, outliving the rest of his siblings. He was interred at Roskilde Cathedral.
## Honours
- Denmark: Knight of the Elephant, 9 March 1864 Cross of Honour of the Order of the Dannebrog, 9 March 1864 Commemorative Medal for the Golden Wedding of King Christian IX and Queen Louise, 1892 Grand Cross of the Dannebrog, 12 February 1894
- Knight of the Elephant, 9 March 1864
- Cross of Honour of the Order of the Dannebrog, 9 March 1864
- Commemorative Medal for the Golden Wedding of King Christian IX and Queen Louise, 1892
- Grand Cross of the Dannebrog, 12 February 1894
- Ascanian duchies: Grand Cross of the Order of Albert the Bear, 23 October 1850
- Kingdom of Greece: Grand Cross of the Redeemer
- Nassau Ducal Family: Knight of the Gold Lion of Nassau
- Mecklenburg: Grand Cross of the Wendish Crown, with Crown in Ore
- Kingdom of Portugal: Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword
- Sweden-Norway: Knight of the Seraphim, 27 July 1869 Knight of the Order of Charles XIII, 21 January 1877 Grand Cross of St. Olav, with Collar, 12 February 1879
- Knight of the Seraphim, 27 July 1869
- Knight of the Order of Charles XIII, 21 January 1877
- Grand Cross of St. Olav, with Collar, 12 February 1879
- Kingdom of Prussia: Knight of the Black Eagle, 3 November 1892 Grand Cross of the Red Eagle
- Knight of the Black Eagle, 3 November 1892
- Grand Cross of the Red Eagle
- Russian Empire: Knight of St. Andrew, 1885 Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky Knight of the White Eagle Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class Knight of St. Stanislaus, 1st Class
- Knight of St. Andrew, 1885
- Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky
- Knight of the White Eagle
- Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class
- Knight of St. Stanislaus, 1st Class
- United Kingdom: Honorary Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 11 October 1901
- Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order
- France: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
- Oldenburg: Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, with Golden Crown
## Ancestry
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Radical 187
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# Radical 187
## Abstract
Radical 187 or radical horse (馬部) meaning " horse " is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 472 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
马, the simplified form of 馬, is the 58th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form 馬 is listed as its associated indexing component. The simplified form 马 is derived from the cursive script form of 馬.
## Sinogram
The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji
## Literature
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Spæth House
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# Spæth House
## Abstract
The Spæth House is a Rococo -style mansion in Helsingør, Denmark. It was built by the first sugar manufacturer in Helsingør and served both as residence and warehouse. The building is listed and now houses a public music school for local youth.
## History
### 18th century
The building takes its name after Johan Adam Spæth. Born in Zerbst, he had come to Helsingør at the age of 28 years. He initially worked as inn-keeper and wine trader. He soon began to trade with the many ships that called in Copenhagen to pay Sound Dues. In 1744, he was one of the seven founders of Helsingør merchant's guild and was its alderman from 1754 to 1762. Many of the ships carried sugar cane from the Danish West Indies. Sugar manufacturing was a lucrative business and in 1761, Spæth obtained a royal license to open Helsingør's sugar refinery at a site next to the coast road just south of Helsingør's Svingel Gate. A second sugar refinery was opened a little further down the coast road by C. C. Plum a little later.
In 1765, he began the construction of a three-storey mansion on the other side of the road which would both serve as his private residence and warehouse. The sugar refinery was taken over by Niels Bregaard. Later it was converted into a merchant house owned by J. C. S. Bredstrup.
### 19th century
The priest and poet Caspar Johannes Boye (1791-1853), who was pastor at Saint Olaf's Church, lived in the house with his large family in 1835-1847.
### 20th century
In c. 1905, Kund & Rasmussen bought the building. The firm had until then been based at Bjergegade 26.
The building was expanded with a lower wing on the southwest gable in 1932. The building was in the 1980s and 1990s used by the Civil Defence Agency but was sold to Helsingør Municipality in 1999 and adapted for use by the city's public music school.
## Architecture
The Rococo-style mansion consists of three storeys and a mansard roof with black-glazed tiles. It is nine bays wide and three bays deep. The front has a three-bay central projection tipped by a triangular pediment with arched niche. A one-bay projection on the northeast gable continues in a tall wall dormer with hoist, testifying to the building's dual function as both warehouse and residence.
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Albert Michotte
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# Albert Michotte
## Abstract
Albert Edouard, Baron Michotte van den Berck (13 October 1881, in Brussels, Belgium – 2 June 1965) was a Belgian experimental psychologist.
## Life
### Family
Michotte was born to a distinguished, well-to-do, noble Catholic family. He was second and last child of Edmond Michotte and Marie Bellefroid and younger brother of geographer Paul Michotte.
Michotte married Lucie Mulle (1885–1958), who gained the title Baroness Lucie Michotte van den Berck.
### Certification
He enrolled at the University of Leuven at the age of sixteen, originally studying philosophy.He obtained his license in 1899 in the study of Physiology and the psychology of sleep, and in 1900, his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on Spencer 's ethics.
### Early work
His interest was drawn toward experimental research, and so enrolled in the department of natural sciences where he joined the laboratory for two years, the same which had once been used by Arthur Van Gehuchten.It was during this time that he made his first scientific contributions: two publications on the histology of the nerve cell.After having a conversation with Désiré Mercier, founder of Leuven's laboratory of experimental psychology, was when he finally decided to dedicate himself to psychology. He began working under Armand Thiéry, who had been the laboratory director since 1894.Michotte wrote a publication on his research on tactual sense in 1905 based on his first experimental work.Between 1905 and 1908, he spent one semester of each year in Germany, working first with Wilhelm Wundt at Leipzig, then at Würzburg with Oswald Külpe. During this time he was also giving a course at Leuven on experimental psychology the other half of the year. His early work, done before World War I, was focused on logical memory and voluntary choice. Much of that work was heavily influenced by Külpe, through the employment of "systematic experimental introspection".
### Flees Belgium
After Leuven burned down in the beginning of World War I, Michotte fled the country, as many other Belgians of the time did. He went to the Netherlands where he stayed until 1918. There he worked with a friend at the Utrecht laboratory, studying the measurement of acoustic energy.
### Post WWI
After the war he returned to Belgium and returned to his teaching post and research at Leuven. Through his involvement, the teaching and research of psychology at Leuven underwent a considerable expansion and several additional professors were appointed. Michotte organized an Institut de Psychologie in 1944, which was able to grant the degree of docteur en psychologie. Throughout these years, even during World War II, Michotte was completely devoted to his work, and had little time for other activities or interests. He would often travel to various foreign universities to present papers. He also attended every International Congress of Psychology from 1905 until the 1950s. He was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1950. In 1952 he became professor emeritus, though continued to teach a course in perception in to 1956. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences that same year.
### Old age
He continued to frequent the laboratory; however, in 1962 he had a small cardiac attack, which sent him to a clinic for several months. Yet even there he continued to write and direct experiments through the help of his colleagues. Although he remained active until a few weeks before his death, he was housebound for the last three years of his life. He died in his home in 1965.
## Work
The main focus of Michotte's research was perception. This was the theme of his first research, and it was to this field, albeit with a new perspective, that almost all of his work after 1940 is devoted. He also had a reputation for creating new and creative techniques and instruments. His 1946 book, The Perception of Causality, published in French, became the pioneer work in event perception and met with international acclaim. In this book, he shows how certain very simple visual sequences carry the appearance of causal connectedness. Michotte emphasizes that this appearance is perceptual, not inferred by association: "his is not just a "meaning" attributed to the literal, step-by-step translation of a table of stimuli; they are primitive specific impressions which arise in the perceptual field itself," he writes. Though Michotte is often criticized for too-strong conclusions, his work on the perception of causality is generally regarded as path-breaking and correct, at least at its core. However, he did not see the study of perception of causality as a simple isolated problem. Instead he thought of it as he did most of his research, as only one aspect of a broader field of study. Indeed as he says in his autobiography he did not see his work as a simple "hunt for facts", but rather as part of a larger problem. Wagemans et al. (2006) give an account of Michotte's work.
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Samsung NX1100
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# Samsung NX1100
## Abstract
The Samsung NX1100 is a digital compact camera produced and marketed by Samsung since April 2013 as an entry-level camera with interchangeable lenses. It is a 20.3-megapixel mirrorless interchangeable lens camera using the Samsung NX-mount.
The NX1100 is comparable in weight and size with cameras such as the Sony NEX, Nikon 1 and the Micro Four Thirds series of cameras.
The NX1100 includes the i-Function lens control system and built-in WiFi for connection to online services such as email and social networking. The NX1100 is nearly identical to the NX1000 model.
No way to use as a webcam.
## Camera Gallery
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The Norwood Suite
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# The Norwood Suite
## Abstract
The Norwood Suite is a 2017 adventure game developed by Cosmo D and published by Alliance. Players explore a surreal hotel that was once owned by a famous musician. It is the sequel to Off-Peak and is followed by Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1, all of which are set in the same world.
## Gameplay
After musician Peter Norwood mysteriously disappears, his mansion is converted into a hotel. The player controls someone who is sent to the hotel. The residents, many of whom are musicians, assume the player to be a member of the staff. The player is free to explore the hotel and can perform various jobs for the residents. The game includes some limited puzzles but is mostly about exploration. It doesn't have a loss condition.
## Development
The Norwood Suite is musician and game developer Greg Heffernan's third video game, following Saturn V and Off-Peak, which were released as freeware. When creating characters, Heffernan was influenced by musicians who let their work be influenced by their lives regardless of theatricality. Characters and locations were designed to be believable and natural while still retaining the free-form nature of jazz improvisation. Heffernan likened Norwood himself to Glenn Gould and his namesake hotel to the Hotel Chelsea. Heffernan cited his main themes as "music and artists and artists finding a place in a hostile, shifting environment", though he intentionally left much to player interpretation. Gone Home and Dear Esther inspired Heffernan to focus more on exploration than puzzles and victory conditions, and he cited Thief as a major influence on The Norwood Suite ' s design. It was released on October 2, 2017. The macOS version was released on November 27, 2017.
## Reception
The Norwood Suite received positive reviews on Metacritic. PC Gamer said it "offers up some of the most satisfying immersive sim-style exploration of 2017". IGN said it feels like arriving in a unique and enjoyable form of "actual virtual hell". Describing it as "a walkthrough art piece with a few puzzles and backstories", Adventure Gamers recommended it to fans of surrealism and modern art. Rock Paper Shotgun said its core theme was "learning about music and the creative process" and, in a retrospective review, wrote, "I guarantee you'll have never seen a stranger or more surreal hotel than this."
Rock Paper Shotgun, Slant Magazine, and Vice included it in their best games of 2017, and Rock Paper Shotgun and Slant Magazine included it in the best games of the 2010s.
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Tattershall Thorpe
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# Tattershall Thorpe
## Abstract
Tattershall Thorpe is a hamlet and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) south from Woodhall Spa, and 1 mile (1.6 km) north-east from Tattershall.
The hamlet is significant because of its Second World War connection with RAF Woodhall Spa, which was in this parish.
## RAF Woodhall Spa
RAF Woodhall Spa was planned as a satellite airfield to RAF Coningsby. Construction began in 1940, but because of the threat of invasion further construction was postponed until 1942 and the airfield opened later that year. It consisted of three concrete runways and was equipped with aircraft hangars, and temporary accommodation for over 1000 men. As it was intended to be a heavy bomber base for Royal Air Force Bomber Command, there were also large bomb stores, situated to the north of the flying field, The airfield was mainly used by 97 Squadron and then 617 Squadron (famous as the Dambusters). In the latter part of the war 617 Squadron was involved in dropping powerful "Grand Slam" bombs. After the war flying ceased but the site was reactivated as a Bristol Bloodhound Missile site between 1960 and 1967. In 2000 part of the site remained in use by the RAF for testing aircraft engines.
## Thorpe Camp
Thorpe Camp was part of Number 1 Communal Site, RAF Woodhall Spa, and was built in 1940. After the war, it was taken over by Horncastle Rural District Council which used it for temporary housing until the 1960s. By the late 1980s it was derelict, and likely to be knocked down, until the Thorpe Camp Preservation Group, a registered charity, first leased and then bought the site. They opened the Thorpe Camp Visitor Centre with museum exhibits in the remaining buildings.
## Bluebell Inn
The Bluebell Inn is a public house dating from approximately 1257AD. It became an Inn during the 17th century, with 19th- and 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of "mud and stud" and partly underbuilt with painted brick. It is a Grade II listed building, and houses RAF memorabilia from RAF Woodhall Spa, an active RAF Station during the Second World War. The Bluebell Inn has signatures on its ceiling from some of the members of 97, 619, 617 (Dambusters) and 627 Squadrons who frequented the pub. RAF personnel from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and Squadrons from RAF Coningsby sign to this day to continue the tradition. Wing Commander Guy Gibson, leader of the 1943 "Dam Busters" raid, visited on several occasions until his death in September 1944.
## Anglo-Saxon Smith’s Burial
In 1981, an isolated Anglo-Saxon period burial was excavated at Tattershall Thorpe. It is aligned approximately east–west and has been dated to the seventh century. It contained an assemblage comprising an anvil and other items of smith's equipment, as well as bells that may have been used to signal the presence of a stranger. The burial has been cited in support of the proposition that smiths were treated as socially peripheral in their time.
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1920 in poetry
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# 1920 in poetry
## Abstract
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,– My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
— Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of " Dulce et Decorum est ", written 1917, published posthumously this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
## Events
- May – Irish poet W. B. Yeats concludes a lecture tour (begun in the fall of 1919) in the United States and crosses the Atlantic to settle in Oxford.
- December – The Poems of English war poet Wilfred Owen (killed in action 1918) are published posthumously in London with an introduction by his friend Siegfried Sassoon; only five of Owen's verses had been published during his lifetime, thus his work is introduced to many readers for the first time, including the 1917 poems " Anthem for Doomed Youth " and " Dulce et Decorum est "; the latter 28-line poem's horrifying imagery makes it one of the best-known condemnations of war ever written.
- Ezra Pound moves from London to Paris where he moves among a circle of artists, musicians and writers who are revolutionising modern art.
- The Dial, a longstanding American literary magazine, is re-established by Scofield Thayer; the publication becomes an important outlet for Modernist poets and writers (until 1929), with contributors this year including Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Charles Demuth, Kahlil Gibran, Gaston Lachaise, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Odilon Redon, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks, and W. B. Yeats.
- First issue of the anthology of Scottish poetry, Northern Notes, edited by Christopher Murray Grieve.
- Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov co-founds the "All-Russia Union of Writers" in the Soviet Union, where he makes no secret of his anti-Communist views, crosses himself in public, and doesn't care to hide his contempt for half-literate Bolsheviks. His fate changes in 1921.
## Works published in English
### United Kingdom
- Maurice Baring, Poems 1914–1919
- Edmund Blunden, The Waggoner and Other Poems
- Robert Bridges, October, and Other Poems
- Cambridge Poets 1914 – 1920, anthology edited by Edward Davison
- W. H. Davies, The Song of Life, and Other Poems
- Walter de la Mare, Poems 1901 to 1918
- T. S. Eliot: Poems, including Gerontion (text) and Sweeney Among the Nightingales The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
- Poems, including Gerontion (text) and Sweeney Among the Nightingales
- The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
- Robert Graves, Country Sentiment
- Aldous Huxley, Leda
- India in Song: Eastern Themes in English Verse by British and Indian Poets, an anthology of Indian poetry in English published in the UK (London: Oxford)
- John Masefield, Enslaved, and Other Poems
- Hope Mirrlees, Paris: A Poem (Hogarth Press, 1st edition misdated 1919)
- Harold Monro, Some Contemporary Poets (1920), criticism
- Wilfred Owen, Poems, introduction by Siegfried Sassoon (posthumous)
- Ruth Pitter, First Poems
- Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, London Umbra, London
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, London
- Umbra, London
- Nina Salaman, The Voices of the Rivers
- Siegfried Sassoon, Picture Show
- Edward Thomas, Collected Poems, foreword by Walter de la Mare
- Iris Tree, Poems
- Valour and Vision: Poems of the War, 1914-1918, anthology edited by Jacqueline T. Trotter
- Charles Williams, Divorce
- Humbert Wolfe: London Sonnets Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton, and Other Poems
- London Sonnets
- Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton, and Other Poems
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, " The Second Coming " first published in The Dial magazine for November (published again in 1921 in Yeats' Michael Robartes and the Dancer)
### United States
- Stephen Vincent Benét, Heavens and Earth
- Witter Bynner, A Canticle of Pan
- Hart Crane publishes his poem "My Grandmother's Love Letters" in The Dial. This is his first real step towards recognition as a poet.
- W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater
- Robert Frost, Miscellaneous Poems
- William Ellery Leonard, The Lynching Bee
- Edgar Lee Masters, Domesday Book
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs From Thistles
- Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, London Umbra, London
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, London
- Umbra, London
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, Spicewood
- Charles Reznikoff, Poems published by the New York Poetry Book Shop; the book features poems from Reznikoff's Rhythms and Rhythms II
- Lola Ridge, Sun-Up, including "Betty"
- Edward Arlington Robinson: Lancelot The Three Taverns
- Lancelot
- The Three Taverns
- Carl Sandburg, Smoke and Steel
- Sara Teasdale, Flame and Shadow, including" There Will Come Soft Rains "
- Galway Wescott, The Bitterns
- William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell. Improvisations
### Other in English
- India in Song: Eastern Themes in English Verse by British and Indian Poets, London: Oxford; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Yone Noguchi, Japanese Hokkus, Japanese poet writing in English
- Maneck B. Pithawalla, Sacred Sparks, Karachi: M. B. Pithawalla
- Tom Redcam, San Gloria, verse play, Jamaica
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Second Coming first published in the November issue of The Dial magazine (see quotation, above; published again in Michael Robartes and the Dancer 1921)
## Works published in other languages
### France
- Louis Aragon, Feu de joie
- Jean Cocteau, Poésies 1917–1920
- Philippe Soupault, Rose des vents
- Tristan Tzara, pen name of Sami Rosenstock, Cinéma calendrier coeur abstrait maisons
- Charles Vildrac, Chants du désespéré
### Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
#### Telugu poetry
- Garimella Satyanarayana, Makoddi tella doratanamu, a Telugu -language song famously used by Indians marching for freedom; the very militant lyric was banned for a time by the colonial government, which arrested the poet
- Rami Reddi also known as "Duvvuri": Jaladangana, celebrates farming season and the beauty of nature in the rural countryside, Indian, Telugu -language Venakumari, Telugu -language pastoral poems depicting the struggles of peasants
- Jaladangana, celebrates farming season and the beauty of nature in the rural countryside, Indian, Telugu -language
- Venakumari, Telugu -language pastoral poems depicting the struggles of peasants
#### Other Indian languages
- Ananda Chandra Agarwala, Jilikani, Assamese -language poem reflecting ancient Assamese ballads
- Bhaskar Ramchandra Tambe, Tambe Yanci Kavita, Marathi -language poems; edited by V. G. Mayadev
- Chanda Jha, Mahes Vani Sanghra, Maithili -language devotional songs addressed to Lord Siva
- Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala, Naibedya, Nepali -language poetry, didactic poems popular in Darjeeling
- Lala Kirpa Sagar, Laksmi Devi, Punjabi -language, long, narrative epic poem modeled on Sir Walter Scott 's The Lady of the Lake; depicts Maharaja Ranjit Singh's battles with Jaimal Singh, a hill chieftain
- Pt. Ram Naresh Tripathi, Pathik, very popular Hindi -language Khanda Kavya which went into 30 editions; patriotic and expressing love of the rural countryside; strongly influenced by Gandhi 's thought
- Surendra Jha 'Suman', also known as "Suman", Candi Carya, adaptation of Durgasaptasati in verse, Maithili -language
- Vaijanath Kashinath Rajwade, Kesavasutanci Kavita, Marathi -language article offering the first thematic classification and detailed analysis of Keshavsut's poems, criticism published in the monthly Manoranjan in July, September, October and November
### Spanish language
- Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián, Poemas autóctonos, Peru
- León Felipe, Veersos y oraciones del caminante ("Verses and Prayers of the Walker"), first volume (second volume, 1930), Spain
- Alfonsina Storni, Langour, Argentina
- Miguel de Unamuno, El Christo de Velázquez ("Christ by Velázquez"), Spain
### Other languages
- Piaras Béaslaí, "Bealtaine 1916" agus Dánta Eile, Ireland
- António Botto, Canções do Sul ("Songs of the South"), Portugal
- Ernst Enno, Valge öö, Estonia
- Kahlil Gibran, Al-'Awāsif ("The Tempests") and Spirits Rebellious (English translation), Lebanese-born Arabic poet in the United States
- Vladislav Khodasevich, The Way of Corn, Russia
- Tom Kristensen, Pirate Dreams, Denmark
- Jan Lechon, The Scarlet Poem, Poland
- Boleslaw Lesmian, The Meadow, Poland
- Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish bones"), Italy
- Les Poètes contre la guerre, France
- Anton Schnack, Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier ("Beast strove mightily with beast"), Germany
- Edith Sodergran, The Shadow of the Future, Sweden
- Georg Trakl, Der Herbst des Einsamen ("The Autumn of The Lonely"), Austrian native published in Germany
- Pavlo Tychyna, Instead of Sonnets or Octaves, Ukraine
- Tin Ujević, Lelek sebra ("Cry of a slave"), Croatian
- Henrik Visnapuu, Talihari, Hõbedased kuljused and Käoorvik, Estonia
## Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 24 – Keith Douglas (killed in action 1944), English poet
- February 21 – Ishigaki Rin 石垣りん (died 2004), Japanese poet; she was an employee of the Industrial Bank of Japan, sometimes called "the bank teller poet"
- February 23 – David Wright (died 1994), South African-born English poet
- February 29 – Howard Nemerov (died 1991), American poet, United States Poet Laureate from 1963 to 1964 and from 1988 to 1990
- March 5 – Madhunapantula Satyanarayana Sastry (died 1992), Indian, Telugu -language poet (surname: Satyanarayanashastri)
- March 11 – D. J. Enright (died 2002), English academic, poet, novelist and critic
- March 24 – Balachandra Rajan (died 2009), Indian critic, novelist and writer of Indian poetry in English
- April 27 – Edwin Morgan (died 2010), Scottish poet and translator
- June 13 – Ruth Guimarães (died 2014), Afro- Brazilian classicist, fiction writer and poet
- June 15 – Amy Clampitt (died 1994), American poet and author
- June 18 – Rosemary Dobson (died 2012), Australian poet
- July 18 – Zheng Min (died 2022), Chinese poet
- August 16 – Charles Bukowski (died 1994), American poet, novelist and short-story writer
- August 18 – Harbhajan Singh (died 2002), Indian, Punjabi poet in the Sahajvadi tradition, also a critic, cultural commentator and translator
- September 6 – Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson (died 2006), American poet and critic
- September 18 – Doris Mühringer (died 2009), Austrian poet, short-story writer and children's writer
- October 24 – Robert Greacen (died 2008), Irish poet
- November 3 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal (died 1993), Australian poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes
- November 23 – Paul Celan (suicide 1970), German -language poet born to a German-speaking Jewish family in a place at this time part of Romania (part of modern-day Ukraine)
- November 28 – Alexander Scott (died 1989), Scottish poet and literary scholar
- Also: V. A. Anandakkuttan (died 1969), Indian, Malayalam -language poet and author of humorous essays and farces Bernardino Evaristo Mendes, also known as B. E. Mendes, Indian, Konkani -language poet known for philosophical and theosophical writing Birendra Chattopadhyay (died 1985), Bengali -language poet and Marxist Jayant Pathak, Indian, Gujarati -language poet and critic K. B. Nikumb, Indian, Marathi -language poet Manmohan Misra, Indian poet and essayist in Orissa Natvarlal Kuberdas Pandya (pen name, "Usanas"), Indian, Gujarati -language poet and critic Okiyuma Gwaynn, Indian poet writing Indian poetry in English and then in Nepali; born in Hong Kong to a Japanese father and Tibetan mother, he settles in Darjeeling in 1946 Ram Lal Papiha, Indian, Dogri -language poet Rentala Gopalakrishna, Indian, Telugu -language poet and playwright Santokh Singh Dheer, Indian, Punjabi poet and fiction writer in the largely romantic and progressive-in-outlook Amrita-Mohan Singh tradition of Punjabi Tulasibahadur Chetri, nicknamed "Apatan", Indian, Nepali -language poet and playwright
- V. A. Anandakkuttan (died 1969), Indian, Malayalam -language poet and author of humorous essays and farces
- Bernardino Evaristo Mendes, also known as B. E. Mendes, Indian, Konkani -language poet known for philosophical and theosophical writing
- Birendra Chattopadhyay (died 1985), Bengali -language poet and Marxist
- Jayant Pathak, Indian, Gujarati -language poet and critic
- K. B. Nikumb, Indian, Marathi -language poet
- Manmohan Misra, Indian poet and essayist in Orissa
- Natvarlal Kuberdas Pandya (pen name, "Usanas"), Indian, Gujarati -language poet and critic
- Okiyuma Gwaynn, Indian poet writing Indian poetry in English and then in Nepali; born in Hong Kong to a Japanese father and Tibetan mother, he settles in Darjeeling in 1946
- Ram Lal Papiha, Indian, Dogri -language poet
- Rentala Gopalakrishna, Indian, Telugu -language poet and playwright
- Santokh Singh Dheer, Indian, Punjabi poet and fiction writer in the largely romantic and progressive-in-outlook Amrita-Mohan Singh tradition of Punjabi
- Tulasibahadur Chetri, nicknamed "Apatan", Indian, Nepali -language poet and playwright
## Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 7 – Dollie Radford, 61, English poet and writer
- February 8 – Richard Dehmel, 56, German poet
- February 19 – Ernest Hartley Coleridge (born 1846), English scholar and poet, grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- May 11 – William Dean Howells, 83, American literary critic, author and poet
- June 5 – Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan", 72, American poetaster, famed for her notoriously bad poetry
- July 3 – Charles E. Carryl, 78, American children's poet
- September 16 – Dan Andersson, 32, Swedish poet, accidentally poisoned
- October 25 – Terence MacSwiney, 41, Irish playwright, poet and politician, hunger strike
- November 2 – Louise Imogen Guiney, 59, American -born poet
- November 18 – Matthías Jochumsson, 85, Icelandic lyric poet, playwright, translator and pastor
- December 21 – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, 56, Somali poet, religious and nationalist leader who for 20 years led armed resistance to the British, Italian, and Ethiopian forces in Somalia and used his patriotic poetry to rally his supporters
- December 24 – Matilda Maranda Crawford, 76, American - Canadian poet, writer, correspondent
- Also: Devendranath Sen (born 1855), Indian, Bengali -language poet Divakarla Tirupti Shastri (born 1872), Indian, Telugu -language poet; one of the two poets known in Telugu literature as "Triupati Vankata Kavulu" Eknath Pandurang Randalkar (born 1887), Indian, Marathi -language poet and translator from Sanskrit, English, Bengali and Gujarati poetry Jammuneshwar Khataniyar (born 1899), Indian, Assamese -language poet; a woman Mian Hidayatulla (birth year not known), Indian, Punjabi -language poet Nagesh Vishwanath Pai, also spelled "Nagesh Vishvanath Pai" (born 1860), Indian, Marathi -language poet and fiction writer Vishvanatha Dev Varma (born 1850), Indian, Sanskrit -language poet
- Devendranath Sen (born 1855), Indian, Bengali -language poet
- Divakarla Tirupti Shastri (born 1872), Indian, Telugu -language poet; one of the two poets known in Telugu literature as "Triupati Vankata Kavulu"
- Eknath Pandurang Randalkar (born 1887), Indian, Marathi -language poet and translator from Sanskrit, English, Bengali and Gujarati poetry
- Jammuneshwar Khataniyar (born 1899), Indian, Assamese -language poet; a woman
- Mian Hidayatulla (birth year not known), Indian, Punjabi -language poet
- Nagesh Vishwanath Pai, also spelled "Nagesh Vishvanath Pai" (born 1860), Indian, Marathi -language poet and fiction writer
- Vishvanatha Dev Varma (born 1850), Indian, Sanskrit -language poet
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Laurie Nevins
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# Laurie Nevins
## Abstract
Laurence Nevins (2 July 1920 – June 1972) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion and Hartlepools United. He joined Newcastle United in 1939 as an amateur, and turned professional in 1940, but never made a peacetime appearance. During the Second World War, he made guest appearances for Middlesbrough and Queens Park Rangers, and played regularly for Dundee United in the Scottish wartime competitions while serving in the Royal Navy as a submariner.
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Ashes to Ashes
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# Ashes to Ashes
## Abstract
Ashes to Ashes may refer to:
## In religion
- "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust", a phrase from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer burial service
## In literature
- Ashes to Ashes (play), by Harold Pinter, 1996
- Ashes to Ashes (Kluger book), by Richard Kluger, about smoking in the United States, 1996
- Ashes to Ashes (novel), by Tami Hoag, 1999
- Ashes to Ashes, by Isabel Ostrander
## In films
- Ashes to Ashes (Wednesday Theatre), an Australian television play
- Ashes to Ashes (film), by Wayne Gerard Trotman
- Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes, 2006 made-for-television sequel in the Pumpkinhead franchise of horror films
## In television
- Ashes to Ashes (British TV series), a follow-on from the BBC drama Life on Mars
- Ashes to Ashes (South African TV series)
- "Ashes to Ashes" (Only Fools and Horses), an episode of Only Fools and Horses
- "Ashes to Ashes" (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
- "Ashes to Ashes" (CSI: Miami), an episode of CSI: Miami
- Ashes to Ashes (Columbo), a 1998 television movie
- "Ashes to Ashes" (The Originals)
## Music
### Albums
- Ashes to Ashes (soundtrack album), a soundtrack album of the BBC series
- Ashes to Ashes (David Shankle Group album)
- Ashes to Ashes (Chelsea Grin album), 2014
- Ashes to Ashes (mixtape), a 2010 mixtape released by Rick Ross
- Ashes to Ashes Live, a 2010 DVD by doom metal act Candlemass
- Ashes to Ashes, a 1990 album by Joe Sample
### Songs
- "Ashes to Ashes" (The 5th Dimension song), 1973
- "Ashes to Ashes" (David Bowie song), 1980
- "Ashes to Ashes" (Faith No More song), 1997
- "Ashes to Ashes" (Anna Bergendahl song), 2019
- " Asche zu Asche ", Ashes to Ashes in English, a song by Rammstein
- "Ashes to Ashes", from Blind Guardian's Somewhere Far Beyond album
- "Ashes to Ashes", a 1991 song by the Norwegian band Apoptygma Berzerk
- "Ashes to Ashes", by Damageplan featuring Jerry Cantrell from The Punisher: The Album
- "Ashes to Ashes", from the Heavenly album Dust to Dust
- "Ashes to Ashes", from the Kamelot album Silverthorn
- "Ashes to Ashes", from the Steve Earle album Jerusalem
- "Ashes to Ashes", from the Tangerine Dream album Electronic Meditation
- "Ashes to Ashes", from the Vinnie Vincent Invasion album All Systems Go
## In games
- Ashes to Ashes (Vampire: The Masquerade), a 1991 tabletop role-playing game book
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Cristian Munteanu
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# Cristian Munteanu
## Abstract
Cristian Marian Munteanu (born 10 November 1974) is a former Romanian football player who played as a goalkeeper, currently president at Liga I club Oțelul Galați.
## Honours
### Club
Dinamo București
- Divizia A: 2003–04
- Cupa României: 2002–03, 2003–04
- Supercupa României runner-up: 2002, 2003
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Phantom Blood
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# Phantom Blood
## Abstract
Phantom Blood (Japanese: ファントムブラッド, Hepburn: Fantomu Buraddo) is a 1987 manga series created by Hirohiko Araki, and the first part of the larger JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series. The manga was originally serialized by Shueisha in Weekly Shōnen Jump under the title JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1 Jonathan Joestar: His Youth (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 第一部 ジョナサン·ジョースター ―その青春―, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Dai Ichi Bu Jonasan Jōsutā -Sono Seishun) and was collected in five volumes; a three-volume collection was released by Shueisha in Japan in 2002, and by Viz Media in North America in 2014. The arc was serialized for more than 10 months; from January 1, 1987, to October 26 of that same year. It was followed by Battle Tendency.
The story is set in England in the middle-to-late 1880s, and follows Jonathan Joestar, the heir of the wealthy Joestar family, and his adoptive brother Dio Brando, who wishes to take the Joestar fortune for himself. Using an ancient stone mask, Dio transforms himself into a vampire, and Jonathan learns the sunlight-based martial arts technique of Hamon to fight him. Araki described the themes of the story as "being alive" and "an affirmation that humanity is wonderful", with characters growing and overcoming problems through their own actions.
The series received reviews ranging from mixed to positive, with critics frequently criticizing the anatomy and character posing in Araki's artwork, and Araki was often told during the serialization that Phantom Blood was the one series that did not fit in with the "best of the best" that were published at the same time, like Dragon Ball and Fist of the North Star. The series has seen two anime adaptations, in the form of a 2007 film by A.P.P.P., and as part of the first season of David Production 's 2012 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure TV series. It was also adapted into a 2006 video game by Bandai. A stage musical adaptation debuted in February 2024.
## Plot
In 19th-century England, a youth born into poverty named Dio Brando is adopted by the wealthy George Joestar to repay a family debt to Dio's father Dario, who died in 1880. George's son Jonathan, who aspires to become a gentleman, is shunned by his family and friends, whom Dio manipulates as part of his plot to take the Joestar fortune for himself. After forcibly stealing the first kiss of Jonathan's girlfriend Erina Pendleton, an enraged Jonathan overpowers Dio in a fistfight. Dio gets revenge by murdering Jonathan's pet dog Danny, before biding his time to adulthood. Jonathan and Dio develop an interest in a mysterious stone mask that reacted to Dio's blood being spilt in the battle. Jonathan learns that the mask was used by the Aztecs to bring the wearer immortality.
In 1888, after becoming old enough to inherit the Joestar fortune, Dio deliberately poisons Jonathan's father, George. Jonathan learns of Dio's plot and his search for evidence takes him to Ogre Street, a dangerous street in London, where he befriends a thug named Robert E. O. Speedwagon. At the same time, Dio intends to arrange a freak accident to kill Jonathan with the stone mask and tests the mask on a drunkard. The mask instead turns the drunkard into a powerful vampire who nearly kills Dio before being destroyed by sunlight. Jonathan and Speedwagon return to the mansion with evidence and expose Dio's scheme. Dio attempts to kill Jonathan with a knife but George sacrifices his life to save Jonathan. Dio uses the blood spilt by George and the mask to become a vampire. Jonathan sets the Joestar family's mansion on fire and impales Dio on a statue in the burning mansion, but Dio survives.
While recovering from his wounds, Jonathan reunites with Erina. The couple later meets Will A. Zeppeli, a man who intends to destroy the stone mask after it caused his father's death. Zeppeli teaches Jonathan how to use a supernatural energy produced by controlled breathing called Hamon. Then, on November 30, 1888, Jonathan, Speedwagon, and Zeppeli travel to Wind Knights Lot, where Dio is creating an army of zombies. Zeppeli is mortally wounded by one of these zombies, Tarkus, and passes the last of his Hamon energy on to Jonathan before dying. Joined by Zeppeli's fellow Hamon users, on December 1, 1888, Jonathan destroys Dio's body by sending Hamon directly through him. Dio decapitates his head to survive the Hamon attack. Speedwagon destroys the stone mask. On February 2, 1889, Jonathan marries Erina. The next day, they leave on a ship to the United States on their honeymoon. Dio sneaks aboard the ship, intending to transplant his head onto Jonathan's body.
On February 7, 1889, Dio mortally wounds Jonathan. Jonathan uses the last of his Hamon to manipulate the body of Dio's servant Wang Chan into obstructing the ship's paddle wheel, setting it to explode. Jonathan dies with Dio's head in his arms while Erina escapes in the coffin that Dio hid in with a dead passenger's baby girl. Rescued near the Canary Islands two days later, Erina vows to pass on the truth of Jonathan's life to her unborn child and the generations to follow.
## Production
Phantom Blood was written and drawn by Hirohiko Araki. Prior to working on the series, he created a manga that resembled the works of Hisashi Eguchi, an artist known for his art of female characters; Araki's editor, Ryōsuke Kabashima, angrily told Araki to never draw something as derivative again, which led him to take another direction with his art, and the creation of Phantom Blood. Due to the popularity of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone at the time, Araki designed characters with muscular body types. The character posing, which Araki considers a distinctive aspect of his art, was influenced by a trip to Italy just before the serialization of Phantom Blood, where he went to the Galleria Borghese in Rome and saw Gian Lorenzo Bernini 's sculpture Apollo and Daphne. Seeing it in person from different angles had a large influence on him; he described it as overwhelmingly beautiful and intense, and unlike sculptures in Japanese museums and the figure posing of most manga artists.
### Structure and themes
Phantom Blood was created using a ki-shō-ten-ketsu structure – introduction (ki), development (shō), twist (ten), and resolution (ketsu) – along with the rule of rising and falling, in which the hero must grow over time in relation to their starting point in the beginning of the story, and not stagnate or regress. Araki did however note that due to the weekly format of the series, Jonathan's initial regression when Dio turns Jonathan's happy life into hardships meant that Jonathan's growth remained in the negative for a few weeks after the series' premiere, leading to a negative feeling that Jonathan always loses. Araki implemented a similar growth curve for Dio, although with him rising towards evil. Despite following the rule of the ever-progressing hero, Araki decided to bend the rule and have Jonathan die to save his wife and child: he acknowledged that dying is as far negative as a hero can go, and called it unthinkable to do such a thing in a shōnen manga, but said that since he wanted to pass down the Joestar family's lineage, he needed Jonathan to die, and for his blood and spirit to be passed to the protagonist of the second part of the series. While calling it a gamble, he called this passing of the torch a positive that enables the extreme negative of killing the first protagonist.
The themes of Phantom Blood were described by Araki as "being alive" and "an affirmation that humanity is wonderful". He explained the latter as a description for humanity's ability to grow and overcome hardships through one's strength and spirit; this is a recurring theme that has been used in all following parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, portrayed through people succeeding in fights through their own actions, without relying on machines or gods. This theme, along with the passing of the torch, was influenced by Araki's grandfather's death near the start of the serialization, and his thoughts about how people leave parts of themselves behind for the next generation when they die.
Wanting readers to know that the stone mask and its powers would be what would drive the plot, Araki started the manga with a prologue involving the mask, focusing on communicating the mood, rather than the standard way of opening a manga with an introduction of the protagonist. The concept of Hamon was created as he thought about how to create drawings that show the invisible; he came up with the idea of a character punching a frog, which was left unharmed, while the rock underneath cracked open, thus showing the supernatural power of the character's abilities. It was also influenced by his love for karate manga, with the supernatural moves used within them.
### Creation of characters
As part of the creation of each character, Araki wrote down a fictional history for the character, to prevent inconsistencies; while not all information he writes in these is used directly in the manga, it helps him determine how the character should act and react in different situations. Jonathan and Dio, the protagonist and antagonist, were created with the duality of light and shadow in mind, with the intention to have them contrast against each other: Dio was depicted as an embodiment of evil, and Jonathan as "fundamentally virtuous" and just. Araki also made use of black and white in his art to further contrast the two. Jonathan was designed to be a symbol for the story and setting, something Araki would continue doing with later protagonists in the series. Because Araki wanted the series to move on with new characters in the Joestar family, Jonathan was specifically written as "the first Joestar" that would function as a symbol of purity and dignity, and not as a unique character. This limited what Jonathan could do; in retrospect, Araki considered him passive and "a bit boring".
From the start of the planning of the manga, Araki intended to depict Dio as a "cool" character who descends into villainy. Thinking that it could be difficult to create an evil antagonist that readers would empathize with, Araki wrote Dio as coming from a poor family with a father "with no redeeming qualities whatsoever", giving Dio motivation to acquire power and get revenge on the world even if it led him to do immoral and illegal things. Araki also noted that a character who acts without regard for morals and laws can give readers a feeling of catharsis due to exhibiting the same "ugly feelings" people hold but cannot show, making Dio more easily relatable than a character who only does good. Dio's name was taken directly from the Italian word for "god", and was chosen to sound good together with the name "JoJo".
The main supporting character of Phantom Blood, Zeppeli, was created as a "silly teacher" in the style of the martial art masters from Jackie Chan 's films and The Karate Kid, with a charm in the contrast between how they appear and who they are inside. Araki designed him with a mustache, drawing inspiration from the appearances of the painter Salvador Dalí and the Osomatsu-kun character Iyami; this was considered a gamble, as mustachioed characters in shōnen magazines were considered to appear old and untrustworthy, potentially turning readers off. His name comes from the rock band Led Zeppelin, and was chosen to balance out the large amount of names in the series beginning with "J"; the character Speedwagon was given his name (which comes from the rock band REO Speedwagon) for the same reason.
## Release and related media
Phantom Blood was originally serialized in Shueisha 's Weekly Shōnen Jump under the title JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1 Jonathan Joestar: His Youth. It ran from January 1 to October 26, 1987, for a total of 44 chapters, and was later collected in five tankōbon volumes. It was also collected in a three-volume bunkoban collection on February 15, 2002, and a single volume sōshūhen edition in 2012. Another three-volume collection with new cover art by Araki was released from December 4, 2013, to January 4, 2014, as part of the JoJonium line, along with the second and third part of the series, Battle Tendency and Stardust Crusaders. This version was released in North America by Viz Media, beginning digitally in 2014 and in print in 2015. A digitally colored version of the complete manga was released digitally for smartphones and tablet computers in Japan on July 13, 2012.
To celebrate the series' anniversary, a video game adaptation was released in 2006 by Bandai for the PlayStation 2, and a Phantom Blood anime film adaptation, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, was produced by A.P.P.P. and released in Japanese theaters in 2007. The film has never been released on home video. The owarai duo Speedwagon (Jun Itoda and Kazuhiro Ozawa), who took their name from the Phantom Blood character, make cameo appearances in the film as Dario Brando and Wang Chen. Phantom Blood was again adapted into anime in 2012, as part of the first season of David Production 's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure TV anime series.
In 2023, a stage musical adaptation produced by Toho was announced, which was to be directed by Ney Hasegawa with the script written by Tsuneyasu Motoyoshi. The musical debuted in February 2024 with Yuya Matsushita and Shotaro Arisawa starring as Jonathan Joestar alongside Mamoru Miyano as Dio Brando.
## Volumes
### Original volumization
### 2002 release
### 2012 release
### 2013 release / English release
## Reception
Phantom Blood was met with reviews ranging from critical to positive. According to Araki, he was often told during the original serialization of the manga that it was the one series that did not fit in with the "best of the best" that were serialized at the same time, such as Dragon Ball, Fist of the North Star, Captain Tsubasa, Kinnikuman and Saint Seiya. Weekly Shōnen Jump readers were critical of the first few chapters, finding Jonathan unlikable as he kept losing against Dio at that point. The series was included in Anime News Network ' s list of the best and most memorable manga of 2015, as the winner in the "WTF Did I Just Read?!" category.
Joseph Luster at Otaku USA called Phantom Blood "a treat" for both new and old readers of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, but thought that it feels slow-paced compared to Stardust Crusaders. Ziah Grace and Clair Napier of ComicsAlliance were very critical of the series, calling it "meaningless junk" that should not have been republished in 2015, and recommended readers to read a plot summary of Phantom Blood and start with Battle Tendency instead. They criticized the series' depiction of animal cruelty, and the "bad or non-existent" female roles in the story. Anime News Network ' s Rebecca Silverman appreciated the realism in how Dio appears perfectly mannered to George while also being sadistically cruel, and how the series uses a mix between Aztec mythology and vampire lore, but thought that the story could be too cruel for some readers, citing the animal cruelty as an example. She liked how the story escalates in intensity and weirdness, but criticized it for telling more often than showing, and using exclamation marks too much.
Several reviewers criticized the artwork in Phantom Blood for the characters' anatomy and posing; Silverman described it as featuring impossible poses and characters appearing to have disproportionally small heads atop large, muscled bodies. She additionally criticized the art for being crowded and hard to read. ComicsAlliance disliked how the art felt derivative of Fist of the North Star. Takato at Manga-News thought that the anatomy and posing, while fitting the tone of the story, were unlikely and badly drawn. Luster thought that the art was not nearly as good as Araki's later works, but that it was charming and worked despite the "twisted proportions" due to its high intensity and stylization. Kory Cerjak at The Fandom Post enjoyed the artwork, however, calling it "straight out of the 80s", giving the series a similar feeling to watching a good action film from that time period.
The box set for the three-volume JoJonium release of the series was the 47th best selling comic in Japan during its debut week according to Oricon, selling an estimated 19,374 copies. The three English volumes all charted on The New York Times Manga Best Seller list for three weeks in a row; volume 1 premiered in first place, and both volume 2 and 3 debuted in second place, after The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Naruto volume 71, respectively.
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Fageda d'en Jordà
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# Fageda d'en Jordà
## Abstract
The fageda d'en Jordà – in English: the Jordà beech forest – is a natural reserve that includes a beech forest with unique characteristics in Spain, as it grows on relatively flat terrain, formed by a cooled lava flow from the volcano del Croscat, at an altitude that is not common in the Mediterranean area of the Iberian Peninsula for this type of forest, between 550 and 650 m. It has an area of about 4.8 km and its floor is made up of lava prominences that can reach more than 20 m in height, which are locally called tossols.
The beech forest is famous because the Catalan poet Joan Maragall wrote a well-known poem in its honor ("La fageda d'en Jordà"). At the main entrance to the beech forest, at kilometer 4 of the road from Olot to Santa Pau, where the Can Serra car park is located, there is a monolith in his honour. The use of motor vehicles is prohibited within the forest, however, there are several walking routes and you can rent a horse or an old horse-drawn carriage at kilometer 7 of the road from Olot to Santa Pau.
## Location
La fageda d'en Jordà is located in the La Garrotxa region, about 5.5 km from Olot. It occupies part of the municipalities of Santa Pau, Olot and Las Presas and is part of the Garrocha Volcanic Zone natural park. The beech forest is surrounded by several of the 21 volcanoes in the Garrocha region. At one end of the forest is the Can Jordà farmhouse, which gives it its name, and which today is a Cultivated Plant Conservation Center. Its objective is the cultivation of fruit tree species close to extinction and varieties of plants that have gone into decline, such as some varieties of buckwheat. Within the forest is the La Fageda cooperative, dedicated to the production of dairy products and which employs mentally handicapped people.
## Climate and vegetation
The Jordà fageda is made up almost entirely of medium and large beech trees on land that has not been plowed for many years, although you can still see the old paths of old agricultural and forestry farms. The beech (Fagus sylvatica) benefits from a generous climate, abundant in rain (900 to 1000 mm), cool, with a Mediterranean transition from humid mountain to Atlantic, facing slightly north, with a substrate of relatively recent reddish clays, andosols and other brown soils in which these trees grow easily.
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Poliforum Zamna
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# Poliforum Zamna
## Abstract
Poliforum Zamna is a 6,640-seat indoor multipurpose arena located in Merida, Yucatan, part of the Unidad Deportiva Kukulkan complex which also includes Estadios Carlos Iturralde and Kukulkan, the latter from which the arena's red coffered dome roof is viewable. All three venues were built during the 1980s; the Poliforum itself was built sometime in the mid-1980s, and when completed, it could hold as many as 12,000 spectators. Subsequent renovations, including the replacement of the original 1980s-style seating with wider and more comfortable seats, as well as improved handicapped access, have reduced the arena's maximum capacity for concerts, boxing and wrestling to 8,640. Another renovation to the arena took place in 2014, and saw its domed roof repainted white, and its exterior modernized. In that same renovation, a new scoreboard was installed and new LED lighting replaced older lighting.
In addition to the aforementioned events, the Poliforum Zamna is also used for rodeos, basketball, ice events including ice shows and hockey, and circuses, among other events. The arena now competes with the Yucatan Siglo XXI Convention Centre for large-scale indoor events. Rocio Durcal, Timbiriche, Vicente Fernandez, Gloria Trevi, Veronica Castro, Maribel Guardia, Pepe Aguilar, Mana, Thalia, Lorena Herrera, Banda el Recodo and many others have performed here in its over 30-year history.
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Nick Jonas Live
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# Nick Jonas Live
## Abstract
Nick Jonas Live is the first concert tour for American pop singer, songwriter Nick Jonas without his band, the Administration or the Jonas Brothers, to support his second studio album, Nick Jonas (2014). The tour starts on September 22 in Seattle and ends on November 6 in New York.
## Background and development
On September 4, 2014, Jonas tweeted a message that said that he had a big announcement coming the next day. The next day he announced that he would go on tour. He also revealed the tour dates. On September 6, fans could pre- order his upcoming album to get early access to the tour ticket sale. They will also receive a download of his single " Jealous " on September 8, 2014.
The Tour was part of the promotional effort to Jonas' solo project. It came in a wave of new found freedom the artist was experiencing since departing from the band with his brothers.
Jonas also joined Demi Lovato on stage for select shows of the concert tour, performing three of her songs with her.
The promotion to the eponymous solo project also helped Jonas to better understand himself as an artist, stripping away from the influence and dynamic of being part of a band, while also allowing him to have a better schedule to venture through acting whilst promoting his music.
## Set list
This set list is representative of the performance on October 30, 2014. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.
- " Chains "
- "Take Over"/ "Catch Me" (Demi Lovato cover)
- "Numb"
- " Crazy " (Gnarls Barkley cover)
- "Warning"
- " A Little Bit Longer "
- "Push"/ "The Worst (Jhene Aiko cover)
- " Teacher "
- "Santa Barbara"
- " Wilderness " / "California Love" (Tupac cover)
- "I Want You"
- "Nothing Would Be Better"/ " Stay with Me " (Sam Smith cover)
- " Jealous "
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Louis Kahan
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# Louis Kahan
## Abstract
Louis Kahan AO (25 May 1905 – 16 July 2002) was an Austrian -born Australian artist whose long career included fashion design, illustration for magazines and journals, painting, printmaking and drawing. He is represented in most major collections in Australia as well as in Europe and USA. He won the Archibald Prize in 1962 with a portrait of Patrick White.
## Biography
Louis Kahan was born in Vienna on 25 May 1905 and initially trained as a tailor with his father. However, he was particularly drawn to art and as a young man sketched his father's clients, who included famous actors and musicians of the day. In 1925 he travelled from Vienna to Paris where he worked with renowned couturier Paul Poiret, first as a tailor and then designer. Through Poiret he met many artists, including Matisse, Dufy and Vlaminck. He designed costumes for Josephine Baker, Collette and the Follies Bergeres. He immersed himself in the bohemian life of the city and began life drawing in Montparnasse. At this time he also produced freelance illustrations for newspapers and magazines.
He enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in 1939 and was sent to Algeria, North Africa as a war artist, although he had never received any formal art training. He had an exhibition at Oran in 1942. He was a voluntary artist for the Red Cross between 1943 and 1945. During this time, photography of soldiers was not permitted. Louis made over 2,000 drawings of wounded soldiers being cared for in the hospital at Oran and these were v-mailed (an early form of microfilm) to the families of soldiers. When he found that the originals were being destroyed after transmission Kahan began to save them and over 300 were later given by him to the Red Cross Museum in Washington, USA.
He returned to Paris after the war, and was employed by Le Figaro to sketch the court scenes of the war trials.
After travelling across the United States he moved to Perth, Western Australia to join his family, who had emigrated to Australia before the war. In Perth he had his first solo exhibition and began to be recognised by the art world, with work purchased by the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
He moved to Melbourne in 1950 where his talent for portraiture was recognised by Melbourne Herald art critic, Alan McCulloch, who introduced him to Clem Christesen, editor of Meanjin. He made many portraits of Australian and other celebrities, including Geoffrey Blainey, Judy Cassab, Manning Clark, Arthur Boyd, Dame Joan Sutherland, Yehudi Menuhin and Luciano Pavarotti. Many of the original drawings for Meanjin are now in the Baillieu Collection of Melbourne University.
On a return trip to Perth in 1953 he met and married Lily Isaac. After living in London for some time they returned to Australia in 1959 and then to Melbourne in 1960. Here he collaborated with producer Stephen Haag, designing sets and costumes for opera and theatre. The Victorian Art Centre, Melbourne, has a large collection of his portraits of musicians, and set and costume designs.
In his paintings, prints and drawings Louis Kahan explored many interests and themes, including dreams, death, and his own life. Childhood games, portraits and nudes were ongoing subjects. Symbolism particularly characterises his later works. Later, dreamlike prints and paintings often show Kahan's tools of the trade: palette, brushes, tailor's scissors and tape. These represent a kind of metaphorical self-portrait and life history.
In 1993 Louis Kahan was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the arts.
He died in 2002, aged 97.
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Cecil Duff
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# Cecil Duff
## Abstract
Cecil Elba Duff (November 20, 1896 – November 10, 1969) was an American baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, who made three appearances for the team in 1922 at the age of 25. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Duff was 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 175 pounds. He was born in Radersburg, Montana, and died in Bend, Oregon.
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Speech (Speech album)
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# Speech (Speech album)
## Abstract
Speech is the first solo album by the American rapper Speech, released in 1996.
The album's first single was "Like Marvin Gaye Said (What's Going On)". It first appeared on the Marvin Gaye tribute album Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye.
## Production
The album was produced by Speech, who also sang on some of the songs. He played most of the instruments on the album, and recorded it in his home studio. Speech contains guest appearances from Pappa Jon, Laurneá Wilkerson, and Foley.
## Critical reception
Trouser Press thought that "Speech shows that he can still construct a lulling, even groovy song cycle, but at this point he just doesn’t have the lyrical chops to give it substance." Entertainment Weekly determined that, "with its rapturous echoes of Sly, Stevie, and Prince, Speech by Speech, the boss of the defunct Arrested Development, is more arresting than anyone had a right to expect." The Knoxville News Sentinel concluded that the album "restores some of the initial promise of his group Arrested Development before the band burned out in a blaze of self-importance a couple of years ago."
Vibe called the album "a mess," noting Speech's "desire to become the male Tracy Chapman." The Boston Globe praised Speech's "gift for poppy, smoothly persuasive hip-hop, rather than the gnashing, in-your-face variety." The New York Times stated that "the sound is rawer and less produced and layered than Arrested Development's music... Where Arrested Development sounded like many streams flowing into a single river, the styles, beats and words on Speech all seem to flow from a single stream-of-consciousness."
AllMusic wrote that, "where his former group sounded rootsy and gritty even at their most laid-back, Speech's record sounds slick, generally lacking in funk or dirt."
## Track listing
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Museum Tinguely
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# Museum Tinguely
## Abstract
The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland that contains a permanent exhibition of the works of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely. Located in the Solitudepark by the Rhine, the museum was designed by the Ticinese architect Mario Botta and opened on 3 October 1996.
A variety of Tinguely's kinetic art sculptures are on permanent display, complemented with illustrations, photographs and other documents related to the artist's life and work. Tinguely's wife, Niki de Saint Phalle has donated 55 sculptures to the museum. The museum's temporary exhibitions show works from Tinguely's friends and contemporaries, as well as other modern artists such as Bernhard Luginbühl, Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Klein, among others.
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John Tracey
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# John Tracey
## Abstract
John Joseph Tracey (June 27, 1933 – September 21, 1978) was an American football linebacker. At Texas A&M University, Tracey held school records for most receptions and most yards receiving. Another " NFL Reject ", when he joined the American Football League (AFL)'s Buffalo Bills in 1962, Lou Saban liked his speed and agility, and used him at linebacker, where with Harry Jacobs and Mike Stratton he filled out the AFL's best linebacking crew, playing together for 62 consecutive games from 1963 through 1967, a professional football record. They helped the formidable front four hold opposing teams without a 100-yard rusher for seventeen consecutive games in 1964 and 1965, and achieved American Football League championships in both those years. In 1963, he led the team with five interceptions. Tracey was an AFL All-Star in 1965 and 1966. He died on September 21, 1978, from lung cancer.
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Miáo (surname)
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# Miáo (surname)
## Abstract
Miáo (苗) is a Chinese language surname. In 2013 it was counted as the 157th most common surname with 1 million people sharing the name or 0.075% of the total population, the province with the largest population of people with the name is Henan. It is the 53rd name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
## Notable people
- Nora Miao (stagename, Chinese: 苗可秀, born 陳詠憫 1952), Hong Kong actress
- Miao Miao (Chinese: 苗苗; pinyin: Miáo Miao) (born 1981), Australian table tennis player
- Miao Wei (Chinese: 苗圩; born 1955), Chinese politician and business executive
- Vivi Miao (born 1988), also known as Miao Miao, Chinese actress
- Miao Pu (born 1977), Chinese actress
- Michael Miu (born 1958), Hong Kong actor
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Matt Kopa
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# Matt Kopa
## Abstract
Matthew Alexander Kopa (born February 25, 1987) is a former American football offensive tackle of the National Football League. He played college football for Stanford where he changed positions from defensive to offensive lineman in 2007. Kopa was signed in 2010 by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent. On November 9, 2010, Kopa was signed by the Miami Dolphins off of the 49ers practice squad. He later played for the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles.
## Early years
Kopa earned many accolades as both an offensive and defensive lineman while attending Elk Grove High School in Elk Grove, California. Kopa burst on to the national spotlight during his Junior year following his outstanding performance at the Palo Alto Nike Camp. In 2004, Kopa was ranked as the #82 player in the nation, and the #7 defensive end in the country according to Rivals.com. He played in the CaliFlorida Bowl at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida on January 2, 2005.
## College career
Kopa committed very early in the recruiting process to Stanford, and maintained his allegiance to the Cardinal following the firing of Head Coach Buddy Teevens. He began his career playing on the defensive line for Head Coach Walt Harris. After redshirting his Freshman year, he won the battle for the starting defensive end position in 2006, but suffered a hyperextended elbow during the final week of Training Camp that marginalized his performance until the last month of the season. In 2007, Jim Harbaugh became the new Head Coach at Stanford, and asked Kopa to move over to the offensive line. As a Junior, Kopa played both as a reserve offensive tackle and tight end. Kopa eventually played in 35 career games with the Cardinal. He had seven starts including starting the final six games of the 2008 season, five at right tackle and one at left guard. Kopa was projected to have a breakout season in 2009 and be one of the top offensive tackles taken in the 2010 NFL Draft. Unfortunately, he injured his foot while playing in the 2009 season opener against Washington State and missed the rest of the season after undergoing surgery at Stanford University Hospital. Kopa petitioned the NCAA to play a 6th year, but was denied. Kopa graduated in 2010 from Stanford University with a degree in mechanical engineering.
## Professional career
Kopa attended the NFL Scouting Combine in 2010, but was still rehabbing from foot surgery and did not participate in the on-field drills. He signed with the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent following the 2010 NFL draft on June 8, 2010. Kopa was released during final cuts, but was signed to the 49ers' practice squad on September 6, 2010, where he practiced for the first eight games of the season. He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as a free agent off the 49ers' practice squad on November 9, 2010.
On September 3, 2011, Kopa was cut by the Miami Dolphins as part of the final roster cutdowns. On September 5, 2011, Kopa was signed to the New England Patriots practice squad. On December 3, 2012, Kopa was signed to the Philadelphia Eagles ' active roster off the Patriots' practice squad. Kopa injured his back during the 2013 preseason, and was later released by Eagles when they made their final roster cuts on August 30, 2013. Kopa subsequently had several epidural injections while undergoing physical therapy, but eventually had surgery at Stanford University Hospital to repair two ruptured disks as well as several bulging disks. Not wanting to risk further injury he opted to retire.
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Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
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# Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
## Abstract
The Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Cemetery in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, United States, is a historic Presbyterian church complex and cemetery located at 800 and 803 Sixteenth Street in Greensboro. The Federal -style church sanctuary was built in 1827, and updated and expanded in 1919–1920 in the Colonial Revival style by architect Harry Barton (1876-1937). It was expanded again in 1956. Flanking the sanctuary are two-story Colonial Revival-style educational buildings linked to it by one-story arcades. The rectangular two-story Colonial Revival-style manse and garage were added to the complex in 1924. The church cemetery has burials dating back to 1775.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
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Sam Ask
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# Sam Ask
## Abstract
Sam Ask (16 October 1878 – 15 July 1937) was a Swedish screenwriter and actor. He also directed the 1928 silent comedy film Erik XIV.
Ask was a long-time student at Lund University, and enrolled as a law student in 1897 although he never graduated before he formally ended his university studies in 1909.
## Selected filmography
- Kiss of Death (1916)
- The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
- Synnöve Solbakken (1919)
- A Dangerous Wooing (1919)
- Robinson i skärgården (1920)
- Thora van Deken (1920)
- The Mill (1921)
- A Wild Bird (1921)
- A Fortune Hunter (1921)
- The Eyes of Love (1922)
- The Suitor from the Highway (1923)
- Iron Wills (1923)
- House Slaves (1923)
- Little Dorrit (1924)
- Charley's Aunt (1926)
- The Devil and the Smalander (1927)
- Erik XIV (1928)
- The Girl from Värmland (1931)
- Adventure in Pyjamas (1935)
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Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)
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# Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)
## Abstract
" Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is) " is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 12 August 1996 as the second single from their sixth studio album, Bilingual (1996). The song is based on "Estrada Da Paixão" by African-Brazilian band Olodum, which Pet Shop Boys heard during the South American leg of their Discovery tour in 1994. The band shares songwriting credits with Pet Shop Boys.
"Se a vida é" spent eight weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number eight, and became a top-five hit in the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, and Spain. In the United States, the song was released in 1997 as a double A-side with "To Step Aside". "To Step Aside" reached number one on Billboard ' s Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and number eight on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart.
## Critical reception
Ross Jones from The Guardian described "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)" as "a sexy and vibrant song", and a "life-affirming lambada". He added that "it's still one of the freshest, most joyous things you've ever heard." Music Week rated it five out of five, picking it as Single of the Week. The reviewer wrote, "Superlatives aren't enough for the best Pet Shop Boys single in years. Justice demands it be the biggest of summer hits." The magazine's Alan Jones commented, " Neil Tennant 's melancholic voice is usually lost in a swirl of synths, but the Pet Shop Boys' upcoming single (...) is a delightful change of style. An extremely commercial and very positive song, it features a four-piece brass section, a guitar and 20 female drummers. The latter's inclusion gives a sometimes thunderous rumble to appropriate sections of the song, but the rest is very lightweight and breezy, with a vaguely Latin flavour floating in with the brass section. Another Top 10 hit."
## Music video
The accompanying music video for "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)" was shot at the Wet 'n Wild water theme park in Orlando, Florida, and features actress Eva Mendes in a small role as a teenager with her friends at the park. The video, directed by Bruce Weber, entered heavy rotation on MTV and VH1 that summer.
## Translation
The correct English translation of "Se a vida é" from Portuguese is actually "If Life Is...". ("That's the way life is" would be "É assim que a vida é..." or "A vida é assim".) The other Portuguese lyric is "Essa vida é..." ("This life is..."), which sounds very similar to "Se a vida é".
## Track listings
## Personnel
Personnel are adapted from the Bilingual album booklet.
## Charts
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Travis Early College High School
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# Travis Early College High School
## Abstract
Travis Early College High School is a high school located in south Austin, Texas, United States, which is part of the Austin Independent School District. It was opened in 1953 and is named after William B. Travis, who was one of the commanding officers at the Battle of the Alamo. It is Austin 's oldest high school south of the Colorado River.
As of November 2009, there were over 1,400 students enrolled. Travis' athletic teams are known as the Rebels, and their school colors are red and grey. The Navy JROTC program at THS is the largest ROTC program in Austin and currently has the best shooting team out of all the JROTC units in the state of Texas. As of February 2015, the JROTC program, for the first time, has qualified for state competition under the command of C/LCDR Martinez, the commanding officer. The school has also been selected as a mentor school by the Texas Education Agency.
In 2002, an Institute of Hospitality & Culinary Arts was opened at Travis.
## History
In 1966 the first five African-American students began attending Travis as part of desegregation; a total of 13 black students attended white high schools in AISD at that time.
## Rivals
Travis' biggest rivalry is with fellow AISD school McCallum. The two schools meet annually in many different sports, the largest being an annual football game known as the "Battle of the Bell", in which the winning school is given possession of a 50-pound locomotive bell that has been fought over for decades. During the game, "The Bell" will spend the first half on the defending school's side; at half time it will travel to the opponent's side (usually carried by the cheerleaders, student council, or journalism departments of both schools) where it will sit until the outcome of the game. "The Bell" is usually rung by the winning team in the middle of the field after victory, and at the winning team's school until midnight, at which time it will be stored until the next year's game. The winning school also engraves the date and score of the year's game on the bell, keeping track of the history of the rivalry. Most years, the outcome of this game highly affects which team is named District 26-4A Champions.
In 2010, the Rebels defeated the McCallum Knights for the first time in over a decade. "The Bell" was awarded to Travis, who defended it for the first time in 11 years at the 2011 game.
Another Travis rival is the AISD school David Crockett High School, a game in which the winner is tagged "Kings of the South".
## Travis High in popular media
Travis High School has been featured in two full-length motion pictures. Its hallways were featured in the 2004 football drama Friday Night Lights. Also, the THS Band annually participates in the filming of the NBC TV series based on the movie, participating as extras and featured as the visiting team band at football games (See Friday Night Lights (TV Series)). The school was also the main setting in the 2006 comedy-mockumentary Chalk It has also been featured in several documentaries.
Travis High School was featured on Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas 19: Immigration Problems. Travis' Ethnic Studies class and teacher, Andrew Gonzales, were interviewed regarding immigration and Texas public schools.
## NJROTC: 200–2019
The Travis NJROTC Unit was established in 2001 by agreement between Austin ISD and the United States Navy. One of the main tenets of the program was towards developing excellent citizens/leaders of our great Nation. Over the course of the last 18 years, the NJROTC has represented William B. Travis High school in many local and State Drill meets and supported countless community service events to the Austin area. Academic year 2018/2019 marked the final year of the program due to extremely low enrollment. The School and District declined the Navy's offer to transition to the smaller version of the program known as a Navy National Defense Cadet Corps.
## Notable alumni
Psychedelic-rock cult legend Roky Erickson attended Travis High School beginning in 1962, but dropped out in 1965, one month before graduating, rather than cut his hair to conform to the school dress code.
Country music singer-songwriter Rusty Wier, a South Austin legend and a symbol of Austin's "Cosmic Cowboy" scene of the 1970s who was best known for his hit "Don't It Make You Wanna Dance," attended Travis High. Wier, who was part of Austin's "Cosmic Cowboy scene in the 1970s, is a member of the Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame.
Former Major League Baseball player Ken Boswell, a member of the New York Mets' World Series championship team in 1969, played baseball at Travis and was in the Class of 1964.
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1884 in poetry
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# 1884 in poetry
## Abstract
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
## Events
- February 18 – English Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins takes up a post as professor of Greek and Latin at University College Dublin in Ireland, where he will remain until his death in 1889 and write his "terrible sonnets ".
## Works published
### Canada
- Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.
- James McIntyre. Musings on the Banks of the Canadian Thames. London, ON.
### United Kingdom
- Francis Adams, Henry and Other Tales
- Robert Browning, Ferishtah's Fancies
- Andrew Lang, Rhymes à la Mode
- Amy Levy, A Minor Poet, and Other Verse
- Marc-André Raffalovich, Cyril and Lionel and other poems: a volume of sentimental studies, French-born author writing in English
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Midsummer Holiday, and Other Poems
### United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Mercedes and Later Lyrics
- Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start
- Sidney Lanier, Poems, published posthumously
- Joaquin Miller, Memorie and Rime
- Edmund Clarence Stedman, Songs and Ballads
- Henry Timrod, Katie
### Other
- Rosario de Acuña, Sentir y pensar, Spain
- Rosalia de Castro, En las orillas del Sar, Galician Spanish poet, writing in Spanish
- Lie Kim Hok, Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari, ethnic Chinese poet, writing in Malay
- Rabindranath Tagore, Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali, Indian poet, writing in Braj Bhasha
## Awards and honors
- English poet Alfred Tennyson is created 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, hereafter being known as Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
## Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 14 – Kostas Varnalis (Κώστας Βάρναλης), (died 1974), Greek
- March 28 – Angelos Sikelianos (Άγγελος Σικελιανός) (died 1951), Greek poet and playwright
- April 2 - John Collings Squire (died 1958), English poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period
- June 29 - Francis Brett Young (died 1954), English novelist and poet
- July 24 - Donald Evans (died 1921), American poet, publisher, music critic and journalist
- July 29 - Eunice Tietjens (died 1944), American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor
- August 8 - Sara Teasdale (died 1933), American lyric poet
- October 13 - Walter J. Turner (died 1946), Australian -born poet and music critic
- November 5 - James Elroy Flecker (died 1915), English poet, novelist and playwright
- December 31 - George Sylvester Viereck (died 1962), German- American poet, writer and propagandist
- Date not known - Leknath Ponday, Indian, Nepali -language poet
## Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 7 – John Harris (born 1820), English poet
- February 17 – Charles Stuart Calverley, 82 (born 1831), English poet and wit
- February 28 – Matsudaira Teru 松平照 also called "Teruhime" 照姫, literally translated, "Princess Teru" (born 1832), Japanese, late Edo and early Meiji period aristocrat and skilled waka poet who instructed Matsudaira Katamori in poetry and calligraphy
- March 13 – Richard Henry Horne, 81 (born 1802), English poet, critic and journalist, and public official in Australia
- March 19 – Elias Lönnrot, 81, Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore
- June 27 – Andreas Munch, 72 (born 1811), Norwegian poet
- December 3 – Jane C. Bonar, 73 (born 1821), American hymnwriter
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Out the Blue (John Lennon song)
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# Out the Blue (John Lennon song)
## Abstract
" Out the Blue " is a song written by John Lennon and originally released on his 1973 album Mind Games. The song is included on the 1990 boxset Lennon, the 2005 two-disc compilation Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon, the 2010 album Gimme Some Truth and the 2020 compilation album Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes.
## Lyrics and music
"Out the Blue" is one of several songs on Mind Games devoted to Yoko Ono. It was recorded at a time when Lennon and Ono were separated, and reflects Lennon's resulting self-doubt. It states Lennon's gratitude for Ono appearing in his life "out the blue" and providing his "life's energy". According to authors Ken Bielen and Ben Urish, the theme of the song is "the awe of finding true love unexpectedly".
Music critic Johnny Rogan finds some of the metaphors "gruesome", such as "All my life's been a long, slow knife", and some of the similes "wacky", for example "Like a UFO you came to me and blew away life's misery." Pop historian Robert Rodriguez regards the UFO line as "idiosyncratic" as well. Andrew Grant Jackson, however, finds the UFO metaphor to be apt for Ono, since at the time Ono came into Lennon's life she was as surprising a love interest for him as anyone could be. Bielen and Urish praise the "long, slow knife" image one of Lennon's most poetic of emotional anguish. The title phrase has multiple meanings during the song; Ono came to him "out the blue" and also cast "out the blue" of Lennon's melancholy.
The UFO reference could be associated with May Pang as they saw a UFO together when the lived together.
"Out the Blue" moves through several musical genres, starting with a gentle, melancholy acoustic guitar and moving through gospel, country and music portions. The sound grows as the song progresses, while Lennon's vocal becomes more assured, going from its original restraint to an expression of "joyful contentment". After the initial acoustic guitar, the piano, pedal steel guitar, bass guitar and drums enter, and eventually a "heavenly choir " is included. Author John Blaney describes the song's piano motif as "majestic" and compares the bass guitar line to those of Lennon's former bandmate Paul McCartney. Rodriguez praises the way Lennon's vocal manages to "stay atop the waves" of sound, and project both gratitude and tenderness. Keith Spore of The Milwaukee Sentinel described it as having a "haunting minor key melody in the best Beatle tradition". Rolling Stone Magazine critic David Fricke praised the production as being "fascinating and moving", comparing it to Phil Spector 's production of the Beatles' " The Long and Winding Road " but "with the emphasis on poignance".
The backing instrumental part for the final released version was cut down from the original recording, eliminating the second break as well as all but the final coda of the reprise of the refrain. The full recorded instrumental, with a guide vocal, was released as part of The Lost Lennon Tapes and on bootleg albums.
## Reception
AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine considers "Out the Blue" to be a "lovely ballad", while Blaney describes it as "an exquisite ballad". Blaney goes on to say that "it reveals more than a glimpse of Lennon's genius." Mandinger and Easter call it a "truly beautiful love song" and feel it deserves more attention than it has received, and could have made a good follow up single to " Mind Games ". They also claim that it shows Lennon had not lost his ability to put "the simplest emotions across in the most affecting manner possible". Jackson considers it the best of Lennon's apology songs to Ono. He particularly praises the arrangement, in which he maintains interest by building up the instrumentation gradually. Urish and Bielen opine that it delivers "a more satisfying emotional impact than might be supposed". Lennon biographer John Borack calls it a "highlight" of Mind Games. Los Angeles Times music critic Robert Hilburn calls it "one of the unquestioned highlights" of Mind Games, calling it a "lovely song" and praising its "tender, effective lyrics". PopMatters regards it as Lennon's "only lighter waving 70s monster ballad ", and believes that it should be included on Lennon's greatest hits compilation albums. Pop historian Robert Rodriguez regards it as one of the "best unsung John" Lennon songs, one of Lennon's "finest performances" and one of his best "standard-worthy ballad(s)". Ultimate Classic Rock critic Nick DeRiso called "Out the Blue" the most underrated song on Mind Games, describing it as "a tale of once-devoted lovers now apart who somehow still seem destined to return to one another" and saying that it reveals how deep the loss of Ono was to Lennon while also foreshadowing their forthcoming reconciliation. Ultimate Classic Rock critic Stephen Lewis rated "Out the Blue" as Lennon's 6th greatest solo love song, saying that "Its ethereal acoustic opening verses, building to the emphatic chorus, combine to make it a perfect example of his state of mind in 1973."
## Personnel
The musicians who performed on the original recording were as follows:
- John Lennon – vocals, acoustic guitar
- David Spinozza – guitar
- Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar
- Ken Ascher – keyboards
- Gordon Edwards – bass guitar
- Jim Keltner – drums
- Something Different – backing vocals
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1247 in poetry
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# 1247 in poetry
## Abstract
## Events
- Bertran d'Alamanon criticises Charles of Anjou for planning to go on Crusade when he ought to be making good his claim on Provence
## Births
- Philippe de Rémi (died 1296), French jurist, royal official and poet
## Deaths
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Trained band
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# Trained band
## Abstract
Trained Bands were companies of part-time militia in England and Wales. Organised by county, they were supposed to drill on a regular basis, although this was rarely the case in practice. The regular army was formed from the Trained Bands in the event of war, though the inability or unwillingness of many of the bands to serve outside of their home regions often left the army short on manpower compared to the paper strength implied by the Trained Bands rolls. They later became common in the American colonies, where they are normally referred to as Trainbands. Similar organisations include the Dutch Schutterij, and the Swiss militia, elements of which remain in existence today.
## Trained Bands in England and Wales
Founded in 1572, and organised by county, it was not until the 'Exact Militia Programme' of 1625 that they began to have regular training and weapons drill. Even then, standards varied considerably, and depended on the level of financial support by the local gentry. Although Charles I tried to assemble armies of around 30,000 militia for the 1639 and 1640 Bishops' Wars, there was considerable reluctance to serve outside their counties, and a proportion were armed only with longbows. In 1588, the Trained Bands consisted of 79,798 men, categorized by their primary weapon: 36% arquebusiers, 6% musketeers, 16% bowmen, 26% pikemen, and 16% billmen.
A standard drill book was issued in February 1638, which was used throughout the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, together with a muster roll by county. This shows large variations in size, equipment and training; the largest was Yorkshire, which had 12,000 men, then London, with 8,000, increased in 1642 to 20,000. Counties like Shropshire or Glamorgan had fewer than 500 men.
In the early stages of the 1642 to 1646 First English Civil War, the Trained Bands provided the bulk of the forces used by both Royalists and Parliamentarians, but were often unwilling to serve outside their home areas. They were rapidly replaced by more professional bodies, the most important being the New Model Army.
## American train bands
In the early American colonies the trained band was the most basic tactical unit. However, no standard company size existed and variations were wide. As population grew these companies were organised into regiments to allow better management. But trainbands were not combat units. Generally, upon reaching a certain age a man was required to join the local trainband in which he received periodic training for the next couple of decades. In wartime, military forces were formed by selecting men from trainbands on an individual basis and then forming them into a fighting unit.
The exact derivation and usage is not clear. A nineteenth-century dictionary says, under "Train":
train-band, i.e. train'd band, a band of trained men, Cowper, John Gilpin, st. I, and used by Dryden and Clarendon (Todd)
The issue is whether the men "received training" in the modern sense, or whether they were "in the train" or retinue or were otherwise organised around a military "train" as in horse-drawn artillery.
In the 17th century New England colonial militia units were usually referred to as "train bands" or, sometimes, "trained bands". Typically, each town would elect three officers to lead its train band with the ranks of captain, lieutenant and ensign. As the populations of towns varied widely, larger towns usually had more than one train band. In the middle of the 1600s train bands began to be referred to as companies.
On December 13, 1636 the Massachusetts Militia was organised into three regiments - North, South and East. As there are National Guard units descendants of these regiments, this date is used as the "birthday" of the National Guard, despite the fact that citizen militias in the American Colonies date back to the Jamestown settlement in 1607.
## Sources
- Mark Charles Fissell, The Bishops' Wars: Charles I's campaigns against Scotland 1638–1640, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-34520-0.
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Karl von Moll
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# Karl von Moll
## Abstract
Karl Maria E(h)renbert Freiherr von Moll (21 December 1760, in Thalgau – 1 February 1838, in Augsburg) was an Austrian naturalist and statesman.
From 1790 to 1804 he served as chancellor of the exchequer for Salzburg, afterwards residing in Munich and Augsburg, where he devoted his energies to natural history. In 1807 he became a member of the Academie der Wissenschaften in Munich, where up until 1827, he served as secretary in the class of mathematics and physics.
During his career he amassed a library of 80,000 books, including many rare volumes on natural history. He also owned a diverse collection of zoological specimens, a significant herbarium in which Alpine flora was well represented, and an impressive mineral collection, of which, a portion was bought by the British Museum.
The moss genus Mollia (Schrank ex Lindb, 1878) from the family Pottiaceae is named after him. Also in 1826, botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius published Mollia, a genus of flowering plants from South America, belonging to the family Malvaceae and also named in honour of Karl von Moll.
## Works
- With Franz von Paula Schrank: Naturhistorischen Briefe über Oesterreich, Salzburg, Passau und Berchtesgaden, 2 Bde 1785.
- Oberdeutsche Beiträge zur Naturlehre und Oeconomie für das Jahr 1787 (Hsg.)
- With Antonio Canestrini: Historia de utero duplici, alterutro quarto graviditatis mense rupto 1788 (Hsg.)
- Fortgesetzte Müllenkampfsche Sammlung der Forstordnungen verschiedener Länder, 1796 (Hsg).
- Des Freiherrn K.E. von Moll Mittheilungen aus seinem Briefwechsel als Prodromus seiner Selbstbiographie, (1829–1835).
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Kerr Hall
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# Kerr Hall
## Abstract
Kerr Hall is a series of four buildings in a square, surrounding Ryerson Community Park, on the campus of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto, Canada. Kerr Hall is on the site of the former Toronto Normal School. All but a portion of the Normal School's front façade was demolished in the late 1950s to enable the construction of:
- Kerr Hall East: 340 Church Street and 60 Gould Street.
- Kerr Hall West: 379 Victoria Street.
- Kerr Hall North: 31 and 43 Gerrard Street East.
- Kerr Hall South: 40 and 50 Gould Street.
The current building was built from the early 1960s to 1969 and designed by architect Burwell R. Coon. Until 1963, Kerr Hall surrounded the site of the Toronto Normal School.
The middle of Kerr Hall is the tree-lined Ryerson Community Park, also known as the Quad.
Kerr Hall is named for Ryerson's first principal, Howard Hillen Kerr.
## The Creative School Chrysalis
The northwest corner of Kerr Hall North houses The Creative School Chrysalis, formerly the Ryerson Theatre. The 1,237-seat auditorium is used for "live productions, lectures, product launches, convocations, fashion shows and film shoots". It has also hosted screenings of films during the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Chrysalis has hosted
- film premieres including The Princess Bride in 1987 and Borat (2006)
- the 1976 Juno Awards
- the 28th Canadian Film Awards (1977)
- the Atkinson Lecture Series.
- Final Kombat 2024
Source: Toronto Metropolitan University
Dance performances have included:
- Fall for Dance North series - Indigenous Enterprise program "Indigenous Liberation" October 2022
Musical concerts have included:
- Japan - November 1979
- CJRT Festival Series
Theatre performances by the Ryerson Theatre Company have included:
- Twelfth Night, November 1977
The Creative School Chrysalis is also home to the productions created by Toronto Metropolitan University's Performance Acting, Dance, and Production programs.
## Floor plans and navigation
Not all four of Kerr Hall's buildings connect to each other on all floors. You cannot pass through the Theatre, nor through the ground floor of Kerr Hall South.
Google Maps offers indoor maps for all four floors of Kerr Hall, plus the basement. Many room numbers are omitted from the map, and the entire 100 level of Kerr Hall West is also missing.
Google indoor maps provide static floor plans; they can also provide spoken walking directions to selected rooms inside a building. Google Maps can use Wi-Fi trilateration in order to determine a user's position; it can achieve an indoor accuracy of between 5–15 meters in many commercial and institutional buildings.
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Al-Za'franiya
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# Al-Za'franiya
## Abstract
Al-Za'franiya city (Arabic: مدينة الزعفرانية) is a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. It is located in the south-east of Baghdad at the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala rivers. It is the main southern entrance to the city of Baghdad, located on the main road that connects the provinces south of Baghdad.
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Walla Walla Padres
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# Walla Walla Padres
## Abstract
The Walla Walla Padres were the primary name of a minor league baseball team in the northwest United States, located in Walla Walla, Washington. Named after their parent club, the Padres were members of the Class A short-season Northwest League for ten years, from 1973 through 1982.
## History
In 1969, with the expansion of Major League Baseball, Walla Walla sought the prospect of bringing professional baseball to the community. On January 12, 1969 it was announced that the Walla Walla Valley Baseball Club had officially been awarded membership into the Northwest League The franchise played three seasons as an affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies until 1971. In 1972, in an odd arrangement, the club played as an affiliate of Triple-A Pacific Coast League Hawaii Islanders. Following the season, Walla Walla signed a player development contract with the San Diego Padres, who had previously partnered with Tri-City.
Adopting the namesake of their parent club, Walla Walla became the Padres. In their first season affiliated with the Padres, Walla Walla won the league title in 1973. The Padres claimed the Northwest League crown again in 1976, defeating the fabled Portland Mavericks two games to one in the championship series. Walla Walla sought a third title in 1979, but fell to the Central Oregon Phillies.
After years of declining attendance the franchise was sold following the 1982 season to New Jersey -based Big Six Sports. The new ownership group promptly moved the club west to Richland, rebranded them as the Tri-Cities Triplets, and signed a player development contract with the Texas Rangers. The San Diego Padres shifted their NWL affiliate to Spokane, which had just lost its Triple-A team to Las Vegas. Professional baseball continued in Walla Walla with the independent Blue Mountain Bears in 1983, but after one season, they moved west and became the Everett Giants in 1984.
## Early Walla Walla Baseball
The history of baseball in the Walla Walla Valley dates back to the late 19th century. The Walla Walla Walla Wallas of the Pacific Interstate League played in 1891. The Walla Wallas continued play in the 1908 Inland Empire League and the 1902 Inland Empire League team played with the nickname "Sharpshooters". In 1912 the Western Tri-State League was formed with the Walla Walla Bears playing in the circuit for three season before disbanding.
## Ballpark
Walla Walla teams played at Borleske Stadium, located at 409 West Rees Avenue in Walla Walla, Washington. The stadium is still in use today.
## Notable players
Two future hall of famers played for the team: shortstop Ozzie Smith (1977) and outfielder Tony Gwynn (1981). Their NWL batting averages were.301 for Smith and.331 for Gwynn.
Other future major leaguers included Joe McIntosh (1974–1975), Eric Show (1978), Ron Tingley (1977–1978), Bob Geren (1979–1980), Mark Parent (1979), Greg Booker (1981), John Kruk (1981), Jimmy Jones (1982), Gene Walter (1982) and Mitch Williams (1982). Geren and Parent both became managers with different teams (Geren with the Oakland A's of MLB and Parent with the Chico Outlaws of the Golden Baseball League).
## Notable alumni
### Other notable alumni
- Tony Gwynn (1981), inducted 2007
- Ozzie Smith (1977), inducted 2002
#### Other notable alumni
- Greg Booker (1981)
- Bob Geren (1979–1980)
- Andy Hawkins (1978)
- Dane Iorg (1971)
- Bob Jones (1912)
- Jimmy Jones (1982)
- John Kruk (1981) 3 x MLB All-Star
- Mark Parent (1979)
- Earl Sheely (1913-1914)
- Eric Show (1978)
- Ron Tingley (1977–1978)
- Tom Trebelhorn (1972)
- Gene Walter (1982)
- Mitch Williams (1982) MLB All-Star
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Amanda Freitag
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# Amanda Freitag
## Abstract
Amanda Freitag (born May 11, 1972) is an American celebrity chef and cookbook author. She is known for her frequent appearances on Food Network television programs and her work as a judge on television cooking competitions. She is based in New York City.
## Early life and education
Freitag was raised in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. She attended Cedar Grove High School, then known as Memorial High School, where her home economics teacher, Joan Levine, suggested that Freitag might be interested in attending the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). Freitag attended CIA at the Hyde Park location, graduating in 1989.
## Restaurant career
Following graduation in 1989, Freitag took a position at Vong New York working under chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. In 1994, she left Vong to cook at Verbena, under chef Diane Forley. Freitag has stated that her time at Verbena was meaningful and she built important relationships, and where she first learned to focus on using local, organic ingredients. After Verbena, Freitag traveled to France and Italy, working for a short while at L'Arpège restaurant under chef Alain Passard in 1999.
In 2003, Freitag and restaurateur Godfrey Polistina opened the Upper West Side restaurant Cesca Enoteca & Trattoria. Freitag was chef de cuisine at Cesca, before moving to an executive chef position at The Harrison. On September 3, 2010, The New York Times reported that Freitag would be leaving the Harrison, and the restaurant's owner, Jimmy Bradley, will return as chef.
From January 2014 until July 2015, Freitag took over as executive chef of the Empire Diner in Manhattan, New York.
In September 2020, Freitag and Kevin Lillis’ Hospitality Alliance opened the bistro Rise & Thyme in Dallas, Texas.
### Restaurants
#### Current
- Rise & Thyme, Dallas (2020–present)
#### Former
- Vong New York, New York City (1989–1994)
- Verbena, New York City (1994–?)
- Arpège, Paris (1999)
- Cesca Enoteca & Trattoria, Upper West Side, New York City (2003–?)
- The Harrison, New York City (?–2010)
- Empire Diner, New York City (2014–2015)
## Television appearances
Since 2009, Freitag has been a frequent judge on the culinary reality game show Chopped.
In 2009, She battled Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America in “Battle: King Crab ” (season 7, episode 10), with judges Keyshawn Johnson, Maggie Rodriguez, and Domenica Catelli. She narrowly lost, with a score of 49 against Flay's 50 points. The judging was evenly matched, with the exception of Freitag having earned one point fewer in the "taste" category.
Freitag competed in The Next Iron Chef Season 2, finishing in fourth place. Freitag stated she would continue as a judge on Chopped for the 2010 season and she returned for the season four episode "Against the Tide".
On the April 15, 2012 episode of Iron Chef America, Freitag appeared alongside Chopped Grand Champion Madison Cowan in "Battle: Kale", acting as Cowan's sous chef. She appeared as a contestant on season five of The Next Iron Chef. She lost to Alexandra Guarnaschelli in the finale on December 23.
On May 22, 2015, she and Ty Pennington began hosting the new Food Network series American Diner Revival, on which they make over diners' menus and interiors.
## Publications
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1866 in poetry
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# 1866 in poetry
## Abstract
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
## Events
- Charles Baudelaire 's collection Les Épaves is published in Belgium containing poems suppressed from Les Fleurs du mal (Paris, 1857) for outraging public morality. His poems also appear in the first anthology by the "Parnassians", Le Parnasse contemporain, published this year.
- Giuseppe Gioachino Belli 's sonnets in the Romanesco dialect of Rome (Sonetti Romaneschii, mostly written in the 1830s) are first published, posthumously in an expurgated selection by his son Ciro.
- First publications by the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, aged 16: In January Romanian teacher Aron Pumnul dies and his students in Cernăuţi publish a pamphlet, Lăcrămioarele învățăceilor gimnaziaști ("Tears of the Gymnasium Students") in which a poem entitled "La mormântul lui Aron Pumnul" ("At the Grave of Aron Pumnul") appears, signed "M. Eminovici"; on 25 February his poem "De-aș avea" ("If I were to have") is published in Iosif Vulcan 's literary magazine Familia in Pest.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne 's first collection Poems and Ballads causes a sensation on publication in London, especially the poems written in homage to Sappho and the sadomasochistic " Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) ", and, under threat of prosecution, his original publisher, Moxon and Co., transfer publication rights to the more liberal John Camden Hotten.
### Ode on the Mammoth Cheese
In this year a masterpiece of cheese-making, a 7,000-pound Canadian behemoth produced in Perth, Ontario, and sent to exhibitions in Toronto, New York and Britain, is given its appropriate due in poetry by one James McIntyre (1828 – 1906), a Canadian known as "The Cheese Poet", whose work outlasts his subject and might even make its fame immortal. Herewith, an excerpt of his "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over 7,000 Pounds":
McIntyre's poetry is the subject of books in the twentieth century, however, the greatest boost to his fame probably comes from a number of his poems being anthologized in the collection Very Bad Poetry, edited by Ross and Kathryn Petras (Vintage, 1997).
## Works published in English
### United Kingdom
- Don Leon, falsely attributed to Lord Byron
- Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael, Poems
- Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Return of the Guards, and Other Poems
- John Henry Newman, The Dream of Gerontius
- Christina Rossetti, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, first series, including "Dolores" (second series, 1878; third series, 1889)
- Benjamin Thorpe, assisted by Elise Otté, translation of the Poetic Edda as Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða: the Edda of Sæmund the Learned, from the old Norse or Icelandic
- George Yeld, Virgil reading his Æneid to Augustus and Octavia
### United States
- Elizabeth Akers, Poems
- George Arnold, Drift: A Sea-Shore Idyl
- Fitz-Greene Halleck, Lines to the Recorder
- Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
- George Henry Miles, Christine
- John Greenleaf Whittier: Snow-Bound, United States "Abraham Davenport", poem published in The Atlantic Monthly in May (text), about an incident involving Abraham Davenport
- Snow-Bound, United States
- "Abraham Davenport", poem published in The Atlantic Monthly in May (text), about an incident involving Abraham Davenport
## Works published in other languages
### French
#### France
- Théodore de Banville, Les Exilés
- François Coppée, Le Reliquaire
- Paul Verlaine, Poèmes saturniens, including " Chanson d'automne " ("Autumn Song")
- Le Parnasse contemporain ("The Contemporary Parnassus"), first of three volumes (Volume II 1871, Volume III 1876), including poems by Théophile Gautier, Théodore de Banville, Leconte de Lisle, Baudelaire, José-Maria de Heredia, François Coppée, Catulle Mendès, Sully Prudhomme, Paul Verlaine and Mallarmé
#### Belgium
- Baudelaire, Les Épaves, French poet published in Belgium
### Other languages
- Girolamo de Rada, Rapsodi të një poeme arbëreshe, Arbëresh
- Estanislao del Campo, Fausto, satirical poem describing the impressions of a gaucho who attends Charles Gounod 's opera Faust, and believes the events on stage to be happening in reality; Spanish -language, Argentina; an example of Gaucho literature
## Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- 20 January – Richard Le Gallienne (died 1947), English poet
- 30 January – Gelett Burgess (died 1951), American humorist and poet
- 2 March – John Gray (died 1934), English aesthetic poet
- 26 March – Barcroft Boake (suicide 1892), Australian bush poet
- 11 April – Bernard O'Dowd (died 1953), Australian poet and co-founder of paper Tocsin
- 5 June – Edmund Vance Cooke (died 1932), Canadian-born American poet
- 16 August – Dora Sigerson (died 1918), Irish poet
- 12 November – Angiolo Silvio Novaro (died 1938), Italian poet and children's writer
- 3 December – Ethna Carbery, born Anna Johnston (died 1902), Irish poet
- 12 December – Edwin Greenslade Murphy (died 1939), Australian poet
## Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- 23 January – Thomas Love Peacock (born 1785), English satirical novelist and poet
- 31 January – Friedrich Rückert (born 1788), German poet, translator and professor of Oriental languages
- 29 March – John Keble (born 1792), English poet and cleric
- 18 May – Francis Sylvester Mahony ("Father Prout"; born 1804), Irish humorist and poet
- 12 August – Philip Stanhope Worsley (born 1835), English poet and translator
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María Augusta Hermida
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# María Augusta Hermida
## Abstract
María Augusta Hermida Palacios (born 1967) is an Ecuadorian architect and academic who co-owns Durán & Hermida Architects Studio. She was a professor of architecture before she became the first woman rector of her alma mater, the University of Cuenca.
## Life
She was born in 1967. Her father's politics was of the left. Her younger sister is the film maker Tania Hermida. Her father, a physician ensured that his daughters grew up surrounded by art and literature. When she was a child, her family devised a familial newspaper called Horizontes wherein each member of the family wrote a page.
She qualified as an architect in 1999 at the University of Cuenca. Four years later she gained a master's degree in Computerization of Architectural Projects from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
In 2005 she started to teach at the University of Cuenca where she taught the history, design and theory of architecture. She taught students gaining master's degrees for architecture projects and in time she was promoted to be the principal Professor. In 2011 she gained her doctorate at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
She and her husband began an architectural practice, Duran & Hermida, which has designed several buildings. They designed the Plaza Víctor J. Cuesta and it won a National Urban Design Award at the Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito in 2008.
In 2021 she was elected to be the first woman rector of the University of Cuenca by the staff and students. She wanted to bring in a less vertical management structure.
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Totiakton
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# Totiakton
## Abstract
Totiakton was a town of the Seneca Nation located in the present-day town of Mendon, New York. It is located "on the northernmost bend of Honeoye outlet" two miles from the current village of Honeoye Falls. The Seneca name for the town was De-yu-di-haak-doh, meaning “the bend," because of its location at a bend of Honeoye Creek. The archaeological remains of the site are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
## History
"The ancient town was located on the table land which projects into the west side of the valley in the form of a bold bluff, facing the east, at an elevation of about one hundred and fifty feet above the water." The town occupied an area of 15 acres (61,000 m) (Peck says 25 acres) and is estimated to have held 4000 people.
In 1667, a visitor, Wentworth Greenhalgh, described the town as follows— the houses mentioned would have been the traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse:
Tiotehatton lyes on the brinke or edge of a hill, has not much cleared ground, is neare the river Tiotehatton, which signifies ‘bending ;’ itt lyes to westward of Canagorah about thirty miles, contains about one hundred and twenty houses, being ye largest of all ye houses wee saw, ye ordinary being about fifty or sixty feet and some one hundred and thirty or one hundred and forty foott long, with thirteen or fourteen fires in one house, they have a good store of corne growing about a mile to ye northward of the towne.
Totiakton was the site of a French Jesuit mission, led by Father Jacques Frémin, between 1668 and 1673. The Jesuits built a small chapel dedicated to the Immaculate Conception (La Conception).
The French explorer La Salle visited the town twice, the first time in 1669, and again about ten years later.
In 1687, the Governor of New France, Marquis de Denonville, destroyed the town during his expedition against the Seneca. It appears that following the destruction a small palisaded temporary village of about.5 acres (0.20 ha) was constructed at the site prior to the remaining population moving elsewhere. Previously Seneca towns had not been defended by a palisade.
In 1802, the site was purchased by Abner Sheldon, who did some exploration. In 1898 the farm was owned by Sheldon's descendant, Antoinette and her husband, William J. Kirkpatrick of Rochester, New York. In 1925 Kirkpatrick sold the property to Louis Desmann, whose family continued to farm until 1979. A large part of the property was sold to neighbors of Totiakton, but 39 acres (16 ha) were donated to The Seneca Nation.
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Alan Nussbaum
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# Alan Nussbaum
## Abstract
Alan Jeffrey " Jerry " Nussbaum (born December 17, 1947) is an American linguist of the Indo-European languages and a classical philologist, best known for his work on the language of the Homeric epics and modern and Proto-Indo-European nominals. He has specialized in nominals' derivational semantics and morphology (including that of the " Caland system "). He is a professor of Indo-European linguistics, and the Greek and Latin languages at Cornell University.
Nussbaum, of Galician Jewish background, was born in New York City and raised in Passaic, New Jersey. He received a bachelor's degree in classics (1969) from Washington Square College of New York University, a Diploma in Comparative Philology (1974) from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in linguistics (1976) from Harvard University. After teaching as an instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor at Yale University (1975–85), he moved to Cornell as an associate professor (1985–97) and then as full professor (1997–present) of classics and linguistics.
Nussbaum was married to philosopher Martha Nussbaum, professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, from 1969 to 1987.
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RCI Hospitality Holdings
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# RCI Hospitality Holdings
## Abstract
RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (previously Rick's Cabaret International, Inc.), through its subsidiaries, operates strip clubs, nightclubs, sports bars/restaurants, and a media and convention company that serves the adult club industry. RCI went public with an IPO in 1995 is listed on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol RICK.
## History
The company was founded in 1983 by Robert Watters and is based in Houston, Texas. In 1998, the company merged with Taurus, Inc., which owned the XTC Cabaret chain and was controlled by Eric Langan, who eventually became the RCI's president and CEO in 1999. Langan acquired his first gentlemen's club in Texas at age 21 with $40,000 from the sale of his baseball card collection. Subsequently, RCI expanded inside and outside of Texas to states such as New York, Illinois, Florida, Arizona, Minnesota and others, and entered related businesses, such as sports bars/restaurants and nightclubs.
## Nightclubs
RCI owns more than 55 strip clubs under various names for various clienteles. In 2007, the company purchased Tootsie's Cabaret, now the largest strip club in the world.
RCI has been named to Forbes magazine list of the 200 best companies. It has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, MarketWatch, Corporate Board Member, SmartMoney, The New York Daily News, USA Today as well as other publications.
Rick's Cabaret in New York City Steakhouse was listed in Zagat's New York Nightlife and included in the TONY 100 list of fine Manhattan dining establishments by Time Out New York.
Entertainment sites Gothamist, Thrillist, Complex, Miami New Times, Broward New Times, Southflorida.com, and Timeout.com have named clubs operating under RCI to their "Best Strip Club" lists. RCI has also won multiple Awards from Ed Publications including 2019 Club Chain of the Year.
On August 4, 2023, all four RCI clubs in Miami were named to Time Out's "Best strip clubs in Miami" list.
## Restaurants
RCI subsidiaries own and operate Bombshells Restaurant & Bar, a military-themed sports bar/restaurant chain first opened in 2013. Bombshells has 13 locations in Texas and one in Colorado. The chain is also known for its “Bombshells Girls” servers, outfitted with military-inspired uniforms.
In 2018, Restaurant Business magazine named Bombshells Restaurant & Bar to its "The Future 50" list of fastest-growing concepts.
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Holy Family Catholic Church (Srinagar)
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# Holy Family Catholic Church (Srinagar)
## Abstract
Holy Family Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church located at Maulana Azad Road, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It was established in 1896 by Msgr. Winkley MHM. Before the Curia moved to Jammu on 23 December 1986, the parish served as a cathedral when the Curia was in Srinagar. Holy Family Catholic Church, All Saints Church (Protestant) and St. Luke's Church (Protestant) are the three main churches for the minority Christian community in the city.
## Arson and reconstruction
The church was set on fire on 7 June 1967 by protestors demonstrating against the Arab-Israeli war. During the arson, the belfry was destroyed. The church was rebuilt, and in 2017 a new church bell, which was donated by an Indian Christian family and made in the Indian city of Moradabad, was installed at Holy Family Catholic Church. This occurred in an interfaith service, in which Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh clergymen assembled “to jointly ring the new bell for the first time in the past 50 years”. The church was recently renovated two years back 2021 -22 with beautiful wooden paneling and lighting. The altar has a beautiful Last Supper sculpted out of wood.
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Henry Sebastian D'Souza
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# Henry Sebastian D'Souza
## Abstract
Henry Sebastian D'Souza (20 January 1926 – 27 June 2016) was an Indian Roman Catholic bishop.
Born in Igatpuri, D'Souza was ordained a priest in 1948. He became Bishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in 1974 and was named coadjutor Archbishop of Calcutta in 1985. D'Souza retired in 2002 as Archbishop of Calcutta and started the Life Ascending- a monthly newsletter for the elderly. He died at the age of 90 in 2016 at Vianney Home, Kolkata. He was the Archbishop of Calcutta (Kolkata) when Saint Mother Teresa was in her later years and upon her death in the year 1997, helped initiate and support her sainthood.
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Chen Qingping
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# Chen Qingping
## Abstract
Chen Qingping or Ch'en Ch'ing-p'ing (1795–1868) was a 15th generation descendant and 7th generation master of the Chen family, which he learned from Chen Youben, and the 7th generation successor of the Zhaobao style of tai chi, which he learned from Zhang Yan. He was an influential martial artist and teacher of tai chi.
Chen Qingping was married to a woman from the Zhaobao village, only a few miles north east of the Chen Village (Chenjiagou) — the home of the Chen Family famous for their martial arts.
Chen Qingping's main disciple He Zhaoyuan passed on this art which later developed into He-style tai chi. Other disciples, such as Li Zuozhi (created Tengnuojia), and Li Jingyan (created the Hulei-style tai chi), created their own styles by combining their arts with other martial arts popular in the local area where they lived.
Chen Qingping also taught Wu Yuxiang, who later developed the Wu (Hao)-style tai chi, sometimes referred to as the "Scholar-style of tai chi". Wu Yuxiang went to Chen Village to learn from Yang Luchan 's master, Chen Changxing, who recommended him to Chen Qingping.
## Tai chi lineage tree with Zhaobao focus
Note:
- This lineage tree is not comprehensive, but depicts those considered the 'gate-keepers' & most recognised individuals in each generation of Zhaobao.
- Although many styles were passed down to respective descendants of the same family, the lineage focused on is that of Zhaobao & not necessarily that of a family.
- Names denoted by an asterisk are legendary or semi-legendary figures in the lineage; while their involvement in the lineage is accepted by most of the major schools, it is not independently verifiable from known historical records.
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Bioelectrical impedance analysis
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# Bioelectrical impedance analysis
## Abstract
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a method for estimating body composition, in particular body fat and muscle mass, where a weak electric current flows through the body, and the voltage is measured in order to calculate impedance (resistance and reactance) of the body. Most body water is stored in muscle. Therefore, if a person is more muscular, there is a high chance that the person will also have more body water, which leads to lower impedance. Since the advent of the first commercially available devices in the mid-1980s the method has become popular, owing to its ease of use and portability of the equipment. It is familiar in the consumer market as a simple instrument for estimating body fat. BIA actually determines the electrical impedance, or opposition to the flow of an electric current through body tissues, which can then be used to estimate total body water (TBW), which can be used to estimate fat-free body mass and, by difference with body weight, body fat.
## Accuracy
Many of the early research studies showed that BIA was quite variable, and it was not regarded by many as providing an accurate measure of body composition. In recent years technological improvements have made BIA much more reliable and therefore more acceptable way of measuring body composition. Nevertheless, it is the 4-compartment model (4C) (DXA and MRI are acceptable alternatives) – and not BIA – that is regarded as the reference method in body composition analysis.
Although the instruments are straightforward to use, careful attention to the method of use (as described by the manufacturer) should be given.
Simple devices to estimate body fat, often using BIA, are available to consumers as body fat meters. These instruments are generally regarded as being less accurate than those used clinically or in nutritional and medical practice. They tend to under-read body fat percentage by approximately 5 kg (±7 kg LoA) on average, despite showing a linear correlation with MRI-based measurements of 0.75 and 0.81 for females and males respectively.
Dehydration is a recognized factor affecting BIA measurements, as it causes an increase in the body's electrical resistance, so has been measured to cause a 5 kg underestimation of fat-free mass i.e. an overestimation of body fat.
Body-fat measurements are lower when measurements are taken shortly after consumption of a meal, causing a variation between highest and lowest readings of body fat percentage taken throughout the day of up to 4.2% of body fat.
Moderate exercise before BIA measurements lead to an overestimation of fat-free mass and an underestimation of body fat percentage due to reduced impedance. For example, moderate intensity exercise for 90–120 minutes before BIA measurements causes nearly a 12 kg overestimation of fat-free mass, i.e. body fat is significantly underestimated. Therefore, it is recommended not to perform BIA for several hours after moderate or high-intensity exercise.
BIA is considered reasonably accurate for measuring groups, of limited accuracy for tracking body composition in an individual over a period of time, but is not considered sufficiently accurate for recording of single measurements of individuals.
Consumer-grade devices for measuring BIA have not been found to be sufficiently accurate for single-measurement use and are better suited for use to measure changes in body composition over time for individuals. The two-electrode, e.g., foot-to-foot or hand-to-hand measurement, is generally found to be less accurate than 4-electrode methods (tetra-polar technique in which the current circuit is provided by a pair of distal electrodes with impedance measured, as the voltage drop between a separate pair of proximal electrodes). Multiple electrodes, typically eight, may be used located on the hands and feet, allowing measurement of the impedance of the individual body segments – arms, legs and torso. The advantage of the multiple electrode devices is that body segments may be measured simultaneously without the need to relocate electrodes. Results for some impedance instruments tested found poor limits of agreement and in some cases systematic bias in estimation of visceral fat percentage, but good accuracy in the prediction of resting energy expenditure (REE) when compared with more accurate whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA).
Impedance is frequency-sensitive; at low frequency the electric current flows preferentially through extracellular water (ECW) only, while at high frequency the current can cross cell membranes and hence flows through total body water (TBW). In bioimpedance spectroscopy devices (BIS) resistance at zero and high frequency can be estimated and, at least theoretically, should provide the optimal predictors of ECW and TBW and hence body fat-free mass respectively. In practice, the improvement in accuracy is marginal. The use of multiple frequencies or BIS in specific BIA devices has been shown to have high correlation with DXA when measuring body fat percentage. The correlation with DXA can be as high as 99% when measuring fat-free mass, if strict guidelines are adhered to. It is important to recognize that correlation is not a measure of accuracy or method agreement, BIA methods typically exhibit 2 standard deviation (2SD) limits of agreement with reference methods (e.g., DXA, MRI or 4C model) of around ±10%.
## Historical background
The electrical properties of tissues have been described since 1872. These properties were further described for a wider range of frequencies on a larger range of tissues, including those that were damaged or undergoing change after death.
In 1962, Thomasset conducted the original studies using electrical impedance measurements as an index of total body water (TBW), using two subcutaneously inserted needles.
In 1969, Hoffer concluded that a whole-body impedance measurement could predict total body water. The equation (the squared value of height divided by impedance measurements of the right half of the body) showed a correlation coefficient of 0.92 with total body water. This equation, Hoffer proved, is known as the impedance index used in BIA.
In 1983, Nyober validated the use of whole body electrical impedance to assess body composition.
By the 1970s the foundations of BIA were established, including those that underpinned the relationships between the impedance and the body water content of the body. A variety of single-frequency BIA analyzers then became commercially available, such as RJL Systems and its first commercialized impedance meter.
In the 1980s, Lukaski, Segal, and other researchers discovered that the use of a single frequency (50 kHz) in BIA assumed the human body to be a single cylinder, which created many technical limitations in BIA. The use of a single frequency was inaccurate for populations that did not have the standard body type. To improve the accuracy of BIA, researchers created empirical equations using empirical data (gender, age, ethnicity) to predict a user's body composition.
In 1986, Lukaski published empirical equations using the impedance index, body weight, and reactance.
In 1986, Kushner and Scholler published empirical equations using the impedance index, body weight, and gender.
However, empirical equations were only useful in predicting the average population's body composition and was inaccurate for medical purposes for populations with diseases. In 1992, Kushner proposed the use of multiple frequencies to increase the accuracy of BIA devices to measure the human body as 5 different cylinders (right arm, left arm, torso, right leg, left leg) instead of one. The use of multiple frequencies would also distinguish intracellular and extracellular water.
By the 1990s, the market included several multi-frequency analyzers and a couple of BIS devices. The use of BIA as a bedside method has increased because the equipment is portable and safe, the procedure is simple and noninvasive, and the results are reproducible and rapidly obtained. More recently, segmental BIA has been developed to overcome inconsistencies between resistance (R) and the body mass of the trunk.
In 1996, an eight-polar stand-on BIA device, InBody, that did not utilize empirical equations was created and was found to "offer accurate estimates of TBW and ECW in women without the need of population-specific formulas."
In 2018, AURA Devices brought the fitness tracker AURA Band with built-in BIA.
In 2020 BIA became available for Apple Watch users with the accessory AURA Strap with built-in sensors.
By the early 2020’s smartwatches like the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 contained built in BIA’s.
## Measurement configuration
The impedance of cellular tissue can be modeled as a resistor (representing the extracellular path) in parallel with a resistor and capacitor in series (representing the intracellular path – the resistance that of intracellular fluid and the capacitor the cell membrane). This results in a change in impedance versus the frequency used in the measurement. Whole-body impedance is generally measured from the wrist to the ipsilateral ankle and uses either two (rarely) or four (overwhelmingly) electrodes. In the 2-electrode (bipolar) configuration a small current on the order of 1–10 μA is passed between two electrodes, and the voltage is measured between the same, whereas in the tetrapolar arrangement resistance is measured between as separate pair of proximally located electrodes. The tetrapolar arrangement is preferred, since measurement is not confounded by the impedance of the skin–electrode interface
## Phase angle
In bioelectrical impedance analysis in humans, an estimate of the phase angle can be obtained and is based on changes in resistance and reactance as alternating current passes through tissues, which causes a phase shift. A phase angle therefore exists for all frequencies of measurement although conventionally in BIA it is phase angle at a measurement frequency of 50 kHz that is considered. The measured phase angle therefore depends on several biological factors. Phase angle is greater in men than women and decreases with increasing age.
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Gill Langley
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# Gill Langley
## Abstract
Gillian Rose Langley (born 10 August 1952) is a British scientist and writer who specialises in alternatives to animal testing and animal rights. She was, from 1981 until 2009, the science director of the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research, a medical research charity developing non-animal research techniques. She was an anti-vivisection member of the British government's Animal Procedures Committee for eight years, and has worked as a consultant on non-animal techniques for the European Commission, and for animal protection organizations in Europe and the United States. Between 2010 and 2016 she was a consultant for Humane Society International.
Langley is the author of Vegan Nutrition (1988), and editor of Animal Experimentation: The Consensus Changes (1990). She has written a number of reports for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection and the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments, including Faith, Hope & Charity? An Enquiry into Charity-Funded Research (1988), and Next of Kin (2006), an examination of primate experimentation. She has also published articles and reviews in scientific journals about human species-specific research approaches.
## Education
Langley obtained an MA in physiology, cell biology, and zoology at the University of Cambridge, then earned her PhD in neurochemistry, also from Cambridge. She took up a position as a research fellow at the University of Nottingham, specialising in neurochemistry using human cell cultures.
## Involvement in animal protection
Langley was trained as an animal researcher but after reading Peter Singer 's Animal Liberation she became a vegan and an animal rights activist, and campaigned professionally against animal experiments. She was a member of the Animal Procedures Committee for eight years, which advises the British Home Office on issues related to animal testing, and has acted as an advisor to the government on the introduction of the new European Union chemicals legislation, REACH. She has served as a specialist consultant for the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She was called as an expert witness in 2001 by the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures during its inquiry into animal experimentation in the UK.
In April 2006, she was a member of the panel at the Oxford Union that debated whether "This house would not test on animals." Opposing the motion were Laurie Pycroft—who founded Pro-Test, which organised the debate—Sir Colin Blakemore, Professor John Stein, and Professor Lord Robert Winston. Supporting the motion, along with Langley, were Dr Andrew Knight, Uri Geller and BUAV campaigns director Alistair Currie. The motion was defeated by 273 to 48.
### Position on animal research
Langley is an anti-vivisectionist and vegan. She told The Guardian that she "would never claim that all animal experiments are without scientific value. " She argues that the ethical case against animal research is absolute and that medical progress will benefit from 21st-century, human-relevant tools being used in place of animal experiments. This transition urgently requires funding and policy changes. She told the BBC: "When you know that other animals can feel pain and distress in the same ways that humans do, it is unethical to experiment on them."
She has campaigned against the use of non-human primates in xenotransplantation, where pig organs were grafted onto the necks of primates to test anti-rejection drugs. She told medical journalists Jenny Bryan and John Clare that the primates used in xenotransplantation research are subjected to major surgery; internal haemorrhages; isolation in small cages; repeated blood sampling; wound infections; nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea because of immunosuppressant drugs; kidney or heart failure, and eventually death. She said:
"It's not just the suffering they endure in the laboratories and research establishments. Just getting there can be torture. Studies of primates show them to have complex mental abilities which may increase their capacity to suffer. Supplying the laboratories in the UK imposes huge suffering on the animals... They're then contained in small, single cages, and transported for very long distances causing deaths, distress and suffering."
### Next of Kin
Langley's report against primate experimentation, Next of Kin (2006), was published simultaneously with the publication by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust in favor of primate experimentation. The New Scientist wrote that her report cited studies suggesting that macaques and other small monkeys are more conscious of themselves and others than was previously believed, giving them a moral status equivalent to that of great apes, who are currently not used in experiments in the UK. David Morton, professor of Biomedical Science & Ethics at the University of Birmingham, said the report was "a wake-up call to scientists to raise their game in their justification and ways they use non-human primates in research."
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Statue of Elizabeth II, Oakham
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# Statue of Elizabeth II, Oakham
## Abstract
A statue of Queen Elizabeth II by Hywel Pratley stands in Oakham, the county town of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It was unveiled on 21 April 2024, which would have been the Queen's 98th birthday. The 7ft (2.1m) tall sculpture was commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Rutland and was funded via donations from businesses and members of the public, at a cost of £125,000. It is the first memorial to Elizabeth II to have been unveiled after her death in September 2022. The statue portrays the Queen in Garter robes and sash wearing the George IV State Diadem, with one royal corgi at her feet and another two on the plinth. Inscribed beneath it are the words "Queen Elizabeth II, 1926–2022. Erected as a tribute to her late Majesty through public subscription by Rutland people". The statue was unveiled by the MP Alicia Kearns in the presence of 400 people and nearly 50 corgis.
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Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone
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# Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle prone
## Abstract
The men's 50 metre rifle, prone was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics programme. It was the seventh appearance of the event. The competition was held on 29 July 1952 at the shooting ranges in Helsinki. 58 shooters from 32 nations competed.
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Dylan Smith (actor)
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# Dylan Smith (actor)
## Abstract
Dylan Scott Smith (born in Montreal) is a Canadian actor known for his portrayal of the characters Sepp on TNT's I Am the Night, Jasper in Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Daniel in Lemonade, and Largo Brandyfoot in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
## Early life
Dylan Smith is the son of Academy Award -nominated film director John N. Smith, and documentarian, Academy Award winner, and member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Cynthia Scott.
He grew up playing ice hockey, getting a sports scholarship for college, but after an injury that made him change his career, he studied Theater at the University of Toronto. There, he joined the Soulpepper Theatre Company.
## Career
Smith continued studying acting at Webber Douglas in London, England, where he took leading roles in TV shows like the British classic EastEnders, and in films such as Murder On The Orient Express.
Smith was cast in Private Lives on Broadway. There he met his wife, British theatre director Anna Ledwich.
In his early work, Smith portrayed secondary characters in films like 300 (2006), Immortals (2011), and Total Recall (2012).
In 2016, Smith played the role of Lakan in Hulu film Dawn, and Tristam Blanchard in the BBC TV series Ripper Street.
In 2017, he portrayed the pilot in the film The Mummy, and Jenkins in the TV series Into the Badlands.
In 2018, his main roles were Jasper in Maze Runner: The Death Cure, and Daniel in Lemonade, a drama from Cristian Mungiu.
In 2019, Smith played the character of Sepp on TNT's I Am the Night.
In 2022, Smith played the Harfoot Largo Brandyfoot in the Prime Video series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
## Filmography
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Stony River Subdivision
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# Stony River Subdivision
## Abstract
The Stony River Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The line is located in Bayard, West Virginia, for a total of 16.7 miles (26.9 km). At its north end the line connects with the Thomas Subdivision and at its south end the line comes to an end.
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Newcastle railway line
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# Newcastle railway line
## Abstract
The Newcastle railway line is a branch railway line in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The line branches off the Main North line at Broadmeadow and travels in an easterly direction through the inner suburbs to Newcastle Interchange, with one intermediate station at Hamilton. Until its curtailment in December 2014, it extended to Newcastle station. NSW TrainLink operates electric passenger train services over this line as part of its Central Coast & Newcastle Line service, and diesel railcars to Maitland and beyond as part of the Hunter Line.
## History
A line between Newcastle and the then much larger settlement at Maitland was first proposed in 1853 by the proponents of the original Sydney to Parramatta railway. The Hunter River Railway Company was formed later that year and the line was surveyed, however the private company failed and was bought out by the NSW government. Construction continued until the line opened in 1857. The line between Sydney and Newcastle was electrified in June 1984.
The terminus at Newcastle moved to various locations throughout the years, and has variously been named Honeysuckle and Honeysuckle Point. It was moved to its current alignment in 1872 and took the name of Newcastle in 1935 when Wickham and Civic stations opened. A mortuary station opened in 1883 to serve trains departing for Sandgate Cemetery. It closed on 1 April 1933. A large goods yard, the Newcastle Goods yard was constructed east of Newcastle station in 1858. This was closed in the late 1980s and redeveloped as a bus station and park land. The line was duplicated in 1864. The Main North line from Sydney connected at Hamilton Junction in 1887.
## Services
Passenger and goods services were operated by steam haulage from inception. In 1961 the 620/720 class diesel railcars were introduced to provide local suburban service to Maitland on the Hunter line and south to Fassifern and Toronto on the Toronto branch line. Long haul trains to Sydney were operated by steam haulage until their final withdrawal from passenger services in 1971, and from freight trains in 1972.
In June 1984, the line was electrified when the electrification project from Wyong was completed and electrified local and long-distance services were introduced south to Sydney. Local services to Maitland and beyond continue to be served by diesel railcars. The introduction into service of the Endeavour railcarcars from 1994, and the Hunter railcars from 2006, allowed the final withdrawal of the long running 620/720 railcars.
## Partial closure
### Closure proposals
A criticism of the line has been that it cuts Newcastle off from its own harbour foreshore with a number of proposals to close or at least pare it back. In November 1972, Minister for Transport Milton Morris announced the line would be cut back to Civic.
In 1990, CityRail proposed closing the line beyond Civic in response to a study on Newcastle's transport and development. As a proposed solution to this, since 2003 there had been studies to close the line and have Broadmeadow station become the major rail transport hub for the Newcastle region.
In 2005, there was a move pushed by business and property development interests to close the line with the proposal to redevelop the foreshore. This was widely criticised by among others Upper Hunter Region users, and former Deputy Prime Minister and rail enthusiast Tim Fischer. Originally the State Government had decided to close the line but later in 2006 and after a huge public outcry, Premier Morris Iemma announced that the line would stay open although in 2007 tenders were placed for a study into the line's future, including possible removal of the overhead wires and dieselisation of services.
### Partial closure implementation
In December 2012, the New South Wales government announced the line east of Wickham would close to better connect the older CBD to the water front precinct of Honeysuckle. This resulted in the closure of Wickham, Civic and Newcastle stations.
The line closed between Hamilton and Newcastle stations on 25 December 2014, with the Hamilton to Wickham section reopened on 15 October 2017 when Newcastle Interchange was opened as the line's new terminus.
A short section of the corridor east of Wickham was incorporated into the Newcastle Light Rail, which generally follows a parallel route to the railway line along Hunter and Scott Streets and serves as its replacement.
### Nile inquiry into Newcastle planning
The resignations in August 2014 of Tim Owen and Andrew Cornwell from the NSW Legislative Assembly and of Jeff McCloy from his post as Lord Mayor of Newcastle, came at a time of growing public concern that the decision to truncate the Newcastle railway had not been made properly. On 16 September 2014, the opposition and crossbench parties in the NSW Legislative Council successfully moved for a select committee to inquire into the planning process in Newcastle and the broader Hunter region.
The inquiry took over 370 submissions from official bodies and the public.
A substantial majority of the submissions opposed the Government's decision to close the railway. The inquiry held three public hearings in November 2014; some evidence was given of dealings with owners of land parcels near the railway who did not disclose their interests.
The chairman of the committee requested the NSW government to defer the railway's closure, scheduled for 25 December 2014, until his inquiry had considered the submissions and evidence and made its report. This request was denied.
On 18 December 2014, the inquiry released an interim report containing eight recommendations, including that no steps be taken to remove existing rail infrastructure until more planning work had been undertaken.
### Court action
On 24 December 2014, the Save Our Rail (NSW) Inc group were granted an injunction by the Supreme Court of New South Wales preventing RailCorp from removing any part of line infrastructure after the closure of the line. RailCorp lodged an appeal. This did not affect the closure of the line, but if the appeal is unsuccessful, will require an Act of Parliament to formally close the line before work to remove infrastructure can commence.
### Legislation
On 9 September 2015, the 'Transport Administration Amendment (Closure of Railway Line at Newcastle) Bill 2015' was introduced into the NSW parliament lower house by Transport Minister Andrew Constance. The bill was passed by the lower house on 16 September 2015 on party lines, and introduced to the upper house the same day by Roads Minister Duncan Gay.
The numbers in the upper house were not as certain, with the balance of power held by the Shooters and Fishers Party (two members), the Animal Justice Party (one member), the Christian Democratic Party (Australia) (two members), and the Greens New South Wales (five members). The government needed just two votes of these members for the bill to pass, and on 14 October the final votes were taken, achieving the support of the two Shooters, Robert Borsak and Rob Brown.
The bill was assented to by the Governor of New South Wales on 22 October 2015, and so became an Act.
The Act did not seek to amend the Transport Administration Act itself, merely to provide enabling legislation for the railway line from Railway Street, Wickham to the former Newcastle station to be removed. It did however contain retrospective legislation declaring that all work previously carried out was deemed authorised by the Act.
The legislation essentially made the Save Our Rail injunction moot, as the injunction was granted on the basis that rail infrastructure could not be removed without an Act of Parliament. The track and associated overhead wiring and stanchions were removed in early 2016, except within Newcastle station.
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Ruppeiner geometry
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# Ruppeiner geometry
## Abstract
Ruppeiner geometry is thermodynamic geometry (a type of information geometry) using the language of Riemannian geometry to study thermodynamics. George Ruppeiner proposed it in 1979. He claimed that thermodynamic systems can be represented by Riemannian geometry, and that statistical properties can be derived from the model.
This geometrical model is based on the inclusion of the theory of fluctuations into the axioms of equilibrium thermodynamics, namely, there exist equilibrium states which can be represented by points on two-dimensional surface (manifold) and the distance between these equilibrium states is related to the fluctuation between them. This concept is associated to probabilities, i.e. the less probable a fluctuation between states, the further apart they are. This can be recognized if one considers the metric tensor g in the distance formula (line element) between the two equilibrium states
where the matrix of coefficients g is the symmetric metric tensor which is called a Ruppeiner metric, defined as a negative Hessian of the entropy function
where U is the internal energy (mass) of the system and N refers to the extensive parameters of the system. Mathematically, the Ruppeiner geometry is one particular type of information geometry and it is similar to the Fisher–Rao metric used in mathematical statistics.
The Ruppeiner metric can be understood as the thermodynamic limit (large systems limit) of the more general Fisher information metric. For small systems (systems where fluctuations are large), the Ruppeiner metric may not exist, as second derivatives of the entropy are not guaranteed to be non-negative.
The Ruppeiner metric is conformally related to the Weinhold metric via
where T is the temperature of the system under consideration. Proof of the conformal relation can be easily done when one writes down the first law of thermodynamics (dU = TdS +...) in differential form with a few manipulations. The Weinhold geometry is also considered as a thermodynamic geometry. It is defined as a Hessian of the internal energy with respect to entropy and other extensive parameters.
It has long been observed that the Ruppeiner metric is flat for systems with noninteracting underlying statistical mechanics such as the ideal gas. Curvature singularities signal critical behaviors. In addition, it has been applied to a number of statistical systems including Van der Waals gas. Recently the anyon gas has been studied using this approach.
## Application to black hole systems
This geometry has been applied to black hole thermodynamics, with some physically relevant results. The most physically significant case is for the Kerr black hole in higher dimensions, where the curvature singularity signals thermodynamic instability, as found earlier by conventional methods.
The entropy of a black hole is given by the well-known Bekenstein–Hawking formula
where k B {\displaystyle k_{\text{B}}} is the Boltzmann constant, c {\displaystyle c} is the speed of light, G {\displaystyle G} is the Newtonian constant of gravitation and A {\displaystyle A} is the area of the event horizon of the black hole. Calculating the Ruppeiner geometry of the black hole's entropy is, in principle, straightforward, but it is important that the entropy should be written in terms of extensive parameters,
where M {\displaystyle M} is ADM mass of the black hole and N are the conserved charges and a runs from 1 to n. The signature of the metric reflects the sign of the hole's specific heat. For a Reissner–Nordström black hole, the Ruppeiner metric has a Lorentzian signature which corresponds to the negative heat capacity it possess, while for the BTZ black hole, we have a Euclidean signature. This calculation cannot be done for the Schwarzschild black hole, because its entropy is
which renders the metric degenerate.
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1977 World Series of Poker
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# 1977 World Series of Poker
## Abstract
The 1977 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.
## Main Event
There were 34 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the winner-take-all tournament.
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Michael Longcor
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# Michael Longcor
## Abstract
Michael Longcor is a folk and filk singer. His songs span a range of topics including military history, Indiana history, and humor. He has won six Pegasus Awards and has been nominated for six others. His music has appeared on Dr. Demento and on NPR 's Folksong Festival, and has provided the background for a BBC documentary on Rudyard Kipling.
He is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, in which he is known as Moonwulf Starkaaderson. As a member of the SCA, he has been king of the Middle Kingdom twice and served as baron of the Barony of Rivenstar from its foundation until April 2016. He is also a member of the Dorsai Irregulars, having been inducted in 1976. Longcor was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2014.
## Awards
- 1992 Pegasus Award for best performer
- 1993 Pegasus Award for best humorous song ("Rhinotillexomania")
- 1995 Pegasus Award for best performer
- 1995 Pegasus Award for best military song ("When Tenskwatawa Sings")
- 1996 Pegasus Award for best eerie song ("Monster in My Head")
- 2003 Pegasus Award for best filk song ("Shooting Star")
## Discography
- Storm, Wind and Flame
- Walking the Wilderness
- Boarding Party
- Lovers, Heroes and Rogues
- Heartburn
- Kitchen Junk Drawer
- Dangerous Heroes
- Norman & Saxon
- Drunken Angel
- Field of Fire
- What's a Hoosier?
- Owlflight
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Results of the 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries
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# Results of the 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries
## Abstract
Below is a detailed tally of the results of the 2020 Republican Party presidential primary elections in the United States. In most U.S. states outside New Hampshire, votes for write-in candidates remain untallied.
Primary elections and caucuses can be binding or nonbinding in allocating delegates to the respective state delegations to the Republican National Convention. But the actual election of the delegates can be at a later date. Delegates are (1) elected at conventions, (2) from slates submitted by the candidates, (3) selected by the party's state chairman or (4) at committee meetings or (5) elected directly at the party's caucuses and primaries. Until the delegates are apportioned, the delegate numbers are by nature projections, but it is only in the states with nonbinding caucuses where they are not allocated at the primary or caucus date.
Several states decided to cancel their primaries and caucuses. They cited the fact that Republicans canceled several state primaries when George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush sought a second term in 1992 and 2004, respectively, and Democrats scrapped some of their primaries when Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were seeking reelection in 1996 and 2012, respectively. Hawaii was the only state among the cancelled races to officially appoint their pledged delegates immediately to incumbent President Donald Trump in 2019. Donald Trump's over 18 million votes he received in the Republican Primary is the most ever for an incumbent President in a primary.
## Overview of results
### Major candidates
The table below shows the four candidates that have either (a) held public office, (b) been included in a minimum of five independent national polls, or (c) received substantial media coverage. The president's challengers withdrew from the race after the primaries started, or in the case of De la Fuente, accepted one or more 3rd party nominations.
Not shown: Alaska, Wyoming, South Carolina, American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands, Northern Marianas
### On the ballot in one or more states
The following other candidates are listed by the number of states, that they are on the ballot.
†Several states provide the number of write-in votes without specifying who they're for.
## Results
As President Trump ran unopposed in several state primaries, and caucuses were canceled to grant him bound delegations by fiat, only contested elections will be listed below.
### Early states
#### Iowa
The Iowa Republican caucus was held on February 3, 2020.
- Trump—100%
- Trump—≥95%
- Trump—90–95%
- Trump—85–90%
- Trump—≥95%
#### New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Republican primary took place on February 11, 2020.Typically, the top candidates of the other major party receive a large number of write-in votes.
### Super Tuesday (March 3, 2020)
Super Tuesday began with the start of early voting in Minnesota on January 17, 2020, followed by Vermont the following day. By the end of February, all 14 states holding primaries had a substantial number of votes already cast.
In Minnesota, Georgia and Maine, the president ran unopposed.
#### Alabama
Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld challenged incumbent president Donald Trump in the Republican primary in Alabama. Trump received 96.22% of the vote and all 50 delegates, while Weld received only 1.52% of the vote. Uncommitted votes made up the other 2.27%.
#### Arkansas
The following candidates are on the ballot.
#### Colorado
#### Massachusetts
#### North Carolina
#### Oklahoma
Trump won the state in a landslide victory against his five opponents.
#### Tennessee
Incumbent United States President Donald Trump was challenged by two candidates: former congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois, and former governor Bill Weld of Massachusetts. Walsh withdrew from the race prior to the primary. There was also an uncommitted option on the ballot. Trump won the state in a landslide victory over Walsh and Weld.
#### Texas
#### Utah
#### Vermont
### March 10
#### Idaho
Incumbent United States President Donald Trump was challenged by five candidates: businessman and perennial candidate Rocky De La Fuente of California, entrepreneur and investor Bob Ely of Massachusetts, entrepreneur and attorney Matthew Matern of Louisiana, former congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois, and former governor Bill Weld of Massachusetts. Walsh withdrew from the race prior to the primary.
#### Michigan
Incumbent United States President Donald Trump was challenged by three candidates: former governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, former congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois, and former governor Bill Weld of Massachusetts. Sanford and Walsh both withdrew prior to the primary. Michigan is the only primary state where Sanford's name remained on the ballot.
#### Mississippi
Incumbent President Donald Trump was challenged by two candidates: businessman and perennial candidate Rocky De La Fuente of California, and former governor Bill Weld of Massachusetts.
### March 17
#### Florida
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8th National Geographic Bee
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# 8th National Geographic Bee
## Abstract
The 8th National Geographic Bee was held in Washington, D.C., on May 29, 1996, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. The final competition was moderated by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. The winner was Seyi Fayanju of Henry B. Whitehorne Middle School in Verona, New Jersey, who won a $25,000 college scholarship. The 2nd-place winner, Ryan Bean of Augusta, Maine, won a $15,000 scholarship. The 3rd-place winner, Matthew Conway of El Reno, Oklahoma, won a $10,000 scholarship.
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Fonteferrea
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# Fonteferrea
## Abstract
Fonteferrea is a genus of araneoid spiders that contains only one species, Fonteferrea minutissima. It is the sole member of the family Fonteferridae. The only specimen of this family was found in the Algarve in southern Portugal by Jörg Wunderlich in 2023. The generic name references the locality where the holotype was collected, Fonte Ferrea, in the Faro District. They are extremely small spiders, with a body length of 0.75 mm. The species is notable for the hairs present on the tegulum, a characteristic which very few spiders have.
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Lund's Student Theater
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# Lund's Student Theater
## Abstract
Lund's Student Theater (LUST) is an English-speaking amateur theater ensemble that operates as a committee within The Academic Society in Lund.
LUST arranges two productions per year, one in the fall and one in the spring. The repertoire consists of classical, contemporary, and self-written plays. Beyond this, they also offer various other activities, including script analysis, writing, acting, and improvisation workshops. Since 2022, LUST has been writing and performing Pub Theater productions, which are interactive performances created by LUST members.
## History
LUST originally formed in 1933 as a theater organization tied to Lund University. The founders consisted mainly of female students who were excluded from Lund University's spexes. LUST was effectively replaced by Lilla Teatern (The Little Theater) during the 1950s following a failed tour. The Little Theater lost their stage in the late 1950s, however, which led to LUST restarted their operations. At times, LUST has used "The Little Theater" as its name or as a synonym. Lund's Student Theater and The Little Theater contributed to the creations of separate fringe theater groups such as Teater Proteus, Teater 23 in Malmö, and Nationalteatern in Gothenburg.
Following a hiatus, LUST was restarted in 1981 as Lund's New Student Theater (Lunds nya Studentteater) (LnS). After 2007, the name was changed to Lund's Student Theater (Lunds studentteater). Since 1983, LUST has functioned as a committee within Akademiska Föreningen and is headquartered in AF Borgen.
In 2015, LUST began transitioning to operating in English rather than Swedish. Today, it is an entirely English-speaking organization.
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Blood of Abraham
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# Blood of Abraham
## Abstract
Blood of Abraham was an American hip-hop duo composed of Benyad (Benjamin Mor) and Mazik (David Saevitz). They debuted in 1993 with the release of the LP Future Profits on Ruthless Records.
A key characteristic of the group was their unapologetic Jewish identity. Their best-known track is "Niggaz and Jewz (Some Say Kikes)", a call for black – Jewish unity in the face of shared struggle against bigotry. Made at the height of the strain on Black-Jewish relations in the United States, its opening sample was an actual recording of a Ku Klux Klansman. It featured a verse from Eazy-E as well as the first recorded appearance by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas known then as Will 1X (the group was then known as "Atban Klann".) Other tracks dealing with Jewish themes were "Father of Many Nations" (a song in praise of the Biblical patriarch Abraham) and "Stick To Your Own Kind".
A video was shot for the track "Stabbed by the Steeple," and print ads were centered on large text proclaiming " Jesus was a Black Jew," but the album did not receive much publicity beyond that. Blood of Abraham fell into anonymity; their status worsened in 1995 with the death of Eazy-E and the folding of the Ruthless and Relativity Records labels.
Mazik and Benyad then went on hiatus until 2000, which saw the unofficial release of the LP Eyedollartree on Mastergrip Records, which folded shortly thereafter. Eyedollartree featured guest appearances from rappers Kool Keith and Divine Styler, as well as production from will.i.am., Cyrus Melchor and Motiv8. Basement Records oversaw the official release of Eyedollartree (with bonus DVD) in late 2005.
As of late, former Blood of Abraham member Benjamin Mor has become an in-demand music video director. He has directed clips for Nas, Katy Perry and a few music videos for the Black Eyed Peas.
## Discography
### Albums
- Future Profits, 16 November 1993 Singles: "Stabbed By The Steeple" "Life"
- Singles: "Stabbed By The Steeple" "Life"
- Eyedollartree, 2 May 2000 Singles: "99¢ Lighter" "Velvet Glove", "Iron Fist"
- Singles: "99¢ Lighter" "Velvet Glove", "Iron Fist"
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Oudenodon
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# Oudenodon
## Abstract
Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont. It was common throughout southern Africa during the Late Permian. Several species of Oudenodon are known. Both O. bainii, the type species, and O. grandis are known from South Africa. Specimens of O. luangwensis have been found from Zambia. One species, O. sakamenensis, is the only Permian therapsid yet described from Madagascar. It is the type genus of the family Oudenodontidae, which includes members such as Tropidostoma.
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8th century in poetry
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# 8th century in poetry
## Abstract
## East Asia
### Events
- Chinese poetry in the Tang dynasty develops into what is now considered to be of the characteristic style known as Tang poetry, highlighted by the work of Li Bai and Du Fu.
- Japanese poetry emerges, and the first imperial poetry anthologies are compiled
- 759 Japanese general Otomo no Yakamochi compiles the first Japanese poetry anthology, Man'yōshū, containing some 500 poems by Japanese poets who include the emperor, nobleman and commoners. December 24 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, staying with his fellow poet Pei Di, where he composes poems about life in his thatched cottage.
- Japanese general Otomo no Yakamochi compiles the first Japanese poetry anthology, Man'yōshū, containing some 500 poems by Japanese poets who include the emperor, nobleman and commoners.
- December 24 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, staying with his fellow poet Pei Di, where he composes poems about life in his thatched cottage.
### Chinese Poets
- Wang Wei (701 – 761), Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter and statesman
- Li Bai (701 – 762), Chinese poet, one of the " Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup "
- Cui Hao (704 – 754), Chinese poet especially of women, frontier outposts, and natural scenery
- Qian Qi (710 – 782), Chinese poet
- Du Fu (712 – 770), Chinese poet especially of historical subjects
- Wei Yingwu (737 – 792), Chinese poet whose works are included in the Three Hundred Tang Poems
- Quan Deyu (759 – 818), chancellor of the Tang dynasty and poet
- Han Yu (768 – 824), a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as an essayist and poet
- Xue Tao (768 – 831), female Chinese poet
- Bai Juyi (772 – 846), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty, writing poems themed around his responsibilities as a governor; renowned in Japan as well
- Liu Yuxi (772 – 842), Chinese poet, philosopher, and essayist
- Liu Zongyuan (773 – 819), Chinese writer and poet
- Jia Dao (779 – 843), Chinese poet of discursive gushi and lyric jintishi
- Yuan Zhen (779 – 831), Chinese writer and poet of the middle Tang dynasty known for his work Yingying's Biography
- Li He (790 – 816), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty, known for his unconventional and imaginative style
- Lu Tong (790 – 835), Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty, known for his tea poems
- Niu Yingzhen, Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty
### Japanese Poets
- Abe no Nakamaro 阿倍仲麻呂 (c. 698 – c. 770), scholar, administrator, and waka poet in the Nara period (surname: Abe)
- Fujiwara no Hamanari 藤原 浜成 (724 – 790), poet and a nobleman of the Nara period; best known for Kakyō Hyōshiki, the oldest extant piece of Japanese poetic criticism, in which he attempts to apply phonetic rules of Chinese poetry to Japanese poetry; son of Fujiwara no Maro
- Fujiwara no Sadakata 藤原定方, also known as "Sanjo Udaijin" 三条右大臣 (873 – 932), father of poet Asatada, cousin and father-in-law of Kanesuke; has a poem in Hyakunin Isshu anthology
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro 柿本 人麻呂 (c. 662 – 710), late Asuka period poet, nobleman and government official; the most prominent poet in the Man'yōshū anthology
- Lady Kasa 笠女郎 (fl. early 8th century) waka poet, a woman
- Kūkai 空海, also known posthumously as "Kōbō-Daishi" 弘法大師 (774 – 835), monk, scholar, poet, and artist who founded the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism, followers of that school usually refer to him by the honorific title "Odaishisama" お大師様
- Empress Jitō 持統天皇 (645 – 703; 702 in the lunisolar calendar used in Japan until 1873), 41st imperial ruler, fourth empress and a poet
- Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume (c. 700 – 750), Japanese early Nara period female poet; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; has 79 poems in the Man'yōshū anthology (surname: Ōtomo)
- Ōtomo no Tabito 大伴旅人 (c. 662 – 731) poet best known as the father of Ōtomo no Yakamochi; both contributed to compiling the Man'yōshū anthology; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; served as governor-general of Dazaifu, the military procuracy in northern Kyūshū, from 728-730
- Ōtomo no Yakamochi 大伴家持 (c. 718 – 785), Nara period statesman and waka poet; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; son of Ōtomo no Tabito, older brother of Ōtomo no Kakimochi, nephew of Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume
- Sami Mansei 沙弥満誓 ("novice Mansei"), secular name was Kasa no Ason Maro (fl. c. 720), Buddhist priest and poet; a member of Ōtomo no Tabito 's literary circle; has poems in the Man'yōshū anthology
- Yamabe no Akahito 山部赤人 or 山邊赤人 (700 – 736), Nara period poet with 13 chōka (long poems) and 37 tanka (short poems) in the Man'yōshū anthology; has been called the kami of poetry, and Waka Nisei along with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
- Yamanoue no Okura 山上 憶良 (660 – 733), best known for his poems of children and commoners; has poems in the Man'yōshū anthology
- Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume (c. 700 – 750), early Nara period female poet; member of the prestigious Ōtomo clan; has 79 poems in the Man'yōshū anthology
### Works
- 759? Man'yōshū, the first Japanese poetry anthology
- 772 – Kakyō Hyōshiki 歌経標式 (also known as Uta no Shiki ("The Code of Poetry"), a Japanese text on poetics commissioned by Emperor Kōnin and written by Fujiwara no Hamanari, is completed; the one-volume work "is the oldest extant piece of poetic criticism in the Japanese canon"
## Arabic World
### Events
- Compilation of the Mufaddaliyat (prior to 784) and the Mu'allaqat, the major collections of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry.
### Births of Arab poets
- Bashshar ibn Burd (714 – 784)
- Khalil ibn Ahmad (718 – 791)
- Al-Asma'i (740 – 828)
- Ibrahim Al-Mausili (742-804)
- Abu-l-'Atahiya (748 – 828)
- Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750 – 809) (عباس بن الأحنف)
- Abu Nuwas (750 – 813)
- Dik al-Jinn (777 – 849)
### Deaths of Arab poets
- 'Imran ibn Hittan, (died 703)
- Ibn Qays al-Ruqayyat (died 704)
- Layla al-Akhyaliyyah (died 704)
- Waddah al-Yaman (died 708)
- al-Akhtal (c. 640 – 710)
- Umar Ibn Abi Rabi'ah (died 712)
- Kuthayyir (ca. 660 – c. 723)
- Jarir ibn `Atiyah al-Khatfi (died c. 728)
- al-Farazdaq (died c. 729)
- Dhu al-Rummah (died 735)
- Al-'Arji (died 738)
- Kumait Ibn Zaid (679 – 743)
- al-Walid ibn Yazid (died 744)
- Salih ibn 'Abd al-Quddus (d. 784)
- Bashshar ibn Burd (714 – 784)
- Khalil ibn Ahmad (718 – 791)
## Europe
### Poets
- Maria Alphaizuli, referred to as the Arabian Sappho
- Angilbert (c. 760 - 814), Frankish ecclesiastic and poet, canonized
- Paulinus of Aquileia (c. 730/40 - 802) Italian ecclesiastic and poet
- Blathmac mac Con Brettan, Irish fili
- Niníne Éces, Irish (d. c. 700)
### Works
- Likely period for the first composition of the poems that are ultimately compiled in the Beowulf manuscript
- Dream of the Rood, Old English, possible date
- Blathmac mac Con Brettan, Tan cucam a Mhuire and Oh Mhaire, a grain on cloine!
- Niníne Éces, Admuinemmar nóeb-Patraicc
- Paulinus of Aquileia, Carmen de regula fidei
## Byzantine Empire
### Poets
- Saint Andrew of Crete (ca. 650 – July 4, 740)
## South Asia
### Poets
- Bharavi, writing in Sanskrit
- Magha, writing in Sanskrit
- Saraha, writing in Old Hindi
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