title: Heather Fisher

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Heather Margaret Fisher (born 13 June 1984) is an English rugby union and rugby sevens player. She represented  at the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup. She was also named in the squad to the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.

Fisher made her international rugby debut in 2009 after a stint in bobsledding. She represented Team GB in rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Great Britain lost the rugby sevens bronze medal match to Canada.

She has severe alopecia.

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1984 births
Living people
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens
England women's international rugby union players
England international women's rugby sevens players
English female rugby union players
Great Britain women's international rugby sevens players
Olympic rugby sevens players for Great Britain
Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Rugby sevens players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Rugby union players from Birmingham, West Midlands
Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
English rugby sevens players
Female rugby sevens players
People with alopecia universalis
Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for England
Rugby union flankers
Worcester Warriors Women players
English female bobsledders


title: Never Say Never (Brandy album)

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Never Say Never is the second studio album by American singer Brandy. It was released on June 9, 1998, by Atlantic Records. Atlantic consulted David Foster, as well as producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins and his team to work with Norwood on the record; Jerkins went on to craft the majority of the album and would evolve as Norwood's mentor and head producer on her succeeding projects.

The lyrical themes on the album include the singer's personal experiences with love, monogamy, media bias, and maturity. Influenced by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, Norwood wanted to present a more mature facet of herself with the album, incorporating a ballad-heavy style and an adult contemporary feel into her urban pop sound for the album.

Upon its release, Never Say Never facilitated Norwood in becoming a viable recording artist with media-crossing appeal. It debuted at No. 3 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 160,000 copies in its first week, and peaked at No. 2 the following week, remaining within the chart's top 20 for 28 weeks. Six of the album's 16 songs were chosen as singles, including duet with Monica "The Boy Is Mine" and "Have You Ever?", which both topped the US Billboard Hot 100, as well as "Top of the World", which become an international hit.

Never Say Never became Norwood's highest-selling and highest-charting album to date in most international markets, being certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and selling over 16 million copies worldwide. It won numerous awards and accolades, including a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "The Boy Is Mine". The album was supported by the Never Say Never World Tour (1999), which included sold-out shows in North America, Europe, & Asia.

Background and development
Following the release of her multi-platinum eponymous debut album (1994) and several equally successful soundtrack contributions such as "Sittin' Up in My Room" from Waiting to Exhale (1995) and "Missing You" from Set It Off (1996), Norwood took a lengthy musical break in which she graduated from high school, enrolled in college and established a flourishing acting career. In 1995, she was cast in the titular role in the UPN sitcom Moesha, and in the following two years, she appeared opposite her idol Whitney Houston in the musical television film Cinderella (1997) and filmed the slasher film sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998). While she enjoyed her acting profile accomplishments, Norwood felt that her transition had caused people to recognize her more as an actress than as a singer. At one point she even considered giving up singing to concentrate on acting due to the ever changing music industry and losing her passion for it.
According to her, "I think the music industry has changed so much... I don't know how to look at my first video... There was so much happening... And I'd rather go out with the first album, bang, and not have to come back and not be able to do the same thing again. Nevertheless, after Brandys commercial success, she was heavily pressured, stating: "It's very important to me that my music connects with the general public.

For a while, she placed the recording of the album on the "back burner" because she was "barely satisfied with the material that was presented to her. She found that many songs would not express what she wanted to tell at that point of her career. According to her, "Many of the songs I heard were not 'me'," the singer stated during a promotional interview with Jet in 1999, "And If I can't feel it, then I won't sing it." Also, after Brandy, she felt in a space of wanting to do something different, while exploring her voice and playing with different sounds. Elaborating on her desire for progression and a more mature sound, Norwood added, that  "I'm not the little girl I was when I made my first record. My voice is a strong instrument now; my vocals come from both my heart and my diaphragm. My heart because I matured in the four years since the last album; I'm more emotionally there." She also regained interest with music when she met then upcoming producer Rodney Jerkins and his production team. "They really turned it around. When I met Rodney, his tracks were so mean, so unbelievable, and the writing that Sean and Jaffey did, they came to the table and they really brought a lot of the fill ins that I had inside of me out. They changed my whole perspective on the music thing. When I started to work with them, I wanted to go to the studio every day. I wanted to sing every day. I didn't want to act anymore after that", says Norwood.

Recording and production

Production for the album dates back as early as May 1997, during this time MTV News reported that Norwood was "taking up two recording studios in both New York and Los Angeles, and is working on what she hopes will be a fall release". Producers that were slated to work on the album at that point were Sean "Puffy" Combs, Babyface, David Foster, and Keith Crouch. During the early recording stages she recorded a few songs with Puffy but didn't finish them due to their hectic schedules. The plan was for the pair to resume what they had started. According to her: "I'm going to go back in the studio with him. I'm really excited to work with Puffy. I'm more nervous than excited because I'm like the biggest Puffy fan. The last time I worked with Puffy, I couldn't even sing right". Norwood was also planning to record a song with Wyclef Jean, in which she expressed that she had heard that his track was "so hot" and she was "ready to go in there and sing it, master it, get it done, and put it on the album". Rapper and songwriter-producer Missy Elliott was also requested as a producer at one point.

Recording for the album resumed in October 1997, with Norwood confirming that she was "right in the middle" of completing the album. She stated that the material was going to be "sophisticated a little, a little sexy, a little edge, but I'm still gonna be innocent, you know, I still have to give 'em that America's sweetheart thing. I have to do that, can't never get rid of that". The albums mature direction can be attributed to Norwood being influenced by Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Jewel. "I look at all these other female artists that are coming out and who've done so well. I get to see what they're doin' with they self, you know, and the imaging and the songs, and I get to take bits and pieces from everybody and put it into my own style", says Norwood.

Eventually, Rodney Jerkins jumped on board and the pair recorded "The Boy Is Mine";  the sixth track recorded for the album. Norwood stated that the song was not a friendship type of duet, "you've seen friendship duets like Whitney, Cece and different duets. This is Brandy and Monica, like, they're, we're just gettin' it on". Jerkins was brought in when Atlantic Records  A&R Paris Davis called him to meet with Norwood at Georgias, a restaurant in Los Angeles. Accompanied by his brother Fred Jerkins III and songwriter LaShawn Daniels, he ended up completing five songs in five days with her, including “Learn the Hard Way”, “Happy”, “Put That on Everything,” and title track “Never Say Never.” Satisfied with their output, Atlantic Records secured a production deal with Jerkins's team and encouraged them to work on more material for the album. With Jerkins and his team producing the majority on the album, he was eventually promoted to executive producer on the album.

Jerkins and his circle worked excessively on the album, with typical sessions starting in the afternoon and lasting until the early morning hours. Despite the physical distance between the recording studios and Jerkins's native in New Jersey, he brought many of his family and friends to Los Angeles to help work on the album. His brother Fred quit his steady job working at Prudential Insurance Company to work with Norwood on Never Say Never, while his sister Sybil received co-writing credits on the album. Drawing from their own experiences, many titles of Never Say Never were built on a cliché book in the studio. With Jerkins being inspired by the singer/producer partnerships of Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and Janet Jackson as well as the influence of DeVante Swing on Jodeci's sound, he envisioned a full body of work for Norwood's second album, telling: "I wanted to make records where you fell in love with and heard the journey of the artists from beginning to end. The intro is just as important as the song, the outro is just as important. Once I got Brandy to believe in that vision, then we just locked in."

Apart from Jerkins and Darkchild crew, Norwood also worked with Canadian producer David Foster on the album. Lending a certain level of adult contemporary–pop crossover credibility to the project, he would produce three songs on Never Say Never, including "Have You Ever?," written by his frequent collaborator Diane Warren, the Gordon Chambers-penned "One Voice" and "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," a cover version of Canadian singer Bryan Adams's 1991 song. Initially she was scared to record "huge" Pop ballads because she didn't know if she "could pull it off", however Foster showed her "the insides of doing a pop ballad". Norwood recorded songs multiple times if she wasn't satisfied with them. She stated: "I'll do a song, and then go in my car and listen to someone's CD and if that sounds better than what I did, I'll have to go do it again. Like I listened to number 4 on Mariah's album, I said, "Oh my God, I have to do the slow song again, it has to be just like this, it has to be this type of quality." Ultimately, she credits the chemistry with Jerkins and Foster for her musical growth: "They brought out the best in me, the vocals I didn't know I had," she said. Aside from improving vocally, she further showed musical growth by co-writing and producing songs on the album.

Music and lyrics
The album's opening track "Angel in Disguise" is a Rodney Jerkins-produced mid-tempo track that features backing vocals by fellow R&B singer Joe. It consists of a "dribbling bass line" that Chuck Taylor of Billboard compared to a "dreamlike, moonlit night". The harmonic background song, created using the so-called multi-track recording, was described as "enchanting" and "seductive". The lyrics of "Angel in Disguise" describe a protagonist who still loves her partner despite his infidelity, with Norwood quoted: "An angel in disguise she was / But somehow you fell for her / Till she broke your heart that day / And left you in the rain / But still I love you". Set as the album's lead single, "The Boy Is Mine" was originally intended to be a solo song for Brandy, but due to Monica's success at the time, it was conceived as a duet. Inspired by Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney's 1982 duet "The Girl Is Mine", the lyrics of the mid-tempo R&B track revolve around two women fighting over a man. "Learn the Hard Way" is the album's fourth track and shares similarities with the album's title track. The song's background revolves around Norwood telling a man "it's a shame you had to learn the hard way", and the lyrics quote: "You did me wrong / You told me lies / Treated me bad / All of the time." The lyrics also show Norwood does not feel sympathy for him after all he's done. The Guy Roche-produced "Almost Doesn't Count" follows; its lyrics revolve around its writer Shelly Peiken's powerful but unfruitful on-again, off-again relationship she had with a man while in college. Peiken recalled her emotions during a writing session with Roche decades later when she "dug up that laundry list of all the 'almosts' I felt we had, and we put it into the song." In a 2020 interview, she further elaborated about the lyrics: "It was a relationship that was more in my head than in his, and I always felt like we almost got there, he almost said I love you, he almost broke up with the girlfriend he had the whole time. He almost faced his feelings but he never quite got there – maybe that was all in my head too. Maybe he never had any of those feelings, maybe it was all my imagination." Brandy performed the song in the 1999 television film Double Platinum, starring Diana Ross and herself. The international single "Top of the World" is the album's sixth track. It is a collaboration with Mase and talks about Brandy as a popstar "just trying to be her" and not feeling like being in her own world.

The Darkchild-produced "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)", which is the album's seventh and final single, is noted for its remix version with Shaunta and Da Brat. The title track, also produced by Rodney Jerkins, is the eighth song of the album. "Truthfully", a ballad about a broken relationship, was written by former Boyz II Men member, singer-songwriter Marc Nelson. Recorded in a single take, it took Nelson five different sessions to get Norwood in the recording studio as she felt initially nervous about working with him. Main production on the song was helmed by Harvey Mason, Jr., who received his first major placement as a producer on "Truthfully". Mason was consulted by Jerkins after he had shopped around several tracks for record executives. The No. 1 single "Have You Ever?" is the album's tenth track. Brandy states that it was the first time she had been in the studio with a producer like David Foster, initially being nervous about recording the song. In the song's lyrics, Norwood sings about unrequited love with lyrics such as "Have you finally found the one you've given your heart to / Only to find that one will not give their heart to you". "Put That on Everything", a mid-tempo ballad, is the album's eleventh track. The album's twelfth track "In the Car Interlude" is actually a phone conversation in the car between Brandy, Rodney and Fred Jerkins. "Happy", an R&B up-tempo song, was the album's thirteenth track. It was also featured in Double Platinum and received positive reception from Rolling Stone. It also served as the theme song of the 2002 MTV reality television series Brandy: Special Delivery. "One Voice", the fourteenth track, was the official UNICEF theme song during its 50th anniversary celebration. Entertainment Weekly describes her voice in the song as "soft and smoky" and as a "gospel-fired ballad that finds her effortlessly raising the roof". "Tomorrow", a nearly six-minutes-long ballad, is the fifteenth track and the album's longest song. The final song on the album is the Bryan Adams cover "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You".

Release and promotion
Never Say Never was released in the United States on June 9, 1998, by Atlantic Records; its double-disc limited edition was released exclusively in Australia on July 13, 1999. Promotion for Never Say Never began with Brandy's appearance on music magazine Vibes April 1998 cover, followed by a massive print campaign, including cover shoots for Teen People and Ebony as well as coverage in fanzines. The co-marketing venture between Vibe and Atlantic Records resulted in a number of joint projects, such as a Vibe–Brandy website, a college marketing tour, and several retail and radio promotions. With television channel MTV, Brandy hosted the network's spring break shows in Jamaica on March 13–15.

On May 14, Brandy performed "The Boy Is Mine" for the first time, solo on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In June, Brandy performed "Top of the World" alongside Mase at the 1998 MTV Movie Awards. On June 13,  MTV aired a special in which Brandy presented a video countdown that consisted of her favorite music videos. The following day, MTV produced a 30-minute Ultra Sound segment special about her. On June 16, Brandy appeared on CBS This Morning. On July 17, Brandy went on The View ; Three days later, she appeared on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. On July 22, Brandy appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. On August 28, she made yet another appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ; this time performing "Have You Ever". On September 3, Brandy performed the remix version of "Top of the World" alongside rappers Big Pun and Fat Joe at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. Also in September, Brandy and Monica performed "The Boy Is Mine" live for the first time together at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards. On September 26, Brandy performed at the Hip-Hop Unity Festival held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. On October 11, Brandy performed at the 1998 International Achievement in Arts Awards. Two days later she made an appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show.

On January 11, 1999, Brandy and actress Melissa Joan Hart hosted the 1999 American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. During the award ceremony, she performed her song "Have You Ever?". On January 31, Brandy and rapper LL Cool J hosted Miami radio station WEDR's Super Bowl concert, surrounding Super Bowl XXXIII. In March 1999, Brandy joined former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno at the National Museum of Women in the Arts to recognize six young women that were selected for the second annual Volunteerism Awards. On April 13, Brandy performed alongside  Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Cher, Chaka Khan, and Faith Hill, among others, at VH1 Divas Live '99. By May 1999, Brandy had embarked on a world tour with shows in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan. Also in May, she performed "Almost Doesn't Count" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno In June, Brandy returned to the US for the North American leg of her tour which was originally scheduled to run from June 18 to August 2. The tour was cut short because she had to film the then-upcoming fifth season of her UPN sitcom Moesha. On September 8, 1999, she performed "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)", on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

In retail, a Brandy standee was provided to merchants, while the album was made part of "price and positing" programs at all major national accounts and urban indie accounts nationally upon its release. Other marketing items for Never Say Never included a partnering with DC Comics, which created a Brandy comic book in September 1998 for junior high and high school students. Atlantic also discussed plans with Disney for a cross-promotion between the home video version of Cinderella (1997) and the album, as well as the production of a major TV special, involving corporate sponsors.

Singles
"The Boy Is Mine", a duet with singer Monica, was the first song to be lifted from Never Say Never in May 1998. Released to generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics, it became the first No. 1 pop record for both artists, both stateside and internationally. In the United States, "The Boy Is Mine" became the best-selling song of the year, spending 13 weeks on top of the US Billboard Hot 100 during the summer of 1998. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and ranked eighth on Billboards decade-end chart. Internationally, the single also achieved a strong charting, peaking at No. 1 in Canada, the Netherlands and New Zealand, while reaching the top five on most of the other charts on which it appeared. "Top of the World" featuring rapper Mase served as the album's second single. The song was less successful around the world, but reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. It was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on October 23, 1998.

"Have You Ever?" was released as the album's third single throughout fall 1998. It became the second song from Never Say Never to reach the top position on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the New Zealand Singles Chart, while reaching the top twenty in most English-speaking countries. The ballad garnered a generally mixed reception from critics and was ranked 14th on Billboards 1999 year-end chart. Midtempo track "Angel in Disguise" featuring prominent backing vocals by singer Joe, was released as a radio single on January 21, 1999, in the United States only. It reached the top twenty on the Billboards Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs based on airplay alone. "Almost Doesn't Count" was released in the second quarter of 1999, serving as the album's fifth single. The ballad reached the top twenty on the majority of all charts it appeared on and was promoted by a performance in the 1999 film Double Platinum, starring Diana Ross and Brandy herself.

"U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)" was selected as the album's fifth single and marked the final single to be released from Never Say Never in North America. A minor commercial success, the song reached No. 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the top thirty on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In support of the single, a remix version of the track featuring female rappers Shaunta and Da Brat was released, accompanied by a remix EP entitled U Don't Know Me... Like U Used To – The Remix EP. In German-speaking Europe, "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)" appeared as a B-side on the promotional single "Never Say Never". It failed to chart, however. In Oceania, the Bryan Adams cover "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" was released as the album's sixth single instead. It reached No. 28 on the New Zealand Singles Chart.

Critical reception

Never Say Never received mostly positive reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars and noted it a "better, more adventurous record than her debut," adding: "Brandy wisely decides to find a middle ground between Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige — it's adult contemporary with a slight streetwise edge. [Her] delivery has improved and her subdued vocals can make mediocre material sound convincing. Still, what makes Never Say Never a winning record is the quality songs and production." Daryl Easlea from BBC Music felt that the collection of smooth, mid-paced jams provided a snapshot of commercial R&B from the era. He described Never Say Never "as the epitome of a mixed bag. However, given that a lot of R&B in the late 90s sounds like an ornate musical box revolving, the album is an intelligent brew that deviates sufficiently from that template and plays to Brandy and executive producer Rodney Jerkins's considerable strengths."

Paul Verna from Billboard gave the album a mixed review. Verna felt that Brandy showed maturity and confidence on songs like "The Boy Is Mine"; yet the album as a whole was filled with “trend-conscious moves” from guest raps from Mase to “sound alike melodies ” similar to Janet Jackson. Overall, he expressed that Brandy should focus more on developing her own artistry opposed to imitating other artists. The Spokesman-Review critic Richard Harrington was positive with the album, writing: "Brandy is co-writer on six of the album's 16 songs and no matter their achievement lyrically, she finds herself grown-up and confident, without taking any false steps."

Rolling Stone magazine was generally positive with the album, giving it three stars out of five stars rating, and wrote: "Brandy exudes more pizazz than the Hanson brothers combined and bursts with enough naive charm to make Jewel look like a jaded sailor. Her second album bubbles with that same effervescence [...]." J. D. Considine, reviewer for Entertainment Weekly, felt that Norwood's voice was lacking passion on the album. Although he indicated that it was "hard to argue with Brandy's deference to the rhythm, especially when she rides one of producer Rodney Jerkins itchily propulsive tracks," he also noted that it was flattening "its emotional range, until the romantic bliss of "Happy," the dogged determination of "Never Say Never," and the conflicted affection of "Angel in Disguise" all end up sounding pretty much the same." He gave the album a B rating. Angela Lewis, writer for The Independent was disappointed with the album, saying: "This is pop R&B without the soul, and could see Brandy without a future in the adult big league. She lacks real command of tracks like "Have You Ever?", showing she's better at playing by the rules than anything else."  In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave the album a two-star honorable mention and picked out its three songs ("The Boy Is Mine", "U Don't Know Me" and "Almost Doesn't Count") while describing Brandy as "America's sweetheart, and why not?" Music Week stated that due to her past success Brandy will have "little trouble storming the UK charts with this second album" and that she "displays a maturity beyond her years."

Accolades

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| rowspan="2"| MTV Video Music Awards
| Video of the Year
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| Best R&B Video
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| rowspan="1"|Billboard Music Video Awards
| Best R&B/Urban Clip
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| rowspan="4"| Grammy Awards
| Record of the Year
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| Best R&B Song
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| Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
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| Best R&B Album
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| Echo Awards
| Newcomer of the year, International
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| rowspan="2"| Soul Train Music Awards
| Best Female R&B/Soul Album, Female
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| Best R&B/Soul Single, Group, Band or Duo
| "The Boy Is Mine"
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| MTV Video Music Awards
| Best R&B Video
| "Have You Ever?"
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| Grammy Awards
| Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
| "Almost Doesn't Count"
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Commercial performance
Never Say Never debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 for the week of June 16, 1998, selling 160,000 units in its first week–Norwood's largest first-week sales. The following week, the album managed to climb up to its peak position at No. 2, even though its sales had dipped slightly to 152,000 copies. On the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart the album debuted and peaked at No. 2; where it charted for 68 consecutive weeks. By its 14th week on the Billboard 200 chart, Never Say Never had sold 1.4 million copies. By December 1998, Never Say Never sold 2.6 million copies in the United States. In January 1999 the album was ranked as the 13th best-selling album of 1998 with total sales at 2.9 million. The following year in January 2000, the album was the 62nd best-selling album of 1999 selling 1.3 million copies during that year. In March 2002 sales for the album stood at over 4.4 million copies sold. In February 2003 the album sold an additional 665,000 copies through BMG Music Club. By June 2004 Never Say Never sold 4.5 million copies. In total it has spent 72 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200—28 of which were within the top 20—and as of 2012, the album has sold 4.6 million copies in the United States according to Nielsen Soundscan. In December 1999, the album was certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for five million shipped units.

In Canada Never Say Never debuted on [[RPM (magazine)|RPM s Top Albums/CDs]] chart at No. 3 on the issue dated June 29, 1998. The album remained at No. 3 for two additional weeks on the weeks ending on July 6 and July 13, 1998. Overall, the album has spent a total of 54 consecutive weeks on the Top Albums/CDs chart. On August 27, 1999, the album was certified Quadruple platinum by Music Canada for denoting shipments of 400,000 units. In the UK the album debuted at No. 21 on the UK Albums Chart on June 14, 1998. In its tenth week, the album climbed to a new peak of No. 19. The album went on to sell 260,000 copies in the United Kingdom, and was eventually certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), denoting shipments of 300,000 copies. By May 1999, Never Say Never had sold seven million copies worldwide, according to Billboard. To date, the album remains Norwood's biggest-selling effort with worldwide sales in excess of 16 million copies.

Impact and legacy
While her debut album had been a major success in the United States, Never Say Never was credited with Norwood's international breakthrough and facilitated her in becoming a viable recording artist with media–crossing appeal in music, film, and television. Claire Lobenfeld from Fact found that while "Brandy's self-titled debut was sweet and flirty, its follow-up separated her from being just a pop singer with an accelerating star to one with something to say." HipHopDXs Aaron McKrell remarked that "Brandy's newfound maturity was reflected in her music, and audiences and critics alike raved about the pop-tinged R&B that permeated the album," with Lela Olds, writing for The Boombox, further reporting that she "grew confident as both an artist and a young woman on Never Say Never, creating an album that showed both personal and vocal growth." Never Say Never is Norwood's most successful album to date, with worldwide sales of 14 million records, including singles and album copies. One of the biggest-selling album of the year for WEA Music, Billboard ranked Never Say Never among the most successful comeback albums of 1998.

Musically, Never Say Never blueprinted Norwood's signature "silky, smooth sound" which would also dominate on following projects. In a 2018 anniversary retrospective, Vibe editor Brittney Fennell declared Never Say Never as Norwood's "career-defining magnum opus." She felt that "it is arguably one of the best R&B albums of the 90s [...] There were a plethora of young female R&B singers at this time, but Brandy's star power allowed her to transcend genres by transforming her style of R&B into pop music." In a similar article, Da’Shan Smith from Revolt noted that while the album "had an electric sensibility directed towards the approaching new millennium, they helped finalize the standard for what a pop&B diva's midtempos and ballads should consist of [...] Looking back at Never Say Never, one could argue that Brandy remodeled the construct of a teen-star-pushing-20." Critics noted that her ability to grow musically while simultaneously balancing life as an actress served as role model material for other teen singers such as Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera who had upcoming studio debuts. In fact, both Spears and Aguilera referred to Norwood and Never Say Never, as one of their influences during the recording sessions for their debut albums.

Aside from boosting Norwood's own success, Never Say Never became instrumental in promoting the careers of many from those involved in the making of the album who were relatively unknown prior to its release, notably chief producer Rodney Jerkins, his brother Fred and songwriter LaShawn Daniels. The trio would go on to work with industry veterans such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton as well as upcoming performers such as Jennifer Lopez and Destiny's Child, while reteaming with Norwood – to varying commercial and critical success – on her third and fifth studio albums Full Moon (2002) and Human (2008). Norwood herself commented in a 2018 interview with music website Okayplayer: "Never Say Never changed the course of my life. I found one of the best producers [Rodney Jerkins] in the world to help me find my new sound. I was so free to try things vocally and the Darkchild team gave me their best work and sweet support." In 2020, she ranked the album among her three favorite releases.

Track listing
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Never Say Never.Notes'''
 denotes additional producer

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Never Say Never''.

 Anas Allaf – guitar
 Monica Arnold – lead vocals, backing vocals
 Tom Bender – mixing assistance
 Chuckii Booker – drums
 Leslie Brathwaite – engineer
 Thomas Bricker – art director
 Alex Brown – backing vocals
 Gerry Brown – mixing
 Bridgette Bryant – backing vocals
 Carmen Carter – backing vocals
 Paris Davis – executive producer
 Ken Deranteriasian – engineer, mixing
 Nathan East – bass
 Felipe Elgueta – engineer
 David Foster – keyboard
 Brian Gardner – mastering
 Ben Garrison – engineer
 Brad Gilderman – engineer, mixing
 Nikisha Grierf – backing vocals
 Bernie Grundman – mastering
 Mick Guzauski – mixing
 Dorian Holley – backing vocals
 LaTonya Holman – backing vocals
 Jean-Marie Horvat – engineer
 Richard Jackson – backing vocals
 Bobette Jamison-Harrison – backing vocals
 Rodney Jerkins – executive producer
 Donyle Jones – backing vocals
 Craig Kallman – executive producer
 Vatrena King – backing vocals
 Mario Lucy – engineer
 Carlton Lynn – assistant engineer
 Harvey Mason, Jr. – keyboard
 Harvey Mason, Sr. – percussion
 Victor McCoy – engineer, assistant engineer
 James McCrary – backing vocals
 Kristle Murden – backing vocals
 Brandy Norwood – lead vocals, backing vocals, executive producer, engineer
 Willie Norwood – backing vocals
 Kayla Parker – backing vocals
 Dean Parks – guitar
 Shelly Peiken – backing vocals
 Isaac Phillips – guitar
 Al Schmitt – engineer
 Rick Sigel – engineer
 Alfie Silas – backing vocals
 Dexter Simmons – mixing
 Moana Suchard – engineer, assistant engineer
 Chris Tergesen – engineer
 Joseph Thomas – backing vocals
 Meri Thomas – backing vocals
 Greg Thompson – assistant engineer
 Michael Thompson – guitar
 Carmen Twillie – backing vocals
 Mervyn Warren – backing vocals
 Maxine Waters – backing vocals
 Oren Waters – backing vocals
 Rick Williams – guitar
 Yvonne Williams – backing vocals
 BeBe Winans – backing vocals
 Monalisa Young – backing vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

Release history

See also
 Album era
 List of UK R&B Albums Chart number ones of 1998

Notes

References

Bibliography

1998 albums
Atlantic Records albums
Albums produced by Rodney Jerkins
Albums produced by Dallas Austin
Albums produced by David Foster
Albums produced by Guy Roche
Brandy Norwood albums


title: Zemstvo of Maritime Territory

text:
Regional government of Primorye Zemstvo () was a local government that existed in the eastern part of Russia during the Russian Civil War between January 31, 1920 and October 28, 1920.

An Idea of Buffer State

In 1919 the White forces in Western Siberia were defeated by the Reds. Now the main threat for the young Soviet State was in Europe (Poland). The Russian Far East was occupied by the forces of different foreign countries (mainly Japan). The Central Committee of Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) (RCP(b)) issued an order "to find a way of solving the complicated question of Eastern Siberia, trying to avoid a military conflict with Japan". At the end of December the SR-led Political Center had overthrown Aleksandr Kolchak in Irkutsk. During negotiations with the Revolution Military Council of the Red 5th Army in January 1920, the Political Center offered to organize a buffer republic in the Far East region with Irkutsk as its capital. Alexander Krasnoshchyokov - representative of the Irkutsk Revolution Committee - offered a similar idea. The Soviet government rejected the attempt of the Political Center to lead the creation of such a buffer state, but the idea itself was approved.

At that time, Vladivostok - the capital of Maritime Territory - was ruled by general Sergey Rozanov, who was subordinated to Admiral Kolchak. At the beginning of January, 1920, an underground bolshevik's conference in Vladivostok decided to organize an uprising against Rozanov with the slogan "Whole power to Soviets!". In the middle of January a strong group of cooperative merchants and Zemstvo members organized itself in Vladivostok to oppose the Rozanov's dictatorship. The Bolsheviks in Vladivostok realized that establishing a Soviet regime in the Maritime Territory could slow the evacuation of foreign troops and Japanese troops could fight against the rebels, and decided to transfer the power to the Zemstvo Board after overthrowing the Rozanov dictatorship. On January 26, revolutionary military forces created a United Revolution Operation Staff, led by Bolsheviks. It was decided to start the uprising on January, 31.

Vladivostok Uprising
At the same time, the White authorities had learned about the revolutionary mood in the Jager Battalion and had decided to disarm it, but the soldiers arrested the officers and created a Battalion Committee. General Rozanov then engaged Gardes de la Marine and Junkers to suppress the mutiny. On January, 26, after a fierce battle, the White Guards managed to surround the Jager Battalion, disarm it and send it to Russky Island, but this could not prevent the following events. In the night of January, 31, the Vladivostok Uprising began, and by the middle of the day, the whole city was captured by the rebels. Foreign troops had to keep neutrality, but helped Rozanov to flee and escape to Japan.

The Provisional Government of Zemstvo of Maritime Territory set as goals:
 To free the political prisoners
 To destroy the remains of Kolchak Dictatorship
 To reestablish social and political freedoms
 To organize a public control over the trade and industry
 To organize the food supplying and trade
 To remove foreign troops

The Bolsheviks organized a party conference at the beginning of February and decided to support the Provisional Government of Zemstvo of Maritime Territory, on the condition of keeping a significant Bolshevik influence in it (especially in the military and organizing sections).

Building of a Buffer State
For the organization of the buffer state, the Central Committee of RCP(b) created on March, 3, the Dal'biuro (, an abbreviation of "Дальневосточное бюро" - "Bureau for Far East"). I.G.Kushnarev, S.G.Lazo and P.M.Nikiforov became the Vladivostok members of the Dal'biuro. But the members of the Dal'biuro had different opinions about the creation of the buffer state: for example, in Vladivostok, Kushnarev supported an idea of buffer state, but Lazo was against it. By the middle of March, 1920, a representative of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee - V.D.Vilenskij - arrived at Vladivostok with party's directives about the creation of the buffer state. Between March 16 – 19, during the Territorial Party Conference in Nikolsk-Ussuriysky Lazo contradicted Vilenskij. Lazo said: "We don't have to organize the democratic buffer here. If the Center wish us to organize a buffer - it will be a soviet buffer". The Conference members supported Lazo; thus, Center representatives had to compromise between the will of the people and strategic necessity.

To stop the spontaneous sovietizing of the Maritime Territory, the Siberian Revolution Committee sent a message (transferred by Kushnarev, who returned from Moscow): "There is a process of organizing a government in Verkhneudinsk; Alexander Krasnoshchyokov is our representative there. All Far Eastern governments should coordinate their movements and organize themselves similar to Transbaikal government". In this situation the Dal'biuro decided on March 29, to stop the sovietizing of the Maritime Territory and to offer the Regional Zemstvo Administration to expand its authority by a special law over the whole Russian Far East. On March 31, the Zemstvo issued such a declaration and organized an election for a People's Assembly on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot. This people's Assembly of Primorye elected the Council of Ministers headed by a A.S. Medvedev of the PSR.
The Government of the Zemsko Administration was also preserved.

Far Eastern Republic and Zemstvo of Maritime Territory
On April 6, 1920 an Assembly of workers of the Western Transbaikal Region proclaimed in Verkhneudinsk the creation of the Far Eastern Republic. The "Declaration of creation of an independent Far Eastern Republic" set as purpose uniting the whole Russian Far East. Therefore there became two pretenders for the position of its capital: Vladivostok and Verkhneudinsk. The Amur Oblast, with its pro-Soviet government, recognized Verkhneudinsk, but the Russia Eastern Outskirts wanted to negotiate with Vladivostok. Grigory Semyonov - head of Russia Eastern Outskirts - and N.P.Pumpianskij - representative of Maritime Territory government - met at Manzhouli railway station, but couldn't agree about the unification.

As directions of the Siberian Revolution Committee were not too strict, Bolsheviks of Vladivostok used this situation to support the idea of making Vladivostok the capital of the Far Eastern Republic. This situation was favorable for Semyonov, because the Maritime Territory Popular Council negotiated with Semyonov's government as equals.

On August 13, 1920, the Political Bureau of Central Committee of RCP(b) approved "The Short Theses about the Far Eastern Republic". After reading it, representatives of Vladivostok in Verkhneudinsk signed a preliminary agreement with the government of the Far Eastern Republic, recognizing Verkhneudinsk as its capital.

On August 24, 1920, at the Khadabulak railway station, Grigory Semyonov and representatives of the Maritime Territory Popular Council signed an agreement about the unification of the Maritime Territory and the Transbaikal Territory under the leadership of the Maritime Territory government. Representatives of the Transbaikal Territory should have one third of the places in the united Popular Assembly of the Far East. Semyonov agreed to organize an election in the Transbaikal Territory according to the election law of the Maritime Territory. But the Maritime Territory Popular Council rejected to ratify this agreement.

In October, 1920, Chita (capital of Russia's Eastern Outskirts) was captured by the Reds. At the Chita Conference (October, 28 – November, 11) three local governments (the Transbaikal Government, Amur Government, and Maritime Government, which also ruled the Kamchatka and Chukotka Peninsulas) joined in the united Far Eastern Republic.

Only formally part of the Far Eastern Republic, and with Japanese troops still present, the Zemstvo of Maritime Territory kept a certain autonomy.
A new Provisional Priamurye Government would be created between May 27, 1921 and October 25, 1922 in the Maritime Territory after a coup by White forces supported by the Japanese Army.

Sources
 Шишкин С. Н. Гражданская война на Дальнем Востоке. [S.N.Chichkin "Civil War on Far East"] — Moscow: USSR Defense Ministry Publishing House, 1957
 Кокоулин В. Г. Образование дальневосточного буфера и тактика РКП(б) (январь — сентябрь 1920 г.) [V.G.Kokoulin "Creation of Far East buffer and the tactics of RCP(b): January–September, 1920"] // Из прошлого Сибири: Межвузовский сборник научных трудов, Вып. 3, Ч. 1 ["Siberian Past: inter-university collection of science works", Vol.3, part 1] — Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk State University, 1997
 Новиков П. А. Гражданская война в Восточной Сибири. [P.A.Novikov "Civil War in Eastern Siberia"] — Moscow: "Centerpoligraph" Publishing House, 2005. — .

References

1920 disestablishments in Russia
Former countries in East Asia
Post–Russian Empire states
Early Soviet republics
History of Northeast Asia
History of the Russian Far East
States and territories established in 1920
States and territories disestablished in 1920
Former socialist republics


title: Sarah Hunter

text:
Sarah Alice Hunter  (born 19 September 1985) is an English retired rugby union player. She represented  at four Rugby World Cups. At the 2021 Rugby World Cup, Hunter received her 138th international cap, passing Rochelle Clark to become England's all-time most capped rugby player.

Early life
Hunter was born in North Shields in 1985. She began playing rugby league as a 9-year-old at Goathland Primary School, playing for the Longbenton and Gateshead Panthers. Sarah started playing rugby union at Novocastrians RFC in 2000 and initially played as a strong running centre. She was Players' Player of the Year before transitioning to the back row. Having moved position she was selected for England U19s. In 2004 she left the North East to study Sports Science and Mathematics at Loughborough University. She went on to work for the RFU as University Rugby Development Office for the South West.

Rugby union career

Club
At 18, Hunter joined the Lichfield Ladies. She moved to Bristol Ladies in 2015 and joined Loughborough Lightning in 2017, where she retired in 2023.

International
Hunter made her England debut in 2007. She had trained as a centre but joined the England squad as a back row player after coach Phil Forsyth moved her at Under-19s trials. She led the England team to win the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup and won her hundredth cap in November 2017 as England played Canada in the semi-finals of the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. As of April 2021, Hunter is the second most capped England player of all time.

In November 2020, Hunter was unable to play in the team's postponed 2020 Six Nations game due to a hamstring injury. She had also injured a nerve in her neck in October 2020, which took doctors five months to fully diagnose and left her unsure of whether she would be able to return to professional rugby. After 13 months off, Hunter returned to the international pitch in April 2021 as England beat Italy in the second round of the 2021 Women's Six Nations. She was named in the England squad for the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup held in New Zealand in October and November 2022.

Honours and awards
Hunter was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to rugby and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to rugby union.

She was named World Rugby Women's Player of the Year in 2016.

In 2022, Hunter was awarded an honorary degree from Loughborough University in recognition of her outstanding contribution to rugby and achievements at the highest level of international competition.

References

External links
 Player Profile

1985 births
Living people
England women's international rugby union players
English rugby union coaches
English female rugby union players
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Rugby union players from North Shields
Bristol Bears Women players
Loughborough Lightning rugby union players
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of Loughborough University


title: Vegunta Mohan Prasad

text:
Vegunta Mohan Prasad, (5 January 1942 – 3 August 2011) was a Telugu poet, critic, translator and writer. He was known by his pen name 'Mo'.

Personal life and career
Mohan Prasad was born in Lam, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh. He completed schooling in Andhra Pradesh and graduated with a B.A from the Andhra Christian College, Guntur. He obtained his Master of Arts in English from the Banaras Hindu University and PGDTE from Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL). In 1967, he married Sujata, the daughter of Bondalapati Sivaramakrishna and Sakuntala Devi of Desi Kavita Mandali.
Mo taught English literature as a profession. He was the Head of the Department of English in P. B. Siddhartha College of Arts and Science in Vijayawada.
Mo had deep interest in literature and upon his retirement, he took up the role of Director of Anusrijana, the translation wing of Dravidian University, where he organized translations of about a hundred classic works from regional languages into English.

Literary contributions
Mo published volumes of Telugu poetry, literary appreciation, and translations of Telugu poetry into English and vice versa. Recognition as a poet came with the publication of Chiti-Chinta, in 1969. This Tense Time, published by Mo in 1982, is one of the first comprehensive volumes of modern Telugu poetry in English translation and was reviewed by the British poet and literary critic Derek Stanford. Between Chiti – Chinta in 1969 and Mo –Nishadam in 2010, he was prolific in his literary contributions in the form of poetry, appreciations and translations.

Awards
Recognition and awards for Mo's works include:
 Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak Award (1969),
 Free Verse Front Award (1970),
 Writers Grant from ASRC (1976), Nutalapati award (1993),
 Telugu University (for best poetry) in 1994
 A.P State Government Official Languages Award (2001), Surapaneni award (2002)
 Yagalla Foundation annual award (2001).
 Telugu University lifetime achievement (2005)
 In 2011, he was awarded the Tanikella Bharani Sahitya Puraskaram for his book Mo – Nishadam.

Bibliography
Poetry and Literary Appreciation:
 Chiti – Chinta (1969). Telugu poetry.
 Silent Secret (1976). English poetry.
 Bathikina Kshanalu (1990). Telugu poetry.
 Rahastantri (1992). Telugu poetry.
 Punarapi (1993). Telugu poetry.
 Saandhya Basha (1999). Telugu poetry.
 Karachaalanam (1999). Essays on 20th century British, American, Australian, French, Italian, German and Indo-Anglian poetry.
 Needalu Jaadalu (2002). A volume of literary criticism.
 Vennela Needalu (2003). A volume of literary criticism.
 Mo Nishadam (2010). Telugu Poetry.
 Saraamsam (2013). Anthology of selected poetry published posthumously.
 Mo Nishadam (2013). Translated into Kannada by C. Raghunath

Translations
 Shakespeare Rupaka Pravachanalu (1993). Selected plays of Shakespeare translated into Telugu.
 Swasakalau (1994). Translation of Segments – a semi-autobiographical long poem composed by Tripura.
 Dream Script (2003). Translation of Ajanta's Swapnalipi commissioned by Sahitya Akademi
 Swarajyam (2011). Translation of Mahidhara Rammohan Rao’s Kollayigattitheynemi. Published by Oxford University Press.
 Seeds of Black Soil. Translation of Chandra Latha's Telugu novel Regadi Vitthulu
 Sikhamani selected poems (2010)

Edited anthologies
 This Tense Time (1981). Anthology of selected Telugu poems published from 1915 to 1980 translated into English.
 Kommalu Remmalu (2005).

Books published on Mo
Namo (2011): Tributes to Mo from friends and family.

Death
Mo died on 3 August 2011 due to brain hemorrhage. He has donated his organs - kidneys, liver and eyes - to Mohan Foundation.

References

External links
 Mohan Foundation

1942 births
2011 deaths
Writers from Vijayawada
Poets from Andhra Pradesh
Telugu poets
20th-century Indian poets
People from Guntur district
21st-century Indian poets
Telugu–English translators
English–Telugu translators


title: Smith-Duncan House and Eastman Barn

text:
The Smith-Duncan House and Eastman Barn are two historic buildings located on the Duncan Farmstead at Pere Marquette State Park in Jersey County, Illinois. The Smith-Duncan House is a two-story limestone house built circa 1861. The house has a double-pile plan, in which each story is two rooms deep, with a central hall. The Eastman Barn has three interior sections and is built on a raised limestone foundation; this arrangement allowed for threshing and storage to be done in the barn and provided a basement space for livestock. A gabled cupola on the barn's roof allows for air to vent from the structure. Both buildings, as well as two contributing retaining walls on the property, are well-preserved examples of local stonework; limestone was a common building material in the Grafton area during the mid-19th century.

The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1999.

See also
Duncan Farm (Grafton, Illinois), an archaeological site on the same farmstead

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Barns on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Houses completed in 1861
Houses in Jersey County, Illinois
1861 establishments in Illinois
National Register of Historic Places in Jersey County, Illinois


title: It's Alright (Classic Example song)

text:
"It's Alright" is the debut single by American contemporary R&B group Classic Example. It was co-written by The Boys members Khiry and Tajh Abdulsamad (who both appear toward the end of the song), and was produced by Khiry. The song originally only appeared on the Japanese release of the group's eponymous album but was later added to the US version of the album as well. It also appears as the closing track on the soundtrack to the film South Central.

"It's Alright" was the band's only song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #68 in 1992.

Chart positions

References

External links

1992 debut singles
Classic Example songs
Hollywood Records singles
1992 songs


title: Erick Arc Elliott

text:
Erick Elliott (born August 12, 1988), better known as Erick Arc Elliott or Erick the Architect, is an American rapper, singer, artist and record producer from Brooklyn, New York. A producer for the hip hop trio Flatbush Zombies, Elliott has released multiple solo projects as well.

Elliott plays multiple instruments including the keyboard, piano, and the guitar.

Unlike his alias might suggest, Elliott did not enroll in architecture school and is not an architect by profession.

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Mixtapes

Singles

Guest appearances

Erick Arc Elliott's Artwork and Books

Coinciding with his name, the Erick the Architect is a prolific artist on a number of levels. Most recently, Elliott has demonstrated that he is indeed a serious conventional artist and has created numerous paintings and other artistic designs that the fans are quickly taking note of. On the surface, it appears that Elliott ties his artwork into his music in some fashion that allows both skills to coexist fluidly and favorably in a way that very few artists have been able to do successfully.

Much of Elliott's art is created and is directly affiliated and attached to 502 North Pole (www.502northpole.com).

Book Titles by Erick Elliott:

Spring Forward: Aspire to Inspire (2016)

References

1988 births
Living people
Rappers from Brooklyn
American musicians of Jamaican descent
21st-century African-American musicians
Musicians from Flatbush, Brooklyn
21st-century American rappers
Beast Coast members


title: Run of the Mill

text:
Run of the Mill may refer to:

"Run of the Mill" (George Harrison song), 1970 song by George Harrison
"Run of the Mill" (Judas Priest song), 1974 song by Judas Priest

See also
Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill


title: Antonio Iranzo

text:
Antonio Iranzo (4 May 1930 – 7 July 2003) was a Spanish film actor in 77 feature films. He gained popularity for his acting in Island of the Damned and Cut - Throats Nine.

Iranzo began his artistic career in the theater, while working as a radio announcer. Later he joined the Nuria Espert Company and made his film debut in 1963 with La chica del auto-stop directed by Miguel Lluch.

His physique and hoarse voice helped him get the chance to play the supporting character in various films including Mario Camus The Legend of Mayor of Zalamea (1973), Gonzalo Suárez's The Regent (1974), Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child? (1975), Hidden Pleasures (1977), The tobacconist of Vallecas (1986) (the latter two by Eloy de la Iglesia),  the TV miniseries Riders of the Dawn (1990) and Vicente Aranda's Libertarias (1996).

Iranzo had a well known career on stage, which particularly excelled in his interpretations of classics from the Golden Age. Some of the works featuring him were Adolfo Marsillach and Molière's Tartuffe (1969), Felix Lope de Vega's The Star of Seville (1958), Max Frisch's Andorra (1971), Adolfo Marsillach's Flower of Holiness (1973), Arnold Wesker and Irene Gutiérrez Caba's Chicken Soup with Oats (1978), Martín Recuerda's The Arrecogías the Beguinage of St. Mary of Egypt (1977), José María Rodríguez Méndez's Weddings that were famous in the Rag and Fandanga (1978), Miguel de Cervantes's The Baths of Algiers (1979) and The Roll Lavapies (1979), Woody Allen's Aspirin for Two (1980), Santiago Moncada's Ears of the Wolf (1980), Martin Recuerda's The Deceiting (1981), Miguel Mihura's Peach in Syrup (1982), Ibsen's Mallard (1982), Euripides's Fedra (1984), Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1988), Alejandro Casona's The Third Word (1992).

Iranzo also had a prolific career in television; he played several characters in dramas TVE as Study 1 or Novel, Time Eleven or Fictions.

His deep voice helped him in standing out as a voice actor, remembered for being among other characters as BA Baracus in the television series El equipo A.

He was the winner of the 1966's Silver Frames Award for Best Actor of Spanish cinema for the film Burnt Skin (). The film was directed by Josep Maria Forn and depicted the social problems of Spain during the decade. In the film Iranzo played the character of an Andalusian worker named Jose who works in Costa Brava and falls in love with a Belgian tourist while his family including wife and two children struggle to reach him.

In 2014 the film Who can Kill a Child? was shown at Denver Film Society's Stanley Film Festival.

Selected filmography
 Inquisition (1976)

References

External links

1930 births
2003 deaths
Spanish male film actors
Actors from the Valencian Community
Spanish male stage actors


title: Parapoynx fuscicostalis

text:
Parapoynx fuscicostalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1896. It is found in India.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 1896


title: Parapoynx gualbertalis

text:
Parapoynx gualbertalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Schaus in 1924. It is found in Suriname.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 1924


title: Parapoynx guenealis

text:
Parapoynx guenealis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Snellen in 1875. It is found in Colombia.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 1875


title: Parapoynx indomitalis

text:
Parapoynx indomitalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Carlos Berg in 1876. It is found in Uruguay.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 1876


title: Parapoynx ingridae

text:
Parapoynx ingridae is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Christian Guillermet in 2004. It is found on Réunion in the Indian Ocean.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 2004


title: Muhtar Pasha

text:
Muhtar Pasha (born before 1770) was an Ottoman Albanian ruler and the son of Ali Pasha of the increasingly independent Pashalik of Yanina. He was appointed governor of the Sanjak of Karli-Eli and the Sanjak of Eğriboz in 1792, stretching Ali's control down to Livadia and the Gulf of Corinth, except Attica. He also became governor of the Sanjak of Ohrid in 1796–7, and of the Sanjak of Vlorë and Berat in 1810.

Biography
A member of the Albanian Meçohysaj clan, Muhtar was the first son of Ali Pasha and his wife Emine, the daughter of Kaplan Pasha of Gjirokastër. Muhtar was given powerful positions, as well as control over Karlieli and Euboea in 1792. In 1794 Ibrahim Bey of Vlorë and Berat proposed to marry one of his daughters to Ali's son Muhtar and another daughter to Ali's son Veli, in order to acquire good relations with Ali Pasha. In 1796–7 Muhtar also became governor of the Sanjak of Ohrid. Around 1805, Ali Pasha's forces seized Elbasan and Muhtar took his residency there. In 1810 Muhtar was also appointed governor of the Sanjak of Vlorë and Berat.

Ioannis Kolettis (1774–1847) was recorded to have been a personal physician of Muhtar.

References

Bibliography

Albanian people from the Ottoman Empire
Albanian Muslims
Governors of the Ottoman Empire
Year of birth uncertain
18th-century Albanian people
19th-century Albanian people
18th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
19th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
Ali Pasha of Ioannina
Ottoman Greece


title: Parapoynx insectalis

text:
Parapoynx insectalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Pryer in 1877. It is found in China.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 1877


title: Parapoynx leucostola

text:
Parapoynx leucostola is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1896. It is found in Myanmar.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 1896


title: Parapoynx likiangalis

text:
Parapoynx likiangalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Aristide Caradja in 1937. It is found in Yunnan, China.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 1937


title: Parapoynx longialata

text:
Parapoynx longialata is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Yoshiyasu in 1983. It is found in Thailand.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 1983


title: Parapoynx maculalis

text:
Parapoynx maculalis, the polymorphic pondweed moth, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1860. It is found in eastern North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Alberta, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. The habitat consists of ponds and streams.

The wingspan is 18–22 mm. The forewings are white, dusted with fuscous along the base and with a fuscous spot at the base of the fold. The hindwings are pure white.

The larvae feed on various aquatic plants. Young larvae are light yellowish brown with a dark yellowish-brown head.

References

Acentropinae
Moths described in 1860


title: Bemis, Tennessee

text:
Bemis is a former company town in Madison County, Tennessee, United States, now part of the city of Jackson. The Bemis Brothers Bag Company established the town in 1900 to be the site of a cotton mill and housing for the mill workers. A  area of Bemis was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as the Bemis Historic District. Much of the area is also a local historic district.

History
Around 1900, Judson Moss Bemis, founder and head of the Bemis company, decided that it would be advantageous for his company to have a cotton mill in a cotton-growing area in the southern United States. The site in Madison County was selected after the county government agreed to purchase  near the Illinois Central rail line and transfer it to the bag company for the project. Construction began in 1900 and the first mill, with capacity of 21,000 spindles, was in operation by June of the following year.

A planned community was built around the production facilities, largely under the direction of Albert Farwell Bemis, the son of Judson Bemis. Albert Bemis had trained as a civil engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He endeavored to make the community appear to have grown over time. Several distinct residential neighborhoods were built around the mill buildings. Each neighborhood had its own set of varied house designs patterned upon the region's characteristic house styles, including shotgun and double shotgun, cubical, L-plan, and hall-and-parlor designs. The first of the residential neighborhoods, named Old Bemis, was built in 1900. A second neighborhood, named Bicycle Hill, was built in 1903 to support a new mill facility that opened that year. A segregated neighborhood for African American workers was created on a street named Congo Street (later renamed Butler Street) between 1903 and 1905. Additional residential areas were built later, including the Silver Circle neighborhood in 1919–1921 and West Bemis in 1926.

Community facilities provided in Bemis included schools, churches, sidewalks, fire protection services, company stores, a United States post office, a hotel, a boarding house, a railroad depot, an 850-seat auditorium designed by Massachusetts architect Andrew Hepburn and completed in 1922, a YMCA building, a swimming pool, parks, a bath house, a six-hole golf course, and a company farm. Atypical for a company town, employees were not required to live in Bemis; transportation services were available for employees living elsewhere.

The mills at Bemis produced complete lines of fabric sheeting and thread for shipment to other Bemis company facilities for use in sewing bags. In 1950, the company reported that its mills in Bemis held 50,000 spindles and 1,710 looms and that they employed 1,250 workers who processed 26,000 bales of cotton annually, producing 50 million yards (45,720,000 m) of cotton cloth and one million pounds (about 450,000 kg) of thread. The success of the community for the Bemis Company helped encourage the company to establish a second company town, Bemiston in Alabama (now part of Talladega), in the late 1920s.

Around 1965, the Bemis company began a process of selling off the company town. Workers were given the opportunity to purchase houses with company financing. By the end of the decade, most of the houses had been sold.

In 1977, Bemis was annexed by the city of Jackson. In 1976, Bemis lost its status as a postal city, but the post office continued to operate. The Bemis Company sold the mills in 1980. The new owner operated them until 1991.

In 1991, the year that the mills closed, Bemis was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Bemis Historic District. The listing included  and 511 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, eight contributing structures, and one contributing object. Buildings of particular interest in the historic district include the cotton mill building, the auditorium which now houses the Bemis Museum; and the Bemis United Methodist Church, built in 1908 as the Union Church to serve residents all faiths and later dedicated as a Methodist church after several other denominations had built churches in Bemis.

In 2014, the city of Jackson announced plans to tear down the Bemis Mill and create a memorial park on the site where it stood. Although the mill was included in the Bemis National Register historic district, it was not part of the local historic district, so it was not protected by local historic district regulations against demolition of historic properties.

It has been noted by Tennessee Historical Society authors that shotgun houses were disappearing due to negative real estate pressure in nearby downtown Jackson, Tennessee, but were valued and being preserved by homeowners and the community of Bemis.

Industrial facilities currently operating in Bemis include the cotton gin and a modern cotton warehouse located south of the old Bemis Mill.

References

External links
 Bemis Historical Society

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title: Goodnight, My Love

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Goodnight, My Love is a 1972 American television film directed by Peter Hyams.

Plot
In 1946 Los Angeles Susan Lakely visits private detectives Francis Hogan and Arthur Boyle when her boyfriend Michael Tarlow does not call for four days. Upon visiting his apartment the detectives are attacked by an unknown assailant who flees. They press Susan for more information about her boyfriend's associates but she claims to be unaware of the nature of his business. After questioning further people at the horse track they visit a nightclub and speak with Julius Limeway, who is also searching for Tarlow. Together the detectives must see through Susan's lies and discover the truth behind Tarlow's disappearance.

Cast
Richard Boone as Francis Hogan
Michael Dunn as Arthur Boyle
Barbara Bain as Susan Lakely
Victor Buono as Julius Limeway
Gianni Russo as Michael Tarlow

Production
Hyams had just made T.R. Baskin, which he produced and had written the script but did not direct. He was finding it difficult to get the chance to direct a feature film so moved into television. "It was at a time when television was considered like a bath of sulfuric acid, and if you stuck your toe in it you'd pull out a stump," he says.

He later recalled:

Barry Diller was head of Movies of the Week at that point over at ABC. Barry green-lit Duel for Steven Spielberg, a movie called Binary for Michael Crichton, and gave a lot of us our first breaks. I said to Barry 'I've got two ideas. The first is about the U.S. government faking a moon shot, then trying to cover it up.' He said "What's the other one?" I said, 'I'm a Raymond Chandler freak. I want to do a 1940s detective story about a private eye and his dwarf sidekick.' He said "Do that one."

The film starred Richard Boone and Michael Dunn. Hyams:

Richard Boone was a terrific actor. He had one of the most amazing faces. He, uh, liked to drink a bit. (laughs) I remember the first shot he did for me; we literally had to prop him up. But when we cut it all together, it worked great ...  Michael was one of the most gifted people I ever met, just a remarkable man. He also sang like an angel ... He was in terrible pain constantly. It was a real gift to have made my first movie with him. I wish we could have done more.

Reception
The Los Angeles Times called the film "marvelously funny ... admirably written and directed by Peter Hyams with just the right touch." The New York Times called it "delightful".

Hyams later said the film was "over-praised. One of the trades called it the Citizen Kane of television movies, which, trust me, it wasn't." However it did launch his career.

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1972 films
Films directed by Peter Hyams
ABC Movie of the Week
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title: Rolling Man

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Rolling Man is a 1972 American made-for-television drama film directed by Peter Hyams in his directorial debut. It premiered on ABC as the ABC Movie of the Week on October 4, 1972.

Plot
Lonnie, a former star athlete in high school, now works for low pay as a tow truck driver on a racetrack. When he spots his wife, Crystal, rendezvousing with Harold Duncan, a stock car driver, at a bar he attempts to force her to come home but she leaves with Harold instead. Lonnie chases them down the road in his truck and their car rolls over down a hillside while driving away and catches fire. Lonnie attempts to rescue his wife from the blazing vehicle but fails. In his anger he beats Harold's head in with the car's bumper.

He is taken away from his two sons and sent to prison for four years for the assault. His cellmate teaches him how to run gimmicks in prison, and he begins recording personalized love songs on vinyl for other inmates. He gets prison tattoos of his sons' names in a heart and Crystal's name in a rose on his right arm and a lucky symbol on his left arm. Upon his release he finds that his newspaper clippings from high school are no longer being displayed in town.

He visits Crystal's grandmother, with whom he left his sons, but she does not recognize him and calls him "Larry", the name of her other grandson. Lonnie asks about his sons but she explains that she has suffered a stroke and was forced to sell Lonnie's things from his trailer and give the children to her cousin Slye, and his wife. Her cousin has lost his job and moved his wife and Lonnie's sons across the country. He spends a night drinking and dancing with Bebe Lotter, an old acquaintance from the racetrack who also performed once at the prison, and asks her to put in a good word for him to get a different job at the racetrack. She is hurt by the question because of her feelings for him, and sends him away, but he convinces her to help him find his sons and she lets him stay the night with her, promising to always be there for him.

Bebe gets Lonnie work driving in the stock car races, but he wrecks the car in the first race and ends up owing money to the car's owner as well as several people with whom he made bets. He quickly escapes the racetrack and hitchhikes out of town. He stops at a diner where the bored waitress takes pity on him, and gives him a free meal while telling him the story of her own failed dream to become an actress. She takes him home for the night, but knows that he will not stay.

Lonnie calls his old employer, Chuck, on New Year's Day and Chuck tells him that Bebe is upset and has been looking for him. Chuck also says that Lonnie's grandmother received a letter from Mildred Slye, and gives Lonnie the return address in Amarillo, Texas. Lonnie hitchhikes there and finds Mildred, but she explains that along the way while she was moving west, she gave the children to a couple of roving fruit pickers, The Maynards, who were heading toward California to pick oranges. Lonnie hitchhikes to California and searches every orange grove, until he finds Wilbur Maynard, but Wilbur explains that the boys ran away three weeks earlier.

Lonnie leaves, angrily crying that he doesn't deserve to be happy. Bebe finds him there, and takes him back with her, and she makes missing posters for the kids while he laments his situation, and decides to finally kill Harold over it. He hitchhikes back to the racetrack, and uses a gun to force Harold into a stock car. He holds Harold at gunpoint as Harold drives around the track explaining his perspective on the situation with Crystal, and apologizing for what happened. Lonnie sees Harold's weakness and decides not to kill him. Bebe catches up with him, bringing with her his sons she has found in the meantime.

Cast

Production
The film was based on a script by Stephen and Elinor Karpf, based on Elinor Karpf's upbringing in Missouri. Barry Diller read the script and approved it in December 1, 1971 - the film started shooting four weeks later on 27 December. The Karpfs produced and got Peter Hyams, who had just made T.R. Baskin, to make his directorial debut.

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1972 films
1972 drama films
Films directed by Peter Hyams
ABC Movie of the Week
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1970s American films


title: Karel Electronics

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Karel Electronics is a Turkish electronics manufacturer.

History

Karel has been producing telecommunications equipment, predominantly PBX telephone systems, in Turkey since 1986, going on to export as well as supply the domestic market. Karel does not produce under license from other manufacturers in Turkey or elsewhere but designs its own products in the company's R&D facility in Bilkent, Ankara. Production facilities are also in Ankara and the company HQ is in Istanbul.

References

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title: Annabelle Kovacs

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Annabelle Kovacs (born 20 April 1996) is a Canadian rhythmic gymnast.

Career
She competed with the Canadian team (Patricia Bezzoubenko, Maria Kitkarska) at the 2014 Pacific Rim Championships where they won the Team silver medal. Kovacs was a member of the Canadian team that won a gold medal in the team event (with teammates Patricia Bezzoubenko and Maria Kitkarska) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

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1996 births
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Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Maria Kitkarska

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Maria Kitkarska (born 13 July 1995 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria) is a rhythmic gymnast competing for Canada. She is the 2010 Canadian junior all-around champion and 2012 Canadian Senior all-around champion.

Career
Kitkarska is the 2010 Canadian junior champion and competed at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games finishing 11th in qualifications. She debuted as a senior in 2011 and has competed at the 2011 World Championships and finished 6th in all-around at the 2011 Pan American Games. She became the Canadian National all-around champion in 2012 and finished second (in 2013, 2014) behind Patricia Bezzoubenko. She competed with Canadian Team (Patricia Bezzoubenko, Annabelle Kovacs) at the 2014 Pacific Rim Championships where they won the Team silver medal. She was member of the Canadian Team that won a gold medal in the team event (with teammates Patricia Bezzoubenko and Annabelle Kovacs) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Kitkarska finished 7th in the all-around finals. She completed her career at the end of the 2014 season.

Personal life
Kitkarska speaks three languages French, Bulgarian, English

References

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Living people
Bulgarian emigrants to Canada
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Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
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Gymnasts at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Gymnasts from Montreal
Sportspeople from Blagoevgrad
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Sarah Beale

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Sarah Beale is an English female rugby union player. She represented  at the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup.
Beale made her test debut in 2007 and before that represented England Students in 2003, the Academy the following year and England A in 2005.
In 2010, Beale was diagnosed with muscular cancer, after a successful surgery she proved herself and was selected to play in the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup.

In 2018, Beale achieved her goal of competing at her second World Championship level event, at the 70.3 Ironman World Championships in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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title: Luo Huan

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Luo Huan () is an elite Chinese gymnast. She is a two-time Chinese national all-around champion (2017, 2018) and the 2017 Asian and 2018 Asian Games all-around silver medalist. On her specialty events, she is the 2017 Asian and 2017 Chinese national uneven bars champion and the 2018 Chinese balance beam champion. She was a member of the Chinese women's gymnastics team that won the team bronze medal at the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. Overall, she has won eleven medals at the Chinese Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Career

Junior career

2013
Luo made her international elite debut at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in January. There, she won gold with her team and silver on the uneven bars. In May, representing Zhejiang province at the senior-level Chinese Championships, she came in fourth with her team and eighth on bars. In September, she competed at the Chinese National Games, winning a team silver medal.

2014
Luo competed at the Pacific Rim Championships, winning the bronze medal with the Chinese team behind the United States and Canada. Individually, Luo recorded the fourth highest score in the junior all-around winning gold on bars, behind Americans Bailie Key, Nia Dennis, and Norah Flatley and narrowly ahead of teammate Liu Tingting. However, due to the two-per-country rule, she was awarded the bronze medal over Flatley. In the junior event finals, she won gold on the uneven bars, ahead of Key and Liu, and placed fourth on floor and eighth on vault. This competition was the first of many events throughout Liu and Luo's careers where they competed together, often placing closely in the all-around and event finals.

At the senior-level Chinese Championships in May, Luo and provincial teammate Huang Huidan led the Zhejiang team to the gold medal in the team competition. Luo was the only member of the team to contribute counting scores on all four events, including the second-highest score of the day on balance beam behind Shang Chunsong. She then delivered a strong performance in the all-around final to finish in fourth place behind Yao Jinnan, Shang, and Wang Yan, with less than a tenth of a point between her and the podium. She finished first among all junior participants, and once again recorded the second-highest beam score behind Shang. In event finals, she placed fourth on uneven bars behind Yao, Shang, and Huang, and sixth on balance beam.

In November, Luo competed at the Chinese Individual National Championships as one of the top names, given the absence of the senior members of the World Championships team. She won gold in the all-around, her first all-around title, and on uneven bars.

2015
In June, Luo competed at the Chinese Championships on the senior level. She qualified to the all-around, uneven bars, and floor exercise finals and was the second reserve for the balance beam final. In the team final, the Zhejiang team placed fourth. Luo individually placed seventh in the all-around, a tenth behind top junior scorer Liu Tingting. She placed seventh in the uneven bars final  after falling, but placed third in the floor exercise final behind seniors Wang Yan and Shang Chunsong, winning her first individual medal at the senior championships. Liu's final junior-level competition came in October at the Chinese National Youth Games. Representing the city of Ningbo in Zhejiang, Luo won a gold medal with her junior provincial team and placed fourth in the all-around behind Liu Tingting, Wang Cenyu, and Lu Yufei. She also placed fourth on floor exercise and fifth on balance beam.

Senior career

2016: Debut
Luo made her senior international debut at the Doha World Challenge Cup in late March, competing only on balance beam. She qualified into the event final but ended up placing after falling on her Onodi and putting her hands down on her double pike dismount.

In May, Luo competed for the first time as a senior at the Chinese Championships. She placed fifth representing Zhejiang in the team final, and also placed fifth in the all-around final. However, without a clear standout event (she did not make any event finals), she was not named to the 2016 Olympic team, instead being selected as an alternate. She won her first senior all-around title later that year at the Chinese Individual National Championships in October.

2017
Luo began her season by competing at the Melbourne World Cup in February alongside Wang Yan and Liu Tingting. She qualified first into the bars final and second into the beam final behind Liu. In the bars final, a mistake on her Ling pirouette caused her to finish in second behind Liu, and on beam she placed fourth behind Liu, reigning Olympic Champion Sanne Wevers of the Netherlands, and Emily Little of Australia after falling on her dismount. A month later, she competed at the Doha World Cup, once again alongside Wang and Liu. She qualified in first place to the uneven bars final and in fourth place to the balance beam final. She placed first on uneven bars with a strong routine ahead of Zsófia Kovács of Hungary and Georgia-Rose Brown of Australia, winning her first senior international gold medal. She then improved on her qualifications ranking to take the bronze medal in the balance beam final behind teammate Liu and 2004 Olympic Champion Cătălina Ponor of Romania.

In May, Luo competed at her fifth consecutive Chinese Championships at the senior level. As an Olympic alternate and a recent World Cup champion, she entered the meet as one of the top contenders for several medals along with Olympians Shang Chunsong, Wang Yan, and Fan Yilin, as well as Liu Tingting and fellow Olympic alternate Liu Jinru. In qualifications, Luo topped the all-around standings; she also qualified into the uneven bars final in third place behind Zhu Xiaofang and reigning World Champion Fan, the balance beam final in first place, and the floor exercise final in fifth place. In the team final, Luo's Zhejiang provincial team placed fourth.

Luo placed first in the all-around final, a point ahead of junior Chen Yile and 1.5 points ahead of Liu Jingxing. During the final, she recorded top-three scores on each event: second on vault behind Zhang Jin, second on bars behind Du Siyu, first on beam, and third on floor behind Chen and Liu Jingxing. She was crowned Chinese national champion. She then won the national championship on bars ahead of Du and Fan Yilin, and also placed sixth on beam and fourth on floor.

Two weeks later, Luo competed at her first major senior international meet, the Asian Championships in Bangkok, Thailand, alongside Liu Tingting, Liu Jinru, and Tan Jiaxin. In the qualification round, which also served as the team and individual all-around finals, Luo competed on all four events. Along with Liu, she contributed counting scores on all four events towards the Chinese team's first-place finish, and individually won the silver all-around medal behind Liu. She earned the second highest scores on uneven bars and balance beam, both behind Liu, and the third highest score on floor exercise behind Liu and Kim Su-jong of North Korea. In event finals, she won the gold medal on uneven bars ahead of Liu, the silver medal on balance beam behind Liu, and placed fourth on floor exercise in a tie with Liu.

In early September, the nominative Chinese team for the World Championships in Montreal, Canada was announced, including national champion Luo and Asian champion Liu Tingting as all-around competitors, with Olympian specialists Wang Yan and Fan Yilin also on the team. Days later, Luo performed at the National Games, a quadrennial multi-sport competition with over 10,000 participating athletes. Luo's provincial team qualified into the team final in third place, and Luo qualified in fourth place to the all-around final behind junior Chen Yile, Liu, and Wang. She also qualified in second place to the uneven bars final behind Fan and fourth into the balance beam final behind Liu, Chen, and Wang. In the team final, Luo competed on all four events, but errors including a fall from Luo on balance beam left the Zhejiang team in fifth place. Luo then tied with Wang for the third highest score in the all-around final, but lost the bronze medal on a tiebreaker, tying with Shang Chunsong for the highest bars score of the day and scoring second on beam behind Liu. Following three straight all-around performances (qualifications, team final, all-around final) Liu competed in the uneven bars final, where an error on her Piked Jaeger dropped her to sixth place. She withdrew from the balance beam final in favor of her junior provincial teammate Li Qi, who won the gold medal.

While Luo was originally supposed to compete in the all-around at the World Championships in October, an injury in training limited her to compete on only the uneven bars in qualifications. She qualified to the uneven bars final and ultimately placed seventh with a hit routine.

2018
Luo began her season at the Baku World Cup in March. She qualified in first place to the beam final and second place behind teammate Lv Jiaqi to the bars final. She repeated her placement on both events in the finals, winning a gold and silver medal.

Luo competed at the Chinese Championships in May, once again representing Zhejiang province. As the defending all-around and uneven bars champion, she was expected to contend for multiple medals. In qualification, she qualified into the all-around final in fourth place, the uneven bars final in third place, and the team final in third place. While she recorded the ninth highest score on balance beam, she advanced to the final following the exclusion of Zhao Shiting due to the two-per-province rule. In the team final, Luo and junior provincial teammate Guan Chenchen competed on all four events to lead Zhejiang to the bronze medal, returning to the podium for the first time in five years. Luo earned the second-highest score on uneven bars of the day behind Liu Tingting.

In the all-around final, Luo improved on her score in qualifications by over a point to repeat as national champion ahead of Zhang Jin and Tang Xijing. She recorded the highest score on uneven bars and tied with Tang and Zhao Shiting for the highest score on balance beam among all competitors. Her victory made her the third consecutive Chinese champion with back-to-back national titles, following Yao Jinnan and Shang Chunsong. In event finals, she continued to perform well, claiming the national title on balance beam ahead of silver medalists Chen Yile and Guan Chenchen, and winning the silver medal on uneven bars behind Lv Jiaqi and ahead of Chen. With four medals total, Luo was the most decorated female gymnast of the championships.

In August, she was initially named as an alternate to the Asian Games team of Chen Yile, Liu Tingting, Zhang Jin, Liu Jinru, and Li Qi, but was called in to compete when Li pulled out with an injury. In the qualification round, which also served as the all-around final, Luo performed strong routines on vault, uneven bars, and balance beam, but put her hands down on her final double pike pass on floor exercise. Despite this error, she helped China qualify to the team final in first place, and individually won the silver-medal in the all-around behind Chen and ahead of Kim Su-jong. She qualified in second place to the uneven bars final behind Liu and recorded the third highest score on balance beam behind Chen and Zhang, but did not qualify into the final due to the two-per-country rule.

In the team final, Luo competed only on vault and uneven bars, contributing to China's team gold medal. In the uneven bars final, she performed a strong routine to win the silver medal behind teammate Liu Tingting and ahead of North Korean Jon Jang Mi. Luo's team gold and two individual silver medals made her the third most decorated female artistic gymnast of the Games, behind Kim Su-jong (four medals) and teammate Chen Yile (three gold medals).

In October, Luo was named to the Chinese team for the World Championships in Doha, Qatar along with the other members of the Asian Games team (Chen Yile, Liu Tingting, Zhang Jin, and Liu Jinru) as well as alternate Du Siyu. In qualifications, Luo competed in the all-around along with Chen and Zhang. She qualified into the all-around final in ninth place ahead of Chen and into the uneven bars final in fourth place, and qualified with the Chinese team in third place into the team final. In the team final, Luo competed on uneven bars, where she delivered the fourth-highest score of the day, and on vault, similar to her contribution at the Asian Games. However, she also stepped in to compete floor exercise following Liu Jinru's struggles in qualification on the apparatus, delivering a clean routine to help lead China to the bronze medal behind the United States and Russia. This marked Luo's first medal at the World Championships.

In the all-around final, Luo hit all four of her routines to place ninth. She performed strongly on uneven bars and balance beam, recording the fifth-highest and seventh-highest scores, respectively, but was held back by lower scores on the other two events. Of the top twelve competitors, only Luo, Chen Yile, and Nina Derwael competed a full-twisting Yurchenko vault, with the other nine competitors performing significantly more difficult vaults including the double-twisting Yurchenko (Baitova), the handspring layout full, the handspring layout 1.5 (Chusovitina) and the roundoff half-turn layout double full (Biles). Luo also placed the lowest on floor exercise of the top twelve competitors. In the uneven bars final, Luo performed a strong routine and placed fourth behind Derwael, Simone Biles, and Elisabeth Seitz, ultimately missing the podium by one tenth.

2019
Unlike the previous three seasons, Luo did not compete internationally prior to beginning her season in May at the Chinese Championships, her seventh consecutive appearance at the event. As the reigning national all-around champion and returning World team member, expectations were high. Luo qualified in third place to the all-around final behind Liu Tingting and junior competitor Ou Yushan, to the uneven bars behind Fan Yilin and Liu, and to the balance beam final behind juniors Ou and Luo Rui, and Luo's Zhejiang provincial team advanced to the team final. Like the year prior, Luo and junior provincial teammate Guan Chenchen contributed scores on all four events in the team final to lead Zhejiang to its second consecutive team bronze medal. Luo once again recorded the third-highest uneven bars score behind Fan and Liu, and tied with Guan for the fifth-highest floor exercise score.

In the all-around final, Luo performed consistently to improve on her qualifications ranking and win the silver medal behind Liu by a margin of one point. She narrowly overtook Ou, who ranked second in qualifications, by recording the second-highest uneven bars score, once again behind Liu. She also placed fourth on floor exercise behind Qi Qi, Tang Xijing, and Ou, and tied with Li Shijia for fifth on beam. Her silver all-around made her the only gymnast to place in the top five at every national championship since 2016. She competed in her third consecutive national uneven bars and balance beam event finals, but made errors in both and was not credited with her full difficulty on either apparatus. She finished fifth in both finals.

In June, Luo was assigned to compete at the Korea Cup alongside Qian Xuejia. She won the silver medal on bars behind Lee Yunseo of South Korea after a mistake in her routine, but rallied to win gold in the beam final with the highest difficulty score and gold in the floor final with the highest execution score. She also debuted several upgraded dance elements in her floor routine.

Despite her performance at the two previous competitions and a sixth-place finish at the final selection camp, Luo was not named to the team for the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany in September. Instead, seventh-place finisher Zhang Jin was named as the traveling alternate for the six-member team.

2020
Luo returned to training on the Zhejiang provincial team after a foot injury during the COVID-19 pandemic. While she competed at her eighth consecutive Chinese National Championships in September, her injury limited her to competing only downgraded routines on uneven bars and balance beam, where she did not qualify to either event final. Nevertheless, she won her eleventh national medal as the Zhejiang team won bronze thanks to a strong all-around performance from Guan Chenchen.

Competitive history

References

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Chinese female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2018 Asian Games
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Asian Games gold medalists for China
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21st-century Chinese women
Medalists at the 2021 Summer Universiade
FISU World University Games gold medalists for China
Universiade silver medalists for China
Universiade bronze medalists for China
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title: Neil Sharma

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Dr. Neil Prakash Sharma (born 1955, in Suva) is a former Fijian politician, who served as the Minister for Health in the interim Cabinet formed by Frank Bainimarama between 2009 and 2014.

Career
The son of civil servant and MP Chandra Prakash Sharma, Sharma studied at Holy Trinity School for his primary education and Marist Brothers High School between 1968 and 1971. He worked at the CWM Hospital in Suva in the early 80's as an OB/GYN resident in training. He holds an MBBS as well as a post-graduate Certificate in Women's Health and a Post Graduate diploma in Obstetrics from the University of the South Pacific and Fiji School of Medicine. He worked as a Specialist Obsterician and Gynaecologist at the Suva Private Hospital between 2000 and 2009.

He was appointed the Minister for Health in January 2009. He replaced former Minister for Health, Dr. Jiko Luveni who took up another portfolio as Minister for Women.

He joined Frank Bainimarama's FijiFirst Party and was named as one of the first 21 candidates for the party in the upcoming general elections.

On 10 April 2015 Sharma resigned from Parliament. He was replaced by Jilila Kumar.

References

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1955 births
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Living people
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FijiFirst politicians
Indian members of the Parliament of Fiji
Health ministers of Fiji
People educated at Marist Brothers High School, Fiji
University of the South Pacific alumni
Politicians from Suva


title: Desmond Vamplew

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Desmond Vamplew (born 20 August 1955) is a sport shooter from Canada. He won the gold medal in the men's/open fullbore rifle event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, and the silver medal in the Queen's Prize fullbore rifle pairs event (with James Paton) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

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1955 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Toronto
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Shooters at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Shooters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
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Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting
Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games