title: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is a 2014 action puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. The game was re-released for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS in 2018 with additional content. It is a spin-off of the Super Mario series and a part of the larger Mario franchise. The game stars Captain Toad and Toadette as they complete levels and save each other from the antagonist Wingo. Each level is contained within a miniature diorama-like environment that requires puzzle-solving and platforming challenges to complete. The player also uses the Wii U GamePad to rotate the camera and reveal new information and interact with the environment.

The Captain Toad levels in 3D World started as a prototype concept that was included as side levels in the final product. Captain Toad was selected as the main character because his large backpack would justify the lack of jump controls. The developers wanted to make the concept into a full game since the start of 3D Worlds development, and upon Shigeru Miyamoto's request, development began after the conclusion of 3D World. Plucking as an action was made for additional gameplay variation, and bonus challenges and collectibles were added to help with difficulty. The goal throughout development was to make the game enjoyable to as broad of an audience as possible, and help normalize the use of camera control in video games.

Treasure Tracker was announced at E3 2014, releasing November 14 in Japan, December 5 in North America, and the following January 2 in Europe. All versions received generally favorable reviews, being praised for its graphics and concept but criticized for its camera control and never fully leaning into its gimmick. The 3DS and Switch versions were praised for their utilization of hardware, though the multiplayer was considered lackluster. The Wii U Version sold over 1 million copies, making it one of the highest-selling games on the console. The Switch version sold over 2 million copies, placing it inside the top 50 best-selling games for the system.

Gameplay

In Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, the player controls Captain Toad, a Toad, or his companion Toadette, attempting to safely navigate through various obstacles and reach a star at the end of each level. As in Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad and Toadette can walk and run, but cannot jump due to their heavy backpacks. They are able to pull plants out of the ground to use as projectiles, a feature that is also used to interact with other items the level.

Each level is contained in a small environment, requiring the player to solve puzzles or complete platforming challenges to complete the level in a linear fashion. By using the thumbsticks or motion sensors on the Wii U GamePad, the player can rotate the diorama-like level to different orientations, revealing new paths and parts of the environment. The GamePad can also be used to interact with the environment in some levels, such as using the touchscreen to move platforms, blowing into the built-in microphone to move moving platforms, and using the motion controls to aim and throw objects at enemies. The player has two hitpoints that can be lost by being hit by enemies. If the second hitpoint is lost, the player must restart the level. However, if all lives are lost, the game is over. Mushrooms are hidden in levels that will restore a lost hitpoint when collected.

Collectibles are hidden in each level, and once a level is beat it can be completed with special conditions, such as completing the level without taking damage. When a Toad Amiibo is scanned the player is put into a random level and tasked with finding a hidden pixel art of Toad. In the Nintendo Switch port, the hide-and-seek pixel Toad challenges do not require a Toad Amiibo to play. The re-release for the Nintendo Switch in included co-op multiplayer; the second player controls a pointer that can interact with enemies and toss turnips. Additional Amiibo released featuring Super Mario Odyssey characters were also released and compatible with the Nintendo Switch version that unlock four bonus levels based on locations found within Odyssey. The levels can be unlocked by scanning the Amiibo or are made available after completing the game. 18 additional levels were also released the following year as paid downloadable content (DLC). With the removal of the Wii U GamePad the Nintendo Switch still retained some of its features when being used portably; if the player is playing Treasure Tracker while docked, a cursor will appear on the screen that the player controls using motion controls.

Plot
The game opens with Captain Toad and Toadette ascending a tower together to claim a star. The villainous giant crow Wingo appears and steals the star, taking Toadette along with him when she grabs hold of it. The player guides Toad as he tracks Wingo down to his lair and rescues Toadette. Each following chapter sees one of the two captured, and the player controls the other Toad on their way to save them. In the final scene of the game, they defeat Wingo, and the introduction to Super Mario 3D World plays out, and Captain Toad is seen following a falling star into the glass pipe. For the Switch/3DS versions, the final scene shows Captain Toad following the Odyssey.

Development

Captain Toad: Treaure Tracker was developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo. Shinya Hiratake, the lead level designer of Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario 3D World, served as the game's lead director, while Koichi Hayashida, who was a director for 3D World, served as a producer. Despite being in a position that was less hands-on, Hayashida said he was more involved with Treasure Tracker in its latter half than he was 3D World.

 Super Mario 3D World levels
Among the many prototypes of what would become 3D World was a level that Hayashida described as a "little diorama stage using Mario"; the game's camera would look at the level from the outside. They found that allowing Mario to jump would result in the level needing to be much larger than intended, so the idea as the game's base concept was scrapped. However, they knew the concept would work if the player character was unable to jump. An idea was pitched to the creator of the Mario and The Legend of Zelda franchises Shigeru Miyamoto that featured Link as the featured character. The concept was rejected because to him, Link would traverse the environment and fight enemies with his sword, which took focus away from the puzzle gimmick. While considering other characters that would justifiably be unable to jump, the developers settled on the character Captain Toad from the 2007 video game Super Mario Galaxy because of his large backpack. Captain Toad would be included in a series of levels within 3D World that featured this original concept, which released in 2013. Since the beginning of the concept's conception they wanted to create a standalone game using it, and limited the amount of Captain Toad levels in 3D World because of it. Miyamoto asked them to make it a full game due to his enjoyment of the Rubiks' Cube, wanting to create a game that featured mechanics similar to it, which the staff were happy to do so.

 Design
Each level was designed to be its own unique environment with a linear path to completion. The developers wanted camera control to be required to teach new players or those unfamiliar with the concept to use it, both in Treasure Tracker and other future Nintendo games. Small tunnels and pillars were used to emphasize camera rotation. A camera alternative where the player viewed the game in first-person was explored but was too complex to include. At the start of development the team designed 100 levels and played through them together. One of their first problems was stale gameplay; since the game lacked jumping they relied on only walking, which became repetitive. To fix this they added a second mechanic, plucking, where Captain Toad could pull items from the ground and interact with objects in the environment. With the addition of plucking they were able to diversify the level mechanics. To make the level selection less overwhelming for the player, the levels were split into three groups called "episodes" that increased in difficulty. Bonus challenges and collectibles were added to give an additional challenge for more experienced players, and a time limit wasn't included so less experienced players could have however much time is needed to solve the puzzles. Various level designs were inspired by Arabian Nights.

A two-player cooperative multiplayer mode was considered and explored but ultimately scrapped from the final product, though the idea was revisited in the Swtich version of the game. The game's story was made to be connected to that of 3D Worlds; the developers also considered connecting the story to Super Mario Galaxy, as a story being read by Rosalina. Captain Toad was designed to be a treasure hunter to justify his reason to explore, so much that it almost becomes a negative character trait. Hiratake described Captain Toad as "a crow that loves shiny things or a moth to a flame. He just loves treasure so much that he can’t think about anything else". Hiratake ensured that Captain Toad had as much character as possible, emphasizing that he was an unlikely hero with personality. They included details to his character to show this, such as making him dizzy if he is interacted with on the Wii U GamePad, or being scared when approached by enemies. Miyamoto also pitched in with this idea, giving suggestions, such as how Captain Toad should never defeat enemies directly, only accidentally in attempt to save himself. Toadette was made playable further down the line to offer gameplay variance, and Hayashida noted that the two were "adventure pals" in the game.

 Announcement and release Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker was announced at E3 2014, detailing level mechanics and enemies. The game released November 13, 2014 in Japan and the following December 5 in North America. It released January 2 in Europe, although Game Retail Limited began selling copies two weeks early. After the game released a Toad Amiibo was created and was made compatible with the game; when scanned, the player is put into a part of a level and given ten seconds to find a hidden pixel art of Toad.

The game was re-released to other Nintendo consoles to reach a larger audience of players. The original plan was to release the game for the Nintendo 3DS only, because its stereoscopic 3D effect would better show the level's dimensions. While developing the Nintendo 3DS version Nintendo was also developing the 2017 video game Super Mario Odyssey, where they found that many players enjoyed playing together with separate Joy-Con controllers. Because of this, they also decided to make release the game for the Nintendo Switch, including co-op multiplayer. The re-release was announced for both consoles via Nintendo Direct on March 10, 2018. The Nintendo Switch announcement also highlighted the new multiplayer, as well as additional levels themed after Super Mario Odyssey. Both versions released worldwide July 10, 2018. Paid DLC for the Nintendo Switch was announced in February 2019 featuring 18 new levels in five courses. The DLC released on March 14, 2019.

Reception

 Critical reviews
The Wii U version of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker received an 81/100 of review aggregator website Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS versions received an 82/100 and 79/100 respectively, also indicating generally favorable reviews.

 Wii U version
Critics praised the visuals, especially the small details and an emphasis on cute graphics. Curtis Bonds of Nintendo World Report applauded the game's worldbuilding as being much more larger and complex than what was present of them in 3D World. 4Players reviewer Jan Wobbeking also praised the game's detail and visual design. Fitch noted the HD visuals and how they "help Treasure Tracker tell its simple-yet-charming tale remarkably well". Electronic Gaming Monthlys Andrew Fitch in particular enjoyed Captain Toad's characterization, finding it to be a fresh change of personality from Mario, a statement echoed by Marty Silva of IGN. Although Polygon found the plot lacking, they believed the gameplay made up for it.

Gameplay and usage of the Wii U GamePad were also generally praised. Reeves was surprised at the level of depth in the gameplay and the amount of variance that can be found in levels that don't involve jumping. Writing for GameSpot, Peter Brown enjoyed the boss battles and their evolving difficulty. Although Polygon expressed the game did not have much depth as a mainline Mario game, the gimmicks and execution were "pure Nintendo" that continuously evolved and reiterated on itself. In a more critical review, GamesRadar+ reviewer Matthew Castle criticized the gimmicks of the game for never being fully justified or explored, such as removing the ability to jump, forcing the player to use ladders instead. Ben Reeves of Game Informer praised the utilization of the Wii U GamePad, and the ways it used the touchscreen, microphone, and motion controls to make each level unique. Brown considered Treasure Tracker to be a rare example of a Wii U game best played on the Game Pad. Silva expressed some distaste in the GamePad being used excessively, and how motion controls were always active and accidentally used when not necessary.

Some critics expressed confusion in the game's genre and overall gameplay scope. With the lack of multiple objectives in 3D World, Fitch believed the game leaned too much towards being a platformer than a puzzle game. Castle expressed similar concerns, giving mixed opinions on the gameplay that never leaned toward either direction and making the game feel experimental overall. Welsh also felt this, but considered Treasure Tracker to be a successful example of a hybrid of puzzle levels and platforming. Ultimately, he felt that the 2004 video game Mario vs. Donkey Kong achieved this better, with various staff members at Famitsu echoing the statement that any type of audience can enjoy Treasure Tracker. Fitch's main gripe with the game was that there was "just not enough of it", and lacked a noticeable increase in difficulty. Brown felt otherwise, praising the challenging collectibles and the use of backtracking to give new spins on previous levels. Although Reeves also noted the small amount of content, he praised how each level was full of depth and lacked puffery.

The game camera received negative reception. Oli Welsh of Eurogamer found that camera use was often put in an awkward position by being too zoomed in or out, and was usually a distraction from gameplay. There were some instances were the camera became a hinderance for Fitch, requiring it to be turned while in danger of other enemies and becoming difficult to manage. Reeves also criticized the camera for not having the option for it to be controlled automatically, which alienated him from the experience and cited that it could be problematic for inexperienced or older audiences.

 Other versions
Wobbeking noted it would be tedious for those who need to replay missions to unlock the extra levels themed after Odyssey; Reeves cited similar frustrations. Although Reeves called the removal of the levels based on 3D World to be "bizarre", he considered the newly added levels to be a "fair exchange". Jeremy Horwitz from VentureBeat was also disappointed that the Switch version did not include levels based on 3D World. Polygon was critical of the new levels, finding the majority of them to not match the puzzle quality of those found in the original game. The inclusion of multiplayer was appreciated by critics, but criticized for being a lackluster and trivial addition. Daniel Starkey of GameSpot also criticized the multiplayer based on how gameplay roles were divided between two players, leaving the experience to be unenjoyable for both as they have equally little action. IGNs Joe Skrebels derided the multiplayer and negatively compared it to the multiplayer in Super Mario Galaxy, also criticizing the ability for the second player to defeat enemies immediately and anywhere, removing their threat to the players.Nintendo Lifes Glen Fox overall declared that people who have already purchased the Wii U version "might not be persuaded" to buy the game for the additions, but it would still be appealing to those who did not own a Wii U to play the original. Reeves considered the Switch's motion control to be usable but obnoxious, as the cursor will remain on screen long after not being used. Fox did not mind the cursor, and preferred playing with the console docked for the sake of better graphics.

Although the graphic quality was understandably lowered for it to work on the 3DS, Skrebels was impressed by the port, and considered it to be one of the best-looking games released for the console. He also praised the use of 3D in the game and how they enhanced gameplay beyond the Wii U and Switch versions. Writing for Nintendo Life, Chris Scullion applauded the port for replicating the use of the Wii U GamePad by putting its interactive features on the second screen, but criticized the graphics for their jagged appearance and being difficult to discern when zoomed out. Nintendo World Report also positively received the control scheme, especially how one hand could be used to control Captain Toad and the other to control the camera with the stylus.

Sales
The 2021 CESA Games White Papers revealed that the Wii U version has sold a total of 1.37 million units as of December 2020, also making it one of the best-selling games on the Wii U. The Switch and 3DS ports of the game sold 108,698 and 42,818 physical copies respectively during their first two months on sale in Japan. As of March 2019, the Switch port has sold 240,000 copies in Japan, and 1.18 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling games on the system. It also revealed that the Switch version has sold a total of 1.77 million units, as of December 2020. The 2023 CESA Games White Papers revealed that the Switch version of the game have sold 2.35 million copies as of December 2022.

AccoladesTreasure Tracker'' was nominated for "Best Puzzle/Adventure" and "Best Wii U Exclusive" at GameTrailers' Best of 2014 Awards. In addition, it won the People's Choice Award for "Best Puzzle Game" at IGN's Best of 2014 Awards, whereas its other nomination was for "Best Wii U Game". The 3DS and Switch versions were nominated for "Nintendo Game of the Year" at the 2018 Golden Joystick Awards, and for "Game, Franchise Family" at the 2019 National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards.

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title: Makena Beach & Golf Resort

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Makena Beach & Golf Resort Maui was a beach and golf resort in the Makena district, on the southern shore of Maui County, Hawaii, United States.  The resort was formerly known as the Maui Prince Hotel, and was designed by Anbe, Aruga, and Ishizu architects. It was opened in August 1986 and subsequently sold in July 2010 to AREA Property Partners. It had several hundred rooms and suites leading to an open-air atrium and outdoor pools built around an Asian meditation garden with waterfalls.

In July 2016, the resort owner, ATC Makena Holdings LLC, announced that it was closing the hotel to redevelop the property into a luxury condominium community called the Makena Golf and Beach Club.

History
Seibu Hawaii, Inc. a Japanese company, acquired a prime beachfront parcel of land in Makena in 1983. The design by Anbe, Aruga, and Ishizu architects of Honolulu and the opening of the Maui Prince Hotel resort followed in August 1986. About 1,300 acres of land surrounding the hotel and golf courses  were kept in their natural state.

The Seibu Group of Japan operated the Maui Prince Hotel resort until 2007. It was then acquired by  Maui developers and investors Everett Dowling and Morgan Stanley who tried unsuccessfully to run it until September 2009.  The hotel was subsequently sold in July 2010 to a group of  investors led by AREA Property Partners, Trinity Investments LLC, and Stanford Carr Development LLC. Then Landmark Hotels Group, Inc. took control of  its management until January 2012 and renamed it the Makena Beach & Golf Resort with Declan McCarthy as the current General Manager.

The resort, located near the Wailea Golf Courses, had 290 rooms and 20 suites. There were two outdoor pools (one for adults, one for children), an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., six tennis courts, a fitness room, a Jacuzzi, water sports assistance, a shopping arcade, a salon, and in-room massage. In addition, the Makena Kai Day Spa was operated by Hawaiian Rainforest Spa which specializes in Hawaiian healing arts and provides massage therapy, facials, and body treatments. The resort had four restaurants and two bars (with local Hawaiian music nightly).

In 2014, a group led by Hawaii developer Stanford Carr expressed to the Maui Planning Commission the intention to transform the resort into luxury apartments and hotel.

In 2016, it was announced by ATC Makena Holdings, LLC, owners of the 1,800-acre Makena Resort, that it would close the 310-room Makena Beach & Golf Resort (formerly the Maui Prince Hotel) at noon on July 1. The hotel was demolished in 2018.

See also
Makena, Hawaii
List of beaches in Hawaii
The Resort (film), filming location

References

External links

 Official Makena Beach & Golf Resort Web site
  Makena Magazine  Vol. 1, 2013
  Official YouTube Channel

1986 establishments in Hawaii
2016 disestablishments in Hawaii
Buildings and structures in Maui County, Hawaii
Golf clubs and courses in Hawaii
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Hotel buildings completed in 1986
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Tourist attractions in Maui County, Hawaii
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title: Mercedes-Benz GLB

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The Mercedes-Benz GLB (model code X247) is a crossover SUV produced by Mercedes-Benz. It was unveiled by the German manufacturer Daimler AG on 10 June 2019 in Park City, Utah. It was previously unveiled as a concept car to the public at the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2019.

The GLB is positioned between the GLA and the larger GLC in size, however unlike these vehicles the GLB is equipped with optional third row seating due to better space distribution. The launch date for taking orders began in July 2019. The production commenced at the end of 2019 for the 2020 model year.

Overview
The GLB uses the same front-wheel-drive MFA2 platform as the W177 A-Class and the H247 GLA, but the wheelbase is  longer to give it extra practicality. The result is that at , it is only  shorter than a X253 GLC. Mechanically, it has standard all-wheel-drive and an eight-speed dual clutch automatic transmission, and shares its engine lineup with the A-Class.

The model adopts a square, angular style inspired by the larger X167 GLS and the former boxy shaped X204 GLK-Class. It features a MacPherson strut front and multi-link rear suspension with optional adaptive damping. Inside, the widescreen cockpit and the latest version of the MBUX interface is featured.

The Mercedes-AMG GLB 35 4MATIC was announced on 28 August 2019 in time for the 2019 IAA Frankfurt Auto Show. The GLB 35 4MATIC is the first of the 35-series models to have an eight-speed automatic gearbox; other 35-series models (A 35 4MATIC and CLA 35 4MATIC) continue with seven-speed automatic gearboxes. Fitted to GLB 35 4MATIC, the AMG-specific Panamericana Grille is used on the 35-series model for the first time.

Technical details
It is available with 4-cylinder petrol and diesel engines only, while a plug-in hybrid and a fully electric version, called the EQB, was unveiled in April 2021.

Engines
At launch, the GLB came with two petrol and two diesel engines. All of them are fitted with automatic transmissions only, while 4MATIC all-wheel-drive system is either available or standard with the 2.0-litre engines, only. Available as of 2020, the 2.0-litre petrol engine in the GLB 35 is tuned to produce  and  of torque.

Diesel engines and the smaller petrol engine were eschewed for the US market, leaving only the 2.0-litre 4-cylinder turbo of the GLB 250 for the debut.

Transmissions

Sales

References

GLB
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2020s cars
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Luxury crossover sport utility vehicles
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title: Troy Davis (Australian footballer)

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Troy Davis (born 10 June 1992) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

AFL career
Davis was recruited from the Geelong Falcons in the TAC Cup with pick 50 in the 2010 National Draft as a tall defender. However, he missed most of the 2011 season due to an overactive thyroid.

Davis did not play a senior game in 2011 or 2012, instead playing all of his games with Melbourne's reserves, the Casey Scorpions, in the Victorian Football League.

Davis moved back and forth between the forward and back line for Casey in 2013, until he was called up late in the season where he was used as a forward. He made his AFL debut against the Gold Coast in round 20; he played again the next week against  where he kicked his first AFL goal, then he was subsequently dropped.

Davis was delisted at the end of the 2013 season, however, he signed with Casey where he continues to play in 2014. He later moved back to his junior club Kerang.

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1992 births
Living people
Melbourne Football Club players
Casey Demons players
Geelong Falcons players
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title: Lorella

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Lorella is a given name and may refer to:

Lorella Bellato, Italian paracanoer
Lorella Cedroni (1961–2013), Italian political philosopher
Lorella Cuccarini (born 1965), Italian dancer, singer, television host and actress
Lorella Jones (1943–1995), American particle physicist
Lorella De Luca (1940–2014), Italian film, television, and voice actress

Lorella may also refer to the unincorporated community Lorella, Oregon.


title: Alex Grecian

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Alex Grecian (; born Alexander Douglas Grecian on August 6, 1969) is an American author of short fiction, novels, comic books, and graphic novels. His notable works include the comic book series Proof and the novels in the  Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series: The Yard, The Black Country, The Devil's Workshop, The Harvest Man, Lost and Gone Forever, and The Blue Girl. He has been nominated for the Strand Award for Best Debut Novel for The Yard, The Dilys Award for The Black Country, and the Barry Award for Best First Novel for The Yard. He was also the recipient of an Inkpot Award in 2018 and of the Kansas Notable Book Awards from the State Library of Kansas for The Yard, The Black Country, and The Devil's Workshop.

Career

Literary influences

As a child and a teenager, Grecian read the works of C. S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. He later became a fan of crime fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as Graham Greene, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, and John D. MacDonald. Other influences include John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Chabon, and Stephen King.

Comics and graphic novels

Grecian's first comic book work, released in 2006, was a collaboration with Canadian comic book artist and illustrator Riley Rossmo on Seven Sons, a graphic novel based on the anonymously written Chinese folktale Ten Brothers known to be written around the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644). In 2007, he started work on Proof, also with Riley Rossmo. NPR named this series one of the best books of 2009. Grecian and Rossmo started on their third project together, Rasputin, in the fall of 2014. This series is a work of fiction based on the life of Grigori Rasputin. Rasputin was a mystical adviser in the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia in the early nineteen hundreds.

In 2013, with fellow creators B. Clay Moore, Jeremy Haun, and Seth Peck, Grecian developed the anthology Bad Karma using a Kickstarter campaign. Bad Karma is a hardcover comics, prose and art collection featuring five separate, inter-related creator-owned concepts.

Novels

In May 2012 Grecian's debut novel The Yard was released by G. P. Putnam's Sons. This novel is the first in the Murder Squad Series. The second novel in the series, The Black Country was released in May 2013, then the third, The Devil's Workshop in May 2014, the fourth, The Harvest Man in May 2015, and the fifth, Lost and Gone Forever in May 2016. The e-book The Blue Girl is also a story of the Murder Squad and was released in June 2013. In April 2018 Grecian released the stand-alone book The Saint of Wolves and Butchers also published by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Bibliography

AiT/Planet Lar

 Seven Sons (AiT/Planet Lar, 88 pages, 2006, )

Image Comics

Proof Book 1: Goatsucker (collects Proof #1-5, Image Comics, 128 pages, June 2008, )
Proof Book 2: The Company Of Men (collects Proof #6-9, Image Comics, 128 pages, December 2008, )
Proof Book 3: Thunderbirds Are Go! (collects Proof #10-16, Image Comics, 144 pages, July 2009, )
Proof Book 4: Julia (collects Proof #18-23, Image Comics, 128 pages, July 2010, )
Proof Book 5: Blue Fairies (collects "Proof" #24-28, Image Comics, 128 pages, December 2010, )
Proof Book 6: Endangered (collects "Proof Endangered" #1-5, Image Comics, 128 pages, December 28, 2011, )

Fractured Fables (Image Comics, 160 pages, July 2010, )
Dia de Los Muertos (collects #1-3, Image Comics, tpb, 128 pages, November 2013, )
Rasputin Volume 1 (collects Rasputin #1-5, Image Comics, 184 pages, May 2015, )
Rasputin Volume 2 (collects Rasputin #6-10, Image Comics, 136 pages, February 2016, )

Vertigo (DC Comics)

The Unexpected (Vertigo (DC Comics), tpb, 160 pages, 2013, )

G. P. Putnam's Sons

 The Yard (G. P. Putnam's Sons, May 2012, )
 The Black Country (G. P. Putnam's Sons, May 2013, )
 The Blue Girl (G. P. Putnam's Sons, June 2013, ASIN B00B1FG9DA)
 The Devil's Workshop (G. P. Putnam's Sons, May 2014, )
 The Harvest Man (G. P. Putnam's Sons, May 2015, )
 Lost and Gone Forever (G. P. Putnam's Sons, May 2016, )
 The Saint of Wolves and Butchers (G. P. Putnam's Sons, April 2018, )

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

 Unknown Caller (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 2014)
 The Scarlet Box (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2022)

TKO Studios

 One Eye Open (TKO Studios, March 2022, )

Tor Books
 Red Rabbit (Tor Books, September 2023, )

Selected awards and honors

2012 The New York Times Best Seller list for The Yard
2013 Barry Award (for crime novels) nomination for Best First Novel for The Yard
2013 Strand Magazine's Critic's Award nomination for Best Debut Novel for The Yard
2013 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Yard
2014 Dilys Award nomination for Mystery Title of the Year for The Black Country
2014 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Black Country
2015 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Devil's Workshop
2017 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for Lost and Gone Forever
2018 Inkpot Award for The Saint of Wolves and Butchers

References

External links

Living people
American comics writers
American fiction writers
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
American mystery writers
1969 births
21st-century American male writers
Inkpot Award winners
Horror writers
American short story writers


title: J. William Pope

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James William "Bill" Pope, Jr. (February 2, 1938 – June 8, 2014) was an American lawyer and politician.

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Pope went to the University of Tennessee and the Cumberland School of Law. He practiced law and worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Pope was also involved in the banking business. He served as mayor of Pikeville, Tennessee. In 1967, he served in the Tennessee House of Representatives as a Democrat. He died in Dayton, Tennessee.

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1938 births
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Politicians from Nashville, Tennessee
People from Pikeville, Tennessee
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Democratic Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American lawyers


title: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse

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Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, known in PAL regions as Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush, is a platforming video game in the Kirby series, developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for Wii U. The title, which is a follow-up game of the 2005 Nintendo DS title Kirby: Canvas Curse, was released by Nintendo on January 22, 2015, in Japan, February 20, 2015, in North America, May 8, 2015, in Europe, and May 9, 2015, in Australia. The game supports the Kirby, Meta Knight, and King Dedede Amiibo.

Gameplay

Kirby and the Rainbow Curse carries on the style of gameplay from Canvas Curse, presenting the game with a unique modelling clay look. Players use the Wii U GamePad to help Kirby, who is stuck in a ball form, move across the level by drawing rainbow colored lines on the touchscreen to guide him. Making Kirby go through loops will speed him up, while touching him will put him into a spinning attack to use against enemies. For every 100 stars Kirby collects, Kirby can perform a Star Dash which increases his size, allowing him to charge through normally-indestructible blocks. Similarly to Kirby's Epic Yarn, Kirby can gain various forms throughout the game, such as a submarine, a rocket, and a tank. These forms help him progress through the game and provide certain elements that alters the gameplay. Up to three additional players using Wii Remotes can play as Bandana Waddle Dees, who can assist Kirby by carrying him around and attacking enemies and can also perform charged attacks. During these levels, an evil hand may try to capture Kirby, with only the Bandana Waddle Dees able to damage it. Each level contains several hidden treasure chests, some of which requires solving a puzzle or clearing a timed room, which unlock viewable clay figures and music tracks, as well as diary pages detailing Elline's journey. The main story mode in Kirby and the Rainbow Curse has 28 levels, while challenge mode has over 40.

The game features amiibo support with the Kirby, King Dedede, and Meta Knight figures from the Super Smash Bros. series of amiibo. The Kirby figure allows Kirby to activate the "Star Dash" ability at any time, the King Dedede figure gives Kirby extra hitpoints, and the Meta Knight figure gives him greater attack power during his touch-activated spinning attack.

Plot
One day in Dream Land, as Kirby and Bandana Waddle Dee are playing together, a mysterious hole opens in the sky, draining all the color from Dream Land and stopping everything and everyone in its tracks. Elline, a paintbrush fairy from the land of Seventopia, goes through the portal in order to escape several "grab hands" and uses her powers to bring color back to Kirby and Bandana Waddle Dee. She reveals that her best friend, Claycia, suddenly became evil and has used the colors from Kirby's planet, Popstar, in order to create seven worlds. Wanting to stop Claycia and restore Planet Popstar's color, Kirby, Bandana Waddle Dee, and Elline set off to Seventopia, Elline painting magical rainbow rope. Kirby is stuck in a ball form similar to Kirby: Canvas Curse. On the last world's final boss stage, it is revealed that Claycia had been possessed by an evil force known as the Dark Crafter, who has the urge to drain all of the color in a specific place. After Kirby pursues the Dark Crafter and manages to defeat it, he, Bandana Waddle Dee, Claycia, and Elline all return to Dream Land and bring back all of the missing color into Planet Popstar. The ending scene includes Claycia and Elline making a bushel of apples for Kirby to eat.

Development

When they first saw the Wii U GamePad, the developers realized they could incorporate asymmetric multiplayer into the new Kirby game and decided that, while Wii Remote players would have a more traditional running-and-jumping platformer experience, the GamePad player would draw "footholds". They decided to use the same line-drawing gameplay from Kirby: Canvas Curse. The Wii U game's polymer clay art style was chosen to create a more three-dimensional version of the DS game's painterly style, while the framerate of the animations was kept low so the game would look like it was made in claymation. Waddle Dees were chosen as the multiplayer characters because the developers felt that Meta Knight or King Dedede were not as well-suited to protect Kirby.

Reception

Kirby and the Rainbow Curse received mixed to positive reviews. It received an aggregated score of 75% on GameRankings based on 50 reviews and 73/100 on Metacritic based on 72 reviews.

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu awarded Kirby and the Rainbow Curse a 34 out of 40, with one reviewer stating "Although guiding a character by drawing lines with the GamePad isn't a new mechanism in itself, the game deserves applause for making that mechanism more interesting to play. The visuals are cute and look like clay animation. The game is filled with a surprisingly diverse load of gimmicks so it excites in many ways. The game is packed with the true charm of action games."

Giant Bomb's Dan Ryckert gave Kirby and the Rainbow Curse two stars out of five, comparing the title negatively to its DS predecessor. He felt that the levels were too simple and linear, and the collectibles were too easy to reach. He disliked that Kirby could not steal enemies' abilities like in Canvas Curse, and thought that the vehicles Kirby could turn into made certain levels "even more stripped-down." While he found the controls functional, the repetitive boss fights were frustrating due to the stylus' lack of precision. Ryckert preferred to play as a Waddle Dee, whose traditional control scheme afforded more reliable platforming and boss fighting than the "unreliable stylus paths" provided. However, Ryckert did find the clay-based art style "gorgeous."

IGN's Marty Sliva found the game much more enjoyable, awarding it 8.0 out of 10. He appreciated the game's occasional difficulty and its variety, finding the vehicular stages enjoyable and the various world themes beautiful. Sliva thought that the visuals were "absolutely gorgeous," praising details like fingerprints in the clay and the stop-motion movements of the bosses, but was disappointed that he had to focus on the GamePad instead of an HDTV. He found that Waddle Dee multiplayer did not "add a whole lot to the experience," but it was "a nice experiment to test out."

Nintendo Life's Jon Walgren gave Rainbow Curse seven stars out of ten. He found the game "charming" and its visuals to be "the prettiest [...] on Wii U so far," but was disappointed that the clay aesthetic did not influence the gameplay like the fabric did in Kirby's Epic Yarn. He thought the main campaign was easy, but the Challenge Mode and the search for collectibles provided a bit more difficulty. Like other reviewers, Walgren would have liked to see the game in high definition but found he had to focus on the GamePad's low-definition screen. Playing with others was "pleasant," but it was not the best local multiplayer experience on Wii U.

Hardcore Gamer's Dermot Creegan gave the game a 4.5 out of 5, calling it a "constantly creative adventure that offers players something they won't find anywhere else." He praised the claymation aesthetic calling them "astoundingly beautiful," while also complimenting the number of collectibles and challenges.

Sales
Nearly one month after its release in Japan, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse had sold roughly 58,000 units, with 83,000 copies sold by the end of June 2015.

Notes

References

External links

2015 video games
Asymmetrical multiplayer video games
Clay animation video games
HAL Laboratory games
Kirby (series) platform games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games about curses
Video games about magic
Video games developed in Japan
Video games produced by Kensuke Tanabe
Video games scored by Shogo Sakai
Video games that use Amiibo figurines
Wii U eShop games
Wii U games
Wii U-only games


title: Christian Langaard

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Christian Langaard (5 August 1849 – 31 August 1922) was a Norwegian industrialist and art collector. He was born in Christiania as a son of brewery owner Mads Langaard and Lovise Jakobine Knudsen. He was married to Ellevine Ellefsen and was the father of Knut Christian Langaard and Johan Henrik Langaard.

Langaard assumed various leading positions in the brewery Frydenlund Bryggeri in Christiania. He was a dedicated art collector, and his collection was eventually donated to the National Gallery of Norway, the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design and the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1904 and Commander, First Class in 1914.

References

1849 births
1922 deaths
Businesspeople from Oslo
Collectors from Oslo
Norwegian art collectors


title: Franck Vogel

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Franck Vogel (born 1977 in Strasbourg, France) is a French photographer specializing in social & environmental issues, journalist, speaker and documentary film director. He lives and works in Paris.

Life and work
Vogel studied biochemistry at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France, and at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA; and engineering at AgroParisTech, attaining a master's degree in 2001

During 2002 he hitchhiked in Africa and Asia and took up photography in 2003.

Vogel is known for his stories on environmental issues (The Bishnois: ecologists since the 15th century), social (Albinos: Massacre in Tanzania), ethnological (Vlachs of the Balkans, the most discreet community in the Balkans) and geopolitics (a long term project on some transboundary rivers experiencing tension due to water access including the Nile, the Brahmaputra, the Colorado River, the Jordan, the Mekong, the Ganges, the Zambezi and the Danube River). The New York Times talks about his "striking black-and-white portraits of albino people in Tanzania". He was interviewed by BBC News on his rivers' project while visiting Singapore for his exhibit at Gardens by the Bay, and gave talks at Columbia University with the Earth Institute both on the Bishnois and on the Transboundary rivers' project. La Martinière, a French publishing house, released in Sept 2016 the 1st volume Fleuves Frontières (Transboundary Rivers: Will war for water happen?), and in the meantime an exhibition on the Colorado River is presented in Paris at the Pavillon de l'eau.

His work has been published in GEO magazine, Stern, Paris Match, NRC Weekblad, Animan, Le Monde diplomatique. He has had exhibitions in two Parisian Metro stations (Montparnasse and Luxembourg), in Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur in India, Photokina in Germany, in Yangon in Burma, in Dali in China, in Kazakhstan (Astana and Almaty), in Turkey (Istanbul), in Italy (Natural History Museum in Verona), in Germany (Horizonte Zingst).

Vogel wrote and co-directed a documentary film The Bishnois: India's eco-warriors (Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète) (52 min, France 5, 2011). The film was awarded the Phoenix d'Or 2011 and the Terre Sauvage Award 2013. Télérama magazine wrote of it that "If everyone could watch this documentary, the Earth would be better off". In October 2013, he received the highest recognition by the Bishnoi community to spread the Bishnoi philosophy.

He is an ambassador for Green Cross, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev's environmental NGO.

References

External links

 In)(between Gallery in Paris represents his work

Documentary photographers
Social documentary photographers
French photojournalists
Paris Match photojournalists
1977 births
Living people
Artists from Strasbourg
University of Strasbourg alumni
Lehigh University alumni
French documentary filmmakers
Mass media people from Strasbourg


title: Fool (Mansun song)

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"Fool" is a song by the English alternative rock band Mansun. The song was written by band-leader Paul Draper. It was recorded and produced by Hugh Padgham with co-producer Michael Hunter during sessions for the group's third studio album. The song was released as the third and final single in early 2001 from the group's third album, Little Kix. The single disappointed commercially reaching the low peak of #28 on the UK Singles Chart during the typically quiet post-Christmas singles market.

The music video for "Fool" was directed by Phil Harder.

Paul Draper was particularly dismissive of the track calling it his 'least favourite Mansun track'. Writing in the liner-notes to Legacy: The Best of Mansun, he describes "Fool" as an ironic song inspired by a book on songwriting by Jimmy Webb. The song played a part in further straining relations between Draper and the label: 'Bowie intro, comical chorus lyrics and guess what? The label (Parlophone) wanted it as a fucking single! I couldn't believe it.'

Track listing

Personnel

Mansun
 Paul Draper – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards
 Dominic Chad – electric guitar, backing vocals, piano
 Stove King – bass
 Andie Rathbone – drums, percussion

Production
 Hugh Padgham – producer ("Fool")
 Mike Hunter – producer (all tracks except "Fool"), engineering (all tracks except "Fool"), mixing (all tracks except "Fool"), co-producer ("Fool")
 Mark 'Spike' Stent – mixing ("Fool")
 Anton Corbijn – band photograph
 Alex Hutchinson (at Free Barrabas!) - design

Chart positions

References

2001 singles
2000 songs
Mansun songs
Songs written by Paul Draper (musician)
Song recordings produced by Hugh Padgham
Parlophone singles
Music videos directed by Phil Harder


title: Pertev Pasha Mosque

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Pertev Mehmet Paşa Mosque, also known as Yeni Cuma Cami meaning "New Friday Mosque" in Turkish, is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque in the town of Izmit, Turkey. The architect was Mimar Sinan. It was built for Pertev Mehmed Paşa, an Ottoman vizier during the reigns of sultan Suleyman I and Selim II. The construction was finished in 1579. The mosque is part of a larger complex (Külliye) which originally included a madrasa, hammam, caravanserai, fountain and a lower education school. The mosque itself is a single domed structure and the dome has 24 windows. The minaret was damaged during the 1999 İzmit earthquake.

See also
List of Friday mosques designed by Mimar Sinan

References

External links

Pertev Mehmet Paşa Külliyesi, Archnet

Mosques in Turkey
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1579
Mosque buildings with domes
Mimar Sinan buildings
Mosques completed in the 1570s


title: Dharavi (disambiguation)

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Dharavi is a slum in Mumbai, India.

Dharavi may also refer to:

Dharavi (film), a 1991 Hindi film
Dharavi (Vidhan Sabha constituency), a constituency located in Mumbai City district
Dharavi Bhet, a peninsula near Mumbai, India


title: Helsinki Samba Carnaval

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The Helsinki Samba Carnaval is an annual samba carnival held in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, since 1991.

The carnival takes place on the weekend in early to middle June, normally close to the Helsinki Day on 12 June. Unlike the Rio Carnival, it is not possible to hold the carnival in January through March, because like many other places in northern Europe, the outdoor temperature in Helsinki is far too low at that time.

History
The carnival lacks a proper historical tradition. It mostly grew from experimenting and organising, but was still influenced by Brazilian traditions. In 2007, Tarja Halonen, President of Finland at the time, participated in the event.

The organisation responsible for the event is the Finnish Samba School Association (in Finnish: Suomen Sambakoulujen Liitto). It organized the samba carnival for the first time in 1991 in Turku, but since 1993, Helsinki has been established as the official carnival location. The association has been awarded the esteemed Insignia of the Order of Rio Branco by the Federative Republic of Brazil.

Samba schools

Império do Papagaio from Helsinki
Força Natural also from Helsinki
Carioca from Turku
Maracanã from Lahti
El Gambo from Kokkola
Tropical from Seinäjoki
União da Roseira from Tampere

References

External links

 Official website

Carnivals in Finland
Festivals in Helsinki
Recurring events established in 1991
Samba
Summer events in Finland


title: 2014 Toyota/Save Mart 350

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The 2014 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on June 22, 2014, at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California. Contested over 110 laps on the  road course, it was the 16th race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and the first of two road course competitions on the schedule. Carl Edwards won the race, his second win of the season and first on a road course in Sprint Cup competition. Jeff Gordon finished second, while Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jamie McMurray, and Paul Menard rounded out the top five. The top rookies of the race were Austin Dillon (17th), Cole Whitt (27th), and Kyle Larson (28th).

Previous week's race
Jimmie Johnson took the lead with ten laps to go to win the Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway. This was his first career win at Michigan. "We had figured out every way to lose this race," Johnson said after winning at Michigan for the first time in 25 tries. "And today we were able to get it done. "We really were in a win-win situation," he added. "Those guys still had to come to pit road to make it to the end. Once I got an idea of how the race was unfolding, I knew we were in the catbird seat and were able to take advantage of it. When it came down to strategy in the end, which we all knew it would at Michigan, Chad nailed the strategy."

Report

Background

The course, Sonoma Raceway, is one of two road courses to hold NASCAR races, the other being Watkins Glen International. The standard road course at Sonoma Raceway is a 12-turn course that is  long; the track was modified in 1998, adding the Chute, which bypassed turns 5 and 6, shortening the course to . The Chute was only used for NASCAR events such as this race, and was criticized by many drivers, who preferred the full layout. In 2001, it was replaced with a 70-degree turn, 4A, bringing the track to its current dimensions of . Martin Truex Jr. was the defending race winner from 2013.

Two teams elected to replace their standard drivers with road course ringers. Boris Said took over the Go FAS Racing No. 32 Ford, while Tomy Drissi drove the No. 66 Toyota for Identity Ventures Racing.

Entry list
The entry list for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 was released on Monday, June 15, 2014 at 1:03 p.m. Eastern time. Forty-three drivers were entered for the race.

Practice

First practice
Kurt Busch was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 75.039 and a speed of .

Final practice
Clint Bowyer was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 74.634 and a speed of .

Qualifying

Jamie McMurray won the pole with a new track record time of 74.354 and a speed of . "This race is about having good strategy and having a little bit of luck," McMurray said. "It's about not getting run into in Turn 4 or Turn 7 on a restart. I've run enough races here that I've had every issue you could have with running out of gas ... to getting wrecked in Turn 7 on a restart because someone from 15th dive-bombed me into the corner with no chance of making it." "Well that wasn't what we expected," Bowyer said. "We were fast all day (Friday), just didn't have enough grip and missed Turn 4. We will just have to pass a few more cars (Sunday)."

Qualifying results

Race

First half

Start

The race was scheduled to start at 3:15 p.m. Eastern time, but started seven minutes later, with Jamie McMurray leading the field to the green. A. J. Allmendinger put pressure on him for the first few laps but was unable to take the lead. Defending race winner Martin Truex Jr. made an unscheduled stop on lap seven for a vibration, while Allmendinger wrested the lead from McMurray on lap nine. Kyle Busch nicked Brad Keselowski in turn 11, which forced Keselowski down the order by 8 spots. While describing his car as "bad", Keselowski reckoned he "deserved to get spun out". Kevin Harvick took the lead from Allmendinger on lap 22, before the first caution of the race came out on lap 31 after Landon Cassill blew an engine. During pit stops under the caution, Allmendinger retook the lead. Allmendinger led the field to the green on the restart on lap 35. Casey Mears got boxed in at turn 7a and sustained heavy damage that forced him to make an unscheduled pit stop the next lap, while Kasey Kahne also sustained damage.

Second half
McMurray retook the lead from Allmendinger on lap 54, before he pulled off to pit and handed the lead to Jeff Gordon. Harvick was able to take the lead from Gordon, when Gordon pitted on lap 58. The second caution of the race occurred on lap 61, as Ryan Truex stalled in the esses. Most of the cars on the lead lap stayed out, with Harvick leading the field to the restart on lap 65. Jimmie Johnson took the lead from Harvick exiting turn 4, before the third caution of the race came out on lap 71 for debris. Joey Logano stayed out during the cycle of pit stops under caution to take the lead. The race restarted on lap 75 with Clint Bowyer taking the lead from Logano, going into turn 7a. The fourth caution flew for a hard wreck in the esses. Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s car hopped over a curb, and collided with Matt Kenseth and sent him head on into the tire barriers. He was able to extricate himself from his wrecked car.

Closing stage
The race restarted on lap 80 with Bowyer leading the field but he surrendered the lead to Marcos Ambrose in turn 1. Johnson also passed Bowyer for second, going into turn 11. Bowyer was then turned around by McMurray and was then hit by Harvick. Harvick's stranded car forced the race to go under caution for the fifth time. The race restarted with 25 laps to go with Ambrose leading the way but he lost the lead to Carl Edwards. Earnhardt Jr. pinned Allmendinger into the wall coming to the line, causing substantial damage to Allmendinger's car. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was hit by Brian Vickers to bring out the sixth caution, with 20 laps to go.

Finish
The race was restarted 16 laps to go and Edwards held off a last lap charge by Gordon to win for the first time on a road course, in NASCAR. He later described his race as "real tough", and his victory as "very special". Gordon stated that he had been "overdriving" his car, and he wished he "had just stayed smooth and stuck with it", while chasing Edwards towards the end. The victory would be the one and only road course victory Edwards would win in the NASCAR Cup Series.

Race results

Race summary
 Lead changes: 11 among different drivers
 Cautions/Laps: 6 for 19
 Red flags: 0
 Time of race: 2 hours, 51 minutes and 30 seconds
 Average speed:

Media

Television

Radio

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings

Note: Only the first sixteen positions are included for the driver standings.

Note

References

Toyota Save Mart 350
Toyota Save Mart 350
Toyota Save Mart 350
NASCAR races at Sonoma Raceway


title: Slipping Away (Mansun song)

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"Slipping Away" is a song by the English alternative rock band Mansun released as the group's final single on 20 September 2004 to promote the group's last studio album Kleptomania. The single was released on 7" vinyl and Digital download only charting at #55 for one week on the UK Singles Chart. The song was written by band-leader Paul Draper. It was recorded and produced by Richard Rainey and Paul Draper during sessions for the group's aborted fourth studio album.

Track listing

Personnel

Mansun
 Paul Draper – vocals, electric guitar, bass, keyboards
 Dominic Chad – backing vocals, electric guitar, bass, keyboards
 Andie Rathbone – drums, percussion

Production
 Richard Rainey – producer
 Paul Draper – producer, mixing ("Slipping Away")
 Cenzo Townshend - engineer, mixing ("Getting Your Way")
 Traffic - design

Chart positions

References

2004 singles
2004 songs
Mansun songs
Songs written by Paul Draper (musician)
Parlophone singles


title: Malus niedzwetzkyana

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Malus niedzwetzkyana, or Niedzwetzky's apple, is a kind of apple native to certain parts of China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan noted for its red-fleshed, red-skinned fruit and red flowers. Some botanists consider it a distinct species, while others have argued it is simply an unusual variety of the common apple, Malus pumila.

Niedzwetzky's apple is rare, often growing as an isolated tree, and is endangered throughout its range by agricultural encroachment and logging operations. Only 111 specimens of the tree are known to survive in Kyrgyzstan. The conservation group Fauna & Flora International is working to save and restore the species in that country, and has put M. niedzwetzkyana on its endangered list, brought it under its Global Trees Campaign, and planted over 1000 saplings in area forests in 2010 and 2011

The tree was introduced to the West c. 1890 by Georg Dieck at the Zöschen Arboretum, Germany, who grew it from seed sent by the Russian lawyer and amateur botanist Vladislav E. Niedzwiecki living in exile in Turkestan; Dieck later donated specimens to the Späth nursery, which exported the tree to the USA c. 1896.

Description

The tree is winter-hardy and drought-resistant, growing  tall in the wild (<5 m under cultivation), with a globular crown and very dark purplish-brown bark.

New shoots are dark purple, and leaves range from purplish when new to dark green when mature. In the spring it puts out intensely magenta-rose flowers. The skin of the fruit is deep red to purple-red (sometimes with a bluish, waxy bloom) and the flesh ranges from light to bright red, with dark reddish-brown seeds.

The fruit is edible and not very tart, with dry, somewhat chewy flesh. In the Kashgar region of China near the Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan borders, it is known as 'kisil alma': 'red apple'.

Cultivation
Malus niedzwetzkyana has been used to breed some modern red-leaved, red-flowered, and red-fruited apples and crabapples. It is believed to be the ancestor of Surprise, a pink-fleshed apple that was brought to the United States by German immigrants around 1840 and was later used by the horticulturist Albert Etter to breed some 30 pink- and red-fleshed varieties, the best-known of which is Pink Pearl. Another horticulturist, Niels Ebbesen Hansen, encountered M. niedzwetzkyana in the Ili valley, where he also met Niedzwetzky, in what was then the Russian region of Turkestan (but now Kazakhstan) during his 1897 expedition. Hansen began two breeding programs based on this unusual fruit, one aimed at developing a cold-hardy cooking and eating apple, and the other aimed at developing ornamental crabapples. His efforts resulted in the Almata apple and the Hopa crabapple, among other varieties. Some of these apples, as well as M. niedzwetzkyana itself, are being used for small-scale commercial production of rosé apple ciders.

Cultivars
 'Red Vein'.

See also
Applecrab

References

niedzwetzkyana
Crabapples
Flora of the Caucasus
Flora of Central Asia
Flora of China
Flora of Kazakhstan
Flora of temperate Asia


title: Pius Ngandu Nkashama

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Pius Ngandu Nkashama is a professor, writer, playwright, poet and literary critic. He was born in 1946 in Mbujimayi in the province of Kasai Oriental in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

After a degree in philosophy and letters at Lovanium University in 1970, he was appointed as assistant professor and professor at the National University of Zaire (Lubumbashi). He also led the Centre of African Studies. In the late 1970s, he flew to France where he obtained in 1981 a PhD in Arts and Humanities at the University of Strasbourg. Thereafter, he traveled the world to teach in various universities (Annaba and Constantine in Algeria, Limoges and the Sorbonne in France). Since 2000, he has settled in the United States where he works as professor of French Language and Literature at Louisiana State University.

In 2004, he was awarded the Fonlon-Nichols award in support of democratic values, humanistic thought and literary excellence in an author of African origin.

References

Democratic Republic of the Congo dramatists and playwrights
Democratic Republic of the Congo poets
Literary critics
1946 births
Living people
Lovanium University alumni
Academic staff of the National University of Zaire


title: Tengami

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Tengami is an adventure video game. It was released on iOS on February 20, 2014, on the Wii U on November 13, 2014, on Microsoft Windows and macOS on January 15, 2015, and on Android on November 5, 2015.

The game is an adventure game that takes place in ancient Japan. The style looks similar to traditional Japanese painting, with a 3D pop-up book look. The game includes puzzle-solving.

Reception

Eurogamer criticized the game, noting that while it had "a nice idea and some gorgeous artwork," it was "a mechanical MacGuffin hunt with no characters, no narrative, no substance or resonance beyond a couple of wistful haikus about seasons passing". It said the puzzles were not very elaborate, with movement being tedious.

264,000 downloads of Tengami have been sold across all platforms , with 196,000 on iOS devices, 11,000 on PC and Mac, and another 11,000 on Wii U, which exceeded Nyamyam's expected sales on the console.

References

2014 video games
Adventure games
Android (operating system) games
IOS games
MacOS games
Video games scored by David Wise
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in feudal Japan
Wii U eShop games
Windows games

Single-player video games
Puzzle video games


title: Western Gateway Park

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Western Gateway Park is an urban park located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Opened in 2006, the park has served as the host to political rallies, the Des Moines Arts Festival, the 80/35 Music Festival, and various athletic events and festivals.

The central branch of the Des Moines Public Library, the Temple for Performing Arts, and the Des Moines center for the University of Iowa are located within the park. In 2009, 4.4 acres of the park were converted from open green space to a sculpture park, known as the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park. The Pappajohns' contributed 28 works to the park - the most significant donation of artwork ever made to the Des Moines Art Center. The sculpture park is administered by the Des Moines Art Center and contains work by many artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Jaume Plensa, Deborah Butterfield, and Judith Shea.

On October 31, 2008, the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama held a rally and gave a speech in the park just four days before being elected president.

Another Western Gateway Park is located in Penn Valley, California as part of the Western Gateway Recreation & Park District.

In 2019, the Krause Gateway Center opened designed by famed architect Renzo Piano located on the park's edge.

References

External links

Urban public parks
Geography of Des Moines, Iowa
Parks in Iowa
2006 establishments in Iowa


title: Azerbaijani musical instruments

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Azerbaijani traditional musical instruments are a family of ancient string, wind and percussion instruments used in the performance of Azerbaijani traditional music.

Types of instruments
Instruments used in traditional Azerbaijani music include the stringed instruments tar (skin faced lute), the kamancha (skin faced spike fiddle), the oud, originally barbat, and the saz (long necked lute); the double-reed wind instrument balaban, the frame drum ghaval, the cylindrical double faced drum nagara (davul), and the goshe nagara (naqareh) (pair of small kettle drums). Other instruments include the garmon (small accordion), tutek (whistle flute), and daf (frame drum).

The zurna and naghara duo is played at weddings and other local celebrations.

Instruments can be played individually, in an improvisational manner, in ensembles, during traditional ceremonies and folk dances.

String instruments
The main stringed instruments are tar and kamancha, which are the part of the national music mugham. They together with ghaval create trio in mugham. Tar is a keyhole-shaped and kamancha is round shaped instrument. Their strings are made of silk or horsehair. Tar traditionally crafted around the country and in 2012 craftsmanship of tar was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists of Humanity. Walnut or mulberry trees are used in order to carve tar. It has long neck and deep body. Traditionally neck was tied 27-28 frets. In the twentieth century Azerbaijani musician Mirza Sadigh (also known as Sadighjan) made some changes by increasing number of strings to18. Then he reduces strings to 13. In order to strengthen the sound effects, he reduced the depth of the body part by flattening the sides.

In 1932, Uzeyir Hajibeyov created an orchestra consisted of Azerbaijani folk instruments. The first tar and kamancha concerts with symphony orchestra were arranged by Haji Khanmammadov. Nowadays, Farkhad Khudyev and Imamyar Hasanov are well-known Azerbaijani kamancha players. In 2013, Farkhad Khudyev performed concert for kamancha with the Youth Music Monterrey County Symphony Orchestra from California dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Khamammadov’s Symphony Orchestra.

Another stringed instrument is saz which is performed by ashiks. It is an ancient musical instrument that originally national poems were narrated by. In 2009, Azerbaijani ashik music was included in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO.

Percussion instruments
Naghara is cylinder shaped instrument played with hands or sticks and made of membrane or leather of animals. The base of the naghara is wooden and made of walnut, mulberry or apricot trees. There are a number of types of naghara such as, goltug naghara, bala naghara and manual naghara. Gosha naghara are two joined nagharas with the same height but different sized, which is usual for Azerbaijani music.

Classical mugham instrument ghaval (also called daf) is shallow round shaped drum. The frame surrounded by metal rings inside.

Wind instruments
The wind instrument balaban (also sometimes called as balaman) is widely used in ceremonies. The origin of the word comes from “bala” – little, “ban” – sound of cockcrow. Balaban carved from the trees of walnut, mulberry, apricot or pear. The length of the instrument is up to 30 centimeters. The main body of the instrument consisted of the eight holes and there is a hollow in the lower part of the balaban. During the performances, players use their fingers by blowing the instrument. Sound effects are created regarding to the air flows from the holes.

Ney is considered as an ancient wind musical instrument and the main body of the instrument is made from one piece of reed. The ney is 55-60 centimeters long. There are five holes on the front side of the body and one in the back.

There are two types of tutak such as, small and large tutaks in Azerbaijan. The front side has seven and the back side has six holes. The body of the instrument is made from a piece of walnut, mulberry, apricot trees or reed. The length of the finished barrel is 28-30 centimeters and the diameter – 20mm. The main difference between the tutak and other Azerbaijani wind instruments its sound is mild.

Zurna is an instrument that is widely used in Azerbaijan. The word zurna consists of two parts: “sur” (great party) and “nay” (reed). The 302–317 mm long body is carved from the trees of walnut, mulberry or apricot trees and the width of the mouth pieces is 20 mm and extends in the end portion up to 65 mm. According to the archeological excavations there is found four pipes made from deer horn in Mingachevir.

References


title: Deep Creek Furnace Site

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The Deep Creek Furnace Site is a historic colonial industrial site in rural Sussex County, Delaware, near the community of Middleford.  The Deep Creek Furnace is one of the two oldest blast furnaces (along with Pine Grove) established in what is now southern Delaware for processing bog iron into wrought iron.  It was established by Jonathan Vaughn, who came from Pennsylvania and began acquiring land for it c. 1763.  The main furnace was located at the head of Deep Creek, and a forge for processing its pig iron was set up  away at present-day Middleford.  Vaughn apparently operated the facilities until the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, in which he served in the Continental Army.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Sussex County, Delaware

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
Sussex County, Delaware
National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware


title: Ian Clayton Mackenzie

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Ian Clayton Mackenzie, CBE (13 January 190917 October 2009) was a British diplomat.

Biography

Born on 13 January 1909, Ian Mackenzie was educated at Bedford School and at King's College, Cambridge.  After joining the British Diplomatic Service he served in diplomatic postings in China, Belgian Congo, Chile, Norway, Venezuela and Sweden, before serving as British Ambassador to South Korea between 1967 and 1969.
Ian Mackenzie died on 17 October 2009.

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1909 births
2009 deaths
British centenarians
Men centenarians
People educated at Bedford School
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to South Korea
Members of HM Diplomatic Service
20th-century British diplomats


title: 1982 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

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The 1982 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 23rd conference playoff in league history and 30th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between March 4 and March 14, 1982. First round and semifinal games were played at home team campus sites while the championship match was held at the Winter Sports Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. By winning the tournament, Wisconsin received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

This as the first WCHA tournament held after the defection of four conference schools to the CCHA.

Format
All member teams were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. As a result of their receiving the Broadmoor Trophy, North Dakota's home venue, Winter Sports Center, served as the site for the Championship game regardless of which teams qualified for the penultimate match. Each series were two-game matchups with the team that scored the most goals advancing to the succeeding round. The top two seeded teams received byes into the semifinal round while the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed met in the first round. The teams that advanced to the semifinal were re-seeded according to the final regular season conference standings, with the first seed matched against lowest remaining seed in one semifinal game and the second seed meeting with the other advancing team with the winners meeting in the championship round. The Tournament Champion received an automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Conference standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First round

(3) Minnesota vs. (6) Colorado College

(4) Denver vs. (5) Minnesota-Duluth

Semifinals

(1) North Dakota vs. (4) Denver

(2) Wisconsin vs. (3) Minnesota

Championship

(1) North Dakota vs. (2) Wisconsin

Tournament awards
None

See also
Western Collegiate Hockey Association men's champions

References

External links
WCHA.com
1981–82 WCHA Standings
1981–82 NCAA Standings
2013–14 Colorado College Tigers Media Guide
2013–14 Denver Pioneers Media Guide
2013–14 Minnesota Golden Gophers Media Guide
2012–13 Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs Media Guide
2013–14 North Dakota Hockey Media Guide
2003–04 Wisconsin Badgers Media Guide

WCHA men's ice hockey tournament
Wcha Men's Ice Hockey Tournament


title: All-Round Appraiser Q: The Eyes of Mona Lisa

text:
is a 2014 Japanese crime mystery drama film directed by Shinsuke Sato.

Cast
Haruka Ayase
Tori Matsuzaka
Eriko Hatsune
Pierre Deladonchamps
Hiroaki Murakami
Kazuya Kojima

Reception
The film has grossed ¥140 million in Japan.

On Film Business Asia, Derek Elley gave the film a rating of 7 out of 10, calling it a "well-packaged deductive mystery-thriller".

References

External links

2014 crime drama films
2010s mystery drama films
Films based on Japanese novels
Films directed by Shinsuke Sato
Japanese crime drama films
Japanese mystery drama films
2010s Japanese films


title: Dom Cardillo

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Dominic Cardillo (October 26, 1930 – April 14, 2013) was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Kitchener, Ontario from 1982 to 1994.

Born and raised in Guelph, Cardillo was educated at the University of Guelph and moved to Kitchener in 1954 to work as a teacher. He first ran for Kitchener City Council as an alderman in 1963, and served in that role for 20 years prior to his election as mayor.

His term as mayor was marked by significant economic growth, a record of balanced budgets, and the construction of the modern Kitchener City Hall.

He retired in 1994, and was succeeded as mayor by Richard Christy. He is the second longest-serving mayor in the city's history, after Carl Zehr.

He died in 2013 from Parkinson's disease.

References

1945 births
2013 deaths
Mayors of Kitchener, Ontario
People from Guelph
University of Guelph alumni
Deaths from Parkinson's disease


title: Oval Jaynes

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Lee Oval Jaynes Jr. (born July 25, 1940) is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator.

Jaynes was the head football coach at Gardner–Webb University from 1975 to 1977, compiling an overall record of 14–15 in three seasons.  He was an assistant coach for three seasons at the University of Wyoming and became an associate athletic director at Auburn University in 1981.

Jaynes was an athletic director at five universities: he was hired at Colorado State University in 1986, the University of Pittsburgh in 1991, the University of Idaho in 1996, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1998, and Jacksonville State University in 2008. His salary as athletic director was $118,000 at Pittsburgh in 1991, and $88,000 at Idaho in 1996.

He served as an assistant football coach and head wrestling coach at The Citadel in the 1965–66 season.

Jaynes did not use his middle name "Oval" until high school, when there were multiple players named "Lee" on the freshman football team.

Head coaching record

References

1940 births
Living people
Appalachian State Mountaineers baseball players
Appalachian State Mountaineers football players
Auburn University personnel
Chattanooga Mocs athletic directors
The Citadel Bulldogs football coaches
The Citadel Bulldogs wrestling coaches
Colorado State Rams athletic directors
Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football coaches
Idaho Vandals athletic directors
Jacksonville State Gamecocks athletic directors
Pittsburgh Panthers athletic directors
South Carolina Gamecocks football coaches
Wake Forest Demon Deacons football coaches
Wyoming Cowboys football coaches
People from Morganton, North Carolina
Players of American football from North Carolina
Baseball players from North Carolina


title: Walney Lighthouse

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Walney Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse located on Walney Island in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The current building dates to the early 19th-century and is Grade II* listed as well as being the southernmost man-made structure in Cumbria.

Completed in 1804, the stone lighthouse and its attached cottages actually predate Barrow and its port. The structure was built to replace a smaller wooden lighthouse that was constructed by the Lancaster Quay Commissioners in 1790 to aid in navigation towards the docks at Glasson close to Lancaster and the River Lune. It contained three  reflectors mounted on a slowly-revolving shaft; the reflectors consisted of a concave wooden frame covered with small pieces of mirrored glass.

The original lighthouse was destroyed by fire in 1803 and was swiftly replaced by the lighthouse of today. The lighthouse was designed by engineer E. Dawson. The optical system (as renewed in 1846) was a clockwork-driven rotating array of four Argand lamps backed by parabolic reflectors, which gave a white flash once a minute.

The lighthouse saw little change until 1909, when an acetylene gaslight system was installed, this was again changed in 1953 to a 'manned' electric light and rotation system (still with the four reflectors), flashing once every fifteen seconds. In 2003, when it was finally automated, Walney was the last manned lighthouse in England. It was also the last to be using a catoptric apparatus; that year the reflectors were replaced by a modern electric light unit.

See also

 Listed buildings in Barrow-in-Furness
 List of lighthouses in England

References

External links
 On-site interview with former keeper Peg Braithwaite prior to automation

Buildings and structures in Barrow-in-Furness
Grade II* listed buildings in Cumbria
Grade II* listed lighthouses
Lighthouses completed in 1804
Lighthouses in Cumbria


title: Pine Grove Furnace Site

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The Pine Grove Furnace Site is a historic colonial industrial site in rural Sussex County, Delaware.  Pine Grove was one of the first blast furnaces to be set up in what is now southern Delaware (along with Deep Creek).  The endeavor was begun Thomas Lightfoot and Abraham Mitchel, who apparently had the furnace built by late 1765.  The exact fate of the works is unclear; it is last mentioned in the documentary record in 1773, and its operations may have been curtailed by the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War a few years later.  The site, which included a dam, was located about  above the confluence of Deep Creek with the Nanticoke River.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Sussex County, Delaware

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
Sussex County, Delaware
National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware
Furnaces


title: The Good Luck of Right Now

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The Good Luck of Right Now is a novel written by Matthew Quick.

Film adaptation
On January 15, 2014, it was announced that after the success of The Silver Linings Playbook adaptation, the upcoming novel would be adapting into the feature film. On January 17, DreamWorks acquired the rights to the film. On January 29, Brie Larson was in talks to join the film for a lead cast. On March 20, studio tapped Mike White to write the script for the film. On May 27, directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris left the film project due to creative disagreements.

References

2014 American novels
Novels by Matthew Quick
HarperCollins books


title: Pic de Montferrat

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The Pic de Montferrat, culminating at , is a crest summit on the Franco-Spanish border, in the massif du Vignemale in the Pyrenees.

Topography

It is located in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, between Cauterets and Gavarnie, arrondissement of Argelès-Gazost in the Pyrenees National Park. It is bordered to the north by the glacier d'Ossoue and by le petit glacier du Montferrat to the south-east.

History
The first ascension was carried out by shepherds, on August 1, 1792, who built a turret on the summit, ordered by Louis-Philippe Reinhart Junker who led a team of geodesists in charge of defining the Franco-Spanish border path.

See also
 List of Pyrenean three-thousanders

References

Mountains of the Pyrenees
Mountains of Hautes-Pyrénées
Pyrenean three-thousanders


title: Spathorhynchus

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Spathorhynchus is an extinct genus of amphisbaenians or worm lizards that existed from the Middle Eocene to the Early Oligocene in what is now Wyoming. It includes two species, the type species S. fossorium, named in 1973 from the Middle Eocene Bridger and Wind River Formations, and the species S. natronicus, named in 1977 from the Lower Oligocene White River Formation. Spathorhynchus belongs to the family Rhineuridae, which includes many other extinct species that ranged across North America at various times in the Cenozoic but only has one surviving member, Rhineura floridana, from Florida. Spathorhynchus differs from all other rhineurids except Dyticonastis from the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene of Oregon in having a slightly widened, spatula-shaped snout tip with a low angle of about 30 degrees. The two taxa may be closely related, having evolved in isolation in western North America after the formation of the Rocky Mountains separated them from rhineurids further east.

References

Amphisbaenians
Eocene lepidosaurs
Oligocene lepidosaurs
Eocene reptiles of North America
Oligocene reptiles of North America
Prehistoric lizard genera
Eocene genus first appearances
Rupelian genus extinctions
Fossil taxa described in 1973


title: Skin Up Pin Up / Flourella

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"Skin Up Pin Up" and "Flourella" are two songs by English alternative rock band Mansun. The songs were written and produced by band-leader Paul Draper. "Skin Up Pin Up" was recorded in London during the group's first recording session and "Flourella" during the group's second recording session in Ewloe, North Wales. The single was released as a double A-side on white 7-inch vinyl and CD and charted at number 91 on the UK Singles Chart.

Both songs were later reworked and re-released in 1997. "Flourella" was rerecorded and remixed for inclusion on the group's debut album, though was dropped and instead appeared on the "She Makes My Nose Bleed" single. "Skin Up Pin Up" was remixed by British electronic music group 808 State and released on the superhero action film soundtrack Spawn: The Album on 29 July 1997.

Track listing

Personnel
Mansun
 Paul Draper – vocals, electric guitar, bass, keyboards, programming
 Dominic Chad – backing vocals, electric guitar
 Stove – bass

Production
 Paul Draper – producer
 Ronnie Stone – engineering
 Mike Hunter – engineering ("Flourella")
 Ian Caple – engineering ("Flourella")

Charts

References

1995 singles
1995 songs
Mansun songs
Songs written by Paul Draper (musician)


title: Hafiz Mammadov

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Hafiz Mammadov (; born 2 December 1964 in Nakhchivan, in Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani businessman who founded and owns the Baghlan Group. He used to own football clubs FC Baku and RC Lens.

Biography
Hafiz Mammadov founded the Baghlan Group in 1998 in Azerbaijan. The Baghlan Group is a company that specialises in oil, gas, construction and transportation, mainly in Azerbaijan. Though not related, Hafiz's very strong links to the family of the controversial former transport minister, Ziya Mammadov, has been cited as one of Baghlan's major commercial advantages allowing the group to grow enormously and for Hafiz Mammadov to become a multi-millionaire.

Football
Mammadov used his millions to invest in his passion for football. In 2004, he became owner of local football club FC Baku, a team in the Azerbaijan Premier League. In 2013, he expanded bought RC Lens in France. Lens. Wearing the Land of Fire logo, Lens gained promotion that season under Mammadov's ownership from Ligue 2 to Ligue 1.

Hafiz also owned shares in La Liga club Atlético Madrid and during the 2012–13 and 2013-14 the club enjoyed very successful seasons wearing the same Land of Fire logo.

On 10 June 2014, Mammadov agreed to take ownership of another European football club - this time it was the English Championship side Sheffield Wednesday . Mammadov looked to take over from the current Chairman Milan Mandarić. The bid for SWFC was rumoured to have been around €50 million however, at the beginning of September, due to Mammadov's failure to meet financial obligations and complete the takeover, Milan Mandarić called the deal off.

According to former President of France François Hollande he directly intervened in favor of the Football Club of Lens.

This was due to financial difficulties in Azerbaijan which forced a number of players and personnel from Baku FC to seek new clubs, leaving the club's future uncertain.

Later that year, Mammadov's failure to provide promised investment of around £4 million to fund transfers for Lens resulted in Lens fans calling for a boycott of the club's main shirt sponsor and saw the club threatened with relegation to League 2, but while some press reports suggested Mammadov was in serious trouble, others suggested a complex web of oligarch connections might allow the situation to be salvaged.

References

People from the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
Azerbaijani businesspeople
Azerbaijani billionaires
1964 births
Living people
Azerbaijani investors
RC Lens non-playing staff


title: Turbonomic

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Turbonomic is a resource-simulation software company headquartered in Boston, MA and owned by IBM.  The company was originally named VMTurbo.

Reception
In 2011, Gartner named Turbonomic as a Cool Vendor in Cloud Management. In 2016, Turbonomic was listed as the top product for Virtualization Management in a report by IDG and IT Central Station. Turbonomic has made five appearances to the Inc. 5000, and made the Forbes Cloud 100 four times. In 2020, Fast Company named Turbonomic to their Best Workplaces for Innovators List. The company was also deemed a Vendor to Watch in AIOps by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) for its combination of abstraction, analytics, and automation engine that continually assures performance of a customer’s applications.

History
The company formed partnerships with Cisco and IBM, entering into OEM agreements to bring Application Resource Management to a larger customer base.

Since its founding in 2008 or 2009,  Turbonomic had raised more than $250M from venture capital firms including Bain Capital Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.

The company's product was updated in 2017 for use with cloud computing platforms.

The company was originally named VMTurbo and changed its name to Turbonomic in August 2017.

Turbonomic acquired ParkMyCloud and SevOne in 2019.

IBM acquired Turbonomic on June 17, 2021.
The company's product simulates supply and demand forces in order to efficiently allocate resources such as computing, database, memory and storage.

References

Further reading

External links

2008 establishments in Massachusetts
Business software companies
Cloud computing providers
Virtualization software
Companies based in Boston
American companies established in 2008
Software companies established in 2008
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct software companies of the United States
2021 mergers and acquisitions
IBM acquisitions
IBM subsidiaries


title: Alicia Rodríguez (Chilean actress)

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Alicia Rodríguez (born 21 May 1992) is a Chilean actress. She is best known for her performance as Daniela Ramírez in Young and Wild.

Selected filmography

Awards
  2012  Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival || Colón de Plata: Best Actress  for Young and Wild

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Actresses from Santiago
Chilean film actresses


title: State derivation

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State derivation has been understood since the 1970s as an attempt within Marxism and neo-Marxism to explain the emergence and extent of the state and its law within the bourgeois, modern economic system and therewith to derive the relationship between economics and politics from the structure of capitalist production.

In the 1920s, the legal scholar Paschukanis foreshadowed the debate with his explanation of the legal form of commodities. In the 1970s Western Marxism resumed the state derivation debate dominated by the works of Gramsci, Althusser and Poulantzas. In West Germany, however, as a result of the student movement’s political expectations of the first post-war social democratic-led government of Willy Brandt, an exclusive debate occurred, the Staatsableitungsdebatte.

The West-German state derivation Debate
The debate was considered a branch of New Marx Reading and took place primarily among academicians, but also arose from the political situation. After the electoral victory in 1969 of a social-liberal coalition in Germany, many on the left hoped for social reforms and sought a revision of institutions and a reform of society by means of the state.

Important writers in this area since 1970 are Rudolf Wolfgang Müller, Christel Neusüß, Bernhard Blanke, Elmar Altvater, Freerk Huisken, Joachim Hirsch, the Class Analysis Project (including Joachim Bischoff) and the Marxist Group.

Within the state-derivation debate the state is seen as a "structural component of the capitalist relations of production itself, its specific political form. The capitalist classes and relations of exploitation are set up so that the economically ruling class do not rule directly but their rule can only be realized by means of a body that is relatively separate, the state. At the same time, the structural and functional logic of capitalism remains in control. The state does not stand outside and independent of capital. The bourgeois state is therefore a class-state without being the direct instrument of a class.  And this particularization or relative autonomy of the state is the basis of the state illusion".

Given the lack of its social efficacy, the Staatsableitungsdebatte ceased to have an explanatory quality of its own to the end the 1970s when the majority of the German New Left except the  Marxist Group either joined the emerging Green Party or entirely withdrew from the political arena.

Criticism
Rainer-Olaf Schultze has argued that the derivative-debate remains "mostly in the conceptual logical domain of the interpretation of the Marxist classics" and failed "to deliver the necessary mediation for the concrete analysis of the reality of capitalist states".

Similarly, Frank Deppe suggests that the state-derivation debate 'was a typical example of a - largely detached from practice and finally only self-reflexive - "academic Marxism", especially focusing on the state - given the importance of civil society in the sense of Gramsci - involves a narrowing of the political concept".

Also, Joachim Hirsch, at that time decisively involved in the debate, conceded later, "that the state derivation debate was conducted on a highly abstract level and sometimes the direction became a form of theoretical tiddly winks". On the other hand, according to Hirsch, however, in many cases the status of the debate has been misunderstood, in which it had not been developed into a complete state theorie.

See also
 Marx's theory of the state
 Miliband–Poulantzas debate
 State monopoly capitalism
  Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

References

Literature
 John Holloway, Sol Picciotto, State and Capital: A Marxist Debate (1978), .
 Clyde W. Barrow, Critical Theories of the State: Marxist, Neomarxist, Postmarxist, 1993, .
 Elmar Altvater and Jürgen Hoffmann, The West German State Derivation Debate: The Relation between Economy and Politics as a Problem of Marxist State Theory, in: Duke University Press (editor), Social Text No. 24 (1990), pp. 134-155.
 Elmar Altvater, Some problems of state interventionism. Kapitalistate 1973, 1, 96—116; 2, 76—S3.
 Nicos Poulantzas, Martin James, The Poulantzas Reader: Marxism, Law and the State .
 Margaret Wirth, Towards a critique of the theory of state monopoly capitalism, in Economy and Society, 3 (1977), pp. 284-313.
 David A. Gold, Y.H. Lo, Erik Olin Wright, Recent developments in Marxist theories of the capitalist state. Monthly Review 1975, vol. 27, nos. 5 & 6.
 Bob Jessop The Capitalist State: Marxist Theories and Methods, 1982,  .
 Karl Held, The Democratic State: Critique of Bourgeois Sovereignty, 1993, .
 Wolfgang Müller, Christel Neusüß: The illusions of state socialism and the contradiction between wage-labour and capital. Telos 1975, vol. 25.
 Burkhard Tuschling, Rechtsform und Produktionsverhältnisse. Zur materialistischen Theorie des Rechtsstaates, 1976, .
 Sybille von Flatow, Freerk Huisken: Zum Problem der Ableitung des bürgerlichen Staates] (PDF-Datei; 5,46 MB), In: PROKLA Nr. 7, 1973.
 Bernhard Blanke, Ulrich Jürgens, Hans Kastendiek: Zur neueren marxistischen Diskussion über die Analyse von Form und Funktion des bürgerlichen Staates, In: PROKLA 14/15, 1974.
 Projekt Klassenanalyse (1974): Oberfläche und Staat: Kritik neuerer Staatsableitungen (Altvater, Braunmühl u.a., Flatow/Huisken, Läpple, Marxistische Gruppe Erlangen). VSA, Westberlin.

External links
 Simon Clarke, The State Debate University of Warwick.
 Texte zur Staatsableitung auf mxks.de.
 Michael Jäger Ableitung, in: Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Vol. 1, Argument-Verlag, Hamburg, 1994, pp. 33-36. .

Marxist theory
State ideologies
Political debates


title: Night of Adventure

text:
Night of Adventure () is a 2014 Chinese comedy film directed by Li Jixian.

Cast
Yan Ni
Geng Le
Shao Bing
Bao Bei'er

Reception
The film has grossed US$4.24 million in China.

References

2014 comedy films
Chinese comedy films


title: Katy Dunne

text:
Katy Dunne (born 16 February 1995) is a British tennis player.

Dunne has won eight singles titles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 28 May 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 212, and in July 2018, she peaked at No. 135 in the WTA doubles rankings.

In March 2016, Dunne won a major non-ITF title at Naremburn, Sydney. As the No. 2 seed, she defeated Shérazad Reix, 6–3, 6–2 to claim the $3,200 first prize at the prestigious North Shore Open.

She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2014 Birmingham Classic. Having defeated the tenth and second seeds in qualifying, Alizé Lim and Tímea Babos, respectively, she faced world No. 44, Camila Giorgi, in the first round, but had to retire with a hip injury after only three games of the third set.

Dunne was later handed a wildcard to compete in the Wimbledon qualifying for the third year running, but lost in the first round to the two-time quarterfinalist Tamira Paszek, in straight sets.
In 2018, she was handed a main-draw wildcard into Wimbledon where she played on centre court against Jelena Ostapenko, pushing the seed to a tie break in the second set before losing in two sets.
In 2019, Dunne won a $60k tournament in Spain and picked up an injury shortly after that.

Her brother, Conor Dunne, was a professional cyclist and former Irish road race national champion.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 13 (8 titles, 5 runner–ups)

Doubles: 15 (8 titles, 7 runner–ups)

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Hemel Hempstead
British female tennis players
English female tennis players
Tennis people from Hertfordshire


title: Parkinsoniidae

text:
Parkinsoniidae is a family of ammonites belonging to the order Ammonitida. The cephalopod family lived from the Bajocian stage to the Bathonian age of the Middle Jurassic.

References

Jurassic ammonites
Bajocian first appearances
Middle Jurassic extinctions
Ammonitida families
Perisphinctoidea


title: Alicia Rodríguez (Spanish actress)

text:
Alicia Rodríguez Fernández (born 2 May 1935) is a Spanish actress. She appeared in a number of theaters, films, and television series. She was active during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Life and career
Rodríguez was born in Málaga on 2 May 1935 as Alicia Rodríguez Fernández. While she was still a baby, her family immigrated to Mexico due to the Spanish Civil War.

Rodríguez began her acting career in theatre as a child actress. In 1946, she received an Ariel Award for her performance in the film El secreto de la solterona. Then, she was very well-known and loved among her fans.

Selected filmography

References

External links

1935 births
Living people
Actors from Málaga
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses
Spanish emigrants to Mexico
Golden Age of Mexican cinema


title: Alicia Rodríguez

text:
Alicia Rodríguez may refer to:

 Alicia Rodríguez (FALN) (born 1953), Puerto Rican member of the FALN
 Alicia Rodríguez (Chilean actress) (born 1992)
 Alicia Rodríguez (Spanish actress) (born 1935)


title: Townsend Site

text:
The Townsend Site is a major prehistoric Native American site in Sussex County, Delaware.  The Late Woodland site includes at least 90 significant features, including numerous burial sites.  The site received its first thorough study in 1948, and was the first Late Woodland site in the state to be examined in consultation with professional archaeologists of the Smithsonian Institution, and resulted in the creation of a typology of ceramics found.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Sussex County, Delaware

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
Sussex County, Delaware
National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware


title: Pro Basketball League Rising Star

text:
The Pro Basketball League (PBL) Rising Star is an annual Pro Basketball League (PBL) award given to the best young player in the top tier domestic basketball league in Belgium. Formerly, the award was named the PBL Most Promising Player of the Year. Maxime De Zeeuw was the inaugural winner in 2009.

Winners

Awards by club

Notes

References

Pro Basketball League awards