title: Amina Gautier

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Amina Gautier is an American writer and academic. She is the author of three short story collections, many individual stories, as well as works of literary criticism.

Early life and education
Gautier was born and raised in New York. After participating in Prep for Prep, she attended the Nightingale Bamford School before graduating from Northfield Mount Hermon. She then went to Stanford, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature. She continued her education at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. in English literature.

She held a Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship at Stanford University, a Fontaine Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, a Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship at Marquette University, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.

Career
Gautier is a scholar of 19th century American literature. She has written criticism of the nineteenth century American authors Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Elleanor Eldridge, Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Walt Whitman. Her critical essays and reviews have appeared in African American Review, Belles Lettres, Daedalus, Journal of American History, Libraries and Culture, Nineteenth Century Contexts and Whitman Noir. She has received fellowships from the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), the Social Science Research Council and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Writer
Gautier has published more than 85 short stories. Her fiction has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and story collections, and some of her stories have been reprinted in anthologies.

Her collection of short stories, Now We Will Be Happy, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and her second collection, At-Risk, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

In 2016, Gautier published her third short story collection, The Loss of All Lost Things (Elixir Press).

Awards

Gautier has been the recipient of the Crazyhorse Prize, the Danahy Fiction Prize, the Jack Dyer Prize, the William Richey Prize, the Schlafly Microfiction Award and the Lamar York Prize in Fiction.

Teacher
Gautier has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Marquette University, Saint Joseph's University and Washington University in St. Louis. Most recently, Gautier taught at DePaul University. In fall 2014, she joined the faculty in the MFA program at the University of Miami.

References

External links
 Interview with Gautier, Derek Alger, pif Magazine (2012)
 Interview with Gautier, Julia Brown, Mosaic Magazine (2016)
 Interview with Gautier, Claire Martin, Hair Trigger (2017)
 Interview with Gautier, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, Fiction Writers Review (2018)
 Interview with Gautier, Bret Meier, Pleiades (2019)
 Interview with Gautier, Arts and Letters, NPR (2020)

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American short story writers
American literary critics
American women literary critics
Delta Sigma Theta members
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction winners
Writers from Chicago
Writers from Florida
Writers from New York City
Stanford University alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
DePaul University faculty
Marquette University faculty
University of Miami faculty
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
Northfield Mount Hermon School alumni
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Nightingale-Bamford School alumni
Washington University in St. Louis fellows


title: 2014–15 SS Lazio season

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The 2014–15 season was Società Sportiva Lazio's 115th season since their founding and the club's 27th consecutive season in the topflight of Italian football.

Players

Transfers

In

Out

Competitions

Serie A

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Coppa Italia

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goalscorers

Last updated: 20 June 2015

References

SS Lazio seasons
Lazio


title: Canadian Homes and Gardens

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Canadian Homes and Gardens was a magazine published by Maclean-Hunter in Canada from 1925 until 1962, succeeded by Canadian Homes, which was published until 1978.
It targeted an upper middle class or upper class market, mainly of women, giving advice on home decoration. The distinction between editorial content and advertising was blurred.

History
John Bayne Maclean purchased the magazine in 1925.
From then until January 1960 Maclean-Hunter published thirty seven volumes of the magazine. In 1930 Maclean-Hunter published the 242-page Canadian homes and gardens : book of houses. Canadian Homes and Gardens was sold in 1962. It was succeeded by Canadian Homes. This magazine, devoted to interior decoration, was published by Maclean-Hunter until 1978.

Audience
Canadian Homes and Gardens targeted urban readers from the upper and upper-middle classes. It competed with U.S. magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens, publishing feature articles on home planning and "gracious living". In the 1920s Canadian Homes and Gardens carried stories and illustrations of developments in furniture and appliance design, including Art Deco styles.

At this time Art Deco was associated with a wealthy elite who want to be seen as modern and cosmopolitan.

During the Great Depression, the magazine painted an upbeat picture when describing the 1933-34 radios, linking them to high culture, adventure and the home:

Lorrie Dunington-Grubb (1877–1945), a Toronto-based landscape architect who co-founded Sheridan Nurseries, wrote articles on garden design for Canadian Homes and Gardens. The magazine also helped to promote Canadian nationhood through the concept of a popular Canadian culture expressed in terms of residential aesthetics.
Thus in July 1929 Canadian Homes and Gardens published an article on a project by the architect Elizabeth Lalor Harding to convert a farmhouse in the Muskoka region into a summer residence. She was interested in developing a Canadian style of architecture.
Around 1945 the Greater Vancouver region emerged as a center of architectural modernism, with elegant and innovative designs.
This regional style was given extensive coverage in Canadian Homes and Gardens.

Advertising
The boundary between editorial content and advertisements was blurred, since the purpose of the magazine was to help the reader choose what to buy. Articles were complemented by advertisements for related products, and were spread through the magazine.
The reader had to work through many pages of advertisements to read an entire article.

The magazine devoted an entire issue to the modernist movement of interior decoration, promoting a show of art moderne by the T. Eaton Company, a chain of department stores.
Eaton's College Street was called "one of the few great stores of the world", and was presented as the authority on good taste for middle class urban women. In 1930 an issue of Canadian Homes and Gardens had several pages devoted to the period furniture rooms in the Eaton's College Street store in Toronto. According to the magazine,

The magazine avoided controversy. In 1954-55 there was disagreement between the male-dominated National Industrial Design Council and the Consumers' Association of Canada (CAC), whose members were mostly women. The Design Council refused to require performance testing, and  routinely gave awards to products that women in the CAC thought were faulty, but refused awards to products the CAC favored. Kathleen Harrison of the CAC wrote an article discussing the issue called "How Good is Design Award Merchandise", but Canadian Homes and Gardens decided not to publish it.

The CAC was given the message that women were expected to accept product designs, not contribute to them.

References
Notes

Citations

Sources

1925 establishments in Quebec
1962 disestablishments in Canada
Lifestyle magazines published in Canada
Monthly magazines published in Canada
Defunct magazines published in Canada
Magazines established in 1925
Magazines disestablished in 1962
Magazines published in Montreal


title: Ashley Hall Plantation

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Ashley Hall Plantation is a historic plantation complex located on the Ashley River near West Ashley, Charleston County, South Carolina. The plantation was established in the early 1670s by Stephen Bull. The property includes a small tabby-walled house (c. 1675) with a 20th-century second story addition, the ruins of the Georgian plantation house (1704) which was burned in 1865 to prevent its destruction by Union forces, a monument to the second Governor William Bull (c. 1791), two prehistoric Indian archaeological sites, and two 18th century well sites associated with the plantation. The tabby house is considered one of the oldest standing houses in the state.

In 1915, the 1000 acre property was bought by Julius Jahnz for the price of $30,000, (~$ in ) one of the highest prices paid for a real estate sale in many years. In the run up to World War I, some locals circulated a rumor that German-born Jahnz was shipping large amounts of concrete to his new property to erect a German fortress. In reality, the concrete was being used to construct a modern creamery on 400 acres of the property. Jahnz also undertook the clean-up of the grounds including the ruins of the Bull house and a monument erected to Bull's memory.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

References

Plantations in South Carolina
Plantation houses in South Carolina
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Georgian architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1675
Houses in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina
Tabby buildings
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Burned houses in the United States
1675 establishments in South Carolina


title: Sonoghur

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Sonoghur is located in tehsil mastuj of Chitral District, Pakistan. it is famous for its historical importance and natural beauty. due to its mesmerizing views, it is also called "jannat Sonoghur" which means the "heavenly beautiful Sonoghur"

Populated places in Chitral District


title: James Zachery

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James Zachery (August 27, 1958 – January 25, 1994) was an American football defensive lineman who played eight seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Montreal Alouettes, Montreal Concordes and Edmonton Eskimos. He was drafted by the New York Jets in the eleventh round of the 1980 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas A&M University and attended Midland High School in Midland, Texas. Zachery was a member of the Edmonton Eskimos team that won the 75th Grey Cup. He was also a CFL West All-Star in 1986.

Zachery died on January 25, 1994, after he was the victim of a gang attack. 17-year-old De-Vann Stewart was initially charged with Zachary's murder. Stewart was later sentenced to 20 years on a manslaughter conviction and a second defendant, Don Jackson, was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to 50 years in prison.

See also
List of Canadian Football League records (individual)

References

External links
Just Sports Stats
Fanbase profile

1958 births
1994 deaths
American football defensive ends
Canadian football defensive linemen
African-American players of American football
African-American players of Canadian football
Texas A&M Aggies football players
Montreal Alouettes players
Montreal Concordes players
Edmonton Elks players
People murdered in Texas
Male murder victims
American murder victims
People murdered by American organized crime
Players of American football from Midland, Texas
20th-century African-American sportspeople


title: Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's floor

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The women's individual floor competition of the 2014 Commonwealth Games took place on August 1 at the SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow, Scotland.

Results

Qualification

Qualification took place on July 29 as part of the team and individual qualification event.

Final

References

External links
Official results

Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
2014 in women's gymnastics


title: Auld Mound

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Auld Mound (38CH41), also known as Yough Hall Plantation Shell Ring, is a historic mound located near Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina. It is one of 20 or more prehistoric shell rings located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of Georgia. On average, it measures 174 feet in diameter and stands 2 to 3 feet high. The midden is largely composed of oyster shell.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Shell rings


title: 54th (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

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54th (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army from 1922 until 1954. In World War II it defended London during The Blitz and later served in the Middle East.

Origin
German air raids by Zeppelin airships and Gotha bombers on London and other British cities during World War I had shown the need for strong anti-aircraft (AA) defences in any future war. When the Territorial Army (TA) was reformed in 1922 it included a number of dedicated AA units of the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA). The fourth of these was 54th (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, RGA, (TA), comprising 160th, 161st and 162nd (City of London) AA Batteries, formed in July 1923 and headquartered in Putney. It was assigned to 27th (London) Air Defence Brigade.

As Britain's AA defences expanded during the 1930s, higher formations became necessary. 1st AA Division was formed to cover London and the Home Counties in 1935, and the 54th AA Brigade was reassigned to 26th (London) AA Group within the division. The Royal Garrison Artillery had been absorbed into the Royal Artillery (RA) in 1924; on 1 January 1939 the RA replaced its traditional unit designation 'Brigade' by the modern 'Regiment', which allowed the 'AA Groups' to take the more usual formation title of 'Brigades'.

World War II

Mobilisation
The TA's AA units were mobilised on 23 September 1938 during the Munich Crisis, with units manning their emergency positions within 24 hours, even though many did not yet have their full complement of men or equipment. The emergency lasted three weeks, and they were stood down on 13 October. 54th AA Regiment formed an additional battery, No 312, at Putney on 1 April 1939, as part of the expandion of the TA following the Munich Crisis.

In February 1939 the existing AA defences came under the control of a new Anti-Aircraft Command. In June, as the international situation worsened, a partial mobilisation of the TA was begun in a process known as 'couverture', whereby each AA unit did a month's tour of duty in rotation to man selected AA gun and searchlight positions. On 24 August, ahead of the declaration of war, AA Command was fully mobilised at its war stations.

After mobilisation, a new 48th AA Bde was formed in South London on 28 August 1939, to which 54 (CoL) AA Regt was assigned.

Battle of Britain and Blitz

In May 1940 the regiment was deployed manning  4.5-inch guns at sites in South East London:
 160 AA Bty at Welling (site ZS6)
 161 AA Bty at Woolwich (ZS8)
 312 AA Bty at Dulwich (ZS14) and Clapham (ZS16), with Battery HQ (BHQ) at 'Woodhall' in College Road, Dulwich

On 1 May 1940, detachments of the newly-formed 318 AA Bty of 99th (London Welsh) AA Rgt were sent to these sites for training on 4.5-inch guns, and then on 15 May, 318 AA Bty took over BHQ and sites ZS14 and ZS16 from 312 AA Bty. At the same time 162 AA Bty concentrated at Eltham (ZS7).

On 1 June 1940, along with other AA units equipped with 3-inch, 3.7-inch or 4.5-inch AA guns, the 54th was designated a Heavy AA Regiment. It continued to serve with 48 AA Bde in 1 AA Division defending London during the Blitz

The regiment sent a cadre to 205th Training Regiment at Aborfield to provide the basis for a new 428 Bty; this was formed on 8 May 1941 and joined the regiment on 6 August 1941. It replaced 162 Bty, which had left to join a new 127th HAA Rgt forming at Cobham, Surrey. On 29 December 1941 428 Bty transferred to 131st HAA Rgt.

Indian Ocean and Middle East
In 1942 the regiment sailed to the Indian Ocean. 162 (City of London) Battery went to East Africa Command, where it later formed part of a composite 'F' Regiment. The rest of the regiment went to Ceylon, where by September 1942, 160 and 161 (City of London) Batteries had been joined by 159 (Lloyd's, City of London) Battery from 53 (City of London) HAA Regiment. 159 Battery later moved on to 52 (London) HAA Regiment and took part in the Burma Campaign 1944–45.

In May 1943, 54 HAA Regiment moved to Egypt, where it came under the non-operational 8th AA Bde in Middle East Forces. 312 Battery moved up and came under 89th HAA Rgt/AA Defence Command at Benghazi but the rest of the regiment remained in Egypt until it was placed in suspended animation on 27 February 1945.

Postwar
When the TA was reformed in 1947, the regiment was reconstituted as 454 HAA Regiment (City of London),  RA, TA based at Lytton Grove, Putney, as part of 67 AA Bde.

On 1 January 1954 the regiment was merged into 452 (London) HAA based at Acton.

Honorary Colonel
The following officer served as Honorary Colonel of the regiment:
 Capt Sir Benjamin Lazarus Hansford, KCB, TD (1863–1954), 1928–47

Prominent members
On 1 September 1939 the artist Edward Ardizzone was mobilised at Putney with 54th HAA Regiment. By December he was a Bombardier with F Troop of 162 Bty. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on 23 December, leaving the artillery and becoming an official war artist  in February 1940.

Notes

References
 Monthly Army List.
 Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.
 Gen Sir Martin Farndale, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: The Far East Theatre 1939–1946, London: Brasseys, 2002, .
 J.B.M. Frederick, Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978, Vol II, Wakefield, Microform Academic, 1984, .

 Norman E.H. Litchfield, The Territorial Artillery 1908–1988 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges), Nottingham: Sherwood Press, 1992, .
 Brig N.W. Routledge, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Anti-Aircraft Artillery 1914–55, London: Royal Artillery Institution/Brassey's, 1994,
 Titles and Designations of Formations and Units of the Territorial Army, London: War Office, 7 November 1927 (also in Litchfield, Appendix IV).

Online sources
 The Royal Artillery 1939–45
 British Military History
 Orders of Battle at Patriot Files
 British Army units from 1945 on
 British Artillery in World War 2
 Edward Ardizzone website

Heavy anti-aircraft regiments of the Royal Artillery
Military units and formations in London
Military units and formations in Wandsworth


title: Buzzard's Island Site

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Buzzard's Island Site is a historic mound located near Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina. It is one of 20 or more prehistoric shell rings located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of Georgia. On average, it measures 178 feet in diameter and stands 3 feet high. The midden is largely composed of oyster shell.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Shell rings


The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial was a series of events and initiatives celebrating the 100th anniversary of the charter of the Museum occurring between 1969 and 1971.

Background
The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated its centennial with exhibitions, symposia, concerts, lectures, the reopening of refurbished galleries, special tours, social events, and other programming for eighteen months from October 1969 through the spring of 1971. The highlight was an open house and Centennial Ball on April 13, 1970. The anniversary was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 100th Anniversary Committee, chaired by Trustee Roswell Gilpatric and including Museum President Arthur A. Houghton, Trustees Brooke Astor, C. Douglas Dillon, and Arthur K. Watson, advertising
executive David Ogilvy, CBS President Frank Stanton, socialite and representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Marietta Tree, and collector and future Museum Trustee Jayne Wrightsman. Events were held both at the Museum and beyond, reaching cities throughout the United States and overseas.

"The Great Age of Fresco: Giotto to Pontormo," which was on view for only two months in the fall of 1968, was the first exhibition at the Museum to have corporate sponsorship. Olivetti’s underwriting of the exhibition was seen as a model for the pursuit of corporate sponsors for the Centennial exhibitions being planned at that time.

Exhibitions
Centennial special events at the Museum centered around five exhibitions celebrating the breadth of the Museum’s collecting over the previous one hundred years: “New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970” (sponsored by Xerox), "The Year 1200,""19th-Century America" (opened by First Lady Pat Nixon), “Before Cortés: Sculpture of Middle America,” and “Masterpieces of Seven Centuries.” "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970" was the Museum's first exhibition of contemporary American art, curated by Henry Geldzahler to mark the inauguration of the newly established department of Contemporary Arts. It elicited reactions ranging from shock to relief at the new direction of collecting that it signaled. For each exhibition, a contemporary American composer was commissioned to create an orchestral fanfare. These included Shivaree by Leonard Bernstein (for "Before Cortes: Sculpture of Middle America"), Ceremonial Fanfare For Brass Ensemble by Aaron Copland (for "Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries"), Ceremonial Fanfare by Walter Piston (for "The Year 1200"),  Anniversary Fanfare by William Schuman (for "19th Century America"), and Metropolitan Museum Fanfare: Portrait Of An American Artist by Virgil Thomson (for "New York Painting And Sculpture: 1940–1970").

As part of the Museum's expanded outreach programs, the Centennial was marked with loan exhibitions to museums in the United States and overseas, including Expo ’70 in Osaka, Japan. "Treasures from the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art" traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. "Prints by Nine New York Painters" was seen in Jerusalem and seven other cities, while "Masterpieces of Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" traveled to The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which celebrated its own centennial in 1970. Many objects shown in "Before Cortés: Sculpture of Middle America" originated from Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Historia as part of a 25-year reciprocal loan and cultural program with the Metropolitan Museum.

Events
April 13, 1970 marked the 100th anniversary of the granting of the Metropolitan Museum's charter by the State of New York. On April 10 the Museum hosted a reception for staff members, before which Director Thomas Hoving presented the Museum's “Comprehensive Plan for the Second Century,” which would guide building and program efforts in the coming decades. On April 13, the Museum held an open house for New York residents from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., including a receiving line of political dignitaries, special programs, refreshments, and entertainment in the Museum and on its Fifth Avenue plaza. The Centennial Ball that evening was hosted by Museum trustee Brooke Astor and featured reduced ticket prices for staff members and their families. Four ballrooms were set up in the Museum, each decorated by a noted New York interior decorator around the theme of a specific historical event or artistic period.

Publications and centennial initiatives
In celebration of the Centennial the Museum published eighteen new books, twelve directly related to the anniversary and six to other aspects of its collections. Among them were Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, written by New Yorker staff writer Calvin Tomkins and published in 1970, which serves as an official history of the institution, and a centennial issue of the Metropolitan Museum Journal published to coincide with the celebrations’ conclusion in 1971. Other initiatives included educational programs, book publishing, television programs, film projects, and receptions to coincide with meetings of professional organizations including the American Association of Museums.

“Cinémathèque at the Metropolitan Museum,” which was jointly sponsored by the Museum and City Center of Music and Drama, showed seventy films dating from the medium's first seventy-five years on thirty-five consecutive evenings from July 29 to September 3, 1970. The films were selected by Cinémathèque Française founder and director Henri Langlois, from its archive of more than 50,000 films. Chosen for their significance and contributions to the history of filmmaking, they included work from official film industries as well as current and early avant garde directors. The program was the most diverse film exhibition held in the United States to date, and was the Museum's first major undertaking in film. Television projects associated with the centennial included "Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries” narrated by noted art historian Sir Kenneth Clark, a one-hour NBC program prepared by Aline Saarinen, and a network television report each evening during the week of October 6, 1969 on one of the five centerpiece centennial exhibitions.

Specially tailored Museum visits were organized for members of other museums and cultural organizations across the United States to see the Centennial exhibits and participate in related programming. An intensive advertising, promotion, and public relations campaign publicized the events to a wide range of visitors and distant supporters through newspapers, magazines, and other print publications, as well as television and local store window displays. A free year-long course in art history, composed of thirty lectures, was developed and offered to the public by the Education Department.  Artist Frank Stella was commissioned to create a Centennial logo, and medals incorporating the design were struck to mark the occasion. Remodeled and refurbished galleries in the Museum opened during this period, including the Ancient Near Eastern Art and Egyptian Art departments and the Costume Institute in the fall of 1970, and a reinstallation of the Musical Instruments collections. The extent of air-conditioned gallery space was doubled, to include almost two-thirds of the Museum's exhibition spaces. Considerable emphasis was also put on fundraising for the expenses associated with the Centennial celebrations.

References

See also

 Florens Deuchler, The Year 1200 (Volume 2): A background survey, published in conjunction with the centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 12 through May 10, 1970. Digital Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
 Elizabeth Kennedy Easby and John F. Scott. Before Cortés, sculpture of Middle America : a centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 1970 through January 3, 1971. Digital Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
 Konrad Hoffman, The Year 1200 (Volume 1): A centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 12 through May 10, 1970. Digital Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
 Calvin Tomkins, Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: E.P. Dutton (1970).
 Berry B. Tracy, Marilynn Johnson, Marvin D. Schwartz, and Suzanne Boorsch. 19th-century America : furniture and other decorative arts : an exhibition in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 16 through September 7, 1970. Digital Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

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title: Emungalan, Northern Territory

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Emungalan is a suburb in the town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. It is within the Katherine Town Council local government area. The name Emungalan is believed to come from an Aboriginal word meaning "Place of Stone" or "Stony". The area was officially defined as a suburb in April 2007, adopting the name from the former railhead settlement north of the Katherine River.

History
Emungalan was surveyed in 1917, when works to extend the Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway south to the Katherine River neared completion. The original settlement on the river at Knott's Crossing relocated closer to the railhead. Within a year of the line opening, by 1918 Emungalan was served by a post office and police station as well as a number of businesses. The permanent population was estimated at 20 people. At its peak the town grew to 200 residents, boasting a hotel, an airstrip and a racecourse. A school initially operated out of the railway station building to serve the district before a permanent facility was opened in 1923. The town declined rapidly following the completion of the bridge across the Katherine River in 1926, when the railway station along with many homes and businesses relocated to the current site of the Katherine CBD. The airstrip remained in use until 1930 when it was also relocated across the river.

Present day
A small cemetery adjacent to the abandoned North Australia Railway line is the most intact reminder of the former settlement and is listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register. The area around the junction of the Stuart Highway and Emungalan Road is now an industrial area, with some agriculture and rural residential development particularly around Leight Creek, a tributary of the Katherine River. The suburb has been identified as a future focus for further industrial development and medium term planning calls for upgrades to water and sewerage allowing residential subdivision. Kalano Aboriginal community is located in the east of the suburb, as is the Katherine Town Council administrative chambers.

References

Suburbs of Katherine, Northern Territory


title: Sunny (manga)

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Sunny is a Japanese slice of life manga series written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Ikki from December 2010 to September 2014, when the magazine ceased publication. It was later transferred to Monthly Big Comic Spirits, being serialized from January to July 2015. Its chapters were collected in six wide-ban volumes. The manga was licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media.

Sunny won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category in 2016 and received an Excellence Award at the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2017.

Plot
Sunny is the story about the foster children of the Star Kids home, a combination group home/orphanage facility. They struggle with both the everyday issues of growing up and those specific of being abandoned or orphaned children. Their only way out from their situation is the Sunny, a dilapidated old car in the front lawn of the home. The Sunny is used by the children to go magically wherever they want, travel the world, go into space, or just find a refuge from the troubles of reality.

Characters

Also referred as , is a rebellious white-haired boy who is usually fantasizing inside the Sunny and getting into fights. He deeply cares about the other kids at the home, getting in trouble if it requires it to help them. Her mother left him in the Star Kids and they reunite on occasion. Haruo keeps a round tin of Nivea which reminds him her smell.

A bespectacled smart quiet boy and a newcomer to the Star Kids. He feels uneasy at the home and does not really try at the beginning to connect with the other kids, believing that his parents will come back any day now.

An artistic, musically-inclined and playful boy. He was sent to the home along with his little brother . They visit their ill mother at the hospital.

A sensitive girl, burdened with the memories of a caring family since her parents died. She fears dying alone and wants no one else to leave her. Megumu always thinks the best of others and tries to be a "normal" girl. She is befriended with Kiko.

A scandalous and whining girl, defensive of her peers. Her mother left her in the Star Kids.

A teenager and one of the older kids at the home. He is nicknamed "Horny Kenji" after his porn magazines were found inside the Sunny. He is the son of an alcoholic father. He does not  know what he wants out of life and even tried to drop out of school.

Kenji's older sister and high school student. She also takes care of the kids at the Star Kids.

An obese large man with an undisclosed mental issue who is usually wandering around the home, picking flowers and singing nursery rhymes. He also serves as a guardian of the home and the kids.

Mr. Adachi is the caretaker of the Star Kids, along with Miss Mitsuko. He is a compassionate and patient man who is always looking for the well-being of the kids.

The grandson of the Star Kids housemaster. He is admired by the kids, specially by Haruo. He is a college student, but is aimlessly searching for his purpose in life.

Production
Matsumoto stated that he has planned since his debut on writing a manga about his own experience living in a children's care home for six years when he was young,  but he thought that it would be strange to start a career as a manga artist with a theme like that. Matsumoto also said that Sunny is not an autobiographical work, clarifying that there are parts close to his own experiences, while others were mostly made up, adding as well, that at first he planned on making it more autobiographical, but he could not make it work, so it wounded up being "half real and half fiction". For the series, Matsumoto decided to use the Kansai dialect for dialogues to make the story more light-hearted. Matsumoto's previous works have been noted for lack of female characters, whereas in Sunny they are more prominent, as Matsumoto was basing the work on his own experience and half of the kids at the home were girls. Matsumoto's wife helped him drawing the female characters.

Publication
Sunny, written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto, was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Ikki from December 25, 2010, to September 25, 2014, when Ikki suspended its publication. The manga was later transferred to Monthly Big Comic Spirits, being serialized from January 27 to July 27, 2015. Shogakukan collected its chapters in six wide-ban volumes, released from August 30, 2011, to October 30, 2015.

The manga has been licensed for English-language release by Viz Media in 2012. The six volumes were released from May 21, 2013, to November 15, 2016.

Volumes

Reception
Sunny was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 15th and 16th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2011 and 2012, and received an Excellence Award at the 20th edition in 2017. In 2016, the manga won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category, sharing it with Umimachi Diary. It won the award for Best Graphic Novel at the 2nd Cartoonist Studio Prize. It was nominated for Best American Edition of Foreign Material at the 2014 Harvey Awards. It was also picked as a nominee for 'Best Comic' in the 42nd and the 44th annual Angoulême International Comics Festival held in 2015 and 2017 respectively.

The first volume of Sunny was chosen as one of the Great Graphic Novels 2014 in the fiction section by the Young Adult Library Services Association. It was one of the fifty manga titles selected for a manga exhibition about the promotion of human rights, held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Human Rights Promotion Center in 2015.

On Anime News Network, Rebecca Silverman gave the first volume an overall grade of B+. Greg McElhatton of Comic Book Resources praised the art and claimed it was "the most accessible Matsumoto manga to date" in his review of the first volume. Publishers Weekly wrote that the author "deftly weaves a sense of longing and sadness into even the most chaotic scenes, and readers are drawn into the lives of children struggling to be themselves in a world that doesn’t want them."

References

Further reading

External links

Comics about orphans
Drama anime and manga
Seinen manga
Shogakukan manga
Slice of life anime and manga
Taiyō Matsumoto
Viz Media manga
Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga


title: Sewee Mound

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Sewee Mound (38CH45), also known as the Old Fort, is a historic mound located near Awendaw, South Carolina. It is one of 20 or more prehistoric shell rings located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of Georgia. On average, it measures 149 feet in diameter and stands 10 feet high. The midden is largely composed of oyster shell. A smaller midden is located nearby.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina
Shell rings


title: Wham City

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Wham City is an art and performance collective based in Baltimore, Maryland. Members of Wham City include musicians Dan Deacon and Ed Schrader, visual artists Jimmy Joe Roche, Peter Ryan O'Connell, Mason Ross, Adam Endres, Dina Kelberman, April Camlin, Connor M. Kizer, Robby Rackleff, Cricket Arrison, Alan Resnick and Ben O'Brien.

Events

From 2005–2010, Wham City organized Whartscape, an annual experimental music and arts festival in Baltimore as an alternative to the city's Artscape festival. The festivals included performances by Matmos, Beach House, Double Dagger, Ian MacKaye, Lil B, and Dan Deacon. In its 2010 article about the festival, The Washington Post called Whartscape, "the premier DIY music event in the country".

Wham City member Connor Kizer organizes a bi-monthly lecture series in Baltimore, MD in which local and visiting artists speak on a diverse range of topics. In 2009, The Wham City Lecture Series won "Best Non-Music Bar Act" in the Baltimore City Paper.

Wham City members Ben O'Brien and Alan Resnick organize an annual east coast skit comedy and stand up tour entitled, "The Wham City Comedy Tour".  The tour was founded in 2010 by Dan Deacon and Ben O'Brien. Under the banner "AB Video Solutions", Wham City created several short films for Adult Swim, including the satirical infomercial Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick, which aired on December 2013.

History

Wham City began as a popular underground show space in The Copycat Building in Baltimore, MD in the mid-2000s. Many of the group's principal members met while attending State University of New York at Purchase in the early 2000s before moving to Baltimore City. The song "Wham City" on Dan Deacon's Spiderman of the Rings album was written, according to the musician and co-founder, as a "national anthem" for the collective.

As of February 21, 2022 the group is on indefinite hiatus.

References

Related links

2000s establishments in Maryland
American artist groups and collectives
Arts organizations based in Maryland
Culture of Baltimore
Organizations based in Baltimore


title: Death of Me (Red song)

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"Death of Me" is the third single by Christian rock band Red from their second album, Innocence & Instinct. The single was released to Christian radio on December 18, 2008. The song was written by producer Rob Graves and then-guitarist Jasen Rauch.

Track listing

Charts

References

Red (American band) songs
2008 singles
Sony Music singles
Songs written by Rob Graves
Songs written by Jasen Rauch
2008 songs


title: Hollywood Star Playhouse

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Hollywood Star Playhouse is a radio dramatic anthology series in the United States. It was broadcast April 24, 1950-February 15, 1953, appearing on CBS, ABC and NBC over that span.

Format
As the name implies, Hollywood Star Playhouse featured movie stars, as did a number of other old-time radio programs. A news brief announcing the premiere broadcast noted that the program would feature "a different top screen personality each week in original stories of mystery and adventure by leading Hollywood writers." Those stories were what distinguished this program from others, according to radio historian John Dunning. He wrote that the stories were "tense, original suspense plays well suited for the half-hour." Writers usually created scripts for specific stars. One story, The Six Shooter, broadcast April 13, 1952, starred Stewart and later was turned into a series by that same name in which Stewart starred.

Characters and cast
By its nature, Hollywood Star Playhouse had no regular cast. Different movie stars of the era, such as James Stewart, Deborah Kerr and Victor Mature were featured each week. The program was the venue for the radio debuts of Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Charlton Heston. Casts were rounded out by radio actors such as Wendell Niles, William Conrad, Betty Lou Gerson and Harry Bartell.

The one consistent voice from week to week was the host-narrator. Herbert Rawlinson originally filled that role, followed by Orval Anderson. Jeff Alexander was the first orchestra leader for the program. Basil Adlam later had that role.

Broadcast history
As indicated in the table below, Hollywood Star Playhouse ran on three networks during its almost three years on radio, with two sponsors during that span. Although many radio programs took the summer off, with replacement programs filling their time slot, Hollywood Star Playhouse continued. An account executive at the advertising agency that handled the program said, "Our agency believes the huge amount of out-of-home listening in car radios and other secondary sets makes radio an excellent buy during the warm weather season."

The period of sponsorship by Bakers of America -- an umbrella group comprising the American Bakers' Association, The Bakers of America and Quality Bakers of America -- produced an unusual situation with regard to commercials. Sponsor magazine reported that Bakers of America asked local bakers not to buy commercial time adjacent to Hollywood Star Playhouse'''s time slot in order to emphasize the industry as a whole. A news brief in the magazine called that decision "[u]nique among institutional air efforts," adding that normally local advertisers bought time in station breaks or immediately before or after a program "to capitalize simultaneously" with the national advertising. That request came in sharp contrast to a comment made earlier by the director of Bakers of America. The January 28 issue of Sponsor reported that Walter H. Hopkins, the organization's director, "said radio presented tremendous opportunity for local tie-ins by bakers."

Adaptation
A version of Hollywood Star Playhouse was available via syndication for television stations. It was included ("over 400 half hours") among a number of programs available from MCA in an eight-page ad in the trade magazine Broadcasting.

See alsoAcademy Award TheaterAuthor's PlayhouseBrownstone TheaterThe Campbell PlayhouseCavalcade of AmericaCBS Radio WorkshopThe Dreft Star PlayhouseFord TheatreGeneral Electric TheaterHollywood PlayhouseLux Radio TheaterThe Mercury Theatre on the AirScreen Director's PlayhouseSuspenseTheater Guild on the Air''

References

External links

Logs
Hollywood Star Playhouse episodic log from Audio Classics Archive
Hollywood Star Playhouse episodic log from RadioGOLDINdex
Hollywood Star Playhouse episodic log from Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs

Streaming audio
18 episodes of Hollywood Star Playhouse from Internet Archive
18 episodes of Hollywood Star Playhouse from Old Time Radio Researchers Group

Scripts
Script for "The Tenth Planet," as produced on Hollywood Star Playhouse

1950s American radio programs
American radio dramas
CBS Radio programs
ABC radio programs
NBC radio programs
Anthology radio series
1950 radio programme debuts
1953 radio programme endings


title: Brep

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Brep is a village in upper Chitral District, Pakistan. It is located near Sonoghar.

History
A Chinese fort existed there in the 18th century.

About 40 houses in Brep were destroyed in flooding in July 2015.

References

Populated places in Chitral District


title: Tartigou River

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The Tartigou River is a watercourse over  long in the Matapedia Valley in Quebec, Canada. Its origin lies in the Bon-Dieu Lake in Saint-Moïse, while its mouth is on the Saint Lawrence in Baie-des-Sables.

Etymology
The name Tartigou comes from a transcription of the Mi'kmaq word tlagatigotj. Tartig means "river of the little colony" or "little river of the colony."

Geography
The Tartigou River takes its water from the Matapedia Valley in the Bas-Saint-Laurent administrative region of the Gaspé Peninsula. It travels  northeast to Saint-Noël before turning to the west to follow a railroad for . Then, the river changes again to a northeast course until it reaches the Saint Lawrence River in Baie-des-Sables, also located in Bas-Saint-Laurent.

References

Rivers of Bas-Saint-Laurent
Tributaries of the Saint Lawrence River


title: 2014–15 FC Rubin Kazan season

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The 2014–15 Rubin Kazan' season was the 12th successive season that the club will play in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia. Rubin Kazan will also be taking part in the Russian Cup.

Squad

Out on loan

Transfers

Summer

In:

Out:

Winter

In:

Out:

Competitions

Russian Premier League

Results by round

Matches

League table

Russian Cup

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goal Scorers

Disciplinary record

Notes
 MSK time changed from UTC+4 to UTC+3 permanently on 26 October 2014.

References

FC Rubin Kazan seasons
Rubin Kazan


title: Hanckel Mound

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Hanckel Mound (38CH7) is a historic mound located near Rockville, Charleston County, South Carolina. It is one of 20 or more prehistoric shell rings located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of Georgia. On average, it measures 158 feet in diameter and stands 8 feet high. The midden is largely composed of oyster shell.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina
Shell rings


title: Azorhizobium doebereinerae

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Azorhizobium doebereinerae is a species of bacteria in the family Xanthobacteraceae. Strains of this species were originally isolated from root nodules of the shrub Sesbania virgata in Brazil. They have also been found in other Sesbania species.

References

External links
Type strain of Azorhizobium doebereinerae at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 2006


title: I Won't Be Home for Christmas (The Simpsons)

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"I Won't Be Home for Christmas" is the ninth episode of the twenty-sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 561st episode of the series. The episode was directed by Mark Kirkland and written by Al Jean.  It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 7, 2014. It is the thirteenth Christmas episode of the show.

Plot
The episode begins with Comic Book Guy and Kumiko Albertson watching the Cosmic Wars Special, with Comic Book Guy expressing shock and outrage that the special actually gets worse the more he watches it, and Kumiko stating he has every right to be angry.

Homer plans to fulfill Marge's Christmas Eve wishes by leaving work on time and arriving home to celebrate Christmas with his family. However, after suffering a car accident on the way home, he stops for a quick drink at Moe's, and when he tries to leave, Moe convinces him to stay there by honestly telling Homer how lonely and depressed he is. Homer learns that Moe had the clock 2 hours behind on purpose, and when he finally gets home, Marge is enraged and kicks him out, saying she does not want him in the house on Christmas. Homer then leaves on an odyssey through a deserted and chilly Springfield, with Moe inadvertently compounding his sadness by being preoccupied with karaoke when Homer shows up to try and talk to him, and to add insult to injury, Homer's car gets towed with his cell phone frozen inside it.

Meanwhile, Marge becomes depressed without Homer, but tells Bart and Lisa that she does not plan to forgive him. At that point, Moe, having found Homer's wallet that he left in the tavern, climbs down the 742 Evergreen Terrace chimney and tells Marge the truth about why Homer was out late on Christmas Eve. Marge immediately tries to call Homer and ask him to come home, but as he lost his phone, she ends up going out to look for him. Homer ends up at the miserable local movie theatre to watch a depressing Life is Beautiful-type of film alongside other lost souls like Kirk Van Houten, the Crazy Cat Lady, Groundskeeper Willie, and Gil.

After Marge searches through the city and Homer ends up at a depressing party for mall workers, they each have epiphanies: Homer says that being without his family at Christmas is much worse than being with them, and Marge says that she should not always assume Homer is doing stupid things for no reasons. The two finally find each other at the party, reconcile and look forward to a happy new year.

The final scene features a preview of the next episode, "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner".

Cultural references
The song "Someday at Christmas" by Stevie Wonder plays as Homer wanders through the mall.

Reception

Viewing figures
The episode received an audience of 6.52 million, making it the most watched show on Fox that night.

Critical response
Dennis Perkins of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B−, saying "The moderate pleasure to be gleaned from ‘I Won’t Be Home for Christmas’ comes from a show trying to wring some heart and laughs from a quarter-century of well-trod territory. The pleasures aren't inconsiderable, but they're effortful."

Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode 3 out of 5 stars.  He stated that the episode was not as good as past Christmas episodes, but there were some laughs.

Awards and nominations
Writer Al Jean was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production for this episode at the 43rd Annie Awards.

References

External links

2014 American television episodes
American Christmas television episodes
The Simpsons (season 26) episodes
Television episodes written by Al Jean


title: Horse Island (Rockville, South Carolina)

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Horse Island (38CH14) is a historic mound located near Rockville, Charleston County, South Carolina. It is one of 20 or more prehistoric shell rings located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of Georgia. On average, it measures 156 feet in diameter and stands 4 feet high. The midden is largely composed of oyster shell.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina
Shell rings


title: Stick Em Up

text:
Stick 'Em Up is the fifth studio album by Canadian Rock/Blues band The Perpetrators released in 2013, which Walter de Paduwa (known as Dr Boogie) described as: “The dirtiest stuff you made [sic] so far, and the more accessible for my greasy ears…” Accompanying the release, the band returned to Belgium and the Netherlands for the first time since 2009.

Track listing
 "Sweetgrass"
 "Spend More Money"
 "You've Got to Tell Me"
 "Smokes 'n Chicken"
 "Tired of Tryin to Keep My Cool"
 "I Must Be Crazy"
 "Who's It Gonna Be"
 "Shake It"
 "Bad Man"
 "Take You On"

External links
Official Perpetrators web site

The Perpetrators albums
2013 albums


title: Taxation in Poland

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Taxes in Poland are levied by both the central and local governments. Tax revenue in Poland is 33.9% of the country's GDP in 2017. The most important revenue sources include the income tax, Social Security, corporate tax and the value added tax, which are all applied on the national level.

Income earned is generally subject to a progressive income tax, which applies to all who are in the workforce. For the year 2014, two different tax rates on income apply

Value added tax (VAT)
In 1993, Poland implemented its Value Added Tax system. Polish VAT is overseen by VAT acts and the Fiscal Penal Code, and is enforced by the Ministry of Finance.

Value-Added Tax applies to most trade in goods in Poland. 23% is the basic rate. Lower rates of 8% and 5% also apply for foodstuffs.  Furthermore, some services are taxed at 0% tax rate or exempted from value-added tax (eg. financial and postal services).

Income tax scale before 2017

Income tax scale in 2017
In 2017, tax rates were changed.  Now, the tax is calculated using two tables. The first table does determine the amount of tax.

The second table is used to determine the tax-reducing amount from the tax.

Income tax scale in 2018
In 2018, the tax scale was again changed. Income tax was calculated as follows:

The second table is used to determine the tax-reducing amount from the tax.

Income tax scale in 2019
In 2019, the tax scale was again changed. Income tax in 2019 is calculated as follows:

The second table is used to determine the tax-reducing amount from the tax.

Income tax scale in 2020
In 2020, the tax scale was changed again. Income tax in 2020 is calculated as follows:

The second table is used to determine the tax-reducing amount from the tax in 2020.

Income tax scale in 2022
in 2022, there were significant changes in the tax-free amount and in taxes.

The tax-free amount has been increased to 30,000 PLN year (6,600 Euro per year), for every income and is deducted from salary every month

There is also a non-deducted health care rate for each income of 9% and a reduction for the flat tax (for the self-employed) of 4.9%. This makes everyone pay the fee even if their income is in the free amount.

Income tax scale in 2023

In 2023 tax-free amount remains at level of 30,000 PLN year for every income and is deducted from salary every month

Social security contributions in 2014
Furthermore, a range of social security contributions apply to all in the workforce, and are shared by the employee and the employer. These insurance contributions are paid by both private and public employees until a given ceiling. For the year 2014, the rates in the following table apply

Overall worker tax rate and mandatory insurance amount to 53%.

Social security contributions in 2023
The cap of salaries in 2023, for which rates below apply, is PLN 208,050.

See also
 Economy of Poland

References


title: Bonne-Espérance (disambiguation)

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Bonne-Espérance and Bonne-Esperance which is French for  "Good Hope" may refer to:

Bonne-Espérance, Belgium, the location of Bonne-Espérance Abbey
Bonne-Espérance, Quebec,  municipality in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec in Canada
Bonne Esperance, United States Virgin Islands (disambiguation):
Bonne Esperance, Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands
Bonne Esperance, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands


title: Irwin Pakula

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Irwin Pakula (December 4, 1897 – May 1988) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life
He was born on December 4, 1897, in Poland. The family emigrated to the United States when Irwin was still a child. He attended the public schools in New York City, and DeWitt Clinton High School. He graduated B.A. from the College of the City of New York, and J.D. from New York University School of Law. He practiced law in New York City, and entered politics as a Republican.

Pakula was a member of the New York State Senate(7th D.) in 1947 and 1948. In 1947, he co-sponsored, with Assemblyman Malcolm Wilson, the Wilson Pakula Act. In November 1948, he ran for re-election, but was defeated by Democrat William N. Conrad.

In November 1956, Pakula defeated the incumbent Democratic State Senator James G. Sweeney, and was again a member of the State Senate in 1957 and 1958. In November 1958, Pakula ran for re-election, but was defeated by Democrat Seymour R. Thaler.

He died in May 1988, in Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida.

Sources

1897 births
1988 deaths
Politicians from Queens, New York
Lawyers from Queens, New York
Republican Party New York (state) state senators
DeWitt Clinton High School alumni
Emigrants from Congress Poland to the United States
New York University School of Law alumni
20th-century American politicians


title: Bruno Loureiro

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Bruno Filipe Santos Loureiro (born 23 September 1989) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for G.D. Mangualde as a midfielder.

Club career
Born in Viseu, Loureiro started his senior career with local amateurs S.C. Penalva do Castelo. In 2012, the 23-year-old signed with neighbouring Académico de Viseu FC, helping them promote to the Segunda Liga in his first season.

Loureiro made his second division debut on 10 August 2013, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–0 away loss against Moreirense FC. He scored his first goal as a professional on 27 November of the same year, helping the hosts defeat F.C. Penafiel 1–0. During his first spell at the Estádio do Fontelo he was voted the competition's young player of the month twice, in January and February 2014.

On 25 July 2014, Loureiro moved to Pogoń Szczecin of the Polish Ekstraklasa on a one-year contract with the option for a further season. He returned to his country shortly after with no competitive appearances to his credit, going on to represent S.C. Farense and then Académico Viseu.

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Viseu
Portuguese men's footballers
Footballers from Viseu District
Men's association football midfielders
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
Académico de Viseu F.C. players
S.C. Farense players
Lusitano FCV players
Pogoń Szczecin players
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Poland


title: Redlands, West Wittering

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Redlands is a Grade II listed country house estate in West Wittering, West Sussex, owned by The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards.

In his autobiography, Richards describes purchasing the property in 1966:
We just spoke to each other the minute we saw each other. A thatched house, quite small, surrounded by a moat. I drove up there by mistake...I took a wrong turn and turned into Redlands. This guy walked out, very nice guy, and said, yeah? And I said, oh sorry, we've come to the wrong turning. He said, yes, you want to go Fishbourne way, and he said, are you looking for a house to buy? He was very pukka, an ex-commodore of the Royal Navy. And I said yes.

Redlands was the scene of the famous February 1967 police raid, the subsequent arrest of Richards and Mick Jagger and prison sentences for Jagger and Robert Fraser for drugs possession.

References

Buildings and structures in West Sussex
Grade II listed buildings in West Sussex


title: Lighthouse Point Shell Ring (38CH12)

text:
Lighthouse Point Shell Ring (38CH12), also known as Parrot's Point Shell Ring, is a historic mound located on James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It is one of 20 or more prehistoric shell rings located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of Georgia. The midden contains a diverse array of biota.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina
Shell rings


In America: The Story of the Soul Sisters is a 2010 Nigerian American film directed by Rahman Oladigbolu and starring Jimmy Jean-Louis and Roger Dillingham Jr. It won the Best Film by an African Living Abroad award at the 7th Africa Movie Academy Awards and the Best Emerging Filmmaker's Award at the 2010 Roxbury International Film Festival in Boston Massachusetts.

References

External links
In America: The Story of the Soul Sisters at the Internet Movie Database

Nigerian drama films
2010 films
2010s English-language films
English-language Nigerian films


title: List of breweries in Nebraska

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Breweries in Nebraska produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally and regionally. Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced,  from small nanobreweries and microbreweries to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries.

In 2012 Nebraska's 38 brewing establishments (including breweries, brewpubs, importers, and company-owned packagers and wholesalers) employed 100 people directly, and more than 6,700 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. Altogether 19 people in Nebraska had active brewer permits in 2012.

Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply Nebraska's breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by Nebraska's breweries and related industries was more than $132 million. Consumer purchases of Nebraska's brewery products generated more than $70 million extra in tax revenue. In 2012, according to the Brewers Association, Nebraska ranked 16th in the number of craft breweries per capita with 19.

For context, at the end of 2013 there were 2,822 breweries in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237 brewpubs, 1,412 microbreweries and 119 regional craft breweries.  In that same year, according to the Beer Institute, the brewing industry employed around 43,000 Americans in brewing and distribution and had a combined economic impact of more than $246 billion.

Breweries

The following is a list of Nebraska-based breweries, meaderies and cideries.

Closed Breweries

See also
 List of breweries in the United States
 List of microbreweries

References

External links
 "Nebraska Brewery Listings", Brewery Collectibles Club of America, retrieved 11 April 2017.
 "Breweries in Nebraska, United States", Beer Me!, retrieved 18 February 2014.

Nebraska
Breweries


title: Nirjhar Pratapgarhi

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Nirjhar Pratapgarhi is an Indian poet of Awadhi as well Hindi language and archaeologist from Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. His real name is Rajesh Pandey. He is the founder of India's first village museum called Ajgra Sangrahalay in Raniganj tehsil, Pratapgarh.

References

1960 births
Living people
Hindi-language poets
Indian male poets
People from Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh
20th-century Indian archaeologists
Poets from Uttar Pradesh


title: Media in Lawrence, Kansas

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Lawrence is a center of media in northeastern Kansas. The following is a list of media outlets based in the city.

Print

Newspapers
The Lawrence Journal-World is the city's primary newspaper, published daily. In addition, the University of Kansas publishes a student newspaper, the University Daily Kansan, twice a week in print and continuously online at kansan.com during the school year and weekly during the summer.

Radio
Due to Lawrence's proximity to both Topeka and Kansas City, local listeners can receive the signal of radio stations broadcasting from both cities' markets.

The following stations are licensed to and/or broadcast from Lawrence:

AM

FM

Television
Lawrence lies within the Kansas City television market. Due to Lawrence's proximity to Topeka, local viewers can also receive the signal of several television stations broadcasting in the Topeka television market.

The following is a list of stations licensed to and/or broadcasting from Lawrence:

References

Mass media in Kansas


title: Opposites A-Frack

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"Opposites A-Frack" is the fifth episode in the twenty-sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 557th episode of the series overall. The episode was directed by Matthew Nastuk and written by Valentina L. Garza.  It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 2, 2014.

Plot
When Patty and Selma are forced out of their apartment while it is being fumigated, they invite themselves over to stay in the Simpson home, much to Homer's anger. The twins light up cigarettes, causing Bart and Lisa to cough severely. Homer makes a deal: if they smoke at all during their uninvited stay, Patty and Selma must leave right away. Homer installs smoke alarms all over the house to ensure this. Bad weather stops them from smoking outside, and after an unsuccessful attempt with e-cigarettes, which are legal and do not set off the smoke alarms, the twins go into a downstairs bathroom to smoke, seeing as Homer forgot to put a smoke alarm there, but they catch fire from the tap water. A gleeful Homer wastes no time kicking them out and dropping them off at a Dog Track, which they immediately take delight in due to the surrounding patrons' chain-smoking. Lisa informs Marge that the inflamed tap water is possibly a result of fracking, which she discovers that Mr. Burns is operating. She successfully calls on Democratic Assemblywoman Maxine Lombard to stop the fracking.

Burns is furious at Lombard and storms into her office, but the two end up having sex and vow to continue their romance despite their political differences. On learning that he must obtain the mineral rights to all land in Springfield in order to resume his fracking operation, Burns gives Homer the job of marketing it to the citizens of Springfield. At a Town Hall meeting, Professor Frink warns about water contamination, but Homer promises $5,000 to every person who gives their mineral rights to Burns. When he is about to resume the operation, Burns discovers that Marge did not give permission to him, and thus the project is abandoned, infuriating many residents who were looking forward to the money. Knowing that he will lose his new job, Homer is angry at Marge, and Burns breaks up with Lombard.

Lombard takes revenge on Burns, demolishing his mansion to use the land for various liberal causes, including Robert Siegel's National Public Radio. Burns plans an even bigger vengeance, and resumes his hydraulic fracturing at maximum power, causing earthquakes in the city. Marge pleads with Homer to shut it down, and he lights the inflammable water to burn the fracking plant down. On seeing that Homer and Marge can reconcile despite their differences due to their passion, Burns and Lombard get back together.

During the credits, Burns and Lombard are seen having a conversation while lying in bed with their tablet computers.

Production
Jane Fonda guest starred as Maxine Lombard, a lawmaker with whom Mr. Burns has an affair. Fonda had never performed voice-over or animation work before, and executive producer Matt Selman said she understood her character and welcomed direction for her performance.

Cultural references
Mr. Burns says to Maxine Lombard that she was the best woman he had ever been with, including Nellie Taft, the wife of President William Howard Taft. The episode "Homer the Smithers" had previously revealed that Burns' mother had an affair with President Taft himself.

Reception
The episode received an audience of 4.22 million, making it the most watched show on Fox that night.

Dennis Perkins of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B−, saying that Homer working for Burns and then sabotaging his operation was part of his "basic humanity". He referred to the ending with Burns and Lombard as having a "chilling sadness", and stated that Fonda's voiceover was too similar to The Simpsons regular Tress MacNeille. Although admitting that the episode followed what he saw as the series' usual liberal bias, he said that there were enough jokes at Lombard's agenda too, highlighting how she wanted a photograph of a baby next to the burning water.

Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode 4 out of 5 stars. He stated that it was a good episode for the season, and it would cause some debate.

References

External links

2014 American television episodes
The Simpsons (season 26) episodes
Television episodes about politics


title: Australian humpback dolphin

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The Australian humpback dolphin (Sousa sahulensis) is a species of humpback dolphin and the fourth recognized humpback dolphin species chronologically. The specific name sahulensis is derived from the Sahul Shelf, located between northern Australia and southern New Guinea, where the Australian humpback dolphins occur.

The species was scientifically described on 31 July 2014 in the journal Marine Mammal Science. As of August 2014, there is no population estimate for the Australian humpback dolphin, but based on available sighting data it is put to "a few thousand".

Appearance
Australian humpback dolphins are slightly different from the other three humpback dolphin species in overall length, number of teeth, vertebrae and geographic distribution. The dorsal fin of the Australian humpback dolphin is lower and more wide-based than those of the Atlantic humpback dolphin and the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin, and its coloration is dark gray, while its closest humpback relative, the Chinese white dolphin, has distinctly white (often with a pink tinge) coloration. The Australian humpback dolphin also has a distinctive dark dorsal feature, resembling a cape.

Known size for Australian humpback dolphins range from 31/2 – 9 ft (1-2.7m). The dorsal fin is short, triangular in shape, and lacks the dorsal “Hump” typical of Atlantic and Indian humpback dolphins. The body is mainly dark gray in color, with flanks shading to the light gray. A diagonal cape line extending from just above the eye and neck down to the urogenital area separates the dark back and lighter belly. White scarring and dark flecking on the head, back, dorsal fin, and tail stock are common in adult animals. Birth weight is between 88-110 lb (40–50 kg) and adult weight is between 507-550 lb (230–250 kg).

Life history
Mating and calving occurs year-round. The gestation period lasts 10–12 months, lactation may last more than 2 years and a 3-year calving interval is likely. Individuals may live for at least 30 years. Scientists studied the dolphins for 17 years before finally coming to the conclusion that S. sahulensis was a separate species within the Sousa genus. It was DNA that proved most useful to determining its classification. Genetic analyses found 7 unique mitochondrial DNA bases and a single nuclear DNA base supporting it status as a new species.

Food and foraging
These dolphins are known to be opportunistic, generalist feeders, eating a wide variety of coastal-estuarine and inshore reef fish. Feeding may occur in a variety of habitats (mangroves, sandy-bottom estuaries, seagrass meadows, and inshore coral reefs) and involve animals dispersed over wide areas or tight groups targeting localized prey. These marine mammals are occasionally seen chasing fish into shallows and beaching themselves to catch their prey.

Conservation and management
There is no global population estimate but subpopulation estimates are in the low hundreds. Due to their coastal distribution, Australian humpback dolphins are vulnerable to a variety of threats including incidental captures in gill nets and shark nets set for bather protection, habitat loss and degradation, vessel strikes, pollution, and climate change. With an official species name, the new Aussie dolphin will have a greater chance of receiving special conservation treatment.

Behaviour
Australian humpback dolphins have been observed strand-feeding.
They are generally shy and elusive and tend to keep their distance from boats. Humpback dolphins have been observed to display mating courtship between Australian snubfin dolphins.

See also

List of cetaceans

References

External links

Australian humpback dolphin
Cetaceans of the Pacific Ocean
Marine fauna of Oceania
Mammals of New Guinea
Marine fauna of Northern Australia
Australian humpback dolphin


title: I Love Your Glasses

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I Love Your Glasses is the debut album by Spanish indie folk singer Russian Red.  It was released in 2008.

Track listing
 Cigarettes
 No Past Land
 They Don't Believe
 Gone, Play On
 Hold It Inside
 Nice Thick Feathers
 Kiss My Elbow
 Take Me Home
 Walls Are Tired
 Timing Is Crucial
 Just Like a Wall
 Girls Just Want to Have Fun

References

2008 debut albums
Russian Red albums
PIAS Recordings albums


title: Mammillaria dixanthocentron

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Mammillaria dixanthocentron is a species of cactus in the subfamily Cactoideae.

References

Plants described in 1963
dixanthocentron


title: Parisam vaippu

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Thiru chengannur maha Shivaratri and Parisam vaippu, ”The year 2020 is celebrating the 1815th anniversary of Shivaratri. This function is performed by the people called Alappattu Arayar of Karunagapally in Kollam District of Kerala.The Tamil word 'parisam' means dowry.
Parisam vaippu is a ceremony where the father-in-law of Sri Parameswaran gives feminine gift during the marriage of Goddess Parvathi Devi (Kannaki). This is a ritual of the Araya clan. For the Araya community, the endeavor is not just a godly ceremony but also a great ritual for the marriage of Goddess Parvati, the daughter of the Aryar chief ma naickan of kaverippattanam.tamil nadu.

.  Alappad Aryans” have been performing “Thiru Chengannur Shivaratri” and “Parisam vaippu”. To the Aryan community, the "Parisam vaippu" ritual is not only traditional but is also a grand marriage of their daughter Parvati Devi with the Lord Shiva.

The ritual “Parisam vaippu” and the Shivaratri celebration have been recording by the administrator of the Chengannur temple since A.D 205.

References
Aryanmarum pingamikalum-oravalokanam'- by MB Shiv varman pallavarayar.

Further reading
 Chengannur temple

Hindu practices


title: Mammillaria muehlenpfordtii

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Mammillaria muehlenpfordtii is a species of cactus in the subfamily Cactoideae.

References

Plants described in 1847
muehlenpfordtii


title: Agustín Cousillas

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Agustín Sebastián Cousillas (born 19 April 1990) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Chacarita Juniors as a goalkeeper.

Club career
Born in Roque Pérez, Buenos Aires province, Cousillas graduated from local Tigre, and was promoted to the first team in 2011. However, he acted only as a backup to Daniel Islas and Javier García.

Islas subsequently left the club in the 2011 summer, but Cousillas remained behind García and new signing Damián Albil. On 2 December 2012 he played his first match as a professional, replacing Albil in a 0–1 loss at Belgrano. He was handed his first start on 6 March of the following year, in a 1–0 home win against Palmeiras for the year's Copa Libertadores.

On 27 June 2014 Cousillas moved abroad for the first time of his career, joining Málaga CF and being assigned to the reserves.

Personal life
Cousillas' father, Rubén, was also a footballer and a goalkeeper.

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Footballers from Buenos Aires Province
Argentine men's footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Club Atlético Tigre footballers
Atlético Malagueño players
Villa Teresa players
Unión La Calera footballers
C.A. Rentistas players
Club Aurora players
Chacarita Juniors footballers
Argentine Primera División players
Tercera División players
Uruguayan Segunda División players
Primera B de Chile players
Bolivian Primera División players
Primera Nacional players
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Uruguay
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Bolivia
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Uruguay
Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
Expatriate men's footballers in Bolivia


title: Hello, My Name Is Doris

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Hello, My Name Is Doris is a 2015 American coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama film directed by Michael Showalter from a screenplay by Laura Terruso and Showalter, about a woman in her 60s who tries to act on her attraction to a younger co-worker. It stars Sally Field in the title role, alongside Max Greenfield, Beth Behrs, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Stephen Root, Elizabeth Reaser, Natasha Lyonne and Tyne Daly.

The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 14, 2015, and was theatrically released on March 11, 2016, by Roadside Attractions.

Plot

Doris Miller is a shy, eccentric, 60-something woman, living alone following the death of her mother, with whom she has lived for her whole life. At the funeral, her brother Todd and his wife Cynthia try to persuade her to sell the house, especially the possessions she has hoarded over decades.

Doris had been caring for her mother for years and thereby neglecting her own social life and development. As a result, she is relatively reclusive and unfamiliar with social trends. She spends time with her close friend, the fiery Roz, and her teenage granddaughter, Vivian.

On Doris's way to work in Manhattan, where she has been doing data entry for decades, she meets her new young co-worker, John, with whom she is immediately infatuated. Empowered by self-improvement tapes, Doris decides to pursue a romantic relationship with him.

Doris finds ways to get John's attention; the attempts are frequently combined with fantasies about a passionate love affair between them. With Vivian's help, Doris creates a fake social media profile in order to find information about John and discovers that he loves an electro-pop band that is planning an upcoming concert in the area. Doris buys one of the band's CDs, which gets John's attention, and attends the concert, where she meets him and they spend time together.

The band is intrigued by Doris and invite her backstage, where they spend a fun evening meeting young artists in the area. John tells Doris that he and his girlfriend recently broke up over text and asks her about her love life. She reveals that she was engaged in the past, but had to end it to take care of her mother. John gives her a friendly kiss goodnight, cementing Doris' unrequited love.

John is distracted for the next week, and Doris discovers that he has a girlfriend, Brooklyn. Though she is friendly and welcoming, Doris is devastated. She spends the night drinking wine and impulsively posts a comment on John's social media wall while using her fake profile, posing as a scorned young woman with whom he had a torrid love affair.

The next morning, Todd arrives with Doris' therapist, planning on decluttering her house, but when Cynthia tries to throw out a pencil Doris stole from John, Doris angrily throws them out.

At work, Brooklyn arrives and has a fight with John before breaking up with him. She later tells Doris that she had seen the comment on his wall and accused him of cheating, as she was cheated on in the past. After work, John tells Doris about the incident and invites her to his Thanksgiving for friends. She agrees, and when he asks her if she would ever be interested in dating a younger man, she is elated.

Doris dresses up the Thanksgiving party where she meets John's uncle, who is clearly interested. During the party, she asks to talk to John in his bedroom. Trying to come onto him, Doris admits she has always liked him and that the comment causing Brooklyn to break up with him was hers.

Furious, John rebuffs her. When a flustered Doris asks him what he meant by asking her if she was interested in younger men, John clarifies that he was trying to set her up with his uncle, who is a decade younger than her. Doris leaves, deeply hurt, and invites Roz over for comfort.

Doris invites her therapist over again to declutter her house, and she succeeds in getting it cleaned up. She quits her job and says good-bye to John before she leaves. She has another fantasy where John kisses her and proposes they be together; in reality, she enters the elevator to leave, alone. After hesitating, John calls out her name and runs toward the elevator. Doris smiles as the doors close.

Cast

Sally Field as Doris Miller
Max Greenfield as John Fremont
Beth Behrs as Brooklyn Henderson
Tyne Daly as Roz
Stephen Root as Todd Miller
Wendi McLendon-Covey as Cynthia Miller
Elizabeth Reaser as Dr. Edwards
Isabella Acres as Vivian
Peter Gallagher as Willy Williams
Natasha Lyonne as Sally
Kumail Nanjiani as Nasir
Rich Sommer as Robert
Caroline Aaron as Val
Rebecca Wisocky as Anne Patterson
Jack Antonoff as Baby Goya
Kyle Mooney as Niles
Nnamdi Asomugha as Shaka
Roz Ryan as The Nurse
Anna Akana as Blog Girl
Amy Okuda as Des
Don Stark as Uncle Frank

Production
On April 18, 2014, Max Greenfield was cast in the male lead role. On May 28, 2014, it was announced that Sally Field would play the title character, and on the same day Beth Behrs was also cast. On June 27, 2014, Natasha Lyonne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kyle Mooney, and Kumail Nanjiani were announced as part of the cast. On July 11, 2014, YouTube star Anna Akana was cast as a web blogger whose attention is piqued by Field's character.

Release
The film had its world premiere on March 14, 2015, at South by Southwest. Shortly after it was announced Roadside Attractions had acquired distribution rights to the film. It was later revealed that Stage 6 Films would co-partner on the domestic release, and release the film internationally. The film also screened at the Montclair Film Festival on May 1, 2015. The film was theatrically released on March 11, 2016, in a limited release, before opening in a wide release on April 1, 2016.

Reception
Hello, My Name Is Doris received generally positive reviews from film critics. It holds a "Certified Fresh" 85% rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 128 reviews, with an average rating of 6.90/10. The critical consensus reads, "Hello, My Name Is Doris is immeasurably elevated by Sally Field's remarkable performance in the title role, which overpowers a surfeit of stereotypical indie quirk." On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 63 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Joe Leydon of Variety gave the film a positive review, writing "Sally Field keeps the movie on an even keel, for the most part, with an adroit and disciplined lead performance that generates both laughter and sympathy, with relatively few yanks on the heartstrings. Audiences of a certain age might respond warmly, provided they are stoked by savvy marketing and favorable word of mouth." Eric Kohn of Indiewire.com also gave the film a positive review, a B+, writing "Hello, My Name is Doris effectively conveys the cruel ambivalence of an ageist society, and despite its formulaic ingredients, the movie responds to that setback with Field's exuberant, virtuoso turn providing the ultimate critical response."

Accolades

References

External links

2015 films
2015 independent films
2015 romantic comedy-drama films
American independent films
American romantic comedy-drama films
Features based on short films
Films directed by Michael Showalter
Films set in New York City
Films set in Staten Island
Films shot in New York City
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: Jane Street Capital

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Jane Street Capital, typically referred to as Jane Street, is a global proprietary trading firm. Jane Street Capital employs more than 2,000 people in five offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, and Singapore. The firm trades a broad range of asset classes on more than 200 venues in 45 countries. The company is one of the largest market-makers, trading more than $17 trillion worth of securities in 2020. It was considered to have helped keep bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) liquid during the market turmoil in 2020.

History
Jane Street was co-founded by Tim Reynolds, Rob Granieri, Marc Gerstein, and Michael Jenkins. Among its founders, Reynolds, Granieri, and Jenkins were formerly traders at Susquehanna International Group.

Jane Street's website says the firm was founded in 2000. However, Reynolds reports it to have been founded in 1999, and the date varies between sources. According to Delaware state records, Jane Street Capital, LLC was incorporated in August of 1999.

In 2012, Tim Reynolds stepped down from his position running the firm to focus on philanthropy.

By 2018, Jane Street reportedly traded an average of $13 billion in global equities every day and handled 7 percent of ETF volume worldwide.

The firm ended 2020 having traded $4 trillion in global equities, $1.4 trillion in bonds, and $3.9 trillion in ETFs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the firm saw its revenue jump 54% to a record of $10.6 billion during the year ended in March 2021.

Notable employees
Brett Harrison, Duncan Rheingans-Yoo, Xiaoyun “Lily” Zhang, Gabe Bankman-Fried, Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, all recipients of allegedly misappropriated FTX customer funds, were once employed by the company.

Technology
Jane Street writes almost all of its software in the OCaml programming language.

References

External links

 BusinessWeek profile

Financial services companies established in 2000
Financial derivative trading companies
Financial services companies of Hong Kong
Financial services companies based in New York City
2000 establishments in New York City


The Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Film by an African Living Abroad was an annual merit by the Africa Film Academy to reward the African filmmakers in the diaspora. The category was introduced in 2008 as Best Film African Diaspora and was cancelled after the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards.

References

Lists of award winners
Africa Movie Academy Awards


title: GeoLotto

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GeoLotto (previously known as GeoSweep) was a privately owned, online, map-based lottery game operating in the United Kingdom.

History
GeoLotto, formerly known as Geosweep, was created in 2010 by London based technology company, Geonomics. The idea started with brothers Henry and James Oakes who secured funding for a prototype location-based betting website, later funded by a £2 million investment.

Tipp24, a publicly-listed company and lottery specialist, invested a significant amount into the product in 2012.

In 2013 it was revealed that the Atlantic Lottery Corporation spent nearly C$2 million promoting Geosweep before cancelling the game. Despite having a "daily $250,000 prize" no one ever won it in over a year of draws. Geosweep's parent company was paid $8.7 million.

Eligibility
 Players must be at least 18 years old to play.
 The games may only be played by residents of the UK.
 The games were exclusively web-based, requiring an internet browser to play.

Current games
Games that operated under the GeoLotto brand:

GeoLotto game
Usually referred to simply as 'GeoLotto', this game was the flagship product of the site. The premise of the game was that a player could select squares to own out of a grid of squares overlaid onto a satellite representation of Great Britain (the map data was served by Google Maps). Each square had an equal probability chance to win one of the various prizes assigned randomly at the end of the game. A square was valued at £1 a week. The draw conducted every Saturday at 10.30pm, with the results announced at 11pm.

Players could enter by paying for a square for a fixed number of weeks or they could subscribe for ongoing entry until they decide to cancel.

Regulation
GeoLotto was regulated by the UK Gambling Commission, certified by GamCare and carried the 'Verified by Norton' tag.

References

Online gambling companies of the United Kingdom


title: James McKie (businessman)

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James McKie (30 June 1859 – 17 March 1910) was a Scottish businessman of the Jardine, Matheson and Co.

Biography
McKie was born on 30 June 1859 at Erskine, Renfrewshire, a village where his father was minister of the Church of Scotland. He was enrolled as a pupil of the Manchester Grammar School. After graduation, he joined the Jardine, Matheson and Co. and worked in Shanghai until his death.

He was an advocate of the industrial development of China by the aid of railways and the introduction of modern machinery. He was a founding member of the Board of Commissioners of the Shanghai–Nanking Railway. He was also member of the General Committee of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce and President of the St. Andrew's Society.

McKie was enthusiastic in swimming, rowing, fishing, waterfowl-shooting. He co-founded the Shanghai Rowing Club and rowed No. 5 in the Scottish Eight which used to be held on the Soowchow Creek between the Cantonese Cemetery and the Markham Road Bridge. He was also good at cricket and golf. He had no relatives in China but had an early schoolmate and a lifelong friend, W. C. Murray.

McKie had an affection in the liver and began to ail from the mid January 1910. After a prolonged struggle, he died at 6:20 p.m. on 17 March at the Shanghai General Hospital. The flags of the Shanghai Club, Cricket, Rowing and Recreation Clubs and all other clubs which McKie was a member of, as well as the steamers of the Indo-China Fleet in port were all flown at half mast. He was buried in the Old Cemetery at Pahsienjao.

References

1859 births
1910 deaths
Jardine Matheson Group
Scottish male rowers
People from Renfrewshire
Scottish expatriates in China
19th-century Scottish people
19th-century Scottish businesspeople


title: Mammillaria compressa

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Mammillaria compressa, commonly called mother of hundreds, is a species of cactus in the subfamily Cactoideae. It is native to northern and southern Mexico, and is cultivated as an ornamental plant. It blooms in the winter and early spring, with bell-shaped flowers that range from a purplish pink to red color. Its curved spines were traditionally used as hooks for fishing.

Gallery

References

Plants described in 1828
compressa


title: Arnold Ruiner

text:
Arnold Ruiner (8 February 1937 – 28 October 2011) was an Austrian cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Vienna, his profession was a locksmith.

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1937 births
2011 deaths
Austrian male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Austria
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Vienna
20th-century Austrian people


title: Nihar

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Nihar () may refer to

 Nihar Ameen, Indian swimming coach
 Nihar Mukherjee, Indian politician
 Nihar Ranjan Gupta, Indian dermatologist and novelist
 Nihar Ranjan Laskar, Indian politician

See also
Niharika (disambiguation), the feminine form of the name

Indian masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Reshun

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Reshun is a village located on the left bank of Kunar River, in Upper Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Reshun is mentioned in Nizari Ismaili Pir Sabzali’s travel diary, in which he details his journey to Central Asia under the assignment of Aga Khan III Sir Sultan Mohammad Shah. Pir Sabzali describes the majlis that he experienced in the region of Reshun, held in devotion to the contemporary Ismaili Imam, as well as to the famous Persian luminary, Nasir-i Khusraw.

Climate
The prevailing weather conditions in the area are characterized by a cold and moderate climate. It has been observed that Reshun experiences a greater amount of precipitation during the winter season as compared to the summer months. This climate is considered to be Dsb according to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. In Reshun, the average annual temperature is -1.4 °C | 29.4 °F. Precipitation here is about 559 mm | 22.0 inch per year.

References

Populated places in Chitral District
Hill stations in Pakistan
Populated places along the Silk Road
Chitral District


title: Yang (state)

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Yang (State) was a state established during the Western Zhou dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China.

History

King Wu of Zhou granted Shu Yu of Tang a state named Tang. He was the son of King Wu of Zhou and the younger brother of King Cheng of Zhou. The State of Tang would later be renamed Jin by Shu Yu's son and successor, Xie.

The Yang state was conquered by the Jin state during the reign of Duke Wu of Jin, and ancient lands of the Yang state were given to one of his sons named Ji Boqiao at 13th years old. With the conquest of the Yang state, many people of Yang and descendants of Boqiao eventually took the name of their former country as their family name, and account for the majority of Chinese people with the family name Yang today.

References

Ancient Chinese states
Zhou dynasty
States and territories disestablished in the 7th century BC
7th-century BC disestablishments in China


title: Azovske

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Azovske (, , ) is an urban-type settlement in Dzhankoi Raion, to the southeast of the town of Dzhankoi in northeastern Crimea, along highway E97. Population:

History
The village was inhabited in the Bronze Age (3rd and 2nd millennium BCE). This is evidenced by the excavation of 15 mounds in the immediate vicinity of Azovske. At the time of the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 1783 there was a small village in the vicinity named Kalay. In 1892, after the construction of the railroad to Feodosia, Kalay railway station was established. In the early 20th century the village grew, with about ten retail businesses, and numerous new homes.

In the period from 1935 to 1962 it became a district center and was named Azovske in 1944. A knitting factory, repair shops, a milling plant, a small winery, a meat and dairy plant, a dairy, brick and tile factory and a power plant built in Azovske saw it develop into a fair-sized settlement, reaching a population of 1607 people in 1940. During the Great Patriotic War, the village was occupied by Germans from November 1, 1941, to April 10, 1944. In May 1944, the native population was deported. Azovske became an urban-type settlement in 1957, and in 1962 the district of the same name was dissolved and most of its territory was incorporated into the Dzhankoi Raion.

Economy
Azovske operates Azov Distillery, the WTO "Azovets" (woodworking and sewing production), and since 1962 it has operated the Azovske district power station, which serves the entire region. Residents of Azovske are served with a clinic, district hospital, nursery, a kindergarten, and there is a general school and children's music school.

Transportation
There is a railway station on the railway connecting Dzhankoi and Vladislavovka. Before the annexation of Crimea, the trains which followed from mainland Ukraine to Kerch and Feodosia were calling there. After the annexation, all these trains were cancelled.

Azovske has an easy access to the road which connects Dzhankoi and Feodosia. By minor paved roads it is also connected to nearby rural localities such as Ozerki, Krasnodolne, and Prostorne.

References

Urban-type settlements in Crimea
Dzhankoi Raion


title: Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's horizontal bar

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The men's individual horizontal bar competition of the 2014 Commonwealth Games took place on August 1 at the SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow, Scotland.

Results

Qualification

Qualification took place on July 29 as part of the team and individual qualification event.

Final

Although both received the same total score, Nile Wilson was awarded the gold medal over Kristian Thomas based on his higher execution score.

References

External links
Official results

Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games


title: Estação Tubo

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Estação-Tubo (meaning literally "tube station", which are not to be confused with London Underground stations) are bus stops for Curitiba's Integrated Transportation Network in Brazil. Designed as futuristic tubes made from steel and glass, these bus stops allow fare payment in advanced and boarding at the same level as the buses' floor, thus reducing stop time.

Tube stations were created in 1991 specifically for direct bus lines and since then have become an icon of urban planning in Curitiba. Some tube stations are served by more than one line, in which case there is a fare integration, meaning that a passenger, upon disembarking, can board a different bus from the same of different line without paying the fare again.

As of June 2014, there were 357 tube stations throughout Curitiba and its metropolitan region. Inside some tube stations there are Tubotecas, or small libraries. Citizens can borrow books with no need to register and return them to any other Tuboteca, any time. Tubotecas were a gift to the citizens to celebrate Curitiba's 320th anniversary.

References

Rede Integrada de Transporte