title: Furi

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Furi is a 2016 action shoot 'em up video game developed and published by indie studio The Game Bakers available for PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Amazon Luna. The game takes place on a planet in a colorful, retro, science fiction setting and consists entirely of boss fights.

The game follows The Stranger (later referred to as Rider) as he fights his way down through a prison composed of ten floating islands each with their own unique boss or “guardian”. There are three possible endings depending on the choices made by the player, including one secret ending.

Gameplay
Furi is a fast-paced action game with elements of hack and slash, shoot ‘em up (twin stick and bullet hell) and consists entirely of boss fights. Gameplay focuses around dodging bullets, parrying attacks to regain health, attacking the bosses up close through melee or afar with ranged projectiles, and quick time events. The game is set in a series of linear closed world environments. The setting of the game is a prison composed of ten small arenas (floating islands) connected by shorter pathway segments. Much of the game’s story progresses through mid fight interactions with bosses and short cutscenes at the beginning and end of the fights. The rest of the story is told during player controlled walking sections that act as longer cutscenes and provide downtime between boss fights.

Plot
A mysterious man known only as The Stranger spends his existence receiving endless torture within a highly advanced prison, composed of ten islands floating in orbit above a planet's surface. At the beginning of the game, an enigmatic man wearing a rabbit disguise who is known as The Voice frees The Stranger, gives him a sword and gun, and encourages him to fight for his freedom.

The Stranger must navigate each area, wherein dwells a single powerful guardian who exists only to prevent him from escaping: The Chain, a sadistic staff-wielding jailor who tortured the Stranger; The Strap, a prisoner armed with a laser cannon on her head driven mad from her imprisonment; The Line, a wise old man who wields a sword longer than his body and can manipulate time; The Scale, a vengeful diver armed with twin harpoons; The Hand, a noble knight who was responsible for imprisoning the Stranger in the first place; The Song, an angelic woman armed with twin crossbows who conceived the prison; The Burst, a sniper and master tactician; The Edge, an oar-wielding warrior who dedicated his life to fighting The Stranger; and The Beat, a young woman with sonic weapons who strives to guard the final door.

As the journey goes on, more about the reasons for imprisoning The Stranger surface, and The Voice reveals that he was the architect who created the prison to protect the planet from The Stranger, but he could not stand being locked in it, and freed The Stranger to be able to escape with him so that he could see his daughter again. Upon reaching the planet's surface, the Stranger finds that his mere presence corrupts everything around him. Later exploring the planet more, The Stranger ventures into a structure which holds an exo-suit that he uses to fly off the planet and into space, where he finds The Star, an AI-controlled mothership that created him and many other clones like him. The Star welcomes him and calls him Rider.

The game contains two standard endings and a secret ending. When facing The Star, Rider can decide to either confirm the planet is a suitable candidate for assimilation or call off the invasion and attack the mothership.

In an alternate ending, Rider allows The Star to deploy her invasion force of Rider clones. The Voice and his daughter watch as countless invaders touch down across the planet and the skies turn red.

In one of the two potential endings, Rider rebels against his former leader in order to save the planet, beginning the tenth and final boss fight. During the clash, The Star reveals that Rider was the vanguard of the mothership, which assimilates habitable planets to perpetuate its own survival. She warns that the people of the planet below know nothing of the mothership, and Rider defeating her will not earn him any gratitude, remove his destructive aura, or ensure the planet will remain protected forever. Nonetheless, Rider prevails over The Star. As the mothership explodes, Rider escapes and returns to the planet. The Voice and his daughter watch as Rider lands in the far distance.

The secret ending can occur by accepting The Song's offer to stay in her sanctuary-like section of the prison, where she will provide for The Rider. She claims that this will make her the hero of all her people.

The "One More Fight" DLC provides an additional boss, a cyborg called The Flame who challenges The Stranger in an arena beneath the structure holding the Stranger's flying rig. Like The Scale, he seeks vengeance on the Stranger for what happened to his world. However, the cutscene in which his connection to The Stranger is revealed only appears in the Xbox One version of the game. If the player defeats The Flame and all other bosses on the highest difficulty setting, they will unlock the hardest fight in the game: a basically modelled figure known as Bernard who fights using an amalgamation of the other bosses' attacks.

Development

Design
During the early stages of development creative director and co-founder of The Game Bakers Emeric Thoa decided that the team needed to “focus on making one precise thing and to make it well”. Thoa believed that if the studio were to attempt to try and appeal to a broader audience they would end up being drowned out by other games that were bigger or “more edgy”. The team decided to focus the game around boss fights and put all of their effort into making them as satisfying and challenging as they could. The team attempted to create unique and interesting bosses taking inspiration from other games such as Nintendo’s 1994 Super Punch Out!! and Capcom’s 2006 God Hand.

During development the team wanted to make the bosses feel equal to the player, according to Thoa the main tension of the game came from the idea that the player character is “extremely strong” and that they are facing an “extremely strong adversary”. The team also aimed to make the controls “easy to learn but hard to master”, to accomplish this the control scheme was simplified and things like combos were not included. Instead the team decided that the game would focus more around the players reflexes and learning the boss’ attack patterns. Due to this focus on player reflexes the developer’s target frame rate was sixty frames per second, this was to maintain the speed of the game and better reflect their design choices.

The character designs were all created by the game’s artistic director Takashi Okazaki known primarily for his Japanese seinen dōjinshi manga series, Afro Samurai which was both written and illustrated by Okazaki. Okazaki’s main inspiration for many of the character’s designs was his past experience with Kendo, taking design elements of the uniform worn by practitioners of Kendo and integrating them into his works.

Music
The soundtrack of Furi consists of many different tracks all composed by different established artists. During development the team decided to utilize electro and synthwave music as a way to excite the player and make the game stand out from competitors. Each track was designed and created specifically for the game and the boss/area they would play during. Executive producer and co-founder of The Game Bakers Audrey Leprince mentioned that each of the artists were chosen based on their musical style and how they could represent each of the game’s bosses. Once an artist was chosen, the developers would send a brief to the artist containing details on the boss, the design, personality and the arena where the fight takes place.

One of the artists involved was Franck Hueso, better known by his stage name Carpenter Brut, who contributed four tracks to the game (“Time to Wake Up”, “Enraged”, “What We Fight For” and “You’re Mine”). Hueso's tracks for the game had to use several loops, as some players may hear the track for longer than others; therefore the duration of the tracks themselves had to be variable. Simon Delacroix, better known by his stage name The Toxic Avenger, described a similar process in composing his songs for the game ("My Only Chance" and "Make This Right") and made a similar statement regarding the nature of creating music for video games.

In July 2016 the game’s original soundtrack was released on vinyl record in France followed by a CD release in June 2017. Both were published by G4F Records and featured artwork created by Takashi Okazaki.

Reception

Furi received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. James Davenport of PC Gamer gave it an 86 out of 100, claiming it "is only held back by rare bugs and poorly designed difficulty spikes." Jeff Marchiafava of Game Informer gave it a 6 out of 10, citing a lack of engagement in the environment and unforgiving difficulty, although user reviews on platforms such as Steam have been far more positive.

References

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2016 video games
Video games about artificial intelligence
Fiction with unreliable narrators
Fighting games
Hack and slash games
Indie games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation Network games
Shoot 'em ups
Single-player video games
Video games developed in France
Video games featuring black protagonists
Video games set on fictional islands
Video games set on fictional planets
Windows games
Xbox One games
The Game Bakers games


The Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) is a non-profit membership organization established to support the introduction of philosophy to pre-college students (K-12). It was established in 2009 by the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Pre-College-Instruction in Philosophy, and became an independent non-profit organization in 2012. PLATO sponsors the annual journal Questions: Philosophy for Young People. The organization's memberships are managed by the Philosophy Documentation Center.

Online resources for members
Members have online access to the following publications to support their research:
 Questions: Philosophy for Young People, 2001–present
 Teaching Ethics, 2001–present
 Teaching Philosophy, 1975–present
 Demonstrating Philosophy (anthology), 1988
 Teaching New Histories of Philosophy (conference proceeding), 2004
 Teaching Philosophy Today (anthology, 2nd edition), 2012
 The Journal of Pre-College Philosophy, Volumes 1-2 (1975-1977)>
 The Journal of Critical Analysis, Volumes 1-9 (1969-1992)

References

External links

 PLATO membership registration

Philosophy organizations
Organizations established in 2009
Teacher associations based in the United States


title: Agris Galvanovskis

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Agris Galvanovskis (born 30 January 1972) is a Latvian former professional basketball player and a current head coach for BK Liepājas Lauvas of the LBL.

Playing career
Galvanovskis played professional basketball for Latvian teams VEF Rīga, ASK Rīga, Princips, Bonus, Metropole, ASK/Brocēni/LMT and BK Gulbenes Buki. He also played for Latvian National Team.

Coaching career
Agris Galvanovskis began working as a basketball coach during his playing career with BK Gulbenes Buki when he coached local youth teams and was player-coach in his team. In 2006, he signed on as the assistant coach of BK Ventspils. In 2008, Galvanovskis was promoted to head coach of Ventspils team.

He won the 2009 Latvian Basketball League championship with Ventspils. He moved to BK Liepājas Lauvas in 2010 to work as head coach. Galvanovskis became the head coach of the Ukrainian club MBC Mykolaiv, in June 2012.

In 2008 and 2011, Galvanovskis coached Latvian U20 team.

References

External links
FIBA Europe Player Profile
FIBA Europe Coach Profile

1972 births
Living people
Latvian basketball coaches
Latvian men's basketball players
People from Madona
Shooting guards


title: Pyotr Basin

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Pyotr Vasilievich Basin (Russian: Пётр Васильевич Басин; 1793, Saint Petersburg – 1877, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian religious, history and portrait painter. He also served as a Professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Biography

Beginning in 1811, he audited classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1813, he was admitted as a student of Vasily Shebuyev. After graduating, he spent the next eleven years in Rome on a fellowship, which he was given for his painting of Christ driving the money changers from the Temple. While there, he copied the works of Raphael and created almost 100 paintings of his own, many on mythological subjects. He also created genre scenes, from the countryside, and portraits, including one of the painter, Sylvester Shchedrin.

Upon his return to Saint Petersburg in 1830, having been recalled by Tsar Nicholas I to work on a project, he was made an Academician for his portrayal of Socrates saving Alcibiades (1828). The painting itself required some saving, as the ship carrying it from Rome was wrecked, causing water damage, and it had to be reconstructed on its arrival.

After that, he began teaching and was appointed a Professor in 1836, a position he held until 1869 when he became a Professor Emeritus and State Councilor. He was forced to retire shortly after, due to a progressive eye disease. He had lost his eyesight entirely by the end of 1870.

During the time he was a Professor, he created numerous portraits (including those of Mikhail Kutuzov and Hans Karl von Diebitsch) and allegorical scenes for the restoration of the Winter Palace, after the disastrous fire in 1837, but his religious works are the most familiar. They include forty paintings and icons for Saint Isaac's Cathedral, many created from sketches by Karl Bryullov, including a "Sermon on the Mount".

He also worked at Kazan Cathedral and the church of the Imperial Academy, where he produced an altarpiece and several iconostases. He occasionally painted outside Saint  Petersburg, visiting cathedrals as near as Petergof and as far as Tiflis. After losing his sight, some of his earlier sketches were used as models for paintings at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, executed by Nikolay Koshelev.

Curators of art collections often consulted him as an expert. This included the purchase of a collection belonging to Princess Anastasiya Trubetskaya, and selected works from the collection of King William II of the Netherlands, both for the Winter Palace, and the sculpture collection of Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, for the Imperial Academy.

He is mentioned in a story ("The Artist") by Taras Shevchenko. His best-known student was Nikolai Ge. Many of his works may be seen at the Russian Museum, as well as at several in Moscow.

References

Further reading
 Большая иллюстрированная энциклопедия живописи (Great illustrated encyclopedia of painting), OLMA Media, 2011, pgs. 25–26
 S. N. Kondakov, Jubilee reference book of the Imperial Academy of Arts. 1764–1914, R. Golike & Associates, 1915 (Online)

External links

 Biography from the Русский биографический словарь @ Russian WikiSource

1793 births
1877 deaths
Russian painters
Russian male painters
Imperial Academy of Arts alumni
Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts
Awarded with a large gold medal of the Academy of Arts
Artists from Saint Petersburg


title: Wanderlust (The Weeknd song)

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"Wanderlust" is a song by Canadian singer the Weeknd from his debut studio album Kiss Land (2013). The song heavily samples "Precious Little Diamond" by Dutch disco group Fox the Fox, and was released as the sixth single from the album on March 31, 2014. A remix of "Wanderlust" by Pharrell Williams also appears as a bonus track on the iTunes edition of Kiss Land.

Track listing

Charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2013 songs
2014 singles
The Weeknd songs
Songs written by Belly (rapper)
Songs written by the Weeknd
Songs written by DaHeala
Song recordings produced by the Weeknd
Republic Records singles
XO (record label) singles


title: Saint Mary's Academy (New Brunswick)

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Saint Mary's Academy is a K-12 school located in Madawaska County, New Brunswick. Saint Mary's Academy is in the Anglophone West School District.

See also
 List of schools in New Brunswick
 Anglophone West School District

References

Schools in Madawaska County, New Brunswick
English-language high schools in New Brunswick
Elementary schools in New Brunswick
Middle schools in New Brunswick
Buildings and structures in Edmundston


title: Symbolic power of an ideal

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In algebra and algebraic geometry, given a commutative Noetherian ring  and an ideal  in it, the n-th symbolic power of  is the ideal

where  is the localization of  at , we set  is the canonical map from a ring to its localization, and the intersection runs through all of the associated primes of .

Though this definition does not require  to be prime, this assumption is often worked with because in the case of a prime ideal, the symbolic power can be equivalently defined as the -primary component of  . Very roughly, it consists of functions with zeros of order n along the variety defined by .  We have:  and if  is a maximal ideal, then .

Symbolic powers induce the following chain of ideals:

Uses
The study and use of symbolic powers has a long history in commutative algebra. Krull’s famous proof of his principal ideal theorem uses them in an essential way. They first arose after primary decompositions were proved for Noetherian rings. Zariski used symbolic powers in his study of the analytic normality of algebraic varieties. Chevalley's famous lemma comparing topologies states that in a complete local domain the symbolic powers topology of any prime is finer than the m-adic topology. A crucial step in the vanishing theorem on local cohomology of Hartshorne and Lichtenbaum uses that for a prime  defining a curve in a complete local domain, the powers of  are cofinal with the symbolic powers of . This important property of being cofinal was further developed by Schenzel in the 1970s.

In algebraic geometry
Though generators for ordinary powers of  are well understood when  is given in terms of its generators as , it is still very difficult in many cases to determine the generators of symbolic powers of . But in the geometric setting, there is a clear geometric interpretation in the case when  is a radical ideal over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero.

If  is an irreducible variety whose ideal of vanishing is , then the differential power of   consists of all the functions in  that vanish
to order ≥ n on , i.e.

Or equivalently, if  is the maximal ideal for a point , .

Theorem (Nagata, Zariski) Let  be a prime ideal in a polynomial ring  over an algebraically closed field. Then

This result can be extended to any radical ideal. This formulation is very useful because, in characteristic zero, we can compute the differential powers in terms of generators as:

For another formulation, we can consider the case when the base ring is a polynomial ring over a field. In this case, we can interpret the n-th symbolic power as the sheaf of all function germs over
In fact, if  is a smooth variety over a perfect field, then

Containments
It is natural to consider whether or not symbolic powers agree with ordinary powers, i.e. does  hold? In general this is not the case. One example of this is the prime ideal . Here we have that .  However,  does hold and the generalization of this inclusion is well understood. Indeed, the containment follows from the definition. Further, it is known that  if and only if . The proof follows from Nakayama's lemma.

There has been extensive study into the other containment, when symbolic powers are contained in ordinary powers of ideals, referred to as the Containment Problem. Once again this has an easily stated answer summarized in the following theorem. It was developed by Ein, Lazarfeld, and Smith in characteristic zero  and was expanded to positive characteristic by Hochster and Huneke. Their papers both build upon the results of Irena Swanson in Linear Equivalence of Ideal Topologies (2000).

Theorem  (Ein, Lazarfeld, Smith; Hochster, Huneke) Let  be a homogeneous ideal. Then the inclusion
  holds for all
It was later verified that the bound of  in the theorem cannot be tightened for general ideals. However, following a question posed by Bocci, Harbourne, and Huneke, it was discovered that a better bound exists in some cases.

Theorem The inclusion  for all  holds
 for arbitrary ideals in characteristic 2;
 for monomial ideals in arbitrary characteristic
 for ideals of d-stars
 for ideals of general points in

References

External links
 Melvin Hochster, Math 711: Lecture of September 7, 2007

Algebra


title: Saint John Exhibition

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The Saint John Exhibition, formerly known as the Atlantic National Exhibition, is an annual exhibition held in Saint John, New Brunswick. The exhibition includes an agricultural fair, midway, entertainment, harness racing and other attractions.

History
The Atlantic National Exhibition was first held at the Barrack Green in Saint John's South End, where it took place until 1938. The exhibition was cancelled during World War II and did not resume until 1954. It was then relocated to its present location in Saint John's East End. Amusement rides were provided by Bill Lynch Shows from 1954 to 1988. The exhibition also featured, horse races, auto racing, sideshows and peep shows. During the 1950s the event attracted 100,000 weekly visitors.

References

Culture of Saint John, New Brunswick
Tourist attractions in Saint John, New Brunswick


title: CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles (2014)

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The CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles 2014 or "National Incredible Pairs Tournament 2014" was the fifth of a series of Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) tournaments for tag teams traditionally held early in the year. The tournament was based on the Lucha Libre Parejas Increíbles match type where two wrestlers of opposite allegiance, portraying either villains, referred to as "Rudos" in Lucha Libre wrestling terminology, or fan favorites, or "Technicos". At times some of the team members were part of pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines with each other. The tournament was won by the team of Atlantis and Euforia, marking the fourth time Atlantis has won the tournament.

Tournament
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) held their fourth annual Torneo Nacional De Parejas Increíbles tournament between March 7 and March 21, 2014, starting with two opening round groups where the winner of each group will advance to the finals. The finals took place at the 2014 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas, which was the only tournament match contested under best two-out-of-three falls rules. The tournament featured teams of wrestlers who would not usually team up, in fact most of the teams were on opposite sides of the Tecnico/Rudo (Fan favorite/villain) divide and were oftentimes direct rivals.

Tournament participants
Key

Block A (March 7, 2014)
Místico  and Reaper
Titán  and El Felino
Maximo  and Rey Escorpión
Rey Cometa  and Pólvora
La Sombra  and Último Guerrero
Valiente  and Vangelis
Volador Jr.  and Averno
La Máscara  and Ephesto

Block B (March 11, 2014)
Atlantis  and Euforia
Stuka Jr.  and Niebla Roja
Marco Corleone  and El Terrible
Máscara Dorada  and Mephisto
Blue Panther  and Negro Casas
Delta  and Mr. Águila
Diamante Azul  and Rey Bucanero
Brazo de Plata  and Kráneo

Tournament results

References

2014 in professional wrestling
CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles


title: List of teams and cyclists in the 1989 Tour de France

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The 1989 Tour de France was the 76th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Luxembourg on 1 July and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 23 July. The Tour organisation invited 22 teams to the Tour, with 9 cyclists each.

Teams

Qualified teams

Invited teams

Cyclists

By starting number

By team

By nationality
The 198 riders that competed in the 1989 Tour de France represented 20 different countries. Riders from eleven countries won stages during the race; Netherlands riders won the largest number of stages.

Notes

References

1989 Tour de France
1989


title: Leonard J. Stern

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Leonard J. Stern (1904-1988) was a Republican lawyer from Ohio who served as a Common Pleas judge, an appeals court judge and from 1970 to 1977 was a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.

Leonard J. Stern was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 4, 1904, the son of Benjamin and Hermine (Markovitz) Stern. He managed his father's grocery store while working his way through Cleveland–Marshall College of Law. He graduated in 1926, was admitted to the bar, and went into private practice in Cleveland. He was a bailiff of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

In 1939, Stern and his family moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he was corporate counsel in the office of Ohio Secretary of State Earl Griffith.  In 1940 he became executive secretary to the Ohio Board of Public Works, which he held for six years. He then went into private practice in Columbus.

In 1965, Governor Jim Rhodes appointed Stern to the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, and he won a six-year term in 1966. He was appointed by Rhodes in 1969 to Ohio's 10th District Court of Appeals.

In March 1970, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court Kingsley A. Taft died. On April 3, 1970, Governor Rhodes elevated Associate Justice C. William O'Neill to Chief Justice, creating a vacancy on the court. In August of that year, Rhodes appointed Stern to fill the remaining months of O'Neill's term. Stern won election to a six-year term in November 1970. He was unable to run for re-election in 1976 because he exceeded the 70 year age limit for judicial election proscribed in the Ohio Constitution.

After retirement, Stern served as the first disciplinary counsel to the Supreme Courtand was a member of the Ohio Court of Claims.

On November 13, 1931, Stern married Anastasia Percin in Cleveland. They had two children. Stern died May 21, 1988. His funeral was at Temple Israel in Columbus, and burial was at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum, Columbus.

References

1904 births
1988 deaths
20th-century American Jews
Judges of the Ohio District Courts of Appeals
Ohio Republicans
Justices of the Ohio Supreme Court
Lawyers from Cleveland
Politicians from Columbus, Ohio
Cleveland State University College of Law alumni
20th-century American judges
20th-century American lawyers


title: Ángel de la guarda, mi dulce compañía

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Ángel de la guarda, mi dulce compañía, was a Colombian telenovela produced by RTI for Caracol Televisión and Telemundo.

Cast
 Manuela González as Carolina Falla
 Diego Ramos as Miguel Ángel Cruz
 Carlos Ponce as Gustavo Almansa
 Orlando Miguel as Fernando Azula
 Marcela Angarita as Alejandra Valencia
 Juan Carlos Vargas as John Jairo
 Rosemary Bohórquez as Nora "Norita"
 Enrique Carriazo as Benigno Perales
 Natasha Díaz as Yolanda
 Mario Duarte as Rafael
 Hugo Gómez as Antonio Falla
 Sebastián Martínez as John F. Kennedy "Kenny" Perales
 Ana Bolena Meza as Mariela de Perales
 Jorge Arturo Pérez as Brocoli
 Sandra Pérez as Luisa Falla
 Eliana Piñeros as Manuela
 Juan Pablo Barragán as Ricardo
 Sebastian Peterson as Arturo
 Ana María Trujillo as Diana
 Flor Trujillo
 Ginna Acuña

External links
 Ángel de la guarda mi dulce compañía en Colarte
 Todotnv
 Diario digital RD

Telemundo telenovelas
2005 telenovelas
Caracol Televisión telenovelas
2004 Colombian television series debuts
2003 Colombian television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television shows set in Bogotá


title: Arnaut Mami

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Arnaut Mami or Mahomed the Albanian ( 1572–76) was an Ottoman Albanian commander and admiral of the Ottoman fleet and the squadron admiral and the supreme commander of all Islamic vessels in North Africa and Pasha Algiers, known as the most formidable corsair of that period for his terrorizing of the narrow seas. He was also captain general of Ottoman galleys in Algiers.  He was called Arnaut after his Albanian origin.

On the morning of 26 September 1575, Arnaut's ship attacked the galley Sol on the Catalan coast, with  Miguel de Cervantes aboard.  After significant resistance, in which the captain and many crew members were killed, the surviving passengers were taken to Algiers as captives.  After five years as a slave, Cervantes was released when his family paid the ransom.

See also
Albanian piracy

References

Sources

16th-century Albanian people
Albanian people from the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire admirals
Albanian Muslims
16th century in Algiers


title: Keleswaram Mahadeva Temple

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Keleswaram Mahadeva Temple  is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva in the state of Kerala, India. The temple is situated in Keleswaram, a village in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital of Kerala.

The management of the temple
The temple is under the management of Travancore Devaswom Board.

Important days
Maha Shivaratri and Thiruvathira are the days which attract huge crowds to the temple.

Darshan
One of the speciality of this temple is Shiva Linga faces towards west. It is rarely seen.
Darshan timings :
 Morning - 5.20 to 10.00
 Evening - 5.00 to 8.00

Deities and sub-deities
The main deity of the temple is Hindu god Shiva. There are many upadevathas (sub-deities) adjacent to the temple.

The main upadevathas on the premises are:

 Vishnu
 Durga
 Lord Ganesh
 Nagaraja
 Lord Murugan
 Lord Ayyappan

References

See also
 List of Hindu temples in Kerala
 Sreekanteswaram
 Kamaleswaram Mahadeva Temple

Hindu temples in Thiruvananthapuram district
Shiva temples in Kerala


title: Nduka Obaigbena

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Nduka Obaigbena CON, Duke of Owa Kingdom is the founding Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of the THISDAY Media Group and ARISE News Channel.

Background

He was born in Ibadan, South West, Nigeria on July 14, 1959, into the royal family of Owa Kingdom, Delta State.

Education
Obaigbena attended Edo College, Benin City, and the University of Benin. He attended the Graduate School of Business at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Advanced Management Programme at the University of Cape Town.

Career
He founded the Nigerian newspaper Thisday in 1995. In 2000 Obaigbena founded the annual Thisday Awards which honour those who made contributions to Nigerian society in the political arena, global business, Women of distinction, and leading figures in the Nigerian education sector.

In 2013 he launched an international TV news channel with an African focus, Arise News, signing a contract with Globecast for satellite transmission on Astra 2G for broadcast on the UK Sky platform, and to Hot Bird for cable distribution, with bases in London, New York City, Johannesburg, Abuja, and Lagos.

In 2021, Obaigbena was disqualified from serving as a company director in the UK for seven years; judge Raquel Agnello, ruling in favour of a case brought by the official receiver, found his conduct as sole director of Arise TV to be unfit and that the company had continued to trade despite "complete uncertainty" about its funding.

Politics
Obaigbena was a senate candidate in 1991. He was elected a member of the Constitutional Conference in 1994.

International boards and Committees
Obaigbena is a regular attendee and sessions moderator for the World Economic Forum and has served as a member of the Nominating Committee of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. He is Chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) as well as Chairman of the Nigerian Press Organisation - comprising the NPAN, the National Union of Journalists and the Nigerian Guild of Editors where he is a fellow.

ThisDay
Obaigbena began the publication of the Thisday Nigerian newspaper in 1995. In 2000 he founded the annual Thisday Awards which honours those who made contributions to Nigerian society in the political arena, global business, Women of distinction, and leading figures in the Nigerian education sector.

Arise News
In 2013 he launched an international TV news channel with an African focus, Arise News, signing a contract with Globecast for satellite transmission on Astra 2G for broadcast on the UK Sky platform, and to Hot Bird for cable distribution, with bases in London, New York City, Johannesburg, and Lagos.

ARISE Magazine and ARISE Fashion Week
He also founded ARISE Magazine. The publication was launched at the THISDAY Music & Fashion Festival at London's Royal Albert Hall on October 14, 2008 and powered The ARISE (AFRICA ) FASHION Week starting in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, and later finding a home in Lagos Nigeria - after shows with the African Fashion Collectives in the Royal Albert Hall, London; Kennedy Centre, Washington DC; Lincoln Centre, New York. The ARISE Fashion Week also featured a few years at The New York and Paris Fashion Weeks.

Cultural Initiatives
Obaigbena started the THISDAY Music and Fashion Festivals in 2006. The event included several musical acts such as Beyonce, Jay Z, Rihanna, John Legend, Lionel Richie, Dianna Ross, Alicia Keys, Mary J Blige, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Busta Rhyme, Black Eyed Peas, Missy Elliott, Usher, Naomi Campbell, Alec Wek, Liya Kedebe, Oluchi, etc. He also created the concept of THISDAY Awards.

Controversy
Before the ascent of Arise News, some staff and suppliers complained about Obaigbena's failure to meet payment deadlines. Obaigbena had paid all debts to employees. About three years after the launching of Arise News, Obaigbena was involved in an inquiry being conducted by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which was investigating the spending of a $2.1 billion fund. The ensuing course of investigations affected Obaigbena's operations. About this period, staff complained and took job action because of the delay in payments.

Awards
In October 2022, Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), a Nigerian national award was conferred on Obaigbena by President Muhammadu Buhari.

External links
Thisday website
Arise News website

References

1959 births
Nigerian newspaper founders
Nigerian television company founders
Nigerian newspaper publishers (people)
Living people


title: Against the Wild

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Against the Wild is a 2013 Canadian direct-to-video children's film directed by Richard Boddington and starring CJ Adams, Erin Pitt, Natasha Henstridge and Ted Whittall.

Plot

13-year-old Zach Wade and 12-year-old Hannah are brother and sister, whose parents have separated and are planning a divorce. It's a tough time for the entire family.  Life is made a little easier for Zach and Hannah though because they have their trusty dog, Chinook (an Alaskan Malamute), the three make a great team and they have a lot of fun together.

Zach, Hannah, and Chinook, will be flying deep into the wilderness to meet up with their father (Robert) who is the vice president of a mining operation.

On the appointed day the children and their dog are picked up at their dock.  They kiss their mother goodbye and the sea plane takes off.  The children are thrilled to ride in this small plane, and they really enjoy the company of the extremely nice company pilot, Charlie Foster.

The plane heads North deep into the expanse of the wilderness, below them Zach and Hannah see nothing but lakes, rivers, and trees.  They marvel at the beauty of the scene.

Suddenly, the engine sputters then makes a loud bang! Black smoke pours out of the engine, Charlie struggles to keep the plane in the air as his instruments give him nothing but bad news.  He tells the children to brace themselves for a crash landing.  The plane comes in low and begins to smash into the trees before slamming into the ground hard.

Inside the plane the three humans are alive but unconscious from the impact of the crash.  Chinook licks Hannah's face and Hannah wakes up, Hannah shakes her brother and he wakes up.  Zach examines Charlie, he is alive but moans in a state of semi consciousness.  Zach tries the radio, he turns the dials, sparks shoot out, the radio is dead.

Zach and Hannah decide that they must try and find help, they gather up any useful object they can find in the plane and set off with Chinook.

Meanwhile, Robert Wade has been notified that the plane is overdue and cannot be reached via radio.  The worried Robert informs Susan.  Robert begins to co-ordinate a search and rescue effort.

Zach and Hannah trek through the woods, they begin to realize that they are in more trouble than they thought.  They discuss going back to the plane to await rescue, and soon discover that they are so lost that returning to the plane is now impossible.

Meanwhile, Robert has taken to the skies in the company helicopter and is conducting a detailed search of the area they believe the plane went down.

The children and Chinook come across a large cave and build a fire by the entrance. The fire slowly dies as Zach and Hannah talk, Chinook is alerted by a strange noise, something is watching the children from inside the cave.  Chinook looks into the cave and growls, “what is it boy?” Zach inquires.

Suddenly something charges toward the children, Chinook gets up and barks wildly, Hannah screams in terror as a flock of quail blast past the children, scaring them half to death.  Chinook chases the quail into the woods, Zach and Hannah take deep breaths of relief, when Hannah suddenly hears something.  The sound of a distant chopper can be heard.  The children run into the woods and try to get the helicopters attention with a flashlight.  They are not seen and the chopper flies off.

In the morning the children notice a plateau far off in the distance and make it their goal to reach this high spot where they are sure they will be seen.

Meanwhile, Robert and Susan are growing increasingly impatient with the rescue effort.  Robert is frustrated with the authorities and Susan is frustrated with her estranged husband.  Robert and Susan are told they cannot join the search on foot as they might also become lost.  The company helicopter is now out of commission due to oil leaks.

Zach, Hannah, & Chinook, set off again they walk for hours.  Finally they reach a fast running river that they need to cross.  The children find an old log that has fallen across the river and decide to use it to cross the water.  Zach goes across first, then Chinook, as Hannah gets halfway across she slips and falls in the water.

Hannah is swept downstream, Hannah cries out to Zach and Chinook.  Finally Chinook dives in and brings Hannah back to shore.  Hannah has injured her ankle in the ordeal.

The children camp so that Hannah can rest and dry out.  Zach is off collecting firewood with Chinook when three wolves enter the camp.  Hannah desperately tries to hold them off with a stick from the fire.  Zach and Chinook soon arrive back at the camp. Chinook charges in and confronts a wolf, Zach throws his baseball at the other, and the wolves are driven off.

Hannah is unable to walk on her ankle.  Zach builds a travois (sled made from sticks) so that the powerful Chinook can pull her through the woods.

A ground search team finally locates the wreckage.  Soon a barely alive Charlie Foster is being taken out of an air ambulance and into the hospital.  He tells Zach and Hannah's father that he has no idea were the children went to, when he woke up they were gone.  Leaving him only a note.

As the search for the children has progressed, Robert and Susan have grown closer as the ordeal has drawn them together.

Zach and Hannah find a beautiful waterfall with a sparkling stream.  Chinook alerts the children to the salmon in the shallows.  Zach finally catches one with his bare hands after several attempts. The children enjoy their meal and spend the night.

Zach and Hannah continue to make their way through the woods and come across a nice rest spot where they stop. From the forest comes a curious raccoon who raids Zach's backpack.

Zach and Hannah trudge on, as they come to a high spot Zach spots smoke rising from the forest. A forest fire is fast approaching them.

The children enter a clearing, Chinook stops, raises his ears, and begins to growl.  A grizzly bear bursts from the trees and heads straight for the children and Chinook.  Zach and Hannah are frozen with fear.  Chinook barks, snaps, and lunges at the bear.  The bear stands up on its hind legs and roars.  Chinook does not back down, he continues to harass the bear.  Zach and Hannah run for their lives finding shelter under a fallen tree.  The grizzly does not give up and gives chase.  The bear attempts to get at Zach and Hannah through the tree branches.  Chinook arrives on the scene and bravely bites the bear's paw, hard.  The bear limps off in pain.  The children are saved and reunite with Chinook.

Meanwhile, back at the search and rescue camp, Robert has just been informed by the captain that the search has been called off due to the forest fire.  A frustrated Robert weighs his options.

The children finally arrive at the plateau and celebrate their achievement.  As Hannah and Chinook dance around in joy Zach does not realize how close to the edge he has come and falls over the side.

Hannah yells down to Zach, he's ok, but he has fallen quite a ways and can't get back up.  Zach tells Hannah to go and get help but Hannah refuses to leave Zach.  Hannah speaks to Chinook, through her tears she tells Chinook he has to find some help.  Chinook bounds off into the woods alone.

Robert and Susan commandeer an ATV and begin to search on their own.

Chinook runs fast through the woods, through the clearings, over fallen logs, etc.  Chinook is being watched by the three wolves he confronted earlier and they give chase.  The wolves catch up to Chinook. Chinook runs hard and jumps across a gorge in a mighty leap.  The wolves stop and decide not to follow.

Hannah continues to comfort Zach as he tries to deal with his predicament.

Robert and Susan drive their ATV fast through the woods when Chinook suddenly bursts from the forest in front of them.  Susan yells to Robert, “Follow him!” Robert and Susan are led back to Hannah and Zach by Chinook.  After a brief reunion Robert engineers the rescue of Zach by using a rope and harness tied to the ATV.  Susan drives the ATV, while Hannah relays the instructions from her dad to her mother.  The entire family unites to save Zach.

Once safely inside the ATV, Robert and Susan inform Zach and Hannah that the divorce has been called off and that they will all live together as a family once again.

Reception

Richard Boddington received the Director's Choice Grand Prize for the film at the 2013 Rhode Island International Film Festival.

Since the film was not released in theaters, being direct-to-video, its financial profits were from DVD sales only which amounted to about $2 million.

Against The Wild was nominated for an International Emmy Award in  2014.

Sequel
Against the Wild 2: Survive the Serengeti was released in American theatres in February 2016, the only Canadian film to be released in the US that year.

References

External links

2013 direct-to-video films
2013 films
Canadian children's adventure films
English-language Canadian films
2010s English-language films
2010s Canadian films


title: Ladrón de corazones

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Ladrón de Corazones, It is an American telenovela produced by Telemundo and Argos Comunicación in 2003. It was a remake of the hit 1995 Argentinian series Poliladron created and starring Adrian Suar.

Cast

 Lorena Rojas as Verónica Vega
 Manolo Cardona as Gustavo Velasco
 Humberto Zurita as Antonio Vega
 Roberto Mateos as Esteban de Llaca
 Fabiola Campomanes as Inés Santoscoy
 Claudia Lobo as Celia Tapia de Velasco
 Marcos Valdés as Ramiro Barrientos
 Raúl Arrieta as Froylan Narváez
 Roberto Medina as Padre Anselmo Tapia
 Marco Treviño as Mateo
 Sergio Ochoa as Tarta
 Lisa Owen as Magdalena Tapia
 Wendy de los Cobos as María Castillo
 Teresa Selma as Doña Francisca Zambrano de Velasco
 Paola Ochoa as Refugio
 Enoc Leaño as Ibañez
 Aarón Beas as Gabriel
 Carlos Coss as El Chino
 Alberto Guerra as Tony Castillo
 Marisol Centeno as Claudia Barrientos
 Teresa Tuccio as Susan Estévez
 Daniela Bolaños as Nancy Barrera
 Marisol del Olmo as Marcela
 Álvaro Guerrero as José Salvador Martínez 'Chepe'
 Marcelo Buquet as Patricio Benítez
 Luis Gerardo Méndez as Raúl
 Patricia Marrerro as Teresa
 Angélica Celaya as Renata
 Gabriel Porras as Román
 Alfredo Ahnert as Charles
 Rubén Cristiany as Obispo
 Rodolfo Arias as Carlos
 Luis Cárdenas as Secretario Manuel
 Alfonso Diluca as Leonardo de la Lama
 Emilio Guerrero as Leyva
 Eugenio Montessoro as Hernán Ferreira
 Irineo Alvarez as Secretario
 Roberto Montiel as Presidente
 Guillermo Ríos as Manuel Martínez
 Marco Antonio Aguirre as Chetas
 Candela Ferro as Elena Aragón
 Seraly Morales as Doctor
 Raúl Ortiz as Doctor
 Erwin Veytia as Virgilio
 Hugo Albores as Islas
 Adrian Alonso as Niño
 Fernando Banda as Fernando
 Moisés Cardez as Sicario
 José Antonio Coro as Doctor
 Ignacio Flores de la Lama as Jugador
 Marcela Espeso as Vendedora
 Jaime Estrada as Gerente de Boxeo
 John Gertz as Bill Carson
 Aurora Gil as Acompañante
 Antonio Gozat as El Chato
 Héctor Holten as. El director de la cárcel
 César Izaguirre as Testigo protegido
 Paco Mauri as Juez
 David Rencoret as Francisco Santoscoy
 Patricia Rozitchner as Silvia
 Juan Ríos Cantú as Emilio Escobar
 Alejandro Usigli as Narco
 Jorge Victoria as Espinoza
 Keyla Wood as Anna
 Luis Yeverino as Secuestrador
 Antonio Zagaceta as Ugalde
 Marco Zetina as Narco

External links
 Página oficial de Telemundo

Telemundo telenovelas
2003 telenovelas
2003 American television series debuts
2003 American television series endings
Argos Comunicación telenovelas
Spanish-language American telenovelas
American television series based on Argentine television series


title: Waisai

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Waisai is a town in the south of the island of Waigeo in the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia. Founded in 2003, it is the capital of the Raja Ampat Regency and is home to a little over 8,000 people. It is a transit point for tourists visiting the rest of the archipelago, and its airport is reachable by plane from the larger cities of Manado and Sorong, or ferry from the latter. While it is mainly a stopping point for tourists before continuing to the rest of the islands, the town includes a dive resort, several accommodations, and two beaches.

Climate
Waisai has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy rainfall year-round. Unlike most parts of Indonesia, it experiences a rainfall maximum during the low-sun season due to local wind currents.

References

Populated places in Raja Ampat
Regency seats of Southwest Papua


title: Okhotnyche

text:
Okhotnyche (; ; ) is a rural settlement in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.

Okhotnyche is the highest located settlement in Crimea, at an elevation of . The settlement is located on the Ai-Petri mountain  southwest from Livadiya, which it is administratively subordinate to. Its population was 34 in the 2001 Ukrainian census. Current population:

References

Rural settlements in Crimea
Yalta Municipality


title: Mark Termini

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Mark Termini is a Cleveland, Ohio-based sports attorney and agent. His agency Mark Termini Associates Inc represents professional basketball players. He negotiated $1.4 billion in NBA contracts for the clients of the Klutch Sports Group from 2014 to 2019.

Background and education
Termini graduated from Holy Name High School (1974) and Case Western Reserve University (1978). Both schools are located in Cleveland, Ohio. He then earned a J.D. degree cum laude from Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1984.

Sports business career
Termini founded the sports agency Mark Termini Associates Inc in 1986. His first three clients were Scott Roth, Brad Sellers, and Ron Harper, who all had Ohio basketball roots and then played in the NBA. The agency continued to grow by representing numerous professional players from Ohio.

After the Dallas Mavericks selected his client Jim Jackson with the fourth choice of the 1992 NBA draft, Jackson held out for the first 54 games of the 1992-93 season. Termini then negotiated his six-year, $20 million contract, including a full salary for the 1992-93 season even though Jackson played only 28 games. At the time it marked the most lucrative contract ever for a rookie guard. There have been very few high-profile holdouts in NBA history since then. After Jackson retired, he started a long, successful broadcasting career based on a recommendation by Termini.

Under Termini's guidance, Kevin Edwards signed a five-year, $9.6 million free agent contract with the New Jersey Nets following the 1992-93 season. Termini's client Ron Harper, then with the Los Angeles Clippers, tied Michael Jordan for the fourth-highest NBA salary at $4 million in the 1993-94 season. Following that season, Harper signed a five-year $19.2 million deal with the Chicago Bulls. He played on three championship teams with the Bulls and two with the Los Angeles Lakers.

In August 1993, The Dallas Morning News included Termini in a group of the five most influential and high-profile NBA agents.

Termini represented Pau Gasol, a four-time NBA All-Star, when he played for the Memphis Grizzlies. Gasol left his agency in 2004 after Termini refused to reduce his contract negotiation fee. Other former clients include Gary Trent, Calvin Booth, and Earl Boykins.

In 2006, Termini helped his client Damon Jones become the first NBA player to sign an endorsement contract with Chinese shoe manufacturer Li Ning.

Crain's Cleveland Business inducted Termini into its first 40 Under 40 class in 1991. The class was recognized again in 2011.

Termini has negotiated almost $2 billion in professional sports contracts. He has represented more than 30 selections in the NBA Draft, including former Ohio State star Kosta Koufos, who has been a Termini client for his entire career. Koufos played for CSKA Moscow, which competes in the Euroleague, the top professional basketball league in Europe.  The two-year, $6 million contract he signed in July 2019 made him the highest paid American player in Europe. Termini's agency also represents players in foreign professional leagues.

In January 2013, Termini began working with agent Rich Paul of Klutch Sports Group. KSG represents NBA stars LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Draymond Green, John Wall, and Ben Simmons. Their client list also features talented young players like Darius Garland, Malik Beasley, Montrezl Harrell, Miles Bridges, and Darius Bazley. As part of their working relationship, Termini ran the contract negotiations for Klutch Sports Group and all of its NBA clients. Paul sought the help of Termini for contract negotiations, his experience, and connections with NBA executives. Klutch already represented James when Termini joined the agency, but they soon began landing other elite NBA clients. Working together, Termini and Paul closed over $1.4 billion in NBA contracts.

Termini, who specialized in contract negotiation and construction, was a key figure in the free agency process that ultimately led to the return of LeBron James to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014. He developed a contract negotiation strategy prior to the 2014 NBA free agency signing period that led to James signing a two-year max contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Termini met with James, Paul, Maverick Carter (who handles James' marketing), and Cavaliers Owner Dan Gilbert on July 6, 2014 to discuss a contract. Six days later, James announced he would return to Cleveland. The two-year deal gave James more flexibility and the potential for greater earnings. Robert Lanza, former NBA Players Association General Counsel, called Termini "one of the finest contract attorneys in the country" following the contract. By signing a shorter deal than the four year maximum contract, James was able to take advantage of the rising NBA salary cap two years later. This unprecedented "one plus one" strategy resulted in James receiving $19 million more over the course of his Cavs contract than he otherwise would have earned by signing a four-year max deal with Cleveland in 2014.

During the 2014 offseason, contract negotiations for Klutch Sports Group client Eric Bledsoe and the Phoenix Suns continued into September. A restricted free agent, Bledsoe finally signed a 5-year, $70 million deal on September 24.

Termini advised the new National Basketball Players Association leaders to formally warn the NBA about their teams using preemptive media comments to chill offers for restricted free agents. This resulted in the NBA sending a memo to its teams warning of potential exposure if they used this long-unchallenged tactic, and added a new clause in the 2017 NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement to enforce the new rule.

Just prior to the 2015-16 season, Termini and Paul negotiated a five-year, $82 million contract for restricted free agent Tristan Thompson. That deal made Thompson the sixth-highest-paid power forward in the NBA for the 2015-16 season In 2015, Termini also negotiated a four-year, $33 million free agent contract for his client Kosta Koufos with the Sacramento Kings, along with deals for several other Klutch clients including Cory Joseph (four years, $30 million with the Toronto Raptors). Four years later, in 2019, Joseph signed with the Sacramento Kings for three years, $37 million.

Termini represented his long-time friend Flip Saunders, who coached 17 seasons in the NBA and won 654 career games. Saunders died in 2015 at age 60 of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Cuyahoga Heights High School, where Saunders starred as a player, named its new gym "Flip Saunders Gymnasium". Termini attended the January 2020 dedication ceremony. In 2023, Termini organized the Flip Saunders Park Dedication Ceremony.

Termini and Rich Paul collaborated on an endorsement contract that their client Ben Simmons signed with Nike on June 6, 2016. Simmons' five-year, guaranteed $20 million contract with Nike includes performance bonuses that could increase the value above $40 million. On June 23, 2016, Simmons became the first overall selection in the 2016 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. After his third NBA season, Simmons signed a five-year max contract extension with the 76ers for $170 million in July 2019.

During the 2016 offseason, Termini and Paul negotiated a three-year, $100 million contract for LeBron James to stay with the Cleveland Cavaliers, which made him the highest paid player in the NBA for the first time in his career. They also finalized a four-year, $57 million deal for Klutch Sports Group client J.R. Smith just before the start of the 2016-17 season.

LeBron James opted out of his contract with the Cavaliers after the 2017-18 season. In July 2018, Klutch Sports announced that James signed a four-year, $153 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. Anthony Davis, one of the NBA's elite big men, signed with Klutch in September 2018. In June 2019, Davis was traded from the New Orleans Pelicans to the Lakers, joining James to form a powerful combination.

In February 2019, Klutch added another elite star in Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green to its client roster. Green could have been a free agent after the 2019-20 season, but after discussing his future options in the marketplace with Termini and Paul, he signed a $100 million contract extension in August 2019.

In July 2019, United Talent Agency reached a deal with Klutch Sports Group to create a sports division led by Paul. United Talent Agency is one of Hollywood's top talent representation firms. Inc.com noted Termini's contract expertise in a September 2019 article on Paul.

Dejounte Murray, a San Antonio Spurs point guard represented by Klutch, signed a four-year, $64 million extension in October 2019. Murray landed the deal despite missing the entire 2018-19 season with a torn ACL. Following the acclaimed ESPN broadcast of "The Last Dance" regarding the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls season, Sports Illustrated characterized the trade of Termini client Ron Harper as the demise of the Cavaliers during the Michael Jordan era. Harper noted his first contract negotiation with Cavaliers GM Wayne Embry may have played a role in his trade to the Los Angeles Clippers on November 15, 1989. Embry later wrote in his 2004 book that maybe he should have talked to agent Mark Termini.

During the 2020 NBA Coronavirus shutdown, the media highlighted Termini's negotiation and structuring of numerous Klutch client contracts to receive over 90 percent of their 2019-20 season salary due by April 1, 2020. Most NBA players receive their salaries over 12 months, but many Klutch clients secured much more favorable payment terms on their contracts, including non-star players such as Darius Bazley, Trey Lyles, Miles Bridges, Darius Garland and Dejounte Murray. When Termini's agreement with Klutch expired in 2020, RealGM noted some of the ground-breaking contracts Termini designed and negotiated during his tenure as the NBA negotiator for the Klutch Sports Group. In addition to contracts for LeBron James, they included deals for Eric Bledsoe, Tristan Thompson, and Ben Simmons.

In September 2021, it was noted that Termini had been contacted as a potential candidate for the Executive Director position of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).

In 2021, Termini generated and sponsored a ceremonial game for the Men's Varsity basketball team at his alma mater. The Covid pandemic cancelled the 2020-21 Case Western Reserve University season, and Termini wanted to provide a symbolic opportunity for the Division III program players and their parents. He also used the coverage of the game as an opportunity to comment on the inequities levied against Division III basketball programs by the NCAA.

When Ben Simmons held out at the start of the 2021-22 season, Termini was credited with influencing the use by Klutch Sports of the holdout tactic even though he had left the firm two years prior.

Termini is often quoted in the media on issues related to sports economics and sports law. In 2011, Termini recognized the negative impact of the new NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement on the power of agents. More recently, he stated his opposition to the buyout maneuver used by NBA teams to land players for a discounted contract. Termini has written on these topics as well.

Termini's use of the hardball negotiation tactics that became Klutch's calling card (during the Termini years), and his "legendary iron will" were explained in 2021. Although Termini ended his association with Klutch in 2020, an analysis of the Ben Simmons-Philadelphia 76ers holdout during the 2021-22 season referred to Termini as "The Holdout Master".

Athletic career
A basketball standout in high school and college, Termini scored 1,161 career points when he played for Case Western Reserve University from 1974 through 1978. He averaged 21.7 points per game his senior season. He also set records for career free throw percentage (85.4) and most assists in one season (106). Termini is a member of the Hall of Fame as a player at both Case Western Reserve University and Holy Name High School.

Personal
A lifelong Clevelander, Termini and his wife Wendy currently reside in the Greater Cleveland area. Wendy Cohn (Termini) is an attorney and partner in MTA. A fellow graduate of Cleveland Marshall Law School (1988), she provides negotiation and legal expertise to the clients of MTA. Termini's father Marlo was a long-time Cleveland area basketball coach. He is a member of the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame and the National Senior Softball Hall of Fame. His father died in 2018 at age 92. Case Western Reserve University formally announced the dedication of the Mark Termini Men's Basketball Locker Room on Friday, February 10, 2023.

Bibliography
Books:

 Words to Negotiate By
Articles:
 How Can the NBA Lose So Much Money and Be So Rich?

Quoted:

 Which Northeast Ohio colleges and universities are upgrading their athletic facilities?
 Negotiation strategies in the NBA | Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective podcast - ESPN
 The Most Hated Man in Portland

External links

 Official website

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American sports agents
Cleveland State University alumni
Case Western Reserve University alumni


title: Halifax Pride

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Halifax Pride is an LGBT pride festival, held annually in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the largest 2SLGBTQ+ event in Atlantic Canada, and one of the largest 2SLGBTQ+ pride events in Canada.

First held in 1988, the inaugural event featured just 75 marchers, some of whom wore paper bags over their heads due to the stigma against being openly identified as LGBT. The 2014 event featured approximately 2,500 marchers, with 80,000 people in attendance as participants or spectators.

The event's grand marshal in 2014 was Scott Jones, an LGBT activist from New Glasgow who launched the Don't Be Afraid campaign of LGBT awareness after being left paraplegic by an anti-gay attack in 2013. The event also featured a commemoration of Raymond Taavel, a former chair of the event who was killed in a violent attack in 2012.

The 2014 parade route started on Upper Water Street, and followed Barrington Street, Spring Garden Road and South Park Street to the Garrison Grounds at Citadel Hill.

In 2011, co-chair Ed Savage created some controversy by describing the event as "less promiscuous" and more family-oriented than other Pride festivals across Canada.

References

External links

Pride parades in Canada
Festivals in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Recurring events established in 1988
1988 establishments in Nova Scotia
LGBT in Nova Scotia