title: Final Fantasy Explorers

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is an action role-playing video game for the Nintendo 3DS. It features character job-oriented combat against classic Final Fantasy monsters and summons. It was released in Japan in December 2014, and in North America and Europe in January 2016.

Gameplay
Final Fantasy Explorers is an action role-playing video game featuring single-player and multiplayer modes. The player starts the game on an island featuring various locations, but can access other areas beyond the island on foot. The main goal of the player is to collect crystals scattered across the world. Unlike other narrative-driven entries in the Final Fantasy series, Explorers follows a quest-driven structure similar to Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Capcom's Monster Hunter series. Quest difficulty can be manually adjusted. Unlike previous entries in the series, chocobos, a recurring galliforme bird in the series, are not available for riding. Player characters engage in fights with classic Final Fantasy enemies and summons including Ifrit and Bahamut.

There are four character slots available; the three ally slots can be filled with other human players or with monsters previously defeated in battle. Characters are assigned character jobs as with early Final Fantasy titles, including the White Mage, Black Mage, Monk, Paladin and Dragoon among others. Aside from these, there are also character jobs exclusive to the title. Players start the game as a Freelancer, able to adapt themselves to various skills before choosing specific jobs. There are over five hundred different pieces of equipment available for creation from material that is either found on the field or won in combat. The characters are given a maximum of eight skills to be used in battle, and can learn skills for certain jobs which can be used with other jobs when mastered. Using abilities costs a certain number of magic points, but costs less if a character uses a skill linked to a specific job. Skills can also be cancelled in battle. For multiplayer matches, a maximum of four players can use both the Nintendo Network and conventional Wi-Fi to enter a playing session.

Premise
Explorers revolves around the titular group of explorers from the rural town of Libertas who hunt the world for crystals, objects which are the source of life and civilization for the world. The most major source of crystals is the new island of Amostra, but they are guarded by fearsome beasts that the explorers must fight.

Development
The original concept for Final Fantasy Explorers was the brainchild of director Atsushi Hashimoto, who had previously worked on the Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy Legend II. Hashimito's original concept was for a multiplayer Final Fantasy role-playing game. One of the earliest design choices was the need for players to fight classic summoned monsters, as he felt that their presence would add an air of nostalgic familiarity to the game. The game's job system was developed at a later stage, when Hashimoto felt it would be a good fit with the multiplayer function. The music is composed by Tsuyoshi Sekito. When he began composing music for the title, he only had some pieces of key and concept art to go on, so was worried that he would not create the right kind of music. When he did meet the team, they were pleased with the results. The game's main theme was designed around the idea of the title characters, while also including darker elements such as "the suffering of the land". Explorers was first revealed in early June 2014 in Shonen Jump. The official website opened on June 16. Hashimoto's main goal was to create a game that was accessible for newcomers to the genre. Square Enix was making the game with the idea of turning it into a new action role-playing subseries.

Reception

Final Fantasy Explorers received mixed reviews. It received an aggregated score of 69/100 based on 57 reviews on Metacritic.

IGN wrote: "For a few hours at least, Final Fantasy Explorers is a charming little adventure that's fun to play alone with your monster buddies or with real-life friends. But repetitive quests, the lack of a serious challenge until late in the story and a poor travel system eventually broke the charm spell that Explorers had cast upon me". GameSpot wrote: "The sheer number of quests and the complexity of customization will keep you busy for hours. If you like that sort of thing, that is. Even though its economy leaves a bit to be desired, it's not clunky enough to dissuade you from working hard to earn items and craft your ultimate armor".

Final Fantasy Explorers sold over 265,000 copies in Japan by the end of 2015.

References

External links
 Official website (Japan)

2014 video games
Action role-playing video games
Fantasy video games
Final Fantasy video games
Nintendo 3DS games
Nintendo 3DS eShop games
Nintendo 3DS-only games
Nintendo Network games
Role-playing video games
Square Enix games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Tsuyoshi Sekito
Video games set on fictional islands
Final Fantasy spin-offs


title: Dohchay

text:
Dohchay () is a 2015 Indian Telugu-language crime comedy film written and directed by Sudheer Varma and produced by B. V. S. N. Prasad under the banner Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra. The film stars Naga Chaitanya and Kriti Sanon with Brahmanandam, Ravi Babu, Posani Krishna Murali, and Pooja Ramachandran in supporting roles. Sunny M.R. composed the music for the film.

The film was officially launched at Hyderabad on 12 June 2014, and principal photography began on 14 July 2014. The film was released on 24 April 2015.

Plot
Two masked bandits commit a take-over style armed bank robbery, seizing a local bank at gunpoint and steals  from the premises. However, after the bank robbers escape, they have a misunderstanding when they discuss whether they should give the money to their boss or run away with it. They both hold a gunpoint, blank at each other. Chandu is a small-time happy-go-lucky conmen with good heart, who cons people to educate his sister to become a doctor. They are also in league with a corrupt cop named CI Richard, who demands a cut in everything they do in return for keeping them out of the authorities's radar. Chandu's sister wants to become a doctor and Chandu is arranging the money for her studies.

One day, Chandu meets Meera, a fellow student in the same college as his sister. They start off as friends and eventually fall in love. Chandu's father is suffering from heart ailment, is in prison, who suffers a heart attack and has to go to the hospital. Chandu has to pay  for the operation. He has a scheme and steals the money from a drug dealer, so the operation is a success. However, during the course of conning the drug dealer, Chandu is noticed by Richard, who is suspicious of him, but cleverly manages to escape and fools Richard into thinking that he had not done any job recently. However, Richard is still suspicious and decides to keep a close eye on him. Chandu also learns that the minister's PA can get his father out of jail by treating it as a particular case citing his father's health condition.

Chandu fixes an appointment with the PA at a new apartment complex where the PA has bought a flat. When Chandu goes to meet the PA, he accidentally goes into the adjacent flat where the thieves hold the guns and eventually shoot each other Chandu steals the money. However, while escaping from there, Chandu is noticed by two men while getting into an auto-rickshaw. The two men are in league with the robbers and had come to the flat to collect the stolen money from them. Upon seeing the dead bodies in the flat, they quickly make it out on to the road just as Chandu leaves in an auto-rickshaw. They note down the registration number of the auto but unfortunately lose sight in the traffic. Chandu then goes to pick up his sister from her college in the same auto and leaves for the hospital where his father is being treated. Chandu later explains to Meera about his past.

Past: Chandu's mother was sick, and his father, who was a taxi driver, took care of him and his sister. A man, hires him to take him to a faraway village, to meet an acquaintance, and the father takes his kids too, who sleep off in the backseat. There is money in the taxi's trunk that the passenger puts there. Upon reaching the destination, the passenger drops off to meet his acquaintance, named Manikyam. Manikyam, however, kills the passenger and then blames it on Chandu's father by bribing the cops. The cops recover the money from Chandu's father's car and then proceed to arrest him. Eventually, Chandu's mother dies, and he and his sister go into an orphanage, but they soon escape. There he meets a friend, and together they form a gang of thieves and start performing small-time robberies and con jobs.

Present: Manikyam, who is revealed to be the boss of the bank robbers's tracks down Chandu and his sister. Finding out that Chandu has the money, Manikyam kidnaps Chandu's father and sister and demands for the two crores, which Chandu no longer possesses. Chandu comes up with a con to get the money. Chandu and Meera use Bullet Babu, an actor, as their target. Bullet Babu, a has-been in desperate need of a hit, has invested almost everything he has in a movie and is told that he still requires to pitch in more money. He also has a significant flaw which is that he always ends up having a crush on all good-looking girls. Chandu gets Meera to meet him under a false pretext providing him with a false story that his great-grandparents owned land that is worth 40 or 500 million, and he is the only known claimant.

However, Chandu will have to pay a processing fee of . Bullet Babu believes this. However, Richard, who has been following Chandu, discovers that Chandu has a new protege – Meera where he goes to her house and blackmails that he will trap her in a false case. Panicked, Meera tells him the complete job details and that the registration for the land will be in Gandipet. Richard meets Bullet Babu and tells him that he is being duped. He tells him to take  so that Richard can catch Chandu red-handed. In order to make this happen, he provides Bullet Babu with  from his own pocket. If the plan works out, then Bullet Babu can claim back the money and return them to Richard. Bullet Babu agrees and goes for registration. As Bullet Babu goes into the office, Chandu and his friends threaten to kill him, and they empty the bag of money and stuff it in their pockets.

They make off with the money in a car, and a car chase goes on between Richard and Chandu, where  Chandu is completely surrounded. Richard gets his superior to witness the proceedings. He tells him the entire case details. Upon searching Chandu and his friends, the cops realize that Chandu has no money. Richard then claims that Bullet Babu can testify for him. However, he is left shocked when Bullet Babu testifies that he has no idea about what Richard is saying and has never met him. Later, Bullet Babu reveals to Richard that the scam was on Richard and that he was on the scam from the beginning. As per his deal with Chandu, the money would be shared equally between him and Chandu. It is also revealed that Meera took a video when Richard says that he will trap Meera in a false case. Richard gets suspended because of this video.

Finally, Chandu meets up with Manikyam but gets him arrested by cops, who are later revealed to be actors arranged by Chandu to arrest him. Chandu sets up a fake police station and a fake court and forces Manikyam to admit his crimes. Manikyam is later taken to a real court, having made him believe that the only way he can get a reduced sentence and escape capital punishment is to confess his crimes. In the actual court, Manikyam, still thinking that he was held and tried by the real cops and lawyers last time, admits to all his crimes where he is sentenced to prison. Chandu, his sister, and father, along with Meera unite and leave the court.

Cast

Production

Development
In the end of April 2013, Sudheer Varma said in an interview that he would direct a star hero in his next film after his successful debut Swamy Ra Ra. In early October 2013 and in early January 2014, reports emerged that Sudheer Varma would direct Naga Chaitanya in his second film. In early June 2014, the project's existence was officially confirmed by a press release which also stated that B. V. S. N. Prasad would produce this film on Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra banner while the technical crew of Swamy Ra Ra would be working on this film too. The film was officially launched at Film Nagar temple in Hyderabad on 12 June 2014.

In mid-August 2014, it was reported that the makers finalized the title Mayagadu, which translates to "conman", as the protagonist plays the role of a very sharp witted conman in this film. Naga Chaitanya, in an interview, said that the film is a mix of con drama and action. The film's title was speculated as Dorakadu in mid November 2014, though the makers denied it later. Another rumored title was Harilo Ranga Hari. Naga Chaitanya announced that the film's first look teaser would be launched on 22 November 2014 and the title was expected to be confirmed.

In early December 2014, the film's soundtrack was planned to be unveiled in January 2015 while the film was scheduled for a late February or early March 2015 release. The film was reported to be titled as Docheyi, though an official confirmation was awaited. Chaitanya later confirmed the title as Dohchay on 17 February 2015 through his Twitter page.

Casting
Naga Chaitanya played the role of a conman and sported a different hairdo for the film. Kriti Sanon was selected as the female lead in late May 2014 after participating in a photo shoot with Naga Chaitanya. A press release on the day of the film's launch confirmed that Brahmanandam, Posani Krishna Murali, and Rao Ramesh are a part of the film's cast, while Ravi Babu, Praveen, Pooja Ramachandran, and Satya were also selected for important roles in this film. In late August 2014, Kriti Sanon said in an interview to The Times of India that the script was young, modern and had its own style because of which she accepted the film when she got the script. Naga Chaitanya's looks in the film were unveiled on 18, 20 and 22 November 2014. Madhuurima was cast for an item number which comes as a prelude to a crucial situation in the film. Nikeesha Patel was initially approached for that song, which she refused, citing displeasure of similar offers.

Filming
In early June 2014, the regular shooting was planned to start from 2 July 2014. Later, it was postponed to 12 July 2014 and finally started two days later at Hyderabad. Filming continued after a small break from 7 August 2014. Kriti Sanon joined the film's sets in late August 2014 and a scene featuring Kriti entering a share auto and sitting beside the driver with a convoy of vehicles led by Naga Chaitanya following her was shot near HITECH City in Hyderabad. Weeks later, some action sequences were on Naga Chaitanya and some fighters at Aluminium factory in Hyderabad.

In mid-October 2014, the filming continued at Annapurna Studios. The film's climax on Naga Chaitanya, Viva Harsha and few other comedians was shot on 8 November 2014. During the teaser launch, it was confirmed that except the songs, the rest of the film's shoot had been completed. In late January 2015, Kriti Sanon revealed that all the songs and 90% of the film's shoot has been completed. A song on Naga Chaitanya and Kriti Sanon was shot at Thailand in early March 2015.

Music

Release
Dohchay released on 24 April 2015.

Reception

Critical response
Hemanth Kumar writing for The Times of India gave the three stars out of 5, stating that "Despite having all the elements, it just doesn't add up to make a fine film".

IndiaGlitz gave 3 out of 5 stars stating, "Good visuals and slick BGM apart, this one has a few rib-tickling moments.  In the absence of a strong storyline and a tight screenplay, even Brahmi can't salvage it".

References

External links

2015 films
2015 crime action films
2010s Telugu-language films
2010s crime comedy-drama films
2010s heist films
Indian crime comedy-drama films
Films shot in Telangana
Indian heist films
2015 comedy films
Films directed by Sudheer Varma


title: Travis Sanheim

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Travis Sanheim (born March 29, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the  Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Sanheim was selected by the Flyers in the first round, 17th overall, of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

Early life
Both Travis and his fraternal twin brother Taylor Sanheim were born on March 29, 1996, to Kent and Shelley Sanheim. The Sanheim family ran a farm in Elkhorn, Manitoba, where Travis and Taylor were born, raised, and worked through their childhoods and adolescence. Both brothers began playing minor ice hockey with the Yellowhead Chiefs in the Manitoba U-18 'AAA' Hockey League: while Taylor was on the wing, Travis would play defense. Although he eventually grew to be , Sanheim was often smaller than many of his minor hockey opponents, and in response, he learned how to skate and think faster to counterbalance his smaller size.

Playing career

Junior
The Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League (WHL) selected Sanheim in the ninth round, 177th overall, of the 2011 WHL Bantam Draft. He debuted with the team for the 2013–14 season and had a difficult adjustment period, coupled by a late growth spurt, that limited Sanheim to only three points through his first 21 games of the season. He found his footing when paired defensively with Ben Thomas and received more playing time beginning in December after an injury to captain Jaynen Rissling. By the end of his rookie season, Sanheim had 29 points and a +25 plus–minus through 67 junior ice hockey games. That summer, the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL) selected Sanheim in the first round, 17th overall, of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

Sanheim attended both the Flyers' rookie and general training camps in 2014, and appeared in one preseason game, before returning to Calgary for the 2014–15 WHL season. He also signed an entry-level contract with Philadelphia just before the WHL and NHL seasons began. His sophomore season in the WHL proved to be a breakout, with 15 goals and 65 points in 67 games. Although he led all defensemen with 39 points through the first 41 games of the season, Sanheim found additional success starting in January when he was paired with Jake Bean, another offensively-minded defenseman. Through the remainder of their respective junior hockey careers, Sanheim and Bean served as primary scorers, as well as penalty killers, for a team that often lacked elite forwards. In the postseason, Sanheim scored the game-winning, double-overtime goal for the Hitmen to advance them past the Medicine Hat Tigers and into the Eastern Conference Finals for the Ed Chynoweth Cup. The Brandon Wheat Kings ultimately defeated the Hitmen in five games of the conference finals.

With a number of the Hitmen's playoff core leaving the team for the NHL just before the 2015–16 season, Sanheim, who was returned to the team after another training camp with Philadelphia, became a veteran presence for Calgary. He led all WHL defensemen in scoring with 22 points through the first 18 games of the season before suffering an upper-body injury in a game against the Prince Albert Raiders at the start of November. He missed nearly the entire month, returning on November 30 with a goal and an assist in a 4–3 overtime loss to the Regina Pats. Sanheim missed another stretch of games at the turn of the calendar year, during which time he was representing Canada at the 2016 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. In his absence, Calgary appointed his twin brother Taylor as a temporary alternate captain. Despite missing a total of 15 regular season games, Sanheim finished his final season of junior hockey with 15 goals and 68 points, and he led all Canadian Hockey League (CHL) defensemen in points per game. Sanheim's junior hockey career ended when the Red Deer Rebels swept the Hitmen in the first round of 2016 WHL playoffs.

Professional
After the Hitmen's season ended, Sanheim joined the Flyers' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, for the final stretch of their 2015–16 season. He appeared in four games for the Phantoms, recording three points in the process. Sanheim returned to the Phantoms for the 2016–17 AHL season, where he and his defensive pair Samuel Morin worked with assistant coach Kerry Huffman in order to heighten the physical aspect of their game for an older, larger group of skaters. While Sanheim's offensive abilities were already strong from his junior career, his work with Huffman helped Sanheim to develop his overall game. He did not score a goal until December, but through 63 games, Sanheim had both scored 10 goals and 29 points and he carried a +7 plus-minus. He finished the year with 10 goals and 37 points in 76 AHL games. All but one of these goals were at full strength, as T. J. Brennan was the Phantoms' main power play defenseman.

Sanheim made Philadelphia's final roster out of training camp and started the 2017–18 season in the NHL. He scored his first NHL goal on December 14, 2017, in his 28th NHL game, to help the Flyers defeat the Buffalo Sabres 2–1. He was reassigned to Philadelphia's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, on January 22, 2018, but was later recalled on March 9 due to an injury to Robert Hägg. Sanheim made his Stanley Cup playoff debut during the first round of the 2018 playoffs against the Pittsburgh Penguins. He recorded his first career playoff goal on April 15 in a 5–1 loss to the Penguins. The Flyers ended up losing to the Penguins in six games, after which Sanheim was loaned to the Phantoms to help them with their run in the 2018 Calder Cup playoffs.

On June 24, 2019, Sanheim signed a new two-year, $6.5 million contract.

Sanheim and his defensive mate Philippe Myers were two of the young Flyers to struggle in the protracted 2020–21 season, during which Philadelphia went 25-23-8. The loss of veteran presence in Matt Niskanen particularly affected many of the team's young defenders, as Alain Vigneault struggled to find a stable top pairing for Ivan Provorov. Sanheim was also the first Flyer to test positive for the COVID-19 virus during a team outbreak that February. Although he did not experience any significant symptoms, he was forced to isolate from February 7 to 18. The 2020–21 season proved to be the worst of Sanheim's career thus far, as he dropped to only three goals, 15 points, and a –22 rating while skating in all but one of the 56 games in the shortened season. Although statistically Sanheim's defensive performance was similar to seasons prior, his mistakes tended to be costlier during the 2020–21 season, with his turnovers and positioning leading more often to goals against than they had earlier in his NHL career.

Sanheim, a restricted free agent going into the 2021–22 season, successfully avoided contract arbitration on August 21, when he signed a two-year contract extension that carried an average annual value of $4.675 million. As Myers had been traded to the Nashville Predators over the summer, Sanheim's new partner on the second defensive line was Rasmus Ristolainen, who the Flyers had received in a trade with the Buffalo Sabres.

International play

Sanheim was chosen to compete with the Canada Western squad at the 2013 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, and he led Canada to capture the bronze medal at the 2014 IIHF World U18 Championships (WJC-18). At the WJC-18, Sanheim led all defencemen with six points, and was named one of Canada's top three players in the tournament, also earning recognition as the tournament's best defenceman.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honours

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
Calgary Hitmen players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Canadian twins
Ice hockey people from Manitoba
Lehigh Valley Phantoms players
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
Philadelphia Flyers draft picks
Philadelphia Flyers players


title: 2001 South American Championships in Athletics – Results

text:
These are the full results of the 2001 South American Championships in Athletics which took place on May 18–20, 2001, in Manaus, Brazil.

Men's results

100 meters

Heats – May 18Wind:Heat 1: +0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.2 m/s

Final – May 18Wind:+0.2 m/s

200 meters

Heats – May 20Wind:Heat 1: +0.1 m/s, Heat 2: +0.3 m/s

Final – May 20Wind:0.0 m/s

400 meters
May 19

800 meters
May 18

1500 meters
May 20

5000 meters
May 19

10,000 meters
May 20

110 meters hurdles
May 19Wind: 0.0 m/s

400 meters hurdles
May 18

3000 meters steeplechase
May 19

4 x 100 meters relay
May 19

4 x 400 meters relay
May 20

20,000 meters walk
May 19

High jump
May 18

Pole vault
May 20

Long jump
May 19

Triple jump
May 20

Shot put
May 19

Discus throw
May 20

Hammer throw
May 20

Javelin throw
May 18

Decathlon
May 18–19

Women's results

100 meters
May 18Wind: +0.6 m/s

200 meters
May 20Wind: 0.0 m/s

400 meters
May 19

800 meters
May 18

1500 meters
May 20

5000 meters
May 19

10,000 meters
May 19

100 meters hurdles
May 20Wind: +0.1 m/s

400 meters hurdles
May 18

3000 meters steeplechase
May 20

4 x 100 meters relay
May 19

4 x 400 meters relay
May 20

20,000 meters walk
May 18

High jump
May 19

Pole vault
May 18

Long jump
May 18

Triple jump
May 19

Shot put
May 18

Discus throw
May 19

Hammer throw
May 19

Javelin throw
May 18

Heptathlon
May 19–20

References

South American Championships
Events at the South American Championships in Athletics


title: Rise of the Legend

text:
Rise of the Legend () is a 2014 Hong Kong-Chinese kung-fu action film directed by Roy Chow and written by Christine To. The film stars Sammo Hung, Eddie Peng, Wang Luodan, Jing Boran, Max Zhang, Wong Cho Lam, Tony Leung and Angelababy. It was released on 21 November 2014 in China.

Principal photography on the film began on 20 August 2013 in China and concluded in December 2013. Edko Films, Irresistible Films, and Universal Pictures International are producing the film, while Edko Films will release the film in China and Universal will distribute the film Internationally. The action director is Corey Yuen.

Plot
Wong Fei-Hung played by Eddie Peng is a young man at 21 years old who is destined to become a master of his time, and an everlasting legend in the world of martial arts. In 1868 during the late Qing Dynasty, in Guangzhou, two crime factions run the Huangpu Port: The Black Tiger and the Northern Sea. For years, the Black Tiger's fearsome boss Lei Gong played by Sammo Hung has been trying to get rid of the leader of the Northern Sea. One of his latest recruits is Wong Fei-Hung, a fearless fighter who takes the Northern Sea leader's head after a fierce fight.  Recognizing Fei-Hung's talent, Lei Gong makes the young warrior his godson and one of his Four Tigers, the most trusted men in the gang. There is more to young Fei than meets the eye and the truth about his past and the ultimate showdown soon unravels.

Cast
 Sammo Hung as Master Lui, leader of the Black Tiger gang, Main Villain.
 Eddie Peng as Wong Fei-Hung, a future revered folk hero, joined the Black Tiger gang to take it down within by climbing into the top four tiger rank with the help from his friends from the outside.
 Jing Boran as Fiery, Wong Fei-Hung' childhood friend and admirer of Chun. He helps Wong Fei-Hung take down the Black Tiger gang from the outside. He died sacrificed himself to keep Fei-Hung from getting his identity as a mole in the Black Tiger Gang from exposed.
 Wang Luodan as Chun, Wong Fei-Hung's childhood friend and lover.
 Angelababy as Xiao Hua, a courtesan, revealed to be the long-lost childhood friend of Wong Fei-Hung, died near in the end of the film in helping Fei-Hung in her own way.
 Zhang Jin as Wu Long, the son of the North evil who try to avenge his late father's death caused by the Black Tiger Gang. He was killed by Master Lui while Fei-Hung tries to spare his life.
 Wong Cho-lam as Big Tooth, Good friend of Wong Fei-Hung, a former member of the Black Tiger gang who joins Fei-Hung on his mission to take down the Black Tiger Gang.
 Qin Junjie as Foon, ally, and supporter of Wong Fei-Hung, Chun, and Fiery against the Black Tiger gang
 Chen Zhihui as North Sea Gang Leader, Leader of the Northern Sea. Rival of Master Lui. Killed by Wong Fei-Hung in the beginning of the film to raise his rank in the Black Tiger Gang.
 Byron Mann as Black Crow, One of four tigers of the Black Tiger Gang. Killed by Wong Fei-Hung and Chun for his key to bank vault of the Black Tiger Gang
 Gao Taiyu as Wing
 Tony Leung Ka-fai as Wong Kei-ying, Wong Fei-Hung's father (guest star), A martial artist and physician who help those in need. He died in a fire by a villain when saving his disciples

Production
On 19 August 2013 it was announced that Edko Films, Irresistible Delta and BDI Films were teaming up for an upcoming action film based on life stories of the legendary martial arts master Wong Fei-Hung. The producers would be William Kong, Liu Erdong and Ivy Ho, while director Roy Chow would be directing on the script by Christine To. On 12 June 2014 it was announced that Universal Pictures International acquired all international rights to the film, including North America and Edko Films will distribute the film in Asia. It was also announced that the film was in post-production, which Universal would be co-producing along with Edko Films and Irresistible Films.

Principal photography began on 20 August 2013 in China and wrapped up in mid-December of the same year.

References

External links

Hong Kong martial arts films
Kung fu films
Films shot in China
Films set in China
Universal Pictures films
Chinese martial arts films
Films scored by Shigeru Umebayashi
2014 martial arts films
Films directed by Roy Chow
Triad films
2010s Mandarin-language films
2010s Hong Kong films


title: Badalpura

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Badalpura is a town in Patna district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is a part of Patna urban agglomeration. Badalpur has the lowest sex ratio in Bihar state (630 as against 1000 males) as per the 2011 census.

References

Neighbourhoods in Patna
Cities and towns in Patna district


title: HSC Francisco

text:
HSC Francisco is a high-speed catamaran built by Incat in Hobart, Tasmania. Powered by liquefied natural gas, she is currently the fastest passenger ship in service, reaching a speed of . Propulsion is by two GE LM2500 gas turbines, coupled with two Wärtsilä water-jets.

The catamaran is owned and operated by Argentine-Uruguayan ferry company Buquebus. Francisco plies the  sea route between Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

HSC Francisco is named after Pope Francis.

See also
 List of places and things named after Pope Francis

References

2012 ships
Incat high-speed craft
Individual catamarans
Ferries
Ships of Uruguay


title: Lindsey Bareham

text:
Lindsey Bareham is a British food writer. She began her career by editing the restaurant section of Time Out magazine. For eight years, she wrote a daily recipe for the Evening Standard, and she currently writes for The Times.

Publications
Bareham is the author of fifteen cookery books.

 In Praise of the Potato
 A Celebration of Soup
 Onions without Tears
 The Little Book of Big Soups
 The Big Red Book of Tomatoes
 Supper Won’t Take Long
 A Wolf in the Kitchen
 Just One Pot
 Dinner in a Dash
 Hungry?
 The Fish Store
 Pasties
 ' One Pot Wonders
 ' The Trifle Bowl and Other Tales
 ' Dinner Tonight

With Simon Hopkinson
 The Prawn Cocktail Years (1997)
 Roast Chicken and Other Stories

References

Living people
English food writers
Women food writers
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Francis Carpenter

text:
Francis Carpenter may refer to:
Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830–1900), American painter
Francis M. Carpenter (1834–1919), American politician
Francis W. Carpenter (1831–1922), American businessman
Francis Carpenter (actor) (1910–1973), American actor

See also

Frances Carpenter (1890–1972),  American folklorist, author, and photographer
Frances Carpenter, Countess of Tyrconnel, Irish countess
Frank Carpenter (disambiguation)


title: 2014–15 Wisła Kraków season

text:
The 2014–15 season was the 75th season of Wisła Kraków in the Ekstraklasa.

Season review

Squad

Transfers

Summer transfer window

Arrivals
 The following players moved to Wisła.

Departures
 The following players moved from Wisła.

Winter transfer window

Arrivals
 The following players moved to Wisła.

Departures
 The following players moved from Wisła.

Competitions

Friendlies

Ekstraklasa

Regular season

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

League table

Championship round

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

League table

Polish Cup

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goalscorers

Assists

Disciplinary record

References

Wisła Kraków seasons
Wisla Krakow


title: Gini Cruz Santos

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Gini Cruz Santos is a Filipina animator at Pixar studios based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked on numerous Pixar animation films including Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, A Bug's Life, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Toy Story 3, Up, Lifted and Brave. She was nominated in 2004 for an Annie award for her detailed lifelike animation on Finding Nemo, and was nominated by the Visual Effects Society for an award for this project as well.

Santos was born in Pasay in the Philippines. She moved to Guam after age three but returned to study in the Philippines. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas with a major in advertising. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Santos worked as an art director at an advertising agency. In 1996, she was hired by Pixar after submitting her short feature reel entitled The Eclipse without submitting her resume; her reel focused on human relationships. Her animation of Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, on the film Finding Nemo was praised for integrating "fish movement, human movement, and facial expressions to make them look and feel like real characters". She was the supervising animator on the Pixar short film entitled Lifted. She was lauded for her work in Brave. She is sometimes described as a Pixnoy: a Filipino-American or Fil-am artist working at Pixar.

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Filipino animators
University of Santo Tomas alumni
Pixar people
Living people
People from Pasay
Artists from Metro Manila
Filipino women animators
1966 births


title: Katharine Coward

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Katharine Hope Coward was a British pharmacologist and early adopter of chromatographic techniques.

Early life and education

Coward was born on 2 July 1885 in Blackburn, Lancashire. She studied Botany and graduated M.sc from University of Manchester. After a few years she joined University College London to study biochemistry and perform research under J. C. Drummond on Vitamin-A, paving the way for her to being nominated to the Fellow of the Chemical Society in 1923.

Career
In 1925, Coward received a Rockefeller Fellowship to continue her studies and research on vitamin A in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison under Dr. Harry Steenbock. On her return to Britain, she was appointed head of the Nutrition Department of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's pharmacological laboratories, the position which she remained until her retirement in 1950. In 1937 she was elected as an honorary member of Pharmaceuticals Society.

Chromatographic study of carotenoids
Because of her interest in nutrition and nutrients, Coward was one of the early adopters of chromatography following its introduction in the 1906-1911 by M. S. Tswett.

Carotenoids, a class of structurally-similar pigment molecules which include carotenes and xanthophylls, were of particular interest in nutritional research due to their demonstrated importance in animal studies. In his pioneering chromatographic research, Tswett showed the presence of four different xanthophylls in his studies of plant extracts, separated through the use of adsorption chromatography. Following L. S. Palmer's descriptions of Tswett's experiment in 1922, Coward replicated the methodology, the results of which she published in 1923. During these studies Coward noted the presence of additional pigment (which would later be determined to be carotenes) in the eluent fractions, nearly developing a chromatographic method for the isolation of vitamin A from the carotenoids. This experiment made her the fifth scientist to adopt the use of chromatography, during a "dormant" period before the techniques popularization in the 1930s.

This early research applying adsorption chromatography would continue in her role at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, in conjunction with other analytical methods.

Death
Coward died at the age of 93 on 8 July 1978.

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1885 births
1978 deaths
British women biochemists
British pharmacologists
Analytical chemists
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Alumni of University College London
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
20th-century British women scientists
Chromatography
People from Blackburn
Scientists from Lancashire
Fellows of the Chemical Society


title: Badalpur

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Badalpur is the name of several towns and villages in India. It may refer to:

 Badalpur, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India
 Badalpur, Patna, a town in Patna district, Bihar
 Badalpur, Jaunpur district, a village in Uttar Pradesh
 Badalpur, a village in Nalanda district, Bihar


title: Westnile Distilling Company Limited

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Westnile Distilling Company Limited is a private beverage company that started in Arua, Uganda. It manufactures gin, mineral water, and glucose solution.

Genesis
Although conceived as an idea in 1972, factory construction started at a fast pace in Arua around 1978. Then civil wars and instability halted work plus forced the company's founders into exile. When Uganda regained peace, construction was resumed in 1989 and finished.

Arson attack
In 2005, arsonists struck and burnt down the 4 Billion UgX factory on Ujuo Road (behind Arua Public Secondary School). Manufacturing lines and products worth millions were destroyed, but the concrete tower still remains. The rest of the factory was saved by Civil Aviation Authority trucks from Arua Airfield after the company owner Dr Eric Adriko phoned the CAA Deputy Managing Director Dr. Makuza. Meanwhile, the LC 1 Chairman and residents protected the other units.

Recovery
In January 2007, a new factory was reborn out of the ashes and relocated to Plot 6 - 12 Makamba Road, Lungujja, in a neighbourhood named Kosovo (within Kampala). The company launched Hunters Gin plus its own 'Sunshine Mineral Water' extracted from underground rocks on the new premise. It had now joined the mineral water craze gripping Uganda. With a process and machinery unique in East and Central Africa, it continues to produce its products: Adrikos 7 Hills Vodka, White Rhino Gin and Rum Raggi.

The company has a strict policy against consumption of alcohol by Under 18s.

See also
Alcohol

References

Arua District
Food and drink companies of Uganda
Distilleries
Arua


title: Digital fashion

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Digital Fashion is the visual representation of clothing built using computer technologies and 3D software.
This industry is on the rise due to ethical awareness and uses of digital fashion technology such as artificial intelligence to create products with complex social and technical software.

Digital fashion is also the interplay between digital technology and couture. Human AI is an intersection of technology and human representation. Where human value is emphasized and enhanced by technology and the possibilities of discovering design. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been deeply integrated both into the fashion industry, as well as within the experience of clients and prospects. Such interplay has happened at three main levels.
 ICTs are used to design and produce fashion products, while also the industry organization leverages onto digital technologies.
 ICTs impact marketing, distribution and sales.
 ICTs are extensively used in communication activities with all relevant stakeholders, and contribute to co-create the fashion world.
The fashion industry in general has paved the way for digital fashion to be introduced with more technology being in the industry like virtual dressing rooms and the gamification of the fashion industry. Digital fashion is also seen in many different online fashion retail websites. It may be seen on common websites you shop on. This evolution in the fashion industry has called for more education and research of digital fashion which will also be discussed in this article.

Design, production, and organization
Among the many applications available to fashion designers to model the fusion of creativity with digital avenues, the Digital Textile Printing can be mentioned here.

Digital textile printing
Digital textile printing has brought together the worlds of fashion, technology, art, chemistry, and printing to produce a new process for printing textiles on clothing.

Digital printing is a process in which prints are directly applied to fabrics with printer, reducing 95% the use of water, 75% the use of energy, and minimizing textile waste. The main advantage of digital printing is the ability to do very small runs of each design (even less than 1 yard).

Digital Textile printing also offers other benefits such fast printing speeds that help the time and space needed to print different patterns on garments of choice.

Digital Textile printing is “probably the greatest innovation of 21-st century fashion" as declared by Christina Binkley in the Wall Street Journal. The “vastly improved digital printing technologies allow designers to innovate while beefing up their brands“.

Brands such as Prada, Pucci or Jil Sander are using this technology to invent their design ideas on fabric.

Marketing, distribution, and sales
While all digital channels can be used in order to market and sell fashion completely online (eCommerce), they usually are implemented in connection with offline channels (so-called "omni-channel"). Here, Virtual and Augmented reality is playing a crucial role.

The fashion industry has faced its own problems including pollution and fabric waste, which has resulted in a shift to more sustainable methods like digital fashion. The industry is also constantly being intertwined with digital media and has allowed for the use of digital tools within the business itself and with consumers. Two of the ways digital fashion is utilized with consumers is through virtual dressing rooms and virtual cosmetic counters.

Prospects and clients can use ICTs - own computers, tablets and smartphones - to skip fitting rooms and cosmetics counters, and instead virtually see how they look in specific outfits and makeup via in-store kiosks, mobile phones or tablets. Modiface is a web application that anyone can use to give them a virtual makeover. Customers can give any look and decide on what to suits and buy products.

Sephora, the beauty specialty retailer, and ModiFace, an augmented reality virtual makeover technology provider, today announced the launch of a 3D Augmented Reality Mirror that can simulate cosmetics on a user's face in real-time and in 3D. The new patented technology, created by ModiFace, tracks the precise location of a user's facial features and applies eye shadow colors directly on the video feed from a camera.

Oftentimes beauty retailers will feature virtual fitting rooms to allow users to experience the look of their product before committing to a purchase. Some examples are color contact retailers Freshlook, which allows users to simulate contact lens wear in their color contacts studio before purchase. Colorful Eyes also offers a virtual color contact lens try on room.

Virtual dressing room
A virtual dressing room (also often referred to as virtual fitting room and virtual changing room although they do perform different functions) is the online equivalent of the near-ubiquitous in-store changing room – that is, it enables shoppers to try on clothes to check one or more of size, fit or style, but virtually rather than physically.

The multimedia communication company Eyemagnet developed the Virtual Dressing Room for the Hallensteins menswear chain. The changing room is transformed to a single panel which reflects the user. These users can then use simple arm and hand gestures to ‘try on’ any apparel in the store, take a photo of any selected outfit and have it sent to their mobile phone. Newer versions of this technology eliminate the arm-waving altogether.

Fashion retailer Topshop installed a Kinect-powered virtual fitting room at its Moscow store. Created by AR Door, the Augmented Fitting Room system overlays 3D augmented reality clothes on the customer. Simple gestures and on-screen buttons let users "try on" different outfits. However, the high variability of virtual fit platforms to predict consumer clothes sizes called into question the accuracy of these systems in their current form.

Nike is among the brands that have incorporated ground-breaking AR technology that allows customers to try on shoes virtually. This function incorporated in 2019 into both Nike's mobile app and retail stores is called "Nike Fit" and was created so that costumers can accurately determine their shoe size, as according to their website “three out of every five people are likely wearing the wrong size shoe”.

In June 2020, Gucci partnered up with Snapchat and unveiled a filter that allowed users to test how the brand's shoes looked on their feet.

Communication and experience co-creation
Fashion is also a matter of socially negotiating what is "in" or "out", fashionable or not. In other words, fashion items do not only play on the economic market of physical goods, but also - and sometimes even more importantly - on the semiotic market of the production of social tastes and customs. Thanks to social media, and to all services offered by the so-called web2.0, laypeople can contribute to co-create the fashion world, shaping tastes, customs, and fashion-related values.

Social media in general has catapulted the impact fashion has on our everyday lives and values. Fashion has taken a central role is mass production and is constantly evolving due to the ever-lasting digital transformation.

Social media has also helped evolved to a point where not only can brands reach consumers, but consumers can reach brands as well. TikTok for example started a trend in 2020 with #GucciModelChallenge. This creates a space where the brand is gaining awareness from their consumers in the ever-changing digital age.

For this reason, social media is becoming an extremely strong marketing tool specifically in the fashion industry as well. This can be seen with fashion bloggers or influencers showing clothing from various brands that connects the consumers and brands globally across different platforms.

Gamification
Gaming has played an important role in fostering digital aspects of the fashion world, first beginning with dress up games that used avatars and allowed players to select garments. Nevertheless, it seems it will now move on to the real world and start using avatars of real people.

Garments from luxurious brands have been copied and adapted into the aesthetics of games such as the quarantine-released Animal Crossing: New Horizons and The Sims. As to the former, users found themselves filled with time during the COVID-19 confinement and recreated outfits from a great variety of fashion brands, including Chanel, Gucci and Versace. Moreover, it became a platform for users to showcase their costume designs.

In April 2019, Moschino collaborated with simulation game The Sims in a capsule collection that featured signature Jeremy Scott garments. The collection was made available to shop and the campaign was set against the backdrop of a Sims-like atmosphere. Furthermore, in May 2019, Nike partnered up with Fortnite to include their iconic Jordan sneakers. In similar fashion, in May 2020, Marc Jacobs designed 6 of the brand's favorite looks for Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons in a partnership with Instagram user @AnimalCrossingFashionArchive. They were made available to download. Valentino also collaborated with the account and provided 20 looks from the house's SS (Spring/Summer) and F/W (Fall/Winter) 2020 collections.

Similarly the other luxury brands mentioned, Louis Vuitton partnered with game League of Legends to create skins for characters within the game. Digital fashion in various different video games allow users to express themselves beyond their avatar and combine the self-expression of fashion into the digital gaming realm.

Digital fashion education and research
Nowadays, the fashion industry needs experts in digital fashion, equipped with the above-sketched knowledge and competences. Several Bachelor and Master programs in Fashion have in recent years integrated Digital Fashion courses.

Birmingham City University MA Fashion & Textiles Digital fashion lectures empowers students to use digital technologies to create cutting-edge collections, with VR, AR, and Mixed reality presentations, combining advance pattern-cutting methods with collaborative work with AI. The curriculum of lectures has resulted in groundbreaking achievements, making BCU the first in the UK who: 1. Students integrated a range of Artificial Intelligence tools and advanced pattern-cutting techniques into their course project development; 2. Students employed AI as a learning method alongside the innovative Multi-Iteration learning technique, which was introduced at this year's BCU Learning and Teaching Conference 2023; 3. Students created a Mixed Reality fashion collection; 4. With VR exhibition Students have videos, photos, and 3D prototypes available for viewing 24/7, all year round. This means that people from every corner of the world can explore the exhibition without constraints of time or location. Beyond its accessibility, the virtual exhibition stands as a groundbreaking milestone in education, heralding a transformative approach and contributing to the democratization of art on a global scale. It's a stride towards breaking down traditional walls and connecting minds worldwide through the power of technology and creativity; 5. Students merged physical and virtual spaces, by showcasing the virtual exhibition on the screens within the physical exhibition, and displayed the video of the physical exhibition within the virtual space simultaneously; 6. Students pioneered the use of the Live-streaming physical fashion show to the VR Spatial metaverse.

Another example is Ravensbourne University's 'Digital Technology for Fashion Pathway,' launching October 2021. This new pathway will offer BA Fashion students the option to specialise in digital fashion with a focus on emerging technologies within this field. The Ravensbourne BA Fashion Class of 2020 paved the way for this new offering by collaborating with the gaming department and launching a digital fashion game live and in partnership with Twitch in July 2020, and featured in Forbes as 'Visionary.'

In 2021, University for the Creative Arts became the first major arts university to launch a new postgraduate higher education degree in Digital Fashion, the first Master's course of its kind in the UK. This new course allows creative researchers to learn how to create garments which are completely free from the material world, and how to fit them digitally to a client – whether they are a model for a virtual catwalk, a social media influencer looking to boost their reach, a gaming avatar in need of a fashion edge or a movie character being given a bespoke costume.

While there are not (yet) dedicated scientific journals devoted to the topic, several research activities have been done in the field. Among them, a dedicated conference has taken place in 2015 in Seoul, South Korea. SComS - Studies in Communication Sciences, a Swiss-based Communication Journal, has published a special thematic section on Fashion communication: Between tradition and digital transformation. In July 2019, a conference titled FACTUM19 - Fashion Communication: between tradition and future digital developments has taken place in Ascona (Switzerland), whose proceedings are published by Springer. During FACTUM19, a document titled "Fashion Communication Research. A way ahead" has been published.

Fashion is closely related with Art and Heritage. Several museums related to fashion have started to make their appearance in the past thirty years. Examples are the Museum Christian Dior Granville, the Museum Cristobal Balenciaga, The Armani Silos,The Museum Audemars Piguet. Among the most important initiatives to digitize fashion history, thus making such heritage available to researchers, practitioners and all interested people, two projects can be mentioned: Europeana Fashion and We Wear Culture by Google Arts and Culture.

The rise of digital fashion during COVID-19
Since the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, the fashion industry has suffered strong economic losses, as sales plummeted and jobs were lost, but it has since learned to digitally recover through virtual clothing, catwalks, and showrooms.

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, fashion is among the industries that have been forced to adapt their commercial and creative strategies to better suit the social distancing measures. Therefore, the digital channel has since seen a rise in use, offering live shopping and has been highlighted as the only way to overcome physical barriers. It is also believed that these changes will prevail in years to come, as reported by WGSN.

Fashion brands and well-known personalities in the industry spread welfare messages on social media and brands such as Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Gucci and Prada began mass-producing face masks and hospital gowns in order to help with the shortage of the coveted sanitary product. Moreover, brands stepped up and launched initiatives to aid in the battle of COVID-19's impact on economy. Ralph Lauren donated $10 million to help fight coronavirus and initiated the transport of free coffee and baked goods to New York hospitals to thank healthcare workers for their service.

Once events only attended by selected people, catwalks and showrooms have become more accessible through live streaming and virtual fashion shows. Thus, they have resulted in high fashion becoming more procurable to the general public. Milan Fashion Week was renamed “Milan Digital Fashion Week” and the New York version prioritized outdoor spaces to further prevent the spread and set the maximum capacity at 50. The British Fashion Council also took upon the opportunity to show this year's designs online. In a historic moment at London Fashion Week 2021, the digital fashion house Auroboros became the first brand to present a solely virtual collection at a major international fashion week. Consequently, many celebrities decided to watch fashion shows that they used to attend front row from the comfort of their own homes and showed their glamorous looks from their Instagram pages.

In 2021, big virtual fashion events are becoming more common. An example of this is the International digital Fashion Week. With this event, there is the largest virtual fashion show being held with over 100 designers in the fashion industry being represented. This has occurred as a result to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, now digital fashion has a chance to thrive in a new technology and fashion fusion industry.

The importance of fashion films has also been stressed as a medium to creatively show designers' upcoming collections. As a result, methods that were only used by digital focused houses such as The Fabricant are expected to become the norm. Therefore, 3D experiences have gained momentum. As a matter of fact, high-profile models such as Bella Hadid have already incorporated such advanced and revolutionary practices into their curriculum, as seen in an Instagram post that displays the star getting a full body 3D scan for a Mugler Spring Summer 2021 film. The video shows her in a gold outfit as Pegasus, against the backdrop of a fantasy-filled world.

Other embraced formats include avatar videogames such as Zepeto, which Louboutin partnered up with to showcase their SS21 collection. This way, attendees could create personalized avatars and view the brand's latest designs. On June 15, Balmain also resorted to digital fashion and created a virtual showroom hosted by the avatar of creative director Oliver Rousteing, who posted on Instagram his face getting 3D scanned, adding "#future".

Additionally, for their SS21 show, Italian streetwear brand GCDS recreated a 3D runway with cutting-edge technology and avatars that displayed the digitally rendered clothes. They even incorporated the celebrity avatars of Dua Lipa, Anwar Hadid, Chiara Ferragni and Fedez, to name a few. They were shown sitting front row in the audience as if it had been a traditional show. It was referred to by the brand as the "first digital front row".

The role of avatar influencers such as Lil Miquela and Noonoouri has been emphasized as well and definitely had an impact on the fashion industry during the pandemic, as they encouraged sales with the promotion of fashion brands.

One advantage of the digitalization of fashion is being eco-friendly, as it reduces fabric waste. Opposing beliefs state that clothing is only meant to be worn in real life, and that the process involved with sewing has always been sacred.

The Emergence of the NFT Clothes Industry
NFTs, unique digital assets that use blockchain technology to verify ownership and provenance, have been embraced by various industries for their ability to create, trade, and tokenize digital content. The NFT clothes industry is a natural extension of this trend, applying the same concept to digital fashion items. As virtual worlds, gaming platforms, and online social spaces become increasingly popular, the demand for customizable digital avatars and unique virtual outfits has grown. NFT clothes cater to this demand, offering users a way to stand out in the digital crowd.

The rise of the NFT clothes industry presents both opportunities and challenges for the traditional fashion sector. On the one hand, it allows designers to explore new creative possibilities without the constraints of physical materials and production costs. This opens up the potential for collaborations with digital artists and programmers, paving the way for more innovative designs and a broader audience reach.

The NFT clothes industry can promote sustainability by reducing waste, pollution, and resource consumption associated with physical fashion production.

AI and the Fashion Industry
With the emergence of AI in all creative fields, fashion is not excluded. Ai is being used to create better-selling designs, improve marketing costs, personalization brand and consumer communications, and overall speed up the design and selling processes. According to McKinsey analysis, AI could add $150 billion, and up to $275 billion, to the apparel, fashion, and luxury business sectors operating profits.

AI Fashion Week
The first AI fashion week will be held in April 2023, showcasing collections from emerging AI designers. Participants will showcase 15-30 works that will be shown online and be judged by the public via online and in-person voting. The AI fashion week's goal is to blend the worlds of physical fashion and digital design. There are fears that AI could limit human creativity and take over designers' jobs; however, at this stage of the AI developments in fashion, human input is still required to refine and edit designs. The AI system produces a fresh perspective on the design process. Designers can input words associated with their collection, and AI assists in creating a moldboard of silhouettes and colors.

Styling through AI
Companies are turning to AI algorithms, such as ChatGPT, for outfit suggestions. While these algorithms use AI's capability for pattern recognition and can follow a pattern to generate a new suggestion, however it will never work the same way a human stylist works, and understand why one pair of shoes works better than another pair. Algorithms, such as ChatGPT, takes preexisting information from the Internet to provide a suggestion. For example; a Business of Fashion worker told YesPlz's ChatGPT Fashion Stylist they need a class outfit for a formal event, and it suggested three options including: a classic long evening gown paired with a statement necklace and clutch, a modern bold jumpsuit with metallic heels, and a sequin dress in gold or silver. The product recommendations are limited to what the retailer has in its catalogue. The AI Stylist is not fully programmed and released to the public yet, so YesPlz is still working on the issues of limited suggestions, repeated ideas, and providing more imaginative ideas. The AI stylists struggle with creativity and imaginative responses, this is where it is important to consider how the prompt is being phrased. Fashion brand Ssense asked ChatGPT to create an outfit with brands it carried, however, the prompt can become more specific by referencing specific brands or referring to a specific place to wear the outfit. Alorithms and AI sites, like ChatGPT, are becoming smarter and quicker with analyzing information, that it will become the norm of figuring out outfit ideas on a daily basis.

See also
History of Western fashion
Index of fashion articles
Fast fashion

References

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Fashion
Digital art
2020s fashion
2010s fashion
Artificial intelligence art


title: Angelo Cattaneo

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Angelo Cattaneo (13 June 1901 – 1986) was an Italian cyclist. He competed in the time trial event at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

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1986 deaths
Italian male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Italy
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
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title: Pennsylvanian

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Pennsylvanian may refer to:

 A person or thing from Pennsylvania
 Pennsylvanian (geology), a geological subperiod of the Carboniferous Period
 Pennsylvanian (train), an Amtrak train


title: H.R. 4801 (113th Congress)

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The bill  is a bill that would require the United States Secretary of Energy to prepare a report on the effects that thermal insulation has on both energy consumption and systems for providing potable water in federal buildings.

The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.

Background

Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence. Thermal insulation can be achieved with specially engineered methods or processes, as well as with suitable object shapes and materials. Heat flow is an inevitable consequence of contact between objects of differing temperature. Thermal insulation provides a region of insulation in which thermal conduction is reduced or thermal radiation is reflected rather than absorbed by the lower-temperature body.

Provisions of the bill
The bill would require the Department of Energy to submit a report to Congress about the possibility of using thermal insulation in federal buildings as way to save energy and water. The report would have to include a short term and long term (20 years) projection on any energy and water savings the addition of a thermal insulation system would save.

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on June 10, 2014. This is a public domain source.

H.R. 4801 would require the United States Secretary of Energy to prepare a report, within one year of enactment, on the effects that thermal insulation has on both energy consumption and systems for providing potable water in federal buildings. Based on information from the United States Department of Energy about the cost of similar analyses, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that completing the required report would cost less than $500,000; those costs would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds. H.R. 4801 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

H.R. 4801 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments.

Procedural history
H.R. 4801 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on June 5, 2014, by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R, IL-16). The bill was referred to the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The committee passed the bill on June 10, 2014. The bill was scheduled to be voted on under a suspension of the rules on June 23, 2014.

Debate and discussion
Rep. Kinzinger, who introduced the bill, argued that "with the federal government being the single largest consumer of energy in the country, doing our best to maximize the potential savings from improved insulation systems is a commonsense step I think everybody can agree on."

Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA), who co-sponsored the bill, said that "it is important for us to look for ways to save taxpayer money and ensure the federal government is doing its part to preserve our natural resources." McNerney also argued that it would be a good way to collect data so that "we can use the findings from this study and make sure we are doing everything we can in both federal and private buildings to maximize energy and water efficiency."

The Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) supported the bill, calling it a step "in the right direction" and saying that they "are hopeful energy efficiency can once again be an area of common ground between parties."

The National Insulation Association supported the bill. The Central States Insulation Association supported the bill and promised to "collaborate with our allies on Capitol Hill to work to pass this legislation."

See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 4801
beta.congress.gov H.R. 4801
GovTrack.us H.R. 4801
OpenCongress.org H.R. 4801
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 4801
Congressional Budget Office's report on H.R. 4801

Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress


title: Francisco Rodríguez (cyclist, born 1906)

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Francisco Rodríguez (born 1906, date of death unknown) was an Argentine cyclist. He competed in the time trial event at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

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1906 births
Year of death missing
Argentine male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Argentina
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing


title: Fox C-6 School District

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Fox C-6 School District is a school district headquartered in Arnold, Missouri in Greater St. Louis. The district serves northeastern Jefferson County, including suburban areas to the north and rural areas to the south. The district serves Arnold and several unincorporated areas, including portions of Barnhart and Imperial. As of 2014, the district has almost 12,000 students, while about 65,000 people total live within the district boundaries. It is the largest school district in Jefferson County.

History

The Fox Consolidated School District formed in 1948 when the Bowen, Lone Dell, Saline, Seckman, and Soulard one-room school houses consolidated. All students were consolidated into the Fox School, which is the current Fox Middle School. The district was originally a K-8 school district, with high school students having a choice of Crystal City High School and Herculaneum High School. The district became K-12 when Fox High School was established in 1955. The Antonia School District was consolidated into the Fox district in 1970.

In 2013, the district hired Kelly Nash, the daughter in law of the president of the school board, Linda Nash, as its food services director; Kelly Nash was previously an assistant manager at a McDonald's. Due to the criticism, the district enacted an anti-nepotism policy.

In May 2014, a group of parents, who had criticized school-district policies, accused district administrators of posting defamatory comments about the parents on the Topix public forum. The group of parents subpoenaed Topix to obtain the poster's IP addresses and then filed court orders with AT&T and Charter Communications to obtain the identities associated with the IP addresses. In June 2014, the parents filed a libel suit against district officials. The district revealed the names of the accused administrators, who were placed on administrative leave. Superintendent Dianne Critchlow was one of the individuals put on leave, and the district began a search for a new superintendent. The school board accepted Critchlow's resignation effective October 31, 2014, hired an interim superintendent, and fired Critchlow's husband.

Schools

High schools
 Fox High School (Arnold)
 Seckman High School (Imperial)

Middle schools
 Antonia Middle School (Unincorporated area near Barnhart)
 Fox Middle School (Arnold)
 Ridgewood Middle School (Unincorporated area near Arnold)
 Seckman Middle School (Unincorporated area, Imperial)

Elementary schools
 Antonia Elementary School (Unincorporated area near Imperial)
 Fox Elementary School (Arnold)
 George Guffey Elementary School (Unincorporated area near Fenton)
 Clyde Hamrick Elementary School (Unincorporated area near Imperial)
 Ray and Nancy Hodge Elementary School (Unincorporated area near Imperial)
 Lone Dell Elementary School (Unincorporated area near Arnold)
 Meramec Heights Elementary School (Unincorporated area near Arnold)
 Rockport Heights Elementary School (Arnold)
 Seckman Elementary School (Unincorporated area, Imperial)
 Sherwood Elementary School (Arnold)
 Richard A. Simpson Elementary School (Unincorporated area near Arnold)

Early childhood
 Don Earl Early Childhood Learning Center (Arnold)

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School districts in Missouri
Education in Jefferson County, Missouri
1948 establishments in Missouri
School districts established in 1948


title: Thaine's theorem

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In mathematics, Thaine's theorem is an analogue of Stickelberger's theorem for real abelian fields, introduced by . Thaine's method has been used to shorten the proof of the Mazur–Wiles theorem , to prove that some Tate–Shafarevich groups are finite, and in the proof of Mihăilescu's theorem .

Formulation
Let  and  be distinct odd primes with  not dividing . Let  be the Galois group of  over , let  be its group of units, let  be the subgroup of cyclotomic units, and let  be its class group. If  annihilates  then it annihilates .

References

 See in particular Chapter 14 (pp. 91–94) for the use of Thaine's theorem to prove Mihăilescu's theorem, and Chapter 16 "Thaine's Theorem" (pp. 107–115) for proof of a special case of Thaine's theorem.

 See in particular Chapter 15 (pp. 332–372) for Thaine's theorem (section 15.2) and its application to the Mazur–Wiles theorem.
Cyclotomic fields
Theorems in algebraic number theory


title: Neil Benjamin

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Neil Tevin Michael Benjamin, Jr. (born 20 August 1994) is a Trinidadian professional footballer who plays as a winger for TT Pro League club W Connection.

Benjamin began his professional football career in 2011, at the age of 17, with W Connection in his native Trinidad and Tobago. During his time with the Savonetta Boys, Benjamin has won the TT Pro League title twice and the FA Trophy in 2013–14.

Early life
Benjamin was born in Couva, Trinidad and Tobago, to parents Neil Sr. and Charlene. In primary school, Neil discovered at an early age that he had a talent for his speed on the track. However, his focus would soon transition to football and credits his father and uncles, Glen and St. Nicholas, for his passion for the sport. At the age of 7, Benjamin enrolled in the youth program at TT Pro League club W Connection – based in his hometown of Couva.

Benjamin attended Naparima College in San Fernando, Trinidad and led the team to the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) South Zone title in 2010. He later scored the lone goal in a 3–1 loss to St. Augustine Secondary, which witnessed Naps eliminated from the national Intercol Big Five competition. In 2011, Benjamin was the joint-leading goal scorer with 10 goals in the under-17 reserve league while playing for W Connection and was named the most valuable player in the under-18 reserve league the following season.

Club career

W Connection
After several seasons in the club's youth program, Benjamin was promoted to the first-team in 2011, at the age of 17, with W Connection of the TT Pro League. Prior to his professional football debut with the Savonetta Boys, Benjamin and former Naparima College teammate Shahdon Winchester received a ten-day trial with FC Dallas of Major League Soccer in June 2011. Upon his return to Trinidad and Tobago, Neil featured in five league matches and took part in the club's fourth Pro League championship. Following the season, Benjamin helped W Connection finish runners-up in the 2012 CFU Club Championship and earn a place in the 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League.

In September 2012, Benjamin traveled to Italy for a trial with Serie A club Genoa. During his first week, he drew serious interest from Genoa after impressing the club with his speed and had his stay extended. However, the trial proved unsuccessful and Neil was ultimately released to rejoin W Connection in November. Afterwards, Benjamin went on to enjoy an active second season with the Savonetta Boys after scoring four league goals and five in all competitions, including his first career hat-trick as a professional in a 4–0 win over eventual Pro League champions Defence Force on 6 May 2013.

Neil opened the 2013–14 season as a regular substitute for W Connection playing primarily as a right-wing forward. During the 2013–14 CONCACAF Champions League, Benjamin made appearances in each of the Savonetta Boys''' four group stage matches. On 8 August 2013, he came on for Mekeil Williams in the 62nd minute and later scored W Connection's lone goal of the competition in a 3–1 loss to Árabe Unido. Two weeks later, Benjamin started in a scoreless draw at home against the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer. During the match, Neil had two late match-winning opportunities with one "horrific" open net miss and another shot hitting the crossbar. Benjamin later had an impressive series of performances in the TOYOTA Classic and FA Trophy competitions. On 18 December, he was named the most valuable player of the FA Trophy final after scoring the tying goal to send the match into a penalty shootout and lead the Savonetta Boys to the club's first FA Trophy crown in 11 years. Afterwards, Benjamin experienced a dip in form with his lone league goal scored on 10 January 2014 in a narrow 2–1 win over Police. He concluded his third season with W Connection with a string of substitute appearances to help lead the club to its fifth Pro League title and second in three years.

International career
Benjamin has represented Trinidad and Tobago on various levels of international competition, having been capped for the under-17 and under-20 national teams.

Youth teams
He began his international career for the under-17 team during qualification for the 2011 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, where he made two starts in the midfield for the Soca Warriors against Cuba and Saint Kitts and Nevis. He made a further second-half substitute appearance in the team's final group match against Bermuda to help Trinidad and Tobago top their qualification group. In February 2011, during the continental competition, Benjamin started in consecutive matches against Jamaica and Guatemala. However, in the quarterfinals, the Young Warriors were eliminated from the competition following a 2–0 defeat to Canada.

In August 2012, Benjamin made consecutive starts as a defender for the under-20 team during their first round of qualification for the 2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championship. However, he was forced to miss the Soca Warriors' win against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines after receiving two yellow cards in each of the previous two matches. In November 2012, under-20 team managers Hutson Charles and Ross Russell complained to Benjamin's parent club W Connection concerning the timing of the player's trial with Serie A club Genoa and subsequent decline in form on international duty. As a result, Benjamin was left out of the squad for the team's final round of qualification.

Career statistics

ClubAs of 23 May 2014''

References

External links
 Neil Benjamin at TTProLeague.com

1994 births
Living people
Men's association football forwards
Trinidad and Tobago men's footballers
TT Pro League players
W Connection F.C. players
Nam Định F.C. players
Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games
People educated at Naparima College


title: Initiative for Democratic Socialism

text:
Initiative for Democratic Socialism (IDS) was a Slovenian Marxist party, founded in 2014. Its collective leadership structure without an individual leader, inspired by Occupy Wall Street, was conceived by members of The Workers and Punks University in November 2013, and only allows for a coordinator of the IDS council, a position held by Luka Mesec, elected by the IDS council.

Program
Its program, based on The Workers and Punks University economic analysis, includes regulation of neoliberalism in the short run, and in the long run replacement of capitalism with democratic socialism.

International partners
The initiative is linked to the European Left together with other European new anti-capitalist parties, including German Die Linke, French Front de Gauche, and Portuguese Left Bloc.

2014 Elections
The United Left, a project that IDS joined, received 5.47 percent of the vote in the 2014 European Parliament election in Slovenia and 6.0 percent of the vote in the 2014 Slovenian parliamentary election.

References

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2017 disestablishments in Slovenia
Anti-capitalist political parties
Defunct political parties in Slovenia
Defunct socialist parties in Europe
Democratic socialist parties in Europe
Eurosceptic parties in Slovenia
Marxist parties in Slovenia
Party of the European Left former member parties
Political parties disestablished in 2014
Political parties established in 2014
Socialist parties in Slovenia


title: Teitur Gestsson

text:
Teitur Matras Gestsson (born 19 August 1992) is a Faroese football goalkeeper, who currently plays for HB Tórshavn.

International career

Gestsson made his first international appearance on 1 March 2014 in a friendly match in and against Gibraltar, where he stood in the goal during the first half.

Honours
HB Tórshavn
 Faroe Islands Premier League: 2013, 2018
 Faroe Islands Cup: 2019
 Faroe Islands Super Cup: 2019

Individual
Faroe Islands Premier League Goalkeeper of the season: 2013, 2014
Faroe Islands Premier League Team of the season: 2013, 2014

References

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1992 births
Living people
Faroese men's footballers
Faroe Islands men's international footballers
Havnar Bóltfelag players
Men's association football goalkeepers
Faroe Islands men's youth international footballers
Faroe Islands men's under-21 international footballers


title: Edward Kerridge

text:
Edward Kerridge (23 September 1904 – 1979) was a British cyclist. He competed in the time trial event at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Kerridge was the national champion in the 10-mile event in 1926, and finished in second place in the 5-mile event in 1928.

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British male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
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20th-century British people


title: Heartbeeps (album)

text:
Heartbeeps is the third album by Los Angeles-based experimental punk band The Mae Shi. It was released on June 7, 2005. Notable influences on the musical style of the record include Melt-Banana, Deerhoof and UK grime, as well as their adolescent love of Def Leppard, Nine Inch Nails, Dante’s Inferno and worship music. As with Terrorbird, they recorded it themselves in their bedrooms and living rooms, making up recording techniques as they went along. Lyrics to the album are pulled from neuroscience textbooks and Plato’s Republic.

Track listing
 "Heartbeeps" - 0:10
 "Born for a Short Time" - 1:04
 "Crimes Of Infancy" - 01:44
 "Heartbeeps" - 00:17
 "The Meat Of The Inquiry" - 01:40
 "Spoils Of Injury" - 00:42
 "Eat The Prize" - 03:16
 "Spoils Of Victory" - 02:02
 "The Universal Polymath" - 02:22
 "Heartbeeps" - 02:20

References

The Mae Shi albums
2005 albums


title: Charles L. Babcock

text:
Charles L. "Chip" Babcock (born 23 June 1949) is an American attorney with the Texas-based law firm Jackson Walker L.L.P. He is best known for serving as lead litigator for Oprah Winfrey in several cases, including a 1998 lawsuit regarding an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show about mad cow disease. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Boston University School of Law.

Education
Babcock attended Brown University where he earned an AB in 1971. He went on to earn a JD from the Boston University School of Law in 1976. While at Boston University, Babcock served as the executive editor of the Boston University Law Review. He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1977.

Professional career

Early career

In college, Babcock was the sports director for Brown University radio station WBRU. He then worked as a sports writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Following his completion of law school in 1976, Babcock spent two years working for Judge Robert William Porter in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Jackson Walker L.L.P.
After his time with Judge Porter, Babcock joined the Texas-based law firm Jackson Walker L.L.P. Early in Babcock’s career at Jackson Walker, he helped establish a precedent, allowing reporters to protect confidential sources as part of their First Amendment privileges when he defended a reporter in the 1980 case Miller v. Transamerican Press Inc.

In 1998, Babcock served as the lead attorney for Oprah Winfrey, successfully defending her when she was sued by a group of cattlemen from Amarillo, Texas who believed that an episode of her show about mad cow disease violated the False Disparagement of Perishable Food Products Act. Babcock also represented Oprah in 2002. Following his initial work with Oprah, Babcock successfully defended Amway in a 1999 civil lawsuit filed by Procter & Gamble alleging that Amway violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

From 2003 to 2009, Babcock represented the Providence, Rhode Island-based television station WPRI and their videographer, when they were sued for wrongful death and injury after allegedly obstructing exits during a Rhode Island nightclub fire. Babcock also represented The Dallas Morning News in a 2004 defamation lawsuit initiated by restaurant mogul Phil Romano.

In 2007, Babcock’s representation of Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht received complaints from the advocacy group Texas Watch, who alleged that Jackson Walker had given Hecht a discount on legal fees which constituted an illegal campaign donation. The Texas Ethics Commission found the discount to be a campaign contribution and fined Judge Hecht $29,000.

In 2012, Babcock served as a lead council for Celanese Corporation and successfully defended the corporation in a lawsuit initiated by Southern Chemical Corporation who sought $1.1 billion in fraud damages and $92 million for breach of contract. The following year Babcock represented Peteski Productions Inc. when they sued Gawker Media for copyright infringement, alleging that their website Deadspin published video from the Dr. Phil Show before it aired.

Other notable clients Babcock has represented include Judge Sharon Keller, Diane Sawyer, Warren Buffett, Bill O’Reilly, George W. Bush, and Google, who Babcock is representing in an appeal to a 2012 expunction order issued by a Galveston County District Court.

Awards and honors
In September 1999 Babcock was appointed the chairman of the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee. In addition, Babcock is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the Litigation Counsel of America. He has been named a Texas Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers magazine from 2003 to 2013, and was listed in D Magazine as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas in 2009, 2011, and 2012. Babcock was also listed as one of America's Leading Lawyers for Business by Chambers & Partners and profiled by Texas Lawyer Magazine as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter-Century.

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Brown University alumni
Texas lawyers
Boston University School of Law alumni
1949 births
Living people


title: Harriet Osborne, Baroness Godolphin

text:
Harriet Osborne, Baroness Godolphin (née Arundel Stewart; 17 August 1800 – 28 October 1852) was a British noblewoman. An illegitimate child, her mother was the society figure Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, who became pregnant by her longtime lover Granville Leveson-Gower. Henrietta gave birth to the girl in secret and sent her to be raised by a foster mother, though she stayed in contact through letters and gifts.

At the age of twelve, Harriet joined her father’s household in Staffordshire and was included as part of his family. After accompanying him to the Netherlands, she met and married George Osborne in 1824 with whom she had eleven children, but died before he became the 8th Duke of Leeds.

Birth and early life

The circumstances surrounding Harriet's illegitimate birth involved much secrecy. By the end of 1799, Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough had discovered she was pregnant by her longtime lover, Granville Leveson-Gower. The consequences of such an event could be potentially disastrous; eight years earlier, Lady Bessborough had witnessed the scandal and emotional turmoil experienced by her sister Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, when her own illegitimate child had been born. Lady Bessborough was also terrified that her husband would discover the truth and divorce her. Undoubtedly aided by the era's empire waist fashions, she succeeded in hiding the pregnancy from him – only a few close family members and friends were made aware.

The child, Harriette Arundel Stewart, was born on 17 August 1800; her given surname was inspired by Lady Bessborough's pet name for Leveson-Gower, and by the maiden name of his mother Susanna Stewart. To her lasting sorrow, social constraints prevented her from openly acknowledging the child. Illegitimate children were increasingly disapproved of in English society; worrying about her daughter's future, Lady Bessborough arranged for her to be raised by a foster mother. Another illegitimate sibling, George Arundel Stewart, was born two years later in similar circumstances.

Both parents remained in close contact with their children and monitored their progress. Though they lived apart, the Countess sought to be involved in her daughter's life, serving as a sort of godmother to the child. Lady Bessborough wrote frequently to her, though most of these letters were later destroyed. One of the few surviving letters reveals that when the girl was two years old, her mother purchased a locket and asked Leveson-Gower for a piece of his hair in which to send to their daughter.

Harriet's life changed quite significantly in August 1812, when she was brought to live in her father's household at Tixall Hall in Staffordshire. At first this was meant to be a temporary visit, but Leveson-Gower's new wife Lady Harriet, who was a niece of her mother and first cousin to Harriet, took to the girl and wished her to stay, describing her as "a most amiable little creature and though she has nothing precose about her, her intelligence and docility make her a very delightful companion." "Little Harriet", as she was known, was loved and included as one of the family, which contained five younger half-siblings as well as her brother George Arundel Stewart. She was never informed of her true parentage, and referred to Leveson-Gower as "her guardian."

Marriage and later life
In 1824, Harriet and the rest of the family moved to Brussels upon the appointment of Leveson-Gower, now Viscount Granville, as British ambassador to The Hague. Talks of finding a husband for Harriet began, and she was given lessons on etiquette from a dancing master. Viscountess Granville worried that her charge's marriage prospects would face difficulties, namely due to her mysterious status as a ward and lack of a dowry. The girl had many positive qualities, however; the historian Janet Gleeson describes Harriet as "well-mannered and physically attractive to the opposite sex."

While in the Netherlands, Harriet met George Osborne, the son of Francis Osborne, 1st Baron Godolphin and thus an heir to the dukedom of Leeds. Granville and Baron Godolphin eventually gave their consent, and the couple were married at the British Embassy in Paris on 21 October 1824. The newly married couple took up residence in the Bois de Boulogne, where they were enthusiastically welcomed by French society.

Osborne and Harriet faced constant financial problems, living far beyond their means to the point of almost being jailed. Harriet and her brother, George Arundel Stewart, were both hopeless with money. This is a trait they inherited from their mother. Although George Arundel Stewart debt was far less than Harriet’s debt, George Arundel Stewart's debt was at times about £800. In times like this, Harriet would turn to her brother for help, and George Arundel Stewart would report this matter to their father, who would step in to help Harriet out. Her father and guardian, now 1st Earl Granville, could usually be depended on to help with their debts, to Harriet's embarrassment. In one letter, she wrote to him, "I can never be sufficiently grateful to you for the kindness you have again shown me and for the generosity with which you have again relieved our great difficulties. I feel much shame at our having brought these difficulties upon ourselves again."

George Arundel Stewart's life remains more mysterious. George Arundel Stewart travelled a lot and would bring gifts, Indian turbans, shawls, fans, and a chess set, from Asia and India. George Arundel Stewart was personable and sociable. Yet, he never married, and his half-siblings adore him. When the family was about to disembark from Ramsgate, George Arundel Stewart would wrap his coat to around his siblings and carry his siblings along the pier to the inn. George Arundel Stewart became his father’s private secretary. They were fond of each other and travel together for six months in Spain in 1847. George Arundel Stewart died in 1875.

Osborne inherited his father's title of Baron Godolphin in 1850, making Harriet Baroness Godolphin, known as "Lady Godolphin". She died at the family home in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, on 28 October 1852, seven years before Osborne succeeded his cousin as the 8th Duke of Leeds. Osborne did not marry again and died on 8 August 1872, after which their eldest surviving son George Godolphin succeeded to the dukedom. A hatchment of the Duke's arms on his death survives; unusually, for a Duke, his wife is shown as having no right to inherit her own coat of arms (because of her illegitimate birth) and yet this is not glossed over by omitting the place for her arms on the hatchment. Instead, the hatchment shows decorative swirls on the wife's side (the right-hand side) of the shield of arms where her own paternal arms would otherwise have been.

Issue
They had eleven children, though three died in early childhood:
Harriet Emma Godolphin Osborne (5 September 1825 – 14 August 1832)
George Francis Godolphin Osborne (7 March 1827 – 7 April 1828)
George Godolphin Osborne, 9th Duke of Leeds (11 August 1828 – 23 December 1895); married the Honourable Frances Georgiana Pitt-Rivers, daughter of George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers.
Reverend Lord Francis George Godolphin Osborne (6 April 1830 – 6 March 1907); married Matilda Catherine Rich and had issue.
Lady Susan Georgina Godolphin Osborne (6 April 1830 – 14 November 1903); married Henry John Milbank.
Granville Theodore Godolphin Osborne (27 November 1831 – 10 January 1833)
Major Lord D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne (14 June 1834 – 20 March 1895)
Lord William Godolphin Osborne (28 August 1835 – 28 December 1888); married Mary Catherine Headly and had issue.
Lady Emma Charlotte Godolphin Osborne (1837 – 24 May 1906); a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Duchess of Edinburgh.
Lady Charlotte Godolphin Osborne (1838 – 25 March 1914)
Lady Blanche Godolphin Osborne (1842 – 13 February 1917); married Major-General Charles Henry Morris, a grandson of Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet.

References

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1800 births
1852 deaths
British baronesses
Harriet
People from Stapleford, Cambridgeshire


title: Rhododendron dauricum

text:
Rhododendron dauricum () is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae native to forests and forest margins in Eastern Siberia, Mongolia, North China and Hokkaido, Japan. The Latin specific epithet dauricum means "from Siberia" – Transbaikal is also known as Dauria.

Description

Growing to  tall and broad, it is a compact semi-evergreen shrub with purple flowers which open in late winter or early spring, before the dark green leaves appear.

Phytochemistry
R. dauricum contains monoterpenoids daurichromenic acid (DCA) and confluentin (decarboxylated DCA) as well as rhododaurichromenic acids A and B which are structurally related to Cannabichromene.

Cultivation
R. dauricum is the basis of the PJM hybrid (Rhododendron dauricum  × Rhododendron carolinianum).

The cultivar ‘Mid-winter’, with bright pink flowers, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. It is hardy down to , but like all rhododendrons requires a sheltered position in dappled shade and acid soil enriched with leaf mould.

References

Bibliography
 The Plant List
 Hirsutum.com

dauricum
Flora of China
Flora of Siberia
Flora of Mongolia
Flora of Japan