title: Hearn Stage at The Kress Theatre

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Hearn Stage at The Kress Theatre is a small, blackbox performance space located at the corner of Fourth and Johnston streets in downtown Alexandria, Louisiana in the historic Rapides Foundation Building. The Kress Theatre gets its name from the building's former occupant, the Kress Five and Dime Store. Two local theatre collectives, City Park Players and Spectral Sisters Productions, are currently based out of The Kress Theatre.

See also
Theatre in Louisiana

References

External links
 Arts Council of Central Louisiana
 City of Alexandria - Theatre

Theatres in Louisiana
Buildings and structures in Alexandria, Louisiana
Tourist attractions in Alexandria, Louisiana


title: Innyaly

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Innyaly (; , İnñeli) is a rural locality (a selo) in Tolonsky Rural Okrug of Lensky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located  from Lensk, the administrative center of the district and  from Tolon, the administrative center of the rural okrug. Its population as of the 2002 Census was 169.

References

Notes

Sources
Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Lensky District.

Rural localities in Lensky District, Sakha Republic


title: Evan Geiselman

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Evan Geiselman (born August 31, 1993 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida) has been a competing surfer since the age of seven. He has won 12 East Coast Championship titles. He is the younger brother of professional surfer Eric Geiselman. He has been trying to be part of the ASP World Championship Tour for three years now, but the Qualification Series are competitive. He didn't get the results he was hoping for on the 2014 WQS. At the beginning of 2014, he moved from San Clemente, California back home, to New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

In March 2008, Geiselman started competing in surf competitions at the NSSA East Coast Nationals at Florida's Sebastian Inlet, leaving with victories in Open Juniors, Open Airshow and Explorer Boys. He also took the highest single-wave score in the Open Juniors division. His other interests besides surfing include hunting and fishing.

He won the US Open Pro Jr. on a stock board.

Geiselman starred in the Luke Bryan music video for the single "Roller Coaster". He was chosen for this role because he was into hunting and surfing, and Luke liked the fact that he was not only a successful surfer but also a country boy. Also starring with him in the video is his current girlfriend.

In December 2015, Geiselman was involved in an accident while surfing the Banzai Pipeline on O'ahu's North Shore and nearly died. He was rescued by a bodyboarder and then by lifeguards. He was rushed to a hospital and has since made full recovery.

References

1993 births
Living people
American surfers


title: Quarteera

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Quarteera is a Russian-speaking non-profit volunteer LGBT registered association in Berlin, Germany. The association was officially registered in April 2011 and calls itself the "Russian-speaking group of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people and their friends in Germany". The name plays on the words queer, art, and quarter.

The association was first founded in 2009, when several activists organized the so-called "Rainbow Flashmob" on May 17 where, in honor of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, thousands of colorful balloons were released into the sky.

Activities

Educational activities
One of the goals of the association is to work with Russian LGBT migrants, helping them with their Coming Out to their parents and families who are often thought to be more homophobic than the rest of German society. Future plans of the association include creating of a professional consulting service, including professional psychological and legal support.

From 18th to 28 December 2011, in co-operation with the St. Petersburg's association "Exit", the Russian LGBT network and the "Gender-L" association in Saxon Switzerland, Quarteera organized and led an educational workshop on the topic of homosexuality and tolerance at a winter camp for Russian youth.

In December 2012 Quarteera, having received funding from the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation, published a brochure in German about the situation of the human rights of LGBT people in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. In cooperation with the Quarteera Berlin Museum of Homosexuality prepared an exhibition in the summer of 2013, which was devoted to the situation of homosexuals in the Soviet Union and Russia.

Educational activities and organization of demonstrations
Quarteera has repeatedly organized various demonstrations and rallies in support of LGBT rights in Russia, together with German LGBT organizations. In June 2011, the organization participated in a rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin. The rally was also attended by activists of the Union of Gays and Lesbians in Germany, as well as the Bundestag deputy from the Green Party Volker Beck.

In February 2012, Quarteera once again was one of the organizers of the protests in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin against a ban on the promotion of homosexuality in St. Petersburg. The protest was supported by activists from the Russian "Rainbow Association", the International Film Festival "Side by Side", the International Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation and the Union of Gays and Lesbians in Germany. The rally was also attended by German politicians, such as member of the Bundestag, Marieluise Beck.

On June 23, 2012, at the Christopher Street Day Parade, Russian Quarteera opened the Berlin Pride, which attracted about 700,000 people. Based on the artists’ Pierre et Gilles work, posters illustrating Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev were designed for the Pride. The posters were featured in the majority of Russian media materials about pride. Russian First Channel also interviewed the organizers of Quarteera at Berlin Pride. One of the members of the organization was invited to participate in a talk show.

In November 2013 an activist of Quarteera, Ivan Kilber, broke through to the podium with his hands smeared with red paint and a rainbow flag, saying “Mizulina has the blood of young homosexuals and transgender people who were killed or committed suicide on her hands" during Yelena Mizulina’s speech at the conference "For the future of the family" in Leipzig, organized by right-wing magazine Compact.

In January 2014 Quarteera participated as a guest at a parliamentary meeting in the European Parliament at a meeting devoted to discussion of issues related to human rights in Russia. On February 1, 2014, the Red City Hall hosted an international conference in Berlin “Gold For Equal Rights”, where one of the co-organizers was Quarteera. The conference was devoted to the situation of LGBT people in Russia. It was also attended by many Russian LGBT activists.

Every year, the organization holds "Rainbow Flashmobs" in German cities – launching helium balloons into the air on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. In July 2012 one of the founders of Quarteera, activist Ivan Kilber, was awarded the Hamburg Gay Pride prize for the invention of the "Rainbow Flashmob" in 2009, which was then held in more than 30 Russian cities, and has today turned into an international action.

Assistance in obtaining political asylum
Among other things, Quarteera wishes to help people obtain refugee status in Germany because of discrimination based on sexual orientation. In particular, Quarteera helps them to find a lawyer and prepare for an interview. In September 2013, with the support of Quarteera 26-year-old gay Pavel from Novosibirsk was granted political asylum in Germany. This was the first case of a homosexual obtaining Russian political asylum in Germany.

According to Quarteera, after the adoption of the law banning promotion of homosexuality requests for assistance in seeking political asylum in Germany are received on a daily basis. As of November 2013 the organization has assisted only two people, 12 more cases were under consideration. However, Quarteera dissuades Russian LGBT from seeking asylum in Germany and ask them to consider other emigration options due to the fact that refugee status in Germany is very difficult to obtain.

See also
 Olympic protests of Russian anti-gay laws
 Principle 6 campaign

Notes

External links

 Official website of Quarteera association
 Booklet about the situation of LGBT in post soviet countries (published by Quarteera)
 Save Europe: what was Elena Mizulina doing in Leipzig? - video with Ivan Kilber, member of Quarteera, on November 30, 2013, TV-channel "Dozhd".

LGBT organisations in Germany
Organizations established in 2011
Germany–Russia relations
LGBT rights in Russia


title: Yaroslavsky, Sakha Republic

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Yaroslavsky () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Yaroslavsky Rural Okrug of Lensky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located  from Lensk, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2002 Census was 457.

References

Notes

Sources
Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Lensky District.

Rural localities in Lensky District, Sakha Republic


title: Edgar Givry

text:
Edgar Givry (born 9 August 1953) is a French actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1974. He is also the official French dub of John Malkovich and Kermit the Frog in The Muppets.

Filmography

References

External links

1953 births
Living people
People from Saint-Raphaël, Var
French male film actors
French male television actors
20th-century French male actors
21st-century French male actors


title: Alvaro Estrella

text:
Álvaro Raúl Estrella Zapata (born 14 August 1980) is a Swedish singer and dancer with Chilean origin who has participated four times in Melodifestivalen (2014, 2020, 2021 and 2022), the selection process for picking the Swedish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Melodifestivalen
In 2014 he competed with the song "Bedroom" written by Jakke Erixson, Jon Bordon, Loren Francis, Kristofer Östergren. He sang in the first semi-final in Malmö but he didn't pass to the final, taking the 6th place.

Estrella has also appeared as dancer for many years in the Melodifestivalen contest including for singer Danny Saucedo in Saucedo's song "Amazing" in 2012.

He participated in Melodifestivalen 2020 with the song "Vamos Amigos" along with Mendez. The song reached the finale through the Second Chance round and ended up in eleventh place, scoring a total of 40 points.

He participated in Melodifestivalen 2021 with the song "Bailá Bailá" performed on 20 February 2021, qualifying to the "andra chansen" (second chance) round, where he won his duel and qualified for the final. He performed in the final on 13 March 2021, finishing in 10th place with a total of 26 points.

He participated in Melodifestivalen 2022 with the song ”Suave”. He performed in Heat 2 on 12 February 2022, qualifying to the semi-final. He performed again on 5 March 2022, failing to qualify to the final.

Others
In 2014, he dubbed the role of the lead character Manolo Sánchez in the Swedish version of the animated film The Book of Life.

He developed a dancing career and has danced for many artists including Danny Saucedo, Eric Saade and others.

Discography

Singles

Filmography
The Book of Life in dubbing role of Manolo Sánchez (in Swedish)

References

1980 births
Living people
Swedish people of Chilean descent
21st-century Swedish singers
21st-century Swedish male singers
Melodifestivalen contestants of 2022
Melodifestivalen contestants of 2021
Melodifestivalen contestants of 2020
Melodifestivalen contestants of 2014


title: Pattington Apartments

text:
The Pattington is a complex of 72 apartments in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Description
At the date of construction in 1902, the building was the largest apartment complex in Chicago. The building is built with bay windows in a courtyard style.

The building was designed by architect David E. Postle and was added to the National Register of Historic Places March 8, 1980. The Pattington annex was designed by Andrew Sandegren.

See also

 National Register of Historic Places listings in North Side Chicago

References

External links

Residential buildings completed in 1902
Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois


title: Khamra

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Khamra (; , Xamra) is a rural locality (a selo) in Yaroslavsky Rural Okrug of Lensky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located  from Lensk, the administrative center of the district, and  from Yaroslavsky, the administrative center of the rural okrug. Its population as of the 2002 Census was 182.

References

Notes

Sources
Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Lensky District.

Rural localities in Lensky District, Sakha Republic


title: Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions

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Advanced vehicle technology competitions (AVTCs) are competitions sponsored by the United States Department of Energy, in partnership with private industry and universities, which stimulates "the development of advanced propulsion and alternative fuel technologies and provide the training ground for the next generation of automotive engineers."

Overview
Since 1988, the U.S. Department of Energy has sponsored advanced vehicle technology competitions (AVTCs) in partnership with the North American automotive industry. Managed by the Argonne National Laboratory, AVTCs represent a unique coalition of government, industry and academic partners who join forces to execute North America's premier collegiate automotive engineering competitions. AVTCs provide a challenging, real-world training ground for North America's future engineers and automotive leaders and accelerate the development and demonstration of technologies of interest to the DOE and the automotive industry.

Early years

History of competitions

1988-1990 Methanol Marathon

The Methanol Marathon (1988-1990) was an alternative fuels competition for college and university students in the U.S. and Canada. General Motors Corporation provided 1988 Chevrolet Corsicas which were converted to operate on an M85 fuel (85% methanol and 15% hydrocarbons).Competition organizers went on to further challenge the student teams by establishing more stringent and controlled tests of their 1988 Chevrolet Corsicas in 1989. An important addition to the Methanol Marathon was the inclusion of a gasoline-powered control vehicle that provided a baseline from which to judge the effectiveness of the conversions.

1990-1993 Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) Challenge

The Natural Gas Vehicle Challenge (1990-1993) was conducted annually which gave teams the opportunity to go back to the drawing board twice to improve the vehicle in areas believed to be lacking. In 1993, twenty-two colleges and universities from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, including five new entries, converted a GMC 2500 Sierra truck to run on dedicated natural gas. The teams underwent rigorous testing of emissions, fuel economy, performance, driveability, as well as judging by industry experts. In 1991, only three teams earned points in the emissions event whereas in 1993 eleven teams met or exceeded the current federal emissions standards. Seven teams did better than CARB TLEV emissions standards, and three teams met the CARB ULEV standards. The  University of Texas - El Paso vehicle (a first year entry) tested less than 1/2 of the ULEV standard. The average EPA combined fuel economy (from both the city and hwy. tests) went from  in 1991 to  in 1992 to  in 1993.

1992-1995 Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) Challenge

The Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) Challenge (1992-1995), was an intercollegiate competition created by the U.S. DOE and SAE. The HEV Challenge began in 1993 with 18 Ford Escort Wagons and 12 Ground-Up vehicles; twelve Saturn SL2 sedans were added in 1994, and twelve Neons were added in the 1995 HEV Challenge. The HEV Challenge consisted of events in which vehicle designs and overall dynamic performance were evaluated. The events included acceleration, handling, range, emissions, fuel economy, consumer acceptability, engineering design review, and technical reports. All three HEV Challenges represented the most ambitious and difficult engineering research competitions to date. Although they showed that HEV technology is still developing, these competitions set performance benchmarks and established testing procedures that will affect the engineering community far after the last event was completed.

1995-1997 Propane Vehicle Challenge

The Propane Vehicle Challenge (1995-1997) began with conventional 1996 Chrysler minivan platforms, twelve college teams developed dedicated propane vehicles, while maintaining the performance that consumers expected from gasoline vehicles. The winning entries met the range goal of at least 250 miles with no problem, and the University of Texas-El Paso entry achieved an incredible estimated range of 716 miles upon refueling. 17 colleges and universities participated in the 1997 PVC with some teams using the 1996 Chrysler minivans or Dodge Dakota pickup trucks. For the first time, an award was given for the best component to the University of Texas at El Paso for the development of fuel-distribution spiders. This is a novel fuel-rail design that ensures equal distribution (temperature and pressure) of liquid-phase LPG to each fuel injector.

1995-1999 FutureCar Challenge

The FutureCar Challenge (1995-1999), adopted the goals of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV), especially the 3X improvement in fuel economy. USCAR partners, Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors, donated a mix of mid-sized sedans to the schools including Intrepids, Luminas, and Taurus’. Fuel used by the teams included reformulated gasoline, diesel and fischer-trophsch diesel, ethanol, compressed natural gas, liquid petroleum gas, hydrogen, dimethyl ether, and electricity. A wide range of events were held to test the vehicles’ performance and the teams’ ability to communicate their design choices and rationale. Performance improved over time with better batteries, control strategies, and experience.

1997-2000 Ethanol Vehicle Challenge

The Ethanol Vehicle Challenge (1997-2000) was developed to demonstrate the potential of ethanol to significantly lower emissions, improve performance, increase fuel efficiency, and improve cold starting of vehicles. During the two years of the competition the platform changed – from a 5-passenger sedan (Chevrolet Malibu) to a full-size truck (Chevrolet Silverado) – to reflect consumer demands for larger vehicles and more power. The venues changed – from GM’s Milford Proving Ground in Michigan to a 7-day tour through Ontario, Canada. Events were added (off road, hill climb, trailer tow) or made more challenging (lower cold start temperature. By 2000, the winning vehicle in the emissions event (University of Illinois at Chicago) met the CARB ULEV standard – one of the toughest in the world.

1999-2001 FutureTruck

FutureTruck (1999-2001) was designed to develop alternative propulsion systems and fuels that demonstrate increased energy efficiency and reduced emissions while continuing to meet customer expectations for performance and comfort. The U.S. Department of Energy teamed up with other sponsors to challenge more than 200 of the best and brightest students from 15 universities in the United States and Canada to re-engineer full-size SUVs to meet the needs of the future, producing green, efficient transportation that has the performance, utility, and affordability that customers expect.

Working with General Motors during first two years of the competition, teams modified Chevrolet Suburbans by using cutting-edge technologies, such as fuel cells and other advanced propulsion systems, space-age materials, and alternative fuels including biodiesel and ethanol (E-85). Teams were also encouraged to develop technologies that reduce total cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. FutureTruck included an event that measures upstream fuel-cycle emissions (pollution resulting from producing and delivering a fuel) and dynamometer emissions measurements.

2002-2004 FutureTruck

FutureTruck (2002-2004) was designed to develop alternative propulsion systems and fuels that demonstrate increased energy efficiency and reduced emissions while continuing to meet customer expectations for performance and comfort. The U.S. Department of Energy teamed up with other sponsors to challenge more than 200 of the best and brightest students from 15 universities in the United States and Canada to re-engineer full-size SUVs to meet the needs of the future, producing green, efficient transportation that has the performance, utility, and affordability that customers expect.

Working with Ford during the last three years of the competition, teams modified Ford Explorers by using cutting-edge technologies, such as fuel cells and other advanced propulsion systems, space-age materials, and alternative fuels including biodiesel and ethanol (E-85). Teams were also encouraged to develop technologies that reduce total cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. FutureTruck included an event that measures upstream fuel-cycle emissions (pollution resulting from producing and delivering a fuel) and dynamometer emissions measurements.

(2004-2008) Challenge X

Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility (2004-2008) was a unique four-year engineering competition that provided the opportunity for students across North America to develop advanced propulsion technology solutions that increased energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of light-duty vehicles.

To address the issues surrounding personal mobility (like vehicle fuel economy and emissions), General Motors Corporation (GM), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and other government and industry leaders joined to create the advanced vehicle technology competition. This four-year competition managed by Argonne National Laboratory challenged 17 university engineering teams to redesign a Chevrolet Equinox SUV to minimize energy consumption, emissions, and greenhouse gases while maintaining or exceeding the vehicle’s utility, safety, and performance.

2008- EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge
Established by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors, and managed by Argonne National Lab, EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge was a three-year (2008-2011) series that challenged 16 universities to redesign a Saturn Vue in order to reduce its environmental impact.

EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future
Spanning three years from 2011-2014, EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future challenged 15 universities to reduce the environmental impact of the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu. This competition was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors, and managed by Argonne National Lab.

EcoCAR 3
EcoCAR 3 is the current installment of AVTCs, spanning from 2014 to 2018, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors, and managed by Argonne National Lab. This four-year competition challenges 16 North American universities to redesign a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro in order to reduce its environmental impact, while maintaining safety and consumer acceptability. The technical goals of this competition further involve:
 Reducing energy consumption
 Reducing well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emissions
 Reducing criteria tailpipe emissions
 Maintaining consumer acceptability in the areas of performance, utility, and safety
 Meeting energy and environmental goals, while considering cost and innovation

Key sponsors

Universities involved

 University of Waterloo, UWaterloo Alternative Fuels Team (UWAFT)

References

External links
AVTC main page
EcoCAR 3 main page

Energy technology competitions
Engineering competitions
Engineering education
Student competitions
United States Department of Energy


title: Jadumani Mahapatra

text:
Jadumani Mahapatra (alternatively spelled Mohapatra; , ; 1781–1866) also known as Utkala Ghanta was an Odia language poet, humorist and satirist, who was principal poet during the rule of King Vinayak Singh Mandhata of Nayagarh princely state in present day Odisha. He was known for his devotional songs and poems, and also his wit and satire.

Biography
Born at Athagada Patana of Ganjam, his family shifted to Itamati in present Nayagarh district of Odisha when Jadumani was just a child. He studied Sanskrit grammar from Vidyadhar Mohapatra of Mandhatapur. There is a story about his being the humorist poet in Odiya language. It is said that once given a mantra by a yogi (saint) he meditated upon Lord Hayagriba (one of the incarnations of lord  Vishnu according to Hindu mythology) for His blessing. When the Lord appeared before him and asked him to express his wish, he to the God's utmost pleasure told how He cleans His nose as He is occupied with different aayudhas (weapons and other armaments) in all his hands, to which the God could not prevent Himself laughing, and blessed him to be a humorist poet from that day and he can write poems instantly without any imagination and thinking at any place, not only restricted to study rooms as poets usually do to write poems. It is also said that as he used the bamboo mat usually left by a dead person's family members at samshan (cremation ground) while chanting the Hayagriba mantra, for that reason (chanting of Hayagriba mantra sitting on bamboo seat is prohibited in tantra shastra, and thus results with negative effects—poverty) he was poor throughout the life even though he was the dewan (administrative officer) of the king of Nayagarh. He composed invocations and prayers for Lord Jagannath, the deity of Jagannath Temple at Puri. His noted works include two longer poems in ornate riti-kal style, Raghava Vilasa and Prabandha Purnachandra.

Jadumani was a great opponent of Brahmins (one of the four casts among Hindus) for their monopoly in Hindu rituals and misguiding the public in the name of dharma (religion). To teach Brahmins a lesson, he once invited a group of vedanti Brahmins on one of the anniversary of his late father and applauded them with lavish meals. After the bhojan (eating of meals), he told them that his late father had always a wish to see to have chadoos (a lining on the forehead with a hot rod of any kind by lightly touching) on the foreheads of Brahmins, and thus applied with a gold stick the chadoos on the Brahmins and the Brahmins could not deny that due to fear of raj danda (punishment by king's men)as he was the dewan of the then king. Since all the Brahmins on that occasion were very much ardent in vedant philosophy, it hurt them so much that on the same day at noon on the bank of Kusumi river, the 108 Brahmins chanted the bramha gayatri (principal gayatri mantra) with tears rolling from their eyes due to that great insult. All of a sudden a great lightning appeared on the cloud and burst upon Jadumani's only son Bhartuhari and he died on the moment. Jadumani later repented on that event  of insulting Brahmins and went to Puri to see lord Jagannath and sang a song named Jagannath janana (a devotional poem on Jagannath). His satirist-humorous poems known as Jadumani Rahasya and anecdotes of his wit and practical jokes are also popular. Though he does not have a complete work to his credit as a humorist, some 100 short and witty compositions have remained in circulation and part of oral folklore, they were collected as Jadumani Rahasya, and later in Jadumani granthabali (Collected works) in 1965.

He was a contemporary of Kabisurjya Baladeba Ratha. Once when he was in Puri at lord Jagannath temple while offering his prayer for his son's death, he met Baladeba Ratha who was also singing the sarpa janana (a song comparing Jagannath with a snake) after his son's death. Both great poets of Odisha knew each other from the caliber of each one's song (the depth and meaning of the song which are very high).

It is said that he once asked a question to the elderly Bakrabak Chakrapani Pattanayaka who had first asked a question to Jadumani. Jadumani easily answered the question put by Chakrapani but the latter could not provide the former's. For readers fond of riti kavya (classic poetry—ornamented with word mastery), below is that very question asked by Utkal Ghanta Jadumani Mohapatra.

The answer to the above question is abira (or fagu / falgu in Odiya or color used in Holi). The meaning justifies as follows: abira'''s vibrant color defeats the color of the sun (Answer 1), 'abira' means who is not bira'' (or warrior) he can sell his weapon to earn a living (Answer 2), 'abira' = abi (goat in Odiya)+ ra (possessive)meaning that goat always fears to go near to water (Answer 3), and 'abira' = (a (vishnu)+bi (pakshi or [bird])+ ra (possessive)) which means Garuda the vahana of Lord Vishnu who never fears snakes (Answer 4). This single question raised as a poem shows the versatility of Jadumani's word mastery and the depth and breadth of his poetry.

He died in 1868 in the village Itamati, Dist. Nayagarh.

References

1780s births
1868 deaths
Indian male poets
People from Nayagarh district
Odia-language poets
Indian satirists
19th-century Indian poets
Poets from Odisha
19th-century Indian male writers
Odissi music composers


title: Cathrynn Brown

text:
Cathrynn N. Brown is an American politician and a Republican member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing District 55 since January 18, 2011.

Elections
2012 Brown was unopposed for both the June 5, 2012 Republican Primary, winning with 1,538 votes and the November 6, 2012 General election, winning with 8,853 votes after a challenger withdrew.
2008 To challenge District 55 incumbent Democratic Representative John Heaton, Autry Reese was unopposed for the June 8, 2008 Republican Primary; after Reese withdrew, Brown was included on the November 4, 2008 General election ballot but lost to Representative Heaton.
2010 Brown and Representative Heaton were both unopposed for both their June 1, 2010 primaries, setting up a rematch; Brown won the November 2, 2010 General election with 4,010 votes (52.2%) against Representative Heaton.

Political positions
In January 2021, shortly before a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, Brown announced legislation to decertify Joe Biden's victory in New Mexico by removing the state's five electoral votes he won. In a statement, Brown made baseless claims of election fraud, alleging fraud occurred in New Mexico and in other states. She claimed the final vote tallies had been "manipulated" but offered no evidence.

References

External links
Official page at the New Mexico Legislature
Campaign site

Cathrynn Brown at Ballotpedia
Cathrynn N. Brown at the National Institute on Money in State Politics

Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Republican Party members of the New Mexico House of Representatives
New Mexico lawyers
People from Carlsbad, New Mexico
Women state legislators in New Mexico
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians


title: Korosko

text:
Korosko was a settlement on the Nile River in Egyptian Nubia. It was located  south of Aswan and served as the point of departure for caravans avoiding the Dongola bend in the river by striking out directly across the desert to Abu Hamad and thereby bypassing the second, third and fourth cataracts of the Nile. The "Korosko route" or "Korosoko road" was in use during the period of the New Kingdom (1550–1077 BC), when Pharaohs Thutmose I and Thutmose III marked it with boundary stelae. During the Meroitic period it was the main connection between the Kingdom of Kush and the Mediterranean world.

Korosko was only replaced in this function by Wadi Halfa after the construction of the Sudan Military Railroad during the 1890s amid the Mahdi War. Although the railway employed a different gauge and was not connected to the Egyptian system, the two networks were connected directly by steamboat and Korosko, between them, diminished in importance.

Its former location was flooded by Lake Nasser upon the completion of the Aswan High Dam.

See also
 The Tragedy of the Korosko, a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

References

External links
W. V. Davies, P. Ruffieux and Mahmoud Suliman Bashir. The Korosko Road Project. Sudan & Nubia, No 18. The Sudan Archaeological Research Society, 2014. Published online 25 January 2017.

Former populated places in Sudan
Lake Nasser


title: Charles Swayze

text:
Charles Fletcher Swayze (December 26, 1869 – October 10, 1954) was a Canadian politician. He represented Niagara Falls in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1923 as a member of the Labour Party, and subsequently served as mayor of Niagara Falls from 1929 to 1934. He died in 1954.

References

External links

Labour MPPs in Ontario
Mayors of Niagara Falls, Ontario
1869 births
1954 deaths


title: Cure Alzheimer's Fund

text:
Cure Alzheimer's Fund (CAF) is an American non-profit organization based in Wellesley, Massachusetts. It supports and funds research focusing on understanding and potentially curing Alzheimer's disease utilizing a venture philanthropy approach, targeting research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing or reversing Alzheimer's disease. The board of directors covers all operating costs so that all donations go entirely to research.

History
Cure Alzheimer's Fund (also known as Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation) was founded in 2004 by Jeffrey Morby, Jacqui Morby, Henry McCance, and Phyllis Rappaport as a way to fund research of Alzheimer's disease. As of October 2023, the CEO is Meg Smith; Timothy Armour retired in October of 2023. For the full year 2022, Cure Alzheimer's Fund received $32 million through 24,000 donations. As of September 2023, the organization has funded 754 research projects, for more than $178 million.

References

External links

Mental health organizations in Massachusetts
Alzheimer's and dementia organizations


title: Damitun

text:
Damitun () may refer to:
 Damitun-e Bala
 Damitun-e Pain


title: Damui

text:
Damui (, also Romanized as Damū’ī) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 41, in 7 families.

References

Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Dar Ab, Sistan and Baluchestan

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Dar Ab (, also Romanized as Dar Āb) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 53, in 10 families.

References

Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Derap

text:
Derap (, also Romanized as Derāp) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 130, in 28 families.

References

Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Dulabkan

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Dulabkan (, also Romanized as Dūlābkān) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 383, in 73 families.

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Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Gerdu Nan

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Gerdu Nan (, also Romanized as Gerdū Nān; also known as Gerd-e Nān) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 162, in 38 families.

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Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Juydad Mohammad

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Juydad Mohammad (, also Romanized as Jūydād Moḩammad) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 114, in 27 families.

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Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Gazan, Sistan and Baluchestan

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Gazan (, also Romanized as Gazān) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 39, in 10 families.

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Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Hasanabad, Dalgan

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Hasanabad (, also Romanized as Ḩasanābād) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 505, in 99 families.

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Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Hoseynabad-e Bagh-e Nil

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Hoseynabad-e Bagh-e Nil (, also Romanized as Ḩoseynābād-e Bāgh-e Nīl) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 271, in 51 families.

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Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Jalalabad, Dalgan

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Jalalabad (, also Romanized as Jalālābād) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 18, in 4 families.

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Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Hoopers (department store)

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Hoopers is an English department store chain founded in Torquay in 1982. It is now trading from four department stores and online.

Locations
 Harrogate, originally the Harrogate branch of Marshall & Snelgrove, it became Cresta House (under the ownership of Debenhams) and latterly Schofields (owned for a time by House of Fraser).
 Torquay, formerly Williams & Cox (acquired 1982)
 Tunbridge Wells, formerly Weekes (acquired 1990)
 Wilmslow, formerly Finnigans (acquired 1982)

Former locations
 Bradford, formerly Sara, a retailer of women's clothing  and accessories
 Carlisle, formerly Bulloughs (acquired 2006; closed 2013).
 Cheltenham (opened 1987 in premises formerly occupied by Cheltenham's main Post Office; closed 2003; building now occupied by Waterstones)
 Chichester
 Colchester (formerly the Colchester branch of Keddies, acquired as a going concern in 1987)

References

External links
 Hoopers department store website

Department stores of the United Kingdom


title: Kheyrabad, Dalgan

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Kheyrabad (, also Romanized as Kheyrābād) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 382, in 74 families.

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Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Kalutan

text:
Kalutan (, also Romanized as Kalūtān) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 246, in 53 families.

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Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Kambar-e Baqer

text:
Kambar-e Baqer (, also Romanized as Kambār-e Bāqer; also known as Kūbār-e Bāqer) is a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District, Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 95, in 15 families.

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Populated places in Dalgan County


title: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (often abridged as Last Week Tonight) is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by comedian John Oliver. The half-hour-long show premiered in the end of April 2014 on HBO. Last Week Tonight shares some similarities with Comedy Central's The Daily Show (where Oliver was previously featured as a correspondent and fill-in host), as the show takes a satirical look at news, politics and current events, but on a weekly basis.

Oliver's initial contract with HBO was for two years with an option for extension. In September 2020, HBO announced that the show had been renewed for three additional seasons of 30 episodes each, keeping the show on the air through 2023. The show's ninth season premiered on February 20, 2022. The show's tenth season premiered on February 19, 2023. However, the show went on hiatus in May 2023 due to the Writers Guild of America strike. After the strike was resolved in September, it was announced that the show would return on October 1.

Production
Oliver described his preparations for the show to an interviewer for The Wire: "... I basically have to watch everything. The only thing I kind of watch for pleasure is Fareed Zakaria's show on Sundays ... That and 60 Minutes I watch for pleasure, or maybe Frontline ... I have a TV on in my office all the time and I'll generally flick around on that from CNN, Fox, MSNBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Al Jazeera ... I'm watching with a certain thing in mind and that is how to see a story told badly."

He said to another interviewer that he is concerned about dealing with old news:

If something happens on a Monday, realistically all the meat is going to be picked off that bone by the time it gets to us – there's probably barely a point in doing it ... I think we'll be attracted to some extent by stories that are off the grid ... Our show may end up skewing more international in terms of stories.

Tim Carvell, executive producer of Last Week Tonight, explained in an interview how the cast and crew deal with a half hour of Oliver speaking without any commercial breaks.

Carvell also revealed that HBO gave them freedom in choosing guests for the show, advising them not to feel obligated to feature celebrities. When asked by an interviewer about "correspondents" such as those featured on The Daily Show, Oliver replied, "we're not going to be a parody news show, so no people pretending to be journalists."

After the fifth episode of season 7, Oliver stated that the studio and the show's offices were shut down after employees tested positive for COVID-19 and that the show would go on temporary hiatus. The show returned on March 29, 2020, being filmed in Oliver's home with no studio audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and produced largely by virtual communication. The show remained there until it resumed filming, in a new studio, in September 2021.

Oliver has stated that he has "full creative freedom, including free rein to criticize corporations", and frequently pokes fun at HBO's (now former) parent company AT&T, referring to it as the show's "business daddy".

Format
Unlike The Daily Show, which followed recent news, Oliver tends to explore one concept in depth. The show is taped in front of a studio audience, and HBO offers a limited number of free tickets to attend each week's Last Week Tonight taping.

The show's theme starts off every episode containing images relating to it or the world at large with satirical captions written in dog Latin (e.g., a photo of a gun labelled "deus ex machina", a picture of Vladimir Putin labelled "POTUS Operandi", a photo of Oliver himself labelled "hostus mostus"). Each episode contains a small handful of shorter segments, and then one main segment. While the short segments almost always relate to recent news, the episode's main segment usually covers in length and detail a political issue, even if that issue did not have news media attention during the preceding week. On occasion, the short segments are omitted and the main segment takes up the entirety of the episode. Some of the episodes will follow up the main segment with another video compilation or news story. Oliver's speech is broken up with video compilations of recent news clips, or recurring segments, into which Oliver segues with the slogan, "And now, this." Oliver has also ended some segments with mock trailers for fictional TV shows or commercials that satirize the subject of his speech.

Oliver injects humor into his presentation, including satirical analogies, and allusions to popular culture and celebrities. The show includes a panel in the upper-left corner that frequently displays a photo or graphic for that accompanies subject at hand, as a comedic aid. A full-screen graphic will show and play a video clip (such as excerpts from news show or documentaries) when Oliver is citing it. He often coins hashtags related to his segment for use in social media, some of which go viral.

A recurring element of the show is Oliver's use of mascots. The mascots used in the show include Jeff the Diseased Lung in a Cowboy Hat, Hoots the NSA Owl, Taryn the Tinder Chicken, and the Last Week Tonight puppets. Oliver told Vulture in February 2019 that "[Executive producer] Tim Carvell and I – I think we've always seen the show as our attempt to make The Muppet Show and failing to do so. But occasionally, just occasionally, you get the kind of Muppet Show adoration in the ludicrous mascots."

The show frequently features one or more celebrity guests in its segments to help Oliver better get his point on the week's topic across. Guests have featured in many different capacities including giving monologues directly to camera, being interviewed by Oliver, playing musical numbers, participating in comedic skits with or without Oliver, or starring in fictitious parody PSAs. On the show, guests are sometimes seen in the Last Week Tonight studio itself doing their part during the show's main taping, while at other times they are seen in video clips that were pre-recorded at a different location and later included in the show. Oliver often interviews personalities who were directly involved in or impacted by the issues being discussed in the show to get their first-hand experiences and viewpoints on the issue. Some of the famous personalities Oliver has interviewed include Edward Snowden, the 14th Dalai Lama, Anita Hill, Stephen Hawking, and Monica Lewinsky.

Purpose
While broadly within the categories of political satire and late-night talk shows, Last Week Tonight has taken a more specific approach to deeper dives into systemic issues which intend to illustrate both the wider socio-political context and the complex interconnections and embeddedness of public policies in social outcomes.

International broadcasting
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episode clips can be seen internationally on YouTube. It is broadcast on premium channel HBO Canada that is simulcast with HBO in the U.S.; around the same time it is shown on the international HBO channels. It airs in Australia on The Comedy Channel hours after the U.S. airing and airs in New Zealand on SoHo. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it is broadcast on Mondays on Sky Comedy. In Belgium, it is broadcast on Thursdays by the Telenet cable-only channel PRIME Series. It airs in South Africa on M-Net and in Portugal on RTP3. In India, the show is streamed on Disney+ Hotstar. In Greece, the show airs on Cosmote TV's Cosmote Series HD.

Social media
Oliver often makes use of joke hashtags to facilitate the viral spread of his videos on Twitter and Facebook, as with the hashtag #NotMyChristian, which he used in 2014 to complain about the casting of actor Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey in the feature film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey. The hashtag became a recurring punchline on the show, mentioned in both serious stories and casual segues.

YouTube channel
Last Week Tonight has a YouTube channel where videos are intermittently (depending on series) added after a show has aired. Most of the videos are of the main segment from each episode. Some extended clips are also available on the show's YouTube channel, as are "Web Exclusives" that are produced solely for the channel, such as a July 2016 video in which Oliver responded to negative comments left on the channel itself.

A YouTube video of a segment on the show supporting the UK remaining in the EU was found to be the single most shared video clip on Twitter during the run-up to the 2016 EU membership referendum.

The show's production has also created content specifically for fan use. For the March 19, 2017, episode, which reported on Bolivia's growing coalition of workers clad in zebra suits to educate civilians about traffic laws, the show's production recorded 23 minutes of a person in a zebra costume dancing and gesticulating before a green screen so that viewers could edit it into other videos for humorous effect. A similar video called "Real Animals, Fake Paws" for use in reenacting U.S. Supreme Court cases was released after the October 19, 2014, episode where dogs were used instead of justices to make listening to oral court cases more amusing to the general public and to increase interest in the subject.

By April 2015, the channel had attained over a million subscribers. That number had risen to 3.6 million by July 2016, and over 5 million by May 2017. , the channel has over 9 million subscribers and more than 3.5 billion views.

Episodes

Reception

Audience viewership
Oliver's debut show garnered 1.11 million viewers. The number of viewers online, through websites such as YouTube showing extended clips of different segments, have steadily climbed into multiple millions. The show's YouTube channel also features Web Exclusives which are occasionally posted when the main show is taking a week off. Across the TV airings, DVR, on-demand and HBO Go, Last Week Tonight averaged 4.1 million weekly viewers in its first season.

Critical response
Last Week Tonight has received widespread critical acclaim. Matthew Jacobs of The Huffington Post named Oliver's program as 2014's best television show, writing "the year's most surprising contribution to television is a show that bucked conventional formats, left us buzzing and paved the way for a burgeoning dynasty. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is 2014's crowning achievement."

Hank Stuever of The Washington Post compared Oliver's program with The Daily Show several times in his review of Oliver's debut:

Another scathing, stick-it-to-'em critique of American mass media and politics shellacked in satire and delivered by a funny if almost off-puttingly incredulous man with a British accent ... Exactly like The Daily Show, the goal is to make elected and appointed officials, as well as just about any corporate enterprise, look foolish and inept while slyly culling together television news clips that make the media look equally inept at covering such evident truths.

James Poniewozik of Time similarly compared Last Week with The Daily Show, but also wrote that the "full half-hour gives Oliver the room to do more," and praised Oliver's "sharper tone and his globalist, English-outsider perspective," as well as his "genuine passion over his subjects." Poniewozik wrote that Oliver's debut was "a funny, confident start."

The Entertainment Weekly review began by ringing the same changes: "The fear with Last Week Tonight is that it's The Daily Show except once a week – a staggered timeline that would rob the basic news-punning format of its intrinsic topical punch ... The first episode of his HBO series didn't stray far from the [Jon] Stewart mothership, stylistically ..." However, the reviewer, Darren Franich, liked that Oliver has "a half-hour of television that is simultaneously tighter and more ambitious, that the extra production time leads to sharper gags but also the ability to present more context" and thought that the debut had "plenty of funny throwaway lines." Franich appreciated Oliver's coverage of the 2014 Indian election, which the American press was largely ignoring, and, like Poniewozik, praised Oliver's "passion." Franich concluded that Last Week Tonight "suggested the sharpest possible version of its inspiration" and that it "should feel like an experiment" but "felt almost fully formed."

David Haglund of Slate was ambivalent, writing that the show is "obviously a work in progress" and that one segment "felt like misplaced overkill," but also that it is "good use of a weekly show, and it was funny to boot." Gawker's Jordan Sargent claimed Last Week Tonight was "the new Daily Show," while simultaneously criticizing the Daily Show for abandoning those "who have moved on from caring about Fox [News] and Republicans." By the series' fourth season, some commentators Haaretz, indicated that show has become increasingly focused on then-president President Donald Trump, noting the "show had exhausted itself and its supply of jokes about the president", becoming repetitively focused on Trump's scandal-ridden presidency to a somewhat tiresome degree.

A number of commentators from mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Time, and Associated Press, have described Oliver's style of reporting as journalism or even investigative journalism. Oliver himself disagrees, stating that "it's not journalism, it's comedyit's comedy first, and it's comedy second."

Accolades

Reaction and influence
According to a document obtained by Vice, the military government of Thailand listed Oliver as "undermining the royal institution" for calling Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn a "buffoon" and an "idiot."

During the June 17, 2018, episode, Oliver spoke at length about Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, in part criticizing his censorship of Chinese media, his dictatorship and consolidation of power. Both "John Oliver" and "Last Week Tonight" were blocked from Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo immediately following the segment. The HBO website and content from the network were also blocked, although Last Week Tonight had already been excluded from HBO Asia.

The John Oliver Effect

On several occasions, show segments on major societal issues, such as the "Chickens" or "Bail" segments, were soon followed by real-world change and action on said issues by the public, policymakers and/or other institutions. Several media outlets, noticing this pattern, suggested that attention from the show had instigated these changes, going so far as to dub the phenomenon the "John Oliver Effect".

A June 2014 segment about net neutrality in the United States was thought to spur over 45,000 comments on the Federal Communications Commission's electronic filing page about a net neutrality proposal that, if implemented, would have priority "lanes" for certain internet traffic. The FCC also received an extra 300,000 comments in an email inbox designated specifically for the proposal. It was thought that Oliver's segment had a major role in the FCC's ultimate reversal of stance on that proposal, with the FCC instead implementing net-neutrality rules that prohibited priority "lanes". A sequel in 2017 inspired over 150,000 comments on a subsequent proposal to scrap the new net neutrality rules.

In a segment about public defenders and how some offices are extremely underfunded, the New Orleans Public Defense office's crowdfunding efforts to improve their conditions were featured. In the days following the episode's broadcast, thousands of dollars were donated to the office by the show's fans, helping them reach their goal four days after the show aired.

Oliver himself does not believe the effect to be real and has openly ridiculed the idea on the show, even calling the term "completely meaningless".

Tobacco

"Tobacco" is a segment about the tobacco industry, which aired on February 15, 2015, as part of the second episode of the second season. During the eighteen-minute segment, Oliver discusses tobacco industry trends and practices. He also introduces Jeff the Diseased Lung, a mascot he created for the American global cigarette and tobacco company Philip Morris International, the makers of Marlboro brand of cigarettes. The anthropomorphic diseased lung, who smokes and coughs, has been compared to Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man. Oliver and his team promoted the cartoon character by sending shirts with Jeff's image to Togo and displaying billboards in Uruguay, and by encouraging use of the hashtag #JeffWeCan, which trended on Twitter following the broadcast.

The segment received widespread media coverage, with several outlets praising Oliver's ability to launch successful marketing campaigns and change perceptions about smoking through the creation of the mascot. The mascot later made an appearance at a protest organized by the "Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids" in New York City in May 2015.

Philip Morris International issued a response to the segment, stating that it included "many mischaracterizations" of the company.

Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption

In August 2015, after delivering his "Televangelists" segment, Oliver hired a professional tax lawyer to set up a church called Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption as a legal entity. He did this partly as a way to demonstrate how "disturbingly easy" it is, in terms of paperwork, to set up a tax-exempt religious organization as viewed by the Internal Revenue Service. As Oliver explained, the requirements needed to be defined as a "church" are quite broad. Since regulatory guidelines require an established location for a church, Oliver chose his studio location in New York City as its official location, although he registered the nonprofit organization in the state of Texas. Oliver's "megachurch" had a toll-free phone number which allowed callers to donate to the church, and said that any money collected would be redistributed to the charitable relief organization Doctors Without Borders. Oliver announced the formation of his church on the episode of the show that aired on August 16, 2015.

Matt Wilstein, writing for Mediaite, saw Oliver's stunt as being along the same lines as comedian Stephen Colbert's setting up of a 501(c)(4) organizationColbert Super PACas a way to "test the absurd limits of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision"; Oliver's megachurch, in contrast, is a way to test whether the IRS might view his "megachurch" as a tax-exempt organization. Steve Thorngate, writing in The Christian Century, suggested that the question of the religious exemption from taxation was more difficult and nuanced than Oliver portrayed, and not a simple matter of government regulation, describing Oliver's pivot to IRS policy as "unhelpful." However, Thorngate agreed that Oliver's exposure and criticism of "manipulative sleazeballs" who "fleece the faithful" is "spot-on". Leonardo Blair, writing for Christian Post, described Oliver's segment as a "brutal takedown" of televangelists and churches which preach "the prosperity gospel," a message that dupes people into thinking that cash donations will solve medical or financial problems, while in fact the donations go to the personal aggrandizement of televangelists who buy expensive jets or large mansions.

A week later, on the following episode, Oliver devoted a short segment to the donations the church had received, which included money from around the world. Oliver said he had received "thousands of envelopes with thousands of dollars" from donors. Displayed were several US Post Office containers full of mail. Oliver told viewers that the more money they sent in, the more "blessings" would be returned to them, adding that "that is still something I'mamazinglylegally allowed to say."

Oliver announced that the Church would be shutting down during his show on September 13, 2015. All monetary donations have been forwarded to Doctors Without Borders.

Donald Trump

"Donald Trump" is a segment discussing American businessman Donald Trump. It aired on February 28, 2016, as part of the third episode of the third season. During the 22-minute segment, Oliver discusses Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and his long career in business. He also reveals that the Trump family name was changed at one point from the ancestral name 'Drumpf'. Although the changing of names was once a common practice among many non-English immigrants to the United States, the segment popularized the term "Donald Drumpf" and started a campaign urging viewers to "Make Donald Drumpf Again," a play on Trump's own campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again." The segment garnered more than 85 million views on Facebook and YouTube combined which, an HBO spokesman has said, "is a record for any piece of HBO content." Throughout the 2016 presidential election and following Trump's inauguration, Oliver made additional segments regarding Trump.

Debt buyers
"Debt Buyers" is a segment discussing the business and questionable practice of debt buyers. It aired on June 5, 2016, as part of the fourteenth episode of the third season. Oliver announced he had purchased nearly $15 million in medical debt that belonged to 9,000 debtors. He did this through a company he had created, called "Central Asset Recovery Professionals Inc." (CARP), which he described as being "for the bottom-feeding fish." Oliver stated that it was "pretty clear by now [that] debt buying is a grimy business, and badly needs more oversight" and went to point out that starting such a business was "disturbingly easy." It cost him $50 to register the business in Mississippi, while it cost less than $60,000 to purchase almost $15 million in bad debt, medical debt from Texas. Oliver forgave the debt in its entirety, and claimed that it was the largest single giveaway in the American television history, eclipsing that of General Motors on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004 where it gifted cars to Winfrey's studio audience, worth an estimated $8 million in total. Writing for Slate, Jordan Weissmann disputed the $15 million figure: "[Oliver] says CARP paid around $60,000 ... for its paper, which was 'out-of-statute'meaning the debts were so old that creditors technically couldn't even sue over them anymore. That suggests the seller thought the debts were worth no more than, well, $60,000." The show partnered with RIP Medical Debt, Inc. to abolish the debt.

Coal mining and Bob Murray

On June 18, 2017, Last Week Tonights main segment was about coal mining and Bob Murray. In his segment, Oliver talked about safety conditions inside coal mines, specifically the 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine collapse, which killed six miners. Oliver criticized Murray for claiming the collapse was caused by an earthquake, despite all evidence demonstrating otherwise. The show ended with a costumed squirrel named "Mr. Nutterbutter", portrayed by Noel MacNeal, offering Murray with an oversized check for "3 acorns and 18 cents"  with the phrase "Eat Shit, Bob" in response to Murray's company presenting its employees with low sums of money as bonusesto which many retaliated by returning the checks, including one who returned theirs with that exact phrase written on itand in reference to a claim that Murray supposedly got the idea to start his company from a talking squirrel. On June 22, Bob Murray presented a lawsuit against Oliver, HBO, and Time Warner for defamation. HBO believed Last Week Tonight had done nothing wrong, with a First Amendment lawyer describing the lawsuit as "frivolous." In February 2018, a West Virginia judge stated that he planned to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Murray as unfounded.

After Murray's appeal to the West Virginia Supreme Court was delayed due to the impeachment of its judges, Murray offered to drop the charges and HBO accepted. On November 10, 2019, Oliver discussed the case in a segment about SLAPP suits, revealing that the suit cost HBO $200,000 in legal costs and tripled the show's libel insurance fees. Oliver acknowledged that, despite the segment being vetted, the content would likely lead to another lawsuit, and that he would stand behind his team if it were to happen. The segment ended with a five-minute, Times Square-set musical number featuring crude and ludicrous fictional anecdotes about Murray. The musical number, entitled "Eat Shit, Bob", was later nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics in 2020.

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

On March 18, 2018, Oliver announced the publication of a children's book, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, which parodies a book that Mike Pence's family wrote about their family rabbit, Marlon Bundo. Oliver used his book as a platform to criticize Pence's positions on LGBT issues, as it featured a rabbit in a same-sex relationship. The book became the number-one book and e-book on Amazon the next day, and the top-selling audiobook on Audible.

Russell Crowe's jockstrap

Russell Crowe's jockstrap was purchased by the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and then donated to a Blockbuster Video shop. The jockstrap reappeared in a skit in the final episode of the 2018 season of the show.

Guinness World Records
The main story of the August 11, 2019, episode was Turkmenistan and its autocratic leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. The last portion of the segment centered around Berdimuhamedow's obsession with Guinness World Records, with the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat being home to the most buildings with white marble cladding, the largest indoor Ferris wheel, and the largest statue of a horse's head, among others. Oliver found that Guinness World Records received sums of money ranging from US$12,000 to US$500,000 from companies and authoritarian nations to set records for publicity. He ended the show with a 600 square foot marble cake adorned with a picture of Berdimuhamedow falling from a horse; he had requested a Guinness adjudicator to certify it as the world's largest marble cake, a record previously set by Betty Crocker in Saudi Arabia in 2017. Guinness refused, stating that because their brand was "aligned with kids and families", they would not send an adjudicator; Oliver mockingly commented that he did not "run a brutal enough dictatorship to meet Guinness World Records' high ethical standards". Oliver claimed that Guinness offered to certify it after the fact only if he signed an agreement not to criticize their practices on the show, which Oliver dismissed as "ridiculous". Guinness called Oliver's allegations "false and unfair", claiming that they did not send an adjudicator because they felt the cake was specifically for the purpose of mocking a record holder, stating it was their policy "not to partake in any activities which may belittle their achievements or subject them to ridicule".

Narendra Modi
John Oliver extensively satirized Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in a segment which was broadcast on February 23, 2020, calling him a "temporary symbol of hate." This was during a visit of US president Donald Trump to India, and in an organized rally that coincided with large-scale violence in Delhi. He criticized Modi's "increasingly controversial reputation and widespread protests against his government's citizenship measures", as well as the BJP's condoning of widespread violence against Muslims in India.

Disney+ Hotstar, an Indian streaming service who holds rights to HBO programming in the country, refused to stream the episode, leading to criticism by local viewers (including Hotstar's apps being review bombed with 1-star reviews). Oliver addressed the censorship in the March 8, 2020, episode, also noting that since the acquisition of Hotstar by The Walt Disney Company (which occurred as part of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox), Hotstar had begun to censor jokes regarding Disney characters from the program, such as his "factually-accurate" claim that Donald Duck had a corkscrew penis.

Danbury, Connecticut

John Oliver satirized the city of Danbury, Connecticut on a broadcast that aired on August 16, 2020, by making fun of the general quaintness of the town, starting a feud with the town that would last a few weeks, involving the Mayor of Danbury Mark Boughton, the city's hockey team called Danbury Hat Tricks, and other various content creators in Danbury. The mayor of Danbury, in response, revealed that they would rename their sewer plant, which makes up more than 80% of their $127 million budget, the "John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant", saying "it's full of crap, just like you [John Oliver]". The mayor reneged on this statement later in the week, claiming it was a joke, but after John Oliver offered $55,000 to local charities on a broadcast that aired on August 30, 2020, in exchange for the sewage plant actually being named after him, Danbury accepted the offer.

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title: Urzhum

text:
Urzhum () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

Urban localities
Urzhum, Urzhumsky District, Kirov Oblast, a town in Urzhumsky District of Kirov Oblast;

Rural localities
Urzhum, Altai Krai, a selo in Dubrovsky Selsoviet of Aleysky District in Altai Krai;
Urzhum, Sanchursky District, Kirov Oblast, a village in Korlyakovsky Rural Okrug of Sanchursky District in Kirov Oblast;
Urzhum, Kostroma Oblast, a village in Kotkishevskoye Settlement of Neysky District in Kostroma Oblast;


title: Tytus Woyciechowski

text:
Tytus Sylwester Woyciechowski (31 December 1808 – 23 March 1879) was a Polish political activist, agriculturalist, and patron of art. He was an early friend of the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.

The spelling of Woyciechowski's surname is an archaic version of the more common "Wojciechowski", with a "j" instead of a "y".

Life
Woyciechowski was born in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine).

Friend of Chopin
In his youth Woyciechowski was a fellow student of Chopin's at the Warsaw Lyceum, boarding with the Chopin family. He went on to study law at Warsaw University.

Chopin dedicated to him his Op. 2 Variations on "Là ci darem la mano". Woyciechowski wrote on the front page of the Variations “J’accepte avec plaisir“ (“I accept with pleasure“).. In October 1829 Chopin sent him the Waltz Op. 70,3 together with a letter. In July 1830 Chopin visited Woyciechowski at his estate in Poturzyn, which Woyciechowski had inherited from his mother. Chopin recalled this visit in a letter:

Many biographers believe that Woyciechowski acted as a confidant for Chopin during an alleged infatuation with the singer Konstancja Gładkowska.

Chopin's correspondence with Tytus in this period has given rise to conjecture that Chopin's friendship with Tytus may have been homoerotic, at least on Chopin's part.

Woyciechowski accompanied Chopin in his 1830 journey to Austria but, on learning of the November 1830 Uprising, returned to Warsaw to take part in the fighting. He became a second lieutenant and was awarded the highest Polish military decoration, the Virtuti Militari. While the two never met thereafter, they continued to correspond.

Later life
In 1838, Woychiechowski married Countess Aloysia Poletylo, by whom he had four children – their second son being named Fryderyk, after Chopin.

Woyciechowski dedicated himself to agriculture, pioneered the introduction of crop rotation in Poland, and in 1847 founded one of the first sugar factories in the country. In 1861–62 he was an active member of the White Party, which took part in the failed January 1863 Uprising.

He died in Poturzyn, now Poland.

The Woyciechowski collection of Chopin memorabilia was destroyed by fire in 1914: It contained a piano made by the Buchholtz company, on which Chopin played and composed, copies of his compositions (the piano Variations à quatre mains ending in a fugue, written on 17 pages, and a contredanse), Chopin's letters to Tytus Woyciechowski and a pen in the shape of a column, with a head and base in gold and a core in coloured mosaic. The base, decorated with the  initials T.W., served at the same time as a seal. A card with Chopin's dedication lay in a special case. The family manor house at Poturzyn was destroyed during the Second World War.

Notes

Sources
 "Tytus Woyciechowski" (a) on Chopin Institute website (in Polish), accessed 12.2.2014
 "Tytus Woyciechowski" (b) on Chopin Kalejdoskop website, accessed 12.2.2014.
 Walker, Alan (2018). Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times. London: Faber and Faber.
 Zamoyski, Adam (2010). Chopin, Prince of the Romantics, London: HarperPress. .

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