title: I'll Take My Chances

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I'll Take My Chances is a 2011 Nigerian dance romantic drama film, produced by Emem Isong and directed by Desmond Elliot. It stars Ini Edo and Bryan Okwara in lead roles, with Sam Loco Efe, Jide Kosoko, Ini Ikpe, Ashleigh Clark and Abiola Segun Williams in supporting roles. The film's synopsis says: "Tradition demands that a troubled young woman take the position of priestess of the land or else allow calamity to befall the village. She refuses to accept her fate and is further convinced not to heed custom's call by a handsome stranger".

The film premiered in Uyo, Akwa Ibom on 24 September 2011, before its general release on 24 February 2012 and was met with generally mixed to negative critical reviews. It received five nominations at the 2012 Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards, winning the award for "Best Costume", and also got three nominations at the 2012 Best of Nollywood Awards, receiving the award for "Best Edited Movie".

Plot
Ikechukwu (Bryan Okwara) and his girlfriend, Giselle (Ashleigh Clark) travels to Lagos from the United States to set up a dance group, they are however met with disappointments after attending several auditions without being selected. IK is posted to the village of Ikot-Uyai for his NYSC, with the hope that he'll work his redeployment back to Lagos in a few weeks, but his request is however refused. Idara (Ini Edo), a village girl enjoys dancing so much; her father, Chief Ekene (Sam Loco Efe) takes her to the priest, concerned about her behaviour with the suspicion that she might be possessed. The village priestess eventually reveals that Idara must become the next priestess of the village, lest calamity would befall the entire village.

Ikechukwu (IK), now serving in a village starts attending traditional dancing sessions; he meets Idara, masked at one of the sessions and he is fascinated by how good she dances. Using a veil Idara dropped while dancing, IK meets Idara once again, but Idara is quite hostile towards him. After much persistence, Idara gives in, and becomes IK's friend. IK and Idara fall in love with each other, as IK's relationship with Giselle becomes strained.

While dancing, Idara grows unconscious and she's taken to the shrine; she gives up to fate, deciding to obey the customs and become a Priestess, but IK tries to convince her otherwise, to no avail. With the help of Giselle, IK finally gets his redeployment letter back to Lagos, and he convinces Idara to tag along, and go against the customs. Her father is strongly against the decision, while her mother only want what's best for her daughter. Idara eventually decides to follow IK to Lagos; the village priestess, along with her crew tries to hypnotize her at the car park, but IK carries Idara into the vehicle and they zoom off.

Giselle notices a difference in IK's behaviour and she soon realizes IK and Idara's unusual closeness at a dance rehearsal. IK asks that Idara become the new lead, but Giselle blatantly refuses. Giselle later catches Idara and IK kissing. A plague breaks out in Ikot-Uyai and people start dropping dead. It is believed that the gods are angry, and Idara now has to go back and obey the custom of the land for the people to be saved. Idara goes back to the village, but still can't pull through with the rituals and returns to Calabar to join the other dance crew at a major competition. The village priest prophesies that Idara would die before 4pm of the day due to her disobedience. The prophecy however doesn't come to pass and Idara's crew wins the dance competition. It is revealed at the epilogue of the film that the deaths of the villagers was caused by the poisoned fertilizers given to the villagers by a senatorial candidate, and not due to Idara's disobedience.

Cast
Ini Edo as Idara
Bryan Okwara as Ikechukwu Okereke
Ashleigh Clark as Giselle
Sam Loco Efe as Chief Ekpene
Jide Kosoko as Minister
Ini Ikpe as Idara's mother
Abiola Segun-Williams
Moses Armstrong as Administrator
Ekene Nkanga as Chief Priest

Production
I'll Take My Chances was the biggest film to come out of Royal Arts Academy production house in terms of budget and production inputs at the time of its release. The producer had always wanted to make films centred on dance, which was her specialization in school, but had not found the right script. She states: "This project is one that is dear to my heart". The Canadian dancer Ashleigh Clark was flown in from the United States solely for the purpose of this film. Most of the film was shot on location in Akwa Ibom. According to Isong, the cast and crew received considerable love and support from the community while shooting the film. Other shooting locations included Lagos and some areas of Cross River. The film was one of the last films shot by Sam Loco Efe, as he died before its release; it was dedicated to him as a result.

Release
A preview of I'll Take My Chances was unveiled to the public on 8 May 2011. The film was premiered in Uyo, Akwa Ibom on 24 September 2011. Emem Isong revealed that the decision to premiere the film in Akwa Ibom is due to the fact that the film was mostly shot there and it presents the culture of the area as a backdrop of the story; so it's "a show of solidarity with the good people of Akwa Ibom". September was also fixed for the premiere, because it is the month in which Akwa Ibom state was created. The premiere featured a short documentary on the late Sam Loco Efe who starred in the film, but died before its release. The film had its Lagos premiere on 24 February 2012, before going on a general theatrical release. The two halls used for the film screenings at the Lagos premiere was reportedly jam packed, that some people who wanted to see the film at all costs had to stand and some sat on the cinema floors. The Ushers at the event were dressed in an Akwa Ibom native outfit. The film was also screened across two cities in Italy, a non traditional market.

Reception

Critical reception
The film received mixed to negative critical reviews. Nollywood Reinvented gave it a 37% rating, noting the directing as a major setback for the film. It commended Ini Edo's performance, citing her as the "person who held it all together", but faulted Bryan Okwara's acting skills and panned Ashleigh Clark's performance. It praised the dance sets and concluded by stating: "it[I'll Take My Chances] was a good story. It had a beginning, had an end, had a conflict. The film has a couple things that might not settle well with the viewers. But then, looking at the movie as a STORY! I was not entertained. If I seek to extract the story from the ruins of the movie, then yes it would have been a 5 out of 5, but if I look at the film as a story, which is what a film is intended to be, then it does not live up to expectations". Victor Olatoye of Nollywood Critics commended the music and dance choreography, but describes the screenplay as "average", commenting: "I’ll Take my Chances melded fantastical sequences with quasi-vérité visuals, brisk editing and urban grime. It also addressed issues like career choices, local beliefs, politics, falling in love and Parenting, while celebrating the glorious dancing images of youth in full creative flower". He gave 3 out of 5 stars and concluded: "I’ll Take My Chances ends up been decidedly average drama but with decent dance numbers". Wilfred Okiche of YNaija believes that the fault in the film lies within in its conception through execution, commenting: "Desmond Elliot is at the helm and while his direction is smooth and exciting at some points, the clunky screenplay defeats him. It moves at a leaden pace, does not quite know what to do with itself and becomes stuck in limbo between the both genres it attempts to conquer". While he praised visuals of the film which aptly captures the beautiful scenery of Akwa Ibom, he talked down on Ini Edo's performance and concluded: "Like all movies from the Royal Arts Academy stable, an unnecessary and untidy sub-plot is introduced and it leads to an ending that is clumsily tied together. As it stands now, brilliant young filmmakers are stepping up big time and even the old ones are upping their game and reinventing themselves. For the continued relevance of Royal Arts Academy, they need to do a lot more than I'll Take My Chances. We deserve better than this – and so do they".

Accolades
I'll Take My Chances received five nominations at the 2012 Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards, including "Best Motion Picture" and won the award for "Best Costume". It also got three nominations at the 2012 Best of Nollywood Awards and received the award for "Best Edited Movie".

Home Media
I'll Take My Chances was released on DVD on 26 November 2012. The VCD version is split in two parts.

See also
 List of Nigerian films of 2011

References

External links

Nigerian dance films
Nigerian drama films
2010s dance films
English-language Nigerian films
Films shot in Lagos
Films set in Southern Nigeria
2011 romantic drama films
2011 fantasy films
2011 films
2010s English-language films


title: Arizona, Louisiana

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Arizona is an unincorporated community in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States. Arizona is located at

History
Arizona was founded in the 1860s and was named after the Arizona Territory.

G. L. P. Wren, a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature during the 19th century, taught school in Arizona prior to the American Civil War.

References

Unincorporated communities in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana


title: Madan Bahadur Amatya

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Madan Bahadur Amatya ()  is a member of 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly. He won Lalitpur–3 seat in 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election from Nepali Congress.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Nepali Congress politicians from Bagmati Province
Living people
Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly


title: Hill Country Film Festival

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The Hill Country Film Festival is a yearly film festival in Fredericksburg, Texas, United States.  It was established in 2010.  The executive director is Chad Matthews,  and it is presented by the Hill Country Film Society, who hold free screenings at the festival and, afterward, monthly.  In 2013, Texas Monthly selected it as a "quirky, discerning" pick.

References

2010 establishments in Texas
Film festivals established in 2010
Film festivals in Texas


title: Kenny Hill (quarterback)

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Kenneth Wade Hill Jr. (born December 20, 1994) is an American football coach and former quarterback who is currently the associate head coach and running backs coach at Incarnate Word. He previously played for the Texas A&M Aggies and TCU Horned Frogs. In his first start with the Aggies, he broke Johnny Manziel's school single-game passing yards record with 511 yards.

High school career
Hill attended Carroll High School, in Southlake, Texas, where he played for the football team. As a senior, he was the Texas Gatorade Football Player of the Year after passing for 2,291 yards with 20 touchdowns with 102 carries for 905 yards and rushing for 22 touchdowns. Hill also led Southlake Carroll to a 5A State Championship in 2011 where he completed 243 of 286 passes for 3,014 yards and 25 touchdowns with 9 interceptions; rushed for 280 carries, gaining 1,400 yards and 24 touchdowns.

Hill was highly recruited out of high school; in addition to Texas A&M, he received offers from Baylor, Houston, Kansas State, Missouri, North Carolina, Ole Miss, Southern Miss, TCU, Texas Tech, and Utah.

College career

Texas A&M (2013–2014)

As a true freshman in 2013, Hill was a backup to starter Johnny Manziel. He appeared in four games, passing for 183 yards and a touchdown.

After Manziel was drafted, Hill was named the Aggies starting quarterback for the 2014 season on August 16, 2014. In his first start against #9 South Carolina, Hill broke Manziel's passing yards record with 511 yards and four touchdowns. With a 52–28 win, the #21 Texas A&M broke South Carolina's 18-game streak of home victories. During that same game, he broke Ryan Tannehill's record of most passing yards in first career start and Jerrod Johnson's record of most completions in a game, with the record now at 44 completions. It was also the second-most completions and fifth-most passing yards in a game in SEC history. On September 6, 2014, in his second game as a starter, Hill had another stellar performance against the FCS school, Lamar University, completing 17 of 26 passes for 283 yards and four touchdowns in a blowout 73–3 win. He continued playing well in his next two games against Rice and SMU, with respective completion percentages of 64.5 and 72.7.

However, when the Aggies reached mid-season and began playing tougher opponents, Hill's performance dropped notably. On September 27 he threw 41 passes against Arkansas , only 21 of which were completed, giving him a completion percentage of 51.2-- his worst as a college football starter as of August 2017. In the following three games against ranked Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and Alabama, Hill averaged 301.3 yards per game for six touchdowns and six interceptions. He was sacked 11 times. He completed only one pass of 30 or more yards in these three games.  Due to these struggles on the field, notably against better competition where the Aggies lost three straight games, Hill was replaced mid-season by true freshman Kyle Allen. On November 1, 2014, the team suspended Hill for two games due to a violation of team rules and athletic department policies.

TCU (2015–2017)
On January 9, 2015, Texas A&M granted Hill a release from his football scholarship with two years of eligibility remaining. On May 22, 2015, Hill announced that he was transferring to Texas Christian University and planned to play for the TCU Horned Frogs football team. As a transfer, Hill was required to sit out the 2015 season.

Ahead of the 2016 Big 12 media days, and prior to TCU head coach Gary Patterson naming a starting quarterback for the 2016 season, Hill was selected by Big 12 media voters as the Big 12 Preseason Newcomer of the Year. On August 25, 2016, Hill was named the starting quarterback over redshirt sophomore Foster Sawyer.

Hill and the Horned Frogs finished the 2017 season 11–3 and ranked 9th in both the final AP and Coaches poll. He ended the season and his college career having beat the then 15th ranked Stanford Cardinal football team, 39–37, in the 2017 Valero Alamo Bowl.

College statistics

Professional career
After being undrafted, Kenny signed a contract with the Oakland Raiders but was cut on June 24 and then on June 25, 2018, he signed with the Montreal Alouettes.

Coaching career
Hill was hired to be a student assistant at his alma mater TCU in 2018, before being promoted to a graduate assistant position in 2019. He was promoted to offensive analyst in 2020.

Hill was promoted to quarterbacks coach in 2021.

Personal life
His father, Ken Hill, played in Major League Baseball from 1988 to 2001.

Nickname
Following Hill's huge performance against South Carolina, his predecessor, Johnny Manziel, who went by the nickname "Johnny Football" in college, called Hill "Kenny Football," along with a number of fans. Hill, however, said that the name belonged to Manziel, and instead asked to be called "Kenny Trill," with "trill" being a combination of true and real. On September 11, 2014, Hill's family filed for the trademark of the name.

March 2014 arrest
On March 28, 2014, before he was chosen as Texas A&M's starting quarterback, Hill was arrested on a public intoxication charge outside of a restaurant bar in College Station, Texas. Police said Hill was unable to tell them where he was and when asked who the current president of the United States was, Hill reportedly answered “Bush” and told officers his name was “Kennedy”. Hill later posted bail and was released from jail. Texas A&M's athletic department suspended Hill indefinitely from athletic activities afterwards. Hill eventually regained the favor of his team and head coach Kevin Sumlin and was named the starting quarterback for the 2014 season.

References

External links

 Texas A&M Aggies Bio
 ESPN profile

1994 births
Living people
Players of American football from West Palm Beach, Florida
American football quarterbacks
Texas A&M Aggies football players
TCU Horned Frogs football players
Oakland Raiders players
Montreal Alouettes players
TCU Horned Frogs football coaches
Carroll Senior High School alumni
Players of American football from Texas


title: Lichens of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)

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Lichens of the Sierra Nevada have been little studied. A lichen is a composite organism consisting of a fungus (the mycobiont) and a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont or phycobiont) growing together in a symbiotic relationship.

One classification of Sierra Nevada lichens is according to functional groups, by the National Park Service. These functional groups overlap with each other. These include forage lichens (eaten by animals), nitrogen fixers (can take nitrogen molecules from the air and attach them to other molecules), acidophiles (acid loving lichens), wolf lichens, crustose lichens on rock, crustose lichens on bark and wood, biotic soil crusts, aquatic lichens, other green algal macrolichens, and pin lichens (calicoids)”. These functional groups overlap. In this article, we include wolf lichens as a subsection of crustose lichens growing on wood.

Forage lichens

Forage lichens includes hanging, hairlike species that serve as food for animals  and humans, including by Native Americans.

Wila (Bryoria fremontii) is the most important species in this group. It is notable for its palatability because it lacks defensive chemicals commonly found in other lichens that protect them against being eaten (herbivory). It becomes more increasingly more rare moving south in the Sierras.

It is one of the only food sources in the harsh winters of the Sierras, including for the northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) and Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii). Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) may also depend on it.

Nitrogen fixers
Lichens with cyanobacteria as a symbiotic partner (cyanolichens) convert atmospheric nitrogen into forms usable by plants and animals (nitrogen fixation). They are common in the relatively warm and dry Sierras, though less common than in cool oceanic climates. They are typically found on mossy boulders, rotting logs, trunks of hardwoods, and bases of trees in general. Common genera include Peltigera, Fuscopannaria, Collema, and Leptogium.

Crustose lichens
Crustose lichens grow flat against the surface that the colonies are growing on (substrate), typically rocks or wood. The plant grows tightly appressed to the substrate, and is very close to the substrates at all points, forming a biological layer. There is overlap between crustose lichens growing on rock with those growing on wood, as well as with lichens listed in other sections of this article.

Among the most brightly colored Sierra Nevada crustose lichens are the bright yellow Pleopsidium flavum and Pleopsidium chlorophanum, and the orange Caloplaca trachyphylla.

On rock
Crustose lichen communities are part of the aesthetic appeal to visitors of Yosemite National Park and Sequoia National Park.  They form dark vertical drip-like stripings along drainage tracks in the rock faces, resulting in Native Americans giving the name "Face of a Young Woman Stained with Tears" to Half Dome. Their tight adherence to the rocks give them the appearance of being "painted" on, and up close they appear as intricate multicolored patchwork mosaics. They often completely cover the exposed surface of the rock. They add to rock weathering.  These crustose rock lichens lack rhizenes and a lower cortex (lichen).

The dark vertical stains along the drainage tracks are either mosses, or of four color types of lichen, each with a slightly different color. Appearing black from a distance, but brown up close, is the abundant Lecidea atrobrunnea. Also abundant in these black-from-a-distance stripes are Dimelaena thysanota and dark gray Rhizocarpon species. More gray appearing vertical stripes have Aspecilia species and Koerberia sonomensis as major components. Staurothele areolata and other species of Staurothele and Verrucaria appear dark brown closer up. The blackest of the black are likely Nostoc species, containing cyanobacteria. Mixed in are green to dark green stripes that contain mosses.

Nitrophilic (nitrogen loving) yellow Candelariella species can be found on rocks where birds perch and drop their high nitrogen containing waste products, as well as in drainage cracks with higher than normal nitrogen loads.

Fruticose lichens

Wolf lichens

Wolf lichens in the genus Letharia are the most conspicuous in the Sierra parks because of their brilliant fluorescent yellow or chartreuse coloration. They are typified by Letharia vulpina (vulpina derives from "fox", not wolf). They are mostly absent at lower elevations, and can then be found on conifer trunks and branches, sometimes completely covering them. Letharia is the only abundant fruticose lichen in the Sierran parks, and composes the bulk of the biomass in Sequoia groves, and many other types of groves. Estimates have Letharia species as contributing from 50% to 95% of the total macrolichen biomass in some stands.

It contains toxins (e.g., vulpinic acid) to many herbivores and microbes, although there are mixed reports on actual consumption. It is the vulpinic acid that gives it the brilliant yellow color.

Pin lichens (calicoid lichens)
Pin lichens, or calicoid lichens, are lichens with a crustose thallus and tiny fruiting bodies with stalks that resemble the head of a pin, whereby the name "pin lichen".

Ecological interactions
About 20 Sierra Nevada bird species are known to use lichens in nests construction.

References

Ecology of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Sierranevada
California nature-related lists
Lists of biota of the United States


title: Cheshire Bridge

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Cheshire Bridge may refer to:
 Cheshire Bridge (Connecticut River), connecting New Hampshire and Vermont, U.S.
 Cheshire Bridge, an historic bridge in the Atlanta area of Georgia, U.S.
 Cheshire Bridge Road, in Atlanta, named after the bridge


title: Operation Robson

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Operation Robson (20 December 1944) was the first of a series of aerial operations, Operation Outflank, undertaken by the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) against the oil refineries of Japanese-occupied Sumatra during World War II. Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, proposed a strike on the refineries to Admiral Bruce Fraser, commander of the BPF, during a meeting in early December.

The primary target of Operation Robson was the refinery at Pangkalan Brandan. It had been fired by fleeing American and Dutch personnel during the invasion of the Dutch East Indies in 1942, but the Japanese had repaired it by the year's end. Refined product was piped from there to the port of Pangkalan Susu eight miles away and to the more distant deep-water port of Belawan Deli, the secondary target. Pangkalan Soesoe had tanks capable of holding thirty million gallons.

Order of battle
The naval order of battle for the operation consisted of two forces: Force 67, the strike force, and Force 69, the oiler group. The commander, Admiral Philip Vian, had his flag aboard the aircraft carrier  (carrying 857, 1839 and 1844 Naval Air Squadrons). Also in Force 67 were the carrier Illustrious (carrying 854, 1830 and 1833 Naval Air Squadrons), the cruisers ,  and , and the destroyers , , ,  and . The oiler group comprised RFA Wave King and the destroyers  and .

The strike force departed from Trincomalee on 17 December, and met Force 69 the next day (18 December). Argonaut, Black Prince and the destroyers of Force 67 refuelled. Undetected, the fleet reached the flying-off position, north of Diamond Point, in the early morning of 20 December. The aerial order of battle consisted of a strike force and an escort force. For the former, Indomitable supplied twelve and Illustrious sixteen Grumman TBF Avengers, each with four 500-lb bombs, and Illustrious supplied a further four Vought F4U Corsairs, each with two 500-lb bombs. The strike leader was Lieutenant Commander W. Stuart. Among the escorts, top cover was provided by eight Grumman F6F Hellcats from Indomitable, middle cover by twelve Corsairs from Illustrious, and close cover by a further eight Hellcats from Indomitable.

Operation
At the flying-off position, low clouds and heavy squalls reduced visibility, prompting Vian to postpone the launch twenty minutes. The operation finally began at 0636. One of Indomitable′s Avengers crashed into the sea after takeoff, but its crew escaped unscathed. The other Avengers and the escort force departed from the fleet at 0715, and the strike Corsairs took off shortly after. The strike force ran into a barrier of clouds as they approached the Sumatran coast. Strike Leader Stuart advanced through a gap in the clouds to inspect the target but was unable to locate it. The strike was diverted to the secondary target, Belawan Deli, where the weather was little better.

The Avengers bombed the wharves from 1500 feet, while the Corsairs strafed the fuel storage tanks and warehouses in the town. A train was also hit at nearby Kuala Simpang. Two of the Corsairs became lost and strafed a large storage tank at either Pangkalan Brandan or Pangkalan Susu. The defences of Belawan Deli were unprepared: the anti-aircraft artillery was ineffective and no fighters were put in the air, although one Mitsubishi Ki-21 was surprised and downed by a Hellcat. The raid ended in chaos, with complete loss of radio discipline. The strike force and escorts rendezvoused just beneath the clouds. Lieutenant Commander W. J. Mainprice had to form up his squadron (No. 854) and lead them back on his own initiative because of the "radio bedlam". All 55 aircraft returned safely and the four Corsairs landed by 1050, and the force retired.

Aftermath
On the afternoon of the attack, a Japanese radio message was intercepted: "Am closing down now, will call you later." At the suggestion of Captain C. E. Lambe of Illustrious, eight of his Corsairs and eight Hellcats from Indomitable were dispatched for a low-level sweep over the airfields at Sabang and Oleelhoe, the port of Kota Raja. No Japanese aircraft were spotted, either on the ground or in the air. Force 67 had returned to Trincomalee by 22 December.

Despite the lack of opposition met, Operation Robson was considered a failure on account of the bad weather and the lack of radio discipline. The subsequent operations of Outflank—Lentil and Meridian—engendered a much greater response from the Japanese and concomitant British losses.

Notes

Sources

External links
 Operation Robson Codenames : Operation of WW2

Fleet Air Arm
World War II operations and battles of the Southeast Asia Theatre
World War II aerial operations and battles of the Pacific theatre
Aerial operations and battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom
Naval battles and operations of World War II involving the United Kingdom


title: Cosa Nostra: Hip Hop

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Cosa Nostra: Hip Hop is the second compilation album by Puerto Rican recording artist Ivy Queen, and the first by Puerto Rican-American recording artist Gran Omar. It was released on 15 November 2005. The album features songs performed in the genre of hip hop by Ivy Queen, Gran Omar, Arcangel, De La Ghetto, Terror Squad's Tony Sunshine, Rey Severo, Haze and Moreno.

The album's lead single was selected to be Queen's "No Hacen Na". The song peaked at number twenty-five on the Billboard Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart in mid-2006. The album failed to chart in Billboard magazine.

Background
Following the failed commercial success of Queen's first two studio albums, Queen was dropped from the Sony label and took a hiatus from her musical career in 1999. Returning to the music industry with her third studio album, Diva, which was highly anticipated and acclaimed and later recognized as a factor in reggaeton's mainstream exposure in 2004 along with Daddy Yankee's Barrio Fino and Tego Calderon's El Enemy de los Guasíbiri, after being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.<ref name="door">Carney Smith, Jessie. [https://books.google.com/books?id=10rEGSIItjgC&q=Ivy+Queen+Diva%27%27Encyclopedia&pg=PA1199 of African American Popular Culture]. ABC-CLIO, 2010, p. 1199.</ref> She then began working on her fourth studio album Real. It too was a commercial success, to a lesser extent, despite initially being Queen's debut full-length English-language studio album. She then embarked on the "Reggaeton Tour 2004" which also featured other artist including Aldo Ranks and La Factoria in various South American countries including Ecuador where she performed songs such as "Papi Te Quiero" and "Tu No Puedes" in promotion of the album. This was her first tour in South America which began in 2004 and lead into 2005.

In June 2005, Ivy Queen partnered with co-founder of Perfect Image Records, José Guadalupe to form Filtro Musik. This stemmed from Guadalupe parting ways with the other co-founder of Perfect Image Anthony Pérez who in turn would launch his own label The Roof Records. Filtro Musik's concept initially stemmed from its name which means filter in English. "I've been in this industry 15 years, and we have the ability to filter and pick the best" said Guadalupe. In the coming year, Univision signed the label to licensing plan to release the album in September 2005. As a result, "this ensured that the album was positioned in Latin and mainstream accounts that would normally not carry Latin product." It became a commercial success with three Top 10 singles. Ivy Queen was previously married to fellow reggaeton artist Omar Navarro, known by his stage name Gran Omar. They were divorced in 2005 shortly before the release of Flashback, which influenced the composition of the album. She denied ever having found him in the act of adultery, while claiming that if she had found Navarro with another woman, she'd be in La Vega Alta, a prison for women in Puerto Rico. She also denied rumors that she had physically assaulted the woman she caught with Navarro. She stated they had not lived with each other for two months citing the "extensive travels of her husband and his workload of being a producer" as being causes to the end of the nine-year marriage. The label then released Cosa Nostra: Hip-Hop in 2006.

Controversy
Co-producer of the album, Gran Omar stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album Cosa Nostra: Hip-Hop. No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was invited by Jorge Guadalupe, Ivy Queen's manager to take legal action, as he has all the papers stating that there was no deception with the album. Guadalupe called Navarro "someone who misses the money and the high-life" he had while he was married to Queen. Navarro would also go on national television and accuse Queen of being unfaithful in their relationship on the television program Escándalo TV'' (Telefutura). He would also mention the accusations that Queen owed him money from the album as well on the program.

Track listing

References

2006 compilation albums
Machete Music compilation albums
Ivy Queen compilation albums
Albums produced by Ivy Queen


title: Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier

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Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier (9 May 1784 – 25 September 1843) was a French sculptor and engraver of coins and medals.

Life
Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier was the son of Pierre-Joseph Tiolier (1763–1819).
He was born in Paris.
He was a pupil of his father and of the engraver Romain-Vincent Jeuffroy (1749–1826) and the sculptor Claude Dejoux (1732–1816).
The first competition of the Prix de Rome was for a stone engraving of the seated Emperor Napoleon crowned with laurels.
On 25 June 1805 Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier, the sole candidate, won the prize.
As a prize winner, Tiolier lived at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1806 to 1811.
He made a portrait of Raphael.

Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier succeeded his father as 16th general engraver of coins in September 1816.
He held his position until the end of December 1842.
Tolier was a Freemason. He was knighted in 1821.
He engraved the seals of Louis XVIII, Charles X and the Order of the Holy Spirit, and also engraved medals for Louis-Philippe.
Besides engraving coins and medals, Tiolier was a sculptor and engraver in stone.
He was made a knight of the Legion of Honor in July 1825.

Tiolier died in Paris in 1843 and is buried in the 25th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
He was succeeded as Graveur Général by Jacques-Jean Barre.
He had one son and one daughter, but they left no descendants.

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1784 births
1853 deaths
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
French engravers
Coin designers
19th-century French male artists


title: Operation Outflank

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Operation Outflank was the first combat operation of the British Pacific Fleet (BPF). It was a series of raids by the Fleet Air Arm on the oil refineries and storage facilities of the Empire of Japan on the island of Sumatra:

 Operation Robson (20 December 1944)
 Operation Lentil (4 January 1945)
 Operation Meridian I (24 January 1945), II (29 January 1945)

Units participating in Outflank received the "Palembang 1945" battle honour, after the main target of the attacks: the refineries at Palembang.

References

 Operation Outflank - Codenames : Operations of WW2

Indian Ocean operations of World War II
Fleet Air Arm
Outflank
World War II aerial operations and battles of the Pacific theatre
Outflank
Outflank


title: Mohan Bahadur Basnet

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Mohan Bahadur Basnet () is a Nepalese politician. He  served as a member of the Pratinidhi Sabha and the 2nd Constituent Assembly from Sindhupalchok-1, having been elected in the 1999 and 2013 elections, representing Nepali Congress.

He served as the Minister for Information and Communication from 2017–2018 in the fourth Deuba cabinet, having previously served as the State Minister of Health under Deuba from 2001–2002.

References

Nepali Congress politicians from Bagmati Province
Living people
Nepal MPs 1999–2002
People from Sindhupalchowk District
Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly
Nepal MPs 2022–present
1958 births


The 1989–90 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team represented the University of California, Irvine during the 1989-90 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Anteaters were led by tenth year head coach Bill Mulligan and played their home games at the Bren Events Center. They were members of the Big West Conference. They finished the season 5–23 and 3–13 in Big West play. They advanced to the Big West Conference tournament where they lost to the Cal State Fullerton Titans.

Previous season
The 1988–89 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team finished the season 12–17 and 8th in Big West play with a conference record of 8–10.

Roster

Schedule

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Awards and honors
Dylan Rigdon
Big West Freshman All-Conference
Jeff Von Lutzow
Big West Freshman All-Conference

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References

UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball seasons
UC Irvine
UC Irvine Anteaters
UC Irvine Anteaters


title: Gertrude E. Jennings

text:
Gertrude Eleanor Jennings (1877–1958) was a British theatrical author of the early twentieth century notable for her one-act social comedies.

Life
A daughter of British born Louis John Jennings, one-time editor of the New York Times (1870–1875) and subsequently MP for Stockport, and of American actress Madeleine Henriques. Her brother was book collector Richard Jennings who wrote for the Daily Mirror using the pseudonym "W.M.".

She lived most of her adult life in The Boltons, SW10, in the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. She died aged 81 on 28 September 1958 at The Knoll House, in Fittleworth, Midhurst, Sussex.

Career
Jennings began her career as an actress touring for Ben Greet’s company in South Africa and America, also working under the name of Gertrude Henriques.  Her plays were published by Samuel French Ltd in London under the names of Gertrude E. Jennings, Gertrude Jennings, or G. E. Jennings.

Jennings was a prolific playwright writing 42 plays between 1910 and 1930; most of these were one-act plays.  In 1914, her publisher Samuel French Ltd issued a collection of four of her early plays under the title Four One Act Plays which included "The Rest Cure," "Between the Soup and the Savoury," "The Pros and Cons," and "Acid Drops."

The quality of her one act plays of this period are very fine.  In his introduction to Five Birds In a Cage (1915) in the Fourth series of One Act Plays of Today, the editor J. W. Marriott wrote:

“Miss Gertrude Jennings is a prolific writer of one act plays, and is immensely popular for a multitude of reasons.  No humorist is more fully aware than she that people begin to be comic when they get into an awkward predicament, and as the situation becomes more and more hopeless the fun grows more furious.  Her characters are clearly defined, and usually broadly contrasted in temperament as well as in social position.  The scenes are invariably plausible incidents in present day life, and Miss Jennings intensifies effects and adds a touch of farce.  Her play “Between the Soup and the Savoury” which was included in the third series of ‘’One Act Plays of Today’’, has pathos as well as laughter.  “The Young Person In Pink” is the best known of her longer plays.”

Five Birds In A Cage was broadcast on the radio in the first year of the British Broadcasting Corporation on 29 November 1923, with subsequent productions on 15 April 1924 and 23 July 1926.

While Jennings primarily wrote one act plays her first full length comedy was The Young Person in Pink performed at a charity event in 1920. Other full length comedies included Love Among the Paint Pots, Money Doesn't Matter, Isabel, Edward and Anne, These Pretty Things, Family Affairs and Our Own Lives.

Jennings included issues of women's suffrage and equality in some of her plays, notably in A Woman’s Influence. The latter was performed several times in 1909 and 1910 alongside How the Vote was Won by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John: at a Suffrage Exhibition in Knightsbridge in May 1909; at a suffrage event in Redhill organised by the Actresses' Franchise League in November 1909 and at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in New York in 1910.

Selected works

  A Woman’s Influence - a play in one act (1909). Published by Actresses' Franchise League in 1913 but performed earlier.
  Between the Soup and the Savoury - a play in one act (1910).  A touching comedy about kitchen servants, first produced at the Playhouse, 1910.
  Our Nervous System - a play in one act (1911), subsequently retitled The Pros and Cons.  A comedy of marriage troubles, first produced at the Playhouse, London, 1911.
  The Rest Cure - a play in one act (1914).  A comedy set in a rest home in Kensington, first produced at the Vaudeville Theatre, 1914.
  Acid Drops - a play in one act (1914).  A comedy set in a workhouse ward, first produced at the Royalty Theatre, 1914.
  Five Birds in a Cage - a play in one act (1915).  A comedy of class relations in a broken-down lift, set in an underground railway station in London.  First produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London, 1915.
  The Bathroom Door - a farce in one act (1916).  A comedy set in a hotel corridor, first produced at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London, 1916.
  Poached Eggs and Pearls - a canteen comedy in two scenes (1917).  A light romantic comedy set in a working men's club in the East End of London during the First World War.  First produced at the Apollo Theatre, 1916.
  Allotments - a play in one act (1918)
  At the Ribbon Counter - a play in one act (1919).  A comedy set in the ribbon department of a shop.
  Keeping Up Appearances (1919).  First produced at the Savoy Theatre, 1915.
  No Servants - a comedy in one act (1919).  A comedy about dependence on servants, first produced at the Prince's Theatre, London, 1917.
  Waiting for the 'Bus - a play in one act (1919).  A comedy of social class at a bus stop, first produced at the Haymarket Theatre, 1917.
  Elegant Edward - a comedy in one act (with E Boulton) (1919)
  I'm Sorry - It's Out! - a comedy in one act (1920)
  The New Poor - a farce in one act (1920)
  In the Cellar - a farce in one act (1920)
  Bobby Settles Down - a comedy (1920)
  The Young Person in Pink - a comedy in three acts (1921).  A matinee performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1920 featured Leslie Howard, and John Gielgud appeared in a RADA production in 1923.  Subsequently, filmed as The Girl Who Forgot in 1939.
  Me and my Diary - a comedy in one act (1921)
  Love Among the Paint Pots - a comedy in three acts (1922)
  Calais to Dover - a farce in one act (1922)
  Isabel, Edward and Anne - a comedy in three acts (1923)
  Cat's Claws - a comedy in one act (1923)
  Have You Anything to Declare? - a farce in one act (1926) - the first performance took place at the [St James Theatre], 26 March 1926, by students of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, directed by Kenneth Barnes and produced by Norman Page.
  Spot - a comedy for two people (1927)
  Scraps - a comedy in one act (1928)
  Helping Hands - a farce in one act (1930)
  These Pretty Things - a farcical comedy in three acts (1930).  First produced at the Garrick Theatre, 1928.
  The Bride - a comedy in one act (1931)
  Pearly Gates - a comedy in one act (1932)
  Family Affairs - a comedy in 3 acts (1935).  A performance at the Ambassadors Theatre in 1934 featured Margaret Lockwood.
  In The Black-Out - a comedy in one act (1942)
  Good Neighbours - play in one act (1942)
  Whiskers and Co. - a pantomime in three acts (1943)
  A Sleeping Beauty - pantomime in two acts (1944)
  Too Much Bluebeard - a farce in three scenes for three women (1944)
  In the Fog - a farce in one act (1947).  Not one of the author's best works; a description of the earlier play In The Black-Out suggests that this is the same play given a new title.
  Bubble and Squeak - play in three acts (1947)
  The Olympian - a comedy in three acts (1955)
  Happy Memories - play in three acts (1955)
  Fireworks
  Aladdin's Cave

Film: The Girl Who Forgot, 1940, directed by Adrian Brunel.

References

External links

 Plays by Gertrude E. Jennings on Great War Theatre website
Five Birds in a Cage and The New Poor performed by Optik Theatre in 2015

1877 births
1958 deaths
English women dramatists and playwrights


title: Arkana, Louisiana

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Arkana is an unincorporated community in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States.

History
Arkana was named from its location in Louisiana near the Arkansas state line.

References

Unincorporated communities in Bossier Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Shreveport – Bossier City metropolitan area


title: Texas Park Road 8

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Park Road 8 (PR 8) is a Park Road loop in Howard County in West Texas. The highway is approximately  long, and loops through Big Spring State Park off of Farm to Market Road 700 (FM 700). The road is one of the eight original Park Roads incorporated into the state highway system in 1937.

Route description

Park Road 8 begins at a T with FM 700 at the border of Big Spring State Park. The highway is a one-way, paved road. The road winds westward as it increases about 150 foot in elevation. It curves northward providing scenic overlooks of the City of Big Spring. The roadway descends eastward and intersects with itself at the entrance to the park. A  length designated Park Road 8 North connects the ascending section with the descending section.

History
The Civilian Conservation Corps began work on Park Road 8 during the construction of Big Spring State Park between 1934 and 1935. Retaining walls on the descending switchbacks were built with locally quarried limestone blocks, some of which weighed up to two tons. On September 22, 1936, the state highway commission initiated an investigation at the request of the state's parks board into the incorporation of certain park roads as part of the state highway system after which the highway commission would assume maintenance of these roads. The highway commission accepted the park road in Big Spring State Park and seven other parks as the original park roads in the state system on June 22, 1937.

Major junctions

See also

References

External links

0008
Transportation in Howard County, Texas
Civilian Conservation Corps in Texas


title: True That

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True That (stylized in all lowercase) is the debut album by Canadian actor and musician Michael Cera. It was self-released on 8 August 2014, via Bandcamp, and recorded and mixed by Cera.

Reception

The album has garnered positive reviews from music critics, with many comparing it to the work of Elliott Smith and other indie folk artists. However, some critics have expressed reservations about the album's length across 21 tracks. Amy Zimmerman of The Daily Beast gave the album a positive review, stating "a mix of instrumental tracks, lovely ballads and solemn covers, true that is music to make sweet, sweet love to... The sound is all melancholy, alternative, and adorable". On the other hand, Zimmerman felt that the album seemed "almost infinite" due to its full length of over 50 minutes. Vulture.com's Jesse David Fox cited the album's "pleasant instrumentals"; he compared the overall effect to the works of Cass McCombs, Jason Schwartzman's band Coconut Records, and Elliott Smith, as well as Paul and Linda McCartney's first album, Ram. 7BitArcade's Aaron Kent praised Cera's "wistful vocals", describing them "a broken Elliott Smith trying to channel Beck". Chris DeVille of Stereogum called true that "a charming listen", adding that "[i]ts lo-fi folk songs and jazzy piano ditties remind me—in spirit, at least—of Badly Drawn Boy’s threadbare debut The Hour of Bewilderbeast".

Ryan Reed of Rolling Stone chose "Too Much", "2048" and "Clay Pigeons" as three of the album's highlights.

Track listing

Personnel
Michael Cera – acoustic and electric guitars, piano, vocals, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion, production, engineering, mixing

References

External links
true that on Bandcamp

2014 debut albums
Michael Cera albums
Self-released albums


title: Sher Bahadur Tamang

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Sher Bahadur Tamang () is a Nepalese politician and was Minister of Health and Population of Government of Nepal. He also served as a Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs under First Oli cabinet. He is a member of the Federal Parliament of Nepal. He won the Sindhupalchowk–2 seat in Nepalese legislative elections of 2017 as part of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist).

In July 2018, Tamang gave a controversial remark about female Nepali students studying for their MBBS in Bangladesh, stating they were "bound to compromise their honour to claim their certificates." He publicly apologized, but after facing pressure from his party, resigned from his post.

Political appointments and elections
In 2040 BS, Tamang became the District Committee Chairperson of ANNFSU, a student organization of CPN UML. In 2054 BS, he became the District Committee Secretary of CPN UML, and in 2059 BS, he was a member of Bagmati Zonal of CPN UML. He was elected as a member of the Constituent Assembly from Sindhupalchowk-3 in 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly and elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Sindhupalchok-2 in 2074 BS.

See also
Ministry of Health and Population (Nepal)

References

Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) politicians
Living people
Nepal MPs 2017–2022
Nepal Communist Party (NCP) politicians
1969 births
Tamang people
Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly


title: South West Osborn Island

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South West Osborn Island is an island off the coast of the Kimberley region in Western Australia.

Located on the western side of Admiralty Gulf and a part of the Bonaparte Archipelago some  off-shore from the mainland, the island encompasses an area of . The highest point of the island has an elevation of . The island is rugged, composed of massive scree over deep jointed scarp country. It is part of the Osborn Island group which includes, Middle Osborn, Borda, Carlia, Steep Head and Kidney Island as well as West, North and Centre Rock.

The island is home to a small group of fauna including three species of birds, six types of reptile, one species of frog and mammal.

The traditional owners of the area are the Wunambal, whose name for the island is Umpatayi or Umbadayi.

References

Bonaparte Archipelago


title: Crush Songs

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Crush Songs is the debut solo studio album by Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead vocalist Karen O. It was released on September 5, 2014, by Cult Records. "Rapt" was released as the album's lead single on July 29, 2014.

Background and recording
The songs were written at a time of emotional discomfort for Karen O. "When I was 27 I crushed a lot. I wasn't sure I'd ever fall in love again. These songs were written + recorded in private around this time. They are the soundtrack to what was an ever continuing love crusade", she explained in a statement posted on her website.

Commercial performance
Crush Songs debuted at number 61 on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 1,336 copies.

Track listing

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Crush Songs.

 Karen O – vocals, all other drawings, recording
 Dean Fertita – backing vocals
 Julian Gross – design
 Bernie Grundman – mastering
 Yong Kok Kim – young Karen portrait
 Nick Launay – mixing
 Jack Lawrence – backing vocals
 Imaad Wasif – guitar

Charts

Release history

References

2014 debut albums
Cult Records albums
Karen O albums


title: Rasbora labiosa

text:
Rasbora labiosa, the slender rasbora, lives in rivers and streams in parts of India. It was first described from the Darna River in the upper Godavari River Basin

References

Rasboras
Taxa named by Dev Dev Mukerji
Fish described in 1935


title: Israfil Ashurly

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Israfil Ashurly (; born January 16, 1969, in Baku, Azerbaijani SSR, USSR) is an Azerbaijani mountaineer, executive secretary of the Ice-Climbing Commission (2010-2017) under the UIAA (International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation), president of the youth committee (Youth Commission 2012-2016) UIAA, president of the Azerbaijan Mountaineering Federation (2010-2016), Member of the Presidium of the Euro-Asian Association of Mountaineering and Climbing (EAMA since 2011), judge of the international category in ice climbing, master of sports of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

The first Azerbaijani is a conqueror of the Himalayan eight-thousanders: Chomolungma (2007), Kangchenjunga (2011), Lhotse (2019) and Manaslu (2019). Azerbaijan’s first member of the Seven Peaks club (2007), also the first Snow Leopard in the history of Azerbaijani mountaineering (2009) and the first conqueror of the North Pole (2009). The first of the Azerbaijanis landed in Antarctica in December 2005 and climbed the highest peak of the white continent — the Vinson Massif.

Co-founder of Azerbaijan Alpine Club / Azərbaycan Alpine Klubu / Azerbaijan Alpine Club.

On March 4, 2009, by Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Israfil Ashurly was awarded the Taraggi (Progress) medal.

Cavalier of the mountaineering Order "Edelweiss" I and II degrees.

Biography
He was born on January 16, 1969, in the city of Baku. Graduate of school number 6 in Baku. He graduated from Azerbaijan State Oil Academy's energy faculty.

In 1991, Israfil Ashurly organized the "Insol" company, which has been installing and launching telecommunication equipment for mobile and wireline operators since 1998. The company has offices in: Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan. Member of the Board of Managing Directors of the Insol Group of Companies. CEO of the management company "Insol Consulting".

Vice-President of the Swiss company iCsquared GmbH in Russia, the Baltic countries and the CIS. www.icsquared.ch

Israfil Ashurly became interested in mountaineering after "Insol" was created. This happened, as he said, by accident. In 1999, he made an exotic tourist trekking to the foot of Kanchenjunga (8586m) in the Himalayas.

“I didn’t understand how people go to the mountains, live in tents. My habits were quite sybaritic. ”

In the Indian state of Sikkim, he got to the five thousandth pass of Gocha La. Here is how Israfil describes his impressions:

"When people get to the mountains, they have two choices. Or they don’t like the mountains and they don’t go there at all anymore. Or they like it so much that they try as soon as possible to get there again. I have a second case".

Expeditions
In 2000, while on a holiday visit to near Kangchenjunga's foot, Ashurly became interested in mountaineering. In next seven years, he became ninth person to complete Seven Summits challenge.

Seven Summits

Snow Leopard Summits

Volcanic Seven Summits

Himalayas & Karakoram expeditions
In 2003, he reached Lapchi mountain (6,017) with Russian alpinist Vladimir Shatayev. In 2007, Ashurly reached Everest with Sergey Kofanov. In 2011, he reached Kangchenjunga with Russian alpinists Aleksey Bolotov and Nikolay Totmyanin.
2013 Nanga Parbat expedition. Expedition was interrupted by terrorist attack on base camp.
2014 Shishabangma expedition. Climbed till 6800m and moved down due to pulmonary edema.
2019 Lhotse expedition.
2019 Manaslu expedition.

See also
Murad Ashurly

References

External links
Azerbaijan Mountaineering Federation
Ashurly's Profile on 7 Summits Club

Living people
Azerbaijani mountain climbers
1969 births
Sportspeople from Baku
Businesspeople from Baku
Summiters of the Seven Summits
Azerbaijani sportsmen


title: Patrick Harran

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Patrick Harran (born 13 July 1969) is an American organic chemist who has held the D. J. & J. M. Cram Chair in Organic Chemistry, an endowed chair at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 2008. Prior to taking this position he was a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Harran was educated at Skidmore College graduating in 1990. He went on to Yale University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1995.

In 2009, a research assistant in his lab, Sheri Sangji, died from burn injuries after a chemical fire. A California Division of Occupational Safety and Health report faulted Harran for willfully neglecting safety protocols. He was charged with four felony counts in the first criminal case stemming from a laboratory accident in U.S. history, but avoided jailtime through a plea deal with prosecutors, which was finalized in 2018.  In 2015, the AAAS Chemistry Section nominated, but then did not proceed with the nomination of Harran for AAAS Fellow, after concerns about the Sangji case were raised by the ACS Committee on Chemical Safety.

Research
Harran's research is focused on the total synthesis of natural products, design of novel chemical compounds to study protein–protein interactions, and medicinal chemistry.

Awards and honors
 J. Clarence Karcher Medal, University of Oklahoma, 17 March 2017
 Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013
 Glenn T. Seaborg Award - Alpha Chi Sigma, 2009
 Norman Hackerman Prize of the Robert A. Welch Foundation, 2007
 E. Bright Wilson Prize - Harvard University, 2005
 Merck Research Laboratories Chemistry Council Award, 2005-2007
 Mar Nell and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair, 2005
 Pfizer Award for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, 2003
 Distinguished Alumni Award, Skidmore College, 2003
 Eli Lilly Grantee, 2003-2004
 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award, 2002
 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2002-2004
 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2000-2004
 National Research Service Award, Stanford University, 1995-1997
 Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Fellow, Yale University, 1993
 American Institute of Chemists Award, Skidmore College, 1990
 Highest Departmental Honors in Chemistry, Skidmore College, 1990
 One Year Advanced Admission, Skidmore College, 1986

Laboratory fire

On December 29, 2008, a fire in Harran's UCLA laboratory fatally burned research assistant Sheri Sangji. Harran in 2011 was charged with four felony counts of willfully violating occupational safety standards in the case, carrying a maximum jail term of 4.5 years. It was the first time any American academic had been criminally charged for a laboratory accident. Representatives of Harran, and the university's Board of Regents who were also charged in the incident, disputed the charges.

Harran and prosecutors in 2014 reached a deferred prosecution agreement in which Harran was ordered to pay $10,000 to a local burn center and do 800 hours of community service. Deputy District Attorney Craig W. Hum said that the penalty was similar to any sentence Harran would have received if convicted, while Sangji's family criticized it as "barely a slap on the wrist". The charges were subsequently dropped in 2018, in accordance with the settlement terms.

References

1969 births
Living people
21st-century American chemists
University of Texas faculty
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Skidmore College alumni


title: East India Arms

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The East India Arms is a pub in the City of London. The building is located on Fenchurch Street near the place where the East India Company had its headquarters.

History
The pub is believed to stand on the same site in Fenchurch Street previously occupied from at least 1645 by The Magpie Ale House.

The East India Arms was built in 1829 as part of an entire block of then typical London buildings: the houses at 67 to 70 Fenchurch Street were all four-storey buildings in red brick. They originally housed different merchants and service providers having business with the East India Company and trade in East Asia. The other houses in the block were demolished in 1910 due to redevelopment by Paul Hoffman.

In 1838, John Tallis included the East India Arms in his first Atlas of London. The 1829 building is now the oldest building in the Lloyd's Avenue Conservation Area and Fenchurch Street. Within the City of London, it is the only place which still has links to the East India Company. The pub itself is part of the Shepherd Neame brewery.

In the postwar period, office workers of the City visited the pub, though there were also naval officers who were sitting their examinations at the Lloyd's Maritime Academy.

Architecture and current use
The East India Arms is a four-storey building in classic Georgian style. The façade is of red brick. The corner is, typical for buildings of the time, curved, and marks a successful conclusion to the block on which it is located. The red brick forms a striking contrast to the other historic buildings in the area, which are mostly made of Portland Stone. In its classic proportions, however, it contributes to forming a coherent ensemble.

The East India Arms is a classic British pub, with only bar stools and standing room, and serving no food (though it is possible to consume one's own food).  The pub serves beer, in particular from Shepherd Neame Brewery. Despite the connection to the East India Company, however, India Pale Ale is not served on draught, though Shepherd Neame's IPA is served in bottles. The interior is decorated with old photos of the area and mirrors. The single room has a wooden floor. It is primarily frequented by employees of nearby offices.

Connections to the East India Company
On the outside of the pub is a plaque to the East India Company and its history. Although the pub is the only reminder in central London of the East India Company, there is no direct connection between the two. The East India Arms opened on this site about 20 years before the end of the Company. It is therefore very likely that employees of the Company frequented it in its early days.

References

External links
 Shepherd Neame website

Restaurants in London
Pubs in the City of London


title: List of census-designated places in West Virginia

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The United States Census Bureau separates places by incorporation for statistical purposes during its decennial census. To incorporate, communities may need to meet statutory requirements made by their respective state, such as thresholds in population or specificities relative to location. Federally, the Census Bureau defines incorporated places as areas, whose boundaries do not cross state lines, that "provide governmental functions for a concentration of people", as opposed to "minor civil [divisions], which generally ... provide services or administer an area without regard, necessarily, to population". Unincorporated communities, classified as census-designated places (CDPs), lack elected municipal officers and boundaries with legal status. The Bureau identified 169 CDPs in the state of West Virginia at the 2010 census.

The Municipal Code of West Virginia, which governs incorporation, requires applicant municipal corporations (places for incorporation) that cover an area more than  to have a minimum of 500 inhabitants or freeholders per square mile, and those under 1 square mile to have at least 100 inhabitants or freeholders. Applicant areas must not reside within a municipality "urban in character", nor claim an area "disproportionate to its number of inhabitants". Upon approval, the state classifies municipal corporations as a Class I city, with a population of more than fifty thousand, a Class II city, with a population between ten thousand and fifty thousand, a Class III city, with a population between two thousand and ten thousand, or a Class IV town or village, with a population of less than two thousand. All municipalities can "use a common seal", defend, maintain, or institute a proceeding in court, and hold, take, purchase, or lease, as lessee, property for municipal purposes.

Of the fifty-five counties in West Virginia, Logan is home to the most CDPs, with twenty-two, followed by Fayette, with eighteen, and Raleigh, with fifteen. The largest CDP by population is Teays Valley, with 13,175 residents, while Bowden, with 9 residents over , represents the state's smallest CDP by both population and area.

Census-designated places

See also
 List of cities in West Virginia
 List of towns in West Virginia
 List of villages in West Virginia

Explanatory notes

References

Census-designated places in West Virginia
Census-designated places in West Virginia, List of
West Virginia


title: Janardan Dhakal

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Janardan Dhakal () is a member of 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly. He won Rasuwa–1 seat in 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election from Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist).

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) politicians
Living people
Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly


title: Azucena, Louisiana

text:
Azucena is an unincorporated community in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, United States.

History
Azucena was named after Azucena Plantation, which likely took its name from a character in Verdi's opera Il trovatore.

References

Unincorporated communities in Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana


title: Kweilin incident

text:
The Kweilin incident occurred on 24 August 1938 when a Douglas DC-2 airliner named Kweilin carrying 18 passengers and crew was shot down by Japanese aircraft in China. There were fourteen fatalities. It was the first civilian airliner in history to be shot down by hostile aircraft. The pilot was American and the crew and passengers Chinese. As it was unprecedented for a civilian aircraft to be attacked, there was international diplomatic outrage over the incident. In the United States, it helped solidify the view that Japan was morally wrong in their war against China, however the incident was not enough to spur the US into action against Japan despite Chinese entreaties. The Kweilin was rebuilt, renamed as the Chungking and destroyed by the Japanese army in a second attack two years later.

Kweilin Incident

DC-2 number 32 Kweilin was owned by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), one of the first commercial airlines in China. It was operated under contract by Pan American pilots and management who were mostly American in 1938. The plane was on a routine civilian passenger flight from the British colony of Hong Kong to Wuzhou, the first stop en route to Chongqing and Chengdu in Sichuan province. From Hong Kong, Chengdu was over  to the northwest. The flight had fourteen passengers, plus a steward, radio operator Joe Loh, copilot Liu Chongquan, and American pilot Hugh Leslie Woods.

The Kweilin left Hong Kong at 8:04am. At 8:30am, soon after entering Chinese airspace, Woods spotted eight Japanese pontoon-fitted planes in what he believed to be an attacking formation. Woods took evasive maneuvers by circling into a cloud bank and was fired upon by the Japanese planes, their intentions made clear. As the DC-2 was unarmed, Woods put it into a fast dive to find a place to make an emergency landing, but the fields were rice paddies crisscrossed with dikes. Woods saw a river and made a perfect water landing with no injuries or damage; the plane was designed to float. However, Woods soon discovered he was the only person aboard who knew how to swim and the swift current bore the plane into full view of the circling Japanese planes. They began to strafe it with machine gun fire. Woods saw an unused boat on shore and swam to retrieve it. During the swim he was repeatedly strafed with machine gun fire but was not hit. On reaching shore, he saw the plane had drifted far down river and was so riddled with bullets it was sinking with only the tail and wing still visible. After about an hour of continuous attacks the Japanese planes left. The survivors were Woods, the radio operator Joe Loh and a wounded passenger, Lou Zhaonian. The dead included two women, a five-year-old boy and a baby. One victim had been hit thirteen times.

Cause and effects

It was speculated that the reason for the attack was to assassinate Chinese President Sun Yat-sen's only son, Sun Fo, who was expected to be on the Kweilin. In fact Sun Fo had taken an earlier flight that day with a different airline, Eurasia. Sun Fo later claimed a secretary had made a mistake and had publicly announced the wrong flight. It was speculated that Sun Fo intentionally announced his departure on the wrong plane, in effect sacrificing the Kweilin so that his real flight could travel unmolested. While the Japanese government never officially acknowledged why or if they attacked the Kweilin, they said henceforth that while they took care they would not accept responsibility for civilian aircraft flying in a war zone. The Japanese Foreign Office claimed not to have fired on the aircraft but to have chased it as it was behaving suspiciously. A Japanese-language newspaper, The Hong Kong Nippo, admitted that although Sun Fo was the object of the attack, "our wild eagles intended to capture [him] alive."

Three prominent Chinese bankers were among the passengers killed in the incident. They were Hu Yun, Chairman of the Bank of Communications, , General Manager of The National Commercial Bank, and Wang Yumei, an executive of the Central Bank of the Republic of China. Their deaths were a significant loss to the Chinese banking industry.

The incident was widely reported, due, in part, to its novelty as the first time a civilian airliner had ever been brought down by hostile aircraft. A popular newsreel, titled Kweilin Tragedy, showed to sell-out crowds for weeks in Hong Kong. It had an interview with Woods and showed the "mutilated airplane, scattered mail bags, and bullet-riddled corpses." After the incident, CNAC and other carriers began making night flights over China, using a new technology developed in Germany, "Lorenz", that allowed pilots to follow an auditory radio homing-beacon to the destination. There was diplomatic outrage over the incident. In the United States, it helped solidify the popular view the Japan was morally wrong in the war against China, but the incident was not enough to spur the US into action against Japan despite Chinese entreaties.

On 6 September an aircraft of the Sino-German Eurasian Aviation Company was attacked near Liuzhou by Japanese fighters while flying from Hong Kong to Yunnan. The company had already stopped flights to Hankou after the Kweilin attack.

Kweilin restored as Chungking

The Kweilin was retrieved from the river bottom, re-built, and put back into service as DC-2 number 39, the Chungking.  Its former name was not advertised in order to assuage superstitious passengers who might not want to fly in an unlucky plane. On October 29, 1940, American pilot Walter "Foxie" Kent landed Chungking at the rural Changyi Airfield in Yunnan with 9 passengers and 3 crew including himself. Unknown to Kent, who was low on fuel, the airstrip had been attacked by five Japanese fighters minutes before and they were still circling nearby. The Japanese saw the DC-2 land and attacked it just as it rolled to a stop. The first bullet to enter the plane killed Kent instantly. The remaining passengers and crew tried to exit the plane but were either hit while inside or caught in the open while running across the airstrip. Nine were killed (2 crew and 7 passengers). The Chungking then burst into flames and would never fly again. Unlike the unprecedented Kweilin Incident two years earlier, attacks on commercial aircraft had become more common during the course of World War II. It received some local coverage for about a week but was not an international incident. For CNAC it was their second loss to a Japanese attack.

Qian Changgan, an American-educated Chinese architect and bridge engineer who oversaw the construction of a strategic bridge on the Burma Road, was among the passengers killed on the Chungking. After his death, the Chinese government named the bridge Changgan Bridge in his honor.

Notes

Names in native languages

Reference notes

References

Further reading

North China Daily News, August 25 and September 1, 1938
Shanghai Evening Post, August 25, 1938
"Japan Again", The Manchester Guardian, August 26, 1938, published in The Chinese Mercury, Vol. 2, No. 2, New Year Number, 1939, p. 65
W. T. Woo, "Attack on C.N.A.C. Plane", South China Morning Post, August 26, 1938
H. W. G. Woodhead, "The South China Aeroplane Tragedy: International Repercussions", Shanghai Evening Post, August 27, 1938
China Weekly Review, August 27, September 3, and September 9, 1938, and September 17, 1938

External links

ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-2-221 32 Wangmoon – Aviation Safety Network
ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-2-221 39 Changyi – Aviation Safety Network
Pictures of the Kweilin recovery on Gregory Crouch's website
Hugh L. Woods at CNAC.org
Kweilin accident report at CNAC.org
Chungking affair newspaper clippings at CNAC.org

1938 in China
Military history of Japan
Second Sino-Japanese War
Pan Am
Airliner shootdown incidents
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1938
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1940
Aviation accidents and incidents in China
History of Guangdong
20th-century aircraft shootdown incidents
August 1938 events
Accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-2
Airliner accidents and incidents involving ditching


title: Darlene Keju

text:
Darlene Keju, also known as Darlene Keju-Johnson, (1951 – June 18, 1996) was a Marshallese activist. She was born on Ebeye Island in the Marshall Islands group in 1951. The Northern Islands where she grew up were downwind from Bikini and Enewetak atolls where the United States tested 67 nuclear weapons. She witnessed the evacuation of Regelap and Utirik Atolls after they were contaminated by radioactive fallout. Keju is credited for bringing to the attention of the world the suffering of the Marshall Islanders as a result of the nuclear testing and that many more people were affected than acknowledged by the U.S. government.

The book Don't Ever Whisper written by her husband Giff Johnson tells of her fight to share the Marshall Islanders' plight with the rest of the world wasn't being told of the events. He was interviewed by ABC Radio presenter Geraldine Coutts in 2013. On June 17, 2006 she was commemorated on the 20th anniversary of the founding of Youth-to-Youth in Health (YTYIH) organization, which she established in 1986.

Activism
She researched nuclear testing impacts on the small downwind outer islands, which led her to reveal to the world the existence of birth defects and "jelly-fish" babies in Marshallese communities. Through speaking tours in the U.S., Canada and Europe, she told the story of Marshall Islands nuclear test survivors — their forced relocations to allow the nuclear weapons to be tested, the exposure of thousands of people to radioactive fallout, and the damage to the islands from the testing and fallout.

She was a pioneering critic of the U.S. government's response, charging that its limited health care programs were inadequate to address the many islanders affected by fallout. Formerly secret U.S. government reports declassified around the time of her death from breast cancer in 1996 confirmed her statements from the 1980s that many more than the four U.S. acknowledged atolls were actually contaminated with radioactive fallout from multiple nuclear weapons tests.

In 1983 she stood on the podium and told a global church audience in Vancouver at the Pacific Plenary of the World Council of Churches Assembly, an event that was held every seven to eight years, about the radioactive fallout from the 67 nuclear tests being more widespread than the U.S. had admitted. She spoke of the many unrecognized health issues in the Marshall Islands.

The WCC event brought together hundreds of church leaders from around the world. Netherlands based Madeleen Helmar who has worked on Pacific issues said "Her impressive speech tore up the curtain of silence around the nuclear legacy in the Pacific (and) caused a wave that went as far as Europe, where it landed on the fertile ground of the anti-nuclear movement."  ABC Pacific correspondent Sean Dorney referred to an online clip posted by the World Council of Churches of her giving the speech as an "extremely moving address".

In 2013 she was posthumously named 2013 Pacific Person of the Year by Islands Business. Islands Business said the recognition came because of her fearless innovation. Also years after her death with the issues confronting Pacific Islanders today, her words and actions continued to speak to the key issues of the day.

Personal
Keju was born on Ebeye Island in Kwajalein Atoll, but was raised on her mother's atoll, Wotje. She lived in Hawaii for 17 years where she graduated from President Theodore Roosevelt High School, Kapiʻolani Community College, Chaminade College and the University of Hawaiʻi's School of Public Health. She returned to the Marshall Islands in 1984 with a master's degree in public health.

She was married for 14 years to Pacific journalist and Marshall Islands Journal editor, Giff Johnson.

She died of breast cancer at age 45  on June 18, 1996.
A celebration of her life with short speeches and Marshallese music was held at the Church of the Crossroads, 1212 University Ave in Hawaii.

References

1951 births
1996 deaths
Marshallese activists
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
Marshallese expatriates in the United States
People from the Ralik Chain
Deaths from breast cancer
President Theodore Roosevelt High School alumni
Kapiʻolani Community College alumni
Chaminade University of Honolulu alumni


title: W. Geoffrey Arnott

text:
William Geoffrey Arnott  (17 September 1930 – 1 December 2010) was a British Hellenist who was Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Leeds.  He studied comic and other forms of poetry, as well as birds in the ancient world.

Early life and education
Arnott was born in Bury, Lancashire, and attended Bury Grammar School from 1940 to 1947. He studied classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1952 with a first class BA (converted as usual to an Oxbridge MA). While an undergraduate at Pembroke he won the Porson Prize for Greek verse. In 1960, he received a PhD from the University of Cambridge, with a dissertation on the comic poet Alexis.

Academic career
Arnott was a lecturer at King's College, Cambridge from 1960–1963.  In 1963 Arnott was appointed a senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and in 1968 he took up the chair of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Leeds.

Whilst at Leeds, he was visiting professor at the Universities of British Columbia, Alexandria, Queensland, and Bologna. In 1973, he was a scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.  In the academic year 1987–88 he was a visiting fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Arnott retired from his chair in 1991 and became professor emeritus.

Arnott was one of world's leading experts on Greek comic poetry, the work of the likes of Alexis and Menander. The exhaustive edition of the fragments of Alexis goes back to Arnott's dissertation. From 1979 to 2000 he edited the now authoritative complete edition, plus notes and translation, of the comedies of Menander, whose works were extensive, but also difficult to decipher and classify until 20th century papyrus discoveries. Other fields of his work included Euripides, the Hellenistic poets, the Greek predecessors of the novel, Aristaenetus, Athenaeus, and ancient ornithology.

Honours
In 1981 he became a member of the Società Italiana per lo Studio dell'Antichità Classica and in 1999 was made a fellow of the British Academy (FBA).

Personal life
A lifelong hobby was birdwatching. Arnott was a member of his local branch of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and from 1981–84 he was President of the Leeds Birdwatchers Club. Out of this hobby grew an interest in birds in ancient culture, which fed some of his research interests.

Arnott died on 1 December 2010 at the age of 80.  He was survived by his wife Vera and by their daughters Alison, Hilary and Rosemary.

Bibliography
This is a partial bibliography of his work:
 Menander's Dyskolos or The man who didn't like people (English translation; Athlone Press, 1960)
 Menander, Plautus, Terence (New Surveys in the Classics, No. 9. Clarendon Press, 1975)
 Menander (Loeb Classical Library, in 3 volumes, 1979, 1997, 2000)
 Alexis: The fragments: A commentary (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentary, 1996)
 Birds in the ancient world from A to Z (Routledge, 2007)

References

Hellenists
People educated at Bury Grammar School
English classical scholars
British classical philologists
Academics of the University of Leeds
Fellows of the British Academy
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
People from Bury, Greater Manchester
English ornithologists
1930 births
2010 deaths


title: Dave Berg (producer)

text:
Dave Berg is an American television producer who was co-producer of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for 18 years.  He was hired as a segment producer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno before its debut on May 25, 1992.

He was also a consultant to the late Frank Pastore and was a regular guest on Pastore's radio show.  Berg has a bachelor's degree in political science from Northwestern University and a master's degree in journalism from Kansas State University.

In 2014, he wrote the book Behind the Curtain: An Insider's View of Jay Leno's Tonight Show.

References

American television producers
Kansas State University alumni
Northwestern University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: John Nu'uma'ali'i

text:
John Nu'uma'ali'i (born 21 May 1985) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Penrith Panthers.

References

External links
Penrith Panthers profile

1985 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
Australian sportspeople of Samoan descent
Penrith Panthers players
Rugby league locks
Rugby league second-rows
Rugby league players from Sydney
Windsor Wolves players


title: Apterostigma eowilsoni

text:
Apterostigma eowilsoni is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a single possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola. A. eowilsoni is one of only two species of the ant genus Apterostigma  and one of five attini species of to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber.

History and classification
Apterostigma eowilsoni is known from a solitary fossil insect which is an inclusion in a transparent chunk of Dominican amber. The amber was produced by the extinct Hymenaea protera, which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico. The specimens were collected from an undetermined amber mine in fossil bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains, northern Dominican Republic. The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based on studying the associated fossil foraminifera and may be as old as the Middle Eocene, based on the associated fossil coccoliths. This age range is due to the host rock being secondary deposits for the amber, and the Miocene the age range is only the youngest that it might be.

The holotype amber specimen, number DR-16-292, is currently preserved in the amber collections of the US National Museum, and is labeled as part of the Smithsonian Institution ant database as number 00443150. The fossil was first studied by entomologist Ted R. Schultz of the National Museum of Natural History with his 2007 type description of the new species being published in the journal Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. The specific epithet eowilsoni is a patronym honoring Edward Osborne "E. O." Wilson for his long career and years of important myrmecological discovery.

Prior to the species formal description in 2007, no Apterostigma species were known from the fossil record, however three other Attini species were already known from Dominican Amber, Trachymyrmex primaevus, Cyphomyrmex maya, and Cyphomyrmex taino.  Schultz's paper described a second Dominican amber Apterostigma species, A. electropilosum. Bringing the total Attini fossil record to five species.

Description
The Apterostigma eowilsoni specimen is well preserved with an estimated Weber's length of  and a head length of .  The body has a fine covering of simple upright setae which reach a total length of .  The occiput, rear area of the head capsule, is short, not forming a neck like that seen in A. electropilosum. The integument of the collar is rugose, with longitudinal stria.  The antennae are composed of eleven segments, in which the tip segment is 2.25 times the length of the next segment.  The eyes are rounded and bulbous in structure with a circumference of twelve ommatidia.  The bulbous eyes have a half hemisphere structuring with ommatidia on the sides and front, while the rear sides are integument.  The head capsule shows a clypeus which is smooth and shiny, a feature seen in the living pilosum group of Apterostigma species.  However the front edge of the clypeus is notably reduced, nearing the absent clypeus border that is a character of the "auriculatum" group.  The clypeus structure is most similar to an undescribed pilosum group species collected in Costa Rica, while the eye structure is closest to a "auriculatum" group species A. pariense and A. reburrum.  Given the ocular structuring, A. eowilsoni is likely to have had excellent stereoscopic vision but poor side vision and been blind in the rear.

References

Myrmicinae
Fossil ant taxa
Burdigalian life
Neogene Dominican Republic
Miocene insects of North America
Prehistoric insects of the Caribbean
Fauna of Hispaniola
Insects of the Dominican Republic
Fossils of the Dominican Republic
Dominican amber
Fossil taxa described in 2007


title: Bridgewater–Centreville Border Crossing

text:
The Bridgewater–Centreville Border Crossing connects the towns of Bridgewater, Maine and Centreville, New Brunswick on the Canada–US border. The crossing is reached by Boundary Line Road on the American side and by New Brunswick Route 110 on the Canadian side. The US and Canadian governments both built new border stations at this crossing in 1976.  In 2012, the US replaced its border station once again. It is open from 6am to 10pm.

See also
 List of Canada–United States border crossings

References

Canada–United States border crossings
Transportation buildings and structures in Aroostook County, Maine
1936 establishments in Maine
1936 establishments in New Brunswick


title: 1996–97 NSL Cup

text:
The 1996–97 NSL Cup, known at the time as the National Cup and the Johnnie Walker Cup, was the twenty-first and final season of the NSL Cup, which was the main national soccer knockout cup competition in Australia. 16 teams in total from around Australia entered the competition, including 13 of the 14 NSL teams (with the newly-formed Perth Glory declining to participate), two representative teams formed from State Leagues and the Brisbane Premier League champions, the Brisbane Lions. This was the last national knockout cup in Australia until the FFA Cup kicked off in 2014. This was the first tournament to held in the NSL pre-season.

Bracket

Round of 16

|}

First leg

Second leg

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

NSL Cup
NSL Cup
1996 in Australian soccer
1997 in Australian soccer
NSL Cup seasons


title: Geoffrey Arnott

text:
Geoffrey Arnott may refer to:
Geoffrey H. Arnott (1902–1986), Australian chairman of Arnott's Biscuits Holdings
W. Geoffrey Arnott (1930–2010), British classicist


title: The Ball and the Cross

text:
The Ball and the Cross is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. The title refers to a more worldly and rationalist worldview, represented by a ball or sphere, and the cross representing Christianity. The first chapters of the book were serialized from 1905 to 1906 with the completed work published in 1909. The novel's beginning involves debates about rationalism and religion between a Professor Lucifer and a monk named Michael. A part of this section was quoted in Pope John Paul I's Illustrissimi letter to G. K. Chesterton. Much of the rest of the book concerns the dueling, figurative and somewhat more literal, of a Jacobite Catholic named Evan Maclan and an atheist Socialist named James Turnbull. Lynette Hunter has argued that the novel is more sympathetic to Maclan, but does indicate Maclan is also presented as in some ways too extreme. Turnbull, as well, is presented in a sympathetic light: both duelists are ready to fight for and die for their antagonistic opinions and, in doing so, develop a certain partnership that evolves into a friendship. The real antagonist is the world outside, which desperately tries to prevent from happening a duel over "mere religion" (a subject both duelists judge of utmost importance).

Many have seen echoes in the novel of Chesterton's own longstanding and very public debates over religion with his friend, George Bernard Shaw.

References

External links

 The Ball and the Cross etext at G. K. Chesterton's Works on the Web.

Dale Ahlquist: The Ball and the Cross, Lecture 15 of the "Chesterton 101" of the American Chesterton Society

1909 British novels
Novels by G. K. Chesterton


title: Jordan Suckley

text:
Jordan Suckley is a British Radio Host, DJ and Music Producer from Liverpool, England, who has composed and remixed notable tracks on albums that have reached No. 1 on the US iTunes Dance Charts. Jordan Suckley is most well known for his Trance tracks which have become Dance Music chart-toppers and garnered acclaim from Armin van Buuren, Aly & Fila and others who have found success in the genre.

Music career
When Jordan Suckley was 18, he attended Swansea University for a degree in business.  While attending University, he entered in and won a DJ competition of which the prize was playing at Cream in Liverpool. After his first set, Suckley began DJing a few smaller gigs, until eventually he met a promoter at an Eddie Halliwell event in Bristol. He gave the promoter a demo mix and within a few days, the promoter called and offered to book him for a Gatecrasher tour in Wales for New Year's Eve.

In 2009 he was picked up by Black Hole Recordings and began touring around the United Kingdom; performing at various venues and small shows.

In 2010, while on a flight to play at PlanetLove at Shane's Castle, Northern Ireland, Suckley met Gareth Emery on his flight. They engaged in conversation in which Gareth Emery asked if Suckley would be interested in remixing a track from one of Emery's most popular albums Northern Lights. On 18 March 2011 the album was released entitled Northern Lights Re-Lit with remixes by acts including himself, Hardwell, Arty, Giuseppe Ottaviani, John O’Callaghan, Lange and Ashley Wallbridge. The album, within hours of release, became No.1 on the US iTunes Dance Chart.

On 28 February 2012, BBC Radio 1 announced that Suckley would be joining a new line up of DJs for the new In New DJs We Trust with B.Traits, Mosca and Julio Bashmore hosting shows on a four weekly rotation. This new schedule took effect on Monday, 2 April 2012.

In April, 2013 Suckley collaborated with Simon Patterson to present their creation 'Vanilla', released on Spinnin's Reset Records.  At the album's release, it garnered support from many music industry leaders and was rated in the top 5 of Beatport and Trackitdown charts.

In 2019, Suckley started his new, progressive and tech, side project called Chester Cat.

Discography

Albums
2014 – Goodgreef Future Trance – Black Hole Recordings
2016 - Damaged Australia V1 - Damaged Recordings
2017 - Damaged Asia V1 - Damaged Recordings
2019 - Damaged 100 - Damaged Recordings

Singles and contributions
2008 – Ben Nicky vs Jordan Suckley – Future Creature – Abstract Recordings
2008 – Savage – Abstract Recordings
2008 – Trusty Rusty – Infexious Recordings
2008 – Mac and Taylor and Jordan Suckley – Animal – Infexious Recordings
2009 – Flames! – Goodgreef Digital
2009 – From Paradise! – Goodgreef Digital
2009 – The Storm! – Goodgreef Digital, Global Sounds
2010 – We Are 10 – Goodgreef Digital
2010 – Tarzan – Reset Records
2010 – Lush! – Reset Records
2010 – The Hooded Claw – Reset Records
2010 – Patience/Chariot of the Gods – Liquid Recordings
2010 – Out Cold – Goodgreef Digital
2011 – The Slug – Goodgreef Digital
2011 – Jordan Suckley featuring Lisa Cowell – Latvian Sun – Reset Records
2011 – 23! – Reset Records
2011 – Jordan Suckley featuring Nasa – Rokit – Reset Records
2011 – Amar La Vida – Reset Records
2012 – Spooked – Liquid Recordings
2012 – Sunkissed – Liquid Recordings
2012 – Prisoner – Discover
2012 – Jordan Suckley featuring Leanne Thomas – Thunder – Night Vision
2013 – Simon Patterson and Jordan Suckley – Vanilla – Reset Recordings
2013 – Do or Die – Perfecto Fluoro
2013 – Santa Cruz – Liquid Recordings
2013 – Adam Ellis and Jordan Suckley  – Mandarine / Take No Prisoners – Subculture
2014 – Jordan Suckley and Eddie Bitar – Centipede – Damaged Records
2014 – Jordan Suckley and Paul Webster – Help! – Damaged Records
2014 – Contaminated – Damaged Records – Black Hole Recordings
2014 – Access – Vandit Records
2014 – Elation – Damaged Records – Black Hole Recordings
2015 – Medic – Damaged Records – BLack Hole Recordings
2015 – Droid – Damaged Records – Black Hole Recordings
2015 – Who Cares – Damaged Records – Black Hole Recordings
2016 – Tiësto – Suburban Train (Jordan Suckley Remix) – Black Hole Recordings
2016 – Jordan Suckley and Sam Jones – Hijacker – Black Hole Recordings
2016 – Liquid Soul and Zyce featuring Solar Kid – Anjuna (Jordan Suckley Remix) – Black Hole Recordings
2016 – Jordan Suckley – Ritual – Damaged Records – Black Hole Recordings
2016 – Jordan Suckley and Sam Jones – Wilma  – Damadeg Records – Black Hole Recordings
2017 – Jordan Suckley – Suspect 1 – Damaged Records – Black Hole Recordings
2017 – Jordan Suckley and Kutski – Survelliance – Damaged Records – Black Hole Recordings
2018 – Jordan Suckley and Ferry Corsten – Rosetta – Flashover Recordings
2018 – Jordan Suckley – C.Y.M. – A State of Trance
2018 – Jordan Suckley – Rocket Punch – Damaged Records – Black Hole Recordings
2018 – Jordan Suckley and Paul van Dyk – Accelerator – Vandvit
2019 – Jordan Suckely – Moskva – Damaged Records – Black Hole Recordings
2019 – Major League – Wonder? (Jordan Suckley Remix) – Damaged Records – Black Hole Recordings
2019 – Markus Schulz Pres. Dakota – The Spirit of the Warrior (Jordan Suckley Remix) – Coldharbour Recordings
2020 - Jordan Suckley & Sam Jones - Space Jam - Damaged
2020 - Jordan Suckley - Another Dimension - Vandit
2020 - Jordan Suckley - Hold Me - Pure Trance Neon
2020 - Jordan Suckley & onTune - Tranceformations Anthem 2020 - Damaged
2021 - Jordan Suckley - Just A Dream - Vandit
2021 - Jordan Suckley & Clara Yates - Let Me Be Your Fantasy - Damaged
2021 - Jordan Suckley - Retro Tech - Damaged
2022 - Jordan Suckley - Cruise Control/ Break The Spell - Damaged
2022 - Jordan Suckley - Palermo / Summer Kicks - Damaged
2022 - Jordan Suckley - Tribal Sense - Vandit
2022 - Waves_On_Waves & Jordan Suckley - Sandcastle - Severe Records

References

External links

1985 births
English electronic musicians
Living people
Musicians from Liverpool


title: Thermonectus nigrofasciatus

text:
Thermonectus nigrofasciatus is a species of diving beetle native to the eastern United States. T. nigrofasciatus is distinguished by its black, postmedian transverse blotch on its elytra, hence "nigrofasciatus."

References

Dytiscidae
Beetles of North America
Beetles described in 1838
Taxa named by Charles Nicholas Aubé


title: Austrofromia

text:
Austrofromia is a genus of starfish belonging to the family Ophidiasteridae.

Description

Species
 Austrofromia polypora (H.L. Clark, 1916)
 Austrofromia schultzei (Döderlein, 1910)

References

Ophidiasteridae
Asteroidea genera
Taxa named by Hubert Lyman Clark


title: Bumkey

text:
Kwon Ki-bum (Hangul: 권기범, born September 22, 1984), known as Bumkey (Hangul: 범키), is a South Korean R&B singer under Brand New Music. He made his musical debut in 2010 as part of the hip hop duo 2winS and is currently a member of the Korean hip hop and R&B quartet Troy.

Life and career
Kwon Ki-bum was born September 22, 1984, in Seoul. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1999, where he lived for five years before returning to Korea alone in 2004 to pursue a music career.

Early in his career, he featured on songs by both underground and mainstream hip hop artists including Dynamic Duo, Brown Eyes, and Epik High, being credited as either Kwon Ki-bum or Bumkey. However, after undergoing vocal chord surgery to treat a chronic sore throat, he was left unable to speak. It was two years before he regained his singing ability.

In 2010, Bumkey debuted as part of the duo 2winS (Korean: 투윈스) with TopBob, formerly of the hip hop group TBNY. The duo promoted actively on Korean music shows with Supreme Team and on various radio programs throughout 2010. Bumkey also featured in songs by Paloalto, Dok2, SouLime, and Dynamic Duo.

After signing with Brand New Music, Bumkey made his solo debut with the single "Bad Girl," in April 2013. The song was produced by Primary and featured E-Sens of Supreme Team. Bumkey released his second single, "Attraction," in August with a music video starring Crayon Pop's Ellin. The song was a success, ranking fifth on the Instiz , a collation of all real-time Korean music charts, for the third week of August and topping the Gaon Digital Singles Chart. Bumkey performed in Crayon Pop's PopCon concert in Seoul on October 30.

In 2014, Brand New Music introduced its new hip hop group Troy, with Bumkey as group leader. Bumkey was part of a world tour in May (as part of the Asian Music Festival) with Verbal Jint, Beenzino, Sanchez, and Troy bandmate Kanto, performing in New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Sydney, Australia. He married former Planet Shiver member Kang Da-hye in June.

In October 2014, Bumkey was arrested and charged with selling and taking illegal substances, specifically ecstasy and Philopon, a type of methamphetamine. Bumkey denied the allegations. In April 2015, the court found him to be not guilty.

Personal life
On June 13, 2014, Bumkey married DJ Kang Da-hye in Samseong-dong, Seoul. His wife gave birth to a son on July 27, 2016.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Collaborations

Awards

References

South Korean male rappers
South Korean hip hop singers
Brand New Music artists
1984 births
Living people
Rappers from Seoul
Singers from Seoul
21st-century South Korean male  singers


title: The Stranger (1987 film)

text:
The Stranger is a 1987 Argentine-American thriller film directed by Adolfo Aristarain and starring Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Riegert, Barry Primus, Ricardo Darín and Cecilia Roth. It was written by Dan Gurskis. It was released in the United States on December 4, 1987.

Plot
A woman living in Buenos Aires (Bedelia), who is suffering from amnesia, discovers that she is the sole surviving witness to a brutal murder. Although the police can find no clues about any murder, the killers begin to hunt her.

Cast
 Bonnie Bedelia ... Alice Kildee
 Peter Riegert ... Dr. Harris Kite
 Barry Primus ... Sergeant Drake
 David Spielberg ... Hobby
 Ricardo Darín ... Clark Whistler
 Cecilia Roth ... Anita
 Julio de Grazia ... Jay
 Marcos Woinsky ... Macaw
 Jacques Arndt ... Rhea
 Milton James ... Brandt
 Julio Kaufman ... Dr. Hobby
 Ernesto Larrese ... Lark
 Sacha Favelevic ... Robin
 Federico Luppi ... Manager
 Miguel Ángel Paludi ... Croupier
 Patricia Zangaro ... Female police officer
 Adrián Ghio ... White intruder
 Melvin Daniel ... Black man
 Arturo Maly ... Father
 Lala Sunblad ... Mother
 Nicolas Deane ... Teenage son
 Marina Magali ... Actress
 Tito Mendoza ... Hobo
 Haydée Padilla ... Desk woman
 Heidi Froseth ... Fat woman
 Sofía Viruboff ... Desk girl (as Sofia Virobof)
 Adolfo Aristarain ... Movie goer (uncredited)

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1987 films
1987 thriller films
Argentine thriller films
English-language Argentine films
Films scored by Craig Safan
Columbia Pictures films
1980s English-language films
1980s Argentine films