title: Annual Filing Season Program

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The Annual Filing Season Program (or AFSP) is a voluntary Internal Revenue Service (IRS) program designed to incentivize non-credentialed tax return preparers to participate in continuing education (CE) courses. Participants receive an Annual Filing Season Program - Record of Completion, which may be displayed to prospective clients as a way to stand out in the marketplace and to demonstrate tax knowledge and filing competency. AFSP participants can also opt to be listed in The Directory of Federal Tax Return Preparers with Credentials and Select Qualifications, a public information database on the IRS website.

Program Background

On January 1, 2011, the Return Preparer Office launched the IRS Return Preparer Initiative. The purpose of the initiative was to improve taxpayer compliance and service by setting professional standards for and providing support to the tax preparation industry. During the first phase of the initiative, anyone who for compensation prepared or helped prepare any federal tax return or claim for refund was required to register with the IRS by obtaining a Preparer Tax Identification Number (PTIN). Other requirements for some tax preparers eventually included needing to pass the IRS Registered Tax Return Preparer Test and annually completing continuing education courses on federal tax law and ethics. Participants who successfully completed all requirements were given a new title: Registered Tax Return Preparer.

In January 2013, however, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it was suspending the program due to a ruling by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. As the result of a lawsuit, the Court issued an order forbidding the IRS from enforcing the regulatory requirements for registered tax return preparers.

In June 2014, the Return Preparer Office unveiled a new voluntary program intended to encourage tax return preparers to participate in continuing education courses on an annual basis — the Annual Filing Season Program (AFSP). In exchange for participation in the program, tax preparers receive an Annual Filing Season Program - Record of Completion, which they can display to help stand out from the competition. Participants can also choose to be included in an online IRS public information database called The Directory of Federal Tax Return Preparers with Credentials and Select Qualifications, which taxpayers can use to help locate qualified tax preparers in their area beginning January 2015.

Record of Completion Requirements

Unenrolled tax return preparers who wish to obtain a program record of completion must possess a valid PTIN and complete 18 hours of continuing education annually from an IRS approved continuing education provider. The 18 hours of CE must include:
 6 hour Annual Federal Tax Refresher (AFTR) course
 10 hours of federal tax law topics
 2 hours of ethics

Because the program had not been introduced until mid 2014, the number of CE hours required for Filing Season 2015 was prorated to 11 hours. The amended requirements for Filing Season 2015 were:
 6 hour Annual Federal Tax Refresher (AFTR) course
 3 hours of federal tax law updates
 2 hours of ethics

External links
 Continuing Education for Tax Professionals
 PTIN Requirements for Tax Return Preparers
 Return Preparer Regulations

References

Internal Revenue Service


title: Jason Horwitch

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Jason Horwitch is an American film and television writer. He is the recipient of the Writers Guild of America’s Paul Selvin Award for FX’s The Pentagon Papers. Horwitch created AMC’s conspiracy thriller television series Rubicon and was a writer/producer on the TV series Southland. He also served as Co-EP on Season 6 of Netflix's House of Cards and EP / showrunner on Season 3 of Epix's Berlin Station. Horwitch got his start on the TV series Medical Investigation, wrote the made-for-television film Joe and Max, and co-wrote the independent feature Finding Graceland.

Horwitch is the co-showrunner and executive producer of the 2022 series Echo 3 on Apple TV+.

References

Living people
American television producers
American television writers
American male television writers
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Burlingtons Bar

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Burlingtons Bar is under the Town House public house in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England.  It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

The bar is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. The floor, wall, and bar are all completely tiled.

It was built in 1895 under St Anne's Hotel. The hotel was demolished in 1985, but Burlingtons Bar was retained as the basement for the Crescent Pub, later renamed the Town House.

See also

Listed buildings in Saint Anne's on the Sea

References

National Inventory Pubs
Grade II listed pubs in Lancashire
Buildings and structures in the Borough of Fylde


title: Architectural Designers New Zealand

text:
Architectural Designers New Zealand Incorporated (or ADNZ) is a professional body for architects and architectural designers in New Zealand.

ADNZ was established in 1966, as the Federation of Draughtsmen (FAD), in order to:
Promote and advance architecture in New Zealand through the activities of the Society, its members and its educational activities
Represent and promote the interests of members of the Society
Promote high ethical standards of architectural design practice in New Zealand, including excellence in design and service to clients
Form strategic alliances and contractual relationships with other organisations
Engage in any professional or commercial activities which assist to regulate and promote architecture and associated industries in New Zealand.

ADNZ provides enhanced professional development options to members, and is vocal in advocating excellence in design.

The organisation holds an annual design awards – The ADNZ Resene Architectural Design Awards. The awards have been running for more than 25 years. The awards celebrate the best in architectural design, including residential and commercial architecture, throughout New Zealand.

ADNZ also produces an annual design publication, Defign, and a weekly blog with the same name.

ADNZ Head Office is located in Christchurch and the organisation supports nine regional branches across New Zealand.

See also
New Zealand Institute of Architects

References

New Zealand
Professional associations based in New Zealand
Architecture in New Zealand
1966 establishments in New Zealand


title: Zimbabwe Division 1

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Zimbabwe Division 1 is the second division of the Zimbabwe Football Association.

The League consists of 64 teams.

League members 2014

Central Zimbabwe
Mimosa F.C.
Chapungu United F.C.
Border Strikers
Hardbody F.C.
Gweru Pirates
Silo United
Tongogara F.C.
Chrome Stars
Bvm F.C.
ZISCO Steel F.C.
Mc Inn
Mateta F.C.
Rutendo Stars
Air Stars
Cmed Justice

See also
Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League

References

External links

Football leagues in Zimbabwe
Second level football leagues in Africa


title: Teenager (Jung Joon-young EP)

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TEENAGER is the second EP by South Korean rock singer, Jung Joon-young, released by CJ E&M on June 26, 2014, as the follow-up to his 1st mini album, which was released in October, 2013.

It contains 6 tracks such as the title track “Teenager.” and other tracks “내가나에게To Me,” “친구Friends,” “이빨Lip Service,” “Hold On,” and “돛단배Sailboat.” All songs in this album were composed and produced by Jung Joon Young himself. He also participated in the design and production of the album's concept, cover picture, and all other minor details regarding the album.

Since Teenager is filled with alternative rock genre which is not a mainstream in Korean music industry, it hasn't been a big hit compare to his 1st mini album which topped on numerous online charts. However it did relatively well on the physical sales; it ranked third on Gaon weekly album chart in its first week of release as well as tenth on the monthly chart in its first month. It has sold over 10,000 copies within its three weeks of release.

As he stated about this album: "I know some aren't into rock, but I'm glad to be doing what I want to do. I know rock is not a popular genre, but it can be, if my music is widely heard." Regardless of the record charts, he is satisfied with his album just like his fans and supporters who really want him to do the music that he wants to do.

Background and release
On June 19, 2014, CJ E&M announced that Jung Joon Young will be releasing his second mini album Teenager on June 26 of the year.

It had already been eight months since the release of his 1st mini album, he finally has returned as a rocker after spending most of the time on TV, appearing in a number of TV reality programs. Though Some fans were even worried that his image would become stuck as a TV figure and not a musician due to his frequent television appearances on entertainment shows rather than musical activities and the delay of his next album, he didn't hasten to release the second album and just focused on making it perfect, as he referred that “It took me about eight months to prepare this album, which I felt was a very short period of time; but since the preparation process was really fun, I did not feel pressured to rush the new release."

While he was preparing for his 2nd mini album, “TEENAGER”, he tried to let his fans participate in making his album
and share the concept of album. He asked his fans to join in filming his music video as extras and opened up comeback site to share photos of their teenage years on Instagram with the hashtag #IAMATEENAGER for a spot on the site.

Starting on June 19, he unveiled all four teaser images that carry youthful spirit with the mischievous expression and contain special messages for the upcoming album, one a day, to complete a puzzle that consists of four pieces of images at last.

On June 22, Jung Joon Young revealed the track list for “Teenager” through the street mural in Hongdae, a neighborhood known for its lively music and artistic scene.

After dropping of the MV teaser on June 23, he released the MV for his lead single 'Teenager' ahead of the release of his 2nd mini album, on June 25.
The music video represents the concept of the album, ‘a dreaming adult’, properly by portraying Jung Joon-young as an office worker who has the free spirit of a teenager. Unable to withstand the suffocating atmosphere of the office, he escapes to rock out in front of his adoring fans with the song "TEENAGER".

On June 26, 2014, his 2nd mini album, titled “TEENAGER” was released.

Promotion
On June 26, the day of releasing his 2nd mini album “TEENAGER”, a showcase for Jung was held in a unique seminar format on at Seoul's IFC Mall. He was dressed in a suit, just like he would be at a business seminar. He introduced his album and works under the title "Jung Joon Young's Self Presentation". During the showcase, Jung performed three of the album's singles: “Hold On,” “내가 나에게To Me” and the album's lead single “Teenager” with full of burning rock spirit.

Starting from KBS's “Music Bank” on June 27, he has been promoting the title track "TEENAGER", on several music shows such as Mnet's M! Countdown, SBS MTV's The Stage of Big Pleasure, MBC's Music Core and Show! Champion.

He has been meeting his fans through some signing events and especially through more frequent live concerts including “Someday in July”, “Collaboration Concert with Eddie Kim” and “Let’s Rock Festival”.

He has also been performing his album live abroad. After holding his first oversea showcase with 800 fans successfully on July 13, 2014, in Taiwan as well as making a successful American concert debut at K-CON 2014 with charismatic performances on August 10 of that year, he is planning to tour Asia including in major Chinese cities and Japan to promote his album.

Music and lyrics

Music and style
“Teenager” includes a total of six alternative rock songs all composed and produced by Jung Joon Young himself. He got a chance to further develop his musical ability as well as broaden the musical range by creating all tracks in this album. Junggigo and Park Asher have also participated in the album by writing the lyrics to the songs. Pia members Kim Ki Bum and Yang Hye Sung who are Korea's best instrumentalists have also joined Jung Joon Young as the main session band for his album, giving off a strong rock sound.

CJ E&M staff stated: "The second mini album is Jung Joon Young's everything - his past, present, and future. This album is truly by him and made for him. No detail has gone past Jung Joon Young." CJ E&M also revealed that the album is in the alternative rock genre which is Jung Joon Young's favorite since childhood, with the six tracks each showing a different range in the spectrum of the genre. Instead of going with music to satisfy the general public, he explored his music interests through his album. He explained that his 2nd mini album “Teenager” is “more rock” and “less mainstream” compared to his 1st mini album.“This album is harder rock than my first album,” “I really didn’t care much about mass appeal in this album. I think the mass appeal doesn’t really match my musical style. So I enjoyed this album even more and I even liked it better when it was released. Although there would be those people who wouldn’t like some of the tracks, I hope there would be those who would have better thoughts about rock music when they hear my songs,” through the showcase.

Every individual single composed by himself is naturally connected and organically united as a cohesive whole with lyrical melodies and sensibility of alternative rock in this album.

Lyrical themes
The concept of Jung Joon Young's new album is "dreaming adult" which seems to be a perfect fit for him. He is storytelling his own story and experiences throughout this album sincerely. He mentioned that “The songs embody the idea of an adult who continues to dream on; as children, we would dream about growing up and what things will be like when we are adults,” “I think even as adults, we have dreams that are always changing so I wanted to express the notion that we are always dreaming children at heart.” during the interview with Koreaherald. In addition, each song brings each unique message like dreams, love, friendship, and loneliness. As an album producer, he made a decision about the concept of the album and chose the songwriters to ask them to write the lyrics that are well suited to the songs.

Singles
내가 나에게(To Me) is an alternative rock song which is added the mood of trendy style of music along with brass instruments, sound effects, and rap. It has the message that It's better to pursue the dream instead of following the money through the lyrics such as “ Why change your own color / why chase your green dollar.” It has attempted rap rock approach with a fast, rhythmic beat and he has used a megaphone to emphasize the chorus line during his live performance on the stages.

The lead single TEENAGER beautifully combines alternative rock music and string arrangements. Conceptually based on the fictional Lost Boys adage of never wanting to grow up, this song is all about trying to recapture one's youth through rock and roll. He stated that he had the most fun with the work evocative of his own teenage years while he was creating this song and he made efforts on completing it perfectly.

이빨(Lip Service) embodies the originality of alternative rock and highlights each musical instrument's color. It expresses the displeasure about flattery and hypocrisy and tells a message that people those who lie finally can get hurt back by their own words.

친구(Friends)is the hardest rock song among six tracks in this album. It is focused on the sounds of musical instruments including electric guitar and especially concentrated on the arrangement and composition to make a clean finish. Lyrically, it describes longing for his friends in other countries far apart from him. It took him only thirty minutes to compose this single after he had met his friends again in the Philippines.

Hold On is characterized by natural sounds of musical instruments. It represents his wish that somebody holds on to him and comforts him when he feels lonely. He confesses that when he is contented and on the spotlight, on the other hand he feels depressed and alone.

돛단배Sailboat is focused on the sound of piano and string arrangement whereas other tracks are concerned with guitar solo. He mentioned that Sailboat is his favorite song among all tracks in this album just like 아는번호(Missed Call) in his 1st Mini Album. So this song delivers quite similar mood like in 아는번호(Missed Call), which is his favorite taste. This song was inspired by the scene of the river during his trip in Paris and it describes the tears as the river that flows continually to the sea for the expression of deep sorrow.

Track listing

Music videos

Charts

Single chart
Teenager

Album chart : TEENAGER

Album Sales

Music Show

Release history

References

2014 EPs
Korean-language EPs
Stone Music Entertainment EPs


title: Aby King

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Abigail "Aby" King (born 1 March 1977) is a British novelist best known as the author of the Adventures of a Royal Dog fantasy series. The first book in the series, Lupo & The Secret of Windsor Castle, was released on 4 September 2014, published by Hodder Children's Books. There are currently four books planned within the series, which is based on The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's cocker spaniel, Lupo.

Biography
Aby King was born in London, to Lynda and Tom King. She was raised in Wimbledon Village with her half sister Louise and brother Oliver. She came up with the idea for the Lupo series whilst walking her dog Lilly around Kensington Palace. She is married to Malte Richter and they share their home with two cocker spaniel dogs called Lilly and Maggy.

Aby has had what you might describe as a ‘portfolio’ career. She has been an actress, a model, a TV presenter, a PA and a businesswoman – but always wanted to be a writer. At school she was inspired by Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree and scribbled fantasy and adventure stories.

In 1991, when Abigail was 14, her mother died of leukemia. The following year, her half-sister, the model and actress Louise Ashby, was seriously injured in a car crash in Los Angeles. The story of her long and painful recovery is told in her 2001 book The Magic of the Mask. In 2008 Aby's then fiancé Mark Sebire (property developer) committed suicide.

Like Louise and her mother, Abigail has a background in the expressive arts. Aged 18, she wrote, produced and directed A Simple Girl for the BBC Short Film Festival. She then went on to find work as a model and actress. A keen amateur chef, she appeared as a contestant on Hell's Kitchen in 2005. She has featured in a number of television commercials, most notably Vodafone with David Beckham, Waitrose with Heston Blumenthal, The Bill and NSPCC (charity).

Aby supports a number of charitable organisations including the NSPCC,  Cruse Bereavement and The Mayhew Animal Home.

Books

The Adventures of a Royal Dog
 Lupo and the Secret of Windsor Castle (2014)
 Lupo and the Curse at Buckingham Palace (2015)
 Lupo and the Thief at the Tower of London
 Lupo and the Labyrinth of the Lost Pirate of Kensington Palace (2016)

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
21st-century British novelists
British women novelists
21st-century British women writers
Novelists from London
British children's writers
British women children's writers


title: Prince of the Saddle

text:
Prince of the Saddle is a lost 1926 American silent Western film starring Fred Church and Pauline Curley.

Cast
 Fred Church
 Pauline Curley
 William Barrymore as Boris Bullock aka Kit Carson

References

External links

1926 films
1926 Western (genre) films
American black-and-white films
Lost American Western (genre) films
1926 lost films
Silent American Western (genre) films
1920s American films


title: Muththumari Amman Temple, Negombo

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Sri Muthumariamman Temple (Tamil: ஸ்ரீ முத்துமாரியம்மன் கதிர்வேலாயுத சுவாமி கோவில்) is one of the famous Mariamman temples in Negombo built in a facet clicking back to the syles of Dravidian architecture. The temple still remains in an old fashioned pose. The engravings of the granite architecture in the temple is what that holds a reputation to the Negombo Tamils there as one of the most powerful temples where pujas and offering made, provide benefits to the public.

Interior
The interior of the temple starts with the presence of the Mariamman idol. This is the region where pujas, offering(abhishekam) and sangaabhishekham are made. The other parts cover the idol of Lord Vairava, Lord Ganesh, Kali Amman, Lord Murugan. The temple is supported financially by many Hindus to ensure that a corrective level of satisfaction is made to god.

Financial support
The temple currently gains its support from most of Negombo's financial investors

See also
 Negombo
 Mariamman

Hindu temples in Gampaha District
Religious buildings and structures in Negombo
Mariamman temples in Sri Lanka


title: Lloyd Williams (singer)

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Lloyd Williams is a Jamaican reggae singer of the 1960s. From 1966 to 1970, Williams featured with The Tommy McCook Band, as well as a multitude of ad hoc ensembles: Soul Gang, The Highlights, and The Celestials.

Selected discography
"Back Out With It"
"Little School Girl"
"Burning Up"
"Is It Because I'm Black" 1970

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Billy Young (singer)

text:
William D. Young (born May 25, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter of the 1960s. He was discovered, produced, and promoted by Otis Redding. He is best known for his one major success, "The Sloopy", although he actively recorded music from 1963 to 1984 mostly in the genres of soul music and rhythm and blues.

Personal life
Young was born in Dangerfield, Texas.

He later moved to the west coast of the United States. His early recordings were possibly for the Crest recording label as a member of the Classics, but the first 45 recordings under his own name was for Original Sound in 1963. On this album, Young sings in a high register with falsetto phrases.

When he moved to Macon, Georgia, Young became influenced by Otis Redding. The song "Same Thing All Over" was cut under Redding's supervision at FAME Studios in Macon, Georgia.

Partial discography
"The Sloopy", 1965, written by Otis Redding
"Same Thing All Over", 1965, written by Otis Redding
"Nothing's Too Much (Nothing's Too Good)", 1967, written William D. Young
"Burning Up", 1974

References

Living people
1941 births
People from Daingerfield, Texas


title: Chelsea Gray

text:
Chelsea Nichelle Gray (born October 8, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).  She was the eleventh pick in the 2014 WNBA draft. She missed the 2014 WNBA season due to injury, but she made her debut with the Sun in the 2015 WNBA season. Gray won her first title with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2016. She won her second title with the Las Vegas Aces in the 2022 WNBA Finals, where she was named Finals MVP, and a third title the following year.

College career
Joanne P. McCallie coached Duke's women's basketball team during the time Gray played for the Duke Blue Devils. In Gray's junior year at Duke (February 2013), she fractured her knee which caused her to be sidelined the rest of her junior year and her whole senior year. Despite this she was drafted to the Connecticut Sun in 2014.

WNBA career
Gray was drafted 11th overall by the Connecticut Sun in the 2014 WNBA draft. She sat out the 2014 season while recovering from a right knee injury that she sustained in January of her senior year while playing at Duke.

Gray would come back healthy in time for the 2015 season. Coming off the bench for the Sun, she averaged 6.9 ppg.

Prior to the 2016 season, Gray was traded to the Los Angeles Sparks along with two first round picks in the 2016 WNBA draft and a first round pick in the 2017 WNBA draft in exchange for draft rights to Jonquel Jones and the 17th pick in the 2016 WNBA Draft. Joining forces with Candace Parker, Kristi Toliver and Nneka Ogwumike, Gray would come off the bench as the back-up point guard on the Sparks roster, playing 33 games with 1 start and averaging 5.9 ppg. The Sparks were a championship contender in the league, finishing 26–8. The Sparks were the number 2 seed in the league with a double-bye to the semi-finals (the last round before the WNBA Finals) facing the Chicago Sky due to the WNBA's new playoff format. The Sparks defeated the Sky 3–1 in the series, advancing to the WNBA Finals for the first time since 2003. In the Finals, the Sparks were up against the championship-defending Minnesota Lynx. Gray's playing time would be slightly increased in the Finals and was able to provide an offensive spark off the bench for the Sparks. In Game 4 with the Sparks up 2–1, Gray scored a team-high 20 points off the bench in 24 minutes of play, but the Sparks still lost the game. In the decisive Game 5, Gray scored 11 consecutive points for the Sparks in the second half. The Sparks would win Game 5 and the 2016 WNBA Championship.

With Toliver leaving the Sparks in free agency to join the Washington Mystics, Gray would be moved to starting point guard, following her heroic off-the-bench performance in the Finals. Gray would have a breakout season in 2017 as she scored a career-high 25 points on May 27, 2017, in a 75–73 loss to the Atlanta Dream. Gray would also be voted into the 2017 WNBA All-Star Game, making it her first career all-star game appearance. She finished off the season leading the league in three-point field goal percentage and averaged career-highs in scoring, rebounds, assists and minutes as the Sparks finished second place in the league with a 26–8 record, receiving a double-bye to the semi-finals. The Sparks would go on to advance to the Finals for the second season in a row, after defeating the Phoenix Mercury in a 3-game sweep, setting up a rematch with the Lynx. In Game 1 of the 2017 WNBA Finals, Gray scored a new career-high 27 points and hit the game-winning shot with 2 seconds left, sealing an 85–84 victory to give the Sparks a 1–0 series lead. However, the Sparks would lose in five games, failing to win back-to-back championships.

On May 20, 2018, in the Sparks' season opener against the Lynx, Gray scored 18 points along with a game-winning layup at the buzzer in a 77–76 victory. Later on in the season, Gray would be voted into the 2018 WNBA All-Star Game, for her second career all-star appearance. Gray finished off the season averaging a new career-highs in scoring, steals, assists and rebounds. The Sparks finished as the number 6 seed in the league with a 19–15 record. In the first round elimination game they would defeat the Lynx 75–68 in which Gray Gray scored a season-high 26 points. The Sparks would advance to the second round elimination game where they would lose 96–64 to the Washington Mystics.

On April 30, 2019, Gray re-signed with the Sparks. On July 7, 2019, Gray recorded her first triple-double with 13 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds in a 98–81 win against the Washington Mystics, becoming both the ninth player in league history and the third player in Sparks' franchise history to record a triple-double. Gray would also be voted into the 2019 WNBA All-Star Game, making it her third all-star appearance. On August 29, 2019, Gray scored a career-high 30 points in a 87–83 win against the Indiana Fever. By the end of the season, the Sparks finished as the number 3 seed with a 22–12 record, receiving a bye to the second round. In the second round elimination game, the Sparks defeated the defending champions Seattle Storm 92–69. In the semi-finals, the Sparks were defeated in a three-game sweep by the Connecticut Sun.

In the 2020 WNBA season, Gray started all 22 games played for the Sparks, the season was shortened in a bubble at IMG Academy due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 28, 2020, Gray scored a season-high 27 points in a 80–76 victory over the Connecticut Sun. The Sparks finished 15–7 with the number 3 seed, receiving a bye to the second round but were eliminated by the seventh seeded Connecticut Sun in the second round elimination game, making it the second year a row that they've been eliminated by the same team.

In 2021 free agency, Gray signed a multi-year deal with the Las Vegas Aces.

Overseas career
Prior to her first WNBA season, Gray played in Israel for Hapoel Rishon Le-Zion in the 2014–15 off-season. In the 2015–16 off-season, Gray played in Spain for Uni Girona CB for the first portion of the off-season and spent the second portion of the off-season playing in Turkey for Abdullah Gul University. In June 2016, Gray re-signed with Abdullah Gul University for the 2016–17 off-season. In July 2017, Gray signed with Botaş SK for the 2017–18 off-season. In July 2020, Gray signed with Fenerbahçe of the Turkish league.

Career statistics

College

WNBA

Regular season

|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2015
| style="text-align:left;"| Connecticut
| 34 || 0 || 16.0 || .424 || .348 || .816 || 2.3 || 2.7 || 0.6 || 0.1 || 1.7 ||6.9
|-
|style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2016†
| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles
| 33|| 1 || 16.4 || .452|| .304 || .780 || 1.8 || 2.8 || 0.4 || 0.1 || 1.2 || 5.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2017
| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles
| 34 || 34 || 33.1 || .507|| style="background:#D3D3D3"|.482° || .827 || 3.3 || 4.4 || 1.0 || 0.2 || 1.9 || 14.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2018
| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles
| 34|| 34|| 32.7 || .484 || .392 || .835 || 3.4 || 5.1 || 1.4 || 0.2 || 2.3 || 14.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2019
| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles
| 34 || 34 || 32.6 || .416 || .382 || .917 || 3.8 || 5.9 || 1.0 || 0.1 || 3.1 || 14.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2020
| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles
| 22 || 22 || 30.6 || .442 || .305 || .939 || 3.7 || 5.3 || 1.6 || 0.1 || 2.7 || 14.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2021
| style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas
| 32 || 32 || 28.9 || .454 || .380 || .889 || 2.9 || 5.9 || 1.2 || 0.3 || 2.8 || 11.1
|-
| style='text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;'|2022†
| style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas
| 35 || 35 || 29.7 || .491 || .340 || .910 || 3.2 || 6.1 || 1.6 || 0.3 || 2.3 || 13.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| Career
| style="text-align:left;"| 8 years, 3 teams
| 258 || 192 || 27.4 || .461 || .378 || .883 || 3.0 || 4.7 || 1.1 || 0.2 || 2.2 || 11.9

Postseason

|-
|style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|  2016†
| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles
| 9 || 0 || 22.1 || .406 || .391 || .833 || 1.7 || 2.8 || 1.1 || 0.0 || 2.4 || 9.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2017
| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles
| 8 || 8 || 35.6 || .461 || .333 || .778 || 3.4 || 6.8 || 1.3 || 0.2 || 2.7 || 15.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2018
| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles
| 2 || 2 || 31.7 || .393 || .429 || .833 || 4.0 || 4.5 || 0.0 || 0.5 || 2.0 || 16.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2019
| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles
| 4 || 4 || 32.4 || .367 || .333 || .667 || 3.0 || 5.3 || 1.2 || 0.2 || 2.7 || 10.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2020
| style="text-align:left;"| Los Angeles
| 1 || 1 || 35.0 || .222 || .000 || .000 || 2.0 || 0.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 3.0 || 4.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2021
| style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas
| 5 || 5 || 28.4 || .462 || .389 || 1.000 || 3.2 || 6.4 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 1.2 || 15.4
|-
| style='text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;' |2022†
| style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas
| 10 || 10 || 34.0 || .611 || .544 || .833 || 3.8 || 7.0 || 1.2 || 0.6 || 3.0 || 21.7
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| style="text-align:left;"| Career
| style="text-align:left;"| 7 years, 2 teams
| 39 || 30 || 30.6 || .482 || .419 || .836 || 3.0 || 5.4 || 1.1 || 0.3 || 2.5 || 14.7

Overseas

National competition

Regular season

Playoffs

Personal life
Gray has participated in Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). In her free time, she has helped work out and train younger kids in AAU to become better athletes. She is openly lesbian. She is married to former Long Beach State player Tipesa Moorer, who played on the American Samoan team at the 2015 Pacific Games on 2 November 2019.

References

External links
Duke Blue Devils bio

1992 births
Living people
All-American college women's basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American women's basketball players
Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Basketball players from California
Connecticut Sun draft picks
Connecticut Sun players
Duke Blue Devils women's basketball players
Fenerbahçe women's basketball players
Las Vegas Aces players
American LGBT sportspeople
LGBT basketball players
LGBT people from California
Lesbian sportswomen
Los Angeles Sparks players
McDonald's High School All-Americans
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in basketball
Parade High School All-Americans (girls' basketball)
People from Manteca, California
Point guards
21st-century American LGBT people
United States women's national basketball team players
Women's National Basketball Association All-Stars
St. Mary's High School (Stockton, California) alumni
Sportspeople from San Joaquin County, California


title: Yarmouth Stone

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The Yarmouth Stone, also known as the Yarmouth Runic Stone or the Fletcher Stone, is a slab of quartzite that first came to the attention of the public in the early 19th century. The stone appears to have an inscription carved into it which investigators have interpreted as Norse runes, Japanese, Basque. or early Greek This has led to speculation that the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia area, in Canada, was visited by Viking explorers sometime around 1000 C.E. Many other theories have been put forward, including the possibility of a hoax or the inscription being a product of natural forces. The stone is currently on display at the Yarmouth County Museum.

Description
The stone is made of quartzite, measures 31" x 20" x 13" (79 cm x 51 cm x 33 cm), and weighs about 400 lbs. (180 kg). It has a purported runic inscription carved near the top of one naturally smooth face; the stone does not appear to have been dressed in any way. The inscribed characters are between 1" and 1 1/2" (25mm - 40mm) high. There are small amounts of modern green paint on its lower surface from an earlier display stand, and someone has written the date "1007" in modern ink marker to the left of the inscription.

History of the stone
Richard Fletcher, a retired surgeon of the British Army, settled in Yarmouth in 1809, on a lot of land at the northwest tip of the harbour. This was near the Salt Pond, part of which had been dyked off in 1799 to create a salt marsh. In 1812 he revealed his discovery of the stone, found on a point of land near the water. Fletcher died in 1819, but the stone remained on display on his property for some sixty years until it was moved into the town itself. Shortly thereafter the provincial Inspector of Mines, Henry S. Poole, attempted to have it moved to the Provincial Museum in Halifax, but it was not shipped due to a clerical error. It next came into the possession of Samuel N. Ryerson of Yarmouth, before passing to the Yarmouth Public Library in the early 20th century, and then to the Yarmouth County Museum.

Interpretations

The stone remained a curiosity for the next 70 years after its discovery. In 1865, Sir Daniel Wilson referred to it briefly in his Prehistoric Man. It became much more widely known in 1884, when Henry Phillips, corresponding secretary of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, published a paper claiming that the inscription is runic, and went so far as to translate it as "Hako's son addressed the men." Phillips identified Hako as one of the men of Thorfinn Karlsefni's expedition of ca. 1007 C.E., based on the Grœnlendinga saga and the Eiríks saga rauða. In his 1889 history of Yarmouth, George S. Brown accepted and supported Phillips' theory.

Another Norse translation came in 1934 from a student of runology, Olaf Strandwold, who claimed that the stone was inscribed by command of Leif Erikson, in honour of his father, and states that "Leif to Eric raises (this monument)". Erik Wahlgren commented on Strandwold's interpretations of various alleged runes, describing him as reading inscriptions forward and back, combining different time periods, and "shuffling and reshuffling the inscriptions until they yield a “meaning”—any meaning whatever." These interpretations took root in Yarmouth and in much of North America, long before it was proven that the Norse had actually reached the continent, with the discovery of the settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in 1960.

The first refutation of the stone as a Norse artifact came from Wilson. In his 1890 monograph "The Vinland of the Northmen", published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, he deals with the stone at considerable length, and states that the supposed inscription does not agree with runic ones. The second came from Yarmouth's own Kenneth G. T. Webster, who failed to identify Yarmouth with the description of the places visited during Karlsefni's voyage, and in 1892, after reviewing the various claims made, that it was a Native, a Phoenician, a Norse, or a French inscription, came to the somewhat unwilling conclusion that it was made by the later English, either for amusement or for fraudulent purposes, "for it was not made without hands."

In the 1890s, local amateur historian Moses H. Nickerson began a study of the stone and of the various runic futharks. He eventually sent a print of the stone and its marks, via an intermediary, to Prof. Magnus Olsen in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, and received the following reply:
The marks on this "copy" are not runes; and as Mr. Nickerson, in his enclosed note points out, they have very little likeness to runes. They strike me as being a freak of nature, and would therefore advise that the "Runic(?) Stone" be examined by a geologist.

Interest in and belief in the authenticity of the stone grew however to the point where in the late 1930s plans for a national park were being considered. It is during this period that the president of the local historical society and the "Yarmouth Leif Erikson Memorial Society", the Reverend Gordon Lewis, wrote that Erikson had not only visited and left the stone but had also built a village, exploring the area for at least 12 years. It is also suggested, although not fully proven, that "Lewis believed in the stone so passionately that he took the bold step of “improving” it. The recalcitrant markings were allegedly “clarified” under his ministrations with hammer and chisel, transforming the faint tracings described in the nineteenth century into the much more emphatic text of the twentieth. (Herein lies one possible explanation for the striking difference between pre- and post-1930s images of the artifact.)"

In 1943 an official provincial guidebook, Historic Nova Scotia, described it as authentic. But then a Nova Scotia born professor of archaeology, A. D. Fraser, wrote that it showed saw marks and that "There is a strong probability, I think, that the thing is the work of an Indian of perhaps a century back who found a discarded ballast block and utilized it for his own purposes." He also wrote that the carvings were much poorer than runes that had examined and that he could "not see anything here that is more runic than Roman or Cypriote or of any other system that one might name." Strandwold, who had translated it in 1934, turned out to have no credentials and no knowledge of Old Norse. All mention of the stone was removed from "Historic Nova Scotia". Despite all this in 1947 the local museum ordered more copies of Standwold's pamphlet on the stone, and others claiming expertise continued to pronounce it genuine. New interpretations were brought forward - Hungarian, Welsh, Mayan, and in 1993 the local paper ran an editorial titled "The 'runic stone' - why don't we just say it was left by aliens?"

The Yarmouth County Museum lists a number of other theories on a placard near the stone. The museum prefers to remain neutral on all theories about the stone.

Other stones

Other stones with apparent inscriptions have also been reported in the Yarmouth area. Sometime between 1895 and 1898 a stone was discovered at Bay View Park, a tourist resort directly across the harbour from the town of Yarmouth, in Overton, within 1 km of the original site of the Fletcher Stone. The Bay View stone has a similar flat surface of similar size and shape; its composition is unknown. Its supposed inscription is almost identical to that of the Fletcher Stone, with a few additional markings on a second line. The stone was referred to in Robert R. McLeod's 1903 book, Markland or Nova Scotia, pp 154 – 55.

In 1912, while the grounds of Bay View Park were being put in order, the stone was placed in a new stone wall by workmen. Shortly afterwards the proprietor, Mr. Drew, said he would be glad to have it taken out at any time for examination. However, in the century since then its location has been lost and is currently unknown.  Historian Ian McKay wrote that the stone was "now revealed as a crude hoax associated with a local resort".

In February, 1880, a letter from T.B. Flint of Yarmouth was read before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, in which he stated that on an island near the mouth of the Tusket River there are also two very large stones with inscriptions similar to those on the Fletcher Stone.  Flint wrote that "the spot was very difficult of access by land, but not by water, although it is not in any frequented route." These are believed to the same stones referred to by R.B. Brown in a letter published in the Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, vol. VIII, pp xxxvi - xxxviii, in 1892. The exact location of these stones is currently unknown.

According to notes on file at the Yarmouth County Museum, yet another inscribed stone was incorporated into a stone wall on the former Burrill property in Yarmouth, near the southeast corner of Starrs Road and Pleasant Street.

In local culture

The stone and the presumed connection it made between Yarmouth and the medieval Norse, influenced popular culture in the community from the late 19th century until the present day.
 A tourist resort built in Cape Forchu in the late 1800s was named the Markland Hotel.
 The sports teams of Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School (est. 1951) are called the Vikings.
 The sports teams of Burridge Campus, Nova Scotia Community College have Marvel Comics' Thor as a mascot.
 During the early 1970s the Yarmouth Town and County Tourist Association promoted Route 304, from Milton to Cape Forchu, as Lief Eriksen Drive. This secondary highway runs past the site of the discovery of the stone.
 Also at present, the Markland Viking Project is doing re-enacting of the Norse lifestyle in locations around Yarmouth.
 In Sept. 2011, during the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Yarmouth Township, an international symposium on the stone was hosted by the Yarmouth County Museum.

References

1812 archaeological discoveries
Inscriptions of disputed origin
North American runestone hoaxes
Pseudoarchaeology
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia


title: Romania women's national 3x3 team

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The Romanian women's national 3x3 team represents Romania in international 3x3 basketball matches and is controlled by the Romanian Basketball Federation ().

Tournament record

Summer Olympics

World Cup

European Championship

See also
 3x3 basketball
 Romania men's national 3x3 team

References

External links

FIBA profile

B 3x3
Women's national 3x3 basketball teams


title: Jungle Queen

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Jungle Queen may refer to:
 Tarzan's Peril, a 1951 film often shown under its alternate title Jungle Queen
 Jungle Queen (1991 film), an Indian film starring Satish Shah
 Jungle Queen (2001 film), a Pakistani film
 Jungle Queen (serial), a 1945 Universal movie serial
 "Jungle Queen", a 1982 song by Robert Sacchi
 'Jungle Queen', a cultivar of the Malaysian plant Alpinia purpurata
 Butterflies in the genus Stichophthalma

See also
Queen of the Jungle


title: Now — The Peace

text:
Now – The Peace is a film produced and directed in 1945 by Stuart Legg for the National Film Board of Canada series The World in Action, with unaccredited narration by Lorne Greene. Over its nearly 21-minute running time, circumstances during the immediate postwar period following the Second World War, leading to the formation of the United Nations are discussed.

Synopsis
After the First World War, the League of Nations was created, but despite the efforts of leaders such as Woodrow Wilson, the organization failed to ensure world peace. The concept of collective security against attack was thought to be the means to stop wars. The constant conflicts of the 1930s with Japanese aggression in China, Italian invasion of Ethiopia and the beginning of the Spanish Civil War showed how ineffective the League had become.

During the Second World War, in an attempt to reinvigorate efforts directed to prevent future wars, the "five great powers" met in August and September 1944, at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. The deliberations led to the creation of a new international organization devoted to world peace, the United Nations. One of the aspects of the blueprint that is proposed is for nations to share their abundance of resources for mutual benefit. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) is created as an international relief agency to help nations in need during the immediate postwar era.

Cast
 Woodrow Wilson
 Julio Alvarez del Vayo, Spanish Foreign Minister

Production
Typical of the NFB's wartime and immediate postwar series of documentary short films, Now – The Peace relied heavily on stock footage, including "enemy footage".  The film was similar to Global Air Routes, as both films were described as "editorials" on screen. Part of the NFB's The World In Action series of documentary short films, Now – The Peace was intended to prepare Canadians for a postwar and was produced by the NFB at the suggestion of Archibald MacLeish, then-Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs for the U.S. government, focusing especially on the formation of the United Nations, the international organization devoted to world peace.

The narrator in Now – The Peace was Lorne Greene, known for his work on both radio broadcasts as a news announcer at CBC as well as narrating many of the earlier Canada Carries On series. His sonorous recitation led to his nickname, "The Voice of Canada", and when reading grim battle statistics, "The Voice of Doom".

Reception
Now – The Peace was also produced as Voici la paix, dubbed into French. As part of the NFB's The World in Action newsreel series, Now – The Peace was produced for both the military and the theatrical market. Each film was shown over a six-month period as part of the shorts or newsreel segments in approximately 800 theatres across Canada. The NFB also had an arrangement with United Artists to ensure that newsreels would get a wider release in North America.

After the six-month theatrical tour ended, individual films were made available on 16 mm, to schools, libraries, churches and factories, extending the life of these films for another year or two. They were also made available to film libraries operated by university and provincial authorities. Available from the National Film Board either online or as a DVD.

Historian Malek Khouri analyzed the role of the NFB wartime documentaries with Now – The Peace characterized as a propaganda film. "During the early years of the NFB, its creative output was largely informed by the turbulent political and social climate the world was facing. World War II, Communism, unemployment, the role of labour unions, and working conditions were all subjects featured by the NFB during the period from 1939 to 1946".

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

 Bennett, Linda Greene. My Father's Voice: The Biography of Lorne Greene. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, Inc., 2004. .
 Chapnick, Adam. The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations. Vancouver, British Columbia: UBC Press, 2005. .
 Ellis, Jack C. and Betsy A. McLane. New History of Documentary Film. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005. .
 Gemie, Sharif, Laure Humbert and Fiona Reid. Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936–48. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. .
 Khouri, Malek. Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939–46. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2007. .

External links
 1945 NFB documentary on Dumbarton Oaks, Now – The Peace

Black-and-white documentary films
1945 documentary films
English-language Canadian films
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
Canadian short documentary films
1945 films
Films about the United Nations
The World in Action
Canada and the United Nations
Canadian black-and-white films
1940s Canadian films


title: Windsor International Film Festival

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The Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF) is a cultural, charitable organization whose mission is to recognize and celebrate the art of cinema by showcasing Canadian and International films and filmmakers. When the festival first took place, it had 1,000 people in attendance and screened 20 films over the course of 2 days.

Marking its growth, in 2009 the festival screened 25 films and sold 1,500 tickets.  In 2011 it was attended by 8,000 people.  By the time of the 9th festival in 2013, the festival screened 65 films over a 6-day period, with an attendance by 14,000 people under the guidance of executive director Vincent Georgie, who replaced the retiring Peter Coady. In 2016, the festival sold over 20,000 tickets, and was the 2nd-largest volunteer-run film festival in Canada.

WIFF 2017 saw ticket sales increase to 22,000, while in 2018, they went up by 10 percent. That same year, 143 films were screened in three different venues: the Capitol Theatre; St. Clair College's Chrysler Theatre, and the Windsor Armouries. The increase in attendance prompted organizers to extend the festival from 7 days to 10 days the following year. 2019 was another record-breaking year with over 42,000 in attendance for WIFF's 15th anniversary. The creation of WIFF Alley as well a partnership with Netflix was established.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, WIFF was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, and WIFF Under the Stars was created in 2020 as an alternative.

History
The Windsor International Film Festival was created in July 2005 by late businessman Mark Boscariol and Dennis Perlin (then head of Enterprise Windsor). Boscariol had already been working on and off with the idea of hosting a film festival similar to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Boscariol and Perlin quickly assembled a team to help put it in motion, one that consisted of marketing expert Debi Croucher as executive director (a role that now belongs to Vincent Georgie); Kim Spirou for publicity; Lou Tortola of eLiquid Communications; Gordon Orr, CEO of Tourism Windsor Essex Peele Island, and filmmakers Otto Buj and Nick Shields as programmers. Buj helped to secure a partnership with Film Circuit, TIFF's film distribution arm.

The Windsor International Film Festival debuted in November 2005, just five months after Boscariol and Perlin's collaboration. Its first screening was Deepa Mehta's "Water". The film was back for the festival's 10th year celebration. WIFF is now so popular that it requires three venues to accommodate the number of attendees that keep growing each year.

Goals and Values
WIFF is a not-for-profit organization with the intent to celebrate the art of cinema by showcasing Canadian and international film and filmmakers through unique programming, education, and exhibition. WIFF also aims to strengthen and enrich the community while promoting the creative economy.

Notable Guest Appearances
Philippe Falardeau, director of Monsieur Lazhar, in 2011.

Luke Kirby, star of Take This Waltz, also starring Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, and Sarah Silverman, and directed by Sarah Polley, in 2011.

Louise Archambault, director of opening night film Gabrielle, in 2013.

Katie Boland and Jennifer Jonas, star and producer, respectively, of Gerontophilia in 2014.

Maxime Giroux, director of Felix and Meira, in 2014.

Filmmaker Norman Jewison, the first recipient of WIFF's Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2014.

Cornelia Principe, producer of the documentary The World Before Her in 2014.

Actress Lois Smith, the second recipient of WIFF's Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2017.

Steve Young, subject of the documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway, in 2018.

Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, first recipient of WIFF's Spotlight Award, in 2019.

Sturla Gunnarsson director of Final Offer in 2019.

Matt Gallagher, director of Prey and Dispatches from a Field Hospital, in 2019  and 2021, respectively.

Joey Klein, director of Castle in the Ground, in 2019.

Joshua Riehl, director of the documentary The Russian Five, in 2019.

Martha Rehoe and Joan Tosoni, directors of the documentary Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind, 2019.

WIFF 365
WIFF 365 began in January 2018 in response to the record-breaking ticket sales of 2017s festival. Film screenings took place once a month at the Capitol Theatre; the first two shown was "Loving Vincent" and "Breathe." The event became so popular that it expanded to a weekly summer series in partnership with Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association. Additional screenings were added for Canada Day and Pride Weekend. Vincent Georgie, WIFF's Executive Director and Chief Programmer explained that WIFF 365 was created because "Our audience has told us for a number of years that they love WIFF and they love the films and they want to see them more often. More and more people have experienced WIFF and fallen in love with the movies and made it an event. When you're having that much fun for a week in November, you start thinking about how can I have some of this fun year round?"

WIFF Alley, supported by two major sponsors – CUPE 82K and Ward 3 Councillor Rino Bortolin – occupied a space between the Capitol and Chrysler Theatres (combining Chatham and University Avenue) consisting of murals created by commissioned artists and strung-up lights, where film lovers could connect and socialize. WIFF Village, sponsored by the Tourism Essex Pelee Island, occurred during the second weekend of the festival, closing University Avenue between Pelisster and Victoria to erect a tent as another space for socializing.

WIFF Under the Stars
WIFF Under the Stars was created in 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the cancellation of November's festival that year. The drive-in event, which accommodated up to 80 cars, took place in the summer at the city's downtown waterfront where family friendly and classic matinees and double feature evenings were screened on a LED screen over two-and-a-half weeks. The event had the support of community partners such as Mayor Drew Dilkens.

Awards
WIFF's first major prize, the Lifetime Achievement Award, was presented to filmmaker Norm Jewison in 2014. In 2017, it was presented to actress Lois Smith.

The LiUNA! 625 People's Choice Award went to the movie Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston, in 2015, its inaugural year; Maudie, starring Ethan Hawke, in 2016, Loving Vincent, an animated film about the life of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, in 2017; The Russian Five, based on the true story about the Detroit Red Wings, in 2018, and Prey in 2019.

In 2019, the very first WIFF Prize in Canadian Film was awarded to Myriam Verreault, director of Kuessipan. Verreault donated her $10,000 prize to an Indigenous scholarship on Indigenous People's Day.

The first recipient of the Spotlight Award in 2019 was actress Shohreh Aghdashloo.

The Mark Boscariol 48-Hour Flick Fest is a juried competition for filmmakers of all levels with $1350 in prizes and the screenings includes award presentations for eight awards categories include Cinematography, Directing, Editing, and Best Film. Launched in 2019, it was named in honour of WIFF co-founder Mark Boscariol, who died in 2018.

Program Sections
The Windsor International Film Festival has been partnered with Hot Docs since 2014. Hot Docs has been North America’s largest documentary film festival, featuring 200 films from Canada and around the world. Every year since its partnership with Hot Docs, WIFF has selected a slate of documentaries to add to their annual lineup.

Midnight Madness is an interactive experience that encourages the audience to respond to films by yelling and throwing things at the screen. The films selected are deliberately provocative, such as Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room.”

Spotlight on Architecture began in 2013, with the Windsor Region Society of Architects (WRSA) joining forces with WIFF to promote four films that bring attention to issues surrounding communities and public spaces, the built environment, the creative process, and the role of architecture and design in the modern world.

Le Francophone Films is presented by Radio-Canada, the Windsor International Film Festival showcases a compelling slate of francophone films every year, covering an entire spectrum of genres.

In August 2018, WIFF partnered with Pride Fest announcing WIFF 365 Presents: Pride Weekend, which is set aside to feature LGTBQ2+-themed films to celebrate.

Women of WIFF a festival component supported by the Windsor Office of the President, showcases a film from their Official Selection every year. It was created to ensure that women's voices are heard, experiences shared, and viewpoints discussed through film. Tickets to a screening and private reception featuring special guests can be purchased for $100.

WIFF Local is an initiative wherein local filmmakers can submit short or feature films for programming consideration. Each submission is judged by a panel of WIFF programmers.

References

External links

2005 establishments in Ontario
Film festivals in Ontario
Festivals in Windsor, Ontario
Film festivals established in 2005


title: Qausuittuq National Park

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Qausuittuq National Park (pronounced Qow-soo-ee-tooq, from Inuktitut meaning place where the sun does not rise) is a national park located on northwest Bathurst Island in Nunavut. It was established on September 1, 2015, becoming Canada's 45th national park.

This area was chosen to represent the Western High Arctic natural region, one of 39 such regions identified by Parks Canada. This region encompasses most of the high Arctic Archipelago (the Queen Elizabeth Islands and the Grinnell Peninsula on Devon Island, but not Ellesmere Island or Axel Heiberg Island). The park also protects important Peary caribou habitat.  It is north of the existing Polar Bear Pass National Wildlife Area.

History
Archaeological studies in the Bathurst Island area indicate occasional human use over the past 4500 years by prehistoric as well as historic Dorset and Thule Inuit.  Human presence fluctuated with changes in climate, ice cover and the corresponding availability of wildlife for subsistence.  Human use was primarily in the southern and eastern part of Bathurst Island, rather than within the proposed park area itself.

The area was explored by British naval expeditions during the mid-nineteenth century, primarily those associated with the search for the lost Franklin expedition.  Several cairns remain on the north coast.  Exploration of the area continued sporadically, including scientific and commercial studies beginning during the 1960s.

The community of Resolute, located on Cornwallis Island to the southeast of the park, was established in 1953. Inuit from the community use the land and waters of the Bathurst Island area to hunt and fish.

A park feasibility study was initiated in 1994.  The work included a Mineral and Energy Resources Assessment.  This report was released in 1999 and the overall park feasibility study was concluded in 2000. The lands on northern Bathurst Island were first withdrawn for the purpose of establishing a national park in 1996. In 2009 Parks Canada entered into negotiations with the communities most closely connected to the proposed park with respect to establishing an Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement (IIBA) for the establishment of the park.

In 2015, the federal government introduced a bill to create the park, which received approval on June 24. The law specified that it would come into force on either the day of approval or on September 1, 2015—whichever came latest. With approval given in June, the park was legally created on September 1.

The proposed name of the park was "Tuktusiuqvialuk National Park". The Qausuittuq name was selected through a contest in the local area.

Qausuittuq National Park was open to the public and received its first visitors in 2016.

Geology and climate
The park geology is composed primarily of sedimentary rocks such as limestone, sandstone and dolomite.  The area was glaciated in the past as evidenced by landforms such as eskers, moraines and beach terraces.  The area is generally rolling hills.

Bathurst Island has a cold dry climate.  The cool central Arctic climate pushes almost unimpeded into the low-lying islands of the northwest and north-central sector of the Queen Elizabeth islands; reaching to Bathurst Island.  Mean temperatures range from -35 °C in January to 5 °C in July. Annual precipitation is less than 130 mm.

Flora and fauna

The severe climate limits soil and nutrient development, which in turn limits vegetation.  This region has low vascular plant diversity and is dominated by herbaceous species. Plants include purple saxifrage, dwarf willow, sedges, grasses, lichens and mosses.

Terrestrial wildlife species adapted to this environment include Peary caribou, muskoxen, wolves, Arctic foxes and bird species such as snowy owls, snow geese, king eiders, jaegers as well as various gulls and shorebirds.  Marine species in the area include ringed seals, bearded seals, polar bears, walruses, bowhead whales, beluga whales and narwhals.

See also
 List of national parks of Canada

References

National parks in Nunavut
Protected areas established in 2015
2015 establishments in Canada


title: Eurofighter (Zoosafari Fasanolandia)

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Eurofighter is a steel roller coaster at Zoosafari Fasanolandia in Fasano, Italy. Eurofighter is the only Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter model roller coaster that bears the name of the coaster model. At 97 degrees, the coaster is also the steepest roller coaster in Italy.

History

Built by Gerstlauer, the installation of Eurofighter was delayed several years because of conflict between Zoosafari Fasanolandia and the city of Fasano. The coaster was purchased in 2007 for a total of €2,187,000, but when construction was about to begin, the local police intervened and blocked construction on 5 March 2007, claiming that there were issues with the building permits. Permits were eventually granted on 28 September 2009, and construction began on 15 December 2010. The coaster finally opened on 6 August 2011.

The delay in the construction led the park owners to seek compensation for the revenue that they claimed was lost as a result of the delay in coaster installation. The park owners demanded €3,000,000 from the city of Fasano, and threatened to remove the entire park and move its operations to Ravenna if its demands were not met. In addition, the park terminated more favorable admission rates for residents of Fasano.

The sign at the entrance of the attraction is misspelled, being written as 'Eurofigther' rather than the correct 'Eurofighter' from the Gerstlauer model the attraction derives its name from.

Layout
Eurofighter has a similar layout to Rage, another Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter roller coaster at Adventure Island in Southend-On-Sea, Essex, UK, and has the steeper-than-vertical 97-degree drop characteristic of all Gerstlauer Euro-Fighters. The coaster is reported in some sources as having 2 inversions and in other sources as having 3 inversions. All sources describe the coaster as having a vertical loop and a roll (alternatively described as the often misidentified heartline roll or an inline twist), but some sources report that an overbanked curve in the coaster qualifies as an "inline loop".

References

Fasano


title: Armenia at the 2015 European Games

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Armenia competed at the 2015 European Games, in Baku, Azerbaijan from 12 to 28 June 2015.

An exception to the restrictions on entry into Azerbaijan was made for these games, see Armenian ethnicity.

Medalist

Team

Boxing

Judo

Sambo

Taekwondo

Wrestling

Freestyle

Greco-Roman

References

Nations at the 2015 European Games
European Games
2015


title: Macedonia at the 2015 European Games

text:
Republic of North Macedonia competed at the 2015 European Games, in Baku, Azerbaijan from 12 to 28 June 2015.

Medalists

Athletics

Macedonia has qualified 50 athletes.

 Mixed team – 1 team of 50 athletes

Gymnastics

Macedonia has qualified 1 athlete.

Artistic
 Men's – 1 quota place,

Karate

Macedonia has qualified 2 athletes.

 Men's −60kg – 1 quota place
 Men's +84kg – 1 quota place

Sambo

Macedonia has qualified 1 athlete.

 Men's +100kg – 1 quota place

References

Nations at the 2015 European Games
European Games
North Macedonia at the European Games


title: 1940s in fashion

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1940s in fashion may refer to:

 1930–45 in fashion
 1945–60 in fashion

1940s decade overviews


title: Shipwrecked (1926 film)

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Shipwrecked is a 1926 American silent romantic adventure film directed by Joseph Henabery and starring Seena Owen and Joseph Schildkraut. It is based on the play Shipwrecked by Langdon McCormick and was released through Producers Distributing Corporation.

Cast

Preservation

A print of Shipwrecked is preserved at the Library of Congress at its Packard Campus.

See also
Beyond (1921)
Cast Away (2000)

References

External links

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1926 films
American silent feature films
Films directed by Joseph Henabery
American films based on plays
1926 romantic drama films
American romantic drama films
American black-and-white films
Producers Distributing Corporation films
American adventure films
1926 adventure films
1920s American films
Silent romantic drama films
Silent adventure films
Silent American drama films


title: Ian Darling (judge)

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Ian Galen Darling (born 27 October 1962) is a British Circuit judge.

He was educated at Winchester College and King's College London (LLB, 1984). He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1985 and served as a Recorder from 2003 to 2009.

He has been a judge at Inner London, Blackfriars, Snaresbrook and Wood Green Crown Courts. He has two children, Alfie and Athena born in 2004 and 2006. {{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

His late mother, Ann Darling OBE, was a magistrate. His brother Paul Darling is a KC.

References

1962 births
Living people
People educated at Winchester College
Alumni of King's College London
Members of the Middle Temple


title: Eugene A. Sittig

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Eugene Alexander Sittig (October 1, 1847 – June 6, 1907) was a German American publisher and politician from Prussia. Immigrating with his family as an infant, Sittig apprenticed as a blacksmith in Chicago, Illinois. He later joined the advertising department of a German language paper. Sittig spent most of his career editing papers directed at Chicago's German audiences. He was twice elected to the Illinois House of Representatives

Biography
Eugene Alexander Sittig was born in Lauban, Prussia on October 1, 1847. His parents immigrated to the United States with him when he was an infant. They first settled in Kenosha, Wisconsin, then moved to Dubuque, Iowa. Sittig attended public school, then apprenticed as a blacksmith in Chicago, Illinois. He returned to Dubuque at age 19 upon the death of his father to settle family affairs. He then returned to Chicago to work in the shoe business. Finding little success, he took a new job in the advertising department of the Chicagoer Volkszeitung, a paper owned by his former blacksmith mentor F. A. Jensch.

Sittig had several successful years at the company before leaving to co-publish the weekly The Business Guide. He then worked with a series of German-centric publications, including the Freie Presse, the Handels-Zeitung, German American Miller, and Deutsche Industrie. Later in his life he edited the Brewer and Maltster, a brewing trade journal. In 1876, Sittig was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican, serving a two-year term. In 1884, he was again elected to the house for another two-year term. During this second term, Sittig gained notoriety as the vote that broke a 102–102 stalemate in the house concerning the re-election of John A. Logan as a U.S. Senator.

While in Dubuque tending to his family, Sittig married. They had two children: Jenny and William A., the latter of which frequently worked under his father. His wife died in 1898 and Sittig married Anna Weidner. Sittig was a Freemason and was a member of the Germania Club and Chicago Press Club. Sittig died on June 6, 1907, from complications of pneumonia. He was buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.

References

1847 births
1907 deaths
Republican Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives
People from Lubań
Editors of Illinois newspapers
19th-century American politicians
Deaths from pneumonia in Illinois
Prussian emigrants to the United States


title: Howe, Nebraska

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Howe is an unincorporated community in Nemaha County, Nebraska, United States. Howe is part of Zip code 68305, Auburn, Nebraska, with the nearest postal facility at Auburn.

History
A post office was established at Howe in 1882, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1962. The community was named for Major Church Howe, an American diplomat.

Howe was a station and shipping point on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

References

Unincorporated communities in Nemaha County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Lily-Rose Depp

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Lily-Rose Melody Depp (born 27 May 1999) is a French-American actress. Born to actors Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, she began her acting career in film with a minor role in Tusk (2014) and pursued a career as a fashion model. Since 2015, she has been a brand ambassador for the French fashion house Chanel. She starred in the period dramas The Dancer (2016), Planetarium (2016) and The King (2019), and the romantic comedy A Faithful Man (2018). In 2023, she starred in the HBO television drama series The Idol.

Early life
Lily-Rose Melody Depp was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine,  west of Paris, on 27 May 1999. She is the daughter of American actor Johnny Depp and French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis. She has a younger brother, Jack (John Christopher Depp III). French actress Alysson Paradis is her aunt. She claims to have Native American ancestry through her father.

In 2012, after 14 years together, Depp's parents separated and arranged joint custody of her. She divides her time between Los Angeles, Paris, and New York City.

Career

2014–2018: Early work in independent films and modeling

Depp made her acting debut in 2014, with a minor role in the horror comedy film Tusk. In 2015, at age 16, Depp became a brand ambassador for French fashion house Chanel in a decision personally overseen by Karl Lagerfeld. She has since ventured into fashion modeling, promoting the brand on the runway and in fashion magazines such as Vogue, Glamour, Elle, i-D, Wonderland, Love, Madame Figaro, W, and V.

In 2016, Depp reprised her Tusk role in the spin-off Yoga Hosers. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2016 to unfavorable critical reception. She portrayed American dancer Isadora Duncan in The Dancer, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category. For her performance in the film, Depp was nominated for Most Promising Actress at the 42nd César Awards and Most Promising Actress at the 22nd Lumières Awards. She also appeared in the film Planetarium alongside Natalie Portman, who handpicked Depp to play her younger sister. In that same year, Depp was made the face of Chanel's iconic fragrance Chanel No. 5 L'Eau.

In 2018, Depp starred opposite Laurent Lafitte in Les Fauves (Savage). The film was premiered in France in October 2018. In the same year, Depp starred in A Faithful Man, directed by Louis Garrel and co-written by Oscar winner Jean-Claude Carrière. The film was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and released in France in December 2018. She received her second nomination for Most Promising Actress at the 44th César Awards.

2019–present: Transition to mainstream films and The Idol
In 2019, Depp appeared in the Netflix documentary short Period. End of Sentence. alongside Priyanka Chopra. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards. In April 2019, Depp was nominated for the Prix Romy Schneider. She starred alongside her aunt Alysson Paradis in the French independent short film Quel Joli Temps Pour Jouer Ses Vingt-ans (My Last Lullaby), in which she played a young woman grieving the loss of a grandfather. The film won Best Picture at the 2019 New York Film Awards, and Best Narrative Short at the 2019 Los Angeles Film Awards. Mor Cohen of the New York Film Awards wrote, "Great performances by all actors, led by [Depp], who were so nuanced and intuitive that it was hard to remember these are fictional characters and not real people". For her performance in My Last Lullaby, Depp won the Best Actress at the 2019 Los Angeles Film Awards. Les Brandt for the Los Angeles Film Awards noted, "Depp displays sonic waves of artistic expression with her eyes and internal work that was so subtle yet massively powerful and at such a young age was an exciting thing to watch." In the historical epic war film The King, Depp appeared as Catherine of Valois opposite Timothée Chalamet as Henry V. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2019, and was released on Netflix in November 2019. Of her performance, Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote, "[Depp] makes her presence felt, for perhaps the first time ever, as Catherine of Valois, whose delicate worldliness matches Henry’s", while Rory O'Connor of The Film Stage called it "an excellent cameo".

In 2021, Depp appeared in the opioid epidemic crime thriller Crisis (originally titled Dreamland) alongside Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly and Michelle Rodriguez. The film was released in the United States to mixed critical reception on February 26, 2021. She also appeared in Neil Burger's science-fiction thriller Voyagers and the Christmas horror comedy Silent Night. Depp starred alongside George MacKay in Nathalie Biancheri's psychological drama Wolf. The film premiered at TIFF on September 17, 2021 to mixed critical reception.

In 2023, Depp made her television debut starring in the HBO drama series The Idol alongside Canadian singer The Weeknd. The series premiered on May 22, 2023 at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it was met with highly unfavorable reception from critics for its graphic sexual content and themes. On her performance, TIME wrote that Depp "brings some tentative gravity to all the sordidness". The series began airing on HBO and Max on June 4, 2023. HBO announced the show's cancellation after one season on August 28, 2023.

Depp is set to reprise her Tusk and Yoga Hosers role in Moose Jaws. She will also have three upcoming movie projects including Bruno Dumont's The Empire, A24's erotic drama The Governesses and Robert Eggers’ gothic horror Nosferatu.

Personal life

Depp is the goddaughter of novelist François-Marie Banier and singer Marilyn Manson. Since her birth, she has been the subject of tabloid and media reporting, including birthdays, attendance at society events, and reviews of her fashion choices. She is bilingual in English and French and has U.S. and French citizenship. She dropped out of high school in 2016 to focus on her acting career. She has struggled with and recovered from anorexia.

In August 2015, she posed for iO Tillett Wright's Self-Evident Truths Project, stating she fell somewhere "on the LGBTQA spectrum". She later clarified she was simply making a statement on defining oneself, not on her own sexuality.

In 2016, although Depp was not of legal voting age, she supported Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries. In February 2017, both she and her mother Vanessa Paradis were photographed for Our City of Angels magazine; proceeds from its sale were donated to Planned Parenthood.

Depp has been living in an apartment in New York since the late 2010s. Since January 2023, she has been in a relationship with rapper and singer Danielle Balbuena, also known as 070 Shake. This has been the only relationship that Depp has publicly acknowledged. Depp confirmed the relationship in an Instagram post on May 11, 2023.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Discography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Living people
1999 births
21st-century American actresses
21st-century French actresses
Actresses from Paris
American child actresses
American female models
American LGBT actresses
American people of French descent
American people of English descent
American people of German descent
American people of Irish descent
American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent
Female models from California
French child actresses
French emigrants to the United States
French female models
French LGBT actors
French people of American descent
French people of English descent
French people of German descent
French people of Irish descent
Johnny Depp
LGBT actresses
Actors from Neuilly-sur-Seine


title: Jim Lawson (American football)

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James Willmer Lawson (March 11, 1902 – January 3, 1989) was an American football end and placekicker who played one season with the New York Yankees of the National Football League (NFL). Lawson played college football for the Stanford football team of Stanford University. He was a consensus first-team All-American in 1924. He was also a member of the Los Angeles Wildcats of the American Football League.

Early years and college career
Lawson attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California.

He was Stanford University's first All-American, a consensus selection, in 1924. The 1924 Stanford football team went 7-1-1 and appeared in the 1925 Rose Bowl against Notre Dame in a losing effort. He was inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame.

Professional career
Lawson kicked four extra points and two field goals for the Los Angeles Wildcats in 1926. He played in 11 games for the New York Yankees in .

References

External links
Just Sports Stats

1902 births
1989 deaths
American football ends
Los Angeles Wildcats players
New York Yankees (NFL) players
Stanford Cardinal football players
All-American college football players
People from Jefferson County, Indiana
Players of American football from Long Beach, California
Long Beach Polytechnic High School alumni


title: Rohrs, Nebraska

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Rohrs is an unincorporated community in Nemaha County, Nebraska, United States.

History
A post office was established at Rohrs in 1917, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1944.

Rohrs was a station and trading point on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

References

Unincorporated communities in Nemaha County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Dermogenys collettei

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Dermogenys collettei is a species of viviparous halfbeak found in freshwater areas in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. This species was described in 2001 by Amy Downing Meisner with the type locality given as Kuching in Sarawak. The specific name honours the American ichthyologist Bruce Baden Collette.

Dermogenys collettei have been shown to exhibit shoaling behavior. However, contrary to predictions, they exhibited this behavior in low predation scenarios, forest stream habitats in low predation, and more open stream habitats. They did not exhibit shoaling when faced with immediate predation risk. Their behavior suggests that adaptive responses to immediate predation risk are absent.

References

collettei
Fish described in 2001


title: Ed Hake

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Edward William Hake (April 7, 1904 – September 12, 1978) was an American football player. A native of Michigan, he played college football at the University of Pennsylvania and was a consensus selection at the tackle position on the 1927 College Football All-America Team. He was also elected as the captain of the 1927 Penn Quakers football team.

In 1940, Hake was employed as an insurance broker and was living in Philadelphia with his wife, Celeste, and their son, Tucker. He died of a heart attack, on September 12, 1978, in Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, at the age of 74.

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1904 births
1978 deaths
American football tackles
Penn Quakers football players
All-American college football players
Players of American football from Michigan


title: Henry Andrew Imshaug

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Henry Andrew Imshaug (1925–2010) was an American lichenologist notable for work on the genus Buellia and his "enormous and important collections from the Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes region, West Indies and subantarctic islands, together with his studies of those collections". He is also known for mentoring numerous notable lichenologists and bryologists. He was a professor at Michigan State University. Imshaug is honoured in the lichen genus name Imshaugia.

See also
 :Category:Taxa named by Henry Andrew Imshaug

References

American lichenologists
1925 births
2010 deaths
Michigan State University alumni


title: Science Fiction League

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The Science Fiction League was one of the earliest associations formed by science fiction fans.  It was created by Hugo Gernsback in February 1934 in the pages of Wonder Stories, an early science fiction pulp magazine. Gernsback was the League's "Executive Secretary", with Charles D. Hornig its "Assistant Secretary". The initial slate of "Executive Directors" included Forrest J. Ackerman, Eando Binder, Jack Darrow (Clifford Kornoelje), Edmond Hamilton, David H. Keller, P. Schuyler Miller, Clark Ashton Smith, and R. F. Starzl.

Gernsback intended for the magazine to promote fandom, much as his earlier "Radio League" had promoted interest in his radio and electrical hobby magazines.  It was successful, and chapters were formed in the US, UK and Australia.  Although the League was popular, with membership soon reaching about 1,000, it did not last long; in 1943 Sam Merwin, the editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories (the magazine had changed its name in 1936) dropped the organization when he took over the editorship. Frederik Pohl recalled that the League "changed a lot of lives. It filled a need" by helping fans meet each other, and reported that some chapters still existed 30 years later.

The Science Fiction League of America was a different organization of science fiction writers including Ted Sturgeon, Anthony Boucher, and Isaac Asimov, and associated with the television show Tales of Tomorrow.

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1934 establishments in the United States
Science fiction fandom


title: Arna Church

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Arna Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Indre Arna. It is one of two churches in the Arna parish which is part of the Åsane prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, stone church was built in a long church design in 1864 using plans drawn up by the architect Frederik Hannibal Stockfleth. The church seats about 280 people.

History
In 1861, a cemetery was built in Arna, and soon after, planning began for a church at the cemetery. Frederik Hannibal Stockfleth was hired to design the new church and a man named Wangberg was hired as the lead builder. The church was completed in 1864, a date that is prominently displayed on the side of the church, and it was consecrated in 1865. The church received its first organ in 1912. In 1928, the church interior was refurbished and repainted. In 1936, a sacristy was built on the north and south sides of the choir using designs by the architect Erlend Tryti. The church was again renovated from 1964-1965 for the church's centennial celebrations, using plans by the architect R. Brandvik.

Media gallery

See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin

References

Churches in Bergen
Long churches in Norway
Stone churches in Norway
19th-century Church of Norway church buildings
Churches completed in 1864
1864 establishments in Norway


The Headies Award for Best Vocal Performance (Male) is an award presented at The Headies, a ceremony that was established in 2006 and originally called the Hip Hop World Awards. First presented to Faze in 2006, the category is one of six categories not open to public voting.

Recipients

Category records
Most wins

Most nominations

Notes

References

The Headies


title: Boyne Valley (disambiguation)

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Boyne Valley is the valley of the River Boyne in Leinster, Ireland. Boyne Valley may also refer to:

Boyne Valley Township, Michigan, an American township
Boyne Valley (Queensland), a locality in the Gladstone Region, Australia
Brú na Bóinne, a World Heritage Site in County Meath, Ireland


title: Zhang Tiesheng

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Zhang Tiesheng (; born 4 November 1950) is a Chinese businessman who became famous during the Cultural Revolution for refusing to take the national college entrance exam on physics and chemistry in 1973. Instead he handed in a blank paper and wrote on the back that he was disgusted by bookworms who had never done any honest work, and that a few hours of written exams would disqualify him. He became a national hero for his stand and even won a seat in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 1975. However, after the fall of the Gang of Four he was put on trial and sentenced to 15 years in prison for opposing Deng Xiaoping's takeover of power and educational reforms.

He later founded the Wellhope Agri-Tech company. As of 2017, his net worth is 106 million RMB.

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20131104222336/http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120527000053&cid=1601
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/zhang-tiesheng-leftist-hero-china-millionaire

1950 births
Living people
People of the Cultural Revolution
Chinese communists


title: Patricia Acioli

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Patrícia Lourival Acioli (February 14, 1964 in Niterói, August 12, 2011 in Niterói) was a Brazilian judge and feminist. She was the first judge to be murdered in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Acioli championed the rights of battered women and fought against organized crime and corrupt police officers. She was murdered by masked men on motorbikes outside her house in 2011. Eleven police officers, including its chief, were convicted of planning and executing the murder.

In 1992, Acioli entered the judiciary through the Legal Service. Acioli taught Civil Law at the Centro Universitário Augusto Motta in the 1990s. Since 1999, she has sat at the Fourth Court of Criminal Section of São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro. She was characterized by applying stiffer penalties for drug dealers, gangsters and corrupt police.

On the night of August 11, 2011, Acioli returned to her vehicle at the Courts of São Gonçalo, where she worked and headed towards her home in the neighborhood of Piratininga  in the city of Niterói. Arriving at her residence, she was killed by two masked men on a motorcycle, who fired "at least sixteen shots". Though she had received several death threats, she had no police protection. She was buried in Niteroi, leaving three children. The murder of Acioli reverberated throughout Brazil. The president of the Supreme Federal Court described the act as a premeditated "attack against Brazilian government and democracy". The Court ordered an investigation by the Federal Police.

According to the investigations, which were conducted by Deputy Felipe Ettore and Commissioner José Carlos Guimarães of the Homicide Division of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Patrícia's murder was committed by military police officers dissatisfied with their actions in relation to a group of agents who operated in the city of São Gonçalo committing homicides and extortion. In April 2014, all 11 police officers tried in the case were convicted by the courts.

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1964 births
2011 deaths
People from Niterói
20th-century Brazilian judges
Brazilian women judges
Brazilian feminists
Assassinated judges
Assassinated Brazilian people
Deaths by firearm in Brazil
21st-century Brazilian judges
20th-century women judges
21st-century women judges


title: Mark Pelling

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Philip Mark Pelling KC (born 27 June 1956) is a British Specialist Chancery Senior Circuit judge.

He was educated at Bancroft's School and King's College London (LLB; AKC). He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1979, became a Queen's Counsel in 2003 and served as a Recorder from 2004 to 2006. He was made a bencher of Middle Temple in 2011.

References

1956 births
Living people
People educated at Bancroft's School
Alumni of King's College London
Associates of King's College London
21st-century King's Counsel
Circuit judges (England and Wales)


title: Acacia spondylophylla

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Acacia spondylophylla, commonly known as curry wattle or spine-leaf wattle, is a small, flat topped shrub native to central and western Australia. The leaves, which are arranged on spaced whorls around the stem, have a distinctive curry-like smell.

Description
The viscid shrub typically grows to a height of  but can reach up to  and has a spreading a flat topped habit. The stems are covered with fine downy hairs and have  long stipules. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The phyllodes are arranged in whorls of 8 to 14 and are more or less flattened and straight or recurved towards apex. The phyllodes are  in length and less than  wide and also covered in fine downy hairs with a single obscure impressed nerve on upper the upper surface. It usually blooms between May and August producing yellow flowers. The spherical flower-heads contain 25 to 40 yellow coloured flowers. After flowering sticky and leathery seed pods form. The linear to curved pods are  in length and  wide and have nerve-like margins and contain transversely arranged seeds with a length of .

Distribution
It is found in arid parts of central Australia in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland. In Western Australia it is found in the Pilbara and northern Goldfields regions where it is usually found along creeks and on rocky hills and gullies growing in stony or sandy soils often around ironstone. It has a disjunct distribution form the Hamersley Range in the Pilabara where it is quite common extending east and becoming scattered from east of the Rawlinson Range in Western Australia. It is then found in the Macdonnell Ranges and Musgrave Ranges in the Northern Territory and then further east to around Dajarra in Queensland.

Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1874 as part of the work Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.
It is commonly mistaken for Acacia perryi which has larger stipules and phyllodes.

Cultivation
The species is naturally found growing in stony and sandy soils, and has been brought into cultivation for arid area gardening. The shrub is drought tolerant and regenerates easily from seed.

See also
List of Acacia species

References

Flora of the Northern Territory
Acacias of Western Australia
spondylophylla
Fabales of Australia
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
Plants described in 1874
Flora of Queensland


title: Sam Black (cricketer)

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Christopher James Robert "Sam" Black (born 15 December 1947 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa) is a former cricketer who played for Middlesex from 1970 to 1973.

Black was initially educated at Michaelhouse before moving to the United Kingdom. He was an outstanding schoolboy cricketer at Stowe School. In 1966, his final year, he made 473 runs at an average of 43.00 and took 45 wickets at 9.95, and was selected to play for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Schools XI against Combined Services at Lord's. In Wisden's Public Schools report, E.M. Wellings said Black's "bowling was too fast for most schoolboys and his striking too vigorous for most opposing bowlers".

Black played two first-class matches for Middlesex in 1970 as a bowler, but failed to take a wicket. He also played nine matches in the 40-over John Player League, taking eight wickets. His 13 matches in the John Player League in 1971 included an outstanding performance against Surrey when, in a match reduced by rain to 24 overs a side, he scored 72 not out and took 6 for 25. A few days earlier he had hit his only first-class fifty, 71 against Hampshire, when he "thrashed the new ball so fiercely that he scored at well over a run a minute".

He appeared in only one first-class match in 1972, and five in 1973, but he was a regular player in the John Player League, taking 14 wickets at 14.78 in 1972 and eight wickets at 16.62 in 1973, including 4 for 20 against Nottinghamshire. Despite making 609 runs at 35.82 and taking 40 wickets at 15.27 for Middlesex Second XI in 1973, he left county cricket after the season.

After leaving Middlesex he married an Australian and moved to Melbourne, where he played for North Melbourne in 1974–75 and 1975–76, winning their best player award in his first season.

References

External links

1947 births
Living people
Cricketers from Johannesburg
English cricketers
Middlesex cricketers
People educated at Stowe School
South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
English cricketers of 1969 to 2000
Alumni of Michaelhouse


title: Ao Vivo em Copacabana

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Ao Vivo em Copacabana (English: Live in Copacabana) is the first live album by the Brazilian recording artist Claudia Leitte, released on June 27, 2008. The album was recorded during a single concert performed on February 17, 2008, at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro in front of audiences of up to one million people. The disc had sold over 700,000 copies, which earned her a certified Triple Platinum and Gold Record by ABPD.

Track listing
On June 27, 2008, the album was released in CD and digital download formats. A DVD with two discs set was released on August 11, 2008. On disc one comes a concert recorded on Copacabana beach, in addition to music videos and making of. On disc two comes a documentary showing the last few months of Claudia in the band Babado Novo and the beginning of his solo career. An extended play with songs that are only on DVD was released only for digital download on September 5, 2008.

CD

DVD

Extended play
Ao Vivo em Copacabana: Músicas Extraídas do DVD (English: Live in Copacabana: Songs from DVD) is the first extended play by Claudia Leitte, released on September 5, 2008. Contains four songs that are present on the DVD that are not on the CD track listing.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2008 live albums
Claudia Leitte live albums
Live electropop albums
Live video albums
Universal Music Group live albums
Universal Music Group video albums
2008 video albums
Portuguese-language live albums
Portuguese-language video albums