title: List of Tamagotchi! characters

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This is the list of characters appearing in the anime Tamagotchi! and its anime movies.

Main characters

Mametchi
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese), Erica Mendez (Tamagotchi Friends webisode dub), Stephanie Sheh (Let's Go! Tamagotchi and Tamagotchi: The Movie's English dub)
 is the central character of the Tamagotchi! series. He is a member of the Mame family. He was born officially on November 23.  He is intelligent, kind-hearted, and easy to get along with. Mametchi is a young inventor who creates helpful inventions for his friends, but they have a chance of exploding. Mametchi is also tone-deaf, and isn't a good painter or singer at all. Almost everyone criticizes his singing except Melodytchi, who enjoys it. His singing would improve later in the anime. Mametchi's best friends are Memetchi and Kuchipatchi. The three have shared such close bonds since childhood. He has make friendly rival with KuroMametchi. He would later develop friendships with Lovelitchi (Lovelin). Himespetchi also has strong feelings for Mametchi that he's unaware of, but he still treats her like a friend.

In Tamagotchi!, Mametchi would forgive Lovelitchi for keeping her identity a secret, create Tama-Profies that could store Tama-Hearts inside and give them to Lovelitchi & Melodytchi, and help save Tamagotchi Planet from an egg curse. In Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream, Mametchi, Memetchi, & Kuchipatchi depart to Dream Town. Mametchi initially homestayed with an elderly Tamagotchi named Ikaritchi, who initially treated him poorly but eventually changed his ways. After Ikaritchi departed to sell apples, Mametchi homestayed with Pianitchi at Music Cafe. In Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends, Mametchi assists Miraitchi & Clulutchi in retrieving the lost Dreambakutchis. In GO-GO Tamagotchi!, Mametchi reunites will all his friends as a result of the Tamagottsun. In the series finale of the Tamagotchi anime, Mametchi invents the DreamTama Rainbow, a submarine-like vehicle that permits transportation all across Tamagotchi Planet.

Lovelitchi/Lovelin
Voiced by: Kei Shindō (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
, also known as , is Tamagotchi Planet's most famous and youngest celebrity idol. She is born on September 10 and her star sign is Virgo. Usually the main female protagonist of the first series, Lovelitchi is a shy but kind girl who likes to meet new people and make friends. However she can be very nervous at times due to having many fans because of her Lovelin identity. Though Lovelitchi tends to get a lot of courage from her friends to stand up on her own. She also likes to help out others and likes singing, dancing and trying out new outfits. Lovelitchi is the daughter of Lovepapalitchi, who runs a photo shop and Lovemamalitchi, who runs the Tama Cafe on Tama Street, as well as a big sister to her new brother Lovesoratchi.

Lovelitchi usually lives a double life as Lovelin to prevent people from knowing her true identity while working on stage. As Lovelin, she is very confident and outgoing and likes her fans. She also acted in various shows and movies done by TAMAX-TV. Also, Lovelin is very good singer, with all of her songs being well known in the entire Tamagotchi Planet. However, it caused a lot of jealousy from some people especially to her past classmates in the previous schools she attended. She usually ended up getting bullied by her own classmates, using her popularity as a tool to get anything they desired. After she transferred to Tamagotchi School, Mametchi accepted her through open arms and treated her as a true tama-friend. After then, Mametchi and his friends knew her secret after she revealed it during his birthday party and decided to protect her double identity.

She usually make acquaintances with Mametchi, Memetchi and Kuchipatchi and they appear in some of her shows. Mametchi supports her and have am feelings with her. She became best friends with Melodytchi after seeing her perform on television and both of them became true Tama-Friends. By the end of the first series, she and the rest of the cast were absent after Mametchi, Memetchi and Kuchipatchi moved to Dream Town. She only make appeared once during Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream, in episode 10 where she and the other Tamagotchis gave Mametchi a party to celebrate his birthday and welcome him back home. She then reappeared in GO-GO Tamagotchi and encounter with Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi in her Lovelin identity.

Memetchi
Voiced by: Ryōka Yuzuki (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (Let's Go! Tamagotchi and Tamagotchi: The Movie's English dub)
 is the oldest sibling of the Meme Family and Imotchi's older sister. She's born on October 10 and her star sign is Libra. She, Mametchi and Kuchipatchi were all childhood friends when they were toddlers and remained best friends up to today. Usually very girly, feminine yet childlike, Memetchi is always obsessed about the curly hair on top of her head; she can get very angry even sensitive when people make fun of it. She can get quite angry at times, but she can be a crybaby when she's been bullied. Memetchi also likes fashion and accessories like Lovelitchi and usually has a rivalry with Makiko since they were young, and often fights with her to find out who has the better curls. But unlike Makiko, she herself matters friendship more than her looks.

Memetchi also has a special ability using her curls, on which she use it to sense things. She can also sense her surroundings and assume the correct path by curling it, thought this fails in some situations when her hair curl is damaged, or got wet in the rain. Her curl is also very delicate and she can lose her sense of direction when it got broken. By the first series's epilogue, she, Mametchi and Kuchipatchi had moved to Dream Town to study abroad in order to become the best hairdresser. She stays at the Salon De Dream, one of Dream Town's famous salons and also acts as a Saxophone Player for the Kira Kira Girls. She was then reunited by her old friends in GO-GO Tamagotchi, after the Tamagottsun event.

Kuchipatchi
Voiced by: Asami Yaguchi (Japanese), Evelyn Lantto (Let's Go! Tamagotchi and Tamagotchi: The Movie's English dub)
 is the oldest sibling of the Kuchi Family and the older brother to both the Chibipatchi twins. He is born on May 18 and his stat sign is Taurus. He, Mametchi and Memetchi were all childhood friends when they were toddlers and remained best friends up to today. He is very dimwitted and usually very carefree but lazy, usually ending is speeches with .  He is also shown to be very fond on food and likes to eat a lot of them, usually he cannot stop eating all at once.

Kuchipatchi himself has an ability to move his body like rubber and despite his looks he is very flexible, able to morph into a ball or stretch his own body. By the first series's epilogue, he, Mametchi and Memetchi had moved to Dream Town to study abroad in order to become the best cook. She stays at the Dream Hanten, Dream Town's Chinese restaurant and learns how to cook like a pro. He was then reunited by his old friends in GO-GO Tamagotchi, after the Tamagottsun event.

Telelin
Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
 is Lovelitchi's priced cellphone that she received from her parents. She got it after she first became an idol star. However, during the events of Episode 27 when the cast were sent to the past, Telelin came to life after her power is needed to charge Mamemametchi's machine to save the planet and after returning to the present, she became a recurring main character. She has a strange personality and often makes an unexpected remark, which ends up with Lovelitchi/Lovelin scolding her. She also believes in paranormal activity and knows ghosts exist. Usually Lovelitchi carries her inside her bag.

Melodytchi
Voiced by: Yuuko Sanpei (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
 is an famous violinist hailing from Melody Land, Melodytchi is Lovelitchi's Tama Friend. She is born on December 29 and her star sign is Capricorn. Melodytchi is a very outgoing girl unlike Lovelitchi and very outgoing, fun loving and confident. She is also like doing activities from her friends, but sometimes gets over-excited. She is also very optimistic and cheers people up when they're down. Melodytchi also works for TAMAX TV and usually performs alongside Lovelin in some of their performances. Her parents, Melomamatchi and Melopapatchi are both famous singers and composers in Melody Land. She is also shown to be fluent in English.

Usually she wears a black hat and sometimes takes it off to reveal her two cat-like ears. She usually stays in the Tama-Cafe alongside her Tama Pets Doremitchi and Sopratchi. Even though being away, she usually cares about her parents. Meloditchi is shown that she can't understand love but she likes to make jokes. She also like sweets and usually argues with Kuchipatchi sometimes over a cookie. Meloditchi also owns her priced instrument, the  in which she plays it in all of her performances. The violin is given to her by the Queen of Melody land after her first performance and chose her as its owner. She calls her violin My Friend and discovers it has a spirit inside it.

By the end of the first series, she and the rest of the cast were absent after Mametchi, Memetchi and Kuchipatchi moved to Dream Town. She then reappeared in GO-GO Tamagotchi and became friends with Pianitchi.

Moriritchi
Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
 is one of the owners of the Tamamori Shop and the younger sister of Anemoriritchi, Moriritchi is also one of Lovelitchi's best friends. Her birthday is in September 21 and her star sign is Virgo. First appearing in Episode 71 as a transfer student, Moriritchi is very outgoing girl who is active, bright and cheerful. She is also very good on Tamamori, a type of girly fashion present in Tamagotchi Planet and usually uses it to cheer her friends up. She usually has long, floppy ears, which she ties it into a fluffy cone-shaped hair and decorated with heart decorations.

She usually carries her camera, Pashalin onto her ears and she has a good relationship with her. By the end of the first series, she and the rest of the cast were absent after Mametchi, Memetchi and Kuchipatchi moved to Dream Town. She then reappeared in GO-GO Tamagotchi and became friends with Coffretchi and Candy Paku Paku.

Pashalin
Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
 is Moriritchi's prized digital camera. She is first created in Antique Town by her inventor, Firumutchi before Moriritchi found it, but doesn't work. Due to a freak accident by Mametchi when fixing Pashalin, she accidentally came to life and has been friends with Moriritchi ever since. She has the same personality as Moriritchi and usually copies things that she says, and also likes to ride onto Moriritchi's ears. However Anemoriritchi despises her due to that she has embarrassing photos of her on which she wanted to be deleted. Thought Moriritchi was unaware of her sister's actions to her.

Spacytchi
Voiced by: Yasuyuki Kase (Japanese)
 is the leader of the , a group composed of him, Akaspetchi and Pipospetchi who originated on another planet to take over Tamagotchi Planet. He is very ambitious, stubborn and selfish yet he hides it from everyone as he behaves nicely to them. Though he desires to conquer the planet, his plans always fail miserably. He also has a short temper to his fellow brothers yet he cares for the both of them. Spacytchi claimed that aliens doesn't exist though he is one. Despite his selfish personality, he also shows a bit of kindness towards others and usually befriends Mametchi and the others in school, though he sometimes very reluctant on carrying out his plans. He has a crush on Himespetchi, however she doesn't usually notice him.

He and the others left near the end of the series, and appeared again in the first episode of Yume Kira Dream. It is unknown how he end up in Dream Town.

Akaspetchi
Voiced by: Miho Hino (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
 is a member of the Spacy Brothers, a group composed of Spacytchi, Akaspetchi and Pipospetchi who originated on another planet to take over Tamagotchi Planet. He is very smart and mature, also very nice and friendly and nice but as evil as Spacytchi. He usually looks up after him and usually worried about things and panic sometimes. Spacytchi usually gets confused to him as he was always scolded him to stop talking. He usually refers Spacytchi as Aniki and end his speeches in . He also has a crush at Imotchi, and he usually talks to her.

He and the others left near the end of the series, and appeared again in the first episode of Yume Kira Dream. It is unknown how he end up in Dream Town.

Pipospetchi
 is a member of the Spacy Brothers, a group composed of Spacytchi, Akaspetchi and Pipospetchi who originated on another planet to take over Tamagotchi Planet. He is very kind and sweet however he is also the most evil of all the Spacy Brothers. Although this only comes out when the brothers are discussing their plans for world domination and think his plans are very dangerous. He also demonstrate incredibly powerful abilities and can lift heavy objects. He also sneaks away from the other brothers and does the job himself, with sometimes makes all of his plans work. He usually can't talk normally like the others and always speaks similar to a computer. It's also shown that he has a crush on Chamametchi and she is one of the people who can understand what he's saying.

He and the others left near the end of the series, and appeared again in the first episode of Yume Kira Dream. It is unknown how he end up in Dream Town.

Himespetchi
Voiced by: Yukana (Japanese)
 is a female Tamagotchi and the princess of the planet she originated on, similar to the Spacy Brothers. She was born on February 14 and her star sign is Aquarius. Debuting in episode 114, Himespetchi came to Tamagotchi Planet in order to study for 6 months. She usually enjoys cooking and has a romantic personality, usually gushing out her love to Mametchi, and also can take his bad singing. She tries to keep this crush a secret from others, but is not very good at controlling herself when she daydreams about Mametchi. Himespetchi is very friendly and also outgoing girl and always daydreams about Mametchi as a hot guy all the time. She isn't shy like the others except when she's around Mametchi and has a tendency to be in the wrong place at the wrong time especially when he's with others girls which upsets her. Spacytchi has a crush on her as well, but she doesn't take any interest in him. Himespetchi also knew Spacytchi back on their home planet as well when they were little. She is shown to be scared on slugs and snails and usually says  and  when she's embarrassed. She uses the  to predict the future and in order to win Mametchi's heart.

She also appears in Yume Kira Dream as she moved from Tamagotchi Town to Dream Town in order to be with Mametchi and also finish her studies. She also acts as the Drummer for the Kira Kira Girls. But by episode 34, her parents ordered her to return to her home planet and by episode 35, she left Tamagotchi Planet completely. She made a comeback in GO-GO Tamagotchi.

Tamagotchi Town

Tamagotchi School

Voiced by: Nanae Katō (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Kiyotaka Furushima (Japanese.Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Hinako Sasaki (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Akemi Okamura (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Wasabi Mizuta (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Yuko Gibu (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Akiko Kawase (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Junko Takeuchi, Mayumi Yamaguchi (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
A young chubby girl who is Orenetchi's older sister. Like Orenetchi, she had a crush on KuroMametchi and is a good cheerleader. She befriends Himespetchi in episode 3 of GO-GO Tamagotchi.

Voiced by: Yuuko Sanpei (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
A young boy who is Neenetchi's younger brother. He admires KuroMametchi to the point where he often daydreams of him. He is cheerful and can be mischievous. He is a member of DoriTama Eleven, DoriTama Town's soccer team.

Voiced by: Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Yūko Gibu (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Yūko Gibu (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Yuri Chinen (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Jun Konno (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Kiyotaka Furushima, Daisuke Matsuo (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Kana Uetake (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Hinako Sasaki (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Akiko Kawase

Voiced by: Kana Uetake (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Nami Okamoto (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Nanae Katō (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Nami Okamoto (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Miho Hino & Kana Uetake (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Taeko Kawata (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

School Faculty

Voiced by: Hiroshi Ōtake (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Kurumi Mamiya (Japanese) English: Evelyn Lanto
She is the teacher of the Grippatchi's class, which consists of Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, Lovelitchi, Telelin, Melodytchi, Moriritchi, Pashalin, Himespetchi, Spacytchi, Kuromametchi, Gozarutchi, Flowertchi, Makiko, Uwasatchi, Debatchi, Mimitchi, Watawatatchi, Nachuratchi, Ponpontchi, Sunopotchi, Togetchi, Hinotamatchi, Ringotchi, Dorotchi, Yattatchi, Nemutchi, Tomomi, and Kizunatchi.

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He is the teacher of the Mr. Turtlepedia's class, which consists of Chamametchi, Imotchi, Kikitchi, Akaspetchi, Pipospetchi, Octodogtchi, Gourmetchi, Kumattatchi, Eco-usatchi Triplets, Atsuatsutchi, Kunoitchi, Sabusabutchi, Himetchi, Nonopotchi, Young Mametchi, Young Dorotchi, Bokutchi, Shoototchi, Shigurehimetchi, Kuishinbotchi, and Perotchi.

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Voiced by: Kiyotaka Furushima (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
Professor Flask is the teacher of the science class, which consists of Chamametchi, Imotchi, Kikitchi, Dorotchi, Kumattatchi, Gourmetchi, Octodogtchi, Kunoitchi, Nonopotchi, and Himetchi.

Voiced by: Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Suguru Inoue (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Parents and Relatives

Voiced by: Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Konishi Katsuyuki (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Satomi Korogi (Doremitchi), Ken Miyake (Sopratchi)
Doremitchi and Sopratchi are Melodytchi's twin Tama-Pets, who accompany her during her stay in Tamagotchi Town. Doremitchi is more spoiled and loves to sing and dance while Sopratchi is more of a tomboy who looks after her twin. Both of them like Melodytchi's music on her Melody Violin and Melody Charm, however they despise Mametchi's singing voice due to it causes them to get annoyed.

Royalty

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Citizens

Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Tama Pet

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Shurikentchi
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Voiced by: Mika Kanai (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Patchi Forest
 is a forest located just outside of Tamagotchi Town. It is home to Kuchipatchi and Nachuratchi.

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Challenge Town

TAMAX-TV and YUMEX-TV

TAMAX-TV

Voiced by: Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Nanae Katou (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Yuka Takakura (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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YUMEX-TV

Voiced by: Kōichi Sakaguchi (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Mariya Ise (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Kei Shindou (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Yonai Yuuki (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Masako Jou (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Melody Land
 is a musical town located far away from Tamagotchi Town. It is also the hometown of Melodytchi and Pianitchi.

Royalty

Voiced by: Mikako Takahashi (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Citizens

Voiced by: Chiemi Chiba (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

North North Point
 is a small village found at the top of Tamagotchi Planet, far from Tamagotchi Town. North North Point is similar the North Pole on Earth. It is the hometown of Nonopotchi, Sunopotchi and Yukipatchi.

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Pichi Pichi Island

Toko Natsu Island

Toko Fuyu Island

Ha Island

Main characters

Voiced by: Mariya Ise (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
a young Tama heart collector who is actually the servant of HatoKamitchi, she appeared for the first time in Lovelitchi TamaProfy and she became extremely popular for her cute appearance, she often gets exited when Lovelitchi and Melodytchi getting a new heart, in the last episode of Tamagotchi! first series she evolved to her new from and leaving.

The Earth

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Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Dream Town

Main characters

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (Japanese) Christine Marie Cabanos (Tamagotchi Friends webisode dub)

Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (Japanese) Cassandra Lee Morris (Tamagotchi Friends webisode dub)

Voiced by: Ikumi Nakagami (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Emiri Katō (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Etsuko Kozakura (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Takahiro Mizushima (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Ai Matayoshi (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Dream School

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese)

Voiced by: Satomi Kōrogi (Japanese)

Voiced by: Kawase Akiko (Japanese) Cristina Vee (Tamagotchi Friends webisode dub)

Voiced by: Yuko Gibu (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Mariya Ise (Japanese)

Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Sanpei Yuko (Japanese)

Voiced by: Chiaki Naitou (Japanese)

Voiced by: Akemi Okamura (Japanese)

Voiced by: Jun Konno (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Kiyotaka Furushima (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Chika Fujimura (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Hinako Sasaki (Japanese) Cristina Vee (Tamagotchi Friends webisode dub)

Voiced by: Kei Shindou (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese) Cristina Vee (Tamagotchi Friends webisode dub)

Voiced by: Kei Shindou (Japanese)

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Chiaki Naitou (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Hinako Sasaki (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Chiaki Naitou (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Chiaki Naitou (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Ikumi Nakagami (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Kuwatani Natsuko (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Ikumi Nakagami (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Hinako Sasaki (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Suguru Inoue (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

School Faculty

Voiced by: Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese)

Voiced by: Jun Konno (Japanese)
He is the teacher of the Mr. Kokubantchi's class, which consists of Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, Himespetchi, Spacytchi, Yumemitchi, Kiraritchi, Pianitchi, Coffretchi, Miraitchi, Clulutchi, Watchlin, Furifuritchi, Hoshigirltchi, Gotchimotchi, Doyatchi, Amakutchi, Karakutchi, Tacttchi, Hanafuwatchi, and Majokkotchi.

Voiced by: Yukuna (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
She is the teacher of the Ms. Hakubanko's class, which consists of Tropicatchi, Julietchi, Patitchi, Nandetchi, Smartchi, Crepetchi, Righttchi, Knighttchi, Acchitchi, Yukinkotchi, Amiamitchi, Waltztchi, Harptchi, Monakatch, Chouchotchi, Rinkurutchi, Pekopekotchi, Ameartotchi, and Kurumakitchi.

Voiced by: Kiyotaka Furushima (Japanese)
Mr. Robomechatchi is the teacher of the mechanical class, which consists of Mametchi, Righttchi, Nandetchi, Hoshigirltchi, and Himespetchi. He is the teacher of the mechanical class at DoriTama School, which includes Mametchi, Himespetchi, Clulutchi, Righttchi, Nandetchi, and Mimitchi.

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese)
Mr. Micchi is the teacher of the dance class, which consists of Yumemitchi, Kiraritchi, Furifuritchi, Knighttchi, and Jurietchi.

Voiced by: Yuuki Hayashi (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
Mr. Comb-bowie is the teacher of the hair-dressing class, which consists of Memetchi, Coffretchi, Doyatchi, Yukinkotchi, and Tropicatchi.

Voiced by: Kiyotaka Furushima (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
Mr. Grilltchi is the teacher of the cooking class, which consists of Patitchi, Amakutchi, Karakutchi, Crepetchi, and Kuchipatchi. He is the teacher of the cooking class at DoriTama School, which includes Kuchipatchi, Patitchi, Candy Pakupaku, Perotchi, Amakutchi, Karakutchi, Gourmetchi, and Crepetchi.

Voiced by: Akemi Okamura (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
Ms. Modetchi is the teacher of the fashion-designing class, which consists of Amiamitchi, Furawatchi, Spacytchi, Akaspetchi, and Pipospetchi. She is the teacher of the fashion-designing class at DoriTama School, which includes Memetchi, Moriritchi, Makiko, Neenetchi, Himespetchi, Kiraritchi, and Clulutchi.

Voiced by: Chika Fujimura (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)
Ms. Musicatchi is the teacher of the music class, which consists of Tacttchi, Waltztchi, Harptchi, Pianitchi, Smartchi, and Rinkurutchi.

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Marutentchi Sensei is the teacher of the designing class, which consists of Miraitchi, Clulutchi, Watchlin, Pekopekotchi, Ameartotchi, and Kurumakitchi.

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Ms. Trimmertchi is the teacher of the Tama Pet-styling class, which consists of Acchitchi, Monakatchi, Chouchoutchi, and Gotchimotchi.

Parents and Relatives

Voiced by: Masaki Terasoma (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese)

Voiced by: Nobuaki Kanemitsu (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Sanpei Yuko (Japanese)

Voiced by: Mariya Ise (Japanese) Cristina Vee (Tamagotchi Friends webisode dub)

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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Voiced by: Hidenobu Kiuchi (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Yuuko Sanpei (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Akiko Nakagawa (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Suguru Inoue (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by:

Voiced by: Yūki Tai (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Tama Star Circus

Voiced by: Hidenari Ugaki (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Yasuyuki Kase (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Tokuyoshi Kawashima (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Yuko Gibu (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Suguru Inoue (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Citizens

Voiced by: Yōsuke Akimoto (Japanese)

Voiced by: Kawase Akiko (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Kei Shindou (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Jun Konno (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Chiaki Naitou (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Kumiko Takizawa (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Suguru Inoue (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Kenji Nojima (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Jun Konno (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Takeharu Ōnishi (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Tama Pet

Voiced by: Hino Miho (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by:

Voiced by: Chiaki Naitou (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Makimotchi
Voiced by:

Voiced by: Hinako Sasaki (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

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TamaGoLand
TamaGoLand is location of Tamagotchi Planet.

Voiced by: Yuka Terasaki (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

Voiced by: Yurin (Japanese. Currently no English voice.)

References

General
 http://tamagotch.channel.or.jp/tama_anime/dreamchara/index.html

Specific

Tamagotchi! (anime)
Tamagotchi


title: Fusicoccum quercus

text:
Fusicoccum quercus is a species of anamorphic fungus in the family Botryosphaeriaceae. It causes a bark canker that occurs on oak trees (Quercus). It is an aggressive, widespread bark parasite on saplings, young trees and on branches of older trees of many oaks. The symptoms are a 0.5–3 mm-long elliptic coloured spot that appears at the base of the branches, followed by necrosis that grows around the branch at this spot, causing the branch and shoots to die.

The disease is only spread by big alpha or small beta conidia that grow from the phomopsis type (pycnidia) in the summer, and from the fusicoccum type winterhidings in September. It occurs mainly in dry (arid) habitats.

References

External links

Fungi described in 1984
Fungi of Europe
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Botryosphaeriaceae


title: Justin Thannhauser

text:
Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976) was a German art dealer and collector who was an important figure in the development and dissemination of modern art in Europe.

Biography

Early years
Justin K. Thannhauser was born in Munich, the son of Charlotte (Nachtigall) and Heinrich Thannhauser (1859–1935), who was also an art dealer. His family was Jewish. As a child, Justin assisted his father in his Moderne Galerie, one of the three Thannhauser Galleries, which was located in Munich. In 1911, Heinrich sent him abroad to further his academic studies, including art history, philosophy, and psychology. Justin studied in Munich, Berlin, Florence, and Paris, with renowned scholars such as Henri Bergson, Adolf Goldschmidt, and Heinrich Wölfflin. He later brought Wölfflin and other eminent guests to hold private lectures at the Moderne Galerie, helping to turn it into one of Munich's leading art galleries. While abroad, he also strengthened business contacts with artists and other important art dealers, such as Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (Pablo Picasso's Parisian dealer) and Wilhelm Uhde.

In 1912, Justin returned to Munich to work full-time at the gallery, which had become known for its combination of Munich Modernism (see Neue Künstlervereinigung München and Der Blaue Reiter) and French avant-garde painting (see Impressionism and Post-Impressionism). His new business relationship with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, however, led to an unprecedented exhibition of works by the Italian Futurists. This exhibition, while controversial, brought even greater notoriety to the gallery. In 1913, it held the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Picasso's work. Justin wrote the introduction to the exhibition catalogue and soon began a close personal and professional relationship with the artist. He acquired many of Picasso's works over the years, including Woman Ironing (1904) and The Blind Man's Meal (1903).

World War I and the interwar period
Justin was called to serve in World War I in 1914. After being wounded in 1916, he returned to Munich and helped Heinrich to publish three large volumes cataloguing a selection of the gallery's inventory and activities. In 1918, he married his first wife, Kate. She gave birth to their two sons, Heinz and Michel, in 1918 and 1920, respectively. In 1919, as the political and economic situation in Germany continued to decline, Justin decided to move his family to Lucerne, Switzerland. There, he opened a second branch of what was now called Moderne Galerie/Thannhauser. This new venue allowed the family to sell works that were found unfavorable in Germany. Justin ran the Lucerne branch until 1921, when he was called back to Munich to assist his father, who had developed a serious condition in his larynx. The Lucerne gallery continued to be under Justin's direction until 1928, when his cousin Siegfried Rosengart assumed control and changed its name to Galerie Rosengart.

Once in Munich, Justin assumed complete control of his father's gallery and brought the two branches under the name Galerien Thannhauser. He began to slowly rebuild the business's reputation, which had weakened during the war, by organizing conservative exhibitions of German paintings and works on paper. He soon returned to the avant-garde, however, showing works by Picasso and Kandinsky in 1922, an exhibition of contemporary American artists in 1923, and paintings by Vlaminck in 1925. His most daring endeavors took place in 1926, when he held exhibitions of work by George Grosz and Otto Dix.

In 1927, Justin opened a third gallery in Berlin. The success of this branch quickly surpassed that of the one in Munich; he thus decided to focus completely on the former and closed the latter in 1928. His greatest achievement in the Berlin space took place in 1930, when he presented the largest exhibition of works by Matisse ever held in Germany.

World War II and post-war years
In 1937, Justin moved with this family to Paris to escape the Nazi Germany regime. Although the Nazi government considered Modern art to be "degenerate," he had paid a steep export tax and was thus permitted to bring many important works and archive materials with him. He was, however, forced to liquidate his family's collection of classic German art in order to make this financially possible. Despite this considerable loss, he was able to open a private gallery on rue de Miromesnil. He was also voted into the Syndicat des Editeurs d'Art et Négotiants en Tableaux Modernes, Paris's professional society of art dealers.

After the outbreak of World War II, Justin moved his family back to Switzerland, and then to New York. There, he opened another private gallery. Fortunately, he had managed to bring several important works with him to the United States; the house in Paris would later be looted by Nazi soldiers. However, due to the death of Heinz (who was killed in combat in 1944) and the poor health of Michel (who would ultimately die in 1952), Justin canceled his plans to open a public gallery and placed a large number of works up for auction in 1945. He remained in New York until 1971, where he continued to operate the private gallery, collected art, and assisted museums and galleries with exhibitions and acquisitions. He also hosted many international cultural luminaries in his home, including Picasso, Louise Bourgeois, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Renoir, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas M. Messer, then Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, among many others. Kate died in 1960, and he married his second wife, Hilde, two years later.

In 1963, Justin decided to bequeath the essential works of his collection to the Guggenheim. The size and quality of this gift was unparalleled by any that he had made or would make again. Because the terms called for the works to be permanently installed in a designated space so that they would be publicly accessible, the Guggenheim created the Thannhauser Wing in 1965. The museum space housing the Thannhauser collection has since been expanded and restored.

Justin and Hilde retired to Switzerland in 1971, and Justin died in Gstaad on December 26, 1976. After his death, Hilde continued to donate works of art to institutions around the world, including the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Guggenheim. She died in Bern in 1991.

Controversies and lawsuits concerning Holocaust-related art transactions
Thannhauser was involved in art transactions that have resulted in Nazi-era art claims against the Guggenheim Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation, the Bavarian State Paintings Collections, and Chicago art collectors James and Marlynne Alsdorf, among others. In each case, the lawsuits were filed in courts by the families of the Jewish collectors who had owned the artworks before Thannhauser dealt with them.

In January 2023, a claim was filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court against the Guggenheim Museum by the heirs of Karl Adler and Rosi Jacobi demanding the repatriation of Picasso's Woman Ironing. Thannhauser purchased the painting in 1938 during the Nazi era.  When  Thannhauser died in 1978, he gifted it, along with the rest of his artwork, to the Guggenheim Museum. The Guggenheim Museum's position concerning Picasso's "Woman Ironing" is that when the painting’s owner sold it, he made a “fair transaction.” However, the heirs claim that it was sold under duress.

See also

 Thannhauser Galleries

References

Notes

Sources
 Bäckström, Per; Hjartarson, Benedikt, eds. (2014). Decentering the Avant-Garde, Volume 30 of Avant-Garde Critical Studies. Rodopi. p. 189. .
 Barnett, Vivian Endicott (1978). The Guggenheim Museum, Justin K. Thannhauser Collection. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. p. 14. .
 Drutt, Matthew: "A Showcase for Modern Art: The Thannhauser Collection," in: Drutt, Matthew (Ed.), Thannhauser: The Thannhauser Collection of the Guggenheim Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 2001, pp. 1–25
 The Thannhauser Gallery: Marketing Van Gogh, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2017. [book review in: http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/art/e0021000/thannhauser_gallery_e0210000.htm]

German art dealers
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
1892 births
1976 deaths


title: Eccopsis deprinsi

text:
Eccopsis deprinsi is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae that is endemic to Kenya.

References

External links

Moths described in 2004
Endemic moths of Kenya
Olethreutini
Moths of Africa


title: Fady (taboo)

text:
In Malagasy culture, fady () are a wide range of cultural prohibitions or taboos. People, places, actions or objects may be the subject of fady, which vary by region within Madagascar. The taboos are believed to be enforced by supernatural powers, and are particularly connected with Malagasy ancestor worship. Although some are held nationwide, others may be particular to regions, villages or even individual families. Fady are an integral part of Malagasy identity and play an important part in community and identity formation. The word is a descendant of Proto-Austronesian *paliSi (compare with Malay pemali, Old Javanese pali-pali).

Common prohibitions include those against pointing at a tomb, against the eating of eels by pregnant women and, for onlookers, against describing a newborn baby as ugly. New fady are created constantly. When a new initiative or business is started, a ritual offering (joro) must be made to prove that it is not fady. Those who break a fady (ota fady in the infinitive) are shunned as unclean (maloto) and for endangering the community's spiritual balance, regardless of whether or not the infraction was deliberate. Foreigners in Madagascar are advised to respect local fady and alter their behavior accordingly.

Fady also form an important influence in other aspects of Malagasy culture. The Malagasy for "please" or "excuse me" is azafady, literally translating as "may it not be fady of me".

Some writers have argued that fady are conceptually similar to unwritten social taboos in western culture, in which disregard can lead to the violator being shunned by the community.

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Bibliography

Further reading

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title: Penicillium arenicola

text:
Penicillium arenicola is an anamorph fungus species of the genus of Penicillium which was isolated from pine forest soil in Russia.

See also
List of Penicillium species

References

arenicola
Fungi described in 1950


title: Leonid Vladimirsky

text:
Leonid Vladimirsky (21 September 1920 in Moscow, Russia - 18 April 2015) was a Russian illustrator who worked on fairy tales, including books by Alexander Pushkin (Ruslan and Ludmila), Aleksey Tolstoy (Golden Key, 1953), and Alexander Volkov, as well as some folk tales.

Vladimirsky graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography but decided to work as a book illustrator. He found it easiest to create evil characters, which are easily derived from the everyday life.

Books illustrated by Vladimirsky sold over 20 million copies. His illustrations to Tolstoy and Volkov were so popular in the Soviet Union that they were commonly reproduced on common goods including bottles of soft drinks and postcards.

References

External links
 vladimirsky.emeraldcity.ru

1920 births
2015 deaths
Russian illustrators
Soviet artists


title: Eccopsis trixiphias

text:
Eccopsis trixiphias is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

References

Moths described in 1939
Olethreutini


title: Audacy

text:
Audacy, previously known as Radio.com, is a free broadcast and Internet radio platform owned by the namesake company Audacy, Inc. (formerly known as Entercom). The Audacy platform functions as a music recommender system and is the national umbrella brand for the company’s radio network aggregating its over 235 local radio stations across the United States. In addition, the service includes thousands of podcasts, created for the platform, hosted elsewhere, or station programming on demand. It was originally created by CBS Radio and was acquired by the former Entercom as part of the company's takeover of CBS Radio. The service's main competitors are rival station group iHeartMedia's iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. Audacy is available online, via mobile devices, and devices such as Chromecast and Amazon Fire TV.

History

The radio.com domain was formerly owned by CNET Networks, which purchased it and tv.com from the nonprofit Internet Multicasting Service for $30,000 in 1996. CNET, and in turn the radio.com domain, was acquired by CBS Corporation (the parent company of CBS Radio at the time) in 2008.

Radio.com launched on July 16, 2010, under CBS Radio. It was originally launched as a central website to stream all of CBS's then 130 radio stations, Last.fm and other CBS properties. Among the original features were currently playing information, song history, station and genre searches, presets, blogs, newsfeeds, and social media tools. Later that year the service launched its first app for iOS. In addition the service added custom channels and music from AOL Radio and Yahoo Music. In 2015, the service added a music video streaming option. These deals eventually ended quietly, especially after AOL and Yahoo's mergers into Oath.

Entercom acquired CBS Radio, including Radio.com, on November 17, 2017.

Throughout early and mid-2018, disparate individual mobile apps and sites for Entercom's legacy stations (sometimes developed outside Entercom by local third parties for individual stations, and often not being hosted universally by one provider) were withdrawn from the iTunes Store and Google Play, uniting all of Entercom's web and mobile efforts for their properties solely under the Radio.com app and website. The CBS Radio stations, which were part of "CBS Local" sites with their former sister television stations, also saw their main web presences moved to sub-domains of Radio.com. Some of the former CBS Local domains in markets where CBS only had radio stations remained online until late 2021 despite no longer hosting local radio content, instead carrying content from the nearest CBS-owned television station.

 On June 25, 2018, Entercom announced that Radio.com would become the exclusive streaming provider for all of its stations, ending its relationship with the third-party service TuneIn. Stations previously owned by Entercom pre-merger were removed on July 6, and former CBS Radio stations were removed on August 1. At that time, Entercom's stations would also begin promoting the service, in particular, suffixing "a Radio.com station" after their legal station identifications at the top of each hour. Smart speaker integration of the service was launched within the same period.

In October 2019, the app debuted a feature called "Rewind", where a number of Entercom's spoken word content stations maintain a 24-hour on-demand buffer of programming that can be accessed through rewind, fast-forward and skip back/forward controls.

On March 30, 2021, Entercom rebranded both the company itself and Radio.com as Audacy. The end tag of Audacy's station identifications was then changed to identify them as "an Audacy station", along with a seven-note sounder whose tone varies with a station's format (such as a guitar playing it for a rock station, or a softer sound for a 'Mix'-like station). The end tag for all Audacy's stations was changed once again in July 2022 to "Always live on the free Audacy app." Audacy, Inc. put the Radio.com domain up for auction on December 29, 2022, with a minimum required bid of $2.5 million (USD); by June 1, 2023, the auction had closed without a winner.

On July 19, 2022, Audacy announced a redesign of their player on their website and their app to include enhanced features such as "Enhanced Rewind" allowing listeners to rewind spoken-word programming, curated discovery of content, seamless cross-device functionality, and enriched podcast listening.

Content partnerships
On February 7, 2019, Entercom launched stations for CNN, CNN International, HLN, Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television on Radio.com along with podcasts from Turner Podcast Network via deals with Bloomberg L.P. and Turner Broadcasting. Two weeks later, Radio.com reached deals to add Bonneville International and Cox Media Group stations and podcasts to the platform.

On September 25, 2019, Salem Media Group and Alpha Media stations were made available on the service. Beasley Broadcast Group stations joined the service on November 11, 2020.

On November 25, 2019, Disney Channels Worldwide agreed to terms to feature Radio Disney and Radio Disney Country's streams on the service; they were removed in January 2021 as Disney wound down their American radio operations, excluding ESPN Radio. Disney-branded music stations returned to the Audacy app in a new deal in August 2022.

On August 17, 2021, Audacy announced a content distribution partnership with Urban One to add its stations to Audacy. On September 15, 2021, Audacy announced that Cumulus Media-owned radio stations and podcasts would be added.

On May 23, 2023, Audacy signed a deal with Allen Media Group's The Weather Channel to carry the audio of the cable network, along with the streams of the Pattrn and Weather Channel en Español FAST channels.

After a five-year absence, Audacy's stations returned to TuneIn at the end of June 2023 as part of a new content partnership with the latter.

Availability and supported devices
In addition to traditional desktop availability, the service is available via iOS/WatchOS and Android mobile and tablet devices, along with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant-compatible smart speakers and other devices.

Streaming of Audacy content is geo-restricted to the United States. In addition, local advertising from the advertisers of the nearest Audacy cluster of stations to a listener is substituted over a station's own advertising, along with traditional national advertising, public service announcements, and Audacy features such as music news, trivia, and other minutia. Professional sports play-by-play are also geo-restricted to within the station's broadcast area, with either alternate/regular programming or a disclaimer airing instead online outside its market area.

See also
AccuRadio
Channel Q, an LGBTQ radio network
iHeartRadio – main competitor
TuneIn

References

External links

Audacy, Inc.
Internet properties established in 2010
Internet radio in the United States
CBS Radio
American music websites
Former CBS Interactive websites
Podcasting companies
Universal Windows Platform apps


title: Pany Yathotou

text:
Pany Yathotou (; born 18 February 1951) is a Laotian politician and member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.

She was the chairwoman and governor of the Bank of the Lao P.D.R., the country's central bank, from 1988 until 1997. Yathotou later joined the National Assembly in 1998. She served as the President of the National Assembly of Laos from 2010 to 2021. Yathotou is a part of Laos' Hmong ethnicity. She is the first woman to be elected as Vice President of Laos.

Early life
Yathotou was born on 18 February 1951 in Xiangkhouang Province. Her father, Ya Tho Thu, was a Hmong military commander in the Pathet Lao. In 1959, she moved to North Vietnam where she studied primary and secondary school, and in 1975, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in finance from Hanoi.

Political career

After her return to Laos, she joined the Vientiane Foreign Trade Bank in 1976 as the deputy director of the bank's budget department. She later joined the Bank of the Lao P.D.R. and in 1977, she was appointed as the deputy director of the bank's training center and in 1978, appointed as the deputy director of the foreign exchange bureau. In 1979, she joined the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and in 1980, she became the director of the foreign exchange bureau.

From 1982 to 1983, she served as the director of the economic planning bureau and from 1983 to 1985, director of the investment and construction bureau.

In 1986, Yanthou took office as the deputy governor of the Central Bank of Laos and was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party at the Fourth National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party held in November of the same year. She was promoted to the Party Central Committee at the Fifth National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party held in March 1999, and served as the governor of the central bank twice from 1988 to 1992 and from 1995 to 1997, after which she joined the government.

Yanthou was re-elected to the Party Central Committee at the Sixth National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party held in March 1996 and at the Seventh National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party held in March 2001. On the same year, she was elected as a representative of the Fourth National Congress, and was appointed to the Standing Committee of the National Congress and director of the Nationalities Committee of the National Congress when she became a representative of the National Congress in February 1998. She was successfully re-elected in the congressional representative election in February 2002 and was promoted to the vice chairman of Congress in April of the same year.

In March 2006, the Eighth National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party was held and she was re-elected as a member of the Party Central Committee, becoming the first female member of the Political Bureau of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and the first Hmong member. In April 2006, she took part in the election of the Sixth National Congress again, and was elected in the provincial constituency of Bolikhamxay. At the same time when she took office as the representative of the Sixth National Congress on 8 June of that year, she was re-elected as vice president of the congress.

In December 2010, Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh resigned and was replaced by the then President of the National Assembly of Laos Thongsing Thammavong, and as a result, Yanthou succeeded Thammavong as the President of the National Assembly of Laos. The Tenth Session of the Sixth National Congress of Laos passed the proposal of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on 23 December, confirming the appointment. She was also re-elected to the Party Central Committee and the Politburo at the Ninth Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party held in March 2011 and on 17 May 2014, she and other senior government officials did not get on the An-74 of Lao People's Army because they suddenly changed their plans before the departure and took another plane hence avoiding the ill-fated aircraft which crashed while en route to Xiangkhouang Province, killing 16 of 17 occupants onboard. At the Tenth Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party in 2016, she was re-elected as the President of the National Assembly.

Yathotou and Bounthong Chitmany were elected as vice presidents of Laos in March 2021. At the same time, she stepped down as the President of the National Assembly and was replaced by the former central chairman of the Lao Front for National Development Saysomphone Phomvihane.

Awards and honors
:
 Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2022)

References

1951 births
Living people
20th-century Laotian women politicians
20th-century Laotian politicians
Governors of the Bank of the Lao P.D.R.
Hmong politicians
Alternate members of the 4th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 5th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 7th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 8th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 9th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 10th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 11th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 8th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 9th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 10th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 11th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Lao People's Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Laotian women politicians
21st-century Laotian politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Laos
People from Xiangkhouang province
Presidents of the National Assembly of Laos
Vice presidents of Laos
Women vice presidents in Asia
Grand Cordons of the Order of the Rising Sun
Laotian economists


title: Worms Battlegrounds

text:
Worms Battlegrounds is a 2D artillery turn-based tactics video game developed and published by Team17 and was released on 30 May 2014 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Set within a world history museum, the single-player story follows the player's worms attempt to retrieve the concrete donkey's stone carrot from Lord Darius-Mesmer, a worm who is using it to try to take over the world. The game is narrated by Tara Pinkle, a Lara Croft parody who is voiced by Katherine Parkinson.

Gameplay

Worms Battlegrounds is an artillery turn-based tactics/strategy game. Gameplay follows on the earlier games of the series, in which teams of worms take turns to use a variety of weapons and items in order to eliminate the opposing teams. It continues to use the mechanic that was introduced in Worms Revolution, whereby players could select their worms from four different classes: Soldier, Scout, Scientist and Heavy, which all had different play styles unique to each class.

The game includes a total of sixty-five weapons and utilities. Among the ten new weapons is a teleport gun, which was created in response to criticism that the ninja rope wasn't authentic compared with older games. In an interview with Digital Spy producer Davd Wood explained: "We had to completely throw out the physics system for Revolution, Clan Wars and Battlegrounds, because we wanted to bring in dynamic water, we wanted to bring in physics objects,"

The Xbox One version enables Xbox SmartGlass to keep track of stats, while the light bar on the PlayStation 4's DualShock 4 controller changes its color depending on the status of the player's worm. The speech from the worms can also be heard through the DualShock 4's internal speaker.

Additional content
The first additional downloadable content pack for Worms Battlegrounds was titled Alien Invasion, and added various items to the game. It was released in January 2015. The pack adds a new game mode called 'Body Count' in which the player scores points for killing worms, as well as adding more campaign levels for the player to complete. In addition, weapons were added to the game, such as the Plasma Blaster, Energy Orbs and a UFO Strike, as well as adding various new customizable items to decorate the player's worms. The pack also added five trophies and achievements to its list. Alien Invasion was released on January 12 for Xbox One and January 21 for PlayStation 4.

Reception
Worms Battlegrounds received mixed reviews. It has a Metacritic score of 62/100 and 70/100 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions respectively.

References

2014 video games
Artillery video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation Network games
Strategy video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games featuring female protagonists
Worms (series) games
Xbox One games


title: Geita bjoernstadi

text:
Geita bjoernstadi is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania.

References

Moths described in 2004
Olethreutini


title: Crobot

text:
Crobot is an American hard rock band from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, composed of Brandon Yeagley, Chris Bishop, Dan Ryan and Tim Peugh.

Beginnings

In the mid-2011, Brandon Yeagley and Chris Bishop created Crobot, joined later by brothers Paul and Jake Figueroa, who previously performed similar styles of music in another band. In 2012 the band's original lineup self-released their debut EP, The Legend of the Spaceborne Killer, along with a music video for the eponymous first single. Later that year, the rhythm section of the band was revamped with the addition of the Figueroa brothers on bass and drums. The Figueroa brothers departed from the band early 2017 and were replaced by Dan Ryan on drums and James Alexander Lascu on bass in June 2017.

Wind-up Records

In 2013, Crobot was discovered by Wind-up Records, and was officially signed in December. On May 13, 2014, they released their self-titled EP, produced by Machine (Clutch, Lamb of God, Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes). The EP featured four tracks from their upcoming full-length album and received positive reviews. Their first single and video for "Nowhere to Hide" debuted on Revolver on May 14, 2014 and hit number 16 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. In May, Crobot was added to the 2014 lineup for Taco Bell's Feed the Beat campaign.

In 2014, the band toured with Chevelle, Clutch, The Sword, Truckfighters, KYNG, Kill Devil Hill, in addition to playing festivals such as SXSW, Rock on the Range, and Summerfest. They embarked on their first UK tour in September 2014, with The Virginmarys. Crobot performed at the "ShipRocked" music festival at sea from February 2–6 with Limp Bizkit, Black Label Society, Buckcherry, and fellow Wind-Up Records band Filter. The band then headed to Europe for a stint with Black Label Society and Anthrax before returning to the U.S. in April for a tour starting in Denver. At the end of September 2015 Crobot performed again at sea as part of the Motorhead's Motorboat line-up. They also supported Motorhead and Anthrax on a few warm-up dates prior to the Motorboat in September 2015. On June 8, 2016, Crobot released their new single "Not for Sale" taken from their second studio album Welcome to Fat City, released September 23.

Mascot Records
In November 2018, Crobot signed with Mascot Records  leading up to the release of their newest album Motherbrain in August 2019.

In February 2019, Crobot entered the studio in Atlanta with Corey Lowery of Seether who produced, mixed and engineered Motherbrain. Lowery also contributed playing bass. The album was released on August 23, 2019, and achieved a #6 position in the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart. The first single from Motherbrain, "Low Life", achieved a #10 position on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in February 2020.

In 2021, the band released their Rat Child EP. The four-track project features Steel Panther's Stix Zadina, Light the Torch’s Howard Jones, and bassist Frank Bello of Anthrax.

On March 10, 2022, the band announced their new album Feel This, alongside the lead single "Better Times." The album was released on June 3, 2022.

On July 12, 2023 the band released a recording of Janet Jackson’s "Black Cat".

Music

Crobot describes their music as "Dirty. Groove. Rock.", and has been compared to hard rock bands like Wolfmother, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden. Frontman Brandon Yeagley has been praised for his power packed vocals and dynamic stage presence, guiding the band's "undeniably magnetizing live shows."

Members

Current
Brandon Yeagley – lead vocals, harmonica (2011–present)
Chris Bishop – guitars, backing vocals (2011–present)
Dan Ryan – drums (2017–present)
Tim Peugh – bass (2021–present)

Former
Keith McGonigle – drums (2011– 2013)
Sam Grim - bass (2011-2013)
Jake Figueroa – bass (2013– 2016)
Paul Figueroa – drums (2013–2016)
Alexander Lascu - bass (2016-2019)
Eddie Collins – bass (2019–2021)

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

 Legend of the Spaceborne Killer (2012)
 Crobot (2014)
 Rat Child (2021)

Singles

References

External links

Hard rock musical groups from Pennsylvania
Musical groups established in 2011
American musical quartets
2011 establishments in Pennsylvania


The 2014 Chinese Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held from 8 May to 12 May 2014 in Nanning.

Women's event medal winners

Women's Team Final

Women's All-Around Final

Women's Vault Final

Women's Uneven Bars Final

Women's Balance Beam Final

Women's Floor Exercise Final

External links
  Result site

Chinese Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Chinese Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Chinese Artistic Gymnastics Championships


title: Parfino (inhabited locality)

text:
Parfino () is the name of several inhabited localities in Parfinsky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

Urban localities
Parfino, a work settlement under the administrative jurisdiction of Parfinskoye Settlement

Rural localities
Parfino (railway station), a rural locality classified as a railway station in Fedorkovskoye Settlement
Parfino (village), a village in Fedorkovskoye Settlement


title: BZRK

text:
BZRK is a book series written by Michael Grant. The series consists of four books: BZRK, BZRK II: Reloaded, BZRK III: Apocalypse and BZRK: Origins (the prequel to the series). The series follows the interaction between two warring factions. On one side Charles and Benjamin Armstrong, owners of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation have a goal to turn the world into their version of utopia. The only people who can stop them are a group of teenagers with the codename BZRK. In 2011, Grant's BZRK had a multimedia online debut with gaming, apps and social media tie-ins beginning six months before the book's publication.

Books
 BZRK 	New York : Egmont USA, 2012. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1121 libraries
BZRK: Reloaded 	New York, NY : Egmont USA, 2013. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 741 libraries.
 BZRK: Apocalypse	London : Electric Monkey, 2014.  According to WorldCat, the book is held in 117 libraries
BZRK: Origins New York : Egmont USA, [2013] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 33 libraries

References

Young adult novel series
Book series introduced in 2012
Dystopian novels
Novels by Michael Grant
American science fiction novels
American horror novels
Egmont Books books


title: Beau Bandit

text:
Beau Bandit is a 1930 American Pre-Code Western film, directed by Lambert Hillyer, from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on his short story, "Strictly Business" which appeared in the April 1929 edition of Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan. The film starred Rod La Rocque, Mitchell Lewis, Doris Kenyon, and Walter Long. The story is based loosely on the legend of Robin Hood.

Plot
Montero is a bandit who, along with his deaf-mute sidekick, Coloso, are planning to rob a bank. They are pursued by "Bob Cat" Manners and his posse. As they close in on the bank, owned by Perkins, Montero becomes involved in the personal affairs of Helen Wardell and her fiancé, Howard. Perkins is also interested in Wardell, and he also holds the mortgage on Howard's ranch. Finding out that Montero has a price on his head, Perkins uses that fact to coerce Montero into agreeing to kill Howard. Perkins, however, has no intention of paying Montero, instead arranging for the posse to capture the outlaw.

Montero fakes Howard's murder, and is expecting a double-cross, so he is prepared for the trap, and instead of being captured, he traps the posse. Montero then holds Perkins hostage, extorting $5,000 from him in exchange for his life, and forces Perkins, who is also Justice of the Peace, to marry Helen and Howard. Adding insult to injury, Montero gives the newlyweds the $5,000 for their honeymoon.

Cast
 Rod La Rocque as Montero
 Doris Kenyon as Helen Wardell
 Mitchell Lewis as Coloso
 Walter Long as "Bob Cat" Manners
 Charles Middleton as Perkins
 George Duryea as Howard
 James Donlan as Buck
 Charles Brinley as Slim
 Barney Furey as Logan
 Bill Patton as Texas

Production
The film was originally titled Strictly Business, RKO changed the name to Beau Bandit in January 1930. It included the first depiction in a talking film of a deaf character, Coloso. Although sound films could now depict deaf speech, Coloso is also mute, beginning a period in American cinema of portraying silent deaf persons.

Reception

While being generally favorable to the acting in the film, NY Times critic, Mordaunt Hall, gave the film a lukewarm review, laying most of the fault in the screenplay by Smith. Motion Picture magazine gave the film a favorable review, calling it "delightful", and being particularly impressed with the script. While Motion Picture News called the film just "so-so", and gave La Rocque's performance a very negative review. However, they complimented Doris Kenyon and Mitchell Lewis' performances, as well as Harry Tierney's song, "Just a Little Kiss".

Cast member George Duryea would become better known by his name Tom Keene, who was a B movie star in later years; he would also use the name Richard Powers.

References

External links

1930 Western (genre) films
1930 films
Films based on short fiction
RKO Pictures films
Films directed by Lambert Hillyer
American Western (genre) films
American black-and-white films
1930s American films
1930s English-language films


title: Julie Chen (book artist)

text:
Julie Chen (born 1963) is an American book artist and educator.

Education and teaching
Chen was born in 1963 in Inglewood, California. She completed an undergraduate degree in printmaking at the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. She subsequently became interested in book arts and got a degree in book arts from Mills College in 1989. She began teaching book arts at Mills College as an adjunct in 1996 and became an associate professor in 2010.

Career
Chen has achieved prominence by creating conceptually sophisticated works that combine traditional techniques, such as letterpress printing and hand bookbinding, with more modern technologies such as photopolymer plates and laser cutting. She is known for pushing the structural boundaries of the artist's book with a range of architectural and sculptural approaches. At the same time, her work is praised for its high standard of production and emphasis on the artist's book as a tactile experience. Victoria Steele, the former Brooke Russell Astor Director of Collection Strategy for New York Public Library, remarked that the "physical form" of Chen's work "reinforces the concept and text." Chen investigates the "complex experience" of book arts through her work as an artist and educator.

During her time as a student at Mills College, Chen founded Flying Fish Press, publishing limited-edition artists' books. Chen typically works independently but has also produced books collaboratively with fiber artist Nance O'Banion and book artists Barbara Tetenbaum and Clifton Meador.

Chen's 1992 book, Octopus, features a tunnel-like, pop-up element known in the book trade as a "peep show" and includes text written by poet Elizabeth McDevitt. It offers a three-dimensional underwater scene with the tentacles of an octopus extending behind the words, creating a physical analogue of the poem, which speaks of concealment, disguise, and distance.

In 1994, Chen collaborated with fellow book artist, Ed Hutchins, on River of Stars, a small book, only three by three inches that was released in an edition of 100.

Bon Bon Mots (1998), a meditation on the fleeting sweetness of life, takes the form of a box of chocolates, each of which, on being unwrapped, reveals itself as a tiny book. Each of the five 'chocolate box' books is folded differently and illustrate the range of approaches Chen brings to each project. "Social Graces" is a lotus-fold type, "Life Cycle" is a tetra-tetra flexagon, "Elegy" is a concertina with leaf-shaped pages in a clay cover, "Labyrinth" is ball-in-a-maze type of puzzle in a paper slipcase, and "Either/Or" is a "magic wallet". Chen has also worked with the volvelle or wheel chart, which is a set of stacked paper disks of varying sizes, sometimes with windows.

Chen's books reflect her current interests, current events, and her own personal experiences. In 2002, she released The Veil, a work created in the time leading up to the Iraq War; Chen explains that the book "presents personal reflections inspired by the current political situation in the Middle East and the world" and is in a carousel format.

Chen’s books are in the collections the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Flying Fish Press

Julie Chen began Flying Fish Press in 1987 as a graduate student in Book Art at Mills College in Oakland, California.  Though mostly a personal press for books by Julie Chen, she has also collaborated on artist’s book projects with other artists including Lois Morrison, Barbara Tetenbaum and Clifton Meador.

Group exhibitions
Exhibits listed in Benezit Dictionary of Artists unless otherwise noted
1989, Forwarding the Book: California Bookmakers, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1991, California Artists’ Books, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
1992, Word and Image, Pacific Center for the Book Arts, San Francisco
1995, The Art of Discovery: Scientists’ Books/Artists’ Books, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2003, Ninety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing, New York Public Library, New York
2005, The Artist Turns to the Book, Getty Center, Los Angeles
2006, The Book as Art: Twenty Years of Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2008, Skipping the Page, Center for Book Arts, New York
2010, Beyond the Text: Artists’ Books from the Collection of Robert J. Rubin, Grolier Club, New York
2010, Fourth International Biennale for the Artists’ Book, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria
2011, One by One: An Exploration of Book Art, Craft in America Study Center, Los Angeles
2012, Exploding the Codex: The Theater of the Book, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco
2012, Quand Les Livres S’amusent, Musée de l’Imprimerie, Lyon

Solo exhibitions
Exhibits listed in Benezit Dictionary of Artists unless otherwise noted
2002, The Art of Flying Fish Press, University of Vermont, Burlington
2003, The Art of Flying Fish Press, PABA Gallery, New Haven
2005, Bookworks of Flying Fish Press, Mills College Library, Oakland
2006, Bookworks from Flying Fish Press, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee
2008, The Bookworks of Flying Fish Press, Center for Book Arts, New York
2020, Julie Chen: True to Life, Library & Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Artists books

Flying Fish Press Books in chronological order

 2019 Wayfinding, text and image by Julie Chen. 50 copies
 2018 Half- Century, text and image by Julie Chen. 50 copies
 2017 A Recuerdo for Ste. Ostrich, text and image by Lois Morrison; book design and paper engineering by Julie Chen. 50 copies
 2016 Bitter Chocolate, text by Julie Chen. Images by Julie Chen and Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder. 50 copies
 2015 Composite Impressions, text and image by Julie Chen. 50 copies
 2014 Chrysalis, text and image by Julie Chen. 50 copies
 2013 Family Tree, text and image by Julie Chen. 50 copies
 2013 Praxis (Illustrated), text and image by Julie Chen. 50 copies
 2013 Cat’s Cradle, text and image by Julie Chen. 50 copies
 2012 Memento, text and image by Julie Chen. 50 copies
 2011 Glimpse, text and image by Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum. 100 copies
 2011 How Books Work, text and image by Julie Chen and Clifton Meador. Open edition
 2010 Invented Landscape, text and image by Julie Chen. 50 copies
 2009 A Guide to Higher Learning, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies
 2008 Panorama, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies
 2006 View, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies
 2006 Full Circle, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies
 2004 True to Life, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies
 2003 Personal Paradigms: A Game of Human Experience, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies
 2002 The Veil, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies
 2001 Ode to a Grand Staircase, text by Erik Satie, Book design and images by Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum. 100 Copies
 2001 Evidence of Compression, text and image by Julie Chen
 2000 (In)versions, images by Julie Chen and David Turner. 30 copies.
 1999 World Without End, text and image by Julie Chen. 25 copies.
 1998 Bon Bon Mots, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies.
 1997 Leavings, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies.
 1996 Life Time, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies.
 1996 Space-Time Geometry, text and book design by Julie Chen. Drawings by David Turner. 10 copies.
 1995 Radio Silence, text and image by Julie Chen. 75 copies.
 1994 Double Helix: An Essential Component of all living Matter, text and image by Julie Chen. One-of-a-kind book
 1994 River of Stars, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies.
 1993 Correspondence Course, text and image by Nance O’Banion. Book Design by Julie Chen 125 copies.
 1992 Octopus, text by Elizabeth McDevitt, images by Julie Chen. 100 copies.
 1992 You Are Here, text and image by Julie Chen. 100 copies
 1992 Listening, text, and image by Julie Chen. 75 copies
 1990 Domestic Science: Pop-up Icons & Idioms, text and image by Nance O'Banion. Book design by Julie Chen. 150 Copies.
 1990 Ste. Ostrich in Manhattan: The visitation of a Martyr, text and image by Lois Morrison. Book Design by Julie Chen 125 copies.
 1989 Requiem, text by Julie Chen and text from the Requiem of Hector Berlioz. 12 copies.
 1988 Memories of Fruit, text and image by Lois Morrison. Book Design by Julie Chen. 50 copies.
 1988 Symphonic Visions, images by Julie Chen. One of a kind.
 1987 Origin, text and image by Julie Chen. 6 copies.
 1987 A Place of Uncertain Refuge, text by E.B. Mudd, frontispiece and book design by Julie Chen 75 copies.
 1987 The First Seven Days, text from Genesis, images and book design by Julie Chen.

References

External links
Book artist Julie Chen, PROCESS episode from Craft in America
Spark episode Works on Paper
Official site  of Flying Fish Press

1963 births
20th-century American artists
Pop-up book artists
20th-century American women artists
Living people
People from Inglewood, California
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Mills College alumni
21st-century American women artists
21st-century American artists
Mills College faculty
American women academics


title: Relief Dam

text:
Relief Dam is a rockfill dam on Summit Creek, a tributary of the Middle Fork Stanislaus River, in Tuolumne County, California. The dam is part of the Spring Gap-Stanislaus Hydroelectric Project, and is owned and operated by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E).

Completed in 1910 the dam stands  above the riverbed and is  long at the crest. Altogether it contains  of fill. The dam forms Relief Reservoir, which has a storage capacity of  of water and a full surface area of . The drainage basin behind the dam totals .

The reservoir is primarily drawn down in the late summer and fall to supplement flows to the hydroelectric powerhouses at Donnells Dam and Beardsley Dam (part of the separate PG&E Tri-Dam Project) and others on the Stanislaus River.

References

Dams in California
Dams on the Stanislaus River
Dams completed in 1910
Rock-filled dams
Buildings and structures in Tuolumne County, California


title: Brandon J. Dirden

text:
Brandon J. Dirden (born 1978) is an American actor, best known for portraying Martin Luther King Jr. in the Broadway production of Robert Schenkkan's All the Way.

Career
A Morehouse College and University of Illinois graduate, Dirden made his Broadway debut in Prelude to a Kiss. He has since appeared regularly both on and off Broadway in plays such as Clybourne Park, The First Breeze of Summer and Detroit 67.

He played Dennis Aderholt in The Americans.

In 2012, he received an OBIE Award, AUDELCO VIV Award and a Theater World Award and was nominated for The Drama League and Lucille Lortell awards for his portrayal of Boy Willie in the Signature Theatre's revival of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. In 2017 he appeared in August Wilson's Jitney at Manhattan Theatre Club, and in 2022, appeared on Broadway in both Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew and the revival of Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out. Dirden was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Play for his role as Reggie in Skeleton Crew.

Dirden made his directorial debut in September 2015 directing August Wilson's Seven Guitars at Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Dirden has guest-starred in TV series such as The Big C, The Good Wife, and Ed Burns' Public Morals.

Personal life
Dirden is married to actress Crystal A. Dickinson, whom he met while in graduate school at The University of Illinois. They have one son, Chase Ari Dirden. His brother is Jason Dirden, also an actor. They frequently appear in plays together.

References

External links

Brandon J. Dirden at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

1978 births
Living people
American male stage actors
African-American male actors
Morehouse College alumni
University of Illinois Chicago alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Theatre World Award winners
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people


title: John Kenrick (MP)

text:
John Kenrick (1735 – 18 September 1799) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1780 to 1790.

He was educated at Harrow, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and at the Middle Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1759, and became a bencher in 1792.

He was Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance between 1780 and 1783.

He was elected at the 1780 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Bletchingley in Surrey. The previous year, he had purchased the succession rights to the manor and borough from his cousin Sir Robert Clayton, Bt, and Clayton again returned him for Bletchingley in 1784.  However, the two men fell out when Clayton tried unsuccessfully to revoke the sale, and although Kenrick won the court case, Clayton did not return him to Parliament in 1790.

References

|-

1735 births
1799 deaths
People from Tandridge (district)
People educated at Harrow School
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Members of the Middle Temple
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1780–1784
British MPs 1784–1790


title: Listed buildings in Rainow

text:
Rainow is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England. It contains 69 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings.  Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II.  Apart from the village of Rainow, the parish is now rural, although in the past there has been industry in the form of small mills.  One of the listed buildings is a former water mill, but most are country houses and associated structures, smaller houses and cottages, and farmhouses with farm buildings.  Otherwise the listed buildings are milestones, mile posts, boundary stones, weirs, a bridge, a folly, stocks, and two churches.

Key

Buildings

See also

Listed buildings in Bollington
Listed buildings in Higher Hurdsfield
Listed buildings in Kettleshulme
Listed buildings in Lyme Handley
Listed buildings in Macclesfield
Listed buildings in Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough
Listed buildings in Pott Shrigley

References
Citations

Sources

Listed buildings in the Borough of Cheshire East
Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire


title: Emma de la Barra

text:
Emma de la Barra, known by the pseudonym César Duáyen, (1861-1947) was an Argentine writer, best known for her novels Stella (1905) and Mecha Iturbe (1906) which were praised for their portrayal of modern women. She is closely associated with the Costumbrismo movement. Stella became the first best-seller in the country, and in 1943 it was adapted into a film starring Zully Moreno as the character of Stella. Other notable works include El Manantial (1908), Eleonora (1933) and La dicha de Malena (1943).

See also
 Lists of writers

References

External links
Article at Escritorasargentinas

1861 births
1947 deaths
Feminist writers
People from Rosario, Santa Fe
19th-century Argentine women writers
20th-century Argentine women writers
20th-century Argentine writers
Pseudonymous women writers
19th-century pseudonymous writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers


title: Douglas Mitchell (disambiguation)

text:
Douglas Mitchell (1939–2022) was a Canadian Football League player, executive, and commissioner.

Douglas or Doug Mitchell may also refer to:

Doug Mitchell (Canadian football) (born 1942), retired Canadian Football League offensive lineman
Doug Mitchell (film producer) (born 1952), British television and film producer
Douglas Mitchell (scientist) (born 1980), chemistry professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Douglas W. Mitchell (1953–2020), American economist and polymath


title: Mt. Hakkoda (2014 film)

text:
is a 2014 film about the Hakkōda Mountains incident. It is based on the non-fiction book Tragedy in a Blizzard by Koshu Ogasawara.

Cast
 Atsushi Takahashi as Lt.Colonel Tsugawa
 Seiji Kawada as Major Yamaguchi
 Takahito Arai as Captain Kannari
 Akinori Sumiyoshi as Lieutenant Ito
 Katsuhiko Tanabe as Second Lieutenant Mikami
 Taichi Ishida as Medical Officer Nagai
 Yuma Sato as Corporal Obara
 Yuta Moriya as Corporal Fusanosuke Goto
 Makoto Sasaki as Corporal Muramatsu
 Toshiya Toya as Corporal Oikawa
 Hitoshi Hasegawa as Village Elder
 Amy Kubo as Sachiyo Goto (Cpl Goto's wife)

Production
The scenes in which the 5th Infantry Regiment gradually lose their way were filmed on location in the Hakkōda Mountains. Most of the victims died at Narusawa on January 25, their second day bivouacking in the snow. Scenes set there were shot on site at exactly the same day and time, and the entire cast and crew offered a silent prayer for the victims.

See also
 Mount Hakkoda (1977 film), an earlier film about the same incident

References

External links

2014 films
2010s Japanese-language films
Japanese drama films
Italian drama films
Mountaineering films
Films shot in Japan
Films set in 1902
Disaster films based on actual events
2010s English-language films
2010s Japanese films


title: T120

text:
T120 may refer to one of the following:

Triumph Bonneville T120 motorcycle
T.120 telecommunications standard
Soviet minesweeper T-120
Mitsubishi Delica multipurpose vehicle also called T120 in some markets


title: Soukanh Mahalath

text:
Soukanh Mahalath (; 7 June 1954 – 17 May 2014) was a Laotian politician and member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. Mahalath was the Mayor of Vientiane, the country's capital city, until his death in May 2014. He had previously held the positions of Minister of Finance from 2001 to 2003 and the governor of the Bank of the Lao P.D.R., the country's central bank, from 1999 until 2001.

Soukanh Mahalath was killed in the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force An-74 plane  crash on 17 May 2014.

References

1954 births
2014 deaths
Finance Ministers of Laos
Governors of the Bank of the Lao P.D.R.
Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 7th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 8th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 9th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 9th Secretariat of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Lao People's Revolutionary Party politicians
Mayors of places in Laos


title: Ben Venter

text:
Benjamin Christoffel Gerhardus Venter (born 15 May 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with French Pro D2 side Montauban. His regular position is lock or flanker.

Career

Youth

He represented the  side in the 2006 Under-19 Provincial Championship and the  side in the 2007 and 2008 Under-21 Provincial Championships. That  team won the Championships in both 2007 and 2008. Venter played most of his youth rugby on the Wing.

Griquas

Ben was part of the 2008 Currie Cup Premier Division squad and signed a senior professional contract with  at the end of 2008. He was named in the  senior professional squad for the 2009 Vodacom Cup and 2009 Currie Cup Premier Division competitions, but missed most of that season due to injury. Venter was also named in the  senior professional squad for the 2010 Vodacom Cup and 2010 Currie Cup Premier Division competitions.

Border Bulldogs

Venter joined East London-based side  later in 2010. He was included in their squad for the 2010 Currie Cup First Division season and, after playing in a compulsory friendly match against the , he started nine of the Bulldogs' matches during the season, scoring one try against , helping his side win the match 50–46.

He played in sixteen matches during the 2011 Vodacom Cup and 2011 Currie Cup First Division competitions, weighing in with one try in each competition. He had more game time in 2012, making eighteen appearances during the Vodacom Cup and Currie Cup competitions.

In May 2012, he was named in the South African Barbarians (South) squad that faced  during the 2012 England rugby union tour of South Africa,

Boland Cavaliers

At the end of 2012, Venter moved to Wellington-based. Venter featured prominently during the 2013 and 2014 Vodacom Cup and Currie Cup competitions.

Chambéry

Venter moved to France during 2014 to join Fédérale 1 side Chambéry prior to the 2014–2015 season.

Bordeaux Bègles

In January 2015, he joined Bordeaux Bègles in the French Top 14 as a Medical Joker.

Montauban

On 16 April 2015, Venter signed a permanent contract with French Pro D2 club Montauban for three seasons (2015 - 2018), prior to the 2015–2016 season.

Coaching

Venter suffered a career ending injury while playing for Montauban and his career was cut short at the end of 2016. He has since devoted himself to coaching.

References

South African rugby union players
Living people
1987 births
Rugby union players from Johannesburg
Rugby union locks
Rugby union flankers
Boland Cavaliers players
Border Bulldogs players
Griquas (rugby union) players
Union Bordeaux Bègles players
US Montauban players
South African rugby union coaches
South African expatriate sportspeople in France
South African expatriate rugby union players
Expatriate rugby union players in France


title: Ducks on the Wall

text:
"Ducks on the Wall" is a song by the British rock band the Kinks. The song, appearing on the band's 1975 album Soap Opera, was written by the band's principal songwriter, Ray Davies.

Lyrics and music
The lyrics of "Ducks on the Wall" relate the singer's (Starmaker) dismay at his wife's love for her decorative ducks which she hangs on the wall.  Ray Davies' biographer Thomas M. Kitts describes the song as being in the vein of Davies' sexual humor, as with songs such as "Lola" and "When I Turn Off the Living Room Light." Kitts describes the music as "1950s rock and roll."  Montreal Gazette critic Bill Mann remarked on the song's humor, particularly highlighting the line "I love you, baby but I can't ball / When I see those ducks on the wall."

Kinks' drummer Mick Avory's quacking noises on the song represent his only released vocal contribution to a Kinks song (although he did sing a song called "Lilacs and Daffodils" in the Face to Face sessions).

Release
"Ducks on the Wall" was first released as the follow-up single to "Holiday Romance" (both of which would appear on the Soap Opera album.) However, like "Holiday Romance" before it, the single did not chart.  It was included on the Soap Opera album although it was not included in the Star Maker teleplay on which the album was based.   Davies had wanted to include "Ducks on the Wall" in the teleplay but was forced to edit it out so reduce the length of the teleplay and because the producers felt that the visual effects Davies planned of breaking the ducks up was too violent.

"Ducks on the Wall" also appeared in May 1975 on Soap Opera, where it was the tenth track in the line-up.

Reception
NME said of the single release that "Ducks on the Wall" has a weak tune and unsubtle satire, but praised the guitar and piano parts.  Melody Maker panned the song, stating that the "Kinks come back with a lame duck."  On the other hand music critic Dave Lewis' contemporary review of the single found it to be "witty and tuneful," saying that "it starts off with a quack and then breaks into a rollicking boogie."

Rolling Stone critic John Mendelsohn called it an "otherwise undistinguished Larry Williams-derived rocker" but claimed that it had the "funniest first line in the history of Western pop music in 'My baby's got the most deplorable taste."  Music critic Johnny Rogan called it an "amusing rock 'n' roll romp complete with duck noises," comparing it to the music of 10cc and concluding that it was the most commercial song on the Soap Opera album.  Kitts called it a "comic gem."  Kinks' biographer Nick Hasted described it as "the funniest lyric" on the album, comparing the protagonist's nightmare of the ducks coming after him to "a suburban variant on Hitchcock's birds."  Hartford Courant critic Henry McNulty called it a "standout cut" on Soap Opera, saying that "it's a real rocker and behind the crashing guitars of Dave Davies and drums of Mick Avory is a sort of electronic quacking that adds to the general absurdity."  Boston Globe critic Nathan Cobb called it "an absolute gem, a hilarious poke at middle class values."

"Ducks on the Wall" was chosen as a highlight from Soap Opera by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic.

Kink guitarist Dave Davies considered "Ducks on the Wall" to be one of the "best-realized songs" on Soap Opera.

References

The Kinks songs
1975 singles
Songs written by Ray Davies
Song recordings produced by Ray Davies
1975 songs


title: Rubicon speech

text:
The Rubicon speech was delivered by South African President P. W. Botha on the evening of 15 August 1985 in Durban. The world was expecting Botha to announce major reforms in his government, including abolishing the apartheid system and the release of Nelson Mandela. However, the speech Botha actually delivered at the time did none of this.

The speech is known as the 'Rubicon speech' because in its second-last paragraph Botha used the phrase, "I believe that we are today crossing the Rubicon. There can be no turning back." alluding to the historical reference of Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon River.

Background
After a long period of isolation and strained diplomatic relations between South Africa and the international community, the National Party decided to hold a meeting to bring about reforms in the government. However, the meeting was shrouded in secrecy and mystery, and Botha was reported to have kept quiet and to have not participated even though he was present. This was taken as a sign that he was approving of the proposed changes. There were also reports that Botha did not participate due to his doctor's orders to avoid emotional outburst and not to engage in discussions that might upset him. At the final draft of the original agreed speech, which would be named the "Prog speech" ("Prog" being short for the Progressive Federal Party, then in opposition), and which would have recognized black human dignity, eradicated all forms of discrimination, and created equal opportunities, the nature of the speech, in conjunction with the news that a US bank was threatening to call in its loan, made Botha feel that he was being forced to capitulate to the revolutionary movements. Botha, whose fierce will had earned him the name "Die Groot Krokodil" (The Great Crocodile), simply refused and said he was not going to make that speech but was going to draft his own.

The speech
Due to its anticipation and publicity by different international media houses, the speech was delivered live to a worldwide audience of over 200 million. Botha declared that he would not support majority rule or the participation of black South Africans in the national government, stating there were alternatives offered through the "devolution of power" on the local level, a reference to the bantustans. However, he also conceded that his government had yet to find a political solution for the country's large urban black population, which resided outside the bantustans. Botha refused to release Nelson Mandela from prison, although he claimed that if the latter renounced violent tactics he would, "in principle, be prepared to consider his release." He  blamed recent political unrest in South Africa on communist agitators financed by external actors.

In referring to the decisions the speech references as "crossing the Rubicon", Botha accepted that South Africa was passing a point of no return and that his government would maintain the apartheid system regardless of the internal or international consequences.

Aftermath
The speech had serious ripple effects to the economy of South Africa and it also caused South Africa to be even more isolated by the international community. The rand fell drastically against major currencies and the economy continued to shrink rapidly in growth until after the democratic handover of power a decade later. The speech played an important role in creating the conditions for the government defaulting on part of South Africa national debt obligations in 1985. This is the first and so far only time South Africa experienced a sovereign default.

See also

Speech at the Opening of the Parliament of South Africa, 1990

References

1985 speeches
1985 in South Africa
Apartheid government
Anti-communism in South Africa
Events associated with apartheid


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Hugh Whytchirche  (died 1 January 1376) was a Canon of Windsor from 1352 to 1375.

Career
He was Rector of St Mary’s Church, Finchley from 1335, and Rector of St Andrew’s Church, Cotton, Suffolk from 1361.

In 1352 he was appointed as the first Canon of the first stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

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Kim Sung-bae (born January 12, 1981) is South Korean professional baseball pitcher.

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Balthasar Regis  (died 1757) was a Canon of Windsor from 1751 to 1757.

Family
He was born in the province of Dauphiné, and fled France with his father following persecution for his Reformed faith.

Career
He was incorporated Bachelor of Divinity in Cambridge in 1717, from Trinity College, Dublin. He subscribed for Doctor of Divinity in 1721.

He was Rector of Holy Innocents Church, Adisham, Kent from 1715 - 1757, and Rector of Little Mongeham from 1719 - 1757. He was appointed Chaplain to the King in 1727, a position he held until his death. He was appointed to the first stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1751.

He was buried in the chapel in 1757.

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Notable players

External links
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