title: Pierdomenico Perata

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Pierdomenico Perata (born 24 March 1962 in Genova) is an Italian physiologist whose activities are focused on plant physiology and plant biology. Since 8 May 2013 he has been the rector of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.

Perata is a member of the Accademia dei Georgofili  and of the National Academy of Sciences, known as Academy of the XL.

Biography

Pierdomenico Perata graduated in Agricultural Sciences from University of Pisa.  He earned another degree in Agricultural Sciences from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, and a PhD from the University of Pisa. He was visiting scientist in Nagoya University, Japan. He became assistant professor at the University of Pisa, associate professor in plant Physiology at the University of Bari, then full professor at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where he was also vice dean of Agriculture from 2003 to 2004. In 2004 he came back to the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna as full professor. In 2010 he became dean of Experimental Sciences, and in 2012, after the resignation of Maria Chiara Carrozza (who had been elected member of the Italian Parliament), he became vice rector. Finally Perata was elected rector of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in May 2013.

Scientific activity

His scientific activity is focused on plant physiology, with a main focus in molecular biology.

He has discovered and shown experimentally that starch metabolism represents an essential metabolic intersection for plants' tolerance to hypoxia. Other noteworthy discoveries that he contributed towards include the cross-communication between plant hormones and metabolic signals and the oxygen sensing mechanism in plants.

Notes and references

External links

Pierdomenico Perata’s page on Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna website
Plantlab

Plant physiologists
20th-century Italian botanists
21st-century Italian botanists
Living people
1962 births
Scientists from Genoa
University of Pisa alumni
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies alumni
Academic staff of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Heads of universities in Italy
Academic staff of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia


title: Raymond Rushabiro

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Raymond Rushabiro is a Ugandan film actor, and stage actor. He broke through in his acting career with Uganda's most famous stage group, the Ebonies, appearing in a number of their plays. Rushabiro is also seen in Kweezi Kaganda's Any cow will do alongside former Namasagali old students that was shown at the National Theater of Uganda. His first cinema appearance was as Kasirivu in the movie Bala Bala Sese directed by Lukyamuzi Bashir. He is also appeared in supporting roles in the 2016 Ugandan film The Only Son, Situka (2015) and as a patriarch of the Muwonge family in 5 @Home on Fox Life. He worked on other films and television series including Freedom (2016), Girl from Mparo (2016) and Kyaddala (2019).

He was nominated for Best Actor in a Drama (Movie/TV series) in the 2018 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Award

References

External links

Ugandan male film actors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Ugandan male actors


title: Natalya Medvedeva

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Natalya Medvedeva may refer to:
 Natalya Medvedeva (actress) (1915– 2007), a Russian film and stage actress
 Natalya Medvedeva (tennis) (born 1971), a Soviet, CIS and Ukrainian tennis player
 Nataliya Medvedeva (singer) (1958–2003), Russian singer, poet and writer


title: St Bartholomew's Church, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

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St Bartholomew's Church, Newbiggin-by-the-sea is the parish church of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Tyne and Wear, England. The building is part of the Diocese of Newcastle.

History

The church dates from the 13th century and by the eighteenth century had become a ruin. The nave and chancel were restored in 1845, and a new chancel arch and organ chamber were built in 1898 by W.S. Hicks. The north aisle was rebuilt in 1912.

The church is noted for its dramatic headland site.

Organ

The church had a two manual pipe organ by Nelson and Co dating from around 1910. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

References

Church of England church buildings in Northumberland
Grade I listed churches in Northumberland


title: First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine

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First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of the Cabinet of Ukraine. In the absence of the prime minister of Ukraine, the first vice prime minister performs his or her duties as the acting prime minister. In 1991, the post was grandfathered from the already existing first deputy chairman that was part of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

In an absence of the first vice prime minister, his or her functions are performed by other vice prime ministers who are members of the Cabinet of Ministers. Similarly to the prime minister, all official duties of the first vice prime minister are supported by the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Along with other members of the Cabinet of Ministers, a newly appointed first vice prime minister takes the same oath of office at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine about the Cabinet of Ministers, a member of the Cabinet of Ministers (except the prime minister) who refuses to take the oath is considered to have refused to accept the post. Every newly appointed member of an already existing cabinet needs to take the oath at the next plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada.

List of first vice prime ministers of Ukraine

Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
In April 1991 the Council of Ministers represented by existing government of Vitold Fokin and created by 12th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR was renamed into the Cabinet of Ministers. With adoption of the Act of Independence of Ukraine, the Ukrainian SSR was officially renamed into Ukraine. Because of the 1991 August Putsch in Moscow, the Communist Party was prohibited in Ukraine. In February 1992 there was adopted the new coat of arms.

Notes

References

External links
 Law of Ukraine About the Cabinet of Minesters. Verkhovna Rada website

Government ministers of Ukraine


title: 2004 Caribbean Series

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The forty-sixth edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was held from February 1 through February 6 of  with the champion baseball teams of the Dominican Republic, Tigres del Licey; Mexico, Tomateros de Culiacán; Puerto Rico, Leones de Ponce, and Venezuela, Tigres de Aragua.  The format consisted of 12 games, each team facing the other teams twice, and the games were played at Estadio Quisqueya in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Summary

Final standings

Individual leaders

All-Star team

Sources
Bjarkman, Peter. Diamonds around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball. Greenwood.
2004 Caribbean Series All-Star team
Serie del Caribe : History, Records and Statistics (Spanish)

Caribbean
2004
International baseball competitions hosted by the Dominican Republic
2004 in Caribbean sport
2004 in Dominican Republic sport
February 2004 sports events in North America
21st century in Santo Domingo


title: Enchanting (programming language)

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Enchanting is a free and open-source cross-platform educational programming language designed to program Lego Mindstorms NXT robots. It is primarily developed by Southern Alberta Robotics Enthusiasts group in the province of Alberta, Canada, and runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and experimentally on Linux devices. Since 2013, the Enchanting version 0.2 has been available.

Technology
Its predecessor, the 1998 Robotics Invention System was developed by Scratch developer team led by Mitch Resnick at MIT Media Lab. Based on BYOB, which is developed by the University of California, Berkeley, the current version of Enchanting runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 (but not Windows 8 RT); on Mac OS X it runs on version 10.4 and newer; and on Linux it runs on Ubuntu version 10.10.

Educational resources, use and events
It has been used in secondary-to-tertiary computer science program at Monash University in Australia, where an interactive PDF book for use on computer or iPad, titled Robotics with Enchanting and LEGO® NXT is available for free download. Most recent SABRE Games, organized in 2013 by Southern Alberta Robotics Enthusiasts group, consisted of three disciplines: Tug Of War, where two robots are tied together with a string and each tries to pull its opponent over the center line; Sumo, where two robots are placed in a sumo ring and each tries to find and push its opponent out without going out of the ring itself; and Parade, where robots follow a line trying not to crash into the robot in front.

References

External links
 Home page, enchanting.robotclub.ab.ca, Canada
 Robotics with Enchanting and LEGO® NXT: A Project Based Introduction to Programming, Australia

Educational programming languages
Robot programming languages


title: Vitaly Medvedev

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Vitaly Medvedev may refer to:
Vitaly Medvedev (sprinter) (born 1977), Olympic sprint runner from Kazakhstan
Vitaly Medvedev (fencer) (born 1983), Ukrainian Olympic fencer


title: Lyndall Jarvis

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Lyndall Jarvis is a South African model and television presenter.  Born and raised in Cape Town, she is the daughter of an English mother and a South African father. She started modelling at the age of 5. In 2009, FHM South Africa named her as their Sexiest Woman of the Year. She provided the likeness of the enemy character Laughing Octopus in the 2008 video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

In 2014, Jarvis married South African professional surfer Jordy Smith.

References

Living people
People from Cape Town
South African female models
South African television presenters
South African television personalities
1983 births
South African women television presenters


title: Old Mother Riley Headmistress

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Old Mother Riley, Headmistress  is a low budget black and white 1950 British comedy film, starring Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane. The 13th film in the Old Mother Riley series, it features the Luton Girls Choir playing many of Mother Riley's pupils.

Plot summary
Daughter Kitty is sacked from her job as music teacher at an exclusive girls school, but Mother Riley unexpectedly comes into an inheritance, and decides to buy the girls finishing school and give Kitty her job back. Mother Riley soon establishes herself as headmistress at St. Mildred's School for Young Ladies, and throws herself into her new role with vigour, whether it's taking P.E. lessons, brazenly cheating on Sports Day, or confronting the haunted school piano.

Cast
 Arthur Lucan as Daphne Snowdrop Bluebell Riley
 Kitty McShane as Kitty Riley
 The Luton Girls Choir as School choir
 Willer Neal as Bill Travers
 Cyril Smith as Maltby
 C. Denier Warren as Clifton Hill
 Enid Hewitt as Miss Helen Carruthers
 Paul Sheridan as Nixon
 Harry Herbert as Simon
 Oswald Waller as Copeland
 Jenny Mathot as Mlle Leblanc
 Myrette Morven as Miss Chester
 Ethel Royal as Lady Meersham
 Bill Stephens as Mayor
 Catherine Carleton as Miss Ashton
 Dorothy Darke as Mrs Shaw
 Vi Kaley as 1st laundry girl
 Jaqueline Stanley as 2nd laundry girl
 Maisie ...	Beth Ross as Maisie
 Madge Brindley as Mrs Clarke
 Pamela Hill as Woman
 Graham Tonbridge as Chauffeur
 Patricia Owens, Genine Graham, Joy Frankau, Betty Benson, Mary Thompson, Suzanne Wilde, Doorn Van Steyne, Coral Woods, Joy Adams, Cora Farrel, Sally Owen, Lyn James, Ursula Hopwood, and Diana Connell as girls

Critical reception
Anthony Nield wrote in The Digital Fix, " whilst the idea of Old Mother Riley owning her own girls’ school should provide plenty of comic mileage, we’re still faced with some pointless musical numbers to pad things out...(but) there’s a chirpiness and a punch in the screenplay which is hard not to enjoy. Of course, any level of sophistication is kept at a bare minimum (Lucan was never the subtlest of actors; he performed for the camera just as he did on the stage), but in its own way …Headmistress has an energy equal to that of, say, Hellzapoppin' or the Marx Brothers A Night in Casablanca, even if both are far superior and much funnier. There’s a non-stop quality to the gags which, whilst the film may ultimately be forgettable, amounts to great deal of fun. Certainly, for a thirteenth entry in a big screen franchise (and one made almost as many years after the first), it’s far better than we should rightfully expect."
TV Guide noted,  "a poor addition to the "Old Mother Riley" stable...If you see only one "Old Mother Riley" film in your lifetime, don't make it this one."
"Fielding's Review"  wrote, "lots of fun gags in this one. Along with Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire, it’s the best of the set."

References

External links

1950 films
1950 comedy films
British comedy films
Films directed by John Harlow
British black-and-white films
1950s English-language films
1950s British films


title: Doctor Stranger

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Doctor Stranger () is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Lee Jong-suk, Jin Se-yeon, Park Hae-jin and Kang So-Ra. It aired on SBS from May 5 to July 8, 2014 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 KST (UTC+9) for 20 episodes.

Synopsis
As a child, Park Hoon (Lee Jong-suk) and his father Park Cheol, a well-known surgeon (Kim Sang-joong) were sent to North Korea to conduct an open-heart surgery on Kim Ill Sung to prevent the Second Korean War. After being sent to North Korea, Park Hoon and his father were denied access to go back to South Korea. It is revealed that Park Cheol is suing the Myungwoo University Hospital for a serious malpractice case and Park Cheol's friend, Dr Park Choi wanted to take responsibility. However, the director of the Hospital Oh did not want the malpractice case to become public which will ruin the hospital's reputation. As the result, he conspired with Jang Seok-joo, a national security official to make Park Cheol and his son trapped in North Korea. In North Korea, Park Hoon was trained to become a doctor by his father who was already a famous doctor. He became a genius cardiothoracic surgeon after attending medical school in North Korea while moonlighting as a smuggler, selling South Korea K-pop DVD. There, he fell deeply in love with Song Jae-hee (Jin Se-yeon). After Park Hoon's father died, he tried to flee to South Korea with Jae-hee, but lost contact with her in the end. Park Hoon was able to flee to South Korea alone.

In South Korea, Park Hoon begins to work as doctor in a top hospital Myungwoo University Hospital. Meanwhile, he found a girl that looks exactly like Jae-hee, Doctor Han Seung-hee, who claims not to know Park Hoon. At the same time,  Lee Sung-hoon, a leading doctor in the hospital plans his revenge against the institution for the death of his father in the malpractice case 10 years ago.

Cast

Main
Lee Jong-suk as Park Hoon 박훈
 Goo Seung-hyun as young Park Hoon
A South Korean who was raised in North Korea after his father was conned into going over to North. He trained to be a genius doctor in North Korea and later defects to South Korea in a bid to live a better life with his lover.

Jin Se-yeon as Song Jae-hee 송재희/Han Seung-hee한승희
 Seo Ji-hee as young Song Jae-hee
Jae-hee is Park Hoon's soul mate who was separated from him while they were escaping from North Korea; Seung-hee is a North Korean woman and is a specialist in oriental medicine anesthesia.
Park Hae-jin as Han Jae-joon 한재준/ Lee Sung-hoon 이성훈
 Kim Ji-hoon as young Lee Sung-hoon
A genius who graduated from Harvard and became a doctor to take revenge on Myungwoo Hospital for the death of his father in a malpractice case, as Park Hoon's rival.
Kang So-ra  as  Oh Soo-hyun 오수현
 Shin Soo-yeon as young Oh Soo-hyun
Daughter of the chairman of Myungwoo Hospital, a cardiothoracic surgeon

Supporting
Park Hae-joon as Cha Jin-soo (North Korean agent)
Chun Ho-jin as Prime Minister Jang Seok-joo, the primary antagonist of the series.
Jeon Gook-hwan as Oh Joon-gyu (Soo-hyun's father and chairman of the Myungwoo Hospital), he is the major antagonist of the series as he responsible for deporting Dr Cheol and his son to North Korea in the first place.
Choi Jung-woo as Moon Hyung-wook
Nam Myung-ryul as Choi Byeong-cheol
Yoon Bo-ra as Lee Chang-yi
Kim Sang-ho as Yang Jeong-han
Hwang Dong-joo as Geum Bong-hyun
Kang Tae-hwan as Oh Sang-jin
Lee Jae Won as Kim Chi-gyu
Kim Bo-mi as Kim Ah-young (Chi-gyu's younger sister)
Uhm Soo-jung as Min Soo-ji
Han Eun-sun as Eun Min-se
Jung In-gi as Kim Tae-sool
Kim Ji-eun as Joon-gyu's secretary
Kim Yong-gun as President Hong Chan-sang
Kim Ji-young as Jeong-min
Kim Sang-joong as Park Cheol (Park Hoon's father)
Zhang Liang as Sean Zhang (Jae-joon's friend)
Jung Hye-in as Nurse

Original soundtrack

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Production and broadcast
Director Jin Hyuk previously directed Brilliant Legacy (2009), City Hunter (2011), Master's Sun (2013). Co-screenwriter Park Jin-woo previously wrote Conspiracy in the Court (2007) and The Kingdom of the Winds (2008).

In China, the online streaming rights for drama were sold for $80,000 per episode and the drama was made available for online streaming on both Youku and Tudou where it received 330 million and 50 million views, respectively. As of July 7, 2014 it has been streamed close to 400 million times. Due to the drama's success in China there are currently plans to edit the drama into a film and release it theatrically exclusively in China with an alternate ending. According to the website DailyNK, which reports on North Korea-related issues, the drama was highly popular among North Korean youth who would obtain it illegally at the jangmadang (markets).

Ratings

Awards and nominations

References

External links

2014 South Korean television series debuts
2014 South Korean television series endings
Seoul Broadcasting System television dramas
Korean-language television shows
South Korean medical television series
South Korean romance television series


title: Archie Wilson

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Archibald or Archie Wilson may refer to:

 Archibald Wilson (1921–2014), Rhodesian fighter pilot and politician
 Archie Wilson (Australian footballer) (1888–1961), Australian rules footballer
 Archie Wilson (footballer, born 1890) (1890–1916), English footballer
 Archie F. Wilson (1903–1960), American wood collector
 Archie Wilson (baseball) (1923–2007), baseball player
 Archibald Wilson (Northern Ireland politician) (1945–1956) Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Belfast Windsor 1945–1956
 Sir Archibald Duncan Wilson (1911–1983), British diplomat and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge


title: Chien-Ying Chang

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Chien-Ying Chang (25 May 1913, in Wuxi – January 2004) was a Chinese-born painter who settled in Britain in 1946.

Early life

Chien-Ying Chang was the daughter of a customs official and attended Wuxi secondary school, after which she studied Art at the Nanjing University between 1931 and 1935. At Nanjing she met her future husband, Cheng-Wu Fei. Influenced by Xu Beihong, she helped him found the China Institute of Fine Arts in Chongqing. He had studied western painting techniques in London after the First World War, and urged her to do so too. She and Cheng-Wu Fei subsequently won British Council grants to study in Britain, both enrolling at the Slade School of Art from 1947–50 and working under Randolph Schwabe and William Coldstream.

Career in Britain
Following the communist takeover of China, Chien-Ying Chang and Cheng-Wu Fei  decided to make Britain their home, pursuing various interests for some 50 years. Their exhibitions at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, the Society of Women Artists, and at numerous private galleries, soon attracted the attention of figures such as the painter Stanley Spencer and Mrs Clement Attlee, wife of the prime minister. Spencer was present at the couple's marriage at a Kensington registry office in 1953. He painted several portraits of Chien-Ying Chang, and was in turn painted by Cheng-Wu Fei. They visited Spencer at Cookham in Berkshire, where Chien-Ying prepared a Chinese meal for him. Spencer came up to London when the couple were about to leave England by boat. Cheng-Wu Fei became ill, and their journey was postponed and eventually cancelled. This was fortuitous as they later learned that the new Chinese regime did not take kindly to the Western ideas brought back by returning artists.

The couple remained in Britain, admiring its landscape and rain reminiscent of China. On expeditions to the Lake District and Devon, Chien-Ying Chang created paintings with a distinctly Chinese mood. She still worked on rice paper, giving her work a delicate quality. They bought a house in Finchley in north London, filling the garden with oriental plants, while Chien-Ying Chang decorated the inside walls with  landscape murals.

Design work
Her husband confined himself to an academic career, while Chien-Ying Chang toured the country demonstrating the traditional painting techniques of China. Her home cooking skills were taught at Kenneth Lo's Chinese cookery school, and she also appeared on his television programme 'The Taste of China'. The delicate brush strokes she employed in her paintings came from her skill as a calligrapher, leading to many commissions to illustrate books of poems and several film-sets about China. She painted street signs and was involved in the costume design for productions such as The Inn of the Sixth Happiness and The World of Suzy Wong. Her work for The Road to Hong Kong led to a friendship with the American comedian Bob Hope, while she also designed a silk pattern with swallows for the fashion designer Christian Dior, and sang in Peking Opera productions, singing both male and female roles.
In later years she became well known as the artist behind a series of prints of birds and landscapes which graced homes throughout the country. Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. On the death of her husband she visited Shanghai, finding that the place had changed beyond all recognition.

References

1913 births
2004 deaths
20th-century Chinese women artists
20th-century Chinese artists
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Chinese women painters
Nanjing University alumni
Olympic competitors in art competitions
Painters from Wuxi
20th-century Chinese painters
Chinese emigrants to the United Kingdom
Women calligraphers


title: Giangiacomo Moretti

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Giangiacomo or Gian Giacomo Moretti (1843 in Spalato – ?) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects.

He resided in Milan. In 1886 at Milan, he exhibited: Rimembranze e L'arcolaio pericoloso. In 1887 at Venice, he exhibited: Studi dal vero and Fumatrice. In 1893, he was an honorary associate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Milan.

References

19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
1843 births
Painters from Milan
Italian genre painters
Year of death missing
19th-century Italian male artists


title: Stanley Kubrick bibliography

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A list of books and essays about Stanley Kubrick and his films.

Biographies and interviews

General

Books on individual films

2001 A Space Odyssey

A Clockwork Orange

Eyes Wide Shut

Full Metal Jacket

Lolita

Music

Photographs

Documentary
 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures. Documentary film. Dir. Jan Harlan. Warner Home Video, 2001. 142 min.

Kubrick, Stanley
Bibliography


title: Fanny Pieroni-Davenport

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Fanny Pieroni-Davenport was an Italian painter, active mainly in Florence, mainly of portraits.

Biography
She was a resident of Florence. She exhibited at the Florentine Promotrice of 1889 and 1890. At the Mostra Beatrice di lavori femminili (of feminine works), she won a silver medal for her paintings. Her husband was the painter Antonio Pieroni.

References

19th-century Italian painters
Italian women painters
Painters from Florence
19th-century Italian women artists


title: Yaşar Yılmaz

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Yaşar Yılmaz (born 4 March 1930) was a Turkish Olympian sports wrestler in the Bantamweight and Featherweight division of Men's Greco-Roman style. He won three times the silver medal at the FILA Wrestling World Championships in 1955, 1958 and 1962. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, and the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and placed fifth.

References

External links

1930 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Rize
Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Turkish male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Turkey
World Wrestling Championships medalists
20th-century Turkish people
21st-century Turkish people


title: Alis (given name)

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Alis is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Alis Boçi (born 1991), Albanian footballer
Alis Guggenheim (1903–1982), Swiss painter
Alis Kaplandjyan, Armenian actress
Alis Lesley (born 1938), American rockabilly singer
Alis Vidūnas (born 1934), Lithuanian politician


title: Surada Assembly constituency

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Surada (Sl. No.: 129) is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Ganjam district, Odisha.

Area of this constituency includes Surada NAC, Belaguntha NAC, Surada Block and Belaguntha Block.

Elected Members

14 elections held during 1957 to 2014. List of members elected from Surada constituency are:

2014: (129): Purna Chandra Swain (BJD)
2009: (129): Purna Chandra Swain (BJD)
2004: (67): Kisore Chandra Singh Deo (BJP)
2000: (67): Usha Rani Panda (Congress)
1995: (67): Ananta Narayan Singh Deo (BJP)
1990: (67): Shanti Devi (Janata Party)
1985: (67): Sarat Chandra Panda (Congress)
1980: (67): Gayatri Swain (Congress-I)
1977: (67): Ananta Narayan Singh Deo (Janata Party)
1974: (67): Sarat Chandra Panda (Congress)
1971: (63): Ananta Narayan Singh Deo (Swatantra Party)
1967: (63): Ananta Narayan Singh Deo (Swatantra Party)
1961: (28): Arjun Nayak (Congress)
1957: (22): Biju Patnaik (Congress)

2019 Election Result

2014 Election Result
In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Purna Chandra Swain defeated  Indian National Congress candidate Basanta Kumar Bisoyi by a margin of 16,000 votes.

2009 Election Result
In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Purna Chandra Swain, defeated Independent candidate Nilamani Bisoyi by 4,011 votes.

Notes

References

Assembly constituencies of Odisha
Politics of Ganjam district


title: Lady Dada

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Lady Dada was a Philippine comedy-drama miniseries aired on TV5. This was the first starring role of Ryan Agoncillo on the station, although he made his popularity as the host for the network's talent show, Talentadong Pinoy. The program was supposedly a part of 5 Star Specials.

Plot
“Lady Dada” tells the story of hard luck Dindo (Ryan Agoncillo) who barely succeeds in every business and job he gets into. His star-crossed ventures eventually ruined his marriage with Rina (Mylene Dizon). After series of unfortunate events, he proves to be a bad luck magnet as he was restrained to get near his son Miko (Nathaniel Britt); this after he became violent in a bar owned by his wife and her ex-suitor Brian (Ryan Eigenmann).

Macario, his closeted high school best friend, enters the picture in literally gay fashion as Kylie (Keempee de Leon) on the rescue. He convinced Dindo to mask his identity as a pretty woman and audition to be the next drag queen in Rina's bar. In order to get closer to his wife and son, Dindo is left without a choice but to turn from a man to a woman to a drag queen! His woman pretense gets even awkward as she, err, he gets courted by Rina's widower brother Henry (Roderick Paulate).

Cast
Ryan Agoncillo as Dindo/Dada/Lady Dada
Roderick Paulate as Henry
Keempee de Leon as Macario/Kylie
Mylene Dizon as Rina
Ryan Eigenmann as Brian
Edgar Allan Guzman as Junior
Nathaniel Britt as Miko

See also
List of programs aired by TV5

References

Philippine drama television series
TV5 (Philippine TV network) original programming
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows


title: Colgate (name)

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Colgate is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname
Gilbert Colgate (1899–1965), American bobsledder
Pat Colgate, artistic director of the dance company Placer Theatre Ballet
Stirling Colgate (1925–2013), American physicist
William Colgate (1783–1857), American manufacturer, founder of what would become the Colgate Toothpaste Company
James Boorman Colgate (1818–1904), American financier
Samuel Colgate (1822–1897), American manufacturer and philanthropist
Samuel Colgate Jr. (1868–1902), American football coach
Steve Colgate (born 1935), American sailor

Given name
Colgate Darden (1897–1981), American politician
Colgate Hoyt (1849–1922), American businessman

English-language surnames
Surnames of English origin
English toponymic surnames


title: Ruslan Poladov

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Ruslan Poladov (born 30 November 1979) is an Azerbaijani football player currently playing for Qaradağ Lökbatan in the Azerbaijan First Division

Career

Club
In May 2014, Poladov signed a one-year contract with Sumgayit. Zira announced on 23 May that Poladov had left the club at the end of his contract.

International

Poladov made his debut, and only appearance to date, for Azerbaijan on 12 October 2005 coming on as an 88th-minute substitute for Emin Imamaliev in their 2-0 away defeat to Wales in the 2006 World Cup qualification match.

Career statistics

Club

References

Living people
1979 births
Azerbaijani men's footballers
Ravan Baku FK players
Shamakhi FK players
Khazar Lankaran FK players
Simurq PIK players
Sumgayit FK players
Zira FK players
Azerbaijan men's international footballers
Men's association football defenders
People from Sumgait
FK Genclerbirliyi Sumqayit players


title: Pilkington Jackson

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Charles d’Orville Pilkington Jackson RSA, FRBS, FRSA (11 October 1887 – 20 September 1973) was a British sculptor prominent in Scotland in the 20th century. Throughout his career he worked closely with the architect Sir Robert Lorimer. He is most noteworthy for his creation of one of Scotland's most iconic landmarks, the statue of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.

Early life
Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson was born at Garlenick near Grampound, Cornwall the son of Ethel Katie D'Orville Smith. She had married his father on the 3rd May 1886, 22 year old medical student Louis Pilkington Jackson in an irregular marriage at 138 George Street, Glasgow.

Charles attended the Edinburgh Institution from 1905 and the newly established Edinburgh College of Art in 1907, studying design and sculpture. He graduated in 1910 and received a travelling scholarship of £100, which he used to visit the British School in Rome. Whilst in Rome he worked with Giacomo Boni on the rebuilding of the Arch of Titus.

Career

In 1911, on his return to Scotland, Jackson established himself in a studio with William MacDonald, a bronze founder. During World War I he served with the British Army as a subaltern in the Royal Field Artillery and the Intelligence Corps in Egypt and Palestine, being Mentioned in Dispatches.

After the war he received numerous commissions to design war memorials and these extend across the whole width and breadth of Scotland. He was appointed as "supervising sculptor" for the Scottish National War Memorial, which was planned and built within Edinburgh Castle between 1919 and 1927. He was also commissioned to create numerous memorials to famous Scots, including tableaux at the David Livingstone Centre, and a memorial to Elsie Inglis, on which he collaborated with Sir Frank Mears. In 1929 he went on holiday to Sweden with Robert Lorimer and visited the eminent Swedish sculptor Carl Milles whom he acknowledged as a great influence on his work.

In the Second World War, although being far beyond the age of conscription at 52, he again joined the army, this time serving in Scotland as a Gun Operations Room Officer for anti-aircraft guns. He had an extremely long working career leading to his most famous commission, the statue of Robert the Bruce being executed in 1964 at the age of 76. The mounted statue of Robert the Bruce forms the focal point of the memorial to the 1314 Battle of Bannockburn, and is sited to face southwards, from which direction the English army approached. The statue and monument are listed at category A, and are included as one of the 60 DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments of the post-war period. A copy of this sculpture stands at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Canada, and an alternative version of the monument, showing Bruce on a rearing horse, was later installed at the Chivas Brothers Distillery in Paisley.

Pilkington Jackson exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, and was elected as an academician in 1956. He also served on the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, and taught at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1920s.

Death
Pilkington died in Edinburgh on the 20 September 1973. His body was cremated and his ashes were buried at Lasswade Cemetery, at the North end of the modern section. He designed both his own gravestone (following the death of his wife, Eve Cornish Dening, 1885–1951), and that of his parents, which stands alongside. His son, Richard D'Orville Pilkington Jackson (1921-2009), was interred in the same grave.

Selected public works

Other works

Stone font, Holy Trinity Church, Ayr
Replacement head (in bronze) on the tomb of the 9th Lord Belhaven and Stenton (originally by William Birnie Rhind, 1896), Dean Cemetery (1924)
War memorial plaques, both in bronze and slate, for the British Linen Bank (1922) and for the Royal Bank of Scotland (1923) in Dundas House, St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh
Black & green marble war memorial plaque for Bank of Scotland staff at the Royal Bank of Scotland, Glasgow Road, Edinburgh (1921)
Screen with plaques in the Durham Light Infantry chapel of Durham Cathedral (1923)
Painted choir screen, St Serfs Church, Ferry Road, Edinburgh (1926)
Stone decorations for the chapel at Stowe School (1927)
Sculpture of pelican, porch wall, St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot (1927)
A series of bronze tableaux depicting the life of David Livingstone for the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre (1929)
Sculptural relief, exterior of the Crew Building, University of Edinburgh (1926-1932)
Series of 82 military statuettes for the United Services Museum in Edinburgh Castle (1929–33)
Lectern, pulpet and Elders' seats for Ardgour parish church in the Scottish Highlands (1930)
Bust of Gerard Baldwin Brown, Edinburgh University (1931)
Monument, a life-sized seated statue, to the child author Marjorie Fleming in Kirkcaldy Parish Church (1935)
Memorial to Evelyn, Lady Rayleigh, died 1934, in Chelmsford Cathedral
Carved decorative panel on the exterior of Dundee Street Library, Edinburgh (1938)
Bust of James Clerk Maxwell for University of Aberdeen, Marischal College (1956); a later copy is displayed at the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation in Edinburgh
Bronze bust of Frederick Lugard for Hong Kong University with a copy in the National Portrait Gallery, London (1960)
Fibreglass sculpture of Robert the Bruce on a rearing horse (a working model not chosen for use on the Bannockburn site) at the Chivas Brothers Distillery in Paisley (1964)
La Poliche Libre at the Royal Scottish Academy (1972)

References

Papers of the late Charles D'Orville Pilkington Jackson Esq, National Library of Scotland, Inventory account 7445

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The 2014 Southland Conference women's basketball tournament, a part of the 2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball season, took place March 13–16, 2014 at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas. The winner of the tournament, the Northwestern State Lady Demons, received the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA tournament.

Seeds & Regular Season Standings
Only the Top 8 teams advanced to the Southland Conference tournament.  If a team ineligible for the NCAA Tourney finished in the top 8, their seed fell to the next eligible team. Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word were ineligible for post-season play as they were in the first year of a 4-year transition from Division II to Division I. They won't be eligible for the Southland tourney until 2018. New Orleans was ineligible due to low APR scores. This chart shows all the teams records and standings and explains why teams advanced to the conference tourney or finished in certain tiebreaking positions. This was the final season Oral Roberts was part of the Southland field. They returned to the Summit League for the 2014-15 athletic season.

Bracket

See also
2014 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament
Southland Conference women's basketball tournament

References

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2013–14 Southland Conference women's basketball season
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Southland Conference women's basketball tournament
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Nicole Andrews is an American actress and fashion designer. She has appeared in numerous commercials, television shows and films.  She has appeared on such television shows as How I Met Your Mother, $#*! My Dad Says, and Drake & Josh and in movies such as Lovelace, Homefront, Grudge Match, and Leatherface.

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title: The Brain (game show)

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The Brain ( lit. "The Most Powerful Brain") is a Chinese scientific reality and talent show originating in Germany. The show's aim is to find people with exceptional brainpower. This show is produced under Endemol and has been sold to multiple countries in Europe, China, Russia and United States to date.

After four initial seasons, the series was rebooted as "最强大脑之燃烧吧大脑" ("The Brain: Burn Your Brain"), with a brand new concept and format, targeted at gathering teenage to adult contestants, and introducing a series of new puzzle-based games throughout the series. The newly formatted show has run yearly since 2018.

Unlike other game shows which emphasise high monetary prizes, no monetary prizes are awarded nor stressed in this program, as the show's sole aim is to find individuals who possess extraordinary mental skills. The Chinese version is the only weekly programme, unlike other one-off or annual format versions.

Overview and format

Seasons 1 & 2

Period One: Qualifier Rounds
A contestant with special skills (not necessarily brainpower or mental skills) comes to the stage and announces what their "special" challenge is going to be. Each judge (Except Dr. Wei) then gives a score between 0 and 5 based on how difficult they believe the challenge to be. The 3 judges' scores will then be added together to give the total preliminary score (between 0 and 15).

The contestant then completes their challenge. If they're successful, Dr. Wei gives a score between 1 and 10 based on the challenge's actual level of difficulty.

If the final score (the product of the judges' scores and Dr. Wei's score) is more than 80 points the contestant is qualified to go on to the next round. If Dr. Wei gives a full 10 points, the contestant is automatically qualified for the next round. If the final score is below 80, the contestant is eliminated from the show. Usually, Dr. Wei will give an explanation of his score, regardless if the contestant succeeds or is eliminated.

Period Two: Elimination Round
The contestants who received a full 10 points from Dr. Wei in Period One are exempt from elimination.

Before a challenger starts his/her brainpower-based challenge, they must choose a contestant who is already qualified to challenge. If the challenger does not state a specific qualified contestant they want to challenge, it will be seen as a challenge to all the qualified contestants.

If the challenger chooses only one qualified contestant, and their score is greater than the contestant being challenged, the challenger qualifies. However, if they score less than the qualified contestant, they are eliminated from the show. If the case of a tie occurs, Dr. Wei will ultimately decide who qualifies.

If the challenger wants to challenge all the qualified contestants, their score must be higher than the lowest score of the qualified contestants. If the challenger's score is higher than the lowest score of the already qualified contestants, the qualified contestants with scores below the challenger will face elimination by Dr. Wei's choice. If the challenger fails to reach the lowest qualified contestant score, they are eliminated from the show.

After Episode 9, China had found their 12 qualified contestants, who formed their team for international episodes.

Period Three: Challenges
This period consists of challenges between the Chinese show's greatest contestants and the ones in the other international versions (see below).

Each team has four members, participating in one-on-one competitions between team China and a foreign "high-skilled" team. Each team member plays one competition, and the country who wins the most is the winner. In the event of a tie, the four judges - Wei Kunlin, Robert Desimone, Konrad Kording and Bernard Balleine - will decide who wins the competition based on whose competition was the most difficult.

Note: In Season 1, Wei, Robert, Konrad and Bernard are all the experts of Neuroscience. Wei Kunlin is the associate professor of the Department of Psychology in Peking University, the Doctor of Motion Control at University of Pennsylvania; Robert Desimone is National Academy of Sciences Award and Golden Brain Award winner, the Professor of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Konrad Kording is the associate professor of Northwestern University; Bernard Balleine is Honorary Fellow of Australia, the Director of Laboratory of Neurobehavioral Sciences of Institute for Brain and Mental in University of Sydney.

Full Schedule of Period Three
All these times are in Beijing Time(UTC+8).

Season 3

Phase 1: Captain selection
In the premiere episode of Season 3, eight contestants from previous seasons will play head-to-head in four different competitions. Four winners will be allocated to the third phase, or the international competitions, as the captains.

Phase 2: International competitions
A team of contestants from China will play head-to-head against a foreign team. Rules remain the same as the competitions in earlier seasons. The competition schedule will be shown as the following:

Only the winning team every week can select one contestant from their national team to the next phase - the season final in April.

Phase 3: Season final
The advisory judge will nominate one contestant from those who have won the head-to-heads in the winning team at the end of each competition, as one of the four finalists. However, due to the fact that the third match between China and Japan ended with a tie, Robert Desimone nominated one contestant from both of the teams, meaning there would be five finalists in all. But Chen Ranran decided to withdraw, meaning the remaining four finalists would play as individuals in the final.

Each of the four finalists will take on the final challenge for them in the season. This challenge is based on their strengths in mental techniques, and it will be extremely harder than those they have been played earlier in the show. Regardless of the outcomes of the challenges, a panel of four experts (Wei Kunlin and three advisory judges from the head-to-heads) will all rate the challenge and explain it scientifically, as Wei Kunlin usually did earlier in the series. The contestant with the highest combined score is entitled the Grand Champion.

Season 4: Human vs Supercomputer
The entire season four (2017 season) is based on the concept "Human vs supercomputer". Xiao Du, as an avatar of the Baidu AI system, would be recognised as a special contestant. However, if Xiao Du defeated any two human contestants on their nominated challenges, Xiao Du would be straightly qualified as a finalist, so it would be possible that there would be a non-human grand champion of the entire season. Competition structure is slightly different from the 2016 season.

Phase 1: Qualification
Similar to the previous season's second phase, contestants have to achieve 80 points by the panel's decisions. One of the members of "The Brain's Hall of Fame" will join the judging panel, in order to select the best contestants. However, contestants cannot request head-to-heads against those who has already qualified until the next round.

"The Brain's Hall of Fame" consists of the contestants who successfully performed in the previous three seasons. As the previous season's grand champion, Chen Zhiqiang is guaranteed as a finalist to defend his title. If the contestant fail to qualify, the "Hall of Fame" may challenge the judging panel, but the decision must be unanimous in order to qualify. Should even one of the members did not challenge the judges, the contestant would be eliminated. As always, if the contestant failed to complete his or her challenge, he or she would be eliminated, cannot be qualified.

Also, there would be a special sudoku contest and mental calculation head-to-head competition, since there were no panellists in "The Brain's Hall of Fame" who specialise in either of these fields. They along with other panellists in the "Hall of Fame" who didn't have their nominated opponents would be straightly qualified for the third phase, in order to play head-to-head with international panellists.

Head-to-head
In the second half of each episode, one member of "The Brain's Hall of Fame" will be nominated for the episode's head-to-head challenge against Xiao Du. To be fair, the details of their games would not be revealed to both the human contestants and Xiao Du itself before the recording of the show.

If there's a little time left (not enough due to regulations), it would be broadcast as a separate segment out of the regular show.

Special contests
In Episodes 4 and 5, there were special contests based on speedcubing.

Auditions
Starting from around 100 contestants, a non-broadcast audition was introduced, with contestants failed to solve a classic Rubik's Cube in a definite time limit were eliminated in first two rounds (e.g. in the speed solving round, 15 seconds in the first round, 12 seconds in the second), and the first six contestants to solve the third cube went on to the televised knockouts.

Last Man Standing
Speed: In the televised knockouts, starting from the third round, the contestant with the longest cumulative time or committed a foul would be eliminated. The final two contestants play a best-of-five final to determine the winner that went through to Phase 2. Before each round, contestants may have 10 seconds to inspect the puzzle. Standard rules of speedcubing apply in each round.
Blindfolded: In the televised selection, starting with six contestants, they needed to solve three standard Rubik's cube blindfolded. Standard rules of speedcubing apply. Only the best of three rounds will be taken into account, while the two contestants with the longest time would be eliminated. Then the four remaining contestants repeated the previous round, with only two rounds in the following elimination round. The final two contestants then played a sudden death final to determine the winner that went through to next phase.

Odd One Out
Since there was a contestant who specialise in mathematics and logic in Episode 5, there would be another head-to-head game to determine the only qualifier in the following episode, based on memory. Whoever won the "Odd One Out" game would be able to play against the chosen "Hall of Fame" panellist.

Phase 2: Knockout
Qualified contestants in the previous phase will take on one of the members in the Hall of Fame under a head-to-head challenge designed by the production team. The winners will advance to the international challenges, while the losers are eliminated. Contestants cannot choose Xiao Du as the opponent until they win their head-to-heads.

Phase 3: China vs The World
Panellists from "The Brains Hall of Fame" (as China) will play head-to-head games against one of the panellists from the panel The World. The World consists of nine contestants who were believed to be the best in their respective mental specialists, or from other international versions of The Brain.

After all the head-to-head games, regardless of the outcomes, Dr. Wei Kunlin and Prof. Robert Desimone will nominate one contestant from each of the two panels to proceed to the final along with the returning grand champion Chen Zhiqiang and Xiao Du.

Confirmed panellists from The World:
Alex Mullen, 2-time winner of World Memory Championships, champion of USA Memory Championship 2016
Yanjaa Wintersoul, #1 Female Memory Champion of the world and International Grandmaster of Memory World Memory Championships 2015
Jonas von Essen, returning from the previous season, 2-time winner of World Memory Championships, champion of Swedish Memory Championship 2014
Kota Morinishi, 2-time World Sudoku Championship winner, 7-time WSC veteran for Japan
Hiroaki Tsuchiya, returning from the 2016 season (finalist of the 2016 contest), Japan Mental Calculation champion
Marvin Wallonius, 2nd place overall in World Memory Championships 2015, currently holding three world records [5 minute (decimal) numbers, 15 minute abstract images, 30 minute binary numbers]
Johannes Zhou Zhang-wei, junior champion of South German Memory Championship 2013
Alisa Kellner, International Grandmaster of Memory, winner of the 2016 edition of Deutschlands Superhirn, the original German version of The Brain
Sylvain Arnoux, visual identification specialist; winner of Les Extra-ordinaires, the French version of The Brain

 Phase 4: The "Last Ever" Battle
After all the nominations and competitions, two contestants nominated by scientific judges (acting as team leaders) along with returning grand champion Chen Zhiqiang will play games against Xiao Du for the last time of the series. However, they will work together as a team, instead of playing against each other.

After all the games, the judging panel will cast the deciding result and nominate the newest and last ever grand champion of The Brain.

Finalists:
Chen Zhiqiang, the returning grand champion of The Brain
Huang Zheng, stereoscopic vision specialist
Alex Mullen, memory specialist, 2-time World Memory Champion
Xiao Du, avatar of Baidu AI

 Summary of Season One

 Period One's Qualified Contestants by Episode

 Episode 1
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time) on January 3, 2014. This episode's guests were Li Yanhong and Jay Chou.

 Episode 2
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time) on January 10, 2014.

 Episode 3
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time) on January 17, 2014.

 Episode 4
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time) on January 24, 2014.

 Episode 5
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time) on February 7, 2014. Tao Ching-Ying was replaced by Zhang Ziyi for this episode.

Note: "Wang Feng" in this episode is not the singer, but a 24-year-old writer in Beijing; "Li Yong" is a 50-year-old man is currently living in Henan Province, not the former CCTV television host.

 Episode 6
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time) on February 14, 2014.

 Episode 7
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time) on February 21, 2014. This is the final episode of Period 1.

 Period Two's Qualified and Eliminated Formerly-qualified Contestants by Episode

 Episode 8
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time) on February 28, 2014. Jay Chou is back as the guest.

Eliminations in this episode: Ge Yunlin, Hu Xiaoling.

 Episode 9
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time) on March 7, 2014. Meng Fei and Ning Caishen, the host and regular guest of Fei Cheng Wu Rao, a show currently airing every weekend on Jiangsu Television, were the guests. What's more, Ning replaced Liang Dong in this episode.

Eliminations in this episode: Rao Shunhan, Yang Wanli, Li Yong, Miki Yuk Kuen Lee.

 Brief Report to Period Three by Episode

 Episode 10
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time, 14:00 in London, UK, 9:00 in New York City, USA) on March 14, 2014. The foreign contestants are from Italy, and all of those are winners of Superbrain - Le Supermenti(the Italian distribution of The Brain, running on Rai 1).

This episode's guest is Lin Dan, a world-famous Chinese badminton athlete and the advised judge is Robert Desimone, the Director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Round 1: Franco tried to find the differences set by Zheng Caiqian 4 times, but he failed again and again in the 8-minute time limit; Zheng Caiqian's turn goes well, he found a difference at 6 minutes and 17.02 seconds so he won Round 1.Round 2: Both of the contestants faced three glasses of water, they must calculate how much water in these glasses in grams (They had a margin of 3 grams). Marco's answer was 276 g, actually 273.7 g; but Yang's answer was 498 g, the actual answer was 493.6 g. Marco won Round 2.Round 3: They faced a random sequence of brides and bridegrooms, with a total of 102 people in the line. Li started from the right side, and Andrea from the left side. Li finished in 1 minute and 18.15 seconds, while Andrea used 2 minutes and 41.51 seconds. Under huge pressure, Andrea was totally correct. Li remembered the sequence correctly but thought he placed the models in the wrong order. Li cried, repeating these words:

When the judges went through Li's actual sequence, they found that Li actually placed them correctly.  Li therefore won Round 3.Round 4: Prior to the final competition, Robert said that he wanted to add 10 simple maths questions to prevent the contestants from memorizing the numbers directly, because "that is not difficult enough" (said Wu, Wei and Robert). Matteo wanted 10 seconds to memorize the number pyramid, and he got the pyramid incorrect with 4 wrong numbers. Then was Wu's turn, he only wanted 6 seconds to memorize the pyramid, and Wei said that he was "not wise enough" backstage, though Wu  had been crowned at the World Memory Championships. Finally, Wu got the pyramid correct, and he won Round 4.Ultimate winner: China won Episode 10, the first episode of competition series.

 Episode 11
This episode aired at 22:00 (Beijing Time, 14:00 in London, UK, 9:00 in New York City, USA) on March 21, 2014. The foreign contestants are from Spain, and all of those are winners of Increíbles: el gran desafío(the Spanish distribution of The Brain, running on Antena 3).

That night's guests are: Cecilia Cheung, a Chinese actress, singer, two-time Hong Kong Film Awards winner; the other one is Kim Soo-hyun, a Korean actor, Korean Movie Bell Award winner in 2013, the starring of Asian-hit Television series My Love from the Star. The advised judge is Konrad Kording, the associate professor of Northwestern University.Round 5: They faced 20 models, after the models dressed in the costumes chosen by Cecilia Cheung and Kim Soo-hyun. Later they both chose one model for each of the contestants. Liu chose the costumes faster than Paco, but Paco got 2 of 5 costumes correct. Finally, it was shown that Liu got just one of the costumes incorrect, so Liu won Round 5.Round 6: The pair of contestants memorized the 150 Barcodes backstage for 3 hours, then they faced the first code. They both got the codes correct. But in the second codes, Huang's pen was found it had something wrong, but Konrad gave the two another try. Finally, Huang did the extra challenge correct within just approximately 19 seconds. Huang won the Round 6.Round 7: The first turn was Sun Cheran's turn. She played "Single Dragon Sudoku" with her back to the screen. She had to fill 1 to 9 into the Sudoku grid, and the numbers couldn't be repeated in any of the lines or the small 3x3 grids, and in the "dragon" chosen by Matin, the numbers must be in a strictly increasing or decreasing order (starting with 1 or 9). Sun got the grid correct.

Then it was Martin's turn: following the chessboard of Chess and its Knight's rules, Sun must assign the starting point and the ending point, with a number of starting point's number and the sum of each horizontal and vertical line between 200 and 500. Sun chose A5 as the starting point with the number of 31, and B5 as the finish point. The sum of numbers in all the lines must be exactly 477. Matin also got it correct. Ultimately, Konrad, the judge, decided that Martin was the winner of Round 7.Round 8: Both of the contestants memorized the 20 Rubik's Cubes in one hour backstage, and on the stage, they must solve the series of 20 cubes in 10 minutes. Alex used 7 minutes and 44 seconds to deal with the cubes but only got five correct. Jia used full 10 minutes and got 13 cubes correct, so he ultimately won final Round 8.Ultimate winner: China won the 11th episode by 3–1.

 Episode 12
This episode is aired at 21:30 (Beijing Time, 13:30 in London, UK, 8:30 in New York City, USA) on March 28, 2014. The foreign contestants are from Germany, and all of those are best ever contestants of Deutschlands Superhirn(the German distribution of The Brain, formerly running on ZDF).

This is the finale of the 2014 Chinese version of The Brain franchise.

Jay Chou is back again as guest. The advised judge is Bernard Balleine, a Laureate Fellow of Australia and Director of the Laboratory of Neurobehavioral Sciences in the Brain and Mind Research Institute in the University of Sydney.Round 9: They faced 400 dice in 100 cups, each had 4 dice in it. They memorized them, within 5 seconds for each cup. After memorizing the numbers, they were asked to name the numbers under five randomly selected cups. Both got all of the numbers asked correct. As the tie-breaker round, they had to repeat 20 further numbers of five further dice cups by writing on a board as fast as they can. Boris achieves this in just 20.9 seconds and is faster than Wang. However, Boris got one single number wrong; Wang repeated all of them correctly. Wang won Round 9.Round 10: They faced the following math questions:
(1) 6,901×7,789=53,751,889 (Zhou); 571×857=489,347 (Rudiger)
(2) 713=96,889,010,407 (Zhou); 9317=2,912,125,755,884,410,842,622,249,257,854,493 (Rudiger)
(3) 5√7,813,624,454,316,229=1,508.5875…(Zhou); 4√83=3.018349479…(Rudiger)
Tie occurred after the three rounds. They both got their strongest question incorrect with a minor error. In the final questions in 10th round, Zhou's question was chossing which of 27,637 and 28,283 was prime, and his answer 28,283 was correct (27,637=29×953); Rudiger's question was sin 289°, and his answer was "-0.94518575…" (also correct). As a tie-breaker, Bernard decided that Rudiger was the winner of Round 10.Round 11: Two judges gave Ai and Dave the same 4 objects. Ai used 2 minutes and 37.40 seconds to find the objects using her breath, while Dave finished in 2 minutes and 45.51 seconds using sound waves. Both of them got the first two correct and the third wrong. However, Ai got more objects correct, she won the 11th round.Round 12: They both memorized 3-D Chinese world-famous painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival before the show started filming for two hours. In the first two questions, they both got a location correct according to the judges' choices. In the final question, Ni chose the correct location of a character in the sandbox, so Ni won the final round.Ultimate winner: Rumors online came that China was the ultimate winner, but its source can not be determined. During the season finale, the winner was revealed to be China. The first season said goodbye to the Chinese audience in this episode. The victory ceremony was aired on Jiangsu TV after the show ended.

 Controversies & criticism in and after Season 1

 "Blind Sudoku"
In Episode 8, Sun Cheran, the 14-year-old contestant from Beijing, challenged playing Sudoku blind. Several hours after the show aired, Chinese netizens mainly from social network Sina Weibo criticized the show, saying that her challenge was not difficult enough.

The people online said that she only completed one "easy" Sudoku, because the numbers of the Sudoku table were the repetition of numbers '1, 2, 3', '5, 6, 7' and '4, 8, 9' in various orders, since Jay Chou filled one single number and one single color in the grid.

Chen Cen, the captain and head coach of the national Sudoku team of China, later said that Sun Cheran was qualified to stay in the show, the main reason being that her ability is more than enough to challenge the Europeans. Even more, Chen Cen clarified that in the other version, there were many contestants similar to Sun.

 "Guiding the way of flyover"
One week after Sun's performance, Li Yunlong qualified with the challenge of "Guiding the way of flyover." On March 8, 2014, just one day after the show aired, Wei Kunlin said these words on his Sina Weibo:

However, Wei's comments were strongly criticized by online viewers.

 Kim Soo-hyun's visit
A major controversy was Kim Soo-hyun's visit to this show. Some media reports said that Jiangsu Television dispatched a charter flight to send Kim from Seoul, South Korea to Nanjing, where the show was taped. Accordingly, an entourage of security guards were hired, and public security departments in Jiangsu Province and Nanjing mobilized more than 300 police officers to ensure the safety of the studio.  Other media reported that Kim's visit's appearance fee is about three million Chinese yuan (KR₩521,319,010, US$ 488,520, €352,110, GB£ 293,249, HK$3,791,524 or 10,299,462,628 ₫; sponsored by Google Finance).   Kim's trip was heavily criticized by netizens in China, for being overtly extravagant.  However, a group of fans of Kim published a full-page advertisement in Chosun Ilbo in both Chinese and Korean in support of Kim.

 Series controversies to episode 10
Minutes after Episode 10 finished, the online viewers had noted several controversies in Team China's performance.

In Round 4, Wu got a question wrong. He accidentally wrote: "18+99= 107."

The correct answer was 117. However, the rules didn't claim that getting the question wrong means the challenge is over. The "certified" online viewers said as follows:

 Acting as a drama?
Some online viewers criticized that the foreign contestants "surrendered" in the competitions on the social networks, or the Chinese contestants were "cheating." They called into question the production team, and that all these episodes were making the broadcasting effects, so that they made all the three episodes into 3-1 results.

 Excessive consumption after shows
It was reported that the host Jiang along with some contestants in the show are facing the heated consumption among the Chinese merchants. For example, Yang Wanli, the show's contestant in Episode 2, has taken a lot of local lectures about memorizing objects and brainpower; Jiang Changjian, the presenter and Associated Professor in Fudan University, is determined to take a lecture in Xiamen, Fujian, his hometown on May 17, 2014.

Online viewers also felt sympathy that the contestants, the host and even the co-hosts (known as "Scientific Assistants") were all facing the "excessive consumption" after the show ended in the early months of 2014, while criticizing the "wealthy" merchants' consumption.

 Summary of Season Two

 Period One's qualified contestants by episode

 Episode 1
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on January 2, 2015. This premiere episode's celebrity guest was actress Fan Bingbing.

On the opening show of Season 2, host Jiang Changjian revealed that the contestants in the Period Three later this season were from United States, United Kingdom, Japan, etc. This season also consists of challenges performed outside the studio, for instance, one contestant took the task in Hong Kong. Only one contestant was qualified in this episode.

 Episode 2
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on January 9, 2015. This episode's celebrity guest was actress Shu Qi.

--Bao Yun later was unable to find a contestant who could challenge him, so he did not participate in the challenge against other country teams.

 Episode 3
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on January 16, 2015. This episode's celebrity guest was actor Tong Dawei, as one of the judges.

 Episode 4
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on January 23, 2015. Mandopop icon Jay Chou was back for the fourth time in total, and Ning Jing was also one of the celebrity guests.

 Episode 5
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on January 30, 2015. This episode's celebrity guest was actress Tong Liya.

 Episode 6
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on February 6, 2015. This episode was the last show of the qualifier rounds.

Note: Due to personal requests, Sze Wai Ho (scored out) withdrew from the competition later on.

 Period Two's qualified and eliminated contestants by episode
Note: Eliminated contestants were scored out in the tables below. If the challenge was rated lower than the original score, it could be considered as an automatic elimination.

 Episode 7
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on February 13, 2015. Xu Jinglei was the celebrity guest that night.

 Episode 8
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on February 27, 2015. Actress Li Xiaolu was the celebrity guest that night.

 Brief report to Period Three by episode

 Episode 9: China vs. Germany
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on March 6, 2015. Pianist Lang Lang was the celebrity guest that night. This episode also saw the return of Prof. Robert Desimone, as one of the judges.Round 1: As the first round of the "Three heads against Four" Challenges, both of the contestants faced a random deck of playing cards. Their job was memorizing it and put it into a correct order. Wang Feng, as the only Asian winner of World Memory Championships, memorized the deck in 19.80 seconds, while Simon, German Memory Master of 2009 and Worldrecord holder used a little more time than Wang. Simon made some mistakes, and Wang Feng recalled the full deck correctly within 5-minute time limit. Wang won this round.Round 2: The contestants memorized the 100 random audience members with their names (in first letters for given names and surnames), and their appearance in the front only. Then they faced 3 side silhouettes chosen by Lang Lang. Contestants must identify those silhouettes belong to whom, and write down their first letters for the names and surnames, and their random seat numbers. Li Lu finished first with an advantage of about 1 minute and 10 seconds. However, Christiane gave one incorrect answer to the second audience member's seat number, making Li Lu became the winner.Round 3: The contestants was given three household objects. The co-presenter made these objects some noises, but the contestants must name the hidden piano key sounds in such noises, then write down what they have heard. Sun Yiting's answer was closer to the judgement of the spectrum, making Sun Yiting became the third round's winner.Round 4: During the final round, Boris and Wang Feng faced the challenge they competed last year. Boris did his best even to score one point for the German team. In the last cup of dice, Wang Feng gave the correct answer. However, Boris failed to recall the numbers in the cup Number 93.Ultimate winner: China won the first competition in 2015 edition with a score of 4–0.

 Episode 10: China vs. Japan
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on March 13, 2015. Prof. Robert Desimone stayed on the seat for the task as a judge.

 Round 5: Two contestants faced the same 100 Rubik's Cubes in various shapes. Their task was to solve all the cubes, whoever solves faster won. Mitsuki finished first with an advantage of one and a half minutes, and became the winner of this round. It is worth noticing that Mitsuki is the current Guinness World Record holder of the person who solves a 3x3 Rubik's Cube fastest, and his record was only about 7 seconds.Round 6: Two similar pictures from China and Japan (one from each respective country) was divided into 100 fans each. They must identify the three fans chosen by Robert by showing the edges of those closed fans, in other words, the fans were kept closed when the competition is underway. Before the competition, they could memorize and keep them familiar with the 200 fans for 2 hours, however, Wang decided not to watch ANY of the fans. During the competition, Wang finished the task first, and he got all the answer correctly. But Haraguchi failed to identify two of the fans, Wang won this round.Round 7: As the tie-breaking round and the "Two-on-two" round, the score would be doubled. In this round, there was three sub-rounds. In the first two rounds, the credits will be rated by the difficulty they chose on the difficulty board. The contestant correctly answered the most difficult question would score six points, and four points for the second most difficult, then two and one for the rest of contestants. However, getting the answer wrong would score nothing (zero points) in each of the first two sub-rounds.
 1) All the contestants must solve the questions that has 20 numbers to be added flashing on the screen. They could choose how quick they wanted. In this round, Wu started first, he chose the difficulty that could keep him safe for the competition. Next two contestants, Xiang and Tsujikubo chose the same difficulty level rated 7 out of 10, and they answered those sums correctly. Finally, Sasano chose the highest level of difficulty (8 out of 10), and got the correct answer as well. In this sub-round, Japan was in the lead with a score of 9-4 (Round 7 only).
 2) To increase the difficulty, there were two sets of double digit numbers (10 numbers each) to be added flashing on the screen. The contestants must correctly work out both of the answers to score points. However, Japanese contestants started first, and Tsujikubo got the 5-star question (addition only, 6 seconds for showing the numbers) correct. Then Wu and Sasano correctly got the same level (6 out of possible 10) of question. At last, Xiang answered the most difficult one (7 out of 10, addition only for 4 seconds), and he correctly worked out those sums. After two sub-rounds, Japanese contestants lead with 15–11.
 3) In the final round, there were four questions for multiplication and division (at least five-digit numbers used). Those questions worth 2, 4, 6, 6 points, and all the questions were on the buzzer. The first pair of contestants buzz-in with the correct answer would score points, but if the contestant got the question wrong, the respective points would be taken away from the total. In the first question (9-digit ÷ 5-digit), Wu Renjun was the first to buzz-in and correctly answered that. But in the second round (6-digit × 6-digit) worth four points, Tsujikubo incorrectly solved that, and as a result, those four points were taken away from the Japanese contestants' score. In the final two rounds (12-digit ÷ 6-digit and 7-digit × 7-digit), Tsujikubo had taken control of the whole competition, and under such massive pressure, she got both of them correct. Japanese contestants won the "Double pointer" Round 7 with a massive score of 23–11.Ultimate winner: Japan became the first team to defeat the "undefeated" Chinese contestants with a result of 3–1.

 Episode 11: China vs. United Kingdom
This episode was aired at 21:10 (Beijing Time) on March 20, 2015. This episode saw the return of the contestant Li Lu, who appeared on the competition two weeks (on television) ago. This show's celebrity guests were Huang Lei, a Chinese actor, and a regular guest of If You Are the One, a weekly dating show presented by one of the judges Meng Fei; and actress Shu Qi for the second time in the series. The advisory judge this time was Dagnar Sternad, PhD of experimental psychology in University of Connecticut, professor of biology and physics at Northeastern University, and visiting professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Round 8: This round was exactly the same as what Lin did in the qualifier round for this season. However, in this round, two contestants would play against each other. The person who takes a shorter amount of time to calculate the security code hidden in the wall featuring 1,380 codes wins. To decrease the possibility of guessing the answers, the three strikes rule was used - if the contestant fails to input the correct code, the competition ends immediately and he loses. The correct code was hidden in the crossing of four of the possible seven prime numbers. In the competition, Robert went faster and won the Round 8. The number 67,971 is a composite number rather than a prime number which was chosen in the qualifier round; it is divisible by 3 (67,971 = 3 × 139 × 163).Round 9: This round consisted of recalling more than 1,000 words in 8 non-Latin-based languages: the competition used Arabic, Persian, Burmese, Cambodian, Nepali, Thai, Sinhala and Tamil. They had to memorize all those words before the show, and in the competition, all those words would be split into thousands of pieces. They must find the correct pieces on the board to complete the translated words (two words for three languages each) in 40 minutes. Li Wei completed the round first to apply pressure to Katie, but in the competition, Katie got two more correct answers than Li Wei. As a result, Chinese contestants lost two straight rounds.Ultimate winner: United Kingdom won the competition with a result of 3–1, which means the Chinese contestants have lost two shows in a row.

 Episode 12: China vs. United States Ultimate winner:''' China won the competition with a result of 2–1, which means the Chinese contestants have won two out of four competitions.

 Controversies & criticism in and after Season 2
 Wang Yuheng: Political references
In the 10th episode of the second season, facing the Japanese contestants, Chinese contestant Wang Yuheng said to the camera:

Wang's such words and the number 300,000 made a huge controversy on the social media, because it was the number of victims in Nanking Massacre two years before World War II, and the show was filmed in Nanjing, China. Wang stressed on the references of history and politics, made him became controversial after the show.

 Summary of Season Four

 Phase 1's Qualified Contestants by Episode

 Episode 1
This episode aired on January 6, 2017. Episode 1's guest judge was Zhang Ziyi.

 Hall of Fame vs. Xiao Du

 Episode 2
This episode aired on January 13, 2017. Episode 2's guest judge was Jay Chou.

 Hall of Fame vs. Xiao Du

 Episode 3
This episode aired on January 20, 2017. Episode 3's guest judge was Fu Yuanhui.

 Hall of Fame vs. Xiao Du

 Episode 4
This episode aired on February 3, 2017. Episode 4's guest judge was Zhang Ziyi.

 Episode 5
This episode aired on February 10, 2017. Episode 5's guest judge was Zhang Ziyi.

 Episode 6
This episode aired on February 17, 2017. Episode 6's guest judge was Wu Minxia.

 Phase Two's head-to-head contests by episode
Starting Episode 7, each incumbent and challenger competed for one seat on the international team in a total of nine head-to-head contests.

 Episode 7
This episode aired on February 24, 2017.

 Side note: Due to the fact that Jia Liping committed cheating in his head-to-head, Jia Liping, Lin Kaijun, Wang Yinghao, and Wang Jiayu were removed from the team.

 Episode 8
This episode aired on March 3, 2017.

 Episode 9
This episode aired on March 10, 2017.

Episode 10
This episode aired on March 17, 2017.

Episode 11
This episode aired on March 24, 2017.

Episode 12
This episode aired on March 31, 2017.

The Grand Final
In the last ever show of The Brain, the judging panel decided that:

Following that statement, the long-time presenter Prof. Jiang Changjian concluded the entire series with these words, which have been translated into English:

Therefore, Sang Jie, the executive producer of The Brain announced that the show won't be renewed for a fifth season, according to contestant Bao Yun's weibo. Presenter Jiang Changjian also confirmed that shortly after the recording of the final show. The official weibo then resigned, with just one word "GOODBYE".

Notable contestants chronology
Domestic
These contestants made appearances in multiple seasons of The Brain as contestants. Only those who have qualified in the qualifier round or have been a member of "The Brain's Hall of Fame" will count.

Note: Due to the fact that Sun Yiting received campus violence exclusively for him since he became a notable contestant on the programme, Sun immigrated to Australia with the local citizenship in 2017.

International
These international contestants played in multiple seasons of The Brain.

Other notable mentions include Rüdiger Gamm who is known as ‘the human calculator’.

 Judges
Scientific judge in all seasons of the original series is Wei Kunlin.

 Season 1

 Season 2

 Season 3

 Season 4

 Celebrity Guests

 Season 1

Note: The celebrity guests as judges and contestants are not included in the list.

 Season 3

Note: Sun Rui, a member of SNH48, is featured as a co-presenter throughout the season.

 Season 4: Human vs Supercomputer

 Transmissions
 Regular series

Reformatted series: 最强大脑之燃烧吧大脑

International versions

 International broadcast
Season 1 is also broadcast in Singapore on Mediacorp Channel U. In Singapore, this show has aired every Tuesday at 20:00, starting from July 15, 2014. Again, Season 2 was also broadcast in the same channel since September 2015, 20:30, the same goes to NTV7 of Malaysia, who also broadcast Season 3 and Season 4.

Reruns of the inaugural season are currently broadcasting in Australia every Sunday on SBS 2, commencing on January 24, 2016.

 See also
Brain
Human brain
Similar television programmes:The Big Brain Theory, 2013, Discovery ChannelBeat the Brain'', 2015, BBC Two

References

External links

2014 Chinese television series debuts
2017 Chinese television series endings
Jiangsu Television original programming
Chinese game shows


title: Petra Vlhová

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Petra Vlhová (born 13 June 1995) is a Slovak World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom. Vlhová won the World Cup overall title in 2021 and the gold medal in the 2022 Winter Olympics in the slalom event, becoming the first Slovak skier to achieve these feats.

Career
Born in Liptovský Mikuláš, during childhood she attended training sessions at Podbreziny ski center in her native Litpovský Mikuláš. With an altitude of 700 meters and tracks with a combined length of 550 meters, the ski center entered disusage in the later 2000s and early 2010s. In 2022, Vlhová supported the restart of the center and the local youth training groups.

Vlhová won a gold medal in 2012 Winter Youth Olympics and represented Slovakia in the 2014 Winter Olympics. She also won gold in the slalom at the Junior World Championships in 2014 in Jasná, Slovakia.

World Cup
She made her World Cup debut at age 17 in December 2012, and her first World Cup podium came three years later, a victory in slalom in  at   she qualified for the second run in giant slalom for the first time in her career in Flachau

2019 season
In December 2018, Vlhová scored the first World Cup giant slalom win for Slovakia in a race in Semmering, Austria – she was in fourth place after the first run but set the second fastest time on the second run  for the victory: her previous best GS result had been seventh. A few days later she won a parallel slalom at the foot of the Holmenkollbakken in Oslo, the sixth win of her career, setting a new record for the most World Cup wins by a Slovak alpine skier, eclipsing Veronika Velez-Zuzulová.

In January 2019, having finished as runner-up to Mikaela Shiffrin in the first five classic slaloms of the World Cup season, Vlhová won the slalom in Flachau, setting the fastest time on the second run to take the win after placing third in the first run and taking the winner's €70,000 prize, the biggest women's prize purse of the World Cup season. The race was her fifth win in classic slalom, putting her one ahead of Velez-Zuzulová in terms of wins in the discipline.

At the Alpine World Ski Championships in February 2019, Vlhová took a complete set of medals. She claimed the first individual medal for a Slovak skier – a silver in the combined – after being edged out by Wendy Holdener by three-hundredths of a second. She then won the first gold medal for Slovakia in the giant slalom, before taking the bronze in the slalom.

2020 season
Vlhová started the 2020 season with a 14th-place finish in giant slalom at Sölden. She reached her first podium in the season on Killington when she finished second in Slalom. On 15 December 2019, she won a Parallel slalom race in  St. Moritz. In the last race of 2019, she finished second again in Lienz behind Mikaela Shiffrin. She started the new year with three victories in 4 races. First, she won the slalom in Zagreb on 4 January; 10 days later, she triumphed in the Flachau slalom, and then she took her only Giant slalom win of the season on 18 January, when she shared the spoils with Federica Brignone in Sestriere.

Vlhová started competing in the speed events in her bid to win the big crystal globe in the later part of the season. She claimed two 6th places in Bansko, one in the downhill and one in the super-G. She claimed two other top 10 results in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Her final win of the season came in slalom in Kranjska Gora on 16 February. She recorded a new personal best downhill with a 4th place in Crans Montana on 21 February. In the season's final race, she finished 4th in a super-G in La Thuile, which was her best result in the discipline up to that point.

The season was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. Vlhová finished 3rd in the overall world cup standings, winning her first small crystal globes, one for slalom and one for parallel events.

2021 season
Vlhová had a strong start to the season with 3rd place in the opening giant slalom in Sölden. She followed that up with three victories in a row, having won two slaloms in two days in Levi and a parallel giant slalom in Lech/Zürs. In December, Vlhová finished 3rd in the first of two giant slaloms in Courchevel (France) but did not finish the other one two days later. In Val d'Isère, she finished 26th and 33rd in the two downhills before getting 6th place in the super-G a day later. Vlhová recorded three more victories in the season - slalom in Zagreb, giant slalom on her home track in Jasná, and slalom in Åre. She also recorded her first podium in a speed event when she finished 2nd in the super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on February 1.

She also won two silver medals at the World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, one in the alpine combined and one in slalom.

Vlhová secured her first overall title at the world cup finals in Lenzerheide, finishing 6th in slalom. She became the first Slovak skier to achieve this title.

2022 season
Vlhová parted ways with her Italian coach Livio Magoni shortly after the end of the 2021 season after a 5-year partnership. She hired swiss coach Mauro Pini as replacement.

Vlhová had a strong start to the season with 3rd place in the opening giant slalom in Sölden. She followed that up with two victories in a row, having won two slaloms in two days in Levi. She won three more slaloms in Lienz, Zagreb and Kranjska Gora and clinched the slalom crystal globe with a second place finish in Schladming, with two slaloms remaining.

She became the first Slovak alpine skier to win an Olympic medal by winning gold in slalom in Beijing. She was in 8th place after the first round, 0.72 seconds behind Lena Dürr, but then produced the fastest run on the second leg to win gold by 0.08 seconds ahead of reigning world champion Katharina Liensberger.

After the Olympics, Vlhová mounted a challenge to defend her overall world cup title. She won the giant slalom in Åre to record her sixth win of the season. She finally lost the chance to win the big crystal globe after the final super-G race in Courchevel/Méribel, where Mikaela Shiffrin finished in 2nd position and clinched the title. Vlhová finished off the season with two podiums in slalom and giant slalom.

World Cup results

Season titles
4 titles – (1 overall, 2 Slalom, 1 Parallel)

Season standings

Race victories

Podiums

Including both parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom.  Two parallel events have been classified in the ski-db.com results as classic events (the City Event slalom on 30/01/18 and the City Event slalom on 01/01/19).  They are shown here as parallel events.

World Championship results

Olympic results

See also
List of FIS Alpine Ski World Cup women's race winners
List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Olympic alpine skiers for Slovakia
Slovak female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Olympic gold medalists for Slovakia
Sportspeople from Liptovský Mikuláš
Alpine skiers at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
Youth Olympic gold medalists for Slovakia


title: John Ashworth (priest)

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John Edward Maurice Ashworth was Dean of Trinidad from 1948 to 1954.

Ashworth was educated at the University of London. He was ordained in 1934 and served curacies in Great Grimsby and South Kirkby. He was Rector of Boughton, Norfolk from 1937 to 1948 before his time as Archdeacon and Vicar of Heworth, York afterwards.

References

Alumni of the University of London
Deans of Trinidad


title: VA-175 (U.S. Navy)

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VA-175, nicknamed the Devil's Diplomats, was an attack squadron of the U.S. Navy. It was established as Torpedo Squadron VT-82 on 1 April 1944, redesignated as VA-18A on 15 November 1946, and as VA-175 on 11 August 1948. The squadron was disestablished on 15 March 1958.

Operational history
15 December 1944 – 7 January 1945: The squadron, embarked on , was in transit from Norfolk, Virginia, to the Hawaiian Islands, with a two-day stop over at San Diego.
16 February 1945: The squadron participated in its first combat operations, flying sorties against the air strip at Hachijo Jima and against airfields in the Tokyo area. The squadron’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander E. D. DeGarmo, was awarded the Silver Star for his actions during the missions against the Japanese airfields.
20–22 February 1945: The squadron provided close air support for operations on Iwo Jima.
19 March 1945: Squadron aircraft participated in strikes against the Japanese Fleet, which included the battleship Yamato, located near Kure and Hiroshima in the Inland Sea.
7 April 1945: Squadron aircraft were the first to attack a powerful Japanese Task Force that had sortied from the Inland Sea and was operating west of Kyushu. This force included the Yamato and her escorts. The squadron achieved hits on two destroyers and one light cruiser, sinking one of the destroyers. Attacks from other task force aircraft resulted in the sinking of the Yamato, a cruiser and three other destroyers. Seven squadron pilots were awarded the Navy Cross for their actions during this engagement. They were: Lieutenant Commander Edward E. DeGarmo; Lieutenants Jesse W. Naul, Jr. and Norman A. Wiese; and Lieutenant (jg)s John F. Gilbreath, Jr., Wilfred O. McDowell, Donald B. Barber and Charles R. Walton.
March–May 1945: The squadron was involved in preinvasion strikes on Okinawa and provided support for the Battle of Okinawa.
3 June 1945: Lieutenant Commander Edward E. DeGarmo was killed in action when he crash-landed his plane after his plane was struck by enemy anti-aircraft fire which engulfed the engine in flames.
17 June 1945: VT-82 completed its tour of combat duty and embarked on  for its transit back to the United States, arriving at NAS Alameda on 9 July.
November–December 1956: , with VA-175 embarked, was ordered to deploy and operate off the coast of Spain as a result of the Suez Canal Crisis.

Home port assignments
The squadron was assigned to these home ports, effective on the dates shown:
 NAS Quonset Point – 1 Apr 1944
 NAAF New Bedford – 13 Apr 1944*
 NAAS Oceana – 16 Jun 1944*
 NAS Quonset Point – 13 Nov 1944*
 NAS Kahului – 8 Jan 1945*
 NAS Alameda – Jul 1945
 NAF Newport – Mar 1946
 NAS Quonset Point – Apr 1946
 NAAS Cecil Field – 11 Jan 1949
 NAS Jacksonville – 9 Jan 1950
* Temporary shore assignment while the squadron conducted training in preparation for combat deployment.

Aircraft assignment
The squadron first received the following aircraft on the dates shown:
 TBM-1 Avenger – Apr 1944
 TBM-1C Avenger – Apr 1944
 TBM-3 Avenger – 06 Aug 1944
 TBM-3E Avenger – Sep 1945
 TBM-3Q Avenger – May 1946
 TBM-3J Avenger – Mar 1947
 AD-3 Skyraider – 16 Feb 1949
 AD-4 Skyraider – 04 Apr 1950
 AD-4L Skyraider – Feb 1951
 AD-4B Skyraider – Feb 1953
 AD-6 Skyraider – Aug 1954

See also
 List of squadrons in the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
 Attack aircraft
 Torpedo bomber
 List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons
 History of the United States Navy

References

Attack squadrons of the United States Navy
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons


title: Cândido Mendes de Almeida

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Cândido Mendes de Almeida (14 October 18181 March 1881) was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist and politician.

He was representative and senator of the Empire of Brazil (1871–1881). He was decorated with the Order of St. Gregory the Great and the Order of the Rose.

The Universidade Cândido Mendes was named in his honor.

Works
Mendes was author of several works in the fields of Law, History, and Politics:
 As Eleições da Província do Maranhão em 1842 sob a Presidência do Dr. Venâncio José Lisboa (1843);
 Os Serviços relevantes de Manoel Telles da Silva Lobo, na Província do Maranhão (1851);
 A Carolina, ou, a definitiva fixação de limites entre as provincias do Maranhão e de Goyaz (1852);
 Atlas do Império do Brasil (1860)
 Memórias para a história do extincto estado do Maranhão (1860-74), dois volumes;
 S. Luiz e o Pontificado: Estudo Histórico (1869);
 Código Filipino (1870-78) (edição anotada das Ordenações Filipinas com erudita introdução de sua autoria sobre a história do Direito)
 Direito Civil Eclesiástico Brasileiro (reunião de toda legislação canônica ao longo da história do Brasil com introdução de mais de quatrocentas páginas com a história das relações entre o Estado e a Igreja no Brasil)
 Legislação e Jurisprudência no Brasil;
 Direito Mercantil Brasileiro (edição anotada do livro do visconde de Cairu com erudita introdução de mais de oitocentas páginas com a história do comércio marítimo no Brasil).

Bibliography
  Antônio Carlos Villaça. O Senador Cândido Mendes'' (1981).

References

1818 births
1881 deaths
Brazilian politicians
19th-century Brazilian lawyers
Brazilian journalists
Knights of St. Gregory the Great
19th-century journalists
Brazilian male journalists


title: Samuel Appleton

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Samuel Appleton may refer to
Samuel Appleton (born 1625) (1625–1696), American colonial military and government leader
Samuel Appleton (merchant) (1766–1853), American merchant and philanthropist


title: Vitaly Medvedev (fencer)

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Vitaly Mikhailovich Medvedev (, born 7 May 1983) is a fencer who specializes in the épée. He was born in the Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union. His family then moved to the Lithuanian SSR, and in 1990 to Crimea, Ukrainian SSR, where he started fencing at the age of 11.He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and finished in seventh place with the Ukrainian team. In 2013, he won a silver and a bronze medal in the team épée at the world and European championships, respectively.

His parents are former basketball players. His mother, Emilia Kudusovna Medvedeva, worked as a teacher.

References

1983 births
Living people
Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic fencers for Ukraine
Ukrainian male épée fencers
Universiade medalists in fencing
Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine
Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade


title: 2015 World Women's Handball Championship – European qualification

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The European qualification for the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship, in Denmark was played over two rounds. The 2015 hosts Denmark were qualified automatically for the World Championship.

In the first round of qualification, 14 teams who were not participating at the 2014 European Championship were split into four groups. The group winners and the remaining 14 teams from the European Championship played a playoff afterwards to determine the other nine qualifiers.

Qualification phase 1

Seedings
The draw was made on 22 July at 11:00. The group winners advanced to the playoff round.

Group 1
The mini-tournament was hosted in Switzerland.

Group 2
The mini-tournament was hosted in Austria.

Group 3
The teams opted to play the group in a home and away series.

Group 4
The mini-tournament was hosted in the Czech Republic.

Qualification phase 2
The teams played a home-and away series to determine the final tournament participants. The draw was made on 21 December 2014.

Seedings

Matches

First leg

Second leg

Hungary won 74–44 on aggregate.

France won 54–41 on aggregate.

Russia won 49–46 on aggregate.

Romania won 56–54 on aggregate.

Netherlands won 56–48 on aggregate.

Spain won 45–39 on aggregate.

Montenegro won 47–38 on aggregate.

Poland won 54–40 on aggregate.

Sweden won 51–44 on aggregate.

References

External links
Eurohandball.com

2014 in handball
2015 in handball
World Handball Championship tournaments
Qualification for handball competitions


title: Ralf Georg Reuth

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Ralf Georg Reuth (born 4 June 1952 in Oberfranken) is a German journalist and historian. Reuth studied with Andreas Hillgruber and wrote his Ph.D. on the German strategy in the Mediterranean from 1940 to 1942. He published several books dealing with the Nazi era, among them  a biography of Joseph Goebbels in 1992 and of Hitler in 2003. Reuth also edited a multivolume selection from the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, which drew criticism notably from Bernd Sösemann. He also wrote biographies of Erwin Rommel, Angela Merkel and Helmut Kohl.

Reuth's 2004 book Rommel: Das Ende einer Legende, dedicated to the topic of the Rommel myth, has started the reevaluation of Rommel's role in history. The book was published in English in 2005 as Rommel: The End of a Legend.

Works
 Reuth, Ralf Georg (1993). Goebbels. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company.

References

Citations

Bibliography

German biographers
Male biographers
German male non-fiction writers
1952 births
Living people


title: 1987 Italian general election in Veneto

text:
The Italian general election of 1987 took place on 14 June 1987.

In Veneto Christian Democracy was, as usual, the largest party that got 43.5% of the vote.

Results

Chamber of Deputies
Source: Regional Council of Veneto

Provincial breakdown
Source: Regional Council of Veneto

Senate
Source: Regional Council of Veneto

Elections in Veneto
General, Veneto


title: Cambridge Scientists' Anti-War Group

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The Cambridge Scientists' Anti-War Group (CSAWG) was a left wing pacifist group set up in 1932.

In 1937 responding to concerns about the use of poison gas bombs, the CSAWG organised an experiment in the Trinity College room of John Fremlin to determine the rate at which a gas might leak into a sealed room. However Jack Haldane queried the rigour of the scientific methodology.

Notable members of CSAWG
 Frederick Sanger
Maurice Wilkins

References

Scientific organisations based in the United Kingdom
Peace organisations based in the United Kingdom
1932 establishments in England
Organisations based in Cambridge
Left-wing politics in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1932


title: Parián

text:
Pariáns were districts of cities in the Philippines during the country's Spanish colonial era where Chinese (Sangley) were required to live by Spanish colonial authorities. In Luzon there are several towns and cities with districts for chinese settlers, the most famous being the Parian of Manila which moved locations within the city from time to time, before finally settling on Binondo Chinatown, another is in the neighborhood of El Pariancillo in Vigan and Pariancillo in Malolos which was established in 1755 as a Chinese enclave of Malolos that were from migrants from Manila. There are also many other Pariáns throughout Luzon, such as Parian, Mexico, Pampanga (which became the municipality's poblacion), Parian in Calamba, Laguna, etc. In the Visayas, Cebu City had a Parián, which is now a modern-day barangay in the city named Pari-an, and Iloilo City also had a Parián, which was located in the modern-day city district of Molo. Cebu's Parián was founded in 1590 after the arrival of Chinese traders and was supervised by the Jesuits. There were many other Pariáns throughout the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era.

References

Former subdivisions of the Philippines
History of the Philippines (1565–1898)