title: Dernière danse (Kyo song)

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"Dernière danse" is a 2003 song by the French group Kyo from their album Le chemin. It charted in France, Switzerland and Belgium's French charts.

Adaptations
The song was adapted later by the French punk rock melodic group Zephyr 21 on their album Album de reprises Volume 1 using an instrumental version of a song by Sum 41.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2003 singles
Kyo (band) songs
2002 songs


title: New Force Movement

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The New Force Social-Political Movement (, MSPFN) is a minor political party in Moldova led by Valeriu Pleşca.

History
Registered on 28 May 1997, the party joined the For a Democratic and Prosperous Moldova alliance to contest the 1998 elections. The alliance received 18% of the vote, winning 24 of the 101 seats and becoming the third-largest faction in Parliament. The MSPFN held one seat, taken by Pleşca. It formed the Alliance for Democracy and Reforms coalition together with Democratic Convention of Moldova and the Party of Democratic Forces, which was able to form a government led by Ion Ciubuc.

The party contested the 1999 local elections as part of the Centrist Alliance, which won around 20% of the seats. Prior to the 2001 parliamentary elections the party joined the Braghiş Alliance. The Alliance won 19 seats, one of which was taken by the MSPFN's Pleşca.

Following the 2003 local elections, in which the MSPFN received only 162 votes, winning just two seats across the country, the party did not contest any further elections until the 2011 local elections (although Pleşca did run in the 2010 parliamentary elections as an independent), when it was part of the Third Force alliance that won 41 seats and one mayoralty.

References

Political parties in Moldova
Political parties established in 1997


title: Siegel's paradox

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Siegel's paradox is the phenomenon that uncertainty about future prices can theoretically push rational consumers to temporarily trade away their preferred consumption goods (or currency) for non-preferred goods (or currency), as part of a plan to trade back to the preferred consumption goods after prices become clearer. For example, in some models, Americans can expect to earn more American dollars on average by investing in Euros, while Europeans can expect to earn more Euros on average by investing in American dollars. The paradox was identified by economist Jeremy Siegel in 1972.

Like the related two envelopes problem, the phenomenon is sometimes labeled a paradox because an agent can seem to trade for something of equal monetary value and yet, paradoxically, seem at the same time to gain monetary value from the trade. Closer analysis shows that the "monetary value" of the trade is ambiguous but that nevertheless such trades are often favorable, depending on the scenario.

Apple/orange example

Economist Fischer Black gave the following illustration in 1995. Suppose that the exchange rate between an "apple" country where consumers prefer apples, and an "orange" country where consumers prefer valuable oranges, is currently 1:1, but will change next year to 2:1 or 1:2 with equal probability. Suppose an apple consumer trades an apple to an orange consumer in exchange for an orange. The apple consumer now has given up an apple for an orange, which next year has an expected value of 1.25 apples. The orange consumer now has given up an orange for an apple, which next year has an expected value of 1.25 oranges. Thus both appear to have benefited from the exchange on average. Mathematically, the apparent surplus is related to Jensen's inequality.

Wine example

A more detailed example is a simplified efficient market with two wines, an American wine and a German wine. In November the wines trade 1:1. In December, most consumers will put exactly twice as much value on the trendier wine than the non-trendy wine; there is a 50/50 chance that either wine will become the trendy one in December. Thus, the wines are equally likely to trade 1:2 or 2:1 in December. Most consumers care about the nationality only insofar as it influences which wine is trendy. The only exceptions are a single loyalist American consumer, who only drinks American wine and is indifferent to trendiness, and a single loyalist German consumer, whose only drinks German wine and is likewise indifferent to trendiness.

The American loyalist counter-intuitively prefers to hold a German rather than an American wine in November, as it has a 50% chance of being tradeable for 0.5 American wines, and a 50% chance of being tradeable for 2 American wines, and thus has an expected value of 1.25 American wines. (All the consumers in this scenario are risk-neutral). Similarly, the German, if she holds an American wine, can be considered to be in possession of an expected value of 1.25 German wines. In this case, the gains from Siegel's paradox are real, and each loyalist gains utility on average by temporarily trading away from their preferred consumption good, due to the large utility gain should they succeed in the gambit of saving up in hopes of buying multiple bottles of the preferred wine should the price plummet in December.

Analyzing the case of the trendy consumers, who are indifferent to the nationality apart from its trendiness, is more complex. Such a consumer, if in possession of American wine, might fallaciously reason: "I currently have 1 American wine. If I trade for a German wine, I will have an expected value of 1.25 American wines. Therefore, I will be better off on average if I adopt a strategy to temporarily trade away, as the American loyalist did." However, this is similar to the "two envelopes problem", and the gains from Siegel's paradox in this case are illusory. The trendy consumer who uses the American loyalist's strategy is left with a 50% chance of 0.5 bottles of a newly popular trendy American wine, and a 50% chance of 2 bottles of a newly unpopular non-trendy American wine; to the trendy consumer this is not a material improvement over having a 50% chance of a bottle of trendy American wine and a 50% chance of having a bottle of non-trendy American wine. Thus, the trendy consumer has merely broken even, on average. Similarly, the trendy consumer also would not gain utility from adopting the German loyalist's strategy.

Applications

While the wine and the apples are toy examples, the paradox has a real-world application to what currencies investors should choose to hold. Fischer Black concluded from analyses similar to the apple/orange example that when investing overseas, investors should not seek to hedge all their currency risk. Other researchers consider such an analysis simplistic. In many circumstances, Siegel's paradox should indeed drive a rational investor to become more willing to embrace modest currency risk. In many other circumstances, they should not; for example, if the exchange rate uncertainty is due to differing rates of inflation with the imposition of purchasing power parity, then something like the "two envelopes" analysis applies, and there may be no particular reason to embrace currency risk.

Geometric mean and reciprocity functions

A different approach to Siegel's paradox is proposed by K. Mallahi-Karai and P. Safari, where they show that the only possible way to avoid making risk-less money in such future-based currency exchanges is to settle on the (weighted) geometric mean of the future exchange rates, or more generally a product of the weighted geometric mean and a so-called reciprocity function. The weights of the geometric mean depend on the probability of the rates occurring in the future, while the reciprocity function can always be taken to be the unit function. What this implies, for instance, in the case of apple/orange example above, is that the consumers should trade their products for √(2)(1/2) = 1 units of the other product to avoid an arbitrage. This method will provide currency traders on both sides with a common exchange rate they can safely agree on.

References

Decision-making paradoxes
Eponymous paradoxes
Probability problems
Probability theory paradoxes


title: Juan Sánchez (cyclist)

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Juan Sánchez (born 21 June 1938) is a Spanish former cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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1938 births
Living people
Spanish male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Spain
Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the Province of Jaén (Spain)
Cyclists from Andalusia


title: Sansür

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Sansür (En: Censorship) is a 1970 Turkish animated short directed by Tan Oral. The film won the grand prize at the 1970 TRT's Television Films Competition. It is then stated that the film will be shown on TV screens a week after the award ceremony, but the film is never aired on TV. Sansür was published as a book in 1977. But a court ruled to publish the book with a label stating "not suitable for those under 18" & "subject to threat".

Awards
 1970 TRT’s Culture, Science and Arts Awards, Television Films Competition, 16 mm category, Grand Prize
 1975 Akşehir-Nasrettin Hoca short movie competition, Big Prize

References

External links

1970s animated short films
Turkish animated films
Turkish short films
Turkish animated short films
Censorship in Turkey
Film controversies in Turkey
Works about censorship
1970 films


title: Andrew MacCallum

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Andrew McCullum (1821–1902) was a British landscape painter.

Life
Born at Nottingham, of Scottish Highland background, he was son of an employee at the William Gibson & Sons hosiery manufactory there. He was brought up near Sherwood Forest, and unwillingly apprenticed against his will to his father's business. An interest in drawing was encouraged by Thomas Bailey who allowed him to copy pictures in his collection.

On his 21st birthday McCallum left home, and maintained himself by teaching. Aged 22 twenty-two he became a student in the recently founded Government School of Art at Nottingham. He exhibited a view of Flint Castle at the British Institution in London in 1849. About this time he became a student at the Government School of Design at Somerset House, where J. R. Herbert, Richard Redgrave, and John Callcott Horsley were among his instructors. In 1850 he first exhibited at the Royal Academy. From that year till 1852 he was assistant master at the Manchester School of Art, and from 1852 to 1854 he was headmaster of the School of Art at Stourbridge, after the brief tenure from 1851 of Henry Alexander Bowler. There he resided at the Old Parsonage, New Street.

In 1854 MacCallum went to Italy with a travelling studentship awarded by the Science and Art Department. Part of his time was spent on mural decorations; returning to England in 1857, he decorated the western exterior of the Sheepshanks Gallery at the South Kensington Museum with panels of sgraffito. He then concentrated on landscape, with subjects at Burnham Beeches and in Windsor Forest. Among patrons were John Phillip and James Nasmyth, and he was awarded a silver medal by the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts.

Towards the end of 1861 MacCallum painted at Fontainebleau; in 1864 he worked in Switzerland and on the River Rhine; in 1866 he was in Italy; in the winter of 1866–7 he was in the neighbourhood of Paris. Between 1870 and 1875 he paid several visits to Egypt where he made many sketches of rural life. He was "the Painter" who accompanied Amelia Edwards in 1873- 1874 on her Dahabiya in her best selling book "A Thousand Miles Up the Nile". About 1875 he was commissioned by Queen Victoria to paint five views near Balmoral. He sometimes lectured on art subjects.

MacCallum died on 22 January 1902 at 5 The Studios, Holland Park Road, Kensington, London. He had lived in the neighbourhood since 1858 when he leased from Thomas Webster his house in The Mall, Kensington.

Works

MacCallum's reputation rested mainly on woodland subjects. He sent 53 pictures to the Royal Academy (1850–1886) and others to the British Institution, Society of British Artists, and International Exhibitions (1870–1). Special exhibitions of his paintings were held at the Dudley Gallery in 1866 and at Nottingham in 1873; his Sultry Eve was shown at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876. He used water-colour, and drew in pastel and in gold, silver, and copper point.

The Tate Gallery acquired MacCallum's Silvery Moments, Burnham Beeches (1885), and The Monarch of the Glen; the Victoria and Albert Museum his In Sherwood Forest—Winter Evening after Rain (1881), S. Maria delle Grazie, Milan (1854), Rome from the Porta San Pancrazio (1855–6), The Burning of Rome by Nero, and the Massacre of the Christians (1878–9), and Head of Christ after Daniele Crespi.  The City of Nottingham Art Gallery bought The Major Oak, Sherwood Forest (1882),  measuring about 9 ft. by 12 ft., and The Opening Scene in Bailey's "Festus".

Family
MacCallum was twice married. His first marriage, in 1852, was to Susan Irlam Tetlow (1832-1871), the daughter of John Tetlow, a painter. His second marriage, on 18 June 1879, was to Laura Salwey (born 1856), daughter of Ludlow solicitor Humphrey Salway. At the time of their marriage, MacCallum was 57 to his wife's 25. MacCallum petitioned for a divorce from Laura in April 1888, on the grounds of her alleged adultery with Ernest Malleson. During the divorce proceedings, Laura complained of cruelty on the part of MacCallum, arguing that he had tried to lock her up in a lunatic asylum when she was sane (his first wife had died in a private lunatic asylum). The divorce was granted in 1889, with the jury finding that Laura MacCallum was guilty of adultery, but finding Andrew MacCallum not guilty of cruelty.  MacCallum had two sons by his second wife: Andrew Humphry Salwey MacCallum (1881-1972) and Alfred Erasmus Geoffrey MacCallum (1882-1933). Both sons served in the Second Boer War.

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1821 births
1902 deaths
Landscape artists
Artists from Nottingham
19th-century British painters
British male painters
British landscape painters
Orientalist painters
19th-century British male artists


title: Malcolm's Echo

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Malcolm's Echo: The Legacy of Malcolm X is a 2008 American documentary by Dami Akinnusi about the legacy of Malcolm X.

References

External links
Malcolm's Echo: The Legacy of Malcolm X at the Internet Movie Database

Best Documentary Africa Movie Academy Award winners
American documentary films
2008 films
Films about Malcolm X
2000s American films


title: Brandon Gray Internet Services

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Brandon Gray Internet Services, Inc., doing business as "NameJuice.com," was an ICANN accredited domain name registry operator based in Markham, Ontario. The company is in the business of registering, renewing and transferring Internet domains and subdomains. The company and its re-sellers have become notorious for domain name scams.

The company was suspended by ICANN in July 2014, barred from registering names until Oct. 17, 2014. Using resellers, the company sent misleading materials that are "false or deceptive to Registered Name Holders," for more than a decade. It operates under multiple re-seller names, such as Domain Registry of America, Domain Registry of Australia, Domain Registry of Canada, Domain Registry of Europe, Domain Renewal Group, Internet Corporation Listing Service, Internet Registry of Canada, Liberty Names of America, Registration Services Inc., Yellow Business.ca.

References

External links

 Brandon Gray Internet Services Inc. Litigation Retrieved August 2, 2014.
 ICANN   Notice of breach of registrar accreditation agreement. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
 ICANN Notice of suspension of registrar’s ability to create new registered names or initiate inbound transfers of registered names. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
 Ontario registrar stopped from selling dot ca domains. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
 Domain registry of America get slapped in UK Retrieved August 2, 2014.
 ASA Adjudication on Domain Registry of America. Retrieved August 2, 2014.

Companies based in Ontario
Criticisms of companies


title: Otto Peltzer (politician)

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Otto Peltzer (November 29, 1836 – January 17, 1919) was a German American politician, author, and playwright. Born in Prussia, Peltzer immigrated with his family when he was a child and came alone to Chicago, Illinois in 1850. There, he rose through the ranks of the department of public works, eventually becoming deputy recorder of Chicago. He served one term in the Illinois House of Representatives. In his free time, Peltzer translated and wrote works of stage.

Biography
Otto Peltzer was born on November 29, 1836, in Stolberg, Prussia. In 1849, his family immigrated to the United States and established a farm in Wisconsin. When Peltzer was thirteen, he moved to Chicago, Illinois and took a position in the Chicago recorder's office. In 1857, he decided to pursue a career in law, but abandoned the efforts three years later. Peltzer then became chief draughtsman of the board of public works, where he supervised the dock surveys of the Chicago River and compiled the city atlases. In 1869, he was elected collector of taxes of northern Chicago.

In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed all records of the city and county, so Peltzer quickly published the Atlas of Chicago, organized from his personal collection. In 1872, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Liberal Republican, where he served one two-year term. He introduced bills for compulsory education, for a state board of health, and for licensing for surveyors, physicians, and pharmacists. He returned to the board of public works after his term, then was named deputy recorder in December 1876. In April 1878, he resigned and opened a title and abstract office as Otto Peltzer & Co.

In his free time, Peltzer enjoyed writing, particularly for stage works. In 1868, he translated the "Masons' Lord's Prayer" into English, which became a popular recital at Freemasonry meetings. He translated Karl Gutzkow's Uriel Acosta, a tragedy about the life of Uriel da Costa, which played for several weeks at Crosby's Opera House. Florenz Ziegfeld, Sr., who ran the Chicago Musical College, produced one of his dramatic ballads. One of his dramas of domestic life was performed at McVicker's Theater. In 1887, he founded The Moralist and the Theatre periodical.

Peltzer married Annie Langden in 1861. They had four children, one son and three daughters: Oscar E., Lottie, Lauea, and Louise. He died on January 17, 1919, in Oak Park, Illinois.

References

1836 births
1919 deaths
Members of the Illinois House of Representatives
Illinois Liberal Republicans
Politicians from Chicago
People from Stolberg (Rhineland)
Prussian emigrants to the United States


title: Peperina (album)

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Peperina is the fourth studio album released by the Argentinian rock group Serú Girán, released in 1981. It was Serú Girán's last album until the 1992 reunion. The group released four successful singles from the album: "Peperina", "Cinema Verité", "Esperando nacer" and "Salir de la melancolía".

Overview
Peperina was recorded in early 1981, mainly at the ION Studios and then, some tracks at Wacameca Studios. The title-song is about a journalist writing from Expreso Imaginario magazine, called Patricia Perea, who rated the Serú Girán shows in Cordoba as embarrassing. Charly García wrote the song as a response to her attack on the band. Reportedly, upon first listening to the song, Parea remarked that she still did not like Serú Girán, but that García was "a good sociologist". The record has featured in numerous publications' lists of the best albums of the Argentine Rock. Many consider Peperina to be the band's finest album, due to the sound quality.

By 1981, the band had achieved considerable commercial success in Argentina, including several hits, so it made sense to present the album at the Estadio Obras, on September 4, 5 and 6 of that same year. Also, Serú Girán performed at the Teatro Coliseo during the Christmas' week between December 25, 26 and 27, with the three shows sold out.

Track listing
All songs written by Charly García, except as noted.

Side one
"Peperina" - (3:42)
"Llorando en el espejo" (Crying in the Mirror) - (4:03)
"Parado en medio de la vida" (Standing in the Middle of Life) (David Lebón) - (2:22)
"Cara de velocidad" (Speed Face) (Lebón)- (2:40)
"Esperando nacer" (Waiting to Be Born) (García/Lebón) - (5:44)
"20 trajes verdes" (20 Green Suits) - (2:05)

Side two
"Cinema Verité" - (4:55)
"En la vereda del sol" (In the Sidewalk of the Sun) (García/Lebón) - (5:22)
"José Mercado" - (3:32)
"Salir de la melancolía" (Out of Melancholy) - (2:07)
"Lo que dice la lluvia" (What the Rain Says) (Pedro Aznar) - (5:07)

Personnel
Serú Girán
Charly García – keyboards, organ, piano Yamaha CP-70, acoustic piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Clavinet piano, Minimoog, Moog Satellite and vocals.
David Lebón – electric and acoustic guitars, tumbadoras, timbales, percussion and vocals.
Pedro Aznar – bass, fretless bass, double bass, Moog bass, Oberheim OBX synthesizer, Brass OBX, piano, acoustic guitar and backing vocals.
Oscar Moro – drums, percussion.

Additional personnel
 Produced by Serú Girán.
 Engineer – Amílcar Gilabert.
 Cover Design – The Image Bank.
 Photography – Andy Cherniavsky.

References

1981 albums
Serú Girán albums


title: Query rewriting

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Query rewriting is a typically automatic transformation that takes a set of database tables, views, and/or queries, usually indices, often gathered data and query statistics, and other metadata, and yields a set of different queries, which produce the same results but execute with better performance (for example, faster, or with lower memory use). Query rewriting can be based on relational algebra or an extension thereof (e.g. multiset relational algebra with sorting, aggregation and three-valued predicates i.e. NULLs as in the case of SQL). The equivalence rules of relational algebra are exploited, in other words, different query structures and orderings can be mathematically proven to yield the same result. For example, filtering on fields A and B, or cross joining R and S can be done in any order, but there can be a performance difference. Multiple operations may be combined, and operation orders may be altered.

The result of query rewriting may not be at the same abstraction level or application programming interface (API) as the original set of queries (though often is). For example, the input queries may be in relational algebra or SQL, and the rewritten queries may be closer to the physical representation of the data, e.g. array operations. Query rewriting can also involve materialization of views and other subqueries; operations that may or may not be available to the API user. The query rewriting transformation can be aided by creating indices from which the optimizer can choose (some database systems create their own indexes if deemed useful), mandating the use of specific indices, creating materialized and/or denormalized views, or helping a database system gather statistics on the data and query use, as the optimality depends on patterns in data and typical query usage.

Query rewriting may be rule based or optimizer based. Some sources discuss query rewriting as a distinct step prior to optimization, operating at the level of the user accessible algebra API (e.g. SQL).

There are other, largely unrelated concepts also named similarly, for example, query rewriting by search engines.

See also
 Query optimization

References

Data management


title: Ron Capps

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Ron Capps is a writer, US Army and Foreign Service veteran, and founder of the Veterans Writing Project, a nonprofit organization that hosts free writing workshops for veterans and others. Capps also wrote the book Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years, a book that details his own experiences with PTSD (Posttraumatic stress disorder).

Service career

Capps enrolled in ROTC and enlisted in the Virginia Army National Guard simultaneously while attending Old Dominion University in 1983. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1985. In 1986, he joined the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Germany. After three years, Capps moved to military intelligence work in Korea, serving as a US liaison to the Korean Defense Intelligence Agency and later in the 5/17th Cavalry squadron of the Second Infantry Division.

Capps returned to the United States and trained at Camp Peary as an Army case officer, and earned a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University. In 1994, Capps transferred to the Army Reserve and joined the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer.

From 1996 to 2002, he served in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Kosovo, and Rwanda as a Foreign Service officer. Additionally during those six years, Capps was deployed as an intelligence officer in Uganda and Zaire by the army. After the September 11 attacks, Capps served with XVIII Airborne Corps and the Defense intelligence Agency in Afghanistan as a soldier. Later, he was deployed to Darfur and Chad as a soldier, and Iraq and Darfur as a Foreign Service officer.

Throughout his career of service, Capps was often working in close proximity to murder, rape, and genocide. He suffered from regular and intense nightmares; he was diagnosed by an Army psychiatrist with PTSD and depression, and prescribed Prozac. In 2006, he nearly committed suicide. He was medically evacuated from service by the Regional Medical Officer of the State Department.

After deployment
After his medevac, Capps returned to the State Department as an expert on Darfur and Chad. He retired from government work and began pursuing a Master of Arts in Writing from Johns Hopkins University in 2009.

Three years later, he founded the Veterans Writing Project. The non-profit organization hosts free writing workshops and seminars for veterans and service members, as well as their adult family members.

Capps often writes freelance articles about PTSD. His work has been published in Time Magazine, NPR, and the New York Times, among others. He published his first book, Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years in 2014. It outlines his experiences with PTSD and his service during wars in Central Africa, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Darfur.

Awards and recognition

Capps has had three essays listed as notable in Best American Essays: in 2012, 2014, and 2015. His essay Writing My Way Home received special recognition in the 2015 Pushcart Prizes. His essay The French Lieutenant's iPod, was selected (by Bill Rorbach) as first prize winner in Press 53's Annual Awards for 2011.

In April 2017, Capps and the non-profit he founded, the Veterans Writing Project, received the Anne Smedinghoff Award from the Johns Hopkins University Foreign Affairs Symposium.

In 2007, Capps received the American Foreign Service Association's William R. Rivkin award for "intellectual courage and the creative use of dissent in foreign policy.” The award was presented in recognition of a State Department cable Capps wrote while serving as a political officer at Embassy Khartoum that questioned U.S. government policy in Darfur. The cable, titled "Darfur: Who Will Apologize," was classified as confidential, but was nonetheless leaked to blogger Eric Reeves who included parts of it in a long blog post. Capps provided a copy of a draft version of the cable to researcher Rebecca Hamilton who mentioned it in her book, Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide. A copy of Capps's notes are posted on the National Security Archive's website.

According to the website for his book, Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years, Capps is "a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster, and was twice presented Department of State Superior Honor Awards. He was named an Exceptional Collector of Human Intelligence by the Director of Central Intelligence in 1997, and a Distinguished Analyst by the Director of National Intelligence in 2008."

Publications

References

External links
Lecture at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on June 19, 2014
Veterans Writing Project's website
Interview by Tavis Smiley for The Tavis Smiley Show
Owning your story: How writing helps veterans heal
An interview with Ron Capps by Eric Westervelt on NPR’s All Things Considered

United States Army officers
Old Dominion University alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male writers


title: Mammillaria crinita

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Mammillaria crinita is a species of cactus in the subfamily Cactoideae.

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Plants described in 1828
crinita


title: Lucky Boy, Nevada

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Lucky Boy is a ghost town in Mineral County, Nevada, approximately  southwest of Hawthorne.

The Lucky Boy Mine was located east of the town on the east slope of the Wassuk Range, discovered by men repairing a stage road over a pass.  In 1909 there were about 200 people in the camp. A post office was established March 19, 1909 and discontinued October 31, 1913.

A serious stage coach accident occurred near Lucky Boy in 1909, when "six spirited horses took fright" and then "dragged the passengers down a steep grade at lightning speed".

A mill was built in 1923 at the cost of  but only operated for less than three years.  In 1938, the property started shipping ore again with a rail car load to a Salt Lake City smelter.  The mill was in operation until late December 1941 when it was closed due to restrictions caused by World War II, though the mine continued to operate with a small staff.   In 1945, the mill and mine were both to reopen.

References

Ghost towns in Mineral County, Nevada
Ghost towns in Nevada


title: Yuta Watanabe

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is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball in the United States for the George Washington Colonials, becoming the first Japanese-born student athlete to secure an NCAA Division I basketball scholarship. He was named Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year in 2018. He has also represented the Japan national team, helping them win the bronze medal at the 2013 East Asia Basketball Championship.

Before moving to the collegiate level, Watanabe attended Jinsei Gakuen High School in Zentsūji, Kagawa. He later transferred to St. Thomas More Preparatory School in Oakdale, Connecticut in 2013. Watanabe rose to fame in his high school program, and was one of their most valuable players in the National Prep School Invitational as a senior in 2014. In college, he became the fourth Japanese-born Division I basketball player of all time.

High school career
Watanabe attended Jinsei Gakuen High School in Kagawa. He led the basketball team to the runner-up spot of the All-Japan High School Basketball Tournament in his final two years with the program. While in Jinsei Gakuen, Watanabe said his career goal was to make it to the NCAA and ultimately join the NBA.

In late 2013, Watanabe traveled to the United States and attended St. Thomas More Preparatory School in Oakdale, Connecticut. At the conclusion of his sole high school season outside his native country, Watanabe averaged 13 points and six rebounds. He helped the team reach a 26-8 overall record and a ticket to the National Prep Championship game. On January 31, 2014, in his first appearance in the annual National Prep School Invitational, Watanabe scored 12 points versus Suffield Academy. He contributed 20 points and six rebounds in a 70–61 victory against Canarias Basketball Academy from Spain. As a result, he was named to the National Prep School Invitational All-Tournament Team and garnered prestigious New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) Class AAA First Team All-League honors. Watanabe was also labeled "the Chosen One" by The Japan Times.

Watanabe was rated a 77 (three-star recruit) by ESPN Recruiting Nation. He was also given a three-star rating by Scout.com and the same composite grade.

College career

In fall of 2014, George Washington Colonials men's basketball head coach Mike Lonergan received a phone call from Jamie Cosgrove, a coach at Trinity College who saw Watanabe play with St. Thomas More. Watanabe eventually committed to play for George Washington. This move allowed him to attend George Washington University for the 2014 year as a freshman. It was made official when Watanabe posted the message through Twitter, "I've decided to go to George Washington University. The school has a good basketball team, too. I'm sure I'll have hard times both in basketball and academics, but I'll give it my best shot." According to ESPN, his second option was Fordham, who gave Watanabe an offer to join their team as well. He became the first-ever Japanese-born man to be given an NCAA Division I basketball scholarship, and was only the fourth to ever play college basketball at that level. Regarding Watanabe's collegiate career, former Japanese college basketball player, KJ Matsui, said, "It's good for Nabe-chan (Watanabe) to play at a competitive team, but he's going to have to battle for playing time." The Colonials had four other recruits coming into the program for 2014–15: Anthony Swan, Darian Bryant, Matt Cimino, and Paul Jorgensen.

Upon joining George Washington in 2014, featured profiles of Watanabe were published by several well-known American newspapers, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. The fact that he was an NBA-bound player of East Asian descent who assumed a vital role in the league was not only an extraordinarily rare feat, but such an extraordinarily rare occurrence greatly increased his sporting popularity among the East Asian community. Remarking on Watanabe's athletic calibre and exceptional career breakthrough into the NBA, where players of East Asian descent are an extraordinarily rare sight, former player Richmond Spiders men's basketball player Zach Chu, who is half-Chinese has said: "To see someone of Asian descent, and play as well as he does, it's cool for college basketball, really cool for the Asian community." The George Washington athletics website received the second-most views from Japan in terms of page views by country, ranked behind only the United States. On many occasions, he was congratulated on the school's campus itself. Speaking on his ethnic and racial background, sporting fame, and athletic legacy, "Japanese are thinking Americans are bigger and taller and more athletic. They are thinking it's more difficult for Japanese to play in NCAA, but I'm playing right now, so I want to make other people come to the United States." Although NBA-bound players of East Asian ancestry such as Matsui, Yao Ming, Jeremy Lin, and Yuki Togashi have been the target of racist comments in the past, Watanabe has yet to receive racially insensitive remarks in his first few years in the NBA and the United States at large. Nevertheless, he stated, "If they said something racist, I don't care."

Freshman

On November 14, 2014, Watanabe made his debut for George Washington, against Grambling State, finishing with eight points, seven rebounds and a block in 20 minutes, contributing to the team's largest win since 1999 with 92–40. On December 12, Watanabe was named Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week after averaging 9.0 points and 4.7 rebounds in three games as he helped the team win the 2014 Diamond Head Classic crown. Watanabe hit a key three-pointer with 3 minutes and 32 seconds remaining to upset Wichita State with a 60–54 win on December 25. On March 7, he set a career-high 21 points, knocking down seven 3-pointers, against Massachusetts. On March 9, Watanabe earned his second Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week honor, becoming the first player to earn multiple Rookie of the Week awards in the same season since Lasan Kromah earned three in 2009–10. He led the Colonials to a 2–0 final week of the Atlantic 10 regular season with a team-best 13.5 points on 53 percent shooting, including 64 percent behind the arc, along with 5.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists.

As a freshman, Watanabe was a key bench player and an instrumental element on the Colonials' rotation. He was often awarded playing time in late-game situations. Head coach Mike Lonergan said, "With Yuta, we have scoring off the bench. If I start Yuta, we have no scoring off the bench at all."

Sophomore
On March 5, 2016, Watanabe posted career-highs in scoring and assists with 22 points and six assists in George Washington's 87–80 loss to Davidson. On March 31, Watanabe logged a team-high 19 points and a career-high four blocks as George Washington won the 2016 National Invitation Tournament with a 76–60 win over Valparaiso. It was the first time in program history the team won a postseason championship.

Overall, Watanabe was the leading shot blocker for the Colonials with 40 blocks, ranking second in the Atlantic 10. His 8.4 points per game average was the fifth-best on the team.

Junior
On November 15, 2016, Watanabe logged his first double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds in a 77–75 victory against Siena. On January 8, 2017, he had a career-high three steals in a game against Richmond. Watanabe scored a season-high 21 points in an 80–71 loss against Illinois on March 20.

As a junior, Watanabe was the second-leading scorer at George Washington with 12.2 points per game. He was also named to the Atlantic 10 All-Defensive Team.

Senior
On November 20, 2017, Watanabe grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds versus Rider. On November 29, he logged a career-high five steals against Morgan State. In his final game for the Colonials on February 28, 2018, Watanabe scored a career-high 31 points in a 72–56 win over Fordham .

As a senior, Watanabe was George Washington's leading scorer with 16.3 points per game and the second-leading rebounder with 6.1 rebounds per game while also leading the team in blocks with 54. He was named the Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year, becoming the first Colonial to win the award. Watanabe also earned the Atlantic 10 All-Conference Third Team and Atlantic 10 All-Defensive Team honors. He also received George Washington's Patricio Garino Defensive Award and Mike Brown MVP Award, both awards named after the former basketball alumni.

At the conclusion of Watanabe's career at George Washington, he ranked near the top of a number of key categories in the school's history, including second in blocked shots (with 147), second in games played (with 134) and fifteenth in scoring (with 1,460).

Professional career

Memphis Grizzlies (2018–2020)

After going undrafted in the 2018 NBA draft, Watanabe played for the Brooklyn Nets in the 2018 NBA Summer League. Afterwards, he signed a two-way contract with the Memphis Grizzlies and their NBA G League affiliate, the Memphis Hustle. On October 27, 2018, Watanabe made his NBA debut, coming off the bench with two points and two rebounds in a 117–96 win over the Phoenix Suns. He became the second Japanese player to play in the NBA after Yuta Tabuse, who debuted with the Phoenix Suns in 2004. Though he spent the majority of the season in the G League with the Hustle, the Grizzlies were third behind the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors in merchandise sold in Japan due to Watanabe's presence. In the G League, Watanabe started in 32 of 33 games, averaging 14.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.1 blocks in 33.9 minutes while shooting 43.6 percent from the field and 33.1 percent from 3-point range.

Watanabe shared his time playing back and forth for the Grizzlies and the Hustle for the season. On December 14, 2019, Watanabe and Rui Hachimura of the Washington Wizards became the first pair of Japanese players to share the court in the NBA. On January 4, 2020, Watanabe had a team-high 28 points on 12-of-19 field goal shooting and 2-of-4 from three, to go with seven rebounds, four blocks, two assists and two steals in the Hustle's 130–127 win over the Iowa Wolves. He scored a career-high 40 points on 14-of-20 shooting from the field and 8-of-11 from three on January 22, in a win versus the Delaware Blue Coats. Watanabe was named Midseason All-NBA G League for the Western Conference. In the G League, Watanabe started in all 22 games, averaging 17.2 points, 6.0 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 1.0 steal and 1.0 block in 32.7 minutes while shooting 54.6 percent from the field and 36.4 percent from 3-point range.

Toronto Raptors (2020–2022)

On November 27, 2020, Watanabe signed an Exhibit 10 deal with the Toronto Raptors to join their pre-season roster. On December 19, his deal was converted to a two-way contract, after he made the team out of pre-season. On December 31, Watanabe debuted for the Toronto Raptors, recording four rebounds, one assist, a block and a steal across nine minutes in a 100–83 win over New York Knicks, notching their first victory of the season. On January 29, 2021, Watanabe scored a then career-high 12 points coming off the bench, along with six rebounds, two assists and two steals in a season-high 24 minutes of action in a 126–124 loss to the Sacramento Kings. In the fourth quarter, Watanabe logged seven points including a layup that cut the lead to one point. On February 9, Watanabe sustained a left ankle injury during a workout. After missing four games, he returned to action on February 18, logging two rebounds and a block across six minutes of play in a 110–96 win over the Milwaukee Bucks. On March 4, Watanabe made his first career start against the Detroit Pistons, going scoreless but grabbing four rebounds in 11 minutes of action.

On April 10, 2021, Watanabe scored a then career-high 14 points coming off the bench on 6-of-7 field goal shooting and 2-of-2 from three, including a buzzer beater 3-pointer that gave the Raptors a season-high lead in a quarter with 47–26 in the first, to go along with five rebounds, an assist and a steal across 23 minutes of action in a 135–115 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. On April 16, Watanabe surpassed his career-high in scoring for the second time in a week with 21 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the field and 2-of-4 from three, along with six rebounds, two assists and one block across 26 minutes in a 113–102 win over the Orlando Magic. On April 18, Watanabe logged his third consecutive double-digit scoring game with 10 points, shooting 3-for-6 from the field and 1-for-2 from three, in addition to four rebounds and four assists in 29 minutes off the bench in a 112–106 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. The double-digit scoring streak was the longest in his three-year NBA career. On April 19, the Raptors announced they had converted Watanabe's two-way deal to a standard contract. Despite being a two-way player, Watanabe never played in the G League with the Raptors 905.

Due to a left calf sprain, Watanabe missed the first 18 games of the 2021–22 season. He returned on November 24, 2021, posting three points and two blocks in 14 minutes of play against the Memphis Grizzlies. On December 14, Watanabe logged his first career double-double with 12 points coming off the bench on 5-of-8 field goal shooting and 2-of-4 from three and a then career-high 11 rebounds, to go along with two assists and a steal across 26 minutes of action in a 124–101 win over the Sacramento Kings. On December 26, Watanabe posted his second double-double with 26 points and 13 rebounds, both career-highs, in a 144–99 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Brooklyn Nets (2022–2023)
On August 28, 2022, Watanabe signed with the Brooklyn Nets in free agency. During November 2022, Watanabe led the NBA in three point shooting percentage at that point in the 2022-23 season. Watanabe would have his best career season shooting from beyond the arc at 44.4%.

Phoenix Suns (2023–present)
On July 4, 2023, Watanabe signed with the Phoenix Suns.

National team career

The Japan men's national basketball team's then head coach Kimikazu Suzuki oversaw Watanabe's play in camps, saying at the time, "He's not good enough to be on this team yet, but eventually he's going to be [Japan's] ace player. We all know his capabilities and we intend to help him develop." Later, while attending Jinsei Gakuen High School, Watanabe was called up by Suzuki to compete with the national team in 2013. At the age of 18, he made his senior debut for Japan at the 2013 East Asia Basketball Championship, where he helped the team win the bronze medal. Watanabe's tournament highlights included a 22-point and 14-rebound outing in a 101–53 win over Macau. At the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship, he averaged 5.2 points, 1.2 rebounds, and 0.5 assists in four games played, helping the team finish in ninth place. Watanabe was named to the 12-man roster for the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament, where he averaged 7.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.0 assists. At the 2019 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers, Watanabe, who only played in two of 12 games, tallied an average of 17.5 points, 3.0 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. Later that year, he was selected to compete at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Watanabe played in all five games, averaging 15.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game. He led the Japanese squad in points and efficiency per game.

Player profile
A spark-off-the-bench player, Watanabe is known for his defensive ability. As described by sports website theScore, Watanabe "has great hands on the defensive end." In 2019, SB Nation sportswriter Brandon Abraham lauded his defense, saying, "The Grizzlies and Hustle were simply better with Yuta on the court." Memphis Grizzlies TV play-by-play announcer Pete Pranica described his "defensive instinct" as "impressive." Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse commented on his defense as well, saying that it "rub off on others." Watanabe earned praises for his basketball IQ, with theScore commenting, "He always seems to be in the right spot on both ends of the court." Pranica stated that Watanabe's IQ is one of his "greatest assets." Memphis Hustle assistant coach Antoine Broxsie was also impressed by his IQ. Watanabe's play has been described as "mistake-free." Nurse said in multiple interviews that Watanabe "doesn’t make mistakes" during games. Pranica also remarked that Watanabe "rarely made the same mistake twice after having been coached on it." His energy and hustle has also become his defining trait in the NBA, impressing Nurse and fans. In addition, Watanabe has been praised for being constantly in motion, which helped him to "always be a step ahead of the opposing offence" as noted by Raptors HQ of SB Nation. Sports Illustrated observed that Watanabe "plays like his feet are on fire," and that he is "constantly running around, jumping in and out of attacking lanes, and wreaking havoc on opposing offences." Nurse also stated that his constant motion helps the team's offence. Watanabe has been criticized because of his lack of weight and muscle from his college career even until he turned professional. George Washington head coach Mike Lonergan said that he hoped that he weighed over 200 pounds by the start of his sophomore season. KJ Matsui commented on his frame as well, saying, "If he puts more muscles and get big, he will be unstoppable." Pranica also pointed out that Watanabe "needs to get physically bigger and stronger so that he is not overmatched."

Watanabe supposedly lacked panache at the time he joined the George Washington basketball program, with teammate Kevin Larsen commenting, "We told him to find a new celebration because the one he had wasn't cutting it. He was, like, jumping in the air making a weird face. So we tried to help him find a new one." Watanabe sometimes mimicks Carmelo Anthony, using the "three to the dome" celebration after making three-pointers.

Personal life
Watanabe was born on October 13, 1994, in Yokohama, Kanagawa, in Japan, and grew up in Miki, Kagawa. Watanabe's family has a rich history in basketball. His mother, Kumi, played for the Chanson V-Magic and the Japan women's national team. His father played for the Kumagai Gumi Bruins at the professional level. Watanabe's sister, Yuki, played with the Aisin AW Wings. During his childhood, Watanabe's favorite NBA team was the Los Angeles Lakers and his favorite athlete was Kobe Bryant.

On May 26, 2022, former Fuji TV announcer Akiko Kuji announced her marriage to him.

Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Memphis
| 15 || 0 || 11.6 || .294 || .125 || .700 || 2.1 || .5 || .3 || .1 || 2.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Memphis
| 18 || 0 || 5.8 || .441 || .375 || .375 || 1.1 || .3 || .3 || .1 || 2.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Toronto
| 50 || 4 || 14.5 || .439 || .400 || .828 || 3.2 || .8 || .5 || .4 || 4.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Toronto
| 38 || 4 || 11.7 || .406 || .342 || .600 || 2.4 || .6 || .3 || .4 || 4.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Brooklyn
| 58 || 1 || 16.0 || .491 || .444 || .723 || 2.4 || .8 || .4 || .3 || 5.6
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 179 || 9 || 13.3 || .439 || .390 || .687 || 2.5 || .7 || .4 || .3 || 4.3

Playoffs

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2022
| style="text-align:left;"|Toronto
| 4 || 0 || 2.6 || .333 || .000 ||  || .0 || .0 || .0 || .0 || 1.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2023
| style="text-align:left;"|Brooklyn
| 1 || 0 || 4.7 || .500 || .500 || .000 || 1.0 || .0 || .0 || .0 || 3.0
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 5 || 0 || 3.0 || .375 || .333 || .000 || .2 || .0 || .0 || .0 || 1.4

College

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2014–15
| style="text-align:left;"|George Washington
| 35 || 10 || 22.5 || .384 || .348 || .831 || 3.5 || .6 || .4 || .6 || 7.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2015–16
| style="text-align:left;"|George Washington
| 38 || 37 || 27.7 || .422 || .306 || .707 || 4.0 || 1.4 || .6 || 1.1 || 8.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2016–17
| style="text-align:left;"|George Washington
| 28 || 27 || 35.1 || .444 || .314 || .817 || 4.8 || 2.5 || 1.1 || 1.1 || 12.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2017–18
| style="text-align:left;"|George Washington
| 33 || 33 || 36.6 || .437 || .364 || .807 || 6.1 || 1.6 || .8 || 1.6 || 16.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 134 || 107 || 30.1 || .425 || .337 || .788 || 4.5 || 1.4 || .7 || 1.1 || 10.9

See also
 Basketball in Japan
 Basketball in the United States

Notes

References

External links

George Washington Colonials bio
Yuta Watanabe at fiba.basketball
Yuta Watanabe at archive.fiba.com

1994 births
Living people
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Brooklyn Nets players
George Washington Revolutionaries men's basketball players
Japanese expatriate basketball people in the United States
Japanese expatriate basketball people in Canada
Japanese men's basketball players
Memphis Grizzlies players
Memphis Hustle players
National Basketball Association players from Japan
Olympic basketball players for Japan
Phoenix Suns players
Raptors 905 players
Shooting guards
Small forwards
Sportspeople from Kagawa Prefecture
Toronto Raptors players
Undrafted National Basketball Association players


title: R. A. de Castro Basto

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Roberto Alexandre de Senna Fernandes de Castro Basto  (5 February 1898 – 18 November 1980) was a Macanese medical doctor and member of the Hong Kong Sanitary Board and later Urban Council.

Biography
Castro Basto was born in Macau to José Maria de Castro e Basto and Casimira de Sena Fernandes Basto. His elder brother was Carlos Henrique Basto (1890–1944). He was educated at the University of Hong Kong and got his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in May 1921. He was the second local Portuguese to graduate in medicine from the University of Hong Kong. He obtained his qualification to practise medicine in July 1921.

Castro Basto was on the editorial staff of the Hong Kong University Medical Journal, the journal of the University Medical Society, and changed its name into The Caduceus in 1928. He also had his study with C. Y. Wang on a precipitation test for syphilis published on medical journals including in the American Journal of Public Health.

Castro Basto was elected to the Sanitary Board which managed the colony's sanitary affairs, on 8 December 1930 without contest, replacing J. P. Braga. He was re-elected uncontested on 27 December 1933. He continued to serve on the board and it was transformed into the Urban Council in 1936 and was re-elected on 13 January 1937.

During his service on the Urban Council, he protested against the government's proposal of setting up refugee sites in Kowloon in 1938 on behalf of the Kowloon Residents' Association which he argued they were within or too close to the residential areas which the refugees would over-run the create nuisances to the negihourhood and menace to the health of the residents. He suggested to build the sites in the New Territories.

In the 1940 Urban Council election, he faced challenge from Alberto Maria Rodrigues, later member of the Executive and Legislative Councils. He was nominated by Sir Henry Pollock and Major C. M. Manners. He lost to Rodrigues on the election held on 29 February by 266 to 407 votes. His registered address at that time was Beau Sejour, 123 Argyle Street, Kowloon.

During the Pacific War, he moved to Australia and started his practice in Sydney since 1942. His registered address at that time was Commonwealth Trading Bank Head Office in Sydney.

He later married Carol Small, with whom he had one child.

References

Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
Australian medical doctors
Australian people of Macanese descent
Hong Kong people of Macanese descent
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Hong Kong medical doctors
Members of the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong
Members of the Urban Council of Hong Kong
1898 births
1980 deaths
Macau Roman Catholics
20th-century physicians
Hong Kong emigrants to Australia


title: David A. Rosemont

text:
David A. Rosemont is an American producer.  He has been nominated for five Emmy Awards and four Golden Globes. Rosemont has won the Peabody award, two Critics Choice Awards, The Media Access Award, The Celebration of Diversity Award, The American Film Institute Award of Excellence, the Christopher Award, and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie for the critically acclaimed Door to Door.

Rosemont has produced for almost every major television studio including ABC, NBC, CBS, Showtime, Lifetime, The History Channel, A&E, PBS, The Hallmark Hall of Fame, DreamWorks, Starz, Scott Free and Turner Network Television where he produced the epic twelve-hour mini series, (Into The West) executive produced by Steven Spielberg which was seen by a record 81 million people during its six-week run on TNT and nominated for 16 Emmys including Best Miniseries. Rosemont also produced the international six-hour miniseries The Company for Sony, TNT and Ridley Scott, starring Michael Keaton, Chris O'Donnell, and Alfred Molina.

Some of Rosemont’s films include Graham Greene's The Tenth Man, The West Side Waltz, Purgatory, Riders of the Purple Sage, The Long Road Home, Henry James' Turn of the Screw, Robin Cook's Harmful Intent, What Love Sees, The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Passing Glory, The Wool Cap, The Seventh Stream, and a remake of High Noon...

Rosemont produced the film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story starring Cuba Gooding, Jr and America starring Rosie O'Donnell. He produced the 8 hour international miniseries, (Pillars of the Earth) based on the bestselling novel by Ken Follett for Scott Free Productions and Tandem Communications and November Christmas for the Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions and CBS. Rosemont produced the family films; Field of Vision and Game Of Your Life for NBC/Procter & Gamble/Walmart, the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Firelight on ABC, the remake of Steel Magnolias starring Queen Latifah with record breaking ratings, and a four-hour mini series, Bonnie & Clyde for The History Channel directed by Academy Award nominee Bruce Beresford which was  nominated for four Emmy's including Best Mini Series.

Rosemont produced The Gabby Douglas Story about the 2012 Olympic champion who won an unprecedented two Gold medals in gymnastics for the United States. His recent films include In My Dreams, One Christmas Eve and a dramatic series for PBS and Scott Free Productions/Ridley Scott called Mercy Street, a medical drama set during the Civil War. Rosemont recently produced MANHUNT:UNABOMBER, a limited series for Discovery Channel and Lionsgate TV about the FBI’s pursuit and apprehension of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.  And Strange Angel, a series for CBS All Access and Scott Free Productions, based on the novel Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle. Rosemont is currently producing the series Stumptown for ABC starring Cobie Smulders.

Filmography

Selected awards

References

External links

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


title: List of comets by type

text:
This is a list of comets (bodies that travel in elliptical, parabolic, and sometimes hyperbolic orbits and display a tail behind them) listed by type. Comets are sorted into four categories: periodic comets (e.g. Halley's Comet), non-periodic comets (e.g. Comet Hale–Bopp), comets with no meaningful orbit (the Great Comet of 1106), and lost comets (5D/Brorsen), displayed as either P (periodic), C (non-periodic), X (no orbit), and D (lost).

Many of the earlier comets to be observed in history are designated with an X or D due to not having the tools to measure a comet's orbit accurately and eventually losing it. X/1106 C1 (the Great Comet of 1106) is a good example. The orbital elements for the older non-periodic comets in the list assume that the comet has an eccentricity of roughly 1, and therefore the calculations are only approximate.

Guide to comet lists

Hyperbolic comet list—Comets that are hyperbolic
Near-parabolic comet list—Comets that have a period of over 1000 years
Long-period comet list—Comets with a period between 200 and 1000 years
List of periodic comets—Unnumbered comets with a period of less than 200 years
List of numbered comets—Comets numbered by the Minor Planet Center
Sungrazing comets
Kreutz sungrazers
Meyer group (below)
Kracht group (below)
Marsden group (below)
Ungrouped sungrazers (below)

After Edmond Halley recognized that several apparitions of a comet every 75.3 years were the same comet, it gave way to a new designation of periodic comets, with the first being named 1P/Halley. To date, there are 440 of these periodic comets, with many more on the way to getting an official designation.

Non-periodic comets
Non-periodic comets are generally comets that have only been seen on one occasion, or comets that have periods of thousands of years, to comets that are truly non-periodic, and will only come around the Solar System. The following comets are organized by their described types:

Ejection-trajectory comets

These are comets with an eccentricity so large that they only made one pass through the Solar System. These comets are further divided into near-Parabolic and Hyperbolic comets. A hypothetical true parabolic comet would have an eccentricity of exactly 1, and hyperbolic comets are any comet with an eccentricity of over 1. Most of the comets marked with an X are from the material cited here and the other comets are sourced from JPL Small-Body Database. Due to their hyperbolic orbits, it is impossible to determine where they come from, but it is expected that they are from the Oort Cloud, a cloud of icy bodies several thousand Astronomical units away from the Sun. However a few of these may be Interstellar comets

Comets observed in early times, which were later found to be observations of numbered periodic comets, are marked with [periodic comet number]/[comet name]. For instance, X/-239 K1 was an appearance of Halley's comet in 239 BC, and as such is written as 1P/-239 K1. A significant portion of the comets passing closer than 0.01 AU to the Sun are fragments of the comet of 371 BC, which fractured into several pieces on the 326 AD perihelion, which further fractured into thousands of pieces on the 1106 AD perihelion, creating the cometary group now known as the Kreutz sungrazers. Due to the sheer size (2000+ known members), and the fact that none of the group members have been given a numbered designation, the members are not stated on this list, and instead are listed in a separate list further below.

Near-parabolic comets

Comets with a very high eccentricity (generally 0.99 or higher) and a period of over 1,000 years that don't quite have a high enough velocity to escape the Solar System. Often, these comets, due to their extreme semimajor axes and eccentricity, will have small orbital interactions with planets and minor planets, most often ending up with the comets fluctuating significantly in their orbital path. These comets probably come from the Oort cloud, a cloud of comets orbiting the Sun from ~10,000 to roughly 50,000 AU.

Lost comets
The following comets, assigned with a D before their name, were subsequently lost after their discovery, and often remain lost to this day:

Short period comets

Halley-type comets

Comets with a period between 20 and 200 years, named after the first identified member, Halley's Comet. These comets orbit between the orbit of Jupiter and Pluto, and are thought to be long-period comets that slowly migrated inwards, or Jupiter family comets that had been slingshotted outwards by Jupiter's gravity.

Unnumbered Jupiter-family comets

While Jupiter-family comets are officially defined by (2< TJupiter <3), they can also be loosely defined by any comet with a period of less than 20 years, a relatively low inclination, and an orbit coinciding loosely with that of Jupiter's. These comets are often patchily observed, as orbital interactions with the planet often cause comets' orbits to become perturbed, causing them to not be found at the expected position in the sky and subsequently lost.

D/1993 F2 (Shoemaker–Levy 9)

One such Jupiter-family comet, Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, approached close enough to Jupiter sometime between the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was caught into orbit of it. By the comet's discovery, an extremely close approach with Jupiter one year previously had fractured the comet into many pieces, before it collided with Jupiter between 16 July and 22 July 1994. The fragments are listed separately here, at epoch 1994/05/08.

Sungrazing comets

These comets have perihelion distances of less than 0.055 AU. Most belong to the Kreutz Sungrazers, a group of comets split off from the great comet of 1106, and before that, the comet of 371 BC. There are also several other cometary groups, all much smaller, that occasionally pass through. This list covers all Sungrazing groups, including sporadic, or ungrouped sungrazers.

Kreutz sungrazers

The largest group of them all, the Kreutz sungrazers are a group of comets descended from the breakup of a comet in 326 AD. They live up to their name, typically traveling less than 2 solar radii from the Sun. Because they travel so close, they often burn up, and it is the cause of their breakup. Many bright comets are members of the group, including Comet Ikeya–Seki, which broke in 3 pieces.

Meyer group
This is the second largest sungrazing group, and the only one with no discerned period. Further observations of this group may eventually find one, however.

Kracht group
This and the Marsden group, both are periodic, both with periods of approximately 3 years. They contain fewer members than the Meyer and Kreutz groups, probably as a result of their periodic nature, leading them to burn up more frequently. They are believed to be the parent bodies of the Southern Delta Aquariids meteor shower, occurring between July and August and usually having 15–20 meteors an hour.

Marsden group

Ungrouped sungrazers

References


title: Xavier & Ophelia (album)

text:
Xavier & Ophelia, also referenced to as X&O, is a studio album by Xavier and Ophelia. Released on April 1, 2011, by Real Life Music, it was produced by band member Dave Tough. Seven of the nine songs on the album are original, excluding covers of Kings of Leon's song “Use Somebody” and Jackson C. Frank’s folk song “Milk & Honey.” At the 2011 International Songwriting Competition the band was a semi-finalist with the album's song “Six Billion Lonely People,”  and the song was a finalist in the 2012 Songdoor Songwriting Competition as well.

Production
The album was produced by band member Dave Tough, with both members of Xavier and Ophelia contributing to the songwriting. Seven of the nine songs on the album are original, excluding covers of Kings of Leon's song “Use Somebody” and Jackson C. Frank’s folk song “Milk & Honey.” Their song “Six Billion Lonely People” had been written with the assistance of John Foster, also known for playing with the Beach Boys in the early 2000s.

Release
The duo released their first album, Xavier & Ophelia, on April 1, 2011, on Real Life Music and Blue Pie Distribution. For a time the album's track "Six Billion Lonely People" was in rotation on the BBS Radio 24 hour music station,  and in 2011 the band was an SGX Radio featured artist.

Awards
At the 2011 International Songwriting Competition the band was a semi-finalist with “Six Billion Lonely People,”  and the song was a finalist in the 2012 Songdoor Songwriting Competition as well. "Last Recorded Summer," a pop song on the album written by Moore, Tough, and Neil Barber, was nominated in the  Indie International Songwriting Contest, and was also a finalist in the UK Songwriting Competition.

Critical reception

The album met with a largely positive reception among critics. According to Anna Maria Stjärnell of Luna Kafé e-zine, "Their debut is mellow and mostly very touching pop." Music News Nashville called the album an "unlikely blend of electronica, classic pop melodies and delicate vocal deliveries." It also praised the production, stating "techno beats, computerized sounds, live instruments and lovely, layered vocals mixed together put a unique stamp on their clean productions."

About "Milk & Honey," Music News Nashville stated "Moore and Tough give a haunting, cinematic feel to their version."

Music Think Tank described the song "Six Billion Lonely People" as "Electronic pop with acoustic elements and classic melodies reminiscent of Imogen Heap and Goldfrapp, featuring the breathy and angelic voice of DeAnna Moore." According to Luna Kafé e-zine,  the song "uses Moore's vocals well, recalling Edie Brickell at her best." About other tracks, "'Chateau Marmont' is a catchy number that recalls Saint Etienne in its summery haze. 'Passing Train' is equally lovely, a folksy melody setting the scene for a lullaby in blue." Also, "Use Somebody" is "presented here as a neon-bright dance track."

Track listing

Singles

Awards

Personnel
Dave Tough - producer, primary artist
DeAnna Moore - primary artist
J. Foster - composer

References

External links
Xavier & Ophelia at Allmusic

2011 debut albums


title: Gilbert Inglefield

text:
Sir Gilbert Samuel Inglefield GBE TD (13 March 190914 October 1991) was a British architect and Lord Mayor of London from November 1967 to November 1968.

Inglefield was the son of Admiral Sir Frederick Samuel Inglefield KCB FRGS DL, and Millicent Evelyn Cecilia Crompton the heiress of the Derbyshire banker John Gilbert Crompton

He was an Alderman of the City of London. In 1957, he was appointed chairman of the Barbican Committee, responsible for building the Barbican Estate, replacing Eric Wilkins, who had died.

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 1 July 1968; his chosen favourite piece of music, book and luxury item were "The Nightingale Chorus" from Handel's Solomon, A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell, and Botticelli's The Mystical Nativity from the National Gallery, respectively.

On 23 September 1968, he laid the foundation stone of the relocated London Bridge, at Lake Havasu City, Arizona, United States.

From 1950 to 1976 he lived at Eggington House, the manor house of the village of Eggington, near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Gilbert Inglefield Middle School (now Gilbert Inglefield Academy) at Leighton Buzzard was named in his honour.

His brother, Colonel John Frederick Crompton-Inglefield of Parwich Hall, served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1938.

Awards and honours
Inglefield was knighted in the 1965 New Year Honours, and appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1968 Birthday Honours.

References

External links
 The Mansion House - The MCC Reception 1968 British Pathe newsreel featuring Inglefield

20th-century English politicians
20th-century lord mayors of London
1909 births
1991 deaths
Aldermen of the City of London
Gilbert
People from Central Bedfordshire District
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
Royal Institute of British Architects
Knights Bachelor
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire


title: Ed Darack

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Ed Darack is an American author and photographer. He is the author of The Final Mission of Extortion 17, about the August 6, 2011 downing of Extortion 17, Victory Point: Operations Red Wings and Whalers – The Marine Corps' Battle for Freedom in Afghanistan, about Operation Red Wings and Operation Whalers, two American military operations that took place in 2005 in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province. He is the author of three other books in addition to Victory Point, including 6194: Denali Solo and Wind - Water - Sun: A Solo Kayak Journey Along Baja California's Desert Coastline. Darack is also an author of magazine articles about a range of subjects, a photographer published in media throughout the world, and a cartographer.

Books

Victory Point
Victory Point: Operations Red Wings and Whalers – The Marine Corps' Battle for Freedom in Afghanistan is a nonfiction contemporary military history work published in 2009 in hardcover and as an E-book, and then in paperback in 2010 by The Berkley Publishing Group, an imprint of The Penguin Publishing Group. Victory Point documents Operation Red Wings and Operation Whalers, two American military operations that took place in the summer of 2005 in the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar Province. Darack spent two months on the ground in Afghanistan with U.S. Marines for the book's field research. The book was noted for its detail and was chosen as one of the best books of 2009 by the United States Naval Institute. Victory Point was endorsed by Bing West, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for the Reagan Administration, a former Delta Force commander and New York Times Best Selling author who uses the pen name Dalton Fury, and others.
Victory Point, in conjunction with Darack's article entitled "Operation Red Wings: What Really Happened?" (Published in print on page 62 of the January, 2011 issue of the Marine Corps Gazette (available here)) has been referenced and cited by a number of media outlets, journalists, and authors regarding the accuracy of various portrayals of Operation Red Wings including by New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks in Foreign Policy, Jake Tapper on CNN, Slate Magazine, About.com, 60 Minutes, and others.

Wild Winds
Wild Winds: Adventures in the Highest Andes, an adventure travel narrative, chronicles Darack's ascents of and travels throughout the highest peaks of the Andes of South America through narrative, photographs, and maps. Ascents include those of Aconcagua, the highest mountain in South America, Argentina, the Western Hemisphere, and the Southern Hemisphere (and one of the Seven Summits), Ojos del Salado, the world's highest volcano and highest mountain in Chile, Nevado Sajama, the highest mountain in Bolivia, and also Monte Pissis and Llullaillaco. Published by AlpenBooks on November 1, 2001, Wild Winds was cited by The New York Times on the subject of the "Death Zone."

Wind - Water - Sun
Wind - Water - Sun: A Solo Kayak Journey Along Baja California's Desert Coastline, an adventure travel narrative published by Poudre Canyon Press in December 1998, recounts Darack's two-month, 850 mile solo sea kayaking / photography expedition along the Sea of Cortez coastline of the Baja California Peninsula from near the small village of El Golfo de Santa Clara of northern Sonora, Mexico on the Colorado River Delta, to the Cape region of southern Baja California Sur. The book includes text, over 100 of Darack's color photographs of the coastline, and a 16-map full-color atlas of the coastline at a scale of 1:500,000 created by Darack.

6194: Denali Solo
6194: Denali Solo, an adventure travel narrative self-published by Darack in March, 1995, covers his two attempts (one unsuccessful and one successful) to solo-climb Mount McKinley (Denali), the highest mountain in North America and one of the Seven Summits. Darack succeeded in climbing McKinley, via the West Buttress route, on June 29, 1991 when he was 20 years old, possibly the youngest to make a solo ascent of the mountain. 6194, endorsed by Galen Rowell, was nominated for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature in 1995.

Magazine article works
Darack has written articles for a number of different magazines, including  Air & Space / Smithsonian, Weatherwise Magazine (for which he is a contributing editor), Alpinist Magazine, Leatherneck Magazine, The Marine Corps Gazette, Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Climbing Magazine, Rock & Ice Magazine, Nature Photographer Magazine, Alaska Geographic, Sea Kayaker Magazine, and others. Topics about which he writes include military, science, weather, travel, geography, mountaineering, adventure, and aviation, among others.
Darack's articles have been referenced and discussed by a range of media throughout the world, including Stern, The Daily Telegraph, Yahoo News, and others.

Photography
Ed Darack is a stock and magazine photographer. Darack's photographs cover a range of topics, including military, travel, landscape, nature, aerial, aviation, science, weather, adventure travel, and others. Darack's photographs have been published in a range of media types throughout the world. His photography publishing credits include Smithsonian, Air & Space/Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, Scholastic, Random House, Weather Channel, The BBC, Time, The National Geographic Society, Bank of America, Forbes, and numerous others.
Darack's photographs have appeared on the covers of a number of magazines, organizational publications, and books, including:
 The hardcover version of the book Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer featured Darack's photograph of a silhouette of an Afghan fighter at dawn on its cover. Published by Random House, Where Men Win Glory peaked at number 2 on The New York Times Best Seller List on the week of October 4, 2009. Darack's image was also used on a number of foreign versions of Where Men Win Glory, including those published in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy.
 Darack's image of Cerro Torre was used on the cover of Italian mountaineer, explorer, and author Reinhold Messner's book, Grido Di Pietra, published by the Italian publisher Corbaccio in 2009.
Darack's image, "Snow Covered Mountain Range, Sunset, Elevated View, Canada" featuring King Peak was used as the centerpiece of Canada Post's stamp commemorating the Canadian Rangers. Released on March 3, 2003, the stamp had a print run of 3,000,000.

Cartography
Darack is a cartographer who has published over one hundred maps, including a full-color, highly detailed atlas of Baja California's Sea of Cortez coastline, comprising 16 individual 1:500,000 scale maps. Other maps of his of note include those of South America and individual Andean peaks including Aconcagua.

Patents
Darack has been issued a number of United States Patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, primarily for aircraft design.

Television
Darack appeared on the National Geographic / Smithsonian television documentary Titanic: Case Closed, where he explained and discussed mirages and shot photographs of them in the California desert.

References

External links
 Ed Darack Official Website

Living people
Military writers
American magazine journalists
American war correspondents
Photography in Iraq
American war photographers
Nature photographers
American photojournalists
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Stock photographers
Aviation photographers
Landscape photographers
Travel photographers
American military writers
Aerial photographers
American cartographers
21st-century American inventors
University of California, Davis alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Do You Believe in Magic (film)

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Do You Believe in Magic? is a 2008 American documentary on Magic Johnson, which received the Best Documentary award at the 4th Africa Movie Academy Awards.

References

External links
 Do You Believe in Magic? on Internet Movie Database

Best Documentary Africa Movie Academy Award winners
American sports documentary films
2008 films
2008 documentary films
Documentary films about sportspeople
Magic Johnson
Documentary films about basketball
2000s American films


title: Harry Allen (trans man)

text:
Harry Allen or Harry Livingston (born Nell Pickerell; 1882 – December 27, 1922) was an American transgender man from the Pacific Northwest who was the subject of ongoing sensationalist local and national newspaper coverage from 1900 until his death in 1922. The newspapers covered his petty crimes associated with life on the margins of society such as burglary, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, and vagrancy. He was also arrested after being involved in bar fights, and for drunkenness.

Family and early life
Allen was born in Indiana as Nell Pickerell to Robert P. Pickerell and Jennie Gordon. The Pickerell family moved to the North End area of Seattle around 1894. Jennie Pickerell shared that Allen was allowed to wear boys' clothing and indulge his interest in masculine activities from a young age. Even with all his run-ins with the law, his mother was often quoted defending him in the paper and testifying in support of him before a judge.

Employment
Allen worked many kinds of jobs, such as waiter, hotel clerk, bartender, bouncer, shiphand, and cowhand. He was an aspiring prize fighter and a skilled boxer. Whenever the police made attempts to arrest Allen, he would fight back and officers had to wrestle him into handcuffs. Sometimes he used street-fighting tactics such as biting officers' hands and throwing rocks.

Personal life

Aliases
Allen received disproportionate attention in reaction to his unapologetic rejection of a female gender assignment and refusal to conform to social demands that he dress and behave according to female norms. These titillating and exploitative stories — "great police blotter copy" — consistently referred to him with she/her pronouns and used his dead name, which is recorded in many of the news stories about him at the time alongside his chosen name, even while also reporting that Allen did take offense at this, and was outspoken in his insistence that he not be, in modern terms, misgendered. His name had been Harry Livingston from around 1900 until 1911, and then Harry Allen after, but he is known on at least one occasion to have used the name George Allen. It is reported that Harry's mother used his chosen name to refer to him, and asked after him by that name when calling the police station to inquire when they would release him.

Suicides of his love interests
Allen was known to be a notorious ladies' man who pursued multiple women at a time, including married women. Of the many women he sought, or who sought him, four are reported to have died by suicide. The first was Dolly Quappe, who had been dating Allen for three weeks at the time of her death on December 25, 1901. The Seattle Star reported that Quappe had not known that Allen was transgender until he was arrested on suspicion of theft, having stolen an overcoat at a dance in Ballard. After Quappe's suicide, newspapers reported that Allen's jailers said he joked with them about having fooled Quappe about his sex. When he was released, on Christmas Day Quappe confronted him about his dating another young woman, Mabel Lacke. The two fought and Quappe snatched away Allen's watch-chain which contained a locket with a photograph of Lacke. Quappe was so angry as to threaten Allen's life and to threaten to kill herself. Later that day, she was found to have ingested carbolic acid she purchased from a pharmacy and passed away that evening. The Seattle Star reported the cause of her distress as the jealousy that she felt upon learning of Allen's duplicitousness, but other newspapers in the region implied or stated that it was also due to Allen's assigned sex at birth. According to The Victoria Daily Times, part of Quappe's infatuation with Allen was that he bore a resemblance to a man to whom she had previously been engaged, who had left her to marry another woman. After her death, Allen insisted that Quappe was aware of his transition, but police did not take him at his word because in all their letters she called him Harry Livingston.

The second woman to reportedly die by suicide, due to heartbreak by Allen, was Hazel Walters. A report by a Walla Walla paper, The Evening Statesman, erroneously attributed the story of Quappe's death to Walters' name, but provides the occasion of her death as March 1902. According to a profile published by The Seattle Star in 1915, Walters' manner of death was to throw herself from a 'cliff' at Madrona Park because she discovered he "was a woman". Walters left behind a note saying "I love you, Harry, though you are a living lie."

The third of Allen's lovers to die by suicide was Pearl Waldron, who shot herself in the chest with a 32-caliber revolver in Denny Park on November 4, 1903. Waldron and Allen had met at a dance in Georgetown. Waldron was found lying bloody in the park by a passerby who called the police and ambulance. She was taken to a hospital, and doctors worked to remove the bullet for over two hours before giving up on finding it all due to it being near vital organs. For more than an hour after she was found, Waldron refused to give her name or address. When she finally gave in, she also asked that they send for Harry Livingston. Though Waldron left, she never stated her actions were related to Allen. The press and public laid the familiar suspicion that she was driven to shock and despair by discovering that he was transgender. Allen's mother told police and the press that she was sure Waldron knew, but Waldron's friends insisted that she did not and that she only knew him as Harry Livingston. Coincidentally, Waldron had a sister who had also shot herself over an unrequited love.

The fourth of Allen's paramours to die by suicide was Gertie Samuels, in January 1909. According to reports, Samuels shot herself in the chest after Allen left her at the altar because they couldn't be married as a homosexual couple.

Allen claimed one of the suicide stories was fabricated by a reporter in Seattle for a quick payout, and that nobody ever committed suicide over him.

Incarceration

On September 26, 1911, Allen was arrested for selling liquor to an indigenous person in Spokane, Washington. This was the first charge on which police held Allen for a prolonged period while he awaited a criminal trial. While incarcerated, the chief of the Spokane police tried to force Allen to switch to wearing skirts and feminine undergarments. The press and public were interested enough in what type of clothing he wore that they ran at least five articles during his two month stay at the county jail on whether Allen had donned a skirt yet. The police chief gave Allen the ultimatum between solitary confinement or finally wearing a dress when the jail reopened its women's ward, but Allen remained in the clothes of his choosing for the entirety of his stay at the county jail.

Death

Allen died of syphilitic meningitis in 1922, at the age of 40.

Newspaper articles

References

Further reading

 Allen appears as "Case I" under the initials H.A.

1882 births
1922 deaths
19th-century American LGBT people
20th-century American LGBT people
American transgender people
Transgender men
LGBT people from Indiana
LGBT people from Washington (state)
Deaths from syphilis
Deaths from meningitis
Neurological disease deaths in Washington (state)
Infectious disease deaths in Washington (state)
American prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Washington (state)


title: Dan Costa (journalist)

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Dan Costa is an American journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of PC Magazine and the SVP of Content for Ziff Davis, which includes Geek.com, Extreme.com and ComputerShopper.com.

Biography
He works in PC Labs surrounded by incredibly smart editors and unbelievably cool products. Although primarily a writer, he also tweets, photographs, broadcasts (NBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox), presents, consults, and cooks.

Speaker and author
Dan makes frequent appearances on local, national, and international news programs, including CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, NBC, and Al Jazeera America where he shares his perspective on a variety of technology trends. He also speaks at a number of private events for Fortune 500 clients. Dan does a weekly segment on iHeart Media's Rover's Morning Glory called Tech Tuesday.

He has edited two books: The Home Office Computing Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1994) and In the Shadow of the Towers (iUniverse, 2002).

References

American male journalists
American magazine editors
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


title: Wings (duo)

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Wings (; often stylized as WINGS) are a South Korean female duo formed by Sony Music Korea in 2014. The duo consists of leader Yeseul and Nayoung.

The duo's debut single "Hair Short" was released on March 12, 2014 and their follow-up single "Blossom" on July 3, 2014.

Career

Pre-debut
The duo was officially announced on February 27, 2014 via their Facebook page. The duo was formed when both of them, during their trainee days, recorded guide vocals for the Korean version of Little Mix's single, "Wings." After watching the performance, the label like the idea for the two singers to team up which led to the formation of the duo.

2014: Debut with "Hair Short", "Blossom"
Wings released their debut song "Hair Short" digitally, along with its instrumental on iTunes and multiple South Korean digital music stores on March 12, 2014. The music video was released on the same day and features actor Ahn Jae-hyun.

The duo's second single, "Blossom", was announced on June 16, 2014 along with a teaser picture of Yeseul and Nayoung in floral dresses walking in a field of flowers. The single was released digitally on iTunes and South Korean digital music stores, as well physically on July 3, 2014. The single includes the instrumental to "Blossom" as well as their first single "Hair Short" and its instrumental.

The duo appeared in Kim Woo Joo's music video for "The City of Summer Night", released on August 1, 2014. The duo also appeared in Yang Song E's music video for "Smiling Goodbye", released on October 10.

2017: Idolmaster, The Unit & departure from Sony
The duo appeared in SBS Plus's drama,《The Idolmaster KR》and KBS's Variety《The Unit: Idol Rebooting Project》.
In July, Wings revealed to have left their label, Sony Music Entertainment Korea.

Members
 Kang Yeseul
 Jin Nayoung

Discography

Singles

Music videos

References

External links

South Korean musical duos
K-pop music groups
Musical groups established in 2014
2014 establishments in South Korea
Chugye University for the Arts alumni
South Korean girl groups


title: Burgers Bar

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Burgers Bar ( Burgers Bar) is an Israeli burger chain with 30 locations around Israel, and previously had three locations in the United States.

History
Burgers Bar opened their first location in 1999 in the German Colony of Jerusalem. Due to the restaurants popularity, they began expanding quickly all over Israel. Burgers Bar was able to carve out a niche for themselves and in 2005 became the only nominee in Haaretz's Best Kosher Burger in Israel. Many attribute Burgers Bar's success to them offering burgers at a similar price to McDonald's Israel.

All locations are kosher Mehadrin certified. Additionally they offer a wide variety of toppings and side dishes not found at typical burger restaurants.

American expansion attempt
After experiencing success in Israel with the American tourists, Burgers Bar expanded to the United States with 3 locations. The locations were in Teaneck, Cedarhurst, and Brooklyn however all three locations were closed within a couple of years.

See also

 Culture of Israel
 Israeli cuisine
 Economy of Israel
 List of hamburger restaurants
 List of restaurants in Israel

References

Restaurant chains in Israel
Fast-food hamburger restaurants
Restaurants established in 1998
Israeli companies established in 1998
Food and drink companies of Israel
Restaurants in Jerusalem
Restaurants in Tel Aviv
Food and drink companies established in 1998


title: Philip Phillips (photographer)

text:
Joseph Philip Phillips (1857 or 1858–1891 or 1892), known as Philip Phillips, was a merchant seaman and a photographer. He is best known for his photographs of the construction of the Forth Bridge.

Life
Philip Phillips was born in either 1857 or 1858, and was educated at Chester College in England under the direction of the Reverend Arthur Rigg. After he left school he entered the office of a mining engineer. He left the mining profession to become a merchant seaman and left the service after an attack of rheumatic fever in China. He then took up photography enthusiastically and served in the capacity of photographer on the Forth Bridge works.  The photographs he took of the bridge were reproduced in an album entitled The Forth Bridge illustrations 1886-1887, which when published received favourable reviews.

Phillips died at the age of 34 after a short illness of four days, from an attack of influenza that developed into pneumonia. He is buried at Handsworth Old Church near Birmingham.

His father was Joseph Phillips, a contractor specialising in ironwork who worked on the Crystal Palace, the Newark Dyke railway bridge, Birmingham New Street railway station and was part of the consortium to build the Forth Bridge.

References

Photographers from Cheshire
19th-century English photographers
1850s births
1890s deaths


title: LiMAx test

text:
The LiMAx test (maximum liver function capacity) is a dynamic liver function test based on the metabolism of 13C-methacetin by the liver-specific cytochrome P450 1A2 system. The test can be carried out at bedside displaying actual liver function at the point of measurement (Point-of-care testing).

Test principle
The LiMAx test is an innovative enzymatic liver function test. 13C-methacetin, a selective metabolite of the liver specific cytochrome P450 1A2  is administered intravenously. Via the bloodstream the drug is transported to the liver and immediately metabolized to paracetamol and ultimately to 13CO2 (Fig. 1), which is in turn transported via the bloodstream to the lung and exhaled.

Cytochrome P450 1A2 is evenly distributed over all the cells of a liver acinus, and is in contrast to other members of the cytochrome P450 family exclusively expressed in the liver. Cytochrome  P450 A2 is usually not inducible by clinically frequently used drugs making it ideal even in complex clinical situations (exceptions are oral contraceptives resulting in a strong induction of P450 A2). Nutrition and lifestyle can strongly influence P450 A2 induction e.g. smoking or coffee consumption.
The test substance 13C methacetin itself is considered as is non-toxic and very well tolerated in the used dosage. Similarly, 13C is a stable, naturally occurring and non-radioactive carbon isotope. For this reason, patients need to fast for at least three hours before measurement to remove potential interferences with carbon from the food.

Test procedure
The test is started with placing a breathing mask on the patient's face, separating the inhaled from the exhaled air by two valves. Consequently, the ratio of the  13CO2/12CO2 is determined in the exhaled air over a period of 10 to 20 minutes to measure the individual baseline of each patient (Fig. 2).
After intravenous injection of 13C-methacetin the ratio of 13CO2/12CO2 increases subsequently and is quantified by a special device continuously and realtime at the bedside (FLIP). Since the device is detecting the carbon dioxide ratio chronic lung diseases (e.g. COPD, fibrosis) do not influence test results. The turnover of 13C-methacetin can be continuously determined using kinetic analysis. The LiMAx (maximum liver function capacity) is defined as the maximum value of the substrate conversion normalized to body weight.

Clinical application
The LiMAx test was developed at Charité University Hospital Berlin and is deployed in German, Austrian and Swiss university hospitals gaining widespread use in hepatology and liver surgery. Stockmann et al. could show that LiMAx is an excellent predictor of postoperative liver failure after partial hepatic resection. Moreover, Lock et al. showed that the onset and course of liver regeneration after liver surgery could be validly displayed using LiMAx. In the context of liver transplantation LiMAx demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy in detecting early transplant dysfunction or non-function of liver grafts allowing an appropriate clinical management.

Similarly, present liver cirrhosis can be diagnosed adequately by means of the LiMAx test and graded according to the functional impairment. Present research on LiMAx test  addresses the non-invasive diagnosis of liver cirrhosis, the influence of chemotherapy on liver function and liver function adapted drug therapy as well as other issues in hepatology and surgery.

References

Breath tests
Hepatology