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NCIS: New Orleans is an American television series, executive produced by Gary Glasberg and Mark Harmon. The series features an extensive regular cast, including Scott Bakula as Dwayne Cassius Pride, Lucas Black as Christopher LaSalle, Zoe McLellan as Meredith Brody and Vanessa Ferlito as Tammy Gregorio. Recurring actors, including Shanley Caswell as Laurel Pride, Rocky Carroll as Leon Vance, and Derek Webster as Raymond Isler, appear intermittently.

Overview

Main cast and characters

Dwayne Cassius Pride

Dwayne Cassius "King" Pride (Scott Bakula) is a New Orleans native and former Jefferson Parish deputy sheriff who runs the NCIS Resident Agency in New Orleans.

Pride and his now-estranged wife Linda used to live in the Lower Garden District. His daughter, Laurel, is a music major at Louisiana State University.  In "Chasing Ghosts" and "Le Carnaval de la Mort", it is revealed that Pride's father, Cassius (Stacy Keach), is incarcerated in the Gretna Correctional Facility. As of the beginning of season two, Dwayne and Linda officially divorced. With the money Dwayne got from selling their home he paid for Dr. Wade's oldest adopted son and assistant Danny's college, Laurel's college, a place for his father (if he makes parole), as well as buying a fixer-upper bar, TruTone.  On the 100th episode, Dwayne reveals he has a half-brother named Jimmy Boyd by his father. Pride has the second highest arrest record in the history of Jefferson Parish's Sheriffs Office.

Pride joined the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in 1989 around the same time as NCISs Leroy Jethro Gibbs; both were part of a group of NIS agents known as the "Fed Five" who gained fame for apprehending Spencer Hanlon, A.K.A. "The Privileged Killer". [For years, the Privileged Killer was erroneously believed to be Victor Lourde, who had been framed by a member of the "Fed Five," Dan MacClain. When MacClain is murdered, the teams discover his frame-up and the reason for it. Their investigation leads them to the Hanlon father and son.]  Pride went on to have an illustrious career that took him around the world, including Russia and South Africa, culminating in his return to Louisiana to head up NCIS operations at the United States Marine Corps Support Facility in Algiers, New Orleans before NCIS opened a proper NCIS Resident Agency in New Orleans.

In season 5, S.S.A. Pride, still recovering from gunshot wounds sustained in "Checkmate", accepts a promotion to Special Agent-in-Charge of the NCIS Southeast Field Office, which has an area of responsibility that spans across the states of Georgia and Florida down to the Caribbean and into Central and South America.  In "Judgement Call", Pride takes a voluntary demotion, returning to command the New Orleans office in the aftermath of S.S.A. Hannah Khoury's demotion.

 Christopher LaSalle

Christopher LaSalle (Lucas Black) was a
senior NCIS Special Agent. He is also a native of Alabama, he was born in 1982. LaSalle was first a detective out of the New Orleans Police Department's Fifth District at the time of Hurricane Katrina and then spent seven years on the NOPD vice squad. He attended the University of Alabama, graduating magna cum laude with a 3.7 GPA. While in college he played the school mascot Big Al. He lives in the French Quarter. He has an older brother Cade who has bipolar disorder and an unnamed sister. He has received multiple commendations for his work at the New Orleans children's hospital. During the first season, he begins a romantic relationship with his high school sweetheart Savannah, though she is later murdered. After this, LaSalle begins sleeping with numerous women, leaving the team concerned for his well-being. In season 3, Lasalle believes he has fathered a child, though the child is later revealed not to be his.

In "Ties That Bind", LaSalle’s father Beau passed away; he made Chris, with whom he had a contentious if not estranged relationship, executor of his estate and his successor at Lasalle Enterprises.

In the season six episode, "Matthew 5:9", LaSalle was killed after being shot in the abdomen and succumbing to his wounds in the hospital.

 Meredith Brody

Meredith Brody (Zoe McLellan) is a senior NCIS Special Agent. During NCIS season eleven, she transferred to Pride's team from the Chicago field office. She has a background in interrogation and claims to have a black belt in aikido. She is a graduate of Michigan State University and had a twin sister, Emily Ann Brody, who was murdered. Brody was the youngest Special Agent in the history of NCIS Midwest. During the second season, Brody is alerted to the real circumstances behind her sister's death, and working with Sebastian, she arrests the killer. At the end of season two, Brody begins a relationship with a Homeland Security Agent named Russo, who is revealed to be corrupt. Though Brody kills Russo, she resigns from NCIS after beginning to doubt her own abilities. Her resignation leads to an FBI investigation into the team, who are later cleared of all corruption charges at the behest of her replacement, Gregorio.

 Sebastian Lund

Sebastian Lund (Rob Kerkovich) is originally a Jefferson Parish forensic specialist, and Dr. Wade's lab assistant, though he later attends FLETC and joins Pride's team as a Forensics Agent. Sebastian is a hardened conspiracy theorist, and is somewhat socially awkward. In season one, it is revealed that he is in a relationship with a woman named Melissa. Also in Season one, Lund reveals that one of his accomplishments is "beating Super Mario Bros. 2 in 8 1/2 minutes", a time two seconds ahead of the world record at the time. In season two, Sebastian helps Meredith Brody uncover the conspiracy surrounding her sister's death. Though the team initially resents Sebastian for enabling Brody, he is later proved to be correct. In 2015, it is revealed that he has been working with Loretta for five years. In season three, he becomes the fifth member of Pride's team after graduating from FLETC. Pride, similarly, contacted Director Vance to note how worried he was about Sebastian's abilities in the field, but also added that he believed he deserved a chance to prove himself. Over time, Sebastian has shown he is capable of handling himself in the field, looking to Tim McGee as a role model due to their similar backgrounds. He is often regularly partnered up with Gregorio, both being the newest members of the team and supported each other in firefights.

 Loretta Wade

Loretta Wade (CCH Pounder) is the Coroner of Jefferson Parish. Wade's office is contracted by NCIS for autopsies and forensics. She is a graduate of Harvard University and moved down to New Orleans after completing medical school. In season one, Loretta begins to foster two children who are involved in an NCIS case. Pride later starts a college fund for the children. Loretta is also Brody's landlord during her tenure at NCIS. In season three, Loretta is hurt by Sebastian's decision to leave the coroner's office, though she later comes to accept his decision.

In "Second Line", it is mentioned that Loretta has more than once been asked to join the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office or even run for the position of Orleans Parish Coroner.

 Sonja Percy

Sonja Percy (Shalita Grant) is a NCIS Special Agent and former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent. While an ATF agent, Percy helped Pride and the team on their pursuit for Baitfish. At the end of the season one finale "My City", she noted a desire to join Pride's team, a transfer that took place before season two. Despite working as an NCIS Special Agent, Sonja continues to participate in undercover operations for outside agencies, most recently the DEA. In season two, Pride tells Sonja that he will not support her if her secrecy begins to put Chris and Meredith at risk, suggesting she is somewhat expendable and that he will not hesitate to remove her from his team if the operation she's part of endangers the team in any way. In season three, it is revealed that LaSalle was initially unsure of Percy's addition to the team; similarly, Percy is hesitant of Gregorio's arrival, though they come to respect each other. During season two, Percy and LaSalle begin a flirtation, and Gregorio initially believes they are in a relationship.

In episode 19 of season 4, Percy resigns from NCIS to accept a position at the FBI.

 Patton Plame

Patton Plame (Daryl "Chill" Mitchell), nicknamed "Triple P", is an NCIS investigative computer specialist. According to Brody, he was previously employed by United States Cyber Command. LaSalle refers to Plame as a "hacker" despite Patton insisting that he is an investigative computer specialist who is "too legit to quit". Plame is skilled in computer programming, cryptography, security hacking, and is paraplegic. He has been married and divorced three times.  He gave himself the nickname "Double P" in the early part of Season 1, much to Sebastian's dismay, who rejects the idea that a person can award themselves their own character nickname.  However, in the Season 1 episode "Careful What You Wish For", Patton announces to Sebastian that he has upped his nickname to "Triple P", with the third "P" standing for "Perfection".  He then asks Pride and LaSalle if he added a third "P" to his name, what would they like it to stand for, "Passionate" or "Playful"?  They never answer.

 Tammy Gregorio

Tammy Gregorio (Vanessa Ferlito) is a Washington FBI Special Agent who first appears as an investigator on a task force assigned to investigate Pride and his team. Brody's unexpected departure increases the attention placed upon the team, and soon Gregorio is seconded to undertake a more thorough investigation. Following the completion of this, Pride requests that she stays on, replacing Brody on a semi-permanent basis. After she was dismissed from the FBI, Gregorio officially joins NCIS and is now on Pride's team; with her former boss - Deputy Director Isler - lobbying for her approval.

Gregorio's ex-husband Ethan McKinley disappeared after embezzling $80 million in Katrina relief funds. However, in season 3 episode "Overdrive", it was revealed that she had a relationship with Assistant U.S. Attorney Hannah Lee, making her the first main LGBT character in the franchise (though a recurring gay character, Ned Dorneget, had been previously introduced in the main series). When her ex-husband returns in episode 18, "Slay the Dragon", she tells him that she is a lesbian.

In season 3 episode 14 "Pandora's Box (Part II)" Gregorio reveals that she is a lawyer by profession, and joined the FBI after graduating from law school.

 Hannah Khoury

Hannah Khoury (Necar Zadegan) is a former NCIS Senior Field Agent. After Pride is promoted to Special Agent in Charge, she transfers to the New Orleans field office as a Supervisory Special Agent (S.S.A.) to replace him as the team's direct supervisor. Hannah is separated from her husband, Ryan; the two have a daughter, Naomi, who is 10 years old in season 5.

In "Judgement Day", Hannah is removed from command of the New Orleans office after a joint operation with the FBI goes sideways, although Pride arranges for her to retain her rank and remain in New Orleans under his command,. She considers resigning in protest, but her daughter's desire for her to remain in New Orleans convinces her to stay. In the event Pride is unavailable, Hannah becomes the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the NCIS: New Orleans team and is also Pride's second-in-command.

In “Stashed” Carter and Hannah spent quite a bit of they episode flirting with each other.

In “Once Upon a Time” it is revealed Hannah and Carter hooked up

 Quentin Carter

Quentin Carter (Charles Michael Davis) is a brash NCIS Special Agent who is the replacement for agent Christopher LaSalle. Carter comes across as brassy and urbane. He is a former U.S. Marine who served in the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company. He is the son of a U.S. Navy two-star admiral, and has a brother and sister whom both also serve in the Navy.

Carter has a preference for wearing designer suits while on duty, but a running gag occurs that he is put into a situation where his suit is ruined.

Carter starts dating Hannah Khoury in “Once Upon A Time” and continues dating her throughout the rest of the season.

 Rita Devereaux

Rita Devereaux (Chelsea Field) is a New Orleans Assistant District Attorney and a reservist in the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps, holding the rank of Commander.  She is a longtime friend and eventual girlfriend of Dwayne Pride.  At the end of season 3, Rita accepts a job with the United States Department of Justice National Security Division and moves to Washington, D.C., but maintains a long-distance relationship with Pride. In the series finale, she and Pride end up marrying.

In real life, Field is married to Scott Bakula.

 Recurring cast and characters
 Laurel Pride
Laurel Pride (Shanley Caswell) is Pride's daughter who is currently a music major at Louisiana State University. Like her father, she plays piano, and is expected to graduate with Honors.  Despite having an affectionate relationship with her father, she feels he is too nice to her boyfriends, and as such notes a desire for him to stop developing "bromances" with them.  In season one, her boyfriend Orion is injured in an explosion meant to kill Pride.  In season two, she is attacked whilst jogging, though the man suffers cardiac arrest and dies.  She is seemingly about to be taken hostage shortly after, but is able to disarm her female attacker long enough for NCIS Agent Sonja Percy to seemingly shoot the assailant dead.  Laurel is also desirous of having a closer relationship with her grandfather, the incarcerated and somewhat incorrigible Cassius Pride.  But Dwayne suspects that, in part, his father is trying to use Laurel to influence Dwayne to soften in his reluctance to write Cassius a letter recommending his parole requests be granted.  Dwayne tells his father that the only reason Laurel thinks so well of Cassius is because Dwayne has purposefully omitted all the seedy and shocking details of growing up as Cassius's son, witnessing his crimes and corruption.  In the end, Dwayne chooses not to reveal those dark elements to Laurel, much to Cassius's relief; Dwayne even shares an anecdote showing Cassius as a good father.

 Cassius Pride
Cassius Pride (Stacy Keach) was Dwayne Pride's incarcerated father, who has a shady past, being a veritable kingpin in the "running" of New Orleans city and parish, "back in the day."  He is in prison for being caught and convicted of robbing a casino.  His son Dwayne visits him from time-to-time, and Cassius feels his son shouldn't be so bitter about being raised in an underworld figure's home.  Dwayne thinks maybe trying to make up for his father's crooked deeds is one reason why he went so far the other way, becoming a top law enforcement officer and agent.  Dwayne's own mother had a nervous breakdown and had to move "halfway round the globe" just to get away from Cassius's influence and adulterous ways.  Dwayne told his father that prison is the only place he can be kept where he would be safe from himself.  Because of Cassius's old underworld experiences and connections, Dwayne sometimes consults with him on certain cases.  Even in prison Cassius remains the semi-lovable con artist, trying to leverage his son into writing a letter of support for his annual parole hearings; even trying to use his granddaughter Laurel to work on Dwayne's sentiments.  Eventually, Dwayne does help Cassius at the end of Season 1 by writing him that long-sought letter of support to the parole board, although it is revealed later that Cassius did not actually make parole until sometime after Season 4's episode "Mirror, Mirror", where he is still in prison.  Whenever Cassius does make parole, he stays in New Orleans for a while, but by the time of Season 5's "Tick Tock", he had been living a "good life" in "Evansville, Kentucky", in some kind of witness cover program, with armed federal agents protecting him; it was from here that he was kidnapped by Apollyon and held for ransom along with Dr. Loretta Wade.  Some time during or after prison, he had taken up painting, which his granddaughter Laurel thinks is simple but cute, saying his trees look like "green marshmallows".  Cassius has a very pragmatic view of life and crime, as exemplified in his involvement in his son's childhood sports endeavors.  Cassius: "I'm on my way to fix things right now."  Dwayne: "Like you fixed my Little League career?"  Cassius: "Hey, you were a natural-born shortstop. The coach just didn't see it."  Dwayne: "So you planted a brick of hash in his truck and had him arrested."  Cassius, laughing: "Well it worked, didn't it?"  Dwayne told his father that in spite of all his shady history, that he trusts Cassius to be the one person that loves the people and city of New Orleans "almost as much as me."  As revealed in the Season 5 episode "In The Blood", one of younger Cassius's (Justin Miles) long-term extra-marital affairs produced a boy named Jimmy Boyd (Craig Cauley Jr., as the young Jimmy; & Jason Alan Carvell, as the adult Jimmy), a half-brother to Dwayne, but to whom Cassius devoted quite a bit of time when Jimmy was young, teaching him to fish at his bayou cabin, and even giving him Dwayne's bicycle.  Cassius is murdered in the Season 5 episode "Tick Tock" (continued into the first minutes of the subsequent episode "Vindicta"); Cassius's courage and resourcefulness here saves Dr. Loretta Wade's life, as well as two other hostages.  Cassius's last act was saving the life of his son Dwayne while the two of them were freeing captives, by stepping in the way of several bullets fired at Dwayne by assassin Amelia Parsons Stone.

 Mena Pride
Mena Pride (Elena Shaddow & Joanna Cassidy) is Dwayne Pride's "Mama", who lives several hours away somewhere in a care facility for dementia patients.  Her gentleness, great cooking, and musical talents as a pianist and singer, are all important elements in the formation of the person, talents, & interests of Dwayne Pride.  She used to sing in the Tru Tone — the very night club and bar that Pride purchases and refurbishes as his side business and home, and she is constantly referenced by Pride as the source of whatever is good in him.  She may be French in her background, as in Season 4's episode "Empathy", Pride calls her and gently tries to get her to sing a song in French, stimulating her cognitive and memory functions.  Dwayne claims that her deterioration was due to a nervous breakdown resulting from her marriage to underworld figure and serial adulterer Cassius Pride.  Mena appears in person on occasion in Season 5.  In the episode "In The Blood", Dwayne has an extensive flashback to his childhood, and Mena (Annika Pampel) is in her prime as a pianist and singer at the Tru Tone.  In the Season 5 finale "The River Styx, Part II", an older Mena (Joanna Cassidy) appears in Pride's mind while he is being drugged in order to divulge some key information to the Apollyon leader Avery Walker (Tim Griffin).  In this vision, Mena is conversing with Dwayne and rocking on the front porch of a nice old house.  After the case is over, Pride takes some time off to go visit his Mama.

 Linda Pride
Linda Pride (Paige Turco) is Pride's ex-wife, and the mother of his daughter Laurel.  She appears in the very first NCIS introductory episode — "Crescent City" Part 1 — that launched the New Orleans franchise from the main NCIS series.  She also appears in an early episode from Season 1.  She appears again in the very last episode of Season 6.  She and Pride are still trying to make their marriage work in the beginning of Season 1, but they finally separate and divorce amicably, mentioned at the beginning of Season 2.  Pride says that Linda has "moved on" and he's happy for her.  Their marriage ultimately falls apart because Pride is married first to his job, which is dangerous, and the daily stress and worry on his wife Linda genuinely mirrors the family dynamics of many law enforcement and military personnel.  Linda is discussed quite often when Pride is conversing with his daughter Laurel, and is always mentioned lovingly and with respect by Pride, crediting her with most of his daughter's good qualities.

 Elvis Bertrand
Elvis (Tom Arnold) is a former Naval Intelligence officer.  He is now a hacktivist and Pride's friend.

 Sydney Halliday
Sgt. Sydney Halliday (Riann Steele) is an Army special operations soldier working her last duty station in South America, and she is suspected in a drug-infiltration murder scheme among military personnel, but is cleared by Pride, Sebastian and Gregorio in the Season 4 episode "Welcome to the Jungle."  Sydney leaves the service, and comes to New Orleans to thank Pride again and pursue life options, but is caught in a hostage standoff in Pride's bar, the Tru Tone, in Season 4's episode "Powder Keg."  In the trilogy of episodes that form the Season 4 finale, Sydney is recruited by Pride to be the muscle on his "off-books" clandestine team to take down AAG Eric Barlow and his deadly security tech Amelia Parsons.

 Naomi Parsons
Agent Naomi Parsons (Kate Beahan) is an Australian ADFIS Investigator seconded to New Orleans, and a romantic interest for Dwayne Pride, in the Season 2 episode "Foreign Affairs."  In due course, she became too aggressive in her pursuit of a U. S. Navy suspect in a case involving a dead Australian naval officer, stepped on Pride's toes, attempted to usurp jurisdiction, and set back the New Orleans team's case.  Pride pushes back and gets her removed from the case, prompting coroner Loretta Wade to laugh in declaring, "Ooh! Takes talent to get under Dwayne Pride's skin!"  Pride's daughter Laurel thinks Agent Parsons would be a good choice for a girlfriend for her dad.  Parsons finally confesses to Pride that she was once a well-off lawyer whose pursuit of justice brought her into the investigative side of the law; now she's still "hard-charging", providing answers and comfort and closure to service members' families who have suffered the loss of a loved one.  A sympathetic Pride responds, "I know that racket."  He invites her back on the case.

 Cade LaSalle
Cade LaSalle (Clayne Crawford) (alias Cade Lambert) is Agent Christopher LaSalle's older brother who suffers from bi-polar disorder.  Cade's mental health therapist — Savannah Kelly — turns out to be Chris's childhood sweetheart; because of Cade's connection, they reunite romantically, which puts Savannah in harm's way.  Cade is a charmer with the ladies, and is a talented artist, builder, and hard worker between his lapses into his bizarre behavior.  He is framed for a murder when a dead woman is found in the trunk of his car, but it is later discovered that he was effectively drugged by the real culprit, and would have been too weak and confused to have done any of what he was suspected.  Plus, his brother Chris knew Cade was a compassionate person who couldn't commit murder, citing a time in their youth when Cade adopted and brought back to health a mangy stray dog.  Cade is killed in Season 6.

 Savannah Kelly
Savannah Kelly (Gillian Alexy) is a long-time love interest of LaSalle, and his "childhood sweetheart".  The two reunite after she is revealed to be his brother's therapist, and she and Chris later embark on a romantic relationship.  She is murdered by Baitfish in "How Much Pain Can You Take?". Chris takes her death particularly hard, and begins drinking more and seeking affection from multiple women, much to dismay of the team.

 Danny Malloy
Danny Malloy (Christopher Meyer) is Loretta's elder foster son and C.J.'s older brother.  In Season 3, Danny enlisted in the United States Navy rather than go to college, causing some friction between him and Loretta—and also between Loretta and Pride, who refused to talk Danny out of enlisting.

 C. J. Malloy
C.J. Malloy (Dani Dare (seasons 1−3)/Alkoya Brunson (season 6)) is Loretta's younger foster son and Danny's younger brother.

 Officer Roy
Officer Roy (Steven Waldren) is the NCIS Security Guard, seen in many episodes throughout the Series run, since late in Season 2.  In one episode, Roy is held hostage in the NCIS cloistered garden by the Apollyon team and its leader Avery Walker, in the Season 5 episode "Inside Out".  In another episode he is seriously wounded when NCIS headquarters is attacked, but pulls through to return to his job.  He has a special affection for the NCIS team, and is broken up when Pride is shot and nearly killed in Season 4.

 Raymond Isler
Raymond Isler (Derek Webster) is the executive assistant director of the FBI National Security Branch and Agent Tammy Gregorio's direct superior.  In this capacity, he leads a Department of Justice investigation into Pride's New Orleans team following the resignation of Agent Brody and the death of Agent Russo.  Though Isler initially appears stand-offish with Pride, the two cooperate on numerous occasions in order to halt the activities of the cartel.  Isler later fires Gregorio for disobeying a direct order, though he lobbies the Department of Justice to install her on Pride's team.  Isler slowly warms to Pride's professionalism and sense of justice, if not his methods, realizing New Orleans is a unique town that requires a different touch than the Washington D.C. beltway Isler is used to.  Isler warns Pride on more than one occasion that he has heard whispers of someone — unknown to him — in D.C. in a high position in the government who is gunning for Pride, and he tells Pride he will watch his back in D.C. and for Pride to watch his own back in New Orleans.  (It is revealed later that an Associate Attorney General of the United States named Eric Barlow is the key person in D.C. who has targeted Pride.)

After the takedown of Javier Garcia (Julian Acosta), EAD Isler was promoted to Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  However, when it is revealed that a member of his team was a double agent for the Russians, Isler was demoted to Special Agent.  Isler goes "off book" to pursue an opioid theft ring in the Season 4 episode "The Last Mile", and the trail leads him to New Orleans.  In this episode it is revealed that he was once hooked on pain killers after an injury.  He is coached by NCIS Agent Sonja Percy in his determination to accompany her in an undercover sting operation, and he performs well.  In the closing episodes of Season 5, "The River Styx" Parts 1 & 2, Isler has traveled undercover to the disputed territory of South Ossetia in the Caucasus in pursuit of Avery Walker and Apollyon — the same criminals pursued by Pride and NCIS New Orleans.  Isler is taken hostage by a local military warlord, and Pride and LaSalle team up with a local military operator to ransom Isler and escape to nearby friendly territory in the Republic of Georgia.  Pride stays behind to give cover for LaSalle and an injured Isler to get away via motorboat.  Isler participates then in a scheme to root out a mole in U.S. intelligence by faking his death, claimed to be due to wounds (rather than injuries) incurred in his rescue.  He is put into a deep sleep and carried off the aircraft in New Orleans in a flag-draped coffin, only to be re-awakened in secret by coroner Loretta Wade injecting him with adrenaline.  Meanwhile Pride ends up in the hands of Apollyon and its leader Avery Walker, who had earlier escaped from prison in New Orleans.

 Douglas Hamilton
Douglas Hamilton (Steven Weber) first appeared as the New Orleans city councilman of District C. Though he shares a mutual dislike with Dwayne Pride, the two often reconcile their differences in the pursuit of safeguarding New Orleans. In season two, Hamilton ran for the office of the Mayor of New Orleans and was elected after the other candidate was arrested for funneling drugs into Hamilton's district. He and Pride are later taken hostage after Hamilton is implicated in a cold homicide case, though he is later exonerated, and the real killer is arrested. In season three, a computer hacker leaks Hamilton's sex-tape and emails to the media, jeopardizing his future as a public servant. He was arrested by Pride and removed from office at the end of season three because of the Clearwater case (a plot to flood part of New Orleans so Hamilton's company could build a new shipyard in the neighborhood).

 Zahra Taylor
Zahra Taylor (Amanda Warren) is the mayor of New Orleans from Season 4 onward. Previously the interim mayor after Mayor Hamilton's arrest, she was elected on a special election against conservative Vernon Butler. Her campaign was assisted by Wade and presumably the entire NCIS team. She was targeted for death during the election, and later in the season finale

 Jim Messier
Jim Messier (Dylan Walsh) is a captain with the New Orleans Police Department. In "My City", it is revealed that he was seduced by Sasha Broussard into becoming a mole, which led to his assassinating Baitfish, once he was captured by Special Agent Pride and his team. Pride and LaSalle eventually discover a badly beaten Messier at an abandoned motel area with Pride and LaSalle managing to get Messier to safety before the bomb goes off. After being placed into custody, Messier is presumably convicted of his crimes, stripped of his rank as Captain and jailed.

 Carl Estes
Carl Estes (Matt Servitto) is a captain with the New Orleans Police Department.  On the job for years, Estes nevertheless becomes increasingly impressed with Dwayne Pride and his NCIS team, as he has opportunity to see them "do more with less", and actually get good results while staying within the legal procedures required.  Eventually he is brought into the NCIS team's inner circle and participates with them on some cases in his capacity as a NOPD captain.  His honesty and incorruptibility, combined with his closeness to Pride, makes him the target of a car bombing in the Season 4 episode "Checkmate, Part 1".

 Karen Izzo
Karen Izzo (Sharon Conley) is an Assistant United States Attorney assigned to investigate Pride's team during NCIS: New Orleans third season.  She shows up in a number of episodes, mostly as an antagonist in the local legal structure, blocking the NCIS team from doing what they consider to be their jobs, and often appearing to be an apparatchik of either Mayor Hamilton or some other political entity.  But she does seem to have some slight sympathy for Pride and perhaps his methods, as she also warns Pride from time to time that he should watch his back.

 Eric Barlow
AAG Eric Barlow (Doug Savant) is a U.S. Associate Attorney General (AAG), and is a dangerous and wily adversary.  He is eventually revealed to be the main Washington D.C. official who has been gunning for Pride and his team for a long time, and who was the real puppet-master behind Mayor Hamilton and his business aspirations.  Barlow appears in person in New Orleans in Season 4 as an arrogant, entitled man who has ruthlessly cheated his way to the top of his ladder ever since he was in high school, and continues to have grand business designs for New Orleans.  He also has in his sights the governorship of Louisiana, and it is intimated his ambitions go higher still.  Meanwhile, in his high and respectable place in the U.S. Department of Justice, he is in a position to deflect suspicion from himself and to implicate whomever he wants in all sorts of problems.  His main target is Dwayne Pride, whose knack for sniffing out and fighting corruption is too much of a threat to men like Barlow.  Pride's own history of skirting the edge of authority and rules will be exploited by Barlow.  Nonetheless, Barlow is impressed with Pride's ability to assemble a magnificent team, and he tries unsuccessfully to poach Agent Tammy Gregorio, among others.  The NCIS team is officially supposed to have been in a "stand down" position during this time when Pride is under DOJ investigation, but they still secretly assist another clandestine team that Pride has assembled "off-book".  This team of Pride's friends are mostly tech people and Dr. Loretta Wade, and they infiltrate Barlow's New Orleans office building and his stand-alone computer system.  Elvis Bertrand and former Green Beret Sgt. Sydney Halliday steal Barlow's files on a jump drive, while Pride and his lawyer distract Barlow in his office.  Pride's team just barely get away, but are spotted and then legally pursued by Barlow's henchmen, including his ultra-dangerous tech chief Amelia Parsons, whose computer station had been breached while she was drawn away from it by Dr. Wade.  Barlow's criminal scheme involves the murder of New Orleans Mayor Zahra Taylor, which would allow Barlow's puppet candidate to be recommended, and make Barlow positioned to launch a run for governor.  In the process, Dwayne Pride is elaborately framed by Barlow's operatives, beginning with a bad publicity campaign on social media and in the conventional press, conducted by blogger Oliver Crane, who later switches sides and becomes part of Pride's secret team.  Barlow's frame job leads up to Pride's friend NOPD Captain Carl Estes being killed by a car bomb, and Pride himself being set up as the murderer of the Mayoral candidate Zahra Taylor.  Barlow's tech people faked photos of Pride driving the truck with explosives in it, and a crooked NOPD leader — Deputy Chief Cedric Gossett (Lou Diamond Phillips) — pretending to avenge Captain Estes murder, turns out to be Barlow's own puppet candidate for mayor, and he kidnaps Pride onto the Police boat from which a rocket attack will be launched against Mayor Taylor's car.  Gossett radios that Pride has taken over the boat and is in process of the attack, but Pride fights back, and Gossett is ultimately gunned down by the Coast Guard, who came to Pride's defense after the NCIS team prove the photos of Pride were digitally doctored.  Barlow's plans foiled, he goes to his legal office to plan his next move (maybe even to plan his escape), when confronted by Sydney Halliday, who informs him that his entire sordid past is being released to the press and to social media as they speak.  He threatens her, then tries to bargain with her, then to bribe her, but she tells him he is all out of moves.  She directs him to a pistol with one round in it, and suggests that it is his only option left other than full prosecution for his crimes and total public humiliation.  As she walks away, a shot can be heard in the background, suggesting that Barlow took Halliday's suggestion.

 John Stone
John Stone (Maury Sterling) is Mayor Hamilton's new security chief, appearing in Season 3 episodes "Knockout," "Down the Rabbit Hole," and "Poetic Justice".  Stone is a mercenary and a murderer, whose security team is no less than a hit squad, and who has a personal stake in Hamilton's investments and schemes.  He ends up almost making Hamilton a puppet partner, but goes too far when he tries to kill Pride by blowing up the Tru Tone bar.  Pride takes advantage of the temporary belief that he's dead, and disappears.  He beats up Stone and hauls him around in the trunk of a car, trying to get information out of him.  On a rooftop, Pride unties Stone, and is determined to let the man battle it out with him.  Stone pulls a knife on Pride and in self-defense Pride ends up throwing Stone off the roof to his death.  Later, the connection is made that Stone was really working for AAG Eric Barlow.  Stone's widow Amelia later shows up to avenge him.

 Amelia Parsons Stone
Amelia Parsons (Ellen Hollman) is AAG Eric Barlow's tech security chief, but she is also a lethal ex-CIA assassin.  It is discovered that she was, in reality, the wife and widow of former mayor Hamilton's security chief John Stone, and besides Barlow's anti-NCIS plans, she has her own revenge to serve to Pride, who killed her husband in self-defense.  Ameila is tough as nails, ruthless, adept at evading capture, and possesses both martial arts, weapons, and tech skills to infiltrate, harass and pursue targets.  She nearly murders Pride in his apartment and in the hospital in the Season 4 finale and the Season 5 premiere, but is finally caught by LaSalle, and is handed over to the Feds for prosecution since she was ex-CIA.  However, it is later discovered that she used her knowledge of legally-troubling CIA ops to bargain with the Feds for her release.  She had joined the Apollyon spy organization at some point, so had dirty secrets on both the CIA and Apollyon, and in the Season 5 episode "Tick Tock", Amelia is again being held prisoner in a safe house by what appear to be CIA operatives.  Amelia's sister, her husband and their daughter have been kidnapped by Apollyon, along with Loretta Wade and Pride's father Cassius.  Apollyon (later revealed to be voiced by a rogue NSA intel analyst Philip Sinclair, head of Apollyon) kidnaps Dwayne Pride and leverages him to view a classified CIA file currently being held in a safe in his office — one he never knew about before.  In that file is the address of the safe house that is holding Amelia.  Pride is compelled to go to the house and liberate Amelia by force, so she can find a hidden briefcase and bring it to Apollyon, so they can mine secrets from that file.  Meanwhile, Cassius manages to free himself and Loretta from their zip-tie handcuffs, and are waiting for a chance to spring from the building that holds them.  Finding himself and assassin Amelia held captive in the same vulnerable position, Pride tries to help her save her family and gain release from their captors.  But in the end, Amelia resorts to her mission of vengeance against Pride, and taking several shots at him, Pride's father Cassius steps in front of the bullets and is killed instead.  Pride then shoots and kills Amelia.

 Sasha Broussard
Sasha Broussard (Callie Thorne) is a former member of the New Orleans Broussard crime syndicate, though she claims she is trying to disassociate herself from her family. After she gains the trust of Pride, the team discover she has been assisting Baitfish in his quest to control the entirety of NOLA's criminal enterprises. She is arrested and presumably convicted of her crimes. In "Once Upon A Time" (season 7, episode 12), it's revealed that Sasha and Pride have a son, Connor Davenport.

 Connor Davenport
Connor Davenport (Drew Scheid) is the son of Sasha Broussard and Dwayne Pride. In "Once Upon A Time" (season 7, episode 12), he throws a Molotov cocktail through the front window of Pride's bar, The Tru TONE. He was born on 11/21/2004 according to his Metairie High School ID.

 Paul Jenks
Paul Jenks (John Livingston) is a former member of the Broussard Syndicate and Confidential Informant for Dwayne Pride, known as Baitfish. During season one, he teams up with Sasha Broussard to take over the criminal underground of New Orleans left by the downfall of the Syndicate, and is responsible for multiple murders. He is later arrested by Pride's team, but not before assassinating Savannah Kelly. In "How Much Pain Can You Take?", Jenks warns the team of impending trouble and is shot and killed by an unknown sniper, later revealed to be Capt. Jim Messier in the New Orleans Police Department.

 Avery Walker
Avery Walker (Tim Griffin) is the leader of Apollyon, a deadly underground spy network featured in Season 5, supposedly a "private intelligence firm," made up of "former intelligence and special forces" personnel.  The leader of Apollyon prior to Walker was an NSA intel analyst named Sinclair.  Walker was a mercenary and independent security contractor in the Middle East, who then started working for a Russian oligarch, and ended up being a top operative in the intelligence crime syndicate Apollyon, eventually running that too — with ties to foreign terrorist organizations.  Apollyon is responsible for bringing an IRA bomb maker to New Orleans in the episode "Inside Out", at the end of which is cornered by Pride and arrested.  In the episode "Tick Tock", the head of Apollyon — shown later to be Sinclair — orchestrates a hostage situation designed to get Pride and his attempted assassin Amelia Parsons Stone, into his clutches to retrieve important intel, resulting in the death of Pride's father Cassius and assassin Amelia.  The succeeding episode "Vindicta" reveals that NSA analyst Philip Sinclair (Matthew Rauch) is the head of Apollyon, but made it look like Walker ran the hostage op from prison.  Subsequently, Walker — or Sinclair — arranged a ruse enabling Walker's escape from prison and disappearance.  Sinclair commits suicide when he knows Pride is on to him, and Walker ends up succeeding him at Apollyon.  Walker is later found hiding out in South Ossetia, a disputed and lawless territory between Russia and Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains.  In "The River Styx" Parts 1 & 2, FBI Agent Raymond Isler is captured in South Ossetia while pursuing Walker, and Pride and LaSalle and a local mercenary operative work to ransom Isler and escape to Georgia, but Pride is caught and interrogated by Walker, who flies Pride home in a cargo plane back to his secret headquarters in Brownsville, Texas, interrogating Pride along the way, using truth-serum-type hallucinogenic drugs.  Walker is searching Pride's memory for an address seen in an old photo of a house, kept secret in a file.  Pride finally breaks and gives up the address, which turns out to be where Walker's young son was staying; Pride fights his way out of his captivity at the same time the NCIS team arrives to rescue him, but Walker gets away.  Pride remembers the address he gave up under duress, and the whole team flies to the location, beating Walker, who drove there.  Walker suicidally attempts to draw on Pride, and is killed by Agent Gregorio's sniper shot.  As he is dying, Pride promises him no one will ever discover his son's identity or hurt him.

 Crossover cast and characters
 Abigail Borin

Abigail Borin (Diane Neal) is a Coast Guard Investigative Service Special Agent in Charge based out of the capital. Borin first works with Pride's team when she is tasked with interrogating a smuggler whose crimes took place within Coast Guard jurisdiction. She later investigates a double homicide on-board a research vessel, during which she notes she has been temporarily assigned Agent Afloat status. Borin reunites with Pride to investigate the poisoning of a Naval Commander, and in "Rock-a-Bye Baby", the kidnapping of a young child. Borin expresses a desire to join Pride's team, though she had similarly inquired about the possibility of working with Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Pride's friend who is stationed in Washington D.C.

 Leon Vance
Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll) is the director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, based out of Washington. Though he has little physical interaction with the New Orleans team, he often communicates with them via secure satellite conference. He regards Pride and his agents as one of NCIS' most valuable assets (though he has previously praised both Gibbs' NCIS team, and Callen's Los Angeles team in the same manner). In season two, Vance orders a specialist unit to shadow Pride, who is in fear for his life.

 Others Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon)
 "Breaking Brig", "Sister City: Part II", "Pandora's Box: Part II", "See You Soon"
Gibbs is a Supervisory Special Agent assigned to NCIS's Major Case Response Team. He is a crossover character from NCIS.Anthony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly)
 "Carrier"
DiNozzo is a Senior Special Agent who was assigned to NCIS's Major Case Response Team. He is a crossover character from NCIS.Timothy McGee (Sean Murray)
 "Pandora's Box: Part II"
McGee is a Senior Special Agent assigned to NCIS's Major Case Response Team. He is a crossover character from NCIS.Eleanor Bishop (Emily Wickersham)
 "Sister City: Part II"
Bishop is a Special Agent assigned to NCIS's Major Case Response Team. She is a crossover character from NCIS.Nicholas Torres (Wilmer Valderrama)
 "Pandora's Box: Part II"
Torres is a Special Agent assigned to NCIS's Major Case Response Team. He is a crossover character from NCIS.Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette)
 "Carrier", "Sister City: Part II"
Abby is a forensic specialist assigned to NCIS Headquarters. She is a crossover character from NCIS.Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum)
 "Musician, Heal Thyself", "Sister City: Part II"
Ducky is a medical examiner assigned to NCIS Headquarters. He is a crossover character from NCIS.Sarah Porter (Leslie Hope)
 "Touched by the Sun"
Porter is the United States Secretary of the Navy. She is a crossover character from NCIS.Carol Wilson (Meredith Eaton)
 "Carrier"
Carol works for the CDC. She is a crossover character from NCIS.Tobias C. Fornell''' (Joe Spano)
 "It Happened Last Night"
Fornell is a Senior FBI Special Agent. He is a crossover character from NCIS''.

References

New Orleans
NCIS New Orleans
NCIS: New Orleans
NCIS: New Orleans


title: S.D.M.N. Vidya Mandir

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S.D.M.N. Vidya Mandir, Nilokheri (known as Rice Land) is a private school teaching students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Nilokheri township of Karnal in Haryana, India. S.D.M.N. Vidya Mandir is one of two high schools in Nilokheri with high standards of education.

The school opened in 1989. In the 2007-08 academic year, the school enrolled over 2,500 students and employed 60 classroom teachers.

History
S.D.M.N. Vidya Mandir, Nilokheri was established in 1989 under a trust with the help from funds from rice-processing firm Rice Land. It had the name "Rice Land School" in early years and was later renamed to "SDMN Vidya Mandir School" but is still widely recognized by the unofficial name "Rice Land". It is administered by the school committee members.

Disciplines
The school provides education to children of all ages and interests.
 Kindergarten
 Senior Secondary
 High School
 Commerce
 Medical
 Non-Medical

1989 establishments in Haryana
Schools in Haryana
Nilokheri
Educational institutions established in 1989


title: Mitchell Gale

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Mitchell Gale (born January 7, 1990) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football at Abilene Christian University and attended Alva High School in Alva, Oklahoma. Gale has been a member of the Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Calgary Stampeders and BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

College career
Gale was a four-year starter at Abilene Christian University. He threw for 97 touchdowns and over 12,000 career yards. Gale and former ACU quarterback Billy Malone became just the third pair of teammates to throw for over 12,000 yards.

Professional career

Gale attended rookie mini-camp with the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League in May 2013.

Toronto Argonauts
Gale was signed by the Toronto Argonauts on May 16, 2013. He was released by the Argonauts on September 2, 2015.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Gale signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on November 3, 2015.

Toronto Argonauts (second stint)
Gale was signed by the Toronto Argonauts on June 10, 2016.

Saskatchewan Roughriders
On July 2, 2016, Gale and Matt Sewell were traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders for Shawn Lemon and a conditional 2018 CFL Draft pick. In Week 4 starting quarterback Darian Durant left the game in the early second quarter, thrusting Mitchell Gale into the starting role. Gale made his first career CFL start on July 22, throwing for 354 yards and one touchdown in a come-from-behind victory at home over the Ottawa Redblacks, which was the Roughriders' first win of the 2016 campaign. Gale would also start the following week before Durant returned from his leg injury. Having been eliminated from playoff contention the Riders started Gale at quarterback for the final week of the season. He finished the season having completed 79 out of 137 pass attempts (58%) for 937 yards with 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. On January 27, 2017, about two weeks before becoming a free agent, Gale was released by the Riders along with three of his teammates.

BC Lions
After spending a better part of the 2017 CFL season on the bench for the BC Lions, the organization parted ways with Gale despite never taking an in-game rep for the team.

References

External links
Just Sports Stats
Toronto Argonauts profile

Living people
1990 births
American football quarterbacks
Canadian football quarterbacks
American players of Canadian football
Abilene Christian Wildcats football players
Toronto Argonauts players
Hamilton Tiger-Cats players
Saskatchewan Roughriders players
Calgary Stampeders players
BC Lions players
Players of American football from Oklahoma
People from Alva, Oklahoma


title: Flávia Saraiva

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Flávia Lopes Saraiva (born September 30, 1999) is a Brazilian artistic gymnast. She represented Brazil at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.  She was part of the teams that won silver at the 2023 World Championships, gold at the 2018 South American Games and bronze at the 2015 and 2019 Pan American Games.  Individually she is the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic floor exercise champion, the 2023 World Championships floor exercise bronze medalist and is a multi-medalist at the Pan American Games, South American Games, and Pan American Championships.

Junior career

2013
Saraiva's first international competition was the Houston National Invitational, where she finished 10th in the all-around competition. In
December, she competed at the 2013 Gymnasiade in her own country and won gold medals in floor exercise, balance beam and silver with
her team and placed sixth on uneven bars.

2014
Saraiva started her 2014 season by competing at the WOGA Classic in Plano, Texas. She placed first on balance beam, second with her team and fifth in the all-around. In March, she competed at the Junior Pan American Championships, a qualifier meet for the Youth Olympic Games. There she had an outstanding meet, as she placed first in the all-around and on floor, second with the team and third on bars and beam. In August, she was crowned Brazilian National Junior Champion and added a bronze on beam to her medal haul. She replaced injured teammate Rebeca Andrade and competed at the 2014 Youth Summer Olympics. She had a great competition there, qualifying to the all-around and the beam and floor finals. She medaled on all of them, winning silver in the AA and beam and gold on floor.

Senior career

2015
Saraiva made her senior international debut at the FIG World Challenge Cup in São Paulo. She won the floor exercise and got the silver medal on balance beam behind China's Shang Chunsong.

At the Pan American Games, she took the bronze medal in the all-around behind Canada's Ellie Black and USA's Madison Desch. In the team competition, Brazil took bronze behind the US and Canada.

2016
Saraiva represented Brazil at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. She helped the team qualify 5th into the team finals and individually qualified in 19th and 3rd into the individual all-around and balance beam finals, respectively. In the team final, Brazil placed 8th. Although she had originally qualified to the all-around final, she was replaced by Jade Barbosa so she could focus on the beam final. In the balance beam final, Flavia was last to compete. After having several big wobbles, she placed 5th behind Marine Boyer of France (4th) and Simone Biles of the USA (3rd).

2017
In 2017 Saraiva competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy, where she helped Brazil finish second behind the United States. Individually she placed fifth in the all-around, second on balance beam behind Riley McCusker of the United States, and was co-champion on floor exercise alongside Abby Paulson of the United States.  In May she competed at the Koper Challenge Cup where she placed third on uneven bars behind Larisa Iordache of Romania and Ellie Black of Canada and placed fourth on balance beam and eighth on floor exercise after not being able to finish her routine due to an injury sustained during the balance beam final.  The following week she competed at the Osijek Challenge Cup where she won silver on floor exercise behind compatriot Thais Fidelis, bronze on balance beam behind Fidelis and Anastasia Ilyankova of Russia, and placed fourth on uneven bars.  In August Saraiva suffered from a spinal injury and was out the remainder of the season.

2018
In April, Saraiva competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy, where she helped Brazil win the silver medal behind Russia.  Individually she placed eighth in the all-around and second on floor exercise behind Emma Malabuyo of the United States.  The following month she competed at the 2018 South American Games where she helped Brazil win gold in the team final. Individually she placed second in the all-around behind Martina Dominici of Argentina and won gold on uneven bars and balance beam.  In June Saraiva placed fourth at the Brazilian Championships, finishing behind Daniele Hypólito, Jade Barbosa, and Thais Fidelis.  The following month she competed at the Brazilian Event Championships where she placed first on balance beam and second on floor exercise behind Fidelis.

In August, she was selected for the team to compete at the 2018 Pan American Championships alongside Jade Barbosa, Rebeca Andrade, Thais Fidelis, and Lorrane Oliveira. She won a silver with the Brazilian team and ones on floor exercise and beam. She also won a bronze in the all-around. She was later selected for the team to compete at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. There she qualified for the individual all-around final in 10th place and the floor final in 5th. The Brazilian team qualified to the team final in 5th. After several mistakes on the uneven bars, Brazil finished in 7th place. After a fall on balance beam in the all-around final, she finished in 8th place. She placed fifth on floor exercise after she had a step out of bounds.

In November, Saraiva competed at the Arthur Gander Memorial in Chiasso, Switzerland, where she placed second in the three-event all-around behind Barbosa.  A few days later she competed at the Swiss Cup in Zürich alongside Arthur Mariano where they placed sixth in qualifications.  Saraiva ended the season competing at the Cottbus World Cup where she placed first on floor exercise and second on balance beam behind teammate Andrade.

2019
Saraiva began the season competing at the DTB Team Challenge in Stuttgart, Germany, where Brazil won the gold medal ahead of second-place Russia. Individually, she placed fourth in the all-around behind compatriot Rebeca Andrade, Russian Angelina Melnikova, and Eythora Thorsdottir of the Netherlands.  In June she competed at the Brazilian Championships where she placed second in the all-around behind Thais Fidelis, second on uneven bars behind Lorrane Oliveira, and first on balance beam.

In July, Saraiva was named to the team to compete at the Pan American Games alongside Jade Barbosa, Thais Fidelis, Lorrane Oliveira, and Carolyne Pedro. Together the team won bronze in the team final. Individually Saraiva won bronze in the all-around behind Ellie Black of Canada and Riley McCusker of the United States and won bronze on floor exercise behind Brooklyn Moors of Canada and Kara Eaker of the United States. She also placed fifth on balance beam after falling off the apparatus.

In October, Saraiva competed at the 2019 World Championships. Brazil finished in 14th place in team qualifications and did not advance to the team final or the 2020 Olympic Games. Saraiva, however, finished the all-around qualification in tenth place and therefore qualified as an individual to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. She also qualified for the balance beam and floor exercise event finals. During the all-around final, she finished in seventh place. During event finals, she finished sixth on balance beam and fourth on floor exercise.

2020
In July, Saraiva and numerous other Brazilian Olympic hopefuls traveled to Portugal as they were unable to resume training due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil remaining unstable and gyms remaining closed.

2021
At the 2020 Olympic Games, Saraiva injured her ankle on her last tumbling pass on floor during qualifications, thus, performing only on floor and balance beam. However, the gymnast was able to qualify for the balance beam event final and, despite the injury, her routine led her to finish 7th.

2022
In July, Saraiva was named to the team for the 2022 Pan American Championships alongside Rebeca Andrade, Christal Bezerra, Lorrane Oliveira, Carolyne Pedro, and Júlia Soares. Together, they won gold in the team final. Individually, Saraiva won gold in the all-around final ahead of Lexi Zeiss and Skye Blakely, gold on balance beam and silver on floor exercise.  In September Saraiva competed at the Paris World Challenge Cup. She finished fifth on floor exercise.

Saraiva competed at the World Championships alongside Andrade, Pedro, Soares, and Oliveira.  During qualifications Saraiva suffered an ankle injury on vault but still managed to qualify to the all-around final in tenth place and the floor exercise final in first place.  During the team final Saraiva only competed on uneven bars and helped Brazil finish fourth as a team.  Due to the injury Saraiva withdrew from all individual finals.

2023
In September, Saraiva competed at the Paris World Challenge Cup, where she took the bronze medal in the balance beam final behind Marine Boyer and Kaylia Nemour. She next competed at the World Championships along with teammates Rebeca Andrade, Jade Barbosa, Lorrane Oliveira and Júlia Soares. The team took the silver medal behind the United States — Brazil's first team medal in World Championship history. Individually, Saraiva finished fifteenth in the all-around final and took the bronze medal in the floor final behind Simone Biles and Andrade. After the World Championships, Saraiva competed at the Pan American Games, where the Brazilian team once again took silver behind the United States. Additionally, she won individual silver medals in the all-around, balance beam and floor exercise finals, as well as a bronze on the uneven bars.

Competitive history

References

External links

1999 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Gymnasts at the 2015 Pan American Games
Gymnasts at the 2019 Pan American Games
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Brazil
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics
South American Games gold medalists for Brazil
South American Games silver medalists for Brazil
South American Games medalists in gymnastics
Competitors at the 2018 South American Games
Youth Olympic gold medalists for Brazil
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
21st-century Brazilian women
21st-century Brazilian people
Gymnasts at the 2023 Pan American Games


title: Allan Luttecke

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Allan Andreas Luttecke Rascovky (born 31 January 1993) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Career
Allan did all lower in Universidad Católica and his debut was in 2011 in a victory 2–0 against Cobreloa.
In July 2014 he's loan to Coquimbo Unido for a one-year loan.

Personal life
Luttecke is of German descent and holds the nationality. Also, he speaks German.

After his retirement, Luttecke focused on his studies and graduated as a pilot.

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
Chilean people of German descent
Footballers from Santiago
Chilean men's footballers
Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers
Coquimbo Unido footballers
Unión La Calera footballers
A.C. Barnechea footballers
Chilean Primera División players
Primera B de Chile players
Segunda División Profesional de Chile players
Men's association football forwards


title: Pechora coal basin

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The Pechora coal basin (Печорский угольный бассейн) is located in the Extreme North of European Russia. In covers over 90,000 km2 in Komi Republic and Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Arkhangelsk Oblast.

The basin is associated with three major depressions: Usa River depression,  depression and Kara depression, stretching North-South along the Western foothills of Northern Ural Mountains and Pay-Khoy Ridge.

Coals in the basin widely range from brown coals to anthracites, of varying yield and ash content.

Major mines are in Vorkuta and Inta regions. During 1957-1993 high quality coke coal was mined in Khalmer-Yu.

See also

 Timan-Pechora Basin

References

Geography of the Komi Republic
Geography of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Coal mining regions in Russia


title: List of shipwrecks in the 1st millennium

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The list of shipwrecks in the 1st millennium includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost between 1 January AD 1 and 31 December AD 1000, of the Julian calendar.

 to 100 AD
 A Roman ship sank near Fiscardo, Cephalonia in the Ionian Sea. The wreck could be carrying as many as 6000 amphorae.

c. 40
 An Obelisk ship caught fire while on display at the Puteoli harbour during Caligula’s reign (36 – 41 AD).

42
 Two ships used as floating palaces were intentionally sunk on Lake Nemi after the death of Caligula.

c. 50
 An Obelisk ship was purposely sunk by the emperor Claudius to build Portus harbour.

c. 60
 The Madrague de Giens is a 40 m Roman cargo ship, lying in 18 to 20 metres of water off the coast of the small fishing port of La Madrague de Giens, on the Giens Peninsula, east of Toulon.

c. 280
 A Gallo-Roman ship caught fire and sank in the harbour at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey. Discovered in 1982 by Richard Keen, a local diver, the ship was raised between 1984 and 1987 by the Guernsey Maritime Trust. Some of the ship is on show in a store with a viewing window, opposite Fort Grey. The remnants consist mainly of the forward parts of the hull, built of oak.

c. 570
 A Byzantine ship carrying marble columns and anchors sank off the island of Ekinlik, in the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. The wreck was found by sonar in 1997.

622
Conaing mac Áedáin, a member of the Dál Riata royal family, is drowned when his currach sinks in the waters off Ireland; a poem in the Annals of Ulster commemorates the event.

641
Shipwreck experienced by the monastic community of Iona.

c. 666
 St Wilfrith stranded on the coast of Sussex.

737
A ship sinks in the North Channel with the loss of Faílbe son of Guaire, coarb of the church at Apor Crosán (Applecross, Scotland), and 22 sailors.

756
Wreck (Latin naufragium) of a fleet of 30 (or 27) boats belonging to the Dealbhna Nuadhat kingdom on Lough Ree, Ireland; only one crew survived.

c. 830
 An Arab dhow carrying a valuable cargo, from China to Africa, including ceramics from Changsha, spice jars, ewers, inkwells, funeral urns and gilt-silver boxes was wrecked off Belitung, Sumatra. The Belitung shipwreck also known as the ″Tang shipwreck" or "Tang treasure ship″ was discovered in 1998 by sea cucumber divers.

877
 (First report) — Danish fleet: Loss of 120 galleys at Swanage, following an agreement with King Alfred to leave Wessex. Reports differ as to whether loss was due to a storm or fog.

886
 A number of Danish war galleys were sunk at the mouth of the River Orwell during clashes between King Alfred and the Danish Vikings.

924
 A Viking fleet is reported to have been wrecked in Dundrum with the loss of around nine hundred lives.

References

External links
NAVIS database of wrecks to 1500

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Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks, 0001


title: Moving Star Hall

text:
Moving Star Hall is a historic community building located at Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built about 1917, and is a crudely built, one-story, rectangular, frame, weatherboarded building.  It has a low concrete block pillar foundation and a metal-covered gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing outhouse.  The building was used by the local African-American population as a "praise house" and meeting place of the Moving Star Young Association, a religious, social, fraternal, and charitable community institution.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

African-American history of South Carolina
Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Churches completed in 1917
Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina


title: Antonio Pocovi

text:
Antonio Pocovi (January 20, 1922 - November 18, 2004) was an Argentine athlete who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics in the 400m and the 4 × 400 m relay, in both events he finished 3rd in the first round and failed to advance.
He has also trained athletes and served as a coach of the national team.

References
Sports Reference Profile

1922 births
2004 deaths
Argentine male sprinters
Olympic athletes for Argentina
Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
20th-century Argentine people
Place of birth missing


title: Penelope Carwardine

text:
Penelope Carwardine (1729–1804; married name Penelope Butler) was an English miniature painter.

Life
Penelope Carwardine was baptised on 29 April 1729 at Withington, Herefordshire, England. She was one of eight children born to John Carwardine of Thinghills Court and his wife, Anne Bullock of Preston Wynn. With her father having ruined the family estates, Carwardine took to miniature painting to generate an income for the family. According to the Dictionary of National Biography and other sources, she was instructed by Ozias Humphrey, and mastered the art in 1754. However, Humphrey was not born until 1742, and it must be considered whether historical sources have at some point been confused and that the teaching was in fact the other way round. Her mother was also a miniature painter, and the two of them exhibited miniatures at the Incorporated Society of Artists in London in 1761 and 1762 under the name "Mrs Thomas Carwardine (Anne)." Carwardine went on to exhibit there in 1771 and 1772. On 26 May 1973, she married James Butler, the organist at the Church of St. Margaret's, Westminster, at the Church of St. James Piccadilly in London.

Carwardine belonged to the Modest School of English miniaturists, a group that also included Peter Paul Lens and Gervase Spencer. The majority of her miniatures date between 1750 and 1785–90 and are usually signed PC.

Carwardine died on 14 October 1805 and was buried at Preston Wynne, Herefordshire.

She was a close friend of both Joshua Reynolds and Frances Reynolds; and among Sir Joshua's works is a portrait of one of her sisters, painted by him as a present for her. Many of her miniatures remained in the possession of her family as of 1887, together with three portraits of Carwardine: one by Thomas Bardwell, 1750; one by a Chinese artist, about 1756; the third by George Romney, about 1790.

Notes

References

1729 births
1804 deaths
18th-century English painters
18th-century English women artists
English portrait painters
English women painters
People from Herefordshire
Portrait miniaturists
Year of birth uncertain


title: Brayden Schnur

text:
Brayden Schnur (born July 4, 1995) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 92 in August 2019. Schnur was a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tennis team from January 2014 to May 2016. He turned professional in July 2016 at the Rogers Cup.

Early life
Schnur was born in Pickering, Ontario, to Chris Schnur and Anne-Marie Nielsen; he has a younger sister named Amanda. He first started playing tennis at the age of eight, on public courts near his home in Pickering. Schnur left home at the age of 14 and moved to Bradenton, Florida, where he trained with Heath Turpin. He was part of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre from 2011 to 2013 under the guidance of Guillaume Marx.

Tennis career

2011–13
In April 2011, Schnur won the first title of his career on the Junior Circuit at the G5 in Burlington. He played his first professional tournament at the Futures in Indian Harbour Beach in June 2011 where he lost in qualifying. In February 2012, Schnur and fellow Canadian Hugo Di Feo won the doubles title at the G2 junior tournament in La Paz. The pair also won the junior doubles title at the GB1 in Tulsa in October 2012.

In July 2013, Schnur reached his first professional singles final at the Futures in Kelowna but was defeated in three sets by compatriot Philip Bester. A month later at the Futures in Calgary, Schnur won the first professional singles of his career with a revenge victory over Bester. At the end of August 2013, he became the first Canadian man to win the G1 junior tournament in Repentigny. In November 2013, Schnur won his first pro doubles title with a win over Alex Llompart and Finn Tearney.

2014
At the Richmond Futures in June, Schnur made it to his second professional doubles final but lost to Rik de Voest and his partner. Two weeks later at the Futures in Saskatoon, he captured the second pro doubles title of his career with a straight sets victory over Mousheg Hovhannisyan and Alexander Sarkissian. In July, Schnur reached the semifinals in doubles of the 2014 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby. At the Rogers Cup in August, Schnur qualified for his first ATP main draw with wins over world No. 94 Matthew Ebden and 9th seed Yūichi Sugita. He lost to world No. 51 Andreas Seppi in the first round. In August at the Futures in Calgary, Schnur captured the third doubles title of his career with Tar Heels teammate Jack Murray after defeating Dimitar Kutrovsky and Dennis Nevolo. In late October, Schnur captured the NCAA regional singles title, providing him with a bid into the 2014 National Indoor Championships in New York. Schnur then went on to take the 2014 Singles National Indoor Championships.

2015–16
In June 2015 at the Richmond Futures, Schnur reached the third singles final of his career but fell in three sets to compatriot Philip Bester. In July, he was part of the Canadian team at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto where he made it to the quarterfinals in singles. In August at the 2015 Rogers Cup qualifying, Schnur upset world No. 98 Ruben Bemelmans in straight sets in the first round but was defeated by world No. 76 Lu Yen-hsun in the final round.

Schnur captured his second pro singles title in September 2016 after defeating Tim van Rijthoven at the Calgary Futures. Also in September 2016, he won the doubles title at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Futures with fellow Canadian Filip Peliwo and reached the final in singles. In December 2016, he won his third Futures singles title with a victory over JC Aragone in Tallahassee.

2017–18
Schnur won the fourth ITF singles title of his career in April 2017at the 25K in Little Rock with a victory over compatriot Philip Bester. He captured his second straight Futures title three weeks later in Abuja, defeating Fabiano de Paula in the final.

In January 2018, at his first tournament of the season, he reached the final of his first ATP Challenger at the 75K in Playford, but was defeated by Jason Kubler.

2019

In February 2019, the Canadian reached the singles final of the New York Open, where he lost to Reilly Opelka.  After reaching the final, his ranking moved to a then career-high 107th in the world. Schnur made the men's singles draw of a Grand Slam for the first time at Wimbledon, when he replaced Borna Ćorić as a lucky loser after the Croatian player withdrew with an injury. He also entered at the US Open as a direct entry, his only other Major participation.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Other finals

Team competitions: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 12 (5–7)

Doubles: 6 (4–2)

Singles performance timeline

Current through the 2022 Australian Open.

References

External links

North Carolina Tar Heels profile

1995 births
Living people
Canadian male tennis players
North Carolina Tar Heels men's tennis players
Pan American Games competitors for Canada
Sportspeople from Pickering, Ontario
Racket sportspeople from Ontario
Tennis players at the 2015 Pan American Games
21st-century Canadian people


title: Expanded icosidodecahedron

text:
The expanded icosidodecahedron is a polyhedron, constructed as an expanded icosidodecahedron. It has 122 faces: 20 triangles, 60 squares, 12 pentagons, and 30 rhombs. The 120 vertices exist at two sets of 60, with a slightly different distance from its center.

It can also be constructed as a rectified rhombicosidodecahedron.

Other names
 Expanded rhombic triacontahedron
 Rectified rhombicosidodecahedron
 Rectified small rhombicosidodecahedron
 Rhombirhombicosidodecahedron

Expansion
The expansion operation from the rhombic triacontahedron can be seen in this animation:

Dissection
This polyhedron can be dissected into a central rhombic triacontahedron surrounded by: 30 rhombic prisms, 20 tetrahedra, 12 pentagonal pyramids, 60 triangular prisms.

If the central rhombic triacontahedron and the 30 rhombic prisms are removed, you can create a toroidal polyhedron with all regular polygon faces.

Related polyhedra

See also
 Rhombicosidodecahedron (expanded dodecahedron)
 Truncated rhombicosidodecahedron
 Expanded cuboctahedron

References

 Coxeter Regular Polytopes, Third edition, (1973), Dover edition,  (pp. 145–154 Chapter 8: Truncation)
 John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008,

External links
 George Hart's Conway interpreter: generates polyhedra in VRML, taking Conway notation as input,  VRML model
 Convex Polyhedra containing Golden Rhombi: 2.  Expanded RTC ('XRTC') and related polyhedral
 Variations on a Rhombic Theme

Polyhedra


title: Barnwell House

text:
Barnwell House, also known as Prospect Hill Plantation, is a historic home located at Adams Run, Charleston County, South Carolina. It consists of the front or main portion dating from 1878 and the rear section from early to mid-19th century. The main part is a -story building, with a stuccoed brick first story and weatherboarded upper story. The front façade features a one-story portico with a bell cast hip roof supported by two solid Doric order fluted columns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1878
Houses in Charleston County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina


title: Shannon Baker

text:
Shannon Baker (born 30 January 1980) is a New Zealand-born English rugby union player. She played for  at the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup.

Baker played rugby league for the New Zealand Maori women's team.

References

1980 births
Living people
England women's international rugby union players
New Zealand female rugby league players
English female rugby union players
Female rugby league players
New Zealand emigrants to the United Kingdom


title: Milan Brglez

text:
Milan Brglez (; born 1 September 1967) is a Slovenian political scientist and politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Slovenia from 2014 to 2018. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of the Social Democrats, part of the Party of European Socialists, Brglez was a candidate in the 2022 presidential election.

Education
Brglez graduated in political science at the Faculty of Social, Political Sciences and Journalism, University of Ljubljana, and completed his master's degree in international law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. He obtained his PhD in international relations, specialising in theory of international relations with thesis entitled “The Meaning of Non-Positivist Epistemological and Realist Ontological Assumptions for Theorising International Relations and International Relations Research Methodologies”.

Career in academia
In 1992, Brglez started his work at the Faculty of Social, Political Sciences and Journalism as teaching assistant at the Chair of International Relations covering courses of Politics of International Law, Diplomatic and Consular Relations, and International Relations. In 2007, he became assistant professor and course holder of Diplomatic and Consular Relations, Theory of International Relations, Selected Issues of International Law, Selected Issues of Diplomatic Law, and European Protection of Human Rights. In 2008, he took the position as head of the Department for International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ljubljana).

Political career

Career in national politics
In 2014, Brglez entered national politics when he joined the newly established Party of Miro Cerar (SMC, in 2015 renamed to Modern Centre Party). He served as vice president of the party. At the parliamentary election in July 2014, Brglez was elected to the National Assembly, where SMC won plurality with 36 out of 90 seats. On the 1st of August, he was elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly, thus succeeding Janko Veber of the Social Democrats.

In the 2018 election Brglez was re-elected to the National Assembly with the SMC party. However following some disagreements with party officials, Brglez announced on the 26th of June 2018, that he had been expelled from the party. The official decision on his exclusion has still not been given to date. In November 2018, he joined the Social Democrats.

From 2018 to 2019 he was Deputy Chair of the Committee on European Union Affairs and a member of the Committee of Foreign Policy and Committee on Education, Science, Sport and Youth.

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present
Following the 2019 European election in May 2019, Brglez became a Member of the European Parliament from Slovenia on the list of Social Democrats. He is a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, and substitute member of the committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.

Honors and achievements

 Prešeren Award from the Faculty of Social, Political Sciences and Journalism for undergraduate thesis titled Immunities and Privileges in Modern Diplomatic and Consular Law: A Comparative Analysis.
 Zore Award for master thesis titled The Codification of Contemporary Diplomatic Law.
 Best 2006 PhD thesis award of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
 (Co)author of 11 scientific papers, five chapters in monographs and four scientific monographs.
 (Co)supervisor of doctoral students, master's degree students and over hundred undergraduate students.
 Member of the Strategic Council for Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 Vice-President of the Slovenian Red Cross.
 President of the Slovenian Chess Association.

References

1967 births
Living people
Presidents of the National Assembly (Slovenia)
Modern Centre Party politicians
Social Democrats (Slovenia) politicians
Politicians from Ljubljana
MEPs for Slovenia 2019–2024
Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana


title: Thangamana Raasa

text:
Thangamana Raasa is a 1989 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed and co-written by V. Azhagappan. The film stars Ramarajan and Kanaka. It was released on 28 October 1989. The film was remade in Telugu as Muddula Menalludu (1990).

Plot
Vinu Chakravarthy gets cheated by his brother and loses his money, following which a quarrel erupts between them and Vinu Chakravarthy accidentally kills his brother out of anger. Vinu Chakravarthy is sentenced to life time imprisonment. Ramarajan is Vinu Chakravarthy's only son. Rajeev is Vinu Chakravarthy's brother's son. Rajeev gets furious knowing about his father's death and vows to take revenge by killing Vinu Chakravarthy. Also Rajeev develops enmity with Ramarajan.

However, Ramarajan is kind-hearted and wants to make peace with his cousin Rajeev. Kanaka is Ramarajan's niece and she falls in love with him for which Ramarajan also reciprocates. Rajeev does not want Kanaka to marry Ramarajan and attempts to disrupt their relationship. Rajeev's sister falls in love with a school teacher. Ramarajan finds this and has her marry her lover which angers Rajeev.

Vinu Chakravarthy gets released from jail completing his life time imprisonment. Rajeev also goes to Chennai with plans of killing Vinu Chakrvarthy as soon as he is released from prison. Ramarajan finds about Rajeev's plans and tries to save his father. But unexpectedly, Rajeev meets with an accident in Chennai. Ramarajan and Vinu Chakrvarthy see this and immediately admit him in a nearby hospital following which Rajeev is saved. Knowing this, Rajeev feels guilty and understands the good nature of Ramarajan and Vinu Chakravarthy. Ramarajan gets united with Kanaka.

Cast
Ramarajan as Thangarasu
Kanaka as Kannamma
Goundamani as Subaiya (Subramani)
Senthil as Alagusundaram
Vinu Chakravarthy as Chinna karuppan
Gandhimathi as Kamatchi
Sudha as Kalyani
Rajeev as Kaliappan
K. R. Savithri as Thangarasu Mother
 Raasi as Chandra
 Yuvasri as Radha

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics by Gangai Amaran.

Release and reception
Thangamaana Raasa was released on 28 October 1989 on the occasion of Diwali alongside another Ramarajan starrer Anbu Kattalai. Despite facing competition from other releases such as Mappillai, Vetrivizha, Rajanadai, Dharmam Vellum, Dravidan and Vaathiyaar Veettu Pillai, it became profitable at box-office. P. S. S. of Kalki praised the performances of the cast and Ilaiyaraaja's music.

References

External links

1980s Tamil-language films
1989 drama films
1989 films
Films directed by V. Azhagappan
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Indian drama films
Tamil films remade in other languages


The 2012 Castle Point Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Castle Point Borough Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was
Conservative 25
Canvey Island Independent Party 15
Independent 1

Background
Since the last election in 2011, 3 councillors for the Canvey Island Independent Party, Joan Liddiard, Anne and Brian Wood, formed their own Canvey Independent Group, after Brian Wood had been expelled from the party in November 2011. Anne and Brian Wood stood at the 2012 election as independent candidates, along with 13 candidates each from the Conservative and Labour parties, 5 from the Canvey Island Independent Party and 2 from the Green party.

One Conservative councillor, Enid Isaacs of Victoria ward, stood down at the election.

Election result
The Conservatives retained a 9-seat majority on the council after holding all of the seats they had been defending. The closest they came to losing a seat was in St Mary's ward where they held on with a majority of 63 votes over Labour, which meant Labour failed to win any seats at the election. Meanwhile, the Canvey Island Independent Party regained seats in both Canvey East and Canvey South defeating independents Anne and Brian Wood.

Ward results

References

Castle Point Borough Council elections
2012 English local elections
2010s in Essex


title: Sara Holt

text:
Sara Holt (born 1946) is an American sculptor and photographer. She is creating mainly in sculpture and photography and more recently in ceramics. She is one of the contemporary artists whose work helps to refine the field of creation situated within the boundaries of science and art.

Career
Holt graduated from the University of Colorado with a BFA in 1968. She was an artist in residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris from 1969 to 1971. She lives and works in Paris since 1969.

Her scientific and artistic household and the family house built by architect Irving Gill (where she lived from age six to eighteen) influence her work to varying degrees. After graduating from the University of Colorado, Holt traveled in Europe and decided to prolong her stay in France.
She developed new artistic techniques while combining her inherent nature of the media—the casting of resin, glazing of ceramics, the process of photography itself—and very constructed, layered or planned objects. Holt took advantage of the freedom and excitement of the sixties not only from a technical point of view, but also to merge her seemingly contrasting centers of interest and avenues of exploration: use of light and transparency with the resin sculpture and light tubes, as opposed to photographing in the dark, or using and letting chance operate within the artistic framework. Her ability to explore the vital elements of nature (light, color, earth, space and time) while maintaining a spiritual, poetical and organic quality place Sara Holt’s body of work at the crossroads of science and art.

During the fall of 1968, she met Piotr Kowalski. In the spring of 1969 she obtained a studio at the Cité International des Arts in Paris, where she continued to cast resin, and she met artists and critics including Erró, Alain Jouffroy, Frank Popper and Aline Dallier and, later, James Lee Byars, , Jean-Christophe Bailly, Meret Oppenheim and Joan Mitchell. Official recognition crystallized when Pierre Gaudibert organized her first individual exhibition at l'ARC (Paris, 1971), a prestigious venue for contemporary art. The exhibition included " Little Rainbow Snakes ", a 2-meter Cone, some large spheres, two large " Lenses " with resin spheres cast inside, a big Rainbow Snake, and several tear drop shaped prisms : all polyester resin work.

Work

Sculpture
She worked in bronze, plaster, ceramics and wool but mainly in resin, a medium she discovered during her second summer course at Pasadena City College on David Elder's suggestion. Holt was immediately captivated by the light and transparency that this medium offered.
A trip to the Grand Canyon in 1968 cemented her early interests in stratification and organic processes.
Her works are made using different layers of colored resin which are cast layer by layer in molds and then left to set after being catalyzed. Certain pieces take up to a year to complete.

Since 1972, the year of her first monumental commissioned piece in Bagnolet, near Paris, " Douze Cones ", she has continued to work simultaneously on a monumental scale (when commissioned) and in the studio. She spent almost a year in the USA in 1977 working on the " Double Rainbow ", an outdoor piece in welded and painted steel continuing to experiment with the spectrum and its effects through forms and subsequent surrounding space. In 1981, she mets Jean-Max Albert, and they collaborated on many realizations in public art.
The next major step in her work was " Light Tubes ", an installation created for the Hospice Saint Charles, Rosny-sur-Seine in 1984, combining the use of light and color throughout space. The Plexiglas tubes were spray painted in varying shades and intensity over a series of overlapping stencils in the form of lines.  Neon or fluorescent tubes were then inserted and the tubes hang on a wall or can be upright. The " Light Tubes " appear to sum up her previous concerns revolving around light and its properties (optical illusions, the appearance and quality of color, etc.) and integrate patterns that are directly inspired from the " Star Crossings ".

Photography

The photographs she made of her transparent sculpture in 1969 opened up a new field of experimentation. Photographing the sky at night, she experimented with the movements of stars which are recorded : multicolored curved lines of different lengths and thicknesses. The next set of photographs recorded the sky with two long exposures at varying degrees: the artist intervened only to move the camera and obtained the « Star Crossings ». The poetical nature of these images are in harmony with the scientific approach. Using a sail boat as a « writing tool », Holt took long exposures of the moon with the rocking of waves. These images convey a sign, a symbol or a « message ». She has collected a complete alphabet and such images as Papillon, Why, or No.

Ceramics

Since 1993, Holt has been working in ceramics. Using some of the signs recorded during these photographic sessions as graphic signs painted on to hand-built or thrown pieces, she is equally exploring a more naturalistic way through her ceramic " Oysters ". The fashioning of the clay, and its inherent organic nature, the type of subjects chosen, is the artist's way of remaining true to an Indian belief she learns of when photographing at San Miguel Island, giving back to nature and to the cosmos what she has already received, namely the " messages ". Messages harvested while photographying the moon from a rocking sailboat at night.

Notable exhibitions

Solo

  Sara Holt, Sculptures, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1971
  Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1972
  Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris. 1973
  Night Light, Ufficio dell'Arte, Paris, 1979
  Why, Galerie Vivian Veteau, Paris, 1981
  AcApA, Hôtel St. Simon, Angoulême, France, 1983
  Galerie Q, Tokyo, Japan, 1983
  Lumen, Hospice St. Charles, Rosny sur Seine, France, 1984.
  Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon, L'Été de la Photographie, Laon, France. 1992
  La Box, Bourges, France, 1992.
  L'Artothèque d'Entreprise Michel Ferrier, Grenoble, France, 1993
  Light Waves, Fleeting White Space, Anvers, Belgium, 1994.
  Bassin d'essais des carènes, DCN, Val de Reuil, France, 1994
  Volume et Espace – Sara Holt, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, Paris. 1995
  Sara Holt, Artothèque d'Angers, Angers, France, 2003
 Galerie Edouard Edwards, Paris, 2010
 October 2018, Sara Holt and Jean-Max Albert, Galerie Mercier & Associés, Paris, 2018

Public works

 Douze Cônes, Quartier de la Noue, Bagnolet, France, 1972.
 Arc-en-ciel, Sens, France, 1976.
 Cônes lever et coucher du soleil, Joigny, France, 1977
 Double Rainbow, Pasadena, California, 1977
 Solaris, Chevigny-St. Sauveur, France, 1979
 Arc-en-ciel éclaté, Jardin des Plantes, Caen, France, 1982.
 Quatre plafonds, Nice-Étoile, Nice, France, 1982
 Light Ray, SAN de Sénart, Lieusaint, France, 1987
 La chambre de la lune, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Château d'Oiron, France, 1993
 Auriga, (collaboration avec Jean-Max Albert), Rond-point Montaigne, Angers, France, 1995

Public collections

 Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1972.
 Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, 1977.
 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1980.
 Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, 1983.
 FRAC de Poitou-Charente, 1984.
 Artothèque d'Angers, 1985.
 Centre National d'Arts Plastiques, Château d'Oiron, 1993.

Publications

  Sara Holt/ Carole Naggar, Night Light, Editions Pierre Bordas & Fils, Paris, November 1979.  (br.)
 Sara Holt, Sculptures et photos, texts by Henri-Alexis Baatsch et Jean-Christophe Bailly, Grafica Gutenberg, Bergamo, Italy, October 1980.

Notes and references

Further reading
 Michel Conil Lacoste, Art et technologie à Vitry-sur-Seine, Le Monde, March 22, 1972.
 Skulpturen aus Farben und Viel Licht, Die Rheinpfalz, March 15, 1972.
 Schwartz, Ellen. "Paris Letter: November," Art International vol. 16 no. 1 ( January 20, 1972) pp. 54–58, illus.
 Touraine, Liliane. "Paris." Art International vol. 15 no. 6 ( Summer 1973) pp. 51–52, illus. (in English)
 Pierre Restany, Plastics in Arts, Léon Amiel Publishers, Paris New York, 1974. (in English)
 Aline Dallier, Grandes Femmes et Petits Formats, Opus, Nov. – Dec. 1974.
 Frank Popper, Le déclin de l'objet, Editions du Chêne, Paris, 1975.
 Franco Passoni, Arte e materie plastiche, Industria Pubblicazioni Audiovisiv, Milano, 1975.
 Frank Popper, Art, Action and Participation, Studio Vista, London, 1975.
 Sara Holt, Réponse à " WOZU ? ", Editions du Soleil Noir, Paris, October 1978.
 Lamia Doumato, Dictionary of woman Artists, New York, 1979.  (in English)
 Milovan Cirovski, Fotografija za Dusu, Foto Kino Revija, Belgrad, Yugoslavia, January 1980.
 Pierre Cabanne, La Biennale de Paris, Elle, Paris, October 20, 1980.
 Michel Nurisdany, L'obscure Clarté de Sara Holt, Le Figaro, October 10, 1981.
 Philippe Sergeant, Why, Internal Waves, catalogue Galerie Vivian Véteau, Paris 1981.
 Henri-alexis Baatsch, Interview de Sara Holt à l'ARC, ALÉA n°3 Editions Christian Bourgois, Paris, March 1982
 Fiona Dunlop, At the avant-guard section of the Modern Art, Museum Arts Review Vol. XXXIV, New York, 1982.
 Gisele Namur, Les années plastiques, Editions Alternatives, Paris, 1986.
 Les Trophées du prix de la Haute Technologie, Le Figaro, December 6, 1988.
 Miller House, GA n°35, July 1992. (in English)
 Henri-Alexis Baatsch,  Sara Holt , catalogue, La Box, Bourges, 1992.
 Monique Faux, L'art renouvelle la ville, Editions Skira, Paris, 1992.
 Jean-Hubert Martin, Le château d'Oiron, Beaux Arts Magazine, Hors Série, 1993.
 Liliana Albertazzi, Différentes natures, Editions Lindau, Torino, 1993
 Massimo Morelli, Arte e Technoscienze Metafore Incrociate, Revista del Gruppo Italgas n°4, Torino, 1993.
 Collection fin XXéme, Editions FRAC Poitou-Charente, Poitiers, 1995.
 Viviane Esders, Our Mothers, Editions Stewart, Tabori et Chang, New York, 1996.
 Chimériques polymères, Editions du musée d'art moderne de Nice, 1996.
 Richard Leydier, Cosmos, Art Press, October 99
 Jean-Louis Pradel, Cosmos, L'événement du Jeudi, 18 November 99.
 Jean-Hubert Martin, Le château d'Oiron et son cabinet de curiosités, Editions du Patrimoine, Paris, 2000.
 Françoise Jollant Kneebone, Atelier "A», Rencontre de l'art et de l'objet, Editions Norma, Paris, 2003.
 Aline Dallier, Art féminisme, post féminisme, Editions l'Harmattan, Paris, 2009.

1946 births
Living people
Photographers from California
Sculptors from California


title: Lana's sawshark

text:
Lana's sawshark (Pristiophorus lanae) or the Philippine sawshark, is a sawshark of the family Pristiophoridae, found in the Philippines off Apo Island and southern Luzon at depths of between 230 and 590 m.  Its length is up to 73 cm.

Max length : 66.9 cm TL male/unsexed, 83.0 cm TL (female)

Its reproduction is presumed to be ovoviviparous.

References

 Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005

Lana's sawshark
Endemic fauna of the Philippines
Fish of the Philippines
Lana's sawshark


title: Bardentreffen

text:
The Bardentreffen (German for bards' meeting) is an annual open-air music festival in Nuremberg, Germany. The first Bardentreffen took place on the 400th anniversary of the death of meistersinger Hans Sachs in 1976.

Setup
The venues are spread over the whole historical city and the event takes place on the first weekend of the school summer holidays in Bavaria. Starting with a more political approach including singer songwriter groups of the political left, the Bardentreffen grew into a more multicultural approach and has established itself as an important venue for professional and amateur bands of world music.

There are no entry tickets, the city of Nuremberg and various sponsors take care of band fees and organization. Charly Fischer was head of the organization of the Bardentreffen for nearly 30 years and went into retreat 2014. Besides "official" sponsored gigs, a part of the city is open for amateurs.

Style
The background of the group is traditional folk, "Trends" and "experimental", however any band taking part has to mix own vocals and instruments, instrumental only and mere cover bands are not allowed. Venues comprise among others the Hauptmarkt, Lorenzer Platz, Sebalder Platz, the Schütt island and St. Katharina. Famous contributors include among other Klaus Lage, Konstantin Wecker, Mark Gillespie, Alan Stivell, Fiddler's Green, The Cat Empire, Barbara Thalheim, Kvitretten, Joan Armatrading, Leningrad Cowboys, Donnie Munro, Vadim Kurilev, Anne Clark, Astrid North and LaBrassBanda. It is an official policy to provide a genuine mix of newcomers and established bands.

Special motto
In 2014, the festival used the motto "war and peace" referring to the centenary of the beginning of World War I. Pippo Pollina and Aziza Brahim were among the most famous acts on the festival. The 2014 festival has been deemed the largest world music festival in Germany, starring 368 artists from 31 nations.

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Music festivals in Germany
Tourist attractions in Nuremberg


title: Neuropeptide receptor

text:
A neuropeptide receptor is a type of peptide receptor which binds one or more neuropeptides.

An example is the μ-opioid receptor, which binds to and is activated by the neuropeptide β-endorphin.

See also
 Neurotransmitter receptor

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Neuropeptides
Receptors


title: Kara Depression

text:
The Kara Depression is a depression in the Extreme North of European Russia, by the mouth of Kara River, north-east of the Pay-Khoy Ridge (a continuation of the northern Ural Mountains). It is of diameter 50–60 km and filled with Quaternary deposits.

The depression is part of the Pechora coal basin.

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Geography of Russia
Landforms of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Coal mining regions in Russia
Depressions of Russia


title: Daria Lorenci Flatz

text:
Daria Lorenci Flatz (; born 13 April 1976) is a Bosnian and Croatian television and film actress. She appeared in more than twenty feature films since 2000. She lives and works in Zagreb.

Personal life
Daria Saltagić was born in Sarajevo to a Bosniak father and Bosnian Croat mother. Her father Emir Saltagić is a television director and her mother Danijela Turkalj is a documentarist. Emir and Danijela divorced a year before the Bosnian War broke out. Upon the outbreak of the war, Daria moved to Zagreb with her grandparents. She stated that the war outbreak made her suffer from anorexia. She is married to Emil Flatz. Together, they have three sons; twins Mak and Fran, and another son, Tin.

Selected filmography

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1976 births
Living people
Actresses from Sarajevo
Croatian film actresses
Croatian television actresses
Golden Arena winners
Croatian people of Bosniak descent
Bosnia and Herzegovina people of Croatian descent
Bosnia and Herzegovina people of Bosniak descent
Yugoslav Wars refugees


title: Chromane

text:
Chromane (benzodihydropyran) is a heterocyclic chemical compound with the chemical formula C9H10O.  Chromane is a structural feature of more complex compounds including E vitamins (tocopherols and tocotrienols), Dianin's compound, and the pharmaceutical drugs troglitazone, ormeloxifene, and nebivolol.  Such compounds are sometimes described as chromans.

See also
 Chromene (benzopyran)

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