title: Gary Bradski

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Gary Bradski is an American scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Industrial Perception, a company that developed perception applications for industrial robotic application (since acquired by Google in 2012 ) and has worked on the OpenCV Computer Vision library, as well as published a book on that library.

Education
Ph.D., Cognitive and Neural Systems (mathematical modeling of biological perception) May, 1994,Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems.
BS degree in EECS from U.C. Berkeley

The OpenCV Library

The OpenCV Library is a Computer Vision Software Library.

Learning OpenCV
Originally published in 2006, the book Learning OpenCV (O'Reilly) serves as an introduction to the library and its use. An updated version of the book], which covers OpenCV 3, was published by O'Reilly Media in 2016.

Publications
Bradski has published a wide variety of articles in computer science on the topics of computer vision and optimization. The following are his most highly cited works:

 2016 Learning OpenCV 3: Computer Vision in C++ with the OpenCV Library with Adrian Kaehler, O'Reilly Media.
 2008 Learning OpenCV: Computer vision with the OpenCV library with Adrian Kaehler, O'Reilly Media.
 2007 Map-reduce for machine learning on multicore, with Cheng Chu, Sang Kyun Kim, Yi-An Lin, YuanYuan Yu, Andrew Ng, Kunle Olukotun. Advances in neural information processing systems
 2006 Stanley: The robot that won the DARPA Grand Challenge, with Sebastian Thrun, Mike Montemerlo, Hendrik Dahlkamp, David Stavens, Andrei Aron, James Diebel, Philip Fong, John Gale, Morgan Halpenny, Gabriel Hoffmann, Kenny Lau, Celia Oakley, Mark Palatucci, Vaughan Pratt, Pascal Stang, Sven Strohband, Cedric Dupont, Lars‐Erik Jendrossek, Christian Koelen, Charles Markey, Carlo Rummel, Joe van Niekerk, Eric Jensen, Philippe Alessandrini, Bob Davies, Scott Ettinger, Adrian Kaehler, Ara Nefian, Pamela Mahoney. Journal of Field Robotics
 2000 The OpenCV Library, Dr. Dobb's Journal
 1998 Computer vision face tracking for use in a perceptual user interface

References

Living people
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
American computer businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
American company founders


title: MMXIV (Veruca Salt)

text:
MMXIV is a 2014 EP by Veruca Salt. This is their first release with the original lineup since Eight Arms to Hold You in 1997. It was released on vinyl for Record Store Day 2014. "The Museum of Broken Relationships" was later included on the band's album Ghost Notes (2015).

Track listing

V Side
 "The Museum of Broken Relationships"
 "It's Holy"

S Side
 "Seether"

Personnel
Louise Post – Guitar/Vocals
Nina Gordon – Guitar/Vocals
Steve Lack – Bass
Jim Shapiro – Drums

External links
 Official Website

Veruca Salt albums
2014 albums


title: Adrian Kaehler

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Adrian Kaehler is an American scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and author. He is best known for his work on the OpenCV Computer Vision library, as well as two books on that library.

Early life
Adrian Kaehler was born in 1973. At the age of 14, he enrolled in UC Santa Cruz, studying mathematics, computer science, and Physics, graduating at 18 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics. He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1998 under professor Norman Christ for his work in lattice gauge theory and on the QCDSP supercomputer project.

QCDSP supercomputer
During the time from 1994 through 1998, Dr. Kaehler worked on the QCDSP supercomputer project. This was one of the first Teraflop scale supercomputers ever built. For this, Kaehler, along with Norman Christ, Robert Mawhinney, and Pavlos Vranas were awarded the Gordon Bell Prize in 1998.

2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
In the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, Kaehler was on Stanford's winning team with Sebastian Thrun, Mike Montemerolo, Gary Bradski and others. Kaehler designed the computer vision system that contributed to winning the race. Since 2012, the winning vehicle, called "Stanley", has been on display in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Learning OpenCV
Originally published in 2006, Kaehler's book Learning OpenCV (O'Reilly) serves as an introduction to the library and its use. The book continues to be heavily used by both professionals and students. An updated version of the book, which covers OpenCV 3, was published by O'Reilly Media in 2016.

Magic Leap
Kaehler was Vice President of Special Projects at Magic Leap, Inc., a startup company that raised over $1.4Bn in venture funding from 2014 to 2016. Kaehler left the company in 2016.

Notable publications
Kaehler has publications and patents in a variety of fields:

 2016 Learning OpenCV 3: Computer Vision in C++ with the OpenCV Library with Gary Bradski, O'Reilly Media.
 2008 Learning OpenCV: Computer vision with the OpenCV library with Gary Bradski, O'Reilly Media.
 2006 Stanley: The robot that won the DARPA Grand Challenge, with Sebastian Thrun, Mike Montemerlo, Hendrik Dahlkamp, David Stavens, Andrei Aron, James Diebel, Philip Fong, John Gale, Morgan Halpenny, Gabriel Hoffmann, Kenny Lau, Celia Oakley, Mark Palatucci, Vaughan Pratt, Pascal Stang, Sven Strohband, Cedric Dupont, Lars‐Erik Jendrossek, Christian Koelen, Charles Markey, Carlo Rummel, Joe van Niekerk, Eric Jensen, Philippe Alessandrini, Bob Davies, Scott Ettinger, Gary Bradski, Ara Nefian, Pamela Mahoney. Journal of Field Robotics.
 2006 Self-supervised Monocular Road Detection in Desert Terrain. With Hendrik Dahlkamp, David Stavens, Sebastian Thrun, and Gary Bradski.
 2005 Learning-based computer vision with intel's open source computer vision library. with Gary Bradski and Vadim Pisarevski.
 1999 Status of the QCD Project Dong Chen, Ping Chen, Norman H. Christ, George Tamminga Fleming, Alan Gara, Chulwoo Jung, Adrian L. Kaehler, Yu-bing Luo, Catalin I. Malureanu, Robert D. Mawhinney, John Parsons, Cheng-Zhong Sui, Pavlos M. Vranos, Yuri Zhestkov (Columbia U.), Robert G. Edwards, Anthony D. Kennedy (Florida State U.), Sten Hansen (Fermilab), Gregory W. Kilcup (Ohio State U.), Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 73, 898.
 1998 Toward the Chiral Limit of QCD: Quenched and Dynamical Domain  Wall Fermions, Ping Chen, Norman H. Christ, George Tamminga Fleming, Adrian Kaehler, Catalin Malureanu, Robert Mawhinney, Gabriele Siegert, Cheng-zhong Sui, Yuri Zhestkov (Columbia U.), Pavlos M. Vranas (Illinois U., Urbana), in Vancouver 1998, High energy physics, vol. 2, 1802–1808.

References

External links
 O'Reilly author page

 Partial list of patents
 Smithsonian, current home of Stanley

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Columbia University alumni
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni


title: Texas State Highway Loop 473

text:
State Highway Loop 473 (Loop 473) is a loop located in Wichita Falls.

Route description
The highway begins at US 281 and Rathgeber Road. Loop 473 intersects SH 79 and FM 369 near Kickapoo Downtown Airport. Just south of downtown, the highway crosses US 281 again, which is cosigned with both US 82 and US 287 (East Central Freeway). Shortly after crossing the East Central Freeway, Loop 473 ends at Business US 287-J (Scott Avenue).

History
Loop 473 was designated along an old alignment of US 281 on January 31, 1969, through the city when US 281 was relocated along the Henry S. Grace Freeway. At first, the Loop 473 designation was a hidden, internal one as the route was publicly signed as Bus. US 281 while the route originally terminated at its northern intersection with US 281. The Loop 473 designation became public after the route was extended northward on September 14, 1973, to the former Loop 370. Loop 370 itself was only an internal TxDOT designation publicly signed as a US 287 business route until that route formally became Business US 287-J in 1991.

Major intersections

See also

References

External links

473
Transportation in Wichita County, Texas
U.S. Route 281
Wichita Falls, Texas


title: Sharks XI FC

text:
Sharks XI Football Club is a Congolese football club based in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

History
In 2017, after playing four years in Linafoot, Shark XI FC withdrew from championship denouncing the "mismanagement" of the league.

Stadium
Currently the team plays at the Stade des Martyrs.

References

External links
Club profile - Soccerway.com

Football clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Football clubs in Kinshasa


title: Don Emde

text:
Don Emde (born February 16, 1951 in San Diego, California) is an American motorcycle racer, author and publisher. In 1972 he won the Daytona 200 motorcycle race in only 56 laps. In 1999, he was inducted to the American Motorcyclist Association's Motorcycle Hall of Fame, and in 2011 was inducted to the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame.

Racing moments
Emde's 1972 victory at Daytona as a privateer was the first win at that race for a Yamaha, the smallest displacement racebike to take first place, the first victory for any two-stroke, and the first (and only) father-son win at Daytona (his father Floyd Emde won in 1948).

Emde retired from racing in 1973 and became an author and magazine publisher.

In May, 2014, Emde organized a recreation of Erwin "Cannonball" Baker's 1914 transcontinental motorcycle ride, on its 100th anniversary.

Bibliography

References

Further reading

Featured rider: Don Emde, National Motorcycle Museum

External links

1951 births
Motorcycling writers
Living people
Motorcycle racers from San Diego


title: Marie-Cessette Dumas

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Marie-Cessette Dumas was an enslaved woman in the French colony of Saint Domingue. She was the mother of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the grandmother of novelist Alexandre Dumas, and the great-grandmother of playwright Alexandre Dumas, fils, and has been called a "great matriarch to a saga of distinguished men". She was an enslaved woman of African descent enslaved by the Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de La Pailleterie. They lived at a plantation called La Guinaudée (or Guinodée) near Jérémie of the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), until Antoine's departure in 1775.

Slavery
Two primary source documents show that Marie-Cessette Dumas was enslaved. One is a 1776 letter from a retired royal prosecutor in Jérémie to the Count de Maulde, the son-in-law of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas's uncle, Charles Davy de la Pailleterie. The letter states that Dumas's father (Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, then known as Antoine de l’Isle) "bought from a certain Monsieur de Mirribielle a negress named Cesette at an exorbitant price," then, after living with her for some years, "sold ...  the negress Cezette" along with her two daughters "to a ... baron from Nantes." The second is a legal judgment signed by Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, then known as Thomas Retoré or Rethoré, and his recently widowed step-mother Marie Retou Davy de la Pailleterie, which attests officially that Retou gave up her property rights over Marie-Cessette Dumas and her two daughters.

Name

The only source for her full name with the spelling "Marie-Cessette Dumas," is General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas's marriage certificate and contract. The name Marie is given in some sources as Louise. Cessette is also spelled Cecette and Cezette in one primary source and given in others as Cécile. There has been some speculation that the family name "Dumas," rather than representing a family name for Marie-Cessette, instead means "of the farm" (du mas) and constitutes a descriptive addition to her first names meant to signify that she belonged to the property. Others have proposed that the name Cessette may have originated in Gabon, where Marie-Cessette might have been captured by slave traders. According to Francophone novelist Calixthe Beyala, the name "Dumas" was initially "Dûma," of Fang origin, meaning "dignity." Hans Werner Debrunner has written that she would have been Yoruba or Dahomeyan.

Racial identity

The two extant primary documents that state a racial identity for Marie-Cessette Dumas refer to her as a "négresse" (a black female)—as opposed to a "mulâtresse" (a female of mixed race). The first is a June 3, 1776, letter from the retired royal prosecutor Chauvinault, who was hired by the Count de Maulde (son-in-law of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas’ uncle Charles Davy de la Pailleterie). It states that Dumas’ father (Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, then known as Antoine de l’Isle) "bought ... a negress named Cesette," then, after living with her for some years, "sold ... the negress Cezette" (the spelling of her name varies in the letter itself). In contrast to describing her as a "negress," implying she was of entirely Black African descent, the letter classifies the four children she had with Antoine (including Thomas-Alexandre Dumas) as "mulattos."

The second document is a legal judgment signed before "the Counselors of King, Notary Publics in the Châtelet of Paris" on November 22, 1786, which settled property ownership issues between Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (then known as Thomas Rethoré) and his step-mother, Marie Françoise Elisabeth Retou (widow of his father, Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie). In it, Marie-Cesette Dumas is mentioned as "Marie Cezette, negress, mother of Mr. Rethoré" ("Marie Cezette negresse mere dud. [dudit] S. Rethoré"). Secondary sources on General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, dating back to 1822, almost always describe his mother as a black African ("femme africaine," "négresse," "négresse africaine," "noire," or "pure black African").

Death

Sources differ on the date and circumstance of her death. Two documents signed by Alex Dumas—his contract and certificate of marriage to Marie-Louise Labouret—state that Marie-Cessette died in La Guinaudée, near Trou Jérémie, Saint-Domingue, in 1772. Based on this death date, Victor Emmanuel Roberto Wilson speculates that she may have died in the mass outbreak of dysentery following a devastating hurricane that struck principally the Grand'Anse region of Saint-Domingue that year. There is good reason, however, to believe that she did not die in 1772. Two other documents say Marie-Cessette remained alive after that year. The 1776 letter from Chauvinault to the Count de Maulde, cited above, states that Dumas's father Antoine sold Marie-Cessette in 1775 before returning to France. A second document, this one signed by Dumas in 1801, states "Marie-Cezette" will be in charge of General Dumas's properties in Saint-Domingue. This evidence makes it unlikely that Marie-Cessette Dumas died in 1772.

According to the writer Claude Ribbe, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas may have deliberately entered a false death date on the marriage certificate. He had urgent reason to claim she was dead at the moment of his marriage in Villers-Cotterêts, France, in 1792, since he would have been required to consult her opinion on the marital union if she were living.

References

Sources

 Letter from Chauvinault, former royal prosecutor in Jérémie, Saint Domingue, to the Count de Maulde, June 3, 1776, privately held by Gilles Henry.
 Marriage contract and marriage certificate, both November 28, 1792, Musée Alexandre Dumas (Villers-Cotterêts, France). A copy of the certificate is also held in Archives de l’Aisne (Laon, France), 304 E 268.
 Judgment in a dispute between Alexandre Dumas (named as Thomas Rethoré) and his father's widow, Marie Retou, Archives Nationale de France, LX465.
 Alexandre Dumas, père, Mes mémoires, v. 1 (Paris, 1881).
 Registry of the Dragoons in the Regiment of the Queen, Dumas entry, June 2, 1786, privately held by Gilles Henry.
 Service historique de l'Armée de terre, G.D. 2/S 91, Dossier Dumas de la Pailleterie (Thomas Alexandre), certificat de services, cited by Erick Noël, "Une carrière contrariée: Alexandre Dumas, homme de couleur et général révolutionnaire," Etudes Françaises, no. 5 (March 1998), 61.
 Gilles Henry, Les Dumas: Le secret de Monte Cristo (Paris: France-Empire, 1999).
 Victor Emmanuel Roberto Wilson, Le général Alexandre Dumas: Soldat de la liberté (Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Les Editions Quisqueya-Québec, 1977).
 Albert M’Paka, Félix Eboué, 1884-1944, gouverneur général de l'Afrique équatoriale française: Premier résistant de l'Empire: Grand Français, grand Africain (Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 2008).
 Hans Werner Debrunner, Presence and Prestige, Africans in Europe: A History of Africans in Europe before 1918 (Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1979.), 128.
 Antoine-Vincent Arnault, Antoine Jay, Etienne de Jouy, and Jacques Marquet de Norvins, "Dumas (Alexandre Davy-de-la-Pailleterie)," in Biographie nouvelle des contemporains, v. 6 (Paris, 1822), 160; Marie Nicolas Bouillet, Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie, 9th ed., pt. 1 (Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1852), 525.
 Alphonse Rabbe, Claude-Augustin-Charles Vieilh de Boisjoslin, and Francois-Georges Binet de Boisgiroult, baron de Sainte-Preuve, "Dumas (Alexandre-Davy)," in Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains, v. 2. (Paris, 1834), 1469; Eugène de Mirecourt, Les contemporains: Alexandre Dumas (Paris: Gustave Havard, 1856), 10; Edmond Chevrier, Le général Joubert d'après sa correspondance: Étude historique (Paris: Fischbacher, 1884), 98; André Maurel, Les Trois Dumas (Paris: Librairie illustrée, 1896), 3.
 Philippe Le Bas, "Dumas (Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie)," in Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la France, v. 6 (Paris, 1842), 773;

 Alexandre Dumas, fils, "Préface," in Frédéric Fèbvre, Journal d'un comédien, 1870-1894, v. 2, (Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1896), vii.
 Percy Fitzgerald, The Life and Adventures of Alexandre Dumas, v. 1 (London, 1873).
 Anonymous, "Contributors’ Club: The Dumas Lineage," Atlantic Monthly (January 1896), 142.
 Claude Ribbe, Le diable noir: Biographie du général Alexandre Dumas, 1762-1806, père de l'écrivain (Monaco: Alphée, 2008 and 2009).
 Legal document, November 8, 1801, quoted in Raphäel Lahlou, Alexandre Dumas ou le don de l’enthousiasme (Paris: Bernard Giovanangeli,  2006), 13.

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title: Colborne Meredith

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Lt.-Colonel Colborne Powell Meredith (September 15, 1874 – January 29, 1967) was a Canadian architect.

Biography
Colborne Meredith was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick on September 15, 1874, the son of Edmund Allen Meredith, CMG. He studied architecture at the University of Toronto in the early 1890s. He married Alden Griffien in September 1901.

He was Commissioner of the Ottawa Improvement Commission (1908), President of the Ontario Architects Association (1912), and Councillor of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He designed many of the principal buildings and residences in Ottawa, including the Château Laurier Hotel, as well as a number of schools and convents throughout Canada. Meredith chaired the conference of the Ontario Association of Architects in Ottawa 1911 and also chaired the 1912 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada convention in Ottawa.

Meredith joined the Militia in 1892, and from 1915 to 1918 was camp engineer and later camp commandant of Camp Petawawa. From 1925 to 1934 he served as General-Secretary to the League of Nations Society in Canada.

He died at his home in Ottawa on January 29, 1967.

Architectural works
 Rockcliffe Park, Residence For Miss Annie Mcleod-Clark, Lisgar Road, 1908
 Wurtemberg Street, Residence For F.C. Trench O'hara, 1908
 Wilbrod Street, At Augusta Street, Residence For John S. Ewart, 1908
 Belleville, Ont., St. Michael's Roman Catholic Separate School, Church Street, 1908
 Pembroke, Ont., Rectory For Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 1909
 Pembroke, Ont., Munro Block, Pembroke Street West Near Albert Street, C. 1910
 Pembroke, Ont., Dunlop & Co. Warehouse, Pembroke Street West Near Moffat Street, C. 1910
 Laurier Avenue West, Near Elgin Street, Residence For Dr. John Robertson, 1909–10
 The Driveway, At Delaware Avenue, Residence For Joseph A. Thibodeau, 1909–10
 Fotheringham & Popham Co., Queen Street, Warehouse, 1909–10
 Carling Building, For The Murphy-Gamble Department Store, Sparks Street, 1909–10)
 Clemow Avenue, Residence For George A. Crain, 1910
 Blackburn & Bryson, Bank Street Near Sparks Street, 1910
 Salisbury Avenue, Residence For Hon. Sidney Fisher, 1910
 Goulburn Avenue, Residence For Justice Lyman P. Duff, 1910–11
 Queen Street, Warehouse For The Dominion Analyst, 1910)
 Renfrew, Ont., Roman Catholic Separate School, And Addition To Roman Catholic Convent, 1911
 Morewood, Ont., Continuation School, 1911
 Hugh M. Carson Co., Sparks Street Near Lyon Street, Addition, 1911
 Carling Avenue, Residence For Ernest M. Barrett, 1911
 Marlborough Avenue, Residence For T. D'arcy Mcgee, 1911
 Range Road, Residence For The Architect, 1911
 Quebec City, Que., Residence For Georges A. Parent, Grand Allee, 1912
 Parish Hall, For The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp., 1912
 Marlborough Avenue, Residence For Thomas A. Beament, 1912
 Laurier Avenue East, Residence For Dr. Frederick W.C. Mohr, 1913
 York Street, Warehouse For S.J. Major & Co., 1913
 Carling Building, Bank Street, For F.W. Carling, 1913
 Albert Street, Business Block For Mrs. Cowie, 1913
 University Of Ottawa, Laurier Avenue At Cumberland Street, Additions, 1914
 Ottawa Canoe Club, A Clubhouse On The Ottawa River At Rockcliffe, 1914
 Norlite Building, Wellington Street, C. 1916 (With Richards & Abra)
 Range Road, Residence For The Architect, C. 1920
 Meredith & Belfrey
 Lambton Avenue, Residence For Charles B. Topp, C. 1921
 Lambton Avenue, Residence For A. Gladstone Ghent, C. 1921
 Rideau Terrace, Residence For William D. Headley, C. 1921
 Rockcliffe Way, Residence For Joseph Stotesbury, C. 1921
 Rockcliffe Way, Residence For Archibald N. Fraser, C. 1921

References

University of Toronto alumni
Canadian architects
1874 births
1967 deaths
People from Saint Andrews, New Brunswick


title: Angel Robinson

text:
Angel Robinson may refer to:

 Angel Robinson (basketball, born 1989), basketball player for Marquette University
 Angel Robinson (basketball, born 1987), basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury
 Angel Robinson Garcia (1937–2000), Cuban boxer

See also
 Angela Robinson (disambiguation)


title: Chongwe (constituency)

text:
Chongwe is a constituency of the National Assembly of Zambia. It covers the town of Chongwe in Chongwe District of Lusaka Province.

List of MPs

Election results

2011 by-election

References

Constituencies of the National Assembly of Zambia
1983 establishments in Zambia
Constituencies established in 1983


title: Warren Keith Sinclair

text:
Warren Keith Sinclair (9 March 1924 – 14 May 2014) was an international expert in radiation protection, science and medicine.

References

1924 births
2014 deaths
New Zealand physicists
Health physicists
New Zealand medical researchers
University of Otago alumni
Alumni of the University of London
University of Chicago faculty
Health Physics Society


title: Believer (American Authors song)

text:
"Believer" is the debut single by American indie rock band American Authors. The song was written by band members Zac Barnett, Dave Rublin, Matt Sanchez, and James Adam Shelley, along with producers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman. "Believer" first appeared on their 2013 American Authors EP and was released as the band's debut single on March 19, 2013; it was later included on their debut studio album, Oh, What a Life (2014).

Release
"Believer" initially garnered airplay on United States modern rock radio in early 2013, and was later re-released to modern rock, triple A, hot adult contemporary and mainstream radio following the success of the band's second single "Best Day of My Life". A remix of the song by Dutch DJ Tiësto was issued as a digital single on July 22, 2014.
There is an accompanying music video that shows two boys working together to build a time machine

Track listing
Digital download
 "Believer" – 3:04

Digital download (remix)
 "Believer" (Tiësto Remix) – 3:35

Personnel
Adapted from Oh, What a Life liner notes.

American Authors
 Zac Barnett – lead vocals, guitar
 James Adam Shelley – lead guitar, banjo, backing vocals
 Dave Rublin – bass guitar, backing vocals
 Matt Sanchez – drums, backing vocals

Technical personnel
 Aaron Accetta – production
 Michael Goodman – production

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2013 songs
2013 debut singles
Mercury Records singles
American Authors songs
Song recordings produced by Aaron Accetta
Songs written by Aaron Accetta
Songs written by Shep Goodman


title: Hrabovec (disambiguation)

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Hrabovec  is a village in Slovakia.

Hrabovec  may also refer to:

 Nižný Hrabovec
Vyšný Hrabovec
Ruský Hrabovec
Hrabovec nad Laborcom


title: Alexander Campbell Stevenson

text:
Alexander Campbell Stevenson (November 21, 1802 – January 2, 1889) was an American farmer, physician, and politician.

Stevenson was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, and after briefly living in Indiana in 1821, he studied medicine at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. After earning his medical degree, Stevenson returned to Indiana for good in 1826, starting a practice in the city of Greencastle. While living in Greencastle, Stevenson campaigned for Indiana Asbury University to be located in the city; upon the success of his campaign in 1837, he served on the school's Board of Trustees for the next ten years and was its president for the first three.

Stevenson was also an active state politician who served in both the Indiana House of Representatives and the Indiana Senate. A member of the Whig Party, Stevenson represented Putnam County in the House in 1831-32 and 1844–45; during his second term, he served as Speaker of the House. He served in the Senate for three consecutive terms from 1839 to 1842. In addition, Stevenson made an unsuccessful campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, was a member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850-51, and declined a nomination to the U.S. Senate in the 1860s.

Following his political career, Stevenson began another career as an agriculturalist and stock breeder. In 1843, Stevenson established Appleyard, a farm near Greencastle. While Stevenson first bred merino sheep, he began breeding shorthorn cattle in 1845, and his work with this breed brought him significant success. In 1853, Stevenson visited England to inspect and buy shorthorn cattle for his farm; he was the first breeder to import cattle from England to Indiana. He was appointed to an unofficial State Board of Agriculture in 1847, and when the board became an official state body in 1851, he was one of its founding members. Stevenson served on the Indiana State Board of Agriculture until 1859, excepting 1855 and 1856, and was the board's president for three years. While on the board, Stevenson helped found the Indiana State Fair to promote agricultural development and collaboration. Stevenson also served as a leader for private breeding societies, as he was named president the Indiana Shorthorn Breeders Association after organizing the Indiana Shorthorn Breeders Convention in 1872. Later in the same year, he became president of the American Shorthorn Breeders Association and chairman of the National Swine Breeders Convention.

Stevenson married three women, the first two of whom he outlived, and had twelve children, among which he divided his farm prior to his death in 1889. After his death, he was inducted to the Indiana Hall of Fame for Agriculture at Purdue University.

References

External links
Biographies of Indiana Legislators - Alexander Campbell Stevenson
Alexander Campbell Stevenson collection at the Indiana State Library

1802 births
1889 deaths
People from Greencastle, Indiana
People from Woodford County, Kentucky
Transylvania University alumni
Indiana Whigs
19th-century American politicians
Speakers of the Indiana House of Representatives
Members of the Indiana House of Representatives
Indiana state senators
Delegates to the 1851 Indiana constitutional convention
DePauw University people


title: Nadji Jeter

text:
Nadji Anthony Jeter (born October 18, 1996) is an American actor. He is best known for providing the voice and motion capture for Sam in the action-adventure video game The Last of Us (2013) and Miles Morales in several Marvel projects since 2017, most notably the Marvel's Spider-Man series by Insomniac Games. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Performer in a Leading Role for his performance as Miles Morales in the 2020 video game Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Early life
Nadji Anthony Jeter was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 18, 1996. At a young age, his parents noticed that he was talented in dancing, acting, and comedy. At age 9, he performed as a dancer at Usher's New Look Foundation Gala. He also performed as a dancing mascot for the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA. He moved to Los Angeles in 2007 to pursue his career.

Career

Among his most popular roles are the voices of Sam in the action-adventure video game The Last of Us (2013) and Miles Morales in the animated series Spider-Man (2017) and the video games Marvel's Spider-Man (2018), Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order (2019),  Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020), and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (2023). Jeter has live-action credits such as guest roles on episodes of the medical drama series Grey's Anatomy (2007) and the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris (2008). He appeared in the comedy films Grown Ups (2010) and Grown Ups 2 (2013), as well as the sitcom Reed Between the Lines (2011–2015). He has also starred in various national commercials and was the face of Coca-Cola in 2011.

Personal life
Jeter is a Star Power Ambassador for the Starlight Children's Foundation. He has been involved in Usher's New Look Foundation since the age of six, receiving the 2013 Global Youth Leadership Award for his work with the foundation.

In January 2015, Jeter was arrested at the age of 18 for allegedly driving under the influence of marijuana in Burbank, California. According to reports, he spent a night in jail before being released.

Filmography

Films

Television

Video games

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
African-American male actors
American male child actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male video game actors
American male voice actors
Male actors from Atlanta
21st-century American male actors
21st-century African-American people


title: Knuckle Puck

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Knuckle Puck is an American rock band, formed in 2010 in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. The group released several EPs, one of which, While I Stay Secluded (2014), peaked at number 5 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. The band released a split EP with the UK band Neck Deep. The group signed to Rise in 2014 and released its debut album, Copacetic, through the label in 2015.

The band's name comes from the "knucklepuck" shot in ice hockey, which was popularized by the 1994 film D2: The Mighty Ducks.

History

Formation and early releases (2010–2014)
Knuckle Puck started out covering songs in fall 2010 in the outskirts of Chicago. The band got its name from a Stick to Your Guns t-shirt that said "Knuckle Puck Crew". The band consisted of lead vocalist Joe Taylor, lead guitarist Kevin Maida, and drummer John Siorek. The group started writing original songs in April 2011 with the addition of rhythm guitarist Nick Casasanto. The group had friends fill in on bass. In July, the band played its first ever show. In October, the band released a self-titled EP, this was followed up by the Acoustics EP in March 2012. In October, the band released the Don't Come Home EP. The band co-headlined a tour with Seaway from late May to early June 2013. In August, the band self-released The Weight That You Buried EP. In February 2014 Bad Timing and Hopeless released a split EP that featured two songs each from Knuckle Puck and Neck Deep. Both bands toured together (alongside Light Years) from late February to early April. On March 16, the band performed at South by So What?! festival. In spring, the band gained bassist Ryan Rumchaks. Between May and June, the band supported Man Overboard on the group's The Heart Attack Tour alongside Transit, and Forever Came Calling.

A music video was released for the song "No Good" in June. It was directed by Eric Teti. In late July, it was announced the band were recording, and in early August the band finished recording its next release. Knuckle Puck supported Senses Fail on the band's Let It Enfold You 10th anniversary tour from late August till early October 2014. In early September, the band released a 7" flexi containing the songs "Oak Street" and "Home Alone", the former of which was intended for release on the group's next EP. The flexi was released by Bad Timing. On October 16, 2014, "Bedford Falls" was available for streaming. On October 23, the While I Stay Secluded EP was made available for streaming and on October 28, it was released by Bad Timing. The EP had peaked at number 5 on the Heatseekers Albums in the U.S. Guitarist Kevin Maida revealed that the band "firmly and confidently" considered the EP the group's best work so far. On October 31, the band released a music video for "Oak Street". In November and December, the band supported Modern Baseball on the group's winter tour.

Copacetic and Shapeshifter (2014–2020)

In November 2014, the various artists compilation album Punk Goes Pop 6 was released, it featured Knuckle Puck covering The 1975 song "Chocolate". On December 22, 2014, Knuckle Puck signed to Rise Records. Maida said that Rise would be "a bountiful new home" for the group and would help the band evolve. Throughout January and February 2015 the band supported Neck Deep on the band's The Intercontinental Championships Tour. In late February, the band announced it had started recording its debut album and by early April, the group had finished. The group joined The Maine's The American Candy Spring 2015 Tour, as a support act, throughout April and May. On June 11, the band's debut album, Copacetic, was announced. The artwork and track list was revealed. On June 19, a music video was released for "Disdain". On June 30, "True Contrite" was made available for streaming. The band played on the 2015 edition of Warped Tour. On July 14, "Pretense" was made available for streaming. On July 23, the album was made available for streaming. Copacetic released on July 31. The band supported State Champs on the group's European tour in September and October. The band toured the U.S. in October and November, with support from Seaway, Head North and Sorority Noise. In February and March 2016, the band supported Neck Deep and State Champs on the groups' co-headlining tour of the U.S.

In March 2017, a 7-inch vinyl single was released, featuring the tracks "Calendar Days" and "Indecisive". On July 27, the band released the first single from their at the time upcoming album onto YouTube and iTunes titled "Gone". A few months later in September the second single "Double Helix" was released on YouTube with its music video. The group released their second album, Shapeshifter, on October 13.

In May and June 2019, Knuckle Puck went on a co-headlining tour of the US with Citizen; both bands were supported by Hunny and Oso Oso. In October 2019, they appeared at the Four Chord Music Festival. That same month, Knuckle Puck released a 7" vinyl containing Gold Rush and Fences, previously released with Neck Deep and containing two more tracks. This vinyl sold out in a few hours.

20/20 (2020–2022)
On February 21, 2020, the band released a single called "Tune You Out", and commenced a tour across North America with Heart Attack Man throughout February and March 2020, which was cut short by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 21, 2020, a second single and 7" record "RSVP" was released. A music video for the song "Breathe" was released on June 18, 2020, the song features Derek Sanders from the band Mayday Parade. The band released their third album 20/20 on September 18, 2020. The band played multiple drive in shows in October 2020 with Hot Mulligan. In December 2021, the band headlined a tour celebrating their tenth anniversary with Arm's Length, Carly Cosgrove, and Snow Ellet.

On December 1, 2021, the band released a single "Levitate" and announced a US and European tour from March 2022 to June 2022 with co-headliner Hot Mulligan with support by Meet Me at the Altar and Anxious during the US shows. The band released an extended play Disposable Life on February 4, 2022, with Joe Taylor calling the recording of the EP "the most fun we've had in a long time" The band supported New Found Glory on the group's US tour through September 2022 to November 2022.

On October 20, 2022, the band announced that they had signed with Pure Noise Records and released a new single Groundhog Day. The band announced that their upcoming 4th LP would release in 2024.  The band later announced a compilation vinyl release Retrospective consisting of their first two EP's and their split with Neck Deep.

Losing What We Love (2023-present)
On August 8, 2023 Knuckle Puck released a cover of Third Eye Blind's song "Losing a Whole Year" as part of Pure Noise Records's compilation album Dead Formats Vol.2.  On August 29 they released their single called "The Tower" as well as announce their 4th album Losing What We Love scheduled for a October 20 release date. On September 28 they released another single called "Losing What We Love".

Style
Knuckle Puck sound has been described by AllMusic biographer James Christopher Monger as a "melodic blend of old-school punk rock and emo", compared to the likes of The Wonder Years, The Story So Far, and Rise Against. Copacetic has been described as emo and pop punk. AllMusic reviewer Timothy Monger noted the album's sound "ranging from blazing, epic emo and pop-punk to slower, more contemplative fare." Cleveland.com reviewer Troy L. Smith noted that people who liked early 2000s pop punk albums such as Simple Plan's No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls (2002) and New Found Glory's Sticks and Stones (2002) would enjoy Copacetic.

Side projects
Rumchaks released a solo EP, Decades, in July 2013. Rumchaks plays guitar and sings vocals in Oak Lawn, Illinois-based band Homesafe, alongside vocalist/bassist Tyler Albertson and drummer Eman Duran. The group has released three EPs and one full-length studio album, Homesafe (2014), Inside Your Head (2015), ‘’Evermore’’ (2016), And ‘’ONE’’ (2018). Homesafe is currently signed to Pure Noise Records.

Taylor and Rumchaks joined with Real Friends' vocalist Dan Lambton to form Rationale. With Rationale., Taylor plays guitar and vocals, Rumchaks plays drums, and Lambton on guitar and vocals. "Hangnail" was made available for streaming in December 2015, and the group's debut EP Confines  followed shortly after.

Kevin Maida plays guitar in Chicago hardcore-punk band Lurk.

John Siorek has played drums for bands William Bonney, Droughts, and Matter of Fact.

Critical reception
Knuckle Puck was included on Alternative Presss "12 Bands You Need To Know: AP Editors pick their favorite 100 Bands" list in 2014. The band were included on Idobi's "Artists To Watch In 2014" list.

Knuckle Puck was nominated for the Best Underground Band in the 2015 Alternative Press Music Awards.

Knuckle Puck was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Breakthrough Band in the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards.

Band members
Current members
 Joe Taylor – lead vocals (2010–present)
 Kevin Maida – lead guitar (2010–present)
 John Siorek – drums, percussion (2010–present)
 Nick Casasanto – rhythm guitar, co-lead vocals (2011–present)
 Ryan Rumchaks – bass guitar, backing vocals (2012–present)

Discography

Studio albums
 Copacetic (2015)
 Shapeshifter (2017)
 20/20 (2020)
 Losing What We Love (2023)

References
Footnotes

Citations

Sources

External links

Knuckle Puck on Bandcamp

Musical groups from Chicago
Rise Records artists
Musical groups established in 2010
Pop punk groups from Illinois
2010 establishments in Illinois


title: Westlink (bus company)

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Westlink was an English bus operator. A subsidiary of London Regional Transport, it was established in August 1986, being privatised in January 1994, and sold to London United in September 1995.

History
Westlink was formed in 1986 by London Regional Transport to operate tendered services in South West London and West London.

Routes operated included 81, 116, 117, 131, 203, 216, 371, 411, H20, H23, K1, K2, K3, K4 and K6. Garages were operated in Hounslow Heath and Kingston.

On 19 January 1994, Westlink was privatised in a management buyout. It was quickly sold to West Midlands Travel. The business was included in the April 1995 sale of West Midlands Travel to National Express, who sold it in September 1995 to London United. It continued to operate independently for a period, before being integrated into the London United business and the name fell out of use.

References

External links
Flickr gallery
Showbus gallery

Former London bus operators
Transport companies established in 1986
1986 establishments in England
British companies established in 1986
Transport companies disestablished in 1995
1995 disestablishments in England
British companies disestablished in 1995


title: Tewingas

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The Tewingas were a tribe or clan of Anglo-Saxon England, whose territory was centred on the settlement of Welwyn in modern-day Hertfordshire, the site of an early Minster church, and the nearby settlement of Tewin. Its name means either "the people of Tiwa" or "the worshippers of the God Tew".

The tribe and its territory is mentioned in an Anglo Saxon charter of c.945. Its heartland was in the valley of the River Mimram on well-drained soils. The area shows strong continuity with earlier settlements, with the Welwyn area including an earlier Iron Age oppidum, a Roman small town and several Roman villas.

References

Bibliography

Peoples of Anglo-Saxon England
History of Hertfordshire
Anglo-Saxon England


title: Veterans Memorial Bridge (Portland, Maine)

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Veterans Memorial Bridge is a bridge in Maine, United States, connecting the cities of Portland and South Portland. The bridge spans the Fore River and is part of U.S. Route 1. The original Veterans Memorial Bridge was built in 1954, and was described as 'rapidly deteriorating' prior to its demolition. Designated a top infrastructure priority by Maine state government, a new bridge was built between 2010 and 2012. General contractor Reed & Reed, of Woolwich, was awarded the rebuilding contractor. Reed & Reed estimated the new bridge would stand for a century.

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Bridges in Portland, Maine
Buildings and structures in South Portland, Maine
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title: Sarah-Jane Leslie

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Sarah-Jane Leslie is the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy and former Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Psychology, the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy, the Program in Cognitive Science, the Program in Linguistics, and the University Center for Human Values.

She is known for her work on the cognitive underpinnings of generic generalizations and the relationship between these generalizations and social cognition, and her work on perceptions of brilliance and academic gender gaps. She is the author of numerous articles in philosophy and psychology, and has published in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Cognitive Psychology, and Philosophical Review. Leslie's work has been discussed by various media outlets, including The Washington Post, NBC, and The Wall Street Journal, and on the radio at NPR, WHYY, and CBC Radio.

Education and career
In 1998 Leslie entered Rutgers University as an undergraduate majoring in cognitive science, mathematics and philosophy. She graduated in 2002 summa cum laude. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy in 2007 from Princeton University and was subsequently appointed as Assistant Professor to the philosophy faculty that same year. In 2013 she was awarded tenure and promoted to Full Professor, skipping the position of Associate Professor. In 2014, she was named Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy.

Leslie served as Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University from January 1, 2018 until July 1, 2021.

Prior to being named dean, Leslie held several administrative, professional, and service positions at Princeton and served on numerous committees, including the Faculty Advisory Committee on Diversity and the Committee on Appointments and Advancements. Between 2014 and 2017 Leslie was the Director of Princeton's Program in Linguistics, the Director of the Program in Cognitive Science, which she founded in 2015, Acting Chair of the Department of Philosophy, and Vice Dean for Faculty Development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.

In 2013, Leslie recorded a series of videos titled Philosophical Conversations, in which she interviewed several prominent philosophers including Rae Langton, Roger Scruton, Joshua Knobe and Kwame Anthony Appiah. The series was sponsored by the Marc Sanders Foundation and made available free to promote excellence in philosophy.

Research areas
Leslie's main research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. Much of her work has focused on generic generalizations, which are articulated in language via sentences such as "tigers are striped", "a duck lays eggs", "mosquitoes carry West Nile virus". These sentences are difficult to analyze from the perspective of formal semantics, but are nonetheless easy for young children to acquire and process. These findings and others have led Leslie and her collaborators to hypothesize that generic sentences articulate cognitively fundamental, default generalizations – that is, the judgments formed by our cognitive systems' most basic way of generalizing information about kinds and categories.

Leslie's work has shown important connections between generic generalizations and social cognition. For example, she and NYU psychologist Marjorie Rhodes—along with Rhodes' student Christina Tworek—found that when preschool-aged children hear a novel social group described with generic language, they come to think of the group in essentialist terms—that is, as marking deep, important, and inherent distinctions amongst people. Further, they found that when parents themselves hold such beliefs about a social group, they tend to produce more generic language when describing the group to their children. Thus, generic language may be an important and powerful mechanism by which social essentialist beliefs are implicitly communicated across generations. More generally, Leslie's work has pointed to multiple connections between generic generalizations and social essentialism, stereotyping, and prejudice.

More recently, Leslie and NYU psychologist Andrei Cimpian have studied the impact of stereotypes that link brilliance with men more so than women. In a 2015 paper published in Science, they found that academic disciplines that are perceived to require brilliance for success have larger gender gaps, even when adjusting for standardized test scores and other factors. In subsequent work, they found that even the frequency of adjectives like "brilliant" and "genius" in teaching evaluations can predict how diverse an academic field is. Their work has also examined the developmental roots of these stereotypes. In an article published in Science in 2017 with psychologist Lin Bian, they found that girls begin to absorb stereotypes linking brilliance with males by age 6. Further, 6- and 7-year-old girls show less engagement and motivation than boys when an activity is described as being for kids who are "really, really smart," but not when it is described as being for kids who "work really, really hard." This suggests that stereotypes about brilliance may impact girls’ choices from a very young age. As of January 2017, both Science papers were in the journal's top 1% for media uptake and attention according to Altmetrics.

Awards and fellowships
Leslie has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Class of 1943 Professorship in Philosophy, the Jacob T. Viner University Preceptorship, the Mrs. Giles Whiting Honorific Fellowship, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. In collaboration with Dr. Marjorie Rhodes and Dr. Andrei Cimpian, she has been the recipient of multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and other sources. Cimpian and Leslie's work on academic gender gaps was cited as one of the most interesting scientific findings of 2015 by Edge. Leslie has delivered the Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture at Oxford University, and the Daniel Greenberg Distinguished Scholar Lecture at Reed College. She was awarded the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and named a 250th Anniversary Fellow of Rutgers University.

Family
Leslie's father, Alan Leslie, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University.

Selected publications

 Leslie, S.J. (2007). Generics and the Structure of the Mind. Philosophical Perspectives, vol 21, no.1,pp. 375–403.
 Leslie, S.J. (2008). Generics: Cognition and Acquisition. Philosophical Review, vol. 117, no. 1, pp. 1–47.
 Leslie, S. J., Khemlani, S., & Glucksberg, S. (2011). "All ducks lay eggs: The Generic Overgeneralization Effect."  Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 15-31.
 Rhodes, M., Leslie, S. J. & Tworek, C. (2012). "Cultural Transmission of Social Essentialism.: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(34), 13526-13531.
 Leslie, S. J., & Gelman, S. A. (2012). "Quantified statements are recalled as generics: Evidence from preschool children and adults." Cognitive Psychology, 64, 186-214.
 Leslie, S.J. (2013). Essence and Natural Kinds: When Science Meets Preschooler Intuition. Oxford Studies in Epistemology, 4, 108-165.
 Leslie, S.J., Cimpian, A., Meyer, M., & Freeland, E. (2015). Expectations of Brilliance Underlie Gender Distributions Across Academic Disciplines. Science, 347(6219), 262-265.
 Bian, L. Leslie, S.J, & Cimpian, A. (2017).  Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children's interests. Science, 355(6323), 389-391.

References

External links
 Official website

 Philosophy Department, Princeton University

Princeton University faculty
21st-century American philosophers
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title: 1967 12 Hours of Reims

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The 12 Hours of Reims (official name: 12 Heures internationales de Reims) were a sports car endurance racing series held from 1953 to 1967 at the circuit Reims (Gueux). The start of the race was at midnight in "LeMans style" (drivers running across the track) with the cars lined up in order of their fastest practice times.

Race report

 12 Heures Internationales - Reims
 Saturday, June 25, 1967,  Circuit Reims (France), 8.302 km
 Classes Prototypes: +2000 cc (P+2.0), 1600 cc (P1.6), 1300 cc (P1.3)
 Classes Sport, Grand Touring: +2000 cc (S+2.0), 2000 cc (S2.0), 2000 cc (GT2.0), 1300 cc (GT1.3)
 Pole Position overall:  #4 Lola T70 MK3,  Paul Hawkins, 2:07.9 - 233.68 km/h (145.20 mph)
 Fastest Lap overall:   #4 Lola T70 MK3,  Paul Hawkins, 2:10.5 - 229.02 km/h (142.30 mph)

Results Overall

Winners by class

References

12 Hours of Reims
12 Hours of Reims


title: Debate show

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A debate show is a television show genre based around a debate. Usually it is hosted by a moderator.

Examples
In the United States, Crossfire was a current events debate television program that aired from 1982 to 2005 on CNN. Crossballs: The Debate Show on Comedy Central parodied Crossfire and other shows of its ilk.

The Debaters is a Canadian radio comedy show in which two debaters (usually stand up comedians) debate topics, which are deliberately comedic (such as "backseat drivers are helpful", "gravity is our friend" and "cats are smarter than dogs". The winner is chosen by audience applause at the end of the debate.

Much of the weekday schedule for sports networks such as ESPN in multiple nations, FS1 in the United States, Fox Sports in Australia, and TSN/RDS in Canada is filled with various debate shows regarding daily sports topics in the news, or even individual sports, when live sports are not occurring.

Television genres


title: Haman Hu

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Haman Hu (), also known as Hua Shao (), is a Chinese television host. He is known for being the host of The Voice of China. and Sing! China

Career
He was born in Hangzhou in 1981. He had autism in his childhood, which was attributed to growing up with a single parent. He went to Zhejiang Broadcasting University (浙江广播电视大学).

Hu went to Hangzhou People's Radio Station in 1999 and then he went to Zhejiang Television. He has been married and he has a son who is named "Mi Le", and his wife, Qin Lige is a TV director with Zhejiang Television.

He is known by Chinese as the fastest host in China.

Hosting
The Voice of China ()
Chinese Dream Show ()
Do You Remember ()
Ai Chang Cai Hui Ying (Sing to Win) ()
Sound Of My Dream ()
Chase Me ()

Filmography
 Coward Hero (2019)
 Lost in Love (2019)
 You Are My Sunshine (2015)
 I Love You, Too. (2015)
 All You Need Is Love (2015)

References

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1981 births
Living people
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title: 1st Florida Infantry Regiment

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The 1st Florida Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised by the Confederate state of Florida during the American Civil War. Raised for 12 months of service its remaining veterans served in the 1st (McDonell's) Battalion, Florida Infantry from April 1862 on. In August the depleted battalion was consolidated with the 3rd (Miller's) Battalion into the reorganized 1st Florida Infantry Regiment again. In December 1862 it merged with the 3rd Florida Infantry Regiment and received the form it kept till the war's end as the 1st and 3rd Consolidated Florida Infantry Regiment. Fighting as part of the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater of the American Civil War it was surrendered on April 26, 1865.

Organization
When the civil war erupted in 1861 Florida hastened to raise a regiment of infantry. On January 6, state militia occupied the Apalachicola Arsenal at  Chattahoochee and the following day the Fort Marion in St. Augustine. on May 5, 1861, men from the counties of Leon, Alachua, Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Franklin, Gadsden, and Escambia were mustered into state service as the 1st Florida Infantry Regiment. Like all regiments mustered in the early days of 1861, it enlisted for twelve months. Because of the haste the regiment totaled about 700 men in 9 companies with an insufficient number of uniforms and weapons. The elected staff officers were James Patton Anderson, of Jefferson County, colonel; William K. Beard, of Leon County, as lieutenant colonel, and Thaddeus A. McDonell, of Alachua County as major. Upon the completion of the organization the regiment was ordered to Pensacola where it arrived April 12, 1861. There it was mustered into Confederate service on April 19.

Service history

1861 and 1862

In June the regiment received its tenth company, the local Pensacola Guards. Now the regiment was part of the Army of Pensacola under command of Brigadier General Sam Jones. On October 9, 1861, a detachment of 180 men from all companies of the regiment participated in the unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Pickens. Under command of Colonel Anderson, leading a column with his Floridians and men from Louisiana and Alabama, the regiment lost 7 dead, 8 wounded and 12 men captured. Captain Richard Bradford of the Madison Minute Men was one of those killed in action and is reported to be the first casualty for the 1st Florida, or possibly the first casualty from the state.

The regiment joined General Braxton Bragg on his westbound journey in March 1862, and went to Corinth. When the service time of the regiment came to its end it failed to reorganize in early 1862 when only 300 of the remaining 600 men, enough for four companies, reenlisted. Those were organized into four companies under the command of Major McDonnell, as Lt. Col. Beard was appointed Inspector General of  Bragg's II Corps. The 1st (McDonell's) Florida Infantry Battalion, as it was now known, and its 328 men were just in time for the Battle of Shiloh.

Patton Anderson, the regiments former Colonel, was commanding the brigade since October 1861 and was promoted to brigadier on February 10, 1862. The brigade was part of Ruggles' division. On April 6, 1862, the 250 present men participated in the morning advance as part of the second line. Advancing along the Pittsburgh-Corinth Road the regiment suffered heavy fire from Ohio troops and artillery. When Major McDonell fell, wounded by an artillery fragment to the thigh, command of the unit fell onto Captain William G. Poole.

Anderson's brigade, and the 1st Florida, belonged to the force that stormed the Hornet's Nest. The exhausted troops were periodically bombarded through the night by Union gunboats; and retreated with the rest of the army on April 7. Poole, who turned command over to Captain W.C. Beard on the 7th, was cited by Anderson for his gallant leadership throughout the two-day battle.

Afterwards the battalion, which had tallied 2 officers and 14 enlisted men dead along with 57 wounded at Shiloh, was consolidated with the Confederate (Louisiana) Guards Response Battalion under overall command of Major William Clack. The consolidation proved to be only temporary as the Guards Battalion was transferred in August 1861. Going north in the Confederate Heartland Offensive the 1st Battalion fought in the Battle of Perryville, suffering 12 dead, 54 wounded and 6 missing from a total of 167 men. The depleted battalion was consolidated with the 3rd (Miller's) Florida Battalion. Miller's 6 companies and the veterans of the 1st Battalion were reorganized as 1st Florida Infantry Regiment again. William Miller was elected Colonel, McDonell became lieutenant colonel and Glover A. Ball became major. In December 1862 the regiment, now part of the brigade of Brigadier William Preston, was loosely paired with the 3rd Florida Infantry, under the overall command of Miller. The 531 men of the 1st and 3rd Regiments fought distinctively at Stones River, taking high losses including Colonel Miller, who was wounded on the last day of the battle. Overall command then went to Colonel William S. Dilworth of the 3rd Florida. Due to the casualties both regiments took before, this consolidation became permanent; Dilworth stayed in command for the rest of the war while Miller commanded reserve forces (becoming a brigadier general in 1864).

1863
The 1st-3rd Florida spent the winter near Tullahoma, Tennessee, with drilling new arrived recruits and holding target practice. In March 1863 The regiment saw combat around the siege of Vicksburg. Detached to participate in the Jackson Expedition, General Joseph Johnston's relief action, it fought as part of Adams' brigade in the Siege of Jackson. By summer the returned regiment was in the brigade of Marcellus A. Stovall.

On September 19, 1863, General John C. Breckinridge's division was on the left of the entire Confederate line along the Chickamauga Creek. Stationed near Glass' Mill; the 1st-3rd Florida was detached with an artillery battery as observation force when the rest of the division moved southwards. During the night to the 20th, D.H. Hill's whole corps was shifted to the extreme right of the Confederate lines. The 1st-3rd, relieved by cavalry from Wharton's division, had to march the whole night till it reached its position on the right; not locating its brigade till 8 a.m. When the advance against the Union positions around Horseshoe Ridge started in the morning the brigade was on the right of the second line, and marched against elements from Thomas' XIV Corps. Advancing towards Kelly Field along the Lafayette Road in a southern move, the 1st-3rd Florida, together with the 47th Georgia Infantry, was separated from the rest of the column and drifted rightwards. Here it faced elements from King's Regular Brigade. Nearly losing its colors during the retreat it reunited with the brigade after the later was repulsed. Then the division shifted its northern elements to the east due to the advance of Gordon Granger's Reserve Corps from the north. Another local advance towards Kelly Field in the afternoon brought in a number of prisoners but could not break the enemy's lines. The regiment lost 9 killed, 70 wounded and 13 missing.

When the battle ended in a victory for the South, the Army of Tennessee received the gratitude of their superiors; and the 1st-3rd Florida had 18 of its men put on the Confederate Honor Roll. In early November the Army of Tennessee, still besieging the Union at Chattanooga, Tennessee, to where the federals retreated after Chickamauga, all infantry units from Florida were gathered together into one brigade. Colonel Dilworth, the senior Colonel of the Florida regiments, was on a furlough he was passed for command. Likewise the recommendations for his promotion to brigadier, issued by General Breckinridge and endorsed by General William J. Hardee, was not followed  Instead Jesse J. Finley, till now commander of the 6th Florida Infantry, was promoted and assigned. The Florida Brigade consisted of the 1st-3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th Florida Infantry Regiments, as well as the 1st Dismounted Florida Cavalry.

Taking position on Missionary Ridge, the brigade was stationed next to Bragg's headquarters, half in the second line and half in the forward position below the crest. As the army was overwhelmed by the reinforced Union army it tumbled out of position. Parts of the brigade fought in General William B. Bate's makeshift rear-guard and Brigadier Finley receive praise for his command. The brigade continued its service through the rest of 1863, taking part in the moves of General Johnston. When Colonel Dilworth temporarily took command of a brigade, the regiment was commanded by Lt. Col. Elisha Mashburn.

1864 and 1865
In early 1864, the beginning of the Atlanta Campaign, the hardships of winter and constant marches took its toll. The regiment, commanded by Mashburn as Dilworth was on sick leave, was no exception. Within months the command changed to Major Ball and in June to Cpt. Matthew H. Strain before Ball took command again. At Resaca the regiment had to endure its worst artillery barrage during the war. Later in the campaign, during the Battle of Marietta, the regiment was in position when corps commander General Leonidas Polk was killed, Col. Dilworth asking the General to search cover only seconds before he was hit by an artillery shell. By this time the 1st-3rd Florida had just 120 men ready for duty.

When the 1st-3rd Florida went with General John Bell Hood into the terrible winter campaign of Franklin-Nashville the command quickly went to Cpt. Strain again, but later developed upon Cpt. A.B. McLeod. When General Nathan B. Forrest and his cavalry were dispatched to raid the area it was accompanied by Bate's division, including the Florida Brigade. At the Third Battle of Murfreesboro the Floridians, who lost their acting brigade commander Colonel Robert Bullock, had to give way; and the numerically inferior and unsupported brigade were pushed back for nearly a mile before the Union troops stopped their advance.

After the retreat from Nashville, the six small regiments were sent to North Carolina where they fought one more battle, the Battle of Bentonville, on 19 March 1865. On the same day General Lee surrendered in Virginia, April 9, 1865, Johnston reorganized his army. The Western Florida Brigade was consolidated and their six regiments were put into a single unit, being the last form of the 1st Florida Infantry Regiment. Under command of Lt. Col. Mashburn the 1st Florida marched in Brigadier James A. Smith's brigade in the division of General John C. Brown, who was their brigade commander at Perryville. When Johnston surrendered at Bennett Place on April 26 the 1st Florida, and so all Floridian units in the Army of Tennessee, had fewer than 200 men present and fit for duty (with just over 400 total). The troops were paroled on May 1, 1865.

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Duty assignments
Army of Pensacola (Sam Jones' Command)
Patton Anderson's Brigade, Cheatham's Division, Bragg's Corps, Army of Mississippi
Patton Anderson's Brigade, Ruggles' Division, Bragg's Corps, Army of Mississippi
Patton Anderson's Brigade, II Corps, Army of Mississippi
Preston's Brigade, Breckinridge's Division, Hardee's Corps, Army of Tennessee
Brown's Brigade, Patton Anderson's Division, Hardee's Corps, Army of Tennessee
Stovall's Brigade, Breckinridge's Division, D.H. Hill's Corps, Army of Tennessee
Finley's (Florida) Brigade, Breckinridge's Division, D.H. Hill's Corps, Army of Tennessee
Finley's (Florida) Brigade, Breckinridge's Division, Breckinridge's Corps, Army of Tennessee
Finley's (Florida) Brigade, Breckinridge's Division, Hindman's Corps, Army of Tennessee
Finley's (Florida) Brigade, Bate's Division, Hardee's Corps, Army of Tennessee
Finley's (Florida) Brigade, Bate's Division, Cheatham's Corps, Army of Tennessee
Smith's Brigade, Brown's Division, Hardee's Corps, Army of Tennessee

Confederate Honor Roll for Chickamauga
10 soldiers of the 1st and 8 soldiers of the 3rd were inscribed into the Confederate Roll of Honor for their services during the Battle of Chickamauga:

 Sgt Randolph Hernandez, 1st A
 Pvt Henry Taylor, 1st B
 Pvt George M. Williams, 1st C
 Pvt Samuel V. Neeley, 1st D (w)
 Pvt John Wheeler, 1st E
 Sgt E.V. McCaskill, 1st F
 Pvt Alfred Bray, 1st G
 Pvt John Dixon, 1st H
 Sgt E.E. Baggett, 1st I
 Pvt Robert B. McKay, 1st K (w)

 Pvt Robert Curry, 3rd A
 Pvt Lott Allen, 3rd C
 Pvt Jasper N. Caraway, 3rd D
 Pvt Spicer B. Wilds, 3rd F
 Sgt William W. Lamb, 3rd G
 Pvt George Walker, 3rd H
 Pvt M.W.A. Hutchingson, 3rd I
 Pvt C. Gray, 3rd H

See also
 Florida in the American Civil War
 List of Florida Confederate Civil War units
 Western Theater of the American Civil War

Citations

References
Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J.; Civil War High Commands; Stanford University Press; 2001;

U.S. War Department; The War of the Rebellion : a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies.; Series I, Washington, D.C.; 1880–1898
Civil War Florida — blog

Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Florida
Military units and formations established in 1861
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
1861 establishments in Florida
1865 disestablishments in Florida


title: When Love Is King

text:
When Love Is King is a 1916 silent film comedy drama, that was produced and distributed by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in conjunction with George Kleine. The film is a starring debut for stage actress Carroll McComas.

The film is preserved at the Library of Congress.

Cast
Richard Tucker - Felix, the King
Carroll McComas - Marcia Morton
Bigelow Cooper - J.P. Morton
Vivian Perry - The Princess Louise
John Sturgeon - The Prince of Trebizond
Harold Meltzer - Baron Tarnow
Carlton S. King - Stepan (as Carlton King)
T. Tamamoto - Janzi
Robert Brower - The Prime Minister
Charles Sutton - The Ambassador
Guido Colucci - The Viscount
Helen Strickland - Mrs. Morton
Lucille Allen - The Countess Irma
James Harris

References

External links

AllMovie.com

1916 films
American silent feature films
1916 comedy-drama films
American black-and-white films
1910s American films
1910s English-language films
Silent American comedy-drama films


title: Czeslaw Lukaszewicz

text:
Czeslaw "Luka" Lukaszewicz (born 28 April 1964 in Kętrzyn) is a former Polish-born Canadian cyclist and current sports director.

In 1991, Lukaszewicz won the Canadian stage race Tour de Beauce. He was professional from 1992 to 2001. During this time, he was the national road champion of Canada four times - 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2000 - and is thus record holder.

He participated in the road race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, but did not finish.

Palmarès

1987
3rd Overall Tour de Pologne
1st  Points Classification
1991
1st Overall Tour de Beauce
1994
1st  National Road Race Championships
1997
1st  National Road Race Championships
1st Stage 1 Tour de Beauce
1998
3rd Canadian National Road Race Championships
1st Stage 4 Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
1999
1st  National Road Race Championships
2000
1st  National Road Race Championships

References

1964 births
Living people
Canadian male cyclists
Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Canada
People from Kętrzyn
Sportspeople from Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship


title: Bede Osuji

text:
Bede Amarachi Osuji (born 21 January 1996) is a Nigerian football winger who plays for Koper.

Honours
Gorica
Slovenian Cup: 2013–14

Koper
Slovenian Cup: 2021–22

References

External links
NZS profile

1996 births
Living people
Nigerian men's footballers
Men's association football wingers
Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
ND Gorica players
NK Brda players
Hapoel Ra'anana A.F.C. players
FC Koper players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Slovenian Second League players
Liga Leumit players
Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia
Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Pappotherium

text:
Pappotherium is an extinct genus of mammals from the Albian (early Cretaceous) of Texas, US, known from a fossilized maxilla fragment bearing two tribosphenic molars, discovered within the Glen Rose Formation near Decatur, Wise County, Texas.

The fossil was discovered by Bob H. Slaughter within some deposits dating back to 112.6 – 109 million years ago. On the basis of the morphology of the molars' cusps, in 1965 Slaughter established the new genus Pappotherium and the new species P. pattersoni; he also created an apposite family, Pappotheriidae. Both this family and the genus are nowadays still monotypic.

Slaughter argued that Pappotherium should have been a basal form close to the metatherian-eutherian divergence point; this mammal likely was an arboreal insectivore.

Etymologically speaking, the name Pappotherium is a compound of the Latin words pappus (from ancient Greek πάππος, páppos, “grandfather”) and therium (from ancient Greek θηρίον, thēríon, “beast”, a common suffix among extinct mammals), with the full meaning of “mammal-grandfather”.

The second part of the unique species' name, pattersoni, was instead chosen in honor of the American paleontologist Bryan Patterson.

More recently, it has been recovered as a possible deltatheroidean. The most recent phylogeny including Pappotherium is reproduced below.

References

Bibliography
Slaughter, B. H. 1965, "A therian from the lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Texas", Postilla 93, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, pp. 1–18.
Davis, B. M. & Cifelli, R. L. 2011, "Reappraisal of the tribosphenidan mammals from the Trinity Group (Aptian–Albian) of Texas and Oklahoma", Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (3),  pp. 441–62.

Cretaceous mammals
Cretaceous mammals of North America
Prehistoric monotypic mammal genera
Fossil taxa described in 1965
Wise County, Texas
Prehistoric metatherians
Prehistoric mammal genera


title: General Theory of Everything

text:
The General Theory of Everything () is a sarcastic coinage of Stanisław Lem introduced in 1966.  The biographical sketch of Ijon Tichy in "The Twenty-eighth Voyage" of Tychy's Star Diaries  says that a grandfather of Ijon, Jeremiasz Tichy, "decided to create the General Theory of Everything, and nothing stopped him from doing this".

Apart from being a precursor of the term "Theory of Everything," the term GTE was used to characterize Lem's essays of fundamental character, such as The Philosophy of Chance and Science Fiction and Futurology, as well as the pseudoscientific work of Polish scifi writer Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Jednolita teoria czasoprzestrzeni ["The Uniform Theory of the Spacetime"] (1990)

References

Stanisław Lem


title: Shuba Jay

text:
Shubashini "Shuba" Jeyaratnam (15 July 197617 July 2014), also known by stage names Shuba Jay and Shuba Jaya, was a Malaysian entrepreneur, stage performer, and actress who achieved popularity through her roles in several TV shows. Of Indian Tamil descent, she was killed, together with her husband and daughter, in the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

Career
In her university studies she received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. After working as a copywriter for the New Straits Times, Jay worked in the newspaper's advertising studio before moving to the advertising department. In 2009 she was part of the 15Malaysia project, a series of short films on various socio-political themes. In 2010, Jay and her father took part in the reality TV show Mari Menari (Malay for Let's Dance) on Astro Ria. In 2011, she started acting and became known for her role in several local TV shows such as Spanar Jaya, Gadis 3 and Sugumana Sumaigal. She also appeared in several local films such as Relationship Status (2012) and Tokak (2013), and performed on stage in Fourplay, Charley's Auntie and Hungry for Hope.

Personal life
Jay met her Dutch future husband, Paul Goes, during a holiday in Vietnam. Shortly after her marriage in 2010, Jay became an advocate for breastfeeding and home birthing. The home birth of her daughter Kaela was reported in local media. According to The Wall Street Journal, she was known to her fans as "Shuba Jay".

She was recognised by Prestige Magazine as one of Malaysia's top 40 individuals under the age of 40.

Death

Jay and her family were on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 when it was shot down on 17 July 2014, killing all people on board. Many local actors and film directors expressed shock at her sudden death, which took place just two days after her 38th birthday.

Newsbook published an interview with the husband of her husband's sister. According to the interview, Jay was a well-known actress in Malaysia who wanted to continue working on her career outside of her home country.

The bodies of Shuba Jay and her family arrived in Malaysia on 2 September, and funeral rites were conducted the same day at the Nirvana Memorial Centre.

References

External links
  (Archive)

1976 births
2014 deaths
21st-century Malaysian actresses
21st-century Malaysian businesspeople
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims
Malaysian film actresses
Malaysian television actresses
Malaysian people of Tamil descent
Malaysian people of Indian descent
Malaysian Hindus


title: Rehab Addict

text:
Rehab Addict is a television show documenting home renovations, which airs on DIY and HGTV. Rehab Addict debuted on the DIY network on October 14, 2010. Beginning in January 2014, Season 4, was moved to airing on HGTV's prime time schedule.

Host
Nicole Curtis (b. August 20, 1976) advocates for the preservation and restoration of existing architecture over demolition when feasible. She has rehabbed homes in Saint Paul, Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lake Orion, Michigan; Detroit, Michigan; and Akron, Ohio. Her work centers on pre-World War II homes, and her renovation philosophy is to "restore old homes to their former glory" rather than modernization.

Curtis grew up in Lake Orion, Michigan and graduated from Lake Orion High School in 1994. Her family owned a garbage business. She attended college in Georgia, Florida, and Michigan and had her son, Ethan, before she graduated.  she lives in a renovated 1904 home in Detroit. Curtis originally intended to study law in college but later switched to education.

Curtis announced in July 2015 that she was expecting her second child and later that year gave birth to a son, Harper.

Seasons

Spin-Off
On July 1, 2020, it was announced that a spin-off titled Rehab Addict Rescue will premiere on January 28, 2021.

References

External links
DIY Network biography

2010 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
HGTV original programming
English-language television shows


title: Pecorama

text:
Pecorama (or Pecorama Pleasure Gardens) is a tourist attraction on the hillside above the village of Beer, Devon, in southwest England, that includes a display of many model railways, gardens, a shop, and the Beer Heights Light Railway.

The attraction is owned and run by PECO, a UK-based manufacturer of model railway accessories. The factory is on the same site.

Pecorama is also home to "Teddy Mac and the Railway Bears", a series of children's books written by Margaret Edmonds.

See also
 Beer Quarry Caves
 Beer Village Website - What to do in Beer

References

External links

Pecorama website

Year of establishment missing
Tourist attractions in Devon
Heritage railways in Devon
Gardens in Devon
Miniature railways in the United Kingdom


title: Science Fiction and Futurology

text:
Science Fiction and Futurology () is a monograph of Stanisław Lem about science fiction and futurology, first printed by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 1970.

The official Lem website describes the book as a triple feature: an attempt to create a theory of the genre, a self-interpretation of Lem's own works, and a review of the world's science fiction, "a yet another Lem's General Theory of Everything - everything related to science fiction and its role in human knowledge acquisition".

In the book, Lem reviews and classifies works of over 400 science fiction writers.

The book was acutely critical of Western science fiction. As Lem wrote, "SF became a vulgar mythology of a technological civilization.... This monograph is an expression of my personal utopia, my longing for better SF, the one that should be." In the 1972 edition the criticism was somewhat softened, in particular, in the judgement of the works of  Philip K. Dick. Lem confessed that his opinion about Philip K. Dick was based on limited knowledge of his works, not the best ones.

Contents
(Omitting forewords and afterwords)

Volume 1. Structures
I. The language of a literary work
II. The world of a literary work (chapter changed since the second edition of 1972)
III. Structures of literary creation
IV. From structuralism to traditional criticism
V. Sociology of science fiction

Volume 2. Problem Fields of Science Fiction
I. Catastrophe
II. Robots and people
III. Outer space and science fiction
IV. Metaphysics of science fiction  and futurology of faith
V. Erotics and sex
VI. Man and superman
VII. Remanent
Lem writes that before starting with the two last huge subjects of the book, he would like to briefly dwell upon a large number of topics not covered in the book. Some of them, such as horror in science fiction and space opera,  are only mentioned in passing. The section analyzes some motives of "biological" science fiction, the ones, in Lem's opinion, having gnoseological value, only briefly reviewing the subject of fictional mutants of various types, ranging from post-apocalyptic to experiments of mad scientists.
VIII. Experiment in science fiction. From Bradbury to "New Wave"
IX. Utopia and futurology

References

Further reading
 "Igraszki i powinności fantastyki naukowej", an afterword by  about the book

1970 books
Futurology books
Works by Stanisław Lem
Polish non-fiction books
Wydawnictwo Literackie books
Essay books
Books about literary theory
Books of literary criticism


title: Sanger–Black apparatus

text:
Sanger–Black apparatus is a piece of chemical laboratory ware used for quantitative and semi-quantitative determination of arsenic element in the solution. It is constituted by glass bottle of volume ca. 30 mL, sealed with rubber stopper with one or two holes. Through one hole a thistle tube is inserted, almost reaching the bottom, for filling the bottle (what can be done also when the stopper is taken out – for semi-quantitative determination). The second, S-shaped tube is for outflow of the gases and joined by another rubber stopper to a bulg tube, with bulb containing pre-dried cotton as adsorbent, presumably intended for homogenizing the gas flow. A thin reagent paper, impregnated with mercury(II) chloride (nowadays replaced by mercury(II) bromide) or silver(I) nitrate, is placed in the open end of the bulb tube. If the semi-quantitative variant is to be performed, the paper is put in the (only) thistle tube – i. e., vertically, not horizontally. During the test ca. 3 g of Zn granules are placed into the bottle, just below the end of thistle tube, and then acid solution is added (ca. 15 mL; authors recommend that HCl is preferable to H2SO4). About 10 minutes are required to let H2 flow along the reagent paper, while this flow and moisture content inside it is stabilizing. Then the sample is introduced, and in case of sample solution containing arsenic the paper becomes more or less stained.

The Sanger–Black determination is based on the so-called Gutzeit reaction (1879):

AsH3 is forming from arsenic in any oxidation state when it reduces with the hydrogen in statu nascendi, produced from the acid. Gutzeit originally used AgNO3 for determination. The innovation to the Gutzeit method by Sanger and Black is the use of long and narrow paper, so that gas flow is directed along it and the product of reaction used as analytic signal deposits almost uniquely in the surface layers of the paper, so that stain area is quantitative analytic signal (if all the prerequisites for determination are fulfilled). Unfortunately, yellow colour is not that human eye is especially sensitive for, so photometric tools were introduced for quantitative analysis quite a long time ago (in 1944).

Zinc naturally contains some trace amounts of arsenic, so a modest yellow stain appears almost in any case on the reagent paper. This limits the sensitivity of this test, as arsenic amounts in zinc vary from one supplier to another. That is why later Zn was replaced by sodium borohydride NaBH4; then, strong and corrosive hydrochloric acid was also replaced with sulfamic acid NH2SO3H.

Sources

Arsenic
Analytical chemistry


title: Chiquis Rivera

text:
Janney Marín "Chiquis" Rivera  (born June 26, 1985) is an American singer and television personality. She is the eldest daughter of singer Jenni Rivera.
She began her singing career in early 2014, releasing her first single "Paloma Blanca" as a tribute to her mother. At Premios Juventud, she made her musical debut on international television with her performance of "Esa No Soy Yo".

She made her television debut with her reality show Jenni Rivera Presents: Chiquis & Raq-C and also appeared on her mother's hit spin-off reality show I Love Jenni. Rivera's debut album, Ahora, was released on June 2, 2015. On April 7, 2015 she released her memoir titled Forgiveness, and a second on February 2, 2022 titled Unstoppable.

Rivera is the recipient of two Latin Grammy Awards, two Lo Nuestro Awards, and a Grammy nomination. Life
Janney Marín Rivera was born and raised in California. She is daughter of  Regional Mexican star, Jenni Rivera and her first husband, José Trinidad Marín. She is the first child of both her parents, has one younger sister, Jacquelin, one brother, Mikey, and two half-siblings from her mother's second marriage. Rivera is Presbyterian and attends church regularly with her family.

 Relationship with mother
On April 7, 2015 she released a memoir called Forgiveness, she revealed the reasons she and her mother, Jenni Rivera, stopped speaking in October 2012. She revealed that she was molested by a woman. She confirmed that the reason for her and her mother's separation stemmed from the rumor that she had an affair with Esteban Loaiza. She denied the rumor and attributes it to "toxic voices" that surrounded her mother at a time when she was deeply lonely and confused, leading her to doubt her then-husband's fidelity and her own daughter's loyalty. She stated, in an attempt to find evidence of incriminating behavior, that Rivera looked at video footage from her home's security system and found an instance in which Chiquis is seen leaving the master bedroom which Rivera shared with Loaiza while they were married. Chiquis said that Rivera became fixated with the video, and watched it so many times that she had made herself believe her daughter actually "came back to the house and snuck back into the bedroom" to have a sexual encounter with Loaiza. Beto Cuevas, who was friends with Jenni, has stated that he gave her advice on how to deal with the rift with Chiquis three days before Jenni's death.

Sexual abuse
In 1997, her aunt, Rosie Rivera came forward and confessed to Jenni Rivera, that José Trinidad Marín, used to sexually molest her, and was now doing the same to Chiquis. Physical examination showed he had done the same with her younger sister Jacqie Marín. The molestation case was opened in 1997 and Marín spent 9 years as a fugitive before he was apprehended in April 2006 and convicted of sexual assault and rape. In May 2007, José Trinidad Marín was found guilty of 7 out of 9 charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison without parole.

Mother's death

On 9 December 2012, her mother and six others died in a plane crash following a concert at the Monterrey Arena in Monterrey, Nuevo León. The plane was en route to Toluca for an appearance by Rivera on La Voz ... México.Associated Press (December 9, 2012). Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer, killed in plane crash in northern Mexico; she was 43 years old. Daily News|location=New York.

Marriage

Chiquis married Lorenzo E. Mendez Ronquillo (former vocalist of la Original Banda El Limón) in June 2019 and became stepmother to Lorenzo's daughter from his previous marriage. On September 17, 2020, Rivera announced her divorce with Méndez through social media, claiming it a decision from both parties. Chiquis would later claim in her 2022 Autobiography Unbreakable that Lorenzo was a drug addict with aggression issues. At one point spitting in her face and grabbing her by the neck, only stopping after her brother charged at him with a dumbbell.

Sexual orientation

In an interview in March 2023, Chiquis came out as bisexual. She also added that in her youth she had a girlfriend, but her mother forced her to end her relationship.

 Career

 Television personality

She made her television debut with her reality show Jenni Rivera Presents: Chiquis & Raq-C, Chiquis 'n Control, and also appeared on her mother's hit spin-off reality show I Love Jenni. She also starred in her mini web—series Chiquis Confidential. She and her siblings started in a spin-off of I Love Jenni called The Riveras. The series aired its fourth and final season on NBC Universo on August 11.

 Singer
Rivera began her singing career in early 2014, releasing her first single "Paloma Blanca". It was written by her and dedicated as a tribute to her late mother. At Premios Juventud she made her musical debut on international television with her performance of "Esa No Soy Yo".

On April 6, 2015, Chiquis declared to the daily newspaper Miami Herald, she would be releasing an album called Ahora, on June 2, 2015. She stated, "I called it Ahora because it's about living in the moment and appreciating the now. I feel that's how my life can be summed up. It really has a little bit of everything – pop mixed with banda. I love all types of music and didn't want to limit myself since I am my own record label [Sweet Sound Records] I was able to take my time with it. I want to give that to people. I don't know anyone who listens to just one type of music – it's universal and brings everyone together."

In Spring of 2018, Rivera released her second studio album titled ‘Entre Botellas’ which feature songs made with Lorenzo Mendez, Jenni Rivera and Juan Rivera. Her two singles ‘Vas a Volver’ and ‘Horas Extras’ where featured in the album as well as ‘Quisieran Tener Mi Lugar’, a duet sang with her mother Jenni Rivera.

 Artistry

 Musical style
Rivera's musical style is classified as banda, a form of traditional Mexican music popular in Mexico and parts of the United States with large Mexican populations. Banda music originated in the state of Sinaloa and the music sound is primarily instruments such as tuba, clarinets and trumpets, i.e. Banda El Recodo and Banda La Costeña.

 Discography
 Ahora (2015)
 Entre Botellas (2018)
 Playlist (2020)
 Abeja Reina (2022)

 Filmography

Awards and nominations

Billboard Latin Music Awards

The Billboard Latin Music Awards are awarded annually by Billboard magazine in the United States. The Billboard awards are the Latin music industry's longest running and most prestigious award. Chiquis has received two nominations.

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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by The Recording Academy. Chiquis has received one nomination.

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| Abeja Reina| Best Regional Mexican Music Album (including Tejano)
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Juventud Awards
The Juventud Awards are awarded annually by the television network Univision in the United States. Chiquis has received eight nominations.

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| Catchiest Tune
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| My Favorite Video
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| Best Artist using Social Media to Connect with Fans
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| Best Social Artist
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|Best Scroll Stopper
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|Chiquis Rivera and Lorenzo Méndez
|Best Couple
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| Breaking the Internet
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| Female Youth Artist of the Year
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 Latin American Music Awards
The Latin American Music Awards are the Spanish-language version of the American Music Awards hosted on U.S. Spanish-language television network, Telemundo.

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| New Artist of the Year
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| Favorite Female Artist
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|Social Artist of the Year
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Latin Grammy Awards
The Latin Grammy Awards are awarded annually by The Latin Recording Academy in the United States. Rivera has received two awards.

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| Playlist| Best Banda Album
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| Abeja Reina| Best Banda Album
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Lo Nuestro Awards
The Lo Nuestro Awards are awarded annually by the television network Univision in the United States.

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|Social Artist of the Year
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|2021
|Regional Mexican Artist of the Year
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|Female Regional Mexican Artist of the Year
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| Abeja Reina
| Regional Mexican Album of the Year
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| Mi Problema
| Regional Mexican Song of the Year
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| Quiero Amanecer Con Alguien
| Banda Song of the Year
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| Baila Así
| Urban Dance/Pop Song of the Year
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Premios De La Radio
The Premios De La Radio'' are awarded annually by the television network Estrella TV in the United States for the Regional Mexican Music genre. Chiquis has received one nomination, and in 2014 she lost the award to her late mother Jenni Rivera.

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Tu Mundo Awards
The Tu Mundo Awards are produced by Telemundo awarded annually from the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida.

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| 2014
| #BossBee
| Fan Club of the Year
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References

1985 births
Living people
American musicians of Mexican descent
American banda musicians
Hispanic and Latino American women singers
Hispanic and Latino American musicians
LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people
Jenni Rivera
Musicians from Long Beach, California
Singers from California
LGBT people from California
Spanish-language singers of the United States
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
American LGBT singers
Bisexual women musicians
Latin Grammy Award winners
Women in Latin music
Universal Music Latin Entertainment artists


title: Harvey Monroe Hall

text:
Harvey Monroe Hall (March 29, 1874 – March 11, 1932) was an American botanist particularly noted for his taxonomic work in the western United States.

Hall was born in Lee County, Illinois, on March 29, 1874, and raised near Riverside, California. He studied botany at the University of California, earning a B.S. in 1901, M.S. in 1902, and Ph.D. in 1906. In 1910, he married fellow University of California graduate Carlotta Case. Their daughter Martha was born in 1916. He died while in Washington, DC for a conference on March 11, 1932.

Career and research

University of California

Studying plant taxonomy under W. L. Jepson at the University of California, Hall completed his doctoral dissertation, The Compositae of Southern California, in 1906. He went on to be a professor of botany at the university and botanist for the agricultural experiment station. His early work focused on taxonomic studies of plants in California, and he added over 200,000 specimens to the herbarium. He resigned from his professorship in 1919, but continued to maintain an office and relationships in Berkeley.

Carnegie Institution

While professionally established, Hall went to work for ecologist Frederic Clements at the Carnegie Institution Division of Plant Sciences at Stanford University in 1919 in an effort to explore experimental methods of taxonomy.  The pair established methods for conducting reciprocal transplant experiments, whereas plants were moved and studied in the habitats of similar taxonomic species. These experiments provided methods for studying plant adaptation, but did not readily explain mechanisms of plant evolution. In 1924, Hall began to work with geneticist, and friend, E. B. Babcock to look beyond ecological methods to genetics and cytology as experimental methods to explore taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships. Hall left Clements group and started to assemble his own experimental team, hiring  David Keck and William Hiesey in 1926 and Jens Clausen in 1931.

In 1928, Carnegie president John Merriam sent Hall to Europe for a year to study national parks. His report suggested the creation of natural reserves with national parks for the purpose of scientific study.

Eponyms
Hall Natural Area, Sierra Nevada research area
Tetracoccus hallii, Hall's shrubby-spurge

Selected works
1902 A botanical survey of San Jacinto mountain (M.S. Thesis)
1907 Compositae of southern California (Ph.D. Thesis)
1910 Studies in ornamental trees and shrubs
1912 A Yosemite flora (with Carlotta Case Hall)
1915 Flora of the Pacific Coast
1918 Rubber-content of North American plants (with Thomas Harper Goodspeed)
1919 Life-zone indicators in California (with Joseph Grinnell)
1921 A rubber plant survey of western North America (with Frances L. Long)
1923 The North American species of Artemisia, Chrysothamnus, and Atriplex (with Frederic E. Clements)
1928 The genus Haplopappus; a phylogenetic study in the Compositae

References

Associated collections
 Harvey Monroe Hall Papers, 1859-1991, bulk 1896-1932 Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
 Harvey M. and Carlotta C. Hall papers, 1895-1949, University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley

1874 births
1932 deaths
American botanists
University of California, Berkeley faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni


title: 2014–15 Legia Warsaw season

text:
Legia Warszawa is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland.

Season review

Players

Current squad
The numbers are established according to the official website: legia.com
Last updated on 16 August 2014

Reserve team
 Legia Warszawa Reserve Team

Transfers

Transfers in

Loans in

Transfers out

Loans out

Competitions

Friendlies

Polish Super Cup

Ekstraklasa

Polish Cup

Champions League

*Celtic to play at Murrayfield Stadium due to Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony at Celtic Park
**Celtic was awarded a 3-0 walkover due to Legia fielding an ineligible player

Europa League

Group stage

Statistics

Appearances

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.
Players with no appearances not included in the list.

Goalscorers
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.

Assists
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total assists are equal.

References

External links

Legia Warsaw seasons
Legia Warsaw


title: Christian Leite

text:
Christian Eduard Leite Nieva (born 9 November 1985) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Swiss club SC Brühl.

References

External links
 Profile
 Christian Leite at Playmakerstats

1985 births
Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Living people
Brazilian men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Swiss Super League players
Swiss Challenge League players
Swiss Promotion League players
Swiss 1. Liga (football) players
FC Thun players
FC Winterthur players
FC Gossau players
FC Köniz players
FC Kreuzlingen players
FC Rapperswil-Jona players
SC Brühl players
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland


title: 2003 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament

text:
The 2003 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Championship was held at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, CT from May 15 through 17 (preliminaries) and at Pitt Field in Richmond, VA on May 22 and 24 (championship series). It featured the top two regular-season finishers of each six-team division, plus the next two best finishers. Top-seeded Richmond defeated Massachusetts in the title game to win the tournament for the first time, earning the Atlantic 10's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA tournament.

Seeding and format
The league's top six teams, based on winning percentage in the 24-game regular season schedule, qualified for the field. The top two teams in each division qualified for the tournament automatically; the two division winners, Massachusetts in the East and Richmond in the West, received the top two seeds and byes through to the second round of the double elimination tournament. The tournament was different from most double-elimination formats in that after the two finalists were decided, losses were erased, and a best-of-three series was played at a new site the following weekend to decide the champion.

Bracket

All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Richmond's Vito Chairavalloti, one of six Spiders selected, was named Most Outstanding Player.

Richmond's David Reaver and Tim Stauffer, who had both been selected in 2002, were named for the second time.

References

Tournament
Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament
Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament
Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament
Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament
21st century in Richmond, Virginia
College baseball tournaments in Connecticut
College baseball tournaments in Virginia
Sports in Norwich, Connecticut
Baseball competitions in Richmond, Virginia