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Belinda is a Dutch brand of cigarettes currently owned and manufactured by British American Tobacco.
History
Belinda was founded in the 1940s and quickly gained popularity in the Netherlands, especially amongst females (as it was targeted towards them) and the wealthy. During the period of 1946 until 1996, posters made by the Dutch artist Frans Mettes [nl] were put on Dutch railway stations featuring the "Belinda Cigarette Girl" ("Sigarettenmeisje van Belinda" in Dutch), along with other known brands at the time like Droste cocoa, the Hulshof purse company and the "Zwarte Beertjes" ("Black Bears") adverts of Dutch artist, illustrator and graphic designer Dick Bruna. Belinda ads were also featured in the Dutch magazine Margriet (magazine). Belinda's popularity decreased after tobacco advertising in the Netherlands was banned completely in 2003 and because of increasing taxes on cigarettes which pushed Dutch smokers to buy cheaper brands. However, it is still one of the most known Dutch cigarette brands and is still being sold in the Netherlands alongside brands like Marlboro, Camel, and Lucky Strike.
Products
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Jackson de Souza (born 1 May 1990), simply known as Jackson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Sabah in Malaysia Super League.
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Fusiturricula iole is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 35 mm.
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This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and Trinidad
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Joseph_McGhee"} | American mass murderer on death row
Timothy Joseph McGhee (born April 27, 1973) is a convicted serial killer and Toonerville Rifa 13 gang member from the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. He is alleged to be responsible for at least 12 homicides between 1997 and 2001, three of which led to convictions. McGhee is also suspected of at least ten attempted murders, four of which led to convictions. In 2018, the Los Angeles Times named McGhee one of the top 20 most notorious killers in the history of California, a list that included the likes of Charles Manson, the Golden State Killer, and the Night Stalker.
After his arrest for assaulting a law enforcement officer, McGhee spent 1994 to 2000 either incarcerated or on parole. During his stints as a parolee, he allegedly shot seven people, killing three, and attempted to murder two LAPD officers. He was arrested in 2003 on homicide charges and sentenced to death in 2009. In a separate trial in 2007, McGhee was sentenced to 75 years to life for leading a 2005 prison riot. Due to a new change in California's death sentence laws, McGhee has been transferred from San Quentin's death row to general population in Salinas Valley State Prison.
Personal life
McGhee was born on April 27, 1973 in Los Angeles, California. His father abandoned him as a young boy, leaving the family and moving to Alaska for work. Locals recall McGhee as a typical kid who often skated in the neighborhood. As an adult, McGhee had three biological children and raised five of his girlfriend's children as well. By many accounts, he was a good father.
The back of McGhee's typically shaven head bears a tattoo of an eagle eating a snake which appears on the flag of Mexico. McGhee also has "Atwater Village" tattooed across his chest, his gang "Toonerville Rifa" on his back, and the initials of his gang "TVR" on his stomach. He also had the initials NELA tattooed behind his left ear, which likely stands for Northeast Los Angeles. McGhee stands 5’ 11" with a muscular build and frequently wears a goatee. He was given the street name Huero, slang for the Spanish word Guero, translated as a light-skinned Mexican. His relatively fair complexion also earned him the nickname Eskimo. As his notorious reputation grew, McGhee would aptly earn the nickname Monster, or "the Monster of Atwater." When the U.S. Department of Justice placed him on their most wanted list, they denoted his primary alias as Joe McGhee.
Atwater Village and the Toonerville Gang
McGhee was raised in the neighborhood of Atwater Village, a lower middle class area of Los Angeles consisting of 1.78 square miles just north of downtown Los Angeles along Interstate 5 adjacent to Glendale, California. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, born the year after McGhee, grew up in the neighborhood. Judge Lance Ito, who presided over the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and Michelle Phillips, a member of The Mamas & the Papas, both attended John Marshall High School there. Even the entrance to the California Adventure theme park at Disneyland was modeled after the quaint Atwater Village of the 1940s.
But a Mexican street gang known as Toonerville, also referred to as Toonerville Rifa 13, AKA: TVR, established roots in the area as early as 1942. As gang activity flourished in Los Angeles in the late-1970s and 1980s, clashes between Toonerville and various rivals, most frequently Thee Rascals 13, AKA: TRS, brought drastic change to the neighborhood. The once dominant Toonerville gang's territory shrunk by more than 50% as Thee Rascals established themselves in the area of Atwater Village south of Los Feliz Boulevard. The Rascals 13 is a predominantly Hispanic street gang that established themselves in the late-1970s which; a group of Atwater youths originally formed to protect themselves from the older, well-established gangs, primarily Toonerville Rifa (TVR), The Avenues (AVES), and Frogtown Rifa (FTR). Though smaller in number, Thee Rascals are just as equally vicious as their older arch-nemesis. The crime rate increased in the area, the economy wavered, and ethnic diversity grew. A recent study found that 51.3% of the community of 15,455 are Hispanic, predominantly Mexican and Filipino. Nearly half of residents are immigrants from foreign countries and over half of the 5,000 households earn less than $40,000 annually. There is, however, a modern movement to revitalize the area into its once middle class status.
The organization claims the area north of Los Feliz Boulevard between San Fernando Road and the Los Angeles River as its territory and has expanded into at least three other suburbs of Los Angeles. At some point in the 1990s, McGhee became the gang's leader or "shot-caller," demanding absolute loyalty from nearly 200 members, training his legion in calisthenics, target practice, tactics to elude police, and procedures to eliminate rival gang members. Toonerville Rifa 13 members were typically posted, armed with weapons, on three main roads that lead into their turf with cell phones or walkie-talkies for communication. The Toonerville gang's main source of income was the drug trade, in which members and associates would deal drugs, consisting primarily of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana, and PCP, were dealt out of numerous "trap-houses" operating within the gang's zone of control. The gang also possessed and sold an arsenal of weapons ranging from handguns to AK-47s.
McGhee's early criminal history
McGhee's earliest recorded act of violence was a 1989 assault with a firearm when, at the age of 16, he pointed a shotgun at a guard while detained at a juvenile custody facility. In 1994, a 21-year-old McGhee was convicted of assaulting a law enforcement officer in San Bernardino County and was sentenced to four years in prison. He was released in 1997 after serving three years.
In 1997, two members of The Rascals, Juan Cardiel and Pedro Sanchez, were allegedly chased through the streets of Atwater Village by McGhee. Cardiel was shot in the back and paralyzed from the waist down. Sanchez took cover at a gas station, standing behind glass he thought was bulletproof. The shooter repeatedly fired through the glass door hitting Sanchez in the back. He would later recover from his injuries. Both identified McGhee as the shooter.
Murder of Ronnie Martin
On October 14, 1997, while on parole, it was alleged that a 24-year-old McGhee committed his first homicide. Ronnie Martin (23) was a member of Frog Town, one of TVR's biggest rivals in Atwater Village. Martin was shot 28 times and pronounced dead at the scene. McGhee was not linked to this homicide until years later. After an unrelated charge violated his parole, McGhee was sent back to prison in late 1997.
McGhee's release from prison
After violating parole in 1997, McGhee was imprisoned for roughly a year and a half. In March 1999, he was again released and lived with his grandmother in the San Gabriel Valley, which has a relatively low crime rate compared to the more notorious neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
But 11 months later, in February 2000, McGhee was again found violating the terms of his parole and returned to prison. He finally earned his release in April 2000 after serving roughly five years on the assault that initially carried a four-year sentence. Police note that crime in Atwater Village seemed to increase sharply each time McGhee was released from prison.
Recording studio murder
On October 17, 1999, while on parole, a bodyguard and two rap artists were shot near the gates of Echo Sounds music studio in Atwater Village after concluding a recording session. The crew had gathered on the studio's patio at 11:40 PM when at least two gunmen confronted them and began shooting without warning. Bodyguard Dwayne "Draws" Dupree (23) was killed, pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. Dupree was guarding rapper Ricardo "Kurupt" Brown, future executive vice president of Death Row Records, who was finishing his album Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha with Antra Records.
Kurupt's producer Delmar "Daz Dillinger" Arnaud, also with Death Row Records and cousin of legendary rapper Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus, was present but uninjured. Death Row artist Jevon "Tha Realest" Jones was wounded in the foot, and Willard "Act Da Fool" Givers was wounded in the calf. It was initially suggested that a hidden track on the album could be a motive for the shooting that insulted rappers DMX (rapper), The Firm (hip hop group), and others. Later, it was McGhee and an affiliate who was linked to the shooting.[citation needed]
Murder of Ryan Gonzalez
On June 3, 2000, rival gang member Ryan Gonzalez (16) was killed as he walked home from a party. He was fatally shot in the 3300 block of Silver Lake Boulevard in Toonerville gang territory near Atwater Avenue Elementary School. A 27-year-old McGhee was the alleged assailant. Gonzalez was a member of The Rascals gang, sharing McGhee's nickname Huero. Investigators believe McGhee's motive was simply that the neighborhood wasn’t big enough for two people with the same street name. In June 2000, an arrest warrant was issued for McGhee in connection with the Gonzalez murder, but it was several years until law enforcement caught up with him.
Ambush of LAPD officers
On July 4, 2000, LAPD officers Thomas Baker and Carlos Langarica were on patrol when they received a call around 3:30 AM that three males had stolen a wallet and fled the scene of the robbery in a gray Honda. Upon encountering the vehicle traveling in the opposite direction, the officers made a U-turn and attempted to stop the vehicle. The driver refused to stop and accelerated, both officers noting they were headed into the heart of Toonerville gang territory in Atwater Village. Baker and Langarica knew that other LAPD officers had been ambushed in this area by gang members who would block the street with debris and open fire on police vehicles.
During this pursuit, a 27-year-old McGhee was allegedly using a police radio scanner to track the progress of the chase while coordinating an ambush. During the pursuit, the officers dodged a washing machine blocking the road, made a right turn at the corner of Bemis Street and Brunswick Avenue, and ran over a bicycle pushed into their path by an unknown suspect. As the police vehicle swerved, two gang members opened fire on the officers striking the driver-side door and even tearing a hole through Officer Baker's pants. Shaken but undeterred, the officers continued the pursuit even as the suspects in the gray vehicle began to open fire, ramming the rear of the vehicle to bring it to a stop. The passenger in the front seat fled the scene, pointing a semi-automatic pistol at the police. Baker rammed the vehicle again, at which point the passenger in the back seat displayed an Uzi-style submachine gun. Officers ran for cover behind a tree exchanging gunfire with the remaining two suspects in the vehicle.
Eventually backed up by other LAPD officers, all three robbery suspects were arrested and charged with attempted murder. Mario "Little Boy" Aleman, Ramon "Chubbs" Maldonado, and Joseph "Little Respect" Aghazadeh were sentenced to two consecutive life terms. The two gang members who fired on police during the attempted ambush, one of whom is suspected of being McGhee, were never identified. Aleman, Maldonado, and Aghazadeh refused to give up the shooters’ names in exchange for a lessened prison sentence. Neither officer was injured, but both later indicated that they did not think they would have survived the incident. Both officers were awarded the prestigious LAPD Medal of Valor in 2003 for their bravery.
McGhee was eventually convicted on two counts of attempted murder concerning this incident.
Murders of Marty Gregory Roybal and David Lamont Martin
On September 14, 2000, John Marshall High School student Marty Gregory Roybal (17) was fatally shot while spray painting in Toonerville territory near the Red Car River Park in Atwater Village. Contrary to popular belief, Roybal was not "sketching a painting." A family member and responding officers mentioned that Roybal enjoyed "tagging" or spray painting. This rather important piece of information may have been used to influence McGhee's sentence further. A homeless man David Lamont Martin (33), was also shot and killed at the scene, likely a witness to the shooting. A 27-year-old McGhee was suspected in both shootings.<ref=Marty Roybal Jr., 18- The Homicide Report
Murder of Manuel Apodaca
McGhee had been incarcerated for yet another parole violation involving narcotics, this time at the California Institution for Men in Chino, California, but was released in May 2001. Beginning in June, he was suspected of shooting nine individuals in five months leaving six dead and three wounded. The homicidal spree began on June 11, 2001, when McGhee was allegedly traveling through the affluent Los Feliz area that borders Atwater Village and features the popular Griffith Observatory. Manuel Apodaca, Jr. (21) lived 35 miles east in Pomona and was passing through with his pregnant girlfriend, Nina Guerrero. McGhee allegedly opened fire on their vehicle on Los Feliz Boulevard near Interstate 5 known in that area as the Golden State Freeway. Apodaca, allegedly a member of The Rascals (gang), was killed, and Guerrero suffered severe brain damage, but their unborn baby was delivered successfully.
Murder of Carlos Velasco
In July 2001, Carlos Velasco (21) was working at a furniture warehouse on North San Fernando Road in Atwater Village. Police state that McGhee, who had driven by and seen the stranger, ordered gang affiliates to kill the man because he did not recognize him. The homicidal order was carried out successfully.
Wisotsky massacre
Atwater Village resident Cheri Wisotsky (46) reported to police that McGhee allegedly was dealing drugs out of his sister's house nearby. On August 8, 2001, Wisotsky was murdered; as well as witnesses to the crime Mary Ann Wisotsky (64), Cheri's mother, and Bryham Robinson (38), friend and neighbor. McGhee is the alleged triggerman in the triple homicide.
Murder of Marjorie Mendoza
On November 8, 2001, McGhee was allegedly prowling the streets with fellow gang member Eduardo "Limpy" Rodriguez seeking revenge over the death of a comrade hours earlier. Armed with handguns and rifles, they came upon rival gang member Duane Natividad in the 3100 block of Hollydale Drive, six blocks south of the Gonzalez murder in 2000. Natividad was driving his Mitsubishi Montero with his girlfriend Marjorie Mendoza (25) and her friend Erica Rhee (16). Mendoza and Natividad had three children, Mark (5), Justin (3), and Nathan (1), who were not with them at the time. At 12:01 AM, November 9, as Natividad pulled up to a residence, McGhee and Rodriguez allegedly pulled in front of them, exited their vehicle, and opened fire on the Montero without warning or any verbal altercation. Natividad ducked and was struck in the right hand while Rhee ducked in the back seat, avoiding injury. As her boyfriend threw the car in reverse and accelerated away, Mendoza was hit multiple times and was driven to Glendale Memorial Hospital, where she later died.
Toonerville gang member Eduardo "Limpy" Rodriguez (22) was arrested the following day. Homicide detectives announced on November 27, 2001, that another suspect, Timothy McGhee, was still at large, and a warrant had been issued for his arrest. Detective Timothy Neel noted that since McGhee's release from prison six months before, "violent crimes in the Atwater area have skyrocketed."
Murder of Christina Duran
Christina Duran (29), a friend of McGhee's, learned of Marjorie Mendoza's murder after McGhee solicited her help that same day. He needed to retrieve his girlfriend's cellphone he had dropped at the scene of the Mendoza murder. Duran was unsuccessful in finding the cellphone, but police managed to locate it and used it as evidence in McGhee's eventual trial. Shortly after the murder, Duran admitted to police during a videotaped interview with LAPD homicide detectives that McGhee was involved in the death of Mendoza. She was visibly shaken during the interrogation, frequently stating her fear of retribution. Two days after speaking with police, Christina Duran was killed in an execution-style murder on the night she celebrated her 29th birthday party, allegedly shot by McGhee five times in the right side of the head.
McGhee wrote hip hop lyrics as a hobby but never seriously pursued music. Many of his lyrics referred to his love of killing and his hatred of the police. His writings detailed the Mendoza murder as well as other previous homicides. One line eventually used against him in court read, "Witness protection won’t work/ Realize your rat ain’t going to make it to the stand," referring to his goal to eliminate anyone who might testify against him. He took the time to write, "everything in this book is a work of fiction," inside his spiral notebook in case police ever seized it. This did not deter the prosecution in his eventual trial.
America's Most Wanted
In the fall of 2002, a task force of as many as 60 local and federal investigators began searching for McGhee after linking him to numerous homicides. LAPD detectives had enough evidence to charge him in a single case, the homicide of Margie Mendoza. On August 28, the LAPD appealed to the public for information regarding McGhee's involvement in the Mendoza murder and the triple homicide involving Cheri Wisotsky. A $55,000 reward was offered, but no one came forward.
When it became clear that McGhee was running the Toonerville gang from out of state, the U.S. Marshals Service aided the LAPD in forming a task force with more investigators, vehicles, and aircraft. McGhee was placed on the US Marshall's 15 Most Wanted Fugitives list on September 25, 2002, wanted for questioning in an additional 11 homicides. At this point, McGhee had been officially charged only with the Mendoza murder by the Los Angeles district attorney's office. In contrast, U.S. marshals had charged him with the federal offense of Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution under warrant number W663293984. City councilman Eric Garcetti posted a $50,000 reward for McGhee's capture. Even the popular television series America's Most Wanted appealed to the public by filming a segment in early 2003 dedicated to the search for McGhee.
Despite such a record of violence, McGhee had received surprisingly little attention from the national media before this point, with barely any coverage in Southern California. In 2002, there would have only been 11 individuals alive in the United States who had committed more than 12 homicides. As Los Angeles Times reporter Jack Leonard put it many years later, "even in a city with more than 150 gang slayings a year, Timothy Joseph McGhee's murders stood out." But not in 2003. The public hadn’t heard much, but detectives knew McGhee's name well. Suspicious of the grand scope of McGhee's power and influence in the criminal world, they had difficulty linking him to his crimes because neighborhood residents, fellow gang members, and even rivals wouldn’t talk to police, terrified of retaliation.
On January 10, 2003, the Los Angeles Times reported that a 29-year-old McGhee was wanted for his role in a dozen homicides, perhaps the notoriety that drove McGhee to flee the state of California. He had already spent the last six months shifting between Atwater Village, Las Vegas, and Arizona, never staying in one place for more than a week. He would even throw off police by brazenly staying in rival gangs’ neighborhoods. LAPD officer Andy Teague was quoted as saying, "People know you don’t cross McGhee. If you cross him, you’re dead." A break in the case came when a reader of the Mojave Desert News recognized 29-year-old McGhee, from a photograph in the newspaper, as a man who was living in Bullhead City, Arizona. McGhee's father happened to own a business there, making the lead credible. The witness led authorities to a Ramar Street apartment on February 11, 2003, where McGhee had lived off and on for the past year.
Arrest
On February 11, 2003, a surveillance team in Bullhead City observed a man resembling the 29-year-old fugitive leaving the apartment in question, but conclusive identification was not possible in the dark. Investigators followed the suspect to a double-wide mobile home near Brill Street, but no arrest was made. Early February 12, after roughly 20 hours of surveillance, as authorities were preparing a search warrant and planning to raid the home with a SWAT team, U.S. marshals positively identified McGhee departing the residence with a female driver. Officers pulled the vehicle over around 1:00 PM on Roadrunner Drive and McGhee was ordered out of the car and onto the ground in the presence of more than 25 officers of the LAPD, Bullhead City Police Department, and federal law enforcement. McGhee surrendered without a struggle, refusing to speak. When an LAPD officer who knew McGhee attempted to engage him in conversation, McGhee glared at him, smiling at spectators. The suspect wore a T-shirt that read "Run. Jump. Throw a donut," referring to the best way to elude a police officer. Another T-shirt was discovered in McGhee's possession that read "Fugitive. Can’t see me," exemplifying his sheer audacity. The female driver was unaware of McGhee's true identity, nor did she have any suspicion that he was a wanted man.
On February 13, McGhee appeared at the Mojave County courthouse in Kingman, Arizona, to begin extradition proceedings.
On February 15, 2003, season 16, episode 16 of America's Most Wanted aired after the fact. McGhee's story was outlined as well as the high-profile case of Elizabeth Smart, who had been missing for 256 days. The episode led to her rescue 25 days later and the arrest of her kidnapper Brian David Mitchell.
With McGhee in custody, the next logical choice for head of the Toonerville gang was Juan "Sharpie" Rodarte, a close associate of McGhee's. However, Rodarte was arrested later in 2003 for possessing a firearm and cocaine.
Prison riot
While awaiting trial, McGhee was held without bail in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail, the largest single jail facility in the world just minutes south of Atwater Village. Being the charismatic leader that he was, he commanded the respect of equally intimidating criminals housed in cell block 3300 A-Row, the highest security area of the facility. McGhee was the shot caller, and fellow inmates would not act without his permission. He claimed to have been verbally and physically assaulted by deputies during his time in jail, even reporting one incident to the ACLU.
On January 7, 2005, at roughly 4:40 PM, inmate Rudolfo Gonzalez, intoxicated from a homemade alcoholic concoction, was to be removed from cell block A. Sheriff Deputy Raul Ibarra handcuffed Gonzalez and extracted him from his cell under the ruse of meeting with his attorney. Obediently, Gonzalez attempted to return to his cell, fearing something was amiss as he did not have an attorney. Upon changing direction, Gonzalez was tackled by four deputies. They passed McGhee's cell who stated that Gonzalez, an acquaintance of his since elementary school, did not have his permission to leave.
He incited McGhee's rage and commanded inmates to assault the deputies with apples, oranges, urine, and bleach. It took 20 minutes to remove Gonzalez from the cell block successfully. McGhee then ordered inmates to break the sinks in their cells so jagged pieces of porcelain could be used as weapons. It was hours later, nearly 10:00 PM that evening when two deputies began their shifts and investigated the damage in A-Row. They were assaulted with books, fruit, porcelain, and various items as they entered. Inmates set multiple fires, and a riot squad was assembled to quash the rebellion. By 2:00 AM the following morning, all inmates had been removed from A-Row, most voluntarily surrendering but McGhee dragged out by force. Addressing the fact that an officer he assaulted survived the attack, McGhee was quoted as saying, "Next time I’ll have to stab him."
McGhee's trial
On September 27, 2007, four and a half years after his capture, McGhee went on trial for the murders of Ronnie Martin, Ryan Gonzalez, and Marjorie Mendoza. Additionally, he was charged with the attempted murder of six individuals, including LAPD officers Thomas Baker and Carlos Langarica, Duane Natividad, Erica Rhee, Pedro Sanchez, and Juan Cardiel. Prosecutors initially charged the gang member with nine murders but dropped six charges before the trial began citing unreliable witnesses. McGhee was defended by attorneys H. Clay Jacke II and Franklin Peters, Jr., attorneys with a combined 56 years of practice. In 2012, Jacke was appointed a Superior Court judge in Los Angeles County by California Governor Jerry Brown.
Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry presided over the case. Perry has overseen several high-profile cases in Los Angeles, sentencing arsonist John Leonard Orr to life in prison in 1998 and dismissing drug conspiracy charges against Howard K. Stern in 2011 regarding the death of model Anna Nicole Smith.
In court, police and prosecutors described McGhee as a thrill killer, among the most feared gang members in Los Angeles. A chilling portrayal of the life of a gang member was presented with testimony of cold-blooded murder casually implemented to protect the organization's lucrative illegal drug business. Deputy District Attorney Hoon Chun stated that, unlike most gang members who kill for revenge, McGhee seemed to kill for sport, much like a serial killer. Evidence was presented that McGhee taunted at least one of his victims, saying, "Die like a man." before firing the fatal shot into his skull. While prosecutors detailed the horrific crimes, McGhee was accused. He frequently flashed a broad smile at spectators in the courtroom.
Despite his notorious reputation, the prosecution was able to solicit the testimony of McGhee's gang rivals, former gang affiliates, and even his accomplices. Several of these witnesses were under police protection for their safety while others had to be ordered to testify. However, intimidated by the mere presence of McGhee in court, a number of rival gang members drastically changed their testimonies. Cardiel and Sanchez now claimed they weren’t sure who shot them a decade earlier. Even prosecutors, his own attorneys, and gang experts declined comment outside of court.
McGhee's incriminating hip hop lyrics were also used against him in court in which he detailed a number of his murders. He compared himself to fictional serial killer Freddy Krueger from the motion picture series A Nightmare on Elm Street and outlaw Jesse James. Residents of Atwater Village were terrified of the possibility that McGhee could be found innocent and subsequently released to terrorize the neighborhood again. Police had noted that crime escalated in the area during spans when McGhee was not in custody. Meanwhile McGhee's mother canvassed the neighborhood during his incarceration passing out leaflets that asked for prayer for her son.
Verdict
Early on in the deliberation process, a juror who favored the defense was removed for unspecified reasons and replaced by an alternate. On October 25, 2007, after a week of deliberations, eight men and four women found McGhee guilty of all three murders. He was also found guilty in the attempted murder of four other individuals including the two LAPD officers whose ambush he organized, and Duane Natividad and Erica Rhee who were shot in Atwater Village.
McGhee was acquitted of the attempted murders of Pedro Sanchez and Juan Cardiel, both of whom identified McGhee the night they were shot only to claim in court that they could not recall the perpetrator.
Sentence
On October 26, 2007, the death penalty phase of the trial began. McGhee was eligible for the death penalty because he was convicted of multiple murders and used homicide to further the activities of a criminal street gang. Prosecutors presented additional evidence that McGhee was involved in a fourth murder, that of Christina Duran. McGhee was not tried for her murder after so many witnesses refused to testify against him. On November 9, 2007 after days of deliberating, the same jury that convicted McGhee deadlocked on whether he should be executed or receive life in prison without parole. After three days of deliberations, the vote remained 10-to-2 in favor of the death penalty so prosecutors elected to retry the penalty phase of the case.
On November 14, 2007, McGhee stood trial for his role in the 2005 prison riot. He was sentenced to 75 years to life after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit an assault, conspiracy to commit vandalism, three counts of resisting executive officers in the performance of their duties, and two counts of assault. On August 27, 2008, with six sheriffs standing guard and the accused sitting shackled in an orange jumpsuit, a second jury agreed unanimously that 35-year-old McGhee should be sentenced to death.
A fatal shooting on October 8, 2008 in which a Toonerville gang member killed a Mongols motorcycle gang member on a Los Angeles interstate initiated a probe into gang activity and the prosecution of 20 Toonerville members.
On January 9, 2009, Judge Perry sentenced McGhee to death. McGhee was additionally sentenced to multiple consecutive life sentences for the four attempted murders. Perry stated that McGhee treated killing as "some kind of perverse sport, as if he was [sic] hunting human game." He continued "(McGhee) is a committed killer and an obvious danger to society." McGhee showed no emotion.
McGhee now resides on death row in San Quentin State Prison awaiting his execution as prisoner number G47302. | fbccbe9e-2a85-457b-8f81-b179ecee6be6 |
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The Hythrun Chronicles is a fantasy set of novels by Australian writer Jennifer Fallon, told in two trilogies, The Demon Child Trilogy and The Wolfblade Trilogy. The Demon Child Trilogy follows R'shiel Tenragan as she accepts her fate as the demon child and tries to hold the fabric of her world together while defeating the Karien god, Xaphista, and bringing about some much-needed changes to the four main countries of Medalon, Hythria, Fardohnya and Karien with help from multiple influential characters she befriends. The Wolfblade Trilogy, set about 30 years before, follows the life of Marla Wolfblade from the age of 15 until she is in her 40s. It also follows stories of various characters intertwined with that of Marla Wolfblade and explains much of the history in The Demon Child History as it follows Damin Wolfblade and Marla's other children growing up and how the state of affairs presented in The Demon Child Trilogy came to be. There is a fifth country introduced to the trilogy as well, Denika. It is off the map and indicated as south of Hythria and Fardohnya across the Dregian Ocean, accessed by ship.
The Demon Child Trilogy
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null | Eckhard Supp (born 23 August 1950) is a German non-fiction author, journalist, photographer and wine critic.
Early life and education
Supp was born in 1950 at Bad Ems, a small town near Koblenz.
From 1969 to 1975, he studied Pedagogics, Political Science, History, Philosophy and Sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In 1985, he took a doctoral degree (DPhil) in sociology with a thesis on Australia's aborigines (Australiens Aborigines – Ende der Traumzeit).
Photography
In 1975 and 1976, he collaborated in the compilation of an index & glossary for the complete edition of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
From 1977 to 1984, he lived and worked as a freelance photographer and journalist in Paris (France), where he cooperated with the French photo agency Rapho. From 1984 to 1989 he lived in Rome (Italy). His photoreportages took him to numerous European countries as well as to Angola, South Africa, Namibia, Australia, Mauritius, the Seychelles, the U.S. and Chile. In 2015 his photographs were exhibited at Paris, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Naples, Rome and in the U.S. (Indiana University, Bloomington). His photographs of Naples were exhibited in 1999 in The Century of the Body: 100 Photoworks 1900-2000 (Lisbon, Lausanne) together with those of Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, Brassai, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Bill Brandt, Lee Friedlander, in 2015, together with the work of Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Verena von Gagern and others it the retrospective exhibition BLOW UP – Fotografia a Napoli 1980–1990 (Naples).
Writing
Eckhard Supp is the author or co-author of more than 30 wine and travel books.
Since 1986, Eckhard Supp writes among other topics about food and wine. In 1992 he founded the publishing house of ENO Verlag, specialized in wine publications.
From 2003 to 2009, he was the editor and main author of two special volumes on wine and cooking for The Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, a German encyclopedia.
In 2005, he was editor-in-chief for two cooking magazines, essen & trinken and schöner essen at Gruner + Jahr publishers.
Since February 2015, Eckhard Supp is publisher and editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine "enos – of wine, people and cultures".
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null | Lt. Col. Elizaveta Ivanovna Mukasei (Russian: Елизаве́та Ива́новна Мукасе́й; 21 March 1912, Ufa – 19 September 2009, Moscow) was a Soviet spy codenamed Elza. Along with her husband Mikhail Mukasei (whose codename was Zephyr), she took part in a number of undercover operations in Western Europe and the United States from the 1940s through to the 1970s. She died on September 19, 2009, in Moscow at age 97. Her husband died on August 19, 2008, aged 101. | 9d6f24fb-378c-4964-b18d-610e3c61e4a7 |
null | English footballer
Edmund Eli Wood (10 February 1903 – 1 June 1986) was an English professional footballer who made 60 appearances in the Football League playing for Northampton Town, Birmingham and Newcastle United. He played as a centre half.
Wood was born in Stirchley, which was then in Worcestershire and became part of Birmingham in 1911, and played for Redditch and Rhyl Athletic before joining Northampton Town. He played 50 games in the Third Division South for Northampton, then moved to First Division club Birmingham in 1925, where he played only one first-team game. After another spell with Rhyl Wood returned to the First Division to play nine times for Newcastle United before going back to Rhyl yet again. He died in Northampton in 1986 at the age of 83.
He was the nephew of another Edmund Wood, also a footballer, who was awarded a medal in the 1901-1902 West Bromwich Charity Cup. | 9a5940fb-37a0-463f-a93a-ef71487dc1db |
null | Anchoring fibrils (composed largely of type VII collagen) extend from the basal lamina of epithelial cells and attach to the lamina reticularis (also known as the reticular lamina) by wrapping around the reticular fiber (collagen III) bundles. The basal lamina and lamina reticularis together make up the basement membrane. Anchoring fibrils are essential to the functional integrity of the dermoepidermal junction.
Epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica
Epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica, also known as Dystrophic EB (DEB) is a chronic skin condition caused when anchoring fibrils are abnormal, diminished, or absent. This causes a weak dermoepidermal junction, where the epidermis easily separates from the dermis causing much pain. This condition is caused by a mutation of COL7A1, the gene that codes for a type of collagen 7. | b96fc8d2-8940-42a5-8b16-bd1bd74cd797 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C5%BEava,_Latvia"} | Village in Ventspils, Latvia
Užava (German: Hasau) is a village in Ventspils Municipality, Latvia. It is the center of Užava Parish. Village is located on the bank of the Užava river by the highway P111 23 km from the municipal center Ventspils and 210 km from Riga. There is an elementary school, a house of culture and a library. Užavas Alus brewery is located 3 km from the village on highway P111 in direction toward Liepāja.
History
The settlement is located near the center of the former Užava manor (German: Hasau) and the Lutheran church. In the Russian Empire village belonged to the Windau district, Courland Governorate. The Evangelical Lutheran Church was built in 1783 and renovated in 1892. A Baptist parish was founded in 1861 and a church was built in 1888. This church establishment marks the beginning of the Baptist movement in Latvia. It became a larger settlement in the post World War Two years, when Užava was the center of Soviet farm Užava. When Latvia was part of Soviet Union the division of surface-to-air missile system S-125 Neva/Pechora was located in the village. | a72859ab-51bc-44b6-8c42-dbd3c28d473d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_Copa_del_Rey"} | Football tournament season
The Copa del Rey 1906 was the 4th staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition.
The competition started on 9 April 1906, and concluded on 11 April 1906 with the last group stage match. Madrid FC lifted the trophy for the second time with two victories, over Recreativo de Huelva and Athletic Bilbao, with the three teams that entered the tournament playing in a triangular.
The X Sporting Club, Catalonia championship winners, did not enter the tournament due to internal dissent and the excessive costs of travelling to Madrid.
Almost all of the Recreativo de Huelva team players were English.
Group stage
Hipódromo, Madrid
Referee:
Javier Prado (Athletic Bilbao)
Hipódromo, Madrid
Referee:
William Waterson (Recreativo de Huelva)
Hipódromo, Madrid
Referee:
Antonio Alonso (Madrid FC) | ad686c22-a0b3-46e7-8f6c-a6e1d2b254c8 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone_Lane"} | Marylebone Lane is one of the original streets of the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster, London. It runs from Oxford Street in the south to Marylebone High Street in the north, its winding shape following the course of the River Tyburn that it once ran alongside and pre-dating the grid pattern of the other streets in the area. Today the lane is largely composed of small shops, cafes and restaurants with some small apartment blocks. There are some larger commercial buildings at the southern end near Oxford Street.
History
Marylebone Lane dates back to the original medieval village of Tyburn, which stood at the south end of the lane near Oxford Street where Stratford Place is now. The lane followed the course of the River Tyburn, which once ran south alongside it before crossing Oxford Street, giving the lane a narrow and winding character that is still preserved today and making what Tony Aldous called a "rustic diagonal". The Tyburn has since been culverted and enclosed. and now runs entirely underground. The area became part of London after it was urbanised using a grid plan in the early 1700s.
Location
Marylebone Lane runs from Oxford Street in the south, where it is now pedestrianised, to the beginning of Marylebone High Street in the north. The junction with Oxford Street was once split into two with a small group of buildings between the two entrances. In the south it is joined by Henrietta Place on its eastern side and crossed by Wigmore Street halfway up. Jason Court and Hinde Mews join it on the western side above Wigmore Street and Hinde Street joins it on the west and continues eastwards as Bentinck Street. Bentinck Mews runs off Marylebone Lane on its eastern side and the street is crossed by Bulstrode Street in the north. At its northern end, Bulstrode Place and Cross Keys Close join Marylebone Lane on its eastern side before the lane joins Marylebone High Street.
Character
Marylebone Lane is mostly made up of small shops, boutiques, cafes, restaurants and pubs, with some small apartment blocks. The haberdashers V.V. Rouleaux are at number 102 and The Ivy Cafe at the north end of the lane.
Marylebone Lane has three public houses:
The southern part of the street includes some larger buildings, such as Debenhams department store, which borders the street, and the Radisson Blu Edwardian, Berkshire hotel. The entrance to the Welbeck Street Car Park is in the southern part of Marylebone Lane, adjacent to the London Steinway Hall.
The Marylebone Court House once stood at the south end of the street and was erected by the Earl of Oxford as a manorial court. It was demolished and rebuilt in 1825 but retained the same name. After no longer being used as a court it became Marylebone Town Hall for a time and was also used as a hall for public speaking.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatun_Machay"} | Archaeological site in Peru
Hatun Machay (possibly from Quechua hatun big, mach'ay cave) is a rock forest with archaeological remains in Peru. It was declared a National Cultural Heritage by Resolución Directoral No. 944/INC-2010 on May 7, 2010. Hatun Mach'ay is situated on the western side of the Cordillera Negra in the Ancash Region, Recuay Province, Pampas Chico District, at a height of about 4,200 metres (13,780 ft). | b1d1387c-305d-4a7c-9032-eab78e8eb1f6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Warwick"} | English rock musician
Musical artist
Clint Warwick (born Albert Eccles; 25 June 1940 – 15 May 2004) was an English musician known as the original bassist for the rock band the Moody Blues.
Life and career
Warwick was born in Aston, Birmingham, England.
He was drawn to music during the skiffle boom of the late 1950s, joining Danny King and the Dukes and playing in Birmingham pubs and other venues. Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder, who had played together in Hamburg with the Krew Kats, decided to form a group with the addition of Denny Laine, who had fronted the Diplomats, Graeme Edge, who had been a member of Gerry Levene and the Avengers, and Eccles—who changed his name to Clint Warwick by putting together the names of his favourite singer, Dionne Warwick, and his favourite actor, Clint Walker.
The Moody Blues released one album with Warwick on bass, Go Now - The Moody Blues #1 (USA release on London Records), whereas The Magnificent Moodies was released on Decca in the UK, with sleeve notes by Donovan and a different track listing. The album yielded the hit single "Go Now", which reached No. 1 in the UK in January 1965, and the Top Ten in the U.S. Warwick took one co-lead vocal on that album with Laine, on the track "I've Got A Dream" (which featured Ray Thomas on flute). The closing track "'Bye Bye Bird" was issued as an overseas single and became a hit in France.
Warwick was also on the EP The Moody Blues issued on Decca in 1964, and appeared on all their Decca singles, beginning with their debut, "Steal Your Heart Away" (1964), then "Go Now", "I Don't Want to Go On Without You", "Everyday", "From The Bottom Of My Heart (I Love You)" (all 1965), plus "Boulevard De La Madeline" (1966) up to "Life's Not Life" in 1966.
Warwick's and Laine's era of the Moody Blues was featured on various compilation albums on both vinyl and CD, such as The Moody Blues Collection. A later CD issue of The Magnificent Moodies in 2006 included the rare track "People Gotta Give" (mistitled as "People Gotta Go") - a Pinder-Laine composition from the Boulevard De La Madeline French EP release.
Film footage survives of the original line-up of The Moody Blues performing "Go Now" on BBC2's The Beat Room (later included in the BBC series Sounds of The Sixties) plus the first single's B-side "Lose Your Money (But Don't Lose Your Mind)" on Ready Steady Go! in August 1964 with Warwick and Laine performing, and has been re-screened in recent years.
Feeling stressed by touring, Warwick left the band and his music career in 1966 to become a carpenter and spend time with his family. He released his first solo recording in 2002, a CD single entitled "My Life, the Waltz," and was working on another solo recording at the time of his death from hepatitis at the age of 63. | 6e0d1c53-e03b-4b93-875c-a53007fe9f2e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batang_Ai_Dam"} | Dam
The Batang Ai Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam in Batang Ai National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia. The power station comprises four 25 MW turbines, totalling the installed capacity to 100 MW. The station is operated by Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation. Preparations for the dam began as early as 1975, before the design was published in 1977. Construction started in 1982 with the river diversion work and the last turbine completed in 1985. The Batang Ai project, a relatively modest dam financed by the Asian Development Bank, caused the displacement of approximately 3,000 people from 26 longhouses. These people have since been accommodated in the Batang Ai Resettlement Scheme to cultivate cocoa and rubber but the programme has not been successful. | fea7fe00-1ded-46c7-a71f-d8fca145822d |
null | Process where unique economic goods become interchangeable in the eyes of consumers
In business literature, commoditization is defined as the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes (uniqueness or brand) end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers. It is the movement of a market from differentiated to undifferentiated price competition and from monopolistic competition to perfect competition. Hence, the key effect of commoditization is that the pricing power of the manufacturer or brand owner is weakened: when products become more similar from a buyer's point of view, they will tend to buy the cheapest.
This is not to be confused with commodification, which is the concept of objects or services being assigned an exchange value which they did not previously possess by their being produced and presented for sale, as opposed to personal use. One way to summarize the difference is that commoditization is about proprietary things becoming generic, whereas commodification is about nonsaleable things becoming saleable. In social sciences, particularly anthropology, the term is used interchangeably with commodification to describe the process of making commodities out of anything that was not available for trade previously.
Commoditization can be the desired outcome of an entity in the market, or it can be an unintentional outcome that no party actively sought to achieve. (For example, see Xerox#Trademark.)
According to Neo-classical economic theory, consumers can benefit from commoditization, since perfect competition usually leads to lower prices. Branded producers often suffer under commoditization, since the value of the brand (and ability to command price premiums) can be weakened.
However, false commoditization can create substantial risk when premier products do have substantial value to offer, particularly in health, safety and security. Examples are counterfeit drugs and generic network services (loss of 911).[citation needed] | 3762f315-b5ab-43de-89b7-0f69e1ee7025 |
null | 1996 British film
Gallivant is the first feature-length movie by Andrew Kötting. Released in 1996, it was a "highly idiosyncratic" documentary. It recorded a journey the director took clockwise around the coast of Britain accompanied by his 85-year-old grandmother, Gladys, and his seven-year-old daughter Eden. Eden was born at Guy's Hospital, London, in 1988 with a rare genetic disorder, Joubert syndrome, causing cerebral vermis hypoplasia and several other neurological complications. The growing closeness between these two and the sense of impending mortality give the film its emotional underpinning.
Reception
Gallivant premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, where it won the Channel 4 Best New Director prize. It was ranked number 49 in Time Out's list of the 100 best British films. Stewart Lee, reacting against the one star review Peter Bradshaw gave it in The Guardian, considers it ‘one of the 10 greatest films ever made’. | e1bdd783-55d6-4c6b-a8e9-d3e2b5bf1d62 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Fisher"} | Former Scotland & Chile international rugby league footballer
Benjamin Thomas Fisher (born 4 February 1981), also known by the nickname of "Fish", is a former Scotland international rugby league footballer who was player-assistant coach for the London Broncos in the Super League. A Scotland international representative Hooker, he previously played for Hull Kingston Rovers of Super League, and Halifax.
Club career
Halifax RLFC
Fisher signed for Halifax from North Sydney Bears in November 2004 and the Sydney-born number nine, has a British passport so is not an overseas quota player. Ben spent three seasons on the books of the Sydney Roosters before joining the Bears in 2001, scooped the club's "Best and Fairest" player award. In 31 appearances in 2005 season for Halifax he scored 17 tries. And he is one of Rovers' growing band of internationals, being a member of the Scotland squad.
Hull KR
In May 2008 Ben signed an extension to his contract keeping him at Hull Kingston Rovers until the end of 2011.
International
Scotland
He was named in the Scotland training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.
He was named in the Scotland squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.
In 2010 he represented Scotland in the Alitalia European Cup.
Chile
On 30 September 2017 he represented Chile in the 20–20 draw v Thailand at the Hillier Oval, in Sydney; he played loose forward. | 61af8f88-b899-4829-8f88-24b3322ffcd7 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Home_Affairs_(Namibia)"} | Namibian government department
The Namibian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is a department of the Namibian government. It was established at Namibian independence in 1990, the first minister was Hifikepunye Pohamba who later became Namibia's second president. In 2020, Home Affairs was merged with the Ministry of Safety and Security and renamed Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security (MHAISS). The current[update] minister is Albert Kawana.
Beside its functions as interior ministry, MHAISS also oversees the Namibian police and the prisons.
Ministers
All home affairs ministers in chronological order are: | 2f63b032-abec-46fc-a8b0-c9d2d11235f9 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelino_Teodoro"} | Filipino politician
Marcelino "Marcy" Reyes Teodoro (born August 2, 1970), is a Filipino politician who is the 12th and incumbent Mayor of Marikina. Prior to his election as mayor, Teodoro served as the representative for Marikina's 1st congressional district from 2007 to 2016.
Early life
Teodoro was born on August 2, 1970, at a small clinic in Barangay Santa Elena, Marikina. He is the only child of Amado Teodoro, a government official, and Lydia Reyes, a teacher. He spent most his childhood with his maternal grandparents because both his parents were both busy with work. He completed his elementary education at San Roque Elementary School as a valedictorian in 1982 and secondary education at Marikina Institute of Science and Technology as salutatorian in 1986. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy at the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1990. The following semester after his graduation, at 19, he decided to delay law school and instead taught logic and social philosophy at the same university. He also attended graduate studies at the Ateneo de Manila University under the program of Master of Arts in Teaching Philosophy wherein he got a certificate course in 1997.
Political career
Local Politics
Teodoro was elected as a councilor of Marikina in 1992 at the age of 21.
Congressional career
Teodoro ran for representative in Marikina's 1st congressional district as an independent with the support of the then-incumbent mayor Marides Fernando. He would later win the election, becoming the district's first ever representative.
Legislative Portfolio
On July 2, 2007, Teodoro initiated a bill to establish compulsory computer education for elementary and high school curricula and for other purposes. The bill called for the inclusion of computer education in the curriculum of public and private elementary and high schools. A day later, Teodoro authored a measure which provides for free public preschool education to all qualified children in order to promote quality education in all levels.
Teodoro was involved in the Billboard Regulation Act of 2007, which lists the prohibitions with regard to the installation of billboards and signage, to wit: a) those that obstruct the view of vehicular or pedestrian traffic; b) those on posts or walls that obstruct roadways and pedestrian lanes; c) those that take the space reserved for safety and informative road signs; d) those that block any rural or urban natural vista; among others.
Mayor of Marikina
Teodoro was elected Mayor of Marikina in 2016, defeating incumbent Mayor Del de Guzman. He was reelected in 2019.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Teodoro's government was lauded for its response, particularly for the establishment of a testing facility for health workers and suspected patients.
Electoral History
Personal life
Teodoro is married to Marjorie Ann Ang, a teacher and a 2022 candidate for representative of the 1st district of Marikina, with whom he has one daughter named Francesca Ysabela Teodoro. | 855d42d8-ab0d-4aba-8193-b347e17feb51 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayrakke%C5%9Fli"} | Village in Mersin Province, Turkey
Kayrakkeşli (also called Kayrakkeşlik) is a village in Mersin Province, Turkey. It's part of Toroslar district (which is an intracity district within Mersin city). It is situated on the road connecting Mersin to mountains villages in the Toros Mountains at 36°56′N 34°29′E / 36.933°N 34.483°E / 36.933; 34.483. The distance to Mersin is 25 kilometres (16 mi). The population of the village was 181 as of 2012. | 27ffb359-8e5f-4f30-8241-3c8ec5cf0f1a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Mastroianni"} | Canadian actor
Pasquale "Pat" Mastroianni (born December 22, 1971) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Joey Jeremiah in the Degrassi franchise, for which he received a Gemini Award in 1988.
Biography
Mastroianni grew up in Toronto, the son of Angela and Angelo Mastroianni. He is of Italian heritage. He later recalled that he had first heard about the audition of Degrassi over his school's PA system.
Mastroianni was among the cast of Degrassi that were named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors by the Ontario branch of UNICEF Canada in 1989. Along with cast member Amanda Stepto, Mastroianni visited the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.
After Degrassi High ended in 1992, Mastroianni worked as a waiter and a paver in his father's construction business, and gave up college for acting when his university mandated that he devote all his time to his studies. He had roles in several Canadian productions, including Liberty Street and Music Works. Though he was quoted as saying in 1998 that there was "very little" chance of a Degrassi sequel,[citation needed] Degrassi: The Next Generation began in 2001, where Mastroianni reprised his role as Joey for five seasons.
Mastroianni was a guest star on the supernatural medical drama Saving Hope.
Mastroianni continues acting[when?] and living in Toronto.
Filmography
Film
Television | 1541a12c-07ee-4874-bdfb-29d265cffab8 |
null | Unfinished novel by Philip K. Dick
The Owl in Daylight is a novel Philip K. Dick was writing at the time of his death in 1982. He had already been paid an advance for the book by the publisher and was working against a deadline. After his death, his estate approached other writers about the possibility of someone completing the novel based on his notes, but that proved to be impossible, as he had never formally outlined the story. Dick viewed the novel as his Finnegans Wake. The idea was inspired partly by an entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica on Beethoven that referred to him as the most creative genius of all time, partly by traditional views of what constitutes the human heaven (visions of lights), and finally by the Faust story.
However, Andrew M. Butler's alternative plot summaries seem to suggest that he might have become fascinated by Dante's Divine Comedy as a form of theophany. In his final completed work, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, his narrator, Angel Archer, shows similar appreciation for Dante's masterpiece, which suggests that this argument may have some merit.
Claims about possible content
Nearly all that is known about one interpretation of the projected plot came from a discussion that Dick had with his journalist friend Gwen Lee on January 10, 1982, which Lee transcribed and later published.
By contrast, Andrew M. Butler cites multiple sources for his own contentions about the possible plot, which are cited below. They include references within Greg Rickman's The Last Testament (1985), Lawrence Sutin's In Pursuit of VALIS (1991), and the interview collection What if Our World is Their Heaven? (2006), cited above.
Both are shown to be correct in The Selected Letters of Philip K Dick Volume 6: 1980 -1982, where one can read Dick's own description of the story and what he wanted to do with it. The plot was to express what he believed was an evolutionary step in humanity, using an interpretation of Joachim de Fiore, where he believed that one age of humanity used the left side of the brain, another the right, and the future would combine the two leading to a greater understanding of what is real. Moreover, the use of Dante was to demonstrate how hell, purgatory and heaven can all be experiences of life, showing how the world is experienced according to the left, right and whole of the brain.
Possible plot summaries
The novel dealt with one Ed Firmley, a composer of scores for B-movie grade sci-fi films, and a race of alien humanoids that had evolved without the development of sound as a basis of communication. The shamans of this alien race would on occasion have visions of Earth and its many sounds. Due to their unique evolution without sound the holy men were incapable of describing these experiences to the rest of their race. They just knew that the place they saw was their heaven. Meanwhile their race was modeled around sight and light, encompassing much more of the electromagnetic spectrum than the limited human vision. In fact, from their perspective, humans were capable of sight but nearly blind, such as a mole appears to a human. Their language involved the telepathic projection of color patterns in precise gradations and following mathematical formulas.
A spaceship carrying members of this race arrives on Earth and they mug Firmley as a cover-up for plugging a bio-chip into his head. This bio-chip is a digitized form of one of the aliens with a link back to the ship – essentially allowing everyone to experience Firmley by proxy. The bio-chip is supposed to be passive, serving only as a means of relaying the mystic experience of sound to an entire race. Soon the alien presence in the bio-chip becomes bored of Firmley’s music, which is bland, schmaltzy schlock, and the pop music that he constantly listens to. As a consequence of this boredom, the bio-chip turns from being passive to active, controlling what Firmley listens to as well as feeding him mathematical formulas that he begins to use as the basis of his compositions. His career, from a financial perspective, dwindles, but he becomes a respected avant-garde artist. The active role the bio-chip takes in the relationship begins frying Firmley’s brain. At this point the aliens make themselves known and offer to remove the chip, but Firmley refuses. He sees himself as an artist whereas before, he was of no consequence, doing what he did simply for money. Firmley decides to give up his body to be transformed into a bio-chip which is in turn implanted into an alien brain. This will also lead to the eventual death of the alien host, but it offers Firmley a chance of experiencing their world of lights, our heaven.
However, Andrew M. Butler offers several alternative summaries which contradict the Lee/Dick interview cited above. A god-like being, Ditheon, fuses the Torah and Jesus Christ into a single being and takes over an individual. A scientist travels through the events of Dante's Divine Comedy, and a Beethoven-like composer is writing a film score, while pursued by aliens.
A scientist creates a theme park that is related to the events of his youth, whereupon a sentient artificial intelligence imprisons him within it, as a youth. He has to travel through Dantean realities (and artist, political activist and gay social networks in the Berkeley of the 1940s and 1950s) to return home and resume his life as an old man.
Alternatively, Dante's Divine Comedy is a portal to alternate subjective realities that represent three ways of perceiving the world.
"The owl in daylight" is a phrase Dick heard on television. It means "not to understand", or "to be blind".
Tessa Dick version
Dick's former wife Tessa wrote her own version of The Owl in Daylight, which was self-published in January 2009. The novel uses little to none of the material that Philip K. Dick was working on at the time of his death, though it does bear many similarities. She remarked, "I attempted to express the spirit of Phil's proposed novel, without using his plot or the one character that he had created ... Phil had written very little about this novel ... It was very sketchy and did not even name any characters ... The Owl in Daylight is my concept of what Phil's novel should be." At the request of the Philip K. Dick Estate, Mrs. Dick voluntarily removed her novel from publication, making copies rare and hard to come by.
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null | American lawyer
Jacob A. Rush, also known as Jake Rush, is an American attorney known for challenging incumbent Theodore Scott "Ted" Yoho for the United States House of Representatives seat for Florida's 3rd congressional district in 2014.
Rush announced his candidacy on March 24, 2014, with a two-day series of announcements in different Florida towns.
Platform
Stephen Colbert, a comedian, satirically described Rush as a "staunch conservative, a free-market capitalist, small government, walk softly and carry a big stick kind of guy." Colbert also stated that Rush "is running on a platform of traditional marriage, strict constitutionalism, strong national defense, and repealing Obamacare", which Rush agreed was true.
Rush had three main points he listed running on, being:
Rush characterized himself as a "straight shooter" and a conservative Republican.
John Konkus, of the GOP consulting firm Jamestown Associates, served as Rush's media adviser. Alex Patton of Ozean Media served as campaign adviser.
Rush was endorsed by the Conservative Party of Florida, a reversal of their endorsement of incumbent Ted Yoho in the last election cycle.
Career
Previously, Rush worked as a Sheriff's deputy at the Alachua County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Steve Oelrich. While in that position, part of Rush's roles were to investigate D.U.I.s. Rush returned to the force after law school, still at the A.S.O., as a volunteer reserve deputy.
As of mid 2014, Rush works for his father's firm, the Law Office of Robert A. Rush, otherwise known as Rush & Glassman. As of late 2019, Rush is no longer employed with that firm.
Personal life
Rush is the son of Robert and Kristy Rush and was raised in their home town of Gainesville, Florida. Robert is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Florida. He was a producer of the Gainesville production of Elvis People, working with associate producer Emilee MacDonald and playwright Doug Grissom.
After high school, Rush was selected to attend the West Point Military Academy, but declined the offer to attend the University of Florida, his father's alma mater. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in Classics. While at university, Rush participated in the Theatre Strike Force, an improv acting club.
Rush received national attention for his involvement in live action role playing (LARP). Rush is a member of The Mind's Eye Society, an online role playing community described as "not dissimilar from Dungeons and Dragons, but with a Gothic supernatural bent." He is also a leader in the Gainesville Covenant of the Poisoned Absinthe, a live action roleplaying group made up "of an assortment of games from White Wolf's selection, including Vampire: The Masquerade, Changeling: The Lost, and Mage: The Awakening."
Prior to announcing his candidacy, Rush deleted some photos and websites regarding his role-playing activities, and told the Gainesville Sun that "I had scrubbed as much as I could Google of myself, just because it's a little embarrassing, and I didn't want it to overshadow my campaign. I didn't want this to happen, basically."
Rush and his wife Anne have one child, named Victor. | 9025fe75-d962-4f44-a27f-57a6c0d5d7d3 |
null | British art director
Tony Reading was a British art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Ragtime.
Selected filmography | 1683fcf3-01f3-4e01-b9b5-0d4fc08203d5 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Vuelta_a_Espa%C3%B1a"} | 71st edition of the Vuelta a España
Cycling race
The 2016 Vuelta a España was a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race that took place in Spain between 20 August and 11 September 2016. The race was the 71st edition of the Vuelta a España and the final Grand Tour of the 2016 cycling season.
The race included 21 stages, beginning with a team time trial that started in Ourense. The subsequent stages included 10 summit finishes. The race ended in Madrid.
The overall winner was Nairo Quintana of team Movistar, with Chris Froome (Team Sky) second and Esteban Chaves (Orica–BikeExchange) third.
Teams
The eighteen UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and obliged to attend the race. The organiser of the Vuelta, Unipublic, was also able to invite four UCI Professional Continental teams – the second tier of professional cycling teams – as wildcards.
The teams entering the race were:
World Tour teams
Professional Continental teams
Route
The route of the 2016 Vuelta was announced on 9 January 2016. In contrast to the two previous editions of the Vuelta, which had begun in Andalusia, this edition spent its first week in Galicia in the north-west of Spain. The first stage was a team time trial to Castrelo de Miño. The first significant climb of the race was at the end of the third stage, which was the first of ten summit finishes in the race. The route travelled through Asturias before coming to the Basque Country; the fourteenth stage, described by Cyclingnews.com as the hardest of the race, took place mainly just across the border in France. The route continued down the eastern coast of Spain over the next few days, with several mountainous stages, with the race's only individual time trial coming on stage 19. One more mountainous stage followed, finishing on the Alto de Aitana, before the riders travelled to Madrid for the closing stage on a circuit in the city centre.
Classification leadership
The race included four principal classifications. The first of these was the general classification, which was calculated by adding up each rider's times on each stage and applying the relevant time bonuses. These were 10 seconds for the stage winner, 6 seconds for the rider in second, and 4 seconds for the rider in third, and 3, 2 and 1 seconds for the first three riders at each intermediate sprint; no bonuses were awarded on the time trial stages. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Vuelta. The rider leading the classification wore a red jersey.
The second classification was the points classification. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top fifteen places on each stage and in the top three at each intermediate sprint. The first rider at each stage finish was awarded 25 points, the second 20 points, the third 16 points, the fourth 14 points, the fifth 12 points, the sixth 10 points, down to 1 point for the rider in fifteenth. At the intermediate sprints, the first three riders won 4, 2 and 1 points respectively. The rider with the most points won the classification and wore a green jersey.
The third classification was the mountains classification. Most stages of the race included one or more categorised climbs. Stages were categorised as third-, second-, first- and special-category, with the more difficult climbs rated higher. The most difficult climb of the race was given its own category as the Cima Alberto Fernández. Points were awarded for the first riders across the summit of each climb; the rider with the most accumulated points won the classification and wore a white jersey with blue polka dots.
The fourth individual classification was the combination classification. This was calculated by adding up each rider's position on the other three individual classifications. The rider with the lowest cumulative score was the winner of the classification and wore a white jersey.
The final classification was a team classification. This was calculated by adding together the times of each team's best three riders on each stage. The team with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the classification. There was also a combativeness prize awarded on each stage; three riders were chosen on each stage by a race jury to recognise the rider "who displayed the most courageous effort". There was then a public vote to decide which rider would be awarded the prize; the rider wore a red dossard (race number) the following day. An identical procedure took place on the final stage to decide the most combative rider of the whole Vuelta.
Final standings
General classification
Points classification
Mountains classification
Combination classification
Team classification
Controversy
In stage 15, more than 90 riders were 10 km/h slower than the winner and finished far outside of the time cut. They were, nevertheless, allowed to stay in the race. Of the six remaining stages, five were won by riders from that grupetto (Drucker, Frank, 2x Cort Nielsen, Latour), Froome being the only exception after winning the time trial (stage 19).
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Jones"} | British former racing cyclist (born 1962)
Amanda Ellen "Mandy" Jones is a British former racing cyclist born in 1962 who won the women's world road race championship in 1982.
Biography
Jones joined the West Pennine Road Club to ride on Sunday outings. She rode her first race in 1974 and five years later tied with Julie Earnshaw for first place in the national junior 10-mile time trial championship. They recorded 25m 42s.
The experience persuaded her to race seriously. She rode the world road race championship for Britain in 1980, when she was 18, and took the bronze medal behind the American Beth Heiden on a tough circuit at Sallanches, in the French Alps.
The Golden Book of Cycling, which she signed when she was 29, said: "Her potential was evident: Britain had a new star in the making."
She won the national 3,000m individual pursuit championship at Leicester in 1982, broke the world 5,000 metres record on the same track in the same year, and became national 50-mile time-trial champion.
Riding the world championship road race in Goodwood, Sussex, England that year, she broke clear of the field to win by 10 seconds. She was the first British woman to win a world championship for 15 years. She said:
"I won by accident. It was just plain daft. We were going downhill and I just rode past them. Then I looked back, saw I had a gap and kept going. I was praying my legs wouldn't collapse. But with around half a lap to go, I started thinking 'Hey, I could win this!"
She was, said the Golden Book of Cycling, "the perfect example of how a youngster, while enjoying the companionship and adventure of club runs, can successfully aspire to becoming a world champion by self-dedication and encouragement."
She ran cycle shop Surosa Cycles in Oldham, Greater Manchester with her husband until January 2015.
In 2009, she was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame. | fe6533fe-c480-4f95-9e99-92f8d136e4e1 |
null | Brazilian footballer
Cláudio Oliveira de Souza or simply Cláudio Maradona (born July 25, 1994), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Iraqi Premier League club Newroz.
Club career
Maradona started playing football in Ferroviário and Itabaiana, and also played for the Portuguese club Alcanenense, and in July 2016 he moved to São José, and he was with the Copa Metropolitana winning team in 2016, and part of the team when it won the 2018 Copa do Nordeste and was the third scorer. After that, he played on loan to several Brazilian clubs: Macaé, Sampaio Corrêa, Boavista, Americano, and Madureira. He then returned to play for his club in Série C.
In August 2022, Maradona moved to play in the Iraqi Premier League, where he signed a one-year contract with Newroz. After only fourteen league matches, Maradona scored eight goals and became the interim top scorer of the league.
Honours
São José
Sampaio Corrêa
Americano | da710dbf-0d2d-41e1-9650-beadc546f215 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Smejkal"} | Czech professional ice hockey forward (born 1996)
Ice hockey player
Jiří Smejkal (born 5 November 1996) is a Czech professional ice hockey forward. He is currently playing with Lahti Pelicans of the Finnish Liiga.
Playing career
Smejkal started his career in the youth setup at HC Ceske Budejovice. He was picked by Medveščak Zagreb in the 2013 KHL draft. In 2014, he headed over the Atlantic to hone his skills in the Western Hockey League (WHL), joining the Moose Jaw Warriors. In his first year with the Warriors, Smejkal made 72 WHL appearances, tallying 12 goals and 20 assists. He also started the 2015-16 campaign playing for the team but was traded to fellow WHL side Kamloops Blazers in January 2016.
On 15 July 2016, Smejkal signed with Medveščak Zagreb of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He left for HC Sparta Praha on 31 January 2017.
International play
Smejkal has represented his country on several occasions, including the under-18 World Championships in 2014, where the Czech Republic won silver, and the under-20 World Championships in 2016.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic_Moore"} | American basketball player
Nic Moore (born July 1, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for Boulazac Basket Dordogne of the LNB Pro B. Moore played college basketball for the SMU Mustangs. He was named American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016. Moore previously competed for the Illinois State Redbirds.
College career
Moore played his freshman year at Illinois State, where he averaged 10.0 points and 3.9 assists per game and was named to the Missouri Valley Conference All-Freshman team. In the first round of the 2012 National Invitation Tournament, Moore scored 24 points in a 96-93 win against Ole Miss. He posted 25 points in their 92-88 loss to eventual champion Stanford. After the season, Illinois State coach Tim Jankovich accepted an assistant coach job at SMU. "As soon as Coach Jankovich left I made up my mind and knew I wanted to go play for a BCS program," Moore stated. "It didn't matter who was going to be the head coach. My decision had already been made." He ended up transferring to SMU to play under Larry Brown.
In his sophomore season, Moore posted averages of 13.6 points, 4.9 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 32.2 minutes per game. Moore scored in double figures in 30 of the Mustangs' 37 games. In the quarterfinals of the 2014 National Invitation Tournament, he hit a 3-pointer to in the closing seconds to help SMU to a 67-65 win over California.
As a junior, Moore led SMU in scoring (14.2 points per game) and assists (5.2 per game) in 34.5 minutes per game. He shot 42.2 percent from the floor and 40.8 percent on 3-pointers. Moore, who called being coached by Larry Brown stressful, improved his hot-headedness and won praised for having a quick hand. "He [Brown] showed me the ropes of the game," Moore said. "I thought I knew it, but he slowed my game down and made me think like a point guard and how to be a leader." He was named American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year. He scored 24 points in the NCAA Tournament game versus UCLA. After a controversial goaltending call gave the Bruins a one-point lead with 13 seconds to go, Moore missed two shots to ensure a 60-59 win for UCLA.
On February 1, 2016, he was named one of 10 finalists for the Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award. He was named to the 35-man midseason watchlist for the Naismith Trophy on February 11.
Professional career
On July 8, 2016, Moore signed with Italian club New Basket Brindisi for the 2016–17 season.
On July 6, 2017, Moore signed with the French team Nanterre 92 for the 2017–18 season. On November 7, 2017, he left Nanterre and returned to New Basket Brindisi. He averaged 13 points per game with the club. Moore signed with Virtus Roma on June 29, 2018.
On March 1, 2021, he joined S.L. Benfica of the LPB in Portugal.
On July 28, 2021, he has signed with MKS Dąbrowa Górnicza of the Polish Basketball League (PLK).
On November 4, 2021, he has signed with Boulazac Basket Dordogne of the LNB Pro B.
International career
Moore competed on behalf of the United States in the 2015 World University Games, playing with mainly Kansas Jayhawks players. He averaged 6.8 points and 3.0 rebounds per game. Moore started all eight games for Team USA and helped the team go 8-0 and win a gold medal. | 277d3ca0-539c-422b-945e-32ad13d29094 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breza,_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina"} | Town and municipality in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Breza (Serbian Cyrillic: Бреза) is a town and municipality located in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is famous for mining and production of coal. It covers an area of 73 km2 (28 sq mi).
History
Breza as a settlement was first time mentioned in documents dating from the 2nd century as Hedum Kastelum (Inhabited Castle). The ancient town was the capital of the infamous Daesitiates, an Ilyrian tribe which had most of the territory of modern central Bosnia under control before being crushed by the Romans.[citation needed]
Geography
According to the 2013 census, the municipality has a population of 14,168 inhabitants.
Education
The municipality has three primary schools and two secondary schools, one of which is a gymnasium and the other one is a technical/vocational school.
Sport
Breza is famous for having one of the oldest clubs formed in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the football club Rudar was formed in 1924.[citation needed] The town is also famous for many local volleyball and basketball clubs.
Villages in the municipality of Breza
Demographics
1971
In the 1971 census:
1991
In the 1991 census, the municipality of Breza had 17,317 residents:
2013
In the 2013 census, the municipality of Breza had 14,168 residents:
In the 2013 census, the town of Breza had 3,014 residents:
Notable people | a9a3e0dc-d6f2-4e5e-a554-6c0b950948ce |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgsdorf_station"} | Borgsdorf (in German Bahnhof Borgsdorf) is a railway station in the village of Borgsdorf (town Hohen Neuendorf), Brandenburg, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn. There is also a connection to local bus service. | 0996be3c-b70e-41ce-a21c-aa3b2ff5e91c |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_College,_Hobart"} | Single-sex, day school in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
St Mary's College is a Kinder to Year 12 Catholic, day school for girls (and boys to Year 2), located on the northern city fringe of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Although predominantly a girls’ school, St Mary's accepts both boys and girls until Grade 2, and currently caters for approximately 900 students from Kindergarten to Year 12. It is located on the grounds of St Mary's Cathedral, next to the Junior School campus of St Virgil's College. Boys who attend St Mary's for Kindergarten to Year 2 generally transfer to St Virgil's College Junior School Campus located just next door.
St Mary's College is a member of the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australia. In 2008 St Mary's College celebrated its 140th birthday as a school of the Presentation Sisters. Its slogan to celebrate this year was "St Mary's College. A proud past. A strong future".
History
St Mary's College was founded by the Presentation Sisters in 1868, and although students are no longer exclusively taught by sisters of the order, they still administer the college. Originally there were two schools on the present-day campus - St Columba's (a free primary school for the poorer community) and Mt St Mary's. The two were eventually merged. The original convent and school-rooms are still on-site today.
Although it is primarily an all-girls school, until the opening of St Virgil's College in 1911, the college catered for boys in senior grades as well. The college only taught Preparatory to Grade 12 until 1996, when the Kindergarten was opened. Until the 1990s the college's Principal was always a member of the order, but the last of the Presentation Sisters to be Principal was Sister Barbara Amott. Sister Barbara has been a teacher and active member of St Mary's College for many years, and has been Principal on several occasions. The current Principal is Helen Spencer.
Curriculum
St Mary's College is currently implementing the Australian Curriculum in grades Prep-10. All subjects are compulsory in grades 7 and 8. In grades 9 and 10, students choose a certain number of elective subjects, as well as having core subjects. In Grade 11/12, students choose subjects which must add up to a minimum of 700 hours per year. Many of these subjects are prerequisites for university courses.
Co-curriculum
The school offers a variety of after-school activities in both sporting and arts areas. Sports include hockey, badminton, soccer, and rowing. The rowing boat shed is jointly own by St Mary's College, St Virgil's College, and Guilford Young College, and is located in Newtown Bay. Other activities include the Junior and Senior School Choirs, the Senior Choral Group, the Senior Concert and Jazz bands, St Vincent de Paul Society, Debating, and Public Speaking.
In the past, the college held a biannual Arts Festival, which went for the three days before Hobart Show Day. During this week the students were allowed to choose from a variety of activities that included making jewellery, painting murals, and learning to belly dance. The Long Lunch, a picnic lunch on the school lawns, happened every arts festival, as did "KickArts", a competition in which other local schools entered their rock bands.
Sport
St Mary's College is a member of the Sports Association of Tasmanian Independent Schools (SATIS).
SATIS premierships
St Mary's College has won the following SATIS premierships.
Religion
St Mary's College is located next to St Mary's Cathedral. The College celebrates the Catholic liturgical year by attending Mass. | 69b15ee8-f6b1-49a2-869e-7e0f4513ae0c |
null | Léon-Eugène Méhédin (21 February 1828, L'Aigle – 4 March 1905, Bonsecours) was a French archaeologist, architect and photographer.
Méhédin's was a fervent Bonapartist and his career was greatly facilitated when he erected two triumphal arches in L'Aigle in 1851 to celebrate Napoléon III's French coup of that year. In 1855, he designed Civitavecchia's train station and went on a mission of photo reconnaissance to the Crimean War with Jean-Charles Langlois.
In 1859, he drew a portrait of Napoleon III. He compiled an archaeological album on Egypt. In 1865, he photographed the ruins of Xochicalco for the Scientific Commission of Mexico in Paris. He also made a papier-mâché cast of a planned Luxor Obelisk for the Exposition Universelle of 1867 which never came to be when Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico fell in 1867. Some of his collections lay in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen and others are at the City Library of the same city.
Honors
Works
Collections
Exhibitions | 436276c7-637c-4476-9ba8-fc588bd4de6a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oeuvrevue"} | 2010 compilation album by Grant Hart
Oeuvrevue is a rarities compilation album by Grant Hart, formerly of the bands Hüsker Dü and Nova Mob. It was released on 26 November 2010 by the German label Hazelwood.
The album is a collection of B-sides, live recordings, radio sessions and outtakes recorded by Grant Hart as a solo artist and as part of Nova Mob. Originally released in a limited edition of 1000 copies to coincide with Hart's fall 2010 European tour. It's not a comprehensive retrospective, with the 2541 EP being the most obvious omission. Perhaps surprisingly the Shoot EP is represented, given that Grant Hart was always critical of its release.
From the original liner notes: "Dear listener, what you are holding is a collection of rarities from my career from 1988 to 1995, with a couple of newer songs thrown in for fun listening. Mostly they were recorded for one time airplay on cool stations in Europe. Some were recorded live at clubs or in the broadcast studio. Others were outtakes that appeared on compilation discs or on singles limited to a few hundred copies." – Grant Hart
The album was rereleased on vinyl in June 2016 by Bang! Records.
Track listing
Personnel | a603f1a7-598f-4857-aff9-6f4813da5d53 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Harris_(artist)"} | American artist
Jerry Harris (November 23, 1945 – February 11, 2016) was an abstract sculptor, collagist, and writer. Harris was primarily a constructivist sculptor, working in media such as wood, stone, bronze, fiberglass, clay, metal, mixed media (found objects), and collage.
Biography
Harris was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduating from high school in Pittsburgh, he spent a year in Portland, Oregon with his uncle, professional wrestler and referee Shag Thomas. Harris attended community college in Portland and then transferred to Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and then San Francisco State University.
He then studied sculpture under James Lee Hansen, a leading Pacific Northwest sculptor who taught at Portland State University. Subsequently, Harris was accepted in the international sculptor's program at the St Martins School of Art in London, now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, where his teachers included Sir Anthony Caro, Phillip King, and Frank Martin. Harris also did special studies in bronze casting at the Central School of Art and Design under Henry Abercrombie.
Harris lived in Stockholm and Lund, Sweden, for many years until the death of his wife, Britt-Marie Olofsson-Harris, in 1996. He befriended many African-American visual artists while living in Sweden, such as Herbert Gentry and Harvey Cropper. In 1998 Harris returned to his hometown of Pittsburgh. He was elected into The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, the nation's second-oldest artists' association, where he felt welcomed by the African-American sculptor Thaddeus Mosley. Harris later moved to Eugene, Oregon, and lived in Chico, California.
Since 1988 Harris was a member of the Swedish Sculptors Association. His sculptures are in many private national and international collections and in the permanent Swedish National Art Collection in Stockholm (Statenskonstrad). He exhibited throughout Sweden, elsewhere in Europe, and in the United States in various galleries and museums.
Harris died in Chico, California. | ba85bfa4-b0e5-4eb8-acab-60facd71cef6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador_v_AbitibiBowater_Inc"} | Supreme Court of Canada case
Newfoundland and Labrador v AbitibiBowater Inc, 2012 SCC 67 is a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada dealing with whether an obligation incurred under regulatory action constitutes a claim under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, thus becoming subject to a stay of proceedings.
Background
AbitibiBowater, a pulp and paper manufacturer, operated throughout the province of Newfoundland and Labrador for over a century. The company closed its paper mill in Stephenville, in 2005, and, in 2008, it announced its last operating mill, in Grand Falls-Windsor, would close in March 2009. This marked the end of the company’s active operations in the province. However, Abitibi still retained numerous property rights, assets and undertakings within Newfoundland amounting to well over $300 million. This included interests in hydroelectric facilities, surface rights and paper mills.
The company closed its paper mill in Stephenville in 2005 and announced in 2008 it would also close its plant in Grand Falls-Windsor. The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly promptly passed legislation expropriating AbitibiBowater's assets in the province. This included the cancellation of "water and hydroelectric contracts and agreements" between the province and Abitibi, the cancellation of ongoing legal proceedings Abitibi had against the province and the blocking of access to Newfoundland's courts by Abitibi.
The government later learned it had accidentally expropriated the former mill property in central Newfoundland — and its environmental liabilities — as well. The province issued remediation orders against Abitibi under the Environmental Protection Act, compelling Abitibi to clean up various sites, many of them expropriated under the Abitibi Act. Abitibi had to submit a remediation plan by January 15, 2010, and the cleanup or "remediation actions" were to be completed by January 15, 2011.
Before the EPA orders were issued, Abitibi filed for protection from its creditors under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), and an initial stay order and subsequent extension order were both granted by the court. The extension order included an amendment to the initial stay order stating that the stay order would not apply to government regulatory orders.
Newfoundland argued that the EPA orders were non-monetary, and thus were not within the scope of the creditor claims process under the CCAA. It also sought a declaration that a court did not have the constitutional competence under CCAA proceedings to fetter the discretion of a Minister of a provincial Crown under a law validly enacted by that province.
The courts below
The application was dismissed by the Superior Court of Quebec. In his decision, Gascon JSC held that the EPA orders were in substance financial or monetary in nature, and were thus not exempted from the stay order previously issued. As he noted:
:[174] With all due respect, this is not regulatory in nature; it is rather purely financial in reality. This is, in fact, closer to a debtor-creditor relationship than anything else.
[175] This is quite far from the situation of the detached regulator or public enforcer issuing order for the public good. Here, the Province itself derives the direct pecuniary benefit from the required compliance of Abitibi to the EPA Orders. The Province stands to directly gain in the outcome. None of the cases submitted by the Province bear any similarity to the fact pattern in the present proceedings.
[176] From this perspective, it is the hat of a creditor that best fits the Province, not that of a disinterested regulator. Between the suggestion that the Province is merely seeking compliance with the EPA and the inference that it is rather looking to ascertain a monetary value and financial benefit through the execution in nature of its EPA Orders, the Court prefers the latter view based on the evidence as a whole.
The Province then appealed the decision to the Quebec Court of Appeal, stating that:
The Court of Appeal disagreed, and supported the trial judge's contention that:
[It] boils down to claiming that a provincial regulator could have the non-reviewable right to determine whether obligations it controls or creates will be subject to compromise under the CCAA or whether they will enjoy a super-priority beyond the reach of compromise.
Accordingly, there was no prima facie merit to the appeal envisaged by the Province, and leave to appeal was refused.
The Province appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the following constitutional questions were posed:
Decision of the SCC
The SCC ruled 7–2 that the appeal should be dismissed.
Majority opinion
In her ruling, Deschamps J held that not all orders issued by regulatory bodies are monetary in nature and thus provable claims in an insolvency proceeding, but some may be, even if the amounts involved are not quantified at the outset of the proceedings. There are three requirements that must be met for orders to be considered claims:
The first two were met in this case, but the dispute was with respect to the third, and the question was whether orders that are not expressed in monetary terms can be translated into such terms. A claim may be asserted in insolvency proceedings even if it is contingent on an event that has not yet occurred. The criterion used by courts to determine whether a contingent claim will be included in the insolvency process is whether the event that has not yet occurred is too remote or speculative. In that regard, certain indicators are available to a court to determine whether there is a provable claim in a CCAA proceeding:
In this case, it was sufficiently certain that the Province would perform remediation work and therefore fall within the definition of a creditor with a monetary claim. As Deschamps J observed:
:[41] Nor does subjecting the orders to the insolvency process amount to issuing a licence to pollute, since insolvency proceedings do not concern the debtor’s future conduct. A debtor that is reorganized must comply with all environmental regulations going forward in the same way as any other person. To quote the colourful analogy of two American scholars, "Debtors in bankruptcy have — and should have — no greater license to pollute in violation of a statute than they have to sell cocaine in violation of a statute."
[42] Furthermore, corporations may engage in activities that carry risks. No matter what risks are at issue, reorganization made necessary by insolvency is hardly ever a deliberate choice. When the risks materialize, the dire costs are borne by almost all stakeholders. To subject orders to the claims process is not to invite corporations to restructure in order to rid themselves of their environmental liabilities.
Because the provisions on the assessment of claims in insolvency matters relate directly to Parliament’s jurisdiction, the ancillary powers doctrine is not relevant to this case. The interjurisdictional immunity doctrine is also inapplicable, because a finding that a claim of an environmental creditor is monetary in nature does not interfere in any way with the creditor’s activities; its claim is simply subject to the insolvency process. As Deschamps J explained:
:[19] What the Province is actually arguing is that courts should consider the form of an order rather than its substance. I see no reason why the Province’s choice of order should not be scrutinized to determine whether the form chosen is consistent with the order’s true purpose as revealed by the Province’s own actions. If the Province’s actions indicate that, in substance, it is asserting a provable claim within the meaning of federal legislation, then that claim can be subjected to the insolvency process. Environmental claims do not have a higher priority than is provided for in the CCAA. Considering substance over form prevents a regulatory body from artificially creating a priority higher than the one conferred on the claim by federal legislation. This Court recognized long ago that a province cannot disturb the priority scheme established by the federal insolvency legislation. Environmental claims are given a specific, and limited, priority under the CCAA. To exempt orders which are in fact monetary claims from the CCAA proceedings would amount to conferring upon provinces a priority higher than the one provided for in the CCAA.
Dissenting opinions
McLachlin CJ held that there was no “likelihood approaching certainty” that the Province would remediate the contamination itself, and therefore — except with respect to one site — the orders for remediation in this case are not claims that can be compromised. Otherwise, she agreed with the majority decision with respect to the issues relating to the division of powers.
LeBel J disagreed with McLachlin CJ's use of the "likelihood approaching certainty" test, saying he preferred Deschamps J's "sufficient certainty" test instead, as it best reflects how both the common law and the civil law view and deal with contingent claims. Applying that test, the appeal should be allowed on the basis that there is no evidence that the Province intends to perform the remedial work itself.
Impact
Newfoundland and Labrador v AbitibiBowater Inc, together with Sun Indalex Finance, LLC v United Steelworkers, were high-profile cases involving the application of the CCAA that the SCC was considering in its 2012–2013 term.
The ruling acknowledged the polluter pays principle but said in this case it did not give the province any special status that would move it ahead of other creditors. Friends of the Earth observed that the end result would be that taxpayers will bear much of the financial and environmental costs associated with cleaning up a polluter’s industrial sites, unless remediation orders are issued and acted upon before a company goes under. Provincial Environment Minister Tom Hedderson said the province must still do assessments for any necessary cleanups.
While the SCC did make it clear that as soon as a regulator initiates enforcement mechanisms it becomes a creditor for the purposes of an insolvency proceeding, it still left unresolved several difficult questions: | 060b9197-0c28-49d7-97f6-c54d56fceae4 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_Lexecon"} | Economic consulting company
Compass Lexecon is a global economic consulting firm with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. It provides analysis of economic issues for use in legal and regulatory proceedings, strategic decisions, and public policy debates. Compass Lexecon LLC was formed in January 2008 through the combination of Competition Policy Associates (COMPASS), founded in 2003, and Lexecon, founded in 1977, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of FTI Consulting, a global business advisory firm. Compass Lexecon has been ranked as one of the top competition economics firms worldwide.
Daniel Fischel is the chairman and president. Jonathan Orszag is senior managing director. In May 2013, Compass Lexecon acquired Princeton Economics Group, which provides economic research, data analysis and testimony to law firms and corporations. Compass Lexecon has 23 office locations in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
Mentions
In July 2014, in response to an inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission, the National Association of Broadcasters cited a report by Compass Lexecon on the economic benefits of exclusivity rules. Compass Lexecon was also mentioned as one of the firms hired to evaluate the settlement accord offered by J.P. Morgan to investors of its mortgage-backed securities. In February 2015, The New York Times covered a report written by Daniel Fischel, which examined the implications facing academic institutions that divest fossil fuel-related stocks. The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Fischel on the same topic. In May 2015, Compass Lexecon was named Competition Economist Firm of the Year by Who's Who Legal. Additionally, Compass Lexecon's Janusz Ordover, a Senior Consultant, was named as the 2015 Competition Economist Individual Expert of the Year. In the same month, a Compass Lexecon report "claim[ed] the Gulf airlines are not creating new demand, but siphoning off passengers from existing airlines." In May 2019, Compass Lexecon was ranked first in GAR 100 Expert Witness Firms’ Power Index for the second consecutive year by Global Arbitration Review.
Practice areas
Compass Lexecon advertises expertise in the following practice areas:
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null | McKellar is a surname.
McKellar may also refer to:
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyanta_calceata"} | Species of true bug
Thyanta calceata is a species of stink bug in the family Pentatomidae. It is found in North America. | cf3401f7-1c08-4739-bc1b-5719b859c7f6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotrk%C3%B3wek,_%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA_Voivodeship"} | Village in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Piotrkówek [pjɔtrˈkuvɛk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grabów, within Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. | 4a5cda19-563b-4e09-9b7f-2290b551913f |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleytown,_Connecticut"} | Census-designated place in Connecticut, United States
Coleytown is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Westport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It occupies the northeast corner of the town and is bordered to the north by the town of Weston and to the east by the town of Fairfield.
Coleytown was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. | 3f5c71b2-32a5-4312-a16e-ff6733284bd7 |
null | Canadian basketball player
David Hector Campbell (September 11, 1925 – December 28, 2015) was a Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Campbell was born in Vancouver. He was part of the Canadian basketball team, which finished ninth in the Olympic tournament. He also served as a justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court from 1990 to 1996. | 77314986-7505-40b4-b146-075a7b267f36 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Stand_Alone"} | 1978 studio album (bootleg) by Culture
Africa Stand Alone is a 1978 album by Jamaican roots reggae band Culture (see 1978 in music). It was recorded with engineer Sylvan Morris at Harry J's Studios, Kingston, Jamaica, in the interim between the band's sessions with producers Joe Gibbs and Sonia Pottinger, and produced by Jamie Hatcher and Seymour Cummings.
The album was never fully completed, and the extant version was released without the band's permission or involvement by U.S. label April Records in 1978, making it effectively a bootleg. As such, most of its tracks were re-recorded with Sonia Pottinger for release on the Harder Than the Rest album shortly afterwards. It remains the only Culture release to feature the track "Dog Ago Nyam Dog" in its original form, though a dub version appeared as "Dog Eat Dub" on the Culture in Dub album later the same year.
Neither the backing group (christened the Sons of Jah by Culture's lead singer Joseph Hill) nor the producers of Africa Stand Alone had appeared on record before. Perhaps for this reason, the versions here of the tracks that also appear on Harder Than the Rest are renowned for being rawer and less disciplined. The musical backing tracks are also known for being more minimal, thus allowing the vocals to take a more central rôle. The import of copies of Africa Stand Alone from the U.S. at roughly the same time as Harder Than the Rest was released had the ultimate effect of stimulating interest in the latter, and for a while each record boosted the other's sales.
Africa Stand Alone was voted the 5th best album of 1978 in NME's annual Top 50 albums poll.
Track listing
Personnel | 56e0bcde-2318-4629-8c50-420393d1a0e6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Cruto"} | Italian inventor
Alessandro Cruto was an Italian inventor, born in the town of Piossasco, near Turin, who created an early incandescent light bulb.
Son of a construction foreman, he attended the school of architecture at the University of Turin, while also attending Physics and Chemistry lectures with the dream of crystallizing carbon to obtain diamonds. In 1872 he opened a small workshop in his home village where he conducted tests on the production of pure carbon from ethylene. His efforts were rewarded in 1874 when his experiments succeeded in producing thin sheets of graphite, albeit his initial purpose was that of producing diamonds.
After attending some conferences held by Galileo Ferraris about the contemporary advances in electric technology – whose topics included Thomas Edison's experiments to find a suitable filament for incandescent lights – he discovered that a carbon filament treated with ethylene under high pressure and temperature acquired a positive resistance coefficient (its resistance depends on temperature; when temperature increases, it increases its resistance). Cruto's filament is produced by deposition of graphite on thin platinum filaments in the presence of gaseous hydrocarbons. Sublimating this platinum at high temperatures leaves behind thin filaments of super-pure graphite. He thought that his discovery could be used in incandescent lights instead of carbonized bamboo filament. Helped by Naccari, he experimented with his invention in 1880 in the physics laboratory of the University of Turin.
In 1882, he attended the Electricity Expo at Munich, where he gained fame with his technologically new light globe whose efficiency was better than that of Edison's light bulb, also because it produced a white light instead of the yellowish light of Edison's globe. His success was repeated at the International Turin Expo of 1884 to the extent that he sold his project in France, Switzerland, Cuba and United States.
After these successes and because his manufacturing facilities in Piossasco were inadequate, he decided to move his activities to a more suitable location. Such a location was identified in Alpignano where in 1885-1886 he founded a light globe factory that he managed until 1889 and that eventually grew to a productivity level of 1000 light bulbs a day. Eventually, due to strong disagreements with the factory new management, he resigned in order to pursue his favorite activity as an inventor. His old factory was sold a number of times, went bankrupt and was eventually acquired by Philips in 1927.
Cruto married late in life and spent the rest of his life between his family and his old laboratory. He continued his experiments on the accumulation of atmospheric energy and the invention of a toy called mosca elettrica ("electrical fly"). Cruto died, almost forgotten by all, in 1908. | ddf032e8-27c5-46f5-9c4f-deec1952a93e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_San_Diego"} | List of public artworks in San Diego, California, U.S.
Public art collections
Outdoor sculptures
May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden
Featured works in the May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden include:
Port of San Diego
Port of San Diego has sponsored many pieces of public art in and around San Diego. | 9880f775-91fe-49ef-ab95-ec8c62049b20 |
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Topics referred to by the same term | b016102b-b9e9-4625-95d2-b9895a3c9a46 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BD%C5%A1kovice"} | Municipality in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Býškovice is a municipality and village in Přerov District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Býškovice lies approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Přerov, 37 km (23 mi) south-east of Olomouc, and 247 km (153 mi) east of Prague. | dce69e85-6156-483c-8c20-5c7cf2f3f4d4 |
null | Species of gastropod
Benthonellania multicostata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Distribution
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 1.05 mm.
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 184 m. Maximum recorded depth is 1031 m. | c6bfac9a-befe-446d-965e-8bd20cc2aeb5 |
null | Giacomo Moris (born 1876 in Peer, Belgium) was a Belgian clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Roseau. He was ordained in 1900. He was appointed bishop in 1922. He died in 1957. | d9ebd071-285a-4e91-9e7c-255316ac3359 |
null | Connalley (from Ó Conghalaigh) may refer to:
People
or similar sounding | d4534802-869a-4e3c-9eb4-3aef6c111b2d |
null | Unincorporated community in North Dakota, United States
Gorham is an unincorporated community in Billings County, North Dakota, United States.
Name
Gorham was named after Fred E. Gorham (1877–1965), an early rancher in the area. Gorham also served as a commissioner in Billings County.
Post office
A post office was established in Gorham on July 28, 1899, and Thomas Jefferson McDonald (1854–1915) served as the postmaster. The post office was discontinued on April 12, 1905. | 008e0009-a283-43a5-a2b4-bf172f0b0479 |
null | American college football season
The 1987 Weber State Wildcats football team represented Weber State University as a member of the Big Sky Conference during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by seventh-year head coach Mike Price and junior quarterback Jeff Carlson, the Wildcats compiled an overall record of 10–3 with a mark of 7–1 in conference play, placing second in the Big Sky behind the conference champion, Idaho. For the first time, Weber State was invited to the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship playoffs, where they defeated the aforementioned Vandals in the first round before falling in the quarterfinal round to Marshall.
Schedule | 4413bba8-fc87-43d7-bf5e-da8279c5f835 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllostachys_platyglossa"} | Species of grass
Phyllostachys platyglossa is a species of bamboo found in Jiangsu, Zhejiang provinces of China | 266ec77b-fd94-47c8-8ef7-55df34ae48cc |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldegrave_family"} | Waldegrave /ˈwɔːlɡreɪv/ is the name of an English family, said to derive from Walgrave in Northamptonshire, who long held the manor of Smallbridge in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk.
History
Sir Richard Waldegrave served as a Knight of the Shire in 1339 in Lincolnshire. He married Agnes Daubeny and they had one child, Sir Richard Waldegrave.
Sir Richard Waldegrave (or Walgrave), Knt., of Smallbridge, Suffolk, (died 2 May 1401), was member of parliament for Lincolnshire in 1335, and Speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of King Richard II; his son, Sir Richard Waldegrave, Knt., (died 2 May 1434), styled Lord of Bures and Silvesters, was the victor of Conquet and the Isle of Rhé in Brittany in 1402.
Sir William Waldegrave (c. 1415–1461), was born in Smallbridge. He married Joane Doreward and they had two sons—Sir Thomas Waldegrave, and Richard Waldegrave.
One of Sir Richard's descendants was Sir Edward Waldegrave (c. 1517 – 1 September 1561) of Borley, Essex, and West Haddon, Northamptonshire, who was imprisoned during the reign of King Edward VI for his loyalty to the princess, afterwards Queen Mary. By Mary he was knighted, and he received from her the manor of Chewton in Somerset, now the residence of Earl Waldegrave. He was a member of parliament and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. After Mary's decease he suffered a reverse of fortune, and he was a prisoner in the Tower of London when he died on 1 September 1561.
Sir Edward's descendant, another Sir Edward Waldegrave was created a baronet in 1643 for his services to King Charles I; and his descendant, Sir Henry Waldegrave, Bart. (1661 – 24 January 1689), was created Baron Waldegrave, of Chewton in 1686. Sir Henry married Henrietta FitzJames (1667 – 3 April 1730), daughter of King James II by his mistress Arabella Churchill; their son was James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave (1684–1741).
Educated in France, James Waldegrave soon crossed over to England, and under King George I he declared himself a Protestant and took his seat as Baron Waldegrave in the House of Lords. Having become friendly with Sir Robert Walpole, he was sent to Paris as ambassador extraordinary in 1725, and from 1727 to 1730 he was British ambassador at Vienna. In 1729 he was created Viscount Chewton and Earl Waldegrave, and in 1730 he succeeded Sir Horatio Walpole as ambassador in Paris, filling this post during ten very difficult years. He died in April 1741. Much of his diplomatic correspondence is in the British Museum.
His son James, the 2nd earl (1715–1763), was perhaps the most intimate friend of King George II, and was for a time governor of his grandson, the future King George III. He was very much in evidence during the critical years 1755–1757, when the king employed him to negotiate in turn with Newcastle, Devonshire, Pitt and Fox about the formation of a ministry. Eventually, in consequence of a deadlock, Waldegrave himself was First Lord of the Treasury for five days in June 1757. He died on 28 April 1763, leaving some valuable and interesting Memoirs, which were published in 1821.
His brother John, the 3rd earl (1718–1784), was a soldier, who distinguished himself especially at the Battle of Minden and became a general in 1772. He was a member of parliament from 1747 to 1763.
His younger son, William (1753–1825), entered the British navy in 1766, and after many years of service was third in command at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797. In 1800 he was created an Irish peer as Baron Radstock, and in 1802 he became an admiral. His son, Granville George (1786–1857), followed in his father's footsteps, and was made a vice-admiral in 1851. In 1857 his son, Granville Augustus William (born 1833), became 3rd Baron Radstock, settling at the Mayfield estate in Woolston and undertaking missionary work in Russia
George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave (1751–1789), the eldest son of the 3rd earl, was a soldier and a member of parliament. His sons, George (1784–1794) and John James (1785–1835), were the 5th and 6th earls.
In 1797 the 6th earl inherited from Horace Walpole his famous residence, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham (hence the name of Waldegrave Road, which connects Strawberry Hill with Teddington), but his son, George Edward, the 7th earl (1816–1846), was obliged in 1842 to sell the valuable treasures collected there. His wife, Frances, Countess Waldegrave (1821–1879), a daughter of the singer John Braham, was a prominent figure in society. He was her second husband, and after his death she married George Granville Vernon Harcourt of Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire, and later Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford.
The 7th earl was succeeded by his uncle William (1788–1859), a son of the 4th earl, and in 1859 William's grandson, William Frederick (1851–1930), became the 9th earl. | e1134d73-d9a6-483c-afa2-c5a9a63e866e |
null | Italian painter (1832–1885)
Achille Mollica (1832–1885) was an Italian painter of both canvases and ceramics.
Biography
Achille was born to a family who manufactured maiolica ceramics. His father, Giovanni, had established the factory of "Mollica Ceramiche", which employed Achille's brothers, Ciro and Alessandro. Achille was however the greatest talent, studying ceramics at the Institute of Fine Arts of Naples.
He was a resident of Naples. In 1887 at Naples, he exhibited: a terra-cotta Amphora; in 1880 at Turin he exhibited some paintings: Ritorno and Ricordi del ballo; in 1881 at Milan, he exhibited I primi bocconi; Zobeide, bello studio di testa; Clorinda, painted on maiolica; at Rome in 1883: Diversi amori; Prima di un convito : Scala a Posillipo, a Turin, in 1884: Amore e Veduta a Posillipo. He also completed many portraits. He also exhibited in 1874 at Naples: Un tunisino; in 1875, La pesca and in 1876, Lo scacciapensieri. He also participated in the 1988 Esposizione Italiana at London. | 2dacc4ee-5a6b-4dca-a279-ef0536391b5c |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Hazlett"} | Charles Edward Hazlett (October 15, 1838 – July 2, 1863) was a U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant during the American Civil War. He was killed on Little Round Top during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Early life
Hazlett was born in Zanesville, Ohio to Robert Hazlett and Lucy Welles Reed. Hazlett's parents were abolitionists and supporters of the Underground Railroad in central Ohio. After briefly attending Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, he was accepted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. During his first year at the academy, he was court-martialed and suspended for several months, but later graduated on May 6, 1861, fifteenth in his class.
Civil War
Initially assigned to the 2nd U.S. Cavalry as a 2nd lieutenant, Hazlett was almost immediately promoted to 1st lieutenant and transferred to Battery D, 5th U.S. Artillery. He was part of the battery during its near annihilation at the First Battle of Bull Run, fought through the battles of the Peninsula Campaign and was in command of the battery by the Second Battle of Bull Run. Under his command, the unit also participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.
Gettysburg
On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Hazlett's Battery (3rd Division, V Corps), consisting of six three inch, 10 pounder Parrott rifles, was rushed to the top of Little Round Top by Brig. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren. Maneuvering the guns by hand up the steep and rocky slope of the hill was a difficult achievement. The artillerymen were exposed to constant Confederate sniper fire and could not work the guns effectively. More significantly, they could not depress the cannons' barrels sufficiently enough to defend against incoming infantry attacks. While standing near the battery during the intense fighting, Brig. Gen. Stephen H. Weed was mortally wounded and asked to see Hazlett. Reportedly, Hazlett came to his aid and was shot in the head as he knelt down to hear what Weed was saying. Command of the battery passed to 2nd Lt Benjamin F. Rittenhouse.
Burial
Hazlett's body was originally buried at the Jacob Weikert house near Little Round Top. Later, his body was reinterred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Zanesville, Ohio.
In memoriam
Four months after Hazlett's death, the U.S. War Department named a redoubt near Portsmouth, Virginia in his honor.
A 19th century rock carving on Little Round Top supposedly designates the spot where Hazlett was killed. A stone marker sitting atop the rock memorializes both him and Brig. Gen. Stephen Weed.
After the Civil War, veterans formed a local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic in Hazlett's hometown. The chapter was named Hazlett Post 81 in honor of Hazlett and his brother, Capt. John C. Hazlett, an infantry officer who died from a wound suffered at the Battle of Stones River.
In 2011, local Civil War enthusiasts replaced the Hazlett brothers' broken tombstones at Woodlawn Cemetery in Zanesville, Ohio. The city designated May 14, 2011 "Hazlett Day" in honor of the event. | e9141972-fbce-4975-8f96-dacaae711788 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhangain,_Bhojpur"} | Village in Bihar, India
Dhangain is a village in Jagdishpur block of Bhojpur district in Bihar, India. As of 2011, its population was 1,710, in 241 households. | 7c05365a-c0cb-408a-93f0-021e5f3157bf |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoopark_Chomutov"} | Coordinates: 50°28′40″N 13°25′21″E / 50.4777050°N 13.4223750°E / 50.4777050; 13.4223750
Zoo in Přemyslova Chomutov
Zoopark Chomutov is a Czech zoo located on the outskirts of Chomutov in Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic.
The zoo holds more than a 1000 individuals of about 160 species, among them 14 species listed as endangered in European rescue programs. Zoopark Chomutov is also connected to the National Grid stations for handicapped animals that provide care for injured wildlife. Those animals are released into the wild after treatment and after-care. | f7f2016f-2425-47ba-829e-3f0dad719857 |
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John Gutmann (1905 – June 12, 1998) was a German-born American photographer and painter.
Early life and education
Gutmann was born in 1905 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to an upper-middle-class Jewish family. He earned a degree in art from Staatliche Akademie für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Breslau [de] and moved to Berlin in 1927, earning a post-graduate degree at Preussisches Shulkollegium for Hohere Erziehung.
Career
Berlin was the greatest city in the world when I lived there - in the late 1920s, early 1930s. It was the most sophisticated, the most decadent city, and it attracted the most powerful assembly of creative talents in the world. The greatest theater, movies, art. Everyone was there ...
[San Francisco was] very refreshing to me. I had had enough of art with a capital A, culture with a capital K. It was liberating to come to a place so backward in art and aesthetics.
— John Gutmann, 1989 San Francisco Examiner profile
Being Jewish, he was unable to exhibit his paintings or get a job teaching in Nazi Germany, and so he emigrated to the United States, arriving in San Francisco in late 1933. Gutmann reinvented himself as a photographer before he left Germany, purchasing a Rolleiflex and signing a photojournalism contract with Presse-Photo in 1933. He continued to work as a photojournalist for Presse-Photo from the West Coast until he signed on with PIX in 1936, an agency he worked with until 1962.
After arriving in San Francisco, one of the first news stories he documented was the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike. His work on other stories was later published in popular contemporary newsmagazines such as Time, Look, and The Saturday Evening Post. Some of his photographs of the Golden Gate International Exposition were published in Life in 1939. At the same time, he started teaching at San Francisco State College in 1936 and founded the photography department there in 1946.
In between, Gutmann served with the United States Office of War Information during World War II.
Gutmann taught at SF State until 1973. After his retirement, he began printing images from his archives, and began exhibiting his work at the Fraenkel Gallery and Castelli Graphics in the late 1970s. His work was later packaged into a traveling exhibition, "Beyond the Document", which moved from SFMOMA to the Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art starting in 1989.
Style
Gutmann's main subject matter was the American way of life, especially the Jazz music scene. Gutmann is recognized for his unique "worm's-eye view" camera angle.[citation needed]
I photographed the popular culture of the United States differently from American photographers. I saw the enormous vitality of the country. I didn't see it as suffering. The urban photographers here took pictures that showed the negative side of the Depression, but my pictures show the almost bizarre, exotic qualities of the country. ... I was seeing America with an outsider's eyes - the automobiles, the speed, the freedom, the graffiti ...
— John Gutmann, 1989 San Francisco Examiner profile
He enjoyed taking photos of ordinary things and making them seem special. Kenneth Baker, art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote in 1997 that Gutmann was "an emissary of European modernism" who "brought a distinct angle of vision to the American scene" and his images demonstrated his "excitement of his witness to the [Depression-era] times". David Bonetti, art critic for the San Francisco Examiner, called Gutmann's output from the 1930s "his best–when, a young Jewish refugee, he experienced America as a bemused stranger in a strange land. Gutmann fell in love with Depression-era America, which he traveled by Greyhound Bus Line. He saw its cars, its rites and festival, its athletes, its women, its vibrant African American communities and its dynamic street life with European eyes."
Awards
Gutmann received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977.
Legacy
He created the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award, through the San Francisco Foundation.
The full archive of Gutmann's work is located at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which also manages the copyright of his work.
Collections (selected)
Gutmann's work is held in the following permanent public collections:
Exhibitions (selected)
Monographs (selected) | ee613f34-9454-4c37-b539-a1f6a4c69a22 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312_FC_Volga_Nizhny_Novgorod_season"} | Volga Nizhny Novgorod 2011–12 football season
The 2011–12 Volga season was the 1st season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of football in Russia.
Squad
As of 24 January 2012, according to the RFPL official website.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Transfers
Winter 2010–11
Summer 2011
Winter 2011–12
Competitions
Russian Premier League
Matches
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Tom Tomsk
Spartak Moscow v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Dynamo Moscow
Rostov v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Lokomotiv Moscow v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Kuban Krasnodar
Terek Grozny v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Anzhi Makhachkala
Spartak Nalchik v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga v CSKA Moscow
Amkar Perm v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Krylia Sovetov
Krasnodar v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Zenit St. Petersburg
Rubin Kazan v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Tom Tomsk v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v CSKA Moscow
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Spartak Moscow
Dynamo Moscow v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Rostov
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Lokomotiv Moscow
Kuban Krasnodar v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Terek Grozny
Anzhi Makhachkala v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Spartak Nalchik
CSKA Moscow v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Amkar Perm
Krylia Sovetov v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Krasnodar
Zenit St. Petersburg v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Rubin Kazan
Notes
Table
Source: Russian Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) head-to-head points; 4) number of head-to-head wins; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) number of head-to-head goals scored; 7) number of head-to-head away goals scored; 8) goal difference; 9) number of goals scored; 10) number of away goals scored.
Notes:
Russian Premier League – Relegation group
Matches
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Amkar Perm
Krylia Sovetov v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Spartak Nalchik
Tom Tomsk v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Krasnodar
Terek Grozny v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Rostov
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Krylia Sovetov
Spartak Nalchik v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Tom Tomsk
Krasnodar v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Terek Grozny
Rostov v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Amkar Perm v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
League table
Source: Russian Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) head-to-head points; 4) number of head-to-head wins; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) number of head-to-head goals scored; 7) number of head-to-head away goals scored; 8) goal difference; 9) number of goals scored; 10) number of away goals scored
(O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated
Relegation playoff
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Cup 11–12
Shinnik Yaroslavl v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Spartak Moscow v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Volga Nizhny Novgorod v Terek Grozny
Dynamo Moscow v Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Squad statistics
Appearances and goals
Top scorers
Disciplinary record | 0b158253-b122-4a17-b27f-1fe8a9b13a57 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F._Hall_Building"} | Building in Montreal, Canada
The Henry F. Hall Building (French: Édifice Henry F. Hall) is a building on the Sir George Williams Campus of Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, in between Mackay Street and Bishop Street in the Quartier Concordia neighbourhood.
History
The building is named for Henry Foss Hall, president of Sir George Williams University from 1956 to 1962.
It was designed by architecture firm Ross, Fish, Duschenes and Barrett, which hired James A. M. K. O'Beirne, to draw up the plans. It was inaugurated on 14 October 1966, the very same day as the Montreal Metro.
In 1994-95, the building's exterior, having been damaged by pollution and the elements over the decades, was cleaned and re-painted.
It was the scene of the Sir George Williams Computer Riot in 1969, the Concordia University Massacre in 1992 and the Concordia University Netanyahu Riot in 2002. | f355d702-3d84-40c8-8b9d-890a64117c7b |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Scourge_survey_expedition"} | Search for two shipwrecks in Lake Ontario
The Hamilton–Scourge survey expedition was launched in May 1982, sponsored by the Hamilton-Scourge Foundation and the National Geographic Society. It was an underwater exploration of Lake Ontario intended to locate, confirm the identities of, film, and photograph two American schooners that had sunk in a violent storm on August 8, 1813, during the War of 1812. The mission was successful.
Searching for the two small ships 160 years later, even with their approximate location known, was like looking for a needle in a hay stack. The search had ended unsuccessfully in the autumn of 1973 when Hamilton resident Capt. Archie Hodge, turned his research vessel, Porte Dauphine, for home at Canada Centre for Inland Waters. Hodge, a Second World War naval veteran who had spent the war searching for submarines in the North Atlantic, decided to put down his sonar one last time.
A likely location for the USS Hamilton and the USS Scourge had been proposed in 1973 by Daniel A. Nelson, a dentist and amateur archeologist from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Nelson's initial side-scan sonar assessment was confirmed using sonar recordings in July 1975 by Canadian Coast Guard research vessel R/V Limnos, based at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters.
The 1982 project, spearheaded by Nelson, used a remotely operated underwater vehicle that was designed, built and piloted by Chris Nicholson of Deep Sea Systems International. Nicholson was assisted by co-pilot Martin Bowen of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
The expedition provided clear photographs of the wrecks that confirmed their identities, collecting more than 1,500 photographs and 23 hours of video overall. These were the first pictures taken of the Scourge. The ships had sunk to the bottom, still upright, about 1,500 feet (460 m) apart and at a depth of around 300 feet (91 m) of icy water. The wrecks were well-preserved, with masts and topmasts intact and cannonballs still neatly stacked on the decks.
The 45-ton Scourge was armed with four 6-pounder and four 4-pounder deck guns, while the 76-ton Hamilton was armed with eight 18-pounder carronades and one 12-pounder long gun on a pivot mount. The ships' guns remain in position on deck.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_North_Dakota_gubernatorial_election"} | The 1968 North Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1968. Incumbent Democrat William L. Guy defeated Republican nominee Robert P. McCarney with 54.82% of the vote.
Primary elections
Primary elections were held on September 3, 1968.
Democratic primary
Candidates
Results
Republican primary
Candidates
Results
General election
Candidates
Major party candidates
Other candidates
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhaa_Ahli_Aley_FC"} | Lebanese association football club
Football club
Akhaa Ahli Aley Football Club (Arabic: نادي الإخاء الأهلي الرياضي عاليه, lit. 'National Brotherhood of Aley Sporting Club'), commonly referred to as Akhaa Ahli Aley, Akhaa Ahli or simply Akhaa, is a football club based in Aley, Lebanon, that competes in the Lebanese Premier League.
Akhaa have played in the Lebanese Premier League since 2010–11 season, after gaining promotion from the Lebanese Second Division. They won the Lebanese Challenge Cup in 2022. The club is supported by the Lebanese MP Arkram Chehayeb, who was the key person to ratify the merging of the two clubs Ahli and Akhaa in the city of Aley.[citation needed]
History
Origins: Akhaa and Ahli
Akhaa was first founded in 1962 by Adel Baz, who led the club till the early 1980s amid the Lebanese Civil War. The club obtained its license in 1966 and was close to promotion in 1971, failing to reach the Lebanese Premier League in the last match. The club halted its activities in 1982 during the Lebanese war and resumed in 1989.[citation needed]
Ahli Club was established in the 1970s by Ahmad Radwan, an educator and the owner of a school in Aley. Ahli Club obtained its license later and joined the Lebanese Third Division in 1987. Various players who would go on to play in the Lebanese Premier League played for Ahli Club, such as Walid Zeineddine, Fouad Sayegh, Riad Al Halabi, Yazeed Halimi and others. Ahli Club was ranked first in the American University of Beirut Football Cup twice in a row, in 1987 and 1988.[citation needed]
Formation of Akhaa Ahli
In 1990, Bahij Abou Hamzeh, the president of Akhaa, realized that promotion to the Lebanese Premier League would be difficult, so he decided to merge with Ahli Club. The merger added extra value to Akhaa Club as Ahli's team was full of young players of Aley, such as Zaher Andary, who represented the Lebanon national football from 1994 to 2001, Said Abu Muna and Raji Abi Said, who was elected captain of Ahkaa Ahli. Ahli's management found the merger to be of mutual interest as they needed physical and logistical support to get promoted to the Lebanese Second Division.[citation needed]
Promotion and stay in the Premier League
Akhaa won the Lebanese Second Division in 1992–93. The team managed to hit excellent results during its stay in the Lebanese Premier League, especially in its first appearance. It returned to the first division in 2010, staying there ever since.[citation needed]
On 21 August 2022, after defeating rivals Safa 1–0 in the final, Akhaa were crowned 2022 Lebanese Challenge Cup champions.
Club rivalries
Akhaa plays the Mountain derby with Safa.
Players
Current squad
As of 7 October 2022
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Notable players
Retired numbers
In 2020, Akhaa Ahli Aley retired the squad number 20 for two seasons, in memory of Mohamed Atwi who died on 18 September 2020 from a stray bullet to the head.
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null | Term in British politics
Prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC), in British politics, is a candidate selected by political parties to fight individual Westminster constituencies in advance of a general election. The term originally came into use because of the strict limits on the amount of expenses incurred by an election candidate, regardless of whether the election had been formally called. The candidates were termed "prospective" because referring to them simply as a candidate would arguably trigger the moment when money spent to promote them would need to be included in their declaration of expenses after the election.
In 2004, however, the law was changed so that the trigger for election expenses being accountable was to be the calling of an election and not the announcing of a candidacy. Some political parties had already started to use terms such as "parliamentary spokesperson", believing that some voters were confused by the unusual word "prospective";[citation needed] however, the older form of words continues to be widely used, despite these changes in the law. | 28facd81-1101-4b21-bf8a-be329cfc09d4 |
null | The night sky refers to the sky as it is seen at night.
Night sky (or skies) may also refer to: | 0c8534a7-656f-46a7-80df-9e5ae09fd62d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Chedal"} | French former ski jumper
Emmanuel Chedal (born 15 January 1983) is a French former ski jumper who competed from 1998 to 2013. He participated at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, earning his best result of ninth place in the large hill team competition at the latter.
Chedal's best result at the Ski Jumping World Championships was eighth in the large hill team competition in Liberec in 2009. His best finish at the Ski Flying World Championships was also eighth in the team competition in Oberstdorf in 2008. At World Cup level, his best result was third in an individual large hill competition in Lillehammer on 6 December 2009.
Chedal retired from the sport following the 2012/13 season. | 69840227-0d64-4143-8d26-36132169b91a |
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null | English rugby union coach
Toby Booth (born 6 February 1970) is an English rugby union coach, currently head coach at Ospreys in the Pro14. He was educated at The Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone, a prominent football-playing school.
He became a qualified electrician, before attending St. Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill (1994–97), where he studied Sports Science. He later worked as a lecturer there whilst completing his MSc.
Coaching career
Booth joined London Irish in 2002 as assistant academy manager where he helped recruit the first players for the academy – many of whom are now playing for the Exiles' and Bath's first teams. After coming through the ranks at the academy he was appointed head coach at London Irish in 2008 after the previous coach, Brian Smith, became an England coach. Booth's team reached the final of the Guinness Premiership in his first season in charge after finishing third in the league. They went on to finish sixth (twice) and seventh.
In May 2012 Booth left London Irish for Bath to work under new head coach Gary Gold as forwards' coach, two months after Smith's return to the Exiles as director of rugby. In November 2019 he joined Harlequins as assistant coach. It was announced in February 2020 that Booth would be joining Ospreys as head coach at the end of the 2019/2020 season.
Personal life
Whilst being interviewed on Sky Sports News, Booth mentioned he is a Manchester City supporter. | da1b853f-db98-43e4-9264-0ce71a1e9640 |
null | Norwegian violinist, conductor, and composer
Harald Heide (March 8, 1876 – January 27, 1956) was a Norwegian violinist, conductor, and composer.
Heide was born in Fredrikstad, the son of the violin-maker Johan Albert Heide (1847–1925). He studied music theory and violin at the Oslo Conservatory of Music from 1891 to 1896, and after that studied violin in Berlin under Florián Zajíc. He taught at the Bergen Music School from 1898 to 1899 and was the concertmaster at the National Theater orchestra in Oslo from 1899 to 1903. He then studied under César Thomson in Brussels, followed by a tour as a concert violinist in England and the United States. In 1907 he became the conductor at the National Theater in Bergen, working there from 1907 to 1919 and again from 1925 to 1926.
Heide's main occupation in Bergen was as director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra—at that time still named the Harmony Music Society (Musikselskabet Harmonien)—from 1907 to 1948. Under Heide's management, the orchestra's program was expanded, from six to eight concerts per year to over 80, and it was also better staffed with musicians for all of the positions in a symphony orchestra. Heide was a guest conductor in Helsingfors in 1924, in Göteborg in 1928, and in Stockholm in 1931. Under his direction, the Harmony Music Society performed over 6,000 works by 455 different composers.
Heide's compositions for orchestra, including his Symphonie romantique, were stylistically influenced by Johan Halvorsen.
In 1929, Heide married the singer Henriette Strindberg, née Nielsen (1894–1964). After her debut in 1918, she performed in operas and operettas in Oslo and Bergen, and also as a concert singer in these cities and in London. She later worked as a voice instructor at the Bergen Conservatory.
Harald Heide was the brother of the actress Signe Heide Steen (1881–1959), who was the mother of the singer Randi Heide Steen, the actor Harald Heide Steen, and the actress Kari Diesen.
He died in Bergen.
Honors and awards
Heide received the Order of St. Olav, knight first class, in 1945. | 695fd340-fc34-41d2-adf2-cf42074f3a40 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachelle_Pirie"} | Rugby player
Rachelle Pirie (born 12 January 1977) is a former Australian rugby union player.
Pirie competed for Australia in the 2006 Rugby World Cup in Canada. She made two test appearances for Australia at the tournament; she played against South Africa and the United States in the pool games. She was named as a replacement in the match against Ireland for seventh place, but did not get to run onto the field. | fcb54627-4fd8-4eaf-8d88-f17cd646bfa4 |
null | French physician
Charles Gandy (April 21, 1872 in Dijon – July 5, 1943 in Paris) was a French physician remembered for Gandy-Gamna nodules. | eaf179e1-ee63-452f-a414-deb5610c0074 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una_noche_con_Sabrina_Love"} | 2000 Argentine film
Una noche con Sabrina Love (A Night With Sabrina Love) is a 2000 Argentine, Spanish, Italian, French, and Dutch film, written and directed by Alejandro Agresti. The film is based on the Pedro Mairal novel.
The film was produced by Pablo Bossi, and co-produced by Thierry Forte, Sarah Halioua, and Massimo Vigliar.
The picture stars Cecilia Roth as Sabrina Love and Tomás Fonzi.
Cast
Production
Asked about the bed scenes she has with 18-years-old Tomás Fonzi, Cecilia Roth said the young actor was very nervous before that, but "hilariously, after the sex scene we had, he was much more relaxed with me."
Distribution
The film was first presented in Argentina on June 8, 2000.
Later the film was screened a few film festivals, including: the Miami Hispanic Film Festival, Miami, Florida; the Latin America Film Festival, Poland; and the Bergen International Film Festival, Norway; the Huelva Latin American Film Festival, Huelva, Spain; and the Lleida Latin-American Film Festival, Lleida, Spain.
Awards
Wins
Nominations | da77ffb3-e566-4786-a2af-59e019c80386 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_By_Bloody_Step"} | 2022 comic book limited series
Step By Bloody Step is a four-issue textless comic book miniseries published in 2022 by Image Comics.
Synopsis
The series follows armored giant guarding a helpless child.
Issues
Reception
Dustin Holland from Comic Book Resources, reviewing the debut, praised artist Bergar. Caitlin Rosberg from The A.V. Club gave the first issue an "A-" and emphasized the chemistry between the writer and the artist. Oliver Sava from Polygon was also pleased with the debut. | 86780c81-f946-43ec-b824-c77e03ff9b97 |
null | American model and actress
Ariane Mitsuye Koizumi is an American fashion model and actress, sometimes credited as Ariane, who played the controversial lead role in the film Year of the Dragon.
Biography
Koizumi was born in Riverdale, Bronx, a neighborhood in New York City. Her mother was a Dutch nurse and her father was a Japanese graphic artist. She started modeling at the age of fifteen, and in 1983 she dropped out of Parsons School of Design to pursue modeling full-time. By 1984 The New York Times, covering the Milan fashion shows, called Koizumi the "one model that none can keep their eyes off". The next year she appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Self, and the Sun-Sentinel noted that she had become "Giorgio Armani's favorite model".
Koizumi made her acting debut in the 1985 Michael Cimino film Year of the Dragon as Tracy Tzu, a Chinese American television reporter who falls in love with the fanatical cop Stanley White, played by Mickey Rourke. The Los Angeles Times summarized the character as "there to fulfill all Oriental-woman fantasies", and The New York Times called Koizumi "so ineffectual a part of the film's framework that she is even upstaged, in a nude scene, by a glimpse of the Brooklyn Bridge". Her performance in the film was so widely panned that it "nipped her budding film career", but she subsequently had a cameo in Abel Ferrara's King of New York and continued her modeling career with print work in Self, French Vogue, and the September 1989 cover of Mirabella, along with television commercials for Michelob, L'Eggs, and Levi's, and runway modeling for Karl Lagerfeld and Donna Karan.
Koizumi left modeling in 1989 to work as an intern for a record label, with the goal of pursuing a career in music. She later worked for the New York Prada store, and raised three children.
Filmography | db80afcc-86d8-45f0-9de1-d04373e96090 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakotal,_Razavi_Khorasan"} | Village in Razavi Khorasan, Iran
Pakotal (Persian: پاكتل, also Romanized as Pākotal; also known as Pāy Kotal) is a village in Dowlatkhaneh Rural District, Bajgiran District, Quchan County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 131, in 44 families. | bf69ac34-1aca-428d-a790-c8f53abb959f |
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharlene_San_Pedro"} | Filipino actress (born 1999)
Sharlene Santos San Pedro (born April 5, 1999) is a Filipino actress, singer, vlogger, streamer, VJ, and TV host.
She made her first television appearance at the age of four when she joined ABS-CBN's talent search Star Circle Quest: Kids Edition in 2004, and came in at second place. She is known for portraying the roles of Gigi, Calla & Lily, and Shirley in the series Mga Anghel na Walang Langit, Calla Lily, and Luv U respectively. She also played the title role in Princess Sarah in 2007.
San Pedro received her first acting award as the "Most Popular Child Actress" by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation in 2009. In 2012, San Pedro was nominated in the 17th Asian Television Awards as Best Actress in a Lead-Drama Role for her portrayal as a teenage mother in the Maalaala Mo Kaya episode, "T-Shirt".
Early life
Sharlene Santos San Pedro was born on April 5, 1999, in Pulilan, Bulacan to parents Hector, a business man, and Myleen. She has two brothers named Jeremy and Clark: the former being the oldest of the three, while the latter is the youngest. She attended Sto. Cristo Elementary School during kindergarten.
Career
2004–2006: Star Circle Quest and Goin' Bulilit
In 2004, San Pedro joined the reality-based talent competition Star Circle Quest on ABS-CBN. Together with the other contestants, San Pedro had undergone talent training, physical enhancement and different challenges to test their talent skills.
She managed to be in the "Magic Circle of 5" with fellow competitors Nash Aguas, Aaron Junatas, Mikylla Ramirez, and CJ Navato. During the 'Grand Questors Night' held on June 5, 2004, in Araneta Coliseum, she won first runner-up. Soon after, she became a part of Star Magic with an exclusive contract with ABS-CBN. Her acting career began in the same year, portraying the young Faith/Tala in Krystala.
In February 2005, San Pedro was cast in the then newly launched sketch comedy gag show, Goin Bulilit, featuring children in various comedic situations. She was in the main cast until 2011 when she graduated. The 'Seventh Batch Graduates', including San Pedro, left due to the fact that the show is for kids, while they were already growing older.
Aside from being one of the original mainstays in Goin Bulilit, San Pedro also starred in OK Fine Whatever sitcom, again, with Aguas. In addition, she was one of the main cast in Mga Anghel na Walang Langit, portraying as Gigi. Her performance involved heavy drama acting since the series depicts the lives of exploited and unfortunate children. She was next cast to play two different characters on ABS-CBN's television series Calla Lily. The story was about Calla and Lily (both played by San Pedro) who have different personalities: one is outspoken while the other is shy.
2007–2011: Film projects and recognition
In 2007, San Pedro became the main lead once again in ABS-CBN's Princess Sarah after Calla Lily. The next year, Sharlene was chosen to portray the role of Young Selene in Rounin, a fantasy and martial arts series shot using high-definition video technology, a first in the Philippine series. The series marked San Pedro and Jairus Aquino's first team-up; they were once again paired up later on as on-screen teenage sweethearts in Luv U in 2013.
In October 2008, she was cast on her first film, Mag-ingat Ka Sa... Kulam, with Judy Ann Santos. Her performance earned her a nomination for the Movie Child Performer of the Year at the 25th PMPC Star Awards for Movies. She also appeared as a guest star in the series Kung Fu Kids, playing the role of Reyna Ungga-Ungga, the person who eventually helped the seven Kung Fu kids in their battles. The next year, San Pedro joined the cast of Kamoteng Kahoy, an indie film by Maryo J. de los Reyes. She was also cast with Jairus Aquino in ABS-CBN's Pieta as Kakai Angeles.
San Pedro received her first acting award as the Most Popular Child Actress by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation. In addition, she was nominated the Best Comedy Actress by the PMPC Star Awards for TV for two consecutive years since 2008 for her character roles in Goin Bulilit. Her portrayal of young Mabel in the horror suspense film Segunda Mano marked her fourth film and her first official entry to the 2011 Metro Manila Film Festival. The following year, she played Nene in Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang.
Following the start of her teenage years came the end of her spot in Goin Bulilit. After six years, she left the show in 2011.
2012–2017: Teenage years, international recognition and Luv U
During her career gap, she frequently stars in Maalaala Mo Kaya series, which features weekly real-life stories or anecdotes of common people or even famous celebrities and personalities through letter-sending.
In 2012, she starred in Larong Bata, a film promoted and supported by the Department on Education for it showed the effects of bullying among kids. The film received positive reviews and was frequently shown in the different schools in the Philippines. In the same year, she was nominated in the 17th Asian Television Awards as Best Actress in a Lead-Drama Role for her portrayal as a teenage mother in the Maalaala Mo Kaya episode, "T-Shirt". The next year, she starred as Lavinia in Star Cinema's Must Be Love released on March 13. She later joined the second-season cast of Luv U.
In 2014, she starred in Wansapanatym's month-long special "Si Lulu at Si Liit" with Jairus Aquino and Francis Magundayao. The story and their team-up received favorable reviews and consecutive high ratings. She started appearing in the Primetime series again soon after, now as a teenager. She received guest roles in FlordeLiza and FPJ's Ang Probinsyano, wherein she was reunited with Nash Aguas in the latter. She also starred as one of the supporting cast in Nathaniel in 2015. By the end of the year, she was cast in the 2015 Metro Manila Film Festival film entry Haunted Mansion as Faye. Her acting was praised as she "...displays acting chops honed from years in the business. She does not resort to hysterics, but doles out an even and even mature performance as Ella's best friend.
Together with Jairus Aquino, San Pedro was announced to be one of the new video jockeys in the music channel myx in the beginning of the year 2016. According to the announcement, ever since "[t]hey... won as the MYX Celebrity VJ Duo in the show's weekly online poll [in February 2015], their followers have shown interest in seeing them again on the music channel". Both were also cast in Wansapanatym's "Susi Ni Sisay" by Wenn V. Deramas. This was Deramas' last TV project before he died. Still paired with Aquino, San Pedro was supposed to appear in Written in Our Stars as a supporting cast but the show was postponed due to lead star Toni Gonzaga's pregnancy announcement. During this time, they were cast in the noon-time drama series Langit Lupa.
Also in 2016, San Pedro pursued her singing career when she launched her first single "Paraan". The song is a cover of Filipino band Mayonnaise's track from their album Tayo na Lang Dalawa released in 2014. The band members, significantly its singer, Monty Macalino, worked closely with her and supported her to pursue her singing career. An accompanying music video was also released under Yellow Room and directed by Chuck Ronquillo. Her cover single received the Favorite Remake award at the 12th Myx Music Awards held the next year. In 2017, she released another cover single "Stars & Caramel Bars", originally performed by Filipino indie band Sourberry. The music video accompaniment features Arturo Daza, her co-VJ in MYX.
2018–present: Singing career and Class of 2018
After releasing two cover singles in 2016 and 2017, respectively, San Pedro continued to pursue her music career. In June 2018, she signed a contract with Ivory Music and Video. She then released two original singles entitled "Pa'no Ang Lahat" and "Everything Will Be Alright" accompanied by music videos. In June 2019, she performed as a special guest during Mayonnaise's first major concert Akalain Mo 'Yun at the Music Museum. In September, she was once again invited to perform on the band's sophomore concert, Akalain Mo 'Yun Part 2, three months after the success of the first one.
In May 2018, San Pedro was cast in TRex Entertainment's teen suspense–thriller film Class of 2018 alongside Nash Aguas, Kristel Fulgar, and CJ Navato. The four of them were former part of Goin' Bulilit cast. This marks as her first lead role in a film and her first time in years to act again. Her drama episode in Maalaala Mo Kaya (for which she received the "Best Single Performance by an Actress" nomination at the 32nd PMPC Star Awards for Television) was her most recent work. Her performance as Ada in the film received satisfactory reviews: the critics agreed that she has a screen presence especially since she achieved in performing her role, whether during fight-scenes, heart-fluttering scenes or drama scenes.
In May 2019, San Pedro and Aguas have partnered once again in iWant's digital film The Gift directed by Onat Diaz. It was filmed way back in 2016. San Pedro plays the role of Tina, a sheltered woman who has a congenital heart problem. Due to its digital platform release, "the film received positive feedback online for its lead stars' performances and relatable story, and for promoting awareness on the developmental disorder".
After leaving MYX as a VJ, San Pedro started hosting television and online shows in 2019.
Personal life and education
Outside of acting, she also sings, plays the guitar, and collects watches.
She finished high school at the Sanctuary Christian School in 2015. In 2022 she graduated from AMA University with a degree in AB Psychology
Public image
Star Cinema recognized San Pedro as the most promising female star in 2014 after she won the votes from the fans. The production company lists that she is a "versatile teen actress", "hard worker", "talented", "the next big thing", and "being an inspiration to people".
Hosting
San Pedro made her hosting debut with the music channel MYX in 2016, although she first started as a guest video jockey in February 2015. Her guest appearance allowed her to receive the "Favorite MYX Celebrity VJ" nomination at the 11th MYX Music Awards. After her successful stint as a MYX Celebrity VJ, she was given a regular spot in the music channel in the beginning of the year 2016. Her role as a MYX VJ included introducing music videos, hosting segments, and interviewing singers. She was a MYX VJ for three years.
In 2019, she started to appear on the online counterpart of the variety show ASAP, known as iWant ASAP, both as a guest and a guest/co-host. According to iWant ASAP, she was the Most Requested Artist in the show. She also joined the other hosts in the award-winning variety show S.M.A.C. Pinoy Ito Season 3 and the new online show Your Moment Apartment (the online counterpart of the reality talent competition show Your Moment) in IBC 13 and ABS-CBN, respectively.
She was also invited to host events, regional shows, and others.
Filmography
Film
Television
Digital shorts
Reality/Variety shows
Discography
Singles
Videography
Video albums
Other releases
Music videos
Awards and nominations | 23b80499-a5f3-4474-86bc-998d74a3fc27 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Water_(Mustard_and_Migos_song)"} | 2019 single by Mustard and Migos
"Pure Water" is a song by American producer Mustard and American hip hop trio Migos, released as a single on January 16, 2019. It reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the top 20 of the Canadian Hot 100. It was ranked 20th on Billboard's Best Songs of 2019 list and Complex named it the 33rd best song of the year.
Critical reception
Stereogum said that the beat has "the crisp, snapping West Coast minimalism that made Mustard the producer of the moment half a decade ago" and called the squealing melodic loop reminiscent of "prime crunk-era Lil Jon".
Charts
Certifications | 72c3f9bb-41e6-4943-932f-baca5f3e5e14 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%C3%A7ka_SK"} | Turkish sports club
Football club
Haçka SK, formerly Trabzon Akçaabat FK, is a sports club located in Akçaabat near Trabzon, Turkey. The football club plays in white and blue kits, and have done so since their formation in 1980.
Stadium
Currently the team plays at the 6,300 capacity Akçaabat Fatih Stadium.
League participations
Former name | 8d2f4d99-b284-4666-ab51-0a489161e87c |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-guanidino-2-oxopentanoate_decarboxylase"} | The enzyme 5-guanidino-2-oxopentanoate decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.75) catalyzes the chemical reaction
5-guanidino-2-oxo-pentanoate
4-guanidinobutanal + CO2
This enzyme belongs to the family of lyases, specifically the carboxy-lyases, which cleave carbon-carbon bonds. The systematic name of this enzyme class is 5-guanidino-2-oxo-pentanoate carboxy-lyase (4-guanidinobutanal-forming). Other names in common use include alpha-ketoarginine decarboxylase, and 2-oxo-5-guanidinopentanoate carboxy-lyase. It has 2 cofactors: thiamin diphosphate, and Divalent cation. | a234188c-259f-481d-a607-89416d096e9b |
null | Danish cyclist
Birgitte Krogsgaard Andersen (born 27 October 1991) is a Danish racing cyclist, who competed for the UCI Women's Team Team Virtu Cycling during the 2019 women's road cycling season. | e1e42acb-33db-4c59-ace8-2a7ce7d23f2e |
null | RoboTurb is a welding robot used to repair turbine blades developed at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. It is a redundant robot with a flexible rail.
The Roboturb project started in 1998 at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina initially with the support of the Brazilian Government and the public power utility company COPEL – Companhia Paranaense de Energia Eletrica.
Three phases followed, and now the project is mainly maintained by another public power utility company FURNAS – Furnas Centrais Eletricas. | d02060c6-1450-4e6a-8db1-066b5755499c |
null | American comedian (born 1960)
Caryl J. Kristensen (née McKellogg; born November 23, 1960) is an American businessperson and former comedian who was one-half of the comedy troupe The Mommies. The duo had a half-hour sitcom, called The Mommies, that ran from 1993–1995 and a daytime talk show, Caryl & Marilyn: Real Friends, which ran during the 1996–1997 season.
Kristensen, the ninth of eleven children, graduated from Rosary High School in Fullerton, California in 1978 and California State University, Chico with a degree in graphic design. She is married to contractor Len Kristensen; they have two sons, Eric and Bryce.
Post-comedy career
From 2004 to 2011, Kristensen was a college counselor at Campbell Hall School. Since 2009, Kristensen has been chief operating officer of video interview service ZipIntro. | ba99f591-2586-4a13-8bbf-a1be1b4eab1e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_bin_Suroor"} | Emirati racehorse trainer
Saeed bin Suroor (born 16 November 1968 in Dubai) is a horse racing trainer in Great Britain. He took out his training licence in 1993 and the following year was appointed as the trainer for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation.
He has been British Champion Trainer on four occasions.
Major wins
Great Britain
Australia
Canada
France
Germany
Hong Kong
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Singapore
United Arab Emirates
United States | f2760e78-22b8-4d4a-81b2-602f3c4f1816 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminovula"} | Genus of gastropods
Diminovula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Eocypraeinae of the family Ovulidae.
Species
Species within the genus Diminovula include:
Species brought in synonymy | 3c3ae3ef-e345-4fc0-bcfa-e4a4443284f3 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animal"} | 2001 film by Luke Greenfield
The Animal is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Luke Greenfield, written by Rob Schneider and Tom Brady, and starring Schneider in the lead role, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley, Guy Torry, and Edward Asner. The film depicts a police station evidence clerk who is critically injured and is put back together by a mad scientist who transplants animal parts, resulting in strange changes to his behavior.
The film received negative reviews.
Plot
In the town of Elkerton, Marvin Mange is an awkward, clumsy nice-guy who dreams of being a police officer like his dad was. He continuously fails the physical test to become a full-fledged police officer, is mistreated by sleazy police sergeant Doug Sisk, and he awkwardly fumbles through a first encounter with his idol, environmental protester Rianna. He works in the police station as an evidence clerk and is friends with airport security guard Miles who is a victim of "reverse racism" and fellow cadet Fatty. While alone at the station, he receives a robbery call from a restaurant before driving off the road, causing his car to tumble down a mountain into a crash before a boulder falls on.
Days later, Marvin returns to his normal life with no memory of what happened. He is full of life while not noticing surgical marks on his back and fur on his rear end. He can outrun horses, mean dogs are scared of him, he jumps to catch frisbees in his mouth, and he does not need his asthma medicine. He thinks it is due to his consumption of "Badger Milk", which is guaranteed in the ads to make him stronger. He goes to the airport to talk to Miles about his problem. While there, Marvin sniffs out a man hiding heroin in his rectum. Marvin is declared a hero and is made a full-fledged police officer by Chief Marion Wilson.
Marvin often wakes up in strange places, and subsequently hears about animal attacks that occurred in the middle of the night. Because of these attacks, the mad scientist Dr. Wilder believes that Marvin is out of control. Wilder takes him to his laboratory, and explains about the grafts and transplants that saved Marvin's life and gave him animal powers. He gives him pointers on controlling the rampant animal urges that often prompt him to behave inappropriately in public.
Despite continuing embarrassments caused by Marvin's animal urges, his animal abilities allow him to excel as a police officer. He is partnered with Sisk, and gets a date with Rianna. Chief Wilson questions Marvin about late-night attacks on cows because one of the witnesses made a police sketch and it looks like Marvin. Chief Wilson puts Marvin on paid leave.
Rianna goes to Marvin's house, where he has barricaded himself inside. She is convinced that he cannot be behind the animal attacks. They spend the night together. Marvin insists on being tied up so he cannot hurt anyone, but Rianna unties him after he falls asleep. The police show up to arrest Marvin for an attack on a hunter that night. Rianna convinces him to run. Marvin escapes to the woods. The police organize a search party to capture Marvin. While running through the woods, Marvin finds Wilder. The scientist tells him that another patient of his is out of control.
Sgt. Sisk confronts Marvin and is about to shoot him. Rianna jumps from a tree onto Sisk. In the presence of Wilder, Miles, and Fatty, she confesses that she was also operated on by Wilder and attacked the hunter in order to protect the turkey vulture that she released into the wild. An angry mob and police arrive to take out Marvin. Miles takes the blame for everything. Once the mob thinks a black man was responsible, the mob members don't want to take action causing Chief Wilson to call off the hunt much to the dismay of Miles.
One year later, Marvin and Rianna get married, open an animal sanctuary, and have a litter of children. While watching television, they see Dr. Wilder win the Nobel Prize. He says he owes it all to his fiancée Yolanda, the spokesmodel for Badger Milk. There are large scars on her back, implying that Wilder performed the experiment on her as well.
Cast
Wes Takahashi, former animator and visual effects supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic, makes a cameo appearance as a news reporter. Fred Stoller also cameos as a news reporter that interviews Marvin about his abilities.
Reception
Box office
The Animal debuted on June 1, 2001, grossing $19.6 million U.S. in its opening weekend (#3 behind Shrek and Pearl Harbor). With a production budget of $47 million, the movie grossed $84,772,742 internationally.
Critical response
This film received negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 30% based on 83 reviews, with its consensus stating: "While less offensive and more charming than recent gross-humored comedies, The Animal is still rather mediocre". Metacritic gave the film a score of 43% based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B+.
Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "An outrageous and imaginative summer comedy." Robert Koehler of Variety magazine wrote: "The Animal is never more nor less than stupid, but stupid in ways that deliver goofiness rather than rampant humiliation." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described it as "an Adam Sandler reject" and wondered how this "raunchy innuendo wrapped in a PG-13 rating" got past the censors.
Rob Schneider was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actor of the Decade for his performance in the film.[citation needed]
Controversy
Despite mostly negative critical reaction, at the time of its release film critic David Manning gave the film critical praise. In late 2001, Manning was revealed to be a fictitious character created by Sony to fake publicity for the film. At the time, Sony claimed that the error was due to a layout artist who entered 'dummy text' into print advertisements during their design, which was accidentally never replaced with real text.
Sequel
In October 2022, it was announced a sequel is in development. In addition to reprising his role from the first film, Rob Schneider will also serve as director, from a script that he co-wrote with Patricia Schneider, and Jamie Lissow. Schneider will also serve as a producer on the movie alongside Michael McConnell. The project will be a joint-venture production between Content Partners, Revolution Studios, MarVista Entertainment, Zero Gravity Management, and Tubi Original Films. Intended to be released via streaming as an exclusive Tubi movie, the project is near being officially green-lit by the associated film studios. Principal photography is scheduled to commence in early-2023, with its tentative release scheduled for later that year. | 8a383a67-ca4e-4be8-a061-5dd5b44144d3 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Cape_Mystery_(film)"} | 1935 film by Lewis D. Collins
The Spanish Cape Mystery is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Donald Cook, Helen Twelvetrees and Berton Churchill. It is based on the novel of the same name featuring the detective Ellery Queen.
Cast
Bibliography | 2234ba1d-c0c6-4113-988b-5737e9d122a0 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_It_Away_(Gaither_Vocal_Band_album)"} | 2006 studio album by Gaither Vocal Band
Give It Away is an album from Contemporary Christian, Southern Gospel group Gaither Vocal Band. The album was released on January 24, 2006.
Track listing
DVD
Awards
Give It Away was nominated for a Grammy Award at the 49th Grammy Awards for Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album. At the 38th GMA Dove Awards, both the album Give It Away and its title song won Dove Awards for Southern Gospel Album of the Year and Southern Gospel Recorded Song of the Year. It was also nominated for Long Form Music Video of the Year.
Chart performance
The album peaked at #129 on the Billboard 200 and #6 on Billboard's Christian Albums where it remained for 40 weeks. | a625baae-4f53-46a8-bfd8-5006c8d189a1 |
null | Nepalese politician
Sita Subedi (Nepali: सीता सुबेदि) is a Nepalese politician. She was the president of the Nepal Progressive Women's Federation. She also served as a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist). She was nominated as a FPTP candidate for the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist) in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election. Subedi contested the Kathmandu-9 constituency, but only mustered 55 votes (0.1%).
Ahead of the 2013 Constituent Assembly election, Subedi was nominated as a candidate by the Communist Party of Nepal. She was placed as the top candidate on the Proportional Representation list of the party. | 8467231f-7e2b-4477-8611-ca778e8f6e12 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kytmanovo"} | Selo in Altai Krai, Russia
Kytmanovo (Russian: Кытманово) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kytmanovsky District of Altai Krai, Russia. Population: 3,873 (2010 Census); 4,216 (2002 Census); 4,236 (1989 Census). | 7bab75b6-a58f-4757-971b-89cb0abd9ce1 |
null | 1934 film
Soup and Fish is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy short released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Hal Roach and directed by Gus Meins, and starring Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly. It is the 5th entry in the series.
Cast | 0dd6ca23-39e4-49d5-9dc4-b4dbb63bbe88 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganapathy_Baskaran"} | Indian theoretical physicist
Ganapathy Baskaran is an Indian theoretical physicist, known for his work on condensed matter physics and strongly correlated quantum materials. Baskaran is an Emeritus Professor of physics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, India and holds a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Recently he became a Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Chennai), India.
Baskaran completed his undergraduate education at the Thiagarajar college and the American College in Madurai, India. He got his PhD in theoretical physics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1975.
In 1987–88, Baskaran, along with P.W. Anderson at Princeton University, developed the resonating valence bond theory to describe the behavior of high-temperature superconductors. Baskaran is also known for his discovery of emergent gauge fields in strongly correlated systems, predictions of p-wave superconductivity in strontium ruthenate and of high-temperature superconductivity in graphene and graphite at optimal doping.
In 1983, Baskaran was the first recipient of the ICTP Prize awarded by the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy to young scientists in developing countries for work in physics and mathematics. He was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1996. He was also awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize by the Government of India in 1990; and in 2019 he was awarded the G.N. Ramachandran - SASTRA Award. He also obtained Distinguished Alumni Award of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and The Thiagarajar College, Madurai, India. | e3b07497-f108-47f3-856a-07a932fb325c |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatichetlapalem"} | Neighbourhood in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Thatichetlapalem is a suburb in Visakhapatnam, India. It is located close to other bigger suburbs such as Akkayyapalem and Kancharapalem. | f818c693-9027-4d5a-a8be-324d660a3754 |
null | Serbian footballer
Mihajlo Biberčić (born 23 September 1968) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented Yugoslavia U-16 in three games scoring once in 1985. | 4a440af7-101b-4812-ae7a-92cfea8292fc |
null | Red Mountain Park is a 1,500-acre public urban park that encloses a 4.5-mile-long section of Red Mountain, a prominent ridge that passes through Birmingham, Alabama. The woodland park contains closed mines and other artifacts of the city's industrial history. The park is one of the largest urban parks in the United States - about 78% larger than Central Park in New York City.
History
The park is located on land formerly owned by U.S. Steel and devoted to ore mines. The last mine closed in 1971.
Planning for a park on the site began by 2004. In 2005, the Freshwater Land Trust announced a campaign to raise funds to purchase and develop the park, and an organization called the Friends of Red Mountain Park was formed. The initial site was 1,200 acres in size.
In 2006, the Alabama Legislature designated the unfinished project as part of the Alabama state parks system and created the Red Mountain Greenway and Recreational Commission "to own, preserve, restore, maintain and promote the park." In 2007, the legislature designated the commission a state agency with exclusive control over the park and responsibility for its planning and development. The park's master plan received an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2012.
The park opened to the public in 2012. By 2016, the park grew from 1,200 to 1,500 acres and added features including a 6-acre off-leash dog park.
Using automated traffic counting equipment, the park staff estimated that the park received about 11,000 visitors per month in 2015.
In 2015, the park briefly employed a herd of goats to help eliminate kudzu, Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense), and other invasive plants. | 58e9b773-1a74-4770-bbbd-a13a11043dac |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuya_Maeno"} | Japanese artistic gymnast
Fuya Maeno (前野 風哉, Maeno Fuya, born 8 July 1996) is a Japanese artistic gymnast. Born in Chiba, Japan, he graduated from National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya and later join Central Sports gymnastic club. Maeno was part of Japan men's national gymnastics team that won the silver at 2018 Asian Games. | 12b955bb-a20b-4a25-a06d-f4529c7573c7 |
null | American politician, conservationist (1931–2019)
Horace Augustus "Hoddy" Hildreth, Jr. (December 17, 1931 – December 12, 2019) was an American lawyer, politician, and conservationist in Maine.
Biography
Hildreth was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Horace Hildreth and Katherine Cable Wing Hildreth. He grew up in Cumberland, Maine. He was 14 years old when his father was elected Governor of Maine, at which time his family moved to the Maine State House in Augusta, Maine. He then attended Cony High School for three years before transferring to Deerfield Academy. Like his father and grandfather, he graduated from Bowdoin College. In May 1953, while Hoddy Hildreth was a senior at Bowdoin, President Eisenhower appointed his father United States Ambassador to Pakistan. He spent his final year of undergraduate studies at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan, before returning to Bowdoin to take his final exams and participate in commencement as a 1954 graduate. He earned a bachelor's degree in English.
In 1956, Hoddy Hildreth married the artist Alison Hildreth (née Derby). They raised four boys, Daniel, Hasket, Malcolm, and Thomas. He earned a law degree from Columbia University and went on to practice law in Maine at Pierce Atwood, at the time a small firm. A great deal of Hildreth's work was in lobbying for paper companies, but this work was broken off by his successful run for a state senate seat in 1966. Hildreth served in the Maine Senate from Cumberland County, in the 103rd legislature, 1966–1967. He was chairman of the Legislative Research Committee. In 1968, At the end of his term in the Maine Senate, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Congress. Then he started his own law firm which lobbied in Augusta for environmental causes.
Hildreth left his law firm in 1979 in order to serve as chief executive of Diversified Communications, the media company that his father had founded. He continued to serve on the board of directors after his retirement.
A dedicated conservationist, Hildreth served on the boards of the Conservation Law Foundation and the Maine League of Conservation Voters.
Hildreth died in 2019. | aa4d93ea-2f9b-48a6-9712-996be409b002 |
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